Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1873, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY. TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1873. MAYOR MEDILL. What He Saw ot the British Museum. Rare Books and Manusoripts---An- tique Jewelry—Anciont Statuary, The Museum=Library=+Some Advice to {he Direclors of {he Chiengo Library =«The Financinl Crisis. [The following lottor was received from Mr, Medill by ono of the Directors of tho Chicago Public Library, but will bo gonerally read with intorest:] T.oxoN, Oct, 1, 1873, My DeAr Sin¢ I arrlved hero s wook ago, in good health and epirits, barving tho deprossing effect of tho American financial nows. . Wo have industriously dovoted tho pnst olght days to sight-soeing, and we aro just boginning to get somo concaption of this gigantic, unparatloled city. Tho weathor hny beon excoptionaily fine, rosombling nn Illinols * Indian-summer” slky and sun; noither too hot nor too cold; between o hnzo and a fog, with tho sun shining mildly through the light mist and smoke. Monday and to-day (Wedneaday) I devoted to the Dritish DMusoum, Monday o, m. I epent among the DOORS AND MANUSORIPTS in the great hall containing the library of Georgoe 1L and Goorge IV, and the groat Grenville Li- brary, donated to the Museum, together with the immenac additions mnde thoroto during the past forly yonrs. I cannot undertake to namo the raro things I eaw, but will mention afow. I 80w tho Mazarine Biblo, from tho press of Gut- teuborg and Faust, dated Mentz, 1465, beheved to be the first copy ever vrintod ou movahin typos. It +wes beautifully executed and illumineted. I saw scores of printed wvuoks bearing date beforo 1475; an origiual copy of tho *Tales of Caun- torburye,” by OChaucer, 1476—only one other copy in oxisfonco. I saw o copy of the firat edition of Columbue’ lottor or rocord of his discovery of America, written eight moanths theronftor, printed in Latin, in Rome, 1493, I eaw 8 copy of Bhakepcaro's *‘Romeo and Ju- liot," London, 1597,—firat odition. Just look at the dato! Also, of “King Lear," 1608,— first adition,—and **Merry Wives of Windsor, —firat odition, 1619, Also, & copy of tho firat oollectod odition of Shakapoara's plays, 1623 ; all boquenthed by David Garrick. I also saw Shakspenro's autograph to s deed for tho pur chaso of a picce of laud, and o ml§hly ‘poor spocimon of penmanship it was. W tho manuscript contract of “Milton and his pub~ lisher for *Paradisc Lost,” aud Milton’s si nature thoroto, Some of the English manu-~ seripts dato back to A, D. 623. There ia also to Lo seen the Bull of Pope Loo X., conferring on Henry VIIL the titlo of “Defender of the Faith,"” "Thero were lotters in Fronch written by Wiliiam the Conquoror. Thero wors anto- graph lettors of all the noted historical chiarnce Yors,—na Kings, Queous, Priuces, Dukor, Earls, authors, composors, orators, poets, stntesmen, Generals, Admirels, ete., produced by Grenb Britain and Europo for o thousand yoars pnet, 1 wau perfectly bowildered with the multitude of them, I saw the original manuscript of the Now Testament—* Coscx Aloxandrioy,” of A, D. 450, in Greek, on parchment. I bolieve iliero are only two older copics oxtant,—ono in the Vatican and one in_St, Petersburg. I saw the arliamontary records sinco Willinm the Conquaror, and the original Magnn Charta ex- torted from King John (it was noarly faded out). But I weary you with the cuumeration. ‘Cho afternoon I devoted to the grllories con- taining specimeus of natural history, and & por- tiou of tho collection of ANTIQUITIES, including tho aucient coins and joweled orna~ ments. Somo of the coins dated back' to the early deys of Greece. No jowelry store in Lon- don or I"aris can equal in design or beauty these specimens of jowelry. Indocd, the modern oues aro more imitations of thosoof Greeco and Rome. This aftornoon was dovoted to tho ANCIENT RTATUALY, which fills a dozon great hails, fome of them 200 by 60 feet. Tho collection of * Elgin Mar- bles ™ from Athens is immenge, I never formed any conception of sculpture before. It is almost & logt art to tho moderns, They cannot even cepy the originald, much less concaive originals to comparo with those produced bf little Greece. Thig s llaetlon Eam Eavnt 8 Brod et whsle shiplonde of works of art in marblo and' granite Sjct—l)lnck granite) nnd marblo of various colors. The Egyplinn statuary oxcoeds that of Grecce in s1ze, running into thesuper-colossal, andall of itis constiucted or cast after & peculiar type, as shown 1 pictures. ‘Tho Greek atutuary is bold, giaceful, faithful to lifo, wondorful. But nearly ®ll of the specimons, thousands in number, are maore or lexs broken or defaced—some of them meroe fragments. Vandals and barbarians made sad bavoe with thom. Icame awny both daya o tired that limbs, eyeu, and brainn gehiod, snd L was ono big acho {from tho top of my head to the soles of my feot. Itell you it is tho hardest kind of worlk, thus thing of night-seeing, if one goes at it do- termined to find“out things, and look deeper than tho surface or guide-book descriptions, (T nover vok ut the lutior.) THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY containg over 1,000,000 volumes, and 88 many munuseripts and pumplilets, TG main reading- room is cuenlar, like the Chicago Tank, but ton times ns large, being 140 feot in diamoctor by the ame iu height,—being, in fact, o vast dome, or Dowl, It contning 100,000 of the most-nsed and called-for _volumes, but none of tho raro and curious old books, "Thero aro stalls or souts and desku for, porhiaps, 800 readors, and thoy aro mostly full coutivuaily. Here the books and mngaziues are mado, and half those rondors T E0w wero quthors, No books aro losued out, or alloved to bo talkon out of tha building, The books aro arranged on tho shelyes very much a8 in the Boston and Washington Li- braries, The guide complained of the orror of baviug the rooms too kigh, and of the euormous amount of ladder-work for tho seivants in fetching and roplaciog books, In the now rooms tho shelvos are not more than 8 or 9 foot bigh ; but tho mwles hova iron gratings, so that you can weoup two or threo stories and dowh as many. Tn fact, tho aislos aro mmply gridirons, Two or throo copios of all_copyrighted books must Lo given to tho Grand Library. Whou 1 lookod around at this stipendous col- tection of literature, it SUL FOOD LiTTLE penia of o library iu Chicago shrank into insignificanca; andl, ovow whan tho old £04t-ONico in filod el volumes it will hold no more thau ouo of these long halls, But then it must not be forgotten thint tho British Museum Library is tho work of a contury, snpporled by the Governmont, aided by tho aristocracy nnd roholarship of tho riation ; aud that it is in continunl roceipt of: tho finest and rarest privatolibrarien in Buropo, bequenthed to it by tho docensed ownera, “Che’Library Bourd pny the highest prico_for evecything raro or valuable, The annual endow- meut for tho wholo Musoum is MALF A NILLION OF DOLLAR ; 80 it is no wonder that the colleotion is 80 ro- markable and {immense, For the “ Llgin Mar- bloa” nlone, £35,000 waa pald (that was for about & quarter of what Is now enlled by that nnme). CONTLETE BETA OF VALUADLE PERIODICALS, By tho way, I hupponed to remaric that Mr, Hoyuo presentad our library «with o _complote Bot_of the Genfleman's Magazine, md tho Tie brarinn 8aid that sots wern now quite rare, and coulil not be hnd oxcept at a high price. And it now occurs to ma that 1 saw in Blanchard's map and old-book storo, Clark streot, near Monroo, o complete set of Blackicood, n wut, I (hink, of the Westminster and of tho Quarterly, which wore offered st an sbsurdly low price, I would ad- vise you to_gea if thiey aro yob for snle, and, if #0, to urge the Board to purchaso thom at once. Hnd I tho money to _epare, I would buy and preseat thom to the Library, Your Board will novor got thom #o chonp aguin, 1 have looked through somo of tho old book-stores in London, but can find no nam&:lela Hety of oithorof thouo publications, I consider them very valuable ac- quisitions, I would like to stay in London a month longer, but tho weathor will soon he bad, and I think L must leave In a week or ton duys for Purls, and thero sottlo the family down somewhere for the wintor, THE FINANGIAY, COLLAPAE in the *‘Blaten™ groeatly distrescos me, Wore I home now, I shaild not think of going abroad, Btill, as at presont Informed, I do wot think it advieablo to return in a anie, But I oonfeus that, when I Lieard that the Union Natloual and four othor Ohieago Nationnl Banky Lind suspondod, it .gave mo cold ohilla, Tho namas of the last two haye not beon telographad, Tho dispntchies rocolved horo of tho Amorican figcal orlsts are provokiugly mongro; yob thnt nows furniuhos thoe chiof tople of the British pa- pera and publio, aud Lins ensod great unoasinoss on this Island and the Continont, with somo dine turhanco af oredits and valuos, and grent fonrn of worse, Whon I first henrd of the collapse of Jay Cooko, I'liad just commonred a long lotter to e 'I'ninune abont Iroland ; but I eomid not £o on with It, I took in the situation at n glance, ond saw that It was tho promonitory symptom of tho big emthquake and tidal wavos' to follow. have seen and known, for n yenr or mores, that things wero rotten finnnoially, ns woll as politi- eally and morally, in Amorica’s and that wo wera approncling o ropolition of tho axporionco_ of 1867, and wonld soon ** ghoot Ningara," au Car- Iylo would eall it. But the hurricamo came & vear or two sooner than I anticipatad. It willdo good, and is needed to purify tho moral atmos- phero, Bauvkruptey and bard times will pro- moto ploty and Lioneaty. Reapectfully Ai'mm;. J. Meprr, e o THE ARCHITECTS, Closing Procecedings of tho Convens tion of the American Institute. The Convention of tho Amorlcan Institute of Architocts mot ngatn yostorday morning pursu- ant to adjournmont, Mr. Boyington in tho chalir, Tho roport of the Committs on Profossional Practice wna taken up, and was discussed nt great length, the pointa involved being of intor- o8t to nrchitects alone. The anly material alter- ation madein tho schedulo of prices was to drop the word **adopted " and substitute *in- dorsed by the Institute.” After o recess for dinnor, the consideration of tho samo subject was resumod, and it was do- cided thaot architoots should bo allowed to make an additionsl charge for altorations, propor- -lihm:ld to tho amount of timo nnd sorvices ron- ored. Mr. Blow concluded tho roading of the report of the Committeo on Mansard Roofs, taking up the subject of oxtlnguishing lucipiont flamos, especially in roofs. Tho hoai of tho London Tiro Departmont had reported that the trouble in this country was tho defective arraugomonts for putting ot Incipiont fires. The Committeo recommend staud-pipes, and for tho upper floor aprinklers, 8o far na looks aro_concerned, the ‘ommitteo decidedly approved of Mansards. Nothing betler could bo used to malo them snfo than fron rafters, Inths, ote. A papor by Mr. Tinsloy, on Fire-Proof Con- struction, was also road. According to him, the Frent oxomption from fires in Trouch and Ital- an cities wns not 8o miich duo to the fres uso of plastor-of-parls, and other non-combuatible ma- torials, 18 to tho fact that firos wera io promptly donlt with. Less fuel was used abroad, and thero was moro carc abotit flues, pipos, otc, A varioty of detailed rocommendalions to securo safoty in the construction of chimneys woro then given. After passing the customary votes of thanks, tho Convention adjourned. In tho evening tho delogates sat down to o banquet at the Paciiie Hotel,which proved an en- joyablo affair, —_— GILMAN, CLINTON & SPRINGFIELD RAILROAD. Lyaay, Ford Co,, 11, Oct, 15, 1873, To the E\litor-of The Chicago Trivune : * N Bin: Rending your articles on the Gilman, Clinton & Springfield Raiirond fraud, I am much interested in the statemont you make of the higher trananctions of tha Company : but there are some things you havanot told of yot. Iama resident of Lyman; was & non-resident when tho township voted £25,000 Londs to- the rail- rond ; was diseatisfied about it at first, but now think it convenient to Lavo o station at hand. But about tho construction, ag it came to my knowledgo: A gentloman named Megill, of Olinton, had tho contract of grading the road at 35 cents per cubic yard. This ho sub-let to another man u:amed Brown, for 27 cents por yard, who iu turn sub-let it to other small contractors by the mile, at 16, 14, nnd as low ns 12 conta per yord., A8 mony a8 fivo or eix porsons bud contracts in this locafity, who, 88 soon. ns thoy came on, wont their runners over the country to got_ ove! team they could to como (o wWork, and to_securo boarding-places for their workwen, ‘Theso ranners met with great suc- coss, citbor from tho rallroad feeling or tho big promiscd wages, which it was quito ovident thoy could not begin to Lmy at tho low rate they had undertakon the work. Boon nenrly every team wan on the rond, und cvory houso filled with boatders ; women-folks woro working dny nud night, in expoctution of their raward, “The work went on, overy one oarning lots of monoy, till a Inst it camo fo u finish, when uli had their ac- counts made up, which they were quite ready for, owing to the loss of crops the preceding year, and overy ono laving largo store-bills to 8y for goods (s railrond-laborera are not to be Pegrdod o nothing). Hero thoy assomblod dny after day, waiting for tho contractors to como with thoir monoy; but they novor put in an ap- oaranco ; aud of all men that over had the Ehmfl. these creditors woro tho bluest. Somo fow followed the contractors up and got some- thing out of them. Others bnd them arrested ; but & fflaw fn tho indictmont slways gave thom releaso,—tho plaintfl partios Laving to pny costs, and bemg glad to got off ab tlaf. I was told the liabilitics in this townsbip amounted to £0,000. 8o, when the farmers did their work for nothing, and boarded tho work- mon, who got nothing but their board, you can figure up what the grading cost. I beliove it was quite profitable to tho conatruction-ring. When they were surfacing, thoy could not got & man_boarded, but bad to keop an engino and flat-cars to carry the workmen out from Gil- man snd bagk overy evoning. Then came on tho locating of tho aiation, u it was one of the terms of tho bonds to bave one, L'wo parties ot to contending for it,—one on Section 11, and fim other on Bection 21, Tho first namod had a very handsome place, with grove and pond, where the water-tank standsj tho other ha nothing whatever to recommond it. Tho rail~ road-ofliciala stood betweon them for some time, and smiled on one to spur on tha ather, as itwns money ho wanted. The party on 21 mado up the biggest Euu. and thero slauds the station (Roborts), If our railrond-debt is to bo lovied on'tho whole State, wo may bo bonefited by it ; but I dou't beliove it is fair or just to have other people pay the debt we contracted for the Gil- man, Clinton & Bpringfield. But there is another rond, {hrough the south part of the - county, by Paxton, which is not worth b conts to any one in this townslup,aud much less to those north of us. To this wo have to pay some 810,000, and interest thereon, as our shayo of the county-subscription, 1 should wish that those who voted it on to us should be made to pay it themselvos, 1f tho Gilman, Clinton & Springfleld Company can loaso the rord, it is the best thing thoy can do, as the earnmings would pay uothing, “The towns and counties will never ot any relurn for their subseription; T for ono would chenrfully givo up mine if thore was auy- thing soming'to s ; wo would only got cheatéd out of it. 1 only want them to Lcop their cars 3?&’.’“"” and cury freight as low as other I moy have made some misstatoments, thorofore, leavo this opon for eorraction. erence, M. O, Piorco, and, Ret- or any othor man" in Lvaan, —_— The Buttorflcld«ilowe Elopoment, #rom the St. Paul Dispateh, Oct, 16, Tho pursuit of J. G. Butterfield has resulted in a ‘positive nssuranco that, nccompanied by Jra. Howo whom he mot at’ Chicago, ho hns taken passago for Europe, IHis linbilitics, it ia now enid, oxceed 40,000, of which 10,000, ow- ing to tho Northwestern Insurance Company of Milweukeo, is fully sooured by o mortgage upon his real entato, and some $4,000 or §56,000 more was securod Dby chistiol morigage, Tho unse- cured liubilitics are to farm hunds and tho per- sonal friends from whom or by whoso indorro- mend bo borrowod money, Tho extent to which ho borrowed from oflicora and employes of the Bloux City Road with whom he bad boen assccl~ ated ia only explainable by the high _ostoom in whioh ho was hold, His viotims had such con- fidenco In him, from thoir intimato knowlodgo of tho man, thal thay wero tho last to boliove tho storios startad by bis flight. In the whole there ara two fucts not to his dis- cradit, Those ure, that ho sont the sum of &800 to his doserted wl[o‘ ‘which sho received while in Now Hampshire ; and that ho sont to Ay, Dune bar, formerly in tho engincer's oflico of tho 8t. \ & 8, O, Rond, o sum of monoy sufticiont to mako up bis doflcienoy to tho Corning and Do- Pow catate, and dosiguatod forthat purpose, Boforo leaving 8t, Paul Mr, Buttorflold had shaved off the fino whiskers which would have served to idontify Lim anywhere, Ho probably bad enougli money when he loft New Yok to laat him o fow years in Buropo, hut not onough toaccount for half his large liabitities, The major part of his debts woie evidontly tho re- sult of unfortunato speculationn, . Wo undorstand an attompt is being mado to obtain authority to pursue him in Europo, but do not learn that any charge can bo brought againgt him whioh would securo his extradition, WASHINGTON. Grant on Finanoe---His Postal Bank and Silver Fractional COurrency. Richardson as a Counterfeiler—Mo Emits Forty-four Millions of Monoy, From Our Own Correspondent, Wasninazon, Qet, 14, 1870, When tho oraclo said tunt ho should bo the King who firat saw tho sun rise on cortain dsy, and o slavo, turning his back to the sun, saw its earlieat boams glint n spire, all tho pooplo orlod out: ‘ Who was wiso onough to give the slave that advico, for ho is tho young clap wo were looking for ?" 8o do wo want to know WIIO OAVE I'IESIDENT GRANT a1l thoso deep meditations on the curroney, tho other day. Tho Agent of the Assoclated Iross 1anot wont to write out things so sharply and saquentially. The President doos not use that rarity of Baxon, Who told him how to jump ? Tor there aro s good many propositions in tho talk, and it is renssuring, like the nowa wo got of gold shivering irrosolutoly boiween 6 nnd 9 promium, and breadstuffs snd cotton running over at the moasuro, just ag Buropo is standing, Liko Oliver Twist, and surprising our Bumblo Administration with the plea for ‘ moro.” Tho Prosident is put down &8 seying that tho lato panic was tho alarm-roll to call the nation to epecio paymonts, and compel a requisite and o'erpostponod sbrinkago of values. Spanish ourroncy was roady to hand for us in native silver, already produced boyond our neods in Novada, Utah, and Idaho; and ho might havo added that it is tho most coveted coinago by the Aslintics,—in particular the Chincse, who sond homo their acoumulations in milled silvor dol- lars, The paper-ourrency of the country is at par with eilyer alroady, and tlie Prosident thinks that we ean put above 200,000,000 of silver coin In motion where it will do the most good. This advico, to bo good for anything, ought to got to the minors, TUE PRESIDENT'S RECOMMENDATIONS, 88 far ag Lio hns got along, aro n National Postal Bank, to monopolizo deposits, and pay 4 por cont. for them ; while tho regularNational Banks shall be debnrred from paying any intorest whatever to dopositors ; and sholl also losa their advan- tago, a8 nt prosent, ovor Btate and privato banks, of cireulntion, by the reponl of tho clauss taxing such ciroulation. We prosumo this to be his menning by “a froe banking Inw, with tho samo protoction to bill-holdors as now,” unless ho also menus the right to disposo of the circulation of collapsed privato and State banks, just as brokon National Banks mey soll thoir notes. Just at this point, the Chicf Mogiutrate scoms to have got too much groens in bisrefreshment. A little mint is » dangorous thiug, as Mr. Lindorman will kuow when the hardy polygamists of Utah besicgo him with thoir silver pigs. The Prosident, besidos, wants the National Banke to keop their resorve in gold, transmuting it, little by little, from papor into spocio ; but, a8 o procautionaty step, it would bo woll to make more efliiont the provision rerfiu(rlng iliem to have o groenback rosorve, fhisls the wenkness of our Nationnl Banks, ~They evado the rosorve clause,—ns, for oxamploe, tho First National of Washington City, which tho Ex- mmiver_yostordsy found all ' right and woll guardod With & resorve, but which broaks to- dny, and, presto! the reserve is gone. AMABA WALKER, in his edmirable book upon ** The Scieuce of Weallh,” stated this disobedionco as follows: | *0ho National Banks, unfie tho Stato banks, are compelled by law to keep on hand a certan proportion of lwwful monoy to their cireulation and doposits. In the latger cities, which aro specified, this proportion is fixed at 35 per cont; in all other places, at 16, Under tho State sys- toms, thoro was no logal obligation on tho banks to keop mhy &pccio whate ever, oxcopt in @ fow cacus, w8 In Loufsiona, and (recently) in Massachusotts, aud ome or ‘two other States, But this provision in ragard to the Natiounl Banka is practically, to o great oxtent, only & nominal matter, beenuso the law provides that ‘Bauk balnnces (due from cne bauk to another) shall e doomed Lo be lawful monoy ;' and, thorefora, 08 theso balances may be created fictitiously for tho very purposo, the clauss obliging the banks ta keop n cortain proportion of *lawfnl monoy’ with which to redoom their motes is nearly n nullity. llowover roal these bank-balances may be, thiey aro not spocie; but, as wo havo bofora shown, constituto the most dangerous avd ex- plosive cloment of & mixed curroncy. ‘The Mer- chants’ Bank of Daltimoro has 4 balanco against tho Chomical Bank, New York, for §20,000. The Iattor bank bLns n bolance againet the Globo Bank, Doston, for £20,000, Tho Globo hasa balance against tho Merchnulu’ Banlk, Laltimoro, for $20,000, Hero is $60,000 in this circle, which is to be_reckoned as equul to so much specio or Iawlul money. . . . So far from giving strongth, every banker knows that these bal- auces are & eausc of weakness and peril in timo of panie.” TIIE NEISSUE ALREADY DONE. It is hard to ace the consistency of tue Prosi- dont's viows when he says that he will recos mend the reissue of the $44,000,000 of legal- rouorves, and yet believes that specie-payments have about come to poss, To water out the curroncy full 6 por contum: {s mmply toracode five stops in the hundred from tho specie-base, And if, na tho Presidont’s srgumont seoms to show by Lis inclmation, specio-rosumption would bo a good thiug, his logio and bis iptention fall afoul of each other. Seo how thoe two great men in the Administration harnonize on the sumo_day. Premdent Grant said to tho Associated Press ‘man, to quote Lis words : ¢ Tho President said ho Lind thought much on the aubject, and, if he wero now ongaged in writing up his ahnual metango to Congrews, Lo should recommend positive authority to reissuo the 544,000,000 of 1eserve. But Boeretary Richnrdson remarked as follows to the New York Herald man: **1 would na strenuously oppose & bill for permancutly - crensing the legul-tender eroulation above the grotent standard, ns I would o bill for porma- nently fixing it at $366,000,000." - Mr. lichurdson also made the important con- fesrion, that he lind not the least doubt but 10,000,000 on &15,000,000 of the Govermment issue had beon destroyed or mislaid since legol-tenders woro firat circulated. Who could have destroyed his own money tu such an oxtont —for ¥15,000,000 1eprescnty ubout one-twonty-fitth of all tho legal-tonders, Rich- ardson alo shows that tho Prosidont's visiun of spocie-payments is somowhat illusory, a8 we ‘must pay the iiterest on the publio dobt in coin, nud tho customs-dutics amount to little moro then this annual interest, Iichardson holds that the 244,000,000 of reserves belong to his cush credit, and, baving advised tho Presi- dont mot 'to put them out, proposos to use ihem limself, ‘Tho Trensury of the United Btates hau procoeded Just lika tho banks, which by sgroomont, mudo certitied checks, Which they could not cash, curroncy, and to that dogron excoeded thoir legitimato circulation, Mr. Richardson hos drawn about £4,000,000 out of & fund of rotired uotos which some publio mon hiold to linve no legal existonce, TII: LEGAL-YENDEN BESERVE, Tho exiutonce of tis £44,000,000 of logal-ten- dors iu in itsolf » curious muatter, Doos it oxist &8 1ouey when Congross orderod it to be re- tired ? This involves tho question as to how the monoy gots its oxistonco, ‘Ilie Constitue tion givos Congross slone tho right to borrow monoy, to coin it, provide agaiust countorfolt- ing tho sccuriclea which sustain it, and says that uo monoy ehall bo druwn from the Lreasury but in consequence of approprintions mado by huw, Inw. Whon Congress iustructod the Hocro- tary to rotiro ~ £44,000,000, did it mesn meroly to lake the money in out of the wot, or to put an ond to it? ~ If tho monoy waa to bo oxtinguished, how can thoe Secrotary make any more ? If it was to bo set aside, whut clauso inthoe Inw pormitted him to oxercika discretion ovor it ? Lut bo eays that Lo must have havo 1t, and gives o good many presding veasous thore- for, which do not seem to be found in any part of his inatructions in tho not of Congress Aforo- snid. Tor, look you, whils tho Prosidont tells the Assoviated Pross man that ho shouid recoms mend to Congvoss, if thoy were in session just now, that thoy give him positive autnority to re- insue this large roservo, Mr, Richardson s al- ready rusing it without waiting for Congress, Here, thon, I8 a strain of wuthurity which tome puupl'u will indorso, some donounve, and tho greater part bo indiftorent about ; but s Congrous undorstauding ite supremaoy, such as wo have hod in pust thuew, would hardly tuil to put Bir. Richardson on record for "disobodiouce. ‘Luke tho eutiro history of this iwsuo, ond it will 6how an amount of inyoiution and orawilshing worao than Macboth's when Lis wifo took him to tnuk for " lotting I daro not wait upon I would.” Tirnt, tho speculntors, ote., besccch tho L'rosi- dent and Richardson to put out these logal-ton- dor resorvew, Junl ay was dono for & mean pur- posie prior Lo the fall-oleotions of 1873, ‘The "rosidont nud lin Bocrotary, who had meantimy #rown more serupuions, roplied, according to the Aswoointed Drens ronortor, that “ thoy could nob vivlute their constitution.” Aftor this diy- oy of moral heroism they come homo, and find that thoy must violate tholr constitution any way, willy-nilly, Aud their coustitution hus been viomtod to tha extont of putting out from £4,000,000 to £6,000,000, which somo good critics Lold not to bo lawful monoy of tho realm, THE CAUSE of this.mortifying businees ia to bo found in the great Loutwollinn fent of paying off the wholo nntional debt so ue to havoe B good quotation for thie stump when the Ponusylvania Dutohmen are to bo appenled to, Mr. Richardson, aftor the manner of Boutwell, was solling gold in order to got a largo curroncy-balance in hand with which to buy bonds and extingush another justall- mont of tho debt. This currency-balanco was mnda up of the samo kind of monoy s constl- tuted tho £44,000,000 reservo above mentlonad, —thnt i, legal-tonders, and not Nationnl-Bauk notes. T'ho usen of logal-tendors are somewhat broador than the uses of National-Buuk notes Tha logal-tonder ia the Qovernmont's own dis honored promiso to redeom: the noto at thocaun- ter of tho T'ronsury. I'ho National-Bank note is o circulating cortificate that tho bank which promises to redeom it in logal-tenders hay de- posited bonds o the Tiensury suflicient to fnsure its boing good. “Thus you oan goo that thoro might be & greator pressuro at &_givon time for logal-tendors than 1or National-Bank notos. Thero aro about §400,~ 000,000 of logal-tender notoe and fractional cur- roucy ; while, of National-Bank notes, thoro are said to bo no moro than $340,000,000. ~Beoratary Richardson had HELVED OREATR THE BTRINGENOY in currougy by hoarding sn unususlly large balance, When the pan:c struok the country, ho tried bis intorforonce-thoory of Government on & prodigious scale, and lat Off from $15,000,- 000 to 20,000,000 of logiul-!nndum, oxpecting to smash tho panic, and, like tho colobrated Socro- lnl‘{ of tho nursery-book, put in his thumb, and pull out o plum, and say what o good boy am I. The Goverumont had triflod with its own torrors on 80 many frivolous occasions that this unpar- allelod roionse of curfoncy had no effect, al- though Presidont Graut says about- it that— *“ho aid recontly rondored in tho purchase of an unusually large numbor of bonds was not so much roal us woral, The fact s, tho money- corporations of the country had becomo stam- peded, and in turn startled and siampeded the wholo' conutry. Hud not the Treasury scomed to aid them in somo way, the fright would have become moro fatal,” “Chis 18 & quoor Bentence, considering that tho goneral improssion iy, that Mr, Riohardson not only failed to accomplish anything, but added to the panio by Lis failuro, as tho country looked on lhorrifiod to seo that tho $20,000,000 had no moro effcet than so much gun-wad, Govern- ment cannot put an eud to a woll-founded goneral apprebionsion by suy gymnastics, Tho groat pilo of eurrency which the porformer drew out of his sloovo, followed the rost of it into tho stockinga of old women and into the wallets of old curmudgeons. And, whou ho bad fired all the gront Lalance awny, tho immediatoly-suc- cooding stringenoy in his lefinl-tundum led to such sorious needy that Mr, Richardson had to creato without Inw £44,000,000 of counterfeit logal-ton- dors, of which Lo Las spont several millions in meoting tho daily obligations of the Goyernment, ‘I'bis fs ono of the effcels of MANUFACTUBING THUNDER, Firat, tho Govornmont must buy its bonds, which niobody wants to dispose of, sud which ard to-day quotetd highor than gold, ' not only for & sinking-fund a8 the law provides, but to con- tinuo the advertisements in the Pennsylvania Dutch country about the wondorful Administra- tion which csn pny off so much debt. To buy tho honds, the Government insensibly helps the stringency in the currency; for Mr. ltichardson says that I do not remember o timo since the beginning of tlus Admiuistration whon the cur- roncy-balance was us large as at the bogluning of the prescut financinl trouble.” It is one thing to hielp make tho panic, and anotlier thing to try to stop it with the same money, Tho Secrotary thought that, if Lo could tling his groat currouoy- Lalance bacic amongst tho peoplo from whom lie Lad graduully and imporcopuibly sneaked it away, he could show his powor, aud also avort the ca- lumity, An act of goverument will seldom or- rest o goucral epidomic like o monotary panic, aud Mr, Richardson has brought up with an act of uswrpntion,—that is, cmitting money without warrant of law, which Lus slways boen Li0ld 1 Lo thio gravest kind of nsurpation, He now 008 & stop further, and naively telis the Herald roporter to writo as follows : “If, in tho courso of s fow days, the an- nouncomont of the daily Preasury balance should show a currency-balanco of $20,000,000 or §23,- 000,000, and no apparout jncrease in' the clrculi- tion of legel-tenders, the publia noed not be nlarmed ; for Secietary Richardson holds that he Linu tho right to placa the wholo, or any portion, of the 244,000,000 to his cash credil, and an- nouuce, 84 usual, tho exact amount of logal- tonders outslanding.” Hero wo.bavo another stop in tho interfer- once-theory of government, — Firat, a neceusity is created for more legal-tenders; second, seve- ral millions of money, not legally in existauce, aro applicd to this ucossily; ond third, whon tho Becretary, liko our friond ' Machatl, resolvos that * Things bad begun may make themselves strong by ill," he coolly puts the whole $44,000,~ 000 which Congress bad retired, to his oredit, TIE MONAL EFFECT. Thero are plonty of people in the country roads to indorse, on tho ground of expodicte cy, ncts liko the above; and, littlo by littlo, tha nice responsibility of the co- ordinate parts of the Govornment is lost sight of in thia way. Congross forfoits tho ro- spect of tho peoplo by Credit-Mobilior and back- poy legislation ; and tho Executive part of the Government undortakes to make laws as woll ag to ndminister them, “The trouble with our Trossury and its mnu-~ agemont . is the constant eudeavor to do too wmany things. Thoro is no great call to be pay- ing off the national dobt, exeept from tho chiof motive of political popularity, The national debt of the United Statos is tho bost investmont tor mankind, being nogotiatod for the largest hu- man purposes, borue by a people intelligout,indus- trious, and poworful, and backed by a Coutinont whoso surprising rosourcos continuo to be tue muorvel of the age. There aro evils as to this dobt, for no national dobt is & blessing ; but to mect the intorest upon it is not o hard thing to do, and 1t is nll that mankind nsks us to do, r. Boutwoll, who is the author of the prosent financial sysiem, was besot with all the narrow and provincial projudicos which it was hoped the Americans wore losing ; and smongst those way tho {don that it was ‘sowehow daugorous and belittling to bave FOREIGNERS HOLDING OUR BONDS. Thero oro some men in the country who go about saying that it will bo a bhappy day for America whon she will nover import any articlo of manufacture or luxury; but suoh & consummation would bo tho dastructlon of civilization, aud not_to tha bone- fit of the selilsh vation which would koep it in viow, ‘Thero ianot & good reason of any kind why we should not soll our bonds to foroigners, We aro now at work with Syndicates, and all the modern gag-words which cover finaucinl rasoalie ty, socking to_re-fund, at groat expenge, our publio dobt 10 Enropo, ' Wo might invo disposed of a vory largo portion of it at a low rate of in- torast originaily, but it suited the statesmnnsbip of tho tima to pay high ratos aud have the debt leld at bhome. "The Confedorate Government bad more shrowdnoss, aud promptly put its debt on tho Luropean markot,—theroby making & frlond of overy man who took part of tho investmont,” When the war closod nt Inst, the = Huropcans lost tho monoy. The most etoady and roliablo mation in Europe—by which T mean the En; lsh—ex- hivit nu unoasivess as o their publio debt, whiols snounts to about &x.oun,nnu,nlv’u or noorly double our own. It has not been 'decroased to any conuiderablo dogreo inco 1816, and most of 1t ‘wau inourred, Lilko ours, by war with one rival, Tho porsons who bold Amorioan bonds degire thom to bo a permanont. investment, and do not thiuk, a8 M. Boutwoll sot forth [ ope of he, financial praductions, that short bands will Mmoot with the rondiest salo. A lang loan is mora iy Foquasl In_gront mouoy-contros thvu o mory call-loan, “If the Treatury Dopartment would coaso atrainiug every poiuk to gt tho monthly huzza which groots its statoment of anothor million wipod out, it would uot now bo publishe ing in its statomant $44,000,000 of lonl-tondar balanco which Congress novor authorized, Gamm, KLiquor in Vermont, Frons the Rutlund Glubs, “Do le kuow of any liquor boing sold in Montpelior, of your own porsonal knowledge 7" * Yeu," blufily rosponded the Calonol; »Iluve sold liquor to olght of that jury that ‘sit befare youl" " The prosccution {old'him he could 0, nlthough Lie was roady to answor furthor on fin; subjoot, ———— —Tho Laramie Sentinel sonds up this M niancryt * Thoro s a fearful nndptorrlblgl?n:g: oity of “girls h‘l this country, not only for a0k iu‘u purp(l:;n;, “lm:.nwn‘ku?vk lot: of young men who would bo 8 10 tako thom ¢ & for lito at that,” e L THE COUNCIL. A Mceting Whiech Resulted in Nothing But Tall, Ald, MeGrath Makes a Nulsance of ITlm- self, ns Usual, Statoment of Architect Tilley Ooncern- ing the * Eurcka? Plan, An adjourned mesting of the Common Coun- ofl was hiold last ovoning, Acting-Mnyor Bond in tho Ohalr, and prosont Ald. Richiardson, Dixon, Warren, MoGennfss, Cooy, MeAvoy, Bldwell, Btono, Pickering, Tracoy, Behmitz, Oullorton, McOlowsy, Olowry, O'Brion, Bond, Olark, Kolios, Honlh, Minor, Mooro, Cloveland, Quirk, Mo- Qrath, Eokbardt, Stout, Mar, Sohaffuer, Cane non, Woodman. Ald, Dixon moved, In viow of tho small at- tondanco, that tho Connoit adjourn. Ald. Cullorton said be conld not understand tho renson for the motion, At the rogular meat- ing tho gontloman moved an adjournmont until Friday evening. The yons aud naya wore demanded, and tho ‘motion was dofeatod. Ald, Cnllertod introduced a resolution calling on tho Board of Public Works to propare au or- dinance for a sidowalk on Union place, Passcd. Ho nlgo introduced a resolution authorizing the Comptroller to make & temporary loan of $20,000 for soworage purposes. Ie apoke in favor of building sowers in the Beventh Ward, which, ho claimed, was the filthiest ward in the city. Ald, Quirk was in favor of amending the reso- Iution by making tho loan $300,000. Ho bo- lieved tho city would make money by letting soworsgo contracts now inatead of waiting until spring. If the city discharged its thonsands of omployes, it would bo compelled tosupport thom and thoir families during the winter. The citi- zons would nover object to taxation for sower- ape and water-pipos. Ald, Dixon inisted on the roforenca of tho rogolution to the Finance Committee. Ald., Schaffuer spoke against its roferonce. It wan roforred to the Finance Committes, Ald, Pickoring moved to adjourn. Lost, Ald, Richisrdson prosontod n potition of prop- erty-owners in tho blocks surrounding the Court-Houso squaro, asking the Couticil not to adopt a plan forn City-Ifall that provides for cornor ontrances. Roforrod to the Committoo on Public Buildings, A communication from the Board of Under- writers was read, notifylng the Council tlat TJames Ayara, Jr., had boos elocted o fill tho vacancy of Tiro” Commissioner occasioned by tho resiguation of L, H. Davis. Reforrod. Ald. Schaffuer said ho saw that quite s numbor of Aldermen, the Obair included, wished to get through business ag soon 88 possible. As thore was littlo to do, he moved to adjourn. The motion waa lost,—~yeas, 14 ; noys, 16. Ald. McGrath said at tho moeting on’ Oct. 10, 1873, tha plun known a8 ** Euroka" wau adopted. Bince then ho bad Leard a great deal aboub re- congidering the vote, and that they had boen requested to leavo the Council chamber, He was groatly opposed to thin plaw, the chargo baving been made that it would bankrupt the county aud city, and cost 87,000,000 or 8,000,000, o _believed it would, The eoplo of Cook County were cphosed to the action of the Council in refor- onco to the selection of the plan and in com- mencing to build o Court-Ilouso immodiately. A building had beon provided for the Recordor’s offico. 'The rules required that & motion to re- considar, togothor with » second therato, must come from s membor voting in tho majority. Ho coutended that those rules did not bind the prozent Council. o moved that the voto by which tha plau * Enrcka ¥ was adoptod bo ro- considered. -Tho Chair eaid Ald, McGrath knéw woll that the Chair could not entertain sy such motion. Ald. McQrath did not know whyho should not. 2 Ald, Bchaffner, on riging to second the motion, said he wns agreenbly surprised by the course of Ald, McGrath, The Couneil had adopted no rmles, aud Lo believed that the motion was en- tiroly in order, ‘o Tilloy plan met with gon. eral disfavor, and {t was the duty of the Councit to reconsider its vote and allow the matter of building n Court-Honge to rest for awlile until tha peoplo were botter ablo to build it. The Chair atated that he could not entertain the motion, because, whether acting under the ruloy or not, o member voling in the minority bad nevor, accordiug to parliamentary pro- ceduro, moved to reconsider; and, in addition to this, & motion to reconsidor must bo mado on tho sama evening. Ald, Schaffner movad that tho Board of Publio Works bo instructed not to let contracts for tho building of & Court-flouse without further or- dors from the Council, e wanted to know if tho motion wad in order, The Chair said it certainly waa. Ald, McGrath appealed “from the decision of tho Ohair. The Chair refused to allow tho appeal, Ald, McGrath said Lo would see whether he would not. Ald, Cullerton said the presont rules of the Council had guided the body ever sinco its con- voning in December last. Ald. Dixon said oll the rulings of the Council were illogal, if the rules wore what Ald. McGrath claimed—of no account. Ald. McGrath moved as an amendment to Ald, Schaffner's motion, that the Board of Public Works Lo instructed to employ a compotent ar- chitect to proparo such plans as they may decm proper for the building of tha city's portlon of tho new Court-House, and subnit the same to this Council for ndnrtmn or rejeclion. Ald. McGenniss said this was not a proper mo- tion to make In view of tha action of "the Coun- cil, nor wag Ald, Behalfnor's, Thoplan had been adopted withs n proviso which rondered tho uc- tion of the Council void, if, as Ald. McGrain had eaid, the cost would be grealer than i osti- mate. Ha did not care whose plan was adoptod, but the Council had taken their action, and the tax-payers woro protected. Ald,” Quirk neked how the cost of the building was to bo vorified. 1d. McGennius aslied how any ostimates were vorified, Ald. Schalfuer wanted Ald, MeGrath to with- draw bis amendment, but the Alderman wontdn't think of it, When Lo built a houso he employed Ius own avobitect, and the city ought to do the Bame, Ald, McGonuiga had & statement of the cubic- al contents of Tilloy's plan, and n comparativo statoment with othor plans, together with the opinious of geveral architects on tho subjoct, a8 follows: Owing to the erroneous statements cireulated as to tho cast of construction of the now Court-House ao- cording to my plan, No, &, @ Burcla,” adopted by the County Comimiaviotiora and your houorsble Board, T ‘mako the following atatemont of facls regarding tho #amo: The cubla contents of my buflding are 8,214,020 cubio feet, including the dome, which, eatimatod at » muximnim prico of U5 cents per cublo foot, would caat $3996,012, © In support. of my estimnale, T would call attention to the actual cost of ubilo buildings alread; erceted n tho mitod Hlutes © and others in - courso of erection: Girard College, Philadelphin, 50 cents per cublo faot, Custom-Moiwo, Philadoiphls, 48} conta por_cublo’ foot, Post-Ofliéo, Washington, iron and marble, 43% ceuts; Treawury Bullding, granito, 935, Custom-House, Ciiro, 32 conts, Palent Oilice, Washe ington, worbly, 30 conts. Stato Capitol, Michigan, coutracted prico, 20 cents, Smithsonfan Institute, Washinglon, sandstone, 173 ccuts, All tho above ars fire-proof buildings, To corraborate theso facts and my oatimate, Iappond (he following indorsoment Ly leading crebilects of your city and viciulty, Yours, reupectfully, Troxas Trrrry, sovernl We, the underaignod architocte of Olicago and vi- elnity, da horaby indorse tho ahova slatemeut of Mr, Thumas Tilley, and in our opinion consider the cstle mmted cost of his butlding a full and correct one, and will cover the oxpennu of constructing (o samo, We alko cousldor the fact utatod by him of cost of publlo buildings a sound basis of s cetimate, W, W, Hovtsiuton, 0. L, Wierroox, 3.'L, Mugan, J.' W, Konens, BANUEL 8tnEer, In, W, H. Draxe, 0, I, Titonan, O, 0, MiLLet, Oiss CIARMAN, BanTi & OAnry, LaN6ON & Braos, 8, M, RanvoLyir, Joux Monrisy, Ald. Worron moved to adjourn, "tho wotion provailing, thd Counoil adjourned. ————— THE ALLEGED ELEVATOR F:HAUDS. The investigation into the nlloged elevator frouds wascontinuod by J. M. Poaraon, of tho Rail- rond und Warehouso Commigsion yestorday, It mustbeundoratood that the second arrival of Mr, Poarson is not mado with a view to porsonally mako furthor inquirfes, but to read tho testis mony of the Committeo of tho Board of Trado, and goo if it contulng any evideuco which he did not eluclddto in his examination & month ngo, Mr. Poarson eays that, whila the report of tho Committes, whose work closcd yestorday, givos Lim no now facts, it In, of anocossity, avery voluminous dooument and replato with_delails which will bo of nsslstanco to him. Mr, Poarson snys that the babit on the Pm of elevator-mon of uhimxlnfi Jarge quantities of grain without calling Iu the recoipts has oxisted for somo Lime, Lut that it s an oxtromely diflioult mattor to do- tect, IIo maya that all tho elevator-men of the city are gotting up tho accounts ns fast as pos- sible. 0 could not say whether s criminal notion would rosult from the prosent investiga- tion or not, Tho mattor hns boon the subject of o consultation botwoen tho Attornoy-Genaral and tho Board, but tho rosult of thiat consulia- tion is unknown to him. BOARD OF POLICE, Remarkn of the Commissioners when Chey Learned that the Oircuit Court ¥ad Reinstated Policemnn Hognnes= Quecer Doings of the Hoard in tha Cane of Officer Palmer, Tho Board of Police mot as usual, yostorday afternoon, and recolved & communication from the Circuit Court ordering the roinstatoment of Ofmeor Martin Hogan, disohargod for intoxica- tion, and aesossing the costs of his dofonso upon Buporintondont Washbura, 3 Commissioner Wright thought it dlegracaful that tho man should be roinstated, ss ho had aworn to a falsohood, Presidont Clovoland said that ho himaolf had onco seon the mon in o stato of beastly intoxi- cation, but ns the Court had ordered his rein- station thero was no othor course but to restord hina to duty. - Tho Bonrd thon took up the case of Officor Cuarles F. Paimer, of tho Twalfth Btroot Sta- tion, on anominal charge of conduet mobo- coming an officer.” The witnessea wore Borgt. O'Donnoll and Officer White, and tho Board re- queatod the reporters to leave tho room whilo tho inveatigation took place. As thoro was a good strong force of reporters on hand, howovor, thoy dropped ‘in by roliofa until the Board evontually got their heads together behind tho dosk and hoord tho testimony so quietly that thoy supposed that no particulars would leak out. They were not s0 remarkably closo as to provant tho fact boing divalged that tho spocifi- cations upon which the charge wos based wore of tho most infamous character, belng mot dis- similar _to_thoso made ngainst tho late Chief Firo Marslial. Tho Board gave as a roa- son for their dosiro for socresy that thoy wore afraid tho publication of Buch charges would Dbo prejudicial to _the i ciplino of the forco. Exactly in what mannor such aresult wonld be reached, it s diffienlt to nndoratand. The fact that tho oflicor wns triod, found guilty, and_discharged the forco, cannot be conceslod, and the other officers will soon learn what worg the cireum- stances of the caso. It will then be undorstood Dy thom, that if & man's crimo is only bad enough, no publicity will be given to it, and ono of the grentest detorront influences against mis- conduct will be romoved. It .seems probablo that tho case is[uushed up more out of fear of pub- lic opinion than anything oldo, aa the reputation of the force is alroady on rather & descending scale. Tho officer's resignation having been tondored pending investigation, the Board toolt the testimony of the two witnesses- without en- forcing the attondanco of the accused, and voted his dlachargo unanimously, Commissioner Wright seemed most desixons of keeping the affair quiet, President Cloveland would have gona oithor way, nccording to tho grentest amount of mnfluence brought to boar, and Com- missioner Bhoridan would probably hiave held an opou investigation if_the point had- not boen 8o urged by Mr. Wright. It was hint- od that the officor wonld be presonted to the Grand Jury, but this suggestion waa most probably intended ns & sop to keop tho reportors quiet, 1f nny such action was reslly coa- tempiated, thers would bo_no objection toward giving the facts to tha daily pross and trusting to their ‘iudgmunt 28 to how much should be published. Tise Board, as Fire Commissioners, considered a comnlnim against tho ownor of a planing-mitl near the corner of Lake and Desplaines streots, which is i & dilapidated condition, and -has uo brick vault for the consumption of tho shavinga. The ownéra, it is stated, have refused - to prop- orly protect’ thelr proporty againat fire, and the Board decided to order the demolition of the Luilding, according to_tho provisions of the fira ?xd‘ilufiucn, unless sufliciont protection was af- orded. CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS. A Valuable Life Sacrificed by a Recke lcss Omnibus-Driver--Deatls of Mre. Willinm T Balor from Injuries o= ccived by the Running Away of o Wabash Avenue Stage Team. Notuithstanding that they have hoen written up over and over agein, tho Wabash aveuuo stage-drivors are still among tha most reckless and untamed mombera of tho community, The existonce of opposition lines on this routs has long been the causo of careless and furious driv- ing on the part of tho employes of the compotingZ companics. “As 8 general rule, competition iu any line of businoss canses goneral improvement, but Wabash avenue stag- ing must bo looked upon as an exception. It has called out all thatis criminally careless in the men who transact with the publio their em- ployor's business. Their superabundanca of anfmal spirits is lot off in & number of ways, among which may be mentioned racing with *! tho other 'bus ;" pulling the door shut when & passenger is ontering, thus imperiling thoe safe- ty of a finger-point or two ; starting off whilun passengor is in tho act of stopping from the ve- hicle, and thua proecipitating him into the mud or dust, as the weathor may bo; malk- ing constant trials of how far tho stage can lean without falling; making danger- ously-slinrp curves round corners, and a hun~ drad other eyually oxasporating occentricities, To such o pitch bavo thoso beon iudulged in that many Iadies and not a fow gentlenien are afraid to make s trip In these stagos, and either walk to thoe city or squeezo into a crowded State straot onr. That thoir fears aro not groundloss in shown by the fact that but a short timo ago Mra, Bakor, wife of William T. Bater, Esq., o woll-known Board-of-Trade man in this city, mot with hor death through the carelossncss. of a driver of the P. 0. & B, Compauy. Tho ciroumstances of- her death woro as follows: About a month ago, sho and some friends got into one of that Company's stages on the corner of Twonty-second stiect aud -Wubneh ayenue, Tho stago was loft stauding without a drivor, and the horses took fright and ran away, Mrs. Balker aod her friends fumpod out, and in deinx:]g 80 Mrs. Boker was soverely cut about the head, Yor oloven days she suffored from conoussion of tho brain, being only nccwulnmllr consciouy lhlrlugnthat timo, at tho end of which she diad. Mr, Daker intonds to huve tho crime, for ‘such tho leaving of tho horses un- fuumed -undoubtedly was, “brought home to {8 porpotrator, 8o thore fs some prospoct that tho -melancholy affair may. havo the offect of dolng what ropesied warninga failed to_do,— show tha stage-driver that ho Is fuvostad sith responsibilitios, s disrogard of which muy atany momont ond 1n & fatal accidont. Wo would Auggest to Mr, Daker that tha commonce- ment of a_ civil suit agalnst the P. 0. & B. Company, the morally yesponsiblo partios, isas much & public duty ais the bringing to the Crim- gnifl Court of the more directly rosponsible river, Y ¥ o R Y CAPTURE OF THREE WATCH-GRABBERS. ‘Wo have frequontly had accasion to notico the Millon family In thelr various acta, They don't mako & wpecially of any one performance, bub they do all oo woll'that wo think thoy aro not apprecialed hiere. Wo suggest Joliot or oven Bridewell as & moro suitablo tield of action. The other morning Lizzio was arrosted for stealing, and now Mike Millon, Lizzio Millon, and Julia Quinn aro the trfo that doserve a spoclal noticn. Thursdsy ovoning, ubont half-past 4, theso worthies got into u Madison streot stage at tha Lridge, and took seats, Thers wera flve other porsons i the stago, including Mr. V. 8. Skiuner, who rosldes at No. 13 Morgan street. Julia Quinn nskod My, Bkinnor what timo it was, and hio took ont Liw ‘*Frodsham™ to sgoo, and showed the covotous Mike n very valuablo times pleco, which he immodiatoly " grabbed, and rushed for tho door, In passiug Lizzlo, ho handod her tho watel, aud, jumping inta the stroet, ran away, Tuokil; qub an officor, who know bim of old, and, thiuking gomothing was wrong, arreutod him. ' 1o tookk him to the sta- tion, aud found the two women thora bofora Lim, baving boon nrrested st Mr, Bkianor's re- quast, ‘hey wero all oxamined yentorday morna iug by Justica Soully, who held "Miko (o $5,00 and the two women in each §3,000 bail to'tha Criminal Court, PAYNE FITTZ'S VICTIM. Thoe Hartung-Fittz Bigamy Case Closed. Hartang Gets Six Months in tho Pente tentiary for Marrying Two Wives, Tho caso of .mrmun, Hartung in the Criminal Oourt, continued from Thursdsy by Judgo Will- inms, to allow Payno Fittz and Jacob Schoona- wold to tostify, was takon up ngain yostorday morning and concluded. Fittz was first called, and tostified that Hartung oame to him first with & man named Poter Miller, and said ho was are rostod and takon beforo a Justice of tho Poaca on achargo of bastardy, Mo sald ho was nol acquaintod with tho courts at all, and, whon he got to (ho Justico’s offies, and while under are rost, ho waa told Lio muat marry tho girl or go ta jail, On this statomont of facts, Fitlz saya be told him tho marriago waa null and void, being obtained undor durcss, and, soe cordingly, tho bill was drawn, sotting up thoso facts, Martung ssid he was not tho father of the child, but that ono Colobame mer was, Aftor Marks filed his afidavit and sane awor to the bill, the papors romained in the Mas« tor's hands for a month or two, and whilo thore Hartung wont to seo if the roport was ready. Tho day after ho went thoro Fittz took tho e port, which was unfavorablo, and paid Dnnn‘q sou's foes. This roport waa dated Juno 12, 1878, about four months after Hartung's scoond mar~ ringe, Bhortly boforo his sacond marriago, Har- tung wont to Fittz's offico and said he wantod the thing fixed up, bocauso o wanted somobody tal attond to his shop, and wished to got married.! Fittz says ho told Hartung then that ho must not be in such & hurry, but must walf until ho got & divorce. When ko waa nrrestod the socond time ho rotained Fittz to dofoud him, and Fittz claims that ho ate tended to sovoral matters for him, for which ha only roceived $10. Ho says that his wholo nd-" vioo to Hartung was that if ho got married ngaint bofora his divorce he would gu!glnm troublo.g Hartung, howevor, donics this, and alloges, that ho did eay 80 at one time, but'at another b was told to go on and get married ; that it wonld not make much differenco. Fitz cinims that Marks told him if Hartung, would pay $300 it would be all right; that he' must get hia focs gomohow. Marks was & very willing witness on Thursday, but whethor it wad owing to the fact that a charga of swindling had boon_ proforrod to the Graud Jury agaiust him, and ho wishod to ourry favor, cannot bo snid, Titlz maintaine that it wes underatood bos twoon il partica except Schmutz and Mary that the bond was good for nothing, and ho maine tnins that ho nover told Hartung that Mr. Reod had the divorco papors.” Mr. Donnigon, the Mastor-in-Chancory re forred to, desired to make o siatoment. Ho had #oon & statemenc in the papors ('ux Tmipuxa was tho only ous which roported such fact) that Marks gaid ho went to the Master's ofiice and was rofused pormission to e _the papors, Thig wag nob o, Marks camo and saw tho papors, and was offerod every assiatance, ' Mr. Donnison stated alwo that 'he thought the oaso a vory peciliar one, and bo should neod much testimony before he could be convinced that o man would be uuder duress, without any threats of injury or agsnult with weapono being mado against Lim, and ho so told Payuo Fittz, and ho hnd, as tho report would show, taken aboub twonty-fivo pages of testimony, and finally, oftor all, returned his roport withont recommending a divorce, ‘I'he caso was roforred twico to hum, aud finally talken back to the Court whoro it now 18, waiting o hearing bofore the Judgo in opon court. T'wo or three times Tittz wished to rest tho case, but thoe Master was nof satisficd, and insistod on moro proof. 5 Jacob Sehoenowald wascallod und testified that no thieats wero nsed, to his knowledge, towarda Hartung, at tho timg of the first marringo, Judge Willlame said it might as well” be do~ cided then, as to lot it go over. Itwas an emie nontly disgraceful affair, Iio did not kuow ag anyone had any improper connection with the mattor, oxcopt Hartung himeelf. Heo chargos that Fitez advised him wrongfully in_rogard to the matter, with respect both to the afidavit and to tho non-residonce. All of which Fittz posis tively doniea. The1o were special things shown that made him think that Harlung swore recks Tossly. Thoro is no doubt but that Lo is guilty of the offense chn:‘glcd‘ and it is equally clenx that ho hns perjuccd himsolf wiltully and inton tionally, Ho sworo that Mary Hartung had gone out of the Stato and could not be found, but now voars that Lo did mob know anything about it. Thore is o excuse for such conduct at oil. He migns his aflidavit in & good elonr bund, and states ho hns boon in this country twonty years, and ought to have kuown what was {n ‘s afidavit. Tho Judgo said ho pro- posed to L{ml Lis hond on tho man he conld get; ho did not propose that this man should go unpunished. Ho proposed to punish him in tho Poanitentiary, but not as severely as he would if ho had not” beon misled. He, therefore, wounld send Hartung to the Ponitentiary for six montha, and fino him 310, Thougly thislota Fittz out of tho scrape par- tially, yot it lonves his testimony dircctly at va- rianco “witn that of Hartung, who swears posi- tively) and no cross-oxamining or browbeatin on Mttz's part could shake hiw, thut Fittz di actually toll him that ho might ns woll got mar= ried again, it would make no differenco, ? THE EXPOSITION. i A Fair Attendance from the Country YeosterduywaVisit of the Cincinnati ‘Their Opinion of the Notwithstanding the drizzling rain of yester~ day, thore was a fair attendance af the Exposi- tion, mostly from the country, Tlora were ox-~ cursions on gome of the railroads, and the Rook Island morning train. was compellod to leave muny disappoiuted pessongers at tho stations for want of room in tho cars, Thore wore nob mauy city poople out. The show was honored by tho presence of & committes of gontlemen from tho Cincinnati Exposition, who cameto soo kow Chicago panuoed out. The party consisted of W. I. Blymyer and wite, John Simpkingon and wife, George W. Jones, William S.Aunson, II. McCollum, William J. Armel, W. W. Taylor, 0. W. Jordan, H, H., Tatem, A. 8. Clark, John B." Haick and wifo,, Alfrod Birdsal, and James Abel. They wera takon charge of by our Executivo Committes,. Mr, Drake doing the honora in his own geninl way. They perambulated the buildiug il over,. examining ovorything with tho, oyes of, exports in tho -exposition busincys, and:can:. didly sclmowledged tnat it was a very; big thing and wo mistake. The vast spnce- insido tho walls and the immonso roof caused them to wonder, In size tha atructuro oxereds theic own, and they were lnvish in their er,gomi= ums onthe display of goods. They thougit that the classification in the dopartnygnis might: be improved on, and that a littlo jr,dicious weed: ing out of somo of the articles w ould make room: for othors of greater morib, On tho whole: they wero shm“d' and prod’,etod that in 1874 tha: show would be better in iy rospoots, It isroported that ‘e Bazar of sl Natlona from Loston, will 007,upy tho building ultor the Exposition closos, lousra, Vautuinl & Massio bave in pross a work ontitlod " jixpogition Souvenir,” contain- ing an histo",jenl slotch of Chicago from 1795 to £ho presor ¢ timo, alwo a comploto history of the Expositr oy from its incoption to tho close, with names of tha oxhibitors and full desoription of tho articles oxhibited, togother with valuabla 8tr.tistica rolativo to Ohieago. It will mako 400 ases, witl bo bound in cloth, gilt edgod, illus- ratod with lithographic engravings, and have no advortisomonts, 10-DAY'S PROGRAMAE, Following is the musleal programme for toe days . AFTERNOON, 1. March—‘ Amazono "., 2, Potpourrd from * Crlapina 3, Overture—* God and Bayadore 4, Waltzes—" New Vienna™,, 8. “Rosa 7, Ovorturo—* Light Uavalry &, Totpourri— Album Leaves 0. Galop—=**Hore snd L'uore *, RVENING, 1, Marali—~* Peace Jubllee 4, Holation from * Fauat ¥, 4, Ovorfuro— Zampa ", 4, Waltz—* Blue Danubo 8, Potpoursl from * Bokon 8. Muzurka—"Lirst Lovo ", 1, Overturo—* Maranello ¥, 8. Potpourrt from % Nabucco”, 9. Galop—* Madcap 't Sl Oondugtor, Flodearu HoSnunn,