Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1881, Page 12

THE CiilCAGO S1I—T'WELVE THE STATE CAPITAL Unsuceessful Attompt in the Sen- ate to Resnrrect the Ex- press Bill, 1 Fuller's Adjournment Resolu- tion Made a Special Or- der for To-Day. A TFat Job for the Spring- field Newspapers Cru- elly Knifed, Should Union Soldiers Who Suffered in Rebel Prisons Receive Pensions? The House Bill for the Election of Masters in Chancery Advanced. fhe Elgin Appropriation the Sube jeet of o Whole Day’s Its Consideration About Half Com- pleted, and a Total Reduc- tion of 819,000 Made. Devclopment of a Grand Ca-operative Selieme Among the Grabbers of the People’s Money. A Docnment Which Will Probably Onuse Anothor Oirous in the House—Ap- portionment—Adjournment, THE EXPIESS BILL DORSN'T REVIVE, Spectal Dispaten to The Chicago Tribune, Semxarieny, 1il, May 10.—~The Senate convencd st the usual hour this morning, President Hamilton in the ehalr, ‘I'he motlon to reconsider the vote by which Senntor Whiting’s Express bill was defeated was ealled up, belug o special order for the Senator White moved to postpono ter untll July 4. Senntor Launing spoke In favor of the bill. Express and telegraph companies, he snld, coulil not be'renched by tho ordinary meth- ods of taxntion, 1lenco the blil wus a good - one. These compunles I'AID NO TAXES. had no tangible property, and. this method wns the only known way of making thom auknable Lo the Revenue law of the State. + 8enntor Merritt sald o telegraph -company owned nothing butn lot of wire and posts, - It pald no tax, except, perhaps, on table or two,—not ns much as n dog-owner, Anex- press company settled cvery thme on its fon of Its goods and pald the In turn, tho rallronds were taxed. Ilenco thero wus no necessity tallronds therefor. Senjutor Shaw clalmed that the bills to tax and oxpress companies -wero identicat. &he first hnd Leen sent to the Ilouse, and this ono should follow In tho ITS ILLUSTIIOUS PREDECKSSOR, 1le then took the constitutional ground thut these corporations wore within the tunne- dlute control of leglslation, and should be Senator Clark trusted that Senator White's motion would not provall, whereupon Sen- ator Whito withdrew It. A motlon was made to postpone tha mnt- ter until Wednesiyy of nexg week. Senator Clark safd he was obposed to any further postponement, It was sel for tlo- day, nt Senator Whitlng's request, and Im- medlately thereafter Senator Whitiug asked for nnd received lenve of absence for one week, well knowlng that the bill would come up to-day, 1le wanted tho mutter set- Senator Walker, of Macoupin, suld Sene ator Whiting, the author of the bill, hud SEEMINGLY ABANDONED IT, and donbted If the bill coutd bo pnssed. 'The mntter might ns woll be seitled to-dny as ‘I'ho motlon to pospong was lost. "Che mo- tlon to reconsider wus nlso lost by a vote of yens 12, nays H,—practleally the rung voto that defeiited tho bill, * gt TALKING OF QUITTING. A Senator Fuller's resolutlon vroviding for asiie die sdjournment of the Loglslature Fridny, May 20, was taken up, * Senator Kuykendall doubted the propeloty of pussing the resolution. 1t wns an abselute constitutional reuuirement to npportion Sun- atorlally now, As for himsulf, he folt that the work of apportiomment must bo mado st Henator Callon eald the Constitution was lin- erative. ‘Tho apportionmant Senatorially must mado ut tho presont svselon. ‘ WANTS TO COMIEE BACK. Benator Tanuer offercd un nmendmont mak- djournnont the 2ith inst., strik- Jud providivg for an fog tho duto of A jug ont the words sine die, adjournient to Feb, 5, 1 Seuntor Walker was opposed to tho amends ment, and served formal notico that he should opposa an_udjourndd sossion first, last, and nlt the timu, The business uf the scsslon could bo tnistiod and 4 slne-div. adjourmment mudo May A motlon was mudo to_postpone the matter * o uptll te-morrow at bigh noon, s ALL MIXED UP, +» :Senator Morritt offered an nmendment. to Benator Tanuer's amondinent calling on the ‘Apportionment Comtnittw of the Howie sud 10 presont Senutoiinl upportionment "Bonntor Ctnrk kiuld n great many propesitions for apportiomment had heen presented th Comumlttes, which tn tho meantimo bud not been fdto, and would presont u hilk Just us soon with- out the resolution e it would with it, A numbur of motions tw posipony were mwado . and_voted down, the Democruts inslsting that- tho Benutoriul npportlonmont should bo juady ut the progont e, und neeusing the Jopublics uns of pursulng dilntory taoties, Tho wholo question wau dobited over and ovor aguln, aud ntlangth the motlon wus MADE A HPECIAL ORDER for 11 o'clovk to-morrow worniug by a party b nnys, 15, bill leglizing the publication in 1he Springtivld nowspapeni of rovisod schedulos of reasonublo maximim rates ad aud Warcliouse Commissl 1fod and tho remalns paoked in fee, Souator Noodies, on bebulfl of the Rovenuo Comwitioe, Intruduced 1 cop) Houso bill glving Bortugtield the powur to eon- atruct ndditionul witer-work ‘Fhe House resolution cul h'fli'xli‘ Coayress to turther the progrods of tho r 8 iiudo by tho ltail- lonurd was coldly of tho Uavlund 1, Il on tho dolegne TUE RELIEF OF ”I'HH HURVIVORS OF NELEL ! wus taken up. Honator Torranco offercd an amondument t0 tho effect that Wil prisoiurs who sulferud dise abliity or loss of bealth, whuthier Ju_prison-pai or on the warch, bo put on tho saw 110 rouson why cuptured sofdives should ru- uivkur thun-soldlons whe ur. 'This bill would glve peosions tu prisonurs of war who were Il hostuyo Uirow wouths or ovor, Fo uxaiust the LI and the resolunon, too, unless his amendinent was adopted, Senator Munu suld thure wug an smondment 10 the bill in Conurosd which freed it trom the objection mude by wiw fntonded to supoly the loss of p ablilty. sluce 10 ol nslon rolls, flo coive pensluns Loy served through the 'or thal resson ho Wis Beuutor Torrauco, of ra wore vonfined ln Andor. sonville, und the prisoncrs weru scuttored ull oter tho vountry, BENATUL MERLITT MADK LIGHT OF THE IN- STRUCTION BURINESA by remarking that Congross bad 1o wore re« spect for State Leglsintures than the Agaembly hnd for flotrds of Roud Eupe Flanlly, on motlon of Sonntor Needies, the whole Dninittess wid sont to tho Committee on Military Affairs, The Klin_bill creating n Board of Stato 1n- speetion of Butter and Uheeso was sont to the Cotnmitteo on Judioin Tho Senato bill nppropriat) 090 for roe paies to the Denf and Dimb Asglum at Jnek- ronvilie was read A third timo and prased. m’l':_lgmt;mmlu thon adjourned nm“ to-morrotw ornltg. ITOUSE. ORINDING AWAY ON SECOND HEADING, Speeial Dispalch to The Uhicago Tribune. Srxariernp, I, May 10~The House' met this morning nt the usunl hour, witl the customary attendance for what ‘Is regnried ns the first real working diy ot the week,”' . After dispostng of some prelluminary odds nand ends, Mr, Oltver, of Crawford, ealled up hls bl providing for the appointment of Mnsters In Chancery, amd had 1t advanced to hird reading, *I'he first bltl at the top of the calendar was o moidest bid for an approptiation of some 0,000 for the ordinnry oxpenses ot Elgin for the next two years, improve- ments of ‘grounds, fences and gatewnys, fee-house, new bollers, apprratus for path- oluglenl Inboratory, o side-track. from the asylum to the Clileago & Northwestern Rall- rond, un artestan well, and several other uso- tul but expensivaalds towtho propor conduet ot n firat-clnss insane asylum, Mr. Durfee, Mr. Mann, and others sailed iuto the pathologleal sehome a8 1 faney lton that ought to go vt Mr. Chisholm defentled tho ftem s best ho coulil, on the ground that it was necessury* to tha proper study of ‘Insane éases and the canso of their insanity, - But the louse was evidently s PREJUDICED AGAINST PATHOLOGY, and the ltem was inglorlously knocked out. Mr, Carr, of Greene, mnde war on the ftem of 815,000 for new bollers, remurking that overy institution In"the Stuto - wanted them, amd Mr. Durfee enine to his atd with o substitute which proposed to strike out about twenty lines of the bills, the sume in- eluding the boller Hem, Mr, Chisholm, Mr, Garland, and Mr, Wright, Chalrmnn of the Commlitee on Ap- propriations, defended the itom, and - ex- pinined 1o the House that the botlers were Incrusted to such an oxtent that they were absolutely dungerous., Mr., Cury observed thatboller Incrustations were the hest evidence in the world of eare- lesness on tha part of the asylum, mannge- nent, and the difficulty could be remedied ut pense nob to exceed $i0. boller question and the side-track question were chiurned over for somu thie, and Judge Crook, moving to lop off the en- acting clause, pitched Into the State Institu- tions generally, eritielsing especially the lux- urfous manners and hnbits of the wverage Superintendent-in his travels up and down the Stute, SEEKING APPHOPRIATIONS AND THINGS, M. Chishobn dofended the whole bill, from the enneting clause to tho finlsh, insist- ing especially on tho necessity of the pro- posed slde-traek 18 an cconomic measure in conneetion with the haullug of conl wnd sup- plles, As for the Superitendents, the gen- tloman froth Sangnimon ought to move the appolntment of wn nvestigating committes 30 he saw anything wrong, I'io motion Lo strike out thaenacting elause whas lost by n vote of yeas, 225 nnys, 82, ‘'he question recurring on Mr. Durfee’s substitute, that goutloman procceded to show that tho AVERAGE COST OF MAINTENANCE per pationt ut Blygin was §250 u year, In spito of oll preteuss of econumy to the contrary not- withstanding. Four years ngo an appropriation wiis rnde to improve the heating apparatus at FElgln, and pov tho Leglslature was nsked to do 1t all over aguin, Tho Trfeo substituto was lost by a vote of yeas bY, nays 80, After moro tulk, tho. number ot now boilors nsked for wia out down ‘fromn six to four and the innnelal side of tho itom from $16.000 to 10,000, 1] uto ind fonee, itom wis telmmed Tho down from s:lS.nm 0,810,000, Then tho alashors, touk n rest for dinnor, RETURNING 1O TUEIR WO, Mr. Durfeo got in u motlon to ruzee the itom of 1,600 for n now smoko-stuck, $tr, Chisholin Fought munfully for the staclk, and rewurkod that to cut outull thoso littlo ituma would {nterfure with * tho wenoral plun.” o this Mr, Durfee rotorted, that ho didn't Kknow what ** tho gonoral plun™ wus, unloss it was to got all tho money out of the Lrousury that wis possible. Sr. Culsholin replled that oua lmprovemont necessituted nnotbor, and that the proposed now smokustuuk would holp alone the ventilaton wonderfuliy, Mr. Munti wanted to know ull the slzo of the smokestuck, Fulllng to get uny sutisfuctory nnswet, ho took the position that no mun ot senso vight 1o voto for a thing which the ehoson muuthpiece of the institution was unable to muko an uxplination of, und weut on o suy that it would bu A BLESSING TO THE BTATE If tho raylum would tnmblo.down, provided the fumates wore il out and tho otlicers In, 1t wus discovored furthor nluny in tho dobate that the Stute appropridted $10,000 four yenrs ngo for Blin's ventilution, nud the opinlon wus promptly expressed thut thut sum, togethor with the amount now propesud, wis onough to vontilsto hell and nll ante-chnobers sttauhed, After u long uud bard-fought battle, tho item wus out downs from EL60 10 $1,600, Thoe itom of $1,100 for i hontor und purilier to elounso tha H:qr. way wrestied with for a while, but Hnally o Mr. oxton movod to climinute tho ftem of £3,100 for udding to tho powor of un engine now provided for, and inaking new stafting, moving old filn, oto,, on tho ground that toe boller iten bat ulroady heen siit down and THE ITEM WAS NO LONGER NEEDED, "{' Durfeo mada war upor tho ltem, und par- tieulurly the *and so forth," and suwgestod, ud ho Houso bud Just resolved 1o run the fustitu- tion on water, it was timo to quit running it ou wind, . Tho appropriation crowd, us lhu( had done all tho duy long, stood togother, nud tho wotlon to niriko out tho ltoin was lost, The slushors theros upon went to work on tho next one,—$1,230 foe a how fun and shafthue,—~butwith no bottorsne- cens, An ftom of 3155 for conhucting . sower with o vontiluting-shaft and comploting the atr duets, was shuved from $LM0 to $50, making tho tota! reduction ou the bill for tho entiro day Hl)\,l‘.lfl, ith the Jab nbout half sompluoted, P\ ho'clock tho Houso ndjourned until toe WOFToW morning, . GOSsSIP, THE ELUIN BILG, Bpeetal Disputeh to Ths Chicago Tribune. Semxariznp, U, May 10—Every fellow whe lins an Institutlon i s district, or the prospoct of getting ono, s tor the Elgin Ap- proprintion bill justus 1t stands, The hungry crowd'of river Improvers, with the exception of Mavtin, of White, who hins beon * busted on his Little Wibash schome, uro also with thom, A faw of the fancy items wny be razeed, but that was probably expectal whon the LI was Eramed, and arrmngemoents made nccordingly to save the rest, ‘The river lime provers, of course, oxpect tho Stato lnstitu- tion gung to stund by them whon thelr turn comes, wid, should the coibination pugsess onoughof the wlhesive poworof publie pline der, it Is Id1o to say.whero the thing will stop, ho omly eseapo trom u grand ruld nll slonyg the iino Nes in the over-present possibllity that the follows who v 80 LAVISIE WITH UVIENR PEOPLK'S JONBY may full ont uid the combination go to pleces Just when votes urs most noeded, 1t requives wvast ullownnes of gull toindorse some ot the propesed dips fnto the Btato ‘I'rensury, md when 16 comes to the serateh somo of tho TR oy by convenlently nbsent, and lot the rlvor schemes, the digest sehomes, the com- pilutlon sohenies, the Jake-Front stoul, and other matters evorlastingly go to pat. | Mr. Martin, the ygnerable Jagksonlan Domoerat from Whits, belleves i’ 1'rest dunt of the Unltod States bulng such fn fact us woll us in’ pawe,, e hus “secording!, drawh up thy (ulluwln&relulullon.uml would have lutroducod Itfu the 1ouse to~day but for the fuct that that body was enguged afl duy on the Elgin Appropriution bill, und it W Impousiblo to lnuil'ruut the progoedit The eltect of the resolution on the ll«uub‘fi‘ au sido, ud wight bo suguised trom its (nmw#u. o I8 likely to buof tho tirobrand by A document, ovor which will probabl Y,v‘:ll:ura o THE KEXT HOUSE “‘cinous,”, - v ia as follows: =y o ¥ Wiizngas, The logisiativo brauch of the Na- 0ik GucroRoblui fur oo nstitutional o Togatives of the Chiel Exwuflvfl“r""!wbn {:d o o L three-fourths thet Btu tho result of which fact hos bean A moraliaing upon the prblio serviee and nal: the dng whministration of public alfatrs, ws well as belug i violition of tho clementary prinels ples of our Govornment; and Witeitkas, Prosidont’ Gurtleld hus recontl taken u hotd_and tirm atand for tho lndepends enco of the President in nmrr{lua out the duties fmposed ot him Ly the Constitution and_for tho muintenaneg of tioso rights ho hins recolved nt tho hands of tho prople: therofore, bo it Resolved, by tho Heugo of Hopresentath the Sunate conenrring heraln, That wo he tender tohin our nllmm\-nl of hiscourss n Al itz to proseeyo to hia office, untottorad by diatus tion, though in tho tnsidious forin of S courtesy of the Sennte,” tha right to appoint thoso olfigltls for thosa condizet his Adininiateation is respotsitio hefore amumrf atd nssure him that tho poople who eleoted hn [President of tho United States will stand by him b overy offort ho nay make to Lo such In fact. PINE ANTICS OVER FINAL ADJOUNNMENT 0 tho Bonnte Chinmber this morning hid tho effect of bringing_the Senite Coutmitteo on Apportlonment, or o ut least tho Tepublfean reul, to a runllxmr sunso of tho situntion, o enneus of the ltepubilean inombers of the Upper Houso met in seert_gonelave fm- medintely nftor ndjournnent, For iwo long nenirs tha nssemblod Senntors listoned nttentives i¥ 1o the tlow of eloquence and the, explination of imdividund schomes, 1t was Honlly agreed to rush through the Senate at the earilest practica= blo moment & Jolnt resolution providing for n sing-die ndjonrmment May 27, The Senute Come mittes on Apportionmont was nlso given to wnderstand i unmistakublo langusgs that it i tbolt thne that nugist body should holl Lts, fivat meeting and brlug forils fralt i tho shnpo of upportionment bilts, both Sonstorinl wid Conuressionat,—tho lutter on the Iwc-ule‘-dlulrlct plan, That done, tho cuneus disbunded. TIE DEMOCRATS of the Sohate und Huuso cnuoused this nftees noot, itepreseutative Cronktite, of Stephinson, prosiing, ‘Uio utmost harmony provaler junong tho untorrlited, and they ué)lmlnunl n commitiee of cleht—threo from tho Sennte und flve from tho House—to perlect i Sonntorinl upe portiontent schomo without doluy for intros duetion In Loth Hou It §s uniferstood that the Domaernoy will vote solidly for nn adiourns ment May 25, espeolully shoulil thore uppenr to Be any (ikelibood of making © Bonatorinl ap- portioiment belore that thmo, They waut the oL tone now. TRYING TO DO SOMETIING, The Itepublican members of the Senato Ape lmrtlmnnunt Committey, tuking- tho hint uf o tupubllean caucus, ot |-urlz I tho atternoon, und continued in”sceslon, with an fntormisston Tor lurper. il lato this ¢ xlmlr. 1t IT n F“ml dewlof o Job to bulld u Sentarial and o Cous gregstonul Apportonmont LI that will sult ovorybudy, or even como nodr it nud the Com- mitteo npparontly tound it 8o, The rural dls- triots wore compaentively nn ondy watter, but when {t came to dividing up Cook County t! oumo the tig uf war. Tho resuit of tho Com- mittee's deliberation will, 1t 18 understond, be unfolded to un adjourned catens to he kit to- murrow wWght, S8bould the eaucis indorso the Committee’s work, It will bo un ousy inutter to rush biils thirongh’ the Senato und phump thom futo the llouse, which will thon beeoine re- sponsiblo For whitever s donu with thoun TINS 18 JUST TUHE PROGIAN which fa hkoly to be eacrled out. - The guestion thon urises 18 to what tho Houso will <o, Thy Senatorlul Apportiontont Committes of thut budy met thls atternoon and deelded to appaint 1t siib-oommittee, consisting of threw Repibiie- uns and two Danocnits, 10 repurt o substitute for Mr. Littie's bifl, which wus flung into thy Housuso lamsely mude up onrly lust weok. The snbecommitte will be nunoinead Lo-norrow, It will of course contain men who nre honastly i fuvor ‘of Souutoginl n]v{xurflufllnnnl. " tho probabllity now I8 that 1t will adopt whatever tho Sunute Committos und tho Seanto Cauoud atdovt, nig thit the matn Conumitteo will intros duve the latter's Senntorial Apportiouwmont bilt in tho House shuullnnoously with Its abpenrs sineo In tho Senate, thy object being to give it us ndvanced u footivg s possible. TE 18 DOUBTRUL, 1 viow &f recont huppuniugs, whethor thore are auoush ltepublicans tn tho - Houdo—tuat 1, ot thesa who nro b tho fnbit of nttending nowi- (dnys—to puss even o Senatorinl Apportionnent nill this summor. A careful coutit of noses showa thuy sixty-soven ean Lo depended wpon, il that othors 1wy come in on_conditions. A combiuntion with’ the Democrnts whe Tuver Sountoriul upportionment would he possi- ble but for Just oo thing: tho Demogreats, for obvlous rensons, nee not likaly to niroo to uny upportlonment bIL guch 08 the Rupub- Tlenns nro upt to flente vut. Thoroe 18 another Tactor in tho question whish ronders the protine wllity of npportionment thid seasion i iatter ot grave donbit. . ‘The Goverior now fnthnates that there 18 some question us to whstber ho would call tha Leglslituro toguthor In oxtnt sesdion next wintor for the purpose uf m\ssln‘: . Con- gresslonnl apportionmunt bt hn case. It shatil now push thiough tho Beuntorml. upportion= mont. Juspouking with A WELIAKNOWN REIUBLICAN to-night, ho sald ho shoutl bo governed entiroly Ly tho sontimout of the Itepublienn purey ut thut thie. Thut (s to say, i Congress chnnged tho niher of dlstricts from ninoteen to twonty, ho would be governed by tho dons of the party a8 to thoe proprioty of ‘valllng an exten sossloi and rodistricting or. ol not enlliug ong, anl allowing the Stuto to eleet tho extrn Congross- man _at large. This luttor proposition 18 Just what the members from the torthari purt of the State especiully nve particularly oppored (o it 1t 18- quletly observed that tho Uovernor's views hava recontly undergoue chitnge on this subjeat. Some weoks ko t fd vepreaented is huving sald that it would bo hlg duty to eall an oxtri sesslon for Congressionul upportionmynt, - Now he intlmutes 8 doubt. ore {8 Just u ausplelon thut BACK OF ALL TINS thorofe s wild offort to pursundo tho Legls- Inturo into making buth upporiionments uow by holding up to them tho Idoa thut If thoy muke only ong now ho may noteall thon buck to nuky the other poxt wintor; but tho op- pononts of the ongressmun-ntelurgo schionio are not without recourse, Sounor thin put thewmselves i i box like that aud ran tho risk o lodlng the twontluth Congrosaman, whom !lwrululm the northery part of the Htato to b {uul [y ontitled to, thoy declars to-night thut they will ubmouo any and all apportlonmunt this sexslon, and thus conpal nn extri seaston next winter, und thu mntter is vory tikoly to end that wuy, 80 fur us tho Hoaso is convornod, TIE BENATE PEOPLE apparently huvo vory littlo lden that what thoy do will bu concurreid iu ut tho othor ond of thu Uapltol, und tholr only upparent ebjoct {n muk- ng the' two fupportionnicnta thomsolves now 1s 10 prodont o clean LIl of health for tho Ingpes- ton of tholr: constituonts, sud to throw the ll"lmumulblllly for n fallure to act upon the ouse, Tho Governor aflixed bis numo to-duy to Mr, Baldwin's Eeation bills, and thore will be no vleottony for colnty ollicors this coming full, Under tho now luw the dnoumbonta will bold over untl 1883, whon there will be a geand iusste for nomination und election for thy four years' torm all around, Tho holdovers will no doubt bo duly sratilied. e —— Why Gloves Aro Now Worn, Phttadelyhli Thues, A eart-burning I3 u fecble turm for tho stato of anguish luto Whichh varions atratu of American anvbournoy thids itsol? plungwl unent the fat Tul quustion of gloves or no gloves. Wasni| 1011, Whitru lew notions penvirito Atowly, wis i tonisked eovoral times durlng the souson Just puse by tho Incursion of various travelod ghisses of fushion and molds of forin who mwaide thole ontrunou to the Republeun Court unuloved. Thiv wad_naturally uiy iniuovation thut struck dismuy into the well-deliled ruuks of Cupitoliun |uohflfi. ‘Tha contost waged vinleutly for a time, but the unglovod tuvidens earrled the duy, and tho glove s now solemnly nbolished fram polito wovlety. Tho fact flustrates the whine, sleal basls upon which convoutiond rest, Ong duy tho Princo of Witlos, who Is very atout mid vury i, and whose hunds uie not comfortablo In gloves owing toa disugrecabio tondenay to molstury, dvova off 1n a burry to hold 4 leveo for thio Quoons, On arriviug at tho drawing-room he found hinselt gloveloss, Tt wis oo nte to sond, and, uy 1t wouldw’t have beon otfquot for thy rust Lo wonr glovea when tha Priies bas nong, the corumany wia i gloveless one, Thoncoforth gloves were banished 1rom tha grout suciul coree monfuls, wnd oven I tho streot. The wbion hing nonio to this country, Durlug the hist two yonn ;!mmumon have uvrmwd OYOFYWHUTO Un- Rloveid,—in thu street, the drawing-roow, tho opera, and the thuatro, 3o Frunce, howovor, it would bi oousldored n fproper to appeur in 4 deawlogeroom ungloved us uushod, Bt us Kklovos ury unoulwmu tho Continont thu { this country or Kagland, tho propelotics muy be ob- served uta less cost. e —— Moyorboor and the Poet, Truris tetter to New Urleans Picayune, One night witliulio was fn lrusacls i duot eamo fnto bis wind ut 2w, m. tHo lmwon trom bued, rang tho bkl for n servint, und aakad for o poot, Thu survait, not knowing whut dish thal was, awoke tho muster of tho bouso, aud, ufter satiss 'flhflfl himwolf thut Moyerbeor reatly wunted ut thut houy of the nigbl o biped who turned out vorsos, guve hlin the address of w well-known Hotglun poct, ordored u vib, siid sunt Stoyoers Deor L thie drumutlst's homo, Soyorbeor tuggul tho lufll ull ho brought tho unitor, who uns awerod tho alarm i tho worst bosviblo huwor until tho visitor alds 1 um Moyorboer, Are you a poet?” “You, when Tum n the voln, but at thoss un- thimely buyrs, whien oply eburohyards (uwn. thio hutuor 1§ nat on me” " Humor 18 willy will 13 Illv}nlmllofl. twill comp. Bltue your dosk and duot botwoen a lover i hissweothoarty nere i tho fdoa.”” Sluyerbeer nive his thongits, w1 would write what you want a gront doul bote tor atter thinkg over It to-nlehit, Giyo o il toeniorrow,” * No, 1o, 503 Write It ut unce; weworrow L aball bo in Horlin - Tho puot wrote the duet. Meyorbovr wud x"‘lcum with ity Bu drow out lls rwkonmk. took n L,000-Lruino unkenoto from It gave it 1o tho poct, suying: W e good cnough to ucsept thls rag for your suthor's royalty, witl & thousasd tinoke," "L is wald (bls duot wad usod LS Afvicslue.” e ., 'The Sireots vl Now ¥Yorit, uck, s, yatd Capt. Whifiias thaother duy, »1h s eas Toft tbrg for th Vooplo's et el futonded to plant ursbge-groves, and applos 0 thiit tho' puople next off the fruit: but tho un'vhl’llrl;‘:"tniu‘%dlpl“glk i 01 i+ lanthroplst when lhey"nu hiw," @ perfoctly seaworth THE Mr. Laderer Still in Confinemant— A Marine Case. Marriago undern False Name and 1ts Consoquences. Record of Judgments, New Suits, Annual Business, Etc. p— PIE ITARVEST QUEREN, Tho hearing of the notion to sct naldo the de- foult of tho Great Weatern, Munbattan, and Greenwlch Insurance Compunles fu tlic onse of Carso va, Clhielaty, wus continued yostonluy o= foro Judee Jumeson, ‘Thy application founded on an altldavit ot the erew of tho lurvest Quesn, who nllugod that Cupt, Christy lost the suhoonor purposcly, Seott filed anothor atiduvit that he cithor dil not slgn the protest of Bopt, 16, 18%), or thut ho waa drank when ho did so, A nyiubior. of counter-ailidavits woro ofterod hr tho complitinant, but the Jidge ruled thom ail out, holding tiat counter-nildavits could ot bu herd on tho motion. 1o thon_gavy tho de- fondinta until this murning o preparo o swort nnswer seiting stated thut nsa ushie the ndition precudent to sotting oIt the vessol in dispute. The principal afliduvit which wns ruled_out wiis by Citpt. Chitlsty, of Erle, Uio Crptaln of tho Lnsvest Queen. 11 l.wnmi"-nlx yeurs' oxporivncy 18 vesao! paing thut tho Harvest Quoeen sut sall Sopt. 8, 1880, from 1, Auso, Luko Buporior, londed with of fron ore, for Ashtabula, O, and was thon and’ £l manned. complaint wus niufe by uny of tho vrow until the morning of tho 130 of Septumbor. swuter was discovored in tho hold, nll bands wero calletl to the meuu. und tho vessol wius heunded for Detour, tho unly avilluble port, She begnn tu sottle, however, In ubolit two hours, nnd the crow wore obliged to tuko 1o tho bouts, The Captaly churyges that Seott's utliduvit Is falso from beglnniy, nl}nu.‘ll voluntarity by ml tho crow, and that ho {Unvisty) now s tho originul protest 1n his pose sesslon, e IMOMESTAKE MINE. A Uil was fllea yesteriduy In tho Cirealt Court by Juhn Flahorty, David MoLaughlin and J. 1, Colomun aguinst Johi C, Ottinger and Jumes B, Sullivan, asking for un accodnting i a mining spoculution, Compluiuants setout that inJunu- nry, 1878, thoy and the defendunts entored intoa cenurl copartnership fur the purpose of miu- ny and milling ore from the Homestake Ming g;:.:. pont Loud City, Lawroncs County, Dakota, 1o wuporiions by vun nlso wad to this bhe has ouch udvance ailed to mumber, Bulll 3,000, do. clulm thoy bave gdvinced over 821,000 thaw thoir share. Nosuttloment has over been Bual, and it 18 usked thut the defendunts be cot- pelivd to necount foruil moneya thoy have re- geived, and to ml{ whatovor bilanco iniy by found to bedue by thoir proportion of ‘the losses. TN LEDERER CASES, Judge Willlnmson wis treuted to anothor all- duy dose of wrangliug in the Lederer cuplus guits, Lederor was urrested somo months ugo, it will bo rememberedd, by n number of his ored- le gavo ball, was fmmediately renrrested, and last wool rotonsed from Jull, cluhning the chuarges nado. ukainst itars, and on writs of cupins. mude o motion - to be him .of ruudulent transfers of bis property, proferontil nasignments th his relatives, vic., wero Tulse. Aftor two dnys’ nnusually bitter ar- guments und testimony, thoe Sury refused to dis churge Luderur until ntter ‘un”cxumiuntion of Jits buoks wad hid, ‘The buoks aro to bo ?xnllil- 1 tho oflica of Mir. Bolohruilsky, i tho Stats-Zciluiy Building, utsomo thie to be numed by Lederer. fned by the attornoys of tho creditors DIVORCES, A snit for divoree, doveloping n rather unusi- 1l state of Cnots, wus hegun yesterduy by Alfce M. WHIs, formerly Allco Muud Lovejoy. Bho suys hat in Septombor, 181, she became aequuintod rlon Willis, allus Arthur Willig, nling Arthur W, Sucton,, allus Avthur I Tlo soon bogin 10° Proas his sult twr huud, and o order to.rondor bimsolf with one Arthur Albo: rton Willis. her oyes told bor a romuntic in New York, whoss mothor had with ber mothor's lnst wishies. mnny suggostod complgloant,: should —marry uidor un ussumed nwing, her Imuu‘; opposed to him, - awl ho In foar of tho mysferious holross. Coui- the coromony plubimut cousentud, and i wity perfornied on the 20th of Fabruary, leu e e by Bho thon 1o hor unclo’s, and hus never lved with him since, and ho probubly wont olf to ralsa funds to go to housekeeplog, for ho wis shortly uftee arrested for lnn:un{, and on tha to Joliet for "I'his cured bor ut oneo of tho o undur pssumed usuied, 10 nllowed to go bavk to ber g undor tho miue of Allco Adwing aud tho pseudonyw of Arthur W. Burtoy, wont buck 29th of Aprll convietod untl son aightoen mouths, mystery of wmarrly nfid sho now usks fo old pinin titlo ot Allee M. Lov l| 'Ml tn O, Barrett tiled a bill Guribuidl Casta - ulse wants n divorco from Emnw Cista on tho sume ground. Judfu Juneson grunted o 1subielia from Nathuy D, P F'fuutz on tha ground of desortion, 11'EMS, 'ho first step was tulen yostordny toward got- tiug fnto tho now Court-fouso by Judge Lue- num. The Judgo sunmurily moved s court over to the siew Law Instituto ruoms, and began hisscestun, but tho noisa of the varpentors vigs and ho wljourned to tho rooms of Mr, 1. L Wait, Hoom 20, In tho Reaper Blook,whoro ho wiil nigo hold court to-duy und until furthor notice. Judio Tuley's goneral call of his docket has tao grent, heen postpotied to the lat Inst, hune ‘contested mntions noxt 'mududfiu will Monday i1 room {n tio naw Court-ilouso, UNITED STATES COURTS. The Kerosuno Lump_leater Company flied o bl yestorday agniust Eugone It Walkor and B, u pue tonted improvourent in mp chitinoys arlglnall Fly -runo 1, lfiua. " > M.. Horine to rostrulu thom from usin Issued to Wavren L. Flsh ———— STATE COURTS. ‘Waltor 8. Koloson, ndwinlstrator, commenced neult yestorduy to recover $3,000 dmnuges of 1Hotiry 'P', Cluwow, nnd stothor to rocovor $1,600 of Lugten B, Colby, Suruh A, Keough filod a potition for habons Ann Lynn to got Burab itha City of Chicago bogan n sult in dobt ugntust the Chugiber of Commerco, clalming corpus uiutngt Anthony und ussosslon of her B-year-old ‘dnughter, A, Howlan g =000 dutngos, 0. L, Munn, Cornnor, for the use of Edward Monded und otiovs, bronght suit in dobt wennst Ttertiold Loowenthal and Adolph lillrl;-: ll; m; 800 0 covor $1,70, aud anothar to rovovor llerllh{nl-l lmvlv,uumul..lunnn Wall, Auron Kubn, and 15, A. Woll. Mary Shorwood suod Theodoro Froumun and John I, Ruckufollow fur $1,00, Tho United States Manufucturiung Compun, brought suit fu traver against Michmel J, St 7 e nnd Arthur J, O'Leiey t0 recover $2,000 du higoe, 'Slary Morriasoy, Admiunistratrix of tho ostato of Michaol Morrlssvy, teconsald, commonced an North Chleago ug dumages ut $5,000. anation I troapass agnluet 1ho Holigessihs Compuig, tny PTROBATI COURT, Tn the mutter of the ostate of Hennie Frank-+ Jin Dang, Minulo Ixavol Lo, and Nettlo Eve- Iyn Lane, minors, Hapiah J, and Jotrn A, Bure lwnuno were nppolnted goardiuns under bond [ Juttors of administraton. lu tho mastor of the ut, teoeisod, wiil- udmittod dor bond of 4,000, e CRIMINAL COURT, In tho case of Anustatls Churau ve, Jodoph Pokukeky, bustardy, 8 vordiet in favorof the plalntir waa votarneds “Plig cuso uf Uoorga Van Holleu wuscallod and John Goyor for allow- y pool I bis saloon wus s sl fur wint'of proseoution. Tho ouso wus ‘Fue Indiotinent wgaly g suinord to play po )‘I over i your oll. Eliwird Ruyiiiond wis triod forrobbory, found lary, kullty of drlvm’;r (iity, and glvon Hve yours intha Punltol W, N, Huxton wus found uway i borso, und sentonow wis suspended. Frunk tebulta plegdod guiity to oods, uud wis ro and sontonge wos Puter Ruif ptuue Buod B0 and cod aud regiandod led, i Willtuus was found guilty of waliclous mischiof, und soutonco wus suspended., D, W, MANCIIESTER, To the Editor of The Usicugo Tribune, CuioAGo, May 10.~Your artiolo in Tuesday's paper conceralng the Mutbilda Johnson case ln waa Jumes Beott, ono of ostorday eluiming \w n moritorions dofense, wnd dufnult, tho_insurince companies AL pry Into court tio §U,600 insurance monoy u'testitled thut ho had tad 1 U It Curgo No When to ond, thut tho protest wus rofits aitd losses were to bo bornd fn equnl but Tho Dusinoss proved unprolituble, und complainnnts more them to muke thom vear 8 loved Dy a rieh youny ludy 1ven bor i fortuno on condivien sho married him, and who Jud come on to Chicego to dutitully comply The mun of names avowod that Lo desplsed monoy, ovon with a pretty wotin uttachied to ity mn’l :m him rolutives helng oy, aguinst his wifo usking for n divorco on tho ground of do- ruo of divorco to on tho groiid of drunkonnoss, anato Willinm Prautz from Eui his §1LU. S Hiso nttor of tho estato f Edwurd B, Eve orett, deceusod, Bdawin A, Poltor was gruntod watato of Willlam 3lure %u of record, and redoriek Brwui uppointed udministeuter uu- reoclving wandod, Jobn Powell was tt:uu:} ullty of petit larcony, od, "dp:ulltv to nssault, und wuy )Atuhnul livoun was found gullty of lurceny PAGES. d0cs mo a groes inju tlee, Your o 118t i3 tho luvest utlon was ovor. An [ know hint tu bu a gontlos wan who would do_no one an injustiee, 1 would nsk you, in pure faleneas, to stuto three things that transpired ut tho trinl, WOKNOWI 10 youe re- portor and omittad in your nrnu\u. Flrnl—lmh.t.u 1inwes “aafd publicly from the Ttonch that_ho henrd nothing in the ovidoneo that connoeted mo i any way with tho cise, Sceond—1 wis #worh it my own request, and stated under oath that that mornliig was tho st timo 1 had over heant of tho payment of 8230, and Al not tiellove it had been pald, Thind—=Thut Gustavus, tho defendant, who cinims to invo pald the $430, sworo that Ho did ot kuow mo nt ull, and nevor at any time paid e any money. Yours, 1), W.SIANCHRSTER, Attorney-nt-law, TIE CALL. Junar DRUMMOND=In chimbers. . Jupee Bronarrr—Motions aud general busle ness, AvPEGLATE Coune—108, 100, 110, 111, 112, No enge on hearing. Jupa GAiy—702and 813 to #38, No casoon trinl. Jupar Ssurn—Nopreliminary oatl. Trial eall 0,008, 3,020, 8,820, 30H, 0,00, 3,043, No caso on trinl, JUDOE WirLtAMB0N—Assists Judgo Gary, No engo on trink. Junay JAMRRON—H. 4%, 46, from Judgo Barnum's anlendur, No ease on henring. Juvar GAnbNER—=9, 10, 11, 12, No, 7, Gntes vs. Chlengo, Butliogton & Quingy Rtallroad: Com- patty, on honring, Ny Rooeis—Droliminary onll 2% to 670, tnclugive, Trinl call 687, K2ig Lo 07, Inulusive, i“" 8, Stolke ve. Ponnsylvinla Compuny, on rigl, Jubor MonAN—No call. No. 38,88, Plorco ve, Biston Grivel Rowd, on trial, Junok BAryud—No eall. No, 40, Pattoeson va, Stowart, on_learhig, nnd the furthor trinl wilk ‘l‘fi llfil(l tn I, L. Whait's oflice, fn the Lewpor louk, Jubar Loosis—Nos, 800, 80, 810, B2, 825, &0, 7, U5, ns, und L& W TIAWes--Nos, 120, 178, 170, 207, 210, 211, 1l 2% 218, 210, =0, 40, 311, 247,243, shd 0 18 upnk ANTitoNY—Nos, 1,071, 1,088, 1200, 1,28, 223y 1,05, nod 1,05, JUDGMEN'TS, Supeiton Count—Jupar GAry—Patrick M. Doud ve. Osslan aud Wardell Guthrlo, verdict and motlon for now trinl—I. L, Kapple ot '8, Anerivan Btoro Stool Company, $ash05. unuy ByiTii—A, 1) Jumes ve, 8. B, MoEl- dowiioy, §650, UroutT Counr-Coxprssions—J, A. Dnutols ot ul. vs. Aluxsndor MeGinshan and Georgo Willinm Rold, 78053, éfixmu Rodkrus—A. B. Smith va, Robort Ioid, Junoe MonaN—Mary Diloy, v, Chutrlos . Holton, verdict & for now telal. AGRICULTURE IN AMERICA, AWhat John Bult 'Thinks About It. Lowdon imes, Anrit 25 Authwriatlvo statistics recontly complled show tho uxtremely productive churnoter of cortnin States In the Ameriean Unlon. 1t up- poars thnt o group of Btates with less than athirdof tho poptlution of tho conntry pro- diees Nlve-olghths of the corn-supply of the Uuited Stutes, Thuso Stutes are Oblo, Indlane, 1itinols, Jown, Mlssour!, Knnsos, aud Nebrawkag and tho following flgures will show tho onor- mous progress which bus been made within tio Iimits of n goneration. ‘Tho corn growth of Ohlo inthe year 180 wns TH5#L100 bushols, and in 1877, 07,000,000 bushels, The pruduco of In- dinnn had gone up In the smno porfod from FLASSHID to 00,000,000 bushels; II- niols, From 115,154,777 to #0,000,000 bushule; Towi, from 42,410,086 to 150,000,000 bushels; Mlssourl from TAR02157 to 1GK00,000 busucls; Kunsis, fram 4,160,747 o V000,000 bushels; and Nubrus- Teat, from 3,8K2,080 to 38,000,000 Lu 1877 the produot of thux soven Status wis noarly k0,000,000 hush- ols, and of all tho rest of tho Unfon only 401,068, 000 bushela, Mr J. It Dodge, of the Unlted Stites Agriouiturnd Denartent, gnys that tho whent surptus 13 produued ontively i that l;ur- tion of the conntry north und wostof thue Ohlo Iiver, fu the conteal nron lylyr beiweon thut river s tho lukes, and thu Allegheny und Tooky Monntnin ranges, nad in & simaler arci on tho Paciflc Coust. “Thore hus beon i grent transtor of eorneproduation front the South to tho West, su nuch so that, whilo in 181 0= {oen Southern States produced 59 por cant of tho curn-product of thu country, the wholo of tho Soutlinow producesonly ong-thivd, nls chutiro i purtly duo to thu fucrenao ju thocatton product of the South, but 1t fssnld that tho South muy vot roglnn its “supromney i the corn-calturd, t f4 i surprising, yot wnthontionted, Mgt thut in tifteon yours the pruduction of wheat uud bav- fey fu the Unlted Stites bLas trobled; that of Admintstratrix, 0,000, und motion cor, cotton, and tobucov hus more than doubled; ontd ‘hnve inorensed by two-thirds, potatoes have nearly donbied, and hay bas in= erensed by nearly one-third. It muy aurprlsy many to nd that only about & P’#rcnm.ur tho_total Amurioun geain *proditot, v bushels, I8 exported. But thig'is nn finmoensy ftem dn tho world's murkets, und, with chenpon- iy transportation, 18 cupubilo of buing greatly Incrensed, OF corn, s yet vuly nbout 6§ per vent of the total priduct 8 exported, yot thle 8 nourly donble whnt it was ten yenrs ugo. But tho figures us to tho oxportution of bacon und pork arg astoundiug. In 18§ tho oexportution of bacon und hms ouly nmounted to 45050088 pounds, whoruns i1 1878 it hid rlsen to the ¢normous tik- wre of 6u2811451 pound :Jwr hud gono up in tho samo poriod front 28,000, LK pounds to 71 88,956 pounds, nnd hird from 64,065,102 nounds 10 H2U0TIR0 poun But In addition to tuls tha exportation of Livo stook ncross tho Atlautie hus inovenscd tenfold withhi two yours only. ‘I'ho cost o lrmmmrunfi Llve unimal3 noross the Atlantic {a beisg rupidly reditced; yot the only hupo for the Iiyitish and Rusdlun faroier I8 tho high rates of trandportation from tho United Blutes parts, and the fact thut the Amerioin furmors, throvgh bad furming, are oxhuusting tho soil, Siub are tho presentargumontaon thls question; but it s attirnod thitt, in the nruu you o bo suliduad botsween the Missouri und the Pa- citlo const, tho proportion of the cultivated nren dovotad to wheat witl bo iirgor thun in tho tere ritory alrondy ocoupied. Whenall those avaitablo Inuids are takun up, and poptilution th-cutens to ross ufwn subsistonoe, fortilization with ‘rotn- ton will fnerenss tha rato of ylold (ns hus hnp- poned In the most populous districts oF Bitropu), und then the contro of wheat=production wny Imaulmy recodo sluwly onstwani, vbedlont to the mpulso of improved weelguiture. With rogard to the * railway monupaly,” 1t |8 alleged that this i3 not such nn obstucle u somo muy fmglue, Tha Western producers aflient that thoy will not give up the battlo until equitsble und steady rites of transportution are Insurod, As it ls, durlog. tho souson of 1830 grain wus shipped from Chicugo to Liverpool for 17 conts @ buslicl, 1 rate but little i ca- ooss of that which provalled for the tranaportus tlon of gruin from Hultuleto New York by onunl and tho fludson Hiver ton yeurs ugo. Caroful estimatos show thut tho Unitod States Is capnblo of mintaining un_uron of 20,000,000 acres of covenl lund, which, with the averngo ylekd of tho st ton yoiurs, woitll ylold npwuds ot 5,250,000, bushels of geati, Turning from cora sod whent ta cotton, it appoare that tho whole vot- ton arop of the world coull bo raised s Texus, ar cotild be divided - hutweon auy two of the othor princlpal cotton Butes, without oxtmust- Ing thelr goud lund. Tho ngricultural product- fveness of Amorlon 8 priotionlly ilimitnble; and when tho fall linportunce of ‘the agrloult: ural Interost 1s roulized and prolited by, It n exorolse un huportaut intlnence ovor Eugland and the Edropean coutinent. e m—— British Conwun=Itotur Tho British consus-roturns are boglnning to coms i &mwlhmg flko complutu roturys of tho ltrgor places inBeotland hive sirendy boon published, ~ At prosont, howevar, the Of tho gront towis I8 ull that it 18 warth whilo to votloe, Glasgow, which rotirned 477,166 In 1871 had now i popnlition or 633,280, —about 11,00 leus than_ Drooklyn. Its growth I ton yonrs, Wi “".'1‘{ 78,000, whils thut of Brooklyn wie 270~ 00, Edinburg roports 25,4, » fow thousnud Juss thun San Franclsco; but San Fruuclseo Ao I ton yours muso than B1400, whilo Ed- by x added but 23,001 1o hor population, Dune «due, slie third ity numbure 10,163 xmnounl.—T.lm Tews thun Washington, and 450 moru thn Now. avk; but whilo Dundes giined ouly lbdwl Wush- Ington ineronsed S5,00 dud Newurk Jid Tho ppulution of Aberduen ls 108,141, or very nourly he samo us Providenco. Tho sovoud-ulasy towns of Seatland huve Ineronsod more rapldly in proportion thun the lirgest, Ten such towis are menstiond, rum{luu in populution hotweon 11,000 und iy whloh buve Incronded by pure auulu‘:cn vurylug botween 21 and 'ho 1otal fnorengo In ubout 180 [urgo placos 18 about 3,000, s bubly this 18 largy proportion Of tho whold nddiuon, us the rural purtsaf the country are not supposed 1o bo gulning much, 0y, popiilntion e e — e 'Tho 81zo of the YExodus,” WARINATON, 1. O, May 3.—T0 the Editor the 'z"ulhm.‘ 1 huvo n'cofiny notleed un “qu{ going tho rounds uf_the duily pross to the oltvot that au oitleor of the Kansus Lowrd af fwls gratlon bus siuted it ully 104000 colored oxoduatora hud passed umth tho bunds of tho Jlowrd futo Kanwus, wiilo 10,000 more hud guno to indiung, 1o flnstrate the absurdity of this statoment, us wall us 10 wnow of how l{lllu (mportunes the “alluged ' oxadus Is, 1 huvo but to rofur your readosa Lo the returis of tho lute conaus, "L the len years butwoen 1870 and 1850 Kulmu,m ned but 25,083 colored {nbubitunis, und Jndfats oply HAS. The rormer Stuty lost i proportion i colorod populntion, whilo the laster Btato gainod alightly, Bluoy the ite of the cunmud, Juno 1, 1880, there hus boun no movement northward of he culured alomunl aud, us thesy betweon 1878 and 1830 was o very siuall alfuir, Tho South 4 it no vrodent dunger of lu-lufilu lavar, U, iii wlnuln-ur: llYINP;l“"ll"l'l:lT wi oure cunsumption, couy ‘weal 0 Tbuguicis,sna. yoneral doulli, "Earabiiehed tweuty-ono yeurs, Hygures show, the ¥o-culled oxodus MATRIMONIAL INSURANGE. Chicago Bachelors and Spinsters Please Read. In’_ducnnmnts Hetd Out to Invest . in the New Companys The Great Scheme nndv Those Who Are Running It. For some timo pnst the nowapapors abot the country huve been givie consldernide free nde vartising lo i now schome, started under varls ous names, by which ninan or woman can, by taking ont n* polioy ** in tho company receive i certnin sin_on his or hor wedding-day. The ostensible objeot of thoso orguulzutions, na atuted 16 tha pluusibly-worded prospectuscs,ls to enconrage mutrimony, and thoy are said tobo run on tho same plan as the codporativo life-Ine surance compunivs, an assessuiont boing mndo on tha policy-hotders cvery timo ono of tholr numbor doparts tho smglo lfe, In n fow Of tho Btates fn which those companies havo been sturted thoy huve ‘buon pronounaed fliegal, 19 thelr exprossed ol Jrols havo been comsidered *“contenry to all mornl faw,” and thoy hnve dlod a nntural donth, Lut In othor Htates they hava llourished, and many “suckers* havo boon caught In thotr nota, It s been thought vory straugo that with tha wuxeollent fucilitivs offored by Chicago for mar- rlugo und divorco thut no attowpt has been nude to STANT ONI OF TIESE COMPANIES 1ERE, but tho thoughts that our city bud boon over- tovked wero iapolled by the followlng . advor- tlsomont, which nppoured In the nowapapers a fow dnys ngo: TllE AMERICAN MUTUAL AID AS. sucition for the uninaerlod piiya S Lo 8,003 Auiurcligos tho sasoclation 14 eviducted On the mals Tl pasosvmont plun, O, 3L MCANINCH, Ageut, W7 Mudison-st., itoom i With tho object fu view of sathoring informa- ‘tion rogurding this new orguenization for tho benefitof tho murrlagcable’ pounlo of Chicago, n TIBUNE roporter aulied on Mr. MoAninch, the agent, yosteeduy afteruoon snd ropresented himsolf us ono who hud beon attrnoted thithor Uy the wdvertissment, and who thonght serlous- Iy of taking out n polivy. Thooflico wus mmiest- Iy forutahed with u desk wud throe chalrs, and on tho gluss doors which sopuruted tho nt roum from tho room adjolming, wore the words “gonsulting ltoom," huilcating thnt the mutel- monbilly Inolined could: bu tronted with privatoly s well as under tho eyes tho _anxlous muititudes | which © wero crowding the rooms for tha purpose of {nsuriug thelr hucholur lifo, Immedintoly he- hind o pon, and Just in front of tha desk, was sented 1 youthful-lookiug mag, upon whose fuce no vizor ud over loft its mark, and. fu unswer to the veporter's query, ho stuted ho wid Mr,McAninen,tho ugont of tho American Mitunl Ald Assoclution for Unmurried Pordons, vide tho nodest tin sign on the outsido ot the door, "I'ho reportor stated that ho bl seen the Cots pany's wdvertisement aud had walied to get some |nfurimation about the workings of the Compauy beforo taking out u poliey, whioh ho td beois thinklg sorlonsly of dolg. At this tho agout beenme exceerding uifuble and tiiku- tive, and handud ovir i praspectun of the Com- puny and several clreulnrs for oxamination. TIS OIIECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION, as givon in tho prospeotus, e a follows wiPhore wro protective corpuritions for ulmost overy cwergoney,—iirc, sickuosd, death, und numierous othora; bt nothing whutover foe tho jerautest ovont i huwnn lite, murrlage, tor thon ronl, practical iy nul{ bogins. Tho syd tews now (n use, Mutunl Al Assoglationg, nro superior to all nther systoms. ‘Tho meaning of the word mutunl is roolprocal, onch neting in yo- tirn to tho othor, A nuwmber of persons wnky a1 ugroeioont by virtuo of _whiah, on tho mur- rhige f onw of the memberd, Py an nsseasmont ritoil necording to nge and wnount of bunelits to be roeelved, The ubjeots, thovetore, wo wish to nceamplishh by tho Amerlean Mutunl Ald Assoetation for anmurelwd persous, s 1o pro- vido for tho futiiro welfure of thuse who wro it mombors, Tho inducemonts offored by this organization Lowards nccomplishivg that ot are groiter than hins ever been offored vy nny Institution ever opgnized in this country. I fookinge at ity udvantages it will be useer- tainod that it18 Just what has been wunted in Amerlen yenrs ngi, 1L has tho tendenoy of pro- inoting thie_nuppiness of socioty by mnklug ws- slstancs 1 tho ovent of marelige wsuocoss, Tho advantiuges which this Association nifordd to Wfo-fusurnuee -wvo romurkuble, * In the Nesy place, you will not huve to die for the snke of recolving tho wmount you wre nsurod for, bt rocolve I during e, nnd may enjoy full bone- its of It with your family: in tho ceond pluco, oin will_ not hive to b i momiwr for life-tmo, but receive n benotit altur the expliation of ono fil.'llf'l moembiersbip: and tha thind plico, i moim- or will ot bo ehitred with premiums and - sessmont fees during tho whblo of his l1o, ko » member i lifo-insurance, Should thls Adsucin- tlon have unccomplislied, i sumo dogree, the };urp(mus Tor which tv wis intonded—viz.: T'o elp pouple to happinoss and prospority—thoe orligluntors of the sunie will feel nply rowarded for the trouble und probuble critislsin whleh all now undortakings uro llable to encounter.” Thie prospeutus thon goes on to give “*somo of TIE STRONG INDUCKMENT 8 offarad to becomo mombors of the Associntion,” a8 follows: w Piral—"This Compuny takes risks on nll sin- =le L"CL”"“‘ betweon tho uges uf 10 und 75 years. w Second—1t takos rlsks on tho ssesstunt plan with the non-forfolting adiled, which ' so- cures tho smount piid into the (}umguuy by tho neseasINONt Upon Areluge, oF soing future timoe fixod by theSooluty, after belng u moemberof (ho Associntlon for thico yonrs. : w Third—No crookedness onn bo vmufled by thongent or medical exnminor. We want no medienl examiner, Iourth—Tho Company gunoranteos to puy over l\.vun.llln ninety duys upon the murringe of o member, “Rifii—1t 18 striotly mutunl, not n dollar of tho nesessment monoy will bo used fur any othor xmrn?sn but for colleotion, muturlty fund, und murghigo. » Strth—The funds aroin tho hands of the members themsolves until o marriuge ocours, when nn tssessiont 8 made, and the money puid out only on the most positive proof thut unrringe rmnll{ veourred.” Following thisls - THE PLAN OF THE ABSOCTATION, naglven bolow: *All unmnrrled porsons, malo and fomale, without distinction of color, Lgs tween tho nges ol 10 and 6 yours, uro cl:rlhlo 10 socure o ceriitivito for oithor SL000, $2.000, $4,000, $4,000,0r #5000 at the following wembership raless For 81,000 certilicute, £0; for $4(K00 cortill- Gnte, 8121 for BR000 cortifleato, 18: £or €400 cor- tiflchte, 213 und for 45,00 cortiticato, &i, Poruans must be membiors of the Asioulation one your from duto of their cortifieate boforo thoy ary uenofickal, and sy nigmbor murrying betora thoy tre o meniber oo year from dute of thelr cortificate will forfely thioie cortitivito snd ull cluiins on tho socluty,” 1t s stuted thut miarrlago nsscssments aro graded aecording to e, and 1 tablo, bused on 1,000 certifieate, 8 givon, 'Lho nssessmont for a persun ll)!l'llu of nge I3 80 cents, whilo tho as- sossmont of one wha hud runohed the ripe age of 40 yours s 'l'uhgfuvndmlun I8 ubsurd, ns & porson S2or £) yonss of uko 18 mich more.liuble o take o llig-partner thay ono who bas reavhad the shady side ot 4, . Mr. Saduich stuted that tho Aesoolation hud headquarters In Harelsburg, P, and branch aftices in Chilengo, Dotrolt, Cincinnati, and othor Wostorn oltios. In enoh Bt i whloh tho As- mn‘liauan transuctod buslness heavy bonds woro tiled with the Lnsuranco Commissloner, and o valioyholder “could sultor 1o los This wil Do 1ows to tho SHinols Commissto Up to dnta AL cortilloates had boon lssuoi, representiug $10,10, Tho mmuumnnl{ ngont thon handed over i elreular whict ho sald would wivo n thurough knuwlodgo of the Assaclutivn's TLAN OF INSURANCE, togethor with interosting fucts and figures, It wud signed by tho Secrotary, und read us fols lows: * Wo orgumzed aiid wero churtered, and recolvod tho copysight of our plan, Deo, 2, 18803 begnt_operntions Jun, 1, 1881, notwithstauding tho eritiolsuis with which this now Rm]uet not and ln yur Intanoy wo scoured two hundred an ulqntf-llvn thousiad dollurs jusurinoo the firat month, *‘Tho following month (Fuhruur{) WO rouchod tho lurid suw of threo hundred and ghxty-six thuusuna dollurs, und tho noxt month filnran) tho natunudiug sum, hulf » miilion dobs rd, being within a fraction doublo the umaotnt of tho that nonth, wnd tho sum total of threo monthy, ono million one hundred and tifty-ouo thousund dollurs (§1,161,000). * Wo huve mombors 10 vears, 12, 14, ana quite many 10 yours ol tnls puinbor, udded to thusc, who_ will not murry when thoy become bune- ‘uehil, constitutes dbout two-aintbs of our ]xrniulu mombership, bonco reduve nsdessments n tho sumo proportion. Tho snount of jnsure wuvo otfooted In Junuary, 1843 If it is siwply :.wml to Wit whioh wus offeusesl in Jaubary, 1881, will reduco assussumouts vory watesiully but 't contond that we will rooelve threo, mous bors in the pluce of tho one Inarey iy, uad in that ovout the wweosstucit upon thut Gulount, alono woukl pity for five mrrringod, wInving how givan you exuct nutounts of In- surance oifouted tho soveral inonths, 1 bope iou will bo gonerous onough to bolleve What If wo huve beon able Lo socuru the nbove snount fn throo wonths of our infuncy, 1 am certainly not ovordstimuting whon Esiy’ wo will buve at least fivo wililon dollars sublect tousscesmiont by Juis, 1, 1852, and {0 thut ovontonoussessment puys for thirty-onu wurelages, aud tho ubove tive uddod equals thirty-uix “murringes, giving vach 820, Now romombor § bave not tuken Into conglderas o the wuterlal reduction of the two-ninths Who uro too young, and tho oortails porcoutugo that da dot murey whon thoy becomo beneton). Now, then, I thiik 1 bave domonstruted beyoud contrudiction that ouo ussesymont paye for thirty-six marrlagod If wo seouro tha $5,000,000 fnsuranpe. s * Now, In conclusion, let me say to you gen- tlomun, If you codperute with us, which 18 not only 84 luiorest to Lo members ok tho Associus tion but to v WHOTE e R veply courso ho wouk hay et B OUT A PoLicy, Mr. MoAnluh stutod thnt (£ b doisty 133,000 pulioy hin conli PRy ED dow 0 thke oy 1, d that ho would becoma o o, 1 pey in'uxdetly Git year feom datg of pogent that time ho weuld bo _oblieed rmiom, #1000, or 20, for nnnual s, Wh.&"gfnl‘m gt went to atefrny the nicesary of the Astociation. IF o was mirsiod 0o would NO-qurter of the fave of §ioth be ~81 -\n WO Vs 11o woull ot a8 2ol a0 0il, N the Heantime he would hgye i M tho naseasTients A8 oy camo due, ang. o0 DAY would bo no tonetioiirles until ngtae joy S ter Mr. Mednieh thold, thit tho Investmen, & 182 it ood one, 110 &k that fractional paoilbe Yeir woro ot eounted, und (7 1 may A of o it twenty-four months aftor becom 2% map. fielary ho woull only bo entitled 1y “ffllnnp P48 reportor neked it th T g porter o hore 4 cortiticates tnken vut at llnol?lfl’«:]ll.n:m" fosny Mr, Monrich wufd that 68 1€ tud iy pee) 24 tabiiskitd one woek e il ot dua el & viess, bt ho hoped 1040 1 god ygjney ik whoi o got thoroughly staried, The oy bere snid he would ook tho elroulnrs over agqionte * T fow days IF ho deetded to lnsuge, -0 il Sevoral prominent lfe-inurance questioned rognrding tho schome, e 110 united In suylng tuit thero w Thond they JE L Wis T S on tho Rqunro. T ymonts fa it h ¢ rotain scen whothor tho Chituiro on oty tlon wiil thrive, aud (f W oon tho ll::m':[*wl h uul;lzu.lc‘»ll:}um vlvlll l‘lmlmhly dmn off it e;u. pn’i: ?",n ors n‘: 0 concern became beney ho Insuranco Department dnw on theso uunugmu. A heard from. STAR-ROUTE VILLAINY, A Vaat Schiemo of Krand-Somes Ohlef Tobbera, of the Tho Now York 2mcs of tho ith inst, oy gy, followlng Introluctory remarks ton ten wlum. artiolo nbout. Tieady wnd by puls,and how thes hinve rubved tha Government for five years w) ; complete lmpunity s ! WasniNaron, 0. C, May 8, como when tho rings which nu\'nT)llx\(x'n:'l‘vnr‘mfl ‘Irensury of tho United States by ineuns of co; raots for enrryinir tho muila will take taoro gty in history and’in tho estimation of tha ,\mfl -:‘ Joople by tho alde Of tho ot Infimou ore Zitions of their Kind. Thut tiao s pers fand, The ‘Tweed wimg ol Now Yot Clty and tho_canol ring of New Yok u"'l huve pussed beyond the {wrlnu of dental, e plination, and “‘wttempted defonse, md. fhe; dishonesty and corruption ure Cacis os cstablished In hilstory us the events of the \\.’ of the Liovolution. “Tho *atar scrvics™ riggy ara still in oxistenco, bt thelr couidition m,,:. hies that of o snnko thut bus lost 18 head and g seeking -toreplice it Tho hoad s yone oy there (8 t‘umululmm eoerwey and power in tne hudy. erthiolesswithout nheid these ongay. I4ms must die, Itis o 'im"' strugylein whicy thoso riugs wre cugaged, Thole rnflucnn-u. tends in alimost overy dircetion; theirsgentsary numerous i both the great politial parties; thoie operations huve been [nterwoven with rent political unidertakmgss thoir strength can understaod only by thuse who hase sought for evidoncs of thelr corruption and seen thy effurts which thoy lnve put forth in thelrowa o i 1d not oxlst 'ho rings could not exlst or curry on omtions with 0 (Imwt-rrnl frlun’d m"tlfi:sr}ll?-: purtmont. When Qen. Beady beeaime Second Asslstant, Hive years ugo, thia contract clerks thomsulves, It l9snld, awarded the fuerease and expedition upon routes. 16w tho advantages of ti lmprovement upon_ that system, anid tovk all this exeoutive power nto bis owi hands. 1o sald, during tho tuvostigation of winter befure Insty **While done, of eonrse, by authority and n the uunio of the Postmaster-Genernl, yet aif Incrense of seeviee, both by additional serrice llul on and by provision for Inermsed ceterity, his Been mnde widor: my personnl vision #nd by my express direotion. cau be, theroefore, 1o diRloulty In Nxiiyg 1o responsibil 1ty for what has been dune for the beneit of the rips, 'llflmmon\‘urles alvendy nude by nvestigators Jhave led some to bellove thut sood tnanuxenent for tha [ust fow yeurs would have made tho Post-0ilice Departmont sell-supportmg now, In HOMO TeNpeets tho Work of tho Fing Is coexten sive with tho Jurisdiotion Or tho Department, A Tow tipnives will show thp extent of the De prtment’s teansnetions, — The lnat report of bo IPostnuster-Genernd, made Nov,F, 189, cone Tiinots wlllh:;';:h:: e tuing the followlng stitenient of receints and J al, 180: pxuenses for the flseul Potud expunditires, Tolnl recaipts ear ey e Excess of oxponaed, o A ‘I'hils shows whitt tho dead loss {or the yuar wan, ‘Ilio esthimtes For the fullowing yeaeiths yonr not yot ended) were submitted in the sune Fopurt, ns Collows: Expouditures, Recoipts . Tetieloney ... . Maro thun ono-ni 0 i I the yenr ending June, 1K), wid pald in Braiy's depitrtmont. for inlund transportaton, the tutal costof which in that enr was $I8706,0% This wus distribited ns folfows Hullroud- routes, 1,118 ] Htonmboat runtes, 1 R “Etr” routes, U861 111 1878 the ** stuc " nly Bl 48, and 1n 1870 thoy bud ecu i, i 150 (DL TB, 1, I, which far the cost, given above, was §78 Thwly's estimate exceeded tho dpproprintio) Al of the cost for tha gy endmg hitie 3, 185, wis $T,076.000, and _for the year ending Juue e, it was no less than K200, The cvidenc which tho Departmeat officers &ro no% colleoting . showa — what hus beeome of sunie of “this ¥2,000,000 increase T tho e of tha *star' routus in 183, ‘The rudlrond und steambont rout Satur” routes ure so mmed beeause beon designated in the records of the Depa ment by threo st i reprosentl b words “velerlty, certiuty, und securitys Al tontion has_recontly beon dirceted 1o thores sumblanco botween this combition of wnr? anil thut othur graup, more wlvlul}"kll)«tfl'n..m‘, Fese ™ ditlon, division, und silence.” Tutted ure chuo wiich cannot to supplied by oither ralirondy or stewmbonts, but on which b8 mulls wust be cayriod by horses dod . They aro tho stage and hopebiek ootes Owlig 1o tha prosenos of fallyuys, such m:mln aro short and unimportant I the East: 1o tho Houth they wre mulnly of tho same cuie: aetor; bt 0 the Southwest nd Westerd Btates nnd Territories they re nUmeris, lony, and XPUNEivi The llm‘!urlly_n( n‘(cn Wostorn nnd Bouthwestorn “star™ routes Tl | hnve nttractod 80 much attention wero Advers tived for bids In November, 1857, wh firen] traelors wera to begln sevvice July 1 1535 600 continue for @ torm of four years. 1 m«wlm vortisonionts were given tho loeation, mml f points, Post-Oflices, leusth of vavh rllllllh‘m. number of trips to ho peule n weuk, phe '.:1 w Lerof hoirs for onohk telp, and the l“lm:uwr bond roguirod with tho bl uf ench compei Othor sureties wore rm\mrud tor the Iut liges of tho contract, Combluationsof wen "m,ur Formea to securo tho moat prolituble TOKE tho routes whicn could bo wnudy vmlllnw ] munlpniation wad collusion. The mm:‘ e hidduors for the contrugis whieh were ll'li'l 'mm'. 1878, wvurasud [rom ton to twoty for Cace Houe of thess combinntions have nln‘uf i“w‘ deseribud, Ono 18 kiown iy the Dorey SF0 guu«n ndul\e'lnnloudlmi :‘nlv;my‘l“x;: havo Leeatl enotor Be W, Dorsoy, s brother, . s 3. M, Pock, mil J, it Miner, Peck 18 "-fi%w Tiorsuy's brothor=In-lnw. ‘oo Prico ey, tlon 18 anothior, with howdpiarters i“_ with J. B Prico ot iy bend, und the aylor, and oibors us wombers other, \whose orliinal hendquarte 8t, Louis, and Iy this were He Popo, Uoorge W. White, and othr ‘ll.lmul nnru.'l guuad Jflrl\;ml;:x)ww;\lfl;“fim". ntlow arid Sandonion y, 0 I e, Bradiey Hariow, of Vermo ained Fuster M seve tho Iuntleys, und othe “‘"'”1"{‘3 bt ertil poraona who havo neted WA, have beon supportod by oo backers. Among theso I8 I, H Poturson, whio contralled llll"‘?:"’;‘ tang voutos 4 Loulsiutus, and Who bR g under Creswells J. T Cbid \u‘rmul‘h"" o hnve & stron Congrossiotnl bneking, B ivawn, who got bls experience m ..d:..“ g Hepartmont, aud wont out m“ll Ill el o satse Juryost firw is_ that which contaltl (oo, g it ol an) Wit . This list i8 not v e {n‘firr.lul?:m'vm for tho purposes ol ffs explan tion, Tho histary af the ilevelopit combinntions 18 Jong and Interestiss o, bad thoso mon_wero fril or perions o churge of tho ' routed B ihele Admintstentions, und have Felo o hold upon thetr friends luLgct i ors ure ox-members of ."'l:;' o postals o (! joli te! Y yen :::-"i::?m Bootsin thu busiiess for any ¥ Al s the er {0 becon) guno out ot oftico fn erder 10 os com The ngants uf larwo contriclol, apents and notions aro represonted M“} Y inent of arnoys, gnd uio of tho e e ere ar }nucrvln -Congressmnn )lcmhlmllm Thpearin g wito ninke non not numed nbove who o cuuuu‘unun with tha graat "'H""'n'w largo sums uu'l "fnl;l:l‘&ylrl‘l,lullllfl'l‘ll""h“ "4"‘ mn&i wuys 0 4 ' g:m‘lrul :{Iudlugun T4 nis busuicst, 82 thum biavo been utlizo No Grout Wonder tor o ontest over tuo Wil of Jn:-\:l'l e it o gontiomun who left u f¥% ., of pursonal property vulued S5 il much for an_ Aston), bud beett St 1o Sy ai" A witness' befor 1o FELpsmil Wosic thus eatitiods * 1 bave DECIONe o ) at sohool. On hid ettt ored ubgt ;:u wres urupe 0 wanted toreturn 1o IR ey aud suld Y MUY fdaw of tho SaUS Gl extraar, wiice saw him give flu(uulm%hu Qinry prodigulity, i nith B0 g or Pl unbiiiged the conitdonce ot i Aeretore: T My, Uristod's sanlty, 884 PR ol Strango that Conteat OV tuinent hus boon he reautl o ppered ubly tho only ovideuce ull Tv Fand 1hou ot Derof this oxtromely prvideatiot Ko w tumily cver guvo wbyib thorv Is & coutest. fren faken S Sl o B TR s o Sa sd ity Db g QD