Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1873, Page 4

A ai) CIIICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1873. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TERMB OF SUDEORIPTION (PAYATILE IN ADVANCE). o 12,00 | Sund Pyl g uelt B8 | Weok Parta of n yost at Llio 8awo rato, To provont dolsy and mistakos, bo sura and glvo Post Offics adldress In full, Ineluding Btato and County. Fomittancos may bo matlo oithor by deaft, oxpross, Port Ofmes orler, or In reglstoroil lottors, cb one risk. ZENNB TO OITT ALIROMINERS, : 5 xeontad, % conta por wook, Dt dollrereds By Sachuiod, D0 conts por week: Adrons 2101 TRINUNT COMPANY, ortor Madtson and Dearborn-ats., Ohloago, 1il. e CONTENTG QOF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE-Washington News: Countlng of the Tilectoral Voto; Tho Investigatlons. BEUOND PAGE—Youthtul Erudition: Ilow Our Publlc ehools Aro to bo Roprosented at the Vienua Expo- sition—Evanston Mattors—Oburch Boclablos—Parls Tottor—**10nole 8am," Bardou's Now Play About tho Amoricans—Tho Canada Pactflc Raftway—King Ferdinand’s Yankes Wifo. . CHIRD PAGE-The Law Courts—Towa School Statistics —The Kinnelly Inquest—News Paragraphs—Our m; Tho Workings of tho Now Law in FOURTH PAGE-Idltorials: Mr. Colfax's Caso s 1t Btands; Oakos Amos' Final Blast; Tho Now Post- * ngo Law; Judiolsl Distriots In Ilinols—Ourrent Nows Itsms, VIFTL PAGE—Tho Btato Oapltal: Tho Ratiroad Com- ‘misstonarelips; Logisiativo Dolngs; Alfalrs at tho Bridowoll —Markota by Tolcgraph—Adyortisements. BIXTl PAGE—-Money and Commorco. SEVENTI{ PAGE~Condiiton of Ohloago's Stroots—Por. sonsl-Swall Advortiscments: Roal Estato, For Enlo, To ont, Wantod, Boarding and Lodglng, oto. RIGHTR PAGL-Forolgn Nows—fitata Loghslaturos— Miscollancous Telegrama—Advoriisoments, TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS, AGADEMY OF MUBIO~ Halsted stroot, eouth of Madison, Engngement of Atles Carloita LeCleroqs + Pygmallon aud Qalet HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph stret, be- twoen Olark and LaSallo. Now Comedy Company. #Dastd Garzick," MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroo atreat, botweon Blato and Deerborn, Arifngton, Cotton & Komble's Minstrel and Burlesquo Troupe.-Ethioptan Comlealitios. GLOBI THEATRE~Desplaines streot, bottrocn Madi- son winl Wasblngton, ““Jod; or tho Loat Will." P Y BUSINESS NOTICES, CHAPPED ITANDS, AND FAORGURED BY USING e Fiae lgo‘ap. h00. by Gacwoll, Hazard & Cors EPSIA, INDIGESTION, DEPRESSIONof ‘w:llf lylulnrd &Co , Now York, NSUMPI MANY TAVE BE i to gisa thoic fosthmony In fuvor of tha tro B2ty Fitro Cod Livar O, nclonco has proved 1t to o o valuable ramody for Copsumption, Asthma, Diphthe- 1 AEd A iscases o {ha Throst and fungs. - Mamufac: it oaly "l’-f e itbor, Siiarab, No. 16 Court-s 0! Y. DYF, THIS SBPLENDID halrdyo i tha bust in the world: The only trito and par. foct dsc. 1larmleaz, roliablo, nnd {nstantanoous; nodisap- pointiient; no ridioulous thits or unpleasant ador. Reia- dlos tho il offcats of bad dyes and washed, Producos im- modlstoly s supatb black or nntuszlbrowy, and loavos Lo laan, soft, and beantiful, Tho xcunino, sh ned W, e, “Buld by ol _drugkiite, CHARLES BWATU“ELO“, Propriator, N, Y. The Chicago Wribume, Phuredny Morning, Fobruary 13, 1873, The resolution concerning the abolition of the Municipal Boards of the governmont of this city, iucluding, of course, the Police Board, has been referred to tho Cook County delogation. Mr, Sonator Thompson Las a bill boforo the Btate Sonato to tho effect that no common car- sier doing businoss in Illinois shall oecapo his commou-law liability safely to deliver property 2t the placo to which it is tocarried, by any supuiation or limitation exprossed m tho racoipt givon for such property. At n conferonco, last evening, botween the represontatives of the nominees for Railroad Commigsioners and Govornor Beveridgo, it was decided that the resignations would not be ton- dered for tho presont, and that the Governor would not withdraw the nominations. The advocates of woman suffrage have ad- vanced 80 far in Maino as to be badly snubled. A two-thirds majority of the Committee in charge of tho matter has voted for loave to withdraw from consideration all potitions for woman snf- frago. Tho minority of the Committeo will fa- vor an emendment to the State Constitution al- lowing woren to vote. "lia threat which seoms to Lave boon lovelled at Govornor Boverldgo, that no Board of Rail- rond nnd Warchouso Commissioners shall bo confirmed which doos not embrace & particular namo (which is oxactly oquivalent to usurping the Gubernatorial functions), should bs an- swored in one of two ways,—either Ly appoint- Ing no Board at all, in which case the present Board wounld hold over, or by taking the last consus of Tllinois, and sending into tho Bonate Buccensively the names of the male inhabitants above 21 yenrs of age found therein, putting tho particular name, which it {s sought to cram down the Governor's throat, at the bottom. An informsl meoting of mombers of the rival Logislaturos of Louisiana has beor held, to dovino somo menns for combining thoso Ewo Lostile and reciprocally-destructivo bodies into ono orderly and useful Legislature, A plan similiar to that suggested by Attornoy Genoral Williawms, for the unification of the two Alabama Legislatures, is presented by tho Tusionists, They propose that o real Logislature bo organ- luod hy tharn momhara of the two conflicting bodies who wera declared rolurned by both tho Warmoth and tho Kollogg Ilection Boards. This plan has not yot received tho approval of the Custom Ifouso faction. Whon Congress, in canvassing the Electoral vote, roachod Mr. Grooley's name, which flst apposred in tho vote of Georgia, objection was made to having the votes for him counted. Tho ground of tho objoction was, that Mr. Greeloy was doad when thoe votes wero cast, and was not, therefore, o citizon within the mesning of tho Constitution. This point tho Ilouso sottled aflirmatively, the Benato adversoly. This disagreoment compolled the tollers, in nc- cordance with the rules, to throw outathe voto. 1t this course is takon with all the othor votes cagt for Mr, Qrooley, as will no doubt bo the cago, Mr, Greoloy’s name will not appoar in the official roport n¢ a candidato. Neither of tho Elootoral returns from Loulsiana was recoived, An agent of the New York Btook Exchango, who spent last wintor in a succossful effort to hiavo tho tax on borrowod capital abolished, kg boon pressed by Mr. Dawes to discloso somo of tho measurcs which he took to accomplish his purpadsl One o tho heaviost itoms of his ox- penditares isa payment of 10,000 to Judgo Bherman, abrothorof SenatorBliorman, This was Judgo Bhierman's chnrgs for arguing in favor of the abolition of tho tax Loforo the Finauco Com- mittoo, of which Lis brother is Chalrman, Part of the monoy is eald to have beon for Senator Qarfleld's servicos In the Ilouss. Tho agent promisos to produce his correspondenco ou the subject with Judge Shermau, Bhortly before Lis death, tho late Emporor Napoleon gave an expression of his roliglous viowa to & correspondont of the Parly Univers, Ho declaved that ko wes & firm nde horont of the Tomnan Church, and a believor In tho docirloe of Papal infalll- Dbility. Iis idea was that, 80 long s tho Cath- olia Ohureh romained one, it was necossary that it should have a King, The Popo was its King, and Napolcon's notion of royalty was synony- mous with that of infollibility. Ilis opinion, givon at hat timo, confirmn tho impresnion that bo would not bavo eanctionod Victor Eman- uel's occupation of Romo, it he had remained in power. The result of Napoloon's déwnfall, therofore, was not merely tho unity of Gevmany, bub that of Italy as woll. Tho Prussinn Governmont has sot the examplo of opening now flelds of labor to women by por~ mitting their employment in the railway lines of tho Stato. In cnso the women employed bolong to the famlics of railway officials, tho luttor aro to bo held responsible ; but unmarried women or widows may bo employed on thelr own respon- sibility. The worl which, thoy aro to do s tickot-solling, recoipting for baggago, and opor- ating tho tolograph, Tho rate of wages is fixod from 15 thalers & month up to tho minimum of tho earnings of mala ofilcials of the snmo clags, This, of courso, Is & practical rocognition of o distinotion botwoen tho values of male and fomale employos to tho detriment of the Intter ; bLutit {sn movomont in the right diroction, Pricen will bo ovontually rogulated according to supply and domard, Thero is o story told of Moxican legislation which would acem to indicato that ovon holf- brood Ideas of morality are of a highor ordor than those involved in Crodit Mobilior tranuactions, Thore was & rallroad project which required iho approval of tho Logislature, and the projectors woreat n lo8s how to procoad in thio matter of obtaining | it. At lnst, the happy iden of o gamo of poker struck ono of the manngers. A reprosontative of the Legislature was solacted, and the raflrond’ managers procosded to lose some $800,000, which wero divided among the mombors, The Loglslature, shortly after, pnssed the requisito approval of the schemo, Thare was no oppor- tunity hove for Crodit Mobilior investigations. The Legislature had earned its money according to tho favorito practico of the country, and the transaction was ontirely logitimate, It is stated in Washington that Mr. Pomeroy proposes to refuto the testimony inregard to giving bribos to socuro his election asSenator by o “gtatemont on his honor ns o Sonator.” Just what tho *statemont on thohonor of a Sountor” menns, is difficult to comprohend. Whether it is intonded to convey tho idea that Congros- sional statements on onth hiave lost thoir valuo by reason of thoir demonstrated falsity boforo tho Credit Mobilior Committce, or that a * atntemont on tho honor of o Senator™ docsnot need to be true, asif it wore sworn toin duo form, wo cannmot sny. If tho statement ot Caldwell, which was mada upon ‘‘his honor 08 a Senctor,” is taken asa sample, wo should inclino to the lattor conatruction. At nli events, Mr, Pomoroy will do woll to.find some other ro- butting evidenco, if lho wishes to dispel tho improssion made by York, directly confirming popular suspicions that have obtalued for many yenrs, King Amadous has formally abdicated the throna of Bpain, and his rocignation has been unanimously accopted. This hird-working, but unsuccessful, mounarch states that ho hes beom docoeived and thwarted. Ho thought tho people wanted him to administor their Government, but thoy have refused to uphold his hands. He hag tried all means at his command to still the rninous dissensions of Spanish politics, and has boen defeated by - tho Intriguos, not of foreigners, but of Bpaniards. Tho Cortes hog clocted & Provisional Govern- ment to rule the country until a Constitution for the Republic has been drafted. Tigueras ia mado President. Among the members of the Cabinet, Castelar, the eloquent loadoer of the Ro- publicans, kiolds the high oflice of Minister of For- eign Affaire. Prosidont Figueras, in hisinaugural remarks, said ho hopod that Spain would honce- forth exerciso her just influenco in the affairs of Europe. This uttorance of tho first Spanish Prosidont is very unlike that of the first Ameri- can Preaident, who warnod his countrymon not to cutanglo themselves in the affairs of thoir noighbors. ‘The Chicago produce markets wore generally tame yesterdny, Moss pork was in moderate demand, and 200 per brl highor, closing at$12.56 @12.60 cash, and $12.75@12.80 sellor March. Lard was quiet and 2}{@0o per 100 1ba higher, at $7.30@17.86 cash, and $7.40@7.46s0ller March, Moats wero in fair demand, and stendy at 4@ 434e for shouldors ; 6@030 for short ribs; 6} @63 for short clear; and 73{@7}Ge por Ib for 18-Ib groen homs. Dressed hogs wers in fair demand, and averaged Go por 100 Ibs higher, closlng at £4,90@4.95. Highwinos woro quiot and steady at 87)4o per gallon. TFlour was stondy, and in fair domand. Whent was quil, nud dodllned 1@1ide, olooing at $1.20% coeh, oud 122 eoller March, COorn was tamo and unchanged, closing at 303¢@9%1o cash, and 813{@31%¢c scllor March. Oxnta wore quiot and firm ab 263{0 cash, and 2734 @270 gellor March, Rye was quict and steady ot G6igo. Bavrley was dull, and }{@lc lower, closing at 72@72}4c for No. 2, and 60@01c for No.8. The livo hog market waa active and strong at a furthor advauce of 10 per 100 lbs, sales being made at $4.26@4.00. The cattlo market wos glightly more active, but otherwiso was unchanged. 8heep woro in light domand at yostorday's prices. The latest attempted swindlo fsabill now pending befora Congress, whick grauts to n pri- vate corporation 200,000 acres of pine lands in Miunesota, the samo to bo sold at the rato of $1.25 per acra to actual sottlors, tho proccods to be applied to tho improvemont of tho naviga- tion of tho Missiseippl River below tho Falls of Bt. Anthony. It is Linrdly noceesary to add that this bill was Introduced originully in a moro in- nocent form, and that in Mr. Pomeroy's Com- mittoo it was changod toits prosent shapo. Tho i1l i without any restrictions, and is practically nothing but a dircet grant of theso landsto somo porsons, to bo lield and owned by thom as o private gift. Kuowledge of tho bill having reachod Minncsots, romonstrances aro pourlng in from &ll parts of the 8tats, and it s posatblo that Pomoroy's bill will Lo oxposed and dofeatod. Tho oxposure of this schomo onght certainly to mprosa upon Congress thoe nocotislty of putting o stop to this land-grant buainoss, If not to evory othor form of subsldy, Hore, undor tho protext of doing something to Jmprove tho nnvigation of tho Mississippi River, it 18 proposed to pormit a robbery of an fmmenso tract of publio land, and thore 14 no othor echomo of subsidy which i not, dircotly or judirectly, also nachomo to got monoy out of the public without any consideration. Tho safont way ie to stop all subsidlos of all kinda, A monomanfac by the namo of Willlam Rysam Graclo died in Now Yorlk City, on Sunday Iaat, who, for over fifty yoars, has holiaved that ho wag tho grandson of Princo Oharlos Edward Bluntt, who died at Rome, Jan, 80, 1788, 1o clalmed tho titlo of Wiitiam the Fifth, King of England. Iis strango hallucination {alionnted his famlly from him, so that, foc many yonrs, ho hea lived alone, Ilo always had = plstol .and clasp-knifo undor his piilow, o8 Lo was continunlly Launted with the iden that tho prosont dynasty of Groat Dritaln way in activo comspiracy to take his lifo, Tiin fothor is sald to lave boon born in Scotland and to have boen fn some way counocted with the houso of Btuart. Thoso who Inow the doconsed best ropresout him as having boon in mannor a porfect gontloman, full of courtosy aad ohlvalrous notions, and in his fea~ tures and earringo proserving many of tho char- notoristics of tho Btunrts, Tho assumption of this cfaimis nothing new in history. Somo years 8go, two brothors, gonerally known as John So- bieskl Stunrt and Olnrles Ldward Stuart, en- deavored to convinco tho world that thoy wore grandsons of the young Protonder, who wero in ronlity grandsons of Admiral John Carter Allon, the story being that their father, in placo of being Admiral Allen's son, wam a gon of Prince Charlos aud tho Princoss Loulss, whoso birth was kept socrot, from fonr of tho Hanovor- fan family, and who wns ontrusted to Admiral Allon and passed off by him as his own gon, The story, howover, was conclusively rofuted, and the story of tho decoased Gracio probably has no botter foundation. MR, COLTAX’S CASE AS IT BTANDS, Mr, Colfax's oxplanation of lis doposit of 81,200 in & Washington bank about the time that Onkos Ames says he paid him $1,200 a8 Oredit Mobilior dividends, would haye o groator sir of probability if Mr. Colfax lind boen truthfal from the begiuning. Ho commences hislast spoech to tho Poland Committeo by citing his South Bond spocch, and attompting to make that ut- torancoe tally with his subsequont sworn tosti- mony. This being his really weak point, it was Dost ho should bogin by cloaring up tho discrap~ sncios which havo cropped ont in his own deliv- orances bofore assalling those which stand be- twoen himself and Ames, aud which nmount to simple perjury on tho part of ono or the othor of them. One lie makes many more necessary, and in tho ond they trip oach other up and gend the maker of them sprawling. Lot us sco whother this well-known and oft-illustrated principlo of moral scionce Lins any application to Ar. Colfax. The rendora of Mr. Colfsx's South Bend speech (or at lonst nine in ton of them) undor- stood from it that tho Crodit Mobilior charge, as rogarded himeelf, was falso from boginning to ond—that it had no truth or foundation what- ovor. Wo =80 understood it, mnotwith- standing it wae a suspicious circum~ | stance that ho had no word of fault to find with Amos for giving tho list of names toN'Comb—on the contrary, praised him unduly na o groat public benofactor, while ho vonted much heat and indiguation on the nowspapers that published the list, and commentod very mildly upon it, as the facts now show. It is plain that Mr, Colfax intonded his donial to be taken in tho broadest senso, and it was 8o taken. In order to mako this spoech dove-tail with his subsequont tostimony, and with now admitted facts, he quotes it, and in it these words aro found: 1 Linvo said that if twonty shares of it could bo pur- chused at par, without buying into a prospectivo law- suit, i¢ would be a good viceatment, If 4t Is a8 valuablo & stack 0s ropresented, but nover having boen plafntie nor defendant lu & court of Justice, I waut no stock ot any prico with a lawsuit on top of it, * Ho then gocs on in his spoach to the Commit- teo thus : It will bo scon from theso oxtracts that T publicly clatmod, last fall, the right to purchase the stock, and avowed frankly that I would have been willing to pay for twenty shares if Tdld not buy into o prospoc. tivo Inwsuit, Lt that Do posafblo profits could induca meto fnvolve mysolf in liigition, Now those two statements are at varienco with cach othor to the full oxtent of the chargo againat Mr. Colfax, and, unfortunatoly, neither of them is true, Tho chargo againat Mr. Colfax was that he had the stock, and that the mode In whioh it was obtained was equivalent to a gift, since it was then worth twico or three timos ag miuch ag he paid for it. In his South Bend spoech, after a most elaborate and circumstan- tinl dondnl of any gift, ho saya thnt Lo had said that the stock * would boa good investment.” This is tho oxpression of one's judgmont ona financial quostion, suck as & broker might give to his ocustomers if msked whethér this or that thing would probably poy. He now snya that he avowed frankly at South Bond that 1o “would havo boen willing to pay fortwenty sharea," it it woro nop for tho lawsuit. Ho did not mako any such avowal at South Bond, If ho hind done &0, it would have becn an edmission that he bad been in negotiation with Amos on tho aubjeot of Crodit Mobilier stock, and this ho lind in offact, though, porhaps, not technlaally, donied. And noithor statement contains tho wholo truth, for it has beon admitted by Mr, Colfax in his sworn tontimony that he did buy the stock—not that it would have been a good in- vestmont, not that bo would havo beon willing to buy it, but that ko did actually buy it. ‘When an accused poerson sots out with an un- truth se glaring a8 this, subsequent doubts are not gonorally construed in his favor, Some of theso doubts may be onumerated, He says that e paid Amea five or six hundred dollara on the atock, a8 purohase-money, and afterwards told bhim (Ames) not to mind about returning the monoy to him, because he (Amos) hod’ got into finaucial difiienlties! Ames mnow oy that tho flye or six hundred dollars was n oheok for $634.72, and that it was a bal- anco duo him (Ames) aftor payment to Colfax of cortaln Credit Mobilier dlvidends, Ames saye it is not probmblo that Colfax would have givon him s ohock for ©534.72 without kuowing what it was for. This is all tho answer whioh tho Mausachusotts millionairo deigus to make to the suggostion of tho South Bend econ- omlat, that tho lattor gave him $534.73, s o do- nation, bocauso he (Amos) had asked and ob- talned an oxtonslon from ki croditors to tho amount of somo millions, But ho adds that Ooltax nevor told him that ho wished to sur- ronder thoe stock. 'This s another and important diseropauey in tho testimony of the two wit- nossos. If Colfax wanted to make a donation to Ames, why s'=ould it bo oxactly $534.7127 If ko was paylug for twonty shares of Credil Mobillor, ab par ($2,000), why should Lo pay oxacily $634.737 This is not o round sum, It {8 not the kind of & sum which would naturally have beon pald. But in striking & balauce bo- twoen debity sud oredits, luyolying the computa- tori of intorost and the eslo of bonda ab loss thon par, the difforonco botwoon the two would naturaily bo an odd sum like §584.73. Aud thus, again, Amon' statomont has ell the outward seoming of trath, and Colfax's tho opposite, Now wooomoto thohighly improbablostory that Mr, Oolfax received o £1,000 groonbnel by mail as & donation from aman now doconsod, which tho donor (Mr. Nosbit) wishiod to bo kept & pro- found meerot from his own family. Tho intor- vontlon of a dratt or check, or tho employmont of tho oxpress to convey tho monoy, would havo loft & matk, Tho singular and hazardous mothod of romitting tho moncy adopted roust bo sseribed to Mr. Nesbit's anx- foly to keop the mattor & profound accrot from his family—sn anxioty which Mr. Colfas, it sooms, did not appreeinto at its truo valuo, sinco ho exbibited the groonbnok to his own fawily at the brookfast tablo. But the story, if true, smounts to nothing, It simply loavos tho mattor whero it stood beforo Oolfax's bank account was brought in. Wipo out both the bank nccount and the 81,000 groonback, and tho cace js madoup against Br. Qolfax in tho most damaging manner possible, for it proves him to bo an untruthful man in his doslings withhis follow-mon sand with the publio, and it disquslifies him utterly from nppoaring as o moral reformer bofora Young Mon's Ohristian Assoclations, and in tho columns of the relig- ijous press, howover loudly they may applaud hia coming. THE NEW POBTAGE LAW, Tho new Postago bill, passed by the House of Ropresontatives, {8 o fltting soquol to the repenl of tho franking priviloge. Tho new bill, if it pacs tho Bonate, will go into offect in July, 1873, aftter which dato tho rates of postago on all lot- tors not excooding half an ounce in weight wiil bo two conts instond of threo conts, This will roquire the handling and transportation of one- third more lotters to produce the presont amount of rovenue, but thero is & cortainty that the two- cont rate will produco moro revenuo ovontually thon tho presont three-cent rato. The groat cost of the mafl transportation bus- “iness g in tho case of printed mattor, for which the, pontal sorvico receives littlo or no compen~ sation, The new law reduces the rates of pastage on printed mattor, after January, 1874, one-half tho presont ratos, tho samo to be prepaid, Afr, Farnsworth, to whoso untiring offorts tho couns try is largoly indebted for thia bill, estimatos that the Government does not now recoive one~ third of the postago properly due and collectable on the nowspapers and othor pnblications sont through tho mails, The Government, there- fore, can well afford to €educe the rates one-half, and by gotting paid in advance will still nearly doublo the prosent rovonue. But the Government will find that when the po stage on all printed mattor is prepaid the rate of post- sge may be atill further reduced, as in the.case of lottors. 'Tho propor mode of paying postage on printed matter, whon it is mailed in large quantities, is by woight. The daily paper that doposits & ton of newspapora in the Post Ofiico in tho morning can mora rendily pay the postago on the whole ton at ono timo than it cen be done by collecting it, as at prosonf, onco every threo months from 20,000 persons scatterod in all parta of tho country. Tho publishersof mag- azines in like manner should pay their postage, not by the weight of oach copy, but by the weight of their entire mail, each timo thoy doposit it in the office. ‘The rule should be infloxible, that no printed matter of any kind shonld bo received into the malls upon which the postago is not propaid, and thon everything reaching a Post Offico through the mails will be froe to tho person dirocted. No man or publisher has any right to the froe use of the mails ; has norightto tax other people to pay for carrying his letters or papers, This justice is only attainable when propayment is imperative. When that is secured, it will be found upon n very short experienco that the rates of postage on =il printed matter mny'hu reduced, not ouly to one-half, but to one-fitth tho prosont rates. Ittooka long timo to get Congross out of tho systom of charging postago on letters by the eheot, and not by the weight. No one at {his time would think of charging postage on lotters otlior than by weight. Bo with regard to mewspapors. Publishors of large papors should pay more for postago than publishers of small papers; jeach should pay according to tho actual weight depos- ited in the mail, and no moro; and, instead of stataping each paper, tho postage can bo pald on the whole odition according to its woeight, whother that edition weigh twenty pounds or a ton, When this system gota fairly to worls, pub~ lishors will wonder why it was nover adoptod Doforo, snd tho revenues of the postal service from printed matter will be found, like that from lettors, solf-sustaining OAEES AMES' FINAL BLABT, The evidence in the Credit Mobiller investiga- tiou is all in, and the case is bofore the Com- mittoo for its roport. If tho alleged Congres- slonal eulprits wore on tiial boforo a Court upon & criminal chargo, it would be unbecoming to onticipate the estimate which the jury would placo upon the testimony; but, in the presont inatance, the publio is tho tribunnl which is trylng the mon whoso namos have boon associ- ated with Credit Mobilier in & disreputablo way, and the report of the Committeo will only bo awnited ns indicating the ponalty attached to the guilt, and not for the purpose of directing tho popular verdiot, Tho successiva stops of the investigation have beou followed with an intorost coincident with tho onormity of the offonco agalnst public morality, From the jm- putod malice of & *onmpalgn canard,” Con- grossional implication in Oredit Mobilior frauds g grown to tho dimousions of the double crime of bribo-taking and falsc-awenaring. Had tho in- vostigation been puroued with closed doors, it is not probable that tho roal faots would have beon disclosed. They have ouly beon obtained from Osltos Amas a8 the last rosort for self~pre- gorvation. Tho final digclosures bofore the Com- mittoo had all of tho Intorost which was antlol- pated from thom, Mr, Colfox's case naturally loomod up a8 tho most important, aud there wad o disposition on tho part of both Ames and Col- fax to honr what tho othor had to say bofore muaking auy furthor atatomont, This was more Aisoreditable to Colfax than to Ames, and it was construed os an futontion to nwait tho production of suy rocoipts which Ames might hold, Nothing of this kind was forth- coming ; but Mr, Amea’ statoment, that ho Lad not boon able to find other rocelpta ‘as yet," loaves tho inforence that such doouments may b found at some future timo it thoy should bo- como more useful thau thoy are now. %ho somowhat notorious memorandum-book wnd produced, and its contonts confirmed thoe atate- ments which Ames had made in regard to the trausactions with Colfux, adding the paymont ou another occaslon of §60.75, as interest on Unlon Paclflo atock, which was & part of tho Orodit Mobilior dividouds, AMr." Colfax's caso rosts whoro {6 did boforo, oxcopt that Mr. Amos' orlgimnl momorandn sgrood with his formor {ostimony, and add one more transaction, show- Ing tho relative position of Colfax an an ownor of Credit Mobilior nlock and Ames ns Trustoo. ‘Tho exhibit of tho memorandum-book eliuchod tho ovidenco concerning the othor gontlemen implicated by Ames' testimony. Tho itoms are entored In this book conscoulively and with Lusinoss-lUke procision. Mv, Henry Wilson had an nceount In tha Lok, showing sovoral Lrang. nctions of doblt sud credit in Oredit Mobiller. Mr., Dawos wag sliown to have paid tho diffor- enco botween ¢ho 80 por cont dividond and tho par valuo of the stock. Mr. G, W. Heofleld rocoivod his stock Fob, 1, 1808, and paid $198,83 a8 o difforonco botweon the dividond and tho par value, DMr, Willism B, Allison In noted s boving paid €271, April 2f, 1808, 08 o Dbnlanco duc on stock sold to him, Mr, Jomes F. Wilson recelved £820, which was due him nccorh(ug to the regular esti- mato which Amos had madoe of the goveral trans- actions on the basia of ten, twonty, and thirty ghares. Benator Pattorson’s account was in shape according to the rocoipts which bad alrendy boen submitted to tho Committco. Tho cnses of Bingham, Garfleld, and Kelloy appesred in due form, Thero wns no roferomco to Bpenlor Diaino in the book. Wo havo, thon, Mossra. Colfax, Honry Wilson, Dawos, Brooks, Scofleld, Allison, Jamos T, Wilson, Patterson, Bingham, Garflold, and Kolloy, who at firat donied, cithor direotly or inforontinlly, ovor having owned any Crodit Mobilior stack, ne having rocoived the stock wi}lmut, practically, having paid anything forit. Tho Poland Committee will be expected to ra- port on the following poiuts: 1. Whothor tho transfor of o stock worth from 800 to 400 per cont at par, transforred to Congrossmen to in- duco thom to “lagk into" tho affairs of the corporation, is in the nature of a bribe, 2. ‘Whother a donial of auch a transfer, aftor it had actually taken placo, is ovidonco of a depraved motive on tho part of those who toolk tho atock. 8. Whothor tho Congressmon who beld Oredit Mobitier atock havo boen guilty of falso swear- ing, or of falso atatcments on their honor as Congrosemen, 4. Which of the Congressmon whoso names have beon implicated are guilty, and what their punishment shall be. 5. The guilt and punishment of Oakes Amas ag a bribe- giver. Upon the action In rogard to Amos will depend largely the fortheoming or absence of future dovelopments. Mr, Ames, through his nttomsy, refused to exhibit any other portions of hia momorandum-book than thoso relating to the testimony which ho had slroady given. JUDICIAL DISTRICTS IN ILLINOIS, The Coustitution of Ilifnofe provides thnt an clection for Cirguit Judges shall tako place in thig Stato on the firat Monday in June, 1873, and that tho torms of snfd Judges shalf bo six yonra. It furthor provides that, at the session of the Logislature fmmediately proceding eafd oloction, tho Btate, excluding Cook County, shall be divided into judicial cirouits, one circuit for each 100,000 inhabitants, as noarly as may bo, and to bo composed of contiguous territory. Thewhole population of the State in 1870 was 2,639,891, of which 949,908 was in Cook County, Doducting this [atter number, leaves for tho remaindor of the Stato 2,180,925, This will loavo the number of circuits outsida of Cook County attwonty-two. The' Legislature has, thereforo, to establish tho boundarios of these twenty-two circuits, and in oach of them a mew Judgo is to bo elocted in June noxt. Tho judiciary of this countyfs provided for in o distinct part of tho Counstitution. Whilo Cook County 8 but one ocircuit, it has several Oironit Judges. A Judge of that Court will have to be elocted in June next. On tho samo day a successor to Chiof Justico Lawrencoof the Su- premo Court of tho United Statos will have to ba chiosen by the votera in the Fifth Judicial District, composed of tho Counties of Warren, Henderson, Knox, Stark, Peoris, Marshall, Put- nam, Bureau, LaSalle, Grundy, and Woodford. Thero s the usual activity at Bpringfield on the partof mombers, flxing up judicial circuits to sult their friends. The Bunday question in London threatons to oxcito aa much digsonsion 28 in Chicago. Theroe the quostion {8 oue of rest and not of closing tho ealoons. Thoro is & regularly-organized “Yorking-Men's Lord’s Day Rest Asgociation,” which, it will bo noticed, is thoroughly English in tho cumborsomo construction of ita namo. A dologation from this association recently aston- ished tho Bishop of London by requesting that hie should not ride to church in his carringe on the Sabbath day. Their idos was that great ovil resultod from the practice of Cluis- tians riding to church in cabs, and that it was the duty of tho Bishop to sot them an example by digcontinuiug tho uso of his car- riago. This would require the Bishop to walk soveral milos on Sundny, then conduct tho ser- vices, and proach his sormon, Such a pracecd- ing might provide rest for his horges and sor- vants, but how would it bo sbout the Bishop himself? e Congross recontly had n spirited dobate on the proposition to substitnto English thotoric and litorature for tho study of tho Sponish lan- guago, ot West Point. Tho result was tho ro- tontion of the courso in Spanish to tho exoclu- alon of tho Engliuh, This is not altogethor murprieing, Thoso who hnve had occasion to liston to Congressional dobates on various ocon- slons have probably discovered that tho averag® momber of Congress has o groat contompt for tho English louguago, its rhotorlo and its litor- ature. —— Among tho names signod to the petition ask- ing President Grant to pardon Brown, the Phila- dolphin repentor, was that of W. L Komblo. 'T'his is tho gentleman who rocommouded Evans, the Pennsylvania Agont, as understanding ad- dition, division, and sllonco.” How much in- fluenco Mr. Iomble's namo oxerted in the mat- ter, it fs impossiblo to say, but the pardon was granted, An Explanations Speciul Despateh to The Chicago Tribune, Des Boines, lows, Fab, 12.—A typographieal mistako in o lotter to Tur Trisuse by this cor- respondent, publishod in tho istua of the 1ith, 1u sorious onough to demaud corrcction, Tho paragraph regarding tho railrond nttitude of tho farmora who arp membors of tho Senate, show- ing that a mn]m‘l',i;I of them wors ageinst tho position taken by tho Btate Grange, should have onded: *This shows that o mujority of tho farmors havo got over tho tongue and brought up on the wrong side,” The word * brought” was printed *bought," glving an Inforonco not intendod, and entivel unwarrantod, By roferenco Lo tho lotter, it will be soon that the notion of tho said farmer Boun~ tors, In voting ngainet the bill roferrod to, wis indordod and” commonded, This corveotion {8 due to the gontlemen concorned, B Now Vori Consiitutionnl Cominuion, Anpawy, N, Y,, Fob, 12.—"ho Co nl Commission to-fuy took np tho Suffea and adoptod the seetion providing for challonge at the polls for tho payont of or secoptiog s bribo, and for buyiug or selling » voto, sttompted _to AMUSEMENTS. THE OPERA. Tho opora of * Fra Diavolo” was ‘witnensod last ovoning by an immenso audlonce, fwhich complotoly filled overy part of tho thontre, and bora witnons, not only to Lucca's populasity, but 1o tho sirong hold which this bright and obarnc- torintlo work of Aubor's hins upon tho popular hoart. Fow of tho old standard oporas which aro in reperlofres so conntantly,as “ Ira Dinvo- 10" woar so woll. It also nddod to the intorest of tho aconnion that Lucoa s mado s Europoan, roputation in the character of Zerling, which had, procoded lior coming to thia country, so that thero waa consfdorable curlosity to 8o hor vor- sion of the role, which proved to be lke overy- thing shoundertskog—a concoption of Lior owna inthodovolopment of which sho doos not fol low in tho footstops of sny moro or loog cast in the same mould, tion and the business of the part aro moro cop- {e8, but Lucen starts out fn n path of her own muoking, and the farther sho progresaes, the moro widoly sho divergos from other nrliste, who have presonted this chnracter hore. Tha ossontinl oloment of differenco botwoon har vore slon and that of other artists is in tho rich humor with which sho invests the churackor,—a, humor sometimes nrch and naive, eomumtimon broed and rollicking,—and yot sho man egos to progorve tho casontini choractorlutics of Zerling, which aro those of sn innocont, joyous village maidon, who novortheless has s!: o‘lmndugm and tho familiarity which an inn-leopor's daughtor might bo supposed to possess, Blie is nover anything but natural, and in no ‘sltuation doos hor action go boyond the limit of proba- bility. Bhodoos juat what you would rxpect hor to do, and doos it in tha mannor she would om- ploy {f the scono was real.’ This utter sbaonce of artifico and oftort, joined to hor frosh, vi cious and hi hlymfi:fina dolinontion of tho ehare ‘plotures actor mako it one of tho mont charmi; imnginnble, Bho has studied tho part avidently moro from the dramatio than the lyris side, and indood, with tho singlo oxception porhaps of tho “ Diavolo Bong,” makes o music of ugfnndm'y importance ; and, as a dramatic represontation possessed of & and ot cnsily frightenod, up to all of an Italian village girl, cortnin gaucherio, brim-full of fun, boldness, and 7 gorts of mischlof, oven if it boa Little konrso, and 5ot capablo of conducting horself vory do- murely when the occasion requires, the por- formance can hardly be surpassod, n.l(hnugh Wwo Iiavo had artists horo who con sing the musio moro sweotly and with groator offect. Tho strongost foaturc of her porsonatfonis in the bod-room scene, which she makos intonsely hu- morous by hor irrosiatiblo by&})]ny ond animal sfiifltu, which were amply sufficiont to warrant the grotumancrln and ongor ouriosity of the ban- dits behind the curtain, who secmed to catch some of hor fun, and did much bettor than when !hsg weoro loft to their own resources, 'ith Luces's roprosentation, words of pralso must close, Vizzani, althongh ho sang very smoothly and mado a8 much of tho music as his vocal rofouraes would allow, Liad not the mont distant suggestion of & brigand about him, Heo was almply an may-§olng clvilian in top boots and count} :lg-mom attiro, whoso uppoarance was no more calculated to aftright Zerling, than it was to affect tho suscoptible heart of Lady All- cash. Tho dashing spirit and bold effrontery of tho mountain bandit, as woll as the dolioato spirit of humor which bolongs to tho oharaotor, ‘wora utterly wanting, and tha usual rograt which an sudionce feels at tho sudden taking-off of the olegant raseal in tho Inat act, was not manifosted on this occasion. onconi managed, 8s usual, to ot several Lundred milea away from the rflah whenover ho nms,x but moade some com- gonsntion for his distroseing vocalism by his rond buffo acting, which was not apparently affeoted by tho coldness of Lady Allcash (Sanz), his wifo and travolling companton. If the latter would but onco rolax tho musclos of her face and obange its oxpresgion, she would be much more acceptable. ~ Aa it in sho accepts tho growl- inga and bontings of hor husband and tho flat- torios and blaudishmonts of Fra Diavolo with the ssmo importurbable determination to bo surprised at pothing, The two brigands, Coulon and Dubreul, managed to got up-consid- erable drollery but in comparison with Campbell and Poakes, or oven with tho stolid buffoonery of Hermsnns, thoy woro oxcessivoly tame and todious. Richardt's Lorenzo was tho mildost mannered trooper that ever drow subre and Locatelli ag Matteo should make up his mind at once aud forover that he does not know how to run an ion, It is rather romarkable that the chorus, wliuch has done so well hitherto, should have done 80 poorly in numbors they ought to Xknow by heart ; likowiae tho orchestra. This ovening there will be no opers. The next performance will bo on Friday, upon which oceasion * Nozze di F]fi:m " will be given, with Lucca as Cherubino, Kollogg a8 Susanna, and Loveille as the Countess. BLOOMINGTON. ion—~The Casc of We S, Coy. Special Despateh to The Chicago Tribune. BrooaNaToy, Ill., Fab, 12.—A call, signed by W. R. Duncan, Committeoman for this county, has been issucd for a mooting of the farmers of Farmers? Conve MoLoan County, to take stops toward organiza~ tion, in purauance of the plan proposed at the- Iato Stato Convention held here. The meoting is to bo & Delegato Convontion, to assemblo in. this city on thoe 20th inat., tho delogaten to bo appointed upona basis which is not yot, bub in n fow days will bo, determinoed upon. An onthusinstic meeting of the farmors of Normal Township was hold this afternoon at Normal, Mr, 8. N, King was elocted Prosident of tho pormancnt organization, J. Dillon, Vice Presidont, and Hon. Joseph Cartor, Secrotary. Tho roport that Governor Boveridgo has re- quested tho rosignation of tho Hon, W. 8. Coy, of this placo, from the State Board of Educa-~ tion I8 racoived here with tha doopest dopreca~ tion, as all, both Republicans and Domocrats, who know Goy and hia record, feol assurad that the Govornor's action must bo solely in rotalia~ tion for tho stand taken by the gentleman dur~ ing tho recont campaign in which Coy was a zoalous and active Liboral. BUTTER AND CHEESE. The Dairymen’s Association Convens tion ait Watertown, Wi, Special Despateh to The Chicago Tribune, Warentows, Fob, 12.—In the Wieconsin Dairymen's Asgociation, at the closing session, tho coloring of cheeso bandages was discussed, with a gonoral expression that it was not necos- gary. Coloringchecse was aleo disoussed, withan implled declaion that, whilo. uilbormlfh colorod of uncolored cheoro ia in demand in all the loading markots, moderato coloring is safest. The quos- tion of comparitive profits of duirying with othor brea chos of famlng was discusged with much intorust. Its advautages over oxclusive grain farming woro strongly q{rnannled, but tho extont to which grain and stock roising might ba united with dairying was & quostion ou whioh thoro was goma difforonice of opinion, but with a strong propendorance in favor of somo mixing. State- ments were mado bé sovoral of the dairies lnat vopr having yloldod $50 por . cow in ohacse, but- or, and enlt, not counfinflnytblng for manuro, This givos & fair profit. Aftor the usual voto of thanks, the Conventlon adjourncd, aftor a pleas- ant sossion, tho freo convorsational dlscussion beiug tho most morked foature, QuINOY. Meoting of the Falr AssociationssA Fifteonth Amendment Lawenit Scte tied. . ‘Special Despateh to The Chicago Tribune, Quixoy, Tl1,, Feb, 12,—Tho second meoting of the Fair Associntion was held hero to-day, Geu- aral Bingloton in tho cbair, when tho Committees roported progress. A number of leading citizens havo signed the rol), representing subscriptions of noarly 610,000, Pramiums to tho smount of 25,000 will bo offered oxhibitors, and every- thing done to asguro tho succoss of tho entar- rito. Tho caso of Emma Cogor, a colored woman of this elty, againgt the ownors of the atcamor Merrll), for foreible efection from tho cabin of hat boat Inet summer, was docided at Keokuk to-day, tho jury awarding the plaintiff $250 dam- agey, Sho pued for §5,000, —_—————— ©hio Politics, Covusrnus, O,, Fob, 12,—Tho Ropublican State Coutrul Oonnuittoo meb to-day, snd dnoldm} 10 Tiold tho next Stato Convontion May 21, This dny waa flxed to ayold tho complaint horetoforo amado, whon tho Convontion hes beon held dur- fugs Lhonekion of the Logislaturo, that tho Gon- voulion was eot up by logislatora, Ropublicang from various parts of Ohio, with Ropublican membors of tho General Assembly et in enucus to-night to consldor the \)omlc- sltuation, and suggest plans for couduating the othor artist, Noarly all tho stago: Zerlinas, in *Fra Diavolo” and “Don Glovanni” as woll, ara Tho ao- next campnign, Bpeechos wors made by Gove ornor Noyos, ex-Licutenant Governor Leo, and othora, Theyall spolto in . hopeful atrain, do- clnring that concontration of offort was all that wea noodod {o insuro the succous of tha Ropub- lican arma. ‘Fhe Oradit Mobilior seandsl was ro- forred to Ly soveral wponkers, and whilo it woa admitied to bo unfortunnfo for cortain londers of the Iopublican 1:»\'&{, [) advired & suspension of judgmont until thoso now bolng investignted had boon proved gullty of orima, If guilty, then they indlyidunlly must fall, and whilo their friends would mourn their downfall, Tho Ropublican party would go on without thom, : A oircular fssued by the State Excoutive Come mitteo, urging tho importanco of roouring o mejority in” the Conolilutional Convontion, was conourred in. NEW YORK. Phelps, Doidge & Co. Agnin Anxious to Sottle—Iuilrond Swindling-«Tho Bar - Assoclation =« Complimontary Dinner--Mayor IlavemeyeresSmoule dering Fives«='Tho Fiysterious Murder at Littlo Neclk. Special Despateh to The Chicago Tribune, New Yong, Fob, 12.—Tho firm of -Phelps, Dodge & Co. havo again reachod tho conclusion thnt thoy profor not to have their frauds on tho Cuatom House ventilated in Court, and have offorad tho Scorotary of tho Tressury $271,000 fu compromiso, which is $11,000 more than boforo. It is bolioved that Mr. Boutwoll will accopt this offor, but will not stultify hime golf by furnishiog tho firm with a certifi- cato of innocenco, The undorstanding is that Wm. 13, Dodgo, 8r., wes not cognizant of tho frauds, but that thoy woro manngod by his son and D. Willis Jamos. Candor compols o denial of tho story that the gullty parties have ‘becn oxpellod from the firm, Tho various pare f¥es continuo in business as herotoforo. Tho Coroner ta-day held an inquest in the caso of Darbara Schaffor, whoue throat was ont by horlhusband, William Beliaffor;.on the night of Fott. 4, at 10 Bleccker stroct, Tho only tosti- monty of importanco olicited wes that of Frod~ orickd Grss, married to Schafior's sistor. Ho _testified that Schaffor Lad beem mariied ninetcon yesrs, and revious to thio fragedy had 'boon soparated about {lvo rnonths. The intimacy of Mra, Bchaffer with Btepken Haas, o one-armed lotier-carrier, wag tho o ruse of tho soparation. Bchafler, aftor tha sopm ation, wont to bosrd with tho switness. They 'had four childron. Sohaffor used to brood & groiut doal over bis domestic trouble, but had nover thrented his wife's life, 8ho boarded with I|frs, Bonder, at Eldridge and Grand streets. Bchafiler called thoro fmquenflgv fo aco his wifo. On tho night of tho tragedy, Schaffor wont out, sylng that he wes going to seo his wife about, thoic oldest daughter, who wasin tho houso of the “ Gopd Shopherd,” having, doubtloss, delibe oratoly wado up hia mind to kill her sud hims solf, " TF.ho Coroner’s jury gave o verdict accords lnita #aoso facts, ngw fraud has just como to light. For sovornl months poat tho froight troine of the varlows railroads from this city to the West woro *fillod with barrols, all marked ‘' sugsr.” They *woro directod to tho principal confoction orsaod dealors in candics in Chicago, Indisn~ spolig, Cincinnati, and other citics. ‘T'ho freight agen(.s of sovral of tho compavies, suspactin thet something was wrong, recently opone somo of tho barrels and found thom packt:d with confectionery and choico candies. Tho: frelght on plain sugar is 87 omts a Lundred, whilo sonteotionsry is cbiargod at thorato of $1.18, The railros companics bave inatructod thoir agonts to keop .| & sliarp lookout for “sugar’ froight, and to “open every barre, if necossary, dirocted to cona +| fockioners in_tho Woeatorn cities. Fivo confac- I tionors in this city hayve recoived lotters from %! Westorn firms, roquesting ther to labol tho pep- pormint lozenges, otc,, they had ordercd, as “gugar,” at 47 cents & hundred. Tho frauda erpatrated in this way are said to amount to an. immense sum annually. Thero 8 quito & novel olrcumstance connooted i+with the panclling of the jury to try Scanuell for | 4hie murder of Donohue. The wife of the mur- | 'deror sita st the olbow of his counsel every day | in Court and no juror is accepted by tho dofence ;unlegs pho nf‘provou of him, Bho is supposed to {'bo applying her knowlodge of physiognomy. ¢ The urder of Jnmes Grabam, shoe dealer at “Littlo Neck, romains o complote’ mystery, His #wo half-brothers aund a nenr friond woro arrested on suspicion, but no evidence against them has ‘boen obtatned, [0 the Associated Presa,) New Yonx, Feb, 12,.—At o meoting of the Bar- Association, last night, it was decidod to apply -+to the Logislature for law rogulating the fees ' charged by public ofcinls, In cases of extor- ¥-tionato chargos, complaiuts aro to be made to tttho grand jury ngainst the offending officers. The proposed departure for Europe of Gen-. «oral L, 'f', Bekert, SBuperidtendent of the East- orn Division of the Wostorn Union Tolograph. Qompany, waa last evening mado the occasion of o complimontary dinnor at the Astor House in this city, by the Assistant Buperintondenta of ‘his division, who asserabled hero for that pur-~ pose, Tho General was not apprised of “tha | affair until he was escorted-into the dining rooms, whore he found his aids assembled. Aftor dinner a lettor wag Eremntcd to him in behalf of tho Assistant Suporintondonts, ex- prossive of tho regard and esteom in which he was held by them, and of tho hopo that hig mis~ sion abroad would bo successful, Mayor Havomeyer, in o lottor published to- dny, calls attontion fo his lotter accopting his nomination, in which ho mado no promise to ba o party candidato, and ssys that ho 8 not nowto be sworved from that position, Tho officers of tho New York & Brazil Line of Btonmshipa have received communications con- carning tho buraing of the stoamor Erle. Tho sbip was discovered to ba on firo at 10 o'clock at night, and every exertion was mado to subdue the fiamos, but it waa of no avail. The firo, whioh originated in thio hold, sproad rapidly, &t 12 o'clock, finding all hope of Aaving tho ves- 8ol gono, tho passengers and crew got into boata. Tho vesgol gank in less than half an hour after sho was desortod. Her cargo consisted of coffeo, and this, with the mails and vossel, wera sll loat. Tho goneral term of tho Supreme Court of Brooldyn to-doy affirmod the docision of tha special term, concerning tho legality of tho “Btato dofloionoy tax lovy,"” and tho caso will go to the Court of Appeals. The grain in tho ruins of Woodruff and Rob= inson's storos, which wero destroyed by firo last Novembor, ia till burning. Tho naw bill in referenco to the Inssno Asylums, introduced in the Legislaturo, directs 8 Vigiting Bonrd, to . which & lady may bo ap- ointod, and suthorizes s freor communication Ectwnnn tho inmates of such inatitutions with thoir friends. Tho first commitment under the act of June 8, 1872, for fraudulontly using tho mails, was mada to-day, tha committed boing Houry Monninger, glmk sont out circulays offering counterfoit green~ ack, THE WEATHER. War Dopartment EPrognostications for To-Day. 2 Onroaao, TFeb. 12.—Tho Bigual Borvice tele- grama roport 4 degreos bolow 2oro this morning at Brockinridge, Minn.; 8 above at St, Paul; 7 above at Duluth; 8 abovo at Marquotto ; 21 abovo at Ohicago ; 7 sbovo at Grand Haven, Mich, ; 17 abovo ut Dotrolt ; 21 nbovo at Buffulog 82 above at Pittaburgh ; 18 above at Toronto; 20 above at Rochoster ; 16 abovo at Albany ; 8 nbove at New York; 12 above at Portland ; 9 above a¢ Burlington, Vi, : 8 above at Quobeo ; 8 abovo at \Vnn\liufitnu 5 60 ot Charloston, 8.0, ; 65 at Jacksonvillo, I'ln.; 98 at Memphis; 27 at Bt. Louis; 8G nt Loulsville, Snowing in Oentral Now York and Vermout, Liaining as. Now York, Baltimore, Washington, Fortress Monros, Goorgle, Florida, ‘Pouncssee, and Ken-- tuohy. Wan DeranmaenT, OFrFice or e Omme Sia%an OrFricEr, Divisiox of TELEOUAMS AND: Reponts ¥oR Tur HeNEFIT or COMMERCE, Wasnixaroy, D. 0., Tob., 12, —Probabilities— For tho Bouthern States enst of NMissisaippl for Thureday, §uunmfly lowar tomporaturo, wostorl to nortiiorly winds, diminishing In fores, an cloar weathor, For tha Middlo Statos, brisk and. high northerly and onsterly winds, with rain over tho southern portion and anow over tha morthern, winds backing to northerly and westerly, from Lake Erlo to Bouthern New Jorsey and southward to Virginia during ‘Thursday, with olenring weathor and ovor Now York, and thenco to Connecticut and Nortlorn Now Jorsoy during Thursdsy oven= ing, Tor New Englend, brisk northeaster) winds inoveasing to high along tho coast, with snow pmbnbl% turning to rain nlouli the south-~ crnportion, Irom the Ohio Valley to the Upper Lapkos, frosh and brisk northwestorly to north enul.or’y winds ‘and partly oloudy wonther, tho formor shifting probably to castorly aud souihs orly, on Thursday, with inoroased clondiness. Tor tha Northwest, southeasterly to southwest- erly winds and eloudy and possibly throatoning weither north of Iowa. Coutionary piguala continue at Norfolk and Cape Muy, and sre orderod for Baltimore, New York, Now Loudon, Boston, aud LPortland, bio, . ok