Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1874, Page 5

1HE CHICAGO DAILY FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1874 He Is Indicied for Perjury and Fallure to Turn Over tho Money, The Court Fixes His Bail at $110,000, 8, J. Walker, W. F, Tucker, Al- bert Crosby, and Others Go on Mis Bond. It wan oxpeoted that the Grand Jury would prosent the indictments found ngainst David A. Qagoat 10 o'clock yesterdny morning, but thoy wero not handed to the Court untll half an hour Intor, ‘Tho Criminal Court-room was nhout, two- thirde fall of pooplo waiting tho arrival of the Jury, Mr. Gago and soveral of Lis frionds boing Ppresont, Word camo down from tho Grand Jury- xoom that minor caros weore undor consideration, and it was doubtful if tho jury would bo ablo to roturn the QGage-indictments before 11 o'clock. With this understanding, ‘Mr. Gage and his counsol ond frionds went awny. Tho Grand Jury, howovor, concluded to como iuto court nt halt-past 10 o'clock, and did ro, very fow poople being prosent oxcopt Judgo Rogers and tho Stato’s Attorney., - THE INDIOTMENTS PRESENTED. Aftor tho roll bud boon ealled the Court said ke presumed the jury bad some indiciments to Prosent, Henyy tireenobaum, the foroman, snid * Yes,” and handed tho Court soven indictmonts, two of which wero against David A. Gnge,—one for Eorjnry and the other for failing to turn over to is succossor funds belonging to the city, The Tull text of tho indictments is subjoined FAILURE TO TURN OVEIl, which have snsponded. I put the tull amount in tho indictment, bacause that was the actual doflelt, aud becouso My, O'Hara domondad that Aum s but the evidence showed that 147,000 s In suspondod banks, and I do not think {t 18 falt to_count that inIn_fixing the amount of bail. I think that ought to ho duductod, which would loave soniothing over 850,000 a4 the yonl amount, Mr. Jewott dostros mo to atate, and it was testiffod to bofore tho Grand Jury, that Mr. Gage has .turned . over a large amotint of proporty to ecoure the olty from lons, How muoch tho property i worth the Grand Jury wore unabla to find out. They made in- clnhlun. but did not get much information about it, The othor indictment i for perjury, Thero 18 no indictmont for cmbezzloment. Tho allo- ation {s, that, on tho Gthof Decomber, M, Gago, ns City Treasurer, made oath boforo Mr. Barrett,” s Notary Publie, that thero was o bolauce in tho Tromsury and in Lis bands of s little over $1,000,000—that ho aworo to that, which is alleged to bo untrue, That is whoreln tho perjury conslats, Thesa are the cu\l]y two indictments that will be presented, Mr, Jowott—I do not know what tho rulo of tho Court i in cases of this kind. 1% COURT WANTS INFORMATION, "the Court—I would lovite = statemont trom both you and Mr. Reod (he has_already mado ono) a8 to the circumatances and the poculinr condition of tho accounts, and whether sceured or not; and also gat your ideas and suggostions as to tho mount'of bail. T Liave no- sbjection tg hearing them it you think. proper to make them, & MR. JEWETT. 3. Jowott—Mr. Roed has stated all the facts in rolation to tho scourity. It i supposed to bo largely ample to mako good any delicit to tho city, so that thera will ba no loss on account of Mr. Gagoat all; and that s all thoro is of that fact, ‘Tho ball, it sooms to mo, ought not to be, under the circumatauces, any moro than s ressonable amount, Mr. Gago docs not proposo to go awny. 1Ilo purposes to remain here, and tnko tho rasult of the trlal, whatever it may bo; aud we think that thoro are good grounds for eaying that, under those charges, it will Lo impossible to conviet hitn—that the indictment found against him for perjury (whioh 1 bave not %nt #oén) caunol be naintained at all under tholaw. And there aro Herious and grave questions to urge boforo tho Court, whon tho propor timo comes, as to any oriminal linbility upon the other charge. It is too early in the caso to entor into tho detatls of Biato of Tlinols, Coolk Counly, mv, Of the January term of tho Criminal Court of Cook County, fn sald county and State, in the year of onr Lord ono thous- and cight huudred and woventy-four, ‘The Grand Jury, chosen, selected and aworn, in nnd for tho County of Couk, iu the Stato of linots, in the 213mo and by ‘nuthority’ of tho people of tho Hiata of Tilinols, upon their oath present thut David A, Gage, 1ate of tho County of Caok, on the 16th daty of Deceps Dor, in the year of our Lord 1873, in sald County of iu the Slate of INlinols aforesaid, wan the Trease urer of the City of Olicago ; sud that sajd Gago was the Tre-suror of said .Oity of C\llm[yfl for and during $ho term of three years, .and more immediately prioy 1o and preceding tho duy and year Inst aforesad ; and that in aud. durlng the thio nforesaid, he, the Quge, was intrustad by Inw 08 sfich Proase arer 10 rocelve, sufoly keep, ond disburae slivers .largo sume of monoy, current Lank bills 4od United States notes, commonly called money ; and hat he, the said David A. Guge, a5 such "Treusurer, iu, #nd duriug the {imo . aforcendd, did recoive for nafo Igcoping nud disbursement in wald City of Olifeago, and ounty.of Cook, divers large suins of money, outrent Tank Uilla aud United States notes, commanly catied saoney, to-wit : The sum of $507,501.58, and that the £14d sim of $507,703.68 waa then ond there n fund cs- {ablished by Jaw for public purposes; and that (he #3id David A, Gage, an such “Treasirer, did 210t dis- horse, and as sich Tronsurer Lns nob diabursed the £.:4d sald sum of $507,703.08; and that afterward, to- witzontho 16th day of December, 1873, tho tern of ©'fice of the sald David A, Gago, ne such ‘Treanurer, ax= Pired, and ou that day aud year last aforessid, Danfel U'Hara, who hecame, and wis, snd ever siuco lis boen, und attll ia the suid Treastirer of tho City of Chicaga ; ond that he, the said Daniel O'ara, then and thero bee esme,and eversinco Las Leen,aud atill {s,the lawtul wuee cexsor in oftice of sald David A, GA[(i!i as such Treas- urar, and that the esid sum of $507,703,68 was, and utiil Iz, owned by, and I8 tho Jrroverty of tho Clly of Chilcago nforesuid, and was, and ik, = portion of the public ravouto of suld Gy’ of Chicago: and that nf- eraards, on tho Gth day of Junuary, 1874, in said city, county, und Ftate, tho ssid Daniel O'tlaru, b auch Treasucer, and a8 such successor of sald David A. Bayre, s afareandd, aid duly demond of and from him fuil"Gage, paymens of and delivery to him, sald O'Ffars, xh much Treustiror sud successor, tho suld sum o 7,708,58, e, tho sald Gage, being tlien aud thero uired by'law fo pay over and deliver to sald O'lintu, g such Treagiirer, being then aud there tha oflicer {0 whum such payment and delivery should snd ought by law {0 Lo mado: and that ki, the said Duvid A. Gage, not regardiug hfs duty as auch Treas- urer, did then and there, on tho day and year afore- sid, unlawfally faft to pay aver and *deliver to Danlel O'fara, 58 such Trossurer und successor, tho said suL of $507,703,68, contrury to tho statute aud againet tae peace and diguity of the sumv people of the Stato of Titinots, TEWIURT. Btute of Ilinols, Cook County, en,: Of the January Term, 1874, . Thu Grand Jurors chosen, clected aud sworn in Ly the County of Cook, State of Tllinols, in the namo and by {bo authority of the people of the State of Ilinols, upoa their oatlis, preseut (lint David A, Gage, Iato of the Couuty of Cool, on'{ho 6th of Decemiber, in the y0ax 1873, In said county, wus {he Treasurer of tho City of Chicaga, I eadd sounty and State, und that he, the said David A. G a such Treasurcer, was then and thero required by faw, and it was then’sud thero Lbiw duty, na such Treasurer, to render un account to the Comptrolier of said. Citylof Chicugo, under oath, slowing the state of the Treasury of eaid city st ke tlata of kuch ncrount, and the balunce of moneys in the suid Treasury ,ond thut Augustus H, Burley was tnen aud there the Comptroller of said city Clifeago, and the person and oflicer to whom eald account wos by Lz to o reudered by fald Gage us auch Treayurer § sud that he, tho said David A, Gege, was then und Hierg required by law to verify said account by his vatl, aud to attach said outh to said account, file tha #ama with said uccount Ju the proper ofiice of thu sufd Comptroller; and thnt he, the said David A, Gug, as such Treasuror, did, ou the raid Gth day of Decomber, in the year 1874, in safd couuly, render to nid Augustus 1, Burley, as such Compiroller, an tecount khowlng tue state of the Treasury of the sald ity of Chicago, and the halsuce of mouoys in aufd Trerury on the 1at duy of Dacemiber, fu the year 1873 ; and that e, the wuid David A, Gage,' 08 suth Trens: urer, was then aud thero required. by law, aud it was then and there his duty'ne such Trensurer, to render to said Comptroller the account last aforesaid ; aud that the sald David A, Gago, a8 wuch Treasurer, was thon and ‘there toguired by law to verify' said last-nomed nccount by his. oath, and ‘o fllo #ald ncccount, und the sald outh uttached to the same, in' tho proper ofico of said Compe trol and that he, tho mid David A Gage, a¥ Lo was then and thioro Tequired by law to do; aid, ¢ the kuld 6tl duy of Decoutbor, in sald county, sopear in s own proper person, befors one Francis 3, Turrett, lie, tho sald Burrett, belng then und thero s Netary Public In and for sald City of Chicago, in ruld county, uud_did then und thorc produce and pre- weat to sald Franels M. Barrett o cortuin alidvit, partly written aud parily printed, of ' bim, {he Rald Gige. as such Treaguror, Aud ‘thut he, the said Daytt A, Gage, as such Trenmirer, wan then and there, on ti:3 diy and year laal aforesatd, and futhe city and “ouD y uiorecifil, in dito forn of luw, sworn heforo nua 5y fho sald’ Froncis M, Barrett concernlug tho truth of tho matters contained in aald afidavit, ho, the 5ald Prancia 3T, Barrett, as such Notary Publle, then und thero Leving full power und authorlty 10 adininls for £aid oath o xad Davld A, Guye in that behulf, and that hie, thie uatd David A. Guge, belug 50 5worn a8 uforerald, upon Lis oath Uefors the sefd Fronels AL, Barztt, lie, the said Barrett, te such Notary Pubile, then 1o thicre hsving full powor ond authority to nde wlud: ter thy sald oath: to fatd Gaye in that bebalf, did then aud thero unlawrully, faisely, felonlously, will- fully, aud corruptly in ond- by aad allidavit dbpose, cut, nud slate, among other things, in substiucn, und 14 tho effect following fu a_mattvr material to tne oint in queation,~that 17 to say, that hero wag on o It duy of Decombier, 1873, I haad ‘Lreasury o Lul- aneo of moueys of $1,118,110.40, und thut there was then wnd thoro on the doy und year last uforesstd in 140 hands of bim, tho said David A, Guge, a8 such Treqrurer, the suld sum of $1,118,110,49 1 woney, 88 by the »ild aficuvit now on fllo fn tho proper olfice of tlio Comptrollor of sald City of Olieugo, ore fully aud at largo appears ; whorews in truth un in fuct thero. was not. then andt thero on tho duy and sear laut aforesidd, in sald Treasury, u bolanco of ionnys of §1,118,110.40 ; aud whereas, 1 truth wud jn fuct, e, the' sl Duvill A, Goge, ua 'such Treasurer, then and thoro on tho duy aud yéar Jast afores:dd, did 6% Liave fn bis Louds tha sald s of §1,118,110,49; und 10 tho Grand Jurors sforcsntd, upon thele oathi uforcasid, do vny that the ald David A, Gage dld com- mit vAllfal and corrupt perfury in_ munnor and form uforcsald, contrary 0 the statuto und nguinst tho reaco und diguity ‘of tho peapls of thy Statoof Il Lol Cuanes I, ltexn, 8tute's Attoruey, The Court ssked it tho with thoir work, ‘The foroman auswered In the nogative, and dJudye Rogors directed the jury to retirs and coutinue their session, TUE STATE'S ATTONNEY EXPLAINS, Siate's Attornoy Roed stuted the nature of the indistments. ‘L'l one for !mr]ury was baeed on the fuct that ou tho th of Docombor M, Gago ewote that thero was o bulance of £1,118,110,49 in taoe City Treasury, when in truth thers was nat that amount, The other was brought under the Statelaw for o failuro to pay aver §507,703,68, wheu & domand was made by Mr. O'Hara, He aslxd the Court to walt & short time for Mr, Qaye's roturn, MU, GAGE APPEALS, 1 ubout tweuty minutes, v, Gago, preceded by W. I, Tucker ‘and Mr. Jewott, und folloyed Iy Philip A, Hall, i1, Q. Loomis, Albare Crosby, George 0. Walker, My, Jowott, and_Goorgo W, G- e, camo into Mo court-ronm and 100k seatu Io the place sllotted to attornoys. Mr, Gage torked oxcaedngly voll, JIXING THE HAIL. AMr, Reed then saids 3r, Jewett appous for e Gage, und e is resly to have the amomt of hieil fizad on tho two indhtments, I havaalioady stted to your Honor \‘10 substance of tho indlctmontd, Ono of them v for falnre 10 pay over monoy to his shocemsor in ofiley— #0206 9500,000, the o¥act wmwnt I du not oy Jury were through colleat. I ought to state in' foltnasy, an th Haostion of Axigg ball, that the Mwowat 1 the uwdiotmont is the sum total of the defuit, It xppearod ia avidonce before tho Grand J jab bt 0347,000 of this money 4 in thnfl.l:m ] theso muttors, which must ultimatoly come out in ease tho indictmonta aro tried. Tho punishe mont, even if it should como to that, for thess charges may or mnfi uot ho sovere, It is % mat- tor largoly within the diserotion of the jury or the Court, when they come Lo hear tho caso, and oll the circumstances connocted with it. Iv scoms ts mo that “all (hat is raguired hero in tho way of bail, is nlmrfly totake thio ordinary security that Mr, Gage will appenr and answor tho Indictment when the time comes, liko any othor man who s charged with o crim- inal ofiense. Thero is also the further seourity t0 tho ity in the bonds which ho_gavo at tho time of taking {:Duacuuion of the office, so that, in any ovent, thera can bo no loss ; and, I bo- liovo, thera i no charge or any-concaption in the mind of enybody thint Mr. Gage has bensiited .imsell in any way out of suy monoy in rospect to which his aecounts mny appenr fo bo short, The chnrgo, a8 bronght ngainst him, is, as ovarybody will admit, of ths mid- ost choracter. Personally, I presumo, there is not o man in the city who fcols that Mr. Gago has intentionally dono wrong, o has boon zather the vietim of unfortunate circumatancos, than tho victim of any premeditated wrong on bis part. Under tho cireumstancos, your Honor, it soems to mo that the bail should be low,—at Tenst, not excossivo. If tho Stato's Attorney desiros that 1 sliould montion any amount, it ‘would oceur Lo mo— 3, Roed~I am not particular. A SUM BUGGESTED, Mr, Jowott—That, wlile the Court should tako much bail a8 wonld rensomabiy in- sure tho attendanco of the. aceused for bearing upon tho indictmont, that it should be Jml at the lowest figure which tho Court would deom roasonablo; and it soems to mo that from 25,000 to %10,000 on each of theso ‘(’mxlllclmonls would be u rensonable and a large il THE COURT FIXES THE DAIL. The Conrt—It is o matter of notorfoty, and I suppose there can be no doubt about it, that Mr, Gago husturned over to a Trustea Jargo mmount of property to socure tho city ngainkt any logs by roagon of his failure to pay over the moneys that came into his hands ns City Treasuror. Besides this, as suggestod by Mr. Jewett, tho bond as City Tressuror covers, I suppose, the whole amount of the deficit, and I presume that tho bonds aro good. In othior words, I suppore, as it scoma to be admitted—ut all ovonts, it seems to be & mattor of some notoriety (and no intimation to the contrary is made by ovon the Btate’s Attornoy) that tho honds and the proper- ty conveyed to the T'rustece will fully indemnify tho city against any loss by reason of this deficit, 86 for as it is a more debt. Aud of course tho Court will take that fact into considoration in fixing the amount of bail, If it wan & clear caso of embozzlement, withont nny hopo of the city tecovering the amount of FREE LODGING. A Visit to the Clark Stroet " Mansion, One Hundred and Seventy Men Engoged in Sovatohing, How They Live and Amuse Themselves, Incidents from the Lives of Prominent Inmates. Among other institutions due to the prosent hinrd tiney, busidos Mr, Hoftman nnd hin little dny, le the Bouth Side lodging-louso for home- losn wandorers, crected by the Roliof and Aid Boclety, on that historlc cornor marked by the intorsoction of Clarlc and Hnrrigon streots, This houso i eminontlyjan institution, s woll s s ono-story frame structuro, bocause, the end Justifying the means, according to the old Jesuitio praclice, this butlding, erected in viola- tion of the flre ordinance, meots tho end of keeping worn the Lomolees wrotohos whouo irritation of tho skin keeps their flugors out of other mischief. A roportor of Tre Tainrxe visited this abode of porpotunl motion lnst evening, quallfled, not by tho itching of his hide, but by that of Lin soul for uows, It was, to uso s homely phraso, A grucsomoe sight that bo theto beheld, The lodging-houso is nbout 40 feot in longth and 50 in width, to judgo by gnesswork, and nlm:F oithir side it & platform n foot, from' tha ground, nnd about 10 fest wide, In one corner is a hox, and n the contro sislo throo lurge stovos, whose gouial glow imparted a weird appenranco to the prostraie figures that lin ulflufi tho platforms. ‘0 ay thoy were lying would be to convey sn orroneoun ides. Thoy sprawled, curlod, pquat- ted, crouched, and twisted themselves in ox- traordinary ehapos, such as no contortioniat lins over publicly attempted. Thoy ealled this “resting,” and, for all the world knows to tha contrary, thoir olaim was o corroct ono. Some sprawlied north and south, and other sloop- ors sprawled oast and west, and northioast aud southwest across thom, and suggested the hor- riblo idea of wholsalo strangulation. On the odgos of tho pintform (bed s the tochnical namo), on enc sido, little groups wero gathored, talle ing, telling long end intoresting tales of advon- ture in search of worlk, or playing euchre, The stokes, it may bo prosumed, in this latter smugemont wero smaller than in the formor, where cach narvator had his reputation for can~ dor pitted against that of his auditors, Around tho westorn stove, which looked like a uotting- sun sinking in u fog of tobacco-smoko in augury of o brighter radiance on Lho morrow, squattod n ragged group of dirky eroaturcs from the ago of 10°to tbat of 00, but indifferent honest, if the mass of grime on their countennuces did not concoal oo ocoult virtus, while it bronght the Tineu of vice out in stronger rotief. * Tho ocoupation of this Rolect gatheriug wag singularly monotonous, Whatever olso they did, thoy scratehed. The pnleddn.yn of Egypt's st irritating plague cou! not have wit- nossed ~ a livelior nctivity of nails, or deoper scratching of Healps, Whon & man took his pipe from his mouth, it was be- cauto hio was compolled to, and when ho put it back ain, it showed there lad been n rout afnfiu.- insidious foo. 8o let it be under~ stood that theso men, whilo they, liko hens, {n- mthulflflnns for the morrow, like lons, sus- tained life only by scratehing. It wes Iteh, Steb, iteh, I tithiuess, rugs, and dirt Aud seratel, seratel, serntch, In thy sealp and under tho shirt, Baut while the poor wandorer may have enough of scratching, perhaps tho reador has had all fiu wants of it, and wo leavo the restices beings to secure such intormittent slumbers a9 thoy can, to relato somo peculinrities of the Home. Tho average number of inmatos nightly is 160, Of thess about 25 are *‘chronic, to uke tho descriptive adjective ~ fur- nisbed by Mr. Bchemorhorn, the kind- Iy watchmon of tho uight, It is against the rules to dmit ** ohironic deatitutes,” but, as Le Justly argues, *you can't refuse o man n warm place whi ou don' give him auytbing to cat.” uring tho ‘last fortnight of Decombier thero were 1,160 poople _who shared tho Lios- pitality of "the Reliet and Aid Sa- ciety.” To straugers, Mr, Howard, Super- intendent, gives a tickes for a 1h-cont brealkfast in the mnruin[i, and with this the way- faring mau can command, at tho corner of Mo monoy, or half the amount, duo it, I should not Liegitato to fix the bail at num;f.-h to maro than cover tho full amount of the deficit. But, in viow of theso considerations, I slll fix the bail at o con- niderably loen amount. ‘The object is to secura the attendunce of the accused, and not to in- domnify the city, But the amount is so large that I could not think of fixing the bail at the sum suggostod by Mr. Jewett.. In view of all the facts to which have referred, howover, I ehall fix the il in the onse for tho wuon-payment of tho money—undor the indictment for failing to &\y tho moncy over to the City Treasurer—at 8100,- 000, and in the fflnrjury cusa ot £10,000. I an{z- pose Mr. Gngo is propared and amply ablo to give thatbail, THE DONDSMEN, 2. Reed (to Mr. Mattocks)—Whom do you intend offoring for bail ? Mr. Mattocks—They are Gaorge W. Gage, Mr. Crosoy, Mr. Georgoe O. Walker, Samuol J. ‘Walker, Mr. Tucker, and Mr, Loomis. Mr, Reod—I am satisfied with these gontlemen, “The Court—I know thom to be good for much moro than the amount I have named. They will bo acceptad. What will bo tho recognizance, Mr., Reod, from day to day, or unttl the next term of the Court ? Mr, Rteed—I'rom day to day. The bondsmen and Mr, Gage then stood up and acknowlodgoed themselves bound in the sum of §110,000 for tho abpearanco of Ar. Gage. Tho Court—That is all, gontlemen. QUASHING TIHE INDICTMENTS, AMr, Reed—I would Likgelo sny before Mr. Gage ond his attornoys leave, that tho attorneys should decide whother they will enter o plea or move to qash the indictmont within the next four or five days, I waut to kuow it, because, if the indictments are quashed for an. techni- cality, I wish to prepare now ones. Will until next Monday be time enough for you to look them over ? Ar. Jewott—I do not expect to have charg of them, 3 JIr. Reed—I ameatisfied to make it noxt Tucs- u; Vir. Jowett—T do uot. decira to make sny ur- rangoment, or do anything that would bind any- ody. 'l‘fiu Court—The Clork will furnish coples of the aflidavits to tho attornoys to-day, At this momont Samuel J. Walker came into the court-room, and was added to the bonds- wmon. I'here boing no other business to be done, tho Court adjourned. It is underatood that Mr. Gage has retained the Hon, Leouard Bweit, Wirt Dexter, and Mr, Jowett to defend him. ——— THE MEXICAN WAR VETERANS. Aenrus, Toun., Jan, 8.—The vetoraus of the Moxican War, to the number ofsixty, asssmbled In the Chpmbor of Commerce this ovening, Gen, Gideon J. Pillow was choson Chairman, Col, Lyon Truesdulo *Seoretary, and Gen, W, J, Smith Correnponding Secrotary. Geu. Pillow, on taking the chair, roviewed at longth tho Moxis can campaign, and stated tho objoct of the meat- ing Lo ho to appoint delogates to the Convention in” Washingtou on tho 16th inst. Resolutions wero ndopted asking tho survivors to mpniorial- izo Congrons for the orection of & monument at Washington to their comrades who bhod fallon during tho war, and to grant ponsions to sur- vivors, Gons, Plllow and W. J, Smith were choson delogntes, ————— CINCINNATI BOARD OF TRADE. CINCINNATY, O., Jan, 8.—The Board of Trade to-day appoiuted A,'T. Goshorn and Willlam Rosor de?u;;ms to the Nationsl Board of Trado, vice Thomou (1. Smith and Gazzam Gono, ro- signed, 'Tho Bonrd also pawsed o rosolutlon favoriug o Bankrupt law soniewhat liko Boo, 48 of the old law, permitting credifors to the amount of & majority of indebtedness to forco s dobtor into bankruptey, aud settlo his affaira through & rustea withont resort to the courts. GAS AND WATER FOR MOLINE. sectul Dispatoh to The Chivago Tribune, Roor IrLaxn, Ili,, Jau, 8.—Tle City of Hfoline Las passed ordinanuces granting to (wo vompanios composed of home capitalists franchises for thirty years, to eatablish gas and water-works, Adtive operations will begin oa shese improye- wonts saxly iu the spilng, roo nnd LaSalla sfroets, a sumptuous moal of porkateak, beateteak, bread, butter, coffao, and any other dolicacy which tho proprictor fools in- clined to bestow, the Relier and Aid_Boclety playing the rolo of the Good Samaritan and liquidating the bill. When these straagers forgat that they are in a first-cluss hotel, and & free fight for the possos- sion of somobody else's boots is in progross, the gentlemanly clorks rush out to the polico sla- tion, aud ihore omsuos s mighty swinging of hiokory clube, and 8 cortoapuudine quickcenco and bloodiness in_this sauctuary, When & vocal proponsity oxhibits itself, the critical sudienco sprawla to its Toet and squelchies the minstrol in the flrst stanza of his lay. Whon the minstrel rotuses to bo squelehed, the audlence, genorons tos fault, rises protesting, sud insists cither upon the cessation of his molody for their ex~ clusive odifleation, or delicately lends him into the = stroet, w0 that tho bulmy wits of . a winter night may silenco tho beery nirs of tho gweot singor. This goutlo persuusion 18 sometimes offcctive, bo- causo tho singor it tranforved to & coll in tha Alrmor{; whero ho can sing to himself all night through, It is againat tho rules of tho inatitution to coms in drunk, Or to speak less vaguely, when tho Superintendont dotects & _mnn in this con- ditiou, be puts Lim ont, But it sometimos lappens that such & man finds his way in, and iho tranalent boarders, groatly respecting this mark of suparior intelligance, give him afl the room Lo wauts, IUis thorotoro meot and right on grounds of geometric economy, that sobriety Do maintaived at any coot, All gorts of men aro to bo found hLere, young men aud old men, and men botwoon the two, There is one scarred votoran who smokes the pipo of pence, and rogrots the duy whon his $20,000 was swept away in the flory broeze of o cartain October night ; thero is anothor whose facilo pen Loa ucratched for the freedom of the ‘pross, us his noighbor’s nails do in porsccution of o shrewd and politlo brothorhood ofjparasitos, aud hio now bowails in his nocturnal moments of #od unrest the dend-hord ystom of living on others, Thero is & gentlemen thare from be- youd vho foaming wators of tho St. Luowrence, to whom the reskiug breath of his snoring vis u vis reenlls an industry in which but & fow wooks ogo ho was activoly on. guged, and who mmy, for all ho iz»mm. ba breathing roproaches against the salo of liquor from the same barrel which our friond shipped Lo the West but & short month ago, “Why do theeo restless beings pillow thefr tiresomo boads on s hatand o pairof boots ?" jng questionsincorely put by thereporter tothoguide, who oxplained to him mattors and things, Do- cause, ay the reporter had read in the faces of the gentlomon bofors him, the rights of proporty wers but indifferently understood by two-thirdy of the peoplo hie saw; bocuuso a pair of baots doxterously conveyed, is u pair of boons to him that hath thom not; aud becnuse the resump- tion of spocle paymouts not _ hiaving venched tnem, the early principle of commerelnl exchnuge atill obtains, and heta and boots are light fractionul curroncy, where cnsh ceaunot be had, No caeh ; why, of courso, thora conld Lo no cash among 8 closs whoso exlutenco lod them nightly to such & den. ‘Uhers the reporior way wrong again, There was cash, ‘Iho sweopern swaeping oarly, not seldom fonnd u stray nickel wolitary on the floor. 'Lhe sloopless ones would oapture a nickol, or wickols, during the da; Marry ; why, becauge u nickel meaus & hoay store of provieions in o bear snloon, and & glosy of tho amber fluid to boot. Itlest i the owner of a ulekel, for ho has forago for a day atcom. wmund, for whore tho hoer Is, thero also will tlo bread and sunsago be, Huugty men ura theso poor croatures, and thoir hunger might have bred a tragody had it not beeu forthe timely intorforonce of u whole- some drond of .death, 'Ihere was a garrulous ‘Penton, bihulous, lug-hellicd, aud Inzy, who lived amouy the wanderers of tho nizht, and swore in guttural Germun and oxprossive Anglo-Saxon ub the harduess of his fato, and of tho floor on which he slept. o was a man who, take him for all in all, was not un ornament aven to the heterogencous ¥oolety of wiieh ho was & con- bpicuous, not to way, speaking ph?dmly, [ promiuent membor, The Adams iHouss, & comfortablo Lostolry In tho neighborhood, hed mode a practics of supplylng, in an unostontatious mawmer, food to euch of the_ hungry oumos as knew whers o anIy for it. Thia wan not dono on the authorily of the propriotors, wo undetatand, but ous of tho fulluest of tho henrt and kitchen of tho hirolinga of tho house. Broad, mant, cofTao, and provondor of auch sibstantinl naturo fonnd its way surroptitiously intothe slimonturyorgans of toma of theso peoplo. It contributod & moloty oven to the ponderoms figure of tho Gore man above montionod. To him that apparantly hind much, much was )slvun. On ono oceasion, howover, when, like Falatafr, tho uuntity of sncl thak volled 1in stoninoh and his: disive alike corresponded but poorly with the ratlons offored lim by a buxom kitchon-maid, ho siraghtway botook him to tho night-clork, and ~ thon and there led o formai information n(filhlat the kiudly vaesols} who, ravon-liko, fod him day by day, nud so indamed tho iro of that worthv gentlomau that thence- forward all hopas of roliof from Luugor woro cut off, and the starving gorrison of toratehors found {teell doprived of sustennnco through troachory within the wall. Their rage knew no bounde, nor did their hunger, aud they would hiavo crippled the browing inferost sovoraly with & boot-licol or & stove-hook liad not the tombol- lied traitor batakon himealZ, Liatlean and drowsy, to n place of safoty, Robbory, it is understood, is conflued to are maonts oxclusivoly, for the simplo resson that the st of portable aud conveyablo artie clew g confined to goods and leathor. While the reportor was waudering, in & tromor of auxiety, stepping ng far WAy as possiblo from tho crouching bonrdorn, n slitiok of murdor in » sbrill troblo came up from somo whanty in the neighborhood. 'Ixn tramp of final doom canuot do its husinoss moro satin- factorily on the buried atoms of human dust thau did this intimation of a deed of violoneo on the human boings who slopt be'ow a thinner covoring of dirt than thoir ancostors, In nn tne stant, {h the twinkling of an ove,. thoy wors raivod, sud issuod out, their bands holding their * boots and hats, led by curiosity and & morbil hopo of being in at thoe deach, Poor crentures, = thoir troubled slumbors bnd been shamofully brokeu in upon. without eanse, At wus only a woman pounded by hor pleasant husband, who darod thus raise on outery and mako the chilly air revonrnt with prophesy not to bo immedi- ately fullllled. It Was a groat offonso indeod, on the |i)nrt of the husband, that ho failed in fur- nishing the crowd the amusemont Loy expected, and i vongoful ayiect of sovoral ymall boys showed thot, had.the opportunity been thoira, somobody would have furnishod gore for their satisfaction, ** Where will they goto-morrovy, thoso wratched croatures without s home ? * asked tho reportor. Bome would go wandering up and down the avenuies in Hoarch of work, Linullng coal, doing overything that chauco threw in their way to do ;" ouliors would hang round the Relinf-raoms, nud others again would loaf about snloons. Somé might bo engogod in s sclieme of robbery, oth- ors inna deod of violence. Somo might be on thetr way to cleanliness and pormanent occupa- ton, othors to idleuess, deopor degradation, and tho Pouitentiary. Aud at what hour wonld thoy bo caat out upon thoe city ? * Closo tho Homo at 7 o'clock, and don’t teopon Wl 6 to-morrow night," wau the reply. ILlovon hours of loaflug for thoso who wanted to loaf. What o glorious opportunity for developing human dopravity! VON HOLLEN. Alleged Frauds by One of His Dupu(iqs. The Collector’s Slutements us to the Awount Taken nod What lle Intends Doing About It. Yor gome time back, roports have been in clroulation, that o man of the name of Wicfols, wha was employed ns & Doputy in the ofiico of City Colleotor Von Hollon, had abused his position by collecting taxes, giving recaipts therofore, and failing to crodit the amount 8o ro- ceived on the books, It has wlso boon allogod that those facts wero known to the Collectoras carly as July, and that, notwithetanding, he retnined Wiofels in his omploy until nfter the oleazion, and promised the men who had boon dofrauded that ho would make good their loases aut of his own pocket; but that after hin olee- tiou ho changed his tune, and informed them that he was not legally rosponsible, Tn order to asoortain tho truth of these nilegations, o ro- portor was directed to call on Alr. Von Iol- den, and to interview him, espocially in regard to the cavo of Mr. Youeratein, which was claimed to be an especiaily hard ono, since, accordiug to tho story, Von Hollen had pat the :z_usu off day by day, Trom July up to the prosent ime. : ‘I'he result of this intervicw was as follows : Roportor—Did you, just ufter tho clection, promiso Fouorstoin you would mako good auy money taken by Wiefols ? Mr. Von Hollon-~.I Laven't promisod anybody to mako good any mouey. I told bitn that I did not think'L was obliged by law to mako it good, but consideted mnysolf morally bound to keop tho oflico iu shape, oven if I Jiad to loso 8300 or $400—thut I would rather do that than havo any odmuw attachiod to my office. I told him and the othiers who had paid money to Weifols that it thoy would keep quiet aad prove their claims to be just I would Aottlo thom, R.—Did you receive any.monsy from Weifels to cover the mouoy stolen ? Mr. Yon H.—Thore was some money due him for sorvicos when ho was discharged, and | took that and redeomed somo proporty. After ho wag dismiesed L gont two or three mou with the books ovar the same route Lo had travelod, with witnesses, to 803 every man, and find out if Waifols had collected money from them and re~ ceipted for it. Thoy worked four or fivo days, aud I found Lo lad collected somothing over 840 of porsonal taxes, which o was authorized to collect, aud for which I was rosponsible. ‘Theso I made goad, crediting tho mouey on tho warrants and tuyning it in, R.—Did you take the money ont of your own. pocket ? Alr. Von H,—Part of it. I got somo from him —about $100 besides what was duo him, R.—FHow wuch aro you ont altogothar ? Mr, Von H.—About 200, R.—Do you intond to make good what theso people hava lost? Alr. Von I.—Yos ; but I want to know, iu the firat plnce, whother their claims ars hons.'fide, R.—Why do you not prosezute Weifols ? Mr. Von' I, —I did prosecute him,~-gwors out o warraut, aud e wus put in jail under 32,000 hqmg» for forgery in signing my namo to the re~ ceipta, 1.—How much money was stolen by him? Mr. Vou IL—Thut I can't eay poitively, I guess probably $500 or £600. R.—Why was Fouorstein's property sold for eity taxes ? Alr, Von H.—Because it wes roturned ss de- linquent. ll.—?xotwnhulmdlug Woeifels had colleoted the taxos Alr. Von H.—1 think he collected the tax after I hind roturned y delinquent list to tho County Treasuror, R.—Whoso property havo you redeomed ? Mr, Von, H.—Joselyn's and Fenaorstoin's—al- though I was not rasponeible for the money, R.—Why hnve you nol vedeemed fhat of tho others—3et.ger aud Richloy ? , Ar. Yon H.—Becaugo I am 1ot ready yet. I do not send anyhoy ont to collect real extate taxes. Joselyn wa the first ono who eama in, and Wei- fels inid ho way tho only pereon ho had colleoted taxen from, and tho money coming to Weifels was used to redoom the property, Thers was aluo enough for Feuarstein’s proporty, with what Igot from him. 1 do not consider mysolf re- spousiblo for tha State snd County taxes, Ouo thing which greatly irritates Feneratein is that Woifels, alter getiing ont on bail, laft tho cify, aud is now beyond reach, Ho wauted to kot out warrant iu his own_neme, hnt Von Hollen auticipatod him, and Fouerstein thinks if o had tho prosecutiug of the cawo it would have been more nuurgatluull{ that Woifols was also employed by Towir Col- leator Morrison, nud stole thieve, but that Mor- rison made goad )l thoso losse: pisebesirebinoiiie Ju . GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, Specrat Dispateh to ‘The Chicaan Tribune, Minwaukee, Wis,, Jan, 8,—The Visconnln Dopartmout of the (irand Army of the Republia convened for tho efghth annusl encampment ut the Noldiors' ITome to-n . O the entire De- partuient not twanty Jolegates were prosent, ax- cluding tho members of Lhu vateran Bighth Dout, who were tho outortainors, The only speakor who had the courage to tell ovou part of the truth to his hearers was Col, Edward Ferguwon, Pounion Agent of this elty, who deolursd that the orguuization, ouce #o powerful, wus dwin- dlinr away tonothing,and deplorad the fuct. The affair poudessos no longer nuy significance, g icrane sles i MIBSING BTEAMER, 8ax Fravcisco, Jan, 8.—Much auxfoty is folt hero for tho safaty of tho stosmor Uhina from 5‘“:081 l;::au and Xokohsms, No tidings of tho o N managed, o snys’ CRIME. Sheriff Bronnan and Iis Deputy Sent to the County Juil for 'Thirty Days. Further Developments, Concerning the French Murder Case in New York. Sentenco of the Perry County, IlL, Colored Murderers Commuted. Othor Oriminal Items. Sherift Dronunn and Xlis Doputy Sent to the County Jail, Spectal Dispaleh to The Chicago Tribune, New Yonx, Jan. 8.—Ex-Sherilf M, T. Dron- nnn and one of lus Doputics, William 1. Shields, wbro committed in the Court of Oyer and Tor- minor to-day for contompt of court, in not giv- ing Houry Gouot, the cscaped Ring thiof, into the custody of the Warden of the City Prison aftet* hin convietion of tho crime with which ho wes charged, and pending bis sentence, Lnch wns sontenced to poy o flue of 8250 and Lo imprigonment for thirty dnys in tho Ludlow Btreet Joil. It will bo remombored Bhiclds was the ofiler In chargo of Genet when ho eseaped. Buranuous offorts wero made by tho conowol *for the Bheriffs to procuro their acquittnl, but, us stated nbove, thoy wero unavailing. ‘Thotr chiof ploa was, tint thoy did not undorstand thut the Court committed im to tho City Prison after bis conviction, and pending hia scntonco, and ra_they kuow of no order to the contrary, nllowad him ta visit his homo or mnot ot thelr option, but the District Attornoy proved that the document committing Gonet to the Tombs pending his sentonce wag rond {n conrr I tho Storifl’s pros- ouce. Ex-Shertf¥ Brounan hes provoked much commont unfavorable to himsalf by ressan of tho unlimited olastioity, of the bonds in which o~ Leld tho Ring thioves who bnove boen in his custody during the last twe months, by accoding to thoir ovory wish, o has tho pity of few, thorafore, in his present punishmont.” Very genoral sym- pathy §s_folt for Dopaty Shiolds, who is oy old 8ud tried obicer, aud wlioso first offense this e, Noono attributes thoe escape of Genet from his cuatody to dishonesty on his part, though many think Lo was guilty of neglect. Dut this offenso i tmaltoratol by "its bad oxamplo of extromo lonieucy ot him by his superior. {2 the Aesceiated Press.) New Yonx, Jan. 8.—1lio contompt procecd- ings ngainse Sherit Brewnun, in relation to Gonel's oseapo, cumo up ' this mornmg Lofors Juntico Dauiels, After argument by counscl, Judgo Daniols roviewed tho chse, and enid that the Court could not resist tle inforonce that thore was s deulan by tho SherifT and his Doputy, Bhiolds, not £o ex- ceuto thoir duty, and tha cnse way ono which called for punishment. Public servanis must oboy ordors or the courts would be poworles, Tho Court then inflicted the highest Enudl.y allowoed by thao statute, $250 fine each an thirty duys’ imprisonment in'the County Ja:l, Che Mysterious Murder of Nuthaniol Erench in New Yoric. Special Dispatch to T'he Chicago Tridune, New Your, Jon, 8,—More facts relative to th Inst hours of Nathaniol French, Deputy Provi- sional Grand Master of Freo Masous in the Ba- Liamas, who myateriously disappesred on the 2581 of lust July, havo been brought to light by the untiring efforts of the polico and membors of the brothorhood to whick ho belonged of this city. Tho story of his disappearance and of his fate, so far w3 then kuown, was publishod by you exclusively on the moming of Jan, 3. "It Wwas at firat sup- posed that ho did not recover consclousness after he was picked vp n tho strect inseunsible, but recent dovelopments prova this to be incor- rect, All tho timo Lo speut in Now York, ex- cepting the Lwo hours imnadiztely snbsequent to hw louding, bas been nccounted for, Ho lnoded” from the sleamship City of Havaus on Pler 3, North Rivor, &t noon of July 97, 1875, hnvl.n‘x; in’ his pockots 100 . English sovercimug, At 2 p. m, of tho samo day, Oflicor Slattory, of the Twenty- soventh Preciuct, found o man who wos seem- ingly in the worst stagen of intoxication lying ivsensiblo in froot of No. 20 Vest street. On being taken to the station-houes, ho revived sufMioiontly to give Lis name, nge, placo of busi- nosk, nud oceupation, and then relapeed into in- soopibility. A gold wateh was found iu the in- ner pocket of g veot, ond a fina gold cuain was _wreathed in and out of tho button- hole of his West Indinn blouss. The only money found on hi* porson wns 9420 in United States curroncy. Thonost morming be appeared mach better, and Officor Slattery startad with Lim in custody for the Tombs Yolico Court, whore bo was t0 be arraigned for drunkenness, Lut before thoy had gons many blooks Fronch fuintod, a%d was conyoyed Lo Purk Hospital, He did not ngain regain consciousness. The re- mainder of the details rogarding his being taken from the Park to Bellovue Hospital, and thonce to that on Blockwolls Island, where ho snbscaunnlly dicd, woro correct as firat telographed you. Notwithstanding their strenuous offorts to do #o, the detectives Lave beon unable to ascertain where ho mpont the two hours intorvening between tho time when be left tho stenmboat and when hoe wes found ingensiblo on tho sidewalk, The theory of the officars is, thnt ko enteved somo low liquor-sn- loon on West straot, whara, in gotting something 1o driuk, Lo displayed his gold, and that rufilans who infest this quarter wore present, and thoy drugged and elubbed him and stole bis gold. It is understood from prominent Free Misons of this oity that his funeral, which will probubly bo bield in ton duys, will be oqual in' pomp ‘and randeur of Musonic display to that of Grand Mastor Orr, United States Minister-Plenipoten- tiary at 8t.’ Petorsburgh, which took placo in this ocity last summer, and was the greatost ovent of tho kind that has' ocenrred horein yours, ‘I'rial of an Officer in Fort Wayno for Abusing u Prisoners Special Divpnteh to The Chicagn Tribune, Forr WavxE, Ind., Ja ‘Tne third day's trial of Deputy-Marshal McCann, for assnule and battery with intent to kill, wou resumed this morning. _ Soveral witnosses' for the dofonse wore oxamined, among whom was Frank Wal- ters, bur-tender at the Trouch browery, where the arvest was made. Ho tostifled that Dyman Anid he could lick any man in Fort Wayne, aud used threntening and vilo langusge regarding JleCann, who then arrested hiny. Willinm Flynn tostifiod thet he saw all the circumstancos attending tho arrest of Dyman in tho morning by Tansey, aud tho knocking down and kieking of that officer; also the subsoquent arrest of Dyman by McCann, and the former's stubbornness while undor arrest; thnt ho strug- gled hord to oscape. John McCnnn testiflod that Lo was Deputy Morshal of the City of Fort Wayne; that, on the morning of Oct, 18, ho hentd Dyman had Lilled an oflicer, Tansov immediately starcod after bim. After arrosting Dyman, le placed him in a buggy, $lo then wont n short distance. Dyman grablied the lines, and jumped from the y, nearly upsottiog it. Ho hold fuot to Dy« man by means of a steel wristlet, aud '“.f"““’d v ordored Dyman to coane strugpling, and flually atruek him'threo timos with a billy, "Thig closod tho evideuce. ‘Pho vost of the day way spent in listening to tho nrgument of coun- ael, The eaeo will bo concluded te-morrow, The Cowrt-room was crowded all day, Arrested for Forgery and Passing Countorfeit Monoy. . Special Dignateh to The Chicauo L'ribune, Monmg, T, Jan, 8.~'Puo party mentioned fn yestorday's tologram an having bovu avrested for passiug conutortolt notes proves to be Edmund B. Wiluon, & teunnt on the farm of Petor Mats, 4 miles cast of Odell. A razor wos found in his pondession, although he nover shavos, and o number of other forged notes for $1,000 enot, on _respousible men of Livingeton County, Not heing satisfied with tho forged paper he carrled around loogs in his pockets, Lo wont into the boolutorse of Par- .moles & Co., und bought a book of blauk uotes, 4 ud proouved ona of the firm to flll up for him tl1e body of somo of them, *Ho waived an exam- imation, and went to jail in dofauit of §3,000 Dl On trageons ‘Iranwnctions in the Nom= Phis Pooratiouse. M e, Jan, 8,—~The report of the Grand Jury of the Criminal Court to dudgo Flippin, mado to-duy, has croated cousldorublo excites went, They found tho Pooxr-Lousa to bo o hows ital 84 'd indkno neylum combiued, whore efak gud 'i\ 1, sane und nzano, Bleok aud white, wera all mixod togethor indiseriminatoly, and, in somo {untauces, pationts with loathsome disensos iu rooms with hoalthy ones, The food givon is noithor good nor sufMolont in quantity, whilo & totnl disrogard to thoe assosintion of soxes ox- ists, and ‘an idlotlo fomale, who had been an Inmate for flvo yoars, was found in n state of proguancy; that the inmatos without ropard to sox, wera kicked, cuffod, sud whipped with & lnotted bull-whin, and beatcn liko oxon by the Direotor, G. G. Hogan, and Lis asaintant, lonry A. Gradby, and in’ conclueion stato thab tho mannor In whicls thio Poor-Houso 15 govornod ia & disgraca to tho country, Sentence of the Perry Qounty, 111, Gol= orad Murderers Commuted. Br. Lout, Jan, 8.—John Fifo and Georgo Willioms _(colored), who wera to_bo hangod to- morrow at Pinckuoyville, Porry County, Lll., for tho murder of V. Mattinon, in Septembor lust, arrived horo to-night in ¢hurge of Bheriff Sors, onrontoto tho Joliet Fomlontiary, their sou- tence having been commutoed by Gov. Baveridge to imprisoument for lite, Murder in Laurcl County, Ky, LoutsviLre, Ky, Jan, 8.—In Laural County, Ky., & fowduya sinoe, Witliam Elswich and Potor Maroum quaroled ovor & dog-fight, when Ela- wick drew o pistol and sliot Marcum through the bead, killing him instently. Elswich was with groat difiicnlty resoned from an oxclted crowd aud lodged in jail, Roward Offered for Vasquez, the Nos= torious Canlifornin IRobber and r. derer. 8AN Fnancisco, Tan, 8,—The Loglalature hag passod o bill nuiborizing tho Governor to pay 815,000 roward for the capturo of tho notorious Vasquoz and bis gang. Itis roportod that ho i in this city ot the present timo. Attempt to IRob tho Abingdon (Mass.) Nutional Bunk. BostoN, Jan, 7.—An unsuccesaful attempt was made on Inst niglht to rob the Abingdon (Mass, Natiounl Bank. * Maskea men hound and gagged tho watelman, but he mausged to give an nlarm, and tho men eseapod. Robbed by Iighwaymon, Crxorsnaty, 0., Jau. 8,—Mv. Korr was robboed by bighwaymon, at Loveland last night, of $000 in casl, notes, papers, and valuablos, FOREIGN. Spanish Journals Seized, and Suspected Monarchists Arrested, Castelar Declines to Have Any Share in the Government, SPAIN. Mapgip, Jan, 7.—Henor Ruiz, the Minister of the Interior, hos isaued & circular to the pro- vinelal authorities, stating that the principal ob- Jeot of the Governmont is to re-cstablish order, and show ity compatibility with the Republic and Liborty. To sccuro this obfect, it will employ the most energetic measures. ‘The Jquilidad nowspaper hes been seized by Government ofticiale, Gens. Hidalgo and Rapall have bosu placed in arrest, ‘The Provincs of Valoucia hus been doclared in & state of sioge. Castelar has rojeoted the ovortures of Figu- aras, Salmeron, and Pi y Margall, asking him to co-operato with them in reorganizing the Fed- oral Republicans. Gon, Loma has cmbarked from 8in Sebastian with threo battalions of Government troops, whosa destination is unkunown, Auother powder-magaziue in Cartagens ex- ploded yesterday. EEE CUBA. New Yonxk, Jan, 8,—Cho Herald's special from Koy Wost, Tla., says: * Manucl Quesadn ar- rived to-duy. Ho believes that the prospects of Cubu are brighter than ever, and declares that nothing short of independence can be accopted.” R GERMANY, Benu, Jan. 7.~Tho health of_the Emperor ‘Wi‘l]lim continuos to improve. He drove out 0-day. THE'TELEGRAPH WIRES. A Brlef Accouit of the Wiavoc Caused atthe Fast by Wodncesday’s Stormes ‘The Dumage Partially Repaired. Tho wholesale destruction of tolograph wires Wednesday of this week Las practically isolatod Chicago from the Eustorn world. Tho damsge s resulted from an attack by that most effect- ive enemy of tho telograph system—a storm of rain and sleot, the wires being gradually encased in & coating of ice, which increases in thickuess until tho motal glves way on ncoount of the great woight. Instauces have boen known whero the incrustation of ice renched & diamoter of over four inches. As the telegraph polea are about 120 feat apart, the strain becomes enor- xaous, and tho wires giveway. Then tho sudden shitting of the strain upon tho polos enaps them li ke pipe-steme, though thoy are two font thick at tho bnse; uud, the work of demolition once beguu in this way, wires and polas come crashing down like a row of toy blocks. Tha wires are buried boneath snow aud ice on the ground, and new oues must be puv up without Waiting to recovar tho old wires. A large army of rapairors work night and day to remedy tho migchief, for the vital noeds of the telegraph 0ro 80 pressing that no time must be lost fn ro- storiug the lines to working order. The torms of the contract of the Westorn Union ‘Telograph Company with tho various railroad companies are such that the latter contribute all needod assistanco in tho shape of oxtra gangs of mon, and special trains aro at onco dispatched with workmou and material, Tho prosent dis- astrous stato of things occurred in a rogion raroly visited by protracted rtorms of sloet and rain in midwinter, and tho extont of tho damage i moro widespread thau ever before in those soctions, As nearly us we could loarn yestorda y from Col. Wilson, Superintendent of the Chi- cago Distriot,—~who kindly placed at ourdisposal his daily roports from all quartors,—thie sloet- storm bina_provailod oxtensively thioughout tho Btates of Now York, Pennsylvanis, as far weat as Toledo in Obio, and o portion of Canada, Ou tho threo main lines between Chicago and New York, communication was cut off, raspoct- ively at Detroit on the Canada route, nt Toledo on the Lake Shore, aud at Bucyrus, Ohio, on the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayno, No roports have beeu receivod from oflicos east of those points sineo Wouuosdny morning, and telegraph busi- neas with tho Just bad como almost to o stand- atill, Detrolt was ablo to ‘*gat" Aontroal, but Montroal could not reach New York. St. Louis managed to find ono circuit by way of Nushvillo, Chattanoogn, and Savannak to Now York, but, as this lino i searcoly equal to the requirenients of ordinary ocezsions, ithnsbeon of nogervics in this dilemman. The Weatorn Union has upon its bands an enormons sccumulation of commercial aud ordinary business, which it is working off as woll a8 may ba by means of the railways between points whore the wires are down, but, in the wa; of press dispatchies, nothing can be dous until repairs aro mado, Heveral thousand men uro busy at work in tho devastated distticts, and it will not bo long before the damages are rnsnlred. Tho lines to the westward, southward, and northward aro in good ordor. Onicivvaty, 0., Jan., 8.—The weathor has been cloar all day, moderately warm, and not thawing fast, The Western Union wircs, oast of Coluwnbus, wero not in uge at 10 to-night, ——— SUICIDE. Speciul Dispatch to T'ha Cnicago Tribune, Beanosrowsy, 1il,, Jun. 8,—George Wilkingon, & tailor in the ewploy of Theodore Hinz, of this placo, was fouud dead in his voom at the Vir- ginia 1Touse this morning., Decoased hos heen until lately working ~at Bprngflold, I, whero his fumily, cousisting of & wifo and two childron, roslde. Ho worked in the shop as usual yeatorday, aud after eating & loarty suppor rotirad to hls room, and wrute two lettors, ans 10 bis wife and another to his brother. ‘he letors woro found an bis tablo this forengon, Ho way mombor of thu Musonis fraternity, sud his re- maing wera talion ohergo of by that order, An inquent was beld this ufterncon, bué_at a lato hour the jury had not roturned a verdict. Thore i3 littla doubt that the docessed committed sui- clde, a4 & small vial was found by the bed, Srectal Dispateh to The Chicdqo Tribune, MiLwAUREE, Jau, 8,—An old man nemed Hawes committed suicido to-night by outting hie throat, He is supposed to have been sub- J im 10 fits of lnsauity, and lived on the Routh IMPORTANT DECISION. The Iown Railroad Law Passed on by the United States Supreme Court, The Declsion of the State Court Adverso to the Northwestern Rond Is Sustained. The following is the decision of the Supreme Court of tho United States on s sult brought against the Chiceggo & Northwestern Rallway Company under the Railrond law of tho Stato of Towa, and which wes taken up by tho Rail- road to tho Federsl Court: Tho Chicago & Norilwestern Riaflway Company, plalue U in error, v, Darine Fuller, In error {o the Sue Dreme Court of tho Stuto of Towa. c.'\!r. Juntico Bwayno delivered the oplnion of the ouri, This 1a o writ of orror to the Bupreme Courd of tho Btato of lowa, ‘Tho casy lies within a narrow compass, and presonta but a kinglo queation for our conafderation, That Question fa 1ot dillicult of sulution, 'Thie Rocond sea~ tion, Chaptar 169, of the laws of fho Ninth Gunersl Aesembly of Towd in as follows ¢ “ In tlo month of Septembier, nnuually, each rail- road compony shall 0 ftu rates of furc for parsengers and froight, for transpartation of timber, wood, and coal per ton, cord, or 1,000 fect, per mile ; alao, ita fare and froight per nile for transporting merchandine and articlea of tho firat, second, Uiled, nud fourth grades of frelght ; und ou tho 1t duy of October followlug #hall put up st all statlons and_depots on ity road 2 printed copy of such furo and freight, and catro a copy o remain posted during the year, Tor wilitully ueplecting vo {0 do, or for recelviug Nigher rates of fare or freight than those posted, tio Cotmnny shll forfolt not ess thon $100, nor morv than $200, to any eraon injured thereby and euing therefor, Tho plointiff in error was sied in the proper District Court of the Kiate for violations of these provisions, Among other dofenses Interpored the Conibavy plead iliat tho wtalute wan in conflict with the commerolal clauso of the Couatitution of tho United States, Fale lor demurred to tho plea. The Court sustained tho domurrer ind _tho Company oxcoplell. Tl cago wau afterwards nubmitted to n jiiry, Tho Company prayed the Court to nstruct them that tise sct was_juvalld by reason of the confiict before mentioned, The Conré refused, and the Company ngaln_oxcoptod, A verdict ond judgment was rendored for the plaintiff, Tho Company removed the caso ta the Supremo Court of tho Btate, and there Insisted on theke exceptions an errord, That Canrt affirmed tho judgment of tho Dis~ trict Court, and tho Compavy therctipon prosrcuted this writ of orror, Was thero error I this ruling 7 The Constilution givas to Congrees the power “lo regulate commerco with foralgu notlous, and among tho Reveral States, und with tha ndlan tribea,” Tlio statute coniplained of provides : That each rallroad company sball, in the month of Soplember, annually, ix is rates for tho trausporta~ tion of pussengora nud of frelghts of different Linda ; That 1t ehall cause a printed copy of sucl rates to bo put up at all it statfons and. depots, aud causo & copy 1o renlu posted during tho year ; “Lhat a failiee to fuliill tbewo requiremonts, or the charging of o highor rate than fs poited, shall Aubject tho Ditouding Company to thefpayinont of the panalty prescribed, In all ather respecta there s no {nferforen other coustraint {s fmposed, Except i thoo » lara the Compauy may excrclse ull ita faculties no 16 shall doem proper, No dwcrimination i3 made bow tween local and futor-Stato treights, and 1o attempt 1s 1o to control tho rutes that muy bo churged, It b ouly reanired thnt the raea sinll ho fxed, made pub- Iic, and honestly sduered to, In tlinfhero con o uothing unreasouxble or erroneous, Tho publie el furo {6 promoted without dolng wrong ot fnjury to the Company. The statute-wus doubtless doemed to be called for by tho interest of tho commuvity to ba uffected by it, and 1t rests upon 1 kolid foundation of Tensou and Justice, It 18 not, in the sense of the Constltutlon, in any wiso regulation of commerco, It fs & polico reguli ton, and ay guch forms #o portion of the lmmensq mea of leglalation which embraces overything withiu the territory of a Btate not murrendered to tho Gen- orul Government, all which can Lo most sdvanta. geously exercised by tho States themselves,”—Glbbon( ¥. Ogden, 9 Wheat,, 1, Thin case presents o striking analogy to o prowmt. nent feature in the caso of The Lirlg Jumes Gruy v. The Ship John Frazlor, 21 How., 181, There tho i3 authorities of Chorleston had passed an ordinancs prescribing where a vessol should lio ju tho larbor, what light shio slionld shiow ot night, nud muking otbel similar xegulatfons, It was objected thut thess re spuirements were regulations of commerce, oud, thers fore, void, This Court atirmed the valldity of tfie ordi nanco, In the complex syatem of polity which exists in thiy country tho powers of government mny be divided iulo four classes: ‘Thoso which beloug exclusively to the States, Tlioro which belong exclusively to tho National Gon ernment No ot Thoso which may be exerclsod coucurrently snd inc dopetdently by bot. ind Uioze which “may be exercised by tho Stater Ym‘y until Congress shall sop fit to act upon the suls ject. ‘Tho uuthority of the Slate thien retires und lies Ix abayance until the occasion for its excrefse shsll rocur, —Ex-parta MeNiol, 13 Wall,, 240, Commerce is traffic, Dbut it i3 much more. Tt entbraces slso ransportatior by lund and water, and al) the mesus and_sppliances necesaurily omployed in earrying it on.—2 Story on tha Conat., Kees, 1031, 1063, The authorily io regulate commerce, lodged by the Constitutlon ix Congross, {6 within the laat division o1 the powers of governmeut ubove nientioned. Fome of the rulen prescribed In the oxerciee of that power mus( from tho nature of thingy bo niform throughont the country. To that extent tho authority Jtrolf 1ust necs easarlly bo oxclusive, ua much 5o no If It hud been dor clured A0 to be by tho Constitutfon In cxpress terms Others may well vary with tho varying clrcum. Btances of different lacaiities, Where o streim navi. gablo for tho purposcs of " foreigu und luter-Slata commerco 15 obatricted by tho authority of n Slate, siich exerclao of suthority may be valid untfl Congress shil seo Alt Lo intervene,” The authority of Congresa in wuel cages ia paramount and abaolute, aud it ma; compel the sbatemont of thio obstruction’ wheneser it #hall deom it proper to do so. A few of the casos lluatrating these views will bendverted to, In Wilson v. Tho Blackbird Oreek Marsh Company, 2 Pot,, 250, under a law of thy State of Delaware, & dam lisd bean_erected seross the creek. This Colrt held that tho dum was lawful siructure, becauso not in conflict with ny law of Congress, 1u Gilman v, The Oity of Philadeiphis, 8 Wall,, 726, tho Btate of Ponnaylvauis Lad authorizod the erection, of & bridge over the Schuylkill River, in the City of Thiladelphin, This Court refused to intorpose, bo- cause thery was no legislation by Congress affccting thoriver, The suthority of Uongress over tho subjeet ‘was aftirmed i the strotigest ferms In Tuo Wheellug Bridge cuse, 18 How,, 430, tho bridge wan deoreed to ha a nuisauce, bacause Congrasa “hnd regulaied tho Obio River, mid lind thereby se- cared to tha publio the froe and unobatructed uge of the same Cougross subsequently legolized tha hr‘hlnxe‘unlld this Court hield the cato to bo thereby ter- minated, In Cooley v, The Toard of Wurdeus, 12 How,, 819, tho validity of o ftate luw establishing certain Qiotags regulations, was drawn in question, It wos sdmitted Ly this Court thut tho reguiations were regulations of commerce, but it was beld that they wera valid, and would continuo to bo so wntil susponded by tho actiaz of Congresn, In Ex-parto McNiel, supra, the same questior stose, sud the doctrine of tho preceding cago was Fe. atirmed, In Tho Jnmes Gruy v, Tho John Frazior, supra, strees was Inid upon the fact thero was 1o act'of Con: gruss in conlict with tho city ordinance in question, See, ulso, iu this councetion, Oaborne va, Tho City of Mobilo, 16 Wall,, 225, 1f tho requirementa of the statute heru fn question were, a8 contended by tho counsel for the plaintiy It error, requlations of commnerce, tho guestion wonld arise, whother, regarded in tho light of the authoritis referred fo, und of reuson and priuciple, they are nof regulations of suu u_charweter ua 1o be valld untll superseded by tho paramount action of Congress. Dl 4% wo aro unsnimously of the opinion that they are merely polico regulation, it 1s unuccessary to pursas the kubject, Tho judgment of the Supreme Court of Towa i afirmed, OBITUARY. Dr. Willlam Cromwell, of DBloom. ington, BroomrvaroN, Il, Jan, 8.—Dr. Willian Cromwell, an old settlor in this city, died last night at his residenco in: Bloomington, of o Drouchinl affoction of many yems standing. He was born in NMaryland in” 1812, and about 1820 moved to Illinojs und locutod at Pekin, Tazewell County, whore ho lived twonly yoara. For four yeurs Dr. Cromwell held the office of Ra- corder of Tazowoll County. —In 180, ho moved to Bloomington. Since 1850, with the oxesption of a fow yenrs spont away from the clty, Dr. Cromwell hos resided in Bloomington, During the Rebellion the do- consod nhou & position in tho Quarterinater's De- partment in the Union servico. Lator, ho held au ofticial position in & dopartment at' Washing- ton, and atterward reccived the appointmout of Postmaster of this city, which oRice lio hold for soveral voura. He was n membar of the Epiaco- pal Chirch, has been one of ita vestrymen, ond for some yoars Buperintondent of a Sunday- wsohool. i Ex=Senator Johm 8. Kentuclky, LovisviLLe, Ky., Jan, 8.—Tho Hon. John B. Thompson died at his house in Iarrodsburg, ity., yesterdny, nged G4, Ilo was 8 mombor of Congress frum the Third Kentuoky District in 1840, and several successive terms. In 1831, ho beat the Hon, Robiert Wyckliifo for Lieutonnnte Governor, atter a momorable aud brilliaut con- tost, In the samo year he was elocted to the United Btates Sonato, and 1n Lis flyat torm mado tho colobrated speech on Cubs, Sinco hLis ro- tirement ho has been practicing his profossion at Harrodsburg, ST S S WISCONSIN STATE POULTRY-EXHIBITION. Special Duepatels to The Chicago Tridune, Janksvitek, Wis, Jan, 8,—Tho Lxoculive Oonlamltltual ;ldtha \‘\"lucoup‘l‘u Ei“o I'Olil: Al:;ln:i ofation decided, at its maeting la; nigl 0 {io Biate° Bxibilon i Miwauies, Seb, ‘hompson, of