Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 25, 1873, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TRINS OF UDIGUITTION (PATATLR IN ADYAXCE). R0k 5:081we 5 | Partaot a yoar at the samo rato, Ta provent dolay and mistakes, bo suro and &ive Post Oflico addrosa in full, Including State and County, Romittancos may bo mad efthor by draft, oxpross, Post .Offico ordor, ot {n rogiatarad lottors, at ourlsk. TERNA TO OITY SULACKINERS, Daly, dellvored, Sundsy oxcoptod. 25 conte por waok. Dally, delivered, Buuday Included, 20 conts par wook. Address THE TRIDUNIE COMPANY, Oorner Maditon and Doarborn-sts., Ohloago, Il ———— TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, FOOLEY'S THRATRERnnd O e ik qa oot botieon \_ACADRMY OF MUSIO~Tialata:d on and Monroe, Inj l'nmnnt of Foupe. **hive Board.’ atroot, batwnon Mad "t s Fhompeon mflml;fl;l‘vl‘l.fllflh'rahnélvllh v ngton, TS By o OB MYRNS' OPERA-HIQUSE-Monroe stroat, betwoon earborn and Stato. Burlesquo of *'Tho Atrival of mooa." Minstroley sud cousloailtion, KINGEDURY MUSIO MALL- Olark strost, batmoon ndolph and Lk, Looture by Danio] Doughosty, Sub- eot, ‘" Orators aud Oratory.” toch) botmagn ad. of Harry M don, FIRST M, ¥, OHUROH-Cornor Olark and Washing. n_ stroots, oturo by Mre. Loonowons, Bubject: '+ Zond-Avestaj ar, tho Kire-Worshippors.™ KAHN'S MUSRUM OF ANATOMY-Olsrk DR, \stroot, botweon Madisou and Moaroo. 1The Chicags Tiibune, { Tuesday Morning, November 25, 1873. . The People’s Btate Convention of Loulalans, wwhich profosees the laudablo object of restoring Juarmony among tho politiclans of that Stato, is o in eesaion at Now Orloans. Its procoedivgs eatorday wero conflned to the work of organiza- tion, which rosulted in tho cholco of W. B. Fogan 88 Presidont, snd Thomas L. Maxwoll aa Plecxuhsry. ——— \ Minister Bickles has authorized & donial of tho yports that ho hind a atormy Interview with the ASpanish Foroign Minister. His rolations with Zhe mombors of tho Govornment aro unchanged. ¢ pronounces equally untruo the roport that tm bad oxproseod tho opinion that war | s inovitablo, sud says Lo has uttored no opinion a8 to the result of tho ‘ponding question, 'heso denials by Ministor Sjoklos corroborato Kbo complaints of tho Spanish press that tho ‘dispatchos sent to tho United States aro in- Aontionally unjust and hostile to Spain, e — Employment for tho poor thrown out of om- wloyment by the panic Eos beon provided in uomo instances by Oity Governments. A resolu- ition that similar action bo taken by the City of MChicago was offered to tho Common Council Iast soyening, and roforred to the Committeo on Pub- Qio Buildings. This schemo contemplates tho Duilding of tke conduit on Fullerton ayvenuo, the excavation of thosito of the old Court-House, £nd the removal and assortment of the dobris of that building, togothor with any sowerage work that noeds to bo dono, A now nnd songiblo phase of the Indian peaco yolicy appears in tho instructions of tho Indisn Commissioner to the United Statos Indian Agent vt Fort Bill. The Governmont has mado u do- jmand upon the Comanches in that neighboriiood for tho delivery to justico of flve of tholr pum- ber who have beon robbing and murdering white £ottlers, to which no attention has boon paid Ly the Indians, As & peaceablo punishment their annuities have been stopped; they sarc pivon ton days moro in which to ropent; 1f by fhat timo their hoarts aro nob softened, thelr xations are to bo withdrawn entirely ; and if thoir contumacy sufvives this assault upon thoir £tomack, {ho ponco policy will be oxhaustod, and tuey will be handod ovef to tho tender mercies of tao army. e, Tho connection of tho Rev. Robort W. Patter- on with the Second Presbytorian Church of this \city was sovored yesterdey evening by tho ao- "coplnnca of the resignation which Lo bad ten- \dered bis congrogntion. Thia evnt is of moro than vsual interest from tho fact that Pr. Poltorson’s haa been tho largest rontinuous pastorate of any clorgyman Jn tho Nortbwest. Ho has beon the Waithfal Load of tho Socond Oburch eince #1849, o torm twico 03 long as that of any othor ‘priest in this city. Dr. Pattorson goes tothe Clinir of Apologetics In tho Presbytorian Somi- mary of tho Northwost, whero his abilitiea snd character will find an adequato and honorablo Aiold in the inetructict. of ®o youngor men who #r0 to follow him in tho werk of the Church. Tweed's downfsll loavos his confodorates de- fonsoloss. Whilo hio played tho part o2 Gollath land they that of tho Philistines, thoy felt safe, but with Lis overthrow thoy sro undonoe. Inger- 1goll, tho chait-maker,.and his assoclato Farring- on, who wore partics to his Court-House rauds, havo been arrested and arobold in jail yto await trinl. Blato Semator Hnrry Gonot is also in jeil. Dick Connolly, Norton, snd wex-Mayor Hall aro sl under in- ictmont, but the former s eafo in Mipperary with & million of his swag, having %oon able to resist tho sirange and Iatal ¥ascination fhat brought Ingorsoll and Coopor Bonok to tho scono of their crimes, Ex-Mayor Jall is not likely to bo tricd again, thero boing Yo ovidenco that Lo had any pecuniary share Jo the frauds. Civil suita for tho ro- Yovery of tho proporty stolon from the ity aro to boe commencod as goon ag Xho Now York Court of Appesls deckdes o techni~ ‘eal question as to tho rights of tho city and xountyin tho proscoution. Tiwood has not yob Moon romovel to Blackwell's Island, and will Yorobably not bo taken thoro ponding tho de- ‘clsion on the nino excoptions which have boon kaken by his counsel to tho sontenco pnssed apon him. The Chieago produce markete wero falrly ac- ‘#ive yoatorday, but breadstuffe oxhibited s alight Walling off, chiofly owing to tho prospoot of & \paciflo gottlomont with Spain. Mosa pork was motivo, and 10@20c por brl highor, closing at lvela.oa cagh, sud $12.50@12.65 seller January, \Lard was active and unchanged, closing at 87,20 \@7.25 cash, and §7.50@7.55 sollor January. MMeats wore quiot aud firm, ot 43(@4){o for part ‘palted shoulders, B3 do for shiort ribs, 6o for «do short clear, sud 7@7)0 for groon homs, "Highwinos woro quict and }4o higher, at 000 por gallon, Lake froights wore dull sud strong, Dressed hogs woro quotod at 84,50 per 100 wa. Tlour was moro active, and stoady. Wheat wis quiot and 1o lower, closing flrm ot 81.04){ caah, 'and $1.025¢o seller Decombor. Oorn was stoady, ‘and @30 lower, olosing strong at 40fo cash, and 4034o sellor Docember, Oata woro dul}, and 340 Jowor, closing at 813{o cash, and B13go sellor December. Rye was quiet and stoady at 05@ 8530, Marloy was dull and onsler at $1.82Q e e e P = R CHICAGO DAILY. I'RIBUNE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 1,83 for No. 2, and §1@05o for No, 8. Hogswora aotive and firm nuntil noar tho close, whon thoy wonkoned about Bo por 100 1bs. Bales st £8.70@ .06, Tho oattle market was dull and lower, with' sales at $2.60@0.00 for poor to choico. Bhoeop woro unchanged. Tho doclaration fad at'Freoport by tho Attor- ney-Genoral, in behalf of tho Railroad and Waro- houso Commissionors, against the Obicago & | Northwostorn Railway Company 1s tho firat sult instituted undor the now Railrond law,’ and s probably intonded to bo a test cago, Itombracos twenty-aix counts, and those are divided into threo hoads: (1) For alloged ovorcharges in tho traneportation of frolghty (2) for allogod dis- oriminations botwoen Individuals in froight chargos ; (3) for alleged disoriminations in pos- sengor fare,—the offenso in tho lattor caso con- sisting In tho carrying of oortalnpersons on freo passer whilo'othor peraons wero roquired to pay 24.60 for similar travel. -Damagos to tho total amount of $100,000 aro’ claimed. At common law it {a not an offenso to earry either passen- gors or frelght froo of chargo. Tho offonso consiata in making dlsorimiuating oharges be- twoon individusls, It is" mot impossible, however, thatthe statuto may bo construed to prohibit the grantlng of froo paeson—in which case wo prosum all tho rallroads will bo glad to know it. Tho sovoral counts in the declaration which allogo overchargos for froight transpor- tation will have to be doterminod by ovidonco going to show what is a ronsonablo oharge. This ia tho first case, wo beliove, that has ovor been triod in this country on that issue, and ita de- tormination will be looked for with much inter- ost. Tho counts which charge disorimination betwoon indlvidunls for transporting tho samo kind of property, the ssmo distance, on the samo day, bavoamoro serious aspook than tho alloged overchargos, e r— Tho purohase from the Boston firm of Jamos R. Osgood & Co. (succossors of Tiocknor & Tiolds) of tho Atlantio Monthly and Every Salur- day by Hurd & Houghton, of Now York, and of Our Young Folks by Scribnor & Co,, also of Now York, is tho most important literary evont that hae been apnounced in a long time. It cannot but bo rogardod s a cosslon on tho part of Bos- ton of & vory largo share of its lterary proatigo, which the Boston pooplo, who have beon prouder of tholr city's literary distinction than of any othor characteristio, will nob rolinquieh will- ingly. Thelr opposition to tho sacrifico will bo intensifiod by the fact that it reacts in favor of Now York. Tho tranefer will bo regarded genorally thronghount the country as another assertion of Now York’s commorcial supromaoy, which is thus esserted evon in tho most in- tollootual of pursuits. Books are » commodity, and magazino-publishing a business, afterall, and the transfer appoars to bo an indication that the commoroial oharacter of book-making is even moro cafential than intelloctual traditions and negociations. Tho Atlantic hns for many yenrs been tho leading exponont of the most pro- gressive classes of Now Eug'l‘lgml. and it i8 so in- timately nssooiated with certain phases of New England intellcotuslity that its migration to Now York is a spocies of transplanting, tho sic- cess of which must be deterinived in the future. Now it is merely ourious and intoresting, Our Young Folks will bo mergod into tho now juvo- nile magazine announced by Seribner & Co. un- dor tho title of 8t Nicholas. If Mesars, Osgood & Co. aro going out of*tho perlodicnl business, many will bo anxious to know what ia to becomo of tho North American Review, which they pub- lish, and which has stood alono for many yoars in the fleld it occupies. ——— e THE POSTMASTEE-GENERAL'S REPORT. Tho annusl roport of tho Postmastor-Goneral containg loss than the ususl smount of maiter on the subject of postal telegraphs, Mr. Ores- well's attontion baving been diverted by a now toy, viz., postal-savings banks. The Post-Oflico banking system, a8 he expounds it, is ono of the curiosities of modern times, for whoreas the postal-savings banks of Great Britain must be sapposod to have a dofinite parpose, and to oper- atodn o cortain way, Mr, Creawell noither telln what that purpose and way oro, mor what his purpose and wsy would be it hia views wore carried into offect. Wo have observed o cortaln amount of confusion of ideas in the reports and rocommondations of the Tronsury Dopartment in times past, but nothing approaching to that which porvades the banking viows of tho Postmaster-General. Ho tells us that on $ho firat of July lagk thore was somo six Lundred millions of curroncy in the hands of tho people (that is, outsido of tho banks and tho Public Treasury), but nevertheloss, soon after the flrat of August, » stringoncy sot in, which must bavo boon due to s lsck of confidence. Lack of confidence in what? Mr. Oreswell docs not sny, but the contoxt implics that it was & lack of confidonco in banks, because he eays thatif wo can deviso o plan that will afford the samo seourity to de- positors that is afforded to note-holdors, woshall Do sblo to bring ont the six hundred millions of honrded curronoy, and rovive business. Postal- savings banks, he thinks, would accomplish this. Theso institutions would oncourage economy and habits of eaving, and utilize and keep in circulation tho immense suma Dow paid out as wages, It would at tho samo time strengthen tho Tronsury and onablo i, “'by judiolous in- vostments,” to aftord rolief to banka in times of stringonoy. Bavings banke should nover bo mndo sources of profit. It prostituted to pur- poses of gain, they should be overthrown, Bo likewlge othor bonks should only do business on their own oapital, Whon they scek to do busi- nosg on borrowed capital, i.e., doposits, they becomo mero Speculators. Bound policy dlotatos that the Governmont slould loso no opportunity of borrowing from its own peoplo, at o low rato intorost, for the purpose of *dis- oharging on {ndebtedusss abroad,” or relioving industry and ~onterprise ot home from tho trommela of taxation Ilo bolloves that tho savings of tho poopla thus oncouraged would'soon grow to such gigantlo proportions that the voluatary loans of a singlo generation would soon oxcood tho wholo of tho national dobt. The rato of interost proposed to bo paid ta doponitors by the postsl-savings banka is4 por cent. It s evidont from tho roport that Mr. Cres- woll rogarda capital and ourrenoy as tho same thing, Finanolal stringenoy, in hia view, means lonrding of ourroncy ; and ho belloves that cur ronoy would not be hoarded if thore were plonty of postal-auvings banks, It would bo ensy to point out many poriods of financial dtringonoy whoro thore was no hoard- ing of ocurrenoy; Indced, the supposod honrding of ourrency at tho prosont time is vory much oxaggorated. But we lok that pasa, as also tha singolar notlon that bankers should do business exolusively oun thelr own capltal, and that savings banks should nover yield avy profit. ‘Tlhio digposition that Mr, Oreswell contomplates making of tho savings scoumulated in his Post. .Offico banks clelms attontton, We aro told, firat, that thoy would strongthen tho ourronoy ; then, that thoy would bo avaifablo in affording rollot to tho banks fu times of stringenoy ; thon, that thoy might bo usod in paying off forolgn indebtodnosa; and, finally, that they might be mado avallable in relieving tho peoplo from tho trammold of (axation, In somo ono or all of thoso ways, wo suppose, they aro to oarn tho 4 por cont intorost which is to bo patd— though Mr. Creswoll doos not say so—nnd eilll bo kept on hand in sufilelont amounts to pay dopositors who want to draw thelr monoy out. Now it ia obvious that if the Governmont goos into tho businoss of paying {nterost on call lonns (for that is what all doposlts aro), it must malko goma uee of tho average balance which will sullico to produco futorest on tho wholo aum, If it in used to *strongton tho Treasury,” it oanuot bo used for judicloua investmonts, or to pny foreign indebiednoss, or to holp the bavks in times of stringenoy, or to roliove tho public from tho tram- mels of taxation, whataver that may nignify. Ifitisusod to pay forelgn indebted- noss, it cannot ho omployed in' the othor five ways enumerated, though this mothod, wo ad- mit, would tond to earn tho intorost agreed to bo paid to dopositors, Tho objcotion to it is thiat tho monoy would not be on hand or within onay rosch whon wanted by tho dopositors, If used in “ judicious invostmonts,” tho Govern- mont, through some oflicor, or ofilcors, horeaftor to bo appointed on the rocommendation of Con- gresomon, must decido what aro judiclous invest- monts and what aro not. Whothor Northern Pacific bonds would bo judiclons invoatments or not, would perhaps bo settled by tho same caucus which had soloctod the postal banker of the district, But it ianoedliess to multiply words to show that Mr, Oreswoll is completoly at sea. Mo soema to havo no concoption at all of tho func- | tlons of o savings bank, or of any othor sort of bank. Iis theory of a postal bank is & medloy of queer notions, of which the most prominent and distinotive is that you can ont .your cake and have it too—invest your deposits, and havo thom on hund at tho samo timo. That the En- glish postal eavings bauks are conducted on "omo sork of system is to bo presumed, because tho English Govornment is composod of mothod- {eal poreons, trained in the practicel sclences, including that of political economy. Tho offien performed by them, howover, is obviously very small, sinco tho total of such doposits in tho TUnited Kingdom roaches only £19,000,000, or about one-half of the doposits tn tho eavings banka of tho State of Massachusctts alone, THE NORTHEEN PAOIFI0 RAID ON CON- - GREBS, Tho roport of the Governmont Commission- erg to examino tho Northern Pacifio Railroad, which recommonds the acooptanco of another inntallment of the road, will lend to tho issuing of patonts for tho proportion of tho Government land-grant which is duo on tho miloago thus far comploted. This looks as though it wero the intontion of the ofiicers of tho road to scouro all the lond thoy can bofore thoy go to tho next Congross with their petition for the guarantoo of Northern Pacific bonds. It is understood that the propasition will be to surronder all that portion of the land-grant to which titlo Laa not boen acquired in llou of the guarantoo. “As tho accoptanco of the last 100 miles that have beon built will transfor all tho land along tho firat 400 miles of tho road, which is probably worth more than all tho land that will go with tho remaining 1,400 miles of rond yob to bo built it 18 obviously dosirable for the North- orn Pacific managers to acquire o titlo to this boforo attempting to eaddlo tho building of tho remainder on tho Government. They will then have mndo o very neat thlug oul of tho undertaking, They will have acquired about 16,000 quare milea of fho best Jands on the line of the road, and will endoavor to foist upon the Govornment the fask of making tho wholo proporty valuablo, i The proposition that Govornmont shall guar- antoe suflicient Northern Pacific bonds to com- ploto the road is 80 propostorous, in view of what isnow known of tho ontorprise, that we can searcoly beliove that suybody will havo the “ ghook " to present it to Congress. Itcould only be brought forward on the ground of sym- pathy, einco tho enterprise has no financial merita to commend it. Thon the question ariscat Who, of all concorned in Northorn Pacifio, is entitled to Government sympathy ? It cannot bo tho stockholders, Tho law of Con- gress suthorizing the coustruction of the road only required that $2,000,000 stock should bo subseribod, and ouly 10 por cent of this paid in. At tho bost, then, the stockholdors have only pald in §200,000 with which to build a road 1,800 miles in length, and tho bistory of othor land-grant railronds juatifics & suspicion that thoy Liave not paid oven this much. So muck of the rond a8 has beon built is tho result of credit farnished by tho Govornment in the enormous graut of land, whioh, by an extraordinary logal process, could bo mortgaged beforo tho road had noquired title. Tho stookholdors, thereforo, havo no claim on Government sympathy, be- causo thoy have mado no wnvestmont, Thoy liave simply ombarked in a real ostste spoouls- tion on borrowed oapital. Tho situation of the boudlolders is not any more cntitled to sympa- thy, Thoy hold n mortgago nob ouly on tho franchiss, rond-bed, rails, and rolling-stock of tho road, but on forty squaro miles of land for ovory milo of road that lhaa boen built, The Govornmont will givo titlo, according to its sgreoment, to all tho lond that las beon honestly acquired, so that tho bondhold- ors are scoured to tho full oxtont they contractod for at the timo thoy invested thieir monoy. If tho investmont was & foolish ono, It {s cortainly not incumbent vu the Governmont to mako good the doficioncy, aftor having furnished all tho security tho bondholders now have, If nolthék tho stockholdors nor tlio bondholdora aro entitlod to sympathy, who ia? Thore Is nobody lott but Jay Cooke. o went into & Luge land-speculation moro oxtensive than John Law's Misalsaippl schemo and equally illusive, and caloulated upon making his millions, If Lo has failod of his purposo, it has not been through auy lack in tho recklossuoss of his roprosantations, or through charity for tho men Lio has draggod down with bim, Hundrods end {houssnas of men thmngha‘\/xt the country attributo tholr ruin to the rashuess of Jay Cooke., If It i tho iutention of tho Government to bocoma o charitablo inatitution for the maiu- tonanco of bankrupt spoculators, it should rather begin with {he wen wha rogard thomaelves ag Jay Cooke's vietims than with Jay Cooko himsolt; - We havo #ald that tho Northorn Pacifio Rail- road was & hugo land-speculation, The grant of Jand for bullding 1,800 miles of roilroad is Inrgor than tho aron of tho two States of Ohlo and Indianns, ns Iargo an England, Irclaud, and Beotland togother, throe timos Iargor than the Kingdom of Bavaris, sovon timos Inrger than tho Kingdom of Belglnm, and containa 10,000 aquare miles moro torritory than all of tho Now England Statos combined, Thia vast empiro of 1and waa givon rway by tho pooplo of the United Btntos, through thoir roprosontativos in Con- grosn, without any considoration, and the concorn which i to reoelve it now proposcs to ask that its bonda bo guarantoed over and abovo thls. Tho domand in unparailoled for offrontory, and could bomadein no othior country and in no otborage thanthe prosent. Thore is o wido- sprond boliof that, ovon if the Northorn Paclfle Railroad woro built, oquipped, snd in runping order, this Jand-grant would do moro damoge to tho Intorosts of tho country than tho rond would ovor offset, Ins lato number of tho Beattlo (Washington Torritory) Intelligencer it fa hold that the grant is & *monstrous hin- dranco™ to tho natural development of tho ocoun= try. Tho routo of tho rond In Washington Ter- ritory is that of an frrogular trisnglo, extonding 360 mlloa on the southorn linc, 208 milea on the wostern, and 800 miles on tho northorn, making 858 milos within that Torritory, which might have boon traveraod with 800 mitos, as the orig- inal act of 1804 provided. Tho change was mado tosoours tho additional grant of land, which iz 40 milos in width for overy mile of road, Waeh- ington Torritory alono thus codes 84,920 squaro milon to the railroad, or noarly ono-half of its entire ares, Tho policy of tho railroad {a to pub a double prico on its land (probably boecause Northorn Pacific bonds aro taken in paymont), while the ownors of tho land not acquired by tho railrondthink thoy ought to got doublopricoon ac- connt of tho bonofita supposod toacarue from tho building of tho road, Theresult,as tho Infclligencer indleates, has boon to put s stop to immigration and rofard tho sottlemont of the country for many years, bosides throwing tholand, if the road should ever bo built, into the handsof s huge and unscrupnlons monopoly, This tostl- ‘mony is ospeelally valuablo sinco it comes from that part of the country which was to have been spocially aided by tho building of tho road. The Northorn Pacific Rallrond Company is in adesporato strait—or would bo if it had any .oapital ot risk. Its ohartor providos that af loast 50 miles of rond must bo built every yoar, and tho ontiro line completed boforo July 4, 1877. Itiscertain that iho Company, in its present shapo, cannot comply with thoso con- ditions, Hence the proposed raid upon Con- gross for the guarantco of its bonds, This raid must he defoated at all hazards. If tho road should atop whera it is, and the Iand rovert to tho peoplo, wo ara not sure bue it is the best thing that conld happen. P THE DANGERS OF WALL BTREET, Tho suit of Biedermann & Co., stock donlers in Now York Oity, against Daniol Drow, Eugone N. Robingon, and Stephen M. Alden, who are also woll known in the stock market, allusionto which was made in the telographic dispatohes yostorday morning, and the dotails of which will bo found in the afiidavits of the plaintiffs, printod olsewhere, presouts somo vory oxtraor- dinary foatures. Xtigsstory of tho dangers whioh boset those who take patt in tho struggles ‘betweon tho bulls and boars; and of the mis- fortunes which may ovortake oven thosa who think they have tholr cye-tecth cut. The story in substance 18 ‘08 follows: Bledormann & Jo., tho pleintiffs, aro stock doalors in Now Yok, who make it a businces to buy and soll stooks, and aro presumod to Luow al] tho ins and outs of those very crooked opora- tions, although the soquel showa tho contrary. Danfot Drow, Eugeno N. Robiuson, and Btephien H. Aldon, tho defendants, are also engsgod in tho same business, aud, as tho sequol shows, Inow moro of tho ins and outs than the plain- tifts. Tho medium which brought those two firms into communication was the Canton Com- pany, of Baltimore, having o capital stock of £4,490,000, and engagod in bullding aod making other {mprovements in sud near the City of Bal- timoro. Tho defondants had control of tho stock, and Drow and Robinson wera Directors of the Company and members of the Exccutive Committeo. Tho plaintiffs now allego that in Novombor, 1872, tho defendants entered ‘mto a conspiracy to make the world in gonoral and the plaintiffs in particular beliovo that this Canton stock was n splendid investmont, nud would spoodily taako thelr fortunos if they Lought it. At that time Drow was the holder of 80,000 sharea of tho stoclk, of tho par valuo of $100 cach. To unlond himsolf of tho wholoor a part of this stock was tho aim of good Unclo Daniol. . Biod- ermann & Co. wore gclected as tho par- ties most likely to take tha stock, but, ag Biedormsnn & Co. woro in tho same line of business, —buying aud selling stooks, —it was necossary fo conduct the nogo- tiations with oxtremo caro and dolicacy. Ac- cordingly, Alden and Robinson protended to be sollora of the etock on their own account, and good Uncle Danicl appeared very unwilliig to soll. In fact, ho declared bo would not sell for loos than from $150 to $200 por share, because, from what ho know of tho affairs of tho Oom- pany, he was confident tho stock would soon groatly incroago in valuo, and would advanco to tho prioes namod, Rather than sell, Lo was go- ing to buy moro, and ho advised the plaintiffs fo tako all thoy conld get, it was such a splondid investment! But thoy couldn't buy of him! Having roceived this frioudly advico from such o compatent authority in tho stock world, tho defoudsuts began to grow a lit- tlo ocagor. ‘Thon Robingon at differont times offorad to soll them somoof tho stodk, and Aldon waa willing to lot thom have some ‘“‘on cnll,” both protonding that tho stock was thelrs. At last, tho dofendnuts bit at the bait which was kopt dangling bofore their nosed in such & pro+ voking mannor, and purchased 10,000 shares from Aldon ond Robinson, at prices ranging from $98 to $106 por sharo, and 8,000 sharcs from other partios. Tho 10,000 eharos woro the property of good Unclo Daulel, which ho would not soll undor any consldoration, beesuse it was &uoch & splondid Invostment, likewlso 5,000 of thio 8,600 sharos which woro abtalnod from otlier partics, For theso 18,000 sharoa the de- fondants paid down tho hiandsomo littlo sum of $1,807,100.75, which, in the tonching languago of tlolr affidavit, * was far more than tho real valuo of snld stook.'" Tho dofondants, now having 18,600 shares, aat down and walted, a8 good Uncle Daniol was do- ing, to soe tho atock go up to 200, at which timo thoir million and a half or moro would havo fu- oronsed to threo millions and a half or moro, Thoy could then sell out and pooket & cool mill- fon aplece, And thoy walted and walted; but aftor November, 1873, somehow or other the markot value of the atock did mot fu- tho oreago, but on other hand, =88 timo wont on, they dlscovorod ' that it ween't worth ’tho price thoy patd for it. After walting o yoar with commondablo patlenao, thoy aat down to figuroup the profits on tho splondld investment which good Unolo Danlol hnd oxpatiated on with so much confl- donco, Thoy bod 16,000 sharos which eamo from good Uncla Danlol, through tho modium of Alden snd Robigson, and for which thoy had paid 81,650,655, and on this Investment thoy hnd Jost just o round mithon of dollars, In other worils, tho_ stock for which they hnd paid 100, and whieh, according to good Unclo Danial's as- surances, would soon bo worth $00, was in real- ity worth about $37. Honco the olalm of the dofondants that good Uncle Danlol and Lis fel- low-conspirators shall pay them 1,000,000 and intorost, in damagos. Tho gonoral vordict of tho publio will to that any parties who go into tho Wall-sirost monag- orio to wrastle with thobullaand boars, and come out elther bitten or gorod, ought to submit quictly and not plead the Pabynot, But therolsanother viow to bo takon of this milllon-dollar eplaodo. Tho defondanta wora & stock-dealing firm. They mado it thoir business to buy and soll stocks, and spoculato in sccurlties of all sorts. They baye beon In the businoss many yoars,—long enmough at lonst o got acoustomed to il the twistings and turnings, and tho tricks and dovices of tho buslness, both of the good Uncla Daniol and bad Jay Gould sort, If theso mon, therofore, who aro pro- 'sumod to havo out their eyo-teoth, can bo taken fnand dona for ro easily, what possiblo hopo is thero that tho goneral public, who aro not posted up in the ways that sro dark and tricks that aro vain,” oan invost their money in Wall streot with any oxpoetation of over scelog it again? Tho fate of Biedermenn & Co. {8 & warning to hornloss people to keep oub of bull-fights. Not tho lonst amusing featuro of this littlo epi- #ode s tho fact that’ Aldon himsolf, ono of tho agonts who roprosonted Drow in load- ing up Diodormann & Co. with the Canton gtock, has brought sult against Drow to recovor 202,001, which ho claims fo havo lost by buying 11,000 shares of worthless Quicksilver atack on Drow'a reprosontations that it wounld rapldly riso in value, At the vory time Alden waa oporating on Bledermann & Co. for Drow, good Unelo Danlel was oporating on Aldenins prociuoly similar way for himself. This supple- montary fact only emphasizes the reason why tho gonoral publio should bowaro of stocks snd stock-oporators and heep out of tho Wall-street mensgorie. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILWAY. The policy of watering raflroad stock has been carriod ou oxolnsively in this country, and tho attompt to pay interost on the flctitious capital 1as boon to bring tho railroads following that practico to the brink of ineolvoncy. The annual roport of thoPresident of the Daltimoro & Ohio Railroad for 1873 {a in romarkable contrast with tho almost invariablo oxbibits of tho loading railroads in tho Unitod Btates. Tho comparison will best bo made by grouping o number of theso roads togather. We suloct those which ara mainly parallel and compoting for the same clags of business : Miles | Capifal Total Roads. [|opcrated| slock, Debts, |cap. & debta N.Y. Cent.| 851 ($89,428,3001816,496,0001£103,924,300 V& Rrie| 1,033 | 66,636,010] 91,720,070} 118,208,070 Ponnsylya.| 1,605 | 53,371,007 03,380,887 Balt, &0..| '800 | 16,711,100/ 10,169,c87 It willbo soon that the Now York Central Railroad hos to poy out of its earnings intorost and dividonds on $106,000,000; tho Now York & Erlo on $118,000,000; tho Ponnsylvanin on 116,000,000 (sinco April last suthorized to be incrensod by $56,000,000 bonds sud capital stock); andtho Baltimoro]& Ohioon only $26,000,~ 000. The difforence in tho mansgement of this Inat-montioned road is shown in tho fact that it has n surplus of nssots which reprosents earn- ings invostod in vatious branch and connecting ronds, and in stesmships, hotols, and vari- ous gront improvements, and not ropressnted by stock or bonds, and which amounted in October, 1878, to the smn of $29,084,404. We oot supposo there is another railroad com- pany in the United States that can make such an oxhibit, The sddition to tho surplus fund in 1878 wae §2,883,13¢, Tho Compsuy, in the meantimo, Lns beon lavish in its oxpenditure upon its main road aud oxtonslons, During tho four years onding in 1879, ic oxpondod for 08 locomotives, 2,018 freight and pmssengor cars, for hotols, socond track, stoamehip piers and wharves, elovators, rolling-mill snd machinory, ronl ostato, and pormanont structurcs, $4,720,- 000, During tho year 1873, it hina added 90 lo- comotives, 2,802 cars, 42 milos of track, new depots, clovators, real ostato, otc,, ab a cost of 4,760,000; it Lias construotod o new branch road ab & cost of ©8,683,000; bridgos over tho Ohio River,,82,882,480 ; paid off bouda amount- ing to $2,800,000, and othor liabilitics amount- ing to $5,280,769, oratotal oxtraordinary oxpend- fture during thafivo yoars of 20,674,081, Thia +was dono out of tho surplus enmings of thoroad, save £8,600,000 borrawed in London. It holds its oconstantly-incroasing surplus earnings a3 & resorvo, and thus Is always ableto undertako any considerablo expenso, elthor from it own funds or tho unusual orodit which such a sur- plus gives the Compruy. Tho present panio has not fn tho least ombarrassod the Company. On tho 30th of Soptembor, whilo tho inflated stooke of its rivals wore staggoring and sinldug, it deolared and paid its aceustomod somi-annual dividond of & por cont in caeh. This sound financial condition onables the Company to o8- tablish its business on a permaucnt footing. Bix yoars ngo, It agrood on & tarift of ratos for tho trausportation of coal, satistactory at tho time to tho miners and tho doalers, snd, though it lins & monopoly of tho routo from the mines, thoso rates havo romained unchanged till now. Tho advautage of permanoncy it tho rate is ro- garded of groat value to the publio, =Tho gross rovenuo of 1872 was $18,020,677 5 and of 1878, $16,005,641 ; incronso, $2,008,804. Tho not osrnings for 1878 woro ©5,668,480. Duriug tho yoar, 11,018 tons of steol ralla wero substituted for iron, and at this time there are B51 milos of stool traok in uso. The cost of all this i8 chargoed to ropaiys. During the yesr, tho Motropolitan Rallroad from Wasbiugton Clty to the Polnt of Rooks wae complotod. Proeident Garrott, in his roport to the Directors, at tho Ootobor meoting, statos that tho grading from Oontortgn, on tho Lako Erio Division of tho Baltimore, Pitisburgh & Obloago Railroud, will bo completed through Obio and Indiana to within 80 milea of Ohicago by the closo of No- vembor, 1878; that tho track will bolaid and the rond ballnstod s fur Wost as Doshler, at which point temporary conneotion will bo hnd with the Dayton & Miohigan Railrond, A Jarge businoss is oxpocted whon tho route ia comploted to Chlcago, and large ox- ponditures have been made aloug tho line for sdditfonnl tracke and improvoments, to assuro prompt movement, o also oalla attention to thio faob that tho lno of two stoamera to Europs from Baltunoro, established in 1808, in view of the limitod Wostorn connootion, hisa now in- oreased to six stonmors, in addition to tho Allan lino of stosmora to Liverpool, When tho rosd to Chlengo sbwll bo somplotod, tho distances by rail from Ohicago to Daltimore and New York, by ttio sovoral routos, will bo as follows : From Chicago to Ballimoro, 705 milon ; to New York, by the Contral, 080 miles; by tho Erle, 961 miles; by tho Ponnsylvanin, 899 miles, Tho financial indepondonco of the Baltimoro & Ohilo Railroad ; tho fack that its capltal stock is not watored, ond thot ita dobt is annually diminishing, whilo ts surplus capital is Increas- ing ; that it is paying ita way, and dividing 10 por cont cash nnnually, will enable it, a5 soon ae its road is completod to this city, tooffor ratos of travsportation which will bo tho same at all soasons, and in no wise dopendent on the action of tho othor trunk roads. Tho offect of this will unquestionably be to diroctto Daltimoro a large amount of tho trado nowcarried ovor othor rosds to Now York. At Baltimoro thoro are olovators and ail the moans for an expeditious transfer of grain to foréign stoamers, or to tho 'ves- gols ongaged in tuo cossiwiso trade, It las been discoverod that it is impos~ siblo to dlscharge moro than 50D oars of graln in New York in a day, and {t {8 thon put into bargos and hiauled about tho harbor. Itls poeaiblo that, in addition to o ghorter routo, re- ducod rates of tranaportation, and modorn im- provements for handling graln, Baltimore will ‘o a formidablo compotitor with New York for the trado of Ohlcago, not only in breadatuffs, but in pork, beof, Iard, and othor provisions. . Tho great advantage the Daltimors & Ohio Rallroad ns ovor its rivals is, that, whils it hias to pay dividends of 10 por cont on only $16,000,~ 000 0f stook, and 8 por cont on 10,000,000 of dobt, tho othors havo cach to pay interost and dividonds on an aversge of fivo times tlat amount ; 80 that it can nfford to do its trans- portation at greatly roduced rates, and make large profits, whilo thoy caunot roduce rates oxcept at o loss. b — The recent donth of the Yamous navigator, Tobert MoCluro, bas revived tho quostion of the discovory of the Northwost Passago, ‘The obitu- ary notices which woro published in the English nowspapors very genorally conceded the honor of tho diacovery to McOlaro, Lady Franklin thoreupon olsimed tho honor for hor husband, John Philip Gell, & rocognized authority, sup- ported her claim, while Bir Aloxsndor Armstrong, anothor authority, took the fold for McOluro. Morris Desutort, the noxt to entor tholists, urges that the honor bolongs to both., Ho says: #Tho goographical problom to_ sottlo which many expoditions had beon sont from this coun~ try was, whothor or not thore was continuous sen from tho Atlantio to the Pacific to, tho north of the Continont of America, That was the long-sought Northwest Passnge ; and, stated conolsoly, the solution of tho two con- flicting claims is simply this: Bir J. Fragklin discovored tho Northwest Passage in 1848; snd rathor more than two yoars later Bir R. MoCluro mado tho passage by another routo. Inasmuoch, thon, ns 8ir J. Franklin had s priority of two yoars, it was ho who solved the problem~he was the discoveror of tho Northwest Pagsage,” The bulk of tho tostimony goea to show that tho dis- covery waamade by both, although Franklin’s was unquestionably prior to McOlure's, The honor, theroforo, will be sharod by both. After tho important and usoful lesson which Tieod's conviction should teach all politioal cor- ruptionists, the mont valuable feature of the vordiot in his cago is that jury msy yot bo im- prneled that combines the intelligenco and hon-~ eaty to award justico, even where an array of {al- ent and & glamor of gold are employed to thwarb it. T'weod was dofended by as. ablo counselas {nfluence and money cowtd command, aud it I8 protty cortain that no logal dovice was lefé un- triod to securo the groat criminal's acquittal. Tweed had money onough to have bought a hun- drod dishongst juries. Ho is currontly belioved t0 have been worth several milliona of dollars; and all his millions would unquestionably have baen yielded up to socure porsonsl freedom for tho doclining. yoars of his life. One juryman would have beon sufficiont to secure a disagroo- ment, which was all Tweed noeded, In nob so- aouring the partisanship of & single member of tho jury before which ho was tried, Tweed has dono somo servico to his country by demonatrat- ing that juries cannot always be bought. The vordict will do much to rovivo confldence in fury trisls, which had cortainly fallou into disroputo in many of ko best communitics of this coun- by, ELEMENTS OF PERSONAL POWER, Dr. J. G. IRollanad’s Lecture Last Evons ing nt the Union FPark Congrogos tional Chrurch. Dr. J. G. Holland, botter known to tho world porkiaps by Lis nom do plume ‘¢ Timothy Tit- comb,” dalivered tho seaond of tho Union Park coursn of lectures in the Union Park Congroga- tional Church, last ovening, beforo a large audionco, Tho looturor hnd choson ‘*Tho Tloments of Porsoual Power " aa his subject, which he troated in a manner pesuliarly his own, carrying his lstenors, before thoy wero well swaro of the fact, deep into psychological prob- loms of striking originality, and enunclated in lauguage quite freo from that which usually makes the results of philosophical research, as get forth by philosophors, tho driest kind of roading and talking. Ho reforred to tho love of powor, and said that whon it takes hold of » man it becomes ambition. Tlo showed tho difforent forms in which love of powor showa itself in difforent poople, Low in tho oxquisite it is made known in n desiro to bo finely appareled; in_tho wealthy man ihe pos- sousion of riches, in tho oatentatiously benovo- lont man in tho desire to have Lia acts known abroad. Some men ghow thelr power by over pushing othior men forwerd, often by keeping othor mon bacl; buc all aro moved by the ouo motive, luve of powor, Ho considered the firab olomont of power to bo honesty, and said that at » timo whan fraud rolls in obariots, and theft sits in tho highost places, it is hard to bellovo that suck ia tho case, but adduced tho failure of tho Now York Ring os a proof that, soonor or Iator, all power based upon dishonesty must fail, Abgolute moral and intellectual honosty is tho only baais upon which porsonal powor ean stand. Tho Jocturer drow o vivid comparison botweon tho brilliant Douglas and the. plaln but honost Lincoln, and &tated that notwithstanding the apparent difforonce of power botwaen tho two men, the momory of tho formor will survive meroly bocauso il will bo sagociated with tho namo of the Iatter. Many a noblonook Lias boon bowed to the payty yoko for the eako of powor, but no one who Las dono o hia ovor In tho oud succeoded, Tho socond eloment of porsonal poweria tho will, It honesty furnishes {ho soil for the tree of porsousl powor, the will is tho gap which onlivous it, Tho strong, {fudomitable will which gave birth to tho oxprossed intention 14 to fight it out on this Jine (fi; M:en all sum- i socrob of all Grant'a sucocasos ,(l:g:n 5’: buull?mlng, and of the strength of his presont poxfum poeition, which, the leoturer obsorved, onubles Lim to ‘pluck his own bays or drive Llia own bu " Just ad. ho ploasos, In tho world tho wesk- willed man gives way to him of strong will just 08 pooplo got out of the way of & loco- motive, Tn families it iathoatrongent will which rulnnfi ond in overy form or organlzation of socloty it 1s_tho strong-milled man who oithor controls or haa to bo conolllatad or overcomo, How far thia cloment of powor may bo cultivated is hard to pay, Probably thoso poesossed swith wosk minda will not bo ablo o sirongthon thom toany oxtent, and mnny peoplelabor undor thedo- lusion that thoy are poascased of strongwilla, the fact being that thoy are troublod with the undo- sirablo qunlity of willfulnoss, Tho third olomont of potaoual powor touched upon by tha lesturer wag eelf-possosaton. Ho eaid it was astonishin, Low Joogely somo mon carry thomaolves around, —how littio mastory they havo ovor thomsolvos, thelr powors, and their” passlons. Evory man ought to have s comploto inventory of nimself, of lfs ovory availablo mental aud moral resourao, and of his tvoaknogsos, Ro as at all times to Lold himsolf thoroughly in band. 'Co bo thus intel- lcctually rolf-possesscd is ossontial to tho pos- sossion of_power. ‘Lho sponker roferred to tho Emporor Willlam a8 5 man tho sacret of whoso atrength lay in his solf-powor and his command over his passiona, Tho fourth oloment of power is courngo, then which quality no othor gains more respoct or admiration. All mon bow to tho horo, Whother the courago is shown in the confronting of death in tho do- fonso of & friend or Prinul le, ‘it compols re- spect. Evon orimo itsolf Lias boon flvrlfled Dy ita association with couragoous doods. Unselflsh- ness {gan eloment of courage, Tho msu who saorlficos all to duty Is the truo horo whom wo all honor and wummr. ‘Tho manwho dares de- nounce wickednoss in allits forme {s tho man whom both good and bad reepect. The leoturer donounced tho evils of intomporanco, and asked why it s that tho orimo ia hardly over alluded to {n American pulpits or in tho American presa. Another oloment of powor 18 what, for lnckof & better namo, people call mufnounm, tho goaret, indofinable power possessed by somo poople 0 attractothors, Bythis gitt mon of attainmentanot much above tho ordinary attaln more power than others who aro in ovory othor way their su= poriors. Thoe locturer alluded to Honry Olay as a wondorful oxamplo of & man Jonecaning this flunlfly in a high degroo. in hia lifotime his ightost acts woro of moro account than the grontest efforta of other men, Ills simple *‘ayo” or “no" in tho halla of logislation often carried moro weight than the oloquouce of men whoro_words aro ovon now read with ploasure. o had hoard of a proacher who posacesod this powor to such an oxtont that ho could reduce hia ‘congrogation to teara by the mannor in which ne propounced * Mesopotamin,” 'Thia _quality ‘makes what is not wit to soem wit, what is not Lrillisut to seom brilliant, Tho lecturo touchod upon knowlodgo, oxpression, oarnostness and outhusiasm, character and faith, all all-cssential elamenta of powar, snd clood lis yory dlonuent locture with o brilliant pororation which tho audls ence listened to with breathloess appreciation. WASHINGTON. The Contest for the Offico of Sergeant. at=-Arms in the Klouse of Reprosentie tives—0D. W, Munn’s Chances Xms= proving—Tho Disappointed Bidders for the Grave-Stenc Contract to Wors ry the Secretary of war, & Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, - DAN MUNN FOR SERGEANT-AT-ARMS. ‘Whsmsatox, Nov. 24,—The contéet for the fmportant offico of Borgeant-at-Arms of tho Hougo of Reprosontatives waxes warm, and tha spprently diminishing chances of Ordway givo vivacity sto thed mattor. Munn, Suporvisor of Internal Royenus in Illinois, is said to bo Gon. Logaw's candidate, sud is o foature of Logan's programmeo for tho Presidential nomination. Amonjst the FLOATING OHATOES AGATNST ORDWAY is one that ho collectod the incomo-tax againsi official salaries for & Iong period, somo say twe .yenrs, and, although Lo fiunlly returned it, had he use of the amount cavered b§ the tax for that poriod. Ordway has elipped through twico, howevor, whon chargos of equal gravity woro_mado ngainst him, aad fraquent Victory bas given bim smagor and doflanca. Ha now throatens to punish all the tolograph corre- spondents wlio do not abet his cause. SPEARER DLAINE arrived lnst Baturday morning. Very fow wera awaro of bis qrnuenco in the ecity, and ho bag kopt himselt close to his room. Mo appoars ta o vory busily ongaged, aad only & fo intimate frionds have boen pormitted Lo soo him. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Tha Preaident hna completed his message, save tho part to bo dovoted to the Bpanish com- glluuons, which will be made up Fridey or aturday. A GRAVESTONE CONTROVERSY. The numerous fllaap];olntud bidders for cons tracts for furnisbing Leadstonos to demignate tho graves of roldiors of the lnte war will prob ablyshow thoir dissntisfaction toward the Secro- tary of War by iustigating an_assault upon {hat ofiiclal, through tho agency of somo member of Congresg. The marblofrom tho quarriesnear 8t Louis, and also from Quincyyand nenr Knoxvitlo, e aredd to bo of superior quality, but did naot meot the requiremonts of the case in the matter of headstoncs, for tho reason that - it 8 not white’—in fact s far from ‘white. Horaco Maynard, Baying tho interests of his conatituents at hoart, endeavored to securo the contract for his Xnox- ville townsmon, aud may possibly take o hand in any fight that may bo mado upon the Seoretary of War on tho above account. THE NEW LOAY, Offloial roports from the Europoan Syndicata aro to the offoct that tho Lusiness of placiug tha now United States b per cent bonds has been Drisker, aud the closing up of subscriptions Liaa Dbeon more rapid and satisfactory sinco the finan- cinl panie in this country began than prior ta that timo. [To the Assaciated Press.] SUPRESIT: COURT DEOISION IN A COTTON GASE. WasHIaToN, Nov. 24—In tho case of the United States' against Lapioro and othors, the Supreme Court to-dny docided that whore a atty advanced funds to tho firm in Now Orloans, ?0 boused by thoir agont in the iuterior in tho purchaso_of cotton prior to tho capturo of tha Sity, 11802, ol partics being thon in Now Orlosus, ang'tno city was cnptured by the Federal forcos Tofaro thocotton was purchased with funds o ad- vanced, tho sgent Loying gouo iuto tho intorlor Fior to the capture, his ngonoy to- purchaso cot- on was terminatad l!{ the Lostile position of his principuls towards tho cottou-ownors, comsar Suent upon the capturo, and thab a_pnrchaso of cotlon nfterwards was an effectual md to tho en- omy, and was forbidden by tho soundcst prinei- plos'of publio law, 'The ‘purchnger therefore ob- tained no titlo to tho cotton, and bad no elaim agelnst the Government forits capture. MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY. prlafiis il Tho ¥Moemcoprths? Case Against tho Tegents to Engorce the Appeintmont ‘of Two Profoasors of Their Schools Special Dispateh to Tho Chieago Tribune, Dernorr, Mich,, Nov. 24.—The application ot tho homeopaths for mendamus.to compel the Rogeuts to appoint two Profossors of their school in tho Stato University, in accordance with o Iow pessed last winter, cama up before Judgo. Crano at Ann Arbor to-day, sud the couneol for tho Rogents fled tholr anewor. It cloims that tho Circuit Court Tian 10 Jurisdiotion in the matter, and also tukos tho ground that the Constitution gives the Re. ontu absoluto control of tho institation, and lLint the Logislaturo lns no 'rl;i\‘ab to interforo. {The date for the argament of tho cano was final= iy fizad ns Dec. 1. Among_counsol who will appoar ara Ex-Gov. Folel, ox-Judges Tawronce an1 0. J. Walkar, and D, Darwin Hughos. MEMPHIS. The Oicilla Qontidenco Cnsc-=Chnima bor of Commerco BloetionsCity Pol= itics. Mgarenus, Tonn,, Nov. 24—A demurrer was filod in the Socond Girouit_Court, to-day, by tho City Attornay in tho Ciollin caso, taking tho ground thet the Oourt had no jurisdiction in the caso, Argument will bo heard noxt JMonday. Jobn B. Poofo was olected Socrotary of the Ohawmber of Gommorco to-day. Mr. John Kyl brought iho pnssongors of the sunken steamer Alnsla to this city. Iior oflicora % tho boat lying straight and cnay, ”X"fugo and cn{lmainutlu mnsa-meui!ng of clti~ zous, irrospectivo of }mrty, held at the Opera- Tronto to-night to nominato a People's eavdidate for Mayor at the January election. Maj. J.J. Busby, Alderman of tho Sovonth Ward, and iato Chairman of tho Oitizony’ Reliof Commitice during tho yellow fover opidemic, was nominated. Tia principal opponont is Jokn Gverton, Jr. prlomiste sichomiab FOR MAYOR OF DES MOIMES. * reial Dignateh to The Chicago Tribung. Des MoNES, Ia., Nov, 24—Dr, . G. English was presontod a potition this oyeniug, signed by over 100 oitizens, ruqnosnnfi him to beoome a coandidato for Mayor. o will acoept, * —_——— SUICIDE. Onryenng, Wyo,, Nov. 3.—Tiout, J. R, Voitonhumer, Fourth United Btatos Inlnntfi'. committed suiolde at Fort D. A, Nussell, tile eveuning, shaoting himsolf through the heart Causo, montal doprossion, rosuiting from ilinosy e leavon a wifo and two obiidron,