Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1873, Page 2

| i i ' THE CHICAGO DAILY. TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1878, . N NEW MEXICO. How the Government Ap= pointnients Ave Filled. The Indian Départment Ap- pointees, and Their % Evil-Doings, Profits of Philanthropy—The Key to the Indian Bureau, Something About the Climate of the Southwest. Important Facts for Henlth-Seelk- crs to Considor. . Correspondencs of The Chcago Tribune. - Bawta Fx, New Mexico, April 13, 1673, ! Aftor s four months' sojourn in thia Torritory, I will vonturo to state a fow faots in rogard to tho cotntry, climato, and poople. ‘. Thosotual sottlors, who arohonestly endeavor- . ing to maintain thomsolvos by sgrioultural pur- . wulte, stack-raiaing, oto., bavo much to contond ngaioat, Beattorod ovor a vast extont of torr- tory, thoy are comparatively defencoloss, and anablo to protoct thomeolyes or stock from tho dopredations of roving bands of Indians, Mox- * foans, and othors not willlog to oarn tholr brosd by tho swoat of thelr brow. Tho Oivil Sorvico and Territorlal officas aro fn- variably flled by TMPONTATIONS FROM THE STATES j which is n vory convonlont way for tricksters and domagogues, with tho dignified titlo of statosman, to reward thoir friends for political dirty work, Thia class cannot bo lookoed upon ns pormauont rasidonts, Thoy aro gonorally limited .. tofour yoars, nud ofton & loss perlod, in which ! .* to “mako thoir pilo,” and thair tormination . ot oflico usully terminatas tholr rostdonce in tho | Temitory. Consoquontly, thoy havo no intorosts in common with tho poopl, or In tho sdvanao- sment and dovolopmont of tho country ; but, on the contrary, oltizens sud innocont families aro often mado to suffor at tho hands of revongotul eavagas for tho porfidy of worthloss aud worso than uscloss Agonts. As a vory intolligont and well-informed ~ gontleman romsrked to mo, ¢ Thoro followa fight and spond monoy to obtain sppointmonts at an annusl sslary of 81,600 to £2,000, and inn fow yours wo flnd thom back Enst, living at thoir caso and comfort, in brown- stono fronts, and surrounded by ovory luxury tholr ili-gotten wonlthi can procuro.” Tho gon- tioman citod eovoral Instancos of this kind In whichho was porsonally acquainted with tho ‘parties, and familiar with tho true rocord of thelr Indian caroer. As & clags, thoy ARE VENY STMPATHETIC, #nd ovor roady to mourn ovor the wrongs and outrages perpotrated on poor Lol A Mr. —— took such o deep intercst in tho condition and affaira of a cortain tribo that ho novor consed in hia work of philanthropy and lovo until ho had obtained an appropriation of 8600,000 for thom, of which ho appropriated to himealf the trifling eum of 880,000, out of puro sympathy and distntorostod friondship for Lo. Thoy al- ways maintain (vory reagonably, too) that it ls chosper, bettor, and moro humano to food the Indians then fight thom, Thisis all vory true, and no doubt would bo an oxcollent pollcy if ‘proporly carried out; but Lo may considor Lim- solf o lucky Indian if ho gots ono-quartor of tho \ smount appropriated for him, With tho presont politieal chicanory and machinery to maintain, it CANNOT DL EXPECTED OTHERWISE, £0 long ns follows (** worth makos tho mau, want of it the fellow") laving scats in the United Btates Scnato will, as Chairmon of exccutive »: committoes for political organizations, dictate, * causo to bo written, sud sond out ovor their own Signature, threatening lotters, demanding cor- ! tnin amounts of mouey, for campaigu aud polit-, § foal purposes, from thioso holding Govornmant officos by virtuo of political patronage; so long a8 such Lonorable and statesmanlike oxamplos aro boforo them, just so long it may bo oxpeat- o that their political protoges wil steal o make. up for such patriotio contributions and all do- ficioncios, “Tho Indiane, renegados, and ontlaws through- out the Torritories ato kopt comparatively quict by the moral effcct of.tho presonco of TUE MILITADY ; and it sooms rensonsblo to supposo that tho hand thet controls and Lolds tho savages in check should bo tho ono to feed them. Tho cor- roct and thorough systom of keoping nrmy ne- counts, tho coustant gurvoillance of commavding officars, Inspotor Gonorals, and others, ronder fraud o thing almost imposslblo, end surd of do- toction if attempted, DBosidos, what aro tho in- ducemonte for army offlcors—goldiora by educa. tion and Prnlcseion—lo nct dishonestly in such matters? "hey aro not dopondont on moro political patrouago for thez oflaial posltion, or changed by ovory wind of doctrine. - Thoy hava at stake their pofession, good name, and record 28 oflicors, as an incentiva to the faithful por~ formance of their duties in sn organization whore nogleet, doreliction of duty, and fraud aro punishod by court-martial, whick, in such cases, = ully moans a cashlor and lifo-long disgraco. A-Who can osiimate the amount of monoy that would bo annually GAVED TO TIIE GOVERNATENT off au arny of civil Indian Agonts, intendonts, Sub-Agonts, Spocial Agonts, _‘ors, jobbors, and gonoral brokers, ol ., ot engaged in tho busiuous? “Tho Indian seoms to respoct and entortaln a Iittlo wholcsomo fear of - tho military,—thoso baving authorily, and ablo fo_onforco tholr or- 79, 1€ not othorwiso proporly compliod withs but, being o national orgauization, instead of politicnl, it io not prosumed thoy will bo ealiod apon to nct in any othor capacity than at presont viz.: Baving tho sonlps of rascally Agents, an -ing military escorts to the Commiasionors; wwhicl sliowa with what implicit confidonco and faith tho Quakerly mon of Peaco roposo in * Yo ~_mom of yo gentlo savag OF 1Y OWN IENSONAL RNOWLEDGE, 1 am aware of an individual, holding the im. ¢ nt and rosponsiblo position of Buperintend- ‘ntn! TIndian Affairs, who, in 1804, wore the _.-%of n Hospltal-Stoward, and was then morg boy in yours. I kuow of nothin -1y %o tho youny man's falr namo Ao etarwillo ocrupying ot pace. Delog 1y woundod at tho timo, I had no noed _of ie, or any occasion to test tho quality of his iifs ; and can only presumo_thot his dutics ua ‘townrd ominontly fitled sud prepared him for inoimportant pouition ho wov occupios. Noitlioe ‘ould I montion the mattor, but for the fact hat I waa shown & newspaper artielo hailing the sdvont of tho boy in tho orritory, dubbing him “Colonal,” and spoaking of lLis gallant rvicos during tho War of tho Tieballion, honco camo sl this Information ; nnd in what rd-fought battlos did tho Colonel (?) take wich an active and gallant part? (By tho way, 10 ha gince been roported to the authoritlos nf * “hington, for alloged frauds in the purchnso »f enttlo,) DBut it is not my Intention Pn entar. uto any lenghty dotails or” personnlities in re~ /ard to theso mattors, althonghi I Lave carofully. " etod facts and obtained information from ho most reliable sources, Let mo rather turn (o a snbjoct by the discus- Ion of which I muy possibly boneft othors. I for to tho GLIMATL: OF NEW MEXICO, nd it galutary offocts on bronchitls and phthi- sis. 1 have closoly observed all cases brought to y _notico, snd, whon not too far gono, have marked thofr docided Improvemont, Many, un- ablo to stand tho dry, bracing atmospliors aud ***ude of Banta Fo, find it ploasant aud sgroe- blo for thom In tha viciity of Massollo, - Lua Gruces, or LI Paso, whora thoy Lavo a ‘muck warmer climato and lowor altitudo. Bovoral who ent down during tho early part of tho winter, wd from whom T havo hoard, roport * “yoa vory much mprovod, Tndeod, tho only foug objootion I find to any part of tho Tor~ itory, s i rosort for pulmonnry invalids, i on ccatiht of tho bigh wiuds and alkalidust, which, n my own caso, T found to bo vary irritatlng and = “jvo, Piloblo, Col., 118 miles south of Jouyor, was the worst alkall district through 7hich 1 paseod, and I am eatlsfiod it fs no_placa or coysumptives, In fact, no loss than fiftaen *.%=-on diod thoro and in tho violulty, = | i by loppin, Buporin dufln&‘m slx woeks Pr“‘o“ to, my arrival. This chiooring pioce of intelligonco made mo * . Lovo to atoal dwhilo nway; and T did not find any suitablo or dosirable placo t0 stop until T renchad Sauta Fo, Doo. 25, uinco whicl timo I havo continned to improve. M, John P Oluny, Obscrvor of tho Signal 8ervlco, U. 8. A., nt 'thia station, hnndod mo tho following condonsod copy of his METRONOLOGIGAL EPORT for tho yoar onding Deo. b1, 1873: . Mean of barometor for {he yoar, 20,805, ‘Total rain-fall during tho year, 9,87 inche The wind travolod 00,230 miles, with tho provaling dirsction north, Monthly mosn of thormometor: January, 27 do- oca; Fobrunry, B4 degroca; March, 08,8 degroen; pril, 46,8 degrecs; May, 68,1 degreea s’ Juno, 00.9 dex groess July, 610 dogrecd: August, 87 degrecs Bop- mbor, 00 degross ; Ootober, 40 dogreea; Novembor, 33 degreos; Decombor, 82,0 dogreod, Mean of ther- ‘momator for th yoar, 48,0 degrees, Tho lifghioat ob- servad fomperatura during thoyear was 88 dogrees, and tho lowost 5 degrees bolow zcro, 1t must bo rememborad that thoao obsorvations yyoro mado on tho north sldo of buildings, whero tho pun-rays novor roach. During thio month of January Inat I hinvo often noticod a dlfforonco of twenty dogrecs iir the tomporaturo botwoon sunshing and shado ; and I have oxporioncod but fow dayn during which outdoor oxorcisa Was not plessaut and sgraosbio, Not wisliing to roly on_my own “porsonal ox- ‘porionce and Judgrent in thoso mattors, 1 oallod on LEWIS KENNON, L. D., of Bants Fe, who hoa hnd an_cxtonsive practico in Now Moxico for twonty yoars. e kindly fur- nishod mo a copy of o lotter, writton by him to s momber of tho profession East, in which ho says substantislly as follows: 1t tn cortaln that, ovon whon the lungs wers frropar- ably Uncanad, vory rauch, bojont lis resuted. In- vallds havo come hero with tho sysiom falling fnto tuboreular ruin, aud thoir lives baon stonisliingly prolonged by thd dry, bracing atmospicra, ‘Tho most amazing Teaults, howovor, aro produced fn warding off tho approachos of phthisis ; and X sm suro $hore aro but fow cases which, if sont horo boforo tho ‘malady s well pronounced, would fail to be arrosted. Whero hardoning 1ish ocourrod, or ovon conmdorablo cavition Boon eutablibiod, rollof matonishing takes o, "0 lowest doath-rato from tuborculne lsoane in Amerios i in Now Moxico, Tho conaus of 1800 aud 1810 givo 25 per cont in Now Lngland, 14 fn Minnesola, frown 510 6 in tho difforont Soutliorn Statos, sud 8 por cant In Now Moxico. T havo novor kuown & coso of bronchilis brought Horo that was not vastly improved, o altogother cured; snd aathma sa ol Tiiouratism, or diseases of tho heart with of without shoumatio origh, do badly here, Valoviar difloulty In that orgas s lavariably mado worse. Jint tho most ‘astonishing offcot of this climato i soch {n thoso cascs of genoral dobility of body and mind,—that used-up condition, thio peatilont nusanco of yhyslcinn in thio eat cltica, Peoplo como hero in o ort of dobacale, fiving littlo hopa of living, and. ofton littlo dealro to and {lio relicf 19 8o quick 16 to oom mirsouloun, 1 Biavo no doubt thnt,whon meaus of acccss to this coun- try sro better, and (heroforo it_1s better known, it will rival or supersodo Florida, Madoirs, Nico, or Dr. Bennelts much-vauntod _paradieo of Montone, o & sanitarium, Tho'country is far dfstant from cither occan s it 15 ultérly frco from all causen of disuauc, 2o ainonpliord i alrost an dry oa that Of Egynt, Tho ‘winters aro w0 mild thot thora aro not ten daye bu tho wholo yoar an Invalid cannot lako cxorclko fn tho opon air, Tho summora aro a0 cool that, in midsummior, 1o or two bisukets aze noocsasry toaloop under, Tho svhiolo Territory, hies Leon_always stonishivgly freo from opldemic. disceso. For weak or broken-down chiliren, thoro 1a surely nothing liko it on tho fuco of tho carttl, With thom, tho law of survival of tho strongost seonis not to obtain at all hero. In conclusion, I would say, should any ono do- sire to como to the Torritory ¥OI THE DENEFIT OF 18 HEALTH, lot it bo with the advico of a good physician, who confidently beliovos that tho disouso haa not progressed too far to be chocked aud ite rav- 8 ropeired, Nolthor must Lio expect to find aland overfloving with milk and_honoy ; but ho must como prepared and_oxpocting to ** rough it,” and, my word for it, ho will not be dieap- pointed: oo supply ot cooked food should o proparcd boforo laving homo, for tho journoy from Donver south. It will koep in this climaf an indofiuite length of timo, 'On tho 15th of Docombor, near Fort Union, N, M., I lunched on bom, Leoffonguo ond othor food cooked in Chicago on tho 21st of Novembor. Thore is & class of invalids who, I am sorry to oy, i + CANNOT AVAIL THEMSELVES of tho bonefits of this climate, T rofer to casos whero dogeneration of tho lung-tisaue lins gone too far, and curo by tuboreular absorption or ox- actaration is s thing imposaiblo, This country s principally all olimale, but not onough to givo aug ono n uov pir of lupgs, undrods of invalida havo flooked to Colorado and New Moxico,.oxpeoting £o find rolief, only to ‘meot speady and cortain death, on account of the altitude, consequont lightness of tho ntmos- Lioro, aud great dificully they oxperioncoed in breatlilng,—a diflioulty oxporionced by perfootly Tiealthy pornons on first renching the Lorritorios, It is no matter of surpriee that those in tho advancod stagos of tho disengo, on reaching tho orritorios, fool— With dowy damps my limbs wero cliiled My blood with gentlo Lorror thirillod ; ny feeblo pulso forgot to pley § 1 fainted, sunk, ond died away, To overy ono I would sny, if you oxpeot por- mauent bonofit, GOAIE XARLY, OIt COME NOT AT ALL. It would be moro plensant_and_onoy- to dio at homs, surroundod by kind frionds, than in New Mexico, doprived of overy Inxnry, sud oyon_tha ‘necossary comforts and couvonfonces of life, THE PUDDLERS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tridune : But:_In bebalf of tho Puddlers’ Union (of which I am a member), T wish to maka o state- mont by way of correcting somo erronoous idoas concorning tho abovo, which apposred in an edi- torial in your issuo of April 18, - I will not take up your apaco by giving your roadors tho par- ticalars concerning tho quostion at issuo, but T think it is nothing but just and fair forme to toll them and you that this Western Iron Com- ‘pany, also tho Union Rolling Company at Bridgo- port (of both which companies Mr. Chisholm and son ara tho hoad and £ront), ato tho uncom- promising and mot bittor onomios to all Unions and Toion mon, oxcopt;it is o union of capital for tho speclal purpose of controlling, and, in a ‘maasuro, owning labor. And now ss to tho charge against Unione in gonoral, that thoy claim tho right ot only to quit work themaolvos, but also to kaop nll other ‘mon from tho work they have abandonod. ‘This, to a cortelu oxtont, is correct; but tho Puddlors’ Union long ago camo to the couclusion thot sirikos aro gront _ovils, and 08 such to bo avoided If poesibio ; consoquontly, its mombors ‘never ontor upon o otrike, savo 4t tho lnst ox- tromity and whou all oléo Los failod. Honco wo olaim the right not only to quit worlk oursolves, but aiso the Tight to uso all legal monng to pro- vont othera (ignorant of the circumstances) from going to work in ous placos, And this, it many natances, Las beon done, to the satlsfaction of both ourselves and tho partios, who, in moat casgos, had boon bronght thoro througlh misrep- rosentation, olthor by tho bosses thomselvos, or othor interdatad partios,—showing conclusively tho orroncousness of tha assertion ©that wo must of necosslly array oursolvos agalnst law and tho public peace.’ Allow mé to say, further, thut mone mora strongly doprecata anly infraction of tha law by its membors than tho Pnddieys’ Union ; conse- fllloufly tha Knightsvillo affair 18 strongly con- lomnal by sl 0f ug ; but tho blamo should bo placed, whoro it righifully bolougs, on tho shoul- lors of a fow hiot-headed, pm{:ldh:od 1mon (miners 08 well us puddlors). But thoy clnim that thoy were (O(cc&hlto it by tho nogroes thomsolves. And, in ordor to show that this is an_isolated caso,—tho excoption, not tho rule, ns- tho writor of aald artiolo iufors,—1 could point out moro than a dozou racont cason of strikes whoro tho men in gomo instances wore dofoated and in gome victorious, but not one wherein intimida- tlon wan usod, A fow will porliaps sullco: Phillipshurghy, N. T, ; Oxtord, N. I. ; Bridgoton, N.J.; Donville, Pa. (which is not yot sottled) } Alron, 0.5 Clovoland, 0,;_and sovoral in Litts- burgh. In thoko, a8 in oihiors, thero was no killing, no burnlug, ko destroyitg suything or auybody, 1 concluslon, allow mo to stato that nolthior tho Union nor its membors have the slightest ambition or desiro to {mitate (olthor dircotly or indirootly) " Procruitas or any othor highimay- wan, audlont or modoru, Yoirs xospactfully, for both sidod, Joux Wanu, Cu1oado, April 29, 1879 it THE WEST CHICAGO ELECTION CASE. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sin: Myname hoving boon brought some- ‘what into prominonce on nccount of the ** Wost Chicago Electiou Case,” aud thoro bolng & by- Inw of sald town roqulting ton days® notico for o ‘vouo, X avail myaolf of this modo of sddressing thom,—Judgo Willisms having doolded that 1t would not bo polloy” to graut an Injunction in tho prosont state of the caso, rostraluing Mr, Amborg from procosding to mako the nssoss- mont, And also virtually dociding that the ouly way to got at thio morit of tho caso, 40 far 84 tho legality of tho Iato olootlon L conoerned, would Railrond to run ita acou o Chicago durlng tho coming fruft hnwvost. i mutiog of tha oand of Lown Aualiars to con=, i, it worlh ahout S12,80680, th b " koo o to progoad in the naturo of an Information |or quo warranto,—thus making tho mattor s contoat botwoon two {ndividuals, viz. : Mr, Amborg and - mysolf, I ahall cortainly dooliuo to llsvu my nAmo usod in tho modo proposed, hadiug: no porsonal iuterost in this caso othor than as a tax- nyor,—loaving 1t o thoso Who nro moro Inrgoly [ifaraatod ne tox-payors (han mysolf to dotor: mino whathor the 20,000 votos of tho Town of Wont Chicago must fubmit to have thoir ofiiooa allod, and taxon loviod, undor aucli o propostor- o trossading ns tho anoral Zovnatlp Organ- {zatlon Inw in Its application to tho towns fn the City of Chleago, roquirlug all tho votors of snid fown to nesomblo at ono pinco to elcat thoir ofi- cors, and Lransuot tholy sunual town businone, W. IL Hesrronp, Quttoaao, April 20, 1873, sl WO CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS. Tl Xntlrond Systom of Knnsns Al wribuinry to Chlcago-tho Wail of n St. Louisun. % Leavenworth City (April 20) Correspondence ol the St. Louis Grabe, Durlng tho past two months your corréapon- dont has travelod conatantly through tho onstorn portion of tho Stata of Kansas, I have visitod all tho importont towns in tho Blato, ond havo takon caro to onrofully moto the ton donclos sud diractions of trade and com- morco in this young and growing Com- monwoalth, T fiavo discovored that almost tho ontiro railrond systom of tho State 1 bribu- taty to Chleago, whoroas it should naturally and groparly bo o'k Louls, Tho Missourl Hivor, ort Scott & Guif Tioad, oxtonding from Knnass Oty to Baxtor Bprings, 'is ownod and controllod by iho oy intorast, Tins in conneotion with tho [annilnl & St. Jo Rond, and, as far as possiblo, souds tho produco of tho ontiro bordor Hor of countios south of Keneas City to_Chicago, Tho Loavonvworth, Lawronco & Galveston Tond, oxtonding ffom Kanaws City and Loov- onworth to Ottawa, thero unitbig aud pro- cooding to the Indian Torritory, is in the sume Intorost, Thia rond travorsos & rich and fartile roglon of couniry, tho outiro_trado and produco of which nro dfroctod toward Ohicngo. Tho Atchison, Ta{mlm & Banta Fo Tond, oxtondiy from thio mor{honst to tho southwest comor of tho_Btate, commanding tho vest Toxas cattlo trado, iu’ nololy In tho interost of Cbloago. Tho 'trado which is _thoroby carried to tho tival of Bl Louis is immouso. Tho vast systom of ronds tundor tho gonoral namo of tho Missourl, Koness & Toxad Rall- youd, ono division of which extends from Junce tiou Oty Lo Pursonn, thioro uailing wish tho So- dalls_Division and thenco oxtonding to Toxas, conatituting ono of tho most important and pow- orful corporations in the country, Is cortainly in tho intorcat of Chicago, Itia about comploting its connection at Iannibal, Mo., thus forming a diret lino Lo Ghicngo. Evon tho fittlo insignifl- cont brauch lending from Holden to Paola, ia only biding {ts timo, whon it will bo oxtended through tho contre of tho Stalo to Emporin, thuy swolling the gront stream that i alroady Howlug toward Chicago. v Tn viow of thoso facts, wo nsk if it fa not high timo (hat 8t. Louis should arouso to o sonto of hor truo intotoats, boforo sho is hemmod o and cut off from thiu ‘grent aud rapidly dovoloping Slato. 8t. Louis nocds moro rafironds oxtonding enst and west through Missouri and Kausss. Tor morchants and businoss monhavotho woalth to cousummate such entorprigos, but thoy Inclc enorgy and ontorprise. Had St. Louls displayod tho cnorgy aud tagacity thut Ohicago bns in roaching out in . this divection, tho onlire Btato viould bo pouring its_produco into lier wavohouses, snd. binging baok bor goods in oxchango, It is a contmon remark with the morchanto of Kangns, that+ St, Louis don't caro for tho trado of Kouean.” Whofhor tho soutl- ‘mont bo truo or not, it is acted upon and thor- ouglly belloved by a largo majority of the mor~ chauts of tho Btate. hilo it is gratifying to lioar of the incronso of population und bissincss cf our greet city, yot wo would warn her not to Jio supiicly on lior back, drenming of socutity and pomauout growth, whilo Loy vval fn foadtly robbiug Lor of tho malmeal sources of Ler grostnoss, FRUIT, * Beneax Hianrs, Erde Co., 0,, April 20, 1873, ‘What shall wo do with our fruit ? Tuis quos- tion, racontly discussed by our Town Horticultu- ral Club, is yearly becoming of greator import anco to ovory frult-growing locality, This is os- pootally truo whoro borrios, peaches, and othor frall fruits, must reach tho congnmer through oxpross companios and commission-men, For, ovon whoro Lonost roturna sro mado, an unlook- ed-for glut in tho markot, oxtromo hot weathor, or unsyoidable dolays, must ofton result in such losses during tho riponing sonson ng to bal- auco all tho profit of tho moro forlunsto shipments, Wo must have somo mothod by which this porishablo frujt can be prosovyed, elther by drying or canning,—thus avoiding tho brealt-downe, and presersing tho fruit for futuro uso for the consumer, and sceuring the producer ngainst loss. But o cheap and offactivo mothod of thus presorving fruits roguires an outiay of capital not often In tho hands of the growers, Thero must bo co-oporation, and & Company making this ita special busines, a8 o Tecaswity of ovory frult-growiug locality. Honco our Club oxtonds & cordial Invitntion of such an industry to tho flattoring locality of our bonuti- ful towd, ns being one of {he bost fruit-rogions in the United Btates. For further informnntion, Rddrose s, FRIGNIE, Clinirman of Commiltee, FRUIT-PROSPECTS, IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. Maxaxpa, Jackaon Co,, Tll,, Aprit 28, 1673, o the Editor of The Chicago Tribunes Bm: Tho groat stcrms which swopt Chicago and tho Northwastern soction of tho Union dur- ing tho past wintor materinlly injured tho fruit intorests of Bouthern Illinols for tho season of 1878. Tho buddod peach-treo buds woro ontiroly deatroyed ; yot tho prospect of n good yield of soedling peachies, togothor with apples, poars, and quinces, woro quito oncouraging until the night of tho 25tk inst., whon we woere visited by one of thoso pestilont spring froets (tho bane of tho fruit-growor horo), which crented sad Lavoo among tho lattor. The orchards, tho day pro- vious radiant in bloom, now look 68 if tho fire- Xing had winged his flight through thom, and Suibcliod Witk hia fiaming toil oatis troo aa Lo ewopt slong. Tho crop of strawborries and rapos is likowiko groatly lessened ‘IY the samo rout, (tho moroury boing at 28) ; and, n8 to tho Taspberrios, thoy woro lnrgely ¢ dono Tor” befora tho spring, #0 tHat it now really appoars doubt- ful whatlde 1t would pay the Iiltoin Contral stomed fruit train Lonce Kospoutfully, BeLy TnwiN, e “FRESH MEAT TROUBLES” AGAIN. To the Jditor of The Chicage Tritwene Bin: Your piquant articlo undor tho above Toud, In yostorday's ssuo, assorts that, Whilo an ovil star was in tho ascondant, . . . . tho Northwostorn Gas and Wator Pipo Company” un- Qertook to run tho hotl, and ** 3idu't suc- cood.” What ovil spirit posessod the writer whon he pickled thut ** frosh mont," I know not, As a “tookholdor and Dirootor, howovor, in sald Gas & Wator Pipo Compnny, 1 will stato that, In the vpursuit of its logitimato businoss, it manuface tured for, aud 6old Lo, tho Rivorsido Compauy ‘Toth gas and wator plpo, which proved a decidod succeds, aud contributod groatly to tho comfort and vonvonionco of tho donizons of that sylvan “rotreat; but It novor kopt, or “run,” i any “munnoy whatovor, tho Rivorsido ov any othor liotel ; and, if ovor {t shiould fuol inclived to play “Wnino host,” Hu chiarler would not pormit it Reupoolfully You, 3, 1% luenr, ‘Outcado, April 80, 1673, : SENATOR PRATT, OF INDIANA. ' u Loaaxsvonr, Tud,, April 29, 1673, ¥ 1o the iitor of This Chicago Trivune ; Buw: You do mo wrong in your issuo of yos- torday. L novor draw a doliar of Lho §5,000 bok- | pay, but simply took what was coming to ma ag componaation undor tho old iaw, turning tho bal- suco into tho Treasury (§4,120.60). Al this you [ could hinve lonrnod, lind you takon pulus, of tho Hourolary of tho Sonute, or Gon, Bpinner, Yours, Frad DD Faser. — I ordor ta soowro tho colobrated 8, Orofx Bt. Paul Rallrond by law will havo to bulld 340 milos of road, as follows: From Prescott ~ia. River Falls and Tndson to Suporior City, 150 miler from somo point on this o, branoli | to Dayflold, 70 milus from tho moth of Chippewa Rivor to Eou Olairo aud Ohippews Falls, with a ‘Lranch to Monomineo, 90 wilos from Monroo to Shulleburg, thirty mil I'ho ostimated cost i ;:8'[,000,000. " THE COURTS. Troubles of a Too-Trustful Minor---Tho Hyde Park Condemnation” Biit, Compromiso by the Lamar Tusuranco ‘ Company-«-Dlscord from a $125 Organ, Oriminal and Other Qourt Itema. Tn tho Buporlor Goutt, Jolm Fagan brings sult agatnst., Theodora Beliullz, Frauk, D. Wolff, Jamoa Fogan, Tomuna Apploton, Jancs' Apploton, Ellzabols Woltr, and Olinrlos Petern, Complatnant avers that ho fs tho Iawtul hokr of Jamea Fagan, who dfod abont thio 20tk day of Fabruary, 1802, nt tlio Town of JoTerson, pos- sosoilof ot No. 7, In Asscssors’ subdivision of Lot No, 3 of Caldwell's esorvo, in tho Town of Jofferaon, coutalning over fourtcon cros of lsnd; that provious to s dosth James Tagan hequeathed fo complainant tho abovo described proparty, togothor with biscqual alinro, with tho other heirs, of cortain personsl prop- arty i tio farm fo Lo kept for complainants bouont unfil “ho bocamo 3L years of ngoj that st tho timo of hia' father's doath ho was but 1 sosrn of ago and unable o Judgo of Lo valuo of tho pronerty, aud unwara-of il fact at his father hird ueatlici it to lm ; that by tho provisions of the will ono David L, Koborts was appointed oxecutor thoreof ; that ‘i July, 1683, on Roborts refusing to act, Fronk D, Wolll ‘aa _sppointod sdministrator ; Hhint sald Wol(r tina wholly fallod in his duties, and in stead of adminlstoring proporly upon tlio eslate and {nformiug " complalzant of b rights, o has dovised waya and means of keoplug tho wil from complaine sul'a knowladgo ; that compiainant never saw ho will, tiough o troguiptly calied or tho same,from tims to time, of Wolif, who alwaya slirked i roduiction thercof, ' with . & froudulent intent o keop 1o complatnant in ignoranco of his daht s clint WollT, 1a6t0at OF koeping (o homoatead and roy orty for complatnat's vao, nid giving Bim the pronts wlsing therefrom, appropristed tho ssmo to bia own uclt, and nevr ascountod for & single dollars Wherforo complainant poiliions sk Wold may be mAdo to accolwit to compiainant o monoy for such adminiatralive shoricomiuge s that ‘Wolt? impreasod upon his fricuds and relativos tho ides that there wann aw in (ho will: that it was not good, aud that complafuant would got no moro than' tho other helra ; that subscquent to tho doath of complaine ans fathok WOl marriod lis lator, Elizabot Fagan, ot which Umo complainant,’ then 14 yeams_ of sgo, clioso Wollf w his guardisn; hat complaiuant becanio of ngo on fho I9th of Jonua ary, 1673, wiien Wol, with fraudulont intentions Al working in hits subtlo'braln, set about carrying out an ovil, long clierlshed design of oblaining complalnant intorest in tlio proporty 1or & nominal sum § and cone #piring with oo Theodoro Bchuitz anfl Ghatics Potors, fuduced complainant to_go tho offies of one A, B, Davin, n Jeflerson lvyor in Wolls omploy, and caused complalnant to ba ndvised by Davis that ‘tioro way a flaw in ho will sud that ho was not catitled to mioro than tho otlior Lielra {hat on {heso fraudulont ropresontations, and under Wolit'a advico, 1o was in- ducad to quit-claim all Lis right to the 'proporty 1o Zhoodoro Sehultiz and Oharles Poters, who woro In con- cort_with Wolllls deslna, for tho nomiunl sum of §1,009, el sum, it {nterest complafnant bringa nfo Court to tendar Schultz and Poters; that aftor~ wards, on Lo 20th of March, tho aforossid conepir— story, dsantiatlcd with thelr ehemo o /defzaud com- plninant, dosired bim to mako anothor transfer of his Jropests, wiihout considerziion, o Selnilts alono Lot through tho fraudulent advico of tho Jellarson lawyer, Wolff and Schultz complainant did, on tho 20th of March Inst, oxeculo to Schultz a quit-claim deod” of oll his right to tho “proporty without furthor _consideration, {ho formor quit-claim deed movor having ' been oturued to.. him, through nepligenco; - that during ho le' 1873, and boforo the brick-making scason had sot b, ind_during complainant’a nbsonco from Iilinols,, Wolil discovered that the perty contained a very rich and valuablo bod of clay, and ot to work makiny Lricks with all due dispatchs, along with Hchultz anc Poters ; that complainant agreod to lhn(r’runulng tho business, on condition {hat they should pay him s reasonsblo prico for tho privilego; that over two mill- {ons of bricks havo been taken from the clay-bed, of tho valuo of §32,000, for which complainant potitions tho brld(-muklus{ trio may bo mado to pay lim whercfore complaiuant prays for an injunction restraining Wollf and all assoclated with him from furtlior uso of tho property aud the clay-bod aforeanid, from sciling the property scquired from complainant by quiteclai doed, ond ‘that Wollf' be or- derod to- executo o quil-claim! doed roconveying tho proporty to complainant, and {hat tho dofendants bo swmnmonod in o court of equiiy to make answer to tho scveral allegations brought agalust them, TIIK NISDE PARK CONDEMNATION CARE, Tho lolln\vln?‘in tho verdict which was remdored in the mitter of tho potition of the Village of 1Iyde Park for tho condomnation of private property to bo taken or damnged in tho oponing of Forty-first-st: * Tho Juey reportod baving viiied sad omiued the land in quostion, and heatd the various ovidonco sdduced, and deelded thnt O, T. Maxson is the owner of that part of Lot 41, in Dobbins’ Suldivision of tho n. X of tho B, e, i of n. 0. A( of Bop. 8, in T. 3, N. R. 14, 0. of 3 P, AL, Whick lies within tho following boundarics, viz: Commencing st tho n, o. cornor of eald Lot 31, thence running west along tho , line of said Lot 41 to ita Intersoction with the 1, e, Mg of sald right-of-way. |- of the Union Stock Yard aud Transit Eflm{mn ’a Tiadl- rond, thence s, e, nlong tho safil n, ¢, 1ino of sald right- of-why to o polnt 83 fect duo B, of tho n. Hno of Cot tago Grovo avenie, 53 feot o, of tho n, o, corner of anid Lat 41, bonco n. nlong tho wlino of Cottago Grove syenue, 83 foot to tho placo of bey mliul}, nud I8 enti- tled Lo tho sum of $6,600 for {ho taking of the land,” THE LAMAR AND FEOPLE'S INGSURANOR COMPANIES coxrnowse. In tho matter of tho Lamar Instranco Company {ho Tieceiver reported yestorday that in pureunnce of an order o proceoded to Sau Francisco for tho purposo of settling and sdjustipg tho clalms and demands of tho Lamar Insuranco Company sgainst tho Ieoplo’s Iusursuce Company { that the scitlement of tho matter iucurred tho investigation of 1ong and disputcd no- counts aud numerous diffcronces of opinfon a8 to the lnbility of the Poople's Insur- anco Company ; that ‘ho found that Company to ba ‘wholly insolvent and unablo to Joy. its dobta in tul that it had ccased bosiness, and was practically dis- solvod ; that upon an odjustinent of tho acconnta of tho two companies, it appeared that tho Pooplo's owed {110 Lamnr tho suni of $131,852,91 ; that, upon sn ox- LIbiL of tho aascta and Nalilitioa of the People's Come pany, it appearod that it was sblo to pay 25 conts on the dollar, that the Recolver thon compronmised the Lamar Company's claim for 33,000, which sum waa paid over to hiny, and he therenpon oxecuted & full oud comploto relgaso to tho Peoplv's Tusursnco Com- Dany. CONFIDING GOPARTNERS OVENREAGIED, 2dward Rubovitz and L, Goldsmith, stutioners, il abill 1n ehiancory, against Louis Daum, for spocila Performonco of contract, Gomplainauts aver that, on 1hio 16th of Fobruary Jast, thoy knew of 5 good thing iu tho atationory ling, whoteby they could got hold, o s low fguro, of tho stock of one Georgoe W, Btearns, a ‘bankrupt, of tho valug of $7,000, Not wishing to. fahly keop tho good thing to tlicmselves, thoy confided s oxistonco to Louis Baum, proposiug a copstnor- sbip i tho pirrchase, which o sccopled, Dy sgrec. meut thoy were to offer Geargo W. Campbel, Aselgnco of tho estate, $2,100 for tho stock, and, in tho event of Din rofusal to treat with thom' st that fguro, to ade vaneo their offor lv{ slow slages until $3,000 was ten- dered, Baum slyly sct to work and purchased tho stock on his own account for $3, and rofused to shinro {hio profits of tho trausactiou with complaipants ‘whereforo thoy petition that ho may bo made to ane swer for bis Lreach of contract fu s court of equity, ANOTHER UNUAPFY GOPALTNELSHIR, Bamuel Walkor and Henry Cogging filed a bIll in chancery againet Isaac ML Rous and Winfleld G, Cas- per. Complainants avor that thoy, togetlier with Isasc I, Roes, entered into a copartuership for tho purpose of bulldfng a houso for Casper, tho agveomont Lolng tliat cach wan to provide equally towards tho expenso of ‘construction and divido oqually tho profite; that Ttoas, howover, conuivod with Gaspor to dofraud come lainants, and "got from Casper, over snd sbovo his nglumnl ons-third of the paymonts a §123 organ, ‘which inatrument of concord is tho primo clomont ol discord in the caso; that Ross was Intrusted with tho mstngomont of tho' copartuoraip, whivh Lo did in o manuer that yloklod him the groater part of tho profits; ihoratore' ey pray tit tha purlles dufondant o 113 SHERY Do ileodghe 0 “aliowor Ja 6 Gourt oE c.lnuwr{mnnd that tho partnerebip which has proved #0 disastrous to them may bo dissolved, ‘ommAL CounT 1R, The jury in the caso of tho Tromont robbery re turned a vordict of not gullty ngainst Ignatiue Schioen, A quartetto of youthful doprodators named AfaDon- a1d, Eiwards, Snith, aud Liucs wero charged wi stedling fron ‘from tho wharf of tho Ohicago, Alton & Pacificlt, R, Co. A nollo prosequl was eutorod as to Bmith sud Hines, The evidence showod that tho pris- ‘ouers took n boat on tho Chicago River sud rowed to 1ho wharf in qucstion, and romoved & valuable lot of iron, Thoy weso found guilty, and threo years' Poni- toutiary was rocommended, 3. M, Armstrong, wishing o replentsly his wardro! mndo O, 0. D, purchusca at Pardridge's and o Nultiog's to the aniount of $58 sud 352, Tho youth Who deliverod the goods was {nuocent enough to accout in puymont Aristronghclisclisn (i Gonimor- c{fnlrfln!hmu Bank, Privouer pleaded guilly to the chargo, TIIK COUTTA 1N DRIEE—NEW UITS, ETO, In Judge Vorter' Qourt tho following busi transacted : In tho caso of Noscnerunz v, lentine, defendaut dnfonlted and judgmont was rendorsl for platutift, with $400,67, In 1, 0O, Jayno v, 1. {armes'and 3, O, Kionim, pIaGHIT rocoverad § In Thomas Wight ct ul, v, plaintif’ got a v W, Btearloy aud 4. “Tynon, rdlct for $1,218.70, Tho eave of Aunes otal, v, damea Ells, Jr,, aid F. 8, Xallogg wont by default, Indgmont, with special ozocution, going for atutifk for €300, In Judio Lroo's oust, tho caso of Glover v, 1. Louts Mutual Life Insurauce mn‘mn was bogun, Plaintit 13 tho widow of an fusuror in the Conpauy, aud sucs to rocover tho amount of a polioy for 0,000, Tho Com= ‘pauy contest tho claim_on tho ground that the insured committed sulcido, Tho caso fa wtill progreasing, ond will bo rosumed this morning, Judgo Willlams, of tho Uiccuit, snd Judyo Wallaco, of tho flnlml{ Court, did not uttend yeaterduy, "Lho cuso of tho Loulsvillo Courler-Journal Gompany fo Bho' Warnoe Liopriolary Mollio'Comuany wa tried {n tho United Biates Glroult Court yeatorday, bo- foro Judgo Hopking, aud resulted in’ b verdiet for ‘pafn(lr for $848,14, Tdward B, Jaftray obtainod a verdict, fu tho United Btaten Clrenlt Court yesterdsy, sgalust Willlam Reld for $4,118.00, “The cas0 of T, ¥, Tfoach, for ugo of 1, T, Hosch ot al,, triod In {ho United Slates'Olrault Court yesterday, ro- sulted in s verdict for plaiutilf with §1,205,67 danages, Thio caso of Thoodoro M, Davls, ' iocelvor of the Ocoan Nationa) Bank of New York, v. W, and James Brown was submitiod o Julgo Tehidus, yio found for plaiuii, with $1,203,94 damsges, Dofendants mavad for » uew trial, In Judgo Dooth's Qourt, yestorday, Alfred fmith T = roright sult sgainst Slalioy o % Tlio dofonlanta puirchaod from pInUT th ruink of the Bt. Jamos Chnroh fur $1,600, paying 3500 cany down, " A vordliot wat vstusned for islnliir for $1,000 amsgen, Johit W, 3, Gulton and Iarold Sprague lring ault fo thio United Siatea Olrowit Gourt aqainat Lowia Rthoada and Howlot 3, Davis, in assumphit, for 81,400 damagos, In the Glronit Qonrt, Tornliardt’ Bootefidorit bria ault against Edward b, Edorer, for trespass on the cano s damages, 8, Tn tho miaftor of ¥, 8, Tollog man, West Madison sirept, It, L. odAmigneo, . = Tdn . Trown and Dclia Bhos each bring an action fn tho Clrouit Conrt against (o Ohicago, Alton & Bt. Tonin Railzond Gompsny, for trenpars on {ho cas for #10,000 damagos, Charles Audzow suen Willism Borek {n tho Ofroutt Court for covonant ; dnmagos, $2,600. Tn tho Superlor Court A. 1t Cook suca 3, J. Monta gue, in roplovin, for $3,000, William J. Jirown, adminsteator, ot al,, brings sult in thio Buperlor Conrt Against. Edwia Walker, [ essumpe sil, for £5,000 damacs. Neea Johnson brings suft in the Suporlor Court agatuet . O, Poloman, Lo recover §2,000 damages, 1o & 08 of Jreapass on tho caso, an fneolvant neods- Jenkiu wan appolnt- THE LAW OF LIFE. Sormon by the Rev. Mr. Calthrop Beforo the Unitarien Conference. The Evolution Thoory, and What the Spiritual Man Must Do. Tho opentng scrmon of {lio aunual meeting of tho W_gllurn Conforenco of the Unifarian Church was preachod by Rov, 8, R. Calthrop, of Syracuso, N. Y., in tho Fourth Unitarlan Ohurch, cornor of Prairlo ay- enuo ond Thirlioth streot, Tucsdsy ovoning, Nearly ‘overyscat waa occupled, and tho reverend gentleman was listenod to attentivoly, 1fo scloctod his text from thiosecuud veroe of sho olghths chapter of tha Kpiatle to ho Romans—* The Law of the Bpirit of Life,"—and #ald wo lived in tho best possible universo, bo- cauko thero was ond could Lo only one universo, Thoro was 1o room for two infnitlcs: ono univorso andono Inw! Iroclacly tho mawmo physical, ‘moral, and spiritunl Inws woro nround Sirius ni woro around our carth, To know tho law of tho dust bo- meath our feot, wan to kuow tho law of the starry vault abova our heads, Knowing them, wo bad tho Loy to tho universo of lifo, Tho pbysicnl and spiritual world, in ways past man's Ainding out, melted in God’s sight,'and mado to 1im ono univetso nd one laws ono fsw for._slar and worm, ono law for rock sud ‘man, ono law for body and soul, oo law for earth and’ heaven, That law to Him was the law of that - apirit of lifo which porvaded tho wholo agency—the moving force of the whole, Tho ozt wan an_ aflrmation that 1o spirit, of lifo forover acted according to low, and immediately suggested tho converso proposition that tho foundation of law was the epirit of life. Theso wero tho_two aflirmations tho spiritual man had to relferato {o-day, bocaus tho first waa tho dircet oppesito of tho religious orror, snd thio second of tho sclentific orror, The religious error was {uat"Wlo i lswlomn tlio eclontifo orvor that Inw in lifoless, ligious orror had cor= tain ground to 'stand upon, nnd could Quoto 1t pasaagos very dovoutly. % Thowind bloveth ‘whero ¢ listoth, aud thou Lieareat tho sound thereof, 80n avory ono that i Jorn of tho BpiriL.” Tn othor words, tho entranco of tho apirit was s beautiful gur. griso.' God camo to'un wiliout Lell; wo_ heard ok o falnlest footfall bn* tho floor, and yot the angel of his prescnco wes with w, -To tmouy | minds tho quotation convoyed n impression hob ‘of surprisc, but of capricy -0 if God ‘could keop _nway ' from ono soul Ju profercnco 10 another, Xt Wos ono of tho tagks of tha apiritunl ‘man to-iay to liow that tho spirit cannot blow capri- clonaly upon ono and capriciounly rofuso to Liow upon anothar, but that tho Lrcath of Gad ontored cqually tyo wouls allks, o they o8 fr upart o tho sutipodes, Lo woa o sliow that, tu tho reulm of tho apisit lfo a8 nover lawleas, und to malutain that in thio realm of ‘mattor 8a swoll as 1o that of spirit law was nover and can ‘over bo lfoleas, thoraby throwing down the gauntlot %o tho sibiolam ond the moro comsmon cyniclsm of the day. God acted on gencral laws, but not in tho way geucrally” belloved, “Lholaw of gravitation did Dot govern ;3 it was tho forco of gravilation that governed, God governed himsclf by being aliva all grer s iniverns, Gosoral laws novos mads sn apnlo fall, or o plunot sgin 3 1t took Liviug forco o do that, Whiat 7aa tho beat way to formulata tho {ruth sot for(l in mattor and mind?. Can o give ono aw for both 7 Mhnt was the Tw of e sulelt of lto? Evolution, Tho univorso Was not o ekilfully-put-togotlier pleco of mechaniciom, 1t was a growih; it was o great troe, whoso ranchica -wero_gatvxio snd whoso buds and'blogsoma woro siarg, _Erom tho upiverso of yos- torday tho universo of todoy was forover born— ovolvod by the canatant sction of tho epirit of Iifo upon et ntvaren, Tho evoiutioniat bussd, Lis ticory on s eingla vhnuomoun; provo anyihing tg (ho_ contrary and ha would givo up tho wholo. The religionist avolntionint would give up all lfs thooey S it could bo shown thiat thoro ws anything ovolved outsido of or without God. God to bim %i3a mot & mero bug- boar, bub B spicit whoso fullneas fllon all 'w things, and . whoso . law was tlo law of nll things; to him God was overywhere, in overything, aud afound overything, 'Tho Teligionist evalutiontst did not put God farthor away than boliav~ ing hoarta longed to havo Him. Ontho coutrary, bis olifct wap to perutado mon to accopt tho groat. Genors ‘slizations and quict hinta of sclence, becousobio acos that thoy will accruo (o tho benefit.of tho soul, Tlo old conceplion wea. that God croaled two pereons & mon aud A womon, ond thnt i uncounte ‘uilliona of their descendauts woro born # by natural causes,” Tho thought of to-day tought him thst God created s body from (o tniest gorm, and iay creating it ovory day, and hour, and minuto, Can that Do praved? might bo nsked, e question was a hard ono, but fhey must undoratand that in matter God was'a concoalod God ; but ho roceded wheon sosrched for, not into_distauce, but dooper (uto tho Leart of thibgs,—roceded 88 tho stmosplere did whon ono tried fogradpit, nlifoGod waa » sevenlod Gl Beloncy hed alrendy won in Lor sccount of tho goneals of tho world, ~Thoe hypothosta of ovolution in dead mat ter waa thoroughly catablishiod, oud uo sclentiflo man dared orgno pgulst it. Seloncd Would win tn ber no- count of the goneels and evolution of lifo, Tho old geology @avo us & Luge nygregato of wiconnocled epochs, Each new crestlon was iudependent, and might 8 woll havo oconrred in ouo place us sncther, Now wo wore boginning to_sco tht in goology tho law of tho apirit of Jifa s, that lifo 18 always croated by Lifo, that tho lower 1ifo'of to-morrow was created from thio' expanslon of tho losser lifo of each day ; that, {horofore, each epoch in goology Wos 08 noccsary {0 1L sucacskor 0a & containod in fteelf & comploto opitoino of all tho opochs, transmitting to 1ts succosaor thio vast heritaga of tho past, and tho- vast promiso of the future, Tho plan wes tho plan of an oll-pervading unity. This Unity wus not only compatiblo with past divorsity,—it ‘waa tho causo of (o diversity, All I Lifo was ovolus tion, and wo musk study horeftor overy ort, overy eclelico, the laws of socloty and of mind—overyihing— Dy ovolution—by growth.~Tho thought of ovolution n roliglon was gottiug into all our best thinking. Tho ‘most scasitivo full it tho most, Many dreadod tho danger of it, foollug that tho proper thing to do waa to belittlo it, Untl they got xid of ihat ides, they® mover coyld ~ got tho imepl- Talion of God, whish Mo wns pouring into mon's minds, 'Thoy wero foolieh onomics of It Bplrit_without kuowing it. Tho spirit of Iifo was abroad fu tho wholo earth, ‘ovolving truthand right- ©ousncss out of nature, and was deicending into tho soul of man, We had 'ono Iesson fo learn: That tho amolioration of goclety was a nocesslty, sluco it was n process of growth, of Ume and offort, and wo could ‘only bocoms living stonea of God's liviig bullding by givlug wp our wholo welves sud live o tho froa work- g of His law, ADULTERATED HILK AND WHISKY. Tho Mayor recoved o lottor, yesterday, from o gene fleman who lives on tho Wast Siio, fu which bo fu- quires 1f 1t would ot be well to call Qo attention of tho Board of lealth to tho fact that {nnumerablo grocors in thia clty aro solling #milk?” at3, 3, snd 4 conts n quart. Tho wrlter uscorta st milk canot bo sl for thio prices mentionod, tho dealors propor. pay~ 0% the fatvoors ot tha tint foF i, Apd midulAcaRt: 1y aaks “1f 1t would not bo batter for'tho poor peopla 10 Yoy 6 and 7 cents s quark for pure milk tan to compensato tho physfolan und undurlaker for gol= ting rid of tho reoults of driuking ewill und adulicr- atod mill” It 18 not nocossary to uso tlio * slops whon the wnolo country around s full of (o puro ar- ticls, o Mayor regucalod (hat tlio ! lunumorablo grocors " bo dlrceted to Tead (ho subjoinod soction from Ohaplor 34 of tliorovisod ordinances 4 No persou shall 6611, offer Lo soll, or dispose of any impure, unwholssomo, adultoratod, or ailuted milk in salicity [Ohicago], nudor a ponally of uot less than $23 nor tnoro than $100 for each offeuss, ¥ “Thio otlention of Hils 1fouor hus also’ boen callod to adultorated liquors, whioh aro offered to to thlraty in Bottles Iabeled 014 Tyo," * Bourbon, ete, 16 lu- tonds to filvn tho aubjoct [somo tuought, and, if ho comes {o 1ha coneluston thiat the Bonrd of Hoaltis Linvo power {0 remedy tho ovil, ko will request them Lo tako Cognizanco of if, Query. If tho ducoctions gold uro inJurious to (ho'publio ‘Loslth, lias not tho Bourd of HHoalih thio suthiority to stop thcir sulo 2 Tlunting up tho rascals who aduliorato milk, whisky, gi, wines, alo, and boor, will undoustedly bo'a part of tho'duty of thd Msyor's staff i tho tuture, —_—————— THE MILWAUKEE AVENUE EXTENSION, Tho elly sutborltics sro endeavoring to solyo tha ‘problom, whethor it ia Dettor o pay out $200,000 add- Honnl for {ho extonsion pf Milwanioo avoutio to Lako streot or abmiidon tho project and the §50,000 already oxpondad, Of tho agsessient for bonoits $73,000 lus Doon collocted, $10,000 of which 1 lu tho city Teous. ury, tho lalanto liayiug boen usod i tho purchaso of Iand to fusuro thoopening. Tho morey on hund way fendored o proporty-owiiers for thelr land but they Tefused to nccopt, * Thoy wero uuwlio, for those thous"who took iat vy fesad will yrobably not only Tolain it, but thel laud also, hero ot Temaius to bb collocted £44,000, tho doLtors realat Tog Taymont. T quostion to 16 anewered fs, Shall ho Couucll lovy o tax of §44,000 Lo puy tho lust of the cluling for dnuisgo, or lovy o {ax of $30,000 to rofund tlio monoy collveted, and. vacato the lnd already purs uhasod, Fully a qubrtor of @ million of dollars would Do roquirod to bulld tho proposed viuduct, which avould b 1,600 feet in Tougth, fneiuding thoapproaches, T 0, 0. & I, O, Road coulil bo forcod {o pay one-alf of thio'Bunhy, uid fuw obler balf would fall on tho Nortli= weatorn Road, Tho latter Company, liowsvor, would Dot pay a cont, and the oity would bo bliged to oxpend 125,000 for tho visduct, aud $50,000 moro to ratao tho Dulldings ou the streot Ifna to grado, The problem in & porploxing one, aud if tho aity decldos to vacato tl stroat, tho railronds may b sakd ta uar tha L50.000. T Parkor Plorco and Jorophif's o tha balanos Bunom & Astoat boiche, nd cannot tall'whenco it comoth nor whitlior it goeth, | poent s foa cild; ot chch cpoch. *'RAILROAD MATTERS. ' The Proposed Line from Chicago to Savannah. A Grand Project---Yettor from NMr, Hay« mond on the Bubjeet. ‘Whero Aldermen Kehoo Should Look for His Damages. The importsnce of a Bouthorn route from Olicsgo to tho Atlantio scabanrd was alluded to in Tue Tai- Uxx about o month 050, and, at tho samo thmo, & out ot u proposod raflrond from thfs city to Bavannah, Gn,, with tho nocosiary oxplanations, was glvon, ‘Tho projoct s taken tangiblo shspe, and wil prob- aby Do earriod out befora long, Subsoined ta s lotor from W, 8. sy, icud, Prosidont of tho_Indiunpolis, Delpht & Ghteago Railroad Company, to Mayor Sodil, ‘which furaishos omo addition: Ivg tho proposed road : Ion. Joseph Nedil, Mayor of Cldcagos - DeAnBim: I tak tho lilurty of addressing you on & matior that T concolve to bo of much Importanco to yourcity, Iailudeotho contomplatod sir-lino ral- Toad from Ghicago to Bavanoall, Gn., via Indianspolis, Ind.,, Loxington, Ky,, Knoxvillo, Toiin,, 4nd Augusta, Gs,” Tho grand onickprinc, if carried fnto ozocutlon, ‘would Hiuk your city on thioshortost ino with tho throg most $mportat Bouth Atlantio scaporis, viz, : Bavane noh, Port Rayal, and Giiacloston, I thinlk tho tme has como wlion Ghitago ehould scok tho immenao advans {ngo iat must result from n_diroct connection with tho Boutuorn yorts, By this great lino of railrosd sho ‘would not only unito haraolf with tho bost. cotton-pro- dueing soctions of tho Southorn States, but would also, by tho pocullar situation of the harbors alluded o, so” curoand control, through this lino, tho commeréa of thio West Indis Telands end_Soutn ‘America, Tho in. sugural mevoument of (i grand scliomo fook piace sk Indiouapolla on tho 5s of Ycbruory Inst, Biaco then it han socured tho ontiro co-oporaiton of tho peaplo slong {ia papoaod line in Kontuly, Toancanco, North and South Garoling, aud Goorgla, A charigr wia fimnted by duo Teklnlaturo_of iontuoky fur tho of tho proposcd Lino from Lexington snd Ghou ‘on tho Ohlo River, opposite Vovay ; thio Leglslaturo o ‘North Osrolina alao, ot ts last sosalon, granted o char- ter (permntt with oxlraordinary privilcgos) for the-por- {ion of tho road (aout 16 miley ramning through that Blato: and, a far'an T am ablo to nacorlain, cuclors Tinvo boon, Sbtained for all tho Muks that will composs tholine, Tho northorn portion of tho Uno s ombracad in tho charior of the Indisnanols, Dolpht & Obicago Rallrosd Company, This will bo Almost an alr-ilf otwoon Chicago and Indisnapolis, snd wiil pasa thzough Rensselacr, Jaapor Gounty, 1o, and Sontl- ecllo, Dolpl, and Frankfort, county soats in tho Goun.. tles 0f “Whitd, Csrroll, and ‘Obfratou rospeotively, A continuous line with it fs now boing survoyed * from Indisnapolls o tho Olifo Rivor, and will bo unitod to it Dby an simondment of their charter, Thia willaford o ‘Diuch bolter and shorter Lino to the Ohlo Rivor than auy now i gporation, and, ano, tog, that. wovor, cau Vo flanked, The point'for bridging {ho Ohlo at Vovay and Glient i tho beat botween Louisvilloand Cincinnati (40 atated by tle onglnoor in Lfs_rocont survoy), Tho fgonle intiia foxilosotion of Tulaneyand s pro- iflo Wabael Valloy at Dolphi,aro struggiing to sooure o direct councction with your olty, which this road will afford them, Confldcitly estitmating the faturo grent- ‘noss of Obicago, thoy rocommend to your consideration tho grand scuomo it hus Loen_proposcd, and tnvila ut early attontion oft, = Tho sooner a bold palicy of o kind in axouscd the bettor, 08 great vantag ground il bo gained by it. A convention of tho ilno lna Dbeen callod ot Augusts, Gn., on tho 10h of Moy, oud will probably bo ropresontod by tho ' Blates through ~ which tho propomed: Foad will run,. Tt would, T think, add groat encourago- ment to o achemo, If ' Oblcaga should be properly Topresonted tn this mocting; and it is port of my pur- ‘poso In writing 50u to call your ationtion 1o tho im. rianco of guch reprezontation, Tho Indjanapolls, cipbi & Chicago Rallroad Gompsuy will Lo rapre: #ontod, 1 nond you a copy of tho procoodings of the Inta convention hold at Tndianapolis, Knowing that enterpriso Is a charactoristio of your pooplo, and that tucy havo gouorally favored nll tangiblo schimes thnt would multiply thalr advantages, increaso tholr woalth, and forover’ insura tho supremacy of Chicags 82 tho motropolis of tho West, T hopo thoy 1 gigo oqual akteation to this, an it 4 cortaluly ong of firat Importanco, 1t would alford mo_mich Tlosa- ‘ure 0 bear {rom you soon... Very reapocifully, W, 8. HiThonD, ‘Moxriorzro, Tnd,, April 28, 1673, Tho roport of tho conventlon nlluded to oontalns o statement of NIr, Foley, of Greonsburg, who ald tho lino, ofter leaving Loxington, Ky., pasaes through Enoxvillo snd down thovalley of tho Savannah Rivar, This wholo country was Tich In a great varloty of ro- sources of (ho soll snd mino, From Lox- ington o Knosvillo tho road would s through, extensivo, conl nd, ron filds, Tho Fouto was ontiraly practicablo, aud o largo smount o Work had boen dono_bobyeon Lexington and Rich- ‘mond, and from Knoxvllla north forty-six milcs wero gradod, ond tbirty.milea in operatlon, ¥roth Knox. vilo ohth sxieen miles nro In operalicn, and conaid- erablo work had boen dono on the luo from Marye. villo to tho Tennossoo River, Tho whole line wonld o747 miles in longth, The remuinder of tho pro- cocdings 1s epitomized i1 tho lotter. TUE COUNOIL AND TIE 3, 4 T, P. R I To the Editor of Tha Chicago Tribune : 1 oo road two or threp editorials in Tnz Tursuxe, xccontly, in regatd to tho failuro of the Comion Couna cll to pass tho ongrossod ordlnanco giving tho right of oy to tho Milwaikeo & 8t. Paul Railroad, and deatro £0 atato that tho objcction fo it pasasgo soema to Lo thin: Ald, Tichoo owne Aoma land on Oarroll strcot, and fnwists that tho right of way shall not bo granted ‘uril tho Milwaukeo & K, Psul Katlrond Company paya b for damaages doo by rulzoad o Gorrol strect, 7ho domand 1 propostorous, Tho right of way of tho Milwaukeo & 6t Paul Rond extends only to Jtinzlo stroet, aud tho Jompany bhas nothing to do with tho damago to Ald, Kehoo's proporty, Tho road that pasaen his houso of ground ia tho Oy, O, & T, 0., ‘whoso right of way was granted in_Apri) grdinauce providus tuat thip xoad shnll Danvillo & Vincennes or tho Milwaukeo & information regard- t, Taul to ‘como in an Its track, “and if it (oitlior road) shall not accopt tho privileges hereby granted, then any othior. milrosd “mey como i Tt wis mot known at that timo that tho Milwaukoo & Bt Paul Rond would como in on this track, Tho ordinance falso providea *thn thoy (tho gompany coming i) shall bo allowed to ocaupy tha track of tho ,, O, & 1, 0, upon such faiz and cquitabla {orms 89 may bo 8gracd Upon botwee the companics, and in tho ovent {liat tho companiea cannot sgreo uport such terms tho samo shall bo_sottled and dotermined Dy threo disinterested persons,” This s all tho Mil- waukeo & 8t, Paul Naflroad Bas had fo do with tho “domages,” and hioneo on what ground of right or oquly can Ald, Xehioo insist that o Milwankeo & 'St Paul fod must oy i dumages rocolved st Uho lauds of tlie O .0, Road 7 Ho Liag a remedy ngainst tho G, load at Iaw, and et compel thom to pay iifin overy cont of dsmago (Lot can bo provon, It s unjust therefore, to prevent tho Milwsukoo & Bt. Paul oad from socuring tholr right of way. Tho Aldermen and tho publio do not scom to undoratand this motter aright, aud henco tho explanation, which will enablo tho later to comprohend tho situatfon, and tho former 10 act s thoy should, Fur Lux, Qunasgo, April 10, 1813, PHELPS, DODGE & CO. A Full Stntement of the Cnse Agninst the Firme--What Was Compromiscdes The Corrcspondence. 5 WasumwaToN, April 27, 1873, Tho following is corrospondoncs, fram the filos of the Treasury Departmont, in rolation to tho caso of Messrs. Photps, Dodge & Cos QOustox House, New Yonr, m&a,} L'reasury : SURVESOI OFFICE, Jun, 3, Ilon, Genrge S, Routwcell, Scretary of ti ir : I hierowith Inclos dotalled roport [tifs roport shows tho dato of cach fnportation, slloged to bo fraudulent, tho vessol, months, Ctistom:-ifouss invofco riyato involco, dlTeronco 1n valuo aud fotal smount of o fnvoico] of 'rosult of cxamination of {ho books ond pors of I'uolps, Dodgo & Co,,_importors of motals, ol Distucss T thia clty. 'T iava ondeavorod (6 ‘Tanks this otatowent as dntolifgiblo au possible, but tlo Targo suin fmvolved int o walt that ok bocn {natitnted and tha long and favorabl stauding of tho hotso must Do’ my Justiication for czplaiuing at uioro longth than sl tho oxact oharacter of tho fraud and tho clinracter ond oxtent of tho proof. According to ordinary modes of Tessoning a houso of tlio weallh and standing of Phelps, Dodyo & Co., would bo wbova tlio_influcnceo that fudneo fho ordfuary brood of importors to commit fraud, Thot samo wealt nnd standing becomed on simost _fmpencirablo.urunor . against suspicion of wrong-doing and diverts tho at- tention of the ofticers of the Government, proveuting that scrutiny which thoy give to scts of othor and less favored hnporiory, It would roquiro 1nore than mors suspicion to justify o customa officer in quoeationing the truth of tho declaration under oath of a member of this firm boforo tho United Blates Cousul that an Iuvoice of merchiandiso 5)Ilrflmled Dy this houso and cousfgned to thom was in all respocts truo; that it roprosented the sctual prices pafd with all churgss thereon ; that no other or different fuvolco had boen or vould bo furnfshod toany one, 1t would, for tha MO ronBono, require almost ‘wfilllvu proof to justify o suspicion '(hat tho mombers of the firm ald not swear to tho truth When (hoy mado entry of toso goodsy and eclemily Adclarcd - on oath that no ofher or differcnt involco had becn re- caived by them, and that tho 1nvoico producell xopro- #ented the truo purchaso price, and was in all respects; and that if ony atler or dliTorent. involce oF accoun a3 recofved by them they would immedintoly notifs the Collector of that fact, and tho oflicor that lhfll\ll{ Liave the temerity to proceed without the most positivo 700t {o chargo (s or any olle o of ke s~ ing with having failed to comply with the law in thesa ‘most cssentinl particulars must cxpoct to bring upon. himeolf a ehowor of desorved odlium, Tealiug mott Ksonty {ho mquizenionta of the situse tion, 1 proceeded with tho lnvestigation in thly caso with gveat caution, but baving in my possession cortalil papers PUFPOFting o bo_ coplea of involces from tho munufucturers of theao goods, giving tho slzen, kinds und qualitios, with shipplug marks, dates and number of puckuges, I procsoded o comparo them with the Custom liouso papors on file, snd found thom to agreo i ovory 0 11 thio followduig partiowlors: Tn number of packs sgea, In marks, in slzos and kinda of 1(00(!!, in all tho subdivisions tint distinguished the alfferent aizea nnd «qualitiea under tho different marks, with the number of packages, First cstabllshing boyond all question tho fdontlty'of tho goods ; necond, 1hat thoso papors ‘wero dlfforent {nvolc of the ssmo gooils, thosu fi yolees differod fram those in tho Custom Jouso u t followlng partioulars, viz: In tho prices pald, the difforonca por packsge holilumm thros ponce to four shillingu storling ; in_omlttlng, in many places, tho tioialcharge pes ackakdfrom tho usfom Hou inyoice ; in omitting from the Oustom House or Cor sular involco tho coat of transports 9 of delivary, {0 Livernool lou from Wales, tho tuo placa of ship: mient | In othor word, tho tontity of tho goods lished, and tho. eninenean ot e papors. o o 4 yolcos fi o pomseaslon of tio firm aing eatabe listicd, this firm lind deliborately violated overy pros ‘inlon of thio Inw of 1663 now govorning tho nvolein and onforing of Imporiod motehanding paying. AdvAL. srom duty By dlligently comparing ko papors witle thiole fuvalcos on Al tiey woro fonml to bo n the sima handwriling of tholr Cuatom Louse involces, and T Lind Tenon to Lollovo that o pystamatio fraud Lind hoen por- etrated, I ticrofora caflod Judge Noali Davia (o lion Uniited Blatos Atlornoy) to wy offios, to go ovor £hio papers with mo, and ho fully cotieurrod. fn tny bo- Uof that a fraud hiad boou committod, and asintod mo n procurin g waennt for Uio pelzuko of Uheir ookn and papors” Afor procuring tho warrant, iowavar Judgo Davis suggonted that bo como t0 my ofiico and Joml for tho memiora.of tho Grin and any {0 o Uiat ivor such booka as T nifght indicato, o wonld ot bavo tho wazrant sorved. 2 30 was purtiod and thoy delivored to mo such bookn ua T nakied for, Upon oxamination of thotr involco hooks azact fao similo fnvolcea of thoso In tha .+ Qustom-Ifouto woro found, to. which was found st tactied {5 many tstances’ othor involcos, imllar in gliaraolor to thos Lierelnbafore deacribed,’ Thia cors tainly brougbt tho knowledgo of tho fradulont transac. tans directly homo o tho membary of tho firm and to gach ono, guidad by tho involce prico olther in selling 4o goods, making up the nccouily, o in conducting tho financial transnotions of {ho houso, Tho only oes G cape, and only auswor that oould ba made was thet Thoipw, Dodgo & Co., tn the tranaaction of {helr enore moun bnsiness know nothing of tho import or monnin of tho onth taken bofore tho Unitodl Siates Coneul af Livorpool; know and realized notbing of tho nature of o onh sken simiostduly by some member o tho irm on entoring tholr gooda; knoo nothing of (ho Iaw on- forcad e0 vigorouly aud relentlomly ngainat thiclr lcn < favorod nolghliors. In fact, thoy hiavo dono buiuons in Now York, knowiag and caring nothing for the Inwa, or thiey hnvo dotiberately and systematically diarogacds od snd dofed tho Law with futent to dofeatd tho Gov- sromont, 3 Thio tolal valuo of tho involces axamined amountod o whout ano snd thre and tiis iy nndcerlainly forfoltod tho Unilod Siatca by tho atatute of 1663; nof by tny tochnical contruction or far-folched Intorprotatiors ‘but by dellberatoly and_systomatically stating the cost of tiolr goodu below (ho putclioas prico by n falso fne ‘voleo, mado faleo £0r no concolsablo rasnon but 10 les. son {ho duties to bo pald to tho United intosn forteltod for ot dolug tho things commanded b tho slatuto, oud ‘which tho Iaw mado it thole duty to do, * Forfeicd for doing what tho Atatule in express torms forbids tholr dong. Forfeltod bocause dliey did defraud tho United Statcs, Forfoltod becauso 1o oxplanation can bo glven or motivo found for syss fomatically widoralating tho eoutof thole goods, ud e defrauding tho United Sintes, oxcopt that 'tho aid tutend to dutraud tlio Unitod Hisics, BF ¥ xcuso, or prefenso, that thoy acted in fgnos Fanco of tho v cath bo rando Lo Rorve, thon tho ples of ignoranco mey bofntorposod in ahy camo, nd tho intont can wover bo infarred from any act, and tho first clemonta of reasoning aro sct nt naught in tha search for_romo molivo that will ‘oxplain why thoy ‘mado tho two gota of fuvoicen, Tho ftoms tlicsq noveral. favoices to by imdotvahued: Wb taken soparately, amount_to about $216,000. Tho pors coutago ‘of loss on the whole amous fore, ‘small, 3ot tho mporiations. of the' js aro very oxtensive, and if tho samo or nearly the samo porcentago of fratd extonds through thelt ime portations, otlier than thoso included in tho state- ment, sud on which we bavo positive proof, (o en- iro 16w to tio roventio must Lavo boen Sono.'$10,000 oF $16,000 por yeur, perkiaps moro, Bo thia as it may, tho ovidonco on thowo fuvoices i conclusive, Ihave tha ‘ionor to be, vezy respectfully your obediont servant, B, G, JaxNx, Bpaclal Agont, the' Liousa .OFFIOR OF TiTE DISTRIOE ATTORNTX OF Titr: UNITED STATES, Fon s Sovurizeny Diszmior ov New Yons, BV Yon, Jan, 2, 157 Hgn. B €. Bafed, Solsitr of (s Presatny: arowith transmit an offer of co mado on bt of Tholps, Dadgo oo 1 i ae of tho Unflod Btate va. thomielves, Tho sult s browght to rocovar nominnlly $1,000,000, though the defaiiod slatement furnished mo disclofes n fow thousand dol* Iara logs, Tho cliargo &5 far violntionn of thio firat. soc Hon of tha act of Congrosa of Mavch 3, 1663, "Tho facts fu tho cusd a%o o follows: Acting upon tnformation recelved by him, Bpecial Agont Jayne ap. lled about s weel since for o warrant to selrn tho oka and papers of tho dofondauts. Ay pradecessor, efter a careful csamiuation, decmod it s proper cass for tho fraua of a warrant, ‘but boforo it was served dant for thio senfor membor of tho Luse, and ho vol - untarily produced tho books, though ono of the Junlor prtners attompted to keap bick tho ono baok which wag especially desired, beiug oo containing Invoices and ‘momorands, An’ oxamination showod, wht swas bo- Jioved before, that tho dofendants Lind committed two > apparoutly dlstinet specics of fraud, One of thosa cone satod ia fuvoleing tin sbiuped from Livorpoolat tha ‘priceapald for 1t fn Walos, Thero woro with tho i~ yolcoa™ Urief momoranda plating terms, tho memoronda being Liverpool houso, alwoys in fho famo bande writing, ond slaling ~oxpreesly, “Wo involco thom tosou gt the prices paid b Walce,” or words to that effect, Thero la at baud no mosna of showing th amount of undervalustion on_{hia aceomst or a havo 10 proof of o cost of ptich transporiation, Thoother spociea of fraud consiated in trifling undervaluation of “oma pinglo ftem or class of itoms {n an invoicoin ‘Which most of tho itema wero corroct, Thors azo, low= aver, ono or ko instances in which tio wholo 4volco wosnls Lo lavo bean undorvalucd, oro fa no actunl ovidenco of fraud in elther class prior to Janary, 1871, Tho books, naither Tforo nor 8inco, contain any ovidenco of fraud, but it 18 found i o memoranda flready reforred to, and in duplizato (truc) Jnvoicea, 1€ tlicao over exiated for thoimporie~ tions prior o about Jauuary, 1871, ey hava been dox stroyed, Tho Informor nsiceta that tho frauds hovo oxtendod ovor soveral years, and thro g cousidorabla % indirect proof that fhls 1 so in the similarity of Iateain standard Stems beforo and sinco Jonuary, 1871, the involces showiug tho samo_pricos bofaro 1871 in o classes of goods which are shown to hava boon undorvaliod sluco thot timo: Of involces ontorod sinco early In 1671, which aro tafnted with fraud, tho fotal valug 18 1,720,060, Tho ftems in theso involces in ihich undorvaluntions oceur amouut 10 $271,017.23, swhila tho amount of wndervaluation is $0,059.76, Thg total nmount of dutiea lost to tho Government s $1,06468.. Tho {otal importations of tho defendants 870 abiout 40,000,000 o yoar, While thio jusestigation was golug on, various proposalu of compromiso wora . ‘made, but nond of thom woro such that tho Collector deoniéd It wortl while to hold out any hopo that they would Lo accepted, though I think that my predoces- sor was diapoicd 16 adviko tho acceptanco of & consids erably smallor sum than fhat now offered, g 1 wia vorsonuily coguizant of "the wholo pro- coodlugs, but took no aclive part_in tom untll aftér X bad taken my oath of oftico, I Sesterday dovotod consldorablo timo to tho oxamination of tho ‘papors. B tor caroful consideration T havo doclded to rocom= mond tho accoptanco of the compromido offered, I am inucnced to this courso by tho fact that the nomi- nal amount_claimed fo 0 ouormous in compariion with the smount of undorvaluation and fraud that 1 Dollov it would bo_exccodiogly difiicult to obtaln & verdlct for thio smount clahinod, Tho smaliness in. ‘amount of tho fraud also makes the amount offared n ndoquats—porkiaps an oxtraordinary—punishmnt for tho ‘offeusoconnmnitted. = Tho broposal, thereforo, seoms to mo to secure {10 two thfiigs that sliould ba Toquired—sn ndequato sum to punish tho oifenders, and o psymont into tho Trensury, uot only of tho amonnit divorted frona it, buk of ah largo & s as 1t 18 Probablo that litigation would sccure. Tam n litto aorry that my Arst formal officfel act stould bo to rocommend » compromiso for a sum which sovmun 80 uch aunller thun tho nmount the, . Govarumont could justly claim, In tho rocommends- tou T mako I havo tho coucurrenco not ouly of tho otll cers of Qustoms, but of my experienced prodoeossor, . Your obedlent servant, @ronar Buiss, I, United Btatea Attornoy, Southorg District of Now York, that fact In sout by tho g New Yonx, Jan. 2, 1679, To George Mise, Jr., Feq., United States Atlorney for the Southern District of York: Bin: As tho attornoys of Messro. Phelps, Dodge & Co., in the suit of the United States agalnet Willisn E, Dodge nnd_otliers, comprising tho sald firm, thia day fnstituted for u claim of $1,000,000, for alleged i~ olation of thio Revemuo Inwa of thio United Btates in ro- lation to tho importation of merchandise, and partics - arly o yrovislone of tho act of Cungreda apyroved March 8, 1803, in respect' of tho entty of - cortain _{mportations ~ of* morchaudlso within during _the fivo years lnst past, Woare istructed by our clients, Whilo protesting that. 1o fraudulent lnteut lns over been cnterfoined by them toward the revenue of tho United Statos In any - - of tholr acta respecting satd or any finportutions mada y them, to offer in compromise aud seitlemout of (o 4l claima of tho Unitod Ktates, in he Aaid sutt, tho wum of $200,000in United States'carroncy, on the solo ground that hera may lsvo Loou cts i onoce - tlou with tha cutry of tho suld fmpariations {u violas tlon of tho provislons of tho enid stututes and rondore ing it proper that such an offer ao tho abovo ehauld ba mude, Yours, olc, WANLMAN & LATTING, . Atloruoys for tho defeudants, B Wituaas FoLLeiTos, of comeel, -+ : + Cusrtox ITousE, New Yonx, Jan, 0, 1879, Hon, . C. Banfield, Solictlar of the Wicasury Depayte = mén Bin: " Bult was inatituted against the firm of Pholj ¢ Dodgs & o, TF thd TocoVOrY-of sl.m,mm"mu-mug;: beh;“d"# “Ilhm 7( ofix:lal hlv?lcl:!l K‘(‘m chondise Im- - . L ¢ ported by them in violation of the first section of L uct of March 3, 1863, 4 ‘Tho defondants offor tho aum of $200,000 to come promise the sult, I would recommend the accoptauca of this offer for the following reasons: . Firat—This sum will moro thun reimburso the Gove ‘crnmiont for nuy probbla los, Second—Thin'Sm is composed of a largo mumber of membcro, and_tho uucul’l&lnt( of all hutian affuirs, when takon fu connection with tho unavoldablo delays of tho law, 18 of itsolf a strong srgumont in favor of ace ey Q. intont of th Zikird=Tho purposs and intent of tho Iaw will have < ‘beon complied with, Very respectfuily, your obodient servant, B, G, Jaynr, Spécial Agent. Bubsoquontly, and bofora any nction by the Tronsury, thiy offor was withdrawn under mis- informutlon, It was thon renowad, the amonnt « boing incronsod 50 an o inoludo tha costs. This . offor waa disoussod, until at lnst tho Bocrotary of tho Trensury ordaréd its acceptanco, on condition thut tho avermont of lunoconos should bo omits tod. T'hio compromizo adoptod wau s follow Wiereas, by letter of E. O, Banflold, Sollcitor of the ‘Treasury, dated Fob, 17, 1870,0f which'a copy la hgrfll: andnexed, cortaly authority 18 given to the undere slgued ; and wherenss, for tho purpose of defining the Lshio thoro aceiEAely, tho UnorAEned, on Fels 42, 1873,nddreasod to 1, 0. Jnyne, tho Byioctal Agont theros in roferred to, a lotter, o copy of which {8 loreto ane noxed, (o which tho safil Jayno roplled on Yob, 34, 1673, in a lottor, of which 1Y #8 horoto annexed—thiy fue sirument witneseoth that I have this day rocelved from Dhiolps, Dodgo & Co. tho suin of $71,017.93, n_fuil settlenient and compromiso of the claimne tho United Btates upon thom on account of the matters in sald Iottora roforred to, including tho matiors involrod Ia tho cauo of (e Unlted Bintoa va. Pholpw, Dodgo & G0 now ponding fu the District Court of United Btates for thie Southern District of Now York. Gronax DL Fob, 26, 1873, United Htatge AUOTn