New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-09
rpON CHICAGO.
Sm DOUGLAS FUND-ooNDTTIoS OF THE :, La We
SENATOR'S PRoPERTY-ms VIEW or oLA'h
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vopcE CASE AGAIY-IMMIGRATioN'
Y,.m Our Special Correspondent I'll IuIuA 1861
go the Dopplas fund come in slowly.
Tbe times are unproPitious, but II 10 oeneVeu 'a,
to,,v thousand dol aIs will be raised. Mr.. Dougas
ora, extremely LIBERAL and spent money with lawn
hand Al the time Of his last great canvass lor tno
senate. he paid more money 10 The Missouri hePao",
clone than all which was expended on behalf OF
n, Lincoln during the campaign. HIS taxes "e,o
sbout 900 per anuum; but at the time oil MS uea'
his large property encountered to the amount -
43OO coo. AS IL is all unproductive not bringing III ~
dollar of income, and, therefore unsaSoie az 'n,0
time, Il must 90 10 pay the Indebtedness RENAME
Wood holds $4,000 mortgage upon Poiuon =" AZ
and an arrangement was in progress oy "n'n 10 was
N take real estate, at liberal pnce, 10 discharge IL
nilar settlements which were in contemplation Win
o,her CREDITOR. would have enabled him to leave
iteral inheritance for his wife aud children Alive,
onOlss with bis strong will and magnetic nature COM
anded his friends in pecunary, as in other matters,
oou like imperial Cesar dead, and TUNED to clay, his
name has lost its potency.
Mr.. Douglas believed in no patsrng or compromis-
Eng with Secession teason but, with the eanestGess
hich he carried into all the affairs of life, advocated
Ieptless war against it, One evening" just before he
hh Washington for the last time, l had occasion 10
oil 1T the White House. "Mr. Douglas" remarked
President, in a conversation which was public
lough to Justify nv reporting it, "spent two three
ours with me this afternoon. For several days he
"a been too unwe to attend to business and 80 has
svoted bis time studying matters until lie I'M
he understands the relative military positions better,
,,rhsps, than any one of the Cabinet By the way
,ntinued Mr. Lincoln, with that peculiar twinkle of
lis eye which always foreshadOws pungent thing,
the conversation turned upon the condition of the
9 ayes. You snow, said Douglas, that | am en-
srely sound on the Fugitive Slave law believe in
nforcing it in all within its true intent and
meaning; but after examining it very carefully, have
about concluded that negro insurreeton is case TO
~Aich IL does not apply"
i. Mrs. Douglas who is now delicate health, accom-
Saued by the two IF her husband, has returned
ome TO her parents in Washington She is universally
loved and es eemed in Chicago A day or two since,
] rode out 10 Lake View, miles south OF the city.
Seeing the Lake, at Summer visit In the month OF
July, while the weather so cold as TO compel me
fowear an overcoat on the road, and order fire in
snyroom at the hotel somewhat novel experience;
but did not detract from the beauty Of the view. On
nv return visited the grave of Judge Douglas, two
miles and a half from town. 1t is plain gravel
mound, now surrounded by a rough board fence, and
commanding good view Of the city. There his monu-
ment s TO be erected few yards from the lake which
wears to-day placid sme upon its calm face, but
was then sobbing and moaning in stormy passion, as
the great whte-frnged waves chased each other upon
the sandy shore.
70 Cnu ia IN
Be tried again and to shut the gates Of
mercy upon that fraction of mankind which has no
relish for scandal The new trial will probably come
off in November. 1t granted upon the application
of Mr. Burch on the ground that the Judge in charging
the jury, used the words, "If you believe" etc.,
whereas he should have said, "f you believe upon
she evidence" The mysteries of law, ike divine
mercy, are past finding OUT but one is sometimes
tempted to ask whether justice would suffer by trust
ing little to the intelligence and honesty of an Amer.
can jury. In the great Kissane forgery case in Ohio
few years ago, after conviction new trial was granted
because the indictment in place near the close,
alluded to the said Kssane," Instead of "tbe said
William Kissane" though the full name of the prisoner
was given in several other paragraphs of the instru-
ment and no other Kissane was mentioned in it.
Mr. Burch has made an assignment of his property,
Rumor adds TO protect bis estate from paying the bills
of MIR. COrniDgs lawyers amounting in the aggregate
20 s47 900. 1t is thought that the depostors in his
bank wiIlAe paid in full but Mr.. Burch is supposed
20 be penniless, though year or two ago he was
deemed worth" half million. The public opinion
of Chicago acquiesced very enthusiastically in the
former verdict in favor Of Mrs. Burchnot that it be-
heved the lady altogether like Cesars ideal wife, but
that Mr.. Burcb 10 exceedingly and almost universally
unpopular
With the arrival Of every train upon the Michigan
9entra Railroad long files Of Norwegian immigrants,
who have come via Liverpool and Quebec, come pour
ing up Dearborn street. gazing curousy and hopefully
about in their new Land of Promise. More than 2 500
have arrived by that route within the last two weeks
aud passage has been engaged for ~ 900 this season.
There are many gray -baired men, as well as young
euildren, among them and all are attired neatly espe
c. lily the women, with their snow-whe kerchiefs
a out their heads. They are bound for Winona, Red
ing, Reeds Landing and other points in Wisconsin
Minnesota. They are nearly all poori but they
ring, with the fair hair and blue eyes of their father
nd, honesty frugay and industry, their contrbu-
ton to the great crueible from which, when all its
strange elements are fused, il pour fourth thaet
shope-pure and shining metal Of the future Ameri-
character.
Your contemporary, The World, since its late mOrtu-
ar wedding occasionally revolves into the Western
rs xspaper stalls. never read it, observed one Of
is unhappy subscribers to me this morning, without
Bging for another and better World."
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THE ART OF WAR.
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