Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1873, Page 8

8. - THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNEK TUESfiAY' DECEMBER 30, 1873 THE VIRGINIUS. (Gontinued from the First Page.) policy of tho United States agalnat tho right of rearch, Spaln will probably msist that, without tho privilogo on thoir part to oxoretso that right, it v possiblo. that filibustoring expedltions niny asil from ports of tho nited Bintey 10 hor preat disadvanlage aud injury, ‘“ho United = States will = maintaln “that uvloss w helligoront condition’ oxists by tho recoquition of tho Spauish Goverument, no authority to iutorfore with tho sailing of vessels carrying the Amorican flag c¢an possibly be secognized, and thnt whon sitel recognition of Ijrerency does exist, if tho right of senreh s oxercisod {6 must bo At the rink of ussumivg grave consoquences by the (lovernmout which oxcrelsen it, Notwithstanding tho deuinl of the Secrotary, iu the foregoing, thnt a demand from Spain for n return of the Virginiug i anticipated, thoro are zoud rensons for bolieving that sitch demand will bo mado, ay efnted in your dispatchoy lnnt night. (2o the As¥ociated Fross.} THE VIRHINIUS PRISONERS, New Yonx, Dec. 90,.—Tho Navy Deparimen tgro wan visited this morning by o largo numbor of porsons-who wore anxions to board the Juni- ata and koo the snrviving prisoners of tho Vir- ginius. Among tho.applicauts were numorous Gnbane, bug all made tho nttempt in vain, Admi- ral Rowan having issuod orders thut no one, ex- cept nutharized by United States oflicors, should Tio allowed elthor to bonrd or loave tho vessol. A unusual strictness was also ohserved in tho roquireuent of passos to visit tho Nnvi'\‘nrd. a8 uo uno was pormitted to appronch tho dovks without n pass from Capt, Chandler, Many pagses wero applied for sud issnod, Ay nost of iho vinltors, when denled pormission to board the Junlala, wished at lewst to seo tho vessol. - BICKSLSS, Twolve of. the Virginins pruscngors were 1o prostratod by dlsease, tho result of their ill- usAgo, ns to reyuire thoir immodiato romoval to Maring Hospital. LMORIAL 10 THE PRESIDENT. The st vors of the crew und ‘passengers of the Virginius liavo forwarded a tmemorisl tu Pregidont Grant oxpressing their hesrtfelt and grutoful thanks for the enorgetic moasiron taken for their timaty rescue and delivery from dcath or & sentence o o chiin-gang or & Spunish prison, | Gratolul moention iy alko mnde of Com- mander Breitio. THE CWNUR OF. THE VIUGINIUS 1AS I8 BAY. Aol Pattorson, of this vity, las seut o let- ter to Secrotary Fish, dated 20EN inst, declaring that hoin tho registored ownor of tho steamer Virgivina, 1o protests ugaiunt tha opinion of the Attorney-General by which bo nud his vessol woro condemued on ex parto testhnony, fuenish- o by Spaiv. Ho states that tho Solicilor of the Trensury gavo bim o bill of salo of the stenmer ; theraupon ho (Pattorsou) truly swore that he was tho ownor, und tho Government gavo her an American ropistor, which las evor sinen pro- seotoll her. :Any testimony cherging purjury on s port is false, Ho ks’ hitherto Jept silenco av ndvico of counsol, ond hecans ho has not *hon notitied or calied npon by the Governmont. to tostify or-defend himself “in rolation to the motter. * He requosts thnt a copy of the ovi- tlouce upon which thoe Virginius and ho were condemned by the Attortey-Genoral le -sont him, and thetho be notified of the time and aco for exaination of xtu?' other witneses. A ropy of the lettox Lins also been gent to the At- sorney-General THI INVESTIOATION, It Lins been ascertuined from an oflicial sourco that the Virginius will bo seized by the Collector afthe Port uud liboled by the District Attdruoy in secardanco with instructions. If, on tho judicinl investigation, it shalt be shown that tho vessel bed o 1egister, oblninod by traudulent menns, &bo will be sold nud the procoeds of the sale will o paid to tho United Stutes, Spain can malo n aim to the vessel, but, if sbo should, it is pos- aly certain that our Government would not entertain such a eluiny, TUL INVESTIGATION CONCLUDED. Tho Unitod Statea District-Attorney concludod the investigation of {he Virginius’ prisoners this afternoon, and thoy Ianded nud tnken in chargo by representatives of the Cubau Junta. TIE VINGINIUS MISSING, The United States echoonor Ostipeo arrived here without-the Virginiug, £t is rumored that the Virginius suulk. =} TLATER. QuanAvTINg Lasnexe, SrareN Iscann, Doe. 80—1. 8. m.—~The United States steamer Ossipes pused quaiatine chout 11 p. m., followed by tag revhR tor Giant. Sho did _not-stop in qua & tinz ymil could norbo bourded. She did atus Leve the Virgimms in Low, LATLST, “The Zribunc ¢avs no tid- ined concer tho Virglnius, Thio vessel ean jy hinvo boen Jots in tho lower bus, sinco tho tide is in evory way most fwvors nble to towing ber in. It wwems to be tho general opinion hore thut - tho Virginiue was cithor east adiifl. or accidentally waparated from the Ogsipce during tho serriblo storms of the 28th inst., along thoconst, All recent reports huve yeprescuted hier as boing in u leaky und geverally disubled condition, Exporlenied mariners express it as their opius oo that ghe would hardly Le ablo to ‘withstand she recent gulex, which all incoming vessols hava ‘onortad. © Nothing defluito could bo learned, aovever, at the lonr of ioins to press. CHE REPORTED SIANISI CLAIM, The ‘report that the Spamwh Govermnent re- quirgs of tho United Stntes tho rostoration of tho Virziniug, and tho paymaent of the indeann- is- mot belleved in official quarters, uo edthentic iuformation having been recoived Boro to that effeol. and besides, such & rocogni- 3fon would bo eontrary to the torms of the pro- ool betweou the twd untions, The refereucs of Spanish afidavits snd other papers by tho President to the Attorney-General wa: only to thoso present and to Secrotary Iisl matter having been kept porfectly sceret wuntil 1he opiuion of the Attorney-General was detiv- ~red o the last named gentlotnan on the day off 1t date, pamely, the 1700 inst. The first inb- 1sdtion of aneli opinic . was furnished the press vonr duys later, and tho full text wos_obenined ‘e nuxt day from tho Depurtment of Justice. CANADIAN SHIP CANAL. Lablic Jecting in Toronto 10 Cone stder the Feasibiliy of Constructing the fluron & Ontario Ship Cuangiles J'Ehe Project Reartily Commended. L Sopceial Dispatch to The Cldeago Teitune, TonoNto, Unt., Dec, 90.—Al a public meeting hold in this city, presided over Ly the Muyor, the seliemo of 1% €, Caprool for the coustruetion of the urou % Ontario Ship Canul was discnssed tully, ¢ It was ehown thut tho Torouto City Conn- sil indovsed tho project 3 thnt overy Committco sppointed by the Dominion or Provineiul Par- intneuls to examiue the seheme hnd udvised tho Govermnont ta tuke it up; thab, nwa public work, it would be less dificult of constrnction :hua many works completed,—us, for instunce, Tunnel and the Mouug y. It was also shown thut the leugih of the Couul wowld not oxeced ty miley that it wonld save 00 milos distance tiecen Chicao and Quobeo ns compared with tho prosent vouto through the Wolland Cannl, and soma §00 wiles i the trip FROM CHICAUO TO LIVER(OL New Yor, De: ivzs cen be ob 13 compared with the present route. The w f(rom Chicugo "to Now York vis ‘be Krie Conal oconpies Just whowt the 1m0° time a8 tho promoteis of this schemo m wonld be required from Chicago to Liverpool. It is proposud to raiso money for sheworl by obtuining land-grants from the overnment. About 50,000 men would, by com- putation, be requured for five years to complete the work. LEGATES T0 TIE WABHINGTON CONVENTION, ‘Ihe City Conneil Ja to b requested to send tlireo delogates to the Washington Convontion ap Jun. 14, 10 urgo thiv schems npon theis no- rico, Ibwas ulso decided to wolicit othor cities to do likewise. . HESOLUTIONA ADOPTED, Among others, the following resolution was i, ‘Chic growlug requirements of the West, of tho vase rich portions of {he Westerit Ix0 of one. own groat Northweal furritor, eioond thot the_rout to the Atlntio enod and fmproved ; und 1neag, Tho route of fho Iliiven & Oufario Ship 4} prescits 1o 1aost fensiblo ond shorteat roitls Ly er piractialy t0 meet this oblocts bo if, trefore, tenlied, Thet this meeting sees i the construction of tun Ilion & Ontarfo By Oanul s sofution of that vexed queation 10w agllutlhg thy producers of tho Wont i Morthwest, sid Which projust will glve w ighty impetus to the power and grentuess of this Dobillou, . ST. JOZ (*0.) BUSINESS PROSPECYS, suecial Dlspateh to the Chicwnn Tribune, Br. Juagri, Mo, Dec, 20,—Thoro sovins to ba » common impression winung doalers here thut thora will bo u stagnation in huwiness ufter the 1ut of Jannary, and yot wo ean_bardly bullove this will bo thio caxo, During the fall months peoplo bonght’ vory spuringly, The yunie was ihio caune, nod frightoned every one, Thore wus a genoral Ledgiugs :in tho hog market, which did not tairly open until in Decomber, aud oven shon it opened under vircuwstencos widoly dif- foront from . previous years, mony of tho bolng _made partly on ninoty dayy’ 0. ] Lo safely afiirmed-that ono-halt the hog” money is not cirenlation yot. ‘tho whont market was at n dead atandslill until within tho last three wooks, aud not one-fourtts of the whent erop ot iho Wont hes yo! found its way to tho market, The 8o may Lo okl of almost overy other kind of produce,” The bauks wore closed for somo woeks #o far an discounts wera concorned, and thare was vittually no markot for anything. Things hayo changed, howovor, nnd yob it w taka Tull sixty dnys to foel tho full effects of this changa, #ales i wmber Jall Brenicers. Specital Dinatoh to The Chicaso Tribune. Pronma; Ill, Doc, 24.—Owing to unromilting and. vigilant search of tho Bheriff and hia nssiat- aut savon of the prisoners thnt cscaped from Juil on Baturday evening havo been captured, nud tho ofticora uro in oloke pursuit of the re- mm ninivg elx, and strong prospects of oatohing them, Todging, the most notorious of the gavg, was picked np (his oveuing in lower Peorir, where ko has hoon concenlod since ho made his eacapo, © Rene Christan, auother despernto fellow, was eaptured this afternoon. 'Thoso out are mostly mivor criminale, with the oxeeption of Ward, who was under sentenco to tho Penetentlary for stenling. . Great credic is duo tho officors for thoir spoedy arrests. oapture of n of tho Joliet Oharged With Ussning Yrasudutent Insurance Folleie Special Dispateh to The Chieaqo Tribune, Osnasyr, Win,, Dee, 20.—An insurance ogent uamod Georgo 1. Sneliing, recently from ‘Lorro Houte, Ind., whero ho claimod to hiave hoen Ak sistant Superintondent of the 0, & T, H. Hall- road, hns boen dofrauding tho peoplo of this community, and has dissppearod. Ho_hins boon acting as agont of the Protection Info Tusuranco Company, of Chicago, and had insucd s largo wumber of fraudulent spplications, pocketed tho monoy. and Joft, 1t is supposod that Le wont to ‘Dolnware he Rico Scandal at Luansing, Mich. Speeial Disnatch to The Chieago Tribune. LansiNG, Mich., Dee. 20,—Mr. Rice, since his imprisonmont, haw mado o full confession. Tils iy, Nichols, hag_beon arreated on sompluint of Mrs, Ttico, and i now contlued in the Ingham County Jafl. Burglary in Loledo, Ohio. ecial Dispateh to The Chicago I'ribune, ‘or.Eno, Ohio, Dee. 20.—The lodging-room of R. J. Walince, on Summit sitreot, was ontored by burglars this evoning, who suceoededin carrying oft smc(m:y. jewolry, and silverware to the amount of £2,000. . New York Criminal Matters New Yonx, e, 20.—The Court of Oyer and Torminer wag crowded to-day in oxpeetation that tho contempt cave of Shoriff Brennan in permitting the oscape of Horry Gonet would procaed. A postpounement, howover, was grant- cod till Monday noxt, Contro atrogt way crowded to-day by idle aud envious poople, who gathered to. witness the march Lo the Tobs Yollee Court, from pollee hesdquarters, of the 250 men and women, hoys and girle, who woro arrented lnst ovoning whila dancing fn tho Union Assombly Roomd. As tho prison-pons of the Court wore not intonded ‘for B0 wmany porsons, tho Magistrate sont for the Wmden of the “Pombs, and, on being iformed by that official that ho lied accommicdations for the crowd, all wore sont to prison pending the investigation of tho sov- ersl cases. "Tho trinl of Meggio Jourdan, for aiding I the oscape of Sharkoy, tho convictéd murdorer, from tho Tombs, was begun to-duy in the Court of Goneral Sessiony, ‘The trinl of ex-Senator William M. Grabum, Iate President of tho Walkill Natioual Dank, charged with embezzling £400,000 of the funds of the bunk, was commenced this afternoon in the United States Court, bofore Judge Bonedict. The jury was obtained, tnd the court adjourned il to-morcow. b o accounts of the Brooklyn Stroot Commis- sionor aro reported 55,000 short. i< Shot §2is Wife by Mistake. WasurotoN, Dee. 20.—Lu-night turce roughs ontored the restaurant of Wi, Hile, n Gormun, on Delaware avenue, und asked for drinks. Do~ ing rofusied, thoy assaulted and bout the wife of Hile. In ' response to her cries for belp, Hile ontered tho bur-room with o double- barroled shot-gun, - one lond of which ho dischurgod. ‘ho coutents struck his wife in the buck of the head, instantly killiug hor. Tho roughs theu fled, ‘)!Il‘fillm\ by Hilo, who fired the othior load, wounding oue ol them in the shoulder, Iile then went to tho station-liouse and gave hlinel? up. Tho threo roughs were arrested. . PrizeeFighters Alcld to Al vers BosTox, ass., Deo, 20,—Ab Lynn, this morn- ing, Johu Conlan nnd 'Uhomus Gateley, princi pals in the Intw prize-fight at Seugus, were held ‘each in 25,010 1o appenr_on Thursdiy moruiug next for exemination, - Lighteon uhettors of the izt waived an oxunination, and’ wero hold in 300 each for thelt appourance at the next ferm of tho Superior Conrt, Galeley wak further held in $500 to suswer on Thuruduy to tho charge of keeping u disordorly houss, Wwo Earmers Swindied, Drs Morxzi, T, Dee, 29.—Swimdling poddlors aro going ahont. the State selling goods to furm- ors, tuking hotes in paymenr. A lot of theso 00ds, which cost 8 noto for 3160, wus appraised By city morchanta here, ou Snturduy, at 340, nt retuil rices. Murder nt Narrows Station, Ind. EvaNsvinee, Ind., Do, 89.—Evidence is dis- covered at Narrows Slation, on tho Tilizabeth- town & Paducal Railroad, that Nathan Marx, of this eity, wag murdered there, A man named Sullivan’ is on trial at Swithland for the murder. inn Muil BRobboers. KANsAs CiTy, Mo., Dee, 20.—A United Stales Murshal passed through hero to-day with five Pueblo Indiuus, convicted of robbing the United States muil, and son tenced to punishimont in the Migsouri State Prison, A Nebraska Shoriff Endicted for NMure der. Deg 20.~—Sherifl Ellis, of QsAna, Neb., Y, Nob., has beon indicted for Choyenné Conn murdor. A Cincinnnti Murderer Dented o Now "wrints Cryersyary, Dee, 20.—The motion for a now trial in tho cuo of Stophon Hood, counvicted of murder in the first degroe, was to-dny overe ruled, und the privoner remnanded for wentonce. PERSONAL. OMA 1A, Dee, 29.—'The Hon, Rtollin €. Swilly, of this city, one of the oldest aud mont respeet- ad citizenn’ of Nebraska, recoived n prabably fatal stroke of paralysis this morning. 5]0 went to his oftico in hi uenal stato of health, but was stvickon down moon after. Ho was conveyed to his rosidence, whore he now lies in o dylng con- dition. New Yomk, Dec. 20.—JTohm E. Owens, tho comedian, is tecovering. - Wasnniotos, Dec,: 80.—Gen, ‘Bwaot, the Doputy Commtissioncr of Tuternal Revoune, is dangoronsly il of pucumonin. e SUICIDE. Sweotal Diswatels lo The Chfeaso Tribie, Avnony, 1L, Dee, 20.—An wnknown mun was found tha motning lunging to the ralters of au unocenpicd house in tho big woods cust_of Lund’s Bation, on_the properly owued by Mr, Hill. Au oxaminntion sliowed that the nock wun dislocated, ‘Uhioro wus nothing by which . tu idontity tho deconsed. 1fo was wall drewsed, and had an o cap nud pair of new hoots, His age Is thought to ho shout 45 years, lie had anndy hnir and whiskors. i TR ROCKFORD ENTERPRISE. Sppeetual Dispatels to Phe Chicayo Tribune, Rockvonn, 1L, Dee, 49,--r, Davis, of Bo- loit, hns dacided To_ostablish iu this eity « largo Tactory for the making of barrels, boxes, and cauks ont of comprossed papor. e shop will ho Iu active operation by Aareh 1, 1874, staois Brvisicn OCEAN STEAWMSHIP NEWS. New Youxk, Dee, 20,--Arrivod—Steanship Qrout Western, from Dristol, Loxuas, Dec, 20,—Steamuhips, Russly, Gresco, and Thuritgis have nrrived out. 22 st S THE KANSAS CITY LIVE-STOCK MARKET. JCANBAR Crry, Do, Die, 40.—OATTLE—=Merket dull Jittlo doing 3 oferiugs moetly of Texun stock eatt] “Chie domaiid for gl gradea fu_fmprovod ;o “Toxun yteors, 140,157 do caws, 1,506 tored Texun steers, faf, $.00@3,16;5 [0 sleara, thin, 31,10@1,05, Uoda=éveiis, 1260 lead ; buyers beld off to-day, and gellora nally ebiiccdod w declino, ' Fules during tho day were ut $4,00@R4,78 ; soruo extra goud lots Hols [ at §1.60. WASHINGTON. Caleb Cushing’s Nomination Sure of Comflrmation. Ho Will Lenve for Madrid Nost Month, His Opinfons on the Virginius Compli- cation. Senator Eimnnds to Bo Held Responsiblo for {ho Itejeeilon of tho Williams Nowinnfion, Spectal Dispateh ta T'he Chicago Tribune. UNDEROROUND TELEGRAVHS, ‘Wagisaroy, D. C,, Doc. 20.—Adolph Cbess, s membor of the Board of Publioc Worlks, pub- lishos an elaborate article in the Slar this oven- ing showlug the utility of running tolograph linon undor ground instend of as ot presont,—upon poles,—whoreby thoy nre subjected to atmos- pheric influences, which ofton rondors them n- ofiicient, 2ho lTotter ia ealled forth by o propo- sition to light tho stroot-lampy by electricity, an experimontal lino haviug beon successfully put in oporntion on K street, in thiscity. Mr. Ghosa shows that it would be much bottor in the lmits of cities to have all tolegraph wiros under ground, thus svoiding tho disfiguring of the streets enusod by the long Tines of poles.. Ho atatos that for mony yenrs wires have been lnid undor ground in and he- tweon many Luropean citics and the German fortresses along tho Rhino, and that cables which were Inid twenty years ago in Cologne have beon {aken up and found in good ordor. Ho suggosts that, instoad of buying up existing aorinl lines, the Government would hotter taie this predestined telegraph of tho future in hund, and establish wnder-ground lines betweon the principal citios of the coun- try, as woll ns aolong tho air-line railvoads, commencing with o moderato appro- priation to finish tho sectlon betweon Washing- ton and Bostou. Tho blessed Board, it iy prosumed, will pres- onlly ask Clongross for & fow millions to afd them in establishing an olectrio apparatus for lighting streot-lamps, and to pay for putting alt tho wires in the city under ground, in order that the beauty of the atrects of the most magnifi- Capital in the world muy not be disfigured by long rows of benstly poles. As this kind of toi- eggraphic apparutus is much moro costly than tho ono ot present in uso, wo may confidontly look for o lotter from Oreawoll adopting the rccom- ‘mendation that the Government sball build “the predestined telegraph of the future, instoad of 1iis 0ld sehomo for buying up existing linos. CALED QUSIING'S OWN STATUH, Tho records at tho Exocutive ofiice in which is enterad tho appointment of Calob Cushing to ho Alinistor to. Spain credit that gentleman to Vir- giniu, although ko was horn in Massnchusotts, and hos beon generally bolioved to he n cltizon of that State. 1lo is, however, the ownor of & small farm in Virginia, not for from this city, ond is exid to have voted thero lust fall fox Grant. On the supposition that Cushiug was & Democrat, thero hns boon # preat denl of gushing over his appointment to Spain, which wonld scem to have boen untimely. CALED CUSHING'S JUSSION. ‘Tlio 1on. Calob Cushivg will, it is underatood, bo ready in about three weeks, if necesenry, to sail for Lurope to nerume his now position as Mumister to Spain, He will be promptly con- firmed by the Senate, without even m{u\'nm{ the nomiuation to the Foreign elations Committeo. Mr. Cusiing's friouds vy he was meatly sur- [rlsed when, by request, he called upon the President and receivod from Gen, Grant's own lips the ofter of the Spanish Mission. Ho did not oxpress o desire to ho seat abrond, but gladly uccs{!tcd the proffered bovor, beenise ho greatly ndmires tho Sputish people, hom ho rates above all othor Luroponn nationalities, and wishes ugain to mingle with and more thor- oughly cultivate thewn than be had her totore been able to do. Mo spenks Spanish fluontly ; and, as stated to-night Dby a prominont” Senntor who Is an intimate porsonal friend of .My, Cushing, he will doult~ Jess Lo well and cordially reccived by the Spanish_people, who will quite naturally bave warm affection for him when it becomes known that ho in turn entortaing the highest ro- gard for them. Ho will stand in (ho attitude of n pencemalier, and it is predicted that, with the excoption of geueral sugnestions regarding the Virginiug complications, Mr, Cushing Le al- lowed to pursne hin own course an Miniser, Prosident Grant nominated Jr. Cushing with- aut eonforring with Secretary Flat, 1:DMUSDS AND THE CUIEF-USTICESIIP ROW, Seuntor Edmunds is blamod hy the Presidont with tho most of tho disgreceful delay in the contivmation of Williams. Grant lins Tastened upon him a8 the guilty ono, without taking time {o consider that possibly Ldmuuds is a representative of quite & number of other of the ‘““loyal™ and *ultra-loyal.” Tdmunds was by no ‘means tho flrst Benator to lift lie voice 8 t the confirmution, but he is the Chuiriun of that pestiforous Judicinry Comumitieo, which, with inquiring turn of mind, Lias gono about ruking up ronsons why tho die- tingnighed Oregontan 18 not only wufic to be Chief-Tustico, bul also to be Attorney-General, ortohold uny other ofiico in the giit of the | Exoentive or tho tycnplo. Being such Chairman, Edmunds is held responsible for wll this un- towsrd conduct, Under the circumstancos, of. course, it Lecomes the Prosidont’s painful duty to mako an nwfal example of this person, which it i8 undorstood he will proceed ut once to do. Honutor ILidmunds has conduct- od himwolf a8 no tme Republican Senator ought, nud he will bo made to feel tho welght of the displeasuro of tho White-1Iouse munagor of the purty. THE HON. SANUEL HOOFEN, "Ihere soems to bo no good foundation for the published report that tho Hou, Summel Hooper i ubout to vewign his seal in Congress from tho Tourth Massachusetts Digtrict. e has not indicaled- Auch o purposs to his ine timate [Iriends here, amd nons of the Initer _beliove thet ~ he will moon rotire. It is expocted that 3Ir, Hooper may withdraw from private life after the oxpiration of Liis prosont Lorm, licenly the marked dispuragemens of him by Spewhier Blaine iu the make-up of the House Commiticos, especially in tho recent instunce. Mr. Hooper was left ‘off tho Ways saud Moans Committeo in the luat House, and ho folt hurt about that, heenuso tho work of thut Committen wan agrosablo aud eatisfactory to him. In this Cougicns ho Is deprived of Liw mext ohoico by being out off from {he Danking aud Curreney Committee, of which he wan Chatemun it tho Inat Congreas, to mako way for tho lunk Tennesseo Atatasman and newly- diseovored finuncior, Horaco Maynerd, - If Mr, Tooper retiros bofore lus teyrm “expires, it will not Bo #o much on account of ln\\hmti> rosulting from old nge nd beeauso bin foolings have beon wounded by reponted slights, end that ho bo- linves hils usofiilness has thorehy hoen soriously impairad. - ‘Fho roport that wus given ont at tho time, to the offect that Mr. Hoaper rvequosted thnt ho bo not #guin pluced o the: lanking nnd Lurrency Committee, ia now pronounced untriio, TIE ATTONNEY-UENERAL DISVIRITED, Attorney-General Willlams hns grown quite low-splritod fu the last dey or two, Ho fears that ho will not be coufirmed, nud he feols i anticipated dofent keonly, hoenuso it will come from his old_friends and as- sociutes iu the Bonnto. Willlams is sonsi- Live, and consequontly cannot avoid contrasting tho course adopted hy tho Heunate in his caso with that which was taken when Mr, Chuse was nominated and stantly contivmed. The delny means nothing more uor loss than thai ho Imw not tho conlidenco of* men who, from hoving served with himeand hoen thrown into intimato rolations with hiw for o long timo, onght to know aud bo ablo to judge him,—thnt thess mon feol thut thern is goodl renson why he should not bo Chief Justico, . Among thoso of his old nssosls ates 0 the Sonate who knew him bost, and who had rogard for him, the opinioa has been utterad to-day that he ought to funlut thut his numo is withdeawn ; that he ought to appreciate the delicute position n whieh thoy nre plaved, nnd ond it by rofusing nny louger” to ho a candidnto for tholr action, o mmde muny warm friends in tho Hevute, sud they ive not now inclined to g ugainst Wi, buvat the samo tiwe thoy do ot fool that they can coneciontionsly votw to con- shem bim in the oflice, in viow of the revelations thnt have been made ns to tho expenditure by Ho in Inown to feol quito’ Lim of the contingent fund pinced in his hands for publis, and cloarly not hig porsonal ngo. ' Thoy do not Jook upon this a8 & mistako which a muu who fs rigidly honest could malko. ‘Tuni Mr. Williamu ml({‘(ho Presidont porsist In thoir domand that tho confirmation shall bo mado undor the elromnatnnces, doos not sponk well Tor their intorprotntion of tho rules of strict honeaty, such as should ohtaln fn both public and privaln life, . [7o the Aswocialed Prem.] ATVOINTNENTH, ‘WasmiNotoy, . 0., Dao, 20.—Joln W. Hood hng beon_appointed 'Gauger for (he First Dis- trict of Illinois; James i Burton, Gangor for tho Sixth Distriof of Indlanns Johu' M. Youndt, Htoreleopor for tho Blghth District of Indinns ¢ and Jamen M. Bradloy, Charlos C. Walker, and licodoro D, Jays, Storekoopers for tho Fifih District of Kontucl PIENCIE VICE-CONBUL FOR CHICATO. ‘Cho President hay recognized Edmond Croy a8 Vice-Consular. Agent of Franco nt Chieago. 2 CONRECTION. 1t waa incorrectly stated in lust night's dls. paiches that Assislant Attornoy-Goneral ill wus hofore the Commitico on the Judiclary in conmection with tho nomination of Goorgo H, Willinma to ho Chiof Justico. Hill had no com- muuication whatover with the Commitieo on thet subject. . " °A DIG TAILROAD PROJEOT. A Now York compmny, owning valid *Stato chartors, under whioh o direct ralirond hina beon located from Now York City to Omaka, hng ro- quosted tho Ilouss Committoo on Rallrouda to recommend a bill granting thom n national chor- tor ovor tho samo line, ‘Ihe rond runw throngh Illinols ou the charter of tho Muscatine, I&)- waneo & Grent Bastorn Ralirond, The Compuny ask for n aubsidy of $24,000 per milo, in gunr- auty.of tho honds, and the importation, treo of <uty, of all tho iron and steol necoseary for it construotion, The Connnittao will not roport in favor of the subsidy, ‘Chuy will probubly report tho Dbill for the genoral Intor-State Incorporn- tion Iaw, which'wag iutroduced by Mr. MeGrary, of Iowa. « FOMEION MAIL TRANSTONTATION. Under the now systemn of*electing steamers o cwrry the Iuropoou mails tho Iostmastor- Gonernl ling Cewgnaled hwenty-fonr steamers helonging to different lines to carry tho mnils during Jouuary. This gives twonty-four mails, thero bolug two maila overy Saturday. Tho dnys of _ wailing will bo Jav. 1, 3, 6, 7, §, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, and 81, TOLATICAL DIFADILITIES REMOVED, Tho President lias approved the bill remoying the political dinabilitios of E. J. Harvie, Thotans . Bocock, and Daniel Trlgg, of Virginia, and Fohn 11, Henyan, of Toxan. INTENNAL REVENUE PROSPECTS. Washington (Dee. 20) Dispatch to the New York Tribune, In examining tho gueuuon whethier auy noces- ity Tor imposing additional taxation really ox- ists, Mr. Wilson, of Indias, colled upon tho Conimissioner of Intornul Rovonue for a state- 1ment showing the oftect of tho Hnnlc upon the ll'l);"tnnlll!fl, nn:i in roply received' the following ottor; 7 WasiINaTox, Dec, 17, 1873, 8in: I roply to your verbal yoquest for = state- meut of the recolpis of intornal revonuo for so much of tho gurront flacal voar as has already clapaed, and for my estimaio of the effect of tho recent financial erlsis I dimiuishing revenue, that the_aggregate certificato doposit revoived 1 b oftca trom July 1, 187, to date, is as fol- owy Tor July, 8,821018; Auguat, %8,525,280; Boptembor, £8,824,671; " October, £6,009,401; November, 86,734,050 ; first pixteon days in De- comber, 1,141,908, A glanco at tho above statomont will show that thoro wad a falling off of abour $2,000,000 por wmouth iv the receipts for Octobor und Novem- Der, a8 cmn{mwd with _those for July, August, and Soptembor. Stnted procisoly, tho averago receipta por month for tho first (!“lflor of tho curront flscal yoar wore $8,798,660; for October and Novembor, $6,821,255—bolng a differenco’of 3192404, The income tax hoving been topealed, u great part of which was formorly collocted dur= ing the firat quartor of the flscal year, and tho apecinl taxes duo May 1 having been mostly col- lected for the curront yoar in fmy and June, in- stend of July and Aughst as heretofore, I seo no rauson why tho average roceipts for July, Au- gust, aud Septembor should huso been grontor than the avorago receipls for October and No- vomber, oxcept the financin doprevsion reforred to. i evidaut that tho receipts for Octoher uud November were noarly $4,000,- 000 logs than they would have heon bt for tho distrbunco in Jinancial afTairs. The recelpts for tho first sixteen days of tho curront month wore 4,141,088, ngainat #4,653,420 for the cor- rerponding poriod in the lnst fiseal year. Slould the receipts for the remaivder of this month Dear the kamo’pioportion 1o tho reccipts for tho first sixtoen days us did the recoipts from Dec. 18 to Dee. 81, 1872, to the receipts for the first sixtoen days of that month, the entire receiptn of the current month would bo 57,020,300, This would seem to show that {hie woret of the finnn- cial trouble is over, go fer as it affects internal rovenue, and that soon receipts will reach their formor nverngo. Hnd thero beon no distur- bance in monotary nffairs thore is little doubt that the nggregate recolpts for the current flacal yoar would lave reached £105,000,000. Ilow much thoy will fall below thix under exiating Jaws will 6f courso depeud upon the duration and exteut of tha ktringency i the money mar- ket. Very respectfully, J. W. Douarass. Stenmship-fien Bicfore the Postmase ter=Genernteeflumors of the Ocean Mail-Service: © Atlantic Nomes olatures From Our Own Correapondent. WasiixaTos, Dec, 24, 1675, Last Suturduy I went, with Jir. Copelaud, of the New York Journal of Commerce, to tho Tost-Ofico Dopartmont, to see the assembled reprosontatives of TIE OCEAN-STEANSUIP LINES hefora Mr. Creswoll, soliciting the award of muil-contracts, It seoms that sho whole mail- servieo between America aud Burope, both ways, is paid, in round numbers, §1,500,000, of which o pay about one-third ooly, Tho steamalip- men nliogo that thero is no profit in tho business, but that to bo & United States mail-ehip givos prestigo to tho company recoiving the contract, and it bringa patronaga in both freights and pas- Hengers, CRESWELL sat in his small, squaro oflice, Lohind his desk, regarded from ubove by tho portiaits of all his prodecessors in tho Pot-Ofive Department, which ho bay collected, and properly ; for theso yrent Dopartments should earry tholr own are nnd literature slong with them, and, like a print- ing instrument, rocord tho messogo which Pasuos on. Mo Poatmustor-General I & man of indusivy, ambition, and good citizen purts. He has done one thing which got him the gratitudo of tho conntry and the repronch of Congress, viz.: cgr. ried tho uboliflou of the franking privilege, I nevor had a good opportunity before to seo him aunder ofticial prossure and on ofticial good be- lvior; end, on the whole; I was satistlod thut 1o had somo girth, statnre, nud manugoment. It wns strange to ses him sitting thero, in the p uce of the reoresontatives af abnut sixty steamships. which cost o average sum of ERONAID mpiceo, and vot not one shin enrried the colors of his nation, Tako tho whole fleet mfin'enanwl, which, of course, rupresonts the bulk of tho first-class toum-tomingo of the world, and it has not cost n much a8 two monthly puyments of tho progout oxpenses of thoe Unitad Btates, Mr. Crouwoll reprosontod o vast intorior,—uhipless, cleared from the sca, .with o usval hlstory, nplondidl but dond, bohind Nit, und nothing to fringe our enorinons extont of coust but a fow |, coasters and colliors, which wonld bodrivou awiy to-morvow bt for the abgalute monopoly of the conntwine trado, necording o Inw, mericans, TitE FTBAMNIID PEOTLY, seattored wronnd in c¢haira, wore nlmost all En- s and Gormans. They ropyesent probubly a duzon lines, 'Cho ouly Amborican was dMr, Guion, who ropresonts what s callod the Williams & CGinlon Lino, most of the stacl of which is own- od by Awmericans, whilo thie shipy are of foreign build sud_fly the vod crows, Willlams, of this lino, hus beon hero w good deal, as hin shure of the mail-service smounts to 570,000 por aunum ; und I have underatood hiw to say that, ou selfish connlderations, he is both opposed to’ Ameriowu nuvigntors hoing allawed to registar forelgn-builk whipy, ind _to havoe them curry tho Amerivan tlagg, Tho Engllsh flag Is good enough for him although - un American, ~Such is commercin ]mtrlnl‘ium in tho year of High DProtection. “Iho flght of thd dny was manifestly to eome off botwacn dames W, Girard, conniel for tho Inmsn Line, nud Edwarde Lierropont, udvocato for tho Whita Htar Lino, All {Lu other stoum- ship-men vxpected this, and sat Dack wntil 1t should be over. A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT i u rore thing nowadays, and It was with ro- Yot thal wo sww HMr, Dlerropont tuke down Lin. upuis, sling ip"bis notiings, clois the deck, and_grow Lolder than usual; wiide Mr, Qivurd hitched up Lis trowsers, rolled bis Lobmouo-quid hincki into Lis cheok, und lonked ny if ho could lead oft nt n eatlor's hornpipo at stant uotice, Besido Girord ent tho young Ln- gllsh man who yeprotcuts the Dalos and Iumaus, —n vety thin young_man, with an honoot John- Bull look, Besldes Plerropont was Bparke, the While Btar Nium' anothor Englishman, of moro aplomly, sunvity, and addrors, bt bullt o _good toal Mo n short brig, and au yollow as® Bkye- torrior with n bollod skin. 'T'ho nmount of obtusonesy that these English- mon could nsyume when the argumont boeamo cloro was romarkablo to sce. ‘Their American lawsors wero natty, glib, sclf-vufiiclont mon, norvous, and apparently lncking powers of tul- Ingt. 'They wara liko our invontlons, which run aver 80 fast and chirpingly, and weigh litilo, Both Inwyors lave had” considorablo record. Plerrapont stood up In o group with Bill Twood and Bweeny, when they wero all Tammany Haehoms, and had his portralt taken {n Tammany rogalla, " Ho proseculed Jolm Surratt, and is ro- ported to have nearly succoeded IIamilton Fish a8 Secrotnry of Btate. Glrard bogan in fuvorof the Inman Line, and showed that it had moro ships in reserve than the White Star Lino ; snilod by s moro logiti- mate If somowhat longer parallel ; ehowed equal u‘mod. it losn bnste 3 was ** patrlotle,” belng e glish, 'to Amenica,~having ‘onco disoboyod tho Jiomo laws sud earried arms for us ;. ond conld havo hind as many mereantils signaturen to its potition for thio mails ns the Whito Star Com- )m; s hkd it put forth tho necessary “ shqe- ontlior, ‘Chon arose Plorropont, dyed, grandiose, mul- tuin in parvo, and fond of the sound of hinsomo- what cracked voice, which seomed to me to havo been bestowed in Now Engiud and_finisied oft in tho Boutliern States. 1le bratalized things immodiatoly, *‘Whoro are the original signn- tures to your application 2" ho said. ** Word of hopor won't dv. You don't possess them " Tlora thero was o gront mornl suporiority in Tlerropont, * 1o loomed, no to sponk. Ths other sido was disconcortod, 4 thoir paper of sigun- id di tod, o4 thoir papor of sig tures was not to bo found. ** Show mo ono signaturo of responsible bank- org, such s I have read on our paper,” cried Dlerrepont, “ Rutowsn!" Justat this timo, howover, the papor was fonud, und, npon_comparing the slgnaturos, it was Acen thint such aristocratic houses as Drown Brothors, Drexol & Morgan, and Duncan & Sher- man had 'willingly signed the application of botl poxtios for tho sate contract,—insinting, ns thoy did go, that, unless cach company gotit, grent lovs would ousue to the publio interest. ‘Tho moral grandour of My, X’fnrm’)aut's challenge_sufered some collapso hero, *‘You sce,” enid fllnlrd‘ { that thoy want_overybody to bo plonsed.” ¢ Certainly," ynid Mr, Croawell, “thoro is no forco fu all thoso signaturos, #s tho Department, in giving out & muail-contract, hecomes ita own morchant,” TIE MIVALS. Thero was a great deal more of this sort of argumiont, and Piorropont read from the pro- cecdinge of Parlismentnry Committees to shaw that the Inman Commn{ had disdained our mails until tho White Star Linc applied for them. Tho upshot of the mattor was, that the White Star Company showed the ¢uickest logs in the marino servico, inkon in- the nggare- gato; while the Inman Line promisod great l)nr(nmmnton for Lwo new ships which they hud aunched. It seomed to ho nprnrenb that thore was o gonoral feollng of jenlousy against tho nosweomors who had snatched the mails from the older compnuics, avd, with costly ships and improved machinery, ‘hod compolied o gencral re-oquipment of tha passengor marine service. THY WIITE STAR COMPANY would have forced first-class anngw-mtea o1 overy line, including the Cannrd, down to S100 Amorican curroncy hut for tholoss of tho Atlautie, which availed to giva somo confirmation to thein- geutoun theory that the Stur vessols wero built 00 long, sud would break in two. The Inmen Company bad hardly got this legend into good sbapo whou thoy lost & nhl{x of their own. Next, the Froneh Linc—which nlways struck mo z# manned with weitors und pastry-vooks instead of seamen, and in which I crossed on oue occa- slon, sud heard a remaykable amount of con- vergation botweon tho riggors in the shrouds and tho officers ou the bridgo—completed tho misfortunes of the fear by crossing the bows of # brig, and muking tho night und tho sen fright- onod At the suporior moreilossness of man, THL GERMAN BHIFPING AGENTS at thiseouforancoshowed more diplomatic ability than the loss manngeable Englishmon. Schwab, of tho Bromou Line, mads n botlor argument than either of the lnwyors. Ho epenks English with elegance, but without fluency, so that ho Is unusunlly impressive. 1Ie showed that this lino lind nover. failed to dispateh its stesmors at the dosignatod hour, and hod nover lost & ¥fo. An- other German reprosonted the new, Englo Line, _in which the steamers bave a litcrary nomeo- laturd and are called for the QGerman poets. ‘ho Tnmburg-American Company, which s the Eaglo Lino for its competitor, also wanted to inud the Luglish moil at Plymouth. : Young T'ranckliu, of the Cimard family, anid a fow words in fuvor of that great Compauy., The Postmagtor-Genoral announced his de- cision to ho, that bo should send the mails hy ships, nud not by comppanies, so &8 to imsure speod, socurity, and fidelity, and ruls the mere tubs aud tenders out of "the mait-service, no matcer what line awnod them. ) ‘CHE STEAM BHIPPING on thio North Atlantic has probably rouched the Bigliest pertoction aw Lo tho comtort of the voi- soly, und their kpeed, size, and number; there are ut prosent u Scotch Line; a Welsh Line; a Prustinn Liue for the Baltic; & Bolgic Line; Trench Lino; double servico to llambusg und Dremen; quintuple service to Queonstown ind Livorpool; worvice_ to London, Plymonth, Southumpton, and Londonderry. All the above are from New York sloue. Thore is sumi-weekly servico from Montroal, whicl, in winter, is shifted to Portland, Me.; somi-month- 1y sorvico from Philadelpbia to Liverpool by ono line, and weekly by avother ; two lines run from Baltimore to Bremen nnd Liverpool. In all this tleet, wbich probably numbers about soven-scoro firat-class ships, worth, pcrhnys, 00,000,000, there mro but two ships undor Awerican colors. Our servico on the Ta- ciflc has beon judescribably humili- uted by the corraptions attending tho procurcmient of a subsidy from Congross, by disastors to tue ehips, and by the unecrupulous und ruinous speeulations of Stockwell and others in Pucifle Mail stock. The Brazil Line, of threo slips, 18 bottor known when its Gommodores poke uround Congress for subsidy than when thoy put to sen. Heresftor wo are to havo steamship- service from New Orleans to Yeru Cruz, nnd, o tho now ruilrond is opened theneo to Mexico, you can o at present from Chicugo to the City of Mexico in abous one week. Gant, e e An Cutrage in Minnesota. From the St. Paul Pioneer. Eleven poor struggling Swodes, sottled upon ihe rl‘n(rlus some two lundred miles from Ht. Paul, wero recontly dragged from thelr homes for {lio enormous nllogod offonso of entting u fea brush on publie lands, to keep their famitfos from perishing of cold, ~ On examination they wero discharged, and tarnod pennyless into tho atveots to make their way homo us best {hey could, withont oveu apology,—much less ropari- tion, A few days provious to this grand spasm of ofilcinl virtue! o pine land ring, involving Iundrads of thousands of acres which bolongod to Iudlans, went through tho farce of invosti- gating themselses, Tha guilty oporators, after whitewanhing each ather, wero fensted, tonsted, dined, and wived, and fimuily went off with flying colors ut public expense, 1t is & shocking erimo for u fow wrotehed and suffering pioncers to cub littlo wood to keep from froczing, hut the enm of virtuo to awindle the Stato und its Indian tribes ont of conntlens millions of feut of forest timber, Lyot the St, Pau Dispatel. "I'ie moro the outrage 1 investigatod tho more dinbolicnl becomes tho offonse perpotratad by the gallant Gen. MoLaron 1 his mad soarch for Tees. ‘Cho cloven poor vielims wera found away frow home, komo of thow witliout their conts. ‘Ihoir tenms wero loft standing in their traoks ; thoy wera not allowad to_ roturn homo to notify their familles or obtaln clothing, but were hus« tenod off to 8t. Paul and lodgod in juil to be dincharged-after the gallant (en, MeLuron hud seoured his feos. Theso poor mon left thelr sod caven in the morning to secnre a littly fire- wood 10 savo the livos of themselves und fami- lios, Bomo of thom loft their little onos mortals 1y ill, sud nono of thom loft their caves supplied With the nccesenries of lifo, Imagino tho agony of thoso womon and children in their living tomba when night emue on and no Lusbaud and fathor uppenred. 1low this agony was ineronsod us doy after day wore on und still no tidings of tho missing ones und no means of subsistonoo ot houd, Theso ponr peoplo, igno- rant of our lauguage, had come to uu;){mnall Innd of treodom to earn n livelihood, When emigration ciranlurs and books were given themn in their nalive tonguos there wun no montion mado of fese for tho gallant Gon. MoLuren, othorwine there sulferers in_their sod caves might havo surmised what had becomo of {heir proteciors, This suddonly onforced nbscuco was of over u woek's durntion, and it is Qoubttul whother thoy will rerch home beforo to-morrow ovening, And tho gallunt Gion, SleLaren (aftor tho Lispateh oxpono) contributed fwenty dollars out of hin feos to aid them on their way, leaving them to wulk seventy miles. . What w ** Morry Christmu ™ It must invo heon yestorday in thoso sod eaves, with the agony of suspensio relative to what had Dbefu!len tho ubsout loved ones, Death oy hiave invaded tholr desolato cnves, und cortamly pinhlni; vold and hunger hud boen. with thom, "But umid all this desolntion they could hiave a * Moiry Ohristmns™ in the consol- ing reflootion that tlio gwllaut Gon, MoLnxon had sooured his foos, CASUALTIES. Loss of an Englsh Steamer wiih Twenty-threo Lives Minor Casualties Reported Yesterday. Loss of an English Sienmer with ‘TwentysT'wo Liven. New Yonu, Dec, 20.—Forelgn papers contaln tologramu from Corunna and Gibraltar, an- nouncing tho total losa of the stenmer Becklow, of Nowenstle, England,—ono man only, out of a crow of twenty-threo, having beon saved. A Hunter Burnod to Dot Speciat Dispateh to The Chicago Tribuna, 1oy, 111, Dee, 20,—Phillp Kunkel, an old resldent of thfy olty, storted plono - on o hunt on Fridoy Inst._ 1is body was found yesterduy af- ternoon on Lone Lres Prairis, somo miles from town, lying besido o dosorted fog hint, the lowor ortion burnod blnck, 1o hnd built's fire, and, ying down for tho night, his clothiug becomo ignitod, and ha wan burned to donth. 1o loavos a wifo and threo little childron, A Clergymnn Run Over and Killed by n 'Troin. Banaon, Me., Dec. 20,—Tho Rev, Poter Keog, pastor of thoe Presbyterion church at 8t An- drews. N. B., fainted nnd foll in front of n train on tho Now Brunswiele & Canada Nailway, at AMeAdun Junction, this aftornoon, and his hoad waa complotoly eevored from tho imdy. —— "FOREIGN. SPAIN, MaDRIp, Deo, 20.—1t 18 bolloved that Castolsr will bave a majority in tho Cortos, and this is insured to him by tho support of Figuoras, « The Impartial suys .the insurgonts of Carta- gona are preparing to fly from tho eity, and aro gotting a fleot of vessels ready for that purposo, Tioports have been telegraphed from Bayouuos thiat tho troops in Biseny, under command of Gon. Lowe had pronounced in favor of Al- phanso, They aro oflicially declared to bo with- out foundation. Herald Special, Mapnip, Dee. 20.—Tho Cortes will meot Jan, 2, whon Sorrano will bo placed at the hoad of Spanish affals. _England, France, Prussia, and Ttaly are pledgod to recoghizo Sorrano as Drasi- dent on the samo basis us thoy havo recognized the Prosidont of tho Iranch Ropublic. Ministor Lngerd lins the papors oll ready to'seizo tho opportune moment for recognition. This uews was kopt secrot, but is positive. If the * Reds" riso to oppcso rz:eogm!}on. tho powers aro ox- pected to intorvono (n, this mattor, a8 woll as 1 the Carlist war i GERMANY. Loxoox, Deo. H0.—A epeclsl to the Daily Telegraph Trom Borlin says the project to malko the Crown Princo Fraderick Willinm Rogont ks Yeen abnndonad it consoquonce of tho improvo- mont 1n the health of the Emporor William. CHINA, Wasuoroy, D, C., Dec. 20.—The Depart- mont of Stata has received a tolegram from our Consul_nt ong Kong, snnouncing that the King of Portugal bud, by proclamation, pro- hibited tho Coolic trade at Macao, and clovad tho borracoons, ¢ SAGINAW LUMBER. Icport of the Inspector of Lumber for the Saginaw Bistrict. Special Digpateh to The Chicago Tribuns, Easr Saarsaw, Mich., Dec, 29.—Tho roport of 3d . Williams, Inspector Goneral of Tumber for tho Saginuw District; shows thut 213,511,973 foot of lumber wero inspectod through his of- fleo tho past yoar, a8 follows: Upper qualities, 41,167,089 feot ; common, 149,796,033 feot ; culls, 94,760,680 foo : measured straight, 17,708,163 Toot. ‘This is but slightly in oxcoss of‘tha amount inspected under the low last year, and represonts loss than half of tho lumber shibped from tho river. Tho recoipts of tho ofiico wore 860,709, and nnd to exponsos $01.226, loaving o doflcioncy of 3516, whicl, if not mndo up by th manufaturers, will 'bon loss totho Inspoctor and his two doputics. WHO KILLED FISK ? The Medical Jurisprudence of the Siolicn Case Discuysed by tho Medicos Legal Society. Tront the New York World, Dec. 25.. ho sinterd wontlily mectig of tho v York Medico-Legal Society was holil ut the College of Physicians and_Surgeons, Fourth avenus mud Twonty-thivd streot, lust evening, Alter the rogulat business Lad been dispased of wud oo appoal road by tho suruising phisisiuns of Mo phis, Tenn., asking contributions to erect a mons ument in honor of thoir colaborers who hud died combating yellow fover, Dr. Iugoene Peugnet bogan & paper on *The Medieal Jurisprudencs of the Btokes Case.” Aster dofining *‘ghock™ and other techuical torms, Lo entered upon an elaborale oxposo of tho effects of morphine and opium when taken iunto tho systew, and nlllm the offects of guushot wounds in the abdomen. Ho enticized at longth tho testi- mony of exports given at the trial, and showed the mistakes in conducting thuir cases that were made by prosecution and defense, Lo especially cousured the comparativoly igboring by the prosecution of Fisk's anto-mortom etatoment, ns 1t agroed na to the position of Tisk's body whon tived at with the testimony of Stolies in contra- diction to the mamfestly falso evidenco of the boll-boy, Hact. The courvo of the ball fired nt the second shot, which toolt effect in Fislc’s lott olbow, showod thut that arm must bave beou thrown up into tho air whilo he was bolding tl:o bauistors with Lis right hand, and recordingly could not haye beon handling n pistel, The con- clusions Dr, Pougnet srzived at woro that Stokes willfully aud with premeditation wayluid Fisk to muyder him, but that he did not die from the ef- fects of tho wounds inflictod by Stokes, but through the offects of the narcotics ndminintercd by tho uttending physicinus. Dr. Sayro, who, in 1a capacity of Surgoon, had attended Fisk, do- soribod Tisk’s condition grhen ho saw him, aud gave as his apinion that g had died of “enock,” Dr. Leo, one of the oxperts who testiticd nt tho trial, road three cases which had come undor his own’ oxporionco, Of porsons revoiving wunshos wounds in the abdomon und recovering, The cusp, o thought, very noarly resembled that of Fisl'a. Dr, Bayro. enid that unless tho caso ox- actly resombled Fislcs it was no criterion. Por- Tinps tho only way of detormining the question was to put Btoltes ut tho foot of a flight of stairs and Liavo some oue shoot him exactly where he hit Fisk, Thon allow no_physiciany to sttond him, and if he recovorod it would prove cou- clusivoly that the doctors, and not he, had mur- d fiak, and if ho diod viee vorsa, Dr. Pouggact then resd the post-mortem esaminution on Fisk’s body i support of hu opiujon thut ho ud died fron tho oilosts of narcotics, mthougl tho physiciuns who hud mado tho esumination Dind unhesitatingly declared *‘vhock” to have oen tho enuso of death, 3 solvad to resumo tho discussion at tho noxt mooting. Picking and Stealing, Foom the New ¥urk Hevald, The investigation of the charges against At- torney-Gonural Willinms Ill'mllinu;« to brmg to Tight practices in nearly, it ot quite, all the ox- routive dopartmonts which are cortainly not consistent with u strict economy, if indeod they are with houest administiation. Tho payment of #1,600 for n earringe for the Attorney-Geno- ral's famlly s tut an ordinary wair. 1n the "frensury Dopartment some of the exponditures aroof the most extruvaganut whuracter, Our ‘Washington corrospondence Iustuncos 40,000 for temporury olerks, ®00,000 for sintionery, §10,000 for furniture aud carpets, §50.000 for coul, wond, gas, tumblows, haichets; pitchers, towels, &c., %05,000 for nowspapors, repuir of wagons, care of lorges, brooms, brushes, atohes, BOAPS, & 3 nud it I8 statod that tho nwnes of privato servants aro borne on the pay- | Thore weows to boa | Dry Goods & Notions rolla of the Government, complete system of picking und stosling, high aud Jow. Ts it any ‘wonder that Congrosmmon spooulats in Oredit-Mobilior aud yoto thomsclyos baol-pay in such sn atmosphiore? Or that Bows Bhepliord is confirmed? Or that overy duy b‘lfln ?IIN\'& of the absconding of dofeitling oitielals, agh RadlwayPotuts, From the City o ) Tioo Repuiltics, Tho ultitudo of the highest point in the world whovo railronds aro now u}»orul(ml i at x\lll- zueo, ou tho Vern Crnz & co Ruilway, 7,478 oot nbovo tho lovel of the sea, 'Tho nest high- est in on tho Central Pacille, in thu Novadu range, 7,111 foet sbove tho lovel of the wen, ‘Cho thivd is at Arequipn, an Important city in Peru, 7,000 fect abovo the lavel of tho sow, and under tho Peruviau railway system, tha On motion It was ro- 1 work fe to bo continued, and is oxpocled to ronola doublo that altitude. It oty out tpon an pacont, to smfll to tho west of tho astern Cordiiloras, and piily itrell thus in conuoction with tho fa~ moun Jnko of Tificaca and the ontire Andine Boli- vis, niso with the gront historic roalm of tho Ine cnt, thn anclont capital of Ciizeo, and muat raach © point ab tho brenth taking height of 14,000 oot nbove the leval of tho sen—less than 4,000 foot Tower tinn the crater of Popocatopotl, ind over 1,000 feat highier {han the City of Moxico, The inuplrations of onr Poruvian nelghbors aro phown Dy theeo vast undortakings to bo a8 grand ns {he tinditionnt empire of their Iens, and ne ofty an lllillll‘ sublime heights of thoit magnificont Cor- dillorns. MARRIAGES, UNDFIW 00D ST IMESOR-AL Do Til, 1y § are W Curiin N O Draorvosds af Chleano” aed Ltlizabeth XK. Stimpson, of Awhersiburg, Conada, No gardny DEATHS. FLANAGAN--On Deo. 29, at lier residonco, 24 Liborty. Cathorine Flanagan, by carrioges to Cnlvars, o, ifunoral today, ati:in, OILAY—Doo, 20, Blizahoth £, wifaof Willlam B, 11, Geny, agod 47 yor d 47 yoars, Fatoral frou 18 fiako-nv., Wodneaday, Dec. 31, at 3p. By carelnges o Onkwodd. Frionds ot 1h6 iinily ath “AUOTION SALES. "By ELISON, POMBROY & CO. THE SALE OF ELEGANT OIL PAINTINGS At 84 & 86 Randolph-st, Will be continucd THIS MORNING at 16 o’clook, APTERNOON AT 3, and EVEN- 1NG at 7:30, Tho ¢ollection i very fine, and tho publia aro invited to attond tho nalo and witness the slaughtoring prices. Tho nalo is positive, Every Ploture rust bo sold, ELISON, POMEROY & 0O., Auctioncors, BANKRUPT SALE AT 187 NORTEL WELLS-ST. OF THE ENTIRE STOCK OF FPamily Groceries aud Dakery Fixtmes, ‘Also ono HOTSY: AND WAGON, Wodnosday M B, 517 nt 10 ollnek. By ondorat Goors W Cermpball: Bides RS 0N, POMEROY & GO.. Anctionoers, Friday Morning, Jan. 2, 1874, Wo commonca thio Now Yoear with an immanso sale of New and Secondhad Furuitus, FRIDAY MORNING, Jan. 9, at 83 o'elock. Turnituro, Carpats, Blaukots, Extension Tablos, Bed- room Suts,’ Loungos, Stoves, Grockory, (lasswaro, Platodwars, and Gengral Merohinnd i, BLISON, POMEROY & CO., &{'and & Randolph-st. —— . P, GORE & CO., 68 & 70 Wabnsh-av. AUCTION SALE O DRY GOODS, Tueaday Morning, Dec. 30. Ulnlhlua Dress Gaods, Gonts' Iurnishing Goads, Tataand Cans, Whito Guads, Notlons, Hoslorr, Uniduewory, Gloves, . £o.'10 Canes Whits Wonl fiinnkota, 10 Tiatos: (Fay oo Blankets, Ladies’ Cambric Initlal T1d) Lzecs, Em- broldorics, Cufls, Collars and Hots. ¥ina Lino of Fur | Goods, Muifs, Tioas, Collars nnd Gaps, in Scal, Mink, Kemiluo, Nauifrol, Astrachan, fo. 30,000 OHOIOH OIGARS, Pockot Cutlers, Silver Plated Gyod: Sinlo at 16 o'clocks I . €O, 8w 0 Walbah-avey Ancien, 78 & 80 TAST RANDOLPHL.ST. Assignees’ Sale at Aunction mporied Fmey oo DIRECT FROM EUROPE. Tavn snd Imperian Statues, Smoking and Toilot Hots, Vasos, China Oups and Soucors, Tos Sats, Fanoy Spittoons, Bohemian Gluss: whare, &c., Trede Sale—Opon lots nnd by the Cuso. On Tuesdny and Wednesday. Dee, 30 and 81, Auotioncors. We Always Make 1 (im Sweep | OF all Fall Goods nt tho lust 5210 of the yoar, and such will bo that o, Wednesday, Doo. 31, at 10 0. m., whon we shall offer BOOTS AND SEHOES. GLO. P, GORE & CO., g and 0 Wabash. S s i TR By WILLIS, LONG & CO., Auctlongers and Manufacturors' Agonts, 195.and 197 RANDOLPH-ST. Regolur Augtion Sxlos, Wedneaday and Satarday. Spe- ._clal atiention given to nutside salcs, RETURNS MADE 36 HOURS AFUER SALE Comsdgnmenty s _lflu_ctriom ' At 91 Bldridgs-comt Tuesday, Dec, 30, at 10 a. m, Marble-Top Chamber Suity, Parlor and Dine ing-1toom Furniture, MarblesTop Sidebourd and Centre Tables, Turgo FrenehaPlate Mire ror, Qrozments, Covtning amd Lambr 9y Threes s Coole and Perlor d Ware, Glass and y WML A, BUTTERS & CO., Auctloneors, 108 Madiso _Ifll. Clark and Dearborn. EXTENSIVE SALE OF FORFEITED PLEDGES, BY ORDER OF A, LTIPMAN, Pawnbroker, On Tuesday, Dee. 30, at 10 a. m., CONSISTING OF Gold & Silver Watches, Dianionds, Jowely, Plate Ware, Hisical ad Sreveyor's Mstruaens, Opora. (ilasses, &, Alvo, Iot of COCKTAIL BITTERS and WINT, all of aehiel will Bo sold tu Wiizhiest blddor tor cash. SALE OF Dry Goods, Clothing, Furs, Boots, Shoos, Gloves, Iluts, Furnishing Goads, wnd No- tlons, on WEDNESDAY, Deo, 3, ut 10 o'slock, at 15 snd 17 Randolph-st, 'ERS & C0., Auctioncers. By TAYLOR & HARRISON. On Tuesday, Deo, 30, at 10 o'clock, THI BALANCE OF STOUK OF Unredeemed Pledgss, Sold by order of A: GOLDSMID, Wil bo closad aut AT, AUCTION. olry and Dinmonds, Balo puron) A flnostock of Jaws will bo offeros _OJ;VVéd;endny_; Deo, 31.' 2t 0 1-3 o‘oio‘nlr,‘ CLEARING-UP BALK O)F , Augtloneers, addl3on Wa aliall oloss out mauy conslgntients of goods ENTIRELY REGARDLESS OF INVOICE PRICES, And Dry Gouds huyers slnld attond this sslo, A largo stock of Seasounhlo (3ods will L TAVLOT & HAIRINON. Auotfuncors, 04 and 204 ast Mania TEREMPTORY SALE OF WINES, CHAMPAGNES & LIQUORS ‘Wedneaday, Deo. 81, at 3 o’cloclk. Ohzuipagnes, Whiskies, Brandies, Gius, Port, Shorry, 1 ol it TN nd. KNGLIBK ALS, I, Gamnacd L & HARIISON, Auotjonov " AYLOL & b i Maay Rl isonste