Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 16, 1873, Page 4

T RER Qlatoly rollovod by using M. Winalow's TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMS OF BUNBCRIPTION éX'AY‘AI!L! w ADVAIDK').G g 12,00 | Sunday, 2. R oetteng u.l;u| Weokly 2.0 L'arts of a sonr At tha samo rate, "To provont. dolay and infstakes, bo suro and giva Post OfMico adirosn in full, fnolnding Btato and Cousty, Remlttancos way bo mada olthor by draft, oxpros Oflico ordur, or {n renitored olters, at our risk, TENNS TO OITE AUDECRINENS, Daily, doliverod, Bundny cxcopted, % conte por weok, Dafly, doliverod, Sundny includod, T0 cants por wook. Addross TIE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Cornor Madison and Dearborn-sts., Uhleago, 1il, prishsiimasiochateisth bl TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, Post 100LEY'S THEATI—Randolph atrcot, bet Ok At LASer ™ Hommart A brncon et craaront MOVICKIR'S THEATRIE~Madison stroot, Jotwoen Doarborn and Stato, Tho Katlo Putnam Troupo. ** World and Btago." NIXON'S AMPHITH EATRIE—Olinton streot, botweon Wasiiinglon and Handoiph, Tony Pastor's Varloly Com- bivation, Aftornoon and evoning, "BUSINESS NOTICES, LYON'S INSROT POWDRR IS Tt MOST POW- in tho world. ‘orful Aud affoctiva lisoct powd TIT POOR TITTLI 8U) T INME. oothing Byrup for ohlldron teothiing, IAVANA = LOTTERY—-WI SOLD IN d April last the $500,000 . Ulroulars inilon giva,. 1. o MARTINIE & 00, Wi L. 0. i, Now York. MOTIH PATOIES, ABK Moth_nnd Freckle Tation. npot, 40 Hond-st., Now Yok, Yor Pimploson th Ea Blaokhosds, and Floshiwornis, uso Porry's Impravod Com' odone and Pimplo llmllmli’—-flm Groat Bkin Modicino, Froparod only by De, B, U, Porry, Dormatologisty 4 ond-at., Now York, - MARSH'S RADIOAL-OURE TRUBS OURRS st bie ot b6 sliouldor Lracos, miispon- sion_bandagos, olnstic atockings, bidomiual supporturs, prolapsus ani {fstrumonts. Appnratus for bow.lugn, knock- nnos, weak anklon, and olirvaturs of Lo spine adourato. 15 fittod, and_ satisfaotion guarantocd, E3A compotont fomaloth attondanco, MARSIL & BOWLES, 102 jngtonat. The Chicage Tiibune, Wednesdsy Morning, July 16, 1873, o drawl sonty Bank nsh- Tacoms, in Washington Torritory, has boon chosen by tho Commissioners of tho Northorn Pacifio a8 tho terminus of that rond. Two millions of United States bonds wero bought yestordsy in London by tho Gorman Government, in addition to tho §10,000,000 it bought the othor day. Cotton was planted more widely this yoar than usual in tho Southern Statos, and if all tho conditions had boon favorable the crop would havo overtasked the labor available for hand- ling it. As it is, tho Dopnrimont of Agricul- ture report that wet woather has reduced tho yiold to an avernge figura. A correspondent of the Now York World cor- tifies to tho charactor of John I\ Drow, tho man who oaw Onkes Ames draw the money on tho 8, 0. or beater” check, as n porson who, un- like Amos, draws checks on banks whore ho hay no funds, and with tho proceods neglocts to pay his tailor's bills, Our Ottnwa (Canndn) correspoudent drnwa o vivid picturo of tho public oxcitemont in the Do- minion consequent upon tho publication of tho Allan-Smith-Mcdullen correspondenco. The Macdonald Minstry s evidontly on its last logs. The party which it ropresonta has beon in powor sighteen years consecutively. It iu timo for a change. = The Industrial Congross of the United Btatos, which is now iu session at Cloveland, ropresouts & Inrgo numboer of the trades-unions and labor- organizatious of tho country. Thero are prosont ovor100 members, who appear for a constituoncy of 125,000 workingmon. Oneof the objects of tho association is the formation of a now politi- cal party. Yestordany nothing was attompted but the work of preliminary organization, City of Washington, in tho investigation now pending, to account for thoir accident, is the do- viation of the compass., One of them testified that ho had known tho prosence of a large in- #lallment of sowing-machines in the cargo to give tho compass a serious misdirection. No avidonco ndduced thus far convicts crew or ofli- tors of negligenco or Inck of disciplino, The Btate Temporance Union, which was form- ed in Springfleld lost Fobruary, mot in Jaok- sonville yosterday. Only fourtcon dologates woro prosent, aud 08 this number was not o quorum the body adjourned sine die. ‘The gath- oring then rosolved itself into a temperance meoting to discuss tho prospoota of tho causo. Its groat lack waa felt to bo want of organization, In which tho Temperanco men would do well to follow the oxamploe of their energoetia opponents. The Committeo on Rosolutions roported against presonting any platform, and were sustained by the assembly. Jocob Thompson . has writton a Ilottor, which appoars in tho Momphis Avalanche, i roferonco to the story of o deficit of $821,000in his nccounts as Socrotary of tho Interior, His oxpla- nntion doos not diffor from that which hns alrondy beon given. Thé dofuleation was tho crimo of nclork in the Dopartmont, and is in no way to bo chiarged npon Mr. Thompon, A committeo, consisling oxclusively of political opponents, declarod the Sccratary, bwelve yours ngo, to bo guiltless in tho mattor, aud thoir roport was unanimously approved by Congross, The lease of tho New Jersoy Railrond to the Pemsylvanin Central for 999 years lns bLeon fouglit bittorly iu tho courts of that Stato by tha dinsentiont stockholders. Conflicting decisions have been rendered in tho various courts con- corning its logality, and tho constitutionality of the law of 1870 undor which it was effeoted. The Court of Errors, the court of fiual rosort, b Just decided, by & voto of soven to ono, that tho Ieaso was unnuthorized, and grants an in- junction to provent its consummation. Bhould it be to Jato too apply this remedy, another must be found. It has beon whispered about 'Changa for some dnys that at least ono Lolder of & warohouso ro- coipt for 5,000 bushels'of corn in the Northwost- ern Elovator (tho first elevator in which the ery of “hotcorn” wns raised) las received from said olovator tho valuo of 5,000 hushels of sound, merchantablo No, 3corn in oxchango for #nid veeoipl. Tho subject furnlshies o now conun- drum for the attoution of Mossrs, Sykes, Ran- noy, nnd Dow. It worvos, nlao, to iltustrate tho mouning of Mr, Hiram Whooler, when ho said to those gentlomon: “I don’t heliovo thoro is moro ot corn this yeur than tho average.” Our raporlory, in continuing their inquiries ns to the effoctu of the new pro rafa Raflrond Inw npon the various branches of buginess in his vity, have visited the dry-goods morehanis. Although timo onough haa not yot elapsed for o finnlview of its full operation, particulnrly asthe present ja tho dull season, all are agrood that tho law will produceno noteworthy change in thelr businoss or the commerclal rolationa of THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1873. Chicago. If, the hardwaro aud grocery mon, whoso views wo roported last weok, can bosr without logs the Incrensod ratos with tholr hoavy and bulky froights, ng they corlainly oxpoct to do, tho dry-goods men, with thoir lightor mer- cliandiso, hiave nothing to fear, [ ——— There seoms to bo soma disposition to hold tho mombors of tho Leglslature rosponsiblo for the inharmonlous working of the now Railroad law. Undoubtedly tho rosponaibility will roat upon thom, thore bolng no othor placa for it to reat, But in ordor to do equnl and oxnat justico toall mon, without rogard to color or provious condition of sorvitude, it should be borno in mind that tho Loglslaturo could not bave notod differontly. Public opinion domanded sn aoti-diserimination bill. Practionl difficultios, no logs than judiclal ob- staclos, stood in tho way of a Inw fixing arbi- trary ratoa of frolghtohnrges. Ionco, whilotho mombers of tho Logislaturo must, porhaps, stand or fall by tho law thoy havo pamsod, thoy onn roasonably allege, it the law turna out to bo unpopulnr, that thoy voted under compul- sion. —e Tho Ohleago produce markots wors mors no- tivo yostorday in brondstuffa, Mous pork was quiot and a ahada firmer, ot 816,50@16.60 cash, and $15.70 gollor August. Lard was inactivo snd firm, ot €8.26@8.85 por 100 Iba cash, and $8.40@8.50 sollor August. Ments wora dull aud oasior st 7X@7X0 for shouldors, 9o for middlos, nnd 10@12ge for swoot picklod hams, High~ wines wore active and 3do higher, at 0o per gallon. Lako froights wore ingood demand, and closed 2go highor, at 6o for corn to Buffalo. Flour was moro active and firm. Wheat was strong, and 1@1Xc highor, clos- Ing at $1.19)¢ cash, and 81.16) soller August: Corn was activo and stronger, closing at 36X e cash, and 3730 sollor August. Oats woro loss activo, and }c lower, closing at 28}ge cash, and 2730 sollor August, ye was dull and 1clower, at 600, Barloy was quiot and 2 higher, at 650 for now No. 2, eoller Soptembor. Thoro waa in storo in this city on Saturdny ovening lnst: 506,093 buwhont ; 8,064,945 bu corn ; 844,727 bu onts; 77,222 bu ryo; and 40,671 bu barloy. Tiogs wero activoand stoady, nt 84.25@4.75 for poor to choico. Cattle were quiot Sheop re- main stendy, CITY POLITICS. Mnyor Medill baving declared peromptorily that ho will not boa candidato for ro-oleotion, ond farther, that if olectod ho will not nccopt the oflice, thoro has beon new interest given to tho choico of his successor. It is funny to watch tho manenvering of all tho small squada, cabals, and cliques of potty politicians and offico-seclkors. Each of theso cliguos has a pitont process for producing tho noxt Mayor, and onch elaims to have priority in knowing Low to circumvent tho public and restoro tho old stylo of rumning tho City Govornmont. Thoy soem to forgot that Mr. -Medill hns mado it dificult to find o sentisfactory Mayor, Ifo Las set an eoxamplo which but fow will bo willing, and fewer still compotont, to follow. e hag been Mayor of Chicago— nothing less, nothing more. o has kuown no party, or intorest, or clags; his constituoncy hag ‘beon the whole people. He has administored the affairs of tho city with tho solo view of promot- ing tho public iuterosts, and has not stepped aside in tho least to obligo a political friend or punish a foo. Iia purpose has boen to sorve the publio interests ; to cconomizo tho publio reve- nue; to avoid every penny of unnocessary ox- ponso; to rejoct every schome for tho mere ox- pondituro of monoy; to cut off all private jobs at tho publio cost; to enforco the laws, and ‘maintain ordor and public decency. Mr. Medill hos not only been a faitliful, ener- gotio, and economical Mayor, but be hag beon ublo to impress his oxamplo upon all othor Dbranchos of tho City Governmont. ‘The Com- mon Council has been practically roformed. After o sharp contost, it yiolded to the straight- forward policy of the Mayor, and has gonerally sustained him. Ho has roformed tho Police Do- partment by lifting it out of the hands of local politicinns, nud weeding ont of the forco tho inofficient and dograded. IMo his inspired tho Fire Departmont with now energy. Ho Las givon dircctnoss, systom, and rosponsibility to the operations of tho Board of I'ublic Works, and gonorally throughout tho City Government mudo fidelity o substnntial instosd of a pro- tondod qualification for publio servico. Tho people having Lad such s Mayor will not voluntarily or knowingly accopt any othor kind, Cortainly thoy will not cousent to tho clection of any man as Magor who will not cither directly, or by his own woll-known personal ebaractor, glvo assuranco that thoro will be no casontial do- parturo from the policy of Mayor Medill, cithor a8 respoots an honost and economical administra~ tion of tho Government, or astrict ouforcomont of tho Tnws, ospeclully thoso concorning tha snlo of liquorn. Thero is no formidablo oppo- sition on the part of any portion of the com- muvity to the policy of (o Mayor concorning Sunday Nquor-solling, save among a portion of tho snloon-koopors. This opposition, which atone time apponred to includo tho boor-drink- ors, turns out to bo confined mainly to the beer- wollors, Btrango na It miny koom, all tho politieal cliques have for tho boginning of thoir organ- ization this small body of detormined violators of tho Sunday lows. Tho stump end of what waa onco the Democratic party have an idoa that o Domocratic candidato for Mayor might bo ecloctod, with tho holp of tho paloou- bummors; aud visious of a long lino of Domoeratle officors, from Mayor down to bridge-tendors, fill the imagination of the dead-beats and senllawags who Lave no other oxpoctation of ronching offico. Thoso men aro suggosting tho namos of weveral citizons for the Muyoralty, who, having & common intorost in tho public wolfaro, will lond themsolves to no such disreputablo arrangements, Thon there is the Custom-louse, or oftice-holders', cliquo. Theso men insist human ealvation dopends on the oloction of & struight Ropubliean tiolot, composed of mon who favored the lato War, and the Thirtconth, Fourtoonth, aud Fiftoonth Awmondmonts, who will sy nothing to offond Mr. Hosing, and who will soo that thepatronngeof tho city and the oxponditures of publio monoy are in tho hands of tried and truo Ropublicans. ‘Ihis faction has of course to conellinto tho Sun- day liquor-sellors, aud this thoy will probably try to do by solesting for Mayor a sound Ropub- Tieun who gots tight on Bunday, or somo othor man who can ko unito loyalty aud disordor that 1o ean got the support of tho anloons. Outside of thexo thero ara tho Lrowers nud the liquor- denlors' organizations, both having large funds at thoir disposnl, aud thon thoro Is Mr, Iesing Limuolf, around whom all theso eloments circlo, oach expuating s nid, aud oach offoring him anyiliug he moy usk for his support. Btrange [ to eny, neither Domocrats, nor officoholders, nor browers, nox sn»loon-k‘onporn proposo to moko him Mayor, though all aro orawling st his foot nsking for his support. Thoro s auothor fao- tiom, lod by Mr. Koily, who inslst that tho noxt Mayor shnall ultorly prohibit tho enlo and uro of intoxleating bovoragos in Chicngo. Theso por- song aro dissntisfied with Modill bocauso ho ox- couted tho Inw a8 o judgo and not as o propagan- dist. It will bo noticod that in all this nrray thoro is nothing eald about tho public intorests. The poople ut Iarge ara expocted to accopt for Mayor and all othor branchos of tho governmont tho men soloctod for thom by ono or othor of theoso potty organizations, whoso solo alm ia to socure for thoir own followaors the haudling of tho public rovenuo without referouce to tho publie® intor- osts, nnd to restoro tho old partisan mode of do- iog public business, The oloction, howover, will: not take plnco for nearly fourmonth, and in that timo thio 40,000 votors of Chicago who aro not offloe-sookars, and who aro intorostod In having tho prudont Municipal Government of tho Inst two yonra continued, will probably find an hon~ oat oitizon, of aterling porsoual oharnctor, who, lilo Mr. Modill, will be Mayor of nll Chicago, nnd not of a cliquo, or a faction, or o party. THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY PLATFORM, Tho Livivgston County Platform hus mado a hit. Wo print olsowhero in this issuo oxtracts from & numbor of lottors which havo been ad- drossed to Mr. 8. T. K. Primo, tho Socrotary of tho Livingston County Farmors' Association, np- proving of tho pistform, and nsking for copios for distribution. The lettors como from Vico- Proeidents of tho Stato Associntion, from Mas- tors of Granges, aud from gontlomon who nre anxious to form organizations in thoir own counties, ‘whoro they do not already oxiat, to nct in concert with the Livingaton County movomont. Although it is but a fow wacks siuco suy mensurcs woro takon to givo this platform a cireulation, it Lns mado & wide-spread , impression, and hos found enthusisstic: respouse mn various countios throughout this Stato and in Indiaus, Tows, Min- nosota, and Knnsas, Thero will bo other coun- tios honrd from, nnd other States, too, boforo long. Mr.D.W.Dame, tho Chairman of the Exccutive Committea of tho Patrons of Hus- bandry in this Stato, says of the platform : * It is sound ; it ha the ring of truo motal.” “ Etiy hoartlly indorsed by overy man to whom I have shiown it,” says Mr. Dliss, ouo of the Vico-Prosi- donts of tho Stato Associntion, It is approved “fully, freely, and without roservation® hy tho Avon Agricultural Socloty. *Yonr plotform shiikes from the shoulder and gives what I considor knock-down Dlows,” iu tho verdict from Bloomington, **Thoy wro rightoous and just,” writes n mombor of tho National Agricultural Gongross, of tho address aud rosolutions, *uud I would rojoico to soo tho principlea triumphant.” “1t will sprond liko wildfive,” says an Iudinnn man, who dosires to #eo it fairly started iu his State. And wo on. “Lho disposition is overywhoro manifont to pro- mote concort of action and hinrmony in organiza- tion among the various countics and States. ‘Tho platform itsolf is o model of porspicnity, concisoness, and diroctnoss. Tt can all bo printed fu largo typo on tho back of n postal- eard, and thus choaply and couveniently cirou- lated. 'Iho postal-cards have never yot servod o botter purposo. Tho declaration sots forth, in ono brief sontenco, tho opposition to *railrond steals, tarill stools, salary-grab ateals, and avory other form of thievery.” Thero sro Just five plonksin the platform, and they are brond onough to covor the whole wituntion. They de- elaro consocutively (1) in favor of controlling railrond corporations by law; (2) in donuncine tion of all txation for tho bouefit of spacial * clnswos a8 unjust and opprossivo; (3) in favor of froo bauking wndor tho proper security; (4) in opposition to all land-grauts; aud (5) iu favor of Civil-Sorvico Roform, making lonesty nnd capacity the only valid claims for public employ- mont, to tho end that **the oftice sliould ok the man, and not the man the oflico,” Such a dee- laration and such & platform must commond thomsolvos to all honest mon, whether thoy bo farmers or denizens of tho city. Theso aro principles that will euit overbody but the repro- sentative politicion of the day. Tho mon who thrivo at tho oxponrio of the pooplo on salary- grabs, Crodit Mobiliors, protactivo tariffs, rail rond extortion, aud official corruption will have no sympathy with thom, All othors will bolieve in thom. It is vory ovident from tho reports on all sidos that tho ball iy rolling. It nover rolled so fast boforo. Tho Anti-Monopoly Party is broad enough in it nims and purposes to gathor men in from all parties. It is tainted with no politiel projudicos, nnd weighed down with no partisan attachmonts. It hoa not a singlo word of praiso or rebulo for tho Ropub- Tican party or tho Domocratic party. It Ignoros slavory, and nogro sullrago, nud reconstruction, and all tho dead issucs of tho dend pnst. It reaches out into tho futuro, It aims at the do- atruction of all tho politicnl mnchinery which Lus beon used for tho past four yonrs to crush out popular rights, It s not on the scarch for londers. It proposos ihab the pooplo shall lead thomsolvgs. It docs not stop to inquiro whothor & man Lins beon in the babit of voting tho Republican ticket or tho Domocratio ticket. It only auke him, as an honest maun, to joln in n holy crusado against corruption, mouopoly, and opprossion. 1t is popular rovolt nguinst railroad ostortion, royaltios pnid for the protection of cortain olasuoy, buok-pny grabe, land-grabs, lobby-sub- widioy, Credit Mobilirs, or any othor varioty of tho Protenn corrnption of the time, In fighting out thin Issuo, tho people canuot do bottor than to hurl their thunderbolts from tho platform which the Liviugslon County farmers have offored them, s THE VERMONT CREDIT MOBILIER, Tho way in'which Logistaturos and thoir come mittees are disposed to rogard Crodit Mobilior ringn is aptly ilustratod i tho rocent roport of & committeo of tho Vormont Leglulnture, ap- polntod to investignto the operations of tho Ver- mont Coutral Railrond ring, and tholr alloged bribory of mombers of the Ausombly, 'I'io po- oulinrity of this particular Credit Mobilior, it will bo romembered, was to swindlo tho stock- holidors of tho Vormont Conteal by absorbing tho Dprofits {u car-works owned by & soloct numbor of tho managors of tho road. Tho gontlomen componing tho ring built the cars nud locomo- tivos and rontod thom to the railroad companics at a rogular and pormauent componsation. Tho Construction Company rocelvad the rontal of itk cars, and 1t may bo Imagined that it was not o small ono, whothor the cars were runor not. Tho rosult of this arrangemont was that the Rail- roud Compauy stondily lost monoy, whilo the ring got rich ot Ib, rallrond mpnoggrs, fssued bonds to pay tho "Iho ring, in th capavity of | of lossen of tho rond,ns fast a8 tho dobt no- oumulated, and made o profit on this traneno- tion, In tho procoss of tholr manipulations, thoy found it necossary to soo" tho Loglsla- {ure, 50 08 to hiond off any unfavorablo invosti- galions or reports, Whon thia came to bo pub- loly noluod sbout, tho Leglslaturo was con- atrained to appoint a committeo to look into it, and tho roport of that Committeo is anothor 1untanco of tho officlal construction of what the pooplo eall bribory, The Gommitteo find that one J. D. Iatoh had oo nccount against tho Vormont Contral Rail- rond Company for €1,000, with tho atatomont that it was distributod in sums of &G0 onch to soveral of tho londing mombers of tha Loglslaturo. With this fact oloarly brought bo- foro thom, and with suspicious ciroumstances surrounding tho wholo concern, tho Committoo find that nono of their follow logislators ro- colvedmonoey * for any but logitimato and lawful purposos.” According to the boliof of tho Com- mittoo, the mombers toolk the money undor the conviction that Hatol wag * rotaining thom in & logitimate and propor manner, and placing them undor obligation to rendor for the railrond such profosslonal servicos as thoy might be enlled upon thoronfter to porform,” but not “ for any sorvices thoy had performod or wore to porform for this railroad in thoir official capaol~ ty." Tho logislators of Vormont must have o poor opinion of tho intolligonca of tho pooplo of Vermont if thoy oxpoct that such o roport will sorvo to draw tho wool ovor tholr eyos. If no moro than $1,000 were distributed in sums of 250 oach, this would bo onough to “rotain” just twonty mombors of tho Logislaturo, What noed 'was the Vormont Contral Railroad Company sup- posed to have for twonty lnwyors—it, indeod, they wore lawyors—at ono placo, and that place tho Oapital of tho Btate, excopt for tholr influence in seouring favorablo legislation or averting un- favorablo logislation ? The case is too palpably oo of direct bargain and salo, under tho circum- stanco, to admit of roasonablo and pationt trent~ mont, and it is only nocossary to cifo its fontures to convinco tho peoplo that thoro wna a detor- mination in the Vormont Logislaturo to whito- wagh the Oredit Mobilior of their State, just as thore was a detormination in tho United Btates Congroas to whitowash the big Credit Mobilier of Amorica. That thoy darod to carry out their purpose in the face of the popular fury against railroad stenls, is another ovidonco of tho con- fident nssuranco of the politicnl corruptionists of tho day, Tho ring of the Trustees in tho Car and Fonn- dry Compnuios was fully proved, ns was nlgo tho fact that the Trustecs wore making monoy whila tho Railroad Company was losing. DBut tho Gom- mitteo found nothing unususl in this procoed- ing, and did not go furthor than to oxpross n vaguo and mild disapproval of the practico. Thoy declined to look into the history nud uso of Mr. J, Grogory Smith's *secret sorvico fund.” Tt wns cortain that such a fund oxistod, and Mr. J. Gregory Smith declined to toll what use ho mado of it. Thoreupon the Committeo decided to drop tho mattor, with the following com- ments: In referonco to this branch of our Inquiry wo hava only to add that thero I #o much of this fund that wo are unablo {0 find for what purposs It was appropriat- e that wo abstain from a full oxpresston of optulon in regard to it, and whilo wo do not find that it has boon corruptly used from any testimouy that came boforo ‘uR, still from tho incomploteness of the testimony wo 4o not bollove wo sliould bo warranted In finding it was or was not corruptly usod without a fullor investigas tion, and wo are willing to leavo ita further considorn~ tion to thoso whoso duty It will bo to oxumino the sub- Joct moro thoroughly than wo have been ablo to do. This report of tho Vermont Logislature's Com- mittoo on ono of tho boldest railrosd frauds of the doy ought to bo sorviconblo in ono way at lenst, viz : It should teach the peoplo not to look to party Logislatures for the correction of the railway abusos, THE CANADA PACIFIC RATLROAD, Tho Cnuada Pacifie Railrond sohome has boen sufliciently dovelopod to allow an opportunity to look upon it from ol sidos, and to judge of its practicability snd desirabloncss, and, looking upon it from all sides, it is within bounds to suy thaot there was nover a railrond schomo set on foot which hos had g0 little to commend it to either public or private confidonco. It was born in corruption, and Lina beon nurtured in violation of solemn compact. As 4 last resort, the man-~ agora of the schome, inorder to obtain as- sistanco from English capitalists, of which thero is at presout no Lope, have mskod for an oxteusion of the time allowed for tho construction of the road, from ton to twelve years from tho dato of the nnnoxation of British Columbia to tho Union, This is an in- frivgemont of tho torme mado with British Columbia. The leading condition upon which Dritish Columbla was admitted into tho Confed- eration of tho Dritish Provincos (which tuok placo in 1870) was tho agreemont upon tho part of tho Dominion Government to conutruot o rail- rond from Ontario to the Pacific const within ten yoars, tho eatimatod length of tho road boing 2,600 miles, tho ostimated cost $100,000,000, and the subgidy from tho Dominion Govornmont £90,- 000,000 and 60,000,000 gcres of land, Iforo, theroforo, is s deliberato intention to violate the national faith, aud not tho only oue, Tho agroomont betweon the Govornmout and tho Compnny provides that “a subsidy or aid of monoy nmounting to 930,000,000 s horaby granted to tho Company, payablo from timo to timo by installments, at intervals of ono month, as any portion ot the railway is procceded with, in proportion to tho length, difiiculty of con- atruction, and cost of such portions; such pro- portion to Do nucertained and sottled in the snmo meunor a8 ik horein provided with re- spoct to tho grants of land.” In violation of this agreomont, tha Company now demand to iuano tholr boudu nt 85 por cent, or 16 per cont digeount, to incroaso the amount to bo isaod from £40,000 to €50,000 por milo, and tho pay- mont of the whole subuidy in a lump, instoud of by installmonts, n por agreomont. That & Come vany should thus doliborately seok to violato ita ngroemonts and to compromiso tho national faith I of iteolf prima facic ovidonco that all tlio dotails of its managoment hava boon marked by corruption. ‘The disclosurcs which have racontly been mado of the oporntiona of Bir Hugh Allan and the Macdonsld Government sustain this view. The Company consints of thirtoon porsons, who are prosumed to huvo paid up o million of dollars on the mibscribed stock of ten millions, but this monoy has not beon deposited, naccording to tho nct, with the Ro- ceivor-lenoral, ‘Tho Govornmont, upon which tho Compuny deponds, hoa boon foread to buy its majorlty i ovory omergoncy, and ling boon publicly indictod for having sold tho chartor in roturn for o bribo, to Bir ITugh Allan, who admits thot tho bribo was due him as the oquivalent of tho wholassle - debauchery tho constifuoncion at tho eleotion & your ago, Tho portloularsl’of ¢hat debauchery nro alrondy familiar to tho publio by tho dinclonures in the lottors of Allan to Me- Mullon and Bmith, of Chicago, Evory step of this schomo ns beon marked by bribery and corruption, and every proposnl in connection with its route and construction Las boon made inrespect to somo political oxigonoy of tho Miniatry, and to such an oxtont that the schomo Is no longer a Canadinn Dnclfic but o Macdonnld Pacilo schomo., Dut violation of nationnl faith and wide-spread corraption aro not tho only arguments ngainat this schemo, 11 constructed ns now proposod, it must entail dobt upon tho Dominion of 80,000,000, in order to accommodato tho supposed wants of somo 12,000 pooplo, which is tho population of Drltish Columbis, oxclusive of Indinne nnd Chineso. In addition to this dobt, tho Dominion Las & dobt of §20,000,000 on tho Intor-Colo- ninl Rallrond which is to connoct Ilnlifax with Quebeo, and £12,000,000 on cannl enlargoment. This debt, in addition to othar liabilitios of tho Dominion, s enormously dlsproportionad to ita population. By ita lnst consus (1871), Canadn had but 8,075,677 people, not much more than tho Stato of Pennsylvania and considerably less than tho Btato of Now York, Nor is the yearly increnso of population in tho Dominion such a8 to warrant tho assumption of suoh & dobt. It was supposed that tho Inet census would show s population of at lonat 4,600,000, wherons tho official figuron 10111,000,000 under that catimato. Tho increasoe in tho last ten yoars in the Dominlon hag only boen about 400,000, & condition of things Which. 18 oxplained by tho fact that, during thé five yonrs ondiog In 1870, the numbor of 248,905 out of tho total numbor of omigrants from Europo by tho Bt. Lawronce route entored the United Btates. But, admitting that Canadn is ablo to provide for such a dobt, what sufficlent renson can tho projectors of this pnrtioular routo aronnd the morth shoro of Tako Bu- porior and through the sterile wildernesscs of British Columbia to tho Pacific advance for 1ts construction ? Thorois ag yot no cortainty what the Canadian Pacific Railroad will roally bo. Propositions have been made to run it this way nnd that way, and o still further proposition to build cast and wost ends and connoct them by the Northorn Pacific Rond on American soil. Horo is tho first olement of indefinitoness. Its cost is a8 wuncortain as its routo. No ono can guaranteo it, becauso no cstimates havo beon made. No estimates hinvo been mado becnuse no surveys or specifientions havo beon made. Thoro is no population to support the road if it wore built, There is no market to supply it. A great part of the rond would run through a rocky, sterile rogion, enpablo of grow- ing nothing hut sorubby pino troes, which aro bardly merchautable commodities. Tho sparse sottloments of Indians and hall-broeds, hundreds of miles opart, with tholr chort sengon for crop-raising, coulil not dovolop n trade, end tho proupocts for the population of this vast territory, 8o ns to supply o market, cannot be renlized for centuries at tho present rato of increaso. If tho projoctors of this schome aro caleulating upon trade with Asin, then they aro hypotheeating on o market already monopo- lized by the old stenmer routes aud by Amoricnn communications, eomo of thom alrcady con- structed, like tho Union Tacific, or in process of construction, liko tho Bouthorn aud Northorn Pacific. Loolt nt the present Conadinn Pacific schomein whatover light wemay, it resolvesitself intou huge political job which was born in corruption, bna beon fostered by intrigue and bribery, has not o single convineing renson to show for its con- struction, and Lins not yot secured a dollar of Englich or Canadiau capital, Its deatiny is to break itself down and to break down the Mac- donald Governmont, which kas boon subsidized in its intorests. It docs mot follow, Thowover, that becauso this purticular sohema for ‘building o Canadian Pacific Reilvoad has been shown to bo unworthy of public confidenco, theroforo no road should bo built. Thore is, porhaps, & necessity for communication bo- tweon Cavade and DMauitoba oud the Sas- katchowan Valley. Every consideration, both finoucinl aud . othorwiso, points to Chi- l cago and Br. Paul as tho natural route for communication with that scction of British .Amoriea, It has the advantage in oxpenso, dis- *tance, aud amount of road already constructed. Tt is worth tho whilo, therofore, of tho Dominion autloritios to consult and seo whothor this routo .is not tho pressing solution of tho Canadian f: Paoifio problem, It is simply wicked to eink + 630,000,000 in & moonsbino railrond. The wholo of Dritish Columbin can bo bought and paid for with half thot sum. ¥ NOTES AND OPINION, ! Sonntor Buckingham, of Counecticut, is tho Iatest, and, probably, tho Iast, to cover into tho Trongury his “Dack pay " for tho Forty-second Congross, aud tho list closes on fiftoon Senators and thirty-four Ropresentatives. This list doos not includo John Shermnn, Olivor P. Morton, Goorgo F. Edmunds, and others who continually sny thoy “bave not drawn it.” ‘he Washington Olronicle (James Harlan) makes this comment ¢ Flfteen Senators out of sovonty-fonr, und thirty-four Represontativen aud Dolegates out of 453 mewborn of tho Forty-Second Congresy hud eovaciontious seruples ou thu subjoct, Itis still more remarkablo that tho wholo of them ‘who ure members of tho TForty~Third Congrws tako tho full compensation under the new Intv.” Boforo tlio 411 of fuut Mxveh thoy conssientiovsly boliovu thefr serviven Lo uve been worth $110,603 per month only, sud after that partioutar dato in’ tlie ub- souca of auy new leglslution, sud duriug the rocess, whon_ho tost of “them aro either recruiting or nttouding to Ahelr privato nffaim, tiey au “cou- selontiously ~ think they should 'bo paid tho oxact sum uf $035 per month, Will not somo ono ox- plain Low thiw acerolion fu tho valuo of - Congrosstonnl toll ocenrred 7 , . ., It will bo keen, by connlting the that Seiiatora aud Roprebeitatives of tho Forty-third Congress aro in no wiy oSl about taking tho puy st the Increased ruto, “Cunnot the com- Diued untl-wlary-grab press of the wholucountry furge onough thunderbolts, and_Imel them st tho heads ot thieso 464 recreants of (ho Forty-third Cougress to i duco st of thom to dlsgorgo the exten compousa- tion 7 Hanator Thurman, whoso turn'comos this yenr, in Obio, fiuds an inguiry provalont among the peoplo of that Btate whether ho (Thurman) is very surebo will both voto for and inslat upon & vepeal of tho malary Inw, noxt wiuter, with s Dribo of $5,026 salary drawn and pockotod by Limn in the vacation. T'he peoplo do nat forget -that Senators aud Roprosoutsatives will have ‘boon bribod with moro than two million dollara not to repent tho lnw, before over they como to -voto on its repenl. —Tho Milwaukeo Sentincl aponks of its intor- ost in tho slary reponl quostion, to bo raised in Qongroas noxt winter, thus: +Wo want to keo tho effort mado, bocaso tho peoplo demand §t, nud beeatso wo wank o swe tho oty and conabitoncy of tho Domoceatin party terted 1 this * practical way, " I€ the 61 Demoerata in tho Iouso hnd no voted for tho Wil it could not lve buon passod, and now the country s auxlous Lo kuow how wany of thom will vota for fis ropeal, ‘Tho votes of ‘61 Domocrata in tho Ilonas™ | will bo important, bt the votos of 195 Republi- i cans in tho houso will Le vastly more importaut, Aud wo, too, want to roo the honesty and connia- toney of tho Republicans ¢ testod In this practi- ceal viny." —he Congroas that mado the anlary grab con= talned, In hoth Senato and Houso, 160 Qrant~ Ropublicans to 181 Opposition. Tho Congrass records, 240 Grant-Ropublicans to 117 Opponltion, Tho Boranton (Pa.) Times woll enys that “na twoe thirds working majority of Congross caunot bo mundo innooent of the srlary grab,? . . —The Des Molnos Register (orgnu) bogina to took upon tho Farmors' Movement in Iowa ng somothing that roquiron “ overy Republican lo coneidor woll the situation and come forward to tho bolp of his party® Tho partyis now in danger. Porhiapa ) this montiment, from tho Buftalo (N. Y.) Zzpross, also an organ, bettor oxprossey tho situation : ‘Whon n party bocomes o obnoxious that it can do Dothing but dio, it ought to bo burled out of ight, Aftor il lins bocomo_thoroughly decomposed, porhinps & now political treo will grow u[lx abrorbing some of {lio matorial of tho corpso, Dut it takos timo, —Tho Ban Franclsco Chronicle declnren that tho Grangos in Colifornin *nlrendy control n safliclont numbor of votos—~votos that aro not for enlo and cannot bo bought—to decide the clootion” in Soptorbor. i —An approcintive subseribor writes: T don't supposo it will mako you feol very happy, but 1t il me, aa 1 wil rejoico In the knwlodge ot s Aoty dischinrged, to sy thot Tirx Trinusg fan “lestlo the Leat paper in Amorica; and T mako constant use of ita editorinls and column of Nolos and Opinion to filnni- nato fomo of my benighted noighbors, Loth Ropublia cana and Domocrale. Tho Ilinois State Journal eays of tho suggos- tion of a conforonco botweon thie Rallrond Com- misslonors and the railroad companios ¢ Tho railroads, with tho expross purpose of throwln, odium upon tho now Iw, have, in thofaco of n doclde Dublio opinlon, manipuinted tisir tarils in such o wny 83 to mako tho burdous of tranaportation Loar heavier ‘upon tho producors than thoy did boforo, If the rafle Toad companies aro willlug' now 1o withdraw theso ¥ extortiouato tariffa oud roplaco them by romothing which fs fair and reasomablo, ~wo have no " doubt tho Commiemonors ' would bo vory glad to coufor with them to that ond, . . Thoy Aro now engngod n arrangin, such a sealo of “ maximum rates” for tho difforen Toads, 88 o falr and honast conatruation of tho Inw con- tomplates, Theao will bo mado without roforenco to tho schedulen which tho radirond companies have pros mulgatod as thelr ultimatums, 1f, now, tho_raflroad maguntes, with a viow ta s fafr adjustmént, dosiro to usaist tho Commiswioners wilh thelr suggoations and oplutans, wo Lavo 1o doubt they will bo very gladly ro- —Wo think tho railrond managors of Tllinols vory foolish in_taking m!r advantago of any wonk Tlnun {v this law, ‘Thoy should have acted np to its Apirit rather thau to its lottor.—Pifts- burgh Commercial. B —Tho people are willing to pay such ratos us will givo n reasonnblo intercst on tho actual cap-. ital invostod. But the railroads have first bogged subgeriptions, private, nud township, and city, nand county; thon confitieated all this to thoirovwn use, but added it to tho fl{){mmnt capital ; then {ssued fictitious stock to thomsolves for which nothing wag paid, and added tbis to their appa- rout capital. Thoy thon pay thomeclvos elsor- mous snlarics ; livo in magnificont ntylo; build oxtravagant liouses for themsolves; koop faat horsos ; wear costly dinmonds ; indulgo in groat oxtravaganco, and, aftor taking thia out of tho entnings of the rond by gomo_indiroot way, thoy claim that thoy ought to havo such rates of transportation as will, aftor paying )l thoir ex- travagancios, divido 10 per cont aunually. The peoplo will not submit to this kind of swindling any longor.—Rock Toland (1) Argus. —In tho Town Ropublican Btuto Convention, Yoting for the platform, were four Ropublican Scuators,—Stone, Hurloy, Fitch, and Milos,— whoso votos would havo sccured the vcrg logislntion in the scssion of 1872 or 1873, whicl tho platform, for which they now profess to voto, domauds, _Sotting up n platform is orna- montal work, Voting in thoSenato is tho useful part of Inbor.—Davenport Democral, < —Tho Republican party Is just on the point of purifying itsclf, In Minncsota thoro is not an old linck Jeft who is not very earncst in his offorts to rostoro the purity of tho party by gotting another offico.—St Paul Pioncer., —The Republican party s interestod in this grent roform movement, and is in sympathy with ovory cluich of tholnnd ngninst monopolios, and will bustain the farmers in sclecting such mon as aro in diroct and hearty necord in_ this movo~ mont, Wo suggest to tho Republican farmers of this county that they bring out their candi~ datos, and wo aro suro thoy will got tho voto of m?} Dacty and peoplo,—Zenry County (1lL) Re- publican. —Senator Cusey, of McLoan County, who lagt wiunter, in the Illinocis Sennte, voted to rocommit & rasolution of consuro of the salary-steal to n committeo, in order to kil it, which'it did, made aspeech on the 4th inet., florcoly donouncing this roblery. A correspondent in the Bloom- ington Democral gots after Mir, Cusoy and aske him sonio vory portinent questions about his Bonntorinl record.—IUinois State Register. —T'ho idon of apportioning a Cougressman's salary according o tho numbor of countios he roprasonts and tion nppraisini: himsolt accord- ing to tho impposad valuo ot a Connty Tronsurar, and a0 justifying tho plunging of his fiata into tho Troasury, is too brilliaut to hava ocourrod to sy but an originnl bnok-paystor. As to tho valuo ho places on himsolf us tho equivalent of six County Froasurers, Mr. James C. Robinson is probably honest, but have the other mon beon Lioard from yot? 1t is baroly possiblo ench of them may think himsel? as valuable ns Robin- son,—Indianapolis Journal. —\Wo can suuff trouble in tho adoption of this now standard of value for Congressmon ; if James 0. Robiuson is worth six County Troauur-~ ors, for Hoaven's sako what is the intinitosimal worth of & County ‘Ureasurer ? And if James O. Robinson is worth six, who shall attompt tell the number of these unfortunate County Troasur- ora that will bo required to offuot an honorable, high-minded, worthy roprosontative ? In bohalf of thoso deapisod custodians of county funds, wo entor a_solomn protest against Robinson's diabolical plau to dograde a respoctable class of office-holdors by reducing thom to one-sixth the 'valuo of an avorago Oongrossman. Monstrous | —Fond du Lac (WWis.) Commonwealth. : —I was in Congross whon tho salary was but £8,000, and I always found it moro than suffi- ciont to moot my noceesary porsonnl expenses, When it was raised to 85,0001 thought it too much, and think so still, but raraing it to 7,600 is nothing moro or lows' thuu straight steallng. Every yonr that I was in Congress I Inid bya portion of my snlary, and none of my conslitu- onts over complamed that I didn't live decontly. ‘Tho pooplo don't send their reprosontatives to Washington to live like Irincos, buck tho tigor, and keop hnlf-a-dozen of mistroasos.—Elihu 1. Washburne. —If ovory membor of Congross who does not drnw aud roturn tho oxtra pay to the Tronsury is o thiof, s tho proof now standa thore woro for- ty-six Lonost mou in the Forty-second Congross, and only 281 thioves; but in tho presont, or Forty-third Congress, not ono has thus far ros funded ; honco, the wholo 884 must bo thieves according to this test of thoir honosty.— Wash- angton Chronicle. ZIf back pay was such a monstrous thing— such *“a grab "—what sort of thing is the for- ward pay ? Tho ono wns an incrense afler the work wia done. Thin i an incronuo, and a draw- ing of pay aud of incronse, boforo tho work hag boon begun. If thore is any difference, whero is it? und which is worst ?—Les Moines (fowa) Re~ gister, ¥ ~—In “ domanding the immediate and uncon- dltiounl roponl of an uct 8o divgracoful to Can- gross und 50 odious to_tho peorlo s tho_in- croaned salary act, the Itopublican Stnto Convan- tion of Maiug but exprossod the common senti- mont of tho country ; and_it will becomo thoso concqrned to hood it. Not ouly this, but it wouldn't hurt tho caso of any member, whethor of the old or now Congress, if Lo should in the moantime loavo the extra pay in the Tronsury, sinco tho peoplo will not consont to _one dollar thorupl; Dbeing drawn out.—Zoledo (Ohio) Com- mercial, —If the President hiad vetood tho salary grab B, what o scatéoring there would havo boon all along the oflice-holders' lino, 'Who Prosideut muade o gront misteko iu not doing so. Ilo would nve plensod tho paoplo, thougli ko might huve offendod the ofico-holdera. Would it not_have boon hottor to have done so?—Lawrence (Aans.) Standard, —Wa would suggent that the noxt Logislature of Californin muko good to the United Btatea Goyorumont tho nmoint uppropiated by Sargout and Houghton and Coghlan as buck pay. T'his would moro flilingly oxpross tho sontimonts of tho pooplo thun any action that can bo suggost- od.—San Francisco Chronicle. —Tho Springfiold (Mnass.) Republican {hinks that tho storm of indiguation which the salary- grabbors Lavo raisod 8 not galng to blaw ovor Tnn hurry, but that it han sot in, as thoy tay up country, for a protty unsty kpoll.” —Tho #nlary-grabbors eateh it on all sidos, and_ without fogurd to partios. Sinco political danth first eamo into tho world no other compauy of politicinus evor wont to such corlain and dead donth as that to which the alary-grabbors of tho Inst Congross siont thomuolves. 'Lhoy aro dead Loyoud ull ponsibilily of resurrcotion, and it goams to ho ow o waate of Ktrongth (o wpend timo furthor in kicking thom.—ZLcavenworth (Ians.) Argus. —Lho Triisteos of tho difforent Grangos of this county mat in counoil July b, and adoptod a so- rion of rosolutions benting on the appronching clootiony, and tauching somo of tho active ofilca~ soolora of this community, The Councit do- clared it to bothe duty of tho Patrons of Ius- bandry to nominato a full county ticket, and held thut overy CGranger phould ‘give the ticket scordial support. It was furthor deolarad 04 tho sienso of tho counoll that overy man now t0.0088 unop ite ropanl, next wintors will contuin | holding ofiico aud using tho jufluouco of his onition to neeure ro-cloction shot = Somnad by the Patronn of Husb:g]r!;? Tho noblost resolution of all, howovor, was: ono in ‘whioh tho agsomblod . Grangory announcod that. thay would discountonance° aud repudinto ovory” ofice-sookor, no mnttor what party Lio bolonged 0, wiio lind onrichod Hhmaole Gufus Soionged torn of offico, withi monoy uniustly beoriory from tho publio.—Zeavenworth (Kansas) Pime Lo bakepiy ucstion Is U agein’ in o ¢ 1t will novor bo down for good unth thg taxh - 3’ of tho back Dy in * covorad into tho Trou or tho Iast baok-pay-grabber coverad into hig jy litical gravo,— Oleveland Herald. 4 —Lot thoro ho no roducing the pay of Gona qumon and loaving that of the Prosident up. ouoned, Thoy woro put up together, nnd {ea, gothor thoy ahould como down.— Wilmingtay (i) Advocate. —Congrossmon will tako, notico that after (cx rathor nlnufi with) the “vimlzemllon of thm nowspapors " (#s Senator Carpontor has it) cor-ea thom gonorally in sympathy with the causo of the pooplo v. monopoly.— ndenco Des Hoinies (Torom) Tamnen: COTTeTO < S ; THE INDIAN BOND DEFICIT. v Full Iintory of tho Affalr as Givem: -by Mr. Thompnon, then Se the Interior. ) e MExwins, July 18.—Tho followlng appoars i . : sppoars o the Avalanche this morning : . OxFOND, Miss,, = o Tames a Wfl!‘lpmnln! Ehq, 2’ Al Juig'o; g, ¥ DA S1n—Your lottor of yosterday wh i Dy mo this evouing, I {hauk ‘n{:"or Lhz :’X‘L:'M’ole‘:fflg pod feom thio Avalanche hended, “ A Large Doclin Tho facts in thig caso aro fow, and haye boen fob often paraded beforo tho publio fa w” tho distorted forms that mnugnlty and Elelz dico could givo them, thnt 1. roenr to L wiih reluctanco, I have Alwaya hiad faith in tho powers of truth and ita ultimate triumph over falachood, bub: after twolvo 3oars tho Sccond Auditor takos ap g count and presonts tho matter to the publio as thoug] somathing now hid boon discovered, | Tho whols s, {sthis: Tho Dopartment of tho Intorlor ia mads 1 custodlan of bonds held in trust for the various In< dion tribed, - Tho Intorcst on these Londs 1y ugnhrlg collcctod and paid over to thoso tribes, A olorie dopartmant fa charged with tholf cuslody, ant it fo. §oupons nro rogularly brotight forward Tor colloction' tholiead of tho Uopartmont - proaumes, as a matter of gourse, that the boudaago in liand. Tnt minist lon of tho dopartme dork of g sianding g charged with this duty, ol tho January coupona had beon and regularly collected, snd ho Lind beon ealled o 0y makoout s full atatemont of his accounts fop tie Auditor, which n itsolf was full ond satisfactory, it booamo kmown that I would in s fow days vestin Bisco In thie Gabiuct, owlng to tho.contomiplatod witive, rawal of Miselaalpp! front tho Unlon, Then it was 1hint Mr, Bafloy sent mo his confession that ho hady without my knowlcdgo or consgutin any way.delitend over to Masars, Iusmoll & Go,, largo oyornmont, con tractors, bands to tho smount of $821,000, and takon in- $hofr stead tho acceptancos of the Bocrotary of Wag | for tho samo amount. Ho miatod that- ho hed: takon tho responsibilify of doing this to saye, tho oredit of tho War Department, and bad not adslsod mo of what ho had dono beeatso ho know thnt Twould condomn and would not allow him ta touch & singlo bond, As oon s tho confesafon wasl rocelved tho Koya of his kafo woro takon from him nnd tho contents carofully counted, and tho stato of thinga. #howed Lin coufession to bo truo in overy particulir.s ‘Tho elerk wna dismissod for Lis Infidelity 0 his truste. and Congress, thon in nesslon, woa_fuformed, by & Gommuniention feotn nic, of what hd been. dong, o thin coneluded Witk the roquost that n committos, conalnting exclusively of noiltical oppononte, ahould bo sppoliited to oxauiluo uto tho roort upen all the facts, Tho Gommitieo wns appoinled, and & mosg thorgugh eearch wai mado futo tho circumstancod and facta in tho case, Tho Commwiltea wero umnite moun i exouorating tho Socrotary from all the blame, ‘whatovor in the mattar, aud thelr roport wa rocolyed by Conggrens without a Uissonting voico, This wan ot a'timo when party spirit run higt, but sl at a time when mombers of Gongress acomed o endeavor ta afibeto tio o of & public sorvaut uoy’ stigma s Jutly and falscly, After moro Ui twolvo yous, tho, ‘Auditor reaches tho account, and by rejocting the noq ¢optancen of {ho War Doparimotit, 1n which § thick 13 antod correctly, ho glves this deficlt as something now, ‘Thio Second Atlditor, of 1601, claima tho bonor of maks ing thin dincovory, whon, in truth, I was tho firat tq make ail tho facts knowil, Tor fidelity, oilicfency, and prompiituds iu_ e, niminiatration of tho Tntorion opartinent from 1858 fo 1801, T am willing (o ba compored “with any ~adwinistration of 1 cltier beforo or minco that timn, Cortn it fs that no buntnoss was twolve yoars bubind fim T havo written thia much 10 you for your own nformag tion. I wonld not inve you finorant of the fuct but lisve wo ofton explaied this matter and know ‘woll tnd sl honarablo sacn aro- fally satfofiod with tha propricty of 1y conduct, that st luve maligno and tho evil-disposed fo think and nay what the, ‘please, You can do what you plesse in saying anything tho editore, T do not auppaso that liey eant to Aoy any injustico in publinhing the digpatch. If thoy ha thouglt o miuuto thoy would hinvo' remembered pul lighing my ozplanation, addressod to tho Cincinnaty Bnguirer, which they pronouncod a “ demontration,§, urs truly 3, ‘Luoxresoy, * " KATE STODDARD.” Rohavior of the Goodrich Murderess in Prigon-=An Important Link Stil Wanting. New Yonx, July 15.—Grenat intorest s sm‘ mouifosted in tho caso of Lizzie Lloyd King, alias Kato Stoddard, who iy charged with th kflliug of Charles W. Goodrich, in Brooklyn. Crowds flock to tho jail in Raymond strect taf 500 hior, but vory fow succoed fu doing so. Sl is ns_ *dumb as mn oystor” on tho auhjuc‘a of the murder. Bhe will not talk, ox: copt to counsel, and for him sho is write ing a full statoment of her case, and hor histor from hor childhood up to the prosent timo, th is'now 20 yonrs of ngo; was born in Plymouth, Mase., and fived thoro until sho was 18 years o sgo. Ior fathor's namo is Isaso King. Ho i still alivo and carrios on the trade of a mason, Sholas ono sister, named Augusta, married,, and living ab Walbridgo, Mass.” Tho family i in comfortablo circumstances. BSo fax ns th tragody is concorned, while in moderately goor spirits, she does not take n vory sanguino viow of tho issuo. Tho Stato Drison sooms tq bsog ovor hor mind liko an immens shadow. Among hor othor peculiari tios, slo I8 protonding to bo vory ry, ligious, and is roading tiie Biblo and the Episco- pol Prayor-Book coustautly, It is said that sl ovon Lad the temority to attond tho funersl of her victim, and that eho went up near the hoarso and touched tho coffin, Tho polico ar still on the look-out for Rloscoo. Kato Stodde: doclares that she does not know and has novo: soon him, while tho woman Armstrong is posi- tivo that sho saw them togother. Ono of the jurors lintod. yostorday thai thoro is o goo denl moro in this Goodrich tragedy than hes yet been given to the public,” and added that ** thera ia an mmportant link still wanting,” The polico aro dolug thoir best to aecurs thay Spaniard Roscoo. Lull roliance is not placed in tho story of Lizzio King, that she hod no accom= plico, and nover know Hoscee, and don't bolleval there is any such wan, 8he oxplains the fact off tho four chiambors of the pistol found by Good4 rich's body béing discharged. The threo shote in Goodrich’s hend werq from hor pistol. Aftor Lo was doad sho took Lis plutol and discharged four shots down tho collor, Miss Palm, the bhotrothed of Goodrich, res mainod with Lizzie Kiug until late last ovening. Hor object was not nacertainad, THE COTTON CROP. Summary of tho Kcports of the Dea pnrtment of Agriculturo for Julg 1. ‘WasminaToN, July 15.—Tho roports of tha condition of the cotton orop to the Dopartmont of Agriculturo to July 1 indicate as follows g Owing to the causcs teported in June, tho ero) ia gonernlly from two to four weoks lnto; Throughout tho Cotton Statos tho woathier was unprocedontedly wel for a perind varying froi twenty-fivo to thirty-five duys, onding abouf tho 26th of June. o aren of cotton planted wa| sufliciont to tax tijo available Iabor to the utmont undor tho moat fuvorable ciroumstances. Con~ soruontly, tho excossively wot woathor, pravent= ing work and stimulating tho growth of grasm and woeds, has not ouly caused poor stauds and o grassy and _othorwiso unfavorablo condition quito_gonorally, but has mado necossnry the abandonment of large portions of the aroa plauted, probably nearly enough to bring tha Batongs down to what i€ was 1ast. yonr. o fos poris with rara oxcoptions are dospondont iny louo and picture a somewhat gloomy prospect. Doubtloss tho mujority fall in with the common tondonoy to oxaggorato tho bad offeols upon tho crops of the unfavorable wenthon provailing at prosont, and to undervaluo the chances of racuperation from thoso offocts. The raports show ~gonorally “ that the fayorabla wenthor In tho Inkt days of Juno was having the offect to chango Lho condition somowhat rapidix for tho botter. Colton-worms, eatorpitinrs, and lico hiad mado thoir appearance in small nums Lors at sovoral poiuts, but as yot have not oce sionod much approhension of sorious damag The avorago condition for the Cotton States, nok counting Virginia, made up from all tho countiom roported, was 8.5, rLara, July 16.—Caterpillara aro appearing fi:numfly in "the prairio cotton, and wost of lma, The Vico-Prosident, auly 16,—Vico-President Wilson waa lunl(;g:g:x' 13-,, and ocgz‘?rntuhwd by mauy L friouds on lis inproved haalth, tha * stondily dropping fira" of tho pooplo’a i d —-La{»orla (I{nd.) feraid, o < 3 —1 havo boon mixing constantly with tio herd-flsted taxpayors of the county, and find’