Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1873, Page 2

WASHINGTON. The BSalary-Repeal---Butler as Shylock, The Adoption of tho Pennsylvania Constitution, Williams...Grant’s Relapse in the Senate. A Ghost In the House---Secretary Rich- _ardson, Tho Death of 014 Mr. Dente-=Carpenter and Conkling, From Qur Own Correspondent, ‘Wasuinozox, Doo, 18, 1878, Mr. 8. A, Hurlbut, Farnsworth's successor, General in the War, Into Ministor to Now Gras vada, late rescuer of tho steamer Virgiviue from the Spanieh war-vessel Pizarro at Aspinwall, a native of South Carolins, son of an Episcopal clergvman, aud brothor of the woll-known edi- torial wiater on the Now York World, is - THE MAN WIO KILLED COCK RODIN. It was hia bill, or one of them,~for he had soveral,—which Lagponed to come forward at that moment when overybody in Congross folt foolish at:d wearied out. Thus 1t bappons that Congress compromises with public vontiment, gives up a part of the buck-pny, bags the re- » mainder, and will be able’ to collect ton months’ pay atb tho increased rate, or €6,260 up to the st of tho year, baving dons nothing whatever {or the movoy, excopt tu disouss tholr rignt to it. The most singular part of the pe:formance is tho williugness of public men to attost their im- pecuniosiry, as theso have bons, in the face of she world, and stand out liso & slopshop-dealer for n little uore profit on the bargaig, uutil we begin to get telographic opinions on the subject trom tho London aud other newspapers, show- iog that the ponuriousness of the Ameriean Congress is tho tattlo of civilization. The only men, on tho whole, who have anything to con- gratulato themscives for, are those members who uever opened tholr mouths. The amount ol dirt which some men, formorly exemptud from paying for thelr postage-stamps, can cat in public, passes messuroment. Ore recalls witk o rueful face bis schoolboy idens of public manhood, when he' talies’ up tho Congresstonal” Record, and for nagrly, thies woeks sces thnt tho wholo onergies of statos- mauship bave been bestowed upou the ratos of publio lire,—tho interested partios ohafforing like Shylock aud bis brethiren on the Rilto, - I was purticularly struck with tbis resomblance when Ben Butier, clingidg to bis ill-gotten du- cats, looked up to tho roporters’ gallery aud 201d what must bave beon' ns tullows, if bis oyes could clk : 1 hato thom there, for thoy sro Christians ; Auu wore for tat, i ow stoylidey, Tucy teud olis 1money gratls, uud biiog down “Lug FaL0 OF UKADLE it With U 1 Veuluo, 1t 1 an catel then ouee ugon the bij, 1 wail teod fat the ncieut geudge 1 Lear them, Ty ato unrsaered Jcquisiie, aud tul’ Ou s, OUF LUK.lin, st yUr Wod-won trllt, DEN BUTLER addressed o novel argument to his crowd. o showed tho good mnuners be would have us give 1t, whon ho acoused Hale, of Maiuo, of slirmishing in favor of a wlisky-bill, av tho samo time callivg bim ‘*my brother,” just as the broihren of Joseph kopt up their endear- ments whon they traded lum off, Butler anid, Congiersmien ought to stand up togother” whon they stolo anything.' *Wo do not stand togetior,” smd Ben, * Lut lot tho reporters up there control our actions by their slanders, in- otead of Ding tho chosen men of tho poopls. Siand togethor,” concluded Bau,~thus modestly requesting lus colleagues to ** slall," for alm, as tho thigves term it. It is & somowbhat novel ad- mussion 1hat Congress, by o loug course of - de- pravay, hos beeomo so uemurunized that they sl otand - togother - like 1tauuy when Len, Luwder wtreduces from s Judicury Committoo auy tclomous proposiuon, MR, JAMES G, BLAINE, who is on tho Lkt vt Yiesidenting nepirants, muse Tave labosed ard on bits ubmiitees whea be put ltoaenws M. Butler, & muu wied w tho Crim- 2l Coust ol tbe Disuiet of Coumuia, 10 8i i portant Chairnuuship, aud gave 1o conuuites wlatevor to Juago . R, lloar, formerly Attor- noy-General of the United Stutes, Lhe two mon 1 'liave named ditfer a8 widely in appenrance oy i puthio record. hero is w0 1eason why ltod- orivs Batler should huve Leaded o commilteo in a lugu-toned del.berative body than that Bonja- wie Buder sbould Lave headed anviber, bir. Bluinc's ouly prospects for the piesent ate to koep on Lviseuuck i the hoilow syuare ot tho purty orgonizution, llo-has gamuicd in great oppursuuities ; but this lust performance will ubably bo moie celobrated for tho out than the shutlle. Sowe of tue comuittaes have beon given away 1o such porsous as the cruut uuclo delo- guted to ke cunrgo of tho buued in tho wood, PENNSYLVANIA UP. Tho great and wspiring nows of the period is 21l vute.oe of Congiess. Wuat wero they doing i auther Houeo or Seuate to compare with the sileat ovoithgow of tho corrupt Riug and the eilcto Constitlition of the Sute of Penusylvaua? Well might lcidgter Clymer say that * Whas Cougressmen called clamor wug but the first oviueeee of u cowing storm of wrath avd indig- nution " which Lad yolied ovor the Koystoue biate, whero Judges of the Suprome Court, lise Ulynues Mereur sid Judge Read, were stauding up cesido railrond-Rajubs hike Gowan, to argus avey u Coostitution tucy had but a fow days ve- fore recommended to their fellow-citizens by their uunuimous decision to deliver it ap to _the Phiadelphia Ling for wlaughter. When tho Cougtitution guos into oiteer, Camerouism will go iuto the receiving vuult, theuce to bo takion wut in & subsequeut year, aua be buried forever under such au m- seription a8 tho indiguant historian will put up- on it. Ly iuovitagle logie, tbis election sum- mous mens hke Willinm D, Kolloy, Joln Cessns, ct al,, out of public lite, and miakes o Citizou’s 1novement eany of puceess i both Lhiladelphin ena Litsburgh; for, usdor this Constitution eud Juaiciary, where are the locnl Ringa to got their plunder? Rouuced to notbing buc o sain- ry, the Mg oflice-Lioldars of Vhtadelpliia are nuw neavly as pukod a8 sulary-giab Congross- wen. . Awgrnion. i i A good mav for judgmeut and mild speaking ie " Sanaol 5. Dursbull, of Dtinois, wio hus terved o long timo in- Congress and on tho Lanch, 'TLoio arg many men who aspiro to load 1he Democratio side, ut thore would ba less em- ulation avd more progress if Mursholl's steady chsracter were oftenor consuited. Ieaid to him, tho athier day ¢ 4 Give e your idea as to where the salary bill touk ite origiu ?” #7The Vieaent is responsible for it,” said Judge Marsuall. “Aun atiempt was made, yon ‘know, to inoiease hiy salary exolusively, aud it foiled uutil, after a great deal of running to aud fro, iv was thought likely to puss 1¢ tho Congressmen were tuckud on to'it. In the course of tme, tha bill came bacic with that un~ fortunate inclusion of ourselves which has driven 50 mauy otherwiso useful men out of public sife, In my opimon,”continued Mr, Marshatl, ** 25,000 1 usmuch as a lurge Cougresy like ours conld expect to huve the country niford us, I ean liva veoy well on that sum, Ido not think that a dewand for salaryequal to Cabinet Ministers and Judges is compatible with or expected from o vopular ropresentative, Thero ought to Lo “some distinction, however, botweon uw man who votes himself an Incrouse of salary, and a may who took the mouney altor it awalted bis ordor by law. Perhaps 1 might eay that taose porsonus who began to roturn their salaries in nervons hasts have exci:ed this hostility moro thnn the press, A mun hardly knew what to do whon Lo fouwd §2,600 helongiug to him by law, Thero was Goorgo 1, Hoar, who was so puzzled iu the promixes that ho turned his ullrpluumy over to the schoold of the district; ad n Jjuiler, the autlior of thoe ‘grab’ actually gou Hour on the defeneive, I think the Presidont's ralary should bo put at its old standurd,” sald Mr. Marshall, ** becauss theExocutive covetous- ness begun the job," z TOOK_JUDGE WILLIAMA is puspended like Mahomet's cottin, Of conrso 1t in i obulde thut the Senate will canfirm Gon, Dristow uy Attorney-Ganorgl bufore acting an tue Chief Justiceslutp, nor would Dristoy, play pussy-in-tho-comer In this way, Dut it s awk- ward, I metJudgo Williama a few days past, aud congratulated him, “Don't bo tao fast aboat it,” hio aald, I ro~ mombor old Gen. Raborts, of Iowa, who was a torrible swearor, continued to denounce the re- moval of tho State Capital from Iown City to Deu Moinos, nntil thoy had actunlly gotten it up on whoels,: The Judge then atood uff-before tho crowd, looking at the locomotiva conutruce tion, nnsznvu it u Inst ploco of opintont *I snp- 080,’ 8aid ho, * that tho danged ching will bovo 0; but, by Goorge! I think it 1 a litile pre- malurel'" ‘I'hore mny bo persons at a distance who think tho Hennte in sitting in inquest ovor this man so long, from only the highoat motives of publio duty. ‘Tho exact fraction of duty i tholr sotion Las not been ascoriamod, but Is thought to bo, at oll ovents, a vulgar fraction, ‘T'ho fact is, that tho Sonate, in its -dominant party cnuous, hos hecowo wearlod of the Prosi- dent's slfisiness, e calls nobody 1n that body to hits counsal whon he coucludes upon n nomi- nation, o goos outsido of the party, amongut men like Col. Mosby, & dircot opponent of tho party ticket on the stump, and makoes nomina. tions according to Mosby : so that Sanator Ley- iy, who bolnmilu to the caueus, risos, Ay l}qo enying 18, in his might, Tho Sonate caaio lo tfio conclusion, wheu Willisms was nomluated, thnt it would call & balt on the Exooutive. Son- atora urge that, a8 a matter of party-doatoralizas tlon, Grant uctually wishod to nomiuate Calab Onshing for Chief Justico, snf'hxg: ‘* He I8 80 old that he wlll only live throo {um, and meantite I can hove'tho uso of Willinxs in tho Cabiuct, and then make . him Chiof Juatico beforo my torm expires,” 3 ‘I'he coolnoss of thia conceit mado tho Sonate, to u=o a familior expression, got up and wallk off on ity ear. ALEZANDER 1. STEPHENS, A good deal hias been snid about the return to the stago of aifairs of A, H. Stophous. This recnllm' old wrock is the grandson of a soldier u Braddock’s army, who Immigrated to Georgla in tho first yoar of Washington’s Administra- tion. Tha otd soldler lived uutil Stophons was 1 year old. Stophons' father married an_ almanac-maker, aud was & - poor and simple-minded man, After a dolicate yvouth aud a rapid education, A, 11, Stophons waa ad- mitted to the Bar, and In 1843 he came to Con- press, For tho brutal elomoats of character which Jefforson Davis possessed Btophous sub- stituted rother spiritual elements, and he was propliet and ghost ot tho Pro-Slavery Confed- eracy; and now ho 1a in Congross again, an ut- torly uuclasgifiablo peraon, as fully lost in that body a8 a Lospital-voceran in the streots of New Yorit. Oa eruiches, with a velyot cup, arguing for prepostorons enlatics, and determined to bo popular with his colleagues, tlle poor old ¢bild hea lardly move eontlly or flosh than tho wind which Dblows naround the elbows of the Capitol, and is listened to, bocanso it ja strango, musical, aud ghostly. 'L'herois something rather finely ent about his sontences ; somothiug botween tho vislonsty aud the spirit- ualiet in ws oxbortacions ; somothing of secoad cluldhood and deep contrition i his 1amontablo restoration to the lnud of the living, Lnzarus come back was bardly more out of expoetation. Wo ean say.of him aud his treason, like Tom Hood : T Muke no deep scrutiny Tuto bia wuiny Rast und undutiol; Past all Alshonor . Doath hus lefton him v . Ouly tho Leautiful. MR, RICUARDSON, Tho Socrotary of tho T'reasucy may bo sald, with (ho Commigsioner of Intorual Revenue, to bo1n the condition of the chiof claractors in ** Venico Presorved ": g A fruitless fortuno and & barren bed Atteud you both, The unautborized logal-tondor reserves aro fast going where tho woodbine twinoth, The coufidunece with which tho Socrotary appronelios Congross for more taxes {s 1o nocaing so much aa Olivor Twiat whou ho advancod upon Bumble and put out his plate for ** more." §tlll, this poorest of Richnrdsons did not make ibo panio, Hs could not maka n panic. Lot us admiro hia moral courage, and call vn Mtr, Dawes to declare war on the present state of the laxes. ‘L'on, and coffoe, and whisky, and 40 forth, must standl up a8 proxy for us, and be'p ug out of repudiation or dofuult, Tho Bucrewsry liga dono no movo than right to state the facts, liko a busiuass-man. 1he obligation is ou Cone giess. Now, as Den Buller auvises, let them *stand together” and do their duy. T'ho great, old FRED DENT, aged 88, who was to Prosident Grant in his youth what Prof. Daumer was to Casper Hauser, beinging him up by bond, looking with genuluo old Maryiand ehnrity upon his errors acd slow- uesaes, and proteeting lumr up to the day when ho might bo uocded, astho seuior Grant nover would, has quietly slllfmnu away from with the walls of the White Houso, tazing his smolio to the last, There were gouning qualities about this old map. At the very brink of our second war with Bogland, ho went off to tho West, His obstinate political viows romained with him to the last. Mo was tho wolf whica sucided the horo of tho war with the Rebollion, Nothing in our publio life {8 #o bard, dry, and geuuiue, as tho futhorhood and patronboud of U, 8. Grant, He was killod by the frost through all his cinld~ Liood, neglected by Limsalf, and ouly bis consti- tution Leld out to thac Inte opportitmity, which found him like & porsimman, dend-fl}lo by mouths of frost, to drop Iuto the White Houso, whore, a8 Mark ‘l'wain sava of the “Jumplug Frog," Lo fail off tho counter with all the clds- ticity of a gob of mud, The difticulty with all polit'cal partics hasbocn td'find another frog to jump with Ulysses. A good many parties have sprung -up, but they all romark,svith Jin Swiley's autugonist “Wo'sin't got no frog” - Not oven sbot will keep tho original frog down. Jupiter hias boen hard ou us ; &ccording to Asop, hoonce furnisted a atork as King to the frogs, but our King is a frog to tho.storis. BGNATOR CARPENTEI i8 the Vice-Prouident of tho United Btates, vice Wilaon, who has palavered o long that ho thiks bitnself to be mortally siek, out of sheer want of conviction.as to the state of his hoalth. , Peoplo ought to bo clisritable on that class of public men who go up and down the world for thirty yuard Buying nothing, us if thoy took an intorest in it, and everyoody they say it to, Such peo- plo know at Inxst less than a weathor-vane, Wil £on is an ipdustrious person, and tho book which hio began with the propor ttle of * History of tho Riso aud Fall of the Slave Power in Amer- ica,” will bo o bottor tombstono to him than tho Dbaptism of innumorable babies 1 his name, or lu‘r & contury of wayside sontimentalization with Tom, Dick, Harry, and Mary Ann, Mr. Conkling, of Now Yoik, was tbe person who gave Carponior the most officient support for tho cauous-nomination. It would do theso men good to go much together, Conlling ouglt to got Carponter's inflaenca to dissiate the cold atmosphore of plilossphy end scorn, Carpentor ought to learn of Conlkline the lova linews of a_sequescored oareer, Leguiled mainly by one mirror and no rivals m it. “Uhus Dumon would ceuso to Lustle his Lucullus, und Pythiss would never absout bimself too loug from his fiiend without leave: DBotweon them, the groat perty of freedom and propriety would bo so rojoiced that, as it appears near the end of the play of Hamlat, ono faction will cry out for Car- penters Glvame the oups ; And lot the kottle to tlio trumpet speak, The trumpot to the caunoneer withoul, Tho cunnous to the heavens, tho beavens to earth, Now thie Kiug drinks to Itumlot, On the othor Linnd, the Prosident’s friends: The ratifiers und props of every word, Taoy.ery : * Chooke we; Laertes ehull bo King 1 Capw, hunuds, aud tongucs applaud it to the clouds 3 # Lacrtoa shall be Kiug, Laerigs Klog.” a AT g AN AMéRchN, NOT AN ENGLISH, INVENTION. To the Kditor of The Chicano Tribune ; 8m ¢ In your paper of this morning thero ap-, peats an extracted article on s * Furouco that Burns Conl-Dust.” Tt Is presented as an En- glish inveution aftor five years of labor and oxporiment. Ihavo somathing to eayon that subjeet, aud begin with au oxtract, vorbatim, {rom my note-book, of dule Hopiember, 1807 : !*The consumption of fuel," I wrote, * is the groat aub jeot now of improvement, so s to oqualizo s nesrly a4 may be the cousumption of the concreto aud volatile parts. Experimonts sre going ou in thoe United , Statos, successfuily upplied to stationury engines, to which alone it would scom applicablo, The result is u machine in which, by rapid motion, the coal-rofuso is more finely pulverized ; & stroam of air from tha bellows is driven through it, carrying the dust in graduuted quantity, and largely mr'xml with at- mospherio a1, over the stationary bed of ignited tuel, The only ollics, however, of the fuel-bed is to lutlame this volatile dust, which tlashed intn lames along & furnace of 60 foet (Including re- turn), elose to the motullic sides agamst which I I8 to bo driven, and sound which iz Hoks, downs wards and upwards, with its hasty, Intenso, and volatile flame: If it provails succossfully, the refuso of coal will bo utilized, aud the waste dust of the nutlracite Lecomo of value, whion now iu mounds cumbors the surfacs around our mines, or is covied s rubblsh frox tho yors, ‘Che'invention was an oxcollent oue, snd had . WHIS CHICAGO DAILY ——e— beon under thé Invoatigation of Dr., Hayeh, an ominont aclontist, of Boston,. from whom, in oonvarsntion, 1 fecotvod the information. , Thia oaourred in & voyngo to Iuropo; aud, durin, the rnllowlnfi months, I lind oocasion soveral timoa to eponk of it in Eogland 3 and, attor my roturn, watchod for tho account of iia succoss- ful adoption In this country. There may lave boon found semo impedimonits or dlsadvai htages. Possibly tho hoat would b too intenas for the - sldos of tho oylindor. ) At ll ovants, the juvontion fa Amorlean ; its dato antorior to the incipiont thoyght claimoed n Em}lnml. The prinolplo {a worth the'careful attontion of tlioso emz)lu Ing- furances to drive cuglues, &e. ; and1f, in this way, tho anthracito dust can bo mado avalablo as fuol, it would bo worth millions, AL all ovonts, plenso givo our- ronoy to the fact of .tho tino and placo of tha roal invention. It was in full practical use in Massnchusotts In 1867, W QuttoAuo, Dec, 42, 1873, e e THE PENITENTIARY BATH. Commissioner Ban v s Lotter and Dr. Bureon’s Opinions ‘Chercona=Medicnl Attendanco of the Ponitontinry. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicajo Lribune, JotIxr, Dec. 23,—0no.wook ago, under In- structions, your correspondont furnishod Tae "CurnoNe with somo statomonts in regard to tho condition of nffairy at tho Ponitentiary, ospo- clally bearing on” tho recont doath of acon- viet nnmed Williame, On Monday & lottor ap- poarod . Mg CninuNe from Mosos M, Bauo, Penitontiary Cominlssionor, in which my state- wmonts aro contradloted vory flatly, The state- mont to which ilr, Bane takes most oxception, I find, is tho ono in roforonce to v, Mason, now Prison, Physiclan, by. whose order it appedrs * the convict Willlams was buthed. My 'statemont in reforonce to him was made upon tho anthority of Dr. Q. II, Imow that, when I was about to quit tho prizon, Baird wantod' to quit also, Mr. Dano loarnod of it, and, as an inducomput for him to remain un- dar Madon, liad bis salary raisod. Qorrespondgnt—Whnt 18 your opinton of Capt. Hall, anuflv Warden ? - Doctor—Il%ia n good, consclontions man. o in to blame, howovor, for *bathing” Willisma without wrftton ordors from Dr, Muéon, boenuso tho Comminsionora Lad forbld *bathing® ss & punishment. Thp connection ho had, how- over, with the affalr should net rofleot on him, Ho oboyed ordors. . An further convorsation with Dr. Bacon your correspondont camo {n possession of other facts which may be of ubo horoaftor. Througlhout the Interview tho Doctor was in nowison wiiling wit- noss, and upon soveral occaslons rofusod to an- awer qudntions. Tho above Iuterviow was had in tho prosonce of o thitd party, aud tho atnto- ments madoean boassaveratod by as good men as the Btato contalns, If the abova sorvea to correct any imputations fAought to bo made upon your corragpondent by Mr, Bano's lotter, my objoot will bo attained. THE THOMPSON BURGLARY CASE. Roply of Mr, Milton Forbos to Nr. iX, . Ce Glvinw, o the Editor of The Chicago Tribine: 8:n: Thio lottor of Mr. R. 0. Givins, published in your fesuo of the 11th inst., cannot bo sut- fored to poss without notico, 8o far as it roflocts on my chnractor dnd poaftion. Glvins not only muakes falso atatemonte o8 to the 0sgo of the man Thompson, but he rolates, as tho “plain, un- varaishod facts," cirourstancos that nover hap- ponod ; makes out State's Attornoy Reod to ‘b an accomplice of thipves, and mysolf s profes- slonal bailer, of no visiblo moanw, and of ques. tionablo lionory whoroas the cass of Thompson is oltogothor different from that stated by Qivins; the circumstantial story of Glving, and’ Bacon, of Lockport, late Prison Physician, As agon g Lr, Bare's lettter camo .to my no- tice I waited npon Dr. Bacon to got & vorifica- tion of my former statemonte. lutroducing myself ag tho roprosontative of ‘T Trivung, X aalted the Doctor if ko lind seon tho dispateh in question, 1Mo replied that ho had, when tho fol- lowing converantion onsued: 5 Corraspondent—Doctor, when did you rosign the oflice of Prison Physicisn ? Doctor—I hnnded my reeignation (producing o copy of it) to the Board of Commisslodors on tho 11th of Juno, this yoar, Corrospondont—\Was it promptly aecoptod ? Dootor—No ; and I bave ngver had anj offiefal notifloation of its accoptanca at all. ~ Bat, when I handed ft in, Mr. Bane camo to me ia porson and asked me to romaln as Prison Phyatoian two or threo months, and assured mo tho Board would pay mo a8 usaal. Bane told me at thno samo timo that Dr. Mason, lis brother-In-law, had beon appointed as my succissor. Ha sald Mason had beon o porambulating fdentist for somo twolva yoars, with an offics in Galosburg, and that ho would be on In a few duys, sud would nood some schooling in the practico of madicine, & Correspondent—Bat, Doctor, I seo (produce ing acopy of Bane's lotter) that Mr. Daune de- nics that oo ever offerod you any inducoment to romain at tho prison aftor your successor was appointed ? Doctor—As I etated bofore, Mr. Bane, upoa my rosignation, fnslstod upon wy 1omaining soveral mouths,—two or thrao,—nud offered to pay me as usual, notwithstanding tho foct tht my successor wus drawing bis pay ot tho same timo, He then told me that Dr. Mason was practiciug dentistry when appointed, and that e mado u lving by noouring tho county solivite ing woris, 1 i Corrospondent—Now, Dactor, you afo quite positive that this couversation took place be- tween you aud Mr. Buane ? Doctor—Yos, eir; aud, if necesaary, I am pro- pared to muko afidavit to that effoct. Dut I am out of the prison, aud don't care to mix with the affair fn oy shape. If you hnd not mention~ ed my nsme I would ot noi consent to sn in- terviow, Correspendont—You say you rosigaed on the 11th of Juue, DId you theu leave the prison ? Doatoc—No, 8ir; but st Mr. Biue's solicitation I rommned thore uutil July 1, aud maue modical repout for June, Correspondent—You left then on July 1? Doctor—No. On July 1, when I handed In my roport, I told Mr, Bano that I conld romain no jonger. Il insisted, however, and [ finally con- sauted to romain until tho 16th. 'The records of the pricon will show that I did romain until the 15th,—s month avd four days after my resigna- tion and tho appointment of my succossor. ‘Tho records will furthor shiow that I was paid for every dav I romained thero, which is & flut doniul or Mr. Baue's lettor, When I left, I loft under protest from Bane, for.Lo wauted mo fo remain two or threo months, a8 I beforo stated,. and, as I bolieve, for no other purpose thsn to instruct Dr. Magon, . 3 Corvospondent—Then my statemont In Tug TRILUNE wae cortact ? Doo.or—Yos, sir, 80 far a8 Lam concarned, Dr. Magon has told mo, howover, thatabout twvelve years ago ho was a practitionor, I be- liove you stated' to the con.cary. Ho told mo also that he quit the practice of medicine be- causo Lo was not succeasful, and that ho took up dentistry ivstead. Qorrexpondent—Is such a man, in your opin- ion, competont for tho position of Pridon Physi- clan ? ‘ ' Doctor—That {8 » dolicate and straight quea- tion, and I would nol like to answor, ButI'lt suy this much, that tho ofiice of Privon Physi- cian i8 & very fmporiaut owe, and “no man is flt for it who is not thoroughly educated in his profession. And Tl utatp furthor, thut tho salary, §1,500, will not secitte a fit man, upless it bo somo resident of Joliot or this place, who las a practice besido. ‘Whon I was Physioian, I used to visit the prison evory day, and oftener if required; but at the enmo_time I cvjoyed a $4,000 practice outside. Dr. Mason, you see, came bero from the second city in the Btate, and 1f ho onjoyed the profos- slonel atanding thore that Mr. Bano claims for him, bo ought to Lave had a practice of from 6,000 to 810,000 per yoar, and of course woutd not Linve necepted n 51,500 enlaried pogition, I don'c think you could find a respest- ablo practitiouer in the couuty who wou!d nc- icont ms position If lio_ba o givoup bis prac- tice Dot N injudiclous, 1€ fid o1982s f doath is clearly tho fault of the doctor, VB e: of n physlcian boing so reckloss as to ordor n man threatened with rupture of the heart to bo *ducked ¥ In cold water is outragoous,and soh coudues outsido ofthe prison would Bub- Joct the offender Lo arrest for malpractico. The fact of Liw ordering a bath, and not sufforintond- ing it in porgon, a8 appears from lus roport, ought to be enough o conrlomu bhim, Correspondent—You have uoticed, I proaumo, an order of the Commissionors nguinsf bathing or ducking ss s punishment since you loft the institution ? Doctor—Yes, and Dr. Mason violsted that rule whea ordering Witlinms **ducked,” for thora I8 1o proof wintover thut tho poor follow was slck. Lven if ho bad heen sick, the romedy Lasg proven worse than the disease, Correspondant—\What do you think of Mason's conauct after Williams waa drowned ? Doctor—Ha eet tho laws of tho State at dofl- ance {n laying bisads upon the hod{. lo bad no more right to tako out that mau's heart than he has to commit un assault upog mo, ‘Che mo- Williams found doad, from other than natural causo, his body wus tho property of the County Qoroner, awd ought ~ to lmve hboen handoed over Lo him for o post-mortow examing- tion, Tho fact thnt tho body was hurriedly buried looks suspicious, and, if"the Coroner had dono his duty, Lo would have oxhumed it,—he ought todoit now. It s well known to the pro- fossion that the condition {n whish tho hoar: of Williams was reported found by Dr, Mason could Lave beon brought about by & siight puno- ture with uo instrumont.—oither accidentully or tentionally. Tho matter onght to be investi- d, and tan gumly purtios held to answor,* orrespoldont—I soe, Doctor, that Mr. Dano cluims that tho health of the conviets lns fm- proved unde: Mason ? mont any wag Dootor—I cun't say whotber such iy true or not, but Lawure you that, if such is the case, the crodit doea ‘pot belong to Dr. Mason,” De, Baird, Hospital Bloward, as soon as I left tho prison, tommenced to wr.'n (ho {»raucrlp- tions, and, I um informod, har wr':ton the most of tlom. This v «the officer boing * approached,” Is outragoously fulse; Mr. Rood did his simplo duty ; nad I not only ean sliow that I am tha owaor of considor- ablo property in Cook County and Southern Iti- nofs, and‘a man of respectable roputation, but that I did not even go bail. I theretdve ask, as & mattor of common justico, for space to reply to Mr, Givina’ charges. Tho man Thompson, who was arreated on sus- pleion of belng concerned in the robbery of Mr, Givins' house, la respectably ponnectad; and I am well acquainted with i frionds, who aro wealthy and nonorabld poople. Whon his arrest bacame known ¢ them thoy wore much distross- ed, and dotermined to spare no offort to discover the truth s if guilly, to afford bim kind counsel and good advice; “if 1bnocopt, to aave him from prison. ‘Fho first stop was to bail him out, in ordor that he might be at onco removad from ¢ o ovll influoncos of tho jail. ‘Fhis was done. I intereuted mysolf in the matter, along with oths ers, but no more than they did; andi when Mr, Givins suys I wont bail for the prisoner, he lies; aud, whon he goos farther, and calla my ball *straw-bail,” bo simply adds to the onormity of the first lic one of still groater magnitude, for my Cool County property is worth -§00,000 if it is worth n cont; and, if that Is * straw-bail,” [ should like to know what good ball 18 ; suppos- jug I hod*offored bail. Wheun'tho day of trial drow noar, we found, to our constecnation, thut Lhompson had sitpped off. 1at cace went to JMr. Rood, and told bhim of it, nud I oeggod of him to postpone the for- toituro of tao bul untll vext torm, to givo us an opportunity to recovor the mau, which wo had 10 70880n 10 supposs wo could not do, as hin {riends wero determined tho case should como to trial, whicliever wuy it might eventunte. ‘T'his is tho truo reaon of tho bml-forteituro story. Aud becauso tho poor wratch temporarily on- capod, and Mr. Loonard found himseif faco to taco with the respousttility of paying the bail- bond, this meu Givins~ howld out about lus ‘surprise and indignation,” his * fami- ly's security bolng ondangered,” Lis wifo's norves: unstrung and aunost dvalyzed;” and he charges, in effect, tho Stale's Attoimey with boing in n-conspiracy to rob him of hiy revouge; chargos me with belog profossional **strav-vsll " on a bond Inovor signeld; and charges ilr. Leonard with being n professional of 10 monus, I take tho liborty of aslk- RIBUNE : 'WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1873 Tue I'nisuse for as much latitude in my roply as it permitted Qivina in his attack ; and to toll Givins that Loonard is ns respousible o man, his word is as good, and his property as taugiblo, a8 that of tho jumnculato’ Giviu himse.t, Noxt, Givios charges that he was " approach- od," * gertain hints thrown out, and iunuengoes gwvon,” that it would not bo his Intorcst to proscouto ;* and a lot moura rubbish and false- hoods. ‘Cho man must boe crazy. Iis mind is so unbalanced by bis passion in this matter—and the vory lunguagzo usod fu hig lotter shows it—that hio doos not know how to distinguish botweon the truth and u lie. 1 did wait on hum,—or * ap- proach " him, if proferred, Aund thisHs what I did ; T told him that the young man had got off, and the bail had:boen forfelted ; and I buggost- ed an onrnest Loj o that the matter could be so arranged that the caso might bo * continved,” .in oruer tha: wo might do the very thing Givins is mvi::fl that wo were conspiring not to do,—fo Jind and produce the prisoner, and dave Loonard tho paymout of tho "bail. Was there suything wrong In this? Was it not reasonable? ~ Horo W28 » young man, lod astray, bailed ont by high- ly-respectaulo friouds, to save him from further ovil associations, who oscapes from survellance. ‘I'hose who bailed him ous aro required to pr duco bis body, or tho monoy, In a fow hours, I'hoy canuot produco the body, but they can tho ‘money. DBut they prefor to produce tho body, aud koep faith with the law ; aud all they sk 18 & reasonable time to'be given them, betoro tho bail i irrovocaply forfelted, to flad the person and producoe him, which thoy doubt not their ability to do. : Because they dosire to keep fnith, and profer t0 do 4o, rather than pay even theso fow paltry dollars, they are chn!‘fied with broakiug faith, and preferring to pay the money! The man is ingonsistont, and out of his own ‘mouth he is condomnod. ‘Ihus far, sir, I have occupled your apace, as, 1 havo o right to, in reply to charges® printed againnt me which oxtst only inthis man Givius' nfiu-mud imagiuation. I Lave shown that, ine stoad of being a profossionsl bailer, I do not evon appoar on the ball-bond § that, iustend of being a man of straw A am a man of property, the docds of which will be in my pookot, ready to produce to you, whon I present to you this letter; that Leovard is a man of means, well known s a citizen of Chicago, and respooted ; hut ‘Lhompson i8 not proved, and must not ho assumed withont proof, to be ity of what is obarged ogainst Lim ; that his body was non- roducible through no fault of ours’; thut far biom forfeiting his bail so a8 to got im off, wo, havo ,’'spplied , for? a fontinuation® that we may produce him. And now I sny that wo aro on lis track, and have gooil hopes of finding him ; and that, as soon ay wo securs himQ'wo shall surronder his body; nd, alsop that if thero in law in this land for mo as woll g for Mr. Givivs, I will nvoko it to provo that he cannot with impunity agsall other Taen’s cligractors without roason, or make falsd stutoments that have no more foundation than mero malico, With regard to the officer being approached, I know nothing of it. It-was not dupe by your obedlont servant, MiLzox Fonnks. Ci10A6G0, Deo, 1873, ‘Tichborne * Lrinl Cuurt, . Dr, Keuealy®ontinued his addross to the jury, Dee. 8, by stating that tho prosocution was founded on & principle utterly abhorrent to the English law, and, indocd, of ‘every principle of Jjustice, and that was that a crime was taken for grautod, oud the innocence of the detendant tuken as o thing that did not exist. In his ex- oriouce ho lad mever bofore heard such augusge used in & prosccution a8 had been used in this case, aud was only to he found in thode infamous days when Attor- noy-Ganeral Coko thought it right to fnsult a prisoner at the bar. T'ho courso pursued in this rospeck by the proanuuLion was not, and never had'boen, tho law of Bogland, but itmight Le the law of hell. The Lord Chief-Justice~I must interpose, That is not & fitting oxprossion to bo usod inw court of justive. In tho first place.we know nophing of the law of the region to which you rofer. It {8 not fitting languago to bo used In ‘The A Scone In court of justice, . Dr. Xenealy—If your Lordship take upon yoursel! to proscribio ta counsol— ‘I'ho Lord Chief-Justico~I taks upon myself «to sny that langnago should not be used 3 1™ will ot say blasphomous, but mouwmuunronu. and improper to'bo'used here, r, Konoaly—I bog to suy that if your Lord- ship, or any othor Judge, takes on himuelf to prosoribo to counsol what langusgo or what ar- gumont he shall uto— “The Lord Chief-Justine—Argument—certainly n!n; but I do take upon myself to prescribo pro- ptioty of languago, B i BB Ohiet Justiec S 15 1% ot 'he Lor tef-Justico—Blr, I uay it iv no and 1eay it ehall not bd ueed Loro.“l will ok Balrd 18 qulite o va.,iabje man, I | allow regort to expresalons of that kiad, whicl might shock tho oars of oo, if it ddos not yon, Dr. Konealy—I hope I have as fastidious an | oar as any ono olse, Tho Lord Chifol-Juatice—I daro ey you havo, bt athll it I8 langnage I fool it my duiy to éor- rogt, Dr, Kenoaly—Whnt Is said fs sald, THE ILLINOIS FARMERS' CONW.NTION. CGomments of tho Preses From the Cairo (L1l Unlletin, The platform of the Auti-Mouopoly party of this State Is a doclnration of sonud nrinciples, and tho suceoss of the party at the polls 18 de~ manded by tho boat mterosts of Illinols and the Ropublio,” Wo heartify Indarse tho platform in all its planks, with tho oxcaption of thint rolating to tho financos of tho country. We ate not pre- Eurud to dny that we aro in favor of tho groon- nck-nnd-bond-Interobangenblo, doublo-barrelad romody for onr fnancial ills. 1t moy b the best romedy that can bo doviged, and, it invostigne tion should convinco us that it {s, we ehall ba ouo of its Lionttleat advocates, But, a8 a whole, the platform is ndmirable; and, if wo mistnko not, is the platform of the party of tho' faturo. ‘The Anti-Monopoliats may not win in thil pavt of.tho Btate, whuie Radicalism holds ono portion of the pnnpfe in lts grasp, and dovotion to Domooraoy halds the other,—wnore the Radleal nnd Domoctatic loadora dictate and the votors qbe{; but, {n tho northera and contral portions of the Blate, it will swoop all opposition. bofore it, ns it should do, Whoover, voing an honost man nud compolent, stands upon that platform, will rocolve the support of the Bulldin,—not a feoblo support, but its learty and euthumaatic championship, y Trom the Danville ([ll.) T¥mes, One hopoful sign s the growing tondanoy manifested to woed out the visfonary and Impoa- siblo soliemes that fillad the minds of the agri- cnltural classos n year ago, and to substitute somothivg tangibio and " real, Tho theory of railwav-transit undor the auspices of Govorn- mant found little favor, and the mor lasting oand fensiblo ono of improved wator-waya ucnmu& to obtain, In finunco, tho popular mind fs still groping. A'thousaud theorios wero broached, with no substantial basis, but oll indicating that somothing must bo_dono to reliove tho country. 1t is doubtod if tho deliberatioua and resolutioas ot tho Coyyeution -will mnko-any one the wiser. What farmers mood most s knowledge, and o true concofl:l(nn of che relations of things, It is this, aud this only, a8 1t appoars to the uublased, aud not the development of class-hatred, which will yiold thom Lhie greatost ultimato good. From the Peorta (L) Democrat, A ropresoatative convaution of tho farmors of linois was Lield in Docatur tins last wook, which wvill of necassitybe of groat pollties aignificance, and bida fair to sottlo tho politioal comploxion of the Srato for tho noxt fow yoars to como. 1'bey adoptod a platformwhich fa, iv tho main, most emiuontly sound, aud will commaud tho roapoct and rabifieation of a Inigo majority of the votors of the Stato, whetlior thoy be farmors ot of othor industrinl classes. We are glad to seo that tho rasolutionou fipanceds up with tho demands of slie. oceusfon, which demonstrates that (ho groat mngs of tho peoplo understaud the extraordinary stupidity of our present monotary, condition, and that they nlso uuderstand that the Tegal- tendar currency js the only ealvation of the fnancial interosts of tho country, . , . ‘'ho platform all tho way through is most cor- tninly accoptablo, aud i3 in perfoct consonance with sll the fundamental priuciplos of tho Dom- ocoratic party; and, if tho enpporters of tho party whioh made this platform shall num:‘lnnt ths Domocratia party, and sball also overthrow tio Republican party, nono of the lioncst mnases of the Domocracy esn bo othorwiso than plensed with the rosult. "It may bo rather awkward to some of the anlnrynFmbborn of the Democralis party, but not at all to Loucst mombors, whother of the lead'or file. 'This organizaion perfected ot Ducatur will, without doubt, put State, Con- groesional, and Legwlative tickoss tin tho flold next fall ; and there cou be bue littlo doubt of its succeny. Krom Yhe Peorva (1IL.) Tranacript. In the Stato Farmors’ Convoution, on Thurs- day, a longthy and somewhat bitter discussion was Lind 4 to the propciely of tho Aesoclatioh forming itself jutu & political parfy, Finally, lixe tho Cincinuati Couveuntion on the tariff, last year, it dotormined to remit tho question, and zceordingly adopted.an articte m'ovrlln thot the officers of thio Association and the Lresidonts of the various Qounty Assaclations shall constitute an Advisory Doard, to moat on tno first Tueudn{ of May, aunually, to determino what political action, It auy, the Association shall tako for the ensuing yoar, Fifty membors of this Bonrd aro to coustituto a quorum, “We wero of the im- preesion tnat parties were*born and grow, and wero noy mado; bub, horeattor wo r ) to have tho spectacls of o Bonrd meoting once a year to decido whother or not we shall have o Fanmers' rnrly that year, The echumo does not look par- icuiarly iuviting, How 1t will work in practico romains to bo scon, From the Rock Isiand (Ill) Argus. Al our readers will bo interested in tho organi- zation of the new porty platform .set for:h in thia paper, as adopted at the State Convention &t Decotur., Neatly every idea ndvanced in the platform will bo heartlly indorsed by oyery friond of cconomy, reform, oqual and just logislation, and truo Ropublican goverumont. Lot our read- era stady it. From the New York World. Amasa Walltor’s inasterly and canvincing let- ter to the Prosidont of the Illinois Farmers’ As- Bociation ought to bo read and pondered by evory voting citizen of tho United States. No proposition was ever moro clenrly estublished by eeghmont than Mr, Walker's main thosis, that our inflated uurmms{ robs nud tonds to ruin the groatoss of our national iuterosts, that of agri- culture. . . . . Wo do not know whather the Farmers' Association diatributes documents, but, if it would cause this lucid and cogont lot- tor to bo printed, in a olear, géod-sized typo, on haif-shicots of paper, and & cbpy put intb tho bands of every Wostotu farmor, the roform of tha ourrency could not he delnymi much beyond tho noxt Ooufimnulnml olections, Nowhore in tho Wast could apy candidato bo elocted who was not publicly pledf®d to carry out®Mr, Walka's views—whioh is & grent denl to predict consider- ing that tho West has horotoforo been tho stronghold of the inflationists. . THE LIVE-STOCK MARKETS. OHIOAGO, TursbaY EVENInG, Dec, 33, ‘The racoipts of livo atuck during the week Lave been as fodows § Hops! Shéen. 25,607 03" 25,000 1,800 20,50? 2,431 2,870 1,190 61407 'Bil Shipmenta were as £ilowa: - > Cattle, ogs. Shecp. Monday.... 874 LU L OATTLE—Prices ranged aboat the samo a8 on yes- fardey, where,Iu viow of the light supply, thoy wero Armly held, T quality wasathor below (ho avorago of It week, tho numbor of droves that wonld grads a8 choloo belug extremely snall. Modlum to good qualittes comprised tho large portion of the nm;m;g-. and for guch tho ruliug pricos wore $4,.23@475, Tho oxtremo range of the duy'a salos was §2,00@6.70, (ho inwldo for scallawags, sud tho ouisida for twa car- loads avoraglug 1,537 Ibs,—sold by L. E, Mallory & Dro, As our merket 18 ngain flooded with poultry and gumo, thero Was not mucls Juquiry for butchers' atuff, tho weok promising to bo ona of Unusual dullnoss {1} tho retall meaterade; but tholr purchues comprised o beltor class of slock thon [n often eeen in (holr stalls, Btock stcers_mat. with omo demand at full provious aulotatione, or at $2.60@2.76 for common, and nt $3,00 (@080 for good .to priino lots, Veal calyes woro ealn- blo'at $2.76@5,00. *The markot closed steady with ouly 8 small amount of stock left over ansold, QUOTATIONH, Extra Deoves—Graded steors, avornging1,400 ¢ 10 1,330 Iba,. ,05@5.00 Oliolca Leeves—, 0,8 your old atecr 1,450 it . 6,00@5.40 Gobd Bee fin 2 atosrs, averagluy 1,200 to 1,350 I, .., 4,60@4.78 Medium Grudes—Btoers fufr lodl, ave _ agiug 1,150 10 1250 108, 00eraaes. vreenyre s SOTRALDS Butehors' Block—Commmon " {0 'falr ‘tders, and good.to extpa cows, for cify slaughier, averagiug 830 to 1,100 tba. . 2,00G4.00 Stock Cattl—Common - catia el averaging 760 10 1,650 1ba, . 2,60@3.60 Inforlor—Light “and thin® cows, stoge, bulls, aud ecolawag,steors, 50333 Cuttle—Toxus, chiolce corn-fed, . 4,004,850 Qattlo—Texus, summered Nortl 276,60 Cuttlc—Toxus, through drove 1.16@3.00 " CATTLYX BALKS, o et verage, foe .20 ¢ 40 Texas calle, 29 Texan cattls 18 sfock cattlo, 85 butchers' eal 17 ehofca catil 6. 40 Toxus cattlo g, 16 cholca cattle [ 475 4.00 4, b, 4, [y o 84 biatchers! stack, 17 h,“ll,clwl‘l' slock, o HOGE—Trada fu this bra nctive, with » bitogant Duiyors woro numerols an aud chieorfully responded to, wero lght o mupp) tho saimo faat, and, auaplclously for acl wero ropor ce Baturday ing draggai moro or love, about the closing quotatio 516, M wera of the poarer_sor and mized lata, . Salles those nt any fair price, and Jf countey shippare wonld avoid losses they muat bu; mfltly wido margin, * It may bo quoted at, $4.50@4.00, th & fow salea at a lower £5.23@05,30, _ Closing quotatioun are $1.60@5,16 for in- forior to chiolco, ] oo the demands of holdern amounting (o only ahout 25,000, anil making oriod laat. wook, and 87,407 1L things conl-_thferm, ers, oward [} L a1 4. oo, iowbver, Loro row moro cautious, and sellora dator, o consenupices ‘rom tnidday until the closs of husiness' houra trad- Tost of thie liogs remaining in the penn unsokd 4.00 e reccipte, comparatively, only 50,500, Araliet 72,870 for wook bofors {10 markot dponod provisio uyers mm‘pflcu worked back to na of yesterday, or to $4,60, embracing coarsio, unoven, ro bothered o disposs of y this ‘common siuff at a figure, Bulected hogn sold af ks, 14,00 613 | Drightn . English cocos, beat,..85 o Cuina maiting -4, Auerican common. Rod and wh, ch'k 4. Jted and wa, ch'k 5-4,40 Wheat, 1% 108 50@138 6 3 0n0d, Pork, €2s, Dec, 10 p. Wheut—8priig, 14s 0@ 128 0d. 3, catreTINGs, Tapestry Nirusaels, 123 " (igsina....,. $1.23@1.30 107 . 8,00 | Orossley's......1.05@1,40 |itszour: e 14 478 Ahree-lpr, 4 1528 475 | 1ariford, ext 143% Lowoll,.. ey, 81,05 4 | Hartford, Tm, 135 I8mith & Banford’s. 1,30 220 4,25 Ingraina, arkot opancd | Smitl'a tapestry. , 81,25~ Lowell oxtra, fecling pervading, the miarkot, | Harlford oxirn, .10 "Lowell auperf 00 d apparontly edor to fuvonty | dinriford med (11 "85 \Gommon wool 3 or 5@i0o advance word | Lolgrads, « .80 (Union,.. 63 (Qufns matting 5-4 Calna matting 0-4 Roct and wh, ch'k MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. “Forelgn Marlkotas t, Doc, 20—11 5, m.—Flour, 8@ diiatzs 6a fif,{"fl“' ‘lu %‘d‘@iaa M@, wfufi'. clu o X / Lhed 405 Ge e ; .—~Dreadstnfta frm, Corn, 8763d. Tork, Livegroo Livenroot, De o, Av, Priee]No. Av, Price, | {avenroor, Dec,20.—Cotton teniting lower 3 mid 260 a0 85,13 | 63 dling upland, 8 ;' Ovicans, Bi@8:2d. Bules, '10,600 o o Lalea ; Amerloatl 67007 spéciilaion andexport, ‘ia 62 248 Breadstulls—Firm, Ted Wentern spring wheat, 124 o 4 ldataesl, witerred, i @134 ol Oor, 376 G N ¥ celpts of wheat for the ureo days, 8 © i 3 Amcrlcan, 10,000, e i 53 34 Trovisions—Lork, 0s, Oliceso, G4a Gd. Cambere 0 42 Innd middies, 408 ; ‘short ribs, g8s. 108 0 T0ND0Y, Doo, 2 1, m.—1n weather' throughous 43 58 Englund to-day 1s falr, 'Tha cmount af bnlljon gono 80 64 Into the Bank of England on balance toxiny is £ 50 o 4 000, Gunsols for moncy, 01%@00; on _account, 93¢y 41 52 02:¢, United Btatea securitios—3-203 of /05, 047 07, i % 56 4% 5 10-404, 02§ new G4, 013 3 Now York Cantral, 79§ 50 255 Erle, 8037 : Eels proferced, 83, 103 20 Tallow, {0 04 53 % |07, TanIs, Dec, 20, —Ttsntes, Bt 360, { 4 19 07 FuANronr, Doc, 23,~Five-iwentles of 1803, 8734, ° % 0 (9 ¢ The Wool Trade. 9 15 | &0 5 . u ol B .| . Prrapprrna, Dec, 33.—Wool quiet end firm ; Ohto, b 0 |0 TPenusylviniu, aud West Virgiula' doublo extes and o £l L above,6@36c; extra, 63@55t; medium, B363c; coaree, I oo oo I 60@570; Now York, Bichigan, Indiann, and Westers L] fluc, 46@320; medium, BOGSIc; coateo, G0@5lo 44 181 4,00 {01 1D SHEEP—There was llzo o doruna for sheop, both shipment Exst, and, undor s continued scant supply, pricos are firm_and still advanolng, There were ralos of choico to-duy at $5.25@3,60, and of extra at 45.10@ Good droves roadily commanded $L.76@! ot to medium lota Wore salable at §3,50@4.50. aud the market closed firm at the wbovo quota: tlons, Yo appond the following. BUKEP,SALER} while Al noly No, Av. Price|No. Av, Price)No, 13 108 5. 70 §3,75) 08 0 123 560 82 117 | 6,25(214 65 13 575 e3 111 475 63 v - T8 4,25[100 [} .00} NI YO New Yonr, Dec, 23,—Hos—5,040 livo recelved, Tho demand was not stroug for liye, and tho market wes | Drosnsd, clofed s 4tudo iuier, st 'and 61 @00 for Westorn, BUFFALO, BoPFALo, Deo, 30,—OATRLE—Recelpts, Including roporiod arrivals, 933 ¢ total for tha weo withatauding tho lght run, Buyors ond wellers wero wide apart, ownera neking, 3§ | tame at 5\(@53c, @ Tty {@Nanduancs ovor lat we loas uveraging 1,905 tba, ot $7. 083.31,509 1ba, t $4.20; in; @3.03, Biteey wsp Lasos—tiscstpis, including roportod ar- rivals, 4,800; total for the dull st o dbling on oil grades'from Inst wesks clos~ ug pricas. But fow buyors aro in attendnce. | 0as—Ttecelpts, inclidl total for the weak, 13,700, 50 car-lowds are offeriug. $,0085.13)% ; heavy ho 312 4@ 5, EAST LIBERTY, YA, Lrozny, Do, 2,—CATTLE—Arrivals, 85 care: | §50; modium, $46033.00; common, $4.00@ | 450 Yurkors, $3,00@3,80, 77 - EAsT Lesl Jidan=~Arrivalr, 3 card 5,60 ¢ Yorkere, $4.15(23.00, SiEEp-—Arrivals, 10 Qum, $4.00634.5 CHICAGO DRY. G00DS MARKET. ‘The past wesk hns boon one of fair activity in the dittercLt departinents of tho dry-goods miarkos, ders from Interfor jobbers aud retalers, and from the Iocal retall trade pa’ wallll bayo been numetous and Iib~ eral in the amounts called tributiorrof staple snd fancy goods wbs 28 for lust weolt, whick iu tnrn was in oxcces of auy 1rovious weok since the {uception of the panic. Tho courac of prices s atill fn. increasod activity fn the quont materiol,” to ths' market fo textiles, and the tendency upward that jobbe haa ittcroaes Aales”at the current throughout the conntry are roports of tho more popular miakes of bleathod and brown cottous, prints, denims, &c,, thers is lkely o bea nearcity, “Among tho clianges noted during tho week was an advance of a io in Pepperoll, Sulisbury, Indisn | Orcliard, sud Novuita, fi Dunuell, Richmond, Amoric: Garaer, and sfanchester print briew, and J¢@lo advance in aud Amoskeng denlms, Tho following ia from tho Commercs: week among manufacturers’ agonta continued activd in niost descriptions of taplo nd the slock "of this claws of ag beon essentially diminisbed, New York Journal of ‘4 The Lusiness of thy cotton productions, fabrica o first hands The livoral distributions weoks standard makes §s hold af sales, The demand from entirely restrictod to current trade requirements, and tho sales at the now figus small, A et clianls, No, U8 in Llers, No. 020 Droady dealers in woolans, No, 40§ Droadway) lin the occaslon Of varfous unfavorable rumdrs touching the genoral condltion of There may be edditlonal fuiluros among tho wonkor u prominent dry goods firms has duripg the triuls of the nust two months,” clasa of merchants, 1A A, Naslville, 46 {n Medford. v ea Nushua E, {0-in, Nashua1t/300 5 Pepper n, Topporell T, 40-1n Popperell 6, 83-in Py in Naumkesg sattoens, Tequot satleens,. |+ Audroscoggin, .20 lackatone, AA. Minnehahs, 4-4......50 Minnehakia, 7-8.1107.25 Amotkeay, A, Amonkesg, A, Amoskenis, oskeag, O Awoskeng, D, Tour] Rive Conestoga extra, . Coneatoga extro, 7-8. Conestoga GAY, 4-4. Concstoga COA, 7-8,,,17 Minneliahs, 0-3..., Amoskoag, '8-3 Amoskuag, 83 Uncaaville, A, Uncusville, ISORLLANEQUS, . #H10) Carpot Wirps, 825600, TiH! J. & P, Qontes’, 10 Clark's * 0, N, T, 7, Olark & O3 Oif 0 s &51d brought Ko advauco, banging off, snd fooal butchers a: holiduys, Sales includa : 200 Indi 90@1.430 1ts, &t $4.00@5.87% ; 1 cars 3 ‘common, $3 appreciation - in e im; ra are making mo bian cauacd a docided finprovement In tho geuers altone of the market, and tlio remuining supply of Buyers froim tiio Weatern cltioa have mado liberal coleotions of such goods ua werb roquired for tive hout trade; ry goods commisslon me: ULEAGHED COTTONS, T10] NEADS, o John Olark, Jr, & 4.60 - od dégren of nctivity in tho nupply local wanta and for 5,00, ) 2,812, Nat- | thie market openod slow, ok closing prices, Tho fo tern buyers are supplied for the teors, averaging Iilinoje steers, 003 §50'Olilo steo: verag: | week, 7,600, 'Clio mntkal In ng roported ‘rivals, 2,400 3 | o merket dull,’ Abont re: Yorkors, | Quatations 3 best Philadelphias, $5,80@ ars; best $470@5.35; e 003,60, 0= ‘ogate dis- | for, and tho o ully 18 lnrge on upward diraction, The dsmaad for, aud the conro- valucs. 'of, tho raw ted s bubysat fone r - cotton aud woolen ofprices {8 so unmistakebly roat éffort to (uotations, Stocks 1ight, and of some 06 Lrowne'y a ko sdvance fu ' , Bpragie, Amoskeag, 8 o ndvance fu camis oric’ Blue, Golumblan, mado during the yast fow ¢ advaiced prices for future firat bands hios been almost res biave been comparatively The faflures of trect ; Oberholser & Keef Edson, Dradloy & C: beon ma dealbra iu this connection, financlal aolvonoy of the been well established BROWNS, © Indias Orehard, 0....10%a indian Orchinrd, DI, 0% Iugifun Orchard,W. Dight Btar, 4-4, Continental O, Lawronce Newnmprket Masnachusetis’ ) ry Mallory Purple, Danchester, - v[Cabot. K8, H] v|Concetoga OT, 4-4....,18 o Conestoga AA, 50-in., 16 Methuen. AA, Witlow irook, No, 1, Manbattan, York, 32-juc) | York, 80-luch, Thorndike, A Ewift Ity Whittenton, B, Autcrican, t-8, Amorican, §-3, cjliatty, C |Wiliimentic ...\ Qreea & Danlols’ cumbing, washod, 60@031; co) 4303 Cavnda combing, ?‘ 300} conrso aud medium, e, - 5 16,000 b combiig, uuwashod o fe, unwnlhed’,fi@ 458000; ‘tub-washiod, 50 A s Now York Dry Goods Market. NEW Yonk, Dec, 23.—Commisaion Liousos wore qniah fo-dny, sud there was but litcle activity fa jobbing branches, Fine bleached shirtings wer closely sold up, und sgenta of * Frult of the Loom,” * Nonparel),* elc., only recetvo orders *at valuo,” for futhra deiiv- ery. Indian Orchard corset-jeans nre advanced to 100, Cotton flannels aro fairly active ; faucy cassimeres ime proving,” ho Lollday retodl trado is unuaually brisk, The Produce Markotss: | NEW YORR, e ‘Nzw Youx, Doo. 21.—CorroN~—Qulet ; middling up- tand, 10c, at, Wheat in moderate demand and higher 3 receipts, 104y BitkapsTurFs~Flonr quietand utchan, ed ; rocelpts, 000 bris." Rye flour aud corn mi unchanged, hwuukeo, 0. 1 dliune- Qtye, batiey, and No. 1 Milwaukee; 81, .malt uuchunged, Corn uuchauged ; recefvls, 49,000 bu, Oats heavy and lower ; recolpta, a\ovmern. 8@00a, 84,000 bu’; mixed Slock of grain i warchouso Doo, Wheit, 1,341,000 bu: cor, 1,614,000 bu ; oate, ,000 bu 3 bariey, 228,000 Gu ; malt, 63,000 bt sreas, u, AT A¥D Hors—Uschanged, 2 GRooentEs—Quiet and uuchanged. PrnoLEus—Crado, 840} reliued, 1350, . Eaas=Firm, TuurexTiNg—Quistatdlge, . o ' % Puovisions—Lork firm ; new mess, $16,00 $10.23 ecller March, Ncof steady ; mess, $3.25@11.00 exira mess, $1.00@13.00, Deel hnws quiet - Horco ateady ; prime mess, 00 222,00 ; Tudia mess, $25.00 @200, Tut meats n Tiir dviaud's” shouldere, toller Jautary, Ge,' Aiddles firmer 3 long clear, 550 5 sliort clear, 17404 long nnd sbort cloar, Docenabor nud dun- ary, Trie. Lard woak; primosteam, 83c¢; choice, Biict pHio stoam, for Joutury, (e ¥obriasy, 00 ch, 9igc. : ; uTTER AND CiizEsr—Unchinged, Wiisky—Bleady ut Vo, JLEVELAND., OLEVELAND, Doc, 33,—LUraDSTUPFE—Thest qulo. and unchangod, Corn’ stoudys old, G4@830; Hew, 6. Oats quiict’; No. 1, 48¢ 1 No, 2, 46c, FECROLEUM~Quist, afeudy, and unchanged., f DETROIT, - 1 Dyrnoir, Deo, %, — UBEADATUFTS—Flour firm. Wheat dull and’ s ‘shado lower ; exten, $L02; No. 1, $L55@1.55 5 No, 9, §L.44, Cotn firin ;' No, 1 mized, b9ete, Oats higheirat 4@43e. Bariey Arm and un’ chauged, i * » * * PHILADELPIIA, TINLADELTIIA, Do, 3, —BREADSTUrPa—Tlonr firm; suportine, £.00025.75 5 Stute, Ouio and Indinna ex tea family, $7.00(38.75, "Wheal, vary dull; Tod $1.85@ 1,60 ; nmUer, $L64@1.083 whito, "$LIUGLES, Ty, Btatgand Western, ¥5c. Oorn firm j old_yellow, 7 800; mow, GI@T0%. Oals stcadyjowhitd, G3@I8a3 mixed, 51@353¢, PrrhoLkUM—Crude, 030 ; refinod, 13Ke, - Winskr—SL02, . BALTIMORE, BALTrtons, Dec, 23,—BREADITOPES—Flont stendy. Wheat fibm, * Corit irm j mixed Westorn, Tic, fem, Ryo steady. Priovistoss—Quiet and honsnal, Burren—Sieady. Corree—Very strong at @0}, Winsiy—Dull ; offered ut ¥1,0: ; no buyers. OSWEGO, 0swz60, Dee, 23,—BUEADS FUFFE—TWhoat dull ; Na, 1 Milwaukoe, §1,08,"Cdrn firm_at T@754 Burley quict ; By of Quinfe held at $1.65, ST, LOUILS. 8t. Lous, Dee, 23.—BnEApsTUPFs—Tlour Jow, and medium_grades scarco and wanted ; all grades’ fiem and unchaugod, Whoat, spring highor; No, 2,8.19 @1,30 ; winter qWll and fower ; anly fatnpls lots rold. Corn Dotter 3 mew mixod, 39@830: old do, 5@30ge, o east track, Oats uctive aud higher ; J@dlo, in elevator, Darley quist and unchanged. Hyo easior atEI@HB}e. . Witssx—Dull and’ lower; salesat 933 offerod ab the cloka at 9lc, without buyers, Provistoss—Pork quict; small lots at $14.50, Dulk meats held firly ; emall saloa of fooso cloar rib at ot cler, 7T4o} puckea Iols Mo highor, Green meats beld firmiy { emnll sales of ‘showlders at 5’50 clear rib, 6%@0740; clear, Te, Mams, 8)c. Lard nominal at 8o, Hoas—Active and higher at $4,6095.35 ; most pales ot £4,00(33.05, 2 . CaTTLE—Firm: medium to fair nalives, $2.25@3.60 ; good to Frime, $400E3.00, B scrrTe—Togs, 7,040 ; catile, 285, OINOINNATY. 4 OvorvNATI,. Doc, 33, —BREADSTUFFE—~Flour and wichonged, Wheat steady ut $LAT@L60, niet jorn steady at 5i@58e. Xyo nnd Lurley quist and us. changod, Quts quiot at 43@30c, #—Pork mnomiually unchanged. Yard ulot; steam, Blyo; kettle, BJ(@8)ic. DLulk moatz ull § small sules of shouldera at 8¢5 clear rib, 76; eloar, Bacon scarce and firm ; light sales ; shoulk 14@130. i 7’3; cloar rib, 73(@8y; clear, B@BKo, Groon micats quiet ; shoulders, 5:@b%0; clearzib, 85 @0303 cloar, 6;@7¢, Hams, 685 o, low ; bityors holding off ; small sales et . @ Receipts, 6,600 ; shipments, 083, Witibi'x ~Fiewor at Bic. DO, 3 Toxevo, U, Doc, 2. —BREADSTUFKE—Flonr frm, Wheat firin g No. 1 while Wobush, $1807 No. 3 o, $Lo0; amber Nichigan, $180 esils” £10UG10 soller’ Fobruary ; No, 1 red, $1.63; No. 2 do, $140}, Corn firm ; bigh' mised, 618 carh and Januiry s 638 February ; now, 5o cash 3 60xc January ; low ml; By, Oasts Arm s No, 3, 4535 spot ; 400 Juduary, Toos—Droascd, §3, 0,05, 1 RecereTs—Flowr, um:m; wheat, 16,000 bu ; oorn, 3,000 bu ; oals, 1,000 bu, s © Surearkts—NFlour, 1,000 ; “wheat, 3,000 bu; corn, 6,000 bu outs, 700 b ILLE, flmmlvxm.\c, Xy, Dic. 2h.—BREADSTUFFS—~Flour rm, Buovisions—Park steady st $1550016.0. Bacon quivtund unchuugod, Lulk meals tirm; shouldars, Guj vlewr rib, 74¢@TAfc; clear, TH@Tc. Lard sloady: primo stoa 7 * WilsRE—1 (@120, BUFFALO, Burrato, Dig. -2h,—Bueanyrurrs—Wheat sbade easler for ‘apring s sales 44,000 bu at $1.40 for No, 2 Milwaukoo club : $145 for No, 1do, Corn Gulls 3 cara No. 2anixed Western, ‘Oata dull; ddo for No. 2, Tiye dull, arley quiet, MILWAUKEE, Mitwauxzs, Dec, 25, —LuEADSTUrFs—Flour guist and_unohunged, . Whoat nn; . No, 1, $118: No. 3, $L16%¢, cash § $L157%5 for Junuary; $1,18) for Fabrua Ty, Uats stead; 2, 88e. *Gorif steady ; No, 3, Gie, l;xu firm 3 'No, 1,750, Barley steady and un- chung ¢ ProvisioNs—Quiet s unchianged, o ous—Steady’p live, §3.25 ; dreaod, $6.00; roceipta. 000, o P REourvre—Flour, 0,000 uris; wheat, 70,600 b, BUIPMERTH—Flour, 6,03 bri ; wheat, 57,000 ba, “WHET IN BTONE—1,000,000 i, NEW ORLEANS, e | New Onzuaxs, Dec, 2, —Burandurrs—Gorn lowers ylite, 93@70; Jollow, Te, Oals guuet at 620, Jras ull at 50, Uav—Doll ; prime, $19.00% cliolod, $24.00. Thovistona—Pork dull; hold af §18, v, Dry malt meats quict at 61/@8, searcoand higher at 8@8¢(@0; changed. | [CoTToN—Very active; pricos {rregular, with somo Balen at loss than fusido quotations; good brdinary to strict gool ordinury, @I low middiing o wtrict Jow middiing, 182;@10/707 middling to sirict middling, 165@100; good middiug, 16K@170; To- colpty, 16,080 bnless exports, to'the Continent, 13,0185 Great’ ritain, 9,404 ; utock, 310,110 § unsold list ovens fuge »;,1uu;un1{lmll’zzf.y, lv.vflm l’fi“" : SMonky—Gold, 110/ { kight, ) dlcount, Sterlng— Bk, 1185, 4 . Blerllag: “a Erotractod Lowsuit, New York Correaponidence of the Troy Times, A Tnwanit wus brought to a closo this year un- «| dor the decision of Judye Van Brunt, which was commenced r-hen tho Judgo wus & child, Tt grow out of the will of John Mason, o namo now _al- most forgotton, John Mason died in 1840, Yor twenly years proviously lio had been the licaviost dry goads doaler in the United States, As soon a8 ho was doad his greal property gave rispto litigation, and one suit rau into another, &0 thai slthiough the first partics died others kept ét np. Thiity-threo yonrs of logal warfare ware requirod to bring the cavo to a successful isue, Lho dres Plalutics yaa doad, and a9 waa tho dofanda * ’