Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 13, 1881, Page 12

ae ul + when tsceny Ia beliy. abitted, 4 + type MANITOBA. The Prairie Province of the Do- : minion of Canada. Its Marvolons Bnsiness Growth Durlug tho Last Ten Years, Tho City of Whinlpeg, the Capltal of the Province. History of tho Region Provious to Its Annoxation to Canada. Sptciat Correspondence af ‘The Chleaga Tribune. Wissirra, Manitoba, July Manitoba, tho Prairie Provinee, aud Winnlpem its Capital, with sovern! changes of proprietorship and vicissl- tudes, have had two distinet epochs of history, one about tifty years long, from the grant to Lori Selkirk in IML te the formation of the Canadian Confederation In 1870; and tho evcont from that event to tho present, “Tho first was along pertod of torpar and slow prowth, crowds ed with wild adventure and ronmutie Incident, ‘Unt uninarked by aliens of material progress and advancing elvilization. ‘The second period bus been ono of considerable xrowth and swift ma terial developnient. Asinglo braueh of setiil- Darbarlan commmeres has been succeed, with tho rnpldity of 9 panoramle change. by all tho varied industries of W civile {zed people; a settlod —pailtical system hag sueccedod a species of feudal land-proprice torship: u city has stteceeded n trading-posts tho Province has trobled in poputation, und its Capital bas xrown ‘ten-fold; ralivonds have Drongnt oralgration and commerce; and all tho varied puraults of agriculture, trado, and rine ufneturea are orystuliizing about a growiur contre of national iife, tvon years ago Winulper * AWOKE: FROM A LETHATGY of half a century to the vigorous, palpltating lite of amodern commereial vity, almost ina day. Politfen! organtantion was the taagly wand hat first aroused the shumberhys continuity, and It soon Drought im its tral all the stimulate ding Intiuences of commerce. ‘Tho frst rullway arrived nat long aftertho Confederation.—a sce- tion of the Canadn Paeihe, extending cast and west from Selkirk, some twenty miles dowa the Btrean ut this remained for some thie with its endsdn the air, Meal ralway-commmntention enme In 1878, when the Pembli Branch ot the Canada Pacilie was built south from Bolkirk, through Winnipeg, fo Emerson, on tho Lnterna~ tlonal boundary, whore It connects with the St. Paul, Minnetpolls & Manitoba Rowl aud the whole American railway systeut. ‘Whils wag tn era tn tho commerciat history of Manitobas aad Another came Just yearwhen the same Canadian nnd American capitttists whdse: foresight cous ceived und whose skill and energy executed tho reorganization af tho oht St. Paul & Paville Railway beeame, theough the bargaln of tho Domlulon Government with the Syndleate, the propriotors and constructors of tho Ciunndi Tit cite, Pho last three years have been full of eras for Manitobh. Tho! Northwest hns been dashed along wawitt and tumultious current of development and prosperity rivaling the rapids of ftsown rivers. Winnipeg, as Psaw ft ipon-my arrival here week ago, benrs upon its munielpal countenance: obvious inarks of - TNE WONDERFCE CHANQES of the last ten years. Indeed, the frst algns of tho great awakening are seen Immediately upon entering the Peovine imerson, tha trst station across the boundary, from a mere etts~ toms+post ins grown tow prosperous’ town of regular streets, stored, chugebos, anid publie Duildings, whose importance by apparent even from tne rallrond-vrozsing on the other sideot ver. Between Kinerson and Wiynlpes there fg Nttte evidence of growth and settlement loans: the rullrond, on tho enstslde of the Med & Nearly all the land his been assigned hy the Domiuton Government to tho half-nreeds of tho Fort Garry post. ‘Thess are ready enoingh to wcll, thotgh they show no disposiuon ty fit prove tolr property; but the land 4 too unle formly lyw and wet to Invite settlement, On tho west aldo of tho Red Blver the land J4 higher and better, and severat Important towns are spring Ing up, which wil Kbortly: be connected with Winnipeg by the Manitoba Southwestern Ruilway. WINNIVEQ, Ike all the Red River towns In Manitoba, fs on the west olde of the river, und Hes on nlevel but ary bottom betwoun tho Agilntholue, whieh here Juin thy Red: iver from pie wast, wid the wudn strenm, ‘Thos emtina Mranch Railway Jolus the mate Une from Selkirk about two Imiles, upparently, helow tho Junction of thy rivers, whe! ib urodsea the river by 2 tine Iron Drldge, whieh, when completed, will -bitve nee cunnnadation for waguy and foot 3 well as rail BULGUN tha river tind the ut 8 abundant room for the Cane io Srefghtehouca and shops of: tho railroad, with the bwe rivers, forme: ef Hrange cavtrielig the elty on three sides. From tha ntauon to wort Guers'y the old Iiwdson'a Day tradiie-post, stretches: Main street, nourly two miles ton, and Uned for, The greater part 4 enrse With business: Dlovics, Mat thent briek und ot ve ‘Thy city shades olf rand prairie on elther alte, dienes strects that look raw Gnouxh fur tho pres- ent, but prumige well for the future. Lhowhole elty has ‘ RAW, UNFINISHED LOOK, Uke tho stage of 0 ttre botlod tho curtain wold, plots. esque lund-uiirks are: fn course of obliterntion, and the new city that ts grawhy Wp on thelr jus hus nottiken definit form. Kort Gar tho mvs conspicnous feature in the oid to bis been surrounded by new bulldings; wad the old wall that suirrennded it haa been torn dawa. 10 furnish inateria tar thy fonadations of belek Dlvvks; a fee siete ml hus avien on the plutenw below, ond a substitlal iron wagon ride Jé spuuning the Absiniveine at the vers gntesof the tort. ‘he pratriv west of the fort fs taking shupe as the populite residence: suction, and jonny fine brick residences ure rhsiag upon the hank of the river and tho adjotaimg plila. All the residence part of the chy presents 0 ale of Uhritt and prosperity, aid there 1st Dotable Absence Of squid BHinntles. ‘Phe putiliv bulldings und recent business blocks ave solidly. built of brick, The only part of the city that oretuing anyeblng” of ith anglonit (4 the Froneh Catbolfe suliirb of 51, Hane ince, ucross the Hed Mtiver from the pain town, Hats the Hplecupul residence of Bato Tachs, whose mithority extends ever the whole North: west, the site of Bt, Boniface College, and tho Yavorit resktence of umny wealthy citizens. 1t dau ehurming spot, with wide, regular streets aud attractive coutine hone: ‘Tho present populution uf Winnipeg is ABOUT 10,000, When Manitoba was taken Inte the Daiminion, dn 1971, (twas only U3 or BW. "Tho growth his deen steady siuce 187), vary lig little trom about 3.00) per your, With ‘the estatillsiment of the Provincial Goverment, Vormlulon land-olees and rallread-hend quarters hep dsburaseients: at large sums. of public money, whieh baye ‘continued “Ja ineroasinyg "amount, Whesv buve been a powortu) artitetal stilt: to tho al growth Of tha Province, ve lnerensed the pupulation of tho cl fold. while thatot Munitolie bus Increased from 17.000 11 1571 Wo 40,000 this yeu, Die traces Province hus certuinly grown lvoe to tute fn ton yeurs, though In its chaotic prim: condition ther, 443 Inek of pusitive: ati~ But tuo custom duties fur taix your YG estimated at botween §0,Ua) and FOU, wgilbstsonie £07,000In Id, The ex parts wrrive by -bvoebitunels,—the Pomtitia Branch [allway und ver, vd which live or six atenmors ply fh the stimmer months, ‘Tho tnterion trade ta {the bunds of the tindeon's Hay Company, which hua Haws uf steamers upon Lake While: wR und the Suvkitehewan, wand tradiage pists seuttered over the wholo tinmense yewlo sirelshing to tho Aretle Ocean und the Nociey Diuantaings and two private tines of stenmord Lpon tho Aswintboine, .. DBHOKATION, upon which the futureof thu Northwest do- pends, bis been steadily dnecunalng slice 7%, Loong as yer it ba Inconsiderable by comparison with whut future years must briny. ‘The tnt grutlon for the peseut Beason, now about bait? Tuisked, putbers about 4,00, oF whone the Commatastoner of inuilgeation belleves about twoethieds ure from) Canada, und thes rent fram irens | ritaln, Bo witorts to uttract Contiouatal immigration have nyt been sucusetiil, excopt ih the cade Of | Ruan Mennonttes. ‘The levlundis colony, & tubilabed sume years nyu on Lake Manitobiy fat proved un ntter filure, and broken up. 1 not concelve, trons v busty cullectlon uF frau queatary and Linpericot stitistics frou the dif furent tund-otliced, Cat ture than 4,000,005 aera Of “land in the) wholo | Northwest nro sold pe taken Up. ‘This Is deurcely ones tent of the wholu amount uvidinbic. ‘Phe oyentug of now tand-oilicea, aud the wnhating of nuw curpor Tutu interests tit the wsle of dund will give a reat atinulue te iuulgration and wuttlement. Jp to the preaont year the only method of obe Twintuy landa in tho Northwest, eseupt by pure cbuses from: settiors or nalf-breed grinices, hes been through the Dominion Lande Olco wid the Jludsun’a Huy Company; und tho Jntter hug not been eager to eel or ene Jerprisiug fo inviting wettlemont, Now the Cauudtan Pucitly itaitroad Byudicate bus bovome Ube propricter of 1 25,000,000 ACES of lands ulong tty Hoe, which uro to be Immo an tet + thot chs eliimert 1 dntely pat into the market andurged np! chasers by tive: miadern te The Bynd About the maaimtn per ners, except in certain destenble | i where Wo hirger price will bo demanded, Th Hateon's Bay Companys, which received, by Is bargain with the Dominion In 1871, two sections in every township, holds (t lands nt 83 to $8 por rere, sind ts doing some thrifty speoulation tr towt-lota, Government tind can be obtilned ‘under Homestead, Pretinption, and ‘Tune bor-Cultiro | laws, slinilar | to. those in tho United States, execpt that tho conditions of residence, priee, and tne for payment are much more favorable. ‘The price of prevmption Jands ia $1 per aere outside of ralirofdelimite, aud S240 within, Since the advent of tho Syne diente itn stetive movement tn land speculation has begun, Winnipeg ts in the throws of tt iost nugravated real-estate boom. ‘Tow tots aro rapidly changing hands at prices which seem tncenl aud fietitions, bntt | which tempt tho most cunsorvative Investor by their atendy alyaneo from day today, Since] have in tho city, bitalness property hag sold qt jon for UH) per front foot. ‘Tho Hudson's Tay Company suid private speculators are ot. tng fabulous prices for residence lots plotted con what wes ha sly unocenpled prairie, 1 nm told Unt n similar fever of anersuetion prevails in tho new towns along tho line of rullroad west of here, ‘The Province of Manitoln tas CURIOUS AND EVENTFUL MISTORY, qwith which {ts present and futuro are so closely interrelated a4 to make a cursory revtew of It somnownhnt proftitle, It fs a part of the vast territory contested ut tho thine of tho Mrst sete ment upon the Rod River by the rival tradinue mpunics consolidated sixty years asso, whose ninals ontlence those of) Manitoba, up to {tg organization os a Province in Ist. Tho Hudson Tiny Company, which exercised the sight absolute = domain over nenrly huif the North American Continent until ton yeara ugo, wns organized In 1070 under th Nuynt charter granting ft, ull the Inad drained: by streams flowing Into Hudson's Hay for tho purpose of teat with, tho, Indians. For a ventury and whalf the Company. contined tts operations to the regions tourer tho, tind dit the last hue ot tho Highte Century, {ts proper terelto of Luke Winmpee wits ocett trappurs from Montrenl,, Thean org! the Northwest ‘Trading © aap which becune the formidable rival uf the Hudson's Hay Come pathy. thouieh it posanaved no ‘Territorint oretirs fered righta. [1 181] Lord Selkirk, on entertr img but vislontry Scoth voeblemuan, who visit the Hed iver asa Director tn tho Hudson's Bay Company, concolyed the noon of founding aly ngriculloral suttloment there. Ie obtained grant of lund embacing all the territory drainud by Lake Winilpeg, oxtending. of courte, Bout tw Suke Traverse, In Minnesota; and, the next year, brought out A.SMALL COMPANY OF MIGHDLAND SCOTCH MEN, ‘They settied at tho present ete of Winntpes, mid hid a rough time enough of [t for tho frst years, buing deliver out two or thre times by tho Freneh-Canndjin settlers, drowned out by floods, und having thelr crops devoured b ernashoppers, ‘They held tholr ground. how uvur, and G1 1821 tho worst of their troubles was removed by tho, amalgamation of tha hostile Northwestern Company with the Mudse Bay Company. Tho grent trading mono; thon extended [ts Jucisdiction over the whole Noribwest, establishing posts Crom Lake Su- perlor to the Pacidie, and from tho ited tver to the Aratic Qeeau, and exercisiie through tts army of clerks ated funetionarics all tho elvit, tuibitary, and judivial rights of an independent Govertinent. ‘Tho Red Wver settlement hos senvunst; ith ume a inixed community of Seotch, French, aid tndiun blood, oultivating a mire raw strip of land nlon; tho Red and Assiniboine Itlversyand oxtsiing by sulferince of the commereit! lords of the country. ‘They: ralsed nuundint crops, ad Lyed peosveroustys but, for want of conununication with the out- side world, eoutd nelthor market thole surplus, nor Inerense thoir auinbors by fnunigration. Tho eolany survived fn this dende-ative condl+ iion nutit’ the fornuttlon of the Canadian Cone federation. Tn 1868 negottations were bewtin for tho extinction of the Hudson's May Cumpany"s title to the Iunds; whieh were CONCLUDED AVUAL Of TWO TATE. Tho company recelved $100,000, and anos twentieth of tie pantie danas, ‘Tho compnny SUI oxerolse its old rights in tho reasote front~ jer, hut abdlentes thom nd fast oa settlements: ave mide and local governments formed. The annexation of Manitoba -to the Dormiaion was not ae plated without some frictton.—the Frenelt-Cutnutlans and hilf-breeds under Louls Riel, ratsing the stundard of revolt und for i a Provisional Government. ‘The ton wis no. Were Lurlesque, ach ftlagted a year. and roge-to the tree Lit one ovent—the thwarting of un Enyglishe pawned Sentt by order of | the lalfedruiken vovisiul Governinent, ho revelt fell to pleees upon the appenrines of Srithsh troops, at the Province obtalned amore Taverabl 4 fron the Doninion by fo WISE Manizola peucuably Peovines of Candas, and began tho Aperity sketched above. AS Ornized ue 1871, contained only, et this abow of b nD about 10h sqiuiro miles —the Provines of Keavathy lym to the: wast. dad the rent Nontimish ‘Territory to the weat, Hy recont tegislatton Manitoby has been extended to to cast, west, and north, so that it Now CON AnOUT 117,000 SQUAT MILES, ovonestale more tit Minosota, Jt da gave cerned by a Drovingial Partin with ure> sponsiule: Ministry. whose Mer. Joun Novation, om product «of the — coun- ir Tho monurehical prinulple 3 sented by LieuteGoy, Edward Couchon, etnble Old Breneh-Canadian party, who: are draws his: silary with grace and dignity, hoe Mrovineg ts nciely all pearly und euttleabio lund, TF ftave spoken of the Upper Hed Ulver Valloy. shall traverse the Lower noxt w onivtrip down Like: Whintpeg to Nelaon Riv and the grand rapids of tho Saskutehewan, wd the Assiniboine Valley tho week aftor, on my Journey to Qa’ Appulia Silsslon, BAC, ————— THE FASTER EATS. Griscom Brew0s fis Faust on the Korty> AUCH Legg rsd Carerudly Pnadaels a Lo nisivated Appetite — Veserip= tlon of the Meunt—Kderrible, but rice Ho WI Bake to Leowurings Jovn Griscom hat necomplished his fast of forty-five days, and cin bowst of n feat that ts wbsolutely unparaiteled, Nefore he began the undertaking he wits assured by sonie of the Iva ing physichins of tho city Unt seb a fast wis a phyalologleat impossibility, and that nono but a utd weuld attempt ¢o fuolbardy an experi- ment. More thin ono of these piedieal gentic- mien were sp contlitent of thelr being right that they expressed themselves as ready ta sign a cortineate of lunney which would relegate tho would-be feomoclust of pet phystalogienl theurtes to the gentia but reprosslye tntlucnees of a Hunatie asyhim. But Griseom had a theory, although perhaps of fast about equal value with thogy of bis opponents, und he ean, si, and conquered, : Vory much after the manner of a condemned erhnkea, Grisvonr's lust night ns on faster wast sleepless une. Ha tossed restlesly on his cot, and, as a last resort to kill tine, got tip between Zand So'clock, played euchre with ble watchers, and ald. not go te bed again. ‘Tho morning hours dragged pally. slow with bin, and bo became grautly exalted over tha near wpproneys of the end—ab much su, in biel, as i ehh nhant to start ont Journey, and who caniot sit down and keep quict tit the stage comes, Ho wis intenduly Irritable too, and would receive: ne visitors except the dovtors, watehurs, and roporters, and did not want to soumany of thut, MIS IRNITAMILITY was not to bo wonderod, wt, for, i Adilition to tho cnormons pressure of nervous excituiment, Wiis 1 ta the syttire tebe hid been prompted by some xtranga freak ta drink ne water durlig tha lust twenty-four hanes, tt will he remiuimbered shat Dr. Taaner abstained trom drink for the fest two weeks of his Cunt, wb thts It uerrty used him nes bus Griscom hi HK from thirtyetive to Tortyeoheht one diy Til the fast, ane the onic it even AU Ut ite stuge hid the most Mnuclous oifoct, Tn the forenoon Griscoi went to: liye hls pline Ftograph tuken. ‘Che -tkeness proved: an excels lent one, and showed haw ghastly the faster had become, Ito tease” tke i veritable | curpig. Tho faet | that Ho hud gone out un tho street, drew quite 1 Throng to tho Croat of the building during tho: Weraing, and a much hirger nunier of people hong nround the stairway foran bour ov uu bes Tore noon, ty tie hope of acelng te fister when ho passed {into the theatre, Al were tit pauited, as (iskcam did not proposo to put hl volt on Cree exhibition, but entered the theatre trons the roar, Je awas aout ten minates before 13 u'elock when hu went on tho atugu, avcompanied by a Ktrong bodyswuaird of doctors and repuriera, among thu: Witter were 1: ntatives of the Now York und Boston Miustrated papers, ‘Tho physluhing on tho phitform were Lew. Wars Pivon, Curtls, Silitic, Muevking, ‘ascher, Hnuninth, Contter, Laan, Balter, dally, Alien, Onn, Ogden, Fenny Sune, Rdaor and Teauletd, Tho moments iduryalilng beforu the thie for (he fast to begin were ovatplat by str, Griscunt Ja rearravying the table, tho etfort servants not plonsing blin at all. 3, spectitors, some SO fu number, became Rae for tho curtuln to rhe, Thu faster pabl na attention to thy demonstrations, wow. er, DUL Wout mn quietly nreanisig the dishes Hit thy: (role preasunted a sativinetory appenre auce. He wae extremely dolicltuuy’ feat mite shonid pot arrive, and sent oat MOLEH MneencHgers tO hers fey ait tertoined not te begin withoue mille if te dra rae ma the Wsteruouns siially the taylan Fan a three-qiaet giuss-pitouer of the Plaleatcloubiog ueuee) Hnid sistalnables ASD GRISCOM WAR MAPPY, Tho curtain rose wt previiuly 13 o'glock, and tho luster was wana Npplauded, Atter belug ins troduced by De, Harrison, who agiured then of thu honesty of the fast, dle, Grhicom tude w tte Uo spevoh, Whiel need nol be Intraduced here, pecullar viuws hive been sullieiently us los eluboruted from tue totine during the progress oF thy fut. Hu then took bis wuatat the Tubiey winiing ¢vreucly ull the while, dig tuld thu aus dlenco that behadpo feellugot hunger, but thought bis appetite would conte to Blin. dt waa Wnege square table that Griscunt ant down to, and might have beon finagined to fairly groan beneath its burden of cutubles. ‘There wasn't bait the vendor visible that had been Unilers atood to be ordered, but thore was an indeniatly nimple supply for one man, even though be had enton nothing for a month and a tial, (iriscont poured a. glass.of inilk, and, a8 ho drank it, remarked that hoe had not taken t drink of nny kind for twenty-four hours, sud thet thig vould go to tho right spot. Asecond Rides Cotlowed, and, I reply towquestion from f apectitor, Uriscom sald: * Lassnro you it's very gol” Turing tho inenl We drank a little over nquart. He thon helped himecif to a armittl, dish of, intiketonst, which ho nte with rent relish, but without the slightest indication of voraulty. In fact, be ite very slowly, and aus awered a nitnber of questions that wore pit to him by tho spectators. Ho romarked, anions other things, that the one thing | tht seemed = tos tempt —ohis ss uppotita | was Btrawberries, nnd he aecordingiy ata. nit of tha Iusclots Crit mashed into a sort of aim nnd siwectencd with brown sugar, pro houneing thom magnifeont. With his berries heute i few buttered crackers, and drink 0 cup and a halt of coffee, AU this oceupicd nbouE Lnree-quurters of an hour, at the expira- tion of which time be sald be FELT THOROUGHLY SATISFIED, though he had enten much more than he ine tonded, He felt no tneomfortable sensations, ho added, except that the ment nade hint siight= ly dizzy und excoudingty sicepy. Hu thoretipon retired to bis room, without having touched the hotiud egies, biscuit, bread and butter. pies, huckicherries, and tho old-fashioned molasses enke, ‘This omission lo eubseqnentiy expininad by, saying that hu only kind those untasterd diintiog In order to make < tho table look inviting. Ho renewed the attack, howover, during the afternoon, nibble nt tho various delleaules to sea how: thoy tastot. About 3 o'ulock ho still felt sloepy, nud went ont walling with a friend to drive off the drowsiness by ex= ereixe. : iriscom was welghed a few minutes before 13 joule and, Aiport tho beum at Wi%, beving lostane and a half pounds during twenty-four hours und forty-nine and. three-quarter pounds: sineo the beginning of the fast. The oxfaster will remain in town uw few dass, andon Monday nextwill return to bls farm in Ohlo, preparatory to entering the locturo feld. att TIN COURTS. TARDY JUSTICE. Apetition for habeas corpus was filed in tho Clreuit. Court yesterday by William Mitchell on vehulr of Mart Davis, a momber of the Carroll kang of robbers, ueiinst John A, Stuckuy, Shorlif of Knox County. It fs charged: that Sturt Davia was Indicted on .the sth of Decomber, ism), by the Grand Jury of Knox County ow i charge of Inreeny of over $25,000 from the Farmors’ & Mevhanics' Bank, and about three saitterward was admitted to bail. Ite aps peared for trial at tho February torm following, ‘Dut was told be could go. and was disehurged on tho onder of the District-Attornoy, Tn duly, 1840, ho was muendi arrested In Cook County and Ime prisuned until September, wher ho was ndmite ed ty bail in the sum of $590 on a writ of habeas gorpus, At tho October term of tho Knox County Clreult Court hls case was coutinied to February, and nt tho February tere ft was set for a. trial for a speclil days le was ot the Hime in basiness in this elty, and white getting: rendy 10. wag mtrosted by caplas anit” liken inox County cual, is “WAS .8p0n after | eontinucd to the dune term of court, and now that term 24 ended without iis boing tried, He cialing his ense 13 not Ukely ever to be heard: tout ho is ene tited ton digeharze because he was nut tried ut or bofore the second tern: of court utter bis the Glotment. Moreover, Judge Suth, the presiding Juve of Knox Cleeult Court, § of tho stouk= nolders In tho Farmers’ & Mf 6° Hunk, tho {institution whlch was robbed, 60 that he ls not kely to give any of the. bank robbers fue show. On these two Eanes therefore, Mitch- eli aske that his friend here. exainined, mad discharged from arrost. 4 writ wits ordered to Issue by Judge Burnum, ¢ Thvia iiny be brought wy DIVORCES. Highland Mary ord fited a bill yesterday against her husband, “homuas Ford, askluyg tor a divorce an the gronnd of cruvity and drunken- ness, ‘They were marriod In October, 180%, and lived together until Junuacy, 1875, when she was obliged ta tenve him on account of hls Ml-trent> ment. He couxed hor ih oid by promises of r form, but he xeon broke thom, and eho ayglin left him in Febrnury, 1878. Then he yot hor Dock by stenting the temperinee pledge, but he throw away the red rivbuit a fow months and bexan ubushis her 2s before. About tun days: are her puitienes give auc entirely, as well ue her confidence fn als promised, and new slo wants n nual decree of separation. . ITEMS. Judge Druramond returned from Indianapolis yesterduy, and wilt bo I chambers dally for Ronerat business. «* Judge Moudgatt will bo In court to-day to hour defaults, friday he will deliver a number of oplilons fn eased tinder adylyement dudye dameson will be in court Monday to hear casos or motions set by agreement, STATE COURTS. Jobn Lindsay commenced a sigt In trespnsa yesterday against the Union irass Manufactur- ty Cuniinsy tw recover S10,00. A gaenishve sult was best by Morris T. Mare tin tor tho use of the National Bank af ittinots, augalnst the North Aineriean Sdngortest Assvcl+ muon to recuver Gh, L238, CRIMINAL COURT. The Jury Inthe easy of William Gibbons, Doc Dowand, aad Rehard Koynolds, charged with robbery, brought in a verdict of yullty ne te os land and Meynotls, and Axed thofr term at tye Yours eavh in the Penitentiary. dames Brady and George Quigy wero on trial for horse-steatiog. Whe charge was thet they hud stoten at horse in January last from ve, Pe Wilker, In feontol his office, and tied titles Ue tu Burlington, Wis, to be dspuged, of. leap. peared it evidences that the two wero hard custumere, had bao In the Venttontiury, to the stwaline hat ington hotel wider nse find subsequently dive “Phe sinned hanes. post of and Mia property. to a liver. defense wid oF fe general character, tho elim brut Unit the atualing aid been done by parties closely resembling Une verondants, and Unit wt the line of the offense they were out of tho city, ole, Shey wera tried Kona weeks no, and the Ju mgrecd, and wis fy tho second trial ‘Thy neh i and n wins i the Penttunthiry, Twi Wanshyns Eth ‘daon pleaded wulliy ta larceny, wis event one duy' i the county Jail wad fubvant. O'toole, ay notorions Individual in tts. Jing, was put on trlab tos ussngting bis wile, Aftur hearing the oyhdence for the progecu won he pleaded gultty to one of Ute courts In thie Mie dlotunent, anid wats cont, anrdeggtor weutune, THE, COUSL ¥Y COURT, Tho Clty of Chicago yesterday ted an ob- Jeciion to Judgment being rendered for taxed ‘on vertala lands turned over to the ally by exe ‘Treasurer Gnyze tu hudonmalty itagalnatioss, Tho objeation 13 busud on the faut that tho peainiaey i und the Sto Wost partot the north weag part of te northwest ty mapa North Range 1,'ense of the third y val meridian, containing 260 aeres—baye boon since Dee. i Idi, the propor tho vity, und dd sieh HAVE Hut boar Mable to untton GE aa MAINE OT LO MG TOP Maes OF NASUASMONIA, | thu only othor apjections filed were in rete oraned bo lands upan wate it was elulmud tho taxes bud been pid. west TH CALI. Mundy GAnoNtii—No, 1,350 on trial, Jepan Winitasiion—Nos. 022, 1,593, 1,625, 4,620, 1,505, 1,653, 1,650, 1,097, endl 1,053, JUDGMENTS, Count — Coneresions — Warren Bpringer va. John P, Dickey, $124 dupan Gaty—John Galagber V8. HEU: PEW Li Dawa & Co, ¥ Cleary and Wilhase A, Sinithy BL, l0ds0, vity of Chi- ron d, Slee Only n Sole. London Duper. Atallor not far trom Petticoat lane got bola Of wred-hot Mea the other day, tio heated up Dfs gouge to thu bilatering pulut and plicod ita Abonch at his door witha olga reading, * Only pixpence.” Tin tew snlautes alum cing ai anoent=jooling Lasavlite, with at eye aut for Darguins, and, dv he enw the pus aid read the Bi, be Haden Gud te he bid atruek 1b rich, Jo nuturally yeached aut tu het hte bare Haitty Wud THE Was whore he give hliusell away, Y'the tulle almost feth dseway watts by Dut did not hist over sixty secon i cond of that thine the yictha entered tho shop and begat surbot gymudatio pervermunce wii id not end wotit tus Gilor was 6 sadly nusahed mon anid bis shop ts he pretest conttistun. Yoo two wero tighbing ie front when wn oliver ean long und ambbel beus, aad both wore brought budorg his Honor together The tiflor mppeared wist'n dluck eye und aiiawer ted wp fared rug and the Larachte bid a scratched uso und wis Hat te front (eeth,. Welle!” queried the Court us tho pair stood suphne wat bint. Vhell, b atatlebpent first.” reptiod tho tall on, “bike to buve nh ahoke sometines und sa 1 put dot goosa Oudt dere, It yhus all in fins, Mand Lata Werey sure; . Ss conlday’t see waur’ de fan cum fu," sald tho olhor, Tha seco ban’ ain wil burnud toy bilstur an’ won't he ublo to use it fur two weeks," * © Did you put thus hut goose ous there for a Joku?" queried the Court. » VYuw—it vis only a shake," * And were you Joking when you catered tha Shop aud wade toings hun?" he wsked of tho oth Tow an old wan and not a's Nu, boss, L wise’ mmuen giben to lalla, an’ cuttin’ up. Whea Tet goof dat youse | imude up ty stolid to mask dat tuilor Hatter dun a billyard bull dt was my tree fout for ober forty y'ra but Pd gotde bulze on bia un’ was wil’ bing up when de otiicor time . Wero yout very tluekled 2" ho quorled of the ntlor. “Vhell Lawns tickled stil ho pitch into me." You were tho only one who had any fun out “Vholl, l'aposo fo." 4 “Then you'll have to foot tho’ bill, shall lot him go and fre you 408," “Dot Ish pooty high 3 “Yos, Dut it Was a ric! pane you know," “Musbo sho vias, but i ues 1 let lot gooso cool vif now. Here ta forty shillings tnd now I shall go home. [ bid yort oot diay.” VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Dostro Quitent to Die, ‘Th the Editor of The Chicage Tribune. Bosconen, Wis, July 1.—Bven if President Qareld recovers could Hot Quillen bo hung for trenson? It ‘appears tv mo that a blow nt the President, who 1a the embodiment of tho Gove erumoent, isn blow ut thoGovernmnent staclf, wnt ag much treason qs the fring on Fort Sumter. This jortion of the conntry unites in desiring tho villain’s death, Witte Jo Davis as n Wreckers To the Haltor of The Chicago Trihtines FaucCramn, Wis, ditly 1—In 1835 Jefferson: Davia was a Lieutenant at Fort Crawford, ond he wassent up the Chippewa and Red Cedar Rivera to obtain Kimber to rebulld tho fort. ‘Tho humbor was proqred of Strect & Rockwoad, who had amillon “tiie Red Cedar at Uilbert's Creck. The order was filled, the Himber rafted downto the Chippewa in strings, coupled up into nraft thore, an old? voyageur ” shipped ns pilot, and nll wont smoothly ntl nearing Mert Slotigh. “Vo ze rhcht hid! ordered the okl Frenchman. What's that, you villain?" sitd the: Weat-Polnter. “You're going to rst this rart right to hell!" T tell you to pull to th lett. whore tho innin river ty" “This order wag obuyes tho lumber was lost im thut slough, where tho channel was effeetunly blocked with dritt- woo (tis presinied that whoutho creatfatien Jolt returned to the. fort ho wrote a bool to ex Tigtague quisy OF tho disaster by throwing the nine Upott som ong ele SkYLIGHT, The Smoke Nulsanees ‘To the Littur of The Chicago Tribune, Crrcano, duly 12.—Tsee It stated in tho papers: that Health-Commisatoner De Wolf ts now witl- ing to recelve complaints about tho smoke nulsance, Lrespoctfully wish to call his atten- tonto the amoke emitted fronr tho furs chimney of Kirk’a eonp factory, on St. Clalr and Michigan structs, or thereabouts, hut chimney bolebes forth vast yulumes of tno biackest, donsest, ond grimlast suiphitr-conl smoke, snd, when tho wind fs from the east or eouttionst] tho Bighteonth Ward, or uconsidarable portion of It, is overspread us witha pall, Itisane of tho very worst chimney In the whole elty. 1 sun pose the enlef fault ty with the fireman, who throws three or four times too mich sulphur. onl upon hia grates att time. 1 he work! tro tive times tts light and as often ashe is in tho bad hibit of doing, hu would net produee ote- quarter of tho insty, stitling sinoke ho now, does, ‘Tho chimney miy have a bad dea 80, ex-Ald. Kir can remedy the defect, ee Alt Jug his amokestnek higher. Ito should he com- pelted to abate the infernal nuisines he come mits upon his neigubors. LEFORM. What Shalt Bo Dono with Guiteaut To the Hdtlor of The Chicago Tribune, Thanmpaxp Pau, Ut, duly 1.—There seems to bein tho pubite mind an tdea that the ordt- nary ponultios provider hy statute ror murder fire Inadequate to the new crime of President- Kiting, here fs such a senso of enorinity In tho net that mero bunging xeoms too tame and commonpluce.to give proper emphasis to the acnse of guilt involved, [twill not do to rotten: to tho barbarity. of torture nor to the dungeon and perpotual ebalns. 5 No one can roa of the punishment of Cetho- gus oror tho Rritish execution of the Sepoys without a shudder ands reactionary Kymypttby for the vietting, “Humanity is shocked “und the moral eifest Is neutratized. What shiil be fone with Guiteau? «Whether the President survives or not, bls crime is the same, Our liws grade penalty by tho result Ine stend of the intent of tie net. ‘hls fs a logon Inconsisteney. If the tutent wore alwuys fully punished (tls very corlain thera would bo teas crine, ‘This Is tho theory of diving law, which, Itxeoms to me, might in Magrant cnses be prop. erly copied in bumuan law, Hanging in nny enge isn volgur and repulsive mode of punlshinent, ‘There 1s: a savaery al te It unbecoming the dignity of Govern- ment. ‘The erimo of Gultewn ts, in our code, abnors mal Why should net the penalty be abnor-" mat? Ts thore anything in tho slitates or com Mon law calling for tho deatteponalty ; thac Units the sentence of the Court to muy pre- seribed method of teking Ded fe? Laugeest, then, that this monstorenasasin, whatever miny bo tite tito of his vletinn, have hts love of oto rlery sutisiod in the mode of hls punishment. Let hin bo bunished from the fneo of tho earth by by f ing put into a well-inade without valvo or trulnat, and lot Provide to bye tho witimate prbiter of his fnte. No bloodshed, ne broken neck, no strans feulation, Dota silent evanishing of the mit Meal evaporation, £ think siek i takin Junto the inysterious abyss of space woul keep Aitoh a hoi on the Imagination of magi ind as to hecome more fearfully Listoric thin tha ffty= cublt elevation ot Hiunan, My dunce. ‘ntloon #0, leaviog Why tho National Debt Becenmo So arses T the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Curcano, July T notivo what yoy gay in yesterday's ‘Tinpunn in regard to the tnmonse reduction in thy National debt, aud In the inter- est thorcon since tho closo at the Democratic Rebeltion ta 1805, Every retlecting mat muat pereslye that the debt orlxiinily was at feast oneshaif too large. If the Democratic party (in tho North hil dose ito duty as loyally and puted otleally as the Mepublican party did the War would have cosa in 1883 wt latest, and the Res heltion would hiaye been crushed befors the debe: renebed even 1660 mitons, The vatue of the xrecnbnels would nuver have sunic under 8 or 0) cents in gold, and few of the feet fh por cone honda woutl feed to buve been sold for. lusé ‘thas paar inne Happen to find, In looking over gomno ult papers, nit address “of the editor of ‘Tre ‘Trnusn tu the people of Columbus, O. dulivered: tn Auirist, Til, uviowing Tht positioner the Uaio Hemomacy, onthe tinaetnt question, ‘The Oble Democracy Were ten Insiting in thelr Stite plattorar on paylig tha principal: and Interest of tie Nie Homi dubt ly hredcensable greentnets whlch Mere worth at the tine what Wecnts on the dallas. ‘hey thoeht ft would be a emart thing fo chent ihe, pibtle erediors wboUt sbeents on the dollar, ‘thelr arjcument tn Justiiention of thy dinonest. prnpositle the 220 bonds werg suld for grec! reney was only, Worlt an uy y conta bn old, and: in the rhe cents, itt to ropradi pissy from thie tutdress of the editor of ais neat ivi Hwhy the bonds Brought oo litte, agit jet Lo those Democrats wie still denuanca: the “bloated bondhobler: not giving mere ond tho Repubttenns for lying up to to cone tract inndy by tho Goverment with Cosy who: took the rile of Jonnie It thelr moves tla ting: whon Itsdestepetion gucmiuad almost inevitable. OLD REPUUEICAN, Bays tho nddreass ‘Phy Oblo Democratic financial plank rets forth this reason tor paytay thu bonded dobt in new fesues of irredenmAtio, nnd, ia DP have shove, worthless notes—vi4g e'hat the publie creditor is entitled to bo pald dn the same aurcenes be Juaned to the Government; that whon bo tonsa grecubacks he rhonld be paid in preonbucks Tnless the vontenct otherwise provides, and when be loaned wold be should bo pail in soul, Gen. Ewing, who heartily induries this propos Bition, sevks. to creute the impression ont publle mid that thy Government only reallz 40 parcont of gold value for its bonds; ine: fure, thy present holders, rogardiess of whut thoy paid, be forced to ytoit tent back upan Fe J per vent of white (hey cull tor, Tbh dishonest to wndercite aad iisroprese (ho amaunt which the Government reallod front ita notes und bonds. Let me pareeat then audertions by the ticta dorived froin the aliolal reports uf Congress, During IST the enrroncy wads At pir, and tho rat $100 UN af greenbucks, Iadicd tinder the vet ar Feb, i, renlizod tbe teverimimatt ale Most par, CHG first bssue of bonds" 04 oF 31," asueenticd—realized weakly ult Valito to the Gaye WNGUNE BOLT, B56, 0K ON, ‘untlzud [i Ish? for tho f-20 tule Inte: theny wis O15 ago prica of Fels anil Tia por vent, Tho dyverage price of the samy scourities sold ta Todt wid 65tg per cont. ‘hu averiue prise of the xame scotiritics Un 1803 was OF2f per gent. And the average reals Jzod during thy four yenrs Was 73 Loh pur cent, da tho dark wad gloomy your of Tus, thas led the vouls of patyiotle men, the uvernye value veullzed dn euch quarter the bonds sold was ay Zollaws: Firat yuiter, 63 iF por cents second quartet Wuirbor, 443 und fourth quire tur, SUpor gent. ‘Thore wore days in tho third quntrtee of that black cor whelt but 40 per cont: orgzeld yalng was sealfaud, Aud an these axe voptional dari duse ag seized, and ne Tuirly videnyors ta conyey tbe ppresion thik, 40 per cont waa tho average uinonut yeullzed for <a hands, wus, Indie, it wad more than Ma ‘The ayeruye ¥ Houdds and Tid per cent. ‘They Wut why was It that our bonds dnly averaged Sy per contin she sent IM. aid wy Unies sank todd per vent? That wis the yeas, felloweultis | vena, who tho Dumueratis party of the Nurth prochilmed the way fur tbo supiressiinot the bluyeholdcra’ rebeliion Ue be tt Tutlury, wid vite. soavored by, every Inca ti} Whole power tu tnuko ita tullure, ‘hu putrletic poopla of the North wore butween twollres, Fourteen Denar oratio States were fu rebellion und fyhtiog des porately for the dlameuperiment of the Uniou, ana tho solid Haniworatla BEY of twontyetbree Mupubilvan States were doing everything thoy dared to help tholy Southern brethren, Lewia this treucheroug dolcetion iu the North that so imopulred the tluanclal credit of the Government that wreanbacks foratimg wore quoted ut 200, ind bonds realized bu io coma the moutha of Democentic orators to prate about the deprocintion of tho bonds of tho Gov- ernuient whew they thomaclves were the chicf enuso of that deprecation? Has ntaan in inw or morats i rieht to take advantage of ils own wrongdoing and charge bla innocent adversary with tho iiechiof hiasself line willfully and malteluuely eausodl? . : Had, the Democratic party. stood shoulder to shoulder with the Hoprblicana froin the out: broak to the elose of the Wars bud they pro ulaiied to the Robol South that thore cailld bo nolthor truce nor compromise whiten Kebol ree malied He nrmss had tholt orators and nowspa- vers eaiied on thelr party to uphold: tho puble areutt with monoy and arms; tid thoy frowned down atl opposicion to the drart, aud “urged ull able-bodted mon to the front, and volunteered to lead thong Dany, it tho Democracy had acted int this patriotic way, instead af the uttnsi-treas fonubte manner in which thoy did ‘net, not a ‘bond would ever have sold below 14, not gto. tation uf greonbacks would have been hix! than now. ‘Tho War tteelf would hive ended In INKattho farthest. Mail tho loss of procious life and hale tho waste of trenstire would have Deon spared. Our debt to-day woultd by reduced ton few score initllons, our currency would be at par, and 300,00 brava young ines, North and South, now moldering In’ the dust, would bless and cheer us with thotr proxence, stronuth, and mantiness, ‘The North fought the Mebollion with ono hand, Tho right band atrucks the left hand hing nerveloas. ————— DRAININ G FLORIDA. A Vast Land Scheme—Lowet Mitton Acres of Sugar La Phitadetphta Record, July 10, Hatniiton Diaston, say yesterday, through Messrs. W. (. Tluey & Co, mado tho first piy- ment of $209,000 on tho 4,000,000 neres of Land ro- cently ptirchased by him from tho State of Flor fda, aud his agents are now engaged locating those Innds, , Gov, Stafford, of Arizona, ts now fn tho Stute of towers attending to thls work, and reports recolved from him ure favorable, a\t tho northonst corner of Third and Chestaut streots was catiblished yesturday tho oitlce of one of tho boldest enterprisus ever undertitken tn America. Conspienous in tho managoment ts Mr, [huniton Disaton, head of the yroat saw works. Ex-Muyor Stokluy is President ond Mr. Digston Trensurer of the now com- pany, which starts under the rather long title of tho * Attantio nnd Gulf Conat Canal und Okeecbotico Tad Compnny." Engineers: hayo been sent to Floridn, the survoys made under the nusplecs of the Nationul Government havo boon veritied by tho Company, threw lurgo dredges are now on tho way to ducksonville, and wort fs to be pushed with vigor, Tho Waele and iminensity uf this schume may be Inferre: from the fret that the territory i question ox- eveits by 1,000 aqintre miled all of tha Innd tite cluded in tho four States of tthotte Island, Con- netleut, New Jersey, and Delaware. ‘The Come puny intends to open up over 15,000 square miles Of the most tropleal portion of the must tropical State in the Union. Tho engincering features of tho work ure jutoresting, «& report upon tho subject having Just beet issued by Mr. James M, Knumer, . E, Tatke Okvcehoboo fs the grand Inland roser= yolr for the waters of Middle florida, buying no natural ov direct outlet. Tho principal fecder to tt is Ue Kissimines River, which pours in coustint annals ate 7 160,000 cuble feat of water overy twerity-four houra. ‘Tho amount of v oration froin water surfaces exposed to the stn and wind Is set down $1 the books at the rite of trom ono-elghth to three-elghths of un inch per dy, necording to conditions. Lake Okeechobee, having an aren of 1,00 squire iniics, the eviport: Yon from the surface of tho luke nyxremtes ut thu Jowest rata 200,100,000 cuble fect of water, which Is iore than one-third in oxcess of tho supoly from tho iin feeder. Duriiug the or dinury geusons, and particularly during pertods of drowtyht, tho luvel of the water in tho take 15 towered, the surrounding land beeomnes in tt measiive pussable, and large herds bt cit. te obtain ‘excellent pusturage fn the sa~ yamius and swamp lands of the interior. Then when tho rains: senson comes, four months i tho year, the walerg of tho lake gradually rise, overilow tho finniensy tritete of suite lind, the sollot which bs ideation! to (hit of Cuba, and. back up the waters of tho rivers emptying into the lake. It is the purpose of the Company Just formed to permununtly lower tho surfice of Luko Okecchobeo, whieh, according to tho United States survoy of 187, fx dwenty-fire fect above mein tuo tide, by constricting a drainigo canal twentysono inlles in Jomth te the St. Lucie Itlyver ‘at a waterfall of ane foot mile, thls plan ty sinillar to that recommonded by Col. Moigg to the Nadonal Gaverument in 1sid, in the proposed cunt) this watertall will give 0 yoloeity of two and two-thirds miles per hour nnd a enpacity of pasainy 7,708,800 cublo fect in twenty-four hours, ‘Mireo stewn dredging: imacbined, of the Monge putent, constructed on the eontinuous ladder, principle and re= sembilng the buckets In'a grin clovator, aro now heitig put. toyethor nt Jacksonville, tho hulls buiug nlveady In shape, Each drodye.will be capable of making a clean cut of twenty-two feot in widen, ‘ho dredges wil po luahed In pulrs, so that nt one operntiion thoy will opan a sal of furty-four fect wide, ‘Lo ig the: cannt rom Lake Okeechobes to the st. Lucie ttver ill reatiire the excavation of 11,0000 cublo yurds, which at tho ratu of 2cents a yurd (tho Menue fyure), willamannt to $180.4, und at nt outside igure of 5 cents a yard will amount to SOL tha, iddition to this onnat it ta tho design to buitd another canal from Lake Okeechobee to tho Calovsnuntehto Hiverumptylng into the Gullty niso to deopen und striighcon tho strowns emptying into Lake Okeoohohes, to dig literal canals or ditches, nnd at various polite to tip tho rige sparnting tho sawiruss marshes frou tho Atlantic and the Guif, thus draining the ree motest scatigns of that erent reqlon, The urea of land reclalmed will enibraco ovary otnas of Florida tun, ducluding "high und low hauntiock,!” * Hest, econ, aud third rate pla,” ond “swamp lnnds," and Under the terns of to contract between the Company and the Sttto uf Florida onu-hall of tho 3,000.00 acres to vo roclulined! by the lowering ‘ot the Inke wutors will rovert co the Company. © Viasluutlo doposite of homatite ory and inurl gre also reported. ‘Vhe sine Campuny huis bought the franchise of tho Atte Const Sleambant, Cannt & Line provemont Company for the construction of Alxty-cno mites of canal whieh, by tnking the waters of tho rivers ound sounds skirting: “the onstern front of Florin, opens uy nearly 2 omites “of continuons: inking navigation, vonncating the St. John’s iver with Lake Worth, ind dovoloping a huge atretel of land which bas boon neglected simply: *equudo It wis not accessible, and which pro: duces crops OF thy whitest scope, ambrnemng trop: deal und suml-tropical fruits und flbrous plants, and inaturuig ton degreo devotoped ut no othor palnt in the United States. ‘Pho cost of building these canals with Inbor-saving: egies is pineal Wb S20081, und with tho dredges now pulling en be completed In nine mouths, In consiteratiun of this work thy Company wil ro- eulva hundesennts of 400,00) aores Imitcdintely alolning the ent) 1b is oxpested tint both Hes of canal, measuring cighty-two nites 10 all, will bo completed within tfteen months, ADVICE TO CONKLING. tomo Sensible Words of Admonition TWendored tho Ex-Sonntor, Cmicaao, duly W.—T0 Bx-Senator Conkttig— Sins Mad President Garfeld proved disloyal to tho princtptes contiilued tn tho Natonal plate form, or had he munifested ‘a determiantion to war upon youand your polltion! adaorents, by ro- fusing te recosnizo tholr morlts in the distribit~ Hon of politient favors and uppalutmonts to olttve, suchnotion on iis part would five ex- cused you iy giving an emphatic utterance to your gelevances, But ho bas die neithor, On Alo cuntrary, ho bus aver munifested a conclilne tory dipasjtlon towards you, and hay wppolnted ining of your felonds to oNice, Tt wae reusonne Diy to he expected that you wonkt have even a fale (rhil to bhs Aduninisteation before antaygo- nizing It Eta you pursued tis course, you, inight havo been happy - man Kut, instead of following = course woloh = wladom, patriotism, omy, = even well-considercit suttishuvss, wauld bayvo polnted out, what huve you dow? You taye {n various ways sought to Gmbirrass the Preston, and whon ho refitsed to abulento and virtually sure ronilor tha appolnting power to you, your fury knew no bounds ‘Tho appolutment und cons Hematon of Judge Robertson ua Collector of Customs at New York was something that you eauld not brooks, and you felt dit your tcllaw- Senators In confemipg his appolntment tad thereby plickud many feathers From tho enule Winions of your fone vinnity. ban cuikdiih pot you “phgak olf the dust uf your feet” and detiacd longer to romate inthe Bynate. In res wiping Your saat you dd what sa mia HOW alceply regret, ns thy Now York Lexisiiture ree fuses La npply the bali of w retieetion to your wounded vanity, ‘Fhe Nation {s ontiroly eqtisilod with tho pres ent Calel Shay at rite, Bod with bis uduinistre ton of the Governniout for the generat good, The vicloug and corcupt spolly syéien, so Uitte Manded by you aud your abiect loliowers, will reevlve wo Countennties fram Vreaidont Gartotd and his Cabinet. The people believe that be will, in tho courKG.at the mighty fnowbus of corriy long pressed with wv deudty weight uw yitul onorylos of the country, ‘They Nkewlie Neve that the Governitont will, as itought, bo exerobed fur tho advancentont of individual aiid yenora) prosporty, std not-for the id= Vancement ot iu particular chiss of tax-unting pluce-men and pemlouera who five on the fruits OF corruption and dishonesty, und whe, th res turn therofor, impituilly wad “abjeutly obey the 10 oF en Whose -collap they wear, . The peoe ple ure determined that they will not stow tho infamous spoils system to be continued. They will nut: tolerate. wit oligarchy however dle thhygutsbod way be the tndividuals composing it, An cminont - writer askys " Js Choro uot sumo dunger-thae the actual control und direction of publle alleles inwy: full iuto the bands of a fow meno fina ea galtt- their power by corrupt, wivans? And tho oligarchy by corru: tion will wustulu its power, and willjvocrult its Tinks from those who bogin by being the touls of tho oligarchy, and live on tho arabs which Jall to thom dirlug thelr apprenticeship to ruption, Until by superiority in aidaeity, con trivance, nud wtter want of principle, they tn tholr turn ret tobe tenders.” Ta view of nll tho facts in the ‘eneo, Is it not tho part of wiatom thut yout should gincofully retire from on position | that is untenable, nid: tint you should relense the Vieo-Frealdent from hls polltlent bondage and enble hin te vet in minnner boven his exalted poalinny Buy to your followers in tho Leglatatire tue you nro na fonrer acandidate for sountor, and Inform thot that thoy are now itt Iberty tu vote ns fro nen, thereby instring tho vlection ot Lapham cd Miler ns Senators. It you deeling to heed this friendly ndyico it wilt atord evidence that your pverweentng vanity has caused you to tne nein tint you created tho clroumstanoes which uve you hupartinec—Corgetting ‘tho simple ‘net that etreumatnnces hat orcated you, At thia moment you alford a molancholy but ine trictive lessor to all who would gratify a reok- structive ambition. shed the terrible nows alluvor the Nation and neross tho Atluntio that Presidont Qnefleld had begn atriekon down by atiassnain’s bultet, an asedibled Nation jitted wp thor volves th lamontation, and mingled thoie syinpithies ind thole tena san expression of tha genoral sorrows nid one vast wave of passionate Byipuiby front every nation swent lo Washington ax tho manifestation of the world’s sorrow at tho shucking crime, “For seve oral duys you, sir, wong remained enim and vst- concerned at tho nttenipted nssasinition of tho Fresident, and. the cruel ; deed failed to extract from yottone tear of pity or ono tard of sym pathy, tha shadow of death niford no pros teotlon against tha vampire appetite of unop- penenblo hate of party? After tho indientions wero tavorablo for tho recovery of the President you break tho allonee: ina cold, formal way, and condemn tho orlininnl, Need you wonder fi people commont upon your strange conduct? Your cotirse tins tended to turn tho tide af popular opinion; and tho cure rent fs now running against you with a rapidity and o force whieh you have no power to stem, + Now, gir, a word ft conclusion, Ho persunted to do} your popular talenta to feasible plans of publlo usctulness, and you will, yet regain miuveh of what you have justly lost in tho estl- nition of yout country. Should you pursovero An your present course, ft will be “evidence that oil teatro tu nid fhe Democrats In scouring & innjority in the Senate, “Phils, if not victors, was yet revengol”” In carrying forward this mad scheme of vor geaneo, to uratity jnordinate vanity and mortl: fled ambition, you have wunply illustrated tho inetangholy rot that mon can do much mischtal who are comparatively jowuriess in doing geod; and that, when an individual angiges In projects uusnnetioned by wisdom nnd virtdo, he tavelves hinsoff in a labyrinth of Inconsistencies and ure rors from which thera Is no escaping, This is tho humilinting gituntign to which you have un- happily reduced youself at tho present mo- ment, A FRIEND OF HONEST GOVEMSMENT, $$$ CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM. Tho Spollx Systom Kilts Iteelf, Whilst Gartold Liver. 4Mo the Editor of ‘The Chteago Tribune, Nouman, IL, July 3—(L have sents copy of this letter to n local paper, but Lirusb you will glye It an Insertion.) . View from whatever polnt you may tho brutal fanatle GQuiteau, the logical sequences of his nets are likely to be turned in diree- tons dlnmetrically opposlt to what he In tended. ‘That he fancied he was playing tho role of n reformer; that tho bullet projected, through his helitsh madness, into the vitnis of the President was to overthrow the Gov- ernment in its adintulstrative policy ts qutte elenr.. ‘That he ever had & Ineid interval In wiiieh to reason that it was by this act of madness he was to porpetunte the very power ho sought to overthrow ty ost Improbable, And yet, assuming that the prayers of tho Wulted clyilized world are to bo answered, nnd the fife of the President spnred, is this not probable, nay, almost certuin? Tteannot be doubted that prior to this tragedy the now steleken, soml-martyred. Gartleld had a strong hold on the contidence and affections of the people, extending insome iirections heron party fines. Mat tn the crisis through which lie is now passing ho ls develope tothe powalar natn’ tralls of character of a very high, order; that he hag exhibited not only a Christhin fortitude, but aself-polss and moral heroism that fs very remarkable, 1s now universally conceded, Admirable traits these for the Ligh position he now fills. Now Jet us look, for a moment at this mat- ter from the stincpoint of a Civil-Service re- form, ‘This subject is ‘now forced upon the publie mind with an emphasts that will ad. mitef no postponement, much less dental. It Isknown that tha President has strong convictlons ng to the necessity of this reform, =i reform towering In: hnportance high above all others tint have or can now eh mise tho public attention. Whilst theseltish, scheming polluelan and place-seetcer’ can sea nothin. practical or goul in. it, the stitesmen sand patriots sea plainly thers Is small hope for tho. perpetuily of our. present form of Government, in that essential feature of its being 2 Government ‘of and for the people, if the “spoils” systom is not speedily ellininated, andy return nade to the ald order of Unngs existing priory to tho administration of Andrew Jackson, In {wales to Andrew ‘Jackson, it’ should. be borne In mind that it was through Martin Van Buren’s iniluence that this system was. dntroduced in Naw York, ” "Vo suceessfully introduco this reform, it is freely adinitted, Is no easy task, Many of us, however, have an ablding eonfidence in tho old any ‘Whore there’s 0 will, there's: away’; and, beset as Is the fatiaeay oF the statesman with many difien ttes, if the pyo- ple will ft, those ‘ditticulties will be sur- mounted, ‘Chat this reform should have falled In the hands of the late President was notavatnrprises that, under ordinary elreunt stunces, it shoultl fall even in stronger hands, ig even probable, ‘Lo hold In subor- dination that milghty lugton that beset the Presitential Minslon overy four years,—nay, at att tine,—elamoring for plice as the price of money and influence spent in carrying elections’ that. ouglt-to bo free, Is 8 work—L repent it—that will fail under any ordinary condition of alfatrs, | [t needed Just such a shock: such 1 startling, stunning tragedy, and that, ton, ag tho Jexitimate off spring of thatidebased, nceursed spoils, sys- tent now in vogue, ta rouse the people to action and make this refarm possible. 6 falls now, 0 long farewell to all hopes in this direction, . ‘But with thls practical demonstration of the pernlelons eifeets of that system, the people will rly to the support of thelr prostrate, beloved President, and, should his Ife be spared, as tow seeius probable, It 1s not only tohe hoped, but expected, that this great work ean at least have a siecessful begin: ning. ‘Tint the ordinary polltictan and plice- Huuiter will In every way possible op ne ehonge is fully known and apyrec A the uprising, oft great and patriotic people around a chieftaivof such steriing and noble qualities, himself the yet possible. victin of the evil to be putdown, Lusk if, under such clreumnstances, It Is uxpecting too much that this great reform will suceeud? { Tupoitty the bulles of an nssasin, ernz! though he bo, has made this possible; and, should tho work be aceamplished, or oven successfully begun, the foreo of that bullet will not only reglect Garileld, but hato his mune through all combing time. & dusan W. FEL, oe SPARE THE HORSES, To the Edttor af The Uhicago Tribune: * Ciicaao, duly 12.—The Uiinold Hunwno Bor cloty desires to vall tho nttention of toumstera generally to the increased dunger of bilstors or gala under tho collars of draft animal auriuy warm weathor,” ‘Tho skin of antimnls scalits readily when profuse perspiration takes plave, und whore collars or trace-buckles irrituto or obsfo thia aontding produces abrasions of tho akin and sores. ‘Cho Suciety cannot perinit the de Uf horses thus injured, nud desires to wall aittuntion ta tho fact that all, porsons using oanimuis sa disabled = with upon complaint, be vigorously prosecuted. It hus the arity aN Eh, Tanker, yetorlnary surgeon, for the dtatumont that such injuries cin be relieved, us well as pravented, by Troquent bathing with ether warn or cold water, to clemeu tho ulfeetud party, und afters warils with w strong solution of couon salt, Another important preventive measure Is the tokiug of especial care to clean the collur, bes fore harnesslug, of ull aocumuiations of riod swent, and who tho shoulders of ull swout that muy have dricd Into the tals Hy. hogloctng tia, the danger of walllue t¥ groatly increased, JOIN G, BHORTALL, Presidvat. 5 —— ~ ATTEMPTED ASSASINATION, Conductor Isane Hulland, of the Hock Island Houth Chicayo Dummy, had a narrow cscape from an assnsla's bullet on bis return trip Sone day attcruoon, Jt geomts that one nt bls pasyen> fers, whom ha does not kuow, refused to pay iis Care, upd at Thirtyetirat street ho put bin al tho grain, Attor tho train bad started up, aud while Holund wie passing throuuh the car, Dnitlet enuty crahing through the window, out gone Holland's shoulder and jmbeddn felt ib tha oppastt window casing. Holland is bee kinoing to tee) lttiv, noryous, as this ts the second narrow cacupo" he bus bad from death, he buying been crugued between two cars soe thuo uxo which lntd bim up for several weeks, ‘Pho Molllo Muguircs Movived In Pons By Tai A retrelgpsiaen acei . Information has been received at tho Pinks Wirineracer } cere aa wiito 4 ree lon {11 the Countivs of Vayottc, Westmorcland, and Allegheny, Pennsylvanta. Thoy aro opernth indr tho charier of tho Ancinnt Orden wf tie bornians, the aumo as thoy dd In SehuylkUL and othor anthracite coal counties, The organtsne ton Ia perfect, each scetion having Ita body master, nid tho signs, ote, (otherwise known ng tho goods), aro in tulltian. Choir hist net was in Fayette County on Phitrsiday might of last week, whon Capt. Mauriee Healey, Saperintend? ent of the Dunbar Paritee Company, was shot down by two agsnains white on his way {6 the raflroud depot. People rostding noar hy henrd two stota, and Inimediataly a tee then tho voleo of man begging iat hia life mighs he apared. Bofors help could reach tho tine fortunate mitt two more shots wars fired Inte his body, renutthyg in nis death, Tho intrdecery, wera geen retrenting from tho body, and altorts: finve been trade to capture thot. This has Leen stopped, however, by. notes of warning threatening touth to thoso who continue the puranit of tha murderers. A fooling of terror rolgns in Payette County, owing to tho organi+ zation of the Mollio Muguires thore, and it ty thought the Pinkerton Agency may be ongaged to hunt thom out. Cant. Menlos Intel discharged mon itt dilferant timo, and ft fs thought that hig pruugler wan Inrotaliation for some nol of thig ind, GATH. 7 Hin Reflections upon the Groat Cring Aftor n Week's ‘Kimes New You, July 10—Tho publle mind hag settled down to the vellet that Gartleld ty go. ing to gob well, A few menof weak general faith, and a few others of sftpertor Intellle gence, think he will yet dis In time, The genoral public, without regard to party, ty deeply interested fu the ‘President, and ale though efforts have already been made to disengage his politics from hts personality, fearing that ho will become too formidabtein the future, they are very weakly responded to by tho multitude, ‘The foreign classesara partleulurly enraptured with Garlictd’s bo havior, E Snturday being ninrket-day I went around my neighborhood and found Germans, Irish, and Jows all Garfield men, The Intsh rer garded him something Hke n national prize fighter,—n sort of Meenun or Morrissey, who hind gone Into n innate with’ bullets, Nothing has been read with so much interest. ‘ns his exclamations and cool, jocuss. retlece tions, ‘The well-known barkesper at the Fifth Avenne Hotel forgot business and salt “Phoey neud not put anybody. up mealnst thag man next te. Ho lias got a clear walks over”? My butcher sald: "Ho lind voted’ for IInicock, but had got very much Inter ested In Garfield,” whereupon the butcher's gon, an American, toll tho ‘old gentleman he would *haye one man to vote for next ume. Z ‘The small eirele of men around Conkling, witleh fs now smalter than it hag ever been, and Ldoubt that if In the whole State it com prises 6,000 yoters, and ling no youths in the fuction at all, still clinus to th {dea that Gar field may die, and the Vice-President become w Inrge influence, ‘Thoy are alreatly calling on Arthur to comenp to Albany and’ ints io tho fizht there ngaln to send bael: Conkling, Conkiing’s pertinuelty, in the face of the possible death of Gartield some Itt time in the future, shows that he nist be come mitted Gesperately, tothe hopo of a return to the Senate or his final downfall forever, 1 met Gen, Francis Herron yesterday, who was the commander of a division beforo Vieksburg, and hag always been a Grant ang Conkling an, He has Just returned froin Mexico, and Lasked hh what he thought of things, Said ho: “Un to the Umeof my departure to Moxtco Iwagin faver of Conkling on the ground that it was not wise In Gariield to antagoulze Conkling after he had been a useful quantity Inthe election. Tam notin frvor, on gene eral prineiples. of discriminating among fi publicans. I-did not ike to seo the: Presi- dent appearto take n hand against Conkling, but when Mr. Conkling resigned from the Senate with such utter forgetfulness of the decencies of party responsibility, giving that body away to the Demoernts, Dsnw that hls principles were unsettled, and that he was realy for tho game of ruin. Now, I be Neve ho is going to be benten for the Senate and benten “in pubile life for all ume to come. He will not succeed: If he underinkés to practice Jaw tn the City. ot New York, Business-men will not pt their enses In his hands when he has attend: ed to the business of the Government so” falsely ns to leave his seat becattse he was enraged. In the milltary work of the coun; try, fn whiole almostall’ tha young men of tha country were engaged, they had freanent renson' to feel oppresaed by thelr superiors or by the Government itsolf, But the penalty for Jeaving one’s command, however unjust ly ha had’ been dealt with, was to be shot: 3 to Gen, Garfield,” sal Gen. Herron, " hie * lias completely redeemed himself from the susplclons of weakness. of pitrnore. Ms good, gaine quality is one’ that can bonds ‘Ale inired: in all niles and all countries, though Mr, Conkiing’s friends are holding out, they WIL be pressed more and more to the’ wall, Indeed,” sald Gen, ‘Herron, OT cure very Httle at present how Conkling cone niues to flaht, J think twill be w good thing for him to grow more and: moro ob- stinnte, so that he will be more ‘thoroughly pulverized, In resuscitation,” WHEAT IN CALIFORNIA. Anarveat Begun in tho San Joaquin Vale Jey—Good Quality and a. Keducod » ¥ileld. , . Stockton (Cat,) Indenendent, July." : Tho work of harvesting the whent crop fs now Sn full binst throughout tho entire ex tont of San Joaquin Valley. It $s- conceded thnt the yleld will fall far short of that ot: Inst year. “A partial recompense for the dl. ilntshed production, however, fs found tn the faet that the grain generally ts of excel- lent quality, In some eases extra labor will be required to clean dt properly for the mate kot, ns many extensive elds aro “volun toer” and foul. On. heavy, blacte’ land tho crop If very light, and from Jarge areas ot that kind of soll no wheat will be gathered. An this ns in provious harvests ‘the effects of diferent methods of culture avo’ distinctly marked. Farmers lave td" suftclent exe perlunco to know that thorough tihuze ae aures the greatest reward, “Lhe suminct fallowing “iuthod, whieh In” years” past was regurded by many as a doubttul export: ment, fs coming Into general favor, us it has heen universally found to be more profitable nt the outcome, In localitles comparatively sheltered from the drying and: extutistiny effects of strong wind currents, and where tho land hnd been summer fallowed and the soll well pulverized, an avernge yield will ba | obtained, but the shortage will be great where: (Hluge ins been slovenly nd tha wiids lays had full sweep, ‘Tho harvest tity year will probably be mutch shorter that usnal, not merely because there 1s loss gralit to be gathered, but on acceunt of the wheat being earl all ripo at the same time, Herato, fore there have been diiferences of weeks 1: the thnes of grain Hpent gli clffurent luenlls tes, but this season the hight uf tho liarvest hurry fs shaultaneous In the nortionn am southern extrames of. San Jonquin Valleys Machinery fs now operating on felds In Sau Joaquin County, the Mussel Slough coun try, Stanislaus, on the Merced plains, as well in Fresno and, ‘Tulare x as ‘The ftaet that there isn Inrge . Increase in the quantity of harvesting machinery ny usu Will Hkewlso prove it mains of short ing the hurvest work, and at the furthest on lyn fow. weeks will ulapse Ueforo every bushel of wheat is gnfely stored jn the gran, ary, ‘Ihe yiokd onthe west sitle ‘of the San Joaquin, partloularty'in the nelghborhoud of Grayson’ and further south, fs, fortunately nu finprovement upon. thot experienced the farmers for saveral years past. ‘Thus (at the weather has been exceedingly favorable for work In the flulds, ‘There ts an agreed, dla absence af the siltriness and Intense heat frequently experienced durlug the linryest season, ‘Tho chief dificulty, or suther 2 8 yoru loss encountered, fs the’ tendency of al grin to shell out! and fall to the grown fore it can bo gathered. ‘Tho hands of wheat ara generally well developed, ibe, grains plump, full, and uniformly ripe, au '¢ tis stated that mich of ff has bow thrashed out by the late trade winds and toxt bayone - recovery, unless It may serve ng sued for & volunteer crop next. year,” Foreign: buyers who are casting thelr eyes over wheat-pror | ducing countries iy search of choles qualllys WIL ind the gilf-edyud article in Callforntss: more particularly th sun Sonquly Valleys this season, ed {If You Aro sick, Read the Kidnoy>Wort advertisement in anol colin ane itwill oxplaliy ta you the tone mothe of wotrlag woll, Kidneys Wort will a +4 ou more doctar’a bills (ban any other snodlcie nown, ‘Acting with .specitio energy On Kidney and livor, it cures: tho: worst ee causodg by thoirilerangemant. Uso Jt at un In dry and quid form, ' Elther is equal is Hotent, the liquid fs the easiost, but t the moat coonomical.—Inertur, ——_— Moraford’s Acid Phasphate in Debilitye Horsford's Acid Phosphate gives vigor where ore has boon debility, and ronewod sirens! Where there hug beon"exbaustion, _ is