Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1873, Page 2

, MARCH 27, 1873. Railroad Progressin the South- west., The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. : Notes of Dcvelopmont---Towns Along the Route. Tho Southiern Ronto to tho Pacific.--Tho Noew Path of Empire, Banta Fo was ono of tho ocarliest points estab-~ Lisbod {n Bpauish occupation of the region moro than two conturios ngo, It was old whon Ply- -mouth Rook roceived the tread of the Pilgrim Fathors, and the mouth of the Hudson the set- tlomont of the Manlattnness, Our fnch-long antiquity in Ohicago, borne in tho memory of men still living, ia ridiculous monsurod besido {hio old town whoss adobe buildings and mixed earavans of the plaine used to figure in tho goog- xaphics early in this century, with tho Groat American Dosort cutting {t off from nll possibil- ity of neighborhiood and kinship with tho Ameri- can Btates. 'Che iron horse in making for Santa Fo. Tho Atclhison, Topoka & Santa Fo Railroad Compauy Liavo no less an undortaking in Land, and tho present advanced stago of their enter- prise warrants o description, which the accom- panying map will belp at once to a granter abbro~ viation and fullnoss, Tho map shows how Chi- cago in connected with this important route by sovoral railway linoa roross Missourl and Town. Tho Atchison & Popoka schome dates from tho enrliost Torritorinl days. It wasincorporated by net of tho Logislaturo of the Torritory of Kan- ans, npproved Tob, 11, 1850. O. K. Holliday, O. Chnllis, P, ‘I, Abel, M. O. Dickey, A, Allon, Bam Dickaon, W. L. Gordon, L. D. Bird, J. Murphy, I L. Crano, and others, woro tho incorporators. TOUTE. The Company was nuthorized to lacato, oper- ato, etc., o railroad with ono or more {racks from Atchison, on tho Missouri River, in IKanaas Tor- ritory, to tho town of Topoka in tho eamo, and to such point on tho southiern boundery of said Territory, in tho direction of Santa Fo, in the Territory of Now Moxico, as may bo most con- voniont and suitablo for tho construction of such railrond ; nnd algo coustruct a branch of said railrond in the direction of tho Gulf of Moxico. Y FIRST ORGANIZATION. “Oa tho 16th of Soptembor following, the new- 1y-croated Atchison, Topoka & Santa Fo Com- pany mot at tho offico of Luther O. Challis, in tho City of Atchison, and offected tho rogular or- ganization of the Company. ¥IRBT LAND-GRANT, 1t gavo tho Compauy overy alternate sootion for o tract of 20 miles wide. In consideration of this grant, the Company stipulated to build a xaiirond from tho Missouri River, at or noar the City of Atchison, viz Topel, totthe westorn lim- its of tho Btato of Xnnsns, in tho direction of Santa Fo, Now Moxico, with & branch in the di- roction of the Gulf of Mexico. Tho limit of timo in which tha lino must bo built to obtaintho subsidy waa ton yoars, which oxpired March 8, 1878. ‘By o rapidity ot progroes almoat unprece- deutod fn the sounls of railrond-building, the Atehison, Topekn & 8atitn Fo Road renched the western limit of the Stato six months before the required time. < CONBTRUGTION. Although' this road was commenced soveral soars since, only a”small portion waa conatruct- ed until within the last throo yoars. Tho condi- tions of the land-grant wero, that tho line should be completed to the west lino of tho Stato within n givon time, which oxpired tho 8d of Barch of this yoar. As isusually tho case, the ald. of Eastern capitalists was sought and obtained to finish tho line, 2nd it was continued to tho Ar- kansas River in 1871, when an nttempt was mado toobtain from Congress an oxtonsion of time in which to finigh tho rond. This fatled, and at the opening of tho apring of 1872 there wore still some J00 miles unfinished, *with no alternative but to completa it or loso a largo part of the lnud-grant, It was doterminod to push it through, and it was done’ nonrly three months in advanco of tho time; #o tho lino is now com- pleted in a thorough manner, and two daily. trains aro now running from Atchison, on the Misgouri River, to the Colorado hue, 4G5 miles. ‘The last 300 miles aro through the Arkansas River Valley, the richost valloy in tho Stato, and eapublo of eupporting o large population, which has already commenced to occupy if, from .all parts of tho country, Colonics of ontorprising pooplg from Ohlo, New Yorlk, and Massachu- tolts havo alrondy selectod locations on the rond, 800 miles out, nnd aro making rapld progress in proparing for the roeeplion of thair embers, with their families, many of whom will arrive in timo to put in crops this season. Tho Atchison, Lopeka & Sants I'o Company baving arrauged with parties owning large tracts of laud in Southern Colorado nnd Now MMexico to build o lino toward Sauta Fe, on tho great Sonthern route across the continent, also contemplate constructing thoir line west of tho Arkansas Vaelloy, to the base of the Ilucllfl Tountaing, 'Theso will make connections witl tho great lines to tho Pacific Const and the Gulf of Moxico, nnd aiding tho devolopmont of the richoat mineral rogion in the world. T'o show how ontirely tho American Dosert hns faded out of the geography of onr timno, & brief raview of some of tho leading points on tho now routo will bo of intorest. Atchison, the initial point of this road, is the railrond centro of Xan Among tho ronds contering here aro soyen great liney, giving four dircet lines to tho Linzt—tho Contral Dranch Tunion Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, tho Atchison, Topekn & Santa TFe, the Atchison & Nebraska, tho Kausns City, 8t Josoph & Council Bluffs, the Hannival and 5%, Joeeph, the Chicago, Ilack Tsland & Pecific Railvord, and Las o population of 18,500, Gragshoppor Falls is a flourishing town, bwonty- six milos out from Atchivon, Hore tho Kansng Ceutral Railroad erosses the A, I\ & 8, Fo. Topola—Lhe City of Topal 13 (ko Capital of - tho State. It contains o population of ,£30, nnd i situated ot the cxassing of (o usas Pacillo and the A. T, & 8. ¥a It, 1., filty-ona milos out from Atchison. Carbondale, a mining town of 600 inliabitants, gixty-olght miles out from Atchiaon, is in tho Deait of tho coul fiulds, surrounded by good farmiug lands, Burlingamo, with its eplondid schools and ox- teneive flour and woolen mills, eovonty-sevon milos out from Atchison, is o vory desirablo point. It is tho county sout of Oxayo Connty. Osago City, o villagzo less thau Lwo yours old, s o populstion of 1,000, and is rnpldlx improv- ing. h iy surroundodd by first-clasy laudy, which ave now in merkot at low rates. Horo is found inrd coul unsarpassed by any wost of Ditta- Dburgh; oleo, potlor's clay in lnrgo quantitios, Osego Uity 18 oighty-five milos frowm Atchigon, Rosding, on tho Aturins Dos Cymnen Ltivor, but just laid ont ag e town sito, has 200 inhabitants, Bud is in tho midab_of o’ eplondid agricnitural district, ninety-uix wmilos out from Atehison, * Emporia, "t (ho crossiug of the Atchison, Topeka & Senta I'o and tho AMirsourd, Knneas & oxns Nuilvondu,the county seat of Liyon County, s onoof tho mont thriving towns in_thoBteto, ‘I'ie Btate Normal Bchool is located horo; It T o fino viater-power and flouring-mills, and ls tho ond of the livst Division of this road, 111 miley from Atchinon, haw » populntion of 8,000, Cottonwood Fulls 'tho county sontof Chase County, on Cottonwood River, 181 milos out frum Atehison, is u gpod business point, Jf';LI!A,'S o rang, 2 x"”"lg,)""rl ¥, hw 'sv""'“ . £ T o lmlegtents, o & tion, 1,200, Bodgwick 1sa thriving town on Littlo Arkansas Rivor. Population, 300; 200 miles from Atchison. Wicliits, on tho Big Arkansas Rivor, twonty- ono miles from Atchisou, and the prosent tor- minus of the Wichita Branch of tho A.T. & 8. F. R. R., s tho diatributing point for o _grenter portion of extromo Southern Kansag, aud fa dos- tinad to bocome a commiercial point of groeat fn- ’portgnco. 1t ia rapldly improving., Population, " Hutohingon s Jocated on the Arkausns River, from whicl Falut tho railrond boars to {ho north- wost in passing around thoe g bond of the river, Thg town thus commsands tho business of n vast rogion to the southwoest. Iutohinson is tho end of tho Becond Division of this road, Great Bond, at the mouth of Walnut Creok ond Wost of Fort, Zarah, 209 miles out from’ Atchison. Larned, noar Fort Tiarned, on the line of the ralirond, ' Tt will bo ono of tho bost towns in this port of tho Stato. Larnod is out 201 miles from Atchlzon. o Tort Dodgo. T'ort Dodge in851 miles out from Atchison ; end of Third Division-of this road; in a.good busiposs contro, Stato Lips, botwoon Kansas and Colorado Westorn forminus of tho A. T. & 5. % R, R., 454 miles 561 Atchinon, s improving vory rapldly. Busixoss of all kinds is woll roprosentod horo, Tho Company will oxtond their lino to Pucblo, Qol,, tho coming summor, and from thenco to Balt Lake, —— i THE SALARY STEAL. Eunexa, 11l,, March 14, 1878, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bin: Ttseoms to mo that Tne TninuNe is not entirolycorrect in its viows of the salary “steal.” A majority votod for it, or it would not hiavo bo- comonlaw. A majority will thereforo accoph tho inoresgod pay. This of membors of the prosont Congress. Thoe noxt Congress, the Prosidont, and other officials will horenfter receive it, of course, unless tho Iaw {8 ropealed. Why should ono dis- trict, whoso Roprosonativo used his influcnco and votod ngainst tho-mensuros, and which must, Innny ovent, pay its proportion to tho amount given to othors, insist that the pittance coming to itself must bo givon up. Ifad Mr. Roborts opposod tho steal consistontly, I should say that, having boon overruled, his rosponsibility ended, and lio Gught to bring his proportion of tho monoy Into his own district, ocithor retaining it yimself, or, botter, bestowing it upon some public enterprice in which his constituonts aro largely interested; or, if preciso justico is songht, spportioning it among tho sovoral counties in abatemont of subsequent taxes. I do not bolioyo a member will bo_justi~ fied by tho poopla in roturning to the United Btatos Trossury the monoy which thoy have oven indirectly paid out, whilo othor districts do not do tho same. Your ont seoms not to be valid, that, when ho was clected, ho agreed to serve for so much ; sinca tho othor party to tho contract hns gonorausly donated a larger amount, without hig solicitation, and oven ogninst his protest. Bomo unjust shafts have been hurled at Mr. Pottor oud others, that should have beon direcied ot Butler, Trambutl, or Logan. Tho nation has no use for a President who oannot live on 25,000 o yesr and ,perquisites, nor for othor oflicials apon whom the honors of the Republic sit 8o lightly that !.lmz{ aro roady to {hrow.them off, cxcept they bo paid largo oums by a tax-burdoned B)unplc. +"Is not our Constitution defective, if mon can logally inoronso their own pay? oud what shall bo aaid of tho practico of attaching geucral log- felation to special approprintion bills? Tho hoart ia siclr, aud the peopls lare discouraged, whon they sco tho villaiuy in high places. Thoro will bo & rovolution ; tho indications of it exist now in Illinois. Ofton rashly and unwigely, wo foar, the poople act; but, in the end, peacofnlly and effectunlly they will bring the rulersto n songo of their responsibility. LIBERAL. THE NEW LIBERAL PARTY. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bir: By your lucid cnunciation and ablo advo- onoy of the objects and principles of tho new Liberal party, you placo socicty under obliga- tion, * I hail with unspenkable plensure tho ‘prompt action takon by the men of Indisna in this matter, and hoartily wish thom Godspoed. Recont exposures of the groat political wicked- noss which oxists in high places must convinco evory thinking mind of the imparativo nocessity of o thorough chango in our political machinery, 80 far a8 concorns parties as nb presont existing, It is quito ovident that both tho Republican porty, on tho one hand, and the Democratic party, on the other hand, are either nnable or uuwilling to make any real effort to raise the tone of our political life from the slough of cor- ruption in whick recont disclosures havo pain- fully proven it to exist. Added tothis, thoanl- most apathotic action of Congross in doaling with the parties implicated in theso nofarious transactions must prove conclusively to evory true patriot that somo groat and detormined atops should now be taken to purge our gov- erning power, in every, department, from this groos and flagrant politioal. immorality, I, iy hnt take your viow of tho question, thin much-to-bo-desived change is mnot to bo brought shout by gn adherouco to olther of the two organizalions ns thoy now oxist, but by tho prompt and united nction of & now party, which shall linve for its object tho upholding of our Great Ropublio on'tha foundatlon of honor and of virtuo, T'hat wo lLave thousands of citizens in thig Stato who hold such views on this subjoct, [ donbt not,—in whoso ears both conscienco and patriotism aliko cxy loudly and imperatively, *Como yo oubt from smong them, and be yo soparato 1 hiad tho strugglo will Lo greet, thoro can bo no doubt; nor s thero any doubt that (owing to tho immonse intarest and influonco at- tached to the existing orgunizations) tho oud to Do necomplished witl roquiro almost superhuman offort ; but T fiemly Leliovo, eir, that, if tho quos- tion bo taken up in au cncrgetic mannor by thouo accustomed to load in thoso matters, woaro oqual to tho omergency, Ouo thing is quito cor- tnin s I'hat cither n dotermined prolost must now ho mnade by the peopla of {his country ugainst tho apparontly iuercnsing corruption iwhich un- donbtedly oxists in our ropresontalive eloment, or wo must of nocessily soon becomo the aub- Jocts of well-carnod commiseration at the Lands of our Transatlantio noighbore, und, maybo, tho wholo civilized world. W8, I Ctoaao, March 25, 1873, —_——— A SHOOTING AFFAIR. Goane, Ind,, March 23, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicugo Tribunc Sim:* On Baturday last, tho 22d inst., Mr. awlking, Constable of Bonton, fu nttempting to arrost Jobn Long, was shot by Long, tho ball entoring within two inches of the heart, Long ‘was nrrested on Bunday by tho Bheriff of Tlk- TFlorenco, on Cottonweod River at the monthof sioyle Creck, 166 milcanoutinvest from Atchison. 1t fn.vz n fluo_waler-power ; Liere tho reilroad di- verges from the Cottonwood River, leaving I'lor- cneo to recoive the trade of the valloya of the Coitonwood and Walnut, It is snrrounded by n rich agricultural and stock-growing country. Btegos loava hero for all points down tho Wal- nut \ulloy to tho Arkankas Rivor, 5 r Yoabody is & livaly, lourighing, young town lo- eated on Doylo Crook u{um o ploasing sito. Itis # T oundod by o beautiful conntry, so much o th ¢ wichin thio last year it has beon woll sottlod 1.0 a fur Cown tho Valloy of tho Whitowator upto south furk of Jhe Cottoriwood, 'Phiswholocount ry will Lo sottlod [n o few xytllm, and its wholo bug- ineen will bo dono at Leabody. It is 107 miles from Atchison. Nowton, on Sand Crook, 186 milos out from Atch Ison, Ioro tho road reachos tho old Toxas cattlo tiuil, and from this station somo 100,000 hoad of zattlo woro ulilppodtho past soason. A very hoavy nsitiows B daa hara In Tusuher, Tha Wik hart County, Mr. Egbert, and lodged in Jail. At 12 m, to-day Mr. Huwking was living, with slight hopos of his rocovery, Long is to havea trial on Thurkday, tho 27th, ¢ Home timo sinco, MMr. John J, Btiver (fathor- in-law of Jobn Long) liad four or flve head of his most valuablo cattlo stabbod with o knifo by gome unknown porgon, ‘I'rouble having oxisted botween Long and Lis fathor-in-law, of o rather sorious natwre, Btiver ordared the mwest of Long, oud the Constablo, in making this nte anpl, was shot 1y Lou‘f. Report noys thut Long ploadd insnnity, and threatons to kill the Khorift tho firat opportunity offered him, M, gdbaet i sk More MobaLuw l.n (llrnn'nxrnl County, nt. From the New Albany.Ledger, March 24, Trom tho ofiicors of tho Alr-Line Hallway Qumpany wo learn that a gocond outrage hay hoen attompted by tho vicllaunts of Oruwford s 'rte ey i Springfleld, e County to fiuln posgession of the papors in tho railrond suits |mpdln§; in the Cm\vf‘u‘m'l Circuit Court. It apporira that upon their firab visit thc\y falled to_securo the papera thoy desirod, and bonco on Wednesday night they returned, to the numbor of boen sovonty-flve and ono hun- dred, and called npon Mr. Temple, tho Clork of tho éom-l, nud, aftor placing &_ropo around his nool, domanded that ho surrendor all tho papers in tha caso. Mr, ‘Complo informed the Vigilants that it would bo impassible to do so, as hio hnd forwarded n transeript In the caso to tho authori- tios of Porry Couuty. After assuring thom- solves that Mr. I\ was-correct in bis ntatoments thoy relensod him, and shortly nftor rodo out of Jtown, Wo undoratand that Mr. Goldon, who has beon tho ngent of thoe rallrond company, in conse- quonce of qthn thronts mado ngainst him, bas beon compolled to fleo tho country, and that he Isnow at somo point out of thereach of the exasporated mob which socks his lifo, N Completo nnd certiflat copics of all tho papors in thoto Crawford Connty eases have beon mado, and aro now in _tho hands of partios for snfo keoping, boyond rench of theso Vigiluuts, and will b Prodiucod at tho proper timo and propor place. SAN FRANCISCO. ‘The Jury of the Poriods=alloonsAse= censions=-Col. Bvens and iy Fame Hly-=Literary Gossip. Correspondence f ‘The Chicago Tribune, SN Fraxcisco, March 17, 1873, TIE JURY OF THE PERIOD. Anothor forco, a companion-pioco to the ver- dict of acquittal in tho Fair-Orittendon cauo, hins boon porformed in Californin, this timo at Vaile- Jo.. Last Thureday, o man nomed James D. Pngo, keoper of n restaurant, shot and mortally woundod his wifo and Lilled Limeolf, during n quarrel growing out of hor allegod infidelity. Ho claimed that sho hnd cobiabited with Charles A. Russoll, who is af presont confined in jail un- dorsontonco of death, and, in ordor to establish hior guilt boyond controvorsy, hind oponod lotters sent to hor by tho murderer's friends, Though it was proven that Pago was alono with his wifo when the fatal shols wore fired, and that his pis- tol did tho work, tho Coroner’s jury returncd this vordict: “That James D. Pago camo to hisdeath from tho offect of o pistol-shot from tho hands of o party unknown.” AMOKG THE CLOUDS. Trofa. Coo and Lay, two Eastorn acronauts$®| linvo mado four balloon sscensions from Wood- ward's CGardons within tho last two months. Thoy wore nccompanied by reporterson oach ocension. Thoso nscensions draw crowds of 10,000 or 12,000 peoplo Lo the Gardons, becauso of their novelty in this country. As the balloon loaves tho ground, tho band pleys ‘Riso Up, Willlam Riloy ; " the people bocome wild with oxcitomont, and cheor afior choor rends tho nir, A grand norialraeo botsweon two balloons is likely to bo held undor the auspices of the pross,—tho party to consist of members of tho profession alono. If tho plan is carried out, the gratitudo of tho poopla will bo boyond oxpression. COL. EVANS AND I1I§ FAMILY, Tho family of the Iato lamented Col. Albor 8. TEvans resido at the old Lomestend iu this city, a pleagant cottago on tho summit of ono of our bighest hills, wherein tho Colonel produced tho choicest specimens of his hterary worlt, Thanks to the liborality and enterpriso of tho San Fran- cisco press, s widow and childron have a good home of thoir own, and are in comfortable cir- | cumstances. In o convorsntion with J. IL. Car- many, publishor of the Ocerland AMonthly, thnt gontloman said to mo: * Whilo inNow York, last {all, I frequently mot Col. Evaus at the Astor House, whore we woro stopping. Io was always hard at worl, reading proofs of his work on Californis, to bo published by Lippincott, or at- tonding to his corrospondence. Occasionally he would grow impetient at tho delay of his friend Mareillios, who was to accompany him on his Meosican oxpedition, e bad n groat deal to say sbout the sudden death of his old friend, Gov. Boward (whom ho accompanied to Moxico as correspondent of the Now York Zribune), snd about the uncertainty of lifo generally, T ra- momber o fow evenings later, nt the Froude recoption by the Lotus Club, in the presonce of Joaquin Millor and others, ho had o smart dis- oussion with Dr, Holland In reforence to having & purposo in life, iu which tho Doctor brought out vory strong arguments in favor of having a purpose in everything,—overy nction, word, and de;}l he Colonel succeeded in drawing out the very strong rules of lifo which exhibit thom- gelves iv all the literary works of tho ominont author. Ho lins & gootl purpose in view in all of his works. I went to Boston, and, upon my roturn, found that the Colonel waea still delayed. In o fow dnys Mr, Marcilliosand lady arrived, and arrangomonts wore mado for soiling on the ill- fated stonmor Missonri. I bndo Jiim o kindly ndieu ono sfternoon, ns ho was wonding his way to tho stoanmer, and, to my wurprise, enw him next moming passing out nt tho Astor Houso ontrance. 1 hailed Lim, and inquired the conso of his renppearance, and he gaid that “Tho old tub stuck in tho mud, and they wero obliged 1o wait for the tide to flont her off.' Another hwried good-bye, and we parted. I presume I was tho Inst Coliforaion who saw the Lind-hesrt- ed Colonel alive,” LITERATY JOSSIE. The California Art Journal for March is re- plote with clever articles on art, music, and the drama, and ulso contning an oxcollent picturo—n zincograph—of John McCullough ay * Corio- lanus.” Tho journal is a credit to San Franeisco, and is moderatoly profitable, B J. Roas Lrowno, the noted fravoler, will have in tho next insuo of tha Overland an oxbaustive articlo on the ** Agriculturel Copecity of Cali- fornia,” reforring to the reclamution of marsh and swamp Iands, aud projecied plans for irriga- tion, in Californin, with noten on tho cannl sys- tem of China and other countrien. Somo of tho reclaimed lauds bave produced ae high as cighty - bushels of wheat per acro, ‘fhat clevor soll ‘on the Pavy. oxpedition to the North Polo in still going tho rounds of tha pross. Ltu publication wus (1o resnlt of nccopling por- functory corresponconce. Lhe original lottor to tho World, purporling 1o liavo been based on dispatelics from Pavy's Arctio hendquartors, was wrilton by a Sau Francieco Bobemin, a rostless individual who is always mcu\mlini OMO senca- tion or other. K JoNES, e A Question of Beards Fyons the Hartford Cunrant, Tho brave British soldier, when at home in 0ld England, is not allowed to wear a benrd, I'o gomo, tho regulation is becoming: to ouhors it in annoying.. Nouo, howover, fully likes to havo forcordinetion o completoly do away with froe will in tho muttor of his own whiskers, Re- contly o regiment of the Twentioth 1Tussnrs re- turnod homo from India. It was wintor, end raw woather, Lhe men bad their throats pro- tocted by their boards, and were in moderntoly good health, On rriiving, they bocamo subject to tho culting rogulutions rooutlonod, ‘Their rogimentnl surgoon nccordingly intercedod, and tha mon thomeolves pleaded that the rule might not bo ouforced upon n pcn‘)!u who_had just ro- turncd from uo diltorent n climate, It wasno uro, howovar ; tha law is lnoxorable, and tho benvds dicappeared by ordor, Immodintely, bronchitis, soro thronts, and other troubles foll upon thom, aud their iro was considorably disturbed, too, Bouto of thom wrote snonymously to the Duke of Cnmbrld;ie, and suggested that it did nob seom vory fuirthat, when urogimont of warm-climato moi wero mado to shave in Euglund in wintor, the Lwo cousins of tho Quoeon, tho Duke himsolf, and Princo Ldward, who had not hoon in India, wore yob lmrm[tted to wour their bonrd as tho, chose, The Dulo did not mako use of his privi- logo, aud, to seitlo tho mattor eaxfost, ho ordor- ed Priuco Rdwnrd to abandon it likewise, and shave, This lio refused to do, and the mattor has beon reforred to the Quean, Meantime, tho mem- Dbars of the ‘wontioth Hussars are gotting up a rronl :'L\Yumtiun for indopendonco, and thoir fol- -Lyw-soldiors will tremblo Lofore thom in the next shaor Seht at Winblodon, SPRINGFIELD. The. Rummel- Investigation--- The Circuit Courts. Offioial Reporters--~Eminent. Domain ---Ponitontiary Commissioners, - Chicago Town Elections---Debnto on the Rnilroad-Suits Bill. From Our Own Correspondent, Sermarrew, 1il,, March 25, 1879, ‘THE NUMMEL INVESTIOATION. % The roporia of the majority aud minotity of the Rummol Invostigation” Commitloo wero tho spacial ordor for this morning, whon Mr. Bavago dosirod to postpono until thoe printed reports woro distributod. Mr. Rountreo wished to haye tho testimony token by tho Committoo printed, 08 hio did not denira to judge a man on the moro concluslons of o committco, - Mr. Savago.nu- swered that o did not know - whora the testi- mony waa ; which wan, to say the lonst, & quoor way of pormitting ecvidonco to bo lost. M Hito stated that Mr. Rummel dosired to. hiave tho disputo gottlod at onco, and hoped there would bo no nnnocossary ‘delny. The furthor hearing was postponed until Fridsy, tho touti- mony to be found and printed in the meantimo. . BWORN IN. Tho Hon. Richard I. Crawford waa sworn in to il tho vacanoy ocausod by the death of tho on. Robort J. Cross, Roprosentativo of tho Ninth Distrlct, including Winuobago County. , THE OIRCUIT COURTS. The Judicial Apportionmont bill reached the hands of tho Qovornor Inst Friday, nnd thoten* days within which ho must sign it will oxpiro on Monday noxt.: Good Inwyors aro of opinion that, In spito of- tho roponling clauso, the old Judgoes can legally continue in offico undor tho Conatitution until tho clection of their succea- sora, To avold all doubt end the confusion that would arisoin cnso they woro logislated out, the following bill haa boon read a socond timo in tho House, and will, it poneiblo, bo possed this woolc: A BILL for an aot to authorizo the present Jue tho Ofrcult Courts to hold lurn\nrul Court di‘:fn “‘I’: counties, nnd got tho tmes as required by law, in forco on tho 18tl doy of March, A. D, 1873; until’ tlo cxpiration of thetr forms of obico, BEOTION 1, Jle it enacted by tha peopls of the State of Titinols, represented in the General Assembly, That tho resent Judges of the Olrcuit Courts Lo and they aro icreby authorized, until tho expiration of the prescnt terma of oflico of kald Judycs, to hold terms of Court iu the soveral counties which constituto their roapee- tive ciroults, on tho 18th day of Mnrch, A, D, 1874, nt such timea aa pald torma woro required to bo held by Iaw, In foreo on tho day aforesnid. BEO, 2. Whereas, by reason of tho passago of an_act changing elrcuits and reducing their number, and in order tlnt {he admivlslering of Justico may Lo froed {rom embarragsments occasionod theraby, an cmer- ency exiate; thereforo ihis nct ehail tala olfect and bo iu forco.from and after its passago, Tho Govornor will sign the Oircuit bill, any way, ond trust to the Legislatura to romedy its own blundors., OFFICIAL REPORTERS, In many Courts of tho Stato, short-hand re- porters have boen employed under special lnws, which will liave no nppiication to the new cir- cwits. It is tho dosiro of the bar practising in mony courts that roporters should be main- tained, and, with that ond in view, n genoral Inw euthorizing tho .appointmont of roportors in evory circuit in tho State has beon introduced, and will pags if there is timo. This moasuro is o totally different thing from the Cook County bill just being ropealed. ‘Cho latter contained o flngrant ateal on the County Tronsury,—provid- ing that, for evory caso, the reporters should bo paid twico,—Dby tho county for their attondnnco, and by tho parties for their transeript. ' Inevery civil caso, the Judgo's certificate of attondanco was mado o tax on tho county, smounting to o gigontio sum In the courso of o yoor. No such outragos aro contomplated -n the proposod _goneral law, which simply ompovwers the Judge to call on tho reportor, ‘when requoested by tho parties to o civil suit, an to give tho reportor & vouchor of the lenglh of time ho lins bocn omployed, that his poy may bo taxed, with tho other costs in tho ease, against tlio party ordering the roport, In criminal cares lhowoyer, it is proposed that the Judgo shall Dave tho powoer to order o roport at tho oxpenso of tho county, whenover ho thinks the case is of sufliciont mognitudo to warrant it, There aro many cirouits in tho Btate, having no roporters ot prosont, which would gladly employ one if thero was sny sort of power to appoint him, or provision as to his compensation. A general law. will wipe out all special roporting privileges, and inaugurate freo tradoe in phionography. EMINENT DOMAIN, The following is in tho House, on its second roading : £ ABruufor anact to amend Sec, 0 of an act ontitled An actto provide for tho oxarclse of tho right of omi- nont domain,” iu forco July 1, 1872, BEOTION 1, Beitenacted by the People of the State of Ili- nots, represented in the General Aasembly, Thot Sac, 9 of an uct entitled ** An act to provide for the oxerciea of the right of eminent domain,” in foreo July 1, 1673, o ameyded to read s follows, to-wit,: 80, 9, Baid jury sliall, ut tho requeat of elther par- ty, go upou tho land sought to le taken or damnged, in porion, exsmine tho kame, and,after hearing tho Proofa offered, make ther roport 'in writing, sud tho 8amo shall be fubject to amendmeut by tho Jury, un- der the direction of the court or the Judge, a8 tho case mny be, so a8 1o clearly sct forth and show tho com- pensation ancertainod o ench person thereto entitled, aud tho said verdict shall theroupon be recorded, TENITENTIARY COMMIBSIONERS, Tho Governor iy bosioged by candidates for Ponitentiary Commisgionor, They nre gather- ing from near and from far, bofore thore {8 n va- cnioy, sssuming that His Excolloncy will romove thosa now in chargo of the prison. 'Whe Hon. T, D. Derrickson is spoken of from Chicago. Tha Hon, Aloxunder L, Morrigon iu also o candidate; and to-day arrived Capt. John Hmrington, with astrong dologation from tho Grand Avmy of tho Republic, to proas lis claims, Duunoe, from Pooris, i likewlse in the fi o Inst-named threo flwntlemun are Irish Repub- cans, and will make an interesting trinngular fight. Now thoy are about neck and neck. 3ir. Paul Solby, of tho Quincy Wikig, is auothor candidato. Theraare twenty-four inall, It iy stated that Mr. Butz will not bo removed, as ho was oloctod divactly by the poople, and repre- sents the Gormang, Probably Mr. Reod will bo colled upon to resign. Mr. Daniels, of Will, hankors after his vhoes, it scoms. Thero avo also numorous candidnies for Gon. Nowott' placo. Noaction will bo taken until fho Pani- tinry Committeo reports, PERSONAL, Mr, County Commissionor Crawford arrived thin evoning, with o good n{)pnmo and put up at his fuvorito caravausary, tho Lolond.” Ifo hg Cook County on his liands. County Attornoy Troot is with him, Br. Jowott is on hand, watching tho Take Front Ropealing Lill, which comes up on its passago in the House to-morrov. CIIGAGO TOWN ELEGTIONS, A Dill pormitling voters in the towns of Chi- engo to vote at thoe town olections in April, at 1ho regular precincts, instond of at ogo ‘poll, na roquired by the 'Pownship-Organization Inw, wag introduced in the Senate. 'TILE RAILROAD BUITS, Tho rules weroe suspouded to consider ITonsa biil No, 582, My, Cudsody making tho motion, Hr. Jonos desired to postpone until Tridny, which vas lost,—07 to 2% Mr. Dradwell moved tho bill be ordered to o third road- ing, A foolish motion on so important 3 Eill, thought Mr. Hopkius, and Mr, Bradwell nvo wiy. M. Gordon moved to smend go that Lie bill might cover casos of alloged violation of tho law to oceur herenftor, Mr. Pollockthought 1t was slmply advortisivg o premium for violating law. Mr. Cassody thought mon had just an oot a right to offor tho logal rate in tho future a3hnd tho mon who wero now tho victims of prosecu- tion, %It was part of tho same snimul.” o wouid tako the bill with the amendment, or with ont 1t, but would profer it smended. Tho fnsti- tution of suits wos & game of bluff to weare persons from offering {ho logal faro, Ar, Cronkrite offorod sn amondmont providing that casos in future shnll not bo defended, ox- copt upon tho rocommondation of tho Board of Supervisors or County Commissionors. —Mr, Bhaw was in favor of tlio last amondment, ns it would provent niaticlous men from seoking choap notorloty at tho oxpeuso of tho Btato, whilo good cftizons would be maintained In their rights, Mr. IIny was not propared to encourngo men to raid on railronds under color of doubtful loginlation, All tho bilis on the subjoot of rail- ronds bofora the Loglulature wore provided with amplo menns to onforco their provisions, If proper_ofiloers woro fo bo elected, with power 10 conduct suits, what was tho uso of & gou-~ oral lnw, which would authorlza un indofinito, ou frrcsuonsible, an inoumersblo mumber of o .down, full of fig sulta to bo inatitutod, and subjoct Uhe Trenanry to tho ralds of Inwyors all over the Biato, whono intorest it wonld bo to stimulate and encouragoe litigntion 7 Br, Snvago would defond ovory- body, past, presont, aud futuro. Mr, Bradwoll obriocved that rafirond gonductors and tholr Divelings had talon oltizons by the napo of the -mock and pitehed Ehem out of tho cnra, insulting (ho persons so pitchod out, inanlting tho J.egirlature, nnd naulting tho dignity,of the Blato. ITo wan for defonding the peoplo. -Mr. Scanlan offorad o substituto, pro- viding that tho Altornoy-Goneral and tho Itail- road Commissioners should docida that tho casen wore worthy of dofonso, Mr. Hnwes wns .opposed: to tho uwubstituto, and {favorod tho amondmonts.. Unill tho courts docided tho :law unconstitutional, the railroads shonld oboy it. ‘I'he railroads woro %\xllty of mob luw, and” the wholo {moxvlu whould unito to_defond thono eingled out far prosccntion. Mr, Morrinon waain favor of tho amendmont, Mr. Oborly would dofond mon who declined to pay moro than the logal fare, if they rofusod ovory hour in tho day, overy day in the weok, and so'on nntil all tho greonbackn in the Trennury woro used up, Mz, Gordon bolioved no railrond in the Btato would attompt to Inntituto suita in tho United Btntes Court if that bill was possod, Mr. Dun- ham had no hesitation in doing whnt ho holioved to bo propor in opposing a bill that would pro- voko litigation and_compol tho Btato to pay tho piper, Mo bellovod this was tho fimit cao whero it was proposed that the Btato should defond privato suits, ITo counselod rmdauco oud modaration, When they author- 7ed tho peoplo who actad in good faith to in- volvo tho Siato In litigation, they sot n dangorous procedent, Ilo wonld vote for tho bill nait camo from the Commiitoo, but lio did not think overy man in tho Btato could bo trusted, Mo know mon, if the amendmont carriad, who would got on o train in 80 minuten to biing ona colligion. Mr, Lano, of Hancook, waa opposed to tho amondmont and to tho bill. Ho was in favor of reetricting railrond ratos; ‘but thoro waro grave doubts o to the conatitutionality of the rnilrond laws, Alr. Cnssady dofonded tho DLill, ‘Fhe ' railronds uwitched Inw-ubiding elti- zons on tho side-tracks, toro thelr overcoals off their backs, and turnod thom out of the carn; and 10w metabors of tho: Houso objected-to pro~ tecting ‘men who would be similarly outraged in tho fnturo. AR ‘ ' The following is Lonso bill No. 532 : A Binr. £oF on act to Defino the Dutlea of tho Attorney- Gonieral In Certnin Cnsea t SEoTion 1, Jie it cnacted by the People of the State o Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, Thnt it #hall bo tha duty of tho Attorney-General of this Stato to appear nud defend sny action or actiona heretoforo inatituted agninst any cilizen or citizens of thin Stute, cither in the courts of {his Stato or of tho United Blates, or which may hereafter bo inatitnted in nuy Euch courts, for thu’ recovery of dmnages for any act or nots borotoforo donc, or Levcaflor, whereln' the alleged causo of nctfon grow out of tho acts and con~ duct of aniel citizen. o cltizens, in good faith douonnd porformed, {n purauanco of au nct entitled # An act lo entablisl o reasonablo masimin Tato of chnuges for the transportation of pasrengern on railronds In this Slate,” approved April 15, 1671, or who in good faith may hive relfed upon_ tho ac? aforesnld os & Jnotificas tionof cald_aots nnd condnct, Tho siid Attornoy- General 18 horoby nuthorized to call to. his aid in tho dofense of auch action or actions such additional coun- sl 88 hio niny decmn necersry. 8z0, 3, The costd of defending any such action or actions; and of such additionnl counsol, togother with any judgment that may be rondered ugainat the de- fondaut or defendanta thereln, shnll bo certified Lo tho Taflroad and Warehiouso Commiscion, and by sald Commirsion to the Auditor of Public Accounts, who ghall draw Lis warrant thercfor upon the Trensurer, payablo to said Altornoy-General, out of any funds that oy ho approprinted by this General Assembly for tho uge of said Commiscion ; and tho sald Attorney-Gene eral shall uee the eame in dlschurgo of auch costs, nt- torney fees, and Judgment, If oy, nud shall fllo’ Lia vouchiern therofor with suid Commlesion, And wheroa, by reason of tho pouding of such sults and tho necessity for fuking carly stepa for tlio defenso thereof, an emetgency cxisis, requiring that this act shall tako effect mmediately iberefore, thia act shall take off2ct and b in forco from and after its passage, THE SCAFFOLD. Ehreo FPersons Jonienced to Hentlh. The editor of tho Amoricus Republicun, who was in attendanco on Wobstor Buperior Court at Proston, Ga., recontly, writos to his papor as follows ¢ « At 3 o'clock] Thursday nftornoon the Sherift ontored the Conrt-room with I3, I, 8pann, Busan Eborhart, Lo Smith, and Willism Shoppurd, to hear the sentenco of the law nbout to bo pro- nounced upon them. Tho room was crowded with spoctators to wituoss o scone which, por- haps, may nevor ocour again, end the like of which bas never beforo been witnossed in. this Stnto—tho scutenee of death on throo peraons, and confinoment in the Pone itentiaty on ome, nt tho samo time. It was indaed & solemn sight to bohold, and ono that wa never ngain oxpect to witness. 'Tho prisou- ars all appenved to be deeply affected, ospocinlly Spann and Miss Eberhart. As tho prisonors entored n silenco aa gtill a8 death porvaded tho entiro room. Bhortly after thoy wore seated and Dbeeame composed, the Judge, fu o vory soloin manner, called tho names of . T, Spann aud Busan Bberhart, and askod if they had anything to sny why sentenco of death should not b pro- nounced upon thom, _“ Nothing,” was answored inalow tone. His Honor then procoeded to pnss sontenco upon: thom_separatoly. Boforo doing so, howevor, ho addrossed them in tho following words, Mr. Spaun standing, whilo %i_lisn Lberhart remnined seated during its de- ivory ¢ “?t is not my purpore to reawalon the mem- ories of tho past, nor to wound your scnsibilities by rocailing the dreadful events of thav night, when tho poor victim of your crime loat her life at your hands. The events of that night, so darlk with erimo ; the rotiring of tho wifo to hor usnal ropose, trusting nlono in hor busband and her God; tho proparations for tho fatal deed; tho wicked purpose; tho mode 6f killing, an the denth struggles of tho poor Iolpless, unfor- tunate im, aro already engraved ou your mind, aid noither Hme nor ofernily canover orase them. Bulllco it to say that n faithful wifo lost her lifo at the hands of an uofuithful husband and hig wicked paramour. That is onough to ba told of Lhis Lorrible tragedy. Lot a gnrk veil hido all olse. “* You huve been tried and convieted, and tho sentouco of death has hoon pronounced upon ou., Upon that oceasion I besought you to urit your thoughiy to the porils of tho character of tho doom_that nwaited each of you. Bince then, the judgmont of the Supreme Court hng boen invokiod u your belalf, and tho judgmout of this Court has been solomnly aflirmed. ““Yon stand to-dey without Jiope. Tho grave is boforo you, Within n fow days—which will bo swifter to you than . wenver’s shuttlo —you will bo called ipon to pass through (ho dark \'nUui{ aud ghadow of death, Lot cvery momont of your thme on ocarth bo given {o the most solomn and earnest proparation for that groat ovont. Xtoly not on yoursolves, nor on the help of othory, but cast yoursolf with all your sins upon your Savior. If you go to 1lim g truo ponitents 1o will not roject you; but, siuful ai you nra and s groat n nro your crimes, Ho will pardon nnd forgive., Moy tho Lord hava morcy on you!™ Tho Judge then pronounced the sentonce of donth upon . I Span, to Lo oxecuted on I'ri- day, the 11th duy of April noxt. A liko sontonco wns then pronounced wupon Mirs Eborhart, Lut, upon tho solicitation of pris- onor's countol, Col. . A, Mawling, tho day of oxccution way prolonged until the 2d dey of Buntouce of dontl was fhion pronouncad upon Too Buith, to bo hung on Fridsy, tho 25t day of April. —_— A single=Iunded Combat With r Cale ifornia Eion, From the Trinity ((.'al.z Journal, March 1, Jolm Day, whoso advonture with o bear wo de- tailod weolk before last, recontly foll in with o Culifornin lion aud fought him singlo-handed under the most oxelting clroumstances, ‘Lues- day of last wool Day wait hunting in tho moun- tains back of Steinot’s Flat. ‘Iho dogs brought something to bay high up on the mountain side. Buppoaing tho gamo Lo Lo s lynx or o wild-cat, ho mud‘n his wey to tho nrot. guided by tho noisc of tho dogs, Laforo reaching thoe dogs tho mountain sido bocamo se steop thet it was with tho groatest dificulty ho mado the nscont, Finnlly ho ar- rived noor the placo and found an nlmost loyel spot upon whicl Lo staud. Casting his oyes up- ward be beheld upon & cliff of rooks, ten or twelva feot above, a Jurge Californin lion erouch- ed and angry. Our horo losk no timo, but Jov- oled big ritlo at tho auimal's hend. ~ Growling with pain and rago tho infurlated beast sprang Nt and fury, and the hunter found himselt proatrate benonth his savago an- tagonist. Ilis gun waskunocked out of hin lunds and wout sliding down Lhe precipitous slopo. Ho had o butchor kuite, but that wus in his boot, and, unfortunately, ho lad s pair of ovorully over all. ‘Ihoro was, luekily, n holo in the over- alls, through which lio succoeded in_ gotting hia hand In aud pot Iids knife, ~ 1le atruck the bruto in tho hiead with his knifo tho flrst time, but tho ekin was 80 tough and wiinkled that thio knifo failed to ponetruto, 'Tho socond time ho stab- bed the anlmal nenr the small of tho baclt. Ut~ toring o most unoarthly yoll, tho animal bounded mway. Day jinmadiately = rogained hls foot and found limeolt but elightly in- jured. Tho lion, having gono down (ho hilt somo distance, atoppod. i‘m sifle boing hetwoen him and the lon, Day went for Lis gun, and aftor gotting it, so stoep wos the ground, ho could not keop his footing, but went elipping and eliding until ho was almost uvon hia foo, ~ But tho lion hind no dosire to_renow tho confifot, and when ho saw thio onomy descanding upon him, ho started for. tho mountatnm on - tho opposito stde seroaming worso than any fomalo, Hingle- banded, no man is_n mateh for o fall-grown Onlifornin lion, but Duy was daoldedly in Iuck, consldering that his shot did not prove fatnl. Tho llon, romohow, had loat ono of hia foro prws—porhaps in a trap, his provented it from using its foro feot, nnd likely discouraged it. Day's bullot broke’jts under jaw. Tho only wounds Dny recoived wero in tho shoulder, in- flicted by tho lon's uppor tooth in ite futilo at- tumfm to bite. ‘I'he bonst Leing unable to strike or hite, doubtloss considoered itself overinntched and dieretion the bottor part of valor, At sty THE LAST NEW FORGERY. e From the London Spectator, March 9, Thia last forgory on the Bank of England la by far tho mont ingonious, as woll a8 most suce oessful, that hps in this country beon attemptod. ‘Thoro was brain put into the worl,, as. woll g, what wns for moro odd, connidorable’ capital. ‘The forgor, whosvor ho was, or rathor his em- ployor, for thero muat have haon many poraony ongaged, 'seoms to have put to himaelt o ques- tion of this kind. Who in_tho world, 1f pos- seasod of the forger's mechanlenl skill or’the menny of socuring it, could forge mont ensily ? Clenrly n city magnate, & man accustomed to transnct Inrgo businosi, to draw many ohock, to discount many bills, Thoroforo, it is noodful for tho forger, if ho moditates Inrgo oporation, to plnco hitnaelt in the posltion of ich & mog: nale, to open n *“sound” nccount with the Dank of England, most suspicious of all bauka at flrat, but most truotful whon all ia right, to do much roal business, and to discount many ronl bills. Thoso things wore dono until the Bank Lecamo unsuspicious, and thon tho quoation aroso, what fs it most profit- nblo to forgo? Wa should answer thnt quostion vory differcutly from tho forger, for it o always appcared to us that tho govornmonts of tho world re roprehonsibly silly Tn tho facilition that {hoy offer to this nrt, that their bonda aro very clumsy nffnirs, and that o forger with gonius and {n tho suppposed position of thisono might, just aftor foma -dividend day—that is, praotionlly in Jantary or July—raiso onormons loans on doposit of :flctitioun govornmont socuritics, If thoyonco pnssed mustor, wiek test conld or would bo ap- plied for fivo months? -This forgor, howover, Qid nob think so, but, Yorlinpy from komg lucking prido in his proficiency fn Lis own art, triod tho much moro diflicult pla~ of farging the accept- aucos of front ety lionsos, whioh hio doporitod with tho Westorn- hrauch of the Bank of Lng- Jand, . If- thoy woro_nccoplod for discount, wojl nnd good, ho wonld have threa months in which to disappear; and if they wero rojected,woll and Eoml too, for ho had only to closo his sccount, ankers being very unwilling to explmin tholr reasons for rui‘unung securitios. Conacquently, Lo forged tho accoptancen of tho greatost firms in Londonor.the world, and, but for the accident that ho loft out n dato in a particulnr bill, might havo abaconded with half amillion. The Banlk sent the date to Lo roctifled, and the imposition was detected. 8o good, howeyer, wero tho forgories, that tho firms thomselves could only dotoct them by referring to thetr books, and before dotection onsued the forgor had obtained £80,000, which he invested in United Btates Tonds, probably ns the most portablo method of digposing of lils plunder, nud_tho investment which would excite lonst suspicion in tho bank. In this particnlar oaso, the mothiod of dig- covery points directly to tho mothod of piovon- tion. ~ London bankers have bean remiss in their mothods of solf-dofenso. If on receipt of a bill they advised iho accoptors that such a documont Iind boon prosented for disconnt, they neod not bo two dnys without information as to its gen- ulneness. Wo can 8¢0 o reason whatover against that precantion, as it would be unnecessary to fivo tho namo of thio porsan orfirm discounting, ho acceptor merely roceiving sufliciont indien~ tion to enablo him to rofer to his books, as in this caso_by accidont bie did recolve. The now ritle would add numethhxfi: but not too much, to oflico worlt, and it would, ns far 88 wo can seo, be n . final "cheek on a ropotition of this particular fraud. The forgor would nover have time and would know that he would nol inve timo to got nway, and wonld try somo lcss dangerous plan of oporations. Cousidering tho mngnitude of tho danger, the signs thnt o ring of forgers isat worlk, and the nmenso dis- turbauco to business created by o single success of tho kind, it would bo well worth while to incur 80 alight nn additional oxpense. It would mnot, of courne, provent nn nccidentai or isolated for: gory ; but it would provent a grand oporation, fud this is n gain, as 1t must bo romembered that tho chanco of forging bill tempts mon who would not risk time, energy, and capital to manu- facturo'n fow bank.notos, Their work would not ropay thom, and it is as o business opoeration intendod to recoup men who lave money to wasto that tho recont forgory is so exceodingly formidablo. Whothor any new mochanieal procautions against forgory can bo adopted wo must lenve to eugineers and mon of scieuce, but wo greatly doubt it. Tho world hus had o great intorost for o great many Janrs in_devising & noto that can- not bo forged, and has not found ono yot. Bpecinl papers may, no doubt, be manufacturod for epecinl firme, a8 one is manufactured for the Bauk of England; but any papor canbo imitated, and we conld hnrdl{[ protect private persous ns we protoct the Bank, by making it a high penal offeneo to imitate or to” possess their paper. It is diftienlt to imagine o papor which could not bo imitated, unless it woro mado of a substanco pro- curablo ouly by o fow poraons, or colored with & dyo, tho sacrot of whioh had boon carofully pro- sorved, and no such paper or dye is yot boforo tho world. Tho Marwarrees of ‘Iodia uso apapor for their acceptances which is very ingonious, but which would scsrcaly baftio European skill. It s s veory fino silvor tissuo- papor, almost without woight, snd its spocialty 16 thiv. No ono can writo on it Marwarreo fash- ion withont Marwarrco ink, any other kind wotting tho fine Yaper almost into pulp, No sltll cun ovorcoma this diffiulty without the ink, but in El‘lfi]fl“d the ‘ex[lmfls wonld discover the georot of tho ink in an hour, and the Marwarreo mothod of holding thoe paper and pen in o day, and in s week produco o ‘‘hoondes” or bill of oxchenge that would pags mustor overy whero excopt with the nccopting firm. Tho papor of the Bank of Bengal, too, is very good, in that it is ontiroly boyond imitation oxcopt by very firat~ rato engrayera posseascd of .tools as porfect ns thoso of the agents emiployed by the Bank itself, T'ho paper ouly looka cloudy, but under a strong glass is found to bo covered with linos of microscopic _characters, which could | not be _ produced hand, or by withont machinery oqual to {lmz employad, or wo imagiuo without n vm?' poeuliar ink, an ink that will not run, But nli theso rioans aro with- in tho rango of forgers ko those now ut work, mon with fimluu, monoy, and the disposition to 1iso both for fraud, and no furthor improvewont appoars practicablo. Thoy use oyphor drafts in somio conntrios, which canuot bo read excopt with the koy, but-thoy aro uselens agaiust men whoso art is hot to intorprot, bub to copy oxact- 1y. 'The only-protoction thoy would afford would Do that the forger, not knowing tho figures, must roprodnco some bill oxactly, as he ‘ould not Inow the sign which variod them, But then neither would the ordinary customer, Any sig- nature can bo imitated, und no substitute Tor a nignaturo understood by the disconnting world hea boen deyised, Stamps and soals aro s eavi- Iy forged a8 signatures, or more onsily, and 1o aro witormarks whon tho roward is larga cuough to poy for the machinery. Thoro mny bo & rom- ady in scionce, but ns yot it is ?lxltn iuvisiblo, It wonld bo an unplensent thing for the bank- ors, aud indeed for tho world gonorally, if scionco toolt tho other sido, but it is quito n possibla thing.” Bupposo selonco to discover means of in- TolliEly fmiating or eproduchug any weitlon o printed document, what would botomo of our rosont syntem of roprosouting crodit? Clearly, Enuk-uoton would bo ilnpossiblo, bonds payablo to beavor moro snares, nccoptances invitations to fraud, and every check pald out a danger to tho payer or the halk with which he dealt,” Nobody who has watelied tho advances made by photo- graphy of Into yoara can deny that this’ iy con- coivable, and yot if it happened what would the city people do? Would they run- the risk and chargo n porcentago, no thoy meucn.uy do now as to many forms of fruud? Or would thoy Fuml Iniva | limiting the nogotiation to instrumentn o _particular papor, Protnaun ovory- body by the Sflnclpu protootion of tho Bank of Bngland? Orwould they deviso entiroly new mothada of reprosonting crodit, s the Jows of the Middle Ages did? ‘Tho Iattor would bo the courso g to hills, the agenoy of tho tolograph Deing ealled into oporation ; Dut for bank-notes, tho plan ultimatoly sdopted would, we sns}mez, o to use somo now matorial; & new metal, for oxamplo, which it would bo possible under strick laws to mionopolise, and waft till selenco had made anotlier advance, and obtained tho power of imitating these two. ‘The speculation is of no moro practical valuo thau ono_ on ‘the rosults of ' the discovory of tho philosophor's stone, but it has, like that speoulation, nn intorost for minds which do not boliove man has yet arrived at tho pormanent perfoction of all things. Bupposo golence, which lias so long holped hor, in & freak doclares war on tho Bank of Enghmdb vight of drawn on —_————— Eruit in INinols. The Canton Register mlpurtu peach trocs in that vivinity all wintor killed, Tow, if any, pear trecn avo loft alive, The Ilemish Deauty bas escaped, if any, Choice variotios of olorry troos aro wlgo killed. Nearly sll tho grapos, except the Concord, hnya heen Iillod oz badl Judgo Wintor of Towlaton, roports the aame.in rogard to grapas tioro, Ponr buds nra ofl killed and Ieat yenr's growth of wood lilowlso, Doncly troos ara utlorly anuibilatod. Cliorslos aro gano up for tho comng séanon, whilo tho trocs. ara badly damagzed. "o Carthagso (1ancook Gottne &y) Republican given n moro encouraging necount {ronm it section, Pench bl a0 doitrosad, buk 16 Lraes are not seriousl injured, Liva sulforad but Hette, * o rel: Grapovinos 4 it THE GREAT DIAMOND SUIT. weakonod, Xlow Rt Was SctticdesnArnold Pays .. Liont 150,000 ; Tromi thé Louisville Courder-Journal, Marel 25, " Our ronders cannot have 8o noon forgotton the great * Dinmond Swiudlo™ of Californis, which mado such & ntir throughont tho country laut fall; nor tho suft for 830,000 brought by Will- fnm B Lent, of Californy, against Philip Ar nold, of Elizabethtown. Yeatorday tho -Ingt a¢ in thin interesting dramn was playoed, and the curtain foll on n'sceno in which & luigo pilo of Frmnbuolm was tho central figure. Tho follow- ng order of the United Btntes Cireult Court ox- plainy the denouomeont of tho play: W!l.l!nm M. Lent v, !mm‘» Arnolland othern, This daf came tho partles and by consent of all pare os the nltachiment hevein in dlsmfared o settled and sgreed, und this ctlon and the cyose-suit of Mary I, Arnold nro dinmissed, agroed and seltled, each party p‘nyhl[g his own costa,” W, D, Waod, Bhorill of Tlardin County, Is ordered (o dcllver the altneled property to Philip” sud Mary I, Arnoll, And then camo watd Dhflip and Mary £, £tiold anil ncknowlodged the: o eelpt of all the attacherd pmgnrly, #nd salil Sheriff and il nureties are dischnrged )y consent of partios frop~ all furllior responsibility in reforenco tbereto, "Tho suit was Ingtitnted in the Hardin Ol T Court o rocovor £50,009, which . l to have paid Arnold for tha 01 in= mond-floid, thab was afterward sliseed jo port aliegod to Lo no dinmonds bought for' tho purpose. Tho suit wan aftorwnrda romoved to Nl{) Ugnitnd Bmlnu’éimufl Qourt at this plnco, It seoms that upon antor- ing this st foma 370,000 or $80,000 worth of proporty Lolonging to Amold was nttached, and an Intimation of comprimino wau mado, hub tho Flnh\tlfi declinéd to lislon to au; pmpunmnn of tho kind, Thoro was o rong duu{oldlmcully Lowover, in soouring porkonal aorvice on As: nold, who wna in hiding ; and, wenried with fho obstaclos thrown in Ll way, r. Lent s0omod at ono timo not wnwilling to récopt . compromise which did nob abato 60 muels of hin elaii, | Bt iuub thon Arnold wus focling uafo, among frionds had the ropes in,his own hands, wnd stood out manfully for tho liltlo pilo it s now ovident bo Iind gatherod in his dinmond operation, — Lont, who had boon hera for some ‘weelw, nnd had mado a favorable impression upon-thoso he mot, rotnrned to Califoruin, nnd tho flald of eontost bocame comparatively quict. Arnold waa lullcd into losn watehful vigilanco, and n sharp Loutes villo policeman wns ongagerd, gnade Doputy Shor~ iff, and managod'to vocuro Persoual toriico o i.lhg summony of court upon the rodoubtablo oros Thia mado.tho yay moro cloar and casy for tha Ppluintifl, romoving obstacles which would other- wiso havo coutinually hampored tho euit, and oven tho exceutlon of judgmont. It scoms, lso, to Linvo lott tho impreznion on tho mind of Bir. Amold which inclined him moro favorably to a compromize, and tho proposition to that ond, which had lapsed on the doparture of Lont for California, waa renowed| with_moro favorablo R}-onpccls of an agrecoment. Conscious of the lifficultios, trials, and annoyances incidont to n loug-protracted effort to aocuro entisfaction of a _judgmout, espocially whora ho Lind o shrowd and almost ¢looploss foo to contend with, Mr, Lont af longth ngroed to nbata more than Lalf of lis claim Yor tho ke of having the mattor sottled 8t onco and finally. Tho result wag reached yostorday, and is Indi~ eated in tho order of éourt printed above. Wa sont ono roportor to tho counnol for tho plaintiff, and anothar to the counsel for tho defondant, Dbut both partios declined to add any information to thut wo Lad already recelved from tho doclot, ond wo immedintely startod ont our chiof dotece tive, who can discover an it nw woll whero 1t isn’t n8 whero it is, and Lo returnod with tho fol- lowing statemont, which, in his confldonco in hin own powers, o denominates * tho, faols In tha ,cage.”” We shall call thom rumors : “When nogotintions had brought the matter to snch a point that an agroemont becamo ponsiblo, tho interviews grow in interest, and tho quostion of thoamount to bo paid becamo important. This waa finally fixed nt tho comfortable aum of '8150,000,—quito a fortuno for a poor man; and yostordny, eomewloro in tho citv, in & quio Yoom, sway from the anxious aud prying oyos of the public—where we shell not .state, perhaps ‘Dbocauso we onn't, aud porhaps becauso we don't want to—tho money was paid ovar in groonbnels Dy Arnold's attornoy to Lont's attornoy . it waa well examined to’test its gonuinoness, and countod often enough to antisly the recoiver that the propor sum was in tho inviting pile; recoipta wora oxchanged, and the logal involvomonts of the wholo trausaction were_ontiroly wiped out, loaving both .parties ns thoy wero nt the coms moncemont of the suit, escopt that Arnold ia minug the sum he paid Lent, and his exponses in the mattor, and Lout ia plus tho sumn ho ro- aolvod, loss Ais oxpentos. Thus ends tho Inst act in tho great California dinmond sensation. Throughout tho progresa of tho snit, Mr. Hare ponding, ono of tho parties engaged in gotting up the diamond company whicl bought Arnold's ‘mesn, or diamond fiold, has been liero or at Eliz- abotlitown, oxcopt intorvals of abuence, and it ia undorstood has been activo in promoling tho compromiso arrived ab. It is hintod that Har- ponding and Slack, a8 woll 04 Arnold, ontrib« uted to mako up tho sum paid to Mr, Leht. BLOODY FRATRICIDE. One Brother Slioots Another Dead ot the Fuct of their Aged FathereeSup= poscd Snicide of the Murderoers % Lyom the Lowistille Courier~fournal, March 25, About two and n half milos southeast of Dardston, tho county seat of Nelson County, 1{‘)‘., lives Mr. George W. Holtshouser, n farmor of high raspootability aud_standing among his fellow-oitizons, During hia lifs e had reaved two Bong, John Crittendon and Daniol Waebster, Doth of whom ware the do]ifiht of thoir paronts, who, in thoir 0ld ‘age, looked upon fhem as the prop of their declining years, and tho stalf which would cnso their footsieps to tho gravo. Both of them had for tho Inst kix or oight yours supor- intondod their father's buainess, and assisted in the support of thoir parentis, Ib secms that for snvm'x\l onths past i foud has oxisted between those brothera, ko, g Last Baturday night the quiet littlo city of Bardstown wag thrown into consternation b the nows that J. C. IToltshouser had shot and killed his brothor, D, W. Holtshouser, at hig father's residonce. Investigution proved that tho terribld story was but_too truo, and that tho murder ocourred in tho following manner : John O. Holtshouser had been in Bardstown during tho day, and roturned homo nbhout 73§ o'clock that ovening, and entered tho room whero his fathor and brother wero sitting by tho fire, 1lis brothier #at by a small tablo rendin, tho New York :Ledger, . Hin fathor, boing sl thoxlght of tho firc-placo, waw Lis son John 0. enter, tho room, and suppused ho was bringing in the mudl fromt the city ; but, inktond of taking tho mail from his pockot, tho lattor drow out a large nrvy rovolver, and,without uttering a word shat at hiu brothor, tho ball pagalag through tho Pu or, entoriug the loft broast of the vietim, and odgiug undor hia shouldor blade. Tho wounded man attompted to rise from his chuir whon the fratricido fired ngain, the ball this tima ontering nonr the shouldor, and, as his_ brother fell to- wards tho door, Ho fird tho third time, scm\infi a deadly ball into tho crown of the head, througl tho brain, and Jodging undor tho right eyo. Huving comploted his bloody and fratricidal worlk, the wrotchod murderor, loaving tho gor romains of his brotherlying prosirato in doat at tho foot of his father, atarted ont of the door, 0 caugo of which is as yob un= closoly followod by tho venerablo_ old man, who, in tho ngony of Lis_priof, bogied that Lo might Do shiot also, and thus hayo hiis troubles oudod, Tho murdarer thon visited the rosidenco of Mr, Boone, his father-in-law, who lived noar by, and glving his wife a parting kiss, ho fled noros the country and has not boon lioard of since, Shortly aftor lio loft Boone's houso a pistol-shot was beard in tho direction he had takon, and it ia gouorally bolioved that Lio took his lifo into his own lands and onded it by the same means ho had employed in the commiesion of his foarful orimo, but this roport noeds confivmation, Theso young men wore bighly rospocted in the oommunitfi'. Thoy had both pnssed tlrough the war, in tho Confedorate svmy, with groat coredit to thomaclvos as brave and good soldiors, tho murderer having boon a Lioutenant in John Morgan's command, Tho decoased was unmar- riod. 1iis brothor has n wife and two chiliron, Thelr puvents aro both about 75 years of age, aud their grief can bottor bo imagihed than do- soribed. “On Bunday the excltomont in the neigbborhood was vory great, and overy effort was bolng mado to eaptuve the fratsioide. Ol i i i —The Board of Buporyisors of AMarathon County, Wis,, have grouted tlio Wisconsin Vallo; Tailroad Company 900,000 noros of land whic the county has bli in for delinquent taxos, and tho railroad company will extona tho track from Grand Napids to WWaugau, That fn aneat form ©of land-grant, Lont claimed . diamond-fiold at nll, but only “palted” with .