Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1881, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THE STATE CAPITAL, A Sennte Measure Aholishing th Chiengo Tolico and Firo Departments, And Substituting & Board of Com- " missioners Appointed by the Goveruor. becnpitntion of the Bill for the! Better Education of Dentists. Concurrence in the House Resolution for Adjournment from Friday to Wednesday. The Bill-Writer Again Up Smiling In the House, Comes And Furnishes Considerable Work for the Not Over-Indus- trious Members. The Subjects of Militla and OMelal Shorthand Reporters Engage Cons siderable Attention, Paring Down the Expenses Attonding the Lato Railroad and Warehouse Investigation, BENATE. A LIGUT HAUL. Speeial Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, SeuiNarIELD, L, March 20.~The Senato econvened this morning at the usual hour. Senator White introduced a blll looking toward the abolishment of Police and Fire Departments in clties of over 100,000 inhab- ftants, and creating o Board of Dolico and Fire Commissloners, to be appolnted by tho Governor. A Senato bill passed providing that, In alt counties in which I’robate Courts are or inay hereafter be establlshed, In addition Lo the jurlsdiction now conferred upon them by Inw, County Courts shall have concurrent Jurisdiction with the Cireult Courts in all cases at lnw and In equity, excopt eriminal cases where tho punishment may be denth or confinement in the Penltentinry. 3 Senator Fuller presented a resolution giv- fng appropriation bills precedence over all others. Lald over under the rules. NEW BILLS, Billy were Iutroduced as follows: By Senator Kirk—Malklue thosalo of olco- margarine and deleterious substances o mis- demennor. % By Senator Rlce—Flixing the salary of tho Commissloners and Secretary of the Rallrond and Warehouse Board at $2,500 per nunum, By Senator Lanningz—Amending the lnw of the appolntment of Recelvers for cor- porations. It Is a copy of the blll intro- duced by Halliday, of Calro, in the llouso last sesslon, and defented then, The blll 18 sweeplhg In its terms, permitting any cred- itor of a corporation to apply for the ap- pointment of a Recelver, aud giving grenter power i the matter of the collection of «<ladms against insolvent compnnies, It oc- casioned considerable discussion two years ago, and wns ONLY KILLED AFTER A IARD FIGHT. Aun insurance bill, drawn by Senator Bent, amending the law of township insurance companles, was rend o third time and passed, It wakes the Board of Directors of such companles to conslst of nine members, threo to hold ofilee for ono year, three for two years, and three for three years, It also per- mits guch companies to inswre churches, Senator Hunt's bill, permitting cltfes and towns to levy tuxes to pny Judgments ren- dered ngainst them, was also read n third tlme and passed, s was alsoa bill by the sume Senator nuthorlzing the sale of part- nership lands to pay tirm debts after the de- cease of one nember of the contracting co- partnership, Senator Callon's bill, requiting insurance cowpanies, in the nbsenco of fraud, to pity the full amount of tho polley, was read’ a* third time, and COLDLY ENTOMIED, ‘without discussion or furthor ceremony, Sunator De Laug’s blll fot the better edu- eatlon of dentists was read o third thie, dis- “*us; (L at some length, and fhatly |l’czm|>- tuted. Senator Callon mado n motion to reconsidor tho vote tabling Senantor Mayiletd’s motion to Teeonshder the votedefeating the bill vequiring Tull paynent ot lusurance policles. lb Wiy ruled out of order, Senstor Kuykendall moved to take the mo- tion from the table. ‘T'his motlon wis also ruled out of order, Senator Forrunce’s il amending the Inw of excuptions was vend o third time, ‘The only practleal changes are by requiring that schedules of exemptions must e wade within five duys after serviee of exceution, A fow artieles of household furnituronre exempted, L suldition to the present Inw, A long-winded disenssion followed, mndd tho bill was finully referred to tho Judi- einry Commlttee, E Scenator Swderland’s il allowing wit- nessed simmoned betore Justices attendancs and mileago was read nthivd tine sl passed, Senator Clark’s bil prohibiting the chang- g ot nanes wid Jueations of incorporated compnnies wis read u thivd time and s Senator Foller’a bl making the Rabirond Commlssioners' schedules ovidenco of the reasonuble rates to bu charged by raflrowd Euuumlx:{eu was refurred to the "Judlclary Commltiee, ;s::lnnlu:' Clark?s bill requiring n submisslon [ THE LICENSE QUESTION ot municipal elections ou n request of one- ifth ot the yoters was discussed ot length and defeated. Senator Munw’s bill authorizing the em- ployisent by Conrts of Record ot shorthuand Teporters was defunted, A Senato bill requlring all Individuals or assoelations of lmllvldu:\ln doing fire-tns anco business within this Stte to comply with the Iaws was rend u third tlme anil pussed, It uurl!‘ o «urrum(luus as woll us others, rnd the deposit to Do mndo by piati-gt insurance companies from 100,000 to €30,000, WILL Gu HOME AND VOTE, ‘Tho Sonate llunll{ concurred In the Ilouss resolution for an adfournment from Friday of this week until Wedneaday aftarnoon ot next weelk, ‘Tho innttar was pluyed with for Lo thne, severnl votes belng taken ut the instanco of the follows who “wero st na auxious to go liome us any ono else, but who want to appenr right on the record, After canedrring in the resolution the Sen- ate ndjourned till to-morrow morning. 110UBST, THE BILI-FACTOR, Spectal Dispateh to The Chicugy Tridune, Spyurieny, I, Mareh 20.—The bill- writer came up smillng agnin this mornbug, und o few more offerings wery placed in tho contribution-hux. ’ Carter, of Mdams, got In ane to provide for the vacation of town plats; Blackaby, uf Fulton, oue to abollsh the lifs penalty aid to ninke the maxtnm thirty-three yenrs; Rock- well, of Couk, one to glve. the answer o o bl In chaneery the sume forco as the bill; and Plotke, of Cook, une to establish and maintatn o burenn for aldng and procuring EMPLOYMENT FOI DISCILANGED PRISONKRS, he Connmissioners composiyg suld Board ar (0 properly uotify the wechanleal, o 3 WLEDNESDAY, MARCIL manufacturing, and productive Interests throughont the Stade of thelr organk ton, fs needs, purposes, snd requiremets, i to obtaln from such sourees codperntion and nssistance in procuring cmployment for diseharged prisoners making application therefor, 'The Commissioners aro to serve without pay, hut are nuthorized to appoint nnoagent atasalary of 31,200 a year, ‘Tho bill approprintes S15K0 for the expenses of the Board, and seeks to amend the Peniten- tiary net by providing for the payment of the §10, now allowed each conviet nt his discharge, to the Board, to be nsed to fur- ther the objects of the Commission, HEY WANT TO G0 HOME AND VOTLL Robinson, ot Ln Snlle, offered o jolnt reso Inttion rehearsing the genoral destre to go home and vote next ‘Fuesday, and providing for an adjournment from lay of thls week until half-past 5 o’clock of Wednesday of nest weok, The resolutlon was ndepted, The Iouse then got back to unfinished business, and took up the Mc\Willinms aud Sultivan bill to define and rexenlate the Hablil- ties of cinployers to mako compensitton for persoual tnjuries suffured by employés n their serviee, Mortis, of Hardin, moved to strike out alt of the fourth eluuss in the first seetion, in- cluding the Hercington amenduent ndopted Friday providing that the bill should not ap- iy Lo memburs of tho Leglsiature aceepting rallrond passes. In offeting his amendment, Morris showed that at lnst ho umderstood the driva contained In the amendment, which virtually put the members ON A PLANE WITI " EMPLOYES, or, 8 he termed 1t, *Insulted” them, ‘I'hie wotlon to strike ont prevalled. Durfee, of Macon, thereupon moved {o tack on the nmendment as n part of the fourth section. Morris, Youngblood, and otherssailed Into it as n mere makowelght and o plece of bull- dozlng tacties that ought to be voted down, After getting in all the talk they could on thelr side, they shut off all further debate by moving to Iny on the table. ‘I'he motlon pre- valled, Chufee, of'Shelby, offered an amendment to See, 6, which declares nll contracts limit- Ing or defintng the liabllity of the employer to bls employé in contravention of the Dbill agalust publie poliey, andvokl, ‘The amend- ments exeepted the contracts usually made upott the buck of free-psses, Issued by rall- ronds, steambonts, and other enmmon earriers, In explaiuing his amendment, Chafea took tho ground that the man who ate A ¥l DINNER onght to suffer if he chioked to death, and a mun who rode on o freo pass ought to run nll the risks ol necldents. The discussion of the amendment brought Herrington to his feet with an hidignant vrotest against tho bill, whichgse chirncter- Ized ns & pleco of “cumsenlnf®l” English law. In the course of his remarks he hn- parted a bit of advice to n class of people, to whaom he referred as *breaking Into Legis- Iatures and attneking corporations,” but who might as well make up their minds to GO TOME WITIL EMPTY POCKE The rallronds didu’t propose to come down, MeWilllams defesded his DUl on general prineiples, as In the real Interest of employés, and Ilerrington cuttingly observed that the gentleman’s remarks liad almost won hiwm over o the theovy that somo sort of protec- tion wns necessary, The members of the Legislature ought to be proteeted, for in- stance, agniust maraudors from the outside who got hold of them, started them on in- vestigutions, and then disgraced them. This somewhat acldulous rellection onn certaln Investigating Couunittes brought down the Spenaker’s gavel and Interrupted the Kane County member's blast. Stowell, of Marshall, moved to Iny the bill and all the amendments on the table. Lost, 'Fhe Chafes amendment was finnlly voted down by n vote of nays 67, yens -1, and the Dbill ordered engrossed fora” third reading. Tho fact that THE MOST VOTES IT ITAS YT MUSTIIED Is B8 13 n pretty falr indleation that it will NEVOr pass, THE MILITIA BILL, reducing tho term of enlistent to three years, ailowing the Adjutant-Genernl $2,500 or salnry and £ for assistunce, making the oflictal terms of ofllee fogr years or dur- ing tho pleasuro of tho Governor, prm-ldlm.i for the division of tho np'mmrlnuonu, [0 nmending the present code In several other purtienlars, was read n second thne und sur- vived o motlon from thu Deiocratie side to strike out tho enacting . clse, The Houso however, to _increnso the Adjutant- salnry to $2,600, nnd left it where it 18,—$2,000, The Domocrats made an on- slanght on the iten of 52,500 for assistance, but falled to get enough votus to do so. Cownn, of Macoupln, mindful of the bills whieh have come fu asking appropriatious for TIUE DEVASTATING WOIK OF STATE CANNON on fnnumerable arms and legs, offered an amendmont prohibiting the Adjutant-Gen- era] fro loaning any gun belonging to the - State without first mlrlnr: i obligation from the parties asking such loan that they will be responsible for atl damage tosuch arms and to any person injured by nny uceident ocenrring fram tho uso of such g, An amendument by Roekwell, of Coolk, pro- viting for the election of Generals of brig- ade by fleld-oflicers, uppeared 1o striko somo of the members as u drive at the present ap- pointing power, and was lost, . After adopting a couple of nmondments which eut no particular figuro, the bill was sent to thind ‘reading, nnd the llouse ad- Journed until atternoon. AFTERNOON, ‘Tho first blll on second reading In the afternoon was ong by O, 8, Cook, of Cook, which empowers School Directors In districts contalnhyr 2,000 inhabitants to apuolnt u Schuol-District Trensurer. The reul object of the bill Is to ennblo school districts llke Iydae Park, for whose benelit the bill was specially drawn, to placo thelr District Sehool Fund In tho hauds of thelr own Distrlet School ‘I'rensurer, Hid tho bill boen u Juw soma tine ago, the Hyde Parvle School Fund would not have gone Into the hands of Jar. ruu.llornultlmi Trensurer of the Town of Lake, but woulit have remained in the Hyde Lark Distriet in the hands of the Distrlet School ‘reasurer, The DI wus slightly amendod and ordered to third reading, Bundy's Fonco bill, to compel the imrtles whers thoy do_not agrea to bulkl dlvision fonees: o bill allowing Penitentiary authori- tos pulheo powers ot Penitentiary grounds; and a bl by Rockwell, of Cook, to’ provent the slterntion of writs hir crooked Consti- bles, waro advunced toathivd reading with- outdelny. 3 YANCEY'S SIORTIIAND BEPORTER NILL brmuiht Mitehotl, of MeLoun, to hils feet with B motion to stribo out the enncting clanse, ‘Tl bitl nuthorfzes Clreult Judies and the J,lll'Ffl! of the Superlor und County Courts ot Cook County to appolnt such reporters, not oxeceding ono for each Judge, I'ho com- ponsatlon for attendunco s to be not mare than &8 nor less than S5 uday, in the discretion of the Judgs, aud 16 cents per 100 words for rnnsurufisf In arider to proteet the Cuumi rensuries, how- over, they ure to roport onl xmwh part of tho procecdtngs ng In tha oplufon of the Judgo will pronate tho dispately of business, aud ke roferences and trunseripts on the aanmoe principle. TIE FUNKIEST TUING AUOUT TIIE BILL, next to its title,—** An act to provide for de- creasing the oxpenses of Clrenit Courts by tho appointmont of short-hand reporters,”— was the provision that no ofllelal reporter shall be appolnted who Isn’t abla to writo nt lenst 100 words w inlnute. Yuuey defonded his LI a5 In the Intorest of ocuuumi and the proper ndministration ot Justlee, and Instanced ouses whore an all-day Wrunile could be settied by relerence to o ro- vorter’s notes. Morrls, ot Ilnrdin, was opposed to the bill beenusa 1t would Impoverish Hardin amd some of the othor southern countles, Even the report of an ordinary howickle would break Ilurdin up, This was enough for Jos Mann, who pro- coeded to luy nbout hin and nse up Hurdin County ns probably the wost peeutlar plico In the universe, Bhe was s0 poor, In fact, that the varnings of her Represeututive this winter would “probably Increaso the valuy- tlon of her taxablo property. [l.aughter.) Alitehell said e belioved “the talk nbout cconowy was all nonsense, I litigunts and their lnwyors wanted reports of ovidonce LET THEM PAY FOR WHAT THEY WANTED out of their own pockets, and not saddle the BXBONSY u‘mn tho county. L ‘I'hu motion to strike out was lost by aclose vote. A ot of wuendinents wers offered nad adopted, Ineluding onn by Herrington whied BLrue t the vronondeil brag b tha i of the bill. Shard, of Christian, o rural reformer witi an veeasinnat suwnd dde, struele the nall on the hemd when hie olfersd an amendient lenving the compensation Lo the diseretion of the Judize, atd taxing it i3 costs of sult, Yaneay tried to get the amendment tabled, but the Tlouse woulin’t have i1, Stratfon, of Jefferson, moved to refer the bl nnd the nmendment to the Committee on Foes il Sular The felends of the bill fought hard to pre- vent 1ts helng flang back Into the hauwds of o committes, Ine the majority of the mise were evidently agalnst’ eventing an otdeial shovtlidreporiers’ gulli, to the detriment of such ns only nsk for u free ftichd and no Tavor, amd the motlon o rof "The remninler of the to the perfunetory second reading of n new Roud bill ns fong g the mornl Iaw, About twventy of the members kept thelr seats and the Dalance sealteved to tho committees rogms, or went up-town, At the eoncluston of thie reading the louso ndjourned for the day. GLEANINGS, PAYING THE FIDDLER, Bpeetar Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, SeiNerirLy, 1k, Mareh 20.—The Senate, Committee on the expenses of the Genernl Assembly met thls afternoon and amended Fubler's resolution providing for puying the expenses ot the late Rallrond and Warehouse investigation by fixing the fees of the stenog- rapher at 88 per diom for attendanee and 15 cunts per hundred words for transeripts, The witnesses aro to recelve $1 per diem for attendance and five couts per mile each way for necessary travel, ‘U Sergeant-ate Arms recelves actual necessary - ex- penses and no more, All the Dills are to ho certiffed by the. Chalrman of the Rallrond Committee and indorsed by tho Presiucnt of the Senate before payment. Under this ruling, shoulit the Senate coneur AL M. Wright, who putin a biil o few days ago for 378,40, will get just 821,50, and the others accordingly, Under the Committes's cheesepnring, the expenses of the whole In- vestigation will be about $2,000, Ono of the greatest sutferers will by the s‘irxennbuh Arms, THE LATE COMPLICATIONS with regard to the confirmation of Smith and Bogue appear to have suggested to the pow- crs that bo the policy of golng slow. As might be supposed, it is not the most com- forting thing to an Executive to have his av- pointments badgered about fora couple of months awalting confirmation. A niore ex- tended search of the statutes reveals the fact that the Comumissioners for tho Northern Tenitentinry must be confirmed by the Sen-~ nominations witl be mad The Administeation people say the opposi- tion to Jones arises from desire to snud the powers that be. On the other hand, the stlil-neeked Senators Insist they will not vote for Jones, for purely versonal rensons and nothing else. At all'events, there would ap- pear o be A WELL-GROUNDED DISPOSITION TO FIGNT JONES, but what it will amount to Is beyond the scope of conjecture. 'I'he subject of the present racket, and the old-thue “Sprngfield sricof politiciang who are with him, main- tainan undisturbed front, and have reached a polut where they confidently nssert that the jecessary twenty-gix votes ure ready, und that the sending in of his nung and’subse- quent conlirmation of the nppolntment aro ouly a matter of thne, and o very brief thae atthat, To judge from thelr prognostien- tions, the poods "have all been picked out, stamped, and will he ready for delivery In o day or Lwo, uusslhly to-morrow; all of which Is o8 it mny be. ‘I'he Senate Approprintion Commltten will report in favor of the LIl transterring the Jetferson Insang Asylom to the State on the Iatter’s paylng S150,000 for the land, bulld- Ings, ete, LICEN: The Sccretar: ED TO ONGANIZE, of State to-lay Issued Ii- cense to organizo tothe Morrls & Joliet - struetion Company of Jollet; eapital, S60,0003 corporators, Jumes G, Eiwood, Eliss L. Stevuene, and-Chinrles C.-Moody. e —em——— MR, INGERSOLL AND THE CHURCHES, To the Edltor of The Chicago Tritune. CritcAco, Mareh 2, —Col. Robert Ingersoll has recontly been interviewo d in Washineton re- yurding tho future of (ke churches, and did not. fail to “*stir thom up™ on tho ovession with much powor of surcusm and rhotorle. At these institutions his nrrows aro nlwaystlying through the pross, Itscoms a poor, unworthy use of powers that mlght bo employed to better pur- pose. HIs wit s oxpended upon the wrong obe Jeet. Not agniust tho churches sceking to re- clatin bumnnity, but against humanity rofusing 1o berecinimed, shonld his shafts bo loveled, Il thinks he sous tha nurrowness and ervar of the Christinns. ‘Thoso he holds up for publie laugh- ter; but of that peeulinr quality of the race ealled 8in, and the resulting temperaneo. dishonesty, und violenco he rurely speaks. Ingersoll ap- ponra to divide tho world into 1wo clusses,—ono u little knot of absurd and bigoted persons called Chreitlans, tho othor i great tmnss of sen- siblo, brond-mitnted, woll-to-do persons moving comfnrtably rlong to—where? Well, eritng 18 & faot, If Mr. Ingersoll wiil poruse Tk Tienuse dally for i fow weoks Lo wilt porcelvo that there 8 sumething wrong with the haman riace, Qno discovers thit n Boclety therv is a moving Jmm)rllmn of viee, und that thore aro prisonsund reformuntorics overywheve. 10 ho will rend the sermons published in tho ‘Monduy 'risuse he will also porceve that the Chureh teaches thut honor and good witl nre unonduble, and thut purity of llte and pirposn ure | indispensabie 1o tho weal of mwlcle)‘. Whatever ea supposing thom- solves to be Cl hristhing muy have llmu’(hl and dotio in barbario ages, it would be an Insult to Mr, Ingorsoll's lutelligence to suppese he docs not know that the Church of to-day I3 heartily on the sldo of the honest und decont things of dufly life. Huave we so muny goud agoncles in socioty that ho shiould throw stonoes at this ono? Showld be not tho rather overlook whut hu may annl tho theologleal errors of the Chureh und joln in honrtlly with Christlans—not s tho Thersites of the camp, but a o strorg worker againat the ovils of the world? Suppose that nll Chrstinny cannot geo a happy futuro_destiny for o majority of the humnn Mr. Ingersoll will tardly protend to have i the exact truth in suvh i speenlative ‘The Church muy ‘( ess b tho fuots, hue cortalnly hud not creatod them. We may lnfor that God means to do thls und that,—ind won- doring how 1o could o {t wo umy tarry wlong the wuy,—but = tl mAN - whom Mr. Ingersoll botiokds with “ndmiration und ra" says to him and to -ull of us, tow “What 8 thut to theo? follow thou me.” Mr, Ingorsoll refors to tho Prosbytorinus, nnd stales thut nuinericully “thoy represont but one- fifth of 1 per cent of the Inhabitants of tho world,” and fnquires “how long it witl taku thom fo convert the romuinder 2" “Well, If thowo and othor Christians nre but i minuty traction of uil tho pooplo, they nood share but n kil purt of tho responsibility of sueh n work, 17 In- gorsoil and his purty reprosont such an ovor- ‘wholinlug wajority, why do not they convert the world—ut feast to Virtiw und hortor? ~With such numerical rosources on Ly sido, it secius roe murknbio that ko and thoy should auifer thoft leentioences, und nurder to continne, Tho i non-Coriation per cent must nssumo Just 9 por cent of the rodponsibllity tor tho vxisting cons dition_ of "things, und, ‘therefore, among tho 'migtakos of Mr. Tngersoll,” wo should suy wis thut of usking tho Churoh to do for tho worll whut it (4 the business of onch mnn to du for himself, - THOMAS B, CitAnD, ————— CROPS IN WESTERN NEW YORK. * Tulhe Editor pf The Chicago Tribunts FREDONIA, N, Y., Murch 23,—~A8 u subscriber to Tk DALY Uiisune L bavo becoma Interost- cd {u tho crop raporta punlistod from thae to time, From tho proesont outlook In Westorn Nouw York our wintor whoat crop {8 destined to bo # fullure, Putue down as nmony thoso who belleve that wheut will comaiund higu prices bos fore auother lurvest. M, 11 Hacw. e —— Tho Goneral Veordict, Pearta (1LY Trinacript, 0 great muss of 1ho poople nro thomuuhl{ well ploased wit tho courde Gen. Garttold Is taking, Hols wore tunn fuliliugevory expeeti- Hoi ilu not only knows what (oo, but he knows how to do it. 8o far us any facdon bns usked popornble recognition us an olement of tho rufly. It hus recolved 1t 1, Whoen usking Proshdent to muke war on somu owher fuction an ity own privaty secount, it hus bud ity lubor for ita puins, OF courso ILIs iuposaiblo to pleuse ovorybody, but Qen, Garlold 18 Indorsed by an overwhelintug majority, wid tho fow who ure howltng ut bim are fusignilicant in wmnber, They uro shuply tho dpevitable grumbiens whoso dlsourdaut HoLes ure' nacussury 1o tho effuct of the general by Comparative Lougnvity of the Noxes, “'ho Director of tho llureau of Statistics nt Vicnns hug mudo some lutoresting redearched wonoerning thy cumparative longovity of women and men i Europo. e finds that out of 103 il Individunls who have passed tho dgo of uluo- ty years, 60,35 uro women, aud _only 42,53 are wou, 16 Jaly, 31 alloxed centouarian’ women wro found fur 141 wnon of that B, 1831 —T'"WELVE PAGLR 0, \ ) ; THE COURTS. The Early=Storey Libel Suit Up for Trial Again. Another Batch of Opinions by the Ap- pellate Court. Unpleasant Result of Condoning o Huse Dand’s Cruelty. Tho Fourtcenth Amendment fues the Wrong Party. Record of Judgments, New Suits, Oriminal Business, Etc. THE APPELUAT SOURT. Tha Judges of the Appelinto Court mot yestor- tlny mornlug and doliversd opinions in the fol- cases, which wore revorsed and ro- ©H. SBtroog ve, Linington. &3 Goodkind va, Rogun. W, Irooks v G Chicago Thoologlcal Bemlnary, Cooper, 1 v, Tttnok, wure ntijrined: w B, Towle v Lamphiire, WL Afexander va. Whitohond, 2, cokwith, 821, Hogs B35, Qunn v il Pardrih B4, Carbing vil. Wit CONDONATION IN DIVORCE CASES, In the divoree ease of Nels B, Tholin axulust Marthu ‘Fholin some Interesting points woro raised nnd deelded by the Appelltte Court yesterduy ny to whnt ‘constitutes condonation and how turafso It us o dofense. Tho sult wus begun by tho wife for a divoree on the ground of cruelty. Personnl sorvice was had, n defautt taken, und n decre rendered in Ler favor Dee, 18, 1830, A motion ta sct astde the deereo wns sub- gequently made, supported by tho detendaut's afliduvit, In which it wna clalmed tho offenses churged In the bill had boen coudoned after the sult wns bewun, that the purtles hod begun to live together mgnin, and that tho wifo bad cotered Into a Atipuln- tion In writing to dismiss tho bill, and that In consequenco of such agreement the defendunt hid puid no further attention to thy casu, The Court below, on this shuiwing, wl- mitted” written atlidavits and oral testimony tending to prove that subsequent to tho con- donation the defendunt bad renewed his nets of cruelty, und thon on the whole ovidence denfed the motion to set uside *the deerce, The Appel- Inte Conrt, b; rror, The aftidu out defen: not the re condoned. ‘The counter-niikday behulf of complalanant were hpro togo i, Such motions should be ex-purto niliduvity, ‘tho practice o counter-nlliduvits on the heartng of motions 10 set ngide defuults was a_viclous ene, uid wus likely to toster injustice, Tho connter-niliduvits and orl testimony recelved tended 1o show that mubsequent to tho condonution the derendunt hind renewed his nets of erneley, 1 that wero hown, the compliinant eould unly bave nvalled hersell of Itusa ground of reilel’ by nsupple- mentul Wil and not under her orlglnal bill, ror et to tho caitses alleged i the original 'y hud been oxtingulshed by condonntion. reg would therelors bu reversed and the enge remnnded with directions to vacate tho de- cree and set nsido the defuult, MU MEASURE OF DAMAGES: In tho cnso of Wllltsm Hogan and against Max Goudkind and others, the g was rufsed and discussed by Juige Medllster ns to what danmages ure properly recoverable in asulton a breach of contract. In May, 184, tho defendants gold to plaintils a large quantity OF grouse nt tho rate of four cents i pond, und, a8 wns cinlmed by tho lutter, on tho understand- mg that §t wos *brown grease,” whereas It turned out to be of un Inferior grade, eatied seoon ol The stulf was shipped to Clueinnnty at plalutiirs' order, biit it could not be sold thore, and wus then shipped bnek here and sold for Y cents por pound, Printiifs thon begnu o suil to recover tho differencs between the buying and solllng price, nnd nlso tho expense of suipplig - to Cliclinnti uad - back, Thero © wis mo ovidenco showhig for what purposo the ireasu was purchused and th evidence s Lo the Wurritty and. breach wis very contilcting. Testhnony wus. allowed 1o b offered tn theCourt below (o show the codt of shipplngs to Cinelnnat] und bucl, and the Court instructed the Jury tiat 1€ thoy belioved ihe de- fendants warranted tha grenss to be of n certaln 4]“1\“!?’. and know that tho plalutitls bought it for gald or g0 in Clucinuat, und it taradt out athorwlse, and that by reasais of 8 poor quullty 118 sl wits ot posatiio fn Cincinautl, thon they stoutd alluw tho nmount exponded foF transpor- tation, The plalntitfs recovored o Judgmens for £IM, The Appellate Court hold tho Insteuction Wua erroncous i ullowig a8 part of the dume #ix0s tho cost of AIPPINE tho Kreaso o Cineiuatl wid ek, Thero was ho cvidenco thut such 1 possible datmuie wis within tho contemplation of the purties, especinlly ns to the reshipment to Chicaga, THG mireieo 0 without any LAeICNE of sheehid CIFeUuStABees 1 (o the oh- Joot for whieh [t was deshened. ‘Thero wis thon no evidence on which to biteo any hypotheals thut tho plaintilfs Lought tho grease for any defondants nppancd that losses reanlt- 08 0 contraet which neithor Imrlluulnr purposy, or thut the know t, It often b cd from the broael party contomphite the thno tho contru or coull_contetplute y ut wag minde. A€ 1ho coi- truet had remained exceutory, thon tho atleged warrnnty might Lo rearded “nsu - conditlon of tho cogtruct (tself, so that plaintils migl thoarriva’ of tho grenseatCloueinnatl, h seinded tue contruct und reshipped the urtlelo to Chicngo, In auch n eats tNo exponses of trnnsportatlon both ways might hnve boen proy erly chargeablo as un clement of dainuges, In tho prosent cuss, howover, thoro was u distine tonto bo_mude, for tho contract hul been atliemed, Tho right to recover was baged on tho theory thiat ‘thio quulity of the gronse had boon warsanted, und, by tho same Bypothosis, it tho pluintills contd not have sold vr used the article n clthor Cinelnnatl_or Chieago, thoy conld havo shipped it to New York or Liverpool, and sl have charged tho defendants with tho cost ot transportation. 'The anly propor meas- ure of dumuges was the diiferenco brtweo the aetual valueof tho greaso and the prico padd for it nt Chleago, where tho delivery was wudo, Judginent revarsed. % FOUNTEENTII AM DMENT CASE, Anothor suit which met with u reverso in tho Appelinto Conrt was that of Fordinand W, Peck, and othors, appoliants agatost Thnothy Coopor, Tho lattor wis u calored man, who, ir December, 1871, was forelbly ejected onnceount of his color framn an omnibus of tho People's Omnibus & Buggngo Compuny, tho uct having heen per- fornod by the irlver, who clalmed to et under orlurs from tho lellmll_\'. ‘The Vecks, tho des fendunta wore wtockholders in tho Compuny, und B, W, Peele, It secmed, wis Predldont,” Tho Hrst trind vesutted hu o disagreement of the jury, the secongd In u vewliet of - g0 for The Appellato Court, by Judgoe falloy, roversed this ns - betng contrary to the ovidenco, Tho Judge sali thoro was no pretonsy thit elthor of the defomlants had any personal pueticlpation in tho nssault, Tho juilg- ety thun, could be uphold only on tho theory that thuy were In some way responsible for tho f tho arlver of tho omitlbus, The ovi- deneo was undisputod thut tho omumbug, at the time of tho nssuult, was the proporty of tho People’s Omnlhng & Hagguga Company, in tho possesston and control of the Compaily, and thut the drlver acted only ns the servant of the Compuny nid not ot the defondants, ALl threo of Lo defendants, howe! in the Uam) 2 or, were stockholders yund membors of the loard of Directors, and F. W, Peck was Prestilent, The wass Bome’ evidonee towding Lo show that thoro Wik, ut tho thno ot the ussault, u general order of Lo Compuny roquiting the drivens to oxe cludo ull eolored persons from lts omul- buses, but tho ovidenco falled to show that such onder was nde by F. W, Peck, tho Prosident, or thut tho other nofendunts ever know ol {18 uxlstuonce. Tho fuct wus 3 thut tho defendunts worg stockholders and- Directors of the Compuny, but thut of itself buad o tends oney to cstublish thelr lublity for torla conie nifttod Ly tho employés of the Company, though commitied i pursuanes uf o Company's rles, or tho orders ot sumno athor of itd olllcers or ngonts, Tho mere faot that u porson wus i Dis, rector und stockholder in s sorporation, did not render bim labjo for the tored of the porporie tlon or 18 uxcntE. Bone Kuawlodge of, and ticlpution f, the act clubned LY nudt be brought hume to him. 0 vordi u unsupportod by any ovidenco, and the Jidgmoent of tnu Court below wonld therefora buve to bo roversed. BROOKS VS, GATEN, ‘The Apvoliate Court ulso revenied tho Judp- mont in tho caso of Gutes & Pussmore agninst Dr. Almion Brooks, T'his wis g gult on g breach of un allegod contraet by wbich Dr, Brooks sold u drug-store'and it good will to tho pluintief for $1,50, and agreed to send all bl presoriptions thoro us long us ho lived. Tho first triut re- sulted In s disugroomont of tha jury; the seos ond In g vepdiot fur pluintifs for 82,000, From thiis lust verdict Dr. Hrooks upponted, The Ape Huto Court, by Judge Wikon, held that aside FOl thy great erent lwprobability that Dr, Rronke shoutd maka auneh a contract, tho ovie enee 1 felenl b nny wenis to war- punt the faviloe, The Judgment of the Conrt Lielow wag thernfore yeversed and the cnse re- manded, 1Y BARLT-STOREY CASIL Judye Itogers 1a_ engnieed in hearing the old and much-tripd ihel it of Mrs. Simmons (furmerly Allee Early) agnlnst Wilbur ¥, Storey o recover dumages for libel n publishing o hihly«detamutor y article of her In May, 1874, The ense was heard somo years ago, and . vers diet of €15000 rendered In fuvor of the plaintifr, On appeat to the Supreme Court this Judiment wis tiest aflinned,” and thon on rehenting res versed, and 1he cose retianded. By the terms of thia last deciston [t i expected the defondant will bo uble to prove that the Timea wus fiposed “on by ‘two leters purporting - to be sent by LI Rlodgett and L. A. Trowbridge, prominent citizens of Rockfor, Ratd thist the urticle on Mirs Early was publishe {u gowd faith after nll reasonnblo guiry had heen mwde, Also that when it waa disenversed the zed by wome persons wio vere emdeavoring to wrtifsthoir mnlice ngninst olin Early ninple npologlon wers niw Tt loelly “and editoriglly. This evi sleniee wits exennled before, Smnll & Moors ups pear for tho plalntiif and A. B. Trude for tho defendunt, THE UNIVERSITY CASE, Tho nrieuments 11 tho easo of The 'enplo ve. The University of Chicago before Judge Tuloy were concludml yesterday morning by Mr. J. High, This wus a moton for o stuy of proctedings In the State Court on tho ground that the Federal Caurt had first nequired Jurlsdiction of the par- tlew and subject mutter tn the foraulusure suit bugun in the tatter Coust. Judae Tuley, how- r, el that tho modae ndopted to obiin th atay of provecdings was not thy Jm»m:r ol woilil nof lectie the quustian o Jurisdie of n tormer suit ponding shuply on n_motlon, but sucl dofenso mst bo set up by n_plei ruixe inis that question, ‘The motlon for” Atay of proe ceedings would, therefore, be denfed, but with- out prejudice to the right uf the purties to filo u plea sutting up thb pendency of tho foreclosuro ¥ ? 3 Ed 3 STATE INSURANCE COMPANY CAS ‘The arguments in tho State Insurance Con pany case on the petitlon fur veview of Tolmay & King, were concluded yesterdny before Judga Drummond, and the mnatter swns thon taken un- der ndvisement. A deelslon will be given thls mornitg, ‘The third and final dividend meetingof the erwditars of the Compnny was to huve been held yesterday afternoon before Rexlster Hibbard, ut wiis sgnln postponed until this morning at 11 o'clock to uwln it tho Judze's deelsion, 1 S Judge Rarnum yesterduy nftornonn heard the habens corpus case of Jumes McKeone, who s held hers on a chrrge of committing murider rbuut a year ngo In Colorndo, The ofticers hud no warrant, and the evidence wns unsnt(sfuc- tory. The prisouer was, therefore, dischurged, but was areested agaln an anot! compluint, el will by kuf". If poseibie until the ofticer ur« rives from Colornds with tha proper pupers, A first uud finat dividend necting was held yesterduy niternoon i the estute of Wiltinm A, and W, “Henry fSutters, Lut there was only enough assets to pay tho pretorred dobts, and they were prid i 1l A tirat and fiond dividend meeting will be held . nt. to=diny 10 the ense of Ernast N. Nelfel- und Jotins M. Shlelds. ——— DIVORC: Abraham 8. Hart yesterday flied a biil against his wife, Franees Ao Hart. asking for n divoreo on tha ground of desertion und adultery, Jumes Palnter nsked for n divoree frot his wife Burbara on nccount ot her alleged adultery, Miunle MceNamarn nlso {s tired of married Ufe nll beeause her hushinnd Willinm ran sway ¢ her n couplo of yeurs ago und Lus not inee return Judge Tuley granted n divorce to Margaret Dwinell from” David Dwinell on the ground ot esortiony to Jotn I Baumann from Ming Baumann on the ground of desertion: to Sehnn Scherzel from Franz S, Senerzel on the gronnd ut crueltys and to Emtlc Dupke trom Willlam Dupke un the same nceount, Judee Jameson granted a divoree to Annie :’Inu from Danlel Fiun, on the ground of aidule ery. al sen STATE COURTS. 11 Elkan & Co. bewnn a suit In replevin yes- tordny ugninst Nathan stein and Abratn Murks to recover 4 quantity of hides and skins valned at $1,500. Witllwin 1 Cushing begnau n suit for §2,000 agniust Jnenh o subiclln Betty conimanced on netlon in tres- paas agalost the Chlearo & Northwestern Rail- rond Compnuy, Inying damages nt $10,000. ‘The Nurthiwestern ‘I'runsportution Company bm\lrhl-a 11t for 85,000 nigalunt Itiohurd 7T, Rues, B H. Hend sued Edgar HL and Hetwan H, Kel logy for $10,000, CRIMINAL COURT. Theodore Hurrls was acqultted on the charge of killimg Thomns Cole. John Burns pleaded gullty to driving away o hore, und wad givon 8iX months [u tho House of rrecuon. te Johin R, w3 tried for burglary, and a sealed verdiet will bo returned this morning. Max [llllal wus tried for lureeny and uequit- ed. Frank Fitzylbbons was trfed for burglary, and the Jury will veturn o senled verdlet, Mobert Smith, Jontly Indleted with Frank Koerner tor the Inreeny Of farty-1our gross of matehes from the firm of Owens Hros, In Junuary, wis tried and acquitted, Tho easo laul somo_remarkuble fentires In it which nre worthy of notice. Koerner, for lnstance, wis un employé fn the house from wiches the Koods were tuken, and had pleaded gaiity, and tho evidence showed that Smith huil béen hilred to seli and assist In dellvering tho matches, which be bad done beforo for him, The evilenco nlso showed that the goods - were worth about £100 and had - beel ald, n grocer dofmg business on West M son atroet, near - Desphines, fur 2, nnd that they hae sold him mutehes beforn for about the cost of tho atamips on then. Kaernor and MeDonald were both used us wittnesses ngainst the friendless fellow, It romaina to be suen bow ho wil be dealt with, sold to McDos TROBATE COURT. In the matter of tho estate of Stanton A, Irish, ocensed, lutters of administration wers Issuod to Henrlettn A, Irish, wnder bond for $E23,000. TIIE CALL. Ty Jupar DrusstoNv=Declsion iu Brate Insur ance Cotpany case. Junar Brovaerr—No court, Apventare Count—adjourned to Apell 7. Junar Gany—i to 4 0 eusy on trlal, vy ceatl. Trint call . NO enso on trivl Awdists Judgo Gary, N hlcngo & Northwoestern Ratl- No. 285, Roth va. ing. Ei—Set cnso No. 12, Muser Vs, Markou va, Wakemun, on hedr- to (Mg, excopt U0, No. trlal. enll. Trinl i, 63, 0,008, and culondar Nos, £}, 457, 415, 417, 450, I52, 457, No case on trial, Jupou Tuey—33, 36 3, 07, No. 82, Shetlleld vs, Ulybourn, ou hearing. Junak BARNUN—A set motion, The hearlug of No, 20, Morun vs, Quinn, will bo resumed at 2 A, 1,317, 118, LiEM, 1S, 15, Jimae B3 eTii—No proliy 2REL 28I BBES $61, 8K Jdunng Wit 63, Baxtron road Cutnpa [ U (1A Steele, No. M, e JUDGE TLOGERS—ITS 5, Early va. Slore 75, JUBGE AN enll term Nos, s, und 1, Junuu Hawzs—Sot easo No. 7. e JUDGMENTS, Borzmion Counr Cosreritons—J, I, Bldrod ve. Juhn It Stookwell and Jumes Btockwell, ~Cesko Kreleovsky Podpurljioy Spolok Vaclay Pesta, Murtin Baumrukerund Jobam) ch, §63,—Suma vi. Vieliv Pesta, Jonunn Cee b, und Mariu Cech, $30. unoe Gany=3ary Ryan va. Willlam D, Paliner, 81,6, Cuenr Couner —Jobak ANTIONY — T, B Shrono va, Batato of George Engor, docensod verdiet, 2204,52, and motlon for now trinl,—Mary Daunenberg va, Fredoriek Wellmann; verdict, 2100, aud motion £or now trinl— Willlan Sehroe: dur, use, ote., Ve Ben Feanklin losurunes Coms puny of Atlegbany, i verdict, 8570, aid motion or now triul. 8. Bills va, Georgo W, Dltt- tnger, §12 ——————— Harrison, os Soen from a Hentuoky Standpolint. The Chilcago correspondont of tho Luoulsville Courier-Journal, n his lettor of lust Suturday to thit paper, thus speaks of the Dumocratlo cun'ts enforcu-tho-lawa cundiduto for Muyor of this citys 1t will thus bo seon that the candhitatos on the Demooratio ticket ure tho vamo as thoso now hubling vltico with the vxcoptdan ot Mr, Brund, cunuldute for City Trensurer, who i u nophuw of Urand, u noted byewer horo, legurdiog Mayor IArrison, oty things may bo conalsi= antly aml furly sald, He hus givensChleago probably as ceonomical and eareful un Adiinls- tration, from n businoss stundpolut, ke hus ever been ktiown here. iy Bome respeots his coursy has boen vory soverely criticlsed. [t is clinied thut ho hud not lyed up to Lid pledgu to this community that ho would oltber rid tho fufumons bests which ufust thls city In tho shupy of gumblesy, thioves, sud prostitutes, or ut leadl 50 regulate tholr conduet ua would provent its bocowlug, o fv hus, rtably offeusive to all good | citis I 2oy, Iu 1hfa resvect Chlcago is far below Thero 18 no exeuse foe § 1 have -nended common tom of hee ntfairs, with i tirm nd Just poliey towanl nll thess elements, which uro tho natnral sequence of motropolitan life, and on the compinty extermination of i no wise man would Insist, Another obe n which 18 wreged weainst Mr, Marrison, from n party standpoint, and this 18 no captious expression of dissatisfied individunls But tenly seems 10 he n widely-neknowledged fact, that through certaln cecentricites of of character, through fll-ndvised and almost reckless putile utterances, and (Brous o i promo. aptitudn for mal apropos self-ses tion, his personal aseendency, partieularly through 0 Natonal Campnien, which bronght to the —surface all ossihlo Jutiant rancor, tuut bd w yowerfully demor- zing wilueneo upon the Democratie party of this State,~thie wholly througl the opportunity given Hio Republican press of this eity wnd Statn tobemeun nud belittle the party throuzh the keenestsutlee and most powerful and telllime tected Mayor of this ety by A0 mnjority. [UIs trne that Nepablican votes, From wenernt disguat and dissutiafuction with tho Rlepubliean nomines who opposed Mr. Harrison, secured tho election of the Intter by this luege mnjorlty, It will be recollected thit ureieato Republican malorit, ¢ Inst fiell unty officers wia considerably over 5,000 votea, 1t s thouzh nany impossible for Mr. Ilarrison, with the ahove 1acts ngainst hin Keenre n relicction, nithough 1t ix thy general Teelliur that he i3 the * sirongest man hero In thy party.” Whothor or not this be triue, my Judu- 18 that In care of his reclection it will not % by over 1,4 votes, while thore ure many difs fleuities standhine in the . way of his re€lection under nny clrewnstances, OF thn remaindor of the Demacrntie ticket, it 13 a falr one, though Dboth tiekete wro al Tully below tho grade of what Chicago has n rliht to demand, CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM. cture hy George Willlam Curtis— Tho Tvl s of tho Prexent Systeiti= nparison with thoe Publie Service of England—-0flicen to He Filled by Competition Only. New York Tribune, Mareh 7. An enthuslustic rudience assembled lnst night in Cooper Institute to listen to the last in tho winter courae of free lectures, given under tho dircction of the trustees, George Willlam Cur- I8 was the spenker, and he chose for the sub- Juct of his lectury tho reform of the Civll derve fce. Mr. Curtis waus Introduced by Prof. Roye mond, and his appearnuce was the signnl for prolouged upplause. Hespoko coupactly ns fol- lows: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The Clvil Sorvice of the United States isa simpls busluess agency', and the duties of elerks und of winor siliciuly ure i no sease politieal, Thoy wre tho same under nny party, wnd they remubn so, How then doea tho ‘purtnership, of which every eltize: et 118 ngzeuts und ¥ iestions which o this evenlng, 4 18 ur attention Lverybody knuws that tho public servants and funettonnrios ure chosen wecording 10 thelr political colors and It {3 only necessiury far thom, fu order 1o sceure public employient, 1unbtnly the fitvor ot some powerful mun oe (n- ntat.. fluentlal politiclsn, When Abrahnm Lincoln was President, there used to be in Washimgton a Droker in otfices, whoin for greater convedlence we with enll Jeremioh Jones, From enrly morn- Inge Ll dunte st night, at all hours (n fact, i all pliees, upon every opportunity, when the dan- irers threatening onr country were at thelr higt dereming Jones wad ever busy trying o Recare n place for soine serubewoniin, 4 berth forsome porter, 1 elerkship for nnotkier, i place in- some 12 neit for sume one else, Somebody asked o President bow he spent his day, und Linculn replied: * in the mornng when I'wake up, the 1 thing | Jo i3 to pruy, und then 1 ook tndey reminbJones s the bed to seo whethol k Qod T e fn't thore.” [ Applause,] 18 tlie wiy In Which OUF BCrvaits nre choscit, T nouny present In thls audl enew, womun ob anan, abie to seeure nny place o uppolitivent, except. be or she huye song Jeremiah Jones to ussist, Al energy, persists eney, ail tho crowding und pushing, nre in va without the frvor, the Inflience nud paicongy of nfew politicluns, An uld farmer, npoi be- AN ke how 18 was thut 5o maby ten could be Touud to perform the dirty work required of the henchmen of a politiciun, repher Ieennse eviry mugher's son of then firmiy betioves (hat that” politicinn ean sl kin . Into oflice by the sent of his brecches, At every chunge of Admfustration thy ofliceholdar dues not stop to sk himself how hie hay surved his country, how. Lo has performed his diuties wnd diseuurzed bis truxt; bt how he stunds with nis patrow. 1t he hus not been aetive i the cunviss, I e ins tot pucked the enucus aud otherwise done the bhild- ding of his wmaster, thore I8 lttle chanee of his vemulning In his p Sowe lurge or smull Jeremiah Jones wiit cuma along presently, nnd say thut be has had bis hand in the Natfomu grub-bog long euongh, nnd thuty it is time now 1ur hiltn 1o make rooin for some one else. This i8 tho system talerated now for niore than Nty years. The offices belong o the peoble, and every eitizon has urlght to compete for thaing but utder tho present systen they become tho service of A few promment poiiticlang, i privi- leged 3 Ryate It i3 urelic of 1 isin. Th thut 1o publie, servico wus 0t the , disposal of the Niog, who had n right to 1. it oout. Tho very Ramo_ doctrine . prevails now, only the few puliticlund, the politicinn: forn of tho CivitServiee means revoluton nud tho overthrow ol soclety on tho ruius of lihurty —und Jervininh Junes,” LApplituse.] The samae spirit which prompted ctiss Ward Lo seml his wife's relutions 1o tho War, uctuutes owr politielnns tu rewaril tholr hetchtmen with othior people’s monvy. 1L they tnd, on coming into oflleg, nut enoigh plices to satlsfy the demands of tholr followers, they ako placed, A systom which mnkes pluco the reward of politicalserv- fees 13 fulse, Go to the Islund on which many of Institutlons are situated, aud, "I drunken purss or i brut f nurse nd that bratad T have been ape polnted by politicinns, When the condidon of Tho streols edtises thowsands of men fited with Indlgnation to gather i those halls, resolutions nre pussed declurling thut politlesshall buve nothe Ing tu o i tho appointaient of thse towhom e cleantng of the streets und tho benlth of thu clty ars intrusted, 'Tho roports o1 committees of Inveathzution, of, committees of experts of the Committeo of Ways and Means bn 145, the Npueches ten yenrs ugo of | Prosid when tn Conkross, all go o strengthen my belier thut wo can metago the publiv service at alf the cost, und b1t wu _do now, if wo mpt 0 Judiclous reform. All the einolit= ments for these hungry officeholders come {rom the pockets of tho puoply nid taxpuyer, Wo are 1 prospurous Nation and peebups du ot feel tho draing but no nution can aifurd tho degrudution of its service, [Applause.} T sponiclig of o aystom, not of pursons, It 13 my pride 1o say that I know tho blgh char- noter und fndependenco of muny wen I the sorvioe: but they know cquilly well, nnd better perhaps than we do, the evils and dungers of tho present systom, 1 ask you, 18 1t n wuitder thut while a Licnteu intho nry or midabiptnn fu the mavy fs proud of his service, in tho other service the very hamo of oflices sooker, otficchulder—in thowscives no wo than ecadet or midshipman—is a tern of proavhs, not to sy o stigmnd The temdoney vl such o system 18 to force u collnr on everybody, 1 inve knowin nen in the gervice wbo bave been witrnod that, I0 they hd nut do wiat they werg 10ld by thelr * boases,” thoy would lose their pliced, Ilow can thoy holp tosing soonor or ator thoir self-respect? Tho threat of removal, you must romomber, 1 Dty st i 1hirent to take the dully bread oat of the mouths of Tamilivs, Why, then, shoitld wo ullow our sorvunts 10 b subjodtod to such a terrible ordosl? 1t 141 systom for Turkey and sluved, aud not tor Amerien. and froeinea., }Alvnmu.«u.] It divgniees thoe Nutlanul namo and ducrados the Nutlonal churnoter. 'Tho systom will compel the peoplu to iy thelr hunds on It, a8 Abralin Lincotn lild his” ou Blavery, and - overtbrow i, [A.:rhmw.l 1 du not complain of urgauization and I ‘Thoy ure necessury, L udind o 1o naturit leadersl of oxcelienco—inun whose moral and intelle unl pseonduncy wo enn follow, ‘he wholo s tem of politien] nesossimonts ls morely i canul or pluo leading fro the UV Lo The puekets of the officeholders, Thoy plok the people's pockets to keep thumssives i ottive, 1t lsoponly admitted that wholo Stutos ary carried atoan election by a deluge of mouoy, 1o such vonnl colitests the purty o power bas so much ad- yvantoge thut tho’ convieton scets o gain ground thut it is mposaiblu to distodge it I wuir politiea has becoine more and ors mers conary, It b8 bueanse wo sunetion tho pructice of disposiug of oflice, When politieinns nre ul- Towod to tradu i1 best-ollices and custom-houses, the large corporations will trade on tho Heoeh und in the Leglatuture, On sl sldes nothlig but o I Ilupnrwulhmu udvanced for thi tinued the speakur, (3 thut our Government is u Uovernmoent by partioa; that system i dispensablo purt of our politicul o In England purty orguitization is jwueh more soverw thun here, yot such o wholesilo renoval 4 dintloguishus g chango of pawor in thiscoun- try Is not known there. Last year one of the niost oxelting political contedts was held in this country and in Logland, o Tory Miufstry full Ly & trewondous nmjonty; but no wan WS romoved Lo strenziion tho now Ministr, nn was rowarded with offive beeatiio ho had “rireated the Loys,” or had lost his teoth, or bud lost his halr, of becuuso be could not uny- thing else, No Postmnster, ho custon-bouss ollicor, was removed. by huve de- cided ' that o wmun bl Ly wppointed buesuse be 18 fit to HIL tho pluce, wnd not s rownnd for Wi services 1o somu pulitictun, Thus, wblle wo bave adbercd 1o un old monsrehical doeteine, Boglund bus nd- vunced. Thore I8 tosduy not_ai muest wid In- tolligent son of u London dowyian thist ¢ nut compets Tor 0 position e thy pubiie o with 1o se advintuge us could the son of u ko or thy son of tho Archbistop of Cuanter- bury. [Applause. How can_our Clvll Bervico be improved, and tho presout ovit bo srudicated. Tho root of tho ovil lles in personal and political interference ln uppolutments und removals. Tho plan of open competition und actual teiad Yor six wonths oy totho applicant’s Hincss for the pluco, 18 the usthod which bus surgosiod [sell to peonls of pluee of tho King 13 ocenplod by n When the system 8 nitacked, nd deelalm thnt the ros otr publie you find Lt drunken g totn, con- » 1ot cuviuble cundltion fu which Mayor itar- , cowuon seuse. Polltlcluns protund t0 suser at Flann found It and 1t 1s entieely to hle discrodit, | tho system of competition, whils thoy forget that [t enters largely Into The present” system whiieh they Tho_ offiee goes to him who brought uut ost votes, who snd the greatest bLuily, who took the bast caro of tho “ deestrict,” who was most usefat to the ** hoss,”” ‘The reform of the Civil Bervien is the people’s reform. No {ueation evor submittod totho peo. ple in this hati hns mado moro rapld progress than this, ‘The public mind Is awakeniog to its Importance. Within tha Inst six months roform elutm and nssacintions have sprung up all nver the vountry, which represent a growing and vie- torlous sehitmy ey represent tho young and 1hinking . tho youth and enthusinsm, tho unconquerable endeavor of young Amerlea, tho hope of the future. 1 eanitot better closn my remarks than by mentioning a patriotio name, Aftern talk which I hnd had seith Presis dent Lincoht on the progress of the War, I took teave of him. 11is hand rested on iy shoulders, and those decp, sad, ot weary eyes looked Into mina, *Don't fear, my o o 8akd; * o shall hent them yet.—we ghill beat tnem yot'': sad, when hear 0 skeptic doubt n great cause 4 10 tho people, I feel that hund upon 1 =eu thuse eyes ook upon e, and 1l unon my e " Wo stall bent thit apy ny shoul! thise war thon yet,—wo atuil beat'thom yot.” [Applause.] e —— AMUSEMENTS. MISE CARY, Hanrronn, Conn,, March 27,— The New York correspondent of the Times has the following :uu.-n'imkuh Miss Cary, the popular contral- 0z "Isit so that you Intond lcaving the stage after this senson?” *Yes, [ liko the stage: but I would rather feave five yenrs too soon than one year too late, Idon't want to outlive my fame. Isvant to ba remembered ns nogond sluger; whereas, It T sing un for o few years longer, Imay have ta leave the stage all the same and yot not bo re- aretted, T want people to say, *Lam sorry that Cary i3 golng to lenvn tho stage.” You see I've been singlng ton yeurs on this stage and peopla muy begin to went a change, They grow of even tho beat of things if yon Ttom ton much of thewn, Now thon Iwill v appear in tghts, eltior: 1suposo 1t 19 becauso Lum an Ameriean gicl, 1 naver put on thehts withiatit thinking of 1 story Told about me Iy n wickod vewspiper-miun somo years neo. It satd that o party of ladies were pralsing e up In o parlor one norulng ind suytng how modest und o+ 1 wits I dress und nietfon, 50 unlike tho gen- those opern singers, safd_ono of tho fadies, and, turning to u gentlemon, she anld, Iy the wi AMr.Jotes, you were ut tho opern st nlght. Tlow was Miks Cury dreseed? 1 thhty Ilnlli the answer, and the counversation hned. Notwithstanding her statements, I do not look for her retirement within the next ten yoors, l‘md Ix'cl' voleels certalnly good for tho mext wenty, “RILLEE TAYLOR.*? The new nautical comic opera, * Billee Tay- for,'" 1s underlined for production at tho Grand Opera-Houso next Monday nlight, Aprit 4. Tho opera will be presented with new ecenery, cos- tumes and appointinents, with n large orchestra and chorus, The cast of tho onera i3 us fol- 8ig. Nrocolinl wMr W, \‘l. .\l‘mlg: cry . ‘apt. Flappor, R, avlor,, co. Thorne rene Clark chel Sunger Emma Guthrio ulgev, ..o 133 Hughes Pawbe Fairleigh........ 4 OF these, Siz. Broeolini, Eugene Clark, Messrs, Montgemery aud Benltz and Miss Sanger, lhave alreidy appeared liers in operit, BERETITOVEN SOCIETY REUNION. The Heethoven Soclety will givo its third re- unton at tho Methodist Church Block to-morrow evening. ‘Tho Instoimentnl numbers of tho program will ke ns follows: Boeethoven's C shinep minor Sotntt, op. 25, No. 2 (Mr. Wolfsotn); Ries' Second Rulto n 1 mujor (Mr. Carl Becker)s Gol- ermmn's *Cantilene” nnd Flscher's A ln (Mr, Eichielmy: and Mendelssohn's w np. 0 (Messes, Wolfsobn, Hocker, For tho yooal numbers Miss Kiewler will sing_tho * Heirnaxlo Semirgmide,” und Mr, N, C, Grimsby un a from * The Ci " Six MUSICAL NOTES, Fran Pappenhelm nnd Theodor Wacehtel aro slogine at the rankfort Opera-Jouso with grent Bliecess, g I'lenquvtte, thocomposer of * The Chlmes of Normutdy" (*leo Cloches do Coruuvitlo”), 13 wrlthge i new work entitled *Itip Van Winkle," founded on the Amerlenn legend. Thoe Steakosch-Hess-troitpo seems to have ns many lives ns g ent. It hus been reported dead soveral times, hut this week ftshiga in Detrolt. Torriant hus replaced Marle 11070 1u most of ber Juirts,and Gottsululic b Jolnod te canpuny: Mies Annundule sings Carmen, ‘ho Theodare Phomas Choral Sncloty 18 bustly ouigaemd wnder M. Snutland’s direution, n pres puriug for the performunee of Burlioz's * Rowed il Juljet,” which 15 10 b given v M. ‘wni’ bittott, and with 1o ald of tho Thomas orelicatra, ubout te middie of May I Boston. It {8 nirendy known thatesthetlcism will form the subjeet of the nest piece produced at the Opérn Comique by Messes. Gilbert and Bullivan, I onuof the sceney the eurtaln rises and dis- ¢ll-developed covers o senthmentit huly, of wel progurtions, pluyiig s noeturne on cello by tho side of o fuke, vo'" wan repented last oveniog nt Me- ontre by the French troupy with the thnt wppeared o tho =40, . 'This ovens afne. un opers that bas not_ been ¢ yeurs, will bo glven, i whiel M. Gurnier, § 10w teuor, who bus us arrived bere 1o Join ' the traupe, 'will make™ bis Hrst appearancs of tho seasoil, The orchestrn at the New York May Musical Festival will cousiat of forty trst viollng, forty clolins, twonty-eleht violns, twenty-stx 105, twenty=-six doublo busses, aix flutes ang plevoloy, tour ohovs, two English horns, four cluriunets, elzht bisroons, twelve horny, sixteen Trumpets, fourteen trambones, ten tympan, two harps, and threo big deums and oymbaly, o totnd of #i. ‘Tho most prominont musichis of the rn ure Messrs, Arnokl, Bink, DBrandt atzka, Mosenthal (vialins), Schwartz, Jolnay, Hergnor, Miller Ceetlos), Pleits noider (Jouble basy), Welise (lite; {elurlonet), Sohst (bussoon), Gewalt (orw, Dietz (trumpet), Eaut (tromboucly Twewe (tympunl), aud Breitsehuck (harp). Georpo I, Helstow's opera, * RIp Van Winklo™ whileh, usgtirendy stated, 1 lprfllm 1y to be ndded 1o the répertolro of the * Tieal” company noxi gonson, wik origiunily produced at Niblo's Gurden, New York, ln 1305, by tho Payne un Harrison opum compuny, uhd musteully achloved a0 unquatiiled snceess, ” The hbrotio, however, was somewhat dull and bualy constructed. I Ineked deumntie sedon, and diverged too muck from Washington lrving's * Lowend of the Kuntskille,” Within tho pust threo years th¢ Hbrotto hus beon rowsliten by M, J. W, Shunnon “Thoe best numbens of the origiual scors havy however, byen retatned, and many new und Iny partunt ones ndded by tho composer, Mr. Bris tow, Tha nieldios aro tuneful, the concerted numbers sparkling, and the choruses Lighly eftostive, whilo musicians of tho highest prom= 1 pronounce oo archestrntion superb, A nary henring and rehesrant will bo iag Ly tho *Tdeal” company ut Steinway Halt, New York, during tho spriu e ———— THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.y 4 the Lditor of The Chicago Tribune, | KENW00D, Muroh 28,—T heurd tho thrllilng and eurnest speoctics thut wero made Baturdoy ovens Ing nt Central Musie-Hulltn favor of & Momoriul Hullding for a purmanent * Public Library and ArtGatlery,” and I listened with my heare and shotited amen to overy eloquont word thut wag utternd In roview and pratse of the spoutansout uod mugniticent charity of tho clvilized world townrds our prostrute und suflering efty. But, although much wus satd, and well suld, of whish I most heurtlly approve, I reft surprized and paibned it the amission of tho many epoakers ven to mention oo subject, which, It soems to ahould buve recelved promluent sttontlon on thue ocewston, Whlle overy fibro of my bo- g thrilled o the claquont uppeals in fuvor of the Memorl Freo Library und Art Gatlery, [ could not npdorstund why one of Chlongo's most fmportant educationul fnstitutions—onu which is held by muny to bu of puramounat Importauce: ovon to the Public Library itself, and whicd s in quito as much need of nsuto snd vonveniont bullding—should huve boen entirely lgnored. Wus it_becauss tho voles of the lumuented Hoebert Kenaleott, the founder and creator of the Acidelny of Selences, 18 hustied o death that there was no wurd spoken ou thut secasion fu fuvor of u proper und permununt homo for hig grent gt to Chteago? Are then his gront lubors und sacritices—oven tho ancritleo of big lifo {tscit—to the cnd thut we infght possess and enjoy tho elder slstor of the trigeming of learns lnf £ suon forguttent bavo niwiys been un entbusiastio lover o art, und heartlly in favor of all thut can bo safd d don to pramiotu its study and encourngo (4 ued, but dclence 18 the eldor sistor of lliers uture und art, und shoubl natusuily presido und it ut tholr ¥t hund. 150, 1L SeCtns Lo me, Lhat this yreat sehemo o Noworiul Huliding’ will sut be complut and perfoct uatil the eldor und statelier of tho slsteruoud of learning stull bo aceordon ber uppopriuts pluco [ tho cdilice. OF course, [ sball contribute my mite toe wurils the llm|mml Liutlding, but, liko thousunds of otherd, { would rutber go seriwping aud scang 4 fow years louger in orur 10 double uy sube seription W a eomprebonsive und - porfect edu~ entional womuriul thas shall louye ho parcof tig - fumitly out fu the cols J KNNICOTT, suy there 13 no Dru, 3 rietary al that nflfls betier thun uwum'fi%nfiz"ih.’“"‘ tho vivlon-