Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1874, Page 8

THE CHICAGO DAILY RIBUNE: MONDAY, JANUAKY 26, 1874 S p—— A WASHINGTON. (Contlnued from tho Ilest Pnge.) Administration Congressman than an artiat, es- pooinlly if you nre tlio ownor of & stonc-quarry. DUTLEN'S INTERNAL REVERUE GRAB, Tho invostigation of Messrs. Fostor, of Ohlo, and Becl, of Kontucky, sub-committco of tho Ways aud Moans Conunittos, to inquiye futo In- torinl Rovenuo aftaivs, i brlngln to light somo ningulae fecto, Awmoug othor thinge recontly doveloped inn little job whoroln Bon Butlor hag provided well for & porsonal friend, and without dotriment to his own pockot. Whilo the logis- lative, judiclal, aud oxecutiva approprintion bill was ponding in 1872, Den Butlor, and an ox- momber of Congrows from Now York of the nnme of Kelsoy, ondeavorod to svoure tho ndoption "of an amendment in comwittea to authorize and dircot the Becrotavy of the Tronsury to employ threo por- song to nt up nud colleck unpnid and unro- ported intornal rovenuo taxes, nllowing thom as 1 enso of informers a molety of one-half, Prior to tho adoption of this amondmont, thiaclass of businesscould bo done byanybody, Therecordsof 1 Probate Judgo's ofiice afTorded o good tiald for theao }mopla to work 1, as thoro could bu found oftteindly sot forth the facts with rogard to legas cies and bequests upon which the taxes had ot been paid. This was tbo somrco of (ho Ermclpnl part of tho rovonue dorived y profeseional informeys, 'This amendment was defeated through Gon, Qarflald’s apposition in tho ITouso Committeo. Dutlor and Kolsoy soenred ity adoption, howeveor, in the Bouale. “Whon it came to the louse, the lattor body ro- fueed to comcur, and it was not until iho DHl had Dbeen in the hands of {hreo successiva Conforance Committaen that tha Toueo fiually agreed to it, Undor the lnws thus amonded, Dutler securcd tho appointment ns ofticial informer of his friend Sanborn, of Now York., Kelsoy seourcd the appointmont of lns paviieninr friond, ond . tho third person is named Greon, aud lives in this city, Ssnborn hns been particularly active, and hns seenred the puymont of such taxes to the amount of £074,~ 000, ono-half of which of courge ho pock- eled, Tho other two have mobt been 80 aclive, but they lave dono prob- ably well. Sanborn wns recently arrested for colluding with a Collector in New Yorl, the ar- yangomont being that tho Colloctor would mnko it o point to fail oceasionslly to make eollec- tions, and_ Sanborn would make the collection snd tako his molety, dividing with tho Collec- tor, Ilis nrrest wins made at the instance of o District-Attorney. DButlor, however, imngined that Commiesioner Douglass was to bo ereditod with the arrost, and las throatened him with dismissnl it ho don't mend his ways, Thoro is n prospect that moro revelations of this sort will ho mnde bofore tho Bub-Committes have comploted their lnbors, ——— TRANSPORTATION. Special Dispateh to The Chicago T'ribune, MORTON'S BPEECH. Wasmxaton, D. C., Jan. 25.—Sonator Mor- ton states thiadin his forthcoming speoch ho will not undertake tho endorsoment of any particular ailrond line or scheme or proposition looking to an adjustment of tho Chicago transportation difficulty. The speech wilt be solely devoted to an oxomination of the question as to tho rights of Congross to put In oxecution tho results of their labors, in the shapo of auch s plan for the eolution of the vexod question as their investi- gatious may suggost to bo advisablo, ST, MILUIP OANAL. Gen. Humphreys, Chief of the Engineer Corps, will make his roport in s fow days. It will gou- \orally bo in favor of tho fonsibility and utility of the St. Philtip ship-canal near the mouth of tho Mississippl. Gen, Barnard’s report will favor o systom of jotties. SATUIDAY'S MEETING, The adjourned meoting of the chionp trausportation, which was_ anuouuced to Toliold nb tho Copital Saturday night, was a fail- ure, not moro than fiftoon Comgressmen boing presont. An attempt to rally members who are, or pretond to bo, interested in tho object of these moetings, will bo mnde next Saturday, The Domocratic minority of tho House Committco on Railronds and Canals, it is said, have agreed to dissent from tho action of tho Republican ma- jority in reporting Mr. MeCrary's Itailrond bill vith o favarablo recommendation. As party con- widorations knve thus been brought into action in connecction with the cheap-transportation question, it iy regarded as at least doubiful whether. the Saturday-night meotings osn be made harmovious and profitable. g BANERUPTCY SUITS. WORK ACCOMPLISHED UNDEL THE LAW OF 1807, ‘WasiiNatod, D. 0., Jan. 25,—The following is an oxhibit of proceedings in bankruptey in United Statos Courts, with a statoment of casos in bankruptey in said Courts, and their dispo- sition, from March 2, 1867, to Deo, 31, 1872 : Number of petitions filed in 1867, Number of petitions Aled in 186! Number of petitions filed u 1861 Number of petitions filed fu 187 Nwnber of petitions fled fu 187 Number of petitions filed in 187: friends of Total..., — Number of discharges grautod. Feos and expenyes of Assigntes, Tees and expenscs of clo Feon and exponises of Mathals, Tees and expentes of Rtegluters. 3iscellacous expense 9 1,001,654 1,708,146 105,608 Total expenecs. ... Number of casea pendin po o NOTES AND NEWS. Special Dispateh to The Chicaae Y'ribune. SOCIETY DOINOS AT THE CAPITAL. WasmiNaio¥, Jan. 26.—Wasnhington gaiety seems Lo have reached it8 highest point. Every varicty of entertainment and lato hours provail in the gay and fashionable world. The daly papers have sbout one column & day, aud the Sunday papors contain from two to four or five columus filled with socioty news, reports and an- uouncoments of parties, receptions, dances, ete. TUE DISTHICT OOVERNMENT, Judgo Wilson, of Indisna, will, it is under- slood, introttuce n joint resclution to-morrow, providing for the sppointment of & joint select committes of Congrees to make an investigation of tho churges agaivst tho District Goverument, Such w resolution will doubtless pass with but littla debate. ‘Che Sunday Herald, of thi clty, chinrges that the mamorinl racuutlg prosented by Souator Thurmau, setting forth the belief of tho peti tionors, residents of tho District, thut an investi- gation would devolop unplensant things with regard totho District Government, and asking that such an investigation bo ordered, is o beur movement, solely intonded to iuiluenco unfavor- ably the velue of District securitios, NEDUCTION OF 'THIE ARNY. ‘he burden of the testimony givon by ofcors of the regular aviny before thio Honso® Militury Comiuitteo with regnrd to a reduction of the army, has been unitormly agnnst such reduc- tion, while they say that it any cutting down is had ‘ot all it onght to be in tho steff and mot o the line of the army. They complain, especlally thoto who are fiold koldiur, that the siaff has always prospered at the oxponso of tho line, As it 1s a fact thnt the total “amount of the pay of tho oflicors of the army oxeceds somewbnat tho Lotal amount paid to eulisted mon, the complaint seems to Lo tolorably well grounded, GAUUIND THE MINORITY, The rocont nction of the Ilouso in pnssing a rulo to provent susponsion of the rules at any time nuless the motiou to suspond is scc- onded by 2 majority, is quite froely commonted on by old membors of tho Iouse, who see in 1t s ontrage unparalleled upon the vighlsof the minority. There are old Repnblican mombers, who remember the tinio when tho rule ns it stood Defore tho recent amendmout proved o valuable - protection to tho principles of right and Justice, to the defenso ~of which that parly In its onrly days was peeutiarly dovoted, During thio Kansna-Nobraska troubles, the Republicany, being then in s minority, by virtue of the rule Liold the Lone in tossion for thirty-oight hours on one oceasion, ‘Ihe presenco of s large num- her of new mombers who did not full{ approcinte the importanco of the rule, and who supposed that to follow DButler, Garfleld, Blaine, and Muynard was to bo loyal, was taken adyantage of {o push the amendmont through, If tho mnat- tor should bo brought up again, there is ronson to bolieve that- the recont action will be roscluded, [70 the Ansociated Press.) THE SUPBEME COURT. WasmINaTON, Jan. 26.—It is expected that tho Judgos of the Buprome Court will soon fake s recess, Tho now Ohief Justico will 4ake hisseat on the re-assembling of the Court, SOUTHERN PACIFIO HAILROAD, The Slm of vellof for the Houthern Paciflo Rnilroad, which will soon bo introduced in Con- gresu, ia briofly as follows All lsnds of the Company to be sold by & Commissioner appointed under putbority of the Unitad States, and the proceeds placed in $he Troasury 40 the credit of the Compavy, ThoGovernment to rotain tho amonnt charged for tho transporta~ tion of mails aud enrrying sorvico. The Company ask the United Btates to guar- nuteo Intorost oh tholr 6 por cont bonds, runhing for thirty years, to n_llmited sum per mile, In considaratlon of such accommodation, the Com- pany proposo to pay to the Govornment a liboral per cont of its gross oarniugs, thus seouring tho Govornment from loss, ATADAMA CONTISTED ELEOTION. Thoe Senate Comnutios on Privilages and Eleo- ttons will to-morrow take up the casa of Sykes, who coutonts tho Bountorlal sent of Sponcor, pregont iucumbent from Alabnma, e THE FINANOES. DEMAGOGING WITIL TIE CURRENOY—'! MOVING THE CRAPR"—KELLOGG, LUGAN, WRIGHT. From Our Otn Correspoitdent, WasminaTOy, Jan, 20, 1674, Congress fa » peculiar body, Whon » man runs for {t, ho must have somo object in his mind ; but it appeara that ho commonly forgots it hoforo o comos hero, Wo 8os him IRECIPITATLD ON ALL FOURS into tho Capitol halls, Hoe votes for all thomia~ tnkes of o provious Congross, and [oos wrong on gl the questions Loloro tho prosent one. Back-Iay he takes a chivalrous view of. ‘Lo Halary-Grab lie dofends on tho highest mornl grounds. o is, preforce, aninflationtst, thinks gold barbarous, and bolleves that n proper Con- gross ought to appropriate oxtonsively, andloave to tho Executivo tho bothor of ralsing the rov- onuo. Thore arn not enough mon in Congross without somo bill or bills to spond somothing, to make a committon of. If you will tako two or threehundredof thesoropresontativobills, and generalizo thom, you will find that thoy aro all of n speculativo class, just liko the past polioy of the party, to use goneral taxation for the stimulation of localitios or speeial interosts, I have ofton thought that the Amorican Congross wos & body annuslly assemblod to diesi- pato the property of the United States. Tho object of =ll statesmnuship is to got tho last nore of tho public land. Thiovery {8 inborn in a good donl of tho American character. Thirty yoars ago, we stolo from our moighbors, Bpain and Moxico, and added the discipline of arms and the lustro of victory to our roal-oatate job. bery. But at prosent we are manifost destinau- inus en famille, Our lusts are turned in- wards, The nation faces awny from ils coasts, and bebaves liko o cortain animal known to mythology whioh turncd himself outside iu, and subsisted upon tho residue of himsolf, Tirst wo ltavo o clags of bille for whatI may call WRAPPING-PAPER OURRENCY, i and, strangoly onough, nobody has moved to obtain a historic portrait of Mr. nlicawbor to be engraved npon these promisgory notes, with the motte: *Thank God that note is paid with this one.” Howover, if Mr. Micawber catnot be hnd, wo might put Sonator Logan and Weondell Thiliips at opposito ends of this curronoy. Mr. Bill Kolloy, tho Boanergoes of $he Honse, the livoly conch of fluauce, wauts a convertiblo bond. This appears to Dbo based upon & sys- tem of finaucisl evaporation and con- deneation. Your bond is tho gentle rain from Heaven upon the placo beneath; your currency is the Divine. afilatus that Tisos in time of noodand “moves tho oraps.” All true logislation is based on moving the craps. 1f you can move your crap, you csn lay golden eggs ovory day in'the year; but a crap ‘that will not move must hiave detectod some obstaclo in tho currency, and stayed fast whoro it grow, in order to correct our oconomical knowledge, It is apparent to Mr. Kelloy that all which wo owo ia botter than hard monoy, aud that it is a crimo againat Naturo and opportunity to permit our obligations to bo morely passive. * Pat your obligations in motion,” says Mr, Kolloy; *‘let ‘om got value by thoir own acosleration, Evap- orate 'om! Collect 'om into clouds to confuso the range of vision, purify the air, fructify the torrid pocket, and, in short, move tho craps.” Here there is a glosm of intelligenco in the American mind, and particulstly in the Congroesional _mind, boyond which it ney- er pgoes, We legislate by gleams. It scoms assuroa that what' ‘we -owe has 110 business to be vovstingin this way, but, like & demnnd-note indofinitoly postponed bythe draw- er, bad botter bearrauged for auiufinite renewal, and called square. To give it company snd sta- bility, it is only requisito to draw s good many more notes, ronow theso slso lnnnl!n){, fund 'om overnight, so that thoy shall bearintorost while we sleon, got them into the gaseous stato noxt morning, aud blow them into circulation. s our pennlties shallsll go for rosponsibility ; bohind us, like tho granite ribs of tho world, shall stand our debts, runuing off rilla an rivers of currency to descond into the plaing and prairies, asud ** mova the crapa.” The PICTUBE OF MIt, KELLEY is to bo engraved on the bouds, to represent the echo of the mountains. I listened to all this roar of platitnde and rum- Dble of rot, the other day, in_the gallory, praising my Makor that tho idiot is not without somo meant” of enjoyment, Ho had hidden thoso things from the wise and_prudont, and rovoaled them unto cry-babies. Even so, I'athor Ponn- sylvania, for it scometh good in thy sight,” “I'here is no solace like aphilosophic and yearn- ing love for our common human nature, I thought I should liko to tako Kelley home, set him up amongst my childron, and give toy of some kind,—n’ leather sucker, or a pipe and n bowl of woap-water, or_a Protection doll- baby. My heart overflowed that way, and I re- juiced in’ bis infirmition. Iinsensibly recalled nn jncident in tho lifo of that singuiar gomwus, Col. Donn Piatt, 'he Culonel was at.the Sweet Springs last summer,—the Old Sweot, of course,~nnd he was Dbexet by o queer, feable-minded charucter who composes doggerel and repeats it with infinite complacency. Tho vorse 18 ueither wise, witty, nor decently idiotic ; Lul jt aorves tho purposck of its poot to kill time in the vapid socicty of the 01d Swet, aud o s wholly wisouscious of his folly,~omphasizing fhe foolishest puns, de- claiming commonplace with vigor, aud stopping al the poluty for applnuse with tho self-satin- faction of John B. Gough. Oneday, Cuckor, the poet, approachied Liatt on the pirza. * Colonol,"” #nid e, **I wrote an addvoss last summor a year ou tho occasion of tha guests at the Old Sweet visiting in & body the guosts sl the Young Sweet. Would you mind it I repeated it to you ¢” ‘I'io Colonel took off his hiat, and wiped hix ‘hond of rich brown hnir,—nob a linirin the crown gray, though life is u_little old with the wearor i fily dear Cucleer,” hie Baid, in u kind, passive way, *‘ nothing would moro plcm mo,'" T'he poor uumbekull ropeated 200 lines of woary dtivel, and thon tho Colouel snid ; ¢ My doar Cucler, thut is a remarkably-grace- ful thing, Would you mind repeating it nll to me agwin, I kuow ihne 1 am nsking a proat donl, bt you would roally oblige mo." “I'he gatonished and delighted Cuelier repented the whole Jugubrious performan The Colonel ¥t in appareut ostucy, not s twinklo in his fnce, aud ab tho end ho snid ¢ “WPhanks, my dear Oucker! What paius you have been at to gratify me. Now, won't you seloct somo of the pussages that strike you moat in that poom, and yepeat them tome? "By that time I shall have a living momory of that extraondinary coposition ; for so 1 ust call it.” Tho bowildered Cuclter looked iuto tho Colonel's oyes, and mot there the gentlest rever- ence, the “sincorcst interest, 8o ho galloped through two-thirdn of the stupidity a third Limo, “I'no Colonel hud o headache ulymn! doy, and could not slecp ut night, L unid to kim, * Great ilnn‘,‘-‘cuul what did” you do that queer thing or *Wall," ho said, “I thought the Almighty might put it to my oredit to try and make that voor fellow Loppy,” Imado o mental rosolution, I swore an_oath, that [ would do na much for Willium D, Kolley some timo, I would go into the gallory of tho Henato, aud listen to threo of his aruunhuu on moviug tho crapy with o convertible boud ; and then I would muuhllfl suy, considering the sacrifico : “NQ’mph, in thy orisons boall my sins romemborod} ™ GEN. LOOAN, who font in the late War, is in favor of infla- tion, 1o Lolieves thatitis a wiss Providonce which makes two {:n].flr dollars grow where oue grow beforo, Tight hundred and ftty millions 18 what we nced to go round and move the craps. It nover oconrrod to tho Qencoral that perhaps two holf-dollars menn the game thing a8 two dollars if there be nothing more Imhim'] tho dollars than hohind the hnif-dollars, The nilitary way to do this thing wonld bo_to raise ona dollar un the national standard and say to mankind: “Uako thie at par aud lot us move the uml:u, or wo will praceod to belligerenoy." "The Goneral snys that the annual production of tho country iu a4 oua dollar to sixty-sevon of currency, What is hia atandurd of valuation for the production ? I'robably as arbitrary se his standard for the ourrency, It gald ne tha standard, the country's production is worth what it will brlxy; in gold. If promissory uotes Lo tho standurd, the time may come when a bushol of wheat in_comwmodity will be a bottor untioual ourrouoy theu » groonback, Nothivg in moro provincinl than to sos & yonng nation, with an immature and vealy statesmauship, re- solving by statute law that the world must whool on immomorial traditions and acoopt Its dio- fum. Porhaps tho worat form of dumnr‘oguu inn fnnncial demngoguo, who is roady to bridgo over o poriod of ponalty for paat oxcosses by trifling with tho oldost atandnrds of right aud authority. "I'hioro In leas difforenco botwoon o Hocialist, an Atholst, & Dospot, o Froo-Lover, and n Currctioy~ Domngoguo, than peoplo think, Ignorange, - Iuelon, brass, and protlignoy undoriio the propo- eitlons of each. Whoover distrusia for moro convonlenco, voto-gotting, or popularity, tho re- ceived modlum of human transnotiona in all agos, tho passport through barbarism and eivil- izatlon, theonly touch of Natura which maken the world kin,—spccie,—has no 1ight to com- plaln when somnobotly clso distrusts” the family rolation, the imlionablo rights of mun, ov tho foundatlon of mocioty, in tho bolief in somothing eoternnl aud Divino, JUDOE WRIGHT, Tho bland, affablo, and butter-molting Julge who aits in the Sennts vics Grimes, basnlso a‘mlmn lus pieco, Mo transfors Lo tho inpior dollar all ilio virtues of gold, ns n rm!km\ Catholls in the Staten of_the Clurch iranstars the Divino body and blood to tho bread-wafor aud thon eats it. But o will burn you if you donot seo as mueh, I'ho paver-mouey has nppreciatod, lo vays, Jna the panie incronsed. Childron orfod for it. Jows Loarded {t. Only Richarson spout it gamerome- Iy. At this pomt you could soo dr. Morton teking a doop interest in what Judge Wright hnd tomny. ho ovil waw, eaid tho Judge,l n the Ingh-pressure stylo of doing buglness in thiy oountry, ‘That’s whnt mado the nanio | DBut what mado tho high-prossu,o stylo of doing. business? Meroly that which 1nado o prowmisgory curroncy ; tho h,\'Pn:hmnum\ of our posaibilitios, mnd oven our fimsions, fnto bonds ind money, beaving interest whivh wo conld not redosm nor rebiurn. e have ropudintod, or, 1s tho plase has it, ‘¢ defaulted,” intorest in noar- 1y 200 railrond enterpriges, from the Bry of New ork to Pugot Sonnd snd Poxns. The currency apprecinted because it was comparatively reason- ably bosido thoso entorprises; bus, had it beon mado *olnstic” and * convertiblo,” like the bonds of the nforesaid schomoy, and “inflated " at the will of the Kolloys aud Wrights, whero would wo Linve boon to-dny? And where aro wo to-day, with tho Hecretary of the 'Lroasury paying out legal-tondors without suthority, nsn whale-boataman playe out line on Moby Dick, or Now Zoland Tom, *tSnap,” directly you tny hoar somothing ; for thoro is no more limit tothe amonnt of currenoy whicha panio can absorb than to tho amount of rope which an excoptionally grent whalo con take under. Aud, by the way, Imet an Iowa man tho othor day, aud sald to i " Docs Harlan keop his hold in Iowa 7" ** With his denomination, Not with men who take things onsight. Solfish, slippory, solf-cou- coited, wo, worldly fellows, never trust him,” " And Judge Wright?” #He can trump Horlan every timo. He'sa master of the art of holdlng buster in his mouth, and ho con cconomize more Bwoethess out of o amall lump of buttor than anybody in onr State,” Gars. FOREIGN. The Carlists Said to Have Won a Con- siderable Vietory. Recovery of the Pope from Iis Recent Iness. SPAIN. Maprip, Jan, 26—Admiral Topote has returned from Cartagons, and resumed his duties as Min- istor of Marine, The publicatiou of the Ignali- dad newspaper has again been suspended fora month. BAvoNNE, Jan, 26—Carlists roport that San- tander and Portugunlite surrondered uncondition- ally to their forces on tho 22d inst., and that the ontire Segovia battalion, a number of artillory- men, and engincers, 1,200 Romington and 400 Minic rifles, and two cannon foll into their hands, ———— ITALY. Rour, Italy, Jan. 26.—The Pope has rocov- ered from his recout indisposition, —_———— GREAT BRITAIN. Lownpon, Jan. 26,—Tho new Parliament will moot on the bth of March, Loxoox, Jan, 256,—Whalley was discharged {::o% confinement yestcrday ou tho payment of s fine. —_— THE SIAMESE TWINS, Denth Not Causcd by Any Vital Arte- rinl Connectton«=The Hodivs FPres served--Proposcd Sale to & Muscum or Medical College. New Yorg, Jan. 25.—A dispatch from Mount Airy, N. O.,say8 Dr, William Holungawortl, who attonded tho Sinmese twius, is of the opin- fon that tho death of Eng was not caused by any vital connection of the artery passing from one to the other through the liga- mont that united thom, aud belioves therowas no such vital connection through tho lignmeut, be- cause ho had attonded the ywins whon ane was sick, and tha other in good health, and when thore was ns much r8 twonty beats differenco to the minuto in their pulsation. T'ho bodies, after being ombalmed, wera placed in & cofin and oncased in a large tin box, wbich was soldered aund made air-tight. The whole was thon put in a largo wooden box, and packed in charcoal, and made socure, aud placed in the cellar of tho house. It is roported that the bodies will bo disposed of at an cnormous prico to £ome mu- seum or medical collego, or placed on oxhibition, I'liis i to bo subject to tho declsion of membors of tho family. ‘Fhe churge is made that a voil of mystery has Leen thrown over tho deaths of tho iwins, and tho real cause of their decense suppressed for the purposs of obtaining possession of the bod- ios for tho abova stated object. A dispateh from Groeusboro says Dr. Joo Hollingsworth, brother of the doctor who attond- ed the twinsg, wnile on rouie for the North, stated that hig wmission was to dispose of thu dend bodies of the twius on the most fuvorable terms bo could negolinto, The sum asked for tho privilege of & post-mortom is stated to be %8,000 to 10,000, KANSAS SENATORIAL ELECTION, A Pretended Bxpose of Corrupt I'rnnse i in Which Senator Ingalls Implicated-='The Farmers to Nominte i Mun--Lomceroy’s Frial, 81, Louts, Jan. 25,—The Globe's Topokn, Xun., sposinl of fo-night wuys: The Kansns Uity 4%nca of to-dny contnins o nine- column cxposo of tho vavious alleged transnce tious of Senntor Ingally, ex-United States District Attornny Scofleld, Unitod Statos Marshal Tough, und othery, It iy, howover, & rohash of 0ld storics, somo of which hnve boen cireulating for n yonr pust. ‘The ouly mow thing in the articld is a purported intorview with ex-Auditor Uargraves, i which o states a schemo was on foot by which ex-Sonator Iomoeroy was to ba blackmailed out of $50,000 for a ** nelle Yrouuo - in his bribery caso, ~IInrgrave snys Scolfleld and four others woro in the scheme; that Capt. ‘fough promised to pay him (Hlargravo) to toll the whale ttuth about tho Lribery of Seuntor York by DPomoroy. 1le says he recoived 500, but m‘llld not got the balance, It is not believed horo that Ingalls bas been connect- od with these schemes, Capt, Tough denles the chorges sguinst Lim, and says he nover puid Hargravo $500, ‘Cho mnttor hn created groat oxcitement hero to-day, and another and largor dose of revelntions is promiged Tuesday. Tho Farmors and oformers are dotormined to unite on a candidato for tho Beunto to-morrow night if posuibla, Y‘rlvnm advicos stato that ex-Sonator Pomeroy will be hora to-morrow, whon ho Wil fix w his bond and nmm&:a niattors for hi» trial, which has boon poutponed to the July torm of tho court, Thers is no probability, iowever, that ho will evor bo tried, lIe knows too muoh, EX-DISTRICT-ATTONNEY SCOFIELD, whio is now in this city, hay published o eard do- nying that he intends makivg oxposuros ro- garding Senator Ingalls, as alloged, 1lo furthor snys thab the inforniation upon which the (#lobo spectal tolegrapbed from hore Friday night wan Daued was ovidently invented to impair Heuntor Tugalls' influence, —— THE FRESHETS, In Bufinio Creek. &neetal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Buorravo, N, Y,, Jan, The work of oxtri- eating vosols fram the jam oceasioned by the froshot last 'Phwrsday waa cumYlulod Saturday night. Buffalo Crock fa now elear of lce, and hoaty are moored to thoe docks, ‘I'ie work of re- pairing will begin immediately. Tha tatat amount of dumage will not excoed 00,000, sa utated before, s CAPITAL AND LABOR. L0t Strike of the Ship Carponters l} Camden, N. J. They Resist an Attempted Reduction of Wagos, Special Dispateh to The Chieago Tribune, PITLADELPHIA, P'n., Jan, 26.—A gonoral dia- affootion hias brolen ont smang tho ship ear- ponters employed in tho numerous yards at Camden, New Jersoy. Tho troublo bogan In tho oxtensive ostablishments of Waylor & Mathing, and Day, Cartor & Day, until now It s becomo widesproad, and n tolal susponsion of work Das followed. . A fow days 0go, tha carpontors coneludad ta atrike againat o decronso of wages, whinh the employ- ors had determinod to thrust upon thowm, and, calling » meoling, rosolved to maintaiu their potition at all hazwd, The wngos which thoy have veeclved wp to within & fow woeks ngo nverngod &i.60 per duy, but the cmbarraseing and stringent timoa prodiced by tho panie compoelled tho tin. ployers, as thoy declare, to decrenso the wages G0 éents por diom, 'I'he squabblo is assumiug an intereating phase, and now beconios more com- plicatod overy day, from tho fact that both sides uro equally dotermined to fight it out. THE OARPENTENS soem to hinvo the bost nide of tho controversy howover, a8 thoy maintain that the work which all tho yavds have upon the stocks i outircly under contract, and was accopted at the contract prico of £3,60 por day a8 wages allowed for. The carpentors have furnishiod THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT to your correspondent which eervos to show the griovances of which thye complains Tho omployers Jn the varjous ship-yards hiavo ate tempted to reditco our wages from $3.50 to $3 per day, Tt ling been the provailing opinfon smong the jicoploat Inrge, that wo comnienced tho striie.” It s not (lio men strildng; 1t i tho ciployers, Thoy are not satis- fied with tho wagesa poid, aithaugh the veesels bullding aro now contractod for at & basls of $3.60 per Iy, ‘Tho striliors havo o strong wnion, and aro said to linvo sufiiciont funds in tho treasury to con- tinue tho stand-out for soma weaks. Camdon is tho contro of an important wood and iron ship-building industry, and tho builders have a large numbor of “orders on hand which canuot bo hurried on baenuse of tho presont troubles, It is reported to-night that tho disaffeotion has spread to othor points in tho Stato, and it now looks as if a gonesl strike will onsue. Tho roports that have been telographod throughout tho country rolative to disturbancoa of tho atrikoers ara exnfigm‘umd and entirely unfounded. Tho strikers belonging to Camdon numbor 2,600, —_—— CRIME. Exploits of Two Graccloss Rogucs. Special Dispatch to The Chicaga Tribune, ‘Wasutuatoy, D, C., Jan, 26.,—It Las lenked out that tho'two Tronsury-warrant robbers, Willioms sud Mocre, are tho samo graceless rogues who chiseled tho Japancsoe Embassy out of 5,000 in_gold about a yoar ago, during the vigit of tho Embassy at tha™ Cnpital. Dy repre- sonting to tho iunocont Oriontals that the Ar- Imfituu Hotol enfo was inwecuro, they succeoded In becoming tho trustoss of the fund thomaolvas, It is snid they had a grand sproo with the monoy thus acquired, visitng Now York and other citios, sud living like Princes while it hold out. Insurance Agent Absconded. Special Diapateh o The Chicago Tribnine, TasT Baoiiaw, Mich., Inn, 25.—Ceorge T. Hamlin, local agent of tho Phenix Mutual Lifa Insurance Company, of Hartford, skipped out of town n fow days sinco, leaving bis wifo, and taking with him, it {8 gald, funds of the Compa- ny tothe amount of about $1,000. to an effort to koop the mattor quict s possible, but veryfow facts connected with it arc made public.” Hamlin's wifo las gono to hor, friends in Wisconsin, Hamlin has horetofors borne the reputation of acourteous gentloman and an hou- st man, i Attempt of Privoncrs to Burn & Jall. Meatrus, Jau, 25.—~An atiompt was mads yes- tordny moming, by priswiers confined in the Sardis, Miss,, jail, to burn tho building, in order to escnpo. Dut for the prompk elorts of the Sheriff, aided by citizens, the &uil would liave Durned and the prisoners wonld have perished with it. As it was, but little damage was dono. Forgery on a HMartford Bonik. HanTrORD, Ct., Jan, 25.—Within a short tims nearly & dozen_forged certitiod cheoks on the Firat Nationol Bank of this city have been re- ceived. ‘I'hey are eigned by W, B, Winsbip and W. A, Callaway. The forger, during the psst week, has been oporating Wel TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Mra, Scott-Siddons is to give rondings in La- Hallo, I1l., on Wednesday evening, —Tho Amberst College Boating Associrtion bns' unanimously rosolved nob to row ab Sara- topa. F—Emmn Shendan, aged 7, a doughter of Michne! Sheridan, of Columbis, 0., yestordsy found = bottlo containiug some poisonous liquor in a cupboard_ at home, drank freely of it, aud died i three hours, —Yosterdny afternoon, the schooner Franklin Rogors capsized ton miles east of Boston light, durivg a beavy squali, and sunk in three min- 111tcu. Capt. Itogers and two of the crow were ost. —a monster scho yoncert has boon projeot- ed, to take place in Nast Saginaw, Mich,, some timo in March or April, Rome 800 childron will participate, and they will be aesistod by the bes nmatonr singers of the valloy, The rchieme pro= vides for two coucorts, ono of which will bo under the direction of Prof, Itouey, aud the other under that of rof. Keiuath, 2 e Pacific Stock-Yanls of St. Louis have hoen purchnsed by the National Stock-Yard Com- pauy of Lask St. Louis, for $260,000. 1t is said that tho North Missourl yards willakeo Uo bough t by the snme Company, snd that the entive live- stoek businoss of St. Louis will eoon be conoen- trated in Baet 5t. Lonis. = —Capt. TA, It Dix, snlold and prominout steamboatman of §t. Louis, bas Leen misring sinco Thuredny aftornoon, snd his friends are hegiuntg to fool alarmed Tor his safoty, Capt. Dix lont a son by death about two mouths ago, and sinco that time ho hias beon & good deni do~ pressed in epirits, and it is apprehended that lio muy have wandered away in aborration of mmd, or comuitted suicide in gome out-of-tho-way placo. b I —A contomptible oxhibition of petty fnlico was made at Aurors, 1., yesterdny evening, A Iarge congregation lad’ gathered to hear a lncturo from Dr, Hawloy, Sonfor Wardon of the churcly, on tho enusos thatlod to the formation of the Iteformea Episcopal Church, with wiiolt o i belioved to be i sympathy. Somne mal- contont disconnected the plpe from tho motre and drove in & wooden piug, and tuon restored the pipe to ita position. A8 no gas_could bo Lind, the audienca disporsed, Mauy Episcopal- ians in Aurors lean toward the now Chureh, —Saturday, two strange mon went the ronnda of Yorkville, IlL, visiting tho suloons and in- apecting the hotel stablos, Uno of them way found yestorday miorning, lving under the mnnger in one of thestalls of tho Dunbar Iouso wtablos, nimost senccless from woumds evi- doutly intlicted by the shiarp oorku of a horse’s shoes, It is doubtful whethor ho can live. It 1 alleged hore, though without suficient grounds, that n achemo bad boon luid to steal #omo of 3r. Dunbar's horses, Tho wounded man gives his namo sy Thomay Connor, and says ho hos o married brother living at Ains- worth Station. ~Lho casoof Gllbort Cooloy va, G, 1L Flandots, on trial in MzGregor, In., rownlted Saturday in n verdict for plainiift for §946. The casn in quostion has excited more thun ordinury intor~ cst, an 1t juvolved the quostion of tho liability of inu-keapers for the property of tholr guest, ‘I'bo history of the caee is brloily as follows ¢ In Hoptomber, 1872, Gilbert Cooloy cama to Me- Grogor, aud put up with @, 11, Flandors, pro- lmotur of tho Evans House, Luring the night he Evaus House barn wou consumoed by fivo, and with it Mr, Cooloy's team of horgos, ono ot of harness, and oue sot of buggy-curhions, valued at 8345, the amonnt of tho judgmont. 'Tho case waa tried in tho Distriot Court, bofore Judgo Milo MoGlathery, 22 cuil i S THE WEATHER. WasmNaToR, Jun, 20.—PropApiurizs—For the southorn portion of New England, thonco sonthward to Virginia, gonerally clear and cold weather will provail, with northorly to westerly winds and high baromoter. Tor northorn New Lnglaud and (henco wontward to Lnkes Erle and Huron, partly clondy and cold woathor, with northerly to wosterly winds, aud possibly light snow. For tho Southern Btates onst of the Missinsippl Rivor, low tomperature and northerly winds veering to southorly, with genorally clear weathoron tho Attsntic coast, and Rumors in- volve a strango womsn in the scrapo, but, owing l""“’ oloudy weathor in the Missinelppi Valley. for "the Ohlo Valloy and thonco woat- ward to Knnsas cloar or fair wonther, with uuuummlurly to southwostotly winds, falling baromoter, and n elight rise of tomporature, TFor the Upper Lake rozlon, and thence woatward to Nobrasta and Minno- sotn, falllng baromotor slightly rising tompera~ turo, eastorly to southerly winds, and lmunlllly ligut snow In tho Uppor Mississippi Valley and nonr Lako Buporior. RAILROAD NEWS. Proposed Consolidation of the Milwau- keo & St Paul Debt, Tho Affairs of {he Road in & Highly Salis- factory Condition. Spectal Dispatah to The Chicago Trivune, Nrpw Yonr, Jun, 25,—A moeting of the Diveot~ ors of tho Milwaukes & ft. Paul Hail- rond Company was held in this city yosterdny. ‘I'ho mattera bofors them wero of great itnpor- tanco. ‘Lhora are now flve or six differont kinds of bonds, reprexonting $26,205,000 mortgnged in- debtednoss, and ©215,000 lucomo bhouds. 1t wau fuformally agroad to AR A CONSOLIDATED MORTOAGE. on tho whola proporty for $45,000,000, to ox- chango for all tho prosent bonds of every class, to provido steol rails, and to build two bridges aerogs tho Misslesippl Rivor, 1t was also - formally ngrood o avply all {he not earnings of {he year, wiich tho Company avo confldont will bo fully 7 por cont on both classes of stock, to stockholders in these now bonds. The proposad bonds will bo of two kinds—$10,000,000 gold nterling bonds, and $20,000,000 enrroncy bonds, A woll-known English banker hrs made an offer for sovoral miltions of Lhe first class, Tho ofli- cors of the Company ostimata EARNINGA FOIL TUE PRESENT YEAT at ovor 81,000,000, The merease last yonr over 1872 was £208,800, with n light wintor's busi- nean ; and it is catimated tho increase for the fivst throo monthis of the progont yoar will Lo moro than $00,000. The first two weeks of January show an increaso of $174,000, and not more thau onc-half tho cran of those portious of Wisconsin, Jowa, and Minuosota tributary to tho 8t. Paul Noad hinve yet came forward. Tho Company hava lnid 140 miles of steol rails, oand they intend to Iny 100 milos 1nore, complot~ ing the lino onst of tho Mississipp Rivor, OBITUARY. Adam Bincic, Loxpon, Jan, 26.—Adam Blnck fs dendy SUNDAY’S NEWS. Local, Tho fars on the stages of tho People's Omni- bus and Boggage Compuny has been reduced 1o 6 conts, ~'Thirly now membera connected thomsolvos with Section 1 of the Workingmon's Associa- tion at n mesting lold Saturdny night, —It is now belioved that Mr. Louis Wahl will bo rojected by the Common Counail rs the x‘n‘(rzmguuo for member of the Board of Public otk —Tho motion for a now trinl in the Medakon divorco caso Lins been donied by Judge Moore, and n decres wou euterad on the ground of Liabitual deunkenness, —A goneral feoling of indignation at tho attack of the Times upon Mayor Colvin was exprossed nt the Citv Hall Saturday. he Mayor stated that the only roason he could concoive of was the failure of tho Times to get tho city pnnu“F. — A suit has hoon brmuiht by tho Assigneo in Bankruptoy of Frodorick 11, Gould against the Nationnl Lifo Insuranco Company, its ofiicors and Directors, who wore also aflicora and Di- rectors of tho Franklin Danl, to compel tho payment of o Enhcy issuod upon tho life of arry QGould, who died in Boptombor, 1873, ‘The Compnuy is in_bankraptey, with assots stated to amount to $160,000, of which nothing canlo found buta fow old books and Papors. Tt is proposed, in this suit, to vontilato tho wanagoment of tho Compauy, which appears to hiave been organized for the paymont of divi- douds, ot losses, ¢+ I'he Nutiennl Gapitals Lieut.-Gon. Sheridan is in Wasbington to argne bofore the House Comuittes on flilitlry Affairs againgt a reduction of the army. - —1'he Sonato was uot in session Saturday, and the sesxion of the House was wholly devoted to speech-making, Mr, Tobbin, of North Caro- lina, gave hig viows concerning clvil-rights, and, in doing 8o, provoked & spinted rosponse from Cnin, & colored member from Sonth Caroling. I'he Ion. H. 8. Bundy, of Ohio, made & speech on the financea. —Lonisinna affairs were the thome of general conyorsation in Washington on Saturday. Isis snid that Presidout Graut favors the ordering of n new eloction, aud s message from him advo- cating this gourse will probably bo seut to Con- gl‘okm to-day. A bill embodying the views of tho Prosident and his_immediato supporters, with the excu‘mflnn of Morton, is now in course of preparation, It providoes that the next election uball be held under the suporvision of & Com- mission to Lo appointed by the President. Thera is a diversity of opinion a8 to whether this Com- migsion will be composod of military oflicers or members of Congress, Forotgn, The Alphonsiut Olubsin Madrid have been closed by order of the Govormnent. —The Cuban Government 18 said to have de- signs on sovoral of the estates Mucently roloased from embargo, —Qladstone’s addroes to his constituents on the dissolutiou of tho Dritish Parliament, de- pressed the markot for English sccuritics, —I¢ is snid that a majority of the membersof a cominitice appointed by the Fronch Assembly to Tiquidate tho civil list of the late Emperor Napo- leon_is opposed Lo tho convention recently on- tored iutu by the Government and Eugonio, ~Turther retnrns from the recent olections in Cannda show that tho success of the Govern- ment was even more complete than at first re- ported, Thuty-throo out of tho thirty-clght mebers elecled are supportera of tho Ministry ; {30 wfe Tidenondelt § Shcos ave; membentof Opposition. Though' not in want of it, tha Governmont s seoured additional ovidenco that Invze sums of money wero used in pushing tho iutorosts of the Dacific Railway ring Lifure the Dominion Parliament. Ono John Cas- ting, of London, Ont., lLus beon accused on tho hustings of having an interost to the amount of £834,615 In the concern, and this withoul any tangible inveatment in ity sock This scensa- tion is fully proved by o dq nont now made public which boars Citting's own sigunture, The Stato Capitnl, Judge Trout, sitting in the United States Court at Springfleld, T, bas adjudged guilty of contempt cortuin persons in St, Clair County, 11L., who rofusied to ooy au ordor of hiy Cours. ‘I'ho defendauts are given until noxt Thursday to dismiss suits iuatituted in tho Stato Courts in contravoution of Judge Treat's ordor, failing to do which, sentence will be pronounced upon them. The contempt grew out of an attempt to restrain the 85, Clair County Turnpite Company from maintnining o toll-gnte within thoe cor- porata limits of ast Bt, Louis. —Xx-Uolleotor Jobn ‘I, Harper, of Springfield, was in Chicago Baturday, aud Ieft for .1l Paro, 1il,, tho samo day, Hao 1a now lmrpmm(l ‘to be in the Intter placo. It isalloged by Harper's friends that Smith, his ohiof clevk, is responsiblo for the dofuloation o far a8 it wns duo to dishonest intentions, The dofcit in tho Collector's account was ouly §20,000, part of which was used in cuirying on the Ro- publican campaign in Sangamon Gounty during tho Presidentinl canvass lust year. Harpor hun beon given n #afe conduct from his placo of con- cealmont to Springfield and bnok nagain, tho objoob being to get Lis testimeny before’ tho court which is now trying Cluof Clerk Bmith for complioity with him in tuo thoft of Goverument Tuude, a Miscollnuen J. Nelson Tappan has Leon alooted_ Assignes of Iuwes & acy, bankrupts, of New York, —The citizons of Rockford, Ill,, Luve sul- weribed £100,600 Lo seouro the location of o watel fuctory in that uit{. —An adjourned meeting of cliizona in Pitts- butgh, Ia., ou Saturday, to dovise means for the rolict of thio uncwmployed was & complota failuro, —A fira at Clarleston, TlL, Friday night, da- atroyod tho flourug mill of Gage & Uhelton, I'he’ '";585” wus valued ab $40,000, and iosured Tor ¥2 —J. B. Holm was killed in open court nt Gal- veston, Texas, on SBaturday, by Johu Fergusou, uflm was on {nial for tho murder of Torguson's futhor, N —Mr, Page MoCarty, of Richmond, Va,, who Iiled John B. Mordecai in a duo, lnst May, has boen found guilty of iuvoluntary maunlanghtor, and finod 600, Tho dofouse asked fora sun- p“:l‘i‘lk]t" of judgmont aud moved to #ot aside the vordict, —Proparations wore made by the police in New York on Haturday night to coutrol auy violout domongtrations by the workwmon of lflnt oity, which it was thought might bomade. There was 1o oceaslon for using_tho oxtra forco at com- mand, Ona thouaand mon, discharged from tho Brooklyn Navy-Yard, wore, on Saturdsy, added to tho gront army of unemployed in Now York, s ASSASSINATION IN BERLIN, A Fenvful fecord of Orime in the Prussinn Cavitat=-len and Women’ Murdered and Iobbed in Broad ny gt Tierltn (Jun, 4) Correspondence of the London Daily Newa, ¥ Jiorlin Is gottiug to Lo vory unsafe,’ said a policomnn to me the other day. “ Thin morning wo fonnd the budy of & man in a lonely subwb, mutderod nud rolibud, Last ovoning & womau's throat was cut on hor own atairway, as oho wan descending to the treot. T'he day boforo yoster- dny n morchant was gagged and robbed “in hig own store, There are n good mony villning about.” “Yon, indeed,” ndded anofhor cheorfully, *“look well to your doora and windows,” Gootd advico this, and o smnll dealor tn srms Doro in tho clty Bas. a placard In his window which rends: “In viow of the growiug insceu- rity of Borlin, gontlomen aro advised to buy and carty ono of my new and improved pocket-pla~ tole. lrieo —'" That this wes not a morg commorctal manetvro on the part of tho small morchnnt is abundantly proved by the daly police-rocords. ‘Phe JHourse Gazella hng Intely published r lis of the more notablo nysassina- tiony duving Novombor and Decembor, and I hopo and bellove that no other olty in Europe can show sich o reckoning, On tho 4th of Novembor o taflor wae mortally - wounded and robbed iu tho Schul-strasro, anda workman dangorously stabbod fn the Gitschitier- straesc ; on tho 7th o Iaboror wag robbed in tho Hnmburger-serasso; 125h, a gontlomnn wasgeizod Dofora his ownjlouse, drasged into e hall, and robbod ; 16th, st Philip's Chitrel was _plundor- od ; 80k, o guldsaith was stubbed aud robled iu his own shop, The month of December shows nn improve- mont even on thia, On the 7th a man was beaten down atd robbed in n leading thoroughfare ; 12th, o widow iu the Noie Woulgs-stragss was stabbed and robbod in lior owii hiil ; 11th, a bricklayor wns_found dead aud robbed on the bank of the Wiesen Cansl; 18ih, n womsn named Srringur wns found dead nnd robbed in her own honso ; 14th, o lnboror was robbed and laft for dend in tha ' Chovinor-atrnssa ; 18th, % tinker wns chloroformoid and robbed ; 21st, o lahorer was found fu the subnrbs murdored and robbod ; 26lb, a cigar-donler, Schunomann, was altacked and overpowered at midday in his own shop, in the busy Commandanton-strasse and robbod ; 27th, an attemptwas mails to breakinto lAuKl;op,‘nml the propriotor was threntenod with a knifo, &e. Somo of theso cnses were parbieniarly afro- cious. 'L'nfie that of the womau Springer, Ier husband returned home late, and found his wifa in bed, ns he supposed, saloep, but when he thyew back the clothing ho rovealod a ghastly corpse, tho bead vearly sovorod from the body by a kuife. Tha case of the cigar morchant, Schuoe- mann, atiracted the most genoral notico. The day after Chrislmas, about noon, two rufans entored his-shop, attacked him' with knivos, emptiod the till, and, locking the door bebin them, coolly walkod off. ‘Thio victim was found some hours later, and now lies at » hospital, barely alivo, but spocchloss, Thero is not tho slightest clue to tho robbors, and it ik 1ot even certain that Sohunemann could give any infor~ mntion, avon if ho were conscious. "The pravailing atrocity of those crimos rovesls a vory deeporato splrit among the criminal clngs- es, Iu ordinary times thieves shrink from mur- dor oxcept as a lnst resort, aud thoy deliborately plan murdor only when tho promised roward iy very great. But In the daily murders now, none of ihe victims are rich, aud mwst of them be~ long to tho poorost, Tho workman outhe Wioson Caual was murdered for 20 thalers, aud his mur- dorers could hardly have cxpectod moro. Tho widow hind only a little sum of money sbout her ergon, Lven the cigar morchant, Schunemann, had only §00 thalors; aud, as he had boen talking freely about it during the day, it is to bo rosumod that the assagsing lnow just how much money he had, Thoy wore recklces onough to outer o phop in broud day- light and murdor a man for 800 thalors, They do not hositato to attack s woman at 4 o'clock onhor own stnirway when all hier familyis above, and_cut hor throat Lefore hor awn son, who rushed to hor rescus, They attack work- mon in lonely strcets and kill thom as ruthlessly oa sheop, This is not the work of practiced hauds; it is the work of sn ignorsnt, brutal class, demoralized by war snd military life, thrown out of work by tho panic here, and_driv- en by desporation to orime. Itis the workof o whole population of bloodthirsty, starvivg wretclios, who, having adopted murdor as a pro- fession, are throwing terror into the whole city by thoir atrocitics. Thora 8 no doubt about this Inst fact. ‘These brutal and reclless deeds have seamed ta rouder overything poasible, and tho mout caroful precautions uscless. THE ASIATIC CABLL Departure of the Tuscarora ro o= cute . a Routo for the New Submne xine Wire, < San Diego Onion, Jan, 23, The United Statcs steamer Luecarors yestor- day soiled from this port for tho Sandwich Islands and Japan, with tho purpose of sound- ing en route for a location for the praposed tale- svaph betwoen Asin and tho Pacific Coast of the nited States, Anintorviow with Commander QGeorge E. Bolkuap yestorday morning elicited some interosting information in connection with the Asistic cablo ontorpriso and tho cruise of the Tusearors, which we lere Iny beforo the renders of tho Union. The Turcarora was detailed for hor present oxpe- dition at the suggestion of Cyrus W. Ticld, the projector aud conductor of the grens Atinntic cabla ontorprise,who is at the head of the Asiatic cable scheme. Tho stesmer was first ordered to wurvey northward for a route through Puget Souud aud viu the Aloutian Islands, and procoed- ed to cmry ont the justructions. Becoming short of coul sho roturned to San Francisco, whora orders were received to go southward and survey the 1oute from San Diogo to the Bandwicl Isiauds and Japan, roturnivg by the northern route if posiblo, Conunander Bolknap thiuks that tho southern routo, with o landing for the cable at Han Diego, is by far tho mast feasiblo, and believes thut 1t will in all probability be adopted. The northorn routo to Japan, via tho Aloutinn Islands, is bosot with diflicultios, It Would bo impossible to ropair any broak during tho largest part of tho year, thero heing Lut four months in which thouo wators are opon Lo novigation. A routs from Sun Franciseo ling appurontly not beon thought of. It would ba woll ‘nigh impracticablo to land .a ca- bl iu that vicinity on account of the nature of tho bottomof that part of the coast. A lino from 8gu Dicgo vin Jupan to the Sandwich Islands iy tho most practicablo—thist, Lecauze 1t would lic iu tho ** culm belt of tho Yachiie,” aud the cable could Lo lnid down nud repaired af any Lime during tho year; second, s a commeciion with thie Sundwich Islands is the evidont vurpoge of the schicmo, this line is geo- graphically tho Lest, the branchos to Japan and Austrnlio boing short and of ensy nccess ; third, the cabla whould connect with an over- Iand wire not subject to interruption, and Dy the timo the subinarine line would bo laid thero would be 2 southorn ovorland line be- tween Sau Diogo and tho Eust which could be constoutly operated, It iy n woll-known fuct thut communication by the existing overland line is constantly interruptod by storms. This would uever ba the case with a line running castward vin (ho fhirly-eocond parallel. In overy point of view the advantages of taking tho southern routo aud making the lunding at San Diogo are so greut that thoy cun hurdly Le ovorlooked, Commauder Delknap iopos that he will not find over 8,000 fathoms depth on the sur voy scross, 1f o satisfaclyry result fu this respoct i renched, ho thinks it will not fml to give tho route from Bau Diogo the proforonce, overything olso boing groatly in favor of ils adoption. Ilo will suggost thut the exblo be Jaid on the south nide of thie channol, landing on the Poninsuls, from which peint o lund-line would be buile down tho D'eniusuls around by the wuy of La Punts and up tho bay shore to Ban Diego. Thuo shoro from the Poniusuls slides oft very gradu- ally to deop nos wator, tho bottom being sort and nmooth, in which a cable would imbod itsel? by its own weight vory roudily, e, Eaper in Japan. The usos of pupee in Jupan ara ludlorously yavlous, It is weod in daily life, in the drawing- room, the nuracry, aud tho kitohon, i ways that aro dark ton foroiguor, A Japancso is nover otu losg for a string, o sloet for o letter, s wrapper, a handkerchiof, u towel, or a plntter. Iu Lis bosom is roll of " puper, and what papor con m:oouv-lluh is known only to the native of Japan, Whon Yezaburo or” Kintaro cute_ his fingor, & bandage is_upplied, and toprs are driod by tho samo artiolo, Tho oxquisitely-dressod young lady takea a roll of papor fram Lor girdlo, and lo! it beoomen n handkorohiof, 'ass into tho stroot on « rainy dn{ m Yoddo, and for wiles o panorama of moving disls of papor, Hoth winbrollnd aud parasols are made of papar, and = sult of olled and wator-proof clothos, hiat, cont, trowaers, and shoos, may bo bought wlmost auvwhero in I’npnn. Lloxes, pipe-casos, twine, dishos, tea-trays, carpots, ohimnoys, ronsting~ tiny for firing ‘n, windows, doory, partitious, 0 #0o and sereons, aro overywhere madoe of paper. Tho panoled wallls of liousion aro mado of hinrdoned paper-pulp. 014 Japancso armor i8_Inrgoly mado of compressod Incquered papor. Porliaps Europeana adopled tho custom of papering tho wallg of their housoa from these people. The dwollings of tho bottor classcs of the Japnnogso pooplo uro always papored, ihough tho shoots used are not ovor a fool or oightoon inchos #quare, Thoy aro pollshed, nilvered, pitded, colored, or printed, with birds, Nowors, animnls, and many testoful desipns, In_looking over o vapor-dentor's enmple-book in Jeddo, one rarely #oes & ** Joud" or uncouth rmlnm. always ex- capting tho dragon, in which the normul Jfapo- neso doth so delight.—Appletons’ Jowrnal, e g Soldiers? Reunion, . Srzarme, N1, Sornizns AND CoMnaDzs: At a largo and ons thuslastic mesting of old soldiers and citizons of Hterlinig and vicinity, it wa rosolved to hord o Grand Rounion of Sokliern in this city on Friday, Teb, 30, 1871 (tho 221 falling on Sunday), 19 vrosorvo the memories and cherlsh the fifond~ anips o surongly formed during tho Iate War, that formod o part of onr national history, All goldiers, their families, nud eitizonh of the cntivo Northwest aro cordially invited to be with us on that occanion, g An oration will bo detivered, on tho afternoon of tho said day, by dlaj.-Cien, John M. Prlmer, of Tilinols. A grand procession of military and old battlo flags will algo take placo. A grand banquet, freo to all goldlors. Nogo- tintions aro in progross for o reduction of fare m‘l nl tho raitronds, of which duo notico will bo givon. Lxecutlvo Committec—W. M. Kilgour, J. W. T, Stambaug, Army of the Cumbarlaud ; R, Trs Wilson, Py Dupartinent ; W. C. Robinson, J. M. Pattorson, R, 8. Peobles, M. R, Adawm, G, il Drake, Army of tho Tonnesses; 8. 8. Aucl- moedy; Aitmy of the Yotomno; D, Bard Ttock (hloxican Wat), Army of ; the James; J. M, Wal- laca, Ariny of’ {ho Oitio. Gex. W. M. Kiraour, Ohairman, Carr, W, IL, CApwELL, Heerolary. A% J. W. R. StArpaven, Corresponding Socrotar; i The Longest Swim on [Zccords The Norfolle Chronicle malkes tho death of Samwel Brocl, a Yarmouth benchman, the occa« nlou of recalfibg his oxlraordinary sscapo in Ooa tobar, 1835, A vossel'was obsorved at son nbout 1 p. m,, with a sigual fying for n pilot, benring onat, distance about 12 miles. Brock, who be- longed to Laytou's Company, with nino_ othors, launched tha yawl Increase, and steored for tho objact of their entorpriso, About 4 o'clack thiey came up with the vessol, which proved to bo tho Spanish brig Paquotte do Bilbon, Thrao of tho beachmon wont on borrd, and the romninder of tho crow of the yawl wore sent away. On their wey homo » ferrillc squall. took the yawl's snils flat aback, and " sho capsized. In & fow minutos_all tho : crow, with tho ox- coption of Drock, wore drowned, It was ihen about 6:80 p. m., and the hearest land was 6 milos distant—dond low water; and Drock remombored that the flood-tido would bo sntllnfi off shiore making to_the southward, sol that should ho evor roach the shore lio would® have to swim and float at lenst 15 miles. The awell of tho sca drove him over the Cross-sand ridge, and hoe then got sight of the buoy of 8t, Nicholng’ Gat, nearly oppoeite his own door, distant 4 miles from tho land. He had now been five houys in tho wator, 1o next caught sight of a vessol at anchor. o got within 200 yards of the vessel and hailod her ; o boat was at onco lowered, and at 1:30 a. m,, having swam seven hours and o half in an October night, Lo wag mafe on the brig Detsy, of Sunderiand, nearly 16 miles from the spot whore the boat Incroasa was capsizod. P —_— Vietor Iugo, Victor Hugo's life, which to strangers mny have scomed one of splondid excitemonts, and erowned with amplo compensations for his politi« cal vicissltudos, s been, to those who know it best sud noarost, a lifo of many and bitter afilice tions. ho most poiguantly pathetic pasenges ho hiag ever wrilton, asys o Loudon paper., wero trangoripta from tho tablcts of the fathor's heart, One of two daughtors whom ho 1dolized, soon aftor an cnrly and luppy mar~ ringo, was drowned almost boforo Lis oyos ; his eldest son, in whose literary brillianco thera was more than o reflection "of the father's genius, and in whoso political faith thero was moro thanan echo of the father's voico, died suddenly on the eve of a family annivorsary, and fust whon the littlo circle bad met together ouce moro in France, at tho closo of the lamenta- blo war. Ilis wife iad gone before, after alin- garlngmnluQ{, in the inidst of tlieso sombro yoars of exile. The colo surviving sor bas. now died, loaving to Victor Hugo onlv & daugbter, ey OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yong, Jan. 26.—Arrived—Steamors Hor- dor, from Hamburg; Anglia, from Glasgow; Mosel, from Bremen, DEATHS. z \YOODS~AL tho haneo of hor sistor, Mrs_Jane Harper, 18 Pwenty-sixth st,, on Sunday morning, Jan, 34, Sartha Woody, & uativaaf Sounty Down, Irelund, akod 71y, "ta funcral whl b a1zended at No. 1$ Tivonty-ixih on Tuosday niorning, Jan. 37, at 10 o'clock, Friends lavited to attond. HILENAN—Jan, %, Moggle, daughtor of Joha and .Blary Tloenam, aged 13 yoars aud § uouths. Funaral Monday,todt, at il o'clock, Frionds of tho fas mily avo fuvitod t6 attend. 2~ Baltimore papors pleaso copy. OASTLI—Miss Mary Castlo, on Saturdany, the 25th 1a3t,, at 93 North Ada-st, ‘Fuharal services at the liowss on Monday morning, tha 26th Inst., at 11 o'clock, Kriondswill ploase aceept thin otice. Y5 Rock(ord, TIl., aud Canton, Obio, papors please oD« 24 MANSUR—Tn this eity, Jnu. 2%, 199, Edward Roman. ta, infant son of Frauk A, and Sarah A, Mansur, aged$ monthy. 'Notlon of funoral horeafter. “Hiartford. papara please copy. 'TITOMAS—In thi 1874, at tho residonce of bis parents, Jo. itk N yron, aon of Gow mor aud Junnls ‘Diomar, zgod 1'yonrs and § mduths, tica, N. Y., papors pleass copy, DONOHUI-Jan, % Ellen, boloved dauchter af Mighasl and Margrut Donohue, aged 1 yoar and Lday, I'nnnral from fainily residol No. 4" brooni-st., coroer Wort Guiiana, Mouday, Jaa. Calvary, OST_ON (LEST) SEALSKIN GLOVE BETWEEN s ths Sherian Honse nil itawy's Oyster Saloon. ‘lio inder will o auitably rowndod. by loaving it at Burke's aropean Hotel aftica, AUCTION SALES. BY GEO. P. GORE & CQ., 08 & 70 Wabask-av, DRY GOODS. Tuosdny, Jan, 27, at 10 o'olook, Droas Goods. Notions, Tats end Oaps 3 White Goads, Glavas, Tosiary, &t Tablo Cutloty and Silver-pinted Waros Gonta’ Ovorshirts and Wool Jacisotas Tablo and Floor Oil Uloths and Mattings; Barian and Bohomian Goads ; Window Shades, Bod Comiortors, & Garpeta. GHO, P\ UURL & CO,y 3 and 70 Wabash-av, JAN. 28, AT 10 A, I0., Our Regular Wedneaday Auction 8ale will bo hold, and we shall offer a wood nasortment BOOTS AND SHOES, Inoluding aline MEN’S and BOYS' BUTF., UONG., and BALS. " GEQ. P, GORIL & 0O., ‘\E nnh\&\ Wl\)ll\l«lv.j BY HODGHES & CO. AT TUE PRIVATE RESIDENCE, No. 843 West Washington-st., r the cornor, nf Wostorneav,, on MONDAY MORN. Jan, 2%, atloa. w, Wo wlil sell thecntico duntonta tyrn:story hauso Chame 1 Khalien Faniiue p Tablon, Carnoin, HODGES 1007, Ae By W, I. 1I0DGES & CO., 0 Lo [ feslon Merchanty Regular Ancilon Sales Weilnusiiny and Saturday livanluge, at7p.n, AlsoThnrs day Foul oxtato 43la a3 p m. Bgievlal attaition givon to oitinida snioa, Hoturns ninds on the same day of sale, how fova foxvitg tho rostuoncs, Consignmonts rolleited, Libe oral advaticouonts made i stodks of morcladive, HODUES & ‘Auctionor A, BUTTERS & CO., AUUTIONHIRS, S T nfilfl S REUULAT SALES BUGGIES, PHAETONS, & CUTTERS, HARNESS,&¢., On WEDNESDAY, at 10 o'olock, at 108 Madison-st, DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOEN, &0, 3 TIURSDAY, st 10 o'olock X On Vs at 10 ook, at our eslesroom, 108 Barior, Dini o VAo Lariaiis, dat- e tobe 0l without 0. \ 638 W bor, ble:Tu sorvo, West Lako-st, “By WM. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE, On BATURDAY, at 9% o'slock, at 10§ Aladlsensts