Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1873, Page 4

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Jelpliki, viv % Ul unrivalod success fu tho troatment of sulmotary diseacos, irro Puimonte Syfup rigans tho morbid ma-ter n tho Inags: tw-ed thiruwre I OIf by am Gass oxpociaration, for fion ilo phicgm e ma tor I8 rige. u iyl cough will thiraw 1t olf, 1hu pationt has rost and’ tho Iuugs bugln to il ‘'’ enabin *ho Pulmonic Syrup o do this, Schonok's Mandrak + Pillx 1 nd Scheuck’ o1 Wewd Torlo niww. bo ircoly used to cleunso 1ho stomacn and Son nck's Mnndeaks Pi'lno’ on 1ko Hver, removing all obetu. tlonn, relax tha gall bladder, tho bils atarts freely, ai tliy livor is sonu ruli -y d, Schunch's Sea Wed Tanfo fs a gantls stimulant, and attorua ivo: tho alkali of 1ho sca wo d, of which {t fs con Dorod, milxra wi bt tho fvod und preved 8 siucing, 1 s @ista iho diyos lun by toning up oy mumnch to a heal b wnudidun, s tuat (ho fod und tho Pulmento 8yiup will Tuske goud blood; thon 1he lungs hoal and thipaiizut ill suroly get woll, if eura s takon to provony fresu ol “Afi who wish toconsult Dr. Schonck, olther perannall ©or by v ter, =an do a0, froo of chlr¥ at his I.rlnnlpl offies, earndr Statn and Arch +froute, Philadoiphla. thatongh examiuation with Bis wspirumoir, Dr, e Te e ts through. un 1y, —al dicitos aro sold by all drug The Chicage Teibune, Pridny Morning, Decomber 19, 1873. The Touse haa attempted to forco the Scnate into covcurring in & lholidsy recess, baving szain ndopted a resolution to adjourn to-day till Monday, Jan. 6. The House Lill on ralaries was yesterday in- trodaced Inte the Senate, and, after being twico xend, was referred to the Committes on Civil Rervice and Retrenchmont, The supplementary titlo of this Committee would indicute that the bill hias been roferred to tho wrong plsce. The remaing of Prol. Agnesiz were yestorday deposited in Mount Aukurn Cemetery, with sim-~ plo coremonies, well ruited to tho character of the mau in life. Among the pail-bearers were Vice-Prevident Wilson, Gov. Washburn, ex- Gov. Claflin, Oliver Wendell Iloimes, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thero is to bo an English investigation into tho Ville du Havre disaster, to begin ou the 30th inst. The facts that bave come out, ¥o far, indicato n greater need for an investigation on tho part of the Fronch. which would reach the Frenclinen, who seem to bo mainly responsible for iLe collision, Tl Judiciary Committce of the House have reported & supplemental Civil Rights bill, wiich malkes the refural of hotels, cais, stages, sleam- bonts, aud even cemetorios, to **encertain per~ Bons on account of rsce or color punishable with & fine of from 8100 to $5,000, beeidos rondering tho partics 8o refusing liable to suits for damages, DPerteet is reported as Leing resigned to his Tate, aud his execution will probably occur be- sween 1 and 2 o'clock to-day. It s alsoan- aounced that Gov, Boveridgo has refused to in~ serforo in Rafferty’s ‘bohalf, and his exccution is 3xod for Friday, Dec. 26. [t is probable that lis sounsel will moke an application for & euper- tedean, The Council have postponed action on the ap- pointment of Klokke to the Board of Polico, anl Rebm as Polics Superintendont, though the Cor- poration Couneel has given it as his opinion that Rebm {s ebigible, Concerning the Gago defaleation, thete was a resolution instructing the Finanee Committes to mako a demand upon the bondsmen to mako good the deficiency. The timo of the Senate was occupied vestor- duy in a discussion of the Tinenco Committee's weolution for the resumption of specie pay- wnents. Views wero exproesed in favor of ex- prugion, contraction, aud inaction, and thero the matter rosted. Mr, Bumnor'as pertinent questions served to keop Mr. Morton down to tho issuo, iu spite of bis disposition to avold it. Our Springfield dispatches this morning atato the grounds on which tha Townsbhip of Oran has aued out ay injunction, reetrainiag the collection of taxes to ray the interest on bonds claimed by tho Indianapulis, Bloumington & Western Rail- rond. Theso bouds weiro originully issued to o rond which wus atterwarda swallowed up by the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western Ruilroad, and it {u clauned that tho coneolidation vitintes tho Issue, The statement is wado that Gen, Howard ob- fecis that thero are threo ox-Confoderates on the Houso Military Committee to which his caso has beon reforred. It iw dififeult to undeistand why a former attachment to the Confederscy, which husLecn formally forgiven, should dinquuls ity an otherwise intelligent man from judyging whether there was u defaleation m Qen, How- ard's Burcau or not, aud who is respousiLlo for it The Chiengo produce markets weto genorally bignor yoctorday, withi u fair uggregato of trause uctions, Mous pork was actlve nad ndvancod 8 @9%5¢ per bul, closing ut $14.25@14.90 casly, and F14.8:@14.00 seller Kobruary, Lard was uctivo, nnd 10@200 per 100 thy bigher, closing at 88,30@ BY5 cash, aud $8.70@8.76 wellor Felrum Moms wore more aciive, nad o shade firmor, ot 530 for whoulders, 03@7c for short riby. 730 for short clear, all noxed, aud BY@D4e for swact plekled hams, Highwines were active und fna- or, at U6@Y70 por gallon, Drossed hogs wore more active aud 100 higher, at $6,60@0.75 por 100 ma, Flour was moro activo sud steady, st $6.80@5.76 for good spring cxiran, Whuat wus H in good domand, aud X(@34e highor, closing at L4 cnoh, and %116%¢e scller Jnnuacy. Corn was 1e highor, with moro doiug, andelased at 6240 cash, and 62GE2340 woller January. Outs wero more nctive, aud !(e highor, cloaing at 30 ennh, and 3830 seller Jnuuary, Tiyo wasdull and ensler, at 76@76)4c, Barloy was quiet and stendy ut 3133 for No, 2, und §1,04@1.05 for good No. 3, TLive hogs wore falrly astive at £4.60@4,90, Cattlo and shcey wors firm. Tho 1388 of the franking priviloge seoms to worry Congressmen more than any of the more important and complicaiod public questions of the dny. Tho question of printing the Bluo-Boolk Lrougut it up 1 the Sanato yesterday, and Mr. Bliormau snld that he elould voto agaiust print- ing overy public document unless provislons wero made fur distributing them. Ous of the prineipnl savings sought to be made by the avolition of tho Irauking privilogo wna in the reduction of the number of public documents | printed to what is aotually needed. Those who | nood and are entitled to public documents, out- sido of the Dopartmonts at Washington, will find some way of getting them; to soud them frea to any othets ia & double waste in printing and mail exponses. ‘Wo hope that tho Senate, befors following the hendlong courso of tho House in repesliug tho Daukrupt Jaw, will soberly inquire how much bevofit will acorua to dobtore thiereby, Wo can conceivo of nothivg mote likely to sturtn new panic thon to pass a Lill which will put every cioditor on the chage after overy dobtor in order togot his own debt paid or secured before tho property isall gone. Tho Bankrapt lnw puts all creditors on tho same footing ms to tho cetato of an insolvent debtor. 'I'o common law knows notbing but the *raco of diligence,” Each ono for himeclf and dowil take tho Lindmost, is tho rule to which itis proposed to remit tho morcautilo community. Of courso it is unploasant to be obliged to pay debtsinn time of genoral siringency, but how does the 1epesl of the Bankrupt law roleass anybody from paymeut ? Wo aro gratified to loarn from tho State Jour- nal that the Auditor of Illinols is and always Lias been opposed to tho grab law of 1869; also, that tho Journal iteolf is opposed to it; aluo, that thero is no1iug of 1ailroad-aid Londholdors in Springfleld. Wo inferred thnt the Auditor wasin favor of the grab law, beeause Lo was 8o efficlent in its exccution, and also becauso it gavo him ove dollar each timo ho sigued bis nams ona bond. The process of issuing theso bonds bhas not yot come to an ond, wo bolieve. Since the Audltor and the Journal are opposed to the law, aud eiuco it is tolerably evidont that thie peoplo of tho State aro opposed to it, and mince thero is no railroad &nd bondholding ring at Springfield, we shall look for an early cessa~ tion of operationa underit. The law itself was reposled by the prosent State Constitution in three difforont patts of that instrumont, any ono of wluch was sullicient for the purpose. If, in addition to this, tho State officors are opposed to it, wo shall oxpect that the peopls of the State will bo spared the necessity of forking over §1,200,000 next year in pursusnce of it, or of goiug to the trouble and expense of litigation to avoid the tax, Alr. Edward Roby, attorney-at-law, yesterday filed o bilt in equity in the case of Hamilton N. Walrath v, I, ML Clary, Town Collector of South Chicago, to restiain him from collecting taxes on iy (Walrath's) property under the rairoad grabtaw of 18069. The plaintiff in this case offers to pay all toxea assessed sgaiost him ex- copt (he 93¢ cents on each $100 sssessed undor the grab law, which he deelares to be unconsti- tutional. Attornoy-General Edssll, haviug ro- ceived due mnotico of tho bill, filed & demurrer, Mr. Roby consented that the demurcer should Lo sustained pro jforma, and theroupon took an appeal to the Bupreme Court, Contrsl Grand Division, The cage will bo argued at 8priugfield at the noxt term of the Court, aud will bring up the question of the grab Inw in all ita logal bearings. As thisis s caso affecting the State revenue, it will probably be advanced in the docket of tho Court 80 as 10 so- cure an eorly hearing and determination. At the same time Mr. Roby filed a Lill in bohalf of Mr. J. M., Adsit, to teat the action of thoe State Boord of Equalization. Mr. Adsit li,ted, smong other property for taxation, $47,300 in curroncy, Tho sapient Bonrd of Equalzation iaised the valuation of this currency to above $70.000. Comptroller flayes sent & communication to the Council last night, setting forth the condi- tion of the city finances, aud recommonding tho policy to be adopted. The actual availablo cash in tho Treasury is $468,438, with which to meet are indebtedness of 1,728,000, which matures witliin tho next ninety days. Of this, thero aro §00,000 of bonds, paysble on Jau. 1, for which there is authority to issue unew bonds; but no steps bave yet booen taken to negotinto them. Tho sim of 168,000 is due in iniercat at the samo timo, and must bo paid. The balauce, $1,200,000, cousists of flonting indeblednons maturing from time to time within the next three montha, Mr, Hayes disapproves of the practico heretofore pursued of taking spectal funds to pay off indebtodnesy not provided for, but rowinds the Council that the Chartor authorizes thom to deposit tho city monoys in banks, with proper sccurity and without referenco to specinl purposes, As a result of tho old plan, thero appears on the books to the credit cf various funds the sum of $2,002,224, while the cusl, if tho Trmisnry deficit wero mado good, would only bo $935,780. Alr. Hujos reo- ommends thet muthoricy be given tho Mayor, Comptraller, and Fiuance Comumittee to eall for monoey from tho Trensurer tweuty days before obligations bocomo & 10, and doposit thie samo in huouhs, either in New York or Clucago, to bo drawn upon. Mr. Hayos nlso says that tho prac- ice of making public improvements and paying for thom bofore the mouey is collected must boe stopped, and urgos that the Council siall maie all hinste In dotermining the proposed reduction u appropifutions tor the curients year, in oidar thut tho tax-lovy may be mads up. The appro- priuzion, an 1t stands, amounts to $0,003,837.27. At tho third and last day of their annual mectiug, tho Btute Luimens' Asscelation adontod & |latform, wlich may bo recopted, not only ug au exproseion of thelr views, but as a proposod decln.ntion of priuciples for the new party to which they havo theioin pledged themsolvos, They declare (1) that it is tho duly of cltizons touttend primary mestings and take nctive pare in politioal campalgns; (3) that the recent record of hoth tho old pohitieal partios Iy euch us to forfeit the rospeol uud confidonce of tho pooplo, who uro, therofore, ab- solved from all allegianco to thom and should act no longor w thom (8) that the alary DUl must be repesled abuctutel, (4) in favor of roduolng tho salaries of publioofficors; (B) for o roform of the abusos in tho Oivil Ser- vico; (0) that tho navigation of the lakes and rivora bo fraproved as oarly s practicable; (7) plain apnd uncompromising opposition to the wholo systom of a profectivo turiffy (8) acainst furthor grants of land, and against the loan- ing of Covernmout credit to corporn- tionsy (9) In favor of 1cpeaMup tlo Na- tionnl Currency nct, snd tho lesuo of all eurroncy dircet from tho United Btatus Treny- ury, to be interconvertiblo with low Interont- bearing bonds ; (10) for the revision and reatric- tion of the patont laws; (11) agalust such o con- slruction of tho Biate Constitution as will uuthorizo annual sosslons of the Legislature ; (13) approval of tho existing railway legislation in this Stato, and tho domaud that tho National Government shall not intorfero on the ground of regulating commoreo botween tho States; (13) tho 1ight of the Legivlaturo to control 1ail- roads; (14) the prohibition of freo pussos for publio ofilcors; (16) reduction in publio oxpeu~ ditures; and (16) agaiost the combination of tho plow=mnukors. Homoaof the rosolutions woro dis- cussod ot length, ospecinlly Lhat coucorning tho formation of & now party, ‘I'hosewho attompted to apologizo for the Itopublican party wore Llissed down, and tho resolution declating a sepuration from both parties expresses the onthusinstio sontiment of tho Association. Aftor the platform waa comypleted, another resolution was adopted, openly condemning Prosidont Grant for having uscd Lis ofticial poeition to mecure tho pnesage of tho salarv-grab law, Two other resolutions, ono expressing tho dotormination to romst tho collection of the excoss of taxation imposed by the State Auditor, and tho other de~ manding the ropesl of tho Btate grab law of 1869, wore recoived with applause. We print In full the papors 1ead at yeaterday's session, Tho Associatioa has ndjourncd till the day of the next annual meeting. POT CALLING KETTLE BLACK, ‘We roprint from the Staals-Zeilung of yestor- day o 20ply to an srticle in Tite TRiuNE of Tuos- day, in which the cases of Fischer and Sslomon woro recalled. Wo accopt Mr. Hosing's state- ments in regard to theso gentlemen for what thoy are worth, of which every oune may judge for himself, and have no disposition to either cuntradict or verify thom. But Mr. Hoesing, without clarging that Tne Tamone hod suy actual knowledgo of o doficit in the City Treas- ury before tho election, intimatos that wo nad reason to suspect tho real coudition of things. This is mot true. Tho only intimation we hiad came from thocolumns of the Staals- Zeitung. Tho charges mado by that journal were vaguo sud indofinite, and bore tho marks of personal venom and political malice. Our anawer waa the repealod assurance that Mr. Gage would give Mr, Iesing, or any other person, every facllity for counting tho mouey, as weo belioved ho would, and wo urged Mr. Hesing to go to the City Treasuror's oflice and count the funds. Had he or any ouo clse done this, and had Mr. Gage refused him the privilego, wo should have declined to sup- vort Mr. Gage, If Mr. Hosing's suspicions were woll-founded, his neglect to do thia was a doro- liction of his duty as citizon, journalist, and quast public character. Wo did ineist, bowover, tlnt the Finauco Committeo of the Council sliould do what Mr. Hoesing had neglected to do, and when they made their report costifying tn tho correctness of Mr, Gago's accounls, we had what scemod to us good reason for discroditing tho statements made by the Slaats-Zeitung. Aflidavits aro not so cheap in this office as they scom to bo in some places. Wo affirm, however, that we neither knew nor suspected that there was anythieg wrang in the I'reasurer’s offica be- fora the slection, nor for a considorable time thoreafter. No form of swoaring supported by tho Zeitung, can mako this stalemont more em- phatic. There i3 one point in this controversy which we arc anxious to bave Mr. Hesing meot in the same way that Mr. Goge has met his dofalcation. Mr. Hesing has drawn out of the City Treasury $85,837 for which he has givon no adequate compensation ; which he lnid de- Liborate plans to securo, anl which he never intended fo return, He induced the Btato Leg- ielaturo some yeara'ago to pass & law authorz- ing him to do thie, and we defy the combined statutos of all the States in the Union to pro- duco a specimen of legulized fraud that will ovortop 1, Tho law is as follows : Tho proccedings, motices, and ordinsnces of sald city and the departmenta (hercof shall bo published in thio uewspaper printed {n the German langusge having the largest duily circulatiou in eald city [tho Staats- Zettung] aa fully as thoy are now roquired to be pub- lisbod In the corporation nowspuper, Provtded, that in no judicial or other vioceeding shull the pubilcation auch German paver bo calied into question, either as fo e fuct of ita publication or to the correctness therea, It will bo seen that tlo law acknowledgos that tho publication in the German languazo is of no value to the city, nnd thot it was passed simply aud solely to enable Mr, Hosing to got hold of & cortaio amount of public monoy ench year. It mattors not, undor tbia law, whether dir. Hesing vrints tho official notices correctly or not, nor whether he prints them al all, he is ontitled to receivo tho ameo amount as the corporation nowspaper. This bas hitherto beon about $15,000 a year, and bas aggrogated over §85,000 ; what It will bo in futwre, and of how much monoy Mr. Hosing may atill dofraud the peoplo of Chicago, it is not possiblo to say. Bat wo havo eald before, rnd we repeat now, that Mr, David A, Gogo, whom Alr, Hesing is hounding with hypooritical fury, Las nevor been gullty of g0 deliberato an effort to poesess himeolf of other peoplo's monay as this, though he s guilty in the eyes of tho luw, while Mr, Hesing is not. Mr. Guge, culpable as be is (and wo shall not sbicld him from any of tho consaquences of his acts), has nover lobbied with the Leglslature to rob the people for his own heneflt, Though he has used city money confided to him, it hus boen with tho intention of rowurniug it anl,” uow that ho cannot do ths, bo has turned over all tho poperty ho bas in tho world to male good the doficienoy, Mr, Heslng, on tho other hand, bas ueed his political Iufiuen co to Liavoa frand logalizod whiol pute 815,000 of tha poo-, plo’s tasos Into Lis pookots, or tho treasury of 1:s nowspaper, evory year, and has not uow, and novor Lad, auy intoution of paying It back, Mr., Gago is a culprit In tho oyas of tho law, but it Is scaudalous aud {udecont that a man of Heang's rolutions to the pullicshould throw stoues at Lim., Thomas Carlyle, who has heen so long silont, has been once more hoard from, haviug pro- pored a pamphlet in which he justifies the courso of the Prussian Governmont in expelling the Jesuits, Tho pamphict is nddroused to the King of Bavaria, who, it 1s euid, will not read it. On the other Liand, the English have read it, Lut many of them do not agree with Mr, Car- THEI CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1Y e1d wos unjuat, boeauso it punished not only without convicting tho sufferors of any oftense, but without oven charging them with any. The London gorrospondent of the Now York Times nays that all tho Eogli-1i Catholies aro apposed to Bismarck, wnile tho groat majority of the English Piotestants aro strongly in his favor, 8o that Carlyle will probably find plonty of renders to compensate him for King Louis' elight, MR, HOOTON ON CURRENOY. In tho speech doliverod by Mr. M. M. Hooton at Decatur thore are somno things discussed with considorable forco, No one can read the specch without being improssed with tho carnestness and the evident sincority of his language, and, it thero Lo points which will not boar the test of coonomie ciiticlam, it by no monns wenkens tho conviction thnt Mr, Hooton really thinks what Lo kays, Inthe mattor of the usoof gold and silvor a8 monoy, and their omploymont ns n standard of valuos, Mr. Hooton oxpressos opin- fous which we conslder tromendously erroncous ; novertheloss {hoy sro opiofons that inve a Ligh antiquity, and have, wo bolieve, been advauced by Thaddeus Btevons and Willism D. Kelloy. Mr. Hooton contonds that money, in ordor to bo good, does not need Lnve sny other value than that stamped on it by the Government. In othior words, that whon the Governmont shall stamp its dollar-mark on o given quantity of Iron, tin, lead, or paper, and declare it a logal- tonder, such money is asgood asif it werocomed of gold or silvor. Ho states his proposition to bo that * The matorial on which the money- toltons of o country are impressed has nothing to do with the valuo theroof as money. There- foro tho thoory that money, in order to bo good, must bo redoomod in something botter, is all bosb.” o thoreforo regards the whole theory of specie rosnmption as “ o froud and a choat.” 1lie romedy for all financial ovils is tho repeal of all bauking and uswsy laws; the retirement of all bank circulation nnd its pormanont prohibi- tion ; tho Iasue of fifty millions of logal-tondera overy month in payment of an equal amou.t of national bonds,—thiose notea not to be promises to pay, bue cortificates of value, authorized to pay all dobts, This currency Lo wishes to have decreed to be mounoy equal with gold and sil- ver." Ho gives as a form for one of theso notes the following: * United Btates of America. TFivo dollars, (Signod) » Bocretary of the Treasury.” He wants this currency issued until it shall bo 80 abundant that holders will readily lend it at 8 per cent, By adding a little more to tho quantity, of courso the holders would readily lend it for nothing, and the borrowera wouldn't taks it ac that prico. In his argument, Mr. Hooton points out the foct that, during tho times of great inflation of paper monoy, prices of labor and of all produc- tions Liave advanced and good times provailed. He admits that the inflations wore followed by crashos, but maintains that thia result was due 1o the faot that tho currenoy was redecmable in specio, and, the banka failing to redeom, tho pa.. por becamo worthless. As the greenbaok is nover to be redecomed, there can be no such fail- ure, and, the currency being legal-tender, thore can bo no lose. 1Ar. Hooton's argument proves too much, Ho admits his own fallsoy when Lo says that, as the paper currency becomes inflated, prices nominsily ad- vauce. The laborer, whose wages sdvance 25 per cent, is met by & corresponding it not greator ndvance in what he has to buy; ‘whent may advanco 80 conts a bushel, but, if tho farmer has to pay 30 to 40 conts more for each articlo ho could havo obtaned for a bushel of whoat, wherein is he benefited by the changoe? The advance in prices is but equivalont to the dopreciation in the paper currency, tho real value of Isbor and product remanine ing as they wete before. It is true that ithes beon doecided that the Government may, under the exigencies of war, *as a measure of necossity,” muke its pepor promises & logal- tender in paymont of debts; but that, after all, ia a species of robery and ropudiation, We do not bolievo that the most latitudinarian econo- mist lns yet ciaimed that the Govornmont can compel aman to soll or oxchaugo lus goods or his labor for cithor groenbacks or gold, Making grecnbacks legal-tendor can at most apply only to existing dobts, Whon pre-axisting debts are all paid with legal-tendar notes, how is the con- dition of things betterod ? Prices advanco pre- cisely in tho proportion that grecubacks do- preciate from the gold standard, If groonbacks are worth but 50 conts ia gold, it will take §2 1 paper to purchase what ono roal dollar would buy. There are numerousinstances to show the moonsbine folly of all attompts to make any- thing but tho precious metals a standard of values. Tho experimont of making brass and coppor and 1won colus, and stamping them with the valuo-mark of gold, has boen tried in many countries, and always with the same result, Bings dollats will purchase goods to their value 08 brass, and nothing more. With an fssuo of two thousand millions of greenbacks, irredesm- able at any time, they would fall solow that it wounld rejuiro & bushol of currency to purchase a bushel of whout. If a1l that is nooded to moko papor a8 good us gold is the Governmont stamp, why ls it that, after eight yoars of poaco, tho greenbacls, outatanding only in limited smount, fails to purchiase what the gold dollar will buy? Tha Confedorate Government tried tho policy of stamplug papor in unlimitod amounts with the dollas-mark, and, long beforo the War waa over, the valuo of that monoy was illustrated fn the remark that tho purchasor carried his currency to market in & busket and brougit home Lis pure chiages n bis vost-pocket, Mr, Mooton imagines a condition of things whon gold will bo g0 plonty that it will have no greator value than iron, aud asks; Whore thon will be the standard? Itis just bocauso this abundanco of gold s an Impossibility that gold is s standard of value, aud it will romain 8o just so long as that impos- sibllity existe, 1f whoat and corn should beoome articles of spontancons growth in all parts of the inhabitod earth, thoy would loso thelr come morcial value; aud thove Is just as much likells haod of tho one as of the othor. We biava given moro space to this subjoct than itis fulily worth; but whou Mr, Hooton, ad- drossing & lazgo roprosentative body of farwers, ropoats fallnoios which have had the sanotion of suoh o conspicuous public wan aa the late Thad, Stoveus, avd of tho Philadelphia stateaman, Kelloy, it is porhaps propor that thoy should not go to the publlc uunoticed, ———— Tho foroign dispatohes have several times of lato conveyed futimations of an {mponding famiue in Yeugs!, but have contained no deo- tuits, The procoedings of a rocont meeting held iu Londoun supply this want, Tho population of Bougal numbers 60,000,000, and, necording to tha lowest eatimate, 24,000,000 aro suffering, aud of tuews fully oue-fourth will have to be relleved by Government sid, To keap life iu this num- ber of poople for eix montbs will require Iyle, taking the gvound that the sotion of Pras- | 6,500,000 tons of slos, requlring an outley of 1873, £4,000,000 Ly the Government, An incidental fenturo of the mooting was tho faot that the Governmont itself was charged with the famine anad vory soveraly consured for not constructing the irrigation works whioh it had agreed to, and which would have averted the famine, by saving tho crops. THE OASE OF GEN, HOWARD, Tho ofticial reports of Ausistant Adjutant-Gen- eral Vincent and laspoctor-Genoral Beliriver, on the cnse of Goo. Howard, which necompanied tho rocont lettor of Bocrotary Belknap to Con- grens, givo tho facts on whioh the Becrotary of War makos his chiargos of fraud and mnlfeasanco agninst tho Commissioner of Freodmon's Affatrs, Tho substauce of their disclosuron {a that Com- misaionsr Ioward spent large sums when no oxponditure bad boon sathorized ; that Lo mis- approprintod funds intrusted to Lim for spe- cific purposos ; that Lio bas willfully refused to comply with the ordets of ‘s superiors to rendor vouchiers nud accounts, the non- praduction of which 8 bolioved to bo designed to pravout disolosurss of fllogal procoedinga; that he so mannged his Bureau that its operationa woro neodlessly susponded, ond o misapplied its fuada as to defraud no: ouly tho Unitad Statos Troasury, but tho colored soldlors and sailors aud thalr ramilics, whoso in- torests ho was appainted to guarl, Ouo of the funds in Commissionor HMoward's bands was kuown as tho “rotained bounty fund.” DBoth the Assmstant Adjutant-Gonoral and the Inspoctor-Gonoral roport tholr iuability to mecortain what 1ts amount is er ought to be. .The War Dapartmont ordered tho Commissionor toroport ths vondition of tho fund in January, 1873, and sevoral timos sinco, bat tho ordors havo nover beon compliod with, sud Gen, Vincont states iy bolief that the nogloot was intentional nnd nocessury to provent undesirablo disclosures, Over $71,000 of this fund woro invested in Uvnited Biates 7-80 bouds in Juno, 1363, nl- though thore was no warrant of law for anv euch proceduro. Of the income which was ob- tained in this way, smounting to several thou- snnd dollars, tho War Dopartmont could nover got sny account, and it was as unsuccossful in its attempts to bave the income of tho Burcau from cortein ronts sccounted for. The total of this rent and intorest wae about $6,000. Nothing in tho conduct of tho Buroau was moro shameloss than the manner in which the voucheis wore mado to disappear, aud tho pre- varication, not to say lyivg, which naturally went with their disappoaranco, At firet, the demnnd of tho Government for the rendition of the ac- counts and vouchers in connectiou with the *re- tained bounty fund” was met by tho ploa that this fund was not public monoy, and its dis- bursemont was mattor for private sottloment only. Whon a roforenco to the United Statea statutos overthrow this proposition, it was ploaded again, after months of dolay, thet tho vouchers had not been presorved, becauso tho Becond Comptroller of the Treasury had decided that such disbursements as thoy reprosonted necded not to be accounted for. The Second ‘Comptroller denica that he made such a decision. Noc only did the Buroau refuso to flle vouchers after it was ordered to do so, but it took away from tho Auditor's office & large number which lad beon already placed there. In congoquonce, the recoipts and expenditures of ihis retalned bounty fund are uume- counted for, and it counot be discovered what ite amount shonld be, though it is stated by both Gens, Vincont and Schrivor at about $1321,000. There is no doubt that Gen. Bchriver puts this matior in ita truo light whon ho says: *When it is1emembered that those acoounts were for & period of more than throo years, and thoroforo of considerabla volume, it is diffcult to bolteve that they aud their duplicates, which must have been retained, are all lost or mis- placed, and that their non-production when called for specially by the Secretary of War is not designed to provent the disclosure of some irregular or illegal procoedings,” For the fiscal year 1873, Congress intrusted Commissioner Howard with $165,000 to be used for certain well-defined purposes; $87,600 for the payment of bounties and othor claims of colored soldiers and sailors, aud $78,000 for tho Froodmen's Hospital at Washington, Gen, Vin- cent, nftor a caroful examination of the manner in which these sums wero oxpended, roports that no less than $70,662.48 was exponded without warrant of law for objects not contomplated by Cougress, nnd he recommends tuat tho Commis- sioner bo compolled by legal measures to make routitution. An equally inexcasablo and cruol irregularity was the unlawful expenditure, for ordinary purposes, betweon January and March, 1871, of $47,807 of the fund leld for the payment of the claims of the colored troops or of their ropro- sontatives, Thoy wero logally aud morally ap- plicablo only for tho payment of theso claims, and thelr diversion to any other purpose was illegul and immoral, It is worth whils hore to notice the scandelous but characteristic fact that those expenditures woro made, despito the fact that tho rocords of tho Burcgu ropresented that no disbursements Lad taken placo during tho period in question. Again ; the paymouts having been Ullegally made ia tho absence of any appropriation, every voucher was post-dated, so that they might seom to have beon mado afler March 24, 1871, when tho appropriation was re- coived. The checks, howover, romain to show by thoir dates that the paymont was made before that time, In commenting on thoso peculiar proceedings, Gon, Vincont states thoir rosult to have boon the complete suspension of tho oper- atfons of thio Bureau in 1872, although, had the moneys intrusted to it been legitimately usod, its work might casily have beon coutinued with success. Almost all ita clerks aud agents wero dischinyged, the local officos were closed, the pay- ment of bounties discontinued, snd the colored claimants, among them multitudes of the widows aud orphans of negro soldiors and sallors, who had already waited long and anxlously for their n:ouoy, wore compelied to undergo the hardship of longor delay. Gen. Vincent flally douies Commissioner Howard's attompted exouse, that tins disastrous terminntion of hls work rosulted from **the faliuro of appropriations,” On tho contrary, it rosultod, he says, from the ** mis- apphication of appropriations,” This misap- plication was a diroot violation of law, and he and Gen. Bohriver unite in recommending that rostitution be compolled, Tho raliroads of Gormany are not more ready tLan thowo of othor conutrie to submit to Gov- ernment rogulation, Tho German Government lately eatablished a Railway Dopartment, with functions #omewhat similar to those of tho Tailrond Commissiouors of this Btate, The firat attempt of tho Dopartment to introduce some salutury roforms hns met with florco opposition, a9 might havo been oxpected, Tho Railway Do- partment prepared a sohedulo of new regula- tions to be submitted to the Councll of Blates for approval, and, In ordor to have a8 good an undoratanding as possible with the railrond companlos, invited them to a conforenco for tho consldoration of the now rules, No difforance of oplnion aroso until s paragraph was roached prenciibing thot, whon any passon- gor was loft at & junction by the falure of & stralu to sppoac on time, tho company in fault’ should give him a freo pasa back to his stariing= place. The roading of this very wholesomo rog- ulation brought tho conference to an ond, Tho ropresontatives of the ratlroads refused posi- tively to sccodo to any such plan, The Dopart~ ment would not ylold 8o good a point, and the delegatos soparated, thoao roprasonting the rail- roada avorring that tho companios would disro- gord tho rule, oven if it wora ensoted by the Councll of Htates, NOTES AND OPINI ‘Wo obgorve that in the Eleventh Illinois Dis- trict (Rebort M. Koapp's) the namo of William A. Richardson in prescnted for the noxt olection to Cougress, As Mr. Richuiduon was, in former timon, & Democratio member, bis presont posis tion may, porhaps, bo deflucd by ono of his own oditorial patagiaphs in the Quinoy Herald Wo may as well puy what w think about tho mem. bers of Congrees who voted for Wood for Speaker, ‘Thoae of theiu who voted with Waod for the back.pay steal aro no better than thieves, aud aro not entitiod 10 publis confidouce sud support ; and those who did nat vole for tha buck- pay steal, but voted for Wood, wrhio did voto for Ulso staal, aro fools, aud incompolent to ropresout s district b Gongress,’ Having ully oxe pressed our opiion, we dlaniss the subjoct. —Now Orloans papers of Tueaday wero printed under the impression that Pinchback would bo seated i tho Sousto on that day, aud the Times sald ¢ < We are grown people, and if wo hiave pills, or emet- ics, or binvk druugain to taxe, wo like 10 unieratand the situstion withuut sny buali-beating. We are uot ax grateful sa wa once woré—or us, perhiape, we ought to Eo uaw—for the premiontiory "um. It strlkes ua aa Delug unnecesnary, ~Tho Milwaukoo Sentinel of yosterdsy says of the salary compromise bill ($6,000) which passod the Housa on Weduesday, and of tho wholo con- duct of tho Houso : ‘We read thiat whorm the gods would deatroy they firat make miad, and 1t would seem certain that (ke gods live o mind to destroy sume of our Congrassmen ; whick would bo & great pity, Tho xpactaclo they Liava thus far exhibiten in the disposal of the salary-grab is suficiently unsesmly, —Somo of the Congressmen who have been maning spoeches on the repeal of the sulary grab, by tho time their coustituents have n chiance at them, will wish there was somo way to repeal thoir salary-grab,—Detroit Post. —Tho mep who voted for tho satary and took 1t must bo rolioved, for a time at least, from ropresenting » constituoncy whose sonse of moral right thoy have insnlted, As the bill now proposed does unot affoct back-pay, the paoplo mugt utict tho puniubment.—South Bend (ind-) wion., —Congress could and should have ropealod that act in one hour's time, Instead of that they have consumed over two weoke trying to coucoct s scheme that would enablo them to Ieap thoir pay up.— Yorkville (IR.) News, —Talk nbout reforming such a pm‘tfl or wuch o Congress! Hoving onco proven thom- solves thioves Enud thieves ia the only word appropriate tor the oceasion), they will no longer havo that roatralut that fear of public opinion would givo. God only knows what tho presont Congress of salary-grablors may not do.—AMor= 1ison (Ill.) Independent. —Tho wholo fabric of socioty has takenon a big disguat with everything and everybody ; is, to uso tho latest cuphiomism, badly *‘dis- gruntled,"—Allon (Ill.) Telegraph. —Much of the want, disconteat, and disincli- oation to starve quiotly, among the working- clasties, I8 owing to the dispropurtion botween the earnings ot industry aud the ravenues of ac- cumulated wealth.—~Davenport (lowa) Demo- cral, —Tho Prosidont drawa his salury at the rate of 60,000 a yoar—tho double pay. Boventy- sovou thousand dollars was appropriated bo- sides for Wn'to House nxPuumB, making [n all $127,000 in one yoar. Af' this extravagance is indniged in while the Treasury is bankrupt, and the peopla ate asked for increased taxes to the Luno of $42,000,0001 Aud yet tho voters aro asked to keep the Republican party in power becauso it will insure stability and seours econ- omy I—Albany (N. Y.) Argus. —Ar, Thonisa A, Scott is ontirely too modest, He wants only $75,000,000 this year to complete that Toxas Pocitic Hailroad about shich so many glowing sccounts bave boen printod in the nowspapers during the Inst six or twelve mouths, Ia view of the fluancial distressea of the couatry, the prospective increase of toxa- tion, aud the cortaiuty of smailer wages and lower incomes, it is to be hoped that Congross will pause boforo it votos away & siugle railroad asum of money equal to our entire National dobt thirteen years ago.— Washington (1. C.) Republican, —All busineas men haul in sail when the finan- cinl tompent cumes; they reduco exponses: thoy put off all projects that cau bo postponed. And Governmont siiould do the same. T'he only way to accomplish the object is by withholding the money, " Thio departmonts will apond ail thoy can got, and then cry for mora, But Coungress must take the mottor into its own bands.— Cleveland Herald. —T'e people have borne the burdens imposed upon thom cheorfully whon they were necossary to preserve the country from disruption, but thoso burdens should not be permitted to oxiat o moment longor than is absolutely nocossary. T'hey now dowand rotrenchment, . . . Lot every noedloss oxponse bo loppod off, oven if it discharges from employmont thousands who Lavo been drawing liboral salsries for the por- formuuce of easy dutios, and then lot earuost and offectivo ateps bo taken to rostoro tho busi- nesy prospority of tho country.—Quincy (Zil.) Whig. is is & candid statemant of the financial condition of the country for which the present adminiatration iv airectly responsiblo. bank- rupt tressury, an impsirod credit, extravagant expondiiuros, diminishing revenues, an iucreas- ing dobt, sud more taxation, sro tho fruits of Grantism.—Madison (Wis.) Demacrat. —Tbat corraption, fraud and crime bave con~ tro’ of high political places in tho land, no oue eandoubt, . . . Just 8o sucoas Joroboam, tho son of Nabat, tanght the children of Israel to sin, go suro ha: U. 8. Grant given the exam- ple, and taught his oftice-holders to accept brihos and to stesl.—Quincy (Iil.) Herald. ~'Tho poople of this country will not silontly and tamoly submit to any further increass of taxation. Honesty, economy, rotrenchmont, and roform in evory dopartmout of the Governmont must bo hed, and had at onco,—Iilinois State Journal, —Tuero is no universal domand for public documents, no real advantago in a freo nows-~ papor-oxchango system, no such popular craving for noods, ay will Justify Congrosstuon in loading tho muils with pilos of ‘dead-ncad mattor. The puoplnwlllmuul.uhnorlullyBnypoulngnll on what thoy really noed through the mails, ‘and it 1y 1ot asking too much of Congressmon to remember that tho postal facilitios of tho Governmout are not designod for their exclusive benofit.—Byffalo Comumercial Adoertiser, —The Republicun party, like many insurance companies after the Chicago flra, has suffored & gorious impairment of eapital, The paying off of the National debl was by far tho larkost item ia tho party capital oi the Republicau party dur- Ing the last vresidential campnign., Many of tho rmal population supposed these paymenty waro due golely to the fiuancial gonins of Graat, and o voted for hia re-olection, These pay- monts have not only ceased, butb thore is cach month & lurge deficioucy, which the Administra- tion is meoting by illogally payiug out notes that Luovo boon rotived by law, ‘in contomplation of the oxhaustion of this fund, tuo Socretary of tho Trensury has already askod Cougross for xd- ditional taxation to the amount of furty or fifiy millions, Iow do tho movlo hike tho’ proapect of again Heking Uncle Ham's stamps to logalize %{oil‘ rooceipts and mottgagon?—seranton (F'a.) mes, —It will have boen obsorved, probably that Sountor Morton in his spoech favoring tho ad- wisalon of Pinckback to the Beusato from Louis- lana, said *That the President had determined who' was Governor aud which was the Logisla- ture of Louisiana.” That will do, Wo aro gradually tinding out whora the supromo power of the country is lodged, and how Btutes can ba mado aud unmade, and the votes and voice of tho poople ot miide or recognized as may be }x'l'oulant to this supreme powor.—Ailwaukes aws, : The Prosldent’s Staff, From the 8t, Louts Republican, Perhaps some new light may bo thrown on th'e problem of tho Chief Justiceship and Grant's position with respect theroto, by revurring to sn oxprossion of tho Prosidontial views made some three yoars ago, It will ba rememberod that the Presidont at” that time detormined to remove Justice MoKoan, of Utah, There was no g tiou, Boveral Congrossmon walted ontho Pres. fr;e::' ta h:::ll ul!:zg with him and find out his Tensons, kn auswer to aa {uquiry, the Prealdens | amived, #rid tho Judgo wea not in harmony with the Governor of the Torritory, The spokepman of the dolepation inquired {f that was just cause for romoval from office, The President suge gostod that it was. Ho snid it was nocossary to yoad government in the 'lerritory that the Governor and hin ataff should be in larmony. ** But, Mr. Preaidont,” was the rojofudor, *de you considor the Territorinl Judge a mombor of the staff of the Torritorial Goyeinor ?* *¢ Most sasurodly,” wau the Presidantial reply, “Thon you must rogard the Chief Justico of tho United Staten a mombor of your staff, Mr, Prosidont,” said the spokesman. The Prosidont's reply iudicated that Lo did & rognid the Chiof Justico. LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. Grounds on Which Action Agains the Indinnapoliv, Bivomington & Western ftailrond 18 EBuucd=-The ‘Town of Oran’s Case Against the Company. Special Dispateh o The Chicaro Tribune. SpnvorieLp, 1L, Dec, 18,—Theso dispatches note! 8 few days ago that a temporary injunction had beet abtained n Logan County beforo T. T, Beach, Master i Chiaucery, vostrainiug tho Collector of the Town of Oran, in (that county, from collecting tle tax o pay tho fnterost on $25,000 of railroads ald bonds, which had been isaued by said town, Your correspondent fs now in porsession of, and fu permite ted to furnish, the points upon which tha solicitors of complainants rely to make tho injunction perpetusl, Thoe bonds wire voted by the town in afd of the Davans, Muson Cily, Litcols & Eastern Ratlroad, Tufs | voad = subsiquently comsolidated with fuo Monticallo Rtaflioad, and on tho day of tlo consolidition the coneolidated Company sold out ita frau lines to the Iudisuapolls, Bluomington & Weatern Rugirond Comjany, Thixe muccembive stops wote consummated aftor the ald had beou voted to the first-named corporation, aud boforo {ho bouds Lud boon fesucd by thy Town of Orun, uuder tho suthority voling thom, After tho finnl consolldation, 20l the roud had merged it tuo Indlanspolis, Blooms iuglon & Westeru Ralroad, e authoritiea of tho town of Oran {asucd the 'bonds to fuo amount of $25,000 to the Indinajolls, Bloomington & Weatern Itallroad Company. It fa conteudcd that this act wan waally withaut autlority, un tle ludisne apolls, Bloomington & Weatern Raflrond Compauy waa unknown to the votora of tho Town of Orau whei the Yole was taken, To lssuo bonds to the Indiunapolis, B nominglon & Weatorn Rallroad which wero specifis cally voted tothe Huvana, Mason City, Lincoln & Eastern Rallroad would render them fne volld, s baving been issued by the Buper viors of the town without nuthority, ' Ta give tho necoansry force to thls proposition, 1t in in proof that the Town of Orau never consented to the consolldation of tio Havans, Mason City, Lincoln & Easte ern Rilroad Company witls the Monticello Raflroad, nor dld it consent to the salo of tho frauchises of (e consolidated company to tho Indianapolis, Biooming- ton & Western Rallroad, but to sil theso scts it steadily rofused to consont; indeed, it could not consant after the adaption 'of the Constitution of 1870, the aid haviug been votod before that time, Tho only thing it could do waa {0 issuo the bouds fo the corporatiun to which they wers voted. g Suit to Teat tho Conatitutionality of tho Illinois Tax-Grab Luw. Speeial Dispateh to The Chicago Tr(bune, Rook 10LAND, Tl Dec, 10,—Tho Tockierd, Rock Inlund & 8t, Louls Itallrosd, whoss application for s tamporary fujunclion sgaiust tho Took Talsud County Glerk, to restrain him from extending tho tax sgsinas ita capital stock, on tho townbip collection-books, waa to huvo bLeeu heard at Princoton, befora Judgo Leland to-doy, withdrow ther ' papors st & 1ato iour laat night'; axd, with the conseht of the op- posing counsal, will'bring the care up at tho Jauuary term of the Rock lsland Circuit Court, giving it precos dence over a numbor of otlier caes of {he aamo char acter, which are dealgued to fully test the right of the Btuto'to tax the capiial stock of Incorporatod compis 08, B g el THE VILLE DU HAVRE, Yhat Capt. Surmont Says o the Diss uster, Speclal Dispatch to The Chicage Tribune. Niw Yonn, Dec. 18.~The ateamalifp Europe, of the Genera! Trans-Atluntfo Line, arrived horo this morn- ing from Havre, having sailing from that port a short time after tle srrival of Capt, Surmont and the sur- vivors of the crew of ths {ll-fated Ville du Havre, Sho brought French newspapers coutaining interviews with the survivors and with ’ CAPT, BURMONT, ‘who waa on board the Europe s few hours before she safled, Ho himuelf related to tho commander of the latter vesscl the story of the wreck of Lis vesssl His atatement doos not miaterlally differ from others heretofore publishod, o says that he retired to his state-room at 11:30, and lald down to rest, having had almost no eloep at nll for several days, He woke at 2 o'clock, arose and went an deck, when lio saw & lorgo eailing-vessel bnflng down upon thom, and wonear that nothing coul avert tha collision, Then Lo tells tho ead, traglo tale of the possengers, who wers suddenly awakeuned snd brought face o face with death, Iie believos that few lives would hiave been lost Jf tho musts had not fallen on the boats and crushed them, mangling their human freight, just an thoy wereabout beiug launchiod over the aldo of the vessel, KILLED BY ETHER. Verdict of tho Coroner’s Jury intie Lynn, NMass.,, Cave. Speeial Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. BoSTON, Dec., 18,—The inqueet in tho recent dea:d of 3 woman while undor the ufiucuco of ether, at Lynn, cametosnoud on Tuesday, but a verdict was not reached until this evenlng, when the jury found a verdict of snicide, This might have beon expected of a jury composed of twoLynn doctors, two apotho- carfes, and two Dbusiness men who could have known wmothing about the effects of the ether, In apite of tho testimony of distinguished physicians thut the operation might bove been performod without ether, and that the woman might bave lived for years if the operas tion had nor been performed, the jury found, after ti7o ovoniugs’ diacussion, that Mrs, Homans died from the combined offects of sulphuric ethier and ex~ tremo nervous exhaustion whils undergoing s trivial urgleal operation 3 and tle jury further finda thad sho etherization aud operation wWere properly done, tas that prompt, onergetic, and sil necessary measd ure wure employed to resuscitate tho pationt, —— THE SALARY-GRAB. Public Opinion In Madison, Wis, on the Salary Bil Pawed by the House. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune. ManteoN, Wis,, Dic. 18.~The Houso sotion on the Balary bill is condemnod on all sides here, and ia vory unsatisfactory to tho peoplo. The Journal (Republi can) says ¢ *The fact that the people have resolved, in their conventions, that the law ought to be repealsa seems to be forgatten by Reprosentatives, ¢Repealed? means *repealed; it don't mean ‘modify;’ and tho ens resonts tha peopls when it asks for repeal.” P e Demaerat (Ratormay says : - Thia pavple will no bo satistied with tle patclvork bill pasted Ly. tio Touse, The public feeling is alnoat unanimons that $6,000 and mileage fs sufticient, and the graoedy spirit which Congress Las manifested will receive ita rebuke in duo time, Tho people who pay the {axes demaud tlit Cougresa should return 1o tho old salazy of SPRINGFIELD. A Corrections=fMrs. Lincoln en Herns don?’s Lectures Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, SenmvarizLD, T, Dec, 18.~Your correapondent ua~ futontioually id injustice to Col. G. L. Fort, member of Congrean from thia State, by b statement some time sinca fu thoso dispatehies that ho waa Lere looking up datn In tho intereat of a rallroad compony, upon which to ealst thio assessment of ita capital atock made by the Bourd of Equalization. By lnquiry it 1s found that ho was not bero upon_any wuch businers, and my iuformant 1s o convinced ; therefore this rotraction 13 wmade, that fustice msy be dono Col. Fort, Muf, 3, ', Htuart, un old an_intimato friond of Mr, Lincolu, to-duy rechiva a lotter from Nrs, Lincolny i1 which sh oinplistically and fotally denjes tho fs of the converantion which Mr, Heradon in bis leature olajmed fo havehad with Br, Lincoln touching Lid early Listory, etc, Sbe eayw tiiat 0o wuch convarsation over ocouryod, THE TURF. Third Day’s itaces of the Loulsiana Jookey m“uh'm ; i , Doo, 18,—At tho Louisiana Jockey G Yagra 1o fack was Good, aitendunc fur, and (ho racing mutiufuctory, ‘ho frst racu was handicap, two-mlly dushi; slx started, Won by Fred Bounabel, boating Port Loouard, Beta If,, Donuubrook, Mary ku, wnd Vidul, fn tho samo order, ~Timo, 8243, ho socond ruco was one of threo miles, all ages, club purse of $400, Six started, Won by Capo Rave, eating Faunie 3L, Tom Alken, Frod Bonuabel, Wan< dorer, aud Carribgton, in tho same order. Tiwe, B, The third race waa a selling race forall ages, milo Beats, puréo $300, Edwlh Adawy 1 Tom Leallfn 2 Mephinto,.,. .., 3 Capt, Hutchinon. 2 dist, Gou, Pulmer, 8 disty idal, 6 dist, 7 diaty OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, New Youx, Dao, 18,—The owners of the -lumlhm T Ehe oo of fory- Ao s B I 6 Boamiship ~ Esnliwarth, UKENATOWN, from Philadolphis, bas arrived, e New Yous, Dec, 18,—Stesmahips Pommora Hamburyj Jity of New York, from Liver, inke cia,” By ! dlasg o § ead Agreps, ln-g:‘via. hawy