Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1872, Page 4

fHE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, .DECEMBER 20, 1872. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TERS OF SUBSCRIPTION (PATABLE IN Anu.\'c;), o ‘Daily, by roail, $12.00| Sunday, .5 5 Veoids &00| sy 2.00 Parte of o year ot the same rate. To prevent delay and mistakes, bo sure and givo Post Ofce zddress in fall, including State end County. Remittances may be made cither by draft, express, Post Ofice order, orin registered letters, at our: risk. TEas 7o GiIx srmacumEDS. < ¥, i , Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Pef deivered, 0%y Reiied: 3 conta por weck: THE TRIBUNI ANY, Addn ot Madison 484 Dearborn-ats., Chicago, 1l TRIBUNE Brench Offics, No. 469 Wabash-av., in the Bookstoro of Messrs. Cobb, Andrews & Co., whers adrertisements and subscriptions will bo received, aud will havo the same attention as if loft at the Main Osice. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE—Proceodings in Congress—Misoollsnoous —YWashington News. BECONDPAGE—St. Joo: A Winter Revlew of the Grest " Frait Reglon—Kansas: Transactions of the State Horticultural Socicty—The Storm and the Sailors: Tho Stcamer Atlentic Frozon upin thoSt. Mas's River~Wind and Waro in Denmark: Thrilling In- cldents of the Recont Inundations—Nebraska Lot- ter: Land and Immigration Matters—How Mr. Groeles Died—Porsonal Ttoms. TTHIRD PAGE—The State Insursnce Investigation— Strugele with a Lunatio—Tho Law Courts—Politi- oal Notes and Opinions—Adrertisements. SOURTH PAGE—Editorials—Convortibility of Bonds b TInto Greenbacks—Tho Claims Against Mexico—The Simmons Batchors—A Sequel to the Dismond Swin- dle—Curreat News Items. FIFTH PAGE—Light for the Million; How a Fond du Las Gentleman Proposes to Illuminate Chicago—Dedica- tion of a New 0dd Fellows' Hall—Personal Items. BISTH PAGE—Monstary and Commercial-] ‘Time Tablo. SEVENTH PAGE-New Publications—Railrosd Bulld- ing in Michigan—Pinchback : History of a Political Magnate in Lonisians—General News Items—Small ‘Advertisements : Real Estate, For Sale, To Rent; Wantcd, Boarding, Lodgiog, Ete. £IGHTH PAGE—Forclgn, Political, and Misccellane- ous Telegrams. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. er than othermatter, and there will be no inter- ference with the present .:rnte! of Press Associa~ tions if these are lower than the statutory tariff. The Government reserves the right to annul the franchise for cause. The Chicago produce markets were rather more active yesterday, with considerable varia- tions in prices. Mess pork was dull and easier, closing at $11.50@11.62}4 cash, snd $11.85@ 11.8734 seller March. Lard was very active at 5@10c per 1001bs decline, at $7.00 cash, and $7.40 seller March. Meats weremore active, and easier, at 3%¢c for shonlders, 53¢c for short 1ibs, 5o for ehort clear, and T @75e for green hams. Dressed hogs were in fair demand, but 20@250 per 100 Ibs lower, closing ab £4.80. Highwines were dull and easier, at 91o. Flour was quiet and & shade ensier. Wheat was more ective, and firmer, closing strong at $1.14}¢ cash, and $1.147¢ seller January. Corn was more active, ‘but 3{c lower, cloging dull at 3034c cash, and 303{¢ seller January. Qats were dull and X{o lower, closing at 23%{c. Rye was active, and 3{@lo higher, closing at 6414c cash, and 65c seller Jan- uary. Barley was quiet; No. 2was stronger at 63@63%4c cash, and 64340 seller January; No. 8 +was dull and steady st 49@49%c. Live hogs were in oxcessive supply and prices were again lower, receding to $3.50@3.70. Cattle and sheep remdin quiet at about former rates. The counties of Wisconsin which gome fifteen years ago voted aid bonds to railroads and after- wards were unsble to paythem, are now ex- periencing the severe requirements of the law. The authorities of Yowa County, and of several A'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison streot, botween State 12d Dearborn. Engagement of Miss Jane Coombs. “The Stranger.” HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph etreet, be- tiwcea Clark and LoSalle. New Comedy Company. “*Fun.” Operatio Bagatello. AIEEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenus, corner of Con Evess streot. Engsgement of Lawrence Barrott. “* Julius Cesar." ACADEMY OF MUSIC— Halsted street, south of “Aladison. The Lydia Thompson Troupe. **Lusline.” MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroo street, between State and Dearborn, Arlington, Cotton & Eemble's Alinstrel and Burlesque Troupe. GLOBE THEATRE—Desplaines straet, between Aadl “son and Washington. The Lelis Ellis Ballad Opera Com- o35, NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE—Clintonstreet, between \"“Washington and Randolph. Morlscehi Troupe. ‘‘ The Seout.” : BUSINESS NOTICES. ©. 0. COLLINS, BOYS' OLOTHING, 181 AND 185 CLARK-ST. STAFIC LIQUID PEPSIN, THE MOST NATO- fifigmel‘fl!, Irlég e%‘ecfi\"u ?mmm.gg‘tuflil l:fllalg‘]z{‘ngl 4 by & disor or weak st fally - S huY Pact of sesterdas’s Tribune, Intercsting to ev- ey family WATCH NO, ©0,0, BTEM WINDER, MANU- 2actured by United Ststes Watch Co. (u%is-. Wales 2 Co), , Na J., has been carried by me for four Eionths; its total variation from mean time belng seven ZFoconds' per_month. 5.3f, BEAED, firm of Beards & ;Cummings, 125 Front-st., N. ¥. TiE HARVEST OF THE HEAD.—WHEN THE omb acts as a rake, bringing away roll of perted ‘overy time It paseos through the halr, baldness wonldsoon Feinevitable. But evenin this case, forlorn &8 it may 0 loss repatred. up on the denaded places. il the damag 3y Qactior onuntil the ly repalred, e e o e reabsad il never “wither or fall out as long 28 the vif ‘application is segularly contiaaed The Chivags Teibune, Friday Morning, December 20, 1872 The Boston Board of Aldermen have given to the act of the Legislature aunthorizing Boston fo fssne §20,000,000 of fire bonds the approval seceseary to make the issme legal. The Seine has now overflowed its banks, Paris ¥ under water in theneighborhood of the qusys, 2nd its streets in that quarter are navigated by bosts. Floods are'also reported to be devastat- jug Belgium, and to bave inundated Ghent, +hich Les several feet of water ir its streets, bill is pending before the Legislature of Jndiana providing that, whenever an accused parson is acquitted upon the plea of temporary insanity, the Court ehall commit him to a luna~ 1ic asylum for the same number of years that he would have been confined in the State's Prison hed he been convicted. In cases of murder, this svould be for life. This will, if it become the law, put an end to that kind of insanity which 2Zzsts only just long enough to commit murder. Air. Havemeyer, tho Mayor-elect of New York City, has indicated to a rep orter some of the changes which he will suggest in his messsge #or the Municipel Government to be cstablished under & new charter. The principal points hich he makes are, first, that the Mayor should be vested with the power of removal for cause ; =nd, second, that the number of Commissioners & the head of the several Departments should ‘be reduced, and, in every case where it is practi- eable, there should be but one hesd toa De- purtment. No people bave suffered so much as 1o people of New York from the Departmental towns in that county, were bronght before Judge Drummond, of the United States District Court, in Milwaukee, & fow days ago, charged with con- tempt, in not having levied the tax for the pay- ‘ment of judgments on the bonds, and not having placed the tax-warrant in the hands of the Treas- urer for collection, as previously ordered by tho Court. The officers answered that they had levied the tax, but that the Treasurer had been unsble to give an additional security bond, as re- quired by the Court. To this the Court answer- od, that the Treasurer having failed to give the required bond, tho office should have been declared vacant, and another person appointed. If no person could be found to give bond as ‘Fremsurer, then the tax-list should have been given to the Bheriff. For failure in their duty, the Court imposed a fine of §100 on each of the officers. Public opinion is against psying the tax, and itis doubtful whether any officer can be found who will seek to enforce its collection. In passing the Deficiency Appropriation bill, yesterday, the House added an amendment for- bidding the Board of Public Works of the Dis- trict of Columbia to involve the TUnited States in any further lisbilities beyond the appropria- tionsof the last session. One hundred thou- sand dollars was appropriated for the Vienna Exposition, and the appointment was author- ized of twelve American artisens to visit the Exposition and etudy foreign industry. With regard to the celebrated greemback lock- up perpetrated last year by the Tenth National Bank of New York, the Banking Committee reported that the Directors meant to create a panic by what they did, and that they sncceeded so far a3 to pro- duce s tightness of the money market throughont the country. They recommend no sction against the bank, but, to prevent such financial corners in the future, they offer & bill which imposes & fine of $10,000 upon any bank offending hereafter in this way, forfeits its charter, and imprisons the guilty officers five years. The Committee have been ordered to ascertain whether any combinations are now in existence for locking up coin or greenbacks, and in what way they may be defeated and prevented in future, It seems that we ave only beginning to find out the enormity of the msurance swindles that ‘wero practised upon the people before the Chicago fire exposed the rottenness that existed in this line of business. Itis now stated that one Insurance Company doing business in Chi- cago st tho time of the fire, snd suffering & loss of nearly £500,000, did not possess & bond or security of any kind, all its available assets hav- ing been exhausted in the payment of previous losses. Buchassets ss wero found consisted mainly of uncollected preminms, and figured ap in all less than $50,000. Of this sum, a large smount will, of course, never be collected ; and, 80 far, it is represented that not more than $21,000 has_besn gatheredin. This probably represents sll that will be collected. In that csse, the sum constitutes all thers is from which to psyup $485,000 of losses which ‘have already been proved, with sdditional claims that are yet to come. Yet this Compsany advar- tised, on Ocf, 1, 1871, that it had abouf 9500,000 assets, end it was taking all risks that could be drummed up. If the Chicago and Boston fires have accomplished nothing else, it is probable that they have crested a public opinion that will put = stop to insurance swin- dles of this kind in the future. system of Municipsl Government, with its divis- ion and shifting of responsibility. Jay Gould has surrendered $9,085,000 worth of stock, lands, and other securitics to the Erie Railway, which withdraws its suits against him. Gould may have made ihis restitution beceuse e conld not help himself, but Wall street be- lieves that he will find his account in the ‘manipulation of 200,000 shares of Ene stock sihich he has quietly gathered during the nego- tiations. With these ho may repeat the game so - guccessful in the case of Northwestern common 2 few weeks ago, or may attempt {o regain some of his lost power in the Erie Board. Gould tells $he New Yorkreporters that hereafter he expects £o be consulted in the mansgement of the road. The funds which have thus been recovered will o nsed, report 5838, in laying a third rail on the Erie track to ensble the narrow-gauge Western roads to send freight through to New York without breaking bulk, Postal telegraphy was brought befors the Benate, yesterdey, by the Post Office Committee, which reported the Hubbard bill in an amended shepe. This bill provides for the purchase of the existing telegraph lines of the country, and “ieir consolidation into a Postal Telegraph Company, which is to act as the sgent of the Post Office in the transmission of correspond- ence, and is to connect its lines with such Post Office as the Postmaster General may direct. I: msy extend its wires in any other direction iz sees fit. Itsrates are fixed bylaw at acent a word, counting address and signaturs, for each circuit of 250 miles by day, or 1,000 miles by night. Government messages have priority, and the rates for them are fixed bythe Postmaster General, Newsvaver desoatches are gent chosp- 1t is due to the public that the Committee now investigating the Credit Mobilier scandals shall no longer sit with closed doors. The charges against the parties under suspicion were made and discussed in the most open manner, and the public has a right to know, from day to day, what transpires in the investigation. The secret sessions subserve no useful purpose. The gen- tlemen, whose official conduct is under investi- gation, should demand it themselves as & matter of equity. A bulky report, noone knows in how many volumes, printed after no one knows how ‘many months, cannot answer the purpose of a well-digested report each morning in the daily papers. At present, the reporta are partly from hearssy and partly im- sgination. The reporters have mno au- thentic method of finding ont what transpires in the secret chamber, This is unjust to the parties implicated, as it may give rise to suspicions against those who are reslly innocent, and divert suspicion from those Who are really guilty. There has never been & case of alleged corruption before, in the history of the Govern- ment, which stands in such close relations to the public. It has arisen in connection with the building of a great public highway with public funds. The parties under suspicion are among the most prominent officizls in the National Ad- ministration. The charges were nct made under a bushel, but in the most public manner, and the public has a clear right to know every word of the testimony, as it progresses from day to dsy. Let the doors be opened. The application of the rule of promotion to the vacant Postmaster's office in the City of Philadelphia led & good many people tobelieve that the principles of Civil Service Reform wonld henceforth be rieidlv enforced by Gen- eral Grant's Administration. It is true that there were some doubters, Among them wasa writer in the Nation, who explained the action taken in that case by alleging that Mr. Fair- man, the Assistant Postmaster, who succeed- ed the retiring official, was the resl choice of Bimon Cameron, and was also a personal friend of General Grant’s. Certain Congressmen, who would have been seriously alarmed if they had believed this to be a practical insuguration of the new Civil Bervice system, maintained a pretty confident air, and declared that the rules would be enforced in such ceses a8 ‘conformed to the preferences of the Administration, and in no others. The Chicago Post Office is likely to prove that this opinion was correct. There is no longer any doubt that General McArthur will be Colonel Eastman’s successor. It is not known that Gen- eral McArthur has ever had any special expe- rience in postal service. On the other hand, there i8 no other Post Officein the country where the rule of promotion conld have been applied with 8o much justice, and so great 2 promiso of good results, as in the Chicago Post Office. It is & fact well known to the Chicago public, and presumably familiar to the- postal authorities, that Mr. Squires, the Assistant Postmaster in this city, is one of the most efficient officers in the service, and has had practical control of the Chicago Post Office, one of the most important in the country, for several years. Itis, perhaps, proper to ask why the rule of promotion, 8o rigidly inaugarated in the case of the Philadel- ' phia vacancy, should bo ignored in Chicago. CONVERTIBILITY OF BONDS INTO GREEN= BACES. Among the many schemes for improving the currency, which appear and dissppear Wwith be- wildering rapidity, the following seems to us to be freer from objections, and more certain to produce what is called ** elasticity of the curren- cy,” than any other. The main ides embodied in it, viz., the exchange of United States bonds for greenbacks, and the re-exchange of green- backs for bonds, is not new. The mode of effecting the proposed exchange has been skotched by o banker in this city in the follow- ing terms: - Provide by act of Congress: To permit any holder of $10,000, or multiples thereof, in uny of the gcld- ‘bearing bonds of the United States, to retire the same temporarily, at the Sub-Treasuries or designated de- positories in New York, San Franclsco, New Orleans, or Chicogo, under regulations to be made by the Sec- retary of the Treasury, and recelve an smount of United States legal-tender notes equal to the face of sald bonds temporarily retired; and upon presenta- tion of a like sum in United States notea st the place where said bonda were temporarily retired,to receivethe said bonds, or their equivalent in kind, less the inter- est which would have accrued during the time that the said Uonds were temporarily retired. Tho converter or reverter of bonds as foresaid, to adjust by psyment in gold the value of the current interest at the time of conversion and withdravwal, whether the same bo rep- resented by coupons or otherwise, as may be provided by regultions established by the Becretary of the Treasury ; and provide, further, that the Secretory of the Treasury bo required to hold in reserve United States legal-tender notes to the smount of forty mill 1ons of dollars (§40,000,000), to be used for the purpose of temporarily retiring United States bonds as afore- 8ald, but the said notes shall not e used for any other purpose, nor ehall the whole amount of United States Jegal-tender notes, including those which may be held in reserve, and those which may st any time be held in the United States Treasury, Sub-Treasuries, and depositories, exceed four hundred millions of dollars (8400,000,000), until expresely suthorized by law, There are some sdditional features to this scheme which we shall notice hereafter. The principal one, viz., the convertibility of bonds into greenbacks and vice versa, has been fre- quently discussed in our columns, and we have never seen & valid objection to it. That it would be a stop to specie payments wo have no doubt, since it would jimpart to the greenbacks the value of an interest-bearing bond. That the Government, 8o long as it refuses to redeem its demand notes in coin, is morally bound to offer an interest-bearing obligation for them, no one can deny. The impression smong business men is, thatin times of great financial stringenoy like tho present, when & higher rate of interest than the Government pays is obtainable for the ‘use of money, the holders of bonds would gladly convert them into greenbacks if essured “that they could get the bonds again at the same price 8t which they were surrendered. And we think this impression is correct. THE CLAIMS AGAINST MEXICO. ‘We publighed the otherday the substance of the report of the Commission who have been investi~ gating thoclaims for alleged damages by Mexicans on the Rio Grande. That report took the evidence in cases of claims for $27,859,363.97. This was the aggregate of only the claims they had time to investigate. That there may be no mistake on thissubject, we give the Commissioners’ own statement of the territorial ares upon which the outrages covered by these claims took place. They say: The Rio Grande frontier waa traversed by the Com- ‘migaioners from Point Tsatel to Rio Grande City, per- sonal exsmination of the localities of the reported out~ rages thus being made. * * ¢ The work performed by the Gommissioners has been 2 careful and thorongh examination of the cattlé steal- ing disorders and other depredations on the Lower Rio Grande, and on the tract lying between that part of the boundary line and the Nueces River, At the time these Commissioners were in that country meking their investigations, a citizen of this State, Mr, H. R. Enoch, editor of the Rockford Journal, then holding an official position in the service of the Treasury Department, was also there mak- ing an investigation, and, his attention being called to this report of the Commissioners, he ‘has made a statement which bears upon its face guch truth as to demolish nearly the whole fabric of damages claimed by the Commission- ers. He says that any report that $30,000,000, or any sum approaching that amount, has been stolen from these frontier counties of Texas, is o “stupondous humbug and studied effort to deceive the Ameriosn people.” He states that he spent several months in this very district, and eaw nothing, either in wealth of agriculture or vastness of herds of cattle, tolead to tho belief that there could be any considerable proporty stolen from the rancheros in those counties, The whole district is 275 miles long by from 40 t0 60 miles wide, and the aggregate population of the five counties is 21,648, of which 6,000 is in the City of Brownsville. From Point Isabel to Brownsville, the country *is a poor, miserable, sandy, and clayey one, producing prickly pear and chaparal in abundance, but too poor to raise grain of any kind.” On the river bottoms a few acres are cultivated by squalid Mexicans, who live in miserable jackels, or mud-plastered hovels, Inthe whole distanco there is nota well, spring, or rivulet g¢ which man or beast could drink, nor didhe see any cattle. From Brownsville, up the river, the soil is a thin clay; on the river bottoms, eome corn igraised; but all along he saw sacks of corn and barrels of flour brended as coming from Illinois and Missouri. Eighty miles sabove Brownsville is the Townof Edinburg, a callection of soma thirly huts, containing 200 inhabitants, all Mexican rancheros, either ignorant of English or refusing to speak it. Rio Grande City, or Ringgold Barracks, is 60 miles further up stream, has 250 populstion, composed of & few Yankees who ‘have married Mexican women owning large land claims, and a few Jows and Mexicans. Opposite this town, but five miles back from the river, is the Mexican city of Camargo. The road throngh this country passes alternately through forests of stunted mesquit, thickets of prickly chaparal, andlong stretches of plate cactus, which grows 12 feet high. For the entire distance from Browns- ville to Roma, 165 miles, he met but one Ameri- can family, and these were mulattoes from North Carolina. All others were the descendanta of the old Mexicans. The people live in & condition of filthand poverty. Their houses are the mud-plas- tored jackels, Their agricultural implements, food, and dress are thus described : Thelr plows are a forked tree, with one of the prongs cut short, and pointed with a pleco of iron, tho other Prong serving a8 a beam or tongue; thisis drawn by oxen who are yoked together by laying & straight stick on the heads of the animals directly behind the horns, and laching it to them with rawhide thongs, In this way all the oxen in that country are compelled to do service, the common Yankee ox yoke being unknown. Their means of transportation are carts drawn by from six to twelve oxen, yoked a8 we have deacribed ; the wheels of these have ponderous hubs, huge spokes, and felloes four or five inches thick, usually wound firmly with green raw-hide, which appears to answer the purposas quite as well a8 iron tires, ‘The diet of these people is cheap and frugal; beef, they have plenty of ; this ia preserved by slaughtering the nnimal and cutting the fleshy parts into long, thin strips or strings ; theso are Jooped on poles and hung in the open air, where,in the hot weather, it soon @ries, Itis s rare thing for meat in this climate to be- come {ainted before it is dried. As itis wanted for use, these strips are cut into pleces and boiled, some~ times with beans, but generally alone, Tho climate being very warm, but little clothing is required. The home dress of the ranchero is simple, We saw men engaged sbout their huts at work, dressed in & costume as follows: Sandals to protect their feet; pants of some coarss material strapped about their walst; naked from the waist up, and the head protected bya huge sombrero with brim twelve to fourteen inches wide. Tho women were dressed in but little bettertaste, barefooted, a chemise of coarse cotton cloth buttoned about the throat, and askirt of gay high-colored calico fastened abont the ‘waist, constitute their apparel. It was not unusual to geqchildren of both sexes, from1 to 10 years of age, Tunning about nude. If awsy from home or travelling on journeys, the men wear boota or shoes, with larga spurs sttached, shirts of fantastic and gaady colors, and coats of coarse cloth, and the women wind about their heads and thests long shawls which conceal the shoulders, chest, head, and face, with the exception of the fore- head and eyes. ‘These are the American citizens who have, ac- cording to the Commissioners, been robbed of twenty-seven and a half millions of dollars by the Mexicans. Mr. Enoch continued his journey to Carizo, 200 miles by land from the mouth of the river, sndheseys: * Wedonotfinds singlo spring, rivulet, creek, or water-course of any kind emp- tying into the Rio Grande ; for the whole dis- tance the conntry was dry, arid, and unproductive, and lacking that very necessary clement to suc- cossful stock-raising, water.” The water used by tho inhabitants was carted in barrels from the river into the interior. He then extingnishes the whole thaory of the Com- missioners' report by stating that, on the area between the Rio Grande and the Nueces Rivers, whence these cattle are said tohave been stolen, there are no herds of cattle. On this point Mr. Enoch states : Thia dry, unwatered country extends from the Rio Grande eastward until you strike the waters of the Nueces River, s distance of 75 miles to 125 ‘miles, where the great stock regions of Texas are first found in passing esst, These people raise s few sheep, goats, cattle, horses, and mules, but we failed to find hero the immense herds that one usually sssociates with Texas stock ranches, He ostimates that if all the property in the five counties including the City of Brownsville and all the other cities and towns were tfaken, it would not equal in value the sum reported by the Commissioners as due to & small number of the claimants, and he thinks the report looks like & “studied effort to humbug and deceive the pablic.” We should think so. THE SIMMONS BUTCHERY. The New York Herald closes its narrative of the rocent horrible murder of Duryes, the lot- tery dealer, by Bimmons, another lottery dealer, with tho following paragraph: “He was very reticent, and refused to ssyanything with regard to the murder. He was apparently very cool, and acted 8s if nothing had happened. He was an intelligent man, and knew that henging was played ont in New York.” Thereis s warld of truth and & very pungent sarcasm contained in ‘these words. Bimmons well knew that he could murder his victim and not be punished for it with death. He knew that others had doneit before him. He knew that the Tombs was full of murderers in various stages of legel technicalities, which promise ac- quittal. S0 he finished his bloody, bratal work with as much sang froid and satis- faction as he would have finished his dinner. ‘When the murder was committed, and the mur- dered man lay in the gutter, blesding from four- teen stabs, he expressed himself as perfectly contented with the manner in which he had dono the dreadfal deed: In the Tombs, his only con- cern was that his cigars might not be of his fa~ vorite brand. The blood of his victim which was upon his head was of no gecount, but the wealthy, genteel, and inoffensive assassin ex- pressed some doubts as to whether his sparte ments would be furnished sumptuously enough to suit him. The dead body of his victim, hor~ ribly gashed and mutilated, as it ‘was carried past him in the jail, did not disconcert him at all, If he had just committed & virtuous sction he could not have manifested ‘more satisfaction, and it was a matter of ex- treme surprise to him what the bystanders had found to be excited over. The reason may be found in the fact that he is an observing man, and knows that hanging is played out in New York City, It will be a metter of no surprise to any one that the plea of emotional insanity is already set up. This is the disease under which the thirty other murderers in the Tombs are lsbor- ing, from the' rofined Btokes down to the latest brutal beast who has lived all his life in the kennel, All of them are emotionally insane, and, consequently, their thirty victims, murdered with cause or without cause, in liquor or out of liguor, for money or for revenge, will probably eleep on until doomsdsy without being avenged,—the victims of an emo- tional insznity which was only of sufficient du- ration to insure their deaths, and accommodate the brutel instinct of the murderers. Simmons' emotional insanity was of & very peculiar kind. His victim was o men of slight build ; he himselt a powerfally built man, and of grest muscular strength. At the very first attack he gained the advantage, threw Duryes down, and, holding him down, beet him until he was helpless and begged for mercy. But S8immons was emotion- ally insane and drew his bowie knife, which, or gome other weapon, these emotionally insane cowards ususlly carry, Durvea begged for his life. “For mercy's sake,” cried Duryee, trying to ward off the blow,, “don’t kill me!” ¢ Eill you!” Simmons sanswered, “I'd kill you a dozen fimes it I could!” The knife descended over and over again, There were a few convulsions of the limbs, and then Duryea was dead. *ByJ—he's dead,” Sim- ‘mons said coolly, and drew his knife away. He was no longer emotionally iusane. An officer arrested Simmons, snd said, “Give me the knife.” “All right,” Simmons replied coolly, “you can haveit now. I don't want itany more.” He had no farther use for it, for he was no longer emotionally insane. The sudden cure was effected by the fact that ho was an observing man, an@ knew hanging was played out in New York City. He had never been insane up to the time of this butchery, which lasted only two or three minutes. His insanity commenced when he found he had thé advantage of his helpless victim, who was wesker than he, and it ended when that victim breathed his last. His recovery was instantaneous. It always is, and, upon recovering, he at once resumed his usual manner of life, asfar as his confinement wonld allow him ; was rather particulsr in the matter of cigars, ashe had always been; de- sired that his style of living should not be in- terfered with during his temporary absence from gociety, and was rather annoyed that the by~ standers, who had witnessed the butchery, should see anything remarkable init. He was &n obgerving man, and knew that hanging was played out in New York City. It would appesar, indeed, thatthe public has very little business to interfere with the pastimes of these emotion= ally insane creatures, although it is to be pre~ sumed that they will pardon the very natural curiogity of the public to know who is to be the next victim, Meanvwhile, it would be & very interesting study of the diagnosia of emotional insanity to know whether the public, a8 & whole, is liable to have it, and whether paroxysmal rage can spread {from individual cases to the whole body politic. If 8o, might not these emotionsally insane mur- derers wake up some fine morning and find the whole public in such paroxysmal rsge asto make certain the fact that hanging is not played outin New York City? One thing is morally certain: The presence of murder is due to the absence of punishment, The people have grest forbearance, but they will not always submit with patience. 1t is as sure as the shining of the sun in the henvens that, unless some agency checks this torrent of murder, s terrible dsy of retribution is coming. When that time comes, we shall hear no more of emotional insanity. The gallowsis not only a sure cure for it in the individual, but it also prevents others from having it. A BEQUEL T0 THE DIAMOND SWINDLE. Our readers are by this timo tolerably familiar with the details of the Arizons diamond swin- dle, and will remember that one Philip Arnold was the alleged discoverer of the diamond fields, and set the ball in motion by sppearing in San Francisco with numerous specimens of gems, ‘which eventually led to the sale of his discovery for a large sum, amounting to over §600,000, to some San Francisco capitalists, who organized & stock company, shortly after which it was found that the whole affair-was a swindle. Reoently, William M. Lent, of Californis, who wasre~ ported to have purchesed the discovery, with others, sued out an attachment for $350,000 against Arnold, upon the ground that this smount had been obtained from him by fraudu- lent representation. Armold, who re- sides st Elizabethtown, Eentucky, haa recontly published s statement in the Louisville Courier-Journal, which is as marvellons ag the diamond discovery was sup~ posed to be. Ho commences his statement by & flat-footed denial that he ever solda dollar's worth of property to Lent, or ever had any con= tract with him. He claims that he and Slack were prospecting in. the Rocky Mountains for Harponding and Roberts, of San Francisco, who furnished the means, and were full partners in what waa discovered. They discovered diamonds in November, 1870, and reported to Roberts, Harpending being in London, The matter was kept & secret until 8 second expedition could be made, which resulted in finding more diamonds, and asecond repart was made to Roberts and Harpending, the latter having meanwhile .re- turned. They were anxious to buy out Roberts and Black, but Roberts refused to sell. Black, however, sold for $100,000 cash in June, 1871, ‘which gave them a three-fourths or controlling interest in the discoveries, Black and Roberts were then employed to make & third trip, which had such s satisfactory resnlt that Harpending 82d Roberts wished to incorporate a company, which Arnold opposed. Théy thon proposed to givehim $250,000 for one-fourth of his one- fourth interest, to be paid, $100,000 cash and cult to come to any other conclasions than the following : ] 1. That the whole scheme has been proven to be a fraud of the first magnitude. 2. That it was originated by & clique of mining sharpers, with the intention of 3windling the pub- lic and enriching themselves. 8. That the fortunate exprdition of Clarence King, the United States Geologist, exposed the swindle beforo the shares had been put on the market. 4. That the sharpers, frustrated in their ef- fort to swindle tho public, and finding them- selves caught in their own trap, have turned upon each other, and that the one party has been shrewd enough to load the other perty with losses, and come ont several hundred thousand dollars ahead. Meanwhile, it does not 2dd to the probabilities of Mr. Arnold's statement that a confederate of hig, Cooper by name, has just made a fall con- fession in San Francisco, from which it appears that Arnold, Slack, and himself were the orig- inators of the awindle, and Arnold himself went toLondon and purchased the dismonds, and that they ‘“‘salted” the dinmond fields together. The moral which the public will derive from the story of this colossal swindle will not reflect any credit npon California or the Californis mining business. If the swindlers are not ap- prehended and punished, & stain will rest upon Californis mining enterprises which it will take & long time to remove, and which will serionsly affect the business of San Francisco, as far as its mining interests areconcerned. The fact that the public was saved from falling into the meshes of the net set for them is due solely to the skill and honesty of Mr. Clarence King, and does not alter the character of the swindle or lessen the responsibility of the swindlers for tke crims they attempted. The Musical Festival which will occur at Cin- cinnati during the firat week of Alay, 1873, under the direction of Theodors Thomas, is one of which the singing societies of Chicago should make & special note, The Committee of that Testival have sent out blanks to the varions gocieties of the West, assking for the names of the properly-authorized officers, and the number of singing members which can be present, on return of which s sufficient number of copies of the music to be sung will be sent without earthed by General de Cesnola, of the American” diplomatic service, is destined tc go to New York. The Budget says: *All previous discov- eries in Cyprus. have now been thrown into the shade by the American excavator. Where oth- ers had found one fragment, ho has fonnd tons of fragments. He has ransacked the anciect necropolis of Idalium; ho has strock dpoz a temple fall of statues at Golgos, most likely a temple of Aphrodite,—Cspris, tho goddess of the island,—he has struck upon and ransscked that. The result is an immense and surprising collection of statucs and statuettes and heads and fragments of them, in the calcarsous stona of which we have spoken, archaic vases, oxy- dized vessels of glass, idols, snd vo-. tive images and toys =and orma- ments and lamps in painted terrs cotts,. spear and javelin heads, faneral bandesuxin thin gold, cups and bowls in clay and bronze.”” It very unkindly adds that the shipment of these: for the New York gaper, and sea-sickness for: the European srcheologist. In this event, per— haps it would be befter for the European: archmologist to stay at home and hng his stomach. If tho Trustess of American musenms, ‘- aremore enterprising than thcse of trans-Ate slow-going Dominie Sampsons. and secured it. In view of th.ese facts, the very silly. g e _An instance of railrosd tyranny has come to light in England that has same points of resem-~ blance with the experience which Mr. Colemsn, - of Providence, R. I, recently described in the' Atlantlo Monthly. One Mr. Moore had pur: cheaefl a return ticket from the Metropolitan: Railway Company, calling for & passage from Notting-hill to the Mansion Honse and back.. Instead of going through to Notting-hill on his. return, he stopped off at an intermediate station, at Edgeware road. When he tendered his ticket: for the remeinder of the trip, he was informed: that he had no right to make the stop, and extr: {fare was demanded from him. He was willing: to pay if the officials would give him a recoipt.. They declined to do this, but gave Mr. Moore- into custody. The magistrate dismissed. the charge immediately, and Afr. Moqre! began snit against the malicious prosecution and false impriscpmant He was beaten in the first trial, but the Gonrtt= admitted the motion for & new trial. The de-- fence set up by the Company was, that their offia=’ cials acted without any expressed or implied aut thority from them; but the Court decided that:’ charge. Thus far, no returns have been made from Chicago, which is a matter of regret. The Festival, under the leadership of so conscientious s conductor as Theodors Thomas, cannot fail to be one of the grandest musical affairs which has ever been given in -this country, and to aid ‘in the great work of elevating the standard of music which hea always been the main ambi- tion of Mr. Thomas. Among the works to be given on this occasion are Handel's ¢ Dettingen Te Deum,” three motets and an ‘“Ave Verum” of Mozart, Beethoven’s Ninth Bymphony, Schu- bert's Trenty-third Pealm, and choruses of Schu= mann, Wagner, and othors. Music of this class needs long and careful rehearsal, and, if any of our Chicago singers intend going, they should notify the Committee at once, 80 that they can gecare the music and commence study, The circular of invitation which has been issmed states: ¢ In places wheso the proper material is at hand for a society, hut Lo organization ex- ists, this should bo attended to immediately ; taking care to admit none who cannot resd cor- rectly at aight ordinary church musie, and who will next agree to attend faithfully all the rehearsals of the society. The gociety should number at least fifteen, and the parts should be proportioned about as follows : Seven sopranos, six altos, five tenors, six bassos.” The Featival will consist of six performances, beginning on Tuesday, the 6th, and ending on Friday, the 9th day of May ; while Saturday, the 10th, will be devoted to s grand open air concert, e Rev. Dr. Burt, in & letter to the New York Erangelist, dated Nov. 9, gives a cheering ac- count of the improvements and the progress of liberel idezs in Rome. The change that hes come over the Pontifical States is first noticed on entering them by an entire gbolition of the passport system. No supercilions official de- mands your passport, neither does he search for and confiscate pistols, or Bibles, if one hap- pens to have them in his luggage. Once in the qity, improvements in the streets snd buildings are noticed everywhere, and, a8 compared with the dead past, thrift and enterprise meet one on every side. Either by the order of the Govern-~ ment, or from the fact that people find profit- able employment, mendicancy, heretofors so annoying and so disgusting, has nearly disap- peared from the streets. Bat the most marked, and perhapg the most wonderful, evidence of genuine progressisfound in the newspaper pregs of the *Eternal City.” Dr. Burt says: Rome now enjoys a free press. Tnder the old regime fournaliem hers smounted to notbing. Tho e reathed the epirit of the Vatican, and gave but the Driefest resume of general news, ' Within the last two years there has been a luxurisnt growth of newspa- the Company was responsible for the scts of ita" employes, 28 it was known thet emergencies were constantly arising which demanded prompt’ action, and it was the duty of the Company to employ competent and trustworthy men. Itiis ‘probable that Mr. Moore will have to go through' asmany trials as did Mr. Coleman, under nearly the same circumstances, if the English Compin- ny shall fight the case with as much obstinscy: a8 did the American Company. < A correspondent of the New York Xvening Post writes to that paper a very Interesting sketch of & yare miniature of Marg, Queen of Scots, which is owned in Richmond, Va. It is Dow the property of Ar. Joseph Mayo, formerly Hayor of that city, to whom it was giveabya Beotch Iady named Kerr, Itwss a family heir- loom of many gengrations, and, althcngh its his- tory cannot be traced in detail, thereis no ques- tion but that it is unique and very rare. The. corregpondent says: ““The brows are arched, the eyes of decided brown are wide apart as the. ox-eyed Hera's, the nose broad but finely cut, the lips handsomely carved but wnskilfally col- ored, and the complexion clear and pale, with the faintest tint of the rose nearithe cheek- bome. A coquettish hat of strew, worsted, or other light brown materdal—it is bhard to tell what—covers her hesd. Tho roff is unlike any other, broad,. deeply cut in points, and ‘beautifally vorked ; it lies flat on her shoulders, displaying & part of her fair throat, and sdding greatly fo the effoct of the picture. The expression ismild even ta tenderness, and wistful with all” It adds to- the interest of this picture that there aremo. anthentic pictures of Mary. The portraitin: Holyrood Palace end the Lochleven portrait are : of doubtful suthenticity, while the likeness. painted by order of Chalmors, who wrote her: biography, is sn idesl, made up of the best and: most correct features of various other portraits.. The dramatic profession of Germany orgen~ ized an associstion sbout a year and a half agos under the title of * Buehnenverein,” which. alrendy numbers 4,600 members, incitding aly persons who are attached in any way tothe theatres, The original purposq of the aisocis~ tion was to protect members of the profession im the engagements which they might make with managers. At &.zecent meeticg at Cassel however, the scope of the sociely was materially enlarged. The *Buehnenverain now guarantees the quelification of its meme bers for the positions to which it 23signa them, baging its judgmenton pasi services. It also. ‘provides forms of agreement, and undertakes to, Jers, representing every principat shade of opinton i politics and religion, Thero is an_intensely clerical sheet called Lg Vocs della Verita, and &_radical sheet equally intenso called II Capifale. Between thess are several organs more fully representativ of the sentiments of the mass the * people —one of them printed in French. Most of your readers have heard of the weekly paper, L'Eeperance, started last winter, chiefly with the view of recording and encouraging 'the progress of the Old’ Catholic $150,000 when his reports were verified by some ‘mining expert, which proposition Arnold accept- ed. Janin was the expert chosen, and, s our readers know, he went out, prospected the fields, and made a report which was favorable, Janin was paid $3,000 for his serwices, and the privi- lege of 1,000 shares, which he sold for $40,000 cash, Afterthis report, in July, 1872, Arnold g0ld to Harpending 15,000 shares for $300,000, leaving him 8,000 shares, as divided up by them in the contemplated company, The next movement was an expedition made under the dirpction of Roberts and Lent, the mining ex- perts being friends of the latter. On the strength of theirreport, Arnold claims that Lent " sold out $1,100,000 in stock, To show that Lent is not relible, Arnold relates the following : ZLent and his friends bought a worthless mine for a fow dollars, in Nevads, 30 miles from Palisade; op the Central Pacific Railroad, called the Minera] Hill mines —built s ten-stamp mill, and worked down to a depth of forty feet, sa far as the pay ore extended, The mine “capped over” at that depth, but the shaft was continued down 400 feet without any success, They then filed up the old shaft to where the mine “capped,” ond made a dump pile o as to hide the works, to deceive buyers with the idea that the mine hadnot been prospected lower than forty feet, He continued running his mill, working the surface ore, and declaring dividends, and paying them outof his pocket, and not out of the proceeds of the mine, and thus secnred o sale of it to & London company for $1,000,000, he receiving $450,000 as his share of this little fraud, Arnold furthermore denies not only having sold any property to Lent, but that he had any connection with the ealting” of the diamond fields. He is, however, careful not to make s direct declaration that there are diamond mines in Arizons, or to give any encouragement that diamonds can be found there, He is very ret- icent concerning his personal connection with the discovery, and, whenever he alludes to it, prefers to shift the responsibility of it upon others, rather than to spesk authoritatively- Taking all the stetements which bave been made, those of Harpending, Roberts, Lent, Ar- nold, and the recent report of ihe Executive Committee of the Trustees of the Dismond Com- nanv. and samuaring them tosathar. it ie diffie movement. This still exists, and I hope will be sus- Iained in future, aithongh thero seema.td be littla open ‘progress of the Ol Catlolica to record in Ttaly, Among the new journals are sevéral printed in Eng- lish, The enterprising Siiss Times, beginning to bo well known in America, now publishes n three-fold edition,—one in _Geneva, cuothey in Rome, and _another in Nice. Then we have Sz Daily Necs, edited by n enterprising young American and a Scotchman, besides the- Z5ber, odited by George Macksy, The last two sheats have Tot yet attained to gigantic proportions—oor probably to ‘an immense circulation, Yet thoy ave spicy littie papers —-very acceptable morning and_evening visitors—and may in time advance to greater - consideration, Last ‘winter 8 jowrnal was publiched here in the intarest of evangelical enterprise, This, I believe, i3 to bo Tov vived and continued the coming sepson, —_— Bt. Panl and Minneapolis are. concerned about the eptertainment of tho American Board of Foreign Missions, which meets in the latter city Bome time next year. That is, St, Paul is fear- M}cst the accommodations of Minneapolis shall be insufficient for the pious duty of entertaining the museionaries. This imputation is resented in s lively manner by the Minneapolis Times, ‘which discourses on the subject thus: The St, Paul editors and a tremendous corps of correspondents in that city are making a great Tow ahout the meoting of the American Board of F Misaions in this city next October, They advocate the building of sixteen or seventeen new railway lines be- twveen the two points to sccommodate the ship loads of foreign and domestic plety that will be in attendance on that ocoapion,” aud who will want to Xeop their hands in, in the heathen convert ing business, by practising on & few of St. Paul's sam- ple sinners, ' Tho fact is, hourly trains between the two citier have become a necessity now, and, aa a busi- ness enterprise, the Pucific Road should put down sn- other track; but we guess there will be sufficient room in Minneapolis to_accommodate pretty much all the visitors that will attend on that momentous and allab~ sorbing occasion, e may possibly loan St Paul a Doctor of Divinity far & dsy or two, but by Judicioualy dividing him beiween the tworauwass that already con- ect the citles, together with a persistent and judicious usg of the prayer-gouge, We robal be? able o met hi down snd back o out either maiming th il or injure e railway ing the Doctor. Att any rate the S, Paul papers need ot break their religious backs in_endeavoring to help usdo the hospitulities, until we call to them for as- slstanco. o sun Tepiblican State Convantions, mo- nss s, and_saw- pretty succe: e g the devout Imprcssion’ that e sau a0 full Justice to & missionary society. At sny rate, We pro- pose trying it on, and, When we want assistance, will apply 0 ourloving end magnanimous neighbors at the hiead of navigation, Meantime 1t is to be hoped that tho friends down thero will not throw elves aut of joint on the transportation question unti] they discover that there are more missionaries o bein st tendance than can be furn.shed with'the raw maferial Iu‘r‘&l;lcuu in our own sinful and narighteous com- munity, —————— The Pall Mall Budget bitterly laments the fact that & collection of tressures from Cyprus, which is immende and sUIPrising, recently mne ‘watch ovar the interests of the theatrical calling- generally. Al achools attached to the thestres are regnlated by laws framed by its Executive Committee, and it hes a Coart of Arbitration to which all differences among the members of tha. profession must be referred: It iareally a gon~ eral dramatic agency, and, st the same time, an._ ssgociation for mutual benefit and protection. We presume thst the drsmatic professior of : Germany constitutes s more harmonious com- . munity then that of America. Mr. Colfax can console himself with, the f: ¢ only one Vice President has bem re-elected ulgtis :t:; successor. The exception was Dauiel D, Tom; New York, who served as' Vice President during the: two terms of President Monroe, from 1817 to 1825.— Bufalo Covrier, This is not correct. JolIm Adems served as Vice President 8 years ; then became President. Jefferson served only 4 years as Vice President, - but was promoted to the Presidency. George Clinton was elected twice to the office of Vice' President, es was Daniel D. Tompkins, John ©. Calhoun was elected Vice Presidens a second, time, resigning daring the last year to fake a geat inthe Senate. Martin Van Bufen,st the. cloge of his term es Vice President, was pro~ moted to the Presidency, Tyler, Fillmore, snd. Johnson succeeded to the Presidency. Elbridze Gerry and Wiliam B. King died in office durivg their firat term. - The only persons elected Vica Fresident (beside those who died in office), whose official career ended with that term, were Aaron Burr, B. M. Johnson, and George M. Dalles. Breckinridre, upon vacating the Vice President’s chair, took a seat in the Senate, and Mr. Hamlin, after serving out his one term,, was elected to the Benate. A punster is usually accounted deserving of’ imprisonment at hard I%or, bat the Museatine. Journal furnishes one Wiich might be let off with & moderatq fine. Soue years ago, the Iowa Legislature passed 8 W knposing & tax on dogs, in the general interet of mutton an@ wool. The law created such & iarore among the dog-owners that the ssme Legisature repealed it. An sgitation has 1ow bogun fur the re-em- actment of the dog tax. The Jowwnal thinks that the Legislatuwre will not be “ut.regeous ™ enongh to attemptit sgain. ® —_— A subscriptioa has been started by the stu dents of the New York Academy of Design for the purpose of raising sufficient funds to estabe- lish an Amerian School of Painting. Theprov~ ince of such an institution is much brosder than that of oy Academy of Design; and the advantage irfurnishing our rising young artists with instrucion and facilities, which they can only find nw by gaing to Europe, should in- duce all ibvse who take an interest in art to con~ txibute tqraxd establishing such ar institutions, things to New York means simply mystification: " bluster and bravedo of the English press are - pedantry without the danger of tumning bis - - lantic institutions, 5o much the worse frr the © - 1 i Thr, collec~+ tion was offered impartially toall the Zansenmsof'* * tho world, and New York promptl’; stepped in - 1. Company forsc: . I