Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1873, Page 4

4 " THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1873. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TRNMS-OP BUBRCRIPTION (PAYANTE IN ADVANGE). 3 5500 "o mmumal% aud mistakos, bo aurs and givo Tosti] freights wero nctivo, Dailg, b 2 Ri%atpnte:SEA0) ady. Parta of o year at tho same rato, Ottics adddress in full, incluiling Stato and Oaunty. Tomittancos 1ny 1o ialo ol ©Ottica vrdor, or n rogiatoral lotiors, at vur risks " o T T 01T BURRCIDERG: Datly, delivered, Sunin, ot M corita por Bally: teliverad, suu.l)fi SembIe 5 Conts Bor wo nd Dearhorn-ata., rosa Coruer Mudtro TO'DAY' HOOLRY'S THEATRE-T Clark and LaSalle. VICKER'S TIEATRIE~Madison stroet, oK Sinto: lngagomont of Edwla 14Pho Marbly Toart." (RS OPRRA-HOUS . SOne Y noarn, | ICiity pany **Hud Dicke, MY OF MUSIO - Halstod sirect, | S o ok Tt Theat diokrase Combinatlon. AIKEN'S THEATIUE—Wabnsh avonuo, cornor of Qone grows strent, Fan Francizco Minatrols. FORRPAUGH'S OIROUS—Madlson atroot, oornor Elitabeth. ? ATRI~Dasplatnos strent, botwoon Madl. T asrivgton. ioawaomant: of Miss Catloita® Washington. e WG, sooratsof Olty Lito." AMPHITHEATRE-Clinton stroot, hotwoen Randolph and Washinglon, Vanck, tho Prostidigitatonr. 1o by drait, oxprois, Fost 1 TRIBUNIC UGMD AN, btweon Adats, Tonroo, troot, botwoon janobard Hurlosquo Uom- chnngod, nt 63@05o for ahouldors, BIS@8%(a | jolut nnd sepnrate labilitlos of married porsons, word active and flrm b 893¢o por gallon. Tinko and @){o. lowor, closing b Bide for corn to Buffalo. Llour was loss ac- tivo, but firm. 1Whont wha sotlve, and nd_vnncud 20, but closed casior at 1814 cagh, and 91303 smellor | Juno. Corn was notlve, and 1o lower, but closed tamo at 413¢o sollor the month, and 4830 soller ok, ok, closed dull at 883¢a seller tho - month, and 841¢c seller Juno, Tyo was quick and stondy at 69}(@ 0. Daley waa inaotivo, snd nominally ‘un- changoed at 74@830 for common to good No. 2. ‘Tho grain in sloro in this oity on Saturday ovon= ing last s roportod st 1,218,200 bu whoot, 5,400,802 bu corn, 1,085,747 bu onts, 200,047 bu ryo, 110,437 bu batloy. IHoga wero sctive and stoady ot 86.00@5.40. Tho cattlo market oponod dull, but during tho afternoon -was active at a of | slight dou!lnu. Bhoep wore quiet and nominal. '.. FLEXIBLE COUBTS, - Tho St Louls Democraf, with' a numbor of othor papors that might bo ongaged in mora oroditablo work, s 'urging, ‘that tho judiciaty of The Thicags Tribune, ‘Wednosdny Morning, May 14, 1873. this Stato shall bo rovolutionised; that tho oloo- tlon of Judges shall no longor turn upon the fit- noss, ability, and integrity of tho candidates, but upon understandings as to Low thoy will dooldo cases aftor thoy got on the Bench. This isan unprincipled and oxcoedingly dangorons doc- Tho Rov. Thomas Robingon, who died yestor- day in Eugland, wos a distinguished Oriont scholar. {nto Yersian. s Tho Pope roached hia 8lst birthday yester- Monday ho faintod and remainod uaconsclous for an hour, and on his birthday was too unwoll to recolvo the doputations which called to offer their cons dny. Iis feobloness is incronsing. gratulations, ———— Of 275,000 peny postal cards placod on enlo sostordsy in Now York, 200,000 wero takon in hot city, Thoy will bo used largely for sdvor- tising, ono firm buying 20,000 o be used in thaf way. Tho contractors at Springflold, aftor two wocks' dolay, havo at. last perfoctod thoir ar- rangements for printing tho cards, and will now bae ablo to supply them as rxapidly as thoy are called for, . A smal} foree of United Staton troops has boen loft at 8t. Martiveville to protoct tho Btato oficials, and tho rost of tho State and National Tho loadors of tho Resisters snrrendored, and wore sot free on parole. Thoy express themsolves satisfiod with having shown that Kellogg could ot keep himsalf in power without Lelp from the forces have roturned to Now Orloans. Hational troopa. Tho crisis nt Vionna, precipitatod by somo of the stock operations of tho Rotbuchilds, has cauged & stringoncy in all the money-markets of * Germany.. The Pruseian Govornment, with tho consent of the Diot, will seak to roliove the {.COF pressuro by using their share of tho French in- | Alton Railway, tho Suprome Court hold that the domnity tothe purchnse of public Becuritics, and et of tho Legislature, which had beon pnssed as tho redemption of the, public debt for railway works. The Anatrian Government Lins suspend- od tho oporation bf the Bank act in Vicnna. A motion to declare all stockliolders of tho Canada Pacific Railway ineligible as members ofx ibe Dominion Parlisment wes made fin | law in such a way that the L‘ugh‘flnlum saw fit Lo The argumenta®in | repesl tho formerlaw and onact o now ono in that body. yestordsy. fuvor of this ealutary rule wero illustrato copionsly by references to tho corruptions of the Credit Mobilier and the shameloss intrigues of Congressmen intorested in the Union' Pacifio Railroad. The Govornment party disregarded warning and argument alike, and rojected tho motion by & majority of 23, Tho Bocsel Railroad law of Ohio, empowering® commuilities to lovy taxes for the construction? of reilroads, has been prononnced’ unconstitu- tione! by o unanimous decision of the Supreme’ The grounds of the de-t cision oro, that such taxation is mot for pub- lic purpores, for which alone’taxes can bo coustitutionnlly levied, and that the State Logis- lature 13 forbidden by the Constitution to - authorize any commupity to engage in this way Court of that State, in privato ontorprises, dircetly or indiractly. o ———— Bhooting the rzpids of the St. Lawrence i one of tho most thrilling pleasures which Amer- ican watora offer the tourist. Tho ndian pilots know ovory rock and eddy, and undor their tried and ekillful guidance no lives have ovor yot beo lost in tho hazerdous pausnge. Rongors of the stosmor Remand, which atruck rock in the Tachino raplds yesterday, and won to pioces, must for some minutes h .ve had a su- premo reslization of tho uncertainty of life. They woro all saved, howovor, aithough tho hoat iteolf 15 an utter wreck. Tho Cinclnnati Commaeroial aud the £t. Louls Glabo aro both mintnkon in supposing thab wo dosiro tho National CGovernment to build double-track stool ralirond, or any othor Lin of arailrosd, to connact Chicago with tho At Wo moroly ndvisod tho busl- Zantic soaboard. zees mon of this city, it any wuch rald on th Trousury is premeditatod, ta put in the claims of Chicago us the Weatarn torminus, or, if thoro bo more thon one Westorn torminns, then ono the termini,” of tha road. aro not essentially differont from thoso of th 8t. Louis Globe, and wo shall perhaps adhero them with oven moro touncity than the Globe hereafter. + The Bt.. . Louis Congreesions! Convention, called to dovize means for Improviug viater con munications betwaeu Bt. Louis and the East and Bouth, has bogun its session. This is & Conve: tion of Congresumen ; but inthese days of Credit BMobilior and salary grabs fon of the weight of ship must be resorved till any opi its the James River & Kanawha, the Atlantio Groat Westorn, and tho Fort &t. Phillips Canals, and todeepon and cloar the vhannol of tho Mis- sinsippi River throughout its course aud at i mouth, —— Tho Ohicago produce markots woro ganorall @trongor yealurdsy, and some wero oxoltos Aless pork wanin falr domaud, and 5@100 por brl highor, closing at $16,85@16.90 cash, and . @817.00@17.05 seller Juno. Lard wao qulot, an B@756c per 100 1ba highor, at $9.10 cash, and Ho was Professor of Arabio at Com- ‘bridgo, and has translatod tho Old Testament Such risks aro gonerally taken oneo too often, and the 160 pus- Our yiows ns to_the probablo claractor of the *all-ateel" rallroad mombor- the juforma- tion, a3 an yot withheld, is given ns to how many Congresamen aro prosent and who thoy are, ‘The opening sposches foreshadow & domand that the Genoral Govorumont undertake to completo trino. Courts Lave mo powor to mako laws. Their provinco is to declde what tho law, as mado by tho Logiolature, monns, what it roquires or pormits, snd what it prohibits. To roquire candidato for n Judgeship to signify in advanco that ho will deoile . that the law does tolor- ate, nud roquiro, or doos ot tolor- ato, oud prohibits, cortain mcts, ns ‘his constitwents may from time to time voto, 15 to dostroy tho judiclal charactor of tho courts, and conyart thom into & moro yegistry of tho provailing projudices of their noighbor- loods. No man fitted by oducation or Laving any solf-rospect would take a Judgeship upon suoh terms, and the man making such s plodge olther conferses his unfitnoss, it honost, for the ¢t | offico, or Lia piuposo to got olected and thon re- pudiato hia 7ledges. In cithor.case it is dograd- fng to the "Bench and to tho State to eloct him. Thore ¥3 not a farmer in Illinois, nor auy other parsrn, who would go into tho trial of & caso in wli ch ho was o party, if ovon onc of the jurors hra pledged himsolt boforchand to givea vordiot or tho othor party; nor would the suitor sub- - mit to havo his daso tried beforo a Court which liad givon oven tho faintest pledgo to decido tho case against bLim. ‘To compel & suitor to have his case tried by a Judge or by a juror who had declared a purposo to decido ngainst Lim, would not be submitted to by any portion of tho commumty, and the Court that would do such o thing would desorvo the ticorn of overy honest man, and would bo tho fit sub- joot of impeachmont, Yot this is procisely what the 8t. Touis Demo- crat thinke should bo dono by the Bupromo _Court of Illinois. In the caso of tho Chicrgo & al n oxporiment #omo timo bofore, was defactive, beeauso it did not pormit the defendant in such a case to offer any defonso, and it provided rponaltios so uttorly disproportioned to the of- fenso as torondor trom unconstitutional. Inthat opinion the Court indicated the dofocts of the d [,accordance with the judgmont of the Caurt. yThis is tho docision which it is said must bo ro- versod by the revolution of tho Court. Thero is not a lawyer of roputation In the State who doos not cousidor that the opinion of tho S8u- ; premo Court in that case sas right, yot it is de- ! manded that no person shall be clected Judgo of for.ahort riba, and 83{@8¥{o for short cloar, and’| thé Court gnvo that law judicial onforcoment, 10@113go for sweot pickled hama, Highwines | Thoro mny bo no objaction to flexible Inws, but o floxible court is a monstrosity, Of what possi- Blo uso is & Legialatnro 1t the power of tho courts is 8o floxiblo that thoy can make tho law ‘what Lhey ploans, and can chango 1t at.any mo- mont? And of what uso fs o court it it,is to bo morely o rogistor of tho resolutlons of publie '| mootings? A flexiblo court, Is n monstrosity. With ‘such o tribunal, privato and public rights "mm‘,,hnflnhvh stroat, botwoen | Juno, Oats wore notive and 9@1a highor, but | would loso :all legal protection, and bo at tho ‘moroy of aliy floxible Judge who might oconpy tho Boneh. *Whnt tho pooplo want {sn court ablo to oxpound (1o Inw, honeat in its judgmont, and infloxibla fntits ndhoronco to Iaw and justico, Y " = . i /' MUNIUIPAL DEBTS OF ILLINOIS. b It 1s n'mabter of intorost to tho poopls .of Iili- nols to nndeestand that, while thoy haveboen pay- Ing taxoa for mony yoara to oxtricato tho Biato Irom its old dobts, and aro now eongratulating thomsolvos that tho Stato dobt fs practically paid, indobtednoss in snothor form' hins . boon *growing up with romarkablo rapidity. The mu- niclpal dobt of this Stato, .8 nonr aa’ it can bo computed from tho somowhat imporfoot statiu- tics, may bo thus atated: Radirvad-atd dobla, Other debla by cou 13,692,068 407,208 “Towna. .. "4, Behiool debla.. 1,010 T s City, Sncludiig post’ dobis. 17,000,000 * Total municipal dobls....luen e ... ...80%,000,188 In 1870, tho taxation in tho Btate of Illinols waa ‘o8 follows: Btato, $3,020,681; county, $6,242,137; town, clty, otc., $12,002,100. Total, $21,825,008. Thoso figuros aro furnished by.tho natiounl conaus of 1870, Tho Auditor of Tlinots placos the amount for tho samo yont at 816,34, 833, but doos not include city taxes. Tho Audi- tor roports tho tax (oxclading citios) in 1871 at 918,477,838 In 1872 this wag incroased to not ey than §21,000,000, - whick, putting the toxes for citios at 6,000,000, will mako an sggrogato *of $27,000,000 of local taxes. Tho finaucial situ- ation, therefore, in, that wo owe & munieipal debt of 97,700,000, and poy an onnual tox of £27,000,000 for local purposes, including intorost on theao debta, Tho proviaion of the Conatitution Limiting the * croation of municipal debts to 5 por contum of tho value of the {axablo property as assossod for Stato taxalion was not adopted koo wsoon. ‘Tho asycssed valuation for Stale toxes in 1872 waa $500,000,000. Our municipal dobts smount alroady to 73¢ per cont of tho assossod valuo of tho taxablo property. We have oxcsodod: tho constitutional limit by onc-half, This is not tho cago in all countios, citios, and towns ; many of thom have littlo or-no dobt; but thero aro canes in which the debt oxceeds 16 per cont of tho valuo of the property as sssessed by taxa- tion. Notwithstanding this fact, thore aro many communities in tho B8tato very restive under tho limitation. As tho limitation of tho dobt to b por controf tho.valustion is ab- solute, there iz now s combined offort-to have tho valuation increased. By ruising tho valua- tion from 500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000, tho prosont municipal dobts thronghont tho Stato may bo incroased to $100,000,000, and it it will bo 8o Increasod is allogothor probabile, 50 long as tho bonds canbo old, Tho dobt of Cook County is at its moximum; but wo have no doubt that if tho schomo of increasing tlw as- sosumont fourfold is carried out, thoro will bouo Licuitation on tho partof our County Board to soll §10,000,000 or 312,000,000 of Londs, and upond tho monoy liborally. THE KANBAS HORROR. It has boen lofé for American front for lifo to develop o story of crimo mora hogrible sud miore mystorious than any told in thes fletion of which Mr, ‘Thackeray's novel of ““iCatherino™ was 8 paraphraso. Who adventuros « told in tho Liographies of Jack Sheppard and Diol Turpin ; tho horrors that Suo and the eldir Dumas in- vented to satisfy morbid appotiteis; the "blood- {| the Suprome Court who will-not agroo before- hand to decide all cases sgainst tho railroad cor- porations, no mattor what the lawor tho ovi- denco may be ; and that a pledga to this action shall be given before the election. The 8t. Louis Democrat saya: What are Judges mada elective for, if they are not amenablo in gomo way to public opinion? But, to, meet the question aquarely, we belleve It to bo the duty of the Judges, tn s popular form of government,. to regulate thelr judicial opinions, on grent public ques- tione, by the well-scttled convictions and opinions of the people. = Judges wore mede eloctive, in ths firut in- stance, that’their selection shonld o withdrawn from party cancuaes, and that tlio peoplo might triuraph over caucus by olecting an honent, in- dopondont Judiciary. They wore not mado olec- tivo thiat they might ha choren with reforenco to thoir opinions on county-seat questiouns, nor 28 6 tho Jndgment they should render in tho casos of Brown againet Diack, or Smith sgainst Jones. As we ‘havo' stated, the courts do not make laws. 'Chey are inno sense loglalatora. They aro governod by the Constitations of the country and of tho Htato, and by tho Inw of tho State, ‘Lhoy dotor- mine what the Iaw Is as thoy find it, and apply it totho cnso Lefors thom. Tublic opinton and tho convictions of the peoplo can, it directly appliod, rovolutionizo the Loglslature, charigo Constitutions, and mako tho law what thoy wisl ittoho. Whon thoy hsve dono this, it wilt bo tho duty of tho courts to adminlutor tho law ns it ls madlo for thom. Tut courts canuot amond Couutitutiona nor revolutionize the fundamental | Iaw; It thoy wore to do this, they would properly . bo treutod Ay usurpors. ke Bt. Louls Democrat says that ho “Drod Bcatt cano is & woll-known instance of“tho power of publio opinion on the judgmer’, of o court. Tn tho Dred Beott caso the Snprome Court docided that tho plaintiff; bolag 4 slavo, was not qualified to bring an aotlon fn the courts of tho United Btates. Thet was tho whole declsion all tho rost wa@ more political and putivahr dictum. Evon afior tho War hind swoptislavory out of ex- istenco, tho Republican:Congress and the Nepub- lican Leglulaturen of the country thought it necessrry, in ordor to meel the docislon in tho Drod Beott caso (which, by#the way, has never boon reversed), to smond the Constitution by de- claring porsous who bad beon alaves to b citi- 2ens of tho United Btates. Tho samo paper fuirthor saya: It 4a not altogethor an “uuhoard-of thing for courts to yamovs the anclont lav amarks of tho law und to ro- adjunt the Umita of ‘private righta nnd public duties to meot tho ehangea v, Ljch tako placedn socoty, Withiu thio Last threo 10r by thy Suprome Court of Iilinols turued its baok 7. 1pon all the precedonts sud took & nuw doparture in th o law of husbaud and wife, by doclaring that & husbau 4 could not bo susd for a tort of the wife, ‘Tho laws of froo country must Le flexible, aud we think the p soplo have & perfect ¥iglt to ropudiate & Judiclary* which hesitatos to proteat the peoplo from a gront wr ony, simply beeauso komo dust-covered prece- dont ¥F gndu'in the way, In* tho caso reforred to, tho Court did not ro id | MoV o the landmarks of the law nor attampt to n » nt o d ho of ho to n- n- - & s ly a4 curdling sketchos ovolved out of tPoc’s abnor- mal imagination; the staplo o(i tlio ** Dimo Novels™ aud the weokly sorials ; Pho traditions of tho sensational drama with the Away-side inn, with its trap-doors and itd ‘mnnders, which peo- ple have como to regard with the alisgust that sitonds ascortained exaggoration, have all boon rondored possible by the sysiiomatio and prolongod butchery practised by &he Bonder family in Boutheastern Kauses. Thu) sories of murders in_tho Block Forost whidh Churles Rendo utilized in onoof his storics, and tho ‘slaughter which made Troppmann's na mo known throughout the world, do not compat o in point of pure and unadultoratod horror with.this caso. Troppmann enticod nway s singlo family on tho pretoxt of discovering an [uleritance, sind mur- dors all tho mombors of it, butt tho Bomlora aud their confodoratos Iny in wait for all paople who bapponed to come thoir wayyand slaightored thom with tho prospects of wmell guin. The “ Chamber of Horrors” in Mme. Tunecaud's London collection of wex figu ros docsnot, with all its hideons caricaturos, pi ‘esent so completo o plcturo of humnu dopray tity 0s has been traced to an isolated frontler sottiomont in Ta- botto Connty, Kansins, & Tho dlsappenranco of Dr. York, s brothor of Henator York, who exposod th ‘o Pomeroy bribery, eunnod the finut vigorons iuv. sstigation into tho cduso of numorona shnilar ¢ lsapponrances that had oconrrod in o sootion of Ik ‘susas not far from Indopondanco, Dr. York was yuissod sbout the middlo ¢f last Mureh, sud, 1 hwhort timo ago, Bonntor York organizod n p arlyr to sconr the country in soarch of womo trace of him. Dr. York was known to hiave taker i thegrouto batwoon Indopondonco ‘uud Osage Missivm, and the sconring party como across n house situated about half way ‘Lotweon L'rum Crock and Big 1, In o diemal @xpanso of prafrie-land. This houso wan We sort of halt-way stopping placo, combining a grocory and eating-louso, whoro travolors nsu 'ly halted for lunch.« The houso was kopt by .o family namod Bander, conulsting of the old ma naud & young man, said to bo fathor and son, . And An old woman and o young woman, said to vo mother and daughtor. Both couplos wera . Bup- posod to bo married, but tho young woran, who profeusod to bo & "spiritualistio modium,y i toll fortunes and to cura discases, had a bad wroputa- tion fu tho neighborhood. When tho (bject of Benator York's search Locamo known o thes? people, the young man offered to aemist tho- party, and the young woman desired to make an appointmont with SBouatorYork, when, alo prom- Ised, she would rovosl tho manner of his brother's disappearanco through tho ald ofttho spirits, Littlo atteutlon was pald-ta theso ofters, and Senator York and his party went on, Thoy- anco. Beuator York thon omployed & detective ror djust private rights, Tho Logislatura of the -$0.20 sollor Juno, Moats ware auiot aud un- | ' ata hayiyg changed the law as revards tho Aftor some doys, Boera' attontion waa drawn' tol tho Bondox Liouso. il whon o weny iocy, )be found that It had boon dosorted. Tho wholo family, warnod by Sonator York's sosvch, had flod, Tholr abaanco incronsod tlo, dotective’s susplelon, Boarch wan inatituted at onoo, and trados of tho missing York wero soon discovered: The " firat convineing ovidenco of foul play in jtho houss wns found whon Boers lifted a tiap-door in tho floor, and tho. slokoning slonch of decomposing remains camo rushing through éhio oponing, This satiafiod Boors that Dr.'York nd mot with o violond -doath on thoso promisos, and hio prossouted his sesrols stlll fur- thor.. A patch of ground at tho baok of: tho Louse had boon nowly plowed over,.and Doors carofully oxamiuod it in soarch of a disturbanco or sub-soll. Having found a spot which ldoked, 88 though oarth had boen thrown up, he toolg [y wagon-rod,” plunged it in tho ground, and, at s dopth of about four faot, it plorced what was subgoquently found to bo tho romains of' s ‘human body. Mon woro sot to work to dig, and 8 body was found, which was subsoquently iden- ‘tified a8 that of Dr. York. g s Tho finding of York's body-inducod o soarch for othors, whiok rosulted in tho finding of nino, bodlos in all, sovoral of which wore identiflod as thodo of porsons who had suddonly and myste- ridusly disappoared within s fow months baok. Tt was discovered that thoro hadboon s rogular systom of burlal, Ench bodyhad boon deposited nonra trde, which was thon pruncd ina mannor to indjento that ono burial had boen mndo in that spot, 8o that thore would bo no danger of dig- ging & grave whoro ono body already rested. This Bystomatio nrrangomont showed that the murdorors soriously aud deliborately counted upon filling up tho patch of ground with corpeos, making & ocburch-yard: without cliurch, a comotory without a tomb. Tho bodles woro all doposited after a regular aystom,—tho right arm falded scross the bronst and tho loft strotchod down at the sido. Thero was a dispo- sition to cconomizo ground, as it it was feared | that the burial-placo would not accommodato'all tho viotims, for somo of the Liodios woro placed” on the side in narrow ditchos, and some doubled up in a squatting position, Threo more ‘bodies wore discovered day beforo yestordsy, making twelvo in all. The soarch still continuos, and it is imposalble to say how many moro may bo ‘brought to'light, ' Tho wounds on the hoad, which ‘aro identified 1n ol the bodios that have boon uncarthed, and tho srrangoment of the house, have indicated tho mannor in which tho victints mot their doath, Thoy word all travalera whostopped at the houso for rofroshmonts. Thoy wore soatod at & tablo in the back room, moar,which hung s curtain. Ono or moro persons, whethor mals. or fomale, woro concealed bohind this curtaln, nnd struck tho travelor on the back of tho liead with & ham- mor. The viotim was thon seized and dragged to the trap-door, his throst was out, and tho body was dropped fito the collar bolow, whora 1t was sdlowed to romain until night camo, It was then takon ont and buried without “attract- ing nttontion. All the bodics woro marked in tho enmo moonor, oxcopt that of a littlo girl who had accompanied Lor father, and who is supposed to havo beoun thrown into tho grave whilo alive; ns hor body shows no marks of violenco, Tho spoils of tho Bondor family, on- goged in this trafic In human Jives, rhust havo ‘been small, as nono of tho murdered travelors | aro known to havo had any considorable money with thom. It is supposed, however, that the Bonders had confoderates postod along the road to inform thom of favorable opportunitios, and ‘mnny srreats have olroady beon made. Tho Boudor family, the two women and two mon, os- capod, and hisve not yotboon approhonded. Tho dotective, Boors, had tracked them to 8t. Louls at lnst nccounts, and it fs not probablo that they will be hirborod in any quartor of the globo. [ DEAD-HEADS AND DEAD-BEATS, Ono B. F. Camp,—who, if tho chargos agalust Lim are truo, should have ono more lottor in his name,—las brotight ‘s livel suit agslnat Mr. Whitelasw Reid, of tho New York Tribuno, tho process haviug been sorved upon that 3ont_lo- man with oxtreme indeconcy, whilo ho was'in ‘Washington, a8 ono of the pall-bourers of tho lato Chiof Justico of tho.United Btatos. Tho man Oamp, it appears, was ot ong t‘unu a n{mp!.l stockholdor in the New York *Tribune, wWas ao- quaintod with Mr. Grooloy, and ad some lettars from him. Itiasallogod that ho hea beon in the habit of reprosentiug himecl? as connocted with tko Tribune, snd, upon tho strongth of this rep- rosontation, has boen procuring freo passes upon railronds, froo living at hotols, froo ndmissions to all kinds of places of amugomant, and has uséd Mr. Grooley's namo in various ways to procuro influonco. 1o persisted, it is said, in this spe- cios of dosd-hesding until it becamo injuri- ous both to tho pupor aud its editors. ~ Acoord- ingly, sn articlo waa. printed in tho Tribune, not long sinco; entitled '* Of Frands and Freo Passos,” which was intondod to put tho publio on its guard againat the man Camp, 8s the poper clearly had a right to do, if ho was obtain- ing priviloges undor falso pretenses: It is nop likoly that the suit will over como to trlal, If it should, it will afford an opportunity to Mr. Reid_ and tho Tribune Company to publicly vontilate {ho potty tricks and deceits by which swindlors and dond-boats obtain influence, fros living, monay, sud othor valusble considorations,” by ropresenting themsolves ssconncoted with news- papors, and to confor a positive benofit upon the whote community, 8 woll a8 upon tho profossion of journalism, which suffor aliko from the im- posltion of thoso scampe. In almoat overy com- munity there arc men who, too lazy to work, do- liberately contrivo and plan to gecuroa liveli- hood by thelr wits, and to spongo thoir living out ot the community Dby sharp trloks and Ingonious ewindlos which. baroly oscaps coming within tho provinco-of the crimnal law, The nowspapor is the most come ‘mon moans employed by thoso swindlors to com- pass thoir ends. By falso ropresentations, they avail thomeolvos of cortafn privilogos and immu-. nitios allowed to nowspapors to eko oyt s yory handtomo living, rorely stoppiug in ono place any longth of timo, but changing thoix sceno of action boforo thelr trioks aro discovercd. The hotel is most frequontly tho victim. No rospoct- able oity. daily allows auy of its employou to .necopt tho hospitality of & hotel, and most hotol- keopors knuow of this fact; but in every oity, and all through tho rural towns of tho. country, ware obliged to return at last without having'| dlscoyerod any oluo to the mysterious dlnnpmnr-' namod Beors, who went to work at the cago. | thore avo papers whoso oditors expct to havo _rucnli!lnd bills handed them upon pain of lovy- fug s sort of potty blackmail f suoh a favor i not oxtended. ‘This practico sffords a fino floll of operation for theso doad-boats, and Loy improvo it. Oporatlo, theatriosl, and oirousy mauagers aro pestered with thom, The swindlo:- arely reprosonts himsolt from the ity where thi troupo may happen tobo porforming. 1o gonerally halls from tho clty which Is noxt in thoir routop and tho managar doos not wish to offeud the payer of that place. Iavingno means Ruailrond companios are more adroit in tholrman- agomont “of tho paes bualnesn; but oven tho smiartost of thom aro sometimes victimizud. The praoticos of thoso dond-hoats aro not confined to rallronds, hotels, and places of amnsomont, Thp moreantilo community is also, oxposod to thoir tricks, in largo citios, where the employes of o nowspapor may not bo vory widely known, and whoro thoy carry on thelr oporations’by moans of forged orders. All mon who live by thelr wits, who aro not contont :to éarn a living ns honest mon do, and who proy upon tho community by all manner of disroputablo dovices, ara pubilo nuisauces, but tho groatost npisance of all Is tho newspaper doad-bont. If, tho libol suit against tho Now York Z'ribune shall oxponso their prac- ticonnnd placo tho community moroe thoroughly upon‘its guard, it will subsorvon very impor- tant purposio, and go far towards broakiig up the systomatio awindling of tlose choualicrs d'industrie. At tho sawo time, publio corpoza- tions havo the power in their own hauda to stop it nitorly, if thoy would. Lot them rofuse to oxtond complimentary privileges to anybody, and tho sourco of supply Is at once outoff, The TUnlon Paolflo Road has met s vory good ox- amplo in cutting off from its froo list all porsons . oxcopt the FProeldent of tho United States. It would linyo boon siiil bottor if théy bad ocut him off. too, slnce it is difficnlt to soo why & Prosident should ride gratis any moro than & Congressman, or why tho Prosident, withn salary of §50,000 a yoar, should have o pass, and tho farmor, who pays extortionate pricos for ship- ping his grain ovor the road, should be compelied to pay full faro, Public corporations would have thosupport of all rospectable nowspapors in suy monsuros whioh would put anend to tho doad- hond businoss, It would. bo for the ultimate bonoflt of the corporations thomsolves to do so. It would bo for tho bonofit of nowspapers. It would establish o mutual condition of independ- ‘enco which could only Lave tho most benofiolal rosults. DBest of all, por- lLiaps, ¢ would broak up an organized system of imposition, which is practised nll over tho coun- try. Weo do not know whather this man Camp is guilty ornot of tho practices alloged against him, It is not vory likely, Lowovor, that the Now York. Tribune would havo oxpono'dhlm intho mauner in which it did unloss thore, hiad boon ‘somo grounds for their charges. Inany ovent, should the caso como to trial, it is to be hoped that Mr. Rold willdofond his caso with such’ vigor that it mey sot {hio matter boforo™ tho country in its propor bearings, sud Lolp to rid the nowspapor pross of tho impositions of theso posts, if not'to break up tha doad-hoad eystem outiroly. NOTES AND OPINION. ' In the Bccond Dintrlot of Illinols, the lawyers have nominoted John Bcholfold (Democrat), of Morshall, Olark County, for Judgo of tho Buprome Court, vico Thornton, rosigned; and o Farmers' Convontion ia called at Elngham May 23., Tho csll recites that— In this judicial contest the ratlroads have cunllonged us to the ficld. Tho Hon, Jobu Scholfleld s n vory oblo goutloman, but bis every futercst and symputhy is with tho raflroada and agatnst tho poople. . . Wo axk nothing but * aqual and exxct juetico to uli, special privileges’to none,” Can vio Iny ns{do all politiesl fuol- ing, aud meut fu ono_comwou intorest fov a common cauzo? or will we meckly submit to continuo tho fools and dupes of smooth-touguod, flatteriug, corrupt poli- ticlans? — Tho Carlinvillo Demoorat oays : 1t 15 begioning to bo belfoved that lawsors aro not tho only class of pooplowho Lnvo an_iutorest in tho eloction of Judges, Mr, Schofleld tates, it fs truo, that o **would not Do tho candidatc of any party, clique, or class ;" but, whilo that sounds vory proity, 18 it mot nbout thno that tho great agricultural and pko- Quolng dutorents of tho Statd were demanding souo roc- oguition aan *class "7 Wo shall abjde the action of tlio Farmors' Gonvontion; —In Maino, the Republicsn State Convontion ‘meots at Bangor, Juno 19, and thero is & goneral dosire to bring out ox-Gov. Edward Kent, attor an Intorval of thirty-throo yoars. In 1840, it will bo remombored, * Maino ~wont, holl-bont, for Qov. Kont. Nathan A. Farsoll, of Rockland, who sorved In tho Benato & fow months while Fossondon was In tho Tronsury, withdraws in fa- vor of Koent. —Honry A. Wise, as tho Ropublican candidate for Governor of Virginis, is seriously talked of. This, and Bon Butlor for Governor of Magsa- chusotte, will bo * glory onough for one yoar." —Tho Rockford (IIL) Register eays tho Chica- go & KNorthwestorn and tho Milwaukeo & St. Toul Railrond Companios **have burled tho war- Tatchot—in the head of tho publiol" . —It was somo : timo ago announced that Sona- tor Morton would address hin follow-citizens at TIndianapolis on “tho quostions riow ngitating tho publio mind;" and yot the spoech has not como off, nor i thore any furthor mextion mado of it. - : ; By tio Ropliblican County Convention 'at Ur-, Dbong, Ohio, May 10': o : Resolved, That the growing: railroad monopolies’ of tho_country. ouglt 10 ‘be .checkod, snd we horoby plodgo ourmalves aa s parly to choik, restraln, and, o ] 2 T esolced, That -as. Ropublicans wo condemn tho iniquitous’ * back-salary grab” of tholato Congross, and we regard it our duty fo bury, politically, overy ‘man, high or low, who gavo it auy aid, countenanco, or sipport ; and wo horeby pludgo’ oursclyes nover 10 support any man for public ofiica who voted for, or took the ealary after ho had voted agolust it, ‘Resolved, That wo demand of ‘our ‘Benators and Reproseutatives in Qongress that they un their influ- ‘emco and votes' for tho rapeal of tho law under which {hia plonl was perpotrated, - ~With the proliminary romark that North- wontprn Towa i8 Ropublican by rathor more than & two-fuirdg voto, and that nowhore elso in the Htato has tho porty-lash boon nsed more tyran. nically, we quoto from tho Lomars Sentinel : Goon ¥on JupaR OLIVER.—Our worthy Clrcult Fudgo, baviug been nppealod to in the caso of tho Oucsola County swindlors, smoug other things gives somo oxcellent ndvlro, which is wholesome reading for those timos, Ho says : “In conclusion, howover, pormit mo to suggast that, o loug 58 the peoplo placo scoundrels in otlics, thoy il luid tho courts, howaver wall-disposod, ofton inade equata for thelr protoction, A strict and dotorminod aurvolllauco ovor thelr nctions, with such prompt ac- tion by tho public an will rondor it unploasant, it not unwholesomo, for swindlors to livo atong you, i tho suroat and asfest nicans of presorving you from'a con- tinucd and rafnous ropotition of thoso outragos which havo fu tho past disgraced Northwastorn Tow, and pub tconcy to tho biush throughout tho Bito,” —TFlho Freeman, at Moutpolier, Vt., in the nowspaper-proporty of Congrossman Willard, who, hiaving rofundod his own oxtra pay, peys : Wo hopo sincorely that, a8 #00n a8 tho noxt Leglsla- turo of our Stato Aliall moet, o bill will Lo passed di- roctlug the Stato Troasurer to roturn the four thousand and odd dollara of the sular, Dy the Hon. Juatin 8, Morrill, done,. £ the aum s nocoptod aud placed with the funds of tho Htuto, overy cltizen is made a sharor, will hio nil io, dn tho coolest aud most sudaclous thoft of. grab turnod over to him Wo allovo that will bo of idenitaatinu. be Xiglds to the {mposition, tho ago, » Aro any Sonntora and Reprogontatives waiting for “Lhiy storm to blow over?” I occasiona no surprise that Roscoo Conk- ling (sslary-grabbor) should bo sorlonsly named for Cliof Justico of the, United Btates; or that Timotly O. Howo (snlary-grabbor) ehould nspire to thopnma high ofilce; or that Jobn A. Biug- bom (ealary-grabbor) should expect to bo mado Minister to Bt Potorsburg; - or that Cornolius Oolo (snlery-grabbor) should pwait somo Liigh appolutmopt,—booauso tho sppolut= ing powor s Ulysees 8. Grant, salary-grabler, And tho pooplo won't howl any moro at what- ovor tho salary-grablors miny do for ono an- othor or among themsalves, The people will Dbriug all of 'em down by the run, prosently, and sll at once, —Tyanklin County, Kan,, gave Grant 1,688 votes and Greeloy 164, Tho farmers’ movement Lips alrgndy eurolled, in that county, over 700 wvotpra, —1t hordly seoms ponaiblo that & whole paople who hiaye como to yealiza the enonnous burdens they aro uArryhl%. and to clearly understand the Tonstul ovils of tho prescut hywtom, can mottle Dack into tho old ways and abaidon tho agitation without dissovering and applying some romody, —Indianapolis Journal, —At no_time moro than now, aince wo ware roooguized as & goMf-governiug pooyle, hisa wo “tako tho load in securing much attontjon heon directod to tho -power of loglslativo bodies to mako np}:ropr‘lnllonu of thtio money. Tho instancon of rookless uea of hin powor, as n voting back-pay to Congross- mon, and the {ntroduction of now matier into an appropriation bill by & cormitteo of conferonce, in :direct violation of legislativo rules, show that loginlators - have renched n point whore thdy ean make bold to dofy publlo ‘opinion, and it will not roquiroa long step to piaco them whore thoy can utterly ignoro all' parliamontary rules and conatitutiofinl roquiromonts, if tho peo- flu tamoly and unwisely submit to tho usurpa- fon of powar. Tliis unlimitod power Is now onl& Loing appreciated by the peoplo, a8 thoy bohol tho foarful oxtromes to which {t is being pushied by rocklgss and desporato mion, and honco tho onoral demand for o radical change. Who will it p—Harrisburg (Pa.) Blate Journal, 2 —Tho poople of Nebraska have beon pecnliarly unfortunato in tho selection of their public sor- vants, and tho {imo has como whon this class will bo made to undorstand that they will bo held rigidly responsible for thelir nota,—Omaha Bee, —Joslah W, Bogolo, of Flint, Mioh., Is in troublo, T'o bomoro definito, Josinh has Leon srrostod for atesling. Ho has beon cutting down and carrying off somo 400,000 foot of lum- bor from Goyernment landa in Lapoor County, and & Unitod Btatos timbor-agent has teken him into oustody. Dgpés tho reader inquire, What of it? Nothing,—only Josiah W. Bogolo ia Repre- sontative in tho Congroas of the United Btatos from tho Sixth Diatriot of ‘Michigan.—Spring- field_Republican. i —Van Trump—so says tho Columbus Journal, —has taken tho ka-]mF We_don't know how 1t 1 in the Domoeratlo Fairflold diatrict, but u Lioro-in Choosedom, whero stonling is criminal, that -would bo the last “ trump” “ho would bo pormitted to play— Oleveland Herald, ~—Thoe Hon. . 8. Holman, of this Stato, haa takon some credit to himeolf for voiing againat the salary grab, but a sickoning: suspicion pro- vails in his District that Do hag drawn tho moncy. Holman {5 ono of tho roadiost mon in Congroea to speak on mosut subjoeots, -and par- ticularly oh gnostions of economy, but juat now ho is painfully sitonts Well tho truth, William ; Liavoyon drawn thomonoy, or not 7-—Indianapo- lis J'lc‘;u'lml. ¥ * —Tho groat majority of Congréssmon are not, afilictod Ey any quaims of cnungfmco, much loss' touched by n sonko of offielal doconcy. Thoro of thom who oponly dofand tho steal any that by tho timo the noxt eloction comoes around poople willhnvo forgotton nll about it, and they will not loson hLundred votos on nccount of it.— Wachmgéou Pregs Telegram. —3r. Toynton of tho Clnciunat! Gazetts nasorts, nx 8 fact within Lie knowledgo and susceptiblo of proof, that Bimon Ommeron only obtainad his oloctfon to the Torolgn Affairs Chiairmanship upon tho distinct una derstanding that ho was immediatoly to resign; that the caucua would nevor havo droamed of ulghln Lim i tht placo as fixturo,—Republfean Exchange. This {8 o litle too thin, Even so strong o man as Morton was unsblo to obtain the sup- port of a majority of tho mombera of that mem- orablo caucus which doposed Bumner to make way for Camoron. But, allowing tho above as- sortions to bo truo, how was it that the Ropub- llcan caucun this lnst sossion again made Cam- oron the Chalrman of this responsible Commit~ teo? And this snmo Camoron is one of tho dis- tingulsbied four Chinirmon whose medallions are to bo placed in tho panela of' tho door to the room of tho Foroign Relations Committeo. - —Tho Chicngo organ which says, “Tho Now York Tribune {8 vory severe upon fho Govern- mont for its persccution of Phelps, Dodge & Co., in‘compelling thom to pay thoir rovenuo do- flclencier,” aud that * it looks upon the firm as martyra o tyrannical Government, and upon all tho Fadoral officers who hud to do with, the caso a8 blackmailors of tho first dogreo,” all bocaugo thoy (Phelys, Dodgo & Co.)’ votod for Horaco Greoloy for President "—fol- lows its instincts o3 an organ and illustrates tho Dreadth and catholiclty of ity viows. Had tho oditor known that tho hoad of tho houso was & loading Grant man, that bo contributed 825,000 Lo the defont of Mr. Greo- loy, that ovory momber of tho firm opposed Mr. Grooloy, and that some of fhem woro quito nc- tivo Iu tho atiompt to chngo tho charastor and manngomont of tho Tribune, somo months ago, Lio wonld have boon sparad tho inconvenionco— 1f 1t was any—of making on ase of himsolf, 8till, porhaps, it was just as woll. Ho would | Amorict hnve found gomethitig elso to do it on if not that.—New York Zribune. . AMUSEMENTS, ACADEXY OF MUSIC. Tho oxeollent ropuiation borno by Mr, Josh Hart's Thestro Comiquo Combinatiou in New York—whoro, it ia enid, Mr. Hart’s financial suc- coss waa gronter ‘last eonson than that of any other Now York managor—proves to have been well deserved. Tho ongagomont in Ohicaga bo~ gan st the Academy of Mugieon Monday night to a densoly-orowded houso, and tho attendanco Iast ovening ahowad little, if any, falling off. Tho varioty afforded by this clasa of cntortainmont rondera it peculiarly popular whon represonted by suporior porformers nndor skillful and judi- cious manngement, 83 s tho caso Wwith tho Theatre Comique Combination. An admirablo fonturo of the performauce is tho clock-work regularity and rapidity with which it progrosacs, ench act succoeding the other without loss of timo, g0 that & vast smount of amnsoment is .afforded in an evouing. In this and all other essential respocts, thorough organization iy ghown. It would bo singular 1f s company of its nnmoerical strongth did not ombraco . individual instances of modiocrity. Such instancos exiat, but thoyare largely ovorbalanced by thoge of. signal and distinetive superiority, Included in tho last-uamed category ‘may bo mentioned tho varfous aots of Harrigan and Hart, who ure too wall known aud too much sdmired in Chicago to neod othor comimont than to say that thoy havo improved sinco thoir, last ap- oarance hore; John Queen's_eccentric and. faughablo # Chiarconl;” “Take It, and Don't Take It;"” by Mesn TFrank’ Korng aud John Wild; ' Powmpoy's Paticnts,” by John Hart, John Wild, and othors; Misu Kitty O'Neil's ox- tromoly boautiful and artlutic jig danciug; tho ¢ Borning Glorios,” by Franle Korns end John Quaon ;' and tho concluding farco, * Ong, Two, Throo,” by John Wild, Frauk Kerne, oto. All. thoso help fo mako up an_ontortalnment. tho equal of which bas neareoly beon given horato- foro in Chicago. Of Miss Jounio Hughes it is sufliciont to suy that a favorablo improssion of hor vocal powors wits not Producnd by hor, xon- sdering of the ballad, “ Fair Kil-la-har-neo fldllnmny). A showy wardrobe and an attiact- vo porson seom to constituto the major portion of Miss Hughos' vacal culturo, A matinco por- formanco will be givon to-dny. . ANNOUNCEAENTS. fdwin Adams np{:m‘s thig evening in Lis 1av: rolo of Rover “Wild Onts,"” ab Me- Viokor's Thoatro* Tho ;;npn!nnly of “Risks,” {s attosted by con- tinued largo attendauco at Hooley's. It will be played at to-doy's matineo, At Aiken's, the 8an Fraunclsco Minstrols nro plonsing five andionces. Tho Dodge Club hou- ored tho entertainmont by their presonce last ovening, and will similarly tavor tho Acadumy of Music 10-night. ) 4 *Bad Dickoy,” with a !tmng cast_moloctod from among tho members of tho Kitty Blanchard. Burlosquo Combination, aud with now songs and dances, supplics tho popuinr demand for bur~ losquo nt Myors' Opora Houge, Prof. Vanck gives but four mora porformances at tho Amphithestre, Not to havo soon him is not to hiave seon ono of tho greatest of living illuslonists, All'of his tricks aro now and artis- tle, tho docapitation act boiug #o awlully roalis- tio'gu to shook the bluntost sunsibilitics. ‘Adam Forepaugh's mammoth aggregation of ‘monggorio, usoum, and_vircus, né tho cornor of Madison and Elizalioth Btranlfl, wag visiled yosterday by upwards of 15,000 poople. e g 1 ienilwny Master Mechanics? Association, Bavtivone, Muy 18.—Tho sixth annual soaston of tho Amorlcan Itailwny Mnator Mochanies’ As- sovintion commencod this moruiug, I, M. Brit- ton, Prosident, in the Chair, Bevonty-eight mombors wore presont, Tho prococdingu of the 1ast Uonvontion, hold in Boston, woro prosoutod aud approved, Sevonteen now mombers siguod tho Constitution, Tho President aunounced that the Commitico of Reception last year hud pro- nontod the Assqcintion with $8,000, which had boon placed at intorest. 3 ‘I'ie Commiiteo on Doiler Incrustations was continued. A rosolution was adopted acknuwledging the sorvices of Prof, J, A, Bowell, of tho Normal University, Illinols, in analyzing water, and pro- viding fof his componsation, N. T, Ohapmau, of tho Clovgland & Pitts- burgh Railroad, Vico-Prosident of thio Associn- tion made s raport on accopting invitatious. Tho programme was adopted oa follows : For Tues- dny afternoon an oxoursion to Anuapolls, and Visit to the Naval 8chool; Wednoaday afternoon, visit to Druld Il Park; Thursday aftoruoon, visit to Mount Olare works, Baltimore & Ohlo Tuilroad; Priday, oxcursion to Washington City; Haturday, loave ‘Baltimoro at § o'clack s, T, Yia Guuyn\:urq, thonco to Now York nnd partako of banquet In the evoning, _ Tha report of the Commiltteo on the compara= tiva valuo of anthracito and bituminous coal and wood for ficnnrnunf steam wns rond and diu- cuesod with particular referonce Lo thio best plan of using hard orsioft conl. 'Tho Convontion thon adjourned untll Lo-morrow morning, ftor roll-call & numbor of- momhiora entared the Lall, making ahout 130 presont, ropresentin all.tho mont_iniportant railronds i tho Unil Btatos aud Canada. 5 WALL STREET- Roview of tho Moncy, Gold, Stock, _nnd Produce Markots « Proposed Railrond Combinntion. Speeial Dispaleh-to The Chicago Tridbune, New Yonx, May 18.—Affairs in Wall stroot bave boon vory quiot. All tho marketa wore dull, and speoulation, in view of the conflicting rumore from Buropo, hes bocomo unsatisfactory and uncortain, The prossuro by the benrs upon tho atock market appoars to havo censod for tho timo, and tho abundant offerings of monoy about 8 p. m. ot 8 por cont nnturally stimulated prices, though closing nogotiations wore offected at @6 percont. - 3 THE GOLD MANKET was very dull, though stoady this afiarnoon; but tho businoss was-grently rostrioted, all of the fluatuations bn'ln[; boen recorded botween 117 @117%{. Tho Gold-Room was thinly attoude: and spooulation subsided at an early hour. GOVERNMENT DONDS woro s triflo woalk ‘at tho aftornoon call, and lowor pricos wero ostablished.” Tho principal oauso of thie declina was tho heavier tono of gn’l'a, sdded to the fact that tho Gorman bankors wore not notive purchesors, and tho dullness was alao deprossing. Tho dogiine ravgod from 3§ to i por cont. TR BTOCK MARRET was qniet ot tho Bocond Bonrd, and prices nearly stagnant. Aftor 2 o'clock an upward movae ment was inaugurated, but thero was a notico- able indisposition to dulfl, notwithstanding the fact that money was in abundant supply at 8 to0.5 por cont, TUnion recording 9,400, Lnke BShoro 6,000, Lrio . 5,000, Vaciffo 'Mail -2/800, Ohios, 1,800, Columbus, Cincinnntl & Indiann Contra 1,600, Union Pacifio 1,400, Rock Island 1,000, Now York Coniral 800, Wabash 000, Delaware, Lnckswanna & Wostorn 500, Atlantiu and Pacifia proferrod 900, and Doston, Jartford & Erie 200, = BTOLEN BECURITIES. A numbor of prominent hankors hiore mention the facility with which stolen socuritios can bo sposed of 03 ono of tho main_ inducements to the frequont thofts of bonds sndatocks, A ime meno smount of our accuritics ato hold in Eu- ropo, snd lave & mflxlnr mnrket thoro, ®o that' . o thiof ds it emsy ' to tako or send hia ooty to London or Trankfort, and thoro dispose of it at full valuo. It is sug- gosted that s joint ngenoy, embracing tho_ox- chianges of London, Paris, Frankfort, ond Now York, using proper means for giving prompt publicity to missing socur.tios, would go vory far towards dopriving tho bond-thioycs of a mar- kot for disposing of thoir plundor. PROTOYED RATLROAD CONSOLIDATION. A now acheme is €aid to be on foot to unite th forlanos of the Erlo and Grent Western Raile ronds, -A prominont Wall _stroot capls talit, who kuows all abous i, s roprovontad _ow enylug: At ' the }amnent timo, Jamos MoHenry has propositions 'rom other roads than Erio, and is in & ntrong position to-day ; but what ho roally wanta is to mali & fair worling arrangomont with tho Lria Rond, This will give tho” Erio & clonr broad- gaugo connaction of 1,200 miles, benidea cthor connootions, Bhould the Erio rofuse this con- nection, MoHonry will naturally withdraw his support from Erio, and docline to nse his influ. onco in raising monoy for it in the London mar kot, and Erio, having no crodit hoto or abroad, ‘would go Into bznkraptoy.” BREADSTUFFS, Tlour is fairly activo for grades undor $7.76, Other kinds held with incroased confldence. tho closo thoro is & good domaud for tho low grados. Theso aro scarco aud highor. The sales firo: 12,000 brls at $6.16@6.50 for suporfing Btate and Westorn ; 87.20@7.50 for thmstntné 7.10@7.0 for Wostorn shipping axtra; 87.3 @10 for estra round Lioop: hio Bmpgnlng‘ $7.70@8.25 for trddo nand family brands; 8.16@ 12,00 for common to choico oxra Bt. Loufs, * pmovisions. Tho market for-pork ia_intensely dull, and thero wora fow ecllers at £18.00, bnt £17.50 ia tho best figuro offered for round lots, and no business waa roported eithor. in contract, stock, orspot. Out meats were inactivd, and the gen= eral markot showed signs of a weakening ten- dency. Bellies declinod, and would not bnnfi ovar 10 for light weighta boxed ; looga in bul held at -8i{@9%6e. . Hame movo slow, snd difficalt to sell at 11%@13a for olty Fumm, and 11@121¢o for Western tierced, Dry saltod shonlders are stoady, but trado is light at Tigo. City &iinklorl arc in fair demand, and 10,000 ibs sold at 73¢c. Bmoked moats ato quict, at 18)¢@160 for hame, and 85¢ @ for shouldors. Middles continue dull aud frrogular, and are quoted at 93%@93o for long clqar, aud 9)fe for short clonr. Lard ia stends, and 4 firmor tono is noted; Wostorn stoam on tho spot sold at 9o, _Contract stock was in fait rc(}lmlt, and transactions wore lorgoly in Juno dolivory ot 97-160. City was & trilo off and woak, at 9o, . . > MADISON. A Prominent Ienl Estate Operator ‘Takes French Leave Without Con= sultlng Elis Oreditors =« A Femule Doctor Declared Insanc. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune, MADigo, Wis., * May 18.—What hus been come mon talk horo for sovoral doys, but the publica- tion of which hag boon suppressed by raquost of intorosted partics, ia now elaboratod in the pas pors, vig: The running mwayof Jncob Lenz, for. nourly s acoro of yonrs engagad in various oes oporations horo, aud, whilo posscas }fi’;hih: onbonndod confidence of i pablie gonorally, and ospocinlly his fojlow-Gormans, choating ' them ogrogionsly, ‘aupocinlly I titlos of proporty_sold. Somo Chicago ,men aro among tho craditors, s moeting of whom is oallod for May 80, and n Chicugo firm was flrat to commence procecdings in bankruptey, Mr Lenz in known to haye carried off soveral thou pand dollars with him, leaving littlo for Lig family, and very small assots for his unsecured croditars, of wiiom thero aro sovoral scoros, IIia wheroabouts ja unknown. Mrs. Anpa I. Ott, & well known Gormnn doca tregs bero, long regardod as crn.zr, Ling bocoma &0 troublosome to Lior family aud the community hnt ‘sho hns boon sont to tho Lospital for tho Insane, —— JANESVILLE. Oriminnls Sontenced=-Other Couri 3 Matterns Special Dispatch to T'he Chicago Tridune, Jaxesvitie, Wis, May 13.—Tho following oriminals woro soutonced by Judgo Conor, in tho Oireuit Court, just befora his departure for Milwaukoo. William' E. Hart, for forging J, 0, Bloan's nnmo to an ordor on R. B. Bostwick for n sult of clothes ; two yoars in tho Bioto Prison. Nathaniol Dardo, for busglary, transe forrod from Waukosha County; ono year intho Btato Prison. 2 ‘The caso of_the Stato ngainst Millor for bos« tardy-will probably bo tried to-morrow. It istha ouly case in tho crimiunl calendar to be tried this term. Coorgs Barroit, undor indictmont for Killing his brothor, has fakon a chango of vonua to Walworth County, whero it is thought ho will e triod noxt Boptomhor. Judge Bmall, of Milwauleo, presides avor the Cowrt. s P eee————— Myséterions Murder in Cedar Rapidse Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, OEDAR ‘Rartny, In,, May 19.—Tho lowor part of this ity was thrown into o stuto of excito- mont Inak night by o report of murdor boing committod. A Bohomirn named Masina roporta that hio saw & mian at the foot of hin bed, and asked what wag wautod, 'Tho only answer he flot was i shot-heing firod, striking his wifo in 10 hoad aud killing hor instantly, ~ Tho murdor« or escnpud, and the man can give no deseription of him. ‘Kho affair is sbroudod in mystory. [ —— Now York Legislature, Aunawy, N. Y., May 18.—In tho Assombly, a concurront ropolution ws udaptod ro uosting the Goyernor to correspond with the authorities at Washington as to the salo of eaptured cannon at Watorvlict Avsonal, aud to sccuro, by purs ohiaso or otherwiso, much trophios as' ho may think propor to prosorve to tho Hlala of Now York. A Scaffold Falls, Killing Four Porsons, Macox, Gn,, May 1 —A scaffold at tho Meroer Univorally bullding foll thia afternoon, prooipls tating four workmon to the ground, » dlstancoof soventy foot, John Ran, of Philadolphis, and James Qlabor, of Chicago, wore killed; W, E. B Trootor and Bou White, ‘colored, were fatally and Ed Holk. ealaved, adiously, ntureds ’I‘ho total enlea botwoen 12.and 8 -o'clock mmounted to 35,860 sharos; Western