Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1874, Page 1

The Chicage Daily Twibune, VOLUME. 27.. DRESS GOODS, &o. - ELEGEN!‘ FABRICS EVENING WEAR FIELD, LEITER & CO. STATE & WASHINGTON-STS,, ‘Will open, on Monday, Jan. 12, NOVELTIES In Brocaded Satin Striped Gren- adines; Plain and Striped Gaze de Chamberry; Colored Tarle- tans, new shades; Rich Bro- caded Silks, and Delicate Col- orings in Gros Grains and Taf- fotas, imported expressly for BALL, PARTY, and DINNER DRESSES. Prices low. State and Washington-sts, BUSINESS REVIEW. CHICAGO TRIBUNE'S REREVIEW FOR 1873. 4 Business Guide and Roforonce Book to the Leading Meronutile Houses and Manu- faoturing Interests of Obioago, E. COLBERT, Editor. Containa matter of intorest to all business mon. Possessing o pormdnent valuo as an Advertising Medium, Copies sent FREE to sll reaponsible merchants and manufactur~ ers thnoughout tho Northwest, USINESS {JEN in all brapohies why dostrg E roach -the country to o should aval tomeolves at onos of the Groat Medium for that purposs, Spocial space, with {orms, can now bo socurod. GENERAL NOTICES. CIT X CORPTROLLERS OFFICE, CHICAGO, Jan. 1, 1874. ' ATTENTION! TAX-BUYERS! Amot Profituble Inveatment {s offored In tho Tax Certificntes hold by tha olty for tha salo forolty taxos of 1672, which Iwilfsoll at epecial and most favor- abloratos {n amounts of from One Thousand to Ons Hundrod Thousand Dollara, Buyors and holders of thess eertificates will bo ontitlod at once to the amountof the raloand 28 per cont advanco, being for tho first six months from dato of salo; 50 per cent from 6 to 12 months; 76 per cont from 13 to 18 months; and 100 per cent from 18to2 months, Dntll urthor notico, delinquent taxpayers may ohtala such of their cortificates of the abova class vemaln unsold, upon pasmont of the amount of three per cent preminm, 8. S. HAYES, City Comptrollor, Room 3 City Hall. BOARD OF TRADE, Ci110AGo, Jan. 10, 187, Thero will be an elootion bold at tho Bosrd of Trade Booms on TRURSDAY, JAN. 16, from 10 a.m. to 3p. n., toelect ono Diroctor, By ordor of the Board of DI- rootors. . RANDOLP'H, Socretary, INOTICHE:. Notice Is Loreby glvon that Georgo W. Wade fa no lon- i dlamager ol 13 Northorn {1lnola Dopartpuantof ha fe Anspolation of America, aud that no acts horcaftor monoys pald to biw, will be recogaizod HENRY W. HOUGH, Prosident. an. 8, (K74, COAL., J. Q. A. KING, MINER AND SHIPPER OF J. 8, P Bi. Touir, King sWilmingtonCoal Dealers and othors will find this a superior DOAL, o it will produce more hent for the money than‘any Coal 1n the market, Oall ind 280 me if you want the best for the loast noney. STEAM OOAL a spocinlty, which [offer at extraordinary LOW PRICES. Dffice: 418 (anal-st. Mines: Braldwood, Il FINANOCIAL. Hibernian Banking Association OHICAGO, Jan, 8, 1874, The Board of Directors of this As- sociation have declared s dividend »f 6 per cent on its Capital Stock payable to tho stockholders on an ifter the 15th inst, HAMILTON B. DOX, Cashier. 3ATLT LAKE OITY NATIONAL BANK, 5. B, DoteLs, Prest, J. M, Donkers, Cashr, s Gus. Timwarmas, Aity, ade (o Utah, Montans, dahio, A bl Calorols, S5 i, omsda, e for In our oyoningo available in &y part ot fie Sui, Bt s, Cuaoar, Loobepe bl B onL. tho Thisd National Bank of Onloeaiicag0 ROBERT WINTHROP & CO, o 8 nnol fc %TOQKR 1o, 18 Wall-at,, Now York, ezocute orders for , D, al oF cont Interost on DIt I6pe ALY GOLD, ulow A pragns Intee on LOTTERY. $300,000. Onpital Prire, $50,000, Missouri State Lottery. Grand Siuglo Number Schieme, Draws 'hulllllwo' evory month, B\ml'rlm-, gllm“fll' Aok T ots, 10; iniven b Rond fur E’cfiu‘hfifiunnfi. MILAE GOV hdZ dida, BE firs b ) THE WORKINGMEN. TwoMass Meetings Held ~ Yesterday. The Platform end Plax of Or- ganization Submitted, Formation of the “’orklngmen’s . Party of Mlinoiss Speeches by Messrs, McAuliffe, _Klings, and Others, - They Exhort the Working- men to Organize. A Paper Is to Be Founded in Their Interest, Enthusiastic Adoption of the Platform. Although tho members of the Committes of the Workingmen's Association assurod the re- portor Saturday that they would hold no more mass-meotings, and that their platform was etill unflnished, nevertholoss tho report in Tuos- doy'’s TRIDUNE) that tvo mass-mectings for the ‘purposo of adopting the new platform would be hold yeatorday proved to be correot. It was tho intontion of tho leaders of the workingmen to ‘mislend tho reportors and keep thom away from thoir mootings, and in this thoy succoeded protty woll, this paper only being roprosonted ab tho meatings, aud is, thorofore, ablo to give a fall report of their proceedings. THE POLK BTHELT MEETING, . Thore were two mass-moctings held yostor-. day,—ono at the Workingmen's headquarters,No. 139 Weat Polk streot, and ono at tho corner of Church strost and North avenue, on the North Bido. Tho meoting at No. 139 West Polk street was called to order by Mr. Winnon, who nomi- natod Mr. Christian Kraus a8 Clairman, " AR, XRAUS, . after being unanimously clected, stated that tho objoct of tho meoting was to hoar the report of tho Committeo on Platform and Plan of Orgapi-~ zoation. Ho then introduced Mr, McAuliffe, who stated that tho Commuttce appointed to present a platform had completed their task, and, aftor much discussion and labor, they bad adopted the following : rraTROMM, Wieneas, All mankind aro born with equal rights to_a just and liberal sharo of life's necessities ; and WiEnear, The exlating Iaws do not concedo tho aforesatd rights ; therefore, ba it - Hosolved— First—No maro Jégislation for monopo- * | olecting Mr. CHICAGO, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1874. mon's party may botome membora ; two-thirde of the mombern of cach sotion shall be omployes, Secenih-—rach momber shall pay s centa intistion fos and 0 conts monthly feo. One-ialf of the fncoma from fac shall bo given Lo the Central Committca for printing and genoral oxpenses, Ths romaindor of foon #hiall be devoted to the uxpenses of the sectlon, All membora that fafl o pay thelr foos for a longor time theut thres montha siisll b discharged, Bickness or want of employmont shall ontitic o member to sus- pension from payment of fees, ighth—Each section slisll Linvo the power to dis- chargo much members that act by word, writing, or docd to tho detrimont of tho principles of {ho platform Dischiarged mombers shallyot bo admitted to any other soction, nrged momber may appeal to the Gentedl Commmitteo IT threo members of tho section of* which lio was o momber nroin fuvor of such actlon. Tho Scetion Bocrotary shall roport tho names of dis. charged membors to the Central Commitloe, who shall roport tho same to each and overy scction 11 tho tate, Niuth—1In enso tho fees aro insufiiclent to meet ox- [:nmol, cotitributions moy Lo collected from' meme ers, Tenth—Tho Sccrotary of scctionn sball rubmit o monthly report, and tho Central Committeo o quurter- 1y report, stating the number of mombors, condition of roclely and Treasury, Tho Central Commitics 13 shall subinit proposals for amendmonts whon deeed nccessnry. ; Fileventh—The iwcotings of scetions and committecs muy bo publio or socrot, as the circumatancos reqnire, Jueelfth—~OMcors tht losa tho confidonco of mem- Dera can bo disclidrged by thé majority of members of thelr rections or commiticos, 5 Thirleenth—The Workingmen's Convention” shall havo the powor to umend theso articles. i KARL KLINGS, 2 Mr, Karl Klinga was thou introduced, and rond {tho platform- and plan of organization jn tho Gorman langungo, aftor which ho mado o speech in Gormau, lauding tho oxcollouco of their now platform, hoping that overy workingman in tho nilfi would now Join thoirranks and holp them fight tho battle for the workingmon's rights. So long s contracts wore given to contractors, tho workingmen would romain slavos. Lows should theroforo bo oxecuted to compel the u- thorities to givo contracts direot to tho workiug- men. Monopolios should bo discontinnod, and all special lozinlation should bo abolished. Ho then went for . TIE STAATS-ZEITUNG, 4 accusing the propriotors of that paper of having oreatod o Logialaluro which passed a law confor- ring tho city printing upon thom, sud thus steal- ing_from tho puople tho sum of nearly a hun- dred thousand dollars, und theroforo no_othor, Goerman_paper could gain-any foothold in this city. The Staals-Zeitung also hed mado- the assortion, o fow days sgo, that ,tho panio bad. beon creatod by tho workingmen who had squandered B0 much mouey. With such mon no political fricudship was possible. ¥ivo sectionanhad already boen established sluce tho beginning of tho move- ment: Threo Gormon, one English. and Irish, nnd ouo Polish, And sinco yostordny no less than thirty-eight now mombera had boen added o thoir ranks. Ho boped that the workingmon would remain firm in their domands, and suc- coss would finally crown their efforls. Boveral other speakers made speoches similar to tho abovo, aud all spoke vory favorably of the now platform, Tho meoting then adjourncd. ‘TIE NORTH BIDE MEETING, Quito a largo crowd assembled at the corner of Churoh atroct and Obicago nyenuo, whilo the other ynockin& was going on. They organized by Chorsmark Chairman of tho meot- ing, and who rond to them the platform of organization reported st tho other meeting, Mr. " Thorsmark spoke very hopefully of the movemont, and thought evory workingman, no matter whiat his nationality or trado, should join in it. Meesrs. Innson and Stohl also made short s&)cceheu,' after. which tho meeting ed- Journe FOREIGN. Uea, Repeal of oll existing laws that favor monopo Second—All ways and means of transportation and communication, “such as rallroads, canals, and tele- Rraphs, shall be managed and oporated by the State or community, Phird—Slato and savings banks and_fre-insuranco to be establialied sud controliad by tho Stato. Fourth—Topeal of tho contract systom 80 far a3 ro- Tates to public works, Fifth—Awendment of the laws reluting to recovory of Woges by nults, that justice bo impartially and speedlly administered. Al sulta for recovery of ‘wages {0 bo declacd within clght days. Siath—Abolition of the leasing of prison labor to compantes or {ndividuals, The prisoncrs to be em-~ ‘ployed by and §n bebalf of tho State oniy. Seventhi—Compulaory education of i ehildron bo- twoen 7 and 14 years of age, Purchuse of children's Inbor under 14 years of ago o bo probibitd, Eighth—Diroct poyment of all public officers and abolition of all fces, Ninth—All officers who neglect or violate oficial du- ties to bo rocalled by th vaters, Tho voters to elect ofllcors to Al tho positions vacated by recalled ofli- cers. , Tenth—Establishment of workingmen associations, Aftor roading the platform, which wus vocifo- rously cheored by the v:owd prosent, B, M'AULIFF wont on to say that the Committeo did not nsk them to adopt tho platform bastily and ou thoim- pulsoof the momout, but to discuss tho morits of tho samo at their meotings, and talk it over, and if anything should bo found wroni in the future to oraso it, or if anything should bo found wanting to have it added, They had not come togethior to brood over their, present wrongs, but to provido sgainst the rooceurrenco of the same wrougs that now existed. THE PRESS, He went on and snid that the intorost of the press was not such as to ally it to tho working- mon. It way obliged to publish whatever suited its readers bost, and thoy had to expect that tho pross would tear thoir platformall to pioces in the moruing, and sponk disparagingly of their papors to clothe witntevor news they had in snch The Spanish Cortes Mot to Be. _Convoked for One Z Year, Result of the Recent Eleotions :in CGermany, Dofeat of the Mexican Insur- gents in Coahuila. SPAIN. Loxvpox, Jan. 11.—Djspatches from Madrid report that Serrano, will not convoke thenCortey for twolve months. Ho will lend all his ener- gies to the suppression of insurrection, and the tranquilization of the country, and not until theso tasks are agcomplished will ho summon’ tho Legislature, _Gon, Morionez has commenced operations against tho Carlists on the River Ebro. ‘ Mapnip, Jan. 11.—A decreo bas been issued dissolving all political associations charged with conspiring arainst tho interest of the country or tho integrity of its territory. < Loxpoxn, Jau. 11.—A special from Madrid to o Times says Gen. Dominquez, commanding the forces hesioging Cartugens, hns fele- graphed that he has compellod Atalayn Castlo tosurrender, aud that bo hng summoned the other forta of the city. A telegram to the Standard from the vicinity of Cartagenn gives n rumor that another magazine exploded within the walls Saturday, und 200 persons wora killed. 1t is ex- movomont. It way the paculiar mission of “"u'-—]mcmd that tho caplure of Atalaya Castly will tlowing lnngunge us would catoh the eye of the people in goneral when it was firat Toad. All was not guld that glittered, ORGANIZE, . Thoy ehould organizo scction after scction, and by calm exchange of thoughts and idens should disouss tho werits.of each and every word in the platform, Tho future Contral Con- vention could amend it through their delegatos, Tt was the intontion of certain parties to start o pepor lu the intogosts of the workingman, bofore oug, that they might huvo an organ and the means to roply to tho arguments ot~ tho exl!tfillt{g prosa, ‘That “papor would do all it could to ad- vance their principles, and its success would lond to tho speedy capitulation of the city. vl g GERMANY. + Benwis, Jan, 11.—In tho elections for mem- bers of tho Roichstog yesterday, the Danish party carried all tho districts in North Schleswig, }n which they wero successful at the Inst and previons election. Partial returns of the electious show thnt the numbor of Nationul Liberals aud Progression- ists roturned i about oven, other partics falling far bohind, Dantzio, Leipsic, Bromen, Lubeci, and Munich elect Liberal members ; and Dorlin, Koenigsborg, aund Dreslau Progressionlsts. Candidnies of the olerical party are chosen in Krofeld, Cologno, Dusyoldor!, and Aachen, depend in a marked degree on the amount of sustencnco it would recoivo from tho working- mon, Ho than gave ALDERMAN SOHAFFNER rather a rough handling fof having said at the confarence with tho Mayor that the wockingmon might get the romnants of food that fell off the tables of hotols aud restaurants, Thoy did not want_ his nor any other perons glutted groed. The Alderman might takoe it to his constituents at the Bridowoll, and the mouoy oxponded on tho prisonors there might bo oxpended in giving work to the unemployed workingmen, Thoro wero thousands of such politicinus as SohafTnor who had the same ideas and thought just as littlo of tho workingmon, but thoy wore too shrowd to expross their opinions openly. Tho spenker concluded by saying that if thoy wished to bo ruled by such demagoguos thoy might romain innctive and lot tho future toko cavo of itwelf ; but, if not, thoy should st ouco: baud togother and organlzo weotion aftor soction, until thoy woere 8o strong as to elect mon to ofico-wno hud the intorest of workingmen at lLenrt, and who would leave no stono unturnod untilequal rights woro granted to all, no matter what thoir station in lifo might bo, [Gront applausa.] TLAN OF ORGANIZATION, Tle spoaker then road tho followin, PLAX OF OBGANIZATION OF THE WONKINGMEN'S PANTY OF TUZ HTATE OF ILLINOIS, Tho organization of tho Workiugmen's parly of {ho State of Lilinots sball bo formed to advocate aud nd vauce the political platform of tho Workingmen's MY‘? to_acquire power in loglalativo bodfes and up- Lold {ho principles of the piatforn, De it Resalyed, Thut the following rufca be in force uutil the convening of a Workingmen's Congres : . First—The organization shall conslst of divisions, and u Qontral Comumittoe, Second—All Boctiona shiall conalut of 25 membors, and o eutitled to ono deleguto, - Every additional’ 100 dmnil"‘l;bl:u, or fraction thercof, shalk Lo entitled to ono ate, Third—The Central Committco shall consist of nino metnber, {0 bo chosen by the delegates from fhoir members, Thele duties shiall bo to adminfstor tho Tules of the organization, Thelr torm of ofiico shinll Do fromn ono general conyention until the noxu, Each delegate aball bo entitiod to ns_many votcs as thoy represcnt membors of woctions, The delogates from each sectlon ehall pawemblo every week to roport. all party affairs to thelr soctions, and, if nocessary, shall Tuport tho same to (he Central Committus, Fourth—Mlen of diiferent Ianguages wmay organize scotious, g . MEXICO. Marsxonas, Jan. 11.—Tho forces of Gen, Zopedn, tho deposed Governor of GConhuiln, Lisve ugnin bren dofcatod by the troops supports ing the Logisiaturo and sustainiog the olection of Dr. Soluy, a8 Governor. ‘Tho nction took place near Monclova, tho capital of the Stato, and, althouch a Povoro engagomont was not decisive, both partles aro still In tho dlold, and tho Gon’ owul ‘Governmont huve nppointed o Provis- ional Governor for the Stato until a now clection can bo hold. 16 is uu})pnmd that Gen. Floury, who i in command of atout 1,000 Fodoral troops and 2,000 National Gunrds, will bo able to pro- vont_further -hostilitics botwoen Gon. Zopeda and Dr, Selas, Gon. Escobedo, Governor of 8an Louls Potosi, has rotired, and Munuol Muero hus taken churge ag Provisions) Governor, It iy said that Gon. Encobedo leaves tho oflice to attond to privata businoss. A want of aecord botwoon him aud the Geperal Government is porbaps tho real rouson. ———— ! GREAT BRITAIN, ) Townox, Jan, 11.—A lottor from r. Whalloy, L P., appears in to-day's papers contradicti the stutement made by Luie, tho Tichborne wi noss, on trial for perjury. i e * _INDIA. CAvouTTA, Jan, 11.—~The famine is ulready causiug gront distross in Bonr and Denaroz. PENNSYLVANIA MINERS. They Rejoct the Tormy Oficred by the Oporaters—Prospect of a Goeneral and Frotracted Strilkie, New Your, Jan, 11.—A Pottaville, Pa., special #inys tho minors havo rejoctod tho proposition of tho oporators to reduco” tholr wagos on o llding sealo going as low an 2,25, and 9,000 miers of that region alono ure idle, and that all great }lgul operations of the section have stopped. Tho miners will not, nnder any clreumstancos, sube mit to tho proposition of tho oporators, and, uu- lows tho lattor recedo, thoro will bo & prolongoed in sections, Fifth—Tho sectiony and_dlvisions sbsll elect thole for tho tartu of ¢ix moutlw, Tho oficers shall ulst of ono President, one - Vice-Presldent, one ‘Troasurer, Becrotuty, aud Aseistant Hugretary, Sizth—Ail that verbally declare thcmesives sattsiod with tho priuciples of tho platfors of tho Working= struegle, Pho minois of Columbin aud North- nmhnfilund Counties.are nffected directly by tho aotlon of tho Holuylkill men, uud all th rogion, indiraotly, ‘Uhoy will bo hoard from on l\Ionun{l and thon tho whole yegion will probubly suspous within a fow duys, i COLVIN'S MESSAGE. Ex-Mayor Medill's Answer to the Criticism on His Administra- tion, Showing Why the I«Tfouting In- debtedness Has -the Ap-° pearance of a Lorge . Increase. * The Canal-Fund Exhausted in the Restoration of the v .Fire-Losses. What Has Been' Dons for_ tho City Within the Past Two Years, Cause for angratulatioh Instead of ' A Cronking Jeremiad.” Pants, Dec, 20, 1873, The Chicago papors oontalning tho ine sugural address of Mayor Colvin fo tho new Counoil have just boen rocolvod. In thoso pas- engos undor the hond of : TAKING AN ACCOUNT OF 8TOOK, . the flunncos, of the city arocplaced .in such a light as to convey tho impression that the pro- coding Administration had been manngod vory oxtruvagantly, if not réokigssty, Tho matter is put in this shape : 1= “ Donded and floating dobtof.clty April 1, 1871.813, Bonded and floating debt of city April 1, 187 Increase of debt....... . ... Recolved from Btats to Ayril 1 167 1,634,011 2,090,612 Expenditures over tusen. . woverees$ 3,631,620 Thoe public ate told that while the population hns fncronsed only 83 per cont between April 1, 1869, and April 1, 1873, the debt hed incroased during the same poriod 88 per cont, not includ- ing tho $2,006,613 roccived in tho meanwhile from tho Btato. *Tho mossugo also statos that tho *immedlate resourcos turaod ovor to the new Administration amount only to 8754707, with the excoption of 8100,000 of tax cortificntes ; whereas tho immodiato linbilitios amount to 61,861,704, the greater portion of which maturos prior to'tho 1et of Aprll, 1874." It is ndmitted, . horwover, that thero ato £1,100,000 in tho Tres. ury to the credit of special funds, such as tho wator-tunnal, publio buildings, ote. But this ad. miesion is slurred- over in such a way as to create tho'impregsion that the money can bo of no'use in aiding the new Administration in its flscal embarraesments, sought to bo made on the mindy of tho citizens by these figires is quite obvious. I had Bup- posed i THE ACTING-MAYOR, in his “ valedictory " to tho Council, would have givén n comprohensive roview of tho clty's financos and the strugals of tho Administration tomako cnds meot d4ring “tho precuring twa yoars, eapeclnlly as hos had been Chairman of the Financo Committeo the last year and mem- Ler of it tho first ; but fn thia T um disappoiuted, And, at this distanco, vith no oficial documents, reports, or papors to rofer to, and nothing but recollection to depond on, it is dificnlt for mo to supply tho omission of the Acting-Mayor, But Icourtall investigation aud inquiry into the financial managémout of the City Governmont from De. 1, 1871, to Bopt. 1, 1873, und I think I can snfoly ndd, to Deo, 1, 1873, Mayor Colvin states the fiscal condition of the city on tho 1st of April, 1869, ditto 1871, ditto 1873, But my Administration only commencad on tho 1st of Decombor, 1871, eight months after tho boginning of that fiscal yenr, and not uatil after 80 per cent of tho exponditures of that yonr had alroady been made in advancoe of tho colleetion of tho taxes to defray thom, H TUE FLOATING DEBT on tho 1st of April, 1809, i statod to have boon 306,871, whoress tho floating dobt of April 1, 1873, is put down nt $1,840,382, showing an in- cronse of this upecios of Unbility of moro than a The impression - million and o half of dollars, But the mossago | noglocts to state that in 186, under tho city tux-law thon in existenco, sll municipal taxes wore required to bo paid within the municipal yenr for which they were levied, On tho 1st of April, 1809, all, or nearly all, tho taxes for 1868 Lnd beon collected and placed to the crodit of tho City Govornment, and, of courso, thoro could not bo much floating dobt,—thore should kavo beon nono at that time of your. So tho taxos of 1870 wero collocted bofors April 1 1871, which accounts for tho small floating dobl Teportod on that day. But on the 1st day of April, 1672, and 18t of April, 1873, scarcoly dol- Ir of the taxes of tho ]n'occdiq% years 1871 aud 1872 had beon recoived, for “the simple renson that thero wes no Jlaw {n oxistonco whoroby the City Govornment could enforco the coliection of taxes prior to April 1 of those yoars. Honce, on thoso davs thoro was, nocossarily, Inrgo out standing floating indebtodness. And iliere will be till Iarger on tho 1st of April next, for tho samo ronson, viz, : that the taxes of 1873 cannot bo collected uutil after that dato, unless the law shall be ehangod this wintor, as it ought . to bo, restoring the tax-paying time ns it was boforo the fire. WHEN I ENTERED upon the dutics of tho Mayor's offico, on the 1st of Decombor, 1871, no tuxes woro coming intothe City Trensury, but that was not the worst of it. Thero was 1o law in existonco wheroby any man could bo forced to’ pay his taxes, The Courts had docided that tho old city tox-law was no longer valid, but in" fact was unconstitutional, The first caro of the new Administrution was to prepare such o.bllas would insure tho colleotion of tho unrepealed and uarebated portion of tho lovy of 1871, ‘'o got it passed was found to be n slow and difficult mattor. Nobody uftor the firo #scomed anxious to pay taxes, and thoro was no rush to the Colloctor's oftico as I woll romombor, “L'he bill was not got through the Leglsture until apring, and tho fuxos waro not finally obtained | under it until sometimo in, the sumuier of 1873, and in the meanwhile tho Administeation wau **shinning " for money, If any one doubts this, lot him ask tho lato Comptroller, Mr. Burley, But 110 act pnascd for. . TIE COLLEGTION OF TILE TAXES of 1871 was not applicable to the assessment and collectfon of tho taxes for 1873,—and an- othor bill had to bo drawn aud lobbied through tho Logistuture in tho faco of & stronuous oppo- sition of mauy couniry moribors, of ome of tho Couk County delogation, and the bittor assuutiy of tho professional tax-fightors «und a portion of, the nowspapor press of Chicago. The bill was not squeozed through until the close of the seu- sion, aud tho_taxos,of 1872 woro not_finally col- lected undor it until’last Octobor aud Novembar —hovon months aftor the expiration of tho municipal , yesr for which thoy wore lovied. Mounwhild, tho Admiulstration had to got alopg without the monoy in the bost way it could. ‘T'ho cnuupim‘{ to waddlo tho dobts of tho roilrond bond-ridden conntics, on tho State in gonoral, * and Cook County in partiou- ]m—, was hatchod in Bpringliel and nutsed {n the Auditor's ~oftics, before the Htato tax-law was passed. 1 smoked”, that cut at un early stage of tho ltllo gamo; ond tho more Iroflectod on tho xmbijant the strongor I eame to the conclusion that it would not L #nfo or prudent to mix up the collection of tha municipal taxes of Chicago with tho Htato und county taxen, for tho twofold reason that the machinery of tho bill was not suited to the axgessment and collootion of o jmmenso u tax ng Btato, conuty, and city alt at once, and that thoero would inovitably bo#erions troublo hotween Cook County aud thobondholdors’ riug whon tho Iastor camo to cotlect the iuterost of tholr swin- l fand Anonay to buy lots, build_sohool-bouses, put in dliog bonds ont of the tnx—gnsnn of Cook Gounty. I doomed it advisablo whilo nuch a fight was golng on, with taxes rosisted, onjolnod, and appoai6d, that the finances of ‘tho City of Chioago should not bo involved in tho struggle, ‘Thoso views wore nlso hold by tho Comp-~ trollor, . Corporation Counsol, Tsx Com- missloner, and Financo Commitice. Henco the offort put forth to carry through the Logialature o bill for the nsgessmont aud colloction of taxcs by {ts own officors for tho support of the Municl- pal Govornmont of Ohicago, and sl other citios Which clioose to astoss aud colleot thole own taxes, This Inw nuthorizos such citios to collect uudor tho Btato Inw if thoy deom that the botter courgo, which provision wns insorted to onablo Chicago and other oftios to colleot under the Btato Inw hereafter when tho grab-law swindlo fs swont away or otherwise- disposed® of. inatoad of the insinuations thrown out nignhmt tho pro- ceding Administration, it is entitlod to tho thaukn of tlio present onc for what it did to enablo it successors to collect their revenuos indopend- outly of the grab-law entanglements, TFrom the tenor of Mayor Oolvin's mossago it is apparont that he desires to bo informed WIIAT DECAME oF THE $2,000,013 of Stato canal-lion monoy whloh lind boon re- celved and expended up to tho 1st of April, 1873, I sball endoavor to furnish him the sought-for light, o that hin prosont lively curioaity mny theranftor bo changed into a calm contemplation of tho romarkable facts. ¥ ‘Che Commou Couneil 1n Juno, 1871, made ap- proprintions to: tha amount of 4,600,000, in rouud numbers, in eddition to the amounts 1o bo cxponded from tho sale of bouds and proceeds of spaocial asscsemonts, the wholo footing up some 10,000,000 to :312,000,000. (The famous **Neteon " and the indopendont Boards of Ex- travaganco wore then running things at s livel; aco, and were having o good time generally,, ‘0 cover tho 84,600,000 of direct appro- pristions tho. “Nincteon” lovied a 16-mill tox which was calculated o yiold, on nro‘fu\ty valuod at £230,000,000, tho sum of 4,20 ,000, The romnining'8400,000 was oxpectod to bo pro- cured from ronts, fines, and liconses. WIEN TIE YIRE CAME IN OCTODER, and spotled all calculations, tho grenter portion or it, 84,600,000, had been oxpendod, 8y worka o afi kinds had'bou pusiiod undor a full hoad of steam from tho lmgi nning of that municipal car. When I camo into the Mayor's ollico in ocombor, I found somothing liko 38,700,000 of tho year's appropriationn had boon oxpondod, and thoro woro still four months of the year to get through, 'Tho City Goyernmont had spent about $8,600,000 moro than it had collected bo- tweon Aprit 1 and Da, 1, 1871, But.when bad the monoy beon procured to make the ndvances on tax collections? In tho firat place, something like $1,100,000 bud {llogally beon drawn from tno Bpooial, water tunnel, and school-houso funds, Secondly, thoro wns duo nearly 300,000 to the cannl contractors in excess of the pro- coeds of the galo of caual lion bonds for doe cning tho Illinois & Michigan Canal, and this logncy was left for my Admiuistration to pay the best way itcould. ‘Three or four hundred thousand dollarsof streot improvoment special nsacssment taxes in oxcoss of whabworo noeded had boen col- Iectod, and this specinl fund had also boon g ont, and my Adwinistration was called on by E\m- dreds aud thousands of citizens who hold cortifi- catos for rebate \to refund them this money. As to how it was dono, ask the lato Comptrolicr, Then* thora woro large sums duo con- tractors of all doscriptions and robates due on stroot 'openings, the monsy hay- ing been used for general oxponace, In‘addition to tho forogoing, the city owed tho gas compa- nios for a wholo vear's consumptlon, amount] ing t0 aomo §850,000. Dosidesall the foregoing items there woro certificatesof indebtedndss oufatand- ing to the amount of soveral hundred thousand dollars,—the exnot sum I cannot rocolloct. And then thero was &76,000 borrowed from the Aid and Relief Bocicty, to be ropaid on-demand, with interest, The total floating dobb which I found staring the now Administration in the faco ex- coeded 2,600,000, and X TIE TREASURE AS TARE AS A PIOKVD TONE, and the city iteelf in the condition of a cindor. The.goneral n!‘lenl of affaira was very flatior- ing and enconraging ot tho _time, us I recolloct quite vividlyl More than $250,000,000 of prop- orty hiadl been consumod, and rora than 100,000 citizens had not whero in lay their bhoat and wera Aubsisting on tho food issued by the Bsliof -and Ald Bociety aud special sesistancoof friends, And’ 60,000 additional poople, whoso dwoll- ings had mnot been burnt, wero out of ‘work, a8 tho shops and stores and factories which had furnished them omployment were re- duced to smoko aud asshes, The credit of the city scemed absolutely destroyod, and DANERUPTCY STARED US IN TILE FACE, TIn this condition of things. a fow days bofore my election or inauguration, I forget which, the Common Council ‘which previously had made such reckloss and prodigal expenditures mat, ‘and, in a it of contrition and romorae, repenled one-third of the tax lovy, notwithstanding they bud oxpended tho bulk'of tho appropriation and the city was owing tho mouoy at tho very mo- ment. 1 Y . THE REDUCTION OF TAXES % amounted to the following sum, including tho additioual rebate mado by the Legislaturo on burnt property, viz.: Five mills on 280,000,000 of valuation, . 1,400,000 Iiebate ou burnt property.. 500,000 Deduction from the tax-levy of 1871, 1,200,000 Porhaps Mr. Colvin now begins to sde what became of THE OANAL LIEN MONEY? Nincteon hundred thousnnud of 1t mydo good the void caused by the -rcbate uud repeal of an oqual amount of taxation, lenving losa than 900,000 of the $3,096,612 of canal len monoy asailablo for rebnilding bridges, viaduets, school ond ongine houses, polico stations, tomporary City Hull, sidowslke, nnd o thousand other things which had to bo roplaced. _‘Tho whole cost of. restoring thoso fire losses I do not romombor, but think it must havo oxcoeded, first and lawt, the total ‘amount of monoy recoivod from the State. And all wo had to live on and to sirugglo withnload of bequenthied floating dobis, wWns tho inadequate g i ,1ATTLE TEN-MILL TAX, of which half a million had to bo given baclk in rebates on burnt property.” Mr. Colvin com- plains bictorly .of the aggrogato_of tho Appro- priotion_ bill ‘of Juno, 1873, and ‘proposas to romedy it by rom(l!ing port of the tax aftor tho ‘mouoey has beon spent, which would be ropeating ou himsolf tho blunder tho Council of 1870-'1 ;nmmiltcd. on my Adwministration, But ho will 0 LESS ZEALOUS TO CUT DOWN the tax-lovy aftor lie has carofully examined all tho itoms of that Appropriation biil, and loarned what the actual sninimum necessitics of the City Govornment are, ‘lie fire and tho eripplod con- dition of tho city's finances nut ovorything buok for cighteon mouths, und tho large approprin~ tions of last summer wero nearly all noeded to muake u‘(l) for lost time, The school-houso ac- commodations wore wholly inadequate. Thoro wore tons of thousauds of children }Lunbln to flod’ sonts in tho school-houses, Thore was o univorsal demand for largo additions to tho Tire Departmont for the protec- ‘tion of o city, aud it copts monoy to buy lots, build engine-houses, purchaas enginos and other cquipmonts, and support the companies of men. Lorses who run them; aud it also costs heusing apparateies and furniture, and to pay & caips of tenchors and janitors to manago and caro for the thousands of children who flool into, them, ‘horo liad been no inarosse of the polico forco for uu"eu preceding yoars, and the upcessity for more ** guardiaus of the night” wos imperativo, Sowerago aud wator-oxtonsion, us woll ns now schoal-housos, Lad, provions to my Administra- tion, boen provided for by sale of bonds, but thovo Linppy days were past, and thoreafter they must be y\ud for by taxcu, Up to the 1st of No- vembor, 1873, there had been built, or wore in courso of coustruction, FONTY-TWO MILES OF BEWELY, Nonrly overy foot of Lhia_{mmenso work w lmd down in- tho distriots ocoupled by tho labol ing poor, who hiad beon almost ignored by pro- vious Administrations, ivery considoration of health, humanity, aud public welfaro demanded tha construction of (hoso sewers, Thora wore alko lnid down this past yoar OVLR TUINTY-FIVE MILES OF wATER-PIPXS, chiotly for the uga of tho poorer distriots, whero tho people hnd previously drauk poisouous sur- fado wuter, and sickenad wnd dled in conso- quonco theraof, 'Those two works of indisponsa- Dblo utility bave cost thiy Yyear moro thun o mill- fon of dollays, But 1 shull not stop to spacity in dofail the nocessary things that had to bo previdod for, and 88 lnn&: as Chicago grows at the rafo of 25,000 to 80,000 pex annun, it will ba_a dificult mistter to stop publis works and reduco taxow, onpaviatly au (ho city hus ontored upon tho now ers of paying ns sho goos, snd bas coased solling bonds and udding to kior publie debt. TUB TAX LEVIED IN 1873 of 16 milly was insufliciont to moot publio ro- l ‘10 tho tax-law restoring the timo for its collee- quirements, and to oxtinguish tho deficloncies and arrearagos croatod by the absnrd and wrong- ful ropoal of taxes after tho fire. Honoe the no- cossity of about 18 mflls this year—not, 20 mills, 26 Mr, Colvin sayn; 18 milla_on $311,000,000 of valuation will produce $5,000,000, and the ronts, {inoa, and liconses will roalizo tho remaindor of tho $6,000,000 appropriated by, tho Council, This will place the finances of the ity in & sound and solvont condition, ospecially If tho time for oot. locting tho taxes bo changoit baok tu that bofesg the firg, viz.: botweon Dacember and Aprit of ench year, . Thé now Mayor spesks of an INCREABE OF TIIE BONDED DENT botwoon April, 1860, and_ April, 1871, of $5,661,- 600, An iuspoction of the rcoords will show him that.not n dollar of that incroase ocourred during tho Administration of his prodecossor s oud ho will seo, furthormoro, it ho looks, thn avery pouny of tho monoy extept about 520,000 Lot ‘been drawn out of the Tressury nud ox- Rendcu on one thing or auothor, nm{ that my dmiuistration was obliged to rostors to tho spo- cial funds somo 1,100,000 or more which had veen lilogally divorted thorofrom by the proced- ing Admintsiration,—tho samo one Which robbed mino of a million nnd & bolf of taxes aftor they had #pent. tho mouoy. , I wish to call his aitontion slwo to "tho fnct that tho intorest on these 35,661,600 of now bouds amounts to. nearly $400,000's year, and that legacy was loft to my Admidistration to pay for two yoars. It will becomehis turn for tho noxt two. For the first year of my Administiation the receipts for water rents woro not half what they were bofore the firo, and it waa only during tho last half year that tho incomo from this sourco was nearly rostored. This duflcinucfl' Wwas an ad- ditional caueo of embarrassment which will not trouble dr. Colvin, bocause tho rocoipts hereaf- ter for water ‘rent wlil bo much larger than be- fora the fire, Tho tax ordored to be nssossod by the Inte Council, when collocted by the now Mayor, . WILL LIQUIDATE ALL TUE FLOATING DEDT he finds with which to commencs, his second year ; provided that ho procures an amendmeut tion to that period of the year in which city.tax- es woro col'ccted Loforo “the fire, viz.: in the wintor of tho samo municipal yoar in which the motioy is oxponded, Ar. Colvin seoms to talo n . GLOOMY VIEW OF THE SITUATION of municipal affairs, and is quito discontonted and unhappy. But in this world pooplo nre rare- Iy ovor susistiad with existing_things, but desiro somothing Dottor at the hands of piedecossors. Had I found the municipal aifairs of Chicago in as good and prosperous & coudition as ho found them, I Zhink I would have boen happy. Sup- pose it liad boen turned over .to mo with tho burnt booke, records, vouchors, ‘and papers all routored, tho fearful losscs of public Smp‘““y rogn!md. with o multitudo of crooked old olaims,. robates, special - nssessmonts, law suits, and Iogal ontangloments dieposed of; with 31,100,000 of cash rogtorad to tho epocial funds, and $1764,707 to the eredit of tho gonersl fundin money or tax cortificates drawiug 50 per cont in- torest until pald, making o total of 31,854,707 assols, in addition to §6,000,000 of {ax rovenuo Iovied aud assessed, and soon ready to commence collocting, against’ §1,861,704 of floating . debt 1alling duo ot differont’ timos, botweon now and Juno noxt : with an immense water, rens pouring into the Treasury ; with a burnt city n:amplnmlfi robuilt, aud the taxablo proporty nearly donble sinco-the firo; with TIE OREDIT OF TIE OITY a8 high as that of auy other in America, and its famo for cuterpriso and resources resoundinj over the world; with the worst of the tiuanci pauio past, nnd times steadily. imfiruviug,—l B0y, if my predecessor had turned tho city over to my Administration in this prosperous condition, {ustoaa of inditing A OROAKING JEREMIAD, and castiog rotloctions .on him, 1 should have folt lika writing o mossago fllod with congratu- Intions at the happy improvement that bad takon plnce iu municipal affairs, and Leartily thanking thoso officinls who had faced the music in * the dnys that tried mon's souts,” and brought ardor out of chaou, credit out of bankruptcy, and fur- nishod protection. mid, and cncouragemont to the offorts of uitizens in tLe great work of con- -vorting a city of debris into,n, city of palacos in tho briei period of Ewo seusons, - Respoctlully, 3 J. Mepn, PHILADELPHIA. The Fairmount Bridge Contracte=The State Debt, Special Dispatelito The Chicajn Tribune, PurLapereans, Jun, 11.—The Municipal Ro- form Association-has instructed thoir counsg to apponl fram the decision of the court at nisi prius rofusing to grant o proliminary injunction sgainst the Fairmount Dridgo contract. In uc- cordauco thorewith, sccurity has been entered, and o certificato granted from the nisi prius to tho Judges of the court in bane. The Commissionors of the Statosinking Fund, viz., tho Hon. M. S. Quay, Stato Tronsurer Mackey, and Auditor-Genoral Allon have,iu addi- tionto the 81,500,000 State dobt redocmed up to Dec, 1, called in all of the remaining §10,- 000 cortificates of tho State loan. The entive amount redoemed aggregates $750,000. WISCONSIN ITEMS, Small-Pox in Kenosha County==Burn= ing Bridge-I3onds in LacCrosse. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Pribunc. MiLwWVAUREE, Jan. 11,—Small-pox has appeared in an opidemic form in Kenosha County. A numbor of deaths havo already oceurred, and tho disenso still rages, Tho authorities of Kenoshn have found it nocessary to cract a post- house n o corner of the city uumumr{ At LaCrosso, on Friday night, Mayor Van Hoinwick, us Trustce, burned the bonds that had boon issued by that olty for tho construction of n bridgo across {ho Mississippi River. Tho immolation was in accordancs with o decroe by tho Circuit Court. Tt took place in presenco of tho Commou Coungil. Tho result is s victory for tho 5t. Paul Railroad, - ik SRR LAWLESSNESS IN' KENTUCKY. ikl Introduced in tho State Legisins .ture Embodying Gov. Lostio’s [IBoce ommendations for the Suppression of Luwless Bands. LoumsviLLe, Ky., Jan, 11.—Tha bill introducod in_ tho Stato Logisituro yestordsy to suppross disordors in tho State embraces practically all tho recommendutions contained in Gov. Leslie's recent mossngo on tho subjoet, It provides for tha appointmont of a Special Commissionor with ower to hold oxamining cousts in scotions in- ested with lawless bauds whore the constitutod anthoritios aro poworloss to suppross them, The bill was mado the specisl order for Wednosday uoxt. v FIRES. ‘Che Great Fire in clena, Mont. specinl Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Wasnixatoy, D, C., Jan, 1l-rA private dis- pateh was roceived . to-dny by 3laj. Maginnis, Dologate in-Congrosa from Montarin Tornitory, confirming tho pross dispatches of yostorday re- arding tho destruotive conflagration at Ilolona. fi'llc loys is bolievad to bo fully §750,000, Dusi- neas wilt not bo sorlously disturbed, and tho dispatchos state that tho pooplo of Ifclond are not dircournged, notwithstandjug ;tho great loss ineurrod upon thom bofore thoy lad entirely recovorod from the cffcots of o firo almost as dostructive ag this, which oceurrod) about one yoarago, - iR —_— SUICIDE, ' Special Dispatch to T'he Cafeago T'rigyne, Dunoque, Jan, 11,—A “snloon-keopér named | Trobst comuiittod suieldo last night, at 10 o'cluek, by taking o dose of landanum, o Joft Lis wifo FH tho bar-room about 1 o'clook;, ang wont to his room, Iis wifo followed him in half-sn-hour, whon sho found him lyivgon the bod breathing vory bard, Ifo lived about half- NUMBER 142, WASHINGTON., Alleged Irregularities in the Navy Department, Fives %iths of the Appropriations for o =10 Fiscal Year Expend- ed by Octs 1. T g 1 ™ 7, 3panish Complication & Cove, for Previous Extrava- ganoe, Lang T S Caleb Cushing’s Nomination Not Well Received by Administra- tion Senators. S s Investigation os to the Loss at Sea of the Virginius, * Mr. Hurlbut’s Bill for a Nac tional Freight Railroad. Speciat Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, NAVAL ENLIBTMENTS. 5 ‘Wasmnatoy, D. C., Jan. 11,—On last Fridoy, Mr. Beck, of Kentueky, introduced a resolution asking that tho Heorotary of iho Navy bo di- reated Lo inform tho Houee how mauy, if any, of the 1,500 mon sought to be added temporarily to tho Navy by tho bill now pendiog in tho Sonata of the Unitod Statos, which pasacd the House of Roprossntatives Doc. 9, 1873, Lnve beon onlistod, giving tho dnto of said onlistmonts, and the amount oxpended in‘consequonce thoreof ; and that ho farthor inform tho House how much of the approprintion mado for the flacal year end- ing Juno 90, 1874, was oxpended prior fo Jan. 1, 1874; and that bo further inform the House hoiw much of the £4,000,000 appropriated by tho presont Congross has beon exponded, and" for what purposcs. 'The resolution was agreod to without debate or queoa- tion. By some menns n rumor has obtained credit that on to-morrow a reconsider- ation of the nction swould bo moved, with a hopo of voting it down. In snticlpation of such ace tion, Mr. Beck has propared o statement of the clrcumstences which, led to tho introduction of the roeolution, which dieclosos tho cxistenco of A UEMARKADLE 6TATE OF AFFAINS, When Scorotary Robeson, on the 8th of Decembor, wrote to Garfiold, Chairman of tho Committeo on ' Approprine tions, nalking that ho bo nuthorized to enlist mon, lo used thefollowing Jangusge: I find, on roview of my lottor to tho 8poaker, that I omitted to ask that- Congress’ give mo the necossary suthority to onlist men boyBud the limit fixod by Inw. I eball be obligod, in order to man tho ships now fitting out, to excesd tha limit by about 1,500 or 2,000 men, and this ex- ceas shiould bo authorized. Tho number of mon can b reduced at any'timo'by discharges whon they aro.not neoded.” . . ¢ On last Phuraday, whilo the Naval sppropric ation bill was under considoration, question ‘wrosa with regard to this matter of enlisting 2 large number of new men, ponding the discus. sion of which Mr. Garfield mado tho following .+ EXTRAOLDINARY STATEMENT § “I think gentlemen aro Inboring under o misapprohonsion as to & matter of fact, The Socrotary of tho Navy sont in a letter fo the House of Roprosontatives, sotting forth that when tho omorgency aroso @e took the authority—nssumed if, in ordor to meot an' emorgency—of incroasing the number of enlisted men in the navy up ta 10,000 ; that in doing o he excooded the law, and ho laid ilo fact beforo Congross, and asked Congross to pass & condoning law sud to grani an ndditionsl sum of money to pay for tho en- listmont of tho additional mon. Ho asled the Committes onAppropriations to logatize his o« tion, but tho -Committeo told him thal they could givo bLim an appropriation, but could not in au approprintion bifi logalize what be had done contrary to lawy aud that ho bad better call upon tho Naval Commit. toa to bring in a condoniug uet authorizing the action of this {tomporary increnso of tho ‘navy, Mr. Garflold continued : “Wae roferred that very lettor to tho Committoo on Nuval Affairs, auc they brought in a bill not to provido for a por manent incrense of the navy, but to condone what iad beon dono by tho Sccrotary in the emergoney.” TIE REOBETARY'S NEAL OFFENSE. As will bo seon, tho Secrotary of the Navy muds uo such etatomont ag that attributed te him by Gou. Garfield, and the whole discussior of thoaffuir ab tho timo tho bill pnssed the ‘Houso procosded upon the assumption that the Becretary decided to recrnit the men, but had not dono 80, zud would not do so until a law an thorizing such aotion was passed by Congross. Now, it i8 scon tha' the Beoretary had already recruitet tho men without lawful authority ; bad armod, clothed, and paid them ; that Gou. Garfleld, cor- taioly, and Mr. Scoflold, Chairman of tho Conie mitteo an Noval Affairs, {Jruuumnbly, kuow that this was tho case when the bill waa passed by the Houso on Dee. 10, and that thoy studiously concoaled thoir knowlodgo of it. This certainl; places those gontlemen in a vory eingular posic tion. What is atill more romarkable is, that the roports aud books of the Secretary of tho Treas- ury show the following CONDITION OF THI NAVAL ACCOUNTH: First—That the appropriation mado lnst March “ for the pay of tho navy” alono, for the flkcal yoar ending Juno 80, 1874, amounted tc £6,260,000. Sccond—That there was exponded of tha' amount, which could bo used lawfully only tc pey the oflicers and men of tho navy, up to and including tho Ist of October last, which was the and of the tirst quastor of the fiscal yoar, 85,~ 085,000, i Third—That thero romained unexpended on tho Ist of last October, apvlicablo to- tho throe romaning quartors of the flscal year, only a lite tle over 1,200,000, . WHAT WAS DONE WITH THIS MONEY remaius to be soon, - Somo small part of it, doubtless, up to that timo, remained over in the hands of uavsl disbursing ofticors, but thera s no doubt that the most of it had beon ex- ponded for somo fiurpaau or othor, As lhu Seorotary did not hesitate to unluwfully ro- oruit 600 or 3,000 mon, the iuforonce iy warraut- ed (bat ho wonld not hesitato at committing such other nnlawful aots ns his fancy or a regard for tho intorosts of the .Administration might dictuto, or such n4 might Lo domanded ou bis privato behalf, Lspocinlly would Lo fool froo to do this upon tho consideration of the eircume slanca that ko would bo ablo to commnnd the as- sistance of somo of the most influontial mem- bors of the House when ho fouud occasion to Tavo his offousos 4 * CONDONED™ DY CONGRESS, It, as has been anticipated, a motion is mado to-morrow to reconsider tho vote by whiol 3r. Book's resolution way agreed to, that gontleman will mako tho above siatoment, togethor with othor faots that Lavo come to his knnwludfiu o an-hour after Lo was flrst discovered. Troublo n his business is supposed to bo tho cause of the nct, Probst leaves s wifo and fiva ohildron 1 dostituto circumstancos, ez iy Sl T THE OHIO RIVER. i 1, 0,, Jan, 11,—~Tho Ohio River is m‘r’,’-"fll’gh".“n ronchod fts maximum, 48 foot, at naon (o-day, and (s now falling. 1tis nota groat flood. o SUED FOR DEFAMATION, 87, Louw, Jan. 11.—The Mayor of Leavon- worth hna beon sued for dofamution of charace tor by Judgo Lecompte, | concerning tho mal whioh “will put ¢ wontd-be i‘onduru of the llonso to their trumps. Tho fact thar over 25,000,000 of tho $6,250,~ 000 hnd boon oxpended prior to the st of Octabor, 1878, and that at that time thora way no intimntion or idon that, aay such troublo ay the Virginius affair would cceur, whoroby an unurual dragt upon the fund would bo warranted, will boar n groat deal of oxplanation from the gallant and hardy tar who prosides ovor tho Navy Dopartmout, - THE VIRGINIUS INVESTIOATION, "Mho cxamination of sovoral of the oflvers of the Virgmiuy, by tho Commission of navai [Continucd on the Lighth Page,]