Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1873, Page 5

‘ TIIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1873 PERTEET. icross {ho fluor, would oce: nally otop In front of | that Perteot mentions hia wife but onee, e met her THE GBANGERSI ‘Weronor Harveater Machino Company, buylng the GEN. 0. 0‘ HOWARD. I (Continued from tl.e First Page,) [apcrs. provanted o renpltn Uolng granded to_ i, Whatuver might have Loen tho fucts, there wero ox- tenuating circuustincos i his uwn care, which bo hud Rot liud a0 opportunity (o briug out vn "sither of Lis 0., OALOULATION OF PROBATILITIES Todld nat sny, I cut my wiies tirond, Eematl, X onu very giilty mon,” fs tantamount to n confeswlon, nud the sippiomentul statemunt— T would diavo een Wilidng (0 Juvo gouu to tho Lonitentlary for bifu P—adds welgt to it From bis fumiltarity “with tho names of murderers arrertod before und pince bis rinl, and tholr sentetices, 1t wonld scom that ho hind conily calculated iy chano:a for lifo or deatli, iy covelunions Il b Lo belfove that thero wore mova chancew it favor of wm\l sery fude, und that (bis wonld uzdoubtodly bo Lie punishe wcat for Liliing his wifo, OHIC* A0 ¥RIENDS, The Rev. Mr, Snnle, « Mothodiat ozhorter, who ind Secome ucquainted with Forteol i the Coult Gounty fall, arrivod lLiczo on the night train, lu compuny Kith 1, D, Riug, aloo of Oldeago, They went fiumnce Atately to (Lo prfson, and wero prosent whilo tho cone fesslon, mubutantfu:ly givon above, wae mude, Mr, Bmalo foft tho Sail at 3 oelock, Mr, King romatniug all night fu the building, to vomfort Dertedt should lio bocowo reatiuss aud ible to slcep. 151 DNEADA DIRNECTION, Befora going ho van requested by Porteet o take eliargo of the nody after (b cxeeitfon, iud havo it burtad, Ho did not want his romuins o lo taken to Coul: Gonnty, sud exprossed th whiht tint everything possiblo ehould bo douo to provent the phyaiolany gettiug old of bis corpac, A BALEY BLEER. Tho condemned wan went to bed at fivo minutes adter 3 o'elock, Lidig nlono onco mure with his guord, Abouit an hou? ufterwurds lio wout for Mr, Smajo und requested bl fo remnin ali night fu the room, which Bojitl, aie. Smalo fn g very il e genflonunn s proyod euruestly for Lerlpet- saivation sovoraf mes, Dut the THE DILL Op panE, After o rofvoshiig wleop, Kerteol atove at § o'clock hbe norning, und ulo threo tggs aud weveral plecos of tosstsnd drink & cun of codoe, 1o wis ealm sud eolleetwd, uud saluled several ‘visltory with cheerful ox- clamatiods, AMOT ADOUT TIII: CONPESSION, At hialf-past 8 o'clock the Shodt’s sister had o long ‘tallc with Purtect und osked Liny i ho was guhity, Ho said bo would coufess fo her, If b did to nuyboily,and pro.oaded to tell her what s Ueen glvon ot ledyth Bbove. When Lo conclud @, sho inquired why be Lad jroterted his Inunocence, und he roplicd, “Why will men do nuny things?” o #ald further, that s davghter hud'tuld scue ihings which were trae, und others which wero not; thut i Lo committod tho crime, b did not know when he did It. Mo alko fold hor thut ha hxd added samothing to tic dacument which wad to be roud ufter Lis death, Ppro:aising to hund it to her nboul wuon, Wacn tun young lady left tho raons, Mr, Follows, o attormcy, wan idmitled, mnd_remaized sowe tmo, Tho rumor thut Terteet had mude n confersfon was provulunt on tiie sireot, and Atr, Tellows, who funag- ueid lio wa In Lerteets confidence, arked him i it Fero true, Tio dented baving mada a cosfession, and Tebyws told Lim thit, wder the cireumstunces, ho bhould nut confess oxcept what wus frue, as it might dnteriero with a commutation or_extemjon of tiwe, Por:cot agsin infsted (hut Lo bind not ucknowledged hisquilt,” % 'Thve nifyht bo samno hope,” said Mr, Fellowe, * No," rejoined Portcet, 1 o lost ull con- fidoaeo i humanity, Bome who conic (o sco mo tuk 23 me ua If I way mado of Iron, othors think me brass, aud tho renisinder iwigino niy body 18 u log of bnss: woud, Tuo Bev, Mr. McLeod entered {ho jafl atout o'clock (16 morntag, und prayod gain with biw, Lo Wak very much affected, sud "whbed Litterly, appear- dny to fubly reallzo thut ho bud Lutw fow hours morg fo tye. Mr. MeLood kpoko to him kindly, nad safd “You luve ot got lung to livy Mr, Porteot ; have F0u nihing to say? ¥ iz vepbed, “Iamavery gullty mun; I denerve to fe iwanged,” and burat into tears, icpeating irequently, ST dma very gullty i, AN AGRECAULE SUGUESTION, Buporvisor Wuod, who wad ulso Lresont, suggestod thit o tolegr: 1 bosent to tho Governor askiug o re- nplto. Toricet straighiencd up dumm ppeaed wids his cyo.ids, and remar es, 1 badn't thought of that; T'am net propered o dj,” Mo becumo Very £ad, and sid ho was Aorey ha had uade tho aflldavis in which heswore ho wus fnnocent 3 o Liad doue 3t at the solicitution, sud by tho advice of ¥ the lawyors wud frlends,” A reapite would givo him fim3 to prepare to meot God, and bio dictated the fol- lowing dispaten : AE owss pr, To His Ezzellency, J, L. liceeridyge : Will your Excellency urant mo'w resrito for one weok? T am not yreparad to dio, . for iy soul's sake and for Christ's eake graut mo this oaruest request, Through tho flutteriug hopos of niy counsel, T wis ul~ moat siira of u commutation, wul Lieuce I pit off my, duty to wad and to my own soul, unzil slnot 10 late, Tfcelthur 1 cannot ‘dic. Let mu Iivo o'y one woek fongor, sud o poor gailty sinner, who_ conifesses his eritues, will nover forget you, May God bicss your Excellency | A, J. Prnreer? T'o this the Rov, Mr, McLeod and 3ir, Smale sdded ; “‘Wo earnestly unite with tho prisoncr in nskin) from your Excelleucy a respite of one week, o fe that tho ends of Justica will not suffer therchy, For hls poor soul's sukie grant 1his enrnest request, ll'“cidhpllch was kent to Springlield at Lalf-past 9 o'clock, AUTOGRAPIL IUNTER: Soveral persons verv uiik bequent bita 5o0d-bye, i three oF fou beg them bis sutograph, which e wid, “The gunrds who Had watehed Litn sll night, wero ro- H3vod at 10 o'clock, and whon the fresh” relfef camo into tho room, Perteot looked ot them aud rald: “T weald that you could send soma veifef to me, "Tho Sherif’s sister visited him ut o quarter ofter 10 o’clock, and be requested her to write to his eiator, who lives iu Tuscaloosa, Alu,, after Lis death, informing ber of all that hud taken place, Sho pronised to do 0, and fuquired if ho Lad anything clse e wihed ate tenidud to, * His amawer wes stmply © No,” THEY WANT T0 BEE TILE GAL Nothing specini occurred fre o'clocls, Peopla were coustuntly pa sing in nnd ont of the jufl, all anxious to eeca Pertcet, Lul only a small uaiber succeeded n gratifying their curlority, The Shert bad yiclded $o tha importunitics of Lis tricads Thursday afternoon, und thrown open the Jull doora d allowed thoee who wished to sco tho gallows to do . Tho_elder Arnold bowed them inta tho dininge room where the execntion was to lake place, and tho Shierlts himself kindly oxperimented with' o bag of sund, to prove that the arraugements wera porfect and felhure was fmnpossible. On Chursday ho camo to {ho ccn-usion that five sand-bags, throuyh whose agency Porteet wan to Liavo Leou elevated, Were not heavy enougli, and another bag wuu addod, making. e welgut ut the end of the rope ahout 600 pounds, THE silLoU, Thoshroud which wes o huve enveloped Perteot while bausringe 2 bronght to tho jafl by tho person who mude St at Lalf-past’ 10 o%clo.k. It fs mado of sk, witl s cowl, wed rimilur to the one which hid b £ d form of Driver when ho wus hung in “hicago, ermitted to bid ged him to give THT REAPITE cOMEI, AL 8fty-five minules ufter 10 o'clock the followlng telegrani wus hunded $0 the Sheriff 3 “BrMNGrIELD, Dac, 12, Sherty Will County : Suspend the oxccution of Andrew J. week, Will send order to-night, saipt of this, L. Bev HOW BIL IO uE 11t ‘The SLerit! went over to the tel knowledge the recelpt of the dispuich, teiling hisjuister betore guing, to Inform DPertect of the good news, She wscundud, Wit alaerity, the sleps Jowding (o the deble s’ cartment, and entored Porteol's Toom solnewlist gitated, 1o ooked ut Lier with tho helf open mouth, ind glaring eyes of expectncy und surprise, tud ox Hadmed : * ok the Lord ; thauk the Lord " wiien she lold B thiero was liope'of & rospite, . T 11t: o0 17, Mr, Arnold returued in u fow moinents, and took tho dlspatcis [rom fho envolope, Hin wovements wore wloneiy wittehied Ly Perteet, who got up from the bed o whieh be bud Lot sittiug, and wp) ronched him, The Buerl’ begun reading, aud bud gotton os far ua Hpusiend the oxecution,” wheu Periet's legs begar to tremble, nnd le, o second aftorwerds, gl to the floor in o fuinting fit, In falling his burls form strurk ouo of tho guurds and simoat (hvew bim down, Teara camo to tho eyes of tho young ludy, und shie rushed out of the room 'to got souis water und camphor, Perloat's faco becania very palo, and Lo Legun to grumt und gronn, Waler wik dashed fm10 his fuce und” tamphor #ppeded 10 Lis nos- trily, und fu ive ndnutes he Legan to 10cover, o waa Fabicd to o vitting posture by oo of tho guurds, whom bo &elzod uround tho nevk und hugged s bt 8 o bear would its vietim, DPliced on the bed in o recums bong position, be was kuon ably {0 it up uud look araund lium, ' Ho did not. geemn ut fiest to hmow whit had taken e, )ulllnfi his eyes uround aud lvoking a8 {f neupable of thouyht, A bulf tnmbier fwl ¢t brundy, admiuistered p table- 8poon fu) ut 4 thue, completely revived bbm, and mover was tiere o Luppior wau thun Androw .’ Pore feot at that mument, ‘The shock must Lave been terriblo, e had ‘madn 1p bis mind thiat therd Was 10 ccupo frum deatly aug 0 Jen n thut i rerpite bud Leen grunted wus too much for oue i bis condition 10 lenrs Tho di.patels was read 1o i when e was himeelf squin, aud Lo excluinied, % Glovy] glors | Glory tq God," CONORATULATIONS, he fuct that tho Governur bad reapited him soon becatne known in tho Jail, and & scoro of propls who dind becn Joulang at tho seatTold nud wandoriug about $ls building, went up to Porteat’™ roum to couygratu- late bini, ilo received them uindly, sud sdd @ (he mows wus unexreoted, nud that ho wus “ prepired to dlo” 1fe had *forgiven vverybody, snd hopud every ono would forgive it us Srecly uw o forgave (kam, At luterval Lo would suddenly ceaxo “talking, oud, holiing bis bandu to hiw beud, mentally offer up o proyer, Luter In tho day Portect receivod a telegram from o r, MeDonald, of Lockyort, who congratulsted Lini upon Liv lomporury ercupe from tho gallows, und ase sured Lim that & potent influsucy - would b6 used to Lriug ubout & chistige of hly wtunce 10 dwprisonmont for Litv, OLEWIOAL REJOICING! Mr, Bmale wis scerdingiy woll ploased at the result of thuuppenl, wnd prayed uloud for womo time, |k tngr Gund fo saving " our dewr Drothor, " und. shouting #Glory to God, our brathier fs free," Tisa peisonord hvard of the rospite, aud_wero very glad 1t Liad boeu aceorded, They all like Porieot, and somo linve shown thair estecm for Lin in a pocullar When tho lumber for tha seartold was brought upfrom the cellar, tho Bheritf requested bulf & dogen who Woru Wil about Lo cortidure to atkine ity fa erccting tho gibbut, Thoy refusad, and went Into thelr celia_ wid 1enwitied hero until thoy heard the carpeu Lokw ut work, FOPULAR INTEREST, As onrly s 7 u\luck this morning, slthough the time fxed for the exceution w nu.?-nn[.m Tegan touswemble on tho uidewalk fu frout'of the jull, A fuvorita postifon wua on Washingtun sirect, wavnucy o window of tho Toom Ju which Perieet wuu cone Anea could b veen, The crowd lookod toward the Viudow constunt'y, and were regalrd once in & whils 2y the sight of cuv of the guurds, who, lu walkiug the window aud look out, Withont doubt many thoughit him tho murdorer,’ Tho fuct that & reapito Bad preciudod any oxocitfon, dud o upprent effect ou, msny of them, A fow walkod off tn clreti- Iato the tiews, while & coro or moro renmined fa thelr #Booured” positions 441l after 2 o'eiock, « A MODEL INVITATION, When Trs THIUNE reporter wis loaving tho ol and abont to go down tho front stops, & Well-drened wan sppronciied, ud, handing hind tho folowlog #1uyitation,” passod througli the open door 2 “OFEIGN OF Ti: Biikirs, Witt, Counry, Dev, 10, e, : Tu ncoordanco with ts hww mado aud provided fu such cages, I fnvito you to bo prenent at thio oxocution. of Audrow J, Perteot, on Friiay, Dec, 1, Qro, M, AnnoLp, Rhunir," “Cho gentloman hnd ovidontiy ‘mistulen the reporter for tho door-koaper, atd o uvitation was retultiod for publication,” 1¢'1s corloinly unique, sud deserviuy of presorvation, “Clho Bmplo roply of © All right " was mudo by Gov. Dovoridga st unswor 1o tho Sheril 'a aoknowlodgnront, Tho Intter was thou entlsfled that (ko firat dispoteli emunated from 1o source whoneo it purported fo coie, uud abandoned whitever suspiclons Lo onter tulncd of o triok, PUBLIO SENTIMENT, When tha peoplo geuurally licard of tho reapite, thoy of cotran commented upon it, sl oxprossions of sul— iefaction wore us frequont s 'thuso of regret, Amoug tho better clusy of peopla tho nction of tho Goveruor f commendzd, though may others think, inosnich oy Pertoet luid wndo up biw mind thnt destls could uot bo avoided, It would linve een wnoro_ erelful to havo permitied filv oxcoution 1o takio piaco t the appoluted tune, 1o Will buve to pass through o similer * Lsi night,” and sulanit to the agony eugotnlered by lnst sdionx, sl wore firmly chug to the hope of ultle muto commutation of nis sontence. TRESSOLIE ON TUE GOVERNOL, The bollef of n fow Is that Pertost wiil tiob be hung, A vowerful {utivenco witl bo brought to bear upon the Governor duting tho ensubig weok, and it rowaius to bo scen whether ho wlil yiold Lo §is Importunities, The precedont eatubifalied by the grauttng of thy reaplio in consldered buneful, and the Uovernor's nction n this cano will undoubtedly cuuse ovlier murdorers to muke thu eumo plen to sccura o longer time 1o proparo to aweet Goil.” TN COLORED PEOPLE 1NDIGNANT Tio negroea liero are very inalguunt, boeausa tio Blizrdif would ot allow thetn o Vislt Yerteet, s jiro- vido Ll occasionully. with some palatabio urilele of food, Tihe Sheflif = Luows (bey sympntbized with thoir” “brothor,” und fours tuey would couvoy to Iiw i dusu of joison or furntaht i a tazor and thus cbeat the Iaw of it vie- i, Tho colored poople dikclim uny such dostn, sl vent their uuger by deinfling oxtracts from tho private history of tho Sheriils failier, Wi wea par- ticulurly oflicfous aud obuoxivus to ulmost svoryoue, white uw well uy colored, ERTERT'S JLINE, After_conntderabie diileuiiy T have pathered muf- fieient Inforation to kend you w Lisgraphical sketeh of lurteet, from g birthto tho thue of lisariest, omittiug Lis fawmily troubics, an they bave already Leen adverted to {n Ty TuisyNe, Tho fuoty upon which ft i8 bisod wero uufuly prosured from o pris- ouor in the Couuty Jail Licre, who has ucted oy Por- teeu's umanueusts, und Joarnod what ho gave me from Yericat’s own lips, Tho uccount iy contuin some i aceuracies, but it in belfeved to be eorrect, Audrew J, Perteet, or Lapetite, as the namo wae orlgiually epelled, Was boru in’ Monticello, Jusper Couaty, Georgia, vn the 27th of Septewber, 1814, 1lis father wag while nud Lis nother coloved. | Whes very g his purents left Moutfcelto, moving o - ook, Aln., where Lie sttenucd kchool for a short timo and learued to read und write, studylng nothing clse, 1le wus subsequently apprenticed toa Dlacksintty, but finding that aig constitution wia not vigorous ououglh fo do the woik {mpoecd upon bim, ho forscok thy Deliows snd auvil aud adopted the trade of brickluyer and plasterer, working v §t, howover, but o rhiort time, Hiy nest advancement or recession, was to en- list in the United States Navy, Ilo rewmiiied fu the service about five years, sceing much of the world, avd upon his selurn Lowme, wovured n situation n deck-hand ou a steamboat, 1t followod steamboating suveral voars, working ot lfs trade of belcklaying 1t tho winker, and os deck-bond durlug tho summer. - 1o wus_cmploged on buats which ran- up aud down tho Black Warrdur, Alabuma, Red, Teunessor, Obio, and bLigslselpyd Livers, and was woll nequainted wlony tho slhiores of Lalke Ponchartrali, He fillud, s ho clabiie, ull positions, from deck-land to cuok, and from stewnrd fo Caj budn, At one ime he was third clerl on one of the Inrgest Ilselsolppl paincs scamors, and bud charge of, Uiy dellvery 8t aking on of frelght at the vulons landinge, IS CABERE IN ILLISOIS, In 1851 e left the South rud cuwe to Illinols, sot- tling ut Springflcld, A great deal of projudico oxisted uguinat colored people therezt that titne, nud when ho atiemptod to work. ut bricklaying or plastoring thy otiser hands would sirilke, and lis. Qlacburgo followed as u connoquence, Ouce 'ho papored a robn, und did 1t s0 satiefuctortly that Lo decided {o turn his attention to paper-auging, He becutaa very oxpert, and was fn greut request for a long time, Iy left Byrivgfleld in 1854 aud settled at Ducatur, whero Lo romatiud ono year. Thenco lis went_to 'Bloomington, and nubse- quently lo Atlanta, Logau County, whoro hio lived uutil the brumk!hf out of the “War, earning n livelibood Ly neiing o8 barber, Loaving there, Lie went to Galesbury d stayed two yosrs, Iloro ho oulivtedin the Twenty-fourth Minsuchuscits Colored Troops, Col, Jobn M. Laugston, sud was afterwards {rausferred (o o TenisuinthvUiiuole (rolorad), pma dotuiled a8 Rocruiting Sorgeant fn Chiengo, Whilo ucting fn this capacity 11 1864, bo foll aver o curbstono und broke hils knoe-cays, which aceldent crippled Lim for life, How orwhen ho lot tha army he did not stule, ‘Tho uext hieard of hin was us a Gond Tomplar, into which Ordor Lo was initisted in 1867, ond i holding tho oftico of W. C. T. fn Hope of tho Weat Lodge, Ho waa appointed Stale Doputy under G, W, 0. T. Carr, and orgaulzed several lodyes in different parta of tho State, For two yours and three months Lho wag Surerinteud- eut of a Chicago Sunduy-echocl, aud aubsequently was altoruately bad and good, distharging bis dulies nt chureh and visiting the lowe: places on State atreot, aud mingling with the vitest acters as an oyual, 1IS SUPLLSITITON, o was superlatively sug.erstitious, like nearly all of tho colored race, sud ruw au ominous sizn, good or Lad, du nearly 'evorything, If o Lread of wind funued Lis face, ho Lolieved It 1o bo & spirit, Tho ghost — of Chase, who was hung 1n Joifot Juil fn 1866, I8 eald to bannt the place, and mule frequent visite to the prisoncrs in thelr cells, Pertcet wvors thiat Chaso visited Lim one night, and ho saw Lfm distinetly, - IMF AERS T8 WIPE, Last epring Lo told Turukey Kiunoy tunt bis wifo bad appesred to Lim, approached s lodudde, und taiked pleasantly 10 him, Ho told otbers fu thy Jadl tha ssme slory, uddiug that #ho orten vielted him While e wa Lt (ho County Juf} fu Chicago, Ho had n dread of belng Jumyed or stepped over whilosittiug up or Iyings doww, counidering it u bad omen, nud warnod thio prisonors ok to witempt 1t under pain of Lis dik- pleasure, JUMNPED OVER, * One day a little boy, who biad Leen srrested for potty lorecny, Jumped over Porteot, whilo ho was sltting on tho fran btegs which lead to” tho top tor of colls, - Ho burenme furious, and fald it wal all up” with him now, and thut the boy wuat die ; o ind done what ko would nob permit Wi Wit to do winlo Living, Gotting L8 rubber cane, tho Landlo of which was joaded, b Tin after the lud, and would imdoabiedly huve Ledien bis brajun out, had uot tho othor prisoncra interfored aud restralued Lim, ANOTHER DANIFL, Mo bolloved implicitly fu_dieams, and would somo- times relate then to thoso who axaetbled nround him, and interprot them for their benetit, Directly ufty bis first triut in Chicago, he drewmod Uit he saw & unalke, und thut somo oue, whom ho could mot seo, began to ekfn it, After the operation was completed, the serpent slowly rose und stood on {ts tail, Sud- donly 115 head diwnppeired, and was roplaced wilh the “bland fuco and Nght-colored moustache of Cuurley H, Hoed, State’s Attornoy of Cook Caunty.” Ax the Llideous anfmal stood gaping at him, the countonancy of Reod bermmo distorted, and, suddeuly, the suake fell to tho floor, ne if its Lack-bouo Lad heen brokes, aud broke Iuto pleces, From this lutter cireutmslunce Do wae convinced that Mr, Recd would bo dofoated jn his oftorts to prevent a trist boing granted, Ho wus right, but the veault wus not nstouishing, ss new $ifalk uro cusy to huve until tha puticnce of the Judges 18 worn out, THE OUTKTRITCRED 1AND, Diringg the night following Lis sentenco he haa ane other vislon, 0o was fn # deep pit, wnd ou frlendly hund was Atretched townr Lbm and pulwd” bhn out, In the morning the prise Onerd “wore fnformed of (ho fuct, nud told that n lllrcl sedens wis coming for him, Bure enough, 1t wan dulivered thut day, Llnrr ay night be dreamus something which Wus Yery ominous, and lie Wis cofe fident lifs futo wan senlud. Min diction was verltled, and from that moment ia * brayery » subsided, und his bopes that his souteuco hnd been commuted und Raflerty’s carrled out hud ligen Ahatfered, and bo reaiized that Lo must die, When be related this latter drean to Shorlfl Arnold, bo wald i was contident. that ho would Lo reprleved, o almudoned even by lope, and came 10 beddove that bis lotiers, asking for ey would bave no efiect, 4 PHIENOLOGIST ALSO, Ho hna o violent tomper, cnd wien incensed will quarcel with tho prisoner, ulthiongh ho never struck one. 110 clafined to ba sklliud fn phrouology, snd vx- amined the hesd of every new arrival, sl lectured npou the * bumps * 1o tho:o wround him, 1y words aro polyavllabie, und Tie {4 botoved to bo & very learned an, ~ Occanfonully he would slip on u word, ealiing plilopr. gonitivenoss philosnnativeneas, which lutter, rerhups, was better undurstood than the former, o oftencoutradicte:d himeoif, muking a statemont one (uy aud denylng tho uest that by bad sald unsthlug of 0 Liud, LOVE OF BIG WORDS, Ho talks well, Lt widtes an exocrblo band, and dgnores orthography nltogother, 'T'o get fnto sn argne atont 1 s great deight, us it enablos bim to uso his stock of steruolyycd phrsses, which nre generully unfu- tolligible to Lfs bearers, ilein quite u Bibieul student, aud ean quote Boripture by tho hour, A NEW TIMOK AT OANDS, Ho olnlma to bou groat card-pluyer, baving knowl- odge of n peenlar kind of snule-rdot which ho had socy old nogrues guther fn the woolds and ruli on the cards, Tha npplication wus infulllilo wid {ho ousese sor of a ynck of cards on which thoenuko.root hud beon subbed was * sure to win every tlme,” He docs not huve much affeetion for Lis 0w ruco, aud Lnd a great contempt for " ulgpers,” uy bo callod’ them, bolioving thiat they hinve couvicted bim, At Umen ho was very tter towsrd them, v upplied uncomplimentary i profanc epithiela to tho wholo of hi kind, While confiuod iu the Gouk County Jl Lo manie fested much wympsathy for tho beys who would bo locked up shinost overy duy to await trial for polty atealing, He called 3r, Himlo's attention to thun, ond asked him to do sumellLlng for the littlo follows, Ar, Billings aud othors bocamuu futareated in the work at Lifw wolicitation, and bia efforta, bo nsserts, brought alout u chungs fi the mumsgenont of the full, tho sepurution of the boys from liardoned crinidtinds, and tho closnhuess which ot presunt clavacterizod the Dlace, PENSONAL APPRARANOR, Ho a6 feot 11 inchies high, und very corpulont, walghlng ubout 335 pounde, - R skin s yellow, and 1l countenunce ot fudivuitvy of o criminnl, 1ud ho been wol oducutod, sl avoldad low conipaiy, by would cortuiuly huve becomo promfuent in the bitter souwe of tha word, I8 WIVE, 14 will bo motiosd in the abuve account of Lis life , Doutu uro noyin, I Bpringhiold, und won mnrred fu 1851, Hin dongh- ter Wik born §i 1h 12, and fa now 45 yonrs of aggo, Sub- sequent Lo Perteets firwl tafal, el Wout to Ominhus with datnes Nuwaote, hor hwsband, wham Pertcot ronwlie oued aumwerablo for most of Bia domeatio infelielty, Whencver Lis apoka of lior, 1t waa gouorally {1 hared tormn, ho atteuiting o het the respoatblilty for hin fute, “CI¢ aho lind Lold the {ruth," mafd o onee, 1 would never hnvu been eonlenced to dio, o ony did ‘what elio Lina duneto rot posscenlon of my property, 1118 PROPERTY, Tho property alluded to conslata of n farm of olglit fiores, iear Luncalooss, Als., amd somo lota within tho lmita of thio town, 1t fins ‘hoen often sald it gone orally bolloved that Pericel duailed bik etato fo Judga Kuowlion, " Thin, howevor, I iiow sl to Lo uniruo ; tho porson wha got it, nd Portect says, lu Agues N, Kuowlton, tho Judgo's ifo, TUL MYTHICAL WITNEAS, Jumy diarniel of yektazduy 1 aliuded o a lottor which had boen written Ly dohn Harvey—tho siup- posed mythical To-duy witniess—t{o "Porteet in October, 1871, obtainiod a copy of it, and attaclt It hieroto : ‘B, Louw, Mo, Oct, 13, 1872, M. PERTEET—J)car Sir: Attor tiio groat o in Olileago I comio to Bt Louls. 1 um_stopping ut No. 700 Braadway ot protent, I went to Now Orleans last £all, 1 Novomber, sud I oxpoct. T nhnll go back agalu uoxt month, If you got u now trial, and want nie, dircot your loitora to corner of Guatom~Honso and ‘Cramier iroet, No, 430, and fncloso money to bear m* ©Xpenecd, A8 Iy meuns aro Umdted § it takes ull i moko fo Keap my family-np, 8o writo and giva me timel: I wiil come on tho fivst trnfu, 1 wia rore y Thad loft 8¢, Louts when you had your firat trinl, and I would willingly come and testity to your inuo- cenico fn that chutio of mardor, I will be bnok tho It of March or tho first of April, You will ind mo thon ou Tine streal ; or, diract to Bl Pool's maloon, “'hird stroot, Imny udtbo ot lionio, but will bo orl {0 Uppor Mississippt. Yours rospectiuily, s Joiin IAnvER. 1f Tarvey ean b found, and will make sflidavits to thio # fucla™ wot forth 1 bis lotter, tho Governor might possibly bo nducod to oxorclse ha discretionary pow- er, IL'is bolivvad however, that Huarvoy cannot bo dicovered, nnd the mystery wiich soemingly ouvels ops bim dotructs from, ratiior tha sdds wolglit Lo, Lits statoments, 1118 APFIDAVIT OF INNOGENCE, Mitch hins Leon zaid about Perteot’s slnduvit of inno- conce, It came to hand yesterday, ond s subjolued without commont, farther than the statement that it s acknowledged Lo hava been written under the Presd- uso of hurions wlio nppurently dhiule o of tha wolomuity wnd sanctity of an vathi, 5 " v Hir Escellency John L, Beveridze, Governor af' the Mate af' Hlinoin & “ Deoply ueniblo that without your intorferenco I ‘must, ou the 12th duy of noxt December, forever pusy from ull the scencs of earth, nover to returi, sud that too for {he slicged erimeof ulllrdllrlnumi‘ wifo, Mariha I Porteot, upon whom I novor laid and’ ngafust whom "I hover rafwd o Laud fo fn uny man- nec iujuro ler in oven tho slighlest ~deyree, And fiasinuch o8 T biavo u deop un 1 ubidiug conviotfou tuat Thave never had a folr and {mpaztinl trial, uwlng in part ut loast, £a I beliove, nnd, we I hove skited {1 ny aftidavit bieroto attachod, to 'the fat thint public opinion in the Countiea of Will and Oovli—in Lotl: of which I have been tried—wos sironlly ugalust me— gougrated, nourlelied, und mado strouy ahd euduring by faise and garbied statemants pubilsied in the Ot cago papess agalust mo 3 aud through which, or like process, many an - funocent man (s 1 un) hay been ox- eculod, otul wany yet may bo; wud ulo 1o the fact, us Tum_ advicd aud” beliove, und ny dectded by or hear ons-baif the Judygea of the Kuprvme Court, o could g0 declds, oud there mot by ® mwjority in my favor, that at lenst ono coniluwince was refusod which shunld have beon granted to mo, to the end that I might praperly muks 1uy dofenne, and forasmucls also as b burmajority of oue Judge i1 the Buprenio Qourt decided au important polut nguinst me, ou the ground thut I kad waived the samo by uot making an objuetiou in the Court. below, which it was fmpossible fur me to have waived, Le- cuuge of tho fact that I did not kuow of ita_oxislonco, nor did 1wy counsel kuow of s oxistenco uutdl aftor I bad buew sentenced to bo huty by the Circult Conrt of Will Connty, sa fully nppoirs by my ntiidavit and the atiidavit of nIX counsel, J, 11, wwiton, which aro heroto attached and herowith submitied as au act moroof justice to mo than of merey, sud one becoming Your Excollency s the Lxocutiva of this great Siute, endowed with diseriin- funtion, impartiality, o Ligh sense of humun Justice, und a firmnesd capable of withstauding the current of falwg climor und_ephemeral or unsnvstantial oxcite ment, however stroug. 1 do most humbly potition Your Lxcellency, and pray that you pardon mo of tho ofenre of whiel I stand convicted, or, ut loast, thut Your Lxcollency commuto my sentence to skt of dmnprison. ment in the Stato Yonftontiary, whero 1 oy yet crippled though 1 am, do tho Stato sud tha world some service, I pray this with sowething of that awe which all will feel wion at Just wo shall stanud fn the awful prescuco of God, © ANpmw J, Panzsen " Nn;:lulmm 14, 154'7:1." o Tt *eSte nf' Hitnals, County, City of Joliet, 23, *1, ADdrow J Derteot, of 'tio’ hge'of more (han 21 yeurs, sud coufined {n the common jall of Will Coune ty, nud Btate of Xiltuols, under weutoico to be bunged ol the 1% day of Docember in thiy prosont year, upon snd under on indictment found fn tho Criminal Court of Cook Qounty, in said State of Iulinols, wherein I am *clorgod with bLaving murdered’ iy late wifo, Martha F, Portest, by cuttiug her throat with = » ruzor, ‘aud of Whica onheoss I wan found “guilty 'by n jury in tho Clreult Court of tho Baid Wil County, Leing first duly wwoen ou oath, duposo pud tuy that I aw not_ guilly of the orinio charged upon and ogoinat mo in said” indict~ ment, and that I had uo kuowledge or information of tho siops required by Liw to bp tuken, or which, if sny wero u fact taken, to got suld error or any cHmin il causo reluatated fn gaid Griminal Court of Cook Coun- ty ufter the samu Lad been removed therefrom, as this caso hud by widt of orror to the Bupremé Gourt of this State, until nafter I was senteuced to bung Ly tho eald Circuit Court of Will County, nor wuntil after o writ of error wus aliowed upon tho #akd judgmont g0 givon as nforesald ugainst mo by tho said. Clrenit Court of Will County, When for tla first timo T was fn- formed by iy counscl, J. 1L, Kuowlton, that ho hud found, upon exumiuntion of the copy of the rocord in 8aid cxuso agafust me, that the case Lud not, been ro- witted o th sald Crimiual Court of Cook County fevin tho Supreme Court of this State, to which safd ciuso had been romoved by writ of error allawed and sied out fu my belwlf fn tho month of Jununry, fn tho yeur of our Lord 1872, for tho re- voral of u judgviont of deuth given oganst me by sald Crimfhal Gourt, I furthor depose and sy that, from the day, or vory ehortly after tho day, of the death of my sald Wife, Murtua P, Porteet, [iblio seutiment sud opinion Liag heon atrongly ugalust me, which oplnion, o T um informed, and” verily Doliwve, wus | formed and produced fu tho sald County of Cock, and also dn eald Couaty - of Will, Ly fho newspapers publisied fn tho clty of Chieago, I ufd Conuty of Cook, which contained tho ussumed wnd fuleo statenient that T ud murdored my Wife, und calling mo tho wife-murderer, aud ulso coti taiued tatoments which wire much garbled, and high. ly eriminative du thelr churkoter, witbout stating uny uxoulpatory fucta whatover, And, owing to such sote thuent aud opinton sgainst me, nud to thio fact that T could not obtiin s continuaiice ng prayed by mo i attidavits, in elther tho &xid Crlmiual ' Court ot Covk County,” or_in the said Circuit Court of Will Cotuty, o ‘euable mo to outain tho sttcndanco and testimony of watorlol witnesses fn my bebalf, 1 Luve nover yoi had 4 fair and impurtial trial, us I should bavo Liad, and wbich X sought, und further I suy 1ok, ASDAEW J, PERTELT, Subseribiod and sworn fo Lefore e, this 14k day of Novouber, &, D, 167, Paruiox 0, Harey, L, 0] Notary Pulilo.” T’ rcspita glves o miserablo man s ubiort leaso of ife, and Lo will by fu 1o better condition to dlo noxt Friday thau he was at 10 o'clock this morning, RAILROAD NEWS. New Feeders for the Chicago, Bure lington & Quiney ailrond. tl Diepateh to The Chicayo Tribune, DunrQuy, Iu,, Dec, 1%~Rumors aro current here thal tho Cojeago, Olinton & Dubuguo und Chicago, Dubuguo & Miuuesota Raflronds will, ubout the - gloutug of the year, pasa under tho control of thy Chi- cugo, Hurlington & Quincy Railrosd Company, Pruce tically tho latier Conpany” nnd the Miehigan Contral contro? the irstoni med ronds vow, but the rumior fs thut the control will be miore appirent afier tho st of Junuary, Oificers of the §heboy: Lae keai Speciut Diepatch to The Chic . FosD bU Luc, Wik, Dec, 1At i wieeting of the Dizeoturs of the Sheboygan’ & Fond du Lug. Ballwuy, Livid n Ul clty to-duy, tho resiguation of Frosident .1, Joy was uccopted, wid Jobu A, Luntley, of Bhe- Voygan, was cleoted Fresident, L. A. Hurson was eliciod Asrlstunt Superintendent, J, D, Fostor re- mafty Genorul Frolght and Pussouger Aget. Beavy Snow on the Central Eaclfic Raiirond, BALT Laxs Crry, Dor, 0.—PaAcugera from the West t0-duy repurt Sy deep Fnow, On It tious of tho ~Cenral Lagitle Rallroad, i the Slerra Novadu sections, fivo engines are required to Luul o wluglo trulu, As ety however, thers hus been no deluy fu councetions with the Unfou Paciflo Hond ut Ogden, Winter hay vommenced bero in terrible carneit, 8ix feot of suow Lt fullens 3u the Wasatch miniug canous, fhe Clncinnvati Bouthorn Rairond. Cixomnniaty, O,, Dee, 19, —The Cincjunati Soutbern Rutlyond Trustees inve let s contract (o Bibb & Tublor for tho construction of the King's Mounisin tunnel, iu Lincoln Gouuty, Ky, Tho cost, on the eugineer’s calie uiten, will b BGIL0, - L otk 1 1 e begun in fen duys, wud to U6 tuisbiod in olglteen montl, Tus ‘Trustées uleo locuted 80 miles uf tho Hue of the Tuad, frou Bouth Dunville, Xy., to Obltwood, on th Teutioe: s0a Lino, Whe Texns Pacitic Raltrond, £rumt the New York Timee, ‘The report conics from Marrisburg that an nreange- ment had beou encotod Lotwean Col, Thonus A, B.utf, of tho Penusyivanla Ratlrosd Compsus, snd Judys Asa Pucker, Fresldent of tho Lebigh Valley Huilroud Cumpany, 4o thut the muunn Accownry to” coustruct tho Toxus Pacfic Rullroad will bo furnisied at un carly date. It s ulso understood (hut Judge Davker wiil purchuse, with the assistance of uther Iurge cupltallsty, ull tulerest of tha wo-valled Gunstruction Gompany, —————— THE ERIE CANAL, Buyraro, Doc, 19,—The Erlo Cunul la fros from feo, treoly, Tho loadu are full, T for ull Losts vesching New York, yrosnoct f4 oo Weuther mild, ALUANY, N, Y., Deo, 19,~A Iargo uumbor of canul- bote ure’ ariiving and pushivg forward to Utica, There (8 8 warm ratn falliug, BouEnkoTaDyY, N, Y., D canul uro bolog moved Wit CHLOROFORM IN DENTISTRY. Boatow, Muaw,, Deo, 12.—The Dantal Hoclety laa re. #olved that the use of chloroform in dentul vpserstions in not advivalls, A Doolaration of Principles Made by the Illinois State Grange, Distribution and Regnlation of {he Currency---The Salary-Grab, Responsibility of the Farmers’ Move- ment for the Financial Panic. Daty of the Govormment to Provide Cheap Transportation, A Clean<Cut Demand for Civil-Servico Ro- form=~«Fiual Adjournment of iho Grange. Business Bofore the Iowa Btate Grange Yestorday. Tho Disfranchised Boston Grango Glves Signs of Lifo, Illfuois State Grange, Speclul Dispaich lo The Chicaun Lrilune, DBLOOMINGTON, il Dee, 12,~Tho fourth dag’a scs- slon of the Grango openod this moruing with D, W, Damo, of Lanark, in tho chafr. A lirgo number of tha delogates Lavo gono iomo, wnd this morulng thore Wore wany empty seats, THE MONKING AE4GION wah occuplad witl tho rending of tho Secretary's and Treasurer's report, neither of which coutatn a singlo item of Jutorest to tho publie, Tho roporta of varlous committees wora aftorwards tude, Tho only roport whiels Lo bearing upon any vital queation was the ro- pOrt of tho Committeo on Rosolutions, which was ndoptod, It 18 aa follown : DEOLARATION OF PRINOIPLES, Resolted, That tho Btuto Grango refternte the pur- poscs and objeots of s Order—that it scoks tho social, futellectuul, snd moval ulevation of the farmor class, ltesolued, That tn ita efforts to nccomplish thoao pur- poses aud objects—whethor by dircct precept, by ude vanclug tho watorial futorests of tho furmer cluss by influcnelng loglslation or tho Govornmental policy, by eo-operativo effort of any kiud, or by auy other meuus —it maken deferro of its acta only on tho ground of their justico aut equity ; nud by thls tost 1t must stund upproved or condemned by an intolilgout poo plo. EDUCATIONAL INFLUENCE OF THE ONDER, Rtesoleed, That wo express our great gratification Wwith the wonderful growth und prospority of tho Or- der fn this aud other States, and, while racognizing its tangible and moterial Lonetlts, wo regard its educa- tonul lufluence In fnauleating tho rights nud duties of citizenship a8 its most valusblu and duruble work, CORDIAL RELATIONS TO FARMERY' CLUNY, Resolted, Thut tho Btato Grange of Tliuols regard with entdra cordfality the varlons orgunizations of this Btuta and clsewhioro known ns Furmers’ Clubs, and sluilar Associatione, whoso objecis oud purposes aro fu harmouy witl tho objects ond purposes of this orgautzation ; that wo Invito and offer fratornal co~ operation, 8o fur 08 tho peouliuritios of our different orgunizations will permit, PUESERVATION OF AMERICAN FORTSTS, Reaolred, That wo deplore tho rapid destruction of American forests und the oxliaustion of tho sourcos of supply of lumber for furmiug and bulldiog purposes ; and 4o far s any lawa now exlsting tend to produce ,this result, they should bo 1nodified or repealed, DANKING AND THE CURRENOY, Resolted, ‘Tuut while tho prosent luws portatning to banking and the curroncy possess many udmirablo features, thoy scom to full to weet all the requiremeuts of the country ; that thoso luws should bo eo modified 23 to favor (o gencral distribution of the money sup- Dly, to remove tho features of n banking monapoly, aud to check the inmonse concentration of capital for apeculativo purposos ; that somo yolicy should bo adopted haviug tho character of pormancacy and look- ivg ultimately 10 8 return to a speclo bnsis, CONDEMNATION OF THE SALARY-URAD, Resolved, That tho Salary-Grab law, so-called, de- servedly recelved the condemnation of tho Hause of Represcntatives of tho lnat Genorul Assombly, and wo 860 n0 good reason why similar uction should not have boon taken by tho Senute; that wo earnostly request tho mumbers of the presont Cougress to ropeal sald Law, 10 ONANGE IN THE TEMPERANOE LAW, Resolved, Tuat wo request our Legislaturo not to ‘meddle with our prosent Tomporance luw. THE FARMERS AND TUE PANIC, Resoleed, Thut tho opprobrium sought to bo brought upou the Farmors® Movement, so-called, ts belng re- sponsdblo for tho fnunclal panic, 18 o compliment to thut class, which has done something, porhiaps, o ox- 050 the frauds aud corruptions of 1oilroad nud other Huancial euterprises, INTER-RYATE COMMERCE, Resolved, Thut in justice an woll us by Constitu tHoual nuthority, Cougress jossesnes the power 1o regi- late ter-State commerce, and that it shonld vxerciso that right fu the iuterests of tho producing ciasses, to control rallroads, trausportation compunios, and otlieis wLo may ubjustly combine to the injury of tho public interosts; and that wo upprove of {he action Cougress has uleendy taken, or tuy tuke wilh a view to sich leglslation ‘a8 may bo called for fn tho premises, IAESTRIOTIONS UPON VOREION TONNAGE, Reaolved, Thut the probibitory restrictions Injd upon foruign vesscls which would otherwise eugage u the transportutfon of Western products between differ- cnt purts of the United States nre n tax upon Westorn industry, und ought to be modified or sbolished. INADEQUAOY OF TIANAIOLTATION FACILITIES, Resv.ved, ‘Tlat this body s profoundly impressed with tho exitire fuadequacy of tho present facilities and menus of trunsportation of the products of the greut West to tho murkets of the world ; that in soeking rue Mef, it louks to two soutees. Mirst, the opening of the nutural chouneld of comnnerco aud the improvement of tha same, icluding tho canals when eald cauals ura o:sentiul parts of ticdo channels, under the direction, control, and ut the expunse of (e ‘General Government, und the consiruetion of railrosds by private capitul un- der liueral charters, Lot with such Lmitution as the public good demunds, und by which mesns it is hoped thot " thie law of competition will hiuve full play, uud ko coustitute tho chlel correction of tho eviis from which wo now suffor, Sccond, us the last resort, the construction of raliroads for frelght truflic by the Qovernmeul, the sunie to b built at its oxpouse, and to e nunngéd strictly aud rolely for tho buotlt of the pubIle fuiorests, ; CHARTLNED ONOPOLIES AND THE PROTLE, tesolied, "Lt tse vight 10 control clinrtered monop- olies 15 an fuhicront right of the people, und eanmot by leglslative sction bo ulienated from tiem, Tho foade iug features of tho present Itadlrond Luy seem Sust, und some [aw of tho kind uppeurs necessury, ® Wo fuvor ita murm“;h trial aud would oppodo §ts ropout or essutnlal modllvation. by tho prescut Genorul As- sembly, CIVIL~RELVIOR BLFORM, Regolved, That ibe Clvil-Service system of this Gov~ ermucut, 88 for u long time administored, nd a8 fllustratod by tho application of thy primeipls * to the victors Lele 1he spotik, ' s dangorous 1o the integri= Ly, ond oven 10 the perpeluity of sur Repubiican instie tutfons, We condemnn it fn tuls: That it fdentitles tho {uterests of uppolntecy to oftico with tho interests of the dumfnuut party uud the uppointing powoer, ruths er thun With tho goud itsolf ; it muakes tho nppolntment Lo plue renpousibiilty mnd trust the rewnrd of purty sorvicea, thess appofutmonty fraquently belng merstsinocurcs; 1t farubshed u lover of troniondous power to luflucues publio opiuion, aud to determine Tosults of elections; 1t 18 a sehoot of politleal corrup= Hon and & tomptatiou to unfulthfulness and dishous enty, aud we call upou our stutesmon Lo study ite ovila aud preseut u mnors thorough remedy than Gus 08 yub been proposed for 3ty defocty, AT TILE AFTLINOON SESEION various commlttos wado thetr roports, Tho question of tho BLatc- Purchashig Agent was dfucuseod, and Hnally referrod {0 tho Exucutive Comumiltco for’ fiual diaponttion, “Cho Biuto Grange adjourned to-night. Tho Town Stute Grange. Spactal Dlsputeh to Tia Unicago yiliuna, . DraMoiNes, Iu., Dec, 13,-The State Grange was engaged to-day fu discussing the Toports of the varlous cummitices, Tho Commilloea on Nutlousl Finuncos mado a roport getting forth that tho furmera of the Wost hud overy rensou to foel sutiatied with the polley of the Admiufstrution, Thu Commuitteo to whom was referred th Toport of tlio xooutlve Commmittes madu retwrn to the ulfect thiat tho brothierhood Lud grost reavon fo_congratulats dtsolf upon tho mannor in which thut Gon wittes had porformed tho dutis dovalving upon thom, sud ospeciully upon the oftis ciout und - falthful conduot of State Agent Whitman, who wus clinrged with great respousibilities, ‘Thore wan cousiderable discussion participated in by groat muny delegates upon tho varlous reporte, A resolution wus udoptud this uftrmoon recominend. fug Patrous to sottle all dinloullios, disputes, s cone troversics \lfi a1 bitratlon, und thuy nvnl& Htigution, Alany of the dulegutes startod Lome by tralns going out this evening, Mumoriuls to the Legislatura uro bolng propared on the tranwporiution question, usking for obange in tho ltevenu laws k0 us to give ponaltion on delintiunt tazua Lo the wehool fund ; und for the unconrigemont of farwera’ lusurauce comipantes, the dnsuciatel Prass,] Dis Morwes, L, Ded, 13,—~Tho Hiniu Granga to-day Dindt three long sesslons, transacting & good deal of businows, moaily of o sevret churucter, DUYING A HAUVEGTED PATKNT, Amony othior things, they olossd » contract with the pteuty o pesolving o etablish o miauufuctory of holr own to builil the reapors, RALLIOAD TANIFF MILL, A committen of ‘twelvo wan rppoluted to draft n ratiroad twed® Lill, and g resent it (o tho Leglalaturo with & momorial, : RIVER IMPROVEMENTA, Tho Committea on Transportation reported In favor of the Mixslsalppl Rivor nud Fox und Wisconsin Rivor finprovomonts, KTOOR RALIA TN ONIOAGO, M, Pattorson, the aient of the Grango at the Union Block-Yardw, Ohifeago, wiado toport of his sales of Block for Tows Granjes, which amounted to over $200,000, nesoLuTIONN woto aidopted declnriug ngalnst the aceeptanco of pass- A on rallronds by meinbers of the Leyislaturo § tn fu- yarof Mrcligsing w0 mora ugricultiral implemonts from Hifiolw riuga s nd wlao fn favor of an vxpausion of tho eurrency nud froe Lanking, THLIR seonkTs, Tho ovening Resslon wos ull dovoted to mattors of sirictly o secret claracter, Tho Grunge will prabably not adjourn tll Tuesday or W duesday of noxt week, The Xoston Grange. Spectal Diepatch o The Chicaga Tritune, DosTox, Mans,, Dee, 13,~—An important. wicoting was held in this city to-night, thongh unannounced, and though thoro wero hardly n dozon porsons proscnt, It wos on Informal guthering of tho officors of tho Doston Grango to meot tho Grand Lecturer, T, A. Thompson, nud Grand Dop- uty J, C. Abbott, who instituted tho Grange, These gentlemen were fu tho Btato to attoud the recous organtzatlon of tho 8tate Grango at Greenfleld, nud tho oficers of the Boston Grange, feoling Aure that they could but fecl the injustico of the notlon of tho Maator of the Natlonal Grango in rovoking thelr char- ter, invited them tos supper, in order thut they might Liear from them, VIEWS OF MASTER DARTLETT, Mr, John I, Bartlett, Muster of the Grange, reforred to tho action of the Nulfonu! Grange oficers in revok. ing tho charter, and clalmed that tho intereats of tho membera of tho Boston Grango and tho Westorn farmers woro tho sume ; that cheap transportation was of vital importanca to both, NEMANES DY THE LEOTUNERD, Mo then introduced 3Mr, Thompson, tho Lecturer, who snfd that o bad rojolced when ho heard of tho organization of the Boston Grango, 1o was then pushe ing the order in Minnesota, Speaking of tho farmers tlere, hio sald: Kuowing tho condition to which thoy Lave been brougit Ly tho organization of capltal, ua Miustrated fu tho nonoyolizing fnfucnca of tho rallronds—thio transporting medlunia botween thom ayd you,—whereby {hu prices of produco bnvo been reduced wo fur that they wero unablo to reallze their Juat sharoof tho profita of their industry, T wouldlook upon tho Boston Grange with mieli Lovor, aud its members as s Land of brothers, Iaccopled le upon the common platform that porvades oux entire order, You had takien tho wamo obligation that wo had tak- on, Wo wero bomd mob (o wrong each other, ar 5o ench other wrouged, If In ouz yowar o prevent it, I wpolio formoerly of thie organization, and hind no suspiciou for some tmo that it was not nccoptablo to allof my argociatos in the Natfounl Grange. Tho re- vaeatlon of your charter wus u surprive, nnd I wish to say, us far'as that i3 concerned, that I biileve thero is nothing in the Natloul Grango ofiico, no oflical Jopors that slow your charter o liave bobu revoled - siel o genso “that you are not fully at liberty to go nud multiply yonr miemberehip, and assumo tie #uimo prowperity that characterizes tho otbee Granges in tho country. Probablyln timo sotno arder will do- volopin your State, unti! you bave a State organization, Sluce tho United DBrotherhood passed n unanimous 1esolution necopting you na mewbers, and hns rocog- nized your orgnundzation, and since u majority of tho Nutlonal Grange necept you, I feel that the timo s now cono wlien you may disregurd tho fdes that yon muy 10t 1o0vo on and sesnmo tho relatlons of any anbordi- unte Grange Iu the land, T am of tho opinion that you will bo recognized by tho Nutlonul Grange, You did right to appesl, and I liopo your Muator will pre. eent your griovances, aud rofso the question fn tho Nutional Grango. I certaiuly shall do all T can to havo you in overy sunro recognized. [Applawse.] Mr, Thomypson fhot went on to speak of the neces- sity of business men in the order, on necount of ity rapid growth, Ho gavo the igures of its progrees, and anuclluillnd with " unothor appeal to them to go on and iourlsh, Deputy Abbott followed In o similar strain, snd Epeaking in bigh terms of Alr, Thompson, JOLIET. Excitement Over o Supponed Murder atthe Benitentinry-=A Visit to tho Privon--Somo Facts egarding e Spectal Dispatch to The Cideago Tribune, JoLteT, Dec, 19.—Tho announcement of o roapite in tho caso of Porteet was followed by roporta of & wmur- der, and, for u time, this community was conslderably agitated. Perteot lost friends rapldly, and had not the rumors been diswipntod 1t fs doubtful if many who now {ntend to influcnce the Governor to ba moro merelful would have consented to neslst in obtaine iog o commutation of Lis ecutence, Tho firet roport clroulated was that o prisonor in the Peni- teutlary, while boing punished in the shower-buth, Lud husd so much cold water pourcd over him as to tako away tho breath of lifo, This was supplementod by anather, that the mon had been put futo o bathe tub by order of tho Warden, and beld under wator fo long 05 to drown Lim. A roporter of Tue Tamuxe drove out to the Penitentiary, and thoro learncd that tho storles wero oxaggerations, A man bnd died in tho batleroom, but ho wos not bolng pun- fshod, 1tis namo wus Menry Willisms, and his sge ubout 30 years, Ho hnd worked fn tho shoo-shop, uud two weeks ugo was roported for idloncss,—not do— dug bl ullotted tank,~and was put into tho * solicary for twenty-two iours, 1o wus handeutfed and fus- tened to tho ring-bolt in the wall for over Lalf the tima, For threo days nfter bis relesse he worked very well, complaining on the fourth duy of Lis kauds, Ito told the overavor that be intended to sco tho dactor the next duy, and requested bim uot to roport Lim for neglecting his work, No heod wag paid to him, aud ou Thuradsy “night Lo was locked up in fho “wollturyy wnd kopt thero wntll wion ing. Mo suld to the kecper when Lo camo out of tho celi that b did ot fool very well, and naked that ho might bo uliowed to takon bith, Tho physician of tho prison, Dr. Muson, ordered ono to bo given kim, and ho went into tlo batli-room, Aftor strippiug, L was {mmersed in water of i temperaturo of betweon 60 nnd 00 degreos, nud held under by ono of the keepers for, 8418 claimed, fivo or six secouds, When drawn out, Lo gusped and breatlied slowly, with great effort, Zlaced on the tiovr, be oxpirad 10 a fow mowments. Tho doctor wua stninioned, aud mado s post-uorlemn ex- amination of the boiy, tho result of which a givon tn s report to tho Wardeu, which s appended s Jo W\ Whum, Warden 1ilinols State Presy Ou'my urrlvalat the privon this moruing I found there wus u corpse In_tho bath-room, I also learned thnt the man Lad diod soon_ufter n cold buth given by my diroction, ‘I made n post-mortem cxamination, unid found tho walla of the heart to be ruptured, und als0 fulty degeneration of the hoart,—thu thinness of the walls prodiuposing to rupture whou under tho in- fluouco of excitemont or unusual exercise, D. it. Masow, This document was counldered by everybody thera to bo sutileient proof of no evlminality, but, to be pre- pured for all eniosyoucios, the physictin réuoved tho | eart, and fntends to preferve it for ingpection in cusu an fuveatigution is domnuaded by tho frionds of o do- ceased, There was n party of visitors from Chieago at tho Teniteutlary this wfternoou, omong them boing Si. periutendont Washiburn, M, Yalton, of the Mouro of Gorreotion, Charley Atwood, of tho Zimes, Ldits Tuomus, 3r, Foatyr, uud Priuce, Tudygwere uccompanied Ly OCapt, Priuce, Governor of the new Central Prison ut Oltawa, Tho Ettor gentloman was Saperintoadont of the Toronto police ot nluoteen years, und wu reeoutly appointed € (o position ho now ocenplos, Ho 14 01 an officinl teur of fuspootion, and buy VI-S1Gd many of the Eutern prisons, Wardon Wit couducted diim {hrough ull the departments, workehops, and " eoil-houss, &e, tn i Potitonthiry: sl o €0 ork: o (hut, 1 wah celtainly the uost insce: tution cf thu Lind o lad yet asen i 1o Stte, Everytiiig is runuing smoothly at tho Lonitentlary now, aitd it f3 oxpected it WAL Juiy oxpenves within u sbort perlod, No uppeoprintion will bo asked for thiu yeur, Tho discipline i rigld, but tempered with kid- Dess, and the ou cct of tho chango 18 shown Ly the fol- lowing comparative statrment of Lae wumber of - Istiment, thio Inst two coliung oxkibiting tho number of diya lost ouscconnt of pundsluent iietud ; W, 1812, 1670, September 89 diya 47 diys Q:tober, 45 403%¢ duyn 43 duys Novombor, ... Cf 50 L duye 313¢ duyn Tho sbuwer bath has not Loen uved for soverul your, Refructory convicts uro usuully punishod by eing put fufo the “wsolitary,” This 18 o cell wol lightod andt voutfilsted, but without othur furnitira (i & Luckot snd o (i eup, When old offndars nguinst tho rules of tho priavti aro placed beve, thoy ura bandentled to n oye-bolt fu tha wall, nbout 5 fock frow tho tloor, und obiiged to staud within eirelo of 4 feot, four or’ five houts, uccordiug {0 the uature of thelt oifcnue, “Thore ure ‘ut present about 1,300 conviets in tho rison, all of whom ure employed excopt n dozon fva- s, ‘Lo contructor who Iu running tio. shoo khop doui uot vonsider bis - contract vulid, sud Leuca the Qpumisaloucrs Lo, advertised, for' e prapoula, They ara to by opeied on tho 2111 st wnd i con: tract will probably bo lot to thy hiyhest bidder on that duy. {lm Doard wero in resslon this afternoon and will bo :Mlx‘mxruw, adjusting matters pertululng to the Penie outlary, —_— THE INDIANS. Oheyonne and Arrapaloc Ohiefs in Bad Rumore-A Prospect of Wars Special Diopatch ta the Chicago Triluna, Oxana, Nob,, Deo, 12,—~Bisteen Ohoyonno and Ara- pahoo Oblefy, who wert to Washington suven works ugo, uro Lero ugain on tholr way to their Teservation iu Northesatern Wyoming, Thoy are In very bad humor, and ¥omo of tho Oblofs say they will fght vather thau ylold to the Qovernment demnud that thoy shall ronové to the Indiun Tersitory, Lame Whitce Mun, ouo of the Chiofs, kus boou sfok, snd belleves thut the whito mon charmed hla, Ha formed & plin to first kill & white and thon himselt, und_ was dis suuded with ditloulty from exoouting’ ft, Tho Chey- eunes und Arrupabioss togather numbor wbout 8,000, e DAWMAGES AWARDED, MoxTaoMERY, Als,, Dee, 13,~Tho Jury in the caen of Lywls I, Parsous agafust Richurd Busteed, Judge of the United Btutos Diatrict Court, for fulse ‘mpl’ e erronvous, $7. vant, onmeat, gave plaintid $10,000 dawugos, Secrofary Belkuap’s Report on {he Irregularities in the Freed- men’s Bureau Ac- counts, Defalentions of Subordinatos---Misappli- cation of Public Funds-e Bounty Swindles, The Ex-Commissioner’s Total Accounta- bility, $278,578.06, The Repart Roforrod to tho House Military Com- mittoe. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, WasmiNGzoR, D, O, Dec, 13.~Bcforo tho aslary queation camo up Lo-day, tho Speakor submitted somo exeeutivo communications, aud, amoug ofhers, ons from tho Becrotary of War, giviug tho rosult of tha in vestigationa recoutly mndo by sriny ofiicora fnto tho mansgement of tho affaira of the Freodmen's Burcau, Tho facts developed make nbud showing for Gon, Howard, who, it appoars, 1 responuiblo for an amount. of mouoy bolongiug to the Bureau, and not nccounted for, reaching nearly $300,000, Tho substanco of tho rosulla of thia invostijation wes charged agninet Howard by Fornando Wood, {n the Forty-first Congress, but tho Houra refused to order his trial. Immedlately upon tho submisslon of tho Becretary's Ietter, Wood demanded fhat 1t Lo read, which, sfter demurrer from the Spenker on nccount of tho Teugth of tho document, was done, whon Mr. Wood intro- Qucod o rosolution raforring tho matter to tho Committa on Military Atfuirs, with insttuctions to Lring in res. olution dircoting that tha ofiicors iuvalved Lo tried by o military court, us ¢ sppoars thut tho inatter can- not Lo .tridd by & court-marifl withont eomo such Gougressional nction, | Duwea objected to tho instriotious, desiring that the come luunfeation whould o to the Military Committes, without futteting thelr nction, He also wished to amond by making ft road *alleged” dofalcation, Thio nyes and nays wero nd on thero_propositions, and they were pateed Ly a atviet party vote, The opinion is (\\]fltu goueral thot tho reult of further fu- quiry into the nuitter caunot fail to hurt Gen, How= wrd’s roputation ns » Clilatinu suldic (79 the Associated I're '} WARTINGTON, D, O, Dec, 12,1l Hperker Intd bo- fore the Louko cammunication from the Becretary of Wur calling attention to the defaleations in tho nee counls of e, O, O. Howard, of tho T'recdmen’s Bu- routl, aud, nt tho request of Mr. Wood, his lotter was read, At'tho conclusion of (ho reading, Mr, Wood - offored u resolution that the lolter and uceompanying reports rolating ‘o tho dofuleatlon, cfe., of Gen, Howa 2rd bo referred t the Committes 'on Alllitary Altuirs, With fustructions to report _reaolution providiug for the trial, by » military court-martial, of uny ofticers of he army fiuplicated therefn, Mr, Dawed moved to sniend by striking out the clzuso relative fo the {nstructions, Ile wished to havo tho matter sinply refurred, leaving the Committeo to take auch action o8 it should deom best, Ar. Dawos safd thut he did not desire to ahield Gon, Howard, Lut bo objocted to tho resolution making tatomonts us focts Lefore o hearing, I stated oa o fact that the defaleation of Gon, Howard, and hio did not understund that thero waa any such thing in the papers, {‘lr, Wood—Tho resolution states asn fact what has beon outhenticated 1n two ofticial documents sent hiero by the Becretury of War, I think we can well nfford to stand ou facts which the Administration declares to bo factu. If that gentloman (Dawes) goes back of tho Ade minfsteation, I will not, Alr. Dawes—No mattor how nmng tho proof may apyiar, it 18 sullicient for us to use thio words “alleged defaleation,” Mtr, Wood—Tho -Secrotary of War aubmitted theso documients to the Allnrnufu(}encml, and the Atlorney- General gavo his oficlal opinfon’ that Gen, Howard was liablo to bo trled by court-martial, and should bo 6o Lried ; but that there wus vomo technleal difloulty owing to the lapao of time, Mr, Dawes—All thut may bo The proper thing in for tho Committeo on Military Atfaira to report theso facte, T moye to insort tho word *alleged * beforo the word du:t:dmllnn"' Mr. Wood—1t i & vory email mntter, and I will not detain tho House with quibblinguboutit, Lot it go; Lut I desire to gay that if thut sido of the Houso takes tho rosponsibility of whivlding this mau, {¢ may do so, Mr, Dawos—Thls sido of thio Houso takes the re- eponstiility of shiolding no man, Mr, Wood—It bus don 8o to-dny, Mr. Dawes—Dut it will take responafbility of pass- ing judgment after couviction, nat Lefore, The resolution, amended by Tuserting the word * ale Teged,” nnd et ikin hiington (Dec, 10) Dispatch to the Cin “Fio munieation 1o the House, in relation fo certatn de- velopuents connected with tho late Froedmen's Bue Teau * Wan DEPAITMENT, WasmaTon, . G Maren 3 le7s.} *To the Spealer of the House oF eprarentatives, Washing= on, i “Si: In the courso of tho business connected twith tho sottloment of oifalrs snd payiug the unsottled cluimy of tho late Barean of Refugees, Froedmen, and Alendoned Lands, cortain dovelopmionts Lave bron mado which T deein it proper, under tho ircumstances, to pubmit to tho Houso of Tehrescntatives for such ac. {lon s may oppea t0 o riglt, On-tho ssumption of tho dutics by thie Adjutant-Genorul, under tho act of Gongrens generul nuturo No. 18, dpprovd Jue 10, 1872, aud the War Dopartuent geheral orders No, 65, of 1672, thore was no zenson {0 supposo that such det velopuients woull bo madc, becauso uo speciul scarch ‘was mado bearing upon them, butas compluint after complnint waa recelved that! clafmanta had not re- colved from the Infe Burcau thelr bountiew, srrenrs of 3y, &c,, the Antd complaints wevo referted, in {ho couree of businees, o tho Socond Auditor, with whom rested all settloment and tho finl adjustinent of the accounts, 1t gradually becamo apparent that vouclis cri to o considerable amount were tiled ns if paid, and credit tuken for the amounts, when strong proof was presentod that tho clajinbuts had ot beon palid 3 sud in o shnilur mauner devolopments ewbraciug other subjects called for conslderation, 4 From the imcomplete wnd dinordered conditfon of tho aceounts of the lite Burcay, whow rceived by th Adjutant-General, sud from tho fuct that oxaminition hud to bo made fu'two oftices of tho Treasury Depirt- ment toareive at tho true condition of cortalri necounts and laitng, so el tio eacnped Wt tho tral of (ho Into Commiskioucr by n gonoral court-mnrtiul becamo barred lu purt under tho statuto of limitutions beforo It was discovered thut bo wus properly amonablo to trfal ut all, though &t was truo that ho could now bo | brought before u military court on somo specifio charges, set for tho reuson that they would be niore or less dependent on transactions which aro barred, tho trial would lLardly bo produulivo of publie Lenofit, oud aleo for the reasou that tho lionor- ublo Houso of Representatives has already ordered sl held wn investigation by o commitice upou the affaira of tho Burewd of Refugees, Freedmen, nnd Abandoned Lands, I bavo deewned it best not to Give the cuso to u militury tribunal, but to submit tho en- tive subject to the Houso of Representatives. Tha Do~ partment of Justico, however, hasbeon furnished with tiome of the cusos, unil otliors ura to follow, of appar- ent muifeatance, with o roquest to instituto elthor o erimiual anit or civil Buit (o recovor monoys beloug- iug to the United States, orboth suits, us ma; g roper, aguiust such of the officers aud ngenta of thia nte Burcau as way Lo Hablo, In this connection, st tntfon 15 fuyited” to the correspondence with the Ate torney-Goneral, found borewith, *4“iao ato Conunissioner, Brig.-Gen, 0, 0, Haward, Yutied states Aris, iy biew promptly informed of tho sbacnco of fmporlunt records, und of tho sppurent exhilbits ugaiust him, with u viow to his offerdng oxpla~ nation aud supplying tho missing records, 1fow far Lio Lua done this Wil uppesr by the correspordence. printed n the roporis, In tho item stated at $121,000 uot uccounto for, it will bo scen that {he nccount cun- uot Le produced, und no attempt has Leen mado to prove what Lug Lecomo of the money, Acconnts eoy erfug the amount f yart are wlleged to Juve oxlated, but tho Disbursing-Otlicor, Gearge W, Dalloch, lax stated thut, us thoy were not considered of mueli i~ portauce, they wero not kept in tho cnses with {ti other secounts, Tho suld necounts hoy and it scoms triat neliher tho Inte Gownyiusioner nor tho lats Disbursing-Olicer can_account for thelr dls. appearace, This ftem 8 kuown us tho * Fotalnod bounty fund,” el o 1 snisaprropriation of pullle fund, the records nredn evidcuce, und theso [rregularitics ‘and wviolatious of law wcmlufily have had much more to do Wwith tho confuslon of tha rocords thuy the efectivo coudition und thu almost entire suepension of work by the Iato Burean, ““Tho rospousibillty and accountability attaching to tho late Commiustonor, so far ua now doveloped, amount to unward of §378,673,60, sud oy b stuted under tho following boudings : “1. Odimed 1y colored clalmauts who ollego that thioy hinve not Leew pald thele pay and bounty, although thio rocords of the Trensury Depurtment show tho aete toment of 1hio claum, nud youchers v been fled by the late Burvan us ovidenco of fiuyuwul $49,848,89, . Defaleation of 8, Otulr Mandevllo, §9,80: au g Defuleation of "0, 0, Frenob, roduced to ¥4, Defalcation of B, . Runkle, $673.24, 8. Ackuowladyed by Georgo W, Tulloch to heve boon pald to B, P, Runkle, to reimbires tlie later for o mistuko mado by bis agents 1n puying bountios 1o tho wrong. S"""’ §1,351,00, : 0, Duo by'tho'late Bureau, in consequenceof fllegal doubio paymonts and cortain wocrued intorest, suvorai thousand dollura. 17, Trregular fung, callod the ‘retained Lonuty fund,? under the fot 6f Murch 2, 1807, nob nocounted fox, vipvard of $131,000, */8, Misapplication of publlo funds and fling of vouehora, Witk tho sceounts covermg cortuln month, when tho'paynents wero msdo fu a Prior month ; mis: application, §30,314; vouoliura coverig & imo subao quuut to the actual ‘dute of payment, sud, therofore, 73,048 § total, $109,003, * ‘g accomyunylug reporty of the Adjutant-Qon- eral und of Inwpoctor-Genorul Buliriner, who mado 5 critieal oxamiuation of tho rocords {u vorifcatton of 1ho Adjutaut-Generalw report, polut n detatl to tho tranactions oxbibited in tho above sumisary, * T am, wir, with great rospoct, your obediont mer- W, W, Breusar, “Bucrofary of Wa AN OLD WRECK FOUND, Havrwvax, N, 8, Doo. 19,~The steamor from Tabla )y Taluud wtates that the sohvoner Zephyr, of Bt, Yierrs Miquelon, lades wilh Gab, drifted adb urs Liare, and four bodfes fnaatato of decomporltion wero found ob board,” Tex' masts und rig png wera gone, und boe bull wus covered with wosweed, Irom (ho dute of pavera found fit tho cablu, tho eeho-nr fa eiyposod 0 Liayo boon disnusated Inet duly, drif.ing since, FLOODS, Damaging Freshets iu Hlinois, Indle wua, aud Ohio Rivers, Snecial Dispaleh (o The Chteago Tribune, Droosuzo, 1L, Doc, 13.~Tho long-contintiod raln of tho pnst week Luaraliod tho slougha nnd creckn In thig vicinlly higher thun for yoars, Last night Pous Iollow, fn the pouthiern part of tho city, in whiclt aro located o nuabor of ‘manufacturing o3 tablisliments, pori-housen, ffax-raill, and malt-house, waa fuundated, and only by great exertions win much #aved from destruction, The lowor floor of i-honeo of Vanacholck & Co. was flooda, nls0 tho tazemil o it opeeations had to hn"nua]wul.lnd. Apecial Dispateh to The Chicazn Tritume, Tonr WAYNE, Tud,, Doc, 12,10t hosy trins of the 1ast two weok bave wolicn thie rivera to such on o tent 0 to eawso comdderabla alurm, ‘Thio ¢, Mary's Tiver Valloy 14 floodad with water for' aif a milo cach eido of tho’bed of (hostrcam, Tn (ho connlry, con~ alderablo damingo hiaw beew dono u tho carrying away of fences, gatos, ko, % Tho Wabasb & Lrio Oanol broke awny northeast of thin city this moruiug, abont siztv foot of ome baukmeit succumbing to the fury of tho waters, but fortunately dolug no dawage, Thio watar ss atonco let out, aud tho damagen ropaired, Tichio pinutingeundi, situnted on Bakor Diteh, was widcrmined y ths water, anil ono oud of £ waA thrawn fo tha grotnd, demolishing ono side. Tho weathor ba still Talny, Spectat Dispateh to Tha Chifeago Trllune, LoaaNsront, Ind,, Doc, 12,—Tho rams of tho past fow daya have causud n heavy riso fu tho Wabash nnd Ecl Rivors, and thoy are avertlowlug thelr banks In many places. Part of Newmarkot streot bridge across tho Eel River was carrlod away this moruiug by tho bigh wutes LASALLE, 1II,, Dec, 12,—Tlio Tilinols Ttver hna risen nearly v ool bluco lust Taeuduy, and fa iill rislog, and steamers with towa of eo-argas for LiSalla uu Ferit nro on thofr way up from St, Lowln, Last your at this o {co over a foot thick wi bolg hnrvested Dero. Thero s uo fea fn the river now, CLLVELAND, O,, Dec, 19,—Tho continved raln of yesterdsy nud Inat uight has rafsrd the Cuysioga River womo four or flyo fect, No sorlots damago reported along tho lower part of the river.” Above, b (ho works of ths Standard Ol Company, o larga part of tue docks and grounda uro submurged, and much looso property syopt sway, Lostto tho 'Gampay estimmnted from 10 $12,000, - A largo culvert recentty bujlt over Kiugsbury 2tin, ut Torost streot, caved ini_yostorda; forenoou, snd s almost n totul Wrack, Near the ofl works the surface of - tho rivor is thlokly covered with olls, and kom fears are entertaiuod that it mny bo liglited by sparks from locomotives, thus producing & nstrous fire, Tho ratn bas ceased, and tho river s falling, i e el PERJURY ALLEGED. Coruint, 8. O, Dee, 19,—The cary of Senator Pate tornon, chiurged with attempted bribery during the Senutorial eloction last winter, Las been dismixsed, It 15 understood thata warrant hos been fssned for the arreat of Nopresentatlvo Jeaes, whio mado (o afidavit in the case, on o chiarga of porjury, il il L LIVE-STOCK MARKETS. ALDAK Spectal Diswateli to The Chicagn Tribune, Aznaxy, N. Y., Dec, 12.—BERvES—The opoiing yees torday and thio fudications throngliout oty sre ia the direction of an unprofitable murket this week, Thoro lns been a pooil ropresontation of country dealers in the yorde, but their wants aro very Umifted, A few Drighton dealers wero i _nitendanico, but, hisv ing cxperienced a disaatrous markot nt Liome, wero not dizposed to purchumo liberally, They complnin of lTarge quantitics of Chicago dressed beef at that mar- kot aud assert that it iy ruining thelr trade, Tuero hova been no dealers from Now York as yot, sithoush 1t 18 well kuown that thoy Lave cxperieiced o paying markl thero this week, The market opeted ata doéling of Jcper Il from lant weck's ruling prices, and han continned to droop over since, closlug to-day at about e per 1b reduction, with but little prospect of chango Tor the Letter, Tho receipts thns fur uumber 239 car- lond, ontatde of the numerons Cbrlstmas cattio, The quality Is gearcoly 80 good os last weck. Thoro aro o fow oxtran, and a lurgo number of Texas, Oherokees, auil Canadfans, light-welght aud poor quality. BHEEP AND Laxps—The marlket thus fur has been fairly activo, {lie ealos numbcring mora than doublo thosa of any week for somo tme pust. No improve. ment in pricos I noticoable, althongh the supply fa Iargo, and of much better qunlity thun lnst woek, ‘The ‘Euatern trade demand hins been good, with considers~ blo doing: for cauntry buyers to-dhy wero holding back In expectation tlat lsrae r ipts would break «down tho murket, Bheop, 6@0t Inmbs, 5@70. P L Speetal Dispateh o The Chicaga Trituns, Ranins Crrx, Mo, Dec: Do Oaksibe Recelpts 1ight; morkot weak, slow aud unghanged, iToos—Recelpts i tho Uufon Yurds, 1,600, Sellers ato holding oir’ for an advanco, Ono thousind head ‘wero sold at #.95@440, ) SPECIAL NOTICES Schiencic’s Mandralo Piils, Thioro pils are composed exclusisely of ogotabls la- grodients, and although thoy ontirsly suporsodo. the ss of mercurs, do not loava any of Its fujurlousufects. ‘Thoy aot diractiy upon the livar, tud aro s valuablo fomody (3 all cases of dorangament_rosultiniz from o gisordsrod atate of thataryan. *Liver Complaint, Hillious Disordors, Indigestion, Sick Hoidnch, Typhol, Tevars, Se.y' 8ot all sceumb to the fron uso 61 Hohenck's Mandrako Billss Tor sala by all drugglats and denlors. Helmbold’s Buchu, Tha only reliable madlcine for diseasos of tho kiduors and urluury organs, A perteot diurotlc, tho lung-conthi- uod usu of which by thio peoplo of this coliitey, for tho lust twelvo soars, has fully eatablished its reputation o3 the ost roinody for these disousns knuwn, 1t {3 one of the fuw mudloines that liava staod the test of time, It hias true and genuino mioiit. Howaro of coun~ turfoits, The gonulne bns lolubold's private propristary slamp. LADIES' GCODS. [T PATS 70 TRADE O TP WEST SIDE. CARSOH, PIRIE&LD, Madison and Peoria-sts,, OFFER TO.DAY: Lot Bmb’d and Laco Hdk{s. 10 ots, cach. Lot Hem Stitch Hdkfs, 5§ cts cach. Lot Linen Hem Stit>h Hdkfy, 13 ots, each, Lot Linen Bmbroid’d H, 8, Hdkfs, worth $2,50, for $! ench, Lgilfln}{uiuk Lnoe Hdkfs., worth $23.60 for each, Lot Ladios' Linon Qollars 5 cts, ench, Lg&h?zflfl!; Linon Ouffs, worth 40 ats., for aty, pair, . Lot Brattd ghd Lace Qollara 10 ets, each., Lot White Lace Ties 10 ats. oach. Lot Oolorod 8ilk Windsor Ties 350., bargain, Lot Fringod Windsor Tion 30 and 40 ots., less than half price, Lot Hamburg Emfiugg from G 1.4 ots yard up, loss than hall priga. 1,000 nos, Marseillos Frimmings, worth $1, for 25 cts. piego.. 1,000 lus ZLinoe Iidge Ruflings, 20 ots. piecs, sagrillos, Lot White Corsots, slightly smokedin & re- cont ire, 95 ots, pair, Lot French.-Wove Corsets 40 ots. pair, ree duoed from $1. Finer grados real French Corsets we offer at hnla tho pricos usually charged for same gradon, Lot Gonts' All.Wool Bhaker Sooks 26 cts. per par, worth 50, Lot, Ladios’ Merino Ribb'd Hoso 10 cta. pair. Lot Tndos’ Klgoced Hose 18 ats., balf prico., Lot Cluldron’s Fancy Wool Hos0 10 aud 18 ots, 'I‘h&buaz 75.0ent Tindios’ Morino Vests in the oity. Gungs’ Underwear very cheap. Bargains [n Gloves, Bargains in Tios and Ribbons, It Pays to Trade AT THE CORNER Madison & Pooria-sts. LOTTERIES, HAVANA LOTTERY OF CUBA. Extraordinary Drawing, Dec, 18, 1873, 16,000 TICKETS, 000 ... +.2,007 PRIZES, 1 Przo of $500,000, 1 f 100,00, 1 af $40,0., 3 of §5, 120 OF BLULD, | of B10 000, 1 210,00, 3 of 925,000, In.ponsequono of tha lowsr rate of uxchaugo, I am one abldd e roiluco tha nelo of tlalats (o Bid0 whote: e 0 I, %30 ono-quarior, H13 oue-tunth, aud 8§ vno- twontiath tickot. it dbrod amuia, it o iod By oo F will poutiivoly Tako pincs an D, Shabbd. n{‘...z mbdingoly on yoo atriotly onne panil Bsais il prizos w el of e oriolel diste Uormnn Uovornwent Lotferlos, Prizos cashod und ue formation glven, TILKODORE £3Ul V0L, 1 Y. Tack Box SHOW OASES, Metal Show Cases 81.50 PER FOOT, 148 SPATR.ST, DISSOLUTION NOTICE, DISSOLUTION. toforo oxlsting Letwoon tho un. dormgneierinanblp harstolorgalsting etoon tho u S J:'-f e a4 the salfie 'vlll. r‘r.n‘f iy SonHaiua.the. bis el haninies WO, T, DALIYN, AR ARE i RORRHETINAD