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THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 187 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). of . the same rate. i::vme{ delay and mistakos, b sure and give Post Offco sddress in fall, including Stato end County. ‘Remittances may be made efther by draft, oxpress, Post Offico order, o in registered lotters, &t our risk. TERNS TO CITY SUBECRIBERS. Dafls, delivercd, ‘Sanday exccpted, 25 cents per woek. Daily, delivered, Snnday included, 30 cents per week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, No. 15 Soath Canal-st., Chicago, 11L. TrpUsE Branch Office, No. 469 Wabash-nv., in the Lookstoro of Messrs. Cobb, Andrews & Co., where zdrertisements and subscriptions will bo received, and will recelve tho same attention as If Jeft at the Main Office. THE TRIBUNE counting-room and business departmont will rematn, for the present, at No. 15 Canal strect. Ad- tertisements should be banded In at that place. e ——C LIBERAL NOMINATIONS. NATIONAL. Por President: ‘BORACE GREELEY, of New York, For Vice Predident: B. GRATZ BROWN, of Missouri, ELECTORAL, st -tors of President anc ce lent : AT LS TN BROSS, of Clhicazos o i CHARLES C. P. HOLDEN; ARNO VOSS; [SAAC W. SWAN; OBERT C, BURCHELL; RIC JOHNSON; JASPAR BUTZ; STATE. For Governor: GUSTAVUS EOERNER, of St, Clair, For Lieutenant Governor : JOHN CHARLES BLACK, of Champaign. For Secretary of State: EDWARD RUMMELL, of Peoria, For Auditor of Public Accounts: DANIEL O'HARA, of Cook, For State Treasurer: CHARLES H. LANPHIER, of Sangamon, For Attorney General : JOHN V. EUSTACE, of Les. For Clerks of the Supreme Court: Southern Div.—R. A. D. WILBANKS, of Jefferson, Central Div.—DAVID A. BROWN, of Sangamon, Northern Div,—ELI SMITH, of Cook. COUNTY. 5 CONGEESSIONAL, Firet District—LUCIUS B, OTIS. Becond District—CARTEE H, HARRISON, Third District -JOHN V. LEMOYNE. ETATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION, ‘First District—DANIEL C. SKELLY. Second District—THOMAS WILCE. Third District—CHARLES KNOBLESDORFF, Trda 1, 3, 10, and 11)—Senator First District (Wards 1, 2, 10, an E JAMES W. SHEAHAN. Representatives: HENRY SWEET, OTTO MUTSCHLECHNER. Second District (Wards 3, 4, and 6, Hyde Park and Lake)—Senstor: JAMES WADSWORTH. ° Representa- tives: FRANK T, SHERMAN, EGBERT JAMIESON. ‘Third District (Wards 6, 7, and 8)—Senator : MILES OFE. Represontatives: CONSTANTINE KANN, THOMAS M. HALP Fourth District (Wards 9, 12, and 18)—Senator: W D WOODARD. ~ Representatives: V. H. CONDOKX, 8. S, GARDN] Fifth District (Wards 14, 15, and 18)—Senator: DE- YOTION C. EDDY. Representatives: HUGH Mo- LAUGHLIN, AUSTIN J. GIBBONS, ‘Sixth District (Wards 16, 17, 19, and 20)—Senator: HEXNRY E. HAMILTON, Representatives: W. C. Mc- CLURE, OTTO PELTZER. Seventh District (County towns, except Lake and Hyde Park)—Senstor: SIAON P, BROWN. Represen- tatives: DANIEL BOOTH, THEODORE GUENTHER. COUNTY OFFICEES. State's Attorney—THOMAS J. TCRNER, Sherif—CHARLES KERN, Coroner—RODNEY N. DAY. County Clerk—JEREMIAH J. CROWLET. Circuit Clerk—GEORGE F. BLANEE. Recorder—ST. CLAIR SUTHERLAND, County Commiscioners—N. K. FAIRBANE, MAR- TIN THATCHER, J. W, HORTON, A. D. WALDROY, DANIEL C, SEELLY, ALEXANDER BENGLEY, M. W. ROBINSON, THEODORE KIMMEN, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE-The HorseDiscase in this City and Flsewhere. SECOND PAGE—New Publications—Colared Voters: “Address of the National Liberal Republican Com- mittes of Colored Citizens—Blooded Stock: Great Auction Sale cf Short-Horn Cattle—Tyndsll: The Great Savant on the Lecture Stago—Cooking a Din. per: How o Tennesses Girl Created & Sensation — Scotland: The Desolato Domination of the Scottish Dukes—The Liquor-Law—Charles Dickens and Hiy Wifo—General News Items—Ourions Case of Lunacy. THIRD PAGE—Robbors Arrestod—The Law Courts— The City in Briei—Eranston Itoms—Joseph o™ Pherson's Estate—St. Michael's Steeple—Businoss Directory—Misscellaneous Advertisementa. FOURTH PAGE—Editorials: A Bad Scase—The Horse Disease—General Hurlbut at Now Orlesns—Albert S, Evans—Current Nows Items—Political. FIFTH PAGE—The Temperanco Movement: Mestings Last Evening- Markots by Telegraph—Liberal Ap- Ppolntments—Advertisoments. SISTH PAGE—Monotary and Commereisl—Marino In- telligence. SEVENTH PAGE-Marrige: Who Shonld Ohoose for the Girls—England's Young Noblemen: Effscts of fhie False Position in which they are Placod— Alexis in AsinSmall Advertisements: Real Estate, For Sale, To Rent, Wants, Boarding: Lodging, Etc. EIGHTH PAGE—Washington” News—Tone of the Now York Markets~Advertiscments. e AIUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison strest, bstweon State and Dearbora. Miss Maggle Mitchell, supported by Mr. L. R. Shewell, *‘Jane Eyre.” ATREN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue, corner of Con- gress street. Appearznce of the new stock company Revival of *The Ticket-of-Leave Man.” HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—-Randolph street, be- tween Clark and LaSalle. Second weck of Abbott-Ki- r2lfy Pantomime Combination. The ‘‘Three Hunch- backs.” 8 ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted stroet, sonth of Madi- eon. Second week of 3irs. F, §. Chanfran's engagement. ** Christie Johnstone.” MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Xonroe street, betweon Siate and Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton & Kemble's Minstrel and Burlesque Troupe. NIXON'S AMPITHEATRE—Clinton street, between ‘Washington and Randolph. Second weck of Mafitt and Eartholomew’s Pantomime Troupe. *‘Tho Two Fugi- tives.” GLOBE THEATRE—Desplaines stroet, betwweon Madi- son and Washington. Vaudeville Entertainment. BURLINGTON HALL—Cornerof State and Sixteenth stroots. McEvoy's New Hibernicon, and Irish Comedy Company. @he Ohieags Tribmne, Fridasy Morning, November 1, 1872. The President denies that he congratulated Thiers on the progress of French Republican- ism. The Chicago & Northwestern Railway has been enjoined by Judge Ingraham, of New York, from issuing any stock not authorized by two- hirds of the stockholder: The name of the Liberal Elector in the Six- teenth District is GEORGE L. ZINK, and not Daniel K. Green. Committees, and all others who print tickets, will bear this in mind, Torty thousand persons have been rendered Lomeless by the inundstions of the Po, which Lave also wrought frightful destruction of crops end property, and require the incasam::b labor of four thousand men to prevent still grealer overflow. e ———— The Chicago money market continues strin- gent, notwithstanding the evident improvement in_collections in the country, Merchants here cre remitting largely to Eastern creditors, bub tlcre is no incresse in the amount of loanable funds in this market Jet, and good business eper sells at 134 and 2 per cent per month, 1 a0t only misconduct, but & wilfal intent, and that guilt may be established by circumstances a8 well as by direct evidence, If they believed the Mayor knew that the cleims he was anditing were corrupt, they must find him guilty. —ee From New York comes a report, apparantly sustained by the figures given, of the amount of currency outetanding yesterday. Bat the Treas- ury . Department has issued between four and five millions of the greenback revenue, in ac- cordance with the discretion which Secretary, Boutwell has publicly claimed to possess. A Parliamentary crisis has occurred in Ger- many in coneequence of the rejection of the Re- form bill presented by the Government to the Diet. An Imperial decree has been prepared, diegolving the present Parliament and ordering new elections. The opposition of the Upper House to the bill arose from the provision for Iocal self-government in the rural districts. —— General Garfield's remarks before.the Cincin- nati Chamber of Commerce, on the proposed ex- pansion of the currency, were excellent and timely. He stated the exact truth when he said that the Secretary of the Treasury has no right, under existing law, to reissue $44,000,000 of greenbacks, It is not quite certain, however, that the prohibitions of law will be effective in preventing the issue. Any hope that the confession of Folly would Iead to the detection of the mysterious mur- derer of the Hon. Sharon Tyndale, of Spring- field, who was assassinated one night last win- ter, at his own doorsteps, must be abandoned. Folly criminated a convict, who had served a torm in the Joliet Penitentiary ; but the books of that prison show the latter to bave been in confinement until long after the murder. Tt is somewhat singular that the patriotism of Mr. Commissioner Davenport, of New York, has found no imitation in Chicago, on the part of General Grant's Commissioner. 1f it is the duty of the United States Commissioner in New York to undertake the work of verifying the register of votes, it wonld seom to be equally the duty of the United Commissioner in Chiczgo to do the eame thing. One of the occasions for the New York application of ths law in Chicago may be found in the alloged circumstance that a number of negrocs have registered in this city who were bornin Canada, and bave never yet taken the steps necessary io become votes Votera in Cook County must bear in mind that the reel candidates for Governor are Gustavus Koerner and John L. Beveridge. The candidacy of Oglesby is not for Governor. He is running for tho United States Senate, and Mr. Beveridge isthereal candidate for Governor, to which office ho is to succeed upon Oglesby's resigna-~ tion. Voters must therefore choose between AMr. Eoerner and Afr. Beveridge. One or the other of these is to be elected. It depends, itis now understood, upon the vote of this county, whether Beveridge or Eoerner shall be the next Governor. We trust no Liberal will, under the circumstances, fail to vote, or fail to see that he votes for Governor Koerner. In the prosent election the Liberal voters of this city and county ehould see to it that no ex- traneous issues divort them from the support of their candidates for President, members of Con- gress, State officers, members of the Legisla- ture, and county officers. BSuccess depends upon unity of action, and & stern refasal to trade with the opposition. There will be s fierca contest to defeat the Liberal candidates for the Legislature. There is a double reason for this. The Republicans have promised to elect Oglesby to the United States Senate, and thereby make Beveridge Governor. They know that Beveridge Tunning directly for Governor wonld be beaten 10,000 in this county ; bat, if they can get & ma- jority of the Legislature, they can make him Governor by succession. ‘Should the horse-epidemic visit Chicago with an approach to the severity now prevailing in other cities, it must hasten the adoption of & ‘better local system of the transfer of freights between railway lines, now done by expensive street-hauling. The measure has been already contemplated, as sure to result from the present concentration of all the lines at the Stock Yards. By thie plan, which once adopted will not be given up, freight peesing through Chicago will ‘e transhipped directly from the cars, to the benefit of all pariies concerned. There is no city in the United States where this general transfer is so feasible and easy to be accom- plished. All that is necessary is tohurry up the great transfer freight-houses long ago pro- posed. Meanwhile, temporary structures may ‘be made necessary. ‘We have received several communications upon the subject of the right of naturalized citizens to vote. An effort seems to have been made to produce confusion in some minds, when the law does not justifyit. Tho Constitution, Article VII., Section 1, provides : Every person having resided in this State one year, in the county 90 days, and in tho eloction district 30 days, next preceding avy election therein, who was an elector inthis Btate on the Ist of April, 1848, or ob~ tained a certificateof naturalization before any Court of Record in this State prior to 1st of January, 1870, orwho shall bo amale cltizen of the United States, ubove the age of 21 years, shall be entitted to vote at such election. The provision relating to persons who obtained a certificate of naturalizationbefore the first day of January, 1870, was a temporary provision in- tended to cover the cases of & few persons who otherwise could not have voted, and does not refer to any voter in the State who has been noturalized since that date. It was intended to make voters of all those persons whose natur- slization papers were obtained from County Courts, which, it had been decided, had no power to issue them, and who, not being legal citizens of the United States, could not have voted at that election. The Chicago breadstuffs markets were gener- ally active and higher, yesterday, with a good shipping movement and lighter receipts. Pro- visions quiet. Mess pork was dull and steady at $15.00 for old; $14.00@14.25 for mew; and $12.6224@12.75 seller December. Lard was quiet and steady at 73{c per Ib, cash and 78{c seller December. Meats were quiet at 5S¢ for part salted shoulders, 73{c for do short ribs, and 8Y/c for do short clear. Highwines were active and steady at 83c per gallon. Lake freights were active and steady at 13c for corn to Buffalo, Flour was quiet and unchanged. Wheat was active, and 34c higher, closing teak st $1.074@1.08 cash; $1.073¢ seller Novem- ber ; and $1.07}¢ seller December. Corn wasac- tive, and 3@3{c higher, closing at 8lc seller November, and 81}c seller December. Oats Judze Brady charged the jury, in the case of Mayor Hall, that, to convict, they must find were in good demand, and X0 higher, closing firm st 2lo cash, and 22go seller Decomber. Rye was quiet and firm at 5ic. Barley was fc- tive and s shade firmer, at 6234@68c for No. 2, and 49@50c for No.S8. There wasea good de- ‘mand for hogs at afurther advance of 5@10c,the” pens being cleared at $4.30@4.75. The cattle and sheep markets were dull and unchanged. ———— A circular issued by Henry Clews & Co., the New York bankers and the financial agents of the Treasury Depariment, on the 21st of Octo- ber, states that the Secretaryof the Treasury, on the 7th inst., issued proposals for the imme- diato purchase of 5,000,000 of five-twenties ad- ditional to the usual weekly amount, and for the stlo on the same day of $5,000,000 of gold, it be- ing understood that the proceeds of the gold salo should remain in the hands of the “ Treas- ury Depositories” in New York, thereby render- ing the fands savailable for market use. The circular further assumes that, in the absence of any special nge for the money by the Govern- ment, this five millions of gold and five millions of currency “will remeain undisturbed as long as it may be necessay to a healthy condition of the, Ioan market.” Exactly how the taking of this money out of the United States Treasury and giving its use to a few favored banks, denominat~ ed Treasury Depositories, was going to ease the 'money market, the circular does not state. Un- doubtedly, it wasa nice thing for these few ‘banks to have the use of five millions of money. It would have been still nicer if the amount had been & hundred millions. The whole thing is so nice that if Mr. J. Y. Scammon, of Milwaukes, has not come in forhis share, he has good rea~ son for making a fuss aboutit. By this patent process of the Secretary of the Troasury, there are many other bankers besides the United States Depositories who would agree to keep the loan- market healthy for any required time. Thera aro a large number of merchants in this city, not to mention banks, who would like to be within the laxative influences of five millions of Gov- ernment funds about this time. We have not heard eny of them say that they experienced the relief that Mr. Clews descants upon. — THE HORSE-EPIDEMIC. It will not be easy, and it certainly should not be the province of the press, to heighten the sen- sation already provailing in this community caused by the horse-opidemic. Had Chicago been an earlier point to be visited, it would have required some imagination to forecast the results of & calamity alrendy made history in several of the seaboard cities. Our despatches and ex- changes from Boston and New York and private intelligence from eye-witnesses suggest, in & most startling manner, the manifold utility of the horse exhibited by a most trying temporary withdrawal of his services from all its branches of usefulness. Tho circumstances of our re- buildinghas given immense numbers of team- horses employment, our strect-vehicles have largely increased in number 2nd equipment, and the scattered condition of our homes and ‘business, has made nsiltitudes for the first time horse-owners. The kindly reprieve has been of incalculable value, but the exemption has ex- pired, and our city reports to-day declare that the disease is here and rapidly spreading. The condition of affairs yesterdsy is shown in state- ments carefully kept from exaggeration. It is tho part of wisdom to prepare, in all forms of business, for the interruptions and disabilities that seem impending and inevitable, and if every citizen will accopt and understand what seems completely established, the temporary nature of the affliction, he will act with reason, humanity, and patience. The animals attacked must have care and rest. Heroic treatment will sbate the evil in no degree, and senseless bru- tality will only incresse it. Letus give our- gelves up with what cheefnlness we may to the mnear expectancy of diminished com- munication between the household and its daily sources of domestic supply. Hands and feet can do all this, and leave the greater reserve of patience for the more serious question of street- conveyance and necessary heavy hauling. Thers will be & bringing out of all the reservo motors. Perhaps we shall hear of velocipedes again. The ox must come to the front. We fear his companion in Scripture, the ass, will not be want~ ingin the shape of him who senselessly re- ceives and grumblingly refuses to intelligently ‘bear his share in alleviating the present and an- ticipated burdens of our community, in the Iooked-for emergency. A BAD BCARE, BSome of the leading Grant newspapers of the West are becoming seriously alarmed in regard to the result of next Tuesday’s election in Indi- ans, Olio, and Tllinois. There have been sev- eral attempts, within the past two or three weeks, to sound the alarm without making the panic too evident. The Cincinnati Gazette has adopted the plan of crying ““Fraud,” and, ina double-leaded article in its issue of the 20th inst, under the exciting- title of ‘‘Attention, Republicans,” foreshadows a grand, comprehensive, and mysterious system on the part of the Greeley men, through which it is intended to carry not only the Stato of Ohio, ‘but Indianasnd Illinois. The Gazetle fails to give the details of this decp and dangerous plot. It promises these at some indefinite future date. It notifies its readers, however, that {he spparent apathy of the Greeley partyis but an ontward dis- simulation of the confidence they feol in their ebility o carry these States. It confosses that even Republicans are secretly eadmitting it o be exceedingly probable that the vote of Ohio will be cast for Mr. Greeley, and that they would not be surprised if he should receive 12,000 majority in Hamilton County alone. All this is to bo accomplished by the wickedest schemes for repeating and ballot-box stuffing. The Gazelle oven intimates that some mem- bers of the Republican Executive Com- mitteo of the State have been tampered with, and are in secret consultation ~with the Liberal managers. All this being inter- preted, means simply that the Republicans of Ohio, having elected theirlocal officers, are mainly indifferent and apathetic toward Grant, andneed stirring up. The pretended fear that Ohio will be carried for Greeley by fraud, is very absurd, in view of the fact that the entire machinery of election isin the hands of the Grant party. If thero were any real danger of this kind, it would not bo mecessary to ventilate it in the newspapers. The mnatural mode of defoncd would be in the resistance which the poseesaion of the majority of the State and local offices would afford. With this power behind thom, the Republicans of Ohio will scarcely se- cure the sympethyor pity which the Gazetle seems to think thoy ought to have. The pleais rather the precursor of defeat. Itisan oc- Lnowledgment of either defection or supine- ness in the Republican renks. It is the expres- sion of a fear that the stay-at-home Democrats who held back in the October election will come forward in the November election. The sppre- pends on fixing up matters quietly,” In another Gk hension that is felt in regard to the Ohio elec- tion is naturally extended to Indiana aud Illi- nois. The prospect of frauds in this State on the part of the Greeley men is not less sbsurd and preposterous than in Ohio. In the first place, Illinois has been singularly and happily free from the crimes of repeating and ballot~ stuffing at all times; in the second place, were this not the fact, the Grant managers in the SBtate are the only persons who bave the facilities for putting these popular election agencies at work. In Indians, the Greeloy party is kept too busy in protecting itself against the customary devices of Mr. Morton and the Indianapolis Ring to invent or apply any measures of retalistion. In these two States, then, as in Ohi , the expression of the Gazelle is simply an indication of the prevailing fear among the Grant people that Mr. Greeley will carry all three States next Tuesday. The fear thus expressed has o good founda- tion in the probabilities of the result, so far as they cen be canvassed. The BState election in Indinna showed a Liberal strength, of the degree of which the Liberals themselves were ignorant. The consequence has been an encouragement in both Indiana and Ilinois for that large class of citizens, entirely outside of the excitement of politics, whose hearts have been with the Liberal movement from the firat, ‘but whose votes are always more or less influ- enced by the probabilities of success, This must be what the Cincinnati @azets means when it gays that there is danger that Ohio, In- dians, and Illinois will be carried for Greeley by fraud. GENERAL HURLBUT AT NEW ORLEANS, In the latter part of the war, the scandalons condition of affairs in the Southwest attracted s great deal of attention at Washington. There ‘were rumors of various oppressive and mnnau- thorized proceedings on the part of tho army officers charged with the civil administration of the conquered States, misapplication of money, bribery, extortion, and especially of frauds in connection with the issue of trade-permits. Among those particularly pointed at by such ru- mors wag Major General Stephen A. Hurlbut, then commanding New Orleans and the Department of the Gulf, and now & candidate for Congress in the Fourth District of Ilinois. In December, 1864, President Lincoln sccordingly appointed a special Commission to investigate the civil and military administration of the department bor- dering upon, and west of, the Mississippi. As the inquiries would be of & peculiar nature, it ‘was detormined to associate with the military members of this Commission some eminent lawyer, and the President’s choice fell upon the late James T. Brady, of New York. After sover~ al months of labor, the Commission transmitted to the Becretary of War, in Bep- tember, 1865, an elaborate report, written by Mr. Brady, to whose legal acuteness the Gov- ernment was principally indebted for the devel- opment of & most extraordinary story of frand and perjury. That report now forms part of the files of the Department, and from it exclu- sively the following narrative is taken : The inquiry had not gone far before it ap- peared that, to quote from Mr. Brady's report, a “gystem of bribery and corruption” had been- ““cstablished in the Department of the Gulf under the auspices of General Hurlbut, Com- mander, and Colonel Robinson, Provost Marshal Generel.” The case against Colonel Robinson was 80 plain that he was speedily arrested and confined in the military prison, where he finally made a full confession. It was also very soon apparent that General Hurlbut was in collusion with his subordinate, and at the re- quest of the Commissioners Genersl Canby, Hurlbut's immediate superior, arrested him also, and held him to await the instructions of the Secretary of War. The report of the Com- mission shows that in November, 1864, Mesars. Clark & Fulton, respectable Now Orleans mer- chants, had & special permit from the Presi- dent to bring out cotton ; this permit required the indorsement of Goneral Hurlbut, which was refused. Clark & Fulton were also the owners of 336 bales of cotton, seized by Colonel Robin- son in consequence of some informality. They paid Robinson $5,000 to get this cotton released, althongh an order for its release had already ‘been made by General Canby, which the owners did not Imow, but Robinson and Hurl- but did. They paid £5000 more to get Hurlbut's signature to the President’s special permit. The firm of Weed & Co., of New Orleans, paid £10,000 to Robinson to induce Hurlbut to countersign a similar permit in their favor. He had refused at first, but he signed as goon 2 the $10,000 was paid. Other sums were paid by various persons for various purposes, and Robinson confessed to having received in all about $23,000 in bribes, of which Hurlbut got, g his share, $14,000. The firat evidence of the General's complicity in this fraud was obtained by accident. Mr. Courteney, the agent of aline of steamers, had given Robinson, some monihs before, & bribe of 21,000. After the investigation began, Robinson, imsgining that the Commision had heard of the affair, attempted to save bimself by the following shallow de- vice. He wrote a letter to General Hurlbut, denouncing Courtenoy for attempting to corrupt him, and eaying that he should retain the monoy for prudential and moral reasons. This letter, written March 11or 12, 1865, was frandulently dated the 2d of the previous January, and was handed to General Hurlbut, by & confidentiel friend of both parties, on March 13. It was written on official paper of a pattern which, as the investigation proved, was not used st Hurl- but’s headquarters until after the 16th of Feb- ruary. . Hurlbut kept this letter for a while (knowing that Robinson’s conduct was under in- vestigation), but the next day geems to have become alarmed, for on the 14th he showed it to two officers, pretending that it had just reached him through some unknown channel, and caused it to be in- dorsed as received March 14, On the 17th he showed it to the Commission, and, in reply to an official inquiry, declared that he had re- ceived it March 14, “I do not know,” he wrote, “by what channel or messenger it was brought, a8 it was delivered at the office. If I can ascertain from inquiry, I will let you know.” The Commission having already learned all about the letter from other sources, and even taken the testimony of the person who delivered it, was convinced by these falsehoods that Hurl- but was an accomplice in the frand, and the more guilty of the two. Colonel Robinson was released from prison on the 26th of March. His first step was to write, to General Hurlbut to appoint an interview st a house where he occasionally occupied & room at night. “Neither your offico nor my house will do,” he says; *‘if wehappen to bo seen together it might not help any one.” # Our existenco do- letter he writea: “Ihave been very cautions in all my eayings and movements since arrested, which conld in anywise compromise you. ** As a man of honor you should now stand by and help me.” Ho insists upon an interview with the General in some safe and quiet place, before noon of thenext day: “If I do not ‘hear from you by that tima, I will conclude that you intend tolet me carry the load and leave me tomy own resources, and I will then change my system of defence, which I fear will not be as advantageous to either of us as the one I have now in view but can't put on paper.” The result of this threat was & eecret meeting between Hurlbut and Robinson at the General's office one Bunday afternoom, when the place was likely to be deserted. Robinson himself states what occurred. He proposed that the General should return the $14,000 which he had taken as his share of their joint operations, and give him & memorandum of instructions, dating it back to November, 1864, under which he would pre- tend to have collect. i this money for publifi_: pur- Poses, and would account for it to the Govern- ment. Hurlbut agreed to write the memoran- dum, and, after some further solicitation, ho did writeit, on the 4t of April, 1865, and dated it Nov.19, 1864 It being the month of April when he wrote the paper,” says Mr. Brady, in his report to the Becretary of War, “ho naturally commenced to write the name of fhat month, but detecting bis error when the A had been fully formed, and not having the forecast to obliterate it, or take a fresh shest of ‘paper, he wrote directly over the A an. N, in theabbre- vistion ‘Nov.’ as it now appears on the memorandum.” Before night this document was in the posgession of the Commission. It wag placed in & copying press ; and the report thus continues : The dsy on which this copy was teken was & molst one, known tobe unfavorable o letter-press copics, and the same press had been at workall dsy making very faint impresaions of fresh lettors, This, from be- ing a Jonger time in prezs and the General’s writing & ‘heavy hand, furnished s fair, legible copy, having the ‘peculiar hue of & copy of & freshly-written letter, and of precisely the color of one written by General Hurl- bot on the Gth of April, press-copied on the same day. The memorandum merely warned Colonel Robinson that “ huge cheating” might be ex- pected in the matter of trade-permits, and that he must gain the confidence of the operators, On the strength of this, Robinson was to excuse ‘himself for taking money from the New Orleans merchants. With the memorandum General Hurlbut gave him $8,000. The Courteney bribe accounted for $1,000. Hurlbut agreed to repre- sent that £5,000 had been expended in the secret service. That made up his $14,000. Robin- son’s ehare was in the National Bank of New Orleans, deposited in the name of one of the clerks of the bank, and the Government had already seized it. The confession of Robinson, and the discoveries made by Mr. Brady in other quarters, brought down the whole fabric of pec- ulation and lying, and left General Hurlbut the pitiable spectacle of a cornered rogue. But this was not all. Besides the transactions with Robinson, there were other frauds in which the Msajor General apparently did not allow the Provost Marshal to participate. General Hurl- but, like other great Generals, was provided with brothers-in-law. One of these favored gentlemen was Mr. L. L. Crandall, a member of the General’s household, employed at a salary of 2125 & month to take care of property seized by the Provost Marshal. The report says of He recefved for his services in the procuring of per- mits signod by the General $5,000 in one case, $250 in each of two other cases, $600 in another ; and says that he told the General of hoving received the $5,000, and tho General made no objection, Crandall also received $250 from » lawyer, in Now Orleans, named Hollsnd, to intercede with the Generalin behalf of & man who had been convicted and sentenced to the Dry Tortu- 33, and Crandall was to use his influcnce to endeavor o have the punishment commuted to o fine. He says be talked to the Gemeral omce or twice; that the Genmeral would not say much, and mever did in fact esy whether he would change the eentence or not; but finally it was remit- ted. He says that Mr, Vrosca, who gave him (Crandall) $250 on ono occasion for & permit, and whom he had assisted in the matter of permits more than once, alio gave him on one occasion 3 uit of clothes, but he did not know what this was done for, Another brother-in-law was Mr. Chester D. Btevens, to whom the firm of Vrosca & Irwin, on the 28th of March, 1865, assigned s one-fifth interest in 40,000 bales of Confederate cotton, to be brought in from Mobile, Belms, and Montgomery. The only service to be ron- dered by Stevens was the procuring of the necessary permit from General Hurl- but. The General was too wary to give a formal paper of protection (the Rob- inson investigation being at this time under way), but he sent to Xrwin & pass to goto Mo- bile, and & written opinion to the effect that all ‘well-disposed persons owning cotton would have the priviloge of bringing it in as soon 25 the Federal troops got possession of the country. He mado no objection at the time to the con- tract between Stevens anl Irwin, which was sub- mitted to him ; but, when that document was produced by Stevens before the Commiesion, an indorsement in pencil, disapproving it, was found written across its face in the General's hand. Mr. Brady's report says : This indorscment was in pencil, no doubt for the reason that General Hurlbut (as we know from reliable suthority) knew what stress had been Iaid upon the dangerous use of ink in the memorandum dated as of Nov. 9,1864. We suppose that this pencil indorse- ment was made after our summons had reached Btovons, April 21,1865, We tried to fix by Stevens when it wes made, but could not make him more specific than to say *it might havo been two or three days or more after the opinion of General Hurlbut was written; within a month, but don't lmow if it was written within o week of his examination, more or less,” Before the inquiry had reached this point, however, the Commission judged it properto ask for Hurlbut’s arrest, and the following letter was accordingly written to the Secretary of War and the Commander of the Department : OFFIOE OF THE SPECIAL COMMISSION, NEw Onreaxs, April 3, 1865, Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, United States, Sm: The Commission appointed to investigate the Department of West Mississippi have the honor to send you herewith a copy of & letter transmitted by them Jesterday to Major General Canby. The War Department has already been furnished ‘with some of the testimony taken inreferenca to Major General Hurlbut. Proof has since been added, tending to establish clearly Genmeral Hurlbut’s guilt, This ‘proof will be forwarded atan early day, The Com- ‘missfon will proceed with all possible diligence to in- vestigate every case in which there appears to be the least probsbility of showing that the oficers of our Government have used their stations to perpetuate wrong. They feel that in visiting General Hurlbut with the treatment he seems 5o well to deserve, they strike at once attheroot of the corrupt system which has wrought 8o much mischief in this Departments Respectfally, your obedient servants, In sccordance with these recommendations, General Hurlbut was arrested, and procesdings ‘wera taken to organize s Court-Martial for his trial, Colonel Robinson being accepted as & Wit~ ness for the Government. The General had in- fluence enough at Washington, however, to es- cape the fate he g0 richly deserved. He was sllowed toresign, and the Commission there: upon advised that, as a matter of mere justice, Robinson should also be released from farther prosecution. ‘We reserve for the present the finel communi- cation of the Commissioners to Major General Canby on Hurlbut's case,—s document really ap palling in the nature of the charges summed up against him. If the Generalshall allege that this recital is a “ campaign-canard,” gotten up on the eve of election, to injure his chatacter, we may be compelled to publish the whole report, of which we have a copy, We think that the pec- ple of the Fourth Congressional District ought to kmow what manner of man is soliciting their votes, and asking that hemay represent them in Congress. It is for this reason that we have investigated in part his record in other places of public trust. — ALBERT 8. EVANS. The appalling disaster of the burning at sea of the steamship Missonri brings one special feature of sadness to T TrBUNE and its read- ers, Colonel Albert §. Evans, of San Francisco, the brilliant, genial, and versatile # Altamonte” of our columns, is reported among the lost. Colonel Evans was for Several years, prior to 1856, & broker on Clark street, in this city, and will be remembered by many of our citizens. ‘With 8 natural taste for literature and journal- ism, on seeking a new home in San Franoisco, he made, a8 an attache, and for years city editor, of the Alla California, the presshis profession. On tho Pacific Coast, and throughout the coun- try at large, there are few that had won a better reputation a8 & descriptive writer, his most no. ticeable papers being his contributions to the Overland Monthly. He entered with zeal and in~ telligence into all that pertained to the growth and development of his city and State, and from his duties spared time to make the long series of “Altamonte”lettersthemost valuable and remark- able of anythathave appeared from thelocalities ‘whence their facts were derived, comprising the entire range of the mining regions of Califor- nis, Nevada, Utsh, Arizona, and New Mexico. In the War of the Rebellion, Colonel Evans was an active and efficient officer on the staff of the Governor of California, and did much to arouse and shape the loyal sentiment of his State. For several years past he had been travelling exten-~ gively in the great Southwestern interior. He was one of Governor Seward's suite in Mexico, and his contributions to periodical and perma~ nent literature on Mexican topics have mever been surpassed in richness of research and skil~ ful handling. Having won something more fan- gible than reputation from his busy life, he had latterly devoted himself more exclusively to the touriat work that so well suited his adventnrous 8piril But a few days ago, he szt among the writers in TmE TRIBUNE editorial rooms, recounting some of his Iater experiences, and dwelling upon the features of an extended tour ‘begun, but now go sadly ended. He was to visit the West Indies, thence the Continent of Eu- Tope, Teturning by & Brazilian steamer to Sonth America, acting throughont as the correspondent of Tre TRIBUNE, where his scheme of research would have made a valuable addition to what is known of the earlier settlement and mining of the regions first visited by Spanish adventurers. Two or three gossipy letters from Eastern cities have told our readers of his progress and fare- well to this country, and the telegraphic tidings have brought the rest, and, probably, the end of all. Colonel Evans’ place in journalistic litera- ture will not be easily filled. The sympathies of many personal friends, and of the still wider circle a popular writer wins, will be given to his bereaved family in their stricken home in San Francisco. The following beautiful paragraphs from Col- onel Evang’ letter, bidding adiea to California, published in our issue of Oct. 11, possess now & most touching interest : I left San Francisco on the morning of Sundsy, Sept. 15, The sky was, s it is ever at this season in God’s thrice-favored land, clear and unclonded, and, 25 T looked down on the City and Bay of San Francis- co, from the summit of Russian Hill, the view was & glorious one,—one that T shall long remember, When shall T ook upon it again? The white fleecy mist was rolling in through the Golden Gate, ljing the channel which leads up o the ‘broad bay of Sati Francisco; and the mournful tolling of the fog-bell of Alcatraz, like the deep pulsations of some great heart in its lonely sgony, produced on me, atsuch a moment, o strange and addening effect, But before mo was the magnificent landscape of Ala meds and Contra Costa, and the city at my feet, beaus tified and glorified by the golden sunshine of autumn; and right before me, coming down, us it were, ona pathway of flowers stretchiog out from the farther Bhore, across the blue waves of the bay, waa the steamer which was coming to bear mo away from home and friends, on & journey into forsign lands, and re- glons strange and new. Beyond the mountains T could not see; backwards I dared not look; God knows what is before usall | Birs. Emily E. Lloydis on trial at Leesburg, Virginia, for the murder of her infant daughter Maud, by poison. Sheis accused of the death of geveral of her children by the same means, butis on trial now for the death of this particu- larchild. When the suspicion of poison was started, the body of the child was exhnmed. ‘The stomach was taken entire and put in a jar to be sent to chemists in Baltimore. Subsequently, the kidneys and other portions of the body were in like manner forwarded for analysis. The jar containing the stomach was placed in the custody of & Mr. Bentley, and was by him personally taken to Beltimore and delivered to the chemist. Since then Mr. Bentley has died. The Court excluded all testimony of the analysia of the stomach, on the ground that there was no testimony to show that, from the time the jar was placed in Mr. Bentley's hands until its _de- livery tothe chemist, it had not been or might not have been tampered with. THE NEW JERSEY RAILROADS. Their Lease to the Pennsylvania Cens tral Company Null and Void. New Yonx, Oct. 31.—TIt was alleged in the Court of Chancery in Trenton yesterdsy after~ noon that the lease of the United Railroads of New Jersoy to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany was null and void, by the failure of the companies to second the agreement. It appears upon careful investigation that the allegation is true, and that the Pennsylvania -Company have no rights to the property in the State. The news has caused the greatest excitement wherever known, since it appears certain that the work necessary to mako tho lense good will never be completed.. The administration of the affairs of the company since it passed into the hands of the Penn- sylvanis Company has been’ most unpopular.- Accidents and loss of life have been frequent, and the pledges of the latter cor- poration have been violated: It will be neces- sary, in order fo male the lease good, to obtain over again the consent of two-thirds of the stockholders of each company, many of whom are in Europe. This will take months of time, and after the conzent is obtained the work of executing the lease will all be domo over the second time. In the meantime, the opponents of the lease, who still have a case against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, have gained new strength, and will use every effort to pre- vent the sccond execution of the lease. The re- cent decision of the Court of Chancery in the matter of the_ consolidation of the New Jersey Central and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroads, affirms that tnless s contract between public corporations be recorded within thirty y8 after signing, the same is null and void. N ———— At the Providence, R. I., Penitentiary, yester- day morning, & convict named Peck gnved the watchman, and then liberated Charles Willisms, another convict, and unsuccessfully tried to lib- erate the alleged murderer, Dennehey. The burglar, Peck, and Willisms, afterward rang the watchman's bell at the usual time, and subse- quently escaped. THE MISSOURI DSASTER. Further Details of tie Horrid| Catastrophe ’ Criminal Mismanagement on the Part 3 the Officers. Fourteen Persons on the Steamer When She Went Down, Kty WesT, Fla., Oct. 31.—The following pare ticulars of the burning of the stesmship Mis- souri have been obtained from the survivors, wha arrived here: ‘When the boat which was saved left the burne ing ship, oneboat wes seen With its keel upward, which had two men on it. The rescued boat Iay for two hours by a swamped boat, containing nine men, including the engineers and firemen and the ship’s barber. A bucket was given to the inmates of the swamped boat to bail with, there ‘being two in the rescued boat. Asthere wereno seamen in the swamped boat, those clinging thereto were unable to properly manage it, and in this condition they were left. It isnot lkely that any of them were saved. No sailshad been geen for two days previous to the fire. On tha$ dsy the- Missouri was in company with & ship from 915 s. m. untii 8 p. m., when she was lost sight of for forty minutes. Aftet the rescued left the Missouri they saw the pase Bengers and crew, who remained on board, crowded on the afterpart of the vessel. It is 8aid the fire was first discovered on the floor of the Jocker in the puntry, and the cry of fire was immediately given. Wet carpets were put on the fire by the pantrymen and others, and the steward reported to the passengers that tho firs was ount. The alarm was given while the pase sengers were at breakfast, but on, receiving the steward’s report that the fire had been extine guished, breakfast was resumed, and the fears of the passengers quieted. Within two minutes, however, several voices screamed * Fire " from the stoke-hole. All was then confasion. With~ in twenty minutes three boats were launched. In the rescued boat, with the exception of a few pieces of sugar cano, therse was neither food nor water, and only two small oars and a large one. Neither wera there any gails or anything to make them of. It was from 9 o'clock in the morning of the 223 until 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 23d, ‘before asgistance was obtained. At that time the schooner Spy was sighted, and the rescued perty pulled vigoroualy to her. The Spy took the sure vivors to Hopetown, on Elbow Key, where they arrived about 7 p. m., on the 23d. On the 24th, & schooner was eent towards the burning ghip with charts and full directions where to find her, and with instructions tolook for the ship's boats, and skirt the coast. The schooner retnrmed about midnight on the 24th, and reported baving seen nothing of the boats or passengers. The sea was then breaking heavily on the reefs. The party left Hopetown on the 25th, and arrived at Nasgean on the the 28th. Ttis said that the donkey-pumps of the steamer were never started; one of the passengers ase serting that he had hold of the hose some time, and that no water was forced through it o the flames from the donkey. Two deck-pumps werq worked a few minutes only. Within fifteen min« utes after the alarm of fire was given. the twelve suryivors were in a boat, and the flames werc coming from the stoke-hole in a volume. The ship’s course was never altered, and consequente Iy the flames were carried athwart the ship, burning up one lifeboat onthe lee-side, and making it too hot to get the othersoff, Only three boats were launched, two of which were swamped. It is said that eeven females and seven children were aboard the Missouri, nono of whom got into the boats. The scene presented was heartrending. The Missouri’s engines were stopped, but her sails were left spread, and the speed of four Enots was maintained. When last seen, Captain Greene was working with Purser Hempstead and some of the crew, trying to get off the lee boat, surrounded by smoke and flames. Eleven of the gurvivors say thai the boat was never launched, but the twelfth, Captain Culmer, saysit was lsunched, full of people, but was immediately swamped. The only expense incurred in this port by the little English steamer, Anns, belonging to the Atlantic Mail Steamship Company, which brought the survivors of the ill-fated steamship Missouri from Nassau, was forced upon her by the United States customs officers, who even charged her for tonnage dues twelve months in advance. Everyone else with whom the Anna bad business worked willingly and gratuitously. P N T oA SPRINGFIELD. The Tyndale NMurder—A Yerthless Confession—The Board of Public Charities—Chicago Gold and Silver Mining Company. Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune, SpriNGrELD, IN, Oct. 81.—Another cease, which in the beginning bid fair to turn up tha murderers of the Hon. Sharon Tyndale, explod- ed to-day. A convict, whose name is Folly, lat ot of the Indiana Penitentiary, made his ap- pearance here, and stated to the authorities that a convict, whose name was Steping, had confessed to him while there that he murdered Mr. Tyndale. He further confessed he hsd served a term in the Illinois Penitentiary, and at its expiration came to Springfield, and while here committed the murder. It was found that such & man had been in the Penitentiary at Joliet, and all the circumstances tended to con- firm the storv, until to-dsy. On carefully ex- amining the records of the prison, it was found that he did not get out of our Penitentiary until the August following the murder ; and again the m\n?m‘ of Mr. Tyndale is sgain wrapped in mystery. arlyiolmi of Public Charities adjourned this morning, and went to Jacksonville to examino the affairs of the institutions located there. The Trustees of the institutions present here also adjourned. but before doing so imstruct= ed Rev. F. H: Wires, under legal advice, to prepare these bills: One, making appropriations for the annual current ‘nses of all the State institutions; one for building, farnishing, and repairing, to be paid out of the revenue of 1872; and one for the same par- poses, payable from the revenues of 1873. The only institution in the State which does not call for an appropriation is the State Peritentiary. . Major Edwards, the Wardon, was present in the city, and said thiat they desired no aid from the Btate; that he conld now say that the institn- tion vas self-sustaining. s The Gold and Silver wfifompmy, of Chi~ cago, received permission y from the Secre- tary of State to open books for subscription to its capital stock, $200,000. The Company will operate in Nevada and Ttah. THE INDIANS. The Brule Sioux on the War-Path Near Laramie. Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune, ‘WasSHINGTON, Oct. 31.—The War Department received information to-dsy to the effect that the Brule Sioux Indians were on the war-psth. The information was communicated by General Bweet, commandant at Fort Laramie, who stated that this tribe had refused to go on their reser~ vation, and, when requested to do 50 by the In- dian Agent, had in contemplation & move to cap~ ture the Agency. The surplus troops at mie have al ly been forwarded to meet the ex] sélad attack of the Brules, and more are ed for. There wts considerable excitement among the students of Beloit Coliege yesterdsy. They are about publishing the annual College register. Tho Faculty demanded s copy of manuseript be- fore it went to press, which the students rafus~ ed, claiming the Faculty had no right to dic- tate in regard to the register. The publishing committee was threstened with expulsion. Nearly all the other students have pledged | themselves to go if the committee do.

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