Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1873, Page 2

STRIKING ENGINEERS. PITTSBURGH. Special Diavateh o The Chieago Tribune,, Prrrspunan, Ia., Dee, 27.—1The sirike of the locomotivo engincors continued to-day, No through trafas on tho Pon-llandle Rond from the Wert arrived to-day, oxcopt tho through wnil. The Fort Wayno is running its full com- plomont of through passenger trains, but fiolght and accommodation tralns aro scarco. On the Cloveland & Pittsburgh and Erle & Pittsbmgh matters are nhont the same a8 tolegraphed lust evoning. To-day, the Ponusylvania Cuutral ly- sued 5 AN OBDER IEDUOING THE WAGES OF ALL EM- TLOYES 10 per cont after Jan. 1, Of courso this includon engincors and firomen, In convorsatlon with a numbor of engineors in tho omploy of the Ponn- sylvania Contral Rallrond, they atated positively 4o your correapondont that ahould this Company insist upon this reduction they will STRIKE RATHER TIAN SURMIT, The Socioty of the Brothorhood of Locomotiva Engincors is in o vm? prosp.erous sondition, and 208 over ©500,000 iu {ta 'Crensury, Tho euginoors tlniw thnt Lhoy can STAND TINS LOCR-OUT longer than tho companios. ‘Llioy have tho 8inows to back them, whoress tho railrond com- 'oanics must live u!; to their ngroement with tho wbtic, Competition now, teo, is so strong that hey must soon submit. ‘Thioy claim that tho Penusylvania Compnuy cannot conttol all tho ronds, und this ju a mensure is truo, TAILROAD COMTETITION. The Connollsville Railroad, now known as the Pittsburgh, Baltimoro & Wasbington, controlled by Garrett & Cohen undera liberaf managoment, biss roduced tho passongor ratos of fara to nonrly otg-Lialf the formor ratus,—only §5 to Baltimoro and Washington, $7 to Philadelphia, and & to Now York, They are flJ{mluK the Ponnsylsania linfirond” vory bard, sud it docs weem ns though “at prosont 1w did not woil pay them to allow this strike to long go on, Howover, on tho other sido, the managers of tho Western road, clearly any that their FREIGNT BUSINESS JAS FALLEN OFF fully 42 per cent ; that thoy are compelled to reduce or fail, or, in other words, non-reduction oeans bankruptey for the companics. Mr. Diteairn, thie Superintendent of tho Pan- Handlo, told your oorrespondout that never in tho history of that road have thoy ILAD 80 LITTLE FREIGIT olong tho line. Roally thoy have done less bustnous than was over known, and, conso- quontly, thoy aro not muck affected by thostrike on thal scoto. Mo thought thut tho ontiro matter would bo scttled in a day or two. Mr, Laying, the Assistant Goneral Manager of thio Fort Wayne Rond, also seemed 1o think that oro many days tho eugmoers would sco thoir folly, audresuma, 5 THE ENGINEERS HELD A VERY LARGE MEETING to-duy. in which thoy resolvad to stand by ono snother, and not put their hands on a throttlo antil the companios reatored former prices, Thoy claimed at the meoting that the compnnios broke faith with thom, and that, aftor reducing thew time of runuing, ought not to roduce their wages; lso, they wore counselod by thoir lenders to commit no overt act, but to act like gentlemon, and sustain tho dignity of their position. NO DISTUBBANUES, To-night some few are a little intoxicated and talk quite Jond, but the majority of the strikors aro law-abiding, and aro calmly but resolutely awaiting results. The engineets allow the maila to run, und furnish engineors to man the traine, in order that no dolsy or troublo will be given the Government, PR e, + INDIANAPOLIS, spectal Disvatclto The Chieago Tribune, Ixpraxarowts, Ind., Dec. 27.—The Pan-Handle has oot bind o train in since 0:45 a. m. yvesterday. Travel on that road is complotely dosd, This foronoon tho Kellogg opers company came iu over the Vandalis, expecting to go or to Dayton via the Central, but instend Lad their tickols oxchanged, aud tho troupo were forwarded over the Bee Line. Thoro is NO ADATEMENT IN THE EXCITEMENT. All kinds of rumors are floating through the ciiy. One was to-night that a conductor, at- tempting to take a train out on the Vincennes TRoad, had boen shiot by the strikers. It proved to bo utterly gronndless, No well-defined vio- fonee was committed until 7 this ovening. Har- vey Vanco, a ecab cnginoer, attompted to take out the Pan-Handlo passenger train Enat. as the engiue emerged from tho Union Depat - A BHOT WAS FIRED, taling effect in the engincer’s arm, disabling him from duty. The train was run into the yard, and did not leave the city. The ehooting was dona by Jorry Bush, a_striker, and ex-Secrotary of the Indianapolis Lodgo of Drotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers. Bush was arrested and is now in the city prison. Intense excitoment orevails in the neighbothood. No other blood- \hed is roported. MILITARY ORDTRED OUT. CGov. Mendricks received n dispatch to-day trom the Bheriff of Cass County stating thata nob had collected at the Pan-Handlo offices at Logausport, and was beyond his contrcl, and 1sking nid of the State, At 7 o'clack this even- 2g two milltary organizalions of this city —the Emmot _Guards and Col- logo . Guards—left for Logausport, wimed and equipped. Gon. Dan Macauley was given commund by the Governor. A detachmont of police was to go, but,fearingan outbreak hors, they wero detnined. Conductor Iise is now com- ing with the Louiavitlo MAIL OX A JNAND-CA. Tho intelligent portion of thostrilkors doprecate violouce nuder any cirenmstances, The strikers unqualiticdly deny that the accident on the Pun- Handly, Iss night, wag of their causing. They also £ny that thio enemies of the road, hearing of this trowble, will now svek tevenge by placing obsiractions upon the tracks, knowing the odium of such devilment will fall upon the en- gincera and not upon the perpetrators, For this Teason they threaten to shoot tha fiest putty de- tected tampering with tho ruils or switches, CONTRADICTION. "The report is contradicted that the Indianapo- tir. Boowlington & Western or auiy port of {he ‘Vandulin will join tho atrike, or that the Boo Line is in avy way alfectod. So far a8 the Pau- Handlo proper is concerned, publio sympathy tcews to bo with the Drotherhiood. Ixpiawarouss, (nd., Dec. 27.—Tho train whicts left hore on the Pittsburgh, Cincinuati & Bt. TLouis Itoad last night was thrown from the traclk outside of tho city by an opon _swateh, and was abandoned. The regular Louisville train Jlast night went through, but no train has arrived from Lonisvills sinco 8 o'clock last night. The train due to leave liere for Loulsville at 10 o'clock foft the depot nbout one hour Iate. : The Superintendent of the Vincennes Railroad reports thut he will have five out of six _rogular trams through to-day on the Columbus Division of tho Pittsburgh, Cincinuati & 8t, Louis Rail- road. No trainy have arrived or departed since 12 o'clock yesterday. Cho train due leroat 8 o'clock Inst ovening Is roported to bo at Bradford Jupction, 0. ‘There is a large crowd about the Union Depot, asd_the Pitteburgh, Clucinuali & Bt. Louig sa1ds, but uo riotous’ demonstrations have boen nnde o yet. A train is now ready to sturt for t'ul,(}lmhuu, and will probebly get oft about noou to-day, : Borious disturbauces aro reported at Logans- vt this morning, but no particulars have beon roL1s, Tud., Dec, 27.—A fiain on the " Ly %, 1L Jof) the Umon Depot this 1t half-past @ o'clock, iu charge of 0, an engincer not a member of the .zt hotore tho train had reachod thoe out- tho city a shot was _fired, which tool .t Vanco's arm, inflictiug w slight otd, Tho shot was gired by a wuriiciy evgineer, whose name oould cob bs learned. Beveral policemon mere on board the engino at the time, and the mon was arrested. No tralus bave gone out on ‘he Pittsburgl, Cincinnat & Bt. Loiis Railroad wo-day, and nono have urrived up o 6 o'olnck, Lhore hus been one train cuck way on the Louls- Aitle Rond to-day, S FORT WAYNE. Sneetul Dispateh o The Chicagn Tribune, Vour Wavse, Ind, Deo, 37.—The strike of sho locototive engineors has caused groat ex- sitement here, which is materlully incrensed by » rumor thut the enginpers of the Loledo, Wa- bash & Wostern Rallvoad, and branclies, would atrike during the vight, THY WADASH ENGINEEUS somplain thoy were reduced 16 por cont tho Ist of Decomber, uud that all tho other roads ouly 0 por cont. Thoy sppolntod a committee Lo yomonstrato with the ofilclals of the road, and gavo thom until 12 o'clock midnight to-night to decido, This evening the ofiiuls notified the Cowmitteo thie T4EY WOULD NOT MECUDE {rom their position, The engiutsrs would have to subuut to iho reduction, A meotlng of the THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY DECEMBER ¢£9, 1873, Enqlnuun‘ Asnoclation wea called {o coneld- or the noxt step, but ns 1t {8 soorot nothiug can bo lenrned na to ite action. Thomon nre groatly oxasporated wnd anrry, Knots were gathored togeihor befors tho mooting discussing tho quention. Thére seoma 1o bo 1o question thab by to-morrow or Monday o A BTIIKE WILL CONMENCE, T'ho ofilee1s of the Westorn Division of tha ¥, ‘Wayne Road, Ciiciunati, Richmond & 1't. Waynn and Graud Rupids & Indinnn Roilvonds are ox- ootitig n striko, ‘Lhe engineors of tho Eastorn Iyision of the Ft. Wayno Rndlrond nto on strike, but the Compnny bas sucoeeded in got- ting passonger teaing through on timo to-dny. No frelght tralns aro running on that Division. - THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, BTATEMENT OF TI[E GENEHAL MANAGER, Snecial Dimpateh to Tho Uhiago Trbune, PuiLApELPIOA, Ps., Dee, 27.—The Gonoral Maugger of tha Penvsylvania Railroad Company in thig city to-day voluataorod mo the following ongincors in hig and_oomn ng linos in the statoment concorning the strike of thelocomotive Wost : Hoveral nowspnper men have called on mo to-dny inquiring about tiin mutler, md L may sy thal I linve but tho vne atatemnent for all: Two years ngo tho wngea of the loconiotive enginuara were increased 10 por cent, and thoy aro tho lust persons in the world who ought to kiavo struck as they did, bocanse we had elmiply reducod thelr poy to whut they were arigle Iy givon, Wo found ft hecersiry fo make reducifon, and we oxpected that they at Towat would ‘ot ave glvan i thio moot trouble; ‘but, though tho traius on the roads §n question wore atopiped for a Hme, to~dny tlicy axo Leing run as usual, Wo invo founs! {n this omorgency {lint {liora wero athior men, not engtuoers, who wero capuble of ruuning n locomotive, and tlis embarrassment ou thicso roads i only ‘b temporary. On tho 1st of Junuary wo will~ reduce tho Wiges of nll employes on tho road eaat of Pilisburgli o they havo boch reduced weat of Pittaburgh, aud wo spproliond no strtke hero, a8 we boliove our mon havo 100 much common sonso to striko bocauso thelr wages, without excepting nny employe, are reduced thot amount, If they trilo, it will bo flio worso for them, Wo won't linvo much* troublo in theso times to gel’ competent nen to work for the wages wo intend paylug after tho lat proximo, (7o the Associuted Press.) NEw Yonx, Deo. 27.—Thomas A, Beott, the Trosident of tho Ponnsylvanin Railrond, and J. M, Creighton, the Genernl Westorn Agont, loft the city this morning for Philadelpbia, in ro- Bpotige to dispatchos enliing for their immedinto prescuco on aceount of tho strike on thoir West- ora lines., s COLUMBUS, OHIO, Corudnus, O., Dee, 27.—Tho excitoment ovor tho engincers’ strike is unabatod hero. One train Joft for Pittsburgh this moruing in chargo of Mustor of 'Lraneportation Simmons, A posso of police was sent on this train to Donnison, thore to receivo orders from the Sherift, A dispateh was recoived by Manager Oaldwoll, from headquarters in Pittsburgh, which stutes that the enginceta on the Cleveland & DLitte. burgh Division have gone to work, and sizned a papor agracing, if they are given employment, that they will nob strike agath, and deionuco (ke *‘Brotherhood" as the cause of their trouble. A train has just arrived from Pittsburgh. Huudreds of able-bodied loofers throng the depot, expressing their inteoso rogret that thera'Is go fitlo fun going on, CoLumnus, 0., Deo, 27—Midnight.—Up to midnight no vielonce or particnlar tronbio hog oceurrad by reason of tho striking eugimcers, Tho raitroad authorities to night sMPPED 500 CARTRIDGES to Bradford Juuction, for tho uso of the Bherift of Darke Couuty, Thero has boen o consultation with the Btato anthoritios reiative to calling out tho militin for duty in caso thoy aro needad, but up to this hour no eall hus boen issued. —_— CINCINNATIL Crversyatr, Dec, 27.—A roporter visited the striking ongincers ab tho Pendlaton yards, aud recoived o number of statements with rogard to tho cause of tho stiike, Mesers, Jessup, Seigler, Price, _ uud Clomens, the oldost engiucors on tho Little Miami Road, state that about two years ago Col. Thomas Scott, Mossrs, McCulloch and Laying and tho engindors mado an_agrremont with re- Just | gard to tho enlaries of the cngineors, and agreed that tho contract then mada-should not be vio- Iated by olthier party boforo both_partics had discussed the matfer. Tho engincors clum that this agrecomont had Dbeen violated, They think, considering the dangers, tho responsibility, and the working hours, that tho wngos are not too high. T'hat thero waa o large minority of the engmeors who deended the isaue inghowl by the fact that out of fifty-oue en- gineora on ‘the Ciucinuati Division twenty-five votod ngainst a strike. Buperintendent Ellison expocts on Monday morniug to man all. the passeager-traive 83 usnal, To-day all the passenger-trainy left on time, excopt tho nccommodations. CiNcINNATI, Deo. 27.—The Pacific expross train on the Ponsylvavin Contral Railroad, whick left Now York on Christmas, was delayed on tho road at Donnison, Ohio, where a Sherif bonrded it with posso for protection, At Columbia it ran into an open switch aud off the track, smashing the locomotive and slightly iujur~ ng the ongineer, At midnight it arvived horo, Sl CRESTLINE, OHIO. Spectal Divnalch to The Cateago Triline, OnrsTLINE, O., Dee, 27.—Tho En:sauger traing on the Pittspurgl, Fort Wayne & Dhicago Hail way havo all arrived and departed from this sia- tion to-day on time, sud wio runuing to-night along the rond without interruption. A lim- ited number of froight traius havo aldo been dispatohed East and West from this point. Tho only demonstrations of the strikers as yet devel- oped ou the line of tho Pittuburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway aro cast of this placo, anddo not appoar to bo formideble. Thoodorg Gray, & veterau conductor of the Company, and formerly an ovgincor, braufiht the fast lino pas- senger-train through from Yittsburgh to Crout- lino on time ihis morning, running the ougiue all the way himsolf, Tho Company hava iocal mon enough to keep thicir passenger-traing moy- ing, and no scrious trouble ia epprohended on this route. === s DENNISON, OHIO. Speclat Disvateh to he Clicano Tribune. Dexs1soN, 9., Doo, 27.—The strike continues horo, and affairs aro agsuming a serious aspock a8 datknoss approachios, The sirikors have stopped all tramns to-day, but, with tho aid of a fow ot tho road ofticors and County Sheriff, thoy wero again started. Tho county ollicers have CALLED ON TIIE GOVERNOR FOR TROOPS to koep thoe peaco, Very many of tho strikers are under the influouce of liquor, and have tried sovoral timos, without succoss, to grin posscesion of thoso men who are willing to run. — CLEVELAND, CLEVELAND, Oblo, Dec, 87.—The engineers of the Clovelaud & Pittsburgh Railroad, whostruck at 12 o'clook yesterday, returued to work to-day, ?‘ml all the trains of that rond aro moving on me. i LOGANSPORT, IND. InpravaroLts, Ind,, Dec. 27.—The Sheriff of Cass Lounty tolographed from Logausport to- day for assistance to quell o disturbanco thero, aud two companies, numbering 160 mon_ woro soutout by the Indianapolis, Peru & Ohicago Rond, io command of Gen. Dan Macauley. Thoy ‘will runch Logonsport to-night, A train from Clicago for liichmond wont over the road to-day, but did nobt stop at Logans- port, * NEW ORLEANS. Arrival of the Senate Committ New Onreans, Dec, 27.—Tho Bonate Com- mittee on Tiausportation arrived lust night, and mot this morping at tho Bt. Charles Motol for tho purposo of hoaring tostimony concorning trade, sinblstics, efc. & qummittoo from tho Chambor of Cominorco, hoaded by Judge J. 1T, Konnard, waited u{mu the Ccmmittoo, tondor- iug them the hospitulities of tho ecity. A com- mitteo from the Cotton Exchango alsocalled and oxtonded greotings, inviting them to visit tlo Cotton Exchange and oxpressiug their wliling. ness to impart uny fnformution they possosted ransportation upon the subject. y Both Comnuttces woro received by e, Win- dom. "The Hon, Willinm Burrell, Mr. Tigbie, and others, by request of the Commilteo, madp o statomont giving tholr viows regurding tho pro- parod Fort 8t. Lhillip Oaual. ‘I'hc Durell sub-Committoo will arrive to-mor- oW, P > S et THE HOLLIDAY WILL CASE. New Yok, Do, 27.—The Burrogate of West- chestor County, in this Stato, hind adwmitted to probute the will of the wife of en Iolliday, whioh was drawn in March, 1871, lonving to Bon all her proporty. A seoond will had bood drawn in Angust, 1878, in which Mrs, Holliday sottled her outire proporty on ler son, Bon ilolliduy, Jr,, sud her deughters; married and unmarried, nbyeck to A oxtrordiiary codition, aml cuts bng oY her husband from m{ portion of her property. e contested the validity of tho doc- umont, und on the trinl testimonv was given that at the Lo of tho makivg of the will of 1874 Mry, folliday waa not in hor right miud, THE SILK DUTY, New Youk, Deo, 27,—Phe DPatorson silk- wenvors aro atvoonting the roduction of tho tar- iff on thrown silk from 83 to 15 per cent, aud the mattes will be pressod bofora Qongross. PRISON DISCIPLINE. Speetad Dispateh to The Chicano Triltine, JovirT, Doc, 27.—~The Coronor’s jury to inves- tigato tho recont death of conviot Henry Will- inme, renssemblod at the Stato Ponitontinry this forenoon at 10 o'clock., Muj. 8. W. Munn, o oriminal lnwyor, nctod n8 foroman of the jury. Fhe Hon. J. M. Bouthworth and Dr. Onnislus, Commissionors, nud the Wardon., Maj. Wham, and his assistants, and Drs, B. 0. Miller, Curtls, Iincon, aud Cnsoy wore prosont. Tho Ilon. Ienry Svapp appeared in logal capacity at the instanco of tho offiors of the prison, and B, Dholps appeared for Dr. Magon, Prison Physi- olan, At the sollcitation of the Coronor, J. It. Flandors apposred ne County-Attorney, DIt R. J. QURTIE, BWORN.' Whon ho flrst .saw the body of Honry Williams, which wad last ovoning, at tho oflico of the Ooronor, it Dboro ovidence that o poat-mortem had alrondy boen held, Tho bourt had beon romoved, and tho scalp lind boon taken off, Examined tho body thoroughly ; Found no reason to bellove that tha decensed came to his doath from discaso, Satd tho honrt was shown Lim in aleohol. It was coverod with an_unusual nmouut of fat. It I not o foity degoneration, but is a fatly doposit. The hoart bnd two aportuves in it, ond I won told ono was mado with o Xnifo for mioroscopio oxamination of tho musculnr tigsues. 'Tho other oponing was thirao inchen in length on tho oxternnl aurfaco, betweon the ventriolos, Tho upper third of this oponing was made with & knife, and tho lower third Las the samo appearauco, Didu't know whothor the middlo third was made with a knifo, orwag an ante-mortom rupture. It conuccts with tho right veutricle. There was also a con- nection botweon tho lower third of this oponing and tholoft ventriclo, which apponss ta have boon made with o knife.. The walls of the right vou- triclo wero thinnor than is usual, Inmy oplnion doceased had slightdisonso of tho'boart, from tho falty condition, but no diseaso of the valves. Tho immediato. causo of the al- loged rupturo of tho hoart might have beon any oxcitement or shiock of thie systom. The deceased’s health could hinve boou sscor- tained by medical oxamination bofore his death., “I'ho condition of his hons unfltted bim for hard Inbor, aud such afection would eveutnally lond to death. Don’t kuow that this henrt is that of Honry Williams. tccolved tho heart irom Dra, Mnson and Miller. Itwas said to ho Willinme' Leart, . With such a hoart, without labor, a man conld live bill old ago, All organs of thio body woro unnaturally fat. Don't know swhotler tho hoart was ruptured or not. Couldn't sny whethor decenged camo to his death from vio- lonce or not, from an examination of hoart, Tho Dbrain was o vory unhenlthy organ, If the opon- ing inthe hearl is o rupturo it would havo caused death, Tho grontest troublo with the heatt is tho thionoss of tha right ventricle. Congostion of the brain was induced by recent oxcitemont or struggling, Cougeation was not the causo of doath, The discavo of the lheart was of long standing. The buth is 64 dogrees. DR, 4. 1L, CASEY, BWOIN. Examined tho body of Henry Williams Inst evening. The brain was congusted. The other organs woro in good condition. Saw tho heart of Williams in alcohol. 'The uppor ond lower third of the slleged rupture was mado with a knife, ‘Tho konrt was not in o healthy condition. The walls of the hears woro {hin. _ ‘Cho accumulation of fat would - torfora with tho action of the henrt, Deceasod may have come to his death from hoart disease. Ho was 1ot fit for active oxorciso. A physician could have told the condition of tho hemt by examination before death. A violent shock to such o mnn a8 Williams would be likely to pro- duco serious rosnite,—rupturs of the heart, for instanco. It would bo gross noglect in phyei- cian to order a violent shock without n knowl- edgo of tho coudition of his patient, Was once Prison Physiciwn, Did not always exam- ine conviots closely, nnd the disonse Williams hnd might have escaped my mnatice. I might havo orderod lim a bath, A_both adminisiered to & man in the condition of Williams might or might not produce death. DR B, C, MILLER, OF GOIICAGO, BWORN, Had examined tho lheart. Uad wever seon the body of Willinms, but Eroduced an aftidavit from Dr. B, Powell, of Chicago, to the oifoct that the heart ho had oxamiucd was what Com- nmissionor Bane had given him, and eaid to be that of Walliants, ~The hoart was stightly discpsod. In my opinion, what Dr. Mason hus pronounced & rupture of the hoartin his report is & wound made with a knife. The wouud wag gmooth and incised. Have ugon goy- osal ruptures, Never found & rupture in a beart where this opening is iocated, Did nat behovo Williams® lieart was ruptured. Theright ventri- clois tlun. Iexamincd tho heart in Ohicago without knowing whose it was or where it was. from. Who allsged rupturo is s vory natural wound to mako ju opening & body. Iirsb saw the hoart at Dr, Powoll’s oftice,” Believe tho Frigon Physlcian consclontions, snd that lo wmada tho wound in_tho heart accidentslly in opening the body, Williams could Lve endur- ed & cold bath without serious effocts, 1f sdmin- Istored in moderation. DR. 0. 1. BACON, BWORN. Am ex-physician of the prison. Hayo exam- ined the lieurt of Willisms. It is slightly dis- eased, - ‘T'ho rupture of such a heart iy possiblo, but not probable. Ordinarily, a rupturo ocours on the apex, but this openingis in the central nud lower part of tho ventricle. Can't 8ay whoth- or the opening was made with a knifo or not, bo- canee I havo examined it only with the naked cye, A vialont shock to a person with such a beart would produce an unduoe acoumulation of blood. A cold bath produces o flow of blood to tho hoart, aud this & rupturo from over-disten- sion sometimes, Iused to admiuister cold batha, When adwninistored as punishment, the convict was _not aolways oxamined, = Never or- dered any punishment whatover. The Commissianors mado all rules in writing govorn- ing discipline, and tha Waidens enforco Was always presout whon s bath was givon, Left tho prison July 15; Dr, Mnson wasap- poluted physician in Juno, Gon. Dune wantod mo to stay at tho prison sfter Alason camo, to givo bim (Mason) time to post bimsolf in prac- tice, for Lo bad’ been practicing dontistry for twelve yonrs. Dano wauted mo to stay thrco months, If I had given an order to bathe aconvict 1 should have regarded it criminal negligeuce to haye beon absent whon tho bath was givon, Was puid for the timo I remained alter my successor bnd beon nppointed. 1 proscribed tho bath in canos of foigiied insanity, 'Tho bath-tub is 63§ feot by 2 feot 4 inchos wide, 20 inches deop. The tuba aro filled two-thirds full of cold water. The subjcot, undor my administration, was plungod in and cuken out at once, Nover noticod any particular immodiate eTect from tho bath. Saiv oneman stranglod from a bath which was administorad withoue my ordors, ‘This man was rosuscitated by my flmel‘y arrival, Drowning ofton causes a_rupturo with persons with dis- cased heart. Onn't sy whother Williams camae to his doath from strangulation or rupture of the heart. Capt, Hullisn humano ofticor, and used to administor baths with good judgment, Daths are not daugerous to healthy persons, DEPUTY WALDEN J, P. ALY, SWORN, T binvo chario of the discipliug of tho prison. 1Inyo heen hero soveral years, Rocoive all or- dors from and roport to tho Warden. The War- don is the oxecutive oflicor, I remembor Will- famy' death, Saw Lim in the bath house on the 19th inst., alivo, Dr. Mason hnd ordered him bathod. Wa took soveral convicts to undross tho prisoner 3 filed o tub two-{hirds full from tho ar- tesion well, Ile was thon immeraed, head under, fivo or six secouds, Willisme roslatad with all his might. Aimed to put him in on his back, Lut conldn’t keop im in that position, When ho got ont of tho tub ho was soated on it edgoe. o was siubborn and dofiant, o breathed bard, 1o was then immorsed aguin for n second time, I then saw thoro wos porhaps somothing the matter with bim. Tig pulse wins wenk. Bont for the Steward, Dr, Baird, Dr. Mason boing abzent. e scemed fo wont to Iy down. T ordered tho con- viots assluting in the batlito roport at their working placo. I called Slooper, my nasistant and wo-laid Williame_on s ido ou 8 tablo, 1 then went in person for the Stoward, Whon wo roturiied Willinms was dead, Was gone, suy fivo minutes, IFrom the tuna Isaw him put in uncl his doath bo _did not spenk, Io was bathed twice before X suw him, I ordered himn bathed & hird and fourth timo, 1 supposed ho had boon put in onee, but sfterward learned ho had been put in twice. The wodu of bathing 18 to Immerse the subject, and thou let him out snd run aronnd to warm up, Whon hi s stubborn and roslsts wo lmmorso ugzinh but do not continue these immorsions in all ocssew to conquer the subject, Cold bath will nol sub- dus some men. Willluus wus ordorod buthed o tnird thno beenuso ho was stubborn, Dr, Mason told me _throa months sgo thut tha Commisgioners had given him vorbul orders to uso the buth in cortain vases, felgued sivknoss, for lnstance. My ordor to bathe Willlanig camo through my Asniatunt Doputy, Sleepor. o way "dllc'fiml’ for folgned sicinoss, Nevor thum}ht wa could qure lnm- with cold-wator bath. The object of tho hath was to ascorialn if hie was 1e- adly siok or not, 1lo was_taken from ¢ solitary to onth-house, whore ho hud boon 11 hours, bub not in punishment, Punisbimont i ¢ sotitary ™ on firat or second offense conaisty of & bread aud water diot and tho blind doors closed; on the thon, | third oftongo he is handenffod to a ring-bolt in tho wall, his hands belug ns hthh as lis chin. "Tho prinonor du loft thoro until ho agroon to llva up to tho yules ‘of tho prison. It is mot customary to put weights upon prisoners’ backs whon 80" punishod. Wo somotimen compel & Iu-luuuur to walk a boat in tho solitary for ton 1ours at n timo with fifty pounds strapped to tis bnak, "Tho bathiug of \Willinms commencod nt 7}{ o'olook In tho morning, Ho had beon in *“wolitary " the oleven houra provious. 1o slept on the atono floor whilo In solitnry, Ho firsb complainod of being sick on the 10th, two dnys betore he dled. Ho was reported by the gnaid beenuse ho had nob done o reasonnblo day's worlk, On the 11th he waa takon to the sick hall for oxamination by the Doctor. he Doctor mmlked im for “duty” On tho 2d inat. ho wan punishod for disordorly conduct. On tho 11th, aftor he had plained of his hands hurting him. It was the DVDnhlfi of tho 1ith that tho Doctor ordered lum bathed. Ilis offenso was not do- ing o day's work. Some time sgo, Major Wham, the Warden, ent for ma to doma to his ollica, Mr, Southworth was thore, IHo asked if cold baths wero being administored hero, I roplied, *Yos, upon the ordor of thoe prison {)II ytician.” Tho Wardon know nothing of the bathing of Willlams st the time, Ilo was not at ho prison atall, Havoadministored baths upon Dr. Bacon's ordor whon Lio was not prosent. I roported tho donth of Williame to Gon, Dane. The Warden never gavo mo an order o batho o man, Williama was in_for horso-stealing, Ho Fmtonduu ho ocould not_sponk Engllsh. Ho oarned to talk rapidly. Ho was genorally ro- (rnutnr{,—n troublosomo man, Whon I went to tho bath-house Willinms was standing with his nnts hal on. I told him to dress bimeelf, and ho would not oboy. I then ordored him siripped and bothed again, which had to "bo dono_ by forem. askod —my Doputy a second timo if the dogtor iad ordered theman bathed? 1o repliod that he had. The tomporaturo of tho water was 660 10009, Wo havo only administored four or five batha sinco Dr. Moon Lias been hero, and ho hns generally beon rosont. Ilo s neithor beon oo rigid or to loniont with the convicts, There have boen only two or threo deaths during the summer, If Williams hiad not boon disensod the bath would Em h‘\}vn luet him, *‘I guve him & rathor light 050, boon sat at worh, ho com- | CAPT. AMILTON, SWORYN Hoard Comamigaioner ana tell Dr. Mason to administor baths at his discretion, I came horo in July. Major Wham, Wardon, treats the con- viols iu & humnane manner. Dr. Mason is ro- garded aa very humano by all the omployos, LETTER FROM DR, DANFORTH, OF QILICAGO. Dr. Miller introduced thoe following lottor from Dr. Danforth, of Chicago, which the jury took clargo of : Cni10Aa0, Do, 20, 1873, Drf) B, . Miller ¢ EAR 8112 Your noto requesting me to furnisha statement ns to the condition of the heart shown to me by Dr. Powell i not reach mo il this ovening, I commenced ‘llrc(mrlnenmw microscopio speciinens thio day after X saw Dr, Powell, Lub wus intorruptod by Uoing auddenly called out of town, Up to this evou- ing, thereforo, I had dous moihing at all. Sinco recelving your mote, I havo gianced ab four or Ovo soctions, hastlly nounted, sud scarcely fit for examiuation yof, and mn inclined (0 think that if there s any departuro from the normal condition of the hicart-tisaue, it is oxccodingly slight. Tho muscular tssuo of the left vontriclo sccins quito lialty ¢ posaibly tho connectivo substance of the riglst ventriclo howa a little more than tho normal amount of fat,but Ism not yet prepared to nssert that thiafs tae cano, A re-cxamination of thaseclions atter they have been soaked In glycerine twolye hours longer, auil bave become mufliciently trausparont, may change my opinion entisely, Yours, J. N, Danronta, The jury adjourned at 4:15, to renssemble on Monday at the prison. The iuquost is oxciting a great deal of attontion, It will doubtless come to a close about noon Monday. _ ANOTHER CONVICT-DATIL, Tn my @ispateh of Iharsday 1 stated that Maj. Wham, Warden, was in possession of the aflidav- it of Dr. Mason to the effect that ho gi[uon) ordered tho bathing -of Willlams, To-day Maj, Wham vory kindly showed mo tho aflidavit, oxtract from tho aflidavit the following clauso: “I consulted the Commirsioners in this caso aud others to which my at- tention had been colled, and it was decided that the bath might be usod under diroction.” 'Tho particulnr case referrad to in thé abovo extract 1s that of a convict whom Dr. Mason found in the bull-rings. The poor fel- low's feet wore frozon off, aud tho stubs of his lega woro rosting on cushions. IIo was being punished for dome offonso ho bad com- mitted. Tho Doctor thought a cold bath would do_ the convict in question great good ; 8o ho asled Commissionors Bano aud Canisiug for authority fo apply tho bath to him and cortain othior casgs., ‘The demand met their approval, as it appears from tho Doctor's afil- dovit, 1t wos undor this verbal authority that the Dactor ordored Willlams bathed for * foign- ing sickness,” At the timo this vorbal authority was given by tho Commissionors, sn order againgt bathing for ** punishment " \was on tho records of tho Board, aud readgnizod a8 tho rule of the prison. It will be seon, they, that thore are lwo orders of the Borrd,—tho first appear- ing on tho rocords, and forbidding bathing for *“ punishment ;" whilo the sccond is simply n verbal order, admitting of cold baths for * feign- ed sickness ” and other causes, *‘ under tho di~ roction™ of tho physicien. FINANCIAL. New York Financial News. NEw Yonk, Dee. 27.—Money was a little more active at the close at 7 per cont, with fow loans at gold interost. Somo brokors delayod mnking up their bank accounts util just bofors 8, when Iondors had neatly all retired from tho morket, fl'l:{sdmu ‘tho 2enson for the slight appearance of activity, Txchango closed firm t 1083{@1085¢ for prime gnnkcrs' sixty days storling and 1093¢@1093¢ for lomand, Gold weaker, and declined from 1103¢ to 110} on tho increnso of specie in banks, and smail imports for the woole. Rates paid for carrylng wero G, 7, 5, and 3 por cont, and for borrowing flat. Treasury oporations for tho wook ntthe Now York office iucluded tho disbursoment of 3600,~ 000 on nccount of intorast, aud iu_rodemption of §-20 bonds, and the raceipt of $161,400 for customa, Spocio shipments for the weak, 8443,000, prin- cipally silver bars, Imports—Diy-goods, &878,~ 511 ; morchandise, $9,041,971, CGovernment bonds firm, Biate bonds T&llnt. The Union Mining Company of Tenncssce, and flrst-mortgage bonds of thie Detroit, Canadn Sonthern & Tolodo Railroad Company, have boun admitted to cull at tho Stock Exchango. Railway and migcellonoous speeulation strong and higher from theopening untilabout 1 o'elock, o advance ranged from 3¢ to 8 por cont, and was most merkod in Panamu, Now York Central, Lako 8hore, and Rock Ialand. Aftorwards thero was o weaker foeling, and & reaction of 3¢ to 13¢ per cont from the highest point of tlhe day on- sued, Pacifio Mail opened strong, but Rfter- wards declived from 8944 to 383¢. The advauco enrly in the day induced sales to reslize tie rralltu during tho afterncon, which had some- hing to do with Lho decline, Tho strike on the Penusylvania Railroad stimulated o riso in Cen- tral aud Lake Shoro. In the flnal dealings a stondler tone was noted. New Youx, Dec. 27.—The weekly bank state- mont is as follows: Loans, incronse, $002,600; specie, increaso, $1,620,400; logal-tendors, in- croase, $06,300; doposits, incroaso, £1,035,600; cireulation, increaso, $30,700. Sterling, 1083, GOVERNMERT poNDy, 193(|Coupons, '07. §{Coupous, 68, Coupous, '81 Coupons, '61 Coupons, 04 Couous, 05| Coupons, '63 £ NONDS Virginins, old.. 236 807 | North Qarolinns 4 North Ourolinas, srovus, G 18t Poul prd, 7233 Wabagh 2 |Wabash pia, 0 11, Wopuo Wella Fargo (cx, d American Express, United Btates Ex, Iuelfio Muil, IR o, Erlo pfd. Harlem, ex, diy Hurlem' ptd. Michigsn Ces % Union Pacifia bonds Central Pacific 4 Del, & Lk &'W R 3, Hartford & Erie,, ¥ 34 Bt, Paul . National Finances. Wasnmaron, Dec, 27, — Outatanding legal tonders, 377,101,002, llMelpls from intornal rovonuo for the month, §7,020,802; for tho fis- oal yoar, 840,809,703, Nanking-ilouse Failure at Annmosn, R, Des Mornes, In,, Dec, 47.—Tho banking-lionso of Btaooy & Wallworth, at Anamoss, s roportod to huvo failod. Its assots ure nmplo to moet tha domauds, Railroad iuvestmonts woro tho vause, —_— . HOGS PACKED IN ST, LOUIS, 87, Louis, Mo,, Deo, 37.—The number of hogs packed hero slnco Nov. 1 Ls 809,216, CRIME. Rovenue Frauds in fiostons Spectal Disvatch to tho Lhicago Pribune. BostoN, Deo. 27.~Tho soizuro of the books of Jordan Mareh & Co. this morning, was tho toplo of conversation in tho streot and In tho counting- roors to-dny., Thoso alloged frauds, It 15 ns- sorted, have extoudod over a period of ton ears, Busplelon hing boen directod to the firm or mx or elght months, aud it s not il nftor o loug and moot caroful invouti- gotlon by tho Judge of the District Court that {ho solzuro has boon mado. Tho value of the proporty attached {s about 85,000,000, for which, undoer the tnvesti- ’Inllon, 1,000,000 will be roquired in sottloment., 'lioso aro not tho exact flgures, o8 the oxamin- ation is not concludod, but thoy will probably not bo tnuch In oxcoss, Many of tho zoods have been entored, It is assorted, without the paymont of any duty, others havo boon under-valued, and thore nre [n oll sovon distinct allogations aupposed to covor 100 fraudulont iavoices, The members of the firm appoared much surprised at tho sudden visitation, Thoy offered every fa- cility to tho ofiicers, howovor, and nro desirons that tho fullost exnmination should bo mnde. They aracoufidont that thoy can show that thero lins beon no intent to dofraud, and that if any irrogularity does oxist it arose from a miscon- struction of tho Inwa, Special Agont Normnan II, Dingham conducted the solzire, BostoN, Dec, 27.—The Traveller statos that 8poaial Agont Norman 1I. Bingham soized tho books of Jordon, Marsh & Co, this morning, for allogod frauda of tho rovanuo, Lho amount being sct, without nn examinetion of tho booke, atovor 1,500,000, with a probabllity of its boing a Inrg. or’sum. 'The alloged frauds ato enid to huve extonded ovor soveral yonrs, The fvm, it is sald, court the fullest investigation,and assert there was Do occarion for seizing their books. Tho offalr causoa considerablo excitoment in businoss circles, s 4he United States Grand Jury lns found throo Indiotmants against David Town- soud and Thomns D. Townsend, constituting tha firm of Townsoud & Co., commlssion morchants, on a charge of niding in procuring falso ontrics of the cargaos of throo vossols. Eleven Prisoncrs Kscape from the Pcorin Jall. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. Pronta, Ill, Dec. 27,—Tho most succossful Jall delivory ever known in Peoria County took placa this evening from the County Jail ~build- ng., “ Louisiann Bill,” who was in for stesling, and who lins served a torm in the Ponitontiary, Iald plau some days ago for tho oscape of the ontire number of privoners, twonty-one in all, and to-day the attompt was succosetully made. “Loulsiuna Bill" mado yesterday n skoloton ko{ to the bath-room, which loads off the dining- ball, nenr the outor wall of the fail, This moru- Ing, ot scrubbing timo, two of iho mon wore lacked up in tho brth-room and worked steadily at tho wall until noon, whon they were relioved, and another prisouor pot at work. 'This oven- ing, when the turnkey lot the prisonors into tho dining-lall, a rush was mada fo the bath-room, and twelve' mon pushed through tho hole that hed boon made, and which was about the sizo of a man's body, and erearied. Ono of them after- wards roturned and zave bimeolf up, but eleven afo still out. Tho Shicrift s using evory possibla offort to rocapturo them, No ono is to blamo but tho turnkey, whoso businoss it was to havo noticed the missing men whon ho locked thom in thoir colls again, Alleged Forgerles.by a Philadelphin Buank Presulent. Special Disvateh to The Chicago Tribune, PrrApcLrusa, Pa,, Dee. 27,—It {8 rumored that tho Presidont of one of our uational hanks bas beon datected committing forgorics too heavy amount. Itis snid thet his crimes, covering o Emd of years, hove Invariably been shrowdly idden by the criminal- taking up the forged By it notes when they beeamo duo, by ral monoy on others issucd in their placo, Ho hes also beon neing tho bank's monoy, and the los, al- thoughthe smount tsyet unknown, isatleged {o be lieavy. 'Sulfico it to say that it has greatly straitencd tho bank nnnnclnl{{, Ho has also involved in his oporations a leading firm of iron foundors hore, which hns boon known to boin ditficulty for somo time, and poseibly through this porson's rascality. The falluro of Juy Cooko, and the subsoquont financial panic, bronght him up standing, and, dospite lus most enorgetio offorts, ho is at lart cornercd. Mls frionds attempted to ald him to somo oxtont, but hiavo now, I learn, backed out, ou learning the frightful condition of his affaird. Business Partnors Engago in o Dese perate Fight. Swectal Dispatels to The Clicaao Tridune, Atomsoy, Ks,, Doe. 27.—Two. citizons of Piatto City, Mo., numed Marley aud Field, part- nors intho restaurant and ealoon business, got into n dispute regarding their business afairs, High words ensucd, when Murln{ drew & pistol snd struck Lis partnor upou ibe head. Tho other attacked Marloy with a koife. Sovoral dangorouy wounds were inflicted upon each, and they now lio in o critical coudition. Marloy is not oxpectod to live. Another Canadinan Murderer fianged. PExDROKE, Oanads, Deo. 27.—Osier, convicted at the Inst Assizos of outraging aud murdering a TPoiish_woman uamed Luovitgh, sged 80, wos bangod to-doy. Wife-Murder in Grafton, Me. Lewiscon, Mo., Doc. 27.—Lucy Teuny was mardored in hor bed in Grafton, Dec. 24, by her Lusband, » blind paupor, aged 85, RAILROAD NEWS. Tho Indinnapolis, Bloomington & Wostern knlrond Investizution. Speciul Dispatch to The Chicaco Lribune, Linoy, I, Dec. 27.—Tho Iudianapolis, Bloomiugton & Weatern boud meoting at Lo- roy, Dec. 27, was callod ta order by D, O. How- ard, Suporvisor of Empiro Township. T AL QGuy offerod statistics bearing ou the cost of construction, equipments, bonded dobt, aud curront oxpenses of tho road, and showing a ‘)l'nfl& to the road of 28,800 to the mile. 8.11. Vest offored the following resolution : Resolted, That a committeo of three bo appointed by tle Clsirman of this meoting, for tho purposo of taking legal counsel in regard (o tho yroprlety of lusti- tuting proceodings sgainst the I, B, & W, Tallroud Compavy for alleged unlawful conditct, nud” that suid Commitice be nuthorized and empawered to employ au expert legal ugent to obtatn all the fucts that may have o benriug on the cage; that wo co-oporate with 1110 sov- grat towaishipa wlon {he ln I tholr fuvoatigatton of tho affars of the L, B, & W, Rallroad, Tho Oo mmitteo appointed in accordanca with | the above resolutionis as follows: W. Guy, Hi- ram Buclk, and Jumes Kimlor. ‘I'ho meoting adjourned, subject to tho petition of ten legal votors roquesting the Suporvisor to call & speoial town meeting for further sction Enrnings of the 1linols Central Bait- road. special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, SeniNerFiEL, 11, Dec. 27.—Tho report of the enrnings of the Lllinois Gontral Iisilvoud for the six months ending Oot. 31, 1878, was reccived at tho Auditor's office to-dng. It shiows : Awmount rocotved from freight. $2,232,706,37 From passengers. . 083,094,93 From extrn Liggugo From malli. ., From express, etc. Total..s Boveu pe the Stato L'rensury is 3223,288,88, For the samo time lust yoar the 7 per conb on tho carnings was $221,754,71, showing an excess this yoor of 1,623.05 ovor lust yoar, amount to. bo pald into The Grand Rupids & Indiann luile roud. Special Dispateh o The Chicngo Tribune, Guaxy Harins, Mich,, Deo. 27.—~A weeting of tho Continental Improvement Company has lato- 1y been held. Fhis Company holds and operates tho Orand Rapids & Indiana Railrond, It was oxpeoted that at this meoting the roud would be turned over to the Grand Ruplds & Indinna Com- |* pauy, but it appoars that it will not bo done nu- il & speoinl meoting of the Continontal Im- provemont Company, a fow woeks henco, Much mtorest i folt here 8y to who will be appoiuted General Superintendont of the romd, 'Thero iy tho best ronson to bolieve tha position bas heen, or will bo, ofterad to B, P, Viulug, Goneral I'reight Agont of tho Union Paeiflc Railrond at Omusha. Prob- ably the only question is, whethor the Union Tuciflo management will paro himn, ~ Vining was formerly Froight Agout of that portion of the Gln;m}lhpldn & Indians Raileond thon com- ploted. NAVAL MATTERS. Wasnmvaron, Deo, 27,—Ordors have beon iusued from the Navy Department to discontinue the recruiting depots at ‘Loledo, Dotroit, New Or leany, DBaltimoro, aund varions othier points which were oponsd at the beginuing of the come plication with Spuin, 'I'ho number of men juthe uavy is now 10,000, and it wonld Laye beon an ensy watter to ship 20,000, or even 30,000, hed tho publio servico required'it, Tho regular (naval) recruiting ulations av Doston, New York, Phila- dolphls, Washington, and Nowport will be con- tiniad, thotteh Gholr onlistmonts. will bo. con flued to able-bodied scamon, to keap that clans up tothe roquired numbor, such mon belnj always needed in the sorvico, Landsmen ane othor recruita will not bo nccopted, Tho enllstmonta for (he Marino Corps have been stopped. 'Tho cornu Is below the numboer lu,(}mriy.ell by Inw,—2,600 enlistod mon. The Monitor Montauk, at_tho nayy-yard since tho War, will be {nken to Now York and fleled for sea. WASHINGTON, A Moidol Postmante -Femalo Appll= cants for Olerkshipse=RRetrenchmeont in tho Internnl IRevonue Buren 'Fho flon. Caleb Cushing Appointod Mintster'to Spain. Speeral Dfspaleh to T'he Chicago Tridune, ‘Wasirxartox, Doo, 27,—Your Washington dig- patch of tho 18th gavo tho particulars of tho whitowashing of Postninstor Bonuett, of Don- vor, Oolorady, by ono of Mr, Croswall's spooinl ngonts, and tho rofusal of the Postmastor-Gon- oral to listen to complnints of citizons of Colora- do,thenin thiscity,against Bonnott.Recentadvices from Donvor Iudicato that Bonnott s carrying thinga ,with & ligh baud, and rolglu tipon Delogata Chaffoe to sustsin bim in his infamy. “Fhin model Postiunater, it is charged, has almost succeeded in suppressing tio mail circulation of the janti-Admiuvistration nowspapors of the 'Wor- ritory, and porsons on unfriondly torms with him, in order to insuro tho tranemission of their lettors, aro compelled to re~ sort o tho expross companies. Sevor- sl communicalions and newspapera have been _recoived by gentlemen in this city from frionds rosiding fn Donver, boaring tho Wolls, Furgo & Co. Lixpress Compauy’s stamp. I'ho writers of tho levters atato thab thero is uo safety in tho mails o loug a8 Bennott continues at tho hoad of aifairs in the Post-ONico. Ohaffoe is tho patron and backor of this man Bonnett, Ile scoured bis sppoiutmout, and keeps him in place by his intluonce with tho President, with whom lie i gard to bo on tho most intimate terms, DUBINEsH. To judge by tho business in this city during -] tho last uionth, tho panic bas had & good ofoct rather than the roverso. Merchants say that they Liavo not hud #0 good a sonzon sinco the wor. FEMALE APPLICANTS FOR CLERKSMIDS, . The number of fomalo npplicants for positions in tho ‘Lressury Department i incremsing so rapidly that otlicinle aro growing alarmed. Tho applicants come trom il parts of the country, om0 of them traveling thousnnds of miles, and tho positious thoy scok jay from $80 to 16 a mouth, THE REVENUE JUREAU, Tho Commussioner of Interual Revenuo is talking stops to placo. lis Dureau on the most cconomical footing possible. o has 10quested rovenne oflicinls thioughout the coautry to send in estimates of the amount for which their oliices ean be conducted during tho coming year. PROIOSED INEURIATE ASYLUM. A prospect for tho establishmont of 3 National Inchbriate Asylum, o Lo churtered by Con- gress, 8 Teceiving coueidorablo - atten- tion, with o falr prospect for buc- cess botoro tho susslon Is over. It will bo conductod on tho plan of the ous at Ding- lumpton, N. Y., and wil bave for its object thoe curo of iuebriates, [0 the Associated Pres.) DEBARRED FROM PRACTICE. ‘WasimaToN, Lec. 27.—1he Conunissionor of Patents Lias ordered that ''nomas H, Upperman, T'atont Ageut, or uy firmn of which hio may be & wember, ue forbidden to practico Loreaftor be- foro the Pateut Odico. THE MISION TO SPAIN. The Prosident bas appointod Caleb Cushing Ministor to Madrid, bo having accepted the ros- ignution of Gew, Bickles, ‘“Lho nomination of CGushing will be seut to tha Seuato immediatoly upon the rengszmbling of Congroes, It is un- derstood that Cushing haw sccepted the position, Later,—Calob Cusbing hos just bad & short intorviow with tho Prosidout in roference to the Spunish mission. 1lo has necopted. KU-KLUX PARDONED, Tho Prosident to-dny pardoned Ringold, Youug, Neil, and Harking, of Alabama, who aro now serving out terms of imprisonwment for Ku- Kluxism. During cightoen tnouchs pust fifvy- niue persons who wore convicted of Ku-Kluxism hiave been pardoned. About twenty applicutions Jor pardan ure still pending bofors tho Attornoy Goneral. FILIBUSTERING. A Suspicious Steamer Fitting Out at Baltimore--Government Oificors on the Alort. Wasmxaron, D, C,, Dec, 27.—Information hing been recoived from Baltimore that tho steamer Ldgar Stowuit 1s oxpoctod to il shorly. She i clearod for Jamaica, taxing nothing but pas- songors. 3 P A delogation of Oubang will leave Baltimore ta-morrow for Now York, to meet the stoamer Juniats and escors to Cattimoro Senors Mauuel Bilverio and Amadorsnco, formerly of tho Edgar St wlhio aro nmong the survivors of the YVirginids aud hava fought in Cuba, and thoir cscipe from doath Is to bontunibuted to thelr ex- tromo youth, Silverio belug vuly 17 yeurs old. Aftor o short stay in Baltimore they will join the crow of tho Eigar Stownrt, Gon. Aguilora, Vice-Presidont of tho Cubun g(npnhlil:1 Ly boen recalied to netive duty, and will possibly sail on tho Edgar Stewart. Bavtiyone, Md,, Dec, 27.—The steamor Edgar stowart now llea o Jonking' wharf, watched by Custom offlcials, Hor rogister is injthe hands of tho Collector of the I'ort, and sho will not bo al- lowed to loave, undorany circumstauces, without tho full knowledge and cousont of the propor dopartment at Washington, The Edgur Stew- art, from bor papers, i owned by Zimui W. Butch- or, 'of Now York, 4 fow wools ago, Col. Molch or Agnero, reprosenting hor ownors, contracted with prrties to repair hor boilera aud machinery, to the extont of a few thousand dollars. Theso repeirs nre now going on, and caunot be com- ploted undor four or five'weoks, POLITICAL. Asiembly Eloction Called to Fill the Vacancy Causcd by the IRcetirement of Genet, Arpaxy, Deo, 27,—Gov. Dix bas ordered o apecial electiou in Now York for member of the Assombly in placo of Huiry Genot, convictod of Telony. - . CASUALTIES. Ratlrond Conductor Crushod to Donth, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Gavrespung, 1il., Doc. 27.—Willinm Ifolt, con- ductor on the Chicago, Durlington & Quinoy Reilrond, was crushed botween two cars, whilo coupling in the yurd, at an early our this moru- ing, Ho lived but o fow hours aftor the acoident. —_—————- WENONA COAL-MINING ENTERPRISE, Special_Dispatel to The Chicago Iridune. WexowA, Iil., Deg. 27.—Ono of tha most prom- inent conl companies iu the Stato is correspond- ing with our citizens with & view of sinkiug a shaft hore early in the spring. Tha vein is four feot in thickness, and thero is nothing in tho whapo of watar or gravel that will Interforo with the worlk. 'Plie city authorities and cltizens will donate tho coal under 100 aores to manufactur- ing ostablishmonts, A, M. Hamilion offera 60,000 tons of conl to sny compiuy that will am]k o shiaft, and other citizons aro just aa lib~ oral, S CINCINNATI ITEMS, OrvornsaTe, Dec. 27.—Four hundred and sixty thonsand ogs have boon staughtored in Cincin= nati kince Nov. 1, against 880,000 for the corro- spouding perlod of last year, ‘The Board ot Trade to-duy ndopted & resolu- tion ]I)rnlusting against the ropenl of the Dank- rupt Iaw, especially tho illvnlun(ur§ olause, and yocommending ameundments reduving oxpeusos of enforcing tho laws by reducing tho fees of officers, aud that Bee. 89 bo amended to muke 1t thirly instoad of fourtcon days m roference to suspension of commercial paper. THE VIRGINIUS SURVIVORS. New Youx, Doo. 27,—Communication will nob bo allowad with the Virginus prisouors, who uro approachang this port, until the District-Attor- noy shall have conoluded his investigation, The stoam-tug Frolic lina beon stationod in _tho low- or bay, awaiting tho arrival of the squadron,with ordors to this effect, directod to the Command- eru of the Juniata and Ossipeo. . mconial et s CERTIFICATES OF ORGANIZATION. Spacial Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Sentyarise, Il Dee, 27,—~Tha Secrotary of Stuto {ssued cortifioatos of oryauization to tha Ohitago Photographio aud Copying Compuny and to the Btar Manufactaring Compauy, of Kune County, to-duy. . SUICIDE. OLEVELAND, 0., Doo, 47.—At fifteen minutes before 13 o'elook Mr, Ghotles Htitsan, an old uud highly-respocted membor of tho Claveland Bar, shot fllmuall with a_double-batroled lYmol, tho boll taking effoct In bis tomple. He is now dying, Financisl embarrassment {s goid to be thio cause, FOREIGN. CUBA, THAVANA, Doc. 37.—Tho Prize Court hna eon. domued the steamor Virginiue as & Inveful prize. —— MEXICO. MaTAnonas, Deo, 27.—A fight ocenrred to-day in tho markot placo bobweoi some of Cortina's men and the police, in which a policomnn was shiot nnd instantly hillod. Tho murdoter Lok rofugo iu Cortiva’s hondquattors, but the Gon. oral surrendored limm to the polico, who lodged him in prison, Cottina’s friends say ho will bo inatalled 08 Mayor of this city on’ New Yoar's Day, which will doubtloss lond to another fight, as hoth par- tles aro armod and determined. An affray ocourrod o fow days ngoin Montoroy, ovor tho municipal eloction, in which sovern) woto killed and woundod. Another digtnrbance oceurrod in Tampico, and tho Mayor has been imprisoned by Btato troops. THE UNEMPLOYED. All Quict Among the St. Louls Worke ingmen. Snectal Dispateh to The Chieano Tribune., 81, Loums, Deo. 27.—Tho Trades-Unjons of this clty will make no publio demonstration bo- fore tho 224 of February, On that occasion thoy will have a grand " turn-out, with bannors and spocchow, A great effort will be made by the londors to make an imposing display, and, as tho date mentioned s the ldlest time of {ho yoar, thero is no doubt that tho affalr will be success- 1ul, 60 far as numbors aro concerned, An oxtonsive inquiry falls to show that thero is any unusual bitterncss of fooling among tho workingmon of 8. Louis, or any widesprond dis- eatisfaction with their employers. They have a ood .denl to sny about oficial corrup- ton dn tho city and in tho country, and tolk much sbout foriming o now party, and ofilinting with the Orangors, Strone oous offorts to that ond will bd mads by ropresontative laboring mon. The Intornational Bocloty flourished hiore two or threo years ago, It altempted to extond its operations ‘in this fos cality, but not ono of the Iades-Unions joined them, 80 far a8 I can learn. Their doctrings werg too ultra to tako well. Somo membora of Trades. Uulons took tho onth as individuals, but thoy Liave no hendquarters hore now, and no ofiicor of the organization can anywhore bs found, The provident assoclations continue to loolk after the poor with a good doal of enatgy; and {ho city soup-houso continues Lo bo patronized by goversl hundred daily boarders and lodgors Ono providont association hina nearly 1,400 i song on its hauds at preacut, and now azplicants for assistanco every day. OBITUARY. Willinm KRowley, Bloomington. Fpecial Dispatch to The Chicnqo Tribune, Brooxinaroy, 1ll., Dee. 27.—William Rowley, a respected citizen of Bloomington, who for twenty yeas has been timo-keeper of tho Chie cago & Alton allroad, dicd to-day atn very ad- venced ago. Ho was » nativo of England, and formerly livad at Alton, this Btate. —— NEWS PARAGRAPHS. Tho R, E. Leo carried futo New Qrlenns, on Jier last trip, 4,900 balos of cotton, 3,868 sacks of cotton sced, aad 219 barrols of oil. —1'ha-Hartford Courant gives o list of tho manufacturing cuterprises in thag cisy and olsa- whoto, sustained by Hartford capital, and puts tho capital fuvosted at noarly 12,000,000, ~1lio tax on tha properly of tao town of Brighiton, Macoupin County, IiL., to pay intercst ou 1uilrond bonds, was ot ‘extonded on tho tax book of the County Clork. ~—It takes Red Wing avout one weok to build watohouses sulliclout to store 75,000 bushels cf wheat, Judging from present appcarances, that ia Just what" will bave to be duuo overy week tlits winter.—Zeed Wing (Alinn.) Republi= can., —Washington County, Iil., raissd last scason ‘more than 1,000,000 bushels of whoat, of which not onc-third has yet beon taken to matket. “Lhat county would realize about 300,000 on the wheat nlono that is hold for Letter prices. —A numbor of farmors living in tho vicinity of 8i. Petor, Minn., hnve assoointed themselvea together, and huve’ puichased a lot, ond on it commenced the erection of & whoat warchouse, i which to storo their surplus grain. The Tribune says other farmers will probably pursue the gamo course, —The Mincral Point (Wis,) Trtbune notea with satistaction the revival theis of copper- miuing, which twenty-flve yenrs Lgo was au im- portant industry in Minoral Point. Samples of oro raised hove beon tosted in Euglaud, und found to yield 20 to 60 pcrcent of motal, far above the average of Buglish orce, —Isnac Farneman, the defaulting Trensuror of Carroll Qounty, Ind., who embezzled 10,000 of public monoy, has' boon sencenced to tho Stato Prison for threo yoars, aud forover dig- qualified Irom wolding any oflice of trust or profit. Mr, Farneman was Troasurer from tho yonr 1866 to 1870, —Tho Loudon Echo Leljoves that among the things * not gaucrally kuown ' 14 the futal con- neotion betwoen Saturdey night and infunt mor~ tality. ''lie number of childron who aro smoth- ered by affectionnto but over-tired or not over- sobor parents betweon sundown on Saturday and sunriso on Sunday far gurpssses tho mortality of any othor night in the week. This is not pre- clioly tho iden of the * Coutor's Saturday Night ™ which guntry las mado familiar, —A buildér engaged in large_building spocala- tions at Dirkenbead, Englund, tried to obtain tho services of a notod preacher in Livorpool as pastor in n church thore. Ilis object wes to Bupularizn tho place, and got custowors for his ouses, Ho accordivgly wout to this famed Emmflm and offercd nim £2,000 & year to go to irkouhead. that if Lie could bave securcd such an attractivo pulpit otator, ** it would inve boon worth thres shillings a foot to all tho new strcets.” —Tho Milwaukoo Journal of Commerce inti- mates that thera is only rumor iu the sugges- tion that the Milwankeo & 8t. Paul and the Northwestern Railroads ave moving to consolidate their intorests. It had its origin in the renewal of an arrangemont by which the former company uses tho line of tha latter for 20 miles in coter- ing thie City of Winona, uud in & negotiation for the Milwaukeo & 8t, Paul Company (o haul the cars of the Northwestern from Madison to Mil- wankee, Doth arrangementsare meroly matters of cconomy to rafirocds, and of convenienco to their customers. Tho fimo of onch contract is five yours, unless terminated upon thirty days' notice from eithor party. —_— The English Check Banls,; London Correspondence of the Graphio. ‘Tho chief check bank s recontly been open ed in Pall Mall, but banke all aver the country are now placed in connection with it. All you havo to do if you wish to bogin business with tho oheck banlk is to send, for example, £10 and 1 shilling to the bank; yon receive in retwrn a chock-book of ten chocks, cach of the valus of £1, which you can fill up and pay away o8 you may roquiro, Any one will take your checl—it is a8 good as a Yost-Ofiice order, und it is much more couvenient, sufer, und cheapor. You liave not beon obliged to ask any oue to intreduce Jou to the banlt; your monoy wns your intioduc- fon; you are under obligations to no one, and rnur banking account has cout you only s shill- ng. You can buy a book of £1 checks, or £3 chicoks, or £10 chooks, and a1l at tlie snmo_rate. Ench check is stamnpod, 8o that it cun only be drawn for £1 or £13, or whatover amount it bears. 1f your ohecl-book is stolen the thiot would l‘:rfll)lhly ot kuow how to bign it; It ho did, the nnk hag o moans for dotecting the forgory. Al roady this now nystum—mm}»lo, wafo, cheap, and convoniont—has won groat favor 1n Eugland. ci el Ourious Names for Colors. A racont writer says ; **'To those unlearned in the mystarios of femalo apparol tho DAMOS NoW- adnys given to differont shados of color are puz- zling snd moaningloss cnough, What idea, for instanco, does Aslics of Roses, as applied to col- or convey to the ordinary mind ? I Muonlig‘hs on tho Water any loss puzzling, and do wo really ot any conception of a fabrio's hue from the moro dcuuriptlvn London Smpke ? But fantastie as theso names aro, thoso which wore oursont in Paris throo quartors of a contury ugo woro atran- gor and moro unsuggestive, Wunt would ona cancoive such_oolors to bo as Toad iu Love, Bacrod Mouse, Wonderful Lamp, Last Elg;h of Jocko, Bupprossed Bigha, aud Mud of Paxis? Yot all theso appellations, and many more oqually bizarre, togethor with some thint ave so wirofiited a8 to bo positively offensive to mod- orn tustos, wors in comwon use in tho Frenoh :upilul nat the begluning of the nineteenth con- ury." Ohisothurst, Tho owner of Gamden Houss, Chisclhurst, hat been quite Incky. e has found bonevolence pays, Whon, in 1870, he offored thoe lmperial family an asylum at Oamdon House, be hcluf an onthusiastio Tmporialist, fully ospeoted that they would 8oon roturn to the Tuilovies, Thoro was Tittlo chunco that a brief rouldence would make Ohigelhurst fashiounble loonlity, The Imperial family, howevor, romsiu thore, and in thres cars have made the land adjomning Camden Touse of fabulous valuo. Chiselhurst has bo- oowmo fashionablo, and ita owner very rich. ko offer boing rojoctod, o snid . \