Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1873, Page 2

THE CHICAGO .DAII.IY "TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1873 ANN ARBOR. Tho Cadaver Business--What Dr, Frothingham Says About It Iuteresting Proccedings of a Mcdlcni Soclety=-++Colorado as a Sani- ’ {avinm, Srectal Correspondence of The Chicugo Tribune, g AKX Anvon, Mick, Dee, 97, 1673, ‘The rovelations attonding the arrestof Georgo A, Cluistian, nndothors, in Washington, foribocy- enatchivg, havingincludedtho namo of one of tho ablest Modical Profussors of the University ot Aichigan, I felt that tho roputation of the Uni- versity domandod that tho rendera of Tus Tnin~ oxE shonld know the truth of the matter, and so Istartod out to find the * medieal ghoul.” . The Doctor's clieerful mmilo gave no sign of o mind disturbed by thoughts ‘of {ho bideous ‘“‘goods™ in which ho -deslt; out the caleulating twinklo of his eyo, as ho glauced over the body of your corrcspondont, produced the wicomfortabls fecling that o evi- dently (hought it would make *n good onc;” yet, us no modical advico or preseription was of~ fored, that impression gradually wore off, and in its placo, undor the Doctor's forcibio logie, came the conviction that any one, howover lowly or Lumble, could be of uso to his follow-mon— aftor death, if not bofore, > 3 In reply to uumeroits ‘questions, the Doctor expzessed bis opinion on the subject of CADAVERY, substantially as follows : #Yos, this Cbristion wroto to me that hio hnd fucilities for obtaluing matorinl for . dis- ecction, and could send me some good subjects; ond I told Lim to mond them on. Ilmow nothing about whoro hie was to obtain them. Wo aro obliged to resort to this mothod of oblaining subjects, as wocan get thom in no other way. Though tho law per~ wits us to tnko the bodies of persons who dio in tho Btate’s Priron, unless they are clnimed by fricuds or relatives, the tonder-hearted ofilcialy thinlk that tho bodies of friendless murdorors aud thioves are too good to bo used by the anat- omist, “ What aro tho doctors to da? If,. through ignorance, they iujuro a patlont intiuated to their care, thoy are prosocuted for malpyactico; aud, if tho pattont dies, they may oven be in- dicted for =~ mansluughter; yob . ‘tho law furolshes thomn 1o means by which they can obtaln . tho requisite luowledge, aad, if they take cven the most wretebed out- casty, they nro porsecuted, and stigmatized as shouls, grave-robbors, &e.. . e IO ILLUSTRATE £ A fow years since, some boules were taken from the burying-ground of a public almshouse,— bodies of peidons who du:tug life bad been o burden aud o curso to sociel Altor they had died, somoe doctors thought to mnke uso of” their bodies for public good, They were discovered In tho not 3 the dootors wora imprinonod, and tho boudias exposod to publio view at a polico- stution, tho duilies dovoted o Lulf-page or moro to the domgs of tho ghouls, as they wero termed, and people who wonld ot have stopped aside for n momont in the strect to uxwist one of these persons while living now tinonged by thousands to sco thoir dead bodies thus uscleesly and bruially oxposcd to public view, 1 was nevor cognizant of uny person of noto or respeetnbility bemng sent to this institution § aud, it apy 1eapeotablo vitizon is cvor disturoed foc that purpose, it is because, through the in- totference of ofticials and the publie, actuated by falso projudice and mawkish scutimontality, the bodios: of Lhoso who might more justly be taken are donied to the phyeican. ** 2he prejudice nguinst disrection is au 3 IONORANT AND UNFOUNDED ONE, und it ought to give way to the bigher motive of velicying the living of their distress, The uso of the senlpel when dissecting is just as humane 2y when we uto it on living perdons to roliove thow of diseuse, and 1t certmnly is kinder and more bhumaue_ to lemn our anstomy from tho badies of the dead than to got our experience on the bedies of the patients whom we nuy be culled upon to treat, and who may be injured for life, or oven kLilled, by our ignoraut bungling. 1t our foelings must be outraged, isit not in- finitely botter that they bo outraged by tho dis- scetion of dend bodies than by the wuiilation of some of our family and friends by phyaiciang who have never been qualitied for the work by obtaining that practical knowledge which can ouly be got by proper dissections ? “"In whatever hght you maoy look at it, any ‘many who cators o this false prejudice, aud ibus throws obstaclos in the way of medical schools’ obtalning sullicient supply of materinl for unatomical study, commits u crime agaiust Suranity, and deorves to fall under tho care of hie ignorant doeto:s hio helps to create,” COLORADO AS A SANITARIDAL. At a recont meoting of the Wushtensw Coun- ty Medical Bocietly, there was read a letter from Dr. Chicever on-* Colorndo as o Snuitarium.” Dr. Ciscover was, until last summer, Lecturer ou Materls Medica in the University of Michi- gan, when his coutinued ill-bealth forced bim to seck a more salubrious climato. As tho disense from which Dr. Cheover is suf- feriug is consumption, his conclusions possess groat value, ns the rosults of tho exverimonts of & thoroughly scientific physiciun upon himsel?, ‘I'ho Doetor's letter muay bo brielly summod up ay follows ‘Iho climato of Colorado will cure almost all forms of consumption, if resorted to in time, aud with proper precautions; but the patients suould zo thero uy soon as possible after the disenso sppears, ey should choose Norttiern or Soutbom Colorado, according us they ate bot- tev iu u cold or & warm climate ; and thogshonld not, afler lenving tho Missouri River, xush through with tho fustest traiu, but go slowly, so 18 to hecome gradunlly acclimated, Consfimp~ tives should go proparcd to stayseveral years, ng & bujel ety is worse than uscless; and, expecinlly those who improve rapidly, und nppear «0 gevUyiito vigosous, shonid be eareful not to lenve uwtil thelr cureis complote and certain, They sliould not bogin to exercise until thdy aro thoroughly rested from their journey, and then only modrately at firat, 3[ord patieats who go to Colorailo loso thnir Lives 1rem uver-ezarnon ug first than from iy wtizor ono canse, Tne invae lids should stay - way frora the mountains for tho first few moauths, at loast: and, indoed, the enfer and boster way {& to ostablivh their permn- uent residenco al tho foot of the mountainy, In thut wny they ean bo comfortablo all the yenr, by taking ‘& trip to tho mountaing during tho lottest purt of the enmmer. They should bo i the open air us much 08 possi- ble; aud, nskoon ny lhu{ gnin suilicient strongth, tho patients will neeelerate their focovery by enguging in some light cmployment that’ will moderately exorcise both body and mind, STATE INSANE ABYLOM As the Btate is ubout to estublish throo new {neane Asylums,—one in tho northern, ono in the southwestern, and oue_in the southeastorn part of the Stato,—Dr, Frothinghawm thought thut ono ought to Us located at Ann Arbor, in_proximity to-tho Medical Colloge. Dr, Velmer wnid that, as cases of iusanity same frequently under tho treatmont of general pinciitioners, he thought it was tho duty of thie tute fo locato oug of tho Ay lums Lere, o that tho studouts of medicine in tho Univarsity could’ obtain practical and clin- icul knowlodge of the pathology and treationt of the insane. D, Rexford, Frothiugham, and Breakoy were appoiuted » commiittee to confor with tie Commisaloners, and presont to them tho argumonts in favor of localing an Asylum at Anu Arbor, B WOMAN'S TIONTS, Thore was an animated discnsgion of the quos- tion of admitting women to memberehip in the Buocioty ; and the result was another triumph for the styong-minded women, ‘Tho first lady to tulio ndvantago of this priviloge was Mrs, Dr, Hilton, O AW, —_—— FREE RAILROAD-PASSES, ‘Vensonr, T, Doo, 24, 1673, 7o the Edilor of The Chigugo T'ribuns ; 8z Our Farmors' Convontion at Decatur was pretty kavere on our patriot-martyrs, the Railrond Comalesloners, and leglslators, and Govornors, and the others that have golong lived on the pap of freo ridos all aver the Stato. The Couveutlon gava thom waming to stop taking pasues or votes, ono or the othor ; they might have their cioive, I think they would all rathe: have thoir passes than shelr choice, 1t heoms to me thero nover was a moro shame- leas oxbibitlon of glariug inconsistoney thun that presectad by tho law-makors and luw-cxecu- tivos of this Blute in tLus flagrantly violating the law, uwltifying either themsolves or thelr low by riding for molhing over the roads ‘of tho Btato, whon tho law impoyos & fino upon tho ronds for eyory tmo thedo makors and manngers of Slato lnwa tako o gratuitous trip. 1f you or I should nsk n frieud to steal n fint and give it to us, whon wo Xnew thera was o lnw agninat stonling, and thnt, if tho Taws were fulthfully oxccuted, tho friond wonld have to smntt for doing us the Iavor, it wauld be regarded ua n protty sovere straln upon friendship, "But this Is juet’ what many of the Stato ofticials have done, and for dnlm& which the Convontion so ronndly condomned them, When will oficinla learn to et the samo brend they bake for others? Why shonld the Commis- sloners and Attornoy-Gonoral bo nllowed freo passed to go oand prosecute & road for glvlng] one to somobody 1t I8 0 good donl of & strain on courtesy, Dut thoy may think thoy ean got along without cour~ teay If thoy ouly have tho passes, While wo, who reside here, feol that the Rail- rond law, if not absolutely ropnaled this wintor, ought at lonat to bo so amendod that it will nof longer grossly damnga this and all other come lzmmw polnts, yeb weo deslro that, whilo it stands, t shall bo oxocuted; and that Stato oficials stinll manifest such regard for common deconey s uot to solicit ita violation by the companios for tho ofliccholders’ bonotit, Trom preaent indicatlons, wo hore look for- ward to n most tlattering frult-orop noxt sonson. It has not heen warm enough to atart and injuro buds ns yet, Respectfully, D, 0. SELDEN. NEWTON BOOTH. Tho @lero of tho Endependent Trl umph in Catisornin==Cublic Rejoice ingre=Oomments of tho Press of San Erancisco, Arom dispatchen in the San Francisco Chronicle, Bacnanento, Dec, 20—11:30 p. m.—Cov. Booth’s tabla is piled with messaged trom all ]mw of the Stnto and from Novadu, congratite nting him on tio sigual victory gained by the poopis. The Governor's rooms have boan crowdod with friends from 0 o'clock until this hour, At least 100 spceches havo been muado this ovening in tho Governor's rooms. ‘Iie Governor was called out and mado & few fooling romarks, closing with thesontouco : * By tho living God, I will bo s truo to the peoplo ag tho peoplo buvo been true to mo.” Sonator Kent, of Nevada, drank a foast: **Tho People’s choico for Yresident—Newton Booth," =Tho spoeches wora nll to the effect that tho Will of tho pooplo had boon abeyed 1n tho oloc- tion which took place to-dny. ‘Lo Senator-clect mingled with ths'erowd, and had a kind word for all with whom he came in contnot. Orovinie, Deo. 20,—The Independonts aro firing 100 guus over Booth's oleotion to the Senato. DlorELUMNE Hity, Doo. 20.—A general torch- lighit procession was organized hero to-night in honoe of Gov. Booth's olection to the United Statos Benats, Nuvapa, Cal,, Dae. 20—3:30 p, m,—~Thero i8 grent cxcltoment horo to-night over tho oloction of Booth. Bonlires ate blazing in mnnépm'lu of tha city, guns firiug, bands playiug, sud geuoral rojolcing over tho victory. = Froni the San Franetsco Mulletin (Independent). ‘Tho pooplo have roaton to be prond of that noblo band of men winch they sont to the Leg~ islaturo to carry out their. wisbos on the Sonato- rial and other quostions, . . . The historinn will point to them ag the men who lifted our politica from tho basest intrigucs and the most corrnpt influences to the plano of manliness, in- teprity, and fidelity to the people. T'hoy are tho ipstruments by which the rovolution ‘which is destined {o purify the &mlmcfl atmospliere was firgt guided and directed, Thero ars men among thom who will reach tho glest honors aud ro- wards which are in the gift of the people. It may sound rathor odd, but it is novertholess ihio fact, that this is tho fivst tine in tho hiatory of the State of Californis in which o caudidato for the Seuate hnd been named and clected by tho people, Gov. Booth is ay much a Senator of tho pooplo as if he hud beon elected directly by their votes, This triumph marks an era in our polities, It has lifted Sonutorinl contests to n plane which they never before occupied. It strengthers and solidifies tho Roform move- ment, The epoctacie of a Stato strugeling with u cor- poration for thio popycsaion of its own oflicors is not very edifsing. From tho result ronchod, wo aro satmsfied it will be tho last, No community which lmw_ any respecs for ikwelf woud pormit such o -atate of things lo con- tinne very long—mno corporation, except one afllictod with incurable madness, would persist- ontly invito n antagonism which, howaver un- certiin tho igsuo for a brie? poriod, is sura to in- volve ultinnte destruction, If the Contral Pa- citio had beeu Lullt by the private moans of its owners,—if, iustend of receiving immnense land- grants, tho iglit of oy had been purobasoed, au offort to control tho politica of the State whera its hendquarters are locatod, wonld ho unwise aud impolitic, to sny nothing of the contempt for Repuldican Governmont_which such intrigucs mauifest, but whore, as in this cayo, it got evory- thing wideh it possesses, road, lnuds, and right- of-way, a4 a [reo gift from the poople, ingrati- tude of tho basost chnracter has to Lo cnuma- rated amouy the othor bud features. Aut prob- ably the railrond maungemont does not thwk that thore is room for suy sentiment in the trunsaction, and that it looks upon what it got rather a the product of its skill in moulding 1en to its uses than s a gift for whick it snould Do thanklul, Indeed, the promincut individuals in il are prono on every favorable opportunity to give thomselves the airs aud cousoquencs of groet public benofactors, who linked two distant oceau with an iron bighway, nad not as publio beneflciaties who owo overything to the peoplo upon whoss dearest 1ights they have beon trampling. If thoko bo tha ideas that aro ontor- tawed, tioy illustrate nothing 50 muoh as the pride which goes before & fall, It is noticeablo that a fatuous blindnoss always seizes upon morul wrong just at the moment when it appears to be most securely intrenched, Human slavery brought dowa upon itself the destiuction which it morllod. It fell more by its own biind folly than by the oneluught of civilization, Tt will bo 80 by sud by with corporative wrong and op- pression, From the san Franeisco Chronicle (Tndspendent), There caunot ba u doubt of the ract that tho victory of tho Indepondents in the State election was duo in great measuro to thae organized vitality infusod into that uprising of tho _peoplo v Gov. Booth's eloquonce and earncstness in thooause of reform. Ho has received his ro- ward in part, but thero are strony indications that still higher liovors are in storo for him. Although tho rofoum movement hus swept all over the land and show its possesaion of strength suficiont to crush the hitliorto dowinant party, lts Jazdarshin has been ditused, and itd organi- zation mothing more than the incompaut tomporary * mokeshift” fmitation of party mpchinery which tho emergoney renderod Imperative, It has had the power of a rovolu- tiouary mass, and with such lendo's as Dooth it will not bu diftieult to transtorm this mass into an army. Other States liavo failed to produce any individunl of his prominouca in connection with this anti-corruption revolution, and” in no one Sinto Las thero beou, ns u dircet conse~ quenco of that upheaval nud overthrow of party lines, tho clovation of u champion of the peoplo to the dignity bestowed upon Gov, Booth, an socond victory thus won under the bannor of ro- form, Theso conpiderations, mdependent of Lis personal ability, press him ab the present time into o very conspicnous position among the fow etatosmen of to-dey upon whom will be bo- utm‘vod the lughost honors in the gift of tho nation. T'rom the San Francisco Alta (Admanfatration), The eloction of Booth is duu to the dofection of sevonteou Ropublicsus, who, disrogardiug tho usagos of tho country, Lielped to Hlncun pohitical onemy in the Federnl Sonato, Thoir conduet i, wo belleve, withont o Hnrellul in the history of the United Btated, and thore is no provubility that it will soon bo forgotten or forgiven, Wo tako It for grunted that tho Republican partly hag many yenrs of lifo and vigorous netivity be- foroit in Onlifornia, with both the power and the will to punish those who have accopted its preferment and thon abused their trust, Pho two old politieal ]mn(eu have now ox- clusive possession of tho National Councils, and of tho Stato Leglslatures, so that prob- abilities indicato that tho newly-chioson Sonator will flad Wumself in the I'edoral Honnte withous an lndependent companion, Yot us fourteon months will elapso befora his torm will com- mence, and probably twenty-thres months before ho will be culied up co tako part in o Congros- sionnl session, tho issucs upon which ho was olected mny bo sottled, or mutorially cbanged iu the mieantime, and ho may bo ouubled to join uitmuclt Lo one party or tho other without struine ing his consciouco or offending Lis conatituents, 1t would be unfortunate for himself and the Btate to ccoupy a solitary position politically. As n speakor, Booth will undoubtedly bo & suceess ob Washington. Ile has made & na- tionn] roputntion by bis sposshes in the Inst campaign, wnd he reprosonts idess which hiave o powerful hold on tho public miny over ox- tousive districts, "Tho aunouncement that lio Is to addross the Senats will crento far mora intor- st than Iy oxeitod by nny mamber of the present Congress, Of courde sich ability will aeslat to give him iufluonce, but thut alone would not be sullivlont to compensate for the Inek of political nagociatos, Tho high expeotations entortained of him may do him oy much harm as good, Hig conatilnonts will not Do contont unless ko doos more for them_than most of s prodecessors hive dano ; and tho politiclans at Washington may possibly combino to throw obstaclos in” tho way of_ono whom they rogard n8 & common enoe my and a dangorous rival, BAZAINE. Efow the Marshal Recelved IMis Sene tence=Tho Recommendation to Mers cy=='fho Commutations~lnaznine's Letter to Lachaud. From Fronch papors of the 12th and 13th, jnst to band, we got tho following particulars of “tha ovents aftor the sontence of death pronounced agninat Marahal Bazaino.: AL 0 o'cloclt, a quarter of ar hour after the sentenco had been pronowsced, Gon. Pourcot, tho Governmont prosocutor, sccompnnied by tho Clork of the Court, and escortod by a pickot of gandnrmos, took posscssion of the apartmont on tho ground-floor of the right wing of tho Potit Trinnon, In this room, which ia known to visitors ns the Sailo des Donchors,—so namod after the colloction of plelurns by thnt woll-known ~ artist which 1t con- taine,—Bazaine, who was up-stairs with his wile, his son (6 voars of uguz; two nephows and thelr wives, and throo otber frionds, was in- formed his presonce was roquired below. Ho simply replied, " I am cothing,” aud.aftorsaying n fow words of ‘comfort to his wifo aud his friond Col. Yillotte, who wero oversyholmod with griof, Bazaino dosconded tho stairs with a slow, firm tread. 1Io found tho guard drawn up on threo sides of tho room, prosonting arms, Gon. Pourcot, holding a roli of pupor in his hands, was standing in tho middle ot the room, and M. Allart, the Clerk of tho Court, wns by bis side. Tourcet told Bazaine ho kad coma to perform tho duty of having tho sontonco of thio conrc- martial road out to him, T'ho Marshnl bowed atifity, 'Fhe prosecutor then handed the roll to tho Clork, who rend 1t aloud, ‘I'he Marshal thoroupon sald, quietly, “ Vory weil, Monsiour Tourcot ; havo mo shot, and agsoon as possible " sb"cat b/mu, Monsicur Pourcet ; fusillez-mof, et e pius vite’ posstble). This formality over, tho Marshal rojoinod hls friends up-stairs, and m)s)mred reatly relioved taiking about tho proceoding rathor ns ho would of ono that rolated to somobody elso, and not to himeelf. A fow iinutos after a very affeoling uut'nmt(on from Lis family, o retirod to his privato study with Maitro Lachnud, who brought im the document, siguad by nll the Jndgfia, contsining tho rocommendation to meroy, La- choud in vain end2avored to obinin Bazalne's eig- naturo to this petition. Bo far, indoed, was he from consenting Lo this, that, oven after a seom- ingly quiot night's rost, Buzaine wroto the fol- lowiug lotter £6 Maitro Lachaud : My DeAR AND DRAVE DeveNorn: Before the au- premo hour I would thank you with all my soul for tho herolo effurts which you fiave made to sustuln causo, If tho words of (he greatest cloguence whic you have Lorrowed from tho sentimont of truth aud in the devotlon of your noble licart could not convinco my judges, it was because thoy could nat bo convine. ed; for in’ your admirablo specch you huvo surpassed Lumian eifort, 1will notsuo fof morey, 1 donot wish to prolong beforo tho wholo world the sight of n strugglo 60 8ad, and I bog you to take no sleps in my Debnlf, Ido nat wish to bo judged more by men; it 18 from time and the sbatement u? passion that I hope for my justification, I awalt the exccution of my sen- tence” firm and resolved, strong in my consclence, which does not reprouch me in nll?lhlu({. Mansuan BazaiNe, TRIANON-s0UR-DOIS, Dec, 11, 1874, Trom tbo Journal Gfiiviel wo translato tho fol- lowiug appenl for morcy which was sont by tho Judges to Prosident MacMalion, and whick pro- cured tho commutation of the sentence: Sin: The Conncil of War has just prononnced s fentenco of death against Marvhal ‘Bazaino, Accord-" ing to our oath we luve solved the questions put to us nccording to tho volco of our consclence only, We necd not now repeat the long debate that has inken Jlace bofors us, o God alowo Iy duo au account of o motives which liave influenced us, Accordiug to ourouth we have had to carry out an inflexiblo law, and one which admits of no extouuating circumstanco Iu o crimo ngadnst military duly, Butwe Luvo tho Tight fo pofnt out to you the circumsinuces which tuo Insyforbade us to consider when rendering our vordict, We wanid remind you that M wrshal Bazaino lind taken and exerclsed command of the Army of tho Rhine in the midst of unheard dificulties; that he Is not respon- sible eftlier for tho dlenstrons eud of tho war, nor for the clioico of i plans of operations,. We would ro- mind you that ha bos always bLorno Limself well in tho presence of tho enemy; that ot Dorny, Gravelotte, and ot Nolseville nons sure pussed him in bravery, and that on the 1U:h of August, by tho firinness of Lis attitnde, ho midutained the coutrs of bis line of battle, Consfier his services from the timie he cnlisted fu 1831, count 1ho battles, tho wonnds, nnd the brilliant nction whiclr won for him the baton of Marshal of France, Think of the loug detentfon which ho lina st borno ; think of his uuguish for the two months duriug whiich ho hias listened dsy by day and heard Lis honor disputed {ubis very prosence, amd you will unite with us in praying tho President of the Republic to commule the senfence which we huve just prouounced, Resvive, ulr, the assuranco of our respect, {Signed by oll the Judges,] Wo translate from tle Journal Officiel of the 13th, the following ofticlal statoment of the commutation ; Dy the recommendation of tho Miniater of War, {he Preatdent of the Rapublic Lias commnted the rentouco of death provomnced sgainst Marshsl Bazaino into twenly years’ dotention from to-day, The fornulitics of milltary dogradation will badispensed with, but the degradztion self will tako placo, After loarning tho commutation of his son- tounce, Marshul Bazaine wrote the following lot- ter to Marshial MacMabon ; You hnve remembered the duys fn which we served our couniry togeiner, aud I foar that tho impulso of yaur beart overmaatered atato considerations, Inhould hive dted without regret since tho recommoudution to merey mado (o you by wmy judges viudicates my honor. Maitre Lichaud, Marshol Bazaiue's couusel, bas writton to M., Thiors thanking him in the Alarshal’s vame and Lis own, for bolioving his cliout innocent of tha charges made agninst him, for encournging the defense by his sympathy for tho accused, and for having nssisted him by hig adviee. Rt NEWS ITEMS, Walworth Couuty, Wis., s to have o now Court-Ilouse. The County Bowrd has voted $25,000 for the purpose, —In the somewhat celebrated cnso of Mra, Margaret Salmoa ngainst the Kansas Pacitio Rait- road for the l(illln;{ of her husband sevoral years 8g0, the District Court of Leaveuworth County had rondered o verdict in fuvor of the plaintil® for 9,600, —Tho Wisconsin Lumberman estimates the prand totnl of tho pine stumpage of Wisconsin &t thoe onoumous wwmount of 40,000,000,000 feet. Pino grows 1 the forests with wonderful rapid- ity,nnd, if theabove figures ara not exaggerated, thero 1 likely to bo as mueh pine cut in the Huto forty yenrs henco as during any of tho 1ocent yours, The supply is practically inex~ Lnugtible, —The Fort Madison Democrat ey that one doy lnst weok Dr., Craig, Wardon of tho Iown Tenilentinry of that placo, through Lhe clemancy of Gou, Grant, discharged s the neighborhood of obout sevonty-fiva convicts, charged nll the way from descrtion down to horse-stoaling, —1The Black Itivor Falls (Wis.) Danner says that laboring men wero nover so Scnrce iu that rogion ns at tho present time, and it is almost imposeible to hira s man todo'n job of work of ony kiad, It is informed that 100 mon, willing to work in tho woods, nt fair wages, could llus employmont there by applylug = forthwith, ¢ 'hose ont of employmont should cowo kers or go to Neillsvillo at onco," it says. —As soon ns tho river is opon, the RNookford, Ttock lsland & St. Louis Reilroad Compauy will put astoamboat on theaiver toruu betweon Olinton aud Rocke Island. 'The objeat is to fill tho gap Dotweon Bt. Punl and St. Louls. Pas- sengoers from St. Paul will bo able to got n good night's rost and a breaklnst on the boat, and conneot with tho morning train for Rock Isiand, Tho boat has boen ongaged, and all the srrange- ments made for running eatly in the spring, —During the season just closed, tho Emhm ohoeso-factory cousnmed 1,602,475 bs of milk, and muvufuctured 155233 1bs af chooso. Durlug the mouth of Aprilit required 10 83-100 ihs of milk to make o pound of choese, and in Qctobor nad November only 8 910 by, In Juno tho largest amount of wilic was received, boing 17,587 the, 'Thio oxponse for manufacenring for the n(muu month was $7T4L80.—~Llgin (LUL) Ad- vocate, —About the 18t of Junuary, 1870, Goorge II, Frouch took up cudgels agafnst the Davonport Bn\‘m{:u Ingtitution, and succecded lu placing it inthe hands of n‘llaculver, wnd away it went into liquidution, The winding up of” the con- cern revenled no unsoundnosy, but was an ex- pousivo aud useloss -opovation, As security aguinst logs to tho Inslitution, Alr, Fronoh gave un amplo bond, with the nnmen of J, 1[, Derry- hill, A, J, Preston, Hiram Prico, and Goorgo L. Davonport as_sureties, Thab thore wa n loss to tho Institution In its * taking off,” thero is mo - doubt, Tho Reeciver —alono chargod $12,000 for his sorvices,—with au understanding, he avers, that he was to huve #5,000 of tho charge, and thut tho addi- tionnl 7,000 was to go to the prosocutors ; which, if ha lmly statos the cuso, was cuttiug it protty fut, Now comes Lru M, Gifford, an ofticor of the snid Buvings Insticution, and, by papers alioady flled aud sorved, aske Dr, Fronch to make gooil the loss,—placing tho domuge at $5.000, 'Tha suit §s In the District Court, mud will Frobubly como up fou triul in about u yonr from tiny time, This cogo, In _connoeetion with that of J, M. Purkor, Roceiver, aguinst dr, Fronch, contains sevoral prominontly futorosting foaturos, which muy sorve Lo give the publio an fnsight iuto tho plots und counterplots of the breaking down of llm Duveuport Bavings Iustitution.—Davenport (Ja.) Lemocrat, THE COURTS. Mr, Bush Seeks Damages from Mr Mo Vioker, o Alleges Iis ¢ Xdylic Tragi-Comical, Drama * Has DBeen Stolen I'rom, Bill for Partition--New Sults. LAW V, LITERATURE. 1t hag boon enid that tho Jaw is o joalons mis- tross, and that sho allows no ono to enjoy her favors and at the samo timo woo anothor, but the following caeo shows - that somatimes gonius can overleap tho boundaries nssigned to ordi- nary mortals and—not to put too fine a point upon it—do two things at once. Tho present is not a romarkably brilllans illustration, but it ap- penrs la the Girenit Court of tho Usitod States, whero yesterdny Willinm Busl, a whilom Iawyor, filed dovlaration ngainst Jamos II. MoVickor, the woll-known owner of McVicker's Thontro, Mr, Bush allogos that ho Is in pursuit of litor- ature, but his chnnco of eatebing it, judging by his pursuit of the law, is not fiattoring, His lias not, at any rate, been o prominent name nmong thoso attached to now sults, but it {s hoard fro- quently iu the Polico Courts. Just now, Busl 1s ondenvoring to ascortain by n judiclal declefon whotlor tho word * shystor™ s notionablo. Ilo #iots ont that on thoe 16th day of Boptomber, 1869, ho filed with Ehe Clork of tho District Court, in accordanco with the pateat laws, tho title-pnge of an “origmal Idylic dramn, tragi-comical,” which rond as follows: ‘¢ The Mawd of the Light-houso;"” or * All's Well that Buds Well By tho author of * Man, the Epitome of Goo ond Evil,' ¢ Onward Maron to Froedom,' ! Life's Uses and Abuses,’ ¢ Olaudiua the Fickle,' and fThe Dawn of Liborty.'" IIe nftorward filed two printed copies of the *tragi-comical " drama with the Librarian of Cougross boforo publication of tho samo. A fow wooks ago Bush wns_surprised to soo a play ealled * Zip ; or, Poiut Lyndo Light,” un- dorlined at McVicker's Thoatro, and still more astonished to oo o heac that this play contained * [u gubstance, form, aud sconory,” the idens of Lis own ‘*idylic tragi-comical " drama. Pluintiff is uttorly imeredulous s to tho truth of tho old saw that ‘ Grent minds rua in the eamo channol,” at_loast in this particular case, and charges that Mr. MoVickor, falsely contriv- ing to injuro this piintif, hnd caused this fmi- tation to bo represontod on his stago *for iho spneo of twelvo acensions, which mnterinlly con mibuted to the effeot of delighting aud antor- taining the auditors by the scenes. meidents, Innguage, ote., taken and appropriated from sal plaintin’s composition,” aud thorefore usky that u jury may give him $1,200 ns compensation for tlie alloged wrong, DILL FOR PARTITION. A voluminous bill was silod yestorday in the Circuit Uourt by Mary J. Titcomb, Bilas B, Tit- comb, Honrietea B, King, Willinm IT. King, John L. King, Herbort G. Xing, and Ophio M. King against tho Jolict & Chicago Railroad Company, thie Chleago & Northwestorn Railrond Company, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Com- pany, nod tho Dittsburgh, Yort Wayno & Chi- oagzo Railway Company. Complainants stato, after giving an abstract of titlo of the W. 3¢ of tho N. E. 7 of Scc. 21, 89, 14, that Daniel King, the father of tko four complninants of that name, owned, at tho time of lis doath, an undi- vided 2 805-1,000 ncros of said W. 3¢ of tho N. E. )¢ of Sec. 21, and that said Kings aro now tho own- ors through deacent from him ; that in 1854 ono Amasa Wright, owuiog an undivido 1 18 6,823~ 10,000, and ono_Samucl Russell owning & like eharo, combined and subdivided tho whole W 1 of snid N E X or fractional quarter, amounting to 74 73-100 ‘weres, thus making King, by their subdivision, tho ownor of the undividod '3,883- 100,000 of oach of tho lots aud blocks in tho sub- division, In 1800, Block 14 and somo other lots of Russcll's shure, through mesna convoyances, oamo iuto the hands of the Chicago & North- western Rnilrond and the Fort \Vn‘yno & Chicago Tnilrond Companies, and through these roads tho othor defondanta haye acquired titlo. Com- plninants aro all desconuants sud hoirs of said aniel King, or of his son Jonn Lord King, nud cinimn the title of taild Daufel King. “Thoy foar that their rights will bo projudiced, and ask that a prttition may bo mado, or their sharo sold aud tha proceeds paid ovor. LILI FOR INJUNOTION, John Kean filed o Lill m , the Circnit Court against Thomas Cavenaugh, ‘sotting out that ho i8 tho owner of 150 acres of land in Lyoas, Coole County, on which tho dofondant by bis permis- sion resides. Cavenough has been wilfully eut- ting doin largo numbers of treos and saplings, and houling them mway. aud the bill is filed to obtain nn injunction agatnst auy further acts of the kind, It was granted by Judge Willmms undor a bond for $500. SUPEWIOR COURT 1N DRIEF. Hiram B. Hall bogan un action ogainst Ed- ward U, Wallor for 2,000 N Edwin Judsou flled a bill agaivat Petor Al mini und Charles A, Boumno, sotting out that said defondants, in Docomber, 1872, tilod o peti- tion aguinst ona F. A, Wichelman es owner of Nos. 878 and 375 Wabnsh navenuo, to obtain’a mechanics’ lien thoreon, and a judgment was renderod in thoir fuvor for 8147, Complalnant alloges that Wicholman was not and is not owner of said premises, but that he is, and thal Wiclielman was asub-tenaut, but his 1ntorost lag long sinca beon Bold' out by order of the District Court in bankruptey. Ho says he was novor served with process, but that the decroo is a cloud, nnd theraforo asks that it may bo sot asido. CIRCUIT COURT IN BRIEF. Mary Lutz commenced an action on the caso agunst tho City of Chicago, luying ber dumages at 56,000, "l caso of Cornelius Dutn, Josevh Whituoy, Johu lovaings, and Lowis IL Bate against Chorlos Kurtshaltor, originally brought in Lake Couuty, was yesterday tiled hero, a change of venue laviug beon taken, Tho bill was to re- strain o Auit in trospass originglly brought by the defeudant agniust tho present complaiunnts, In the case of Benjumin Schoneman et nl. against Loke Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- way and the New York Central and tho Hudson River Raflroads, which was an action brought to recover for & broach of contract in carrying vomo car-loads of horsos, plaiutilfy recovered a verdict for 1,400 against_tho Now York Contral aud Mudson River Noads. —_—— A WAY OUT. Cuneaao, Dee, 30, 1873, o the Editor of The Chicago Trioune Bm: Pormit mo to suggest through your valued pupor & way out of our presout jinaveial troubles, aud to domouatrato how this city can Do mado, with little or no oxpenso to ita citi- zons, tho handsomest, honlthiest, and hupplest city in the country. To meet tha intorest and ‘bouds due next month consummato tho sule of tho land which the railrond compauies desire, upon which to erect o pussonger dopot, and im- mediately realize $6800,000. “I'ho ensiost and most cconomical way to dis- pose of the Court-Ilouso question would be to utilize the Exposition Building, With trifling exponso, flio-proof voults could bo orectod of most commodious proportions, and thore would bo wn over-ubundanco of room left for conrt-rooms, elerks, aud city oftices of every name and deseription, This would accommodato the aity and county for fivo or tont yoars in as good style ns the most fastidlous could desire. And when a now Court- Mouss is needod, build that on the lake front, whore wo could bayo ample rcom for the butld- ing, and for beautifyiug the ground, and whoro frosh, puro nir would nlways flud its way into tho lungs of those who oceupied the building, 1u considoration of tho giound furnishod the county for its balf, let thie county desd the oity its intornt In tho Court-Honso Bquare, and thon soll the wholo {u such parts, and for such prico, a8 could bo obtained on the ordinary terms, Mhiis would not ouly help furnish the moaus for building anew Court-Houso, but would, in my opinion, oulmnce tho value of all property fronting on that square. Tho sfatus of that proporty i fixed by tho prosonce of the Chamber of Commerco, T'ho removal of the Court-Honso from the square and tho orection of business bulldings in place thoreof would add muterially to overy intorest in the vielnity, Our roprosentatives in Congross could obtuin tho consont of the Govermuent for tho sale of Donrborn Lurk and the rest of the lake frout (if cousont bo necoasury for u clonr title), and the citv could soll thowo also. The grand depot whioh tho railway companics would ereot oppo~ sito Doarhorn Park, wounld cause a sharp do- mand for lots, aud tho ontire block would sipeedily be covored withi businoss bulidings, and all along Michigan uvenuo, #o far nd tho prosout and contemplated improvemonts extended, thara would spring up elogant buvildings, ouch yylog with tho other in prosonting a handsomae ront, Add to thoso galos nll the unproductivo real ostato which tho eclty doss not now, nor in any probability will ovor noed, and soll ovon if at n anorifice, and with the praceeds huild a new Court-Houso; eninrgo tho wator supply ; extond the water mains and pipes, until water would bo 08 froo and abundant as nlry extond tho sower- ago syatom throngh the domaing of tho poor as woll ns tho rich ; make our Firo Dopartment take the front rank of all departments in tho land; make tho firo limils_cooxtensive with the city limitay and then, with pute alr, sn unlimited supply of wator, a comploto svstom of soworago, tho natural and artificinl dovelopment of our parks and drives, and tho innumernblo number of Dlesainga which would follow, Chicago would hecomo in ton years tho handsomost, healthiost, and happlest clty in the world. Lewis H. Davis, e ML THE COUNTY CLERK. Orxdor Increasing tho Number of Tlis Employes. Tho following {8 & copy of tho order ontoered in rofarenco to tho fixing by the Judge of the Olr- cnlt Coutt, of * the numbor of Deputies in the County Olork’s office, An application was made Baturday by Gen. Lich, and the mntter, aftor hearing romoe ovidenco, was taken undor advige- mont until to-dny : In tho matter of the number of Doputies ond as- sistants of tho County Clerk of Cook County, Now this day comes into court Hermanun Lich, Gounty Oierk of Cook County, sud ropresents {o the Qonrt that the busincss of Lis offive requires more Deputics nud nssistauts than aro allowed under the or- dor of this Court on that subject, entored on the 23d day of November, A, D, 18733 and e Court having now henrd tho statements and oxplanntions now mada by tho said Gounty Clurk, aud by Edward Drury, ouo of his Doputics, und by Georgo V. Whealer, furtiiorly and for many years n Depnty Connty Clerk, ond thg Canrt being how fuliy advised in tha premiscs, and ncfing purstiant {0 tho provisions contuined in Ste, 9, in Art, 10, of tho Coustitution of tho Btats of Illinoia, it 1 hierely ordered ; Thnt 50 inuch of tho eald order so entered on tho 23d day of November, A, D., 1812, na dolermines tho number of Doputics' and nssistauta of tho County Olork of Cook County, bo, and tho samo §s, heroby sat asido and vacuted, And it 8 further ordored and determined that the Coututy Clerk of Cook County mny bave, until tho further order of this Court, the Deputics and nssist- ants hierofnafter specltied, to-wit : Tor seryice In tho County Clerk’s office proper, ono Obfef Doputy; ono Deputy fn charge of tux mut~ ters; one "Depuly for ~ marriago lcenses and cortificates ; ‘ono Doputy for redemption clerk ; ono Deputy for'cashior; ouo tax-appeal clerk : ono 'clark In churga of books and papers ; two record-writers or recordiug clorks; twenty clerks, two months, for mak- ing opplication for judgment; forty clorka Lwo mouths for extending taxes ; ten clerks ono month copying Collectors’ books ; ten clerks ono month copying As~ Bessors’ books, Tor eervices in tho County Court: One chief Dapnty ; ono asslstaut Deputy ; ono record-writer ; two copy= fug cleckn, Forservico In tho County Commisslonors’ office : Ono Depuly, LEGAL. Usury Smits in IKKansas, Speciul Dispateh to A'he Chicago Tribune. LawzeNce, Kan., Deo, 23.—A numbor of suita bnve leon brought in the District Gourt of Bhawnco County, nud somo of them have boon disposod of st tho prosent term, on account of usurious ntorest boing charged. Judge Gordon Leld that 12 per cout intorest could be recovered on notes. Excoptions have beon taken to tho decision, and the caso will go to theSupromo Cout for thelr detormivation. SUBURBAN NEWS, EVANSTON. Evans Lodge No. 624, A, I, & A, M, witl in- stall its newly-elocted oflicera this evening. Their names ara: G, O, Stratton, W. . ; L. G, Gage, B. W.; G. W. Huatoon, J, W.; Jos, O, ITumphroys, Treasurer; B. T. 8. Slaymaker, Becretary, Mins Stolln Reol and Arthur Reod have re- furned to Lvanaton fiom & European tour of aix months’ duration, It is reported that work on the Woman's Col- Il?lm buildivg will bo rosumed within a short ime, . ‘Tho regular meeting of tho Pionoer Fire-Com- nuy has beon postponod from ‘Thursday to Fri- ny ovening. The Unton Sunday-schiool of North Evanston will hold it holiday festival to-moirow evening, A subscription paper is circulating in town to croato a fund will which to provido hints for tho mon, A maoting of tho Board of Education will be beld Friday ovening Tho Methodist chmrches of the village will hold the customary watch night services to-mor- row night. WILMETTE. The Union Sabbath-school will hold its holi- day festival in tho school-house Friday even- ing. A singing cless is conducting by Mr. B, M. Munnu, the proceeds of which are devoted to the Ladies® Aid Society of tho village. Tho third svuunl mcetivg of the Wilmatte Lyangolical Association will occur this wsening, whon the aunusl reports will be &zmauulod, and, the annual election of ofticers licld, GOVERNMENT HORSES AND CARRIAGES. Bunsinoroy, In., Dec, 20, 1873, To the Edstor of The Chicago Trtbune : Sm: You aro cereninly in ercor when you say that the Govermmont livery-stablo bLusinoss at ‘Washington is of only two years' standing. It is of unknown entiquity, and was in full feather s far buck as 1866, when the disloyal sorehends of this Stato chatged that omivent model public functionary, tho Rev, James Harlan, with bav- ing contlscated n Government nqluipuge and con- verted it to his own uso when ho censed to be Seorotary of the Interior and became n Senator of Towa, o this,in due timo, tho loyal defond- ors ot that great man triumphantly replied,— the answer ovidently came from headquartors,— thac he did not steal the concorn ab all; it was npsmiaad, and paid for by bim, n examination, this wus found to be the cnse, It was also agcortained that thore was a ludicrous disproportion betweon the price paid by tho Gov- ornmont for horzo-flesh and that obtaiuned when it was sold to Senators, Bo it scems that tho QGovernmont not only keeps & livory-stablo in Washington, but that it also provides Bountors with horsou and earriages at tleir own prica. Of course the nbuso Lecomes moro brozen and im- pudent every year. Iowa, ¢ - MISCELLANLOUS, Tt cost Uncle Sam only $6,000,000 to doublo up Lis fists nt Sprin. ~M. Gustave Dove's picture, ““Tho Dream of Cluudin Praculn” (Pilate’s wite), on wlich ha hua been engaged for somo tiwe past, will be completed by the eud of tho present year, —~'he new Sultan of Moroceo hns “broken up tho hiarom of Lis fathor, and will keop only ouo wile, : ~The Grand Duchess of Russis, the bride- clect of tho Duke of Edinburgh, is to receive an elegant prosent from cortain British Laval and marine odicors, who lavo subscribed $5,000 for its purchase, —A mau hag beon sontanced to forty Inskos nud five years' poual servitude, i England, for throwing snuff in tho oycs of & jewoloer and then stouling throo dinmond 1iuge, —A Now Badford physician prescribed o doily rido of sixteon miles u duy for u youny Iady, and in loss thau two woeks tho_oxbilarating exorcise chauged Lor pame into Alrs, Patrick DMcGula- ness, Hor husbund was hor papa's corchmun, —Tufty citizens of Buffalo, N. Y., have pro- sonted to (ho Huuso of I\ prosentatives a po- tition on parchment and beautifully framed in obony, askiug that Lincolu's lirthday, tho 13th of Fobruary, be made o national holufny. —T'ho Duchiess of Aoatn, the wife of Amade~ us, Inte of Bpain, is very ill. When sho left Madrid in hasto, sho was, In_traveling accoss Spoin, oxposed to the culd January wentler, and tho soeds of consumption were sown, whioh, it 14 foured, will prove fatal to bor, —Some roporth have gone abrond, says the Boston Adverliser, attributing to Prof, Agassiz, bofora his douth, the words, ** C'esl le- fin," and suggesting tho luforonco of 'disbeliof it! futuro existonuco. Ik scoms unucoossary to say that the story is a fletion, so far as Prof. Agassiz ls con- cornod, und rests upon an outite misconception of his opintons on thus snbject. —Tho Duke of Ilamilton is about to rotire from tho turf on account of his warrisge. His studle in Franco has boen broken up, ~ 'Phirty- Hovon of his iorsos wore sold at nuction ia Paris on Doc, 8, I'hoy brought 183,705 fraucs, Hove ornl lots woro bought iu or withdrawn, the re sorvo prico nob hfiug offerod, ‘ho roprosoutas- tives of Austria wud Prussia compoted for the Lroold ares. Daron Ttothsebhild purchased Muidon Blush for 10,000 francs, ~fub-Constable Bunyon, of Olonwel, Irelund, rocontly murdored a comrade Ooustablo aud com- witted suicido. 'Tho country people, for somo “peculiur roasun, woro dotorminod that his body should not bo intorrod in n cemetory, and for two wouks they frustrated every attompt to bury it. Liunlly, afl tho constabulary were oalled out, and, under thoir protostion, tho burisl coromony wan catried out, THE JAY COOKE BANKRUPTCY, Condition and Prospects of tho ' Firm, True Stato of the Linbiliticy nud Asscts =='Cho Creditors Encournged-=Fuy Cooka’s Confidence in the Northern acific Rallrond Unshnkens=8lis Des fenso of the Projcctee’The Membeors of the Firm Completely Ruine Philadelplie ~ (Dee, flfl}' 'zl':mull to the Newo York ne. i Tho publication of tho sworn atatoments of the assots and labilitios of tho bankrupt firm of Jay Cooke & Co, bus awakened . A NEW INTELFEST in thelr affaira on the part of tho goneral publio, who nre now nblo to sco the maguitude of the ‘wieck, aud to know who are tho victims of tho grontest financial catastrophio of racent times, T'ho oreditors of tho firm cu{.nrly sean thoe lista of nssets_snd compare opinfous as to their valuo, and the porcontago thoy aro likaly to renlize on tholr claime, A much Inrger number of the creditors live in Philadolphia than in Now York, or in Washington, The Philadolphin Loute waa o favorite doposit bank for capital- ists and business men, and for peo- ple of woderato ‘resources who had “ ncou- mulated smail sums whioh they wished to put by in a eafo places A very large proportion of its liabilities nro to individual depositora and maorcantile and manufacturing firms, Tho Wash- ington housko also did a considorable deposit bus- incss, chiofly, howevor, with persons connected with the Government or in political lifo, Iv nover hind Inrgo transnotions with tho business community of that city., Tho Now York houso had vory oxtensive dealings with country banks, and a groat haro of it lnbilitios aro fo thesa institutions for balances fo its hnnds at tho time of suspension. Forty-soven National banks, 17 nnvm{;s nuks, and over 200 banking firma are among its croditors. The lesses of the Wasah- ingtou house aro in small sums, and do not ma- terinlly affoct tho bustnoes intorosts of the city, Tho principal members of the bankrupt firm roside liore, and tho intorest in the result of tho failuro is not ouly moro intenso in this city than clsewhero, but fuformation with regnrd Lo it is mora acenrato and ¢asy to obtaln, 'Tho decreo of baukruptey was issued from the United States Court for this district, so that the settlomont of the nflairs of all threo of tho bauling houses of the firm must bo mado heto. The creditors aro generally BURPRISED AT THE EXTENT OF THE LIADILITIES, On tho 27th of Soptembor the firm publishod & statoment in which tho linbilities wera set down ab $7,937,400, aud the estimated valuo of tho ns- sets, including the property of tho individual members, ot £15,876,120. The rosult of o more careful oxamination hny to swoll the totsl of tho liability sido of tho account, nand cto _shrink - tho other. The claims upon tho firm aro now stated us follows: Philadelphin louse, £0.408,410: Philadelphin_house, secured, £1,174,774; Now York houso, §4,634.194; New York house, sa- curod, $19,341; Washington louss, $667.580; total, 89,848,250 ; individusl Nabilitics, 1,160, 606 ; grand total, $11,008,760, “ho numbor of croditors is s follown : Phila- delphia house, 1,464; Now York house, 756; Washington house, 784, The estimato of nssots, a8 gworn to by the membors of tho firm, nggro- gato o little over $13,000,000, of which over 9,800,000 is tho ropnx‘? of the Individual members. This _item does not jncludo tha entates of Mr. Bloorhead sud Mr, Fahn- stock, which will malke probably over,5,000,000 in addition. Of tho firm aseots, £6,000,000 in round pumbora i8 in obligations of the Northern Paciflc Railrond Company, prinolsnlly notes for mouey advanced to build tho rond, sécured by a deposit of tho Company’s bouds as collaterals, or by cortificates of stock of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. Taoro is also & very largo amount of othor railrond obligations of uncortain valuo (the Lnke Supo- rior & Miesissippi Railrond fguring for S1,301,- 000), beside miscollangous stocks and bovds, and Wentero lands, tho present worth of which cau- not boaccurately ascortained, Tho undetormined valuo of tho nssets of the firm males tho croditors almost AB UNCERTAIN AS EVER about tho worth of thoir claims now that the statemouts have boan furnished them. They are, however, unguostionably encouraged by the publicasion of the lists, Day beforo yestorday a prominent lawyer, who is tho attornoy for a numbor of cllniants, sald ho did not bel{ove the cstato would psy over 40 conts on the doltar, and mon who estimated the dividend as high as 2 por cent wore spoken of as absurdly savguine. "Co-lay thore aro plonty of people who bLope to realize 50 per cent, but theso are men who do not know the fiightful shrinkage an estimate is subject to in going through the mill of bank- ruptoy. The Bankrapt laws, like the briers in tho fabla that tore the woot from the lamb, rob the poor debtor of Lis substence at overy step of his progress. If the property of the Cookes_could Dave beon put in the hands of trustoes and caro- tully mausged fn the interest of creditors, tho loss would not havo been serious, As it is, no one can prodict the result, The principal ered- itors, and, in fact, nine-tonths of all the cred- itors, desived to save the firm from the Bank- ruptey Court, DBut the public was then so sus- llwmue that proper oxertions to avert the ox- romo and disnstrous results af insolvency wero denouncod as evidencos of dishonest purposes, The presont plan of the large eroditors hero 18 to try to avoid tho loss insoparablo from an immediate liqudation of the estato by tho tecoiver, by putting it in the hands of n trusteo undor tho forty-third section of the Bankrupt law, This course must be assonted to Ly two-thirds of the creditors, It is bolioved that there will be no trouble in getting tha con- sent of {he requisito number at the gonoral meeting of croditors to bo hold hore on tho 15th of Jauuary. TIHE MOST FANGUINE MAN in Philadelphia ux to the final result of tho sot- tlomont of the affairs of Jay Cooko & Co, is by all odds Mr. Jay Cooke himeelf. His bump of hopofulness would astouish & phrenglogist, In tho midst of wrock that in tlio eyes of others is irretriovable and .ppmlimT Lo con~ tivues cheerful, and actnally believes his frm will 'in_ tbo cud pay dollar for dollar. If allowed to munage tho nasots, be eaya ho could bhave realized o hand- somo fortuno after paying all liabilitics, Tho palatinl banking house of tho firm in Third stroet is sull rogularly opened every day, but tho Atmosphero of tho place scems beavy with dis- aster, Dust accumulntos on the massive wal- nut countors, ‘There is no olink of coin or rustle of bani notes to be hoard, or bustle of borrow- ers and lendors coming and goiuw, A fow em- ployea, faithinl to the last, utill baunt the place and talk topether in melancholy nndertones, aud oacneionnlly o friond of one’ of the partnors comes in, or an ignorant creditor appears, think- ing that an appeal to headquarters may Becuro some advantago for his claim, ‘The head of the firm still livoa in that magnifl- cent palace ealled Ofwlz, at Chestnut IIill, some nine miles out of the city, into which he put 81,260,000 ju_the dni'n of ‘Nis prospority. Faw princoly resldoncos In Europe equal it in sizo and costliness. Tho only other possible use it could bo put to is for o echool, hospital, or other publio inatitution, and it is doubtful if {t could be sold for more thau £400,000. Mr. Cooke comes in overy dny, and e{mmlu most of his hours in his privatoofticont the bank, surround- ed with mups of the Northern Pacifio Railrond, photographa of Duluth, and mineral aud agri- cultural ‘specimens from tho lnuds along the road, Ile hins just as GMEAT CONFIDENCE A8 BVER in the future of the Northern Pacifle. In con- versuation with the Tribune correspondent to- dny, Lo eaid the road was a great and noble une dortalking, and would one doy justify the falth its profectors hnd in it If ho put millions of dollars of othor Ilwcoplo'u monoy into aline of railway running into a wildornees, ho risked all his awn fortuno in it, and in domg 8o ho undoubt- cdly belioved that he was not ouly investing the monoy whore it would yleld a large profit, but that ho was doing a praisoworthy act in dovelop- ing an fwportant part of tho country, Ihs faith in tho ontorprise Is so_nrdent that it commands rospect, Indced, so ubly and with such rudinut conviction does ho argus to prove the wisdom of the undortaking aud its ultimate succoss, that it in dificult to keep tho listenor from boing carrled nwnly h{ hls enthusinsm. Fiftoon minutes’ tallke with him will convinee any ono disposed to hasty judgment, thut his rash in- vostments ju tho Northorn Pacific wore not occanioned h{ a deslro to add to his fortune by the chance of a lucky ond to o wild speculntion but grow out of the conviction that the roas offored o logitimato aud safe investment for capital, and ambition to connect Lis nnme with tho building of & great continental highwny, Nr, Cooke savs Lhat the apprehousion folt by tho holdors of the Northoru Pacile bouds ara unreasonablo and groundless, 1o Lias investad tho fortiney of his wifeand other moembers of his family in them, and by his advice his in- timato personal frionds have bouglit them, and ho fully bolioves that they will one day bo ay good as five-twonbios, TUE BUDSTANCE OF JI18 ANGUMENT (not givivg bis exact lnuguug‘u) 1 a8 (ollows ; The road hus almost no dobt, except what 16 owes tho firm of Jay Cooke & Co., boside its bonds, It bas 1sued about 830,000,006 of bonds, These bonds aro & flrsh lon upon 11,000,000 of beon nores of land which tho Company Las alrosd rocolved Jmtonln for, or arc ontitled to for th portion of tho rond now built, Thov are beside i flrst lien upon 658 miles of well-buil rond, fine inhied, equipped, nnd in operation. 'Tho road luat yonr enined o surplus over running oxe 1): 8, and must do bottor this year, 'Tha Znstern Divislon has now n wostorn torminus af the Missouri Rtvor, and obinina the Inrpe and rupldly incronsing traflio of tho Upper Missour country, It would be a good line 1f oxtended ng fuvther. o would the Iacifio Division, which connects the Puget Bound rogion with Portlnnd, Orogon, and tho whole Columbin River Valloy, ‘The lands of tho Company aro oxcollont, and the climata along the line good, all statoments {a tho contrary notwithstanding, Every dollar of bonds can bo converted iuto moro than a dollar's wortl: of land at the option of tho holder. Mr, Coolko'thinks the presont Raflway Com- pany will bo eble to enrry tho road and oveutunlly to completoit, Ho rognrda ho firat propogition mado to the bondholders to convert their coupons up to January, 1875, into land« warrant bouds, recoivatlo at por for lauds at 25 or cent Joa thian tho rogular cash price as n nir ono {n the intereat alike of the bondholdors nud tho Company. Hodoes not think tho builde fug of tho rond premature, and refora to tho pro- ceodings of & mooting held o Philadelpbin in 1846 to agitato tho question of constructing a rond from Lnlke Mmhlfi«n to tho Pncifie, over the Tino solected by the Northorn Pacific Rnilroad Company, rs & proof that the project was old g:::ugh to wnrrant an undortaking to corry it "Lhoro I8 & very genoral sympathy with the * mombors of the bankeupt firm in this city, and no accusntions aro made ngainst them of can- t;:},mg any portions of their property. Thoy ALL RUINED PINANCIALLY by tho fallure. Jay Cooke loses an ostato boe longing to him individually (hat was onco thmxghz worth nonrly 84,000,000 Mr. Moorhead had 2,000,000 of prol)crl.,v. it 18 snid, before Le ontored the firm, aud Is now, of courso, penni- less. 'Tho othor mombors alko loso largo private fortuncs, Nono of them can possibly savo a dollar from the wreck, judging from prosent in- dications, They wore millionnires n few weels ago ; now thoy bave no espitul but tholr exs potionco aud businoss talents, THE GALLOWS IN CANADA, Exccution of Willinm Brenton, alins James Cox, for n Double Murde ‘@'hree Lives for o Oup of ‘Ton. Peterbord', Ont. (Dec. 30), Dispatch to the Sewn York rald erald, Bronton, nlina Cox, convictedat the lnst Assizes of the murder of Mrs. Payuo, and tho boy Doughlty, in tho Township of Dummer,in Noveni- bor, 1873, suffored tho oxtromo ponalty af tho lnw this moraing. Thrnufih the trying ordeal of }xmlnulug Dis arms, ote., Do passod without tho enst sign that he comprehicnded tho nature of the proceoding. e nycondod the first faw stops of tha stairway loadinz to tho platform 1n o timid and hesitating mannor, when Lo sud- denly quickencd his paco to n rum, but it was “ovidont this picce of bravado wng inbor- ed, As soon o8 ho reachod tho platform hoe was dirccted whore to stand. IIa asked tho Shoriff, in o tremulous tono, * Will you allow me to dio on my knaos?” and was ‘nnswered, “ Most certainly.” ~Ifo was thon aslced if ho had auything to say, and answerad ho lnd not, but, raising his eyes to heaven, wilh n look aud voica of excoedingly gront forvor, ho prayed, * God bo merciful uuto ne, and causo 1'hy tace to shino upon me and bri mo to tho ovorlasting rost.” Fo which tho Rev. Mr, Fish responded ** Amon," The Rey. Mr. Fish was then asked to repeat tho Lord's Prayor, tho condemned himeolf continue ing to prn{, aud when lio bad uttored the words, Ty will ' bo dono,” the bolt was drawn, and James Cox was lnunched into eternity., ‘Tho crimo for which the wretched eriminnl to. duy paid tho forfelt of his lifa was one of pe- culinr atrocity, the circumstances of which are briefly theso: In March of last yoar this man, calling him-: self William Brouton, though bis real name waa James Cox, appesred at Dummer, a rurul town. ship al somo little distanco from thie placo, seck- ing employment. A furmer of the neighvorhood, uamed Jerominh Payue, mot him, urged bim to onter his houso till “a storm thoa raging had paased, fed bim, and went with bim some distanco to gmdo him to & short rond through the woods. Tho stranger thus bofrionded was destined by the mysterious Kruviduncu of God to atain tho thresbhiold of tho house which had received bim witl tho blood of the bolovert wife of his Loupit- able host. Mr. Payne’s tather-in-law gave Bron- ton work for some weols, and on the E\c of May tho strangor was lired by Payne for six mouths. During the time Lo worked on the Puyne inrm Lis conduct was that of su ordinary, ‘inoifonsive man. Ho wes quiot and reserved, ‘Tho_only thing odd about him, as it appoared on tho trinl whon It was sought to provo his insndity, was tho froquens oxprossion of # belief that haira in broad formed worms in the stomach, That does not suftice to acquit n crimunl in Cannda, whatover it might Lave dona in ;\"luw York In the palmy days of emotiousl in- oDty Thus things passed quietly to the 14th of Now vember, 1872, On that dasy Payno wout fo the Louso of his neatest neighbor to supcrintond Lthy runuivg of a borse-powor attached to n throthe ing-machino, leaving, nfter breakfast, Lis wifo, thoir infaut child, David Dougaty, o weakly boy of 14, aud Bronlon. Atsquarier bofore 11 Emma Tamlin wont to the house, romaiulug thare nll balf-past 11 Mra, Payno wes hnitting; tho table bad not been spread for dinnor ; Brenton and the boy wero nt work bankg o root-houge not far from tho dwelling. From that hour fill 2 o'clock thoro is o hiatus in this hisiory of Dblood. though whaut thon transpired cun ansily bo rend in the light of subsoquent circum- stances, At2 o'cluck r'ayno was uccosted by Brenton, who nslred him to “como lLomo and gettla with him," Lis time having ubout expirod, Payne said he was very busy then, but would pay him next morning ‘or_that ovening. Drou- ton asked when ho would bo home. *¢ Not till Into,"” replied Payno. ** Mou are scarco and wo must finiel this thresbing,” ‘“Woll, como down and give mo somo dinner, won't you #” persisted Bronton, ** Nonsouse, Willi " anawered hiy employer; *“thoro are enough of thom ut tho houso without mo to do that," Dronton weut away reluclantly, muttoring to himself that s, Payno wouldn't give him_seything to drinlk bub milk, and Iad refused him tes. IHalf an nour afterward the machinery broke down, and at 8 o'clook Ar. Pavne, Laving beon-unable to vopair it, started for home, accompanied ns lar as big garden gate by two frionds and neighbors, Thoy bade bim good duy and passed on, but had only gone n fow vards when they were called back by his yoll of mingled astonishment, ageny, sud alarm, and aaw him runuing out of the house, like & madman, bearing the cradlo in his ars whoro- in.n baby was etill slumboring. In the garden walk, partly on tho threshold of the door, lay tho dead body of Mrs. Iayne. Ilor brains had been dashied out with o [I)xck which still Iny be- side ber, and hor throat had been ent from car to ear. Thoro was no sign of a strugglo, nor any digorder in the house within, lYur chair stood besido the cradle, her knitting had Leen dropped nenr it, Tao (nble was wob for threo, and tho cups bad boen filled with milk, thus showing thut Brenton’s uunoticed words as he passed nwuy from Puvno contwined tho clow to tho snvago -dend. Noarch in the root-house, whore Doughty end Bronton had been working, ravealed tho Lody of tho boy, whoto head hal almost boon cut off. Iy hands were clasped convulsively across his beart, as if in a vain at- tewpt tobold in the blood which hud gushed from tho would in hls throat, n wound which seomed rather to have been made by a feytho than by the blade of & knife or razor. On ‘oxamining the houso it was found that tho murderer bud reaped - but little booty from so much bloodshed. A pocketbook containing ubout $8, a rod-oovered ook, & pair of blauiots, o bed-quilt, and o loat of bread—thoso wors the paltry spoils which cost three livos—thoss of the murdoro's victime, and, subsoqueutly, of the murdoror bimself, It did not take long Lo inatitute pursnit, The flying murderor liad loft traces ab every fuotstep. ILalf an hour aftor the murder he mat two farm- s, and when they hailod him, mtonding to offer him employment, picked np a stono end threat~ encd thom, IIo lad a stout stick and bundlo, and woy l)unhln towurd Potorbora’, At a uartor to 4 o'clook s kindly farmer guidod him through tho woods to a tmck road.” Ho asked tho way fo Warsaw, aud thon re- fused to accompany o toumster who of- fered him w lift. At 12 o'clook midnight ho roachod this town, whoro tho coustables, who had been apprised of his appronch by telegraph, wero iu walting for hin, and avrested Lim, Dur- ing liis conflnemont of nearly n year Bronton afectod madness ; but whon lic was brought up for triul, on the 28th of Octoboer, tho modical ox- orte (ontified ditectly that e was only simulnte "’f’ and ovorduing it, Iia counsol obtnined a defuy of one day to procure evidenco, othorwing tha trisl from arraignment to sentence would only have occupied ono sitting of the Comt. On tho 20th the caso wont to the jury, Mr, Justieo Wilnon clinrging the 4iury that tho dofenso had Iuiled to prove insanity and thoir duty was plain, Canvietion and sontenice followod speodily, and to-day tho droad sentence of the law was carriod ?lut.fi '1“[?11"“ nl’lt\\'r:]\mnk'u hm\'luulboou grantad, ie 11th boing the duy of exeocutlon originall; dusignated by the Court, ety —_————— —Women will, after the Ist of January, be eligible to any offico of control or mausgowony undor the Bohiool lawa of Panusylvauia. 4