Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1872, Page 4

‘4 “THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER “10, 1872. —_— e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (PAYABLE XN ADVANCE). D 8 c-Weol 5 e o prevent delsy and mistakes, be sure and givo Post £Offico address in fall, including State and County. Remittances may be made elther by draft, express, Post Office order, orin registered lotters, at our risk. TERXS TO CITY SUBSCRIBEES. [Baily delivered, Sunday excepted, 2 conts per week. 2ily, delivored, Sunday included, 30 conts per wack. o THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Coraer Madison snd Dearborn-sts., Chicago, 11l TRISUSE Branch Offce, No. 469 Wabssh-av., in the Bookstore of Messts. Cobb, Andrews & Co., where sdvertisements znd subscriptions will be received, and awill hove the samo attention as if left ab tho Main Offce. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S TRIBUNE, FIRST PAGE—Congressional Proceedings—Miscellan- ‘neons Washington Items—Tono of Wall stroot—Ad- vertisements. p BECOND PAGE—Wisconsin etter: Official Report of f ho Stato Finances—New York Letter: Tho Groat Tribune: Unprecedented Honors to His Memory— General News Items—Tho French Crisis—Life in Philadelphis: Extraordinary Rovelations of a Terri- ble Crime—Personal Items. KHIRD PAGE—Beer Assailed: How This Supposod Harmless Beverage Affects tho Average Citizen— Marksmen on Trial—Tho Law Courts—Tho Grand Jurs: The Supremo Conrt:Roprimandad for Recent Rulings—Railroad Timo Table—Adrertisemonts. FOURTH PAGE—Editorisls: Railway Legislation—D}- reot Voting far Presidont—The Sewerage Question— Gurrent Nows Items—Political~City in Brief. FIFTH PAGE- Conncil Proceedings: Announcemont of Standing Committees—A. Jowelry Palace—In- suranco Suits—Markets by Telograph—Adsertise- ‘ments, - SIXTH PAGE-Monetary and Commercial-Marino Tn- telligence. SEVENTH PAGE—County Commissioncrs' Meeting: Eloction of Officers—Victor Emsnuel: Romanco of the Italian King—Cats: The Show at tho Orystal Palace—Mll, Lumber, and Iron Notes—Small Ad- ertisoments: Real Estato, For Salo, To Rent, ‘Wanted, Boarding, Lodging, etc. €IGHTH PAGE—Foreign News by Telegraph—Aliscella n00us Telegraphic News. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, ATEEN'S THEATRE—Wabash aveano, corner of Con gress streot. Engagement of Lawrenco Barrott. **Ham- der. A'VICKER'S THEATRE-Madison street, betweon Stato and Dearborn. Engagement of Miss Jene Coombs. #*London Assurance.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC— Halsted street, south of adison, The Lydia Thompson Troupe, *‘Blue Board.” HOOLEY’S OPFRA HOUSE—Randolph streot; be- tween Clark.-znd LaSelle. New Comedy Company. * Partners for Life.” Oporatic Bagatello. SIYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroe strect, between State and Dearborn. Aslington, Cotton & Eemble's dinstrel and Burlesque Troupe. ‘BLOBE THEATRE—Desplaines street, botween Madl- Fon and Washington. The Lelia Ellis Ballad Opera Com- 805 NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE—Clintonstreet, between “Washington and Randolph. Leo Hudson as ** Mazeppa.” BUSINESS NOTICES. BUGS—PEOPLE HAVING COCKROACHES, BED- bugs or moths in their houses can havo them entirely ox- ‘erminated by applying or addressing A. B. HOMAN, 471 WWest Madison-st. BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYP. THIS SPLENDID #anirdso is the best in the world. The only true and per- foct dve. Harmless, roliable, aac ntancous; nodisap- intmont ; no ridiculo unpleasant odér. Remo- ies the ill effects of bad dyes and washes. Produces im- odiatels a suporb black: or paturslbrows, and losves tho clean, soft, agd boautifal, ~Tlio pentino, signed W, A. Batchelor.” Sold by all _drugy c; S BATCHELOR, Proprietor, 2 . TheChitags Tribume. Huesdsy Morning, December 10, 1873. = The new State House at Springfield will not e finished tntl 1875. So far, $1,637,211.75 has @een expended mpon it. One of the lessons our ci ation has faught ‘the African is shown in the statement that, ina fbloody battle just fought in the far interior of ‘Africs many, of the savages were armed with “Enfield rifles. Fo of the seven railroads whose delay in fmeking their snnual Teports compelled the Rail- “yord Commissioners to adjourn till the 16th Jrst. have now complied with the law, and the others promiso to hand in their statements at once. —— Great Britain has been ewept by frightful ‘nvinds which have destroyed churches, houses, ‘stores, ships, and many lives, Nearly all the Zelegraph lines have been overthrown. In Lon- 8on, street lamps and signs were blown down, -snd oven men and women carried off their feet. Another plan for bringing our currency to par 78 given in the bill introduced into the Senate providing that after nest June customs duties ‘may be paid in legal-tenders to the extent of 20 ‘per cent the first year, and sn additional 20 per {cent each year until 1877, when all may be paid dn notes or gold. Our correspondent at Madieon gives elsewhere “gn interesting abstract of the fannual reports of Ahe State officers of Wisconsin, ehowing the _state of the Treasury, the cost of meintaining ithe Government, the courts, the schools, the \mfisnns, and other publio institutions ; how the _Btate proposes to tax its railroad and telegraph reorporations, end other miscellaneous matters fof interest. In Louisiara, the Custom House Legislature has begun its sessions with an attendance of 92 Jnembers, The House has passed s resolution ghat President Grant be asked, by telegraph, to mse the Federal arm to save the State from do- Jmestic violence, end, by s vote of &8 to 6, has presented articles of impeachment against Gov- ermor Warmoth, and declared him suspended grom office during triel. " The heavy shipments of hogs, cattle, beef, etc.; sste., from here to the East during the last ten dsys, are at length moking an easier money anarket in Chicago. The movement of these 'pmdncta is leaving an accumulation of credit in oack, as is shown by an incresse of deposits pvithin a few days. This'is an instance showing hat it is not alack of cwrency, but the low gprices and elight movement of the crops, that Jave been the main canse of stringency. « Prussian Peers find themselves, like the Eng- Jich Tords, unablo to withstand the people and he Ministry, and have st last passed the Coun- 1 4ies Reform bill by a vote of 116 to 91. Another smove in the struggle between the State and the Church hasbeen made by the Government,which “has closed all the Catholic churches of Posen d brought the Catholic pastors and teachers ,of that province to trial, for reading to their xharges an inflammatory pastoral letter from Aheir Archbishop. [ — * The Becretary of the Tressury has addressed 8 letter to the Collector of Customs at New ork, in answer to numerous appeals which shave been sent to the Depariment, deciding #hat all articles which, under laws prior to that "of June 6, 1872, would be classified for duty as ;nanu.mcmea of glass, or whichare specially senumerated a8 glass goods, ehould be entitled 4o reduction of duty. Among the articles enu- puerated as coming within this decision are watch tals, spectaclo glasses, glass show cards, papex Weights, and silver plated glase. The law allows & reduction of 10 per cent in this clags of glass goods. — Following tho disastrous failure of the . Bowles Brothers comes the suspension of Ja- cobs Freres, bankers, of Brussels, who had wide American connections. This will not affect American tourists seriously, as the dealings of the firm were mainly with the esporters of American produce, the largest of whom are for- tunate enough to have severed their connections with it last year. Itis said the embarrassment may be transient, and involve no losses in the end. Afr. Boucicault, the actor, who is now playing an engagement at the Globe Theatre, Boston, recently created quite 8 commotion, by appear- ing upon the stage, after the play, and making a bitter attack upon one of the Boston papers, which had eriticised his performances in a men- ner unsatisfactory to him. The gallery applaud- ed him, but tho respectablo patrons of the house hisged him, Mr. Boucicaulf, who hes a mania for speech-making and letter-writing, wounld find it more in accordance with the popular taste to improve his performances rather than criticise NeWEPApers. —— The present condition of the Credit Mobilier seems to be this: That Mr. Oakes Ames will not deny #he authorship of the letters which Colonel 3FComb published; that he did offer the stock to several Congressmen, which offer was accept- ed in some ceses and declined in others; and that the memorandum of names made by Col- onel M'Comb on the back of one of the Ames letters was taken down, not as indicating the gentlemen who had actually received stock, but some of those to whom stock was to be, or had been, offered under the conditions specified in the Ames letters. If this much shall be dis- covered by the Special Committee of Investiga- tion, Mr. Oakes Ames ought to be expelled for his attempts at bribery. Itisnow given out that Mr. C. K. Garrison, and other merchants and ship-owners of New Yorkand Boston, have sent out the money to purchase Samana Bay from the Government of San Domingo, and to purchase other privileges from the same Government. Itis likely that President Bzoz will sell anything for money, but hehas, perhaps, about as much lawfual right to sell BSsmang Bay as our Government would have to sell the harbor of New York. It is, of course, a mere question of time when Baez will be de- posed, and perhaps executed, and a new Govern- ment, repudiating all his unlawfal contracts, take his place. But nobody will question Mr. Garrison’s right to spend his:money where and how he chooses. ZLittle else was done yesterday by the House than to fix the length of the holiday recess. An unsuc- cessful attempt was made to suspend the rules 2nd pass a bill, which, in recognition of the exer- tions of the Boston Fire Department in eaving £18,000,000 of United States property, appro- priated $20,000 for the families of the firemen who perished in the fire, A similar fate befel o bill to remove all political disabilities and make amnesty general. Amendments to the Constitu- tion were proposed authorizing Congress to fix one date for all State elections, exténding the term of the President and Vice President to six years, the former to be ineligible for re-elec- tion, and both to be chosen directly by the people. ) General Sherman has written a leiter to & friend in Boston in regard to the rebuilding of the burned district of that city. The most im-~ portant suggestion which he mekes is that of imitating London in storing the great bulk of goods in strong, plain warehouses outside of the city, simply keeping ssmplo goods for the stores in town. The location of such ware- ‘houses wonld naturally be at convenient docks or stations, go that the goods could be easily and cheaply handled, and the buildings erected for this purpose would hot need to be other than plain, nnpretentions structures. The general idea is, that the bulk of valuable stocks being in remote warchouses, city fires would not be &t~ tended by such great losses 2 now; and that the warehouses would be lesssubject to the dan- gers of fire by reason of their isolation. The testimony in'the case of the recent rail- road disester on the Pennsylvania Central Road, neor Mifflin, ehows that what is termed an acci- dent was nothing more nor less than murder. The train that was standing at the depot was half an hour behind time, and the train that ran into it was half an hour shead of time. The result was =a col- lision between two trains which should have been an hour apart. A clearer case of human ‘butchery, without excuse, was never developed, and yet what hope is there that tho guilty par- ties will ever be punished ? No precaution was taken by the conductor of either train, although neither of them was on time, and musthave Imown that danger was to be apprehended ab any moment. The Pennsylvania Courts have now an excellent opportunity to rebuke the recent boast of & railroad official, that the public has no rights that railroads are bound to regard. Judge Nelson, of the United States District Court of Minnesots, has made a decision in benkruptey of some interest to holders of grain receipts, George Atkinson & Co., afterwards Atkinson & Kellogg, were warchousemen in Lake City, and failed on Dec. 8, 1870, and went into bankruptcy. At that time theyhad in store 91,500 bushels of wheat, snd had outstanding receipts, issued to farmers, to the amount of 85,000 bushels. On the eve of their failure they issued two additional receipts for 12,000 bushels, and gave them to a bank as collateral for certain protested paper of theirs. The question before the Conrt was tho distribution of. the property, and Judge Nelson held that the wheat deposited in the warehouse did nod ‘become the property of the warehouseman, but remained the property of the holder of the re- ceipts, that, therefore, it was not subject to the debts of the general creditors of the bankrupts. ‘The holders of the receipts were entitled toa ‘proportionate distribution of the wheat in store. The receipts issued to the bank, however, were not iesued for grein received in store; and the bank was not in the position of a bona fide holder of a receipt for goods in warehouse, and was not entitled {o any share in tho distribution of the grain actually in store. They were taken, ‘moreover, at & time when tho bank had resson to believe that the warchousemen were insol- vent. The bank could only share with the gen- eral creditors, and had no claim on the wheat. The position which Mr. Carl Schurz ascumed in his answer to the Democratio caucus, which requested him to take the place on the Foreign Relations Committee which had been allotted to every United States Senator, regardless of hia perty preferences. The substance’ of what Mr. Behurz said is, that he will be true to his own convictionsof thebest policy ; that, wheneverthe Administration does anything to which he ought to give his approval and support, he will sustain it; and that, whenever the Administration tends to the opposite direction, he will oppose it. -Mr. Schurz may be tolerably certain of gaining a larger popular approval for this position than he possibly could by sgreeing to support or to oppose all Administration measures, simply be- cause they come from the Administration. If Senators and Representatives were universally guided by such motives, ‘their suppert or oppo- sition of measures would have more weight, and legislation would be more beneficial to the country. The question of the liability of cities for ac- cidents that occur within their limits is becom- ing a serions one. Every man who breaks s leg, or an arm, or meets with any injury, seeks to recover from the municipality compensation for the damage. The Supreme Court of Illinois, in & recent decision, places a wholesome restraint upon this kind of action, In December, 1870, a fire occwrred in Centralis, which, among other things, damaged & piece of sidewalk on one side of astreet. The city did not repair the side- walk, though its damaged condition was known. A fall of snow and a frost followed, rendering this piece of sidewalk more dangerous. Within & week after the fire, & citizen, while seeking to reach his own house, passed over this sidewalk and was seriously injured, for which he sued and recovered damages. The Bupreme Court, in setting asidethis judgment as against law and evidence, held that, under the circumstances, the city had not been guilty of negligence in'repeir~ ing the sidewalk. It also held that & mumicipal corporation is not liable for every accident that may occur within its limits; that ite officers are not required or expected to do every possible thing that human energy can do to prevent the happening of such accidents; that, when they have exercised reasonable care, they have dis~ charged their duty to the public, and that there is an obligation on the citizen to exercise care and contion; that the sidewalk in this instance was unsefe was g fack lmown to the plaintiff, and, there being a good sidewalk on the other gide of the street,ho should have used it ; that if persons will persistin passing over ‘what they know to be & defective sidewalk. any injury they sustein must be attributed to their own folly, and that, when & person is aware of the danger and deliberately assumes it, ho as- sumes aleo whatever risk thero'is in the under- teking. This decision explodes the doctrine that the city insures all the inhabitants against injuries by accidents, and that it must pay for limbs broken under circumstances where tho danger was known to the sufferer. - RAILWAY LEGISLATION., The decision of Judge Wood, of Kankakes, in tho case involving the constitutionality of the legislation of this State on railway freights and fares, will attract general attention, not only in Illinois, but elsewhere, and will bring up sgain 8 question of exceeding perplexity, to which some of the ablest minds of the present age are directed. As regards the mere question of lnw involved, we think that Judge Wood's decision is right—that is, it is in accordance with & uni- form and unbroken line of precedents, at the be- ginning of which is the broad principle that a contract once made cannot be depart- ed from by one of the parties with- | out the consent of the other. We hope it will be a long time beforo any different rule is’ established, for, when contracts cease to be binding, and when Courts cease to enforce them in the terms and manner that the parties understood when they entered into them, there is no substantial foundation for commerce to rest upon, and the bonds which hold society to- gether aro loosened, As applied to the case in question, it is easy to see, as Judge Wood ob- serves, that if the Legislature may fix one rate of fare on & railway, without the consent of the owners of such railway, and without any judicial ascertainment of what is a reasonable fare, it may fix anyrate that passion or demagogism can guggest. If it mey enact threo cents per mile without these essential prerequisites, it may. enact one cent or any other sum. In other words, it msy extin- guish the property. It would be far better for the State to avail itself of its eminent domain powers, condemn the offending railway, pey its owners the real value of their property, and operate it as a public work, than to violate prin- ciples of law which the experience of ages hes proved to be necessary to well-being or even the existence of civilized society. At the same time, the common law remedy for excesgive railway charges pointed out by Judge Wood is too cumbersome, circuitous, and costly to sfford a practical solution of the problem. In involves in each case & jury trial, with right of appesl. ' A favor- able decision in one case does not bemefit the public generally, because no two cases are ex- actly alike in every respect. What constitutes a reasonables charge fora given service to-day, may constitute an unreasonable charge to- morrow, and vice versa. There must be & swifter way of dealing with the subject than this, and that swifter way will ot be found in the sort of legislation which Judge Wood so pointedly condemns. It is nearly two years since these Elipshod laws were passed. The reilway companies made no opposition to them whilethey were pending. Theybelieved that they would be declared invalid in due time, and that whether declared invalid or not it would be cheaper to teke their chances in the forum of ‘public opinion than to make & contest in each smccessive Legiclature, The old and well pay- ing roads believed with good resson that they could stand laws that the new and week ones could live nnder, while the latter believed them-~ eelves to be protected by their very wealmess. At all events, they conld offer no resistance. So, by common consent, they il kept their lobby agents away from the legislative halls, and stood in readiness to take anything that might come. The thing which did come was worse than worth- less, if Judge Wood's decision is sustained, as we think it will be. N There are those who think that it is only nec- essary to elect new Judges in order to meke this species of legislation stick. It is only necessary, in due exercise of the ballot, to put men upon the Bench who will upset contracts and overturn law, in order to bring railway charges under legislative control. We fancy that there will be a peuse before any such immoral doctrine is put in forco by a State which has once voted against ropudiating its debts, and we trust that all other means of meeting and overcoming the evils complained of will be exhausted before it finds any respectable advocacy. These means the Demeerats, is one which should be taken by have not vet been oxhausted.—scarcelv examined. Our existing legislation, 88 we ventured to point out at the time, was too hasty. It was not preceded by investigation. It was not based upon anything but & desire for chesper transportation. The simple question whether the railways generally, or any railwayin perticolar, could afford to carry at cheaper rates, was not asked. That the whole West is suffer- ing for the want of cheaper transportation, es- pecially to the eastward, will be admitted with- out argument. But an act of the Legislature, unaccompanied by detailed information of any kind, will never furnish us transportation nor enlighten “us as to the means of getting it, If the Legislaturo wishes to do any- thing really wuseful in this direction, let it improve the time, while this decision of Judge Wood's and the counter decision from McLean County are grinding through the 8u- preme Court, in making as thorough an investi- gation into the cost of building and operating railways, and the profit made thereon, as possi- ble. This isthe firat step toany successful solution of the problem before us. DIRECT VOTING FOR PRESIDENT, The divided action of the Electors chosen by the Libera party at the last Presidential elec- tion has prompted the New York World to re- open the question of electing the President and Vice President by direct vote of the people. It supposes acase which might have occurred atthe recent election, and which would almost surely have precipitated the country into revolution and bloodshed. If Mr. Greeley had been elected by a small majority, his death would have left such a. division among the Electors that the most likely result would have been in the choice of General Grant against the expressed wishes of the people, It would have been mextto impossible to unite all the Electors upon any one man, while the Grant Electors would have remained solid for their choice. A case might occur where bribery might be used successfully. The Electors vote by ballot, without even at- taching their names to their votos, so that it would be difficult to convict any one of them of ‘bad faith, for which there is, moreover, no pre- scribed penslty. The remedy proposed by the World is in the four following reforms : 1. The direct vote of the people for President and Vice President. 2. Limiting the President to s single term of (ssy) six years. 8. Giving all the sppointed Federal officors 8 term equal to that of the President, ‘but commencing and ending at the middle of the Prosidential terms. 4. Requiring all State elec- tions to be held on the same day when the people vote for President. The purpose of the two first propositions is well understood. The intention of the third is to preclude appoint- ments as rewards for party services, and to enable Presidents to become familiar with the requirements of the vamous offices and the qualifications of the incumbents holding over. The fonrth reform is suggested as a guarantee of an honest expression of the people of all States, uninfluenced by a concentration of money and official favor in certain localities as a pres- sure upon the vote for President. These pro~ posed reforms will very probably attract general discussion and serious consideration. THE SEWERAGE QUESTION. The City of Chicagois limited by law to the collection of one mill tax for sewerage. The whole of this tax, if collected, would be not over £200,000; bat it is not all collected. Owing to the various legal expedients to which certain large property-owners resort, the city loses of this sum about 10 per cent, or £29,000. The sew- ersgetax isalso chargesble with the cost of maintenance and ropairs of existing sewers, which amounts to perhaps 325,000 a year, leav- ing for actual purposes of sewer construction sbout $230,000. An aversge main sewer will cost about $75,000 per mile, and the whole avail- able fund of the city is equal to the construction of about three miles of main gewers annually. The sanitary condition of ‘many districts render the construction of sewers therein essential to the health of the whole city, and even for tho construction of the sewers in these districts the fund annually raised by taxa tion is not sufficient. In the meantime, there are many equare miles of territory upon which per« manent buildings have been built, and which will next geason be still more improved by resi~ dences, which are not sewered. A million of dollars might be judiciously and profitably ex~ pended annually during the next five years in the construction of sewers ; but there is no power in the Council to increase the levy of one mill on the dollar of the assessed value of the taxable property of the city. The necessity of sewers is not an open question. They are essential to the health of the city and to the comfort of every household. They are one of those public improvements which cannot be dis- pensed with, Under our law, it is possible for persons desiring paved streets to avoid the de- lays of levying special pssessments by making their own contracts and having the work done &t a great saving of expense. But there is no such thing possible in the matter of sewers, They have tobe constructed by the public and at the expense of the public. However willing the peo~ ple of a neighborhood may be to have sewers, they cannot, asin the case of streets, do the work for themselves ; they must wait until in the evolutions of time their locality becomes g0 pestilential that the Health Officer is compelled to order a sewer to protect the heslth of people living in other parts of the city, The City Charter needs several changes to ‘meet the extraordinary circumstances of the last two years, and in these changes there is none more important than some provision for an ex- tension of the sewerage. It would, perhaps, greatly facilitate the sewerage of the city if the public cast was confined to the construction of the mains, and, with an extension of these to all perts of the city, leave to neighborhoods the comparatively small cost of obtaining connec- tion by the smaller and pipe sewers. To con- struct these latter wounld not cost but a very small sum per front foot, which cost would be readily borne by those who cannot obtain sew- ers by any other means, g — POLITICATL. The Iows vote for President was: Greeley, T1,184; Grant, 181,233; O'Conor, 2,221; scatter- ing, 96. For Congress: Administration candi- dates, 127,093; opposition, 79,645; cattering, 198. Totals, for President, 204,684; Congress, 206,936. Tbe vote for State officers and for Con- grees, in detail, is announced as follows : * Liberal. Republican. Bec. of State..Guilbe; Youn; 359 Auditor. d; Aty Cens Congress— Republicans elected their entire city ticket in Mobile,” The Register, of that city, says : The farce, or tragedy, of 8 municipal clection came o e e o Ay B gk ity Yoto falla rather under 8000, On Tuesday, somewiere in the neighborhood of 16,000 bits of paper wereput_into the boxea; and when we say that the Radical—delicately called the “ Citizens’ "—ticket got about 4,000 majority, the whaole story is told. As a sequel and illusiration of how it was done, Judge John Elliott (Republican), of the Circnit Court in Mobile, promptly discharged two men arrested for ‘“‘repeating,” because, he paid: “There is in forco no statute against voting more than once &t an election in this Btate.” —The vote for United States Senator in the Capitol Hall of the Alabama Legislature, on the 4th, wes: B. W. Walker, 20; Bradford, 19; Houston, 15; Cochran, 9. The Court-House - crowd voted for Spencer. —The Legislature of Kentucky will assemble Jan. 7. —The Greeley Electors of Louisiana met un- der Governor Warmoth's proclamation, and the Grant Electors also met and went through the forms by order of the New Orleans Custom Housq authorities. The Greeley Electors voted blank for President, and gave Gratz Brown their 8 votes for Vice President. —Senator Machen, of Kentucky, is the first to be admitted to a seat in Congress of all those who figured in the Confederate Congress at Richmond ; but the next Homse will contain four, viz: A.R. Wright and H. P. Bell, of Georgia ; T. 8.-Ashe, of North Carolins, and J. D. C. Atkins, of Tennessee. The Electoral vote of Arkansas, Florids, Missiesippl, Nebrasks, Nevada, and Oregon, were cast for Grant without the preliminaries of an official canvass, —An incident of the Louisiana fightis the contest for the office of Administrator of Im- provements, in New Orleans,—a position of vast power and patronage, for which there were three candidates, running, by all acconnts, very evenly. Genersl Beauregard claims the office, by Warmoth’s count ; but Colonel James Lewis (colored Republican) has been sworn in, upon & certificate by Blanchard, the Supervisor of Reg- istration, and will, it is expected, ultimately give way to Burke, the third candidate, who claims to have made arrangements therefor with the Cus- tom House power. —For Mayor of Boston : declined by William Gray, Otis Norcross, Alexander H. Rice, Henry L. Pierco, Alphens Hardy, Moses Kimball, Ed- ward 8. Tobey, and —. —The Legislature of South Carolina has re- duced the number of its paid attaches to thirty~ nine, and is now anxiously meditating how eal- aries may be paid. There were 600 employes of the last Legislature. . ~—The Kansas Legislature divides: Adminis- tration, 116 ; opposition, 26. —1In the event (?) of 8imon Cameron not being & candidate for re-slection to the Senate, good and reliable Administration papers in Pennsyl- vanis say Messrs. Russell Everett, Harry White, and John Allison will prefer their claims to the place. - THE CITY IN BRIEF. Eversthing. Tho residence of Thomas Iago, No, 61 Milwau- kee avenue, wasrobbed of about $200 of jewelry, by sneak thieves, on Saturday affernoon. Two noted vagrants, named James Havland and Frank Fisk, incurred the displeasure of Jus- h&]flmyan, yesterday, to the extent of $50 e Seven gamblers, arrested on Friday evening in the House of David and nt No. 427 Btate street, were fined £20 each at the Harrison street Police Court, yesterdsy. Martin Carroll and Henry Kibler, two young lads charged with burglary, were arraigned be- fore Justice Banyon yesterday, and had their casea continued until to-day, in bail of 81,500 each. Further evidence tending to criminate them will be produced. Tho receipts of hoga at the Union Stock Yards doring last weoks escooded. the receipts of auy previous week by 7,812 head, the number yarded reaching 147,312, against 139,500 in December, Morris Tansio, of No. 606 South Canal street, was before United States Commissioner Hoyne fieslonhy, charged with \'iuhtini the Internal evenue laws, by compounding liquors without peying the tax. Ho waived an examination, and waa held in £1,000 baul for trinl. The store of Antonio Garcia, in the vicinity of the Union Park Police Station, was entered by three boys on SBaturdey afternoor, two of whom seized and held the young lad who was left in charge, while the third went through the money drawer and shelves. About 818 worth of stuff 'was carried off. No arrests were made. Persons who are in the habit of leaving goods outside their stores late in the evening should be careful to keeg an eéd upon them, as there are a number of boys about the city who make & ractice of stealing such property. The stores 08. 113 and 163 Twenty-second street were Tobbed in this manner on Saturdsy evening. A Canadian named John Gibeau, purchased & ¢ gnide " watch at the auction shop of Liken’s, on Canal trect, yestordsy afternoon. He paid 817 for it, and ascertaining that it was worth only €5, complained to the Mayor. His Honor gave him o note to Likens, and as he did not return to the office, it is presumed his ‘money was refunded. Some ides of. the extent to which asafcetida is being used in the treatment of the treatment of tho epizootic may be gained from the fact that one of ourdrug houses (Fuller & Faller) has gold three tons of this article since the disease first made its appearance in the West. Ordina- 1ily 5 single ton would supply the wants of their customers & whole year. The price has ad- vanced from 50 centé per ponnd to $2. Yesteraay forenoon, while attempting to stop 8 runaway team attached to_a heavy truck wag- on, Officer Sanders, of the First Precinct Police Station, was thrown into a deep hole in LaSalle street, between Aladison and Monros streets, and his right hand was 8o severely injured that he will be unsble to attend to “duty for some days. There are ten chances to one that the Board will curtail his pay for lost time. The Mayor received a letter, yesterday, from J. 8. Morgan, a banker of London, Eng] andLin which he was informed that Mr. Morgan had £1,370 158 2d.in his possession, which Was subject to His Honor's order. The moncy is the romainder of the sum subscribed for the re- lLief of the sufferers by the fire. Birmingham contributes £64 118 11d; Southampton, £93 263, the balance having been received by the late Lord Mayor of London from several sources. . George Driver was arraigned before Judge Rogers, yesterdsy afternoon, on the charge of murdering his wife. In repiito & question by the Court as to whether he had yot procured counsel for his_defence, Driver siated that he had but §50 with which to pay & luwyer, and stated that he had not engaged s legal adviser. He was notified to secare counsel by this after- noon, or, in case of his inability to do so, to gend word to the Court, who would appoint counsel for him. Btate’s Attorney Ree m&“e notice that the cese would come up for trial on Monday next, in the Criminal Court. The 500 coonsking found in the possession of Thomes Johnson by Detective ’.l‘in-eu were claimed, yesberdn{ by Messrs. L. L. & W. Mills, of No. 476 West Adems street, from whom 700 skins and a horse and_buggy were stolen on. the 18th of last May. The horse and buggy were found next morning, and 200 of the skins were recovered by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, and & man named Slawson was arrested for cumplicijfi in the theft. He is now awaiting trial, and doubtless be sccompanied to the Penitentiary by Johnson. The manner in which Tyrrell worked up this case entitles him to great credit from his superiors. An unkown man, who wag to work on the roof of the new depot of the Mil- waukee & St. Paul Railroad Company, en North Halsted street, near Carroll, fell to the gound, yosterday aftarmoon, and_ vas instantly illed. He alighted among s pile of stones, and his skull was crushed. A friend of the man took the body to a boarding house on Milwaukes ave- .nue, where deceased 'i;ived, The deceased was o German, and leaves 5 wife and family, who do not reside in this city. Alittle boy, named John Kernen, was run over by a train of cars at the corner of Kinzie and Robey streets, yesterday afternoon, and fatally injured. He jumped -off a train, and while standing on the track, another train, which he did not see, came along, and one of the cars strack him and knocked him down. The wheels passed over his legs, amputating them, one near the hip and the other just above tho knee. The 12d was taken to his home No. 872 Fulton street. and the physician who attended to him thi b et o to him thinks he At half-past 1 o'clock yesterday morni, Henry Moore, a_broker, emplosed at Tora West Randolph street, was accidentally shot by Policeman Smith, of Hamlin's force. Smith hay been shooting st a target or at rats, and while :uxmtrid neé; h!;xs xsvfiulvarl tdod'seeh if any of the { Dot exploded, the weapon sud- denly vgst‘.huged- The ball entered the abdo- men of Moore, Who was_about three feet from Smith, and facing him, Dr, Fleming was called in, but could not find the bullet. Moore died last last, uvam?gdfrcn:l \‘.h‘:ififienta of the wound. Smith was arrested, an remain in 1Y Teleased by the Coroner. iy sa ‘Wilhelmene Ensfeldt reported to , yesterday that she had lost hcrtm:!?: g;{ig contained §1,000 worth of wearing spparel. Rhe arrived in this city the other evening, and tein ‘unsacquainted, she accepted the offer of a ¢« mg gnd gontloma,” wie promised. to secure s | boarding house. Aftér remaining whure gp e wag conducted over night, her trunks being 0 o posited there, sho sterted out to hunt a boweg. ing place. She concluded to engage boawiiat No. 418 South Clark street, but, .flmg 5 re- tum for her trunks, c%ng not' find the b onse ‘where she slept. ICers are em i) to find it for her. © Aeavasig Buperintendent Washburn was overheax. terday, directing one of hin Captsing not (s e any attention to the decision of Justice Banyonin the matter of playing billiards on Sunday. Read-~ ers of Tex TRIBUNE will remember that, in the case of the city against Haight, mprie& or of a billiard saloon under the Everatt Hounse, on West Madison street, who was tried for viola'ting the ordinance prohibitin%the playing of games of chance on Sunday, Justice g:;:yon discharged the accused on the ground that billiards was not & game of chance, but one of skill. %he Super- intendent, it appears, has been fuvnirshed with a dissenting opinion by the regula:ly constituted 1aw officers of the city, and he therefore directs that the proprietors of all billiard ealoons found doing business on Sundzy shall be arrested and brought before the Police Court in the manner prescribed by the ordinance. A yuun'i man in the employ-of Field, Leiter & Co. was the victim of an oufrage the other day, which needs the attention of the Board of Police. He entered o saloon on_State street, near Six- teenth, to get = glass of beer, and, while drink- ing, two policemen came in and arrested him for vagrancy. Ho was locked up in & station house for two_dsys and nights, and then released, having had no trial or opportunity to show who he was. Fearing that he might loose his gitnation, he has said nothing about tho occurrence. The saloon keeper asserts that the policemen were an, athim because he would not give them a keg of beer on Thanksgiving Day, and that they en- tered his place, and arrested the youth to * get even” with him. 8t. Clair Sutherland will far~ nish the Police Commissioners with farther in- formation, if they desire it. The death of John Strickler, engineer of the steamer William James, an account of the at- tmd.mg;m‘cnmstmces of which was given in yesterday’s TRIBUNE, Was occasioned by hydro~ phobia. “The physicians called in for consulta- tion, it appears, did not dissgree as to the cause of death. They concluded that, if the fact could he established that the patient had been bitten :{ a rabid dog within the past year, the case would be 2 typical one of hyt phobia. Their doubt was removed a few moments after Strickler died, his sister stating that, in May last, her brother was bitten on the hand by a pet dog, blood being drawn, and that the dog, which was unwell at the time, died goon afterin a fit. This correction is cheerfully made, 88 injustice was done to Dr. Clark, the :lt:ending physician, and the other medical gen- emen. C——- A PERSONAL. A. H. Worthen, Btate Geologist, is visiting in the city. Lieutenant James Allen, U. 8. N., was at the Gardner yesterday. GColonel J. B. Willard, U. 8. A., is quartered at the Tremont. Louis A. McCreary, of the Russell House office, Detroit, is sojourning at the Tremont. Colonel A. B. Kirtland, Washington, D. C., partook of the hospitrlitiés of the ‘Tremont yés- terday. g Judge H. F. Crane, of Texas, was in the city yesterday, en route East. Hon. Clark R. Griggs, Vice President of the Indianapolis, Bioomington & Western Railroad, is at the Tremont. As near g their names can be dec Bazuig, N. Bazuig, and A. B. Japan, aro at the Shermen. AMr. E. P. Ripley, of Boston, who is the Gen- eral Eastern Agent for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, is at the Tremont. r. C. H. Hudson, recently appointed Gen- eral Superintendent of the Chicago, Dubugue & Minnesota Railroad, is in the city. M. O. Walker, Esq., is very ill. He fell into avault near his residence on Ellis svenue, & few days ago, and has been in bed ever since. Samuel W. Scott, coluredl wis swornin as beilif of Judge Williams’ Court yesterday. George Walker will discharge the same duties in Judge Tree's Court. W. C. Clelland, Esq., of the Fort Wayne Road, has deserted his office, and gone to a colder climate, in the vicinity of St. Paul, where he will remain & few days. Captain Clayton Hale, U. 8. A., arrived at the Tremont yesterday. He is detailed from the Re- cruiting Department at Washington to recruit fl')tey depleted energies of certain officers in thig city. The following are at the Tremont: B. P, Hin- man, Conn.; B. W. Allen, New York; E. P. Ripley, Boston; Captsin C. H. Thompson, Mur- Ty Livingston, New York; CaptainJohn Walker, San Francisco; R. W. Sleese, New York; A. H, Hollister, Wisconsin. The funeral service over the remains of the late Mr. George A. Bacon, who was _killed in the railroad sccident at Nulton, Pa., will be held 8t 11 o’clock this morning at the First Presby- terian Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Tvwenty-first street. The following are at thaBriifIga: A. M. Brain- ard, Jackeonville ; T. H. Challenger, Philadel- phis; James Reid, Buffalo; James Forsyth, New York; P. A. Bonnett, Paris,. Ky.; J. S Waterman, Sycamore, IIL.; James Sawyer, Bos- ton; B. May, Jamaica_Pleins, Dlass.; N. Bott, Albany; J.” Marvin, St. Paul; J. J. Shields, New York, The follawing prominent names_eppeared on the register at the Gardner yesterday: John T. Walker, New York; B. K. Miller, Milwaukee; B. W. Fisher, Philadelphia; G. H Grou, L. H. Howard, St, Paul; Frank Baker, Marehfield, hered, B lores, from Conn.; ' Walter Vail, Michigan City; R. B. Lotbain, Lincoln, I; D W. Asers, Sholdon, IL; G.B:Adams, SiltLeke; D. L. Kelley, Wis.; Walter Drako, Montreal; W. J. McKinny, Cleveland, The followin, %ent!emsnm at the Sherman: D. C. Cook, Toledo, Obio; J. W. Cary, Milwau- kee; Chas. Babson, Jr. Boston; 7. J. Van Nest, New York; Wm. Mitchell, Winona; P. D, Can’ men, Bt Louis; B. J. Dix, Tuscola; H. H. Gile#, Mndison; A. E. Holmes, Green Day; T. J. Masters, Salt Lake; E.D. Iirooks, Philadel- phin; T, P, Shipson, St.Paul; H. Dickinson, Springfieid, Mass, Destruction of Property in Varlous Localities—Atiempted Incendiarism in Boston, LANCASTER, Pa., Dec. 9.—On Fridey, at Eliza- ‘bethtovm, in this county, the cabinet warerooms of William Bartol, the dwelling house saddle manufaciory, and restaurant of Levi W. Har- mony, and the dwelling house of Mrs. Mary Harmony were_destroyed by fire. Loss about $10,000 ; partially insured. JANESVILLE, Wis., Dec. %.—A fire at Harvard, 1L, last week, destroyed Fisk's grocery store, his’ dwelling house and_contents, two other atores, one harness shop, Mrs. mthi)u.n;_‘a ‘milli- nery shop and dwelling bause. The loss'is about $10,000; no insurance. 3 ‘EosToy, Dec. 9.—On Saturdsy night, the pri- vate watchman at the Howard Theatra discov- éred two men, who are supposed tobe incen- diaries, who refused to lesve. He clubbed one of them, The other fired a mtol, the shot pen- etrating the rim of the watcgmm ‘shat. Onthe stairway was fonnd a can of burning-fluid, with which jt_1s supposed that they intended to fire the building. Orraws, Ont., Dec, 9.—A fire, last night, de- stroyed Hadder's clohhm% store and nine or ten other stores adjoining. Loas, $40,000. Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune. Eansas Crxx, Mo., Dec, 9.—The Phenix flour- ing mills, ownéd by Wilhite, Oldham & Co., were totally destroyed by fire on Saturdsy night’; loss about $20,000. The horses of the Fire Depart- ment being all sick, but one of the es were able to render any service, This was the oldest established in the city. The citizens aré organizing companies of men to draw engines and hose carts in cases of fire. N ‘TrrUsvILLE, Pa., Dec. 9, Tidiout special to stroye dby fir b o - insurrince. The dwelling Owrans i Iow v /a3 aiso completely destrived. Togteed gor $2500. Two t: “fall of ol vero in tloge proge SPRINGFIELD. 'The New State Eousc—Railrond We= Pports—Serious Illness of the Hon. ©. Hi. Miner—Preparing for the Ses- sion. Spectal Despatch to The Chicago Tribune, BrrNerizip, L, Dec. 9.—The work,on the new* State House is well nnder way, mach too far :advanced to admit of any attack upon it on the appropriation which will be asked thir wintar to complete it. With the necessary < propriation the building can be completed occupancy by the Legislature which mee! January, 1875. The total amount of moaep pended by the Commissioners in the construct. of it up to last Saturday,Dec. 7, is 91,637,212 The work on the building is half done, and 1~ than hslf of the entire amount of mataris all kinds needed on the building is bought ! nid for out of tho above amount. Ml iquinard, architect of the building, starts- morrow for Eurcpe, on a professional trip 0= servation, in connection with the buildingb- will be abaent several months. -ad In res)i;msa to telegrams sent out to railroads by the Railroad and Warehonssions ‘igsioners at their lato session in this - Com- 1olluwinixonds have sent in the desired ty, the Plymonth, Kankakeo & Pacific; Rockfceports: Island & §t, Louis; Nilinois Céntral; 1, Bock cago, Rock Island & Pacific. Those yet 4 Chi~ ing have smswered by telegraph that thasin- ports will be sent in at once. T TR The Hon. (), H. Miner, Iate Auditor of,_ . Accounts for the State of Ilinois, . Public lying dangerously ill at hisresidence in ae been since Saturday last, of an acute attack oli# Cit¥, matory rheumetism. His life was alninflam- spaired of Saturdsy and Sunday nights, o8t de- Eneng‘finenfis were gratified to learn to-chut bis gerons symptoms hed almost givey that ) WaYy and his recovery is now hoped for. orEnp, DL, Dec. 11—The work o grepmtmn to get inreadiness tte Senate Cht_“_ oer and the Hall of tho House of Represeni’~ tives for the use of the Twenty-eighth Genaral Asgembly, began this morning. The House will not be 8o crowded this winter 18 it was last, as. there will be twenty-four less membsrs mow * than then. There were onoe hunired and seven- ty-seven in the last House, and tiere will be but one hundred and fifty-thres in the Twenty-~ eighth Goneral Assembly. It is thought the seata can be arrenged 80 a3t give ample room. The Bar of this city will yroduce the cele- ‘brated *Bardell vs. Pickwick” casa on Thurg~ day night of this week for the benefit of the Home of the Friendless. e 5 S P FEARFUL ACCIDENT. A Scaffold Gives Way and Eight Mer: Precipated Eighty Feet to the Ground —Four Instantly Killed. CiNcryNATI, Dec. 9.—At 2:20 this afi the seaffolding _at the new addition br 'téii"g’“:z : ht work- ing four the Water Works fell, carryhg down of them and wounding four sthers. The scaffold men & distance of nesrlyeigity feet, ki was on three wooden {russes, each sixty feet in length, for the purpose of putting up wrought-iron trusses for the ~ roof of the bnilding. The gcaffold trusses extended clear across_ the buildings, and -their extremities rested in the upper story win- dows of the new structure w'm_g is extraordi- marily strong. The scaffold vas erected by & sub-contractor, who built the roof for the con- 4ractor, Mr. R. T. Scowder. The engineer in charge of the buildmf says herepeatedly noti- fied the contractor and sub-coriractor thst the £caffold trusses were mere martraps, and world 1ot stand the weight they wonlé be required to bear. Only this morning, he seys, ho repeated his warning to the foreman of the roofing party, and ordered his own foremm to keep off the scaffold as it might fell at eny moment. It had to bear theweight of three wrought iron_trusaes, interded for the roof. ‘The iron used was about three-eizhths of aninch thick. The bars used were numerous, forming 8 network six feet broad, with 0yenings about & foot in dismeter. Blost of the weiglt of three: iron roof trusses, weighing sevenl fons, rested on tho scaffold.” Roof-trusges and all came down in a heap together, the iror trusses_ bend-- ing asif made of tin. The men killed wers James Britt, George Hughey, Chasles Case, and. Myers. Whe w0 last named. Wero precipiteted into ten feot of water and had tc be fished out. Al vere Lilled in~ stantly. The four wounded men were 1 Costigan, Thomas Britt, John Cihill, and Baro ney Haley. Three of theso walked ont of tho Eiace where they fell. All of them are said to ve suffered fractured limbs, bu at present the exact nature of their injuries canot be ascer- - tained. 1t is thought none cf tlom are mortal, The walls of the building are ot in the least. injured. The building is very iroug, the first. four stories being of stong, and the upper two. of brick. The Coroner will hol¢ an inguest on, the bodies to-morTow. RIVER DISAST:RS. Fwo Mississippi _Steambe.ts Snage. and Senk. | Sragged Crveryyars, 0., Dec. 9.—4, Gronic i says the stcemer Fronk T Tfl?‘, nfififiefifiug the Memphis Packet Companystrack a log op, posite Slm Island, and Sankin fiva feet of water, lnat night, She had a c:go of 400 bales of cotton. She is owned by Cptain Simms and James Bennett, of Nashvillo; wued at $15,000; mm for S¥,000. H m18, Tenn., Deo. 9.—1 despatch from Duvall's BIoff says} Tho stceatoat Thomas . Allen, hence for Jacksonport stvick a snag at 9 o'cloclk lagt night, five mile¢ abve there, and. sunk to her hurricane deck. ‘he second cook end pastry cook were lost; thet names are un~ known. ~Captsin Ashford.ier commander, thinks ghe can be raised. Ty wrecker Eckert has been sent for. The Alleaf cargo was valued at about 50,000, and -coneistd_of supplies for the Cairo & Fulton Reilrcad, ad plantation sup— plies, The latter are coveredyy insurance in lo~ cal offices Lere; tho formeiin Fastern ofices.. The boat was valued at 31,00, and was owned. by the Memphis & Arkanes Packet Company:. @ was uninsured. * FORT WAYNE. Arrest of o Suppesed Chicago Fewelry Thict-To Vote f« Railroad Aid— Murder Trial. Special Despateh to The “hicago Tribrme, ForT. WaTSE, Ind., Iec 9.—Marshal Kelley arrested & man named Brgon suspicion of be- ing the $25,000 watch tidf of Chicigo. Berg was trying to sell waichemrswering the descrip— tion of stolen property iva 1aloon. He is in cus- tody awaiting identificatia. -Allen County votes, io-morrow, upon the question of taking 3200,00 stock in the Conti~ nental Railroad, and, 8100000 in the Detroit, Fort Wayne & St. Louis Railrad, two projected lines e tial of Fredick he trial of Frederick Eeiber for the murder of his wife has been poetpned until Wednesday. Heiber shot the doceased some few weeks since while intoxicated. INHUMANITY. IHow the Crew of a Wrecked Steame ship Were Treated. New Yomg, Dec, 9.—Details of tin loss of the steamship Guatemala shows_thet wien the ship was wrecked the craw. applied to ths Leper In- diane, who declined to assist them, when Cap~ tain Douglas and 2 few detcrmined men seized their chief, and made him farnish provisions and guide them to Salina Cruz, noar Oaxeca. Tho American Consular Agent at Ouxacs de- clined siding Captain Douglas and his destitate crew and passengers, and but for theefforts of 8 private citizen named Cremon they vould bave suffered extremely. Railrond News. New Yorx, Dec. 9.—The following Sirectors of the Atlsntic & Great Westorn Railvay Come any were ohosen to-dsy : George B. dl:Clelisn, . W. McFarland, Lloyd Aspmwall, A. S Howitt, Lawrence Vells, Edward Cooper, Jimes B. Hodgskin, James H. Fay, all of New York; ! Goorgo B Wright, John od, i E; Persons, and Heuben Hitchcoek, of Cleveland; end G. Roes, of Condenport. Philadelphia Cattle Market. Prmapereams. Dec, 9.—~Brzves—Market very dull this week, and 12 favor of buyers. Extra Pennsyivania 2nd Westérn sceers, T@8c; fair to good, 6@6XC3 common, 41¢@5%4c. . SEzEP—Dull At 434@0}. = Hocs—Dall and lower; $5.15@6.25. Bales: 3000 beeves, 12,000 sheep, 5.000 hogs. General O. C. Maxwell, who commitied sui- cide last Thursday ovening, st Dayton, Ohio, was buried yesterdsy, The funeral ceremonies were under the direction of the Knights Tem- plar, of whom he was one. The remains were the Courier says the new Methodist Episcopal Church st thatDlece Was elmost entirelvde- 1 Tollowed to the grave by a yery large procesalon of griends snd relativesm