Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1881, Page 4

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Raomg at3 p.m. SOCIETY MEETINGS, SELABI GRAND LODGE ‘A. SCOTTISH HITE MASON! thefiflbeytee. Ny ordor ut thus, if eo. 11 M 5 ‘. i J i> GOODALE, Gt. Bos. ASHLAR LODGE, bar F&A. Monegninr menting Tuesday ovoning, duly i9. "Ail membors ara teqnesied to attond, aX Injportant husmoas will be transacted. (IL CIANE, Secretary. TUESDAY, JULY 19, . 1881. ‘Nie acreage yield of potatoca In the Unit- wil States this year ty 2 per cont greater than last year. In Missouri tho Inerease fs 6 per cent, and in New York and Michigan & per cent. Oblo shows 1 decrease of 8 per cent. ‘The erop Is reportert f be In splendid condl- tlon in nenrly every sectlor of the country. "The aerenge of tobieco is Iargcly in -oxcess of last year,—particularly In Maryland, Vir- ainia, oud Kentucky. ‘The condition of the crop is reported to bo mitch better than nt Uns time Inst yenrs Pee Srartsrics collected and collated by the Hamburg (Germany) police show that 74,053 emigrants left that port between the Ist of January and the wth of Junoof thts year. ‘This Is twieo the number which -feft| Nam- burg in the corresponding, périod of the year! after the Franco-Gernian war, and moro than’, double the number (5,820) In the ‘corre- sponding period of Inst: Year. ‘The total for Inst year was buly 109,190, Ib 3’, csfimatod thut Germany ‘will los¢ by emigration this yearat lenst 250,000 of her subjects. ———— Tue English ‘holders of ‘Turkish bonds ure getting inensy. ‘Ata-mecting of -these gentlemen held fn London ‘yesterday it was determined to send Mr. Robert. Vourke, the .Gudoer Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the last Government, to Constantinople to nt range tho Turkish debt inthe interest of the bondholters, Onocun now. see why Lord Benconsfleld wns’ so popular among the money-thangers, and why Mr. Gindstone 1s so hated fn Pondon soclety, A spirited Eastern policy would bo 9 godsend to the English holders of the Slok Man’s notes. =— ‘ Tin Lontton Standard, the organ’ of Ene khsh Conservatives, thinks iat the robbery on the Rock Estland : train Friday night proves that American cars are specially nade to invile sel outrages, and-thinks tho affair also proves that tho compartment carriages of the English ratlways aro not so bad nfler all, a3 only one compartinent could be robbed before resistance could be organized, and“ wholesale ral would bo impossible. ‘The Standard fs easily comforted.» 1t should re- membor that there were twelve persons ene waged.in the Rock Istand robbery, | Theso twelve persons, acting ori tha plan of Lefroy, coull rob twetvg compartmentcarrlages of an English raflway and. ki the accupants with intel more caso Han all taxother could rab 2a Amerfenn: expresy, care, Evidently ihe Standard has not correct Information about, the Rock Island robbery, Is eritielsin ts avetl on incorréct Information, It should wall, ‘Tue extremely sensible conduct attributed to Vice-President Arthur jn connection with the recont break {1 the so-called, Stalwart’? ranks at Albany Is now’ disputed by sama of Nis atleged friends, 10 itis aimorkof friond- sitp to deeinre thata man persists In weak and foolish action nflor’ ie ts eouvinced of _ the error of it, then the Vice-President has many auch testimanials of esteem -from his lato associates, Whether he has resolyed to teave the slnklng slip or not, ho might well ito so,. There !s no honor to bo gained by wolng down with thé rals to bo bait for the dishes, Conk has plainly resolved upon Nesperate measures, He stands In- the att tude of u pirate ehtol with his pistol polnted at the powder mngazino, and Is very litle, If at all concerned by the elreumstance that Ala most futlmato frionds pre holding’ down “the hatchway, | Is message to his enemies tv thot it thoy will not éurrender to hin he wilt blow himself up. Dark and bloody as this threat mny appear to he, we do pot im ugine that IL will alow sufics to repel boar, erg. If Conic aliult carry it into execution we shold think It would. be extremely cons venlent for the Vicc-Préaldont at that mo- hist to be Tocuns tenens,~-wo to: speak, up a ee, 5 le oo, Gs . _ Tunre ts something queer ‘about the pub. Ieation pf u hulf-uage obituary and blograph- Iv@l natica of the late Roscay Conkling in his ex-Hepublican Chicago organ, : 1 appears to. have been written by sume friend of the de- consed In “Usled nearly a month age. I¢- would lave beun interesting ut that tlio, but thg subject has bucouoatale, Did the organ decting to publlah without pay, and has alt: : this‘precious time been consumed in huge eling about the price? ete aes ee ‘Tho writer tlalms to, nyssess (ho gift of proptigcy,- To or phe. says Ae or: she “proe Wetod: nineteen years ago: that Avralam” Linotin would, Betory twanty years, ‘be tee sarded as “the savior of hls oountry,’? aud he arene adds: To-day fam titled with p slme War contictlon regarding Roscoe Conkling”t Ve or she aduits that the prediction ebout . the aplrit of the partisan and) th Lincoln was " rather bold,” and itis evident heorshefs becoming more cautions as a. prophet, since ho or she omits to fix the tlne when Conkling Is to bo régarded ns tho saylor of Ils country.” Indeed, the prophesy stands alone like a montment without any Inserlption to oxptaln the renson, of its erec- thon, ‘The remainder of the communication consists of such tender and pathetic memo- ries as nro usually indulged by friends of 0 grent man after his pollticat. or yhysical | death. The writer recalls tha close Tutimacy of Ils or her rélattons to the loved and lost with that freedom which fs pormissibte ntter tho silver thread lias beon loosed and: the golden bowl broken, ‘He or slic saya: Thave scon Mr; Conkling undor many cireum~ stances, In public and in private, in the glare of midday contraverry, and In tho quict of studi+ ous retirement. Ihave seen him when diss) vintmont abd defeat cast mon down, and {a tho ‘ull thish of triumph, when lesser ren -lorw thelt heads, but nover when ho forfeited reanect a foeed ane with disnppointment at his words pearing. - A . Were the great man atill living wo might modestly hint that he had “tinged one with Msappolntmentat his words of bearing” now ond then. But regntd for the tacorated feel- {ngs of tho biographer forbida,” We rentlzo that to the bereaved, In the language of Holy Writs “Tho grasshopper shall bea burdten, and desire stfall fail, hacnuse man gocth to his tong home, and the mourners go about the streets.” Solaht _ One of the most algnal Ilusttattons of the enthusiasm which Mr. Conkling's presence in Utlen‘used tv evoke occurred only afew «ays bofore the date 6f the biography. 1 Is related by ono: Proctét: “Frients!" ox claimed the indignant aan In reply lo the query whether Conkling had friends, and his liohest. comtfonance was Ilumined with a. fash of comet-like radianee: “ Why, he came down to Utlea the other night, striving in the evening and feaving {nthe morning, No one knew of his Intended coming, for Conk- Ing hates displays, and alyvays trics to avold: them; but if the people of Uttea had known he was coming there would have heen sttch 0. reception here as Was never, seen in this city before? p Ei When this affecting episode In the career gt Conkling was related there was scarcely a ry cye In the main street of Utica, whore Mr. Proctor's reception would have vceurred it. unfortunately It had not been prevented by the extreme modesty of the subject of it, ‘The episode is all the more touching for hav ing occurred In the public street among com: mon people, where, n3 ths biogmphy states, shlopkeupers, ‘bankers, lawyers, butchers, schoolteachers, and x numbor of . others whose occupations could not be learned,” -wore assembled, *It is deeply tu be regretted that the names and occupations of these “others” coull not bo .preserved. ‘They ought to bo sought out and garnered in an Imperishable record, But wo aro so over- coine by our feelings that o turther reference fo these pathetlo reminiscences must be post- pone until human nature is In a sterner mood, ‘Tho sex of the author of this tender ant touching biographical work In the 1-0. Is of couréo unknown. ‘Tho Initials, “Gs A. P.y? afford no claw on the subject Buta little yiclons fling at Mrs, Conkling tends to'show that Gh A, P2718 n woman, ees THE SPOILS SYSTEM AND THE, CURE, Tho English, who have passed through the Irlals of a changeable Civil Service, and havo had thelr own experience with the evils incl- dent theretu, know, how 'to estimate the dangers of a aystem In which place'is sub- Jeet to Influence, greed, and whiin, Ten years ago Mr, Gladstone, thén: as now'l’rime Min- ister, congratulated ‘his people ‘upon: the thoroughness of the reform that had been worked out in the Civil Serviceot Great Brit- ain, ‘We have been enabled,” he said ina specohtelivered at Greenwich, ‘to removo ‘tho barrlers of nomination, patronage, ‘job- bing, favoritism in whatoyor form, and every man belonging to the people of England, if he so plunses to fit his chitdren - for the posl- tlon of competing for places In the public service, may do It entirely irrespective of tho question what ts. hls condition In Ife or the amount of menns with which Ne may hap “pen to be or not to bo blessea,’”. ‘Ihe best aim of politics In this country is to placo the American Civil Service in sucha shape that the great army of subordinates, once drilled in the service, may be sure of keeping their places without regard to their political bins ond unaifected by any change In partlus, English thinkors fully recognize the Importanco of thin reforni to American institutions, and Guitenu’s ‘attempt on the Presidént’s life, growing direetly oul of the vielous: spotls system which provails,’ is looked tion o¥ 9 turnlng-polnt Inthe carcer of tho Republic. In an article on this sub- ject on the.day following the anniversary of American Independence, the Loudun Ziace spys: ; ete Flaco-secking has always bean th at. on Amoricnn poluient ite, itbas Peed Sctoate parsions, It hns stained mon ‘whose names ongat to bave been pure. The world now sec In th nnitnistukable way fo whut longtos this vomblnation of party aulmosity and cuptdlty- 8 gambler In- Oneinny urge wepketninded non of the stamp of Guiteau, jt ié wise to inquire carefully whether he had necompllccs or acecasorios ih hin erime, But It fa not loss dorirabie ta con. sider whether thespractice of. rewarding Civile fern ee ad she hale fr of {a mirtly responalbile fur this trayedy. will bu Ne: OVP tor Tacuy apie doing wilsehtet 4f tho Nation takes to benrt this great eatanity, anu resolves thit it shall not be the senpin ate of taatvantents, | Yoxterday way Independonces Day, and ft passed off with fow of tho usual rejolcinies, which would bave beon tn- seomly whilo te President Iny in-a critical state, Our hope ts that'when the’ noxt Fourth of duly comes ronnit there inay he nooceasion for sorrow, Wut the contmry. Nuch orinics a8 Gulteau's sometines iudirectly produce rood ttle thought of by thelr anthors, If the lesson, which so many. American, Journals are on: forcing bp taken to heart-i¢ the spirit of ‘face Yon and green whieb ure the besotting vicos of Awertcan politics be somewhat abated—Presis dent Gurticid will nat have suffered In vain. Mt {s to be hoped that the shock of the as- snult on the resident and his subsequent aiferings, still far from velng nt an ond, have not been felt less In this country than in Engtond, where the signiflentico of: the event is clearly understood, Tha present spolls system has prevailed at lenat fitty yoars, for It was in 1853 that Senator Marcy first gave: public utterance to the, political motto whioh has ‘slued hocome Infarmous— Ma: To the victor belong the spolts of tho enemy,” But the evil of tis pernicious doctrine has vastly: increasod since Marcy's thne, for that gentloman added afterwards; “But. 1 never sald that’ the victor should plunder fis own camp,” - It 13 precisely this state of this, however, into which the spoils system) has degenomted, It has como fo stich:a:pnss that, though the same party -tematn the victor, the ‘working faction de- mands all the spolls, Even under astrict construction of Murcy’s aphorism, something like a’ permanent: Clylt Service could haya been established by the Republican party during ita twenty years’. possession of power, had that beon ths, tendency of the: time, The offlees:: might have been kept among Republicans, and ‘still the Incumbents retuned during, good behavior aud efllclent servicn, But as factions have sprung wp changes have: been demanded, As new Jeaders came ta the front there word new office-brokers to be consulted. : It jus not d}ways been the purpose te turn off good wep, but the demand for places for how ap? plicante-rthe workers and strikers -for the, sotlye politiclaus of the various campaliqus— Ins brought about just that rebult. It has been Iuipassible to provide for the new of- ficeseekors without displacing the old, ‘Thus have tho polltlcians: despolled thelr own campy, weakenlng thelr party and ou- coumging crecd and passion which have at Inst assumed a murderous shape, There witl never ba t more favorabic tle (han the sussion of Congress will offer next winter for Introducing the rofernt {nto our Civil Service which candid men of all parties have adinilted to be necessary during the pust tun years, ‘Che two parties will te very ovenly divided In both Honges, and It will re- mitre the codperation of leading men of both silos to command a majority; for there are factions in both parties which will resist av abandonment of the spoils aystem to tha very lust. Tho .honors of the reform may be pretty equatly shared, Lf Prostdent Garfield survive, any recommendation from him in this inattar will appeal to the Democrats with nearly as muth force ns ty tho Republicans. SIs presont, condition Is that of martyrdom ton vicious system,” Lis words on the stb- Ject of Clyil-Sorvico reform must command a respeetttl attention from all who lave awatched his sufferings. Fortunately, ho has already Indlented the firat step to be taken In the direction of reform—viz.: tow fixing 8 tenure during good behavior of the minor and. subordinate places in the pubile serviee. There can bono question as to the authority of Congress to pass sucha law. It will be In no“senso an interference with the constitutional lodgment of the nppolnting power} but {twill go far in itself to under- ming-and destroy the spoils system, Mr. Conkling woult not have been so pertlna- clotis in tls efforts to control the nppolnt- ment of Collector of Now York if the clanga in that position would have left undisturbed the 2,00 employds In tha’ Cistom-Honse. It fy probable that he would'still have preferred to raward.n falthtul honehman ke Smythe sathor than havea man ike Judge Robert- sont recelye the pinces but the failure to car- ry his point would not then havo prompted’ Ulm to resign. his seat fu the Sennte and In- nugurate n war upon the Nepudlican party, Hewould not hayeeriad aloud about “hutnll- fation” and: “insult,” nor stirred up odis- senston Natfoual in its proportions over a singte otiice loonl to New York, The first Toquistt of reform {sto assure the working departments b€ the Government against the ‘| influences of personnal, factional, or partisan preferences and prejudices, Whenever thts shall, have been done, the occupation of tho | offlee-broker will’ ba gone, and the Guiteans of thespoils system will no fonger be tempted to murderous assaults. eS) THE PERILS OF ‘A MEROANTILE LIFE. . The wager of the life-Insurance agent that 10 ber cent of. the wholesale merchnnts doing business In tlils clty in’ 1870 have failed, sus- pended, or compromised, and settled tn the afirmative by R. G. Dan & Co.’s commercial ogeney, furnishes n significant commentary ‘on tho perils of trade. As tho Trivene has alrendy satu, it gocs-far ly stistatn Gen, Dear- born’s esthuate of forty years ago, that no more ‘than 3 ‘per cent of tho ‘Individuals «| who embark In trade end life with suceuss, We presume by stiecess 13: meant unbroken solvoncy.during the business experience of the inerehant, and final accumulation of a- competence. Tho mereantile ranks in tho United Stntes are full of instances of indl-- yidual merchants and firms who lave settled or compromised with thelr creditors severnt tines, and finally succceded,—sueceeded at the exponse of their creditors. But this ts not the suédess intended hy Creu. Dearborn, ‘The proposition or wager. of the life- Insurance agent. and the statistical” in- formation it lias educed. tend: to confifin the,-vority of the coinmon remark. -that in.:trade not one in & hunilred succeeds, Let us suppose that. three :tnerchants ;In a hundred so conduct their business ‘ns never to nsk thelr creditors for'a fayor, never. to “settle” for 0 or SS cants, but always pay “‘qlollar for dollar,” and! come otit inthe end’ rich,’ This is strictly legitimate success. It would be very Interesting to learn what be- comes of the other ninety-seven merchants. Mast‘of: them ‘xo down alter a fow years, never again to emerge above the surface of commercial aifalrs, ‘Chey live on shlnrles, cuter the ranks of the speculative: vtnss, ov} Lecome genteel paupers. Hut «doubtless |. seven nt least of the nineiy-sevon “ compro- mise” and’ “‘sottio’” themselves ovey the bronkers, , and . finnlly achtove ‘sitcecss. So. that. of the ten successful mere chants ‘ont of a hundred, those,” who’ succeed at the uxpense of thelr eroditors are 28 .sevou-to threo of those who win success by the highest degreo of mercantile merit, With ninety utter failures, seven snecesses which inyolve the misfortune or wreck of others, sunt only threo untarnished sitecesses ing hundred, tho ambition to enter morean- tlle lifo Is simply unaccountuble, Of course tho siiall percentage of successful merohants have to entenlate upon the failures whielt will inevitably occur, “‘Dhoy must ‘discount. the lossas thoy aresure to Incir through these falluives,—provide for: them ‘by Increasing the otherwise sufficient profit of ench trans- action. In this way the pubic must pay the Joss of ench failure,. In-other words, the con- sinner Js taxed to pny the oxponse of ninety complete: fallures and seven partlal fallures in’ avery Wtindred nercantile ; experl- ments, ‘This expense nggregntes scores of millions ‘of ‘dollars = in* this country alone every year. The sim of losses by the falluro of merchants {n good seasons ls very Jarge, and in. sensons of commercial depres- slon It Is vast. It is evident that ninety- seven in every hundred merchants mistake their avocation, “Only three’ in a ‘hundred ave exnetly filted for the business they un- dortake, ' ‘They tire thé ‘iittest’? who sur-| vive by virtue! of ability and Integrity; tho oven who stirvive by levying. contributions on thelr oreditors cannot be regarded asthe “ fittest’? according 1o the Darwinlan theory, Of the ninety.who, go down without even ao struggle to “settle” or “compromiso,” they anewer to’ the received definition of dirt— S*inuttor out of place,’ : ‘gh : Outof this investigation the quustion loge ically springs; “1s not’ failing In: businoss made too ensy Iu'this country ?* If “com- promises,” “‘rottlements,” and ‘faltures” carry with thom so disgrace, {t is but natural that thousands should’tuko tho risk of them in. .the contest for tho: grent prizes which are the rewart of allo ovss, The - distingtion . in. the - public mind between the three morchants in & hun- drvd who succead logitImately and the suven who succead by ‘questionable *campro- mises";'or “settlements? is’ very: alight, Ani too many of the ninoty who fall utterly rotire with large sums of money which~be- long honestly to thelr oroditors,: Doub Jeés the Ife-Insurance agent, In depicting the portlls of mercantile vontures, urged the pro- priety of the merchant fortifying hinedlt malnst disaster by insuring his Ife for, the mefit of his family, This is a legitimate argument when addressed to the morchant in solyont condition, but the Ifefusurance: agent's Intimate acqualutance with theshaky finances of uing-tenths of. the .commercta) community teaches him that an cqual. pro- portion of the money he recelvesin premiums comes not front’ the merchant’ bpt’ from the merchant's predifors, wha. will_soon’ be called upon, 9 the natural course of events, to consent to a‘compoultion’ of his .clatin, while the shaky merchant will: retire with 9 pald-up policy of Snsyrance In favor of bis family, Jt is quite plain’ that in nine cases out of ten the merchant who carries sarge polley of Jnaurance on his life actually pays for it out of his creditors’, instead of hisown, money, ‘To be surg, tt may he sald that the tie merchants hope and expegt to sneveed as well ns tha one, Butts notif, tho duty of tho mereliant whb owes Inne sutvs of money to tink more of providing thins for tho payment of hfs imutertinte debts than of Iny- Ing up asupport for himself and family in tho event of fallure? Some distance vught tonttach to failiiro tn businest—that ix to to say, disgrace ehough to maké"the mer- eliant eantious ant ;economical, With a viow not to his awh protéction fu the event of falls tire, bitt te the ptoteetion of his erétlitors and his own reputation ga or ges Nalane, in his story of Cresar I}trottenu, draws a graphic pleture of tho shame ant disgraeo of commercial tailures-in Franco. The strugrles of puor Birodent ta gvort tho disasters which the siate of his business fore- shadowed were desperate, and hts horror of. the disgrace in which ho knew failure would | Involve himself nnd family was pitiable to contemplate, | {ls ‘efforts to recover his lost honor, to Nft himgolf from the Blough of bankruntey, to" phy’ the debts ‘from which he had been legally reluived sn'ordor that ho might once mors boldly face’ his olt bust nesscomrndes of the Exchange, were herole., They. cost him hisslife, but Nb" died a free innn,—freo from thé feast talnt’of dishonor. It would bo well not only for boys about to embark in mercantile ventures, but for mer- chants In the heat of great enterptises, to read the story of:Ceesar Birotteau, , THE FUND YOR MBS, GARFIELD. ~ Since the President his becn belleved to belna fair way for recovery some of the Miss Naneys of the press have bogun to aqtestion the propristy of tendering to Mrs. Garfeld the fund whieh has beon raised: fur her, and Intimnte.that the Prosident cannot. pertnit his wife to necept such a fund with- out subjecting himself to an embarrassing obligation tq the bubseribers. 1 strikes us that this vlow of-the ense is exlromoly tinr- row, ‘It{s certainly Insulting to the Amer- fean people and suspicious of tha integrity, nnd strengthof American institutions, so far ag it intimates that no public testimonial can be projected in this country without o solfish purpose, nor received without ineurring A sense of, indiyidunl! obligation to its projectors, “The fact {s, that the Qnar- fiekt testimonial fund was started. ont the greater portion of the subscriptions mnda ata time wien the recovery of tho President wns -regnrded as next.to Impossible. Cer- talnly the people who gave In tholr subserlp- tlons at such a. time could not be suspected of selfish motives. There could ‘be no per- sonal advantage to subsoribers if the Pres- Ident -were ‘to die; and men who donated money-thus nnselfishly ought to be relluved of nll suspicion ns to base intentions for the future. Bea ale ‘The: endowment of Mrs. Garlield with a fund for her future support will be no more improper under, the clreumstances than was the donation of 8 quarter of million dollars to Gen, Grant afew months ago. The chances tire that President Garfield, If he shall live, will go outof. the oftice of President « poor man. Ile. is the kid of man to.spond all the Income of the ofiice. He has no private fortune, ‘The extraordinary. oxpenses of © long Mlness, attended by unusual efforts to ald hls recovery and insure hfs comfort, will of Itself consumo, tho remaindor of: his first year’s slary. LtIs doubtful whether he will ever he physically n strong man again, Why should nota number of the wealthy men ol the coyntry, in the nbsenoe of a provision by law for the pensioning of Presidents, make up some adequate protection for tho future of Garfleld’s family * Thora has been but ona President bofors him who has suifered In the same way. Shall it be said that thy Anterfean peopla iro so sordid and Intriguing In their naturo ‘that no recognition of merit or misfortune can bo nindo in tis country excopt upon thy pasts of yield pro qua ? We venture tha assertion that not one of the newspapers Which are now questioning the propriety of “giving to Mrs. Garfield the find whitch hing! been ralsed for hor would dara to plek ont, the’ name of a sligle snb- seriber to that funit- nnd denonnes hin as governed by a basé consiteration of possibly favors In tho future, An Individual applica- flonof such asuspiclon would be justly re-, garded ag an: Infamous assault, Yet the ine. timation of Impropriety Is equally an assntt upon nll the subserlbers, and, incidentally, an agpersion upon the President hhnsotf, 1, Mrs, Gartielt shall vo the reeiplontot tho” fund In question, wo Kaye too high a regard, for the American, cnarnctor to believe thata ‘alnglo one of the gontlemen who volunteered contributions thereto will: aver In any way, refer lo the ninttoi’; and, if sucha casa should o¢etr, the President neod only look back to the perfod when he lay at the potut of denth Inthe sweltering ‘heat of Washington—tho vietim of .avieiotis systom—to feel that he has fully earned any immunity from fulure: want whieh that ‘fund may guarantee to his family, “THE NEW ULM TORNADO). The fenrful tornado which swept through tho little Town of New Ulm, in Minnesota, on Saturday last, Ike a besom of destructiqn, recalls siuflar calanitles which, occurred ut Comanche, 1n,, Rome years ago, and in Mis- -sourd last yent, “Lhe “ propertivs,” if wamnay. use that dramatie tern, of tho hurrieino wore the ‘same,—a- binck, swiftly-whitling cloud aiddenly emerging froin the clear sky. ike an apparition and turning tho brightness of ‘lay simoat into the darkness of night; rushing forward .with terrific speod and tly tanie force ant sweeping averything before its raging and roaring Iike o wild benst;‘car= rylng along with Sf and whirling ‘about liv tg | coreall kinds of.débris which It has torn, from the grount! and dragged Into Its Inky: funnels vivid Hehtnings flashing In its binek whirls, nnd deafening thunder adiling its ter ror to the noise of the storm’ L With sudh a, combination of the terrible forecs of Nature let loose itis little wonder that the most superstitions of the people nt New Vim thought that the Last; Day was at jhantl. Darkness, . (hinder. and. Nghtning, fire and, destruction’ of, every hand} : Tho mind can hardly concolye any additional terrors that would attend ‘the final dissolution of the Worlds: 0 wean ea w Bp nee Tho havoc caused -by these hurricanes, css. peolally the completeness of the destruction, is somethin which no oné can comprehond. who “has ‘not witnessed tho score of ruin’ after the hurricang has passed, > Iss not only a§ If a torrtbld orto had begn expended, but as it there were 8 demoniac fury whlely had urged on. tho, hurricane to tte work at destruction. Nothing escapes its: rage, , It asealls and deniolishes éverything in its path: way, not alone lage bulldings, which aro prominent objects of attack; but little things thas would seam tod .Insignilicent to be no- tleed.’."The same force that attacks and do- stroys a great churth aoizes a book, tears out {te leaves. and (wists up ite covers ‘IIke a corkecrow, plucks ‘fhe’ fenthers fronj.a fowl, or whirls some littld: article of furniture for mnlles through the gjr'and then dlgtybutey it pleconieal in ‘every, direction, and. sx Its cor Centric moods whit}y a ‘house round ao J It, tageg: anvther point -of. the’ coyipass. 0 gen plano upon ir yoyagdand: alte it down right slde'dp, ih some. matshy spas whore ft walts for {ts-owner, as: 1 nothing had happened to tt, The foren ofthese fear fuPmonstere fa asxbaid to comprehend, as thelr effects and Skyres’ give little Idea of thelr griiding, crushing, and demoljshing power, The bighess hurricane, winda ob-, served on the British coast reached @ velootty wostern Railway Company that. ghorry,{s also 188i—TWELVE PAGES. of 130 miles por hour, while thoso abserved i wnon the const of Florida have attained a velocity of elahty-five miles an hour, The averaga velocity, however, Is usmlly estl- mated al 100 feet per second, or w Mitte over a mite In a tntnute, or sixty cight mites nid n fraction tn: an hour A wind traveling at this fearful pace has a pressure of 22,0 pounds to, the squaro inch, ‘This mighty englie of destructton .nushes through. the ‘atratthe rate of more than amile ina minute, striking with the terrific force of nearly twenty-three pounds to the square foot. ‘Tromentlons as thls force is, oceastoned by the withdrawal of pressure from n part of the colutnn, what would It ba {f thera were nromplele vacuutn'nnd the nurrleane, were rushing tnto that emptiness which Naturerabhors at the rate of 1,000 feat ver secon, or over a thousand miles per hour? Suéh nforee ng this, adding to the pressure of Its horizontal mbtion. its rotary motion, lifting tp everytlitay from the earth and tearing’ It to -plecos, would crumble everything, even the heaviest. materials, Into {inpalpable vowder. ‘The tornade at New ‘Ulni seoms to have been destitute of none of the fontures witch havo been observed uf others,’ It lina. been aotlced that after the first’ destruction there. comes a ut, but In the course. of fromm ; five minutes to five hours: tho wind bursts with additional force from an opposit: direction, ‘This whs the casunt Now Ulm.’ The frst storm came from the west and tasted nbout fifteon minutes, Then there was a short lull, and while the victims were congratulating themselves that the storm was over, anothor from the east fell upon them, and whit little the first had spared Was swept away by the second, ‘There isn sentimental side to this dread- ful calamity. ‘This {s the second time the people of “New Ulm have been :visited .by tornadoes. They nre mostly poor people, and fn.almost'a second of tine everything they had on‘earth lias been: swent away from them. Tho logs of nlf a, million of dollars to them-menns what millions upon. millions would mean In Chicngo, for instance, Surely: they deserve the sympathy and assistance of nll charitnbly-disposed. persons, the more 50 that they ore a hard-working, industrious people, —_—_—_—_———— “Gath” was talking the- other day swith sonia Wall atreet ancculntors, and thue reports ‘what thoy safd about Keone and Goulds, The converantion thon turned to the principal operators. One gentleman aseorted that in tho your 1850 Keene hid made $11,000,000, ** Well,” suld the broker, "he had gront losses that year, tou, My Judymont ts that Keene 14 worth abou. 000,000 nt present, DBofore ho lett Catifornin, uceurdiig to bis uccount,:whioh he sbowud at the thine, he had whout 3,600,000, If 1 am core reat {ums Judginent,. therefore, bo has just nbou eaubles his fortunu since he came to the ist; five or wix years nga” . * How much iaonoy isGould worth?” asked 0 persoh present. . “Gould,” said Col, Logan, “cannot bo worth Joss thins $70,000,000, Ht 1s the moet reinarkuble mun that bas ever beon seen in Wail street, not oxcopting Commiorure Vanderbilt.’ ts follar- ing Is so romarkable.” You soo, thoy not only tuke hig cue throuxbout tho vthor States of tho Union, but ho can ralse nouoy in New York by the millions. {fe uns made money for so many ‘man that‘thore ts contidenue fn olm such ns to Iuador in Wall atreot hus got. ‘This talk about his over being fereed to tho wall I regurd ns ab- aurd. Aman of hig breadth of ylew bra not fort himself nakeil on auy side, As fae as these cats aut logs are concerned,” sald tho broker, “whieh bave been foreed wp to ith extravagine clog. E don't bel there would bo nny sale for them at nll if In this country. [thus been a..comimon thing hore to talte sume old Southern rallrond, put a million of monoy intoit, and then stock and pond it up to alx'or soven millions, and hold |t up to that feure inthe quothtions, It won't survive a spell of sharp weather.’ ‘ Y a : ‘Tin: bieyele riders: In New York have minde a test ensons to thelr right to whea) In Contral Park. ‘Tho Martford Courant says: © Choosing a carringe-drive it-.the upper end of tho park, they wheeled aay for sever! pours hofore tha patrolman woud seo them and pluco thom undorarrest. But at last thelr longings ‘Awore‘rowarddd: iy: belng locked-up, thoy profor-* ring ineroeatf to furnishing bail, - Lhoy aro bucked hy the bRycle Munnficturors, tho clubs of the elty, and by tho: organization of the toyelists known as the Longue of American Wheelmen,. ‘Tho'casé ts boing beard by n rof- oree and attracts crowds ‘of Interested spoctn- tors.’ Parties whose borges bave beon frizht- ‘oned nt any time by:their mocbunteal rivals, itostlfy for: tho Purk. Commissioners, and then havo to Undergo ‘sharp ‘cross-quostioning as to ithe number of horses (rightened, by whoeltinre rows, Unitned hears, steam-enrs, bands of music, “and other things, whivh oceasion dozons of rine aways dally, Thariders say that vlty horses "have become go sod to sevliuy bioyclus that thoy evtld ride from one cnd of Fifth avenua to the Lother without fluding a horse that wonld take sany notice of thom, It looks as if in time the park wilt bo open to“the whcelmon undor cor- taln restrictions” ‘+ 7’ . P i a ——_—— " |. ‘ins New York Eventig Poat says of the omlgrntion clauses of the Irish Land bills Z From the time of Bliznboth down, the Iden’ that tho grentest obslucle tothe peace ahd pros: pority of Ireland was the presence on hor soll of tho native Trish pep tion hos bad a firm hold on tho English mind,» itwas the animating Idea of King dunes’ Piautatfons and af tho Crom walthin Scttlement, and has moro or joss tall: enced nenrly all recent: Lnglish opinion aban Irish troubles. Lord Syndhurst’s desiro that tho ialand could bo lald tinder water for twenty> . fone hours was simply a grotharsie exprossion of it. Te mut be ndinitred, too, that ities been tried OMA great scale, ‘The coration tron [roland alnee 1610 fs probably, all thiuge considered, the xrcatest oxolus which hag taken placo iu the woritl sinew the wrent movements of popniition which overthrew the Rowan Enipire, ‘Of tho galn to thorso who hate emigrated there ts uo question. But of. the ‘gain to thé remaining ypulation of: the island there is. muoh.rearon for doubt, The emigninty have been for tha most part hardy, ‘energetic, and onterpriviu und thrifty, und goneratiy in tho prime of jife, and tholr steady outilow ‘uring the ‘Inst forty yours eannov: but have lowered ‘the average power ‘both mental and physical, of theae who ave stuid at bone, Mordover the omg Hon docs not ecom to Lave hud the smatlost “otfont, in spite of the senlu on which it tne hoes tried, to ahealn ah ine Jeiah discontent, or in reas onclling the bulk ut the populution to the ex- isting pollttaat order, 3: 01+ ne THE Sar Francisco Chronicle ta remindat that about sixty yours ugu two,roynl. ancestors of Kelakatn also visited London, and, both died thpre, belug sont back to Honoltit In lord cute i fing, and after death treated with truly British magnunimitys though It le bistory that before they took tholr dopartuie for. the roglons ‘of Mire, tho King bad lost: $14,000 of the 821,000 he tovk with hin, mostly atoards, “King Kalakaua, howover, ls reported to bo better posted on «gaines of chauce—thanks to his-Americat ine structors—than the Loblilo of 184, . J1o bus note nobled with tho late John Blorrissoy, and read Gon. | Subenok’a ‘troatiso , on: Mdraw-poker "3 which ought to protect bin agalust all the ebarp tricks of a London clubshouge, His Majesty is the ‘conatitunonal monarch of a, coubtry em- draning 0,100 square inilos aud the most impos ing volcano in tho world, That will insnro him . the entey into evory Royal palace in Europe, and a frieadly nandehake with Czar, inperors, aud Princes; albeit bis subjcota do not nuwmber foure goorothousand, 6 - tt ey ¥ Ss roported that Keene," Flood, Mackey, and others are rapldly orgiulzing thoir now to}. egraph echome, and that the work of building will be begun at once, It fs intended within a yoar to bavo at extensive service sstablishod In allthe principal paylug polnts tu tho: United Statog, All branghes of bualness now performed by the Wostern Union will bo carribd on by the new management, but under ditferent orzaniaas Uons,: Onc ppeoial foature'of the gencral come mercial and telegraph department will be a syey fem of recolving aud ‘transmitting night .mes> pages, which will bodropped in the Poat-Oltice ay soon a8 rocelyed, aig for which aa. unparalleled low rate will by Teal EAN ES NES re Pont wine [3 commonly regarded among fhe humbler classes 1u Livorpoo! qnd its vicinity ‘asa tectotal drink, and jt seoms: froin“ the ovl+ dence givey at an (Inquest held at 5t, Holen's tho other day on the bady of « man who was found dead on the ‘wato Iine-of the London & North: leaked upon by some pooplo asp atrivty von atounolic boverage, The deceased was dosoribed- by bis companion as a teetotalor,and when atked how this profession cnyld be reconciled with the fact of bis baving bad a glass of sherry tba witness replied: "They called that teetotal ‘| nis paragraph flustrates how enally a‘ wronk The foreman of tho Jury remarkod that under the fmprosaton that toototalers did not touch Intoxteating drinks, hut the Coroner observed that tuctotalors had thelr owas rules and that tho foromanr bad better not interfero with them, Choap sherry !s ono of the most highly aluoholized of wines. In the proacnt case Ithad the effect of making the deconsed "fore ward in drink,” and probably cost him bis life, ————_—_-— Tins cont regions of Puget Sound are be- ing slowly Hevolopyd. The San Francisco Chronicle says that it Ia not yet cortaln that an- thracito conl has been fotind In those now North. ern mines, ‘Roports of such discoveries Have from time to time appéared'in the nawspapers of some of the Sound towns, but they need cone firmation, As to tho biitiminous region, it Is prec- ‘tleally everywhure, from the Ciacade Mountains: to tho sen, It fs nronrce of- future wealth aud atablo prospority to Sun Francisco and that country; worth infinitly more thin all the minus of the precious metals. . ee « ‘Tins question of n decp-water terminus for the Southern Pacific of California ts attracting attention. ‘Tho Galveston News bas had Infor’ mutton from # reliable source to Now York’ tor tho offoct that Galveston might be aclectad as the t¢fminus“of 'this important rond, If “deon water could be secured ‘thore througl tho ex: pondituro of 82,000,000 or $3,000,000, Tho Intest information from tho source roforrad to indicates that tho matteris under advisoment, Col. Hunt, fogton belug ongaged In informing bimeoll as to tho practicability of the scheme as an ongineer- ing problem, : 7 See EEE Av Lasell Seminaty for Girls, at Auburn-, dnlo; Mass. at excellent system of self-govorn- ment {s-practioed, ; Any atudont who, ut the ond of orfe tern), is regarded worthy of auch trust Is enrolled.on tho: list of * self-governcd,” and thenceforward does as she pleases 6u long ag abo" continues to shof bérself entitled to unlimited contidence. ‘This 1s the highest honor the eehool hus to bestow,—a recognitivn of real tristworth- Frep- Dovanass wisely advises: the col- ored voters of Virginia to fall in with tho Rond+ justers. He says epigramniatically: “If the teadjustors aro honest and fair enough to givo colored oltizonsof the Stato of Virginia equal rights at tho ballot-box, in tho Jury-box, and the knowledgo-box, J, for one, am willing. to trust. thotr justico and fiirness. with the money-box of that State.” © * Mr. Tuevenyas, the British Secretary of Admiralty, made haste to dony that be had over aotd six Birltish troneiads could wallop nine Fronob ditto, Tho statemont was certuinly a little too provious. It suunded strangely like tho Rob bondte that one Butternut could whip. alx. “Yanks.”. But that was proved to bo aalight error. Bs ee PERSONALS, a ‘Mr, Conkling's funeral bids fete to be tarye- ly attended, $ Bs . Mrs. Helen ‘Hunt (Jnckson), the poctess, weighs 200 pounds. et Na ee “Mr. Bookwalter ‘will’ be surprised to learn how quickly a barrel can chnoxé to a kog."—S. J. Thier. | | gl alien St. Louls looks’ more deserted than’ over just now. Forty oltizons left last weuk for & ‘Western plonaure trip. kaif . 7 From the fact’ that.ex-Senntor Thurstan took his snulf-pox along it .1a thought he will stay {n Europe until spring. “Tethered is ‘the Bull’ Dog, dim Can Come," bas tuken the place of that other popu-" lor song: “Empty te the Cradlo, Baby's Gong.” Tho disastrous hurricanes In’ Minnesota nro rondered all the more inexplicable by tho, fact that Telmage hos not lectured in-that Stato this yoar., or eae _ ‘The woman who was President Garfoll’s nurso atthe tlmo of bis birth has Legtta to dic. One of ber passod away In Dowaginc, Mich.’ Saturday. . ‘ Betis AS “rhe, hereditary Prince of Fitrstenburg 1s soon to be marricd to. tho Princess Talterand., ‘The. contleman's namo will bo sant to ¢! try by mail. . : suede en Lig * A fund fs boing, ratsed In Boston to alyo poor and infirm persons streot-carrides on ploas- ant days., Jn Chicago a fund ta bojug ratecd for, any healthy ‘person who can fiud a ona ‘atreot-car. 2 . 5 . ‘he usual survivor of Waterloo lias died ‘protty early this season.” His name ‘way'Fred. Lutzotin, and ho tyed at Loulevillo. Wo‘ duns dently exnett to chronicle tho decease of Washs ” ington’s body-sorvant ‘boforo thé. sun-klsscd. loaves of mutumn begin to fall’ Ct An amatour negro-minstrel troupe gave ‘a porformnnco-in Miway, Ky. recently, for the beneft.of John Bush, under sentence of death in tho Lexinaton dail, Until Bust Js batigod it cannot bo decided whether bo yuffered more thin the people who attended the show. { |. A paragragh which -wo-recontly: copled anld thnt when: Attornoy-Goneral MaoVeagh heard of tho-attack, on President Garfield ho was at preakfaat, and was 60 exolted that be ran: -outof the bouso without his bat, aud for some wihutes did tot know whithor bo was going, report may ‘gain ‘clroulntion. It now appears that tho» Attorney-Général’ simply ‘Wwalxed ‘off. with another man's umbrella, act would wdioato anything but a pore atate of mind. i yet & i PUBLIC OPINION, -* ashington dispatch to Boston Journal: Secretary Windom fs carofully considering tha introduction of Clvil-Borvico® ‘rates into the ‘Vreagury Department and nll its branches, Ine cluding the custom service. He: finds’ that a largo part of bls time fs tuken up in considering tho clatins and demands of olliceseokers, and ho fw ontirely convincod“that: the ouly remody for ‘this [4 the adoption of Civil-servico rules and a rigid adherence to them, and thelr intraduetion isonly wqucation of a limited number of days. ‘Atlanta (Ga,) Constitution (Dem.): While thore are‘some minor abuses: which acem to call’ for reform, ayn goneral rule the convict syaten: of) Gobryn' will compara favorably. with the, penitentiary, systoin of any other Btato, \ Tho abuses complained of Aro speotal and not xen- eral—the result, not of-tho systom, but of bad or curelons munayement on the part of those wha have tho pilaoners in charge, The’ ohorgod ninde against: the system during the -rocent guburnatorial oampufgn woro withor maliclously untrug or grossly exagmorsted, iit ;! Now York. Graphto: | ‘The honest, atid horny-handed farmora:In Vormont and Cons necticut have on suveral ocensions within the Inet fow months {Mluetrated thele obhorrenco of viee and thelrlove ot virtue by tarring and fouthoring watnen whoss mothode of Ilia of- fendod thelr touter susceptibiiitios, “And now, cortnin oltizens of: Berkshire County,’ Massa. obiveotes, the boinc of schools’ and A collogo, hove dono the same thing.» Whon a. man who may be a loathedine Booundrel or -a dangerous. orimiual is lynohoi In the South a ory of horror goes up from Now Duglend. But with ono or two oxcentionty aa far “ Hannon ped How Eland ress nae had very Jittlo to aay about these sick PCO stk d New S nalanid tlvilzation; bere are mscale ovary wal roy but your Purle tgnioat und Pookent ian + ragcat la “tho “worst New York Tinie’ (Rep): Tha’ result, in Albany ia pretty sure to bo the ocomplote and frrotrievable dofeat of Mr. Conkling, which ho bas dosorved, but whieh ho might have aveldod ‘but for the purbiindocas of bis colossal vanity. Ago defeat of Conkling, and’ of Conk|inglem, 1& will bua real trump, for the Republicans of this Btate,. It tho ox-Henator cotild, by the ingang and dovices resorted to, have effectod bis Purpose,’ It would baye rent the 'Republicag party aeundor and given tho State over tu the Demoorats.. It might wall bavo beea supposod ‘at frat that the defeat of a mau who bad been ko consplauicus and so strong in the part; divide or seriously weaken that party, fight bas been carried onin such @ spicit that tt has practically drawn the party togothor and venit new strength. dir, Conkling and: bis nares have ‘wo completely alicuated + the nye peer. of Hepublican voters. from ..thants aolves that they will no longer amount tow foo @ DuWer tu dO harm, oven iC they ne part Now York Journal of Omnmerce (Pam.)! Outaide of Albany there is probably uot a taxe yor in the Btato—ualess bie isa contractor pF politica with WJob In interest~who does nut approve of the Guvernor’s yeto of the $500,009 appropriation for that architectural monstrosity,’ tho now Capitol. , further the.peoplé go. toward the completion of that bidcous plle..the: woreo thoy fare. Every new haif-miliion ‘sunk in {a vast recesses only lays-the foundation for tron domunds upon the Treusury, The various tlasg who arg makipe the most of thelr eons “alghtednoss and untalrnes: -tles ta produce their ‘tunities i conneotion with the now Capital al. ways enlarge tholr estlinntes tmmediatoly aya thoy secure nn appropriation. In thin war toy oatiinntes have gradually arasen from $10 to 813, 00000, and the editiee lv ns tur fram bol © crowned "18 OV ir tho entire enst shoul now Do act nt $2000)—more probably under” than over the amount that will vtany gulred, ways would ho found to ron eupres 1,000,000 oF $30,090,000. “‘Thero fa nu fimit to the rapnelty of tha men to whom tho annual ropes of Ronee one have been thrown fy nominal ald of tha now Capitol. Thole uppetita xrows by what It foeds on. ‘rho people of this city cspeaiuily think the Governor for nog seroma away’ $500,000 snore goud money after add, Philnelolphia Bulletin (Rep.): The C Club has resolved td have no dinner oe Perhaps tt will bave no moro dinters honcefarth, forever, At tenst, It wilt neylect to dine unt tho freosteude ciuso beging to boont throughont tha world, and It inay bo Iningined that thig- Monna that tho Club will nuver dinc again. ‘The resoliition {s attributed by tho membors to, spirit of eeonoms. Thu Club holda that tt wy ‘ho wiser to devote the coat of the annual dinner to the printing and distribution of those apts and intoresting works with whiok it desires to fustruct and clovat a world lying In the ignop. ance aitd wickediess of tho protective thourles,” Those piblicutions arorend and cnjoyed, like any ‘other works of -fletion, by -the out. aido world, They entertain and nusuee, and for that rensou tho: distribution of them t; the Club may faigly be tegatded as an a of benevolence. Aa nt instrumentality, for the propagation of Hritish cconomle futth, bow. over, they havo filled, and are Slkoly to fal), Inost dlematly: and so, if the annual dliner inte, ‘bu surrendered under tho supposition that the eae of froo-trado eontinients will there. by’ bo assisted, Itsvoms: alimost.a pity to make the sacriiice, A youd dinner ‘once a ycaris, substantial and comforting fact. The conversion of Ainericans und Frenchmen to free trade isan alry vision, without base or substance, and wih no prospect of belny realized in experience, Now York Tribune: When tho Trijune aligrested fast winter—that long and exceeding, ly thorough winter-that It would be diMeutt tor tho ico cumpantes to flnd an oxcuse for tho ane hunl incroase In the prigo of fee, tho Inventive genius of those frig corporations was sadly underestimated, They havo Just shown that they cnn ralso the price without any excuto at all. Usually thoy point tu the unusual and por. tentous clroumetunce that there was a thaw in Innuary, or recall tho fact that an tec-houg burned down in. tho carly spring, sacrificing goveral tons of Ico. They then announes famine, which makes {it tmporatively necessary . that .tho rlee of the 5 modity: stall bo Fated. This yeur ins havo spared the public this fooling, Atter Q wiater of remarkadle longth and soverity, whioh It seas freely declared would farnlah ico cnaimh for threo yeits ty Como, und, uftor alco alx weoke of un exceptionally cool aiymmer, the price {s suddenly ralsod, 24 per cant without ex- Plunation or-excuay. | The true explunation doubttesa (s that there Was tou mutch lve, and that, owing to the cool: suminer, too Ilttic was being used. .To many.tha Increase will mean nothing, of courao; tu others it will be another tax on narrow incomes, while to the very poorit Will, in all soriousauss, bo a burden added whers the huats of summer: placo tov many now A ebarity has been formed In this city tor the cx press purpose of furnishing ice to sick poor whore it Is nocdad, “This slinplo fact is a sum. elent commentary upon tho miorniity of this artifiolal increngo in thé price of an article sometimes of vital necessity, « o Philadelphia Telegraph: Those people who * wondered what Bull Run" lMussotl would dle cover in his recent Atmorican tour to find fault with didn't hayo long to walt. Tho carping ta ° gitah ‘correspondent bas devoted a.obaptor to ~ lifo on the Paoliio. and: Southwostern froatlon, treating tho subject. with: churacteriatlo short 1 Evorybody knows that tho frontior is always tho ragged edgo of olvilization, the devil's land, where the outcast, the esenped criminal, aud tha reckless adventy uror naturally congregate, At the same time” itisa marvelous and sugrestive fact, and ofe which dtr, Russell gould’ not have falled to observe, that the peaceable mna can pau hia days, olthor as.a transient .visttor or nen | pormancat + raucher ‘or . miner unmolested Gnd tn almost porfeot safety ‘In sumo: of’ the wildost sections of the, Fur West. It tscblety tho lawless who suffer, thay becoming tho rie titns of thelr own practices. And as to the con atituted futhorities of tho «Territories, our abusive critic fs oithor. grinsly Iyoorant orbe dollborately. slandors tho gute, Nowhore lt Justico more swift und certalu., Also in relation totho army Mr, Russell la both uuteruthful-and unjust. But, after all, it: shows an, amazing atiount of assurince in hogstiny: Engilshmen to Spank of thesg things: In such w spirit, es -peahly one who [s thoroughly fanitllar with te Present. doplorible conditton of Troland, who hus buen, with the South Atrican army. For: bo it remombered, . H.R. who ‘wag .almost throntened with » ebailonge by Sir Garnett Wolseley for telling the Plait and damning truth about ‘tho terrible ox. cesaus of British soldlers in South Afelen, tho whole history of the American sbldier, 00 the frontier or olye\wboru, no page BO dark and Aisgracoful oun be found. Ino word, It 16 plata that the sony who got away from ull fun io flick # hurry, \Mivonty yuars ago, again found himself In" an. awkward situation. Durlng au recent flying vivlt ho saw ao tauch that com ies aarnlraHon and unqualified approval that 2 Was bard pressed for sumething with which tokvep up bis reputation us a chronle faulty finder, and ev, to retain bis lace in the prejus an ly peopte, coneladed ta tektoour “cans Loy Wall, it Js safe to predlot tbat when ”* apa “thie binrated country,” ts yo West" to any groat extent, TAXING MONEY-LENDERS, * Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, AtEpo, Il, duly 1&.—The Mercer County this is ‘tha same "i," Board of Supervisors held a sesstan of four _ days Inst weok, and necompllshed some of the most important work that has beon done in the county fora long time. It consisted alniply in latting atone, or holding to, the ae sessment madain MercorTuwnship by Alex. Marquts, Townsli{p Assessor, whoroby ordl- naty. taxpayers “will havo but little over one-half of the amount of taxes to pay that they have beon' doing bythe monoy-lenders escaping their share.” During the latter part of Jung the Galesburg Assessor paid a visit to Aludo to luok up ‘evience of ownership of loans made In Knox County In the names of parties hore, and was-succusstul tn ack ting an {nereased valuation for the Clty of Galesburg. . Our Assessor awakened to the Idea that the county records might show some taxablo' mortgages not returned by supposed wealthy men: and agents for the loans’ of: outalde parties, An examination followed, and nearly’ $400,000, was found, Partlus were notified that thelr assessments were ralsed,‘and some of them appeared before the ‘Township Board. ‘That Board hold to the:agsessmunt.. In the meantlar the nolse of the Assussor’a doings got nbroad, and borrowers on promissory notes without record scourities saw the Assessor, and fi MANY aN assessinent ralsed on parties thet had ‘scheduled scarcely nothing, “The par tlos nsavsaed tho largest appeared. by counsel beforo the Board. uf Supervisors and muda compliint, ‘setting ap In gufldavit tliat pre vious to the ist day of May they hnd com vorted thelr notes to a-inrge amount Inte United States bonds, and woro not Hable oe taxation on them, ‘The County aAttorne; rie leulud tho atatomonty-and asked for the aunnce of an order y the Bourd for tho par Oks for Inspection bY the Conmlttee, . ‘The Board. passed 3 resolu tion requesting ‘them to do so, and the nex morning thelr. attornuy withdrew alt ae] ceedings, and the Board speedily ae tho Asyessor’a. work, —increasit ereee Township's valuation trom: $240,000 to Hite 000, and avery one approves of it, We tl r it 1s Important, because it 1s aleaven that work firougho at the county next year something I ido tice will vomoto taxpayers | ; >." NEBRASKA NOTES, f Speclat Correspondents af The Chicago Tribune | -LixcoEy, Nobiy July 10.—A. tarinor byt name of George Oukon, residing un Steven Oréek, about ten mites from this city, came to‘ his<death’ yesterday morning in avy alugwtar way, Ho:was coming to {luce with a loaded wagon, when his horses (00 frightat ‘somo object In the‘road, und, 10 8 teuiptlng'to atop them, he ‘was thrown her fly'to the ground, the hind whesls of wagon: passing “over Ils breast, broaklnt threo <t and ..othorwige injuring (ie When picked up about an hour afiowaren was dead. ‘I'he victlin of tho accittont wat oes tariner, with many friends In Oly. re ies "the Lincoln Odd-Fellows, to the unaibet of forty or fifty, Wat to the ‘Town of pe Se eae eee ar inate Presnell corner-ato S Chur ae nuinber-of other lodges we SA taully by te name of Adams reall iu this city, wero palyuned yestarday byt A ing ties, ‘She lumediate services of 8 Ty Fe Te a tla, 8TH 5 1 was ound to voutaln arecnlo. The atulr my: u SF ok Ths sound of tio reaper ts heard ¢hroty OUt the Btsta, ‘The harvest pf whoat iu saueh areater than hes beon anticipate ‘