Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1873, Page 2

TIHE CIHIICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE PUESDAY, JANUARY 7 1873, - WASHINGTON. The New Year Receptiong--- How Thoy Looked. The Diplomatic Corps at the White House. A Social Ramble About the Capi- tal, From Our Oten Correspondent. . ‘WasninaTos, Jan, 1, 1873, Tho firt dny of tho year hins como to bo & gon- eral reception dny in Washington. It waa made the oflicial recoption day by tho Madisons whilo in tho Whito Houwo, nently sixty years ngo, and, from tho Whito Touso, tho custom got to bo adoplod by fow leading porsonnges; but it wes not until ahout thirty years ngo that privato familics undorlook to keop opon houso, in im- itntion of the ofticinl hospitali This firat day of the New Year, with loworing weather, and streots covered with snow and running water, thero were an unusual number of FINK RECEPTIONS, and yat legs ealling than at any timo within throo yemn, Sovernl familios of publio noto wore unable, from nbreuco or diseaso, to admit thoir frionda,—ns those of tho Vico Presidont; of Bpeakor Blaino; the District Dolognto, Chip- man; Bir Edward Thornton ; the French Minis~ tor, whoao new housa i not dono ; tho Brazilian, Turkich, and Poruvian Ministers; and Mrs. Scnator Edmunds, In Georgotowd, whichis tho only suburb of much sacinl_coneequenco around Washington, thero ia o googl deal of family 1ifo ; and Governor Cooke's f3myly, Goneral Dont's, Admiral Rad- tord's, Mujor Poorc's, Judgo Fighot's, tho Ma- grnders, efe,, mado the hilla of that formor Araryland covstry-town bright this morning with tireiv padting guosts. WO RECELIVED, ‘Tho great ofticinl recoption in Washington was, of courso, at the Whito Houso. Of tho Cabinet Ilinisters, Itobeson, Dolknap, Boutwell, and TFish received perconally, as well as Judgo Rich- awdson, Assistant Sacrotary of War, Mrs. Roboe son gave the entire deck to hor husband, being Lergelf abrorbed with taling care of hor baby. Genernl Bellnap was secondod by his nieco and several pleasant army-ladies. Tho Attornoy General went calling, while Itis wifo recoived in a very elogant mansion. Dolano being nbeent, Tip daughter-in-lnw kept open houso, and Mra. John A. Logan nnd sevoral othor Interasting ladics etood beside her. Mrs. Genoral Shorman and daughter, tho seivea uf tho stafl-oflicers, and several iuvited ladies, held o grand recoption .at tho Goneral's residones, n the enstorn portion of the city, Of tho wivos of Benators keoping open house, tho most prominent wore Mrs. ‘Thurman, Mrs, Cas- serly, Mrs. Chandlor, Mrs, Harlan, Mrs, Morrill, Mra, Frolinghuysen, Mrs, Wost, Mrs, Shorman, f\lro, Colo, s, Corbett, Mra, 'Titelicock,. M. Tenton, Min. Pomeroy, Mrw. Stewert, and Mra, Bawyer. Not moyo than thirly Representetivos ‘eocouraged New Year's; but tho Iends of Bu- reaug, ox-ofiicials residing heve, and tho Jondin, 2radosion, kept up tho custom, so that wo lmfi nearly four newspapor-columns by way of & di- Teetory, . INCIDENTS OF NEW YEAR'Y, _ Carringn hiro is about 320 for the day at New Year's, and, to cconomizo, tho eallors—who aro dnvarinbly men—rido by fours, and some- times oven by sixen, 'They siart out in o ntato. of ' tho highost respocta~ bility, and, for the first hour, stop throo or five ‘minutes at o time, After that, there are nlways Ahreo out of tho fomr wanling to go quickly; fwhilo the fourth, who Lns dragooned tho others fapon his personal friend, is tho lagt t~ lcave, Romatimes all four 1 ecattar, and attempt to ick up each other at somo irrcconcilable point, horeby, before night, scarcely ono carringo ‘ontaing its original freight. i Notwithstanding much that i said against in- “Zomporanca at theys recoptions, it is trie that, at Inrgo majority of houses, somothing intoxicat- ing is get out from the earlicst lhour of the ;morning until Bupper-timo. Fhoso who eechow “punches and decantors tuko to chocolate and goffeo, by which thoy suffor corresponding bil- N¥ousnoss, 'Lhoro in little visiblo INTOXICATION, wlthongh nearly every house will receive dur- Sug tho day two or threo persons evi- deutly the worso for wear. DBut it is p bad day for tho people with good Intentions, who undertake to mako the round; pnd tho'duy after Now Year's is behold undor many & sick head awakeding from the pillow, and avondering whethor ho received eutliciont com- ongation in bright faces aud sparkling talk for E)hu wreele Lo hag tomporarily become. 1 suid to a Senator whom of long touure here; ““1lIns tho habit of Intoxieation decreased in tho Seuate in your poriod 7" ¢ Yery much. When I entered it, thore wero soveral coustant drinkers, Sobastian, of Ar- Xnnens, was plways full. Ono of Lis colleagucs wAY very u;{ly under the influence of liquor. Brown, of Miesiseippi, drank; #o did Muson, of Nirginin, Thero woro many steady drinkers bo- #ido theno, and you know we had o liquor-bar ¥ight in (ho Capitol, in tho room now cccupied Dy the Murshal of tho Supremo Court. Thoro fro lnil-a-aozen drinking Senators now; but Awo or thres exorcise all the unwholesomo in- Alucuco on tho rost.” + TLE DOAKD OF PUDLIO WOLKS SWEAR OFF, . ho ovidenco of tho ronsca showed to-dey that the Indics were offering loss to_drink of n fervent nature, and tho men were drinking very ittlo of that. Wo bave probnbly como _to & re- wuotion pgatust the oxcassive fooding and swilling ~vhich havo markoed the last two or threo years, and which appeared to grow out of the method of imitating the corporate improvemonts of this Lapital.~ A number of tho lending citizons, find- sug thet Congress would pay no_attentlon to {;mh'iuL 71 unlesy approached through their cllios, prococdad to propare the way for rovo- Iutionizing tho District of. Columbin by o mys- tematic sories of winiugs and dinings. To-dny wwo took a champagno oxcursion down the P towac ; to-morrow, had & banquet to tho pross ; and, on tho following day but ono, wero carried around the city—ndvoitly striking sovoral gra- tuitous lunchos en roule—to seo tho evils in tho avorago topography, 'Lhus many a good resolu- tion broke down ; many n wish ‘of dignity was washed away in tho semi-oceasional quart of sxtra diy; and, as Congress and_ privato houscholders tronted back, and fnall clubthouses lad to come ns lalf- way places for the rival entortuiners, s gradual ‘mocial growth of Lippling overeamo thin ity be- twoen tho winters of 1870-'72. How far it had proceeded 1may bo inforred from (ho fact that tho Lonrd of Fublio Works themsolves sworo off to-day, Thongh men with many overcoats of stomich, they Tolt them wearing out. Thoy ro- solved that, if they wonld oceupy tho city thoy have rebuilded, it Ywas ossential to stop tho score ond ecoro tho stop, Do it recorded ! v NEW YEAR ALTEI DREAKEAST. After much carrying around of pound-cakes and baskets of celory on tho part of the market mon aud negroew, the livery-hacks all took to tho slugh b 10 o’clock, and, at the snmo tine, pedestrians, in wonderfully fino clothes of gold scartot, und gimp, and with side-swords and real <heponux,—such as you maka for little Johnny out of the nowspaper,—began to come out ot ‘Dbearding-houses, and inng, end mansions, It aoked liko o grout number of theatro-companies diechrged from sorvice for playing tho old Eng- Jish comedics, "Thero muny uniformed people wora ofticers of tho army and navy in their new uniforms, which somehody doncribon ow Lrass cont and black mot to-day,—ono breoches, there Loing no_gold stripe down tho 3cgm, and gold plentcounly’ abovo, - Thoso who ware rizher clotles, of o more clvil pattorn, with wpangles on toir’ broasts, aud chrpoaiix all ol luzo with gilt, wero HLION MINISTENS thelr suites, who do ua the honor of appear- 2 on fiate geensions Just ag they would do at Al Court of equal connequonco, Thoy must 1::v0 standard Court-drens, aud wa got the bons it of it. Our little children seo it for nothing, wnd our protly girle all dream straightway of marrying o Princo Vory nice gentlemen aro many of these, fuithful to'the intercsts of their eovoreign, und friondly to America, whoro they ¥~5 oo social trentmont, and nover bothor in ©acuffnirs, Still as mico aro they all tho whilo, ro thal, if it were mnot for theso ro- o tions, many of us mlfihn forgot thra; and porhaps Mr Tish aid right 1o administor & salutary robuke to Catacuzy 1 hon Lo souzht to wot those goutlomen I disor- der, nul malio the firat intrigue for many years in (ko diplomatic ecirclo, Twenty-soven foralgn Htates luvo Ministers or Churgos d'Affaires horo, of whiuh nino sro American natlv.s, eluding * new silii of peard groy, trimmed n litto datlkor, | & Northwostorn Railrond” daily, feols that ho is anltl and Hownll, In those Logations there are probably seventy-five or ona hundrod pcrsons, of whom fho mnjority wora prosont to-dny, aecking _apparontly to rival each uthor in coh- tumo, Bovoral of them woro attondod by the, Indiog of their familics, equally richly, if Jens ollicinlly, attired, Amongst the rogular corps wore admitted Qeneral Gorloff, tho resident Tussian Agont, wlho hiya and ingpects arms sud military Invontions in Now York, Boston, Inrt- ford, aud at other points, and nlso Ttussoll Gur- uoy, tho British Olaims Commissioner, FONEIGN FACES. Tho rank of {he resident Diplomatis Oorps is robably highor thun wo havo l;‘ni'uvlmmly latonn R\ Washiogton. ‘he Bpanish Minintor, Polo do Bonarbo, i3 an Admiral nud politician of tho highest nole ot home. Tha Froneh Minister is the Marquis do Nonillos, wlo has teatiflod hin foith in the durability et Thiers’ Govorn- ment by teking n finc now houso to himaolf at \anh?n ton, Cotneazy's successor is the Baron Offon org, B well-gathered and atraight-looking man, 'ho Austrian Miuistor in Baron Lederer, o meditative nnd arintocratic- fooldng old man, of tho finost confour of hend and features, Count Coril, the Itallan, {5 a proud and quict typo of the Bouth, with a warthy buo, Kurd Von Schlozer iy n sharp, talkativo North German, of good humor and bouuce, and woll cstoemed at Borlin for hia nbil- itiea. Bolgium, Portugal, Iolland, Bwedon, and Donmark aro ropresonted by fuir avorago types of thoir {mbllo citizens, 'I'wkoy has for its Ministor tho Dean of tho Corps,—that is, the oldest resident at Washington of them all,—tho Helvale, Orjontal faco of Blicquo Ly, Whoeo wifo Is ‘an Amorican of oxcollont family. Lng- land has for its vevrosenlntive a Yunflumrm of modosty and eostecin, not excceded in public favor horo by any of Jils prodecessors,~Sir Bd- ward Thornton. ~ 1layti ly its nogro with an Euglish namo,—Preston. Japan lias also its Ckargo, in Mori. Drazil, tho Avgontina Repub- Tio. Chill, Eouador, Colombis, Moxico, Guatema- IKANSAS. Approach of the Senatorial Agitation. A Glanco ab tho TLeading Aspirants-Tho Conquering Hero Coming. Calling of Witnesses for the Cald- well Investigation, Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, LeAvonwonti, Kan,, Jan, 2, 1810, Tho Kannas Sonstorinl agitation—I bollove it 18 no longer ealled o contost—in nbout to com- mouco Tho Legislaturo will conveno on tho 14th inst., and, from that time till tho sccond Tugsday of tho sesion, the uproar will bein. toresting, ‘Lhe coming of BENATOR PONEROY is tho ovent just now. Logato s already hero, diroct from Washington. Ilo comos ap a foro- runnor of the Senator,—n sort of John the Bap- tint of tho occasion. It hay beon eald of the Son- ator that bo livea in Bouton, and that his visita to Konens are something like the vivits of angols, ‘“‘short nnd bright.” This time ho promises to ptay with us two weoks, provided “ mortalily’s not too weak" fo bear a visit of that length . Thore s a poseibility that Mr, Pomeroy may Ia, and Boru sond teprosontatives from Sponisl Ametica, And Groeco and Liberla malo the oxtromo possibilitios of Btates, both roprosented to-day nt the Executive Mansion in Washington, THE STATE NECEITION. This assemblago of tho choico agents of govoroigns—whoss porsons arc a3 inviolablo horo 08 thoso of tho Kingy who cominsionod thom—might woll gratify nnd fnthinidato tho Witoof a Presidont seloctad from plaln citizons folks, Mrg, Grant camo down tho stnirs at 11 o'elock, with the President,—ho drossod in his plain, but very neatly-fitting, black cloth wuit, with & plain tio at the throat ; and nho in a rich and flowing long, Bo that sho acomed to bo i do- velopment from its folds, Tho President and his lndy were_directly in place, with Secrotary Figh ut his Joft; and menntlmo tho Maring Band, all clad in rod and white, had strack np o fow bars of *1Iail to tho Chief." At this fustent, tho picturo in tho old White,, Honso was ay fine s it could bo, ) Tho Rod Parlor, whero the Cabinot and Jadies of its chiefs, nnd tho diplomatic cirele, met, was all o searcely moving hush and rustlo of gilt, kilk, velvot, fowelry, side-awords, head-drossos, chapenux wilifted,” trains, flowing hair, and studded collary. Uho Bluo Tarlor, where tho Prepldent, wifo, and Seerctary of Binte stoad, showed moro clearly what was obarnotcristic of all tho cstablishmont,—tho erystal pas-riount- ings ebining in tho long mirrors, and the great staring muss of pearls in the bulbous chandaliors looking in dull awnkeness at tho flower-vasos overflowing with fragranco and el creoping delicatoness, e noar music gavo o gort of necessary jar to this view to mako it moro stun- ningly Liosthen, and the hrrovorent. wmind could ok liolp bt fool thnt tho iago and Govern- mont, the spoetacular play and tho fact, aromuch like cach- other. Color, coromony, hoont, shino, and slow move- nlxlnut :+ States nor plays cannot bo saved without them, ““Nr. Presidont, Blaquo Boy, Envoy Extraor- dinary and Niniator Plenipolentinry of 1lis Higlhess the Sultan of Turkoy! Madamo Boy, Mrs, Grant " I'his zeems to bo {ho way to heqln it And then the quict litilo man bowed and shook lands, ag did his wifo, to all,—AIr, }ith making tho introductions. The Cablinct Iadies got around on tho sido of tho Presidential party by tho time tho Senators, Congrosemen, ofc., camo inj and then, toward noon, tho whole edifico was full of promenadora; tho big East Room wag crowded ; tho band played wallzos, nere- nades, and marches; and, out of doors, car- ringos movod and oboyed orders in long lines. Aeantimo, at tho gate, » numbor of future Presidonts of tho United States were peoping in, somo of whom woro ono shoe, and must of whom ran at tho noso; and they wore unanim- ous in bajling grand folks in carviagos thusy “You, sir! the Grand Duko! Gi'me a cont to {iro off my pistol widl " CGarir, i e EVANSTON [AATTERS. Tho * Ladics’ Union Meotings,” during tho weol of payes, will bo held in tho lecture-room of the Presbyterinu Church overy afternoon, commoncing at 8 o'clock, ‘ Your reporter being most ignominously ¢ punched ” by the concuctors of tho Chicago ot liborty to make = fow eriticisms upon tho manner in which Evanstoniana are Lreated. Coming to the city on the Kenoshr passengor yestorday, upon which the largest number of LEvanston peopla ride, your reporler counted sixtoon possengers in tho bnggage-car, ning in tho smoking-car, andin tho cars further back Lo number averaged from soven to four, com- pellod to stand for want of suflicient accommo- dations. 1t is truo that this train tekes on another ear at Calyary, but either few know it, ere unwilling to risk their necks Dy travelling back to the enr whilo the Lrain is in motion, or are too fond of their tfl'ngta.ut Havanas (o throw them away for n Bent. It is truly pitiful to behold the large erowd at thio Evangton dopet strugglo with cach other for noats, and, in ordor to reedivo them, jumping on the cars whilo in motion ab the immiuent risk of lifo ond Hmb. ‘Mho dolay caused by tho stop at_Calvary cnuse tho said train to reach thio city all the way from ten to twonty minutes holind iime, thua indi- reetly placing a hervy lax on the' time nnd patience of (ho pavreny ¥, In going from the city on tho Evanston 5:05 accommodation, on an’ average twonby passen- gors have to stand until tho train ronches Ru- vouswood, whon o limited numbor can thon ob- tnin ponta; thoso belng genorally the strongest. Astho presengors nhfiht at the intermediato stn- tions tho “ piandists” slowly procure seats, Novw this ia not an exnggeration, and any num- Dor of respectablo citizovs would ouly bo too hn})py to teatify to tho same, t cau only be llnchEur{ to call the attention of the Mannger of the Chiengo & Northwostern TRailroad to this unbappy state of aMairs to bring about the remedy, Lot thore bo two smolking ears on the Kenosha train, and the delay at Calvery romedied. And on tho Evanston accommodation lot tho Tyanston people layo some accommodations, ek et THE BOSTWICK CLAIM. B, Lovts, Jun, 2, 1873, Paui Cornell, Dean 8m: Your city papers (copied hero) Intely contained a soneational account of nlaw proceeding in ono of your courts, in which my nome is montioned, It In almost & pity to breal tho current of Lho sensation, but oxpedionts to raise the wind of this charactor ofton como to griof, and this must bo tho inovitublo fato of tho Bostwick chiancory sonsation. 'T'o any one who hins known Judgo Skinnor oa long as I have, it io gearcoly nocogsary for mo to eay that lio I8 inca- pablo of perpetrating the frauds that are alloged agaiust him, You lnow, s well as I do, that tho chargos againnt yon and mysolf aro false in every partioular, Every dollar of money used in tho purchaso fif the proporty in question was furnished me, and should havo heen invested in - m; namo in the first justauco. It was irrosistiblo with Bostwiclo to nppear in a front seal, and hio was alivays suro (lir not positively restricted) to work his name to tho frout, no mattor at whouo cost. Joln Dost- wick at tho timo was absolutoly penniloss. Lven the oxponsos of hin trip to Chicago wore paid by me. _'T'he transaction inn quostion is an old one, but I believe I have lottors, documents, e, that will explain tho wholo transaction. The whole thing, a4 far ns I nm coucerned, is ridicus lously falso and absurd, But I rofrain from articulard, I sbnll defend in proper timo and in proper form. It occurs to mo, if tho pm{cc- tord of this chance-ry undertaking had appled tholr skill to dramatizing Coclc Jtobin and put it on the stago under gas-light, thoy would Linvo ronlized mora monoy than thoy aro likely to out of this affuir, Youwr, &o., oy ML Xnux, =t Ly —A Indy ealled upon Mra, Marin Richardson, of Summerton, Mich., recontly, and, after chat ting for awhilo, the Iatlor auked Lo bio oxcused & imomont and weub “P staira, Hoon tho callor observed blood trickling through the_coiling, snd, following its divection, founud Mrs, Richnyd- #on with hor throat fatallyeut, Hor viclt wan 1ot altogothor a ploasant one, yot have o formidable rival in the porson of THE 10N C. W. BALCOUK, who is Prosident Grant’s Private Seccrotary's brother. Hia namo lias beon meutioned in con- nootion with the position of Unitod Bintos Sen- ator vory froquently of lato, and soma of the strong politiciana look upon him with favor, and hiavo addressed Jotlers inviting im to bo- como a cendidato. Roplies to theso letters have nm[)\y demonstrated that Darkis Babeock i willing, Mr. 1, however, invariably admen- inhos his frionds fo * o slow ¥ and await dovel- opmonts, Doubtless Mr, Pomaroy would prefor Mr. Babeock Lo puy othor of his adheronts, and perhaps tho ndmonition to go slow was suggoest- od by ude Senator, 1. B, RALLOCH, " anothor gentloman who aspires to tho position of United States Bonator, is away up in the con- fidenca and nffections of Tomoroy, bub away down in {he rfections and confidonco of the peo- plo.lenes ho is not coneidored to bo a leading candidato, M. Kalloch fs also from Boston, and thero is a proyailing deviveto havo o Benator from nnothor lovality, Of nll tho aspiring in- dividualg, Kelloeh is tho nblest, . THE TON, I I TOWE, » who was re-clected to the Houso of Reprosenta- tives lnet fall, wonlu to go _to (ho Somute. ) Lowo has honesty and ability, 1lo is & Pro- tectioniat _throughout,” hias & horror of ¥roo Trado, and voted, two’ ¥onrs ago, to_rotain the duty on ealt, Withal, ho {8 o good man, and Kauges conld do a worso Lhing than elect him, M. Lowe livos iu this State, the southern port of it, and will gain somo strength by reason of Ll rogidence in Lhnt vegion. UDVERNUR J3NLT M. MARVEY hna moro supportors among the membora of tho Legislaturo e o peoplo ceredit him ywith, Hig homo g in the western part of the Siato Harvoy will gok 20 votos on Lho outwel, aud por- Daps add to fimt number, If tho Governor hus any quatifieations for the piace, he has boon vory succeasful in keoping them boyond the obsorva- tion of his mosl intimate ncquaintances. His repatation for honesty is excellent, but Loneaty alone will not elpvato n ann in Katizns, COLONEL PHILLIDS, Reprosentativo-vlect to Congress, in anothor aspirant for Sonntorial honors. Ho did excellont sorvico in tho caudo of Froedom, as correspond- ont of tho New York Z'ribune, during the Bordor strugglo against the oxtonsion of Blavory Ho i3 a gontleman of talont and culturo; but thera is n univeryal dosiro among the citizens to sco what lind of n rocord ho makes in tho Honse beforo bestowing Senntorinl favors upon him, Ho has many friends, but few supportors, Thoro aro many well-informod people who profoss to beliove that Senator Pomeroy's re- olection A 1§ DOUDT, and cito the fact that ho will inve no more than 85 voles on tho fiut batlot to illugtrate how very ensy it would bo to overthrow him bya com- Dination of, {ho romaining 93 members of tho Legielaturo, _Thoro will Lo a combination of tha autl-Pomeroy mombors, and, when it o organ- ized, I-havo no doubt that Mr. Lowe will disclosa morb sirength than any otlior man in tho com- bination ; but it will bardly embraco mora than 60 mombers. _About all of Kalloch's supporiors will vote for Pomeroy if Kalloch in pushed out of the way. Tomoroy will cortainly got 4 or 5 votes from the Loavonworth dalogution, that will be cast for Eomubfld&l elso on the first ballot. In o iveet contest botween Lowo and Pomeroy, 7 of the 10 membors of lhgt dolegation will voto for tho Inttor. Ilarvoy's fricnds will divide about cqually for Pomoroy snd Lowo, At presont, 1t looks as though M. Pomeroy's dofuat COULD NOT BE ACCOMPLISHED. Tt is not wealth alono that gives the Sonator rostigo, but, with it, o boliof that ho can got B Teiorias nppointed'to oftico by aimply asking tho Dresident for tho appointmonts. SENATOR CALDWELL will fake little intorest in tho contost o has numerons littlo troubles of his own to ccupy his loisure timo. The Sergeant-n-Arma of tha Son- ato was in thin city yesterday, summoning wit- neases to eppont in Washington by the 10th in- stant, and toutify bofore the Congressional Com- mitteo appointed to inquire into the mauner of Caldwell’s clection. Kaxgas, THE FIRE AT PORTLAND, OREGON. X.os0 Ovor Iialf o fiillion Dollars. The Portland (Orogon) Jferald of Dac. 21 has along account of the groat firein that elt)" on {ho22d. *Itspponrs that tho Chinswon inn wesh-houso were ongaged in boiling somo coal tar and piteh, with which they intonded ropnir- ing theroof of thoir shanly to provent water from dropping through. Whilo tho tar was bouing, broakfast was cnlled, and, with their provorbial foolhnrdiness, they loft the combuslible nues to tako caro of itself, and woll did it do mo. It commonce to lLubblo slowly, and fnally, like a sorpont, crawled over tho edgen of the pot into the l?:c. Up, like n fiery domon, sprang the flaines, necompaniod by denso volumat of auffo- eating vuolo, stariling the Chinamen from their meal, and causing them to run like startlod deor into the utroot. Thio flamos sproud to an adjoiu- ing wood-yard, and thonco to tho buildings in the vicinity, aud for houra delied all rosiutance, Sn“{u tha Hevald: % *‘Pho fire along Aldor streot hadboen chacked by the explosion [in n drug store], but tho flames on the river sido still continted to ox- tond, nnd soon the direful nowa spread that the woxt blook north must go, This caused tho con-~ contration of ull tho forco of the Dopartmant at tho foot of Aldoer strost. At tho wame {imo, by tho suthority of tho Chief Engmoer and the Mayor, the following tolegram was sont to Van- couvor, Oregon City, Balom, Albany, and Fu- 3 *Bond us ull the availubio fire-help Our aity in burning up. On light~ g8 this messago tlow, nud soon respone- cscama: ‘Wo nro coming.' ‘ho glad tidings that help wag on tho wey cheored thoe tired limbg and despondent hearts of tho firemon, who lind beon hard ab work for nenarly four Lours. Tho flames in tho moantimoe Lind spread along tho whaf and communicatod with some 800 cords of firowood piled on thet sdjoining, viz, s Uarbaugh's wharf, On tho what! wmon- tioned, which s bolweon Washiugton and Aldor “streots, stood, in uddition to sovoral woodon buitdings, four fine brick stores, Tho firat of theso was occupied by Walliug nsn stenm-power printing oflico, aud this was soou masy of flamen, Onward spread tho flames, and thoir wild laugh scemed to bo borne on {he winds, which howled in foarful concort, for milos around, ~Checks mnow blanched in enrnost, and with ono occord all suid, “ We aro gouo,"” From Walling's to I, L. Uibbard' tlour store, then to J 1, Congle's snddlery _worohouso, and then to O, Hop- Ling' hardwaro store the flond led its domons, in overy instance adding thousauds of dollars to the alveady great amount lost, Tho flames had, a6 wo Luve writton before, now yeached to the contro of the blool botweon Washington aud Aldor strootu, In tho rear of these housos woro 800 cords of wood in flames, and they in turn ¢oon communicatod to tho woodon Lulidings pdjoine ing. ''ho whole cust sido of this block was burn- ing, tho laut hiouso an the cornor of Frout nud Aldor streotw vau in flawen, whon (ho welcome Whistle of tho_stcamor Vancouver was honrd, ond fu e fow minutes the Vaucouver IFiro De- partmont woro ut the scene of the disestor an:d s woik, Tho B N, Couko woon sftcr arived with the Orvzon City Yiro Department, who alio lont o willing hand, AU the fire forco now avallablo turned thoir stranma full upon this 8pot, ns It heenmo apparont (hat If the fira wai not atayed horo thoro could bo no limits placad on (ho oxtont of dnmnFu likely to onsua, Providentially, at this point tho ‘wind, which had been blowing & ginlu from tho sonthoast, subslded nnd veored to the westward, nl samo timo ncnvm(lmnlcd by rain, ~ Thin cauked n sigh of reliof to oscape from all hearln, for it thon beormo apparout that Port- Iand wa gaved,—uavod from uny furthor calamily Junt at the preeent Lime, Now thint the danger of nn{ u]])rcml of tho {lames waa over, people began to look around and contomplato tho magnitudo of tho disastor, For moro than ihrce long, wonry houra the fory eleriont had control over our cily, and nt timos threatoned to dontroy it entirely. Tho fire was now undor full control, and our firemon, worn out and tired, could hopo for rogt, , Atslatanco, as wo havogaid, camo fromall quar- tors in ronponaa to the despatchos sont onrly in the morning. Whon tha telegrams wero rocelv- ed el Vancouvor, Copinin Turnbull, of tho Van« convor hnmudinlnljgplnr.ud his bont at tho dis- poaal of the Fire Department. Vancouver 13n- gino Company Ne, 1, with apparatus snd _hose, camo over, arriving horo ab 1:0 p. m., and roun- dered offactive gorvica, At B:UBI). m, the stenm- or I N. Cooko nrrived with tho Orengo City Firo Dopartment, consinting of Coulumbion Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, Cataract Hoso Company No. ~ 1, and Fountain IToso Compnany No. 2,-Theso arrivala in~ npired our woll-nigh dispiritod fire-boys witlr {fresh courago and hope, and lod them to further docds of valor. AL @elock o trabn from. tho south on tho Orcgon & Californin Railroad liove in n!{(hl, with threo platform care nddod to the regular comploment of conches, When the rail- road forry-boat arrivoed on this side, this frosh reinforcemont was fonnd to consist of Cnpital No. 1, Tiger No, 2, aud Alert Haok and Ladder No. 1, of Halom, and Crescent No. 1, of Albany, As all theso bravo and gallant followe—who Lad left their own homes to coma to our nid swhon the ery for help rang out—hurriod up thoe streets en route to tho place whoro tho bosom of flano Dad just {mssnd thoy woro greeted with cheors from both malo and fomalo, and by tho whistles of our stonm fillf:(nus. Iteporting at ouca Lo Cliof Eingincor Willistia, thoy wora lacaed in positions whara they couldl moro rendi- T faetns o etaadiAting tho flamon, Tho reon Stoam Navigation Company’s ateamor Onconta, atan early hour of the day, renderod somo ofilclont wervico, Bho way run up close alongsido of Vaughn's wharf, and attached two longtlis of howo to her donkoy engines. With theso she continued to throw water on tho burn- ing mass until it wau diccovered that thie versel was in dangor of dostruction, when sho way Linuled off., ‘Tho further progros of the flro, if it had gono boyond tho Amorican Exchange, had beon pro- vided against by Goneral Canby, U. 8, A., com- manding this Doparimont, Ho dirgcted guys and ropes to be fixed around the piling of tho Orogon Steamanip Navigntion Company’s wharf, that, in caso the above hotel took firo, the Company's sleamora, which had slenm \I]i, could {mll the entire block' into the river. Proparations had alno boon made to blow up buildings on the au- ticipated route of the fire, x ‘* Ordora had been fesued, when it bacemo ap- pareut thet the fira wos beyoud contral, ta Luve tho Iimmet and Washington Guard and the ar- tillery go onduty to provent yaudalism. Through tho watehful eare of the soldior-boys and extra policomon appointed, much _valuablo property wag donbtless saved ' from destruction. * At 2 o'clock p. 1. & compauy of regulava avrived on tho econo, but their services wero not_roquired. e burnt distriot was guarded until long aftor urle, g “When the firomen bogan to tite, o raid was made among the Chinese population and they wexd presuod into servico, At flrat thoy vebelled, but, finding what was wantod, with o very fow oxcoptions thoy manned the brakes and worked with o will.” The Herald gises tho following statement of looses nud insuranco: Losces on stack, ...y Tosses on bulldinga’, Total,.. ..., “ Against this wo have 510 on tock and £81,600 on buildings—making inall £125,000. This would leavo o loss of alout 410,970, o Josses aro divided about as follows: Liverpool, Loudon and Globe Company ‘Union of 8an Francigco. .. Homo Mutusl of San Franelse Tmperlal of London, Plicouix of Hurtford, compnulm.fi " About 2 o'clock yesterday morning the on- giun consed pluying, sud all’ danger was over, 'nu;lzht romained to mark the plneo where, for nearly five hours, the relontless domon of fira held his finveo livlocsust, oxcept charred and moldering ruins, tottoring walls, and blank, de- nuded buildings. The snow had fallen just beavy enough to coat the placo with a white shroud, and l\.fipunrcd to render it moro deso- Into, sad pnd droary, But we have one consola- tion, slight thoughi it is, still left us—thnt no familios, oxcept perhaps holf & dozon, wore Ton- dered homoloss, and also thal Portinnd will build up hor ‘Burnt District’ in a remarkably short #pnco of timo, “Unhappily for sovoral families, and also for tho records which thig Gisastrous contlagration may leavo, thero is n snd side connocted with it, without counting the number of porrons fiuan- cinlly rined. With the explosion and falling of wally 6evoral of our noblo fire-laddics woro sori- ously (threo or four fatally) injured, and o ra-~ mor is curront that two wera killed. ““!I'iin firo_is not without -ils moral. Orogon fir-wood, it hna been domonstrated, will bum, end it {8 unsafo, therofore, to let {ho Cbineso Dol tar and piteh inuide theirhonacs.” —————— DIISCELLANEOUS, Milwaulkee Lrowerics made 92,251,590 worth of lagor-hoer in 1872, —The donntions to Marvard University, sinco tho Bustdn fire, aggregate £124,4G1.50, —Among othor things {at Woily & Fargo' flrm is nob responsibla for ns carriors, ora tho following, au printed in their rogulationsi: Kor for any Joss or damago by fire, tho oty of God, or of Indians, or any ofler public cnemies of tho Governmont."—Salt’ Lake Z'ribune, —A. Kausas mou dropped o little note to a noighbor's wifo, inviting hor to meet hi:n under tho palo silver moon. ‘fhe husband gut tho nota first, and kept tho appointmont. wo dactors Tiave been at work on tha Kanvas mau, in whom thoy found rich lead mine, —~Toulsvillo bonsts of a small boy who mado a atoam ongino out of an oykter-can and tivo pieces of old load pipo, i faiher will soon lo com- polled tomaka t coflin out of o raisin-box, to ac- commodate tho romnina of thig young genius when his steam cngine blows up. © —Wa learn from the Bagt Baginaw (Mich,) En- ferprise that tho proliminary stops havo aifondy beon taken for tho construction of Inrge iron eteamers, to run upon the tran- sit lino Lotweon TPoro Marquotto and Mani- towoo, which aro to bLe built of suf- ficient strength to make tho trip salely at all scn- sons of the year, and are to be finished and fur~ nished in clogant stylo. —A Now Ifavon ravivelist the othor night pointod tho futuro otate of tho wiskoed iu glaoiy colors, and, saying that bis fathor diod 1 verv wiclted man snd bad gono to holl, was proceed- ing, when a youngauroso to goout. Tho preacher at once announced that thero wen o young man goivg straight to tho wame burning Yoggion, when tlio_secador stopped und coolly asked: “Well, Eldor, don't you want to send gome word to your father 7" —Professor Lyndall has junt perfectod a new machina which is likoly to "have a bottor sulo thun his moroe celobrated prayor-gange, It Is a a respiretor for firemon, in which tho solid par- ticles of the donkost smoko are arrosted by filma of cotton wool wotted with glycorine, and tho mout pungent gna by Iayors of charcoal, By this u!mpln means, firomen can romain within Durning bulldings for upward of ‘an honr gt a time with snfoty and comfort, s0 far as their rospiration Iy concornod. —Tho Indlanapolis News snys that o gontle- mon of that cily has made an agrcement with hin wifo that Lo will givo her 8100 if slio can eat a quail o doy for thirty days. Sho las the privilego of cooking the Dird {n auy manuer, of eating it ut any timo of day sho chooses, but ono quail” sbo must eat each day, Sho has got dn’nugh with eightoon, and bids fairto win tho wager. The theory ia that quail soon nousontes, and the proudost stomach qualls boforo tho task of devouring one daily, A shwllar wagor was mado and won in Washington £WO yents ntw, but tho winner got quail onough to Inist him tho rast of Lis lifa, —I1t i3 stated that o Delgian publishor haa in press & ook purporting to give tha Jottors ro- coivod by tho Urand Duke Aloxis from Indies, during his sojourn In this country. Thoso opiutlon, it ia furthor snid, wore sll “contninod in o winglo trunk, and, with o largo lob of mis- oollnucous Archducal bggage, confided to o valot ot Havana, to deliver in Bt, Petersburg. All tho chosts, save the ona packed with the lettors, tho sorvant forwardod to tho Russiun eapitul, and the contonts of tho stolen trunk ho sold to tho Belglan publisher, who announces tho novel volumo, It Is reported that the Rna- sinn Government has demunded tha oxtradition of the ratcally servant, Justico would seom to dlomand tho punlshmont of tho greator crimiual, tho book-meker, LONDON. Another Contest in the Cliurch of England. Somo Christias Boolis--=* @rotesquo Auimals »-=-Ifepworth Bixom . The Mormonsg and the Silver Mines---Bucklo on tho United States. Fyom Our Own Correspondent. Loxnor, Dec, 19, 1372, ANOTHER CONTEST IN THE CHURCH OF EXULAND, Agontloman who wasinconversation, the othei day, with the ableat and sincerast of the chiofs of the Connorvatives, was nsked what timo ho al- lowed for the continued oxistenco of a Sfato Church, *Oh! about threa or fonr years,” ho ropliod ; *and what do you give?" “Itall do- ponda upon Mr, Gladstono's health,” was the answor, Dorhaps his Tordship ronlly meant what ho szid, but there is no renson to boliove that Mr. Gladstono has any nolion’ of tho sort. o nover has until ho {s pushed on, snd thon ho suddonly serves the now atticlo of hia creed with possion. 'To-day, the question of the Church and ite rulers is forced upon us by yostorday's contest at Oxford reupecting tho appointmont of Dern Stanloy a3 ono of tho Solect Proachors ho- foro the Univorsity. The oxcellont Denn fa fond of oxpatinting to his lnical and Dissonting frionds upon tho breadih of the Establishmont. Ho delights to picturo an institution ns compro- Lionsivo as the world ; and, at times, ho roally moomy tu Lollovo thnt overy shado of opinion, from the ostromest Ritualist to tho oxtromest Rationalint, can bo vory comfortable togothor in thio Establishmont, although the mombars use & common service, and esprees their beliof in o common forwulary, Yeatorduy's proceedinga show that tho bonst is not, at any rate, un- cballenged. Dean Stanloy is oxceptionably woll cireum- atanced a8 ropresentative of freo Inquiry in tho Church of Xngland, If ho can bo ogtracised who shall esespo ? Ho is & favorite with tho Queen, snd will bo nour to tho Throno ; o hes o strong hold wupon English sociaty by the enplivaling ehnractor of his Dooks; and Lo lias brought tho languago of evasion to such o stato of porfoctness that ho nover shocka any ono outright. 1fo is n coniributor to the Z'imes, and enjoys tho powerful support of that organ of tho DPhilistinen; aud he has intimate frends in {ho ofices of all tho bost journala, ITo is, porsonally, vory agroeablo; all his paths, in fact, “ run ovor with fainesn.” Wo attnck him is to Lring downa hest. Yot it is tded. I cannob profess any sincoro surprise. I caunot seo why Dishop Colensio, without any Court [favor, is to bo scouted nnd sucered, while Dr. Stanley, with tho samo opinions, is to bask in the sunehine. Deeides, the worthy Dean is too fond of smooth things. 1o avoids what is doflnito, and insinuntos ratber than maserts. IIe haa had nono of the Dburdon aud tho heat of tho day. 1n point of faet, thero ought to_bo no * Uni- vorsity sormon ™ at all, By recont logielation, the Universitics ave deprived of an accloeinstical charactor, Logully, they aro not Chareh of Englmd wny moro than they nro Roman Catholio or Unitarinn; mnor is thore any reason for providing the mombers with a particular sorvice. Lot each seck for himeolf, amidst tho many shades ot Oxford, the pattern which he mout adm! It ia timo to have done with theso speciul privilegos of o particular sect. TLo Dean triumphed yestorday, not from tho toleration of (Lo Convocation, but from o com= mon tright of tho voluntary principlo. ho rinciplo of tho Establvlmont ia in danger, aud r. Btanley isono of its strongest ndvocates. Not that they liko him or his opinione, but that thoy liko tho Stato Church tho moro. Lonce his majority, OITRISTIIAS BOORG. Whilo tho butchoni aro hanging immonse Dblocks of beef in their windows, and poulterers tho long bodios of hugoe turkeys 3 whilo iho gro- cors ara lioaping up-. piles of raising, and whilo holly is boginning to groot us from behind plato glaes,—tho bookeollers diaplay tho food for the mind in profuso nnd atbracliva fashions. Booka aro pouring out from tho hoad gtores, Among theso is o curious workealled “Grotesquo Animals”" nvented, dercribed, nad portrayed by 3. G. W, Cooko, tho Royal Academician. With en jmmonso knowledgo of tho auatomy of ani- mals, Mr. Cooko has piit togother parts of maring animals, insocts, zooplytes, land and sen mon- sters, clc., inan alarming manncr. Thoso who hayo seon tho plates declaro that nover vince tho old Dueh painteys portrayed the Lomptations of St. Anthony has thero bean such n confusod and yot cohorent sot of horrors, alt in the trno spirit of grotesquo caricaturo. Mr. Hepworlh Dixon will not adnit ho is crushod by the condemna- tion of hiis Inte works, and ho announces Anne " a3 confidently as though ‘¢ Bpivitnnl " Lind not bean tho subject of an acfion fczlibel, Tho literary remeing of the Jate Miss Bugan Yerrier, author of * Destiny,” &o., aro ohoub to be prepared for publication. Miss Terrier died in . Her correspondenco in- cludes letters fyom Sir Walter Seott and Jobn G, Lookliart ; and hor Conmonplaco Book has e {:ubli.ilxc[l compogitions of Scott, Thomas Canp- oll, anad otber eminont pools, When tho I'reo Trado Congress bolds it mit- tings hevo, next suamer, n strennous attempt will bo made to intorent tho dnlogatos in intor- national copyright nnd uuifonn intornational pontage, g THE MORMONS AND THEL SILVER MI A capital book enlled ** The Mormons und {he Bilvor Mines," Ly an Austrelian colonist, and & Tollow of thé oyal Geologieal Socir by, Juut out, daserves to Lo reprinted in tho Siaivs, Tho author, Mr. J. Bonwick, is very frea in his oriticlsms, and they aro worth vending wnd dig- cussing, Alr, Bonwick saw no resson, when ab Salt Luko, to think that tho religious system of Mormonixtu wa losing its powor, but o detoct- ¢d, ns ho bolioves, many signa of the impending destruction of ~tho ~ practico of polygumny. Tho_ geological portion . of tho - work i {ho most importaut. Tho increasing investmonts of Bnglish eapital in American niines males us curious on tho subject of metal~ lic resources. In 1870, the smomnt of Euglish capital in foroign and colonial wines only reuched two milliony, while (ho year nftor it was eloven milliona. The prenont year hus o stil) Inrgor in- vestnront, Novada und tho wholo neighborhood of Morman-land_lnvo alrcady ahrasbad wo el British epital (Lat tho mines nre moro Brilish than American. Dz, Bonwick otfors soveral eun- sidorations for invesiors, Ilo belioves that the time hny come whan mining vontures in tha sil- yor-land around tho Mormons have more cor- tainty ubout thom than somo othor uu{’)punml safo modon of investment ; but ho dokeribes the injurics which should precedo o doposit of dol- lars, A vast floll of ontorpriso will open, Lo snys, some day in Novals, Utah, ete,, for hydraulie_operations, When' tho suliply in tho eaverna bolow can ho ulilized, **not only will mining bo o glorions success, but {his Amorican dosort will become o harvest home, and blossom as thio roso.” TIE LATE IR, BUCKLE UPON THE UNITED TATES, Threo volumen, consisting of miscallaneoi and_ posthumous "works by tho Into Mr. Tucklo, woro iesued to-duy, under tho n«li‘.uruhi}v of Miss elon Yaylor, stop-daughter of Mr. Johu Blnury Mill, DTart of tho st volumo consiuts of fFragmonts,” mado up partly of notes for bouks, suchns ho aftorwarda might have on- torod n 1ds Commonplaco Bookw; parily of tho firnt yough form in which hLo ‘was in tho babitof putting hisideas upon paver; and purtly of thodo portious of tho original s#tatistics of his published published work which ho had not incorporated into it. Ouo of the fragments is made up of rongh noten upon Amo- iea. It iu sufliciently fnteresting, from tho actor of tho author, and from Lhe singnlar emi- osity attachiug to the uow voluww, to buropeatod in full, and heve it iu: « AN 3 Tho faull of tho Ane 15 tho oprosita of tho Freuch, Wit them, [lcety hus ontalelpped sk plich Ruad (16 Towy aeeotnt of Atwerien in vl 3 of o' Iistory’ of Europe, and for proof of tha great Inllacice of th clexygp hew Bago ST, deusa we fiud that thclr only orlghidd Worls havo beon o Jurlepru- donc, 0u tho fniclieetual fidepulenica thturs [r tho Démocratle misl, sea % Wit und Dichtang,” 1 Gonthio's works, Bund 11, Theil 11, p, 103, T 1775 O eest andertdok au o Cunda, tnd Colonel Aenold ummont surrender, 4 i tho namo of the Grat Johovah und (ho Continental Congrews,” Tu 1773, Gneral Law. wrlt I tho unaens il aprearani e of n chigo, Ui plon i fug Lecano eroce aid oot In 13 uald that ok one di oo Bivire | of th A- anerclunty know uhiy.l s 1 Awuriconn wero great:y of sprending edueation, fico n classification of the svorks publlehied on the United Stuten fn 1835, Thio Amorlestn lavo miora nowapapess _than ali Lirapo pul_togetlicr, but {ho slylo. In wrotehed, “Cho Unbled Bluten aro Simhealthy : mid, Hitlo attontlon heing patd {o fmprovimyg thelr townd, tho Amoricans nre ehwrl-lived ; heiico tho provalencd of youug mon it violent yasions, ele, ¥ By dono_muels for eatblishing #. _On the extraordinury Hherensn of tho o Lotweun 1840 e 1850, avo Htatiutiend Som y, VoI XV, pp, 03, 60, Tho whito pupultion fs i g oo TapIATy that the biuels, Tho Amorioe, I 1833, D 10,289 andles of raflrond, whils Greal Diiindii il Beufand Uiero wera oly 7,000, Gomto o dliat tho reason why slave Slutes, ua Vieginks, Jroduced poiiichom, 1o bocwuso dbility botug; nover furned Suto’ mumnutactures, trades, efe,, fna -t yont bit in polilica, Hegur, who wan it Amerion in 1782, npealas Vory highly of 'tho clegonco of Alrorican o, Tancroft rags that, In 1764, Washington, by “ropel. lng Frenco from the Lastrl of the Okloy® egay the rovolutlon by beginiug tho movement ‘whick freed Amrlea from Franco and tho institutions of tho Mids die Agrs” “On tho proportions of Amerlcin popuine 1lon 1 1764, £o Baucrott, vol. 1, pp. 144, 145, 1n 1765, tho English'ciorgy sont ot t6 Amerlen {o hold livingd wers %100 often Sil-educated and liconlfona mou,”* il Tugitelt forlado tha Americans to printa Tblo; aud #No trace of an American edition of the Bibde, nur- replitlous or otherwiso, pravious to the Doclaration of Independence, bus bech found,” i 1766, Joln Adanis rags, * A native Amerlean who cantiol read and writs 14 A TAt0 A APpEarateo n n comot of an earlhiake,” neroft eags, *Tho oxcendingly valuablo history of the Amerfcan Rovolution, by Gordou,"—an ablo Amordcan writer, who 14 Bnfavorablo to slavaey,—sisa tht n hette in tho Inferlority of raco s an gpiafon whicl tho moit phifosoplical of tho eittiom of (a0 Fouth consclontionsly,maintaln,? Tiio grat sl ustons {Blmient wus folt at on’ African girl ‘boing tbls o read in_ofgileon mnnthn, Tord Liroughau says, i Tho novor-cosing stato of party agltution,—thero being wo ofilcs from thio lighest to (lio lovost, from Prestdant in Yeany Postman, which may tot Lo changed b euch Fenowal of that high functionary'a form." his must educato tho pooplo Sn tho art of organlz: tlon, ke, Lord Shaftisbury sagn, * All tho povers Government are conalgned'to the younger persons ana hio moutlons o lotter from u friend of his, who writes, Thavo travellod over a considerablo pat of thio Unilon, and I do niot Lesllato to my thint, during {i10 Iast two mauthe, X havo not met with & slnglo old man who wau in o halo condition,” On tho enoryy eliown by tho Amoricnns In_codifying their Inwe, 560 PP, 195, 197, On perscoution of Quakerain Atetos, atiout 1060, sco Fox's Journal, vol. 1, pp. 405, 490, Luis Wt ioaruy § ond Kok, who' wan i Amerien in 1613, sid glven on ‘necownt of hia visit (which onds at vol, 11, 1. 167) does niot mention any persccutions, COUNTY MATTERS. Proposition to Establish tho Ofice of Me- chanical Superintendent, Beport of the Committees on Finanes aud Eqraliza- Lion on tho Amendments to tho Tax Law. The County Commissioners mot yestordey af- tornoon, Prosident 1I B, Miller in tho chair. Thoro wero prosont the following Commission- ors: Ashton, Buguo, Clough, Crawford, Gallo- way, Herting, Hurxis, Harrison, Jonos, Lonor- gou, Lalilman, Russcl, and Singor, TUL OFFICI: OF COUNTY MECHANIO. A communication was recoived from tho Build- ing Comwitteo, recommonding tho appointmont of an agent to inspect and attend to applications by Judges and other employos of the county for reprazs to tho county building, ob s salary to bo fixed by the Board, Commissionor Crawford opposed the croation of o new oflico, and thought that tho work could bo done better by a Conumittes of {ho Bowrd. ‘Tho tax-payers demandod niora working on tho part of tho committeos. i Commissioner Boguo thought it wonld be cconomy fo create such an otico rather than pay tho five mcmbers of Commitlco 25 a day cach for their cervices, Another Commissioner spoke oxcitedly on this subject soveral timos and ot great length, Tho mattor was temporarily laid over. AMENDMENT TO THE TAX LAW. Commissioner Bogue, from the Joint Com- mittee on Financo and Equalization of Taxes, presented o voluminous report, as follows: geNtLesey ; Tho Committees on Finance and Equalization of Tuxes, to whom was referred tho coni- munication of the County Attorney, in regard to pro- pused chiauges in tho Keveuuo Law, bavo had tho samo under cousideration, together with other matters of iuterest to tho county, ond beg leave to report that there nro tireo modes provided by the Oonstitution whereby revenuo nuy o ralsed for couuty purposes, vz, ¢ 1. A tax without Limit a3 to amwount (0 pay in- debteduesy whick existed ab the Ume of the adopton of thu Coustitution, which tax can Lo use:d for no other purpose, 2 A tax of 7' mills for genoral pur- puscs, U, A tax in addlion to tho ubove when wuthorized LY 8 vote of tho ypueoplo of tho county, Tae county s nuthorized by taw to Ienue bends to tho extent of hulf o million . of doilars, Lnt » sinking fund must be provided for paying the fitereat on these bonds,. aud to dischargde the priucipal in twenty years out of tho 7% mill tux, A carcful esti- mute sbiows thut this 74 mill tax will bo requtred for the ordinery l.'oumly purposes ; snd that it will bo lm- practicable to provido for the paymnent of the bonds out of this tax, Your Committes then assumo that the Reform School grounds, when gold, will provide for tho erection of tho Crinnal Conrl Houso and Jall ; thut the 74 mill tax will tako care of the ordinary alfairs of the county; that tho old indebteducss {3 provided for by the Constitution, leaving uo fund with which to jolu with the eity In tho crectjon of the Court. Uouke, But o rafse such a fund, your Commitico aro of tho opinion thut & reavst chould bo lad tu tho yote of {he Jropls for uthority to levy n grester tax, Yho fon then presented le—1, Whether o fax shull e levied nt once, sutilelent to robulld with, or ut lezst & tax each yeur for four or fiv years; or, 2, Whethr tho bonds O tho county shall ba fesucd aud {he mouoy rafued at onee, nud_tho siuking fuud provided by u tax to Lo rpread over the period of tho lifo of tho bonds, Tho oljections to the first maodoare : 1, That 3 diveet Lux in order to b avaliable must ull o colleeted within = very short period, and it will bu un uhecossary burden upon thu people. 2, That the Courl Louys is supposed to bo for tho bonefi of the pubiic for sll time 1o come, und it s fnix and equitablo (hat tiro values which will 'tn tho futuro by nided, - hould pay a portion of tho cost, inzsimucls i ey Wil in connijont with present values buve tho ben- eflty, Your Committeo aro of the opinion that the Lest modo 14 to $sxuo the houds and _to oxlk tha people to vota & tx to o uxtended over the pertod of the lfo of the boud, When wo contider that within fifioen years {bo aceossed value of tho property of (e county will double, it is rfefo suy that o 103 of 13 mills averago will Uaull that fi required, They trerefore recoramend the Lt ogo of n law which will nuthorize the peopio ta voro i tax 10 puy tho bonds, surh tax Lo be ddatiibuted throngh a perlod of 20 yecommnd tho pussigo of & Jaw providing for n Cou ty Anscssor, whoe salary ghall bo fixed by the Bourd, Tewill cost no more to the county thei the present mads of proparing_ tho Aescesor's looks, whils muny thonrandy of doflura will bo saved to the county, aud Dy requitiig tho Aesessor (o mako all neceasary cutrecs tlons , 50 that all propurty shnil by properly deseribed ud fairly asseascd ; und By civing tho publio an oppor- tundty to uspuct tho beoks, vory many of the ditliculs tlea " will Lo yemedied wifel now obetruct tho colloction of taxes, Your Joint Commitfes nre of thie opinton that tho timo for colleeting tho tax of 1872 elowid bo extended, Tho fnportance of this will ba upparent when we conshder tho prosent stringent cou- dtlon of the monoy minrkat, the fact thut w lirgo por- ton of tho lux=puyera aro now out of omploytent, and tho furthur fact thal tho tax of 187Lis_yet being’ eol- lected. Your Comusittes turthor report thiat fuantutich a4 (ho county {5 churged with tho care of connty poor,“the Ibard ougght to have p o welost tho Door Muster in tho ¢ iowns, Tho law atlows wich Jusee (s GOONCrs qhests) $1 per day, being 75 cents more thau formier W azg of tio opinlon thit no feo should bo allowed, Your Comnmittes recommend tliat {he County Attoruey cle:l 0 proparo Lilis, wnder tho dirvction und dslon of the Jolut Committee, enibracing tho oing resolutiu.g, sud that oLy Ben..ovs aid 15 ps Teacubitives bo roquested to seeury thy pessagy of tho eauie, T'ho veport was concurrod in, OPLNING BIDS, A discuseion thon aroas upon the feasibility of i sidoving Uids fov supplying i connty, which the * lobby" butsids 1an wild, “hicls the Board adjowrned uniil & o'clogis thig uftornoon, NOTICE 70 QUIT. & 1 the Editor of The Chicayo Tribune : Bin: Asonindicailon of the war on stink- pots that Yydo Payk proposos to wage, tho fol- lowingiu n copy of the mnotice that las been served on the . & Fi, W, R. R, I this natico is unheoded, it is proposed, to-morrow and thorenttor, to linve tho police arrest any man in chargo of traing couvoying offal into Ilyde Turk, and if £ach mon have not the monoy to puy fines imposed, tlioy will bo put fu our looke ;lp LIl Buch 1ines wio paid. Tho uotice 1s a fol- oW ¢ 1y Pans, Jan, 6, 1873,— 1, C. Cleluwd, I Gen, Passenger Agent B, & FECW, K R Dewr Sur: Ty resolution of the Board of Trustees of tho Villgo of Tum inatricted to vigldly enfolee our ar- g to ulsanced, + Aol tho ordinace: ibject which I hayo ordered our pollco lil- cory to outoree, on wnd ufier to-morrow, 1 eall your ot tention o e fullowlugg, V. Citar, 1 L 7.~-No persan shall transport, carry, hanl, or cofivey any olfal, dead animaly, o o BOF difensivs or niwholerony ormaterdd fato or thenugh 1ho Villago o 13ydu Pack ; nuy pesson why shall bo (o chnzgs of oe cu:pluyed ol sy Gakn, oF Lant, - Garn i ue ¢oite voying Faggw it Hyda thin §5, hor ik Wo'rlisire to o Crlnl, 100 uF throuk 0 pubjrct 10 i g of Tt less 0 U fur Lavit olione o, unid 50 fenely notlee that Hyde Pavk will st o (e duping gotiud for e ol of Ciid- Yours tuig g g, 0,3, Caiy, caldout of tho Boutd o1 Trusices, Your dotut Committee further | BANKRUPT INSURANCE COMPANIES, Opintong of Attornoys Submitted o Judgo Blodgelt A Fow Moro Witnessos Examined In tho *Stato Matter. In reaponso to an invitation, reveral Inwyors, ropresonting banksnpt fusuraneo companics and their ereditors, mot in the Unlted Staios Distric! Court, yosterdny morning, to give their reasont Why clnims in which no “proot of loss” had beou filed shonld bo atlowod, Judgo Blodgott occnpied the benol, Mr. Horton, attornoy for tho Tireman's, sald thioro were three clnuses of claims to which Le objocled: firat, whera no proof of loss had boon filed, olthor with the Compa-y or tho Assiguco, under tho polioy, and no proof of debt filed bo- foro tho Regisler in Tnkrapley; second, where proof of debt hnd heen filed eforo the Neglster within tho year limited in the polioy, Lut na proof of loes filed with tho Company; third, whera proof of loss had been filed ith tho Assignee, und objected to, and no proof of dobt filed with tho legister. His objection ta thelr nllowanco was that tha poliey provided {hat no recovory should ho had unloss the proof of lous bo mado to tho Company and suit com. menced within ono year from tho time of logs. . Colonot Walcoit sald his view was, that whon any eroditor of a corporation or individual filed a Jpotition in bankruptey agaiust such corporation or 1dividual, thore bo commenced a suit agrinat it or him for tho Lenefit of all other croditors, and if tho suit resuited fn o doereo of baukrapt- cy, ho was entitlod to tho benefits, Nologal ox oquitablo claims could, iu his opinion, bo barred bofora tho oxhaustion of tho asuotp. Mr. Mitchell represiented s caso in which, aftor tho loss occurred, and provious Lo tho Assignea being appointed, tho Secretury of the Company, tho Mutual, waived tho necessity of furnishing o proof of loss. Tho question to be decided wag, whothier tho Secretary had the right Lo assumed. The Registor had rofased to allow tho claim. Mr, Mitetioll dosired to mako no nigumnnt. 1L, 11, Anderson, for tho claimants, contendod that the clnuse in the policy limiting tho time within whiel suit might bo brought to twelve months being a condition, should” 1,0 construed strictly ngalnst tho Company, it being Lho obligor,and tho clausd jteell boing much harsher thun the statuto of limitation which had al wnd'n beoun striotly coustruod against ho debtor, and, thorefore, only a suit in n court of \ Ilnw or _chamcery was barrod Ly the clanzo; and tkat o court of bankruptey wus neither, but a cyexiure of slatuto, with forma aud proceedngy entirely dilferont and unknown to courts of law aud chanvery., Lhub United Statos Courts uf common Iaw woro bound by Btato stalutes of linitations, and Lankroptey courts hed soverat timos liold timt they wero not bound Dy ench stututes, and had ailowed claimg to be proved which woro otherwisie barred. 1Mo claimed that tho partics Lo the cou- tract did not contomplate bankrupley procead- .ingu when they mado this #tipulation, und that it did not, and should not, apply, to thom, Mr. bith urged that the limitation cleuse in tho policies was binding. 1To could not imagino LW tho inability of o company to pay its colita should excuse o creditor from taking the ncees- sary nteps, within {ho specific tinio, to ctube Lisli his clafm against the hankrupl. Georgo W. Smith, repr Sptaguo ond Roberb Law against the Mutual Seenrity, eaid notico of loss, a8 roquired Dy tho policy, wns given, bat, througli some mistalke, or n supposition that no proof would ha requiroed, it wan not made. \hen the Company was ndjudicated o bankrupt, his clicuts supposed nll procoodings, so far s tho Company was coneerucd, Were unnecesiary. Subsequentiy, however, within propor fimo, proof of debt was made to tha Register, but tho Assigneo, ho understood, objceeted to tio clain. The yuestion vy whoibor there hnd boen a com-~ plinnco with tho requiremonts of (ha policy. Ha took tho position that, alter tho fiing of tho potition to adjudgo the Company o Linkrupt, any proof of debt to tho Company would liave booit unnecessary, becauge, aftor thnt tine, (ho ofticers of {ho Cmu})lmy bad no authority citl to rolieve or bind themeelves. T'ho Court snid ho would revervo hia decision. TRE “eTATE" AataEh. Thko matter of tho Loau nnd Trust Danlk againat tho Stato Insnranco Comprny wos ros sumed, yeslorday morning, boforo Mr. Rtegiuler Hibberd, Mr, D, W. Reith tontified that his fim bad Liad a poliey in tho Cotapany for 6,000, which was adjusted for £4,400. Ilo sold the claim; to whom, Lo did not know. A goutleman culled in the store, and snid 10 por cont was all the Com- Jeny would pay. o ould not kmow tho man it 0 Wwero to seo iim. 16 did not Lknow Mr. Van Inwagon., Mr. Keill's impression was that the man was buying for the Company, Abijali Kéith, partnor of tho last witness, waa unablo to give any furthor iuformetion, Ho nssigned the policy, but did not know for whose beanotit it was nssignad. 7 Houry W. King hed lad a_policy “for # adjusted for $4,000, und wold it for ©300 to & ‘brokor by the name of Goss, whom {he witnesa supposad to bo woting for hitakolf, Ifo was told by tho broker that tho prico ke offerod wans pll thiat tho Company could pay, snd that bo wanted to use the policics as a set-off agninst tho Com- pzuy. He bad talked to Mr. Hurlbut, President of tho Gompuy, prior to ho sulo. * r, Ayer objected (o this te fon way pusteined, Mr. King staling that id nol 1ntend to rovoko tho suio. In {ho aftoroon, Mr. David Biakcloy said the Poat Irinting Company hud o policy for 59,000, 7. B. MedMuallpn, tucir burineds manngor, tools ilio policy, and deposited 10 per cent Lo tha erec't of ho Company, That waw all b kuew ony, end the of it. Iho Court then ndjourncd till this morning. : T The North Crvelinn @uilnwy GROges Another Swaunp Angel Genes Bricf montion has Le2n mado of tha death o Andrew A, Strong, of the North Curoliua Swamp Angels, for whowo capturo tho_ofticera of Liche~ son County offered 1,000 and ths magi: of tho Btate of North Curoli ¥ more. Strong and will be romombered, ors of tho infamous * Lowery gang” of outlaws who tumo timo ngo caused much troublo to tho neighbor- h.)lml. 'An accomnt of Btromg's ond is given g 1ol n Thuradaey, ot Ruroks, o small tovn about cight miles from Wilmington, a crowd of non- deseripts, but fow of them probably of moro than averugo honesty, was gatberod in & sioro ut the alation, Ouo of the'm, o negro, secroted i his pockot o number of locks bolonging to the store, nud a elerk numed Willimn Wilson, vecing tho thoft, domanded tho return of the loeks, and the thief’ resisting, they woro obtained by forco, About an hour’ after this, Androw £*vong, who bad ovidonily beon drinking, enmo into tho stora and ordered” Mr, Wilon (o leavo tho county, swearing that it ho did not he would kill him. "Tho youug man informed biw that ho wonld de o, whoroupon Slvoug lelt thoe store. Abous £ o'clock lio returned moro intoxicated than be. fore, and ropealed Iy commenuds, telling Mr, Wilkon that 1f ho found him theve nt 8 o'clock ix the mornng ho would coxtuinly kill hita, After snying this Tho antlaw turned £o leavo tho ctore, and o4 ho did xo Vvilion raised n double-larrellee gun end discharged ono Larel ab the ouddaw, lelt(uu eighteen buckebot in his neck and head Tha body of tho onllaw was, in spit o the pr {entations of his friends, dolivored to the Shevi of the conuty, nad Wilson received tio roward H5tove ™ Lowery in now tho only survivor of the gung of * Bwamp Angels.” B S i Fraportnze Avreests From the L funpoliv Seutiel, Jan, Mrny of 4ho readoss uf tho Seatinel will ro- membor that bout two years nzo w man namod John d, Crider, n_rosidont of CGre_ntiold, Indi~ ann, who waa doing businces ns a moreliant in villago, roported that whilo en roufe East to buy goads, ho hid beew robbiod ab” Itichmond, Tndiana, of £30,000, 1t v sub.oquently proy- on that ho lind macto franefer of hin stoek of goods in order to swvindlo hin creditors, and that fhis wfory of hin hnving heon robled wag simply o dodge to allay the suspiciong of his creditors, aud to oxelto thelr symputhios, that ho might the Lotter play hin liitle gamo, But oreditars, ond ecpeeinliy Iastorn evcditory, aro not_so. ensily gulled, “Thoir suspiciuns wore oxcitodand o vigorows inguiry instiiutud,when it was found that Crider waws n swindler, Cacti in the ense Loing mada publie, Mr, wucdonly tott tho hamlet of Qreenitelt for pr fiekds wid pastiros new in tha bouadloss Weat, ( $1,000 was offored for his yecapture, ! 4 tho fact, vough Induane H o Lield to of perjuy and + in Grocuticld, the vl ombezzlomont,