Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1872, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1872. SENATGR TRUMBULL, Speech to the Voters of the Noith §ide Last Kights Refutation of Butler’s, Howe’s, and Morton’s False- hoods. His Jwn Connection with the Custom House “Inves- tigation. - Hr. Secammon as a Lawyer and a Fair Yan--Falschoods in tlhe HcArdle Case. The Moneyed Power, the Treasury Department, and the Colored Vote Solid for Grant. The largest political meeting held on the North Side during the present campaign assem- bled at Seremor's Hall, corner of North avenus snd Church street, last evening. Nearly one thousand persons were present, every seat and every available foot of standing-room being oc- cupied. The enthusiasm was unbounded. The orator of the cvening, Hon. Lyman Trambull, wes greeted with three cheers as he entered the hall, and three more when he ascended the platform. F. A. Hoffman, Jr., called the assem- blage to order and nominated Colonel Voss for irmsn. He was unsnimously elected, and introduced Senator Trumbull, who, after a few prefafory remarks spoke as follows : BEMARKS OF SENATOR TRUMBULL. FELLOW-CITIZENS : mu—in(gin former speechea exposed some of the frands and corruptions of General Grant's Administration, I propose to- night to expose some of the subterfuges and misrepresentations by which they are sought to ‘e covered up and excused. BUTTLER'S DEFENCE OF CORBUPTION. One of the chief advocates of General Grant's re-election, if not the foremost of them all (Gen- eral B. F. Butler), said in this city, a few weeks 230, in reply to the charge that therswass §reut deal of corruption in the Government, *] grant there is,—I grant there are bad mem. bers among us,—I grant there are & great many of them.” He then said, “If our officers are 8o corrupt, if they have got full of the Tremsury of the United States, it might be better to leave them in office still,” and repeated the fable of the fox which objected to having a swarm of flies that were sucking his blood driven away lest & more hungry swarm should take their places. This was meeting the charge of official corruption boldly, and justifying the continu- ance of plunderers in power, on the ground that honest men counld not be found to the public offices. Tt shows the estimate which the fore- most advocate of General Grant's re-election has of the virtue and honesty of the people. Has it come 0 this, that there are not honest mea enough in the country to fill its public offices ? Let them who believe it vote to continue ad- mitted plunderers in power, but let honest men ote for reform. SENATOR HOWE'S MISSTATEMENTSH. Other advocates of General Grant's re-election, less bold than General Butler, resort to subter- fuge and misrepresentation to cover up abuses. I do notmeen to impute to my colleagues in the Benate wilfal fs ood; but I domean to assertand prove by reference to official doon- ments, that some of them, in their zeal to de- fend the Administration, liave misstated facts. If I make good my assertion, what, I ask, is to be thought of an Administration which can on- 1y be defended by & perversion of the truth? I propose to take up a fow of the misstatements of goveral of my Senatorial colleagues, as I find them reported in their own papers, and expose them to this intelligent audience and the world. _ Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, in a speech reported in the Jnter-Ocean, speaking in defence of Cus~ tom House officials, says: “ilr. Trum- bull ventured to eay that he moved the investigation into the affairs _of the New ork Custom House. But the Benate journal testifies that Roscoe Conk- ling, of New York, moved that investigation.” A person who undertakes to correct another ehould nl\\'iya be sure of his facts, & maxim ‘which Mr. Howe seems to have forgotten when he made the above statement. THE CUSTOM HOUSE INVESTIGATION. Now for the facts, The record shows that on the Tth day of December, 1871, Mr. Trumbull of- fered for adoption in the Senate the following resolution : ‘Resolved (the House of Representatives concurring), That a joint select Committee on Retrenchment, con- sisting of four members of the Senate and seven mem« bers of the House, be appointed by the presiding offi- cers of the two Houses, znd that said Committes be instracted to inquire into the expenditures in all the branches of the gervice of the- United Btates, and to report whether sny, and what, of- fices ought to be abolished ; whether any, and what, salaries or_allowances ought to bo rediiced ; what are the methods of procuring sccountsbility in public officers or agents ini the care and disbursement of pub- lic moneys ; whether moneys have been puid out ille- gelly; whether any officer or zgents or other ersons have been or are employed in the gervico with- ut suthority of 1aw, or unnecessarily; and generally bow, and fo what extent, the erpeoses of the services of the country may and ought to be curiailed. And also £ consider the _expedien- oy of 8o amending the Jaws under ~which appointments to the publlc service are now made s to provide for the eelection of subordimate officers after due exumination by proper Boards; continuence in ofiice dur- ing _specified unless dismissed upon churges preferred and sustdined before tribunals designated Tor that purpose ; and for withdrawing the public ecr- vice from being teed as an _instrument of political or party patronage. That said Committeo be suthorized 1o &it during the recess of Congress, to send for per- sons and papers, and to report by bill or otherwise ; and that said Committes may sppoint & clerk for the term of eix months, and no more, It was under a precisely similar resolution that the affairs of the New York Custom House 1ad been inquired into at a_previons Congress. The official record further shows, that it was not until the 18th of December following that Mr. Conlding offered his resolution, instructing tho Investigeting Committee to_ inquire into certain specificd sbuses in the New York Custom Houmse. A resolution raisin the Senate Committee on Retrenchment, an embracing, except the proposition for & joint committee, the material portions of Mr. Trum- bull's resolution, which covered the whole sub- ject of the affairs of the New York Custom ouse, had been adopted before tho adoption of Mr. Conkling's resolution in regard to spe- cific matters, all of which were embraced in general resolution which had previously been agreed to. ‘What now becomes of Dr. Howe's assertion that Mr, Conkling moved the investigation into New York Custom House affairs? If Mr. Hovwe's recollection is not greatly at fault, he will remember, and if his recollection fails, an examination of the Globe will show him that my roposition for general investigation was de- ated, and the “fi.lola subject of frauds in the New York Custom House gone over deys before Mr. Conkling offered his resolution. The record will further ehow that when iy resolu- tion for a Joint Committee and thorough inves~ tigation was thrust aside, a resolution propos- ing a Senato Committce of Retrenchment, with- out any specific powers offered, I proposed, as &n amendment, to clothe the Senate Committes with powers to'make it efficient, the same as had been acked for the Joint Committes, and that 3fr. Howe, on the 14th of December, With thirty- five other Senators, voted against the amend- ment, while twenty-four Senators voted for it. Bubsequently, however, and before that of Mr. Conkling came np, my amendment was substan- tially adopted. HOWE'S ATTEMPT TO WEITEWASH LEET. uln Mr. Howe's reported speech he further 78 He (Trumbull) ventured to sy that Leet & Stocking ed for the etorage of general arder goods from eix toten times as much as others charged. Malignant #ad desperate as were some of the witnesscs examined on that subject, therecould not be found in New York & wiiness hardy EnouEh to make such a statement, Let us compare this declaration of Mr. Howe with the rccord. At page 67, vol, 2, of the tes- timony accompanying the 'report of the Re- trenchment Committes in regard to the New York Custom Houee, is the evidence of Benja~ sin F. Hutfon, wko, in reply to a guestion pro- pounded by Mr. Buckingham, the Chatrman. gg to how the cherges for storege, cartage, ste., under Leet & Stocking, compered with those of Jormer sears, answered, I think they are about six times -as much, and have been ten times.” Other witnesses testify as to the extortion prac- upon merchants by Leet & Stocking; but this will do for Mr. Howe, and shows into how great mistakes he fell in undertaking to correct some-. thing I.wes reported to have said.. - .. - DEFENCE OF TEL CIVIL SERVICE. I find in the Infer-Ocean of Oct. 18 what purports to be & report of s speech mede in this city by Senator Morton; the evening—previous;- from which I reed the following extract : TRUMDULL'S FALSENOOD, Naw there has been a etatement made in this city and all over Indiena and Illinoie, that_£100,000,000, or one-fourth of the revenue, wag annually squandered and Jost. T am told that my distinguished friend, Mr, Trumbull, bas made that statement, and that he has offered to prove it by reading an_extract {rom the re~ port of the Civil Service Commission to that effect, ‘That statement is not true to the extent of one-half of 1per cent. The report of the Civil Service Commis- sion made to Congress did contain 1 statement. refer— ring to a report made to Congress, in 1868, under the Administration of Audrew Jobnson, before Grant was a_candidate, beforc his Administration was anticipate ed, that under our present eystem of taxa- tion and collections, our "present system of appoints ments ard tenuse of office, there was one-fourih less revenue collected than fnight have been under any other system, but that didn’t refer even to Johnson's Administration ; it referred to a system that had been in operation in {his Government ever since 1789, and the objection to the system was just as applicable to the Administration of Washington as it was to that of General Grent, which even then had not come into ex- istence, That ywas what the Civil Service Commission s2id; that was what they meant, and they bave recent~ Iy, and in 2 supplementary report, set M. Trumbull and others righit on that subject. And now I must stato_one fact, from_recollection, that is due to myself and to Mr, Trumbull; and if T am not right, if my memory fails me, Iam responsi blefor whatI eay,and he can correctme from the Globe, When that Teport camo before Congreas dur ing the last session, I mysclf called attentionto that ‘paesage, and said that if it. received the construction that some put toit, that it was essentizlly false and scarcely an’element of truthin it, Mr. Trombull self, in answer, I believe, to what Iz, at lesst inanswer to what was said in the debate that after- noon, declared that thereport did not mean that— but that it referred {o the system and the whole eys- tem, {Applause.] I think s ation of the Globe will show that my recollection of what Mr. Trumbull said is entirely correct, and when Mr, ‘Trumbull gives it a different_version, I think it con- flicts » little with what hosaid in the Senate. A referance to official documents will show how mistaken Governor Morton is in his facts, and how,in his zeal to sustain an Administration proven by its own friends and official documents £o be full of abuses, he docs gross injustice to & brother Senator. 'Ho hss been guilty, inad- Tertently, of courso, of misstaling tho raport of the Civil Service Commission, That report did not ““ contain a statement referring to a report made to Congress in 1868, under the Administra- tion of Andrew Johnson,” as a basis of the statement * that one-fourth of the revenues of the United States were annually lost in the col- lection.” I have the report before me, and there is not ome word in it sbout what was lost under Johnson’s Administration. This is an afterthought, it beinci fashiona~ ble with some to arg all the iniquities of Government upon Andrew Johnson, who, by the way, whatever other faulta he may have had, was neither o nepotist, nor & gift-taker, nor mercenary in any_respect. Not only did the Civil Service Commission, in their report, in speaking of the losses in the collec~ tion of the revenue, omit to refer to Johnson's dministration, but circumstances show that they could nothave referred to it in that connec- tion. The lsw under which the Civil Service Commission was organized was passod March 8, payment, by the Secretary of the Navy, in viola- tion of positive statute, of $93,000 to the Secors, naval contractors, who bad previously been fully Kaid, and the gross frands proven to exist in the Yew York Custom House, furnish no evidence of corruption? What would General Logan call corruption if he cannot detect one iota of it in' any of these traneactions ? L. SCAMMON'S PAPER—M’AUDLE CASE. — Another-class—of persons, political bigots, among whom my pretended Iriend, J. Y. Scam: mon, has made himself conspicuous, seem to suppose that by defaming me they furnish reasons Why Grant should re-elected Presi- dent, even though to do so they necessarily make Grant quite as bad as they represent me. Iir. Scammon publishes & newspaper to which he has rightly given a between~ water name, a8 in” its venom it more nearly reeembles those poisonous reptiles which live between land and water, than_ anything I know of. The matter of which Mr. Scammon oftenest refers, i my employment by General Grant and Secretary Stanton to attend to some suits in the Su{rame Court of the United States, and for which I was paid such fee a3 Mr. Stanton deemed reasonable. All this was Farfeuly logal and proper, and no fair man would take exception to it, nor does Mr. Scammon object to any onsgave myself, doing precisely the same thing. M. Carpenter, who was_associoted with me as assis- tant counsel in the McArdle and Georgia cases, received the same fee as I did, and though Scam- mon complnins almost daily that my fes was ex- travagant, he never has a word to say about Mr. Carpenter's feo,—and yet Mr. Scommon claims tobe afoir man. Mr. Conkling and General Butler, whilo members of Congress, wero employed and paid for legal services by the Government, and though Mr. Scammon complains almost daily that I yas thus employed and faid, he never has aword to Eb‘xjy about the employment of Messrs. Butler and Conkling, and yet Mr. Scammon claims to be a fair man. If it ‘was illegal or wrong for me to be employed and paid, it was illegal and wrong for General Grant to employ and pay me, but Mr. Scammon never condemns General Grant, though he al- most daily charges me with being employed and Teceiving pey contrary to law, and yet Mr, Scam- mon claims to be a fair man. Does the propriety of my professionai conduct depend upon my support of Grant or Greeley for President; and, if not, why does Mr. Scammon as an honesf man seek to make me infamous for what he does not object to in others? Is he so enraged at my exposure of the abnses of the Administra~ tion’ that he omust needs_be unjust, or is ho 80 smitten with partisan blindness that he doos not see that what is right in others cannot under like circum- stances be wrong in me ? SCAMMON AS A LAWYER AND CHRISTIAN. Mr. Scammon is & lawyer, and estimates in hig paper the amount of the fee alawyer should re- ceive by the number of hours he’is eni:gred in arguing a case in conrt. I submit whether any man deserves a place amongan honorable profes- gion who would measure the value of the ser- vices of & member of the profossion by sucha e. But Mr, Scammon claiming to be a Christian and & fair man is not only unjust as I have shown, but he is untruthfal also. The number of falsehoods which have been published in Mr. Scammon’s paper in regard to the McArdle case is purprising. Tho employment iteelf being proper, it was only by connectin with it something that was untrue that it ccn.ls be made objectionable. Hence the many false- 187L, two years after Johuson's tration | hioods sbout it, and no sooner were the parties had ceased to exist. The object of the law was ‘:mggg one driven from it, than they started to promote the efficiency of the Civil Service— that meant, surely, the Civil Service as it existed when the ~ law passed, not as it hed existed two years fore, under Johnson's Administration. As_well might sou undertalie to purify, and give oficion: cy to & carcass which had been'dead and buried £0 years, s to the civil service of an Adminis- tion which had heen dead the same length of time. The Civil Service Commission, consisting of seven persons, all friends of President Grant, as appointed in 1871, to assis: the Prosident in reseribing rules for reforming the Civil Service, o Presidential election was then pending, and the Commission doubtles wentto work honestly, to ferret out abuses, and provide for their correction, ~They make & report on the 18th of December, 1871, exposing the corruptions and abuees of the then Givil Service system, not of one that had existed two or threo years before, and recommended ployed by Andiew Johnson. fi;l;d A BERIES OF FALSEHOODS. The first charge was that I was illegally em- This was shown to be falio, by the production of General Grant's letter, retaining me in the case, and no more was sald about tho illegality of the employment, when it was ascertained it was by Grant and nol Johnson. - Driven from the falsehood that Johnson em- gluied me, it was next charged that I was paid y Johnson ; but the records showed that I was by Secrotary Stanton, and Secretary Raw- after Grant became President; then it was charged that I did not attend to the case, but the records of the Supreme Court showed this to be false; then it was charged that Secretary Btanton paid part ot the fes, and refused to pay any more, when the fact was, that the payments ho made were expresaly stated to be in part, and he fixed with Mr. Carpenter the amount which certain reforms. This report was communicated | the fee ought to be. Mr. Scammon has gone 5o o g " | far as to esy in his paper that it was not illegal to Congross by the President, with, his endorso- | {07 8 o oa7 in bin papor that it wae, not, Hlegal ment, Dec. 19, 1871, and I regret that the cppo- sition of Senafor Morton, who pronounced our present Civil Bervice system the best in the world, and that of other friends of the Admin- istration, Jrevented any reform from taking place; and now we have the admirers of our present scandalous Civil Service &ystem trying toget rid of the damaging facts disclosed by their own friends, and indorsed by Grant him- self, by mis-quotations and perversions of offi- cial documents. I have before mo the official reportof the Civil Service Commissioners. is their language: “In speaking of the présent condition of the Givil Bervice, we criticise & system, not individuals, snd & system which has hitherto been sustained by common consent.” ¢ ¢ & ¢ “Under this system, not only aro useless offices created, but thers is the strongest {emptaticn to conceal corruption, and every abuse and every extravagance resulting from a multiplication of offices, are constantly increasing, It.is.mot eisy to compite in figures tho exact economical difierence be- tween a-¢00d and & bad system of Civil Service. Itis necessarily, 8 matter of inference and comparison be- tween the probable operation of a careless and s care- ful method, But it is_calculated, by thoso who hava ‘made a careful study of all the facts, that one-fourth of the revenues of the United States are annually lost in the collection, and for a large part of that lossa system of the_service which is fatally unsonnd, may reasonably be held responsible,” “But while this is the necessary influence of the egent system of admicsion both upon_ the eervice {ieelt and upon the characier of thoss Who are. eme ployed in 1t there are evila to bo considered still more ous, How any one can read those extracts in_con- nection, a8 they occur_in the report, and say they refer to Andrew Johnson’s Kdmmm tration passes comprebension ; and yet such is pustizan lindness and recklessness, in the midst of a Presidential campaign, that the very men who ‘made this report, in reply to an inquiry from my colleague in the Senate, as to what they meant by saying in their report of Dec. 18, 1871, that one-fourth of the rovenues are annually lost in the collection, arewilling fo stultify themselves by saying thnt the calculations to which they alluded were made under the ad- ministration of Andrew Johnson,—and & hand- bill containing General Logan's letter and that reply, headed, in large letters, *Trumbull as a Blanderer,” has been extensively circulated through the country. Let an intelligent public judge who i8 the slanderer,—I who read verba~ tim_n_report of the Civil Service Commission, made in December, 1871, nuder a law passed in 1871, stating that one-fourth of the revenues are annually lost in their collection, or they ‘who now, in the midst of & heated canvass for President, stultify themselves by g!etending that their language does not mean what it says. Senator Morton is mistaken in attributing to me s statement last winter, that the report did not mean what it said. No such statement of mine can be found in the Globe ; o far from it, 1 called attention to the statement of the report that that one-fourth of tho revenues were an- nually lost, under the gresent_ Civil Bervice sys- tem, a5 areason for demanding & reform. I have no doubt, and never had any, that the re- ‘port was substantially correct, and yet, in conse~ uence of the opposition of Senators Morton, 3upemr, and other special friends of the Ad- ministration, nothing effective has been done to correct the abuse. The amount of revenus col- -lected the last fiscal year was $£3853,323,044,80, which, according to the report of he Civil * Bervice Commission, was but three fourths of the amount wkich ought tohave been received. The one-fourth lost must, theroforo, have amounted to. $127,774,486,23, and this chicfly throngh an unsound Civil Service sys- tem which Senator Morton pronounces the best in the world. This will do for Governor Mor- ton, and I pess to.the statementsof enothor Senator. E LOGAN'S BLUNDERS AS TO GOVERNMENT EX-~ PENBES. General Logan is reported to have. eaid, in & eech made in this city on the 25th instant, that “go far as the expenaes of the Government were cencerned, the per capila had been less than under any other ‘Administration for forf years.” The Hogister of the Treasury, inan ofi- cial report, not got_up for electioneéring pur- poses, but made In December last, gives a state- ment of_the net ordinary expenditures, not in- cluding interest or payments on_account of the public debt, from the beginning _ of the Government, to June 30, 1871. According to this official document, the net ordinary ex- penditures for the fiscal yesr ending June 30, 1860, were £60,010,062.58, and for tho fiscal year ending June 80, 1871, $157,598,827,58, which is more than twice per capila what théy wero in 1860. Whom will you believe, General Logan, or tho Regiater of tho Treasury? Let them sot. tle it between them. General Logan asserts that General Graunt’s administration has been subjected to more Irvestigating Committees then eay other of its predecessors, and that -“*not one iota of corruption has been detected.” Does the allowance of a claim known to be fraudulent to {he amount of §443,000 to Chorpenning, by the Postmaster General, for which ho istued s warrant which would have beer paid. had not Congress accidentally discovered the fraud in timo to stop it, furnish “no_eyidence of corruption? Do the illegal for me to take pay for my services. Oh, that some kind friend the git would glo us, To'see ourself as others ses us. 1t would from many & blunder free ns. There is no Iaw in existence prohibiting a member of Congress from practising his pro- fession in the courts, and receiving pay for his services. }r. Conkling, who ought to bo pretty good sutherity with Mr. Scammon, as they both sup- port Grant, said in Congress: 1 should be sorry a8 an American, to supposs that the standard of intelligence anywhere in the country was £0 low that any human being belicves that thers is the slightest impropriety in a min who is a member of Congress practising hia profession ss counsel in the courts or saccepting from tho Government of the TUnited States, or from any other client, & retainer for such professional services, Evidently Mr. Conkling did not know how low the intelligence of Mr. Scammon was, and could not bave conceived that auy man, calling him- self a lawyer, and aspiring to edit a newapaper, would be 80 ignorant and 8o regardless of decon- cy, as to quote a statute having no reference to professional services of Members of Congress, &8 forbidding them to receive pay for such ser- 'vices in the courts. What the next slander in rogard to myself will be, I know not, but men capable of invent- ing one falsehood after another, will not hesi- tate as fast as they are exposed, to coin others, ‘but, fortunately, the public soon learn to psy no regard to what they say. BCAMMON AS ANANIAS. If the punishment visited upon Ansanias and Bapphirs was to have fallon npon_ Mr. Scammon for the commisgion of each similar offence, he would Jong ago have nndergone the horrors, not only of the gocond, but of many deaths ; and had alike punishment fallen mpon all those who bave made false statements in regard to my con- nectipn with a lawful and proper act, there would scarcely have been enough of the Radical cross-road politicians left to bury those who would have been stricken down. WHY ABUSE IS RESORTED TO. My object iareferring to_the various misrep- resentations -and slanders which have been promulgated, is . not to protect myself against them, for I am satisfied they are not believed by those who know me, but to call your attention to the desperato_means resorted to to sustain the present Administration. Un- able to defend the abuses and corruption which have been exposed, the advocates of General Grant’s re-election villify and abuse those who expose them. What have Liberal Rugnbliuns done, that they should bo thus treated ? They adhero to all the principles of freedom and equality on which the Republican party was based. = Their only object is to restain the Federal Government to the exercise of constitu- tional powers, to restorepeace and reconciltation among all our people, and to purify the Govern- ment. Onght anybody be abused for Yavoring such objects ? ‘Why should not good men of all parties unite for their accomplishment? Bad men who ex- pect to maintsin themselves in authority by un- constitutional usurpations of power, by distrac- tions among the people, and who are to be pro- fited by the abusep and corruptions of Govern- ment, will, of codise, oppose all reforms. It is they who villify and defame sll who are strug- gling fora purer and better administration of the Government, hoping thereby to divert the eoplo’s attention from the iniquities they prac- ico. Shall these plunderers of the people suc- ceed in thus misleading them ? I may be slan- dered down. That is of but little consequence to the country; but it is of vast consequence to the Eeuple ‘whethor they are to be plundered, and moro than $100,000,000 of revenue annually lost through incompetent and corrupt_officinls, During my long public service, I claim no other merit than an honest effort faithfully to discharge publi duty, and how often have Tregretted my inal ty to serve my country better. It matters little what may become of me, but do, not, I beg of ou, let your assanlts upon me divert your at- {cntion from the great reforms which the public good require. THE MONEY POWER. 3 ‘Two elements have been brnulght into requisi- tion the present campaign to defeat the people’s will, without which the Grant men would not stand the ghost of a chance of success. I allude to the money power and tho colored vote. The money power, by which I mean the bondholders, the great monmeyed cor- orations, banks, railroeds, and others, aided By the Trcasury of the Usited States with its ‘hundred million of the people's money, forssk- ing trade, commerce, and the logitimato busi- ness for which capital shou'd be employed, has boldly entered tho political arens, ard under- taken to contest the elections. If thid be per- mitted, then farewell to the liberties of the peo- ple, and submission to the meanest of all aris- tacacies, that of wenlth. To capital, legitimate- 1y employed, I have no opposition, but I ‘warn the people againet it when it undertakes to as- sert political power. _Within a short time, & large number of the millionaires of the country have issued a circular, in which they boldly svow that the moneved interests of the country demands the re-election of President Grant ; and there can be o question that those capitale ists, tugauzervnph thegreat monied corporations, aided by the United States Treasury, contributed vast sums of money to defray the recent October elections, especially in Pennsylvania. Men do. notrepeat votes, falsify seturns, and stuff ballot boxes, a8 was done in “Pennsylvanis, without a motive; and that motive was doubtess money, The money power. wants .the -present financial system of 20 irredeemable currency and a hundred million of. dollars in the Treasury . to continue, becanse, while it continues, it far- nishes increased facilities for robbing labor and industry of their just reward, and sdding to the already overgrown wealth of the rich, Hence the nld_gamb lers, the stock brokers, and the favored capifalists who speculate upon the people’s money in the Treasury, are opposed to a return to specie payments, because that would put an end to gold gambling, and to the pre- tenca for hoarding up a hundred millions of the Esople '8 money, to be used by political favorites; ut they have taken care to meke the bonds of the Government, In the hands of the capitalists worth their face in gold, while the greenback in the hands of the people, declared to be payable on demand, is only worth 87 cents on the dollar. The law declares that the bond shall ba paid in gold, but males no provision to pay the greenback in gold. Why this distinction ? WEHAT PHE TREASURY DEPARTMEST DID. Just before the October elections the Secre- tary of tho Treasury purchased fivo million of bonds, for which he dmid about four million seven hundred thousand dollars of the people's money. Henry Clews & Co., of New York city, the financial agents of the Treasury Department, issned a circnlar on the 31st of October showin how the Secretary of the Treasury interfere 8 they say, to relieve the money market. The circular states that the Secretary of the Treas- ury ““on the 7th inst. issued proposals for the immediate purchase of $5,000,000 of five-twen- ties, additionel to the ordinary weekly amo-nt, and for the sale on the same day of 25,000,000 of coin, it being undorstood that the proceeds of the gold salo should remain in the hands of Trensury Depositories here, thoreby ren- dering the ‘funds available for market use. The effort of these operations was to transfer from the Treasury to the banks five millions of gold and over five of cwmrency. * * * Iiis reasonsble to assume that in the absenco of any special use for the mone by the Government, it will Temain undistuzbed for g0 long as that may be necessary to & healthy condition of the loan market.” By this operation of the Secrot: of the Trensury the day before the October elections, millions of the people’s money was placed in tho hands of favorite bankers,—of course they were ell Grant men,—to remain with them for on indefinite period, and to be loaned out by them to the people, they to pocket such portion of the profits as they did not or do not contrib- ute to carry the elections. How much Clews & Co. ‘or other friends of Grant made b, Bpeculations in gold and stocks, all of which were effected by this sud- den action of the tary, from private in- Becref formation given in advance that so large an amount in gold was to bo put on tho market, I Imow not. ~Is it any wonder that Clews & Co., and other Grant bankers, who are furnished mill- ions of tho people’s money, fo be by them loaned to the people, the bankers to have the interest, should endesvor_to make the country believe & financial crisis will occur if Greeley is elected President? Doubtless it would be a finencial calamity to these men who are specu- lating on the penple's money. But what think ou of a financial system which permits the ccretary of the Treasury, at will, by the use of your money, to raise or dopress the price of not_only gold and stocks, but of all the produce of the cougm?, and to make families rich by! privafely Fiyed them notice in advance of what he will do? How can an honest banker oven expect to compete with bankers who are furnished millions by the Gov- ernment, to loan for their own benefit? Are on, people, content to pay taxes to raise & hun- Joed Daithon of doliars to be kept by the Secre- tary of the Treasury, that he may place it with favorite bankers to be loaned out to you, for the ‘banker’s benefit, at ten or fiffeen gar cent? If you are, vote to Te-elect Genoral Grant, and let the present system continue. THE COLOEED VOTE. Another power consolidated against Mr. Groe- loy and the mass of the peoplein this canvass, is the colored vote. This is an unnatural posi- tion for the colored manto be in, for Mr. Gree- ley and many of his most violent supporters Bave been and are the colored man's best {riends. Such, however, is the fact; the negroes are massed in favor of Grant. The advocates of i re-election boast that he will get the entire negzo vote, and the colored people” are appealed t6 28 a race to give him their support. I pity the simplicity and ignorance of the negroes, which lead them to heed such appeals. To rally as & race againat the whites, with'a view to take conirol of the Government, is the mosé unfortunate thing to them which could happen, but we must take facts a8 they are. lMoney and official influence has doubtless had much to do with this consoli- dstion of the negroes. Fred. Douglass, in an appeal to colored voters, says : “‘We, a8 & Tace,” * " & o man, shonld cast our whole weight into “the ecole for Grant and Wil- son.” “We hold the balance of power in America.” Here we have it boldly pro- claimed _by. & leader among the colored people, that they hold tho balanco of power, sad ey ate called Upon 88 8 man to exercise if, Of course no one can object that acolored man votes for Grant. That is his privilege, but let himnot be com&elled togo vote because he is colored. This is his present position—no col- ored man in & locality Where thera are any con- siderable number is permitted to vote otherwise than for Grant. He dare not do it, and is threatened with outrege and violenco if he pro- poses it.. Freed from bondage to his white mastor, he is now subjected, 80 far as suffrage is concerned, to the domination of a majority of his own race. Severalof the Bouthern States have been governed during Grant's Administra- tion, by the combined negro element, aided by a few adventurers and carpet-baggers. The result we all know. Thepeople of those States thus governed bave beeh plundered and robbed without stint, snd' the corruption and dis- honesty of their BState Governments have scarcely had'a parallel in the world's history. The attempt now is by & combination of office- holders, tho money power, and tho nogro ele- ment, to place the Government of tho United States in similar hands. Shall it succeed? Will the intelligent white anpla of this country consent that this great Republic, the hope of freedom throughout the world, shall fall under the control of the colored race, banded together 88 one man, to hold the balance of power? The old Knov-Nothing organization, banded together on nativity, was bad enough, but this is worse, a8 it is an organization of natives of & particular color, and they the most ignorant amongst us. WHAT IT HASDONE, = If Grant is re-elected President, it will be_be- cause the negroes vote for him as abody. With- ont their votes, he could not have carried the preat States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, or Indiana, in October. Take out the negrovote properly belonging to Pennsylvanis, and those import- ed from other States, and the Liberals would have carried the State at the receut election, notwithstanding all the other frauds. 8o in Ohio. In Indian it was publicly claimed that there were 7,000 colored voters who would vote solid for the Radical ticket, and how many were imported from other States I know nof; but take out the 7,000 colored votes claimed to be- long to that Slate, and the Liberals, would have #wopt it by nearly that much majority. linois it is said thero are seven thousaud colored voters, and I suppose they will vote as a man tho Radical ticket. Shall they by their combinihg be permitted to cast Ilinois’ vote for Grant, and to dictate who shall be Governor of Illinois ? 3 GRANT OB GREELEY. - 1t is for you to decide. If you would continue our present financial system, by which the rich are made richer and the poor poorer; if you would senction usurpstions of authority, by +which those once in office may perpetuate them- gelves in power; if you would continue the sbuses and corruptions of . Goyornment and the present scandalous Civil-Service system, by which one-fourth of the rev- enues are annually lost; if you would keep up the alienation of feeling between the people North and South, and perpetuate the Carpet-bag rule under which several of the Southern States have been already impover- ished; if yon would surrendor up the Govern- ment of your country to those who owe their positions to the money-power and the combined negro element, then vote for General Grant. But if you wonid have a financial system which will secure to labor and indusrry their just re- ward, and to the }ieople s currency which shall bo equally valusble with thatin the hands of millionaires; if you would confine those in au- thority to the limite of power prescribed by the Constitution, and leave to_the indi- vidual the largest liberty consistent with Enblie order; if you wounld "correct sbuses and ave an honest administration of the Govern- ment ; if iYon would restore peace and good-will between the peopla North and South, and bring sl to a love of the Union; if yon would place the Government of your country in the hands of thoso who do nob owe their positions to the money-power or the combined vote of the color- ed race, then vote for Harace Greeley for Pres- ident, Gustavus Koerner for Governor .of Illi- nois, and for men who wil sustain them in their respective positions. g -SEVENTEEN YEARS. Thomas lin.rley for the Murd of John Patterson, ° % Trial of Testimony of Physicians, Police=~ men, and _Citizens, Verdict of the Jury, Seventeen Years at Joliet. - MORNING SESSION. The trial of Thomas Hurley, charged with shooting John Flannigan, alizs John Patterson, on the 3d of Beptember losf, Was commenced before Judge Tres, in the Criminal Court, yes- terday morning. There were about s hundred persons present. The accused is quite a young man,—not over 20 years of age; his -counte- nance is of & milky hue, the result of his in- carceration and anxiety. He was very silent during the investigation, but watched the pro- ceedings with interest, the question asked of the jurors, Are you opposed to capital punish- ment?” having s visible effect. upon -him. About an hour was requlred to get a jury; near- Iy every one excused wasnot in favor of hanging for murder. THE STATE'S ATTORNEY ’ explained the law of murder to the jury. It was a common impression among the people that it was necessary for a man to lioin wait for anoth- er, to premeditate, in order to constitute a mur- der. That was not the law. There must be “ malice aforethought,” but that could be form- ed at the moment the trigger of a revolver was pulled, or & thrust made witha knife, The case was somewhat involved in mystery, but the evi- dence would ehow, AMr. Reed thought, that Hur- ley deliberately ehot Patterson. He then re- Iated the circumstances attending the murder, ‘which will be found in the testimony. TESTIMONY OF THE COUNTY PHYSICIAN. Dr. McCarthy was then sworn, and testified as follows : Am County Phyaician of Cook County; made a post- mortem, examination of the body of 'Jobn Pavier: £on, at the Morgue ; found o gun-shot wound just be. low the breast bone, in the sbdamen ; the ball' passed through tho liver, nd lodged in the muscles of the ‘back, between the seventh and elghth ribs ; death was cxused by the wound, - Cross-czamined: The ball was a common oxe, and was probably fired from a Smith & Wesson revolver ; the Coroner has the ball; decessed was sbout 5 feet 7 inches in height, and would have weighed 150 pounds, TESTIMONY OF DR. GOLL. Dr. G. G. Goll was sworn, and testified as follows : Am a physician; my ofic 18 at the corner of Twelfth and Canal Btréets’; Patterson was brought to my ofice by two policemen and a watchman ; he laid thers until 40'clock 8. m., when he was taken away; ho was alive; defendant was brought in, while he was there, by Ser~ gexnt ODonnall} e was mmaking s cgar, aud eid o Patterson, ley, SOU Are grunting your Tant 37 Pitterson aid, ¢ You onght not 50 have $hot b Hurley then sald, “I meant to shoot you, and o ought to have been'shot long 8go ;7 . esch biamed ihe other for it ; O'Donnell showed Patterson the re- volver; Patterson remained there sbont an hour after- wagds, and was then taken to the Connty Hospital, (ned ; Hurley told Patterson that he was to blame for it, and Patterson replied that Hurley was to blame; Hurley did not look 38 if he had been drink- ing; T ol ot svear that s was perfectly sobos ot 5 time, TESTIMONY OF SERGEANT O'DONNELL. Simon O'Donnell was sworn, and testified : Arrested Hurley; am Borgeant at Twelfth Strest Station; heard of ihe shooting between 2and 8 o'clock 3. m,, and arrested Hurley wif half an hour ; found him in bed in his step-father’s house ; he was asleep, and X searched in his clothing for the revolver ; I found it under the matreas ; I woke him up and told him I wanted him for the shooting of Patterson; ho eaid nothing; when on tho way to the station, T aiked him where hib revolver, was ; he sald he never carried one; 1 held up the revolver, and ho said “ That is mine,— where did you get 1t?” I told him, and then hs said he shot Patterson, and was_very sorry. I took him to Gall's drug store, where Patterson was, and de- ceased gaid to him, “ You ehot me, Tommy; yon have done a cowardly act.” Hurley replied, “I goig end 2m not sarry, for you it Jong'sgo.” imined: Hurley was Iying on the floor when T awoke him. His clothes were alongaide of him ; his mother came in after I aroused him’; it was after 2 o'clock when we reached the drugstore; Ihad another conversation with Hurley in the station. Mr, Réed objected to any other conversations being dstailed than the two brought out in the direct examination. - Ir. Van Buren claimed that tho conversation was strictly coatinnous. ; The Court, sustained the objection. ‘Witniess then continued : ‘Huzloy never told mo that Patterson had been down ; 1o said that before the Qoroner, ‘The Court instracted the jury not to take cog- nizence. of. the_last twa satements, the officer baving answered the questions after objection had been made. .- Witness continued: - ¥ - I saked Hurley if the revolver was tho ons he shot Patterson with, and he sald “Yes;" he did not tell ma why heahot him, nor give the resson at the drug store ; he did Dot tell e thers that he shot him in self-defence, e = = Mr. VanBuren offered in evidence the testi- mony of 0'Donnsll before the Cofoner, as pub- lished in Tar TRIBUNE. ; Mr. Roed said ho wold object to & portion of it, on the ground that it was hoarssy and imma- rial. The Court did not-pass upon the objection. Q. Was Patterson ever in the Penitentiary. [Ob- Jected t0.] . Mr. VanBuren proposed to show that Patter- son was & convicted burglar and thief, and had made threata to take the life of the deferdant. Mr. Reed said it must-be shown from the records. 3 E Mr. Ven Buren asserted that the records had ‘been destroyed. The Clerk stated that he had an indistinct rocallection of Patterson’s conviction: Mr. Reed knew that he was nover sent to tho Penitentiary from the Criminal Court. Q. Whiat kind of 3 man was he? [Objected to; obe Jection overrnled.] A. He would steal—was a barglar, 9, Do you kmow of his baving been in tite Tliaots Penitentiary? [Objected to, sustained.] ‘Witness continued : He was absant -from town for S e e e 3 a us man [Objected to, and bjection mustained] Re-dirgct ezamination : He had not the reputation of being 3 s man. - s The Court then adjourned until 2 o’clock. . AFTERNOON SESSION.: ~ Upon the reassembling of the court, Sergeant 0'Donnell was recalied,and said Pattarson would have weighed from 185 to 140 pounds. TESTIMONY OF THOMAS PATTERSON. _Thomas Patterson was sworn, and testified : ‘Deceased was my half-brother, his father's name was Elsunigsa. T aw biia before healed, at’ Gall's drug stora ; he ‘weighed abous 130 pounds, and was about 22 yoars of ago, : oss-czamined: Deceased was brought up by my ‘mother, and took the name of Patterson. TESTIMONY OF LOUIS VALLE. Louis Valle was eworn, and testified : My place of business~1s ‘st No: 523 South” Canal sti2et; keep a saloon_and restsurant ;- decessed and ‘Hurley wero in my placs on the night of ‘the shooting. Pattarson came in first with a “yonngfellow, “and -they had a drink. . ‘He stayed ahout two minutes, and. sald b was going ioma:_ Sust 22 b was golag Uty the de- feadant and twg ottiers ‘cume" 1 Hind 3 6y —all imbibing except Hurley; Who' took ® cigar, Harley then be to. * fool” with Patterson,” and Patterson told’ to stop.. X told. them I did not want sny row in the place, andthey went out, .and in ten or-fifteen minutes I heard a ehot, That is all T Emow about it, = Cross-czamined: Qould not say whether.or not Hurley was drunk. Patterson was not, TESTIMONY OF PATRICK WHITTIE. Patrick Whittie was sworn and testified : Am ¥ratchman at Twelfth, on Conal sieet. On Sun- day night, Belgl. 3, was passing along on Canal street, below Twelfth, and heard a shot ; it was right opposite tome; Ilooked overand ssw some people stands north of the restaurant door. I crossed over and u.k:s who fired tho shot ; the crowd separated immediately, #0me going north and others south, - No one sppeared to have been shot ; one had his hand upon his stomach, 1 went on up tho street s littla waya and fonnd Patter- son lying on. the sidewalk ; where he was lying was sbout 180 feet from where theshot was fired, I carried him across the street to Dr. Goll's office, I heard mo disturbance on the strest. Crogs-ezamined ; 1 do not know how many were in ihe crowd. I could mot recommize Hurley as ome of them. 3 PROSECUTION RESTED. This ended the testimony for the prosecution. THE DEFENGE. Mr. Van Buren waived his opening address. TESTINONY OF JAMES READY. James Ready was called for the defence : F 1mow Hurley, and knew Patterson by name; saw them the night Patterson wna shot. Imet Hurldy on Cannl, near Twelfth street, and went from Dekoven street with them to Clinton, Intending {o g0 to a dance Ball, but it was closed. We went back, and, while assing the restaurant, Tommy said, * Hallow, there's Fack, 1et's ot We did, and Batlerson and Hurley got fo scuffling, Patterson suid to him, #You are ,'" ond they scparated. We wont outside, and they talked together a little, and I left, Whils | ley, and T tola who was with Patterson; I heard his name was Jimmy O'Hern, Cross-cxamined: 1 have known Hurley sbout five montha; nsed to see himx-every night; have drank with him, but not very many times; Hi canght hold of Patterson first in the saloon. TESTIMONY OF AMELIA PITT. Amelia Pitt was sworn and testSed: 1 know Hurley; have known him about four years; knew Patterson slightly; had a_conversation the Tuesday or Wednesday beforo tho shooting. - Q. State the conversation, [Objected to; objection ;lu.INHEdJL Wz:nm continued : * Patterson n_s{ierll(me ‘was not going to quit kee company wil ure a s ns o s b wemnd ol Huzley within a week ; ho said that several times; I told Hur- ley about it. T = Cross-czamined: 1. have ‘been rrested twico; another girl was with me at the time of the conversa- tion; Hurley is an intimate friend of mine; Patterson ‘was not. Hurley said it was all right when I told him what Patterson said. I had met Patferson at picnica; ho wanted to go with me, but he never did: . Are you the girl that stabbed the Bohemian? A. I Was-up forit, . . TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL, HURLEY. Micheel Hurley testified as follows : Am the step-fathar of tho accused. Ho is about 21 years of age; when I married bis mother he had littla tticoats on. Icould nottell what time he came ome the night he was arrested, I did not hear him. Ho was in bed when the sergeant. came. Hewas . THE END OF THE DEFENCE. This'ended the testimony of the defence. THE ARGUMENTS. 1. Van Buren said ho was willing to submit the case without argument. - Mr. Reed would not agree to do 50, and pro- ceeded to male- his a.:EmnenL. He contended ihat the evidence in the case in regard to the bullet showed that the defendant took deliberata aim at the deceased. There wasno testimony that Patterson touched Hurley. Mr. Von Buren donied that there was delib- eration, claiming thet the locality of the wound showed that the pistcl was fired rapidly without aim, just s aman would do when in danger. The fact that a man was dead and that another killed him did not prove a ctime, unless tho jury believed that the man intended fo kill him. Mr, Van Buren quoted from authorities to show that what was sud by a prisoner was not considered to be criminating; genhmnm reference to such statements a5 it was claimed Hurley had made was deemed weak and unreliable. He claimed ‘that a fair inference, from the testi- mony, was that. Patterson assaulted Hurley and was ghot by the latter in self-defence, he know- ing, on account of the threats, that Patierson would Lill him at the first opportunity. Mr. Reed -replied, g that “there was no gezguhfisuny to show that there was a struggle or a THE VERDICT. The Court then gave the usaal instructions, and the jury retired to deliberate, and after an ab- sence of one hour and ten minutes returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, and fixed the penalty of Hurley’s crirue at seventeen years in the Penitentiary. “TEMPERING MERCY WITH JUSTICE.” To ths Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bre: Under this caption a correspondent in the Chicago Times endeavors to make a weak apology for Charles H. Reed, onr State’s Attor- ney, going g0 extensively into “the pardon-brok- erage business. The writer says: “Itis well kmown to every intelligent person that trial by jury is only a legal form; and often a mere farce;” and, from theses premises, draws the conclusion that the Btate’s Attorney should be vested with pardoning power; hence, the Gov- ernor should pardon whomsoever that officer recommends. No doubt the men who disregard and ignare the beneficent, writ of habeas corpus will be glad to see ‘the “mere farco” of trial by jury abolished. P Now, in these eighty-six cases where pardons were granted, the parties pardoned were either guilty, or they werenot guilty, of the hizh crimes for which they were convicted. If guily, they should have remained in the Penitentiary untll thoy paid the fall penalty of the ofendsd law; if they were not guilty, it was the duty of the State’s Attorney, after hearing the evidence, to enter & nolle proséqui. . The writer of the ar- ticle referred to says: ‘ As the law now stands, the State’s Attorney has a right to entera nolle prosequi when the evidence, in his opinion, is in- sufficient to convict.” Now, why the necessity or the propriety of the State's ‘Attorney permit- ting a conviction and gentence, and the locking up of an innocent man? Is it because the par- don business is profitable, either to the State or thoofficersof thelaw? = - . _Our State's Attorney is not unacquainted with hia fii’ht to enter nolle prosequis ; for, in the years 1868 and 1869, ho nolle-prosed 337 cases, amongst which were 23 indictmens for burglary, 23 for reoexving:tnlm goods; 6 for ragg, and 149 for larceny. tho same years, the whole amonnt of bail forfeiture—and the greater part, if not all, of it well secured—was S114,300 while the whole smount collected of this sum was 85,625, Of this forfeiture $53,850 was can- celled by the State's Attorney entering nolle Proseguis in 101 cases. These facts and figures are derived from rec- ords and proceedings yet remsining in this city, and they cannot be. successfully denied. Will the Times' correspondent attempt to explain or justify the loss of this large sum of money ? —_— ° PERSONAL: - Mr. Froude pronounces his name to rhyme with “mood.” —Ex-Governor_Ballock, of Massachusetis, who is ngw in’ Paris, will, with a fow friends, make & tfi?vup the Nile thia winter. Colonel T 95, i a3 ‘odthing tho b onel “in our war, . is" editi o Indi Charivari at Caleutta, 2 —Two sisters in Beloit have recently received $28,000 apiece by bequest in the will of a depart- ed relative. .—The marriage of Signora Ay, Tamberlik (g.augbbe_r of the tenor) with Dr. Galezowsld, the oculist, who saved her sight, took place in Paris on the 3rd inst. —Alrs. Critten ‘widow of Laura Fair’s vic- tim, is at present keeping a boarding house in 8an -Franasco in order to mgporc her family, who are in poor circumstances financially. —Henrietts Robinson, the notorions “ veiled murderess,” now confined in Sing Sing Prison, isto be transferred to the State Asylum in Auburn. She is reported hopalessly insane. —Tho son of Mr. Russel Sturges, who was Iately announced to bs about marrying one of General Schenck’s daughters, married, & few days ago, the danghter of the Spesker of the House of Commons. —Ex-President Finney, of_Obeslin, has just passed his 80th birthdsy. His health, which ‘as much impaired last spring, is so improved that he is again abla to preach. —Certain persons inquire, “Why does Ed- mund Yates part his hair in the middle?” Do they suppose, _sska the New York~ Commercial, he came to this cotintry fo make s “ gide show ?" —The death is announced of Admiral Henry 0. Love, R. N., who Iaid claim to having sug- gested the use of paddles, instead of wheels, for stenm-vessels. —AWilliam M. Meredith, of Philadelphis, and Geergo W. Woodward, of Luzerne Co , elect- ed to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Conven- tion, were members of the Convention that amended the Constitution in 1837-'33. . —Edith , O'Gorman, . ‘the . ¢ Escaped . Nun,” whose real name is now Mrs. Edith Auffray, has succeeded ‘in her prosecution’ of one Thomsas Anshro for lib an’ Francisco court and jury having, on the {4th, found the man guilty. Mo- tion for.new trial by-Ansbro’s counsel, and scn- Yerice in conseguence deferred. - . —The Rey: John M. Chapin, only son of Mar- g g A i e o riday, s, .~ He-was recently ordained pastor of zhe‘%in tional Church in West Springfield. . —Fliskim Johnson, for'81 ;years cashier of the bank at Woodsf Vt., and son-in-law of t “Congrega- going away, I heard Hurley 8ay {0 Patterson, “Eeep your hands'off of me,” and sbout 5 minute after that T heard the shot, Q. Was Hurley drunk? A. Yes. John Dizon was with me; ho has left town: T do mot know tho man thelate Senator Collamer; died the19th. —Judge Underwood, of the United States Court in Vir%'m , confiscated the fine. residence of W. N. McVeigh, in Alex: is,. and his wife became the purchaser; which grmed.ing the Supreme Cotrt of the United States pronounced to be “a blot upon our jurisprudence and civiliz- stion.” Underwood now refuses to recognize the decree of the higher court. e —Among the persons mentionedin connection with Governor Hartran{t’s edministration sre Wayne MacVeigh, Henry C. Johnson, of Craw- ford, and H. Bucher Swoope, for the Attorney- Generalship ; Major Lane 8. Hait,.one of Har- tranft’s old regimental officers, and now s clerk urder him in the Auditor-General's office, for the post of Adjutant-General; and Captain John D. Bertolette for Private Secretary. Gen- eral Robért L. Bodine is said to be a candidate again for Flour Inspector. =, ..~ B —When Anna Dickingon announced her inten- tion of delivering a_Greeley lecture, & weak- Imeed little chap out West, who happened to bo on a lecture committes, wrote to her, threaton- ing in that case to have her name withdrawn from their lecture conrse. Anna coolly replied that the lecturo she was engaged to deliver in Huntertown was just a8 good as when it was chogen from her list ; that she was just as well able to deliver it; that for her other opinions, or -] commission CRIME IN CHICAGO. Another of Mr. State’s Attorney Reed's Methods of Preventing Its Spread in This City. Ninety-Seven Persons Against Whom Ine dictments Were Found Allowed to Default Their Bail, This Only the Work of Eight Monthe ---The Case of Hugh Gar- rity. TrE TRBUNE of Monday displayed to the svorld one of the ways Mr. Charles H. Beed haa adopted since he has held the office of Prose cuting Attorney, of preventing crime in this city. 1t was shown from the official record at Spring- field that, through the personal intervention of Mr. Reed, the Governor had been induced to pardon ont of the Penitentiery eighty-six crimie nals sent to that institution for the commission of crime in Chicago. It was also shown that Mr. Reed had beseeched Governor Palmer to turn loose twenty other villains, among them the notorious forger “Colonel” Cross, the most dangerous man of his **profession ” in the United States. It is probably not true, the 2ssertion that Mr. Reed sought the “release of these one hundred and six rascals that they ‘might raturn to Chicago, commit other crimes, and again run through the mill, that he might s second time draw his prosecution fee of 310 per head for re-codviction. gk And now that our reeders may learn further of Mr. Reed's system of * preventing and punish- ing crime” in this city, we produce, this morn- ing, from the records of the Criminal Court, alist of persons indicted for the alleged of offences against the People, and who have escaped punishment through the laxity of the Prosecuting Attorney, who has allowed them to forfeit their bail. The list containg ninety-seven names, and is only of defaults entered between -Dec. 11, 1871, and July 17, 1872—less than eight months. It is stated by the Clerk of the Criminal Court that more than twice ninoty-seven defaults have bean entered since the 17th of July, and fally ninety= seven within the Iast sixty days. - i By a comparison of the list given.below, 2nd the names of tho delegates o the Republican Connty Convention which renominate Charles H. Reed for the office of Prosec Attorney, the reader may find a startling iarity in very many instances. The Hugh Garrity whose name sppears in the list below a8 indicted for the crimes of at- tempting to kill and attempting to rob, is the same Hugh Garrity released from the Peniten- tiary a year or two ago, on the recommendation of Mr. Reed. A B The persons whose mames appear below: (and who have ‘ defaulted”), the reader will under- stand, have been arrested, gone through a pre- liminary examination before & Police Justice, passed from there to the Grand Jury, where in. dictments were found, and then -béen released on bail to appear for trial before . the Criminal Court. The first colnmn below shows the tims and the date of default. No one onds hes been secnt and no omo of the alleged criminals has been 7e-arrest: ed: Dateof | Xame of alleged dndl. | e e The charge. | William Aldridge. .| |Jobn Simpson.. March 22, | Edward . . March 22. gc gm!nga, gr = March 22, [Pat Jennings, Jr-.| |Dennis Shann | Larceny. iv'g stolen 'ty fBem sg_. prop'ty. i o . REPUBLICAN AND LIBERAL LITERATURE. - o ths Editor of The Chicago Tribune: 3 Bm: The New York Times has Iately been boasting considerably of its increased circula- tion. Its weekly edition is being gratuitously distributed all over the country by hundreds of thousands, and sent through the Post Office to almost every family in country. towns and dis- tricts. Democrats and Liberals are especially favored with this inundation of Grant literature, and such of them as will take the New York Times from the Post Office receive regularly, itgree, gratis, for nothing,” this blatant organ of monopolists, corrupt Bings, and Treasury “leeches.” 3 B During & recent trip in Indiana, I found that 8 class of news-dealers and train-boys seem to be tabooing THE Cmrcaco TaIBUNE znd the Cincinnati Commercial, and found it often very difficult to obtain a copy of either of thosa papers. They were eagerly amp%ed up, in moxt places on thearrival of the mail; bl on's organ, the Chicago Z7mes, and other Grant or- gans were always to be had in great profusion and at all times. Several gentlemen wished to purchase Trrs- USES on board of s Logansport train; but the trein-boy only earrisd tEa Tames and. Holf-Seas: Orer, alleging that Tre TRIBUNE office Was away down in the burnt district, and too far for him ber right to express them, she was not responei- ble to him or any lecture committes; and, final- 1y, that, if he took her name off the course, she shonld smo him for the amormt of her fee. That IM: argument settled the matter. -Anna is clear &rif to go after copies. 1Is there not some occult in- fluence, easily guessed at, deterring some of the news-vendersin the country from selling the Liberal journals ? & Cm1g460, Oct, 80, 1872,