Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 16, 1881, Page 10

y 0 being covered, when lald, by a th’ Of cosbtar freq from, crevsote. . Tho wird’ used Ja nade jh England, Felton & Guile: auine making the cable In thelr t at Mulhelm, ou tho Ratne, fainko sheaths the enable in thelr factory at rii.. The Stomens cable, i additiomto following ‘the terms of the contract, Is sire founded yy A composition uf asphalt ‘the ontractors are require to furnish cable of wlenptl of 1,000 metros, “Ehy enbles are ald fu trenches three tout deep, following tho course of tho grea Highways, not under the road, but at one slile, along the footpaths, In cows where ih is npotasary under paved feat tie tine of dia gitters, abate yo foot from tho enrbstone, ‘The work s0 methodically plinned as to, proceed ith aliast Rabin rapldlty. ‘The works on Aare divided Into Lire detachments, the firstbeing preceded by a few men who mark two paraltel Jines for the sides of the trenel, Ghese tire tmmnediately followed by the Zang, lio have been previously Instructed as to the dénth of the trenei. A short distance behind, the second division ef workinon bo qin laying the cable, covering lightly to the epth of two or three hiches as they go with sand or earth free from stones. ‘Tuls doug to prevent any injur to tho cable by tho hent of the sun. Carefully, as short distances are completed and us fresh cables ave been colt. s nected, the connection ty tested with the field telograplt Apparatus, which is carried with the force, and not until assured ot perfoct success so fur is the tinal covering of cont-tar Jaid over the citble and the trencl permit. Hently Mled up. In crosging streams, when bridges ura nt jand, the cable islet into tho stonework of the bridge; whore this io -not possible, a cable propnrett for the purpose {3 Inid in the water by means of ats or inal! stentners. Here the faree ot the streant, the depth of the winter Ice, and the chasacter of the vessols navigating (thas tobe considered, The ehlef objectton ilthor- to to Unger eround telegraphy has been tho supposed dinicuity in detecting the localtty of breaks when connection fails. ‘This difil- culty {s overcoine by the fuvention of cortitln Instruments, whlelt work with such perfee- tion asto onablo the exact spotot the break tw be Teported, and repairs are compluted in pfow hours, The preceeding autumn, upon one oceaalon the electria connection between erlin and Cologne wassudidenly intorrupted, y invans of this iuatritnent, ongot which ly kept at each ofice, the locality of the break was discovered, and a telegraphic order to examine -the particular spot wis sent to the oficd neareat that point ‘Che workmen upon arrival found a country fate $n progruss tad tho ground covered with booths erected for the sale of thé wares, as is ustal nt such laces, In erectiix uno of these booths an ron stave had been driven into the earth, striking the cable, most olfectually breaking Sonne jon.——The National Svientifie Jour ‘fal ‘GARFIELD—CONKLING. ‘The President's Cabinet an Fixed Upon ‘at Menutor—fho Now, York Scnator and tho ‘Corps Eden» in Politics, Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribund, ‘ CLEVELAND, O., April 18.—1 met Presl- dent B. A, Hinsdale yeatorday. This rontic- faan has long been understood to stand in re- lation of “noxt friend” to Prosident Gur- fold. The conversation drifted’ upon the present Senaterlal deadlock, ahd upon. the action of the Presiduntin the appointment of Robortson, ete. ; and finally caine around to the mattor of Prosldontial bultdozing, which has been goluz forward: with such remarka- bilo activity avor ainoa Gon, Garfeld took the office, Finally the question was.asked me, how the iinpression got abroad that bulldoz ing ras going to accomplish so much with the riew Presidont. 1 replied, that it was doubtless partly owing td tha well-Inown kindness of the Prealdent’s nature, and the genoral fwpres- sion that Is abroad, that the Cablnet was changed soveral times during the fow days provious to its final announcement, 2 THap. at tenst, ian mistnka,” salt Mer, Hinsdale; “Lam not speaking from belief or hearsay now, ‘but from netual. knowledge. Thére was only one name that was tt the Cabinet fixed upon at Mentor that was “chatiged after arriving at Washington. Sonic days bofore ho left the farm, Qén. Qarfeld said tomo: 'T have told vo mun who would compose ny Cabinet, but Inte now about to tell you. ‘Choy will beas follows: Blutne,- Seoretary of State; Windom, Secretary of the Treasury; Hunt, Postmaster-Gunoral; Lincoln, Secretary of War; Morton, Secre- ;tary of‘ the Navy; Kirkwood, Postmastor- Gbneral;’ MacVengh, Attorney-General,’ Morton nt that tine had nceapted the Navy bortfollo: but, after the urrlval of tho Presi- dent at Washington, he was {Induced to resizn honor at the carnest solicitation of Seta: ter Conkling. . Now, that would not look ike Any great chango of tho slate from the olfects of bulldozing woultt it! “Not cnongh, at an: rate, to bring out the opinion that Bultdozing will win at the White JLouse in precadenve Of everything wise?” : « I asked" President Tinedale ‘how tt caine nbout that suct men ay Senutor Logan of Uhiols, tor Instance, should get. the Im- pression, mid advise his friends, that the way 10 gut the proper nin appolited Wn to flood {ne President with letters, Such an instance balled his attention to as recently bnving oeciirred. in the onse of n gentleman who ang Ih Washington working for the Sppotit, ment of Str, Cobb, of LIMnots, to the Depart- ment. of Agriculture. +," T- suppose,” suid President Hinattale, * that thos opinion como nbvltt from the fact that Gon. Garfield, on one tinlucky day, ao- Ictted oplitons In. peRard to the appolntnont Of his Cabinet, atid from that everybody sup: poses that ito fs very auxtous to have lutters ‘written to hint abot other avpolninenta.” Tinos a prominent Republican of this State Yesterday, wilo was yory free to tnlk of Sen. ator Conkling’s position In the minttor of bettson’s confirmation, As lia took o Frise, bovel position, L'alva his rontarks, ae) abil: a ig (nly bit ann aulvouates of dors idea? ty politics that appreclate Gonkiing's. position, From Sunawt, Conk. dng’s standpoint tho party In Now Yorke ts au army-corps, and he fs the corps-cum- mander, It ly hot only lls duty, but his privilege, to chose tho ollicers Who are to werve under dln, He must. name the Briend jer, the Colonels, the Majors, and pet ably the Captning, In no other way can ry bplng his corns {nto the: proper disclpline, and have it ready ‘for the genarnt muster, ‘The believers in the corps dea hold that all others are of no necount, fw fa numbers, and not worthy to be listened to, ‘The corps idea includes the pycessity ot fn *bosa,? and the conductot affalrs on the ‘boss’ prin- 18, Of course Lant perfectly willie to admit thatthe party must have diselpiine aiid organizations but don't belleve in chok- frat oub all individuality and independence ‘or the soko of Dullding up ono tut. -L be Ueva thas tho ouluntry at Largs will stand b we Prealdent In tho general princlples wilelt @ fatd down nt tho Dortoning of surving all sections of the party ullkein the diutribution of offices,” F Gay, PARABLE : SONNETS, Fran ede began ic : + gaumideved bulegeate,. em Tee ener lyns tho prophot, lingering 'ueath the moon, 7 Hear rosa @ Lene 4 oulld's boart-withering Mixt win the sorrow of the nightingale, . Ad, entoriag, found aunk in Mysterious BwGOD, ae tuldén drew ing shere alone “BG bubbled of bor fathor sitting palo f *Neuth wings uf Death—'iid sights of sorrow A “sand ee nd pleaded fur bis jife in piteaus tone, “Poor child, ploud 07,” tho snocoring prophet ~ Woite sho, with unger tips, litey one who tries ‘To kigs 4 drown, strutahes hor aris wd cries Yo Heaven for holp—" Plead on; such puro luve om a * Keaching the'tnfone, inight stay the wings of ‘That, in tho Desert, fan thy father's oes,” ’ z Ik, Fee drouyht-slato vuinels Ilo on every hand; J yea Suns nwalt the muraing vultures’ claws; 44Siid enipty watoredking and wmimeleiawe ‘The father alts, the last or ull the band. He cauttors, drowsing o'er the moonlit sand, p Bleep, fae, brow; ‘Sleop mukes ue all OF if the wings are Death's, why Asraoel di A childloss father from an ompty funds ae “Nay,” anit @ Voloe, “the wind of Azrasel’s éweet breath bath atiliéd; so God _ A camol’s bell comes tinkling on the broe: wigy tae. Usdoula'e: Drain with bubble ‘of a] ‘ ana eeents ot flowers and sbadaw of wavéring Woere, from a tent, a little maiden sings, ree Walls tn Us Athenauin, ; ———————— : - Don't fell your suffarinys to everybody, but pel ‘Jeoobe ou, aud sped of haresutte mb in ie \)} to. KO. Ini | \ : - LINCOLN. ‘His Rise to the Presidency—Polit- loal Events from 1840 + to 1860, Interesting Reminisconces by Mr, t. 4, Pickett, an Old Iilnolsan, Th th Editor of TH Chteage Tribune, Lixcouy, Neb, April 1.—L firat met Mr, Lincoln ina Whig Congresstonal Convention in Tatowoll County, IL, tn $40. At that Linte there were but thred Congresstonal dis+ triots nthe State. Tho central district was Whig in polities, and tha other two Denso. cratte,.: Sangamon and Morgan were tho Jargest countles in tne middle district, and thero was quite a tlvalryasto whieh should furnish the Congressional ttmber. Both cotntics possessed mun of marked ability,—. B,D. Baker, 8, A. Logan, aud Abraham Line colt, halting from’ Sanganion, and John. J, Hardin, Richard Yates, Willan Brown, and other able men belonging to Morgan. . Both counties claimed the candidate, ‘The Whigs of Morgan unautinonaly agrecd to put for ward Hardin, but those, of Sangamon were divided between Baker and Lincoln. ‘Tosot- (la the matter a vote of the Whigs of tho county was taken, and Bakor was victorious by four majority. 1t was thon arranged that LINCOLN SHOULD LEAD THR DAKE DELR- GATION In the District Convention. ‘The Congresston- al Convention was quite uxolting, and resulta In the choice of the Morgan Oounty oandl- dite by one majority, Baker was greatly mor- tilud by the unexpeated turminacton af the vontes{, and Lincoln—who hail baan his rival nt homa-arose and moved that thenext Con- mressioual Convention, to meet two years fron. that time, should be requested to nuint- nate E. D, Biker, of Sangamon. The Mor- gan delegation objected that the resolution was introducing the most abjectlonnble feat ure of Jaoksonisin Inte the Whiz policy, and Lincoln's resolution was idid on the table, ‘The actof Mr, Lincoln tn andenyoring to se- cure the nomination and advancomunt of his couity rival was unselfish and noble, During the Presidential campaign of 1844 audlacussion was arrauged in Peoria botweon Mr. Lincoln and ex-Congressman W. L. May, ‘The Inst named had “been a noted man in Mlinols polltics.” Ag an slectloneorer ho was untivalud,—had been 9.proacher, was a anpl- talatory-tallor, and could play the Arkans aw ‘Traveler’ all through on the ylolin, To a dd to his other accomplishments, whon excited his profanity was fearful to listen to. May was a very inconsistent potitictan,—harl bea n averything at thos and nothing Very long. Nie left Kentucky a Whig, but go.ng to Dem- ocratle Lilnols had turned Ils political sont, During the [arrison tornado of 1449 hoagain joined thé Whigs, and was eloquent agalnat Vin Baren and his gold spoons, In tho sue- cueding campalgn he once inore folned the Dotucracy, = THR DISCUSSION was hold {n ono of the churches, . The night was sultry and the duurs and low windo ws of tho crowded houss thrown open. Col. May made the oping specoh. and Wong through the argumunt on his sida of the question, In.clos:ng he ridicttle, Ina plens- ant vuln, tho pole ralset by tho: zealous Whigs of tho town noar the public square, Hoaxplaiued the threa kinds of wood of which ft was constructed, and Informed the audience that the main or lower attok, tka the Whig party, was hollow and without heart! ‘Tho Damocrats “ applandsd — the Whiga, looked sorlous, aud’ Col May touk Aisseat, Mr, Linouln replied to tho several votnts ratsed by. his adversary, and In clos. Ing sald: The Whigs of Peoria hat no'causo to be espacially proud of thelr ‘pole; it was, not made of she bust: timbur, and was not straight, but therg was ona thing about It he :vonid explain, acemint for, ond ad mitre. ‘Tho hollow pince at tie butt of the pole was where Col, May had: orawlad out-of tho Whig purty, and his party friends now bropods to closy {t un ao that the Cotonel.-could never return, Alls perfect youd nature In tolling this atruox the funy chord of all the crowded audience, ‘Thoy rushed out of the dours and winduwa, whooping and yelling as ‘thay wont. lo wake May's discomflturo more complete, he Inatantly sprang to: bis feet as Lincoln sat down, and-suoh ontie as he uttered wore novor before heard In‘an orthodox pulpit, pwinsttns his arnis, lie exelaimod, as the Inughing crowd hurried outs “Leave, you blank Hifernal coois! Blank you, you ‘oro such blank cowards, you won't stay tl £ skin your blank champlon, blank him. to blank nation.” But thers wasn method fy the gallant Colonel's madness, Ho had lived lu Springtluld, and knew that it hecnrried his Indignation too far thera was dangur that Lincolty would > , + THROW HIS OVER THE PULPET NAILS. Tho} mothing atter’ the debate May com- pipet that his eilvorsiry, was d{svotirteous in Mitroducing personalities, Mr. Lincoln replied: "Cutonel, 1 was like ‘the litty boy who kiss fs, girl at school, Whoa the teacher asked lila why he tad acted so rude. Iv, tpplted, “She stood go fuir {couldn't help A tow agers after this John ©. Cathotn, of Springtold (ntoknamed " Candisvox " from some of his actions In the Kansnas-Nebraska roubles), Domooratie candliate far Congress in tho Spriugtield glacial, happened In Peorta, and his party friands' Indaved hlm to miuke a politicalsveech, In thelr handallts Anhowneing the musting the Whigs ware in- vitud to make a reply. Learn that Mr, Lincoln waa at Tremont (then tho county svat of Tazewell Connty), twelve iniles dis tant, and belleving wa had no speaker cnpa- Ule Of meutiug Calhoun, Taunt a messenger for him nid Mr." Lincain Benched Poorin about the time the inecting opendd. Ha re- paired tothe Court-llouse, whord the gath- ertig was held, ant Lytotly took a sane near the door, Onthotn ‘spoko for ay hour aud a half to the sutlsfastion of his ftlanda, and the opposition beman to chink it was tine-to have aroply, Ono of thom asked Mr Calhoun to - alispund his remarks far a fow mouients, Ie then rend the Demoeratic Benotlh Inviting a reply to thalf speaker. “Che Chalrman of tho wosting (Stato Senator Swant): inquired? * Mave you adpeaker present?” 4 Wo have,” ans, tho'roply.“ Name hia,” gald the Chale ._, NADRAITAM LINCOLN, of Spririgflolt."" ‘Chere was a hurtled ¢on- suitation (n a fow tony of volog between Onl houn nnd the Chateman, and tho last-named deyyped tohisfeet and Indinantly exold weds * Wo want it understood that tii tsa Dero eratle mesting, and bullies around with pls tols nnd alung-shots muta not interrapt aug destre to [ulerfore with tho meoting ‘was disavowed, bit na fllsgusaton had been in- vited, and Uutlhoun had itready spoken more than un hour that 9 halt, tt looke 8 fale play to hear the otharside, But no, Calhoun continued to talle and tlk, and Itwas evident thut he fntended to continue until It was too Inte to ceply. Finally, after repeating aoveral of ity polnts, at nearly 13 of nts seat. “The levee citlud Jondly’ for “Line eoln,” Lincoln.” Even Denoernts, die usta weit the tinfalrnnss of the wnnaAers, josned In the call, ‘Cho tall form of Att, Line coln thon umd Above the crowd newr the dourway, and hi plebsantly protested ngatnat making a reply, Ih the iret pings beosuse it wis too neur Bunday, (ft was Sattrd: y wight.) Secondly, Galionn, who. Wad On uh fejend and nowhibor, evidently didn’t want Hin ty spenk. But tho excited! crowd he Bray, aut foe dvey mais Sucre met y at Cor thirty mitiutes poor: oun was tet skinned and x THEN DRAWN AND QUANTERED, and ‘the operation was perfurmed with ullgat goud nature, Nat espe toe o reply from. such an aitagonish the Demoerath Howliee had made sunte wild assertions, an ng the crowd dlipersed a promingnt Dento- crat Was heard (o remark? a ever Oalliouy uitkes another epucch In Peurlawe must tit ous tho whereabouts of A, trical, ent knows that he Is more than twelve miles away? s of February, 1864, the anti- ‘Oli the 88d d Democratio editors of Uinols held» State ie purpnge of o'clock ha wok Seniventlo at Decatur tor { i nparing notes and organizing for who cum. Palen. gi Ray, of Tae Uiscaan 'RIBUNY, Paul Selby, of the Jacksonville Juurnal, and souie twenty-five oiner editors tuok part In the vleasant harmoutoug watherlng, This meuting Issued acall tor the Hirst Ru yl Hoan Bate Convention, Previous ta the eal torial Ounventlon ywo or three Journals my Own among the number—supposing THE CHICAGO: TRIBUNE: that o State tloket night bo agreed on by the editorinl: nesting, bad recommende Mr. Lincoln as thelr firstchalco for Governor, Realing these notices, Me. Lincoln attunded tho Decntur gathering w protest nedlnst fils nomination, Ho gave fis reasons, which in substance. woru: - The Kansas-Nebraska bill has disgusted thousands of Lillnois Deine ccrats who will now vores with us it wa only make honinations to suit them, If you tac iny hatne at the head of tho tleket the Trim ball, Couks, Judda, and Palmers and thotr fottowing wil say {t {a nothing but the re« vival of tho. old Whiz partys ant they will continues to voto ns heretolores butlt you nowiials an AnthSlayery Extension Daino- era LIKE COls W. If UIBSRLLy we can redeem Elluols.” His nidvico was fols lowed by the State Convention at Biusnaings ton, and the millunt Bissell was triumphantly qgiectad, and for the first tle the Pralria State cast a majority acainst the Dumncracy. Since that Uline slid hing protty stenitly pers slated In her Antl- Democratic fashion Soon atter this Str Liicoln's unselish net moet with an ungracious return fram the antl-Nebraska Detnocrats, who had jolned to olect Col, Bissell, “Mr. Lincoln ‘was tle cholee of 8 yast inajority of the party for tha United States Sunttarship, and the antl. Demoorats hac asnrall majority tn thé Legls- lature. Dut several of the metnbers of Den ocrallc nutecedents ductined to vote for Mr. Lincoln, ‘Their chotvo was Lyman Truit bull, a nan of Intellvet, but cold ns at tees Derg, and utterly destitute of heart. Many ballots wore taken, and Mr. Lincoln's friends wero indignant at whit they deemed the treachery of the ellyne of fortr ar five follows ers of ‘Trambull, ‘The deadlock was final brokon by Mr. Lincoln hlinsulf, who begged and pleaded with his frlends to withdraw his name and efevt Trumbull, Te finally con- vinced all hig friends, with one exception, an TRUMBULL WAS CIfOSRN, ‘ ‘The dovoted friends of Lincuin Joined tho four or five Trumbull men to prevent the oluctiun of the Deinyyratlo caucus nominee, ‘The man who refused to vote for Trumbull was Janes L. Campbell, of MeDonough County. Converaing with Mr. Lincoln on this stibject, samme tino after the election, the writer of these reminiscences romarkud that {Che had been a mumber, he would hive stood with Campbell, Att. Lineoin quiutly fonlted, 1 Welly you would huvo done wrong, that’s all.’ ‘To show that Abraham Lincoln was not a- ind. of resuntments, 1 would statu In this connection, that one of hls first acts after his election to the: Presidency was to appoint Norman B. Jui, of Chivazo, ty Minister to Prussia. : Mr, Judd was ony of tho Trambull ceteris who had peralated fn the opposition to Mr, Lincoln for tho United Stntey Senators ship, A fow months prior tu the meuling. of the Republicai National Convantton of {983, Me, Judd, at naplranc for the Governershl of Ainats, calied at my oilice in Rook Island, while on an vlectonzering tour, and in the conrso of conversation, asked, “Name your man for the Presidential nomination ab Chi- cago.” Tpromptly repttad, Abraham Line goin.” Mi dud, in a sneeriig pone, subd “T am nob joking: tell mo your honest ohnics,” L repeated, “Abraham Lincolie? He quickly respondad, 1 yin astonished that any oneshould think of his numiliation when we Inve first-clasy statesmen In our party ke Evins Trumbull, Salinon P, Ohase, and Jolin M. Palmore” ‘The appointment of Mr, Judd was gon- erally : OPPosED BY MR, LINCOTN’s MOST INTIMATR FRIENDS, : David Davis, Jesse i Dubota, and . others, On ony oceaston Ln Sprinctisld whon hard pressed by his personal friends, who brought frgununts. to bear agaist Mr, dudd’s ape puintnent, Mr Lincotn replied, "I enn. hot wnileratand this opposition to Judd's ap- pointment. It seems to me (a favorit ox- pression) ho has done more for the succcas ufour party than any man in tho State, and he ty cortainly tho best organizer we have.’ Unlike his ntost intimate friends, tho great President cured not for the’ fact that My, Judd placed no- ig estlmataon his (uin- ouln’s) bility orsthtesmaushty, ‘The mention of Judga Davis’ ‘name cnits to mind the fact that inthe writer's opinion that gentleman did imore alllelunt work in seonring Lincaln'’s neminaidon thai any othor individu. It was net dope on pollt- foal grounds either, but from a‘sincore ant hearty adintration of Avraham Lincoln's, preat, and noble qualities, L don’t believe’ hivid | Davis owns - over sn partisan Republican: Wis Southern birth, eduen- ‘tlon, ‘and conservative hablt of thought was - rather in opposition. to. the. sweoplng ldens of many of - tho - Republican luaaurs, But he knew Lincoln Intiinately,—tia honesty, wrent ability, and love of country, andon the day the Preatduntial Convention assembled, Davi Davis performed the work of n score of oritanry mon, At to Tremont, Sharman, and other hotels, he outtalked the friends of Wilinin EH. Suward, and convinced many that the Cotvention would act wisely in choosing Lincoln for thelrstandard-buarer, Whilo he was daing yooman's services for nls friend, others who elated to bo lenders, 7) , te DAMNING MM. LINCOLN WITH FAINT. PRAISE, On tho tnorn lg, the Convention mut, 1 asitedt the Hon, O, IL Browning, of Quip ye lis eululun of the result, Le Toplleds Oh, it Linsoln would withdraw, a8 bo should do, wo could nomlaats that grent stitesman, Edward Bates, of Missunel But as tt 15, of counta Selvart will be noilnated.” Great leadurs tke ‘Trambull and Browning contt not bear the thought of choosltug him, but othe-s who ald not elatin to be great leaders, ike David Davis and i. J; Oxlesby, bucked by the “Republican people, went manfully tuto the fight, and success crowned thelr jabors, {Tus Ontcaco Trmuns was the great nowspopor herald of Old Abe's” inerite. Lt pou forth a constant stream of panegyric in hig bohalf, and urged him for the- Prest- gency As tho moat avullable oundidate that could poxsibly bo nowtnated, Dr, CG. HL Ray and the preaunt editor of fur Tatpuxe wrote atleast a hundred articles urging Abrahain Lincoln on the Republican pany for Presi- dent. Among all the ngencles at work, Tie ‘Trisuye did most to create. the -** boon" that culminated in bis nomination, Wilxon's Journal and Wentworth's Democrat niade a Wigorous contest In bohulf of Saward,} . {fn convermnuon with Mr, Lineuin once, on the aubject of tho Juint dovate with Douglas, hw asiced mu whien of the apecches wag. uy favorlty, [told him £ ked his Freeport ‘ad- dress better than any other, He repllad: “Lela very singular; I have asked many frignds tat quesdon, but none ayros with with me, twas > DETTER PLEASED WITH MY AELF AT OTTAWA than at any other. place” At Ottuwa his Trlands wore ao delightoit with whut they by- Hoved was Ins. complete triumph over. the ttle fant that ho was tien, innél ‘against his will, on the shoulders of an adiniring crowd und carried to ints hotel. tn glyag fcoountof the dubate, Dougins’ organ, the Civfoago Tones, gravely annvuneed Unt Line ouln, the champion of the Republican party, wae ao badly used up by his autuoulst that his frients were forged to carry Mar to tis hotell Wien thoy met after wirds Ln Obarten tun, Coles County, Mr, Vouglas aitoted what Ue Tinie had anit ot the Ollawa dabate. In iv closing ‘reply Mr. Lineal hentedly re H tr tia ie nonely ny welkht, W fot bln give hla consent to my propos don and reslat with all iis might. £ will tuke filmy on ny shoulders to his hotel and put hin to bel! Douxtaa, pleased that te liad riled the temper nf hits usttally placld ane taxunist -langhingly ducilned ‘the prapusl- Dns Speaking of the discussion between theso two grove Efnolsans reminita ine that at Galesburg, where froin 25,000 ty 90,000 puopls wore assninvled, during Donia" 8 weal, £ was atau on the outakirts of the bmengs crowd aud Ale, Lincoln came und salts: am unxtous to fiaw whothor iy volve oan bu heard ns far na Douglus’, Listen and let me know." T gave close attention and con: chided that Mer, Lincoln's thin, wiry yoloe Was nitich better adapted for outdour” spuake tng, Un the heavy yolco of fils ihe it 4 pleasant to know that Lincoln and Douatas 4 ia WENE SaGON AL Cilla ny : hat when the olt| tag was fired on at Sumter jvalasnt ict promptly called. fe Doug- as to tityine wit i nit ia CO ‘the polisy to be pareuod li atunping “out Wie fires of the Ry. willon. And, Curiiernore, that the sons of both these great patriots are nuw tchtin anuulder to shoulder wndor the same political fing, : Karly In April, 1840, I addressed a létter to. Mn Lincoln inviting hin to visit. Kook Island wnd deliver ifs jecture on © ‘Lhe Dix. nhy uf Lagar,”’ I also atatet tn a_poxtsoript that I lnténded to confer with Repuolican galton at ed lu {Be wovbyal sections of the witha view of bringing his name fore ward ay a Presidential Gundidate, He replied as follaws BERING FIELD, et 56, 1850-7. J, Pickett, Bag. o-M¥ Dean Bins Yours of the tite is just ree calved, Ay ongexeinents ara such that) cannot Abu Vory cariy day vis ¢ lovk Island to dellyer alecture, or far uy other objeut, Aathe other walicr you kindly mention, I will in candor say | do not think He ee sor tuo Ffeadengy: Tam oertalaly sate an iy jod thas ems of my fricuds think of me in Ognusction, butt really talnk i$. Dest for SATURDAY, APRIL oltf Catlse tant no concerted offort, auch ns you auryest Should bo made, Yours very truly, A. LINcoLm “ BYRON. Some New Notes on tho Great Rngliels Poet. Matthew Arnold in Maemilan's Nagasine, Byron. found the English people, attor their tong and victorlons struggia with rov- olutionary France, fixed In a system of es tablishodt facts and dointnant !dena which re- voltod hin, ‘Tho montal bondage of the moat powerful part of Uic natlom, of Its strong milddie cliss, toa narrow and ftnlsa sys tem of this kind, is what we call Brits tah filstinism, ‘That bondsge ts nnbro- ken to this hour, but In Byron's thine it waa oven far inote deen and dark thant Is now. Byron wasan aristocrat, and it !s not dim. , cult for an wristocrat to lovk on tha prot dices and habits of the British Alaina with skeptlolain and, disdain, Plenty of young mon of his own elnsy Byron mot nt Alinack’s or at Lady Jersey's, who regatded tho es- tablishwt facts and reigning bellefs of the England of that day with og Ilttle reverence as ho did, But thosa men, dishes Nevers tn British fillstinisin in private, on- tered. English publis life, the moat convon- tlonal in the world, afd at once they saluted with respect the habits and {dens of Britlsh flstinlam as if thoy wore » part of the order of creation, and as if In public no sane man woutd think of warring against then. With Byron it was differont, What he called the cantof the grent middle part of the Bnutish nation, what wo call Its fillstintsin, revolted hitn; but tho cant of his own class, doforring to this filistinism and’ profiting by It while they disbulleved In It, revolted him oven more. “Come what may,” ato his own words, “E will never flatter tho millon's canting {n any shape.” ‘Ils class in ganar al, on the other hand, shrugged thelr shoulid'ers atthis cant, Inughed at it, pandered to lt, and ruled by tt. ,Tho falsuhovd, oynlolsm, insolence, misgoverniment, oppreasion, with tholr consequent unfailing crop of human misdry, which were prodiiced by this ata te of things, . roused Byron to trrecon- oilubls revolt and battle, Thoy mnde him Sndignant thoy Sofurlated hin; they were sv, strong, 80. defian' so maloticent—and yet ho. felt tha thoy were doomed. “Yu have seen every traiplor down, in: turn,” he comforts Ulm- soll witit sayings “feoin Bonaparte to the alinplest individnals,” ‘The old ordur, as after 1915 it stoutl vistorious, with {ts igno- ratice and misery below, its cant, selfishness, wud eytiicisin above, was at home and abron equally hateful to him, “Lf have sitnplitied my volitics,? he .writes, “Into an utter da. testation of nll oxistug governinenta” And again: “Give me sn republic. ‘Tho king Unies fro fast Aitshings there will ve boot shed ke water and tars like mist, but tho peoples will conquer in tho end. -1 shill not live to sey, [t, bub 2 foresve It. ‘This ty not the sort of liveral, Peor to muve the address in the House of Lords, to pay Compllaents to the energy. and self-relinnes of British inlddle-class Tiberaligm, and to adapt lls polities to suit it, Byron threw himseie upon poutry ag his drgan; and In poetny tis toples Were not Queen Mab, aid the Witch of Atlag, und t.2 Senslive Plant; thoy were the upholdars of tho uld order, George IIL, and Lord Onstlurenzh, and the duke of Welling- ton, und Southey, and they were the canturs mul trauplers of. the grant world, and they were hls enensies and hluself, toh wns Byron's porsoniilty, by which “hols diferent from all tho tess of Enaliist pouls, and, in tho: inal, areitter? But he posud all his ite, says Mrs, Selerer, ulstingulsh, ‘There ts the Byron who pusutl, there ls the Byron with hls nffvctntion an slilness, the Byron whose weakness Lady. Blessington, with a womnn’s ‘act teness, “go admirably selzod: “his great detect Is flips paney ahd n tutal want ofMsulf-pugsession.” Bur when ts theatrical and easliy-criticised personige betook himself to bouttys and when he had fairly warmed te his work, then he became anothof man; thon tho theatrical ravnige passed Away; then a higher power ok-“pussession: of iim, and filled. hing then at -Inst cami” forth into’ Nirht that’ true and pulssunt . personality, . with’ fis: direct: strokes, {ts avurwelling force, Ita ‘antir energy, and 1s naDHy.. ‘Shits ts the rent It ny whoever stops ab the theutrical preludings dovs not know hlin, Ant this real Byrou nay well be superior to the atrickon Leopardi, may well bo declared: “different from att the rest of English poets, and, inthe maln, renters) in so fas ae tt i trus of him, ag M. ‘wing well snya, that all other suttly, In contparison with’ ts, seomud Inert; In so far as itis true of blinthnat with superb, extinustinss enurgy he malntalned, a3 Prof. Nihal woll ways, “the struggty that keeps tlive, if it dows not save, the suul"s in 80 an ually ns he dcearvey (and aie dace dg. serve) tha noble praise of Mr, Swinburne; the praise for “the splendid ant tmperish- able excullunce which covers all his oifunses - and out-welghs all his defucts, thauxcellence of sincerity und strength.” ‘True, asa man, Byron could not mangge himself, could not wetdo his ways Atleht, tte was allastray. True, ho hag ne legit, enn. not lead us from the past tothe futures "the monient he reileets ha isa child.” ‘Tene, as ’ pout, he has no ilne and .oxact senso ‘tar word, atid structure, and rhythm. Ile has tot tho artlat’s nature and gifts, Yat a pure sonality of Byron's forces counts for so Much. in Hfe, and a rhetoriclan. of Byron's force counts for go nutch in Mteraturel But_it would be.most unjust to label Byron, as MM, Seterer is disposud to lubel him, a8 a rhetor- iclan oul, Alotg. with his) astounding bowgrand passlon, bo, had a strong and doep sense for witag.la beautiful In Nature, and for what Is beautiful In human action and suffering, When he warns to his work, when he “is inapived, Nature- hereelt seus to take tho pen from hf, - as she took it from Wordsworth, find to writs for hinvas she wrote for Wordsworth, though (na differant fashion, with her own pene trating slinplicity. Goethe lins wall observed of Byron, that whon he isnt his happylust iis Fepresentation of things ly as easy and real ug if ho wore luprovisimg. . It 1s su; and ils vera then exhibits quite another and a Nigher quality from the rhetorien! gual adinirable as this alao in Its own kind of inert [sof such verse as ~ Biutons of splondor shrinking from distress, and of so uch more verse of Byron's of that stump. Nature takes the pen fur him; and then, assurad master of # true poetic style though he ls not, any. moro than Woris- worth, yet ns from Wordaworth at his best thors will cone stich vorse as And never iifted up a singlestone, | so from Byron, too,-at his best, there will cote Buch verse ay 8 He hoard {t, but be hooded not: his eyes Wore with his huart, und that was faraway, Of verse of this high Guallty, Byron. has Much; of vorac of a aualty lower than this, ofa quallty rather rhutorion! than truly pos etly, Seb atill of oxtraordinary puwor and metity ho has still more. ‘To soparaty, from the mass of poutry Which Byron pouretl forth, ol) thts bt se portion, so" Buperiur to the mass, and still ao considerable in quane tity, and to prusent it it ae buly. byt elf, wantld be to do a agrvive, I belleve, to Byron's reputiuon, and to the poetic glory of our sountry, Surely the critic who does mont or iily author fs the eritle who galns renders ‘ur lily author tilmself, not for any juny) ‘ay Mons on hie auther—galns more readers fot him, and enables those readers to read hin with mory admiration, g And tn spite of his prodigtous vogue, By- ron ling never yeh perhaps, tind the Kerlous adiutration which ho deserves, Society rend Hin and tatked about hingas it reads and talks about “Endyilon? todays and with te BAine sort of result, ouked ‘IW By rows glass as it looks tn Lord Beacons Keld's, and seca, ft (Rule that it sevs, its own thee there; and then St goes ity Way, and stralklitway forgets: what maiier o man [t saw. Even of: his fassloints ade wilrorg, how muny never got buvond the the- atyleal Byron, from whom they caught the fashion d F daranging ett alr, or uf knat- tng thelr neckhandkerchlef, dr of jeaving thelr silrt-collar unibuttioned; how few pro- tuundly Colt iis vital Influence, the hiflusnce of his splendid ond tmporlshable excellence of slocerity and atrength Tils own ariatocrallc class, whose cynical make-believe drove: hii to tury; the Rteat wilddla-clags, on whose Supregnanis Allstine Tem he siattered himsell to uieces,-how fittle have either of these felt Byron's yital itnencal ais the Inuvitable breakeu of the oltt order coines, a8 thi Engllah ailddle-class slowly awakuns from its intellectual sleep of two centuries, us our actual present. world shows lisell ware clearly,—our wartld af at arlaieriey miatorlufized and null, a anid class purblind aud dldeots, a lower class erude and brutal—-we shall turn our eyes axwin, and to more purpose Upon this poi slunate ant dauntless soldier of a forlorn hope, Min yehorantog the fatary and pus conaaled by {te promises, nevertheless waged Bruins the copsary) Mon of the old {ts ble world so Gory battle; waged I # asl U he Let us: 16, 1881-SIXTEEN PAGES Pa fell,—-waged ft with sach aplondid® and im- perlshalte excellence. of sindarity and strength. Wardsworth’s Vatne ts of another kind, Worraworth has an insight Into permanent sources of joy and consolation for mankind which Byron has nots hla poetry gives us nioré which we may rest upon than Byron’ more which we can rest upon now, and whic! men ning rest upon always, T pluce hls poetry thorefure above Byroi’s on tho whole, MUthough In some points he was rently Byron'a Inferlor, But theas two, Wordsworth and Byron, stand, [t sounts to me, first and bredinlnent {i nopnal porformmiice, Aglorious pair, among tho English poets of tlits cent ury. Keats had probably fideed a more cone auinmato poctie-gite than either of thom; but he ded having produced too Httle and being as yet Loo lnmature to rival them, 1 form part can never even think, of equaling with them any other of thelr, conteniporariess wither Colerlidgs, “post and philosopher, wrecked inn inist of oplumy of Steller. beautiful and inefecttial nugel, beating tn the vold his fiminous wings in vain, Words- worth and Byron stand out by themselves, When the year 1009 fa turned, and our nation cones to recount her poctls glories fn the euntury whiten baa then Just ended, the first names with her with bo those, * THE. COURTS. A QUARREL OVER A Corrs, A Dill was filed yesterday In the Superior Court by Mary M. Yeager amuinst,the Bunov- olent Protvctlys Order of Elks, Carollne Millor, allas Yuager, and -Georga A, Treyser, to provent thom from. interfering with the alead body of her- husband, tho Into George IL. Yenger, Sho says that her husband dled Feb, 23 at Aurora, .and after tho. funoral sorvice the ramatns were removed to Chicaga and deposited in a vault at Rosphill, there to een until braperly burled. Yeagerdurin: vig difetine had * Freguently acpressnd a desire to bd buried In the funtly lot of bla mother, Ars, ‘Tnekur, and after ie deconse, Alrs. Thoker sent te complainant a deed of tho Jot, with instructions to see that her sin was buried. there, Mis. Yeager accordingly had a grave dug in the folly ios, and went fo Rosehill to tnivo tho body interred there, but was informed by Alexander Lang, the keeper in clinrg, that ce body had been des posited In the vatilt by Gedrge A. Troyser, who clutned to act on belialf of the Benevo- lent Vrotective Order of Elka, ind would iret sttrrander it unless on ‘Treyser's ordet. Mra, Yeager then went 16 Troyser for auch order, but he refused to ive tt, on the ground that the Elks had Faken hari of the bly nd ropused to. by it in thelr géneral burin! job whenever’ the Spcisty. should purehase ® lot. fur the burial of its dechaautt meinhors, Yengor was x member of tho Elks, and they tuok chine of lils-frneral, and Claim lis wished to ba buried by thems but | complaliant thinks It was Yeagur’s Inton- tion to be biridd tn the’ fatally lot, oven it tho funeral: ceremantes word performed by the Elks, At the thing hu dled, one Cacheriie Miller, who.clatings to bu his. wife, way with qn. bit edinplainant wcharges she was nat hia wife, When the fiineral was heli com. plalnant: put tn. her olnim tothe borly, anc the Elks thon promised they would make ito clas to it after the cvromontes, Caroline Miller, howover, 18 anxious the Elis should have — [t, ye ey, a8 ‘is churged, have viuinted. thelr.” promise, and. nol refuse utterly to. -surrender the Judy, . Treyser ‘oven ns. -been to Doswn to try to get Mra, Tucker's copsent to the Elks having tho renutins. Mrs, Yeager alnlins shu fs tho oni legal wife, nut fs reatly and willing to pay all dxponses, and to erect at MOnuinent over lis graves Shasays tt wis, not her intention to allow the Elks to do more than conduct coremonies, on thelr ox- press. representation. that, they would not cinim the butly after tt was placed in the . the parties Interested «fi ty vault. In conclusion, sha nsks thot the de. fendints “may. be erUOHIATLY restrained from Jnturruring iti ge, aud hat silo may be permittad to bury:her dond in pouce. . ‘ « DIVORCES. i Johdpna Holzfuttner flud a bill yesterday against her husband, Sebastian Holztuttnor, pains fora divorce on tho ground of deser- a ee an fs STATE ‘COURTS. A Agar & Marshall began a suit in attach- ment yesterday agalust Charles. L. Anderson and Alfred A. aia te revue Li eltaed : send Katherine: Wahzbeln ~ com- > ee ‘aut tnt trespass: agalnst “Athulla Subloesaar, Inying damazes:nt 85,000.25 Je ey Ques suud David’ Davenport for ‘or . 000. * GRIMINAL COURT. In the’ Bilston & Wheeling gravel road ‘qito warranto case .yeaterday, «the: yenuo. was changed by stipulation - to. the Cirautt Court, Fratk Elker was tried for.assault and ac- quitted. ee i In tha ease of John Murphy, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced fo seventeen yonrs tu the Penitentiary Jn Decembur last, a petition was presunted praying that the Court direot the Clerk.to furnish counsol within transcript of the record without coat, in or- dur to sug muta welt oterrie for the Buprame Court, ‘The petition was dunlud, eed Willian. Coleman, pleaded guilty to lar- ceny, and was given’ ten days in the County ii Hopson was.found guilty of. an a Mtrank Geltiin pleaided guilty to. burglary, and was remanded, |. i Charles Duiituy. was ‘found guilty ‘of rob st tonplary, bery, aid given one year in the Wittinn’ Hum: Tobin. was found mulity of ro bery, and givon one yoar in the Paul entlary. + PROBAYE couRtT.’ In the matter’ of. tho astate of John 0, Shedel, deceased, letters of administration were Issued -to Christian F. Shedel, under bond for $7,205 = aa THE GALL: TO-DAX. Jupae Davuxono~in ohainbors, Jopax Buopnerr—Nu court, “Aprenudta Count—No curt, Jupor Gany—Motions. + oe JuDaR Huttit—Puremptory caso of motions for new trial li 2818 and 8,000, : . JUDGE Witt rs430N—Sotions for new trial. dupa JaAMesax—Divorad onses, JUDGH GAitbNeh—Sot caso Nu. 4, Bryaat va. Witaon ak a : JUDGE Rogens—Motions for new trial. dupa Monan—Mationa, er duvaa TuLKy—D\voruy cuses, Jppaez Darnusi—Divurco casos, TNE CALL MONDAY, Tupas Dausstond—In obambers, ‘ JunaE NLopastt—Movons and’ general bust. nossa, ee ee i ArPetLats Count—No court uatll Wedoos- aan ‘ day, , ‘ : itbicheeniaicr tare heed to 681. No case'on trial. iy Ree oe awd asd Jopan Sxrru—No preliminary call,’ Trial gall 2.516, nas BULL, 3,0)0, 'B,02t, 8,020, 9,030, 0,003, JO ChsO On 7 A petits WILLIAMBOS—Asiists Judyo Gary, No ate Hons, * engo on trial, Jupoe Jauzson—Col 2 mot Jupae GanpNEt—Contested motions, JUPGH Roskts~Sut. cusu 3005, Casey va. Chl- aga, ‘aliroud Company, au catenin he ete Hess Ah JUVGH SLOLAT—SiL, 513, B2, 659, O94, 631, 83), GH." No case on trial? f “Jubnm Ranctsene nates oat, - Jupag Louw! 60, 1,034, 4 1dOE nd Lae oe 88 TA OTT Gf, UDGE ANTIONY—No, 100, ULGE Te iting soiro facias on jovgnizauce, i i GRD GN Bera. Shans joraR1oOn Count — Convassions — Jao! Rlohardsod va, Jogeph Ai Lim Bist tas. 18, a8 JUDGH SMiTi—Forroater &-Luem vs. ‘Honry Harmay -vordioy / $1,000, and’ wowon for cow WILLTAMSON~-Eltsnbeth Fuller, admin- istrnirix va. David H, Koyess vordiot, $44, and lantion for new trialLouls Favier ve. Join I, Lutcenbott: verdiy: y ‘OLnourT Couss-JvbGH Morky—George, Eas eflok Va. Lachlan Grants verdict, $ul.—Jubn M, Bley de, O8., V8. Honry Lampurtur, $54.7.—J, . Nivhols ya. Juuios B. “Husegtt und’ James, Beaver, 06, E ‘Total wisi Sethe. Big Bonanza. , p trointa, teu) Bnterurias. The Goneullanted Virginia Ide bas produced WIBTTVS tb buillon, aud (a S04,900,0N0 in dividundé, and tbe Oulitornig Stine hus oruduced son Oss My bullion, and paid sJLU0N In dividends, aking a coinbined product of $1li,- TUEGUS ond F400 In dividouds Alf tala weulth oume out uf. thuse nodules or -cunore- thone of ore jn the xreat Coinstock vein, popus Jarly known aa bonanzas, Theo nodples wre the Sugureplums cecurring ‘here wnt there lu tha yeln. dlauy bave been fund. in the vein, Hret ru und lagt, bit tue ong ty the. pound of the Cull« forvla gud Cuusulidated Virgioia Companlus, Dicutloged above, wus tha chief af then all. ‘They ocvur iu the vein with as much regularity as fo plunis tn. & pudding. As John dblucku: eave, " Boonosss are woere you tind th They gre found af Umes and planes most u pected, With all the kaowledre, gained In Wweaty yeah, uur miuingsmen cannot locate ba: nanzas in advance nf the ploks and any of them bave done sn, the Big Honan randost of all thue far discoversd—would fave. Inin under our nesosin the middie of tho city for neurly elehtéen yoars, trodden over.and | deaph Nota sien on the susface or in tho pureunding gtound Indicated tho wonlth lylng ia er LA SALLE STREET. Proposed Ordinatice for Ite Vacation » at Van Buren Sirect, ‘Tho Committee on Streets and Alleys South mot yesterday aftornonn at2 o'clock In the City Clork's office for the purpose of consid: ering the vacation of thé south portion of La Saito street to _accommadate the proposed nuw Board of Trade Bullding. Alt. Clark presidod.” A potliuon of P. W, Traoy to lay a | track on Ullman street was referred: to tha Law Department to prepare a ‘proper ordl-'} nance granting the ight to sone rallrond corporations, fa as to conferm to the decie Jons of Judze Tatey, A. romonstrance was considered agatnat the paving of ‘Third aventie, between Jack- son ent wert strevts, und directed to bo placed Ie ? PINT. Withrow, the attorney of the Rock Taland Rallroadl Company, read tho following raft of an ordinance fur the vacation of La | Salle street; ih Wuritgas, The owners of thnee portions of Blvvks Ud and 115,10 Sobout Beation Adiitiun to ELEOLRIC BMLTS AND BAyng BEE CTMEC BEETS AND Banog , 1 ed y , * TO THE: WEAK, NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED, Chiongo, propose to dediuate to the public aud the elty purtlons of sii blocks for the purpa: Of Incrensing the width of Pucitia avenue and | Sherman strent, } atcoct, in considerition of tho vacnuon of La Sulle streot, from Jackson to Van Buren strect: | and.) 3 : sae ~ WHAREAS, Tho owners of nil tha property | which abuts on the portions of--sald strecta | which will bo aifeoted, elthor by this proposed ' Ed or Yucation, huve assented to tho samey an ‘ Wheukas, The public taterests and convons fenva Will be promuted by tho teouptanco of suuh dedication and the niukiug of said vaca tian; (horefore, s _ Ue (tuniained by the city Counett af the City of | feugu--SeCrioN 1. That the dedication of tho ateip ae land 27.76 feet wie, extending froma nukson to Van Buren street, and bounded on the onst by tho present west Ine of Faulty aves nue, und of tho strlp uf lund 6 fact wido, exe tonding trom Juckeon to Van Buren, atreot, and bounded on the - west ty Shorinin : atreot, i Sehool Section Addition to Chicago, mids by tho terns of an Indentury, executed i tho excoutors and legatess under the last will ' and teatuinont of John £ ‘racy, now deceased, + aud by the holes at law of said Jono &. Trucs, deceased, which Instrument bere dite the — day of —-« A. D, 184], Is nerehy udcepted for thin Purposes and updu the terms and conditions upon which suld dedicucion fs tnada, 20.3, That Lucilio avenue, trom Jaékaon to Van Buren street, aball be appropriated to the public use as followar the aldewiik on the ene! side thorenf shall, be 11. Walk on tha West | side 3 therco! 13.15 feat wide, and tho roadway shall be 83 * feet wide, and that Sherman streat, from Jack- | son to Van" Buren street, bo approprivted tn | the publig use ng follows: tho sidewalk on tho cust aide thorsof sbull bo sixteun fect | wide, tho silowalk on tho west sido thereof aball ; ‘vo ten feat wide, aud the. roadway thotoof shall : bo forty feet wido, i Ge. b Bhat portion of La Salle atrest extond- jug from the north [ine uf Vun Buren atroet to the south tne of Jhokson street In tho Kehodt Seotion Addition to Chicngo, is hereby vucated | ABA pliblivstreot and olzoway, and all right to | Uso ur contro). the sate for any purposa Whate .} ever ucqured Dy tha exercise of te power of | ominent tomuin by the Oily of Ontoago ts bere: by relensod, relinqui and abandunod. 1 Accompanyin the ordinance was a con-! tract of dedienuon from Cnarlis ‘Tracy and j Dan D. Tracy, 28 ercoutars of the last will { and testunent of Joht I, ‘Tracy late of Erio, | Pay Mary- M. Seat, Anna Sf. MeCollont, | Bliza ‘I. Griswold, and Willlam L. Seott and | Dan..D.-Tracy,. truswos. for W. A. ‘Prat lomatecs and hvirs ardor the will, and of al i © “Tracy 0B wilea ulves the city clear title to fhe prop, erty. 4 s Mr. Brown, tha Attorney for the Tracy | heirs, said they. ware also willing to ive sttel bonds Ag Were required to carry out thelr pore ton of the contract to. huld the corpuration | harmless, ag the city nay require, £ -An case the building should not be put up: and completed within two anda half ‘yeara, : then the vacated street Is to revert to tho | city. - . j titer n brief Sxpianation of the documents: by Sir. Withrow, It was duetded to refur tom to the Corporation Counsel, who will also consiler the requisit bund, Phe ordinance for pening a street from Thirty-elahth to Thirty-ulnth streets, be- tween Lagley and Cottage Grove “avenues, was take: -and considered, ‘The South “Sido Rail Company, In: defiance ‘of ‘the ordinnice, las erected a building seross. the ropoved naw strest-line, and now asits that he ordinntice be repealed. ° ‘ Ald... Cinrk -vellaved In - the ordinanots passed by the Comiell boing enforced. - Ald, Wickershuin wanted the ordinance “repented anda new ordinance prepared, so that there would’ be n chance to abtaln dam ages. Le hold that the people should havo oponud the streot, * . : Ald. Clark said that It was the elty's busl- ness to carry out its ordinances, 11d was.op- poxuil to Feponting ordinances, The petition was ordered vlaved on file. Ald. Wickersham voted no, and said that he would presse a minority report, ‘Tho ortinance Cor the open of Waah- Ingtolt and Mfidlson streets eant of Michi- gun Avenue, to tha Inke, was direated tu bo Blane pn flto, yntil the Lake-Front niatter Js ecidud. 3 x A PINCH OF DUST, + Foe The Ohteaga Tribune, T ponder deoply on a pinch of dust; I hold itin my band must reveronty, ‘Thia is tho rent substance of us ull; ‘This ts the flour ¢ tho mills of Time Tho certain doatiny of muterial things. With Fanoy’s wand I touch thie pinch of dust, And lol tr blossoms Into fruits and Hyerey And all the inyrlud lovely things we soe That make our, earthiy pois. sy beautiful,” <All spring and blossom brightly from the dust, . Iwave my wand, and lol Ido evake Tho woydrous Cruines, tho tenements of lif, Suprsnialy: perfect fur wnoh tenant's needs, . Aji Cramail and fashtoned with a akill divings ith Pancy’s wand {cull thom from tho dust’ Ani now T grasp tho scoptre of ola Time, And all the fragrant bloums that denpe the With vuricolared eplendore pusa away, As évyniasuent as the drops of dew All fade, and die, and molder fate dust, {touch the proud and glorious form of Man— , The masturplece of Nuture most divine, Adoraliio In beauty, strength, and grace; Ltouoh it—fol tt abrivels like a leat, + And Nature's glory orumbiea into duat, Itouch the massive temples with my might, ‘Tho regal patnoes. atid iil menuments ‘The aunntig band of Mun has ovor reared, And, like the tender furs of loaf and fuwer,, ‘Thoy crumble one by one, aud turn to dust, And thna tt 1s this ptach of dust doth All My. spilt with more awe thun all tho stars, For it doth truly symbolize tt ally ‘ ‘Tho whole matérial universe is hero, Hepusing In the hollow of my band, : ++ “SIOUS" DRUSAKER, a Bxrtracts trom Tom Palues Maxime, { voitevo in the equality uf manteand 1 believe that religions dutios. oanalst Jo aul juatice, joving tneroy, and endeavoring to mate our ful- low-creatures bappyy .., a ow tolnd ta Wey ar cbiiealts " that nevowwity to the happiness of man ho bo mortally tattnent to miinaele . arth » Aby system of raligion wat stocks the mind of uw ohild cannot bo a true ayatem, pe word of Gud Je-tho oreation whlch wo bo- old. Sees The age of ignorance commenced with the Christhin syatom, ' tr bewota cn fant une Kty of gal 8 a dalamitous nes y of going oi. To read the Mible without horror, we must undo cverytbing that is tendor, sympathizing, und benevolent in the hourt of man. Tho man dovs nut exist who van say Ebave orseouted him, or that -f have in auy case ree. urned evil for evil. ‘Of nll the tyrants that afflot mankind, tyranny In roligion Ia the worut, ‘The byllef In a crucl God makea a ervel man, My own opinion Is, tbat those whuge lives Lave been spent in dolug good, and endeavorug to take uote tollowemortals happy, will bo buppy Ore Tho intellectual part of religion {sa private uffuir between every man aod bie Maker, end In woloh no third party haaany righttointerfare. Tho practioal part quasiate to our doing good to ‘No pirson ourht to make a Uv ing by religion. One porson cannot act Fellow ‘of anvther; every péreon tnust Aot for. mpeolt, wheel A, Wore'usé than a ‘One guod echoulmanter ta Let us propagate morality uufettered by su- Thellove Io one God an ap moré, und ing 0} Mieg by way, i huve # good atate of beallh aud a bappy mini iro bh cirlabinge tie Oat wit bundred private, Pperstition. fog bupplaces beyond thie life, religion, and the whole of It, le the fear take cure of both by no God ia the power, or first cduser Nature 16 th Jaws an mater ie the Subject rec . 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