Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1873, Page 4

OF THE TRICUNE. TENNS OF BUNLCTIFTION (PAYA) .SIQ.U()‘ Suml L 00 Weakl, Su7th o 8 vear at the mame rato, “Jo puovont delky and mistasos, bo saro and zico Post €11 e address sn ll, neluding Btate and County. Remdituuces mny Lo mado olthor by diatt, axpruas, Post C.coouder, or 1 rogisterod 1016 ¥, at e s, TENMS TO CITY BUDACRINEDS, Tatly, doliverod, Kunday o contat, 26 conte por wack, Lelly, oninored, Sundsy included, ety por wook, Address THE IRIBUNE COMPANY, Coruor M n and Deard: Chlong, Il TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS, ADVARORY, i L) FOOLRY'S THRATRE--Uandoluty steost, hafwean Tl g, Jfusen ke Mardaga of Figaro," M'VICKRIVS THEATRE. Doasbury and Ktat., L or Paint Lyuda Ligh, disnn steser, Lgtenan Lingagoment of Lot iy ACANEMY OF MUST toon ol Munie, Busloyauo Ty, g, ** itubln Hond Halatod o ruct, bo'wwoon Marl- ur-mont, ot tho Lydia ‘Fliuns & (ornoon, ** Kenkhwartu, " v GLOBE PHBATRE-.Denplatues strot, hotwesn Mad. om - aml Wieeningun, iSugngeenson “of’ Marius ‘larok, " Liguiatog Bub," Aftornova and eve MYENS' OPRRA-HOUSIE Mange streat, botwesn Denthur iato. Burlowito of ¢ Doom of tho Fume. foozlelum, ™ Miusizoler and vmloalicios. DR, KAHN'S MUsSKUM OF ANATOMY~Olark Aoty butweo + Badison and Monroe, BUSINESS NOTIC ITRADQUARTERS FOI BUYS' CLOTIING. 0. O, g.ungfivngn Wf 186 Ultenenle WILKIE COLLINS' NRW STORY, OUT TO-DAY IN THR REW YORK FIRESIDE COMPANION, THE DEAD ALIVE, A mrony, e WILKIE COLLINS, This Btory is in Mr, Oolitns’ best style, and Is probably equal co augthing ho has ovor weitton, Any person voade Ing; tho first {nstallmont will sco, at unoe, that thnt this 1t tng case, Tuo papor §s forwals by all Nowsdonlors, und will ba nont for funr weeks—cominoneing wita My, Cole tua’ Stoey—tor Tiventy-fivo conts. Addcors NL&W YORK FIRLSIDR COMPANION, # BHEEVAN-8T., N, ¥, The Chicags Tribune, | ‘Wednesday Morning, December 17, 1873. ' Lhe death is announced of Col, Frod Dent, sped 88 years, the futhor of tho Prosident's | wife, I —— i Thoro has boen on unfavorabls report from the Sonate Committeo on the proposition -that ouo-bulf of the fnport dutics moy bo paid in logal-tender. There is & proposition in fho Houso to permit tho National Banka to iusue & circulation of 02 per cent of their bonds,—an increase of 2 per cont on thelr preseut ixsue, Tho nomination of Mr, Willinms s Chief-Jus- tieo ias, niter a long discussion in tho Sonate, boen roferred back to the Judiciary Committeo. This diminishes Mr. Wiliiams' chancos for cou- fumation. It is aunounced that the French Assombly will probably consirue the recont olection as an cncouragoment to 1estrict guffrage. The bill which tho Right will probably Introduce cuts off about 4,000,000 votora. A bill hos been Introducod into tho Iouse of Reprosoutatives urging a relrenchment in the pay of Civil Sorvico servaits, snd stipulating that no oflicial shall be allowed more than a sal- ary fixed by la: The sentiment in Washington against the in- croase of texation recommended by Secrotary Richardson s more and more decided. It is sald that the proposod roveal of tho law provid- Ing for a sinlt.ug-fund wilt aloue save 30,000,000 A year. Theroturns from Penusylvania leave no doubt } that tho uew Constiiution has been adopted by } s largo majority. There is a mujority of 25,000 for 1t in twonty-one out of twenty-nina wards in Pli.adeiphla. The countics mving a majority tor the Constitution aro numerous and the asjoritios aro lurge, whilo the majoritios against ¢ aio few and amall, Wo have accounts this morniug of s frightfal | aurricive whiol yesterday uwept over tho uorth of England and into Seotlsud. Vory sorious jumago hus beon done to property in Shefilold, Hali.ax; Nottiughnm, Leeds, Glusgow, and other tties. Shellield is said to look asif itgand been sombarded, Muny peoplo wore killed, sud many nore seriously, and some fatally, wouded. A dozon patyotic ludica of Chicago, mindful Jf the Bustou tco-party sbouc a cenlury ago, umo togetlier yestordsy, and resolved (o pour a0 more tea for tho tyrant man until they socared their rights,—or words to that offect. They first thought of absolutely refusing to pny ROy more taxes on theic property, uutil it was suggostod that the proporty might bo sold it they didn't pay. It was, howover, scriously de- termiued to form o loagaa to resist the paymont of taxes, by every monus in their power, uutll they can vote. 3 Tho first voto on tho oloction of United Statos Bouator in California was takon yes:orday, with tho follow.ng resuit: In the Assombly, 43 votes fur Gov. Bootb, the [udepondont candidate, 27 for Farloy, tho Domocratic esndidute, nud 9 for Shufter, the Republican candidate ; in the Senato, 14 fur unch of the throo coudidates, Lhis voto aggreguton 56 for Dootls as ngainst 62 for the oilisrs. ‘Tle jome ballot will be taken to-day, sl yestorday’s vote aimost assures Baoth's oloo- tion, which will bo tho first great victory of na- tional siguiteouce for the now Indopoudent Party, ‘Uhe contest for the unexpired tcrio of Senator Cusnerly i enlivencd by the appuatanco 34 & large uumbor of candidates, Senator Morton yesterduy deliverod himself of his opluion on the aimwsion of VinchbLuolk, and weldoutally on the condition of thinge in Louisiana, Mr, Morton thinks that Pinolbaok ehould lave tho eent, jhough holding and re- peat.ng that the question i3 oco of law sud not of pohtics. Asto Loulsians, ho belleves that Mr. Kellogg has givon the poaplo of that Stato o bottor Govornmont thau thoy huve ever hal singo the War, whioh cortalnly le'ut waying very much, Mr, Mortou, en passant, endoavored to draw a distivotion betwoon State covoreignty, in which he doea uot helieve, sud Inviolable Htate 1nghis, In which ho does beliove, though he ikl to mnke tmmsell vory olearly understoed on this pulut. ‘I'no Chieago produce markets wora gonorally seuli youtorday, with s good deal of trading~ prineipatly speenlutivo. Mows pork wns aotive, aud 37%e lower, vlusiug flan nt $14.00 cash, snd 14,02} woller Fobrumy, Lard wus loas active, aud 10 per 100 Ihe lower, closing at 8.15@3,20 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNX WEDNESDAY,” DECEMBER 17, 1873. wero quiot and o shnde onsior, at Gige for #houldera, 6){@634a for short ribs, To for short elear, nll boxed, and 83¢@034e for uweot plekled hamu. 1Tighwines wore notive and 1o highor, ot 90 cents por gallon, Drossod lings wote mors notive and ensier, closiug at 86.00@5.05 por 100 the, Flonw was mora aotive and firm, at #6.60@ 5,75 for good spring exirns, Whant was active aud Ygo lowor, closiug nt 81,1434 cash, and BLIGY sollor Jaunary, Oorn was dull and 1o Towor, closlug at 513¢o casl, and 5234e soller January, Oats wore dull and o lower, closlug ‘b 88}c cash, and $3fdo sollor Jauuary. Ryo wag et and stendy ut 73c, Barley wos moro uetlve and ircogulny, c'osing at §1.90 fog No. 9, and 3LOE@1.00 tor No. 8. Ou Salurday ovenlng Inst thoro way 1n stora in this a.ty 651,731 bu whoat; 003,043 bt corns 208,831 bu oats; 70,825 bu ryo; aud 416,014 bu baviey, Live { foge woro functive and S0@850 lower than on satueday, “Salos nt $4.60@4.0) Lho cattlo and | sbeop nrkots wore moldarately native and | tirmer. | Thobill ropealing tho Nitlonal Dankraptey i ant, which Mr, Treninin prosonted to tho House, i foilod on gccount of the soction providng that, 1 in Auits now ponding, the creditors represuntiug tha majorlty in amount of claims should decide | the mode of sottlemont. Mr. Wilson openly ! chargod that this provision was Introduced at ! tho inetanco of Jay Coole's nttornoy aud for tho | | bonefit of Jny Cooke & Co. This was donled on | tho part of the Committes, but the Ilouso recognized the opportunity afforded for injnatice and fraud. A bill absolutely repealing tho Banlk, | rupt law passed the fouso, howover, by o voto ' of 220 to 44, with & snction offercd by Mr. Beok whioh provides that all bankruploy proccedings now pending shall bo settlod undor tho law as it now is, except that the foes shall be reduced ouc-half, 1t is probablo that the bill will bo i taken up immod.ately by tho Bouate, and the large majority {n tho House ‘scoms to dicate that it will bocomo a law e A tranafer was made yestorday by ox-Trena- uror Gage, to Treasurer O'lara. of chocks on various city banks to the amount of $598,909.69, togetner with o small amount o ocurreacy and “ecash itoms,” bringing the whole sum up to $611,855.54. Included in this sum are cheoks on threo suspondod Dauks amounting to §182,600. The nmount of NMr. Gage's defaleation is $352,~ 70323, althiough tho deficit s larger by tho smount in the suspended banks, Immediatoly after tho transfor was offectod an informal ton- der of Mr. ?Jgu‘n private proporty was made by his counsel“to the Magyor, Comptroller, and Finance Committee, to liquidate the deficiencg T'he proposition not being made in writing, it was decided to tako no action upon it, nnd Mr. Gago's counsol was informed that he could make o writton communication to the Corporation Counsel, by whom it would be considered with & view to Jegal advice in the premises. It appoars to ue that, if tho city ia offorad tho security of Mr. Gage's proporty, be the same moro or less, in addition to, and not in lleu of, the sccurity of his official bond, it would be moet unwiso not to take it. Tho most that can bo recovered from Mr. Gago, in any evont, is his ontire property, and, if this is voluntarily ten- dorod, the oxpenso and delay of ltigasion will be avoided. Of comso, & written stipulation shonl] bo had from bis bondsmen that the no- copiauce of the property iu not to rulease or im- porr their liability, A now galary-repeal bill was brought beforo the Bouso yosterday by the Sclact Committeo, hut no vote on the bill was taken before nd- journment. Itrepcals all tho snluries ixed by tho bill of March 4, 1873, oxcopt thoso of tho Prosident and the Judges of the Supreme Court, aud fixes tho pay of Souators, Roprosentatives, and Delegatos ak 85,500 a year, with an allowance foractual travoling oxpenses to and from tho Capital. It also authorizes tho Becretary of tho Trozsury to cover back all increaso of pay ro- turued or yot undrawn, Mr. Kasson insisted " auybody to escepo. upon his amondment, providing (hat the monthly pay of mombers of the present Con- gress shall bo docroased for the rest of tho session B0 that thelr cumponsation in tho nggregato for this sossion shall not ex- ceed 85,500, This amendmont was finally adopted by a vole of 172 to 77, Gen. Butler, in a spirit of sarcasm, offered another amondment to confiecato the back-pay, but his sarcasmeame yery near barg accopted in earnest, as it was ouly lost by a vote of 181 to 129, Gon. Hurl- Dbut, of Tiinois, showed Ins contempt for his con- stituency by proposiug that there bo three clusses of Longressmen, to-wit: Class A, to re- coive 7,500 o year; Cluss B, §6,000 ; and Class C, 28,000, with the privilege {lat every member shall seluct bis own class, QGen, Hurlbut's con- stituents will probably bo curious to know, in coso the prades fudicute thio value of tho sorvice rondored, which clasy ho would solect, Tho Board of County Commissionera yestor- day, by & voto of 8 to 7, declded to postpone tho consideration of all quostions of building the Court-Ioueo until Decombor, 1874, 'This action was oxtremoly crcditable to lho good seuso and judgment of tho Commissioners. The vote for and agningt nostponomont was as follows: Yeas—Dogne, Burdick, Busse, Olongh, Lurels, Har- vison, Jones, sud Singei—8, Nags—Crawford, Hortlng, Roulle, Jtussell, and Ashton—7. Though the vote was a close (;m', the result will be gratifying to tho ontira community, Tho city couslitutes five-sixths of the county, and, though tho ocxpendituro for mew bulldings is nominally by the county, tho chiof burden will fall upon the ownora of proporty in tho city. Onr people uro not at this moment ablo to bear any additional loud, with over a milion dollars of Hoating debt and interost to be paid immedi- utely, \With an emply Treasury, witha dofalon- tion of nearly half & million of dollars, and sn outstendiug levy of eix milllons of taxes for the city and n million for other purposes, it is no time to talk about building a uew Court-IHouse or otber buildings. 1t was expeeted by tho con- tractora and Jobbers thot are urging theso woiks that Mewwrs, Durdlek, Jones, Busso, and Harrle would vote for thom, ‘o tho credit of theso Commissionors lot it be known that they Lave vosisted all importunities, aud voted sa tho pub- lie mtorests demanded. Johnson, Lonergan, Wo glvo elsowhore s full report of tho firat day's procuodings of the second snnual meeling of the Rie Farmers' Association at Decatur, About 100 dologates woro in attendanco yester- duy, W, 0. Flagg, tho Presidont, staled in lig upuning addross that, ono yoar ago, there wore only ninety clube, and it was voted nob to take part In politica. In spite of this, tho farmers mude thowr campaign and wore more mto- cossful thon could have been anticipated. Tho veport of Mr, 8. 13’1: Bmith, tho Secrotary, sliows that thore are now 820 Farmeis’ Clubs {n asala, aud $8.62)¢@V.85 wuller Fubruary. Meate the Btate, with reprosontatives from eighty-four difforont counties. Tho number of cluba notusl- Iy heatd from roport a memberahip of 40,478 mombors, and there are 549 clubs which havo not reported a8 to momborship, Tho finavoial ombnrrapsmont of tho Association misen from the mogleot of tho Grangers to contributo the 10 conts asecssmont made upon thom. Tuis suggosted to Mr. Bmith to doprocate the waut of harmony botweon tho clubs and tho Granges, and to show why thoy should work in common. Tho lond- ing nddress of the dav was also read by My, 8mith, on tho subjest of *“Thiough Wator- Tronsportation,” which wo priut m full, Thoe most prominent plans for rolief aro tho Cengressiona! onforcomout of the intor- Blato rates of transporiation, the bullding of o Qovernment ralirond, and the opemng of through wator-routos, Mr, 8mith concoives the last-mentioned to Lo the most praciicablo. Ho recommends that tho farmors demand the building of a ship-canal avound Niagars Fals ; thio opening of a Qulf ronte, with the improve- ment of tho Mississippi and Illiuols Rivors ; tho Kauawba Csnal, and the improvement of the OlLio aud Kanawba Rivers, Among tho promiuent recommendations madoe yestorduy was one in favor of law roform, which has been advoesied by Tue TrinuNe; another to bo careful w0 securo moro competont caudidatos for local offices ; a thitd to have direot dealings with the workingmen of the East; and a fourth to make bribory punishabloe with twenty years in the Ponitoutiry, bot for tha giver nud takor of the briba. EX-TREASURER GAGE AND THE STAATS- | ZEITUNG, Tho Staals-Zeilung wmeakes a bitter attack on oll those who supported tho so-called Law-and- Order ticket in the last clty election, and espo- clally ppon the nowspapers and churches, in view of the dofaleation in ihe City I'toasury. We transfor this unique comrposition to our columus for the purpoeo of answering it. Aud first, a6 to ko much of it as relates to the criminal agpects of thio cace. he firet and only ovidonce furnished shat Mr. Cago fs a de- fuulter, and that any infinction of law has beon committed, was presouted yosterday, when ho pnid ovér tho knlance in his Lands to his succozsor in ofico, Tho fact is now officially known for the first time. That theie Lns beon a glaring infraction of 1aw, nobody denies. That the law should ba ox- ecuted {n Mr, Gago'scaso the samo as it it wore Mr, Hosiug'e, Is & proposition too plain for dis- puto, That Mr. Gago isan amisble man and a generous man—that in the courso of a long rosi- denco nmong us he had convinced the majority of hig fellow-citizens that he was an honest man —is attosted not only by his repeated election to offico, but by the large numberof friends who evon now cherish n profound pity for him. Novertholess his case must bo squared by the facts, It is tho duty of tho public authoritios to iudiot and try him tor the offonses of which ho hias been guilty. Tho disgraco coneists in the offenso and not iu the punishment of it. We assumo that the law will bo exccnted without partiality or favor, and that Mr. Gago will meet it without flinching. DBy surrendering his prop- erty to the cliy and his person to the Grand Juty, and accepting manfully all tho conse- queunces of his acts, ho can reinatate himsolf in the estcom of all thoso whose good opinion fs vatuable, and die st last, as die he must, at peaco with evorybody on earth, If he should run away, be could not run away from himsolf—therefore bLe could nover Lo at peace, lle has friouds who will sdhore to him in every emergeucy if he proves worthy of their continued froudship., But violated law must be vistted with its approprinte penalty, The universeof God doos not allow auybody to eseapo it—the laws framed for tho protection "of gociety cannot nghtfully allow Defalcations are multiply- ing with frightful rapidity all over the land, and, if thore is to Lo any security for public trusts, defaultors must be pualshed. It is tho plam duty of the Grend Jury of thus county to iudiot Mr. Gago. Itis the cqually plaiu duty of A, Gugo to appear for trial, aud accopt the verdios of & potit Jury upon his acta, ‘The loug uereed of tho Staats-Zeitung against ¢ whitoued kepulchres,” meanivg thercby the supporters of Mr. Gage i tho late miv clece tion, in order to have uny other point .uu that of sheer brutality, must assume tha the per- sony who voted for Ar, Goge kuew that ho was & defaulter. Not many years ago, the Staats-Zei- tung bnd two particulur pets in offico here,—a Blerift aud a Couaty Clerk. Onoof them dieup- yeared under chicumstances of a painful charnc- ter, leaving Lis bundemen in tho vocative, The othor went to a Wostern Lerritory, and was thiero implicated fn o mysteriony disappenrance of public funds, Did the Staals-Zeitung kuow, when it supported thews mon for oftico, what they intouded to do, or might be seduced into domg? To dewounce peoplo for supporting or voting for men of good repute be- causo they may afiorwards prove unworthy of tho trust reposed io thom, is the sucereat folly and nunsense. Such nrule would cousign the Staats-Zeitung to tho limbo of whited sopulchros with & vengeance. Theso who supported Alr. Qago in tho recout olection did so with an clear s cousciouco a8 ouy mon evor performed any pub- licuet. If the facts that are now known bad been theu kuown, he would not huve gos a singlo voto. Reforoneo is mado by the Zeifung to an afile dayit of Mr. Hesiug's, thut he was waited upun during the recout campuign by a luwyer whu offored 10 him the coutrol of a portion of the city funds as the prico of his supporting Mr. Gage—ibis lawyer eaying that ull the othor newspapors had boon “scen.” Why is not the nume of tlus lawyer given? Trot lum out, Let us oo what ho Lnows, If it Is worth while making au aflidovit, it is worth while tolling the wholo story. The evidont purposo of tho Zeitung's articlo 1 to securo a clewn bill of henlth for tho new City Government [n advance, based upon the defal- cation of Tronsurer Gage, There is really no councction betwoen the two things. We hope that the new City Government wil be a good ono. 1fiuis, we shall say so, If it is not, wo sliall say that, Ita reputation will depond upon itr own wsote, snd not upon thoss of David A, uage. ‘The Captain of tho British bark Magdala han boou arrented ac City Poiut, ou the James River, for inhuman troatment to & boy whom he iu- duced to ship In his vervico at Liverpool. The testimony goes to show that ho was kicked, cnffed, starved, and beaten duriug the wholo voyage, in o manner whiok ia well-nigh unparals loled in tho records of marine oruvlty. Tuo boy, whos s Lavcsshire lad, was vesoued bv an Amorioan Captaws, who obsorved tho Dritieh brute beating bim with an oar beoause he did 0ot row him ashiors fast snough, ke Amerionn tho brute o tho Britlelr bim, ‘The condltion , Onptain iutorfarad, compolled siop, and took the bov to Consul, who s caring for boy, howoever, {8 in o dying bis wounds belng gangrened, his hody covered | with bruises, lis oyes nearly closod by blows from flats and ropes, and his mouth ko badly Injured that hio enu spenak only with tho grentort diffficulty, The marine monstor f8 in custody, Lowover, and the Biitish Consul {s doterminod (o do ovorything in his power to bring him to puniehment. Icv {s o pity that tho American Gaptaln who reecued the boy, did not oxerciro Jurisdiction in the premivot, and give tho brute n thrarhing befoio hie was hmnded over to tho nuthoritios, PUT ON THE DRALES, Tho last lusuo of Tuk Tnisuse contalned end list of officlals who have Latrayed tho trusts conflded Lo them by using tunds which wore not their own, and fludixg whon the day of reckon- Ing camo that thoy woro mot ablo to roptace thom. 1. is noodless to particularizo the doficit in our own City 'I'veasurs, ae the publio s al roady familiar with i, and, in tho prosont do- motalized condition of the city fluauces, it will probably ben long timo boforo its offects will coneo to bo folt, In addition to Lhis defalealion, tho nows of this singlo issuo iuforms us that the City of Pittaburgh bus been robbed of $223,000 in cashi or its oquivalonts, and $2564,000 of water- loan bonds, which wero, goneorously hypothecated by somo of tho oflicera of tho institution whore the funds wero doposited, upon tholr frisnds' notes. The Grand Jury of Jackeon County, Towa, luve just indioted tho late County T'rensurer for tho ombozzlemont of $41,000—the samo oficial who, it will bo remembered, recently affirmod that his eafo had beon robbod of abont that amount, Kausas bas a prolific crop of dofalcations, the ox-Trensurer of Leavonworth City Laving beon found to be $3,000 short in echool monoys, the Trensuror of Leavonworth County, £30,000, and tho Siato Treasurer an nmount, tho size of which is not yet kuown, Next In tho catalogue comestho Treasuror of tho Jowa Stato Graugo, whoso nccounts aro found to bo soveral hundred dollats short, Tho amount though small is significant, na the Granges have been instituted, in part, to oppose the prevailing tide of corruption which is sweeping over tho country. Tho mania for the ilegal appropria- tion of money is not confined to ofilcials clected by the people. Within tho past year, betwoon twenty aud thirty benk-cashjors Lave proved defaulters, and there have been numorous othor inatances of a similor charactor in trust compa- nios, insuranco companies, church organizations, aud evon in public charities. Wherever thero Lins boen mouoy enough to steal, or, in gonteel parlance, to illogally appropriste, tho chouces aro that there-is somo one to steal it. In view of this condition of things, it becomes a very im- .portant quostion to determine whether any honest men havo been elected at all, In this goncral breaking up of the moralitics, thoro teems to bo no standard by which the houosty or dishonesty of public meu can bo losted. Tho irrepronchable character of o life-time, past houor, faithfuluess, public apirit, gonerosity, in- fluonce, even religion, scem to offer no barrier against tho temptation of monoy. The shining gold cleaves evon to the hand which has hithoerto always boon houost. But when and where is this fearful flood of dishonesty to bo checked, and what are we doing tocheckit? Isn'tit timo,ns wo lLave already said in theso columns, to stop and count the money? Ien't it time to place somo ro- straiut upon openly dishonest men, and wen who lhave mot moral stamina sufilolent to resist temptation? Iun't ft timo that wo stopped applying mild and genteol phragea to dishonest practices, and com- menced calling thom by their right namea? st fc timo that storner measures woro adopte ed, and that men who violate law shall sulfer the penglty of Jaw? Has the public any right to | complain if it placoa ita ofiicials whero thou- sands and millions of dollars must pass through their hands, and then leaves thom in possession without chock or rostraiut? Can honesty be ex-~ pected when a poor devil who takes $10 is sont to the Peuitentinry ns n thief and a dan- gerous man to socioty, and the mon who takes Lalf 8 million is sympathized with, because he can’s make good the money Lie has taken—not one dollar of which ho was allowed touse for any purpose othor than ss proseribed by law? It ismot difticult to trace tho causes of this all-provalent dishoucsty, Tho primary causo is fu tho fast }ifo wo are living avd the mania for speculation in land, in stocks, in mines, and othor forma of bap-bazard, which hus selzod upou all classes of peoplo. Tho restless, over— strained, and reckless onorgy of the Amorican peopto urges thom into modes of tiaflie in which chunce is the muin cloment. Our Cham- bors of Commorco sud our Stock Eschanges foster this rockleus oloment. Ouo man makes o fortuno by o lucky throw of tho dico. and straightway o hundrod rush in and lose, People are no longer contout to accamulate wealth, cent upon cont and dollar upon dollar, slowly oud surely, fu tho logitimate ontorprisesof trade. They must accumiduto wealth at a singlo stroko, Tho resul: Is & life wasted Lefore it ronches it prhne, like Ilorace F, Clark's; a lifo suddenly cut short, like TFisk's; or n lifo dsgraced, like Tweed's, Thero s ne midule ground in this commercial gembling Nine men out of ten who tuke those chuncos cither die poor or in ono of the three ways we bave cited, The peualty comes dooner or later. Aunotlior roason for this preva lence of dishonesty 1 the example whioh has Loon sot in high piaces, Iait any wondor that tho emall oflleinls n town snd village do not liegtato to wenl, when thoy have the example boforo thom of lnrge officialy in tho olties and in the States? Whon Btate aud city oflleials and mon holding igh places of uational trust prove untrue, amasg fortunes in a disbonest mauner, and es- capo punishuuent, why shonld not emaller mon catch the wfection and sitempt to travel tho same short rond to wealth ? Tho causes are cloar snongh, but whero la tho remedy? And who will apply it# Is thoro any other remedy than in t'lm Inw ftaolf 2 WIHl this dishonesty evor conre until tho distinotion be- twoen the man who takes ton dolara and the man who takes thousnnds coasesn ? Isitnot timo that tho law, then, stepped in with its pennlty? The diveaso has now reached a stage whoro tho romedy must bo heroio, It wo uro to arrost this tido of dishonesty, it must bo done by the con- stant, rigorous, and Impartial ouforcoment of tho Inw, Whon tho dofanitor kuows that lis de- faleation will send him to the Penitontlary, he will let the monoy which does not bolung to him atono, Bo long, however, a8 the crime dvos nob involve any punisbment, dofaleations will con- tinue, The politician who thinks this hard csn avold the ohancos. of tho PenitenHary Lowovor, who do run for office know that thero fs suro ond swift punishment for violation of their obligations, and tho induoco~ ment to bo Lionost will be atronger thnu tho (omptation to bo dishouest, If A in not punishe ed, why should B, or O, or D bo puvished? And if A {8 not punished, what else is tho failura to punieh but & direot premium for dishouesty ? THE NATIONAU DEFIOIENCY, The Heorotary of tho Treasury haslaid beforo Cougress tho catimatos of tho monoy which ho auke shall bs appropriatod for the fiscal yont be- gluning July 1, 1874, and onding June 80, 1876, o has also mado n special communicazion to the House to the effact that {hero is stich & full- ing off in the revenuo from imports thnt to moot tho ostimated exponditiren thoro must boan inorenso of taxes, sud he proposes that o tax shall bo Iald 0a ton nad coffee, nud tho tox ro- nowed or enlnrgeid on epirl:s, tobacco, gay, and oxpross compnunles, Wheroupon thero was o discusslon in tho Housa on Mondny na to what should bo done. Mr. Dawes roprosonted that the ostimates of tho Governmout wero appalling. Intho faco ot a falling-off in tho rovouue, aud of n general financlal distress, tho ostimatos of tho noxt year demaunded $14,000,000 moro for exponditure than the appropriations made for tho present yenr, Io declared thatif ho lad Lis way ho would not hesitato to apply tho kuife to tha whols book of ertimites, sud reduce it in an smount equal to any deficioncy in the reve- nue, Mr. Garflold also insistod tuat the osti- mutes for the coming year wore oxcessive, and, as o rosult of a conferonce botweon tho Com- witteo of Ways and Means and tho Comumittes on Appr opriations, he proposed the following resolution : Resoleed, That tho Presidont bo requested to causo & Tovision of eafd estimutes tobo made by tho sovoral Excoutivo Departmenta, and causo o report to bo mado to thio Iouso, If possible, oa orly as tho Gtk of Junuary next, sotting forth in detail what public expenditures for tho current fiscal yoar aud what estimates for tho nost fiscal year can bo reduced, nud tho amount of such roduction, without serlous dotriment to tho pub~ He eervico, With all respeot for tho joint sotion of the two Commitices, we suggest that this is a procoed- ing eutirely incongistent with the duties of Con= grosy, and strikingly oxhibits the progress wo aro making in the way of recognizing oxecutivo demonds, Tho Executive Depariment hus of right no voico whatover in regulating or control- ling oither the amount to bo appropristed by Congress, the objects for which it is appro- printed, nor the modo by which the revenuo to moet the national wants shall be raised, Theso aro questions within the exclusive ju- risdiction of Congress, and especinlly of the Ilouse of Ropresentatives, The practice of having tho soveral Departments furnish an es- timato of what they ncod is & mero arracge- ment for the convenionce of Congress ; tho osti- mates thomaolves have no logal authority over tho nction of the Houso, nor do thoy in any sonse rigo above tho character of o rocommonda- tion by tlo clorks who make them out. On an occasion not yot throe yoars old, Mr, Dawes him- solf in Congress oxposed tho charactor of these eatimates, which had always been so made out 88 to havo & surplus fund on hand to bo ox- pended at the disorotion of each potty chief of a bureau, The appropriations for the present year were §806,000,000, Tho Departments havo asked for uext year 320,000,000, The public debt is increasing at the rate of from 98,000,000 to $0,000,000 o montl, nod the defliency for 1874-5, it is nssumed, will be about $45,000.000. There will nleo bo a deficiency for the remainder of the prosont year. To & man of ordinary honesty and intelligonce, there aro three ways to meot this emergency: 1. A reduction of expenditures to the lowost possible sum. 2. A modification of tho tariff by a reduction of duties on all articles of goneral ues, thereby increasing the rovenue from thut source, 3. A contiuuance of the prosent extravagant exponditure, aud an onlargoment of the list bf taxeble objects and articles, 1t will striko tho country as romarkablo that tho Seccrotary of the TFressury should ofticially recommend to Congress that the last of these expedients ho adopted. No thought or ides seems tohavo ontored his head that thoe eatimates might bo eut down, ss Ar. Dawes says, ovor $40,000,000, The Scerelary thinke that whatever tho various Departments ask must be granted, when the sole aud exclusive discrouon as to what mouey should be expended reste in Con- gress. The House, in adopting tho rosolution of Qen. Qarfield that tho Presidont have the ostimates revised, shirks a positive duty and gives @ direct recognition of the suthority of the Executive Dopartments to dictato to Congross in tho amount and tho purpose of the national expenditures. At the samo timo, it is but just to sny tnot Congross iteolf Is extremnoly reprepensible in the matter of national expouditure. At the last scesion, Congress added $10,000,000 to tho cxcessivo estimates for the present year. This included neurly a million aud a helf of dollars for the eslary-grob, tho back-pay, and the incrosso of forward-pay. Tho present Cougress scoms to be imputient to oxpeud an ovon greator sum, The lobby Is waiting for some tirea or four hundred millions of subsidy bonds, and there are large numbera of members prepared to voto thom ; and under these olrcumstances, botweon aspondthrift Congress, s somewhat thoughtless Becrotary of the Treasury, and the loss of revonug, (ke struggle for rotronchmont, econ- omy, and 8 reform in the reveuuo luws is of doubtful yesult. NOTES AND OPINION. Gov. Powors, of Mississippi, having aunounced his detormiuution to Lold on for unother year, Ling ordored spocial cleciioas (Tuosduy, Dac, 80) 1o fill vacaacioy in his own Log.slauwe, and tho Vioksburg lerald snys: This seems to judicute that the Governor feols quite vcoufldent of baving the Sugroma Coiart on bl ridy {n Janslig upon tav constitutfonulity of {ho lute oostion, ut, itlvss o decinlon 19 obtalned before Tucsduy afier tho'third Monduy of Junuary, it 18 llkoly tha Powers Legialutira and the orew vicetol ou tho Ames tokot fu Novewber will orgunize two Lodies, a8 wus done Lo Laoulsiuna, Tho noxt leglalative yoar, In Missisaippi, bo- ging on Tucsdnay, Jan. 20, 1874, and Adolbor Amee cannot (logally) be Inaugurated Governor until the Legixlaturo bus counted and declared tho roturns now in the keoping of Gov, Powors' Bovrotary of Stato, As Gov, Powors holds tho roturny, and holds them to bo illegel, it romains to be eeen what Bon Butler's sou-in-law will do, —The'Loxas Loglelatute will convens on Tuose day, Nov. 18, and Richard Coko will bo inaugu- 1ated Govornor on tho suceseding ‘Phuraday, —It 8 romarked by Now Orlenns nowspapors of Dec, 13 that no yelurns have beon received or doclured, In that city, of the Shroveport District apecial oloction, Nov, 24, although Georgo L. Bmith took hie soat in Congross, Deo. 8, as tho Ropresontative thon olected. ~Congressmen, though donled the (- privilego, havo ordered 16,000 copies ot Nulie dor Stophens' speach lndorsing the ualayy-jrab, ‘Tho Bouthern pross does uot, however, iudorse nking bf Bob runulog for oioe. Keb thoss | Bophoustapaech, The Augusta Constiiutionalist tronts it with profound rogret, and tho Vieka- burg Herald vays: Tio 18 bolifnd thio ago—han been aslcop & aummer'a doy, and did not wake until nightfall—did nothear the Amuloring call or bescashing ery of the proplo agufust this national robbory, - Mr, “ievhens! frlonds uro likly to bo pained ut his initiatory wpeech, and will bo apt fo whisery “tha porple, nnd not Congrosstion, muko partios,” Wo foar this wind winnows uo cors for Mz, 8. in tho future, ~—While conntry aditors (who aro slso Iost- mnstors) aro tryiug hard to keop up thelr faith (n tho Itepublican wajority in Congross, ou tho ealary quostion, tho immedinto organ of thot wnjority—ITarlan’s Ohronicle—snyy s Tho Haues spent somo thmu ye-terduy In tho harme Ten discussion of tho Rubjuct of back-pay, It Is quite ovidout that thors fs no very great unaulmity ¢n thosubject, and 1o fumodiato Trospoct of avy cm- cluefon, % —~The Fond du Lac Commonteealih oxprosnes tho nrh“o“ thnt Mr, Williams will bo cunfirmed a8 Chuef-Justico by the Unltod Hintes Sonalo, and nys: * Wo liave about concludod that thig anjrust body, by whoso ‘advice and con- sent’ appoiuttnonts ato mnde, would just aw promptly bave confirmed Hon. P, Shysier, or uny othior nunentity who was sound poiitically, That seoms to bo the sole qunlulcxu‘lun necos- unry.” Justro. And how long arol udepondent Ropublicans to submit Lo such appolntuonts ?— Madiuon ( Wis.) Democral, —T'here Iy somothing dus to poraonal charnc- ter as woll as to ubility aud political relations, oupecially in the Senafo of the United Stules, In modorn politics, howover, cheracter {s evor: Aay counting lesa and less, aud aftor a while wifl conto to have any weight at all, unloss a vory great 10form goon tales placo, The olaction of Gucpontor ns President of the Seuato, and tho nominaiion of Fernando Wood s Speakor of tho House, aro both on a par, sad to bo con- demmned togother.—Denver Netos, —Thogo two acts prove—if mora proof wero required—that noither of tho old partios is warthy of publio confidenco; that botl, so far as thelx managoment is coucernod, aro o steoped in follies and crimo s to be unablo to rise anove their lovol.—Memplis Avalanche, —Col. Efflinghum Lawrence, who claims that lio was cloctod by an_ovorwhelming mujority to tho_seat In tho National Logislutnre now oceu- \flm‘ by Gon. Byphor, hus just returnod from Washington, with but little hope of having his wronug 1ighted. Sypher, ho says, ocoupied the sout for six years without baving beon elactod, and now e is likely to oceupy it for some yoary longer, without the slightest improvemont in bis titla, 'If Mr. Lawrence gives up iu despur, what Liops can any other Louisiana coutestant havo ? No other claimant eaw preseut o strong o caso a8 ho and baek it up by such on airay of proofs. —XNew Orleans Picayune. —For oucowo find ourselves agrecing with our cantankorous old Democratic friond, the Bridgoy ozt Farmer, which, declares the ciucus action of the Democratic mombors of Corgress * n disgraceful blunder.,"—New York World, —It matters not what action Democratic muin- bors of Congress may pursuo in ropard to tho salory-grub law, and other outrageous legisla- tion of tho last Congross, the peopia have dator- mimod to redresa their own griovances,—Cum- berland (2ll.) Democral. ; —Wo oy fo the people, look well to thoan things, for o political storm is browing which will bo tlorcer and more destructive to part; than this country has ever before-witnessed, And in thig strifo the lnbmln{; and producing clussoe will bo pitted agmnst tho grabbers, and force them to & pohitical death.—AfeLean County (1) Anti-Monopoliat, —Lot the Grungors spot _theso unfaithful ser- vants aud send thom spoedily to private lifo.— ZLariville (II.) Transcript. —hoy [te Presidout and Congress] lavo placed a° staiu on the Republican party that vall not bo ensy to oblitorate, Lo that party in Cone gross, its votors and the paoplo of the whole country asre now looking for something which slinll effaco tho memory of past crumes and mis- takes.—Calhoun (il.) Democrat. 14 18 the * nliry-grab " in_lte nakednoas, nothing more, nothing less. It is stoaling.— Iound Cily (Iil.) Journal. { —A compromiso reduction will nat meet tho viows of the public.—Leavenworth Times. ——l[mzlu[z bock a part of the price *‘won’t ay."—Burlington Hawk-Eye. —All tho spisry-grabbors are no bettor than thieyes, and should be so troated.—Carlinville (i) Enquirer. —Tha poople, thongh impatient, can still af- ford to walt.—Evansville (Ind.) Journal. —Tlie back-pay scandul is but tho koy that un- locks the doors to all the mysteries of cotrup- tion which would otherwiso have remained con- conled ; and that key was unwittingly forged by il,m ;wnricu of an indulged Executive.—Zoslon ost, —If the friends of the ropeal can't order a voto, they cortainly are not strung enough to ro- peal the odious monsure, 'The Republican party 8 ron‘\:oumblo for enacting the scandaloua ln.w{ oud thoy don't meau to repeul ib.—@ = (10 Herald. —_——— FINANCIAL. The RBloominuton Shoe Firm Kot ! L Embarrasscds & Swectal Dispateh to The Chleigo Tyilune, BrooMixaros, Ill,, Dee, 10.—The folluwing stato~ mout uppears to-dsy relative totho firm of Davis & Bruuer, slioo manufaclurers, whose supposed embar- Tussment was oticed yesterday : W00 undersigned was appoiied temporary Recolrs crof tho firm of Davis & Bruner for tha purpose of closing tho company partnership of eatd firin, and not fur tuo Lenafit of tho creditors of said firm, tho firm boiug, 88 1 bolleve, solvent, “ N, 1, Wixgoanpsn, # Roceivor fur Duvis & Bruner,” Georgo Bruner arsiiues contvol of the business, und 611l pay Out A rosume Bt O1ice, Striko at the Cambridge (0) Coal Mincs. Speeia’ Dispateh to CaxpuinoE, O, Dec, 16, at tho Soverai comupwliy tines near bero oro ou s abiiko, aud liuvesued eiroulurs, one of waich reads os foliows NO110F. 10 GHAL-MINERS, We, the miners of e Qumbridgo Conl Mincs, do Dereby notify all niners to keep clear of tho suld 1niues whils we ara sianding on o strike to rogan tho amount of reduction i owhulf cent. per Ly hel, ro- cently mudo by the propriviors of the Cawmbifdgo Mine, (Sigucd) ¥inancial Matters in Pitesburgh. Spectal Dispatch o The Chicuyo Tribune, Preresunal, Pu,, Dee, 16,—~Neatly all of the cotton :’!nllhi have resutucd, sud by Monduy next all will bave oue 60, A Btock Dourd was organized yesterdsy, and the firat call of Jueal nud oilier Blocks wWus ade tos AlINERS OF TIE COAL-MINRS, X1tinow Cont-NMincrs? Strike, e miners of &0 Mo- o 1y biuve quit work fur & - List 1Wo duyh denunditg Au iDcrese i pug. P disl- culty 1k, woatlt In an orgauized kirke, Outstanding Legul-Tender, WasnIxeToN, D. G, Det, 16,~Ouistatidig, Joasle toudors, £74,003.1 Now York Lonn Certificnt ¥ NEW Yourt, Doe, 10.~Tho outeiii* , il tornn- cates of fho bauks auiount to §,50,000 MORTUA Y. a——1 Preparantions for the [ -—-~=~t of Prof. Aguwnz on ‘Thurs.ays BostoN, Doc. 16,—The under-gruduates of Harva:d Collogo unid tho Boxton Boclety of Natural Lijstory huve adapted resolutions appropriutoly noficing tho death Prof, Aguwsiz, Tho _ funeral has been appolnted ' for 3 o'clock Thuredny afternoon in the Apyleton Chapel, A few eaats will bo Texervod for hit {nmediato {riuds, aud the remaindor will ho free. Many wclentifio ani othior Lodive, of whicls the late Proféseor was s member, havo expressed x deniro o tuko part {n the funeral ; bite it Lua boen deefdud, a8 more conformuble o' whnl would bave beun lls own wishes, to doclie all such offers, i Nl ol LOCAL ITEMS, Abont $15.000 wore paid out on tho order uf tho Doard of Public Works yesterduy, to laborecs ou munfeipal mprovemonts, 130 Board of Pollco yestordsy appointad s fow reg- ular putrolmen, and Interviowed the Mayor us to whethier they had any legul right to wuthiorizs tho Bue yerlutondeut of Pollco to sfxu u_vonehor for the ‘upprehiension of an escapod prisoner. Tl Honor told thotn thoy bud, snd they Went away aitlelod, Yaatordiy morning a woman, namod Mary Burke whilo waslifug windows, fell from the sceoud-story of tho old Tremont Houso, und sustuined injurica wiifel 4t 1a bolioved will result’ u hor death, Bl waa tuken to the Aleroy Hoapital, Yeatorday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, & team of Torsca altachod to o buggy, driven by M. Teazou, run north on Unjon street, trom the corner of Rundolph, They aoon bocamo unimanageable, sud at Centra placa cane i1 contuct with & horeo anid buggy bolongiu ton Mr, Johuson. Mr, Toazeu wus thrown onf, nud serlously {njured about the Lesd and fuce, Ha wus removod to 8 houws nenr by, oud uttendud by o ply- slleu, Jolngou'y Horso wad 40 wiuch Lus thit 1t bad ot "I'hie Unjon Gathallo Librury Assoclation Is holding a Lazaur fu Pilios Building, corucr of Monros and Stato streets, to rafeo funds fur the uow ibrury, ‘The lurgo Lullda very tustefully festooned and decoratod with evergreous’ and bunting, There oto four lirge and - bundsome ths, presided over by the fuir duughtors of different moc- tlons of tho city, vexides gipry tonts, Aowor-stands, elo, As o fuly {s comploto withont & 'vato for sarae most sotular gentlomat in somo of the puthw of o, o this !u\no esoeption, A beautiful nud costly toliet vot will bd given to that gontlemen of the following_ threo who rocoiven the groatost mumber of votea: “Mr, Otiarles Whylund, of thu 8t, Eimo} Mr, Phil Conley, of W St Qlazies § Mz, ilahisal Burke, of Durks's Lot | © dstration, Vinceut Gurely et FOREIGN. A Dostructive Hurricane Eie perienced in the North of England, Many Reports of Destructior. of Life and Property. A Proposition to Reduee the Fran- chise in Republican France. Roported Capture of Borga by the Spanish Royalists. Cespedes Deposed {rom the Presidency of the Cuban Republic. GREAT BRITAIN, LoNpoN, Dac. 10,—Tho weathor Laa boen vory tems pestuous to-day throughout the country, und on the coast much datungo to tho ebipping Ia reqorted. A disputch from Bheilleld {o~lny soys: This ciiv sias vislted to-day by o torriblo storm, A larje num. bor of bulldiugs aud chimneys wero lown dow, aud many persons woro killed, One fmmenso chimney crushed a building and the botler theretn, Tho boller exploded, killing 1ud_wounding soveral yereone, In couBequenco of tho great excllorment uud crowds 1n tho streots, few detulis covkd hio learned, LoNpoN, Dec, 17—1:30 n, m,—The storm hus alated, The talegraph wires were prostrated in al) dircetions, ‘bt o mos thiat a70 now working bring uows thiat tha storm extended ulf ovor the nor(h of Lnglaud and fur uto Scotlrnd, Sheflield looks us i it hud bien bome bnrded, The lots of property {s imnenso, Churchen were unroufed, nud mauy factories wera compellect to suspend work. The lowsst eathnate places the casunltica to pereuna in thatelty at seven killed and thirty wounde & ouny fatally. Dispatcbiey aiow thes o ctvcts of tho hurricano Wero folt nt Glusgow, Hallfax, Drews~ bury, and Nottinglum, in all of whicll citica ives wore lost and great dumage done, At Lyeda it {a cetimated thut proyerty to the smount of .£100,000 waa destroyed, Fxlensive domngo wan done ot Wost. Hartlopoo) and Duchwn, Tho shipping sutlored_soverely at Now- castle and Shiclds, A steamer is ashiore ofi Ardrossan, and tho rafiway-station and soversl houses woro blown down in Weeton, near Harrogate, on thie York & North Midland Rallroad. Lonpoy, Dec, 10.—Eugento s visiting Queon Vie- torla to-duy, Lonpox, Deo, 16,—An enthusinstio meoting was held ot Exeter Ifall fo-day, to hear the report of the delo- gaten to tho LEvangelles) Alllance, Lord Ebury pre- #ided, Speechies wero mado by Lord Alfred Ohurch- ill, the Dean of Caunterbury, Rov. Dr, l'arker, and others, who ailuded with tho utmost enthusiasin’ to thetr splendid reception in Amerlea, Jeau Lule, n witness for tho dofenco fn tho Ticke ‘orno case, who was arrested for committing | erjury, and aftorwards digcovered to bo a ticket-of-ieave man, was bronght up ot Bow Street to-diy, When usked 1 1io lind enyihing to say beforo the rovorution of lis licenso, e roplicd, thy pened, but ho way'tuvital and encouragod todo as Lie did,” o declined to sy angthing further, Lujo was then removed to the couvict prison at Pentonville, to serve out tho nuexpired portion of Lies scutenco, after whiels ho will bo trlod for porjury. Loxnox, Dec. 10.—It fa roported that the King of tho Aslundecs 16 deud. e SRS . FRANCE. Pant, Dec, 16.—A ramor ia current that, fn conse~ quence of tho success of the Ropublicans in tho lato supplomentary clections, tho Right of the Assembly resolved to propose sich an dltoration of the Sufitags Law s will doprive 4,000,000 of persous of tLe elective franchise, ——— SPAIN. BAvoxse, Deo, 16.—Tho official journal of tho Carle fsta fu this city snuounces that the Boyallsta havacape tured Bergn, The GUFS of Santa Oruz fa o bo tied by courte martial, MADNLY, Dec, 10, ~The number of Carlist nsurrece tionists is ncreaning. Uikerald Cable spectal, Pants, Doc, 10.—A dispatch from Madrld says Ons~ telor mado an ofilels! eall on Gen, Sicklen to-day, 2o~ comgpanicd by tho Socretary of Bale ~nd_maded fore mal unnouncement of the iurrend: o€ the Virginiua and privoners, The utmosk cordiskity wus shown on oth sides, —_— CUBA. TIAVANA, Dec. 16, Tho following hus be.a recelved from tie beadquarters of the retullion : The so-called Ouban House of Representatives, iu_scssion at Beju~ cal de Jiguond, bhuve formnolly deposed Ceapedes from tho Presidency by vittuo of tho powera con- eeded the leglslative Lronck: in Arlicles 7, 8, and 9 of tho Constitution of Guimaro, The object of this act {8 understood to Lo tho restoration to power of tho. old Junts of New York, Puleto Aquilers will take churge of tho Prosidoncy, which {8 now filled od in- terim by the Marquls of Sauts Lucia, a member of tho Houso of Representatives, Under the now Admin- becowes Sceratury of Wary Dr, Macco Minister of Foreimn Atfairs, and Oalixto Garels Commander-in-Chief of tho forces operating in tho Enstern Dopartment, 1iavaNa, Doc. 16,—iho proposed enrollment for ‘military duty of all men botwecu 18 and 45 yeors of age, one-fourth of whom ara to bo conscripted” for so- tivo service, Is gaining advocates, Tho Liaro eayas “ We aronow nt ho 15th of Docewnber, sud lave ralsed no means and dono nothing new to crush tho robelliou, ~Whoover thinks the confrary makcs a mistake, Lot ua givo fresh impetus to tho winter campal i we would advance an the road {o the | aciication of tho ixland, { Tuo thno passes, Soventy-our follows Seventy-throoe ‘The enemy will gain time and territory, aud we will Laye caurg to doplore our criminal vacidtion, With- i out great and united movement on our “purt, the war will drag on a8 it hus to (lie present hour, It has con sumed snnuully from 10,009 to 15,000 soldiers snd $10,003,000, When wo find oursolves fallen never to riee ugain, wo will bitterly ropeut our short-sighted lack of preparation,” "Ti1o Vose de Cubs shows that tho prolonged rerist anco of Cartagena ls drainiug the resources of Spain und weakening her power. Castelar is not etrong enougli now to oppose the exactious of foreign Govern- ments, which nearly oll tend to tha destruction of Cuby, and he longer bis declining power is respocted und obeyed in Cubn, tho greater i+ tho probaility that the object of thiese forign demands will be ace complished. Boversl Tetters appenr in the eveniug Journals nd= dreased to the Oiptulu-Generu, und cailitig ou i ta decluro tha llawl”§1 w stato of ‘siege, andl t eurull the citizone, Tha stenmer from Cadiz arrived to-duse4s 000 o, s aud 150 seamen, - — CHINA AND JAPAN. 8ax Fraxcieco, Dec, 16,—Steamer Aluslt, to-niglt, biings dates from Yokohania to Nav, g.. 1w Al s deisyed by ulos atid s°rong Uead winids, Provious to bis deynriuve, Mr, D ~ui ws otfer £yrewoll banquet by the Amoric. e Cormiu « mte of Yokobutn aud Yedo, 7 * 8 pauenger on 1uo Alueky, On the 71l of November the Emproar and wee . the er wi« {hrown from o earrlogo at Tua:, Inio & soud, tut eseaped unburt, The horess we . f6 ned, Poiitical motters in Jupan ey ¢ ft, I A b toved it tho uow Biulutry Wil carry”uis o L iveassisunt waletly, A firo at Taliol destroyed 200 Louses; wera lust, Tquiry fn the caso of the Ints of the rtes= ar Arial, hoiora tho Vieo-Consul, rosulicd fi the exuncrawon of Qapt, Newell from ll blatae in *he pronsines, "o Colvmbiue, British stoumer, wrockvd near Qorimn, was run uehoro by the Japaneso pwl, Thio Nkado's birthday, 3 NovewuLer, wuy eclebrifed with great pomp at Yokoli.ms, Quiioa sevaro shock of un’ earthquake aceurred nt Yokobama on tho 15th November, No damugo wia doue, Tho Sponish nuthorities at Manilla bnvo rcleieed Ar, Iold, suporcargo of {he barle Loulhy, eaptured by them Tocently, A mission haa becn dlspatched by (o Chinese Lme peror to Pern and Ouba fo Inquire futo the Cuolie Arulle and treatuent of Coolles iu thioso countrics, — AFRICA, Loxnow, Dec, 10,—Advices from Capo Coast Castle totho 24l uit, roport that Gou, Sir Guruet Woincley hud completely recovered Lis Luulth ind remned wtive dul{. Duriug bis Hincss the expedition wus ut gtand-ntill, and the movements bad since Tud Lesn ditilcult owing to the lurgo nuanbors of elck, The nue thorities at Mudwru woru plocing sl the obatructions thoy conld fu the way of tho establishment (here of & ndionlm for British eoldiers stricken wlih fuver, —— SWI1ZE RLAND, LoxpoN, Doc, 10.~The Swirs Guvernment hns ro. imbursed Count Statemplli tho oxpenos incnrrod by Lm as nzember of (Lo Geneve Court of Adbitiution, the Quunt docliniug an Louorarium i the fusis of & testimonlal, LEGAL INTELLIGENCE, A tlaim for Dumnges Agninst o Rall road to Ko Settied by Avbitration, Spectal ispateh to ‘The Chicano Tribune, Ananp Ravios, Mich,, Dec, 16,—An intercating fn- stunco of arbltrution, taking the pluce of alaw sult, oceurs in tufs city, Mra, M, E, Early, of Lowd), thin Oounty, was a sufferor by tho disaster ou tho Detroit & AMllwaukeo Tinflway, on Sept, 17, by which four por- sons lost tholr lives, Mrv, Eurlo Legen suit In the- Clreult Coust for $20,000 duntuges, The wuit s now dfsmisod from Court by stipulation, and the following "five physlciuns of Grund Rapfds bave Deon appoiuted s arbitrators: Jobm- son, Henderson, Stcvenon, DeCamp, sud Blisa, These gontlemon will visit Mra. Grey, oxsmiuo. hier bodily fujurls, Teturn to this clity, and 'ltou to, 1o law fraw the uttorneyy for bolh partics, aud then’ uword dutages, Hngh' MoOnedy sud Thowns Qlurch appeur for the ruilvoad " compuny § Bl Burliugune sad J, A, Fairfield for Mis, Qray, ™ weaal lives