Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1873, Page 2

2 THE COURTS. Tho Franklin Bank Adjudged Bank- rupt by Default, The Examination of Its Ofloers to . Be Oontinued To-Day. " Attachment of the Dexter Park Associ- ‘a8 far as can bo what, if any, nescts have.beon . ation’s Pool-Box. Several Important Supreme Court Decisions. The Appeal of the Tax-Fighters from Judge Wallaco Not Suse tained, The Notorions Hugh Garrity to Be Again Turned Loose on Chicago, This morning tho examination of the officers of the Franklin Bavings Bank will bo continued, and it ls oxpoctod that Mr. Briggs will bo put on tho stand aud tho books produced. Yontorday was the roturn day of the order made last Friday for -tho bauk to answor the supplemental petition, and, no answer having beon flled, the bank was sdjudicated bankrupt by dofnrult, and & warrant of soizuro issued re- furnablo Deo. 1. On that day o meoting of the creditora will be held and an Assignee appointod. This adjudication is in the mnafure of a judgmont, and takes ovorything out of tho hands of tho bank ofiicers, and vests in tho United Btatos Marshal, as an oflicor of tho District Cours, and also supersedes all actions or ordors of Stato courts, and stops any cases ponding. It is soms- ~what singular, howover, that no Provisional As- pigneo was nppointed to tako chargo of such- Jarge intorests, as the Marshal's bonds woul hardly bo sufficiont, " The objoect of tho examination now s to show mado away with, to give somo cluo, more. than awould be given by n simplo examination, unaided of tho. books, which might cnsily hava boen ¢'doctored,” a8 tho numerous defalentions of bank clorks and tollors will provo, Mean= while if thoro isanything loft aftera two-months’ wmoal, by tho officors, of tho convortible nssots, tho creditors may bo pssured of receiving some- thing. Tho examination of Mr. Jones, long and avordy o 16 wa, rovealed very little, if anything, moro than had been given in the interview re- orted in Tne TRInUNE sovoral days boforo, but 1t is hoped that Mr, Briggs, to whom MNr. Jonea 80 often reforred the creditors for information, may be ablo to offer somo mors definite nnd ac- curato light on tho important subject. ATTAGUMENT AGAINST THE'NARTFORD LIFE IN- SURANCE COMPANY. Hartwin R. Dutton commonced an action by attachmont against the Hartford Lifo and An- nuity Insurance Uompnnfl of Hartford, Counecti- cut, Plaintiff alloges thatin January last the dofondant ongaged him as o goneral agont and asgistant manager of the Western Dopartment, wwhich contract has been wron%ully broken, to tho damage of plaintiff of 84,000, WHAT WAS THE DENT FOR? Paul Patera considors bimself aggrieved by A. 3. Goge, Oharles Sclm'm'tzl W. T, Wightwan, A, F. Fox, and the Doxter Park Association, nnd ans thorefore commenced a suit against them by altachment, Ho alleges that ithoy now owo . him §2,000 for mouoy doposited in their care, custody, and keoping, but whether it was for an eutry, a bet, or n stako ho omits to stato. Ho aleo says thoy have within the pnst two years fraudulontly concenled their property, aud therofore nsk an attachwont. \ UNITED STATES COURTS. £ Judge Drummound will bo cugaged in hearin) tho avgumont in the Bayles brake case, whic wns continued from Tuocedsy, and is goad for all day. Judgo Blodgott announces that he will'call up past cases for trinl, Nathh\%mwus dono yostorday, the Court ad- journing immediately on convoning, DBANJKRUPTOY MATTERS, In the caso of E. M. Denuis an ordor of dis- missal was entored and issued, - Anordoer was cntored that tho procecdings againat William A, Buttors bo dismssed, Orson G, Chapman and others were adjudicated ‘bonkrupts by default, and tho warrant mado returnablo Nov. 29, 1873, An order for o héaring and croditors’ meatlng was made for Deo. 12, in the caso of Isrnel It Bogardus. COUNTS IN DRIEF, Judgo Gary will hear all motions in law and equity to-day. Nope of tho other Judges will be iu seseion until tho commencement of noxt tern, ‘which bogins noxt Monday. IMPORTANT BUBINESS. Speeial Correspondence of 'he Chicago Tribune, O7TTAWA, Oct. 28.—Horowith I sond statement of opinions filed since the date of tho opinion in Bhorwin v, Tho Peoplo: Lous Brnrnt v. HeNRieTTa D'EvEns—Appoal from Cook, opinfon per curism, Filed Oct, 25, 1673, Tisis s o biil to compol apociflo porformnico of an alleged parol sgroomont to oxccute o leaso of tho storo No. 60 Weet Madlson stroet, Chicsgo, for o perlod of three years, Hold, that huving agroel und acsapted a loago fors shorter poriod, with a full knowledgo of al tho facts, it ‘must be taken a8 conclusive of tho terms of tho con- tract. 1t § not compotent to show by parol tho dura~ Hlon Of the leaso was {ntended Lo Do for o differont od, 1t Ie unnocessary to consider tho question whether tho nppelico, by & mero parol contract, for auy pur- se, or by dny suthority vested in Liof, could fucum- or hier intereat or thot of the heira in' the premises for a groator period than ono year, The bill was properly diamissod, and {ho decros is afiirmed, Huon Gannity v, Tne ProrLe, ete.—~Error to Crime inal Gourt of ‘Gook, Opinion by ool 3. Filod ct, 28, 1873, The plaintitf in orror and Charles Weed were in- dicted for au pssault upon Benjumin G, Buchanom, with intont to commit robbory, At & subsoquent torm of court Garrily was soparatoly iried, und tho jury found him guilty, and fixed tho timo ho ehould gorva In tho Penitontiary at tho perlod of sfx yeors, Tho Conrt overruled the motlon for a new trial, and pro- monmeed judgmeut on to vordict, aud that doclslon 1a nasigned for error. Alters caroful congidoration wo aro of opiulon, 4hie membors of tho Court, concurring, that tho 'ovi- donco fuils to gustofn the vordict, Tlicrols no dircet tostimony, and it scoms to us the record fa mingularly darren of ovidence of fact and clrcumstances from which it could fairly be inforred the party occused jn-~ fended to commit a'crimo of tho charnctor charged in tho {ndlotment, Thora {8 no doubt ho was guilty of an ansault, but not with an fntent to commit the crimo a1~ Togad, 1t wab simply an_ussnult, charactorized por- bps by Ligh degree of wantontiess, for which the yparties accused oughit to hnve beon punished, But tho timo, place, and fucts of the transsction, 88 given in evidénce by tho sovoral witnesacs, oil Topol tho idea there was any ‘inteutlon to commit n robbery on the person of Huchanan, 1o states it was a littlo beforo 0 Sclock in_tho evening, while tho-strect lights wero stiil burning, tho gas burniug i tho ndjoining stores, nnd persons passing o near thot some of them leare tho conversation betwoen {ho purties, Thero 18 no evidoncs that idicates any purpose on tho part of elther of the aseaflnuts to dispossess tho prosecutin witnesa of anything ho lind on his person, Inde tho facts nud tho acts of tho partics aro fnconsistent witls such o theory, Therewas cortaiuly no prospect of mocuring any great roward, fuch ss would {nduco o ttempt to Commil #o bold a crimo, by vivlence, in B public street, where persous wora continually pass- toig at lnt early hour tu tho evobing, ‘At tho thoe of (lie aeasult, Bnchasun had {n Lis srms gome *kindling-wood,” and in his pocket a *shoo- string, nu old knife, nid some chauge.” 110 distinctly stated that ueithor {Lio plaintiT in orror nor Weed oi- tompted 1o take anyihing from Lis porson, Ho mot tho secused o ahiort distancs froin tho stors which ho Diad fuat left, enrrying an overcoat on his arm, which ho threw in the faco uf the ]vl'mtmu(hu‘ ‘witness as ho passed, and, on Loing aklted why lio aid it, Weed, who Svan only o fow steps behing, came up, and & figlit en- aued, 1 which Garrity took uo parf, except to ca- courdge Weed to continio tho Aght, Tho attack was wholly unprovaked ond wonton, but it yattakes, i no deyres, of the nature of tho assuult with ntent to commit robbery, ‘Ilieve ure no facts or circumstances proven. that Indicato or from. which such a purposo «can be inforrad, | fare, -of-that act.:- In tho month ] d, The fury clearly miajudged a8 to tho woightand eflact ojl tll}t; nvldux)l'w, #wil 1t was orror in the Uourt to refuse to award a new triul, Tho judgment will bo re- vorsed aud the causo remanded, nEx R, Moons v, JLLmo18 OEMTIAL RAILROAD ETC?:uva. Appeal’ from Ksukakeo, Opluion per curlam, Filed Oot 28, 1873, . {Thiw netion was commoncd beforo's Justice of the givay, (0 rocover for an allogod overcharyo in passen: +s (o, contrary to tho provislons of tlio sof of April 168 [gin, ¥rom (e Judgmont of \ho Justico an sppesl 1 (okon (¢ tho Oiroult Court, where o trial was had, O e ted o8 Judgment'or the Tlallzoad, Gum= any. pfl‘nn ef cor on lx?dlu’l Toad .“*@'m”' hdm Carried s paineDger fzom thonce 1o Kai '”"u:. fanco of 60 alle, ikl feutesid tLe conducior . fice roto oF ihises conts yor dllyy which the eonduoior o Tis CHicAGO DAILY 1'RBUNE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 deolined to recolyo, but domanded of him {ho ususl 40 for the cnliro. trip, which smount tho o ::ill:::rdl.d pay utider protest, to avold. boing put It furthor I\;mu\tfl {ho Commisalonera appointed under the nat of April 13, 1871, had not thon assigned tho appelleo's road to any class, uider tho provislons of Splambor fo lowing, It w, by tho action of tho Commissionors, asaigned to lars 13, 1t will bo ohacrved tha appollco doos not show from thio evidenca any violation of tho provislons of tho atatute undor wiilch o aeoks to recover, The Couie pany’s rond had niot thou beon auslgiied to Olnen Tl nor doca 1t ppeat frum any ovidonco that {t in fac! Dolonged to that clas at tho dato Lo sought Lo obtaln passago nt tho rate of faro fixed b{lhn act of tho Gon- [ oral Asembly, It conld nok thien bo kiown whist rato of faro would bo lawful to chargo undor tha provi- slonn of tho slatute, Tho Company lid, proviounly fixgg fta ratos, ond thero bolng no protenno i clinrges wore unreasonable, o conductor could righite fully demand the usual faro, 84 o comlition procedent to carrying tho uppollant 58 & passongor, ‘Thero Doing no cnso mado by tho evidenco n tho record within {ho mosning. of tho statuto, tho consti- Futlonolity.of thologlslation under which {t songht to catablia n rossonnble maximum.rato of cliargea for fhio transportation of passenigera on raflronds iu this Btato fa ot involved in- the deciaton of this case, and wo declino to ontor upon n discussion of thst question, Tho judgment of tho Cireuit Court s afirmed, Tng Prort ox rol, v. M, R, M, WALLAcE—Potition for mandamusj opinfon por curlam; filed Oct, 28, 1873, This is an application by relator for a mandamus udgo of tho County Court of Cook County to compol him to nllow on np- poal to tho Olrent Uourt of that county from a judgment renderod cgalnst rolntor'a Innds for taxes dito tho Olty of Ohicago, Tho10th section of tho act of tho 28th of March, 1873, in rogard to tho asacssmont and collection of taxos in ‘incorporated citics, towns, and villages, &o, (Seas, Laws 187, p, 43), only gives appoals troth tho Coutty Court to'tuia Gaurt. - 1t do- clares that in caso of judgment for such taxes, ** ap- peoals lall aleo ba allowod Lo the Supromo Gout (and Dot olsowhero), 8a now provided by law, in liko cases, to the Cirouit Gourt, from any judgment or ordor of salo made by any Odunty Court rospocting nny prop- erty returned dalinquont under tho provistons of this act;” and tho balanco of the ecction refors to this Cotlrt, ond not o tho Cirouit Court, in regulating tho practico on siich appoals, Although tho langungo fs Somarwhat obsciire, when tho ontira scetion is considered wo hove no doubt that it was tho design to give an np- peal from such fudgments slono fo this Court, and 10 take it from thio Giroult Court, his being &0, {horo can bo no power to compel tha County Court to' grant an appesl to tho Gircult Cotir, aid o writ st bo rofused, Tt s urged thot the aot referred tofan_apecial law. Yo azo of tho apinlon that tho Iy Is gonoral, s it ap- plics to tho collcction of nll munielpnl taxos 'of Incor- porated citics, towns, and villagos in tho Stato, Henco hio objection that tho titlo of tho act docs mot sufll- clently apocity tho objocts of tio law docs nol apply. 1t 44 nlso objected that tho 10t scction of tho act ‘wag ok constitutionnlly adopled, becauao ft way cn- graftod ns on smondment, whilst tho' bill yas belng considored, and was not road on_{hreo soveral dnya in tho Houso adopting 1t o8 an smendment, . Wo aro clear- Iy of tho opinfon that tho roquirement does nob up- -ply to an smondment, and the objoction cannot pre- vail, .Tho writ of mandamus is denied, | Jonn M, Bruantotal, v. THE ProPLE'ex rol.—Ap- enl from Coole ;- opinion per curiam; fled Oct, 870, Thia wns judgment for dclinquont taxcs, ngainat tho lands of sovoral porsons, rendered by tho' County Court of Cook County, Thoy bring tha rocord, and filoit fu this Court, and ask us to make an order on tho ook Gounty Cotirt to - allow an apyesl, and in tho ‘meantima to grant an injunction restesiniug o salo of tho lands to satisfy the judgment against” theso lands, 1¢ thia $b o bo considorad a8 an_opplication for an order for n supersedens, tha reply 8 thias tha parly bas ‘under tho 10th ncction of the act of Barch 23, (Bean; Taws of 1813, p, 43) doposited the amount of the Judgment for tazcs, Thot is tho coudition upoy which b supersodons can slono bo grantod, in such o case, under that adt. il T an upplication al the present torm for a Ruperes- eas, wo lield that whileb tho Conalitution socnred to all persons tho 3ght fon writ of ervor, fu 4l civil canen, whoro tho fudgment or deerco fa’ flnnl, thint tho -right to have suchh 1 writ of orror mado s suporecdeas is not & conslstutional right, and tke Legislature may imposoterms upon which it shall bograntod, To havo auch & wrlt ado a pupersedenu is uot. required by tho Conatitutlon,” We, in that case; rofiaed to mako tho writ of orror n supersedens, aud muat refuso to mako such an order in this case, As to tho application for an injunction, 3tis only nec- csanry to ndd that it was held, in tho easo of Campbell v, Campball (22 1L, G4), thot tiis Coart Lins no_jurisdic. tion to grant an origiual injunction ina case, That canp ia couclusive of this axh[fllm(lnn. Agnin, thero 5 1o bill filed in this caso upon which an injunction conld bo {esued, 1t waa n_procecding under tho statuto In forny atlow and not in chancery, 1t would bo unheard of in practico o grant an fnjunc- tion in such u caso without an nvpropriato” bill, framei for tho purposo. But, whilst tha motion nske au infunction, 1t i in offect for & supersedeas undor another name, - ‘Tha motion s denfod. MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT. snectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, TLiaxsiNg, Mich., Oct. 30.—In tho Buprome Court to-day, the following progress was made : * Tho Peoplo v, Cartor B, Grangar, Treasurer of tho Township of Forest Liome, Antrim County § further rolurn ordered; . 28—Edward 1T, Davis v, Frederick Bush and Thomas Patterson ; argument concluded, 25—Tho Michigun Central Rallrond Company v. John M, Colenunn and Katy Colomon ; partly argued, Thero is & seasion this ovening. ———— THE LAST RITES, Funeral Excrciscs Over tho Remnins of the Late Judge Williawm. A, For= tor. The fanoral oxercisos of the late Judge Porter took place yesterday morning at tho Third Pros- bytorian Oburch, cornor of West Washington and Carpentor streots. Owing to somo delny, the son of tho lato Judge was not able to arrive until half-past 10, and at that timo thoe proces- sion of tho Bar, followed by the hearso, pall- bearors, and carringes, started towards tho church, As thoy ontored the ohureh, tho organ sounded a soft funeral dirge. Aftor tho singing of the chant, *Lord, Thou host boen our dwoelling-placo,” and prayor and reading the Beriptures by Dr. Pattorson, Dr. Kit- tredge delivered the discourso, but without limiting himeelf by any specinl text. Ho enid they pauso but a fow moments that they may unite their hoarts before Qod that this beroayement may be sanctified to thoir good. Death comes very often, He had yot to loarn of an issuo of thodaily press that did not have some entry undor the hond “Doatha.” Not only Judge Porter's brethren, but the entire.city have boen startled by the an- nouncement of his decenso. Thoy hivo reason to praise God for the wondorful independenco of character and intogrity of the Judgo, combined with an almost womanly tendornoss for the feol- ings of others, Littlo did tho hearcrs know the hoart-lifo displayed to his nearcst friends. Nor wad the Bible on hia table the only evidenco of his Obristianity, Ho had, yoars ago, brocted n family altar, and this gives a silver liniug to the dark cloud oocasipned by his death, His forty- fivo yours here were but an infanoy ; ho was now but fnst begun to live. Some say, *‘flow end- don," and others * How torrible,” ~Oh, nol it is sudden glory to him who iu prepared, without going through a vestibulo of pain, If ho conld speak now it would not ba of tho caso which last occupied his nttontion— not of the election, but of " tho King of Kings, o, standing now between tho living and tho doad, besought' his hearors to sook Him, who only ean gave. It was grand to hioar tho words of praise and: commendation yestorday, but far botter will it bo to hear tho Father’s voico, sny~ ing as 1To has said to him: * Woll done My good and faithful gorvant, outor thou into tho joy of the Lord,” After the bencdiction waa pronounced, Dr. Kittredge remarked that somo of tho rolations had but just arrived, and had not been given nn opportunity to seo tho romaing, aud ho thereforo asked that the Bar and sudicuco rotire immedi- atoly on tho pall-boarers conyoying the body ine to tho next room. But o few outside of tho immédiate relations accompanied the family to the comctory at Graceland, whera the remgius will be buried. e S Smith and Johnson=Ilow Thoy Itan itival Stage Limn In Utah Territory there wero two rival atage lines, one run by a man nomed Bwith, and an- other run by aman named Johnson, o com- petition was #o groat that at last both linos car- ried people for nothing, and gave them promi- ums besldes, Bmith offored froo rides and a Barlow knife_to ench passenger. Johnson of- fored o bollod shirt. Bnuith saw that, and went ono better by ghlnf & pound of Bologua snusage with tho sbirt, Johuson adoptod tho sausage, and distributed gold-headed cance and coplos of Wait's bymus. Swith rollied, and offorod all of Johuson's promiums pups and @& bunoh of tooth-ploks- to each man. Dut Johnson took all the travel by paying the old debta of each passenger and omlluf him o cometory lot. Hmith turned thp Hdo immodl- atoly in his direction by ulvlng oach fellow o pair of mules, a ohuroh pew, ahd 1,600 shares of wtook in ‘tho Pagifio Kallroad, Then Johngon dstepmined upon his master strake. Ho wont to %] fl:’m {onn and got a spacal dlepensation, nmP;hen @ 0! aracua mnrr{nll the women who rodq §n his atages, to taka all tho men into part- nership, and to give gum rings to ajl tho babies, abandop £}ig balness, Johnson now has 1, wived, 1, aripars, snd Lo in indebted to an Pi &7 rosn for slx bushels of . gum and he js pow bappy.—Alan A NEW YORK. The Financial Feeling. Vonderbilt Underbuilt---Jay Gould Vamoses, ] Return to the Prescriptions of Peace. trom Our Own Correspondent, § Naw Yon, Oct, 25, 1873, The politieal nows is wholly subordiuato to financial movoments, and honco I have loft Washington fora couplo of daysto #co how Now York stands the stringonoy. THE ABPECT of the ruling monetary centro is that of a slow but enforcod roturn on ovory innd to the prices and estimatos which moro nearly procoded tho War, Tho prico of rents already showa this ro- cesslon and shrinkago, as must bo tho cage whon sl tho leading stocks in the country have dopro- clated, Houses for which £4,000 per annum woro arrogantly demandod last year aro offored, with slow rosponses, for 2,000, Tho groat botels hold out ngainst hope for thoir staplo of 94 and €6 & doy; Dbut tho socond-rato hotels mwro back to $2.60, Tamily bonrd upon yot moro favorablo ratos is solicited by inn-keepers. Olothing at prices startlingly low hangs in tho bazoar-win- dows; and $20 a month is tho figure for the koop of horsos nt grooming atables,—n roduction of 80 per cont. Thoro {8 a notable falling oft in public travel by rail aud stenm, showing that ono of the most oxpousive items of modern out- lay is reduced by tho thrifty, and the largo inns look somowhat dopleted. I stopped at tho Motropolitan otel, the property of A. T, Stow- art, and wag told-that tho renb was at prosont only $30,000, whereas in 1870 it was rontod to Dick Twéoed for 875,000, Yot in tho rates thero is no corresponding aud roasonnble doduction. Tho objective point of all commorcial socioty is oxprosied in “Down with £4.60 a day!" Tho way to return to it is by reduced renta, Whilo these changoes woro noticonbls, ' and some dopression appeared in the atmosphore, T did not yot seo n man of any degreo of expe- rionco who did not admit that, sudden sstho shrinkago was, it was DETTER TO TAVE COME. Porsons somowhat gravoly intorested in tho mattor of contraction spoke about aa follows ¢ 4 Of courso wo could not live on stilts, as wo wero doing. Corrections of this kind aro some- timos ohnstisemonts,—oftoncr the way to honith. ‘Watored values, arbitrary prices, oxtonsive stocks carried on the shonldors of individunls or coterles, had to bo readjusted to the praprietics of peace, In the long run it iu the great and disproportionato fortunes which will retiro from tho public view,where they have long oxercised a pornicions example. In Vanderbilt's troubles tho * Bull " interest goes down in Wall stroet ; .in Gould's retiromont n persistent and uuecru- pulous Bear " passes out of view,—one whoso attacks on vaiues have been, in fact, Bull-move- monts modificd by blaclmaif." The inquiring rind of tho people is shown in tha great qunntity of publications on tvery side rausacking the cirors and oxcesses of tho past oloven years in railrond stock and bond manipu- lations, civic and local debts, -nationni expan~ sion and cxpondituro, and the innumerablo forms of folly on which a government enters when it coages to denl with a citizon ns b freo nfienb and becomes ‘*paternnl.” It is notlee- able that, the more intorfering & paternal gov- ernment hecomes, the less real anthority it has, as Jay Gould shows by his repeated attacks on the citrroney, aud Vanderbilt by repisting with his ginglo avm the right of the Colloctor of Revenuo to make him pay imposts, A govern- ment which * ought Lo do” this or that, and docys it a8 the lobby pulls it to and fro, fa morely boing ueed, and of course cannat be respected. Probably two-thirds of tho busiuesa of the United Hlates is BPEOIAL LEGISLATION. The moro postiug of the army in somo Terri- tory is often an outright job i;uuon up hetween tho contractors, Tarritorial oflicors, and Quarter- mastors. ‘Lhus, in the case of the Territory of Avizona, tho Apaches oro mnde to cost moro than first-cluss hotol rates for evory soul in tho tribo tho round year, aud the Modoc war is by somo charged to havabeen a job which cost both savage and Christian lite. The night before I left Washinglon, a sccret dinner wans keld at Willard’s Hotol, atiended by Moyer, Tabens, Gon, Babeock, and O'Sullivan. It was inthe iuterests of the most fomote and objectless job on which an Administration ever embarked, and which yet alionated from 1t tous of thousands of its olectors: the resucitation of the Santo Do- mingo lenso, Whilo tho country is wrostling with finnneial disturbances whichi absorb all ita citizens' pationce, resourcos aud prudence, the Bauto Domingo school of jockeys is concontrat- i‘)’glmfim this old rejocted schome: the tropical uluth. TAXES in tho United States have beon applied with such unflinchingness for tho Enst g6ven yonrs,—or sinco tho end_of the Rebellion, whon wo all add- od o Mansard roof sud a’ bay window to our lodgo, nnd were considerately improved by tho neighboring cauous of pollticians,—that few havo noticed how the Fedoral taxation nlone hins advanced from 7 per éont to bo nenrly 80 cents on the dollar of increase of wealth. Tho object of political partios ug ears to have becomo tho invontion of taxes, Wushinglon Cily is at this moment held up to public criticism ag o place whoso dobt has been suddenly and prodigiously incrensed ; but it can bo shown that this hither- to neglected Llace du Carranscl has not yot s bondad debt of above 7,000,000, whilo Phila- dolphia, with no great improvements, 18 up in tho 60's and 70's of debt. To pay taxes, which aro concealed in all manner of ways, is ono of tho grievous burdens of modorn life ; and this does not_scem to exort any influenco over Yorkes, Phelps, andother I'ublic Treasurors who rob the colloctions afterward, TIE STOKES TRIAL, I attondoed the Btokes trial, at tho Supremo Court Chambers, and saw that worldly-living crimiual, scarcoly the worse for woar, in tho midst of & court-room notably orderly, and evon rospectable, barring, porbaps, a number of women who wore prosont for the fascination which blood possosses, Not sururulnus]y dressod and & littlo grizzly-haggard, o8 il lime'mnde it juvoluntary Inpressions upon tho suporficial ns wall as the emnest man, Stokes is ono of tho hnpl)nnflm in of tho period, Ho atlended the Philadelphin High School, and_studiod Moral Bcienco whilo my ¢luss was tugging with Way- land's Economy, Nothing mado bim happen in upon mon liko Fisk and Gould but a handsoma fuco, which lod him to bo fast pnd forward, and roquire money all thoe time to meot his oxtrava- finni way of Tifo, '"T'ho loss of his wifo, who left im to g6 abrond, wrote no wrinklo on his azuro brow ; for he lackod sousibllitios, and _grew old withont caros, Fluk's gross nature and unfaith- fulness placed tho insinuating Stokes in tho confldonce of Lis mistross, and sho ploaded the neods aid degoris of this doubly fulko one upon thoir common dupe. Whon the " scales foll from Jim Flsk's oyes, ho erushed the boy whom Lo Lind somowbhat bofriended, Then followad law- Breaking, rosonimont, audrovonge. The mighty peddlor dled in- tho same square, and mndo ag muoch mepn commiseration, as Bill Poolo seven- teon yoars bofore; and probably tho murderor, in this caso s in that, is to Lo lot go. that reads thin tragody over, and looks into the surroundings of tho parties, would care to live in such a society ? Fisk was scarcely doad before Jay Gould “was secking to lppro’l:flato the offects of his widow, and sho had not the rospoct for ler buspand to abato such o corrupting and suborned dprouaauuon 0 he might himsolf have waged if alive to do it. Teathon oxistoncoa in tho imidst of a eat- urated oivilization aro the kxyltu b oatire orimo, alid its origiu and fiualo will bo found to bo vuicnruy and rapnelty, Yot to such porson- alitlos was committed tho most colossal of our groat highways. In that purliou of opera-bouffo and Fl‘aud trausportation, Drow and -Vandorbilt, QGould nnd’ Blcklos, Twood and Blokes, woro dramatls personm, Porhaps, when this young gollant leaves the publje gazo, tho procossion will inve fully passod from the stago, Ar, Drow and Mr, Vandorbilt are monumentalizoed in thoo- logiosl {nstitutos, whimsioal aa the connection may sopm. Bloklen i our freo Ambaesador to fho Oabinet of Usstolar, ‘I'wead, caught in tholap of both Delilsh and the Philistines, Droathios sway a roprobate old age, hr, Gould conoludes his carcer by winding up the New Jersoy Houthorn Rallway, a8 ho_ burdonod tho Erio, with =~ dobt} aud tho murdoror in tho dock is the sadi- mont of this promiscuous assoolation which truly dopreciatos tho advantagos and soolety of our gentary, If the wozld ever know anoh people to Who 1873, bo its most conmpiouous illustrators, as it han probably done over minco it was world, it Is ‘at any rato & world which' Frnnnlmn tho worthloss- no#a of tho groan purauit of monoy. Mr. Booch-, or hing chosen this _singular'oplrode of timo to pralgo the abatract, na woll nd tho conorote, su- periority of flush times, A clorgy more In love with tho examplo of Him-who could ot find lodgmont with_tho foxes or tha.birds of tha nir may sco’ dqnal renson ' to olucidate tho nd- yantages c;‘! contentmont and_manual toil a8 pavts of tho Christlan economy. Tho bc:f who sita fn tho docle hearing porjurors dofend him camo up upon tho oxamplo of Vandorbilt, and probubly withiout tho moral ssslstanco of any pulpit-orator of bis day, What is left of VANDERDILT . to trensuro, now that tho imgmgnnbmty of his stooks and sorlps 8 gone ? * Moraly tha sorvilo roliot of tho possessor of tho works of other mon: the stock-glant who decoived o gonoration into confldonco, and foll of his own practices, Tho timos took him in their toils, na thoy scok to dp to all oxceptionsl oxistences,and lovelod him into tho Ropublic again. His carcor will have an antiquarian dustiness boforo many days, and 51% ourionlty to old nowspapor-filoa; for he has ono nathing out of which to make a book. The collapse of Lake-Bhora by n fall of 40 por cont shows tho gospel of ahrinkage whioh spenkeoth botter thinga than the loarning of Plymouth pulpit. As for ; ¥ JAY' GOULD, ho came Into public notico, with & countenance 80 1matked that [t Invited Vandorbilt's cousure, and wont out of it with a charactor 8o woll har- monized that ovon the pliant ‘knees of admira- tion fall to aay » word. ~An oxlatencolosa kind of mystery, with an instinct for money and no soneo of roprobation, ho twinkled Liy oyo until tho coin turned black and lost its warmth, and mon despise monoy that it can produco such worshipors, Qatnt, THE STORM. on Laite Michigan and at Miwankeos From the JMilwaukee News, Oct, 30, As was intimated in tho News of yostorday morning, thostorm that provailed in this scction during Tuosday forouoon was productive of groat dnmago to shipping in various portions of tho lnke. Tho sufferings of tho mariuors who were overtakon by this torrible visitation of wind and snow were vory sovero, and such as none but thoso who hove bofore oncountored tho violence of & winter storm could have borne. Vossols arriving ot this port yestordsy morning ontly wore covored with snow and ico, whilo the rigging was whito with froat and frozen spray. Vory fow of the crafts that made this port on yes! nrdn{ guatained no damago, Thoso that escapod Injury to the nigging and hull wore un- fortunate enough to lose large and valuable por- tions of thoir cargocs, Auyot theralina boon but ono disastor, with the ‘sncrifico of life, ro- ported, although it is surmised that othors romain to be Lieard from. 'I'ho schoonor Monitor encountered tho storm nenr tho Maniton Islands, and narrowly escaped foundering. Tho waves rollod over lier in rapid succossion, and 8o Frunt was tho volumo of walor on hior docks that the bulwarks wore cut away to froo lier. Her O aptain roports that Lo wos in company with o three-and-sfter at tho lower end of the lake on Tuesday morning, whon thoe storm was at its hoight, and that she suddonuly disap- peaved boneath the waves. It s Umufiht sho s oat widiall ‘on honrd. ' Numorous othey disns- tors ave hoted, but of less importance. The Third Ward beach is slill submerged in water, and the outlook s & dreary ono indced, to those who dwell in, that soction, During tho storm thoro was not a particle of the beach visi- ble, en occurrence mnover before kuown oxcopt in the year 1859. Tho bar 1 covern%‘ with small louses, whilo through tho tontor of it run the tracke of tho Chicago & Northwestern Rallway, At onoe timo tho giant waves rolled about tho hum- blo abodes of tho dwellors on tha beachin manner peculiarly startling to thoir inmates. The track was torn up in one'plece, aud badly damaged in others. Last ovening n News ro- Xts RRavages Eortur found tho beach, for = distance of three | locks, ontirely covered with water, which wag “unable to eseape, owing ton large bank of sand that hind been thrown up at tha odgo of tho lnke, Laborers wore engaged in tho task of digging trouches thrn\lfih an almost impenstiablo Lill of grovel, aud their [{mspncts of BUCCOBE WOIG dubious. It is hoped tlmly will bo able to drain tho great body of wator into the lnke, but the ob will be greator tli:an many Liad anticipated. The occupants of houses on the beach can roach thom only by moans of skiffs, and the eituation to them is anything but cheerful. - : At Butfalo. From the Igulo Express, Oct. 29, A portiou of the venerable building owned by the Grand Trunk Railway, and situated on River streot, noar tho caual-slip, was blown down yes- tordny aftornoon. The old struclure—in wiich previously had been located thn oficos and froight rooms of tha G. I\ R, R.—was fortunato- ly unoccupied, therofore no damage to life or property was sustained. The bnilafing covered an aroa of about 50 by 80 fect, and was compara~ tivoly valueless, That portion of the structure in which were the officos foll into the canal-elip, ‘The steamer Intornational was obliged by tho forco of the storm to go down the rivor as far as the Canada Bouthern dock ot Fort Erie. Wo are informed that the Graud Trunk Railway passon- erd wero brought across on the ferry at the ower Rock, Thie wind blew furiously down tho rivor during the latter part of the afternoon. Tho water in the river yesterday rose nearly -two aud o half foot abovo what it was Inst Mon- day., "Phen it dropped about n foof,’'snd ot 6 o'dlock was at least throo foot highor than Mou- day, Tho water last night was nearly ou o level with Bird Island pier, Tranchos of troes, we noticed, wore in many instencos made to bow to: the weight of the suow. Along tho strect wero strown, lnst ovon- ing, a large number of largo limbs bLrokon off the'wbade troes, and blown bither and yon by tho gale, Altogothor tha storm was one of remarkable Bovarity for this soason of tho year. WATER IN NEW YORK CENTRAL STOCK. To the Editor of The Chicagn Tribune Bin: I think “B, W," is slightly in error inre- gard to tho transfor of tho Troy & Schencctady Railrond, as dotailed iu his communicution pub- lighed in your papor this morning. The Troy & Bebenectady Railroad wae constructed by tho City of Troy in ity corporate capacity, and was managad by tho eity,or committees nppointed by tho Common Council, The road and equip- monts, it wes understood, cost about $1,600,000. Having no (mutual) connection with eithor tho Hudson River Railrond or Albany & Schenectady Railroad,—the control of those roads being in tho hands of tho citizens of Albany, orthey be- iog run in the intorest of that city, and agninst the Clty of 'rro{.—um Trojnus found the Troy & Sehencetady Hailroad an elephant on their hauds, 'Lho subjocts of sclling the road to tho Hudson River Railrond, aud, in making the trausfor, socuro o connectlon with that road, had boen under discussion somo timo, and wag finnl- ly consuminated (not without stranuous opposi- tion on the part of somo of the citizens of I'roy), —BEdwin D, Morgan nogotiating on tho part (omns:bl() of “tho (udson ~River = Rail- road, and Russoll Hago (then mpruuonung the Eighth Ward In the Common Councll of Troy) and Gon, Goorgo. IR, Davis Ecuunuul for the Troy Committeq) on the part of the Oity of Troy. The snlo was flurlly. consummated, the nominal con- sidoration being, I think, 500,000, payeble in fivo yoars, withont ‘intorost, It has boou osed by somo thab Ruuasll £2 0 % 5100,000 more in tho counzolidetod Luads or slooks immediatoly after the consolidaticn of .tho several roads thun bofare to sinlu of tho Troy & Sohonootedy Raad, and thel this was his first attempt ot ralirond-manipaiion. Mr, Ly von, then & cilizen of Troy, end & larpo prorctty-hold-s, eatmonced logul procgadis s, tu prdvent tho trinator of tho rond. . As Izifo | bo pteloily wiewids s tlully vasesot, T Ldnk, Pt i, Jeln &, Geowold hed no partin the c, 1o yran covruliad g0 paopetly-! T50IAN. nogcsiziiond, unlens, iv x in tho intoreat of ‘Croy aas ———— Fatollty in Xouxoo dounty, Enlwsh Disoaso Rexombling Astalls Chaoies ==wolve Giit o Fifteon ORuvy Iow sulting in Death, A most dlstressing roport comes to us through the Bloomington (Ind.} Democial, announcing tho pravalonce of n disesse in Polk township, Monrop County, which hag all thaappearance of oholors, and_‘whioh iy proving very fatal, A physician of Bloomington, who has rguon in at- tendance upon gome of the cases reported, gives the followiug partioulars: The locnlity in whioh it has Leen raging is on Allen's Crocl, In tho mnorthwostorn part of the township, about 18 milos from Bloomington, It firet mado ity appoarance about three woeks ago, a young lady by the name of Unsoy bolug the firat person nt~ tacked. Bho lived about one hour aftor the attack, ‘Lho tellowing axe the tatal csaca; Misa Oagey, sick ono hour; David Tads, slok two dayss Mra. Ends (mother of David), sick olglit hours;. Mra, Hoott (dnughtor of Mra, £ads), elols olght hours ; Nanoy J. Iinds, alok ono hour'; son of Nanoy J, Endy, 4 Tynnm old, slck throo houra ;” daughtor of Nnnoy. J. Ends, 2 yonrs old, sick thros hours; infont_child of Mrs. Beott, sick four houra; Mra, Tads (wifo of ITonry Lnds), sick ono dny; threo othors, whoso namo Dr. B, dia not know, Alrs. Noudy J. Bads wag takon with the disonse while on the way to tho burying ground with tho remning of Lwo of hor chlfil'on'nu(l hor mothor, nud died in one hour. Out of fifteon cases roported, twolvo havo provon fatal, Phydicians aront o loss to glve ony oxplanation for tho disense, and sl itn s{y‘mploms aro #o almilar to thoso of cholers that thoy have almost unanimously decided that 1t s this disease which has torribly afflicted the people of Polk Townshlp, THE TELEGRAPH. Lettors from Prosidont Orton of, tho Western Unlon Company. New Yong, Oct, . To the Filftor of the Ierald 4 0cly 2, 1802 "T'ho editorinl in tho Herald of Sunday, Oct, 10, honded ** Tho Postal Telegraph,” eotc., containg cortain orronoous statoments, and s otherwise linble to convoy orroncous improssions concorn ing the businoss of tho Western Union Tele- g:n{wh COompany, which I ask pormission to cor- ot First—Tho avorago chargo por messago was 61 conts, aa stated in the m%’nm?l“ roport, l%ld not 043¢ conts, a8 given by, the IHerald. Tho ex- Innution of tho apparent discrepancy is found n the fact that tho gross recoipts of tho Com- Pnny includo monoya derived from othor sources han from tolls on messages. Second—Tho statomont that * tho working ex- ponacs of tho Europesn lines, owned and oper- ated by tho Govornments, nyumfiu only 40 por cont of tho gross rocoints,” is still mora orro- noous, Tho tolograph is oporated ot a lous by noarly every Govornmont in Xuropo, aud tho aggrogato loss in sovoral milliona per annum, which 18 paid by taxation. Inno cases sro ox- Ponacs less than B0 percont of tho receipts. "I'ho averago cost por message in Europe to tho Governments which carry on tho businoss is gronter than the avorago chinrge of the com- panies doing tho businoss in tho United States, Third—The statomont that it is admitted tbet tho lines ownod by the Wastern Union could bo duplicatad with tho best Lnglish wiro, tho best instrumonts now in use, and tho best poles, for $12,000,000," is erroncous so far ng tho admission of any compotont authority is concorned, Buch n atntement would bo grossly innccurato by whomsoever madoe. The nonual roport, to which reforence is made by tho Herald, shows tho scquisition of now property by tho Western Union Compauy during tho last soven onrs which cost over $18,000,000. The Westorn {Iniou Company now own considorably more tolograph property than that for which the British Goverpmont haa alrondy paid over £10,000,000, gold, and an estimato of Sir Frank Ives Scudamote, now bofore mo, states tho robable cost of their tolograph property on the ot of March, 1875, at moro than #60,000,000, old. T'hoy will nob, then have as groat an ox- out of poles and wires as tho Wostorn Union not “watored up to threo aud o holf times tho roal yaluo of the plant,” It did contnin some “water,” but I have already shown that over §13,000,000 has beon” squogzed out in tevon yuars, and when Fuu receil the fact that thou- banda of miles of lino have been nequired at o small fraction of the coat to tha origiunl owners, avd that millious have boon contributed by rail: way companies to rocuro connection and the ox- tension of lines upon thelr raads, it will ho seon thut the prasont capital of tho Company is not groatly in oxcess of, if it oxceeds at all, the sum which was originslly oxpounded to produco tho pm{;urty. Fifth—The Western Union haa paid no divi- donds in revoral yoars. What difforenca does it make, thon, whothor its lines cost §10,100,U00 or 10,000,000, 80 far ag tho cost of sonding mes- ungen {8 coucerned. ¢ Ono-half tho prosont raten” would not pay tho cost for oporators, mossongers, stationery, and bstlory, to say um}mig of maintennnce, ronts, and intorost on capital, Sizth—Tlho increase of 16 per cont in the num-~ bor of messages in 1873 ovor 1672 iu orrongously aliributed to reductions of the tarift, - The ouly reduction made was *‘ tho abrogation of all rates over £2.50,” and this did not take offect till Fob. 1, 1873, and_was, therafors, In forco- but fiva months of the yoar which ended June 30, 1878, Tho other and plrentur reduction reforrad to went ‘into offect July 1, 1879, the bogiuniug of tho present tlacal yoar. Seventh—The now ‘‘square rates” are, with but -fow exceptions, tho same ns tho “furmer “apecinl_rates” ostablished upon compoting routes. Tho excoptious are botwoen Boston nud Washington and_intormedinte stations. —The now ratos are uniform ‘for like distances in the Eastorn, Middle, Southern, and Wostorn States. Eighth—Tho IHerald is, probably, correct m assuming that further reductions will not be mado by tho companios now doing the busincss for soma timo to como. Tho averngo mossaze rate in the United States since July 1 is but 55 conts, which 6 to & cents bolow the average in Eurur, where the cost of tolograph materal end the wages of operators uro 80 to G0 per cont loss thau hara, Morojthau o yoar ago Franco in- crersed her ratos 20 por cont on one clues of meseages, and 40 per cont on anathor, tho latter incronso baing on ratos which yielded over 60 per cout of hor tolegraph recoipts ; and . yet the increaso in the number of messnges during the yoar succoeding this increnss of rates way great- or than_during any one of several preeeding yoarg, It will not be claimoed that the increase of rates causedl tho increaso of messages, but this fact does not appenr, viz. : that tho natural growth of tho business was not scusibly retarded by & conaiderablo increase of rates, Ninth—Eho phrase * tho bost Lnglish wiro, the best instruments, and tho best poles’ is liable to ho construed to mean that the polos, wire, and instruments of the European lincs nro superior mn quality and working capucity to thoso of the Westorn Union. Such a conutruction would not accord with the facts. A vefiy Targo ‘majority of, tho poles uscd in tho_United States are superior to thoso in use in Europo. As to wire, the Weatern Union have been using of tho * best English " 10,000 milea per annum for sov- eral yoars past. 1t is propor to sy, howevor, that wire is now made by eoveral partics in (ho United Btates of o quality equal to the beat En- glish, and tho ronsons why wo uso the Inttor ab all are—(1) it is not always possible to prooure domestic wiro in ~ sufiiciont uantities to supply our and 2‘) wo aro gonorally oble to buy English wiro o littla cheapor than American, notwith- atanding thoe duty of about 60 por cent ad valo- rom, As regards instruments, thoso of Amori- can manufacturers are unxorior in officioncy to the moro cumbersonio and more expensive ap- paratus used abroad, Another fact Is worthy of mention in this connoction. American opor- ators using American instruments porform much nfore telegraphie work in the szmo timo on tho lines in the United Siates than is por- formed by the same numbor of oporators in Bu- ropo. The telegraph oftice in London employs moro than threo times ns many olerks and op- orators as aro employed by tho Westorn Union Company in New York to handle the samo num- bor of messngen duilfl. The relations of tho telegraph to the public aro 8o importaut, and with tho prees nre 8o inti- mato, ns to justify the axpeotation that tho pross will not give curroney to ‘erroncous statements ooncorning the tulngmph _which may prejudico the latter in the publio mind. 'The facts herein- beforo ptated do not reat morely n{yon my assor- tion, Thoy are complotoly ostablished by the ofMloial reports of tho governments by which tho busiuoss {s corried on abroad and of tho com- panies conducting it in tho United Btates, nud to deny them in the face of the ovidenco which ia now-acceesible would seem to imply an indispo- mtion to do justice to the American telegraphic wystew, which canuot actuate tho conductors of 80 succeesyul & spcelmon of American enterprise 8y the Now York Lerald. Vor‘v respactfully, WViLL1AM ORTON, wantg, The Congressionnl Excursion«=0bjecs of tho Trip. From the 8t. Louis Dispatch, Oct, 29, The Congrousional excursion party, last aven- ing, rotwmned from their late oxoursion to the Lono Btrr Strte, wnd are uow comfortubly quar- tered ot the Plantors’, The following gantlomoen finto the partys Glenni W, Scoflold, Republican Con- t-Liargo from DPenusylyaning {ho vt B, Btorwm, Domoceratio inciabor from oventh District of Peunsylvanin; Judgo 1 ty, Ropublican member from the Irie Dis- trivk tho Hon, J, 8, Smart, mombor-olect from tho Troy District, Now York; Col, BB, Wilsou, Demooratic momber from Weat Vivginia; Gon. P, M, B, Young, Dowmooras, from Goorgin ; tho Hon, Aloxandor White, Tudepondont, from Aln- bama; Roprosentatives Avn [lodgos, flun:nurl\llu, and 8, W, Hardin, Indopoudont, from Arkansas, Tho party loft 8, Louls on Fridsy morning Inst, and procooded as far Bouth ny Dallay, Tox- a8, Tho intention was to proceed to the Guif of Moxico and enjoy tho hospitality of Calyonton, but the preyalonce of yollow fover cansed the oxoursionists ta cluml;u thejr programme. On tho trip South, aud roturning, overy opportunity was affordod thom to obuaina fair id vast minoral woalth of Missourl, on of tho -talned at Denison, Sherman, and rlch country comprisod in the Indian Torritory. Tho unanrpassod richnoss of this forbidden Iand fairly amnzod Congrossmen, who unqualifiedly oxproesed themeolves in favor of . giving it a Torritorinl Governmont, thus o onlnq it up to-| sottlers, This notion 1n dnnmus ndyisablo, nob only to make fomo practical usoe of this unde- velopod country, but also in justico to noighbor~ lu,{ Htaton, Ea=tt, % Tho oxcursion party Was hospitably ontor- Drllns, The natonishmont was unlyversal at tho vast.oxtont. of rich prairios pnused over and the luxuriant cotton flolds that dotted the lino of travel. The Toxaus woro groatly disappointed that the Con- gressmon did not oxtond their Lrip to Galveaton, . whore thoy would have boon mcolvad with regal hoapitality. 5 = The trip was a most enjoyable and instructive ono thronghout, and was unattonded by mie- advouturo in any shapo, From the Washington Republican, Oct, 28, Among tha Jobis which ars ilkoly o bs bronght boforo the next Congress is_ tho proposition looking to tho croation of tho Indinn Torritory. Ono or two rallroad companies and a gcore of politicians aro intorested in it ; also a highly virtuous paper called tho 8t. Louls Globe, nufl its ‘Washington corrospondont. A numbor of Con- grossmon #nd othors are now onjoying a frae rido in connection with tho sohiomo, * It will boar watching. ——— THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. The Moncy-Order Systom and the Poaniceep’lan of the, FPostnl Saviugs Banis, : From the New Pork Evening Post, Oct, 28, CGon. M, La Ruo Harrison, Special Agent of: the Monoy-Order Departmont of tho Post-Offico, has just.completod an extonsive tour of inspoc tion through tho Wost. In conversation to-day ho mado an interesting statoment in regard to tho workings of tho monoy-ordor system during tho rocant panic, e noid that tho reault of his inquiries in tho rincipal Weatern cities, including Oincinnati t. Louis, and Clioago, showod that tho uso of thae money-ordor systom had incrensed from 25 to 40 Jor cont, sinco the hoginning of tho panio, ond throe-iifths or moro of thia inoroase was be- belioyed to be pormanont, This advance had como mainly from businesa ‘men, who formerly conducted all thoir financial trangnctions through the bunks, oud were, to o gront oxtent, iguorant of the workinga. of the money-order syatom, which they thought could bo used for Government busineks only. So deop wos this ignoranco, in somo cases, among men Aittle london soldicrs, which aro #o conotrictod that, boing pinced upon their fect, thoy prove top-honvy instantly, turn over and stand on *their honds., I'ronch childron atyle thosn play- things *Dllon-Plon,” that is, *mado of load," and yoi ean understand how ridienlous sieh a nickname rondorod tho Prince, who, whonovor lio was started off upon nany military mission, was inovitably recalled just in the nick of time to ko it soom that Lio was running from possible Wngor. Ihe Fronoh ara keenly alivo to the -ridioulous, and they esgorly seized upon tho or[]mrlunl‘y offorod for o Inl:{gh or sneer by tho nicknnmo of tho Princo, and it bocame nn nc- coptod iden that ho was & coward. This Im- proeaion ¥n(und ground from tho fact that whon challonged by tho Duko d'Aumnle, #omo yoars sinco, to fight o duol, aud laving Job it appoar that ho would moet tho Duko, the Irince re- colved the Imporal mandate to rofrain, olse there would be an immediato cutting off of tho liboral ponsion which then enabled the Princo to rovel in a very Onpuai oxistenco, spont among tho lending membors of the demi-monde. TORTURE ON SHIPBOARD. Thoe ¢ Sunrise?? Onse,ntSnn Francisco. From the San Franclsco Chronicle, Oct, 3. At 10 o'clack yostorday morning, a stylish~ looking buggy drovo up to tho United Htatcs Building, and_Capt. Clarko, of tho Bunriso, Jumped out. He walked up tho stnirs, chatting goily with o friond. At tho samo momont, n rmnoaalnn of six poor eailors, victima of his al- 0fied cruolty, whoso facos botokonod tho misery which hard usago and long confinoment had forced upon tham, toilod’ slowly up tho stalrs, in ohargo of o Depuly Sheriff. In ono minuto from tho opening of tho doors, tho United States Olr- cuit Court was formally oponed, and Capt. Robort K. Clnrko was smilingly listening to a recital of his famous oxplolts on the quarter-dook of the good ahip Suurise. Potor Sohnson, the man who was transformed almost into an idiot by cruel treatment, was con- ducted to the stond. Ho is a Dano, a tall, broad- shouldered man, and one who is ovidomiy CApD~ blo of much Eard work, No ordinary labor or hard usago could hiave disabled that strong man. Ho camo tottering up to tho witnoss-stand, and ntappod upon 1t with a vory visible offort. Qol, Barnos directed bis attontion to tho jury. “Potor,” ho aid, talkiog vory gontly, as. wa would oncourage 'a frightoned child, * Dator, I want you to tell these gontlemen how much slaop you woro allowoed evory twonty-four houra from tho time you loft Now York until you are rlvx:ul‘ here.” i eter (vory slowly and not too distinctl, Bomo daya they gave me four hours, anmnug:x; who would naturally be though' well informed, that a merchant in Cineinuati carried his monoy- ordor in his pockot for daya, bolioving it to bo & recoipt, and complaining moanwhilo that his cor- rospondent hiad not racoived the money. This Inok of knowledge was duc, of courso, to tho in- disposition of mon to nunnfn thow: “customary modes of doing business whilo tho solvency of banka wis unquestioned. When tho safety of thesoe institutions was imperiled, men sought a method of exchange in which they could place entire confldenco, and the result was the in- crm:sed dovolopmont of the postal monoy-order systom, i A The orders paid in 8t. Louis roio to the amount of $21,000 in one day during Lhe panio, and thoy now average $16,000 o day, whilo for- maily tho avorago was but 810,000, In Cincin- nati, §10,000 o day is the average, agninst 36,000 !‘unnm‘lg. In Chicago the number of orders roso from about 1,000 a ‘day, amounting to from 14,000 to 18,000, to 2,000 o day, smounting to about §34,000. s * : - Gon. Hurrison anid the informntion Le bad re- ceived led him to heliova that n similnr inorense in the mounoy-ordor busincss had taken placo ginco the panie in all parts of tho- country. - Out of this incrensed confidenco in the system, hnd rown o goncral desire among businoss men hat tho limit of the amount to.bo .trans- mitted in'this manuer should bo incroased from £50 to 9500 botween -first-class offices. The limitation to offices of tho firat-class, aa woll ns tho present narrow limitation of the amount, is duo to the foar that heavy drafts ml§l\t ‘bo made , on small countryofiices, rem]m-ln%l t neceasary to koop large sums of mouoy in thom at great risk. The funds would in such cases bo on- dangered both bg the possible dishonesty of the Postmaster and by thoinsecurity of most villagoe ost-oflices, in tho ovent of an attempt at burg- ary. If tho increaso in tho limit is confined to o list of first-clags oftices, sny 200 in number, | this danger will not oxist, and the monn{»qrdor- system will, it is thought, almost. exclusively control thoe exchiango business of the country. THE PROPOSED POSTAL BAVINOS DANK. Tho chlof object in view was to glve (he ex~ _oursionlsts au opportunity to carofully viow thoe QGon. Hurrison said that during the panic & large number of officos liold back “their surplua funds, instend of sending them to this city, from foar, that the orders next day would oxhaust their funds, the rocoipts not.being oqual o tho emergoney. At timos, thorofore, tho Now York Post-Ofico had n vory emall balance, but all de- mands_had always Deen met. Tho confidenco creatod by this prompinoss and sefoty of ex- change through tho Post-Office, under ciroum- stances tho most adyorde, had daused grent in~ tovest in tho proposition of Postmuster-Genernl Creawoll for a postal savings bank. Gon, Harri- son visiled Canada last month to oxamine the workings of tho similar institution in tho Dominion, which is modeled after tho English systom. ‘Iho Postmnstors at Montreal and Toronto, who nre virtually Assistant Postmaster- Genorals, assured Lim that during a long . series g! yeurs the systom had proved highly satisfac- ory. * A . The plan of tho Postmaster-Ctenoral is for Cougrees to cstablish & uational savings inatitu- tion, of which all first and sccond-cluss monoy- ordor offices shall bo branches, - In theso oficos monoy can ha doposited in sums of 5 and up- wards, the depositors having the amounts regu-~ larly recorded in bank-books, and the Goyern- ment paying o stipulated rato of interest, say 4 por cont, for the use of the monoy. - This monoy will bo trausmitted to tho noavest Assistant- Treasurer for doposit, to bo used by tho Treasury Doparbment in the paymont of the public dobt and current oxpenses. In this way the paor man, like the bondholder, can bocome a creditor of the Governmont, ‘The Immonso amount of moneynow honrdod in the country by persons who aro afrnid to dopowit in snvings banks, but would trust tho Govornmeont, would then, it is snid, ‘o pmt into circulation; and it is also saggosted that tho Trensury. would, liko . certain seavings Lauks, eventually accumulato s largo rosorve fund from unclnimed doposits. Tho chiof ad- vantago which would acorue to tho Govorument from tho plan, 08 urged by its promoters, would Yo the circulation of money uow idlo, and the retontion in this country of monoy which would otherwise be sont abrond, Tho bonds now held Inrgely in Eurone, on which the Government i aying 6 aud 7 por cent intoreat, would, under Tii% bian, bio callod fn 08 soon 48 logally pos- siblo. Tho cost of maintainiug tho eystom, with the necessnry incronso of olerks and other oxtrn oxpensos, is cstimated at ${ of 1 per cont on the doposits, the Hrusnnt cost of the money-~ order systom being about 9-10 of 1 per cont, "Tho postal authorities have not yet dotermined whothor it would be best to linve.-one grand contro of tho system, or, in consoquencoe of tho oxtent of tho country, to-haye soveral important citles as tho contros of districts. ok It is thought that tho greater number of de- ositors during the first yoar of such an {ueti- ution would bo uativos of Great Britain, who have oxperiouced the workings of & similar in- stitution abroad. Tho Postmaster-General intonds to urgo the project strongly before Congroes this wintor, and it is underatood to be. rogarded with favor by the T'roasury Department, Prosidout Grant's approval has afready beon publicly expressod. Assnsstintion and Suicido. From the Two Republics (Mexico), Sept, 28, During the first woels of this month, a most unfortunate and tragical ocourronce oxcited' so- cloty in tho City of Tucbla. It was tho rosult of ona of thoso insane droaws calledlove and ro- mance, and in the presoiit case coused tho death of two estimablo persons, A young officor .of tho Foderal army, of excellent” social atanding, had been ongaged to o boautiful young lady of tho bost society in Puobln; bofore sho would connbnt ta tho consummation of tho ocontract, she roquired of her lover that o should, leave the army and enter upon somd'other pursuit, I'ho fathor of tho officor, o citizen of Guate- mala, bought an haclenda noar Cordobn, and sottled the young nisn npon it; and, after have ing all things arrangod, hio visited Puobla, and slaimed the haud of his afilauce, Fhe, in the menntimo, had boen wooed nnd won by anothor, to whom rho was then nleo engaged, "Upon the firat visit of tho first lover, sho informed him that hor heart had undergone nn\mngrul the passionato lovor became frantio, and, upon leav- gz, Lold hor that ho would call tho noxt day, aud, i shio porsisted, ho would kil bimsolf in her prosonco. e called tho uoxt day, wag per- sistently refusod, In the prosonce of hor mathor wheoroupon ho drow a rovolvor and oxolaime that tho lovo which was not for him should nat Do anjoyed by anothor, and fired at hor hoat, but shio” roso aud raceived the ball in hor abdo- men ; ho thon shot himeclf, The insanoe nssns. gin diod the samo aftornoon, and bis viotim closed her oxistenco on tho third day, SRRSO, ¢ Plon=Plon ¥—The Sobriquct of Napos 1con Jeromo Explained, From w Parts Letter's By the way, I should oxpiain (ho meaning of tho nicknamo Plon-Plon, ~You have seen thoso six—never any more, Thoy would call mo up to do somothing in two hours aftoer I had turned in, Only six hours, gontlomen, six hours, I asked the mato oncoe to give mo just two hours to mend my clothes. I told him Ihad nothing to wear, gir, and I didn't, Gol. Barnes—And what dld ho any ? Dotor—Ho said, * No, you — ——1 Yongs to worle. " All day long I worked, and somotimes all night long making sennit, Oncoin a whila they didn't make mo work at night, and then I would try to stesl o little vleep. I hnd no right to do it though. If I was not working I ought to Tavo beon walking tho dock. They used to sond 'mo out on the fore-ynrd to look out, and keop me there for hours clinging on to tho end, Ono night tho mato sent mo up and kept mo thoro oight hours—from 12 o’clock tiil 8 in the morning, ~It. bogan to rain and was very cold, I was freezing. I camo down to got my coat and the boatswnin told me I had battor go up again, for if the mato eaw me I would got h—. I went upagnin. At 8 o'clock T wan called down and kopt at work on tho deck nearly all day. Col. Barnea—Iavo you over boon beaten on the Sonriso ? - Y Potor—OL, yos: plonty, plonty. Every day the mate kiu‘ludAmo or knocked mo down, or hit mo with somothing, Tho Captaiu saw bim do it. Ho must have soen it, for Lo was on deck noarly all the time. IIo took tho nearest thing ho coutd got to beat mo with ; ropos, bolayiug-pins, piccos of iron, and picces of wood, One d nK whon ho couldn't got anything olso, hio fhrow Lis kuife at mo, One time he atruck mo with & tar-buckot and blacked my oyo, and another time he split my left eye with an iron strap-block. Col. Darnos—Has tho Oaptain over struck you? ~ Poter—Oh, yos; he struclk mo threo times. I don't remembor any more. I had marks all ovor mo from blows, Ono time ha atruck me because I didn't get tho crotchiet bawline clenr just as he wauted it He didn't strike very hard that timo, though. 8inco I'vo beonhoro I've had too much sleep, and I'm gotting bottor sinco Iloft tho ship, T'vo slopt sbont soventcon hours every day. That's too much, you know. One night thoy stretehed a tarpauliv in tho lower chaunols, and mado me get into it to cateh flying-fish. The water came up to my waist. I was there four hours, and when I como up Fronchy was seut down. 5 At 2 o'clock tho Court ronssembled, and Nel- son Martin was oxamined. He is a Norwegian, but sponks good English, and claims to bs an able sonman, Ho snid that at one time lo was triced up for five hours to tho main gallows for -spiko from aloft. Thoro Tho Captain asked, “Who did that " ," anewered Martin, ¢ Como down horo " shouted the Master. Martin eamo down and was at once triced up by the Captain’a ordors. Capt. Clarko then swung himself into his hammock, whero he conld gloat on the poor follow’s agony, and lay and watched him. Mar- tin had com{lfnhmll once to the Captain about Harris' cruelly.- As & roward for this hoe waa knocleed down and kicked by the mate that very night. Clarke was told of “this, and his only snswer was a brutal laugh, Martin saw Condiff whon he went to the Captain to complain, Con- Qiff enid, **The mato lins beaten mo, sir?" Col. Barnes—And what did tho Captain say? Martin—Ho #aid, * You — —1 go back to your work," Ernest Lojude, the Fronchman known to tho public as Ohnrles Boll, followed Martin on tho :tnnd e anawered questions through o in- orpr Ho was allowed little or no sleop, and, whoo do- ing tho best ho could, was knocked about like a dog. Hoesid: *Ican’t romomber how many timos I have beon punishod. I wasbeaton near- :{ overy dny. Ono day tho Captain told mo to Il & bath-tub for his children to wash, I bad been drawing water thon for eight hours, and T asked tho mato for o lighter bucket, Iwas all tirad out. . Ho knocked mo down and began to -kick me. Thon the Captain ordered mo to bo triced up in irons, and I was hung up liko & shoop to the gallow: Col. Burnos—Honw long woro you thora ? . Lojude—From 4 o'clock in tho afternoon until 4 In the mnruhlfi. An irropressible murmur of indignation arofe {from the spectators, and the looks turncd to- ;mrd Oapt. Clarke wero as bitter as his own dark aco, Donuls Maloney, scoond mato of tho Sunriso, Daving boon duly 8worn, Col. Darnes asked : Do you know Poter Jolinson ?" Maloney—I know Dutoh Peter, Col. Barncs—1low much sleop did he get out of twenty-four hours, coming from Now York ore? Malonoy—1I should judge botween five and siz hours. Sometimes not more than threo, sou was limited to this amount of rest? Maloney (scratching his head and pausing for & momout)—I think ho did. Col. Barnes—Havo you not spoken to him about it7? Maloney—I have. Col. Barnes—TRepoat the converaation, Malonoy—I enid to Capt. Clarke: “You will malko & complots idiot of that Dutch —." Tle enid to me, * Mako an idiot of him aud bo G— d—1" That'a what Cnpt. Olarlka said to mo. At this poiut the Court adjournod. —_— Tho ¢ Threo Brothers.?? . From the San Francisco Alta, Oct, 24, Tho ship, eaid to bo the Iargest morchant shipin the world,cortainly the largost woodon ship—mor- chant—nilont, sails to-day from this barbor for a Europonn, port, having on board ono of the largoat cargoos of whoat that evor left this or any othor port, Built by '* Old " Vanderbilt, as & steamship, found 100 coatly iu eousumption of coal ever to bomade d\rrafllnblo. and then pro- Sonted to tho United Statos Government nnd iitted out for war purposes, sont to follow the Alabama, which shie id at vory wafo distancos; noxt gont to the Dacific, in company with the monitor Monndnocls, sho Iay up in unval hospi= tal, untll Uncle Bam conoluded to sell her, which ho did, Binco then sho has been robuilt, one might eay, mndo as strong ns wood and ron could well mnke her, changed into a sailing- “ship, nomed tho Throo Brothers, for hor owners, Messra, Howos, loaded with whoat, and is ready forson; ono of the andsomost ships ihat ever ent, liko a blaok swan, in the waler; ono of tha most boautiful spccinmens of arohitecturo that ovor floated on tho billows, Bho will create o sonsation wherover she miny appear, not merely ‘Dbecauso of hor groat size and length, but be onuee of tho boauty of hor lines, her rig, and fixturos gonerally, Sho will spread some 16,000 yarde of canvas, ovor 1,000 yards being in hor maiusail—courso—alono, Hor malnmast is ovor 09 foot, main-yard 100 foet, and nll things olse about hor in proportion, Bhe is commanded by Oapt. Cummings, Intely of the Young Amorics, sud ovory Ouliforninn wishos hor good fortune, & short possage, speody return, hounor to hor commandor, fortuno through her to hor owzars, and glory to tho nation that clam.s hor and told again the story of his wronge, , Col. Barnes—Did the Captain know that Johne |