Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1873, Page 4

41 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 187 ‘TERMS OF THE TRIBUN -~ TRANS OF BURACRIPTION (PAYANLE IN ADYANCE), - R, -Waol Partaotay ‘To prevent delay and mistakes, b Ofmos addretsIn (ul, Including Btate snd Oounty, - Remittancos may bo made either bydralt, expross, Post In registerod lotters, at our tisk. TRRAS TO OITY sUDAGHIORRE, 5 ., 28 conts por wesk, Bl sty gundsy ecmied: & Somt por vtk THE TRIBUNE UOMPALY, d Doarborn-ste., Ohioago, il * CONTENTS OF TO'DAY'S TRIBUNE, VIRST PAGE—Washington Nows: The Crodit Mobilfor Dusinoss; Amos Doflant Proocodings in Congress— ., - Presidont's Mossago on tha Utah Queation,. BOOND' PAGE—Tho Tribuno ‘Building: Something About the First of all the Tribunos; The Tribiino and ita New Moohanical Appliancos and Surround- < inge; The Bulldersand the Tenants. ' LIIRD PAGE—Tho Now Tribune Building [continuod] —Rallrond Timo-Table—Adrartisements, FOURTH PAGE~—Tho Most Meritorious Substdy ; Ghoap Frelghta Easti Herlan's Absundity—Notes and Oplnton—Ourrant News Items—Lacal Matters, . FIFTH PAGE—Dohind the Curlain: An Interior View of Opora Managomont—The Law Gourta—Amusa- ments, BIXTH PAGE—Monotary and Commeroial—Adrertiss. ments, . % BEVENTH PAGE—Taxation of Bank Stock: Confllot of Opinlon Among the Judgos~The Northwostorn Rail. ‘way Tronbles—A Bwindle Expoted—Gratn Dootorin, ~The Oty (u Briof~8mall Advertisements: Re: Eatate, For Bale,” To Rent, Wantod, Boarding, Lod to, ging, Bto, B GIGHTH PAGE—Loghlative Doings at Springflold— ' Other State Logislaturos—Forelgn Nowe—Miscel. Ilaneons Tolegrama, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. #M'VIOKER'S THEATRE-Madlson .atrest, between Btate and Desrborn. Itallan Opors. **Miguon,” Blatinee. ACADEMY OF MUSIO- Halited atrest, sonth of Madison. Engegoment of Miss Oarlotts’ LeGlorog, ¢+ Pygmalion and Galotos,” ** A Wolf in Sheop's Oloth. ing." Aftornoon and ovening. ¥ HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE-Randolph street, bo- tween Olark and LaSalle, New Comedy ‘Company. Y Paul Pry," ** 0'Callaghan,” Aftornoon and evening. MYERS' OPERA HOUBE—Monros street, batween State and Doarborn. Arlington, Cotton & Komble's Minstrol aud Burlosque Troupe, Ethiopian Oomicalitios, Afternoon and avenlng. GLOBE THEATRE~Dasplaines stroot, botwoon Madi- son and Washington, *‘Jod; or the’ Lost Will." After- @00n and evening. r—— BUSINESS NOTICES. . D BY USING JUNIPER TAR v'.‘. B Eeotod by Cuswan, Herard & Gory New ork. NBYER BATINUIGD WITH WERELY DOING ol tis Howrs. Rioo, of tho American Hous, Henion, ary {mprovomo: &5 koup, thoir Holol 1n 4o FORE TARK (hAE has 30 1oag beon ouggeded it. " TON, DEPRESBION of e eral DAt e, Torog Photeebonted im";pqé; {Joaeral Dabllity. the S a Bark (Callsasa B Iron), s tu nn‘;’c'ufi?«. " tade by Gsawoll iriet &G , o Yorks- and sold by Druggiats. ! ; TO COABUMPTIVES,—MARY HAVE BREN HAP- iy thels testimany o fuyar of thetse of Wi EJ‘.’!m God rer O, Miberianan Bay'brovea 18t a valuable romody for Conumptiony Asthuma, Biphtho- all dlsoases of tho Throal 'F‘ ungs. *Alanufac. fiA. B, Wiltior, Ohiemfat, No. 168 Courtest., | by druggists genorally. IR DYE. Bowon. BATCHELON'S dy it rmles it oridigalons tita o naplassant od bots o8 and washos, "suporb black of matural brows, fi%‘éfié'“““mh "o coni Sold by all Propriotor, N. Yo @he Chicago Titbune, 1873, || Saturday Morning, February 15, " Tho report on Senator Caldwell's onse has boen ‘postponed, at his reguost, until the roturn of his ocounsel to Washington, Ex-King Amadous inat Lisbon, where he has royal quarters withont the royal responsibilities. Wguh he has found soarduous and dangerous. "Ropredsntative Wood has farled again in in- troduoing his tegolution of congratulation upon She establishimont of tho Bpanish Republio. A similar rosolation in the Sénate was laid over, | In the debate in the Benato, on the Naval Ap- propriation bill, it is etated that buu a short time »go there was fh the navy one commissioned officer for every four men. - .Onstelar, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Spanish Ropublio, will soon put forth an ad- dress oxplaining to other nations ths foreign policy of the now Government. : — John Gaftnoy was hanged yosterday at Buffalo for & wanton murder committed in & drunken brawl in one of the worat haunts of that city. 1n his farewell remarka on.the seaffold he con- fessed his guilt, but ploaded that he was orazed with liquor when he did the killing, - The Spesker of the Lower House of tho Btate Logislaturo tells the members that they have-been sitting five weoks without doing any- thing, He suggests that night sessions be held and efforts made to accomplish some results befors adjournmont. The reprosentatives of the lo-dlnls froight inea between the Enstand the West have de- oided, in conference at New York, not to make any reduction in freight charges, The only through line nota party to this arrangement la the Baltimora & Ohio Railroad. Prussis hes on its hands romething very like » Credit Mobiller investigation. Beveral officers of the Government who wore charged with pro- leoting its interests in contracts made by the Btate railways bLave pormitted or contrived grosa frauds. Ono of the guilty mon s sald to be a pet of Bismarok's, All of them have been called upon to oxplain, and resignations are be- glhning to flow in. # Mr. Colgate, who is tho Oakes Ames vf the Bherman-Garfiold scandal, is reported as having aaid that, “it he wasclogely prossed, he would tell the Committes something that would astonish them.” The statoment contains two significant pointa: 1, An intimation which is confirmed by roveral episodes of tho recent investigations, that Committoes do not alwaya press the wit- _nesgos a8 olosely a8 thoy might; and 2. That revelations whioh would astonish a Congression- sl"Cammittee, after the recent dovelopments in brifery;canes, must be of a torrible naturoe, B R By dicpifongate that the Poland Commit~ ,Bfims‘]}%iyfig in! a5 V’b&‘e 2. the expulsion of Osken Amos pdimas BrARE; §9d,phitowash tho wo the minor dotails of the admin. fatratlon of Justlco to ldcal anthoritios, it cannot do o in cnses whera the romult will bo & confliot of authority and publio disturbanco, ‘To provent s miscarriago of justico, and to main- taln tho laws of tho Un}tcd'flmu, ho thinks {liab spbelal loglalation Is noodod for Utah, - Tho nélodtion of . jutors must be takon out of tho hands of those who are dotormined that no law of Congross, obnoxious to thom, -shall bo oxe~ outed, aud Torritorial Courta must bo roatrained from intorforing with Federal Courts, " All tho offico-holding nowspapora are agrood that' Mr. Colfax his entirely exoulpeted himsolf in tlio- Orodit - Mobilior investigation—that he hos -gone round tlio course without awoating n bair.". Tho Indianopolla Journal, howaver, takes a ' diftoreut viow. While nccepting as truo Mz, Colfax's explanation of tho way ho recoived the $1,200, it says that his South Bond spooch was a ' provaricatlon,” A provarication is & statoment intonded to decolve, In this oaso it was intended to deceive the American people. A provarication differs from a direct Ho in boing rathor more cowardly,—asloaving to the provari- cator momo sort of hole to dart into whon de- tooted, Inatead of eemdh:z up like amanand taking his due punishment, We trust that tho Indianapolis Journal wolghed well tho word which it employed in charsoterizing Mr. Colfax's South Bend speech. Alr. Huntington, Vice Prosident of tho Contral Pacific Raflroad, tolls tho Credit Mobilier Com- mittas at great length what ho does not know about the affairs of that Company. Ho doos not know how many . shares . he hold.in tho Contract and #inanoo Company, which waa to tho Central Pacific what the Crodit Mobilier was to tho Union Pacific. Ho does not know what divi- dends he recoived from it. = He, doea nat know how much that ‘Company owns of the stock of the railroad. He doos not know how many stockholders thore are in the road, but hea an impression that & dozen men control it. He does not know how much its stock is worth. Ho doecs mnot know what profita the Contract and Financo Company mndo from ita contracts; Ha does not know who awarded the contracts to it. Mr. Huntington ovidently believos, with a dlstingulshed philos- ophor, that-knowledge conslsts in tracing ig- norance aa far back as possibl; The rosult of the Electoral voto, as doclared by the two Houses of Congross on ‘Wednesday last, was a8 follows:. . - B a FOR PRESIDENT, Ulysacs B, Grant, of Iilinols. .. Thomas A, Hendrioks, of Indiun B, Grotz Brown, of Missourd, Glinrlos J, Jonking,.of G David Davis, of Lilinols, Total, aa doclared. . Refocted ! Tho whole vote cf Arkinsas, 6 Loule- iana, 8, and 3 voles §a Georgin for Horaco Greolay, decoasid.... 17 ‘Total of the Electoral bodfes, yon viGE eree: Heary Wilson, of BMassachusetts, 1, Gratz Brown, of Missonri, Georgo W. Juliay, of Indians,. Aloxander H, Colquit, of Georgla. John', Palsier, of Iiinofs. . ‘Total as declared, Roejoctod: The vote of LU "Total of the Electornl Bodes. vuuvussssiassress 860 © 'THE VOTE OF STATES, For'Grant and -Wilson. ¥ For Greeley snd Brow: Rejected : ‘Arkansna and The Chicago produce markets woro moro activo yeatordsy. - Mons pork was in good spocu- lative domand, and 10@16c" por brl highor, clos- ing ol $12.86@12.00 cach,- and -§18.00@18.06 sellor Mafoh. Lard was modorately active, and 234@°Go per 100 1ba higher, at 87.873(@7.40 cash, and 87.55@7.57}¢ soller March, Moeats were 3do per Ib higher,at” 436@43(c for shoulders, 630 for ehort ribs, 62¢c for short olear, and 8@83go pér 1b for 18-15 groen hama, Dressed hogs were Go per 100 Ibs highor, closing at $5.05@6.10. Highwinos were in fair demand and steady ot 87go per gallon. Flour was quiet and steady. ‘Wheat was active and 13{c higher, closing firm at $1.283¢ cash, and $1.24%¢ seller Maroh., Corn 'waa less active, but » shade firmer, closing ot Slcceah,. and 813@8134c sellor March. ‘Oats were quietand 3{clower, at 263¢c cash, and 2634c geller March, Rye was more active, and firmer, at 653¢@06c. Barloy was more active, and closod steady at 880 for cashy No. 2, and 683¢c for do” soller March, The live hog market opened ac- tive and firm ot yesterdsy's prices, but closed woak and 5@10c lower, closing rates being $4.25 @4.86. Cattle wero more sotive-and highor, with salos at £2.80@0.60 for inferior to extra. There was a light domand for shoep, and prices wore in buyers’ favor. A private lotter from a large oporator in Western produce in New York, to a gentleman in this city, states that a measure will be urged before the New York Legislature to reatoro tho .| tolls on the Erie Canal to the figures of twenty years ago. The tolls now aro 83§ cents on ‘wheat, and 23§ cents on corn. Itis proposed to add to this burdon 83¢ cents on wheat, and 8 conts oncorn, Undor the ratos of last year, the roceipts of the Erio Canal, as shown by the Comptroller's report, were 2,760,147 ; expenses for salaries and repalrs, 91,087,021, showing o surplus of £1,078,126, But this surplus of the mainline wasall con- sumed by the political paupers whom the State bas quartored on hor lateral canals, and their total receipts as well, and $814,873 raised by taxation besides, Doubtloss, the patriotio bum- mers on the Iateral canals, Who consumed the ontire receipta and profita of all lor canals and 2814,878 In taxes, foar their follow-oitizons will not be willing to stand such & drain on their poockets, and honce this new mid on the commerco of the West. Buch an advance in freight chargos would in- duce desperate efforts on the part of all the Btates and peoplo west of Lake Michigan to open the 8t. Lawronce route for large sea-going vestols, producing in the end such & reduction of freights as would bring down the tolls of tho Erio Canal with o rusl, Better by far for her Conjussmon who' took! OtsdleoH{lnr stock ag bribes. _Tbwould:oloff >enrio tingtion fo mtk?.'])@v._lflflghgde, it will have somo good s ol)iid Undirgdillel - Among the: formo sl prBHi\}!f; be & 'nigx;e unz‘nnrvczl'nn'temagt by~ Ak dbigrofaohd THHEAE ¥REY GrbHf 43’ his made heretofore, The Aifiiryi iitd slonabpatrannge.izay 7; neBrons . HHE JnflT'.flfi InPrasident fi_lji'n;% Wopihion Wiors 14 nept dangar of “gollislon btwoon tho Mommon 5 d thaFoMifl?flC;}‘%"[’; fjgmf?f&;' wuback 46 Qo to enlarge her Erlo Oanal to the largest size pos- sible, make the toll charges onlyso much as i)l koep it In order, and ‘closa all the laters] ca- hals fi canuot be made to pay oxponses. Then hiroBtate may hope to rotain the com- 4 0, §hp Hatgs wost of Lake Michigan, s & E T ———— ggruméatlitk Hpdh d-proposition beforo e fifit (g l“:)::ll':ln:l com Bt AWAA-E SilfSball i thopoby oon- ;mm U TV A BALE S Pyver, umanum\pu‘:ammmwfifingllgfian&mé:fmt@ unigation. from Lake Michigey AN he Stfimdl Lonitieeclal-Alk 3 anala word TGWIE @I ED e FHIC ) true. Yo asaabosdsbal He veq baz tilld ila 3nolloa Hiw otw 2ATAV L AAJARAIT A act, that,tho palewemens of §he eligpd Canal ould~be—ugeleas -unless-~the- 8, Lawranco.| "t o gerda tho enlargomont of tho Bt I ronco ' Canals, that 18 an improvemont which oven tho Imaginative Canndiana have not commoncod to talk aboubt yot, Tho oanals aro cut through solid rook for long dlatances, and to make thom of sufficlont eapacity to float vessols of 1,200 or 1,500 tona burden, would require tho exponditure of a fabulous amount of monoy and ft would take Bovoral yoars to complote thom,” Tho frots aro, that tho Oanadians Lavo boon talking about tho enlargoment of tho Bt Lawronco Canals for ton yoars, and that, two yoars ago, noaroful ostimate of tho funatbility anid cost of tho undortaking was made undor Govornment authority, Tho roport atated that tho Wolland, 8t. Lawronco, Ottawa, and Cham- bly Canals could bo enlarged, and the Bay Vorto construoted, for $19,000,000, about one-half of which would bé exponded upon the Wolland Oanal alono, This would loave about £0,000,000 a3 tho oxponto of enlarging the 8t Law tonco Canals, which are as follows: * Tho Lachino Conal, 8}¢ milos longj tho ‘Bean- harnols Oanal at Oascados and Codar Raplds, 117{ miles ; Cornwall Canal at Long Bault, 14 milos ; the Iroguois Canal, at thy Galops, 73§ ‘miles, and two emall canals, which, togother, aro 43¢ milos long. Tho whole length of all the canala i 435 milos, with 270 feot of lockago. I¢, in nddition to this, a canal can bo conatructed by tho Btate of Now York for £8,000,000, which wonld connect Lake Champlain and tho Hud- son, the wholo schome of making a through ‘water routo for largo vessels would not involve that *fabulous amount of money” which the Commercial Advertiser gooms to think that tho Bt. Lawronco Ganals would cost. Tho moro n- telligont“nowspapors of New York admit that choapor transportation from the West Is as much to the intereat of tho East a8 of tho Wost, and are giving the Welland and 8. Lawronce water xouto serious and favorable consideration. THE MOBT MERITORIOUS SUBSIDY. . Thero are about fiftoen or eighteen billa now pending beforo Congress, having for their pur- pose the granting of from $200,000 to $800,000 oach per annum to onsblo somebody to start o’ line of steamships to carry the maila. If all these billa woro to pass,—and there {8 no resson why one should pass and notall the others,—they would entail on tho United Btatos an sunnual charge for carrying tho ocean mails of ‘five or six millions of dollars. Last woek, thera camo & «statement that ovon Senator Logan, of Tilinots, sharing the anxiety tohave tho mails carried cheaply over the ocoan, had introduced a bill to subsidizo somebody to enable that person to- build stoamships for the ocean trade. It is o romorkablo fsct that nover in tho history of tho United Btates havo the pcean mails been carried 8o cheeply and with solittlo delay a8 now. There are ten or twelvo ocenn stonmors Jeaving tho Atlantie ports evory day, and ovory ono of.them will carry tho mails, asking no compensation beyond the two conts por lettor charged for tho postage ; and, it they-wero allowed to do so, thoy would carry the mails for 85, or oven §1, o bag. What_ thoy re- coive for carrying tho mails is pure profit. In tha face of this existing fact, of tho transporta- tion of all tho foreign maila freo of cost, the snxlety of Benators and Roepresentatives to got £4,000,000 or 65,000,000 & yoar to pay out to somebody for that servico is remarkable. Wo believe Mr. Pomeroy slone is the father of. several ocean steamer subsidy bills. Ho is ox- tremoly anxious to pay something extra for car- rying tho mails, which are now carried freo of cost to the Government._ % Wo aro opposod to. subsidies. We ob- joot to taxing the peoplo to bmld rafl- ronds to bo ownod and managed for the profit of private corporations; we objoctto taxing tho wholo country for building stenmboats for Jones and Smith; we object to’ taxing the country to pay Brown 87 a ton on the iron he makes, in addition to his profit. Wo ob- Ject to any taxation of tho country to guaranteo any man, or class of men, & profjt on their trado or business, . Wo espocially object to taxes to build steamships to carry the ocean mails, when thero is o strong competition botweon the pros- ent stenmships to carry tho mails free of cost to the country. But, if thero is to be any sudsidiz- ing of anybody for tho benefit of any class, we suggost that it bo after the following manner: Com {8 now solling in- Central Illinois at 18 | conts; it Is solling in Now York at 67 cents, and in London ot 92 conts. It coats 40 dents to got it from Illinols to New York, and 25 conta from New York to London. New we pro- poso, if Congress is to go into tho subsidy business at all, that it vote out of the Tressury to any railroad, that will earry corn from Illinofs to New York at 20 conts per bushel, a subsidy oqual to 29 cents for every bushel it shall carry; and that it voto to every stenmship carrying corn from New York to London s subsidy oqual to 20 cents por bushel, In thib way the purchasor will pay 84 cents freight on his corn from Illinois to London, and the Government will pay 40 centa. Tho price of. corn romaining the ssme in Eng- Iand, our pooplo, instond of receiving 18 conta por bushel, will recoive 48 conts por bushel. According to high authority, the 25 conts por bushel wo now pay for freights on corn from Now York to London is so much national wealth cast into the sen, and, as wo oxported Iast year 84,000,000 of bushels of corn, wo will save from the dopths of the ocoan & sum equal to 20 cents per bushel on porhaps three times that amount. It is tho settlod policy of this Governmont that, whenevor & man has a small workshop to make corset oyolots, or to grind Poruvian bark, or mus- tord, or tomake shoo-laces or shoe-bindings, and ho oannot mako any money because other articles of the same kind can bo purchased for loss monoy, the Governmont must levy o tax upon the whole peoplo in order that this person, engeged [n & non-paylng business, may have largo profits therofrom. Evar sinco 1861, tho ingenuity of Congress hog been porplexed to find ont persons engaged in non-productive oc- cupations, that it may levy taxes upon tho wholo peoplo, to pay over to these unfortunate tollors to make thom rloh, & Now, In carrying out this policy, wo come to the producers of corn. Wo have before us the exhibi of a farmor in Illinols, who Inst yoar produced 80,000 bushels of corn, This corn he 80ld at tho nearoat station for 10 cents por bush- ol, it bolng of flus quality, His account stood thus: Bold 50,000 bushiels of corn at 100, Cost of corn in crib at 130, Coat of abolling, eto., ab LG Hauling to rallroad tation at do, Excess of receipta....... From this %450 Lo had to pay for his own abar, csre, and time, purchase of horses and mploments, psy taxes on the large farm, ro- ipalx, b, $pgpe, and cover Interost on the value vol‘!thimfinu ovoments, Of courge he la nqel‘fi-mil»o -pookaf,- Ho cannot go on with Rar T + Y (30 V1Tt il He saust be sube SEGINTTAS b AITA4 Laa | T accelend o ol 4303530 W AORLINOTUL & Ira1LF 2 1 Ized or perish. Whon the prica of lron falls; tho clarion voleo of Kolloy fs hoard snnouncing that unless thero o' a subsidy instantly voted tho furnacos of Ponnsylvania will bo put out, and Congross. Lastons to voto fifteon or twonty millions a yosr to poy theso goritlomen for not putting out their furnaces, But now tho wholo Valloy of the Misslssippt must stop plnnting corn, aud ‘why not sitbaidizo the producors of corn' a8 woll ps tho producora of iron? Wo, insis® thorefore, that if thorefs to bo any ‘more subsidizing from the Trensury, that it shall bo in bohalf of tho'producers of corn. Lot the Govornment pay two-thirds of the froight on corn to Now York, and four-0fths of the deosn froight to London, and, though the subsidy will ‘bo & largo one, it will bo in favor of ‘s olnaa that Ls horotofore pald all othor subsidics, and hag never yotroooived a ponny, LotusbLavesnAmori- can lino of Amorican steamors, dovoted oxclu- sivoly to carrying Amorican corn} Lot us havo tho Natlonsl Troasury pay to tho railroads, in- stond of to Oskos Amos and hia wretobod gang of corruptioniats, tho freight on Amotican corn from tho farm-yard to the ocean. The steamors that earry the corn can afford to oarry tho mails for nothing, and lot the amorican flag flont proudly ovor this groat realization of subsidy as a prinoiple of political economy. ‘Wo hope that somo Benator or Ropresentative, whon thoso stoamship subsidy bills como up, will move to strike out the expenditure for car~ rying the mails, and insort one for carrying corn. Wo havo many tens of millions of bushols of corn to sell, if Congress will only piy the overland and ocoan frolghts. Wo can food all -Europe. It Congress will only provido railroada ond stoamships to carry this corn st the public oexpenao, wo Of the Weat will gnarantee to doubls our corn crops overy year, and bocoms, through tho operation of the subaidy and tari®f business, the wondor of the world, b —— CHEAP FREIGHTS EAST, ‘Wo cheertully givo placo to the following note “from a gontleman who for nearly half acon- tury has been actively ongaged in our Iake com- merce: To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bm: Inoticoanarticlein your fssue of this morne ing headod, * Choap Freights East,” In it you call upon the differont rallway companies cone toring in thls clty from the West, to ine tereat themsclves in tho enlargement of fhe Welland and Bt, Lawrenoe Canals, or ‘tho ‘bullding of tho Georgian Bay Canal, Now it strikes mo that o bot- tor polioy for thete roads to pursue world bo to bulld 20 or 50 ateamers of the large capacity of some now running between thia clty snd Buffalo, and run them under thiolf own mansgoment. Itls proven that such steamors can mako good dividonds by a chargo of § cenls por bushel Rost sssured that. by the s they .are - rendy tho - Erle canol will bo 80 enlarged 89 to add 25 per cent to its capuclty, Furthormore, tho Central Ratlrond will soon havo “Inid down two mnow tracks; fhe Erle o thind rafl; the Midlnd will ‘also be oxtonded to Buffalo; ‘and the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphin Road will soon be opened to s connection” with the Ponmsylvania Central, forming & new line from Lako Erlo to New York, This makes omo road with four tracks; threo roads with one track) besides thie Erla Canal, whick, deapito reporta to the contrary, T ssgert has nover yob' been taxed 'to its.utmost copaelty, - a. Ctroado, F?h. 12, 1873, Tho suggestion that our railway lines build 1arge steamors to carry grain to Buffalo ot cheap rates i worthy of careful consideration by thoir managors. The New York Central and the Grand Trunk have had aline of propeliers in succossful operation for soveral years past. Theyhavo tho advantago of a cortainty of frolghts Westward {rom those roads, and thore has boen no Iack of Eastern-bound cargoes, ¥e not the control of somo railway from Buffalo to the seaboard essen- tial to tha aucooss of the plan proposod by our correspondont to our Western railway managers. ? Is not tho schemo alrpady concluded by the pro- poller lines of the Erie and the New York Cen- ‘tral Railwaya? - Bug_that, must bo loft for the railway managers to decido, Tl The new tracks on the Now York Central Railway and the-: lines noticed by our corre- spondont will afford some- relief and add much-needod -facilitios to Western commerco. But they aro ontirely insdequato toits wanta. Frolghts by lake and canal last year, or.by propoller to Buffalo, and rafl to New York, ‘wore 23.4 conts forcorn, and25.2cents for wheat, By enil and canal, including handling at Buffalo, thoy wore 28 to 25 conts, Owing to the pressuro of an immiense orop and insdequato means of ehipment, the rates were from 8 to b conta shove the usnal figures of former yoars, With our in- ‘croased production aud conspquent fall in prices, still choaper freight than tho railways can ever glve us, " or probably ‘tho enlarged Erio Onoal s well, must’ be secured In ordor to afford our farmers & reasonable roward for their toil. The trouble will always bo found betweon Lake Michigan and the soaboard till the 8t. Lawrence route, for vessels of 1,000 or 1,200 tons burden, is opon to the commerce of tho Weat, By that we can certainly lay down o bushel of wheat or corn at tide-wator for about 13 to 14 conts, and place it on tho docks at Liverpool for sbout 20 cents, And besides, tho rhannel will have a capacity adequate to. the magnitude of our commorce, All the railways thet can be built Enatward must still leave tho opening of this grent highway o prossing noces- sity to the prosperity of tho railways and the peoplo living west of Lake Michigan. How that can be done in tho shortest time i8 tho problom of the hour, HARLAN'S ABSURDITY, And now comon Mr, Harlan to the confes- sional, and sooks to roliove his consclenco, and obtain absolution, by explaining how he hap- poned to have £10,000 of Mr. Durant's money in his pocket, whon ho was Baoretary of tho Into- rior, Mr, Durant, atthat time, belug Vice Presi- dent and Acting Managor of the Union' Pacific Rond, Thore have boen many romarkable dis- plays of twistings, and turnings, and somo as- tonishing exhibitions of agility in creeping out of small holes, since tho Oredit Mobilier inves- tigations were first instituted, but Mr, Harlan has shown an ability for going in larger and coming out thinner, which has not been sur- passod by any othor one of the viotims of Onkes Ames and Orodit Afobilier. In deliver- Ing himself of this very remarkable confession, Mr. Horlan has probably eatisfled but one por- son in the Unitod Btates of bis innoconce, nud that porson is Mr, Harlan, At the outsot, Mr. Harlan makos the admiasion that, la reply to Mr. Durant's quostion whether he felt any interest in tho Iowa cleotion of 1805, he replied that Lo did; whereupon Mr, Durant replled that if he npodoed any help ho would furnish it, Mr, Har- lan took good care to notify Mr, Durant of his promise, and tho contribution was im- mediatoly forthcoming In the form of checks mado paysble to Mr, Harlauw's order, which he indorsed and negotiated in Now York, This much Mr, Harlan confoages, although his memory ia #o treachqrous that he cannot romen- bor whethor it was $10,000 or $5,000. This, Lowever, is immaterial, Tho prineiple involved isall thosamo, Having procooded thas far, Mr, Iarlan appoars In tho .role of tho * Ariful Dodgor.” Firat, ho sooks to mako it apponr that tho contribution camo from Mr. Durant porson- ally, and not from tho troasury of tho Company aud, with a mooknoss and complaconay worthy of. o enint, dosires it to bo. undorstood that it 1t bnd hoon made by the Company through Mr. Durant, then it. would have Loon nis duty to havo restored it at onco. Ymprossed with this belief, ho consulted such aunthoritios as Oakos Amos and John.B, Alloy, and was assurod by those two vernclous gentlomon that it couldn't have been 8o, whore: upon Mr, Harlan .was satisfiod, But doos Mr. Harlan supposo, or doos ho imagine that any ono supposos, .that Mossra, Ames and Alley would have acknowledged that tho contribution came from tho Company? Doecs Mr. Harlan supposo or imngine that any ono supposcs that Mr. Durant was porsonsliy intorested to suchn dogree in tho Towa olection asto take £10,000 out of Nis pocket and give it to Mr. Harlen? It will toke & more natuto speoial ploador than Mr. Harlan to con- vinco people that Mr. Durant, Vico Prosident of the Union Pacific Road, who hnd no privato axes to grind in tho Towa olection, would delib- erately givo him 910,000 out of his own pockat, without charging it to tha Company, who had o great many axes to grind In evory State olection in 1865, . It may b> asaumed, na o goneral rule of action, that mon, ‘espocially Vico Prosidents and man- agors of railroads, do not give away 310,000 without expecting somo consideration for it. Any other assumption would lnvolve » dogroe of gencrosity too sublime for torrestrial consid- oration, Mr. Harlan says whon ho received this monoy he was Booretary of the Interior, For what purpose was 810,000 given by Mr. Durant to tho Bocrotary of the Interlor ? Suroly for an oquivalent, What was that oquivalent ? Suroly, official nots as Bocrotary of tho Interior. Any other construction of this businoss operation would bo a coniradiction of ono of tho firat principlos of human npature. - Mr. Durant, as wo have said, bad no per~ sonal intorest in the Jown oleotion. As Vice Presidont of the Unlon Pacific, how- over, he did have an intorost in tho Towns elec- tion, and & vory lively interest in the Secrotary of tho Intorior. Ho could bost oxpross his interost, indood, in tho Towa clection, by taking $10,000 worth of intereat in, the Secrelary, as the latter had already Informed him how much he was in- terosted in ‘that ecloction. MMr, Harlan indeed scoms to have tiken it for granted that the public might accept this view of' tho transac- tion, and eceks to break its force by do- claring that under the 1aw, as fast as the con- tractora finished forty miles of road, they ro- ported to the President, who sent out Commis- sioners to exsmino and acespt it, whereupon the Company bocame entitled to the land-grants and bonds, This is tho fooblost and Jamost plea in dofence which has yot beon offered by any | of tho officiala implicated in corruptions. It ig the truth, with a falsehood colled snugly: in tho contre. of it. Mr. Harlan well knows that the Becretary of the Interior aots upon his own motion in all matters pertain- ingto his own dopartment, the same as the other Becretarics in thelr respective depart- monts. Ho himself sonds out the Commission- ers. Thoy roport to him, and he accepts for the Propident. Tho Prosident doos not perform the work of the Scoretary of the Interior, and doos not interfore with it. Such a plon a8 this virtn- ally amounts ton concession of guilt in tho’ premiges. If Mr, Harlan had no other eoxouse to make than that M Durant could mnot bhave oxpected any congideration for his contribution, and that ho, 88 Becrotary of the Interior, could not have ren- dered him any equivalent for the money, he had much better have kept his mouth closed entirely. Of what possiblo valae was it to Mr., Durant to know that Mr. Harlan was Interested in tho Yowa olection, and pay him $10,000 for the informa- tion, if Mr, Durant did not expect some consid- eration from .him as Secretary of tho Intorior, for tho bonefit of the Pacifle Road ? The absurdity of Mr, Harlan’s state- ment is only oquallod by the rankness of the hypocrisy which is revéaled through its thin tex- turo. He must try again before he can clear bimeelf of Mr. Durant's ten-thonsand-dollar doucenr, NOTES AND OPINION. Two Administration papers at DesMoines, tho Register and the Republican, organs of opposing faotions, are going into action full ehotted with damaging facts (it each can bo believed) con- cerning corruptions in the Republican party; and, it the warfare does not stop—"** for the sake of the cause,”—thers will bo & momorable list of killed and wounded. The 60,000 Ropublican ma- Jority in Towa is greatly endangered by these things. . ~The Davenport Gazlte (Adminiatration) forecasts the future, and says : 1t is quito olear that tho control of railrond fares and freight will ba tho lssue on which the next Legislature fof Towa] will bo cliooa, Tl Iaw i bouud to go on 6 atatute-book, clthor now or a year hence, —Tho Buffalo Express (Adminiatration) says ; The first thing to badono s to stop bribery. Tue country and the Republican party have both got about o the * jumping-off place” in such matters, A little way ahead is ruin for Lotk —We quote from n Washington lotter in the Portland Oregonian, which names among Orego- nians in town : Golonel W, . Ouspmon, Prenfdont of the Portland, Dallos & Salt Lake Rnilroad, who is dotermined to Kkeep that enterpriso boforo this public_as an important and national work,which it s, As the Oolonel was a dol- ogate from Tows thirty-ivo yoars ogo, he atill hua {ho privilege of the floor, and cnjoys belng among the membors, The Hon, Georgo E. Cole, who was former- Iy, delegate from Washington, is intorestod with Cliap- man, and biaa tho same privilcge. —Through tho action of a Bouth Carclina Judge, the trial of Benator-clect Patterson, of that Btato, has boon poatponed for one yoar. —Tho Boston Adeertiser, an organ of the Ad- ministration, saya : Senator Pomeroy's denial of tho charge of bribery i 88 broad and sweeplng as the chargs iteclf, If he can wustain his donial by evidence, tlo Benato will have an -ount to settle with his successor, ® —In addressing & body of Ohio Republicans, in Columbus, tho 12th, Governor Noyes, who hopes to bo re-clected next Octaber, felicitated his friends on boing ridof & list of persons named, saying : Think of it! In Massachusetts, Oharles Sumner, " one of the ablest, perhaps ono of tho purcat, party lead= : thor ablo leader s in Now Sork, S00 Finton, hd ?fi.z'::fiuunfimmu ournallat whoso tragio end ' inakes it diticult tospeak of him without teors } in Oblo, men equally admired and truated by the party: in Ilinots, Mr. Trumbull and General Palmor ; in’ Afissourd, tho eloguont Behurz, o D o T Sipole ovot ol o) thor m’fi’&:.,“.:.‘f the® Ribpublican party went right ot to victory, '[Applause,] How fhankful the Republican party should bo, to bo suro, that, aftor such lossos, Honry Wil- son, Oakes Amos,Colfax, Harlay, Pomoroy, Cald- well, the two Pattersons, and '*mon equally ad- mired and trusted,” aro spared alive. ~In fixing up the eleotion roturns of Arlmnsn‘a 1ast Novembor, it was neceasary to mako Grant's majority more than 8,000 in order to save all the candldates on the Htate tickot, somo of whom (and, most important, the candidates for Bu- prome Judges) had run far belind, Bosides, 8,140 majority for Grant looked imposing, It Wa8 an oversight, perbaps, that Colonel Hynos, Liboral, who ran ahoad of his tloket, was por- mittod to have 246 majorlly for Congross-at- Liargo, by which mafority ho has boen declarod oloctod. Bat the votos im the threo sop- srato distriots - for Congress have nover beon ofilcially counted and declared, or had not boon Fob, 10, on which day s rosolution of in- quiry was introduced in tho Logialaturo, The troulle is, that the Congressional distriot votes will oxposo tho fraud in the Btate voto, and, bo- sides, somo blundering * adjustor” has. made Horry work of the returns committod to him, —Lioutonant Govornor Muollor, of Ohio, has a«lnnnlnml to withdraw from tho fiold of poll- o8, —Tho Now York, Commercial Advertiser hina boon glving the wholo of its strict Adminintra- tlon-supporting onorgies to tho Oredit Mobilior quontion witli tho following rosult : . 1t will bo remombored that publlo opinfon was sus. ended " some timo sgo at the requeat of Brothors Pomoroy and Qolfsx, - Information rcaches us that within the last two or throo days it has boon cut down and found {o be in exactly the samo condition ns whon 1t wos hungup, . —Short as 15 tho time since the Prosidontial olection, tho masses bogin to soo that tho causo of Liboral Roform was not only right in itself, but ita roprosontative men alono wore capablo of vindicating the !ntegfltfi and honor of tho coune try. Woro the voto to be taken over again now, thie popular vordict would bo nearly unanimously roversed.—5SL, Paul Pioncer. —In Iato yoars Bonators have bocomo tho croa- turoa of poworful corporations. Thoy are mado and unmade by thom, The Sonate is fllling up with inforior ‘mon, who, having reached ofice corruptly, will thoroaftor logislate corruptly, If they waro the tools of corporations bofore elsc- tion, thoy will bo nothing loss afterward.—San Francisco Bullelin (Administration), g —Tho people aro honoat, whatever the politi- cians mny bo, And, if our )mhllc mon can no longor b trustod in places of power, lot them bo thrust out and honcster mon be' put in their placea.—Rock Island Union (Posimaster). —Among the miscollaneous appropriations reported to tho House last Tuosday, wo find nn itom of 200,000 * for $ho preservation of army clothing and oquipage,” According to » Wash- ington tologram, the Committes which recom- mends thi spprcfrlnuon has discoverod thnt the change 'of uniform of the army last fall involvos & loss on salo as refuso of about ©9,000,000 worth of uniforms ro- 'v!oun&mmulwmmd and now on hand. Alll’ms loss falla on the popular pocket, the proprictors of that pockot wonld like to ki WhY the old atyle of uniform was not adhored to, at least until the old stock on hand was oxiansted? Who ia responsible for the clumsy management which loaves 89,000,000 worth of material to bo sold forn!ong bocauso the War Dopartmont haa docreed it out of fashion? And wgmt uaranty havo wo that the prosent uniform wllf not be abandoned in & fow yoars, and thus throw 80,000,000 more in old clothes on the market? Whore {s Bolknap ? Lot Lim riso and explain.— St. Louis Republican, —Thore is & nont little family affair or ring in tho Tx:unaur'v Dopartment that is excoodingly in- torosting. ko heod of this ia the groat Eymll- cate himsolf, the financial grocer of Groton. A Mr. Hammond, Oustodian of Dies, is o cousin to tho financial &. Mr. Hammond is o superan- nuated banker, but ss Oustodian he will do. Mr. Boamis, Buperintondont of paper mills whero_the famous fibre paper {8 manufactured, is a brothor-in-law of ‘the financial G.of G. Then wo find that Mr. McOarteo is blessed in the same way. The chief clerk or hookkeoper is McOarteo's brother. Mr. Williams, sizer and finisher of bonds, is full cousinof Mr. Mo. Now, considoring the rule that no two of a fami- ly can hold placea in the Troasury, hers are two families protty woll provided for, and the Civil Borvico Hoform somewhat scoffed at.— IWashing- lon Capital. AN ERROR CORRECTED. Important Decision by the Ilinols Supreme " Court, The City Cannot Sell Its own Property for Taxes. The subjoined decision, recently delivered by Justice Walkor, of the Supreme Court, will bo found to be of interest, 8a it settles the question that the city has no right to sell its own prop- orty for taxes. Tho title of the case was, “ George Taylor, Comptrollor of the Oity of Chicago, vs, the Paople, ex rel. W. K. Roed,” an appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County: This wns a proceeding by mandamus, instituted by sppellee in the Olrcult Court of Cook County, against thie Comptroller of tlie Oity of Olicago, to compel tho payment of a sum of moiley to appolloo, It sppears from the record that tho Board of Public Works lovied & special assessment on a lot bolonginy not having been paid, it waa sdvertlsed, and other stops takon, which resulted in asale of the lot for the satiefaction of the assessment, and it was purchased by one John Foreythe for §122.3, the amount of the assessment imposed upon this lot and costa; thaton making this sale, the Oity Colloctor gave to him a cer tificate of purchase of tho premises; that afterwards, and before tho #ime allowed for redemption had ox~ plred, Forsythe sold and sssigned the certificate of P urchase to relstor; that beforo the expiration of two | cara £rom the time the sala wns made, the Oty Comp- roller dirocted the Treasuror to transfor from thegona eral fund of tho city $244.46 and cradit the sama to the . personal redemption fund, and ho recolved the Tress- rer’a voucher therefor, und filed the samoin his offico, and made an entry of the facts on the records of iy’ offico ; that subasquently rolator aurrendered his cor. tificato of purchase to the Comptroller, and de- manded of Lim o warrant' on the Frossurer for doublo tho amount of the purchase mone paid at the sale of the lot, but he refased to draw l“fig & warrant {n favor of relator ; that the monoy. thus or- dered to be transferred by the Gomptroller from tho f(mml o the personal fund cannot be paid out of the ‘Ireasury cxcept on the warrant of the Comptroller, The Court below having sustained a domurror to the return from which theso facts nppear, s judgment ewarding o ommptorg writ of mandamus was rene dored, und defendant bringa the case to tida Court on appeal, 4 ihere 18 1o gxpreas proviaton of tho claiar of the elty which cuthorizes taxcs or speclal assossments for mprovementa {o bo mada on the real catato f thoclty, and from the very naturo and the purposc of creating’ such s body wa caunot imply such a power, The clly or {ta ofticers would, in the absence of such exe press_nuthority, have no power to tax ita prap- exly for tio Turposs of ralsing roveauo for tle clty; nor com it impose such & burden us an ' osossment to - improva tho _streats, The charter hus required the city, out of ita Tressury, to poy sucl porlion of thoe expensea of such improve. ments 08 cannot be levled on property benefited thereby, and, in_lovying the asscasment, an catimote should fm made of the benefita that will be derived by the real estato owned by the city from the construction of the improvement ; but in such casea the money can 1ot be assested up, or mado out af, the city proporty. 1t sliould bo diroctly paid by the Treasury, and thus Dear its duo proportion of the expensp, 1t ia true, fn the cass of Scammon v. the Oity of Ohicago, 42 1ll,, 103, it was said that tho Teal catate of the cily benes fited by such an improvement should bo asscssed, but we did not say, nor do wofntend to any, that it skiould be advertised and sold like property of individuals, Buch nssessment ia mode when the smount i ascer- tainod which shsll bo paid for the improvement by the city out of the genoral fund, When this salo waa made, the city charter provided thst no proporty bolonging toiho City of Ohlcago should be sold or ¢Dllvaged, oxcept upon a vote of three-fourths of elithe Alderthen by law authorized to bo electad,” How can it bo contended that the oflicers may disre- gard this probibition, and effect & aalo_cithor intoa- tionally or through negligence orincompetency 7 Asa eneral rule of uniform application, an Aot cannot bo gonainflkectly which {aprohibited from being done diroctly, Thelaw is subject tono wuch reproach, as that s provisions may be evaded, and it roquire- monts thus disregardod, The officers who actod in thie case could not directly sell this property, nor could they fnaugurate procceings for tho gln‘plllm, or which woiild produco that reault, Tho only by which fhe clty or ita this property wag_in tho manner polnted out in the ehiartor, The Collector aoted without powor, aud all of the proceadings by him were without warrant and vold, Henga ths purchaser scquired o liew on fho roperty, In the case of the Oity of Ohicago v, Has- oy, 25 1li., 696, 1t waa lield that flefr facfas exocution could not he ssued sguinat & siunicipal corporation, Aud this sale wss mado.under §f notspecial fieir fuctas, ‘under procoss Which answors the pamo purpiaso, and intended to producs slmilar resulta; the salo and diyeatituro of titlo fn caso a redomptiod 16 not mado. But it 1s urgod that the city baving, through its ofi. cers, mado the sasessment, given tho notico, applicd for ‘and obtained tho fudgment, and made the galoy it estopped from douying tho pover and cicaye ing lability, o8 though thoy find possessed full power, Ass genoral rule, 60 far 88 we know, thoncts of an oilcer which aro’ probibited by law bro pitarly yoid and fucapablo of raification, aud calopio o, mhelier ofticors or atrangers, Theao acts being vold' in thelr incoption, remaln 40, and no rights can bo acquired under (hom, At such o aale, tho rulo of caveat empter applics, and 1 1a for tho purchnger 1o sco that thoro s powor fo mako the ualo, snd thio charactor of rights, if any, beacquires thoroby, But tho clty of fts oflicora liavo noright fo protect thomsglyes 'by thojr upaus Slioriaed act 0 acquiring wnd boldidg “mousy 10 which they are not entitlod, To pormit thomn to do %o would be'to sanotfon wrong, i not fraud, Tho olty, by tho {llegal acts of {he ofiicers, has In its Treasury the money patd on the purchase of s lot, aud it how g mowoy wrongfullyy and L no right taiold t. Aud, althiough thoro Was no atch #alo as could nffect the' rights of the city, and aa the ofiicers of tha city wore not author)zed to Tedoem from such saly uUll thoy Luvs no aiadow of & ight o ro- tain the honey Fololved on’the sulo, Thomandamus chiould thereforo have required the ‘Comptroller to Ji- o his warrant for tho g paid fo tlio Collgoler {hio purchaser at tho dale, ' But ft Was _exror o require the poymont of doubje thet aym, ae u;a\u{u & redompe tion bad beon mudo, and for 1t error tlio judgment of 'x':"'au"“" Lelow i& roversed, and the cawee re- wanded, THE TREMONT HOUSE ROBBERS Tho Causo of Justios Nearly Defoated Yesterday Morning, { Disgraceful Attempt to Liberate: ‘Two Notorious’ Thioves. Superintondent Washburn’s Prompt Ac. tion Averts the Catastropho, ' Jamea . Barron, alfas Brown, Bohorn, two mon who aro committed tho Tromont - House robbery some Weoks ago, wherein tho travolling agint of a New York wholosalo jowelry house loat Yetween $16,000 and $20,000 worth of R00ds, wWere am raigned bofor Justica Scnlly, at the West Sida Polico Court, yosterday morning, The pubo is suficiontly acquainted with the bistory.of tha crimo, and the way in which the arrest of the supposed thieves was accomplished, both haye ing boon fally oxplalned in Tux TRIBUNEZ. One Trudo, & young lawyer, who has gained soma notoriety smong a cortain olnan of poople, owing totho part ho took in » recent osse where a crowd of gamblers appegred as complainanta, and the clty na dofondant, roprosonted the priee onors. As soon as tho osse wam called, an afidavit for a change of venwg was rond, and the Court granted g chango to Justice Vant Woud, whose of in situated at the corner of Halsted and Randolph atreots, The prisonors wore brought thither, and, when thoy wore properly before the Jug. tice, Trude objected to tha procesdings beoanse tho police authorities could not produce the papers showing that the .men were logally in oustody. Ho aaked for the dlscharge.of the prinonors, a8 the officors had violated s Btade 1aw, which reada: *A maa cannot be committed to prison excopt by virtuo of procoss.” It did not appoar that that proces . ba1 been used, and, acoordingly, tho mirest was unanthorized and . illogal! 4 Dotective Tyrrall, who made the arrest, re- plied that the prisoners were found with & larga quantity of tho stolen proporty in their poss slon, and that, therofore, no warrant was nccos sary. If the Justice allowed them to eECApS, ho (Tyrrell) would bo compelled to rotain thom. in custody, and bring thom bofore another tribunal i L :Buperintendent Washburn, who was :alap presont, supported the detoctive in his dotormi« nation, y Beveral law-books wore examined by the Juse tico beforo he venturod to say anything, Truda moanwhile keeping up a vigoroua jabbor in be~ Lalf of his clients, and ngainst the police. When the necessary information had beoen sacortained, Vant Woud romarked that tho prisoners had' taken & chango of venue from Justice ta ‘himgelf, and, as no lEnpm-n which enumorated the alloged crimes had boen produced before him, 1k was his duty to discharge the prisoners. If heldthem in custody without tl?s necesaary legal ' documents giving him jurisdiction over them, he Inid himseelt Iiable to prosecution for con~ tompt, which was o very unploasant alternative, Buporintendent Washburn objected to such haaty procoedings, and demanded that the case and Ignatius charged with having | be continued for an hour in order to give him an opportunity to sccure & Iawyer, and conduct the trial in & proper manner. , The Justics rofused to cnmr]y. He asemod anxious that the prisoners should be discharged without delay, and he accordingly notified them that thoy wero ab libertyto go where: they plfluiued without the interforence of.-police - officors. Barron and Schorn arose, and were sbout ta, Eutty ‘[ the particular ‘ friends of the thieves, leave the Court-room, when Tyrrell and another officor named Hogan interfored. The lsttex seized Sohorn, clasped his wriat with the comg-. alongs,” and had down on the sidewalk bo. - fore ony of his frionds up stairs conld roalizo what had become of ~him. aflafl caught Barron by the collar and informed him that ho waa etill o prisonor. The.thiof drew baok and struok tho detective in, tha fach with all his might. Tho blow rather confused the of~ flcor, and before he conld recover hus melf-pos~ nenlon, two or three more blows wero planted: in the same spot, with telling effect. s’ right chook was badly cut, and his oye was ale most closed. Being a powerful man, he soon. brought Barron to the floor, and would . have - Fn\mdud him as ho dnumelhhnt for. the Buj . ntendent, who oried out, * Hold on there, > roll, don't abuse a prigoner!"” -The volce of' the eminent Vant Woud ‘was then he; sboye the general din which provailed.” Re«' furrln? to Tyrrell, who was then # gllngl-wml the wiloy and desperate thief, he said:., '/l fine ‘that officer 95 for contompt of Court, and com-- mit bim until the fine e pald,” Half s dozen' gouka:hmflm were ingtantly produced, but the Buperintendent would not "allow any person ta 'pay the Juatice's bill but himself, # . Tho scene in the Court-room during the quar- . rel waa'interesting to those who kopt cool and* attonded to their own business, The room was well filled with mon, manyof whom wer; : an who ~ would ;have done anything in thelx' power " .to got ‘them, free, The prompt and - energotio action ‘of Buperintendent ' Wasburn, Detective® Tyrrell, - and - moms : other officers who wore oalled up from the streef overawed thom, however, and Barron was con. | vafiad to the Madison Street Station in safety,.’ followed by & lnrgn and excited crowd. When the peoplo could be induced to walk ‘away from " the station, the prisoners were brought to Polica - Headquartors, wharo thoy are now lockedup. ‘There seema to bo no reagon why Vant Woud ' should have actod as ho did, He would not walt to hear the evidence li“n“ the thieves, but dig " charged them on a technical point of law, which would have beon sot nside by the sworn state- xont of any of the witnesses. It conld have beon', roved thaf the prisonors, whon arrested, had in Fho(r possession o qnnnufy of tho stolen pm&sr- ¢ tfi,flmd that memoranda were found upon them showing where the remainder was secroted, Tha police anthorities aro dotormined that theso men shall not escape on any technicality, as thoi F have every reason to beliave that they committe all the other hotel robberies, Itis not known, however, what course will now be pursued, as tlu; Superintondent has not yet arrived at & de- . cigion, : By 2 Vant Woud's clork appoared to have' as littls . gonso as Vant Woud gelf. During the ‘ox~". citemont in the Court-room he drew a revolyer from n recess ab tho rear of his pantaloons, and flourished it around’in’ dangerous proxlml‘y to the heads of some roportora who weye sitting at & tablo noar him, - Threo of the newspaper men immeodiatoly pdjourned to an jolning closet, loaving Tug TamoNe's rn%rusanmlvn slone’ with the lufuristed Lmb of. the law, It wpne only tho work of 2o ingtant for Tag TRIDUNE man to disarm the plerical desperado, and thod the gallant note- takors; who wors watching the proceedings from tholr hiding pluce, returnod futo the presence of the 'assombled multitude with great bravery, The murdergus weapon of Vant Woud's sane inary warrant-filler was put out of his resch. ys of hijs mental calibre and condition in life should not play with such tools, e e, Senator Ames, of Miseissippl, hes & con stituent who dosires totake out & patenton a plan which he has invented for the suppressiop of clvil warfare in tho future, His petition waa prosented in Congross thoe other day. Afterrps citing, by way of preamble, that the demagoguan of the country have discovered that portions of the Constitution aro unconatitutional, ho doaires that the Boarotary of Htata '!"’H kae_tz,:‘ m of 1 porsons who propose a aivil war, oy :luyplzn Lopt fo regdh]x’aau tobo shot at any time on tha order of tho President or Governor of * any Btate, or, in cose of hostilitfes, that thoy - may be put in tho frout ranks of the nrng durs ing the fighting. This gentleman should be - “‘&’"J“ 88 8 profege by tho Univeranl Posce Ads Bociation. . ————————— An evening paper Liav rotracted with canslders ablo oarnestnees cortain atatoments into which h T wag drawn by one of its correspondents affeoting tho cliaractor of the leading reprosentatives of thio Miohigan Ocntral Raiiroad in. this clty, fm< plicating them in dishonest transportation schemes, A8 Tap TRIBUNE refused orij lnnll¥h give plnce to tho acousations, It w \lllf ngt IQJ anlled upon torofey to the mafter, but #dr thd gecaslon affordad to express the' confiletica &ud high esteem ju whioh H, E, Bargont aud his ' 4 #oclatos aro held in thig olty, :l‘Eé gomploto re! tation of the injurlo ] loss than was owit:dn.“"““ Ra ki