Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 9, 1872, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1872 O e e = e ] TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (PATABLE IN ADVANCE). Dei 5, by mail.....$12.00 | Sunda eekly.. 6.00| Weekly Parts of a year at tho same rate. - To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post Office address in full, inclading State and Couaty. Remittances may be made either by drat, express, Post Ofiico order, or in registered letters, at our risk. TEDMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dails, delivered, Sundzy cxcepted, 25 cents per week. Datly, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week. “Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, : No. 15 Soath Canal-st.. Chicago, Tll. TRIBUSE Branch Office, No. 469 Wabash-av., in tho Bookstore of Messrs. Cobb, Andrens & Co., whers adertisements =nd subscriptious will bo received, and will recelse the same attention as if left at the Main Office. TEE TRIBUSE connting-room and business department will remain, for the present, at No. 15 Canal street, Ad- vertisements should be handed in at that place. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE : ¥IRST PAGE—Washington and New York Nows by Tel- egraph—Election Returns. SECOND PAGE—Washington Letter: Stanley and Colonel Evans; New Railroadsin tho East: A Car- pet-Bag Chicf Justice: People of Letters—Result of the Late Election: Comments of the Press—The Fishing Season in 1672—Floods in Europe—General News ltems—Personal. THIRD PAGE—The Journal Contempt Case in tho Su- preme Court—Long John's Diplomscy—Hymenial— Stoam v. Horses—Railroad Time Table—Advertise- ‘ments, FOURTH PAGE - Editoriasl: Mr. Greeles's Letter; Scammon for Senutor ; A Sable Attorney General; The Postal Telegraph; Current News Items— Political. FIFTH PAGE—The Law Courts—Lost Money, Lost Land: Important Decision Affecting the Titlo of ZLand Sold by Administrators—Adrertisements. SIXTH PAGE—Monetary and Commercial—Marine In- . telligence. SEVENTH PAGE—The Horse Disease—New York Fi- nancial News—Small Advertisements: Real Estate, For Sale, Wanted, ToRent, Boarding, Lodging, ete. EIGHTH PAGE—Our New Legislators Interviewed on the Senatorial Question—Miscellancous Telegraph News. TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. APVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, between State and Dezrborn. Miss Maggle Mitchell, supported by Mr. L. B. Shewell. *‘Fanchon.” AIKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue, corner of Con. gress street. G. L. Fox Pantomime Combination. ** Humpty Dumpts.” 'HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph street, be- tween Clark and LaSalte. :Third week of Abbott-Ki- relfy Pantomime Combination, **Humpty Dumpty,” with new features. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, sonthof Madi- so3. The * Black Crook. MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroe street, between Stato and Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton & Kemble's ‘Minstrel and Burlesque Troupe. NIXON'S AMPITHEATRE—Clinton strest, between ‘Washington and Bandolph. Tho Georgia Minstrels— Slave Troupe. GLOBE THEATRE—Desplaines street, between Madl- #on and Washington. Vanderilie Entertainment. Tbe @hieage Tribune. Saturdsy Morning, November 9, 1872. Our figures of the vote in Illinois, from re- turns official, or reported from nearly all the counties, with estimates for the remainder, make Grant's majority 55,954 Oglesby's ma- jority is some 10,000 less. e The Chicsgo Zimes announces that the Demo- cratic party is defunct, and that ‘“no fature effort can resurrect the dead body.” It further Qeclares that the 0'Conor organization has also collapsed, and thet nothing can bring it to the gurface again but an attempt to maintain the organization which assembled at Baltimors on the Sth of July. By a transposition of names, Wwe were made to snnounce, yesterdsy, that the Boardof Trade hsd expelled Mr. Myer, of the firm of Myer, Baxter & Co. As our local report showed, of the votes taken'for the expulsion of the mem- bers of that firm, only that inthe case of Mr. Baxter prevailed. A majority of the Board voted to retain Mesers, Myer and Forrey. e O'Brien seems to have fared badlyin the Mayoralty contest in New York. He complaing that he was cheated on every side, cheated by the Inspectors and Judges of Election, cheated by the Republicans, by the Germans, by the Irish, by his ally of old, the Times, and by the office-holders. . 'The Chicago money-market has become con- giderably easier since the beginning of the week, nothwithstanding the interruption to trade from the horse disease, Bank deposits are increasing slightly, currency is coming in from the country in moderate volume, and street rates for money have declined, though good commereial paper still eells at from 15 to 18 per cent per annum discount. There were more deaths from the horse dis- ease yesterday, and these will keep pace with the cruel mse of sick animals. Our New York sdvices, however, contain suggestions of en- couragement for all who are suffering under this visitation, which comprises not alone the horse-owners. The past fow days have dem- onstrated that every man, woman, and child in Chicago bas a contingent interest in horse-flesh. Commissioner Davenport has sought to get 1id of that awkward Heinrichs case, which was postponed till after the election, by failing to sppear to iry the case when Mr. Heinrichs presented himself, with counsel, prepared to meet the charges bronght against him. This evasion, to which Davenport is eaid to have resorted by the advice of political friends, will poatpone the case indefinitely, unless Heinrichs secks reparation for his arrest and imprison- ‘ment for forty-eight hours. In his next report, the Secretary of War will urge thatthe numerous disused Sonthern arsensls ‘besold. Twoadditional zreenals, one onthePacif- ic, and the other on the Atlantic, Coast, will, with that at Rock Island, be all that the service needs. Military expenditures, taxpayers will be pleased to know, are on a descending scale, and the Secretary hopes will fall still more rapidly when socizl adjustment in the South permits the with- drawal of the sixth part of the army which still garrisons the Southern States. PR For more than a year a very important suit ‘has been pending in the United States Circuit Court, against the Tllinois Central, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Michigan Southern, Mich- gan Central, Chicago & Alton, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroads, .for infringing on the patent of a machine which is known as Ca- wood's Swage Block, and is used to straighten and renew worn-out rails without the expense of re-rollingthem. Thematter was closed yesterday, by the award of $1,549,782.68 damages to the owner of the patent. Unless the Board of Public Works provide for extending the main sewers that empty into the lake zlong the south shore g0 as to have them .covered, they may be held responsible for the cases of typhoid fever that occur in the South Division. Whenever there is a strong wind from * the esst, northesst, or southesst, it blows di- .pectly jpto the open mouths of all tho sewers that empty into the Iake between the mouth of the river and the southern limits of the city; the poisonous gases With which they are always filled are forced as through blow-pipes into every house through the drains from water- closets, bath-rooms, and kitchen sinks. In the South Division, one can always tell which way the wind is by the smell in the houses. The most uncivilized article that we have seen since the Presidentisl election is the double-leaded epread of the Cincinnati Gazetle, in which the Liberal movement is characterized 88 an intended fraud, & coslition having nothing ‘better in view than a scramble for spoils, and that it has been marked from the beginning by s shower of lies concerning General Grant, and much more to the same effect. Shower of lies, forsooth! There is hardly an accusation against Grant’s Administration that has not found expresaion, at one time or another, in the columns of tho Gazetle itself. Corlition for spoils, indeed! If the name of the Liberal nom- inee hadbeen Adams, he would not only have car- ried Ohio by a sweepingmajority,but would prob- ably have got the supportof the Cincinnati Gazette, and yet the coalition would have been all the same. We suggest to the Gazelle that the true way to overtake the Commercial in circulation and patronage is not to getinto a passion, butto maks itself a better and more popular news- paper. The State Journal has an owlish article grave- Iychiding Tre Cricaco TRIBUNE for bringing out Governor Oglesby as a candidate for the United States Senate! Itssys that the Republi- can party does not recognize TrE TRISUNE 288D authority on that question,—that the question ‘who shall be Senator has not been canvasscd by the party yet, and so forth, and so forth. All of which means that the Stafe Journalis opposed to Oglesby, and that thisis esteemed a convenient mode of letting the world know it. We hasten to assure our Springfield contemporary that Governor Oglesby is no more a candidate of ours than he is of the State Journal. Nevertheless, wo shall probably express an opinion from time to time on that subjact, as well a8 on others of current interest. And we remark now, that, to deprive Oglesby of his fairly-earned victory, would be looked upon by disinterested observers 88 & piece of low cheating, and & regular confi- dence operatiop. That it is intended to cheat him we have no doubt. The people will watch the process by which itis to be done with a good deal of interest. We publish elsewhere the opinion of the Supreme Court of Illinois, delivered by Chiof Justice Lawrence, in the Journal contempt case, together with the dissenting opinion of Judge Scott. The Court hold that the Journal's article in the Rafferty case was “calculated to impede, obstruct, and embarrass the administration of justice,” and, therefore, came within the com- mon law rule applicable to contempts, as here- tofore defined by the Supreme Court of this State, and sustained by eminent suthorities. Judge Scott’s dissenting opinion is put upon the ‘broad ground that, as to acts not performed in jta presence, it is inconsistent with republican institutions for a Court to eit in judgment ona case affecting its own dignity, and to define both the crime and the penalty, and that it is better to endure unjust criticism than to exercisea ‘power g0 liable to sbuse as that of punishing the press for publishing injurious siatements con- cerning iteelf. We think that the public gener- ally will concur with Judge Scott, whatever opinion they entertain of the Journal's article, which was certainly foolish and unwarranted. The Chicago produce markets were generally steady yesterday, with moderate activity in breadstufts for the season. Mess pork was quiet and firm, at £15.00 for old, $14.00 for new, 2nd §12.50@12.62}4 seller December. Lard was rather more active and firm at 73@73{c cash for geller December, and 7%/@8c¢ seller March. Meats were quiet and steady at 45§@43;c for ehoulders, 78{@734c for short ribs, and 8c for ghort clear, all part galted. Highwines were active and somewbat easier, at 8914c per gallon. Lake freights were dull, and 12{@2c lower, at 13 @13%c for wheat, and 12@12}4c for corn to Buf- falo. Flour was dull and unchanged. Wheat was moderately active, and 5@3{c higher, closing at $1.04% seller the month, ana $1.05% seller December. Corn was more active and a ehade firmer, closing at 313/c seller the month, and 8lc seller December. Oats wers moder- ately active, and firm! at 205¢@20%(c seller the month, and 213(@22c eller December. Rye +was quiet and steady, at 53c. Barley was less activeand steady, closing dull at 60c for No. 2, and 50c for No. 3. The hog market was fairly active on packing and shipping account, and ruled steady at the decline noted yesterday, or at $4.20@4.45. The demand for cattle was light and prices were weak, Shoep were in better re- quest, and prices advancod b0c per 100 bs. s e It is a matter of publis notoriety that the United States is blesj with o Qonsnlar represen- tation abroad of the mesy remarkable descrip- tion. Asa general ruls, {i is eniy required of an applicant for » Cansulsiip that hoe sbell Jmow nothing of the eountry g hish ks is going, and that he shall ho unably {9 spesk jts lenguage. There have bean numerons cases of late whore Consuls heve shown gdditionsl quslifientions, puch s ineficiency, corruption, intoxicstion, boorishness, murderous propensities, and digregord of social proprieties. It has been for & long time s matter of grave concern to [most foreign nations to under- stand the remarkable Consular ‘representa- tives we send thom, and they have generallycon- tented themselves with tha very natural impres- sion that the country which hes sent themisa nation of boors, and heve, therefors, accepted this condition of things rather than keep them- selves in international hot water. The latest Consular scandal which has come to light is con- nected with Colonel Daviess, United States Con- sul at Cardiff, Wales, whose patriotism on a recent occasion carried him fo the very verge of dam- phoolery, as Doesticks would express it. The recent political campaign, remarkable as it was in displays of patriotism, developed nothing equsl to that of the Cardiff Consul. He was recently brought up for trial upon the charge of assanlting an old man whom he met on the pub- lic highway. Upon his examination, the Colonel said, in extenuation of his conduct: I was ex- cited by his language to me, the representative of 2 great and powerful nation [laughter]; the representative of 40,000,0000 of people [lsugh- ter]. It excited the blood which I shed in de- fence of those people, and in striking for the freedom of the ssme nnder the broad and beau- tiful banner of the Stars and Stripes [laughter]. He said somsething very disrespectful of the President of the United States.” [Laughter.] ‘We submit that such an uverwhelniing amount of patriotiem ®s this ooght not to be wasted upon the wunappreciative people of Cardiff. That Consul should be care- fully wrapped up in an American flag, and sent home a3 quick as steam can bring him, where his patriotism can be utilized. It is said that a grain of musk will perfume & room for yeers. In like menner, his patriotism-would scent the whole nation, and supply the inevitable waste of that article in the general wear andtear. His longer retention in Cardiff as the representa~ tive of 40,000,000 people will be very likely to creat the impression in that quiet village that he is representing 40,000,000 asses. And yet there i8 no need of & Civil Bervice Reform! ME. GREELEY'S LETTER. The most important part of Mr. Greeley's lot- ter, published immediately after the election, is the announcement that the New York Tribune will hereafter be an independent journal. Hav- ing contributed as much as any other sgency to the overthrow of slavery, and the establishment of equal political rights in all parts of the land ; having fought withunsurpassed vigor for all the principles of the Republican party, and baving lived to see them firmly established, he can now, for the firet time in the history of his nowspa- per, emancipate himself from party organship without fear of pecuniary loss. We doubt whether it would have been practicable for him to have taken this step at any former period ; certainly not since the beginning of the war in 1861. It is now not only practicable, but is pre- cisely what an advanced public sentiment de- mands. The country has already had a taste of independent journalism, and the demand is for more. The New York Tribune opposed its party during thelast six months, and, notwithstanding it was in the midst of & Presidential election, the ‘paper has suffered nothing in & pecuniary way. Possibly, one-half of the subscribers of the pa- per voted against Mr. Greeley, but their confi- dence in his integrity was not shaken. In the recent election, a large number of the members of the Republican party voted for the opposi- tion ¢andidate; an equal number of the mem- bers of the Democratic party voted for the can- didate of the Republican party, and another large portion refused to vote for either candi- date. The occasion is favorable to anew style of journalism, or, more properly speaking, for an emancipation of journalism from a despotism and a degradation unknown in other free coun- tries. Mr. Greeloy is not only taking a course which is dictated by truth and jus- tice, but one which is demanded by & cultivated public taste. Freed from the obliga- tion to hold that whatever is proposed by one set of politicians is necessarily right, and that whatever is proposed by another set is neces- sarily wrong, a public journal can discuss ques- tions from an intelligent and truthful stand- point. It will be under no obligation to paint the devil in robes of light, nor portray honest men in the garb of ruffians, It canhold the scales justly, and, appesling to popular intelli- gence, obtain better results than by appeals to their passions and prejudices. Journals of that class may dispense with the vulgarity, defamation, and personalities which are the capi- tal of the mere party organ, and we think the public will gladly welcome tho relief. We know we are not mistaken in the demands of the peo- ple, who have been surfeited with the slang- whang of party politics. ~Slowly, perhaps, but gurely, there will grow up an independ- ent but not neutral press, in which there shall be mno advocacy of improper or dishonest measures or men, and no avoidance of discussing them for fear it may hurt ome party and benefit another. Other jourvals be- side Mr. Greeley’s, including many of the strongest in the conntry, are prepared to adopt the esme course, and it is likely that, in a very brief period, the in- dependent press of the United States will include the greater part of the heretofore larger and more influential papers. This is certainly true of the great cities, and the success of these will, in timo, liborate the better portion of the country press. When the revolution shall be complete, and when newspapers chall dopend solely upon their sbility and enterpriso, it will be found that both the press and the country wiil be benefited by the change. SCAMMON FOR SENATOR. The election being over, the scramble for the places has commenced, and the great army of office-seekers is on its winding way. At the head of the Wisconsin Division appears the martial figure of Hon. J. Y. Scammon, of Milwankee, demanding that he shall be elected United States Sonator from that State, in place of Mr. Howe, the present incumbent. There is every reason why Mr. Scammon, of Milwaukee, should have the office, and we presume there is no disposi- tion on the part of the people of Wisconsin to dispute his claim to it. During the campaign which has just closed, his labors have been ar- duous, unwearied, and incessant. Inall that has pertained to the interests of his adopted State, {from the improvement of Chippewa Dells to the election of & Republican Legislature, he has ‘been constant and tireless in effort, and the re- sult has crowned him with the laurels of vic- tory. Wo presume that Mr. Scammon, of Mil- waukes, could have any Btate office ho might desire; but such a mesgre reward would be disproportionate to the magnitude of tho services he has rendered. Nothing less than a seat in the Senate of the United States is an ad- equate reward for such remarkable devotion and such striking diainterestedness, not merely as applied to party, but also to principle. There are other grounds besides those of partisan ser- vice which commend the claims of the Hon. J. Y. Scammon, of Milwaukes, to this distin- guished honor. Ho has been a resident of. that Stato 8o long that he has mado himself thor- oughly acquainted with its condition, and un- derstands, a8 no other person can, what Wiscon- sin needs at the hands of the Federal Govern- ment. He is thoroughly conversant with" her people, her history, and her resources. He is proud of his city, and as full of State admira- tion as was ever a Blue-Grass Eentuckian, The books of our own humble Hyde Park Hotel, of the Brevoort House, of New York, and the Re- vers House, of Boston, will ail bear witness to the fact that he has never placed his name upon their pages since the great fire without informing the world that he was from Milwaukee. He thinks a great deal of Milwaukee. Ho has done a great deal for Mil- waukee. He has been true to Milwaukee ever since ho lived there. Such shining instances of municipal and State davotion are 8o: rarethat they should be recognized, both as reward to the devotee and as an example for others to do like- wise. Having no jealousy of Milweukee, THE TRIBUNE cannot but commend Mr. Scammon to the suffrages of the Wisconsin Legisleture, the members of which owe their election to him. Txe TRIBUNE always likes to see patriotism re- warded snd genius sppreciated; and for this reason,—not because it has any special enmity againstMr. Howe,—it urgesthe Wisconsin Legis- lature to give Mr. Scammon the place. Tar TRIBUNE also has & particolar reason of its own in trying to secure this consummation. 1t naturally takes a considerable degree of pride in the generous and unprejudiced efforts of Hon. Jonathan Young Scammon, of Chicago, to aid Hon. J. Y. Scammon, of Milwsukee, in.this campaign, and it only addsto the magnanimity of Hon. Jonathan Young Scammon, of Chicago, that he did this work out of pure friendship. He had nothing to gain by it himself. His time is 80 devoted to the development of Chicago, especially in its banking and insurance interests, that he long ago ceased to have political aspira- tions. The Hon. Jonathan Young Scammon, of Chicago, has, therefore, labored with an eye single to the political welfare of Hon. J. Y. Scammon, of Milwaukee. He has started s newspaper for that purpose, and lav- ished wpon it ' $50,000 of his own and other people’s momey. As the proprietor of that paper, he has devoted its col- umns to Wisconsin politics, to Wisconsin inter- nal improvements, but peculiarly to the inter- ests of Milwaukee in general, and of its eminent citizen, Hon. J. Y. Scammon, in particular. He has not allowed = copy of that paper to be issued which did not in some way sound the praises and reflect the virtues of that great and good man. Bo constant has he been to this one duty, that an unfounded impression has gained currency among unreflecting persons that the Hon. Jona-" than Young Scammon, of Chieago, was laboring to secure his election to the Senate from Ilki-’ nois. This is the height of injustice to our dis- tinguished citizen. From what we know of him, wo are confident that he would not place a single obstacle in the path of Mr. Bev- erilge to Gubernatorial honors, neither would be he guilty of such perfidy to the Hon. J. Y. Scammon, of Milwaukee. It isonlyafew days ago that the Hon. Jonathan Young Scam- mon, of Chicago, went to Geneva and made & speechin the interests of J.Y.Scammon, of Milwaukee,—& speech which was pringed and commended by J. Young Scammon, Esq., in the paper which is owned by Hon. Jonathen Y. Scammon, of Chicago. Would sucha man play such a scurvy trick upon Scammon, of Milwau- kee ? Perish the thought! A man who has a whole city upon his handshas no time to squan- der in extraneous duties. Tiz TRrouxE, therefore, is glad to lend its aid to Hon. J. Y. Scammon, of Milwaukee, in his efforts to secure the United States Senatorship from that State, and to assure its Wisconsin friends that they cannot’ do better than to re- ward his distinguished servicos with the office ‘which he seeka. THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH. The purchase by the Government of all the telograph lines of the country, and their use as part of the postal system, will, it is understood, be vigorously urged upon Congress at the com- ing seesion. Itisone of those schemes which are sufficiently plansible to impress unthinking ‘persons with favor, but will not stand investiga- tion. Oura is a free Government. A free press, free speech, and a free expression of opinion are indispensable to the people. They can never be swrrendered. In Spain, the Government con- trol of the telegraph and & direct supervision of all despatches is considered essential to the security of the monarchy. The same is held truein Turkey, Russis, France, and Austria. In these countries there is mo such thing known a8 & free press or free speech. The Gov- ernment is a8 absolute over the one as over the other. The Governmental possession of the tel- egraph, to amount to anything, must be as ex- clusive as is its possession of the mails or the collection of revenue, and to administer the de- tails of the telegraph service honestly and well is beyond the capacity of our Government. The country is too large, and too scattered, and the Civil Bervice too rotten to warrant it in undertak- ing any such task. The machinery of & Govern- ment like ours is not adapted to such a work. If the Government was the chief user of the tel- egraph, it might employ its own officers upon its own wark, using its own wires exclusively ; but when it undertakes to perform ail the telegraph- ing for commercial, newspaper, and other busi- ness and social matters, for the whole country, it proposes something wholly inconsistent with its dnties, and something wholly inconsistent with public and private Liberty. It would, in the first place, require the trans- fer to tho Government service of the whole force employed in the telegraph business, and this, including operators, sgents, clerks, builders, and repairers, and all others, isnot now less than 80,000 persons. If it require that many per- 4 sons to perform the work under private control, it will require one-third more persons to do it under the Government. It will be throwing 80,000 to 40,000 additional offices into the busi- ness of politics. It will be subjecting the tele- graph sorvice to the corruptions of partisan pol- itics, and making what is and ought to be a duty of skill and intelligence a matter of political ma~ chinery. Have wenot enough of this already ? From the telegraph there is but one step to the seizure of the express business, and from thatto the ownership of the 60,000 miles of railway will ‘be but an easy transition. With the mails, the telegraph, the express business, and the rail- roads of the country in its possession, an Ad- ministration once in power could not only dic- tate who should be Congressmen, who should govern each Btate and each city, but could per- petuate itself in office forever. Behind this scheme for seizing the telegraph business is closely pressed the other for the purchase of all the railroads, and the success of the one will be the immediate precursor of the other. The business of telegraphing is one of desp importance. Any inaccuracy, delsy, mistake, non-delivery of messages or other want of care is punishable with damages, to be recovered by the person ‘injured. No such responsibility can attach to the telegraph if made part of the Government service. The Government does not become responsible for the dishonesty, in~ competency. or mistakes of any of its officers. In the Postal Service, whatever loss takes place, either by the mistake or robbing of an officer, has to be borne by the loser without remedy. Evenin the money-order business, if the Postmaster pays money to A which be- longs to B, that ia the end of it, so far 2s B is concerned. 8o willit bein the telegraph bunsi- ness. A mistake of a word or & figure in @ despatch may work incalcnlable injury. Under present circumstances, the telegraph company is responsible for all the acts of its servants; under the Government, there will be no respon- sibility and no remedy. So long as the operator tected by his member of Congress, so long will the public be cursed with his idefitiency or ‘worse. & 1t should also be borne in mind that under belongs to the right political party, and is pro- | Government control there can be no privacy in telegraphing. Solong as the telegraph com- ‘pany is responsiblo in damages for the publicity of any private despatch, solong there will be confidence. Of necessity, copies of all despatches are kept for the protection of the company. But once surrendered to an irresponsible agent, and there can be nothing sent over theline which may not be instantly known in all parts of the country. Everything is opento the men inside the office. There cannot be & word sent which may not be drawnoff ata hundred different points, and the Postmaster General, or what- ever officer may have charge of the business, can receive instantly in his office at Washington, and in time to prevent its delivery,a copy of every despatch sent over the Wires in any part of the country. How long would the peopls of the United States submit to having their let- ters opened and read by any officer clothed with the power to prevent their delivery? And yet that is precisely what is proposed to be done in the matter of telegraphing. Is the country wil- ling to establish this espionage upon its busi- ness, sociel, and confidential intercourse? This bill is too important to be acted on hastily, and “we hopé the press of the country, and the com- mercial communities everywhere, will not only protest against it, but make that protest em- phatic by frequent repetition. A BABLE ATTORNEY GENERAL. The movement of 8enator Harlan, the Wash- ington Chronicle, Frederick Douglass, and other prominent human beings at Washington, to put the negrolawyer, John M. Langston, into the Cabinet as Attorney General, has many argu- ments in its favor which will be likely to com- mend it to the mind of President Grant. Mr. Langston is remarkable 28 being almost the only “lawyer of color” in the country. That he should be a negro, and also a member of the Bar, is & coincidence which in-itself would give him National fame, though he had never tried a causenor drawn & plea. Indeed, as few white clients would think it expedient to present their cases to Judge or jury through a colored lawyer, and, as the colored people themselves have almost no litigation, what they have being of & very humble grade, it is proba- ble that Mr. Langston's forensic functions have been confined to lounging sbout Washington, and acting 28 & political shepherd to a more or less numerous flock of sable sheep. Doubtless, in this avocation he has found that black sheep bear less wool than white ones. Certainly, the luxury of being a colored lawyer would pay bet- ter with a Cabinet position thrown in. If Mr. Langston has figured in important arguments, or appeared a3 the leading jurisconsnlt in causas celebres, we have never heard of it. Like the two or three female lawyers, or the bearded lady, or the “hat is It,” he ia & unique curiosity, who would draw more money, if placed on exhibi- tion, than in retzining fees for legal services. ‘We would not affirm that Mr, Langston is ele- vated by any dizzy height sbove the average ne- gro, nor maintain that he need be, in order to grace a seat beside Robeson or Creswell. It is due to the colored race to maintain that, since the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, most of them have all the constitutional qualifications for a Cabinet position. The colored vote forms about one- seventh of the total vote for Grant, and considerably more than his popular majority. True, there have been times when s fervor of holy indignation might have been got wup, or attempted, or at least counterfeited, among some portion of the people at the idea of appointing a man the Constitutional Adviser of the Government, not because he was a lawyer of National celeb- rity, but because he was an Irishman, a Ger- man, 8 red-haired man, an Indian, s negro, Heathen Chinee, or =2 strong-minded female. Bat, since the tide runs that way, a Lacgston, or Downing, or Revels, or any other negro can construe it as satisfactorily as Wirt, or Pinckney, or Webster, or any other jurist. lir. Langston speaks by the card, therefore, in asserting that it is due to his race that they shall have the chief law-officer of the Government, though they may have but one lawyer in the country from among whom the President must choose. ‘We may, therefore, with reasonable probability soon hope to see the. Cabinet councils illumi- nated by the countenance of this colored Erskine. o —_— The Comte de Chambord, who always signs himself “ Henri,” a8 if he were the actual legit- imate Kirg of France, has issued another procla- ‘mation, in the shape of & letter to M. de la Ro- chette, Deputy in the French Aasemlfly‘ for the Loire Inferieure. In this later declaration he abandons the * passive policy,” to which hehes heretofore adhered, and foreshadows something like vigorous action in the effort to establish his guccession. The letter was called forth by the Republican victories in the recent French elec- tiors,—s circumstance which leads the Comte de Chambord to the conclusion that * Monarchy alone can give true liberty, and has no need to style itaelf Conservative in order to resssure all honest people.” All this is genpral enough and harmless enough, if it went no further. Butthe letter concludes with declarations that have been construed to mean something. ¢ The day of triumph is still one of God’s secrets,” Comte de Chambord says ; * but have confidence in the ‘mission of France.” He$elioves it to:be an il- Iusion of the wildest description to hope for the maintenance of & moderate Republic in France, after the sanguinary days of June, 1848, and throughout intimates that there is an immediate prospect of the people of France demanding the legitimate monarchy as the only salvation of the nation and the Papacy. Sensible people have long'since ceased to make any predictions in regard to the future of French government. Comte de Chambord is right, go far asthe exper- ience of the past shows. Republicanism in France seems to be in a state of transition. Whether or not the people of France will make an appeal {0 the legitimate succession, or to the Empire, or to Communism, or abide by moderate Republi- canism, as they understand the military protec- tion furnished by M. Thiers, is as difficult to foretell as the thonghts of s grisetle or_the next style of a French woman’s hat. e e ol The Horse Disease. It is claimed that no horses are dying where Bromo- Chloralum has been freely used s a disinfectant in ‘barns and stables, and a8 8 wash for nostrils and mouth, Itshould be syringed up the nostrils, ope part to twenty of water, milk-warm, Let thero be no abate- meat of its use unlil the epidemjc has diss] ron ourclty. Be warned in season, NS S e R ‘Your Hot-Air Furnace may be made to save one-fourth the cosl it now cone sumes, and still warm your house more evenly and satisfactorily, without any gas, smoke, or dust, clinker- ing of coal, burning out of fire pots, or melting grates, by attaching Tingley's Automstic Heat Governor, which takes all care of draft, leaving to you only to put on coal and shake out sshes. Send your prders to No, 214)¢ East Madison streets — Qalifornia Sunday Train. The Government overland mail train will lesve Chi- cago to-morrow, the 10th, ‘¢ 10 8, m., via Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Raflway, stopping at all regular gtations on the main line, and conhecting st Omaha with Union Pacific express train for Denverand Ssn Francisco, Tickets via C. & N. W,,orC, B. &Q. Railways will bo taken on thls train, : MR. MUNN'S CONFESSION, How the Firm of Munn & Scott Got Into Bankrupicy. An Interesting Account of Their Trans- actions With Jesse Hoyt, of New York. All the-Facts About That Cele- brated Mortgage., In the matter of Munn & Scott, in bankrupt- ¢y, the evidence of Ira Y. Munn was completed yesterday morning, and in that shape signed. Deponent testified that the firm of Munn & Bcott organized in 1857, and that they commenced dealing with Jesse Hoyt, of New York, in 1859 or 1860, by shipping grain, to be sold by him on commission. With regard to the mortgage on the property given in 1868, which was enjoined from being sold, as reported in THE TRIBUNE 8 few days 8go, defendant smid that at the time it was given, Hoyt- had an nousual quantity of their grain on hand, and prices declined very materially from cost, and drafts were made by them apon the grain which they couldnot meet. The mortgage was given to secure the drafts, or more prop- erly, tosecure the losses that had occurred in the transaction, rather than to secure advances on the grain. That was the whole of their indebt~ edness that year ; and the firm owed him noth- ing before; they generally had a credit with him. Their losses that year were over $800,000. Powell & Co. failed, and they had accepted for deponent, ond did not pay; Hoyt advanced them £60,000, chiefly to meet those drafts, part of which amount was included in the sum total of the advances intended to be covered by the mortgage, ““in order to keep everything lovely, you know,” as deponent said. There was no settlement of accounts before the mortgage was given, but the deed was understood to be intend- ed to cover the $60,000, together with all ad- vances made, and losses on the grain. The ‘mortgage was given onthe 18t of December, 1368, end defendsnt saw Hoytin his office in New York, about that time, both before and after. Thearrangementsto give the mortgage were mado three or four weeks before the 1s! of December, a8 soon as it was geen that there would be heavy losses on the grain. He did not know the exact date, nor how the figures were made up, having lost all his papers in the October fire, but he cal- culated that his loss must be 850,000, and that this mortgage would cover that amount ; it did not, however, by any means cover that loss. ‘When the matter was closed up, in the winter, it was found that this view was correct, and that the firmed owed more to Hoyt than the mortgage could cover—anywhere from $150,000 to $200,~ 000., With regard tothe making of the mortgage, hedrew it out himself, and sent it to Hoyt tor approval ; it was changed by Hoyt, re-copied and sent back, and deponent then executed it here; it was acknowledged here, and delivered over & few days afterwards, personally, when he went to New York. Did not recollect the exact proceedings in the matter of the notes given, which this mortgage was supposed to cover, but he believed that they were signed by Mr. Scott and himself as individuals, and notas a firm, and that they were executed here; _they were teken to New York and delivered to Hoyt, with the mortgage ; deponent believed he was credit- ed with the amount represented by the notes, in Hoyt’s books, 28 so much money. It wasar- Tanged that, if it was afterwards found that they did not owe so much money as the notes repre- sented, the matter wes to be readjusted. ‘The method of proce( .re by which thedebt had been contractod was this: When deponent shipped 8 cargo of grain, he would attach the draft to the bill of lading, and he then drew for a certain amount for that shipment; each ship- ment was thus drawn for, and each draft was honored by Hoyt. With regard to their signing | notes in their individual capacity, he said they had done that before, in cases where mortgages had been given. The stamps were put on the papers at New York, and not at the time of their execution. He conld not remember when the settlement was arrived at, as all his papers ’had been destroyed, but he believed Hoyt sent ont a statement in the spring, which was com- gsred with his books, and found correct. He ad gone on shipping, and drawing against the shipments ever since. He could not state the exact amount of such transections, but they t to smounted in _ value 1o loub millions of dollars; and they had sometime3 owed Hoyt on the new account as much as $200,000 2t & time, and at the present moment, not counting the mort- gage, he expected his indebtedness to Hoyt would amount to from $30,000 to 350,000. No special arrangement was made as to interest; he sometimes remitted money to Hoyt, large sums of money a8 well ss_property, and' these were placed to the credit of his account; nothing was ever said abont interest, but Hoyt had asked for the repsyment of the principal. They had never at any time been even, but they were nearer even now than they ever had beep their losses had been constant” ever since the mort- gege was given; they had been accumulating since1868. He had lost more since 1863 than he had made in that year. He did all he could to obtain property to ship, thinking to get his ac- count even, but it proved disastrous. e notes bore 10 er cent interest, and no g\yment bad been made on account of them. @ could not say what the mortgaged property was worth, but he_believed it paid them 10 per cent value on a million of dbllars; it would not be worth that sum for sale, and its market value might be in the neighborhood of $650,000 or §700,000. Had no communication with Hoyt as to the sale of the pmse:ly‘ and did not know anything about it until it was done. Hoyt had not sent any account, and he could not say how they now stood with him. He had conveyed the property to Mr, Armour,—that is tho firm,—in Angust or September, on the expectation thathe would be indebted to Armour. The mortgageto Hoyt was not put on record, at the earnest so- Iicitation of defendant, who feared that the fact being recorded would at once have affected his credit; his plea in 80 soliciting Hoyt was that he owed others, and that by recording the mort- gago both the mortgagee and himself might be endangered ; and he told him, as well, that if he put it on record, and threw him_into bankrupt- cy, the deed would not be good for_snything, Hoyt finally recorded it without defendant’s knowledge. There was no reason at that par- ticular time_why Hoyt shonld have taken hos- tile proceedings, contrary to the verbal agree- ment made; but, on the other hand, the time it was underatood the notes were to run had ex- ired, and defendent was unablo to pay. The Sead was recorded on _the 21st of April, 1871, at Which time he owed Hoyt more than in 1869, and more than at any subsequent period. All he had done in this matter was with the hope of being able to ‘“work out eventually,” — to pay his debts. At the time "of the mortgage, Hoyt also held his property—wheat and corn—to & value of perhaps a million of dol- Iars; held in his hands unsold. Ho did not at that time buy eny grain in New York, nor did he owe Hoyt anything for grain so bought. Had shipped Hoyt more than a million this season, and considered that all this was to go in liquida- tion of the debt. His connection with Bruce was in this shape: Bruce boughtup the property that Munn & Scott shipped to Hoyt in their own pame; and if any E‘;flh was made onit, one half was due to him. His proportion of the losges on the business of the firm since he had been connected with the deponent, would amount mtffimt $600,000 to 350&),&300, Bruce was not sble to pay anything, and deponent assumed all the losg‘ylnyftignr%n'g howpmllch he owed Hoyt, he did not separate the proportion owing by Bruce, Did not know if Hoyt was aware of the arrangement with Bruce, but frequently talked to him about Bruce's losses in these trans- actions. Al the money furnished to Bruce to buy grain was found by deponent. Hoyt only Lknew Munn & Scott in the matter, but between themselves they considered themselves part- ners, and deponent told Hoyt that he considered Bruce liable to him (deponent) for one-half the loss. Respecting the transactions with Powell, deponent said he used toship to Powell and draw, snd Powell failed o meet the drafts to the extent of about $150,000. It was sbout $60,000 of this that Hoyt assisted him to take up. With respect to tte Wright transaction, he ‘borrowed from Wright £25,000, about six months ago, payable in five years, the interest being payable twice a year, the first falling due on the 233‘ ult., secured by & trust' deed. ol g 2t So0 aidered the property so’convey: éap 8 = 000. Tho fiom grfl{(nnn, Norton & Scott was formed seven or eig}:t years ago; Muann & Scott Went in in their individual capacity. The for- mer firm did business as commission merchants, and Munn & Scott did warehouse business, and bought and sold in on their own account. The former firm had no property ; they simply bought and sold ; all work done for the one firm by the other was duly charged and paidfor, as if vould be with an outsider. Mr. Scott's duty waz chiefly 1o sttend to the elevators; deponent at- tended v the correspondence. e could not say whether Hoyt L:ad suy agent here, or whethe aayone represented him in the elevators. s s concluded the examina:ion, and the evi- dence was yesterday sent to the Conrt by 3T, Register Hibbard. —_——— POLITICAL. Corrected returns of elxctins to the next Congress give 6 Liberals and 9 Republicans in districts supposed to have gone the other way,— & net gain of 3 Republicans; and the totsl, therefore, ie: 95 Liberals, 18¢ Republicans. Add for Texas 6, Connecticut 4, aud New Hamp- shire 3, and we have the whole House, 202 mem-~ bers. The probebilities are unckanged with re~ gard to the Senate, in which the epposition gain 8 votes. —The Springfield Republican says * Qur Hen-~ ry” is the happiest of all. Itisreallya sort of consolation to think of the solid comfort he i3 taking. —The Louisville Courier-Journal says: The disaster of Tuesday is 2ot without its compens sations ; we are not to have a 7ice President who parts his name in the middle. ' —Judge Amaziah B. Jemss, of Ogdensburgh, steps forth as an aspirant to the Senate, having made it & part of his duty to secure anti-Conk- ling Assemblymen in Northerr New York. ZThe election of & Pomersy Legislatura in Eansas has cost Old Subsidy 980,000, and there i3 more money whers that came from, The boya are invited to partake freely. —John J. Patterson, ““+ man of considerable wealth,” is working quietly :nd earnestly for tha United States Senstorshid in South Céroling, with the consent and mord support of Simon Cameron. ~—Thus early itis announted that Copgress~ man John Hill, who decline! a re-election, is ta be next Governor of New Jasey; election two years hence. InMassachuse:tsthe arrangement is now perfect to realize 3en. Butler's ambition by electing him Governor aext year. —1In Missouri and Indiata, Constitutional Con- - ‘ventions are wanted. TheIndianapolis Journal hopes that the Legislatur, snmmoned to meet onthe 13th inst., will not only call & Conven- tion, but that one of its fint legislative acts will be to abolish the October ekction., —The following is & conple's (unofficial) re- port of the vote for Congrssman in the Ninth Tilinois District : : Barrere, TForthington, . 3 Lid, Peoria County. ‘;N Falton County. 100 Stark County. Enox County, Total, 138 Asjority for Barrere...... 1,89 —In the Legislative District of Boone and Winnebago, the Republicans mn three candi- dntes and elected all; the vote being, with one town to hear from, as follows: Stewart, 5,381%¢; Hildrup, 5,185} ; Cross,. 5,0i934. The plump- ing for Seeley Perry, Liberal, made his vote only 4,499. This is the only district in the State where the “ minority plan” does not help the minority. . 2 —A Pittsburgh clothier telegraphed to Presi- dent Grant, on election day, offering him a new gnit of clothes. The answer he got was from General Horace Porter, and is given in the Pittsburgh Gazetle, as follows : The President will have, and very reluctantly, too, to decline your generous offer of one of your best suits, to be worn at his inaugural nert March; not but that he believes they are the best ciothes made, but, were he to accept, Senators Sumner, Schurz, Trume bull, and others would be very jealous, and would, no doubt demand suits for themselves, and, if refnled, would ask for en Investigating Committee, tnereby costing the Government tiousands of dollars with —The Boston Advertiser (Grant) saya: The full effect of the Q'Conor demonstration doed 1ot appear in the election returns, Butits_main pure pose wus accomplished in concentratng the Democrutic opposition to Mr. Greeley, and making it impossible to bricg the whole Democrutic body to kis support. Iz two or three States only was tho protest carried far enough to form an electoral ticket and givo those Who were dissatisfied an opportunity to vote for the cour~ ageous dissenters, But in overy State, it appears, the O’Conor ticket had practically a large following in the Democrata who stayed at home, Gt who voted with the Republicans, There was no other way of making their protest edective, and they took advintage of that, If they had voted for Mr. Grecley i would not have changed the result. Theirrefusing to vote for him made the Greeley movement hopeless from the'start, —Forney says: One word of thanks is due totle Democrats for the part they have played in the re-election of Grant, —The Democrats in the North have not done theirduty. Well, they fooled us in 1861, when they swore that Lincoln and his hirelings would have to march over their desd bodies to get at the Sonth, and they have been fooling us ever since with wordy protestations that only misled us. If they had stood up to us, Greeley would have been elected. It strites us that, hereafter, we had best take care of curselves, and go it on. our own hook.—Zouisville Courier-Journal. —The “independent journalists” who have not beaten Grant, are subjected to the sympathy of the regular organ-grinders, who are unavle ta appreciate the fatness of :he fun and excellence of the pasturage a fellow enjoys outside the stake-and-ridered party fence.— Cincinnat: Com~ ‘mercial. . —We accopt the recent electicn as ““a blessing in disguise.” We are to have during the reign of Grant good times and plenty of maney, Thera will be no failures, no commercial disasters. Peace and plenty will prevail thronghont the land. None but honest men will be appointed to officg, and the public funds jealousiy guard- ed from spoilation by stock-jobbers and irre sponsible brokers. 'In fact ererything will ba lovely.—Pitisburgh Post. G et SR Cure for the Epizootic. Treatment of ‘this disease is rot generally unders siood. The animal must be kept varm and clean. No hard work or exposure until the direase is broken up, On the first appearance of the distemper, yul on tke & Centaur Liniment” freely and briskly between tha lower jaws und along down the toroat or neck, which acts directly upon the glands ard joiats, breaking up the Sd.\xm?" 1 ons {o threo days. Cufes warrated. anSchaac] enson. N 92 Lake street. - i n,‘ Ageats, No; —————— ", Administrator’s Sale, Tawyers will bear in mind the sdministrator’s sale, at suction, of a large law library at 11 5. m. to-day, by George P, Gore & Co,, Nos, “u:g' y 22, 24 and .26 Randolph —_——— The Xll-Fated ¢ Missouri’”—Further Details of EHer Burning at Sea, . New Yomg, Nov. 8.—The stzamer Moro Castle arrived this afternoon, bringing some of the survivors of the ill-fated stexmer ‘¢ Mis~ souri,” burned at_ses, Oct. 22. Wiliam Jones, or, states that on Tuesday,Oct. 22, at 9 a.m., the cry of fire was raised, &nd its origin was Bupposed to be in the fire-room, near the gratings. Ab this time all lands were reefing the foretop sail. It was blowing a 3ale from the east-northeast. The _first @md second officers were on deck at the time, we were ordered =zt once tfo attach ‘hose to the donkey-pumps. We se to work with 2 will, but inside of 20 minutes it vas found the ship must be abandoned. Most of the passen- gers were at breakfast at the time, but on hear~ ing thecryof fire, theyhumiedon deck, but atfil there was no confusion, Thee were four boats launched, one of which was burned ; one wos swamped Witk nino passengiTsin it one turned bottom up, with two eailors in it, and the ‘ome in Which m comrades and I were saved. We remaine around the ship for over two hours, but owing to the heavy ses found it impossible to render any assistance. e saw the burning ship up to about half-past 2. There were adout 37 passen~ gers and 54 of tho crew. Before lesving the ship we did everything we could toassist those in the swamped boat, The Captain’ and officers acted with'the utmost coolness, ard everything was done to extinguish the fires. The statement of .!The other survivors corrchorates the story of ones. P and ————me— War Department Weatker Progmnoss tics. War DEPARTMENT, OSFICE OF THE CHIEX S1oNAL OrriceR, DrvisioN of TELEGRAMS AND RepoRTs rpr THE BENEFIT OF CowMerce, Wasanvgroy, D. C., Nov. S.—Probabilities— From Lake fihdngzm over the lower lakes and New England to the middle Atlantic coest, cleat vgeather and northwesterly wirds, and in the Northwest, southerly winds, falling barometer, partly clondy weather, exteading sontheasterly to'the Lower. Ohio’ Valley. ‘In the Gulf States northeasterly to_northwesterly winds; threaten-~ ing weather 2nd rain,’extending tb the south Atlantic coast . .