Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1873, Page 4

HE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: W DNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1873 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERNN OF SUDAOATIHION (ravise N ADVANCE), N 2,0} | Sundav. 2.1 Palount:: BE0] ey 0 Parts ol o soar at tho smno rato. To provent delny and mistakos, ho surs and givo Post Ofco nddressin fall, including State and County. Remittances nay ho mado oither by draft, oxnross, Post Qitieo onlor or in roglatorad lotters, nt wur rlsk, TERMS TO CITY AUBKCUIBERE, Tefls, dolivored, Sundsy oxcopted, & conte per wook. Duily, delivered, Bunday includod, 00 conta per wook. Address THE TRIBUNG COMPANY, Cerner Madison and Doarboriiesta,, Chieago, 1M TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. PEVICKERS THRATRE-Madison, botwoon Dear. buen aud State, ** Romatico of a Poor Young Man," GLOTIE THEATRE-Deaplaincs stroot.” hotwoon Mad- Lson nnid Washingtou, ** Datling: or, Wouiau aud Hor Mastor," Afiornoon snd ovenlag, TIQOLEY'S, TiL Clark and LaSalle, and ovoning. RE-Ragdolnh stroot, hetwoon o Now' Magialon. Afiornoon DARNUMS MENAGERIU~tornor of Elizabolh atroots. Aflorneou and ovaning. A A dison and "BUSINESS NOTICES, LYON'S MAGNETIO INSKOT POWDER IS SURE danth to hot-bugs, gvoliroachos and wormy: The Chicags Teibane, 1873. Wednosday Morning, August 20, Prosident Grant must approve the sentenco of doath pnssed upon tho Modoes before it ean bo exccuted, and the * Ponco Policy” in- fluouce is at work to induco him to disapprovo it. Tho ground on which the Exccutive clomency is sought is, that the Mili- tary Commission by which Capt. Jack and his accomplices woro convicted bad no right to try thom.. y The Minneapolis Zribune is confidont that Tux: Cnicaco Trinuse, * liko Lucifor, has fallen hondforemost out of iieaveu, and will houcoforth woar tho linosmonts of its mow charactor and functions,” This Miltonion flight of fancy s supposed to bo based upon roal estato, but whothor it rofors to the Fort Snelling Resorva- tion or to sotao othor stretch of valuablo terri- tory in Miunosots, I8 & matter of grave doubt, A momorial signed by 600 laborers, mesily uwegroes, in the omploy of tho Govornment of the District of Columbia, hns beon forwardod to Prosidout Grant at Long Branch, sotling forth that they have not been paid their wagea sinco tho first of March last, and aro indobted for Liouse ront and food, and praying the Prosident to compel tho District Govoromont to pay thom. Thoy roprosont that {hoy aro sli Ropublicans, and bave votod the Republican ticket at every olection sinco they beeamo freodmon, and think tho Prosident ought to stand by thiem in their distross, and protect them against tho District senlpors, Their petition will reach Long Branch about tho same time ag the petition of tho Wall street Benra for proteetion ngaiusl the unfriond- Iy Bulla, Gov. McEnory, of Louisiaua, advises his poo- plo to hold & Stato Convention in Decomber, and to make nn appesl to Congress for their rights. If moitors progress along the presont line, ruin is cortain, Their property is slowly but surely being confiscatod, aud bank- ruptey, individual and public, is inovitable. Tlhere are but two romedies,—either the lionest peoplo of the Stato of all parties must combine forself-progorvation, or olse its Govornment must bo surrendored unreservedly to the Federal authoritics, 1o hopos thnt tho lattor unpainte- ‘blo and unropublicun couvio will bo rendered nu- necogaery by Congress at its next meoting, which can golve tho riddle by eimply unseating tho present illogal Government, and roferving its future courso to the people. Parlisment in the Canada Pacifio Railway in- vostigation has at last beon appointed. It is compored of three members, one of whom has ‘been for thirty years tho confldentisl friond and ndviser of Sir John A, Macdonald, the Promier; another hns mado bimeolf obnoxious to the peo- ploby n long course of subservionco to the Government, daling a8 far Dback a8 tho rebellion of 1837, when he was Judgo Advocate; tho third bolongs to tho French Conservalives, a cluss from whom not much in the way of active inquiry snd ex- posure is likely to como. As a matter of course, such appointments havo mado tho Opposition and thoe poople angrier than over, Tho Glols of Toronto says more unfit men could not have been found, and tho feeling is stroug that the Opposition must not dignify this packed tri- bunal nor dishopor their cause by appearing Loforo it, Four of the murdored victims of the Sag ac- cident wero buried in Springfiod yesterday, and two in this city. One moro hds died, and throo othersare declared by the doctors to be unablo to live longer than a day or two, This will well tho death-list to 21, Tho Coroner's lnvestigation in etill under woy. One of the witnesses examined was a farmer, who amnw Murderor Beano after tho coilision, aud was told by him that he *‘forgot” all sbout the possonger train. ‘Che tostimony of the ongiueor of the freight train, who was brought in from prison under guard, gavo no new Informalion except some facts roncorning Conductor Boano's generul in- officioncy, whom ho said he did not considor & competent man, Iis efforts to throw the blame on his superior were manifest. o ropoated tho atory of tho losa of timo by his watel, but did not make it any moro plausible than at first. The recommendation of the Muayor made ab tho last meetiug of the Common Couucil, to tho effoct that all owners of high Luildings should bo required to construct iron stand-pipes nb proper dintances apart in such buildlugs, aud whisl: was subsequontly embodiod in an ordi- nnnce submitled by Ald, Vickering, shonld be acted upon immodiately, ‘The recent fira in tho Bingor Inilding was awarning which it would bo roprohensible to ignore, Tho inability of hose to sustain thoe prossure of wator at such o holght was clonrly shown, Ou this occasion a combination of fortunnte circumstances which might not ccour ngaln waved thoe Binger Building and tho purrounding properly. There s overy reason why thego pipes should bo gonerally introduced. They nre very simply and cusily worked, and aro elways in rcadiness for adjustmont, Thore iy no danger of their bursting, Thoy aro very cheap, and can Lo ensily placed in any now butlding. Thoy would save tholr cost annually in fneuranco, They would bo an amplo protociion, unless in somo vory oxtraor- dlnary omergonoy, aud thelr obligatory we would impose no unusual hard. ship upon properly-ownors and bullders, The Commitica on Iire and Wator should thoroforo give the subjeot not ouly thelr ocaro- #ul bub also _thefx immodinty, attontion, Cou- corning tho usofulness of thoso stand-pipon thero {8 no quostlon, Every considorativn of precaution against firen rocommonda thoir adop- ton, The sooner it is dowo, thoreforo, tho, Dettor, 1t cortainly waa nat pol Davis tosay to the Bouthorn Ilstorical Con- vontion at Bichmona that the Bouthiern paoplo would not have surrondored if they had antlol- potod what hias followed, Ib ianot politio, and porbaps not oven decont, for Mr. Jefferson Davis {o opon his mouth on any subject con- nocted with tho lato Robollion. Moro- over, what ho sold was not true. The Southern mrmies would lave surrondored all the samo becaugo thoy cowld not Liolp them- golves, They wors complotely vanquished, and hiad fought out their lnst hopo. But tho effort, which will undoubtedly follow Mr. Davis’ spooch, to make his uttersnco s new illustration of the robollious spirit of tho Bouthorn people, will be equally untrue and jodecent. If the peoplo of (ho South over thought of robelling again, tha attompt would have been made be- foro now, To tako tho oingle instanco of Toulslana from smong tho long list of porsecn- tions thnt have been visited upon them, it is ov- idont that thero is no dangor of n new rebollion at the Bouth. From cortain oxproasions, official ond otherwigo, that have boen mado, it ia tolera- bly certaln that thoy prefor * Cmsariem” tfo tho oxisting Btato of thinga. Any peoplo who will welcomo * Cresarism" 88 & ohoico of ovils aro not in & condition to rebal. Tho Chicago produce markets wero moderatoly notlvo yosterday, and tho loading coreals woro wonk, Mesgs pork was in fair demand, and stondy at 916.05@16.00 for cash or soller Sop- tember, Lard waa moro active, and stoady at 73 @80 per b for wintor, and 73(@73o for sum- mor rondered. Meats wore quict and firm at 736@8Bo for shouldors, D34@9c for ehort mid- dles, and 10@12¢ for swoot-pickled hams. TLako freighta woro rather more activo and 1o highor, ab o for corn to Buffalo. Highwines wors quict and nunchanged, at 95e por gnfion. Flourwas quiot aud unchanged. Whont was active and weak at Mondsy's average, cloging at 81.22 cash, $1.10)¢ sellor tho month, and $1.18% gollor September. Corn was less active, nnd declinod 18fc, closing at ' 88}(@9I8%¢c cash or sollor Soptember, and 890 scller Oclober. Oats woro dull and Xfc lower, closing a$ 263{c cosh, and 20}4c sollor Boptombor. Ryo was meyo aclive and o shiado firer, at 67@C73e. Burloy wne quict and 6o higher, st €1.10 ecller Bop- tomber, and 81.05 sellor October. Tho stocks of grain in this city on Jast Bnturday ovening woro: 481,718 bu whent ; 1,469,554 bu corn; 410,385 bu osts; 52,351 bu rye; and 36,112 bu barloy. Tho hiog market was active and utoady for light, but dull and r shade lowoer for hoavy grades. There was no docided change in the cattle aud sheop markots. Tho brewors of Aassachusetts, who aro just now ground between the mill-stones of tho Gen- ernl Government and tho local authorities, have dotermined to necertain thoir logal rights. The position which they sssume is, that, &0 long ns they are compelled to pay & rovonuo tax to tho Government, tho local suthoritics should lot thom alono; and again, that eithor the Massa- chusetts law is unconstitutional, or alee itis illogal for Fedoral officers to collect a tax from tho brewera, Tho statistics with rogard to the manufacture of beer in that Btato ghow that the browers hove just cause for complaint. Thore are twenty large brow- erios in tho Btato, fifteon of which aro noar Bos- ton. On tho st of May last, there was of beor aud nlo on hand £600,000 worth; barley and mult, $160,000; bills uncollectablo, §160,0005 roal estato and appurtonances, £1,000,000; total, 1,000,000, Last your, Mossachusotts pmd iuto the National Troasury £580,280 as o tax on malt liquors, For tho first nino months of the pros- ent fiscal yoar, she paid 8471,682, against ©404,~ 599 for tho samo timo last yoar, or at the rate of $670,000 for the year 1873, Tho Government hos, thorefore, received §1 for overy barrel soized, or which may Do eecized, un- dor the oporation of tho probibitory law of the State—an act of injustico whick s apparent to sny ono. In view of theeo fucts, and encouraged by s recent decision of tho TRhodo Island Supreme Court, that it is not com- potent for o Stato to interfore with the salo of an articlo tho introduction of whick for salo is pormitted by tho lows of tho United States, tho browors have dotermined to make o tost cnse and take it to tho United States Supreme Court. A fow days since tho Doorin Transeripl had an articlo on Stato Rights, assuming to give tho substanco of an alleged contlict of jurisdiction Lotiveon tho United Btates District Court for the District of Northern Illinois aud the Circuit Court of Peoria County, Illinois, Tho sub- stanco of thiy article was that Mr. Enoch Emory, ex-Collector of Intornal Revenue for tho Poorin District, had held in hishands tho sum of $183,000 deposited with bim by the Peoria distillers as puyment for a corlain numbor of Rico moters ; that ho had been ordered by tho United States District Court to pay the money into that Court, but thnt, boforo tho issuing of eaid ordor, Lo bnd beon sued in tho Poorln Clreuit Court, default had boon entored, and judgment rondered roquiring him to pay the moncy into that Court, which ho had done. In view of tho second order to pay tho money into the othor Court, ho proposed to do notbing of the kind, but, a8 tho boy said in a similar omergency, ho would just “Jot tho molnsses run.” Tho oplin- ion of Judgo Blodgott iu this caso having been withheld for revislon, we woro unable to publish it at tho timo of its dolivery, Itis given elsn- where, and from it we learn that Emery perpo- trated an impudent frand In gotting up a suit, in collusion with tho distillers, in the Pooria Cowrt, to tako o caso thon and wiitl ponding,in the United Btatos District Court, out of the jurisdiction of said Court ; that in wo do- Ing he violated lis own stipulations and com- mittod o breach of trust—tho money boing hold by him us trustea, Also thnt he did it knowing- 1y, sinco hio admits that ho took an indomnifying bond from tho Poorin distillers, In conclusion, tho Judgoe ordors Emery to pay tho money ifuto the United Statos District Court within twenty days. I'ho changoe of name and the domestic irrogu- larities of Mr. John M, Mipple, alics J, II. Mitchell, tho nowly-elected Sonator from Orogon, aronot tho only nor even tho worst blotches on his scutchoon, His domestio situation soems to bo this: A wife In Pounsylvaniaj s no-culled wife in California, who accompanied bim iu his flight from Pennsylvania, but who was mlgsing when howent to Oregon; and suothor marriod wife now in Orogon. Thoso, wo should say, wora burdons evough with which to bogin # Hountorlal oreor Bub tbe mauner in which ho sccured his elociion, and tho attechmonls other than matrimonint which bind him down, according to a corre- spondont of {ho Cinclunntt Gommeretal, rondor Tim politienlly n still move dangorous charactor. The statemont is made Lhiat ho i8 & more tool in tho bauds of Ilolliday, tho Orogon railrond apeculator ; that it 1s this influenco which firut oloctod lum to the Stato Benhto; and that tho railrond intorest manipulated tho Oregon Logis- Inturo to sccuro his oloction to tho United States Souate, It s nloo said that ho himsolf oxpended £30,000 to Lo olected, and that Lo wonld lave beon ruined fluancinlly if he haed foiled in his purposo. It is pertinent to ask Low ho could afford to risk all the monoy ho had on this hazard, and how ho ox-~ poocts to got it back, Iois describod ag & shrewd, £mootl, jusinnating man, who would have bo- como an {mportant snd dangerous ally of tho corporations in the Unitod States Bonate if it had not boen for the exposure which followed his olaction. As it is, it ia nob likely that hio will rosign, ¥lo has nominally placed himeelf in tho hands of his coustituonts, who sball say whethor ho is to rosign or not. They will not ancourage n resignation, beenuse the Governor of Oregon would appoint & Democrat, They profor a biga- mist. Ono of tho principl griovances which has brought on tho atruggle Lotween the farmers and tho railronds is tho glut of farm products, which has brought with it low pricos and conso- quontly unprofiteble farming. This unueual accumulation of farm products is lnrgely duo to tho enormous increaso of ratlroad construotion during the past fow yoars, which has oponod up o vast aron of agricultural country, and advanced production far boyond tho domands of the market. As long as this con- tinuos, tho troubles betweon tho farmerand tho railroad must continue. If the construction of railronds should go on for o fow yoars to como in the samo proportion thet it has for a fow yoars past, the farmers would not be the only sufforers. Tho locking up of so much eapital, whoro it would yield ‘no immedinte roturn, ‘would tend directly to o financial rovulsion, sud tho whelo publio would suffor, Tortunstely, thoro aro uigna”of a henlthy reaction, Public opinion has at last forced tho Nationsl Qovernment to put the brakes upon the wasteful squandering of tho publio lands in the form of land-grants. Tho system of county, city, and town subsidica has aleo suffored o sovoro blow. The sgitation of the faormers has also crentod a distrust in railroad bonds and stocks, Tho surestsign of ronotion, howover, and the healthiost indication far freLuture, is tho fact that railrond construo- tion is materally falling off. TFor the first soven months of this year, tho number of miles of now railrond constructed waa but 1,872, against 8,287 for tho eamo timo last year, Asit is not at all probable that the deficit will bo made up during tuo remnindor of the yoar, thero is ronson for sincere congntulation at this exhibit. Whero business demands the construc- tion of a railrond, it 8 time to build it; but to go on conatructing railroads in tho wildorness, and locking up eapital and mak- ing it unromunarative, is not ouly tho height of folly, but a suro step towards & fluaucial panic, and tho temporary destruction of all values. Happily, the dangor is likely to bo avorted, and by this decreaso in railrond construction there is & fair prospect that o paying market may soon be made for tho surplus of farm products. oo deceltful visions of choap lund and pro- ductive soil, which aro tho inducoments of every new railrond schemo, will no longer alturo the farmer into distant regions whore, indeed, land is cheap and thio 8oil rioh, but whero every busbel be raises makes him poorer because Lo hos no markoet for it. RUKNING TRAINS BY TELEGRAPH, Thoro ia & pretenso on nearly all railronds that tho trains aro run by telograph. Buchan un- dorstanding ia calculated to inspire confidence intho safoly of passongors. If it wero a facl that no train could lenvo o station without in- structions from a trsin-dispatcher, in all cases where tho tolograph wires aro in order, the danger of a colliion would bo next to mnothing. If it woro tho rulo that tho station-master should not allow any train to leavo his statioc until he bad ro- coivod implicit inatructions from hesdquarters, tho train-dispatcher would be possessed of posi- tivo, and not morely inforentinl, knowledgo ‘of tlio location of overy train on tho road. Thisis tho only way In which railrond trains could bo proporly said to be run by tolegraph. Yet it appoars from the joint ovidenco of Buperin- toudent MeDlullon, of the Alten Road, and of Mr. Houston, tho station-master at Lomont, that the telograph is ouly used when tho traius aro out of timo. This is probably truo of most other ronds which pretend to have & regular telogrnph systom for running their trains. It is porfactly plain to ovorybody out- sido of tho railroad business that a telograph line which is usod for railrond business oxclu- sively could communicato to & division train- dispntcher the oxnet loeation of all running trains oxcopt possibly during thundor-storms ; and that thoe train-dispateher, with this chart bo- fora him, could give nstantancous orders for holding or sonding off traius with such accu- racy that collisions would be as mearly impossible as thoy could over be whero soveral trains run in opposite dircctions on & singlo track, Bo simple and practicable is this systom, that a mujority of the people unquestionably believe that it is tho rule on ull railronds, and it will sorely puzzle railroad mon to explain why it is not, I'ho evidenco bofore tho Coronor’s jury in the TLomont disastor fixes greator binmo upon tho management of the Chileago & Altou Road thau wo havo hithorto nssumed. It shows (1) that tho system of running trains by telograpl ia do- feolive, becauso tho tolegraph i8 ouly brought into uso whon thore appoars to bo a specisl nocomsity for it; and (2) that tho tolegraph was not used last Saturdsy night, whon thioro way the most urgent noces- gity forit. Both tho colliding trains woro be- hind time, Buperintoudent MeMullon fostitios that the passongoer train was due at Lomont at 10:00 ; Russoll, conductor of the train, says ho did not loave Willow Bprings til 10:08. Tho run batweon Willow Springs and Lomont is 754 milos, and requiros, at tho fastest passengorrato of speod, 16 minutes, Tho pussenger train was thorofore, ut tho bost, 17 minutes behind timo, his lu furthor confirmed by tho fact that 16 minutes woro oxhmusted In attuching o sleoping-coach at Willow Springs, which was ordinarily takon on at Onleago. 'Tho cosl traln, it upponara from tho Buporintendont's toatimony, was an hour end o half bobind timo at the very lonst, It should havo loft Jollot at @ o'clock, but Aid not loave L1l 7:30 ; it ususlly mot tho pag- sengor train af Bridgoport, lustead of which tho . not used on such an occasfon. lattor hnd nearod Lomont, twonty milea distant. 81l o third traln on tho aamo track was ouk of timo. Tho moil train from 8t Lotds, which should have ronclied Obicago beforo,| tho night oxpross loft, met it at Willow Bprings. Horo woro st loast throo trains run- ning wild, Of tho two traina which collided thero was'n joint difforonce of nenarly two hours out of timo. Cortninly Liore was an occaslon for using thn tolograph, if it is over to bo used. Yot it In ovidont from the tostimony of the Lomont station-mastor that tho train-dispatchor, loeatod at Bloomington, had givon the coal train no fn- slritctions, * Whon the station-mastor saw tho coal train drawing out, ho went to tho oporator and eausod him to asktho train-dispatohor If the coal train had an order to go. Tho answor was, “*No.” But by this time the coal traln was al rendy boyond recall, and thero was nothing for tho station-mastor to do but to go out upon tho track and wait for tho crash which bo know to bo coming. It will bo incumbent on tho managersof tho Alton Road to explain why the telograph was ‘Whatovor this oxplanation may bo, it will not roliove Beano and Puffenborger, the guilty conductor snd on~ gineor who violatod tho rules, and had monna of knowing thosituation, but it must boagoodonoe in order to exculpato tho mansgors, and particularly tho trein-dispatcher, from a share of the blamo. In tho meantimo, why will not all ronds adopt & thorough systom of running trains by totograph, by giviog station-mastors tho authority to hold traina until thoy are explicitly inatructed to dis- patch thom ? —— Nearly all the Grangea are resolving to abolish tho National Bavke, ‘These institutions are do- nounced a8 monopolies (which in ono sonse thoy aro), snd as oxtortionists, which thoy cortainly sronot. To tho oxtont that they have tho ox- clusivo right to issno notes to clrculato na moncy thoy are monopolles, but in no other sense. Their principal funotion is to reccive mnd fond the surplue eopital of the country, chorging gonerally the logal rate of in- torest to borrowers, and frequently paying s smaller rate of intorest to dopositors. To onablo thom to perform this, thoir chiof function, thoir chartors as National Banks aro of no sort of account, s is evidonced by tho fact that othor banks without such charters do tho samo kind of businces alongside of them, in compotition with them, and, to tho oxtent that thoy command the confidence of the publi, at sahigha rsto of profit. Tho only sdvantago tho Notional Banks possoss over private banks is, that tho publio considor them genorally some- what enfor than other banks by reason of tho Govornment inspaction and survolllance, nud honco deposit with them moro frecly. There Dippons to bo one private bank in Chicago oldor than any National Bank, and this fnstitution, al- though issuing no notes, certainly does as profit- ablo a business, in proportion to the capitsl in- veated, as any Natioual Bank. How far the right to issue notes on the pledge of public sccuritios, coupled with the various rontriotions imposed upon them for the exorcise of the priviloge, is an advantage to the National Banks, wo shall show Dbelow. Wo judge that tho margin of proflt is extremely nar- row—g0 narrow in fact that the banke will not fight the Grangos on that issue. SBevoral National Banks havo voluntarily rotired their circulation, taken up their bonds, sud govo into private banking, whilo othors have only been provented from doing o by activo *clectioncering” on tho part of the Comptrollor of the Currency. Somo time sinco Congresa pasaed a law author- izing an increnso of National Bank notes in the Westorn and Boutlern BStates. The whole amount authorizod has not been takon up to tlus day, for the roason that it requires an in- vostment of 8116,000 to get $90,000.0f notes. “But you can lend the notes at 10 por cent and draw intorest on the bonds at the ssme time,” says somo ono. Yes, sud you can koop an infloxible reserve in your bank, upon which no interest is drawn, sud pay taxes for tho priviloge of issulng notes, Inshort, if you thinkitisa profitablo ‘business, horo is your opportunity to try it. Tho surplus is not yet exhauated. Novortheless, so far ag the complaint of the QGranges is predicated upon a monopoly privi- lege of issuing notes,—the right to issue such notes in tho wholo country being restricted prace tically to thoso banks now existing,—it iy well fouuded. Wo can sce no harm to result from o removal of tho reatrction. The doprecin- tion of tho currency is not caused by tho bank mnotes, but by the Government notes. Tho former being redeemable in tho Iatter, must always follow tho character of tho Iatter,— up to-day and down to-morrow. And so it would ho whother the bank notes wore fow or many, always suppoaing that the bauks them- solves hiavo a ona fide capital, and that they are managed with ordinary prudencs, Wa fancy that the National Bauks, se a rule, will not opposo & bill to repoal the monopoly clause, Wo don’t think they would offer much rosistance to o bill to take their ciroulation and iaxes away from them, An approximato atatomont from theprofita de- rivable from 8115 invested in mortgago losns at 10 per cont, snd tho samo amount investod in Nationsl Bunk circulation, respectively, is as follows : National Nank Circulation, TUnited Btates & per cent boml,su&} Intereat... Ourrency luaued on gamo, Les legal rescrvo, Tntorest on, Lees tax 1 per cent on §90..... ortgage Lo 10 per cont interast on 3118, Differenco between tho two lnvestmonts Doing 16 conts per year on an invostmont of $116, Teatimony thickens in tho case of Ann Eliza, wifo No. 17, of tho Prophot, to show that hor motrimoninl misery s moroly & myth, Joln W. Young, the son of the Prophet by wife No. 1, who is now in New York, has mado s publio statoment, in which he afirms* that Ann Ediza i3 o folsifler, and the truth fs not fn her. Accord- ing to tho statoment of Young, Jr., Aun Ellza got divorced from her firat husbaud, who wau & plasteror, aud was & widow with two children whon sho married Brigham, Whon who cone traotod lior polygamous marriage, sho did so with her eyos open. The farm on which slhe resided weg the host in the Torritory, and tho houso in which she lived & handsome cottage costing $12,000, A horso and carriago was at hor gorvice, aud flye sorvants ministored to hor wants, When sho #aid she must comoe to tho city, sho hnd g hand- somo house furnished her, sud Drighsm's stew- ard was ordered to provido hor with everything sho dosired, Mr. Young furtbor sald, It Ann Eliza had only asked for a divorco, and sho had gono to Prosidont Young and told Lim what #ho wanted, ho would havoe divorcod hor on the spot, and it would not have cost hor throo oconts.,” DMr. Young clonos 1is soroed with the portinont romark that, if the rost of tha world desires to aonvert tho Mor- mong, bottor oxamplos of its goodnoss must bo gont to Utah, Ann Bliza s ovidontly in a bad box. There i no probebility that the courts will grant n divorco. DBrigham will not compro- mieo, his son says, all roports to iho contrary notwithatonding, and Ann Elizs can nover again bo nllowed to resumo the family rolatlons or enjoy tha apostolic cmbraco, Blio hns ovldently gone out of tho frying-pan into tho fire. A GORY ENCOURTER, The Bulls sud tho Boprs of tho Gold-Toom have boen for some wocka engaged in s floroo struggle, and tho Bulls havo gob tho best of it. On Baturday they quiotly purchased gold to tho amount of some millions of dollars, rnd then tho prico advanced. Tho Boars woro naturally out of paoket. Bo far the tranusction was puroly the cut-throat practico usual hotweon tho op- posing partis, but tho Boars, fnding thomaclves coverod with goro, aro yush- ing to Long Branoh with o lotter do- monding that the President como to their ro- lef, Those unfortunato gamostors ropresent to His Excollonoy that they *‘have sufferod sori- ous losacs during tho past yoar, through a succossful combination in Wall streot by spooulators,"—the mes making tho statement being thomaclvos speculators in Wall atroot. Thoy sy that these combinations are most suc~ cossful ot those sensons whon the * demand for funda ” by thoe other olass of spoculators is tho hoavicet ; and then tell the Prosidont that theso succosstul spoculators’ will probably practico their gamo again thia fall. Thoy toll His Ex- collonoy thut & numbor of ** unsernpulous capl- talists " havo agroed to hoard their own monoy and not lond it out, and that this will take place ust at tho timo whon the monoy will be wanted for * moving tho crops,” and that they (the un- serupulousaforosaid) are relyinguponthe want of conrage on tho part of the Presidont to violato tho law by an over-issue of groonbacks. Thoy thorofore ask of tho Presidont an ** agsurance that it, at any time this fall, tho Bulls of Wall stroot sball got tho Boars down, ho will order that tho United Statos Tronsury shall fssuo groonbacks in such an amount, beyond the limit proscribod by Inw, and also sell as much gold aa will roliovo the Bears, aud onnblo thom to over- como tho Bulls. From this manifesto it will bo soen that theso | Now York gamblors rogard it as a moro quostion of courage whother the law shall bo violated or not, and toll tho Presidont that the impudent Bulls claim that he ‘‘dare not” violate tho law by dirccting an ovor-issue of greenbacks, The victimized Boars seom to have no doubt of the courago of tho Prosident in this regard, and thoy do not hositate to suggest to him, as Fisk Gould, nnd Corbin suggested o fow years ego, that the necessity of * moving the crops " would ‘warrant any interforonce of the President, or any use of tho national funds, no matter how strongly prohibited by law. Fisk end Gould woro, howover, more delicato in this matter. Thoy did not publish thoir cstimato of the Prosi- dent’s regard for the law, nor did thoy intimato that anybody said that ho *‘dared not"” do an illegal act. They thought it more sppro- priato to solect some momber of the Presidont’s tamily, and through him mako tho suggestion about the nocoseity of moving tho crops. Itis rathor aingular that in that instavco Jay Gould ond Jim Fiek satisfied the Prosident, through Mr. Corbin, that the highor the prico of gold tho more reodily and advantsgeously tho ‘“‘orops could bo moved," and what they wantod was an assuranco from tho Prosident that ho would nob pormit the Becrotary of the Troasury to bresk tho market on gold after theyhsd ran it up to the poiut whoro it wonld * move the crops," Mr. Corbin gave the assurance and pocketed his 925,000, ond Fisk nnd Gowld successfully bulled the market until it was broken through some other influence acting on tho Presidont. Now we have tho Presidont appealed to by tho othor gang of speculators, snd tho Boars publicly inform the Prosident that tho crops can bost bo moved by having the price of gold as low as possible, and they ssk an asgnranco from him, as the *head of the Gove ernment,” that, when the timo comes that the Bulls shall attompt to raise tho prico of gold to move tho crops, he will open tho horn of plenty at the Tressury, eo that they can move the crops. This appeal to tho President is more creditablo than thot of Fisk and Gould, in that it lenves Corbin out. It forgets, howover, that tho® Prosident is oo rocord in favor of high-priced gold 88 offording the best means to move tho crops, and whon it tolls him that tho erops can only be moved by keoping gold down, it {8 an insinuation that tho other thoory was & blundor. But tho most offonsive feature of tho wholo caso is, that any porson can foel warranted or justifiod in appesling to tho President to direct the Tronsury Department to interforo in the jn- torest of cithor gang of the Wall street gam- Dlers, or in assuming to ssk him to promiso that if thoso betting on ouo side are in any danger of loning their bots, e will violato tho law by giv- ing orders for an illogal issue of grooubackd. The ownera of & cook-pit at Weavorhism, Eng- land, and fiftoon spoctatora wera recontly ar- rosted, brought beforo a magistrato, and finod §25 ouoh and coats, for having participated in a contast between two birds for tho championship of tho district, Nearly all thoso who were ar- rostod bolongad to tho hard-fisted yeomaury. No one will bo dispased to complain of tho hard- ship of tho penalty, bubis it altogetlior consiatont {0 arrost s party of laborors enjoying themselves at & cook-fight, when the nobility and goutry can sny day amuso thomaelves in the brutalities of tho prizo-ring with moat porfoct impunity? It prizo-fighting botween men Is to bo set down and encoursged as a national amusemont, it is difilenlt to soo why tho loss objectionablo amuse- mont of cook-fighting shonld not be encournged sleo. et —— NOTES AND OPINION. Bonator Oliver P. Morton'a bacle-pay account stands thus; 1Ip permits tho Disbursing Oflcer of the Sonate to have the use of the money (long ago drawn from the Troasury) instead of using it himsolf; and Lo will, at Athons, Ohlo, on tha 33 inst,, according to tho Indianapolis Journal of tho 18th, *¢sond s volloy of hot shot futo tho ranks of the Bourbon Domoacracy such au thoy have uot oxporionced for mnny a duy." Ar, Morton is furthor doseribed as “In good health and eagor for tho fray.” Iaving got the ugo of his legs ot last, ho hopos to dlutract pub- 1lo atteution from his honds by kioking & doad mule. —The Bowrbon Demoorsoy, which Senator Morton will bustet in Obio, has boon stuffed and #ot up for tho oceaston. In Iows, now, tho Re- publicans want somo Bourbon Demooracy stuffed and not up. Tho Burliugton Hawk-Eye, Kookuk Gata City, Davenport Qazelle, and othor faith- ful orgaun, aroall piping for a revival of puro Bourbon Domooracy. The Grant show canpot go on without it, —Mr. Jucob IL, Oalwaod, of Catlin, s Ropub- liean membor of tho Ilinols Legiulature, com- municates his views In tho Danville Times, say- Ingt Who form oxlating parties? T . will forin (o i Dustyd o pobpies |31 ine paile ean contral the now party, why can't thoy contral tho ;'l‘lfll 1‘1':1“;1? Alb lllm};‘lmvo n::ll. to dois :‘u act, I":lfl ieipate primary olod 1 i ol paty 1oaiern io 1Ko bk peate, e o LSt Mr. Oalwood saya well, according to his knowledgo. But whon tho pooplo, acting with o common purposo, shall have reformed both the old partios, will thoy not have consolidated them- solves Into ono party, oven & now party ? And, tho 01d lesders compalled to * take back soats™ (L. 0., countod ont), what will become of them unless they, also, form a now party ? —Tho Pooria County Anti-Monopoly Convon- tlon is callod for Sopt, 8 ; and now the Ropubli- can party managors havoealled a convention at Poorin, Bopt. 4, inviting ** Ropublicans and all other persons opposed to monopoliea in overy form.” 'Tho Pooria Transcript (Fodoral oftice- holding) says : It (e Farmers’ Movemont in this t; i 01 coninty ke, thin Talh o sl bage (he. 185D spoctaclo of two parties running on_subatantislly tho samo platforin, with very likely about tho samo ticket. In such circumatances it would bo beltor to coalesco than to quarrel, and wo nre only sorry that tho Repub- lican Conventfon waa not called for” tho aamo day as {lo * formor, " und s tandor of coalition mado to-tho or. —8o many Illinois Postmasters, editing nows- papors, bave had somothing to may about a go- oret circular to Domocrats, from tho Chairman of tho Btate Contral Committeo, advising thom to capture tho Farmera' Movemont, that tho fol- lowing corrospondonco is published : On10AG0, Aug. 10, 1873, My Dzan 8m: In reply to your favor of the 13th, T havo to eay that no “clrenlar” whatover has been 1suod this yoar by mo a5 “ Chatrman of tho Domo- cratic State Contral Commitice,” “sacret * or open, on my “own uthority ¥ or otherwiso, I am truly yours, ., 11, MoConatror, Chafrman Democratic Stato Central Committee, Col, J, B. Dantorth, Jr,, membor of State Commit- toc, Bock Tsland, 1il. —Tho Carrollton (Greon County, 111.) Gazells is puro Bourbon, It saya: In Greeno County, the Domocrals havo already nome inated, and aro n a condition not to surrender to tho now.movement, if ¢ woro desirablo, witliout forfoltin, thie political rectituda which attachos to tho modo of moking thelr nominations, Tho Ropublicans are also commited to tholr call for a convention, and tha mora intolligont once will wark to save thoir national pres- tige, which they regatd as parsmount fo local {ssuca, —Thoe Mattoon (Il.) Commercial calla over the list of ' Public Thioves," eminont in Dom- ocratio party councils and cminont in Reopubli~ can party councils, and says: Dehiold what emart, Intelligent, oducated men, men of oratorical and _thinking powors—saviors of tho country, and leadors of portiss, havo donc—sa proity sight Judood! TResders, do you liko this etato of ailaira? Yow much love do you have for your do~ ceivers 7 —Tho Jacksonvillo (T11.) Sentinel calls ovor & st of the groat Bamators snd Ropresontativos of n gonoration ago, and says: But to the plsmircs who now claim to Al the places of thoss men, 10NOn I8 “played out,” and pAY " ia tho only consldaration worihy their ‘sttention. Olti zond of America | s it even 50 that thera ia no longer uoNon in holding offica in State or Natlon? What hna made §t 507 Tho stoaling, tho corruption, tho crlmod of thoso who have, during tho lust ton years, iled tiows ofeos, Bhall fils stats of alfaire, oF pub: lic sontiment, continue? —The Jackeonville (TUL.) Joturnal, an independ- ent Ropublican paper, snd supporter of Grant last year, now saya: Allattempla o galvanizo {h bl 505 110 wor 0 ork 1 Sy Sones il e o e mind quito ss foolleh as tho similar offort on bobalf of {ho Democratio party, o which we have just aliuded, It would Lo o mnisfortuno fora Government constituted 08 ours is, should tho ssmo political organization res ‘maiu In power for two decades, no mutter how honest tho spirit of tho narty, A chahigo is a8 nacesenry for the body politic as for the physical body, and disre- garding tho votoes of thousandsof overly patriotic oMcehiolders, o people will in duoe time mako satis- factory arrangoments for such a chango, —The Republican party stands iudicted for all theae offoncos, and it will bo convicted whenever public opinion, fraed from that powerful combi- nation of selfish interests which too ofton affocta its judgment, can confront tho real issucs, ana~ Iyzo tho startling testimony, and dotermino to riso above tho trammels of party. That time has now come, and the fall elections will demon- strato that tho masses, who havo pa- ticntly borne the grontast wrongs, tolerated cor- ruption, and evon condoned crime, for the sako of n cause which they bolioved to bo good, are nb last awakonod from thoir lgl'wvnlls decoption, and nre dotorminod to doal Btornly with thoss who daceived thom.—Zincoln (I.) Statesman. —The roforms we seck will not come in a day, ‘but tho timo for thoir sccomplishmont depends very much upos tho energy and dotermination with which each ono takes hold of this great work of organization, When that is accom- plished we liall bo able to u{;m\k in this matter with such authority of numbors that our law- mnkers, both in the State and National councils, will ba Yory apt_to hear and to heed tho oxpros- sions of our will, for the farmera sre bound to win, and railroad kings and various corrupt mo- nopolics may as well noto the signs of the times and stond agido,.— William 4. Peak, in Winches- ter (Iil.) Times. ~That wo need a now party is apparent, that & now pacty ia coming, noods 1o prophetic’ eyos tosoo. . . . Rings,cliques, spolintionsof tho poople's highoest intorosts, monopolica of tho ‘people's franchises, hiave waked up the Amoeri~ can pooplo to the fact that somo cnemy isin their camp. Ropublicans tell us that this onomy is Domocracy., Democrats tell us that this enemy is Ropublicaninm, and point with some show of argument to the ruling party in power. Now winois thus boing fast pressad ont and miust goon bo bottled in something., Our poople aro called to meot in convontion, on the 27th, to blow tho bottlo that is to hold this now wine— and hore comos tho point. Bhall it bo made of clean-washed sand, or will the old E“Lf.pi“ofi molt ovor thoir Iadle drippings for the last half contury, outof which to make tho bottle for this now wine ?—* Radical,” in Aledo (Ill.) Ban- ner, —Binco our st lotter tho rapid spread of tho Grango fovor has alrcady causod a lively com- motion in the Roi)uhliunu camp, snd hos also causoed considorablo quaking among professional politicians of all grades and parties. ‘They soo the handwriting on tho wall that tells thom that the farmers are coming to tho front, and that tho oftico-holdors in the futuro will not be office-scekers, but men who will honor the oftico and not thoso whom tho offico will honor,— Sedalia (Ma‘.) lelter in Kansas City Times, —Resolved, That wo, as farmora sud Iahorors, belieyo in tho invinciblo power of tha pooplo, ond 0g wo have quiotly suffered and submitte to muol abuso, imposition, and infringement upon our_righty, we hail with delight and eatis- faction the dawn of roform—2afass-Meeling at Wilmington, 2Ul, -~Tho monopoly papors of Towa are gratifiad ‘bocauao the editor of tho Clinton Age says thab “thoununds of Domocrats will voto the Jtopub- lican tickot this fall for tho ilrat timo, while fow Topublicans will refuso to support tho Ropubli- cun tickot.,” . . . Tho avidity with which tho monopoly editora goizo upon the words of Judge Thayor couvincos us thit thoy fenr the new or- nnization mich moro than the old Domocracy. ft thoy cun got ono ally from tho Domocratio sido they will Lo happy. This would cortainly not bo 8o if _thoy thought that * but few Repub- licans would refuee to_support the Ropublican tickot,"—Des Moines Leader, —1If tho Demoersoy should stand nsido in Towa, beeanso it is iu o hopeloss minority thero why should it not take itsclf off tho nationa flold, whore thero I6 an insurmountablo majority of 725,000 nl,'u.hmb it, and whero its fndepondont gotion can “only serve_to impode and endangor tho groat objoct that all foris of opposition to Ropublican_ domination desire to compass ?"'— St, Louis Republivan, . =1t wo would seo the Democratlo party freod from tho control of cortuin men,and in full sym- pathy with the progross of tho age, wo would }Inslm no furthor political ‘aiin or furthor politi- cal ambition.—ZLogansport (Ind.) Demvcralio Pharos. —Qontlomen, gel out of the old house, Your furniture is all right, your couvenjonces first- rato, and your bill of 'faro uncxceptionable, but your house is sbominablo, ‘ammany ling knook- od out the windows, sccesslon rats lisve undor- mined its wally, snd Kn-Klux winds havo rippod tho shinglos ofY tho roof. Asa political hotol, it in noithor snfo'nor comfortablo i the time of o slorm, Qotoutof that houso, sud go into tho now ono just aoross the way.—Adrian (3iok.) Pregs, Le8k ) v distinetly understood, that tho pooplo of this country will Bubinit to nothing but justico and oquulity; thab 1o monoyed aristooracy will ovor rulo over thom; and that, if tho evil {s too Qooply Boated, and its ramification too wide and strong too be overcomio, thon, the lust remedy of an oppressed people will bring retief through rev ufil‘l‘:l{o»‘—-A. E. Ilarmon, in Champaign (Ill.) imes, —The agitation among tho classos for Inbor ia wide-aprend, and we can bat rogard it nsm benlthy outgrowth. It moans that people aro growing to think mora of thomuolves, In one rlucu it may tako tho form of a T'rades’-Umion ; n anothor a Grange, but it is Indicative of the gamo thing everywhora.—Burlinglon (Iowa) Hawk-Eye. ~'tho Journal has no hositation in unying that it in opposcd to the ronomination or ro-olection of Gon. Grant for & third torm, and can hardly cauceive of any change in the Pmnum. situation of affairs_which would justify a chango of oplulon, It {8 quite truo thero I8 nothing in the onstitulion or laws of tho country to provout tho ro-election of Grant, but it is oqually true that an overwhelning mjority of tho Amorican poople aro ufipoaud to tho considoration of that slop. Not that they have any doubt of his por- sonal lntr.'%ru or patriotism, nor that thu{ think bo ontertainaidoas dangorous to our liberties,but ulm[lv\y bocauso his re-olection would bo contrary to all'procadont, and to our well-sottlod political idoas, Bay what you pleaso of tho American pooplo, they aro thoroughly oppowed to mon- archism in “overy possible form.—Indianapolia Journal, —In this country wo never have had, snd pover out to have, the Fodoral Exccutive in con- trol of our groat linos of trado and travel, ' We can havo no organizod army of pormanent offica~ haldor'u with horeditary life-long torms of office.” On the Ropublican soil of this country Weo hiave no room for such continenta! spocimens of mltmm'cilhlcnlfuwm;. Ln l?dmd onough for tha pooplo to bave to contest with_corporat Wiolded by thio Vandorbilta and "o Sootte, bt under & law of Divine Providenco tha; y lika othor pou{;ln, havo to die,—though Vandorbilh holda out onrln]l{,—hut uhouh%hu groat high- ways of the Natlon pass into tho hands of the Goneral Governmont, and be oporatod by Exccue tive appointment, tho ovils resulting therofrom would ‘bo moro porpetual, and tenfold mora §Kgnntlo than thoso of tho Vanderbilis, tho Tom cotts, Cradit Mobilior, back aud forward salary- grabn, aud all othor ovlla to which wo havo, of Into yonrs, beon subjooted.—Springfleld (1i.) o tty cloar 4l ~—It is now protty cloar that, unless eomo new Oradit Mobitier luvostigation puts o stop to the public business, somothing will bo dono at the noxt songion of Congrosa toward the eatobe lishmont of & governmont tolograph, It is high timo, 'Tho United Bintos nro tho only civile izod natfon in the world which suffors the tolo~ frnph to romnin in private hands; and during ho past six or sovon years tho subject Lina beon so generally discussed here that publia opinion is almost unanimous in favor of follow- ing tho gonornl oxamplo.—Harper's Weekly. .- « —By sll accounts, that Walpurgis-night gathoring of the Maine * Domocracy,”" mush have boon a solomply funny affair, cording to the Doston Adverliser's roport, not much, if ony, moro than bhalf tho dologates put in sn appearance; Aroostook County, whero tho discontent with mummier politics is strongost, didn't sond ono. Thoro was o singlo confeated seat; thero was also & single attempt in tho morning o got up & littlo applauso, It was abortive. Most of th dologatos woro oy hair; tho “yonng De- mocracy " wero nowhore—or porhaps Somowhore elso, Blr, “Tim"” Tubbard bogan an indignant !»blflpplc against tho Radical Fortland authoris ies for half-maating tho lag on the City Hall in which the Convontion was sitting ; his eloquence was cut short, howevor, by a concise oxplana- tion that tho flag hnd beon lowered in honor of a prominent citizen, sn ex-Alderman and & Domo- crat, who had just departed this lifo.” The Con- vention got out of pationce with tho dilatory Commitico on Resolntions, and finally gavo it fivo minutes in which to roport, Betweon the ballots, thespokesman of the *‘ young Democe racy " tried to mako a spocch, but was choked off. Alfogether, it seoms to bave beon very tragical mirth.—Springfleld (Aass.) Republican. CORRUPT CUSTONS. Tho Commotlon at the New York Cuse tom-Itousc, From the New York Herald, Aug. 17, Tho third duy of the agony &t the Custom- Houso bas elapsed, and yot-tho ngony is groater than oyer. The publication of the fact in the Herald that the namos of sixty-one oflicials, whose conduct should boe investigated, had beon gont to Wasbington Las roceived hourly con- firmation from omploycs at the granito building. Thero is now no doubt whatover of the oxist- enco of tha *fblack” list. Every dispatch from Washington mnkes assuranco doubly sure. Statomonts mado by men in high positiqn at the Custom-Hougo have tendod to throw all the blamo upon the Inspectors at the wharves. Thia has been dono to save themmolves, and for nothing else. The JIuspectors lave boen abusod for iaking perquisitos, but it ia not in their gn\\'or to cheat tho revenue directly by any possiblo mosus, 1t is possible for_them £0 hurry tho delivery of goods, or it is possible ta dolry thom on tho dock for hours, and, by doing 80, causo gront oxponso to the importers at the fionoml order oflico. The biggest swindling is lono by tho chiof officinls at the desks in tho Custom-House, who nre Bermnncnlly stationed thero, and havo all the boat opportunitics to make arraugements and to fix bargains with im- porters. Tho Inspoctors cannot plau any bar- goins with theso dishonost morchauts or import- crs, for tho prime roason that they never know one day shioad what vossel they will be detailed to inspect. The Inupectorhbas nomenns of know- ing thocontonts of &casc of goods, for ho doos not examine it at all Thore aro Pxeminers and Ap- praigors for this meoae‘ and thon the Inapector may receive o 810 bill for a littlo extra work ag an act of courtosy, without any possibility of defrauding tho reveuuo. The Appraisers and Examiuors, however, have , every chanco of collusion with importers, ond they rocoive large amounts of monoy from dishonost importars, Uncle 8am in looked upon as a fair victim to be plucked, and Lo is plucked with onthusiasm, Tho man in business who would not think of choating hus butchor, baker, or tailor of & bill does not Logitato to swindlo the United States Governmont, and tho crime, for crime it is, lies easily on his conscionco. Tho night Inspectors worle six hours. Thore aro two watches. Tho night Inapoctors nre puid &3 a watch, 'Tho day inspeotors go on duty at 6 o'clock in the moruing, and thoir dutics compel them to loavo at sunset. In the offico of Col. Frank E, Howe thero are a number of men employed who are dotailed from the Custom-Houeo, "It costs tho custows authoritios $70 per day to support tho office of Col. Howa: hera aza flly-four Speoial dgantu of the Trossury in the United States, distribe uted among tho largo cities, Mr. Roscoo Conk- ling, Benator of the United Btates, haa beon vory friendly to Col. Howe, the horo of tho Park Barracks, Col. Howe has & difforence with Spe- cinl Agont Jayne. Among tho Special Agenta tho rates of pay nr 88, 96, and 5 a dny. Thia row out of the denire of Howa to have Jayne fiotnllod to his offico, To this Jayne did not agros, aud honco Lias grown an unfriondlinees which soms to have given Jayno a dosiro to ox- poso tho poculations and corruptions in Howo's department. Al out of this slight quarrel ba- twwoen ofiicials lins conte an oxposure of the gou-~ oral dishonesty among custonis officers. 1'hus do slight causes work groat offocta. Tho abovo statomonts aro morely made upon the guthority of ousip swmong tho subordinates at tho Custom-liouso who aro in anxious oxpoctancy of the sx of nuthority being applied to thair severnl officiul nocks. This anxiety ls not confinod to sixty-ono porsons, but porvados the wholo forcoof eniployos, oxoopt tho highost ofticials, for thoy ulono know who are charged, and what ones aro approved clear of Vuuulnllcn and conspiracy to defraud. Tho namos of thoso merchauts dovotod to the slight inorcios of Agont Joyno and United Statos District-Attorney Bliss hovo hitherto boen carofully guarded, But tho writer was do- tormined to lfiacnwr who wero the firms chargod with fraud upon tho customs’ revenue, and he did B0, It was ouly attor careful watehing, and the uso of that roportorial strategy which re- quiro something moro than United Hitntos Jogal powers Lo eirenmvont, that & view of the books 111 tho District-Attoruoy's ofice wns gmned. A transcript of tho namos of the most important flrme gninat whom suits, as ll!ns:m[. hinvo boon bogun, was spoodily made, aud it iy horo pro- tod ¢ “D'I‘ludun. TFroro & Ca,, importers of laces, shawls, &o. ; sut for §102,000, b0§uu Jufir 12, Josepl J, Rtibon and J, M. Munoz; sult for 810, elAngnnt 0., Downey, Trancls Dongherty, snd Grahum Rogora ; sult for 756,000 for violution of cuatoms Inwe. I\ R, 1L & B, 1L, Trowbridge; suit for $75,000 for violation of tho act of 1803, Actlon closed, James Reid and John II. G, Bisterman ; suit for alleged bribory of & customs official to make faluo entrion, Joseph 1L White, Goorge IT. Brown, and Fran. ols D, Locompto ; suit for violution of the act of 1848, for Eh),‘)l)l). Action clased, A. H. Bolomon and I, MeD, Kirtland, for vio- Tation of act of 1863 ; suit for 10,000 Olosed. Bmil 0. Herman, Hugo Parpors, Louis ¥, Domorich, Christophior Andrew, Leopold Schol- ler ; wult for &41,005.08, for violation of uct of 1803, Action closod. Joso V. Onativia, Honry Dosti, Charles A. Hoard, W. II, Latimor, (oorgo Latimer, and Jouo B. Fernandez; sulf for 8104,000 for viola. tion of the act of 1803. Closed in March, Bolomon N. WoMt Alphousua do Miothal, Hul undor act of Lsaa\m 16,000