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TSUUUKK OOUPxNY, FRIDAY. MAY IfiCO, PARS BONDS. The South Park Commissioners, through their President, Hon. John M. ilson, have sent to the Mayor a request for the issuance, to themselves, of about of c.lr bonds, under the so-called passed by the last Legislature.

The act is as follows: Ax act equalize the amount of money expended for parka North, booth and West Chicago: The ctiy of Chicago contains three natural known aa Nottb. South and West Divisions, and the people of each of aald divisions now, or hereafter, may dttureapart; aad WuekExS, Said cur has alrcadr expended a large amount of rourey on Lincoln Part tie North Division of car; and said city is about to expend more luom-v Ii Hie extension of said Lincoln Park. tide a much emu has been expended for parks the South and West of said my; thirvlore. M.CTWX Lt it nicrtat, That Mayor apl CiiDpiridvr of the ciiy of cucago sull I ciuls of said city, bearing tnurcst at a rale not exceeding 7 ycr cent, for tiic purr-o-e purchasing and lands P-r a park lor each of bold when the people divisions of said cltv, or either of (turn. elmii elect to purchase lands 'for park purin eucb amount as shall appear Just and epaudr.e—id which the common council of said cm ehaJl equalize Uie amount siread extended, or tiat may hereafter ex- Ended.

from the city Treasury, in or upon said ncoln for extension or improvement. Appreveu March Holding, as do, the opinion that it not competent for the Legislature to require the municipal corporation of Chicago to issue bonds and incur debts for purposes not by the Common Council (that is. by coij'oretion itself), wc hope that the Mayor will not comply with the request upon him, nor with the like request made upon him by the Lincoln Bark nor with (he similar request which the West Side Pack CittwaLsium rs arc entitled to make. The terms of the law certainly authorize Judge WUsca to make the demand. It would probably Lt- neglect of his duty, both and as President of the Board of Park Commissioners, if he should omit to do f-o.

It does not follow, however, thnt it is the duty of the Mayor to comply with such demands. Nor does it follow that the bonds would be worth anything if ho should comply. Hie opinion given by the Corporation Counsel on this question argues that, inasmuch as it is competent for the Legislature to confer upon the corporation the power to incur a debt, therefore it may exercise tbe power independently. In other words, the Legislature cannot confer a power upon nn agent which it does not itself possess and marnct exercise os a principal. This is undoubtedly true ns regards mere legis- A municipal bond is a contract between the city on the one hand and the lender of money on the other.

Iq the Milwaukee case, which we cited the other day, tbe Supreme Court of Wisconsin said: admit that the Legislature, of its own the wishes or cither or both cl the contracting parties, can give It Ue and is to admit that ft is within the Kopc of legislative authority to divest settled 10 property of one individual rr corporation and transfer to another. it la certainly unnecessary at thia.iay u- enter lun or to cue authorities, to show tnat under a constitutional government Uke ours lie Legislature has no each It will certainly be safe for the Mayorand Comptroller to wait for some authoritative man dale before signing these park bonds, and if will be better in tbe end for all parties concerned to wait for a judicial interpretation of the law, for it is not desirable that bonds of the city should be issued with a cloud resting upon them, to be Bold at a discount measured by the apprehensions of money-lenders that they may finely lie declared illegal. MB. StHBIHO POLICY. It Iq announced that Secretary Bootwell Las determined to carry out the la ws of 1802 establishing a sinking fund, and that tho Louis be is now buying will not again be Issued, but will probably go into the log fund.

TLe use in each a mannerof tho term Kinking fond looks very much like an attempt to revive the exploded idea that there can be some other mode of or extinguishing a public debt than by har- ing an excess of receipts over expenditures and by applying this excess to the payment and cancellation of bonds. The act of IBG2 tv ferred to declares that the duties on impoitvd goods shall be paid in coin, and that such coin, after paying tho interest on the debt, shall be To tbe purchase or payment of one per centum of the entire debt of tbe United States, to be each steal year after the drat dav of July, 1-CB. which la to be set apart as a sinking land, and the Interest ot which shall In UXc manner be avpt-ed to the purchase or payment of the public debt as the Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time TUis clause contains on the face of it an absurdity and an obscurity. It was absurd to provide that one per cent of the debt should be paid or purchased during those vents wherein our expenses were so largely in eiccffl of onr revenue that we could not avoid doubling the debt every year, instead A paying off one per cent of it. It is an obscurity or a blander to provide that the of the debt purchased or paid sLoiJd set apart as a sinking and the interest thereon applied to the purchase or payment of more debt.

So tmicb of the debt as is paid Is ended, and nahing is Ut of it to set apart for any pnqrtifao. So much of the debt as is purchased by the United States is also, we believe, ended in law and effect, according to the plainest teachings of common sense. We do not believe it is more tlmn a figure of speech, a mere idle fiction, to say that the United States can hold a debt due from itself to itself. It can doubtless buy its own bonds and reissue them, but every time it buys a bond it virtually cancels the debt, and when it reissues if, it borrows money. It is a principle of law that no individual ot corporation can owe itself, and when he or it boys one of his or its own debts the debt is cancelled.

Thcjsanie principle applies in logic to the government. The supposition that anything can be saved or made by the government maintaining the bonds it has purchased, in a nominal existence under the title of trig was folly tried in England, end found to be a delusion. The interest which accrues on the bonds which form the sinking fund is paid by the Treasurer of the United States into the tanking fund, and repaid to the United States Treasury out of sinking fund by check of the same officer. It is merely taking money from the right pocket to pul into the left, encumbering the Treasury books with an extra account. and an accountant to keep it.

The purchase of bonds bvjthe Secretary I to the extent of the surplus gold in the Treasury is his sound and inevitable policy, upon hich the country has long been as nearly agreed as it can ever be on any policy prior to its trial. But when these bonds are purchased. let them be securely locked up, canoelk-d and erased from tbepnblic debt, as being 60 much debt merged, I'ptff, onnihij.if'rf by the act of purchase. The interest Rived on the amount by which the debt is diminished will always equal the interest marked up on the amount of the so-called sinking fund, and the country wifi be spared the mortification of seeing the Fund delusion, so long after its explosion elsewhere, apparently incorporated into and made Wiling error in our own financial administration. Tbe Female Suffrage movement ha heomingly gained a point in Massachusetts.

A joint special committee of the Legislature has reported the following amendment to the constitution with only a single dissenting voice word 4 male is hrrti.y stricken from the Third Article of the smcrUdmes: of the conscitotion. Hereafter women cf this Commonwealth have tbe right of voting at and be ohgtbleto office on the same terms, restrictions and qoalLkations, and subject to the same and disabilities aa male element of this Commonwealth now are. and ao eibcr." But o-s this amendment must be approved by two success ire legislatures, and then submitted to popular vote, Li is quite pos- jrMc that the report of tbo committee was nn ly made to get rid of the subject for the 1 nett two or three yean. At any rate, it a MZuobile way of dealing with the question, it remits it to popular agitation and relieres the Legislature from any farther consideration for the present. If the portion of the people of MaasabhusetU are dlsposed to extend suffrage to women, they win now decide to do so both by representative and direct rote; if not, then not, and the reformers can begin over again, ds noco, three years hence.

0.00 0.00 OH 'BRITISH lo the New York Tribune of Monday morning last, the editor asked the free traders, who were to bold a public meeting that evening, that they would improve the opportnnity to enlighten the public on the question os to how much British with a capital contributed to tho support of the Free Trade League. Two years ago, that paper says, it had asked ihia question, and proposed a publication, from the books of the League, of the names of the contributors to its funds, tendering the use of its columns for tho gratuitous printing of that exhibit, if the of the Association would certify on their honor that it rate an And thereupon, continues 3'ribune free trade struck duwi, down to Chlcasa. 10. "this tee hure been umtUe to elicit any ri to our friendly overture whether th( Asioci'tttoii ittdf or from its Kell, on the Monday evening aforesaid the free traders held their meeting, at which Mr. Bryant, Mr.

Atkinson and other gentlemen made excellent speeches; but the most conclusive of all was that of Mr, Charles H. Treasurer of the League, which we copy in full, with an extract of a letter read by Mr. Marshall, as follows; i would like to state that I am Treasurer of the American Free Trade League, and that, some or fire ago, I wrote a letter to the Tribune In regard to the charge made by the editor of that paper, that the members of the League were bought by British gold, and the operations of the Leajrne canted on by means of Bntteh gold. toot that Utter to the Tribune, and gate mynamt along vilh acme rtaeon the of that did net tee fit to publith it But, notwithstanding mis. they have seen fit to reiterate the charge, and this morning they demand the Us of the to the funis of the League.

I give yon this letter as our answer." To the Editor Tribune: The explanation of the unwillingness the Free Trade League to furnish a list or its subscribers, which you state you have tried In vain to obtain, a very simple one, and, now that the motives for secrecy no longer exist, I am prepared to ofikrtt, If you win give it a place in tour columns. I hope I may then be able to dispel the anxiety on this subject which has so long disquieted you. is not generally considered advisable to a contest of any kind to make a foil display of one's weakness to the opposing party, and I know or no principle of fairness or expediency which would nave obliged the Free Trade League, in the early dart of its existence, to proclaim the sources from which tt derived Us pecuniary support, when those sources were so very few in number. The truth la, that In the commencement of its organisation the League obtained iu principal subscriptions from those concerned in its management, with such asautaooc as It could secure from a few friends who sympathized with its efforts. I can vouch that this last was generally very small, and its income rarely exceeded $3,000 or H.ooo a year.

It cannot be denied, therefore, that Its means have been out of all proportions to the effect It has produced. phantom of which has so persistently evoked in your columns, and which has, doubtless, had tbe effect of alarming timid protectionists throughout the country to a degree which would ludicrous were It not so vervsad, is really tbe most unsubstantial shade which has ever emerged from private life, like the baseless fabric of a It has had no existence save In the Imaginations of those who. conscious that their influence ta passing away and that their views are no longer accepted as truth, b.ok In vain for the cause. I can assure them that ibis case they hare not bit upon the right one. From an Intimate acquaintance with the condition of the treasury of the Free Trade League thepast Three years, lean aafelyafflnn that no British has found Ita way Into the the causa It was promptly converted Into currency, and realised, I think, about UT.so.

though the League has no streams ot British gold' flowing into Ita vaults, it still nappy in tbe possession of a goodly number of American greenbacks, which, until the resumption of specie payments, will answer the purpose The Tribune of Tuesday morning contains a meagre report of the meeting, but ia very ireful not to publish Mr. went or this letter, while, editorially, it thus comments upon it: The free traders had a great deal to say about the Tribune last night, and read a ponderous tetter to ua. giving at wearisome length eterythto-j irtth the to their the precise thing-we asked Ost of contributors. Of that list we beg to say that, aa you we have seen nothing. Can we not abame them into furnishing it T' A more pertinent question.

Cab the Kew York Tribune ever be shamed into decency in conducting a controversy, or will the editor ever comprehend the essential distinction between troth and falsehood The League publishes no list of contributors of British simply and solely because there are no such contributors, and, therefore, no list to publish; but, as the Tribune acknowledges, Ogives everything connected with tho Yet, in tho face of this statement, mode by the Treasurer, Mr. Marshall, whoao word no gentleman would question, the Tribune having first refused to publish the its accusation and loaves its readers to suppose it has never been met! There are some docent people among the protectionists but they must nevertheless accept the obloquy which such a championship of their esase carries with it. THE EUBOPEAH AT.LIAHCE. Tho mmor comes from Europe that on blliance offensive and defensive against the United States has been concluded be- tween Spain, England and France. The htory is a most improbable one, as neither of these governments is in a condition to assume on offensive attitude against the United States.

Even if tho governments so disposed, the people of neither coun. irr will ever give their assent to any such j-reposition. Spain is still floundering in the waters of revolution; the adherents of Ikmrbonism and monarchy arc yet contending with republicanism, and, whichever e'dc triumphs in the formation of the government, the people of Spain will remain republican in feeling henceforth and forever. With such a constituency, the aid that Spain might afford an alliance against Republican America would not be very valuable. Kor such an alliance be any more popular in Great Britain or France, in both ot which countries the republican sentiment is vigorous, and can never bo stifled.

But the alliance is improbable in any aspect in which it may be viewed. It means war under certain circumstances, and there can be no circumstances under which a war ith the United States can be desirable or advantageous to England or France. Vie have no external possessions to be captured, and no territory upon which invading armies can be landed. Such a war must purely a naval one, and have for its immediate object the destruction of our commerce. But the interruption of commerce between the United States and Europe would be fully as disastrous to France, more so to England, than it would be to the United States.

The end of such a war no one question. From the day of its declaration, the last vestige of British authority oa this continent would be removed, and removed forever. If British armies- be landed they would have to land on soil in our pot- sesrion, for the American boundaries would be at once extended to tbe northern and eastern limits of the linent, never to be withdrawn. To suppose that the result of a war with the United States is not as well known and understood in Great Britain as in the United States, is to attribute to British statesmen a simplicity foreign to their character. Trance has had the costly experience of a war with opponent unable to put an organized army in the field, or send a vessel of war to sea, and she bewails the inglorious result of that affair too deeply to venture into any further attempt to put down republicanism in America.

If the alliance does not mean war, then it is even more absurd. Even supposing these three governments to be guilty of the extreme folly which is attributed to them, they are but a small portion of Europe. Is France to leave Prussia and Austria in her rear while she is engaged in a war with the United States? When that war is begun who is to keep the peace in Europe Who is to keep the Italian out of Borne, or the Prussian eagles from the frontiers of Bavaria? Are Prussia and Austria, Italy and Russia and the Pope to engage in a trace not to disturb the peace of Europe while France and England and Spain are engaged in suppressing republicanism in America? Axe the people of and of France, of Germany, of I Italy and of Spain to be serene, to be dient and sr-bmissire while these allied powers are destroying the American Bepublic Look at this story in whatever light, iU gross absurdity is too patent to deceive the I meet careless observer. It may be that there is an effort on the part of the Provisional Government erf Spain to France and England to revive the proposition of 1850, that there shall be an international obligation to preserve Cuba as a Spanish dependency. This proposition was rejected by the United Stotee then, as it will.always be, and any alliance by England and France for that object now can hare no other effect to precipitate the Teiy result wWch it is sought to -prevent.

moment that Franee and England their forces to keep Cuba in SpaniaV'whjugation, that moment the sympap of civilized man. kind will be eniiwdd in behalf of the natives of the seeking their independence. It armed intervention, which will invite the like on the other side, and is a Invitation for a general war to determine the fate of Cuba. Of the result of that war there can be no doubt. It will end in the extinguishment of European authority throughout the whole of the 'West Indies.

There is no more possibility of an agreement between Prance and England for the special protection of Spanish dominion la Cuba than there is of a general alliance Both mean war, and an American war is not in the programme of the English or French Government. NO MORE FOREIGN TERRITORY TO BE PURCHASED. General Grant, in his rejection of the varied overtures by tho Government of San Domingo looking to the cession or lease of ports in that country to the United States for naval stations, gives a pretty strong indication that the policy of acquisition of foreign territory by purchase will not be continued by him. This is not promising to the hopes of Denmark that Seward's treaty for the purchase of her West India islands will be ratified. General Grant is right in this matter.

We want no more territory at present, and we shall wont no more hereafter, save that which, by the inevitable laws of political gravitation, will fall naturally to our possession. Tho policy of colonial dependencies is inconsistent with our system of government. Oura is and must be an entire nationality, in which all the people must be governed by the same national laws, and be entitled to the same national rights and privileges. During tho war it waa supposed that the tide of European emigration wou'd be diverted from the United States to the other States on the American Continent, bat that has proved a delusion. Neither British Provinces, nor Mexico, nor Brazil, nor any of the Central American States, have been able to attract any portion of the population which is leaving Europe for a new home in the West.

The political power and strength, the population, the wealth, and the annual products of this country, are increasing at such a rate that the adjoining Sates are comparatively growing weaker and more helpless every day. Instead of sending ministers abroad seeking to purchase islands, and kingdoms, and republics, and States, it will require, during the remainder of this century, the most skilful statesmanship to prevent the forcing of such things upon ns without cost, but faster tbun we can conveniently or safely receive them. Our trouble will be, not the inability to get what we need, but to reject whole States and nationalities offered to us as a free gift. Mr. Michael Scanlon, the editor of The RrvvhUean, has been appointed Assessor ot Internai Revenue for the Third District of this State.

The appointment Is one every way to be commended. Mr. Scanlan is a trustworthy Republican and an honest nun. Jle has, rendered signal service to his party, and under many discouragements has proved his faith by his works. Such men as he are the ones entitled to recognition at the hands of the administration, If the offices arc ever to be used for that Xtu York where, for many years before gdmg'lo'Nevv York, he waa respected aa on honorable and upright citizen.

His appointment was a creditable recognition of fidelity to Bepublican principles on the part of a large and growing class, wbo have to pass through on ordeal from which most men wbppk. That he will prove on honest and capable officer we do sot doubt, and wo are sure his appointment will give universal satisfaction to the thousands here and elsewhere who know him personally. TUB yORTHfTBST. ILLINOIS. The bam of and E.

Braley, at Carl tortile, was burned on Friday of last week, with all its contents, Including lour hones. Loas, oo insurance. Tbe Rev, Dr. Jaa. U.

Blown, of Bcllalr, died at tbe residence of Dz. Meeker, at Robinson, on the 80th nil. The mmols state Dental Society met at Qamcy on the H. Kllburae, or Aurora, presiding. Tbe annual address was delivered by Dr.

M. S. Dean, of Chicago. The following officers were elected tor the ensuing year: president, M. 6.

Dean, of Chicago; vice President, G. v. Black, of Jacksonville: Secretary, c. Stoddard Smith, Springfield; Treasurer, A. w.

Trench, Springfield librarian, C. O. Dean, Mount Carroll; Executive Wilson, of Bloomington; Wilson, of Aurora; Cashing, of Chicago: French, of Springfield, and Henry, of Jacksonville. Bloomington was selected at the place of the next meeting. The following were selected aa delegatee to the American Dental Association: Dm, Henry.

Jacksonville: llcndel, Peoria; Mowbray, Warsaw; Sturgita, Quincy: Sawyer, Jacksonville; French, Springfield; Cushing, Chicago; M. S. Dean, Chicago; C. a Smith. Springfield; R.

J. Smith, Quincy; Crouse, Chicago, and Edwards, Gnggsvilla. Dr. Riven, of Pittsfield, was appointed to deliver the next anneal address. A buffalo was recently shot la Fox Late, which weighed thirty-live and a half pounds.

The singing societies of the State of Wltcona and adjoining States, called the Northwestern Sssngertmnd, will hold a aingtngfestlvalal Madison, from June 3 to ss next. A gome of billiards for the championship of the State wlUbe played at Madison on the 19th, between Adam Cleser, of Madison, and W. W. Seaver, ot Fond du lac. The Chippewa Union says the log jam reached Us greatest size cm the td, when it was estimated to contain one hundred and thirty million feet of 1 Jga.

Considerable progress is being made In get. ting it out, though, if the water goes down as rapidly as it has within the past few days, It most aVe nearly the whole season. It is proposed to erect an equestrian statue in bronze, of General Samuel E. Curtis, In the Capitol Square at similar to that of General Jackson to Lafayette Park, Washington. It win probably cost $50,000, of which is already pledged.

At Oastan, on Sunday night, the depot of the Milwaukee a St, Paul Railway was struck by lightning and was horned. The fire communicated to several adjoining buildings, which were also consumed. Among the buildings destroyed was a warehouse containing about 5,600 bushels of wheat. It is supposed that the lightning was communicated to the depot by the telegraph wires. An employe of the DeaMolnea Valley Railroad, mined Lytter, while going to DtsHotoca the other day, captured a bull snake full four feet in length, and, in order to carry his anakeahlp easily, opened hta shirt bosom and put to, where it nestled quietly.

At Enterprise, the other day, a woman entered a beer shop where her husband was loafing, and, with a substantial piece of board, paddled him Into the street. As they proceeded homeward, she continued to ply the lumber industriously, and particularly emphatic was the last whack she gave Utn as he disappeared over the thresh hold. IKPISKS. A son, 6 yean old. of John Schmidt, of Mishawaka, was drowned on Sunday last, by falling out of a boat.

His brother, a year or two older, was with him at the time, but was so frightened ai the occurrence that when he returned home and was asked about his brother, be did not glv the correct information, but said that he had gone away. John Adams and Perry Thompson, of Morgan County, were recently taken out and soundly thrashed by their neighbors on suspicion of petty thieving. A body found at Manna landing, On the 16th. has been Identified as that of B. B.

Jiea, of Madison, who dlnppeaied on the Bth of March last. The indications are that he was murdered. The trial at Warsaw of John W. Vanstta, who was arrested some three or four months ago, charged with poisoning a wedding party, came to a close on the 10th. The trial tasted a week, and created considerable excitement.

The Jury rendered a verdict of guilty. Vanatta waasentenetd two imprisonment to the Penitentiary. A man named Heaton, working to a marble-yard at Madison. after drinking freely, fell leg, encased to spotted pants, panging over a rock. A man out hunting mistook the lor a huge snake, and fired a large load of shot into It, inflicting a serious wound.

An ex-Constable or Harrison County, whose sense of smelt was lost by disease, captured a pole-cat a few days ago. Bis Mends informed hint of the fact, whereupon he observed that he the air was mighty In Indianapolis, a few days ago, a child was bora which balanced sixteen pounds avoirdupois os the scales, it has been caned the "Welcome after the great Australian gold nugget Krcinoax. In Alpena County, on the stb, while John Roddy, In tbe employ of Luce A was breaking a roiiwar, he was oiled by a log rolling over him. He was from ghertsroot, Canada. The contract for the stone-wort of the Michigan Soldiers and Monument, In conformity to the design of Mr.

Rogers, has been awarded to James G. Ratterson, of Hartford, designer and builder or the Getryaborg Monument. Re will do the work, fo Westerly granite, tor ta.ooo. The Jackson Cttdm of the ttth soya: this was very.UTOand of better quality than aay year. It ns; always been called a Sued iwm whes hurt Tielded twe or thrre of near per tree, bat tae IsroTahie weather season tbe yldd la many of the satar bnabea fvota three to aonods to the tree.

the larce anionats that wayoeed to Kalamaaa and Battle Urcrk, and shirred be so this city from Barry County, at still In the handsof tbe makers. The merchants of Ilanlnes hare boortt KUOO pounds and the merchants at 14X39 pounds, makiae Thoae well posted ate the opinion that at -ast ar-fto pounds nude la Barry County. Katun County has produced abaot tbe sane amount aa Barry. tntbeae two oonntiea. Charlotte VcrmontTQle.

Kalon Kapida. OJU and Kotlmo. 7JM making the pcichawa cd the utecchaau of Baton County. ttnVBOTi. Dp.

Pyle, a member of the last Leglibture, from Glencoe, has been appointed physician and surgeon to the Chippewa Indiana. Bituminous cool and mineral paint have been diecovered in Redwood County. Tbe latter found of several the meet general hues THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1869. ibrowniiii buck, a kad color, a brigtitrei ana it la believed a combination pan be round to create a blue paint. There are abundant indications of tron ttuooghout the same region of country.

The Bander House, at Winona, vu iiumed oo the 10th. to insured. Several or toe lodgers suffered losses. Geo. P.

Petit, of Do Onoln, DL, lost tioo la gresnbscks, and a Minnesota Slate railroad (bond of (1.000, Robert Riddle, or Chicago, lost a pair of boots and a smalt amount or money. On Wednesday of last week, a little son of Asbary Burnett, living on the Sac and Fox Reserve, la Osage County, came running into the house In intense pain, but, being only two yean of age, was onsble to tell the cause. An examination showed i'll' one of his bands had probably been bitten by a rattlesnake. Medics) aid waa procured, but the child died the next day. A few weeks ago, Hr.

T. a Marshall, of Lanes- Held, Johnson County, a sharp pain In his hip, and, potting his hand there, discovered a needle protruding through the flesh, which he polled out. Qc avers that be swallowed a beadle when only 8 years old. The Paola Republican tells this, and adds: needle had corroded, and a sobstance formed In its centra enlarging it considerably, and tapering each way, assuming a stlnniehall shape. For forty years Mr.

Marshall had carried this substance In hts times was almost disabled; but never dreamed that tt was the needle be bad swallowed when child that occasioned the MISSOURI. Charles Stout, who shot and killed George Tom- Unaon at Bushvllle, Buchanan County, oo the Slthnln, had a preliminary examination at St, Joseph oo the cm iruu, ami vu discharged, the homicide being considered justifiable, it will be recollected that Tomlinson waa besting the father of Stout over the bead with a pistol when be was shot. Colonel McPherson, or the City Hotel, Boonrilie, having I keen annoyed by thieving dogs, ordered a servant to kill them. This was commenced by shooting one. Bat the executioner was fined 3 for discharging firearms within the city limits.

A resort was then had to feeding roving dogs with meat iwcollarly prepared, which despatched of canines. Unfortunately, however, the Colonel's tao cat portook of the same kind or meat, and shared a similar fate. At Qumcy, Hickory County, on the Ist. two der. perate-characters, named Wilson and Hyatt, got into a dtfflcolty with a young man, and commenced firing upon him.

but did not succeed In hitting him. This so exasperated some of the citizens that they armed themselves am) returned the fire. Wilson snd Hystt were both armed with revolvers and bowie-knives. While Hyatt was atm at a tiaicn across his bowie-knife, a hall entered the back part of his head, from the effects of which be died on the 3d. Almost at the same Instant a rock bit Wilson on the head, crushing in his skull.

He was still living on the 3d, but no hope waa entertained of his recovery. omo. At Dayton, od Monday night, a young daughter Mr. P. Althoff went to bed with a shawl-pin.

in her mouth. Some time afterward, ahe swallowed the pin, and, to a strangling 1 condition, made her wjy to the bed-room of her father and mother. The pin was stack fast In her throat, and the blood, caused by the Instrument penetrating the flesh, waa gushing from her month, and nearly choking her. Doctors were immediately brought to the house, and they administered chloroform to little sufferer, and rumored the was over two Inches long, and had a large head on an Incision that was made in the throat, at the top of the breastbone. The child Is getting along well, and It is believed that she will recover, if the wound not seriously inflame.

The Toledo Onamerriaf of the 12th tells the following: Between 10 nod o'dork on Monday olitht. the faintly of Mr. Ed. Upton, la Washington Township, were duturbod by noisu at the front duar. On a young nn.

about 18 vean of ace. waa found on the with her tauod with cords, and greatly reduc'd In itrcactb. Hhs stated that abe was the daughter of Mr. Freeman, of (beflnuof Morrow Freeman, in (bis city. and cave a most remarkable narration u( civcrii'Ure.

(Ulrataiillally as follows: Monday afternoon. about 6 o'clock, abe waa on her way borne from school, when abe met a man wbo Inquired iorlbereddonee "I a lankily uf whom she know. She gave him the direction. but, that be might not be able to find the place, fie Indicated a wish that she would accompany him. which the did.

On the way be care her a bouquet, tbe fragrance of which led her to of It IrequeuU.v. soon after which sbe became delirious and finally ounsciouturw. After a hile sbe partially recox. tied. but waa ajttln drutted, and knew more nnul she awakened on the steps of Mr.

Uptoa'a real denee. She said abe was conveyed In some direction in In company with nun. Aj could be made. MUj Freeman bronchi bon.e a carriage. lure the found her family and in tbe lent vf thla brutal outrage.

MISCELLASROVS. A Post Once clerk In Englandjhas been arrested for stealing his love-letters. A nineteen-ounce baby has been bom lb Rich- xnond, vs. Deer and bean are irequently killed within a few miles of Plymouth Rock. A suburb of Philadelphia Is declared to be green and beantlfnl as a Fenian bride." A police captain tn New York has been mulcted In the sum or for an unjustifiable assamt upon a citizen.

In the Everett Mill, at Lawrence, there are live women whose united weight ta pounds. The income returns in the Third District of Massachusetts, (one division wanting) fur IS6B, amount to against 1693,000 for IS6T. The city or San Francisco, last year, incurred expenses amounting to tn consequence of the earthquake and the small-pox. During 1668, the railroads of Pennsylvania transport 1,751,070 tons of iron ore, and 16,000,000 tons ot coal. A Massachusetts lad recently sold 801 muskrats of his own trapping, and with tbe avails thereof, paid his last winter's turnon at schooL Walter Brown has Just built in Boston the lightest wood wherry ever constructed.

It is so feet long, loyf inches wide, and weighs only pounds. A Louisville mlllncr has sued the wire ot a prominent merchant for slander, la speaking of her as that fancy Mra. and claims damages to he extent of In a trotting match at Washington, D. on the 10th, between Star of the West, Patches, Warsaw, and Mountain Maid, Patches waa the winner, taking the fourth, fifth, and sixth heats. Time, 2:83.

Owing to the dilapidated condition of the ancient wtitppiog post and ptllory at New Castle, Del, the Jail Commissioner of the county are erecting new ones for the accommodation of convicts to be sentenced at the approaching term of coart. The citizens of Toms River, N. In convention assembled, have declared that they do not want to change the name or the place, and the people who do not UKe It, and advocates new name, At the Bums Rouge, Chattanooga, a few nights ago, Colonel W. C. Wilcox, Superintendent of Public Instruction in Knox County, Tenm, was chloroformed and robbed of 19,000, twodhlnls of the amount belonging to the school fund.

Tbe annual meeting of the National Association will be bcld in Trenton, N. on the 17th, isth, 19th and 90th days of August next The National Association of School Superintendents and the National Normal School Association will bold their annual meeting in Trenton, on Monday and Tuesday of the same week. On Malvern Rid, where thousands of rebel soldiers weir burled where they (ell, twenty acres or more have jdat been ploughed up by the owner ot the field, and the plowshare turned to the nr. face all the skeletons. Over the whole tract the bones arc strewn In profusion, and grinning skulls stare the visitor In the face on every hand.

The Legislature of South Carolina has passed an act providing that whenever large estates are put up for sale, and are Ukcly to be knocked down at low prices, the State Commissioners shall buy them op and sell them In lots at cost, giving them, when necessary, Ore years to pay lor them. Alaska scenery thus described: "Take one big mountain, covered with trees from the base nearly to the summit, with an undergrowth of brush, briers and moss, almost Impassable: multiply the one by ten thousand, and you have Alaska There is a terrible sameness. One singular feature of this mass of forest is the absence of birds. I hare seen but oue robin in A correspondent of the Hartford (Conn.) Tinwk thinks divorce should be made cheaper, so as to bring within the reach of the poor, who, he aayr. are now unable to avail themselves of Its as an additional improvement be enggets that" any parties having been married ten yean (previous to the age of fom-fire) without Issue, may, upon presenting substantial proof of the fame (to some qualified Judge) be granted a lawful It has been ascertained that, out of every hundred women in Great Britain above the age of SO, are wires, thirteen widows, and thirty of a little coder 5.000,000 women between SO ahd 40, Id England and Wales, 1,448,000 were unmarried.

A wholesale emigration of women to the Catted States is recommended; but this plan will hardly work, as there la an excess of women In this country alone. In a population of at the last census, having more women than men. A year or two since a young man was marriedin Baltimore, and shortly afterwards left, with his bride, for a home to the Southwest. In the early part of latt week the father of the young man received a trunk from the young couple by express, and, as it was supposed to contain wearing apparel, remained closed until Saturday, when a letter was received wtattog that to the trank was the remains of their first child, which bad died to two or three days after birth. Or course, the trunk was hastily opened and the remains burled It is reported that Count Blsmstk has msdeover- of an offensive and defensive alliance to the Brtttoh Minister at Berlin, in the event of a war between Prussia and France, to which the Latt replied that "England would remain neutral as long as her interests were not prejudiced.

It is also reported that the Prtnce of Wales has received Instructions from the Queen to abandon hts contemplated nut to the Uoly Land, and to return brine by way of Berlin, Brussels, and Parts, in order that he may use bis personal influence towards the reconciliation of ail difficulties between those countries. From among the Alumni of Harvard, there have been two Presidents, two Vice Presidents, eight Cal'lnct Ministers, fourteen foreign Ministers, twenty-eight Senators, three Judges of the Catted States Supreme Coon, sixteen Judges of the United States District Coon, ten Governors of Massachusetts, nine Governors of other States, nine Chief Justices of Massachusetts, eleven Chief Justices of other States, twenty Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and twenty Associate Justices of the Supreme Courts of other States. A. M. Clapp, Congressional printer, has issued an order abolishing the practice, tn tbe government printing office, of persons therein loaning to the employes at an Interest varying from 13 to 90 per cent a month.

Mr. Clapp un: He- nods a high precedent for this action tn the histone record mud fate of the money-changers who had converted the temple at Jerusalem Into 4 a den of and he proposes to abate the evil that has obtained in this temple of Foust by a resort to the some ij in DeanisvUie, and other places in New Jersey, a heavy booinraa Is done In raising cedar trees out of the moiahsT la which they were burled many centuries ago! Tbe wood raised from these burled forests 11,0 sound as recently felled, and mostly made Into shingles. Tree after nee, from to 1,900 years old, may be found one over another the salt marshes on the showing the tmmenae age of the lowest layers, and also showing that the region has been gradually sinking for thousands of years, in one case a tree with see annual was found directly under the stump of another tn which t.eoo wen counted. PARIS. Visit of the Prince Boyal of Prussia.

Rumored Manifesto of the Emperor. Last Journalistic Duel. Theatre of the Viceroy of Egypt. the Oishier Stole, ITBOJt OUB OWN OWUasPOKDkWT.J 1 PARIS, April IWS. public matters, at home Wd abroad, are still dormant, at least to all appearances; that is, there Is Utile or nothing new.

Besides It is spring, the of renovation, os leaves and loves. Thus only those who make a trade of politics pay any attention to them, miserable people, who, while all thingw are becoming young about them, while the Sowers are opening, the birds singing in the foliage, and all nature adorns and perfumes itself for Us spring-time loves, think but of deceiving or destroying thetr fellow-men. Happily the great voice of spring covers thetr Impotent murmurs, since spring sUU reigns despite politics. a riacx. The rumors of war rather lose than gain in strength.

None of the great European nations arc dlmaimlnjr, but they add but Utile or nothing to their military preparations. On both banks of the Rhine, the papers, whose doty It seems to be to prepare the nations for war, here and there growl oat threats, very much Uke a couple of drunkards who scold as they separate. But there arc no more cries, insults and threats, as there were during the preceding months. This proves nothing for the future, but It Is much for the present. Spring, at least, will blossom with peace.

the ntroot roval ot The.Prlnce Royal of Prussia is at Paris with the Princess, and the royal visitors devote themselves to the examination of the dty. would not swear but that, in looking at some picture by Raphael, some bijou by Benvenuto, or the crown diamonds, the royal couple may secretly think of coming unsolicited some day, goo hand, id order to uke possession of them all. There are thirteen hundred million francs to the vaults ot the bank, and a city filled with which tempts even Princes and princesses. But all these things are well guarded at the moment, and those who want them must sleep on their unsatisfied desires. Besides, there is friendship between Princes and Emperors, though it Is rather constrained, like that between two dogs, ready for battle; still there is a friendly politeness.

There are bails at the Tolierfea, where the Emperor wears the black eagle and the Prince of Prussia the grand cordon revyc. Let each man wear the bauble of his host, though thU loots much two Indian Chiefs, doitng a truce, reciprocally lent and wear one another's glams beads. The Empress bore on her forehead the Regent Diamond, the finest to the crown of France. Eight or ten million francs invested to one little piece of crystal: It Uas expensive as as Is useless, and I have never understood why the republic of IS4B, the half republic of ISM, and the great one of 1759, did not straightway sell these crown diamonds instead of resorting to bankruptcy or double taxes. Still, it la none of my business.

nrmui. Besides the at the Tullerleg, mere hare been little friendly visits, where, however, me claws remained under the velvet paw. Thus me papers spoke of one of mo visits of the Empress to the Princess of Prussia In ms following terms: me very moment that Her Majesty the Empress got In her carriage to visit me Princess, the Emperor reviewed some troops in the Court of me Do not you think that this courtesy basaslngularsmeltof powder? However this mat be. ft great review Is be held la waibgue in honor of me Prince of Prussia. Some day me Emperor will go to and will review me troops or King william.

They do this to show one another their strength, as two wrestlers. In old Grecian days, felt one another's muscles, either to inspire fear oc to team the strong and weak points of an adversary. Ido not know what the old athlete cost the spectators, but ours are very expensive. Besides, it a bother to compelled to take sides (o the conflict. If these gentlemen desire to fight, why do not they begin by a private duel 7 The great question here is naturally the dec.

Uons, which greatly excite those concerned. Two Journalism fought a duel the other day growing out of some political discussions, and it is me tenth of the kind within a few months. It was intended that mis one was to be bloody, four shots were to be exchanged, and if there were no results, the sword was to be used The second shot of one of me combatants so disabled his adversary that the conclusion of the affair will hare to be postponed some days or weeks, according to the condition of the sufferer. Besides this Messrs, de Glrardlaand De La Forge, two of our most distinguished publicists have exchanged so many m. suits concerning a Deputy, named Olivier, that mere were sufficient provocations.

The adversaries are not young, bom are well known and have been under tire. De Girardia, me challenged one, answered In a very am using way, which has nearly, If not quite, ended the quarrel: do not see what a meeting between my adversary wra wjw ior nis or mine, it seems to me that It would be more profitable tf each of os took a quire of paper, bottle of ink and a box of pens, and fenced until our ammunition was or TEK DIPCTXX3. While they are thus preparing by various kinds of duels to re-elect or to defeat me present Deputies, the Deputies themselves are examining the estimates. Naturally they work very rapidly, since they are in a hurry to attend to thelr.canraa*. Amendments and speeches are all rushed through with.

There ts no time for talking. Millions unvoted. without contest and without noise, to the ineffable delight or the Ministers, who have nothing to do on a train which goes as rapidly as If drawn by Invisible locomotive. Everything voted me army, the navy and the colonies. Where last year weeks were spent in amendments offered by me Opposition and Ministerial explanations, now not half a day Is consumed.

It is said that they will be through by me end of the month, and that the general elections win be on me 23d ol May. They most, anyhow, according to the Uw, be held some time daring that month. rutxa of not xxterob. There is a report, though It Is a very doubtful one, that cither at the moment of the elections, or soon afterwards, the Emperor will address to the nation a long letter in Justification of his coarse, win dismiss his present Ministers order to take new ones from the new Chamber, and win govern somewhat like an American President with his Congress. This seems to me, at least, doubtful.

The older the Emperor gets the more he avoids changes which disturb his habits, his rest, and his governmental philosophy, which is more and more clearly dconed by his acts and position. It is not, therefore, very likely that he will dismiss his Ministers, and still leas so that he will morally abdicate power. SUB there may be more truth in oil this than I think smoke without fire. These abrupt changes, which are intended to strike minds, and to keep even bis bitterest eae, miea tram being driven to desperation, are common to the imperial tactics of all times and all countries, and especially to those of the Napoleonic dynasty. When the Emperor has some personal Idea In his head, as, for instance, recently.

the abolition of the hooks workmen were required to carry, or the law concerning measures which, he thought, with Justice, would aid in winning him the popular some day presents this Idea to the Council or Ministers, if he has not beforehand. without saying a word, and has published In the official paper. Thus be presents ft to these gentlemen, who, nine times out of ten, find tt admirable, sublime, divine, as all servants do when something is proposed which does not affect them personally. But suggest to tout gardener the propriety of cutting down his wages, and see if gardener or tt is the same thingdoes not protest. Sometimes, though very rarefy, when the rial idea is liberal one, the Ministers object.

I It very simple These petted gentlemen, the recipients of Immense salaries, and who ask tut to keep them, are like thoae large, fat and sleek cam, whose great object is not to stir from the knees of their mistresses. Tnt suddenly this confounded mistress, attacked by some vertigo, points out a mouse. Gut the poor minister is not hungry. Why trouble this distant moose Be prefers to sleep. says the mistress; supposing this moose steals the coming elections, and that from them results a republic No.

Let os satisfy these noisy people by giving them the right to cry out a little, not much, to the papers or the clubs. Let ns satisfy the workmen by relieving them from the necessity of having a.ttUe sort of an obligatory the use of the employer against the workmen. Let os satisfy the vanities I 01 the members of the Legislators by giving them I full play to their oratory. Let ns satisfy the phi- I lanthropista by bonding a kcul Oit which be as beautiful as the opera. Let ns satisfy these turbulent Parisians by seeming to cast overboard, for a moment, my carpenter Baossmann, who bothers them by forcing them to move, and by re- I juvensting Thus be governs, in spite of 1 his Ministers, whom he, however, caresses and pampers, because be is good by nature.

Those who do not comply with his wishes, he pots on one side, transferring them to the amt carpet of the Senate, or giving them some good poeftioa elsewhere. But he pots them out of hts way, and that most resolutely. He has always been loved, even when be was young, nis mother, a good and charming woman, adored by all who knew her, said of him: dear Obstinacy! when he gets an idea to his ir he has a letter to bis bead, woe to the who do not fancy it. If he has any momentary idea of a moral abdication in his mind, were ft but to the better assure his Im-1 pertal 1 believe that it Is the only way to which tt can be assured that he win do tt. Whether he has tt tithe question.

But things look ill for his dynasty, ami are getting 1 worse every day. The Emperor can see and can I reflect, and ft is very possible that he cootea! plates something, and will carry It out or not. I pending on the result of the and of universal suffrage. There ta hardly anything hew besides these election remora. There have, however, been some failures among stock broken, who, after having acquired hundreds of millions during the last twenty years, suddenly lose some miTllom.

There has been a great bankruptcy at 2Clce. A rich nun, who spent about two hundred thousand franca for flowers tn the villa of some princess who la very much ta the fashion, and followed her rather from vanity than from tore, has left for Swttaertsnd, where he has been quietly preparing a repeat. Two or three dishonest caabieta, who have made free with me or two xbUUobs apiece, are expiating la prison tuetreasy wayof deakng with the money of their employers. One of them devoted thirty-seven yews of bis life to stealing seventeen bandied thousand francs from an insurance company. I doaM whether you could in a thousand guesses hit on the use he made ot the money, lie did not indulge in gaming, that fatal passion which is to the aool vbat ahatothe is to the body, the last resort of a sated palate.

He did not use ft to make a nest for hli lores; nor did he spend (tin show, that vanity which tempts all hearts and unoccupied heads. Eight hundred thousand franca were spent on the foollsnest, stupidest and most useless of Persian papers, a ministerial punllcation called the standard. To think of taking seventeen hundred francs from employer, mends and associates to spend on worthless papers! qCxxn isamua at taro. Queen of sorrowful memory, keeps on tpfWng ib mnch of a sensation at Faria as she can. It is said that her friends hare bought from Prussia twelve thousand guns, captured at Sadowa.

That government one tot to ftlm, to be used against Isabella, and then some mote to Isabella, to be UMd against Proa. No second-hand dealer oould get iid ofhls goods more easily. The Queen has also given a great dinner, where figured the Emperor and Empress. Be may bare doue this to Influence foreign politics, or, aa a good husband, to please the Empress, who is delighted to gratify the sovereign of her youth; but it does not please the French mnch; and, if Queens are to be treated politely, they would prefer that soma one besides Isabella should be chosen. Queen Victoria Is one person, but the good friend of Harforlo ts quite another.

No matter how thick the imperial gloves may be, there are certain things which they cannot touch without harm. tizk lorrayss cAntorra. The unhappy Empress Cariotta has been afflicted by a renewed attack of madness. Sow pitiful It la. I know they may say why did she go to find a throne in the land of liberty; but, poor woman, she has paid dear for her Imperial fancies.

Def asband shot, her health destroyed, and her reason dead! it ts too much to be borne by one frail and gentle being, who Is os beautiful as a dream of spring. SOW TO A TtRATKS. Since we are speaking of crowned heads let ns finish by an odd story of to-dar. The viceroy of Egypt is a great lover of theatricals. He loves ample and the stage, as nls ancestors might have loved the god Apts.

New times, new tastes. Owing to this taste, he had bought, at the great expense of his there, more than elsewhere, the people pay (or these royal complete theatrical outfit There were actors, actresses, machinists, as man; os could be engaged. Then this excellent Viceroy began to visit the iheatre with all the interest of a collegian. But suddenly, one fine morning, when be was on the point of leaving, they told him that assassins had placed under box a bomb, with which they hoped to blow up Bis Highness, with all his favorites sultanas, actresses, etc. There were some arrests, and a sadden disgust for the theatre, consequently the performers will return; whence they came, without collecting the harvest of gold and favors which was promised them.

The theatre Is closed. Now the chances are that this was an merely a stage trick, and that there was no more of a bomb to the theatre than to this letter. It was simply the means adopted by the Viceroy to avoid paying his actors, and to close a theatre which coat the country too These old Egyptians are very shrewd. victor croc's worzu Victor new romance, L'homtntqvirit, appeared this week. It is a strange, odd mixture of the great and the UtUe, the sublime and the ridiculous, the fascinating and the wearisome, like all he writes.

I intended to have spoken to this letter of the death penalty, which ts now discusstog on account of two recent sentences. But I lack room. The sun shines. The birds sing. Sly thoughts and heart are elsewhere chan with and scaffolds.

Allow me to leave the guillotine and the new novel untouched for the present. Extra Cakrit. THE FAEH AND GARDEN. of Sheep la Uao Cons and piowi Sam Jones and fain smith nonage Sheir Corn Fields-. Work at tho Industrial Meeting ortho Committee on Course ot study and Faculty.

IPKOHOCE AGWCTLrCJUL CORRESPOKDIKT.I Chamimios, HL, May IL line upon line and precept upon precept, says the teacher; and Ula a true saying as regards the of agricultural science. We have been some hundreds ot yean growing corn In its native country, and yet we of Qitnou make but sorry crops of it. The crop of IS6T is reported at 820.0(0 bushels, of which Illinois grew 74,991,860 avenge of 23.6 bushels per acre; while Wisconsin averaged S3.fi; Michigan. 3L4; Indiana. 9.9; Minnesota, 30; lowa, S3.S; Kansas, BS.fi; Nebraska, Bfi; New England, 3.

Every person conversant with com-grow. log in this State knows that, for soli and and climate, there is no State equal to Illinois for this crop, and yet me average yield Is less than that of our sister States, and a large percentage leas than New England. Even Nebraska bests ns twelve boshela to me acre, and Minnesota six. The remark of Napoleon la regard to me failure of Marat as King of Naples, may apply to us: Murat was a brave man, but be did not know his sub- Jecta." We may be industrious, hot whole do not know bow (o raise the best crops of corn on ihc prairies of HUnota. The best fanners of this country avenge forty bushels to the acre, year In and year out, and a few do better than this, but the great mass make about hall this average.

I do not think our farmers make as correct returns of me acres planted and the actual crop, as Is done In other States, but this would not account for the disparity. We should not be satisfied with a less yield than forty bushels. When we fall below this it is a proper subject of we will find that me land has been plowed too wet, or that It was not put min the beet condition; me seed planted the gicat difficulty, and the father of nearly all the trouble, that we plant 100 many acres. We pot the labor of what is doe to forty acres on three or four times that amount. This Is good plan if acres were me question, bat so long as it is the bushels that we are alter, is a very bad one.

1 have two neighbors who grow corn largely. They have about the same amount each, and yet one makes more money than the other. Both work hard and are well-to-do money-making farmers. 1 cannot do better than to give the working operations of each of taese men. Should I make any misstatements they win pat me right, for they are wide awake readers of Tax tribckr.

I have I bad occasion to speak of my neighbor Bam. Jones on several occasions, and I have no ooubt that bis plans ot corn-growing will interest many or the readers of Trxsckb. Sam ts one of those progressive farmers, whose ambition is to produce me most from his labor, and to live, as be says, like a gentleman, and to be the slave of no bad habit, oc to allow his wort to drive or worry him. Sam came over last evening to borrow a seed drill, and he gave me bis plan of operations for this reason's crop. He has been laying his corn ground off into lands of four rods wide in the direction of the natural drainage, as before recommended, and Intends to back furrow so as to make good surface drainage- After plowing, me roller ts to follow the same day.

so that me clods win not have time to dry oat and harden before the air is let into mem by me crushing force of the roller. The planter Uto follow at once, and plant in bids, twenty-two inches in the row, two grains In the hl.l, with rows three feet eight inches wide. The next thing to be done is to watch the sprouting of me seed, and lust before begins to prick through me surface will be thoroughly harrowed and again rolled. In a few days it will be up, and as the harrow has killed me young weeds, and me roller made me surface smooth and pulverised me soli, me' air will be admitted to the roots, and me result win be a rigorous growth. is another thing that 1 Intend to Sam; mean to clean out my barnyard and top dress with manure all that I can possibly find time to do; will spread It thin, say two loads to me acre.

This I find to be the best put of the plan. The crop must be worked at least tour times with a sulky cultivator, and not laid by unto the brace surface room begin to show; after that me crop must not be How much labor wfnyoa pat on forty acres of cornt? Let me says Sam; I can't plow more than one and a half acres a day on an average. tayr 96 days at $3. 73.00 1 day opening crons drams s.OO 8 ruffing 9 00 8 planting 9.C0 6 harrowing is.oo 8 rolling 9.00 6 cultivating TS.OO 40 cutting out weeds last of 60.00 1264.00 manure hauling wffi cost sis dollars an acre, and I expect to get out ten acres Pretty good figures for forty acres of com days'team-work and forty days hoetog. me ten says gam, we had the dog law enforced, as you suggested to Tsx Tribcvx, 1 could just save those forty work, and let my 1 tarty or forty sheep trim op the weeds; they will just do that.

If yon keep them In the corn-field for two or three hours daily. Put them to the yard at night, and to the morning turn them into the corn, and they wm eat the summer, or annual grasses, and the young weeds. Of course, the lower leaves will go also; but this will do no harm. If you do not leave the sheep to too long, bo that they get the habit of breaking down the com, they win make tt as clean as you can with the hoe. Unless tills dog law is put in force by proper regulations, I must continue to lose my forty work What can you rent that land for Wen, I am offered an acre," said Sam, would be I plant it to corn at a cost for labor Of JftiN pIOW 190.0 I barrow 1 rofler moo 1 planter 1 cultivator M.OO Total Rost and wear on them aiiout per cent Or, per acre.

Add At a yield of only forty per acre this would make the cost of com thinj-Qre cents a bushel in the field. These figures look a little ugly is Sam; tmt then I expect to make more than the forty bushels per acre; besides this. I put la more than forty acres, tad lessens the cost of the use of the Implements for com; then I have the stalks to feed, and make a profit os my labor and capital, besides my neigh, con make me speed a doQarand a half to each acre, when I should have a profit on thirty or forty sheep. My corn la heavy, andi can boat and crib ft for lea per bushel than Torn Smith, who pots la two acres to ray one, and gets bo more cots. Then my com grades Sal, and It win keep 1 car rears.

It is npe early, and I can have it to the crib before cold weather. Taking an these things, my conun crib coats me, rent and an, not over twento-flve or thirty cents a bushel. I look for sixty bushels to the acre for that pan ot the field not manured, and eighty to ninety for top. dreaeeiL Then I route my corn crop with wheat and clover, and. with the manure and surface draining, tbe land is improving." CCLZIVA2OES Aim FLOWS.

44 1 was la town yesterday, and find walking cut tlvators all the go; the deafen tay they cannot says Sam, let them what they ahaff use the have one of Stafford's, the old pattern, that I have used half a doten yean, that I would not sell at any reasonable price, as they are making no more of them; for an kinds of work it is of great value. Vbat I bare one of Toting ft that does good best for hilling potatoes and laying hy the corn crop; one of Deere's cottlrs tors that 1 commenced using late last year that promises to be all that is claimed for Then 1 tried the Hoosler mode at Laporte, and found that valuable. Now, I hare two faults to find with all of these. First Is the price. Fifty to sixty dollars la more than moat people Uke to pay for a and they purchase walking ones at thirty to thirty-five dollars The next point is to hare the cultivator so made that the draught can be adjusted to high or low com.

That is, when the corn is small that (he draught shall be down near the shovels, and as the corn grows that can be raised. As the soli becomes more mellow the team win hare less work to draw the implement, but as the draught is higher the power Is less efficient, and the gain is balanced. They can and must be cheapened, and when that la accomplished they will be as popular as ever. Better work can be done with the double-shovel plow, but only at half the rate. Id some conditions of the soil this taller Implement is In dispensable.

to plows," continued Sam, a twelve-inch la large enough for a large team. Fire Inches deep and twelve Inches wide make sixty cubic Inches to more, which is as much as any team ought to do; If we have a fourteen-inch plow, we most run a less depth, say four males only fifty-six inches; at four and a half, slxtjthree inches, and at fire inches, seventy inches, or one-sixth more power to more It. But 1 want to pulverize the soil, and for this reason prefer a short mold-board. the Moline plows are the standard, we will look at them lor the test. Most of Mieae have too long mold-boards for old land, bat are very well adapted to ail kinds of work, in case one plow is wanted: but what we want is a plow for each particular kind or work, and, for this reason, prefer the twelve-inch plow.

It ts an Improvement on the twelve-inch red plow; but, for rough land, with an occasional natch ot grass, the Moline Clipper, Chicago Clipper, and similar patterns, are the best. The fact is, we have so many good plows now, that there is little trouble fn being falcod. Yt-t there is a growing demand for a smaller plow than the usual inches." To-day I went over to see bow Tom Smith was getting on with bis corn crop; and found him busy with the fourteen-inch plow cutting sixteen Inches wide and a little less than four inches deepusing about the same power as In the case stated above, but plowing over two acres a day. The furrows lay very smooth for the mold-board Is of the clipper pattern. Tom plants the same day of the plowing in most cases, and without other preparation; rolls as the corn is coming up; cultivates three times; lay off in lands with a view to drain; plants to hills four feet and with rows the usual width, three feet eight inches.

Ills estimate as follows for forty acres: 17 I SLOT planting R.w> a rolling go cultivating 6VR) Total Use of implements 49.00 Or per acre. Add Total. rasa Avergae yield forty bushels, or at tho rate of 20 cents per bushel. From this moat be deducted part of the charge for use of implements and The yield is only about two-thlrda me arerase of some farms. In some seasons be gets nearly as much, bat In omen less, man half, from me wet condition of me soil; nor can he work bis land so soon after a rain fall: but be always somethlngto do.

Tom says be la not sure that manuring wont pay, and may he tbere is something in draining, but be baa no time lor either. One year with another Sam makes the most on bis com. in bad seasons be has a good crop that brings an extra price. On returning from Tom I crossed sev. eral fields that were being prepared for corn.

One of these was a piece of unpastoral prairie, a part of a field tbst bad been cultivated and from which stock bad been concluded. Last October it bad been broken two inches deep, and to-day they are corning the same furrows over again, but to the depth of six inches, by the use of three horses on a fourtecn-inch plow. Jt la rather hard work, but me land is In fine condition. It will be harrowed, planted and rolled, and worked with doable-shovel plows. Another field of me same kind of prairie had been trench-plowed, some weeks since, by taming me top two ssd a bail inches, and the bottom farrow the was being harrowed ready to plant.

Some were plowing in the stalks, by using a sharp rolling coulter to cut through mem, while others were raking mem in winnows and burning them. nut. I understand that Prof. Bliss is busy on this farm, with me aid of student tabor mainly, bnt I have not had time to call and see h)m, bnt shall do so soon and report bis doings. This farm ought to give us many valuable lessons, and no doubt will do so under charge of Prof.

Bliss and the farm committee. An apple orchard ot over one thousand varieties ts being planted. It is doubtful if student labor can be made useful to cither student or farm, even under the present voluntary arrangement. The Committee on Faculty and Course of Study meet in Chicago on the 17th. It is to be hoped that the committee will read the law organizing the university, and see If a course of study ami term of school cannot be constructed so as to meet Its requirements.

After we have educated farmers or mechanics in the sciences relating to these industries, we can men fit all those who wish to become Presidents, Congressmen and office-holders at our leisure. At present the demand is for skilled labor. Htnuu LYNCHING IK KANSAS. Two Meb Killed. May it.

In Saturday morning's paper we gave an account, copied from the Kansas City Journal, of the shooting or two men, and the wounding of a third, near Shawnee, In Johnson coanty, on Thursday morning last, characterizing it as on Since then we hare learned the facts of the case, which give an entirely different complexion to me affair. it that the four men, Frederick Beanie, Alien Beagle, Clark Odell and Alex. Tussey, who were fired on by parties concealed in the brush, were members or an organised band of horse thieves, whose depredations In the year or tiro past had caused the town in which they resided to become (he terror of the surrounding country and a reproach to the county, it was well known in the country around that the thieves who were causing so many losses resided to or near nee, but their organization was so perfect, and their operations so skilfully conducted, that it was Impossible to convict the guilty parties by law, or, in fact, to gain sufficient evidence to authorize their arrest. on the Sunday preceding the tragedy, the four whose names are given above attended church la Shawnee, armed, and after the services cold the persons assembled that It was repotted that they (the thieves) were to be arrested, and stated at the umc time that there were not men enough in Shawnee Township to do It, and they defied them to attempt it These boasts were afterward repeated on the streets. On last Thursday night thev attended a ball In the vicinity, armed to the teeth, and also boasted there that they could not be arrested.

About 8 o'clock in the morning thev left the ban and started together toward the home of the Daigles. When nesting the house, a company of men, who were lying to wait, fired on them from the brush, killing (Mell instantly, mortally wounding Tosaer, and slightly wounding one ol the Beagles in the arm. The two Beagles no into the brush and escaped, and have not been seen since. Tuaaey lingered until Friday morning, when he died from his wound. Odell was a young fellow or 19 or 20, the only son of a respectable widow lady, and was perhaps the most innocent one of the lot Tussey was a notorious thief and rascal generally, had served oct a sentence, not tong before in the penitentiary.

He was a brother-inlaw to the two thieves named Clay, one ol whom Is now lo the Penttcntiarv, having bees convicted to this county, and the other was sent there from Johnson Countv, served out a sentence of six months, and was discharged recently. Also, his brother Is now tn jail some place in Southern Kansas on the charge of hone stealing. The two Beagles are young men residing with their father, who, tn common with the boys, has not enjoyed a first-class reputation for some yean past. cm the night before last (Sunday night) another chapter was added to the story. As we learn it.

about fifty men, members of a vigilance Committee, visited Beagle's residence, probably under the Impression that the two bova were concealed there. Not finding them, ttiey took the elder Beagle out, and gave him the alternative of telling where certain hones, supposed to have been stolen bv the boys, could be found, or otherwise he would be decently hung right there and then. lie wisely chose the former, and, as a result, two very valosable mares that were stolen from one of the lower counties were found concealed at a place designated by him. They also visited, on the same night, several other suspicious characters residing to the vicinity, but, as far as we can learn, did nothing more than to give them certain instructions in regard to future conduct. Yesterday morning a number of the members of the same committee, who had been Informed that the younger Beagles had gone to Southern Kanni, starred to pursuit, declaring that thev would find them before returning.

If such should prove the case, their fate can be easily predicted as these men are now thoroughly aroused, and are determined to not stop as half-war measures. In this connection we may state that from private lattoattunr we infer that this wtu not end the wort or the vlguanta. Certain persons who have been known as thieves and rascaii tor seven) years pact, bot who here to evade tbe law, are residing in other localities, and it is thought he best tor them to renounce their eni worts immediately, ud walk bescelortb la tbe straighten paths ot rectitude. The Locomotive from Xfe Ferl ZVfegrsm, Jfay i The locomotive America, which was built at the Grant Locomotive Works, Paterson, K. J- In ISS7, and sect to the Paris Exhibition the same year, where it received the gold, medal, was brought hack to this coontrv.ana has been purchased bythe Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific Railroad, and goes to Chicago on Monday to participate in tbe opening or the new road to Omaha.

She lies at the foot or Thirty-third street. North River. She is a splendid and massive engine, and well deserved the compliment paid to American engineering sun over European competitors by the award of the gold medal. As she to play ssch an important pan ta advancing the future greatness of the West, and Is protv ably one of the finest, if not tbe finest, locomotive ever built, we give a few details of her construction. she being adapted to express passenger and differing in no respect, except in her elaborate finish, from the locomotives now built at these works, from which they cum out two a week.

7.38 6.00 The dimensions of the engine are as follows: Diameter of eniader Length of stroke 3 inameterof driving wheels Diameter ot truck wheels. 3 6 118. 0 Wheel base of mameter of boiler Length or boder tubes. Surface of fire boxl Grated area US copper tuba, inches diameter. Vegetating Worms, Frew the Leader, May Ik Accompany tag a letter received from fireekenridge, Caldwell County, Missouri, written by Mr.

C. E. Ingersou. is a package of grubs, worms, or terra of some kino, which present the singular phenomena of having a root or sprout growing oaf of the under side of the the before ca, some of the roots being ftur or five inches in length. gruha lave legs plainly seen, and a large or like and.

In every case, tbe sprout stares oat from the under side or the We copy the following extract from the letter that accompanied the specimens: I have found a curiosity, of which 1 send too a few specimens, as 1 think win be new to my RtooaUngton mends. These grubs were found on a piece of faff-plowed prairie that was burned over tola spring. Everywhere i have looked, on my place, 1 can find these gmba. some of them haring two roots, and some Croat five to six inches in length. My brother that Dree ataxic noea me says he can find hundreds ot them tn every WASHIKSTON.

The Pacific Railroads. Reflections on the Golden Spike. Talk on the Alabama Claims. aiount Vernon for Sule otm own i Wasmsorox, May s. Ills on encouraging fact that while we have not stopped the abuses of legislation, those abases have not stopped the career or the coantry.

When I look at the Pacific Railroad's in Con. gross I most not confound them with the Pacific I must not suppose that In the dull eye of Oakes Ames laid the vast conception of toot Hon cone, the Bow of Freedom set between the sign that the republic shall not be destroyed. I most not mistake for the Credit MobiUer that galaxy of untiring minds, pathfinders, reasoners, orators, editors and patriots which never rested tfll the people and me politicians accepted the great railway with like zeal and enthusiasm. In the lie like leeches at the government subsidy, 1 most not hear the arguments of empire and of human faith which rang between the seat, subdued all local Jealousy and opposition, gad will be heard by posterity the more earnest and resonant. Around all high designs some envy, simony or Intrigue creeps.

When the new earth was made there was a celebrated intrigue In Pandemonium to be as Mr. Painter said to Mr. Stanton, or they would bust MUton gives the conversation of that ancient In somewhat more elegant terms: Here, perhaps, Some advantageous act may be achieved Bv sudden onset, either wuh hclWlre To waste its whole creation, or possess Ah os our own, and drive save were driven, Tbe pony habitants; or, ft DSC drive, Seduce them to our The railway, any rate. Is dowe. The golden spike is driven.

Tbe continent, impaled upon those ties, nailed with that gcVlco token, submitting to that pals, is delivered up to mankind. Gentile and Jow are tree to traverse 1L Between tbe old sod New Testaments of Asia and Europe, it is tbe way and the life. It solves ten thousand problems, and makes much of the history of difficulty and sacrifice no longer possible. Magellan need go do longer round the Southern Cape, nor Franklin tempt the passage ot the Northwest, road across tbe isthmus, revived in oar time, is once again, precipitous and round-about. Tbe parallel of light and motion traverses the temperate tone.

Upon this narrow band concentrated the commerce that was diffused over boundless seas. To us in the East this railway is of less moment than to that little milllon of people who live along the pacific coast, and call us the Old Folks at To somebody we are oM, To the Pacific coast we are Europe. That ts queerer than the we can be called by Hawtheme's title of Our UM Tet, across the ferry, at the other end of the road, live a vast people to whom Moses and Joshua were young Americans. 4.45 The railroad ap to tills time (be greatest achievement of tta kind, bat it has demonstrated no new thing, and therefore mankind Is not excited about it A railroad can be carried anywhere on the solid ground; through the tomahawking certainly through any tribes which Asia tains, and therefore it Is to be apprehended that before many years there will be railway command cation between Russia and Constantinople or Alexandria and China. The old questions in every event wIQ come cp of cheap balk, compensative freights, etc.

Who can hereafter solve the great question of transmuting the car-load to the ship-load, and rice WM, That is the next problem, and the solution of it lies in higher than portage-roads, elevators, or cranes. How to make a ship take to Itself that possible I remember In the old days to have seen flying over the Alleghany Mountains. The canal boat floated upon a truck, and the truck went up the mountain grades carrying mules, skippers, and all the modern improvements. People who live on fhePaclflc tell me that the surface of the tame is Uke an animated duck pond much of the time. Now, they are building ships in water-tight compartments.

How may It do to raise the bodily, oiled with cargo, and distribute them to Take a ship to pieces and make a train of it 7 Uncouple a train, Uke a pnzzle In blocks, and raise steam in In short, let a tram resolve to a ship, locomotive to marine engine, and driving wheels to paddle wheels 1 Then an engineer will be a human Pterodactyl, and be aahore or anoat as he is required, scarcely knowing the difference tween the All this merely fanciful, and the Immediate question the new railroad. By the time you get this letter the last spike will be driven. Though of gold, It waa the cheapest spite ever driven by California. And here, in the East, there was little rejoicing over the completed road, because much East is fully grown and has ceased to he sanguine. New York Ls the only dty on the Atlantic slope where there la a really strong, determined and unanimous public jealousy; the rest of the cities on this coast are accomplished and expect to grow from witnln, not by adhesion from without.

The Capital Clfy expressed by no sound, nor gay bunting, nor movement on the highways any consciousness mat the golden spike waa driven. To the Washingtonian the rhyme of Peter Dell well applied: A primrose on the river's brim A yellow was to him. And it was nothing more." there was rimr in thA silence ol the couniry. We all made festivities when the Erie Railroad was opened and the godlike Daniel rolled his sonorous commonplaces. Where is Dunkirk Where la the Erie Railroad 7 With one terminus in a Fenian Head Centre, and another in Fisk's Opera Boose, the panegyric said over the birth of the Erie is a terrible rebuke to ns man's estate.

Like the festivities at the birth of Louis IVL of France, and bitterly revived by his family In is the association of the Erie Railroad's beginning in the minds of its stockholders. The country is at this time so engaged in public works, experimenting to see which shoulder can best carry the national debt, and otherwise staggered so manifestly before tbe tremendous dilemmas of Its destiny, that sees the pacific Road completed as a dally laborer wees the sun go down upon the planting of the last furrow of grain, turns into bed to dream of to-morrow's reaporisibilities. In the White House General Grant received several visits of congratulation, that dnnng his administration the oceans joined bands, their coasts bolted together at last. I took up a book was George Tucker's History of the United there I found what'was tbe great public work and the government subsidy fortyfour years ago. 1993," says Tucker, scheme bad been some time agitated ol connecting the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays ty a through tbe State of Delaware large enough for tbe passage of vessels of considerable burden; and on the question of appropriating money by the United States in aid ol Us execution it encountered strenuous opposition.

The appropriation was carried by US votes to Tills was the great event of these days. How like a penny seemed that subsidy to the mighty sum in credit and land we have given the Pacific Railway. That tbe government may not prove to be insulted in its generosity, let it take care to waich well Its interests in the grand railway, and till they are proved good against rings and black-mailers, to drive the golden spike against further philanthropies. While a good many people have asked, What will Europe say to the speech of Mr. Sumner 1" I think the more incisive question to be.

44 What will Europe do now that the Pacific Railway is opened before the Sues Canal. Shall it be a steam ferry or an international canal boat company And on this very question of tho Alabama claims, I have a little authority to give. STSLX OK mk BClCtnt ALAhkXi. O.HV3. I had a conversation last evening "with a distinguished public man, on the Alabama matter.

It is always unpleasant to ask people permission to pitui conversations, and yet, very often, truth comes more pithily la this manner. The few sentences which 1 communicate to yon of this therefore, are sent at mv own discretion, without the name of my interlocutot yon please tell me whether the sterna treaty was rejected on account of Mr. ,4 I think he said. position of Senator Sumner I think to be extravagant and untenable. His demands have made the whole British people a unit Bright and the extreme Republicans are among the foremost to say that they cannot subscribe to such terms.

Mr. Sumner bases his main opposition upon the Neutrality prodamadon of May, and wa most be certain that this la the objective point of the matter before we go forward." 1 think," aaid 11 that we have also issued such Neutrality proclamations, ns, for example, when tbe Spanish colonies Stunner," he continued, not only that we Shan make tbe British pay the cost of the vessels actually destroyed by prtratcecre, but the estimated cost of tbe gross injury done to our commerce by the war, and also, helnctxnatea, the cost of the undue prolongation of the waras affected by British privateering and Britlih sympathy. It seems to me that a powerful nation wm object to the boundlessness of a demand like that. It opens op interminable speculations, makes the real danger tgdsflque and seta the English people tn a passion at the outset." is what the bqya crowding tbe Mr. Sumner's case obtains the sober, as If seems to have obtained the impulsive, senttmeut of the people, I hold that one of two things win follow: Ether we must be disgraced or undertake an unjust war." How do you explain English people have already alleged that the demand la too enormous Sumner for the people, is oor demand.

Nothing lesa I But we don't mean to tt. We mean to let tt stand nil there is some oppormaity. We expect you to pay, Immediately the people who own these claims against the British Government come forward to the United and say: want to be paid. Too have taken these claims tn balk upon your shoulders. Here la one particular account.

But, says Mr. Scmser, on! We are going to wall OU we get England In a fix. We are bolding your account over her To thia the creditor win probably reply: great nation ts Jours, Indeed. I must wait OH you can creep upon England Wea, men, the other hum of the dilemma Is war. I do not seek to look solar Into misfortune as to ask whether we or tiigiand shall be victorious la such a war.

do see that we are the only Protestant nations on the globe, the only free ones amongst great States. And such a war would give tyranny eremrbere unbounded satisfaction. Tbe age would go hack eighty or ninety years. Our burdens would be increased. We might get satisfaction, but we should get more than justice.

Mr. conxtnned he, think tt is below the nature or to bo saving up injuries. Either we have or have not an account. Let tt be a prudent, a definite, a reasonable account; and, aa this la a buatneaa matter, let be arranged- without any dramatic Mr. Sumner lays much strut upon England's obduracy or 3 4 square.

square. 13 ea tcart. He her to be sorry. That to a matter of conscience, which a nation, collectively, cannot deal with in a business difference, Mr. So inner, perhaps, ts Cashed with the congmuladons be hat received upon bis speech, bat we sbonld be careful to accept no doabtlul logic because of Its elegant syntax.

This is one of those pave questions which has consequences greater than mere literature. Let us be elegant welike, bat let ns be It prudent to let Mr. Sumner print this speech, delivered, as It was, in secret session stop that Senator Tom Benton claimed Jhat be had the right to pnat hla speeches, with dr without consent and he always did why did yoti PPpose the Reverdy Johnson-Stsnley treaty thought tt adangerdba treaty. It let In all other classes of claims both sides, and amongst them, I iiave no doubt, would have been urged the rebel loan held In England. That loan, you will remember, advanced tea per cent on the promulgation of tbe points of the treaty.

It would have been brought lorward on the pretext of international law, that, as we had extinguished and absorbed Confederate Government, we were liable for their public debt held in foreign nations. By the terms of the treaty, also, an umpire was to be selected between the whose decision was to be ultimate. With our diplomatic material and remote influence upon the powers of Europe, I thought of point distrustfully. Besides, the time of the treaty was Inopportune, tt was upon tbe going out of an unpopular administration. Everybody was dissatisfied with the President.

Minister Johnson's course In England displeased the populace. We should, 1 think, crest again, when a second thought comes to the people and harmony prevails at CIVIL sEKVICE TO BE KEOKdAXIZXQ. In txime further remarks be expressed the opinion that at the next, oradjourned session. Congress wonld take up the civil service question and do something with It I find every member and Senator of decent and patriotic to hold this view, only the caucus and dram-shop people dissent and those who would perish politically If left to respectable resources. There have been a few improvements in minor matters, bat they are of little note compared to the gluttony and greed of the grand scramble.

It reminds me of a barbecue, where the government lies like an ox upon the stewing. Impregnating the air with its greasy the rabble closes In with fingers, hooks, sticks, and knives, and comes Off raw and bloody morsels to eat them without bread, till surfeiting and vomiting ensue. Tht new of tbe Senate, Mr. French, sold tones week ago: am used up. I never knew tbe ordeal 1 should have to go through when 1 took my office.

Women come there every time 1 discharge a man and cry. Next day they come back and cry again. They cry In relays, taking turns for each other, and my feelings are kept on WSMA Mount Vernon neighborhood for sale. They are repairing the old boose there, anti 1 went through tt the day Grant made bis visit, the destruction of my clothes, which were shakes full of whitewash, 1 could not help expressing toy surprise at the progress of comfort in oor day over that of Washington. The room In which he died has a celling lower than a laborer's.

But few people now-o-days have bis contentment and lore of country Ufe. There be died, to the sight of spadons and breezy nature, preserving that which hie virtue and valor woo. the superstition oi himself. No great city peered In, and, seeing him every day, reasoned from bis soul to his smallclothes, frt.ru his tradition to his tailor. He burial himself away from curiosity, and died where every great man mast die to hide from anecdote, whether he be Washington or Shskspeare, or Charles v.

or the country! EEMAEKABT.E ESCAPE. A Prisoner gets Tlurongh Stone Walla. tbe Daxtnport Cburtte, Uaj 7. Michael CJancr, the murderer, escaped from faf at some hour between it o'clock Wedncsdav ngr.l and 6 o'clock yesterday morning. At the latter hoar the jailor opened Mike's ccU door, oq.i was astonished to see day light pouring into it as If from a side window.

Ue saw on the bunk what appeared to be legs, but upon examining the same, he only found Mike's pants stuffed with straw. At the north side of the cell, a foot from the floor, was a hole in the wall, big enough for Mike or any other man to crawl through. Under Mike's brink was the solid block of stone which once sued the opening. And through the wall which separates the corridor from the parlor of the Sheriff's rosideuce was another bole through which Mike had forced himself. Once into the parlor all the fellow had to do was to raise a window, a feat which be practiced last February, jump to the ground, scale a fence, and go where he pleased.

All this he had done, and was probably miles awav from the jail, when the jailer discovered his escape. CUncy most have been data, if not weeks in loosening the heavy stone to his cell walk The stone was twentv.four inches long, twenty-two inches in width, eleven Inches thick.and weighed about SCO pounds. of jnst such form the walls of the The cement In which they are laid Is one-third of an inch thick. Mike manufactured the tool for removing the cement out of the lower hoop of the slop-bucket In his ceil. The lever which he used to pry the stone from its place after he had loosened It, was procured by him weeks ago, probably, and waa formed from a thick bar of Iron, which be removed from its place in a ceil occupied by him some weeks ago.

It was bolted into the rock at the aide of the door, the bolts being held by onto, and was the brace against which the celldoor closed. He removed the nuts, polled the top of the bar forward until broke, leaving aa handy a lever in his bands as ever man bad for jail-breaklog Row be procured the bar, after being removed Into hla new cell, is a mysterv. But procure uhe did, and it served him well, The mortar which he dog ont of the wall was probably thrown into his slop-bucket, and by himself thrown into the vault at the rear of the corridor. It would be Intcrestlngto know bow long he was at this difficult work. The prying out of the heavy block of atone must hare been a very dliflcnlt operation.

Indeed, It seems almost Impossible for it tahare been done, without assistance from the ttUi Slur, uiu btnrongh the hole It left was easy enough. The hole the outer wall referred to above waa already made tor him by stone-masons, who are engaged in facing the wail with plates of iron, to prevent any more such deliveries as occurred in February last. The wail is twenty one inches thickness. The hole made by the masons Is ten Inches high bv twelve inches wtdtn. In the centre of li a projecting stone lessens the space by a couple of Inches.

It is four feet and a half from the floor, and almost fronts the celL Beneath it stood a carpenter's bench, without which it wontd have been impossible for Clancy to have poked his body into the hole. But through the 'place he went somehow, and in doing so be must have received a squeezing like that which Baron Trench experienced in bis renowned chimney ascent. The room into which this allowed hun was vacant, furniture having been removed on account of mortar dost. Be raised the window at the north side of the room, was upon the ground and over the fcnco in a minute was his. Where he Is now, toe Sheriff would hke to know.

The jailor examined cell between io and o'clock Wednesday night, and discovered nothing wrung, cm the wall outside of the cell pictures had beenTpostcd by Clancy or some one else, and from them hung a paper, which neartr touched lie floor, covenngthe atone upon which be bad been opemtlng. The jailor nlicd the paper. but saw no signs of the removal of mortar. In fact. Clancy most hare left a mere shell of mortar at the exterior, and punched itoot when ready to leave.

Day before yesterday the grand Jury visited the jatt Clancy complained to them ot a wont of air in hw cell at night, and one of them became excited over the matter, and denounced ne closing of tbe plate-iron door at night as a barbarous act. Ctauccy has air enough uow. Yesterday the jury were to the Jail again, and not one or them could bectn to lift the stone that Clancy toot from the wall. An Illinois Divorce In a IVcir Vorlc Vorlc Conn. From the York Timer.

Mtfi IL decs C. Einner v. Abby A. Ktoaer. in this case the defendant demurred to the complaint on two grounds: first, that it did not state facta sufficient to constitute a cause of action; and second, that tte Coon has no jurisdiction of the subject mattar of tbe action.

Judge Cardoso, at Special Term, decided that the demurrer waa well taken, and that tbe complaint could not be sustained. Hence Judgment was rendered for the defendant with prom this dedal on the niuntijf appealed to the General Term, hod the cause wxi argeed at the April term. The latter Court has now affirmed tbe Judgment or the Court below. The facts briefly stated are. that the defendant was married to one Edward Pomeroy, to the State of Massachusetts, to the year In ism, Mr.

Pomeroy went to Chicago. UL, as alleged, for the express purpose of obtaining a divorce from his wife, according to the taws of that State. The hill of complaint was there filed, and a divorce asked on grounda which were not recognized by the laws of Massachusetts. Afterward the defendant, Abby went to Chicago, put to aa answer, and on these pleadtogsadetreeof divorce was tn due time granted by the IQlnois Court. It was claimed that this was a fraud on Massachusetts.

Alter the is to aay.onthe ssthot June, IS6I. Mr. Thafldeos C. Kinnler married the defendant. Abbey A.

Some time after this Mr. Kinnler, as he states, became satisfied he bad been imposed noon by his wife, and he commenced an actios to this coon to have the marriage annulled. In his complaint he aaks the Cotut to say mat the contract of marriage made by him with the defendant, cn Jane 2S, Isffi.be declared annuity, and me Illinois decree void, on tbe ground of fraud. Judge Ingraham, In delivering the opinion, says, to substance, that the comolalnt cannot stand, for three reaeena: That to the Chicago Conn there was an appearance by defendant. and an answer put by her.

which was not replied to. That plaintiff cannot avail himself of aocu causes to hare the marriage between himself and defendant declared void, when he had knowledge of the divorce, and of the fart defendant bad gone to Illinois to procure the same, and this because she did not wish any pooUctty shout it at the East, a. The time which has elapsed since the nitools divorce renders the decree absolute according to the laws of that State. la a final judgment there, and of binding force. An From Jfereer (Pat.) One of the most extraordinary cues of peculiar formation tn the human body we witnessed few days since at Hotel, Mercer, in me person of a colored man.

a stranger. It la hardly perhaps, to cal) it a cue of malformation, as tie phenomena were entirely internal, the mas presenting no onosual appearance whatever. This person, by some Inward mosenlar power, which fie cannot explain, can shift Che position of his bean at win. We went to see him. not believing more than half that we had been told, but were convinced in less time than it takes to write it.

Be requested ns to satisfy onrselrea that hla heart waa in the position usually occupied by orsan. placing oar hand on his breast we ooold feel Us beating distinctly. He then commenced a series of with hla abdonffen. rolling tt over and orcr several times. At the concinaion of this striking exhibition, we placed oor hand upon a imnp bis left tide below hla waist, and there the heart thumping away aa If nothing onoaoal was the ter.

a lew more contortions tbe iratr organ passed across the abdomen and on toe Hit kept cp ita work of throwing tbe Mood through the system aa regularly as If in Us natural poatuon, More contortions and it travelled back home, ita coarse being easily traced under the skin HU it peaeed under the riba. The man then commenced a sort of rotary motion ot the bowels, apparently turning them over several times, when we felt a complete set of ribs covering the abdomen, the regular set being in them nnai place. Turning the bo we la in the opposite direction the false nbs disappeared. On being asked tf his parents had any more children Ukefaim. he replied that he bad a brother over six feet high, who could reduce hla statute to some, thing fcs than three teen believe him readily after haring witnessed the above performance.

XbeWideiref General Macomb and Her Niece. A correspondent of the Cleveland Ltader called on Mrs. General Macomb, the other day now a verv old lady. and living tn Washington, she Is veare old-Tbe old lady was pleased to the writer with whom she had had a pleasant interuveral years ago. Be then had a talk with the niece.

Miss BaJch, which he follows. was a pastor of the Congregational Church fifty-three yean, and rather. Dr. Raich, has been pastor of the Cooatgational church fifty years. My parents live at Manatees Oh.

we did ot course; wecUdbare any amount of trouble during tbe war. prom wen-to-do' we are now in abject poverty. Bather is too feeble now, at is, to do maw. and I do so want a place in some of the departments that I tnsardotbe myself did apply to Secretary McCulloch. and be at length fonod me a place, and after I done crying over the bit or good lack, I went to take my place, and I found the Iron-clad oath was to steep for am yet, a rebel of the warmest kind.

UcCaVoch though! 1 was too nice about It: but I told him I was a reeel at heart, and though I was willing to take the oath of leglance prospectively, I coold nm in tru intake it retrospectively. He said, Consider It a week ami write your father about I did, and cried an the week. Father said I was too scrupulous: bnc I up the place and all the pleasant little comforts which I had thought that gsoo would get What did 1 do? it was rather what I did not, and would not do. I would not tell the when Major Mosby was there, or which way he all rebels, father and all, and tbe big. gent kind, too.

General Lee is a relative, and i think him the beat man In tbe world, and Grant the worst. General Lee was here Sunday and had a mind to call on him. Do you think It would ixr wrong to call on him Sundays 7 I know that. Of course Lee would bare taken Grant if lie conM, but Grant had no business to go down and Invade irginla. Ido give it op and do submit Just a man submits to let the Sheriff put a rope around bis he cant help Yes, I was Just as honorable to your side as to oor own, for once.

I walked five miles to Colonel camp. Your guards treated me welt, and Colonel Covode was a gentleman. He asked me no questions sad gave me all the sugar and coffee I could carry to mv old parents. When I sot back Major Motby was and sat dow 9 with pen and paper to take down an about the camp of the Isold would not take long, for I wonld not gfve him a won! of Informal tlon I had been treated honorably anil I would be honorable. He was sanitised and asked: Are the ankees honorable I told him that it was enough for him tint i was, and he left.

Macomb was lova) all through the trouble." MILITARY IEWS. Items from Lieutenant Cienerai Headquarters. Brevet Major L. M. Kellogg has been assigned for duty with Company Coded States lafoa- Tie of the Second Cavalry bate transferred from Fort McPherson to Omaha Barracks.

Captain Phineos P. Barnard, Fourth infantry, has bees assigned to duty as A. C. at Fort Laramie. A circular has been issued, from the office of the Commissary General ol Sobs faience, at Washington, directing an disbursing officers in the service of tbe United States to return to the government, under pan of dismissal, all premiums made on the sale of any Treasury note, draft or goki.

commttud to their keeping. Major General Reynolds, commanding the Fiftti District, State of Texas, has Issued an order saving: ladder to imure eT.ctire coopmskm and Abe to provide better protection lot tbe frootieT counties tofitau the commaading of the following rlxr For Brown. llinggcJJ Forts MclntoahVEHioean. Clark. McKsvrtt.

Concho, Datia. Quitman. BUm. Griffis, Rich art Greenville. San Antonio and Camp Stockton, will cause to be Bade an of the citizens of the counties pinbraesed wilhlaliwv limits of their respective poets.

The enrolment of each county will Include such number of tbe Pose may deem expedient. They will be organized in detachments of about twenty-five men. each detachment having a Captain selected by the Post Commsedt-r. These citizen Soldiers are to turn otitonUus of hostile and with the The foJJowlnglmportamorrter. dared Kichmooil, Virginia, Mar 7, has been promulgated by Major General canty; Hereafter all bodcvi appropriated for tike support of the Penitentiary cf the State of Virginia will be drawn from the Treasury, only upon the warrants nf the Auditor of Put tie upon specific estimates, hy the Board of Directors and the Executive of the State, and all other funds in the hands nf the Gcci-rsl Agent or Superintendent, whether accruing from the sale of fshnca or the hire convicts, or from any source whatever.

he paid Into tbe Treasury at the of each mouth. All records and other property pertaining to the offices, and heretofore. In the rionor under the control of the Adjutant General of tho State, the SiiKriotenfient of Public Printing, the Cleric rf the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Delegates of the General Assembly, will be (transfi-rred fa iiic custody of the Secretary of (tie Coinoioou eahh. and all dimes devudved upon either of the alvwe-named eftlcrrv will hereafter, until further be performed by the Secrrtarr of the C-xnmitaxrraitb. All elected or spp--fated to dril office.

whohsvesiihecrJbod theosth office of July i 1962, sed filed the same with County Clerks, or with other civil officers, as required bj taw, will cause duly copies cf said to be wade and filed at these headquarters, that their ability to qnalifv under tluv nre'httioti of Congnas. passed Ftbnuiy 6, be definitely asepitaineil. A failure to f-ir- wtllbe an ladlcatloa that the office ts vacated under the resolution Oath. IMi a yi'iui I Ulru, Major General Schofield, Department of the Missouri, hue ordered that of the Department be held to strict accountability for grain sacks received by them. The custom of expending as worn ont," issued with most cot (e practised.

Lieutenant Colonel llenrv C. Pratt Is announced Chief Quartermaster. Department of the Lieutenant colonel Dwight Bannister, Paymaster United States Amy, is ordered to report to General Alvord, Chief Paymaster, Department of the Platte, at Omaha, Nebraska. REAL ESTATE. Warrantee deeds for city and suburban property within seven miles of the Coart House filed for record on Thursday, May 13: Cornell st.

eo ft eof Ross st, or, sixmo ft; March West Twentj-flrst st, 24 ft of Paulina st, sf, ft; April SM Seward st, IST ft of Eighteenth st, 33 April is West Washington st, IQS ft of Curtis st, tL with building: March West Twenty-first st, 334 1-11) It of Reuben st, nf, sox 133 It; April Low Miller st, 24 ft of Gurley st, ft: Mar 5 Miller st, cor ot Gurley st, ft; May 6 Orchard av, 99 ft of Willow av, 66X ft; March 24 North Clark st, cor of Maple st, f. esc iso ft; May 1 North Clark st, 100 sof Maple st, f. 1U) ft, with buildings: May I Hortbat st, 270 ft of North wf, 6-lw ft: March 31 av, lao ft of Thirty-third at, It; May 8.. 9,373 Archer road, ft of Grove st. ae 480 ft, running to river, with buildings; Mav Burnside st, 300 MO Itn ol Thirty-thinl st, May 1 1,939 WJCTH OP CITT LIMITS.

Dm, April 12 xit bub lota lioeemerkcl sab. Sec 58,14, west of railroad: Feb. 33 ladlaon si, cor of Chestnut st, llox I 180 ft; March 19 Kwnhsrkar, corofFfftv.eighth st and Frederick place, a cor of iJftyelghlh at, three entire blocks; July 1 Laomlale av, Sw ft of Fifty-ninth st, 99H8U ft; May 1C rg Cottage Grove av, 119 ft 9 of Fortv-thlrd st, ef, 119i3n0.V ft; April a Railroad av, 133 ft eol Wentworth av, Uvsl'rt it; May 1 OF CITY LIMITS, Western av. cor ol Tyler st, f. iThx 128 6-in ft, and cor of Ty ler st, 5DX135 ft; April Crops.

Ths New Albany (lod.) OnanemVil of the I rib says: Advices from all over the State report tlte wheat In a very flourishing condition, with a prospect of a very heavy crop." Tke Belvldere (III) of the nth. every Indication of agood trait Mam Apples and cherries, particularly, show an alxmdance of blossom buds." Tftc Garden Ctty Qlton.) Herald of me Till says: talk of the wheat In this nctotty has been sown. Last year the fannera were ai least a month earlier tn getting in their Tbe Aiwa (Iowa) Cniuu reports an exceedingly floe prospect for spring wheat in hat section. The winter wheat Is not so good. The St.

Joseph (Mai timid ot the llthsaw: From farmers from all of the country, here to attend court, we learn that there will scarcely half a crop of winter wheat, in some parts of thecotmtrr a considerable portion of the winter wheat has heen plowed up and planted (n corn. Near Horae Shoe Lake the grasshoppers are coming on tn immense The Clark Cotir.tr (VS-'la.) HepnUienn learns that the winter wheat loots well ami promising. The Peoria (IIL) lirmncmt ut the nth says: The farmers jo this WoodforL ami Tazewell- Coantles report fine progress cora-plantlng. The season this year Is earlier ami much more promising than hut." The Grand Rapids (Mich.) of me 10th says: The impression gained by a glance at the along the Detroit A Mllwantee Railroad, between this city and Grand Haven, is, that tbe prospect for good crops Is very flattering indeed. The heat fields show a good color, and are evidently starting into rigorous growth: and fruit trees especially loot promising.

The peach-bmia are Just bunting into mu bloom, ana their flowering is profuse, if the fruit sets one-quarter aa thick upon the peach trees aa their appearance cow Indicates, most trees will be so heartlr loaded to require careful attention and much thinning out, else they will break beneath their burdens. The Aledu (HI.) Record of the 12th sara: Winter wheat was not much injured, and loots weU. Spring wheat, oats and grass are growing rapidly, and present a floe appearance. Nearly all kinds of iron are in mil Moom. The prospect of aa abundant yield was never better.

The Jackson (Mich.) Citizen of the nth urs; wheat was never better at thutltne of the year. The froit crora, without excepttoo, are now showing a prospect of a large The Winona (Minn.) Republican of the ISth says: 4 1 am Inclined to the said an obeerring gentleman residing in the country, to the other 4 1 am tot lined to the belief that thu ts to be an old-fashioned wheat An old-tashlooed wheat year. In Minnesota, with good soil and careful tillage, implies an average yield of from so to 23 bushels per acre. Whether the result this tear will justify our friend's prediction we cannct but tbe prospect thus far la certainly very good for Its realization. The breadth of ground town to wheat this year is aaid to be excess of any former year.

It la gratifying however, that other cereals have not been neglected. Barley, for example, has beea more generally sown than in any previous year. Preparations are also being made to core upon a more extensive scale than heretofore." Tte following are reports from the wheat crop in Missouri: In Douglas County the wheat looks weiL heat in Howard County win nearly hide a rabbit. An Immense area has been sows, and the Sjond is covered wan a most thrifty crop. la ray County there wasa greater breadth of wheat sown than in any previous year.

There has seldom a more promising prospect for an abundant crop. In Cooper County the wheal Te Jf looked better, and more corn has been planted than ever before. Crops never looked better to the southern section of Jackson county. The greater portion of the core planted is are inches high, in every portion or Balls county winter and spring wheat look more vigorous than at any previous time, at tins season of the year, la all sections of Madison County the prospects of the growing wheat crop are most than it has been tor ten years past. Some lean of the chinch bug are entertained.

la Cole sod adjoining counties the wheat crop looks as protntvtng aa was ever seen In that section. In wage Cotmtv the wheat is looking finely. The wheat crop of Pertis county win far exceed that of last or any preceding year. The fruit and wheat oops in Spencer Comity. are reported to be very promising.

The Fond du Lae (Wls.) Reporter savs: rowtegwas about finished to this county on Saturday. hot the wheal waa put rather roughly. The first sown la up and growing nicety The prospect for a large crop of spring wheat this part of tbe State not very flattering." Tima from ail pans of tne country represent the wheat pecta more lavorabie than lor yean. An unusual, JS5 5 well Dd la Tlgorc growth. Peaches are so a few weeks without frost win tnrore a bouncmil crop.

Apples and the small fruits are an right and lIQ CoQI SI' Kansas, early-sown fail wheat looks first-rate. The later sown does not look so welt No spring wheat is cultivated this rear. afln Promise of a good yield of fnilt of au UndA Peaches in other portions of the State are killed; but, in this county, there la a fair prospect or a good peach, crop. Lumber. The Polk County (Wia.) Pnm detailed estimates of the amount of logs cut on the St.

in Minnesota and Wisconsin, the past season, the total footizgs of which reach 195.t00.000 feet. The estimated products of the different streams are aa follows; Beaver Book Apple Elver Main Saint Kettle Elver. Sand Creec. Snake Elver Yellow Elver Clam RJrer. Wood Elver Namakagon Elver.

Totogatic Elver. Total amount cut on an 3,000.00 a 3.300.00 a c.ooojoa.