LAND TITLES, soil Another Ticw of the Question. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune," Sir: Thus far those who have given the public their views upon this knotty question through your columns, with’a single excep tion, have assumed that the solution must be found in a combined law and equity sys tem. through which, by judicial decree, the title to each lot or interest therein shall be lived or declared, which decree or declaration' shall became the point of now departure, as the government patent was originally. Because the equitable claims mav be ex tremely dithcult of adjustment in some the general conviction seems to bo that all the property of the Countv of Cook must necessarily pass through the chancery mill or some modification equivalent in its nature, and that the niuetv mne cases where no dispute can arise can only be established by the process necessary to bring order out of confusion, caused bv adverse and conflicting claims of the one exception among the hundred. In my view, these essential differences be tween legal title and equitable title need not and ought not to be ignored now more than before, and the attempt to combine these titles so essentially different ought not now to bo made any part of the plan for present relief, because it can only hinder mid mdclmudj- postpono all practk-al relief of the present necessities. The suggestion of your correspondent “T dated hov. 1. and published on ,*sd, of a com mission appointed by the General Assembly to examine and select a set of books, etc is aIM» objectionable on the score of delay anil dilnculty of reconciling conflicting claims as to the respective merits ami accuracy of the several existing sets, although “IV 7 sug gestions as to the necessity of their possession by the county and becoming }irinm fade evi* deuce of title must be followed,because there !s po other way open for us to pursue. Aow if we can once leave om of mind the idea which seems to have become fixed—that *pust have. of necessity, a “brand new title m which must bo tix'ed all equitable as well as legal claims, and separate the de mand for legal from that for equitable relief contenting ourselves with the former and leaving the courts, as before, to give ua the latter upon application therefor, I think the knots will easily untie, without recourse to the fearful and wonderful mill prepared for, Us hy Judge Gary—the passage through j which must necessarily divide a large portion of the realty of Cook Comity! among the legal fraternity and the court othcers, as comiieusation f*»v their skilful pilotage and safe lauding in the safe harbor promised. I fear that the brand wctc fitfcl that we should get by Judge Gary’s process would be encumbered by so heavy mortgage that it would be practically worthless as the basis of future loans, when so obtained. And then even Judge Gary, with hia fear ful process, cannot promise us that onr relief when obtained is substan tial that the legislation he proposes will quiet our titles, or that we will not be subjected to the same fearful grinding, annually repeated, so long as a shadow of equitable claim remains to bo brought forward. legislative action cannot exclude claim ants in equity from assertion of their rights whenever they become possessed of the means or proofs necessary to sustain them. Nosueheummary'qiroeeedings “In rcm.” can by legislation be used to shut out claims in equity, and the futility of the attempt to do so would very soon become apparent. The 1 Judge says, in his letter ef the od, that “No r/vpar/c declaration of any tribunal will suf fice." “Laws providing that such declara tion shall be pr/jjifl/ticif evidence of title” be «ie_ Jtecordei's oiliee, slif) hear mam thfi»r face, as well as by tin; Ifeeoidei's en- ilursi'iilPut. cyhlcmvs of their authenticity. Hut these do uot constitute a chain of titles. True. Au4 we need to show an un broken claim from the J.*nilc«l StalesGovern inent, or from some decree ::f a Court of Chancery to establish in tin? minus cf those wo rely upon for hums, ami as ptm’lptscrs, ile same eontulenco we ourselves jmssess in otir right and title to our possessions. Well, we have all paid the Connty or Cook for perpetuating the secondary evidence through which this chain of title could he formed by adding link to link from the begin ning mud pow. A pari of the value of our property counted in as well as depended on tills jKTpetnatioyot record evidence for which wo had contributed liberally-- tjie poor man with his single lot equally with the *ich man with his whole square. The Legislative brstich of our fctntegovermnent enacted that such records of original Instruments should, in absence or loss of the originals, become ,secondary evidence of the contents of such original documents. CokU it not Just as properly have enacted in the beginping that the sworn ofliccr we call Ilecutder should make upon the record hooks an abstract of the leading features of such instruments, in puvcuj ofa verbatim copy ami that such ab stract c£onhl bo in absence, or loss of originals, evidence to the extent of the in formation «übodp*d in the abstract of tho contents of the originals? Wesaj’yes. That niody 01 evidence would hayfi tyen, though possibly not so complete and perfect, eonally as reliable, provided the Kccorder had been honest, truthful, and ex- ercised a clear judgment in making the ub- stract. Now tlic records beingtho crealjjrcof legis lative enactment when the same power could by similar enact ment have chosen any other clVectnal fonu of preservation of the desirable testimony, the Legislature and the county authorities are miner obligations to restore as fully as it is possible to do so what has been lost. Of this there can he no question, pud I am sure that even Judge Gary will acquiesce in my view that the con stitution does uot debar ns from this right, Mid that the game legislative power which once emitted that the recorded copies should .be come prinm fatif evidence (secondary) can now, by similar enactment, provide that the reliable abstracts still in existence in the original indices of the abstract forms shall take the place and have equal force as the records so destroyed. U Is hardly necessary to -state that for y ycafs these indices have been consul ered so pertegf pud reliable bv expert exam iners of title, that when abstracts based thereon ami cciiilim by the ab aiffli-Tore to be corrected wording to tlnSlr indices, ’have been presented for of title. They have been ac customed to rely upon the abstract, and. except in rare case*. hd'’e noi thought ii necessary to examine the icjords at all. These as well as tin; bksof maps, also preserved, *iv; known ty be accurate, and to contain every oahUf::)) fiitrv affecting titles and surveys, aim v y--rial care has boon taken to nolo every irregularitv or defart which could cast douh't or suspicion upon the perfection of the title, and put purchasers and others, aside from the real owner, niwu their guard. Ami through means of these indices, the legal title can he readily and certainly traced without the in tervention of any court or commission, •while evidenees they contain, in reference to the equities of others, are invaluable to claimants who have real equities to he ad judicated, 'ly plan, then, in short, is this That the Cornu y of Cook cLuil at once hoeome the possessor of all these indices and maps, and place them in custody of the Recorder. pro viding an absolutely safe place of deiH>sit for them. That the legislature shall provide that they (ami all similar hooks in alienees of destruction of the verbatim records) shall become tlm public records of the countv. and prime faae evidence of condition of ttile at their latest date prior to the lire. That new sets of books for verbatim copies shall be oiK-ned and continued as before, and that the Recorders ollieiul duty shall be to con rinuc to post all records hereafter made in these indices. Tjiat a complete conii>ila(ion be made which shall combine in one new set all the information contained in each and all of the existing books. That wherein discrepancies mav be found to exist between the several sets* of hooks— the amipilershall report all the facts to the Circuit Court, and the court shall determine uikjij ('Xtiimuatum and evidence to bo soiiebt for if noccooafy by ouoli a jn-ocootling in run.. u!ibfe?ntr? r> rt cua, !U d s which istbere- That uo oilier declaration or decree el.all b« BoUßbt for to ratabli.li, or attempt to establish, leral title bat that all questi,,,,, of equity oliaU.be left a. lieretolnre. lobe de cided ii|Km petition of parties in interest in chancery proceeding. in usual form Tt“>t tbe county itself, having’ once re c*tri4 full compensation for preservation ol the rqc(«d .evidence, which it has failed to dc. effectually im&F the present statute, shall VOLUME 25. diSnSf T U i I, 1 11 when so again na-nnl in l >i l, note tlle record Kn i r tb ‘he existing index, vieivs 1 ,11 ,bat bi Plan, and these uit .ni,. f s l i d Ut "i 11 1'lcee ns all, with em /i, !h. ''i a 'V- tban ,bu bret week of the title a lvt i ic I ssl, l position as to title identical with that wo occupied ‘‘f, “n, ~f tb lire. And ar husiness of tmying, sell securing, mortgaging, releasing. &c., could no on exactly as before! II hum of all titles being in aisput.iblc would ul once become current lor all these purposes, and such as were in dispute puss through tbe process of adjmlica non-upon tbo equities involved precisely as tiJ ev would mad we preserved the records. i lie question arises. Why should the coun ty secure all the books I And, again How can it secure them if the present owners slumM not consent to their transfer to the custody of the Recorder To both these questions 1 have a satisfac tory answer to give when necessary. A third question is. Where is tho authority to ellect this matter? The Board of Super visors posses it, and, if disposed to exercise it, the way is clear. *l ,at “I* hyr ious impediment exists: that all the details can be satisfactorily ar ranged, the bill prepared, which will be within the limits of tho con stitution, for legislative action, and which the Supreme Court will sustain fully. Since this article was first written 1 have paius to advise with two of our most reliable real estate lawyers.—one of them a prominent public officer—who both cordially approve all the features of this plan, and agree with the views and arguments I have presented. And I invite criticism, that we may be able to Hud, if possible, a better way. lours, respectfully. 15 Chntkl Ac., Chicago, KN THE LOTJISVJXLE ACCIDENT. Fatal Panic at the Colored Baptist Church—Eleven Women and Children Crushed and Trampled to Death. From Uio Louisville Courier, r*ov, 6. About half-past U o’clock last night a slight accident occurred at the colored llaplist Church, on Fifth street, near York, which was productive of most fatal consequences. 1 lie church is a two-story frame building, arranged for worship in either story, but the upper room is handsomely fitted up. and was occupied last night, at the time of the accident, by a large congregation. The piU mt is.m the rear part ol the room, and there is a small gallery in front for the choir. Iwo narrow stairways, each probably lour feet wide, nse just inside the maiu door of the building, nud lead to the room. The door is supported by a row of pillars, extending from front to rear of the lower story. It appears that these pillars stand over the space between the lower joists, and rest only on the thin plank of the lower floor. These explana tions are necessary to a proper understand ing of the dreadful alfair. The colored pastor, the Kcv. W. W. Tay lor, had concluded his sermon and was about to take un a collection, when the pillar sup porting the floor, just in front of the pulpit, gjiye way—broke through the thin plank on which it rested below, and the weight of the audience caused the upper floor to sink a lit tle at that point. The accident was accom panied by a loud noise of the breaking plank below and lh« cracking of the yielding tim bers, which startled a number of the congre gation but all might have been well if some one, frightened out of prudence and without thought of the consequences, had not cried out that the church was falling down. Ihe panic that instantly ensued was abso lutely fearful. The uarruw stairways were crowded in a twinkling with a struggling, shrieking, crowding, pushing mass, lighting to get out, the strong trampling the weak,ami the weak going down beneath the rush of the surging throng like so many reeds in a hurri cane. The minister, retaining his presence id mind, strove in vain to check the tumult. He urged all to remain quietly in their seats, shouting aloud that there was no danger, and raised a hymn, in the hope that it would have some ofleal in restoring nuiet. He was ably seconded by others, but. for u tinje. they might as well have attempted to stem thecur- i rent of Niagara. i Men jumped from the gallery to the floor, and joined the rush. Numbers jumped out of the windows on the south side of the ehtirch, alight ing live or six feet below, on li»«r of J*. 11. Ikimum’s drug store, which json IlifcuiiiTc'' Fifth ami York, mid ad joins the church building The stairwavs were crowded with women, and men jumped over tin* hand rail upon their heads, ami crawled out on their hands and knees over the throng, who had become so jammed in the door;v>ay that some of them hud to be palled out m order to loosen the mass of human beings wedged tightly between the casing and primal «h by the crowd behind. The benches at the head of the stairs were crushed and broken by the struggling crowd, and the partition and the dour at the foot of Iho stair on the rijfht of t he main entrance were shivered and torn to w by the torrent of humanity that poured’down to.: "lens. Weak women and little children were Mvlrie.l ;:j;der the cur rent. and tossed. ami trampled, ami citmhed by the {.dr-mirer nfl*n and women, who Were absolutely cr&ry with fright.’ Lucira panic stricken, desperate throng ig eqldoni seen. The niching, crushing crowd wefd«liiieting and yelling in fear, or pain, or excitement", ami loud above the dm rose the livmn of those of the congregation who remained in liu,;- seats. The scene was truly fearful. Neighbois Pedestrians for square, around mshed to-’ the r”d the police were speedily on the ground. 'A atesm om-;* lugJ been sent to the “Copper IflosSoin** en gine bouse f“r assistance, ami gave the alarm "of lire; which brought the en gines out. Those who succeeded in getting out of the building had a* imiment to gee and I think, ami were sobered instantly bv observ ing that the building wgs not Vailing, and that the panic was dangerous to life and limb; those who remained inside continued singing ami endeavoring to nuiet the furious tumult. Uy tin* continued etiorts of all these, aided bv some rigorous measures adopted by those outfiidetolmwenthe jam iuthedoonvav ami u» ihc stairs, comparative order was at length result of the panic begun to be iiecii'lh’all it* hqnor. ♦.'um bers wen* helpless from exhaustion in i7ie struggle, or from being crushed almost into insensibility others were in hysterical eon yultmcs from fright still other* were groan ing and writhioe fr«m iiguries, external and internal: while, ih the moUt nil, lay elev en dead bodies, killed outright in the few brief minutes of the fearful conflict. Vitiier suffocated or trampled |o death by the reck less and desperate throng. Several of thu*e were picked up ii; tlie yanl. They had either been crushed in the church and carried out, lifeless uml limp, bv the surging crowd, or they had been trampled to death after they had passed out of the door by the frantic rush of those who followed them. Tv.p of the dead were children, one apparently a \c-.ir the other four or live years. The rest were wo men. and it was the subject of frequent re mark in Hie imipegse crowd gathered at the church that only killed. All with whom we talked, ami who "witnessed the terrible affair. Mated that the men were wild with affright, and bore down and tram pled the women without merev; vet the swim was not without its redeeming fea tures. .Several asserted that they saw wo men lifted u.; bodilv out of the throng inside, and thrown head fojemosi .ever the heads of the crowd into the antis of Hieir iridela at side. One woman attempted to jump our of a window, where the. fall would have Livyu almost reriainly fatal, but she was seized v two or three, *Ho forcible held her back, anil thus probably saved her lire. iho conduct of the pastor deserves great praise, He retained his presence of mind throughout u«? srhoje terrible scene, and with his deacons and those of his eoiiTreca tion whom they could influence, he contrib uted much toward restoring order and preventing a much greater loss of life ami limb. A few minutes after tljo tumult was got under control, the bodies of the dead were yarned into the lower pan of the church ouuaiug; live were laid out on pews, and six on the lloor m fnmt of the pulpit. As the rehitiNes and friends of the victims recoguiz- L \V?*n V s tu ir Brief and wailing would “J. L (1 :l •“■•“rt <'f stone. Mothers »oic WtiipMiir ami immmm; in agony over their eluMreu. lavishing ear,"'os ilium the iiiniiiuutr forms; l.rutliers -ilul sis? ers ivere crying aloud ami wringim" tlgdr hands, nr slandnigm deep and tcarfnl li, silent .anguish over the Corpse of a sister and one old man was on his knees beside hi-l dead wife. rucking Ins body to and fn,. and alternately pray inn ami groaning. ’i‘ho i... mentations of some wen- loud ainUpmlrinc "bile the grief ot others was deeplnit h comas, ami they evidently stmggll-d h ini to truions" 1 I riakl f out ”<™y demon- An injured woman named Matilda Payne who lives with Mr. Hiram Smith, was‘in o v i L ‘o7k'“ a ,r ,1 ri| llt uf the main door“ evidently Biillernig intensely, i t was |H>Bcd, from internal injuries. 1 Three wounded, two women and one man were takes into Barunm’s drug store Onk’ one of them, Betty Btikes, wholives on Tns ton street, opposite Knapp’* Garden, wiis found to have any bones broken. Her left leg was fractured above the knee. Another ono of the three was a woman said to be from t raukfort, who was suffering from vio lent hysteria, ami who was taken l»v Willis Atlanis (colored) to his home, near thb corner ot Hancock and Koselanc streets, to ho cured for until her recovery. The third only suf fered some slight bruises, and was soon able to walk homo without assistauce. The following is tho list of the killed: Mrs. Louisa Owens, lived on anallov, be tween Ninth and Tenth streets, Bhd had 521.10 in money in her pocket, $7.50 of the amount m silver. Tho money was given to her (Laughter. Mary Muuday—Her husband, George Mun da.y, was present, and took charge of the re mains. Sarah Letcher, lived ou Teuth, between Walnut ami Grayson streets. Rogers 111 Trabue livetl with Or, Coleman Babe McO ruder. Louisa Payne, a child four or five veara Sl d M?.ferSmTth™ ,njUral Tb^li«d Ihim.'r' 1 1 118 liv, a wbb ber father. Thos. uut 1 tae coruer of Second and Cbest- yearold. Wt ll chiltl of Melinda about one Anna Taylor. huS&Sss? I!ved iu tlie rcar o£ tb°Jew Coroner Weber was notified, and, after in< l n i r i* n to the affair, postponed the holding of an inquest until 9 o’clock this morning, m onler to include in the investiga tion the condition of the building. In the meantime he permitted the friends of the riun^STti/ 0 V lls cbtt i R0 of remains and o them to their homes. Medicines for the sufferers were offered gratis at the drug store of Mr. P. B. Barnnm. adjoining tho chu-ich building. Then, is no doubt that the pillars which Hipiiort tho upper floor of tho building have liooii so placed as to render them of little val ue in sustaining tho weight of a largo con gregation. It was charged that tho archi teet had been guilty of most culpable care lessness, and that the building should be con demued as unsafe. This disaster is one of the most striking il lustrations of the evils of a panic in a large crowd that wo have ever recorded. No one was hurt, except m the pushing and tramp iV?,. tl throu S' A “‘TO fright produced all this disaster and death. INTERNATIONA!- COPYRIGHT. Letter from William D. Appleton ia Ad vocacy of an International Copyright Law. To the Editor of The London Timet Sir: In passing through London on my way home from the Continent. I find the English press warmly engaged in discussing ihe American copyright question, and as the publishingturn m New York of which lam senior has been made the object of special reprobation by your correspondents, I ask space for a few words of rejoinder, and for """'“"'■BWstiouß upon the general subject kich I think called for at tho present lime. In your editorial strictures upon this ques tion of tho 14th of October von remark: “We do not suppose that anything which could be said alter the settled determination of the Amencans,” etc. There is no settled de termination in the United States to with hold justice from Lnglish authors in respect lo property in their works. As an American publisher of largo experience. lam in favor Vi n international copynght law, and l believe that this conviction is shared bv a largo number, if not a majority, of my fef ow-cilizens. That this feeling has found but partial expression hitherto, and that no overtures ha ve come from us, is due, more m-VVi 1 suspect, to tho maimer in uJiR'Ji the English press has chosen to deal 'VVi 1 lO BU^j<; ut. The most ell'ective weapon of the enemies of an international copyright law in tho United States is a hatch of English newspapers after one of your periodical ex plosions upon the subject. I am harm* however, to note that there are signs of amendment m this particular. It is a stand ing charge, and lately re-echoed in all direc tions. that the present treatment of English authors by American publishers is disgrace lul. Although popular novelists, it is said, may get something decent for their advanced sheets, yet the hard-working authors of vain able books get nothing, or “such paltry pittances as are not worth naming. The number of those who make books and get very small pay for it. or no pay whatever, and whom no laws can ever help, is very large of cottrso with ns as with you. for only profitable hooks can pay. lint under existing arrangements all hooks of value «mn be made to pay very fairly iu £e United Mates, and if they do not it is duiMii a great degree to the ajuljor’s iqismanagement. To the above charge, as it is broadly made and generally believed here. I am able to give a Hut contradiction. Tho honao I n.mvscnt has liron labomiK for ,vcar» to ™latili*h di rect relations with English authors, so that they may got the fcntin* protits of author ship on our side, and in paying them wo have put them upon substantially the same footing as our own authors. ‘Wo have not waited for an international copyright law, but have practically anticipated 'it and given your authors its benefits. There is a standard of payment with us to our own au thors which us generally accepted as fair and just, and (in consideration of such ad vantages ag ‘ihey‘ci,u give us) all your au thors with whom we could aiTsmbo wo pay upon this scale; and not on your novels merely, but upon grave works of philosophy, science, and history. Of the numerous books, V^. w I,M P ,e l,f Hubert Spencer, Dr. Tyn dall. I'roleHsor Huxley. Mr John Lubbock, and Mr. Darwin, which we publish under tins arrangement, and which arc certainly not very light reading,” every copy sold nays jn author what ho would have were ho born m hew’ iork; JVo have paid thousands of pounds upon such solid works.'bave urged this syntein upon yuij authors,and have paid them tiiriee iu* much on the lirst year’s sales as they asked for advanced sheets; knowing that we lost an immediate bargain, but be lieving that the establishment of the princi ple would m thcend be best for all. Wecora i».U’c r d Vms policy a dozen years ago. have’ gone on tvueuuiii* y t '~r by year, and with in these hist few months a scheme has origi nated with ns to carry out tho plan-more i systematically. for the benefit of a larger number 01 young authors, and on terms more i advantageous to ibem than any copyright can ever secure; lint, if \riil bo aEkwl.-do you not reprint foreign' I moles without' flic authriiv coijsejit aqd without payfiient 7 To vvmch I answer, certainly and often. But observe the circumstances. By the laws of all countries the author’s right to his property in a book is contingent upon hia asking to have it protected, is iicver recognized unbwa he cojnphes with certain, requirements, amt! p bmUed time. By his neglect 1 r kfffsttr tire book common I properly, as it does, qt any rale, at a dale, ft n book comea to us unprotected by 1 law, and nobody protests, we treat itjjust as pubbsljers. treat a book the copynght of which has expired, and just.as they treat American hooks, whether anybody pro les.s or not. But if tho foreign U^A or ap VV-**; i lls a first, and we then publish Inn book, wo hold our sel vea mora|ly hound to pay him. It is taken for graute l all rpniid iq discussion that the Americans mo opposed to an in'torua- W:?:?Vr w V? ,I Y? t °'i evidence f That EngLuid has proffered it, and we have rejected U—perhaps over and over again. But tins only proves that wo object to cer tain forms of it. I deny that the Americans lia\ ee\ or icjecicu ««ii authqris international copyright law from you,or ever had a fchanco to. if England has offered the United Matos a treaty shaped for tho simple protection of hermit hors m that couufiy, it is adipjo niaticsecret, and lean qssuriyoff ifiuMr lean people havo never suspected it. Xu scheme you have over proposed stops with ns nominal purpose. Avowedly an authors copyright, is really an authors and publishers copyright that is de manded of us. ton may not see the difference: Apie.ioanu do 1 hey see that while the au thor has a just piaipj toe publisher 14,1s up 1 while ovbrV arrangement ui.L y- suuiii jias Jiiiberto offered is hut a kind ot'legal samuc f'.T ‘-Im fibgHsh pub lisher to ride his author into the AmC-Tir”!! I s vull understood with ns thatj oiirprollered forms of copyright are 1 If*™ 1 1 l f t au *fiore than in the in-1 ttrestof the English hook nmuufacturer. and t is these forms that the Americans have re jected. Any treaty which makes the English author and the English publisher joiut par rt S^ l>lyu> negotiated I bi the t wii governments, would bo repudiated 1 by our.poo.de 111 a year. Thoy belfevo ear m their policy of cheap hooks, and wil not expose it loathe peril threatened by an English publishers copyright. The supe rior advantages of our system are i' tn 1U Canada. The Canadians will have our cheap reprints instead of your honest editions, and lo this the English Government consents, suspends tho laws of tile empire in the case of a single province colludes with the “Yankee pirates,” and robs its own authors that tho Canadians may have our cheap books. I savs rob its authors, for although a 10 per cent lax is levied by tho Canadian Govemmeiit ini reprints from tho United States for the benefit of the author, I am informed by London publishers that money from this source would bo a curiosity. The United States now contains nearly 40,- 000. inhabitants, and they are eminently a book-buying people. _ Tho American market for Lnghsh books is already great, and is destined to become immense. I be iieve that our people would rejoice to upon tins vast opportunity to your intellec 1. a ,orerß Thcyare not ungrateful; they know the extent of their obligations lo vour thinkers, and they will be glad to do them lcn wri y is shown. But they !ifSt*!! e n tf el Y es V cr^ competent lo mau antlM»!sti ke cm hotly your own neJ.la ?pith their H 1 if aud Uistes-and iu tliis opinim Vl ..V’ 0 .’"‘erfenwl with. I am of Inin to m^b.?S.°. antllo s “‘terest, reqmnng licatiun I !irn«M U tra I» 8 or American repub and taking mr iV American publishers, maUfcS™ e h 2f*¥- MPon hookas eitiroiy CHICAGO, FRIDAY. £TQYE]\IBER 10, 1871. pectedly called upon to make thiscommuiiica cation m vindication of my house and the American people,and the occasion hascompell me to speak more from a pergonal point of view than would be otherwise agreeable; but I feel sure that my brother publishers in America will substantially agree in what I have said, and would have taken a similar course in like circumstances. As to the Eng lish publishers, many of whom are my cor dial friends, 1 trust they will not be offended that I have presented the case plainly and directly. Nothing at present is more de sirable than to divest the question of the false aspects lent to it by passion, prejudice, ignorance, and class interest, and to deal with it candidly, broadly, and searcbingly. Having recently adjusted one of the most embarrassing international differences that could arise between two nations, it is surely not impossible to settle this on the basts of equity and mutual satisfaction. A few words now to my assailants. Mr. Collins says we reprinted hia novel, and paid him nothing, which is very likely, although I never heard of it. The book was probably one of those picked up at a slack time to keep meu at work, aud I trust the author docs not Hatter himself that international copyright can even help the case of such books. But. knowing nothing of the fate of his novel, I take a random shot: if ho will indemnify us against loss we will give him all the profits. “M. D,” complains that we reprinted his Body aud Mind,” and ho heard nothing from us. Our complaint in that we heard nothing from him. \Ve published his largo work by arrangement to pav him on the sales, as we pay our homo anthers. The side has been slow, yet we paid him something, and expect to pay him more. Wo con sidered that we were fairly entitled, when ho made a new and more pop-ilar book, that he should give us a chance with it. Ho chose to commit it to n lork branch of a London hov.*- xu« the lesson of the rs*. i' mat. he put his faith in “bnuir>\-. M.D." is b'.ui ical in regard to the do.ags of “respectable” publishers. Let mo remind him that it was widely whispered in the United States that .his work was more deeply indebted for valu able but unacknowledged ideas to “Spen cer s Sychology (which happens to be wide ly read there), than is quite consistent with respectable authorship. He applies to me an extract from an American medical jour nal; 1 might retort an extract from a British medical publication confirming the impres sion current in America, but 1 have alreadv trespassed too greatly upon lyoor space. Wm. D. Appleton*. ir tmi II lofinu Of D. Appleton Co. 1G Littlo Britain. THE YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION. Return of the Advance Gnard of General Roucr’i Party-A Good Railroad Route Claimed to have been Found Across the Rad Lands. From the St Paul Press, Nor. 1 Some of tiie members of the exploring ex pedition across the country from the Missouri \V"? w *fo" e owt by the Northern I acme Railroad Company, to annoy a route for their road, have returned to this city. r David 11. Livingston, connected with the citizens' train of this exploring party, the particulars are obtained which are given below. t £TOy. ?osser a ud h l B Party of engineers left tort Rice on the 9th day of September, accompanied by seven companies of infantry and two Gatlin gnus, under the command of G.MM'ral lustier. Messrs. N. P. Clark, of bt. Cloud, and Slayall and Wilder, of St. Paul, furnished the transportation tor the expedi tion, Laving sixty-tire men and about as many teams in their employ. A ftt T. tyrt Rico this expedition iiu lla /flowed General Snily’s trail of IbOt. shortening it m many places, and crossnig and recrosHiug it many times be fore the bad lauds were.reached. When the wonderful breaks in (ho prairie, or gulches, were suddenly encountered. l L precisely where General Sully struck them, and General Rosser's partv en camped on the same elevated horsebilino platoan where General Sully made bis camp <;'!“ered tbo Mauvaiscs icrres. l lie Cutlo Missouri was also crossed where Sully forded it, and the same narrow ravine was followed up out of that fearful chaMii. After the high rolling country was reached, on the opposite side of the had lands, the route to the Yellowstone was verv nearly th«; sumo as .Solly's, and the river it self, which was reached on the 3d dav of October, was probabjy approached from "the summit a of .the clill.s by the sanm' broad, Ite w l *>rh was discovered “3'General huliy s iilackfoot guide. General Kosaer found that the distance from Fort Rice to the Yellowstone. po miles ll.lwrl 1 was about three hundred .iml fifty miles, measured by an odometer. Jteturmnp. the distance was shortened to two hundred ami .seventy-live miles, the little .Missouri having been recrossed at the same point, with a prosiK.et that more careful sur\ejs will reduce the distance somewhat below this figure. General Rosser bus not yet returned, but lie is said to have given it as his opinion that tlm whole route is feasible for a railroad, and b e ni" U competent engineer, bis judgment can be reljed un. The engineers, citizens, and soldiers all de clare the trip t» have been one of extreme hardship, and tin? number of anathemas hurled at that locality generally is said to have boon innumerable, as well as extremely strong in point of emphasis. General Whist ler himself is said to have exhibited some considerable scarcity of piotv, especially when ho had no water for drinking purposes e«ngmcnnr, hjy Wmits in this respect were limited, buccessful aftciYmU' VvetC made in various places in boring tor water the party wore more fortunate IbanSullv's I expedition in the matterof wood, tho team sters loading thelrempty wagons with fuel to be-used in emergencies, thereby avoiding the necessity of using buffalo chips, which showed commendable foresight, for the com were unusually scarce on ac count of 1 prairie llrcs Which had 'recently swept over the counlrv. Forage was •l1kV» scarce, and the hopes were limited to seven pounds a day, which was severe on horse i*bjl nialiy animals iliod ou the trip, ri-iviiicston hays that on tbo lit of October, while tbo expedition was enjoying it a Sunday's rest on tbo Cottonwood River about twenty-tivo miles east of the Yellow s‘"lll‘; a J 'bbßUian named Walters started Hilt pro-.jiectm£ for gold, and when about 1 three nines irom camp iicsnnka bole, and after getting down about four feet found splendid diggmes, and the gold quite coarse. «>n™. two (lays after, ilr.'Livingslou and John C randall tbund gold bearing quartz on tile low bars ot the Yellowstone. -Mr. 1.. afterward procured a pick and shov a H J b'lind line Heat gold in diliereut places I w!.U, ,l h S "Vl"'rs «lse. Livingston and ".alters are both old miners. Colonel Inman. bweat favorite with the citizens, was v erj successful in securing a piece of gold agat 1 1 !,u lz Vl as a enat number ot Coal is said to have itt'en fouml in abmnl wiiT. Hi r comSpiids with the statement* made bv others who La\e nrospected «p that beautiful valley. ll, iails,Torr s V ,m ‘hiriiij: the whole time this part* were on their journey, ami as there SiM? “T 1 0 attempts were to be made bv the sa\aj.es to obstruct the passage of railroad ColincrMUuo^^^ waasates aturtt il out on this survey it was with the £WW I0 “t> i H ,u lu fonn u junction y ith sJilnor Roberts on the Yellowstone, but ne i.,“h J‘ r ouavJy not cot along as rapidly through Montana as he exiteeied. At all events, nothing was seen or heard of him by Rosser's narty J PE IS ON BARBARITIES. I.lfc in the Indlattn Stale Prison* Cincinnati Com mtT ctaiVk rites from Indinnnpolis: in'iiliHVA 110 1 1 1 tlir £P years a man has been S W, e l nsoll fcrtumty by writing a book wnhtho above c.aptiou. It has just been published in Cincinnati. The 19 c VV r ly novel and the skilful execution would do credit to Ntist. Bv a a l n d modesty, the artist desires Ins name withheld. Ue is a Ins* 01 f Kiilv Cin r by and lid inf,, i.‘ fcar hat should his skill lietome known, it would militato against las success as a Galon. TUIs snipula? Seumalit-esiuM. Louis, and should lienot succeed m hw chosen and beloved profession bo has an unfailing resource in his pencil* There are sixty of these womk /wt small and Rroat.aud they of themselves tell Vy one 'vbo hi! neen tuoro. Iho story is written bv J H Ranks, who according to his own biography was brought up in a Christian Jfew Eucland J™;! 1 041 K sood so a blesTcd e witli moro than ordinary talent and a liberal edn cation; coming West he became invSwedin a difhculty (that’s always the mild wav suited'in *jP vo of s l’ oakin K finally ro- Priso! for tothc State rnson ipr three years, ilr. Banks’ fS, (iy IP Rneoi, was a hard one.“”,id w itb rare powers sf observation he seemed to take m every detail of the prison hirihi ings.; the routine of misery was familiarized tolnm by degrees. A lino wood-out of the prison accompanies this chapter- hut thSt ?crtiS? t l gl if a v i,U,a °f«m ulterior 1 as’de scribed by the author. It is with tho life of FndS m eD I .““wrong that the author has to deal, and in chapters entitled “Shops and thn a rVn,ni A i? rn^ en harden.’’ Outrages iu rmsd’illiS, De Partment,’; “A Chapter ofllor of tbs mna? 9 succeeded m delineating eome seen th?I?.A? OI Ti ble sce es that have over a vivi>ini? ht T b °r are described, too, with mkf« E .i an fr evident sincerity which manes them thrilling to the last degree. The 3 the l>ook aghast, and asks him country? b CTlmes 'exist m this Christian PriSlnTif!! 1 borril le instances quoted in fenced 7nMi 1 nay vte that of a poor, oue upward of 50 years of age,and off™ce K h?wl V lO palßy I or “me minor tonrireof,.? bl:eu sent from Park County P 1 50 11 for two years. Upon his arrival he to do th»° 6 c F llar B “OPt and required m-m-,:;!w gular da J B work. He had hardlv wns \S^/ rt i r l 1 th u Ptration on his leg, and ailmitrifo u addition to his other hl^tdUeMm aS9nbjectto BeTcre attacks of i“te” 8ot wo write ho was re£i«i ble eonditiou. Tho diet and hl f° utmost nothing, and raw SoV/n “5! unp St hiß wounded leg was reduced re Th f c that ho haifbcen t and helpnessness in de- to ameliorate liirwitSlsiiot'. 110 brutal Btoward lav do°,n, ’i“ n b obbl d oT to his shop and guard'e-imo along: UQCb B,raw S tl.aM,“Uke it, eh I” Meaning to? r*V l l>e excused by the doc work G 1 Ut f that UOWf and 80 to y° lir I canVwork” 8 1 my lcg is 80re and bl ecding. .t-’f/L't-Vou t Doctor sent yon to the shop; n n fc e e t .S °h^«°&S man crawled out of the straw and .Hho r g,mrdi.rdespafr: rBO,Wh h8 accoa,ed i cannot stand,” said he: for God's Mk* wiU get better.” dU tbe fl r; P° i on me! 8ir kCeP at Work You ““’t Play off Y orkcd for a few moments more, and sank don n completely exhausted, when his shopmates lifted him overou tho straw again. At night he was mat able to got to his cell. lam dying.” said the old man; can’t vou leave my cell door open I” ,uu “Die and bo d--a!” exclaimed the guard. 1116 d r m blfl faCe No ouo knows how ho died. In character with this is the horrible storv 01 a man who was crazed and chained, and bagged, and starved to death. This furnishes a subject for four of the most graphic illus trations: In the Straight Jacket,” Brutal Onards/ the prisoner felled to the door: '"Practice,” his futile effort to escape: and Chained to an Anvil ”in the cell house, where, because ho moved restlessly from side to side like tho poor wild beast he had be come, ho was sewed up in abagaud starved, sometimes for twodaj's he would have noth ing but water, then some com bread would be thrown to him as to a wild .animal, and like a famished beast he would grapple up the fragments and eatthem. It was strange how long he lasted. There ho would stand at his cell door, his skinny fingers grasping the burs, and hm hungry eye glittering like Ho grow to bo a mere skeioton. Nothing but skin and bones.” the boys would say as they passed and glanced at him. One morning, about soveu weeks after ♦i i»° i um U P? the night guard noticed i a A cry stiff, and peering into the cell, he shouted at him. No groan came from that still breast. His eyes did r“t a glassj Btare A Pri.oncr Tortured to Death in Banlh Carolina. rve T *i e C oll lV llji s papers contain an account pi the death of Jeilersou Brown, a convict imprisoned in the South Carolina Paniteu tiarv. fhe Union says: *1 d™!* 1 wo have beeu able to learn of the testimony given at the inquest, the fol loTMiiK Kseui to be the facts in the case: Kiuare bo*, high enough for a man to stand un m, with a place above for the water to t ill through, comprises tho shower-bath. On r.tK„ Bl,lrs t ILS kox :lri holes, opposite each other, ami at convenient distances, through JJ.r. i a 1:11 18 to keep the man's face thcciiiii 111>Wim t:u kar running beneath hoV.ViVIIT 1 tha i‘i? r wn was placed in the a l up In the manner befoio stated, and live or six buckets of SS«r?* eI let ,ntol y H aci! at tllu oml of uhtch performance the bur broke, and Brown fell down in the box, Kndeavors to stand him up npun were fruitless, and tho Captain of the prison guard, with other assistance, had a rone placed about the man’s neck, the endof t boreng passing through one of the augur holes above t he man, and tlio men mill ing on the rope while others in front helped to raise him. Brown was got into tho poni tiou again and more water let upon him. w !l p n discovered that ho was^cad. nainmAhi. i?i° made u pMt mortem exami nation of thel body, was 01 tho opinion that MiP irt ?l V ll ?'?i fro 1 1 con, Cßtion o* the lungs! causiiig ifeatVi.’ 1 1 l L r l> Lad '“*l in HATS AND CAPS, hats: FURS! STRYKBB k CO., The Leading Hatters of the West, Show the largest and best-assorted stock of fashionable HATS in the city. Onr stock of FURS will be ready for sale to morrow. Onr Fur Manufactory is in full working ondor, and we are prepared to HAKE TUBS TO ORDER, or ALTER, REPAIR, and REPINE Furs promptly, and in the best manner. STRYKEE C 0. t 231 West Madison-st nV.^ ruier,y of lhr Arm of HOTELS. St. James Hotel, LOCATED Corner Clark and Polfc-sts. Containing 150 Booms. The Largest and Best Furnished Hotel in West. tale Hatteson Home, WILLtS BOWK, Late St. James Hotel, Will be pleased to see their old friends. Ant Bosses fur the NEW ST. JAMES. Aa lor RIVERSIDE HOTEL. Accommodations for the (ill sad winter at Terr mod •rate ptlccs. Incniro at Klrerald. Hotel, 01 at tlieol floe of the C'.rsrsls* Imi Oompanr. tna wa iiahii-av SILVER PLATED WAKE. SILVER-PLATED WARE. We have just opened a large assortment of sil ver .Plated Tea Sets, Cas tors and Baskets, and Rogers Bros.’ Spoons, Forks, &c. N. MATSON CO., JEWELERS, 481_Vvabash-a.v. SCALES. jpf fai .t r J|^ks> SCALES, (OHM "'AUSbra. 7 BOOTS AND SHOES. Soots a| Sloes. DOGGBTT.BASSETT&HILLS HEADQUARTERS AT 522 Wabask-av M corner Harmon-coort, are now receiving a new stockol Boots and Shoes, and are prepared to supply cus. lomcrs. PIEIPS, DfIL&E&FAIMER, Manufacturers and Jobbers of BOOTS SHOES, a •rlcclrd Slock at their now Store, 219 Michigan-av., (Opposite Tremont House), Where we shall be pleased to sec oar Cns> looters and the Trade generally. PROJPT iTTEimOJ SITE* TO ORDERS, Weage, Rutland Ordway, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Boots Shoes, Are receiving a full stock In their new store. No. 223 MICHIGAN-AV., opposite Tremont House, and are ready to supply their old friends and the trade gen erally. Tlio BEST GOODS AND THE LOWEST PRICES. «PEi\ FOR UISIAIiSS. IOTALL.UAZHO ft THOMPSON, JOBBERS IN BOOTS SHOES, 231 Michigan-av., near Harrison-st. T. B. WEBER CO. BOOTS AND SHOES AT WHOLESALE. To onr friends ami the trade: We are non* in receipt u HU.re at No. 571 Slate.»t, an ENTIIH2 slock of goods Of Uie very BEST qualities and 555, ?5>} ire are preparufi to fill orders and seU from stock at our usnuT low prices: choice styles ami J orlc in eluding, also, Urn celebrated wEBKU «°OT. T. B. W&BEK& CO.. r»o. 571 State-sL, fo.morly Xos. 3,5. and 7 .Lake-at, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. PIANOS, Organs, etc. mrayraii Jills BW&CS, formerly 69 WoshlngUm-st., are atod at 270 AND 614 MIdUGAN-AV,, P n **hc coll and examine tticlr no l t*■ o 1 C i A v- 51 Kht-'ll-''Xl)isk, received sine SdlSTn* u l,aulmoro ~ranci“ Hnabe Pianos, J« Bauer Co.’s Pianos, Needham’s Silvcr-Tongne Or- gans. Nt Paganini Strings, Violin,, J""™ Conrerllnnji, Clnilnrs, llm„ In -s[rr“uv:;,rJcA\Si_;. l u,,) ar nvrte ,m casu «lsmd onXrt nJS" t ,a l ,md Ml MM CD 370 and 614 Micliigan-av., Office CI4 Michigan-av. LAND TITUS. Slow Tour Its. All persons owning RTS AT. ESTATE in Cook County should at once prepare to PROVE THEIR TITLES. After an acl is passed providing for this, it will take years FOR OUR COURTS TO COM- PIETE THE BUSINESS. Therefore if yon wish to save expanse and delay, hand in your abstracts, deeds, Sc., at once, as the business will be taken np in regular order. First come first served.” Charges low. RU F. EiCHRi, READ ESTATE ATTORNEY, No. 393 Wabash-av., W BASEMENT. BENEFIT OF SI TEN PER CENT Of Onr Gross Sales of Saturday, Nov. 11, Will be handed to the mi fb count FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE Site Ms lata M MABLEY HULL, the great CLOTHIERS OP JTHE WEST, 132 West Madison-st, CHICAGO. NUMBER 95. business cards, BARNUM BROS., IMPBRTEKs Toys and Fancy Goods, Cor. Michiffan-av. and Van Bnren-.t, Have res tuned business for the fourth time la this city. Wa are thaifkful that wo still have courage, and undoubted confidence In tho opbuilding and success ol Chicago. We are ready for business with quite a com which propose to seU at old prices, and respectfully solicit your orders and remittances. Millard Decker, Stationers, Printers, Lithographers, And Blank Book Manufacturers, Temporaiy Office and Store, 120 WEST WASHINCTON-ST., Manufactory and Works, CORNER WOOD AND TYLER-STS, CIUC.IGO. PHCENIX Coffee and Spice Mills, OWES, MS k CO., 14, 16, AND 18 RIVER-ST. Teas, Coffees, Spices, and Gro cers’ Sundries. FRANCIS WEBBER, OYSTERS, 58 and GOJWest Madiaon-st. promptly filled as before the fire. Vergho, Ruhling Co., IMPORTERS OP ms, MIC? 11. Blßffffl., Huts opened their Wholesale Department on Michigan-av., bet. Vanßnrcn and Congress-sis., And till orders aa formerly. Their retail store. 9JI btatest.; will he ready for occupation In a few slays. M. GEAIT CO. Have removed to northeast comer Mar ket and Washington-sts., where dealers can find a full assortment of CANNED and DRIED FRUITS, and FANCY GRO CERIES. Orders from the country promptly filled. BUILDERS’ HARDWARE AND TOOLS. J. K. TYLER, 260 Statre-st., late 41 State. A full stock of Bossel! A Erwin Mfg. Co. LOCK and KNUD now open. AGENT LA BELLE NAILS. Northwestern Type Foundry, MILWAUKEE. •nils foundry has now on hand fifteen tons of English ty F c J5 con "L ,ts ot sixes, from non pareil to pica. A half dozen dre.-ig* for large sized papers J»" r -p£ n m 1 1 onc wUh Itin <>ll,c^mnJ .'xeminecut* ol the mnchlne: \ihi«lr an o T^* n Ti I°' h lr*' sin Mck maker* of form«ro» r i?*n 1 ,!,l t nl, nr I Write □AUMAN A JACOBIk. Albany, N. Y DOW, MORAN CO., PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND DEALERS IN CHEESE. FLOUR,GRAIN,*C. 70 nod 72 Went lake»Ht., Chicago. B. HOBBS if CO, Produce and Commission Merchants, ESTABLISHED XS37. We are prepamj to make advances on consignments of flour and grain. Grain bought and sold on margins Olllce 58 South Canal-st. J. M. Sline, Kramer Co:, Announce to their friend* and the trade generally thi they harts temporarily located at 519 STATE STREET, Near Hannon C«.nrt. where they will open In o low daye, a fresh and desirable stock of A'ollont. Dodery. Oenta FaraUhltss dooda etc.. SoKSn? 1, PdCeJ order ■oHeiled and promptly at* BEICK AND STONE OM> AMD IffETO BOUGHT FOB CASH. BY LITJHA2V, BRIDGE CO. Dealer In all kind* of Building Material! and Beads made House*, corner Carroll and Sancamon-st*. MAGILL «fc HAL J-., OEALEBS IN SALT. Officoand dock eonthwest cor. Market A Wa§bington-«ti CLEVELAND FRENCH, Landscape Architects, Civil Engineers, and Surveyors, W^VBASH-AV. SURVEYOR. SASTL S. GREELEY, 364 Wabaah-av. southeast corner of Harrison. in kitchen. WM. BLAIR CO., Nos. 30 and 32 Senth Canal-sl. Are recflvlne. at thplr NEW STORE, a fuR .lock of Hardware, Tin Plate and Tlnnerw gtoct 3. MASOA' PARKER, Negotiator of Chicago ifort gages and Real Estate No. 3 Beston Foot Building, Boston. Refers to Hon.' J as. F. Joy. Hon. Hugh t. Dicker. Hon. Mark Skinner. Window Glom. D. S. SOU A NCR A SONS. of Plate and \S Indaw