Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1874, Page 2

\ ! WASHINGTON. Tho Black Man’s Spocch-=-Democracy Gone to Sced. “iie Seesident's Declining Star---Will- jams and Cushing. —_— o l’rufinhililies of an Anti-Aministration Ma- Jority in tho Next House. —_— Why William Allen Rose from the Dead. Ao 0 O aan. 5, 17k TR FOUITIONL RITOATION £ botl the old_ partios Tocognizo A :31‘::: :“l:ln:k orator—elear African—can drivo nearly tho whole Domoeratio side ont of tho Xall of Topro- pontatives, oxpungo Mr, Dock and poor ald Ms, Blot Dhiens, and, with logio, rosearch, logal scumon, sn Slogatieo, carry tho ronson sa woll an the sympatby cap- {Ivo, tho Domocracy hns had italnst warning, Yous miltions odd of peoplo who Laya borne arms on tho attle-Nold, nnil now, by thele Ropresontatives, relieva {0 monotony of » Caucasian Congress with cloguence, ara in a position to remark to tho Damocracy ¢ Rug 1ittlo wheol, or big onowill catols you." "About nll that thio Democracy {8 good for 18 to pateh onta rommsnt, In Congress it hus, b3 a party, n0 Polloy, nor oven_cunning to mprove an_advuntage, TIna its caucns followed tho lead of 8, 8, Cox, snd put Tiim In nomination for Speaker, tho salary-grab resti- {tutlon would hiave been a temporary crest ou the bat- fored and well-nigh-liegiblo shield of tho nclent clan, Dut, sturdily refusing humanitioa fnovitably to Yo accorded, this dozed aud wandering party In tlie desert of thio Hobrows, makes s compact opposition of Dlack men who can carry nt loast threo Bates, and can genorally earry soven,—Tou who voto undor emergou~ cy, and yot might bo dividod by gouerosity, Thoro nre 00D DENOONATS . In Congress,—Niblack, Marsholl, nnd othors,—ns Jiberal as any Republicans, sand having nothing fu zeally fo o with tho Demooracy, excopt Dy tho tlo of organizatlon, Tho Domacracy, howevor, I8 not valid fo ftaclf, Bon liko Deck and Eldredge, and others, aro, in fact, Fod- eralista,—us busy {n schemes which call for ¥edoral dower aa tho Republicans ; whilo tho Soutliorn Deino- cratio membéra want tho amplest Federal bonefaction, ©von to tho sssumption of Stuto dobts, wheroby thoy sro followers of Hamillon, and not 6f Jofferaon. What kind of o Domocrat 1 R, M. T, Hunor, who ap- pears Dot to havo read: tho Tovised Constitution of tlio United States, innamuck as hio had provided & achemo fomoko tho Foderal Treasury pay tho Rebol dobf, which Is somelhing that tho Englsh croditors of tho Confedoracy abandoued. It s 5ot nocosaary to rocall the cave of James Drooks to show that thero was practically no differcnce between his Whiggery and’ thiat of Onkea Ames. Indced, 8Joffersonton Democracy 18 imposaible in the America of to-day, which has been Toconstructed by the sppliauces of trafllo aud the: arbitrary movement of capital, Our partics of to-dny reprosent traditions which nre. not only of tho pasty it 0t to bo rovived; and, if tho low vitality of Lo genernl poptilaco after tho War Lad. not Leon too slug- sl to rerpond o any suggestion of clinuges, we Ehiould probubly have brought tho political notfons of {150 oy 101 closor consonaico Wil to mateialsta- tion, TUE FTOBLEME DEFOME THI: COUNTRY. which nobody in_Oongresa gecms to undorstond, are tho protoction of liLorty from its own corruptions, ‘which, by tho conatancy of such expogures ns aro daily mado, affcct tho national faith, and make our Goverti inent'n farco upon onr Contineat, Thero aro no Teans hdequato to {hls protection but moro gen- vl cnlightenment oud noro severo and cortain penaltics, Fducation {8 unequal amongst tho Svates, tud mon liko the Yoar brothers Droposo fo natlonulizo It in order to mako tho South fulf ita* duty (o 1ts poor whito trash ond black millions, This centiment 16 not declining with tho delay of States lke Virgiuia, Tentucky, and lissouri to begin tho work for theuteclven, Gen, Butior mado tho renwrk Lut yeaterday, i1t Congress, that thoro was 1o publig edus Zation in fuo Soutts, To make peculation nud {reachery In publlo offices pundshiablo” tho ‘Stato tribnuala niust be made paro firt, and torzibloaflorward, by ncreasiug tho span of dhidgen, and_commiiting %o thom, ss 4 pormaucnt Jury, such casos of oftictal deroliction, A part of this ofticé has beon performed by tho mow Constitue tion of .Pennsylvania, whero hereaftor tho form—oaf- -a. Judge will*outlive * any ouo” “party. In day of upsparing Justlce, thoro will Do loen reaon for indccency and defumation in tho prens and politics, and juiidelity to ous common institutions will censa Lo point e dafly moral of both. 3¢ anybody whl tako np ‘Cwain snd Warnor'a lust baok, THE GILDED AGE,” 110 will find t o sardonto deplction of our gocial and moral civilization, dopressing, although fn_ much tone, and certaiuly dintlinelontzing youths and forelgn- ith tho Ropubican idea, In tis frightful mirror ot a hallow and unwashied nation, written with aston- Suhing tact and {ndividualism, 1¢ 18 hard to &oo any good objcct 10 bo attained: Tomeroy i tho Ciristion Gtteaman, Tho most intorcstiug_woman comila o ‘Tordor and turns lectutess, like Luurs Fafr, Foverty in without e graco o ettt aalls wittiout ro- ‘Bucment, ollica without consclence, and virluo with- ‘ot rewenl, Bul wopupposo that tho stomach of 4 ‘Wholo ngo tnay be woru out, Thia ook s morbidity Rggravated by good writing, THE PRESIDENT’S DEOLINING STAR, ‘Thio Prewideut hias possed tho ridge, and is gon down thao ofhier side, 8 Woarled Creaar, 'Tho xction 1ho Sonate, Bur, and country on Williame’ nomination \Win Loo aulien sud peremptory not (0 bavo beeh blown off'n moro generul gatiety bohind it with tha way {hings bavo been golug ai Wasbington for tho pust fivo yoars, Deusa obiuencss, an uuloaralng mood, & * resentful seltishnesw, jndificronce to publio opinion When clearly oxpresséd, and no_ndequato attention to oflclal duty, bive mido overybody g0 agaln to tho Cincinpatl Couventlon. “Mise Presidont will pliortly havohis noxt agony, when Chiurles Sumner will bo re-dlected to tho United States Eenato for six years over Butler, tho patronago, and, if Dccomunry, over {ho party,—sustained by tho Hoar Drothurs, Tenry Wilson, Frauk Dird, Samucl Hooper, sud tho intellst and Fespectablity of tho' Gommon wealth, Mr. iVilliams himself was forrified at the romon- airaneo Lis nomintion cauded, pud with prudence and chagrin rotired from his publicity. Ho was not in & position to lenve Washington on his Attorney-Genoral- Eliip, liaving cnsconiced Limsolf in 8 comfortablo man- siot, for which hois still somewhat in dobt, A variety of liftlo influencos woro silently arrayed agafnst kit $n different purla of tho country, sud hia ndopled” Btato of Orcgon contribufed, in Neamith and otlirs, & loud aud lashing stroot-coriior abuse, Au Congress proceeds, ill-feeling bronks ont on all sldea, The country 4 dislicartenod withs tho eurcoss- Sul Teanlts of legislativa and. s e ulative profigacy, Jong ago predicted to end in alatm ud falng cred und; whilo {n this Stalo, It oo tho foolishuess cnacted Rerd witl a sullen and éelsp ndiguation, * CUBIIING’S NOMINATION, Calch Gsbing 1a & curlosity, a kind of QI Parr, or Toupumin Digraeli, St., fall of curlositics of lifcrutire, sud rocollections of law and intrigue. Woshall gszo L ae L2 ruminatos snd with Goldsmitis cbilaren ¢ An stll they gnzed and stlll the wonder grow That ono smatl Licad could carry all ko know, wonder whether wo Was put thoro for an exponcut or AN expoundr, * 1o 3 s pquare-eaded, siiver-faced, well-iajred old man. Sractieal and nffable, whom Nature Tofuses to innke venorable, nity moro than she would Jut mioss grow on o sliver fcé-piicher, Well-sat, with physical sppotites wafting fo nccomyany i to tha farther ehors, withont any apirituality, ubler to bring u rofer- thco ' t0 provo you wrong thau to confirm his ‘Gwn convletion, 1o ropresonts tho plodding fudustry, Hhio yreat frame, tho business-hablts, aud thio KImbitidt. 1 Dammchusetts Boy, But tho proselytizing purposcs aiid tho lunor Hlumination of the Pilrins Lio nover had, 310 vonght to rieo throngls o genicration, not to beat it up uapon i shoulders, 1o has sisen ‘through soveral Fonorations, liko & spuc-buoy through muccosivo Soran, andy whilo enptriutiug o cacl » ool deal of explaziation and porsdnal episode, ho never drove a Stake 1o atick funt anywhoro, He'sa ral-cluss poll ficisn of tho third rak, Thero ure threo rauks in Tolitles: . First—en who lead ono sldo and win s 2 onde-Men who lead tho othee aida and loso; Third Z4en who load netther sido, and win {liosccond Plico,—who get appointmonts, bub never head forces, AQ to 1its suchs & total want of party-conafstency na 10'bo'aluiost moral Incouslstency, ond too litle prldo of opinfon or record not to go ight over to Lia”con~ Queror snd usc a uhata of b spotls, and it down in Dis tent aud eat it and wag bis tadl there, and you bo~ in to 6o this fino old mustiff, 116 i thio only nnimal withiout o heautiful moral, Ho wrote tho campalgn lify o!llnrrlluu;nml directly aftorward Tylerizod, by swhich ko gok o job to do in Ching, but saitk dows &0 muach ot bomo (hat li i {o go udldiurhig-to Moxito, Tiorco lifted bim ugain to Washington {n 185, whey lia n already 5 men of maturo uge, or 63 years old, Hia wifo,who accompanicd him to Spain and wrote a Look of teavel, dled very lung 0go, Calob was #ow & Demo- crat, withi all tho zoal of 8 now accession, and he worked liard to provent tho ¥rec-Soil and. Démocentio arlies trading Sumner off for Boutwoll, In 1800, Tlion aged 60 years, Cushivg wus pulled around by tho ultra-Southern Evuflclunl from Clurleston (0 Baltimoro, their Northern placard, Tho War proved that Mr. Onshiug ought to luvopostponud Lis Moxiean. campalgn, Howayer, ho followed tho victars, aud soon Bei t0 tag bl sl wnd plck up wuy behen, Tylog Toind, Tho Johnson Adminiatration omployed him, Jio was_rendy and willin' as Harkls when Grant a0, Well Off, o great 0ld Thenardier au camgnfol- Towor, fuil of learning and loro, aud othor things,— &nch (s Caleb Cushing, "Fue probabilitles of an S D A NTI-ADMINISTRATION 3tAsOnTTY 1n thie Hottso heforo tho contennial yoar of onr Tnde- Pondonco scem nesured, When aiseimbled thery, it T ind oryanization polioy, aud, by its respcct for Jnibiie opinion, will uve coifideuce and following, Tt tho last Dresidentiul olection, the syceulative in- forext of tho country, aanmilug LGielf tg,ho tho woslth ¢t tbe couutry, and 'led by Juy Gooko/ Houry Olows, and tho lke, intimidated (ho working classce with & flircat of no cmployment §f Greeloy slivuld be elected, Many of those wealthy men would like 1o got omploy~ Juent (homuolves {0-diy § and Grosloy, at"reat, could Jardly wish o roturn 10 tho liead of affairs, i€ ho had 06 option, 3rom vvory part of the country comes, {8 varioky of forms, the ssmo genoral complaint ; and don, Dix, in hin torsago Iast weok, cxproancd at Granger means in Wiscon , 2 1d “ihal l:'ll]u ]nlflll W%M “{lllll ot peopln who liad atolen $50, whilo soooty and pol Sroro 1don by anotlior cinst who sad: Tuflroad-ghtor= yprises and o forth to rob ntnokholdors n{l press towns nud citios, and atill ot largo, Tho Biato Leglala- turea, Btate officors, County and Natfonal l'rcneuulnm‘ and Cangresa, have beon holping nlang the present #tato of things, by helplug out Gon, Dix'a Lypo of men, For somo timo this ocotipation swain_along, onch fue strumentality buoging up tho othor, until s’ Iargo part of thio politicions, bankers, lawyors, and tho ofhee- liolders, wero dividing with cschi otber tho golden realization of stupendous mohomos in conrulldn- tion, stock oxpansion, and construction, Bo- claty wan divided into two clarsea: thono who would Puy tho bonds and Lug, or vots, tha siock, and those who wor in Iagiio to float them, It got to bo o at Waahington that tho smalicat fry of ‘members, Ropub- lican and Democratlo, mado tholr thonsanda ll\\mmlyi pnd (ho Executive Dopartmonts compoted for equal From ono end of tho eounts \, minos, lrflfnunu schomes, Jand-serlp Jug- glos, ateanship-joba, loveon, and rivérimprovemant, 8 or Toviug sgainat tlio Loucaty and duty of men of cither offeo or Influonco, This yenr tho oporator hna no ready canb to malo ‘s wolcomo, and henco Congressmon, 1iving in thelr former atylo of oxtravagance, stand in a dreadful pro- dlcamont, M increased pay s tho only douceur {hioy possesa s dicir back-pay thoy hmyo 1o longor {0 rotinrn, If they do not rocaut, thoy must go out of public IHfe s It they do, thelr resent accommiodations Bnd suporfiuitios canudt bo pald for, - I3 JIENOE TIIE RIATNG UP OF WILLIAM ALLEN, A political party wiich has brouight about tho pos to of tho country han no rght o oxnoct o ot e X Fodoral | pasty, ntoadlly dominant ¢ In - Congross 1850, end 0 o0 {hio xcontivo and Judiclal branches nearly as loug, Srhich has workod zosloualy to promota vaat schomos OF tarlif and corporato {nfiation, sud Lios Beon tiom 80 Gollapes in Ha handa that Inbat, morals, redit, ond Confidenc togothor disappor; has passed ita-poried S0 muat nol bo surprisod 3 Banquo, oven in the slinpacf Willam Allon, conis out of' tho grave to 0 fts empty chair, O proloraion of & Dovoloper of the Country b about absolote, whothor tho doveloper bo an ongluear, Tobuylat, o alock-wateror, o bankor, o Obristiar Stateanian, oF o linntle, Tho country {8 & good desl overdeveldped now, considering ita ago; snd thero are Dut s af 1o of Jla gront carrying coeporationn which hatvo ot beon for {li Tast fon yoars polytectinc Achoola for gradustivg scoundrels, S aaTh, THE ANDERSON TRAGEDY. Col. Thomas N. Stillwell's Arrest for Embezzloment. His” Death at the Hands of John E. Corwin, Spectal Dispatch to The: Chicago Tribune. * INDIANAPOLIS, Jan, 14.—Tho Senlinel's apocial gives tho dotails of the Anderson homicido as follows : * 25 B « A torrible tragody. oconrrod’ horo this after- noon sbout 6 o'alock, by which the Ion. Thomas N. Btillwel), o prominent . politician. and banker, 5 ;BHOT DEAD by a pistol in the hauds of John E. Corvwin, lke- wiso a rostdont of this city. Tho facts in the ‘matter, ns noarly as can bo glosnod amid the ox- citomont which provails at this timo, aro ag fol- lows i . b ¢ T,08t Decombor, the Firat National Bank of Anderson, of which Mr, Stillwell was Presidont, susponded payment,.and its affairs woro placod in chargo of & Rocoivor. O1f nccorint of somo alloged . irreguleritica in its managomont, Mr. Stillwoll was, at the lost term of tho Cirouit Court, 2 INDICTED YOR EAMDEZZLENINT, 7 TTo gava bail in the enm of $10,000, and was gob at liberty. Smarting undor tho disgraco ‘brought upon him, Mr. Stillwell {magined tho\ Corwin had beon instrumental in having bim ar- rested, although this 18 nob genorally bellovad. ‘It may bo stated, {n passing, that both of these, individuals, for s yoar or more, havo beon on un- friondly torms, and much bad feeling las existed botween thom. : Thig afternoon Mr.. Btillwell, at the hour named, proceedod to the ofico of Corywin, and, a8 soon 18 ho gaiuod ontrance, remarked to Corwin, *This is to bo tho i i LAST OF YOU OR"ME;" and immediatoly drew a rovolver. Corwin jumpod upon the countor, and, ns reported by two gontlomen prosont, entreatod . Stillwell to ut up his weapon. No hoed was givon fo this, owever,” and Stillwell discharged hia wonpon at . Corwin,—tho b from it etring him on the right sdo of the groin; but tho wound was proventod from being o porhaps dan- gorous ons by tho presence of somo _silver coln and koys in the pocket of Corwin, The partics then, it is Hlo\lfi];i. clinched, whon Corwin drew his pistol and fired twico,—both balls entoring the buck part of Stiliwell's head, noar tho right ear, Ho foll to tho floor and EXPIRED JMMEDIATELY. + Corwin delivorod himsel? upat oneo into the haonds of the Sheriff, to await tho rosult of tho inqguest by the Coronor's jury, which is now in session, The affnir, a5 mey bo imngined, hes coused much excitement _among our citizons, from tho positions horctofore occupied by the parties, COL, BTILLWELL hag resided hore for somo cightcon yonrs. Ab 1hio timo of hia death, ho was in tho 47th year of Lig age. In 1864, ho wns elected n Ioprosonta- tive in Congress from this district, on tho Ropublican tioket,—dofoating McDowell, tho Domoeratio candidate. In 1808, ho was ap- pointed United Stales Minister to Venozuels, undor Prosidont Jobneon,—serving nearly ono yoar. Binco then, ho has occupied no official ‘position, His death is generally rogretted. Ho Was & man of many noblo traile of charactor, nosnessod of cnergy and liborality, and rospoctod y bis neighbors ana fellow~townsmen. ; ** AR, CORWIN . is a native of Middleton, N. Y., but has resided Lhiero somo flve years, having morried a daughtor of the late Allen Mnkopoaco, whose estate ho lna been mannging for somo time, + From what can be learned by your corre- apondent, tho shooting by Corwin 18 viewed by . publlc opinion as an Lot AT OF BELF-DEFENSE, & although the circumstauces; whon brought ont ;xg &h? Coronor’s iuquest, may be somewhat mod- od.” Col. Stillwell’s Arrests From the Indianapolfs Journal, Jan. 8, A dispatch is published this morning announe- ‘Ing tho arreat of Ool; Thomas N. Btilliell, Presi- dont of the First National Bank of Audurqon, for the embozzlomont of fanda in -gaid bank. Tho information will bo recoived with surpriso nud ain by his numorous frionds and acquaintances u this comimunity. A rumor of tho arrest wad current in tho city yostexday, and it was stated thot Col. Btillwoll liad usod tho misapproprintod funde in outaido spooulations, principally in buy- ing up tho bonds of Venozuols, to which couu- try Lo waa appointed by Androw Johnson. Ho hins been ‘somowbat active in politics, having sorved n- (ho Sato Logislaturo, and ropro- sentod’ his - district in Congress one torm. Fyom the Burlinnton, (Towa) Gazetfe, Jan, 13, Col, 'T'. N. Btitlwoll, ‘Prosldont of tho First Na- tlounl Bauk of Andordon, Ind., was {ndicted on Saturday, by the Grand Jury of Madison Coun- ty. He is undor arrest for omhozzlemont of tha funda of the Bank,. . A, B, -Klne, Cashier, hoa left for parts unknown, ‘The above {8 the rub- stance of ‘s dispatch sont from ' Anderson, Lnd. Wo kuow both of theso indlvidusls well. M, has boon in the banking businoss in that placo for.nonrly twonty yoars, and hws roprosentod went to Vonozuels, as Ministor, under Prosidont Jolinson, He is what would bo oalled & ** faat ™ man, always driving hie fast horses and drinking tho beat of liquors, Ho was a good-Liearted man aud liad bis frionds, but has been the viotim of & fast " lfs, Lringlig disgrace upon o largo fam- ily ‘of childron snd o widowed mothor, Ar, Ilino, when we first know him, was 8 baker and -ogory-heepor, and bocame .a gront friond of glll“‘nll, who aftorwards got Lim iuto the baulk ag Cuehier, aud who aftorwards becawo suscop- tible to the influouces of Btillwell, From the Indianapolia Sentinel, Jan, 14, It rooms that tho Stiflwoll case I tho result of sowme local epite, which takes this mothod of in< Juring the roputation of A largo-honrtod, gen- orous mon, whoso pluck and enterprise have dono more for tho growth and prospority of An- dargon than any other dozen man ox causes. Tho full statomont of the caso must prosent Col. Stitlwell an his frionds know him,—spotless aud iucorruptiblo. - — Rorscflosh as Food. orsoflesh Is still consumed in, largo quanti- tow in Paris, During tho first six months of 1878, 5,180 horsos woro gold for eating, Tho hoart, livor, brains, aud tonguo aro oaton liko thouo of tho ox, Tho horac purchised for tho nibrkot bring €35 {0 630 iu gold. ‘Ihls now trado inoreages tho valus of used-up borace not diu- easad, by morothian 820 ouch. Bo that tho wonlth of Franca is inc 126 of hq“w“;:::ngo:fi?ue 80,000,000 by the ' OPTIONS. ‘Shall They Be Prohibited b Law ? s Views of the Presidont of the Boavd of Trado on tho Subject. He and Others Regard the Proposition ag Absurd and Hurtful. Options Benefit the Praducer, and Help Chicago. Aroporter of Tne Tnmvuxa visited the Board of Trado yoaterday for the purposo of lonrning tho viows of the moro prominent membeors in ro- gard to tho subjoinad soction’of & bill now under considoration by tho Leglslaturo ¢ 8o, 130, Gambling contracts for futura delivery of grain, ete. Whoover contrneta for-tho sale of finifln’.‘ pork in barrels, beef in barrels, stack of soy rallro: or oltier ompuny, o oli, for futuro delivoeey, oxcopt ion tho salier 13 tho owiicr,or tho agaut of {10 ownery theryof, and in actunl posacaston of tha same, shall bo finod not oxcoeding $1,000, and_confned i thio courity At not oxceoding oho year, and all such contracly ahall bo considarad gumbllng contracts sud. vold ; aud all monoy pafd or depositod on the samo may Lo xo- covorod back, a8 In otlior cases of gamiug. Quito n numbor of denlors in grain aud pro- visions wore interviowod, and all woro found to boopposed to tho passago of thelaw, Thole roasons for guch opposition aro given in tho following conversations : “ Tho roporter first saw i TREALDENT JOW and John R, Bensley, who wore in tho Secre- tary's room, and told thom that Tme TRIDUNE would lilke to havo their views on tho law which proposes to prohibit option business in grain and provieions. Mr, How—Doas it not apply to overything ? Tho Reportor—1It applies to grain and pro- vistons, nnd I supposo to overything olso. Mr. How—Yos, to overythivg wo use. ) 1T WOULD DE INOPERATIVE, ., Mr. Bonsloy—The Iaw wonld bo entirely in- operative then, Nobody would adhoro to i, as it aims p blow at tho transactions which have Dbonofited, and which will continuo to bonoflt, tho producors of the West, and of every othor section ; that I8, 0 far as tho trado of this Board oxtends. 5 ' INFLUENCE OF OPTION DUBINESS, ° Roporter—What do you supposo is tho diffor- onco botweon tho avorage prico of grain with tuo prasént option bupiness, and what it would ba it thero was no speculative markot in Ohieago for gruin and provisions ? ‘Mr. How—That is a probty difilenlt question to answor, It hos always been in tho intorest of tho producer.” Alr. Bonaloy—I have watched tho business for eoventoon years, and nm fully satisfiod it is dif- fionlt to mamo o fignre. But it reenlts vory Targely to tho bonefit of tho mon around us who own Lo proporty. Reportor—That is, they got moro for their rain ? ain & TT BENEFTTS THE FRODUCER. Mr. Bonsloy—Get more than they would if thero wore no options. Tepoitor—1n what way ? 4 Mr. Bonsley—Juat this way : If the grain was shippod in hero, and loft for salo to only thoso moni ‘who would como forward and buy it for shipmont, thoy wounld only bufl when it bad ' accumulated hero to suc) an oxtent a8 to be sold cheap—st their own prico. As it ia now, loro ia & constant market, and if thoy aro not roady to take it, speculators aro, nud thoy keop it up to » prico bighor than tho country shippora would be gblo to gos for it, oxcopt in raro inatancos, whero thoro was & gearcity or competition among buyors for actual consumption, Ir. How—A groat deal of corn is held by farmors in this Stato at 60 cents a bushel, It is worth §8 and 60 for Mny dolivery, and_deal- ors in tho country ara able to contrack for it, and gell it horo at o profit of & cont or two a bushel. Tho farmors could not.soll it if tho dnnlava hed ok fha privilngn of solling it aboad. FUTURE DELIVERY. Reporter—About what porcontage of tho grain that comes hore is sold for fitture delivery? ‘Mr, Bonsloy—I should sny fivo-eighths of it. Mr. How—It is vory lnrge, and very difficult to estimate it accurately, 1should ssy from oue- bhalf to two-thirds. THE MODUS OFERANDT, Reportor—What is tho procoss by which that ia nccomplished ? How doos_the man who buys grain in the country operato ? Mr. How—The furmors come to tho stations, and go to the grain-dealer and any, “‘I want to goll 60 much corn to be delivered next week or ‘noxt month, or in s month or two ahead; what will you givo mo for it ?" Tho dealor gots his circular or mowspapor, aud looks ovor tho prico in Olicago_sud makes up his mind ebout what ho can afford to poy sand, if ho buys it of tho farmer, ho tolegraphs to his commission man horo to soll so much—say 5,000 or 10,000 bushols—1io arrive at such » time. Mo kuows what lio is doing, and, by eolling beforo Lo bus actually bought all tho graiu, bo avoids taking tho chances of the markot. Reporter—As o genoral thing then the farmer would not bo able to got a8 much money_from the country buyer for bis grain, if the buyer \;ate nat al ‘lo tfl:seu ahead, knowing just what 0 can pay for it. BMr. ]yn\faley——No, becauro all tho options sold ahond aro nlmost always sold ata premium sbove, th:dpravumng Prico of grain at tho timo’ tho i lo i3 mado. TLLOSTRATION, Mr. Bow—Take com for Mey. The extra storage from the 16th of April to tho 1st of Ma ia 83¢ conts o bushel. It docs nob coAt the deal- or in the countr ! olr !tlm {m‘mnfl hunylhl;gflm ‘earry it, oxcept Lisinterest, sudlo gets the Sonant of tho bxér storaga, “That is hia objoct in gelling it for May. 'CORN OLD FOI MAY DELIVERY. . Ite{mrtur—%lol\lv mm;h corn do you think is now sold for May doliver; > o ometoy At Jonst 2,000,000 bushels, and tho farmers will rocoivo an -‘average of 0 conts & bushiel’ more for it than they would if they had Siltwell, who was tha Presidont of tho banl, . that district in Congross'. onco, and aftorwards, :ont. it'in to bodoliverod at tho time of sell- it “%Ir. How~—Yes, and thero is this additional ad- vantago: tho condition of tho corn.will bo so much bettor in May, that a much larger portion will pass_as No. 2 than if brought in during the winter 'ho vory snme corn that will inspect as No. 2 in My, when_dotivorod Lero, will now in- spoct ouly a8 new No, 2, which solls at the samo Prico a8 old rejected, or 103(@1le loss than tho May option to-day, 1t thus makes a difforence of 11 contas bushel in favor of tho country denlor, and therefore to the farmer, on all tho corn, tat in sold for delivery in My, ine stend of in Josuary or Tobruary, For ' the eamo lot of grain® ho can oL cots o bushel moro by contracting to sell May, thon Lo can to soll now. 1t mattors nob whothor that prico bo Enid dircotly from Chicago to tho farmer, or to the man in tho country who buys the grain from him, becango thoro is always sufficlont compstition smong the buyers from tho farmors to make thom give within a small tlrnmon what tho grain can actually bo sold for. - BPECULATION MAKFS COMPFETITION. Mr. Bonsloy~Thoy get 4 or bconts o huehel moro, on account of & speculativo markat, Bpeculation in grain heve tokes the placo that spoculation in stocks and gold doos in Now York, Roportor—Doing awny With speoulntion, then, would drive off much capital? Mr. Ilow—Yos, 1t makos compotition in the buying of grain, and ostablishos highor pricos, Taoplo would be surguluod at tho extont of tho spoculativo oloment in this market. Wo daily xacoivo tolograms from Liverpool, London, Cun- ada, and from ail over thie country, ordoring tho buynm,nud solling of grafp, If thoro woro no epaculation, the money of theso pooplo who aro reprosented hore would bo'kept .at Lomo or go somowhere eleo. Iundreda of thousonds of dol« Jars aro sont hore as soourity for tho porform- anco of contracts mado on the Board of Trade, DENEFIOIAL EFFEOTS DURING TiLE PANIO, Mr. Bonsloy—Tho mmount of money bolong- {ng to outelde pertios, hold by commistlon mou hore ay security for tho porformance of their contracts, {8 vory large, It was the ono thinj that, moro than anything olso, ennble Oufcago to go through tho lato panio without having rocourso to the jsaue of loan certitlcates or compromising tho indebteduess of ber merchouts {n any way whatover. I wad that which mado Ohicago a monoyad contro, while the peoplo of othor cltlos had to contont thomeolves with trw.!lufi 1 paper and paying thoir debts with nothing but promisos to pa; EVIL EFFEOTS OF TIE IROTOSED LAW, Reportor—What would bo the offect of the law if it was passed and enforced ? [ A, Bonsloy—It would bo ditaatrous to tho ine torestn of tho Wost and Northwost if this spoou- Intivoolomont wore taken out of this market, Toportor—Do you think such & last conld bo onforcod? iy i YORMER LEGIGLATION, Mr.«How—Wao_had prioh. a law in 1871, but it waa ropealod, and forty or, fifty of tho mombois of tho Doard woro arrostod and talion bofore a Juatico of the Poace. Ono of thom asloed’ tho Jugtico If ho thought the partios would have to dalivor tho {doutical proporty—take it hito tholr oftioers and doliver {t. o repliod *You," aud you can seo_what a blg fool ho was, for could’ 10,000 buskels of cora or 1,000 hogu bo delivered in'this offica? That tho lnw snld tho possossion of n warchionse rocolpt wag no ovidenco of own- arahip—no ovidence of proporty oxinting § buk to corn itgolf would haveto bo takon to tho buyer aund delivered to him. It was ro- ponlod whon its nbsurdity was found out, Thoro was a ponnlty attachod for viola- $lon of ita provisions, ono-half thiofine to go to tho informor. A follownamed Goodrich wont on "Chayge and took names, thinking ho was golnr to mnko a big thing, Thoso nrrosted gave ball, sud wanted Goodrich to do tho same to soonro his appearanco, but Lo went away, and tho cages nover camo up for trinl. Mr, Bonsloy—I do not think it conld boen- forced, P Mr. How—Nolthor do'I, 4 Roporter—What do you think of iia offoot ? Mr., How—It would DESTROY THE AMARRET, Tho warchouses would bo fllled up, and any ono could buy at his gwn prico, Thora s o groat denl of busluess dono In whont dircct with Now York.. Ordors come for 16,000, 20,000, 40,000, or 00,000 - bushela of No. 2 to: arrive by cars. Mon go on tho markef, and buy 1t up to moot tho rales, and thia ia what kaps tha inrkot trong oll tho whilo. Tho grain bns Dboon Hold in New York, and is bought here and nh;x[mod. r. Bonsloy—If thoy had not tho opportunity to soll for future _dolivery, others would como for small.lots, and it could bo bought for a much less price. Mr. How—Yes; and if aman went into the market, and bonght - 40,000 or 50,000 bushols, ospocting to ko tho chenoos, 1io would went & lorgo margin, Now, he tolugra he to Now York “goll " and gote tho answer * sold,” and knows what to do, and ho takes tho chances, A OARIL DABIS. nu{)‘nrtm\—flnnld tho business bo carried on on o cagh basia ? 3 - MMr. How—A small business. only could bo dono, and there would not bo much uso fora Board of Trade. MR, OULDERTSON' VIKWE, Tho reporter next saw Mr, Oulbertson, of Cul- ‘bortson, Blair & Co., provision doslors. Toportor—What do you thiuk of the proposed “Qptlon” law? - Mr. Oulbortson—1I think it is ahsurd, Toporter—\Would it bonefit Chicago ?. Mr. Culbortson—No, It would bo a dotrimont to overything. - 1t would destroy, businosa haro, and everywhore else in-tho 8tate, and materiatly injure. tho intorosts of thoso who do businoss with the Board of Trado, o Toportor—Would thoro be any Board of Trado i1 such a law was enforcod ? . . TIE 110G BUBINESS, Mr. Oulbertson—No. Rivomen could do- all tho business. Why, no one could do suything, You could not buy a picce of real estate or build ® hiouse ; the Governmont could uet buy pro- visions ; and, instead of over 1,000,000 Logs being packed hore, 100,000 would bo » big num- or, TRoporter—What proportion of tho packinj busiuees ia dona in g Lfims ? % e Nr. Oulbortsou—About nine-tonths, Roportor—Wouid tho producer gob 88 much for his goods if cash wera paid him? Bir. Culbortson—No ; not by ono-third. No- body can pay cash for overythung. Toportor—Have you hoard of any ono who is in favor of the law? . . Mr. Culboitson—No, and I don't bolieve any follow takes stock in it who has anpthing tolose. GENERALLY REGAIIDED A8 ADSURD. Tho statoments of the other gentiomon whom the roportor saw wero substantially the samoae thoso given ; and it in safe to say that tho law is rognided by all interested partics as absurd, ond that, if passed, it would bo a doad lotter. THAT YANKTON DUEL. Adventurcs of an giish Nobleman. From_the Omaha Kepublican. B A cortaln English nobleman,whols temporarily sojourning in Americs, with his headquartors in this city, was in Yaoklon, Dokota, o short timo ago, passing & fow days thero and maling in- vestments in oity lots, of which Lo now holds ninotoon. In tho courss of his business traus- actions, Lo found it necossary to Lave s fow German words translated into English. Em- lnylng a Teouton for this {mrpuuo, he was justly ind| Ynnnfi when the translgtor chareed him $20 for less than threo minutes’ work. In Wostorn arlance, ho **kicked ™ against tho bill, and ro- F\Ianfl to pay it. Tho German then tlroatened to sue tho nobleman for tho bill. That such a disgraceful event'should happon to him in that l:h'nugo American city horrifled him-in tho ex- rome, ‘But just horo mattors took o strango and pe- culiar turn, _Tho nobleman wag boardiug at tho Merchants’ Hotol, and there ho had made n number of porsonal acquaintaucoeg among the boardors. Theso gontiomen, hofging of tho {lroatanod suit, interfored, and put up & joke on tha represontativo of English nobility, for it was not often that thoy had a gonuine John Bull nobloman to play tricks upon. Thoy went to the Gorman, told him his bill was too bigh, asked him to make it ressonablo, recoivo tho reduced smount, and challonge the nobleman to deadly combat bocsuse of his re- fueal to pay the claim as ot firat prosonted, The Gorman agreed, and, after sottling tho bill’ with tbo nobloman, ho challenged tho Iattor. When lhe recoived the “noto of honor™ Lo was mortally frightoned. Tho couraga of tho anciont Britons bud gradually thinned out in the ling of his doecent, until ‘our Lero had Pm\fio\m littlo of it in_his voins. Thon his ¢ frionds " camo “E’ and Lo told to them the difticnlty in which hio waa placed. They prom- ised to stand by bim ; told him to *bo brave,” and to teach the low-born Gornn a lesson, But ho couldn’t viow the affair in that light. o had an uncontrollablo desire just thon to sce his family away_ncross the wator. He feared to stand up and bo shot at, nover having smolled ganpawder, and what to do ho didn't know. His_ frionde bracod him up Sually, and took him ot for n walk through tho suburbs of tho clty. The closo corner that he was in pressed so hoavily upon his mind that he foilod to notico his sur- roundings until he was out of the cily and in'the opon country. ’ % Thon when he was bemoaning the evil fato that Jured bim - into such an embarsassing placo, he was suddenly confronted by Lis autagonist, who flourished s “navy " in ench band, and in nloud and angry manner demanded that tho nobloman; sbould get rendy for tho affeir of honor. Ilis frionds_woro_closo about him, and thoy whispered to bim words of encouragemont. But loeried out, “Oh! do letmego ‘omo andget my pistol,” Onegontloman wont around on his bip, snd, pulling out & revolyer,unid, Hera's o good one,” And snother friond mado tho same pifor. Qur nobleman, Lowever, wantod the revolver ihat ho had ‘st 'ome.” Tho gentlomen with him wore dotormined that he should fight the ducl thon snd thoro. A'ro- volver was forced into dus hand, and & friond flanked him on cither side. Ho stood trembling in overy joint, and in a quivering voleo was sonding mousngos through bis buckors to his flflcrdn ‘tn England, in caso ho should fall in tho uel. Tho revolver was in his right ‘hond. The rlond on his right ralsod up hisrightarm (he way too frightencd to raige it himself) and thd word “fire" was givon. The gentloman shut his oyes, his friond who was holding kis right arm gave it n sudden Jork, and, somghow or othor, the ro- volver want off. Tho Gorman firad i tho air. ‘Pl nobloman dropped tho revolver, clipped his honds on his broast, and, falling back, exclaim- ed: *My God! I'm dead!” “I'ho frionds of the noblemon thon declared that tho affair had gono far onough, and the German said bis honor was satisfied. Ho thoy all returned to Yankton, and the joko bacoming apparent to the nobleman, ho romoved from tha Morchants’ to the Bt. Charles Hotol. T'ho affair bocoma known to the oficers of tho 1aw in the evening, aud thoy continued the joke on tho foroign spoculator in land by getting out }mgluru for his arrost, Hoaring of .this, ho flod n hinsto from Yankton, loaving & vory hand- goma carringe robo bohind him, ° Our nobleman fled to Sloux City, and thonco camo by tho firat traln to Omaha, Where he is now jonging for his oarriage robe, butis afrald to go for it: E o ———— o ‘Woodoen Shooss . Wuo}lun #Looa aro highly recommondod by the agricyltural sooleties and” Governments of Tu- rop; t is shiown that many disessos, result- ing in impairod constitutions, sud evon in the 1oss of Jifo, havo resnlted from wosrlug loathor shoos in wet weather, * A praotical workman from Franco has beon called rocontly to Gor- many to superintoud tholr munufacturo, ~They axo light wud casy Lo woar, sud provided with o small cusbion within tho uppor slda to obvisto any pressure on that part of tho foot, They aro of 8 neat, ploasant appesranco, blackened or var- nished, large onough to accomwmodato comfort~ ablo stockings, sud provided with loatler straps. Their pricoa rango from 24 to 80 cents, mu vary fow pairs would last a lifotime. MR. LINCOLN. Hus, 'Lincoln’s Donind of the Corroctness of Statoments Attributed to Hor by Mr. Herndon. Mr. Herndon's Reply to_ That Deniale. His Interview with Mts. Lin- + coln in 1866. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bins 1 dolivered a looturo in this city on tho 12th day of Docombor Inat, and to whicb, or part of which, I undorsiand that-Mrs. Lincoln has takon somo excoption. ‘T wishio stato tho oxact truth in rolation to this mattor, so that tho pub- liomay undorstand,—know what to veliove and who to bolieve, by About the yoar 1865 I finally dotermined to -~ WRITE THE LIFE OF MIl. LINCOLN, tho tonderest, tho kindost, bost and noblest of men, ovor doing and oxecnting the good, the just and truo to men in sll the paths andvalks of lite. In fact, ho was tho Patriot of Patriots; and now, a8 such, ho looms up against tho deop bluo among the grandest figures of the ago. Tho quick failure of Lamon's Life of Lincoln— its speedy ropudiation by tho public, caused in part by its being tamporod with about the timo it wont to pross, and by its wrong and injustico donoe to the great dead—has only intensified my original iden to writo tho life of Mr. Lincoln, Lot mo say horo, once for all, that I am not one of the nuthors of Lemon's Life of Lincoln. I nover wrote a sontonco or a word for tho biogra~ ohy. I am quoted Ly Lamonm, and to- thnt oxtent X am responsible, and no furthor. It is probable that I nevor shall rost satisfled till T write tho life, Haviug this detormination to write the lifo of Mr. Lincoln, and having hoard— 88, about ona y8ar after tho doath of tho Prosi- dont—that Drs, Lincoln had arrived in tho eity, and waa stopping at tho 8t. Nicholas Hotel, I CALLED ON 1ER, and, aftor tho usual running remarks about her hoalth, oto., I mado known my purpose snd pinng, T atated to hor that X intended to write thoe lifo of hor Lusband ; and, if sho wonld con- sent, I should lito to have womo facts—n short hluwrfi of horsoll—to insort in tho mumphfl' ho romarked to mo, in sub- stance, that it was not usual to montion tho faots—tho listory of tho wife—in tho biography of hor husbaud, further than to say that the two ‘wore married at such timo and place,” and to which I roplied: **That is trua as a genoral rule, but thon thoro are excoptions to this rule, and should bo.,” At my epecial request, au aftor yomo argument, slio.at Inst consouted to givomon DRIEF MISTORY OF NER LIFR, I got pou, pencil, ink, and papor, drow up o amnll table, and beeama proparod to take down, ns woll as I could, tho substance of what sho enid. Blo commonced as follows, which I took down with care: 1 was born on thoe 19th doy of Docembor, 1825, in Lexington, Fayotto County, Ky. -Ama_daughtof of THobort B, aud Kiize Todd, mbkien nama Eliza Parker, By motlier died whon I 'was very young. Was edu- cated by Mma, Montelle, a Erench lady, opposite Mr. Oiayle, Sl fas woll clucated ; vwas renich ; wpoko nothitig elso; achiolara mot. allowed to, Finfubod my education at Ward's Academy, Fooplo from tho Nortl Visited Loxington, Wont toschool Loro, I camoto Tilinols in 1837, Was in Illinols threo monthe. Went back to Kentucky, Want ta_ achiool two yoars after T Hieat camo to Illinole. or 0. 2ol I roturncd to Illinols in 1839 ‘Thia woa after Mra, Wallace camna out to Tili~ My husband intended, when ho was through with Lis Prealdential term, 0 take mo aud fumlly to Eu- ropo. Dldu't In late years droam of death—was cheory, funny, = . LIVED I 110K TIRITS, Ho intended to.return and go to California over the Rocky Mountains, aud sco thg pgpspucts of the soldiers, otc,, digging out gold Lo’ puy tho nutional dobt, Ho and Sunimor wore ko boys during (he Inst dsys of thio Tighelion, _Thoy were down on tho river after TRichmond was takeu thoy acted Liko Loys; wero Ho hoppy, 80 glad, tho war was over, Mr, Lincoln, up to 1869, wanted 10 live {n Springtield, Lis old hone, and Do burled thore, Ohanged Ll opinion—votion whera tolive, Nover sottled on any placo particularly, In- tonded moving and traveliug sowe, Br, Lincoln was THE EINDEST MAN and most Ioving husband and father in the world, o gave us all unbounded liborty. Sufd to mo nlways, whon Tusked for_anything, *You know what you Waut,—g0 and got t.” 1fo never asked mo If it Wwaa neeessary. 1io wad vory, exceodingly indulgent to his children chidod or praféed them tor what thoy did— thelr acts, otc, Ho plways sald : * It §a my ploasuro that my childfen aro frec, happy, and unrestrainod by pa- tornal tyronny. Lova s tlig chain wheroby to bind & il to lla puseate” avo nono of my lerary acraps, pooms, composi- Honm, szcapt X koW tha Bhietds poctry. (Wbich 16 33 ollovws ; Yo Jows-tincps, awako, Tho A—8 won, Robeces, tho widow, Lus gained Erln's son Thio prido of the North, from Emerald Islo 18 buen wooed aud won. by a woman's sinfle, o combit'a relinquisliod—old love all fought To the widow Li'sbound ; o, bright be his ot | In tho emiles of tho conguicst 5o laicly achioved, Joytul bo bia bride, Widowoed modesty relieved. Tlio footataps of Uimo tread lightly on flawors, May tho cares of tho world nu'er darkon bis hours, But (he pleasuros of lifo are ficklo aud coy ‘As tho siniles o€ o iuidon sent off to deatroy, appy groom! In suduess, for distant froin thee, o fair girls dresm ouly of pust times of gleo Eajoyad i thy prosenco—whilab. tho ofi-blsrmoyod o oro Will ba fondly remomberod o relica of yoro; And hands thot in rapturo you oft would hsve pressed, In prayer will bo clasped that your lot moy bo blessod, “ CaTHLERN, This picco of pootry, to which Mra, Lincoln re- forred, but did not ‘quote, will bo fouud in Lamon's Life of Lincoln, at page 259. It PARTLY LED TO TUE LINOOLN-SHIELDS DUEL. Mrs. Lincoln continuod : - Mr. Lincoln had p dream wh ity Polat, aftor THebmond wes taban 1o Jiver ot thot tho White Houso hud baraed-up, Heut. ';ff‘;“fi% the river tosco. Wont. ‘Mot Stsuton on the way down, DIr. Lincoln told me to get s part down, which Idid, - A5HE A e Br, Lincoln found out that —— ——— was steal ing, as he thought, t’l:n jubldo monoys, Intonded to turn bim out. My husband placed great coufidenc “{n my Kniowlgdge 5f Luman nature, 110 hsd B0ENAGH Xuowlodga of men, Our oxpenacs ot thio White Houao wero sbout’ $10,000 [2] per mouth, breakfasted at 9 o'clock g, m., lunched b3 o'clock p, ‘m., dined at 8 p. m. Mr. Lincoln got uj Irrogularly 1 saw' (o peoplo; atlendca tho Lospital, ote, ete, 1o said i ' " np wouLp TuRN sLwAID oUT 4 whion peace was dsclared. Hated Androw Johnson, Ouco only Johuson followed Mr, Lincoln, when Lo 8ald: @ Why {a this man following nio? " i Alottor of Mr, Lincolu's to anu gol out in tho srmy. Mr, Lincoln was tender, otc. ‘Our dinnors cost us $500, for friends, diplomatic corps, otc, Bomotlines thero wora twenty-four of the Todd conueetions or fmily at ouce at our, table, —— —— wifo's conduct wlale in Washingtod was oxtremely bad, Br, Lincoln had a kind of poetry in biu naturc, Ha ‘was o terrlbly Orm man whon e sot his fool down. Nono of 18—no man nor woman-—could rule him af~ tor ho Lisd mado up bt miud, 1 told him about Sow- ard's intention lo rule him, Hosaid: *Isholl ruld myselt ; shall obey my own cousclonco, and follow God fuit» 3ir, Lincoln had g 3 NO 1fOPE AND NO YAITIT, in tho usnal accoptation of theso words, o was a re- lglous man always, ns I {hink and boliovo, ifhs frst thought—to esy think—sbout this subject was when ‘Willlo dled—novor before, 1o folt roligious morw than over about tho timo he went. to Getlyub: not a tochnleal Chrlstion, o road tha a good deadin 1864, M, Sumner and Mr, Lincoln wero great chums aftdr thoy boeame sequsiitod with ous zuotlor, They watched cach otlor closoly. _Down at City Point ouca Andy Johnson followod ué, Was drunk, A, Lincolu ‘or God’s sake doi't ask Jubnson to dine with No, don't,” sald Butner, sad 1did not sk him, 0 . T often sald_that God would uot lot any Liarm camo tomy husbond. Wo had passed through five long yourd—torriblo, bloody years—unacathiod ; so_ that I tlought 50, Ho did Mr. Lincoln, e was Lapvyin Luls Jdoa—was cheorful, almost ~joyous, as ke gob grad- uully 10 6eo the end'of tho war, Lused to road uowspapor charges—nowpapor at- tacka on lim, Hoauld : ¢ Don't ao that, for 1 haye onough to boar—yot I caronothing for thom. I I'n right 18 live ; i 1'ni worong, 1L die anyhow: do lot thiom pags uunoticed.” I would playfullyuay, * hat's thio way to lea read Lot sides,” Ay, Lincoln's maxim ond philosophy wore, WUAT 18 TO Uit-WILL DE, and no cires (prayors) of ours ca nrset the decreo, T conld tell \hen Mr, Lincoln bad decided anything, 1Mo wus cheorful at firet; tion ho pressed or cous- rosied Lus lipa Ugltly, brmly, ono sguinut tha ottiory \¥hon thieuo things showed thetsolves to o fastioned mysolt accordiugly, and 2o did &l olhots arouud Liavo lilm o do sovuer or Iator, and they would find it out, Whou wa first went to Washington muny persons thonght that Mr, Lincolu was wenk, but ko rose grand- ly with tho ciroumstances of thu case, nud mex soon learned that e waw above them all, 1 nover saw a man’a mind dovelop iteolf 80 fuely—his maunces gob quito polishied, 1o would say to e, when I talked to Lim about Ohaso und thoso others who did him evll 410 good to thosa Who Lufo you sud turn thelr fll-wil to riendalip,” Sometimas in Wuslinglon, elug worn dawn, ha spoke orabbedly to mon, hurubly o, and yet it socined tho poople underatood (ho condfilous around and forgave, T am moro than glad thnt Mra, Lincoln has, by tho forco of hor loitor of deninl, horeinufter montionod, drawn this record from tho bad influenco of timo, miat, and rats; In my locture of Doo, 13, 1878, Tusod tho followlng BUSTANTIAL EVIDENOE ai | or testimony of Ars, Lincolu. Itis oa follows, urg. o wun | Dfilln oot and takgn from tuo abovo evidonco of Mra. Lin- coln; : Br, Linooln had no hopo and no faith, in tho usual acceptation of theso words, and Lincoln’s maxim and hilosophy wore, what ia to bo will bo, and no cares prayors) of ourn can arrost tho dooreo, B, Lincoln nover joinod any _ohurch, 1o -wan a roligions mon, always, as I think, Jia first thoughi—to eny think—about this subject, was whon Willlo died,—never beforo, 1fo read tho Biblo & good deal fn 1804, i felt roligious mora than evor about tho ttma lio wont to Gottyshurg, Mr, Lincoln was not a toch- nical Obristian,” T told him about Bownrd's intontion. Tio eald: I sliall rule mysolf—shall obey my own conselonco and follow God In it,” etc,, ete, -~ Mrs, Lincoln, on ronding or hoaring of m: lacturs, wroto & lottor to tho Hon, Jobn 1, Btunrt, of thin oily, in which sho saya that the Inngungo atiributod tohorls TERVELTED, PALAE, otc, oto. Mr, Biuark was dlrooted to sliow {hla -lottor ‘"around, which I supposo wog woll dome. I kmow it I8 telo- grophed nll ovor tho country that no con- vorsation evor took place at tho Bt. Nioholas otel or othor place, betweon AMra, Lincoln and mysolf, touchin, r. Lincoln's religion, - &o. Blio, il tho Stuart Iottor, oxnrossly admits a con~ vordation, and eays that Br, Stuart came fato tho room whilo I was taking down thio subatance of tho convoruntion, but that it wna stoppod— susponded during bie stay, This I underatand from Hfr. Btuart, if I romember correotly. Yow- over, Mr, Linooln doos oxprossly and oxplicitly uny fhat tho quotation in my looturo i porvort- :g:mtfl‘l;n, &o. Hor languogoe s goneral aud not’ Docs Mra, Lincoln mean to say that the quo- tation fn_my locturo, and given above, in & per- vorglon—n talao statomont of her conversation just rolatod, and as rolated? If ko, it only noods o comparison of Lor ovidence and tho quots~ tion, which arc placod horo face to face to bo comparad. If that is hor meaning BILE I8 MISTAKEN, for, on comparison, they aro one and tho samo. But if she moans t6 out deopor, and say that tho above convorsation, aa woll ra the quotation, i false, porvortad, &o.,—not what shie did truly Bny,—thon tha prosents o quostion of caro on my partin taking down ler testimony, nnd a quiostion of memory, &o., on bor port. ' I took all duo earo in Enm“g the substanco of whatsho snid. I stato that I was careful ns usual in such casos whon “aubstanco was sought, and I aver it was correctly dono. I aoted in all matiors with hor and othora in porfest good fath, It is noarly oight years sinco I took. down hor testi- mony.’ To put tho nbove quotation, taken from my locture, in another form, ¢ 2 IX QUESIIONS, will show the folly, the spasmodic madnoss, of hor donial, _First.—Doos Mrs. Liucoln mosu to may that Mr. Lincoln had hopo nnd faith in tho Bpiritusl Unsoon, ia tho usual nccopta- tion of these words? Bhe knows bottor, and g0 doos tho world, Second—Doos sho moan to say that Ar, Lincoln had no beliof in Nature's laws, of, in othor words substontially, * Wlat is to be will b, oto.?” Third—Doos she mean to say that Mr. Lincoln joinod a church? Fourth— Doos sho menn to Bay that Mr. Lincoln was not B roligious man always, 88 gho thought? Zifth —Daes sho moan to eay that Mr. Lincoln did not first think—to say think—about tho subject of ‘roligion was when Willio died, —nover bofore? Sixth—Docs sho mosn to say that Mr, Lincoln did .not read the Biblo n good deal in 1864 7 Seventh—Doos sho mean to eay that Mr, Lincoln did not feol moro ro- ligious than ever nbout the timo ho wont to Got- tysburg ? Eighth and lastly—Doos sho moan to #ay that Mr, Lincoln was & tochnical Christisn Andanined o church ? Tho donial of tlicse prop- ositions singly, tho goneral doninl of the quota- tion spokon of, is nu nflirmation that tho oppo- sito or contrary ig truo. WELL-XNOWN FACTS,— woll-known history, boar lior out? Tor all this world her friends would not lot her answor thess ucstions. 'Che mannor and method of putting ho thing at fivet blush shows the folly of sucl a donial. Tlor objection may bo to the ngplienthm .made by myself of the maxim, *Whatis to be will bo,” &c., to the idea of Ohristian prayer, orin other words to this sontence of the lecture, *aud if this is—taking Mra. Lincoln's words as truc— what bocomes of .tho Ohristinn idea of prayer? What hecomes of Nonh Brooks' cant and twaddlo about Lincoln's praying ?” &o., &c. - Until T know what Mrs, Lincoln moaus ; ill moro cortaln, and_specific_donisls and ohargos are mado by Mrs, Liucoln, I wish to say no mora at presont on this questlon, 1 hope sbe -will write o lotter defining herself and making dircot ohorgos. By all mosns, lob ug hovo such a let- tor. It will bo important and interesting to tha ronding world, Youra truly. W. H, HERNDON. SrINariLD, i, Jan, 13, 1674, . PERSONAL. * A Soul Saved, by Gail Hamilton,” is an I tependent hoading, L —A rumor comes from_Philadelphin that Asn Packer {s to succeed J. Edgar Thomson ns President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany.—Pitisburgh Telegraph. —Vinnio Ream is to *‘bust” another—the Mayor of Braoklyn. . . —Benntor Sumner attained his 63d birthday on TFriday last, % ~—James E. Harvoy now denios that he is to become oditor of the Philadelphia New Age. —Teabolln Boecher Hooker and Susan B. An- thony nro going to travol togethor. —\William B. Robinson (Warrington) and fam- ily loavo Boston for Europe the last of Jauuary, to bo absont govoral months. —A., B, Johnson, who was formerly Mr, Sum- ner's Privato Socretary, and_las of late beon editing a nowspaper in New Jorsoy, will 8000 ro- turn to his old position as Chief Olerk of tho Light-Houso Board. Z.Goorgia popors are Talling upon Aloxander H. Beophion to rasign his placo in Congrous, _William H. Hazard, for many years proprio- tor of_ the Atiantio Hotel, Nowport, R. L., com- mitted suleido in that city \Sundey by drowning in o cistorn, —Moses Bigelow, who was Mayor of Newarl, N. 3., from 1857 to 1865, dicd in that city on Baturday, oged 79, —Tho ‘*smicablo adjuster” has swung around to Bavaunal, Ga., whoro he xecontly convinced Col. A, R. Lamar and Maj. A. Il Calhoun that thoy didn't desire to puncture each other with n bullot at ton pacos. * . —Gov. Booth's mother prosides at his ro- coptions.—Indianapolis Sentinel. The writer of tho abovo lacka information, Gov. Booth's ‘mothor prosides at hor husband's tabl Honte.~Terre Haute & 8 e s Ton azette, - —Tho Kookuk Gale Cily says that the H @7 NoGrary isnot o candiaato o Govarmon: "John'R, Bharpstein, of. San Franoisco, has boen nppointed by Gov. Booth s Judga of tha District Conrt vico McKinstry elocted to the California Suproma Court. Judgs Sharpatoin formerly lived in Wiscongin, was mombeor.of tho Legislaturo, United Stafas’ District Attornoy, Postmaster of Milwaukoogditor of tho Milwau-~ koo News, ote,, aud moved to Californis in 1864. —Tho Prosidont of tho Maryland Sensto is o great-grandson of tho distingmished Obiarles ‘Gauroll,” of Carrollton, the wounlthicst. and last survivor of tho signors of the Doclaration of In- dopondence. Br. John Leo Carroll is the first of his family that bas mingled in public lifo ‘miuco tho timo® of his great ancostor. In' tho ovont of tho .cloction” of tho prosent Governor (Whyte)'_to tho ,United - Btatos_ Bonate, . which Booms now ulmost cortain, tho Prosidout of the | Scunto will hold tho ofiles of° Govornor for the unexpired- torm, ending Jan.'1,°1870, Mr. Oar- soll murrlod tho' dauglter of . Mr. Royal Plolps, of Now York. Hois o young wman, about 88 yonrs old, highly educated, able, and smbitious, and fe’ considored tho rising mnn of tho Demo- oratio party in Marylaud. S Axoeont good ot of Gov. Baoth, of Calitornis, was tho appointment to tho vacant Judgeship o the T'welfth District Cotirt of tho Hon..Jobn R, Bharpstoin, who, somo ton {nm‘s ago, went out {thoro frous Wikconsin, In iho lattor State he 1nd oconpiod many official positions, aud won tho estocm of groat numbors of pooplo. e was & lending cditar; o Inwyor of rank; and n poll- tician abovo tho common ordor, Ue lost his hiond ns Postmastor of - Milwaukee by roason of iy siding with Douglas as againat Buchanan. On asconding the Bench Judgo Sharpstein wai. flnttnriugl{ roceivod by the Bar; and one of the San Francisco papors _seys, that he has a fine bond, and looks the Judge wore than any man in the Judlolary of that Stato, ~Lutler's surronder to tho Southon the Civil- Tights bill is tho firss step towsrd the Proai- doney. What ho now wents {8 home-strength, ond thisho will got noxt fall, by rotiring from tho Gubernatoriel contest in Masssohusetts, and olacting Alexander 11, Rice, who has horototora boon arrayed ngainst him, Butler will himsolf. bo ro-clocted to tho Iouse, and ko will permit tho ro-olcetion of Cliarles Bunnor to tho Seuato, In this way ho oxpeots _to have tho support of Massechusette in the Prosidentisl Oonvontion ; at lenst go snya tho Washington correspondon of the New York Jlerald. 2 —The Ray, Thomas Hill, D, D., ex-Prosident of Tnrvard Coliogo, atatod at & recont temporance ‘meoting ot Portland, Mo., that in the cxporionca ‘of Lalf & century, in various places, hie biud nover S0on 8o many ytng mon jntoxioated and stag- | % goring through tho stroets as ho Lad seon n Dortland durlnE the past six months, And this, 110 unid, shook Lig faith in the offeots of a pro- hll:lwr{ layw to shut ug ll[]x‘pung bLousos, thoso dons of infamy whore drunkards aro made, He adjurod il young men to abstain entirely, and urged the frionds of humauity to groat offorts to kavo thodo young men from the dogradation and misory to which thoy aro fast doscouding, f fA!l'i THE COURTS. Scandalous Conduct of a Coon, Bankruptey Items---Now Suits--- Criminal Cases, A $6,000 goon. A ourlous snit for damages was on trial bofore Judgo Honton yosterdny. Tho action was brought by Olrlotto Colwoll againat Stophen Ladd. BSho atatos that on the 26th of August, 1873, sho was- living on Oampboll avenue, and thoro was & family in tho lowor part of the houso. On that aftornoon gho was atartlod by tho fami~ .1y down stairs calling out thatthore was & race ‘ooon coming up stairs. Tho next moment the animal bounded up and jumped on *her brenat. Blio ran:into an adjolning room, the raccoon following and jumpad on the bed, nnd was thoro, as eho charged, bitten on the' log. Sho finally "aucceoded {n catohing tho animal and holding it until a gentleman came in and relioved hor. At that time, sho alleges, sho was within o fow months of confincmont, and the fright cauned by tho bill mado Lor have a mig- carriago, whoroforo sho brings suit to recovor dumages, which aro Iaid at $6,000, i _GOODIION MOVES, A. Goodrioh, owlng to cortain seandalous de- volopmonts in Togard to i way of conducting divorco suits, hng found it too ot in the Superior Qourt bofore Judge Moore, and yostorday come menced two of hig %;hmt oages o formerly in the Circult Coust, brought thent'ln the lattor court, but not finding tho tmosphoro of Judgo Farwoll's room ab s ocongenial to bis fraudulent praoticos, changed to the Buperior Court, but is at last on with the old love. oss NITED STATES coune, o , Payson recoverod judgmont aguin Timothy Woraley for 16,000, i} ghinsd Gnaper 1., Oain, of Now Yori, flad a_patl asper L. Cohn, of New Yorl, filed a jaf nagninat A, A, Wisiall, olalimivg’ that m‘;“lncf:z ‘owea him 8502.50 for ‘goods #old. Cohn also charges Wiswall with making somo profcrential pnynionts, and says ho lns’ ndmittod that ho owas_ about 98,000, whioh ia past duo, and has soked an oxtonaion of ninety days, A rule to shiow causo on Jan. 20 was issued. Qlarke & Loutrol, of Now York, filed n poti- ton againet Jamos Thomas Dunlt, of Chicago, claiming that thoro I8 duo thom $988.57 for tons 80ld him. Thoy nlso claim that he is insolvent, and has sufforod lus proporty to be tfaken’ on logal procass, A rulo to show catso and pro- viglonal warrant of soizurc wora issued. Tu the mattor of Rouben Banrdsley ot al., leava was dflwn to apply for o disohnrgo, motwith- standing tho lapso of timo, BUPERION COURT IN IRIEF, Z Tho First National Banit-commanced o ault by - attachmont againat the F. B, Gardnor Company, olniming the large sum .of ~£41,622.21. The intorest. = Waltor .. Smith bronght o .suit in trospass against Josoph Miehlo and Emil M. Ullrich, aiming £6,000, = onry Davis bogan an action for $1,000against APV, Sklonore e ‘Tho Woukesha Natlonsl Bank siied Walter 8, Boglo for 81,000, S - 'Who First National Bank brought eult against Robort MoClelland, suryiving pariuor of D. L. Dolmeyor, claiming 816,000, Tho Fifth National Bank bogan an’action for 92,000 againgt Josoph E, Lung ; ngainst Edward B.'Rico for similar amount ; against Georgo A. Mareh and Mosos H. Goodrldgo” for §2,000, aud also agaiuat tho Chiengo, Danville & Vinconn Railrond Compnny for n like smount. wls H. 8, Halstod aued O. A. Blako, I'. M. White- Louss, T, B. Hoyt, aud Albers' 8. Bivord for 500 1. E. Perloy brought sult for $10,000 against Calb B, Atkine. Mary A. Johnston suod Robort B, Patker for 91,200, . OIROUIT COURT ITEMS. Bodo Hitlor commonced stit for 82,000 agalna$ Christian Koster. . - Josiah Grant, Jr., Alod a bill against O. W, Dosno and Bamuel i, Iluntor to romoyo an al- Togod cloud on his proporty of 74 acres in Towne ship 40, Renge 12, cnused by o contract made by one Jamos P, Prindlo to sald 0. W. Deane. ORIMINAL COURT. ~ Jobn Hanley was tried on an _indictment for n!s‘ntfl&‘ with a rovolver on ono Dalton, and ao uitte @ Jamos Rovnolds alins Bdwards, ploaded guilty to agsault on E. L. Smith, and was remanded. Marvin Palmer and Nnthaniol Thurston; the candy and phol&f;rnph lottery men, pleaded nok guilty to the indictmonts sgainst them. Thoir caso and the cases of all tho!}mrflns indicted for similar offonses will be called Monday. COUNIY COURT, In the estato of 1. N. Towner, a grant of ad- ministration was ;ivun to Henry A. Townor under a bond for £5,000 A grant of pdministration was issued to Pat- rlck ~Moran, on the cstato of George Francis Irvin, on o bond for 817,000, In tho mattor of tho town of Cicero, Edwin 8. 0Osgood, Clayton E. Crefton, snd Nelson U, Bas« sott wore appoiuted Commissionors for the as~ sossment of the cost of grading Twolfth strect from Crawford to Hyman avonucs. SUPREME COURT OF MICHIGAN. Special Dispatch to Phe Chicago Tribune, TANBINO, Mich., Jan. 16.—1ho following busi- Eouu was transacted by tho Bupreme Court to- oy : 38—Newell Darnard v, Qliartes Muye. Argued 43—3oscs Buck v, 62-~Frodorick Lo guod, ‘Theadore J, Campau and lam Smith. Argued. v. Daulel W. Porkins, Ar- THE EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES for ndmission to tho Bar toolk place this ovening, i THE CALL for to-morrow is ag follows : 50—yWillism Van Slckls v. The Peopts. 18—In tho mattor of tho appeal of Cathierine T, Came aran, ete, 28—Fredorick 0. Brown v, Ronsselacr Thompson and John 8, ''hompson. 65—viiliam 8, Scnmmon v. William O'Hfara, 66~H, Matilda Rogor v. Carrick B. Raudall. 7—3Mary J, Henry and Isano Houry v. Ldward B, Gregory, “Fownship Trusteo of the Township of Low- ! 68—Charlea Mosor v. Myron White, - 89—Froderiok Lambert v. Tho Veoplo, 8—Goorgo,W. Tecd v. Albert M, Drakie. 14—Henry P. Lansiug v. Zophanish Shorman. 15—Ads ', Blono v, Nichard Covell snd Mariin J, Covell, ( 43—0tvillo I, Miller v. Moraball Babeock, s e elieagicings Tobacco und ‘fobneco Smoking in A Spain. 3 Dr, Prime's “ The AlhamUra and the Kremlin,” Perbups. by advortising- & reward for the dis- covery, -it_might bo possible to find o man in Bpain who'does not smoke. Yet, strange to say, thio culturo of tobacco in Spain is forbidden-by law. Tho soil and climate uro favorable, and it cultivation lns boon a groat success. But by that kind' of logislation or decroo pogullas to - Spain, and _constantly rominding ono -of, tha * -Chinese, the mother country, Bpain, s probibite ed from raising tobageo in ordor that the daugh- Cuba, may have tho monopoly. Tho right of importation is sold to contractors, who make & greab busincss of it. In tho middla of tha fitoonth contury tho. Spaniards bogan to gol tobacco from’ America, and thoy have boon fumn;i' moro and. moro of- it over sinco, n 860, thoy smoked 7,000,000 ol~ gars, and olgars aro nob the 'thing ihey . usunlly smoke. Thoy have their tobacco rolled up in littlo bits of papor, and theso - thoy™ oarry in thoir pockots, with matches, Often thoy onrry tho tabneco And tho paper separatoly, ud make o cigarotto whon-thoy want it, making one whilo smoking another. Theso_intoresting manufactures aro not peouliar to Spain; they aro common in- our. own country, but not & gouoral. Tho woed is uscd only ., for smaking and Bnufflnfi in 8pain, I cannot loarn that it is chowod at afl. Obildren amoke at an earlier age in Spain thav in othor countrios. It {3 not uncommon - for them to bogin at 6, or ovon G yoars of ago. And they nevor leavae it off till thoy dio. Lnales smoke, Not often do wo sco thom wWith a-. cigaretto in their protty mouths on the streot or in the cara, but in tho tafo and in the drawing« room tloy onjoy it, s woll as in tho boudol oand the bath. By oool fountains, in a -marblo- paved patto, among tlio orango tros, or- lolling at noon on their silkou-hung couohes, they live 0 smolko, and their lords have spoiled their owt broaths and tasto too offoctually to ke any objeotion, Where both eat garlic it nmounts to | mundod—ZaCrosss Dewiocraly: == - the same thiug, N - Kailrond Edlotss An edlot has gono forth that any man fn the ‘omploy of tho Ghicago & Pacliio ]lillrund Com- pauy found, or kiown to bo, drunk or off duty shiafl bo Qlysmissed from sorvico, Iight.—Del- avan Republican. Yos, that 18 right onough as faras it goes. But thore should be s supplomental -ediot go forth that o railroad uml)lo yo who throws » passangor off thocars and Jills him, or offors to sell him yeanuts, should bo diecharged, or at loast ropris clnim is bagod on four notes of 810,000 each and * -