Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1873, Page 4

TIIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1873. of Mr. Douglag’ first wife, who was & Miss Mar- 4 _—- places. The circamstances under. which the | to have had £500,000 for: dishursement on.the.| ton under—Andy Johnson's Administration, died .22, i e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERAS O SUBSCRIPTION.{TAYABLY I ADVANCE). - Daily, by mail 12.00 Sanda: .5 fitucy S15:00) ey $3:30 Parts of a yoarat the same rate. c To prevent delay and mistakes, bs sure and give Post Offca acdrees n full, including State and County. Remitiunces may bo made either by draft, expreas, Post Oticoorder, orin registersd letters, at our risk. TERMNS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dafy, gelivercd, Sunday exceptsd, 25 cents per weck. Lally, delivered, Sunday included, -0 cents per wock. Addcss THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ‘Corner Madison and Dezrborn-sts., Chicago, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE—Washington News : Tho Crodit Mobiller Scandal; Procecdings in Congrets. SECOND. PAGE—The Bosco Murder Trisl-Evanston ztters—The Grest Western Telegraph Company's Mosting—Denver Latter—Gilded Poverty~New Or- leans Lettor—The Field and Stable. 5 THIRD PAGE—The Law Courts—Our Pabllc Schools— ‘Woman's Rights; An Interesting Opinion by Judge Blodgett—Tho Clark Stroet Traok—Arrest of Hog Thieves—Billiards—Tho Merorial Piotare—The Per sonal Liberty Lesgue v. the Sanday Law- Tims Tablo—Adrertisoments. FOURTH PAGE-—Editorials: The Rates of Postage; Ths Lonlsiana Investigations—Carrent Nows Itoms -—Notes and Oplnion. FIFTH PAGE—Ruloor Ruln: The Polics Commission- ‘ers! War o Superintendant Washburn—blarkots by Telegraph—Chicago Dry Goods Markets—. ments. SIXTI1 PAGE—Monetary and Com=ercial. BEVENTH PAGE—An Iows Colony—An Interesting CoOperativa Community—Hokey-Pokey—General News Items—Small Advertisements: Real Estate, For Sale, ToRent, Wanted, Boarding, Lodging, ete. EIGHTH PAGE~Forefgn News—State Logislatures— Fircs—] News—Miscollanoons News Tels- grams. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENT A'VICKER'S THEATRE-Madison street, between Etate and Dearborn. FPogagementof Dion Boucicanlt wxd wifo. **The Phentom.” **Eerm." 2 AIKEN'S THEATRE—Wabach avenue, corner of Gon-. gross stroct. Engagemont of 3fr. J. W. Albauj *“Poverty Flat; or Celiforula. in *4.". Aftornoon Atmee Troupe in ** La Porichole. == ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Ealtted strest, south of Madisca. *Cherles O'Mzlley.” Afternoon snd evonrag. ° HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Rsndolph atreet, be- toeen Clark and LaSalle; - New Comedy Compauy. **Paul Pry.” Afternoon and oening. 3 MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroo street, botmeen Stuto end Dearborn. Anlinglon, Cotton & Komblo's 2eimatroland Burlosque Troape. Ethiopian Comicalitios. GLOBE THEATRE—Dasplainies ctredt, botwean Madl- $.020d Washington. Engugement ‘of Miss. Fanny Her tmg. **THe Cabin Boy.” Afternoon and oruning. NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE—Glinton, betwean Wash fogtonand Tandolph strests. McAllister. Afternoon &2xd orening. bune, The Chicage Wednesday Morning, January 29, 1873. "The highest rate for telegraphic despatches from any iwo points in-the United States is, ! siter Feb. 1, to be §2.50 for ten words, instesd | of €5, us at present. This regulation mainly spplies to despatches -between ‘the Atlantic and Pacific cities. The rates between Western cities «and Californis baye béen raduced, but not in the eame proportion. _Inthe ballot for Senator, which was taken seaterdsy in the Kansas Legislature, Senator Pomeroy received 40 votes in the House and 10 “In the Senate. This is Jess than Senator Pom- eroy bad arranged to receiva, s he predicted .geveral days ago that he would receive 60 on tho” first ballot. The result will be renched ito-day.y - 2 One of the speskers in the meeting of the Personal Liberty League, yesterdsy morning, declared that he had kept his saloon open eyery” Supdsy, and had not yet been fined. “If all the esloon-keapers, ho gsid, had kept open, there would have been no troutle. The- League has determined to test the Bunday ordinance, to furnish connsel to thore who are prosecuted for wiolating the law, and pay their fines. MMoney 40 sustain these proceedings is to be got by sssessing members of the League and levying contribntions from the wholesale liguor-dealers .&nd brewers. i & : Testerday, tho Canadisn Government hed re- cuting the work of enlarging the Wellend Canal. } ceived no less than 35 bids or proposals for exe- This work, when let out to the contractors, will be spoedily pushed, and willbe the first great &tep to enlarging our facilities for water naviga- tion. If our Government would only meet the Canadians in'a friendly conference with s view of remewing the treaty for reciprocal trade, there would be such &h immediate impulse given. to the St. Lawrence improvement as would give us-the freo navigation of that river for oif lsrgest Gleamers with very brief delay. - Soma wit has defined philanthropy s & forco that increases directly £8 the square-of the dis- znes. Telegraphio enterprise must be sub- io o similar law. I¢.has faken -more in twelve hours to_eond a. message s disteace of less then a milo and a half within the city limits “of Chicago, but yesterday & meseage was sent from Cambridge City, Tn- diana, to Aberdeen, in. Beotland, and’ an answer received, in 1.hour and 25 minutes ; another, message was then sent, and an answer reccived in 1 hour and 50 minutes.” Altogether, the four transmisions took less than four hours. . The Rev. Adam Sedgwick, the. distingnished' English geologist, who-has just jdied at the remarkible age of 85, was born in “177. - Hp was graduated by Cambridg with, fair- honors, «nd becsma Senior Fellow .of Trinity College. In 1818 he was appointed Woodwardian Professor of Geology, and ‘Canon of Norwich in 1834, Hlis writings as'a geologist have always been held in high repute, and are preserved in the transactions of the Cambridge Philosoph- ical Sociaty, and of the London Geological So-. ciety. - Beveral of his efforts in’ other author- €hip hsve.been very siiccessfal. One of these' is 8 colebrated “ Discourse on the Studies of the Tnisersity of Cambridge,” which’ was published 01850, and passed throngh five editions, the roquest of the Chair- man of thb Crelit Mobilier Committee, has made’ 8 statement of, his deslings with Ames.” Tho subtaiice of what he daid. i, tha, Fithout making sny paymént,. he bought stock in 1863, «hich, a8 in the case of the other Congressmen, ore than peid for' iteelf in dividends>" There’ s o balance in his favor of '$329, which he re< seived in o check from Ames. Affer thinking thie matter over, the Senator returned the money withinterest to Amee, £nd gave up his ownership Senetor Logan, of thestock. Thero wasno legislation concerning |- he PacificRoads pending or in prospect at the | e of the negotistion. . Thare.is no condlict cetween Senstor Logan's testimony and that of The original cherge of Congredsional: conniec-' sion with the Credit Mobilierachemefor defrand- ing the Governmens has becomo of Lttle im- portance in the light of the later developments before the Investigating Committess.. It fs for xoth Houses of Congress now to decide; not so auuch whether cartain of their membera roceived | Presidony's bask scoount ahows that. two v | for, s contract was made by Ames, Alley, and Credit Mobilier stook with a view to giving it their official assistance, but how many and which of them have been guilty of false swearing. Tiie-issue is horrible and disgraceful, but it must be met. The only way in which Congress can in any manner pallinte the offenco that has been committed sgainst the fair famo of the country in its name, is by the prompt and fall punishment of the men in high position who ‘have proferred perjury to political defeat. D e The Police Commissioners have had their usnal and regular controversy with tho Superin- tendent. They have formally overrnled his orders for the reorganization of the police force, and s chango of the time occupied in patrol daty. The Police Commissioners think they" have things fixed admirably, and rogard any man ‘who proposes a change as an innovator danger- ous to society. The Commissioners evidently vould be glad if they conld forco the Superin- tendent to resign, and, aa ho willnot do that, they have snspended him, and, propose to try in notes in his bank. stantial, but appesrs complete. Ames' check was dated June 20 ; on tho 21et inst., tho Sergennt- at-Arms of the Honse shows, by his books, that e cashod it ; on the 224, the Cashicr of tho First National Bank recoived $1,200 in cash from Mr. Colfax, in person. Tho doposit-ticket was pro- ducod in the” Committeo-room, sod bore Mr. Colfax's signature, after the date of the check, ho deposited $1,200 The evidence is circum- Vice President Colfax asked tho Senate, yes- terday morning, to appoint & Committeo to in- vestigate the grave charges against him in con- nection with the Credit Mobilier corruption. “A majority of the Committoo,” said he, “ghall - be posed to mo," an unplessant form of speech, open to the interpretations dx:xe. his political friends would mot act fairly in the inquiry, or that Lis political opponents would have n biss against him to be overcome only by the irrosistiblo character of his'case. But, as Senator Thurman showed in a few terse words, the Senate should not have been asked to nnder- of Senators politically op- The case of Pholps, Dodgo & Co. has been | tako any such examination, If they had power compromised, that firm paying £500,000, or one- | to expel or -censuro the Vice President, thoy half the amonnt supposed to have been fraund- ulently withheld by them from the Governmont. We suppose this inclodes a free pardon for all the persons who have for years committed false swearing to false invoices, and practised s rog- ular system of fraud. How can the Government hereafter prosecute any petty offender,—any ‘man who swears to & false invoice; orengages in potty smuggling 7 Ifaman attempts to smug- gle a box of gloves, and is detected, he is com- pelled to forfeit the gloves and be punished othorwise, This firm has beon let oft cheaply; and evon-handed justico requires thatall other offenders be let off in .the same way,—that they may purchase exemption from punishmont and penalty by a small pecuniary gift. “We donot think that ettention can be called too often and too earnestly to the fiset grand st of the Credit Mobilier Company. After 13§ miles of the road had been constructod and paid Durant, of the Pacific Railway, with Ames, Alley, and Durant, of the Credit Mobilier, by which the latter received the ssme pay per mile for building this 135 miles that theydid for the other parts of the road.” This 133 miles cost, first, to build it an average of $25,000 per mile, ana was paid for; ¢he Credit Mobilier was then paid £50,000 per mile under the fiction of robuilding the same piece of road. Tha profits on this 138 mites ere admitted by Alley to have been 29,000, | 5 000. This isthe corporation into which Ames | ) sdmitted Brooks, Colfax, Patterson, Kelloy, Boyer, Dawes, Scofield, Bingham, and the othera; and which netted altogether perhaps might invostigate; 2s it was, ho was not a mem- ber of the Senate, but an officer of the Govern- ment. He could be impeached only by the House of Roprosentatives, and the real duty of the Senate was to avoid forming any opinion, and auply to hold themselves ready to judge Lim if brought bofore them by impeachment. This view of the case was 60 unanswerable that the resolation for a Committes of Inquiry *got but one voto, that of its mover, Benstor Pratt, of Indiana. It is plain, 28 Senator Thurman’ said, that Mr. Colfax has made a mistake. The Chicago produce markets were rather more nctive yesterday. Mess pork was quiet and 10c per barrel lower, at £11.80@11.85 cash, and $11.20@11.25 seller March. Lard was activo and 5@10c per 100 Ibs lower, closing at $7.20@ 7.25 cash, and $7.55 seller March. Groen hams were active and J¢@X{c por Ib higher, at 73{c for 16-1b averages; other meats quiot and easier, at $34@4c for ary salted shoulders, 5%@6e for do sbort ribs, Aind GXc foi short clear. Dressed hogs were active and a shide easier, at $4.55@ 4.85 per 100 Ibs, the outside for light. Iligh- wines woro dull and nominal at 83@883{c per gallon. Flour was quiet and firm. Whoat was moderately active, and X/@3¢e higher, closing tame ot S1244@1.243{ $1.253¢ seller Fobruary, and Mareh. Cornwasmoderately active, and }@%o seller tho month, 81973 sollor lowet, closing at 30X @303¢e cash, and 81}{csel- ler March. Oats wero rathor more ective, and firm at 2534@255¢c cash, and 26}@263gc seller March. Rye was quiet and steady st 68@63¢c. Berley was in moderate domand, and steady at 20,000,000 profit in excess of what was divided | 79c for No. 2, and 63c for No. 8. Live hogs wero among Congressmen. There hes never been 0 excellent an oppor- tunity for Congress to assure the country honest legislation, for many years to come, as will be afforded by the congiction and punishment of its members who shall be proved to bave been " dull, and fully 10c lower, closing rates boing = £3.65@4.00. There was little doing in tho cat- e and sheep markets, and values were nomi- nally unchanged, There was in store in Chicago on Baturday evening last : 1,443,879 bu wheat, 8,122,944 bu corn, 1,104,897 bu oats, 248,101 bu rve, and 324,528 bu barley,—en incresse during corrupt, whether in Union Pasific, Crodit Mo- | 44 week of 593,663 ba. bilier, Benatorial elections, or other ms wiuch are now, or shall be within the next faw ‘months, subjects of Congressional investigation. A failure to make the disgrace correspond to the enormity of the offence wonld be to hold out an | indacement for-faturs corruption that womld in- cresse its extent and boldness.. The thorongh and nncompromising punishment of the guilty, on the other hand, would do mora to parify elec- A bill is pending beforo the Legislstaro of this State to change the existing law so that the concurrence of nine jurors ina civil case shall be all that is necded to secare a verdict. questionable whether this can be done under the State Constitution. The 0ld style of doing busi- noss is perpotuated, with the exception of trials ‘before Justices of the Peace, whero o juryof a Ttis tions, and to render Congrescionsl places unst- | less number than twelvo mon may bo authorizod. tractive for money-making purpoees, than a dozon reactionary movements among the pooplo. Such action would show that Congress will guard its own integrity, andnot lesve to chance, to politics, or to the rash end uarelisblo judgment of the people, the providing of honest men for Congressional place 3 The later evidence in the Greeley will case has doveloped two or three points of public in- There is no question, howerer, that the require- ment of sbsolnte unanimity in civil cages is | greatly sbused, and that tho ends of justica.aro often dofeated by the procuremont of even.a single juror who will refuse to agree with his fellows. There are a large number of civil cases where thero is hardly any need ¢f jury at all,— cases and which, if the ends of . justico were only sought, conld be decided far' better by invelsing mere questions of law, terest. Thefact was adduced thutthe Weekly | tho Courts. Vexations litigation is prolonged Tribune's circalation increased more than 50,000 | from year to year by reason of the failures of’ copies during the recent campnign, whileit was | juries to sgree; the point sought>more stren- populerly reported that the circulation of this ously than any othor being to get one or more and all otber Republican journals which sup- jurors who will refuse to concur in o verdict that ported Mr. Greeley hed declined at s foarful rate. Tt has also brought out the fact that ono of Mr. Greeley's friends endeavored to tako ad- vantage of his mental sberration to secare his Tribune stock at sbout one-half it actual value. Mr. Binclair, another friend, and the publisher of the Tribune at the time of Mr. Greeloy's death, also stands accused of having made every effort to divert tho course of tho méws- paper from Mr. Greeley's wishes and intentions at the very time that ho was & debtor to Ar. Greeley's estate. If there are many more de- velopments of this nature, it will not be necce- -gary to attribute Mr. Greeley's insanity and death to the excitement and diseppointment of the'election. : e e - One of the best lessons which had been drawn from the Congressional connection with Credit will end tho cage. These abuses are confessed, and, like all other abuses, ought to be remediod; | but whether the proper remedy is the one pro- pozed by the bill ‘befors the Legislature is not, perhaps, certain, if indeed it ‘be corstitutional. If the legal ability of the Legislature can devise 80me means whereby every man can get * right #nd justice freely, and withont being obliged to purchase it, completely and without denial, promptly and without delag,” we know of no more important servico they can .rendor the Stato than to put that alew. = & discovery in the form of Tho present Asiatic advance of Russia- bas ‘brought ont savera criticism, in the London Graphic, of the British Government for not having enticipated the designs of Russia as to” tho conquest of Ehiva. The Graphic says: The day i evldently approaching with n rapidity 2obilier {randa is, that the General Government ehould never dabble in’ speculations. The' de- velopments in the case of the Government con-: nection with the Union Pacific Road is at the . same timo.an argament against the Government. aseumption of the telegraph lined of the coun- try. Had the Union Pacific Railroad been the work of private enterprice, the frauds which have Been committed under the nsme of Crédit Mobilier would have beenalmost imposeible. If they Liad been committed, there would have been ng, occasion for drawing Congressmen into the transaction. The truth i3, thst Government interference with riilroads, or telographs, or i canals, or farming, or any other sctual business form of government without affording it special facilitios. - Wo have induatrial enterprises which: bave been accomplished by individual affort that ate more magnificent than anything which Gov- erminent has - ever done. 'The' interference of- Government is; consequently, not necessasy to satisty the business wanta of any community ;] and Government cannot itself go into business. on its own sccount without rendering Credit " Mobiliers and .theif counterparts permanent’| institutions. e Ay The sgitstion .in the Credit Mubilier Com- ‘mittes-room yestérdsy; when Mr. Colfsx’s bank ation 18 close at hand, - ) ¥ _The comments of the @raplic sulliciently dis-: close tho znimus of the present dispute betweon England and Ruseia. For centuries, the two powers have been gfiflufifly appropriating and ‘sunoxing Asiatic territoty, -neither ot them mamifesting . the. “reluctance” of which? the .. Graphic ‘ATe inow is, which of the two powers shall dominate (Asia with its immen: diction. of 'Napoleon I. that Russia'’a manifest | +destiny was to drive tho English out of Asis. In which . threo or four years 0g0 would have been pro- nonnced to be incredible zhd fmpossible, when the frontiers of Russion and British conquest will be no 10nger scparated by hundreds of miles of mountain, end steppe, ruled over by Lalf -a scoro of .independ- cnt tribes or mations, but wil bLavo sttained’ o very close and very alarming, proximity, If England” - declines to anmnex .the var- ‘ous independent or semi-independent Khsn-| ateasnd Principalities of Central Asfa, it is quito platn that Russis is under the dominion of 1o’ guch amisble reluctancé. - A3 a'fact; there fa° searesly & Khanate of any tmportance, with the exception of Ehira, which has not been already taken o the comprehensive em-, ‘braces of the Northern Boar. ~The double-headed ea- gloof the'Czirs s waving abovo the capital of the ‘mighty Tamerlane, snd if Ehivs has not been bom- speaks, ..and. -how - they brought . face. to face. Tho. .contest trade,’ It was tho pre- the xipiflly-fl.pprnflching‘ struggle for territorial \supremscy, the advantage is secmingly on the sido of Russie, by reason of the case and rapid- ity with which the latter Gan. bring her immense scconnt was examined, will pass through the | ymieq into the field, ‘and~tha trémendous diffi- :country to-day with something very like a thrill of horror. It will be remembered that, s few dsysago, in, the_paintal scone botween Ames, ,and Colfax, the isarip'between them was reduced: to sl question ‘of .perjury, Ames swearing that. he paid Colfax by check £1,200 of Credit "Mobilier dividends, Colfax swearing that he hed never received a centof it. Tho Vice culty; as well a8 cost of transportation, : which must bo edtsiled-upon Englava. ", T 77 Among the many claims pending bofore Con- ess for compensation for property destroyed in the Rebel States during the war is tbst of Robert M. and Stephen A. Douglas, sons of the late Bsnator Dotglas, of Illinois. It will bore- barded and stormed by, this time, its time of appropr- tin, of North Carolins. This ledy's father sct- tled upon her children a plantation. Afier the denth of their grandfether, Mertin, Alr. Donglas, a5 his execator and guardian of the two boys, en- tered into acontract with Mr.J. Ai McHatton, tho owner of large estates in Mississippi, by which tho slaves, 142 in number, woro transferrod to AMcHatton’s plantations in Washington County, Miseicsippi. Tho slaves and lands were to bo worked in partnership between McHztton and the estato of thé minors, and thé profits to be divided according to tho capital invested, which was, on the part of McHatton, $30,000, and the Donglas heirs, 8118,000. The partnership was to continue until the boys should becoma of 2ge. The plantation, it is esserted, became one of the Iargest and most productive in Missiesippi. ~ It continued to bo so conducted until March, 1863, when it was vigited by troops under the commsand of General T. E. G. Rensom. At that tine thero was an sccamulation of 1,635 bales of cotton on the plantation, which was taken in part by General Ransom and in part destroyed; at the same time much other property was destroyed. The claimants ask compeneation for nt least 1,000 bales of cotton, worth $250,000. The boys attained their majority, Robert on Jan. 28, 1370, .and Stephon on the 33 of November, 1871, snd it bas not been until sinca the latter date that they were in a legal condition to make their dé- mand. Daring the war, they had no communi- cation with the South. The evidence accom- ‘panying theso papers fully susteins the stato- monts eet forth in the memorial. This .claim, with hundreds of others, is weiting for the sc- tion of Congres: THE RATES OF POSTAGE, - Congress having abolished the franking privi- lego, the rates of postago may now be reduced without any embarrassment to the revemme. General Farnsworth has, therefore, reported the bill reducing tho rate on all letters not exceod- ing one-Lalf ounce in weight from three to iwo cents, the same to be paid by stamps. As a necesswy roform, sad perhsps of even greater megnitude, the postage on printed mat- ter and the manner -of paying it has to bo changed. Nine-tenths .of tho printed matter which gets into the maile never pays any postage. Without impeaching the honesaty of any Post- master, it is safe to'say thet s very large per- centagoe of tho postage on daily and weckly nows- papers, and other publications, is lost to tho Governmont. Thebill reported by Genersl Farns- worth provides thatsll printed matter, of whatever kind, entering the mails, shall bo prepaid, and ‘be prepaid according to weight. ‘master Goneral stated that, if thia law bepassed, tho rates of postage on printed ‘mstter can be reduced at loast one-half. The operation will be vory simpla. The average weight of Tme DarLy Tampses sent totho Post Office every morning can be ascortained ; or their .actual weight cen o determined upon their roceipt by tho Post- master ; tho rale per ounce, pound, hundred, or ton, being fixed,—the Post Office charges the amount of the wholo edition to Tae Trrnuxe office, All this office has to do is to either pay the postage on the matter delivered overy morm- ning, or, by making o weekly doposit with the Postmaster, havo the daily cost of postago charged up sgainst it. Tho use of stamps on printed matter other than transient is thus avoided; no printed matter will be received upon which the postageis not paid; and all printed matter, once in the mail, will be for- warded to the porson directed froe of cost. Wo havein the United States, at this time, 40,000 Tost Ofices. The postage on daily papers is 30 conts per quarter, and on weeklies, 63{ cents per quarter. Estimating that'theso Post Offices will have an average of 50 papers, daily end weekly, wo have over 2,000,000 of accounts opened and kept of quarterly postages on theso publications. All this bookkeeping will be abol- ighed by the now system. Each Postmaster will collect postage on what is mailed st his office, and not on what is delivered. According to the Postmaster General, thors aro countless tons of printed matter, in the form of magazines, newspapers, and other -forms | of regular publications, which are put into the mails annually, and are earried at great expanse, and on which no postage- ever is or can be col-" lected. They.are gonerally the advortisements of quacks, or of other adventurers, or of frauds. The new law will compel the propsymentof postage on all this matter. . ~ It will havetho offect, also, of rodacing the cost of deWepapers and magazinesto actaal subserib- ors. That postage will have to be borna by the publishers. The latter will cheerfally accept the cost in consideration of the great conven- {fonce the new regulation” will be to themselves and to their subicribers. Instesd of, as mow, collecting postage from 20,000, mail sub- seribers to s dmly paper - at - the rate of $1.20 per year from each, the whole post- ago will bo collected from tho publisher, ot at the rate of so much per paper per quarter, but at the'rate of 86 much per ton. The berefit will be general, . The subscribers will get their papers free of postage; the Government will get paid for carrying overy ounco”of printed matter, and tho publishers, by paying the post- ago on the aggregate weight, will not pay buta fraction of the rates now .collected for postage from those who do pay. THis change in the ‘rates and in the manuer of paying the postage will have the effect of doubling the amomnt of- printed matter, espocially of mewspapers and montlly. magazines, that will bo sent throngh tho® mails. It will slso roliovo the mails of the great bulk of trash which is mow sent and on which no postage is 'psid. The abolition of the franking privilege postal servico will cense to be,a charitable in- stitution, supported by a tax on one class for the (benefit of another. 1t is not extravagant toesti- ‘mato that that tho receipts from printed matter *ander tho new law will, ‘even at & reduction of 60 per cent on the rates, yield alarger revenue than is ‘now collected from the same amount of ‘matter carried through the maile.” It is also possible that tho reduction of Jetter. postage to two cents will be followed by s liberal incresse of thorevenuo from that class of postage. . THE LOUISIANA INVESTIGATION. 1t there were'to bo no farther evidence before the Senste Committeo investigating the late election in Louisiana than that given on Mon- day, there could be no reasonsble doubt that the returns of the Lynch Election Board were ille- gal. The election of Ecllogg as Govarnor, of expired term, and of Pinchback for the long term beginning next March, a8 well as the entire State - Government on the Eellogg ticket, de- pends entirely upon -the returns of the Lynch Board. If these returns were illegal, it fol- Jows that the men whom they declared membered that {19ss youns mom wero thosons [ to bo elected have no claim mpon thelr The Poat- | ‘will in liko manner relieve the mails, and the'| Lynch Board was formed may be rocalled briefly, to asuiat in the comprehension of Monday's tes- timony. Tho regular Returning Board consisted of the Governor, the Licutenant Governor, the Secretary of State, Jobn Lynch, and & man namod Anderson. Pinchback, tho Acting Lieu- tenant Governor, and Anderson, Laving been candidatos, were disqualified. from serving. Their places woro to be filled by the majority of the romaining members. A man named Herron, formerly of Towa, was Acting Secretary of State, appointed by Govornor Warmoth. Boforo the Board voted on filling tho vacancies, Warmoth removed Herron from tho office to which ho had appointed him, and named his successor, which he had full suthority to' do. Herron thus coased to bo a membor of tho Returning * Board, his successor, as Act- ing Secretery of Stato, taking his place. Tho vacancies were then filled' according to the law. Herron, however, inducod Lynch. to withdraw from the Board, 2nd theso two proceeded to make another Returning Board of five members, including themsclves. - They went into the United States Courts for an injunction against tho regular Board, though the United States Courts hizd no jurisdiction in the matter. There they found Judge Durall, who, it is eaid, bad given his privato assurance that he would eus- tain the Kellogg party, even before ho had heard any of the evidence. Durell granted the desired injunction, the Administration at Washington gave notice of its recognition of the Kellogg Government, and General Emory was instructed to sustain it with United States troops. Itwillbo seen. that the Lynch Returning. Board was arbitrarily created, and had mo suthority to sit, or coant votes, or iseue the re- turns. Admitting, however, that thers-was = ‘possiblo construction of suthority on their part, tho evidenco of John Lyuch, their Chairman, which wes submitted to the Senate Committes on Monday, shows that their proceedings -were frrogular and illegal. Lynch admits that there wero soveral parishes from which thoy had nore- turns whatever, noither from the United States nor from tho Stato Supervisors. He also admits thet much of the information upon which the Board acted was ! not sworn to; In some of these cases the entire vota of & parish was thrown out, upon en irre- gponsiblo statement. In other cases, the votes ot paraons who atated that they bad not voted at the election were accapted and counted. There wero 1,159 such votes in s single parish. In an- other, the original vote was thrown out entirely, and 1,260 such ballots were counted as the legal vote of the parish. Inother words, no votes in { this pariah wero counted, except those which Liad not been cast at all. The Board scted upon the returns of the United States Superviscrs whore they had any returns beforo thom, snd | Lynch cannot remomber that they received any roturns which were certified by both the Repub- lican and Democratic Supervisors. Ho admitted, however, that they had n - official returns ac- cording to the lawa of the Btate of Lonisianz,’ and that they had counted votes which had not ‘been cast under the United Btates law or any other. Insome of the New Orleans wards the Board made no returns whatever, and Lynch testified that these were all Greeloy wards, though ho could not form an estimate of the ‘majority within a thousand votes. This evidenco of the utter irregularity and recklessness of tho Lynch Returning Boerd comes from Lynch himself. General Long- street, 4 member of tho Board, testifies that he madea demand upon Governor Wermoth fof the official returns, but the latter will not give them. " Governor Warmoth testifies that the legal Board was enjoined from counting the votes, so that it does not appear that ho was in » position to do what General Longstreot de- manded. The ovidence, “therefare, places the Rellogg Government in the following position : 1. It was declaredelectod bya Board that nover hed any legal oxistonce. . 2. This Board made its returns without s fall cotnt of votes, threw out votes upon irresponsi- ble statements that were not sworn to, and counted votes that had pever been cast under the laws of the State, or of the United States. As » matter of course, tho investigation will bo continued and dragged out toatedious length. Wo doubt, however, whethor any evidence of the irregularity and illegality of the Lynch Return- ing Board can be more complete and convincing than that which has beea given ' by Lynch him- self. Tho Senate has full authority to decide upon the eligibilityand election of its own mem- ‘bers, and it is difficult to sco how it can accept Ray for the unexpirod term, or, Pinchback for the next torm, when their election is due entirely to the returns made by the Lynch Board: * The Greeley Monument. Aé 2 momber of the Groeley Monument Asso- ciation, I respectfully roquest tho press and the poople of tho Northwest to sond to me such s a8 they msy wish to contribute to that ob— ject. It would be best to send the moncy by Check on some Chicago baalk, by Post Office or— der, or draft on New York. All soch sums ro- ceived will bo acknowledged . in the newspapers of Chicago, Itishoped that evory newspaper office will contribute something, and that some ‘one who honors the name of Mr. - Greeley will takeup a collection—be it over 80 small—in every town and city in the Northwest, and for- ward the amount a8 soon as possible. Probably | no man ever contributed s0 much to the -settle~ | Ja) prominent guests at the Tremont House, yester- | ‘ment and the prosperity of the Northwest as r. | E. . Smith, U. 8.4.; lanta; J. E. Jacobs, don, ¥ng.; Georgo E. Davis, Cincinnati; Watorbury, Cleveland ; William treal; George B. Rogers, Detroit; AL unsettled account of somo lost tribes of Indians, and Mr., Harlan was the Secretary of the In- terior. ¢: —The Alabams Legislature met two months agoand is still disorganized. Eatly in Decem- ber the Democrata accepted a plan dictated at Washington, which plan eoatemplated a Demo- cratic Sonate by two majority, with s Republi- can Lieutonant Governor presiding, and o Re- publican House by six msjority. . Since tha en- forced union of both parties, on- this basis, the Ropublicen House ‘and the Republican Lien- tenant Governor have refused to recognize or consider tho Senate an organized body. The House takes no notice of it;. the Lien- tonant Governor - prosides in it only ss 8 ‘“‘proceoding.” Of two contested seats in the Senate, one has been awarded to a Republican; the other is still vacant. But the hitchis not on this sceount. An illegal body of Republi- cans, assuming the form of a Legielataro, voted, in December, £2,000,000 of bonds, and placed them with Henry Clews, of, New York, Until that steal is consummated beyond rocall it is not the intention of the Republican manngzers to permit any other legislatiyo power to intervene. The Atlanta (Us.) Sun says: This house of Henry Ciews & Co. has given the Stato of Georgia an immense déal of trouble. Iis cial manipulstions with Ballock, Blodgett, and the Radical plunderers generally, have coat the tax- ayers of Georgia much of $helr public money. - It is oped Alabarms mey yet be saved from thelr voracions grasp. Ancther yesr the cry of “repndiation? will e raised against Alsbams, on these two millions of bonds. ki —And now the Toledo Blade (Nasby) calla on Senator James W. Patteraon to decline his elec- tion a8 President of the Ohio -Agricaltural Col- 1ogo, before he is kicked out. Nasbysays: “We ‘have enough bad men in this State now, without importing them.". —The scens in caucus, at Topeks,” where twenty 8100 bills of Pomeroy’s moneywas dia- playod, has been reported by telegraph. * Horo ia another incident : ' “Tho contested seat case in the [Ransas) Touse, be- tween Forzeo and , of S2'ine County, lately heard before the Committeo o _Elections, bronght ont some rich developments and well {llustratés Pomeroy's tactics, Forsce waa elected, but held the office of Postmaater, which disqualified him. He resigned Nov, 13, and sent his resignation to Washington, which, of course, ‘was made at 100 late a date to render him cligibls, Af- terward, Pomeroy went fo_the Depariment and substl- tuted s new resigation, dated back to Nov. 1. Theso facts are sworn to. —Collector Casey, at New Orleans, knew his men when he telegraphod the President: ¢ Tho Supreme Court of Lamisiana is known to be in sympathy with the Republican State Govern- ment.”. This telegram is fonnd among docu- ‘ments transmitted to Congress. ~The people of Arkansas will vote, Monday, March 8, on a repeal of all political disabilities in the State Constitution. : —Govermor Jacob, of West Virginis, refnses to decide between the rival delegations claiming election to Congress in August or October, ‘last year, but will cortify all the facts to the House. | -—The certificate of Oglesby’s election is ad- dressed_to ‘*the Hon. Henry Wilson, Vico Presi- dent of the United Btates,” etc., whereupon the St. Louis Democrat regrots the blunder, the more a8 ‘it may bo used to distort the facts ot history & hundred years hence.” —Republican politiciana at Madison, Wis., ara, slate-making for the next November election of ‘Governor, etc. ~—Warmoth was interviewod at St. Louis, the other day, and, being pressed to the point of Durell’s drankenness, he said: I shouldn’t ke tocommit ryself to astatement to- that effect, but I don’t think I do him any injustice hen Ty that for good, steady drinking, auch drick- ing &8 would really do a man good to lookc at ; sound " drinking; g with & substantial basis ; cstab- thed”an s strong platform, Durell is to be relied 1 ! B Boes e get drun on the bench 7 “No, I think not. My impression fs—mind, this ta only an impression—my’ impression is he gets drunk &t home before he goes on the bench.” i —Wa see it stated in several journals, east and west (to whom it has boeen telegraphed), that Oskes Ames testified he Lnew nothing sbout Dnrant’s contribntions to political pur- aea, but ho and his brother sont $4,000 to ndiana during the late campain, at the request of Bonator iflflun ond Secret: Boutwell. That item was ovarlooked in our Washington roports. It will now bo in order, Wo suppose, for cartain journals to charge the Secretary an Senator with corruption, being bought up in the interests of the Union Pacific and the Credit Mobilier.—~Senafor Harlan's Chronicle. —2r, Dorsey, the Benator-elect from Arkansss, is President of the Arkansas Central Railroad. Patterson, Sonator-clect from South Carolins, is = successful railroad man. Jones, the successor of Nye, i8 £2id to be & successfal mining and railroad operator. The new Senator from Ore- gon is & railroad king. We do not know how or was loomin, P b oy o pottical ‘in the Senate chawber. Is gi.ne: gone by to usher in a day when railro: iants are to ehape the legislation of the coun- try?—Leavenworth Times. i _PERSONAL. Toom & We ao glad to learn that J. L. Starke, Esg., i8 recovering from his recent severe illness. There wero Stato Senators, and Represents-' tives, and Aldermen, almost withont namber, in attendance upon the session of the Board of Police yesterday. Several old faces were recog- nized,—faces which have been seen wreathed in smiles, in days gone by, when it was no troubls at all to get hordes of ward bummers appointed.- on the Pclice and Fire forcos. . . . B. Dougherty, Boston; 0. D. ‘Waldie, Phila- delphing T. N. hma<. New' York; George O. King, Massilon, O. ; W. M. Taylor, Ottaws;. H. Pago, Plattsburgh,-N. Y.; A. B. Hull, Codsr Rapids; J. L, Clark, Utica; J. G. Birchan, Ne-' Sads; 1. J. Briggs, Sscramento; W. A. Barle; Dakota; §. Jones, Pittaburgh, were the princ pal arrivals at the Briggs House, yestorday.! Senator 8. 8. Williamson, of this city, who is Chiairman of the Railrond and Warehouse Com- Terenco with the Railroad and Warohouso Com- mittco of the Board of Trade, in the Committee Roomas of the Chamber of Commercs, yesterds; 1t was roguested that th procoodidga of th meeting chould not be made public. M Thomas C. Bates, Boston; E. V.. Preston, Hartford; Johw H, Don las, St Tonia; Coptai William B. White, At-, Nashyille; R, Shiler, Lo; Q H. Clark, Med- ards, Springfiold, Mess.; L. F. Burriak, Phila- phis; J. S. Howard, Memphis, were the Greeley. Her poople will ba glsd to _ contribute | day. _ their foll proportion to honor his memory.. - 1t is ramored, on protty oot sithorem it Address, War. Baoss, ox-Commissiontr Rehun 1o 40 o . Bazos | ex-Commi Z£%%¢ " Polica, and -that * Tribune Ofice, Chicago, 1. , | RS8R 8\ P nsisny “fhat” ne- should Jen, 25, 1878: ! 55 "o ' sppointment. He is sap- - Northwestern pspers plesse copy. gl in i el ool . NOTES AND OPINION. The AMsssichusotts Lesisiature’ will elect o Ported, it is .eaid, by Congressman . Farwoll and Ar. A. O. Hesing. .| from the Board of Police, Mr.: Rehm has fre- auently declared that ho would Hever again it himsel? to necept a p him in contsct with it; his own busiress, he Since his withdrawal oattion that wosld biing mittes of the Btate Benato, held an informal can-"| by John Ray as Senmstor, to fill Kellogg's un-. Senator, Feb, 25, vice Wilson, resigned. A can- ~ass of the Hoase, 240 members, has boen made with tho following result: ~Boutwell, 107; Dawes, 84 Hoar, 15; Loring, 11; Whiting; 9 undecided, 14, The Senato has 40 votes, not in- | cluded in this estimate. e “—The Missouri Legislature proposea to hiave | & re~count of the vote of 1863, tosee by how much Secrptary Rodman had to falsifs the returns in order to declare the Drake Constitution —Susaa B. Anthony rejoices that her claim to suffragais to go to the Supreme Court of the . United States; but the Springfield Republican. eayR: - - » We have never approved of the attempt o establish | woman suffrage by pretending that_some exvressions in the xvrs 38 0 ths quaifieations of votet realy give women s right which eversbody knows the law- ‘makers, and tiie people the' lsw.makers, never intended o coafir, and w2 shall be gladto ace this unworthy method of pushing worthy measure effcc tually stopped by 3 deciaion of ths Sapreme Court. ~We find this. vpam.gmph in ono of the Towa papera: The Iowa City Republican thinka Eiijah Seils spent 4he $10,000 coniributed by Durzat to clet arlen as Senator In 1856. It says Salls £c13 Bob Tinkbine that., be bought ensugh membars of the Legislature to elect Hatlan, That's plain tolk. W20 i authorized to speak for Sells 7 Plainly the 10,000 was not sll, for Darant saya that sum v.as espresaly requized * for newa- paper influonce.” But Jir. Bells is remembered | 31d., on Thursdsy night. Tuzed to say, was sufficiently large and remuner- ative.to .call for Lis entire atteation. Hemay have changed his mind, however. "Mrs. Stowe has gone to her Ilorida orange groves. . . John T. Ford eccompanies Joe Jefferaon in the Sonth. - 3 The Rev. Dr. E.O. Haven opaned Eellogg’s s:mu, at New Orleans, with prayer, the' other Major Baker P. Lee has left tho Norfolk (Va.) Journal for the Richmond Enguirer. .General Bsbcock reports that the Whito Houze, 8¢ Washington, is no_longer it for the private residence of tbe President. - i - ‘James Ord, the father of General E.0.C. Ord, died 2t the General's' residence, in Omaha, Jan’ 25, aged 59. e N. Dizon, the first perzon who undertook to ‘pack ogsters for transportation, died at Crisfield, Win. H, Gatzmer, formerly President of the Camden & Amboy Railroad; has been appointed C?amfing Mznszer of tho Lehigh Valley Bail- 04, . Judge Jameson, of Chicago, has been com- ‘pelled by impaired health'$0 suspend his j.di- cial Iabors for a time, aad he and his family are spending the winter in Royalton, V. letors 0. E. Hall, ono of the great stage propri in Austin, Jan. i , Jobn “Olmsted, who died in Hartford, Cor :x; ;ni:!\ly ;xyglgi ;;orfi&njnries {ficai;od by r-l?;';“g walk, was” thé Frederick Law Olmsted. e “James Qukex, the astor, .has loft Philadelnkia” whore he has L29n setiling un the _estate of the late Ldiwin Forrest. The prope:ty of the dead fi:rsl{asdlq s sm?,fii consequently, if . B.nclalr (former! 3 i Mo b it (formerly Mes, Forrest) claims aay sadministration in enc WALL STREET. Weekly Beview of the Financial Situation--The Produce Markets. Special Despateh to The Chicago Tyibune. New Yorx, Jan. 28.—Money opened active st 7 currency, and advanced to 7 gold, and 164, Toward the close tho supply became abundent, and prices. declined to 4@5. Prime morcantile paper is quoted at $@9. Moner is easy in Lon- don, and sccurities there are strong. STOCES. The stock market wes irregular and mainly lower. A few shares, however, are firm, particn- Iasly Erie, and the new speciclity, Atlantic. & Pacific. Erle was assisted by the London de- epatches, and ramors ofa smalldividend to be de- clared at the meeting of the Directors to-mor- row. Another Erio rumor was that the German: ‘bankers had been cornored. Union Pacific has been, .. weaker, and there is maid to be - & combination both here - apd in Washington to break it- down. The Atlantic 3eil Company seems to be badly involved, and no ateamer will be forwarded to Havana this week, The Compady estimate their assets sz three steamers, valued at $450,000, and £20,000 unsadjusted claims. The stesmers ate mort aged for $250,000, and the Company owe 385,000 for suppiies” Tp o witlia S Sonte the business of the Company paid well. Then the Alexander Line to Havana aud Vers Cruz: entered into competition, and, by. carrying {freights almost for nothing, destroyed the hith~ erto prosperous trado of the Atlantic Alail, It 1s officially anpounced that, after Saturday of these Stales. Union Telegraph Company for ten words, that are now more than $2.50, will bo reduced to that, is includes’ messages to and from &g'rha oo ackion af fho Cold Exchangs e action of the xchange, yesterds) in abolishing powers of sitorne; la’rymembcr)k is expected.to advance & bauker's privileze ta the famax;‘f'rivilege of £3,000. Of late the premium had declined to 8250, GOLD AND EXCEANGE. Foreign cxchange was heavy snd- lower with small domand, and & good supply of bills. Gold ruled strong, advancing from 1183 to 11434, . BONDS, Governmicnt bonds continus Etzong, both here end in London. * The Xforion-Cooka Syndicste is engaged in srranging details of their opera. tions. : 5y N PRODUCE.- Flour was better for low grades, with moro export demand. The tredo are hot buying freely, owing to the impasaabla condition of the streets, The arrivals aro ngm, 2ad holders Wheat closcs quiet, sod somewhat nomi- nal. The offerings aro light. Winter i3 scarce and strong. Pork is easier; mew mess on spot offered at $14.30. Caut me-*s rule quiet, but firm; pickled hamg scarce ai y@llc; smoked meats in light supply, snd hams quoted et 12@12)e. Bacon moderately active, with sales of 500 boxes at 73Ze for short rib on_the spot; 7&{c for shert clear for March. Lard was easier, and moder- ately active, with sales of 150 ticrces at 8Xc for city and Western; 8¢ for February, sad 850 for April.. S THE CITY IN BRIEF, The United Sons of Erin will givo their elav- enth nanuel ball at Turner Hall, West Twelfth street this eveniog. - A good tifao may bo ex- pecte i _At the annusl meeting of tho Ellsworth Zou- aves, helc on Monday evening, the following oficira woro clectod: Captaig, E. J. While: hesd; First Lieutenant, J. C. Hill; Second Lieutenant, H. B, Maxwell.- - A firé occurrod yesterday morning ia the frame building No. 303 "Fourth avénue, owned and oc- cupied by Mrs. Rachel Stowe,. The flames wore extinguished without an - alarm being given. TLoes, 8100 ; 1o insurance. 2 The astronomical class of the West Side Christian Union will meet ednesday) evening, at 8 o'clock, at No. 205 West Medison stroet. The class is free %o all members of <18 Union; no text-books are used. - -A fire yesterdsy afternoon, at 0. 577 South, :eum.f‘i‘lme, %mlged s 'fiom of- Georg. Grahsm, occupied by him for o dwelling azid ocery, to the extent of 3100. Tnsured for ¥300° in the Insurssce Company, of New York: A recent eale of real éstate on Michigr.n sve- nue'has been jacorrecily roported. T prop- erty in question was tha'site of the Iate resi-. Aenco of Gao. 5. Dowen, Ea, on Michigan ave- between Madison and Afonros, ol ilpot to Benjamin Lombard, Jr., James L. Lumbard, 263¢ front by 172 'in depth, for £1,250 per front foot. : : The alarin of fire from Box 857 yesterday morn- ing was causod by & fir in & two-story frame at the southeast'corner, of - Loomis and KEaunsus streets, owned by John Monshan, and occnpied by a - Camey. Damage -abont ,8300. Insured for 1,500 in the Tradcrs’ Insur- ance Company of Chicago. - Fire originated in & defective chimney. Mfike - Reardon and Dennis O'Grady wore ‘brought bofore Justice Scnlly, yestarday morm- ing, ch d with robbing” a freight car, on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. It sp- pears that they boarded a freight train whils it was in motion, broke open aneof the doors of & car, seized a box. containing 375 worthof clothes- wringers, and threw 13 ‘from the train, Thel were bound over for trial under $500 each. The second anniversaryof the Chicago Found= Linges Home will be held st tho Home. Noa. 0% and 266 West Randolph sireot, on' Thursday evening mext. exercises will commence at, half-past 7 o'clock. The. annual report will be and an address will be dalivercd. Tucse ‘music, and, to crown all; ar =il be provided tha Ladies’. Union Aid Society. Pergons: who remember the dinnerv Of this society will/ to anticipate. Tha. oo sl s 0 asbipt, e '| Friends of the 0@ ore cordially invited to be Present, ROUGH ON RAILROADS. : - Private edvices réceived from Buffalo yester-! day afterncon state that.Western-bound trains’ are delsyed thero owing to the sovetity af the; weather.” The thermometer marks twanty da- greerbelow, and soveral inches of snow Lave, fallm. Immensc'drifts, which defy tho pos of the locomotive, have sccumulatod: an tha. tracks outside of ‘tha city, rendering it imposti bls for railroad men to keap their roll ing stock in. motion. ' If - any Easte em .. trains. * mmived bore - last ° might,. it must have been after midnight. The Westetn: Toads seem to be in pimilar ‘trouble.” Hotel men: report that the Omaha trains are awny benind- time, aud that those which have a much shorter « Tun are failivg to airive at the advertised honre.- The result of this stop; gran ! ping up of -tho routes of trevel is apparent a the hotels. regiaters do not contein anything approximating to the usnal number of naries,and no lateFast- 2rn or Westera passengers appoar upon-the sk ! _The Rush Continues, Tho losing oat sale of Messzs, J, V. shova no signs of sbatement,, The store ls thronged fron morning until night, and he xockto bedise: posel of is still tmmense. Itis the inwntion of t£e’ Srmo cloge out all duringethe next thrty dags,ss: the entiro brlding will e ‘aeeded for e jollirg business. ATl the goods are beaght iz Jar Tor Gty Nome \bo.wala 1 & ppost; wida, ovay are disporcd of st considerably lewe, Fara,cloaks, s11ks are this week oifered at & great Kacriive, i GIET to close them ont. g - ————— . Persopal. . r. Deverley B. Kelm, Geaeral Ticket and Fassenger] Agentof the Kansaa Pacific Raflway, issisjing st the- Gardner. House, and has.come to our city t0 ook sfeF ihe interests of his rozd, Ie is sccompamied by Afr, W, Weston, his General’ Travelling Agent ;h;.‘ with his c*aracteristic energy, Is making pre; 3 on e largescale to eet forth beforo kha“p{oy o i c2g0 the superfor inducczaents offered by his pafwsk.. 3Mr, Weston's headquarters, arc at No. 105 Dearsord. strcet, whero ho will be giad to seo any one wantingin® fornation about the Great West. : ¢ ———————— An Edizorial Fracas. 3 ISpraxArOLIS, Jen, 23.—~Major Simpson, a for- - mer atlache of the Sentinel, was this morniod fined £15 by the Mayor for sn assault lact night of Texas. and Collector of Customs: at Galyes- “upon Mr. Keenan. he editor of that oaver. cnmga!.led to take out letters of next, all rates betwoen oflicesof the Western . x 5 will be followed by besutiful sad eppropriate . A i ek ki o ot e et S e P N RS, T S s