Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1874, Page 1

VOLUME 27. DRY GOODS. GOLDEN OFPORTONITY! CREAT Anmnal Clearing Sale. CARSO, PIRIE & 0.8 RETAIL, DEPARTMENT, TADISON AND PEORIA-STS. BARGAINS IN by Stripe, Spring, 2 and Summer SILKS. two omtos now Gray nnd. Black Stripo 8ilks, vory dusirnble 1595 ota. por yard bolow 'ust opencd ‘ Grm?nd Fanoy sfiyln‘n, at rt;r%x: 50 to @oo, ud‘ifxlxlf Hing Gros Gratns at 51 yord, ‘well wort .40, 1 lity Blaock J.yons Gros Girains at B AU AT, “31.55, 280, and s1.75, tho ohenpest gooda offerad. &ichest L unlktionbmgg: ‘I‘;byuolg: ‘(v}g"::"eminu nfiéfi?fla 11’1‘2::11‘1:;0115 Cfiank Velvots. Cheap Dress Go;)ds Tables. blo No, 1--At 30 cents; contains Colored e N o Frantron Boipa B opiing, Valond.ne, &0., aAlmost half %rxcu Bt T APablé No. 3--At 35_oontss mi\l:truol’npllna, Rich Droocado, Mohiiirs, tham farm? Cashmoros, Serges, &o., montof arly sold at 50 cents. ‘rable No. 3--At 30 conts; conteins Fipucod Crope Cloths, Plain Serges, Satin St ripos, gnd?ienaum Oloths in choice shades 5 grent ry A mn‘x’m‘-‘un Oloths from 35 cents o yard up. ‘wards ; _an onormous sacriflce. ¥rench Morinos, choice shades, hosvy and fing qualitios, at 50 and 05 conts a yard and upwards ; almost half price. Tyons and Irish Poplins below cost. . Bfnok Alpnoas, the best and finest mike ime« ported, from 25 conts per yard upw ards, Great bargains in Black Onshmores, Felt Bkirts greatly reduced. Bargains_in Linens and House- keeping Goods. Cottons and Sheetings at inter- esting prices. Bargains in Flannels an.d Wool- en Cloths. ‘Hamburg Embroideries at a great sacrifice. i Madison & Peoria-sts. CARPETS. - REET AL, CARPET DEPARTMENT FIELD, LEITER & CO. State & Washington-sts,, ‘Will offer, on MONDAY, Feb. 16, NEW PATTERNS of Carpcts for the Spring Trade. 5010 $150 Tngreits, - - - Thée-Fiys, Sl to 165 Tamestry Brossels, - - - L2t L5 Body Brossels, - - 150fo 240 Tapestry and Wilton Velvels, 200 o 375 2061 500 Axmingters and Moquettes, Aubuson and Axminster Pattern Carpets, $10 to $15 per sq. yd. FOR SALE. GHROMOS, ENGRAVINGS, PARLOR MIRRORS, ETC,, Below Cost for the Next 30 Days, at 111 Madison-st. As my manufacturing and wholesale trade renuiresall my attentlon, I have decidod to rotire trom the rotail :;l;l{m #nd offer my entire rotall stook at 25 par cont hielow \- GRORGK KIELLER. STARCH, T. KINGSFORD & SON'S DSWEGOD STARCH, 208--1,000--PURE. THE YERY PERFECTION OF QUALITY, 877~ Families, Hotels, and Laundres VERY MUOI 'RUEFLIL those gooda. | Bold by all Graoars. . LOTTERY. $300,000. Capital Prize, $50,000, Missouri State Lottery. Grand Single Number Scheme. e A e T A 0§50, 000, ol tickats, i Halves, . Boud for I}x"‘n}x‘hi‘m MURRAY, MILLGI & CO., Tiox’ 2448, 8. . bo HOTELS. § EUROPEAN HOTEL ANDERSON AND DINING ROOMS, 143 & 145 Madison-st,, bet, Clark and Lasalle-sts, « ROOMS, $1 AND $2 PER DAY, STOCKHOLDERS' MEETINGS. TN O IO . Dftice of the Baltimore, Pittaburgh & Chicago Railway Co, (1lllaos Division), Chicogo, Yob. 10, 1474, Tho Btookholdars of the laltimoro, Plttaburgh & Ghi- 1aga Railway Compan, nothiod that the an- aunl eetin for ¢ Iregtors, will bo held at furohaute’ aro hurob 0 olection of lio utlice of the Comvany, at 04 LaSallo.st, M }mndmm Ubicago, on tha 1th day of Lobriiary, Inst., st 3w, WAL WINU, Boo. 'BUSINESS OARDS. SHOW CARDS By A, STENPEL, 183 East Madisou-st, Waily R axibune, ' —_——— Pl CHICAGO, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1874. FINANCIAL. oty -~ CITIZEN'S BANX OF CHICAGO, Oor., Madisaa and LnSallo.sta, CAP ITATs = $100,000 DIECTORS: B, ’Y(EH K8, «Prosldont Cltizens! Bank. Al B K fnog Hehool Bund, townof Olcero, 01 M, U Lk, . 1V, Butlor & Co. J. W, Bl TLER, . Butlor & Co, ¢ 3. WILAON of Wilkon & Porry, Attorneys, 0.1 Gaen & Gon, Tion! Hatate, Bank. b, Katnte * genoral banking businoss transacted, Collsctions n 2 /Ocpouits rocelvad. Government bonds, bouglit and sl Yorcign oxchiango for salo, Wo aotlcit Ao~ con ate lmmr;lw Jusiness publio, X' B, UENKS, Pros, ' 16, T, NEXSEN, Cashter, + FINANCIAL. Purchaso Money Paper, secured by morts go, wanted. Monoy to loan on_Grain_snd visions, = LAZARUS BILVERMAN, Ohambor of Commoroe Building. I O 0AL DSTATE 0 oan ninka ‘same Toans of 4, : eholco fisido buisi AR By g r rosiUg 0 net, fora torn of yosrs. " "o BAIRD & BIEADLY 0 Tagal WEWANTPAPER. Good Comm~rolal or Local Stock. tiated at low ratea, Collatoral nego« WM, B, WATSON & CO. . Local Stocks. ‘Wo hava for salo toveral NationaliBanks' stocks, and Gaa stook, and want & lbuited amount of Chicago Uty Ralle way. WM. P WATSON &GO, | ROBERT WINTHROP & CO, BANEIRS AND BROKHRS, No 18 Waiat., Now York, oxocuto orders for STOOKS, HONDS, "ANID GOLD, ailow 4 par cont Intoroat on Dit. };nfll |..§§" and transact a genoral Banking and Brokorago 73 REMOVALS. REMOV AT VOGLER&GEUDTNERS WHOLESALE Trunk and Satchel Warerooms TAYE BEEN RH)IIOVED' T0 109 & 111 Wabash-av.,, TUP-STAIRS, ‘Where they aro prapared to show the largost and_beat as- sortment in tholr liue to be found West of Now York, at Drices convonisnt to evory purchasor, FACTORY: North Wellsst, cor. Superior, ARTISTIC TAILORING. TWELVE days moro_ in which wo sell our goods at 10 PER OENT DISCOUNT, Our Spring Goods are now arriv- ing, and our Spring Fashions are issued. “A word to the wise,” &e. EIY & CO. - (Iistablished, 1854.) MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS. SHIRTS, Collars, CUEFFS, WILSON BROS., 07 & GO WASHINGTON-ST., CHICAUO, And Pike's Opora Ifou: Cincinnati. GENERAL NOTICES. NOTIOE T0 THE PUBLIC. At amooting of tho nndersigned, Coal Denlors of this olty, {ns unanimansly voted thiat hiorantter all_ Coal #hotld bo PAID YOIt WHEN ORDERED, the object belng to lesson oxpenso of the burincss by dispensing witiy collgctors, and to proteot thomsolves from mposition by partios not desorving of o rodit, Tobort Law, Blake, Whitohonso & Co., T2, L. & Ga., Rogors & Co., Hoglo & Go,, Minor T, Xlles, Morley & Co Waldron, “Niblock & G Johnatn, Reno & Littlo, O, S, Itichardson & Co, Co., Weat, McGarey & Uo.. J. L. Hathawny, il Hafor, Tislo & Cov Orolcliton, John 0. W. Galt, W, cott, Nolson Bros., J. Hanson, A, K. GCliestor & Co., J.'D,’ Stone, Voas'& Shy Lvans, Noll Br NOTICE. After Fobruary 1, 1874, tho promium upon purohase of TAX OERTIFIOATLS, hold by tho city for clty taxos of 1873 will bo raised to 53 PIER CIINT. Chleago, Jan. 20, 1674, 8. 8. HAYIS, Comptrollor, TO RENT. STORE FOR RENT On Franklin-st., between Hamlin, Davey & Co. and J, V. Farwell & Oo,, 48 fect front by olass Bteam Elovator, with steam furnished for powor and hoating. The mosat desirable looation for tho Hat and Oap, Boot and Shoe, or Clothing business in Ohicaro to-dny. In. quire ot HAMLIN, DAVEY & CO. ‘WANTED. Parimer Wanted, Eithor sotivo or nectal, with 810,000 0 850,000, 1o an ol eatablishod, wall-knows, and popular Chicago WIOLI- BALIs HOUSE, which finds is oapital (impaired by tho Groat Tire), Inadoqualo to Handle tho latge and lucroas- ings_trado which continually ofors. ~ WIll gusranteo a profit of not Jos than 2 per oent on investmont. Pald nioro thau that last soar, aud por cont increascs with bus- noss. Inquiro of MARK KIMIALL, ltoom 2 Honora Block, cor. Ilearhiorn and Monroo- hicagn. FIRM CHANGES. DISSOLUTION. "The capartnorship horotoforo ozlating butwoen the un- dersigned, undor thoe finm namo and atylo of ** COX, HENDERSON & CO.," {a horoby dissolvud by mutual cousent, ALFRED J. COX, ISAAC W, HENDERSON, WILLIAM C. DWIGHT, Chioago, Fob, 11, 1874, Tho Book Manufarturlug buoines ocanduoted by A, J. COX & GO, named flem, at tho protont loo st. (Lakesidu Building). s DISSOLUTION. To all whom it may concorn—Bo it knowa that tho ca- partnoralip oxlsting botweon Phillip Lauor and Phlllip Waudull, of tho firm of Lauor & Wondoll, of this city, biaa buen dissolveil by mutual agreemont, Chiengo, Teb. M, 1474, PHILIIP LAUER. NEW PUBLICATIONS, g Qe AT A belllaut and attrao. TLLUSTRATID A Mot el sty y itlusizmod & legantly Y it ks Sinted, Will contatn i ENGIAVINGS durug ihe wiil horeafter bo asars to the abovo. “lark and Adams- FULL-PAG1 Jone, A o nificont GHEOMO to uvery subssriher, #3,60 por yoar. BEND 25 CENTS ¥OIL SAMPLY; 001y, Prospuoius, and Proe i Tdat, ue 10 sorsambl by OAN=~ VABSKRA' WANTILD 16V LItV WL 8 THOMAN G, RICWMAL Room %7 ribuns Bullding, Obioago, 73 foot deep, 5-storics and basement, fivat- | WASHINGTON. A Lot of Fanicy Clerks Employed by the Treasury Depariment, ‘What Their Services Are Worth --What Is Paid for Them, The Senate to Decide Soon upon & Finanoial Policy, Featurcs of Sherman’s and Mevri- mon’s Financial Schemes, Senator Cameron Getting Ready to Clear the Financial Skies. Curious Facis Concerning Con- tracts for Postal Service, A OHANOE FOR REFQRM. 4 Specinl Dispatch to ihe Chicago Tribune, ‘Wasumatox, D. C., Feb. 16,—In an editorial article, the Capilal for to-dany makes some startling dieclosurcs of offleial malpractice in tho Dopartments bero, which, if properly invas- tigated by the Appropriation Commilteo, will without doubt how where retronchmont can bo had to somo purpose. The Troeasury Dupart- ment is firat talien in hand, and an sstonishing misuso of the public monoy is brought to light, There have grown up, it seoms, in this Dopart- ment, withont any .suthority of law, anumber of bureaus, whioh aro styled “ Buroaus of tho Becrotary's Office,” having ench o Chiof of tho Burenu, Chiof Olerk, clork’s copyists, messen- gors, and laborors. Tho. Chiofs of the Burcaus receivo £3,000 and tho Chiof Clorks of tho Bu- ronus 2,400 o year. This is withont authority of law, aud no appropriations are mndo to pay their f\lgh salarics,” Tho Appoiutment Buresn 18 ono of theso FANGY INSTITUTIONS, Tho work of tho otileials is to mrke out and su~ pervise the appointments of clorlis in tho Troasu- ty. For this arduous sorvico a Chiol of Bureau is paid £3,000,and o Chief Clerkis paid £2,500, whilo 251,900 clork, working fiftoen minutes a day, conld do all the noceseary work. Yhero 18 an annual appropriation of 31,800 por an- num to pay tho salary of an, Appoint- ment Olork . in the WYreasury Department, while the economical Secretary exponds 6,400 for the anmo purpose, Tho salary of 3,400 paid to the Chict Clerk of the Burcan is 8400 moro than thoso of the Chief Clerks of tho regular Audi- tors' oftices of the Dopartment. ANOTHER of theso uscloss Buroaus is that of the Record, and Files similarly officered, ‘The work done by the Burenu is shnplf to take carc of tho records and files, and furnish them when wanted for roforonce. One good §1,200-clerk ooutd casily porform all the dutlos,. - . cr e BTILL ANOTHER Yoy bureau is called tho Mail Department. This tho gront task roquiros, it appents, tha sorvices: of a Ohief at £3,000 & ycar, four clorks at ©1,600 = year, fivo clorks at $1,400 a yoar, throo at 31,000, n mesgonger and two assistants. The public will be proud to kuow that no expenso is sparad to serve the Bec~ Totary of the Trensury with hia lotters promptly and in good stylo. ‘Phou_there aro what aro termed Customs and Intornal Revenue Bureaus with o like expensive corps of ofticinls. Theso gontlomen writo tho Searetary's notes to the Commissioners of In- ternal Kovonuo, it is presumed, and do such like PETTY DUSINESS: All the work, at least noarly all of it, could be, done by the Customs nnd Internal Rovenue De-' partmonts without any trouble or additional ex- pensc, There is also a Stationery Bureau, costing 25,400 in selaries, to disburee the funds and sup- ply the Treasury oiieinls with stationery, One nhlu&hod\ud. 2800-messongor could ensily do the work, In ali thero are sbout ten of theso bureaus, ofticored by what may bo properly tormed the Becrotary’s porsonal ataft, Thoey sre tho SOFT, FAT TLACES in tho Dopartment. They eprung up under Mr. Boutwell's admiuistration, and tho oxtra monoy topy the expengo camo, it 18 said, out of the indefinite appropriation of 1 per cont on all the issues and roissues of mouey or seenrities made by the Government under the head of “for placing tho loan,” and the special appropri- ation, which has been mado snnuaslly for the lnst oight or fon yoars, for the especinl uso of tha Secretary, and intonded to pay larger salaries to some of tho most valuablo of the employes of the Department, who could not be rotainod without increaso of snlary. Tho Becrotary’s prerogativos in those mattors have beon assured, it is claimod, by a ring composed of the oflicials who hold their fat places, and thoy do much as they ploase without lot or hindrance. It is chargoed thot CERTAIN FAVORITES have been paid as high ns 825 aday; thatitis o common thing for the Department to furnish private carriages for the families of ofticials, and meescngors to act as conchmen and foot-~ men ; to pay for furniture for tho private apart- ment of ofiicisls, and psy their mileage and their per diom when they go on ploasure oxcur- sions, ‘the eslimates for the oxpenditure of tha contingent fund goea to Congressin bulk. Itwould ba.a good thing to hnve dotailed etatoments und vnucfiem submitted, to show oxactly WHERE THE MONEY GOES TO. The sum of 42,000 was charged to the Pension Ofilee Inst year for miloage, but the showing is now made that one-fourth the amount was used by officials in going to and from tho Stato of Minnesota alono. The articlo also charges that Dr. Hood, tho medical referoo of the Buroau, is also the family hysician of Secrotery Dolano and Commissioner Ylulmr, und that while Baker's wifo lay sick in Minnesots, Hood went thore at the exponso of the coutingont fund, to nttond her profos- slonally, Ina similar manner, it ia chinrged, that ho wout to Ohio to attond John Delano, the Secrotary's son, in his rocont illncss, At- tention is also called to A& ITEX for over §11,000, used by the Interlor Depart- meont for what wero tormed “oflico supplies.” As ull tho stationery, furnltare, wash-towels, and soap, aad such things, are provided for by sopar- oto itoms in tho estimato, it 8 o query whether the oflicinl lunches do runllg cost that much money, and, if so, whothor tho Government is bound to pay for them. Thoro is certaiuly horo A VIELD FOR EXAMINATION, As waa poluted outn your,dispatches some timo since, iU is 1 tho expenditure of tho contingent funds that cconomical and ratrenching Gon- grosamen con find scopo for their iuvestigations, As long o8 no account is compolled to bo kept and rendorod of these expenditures, just solong will there bo temptation to misapply these funds, ey NATIONAL FINANCES, Special Dispatch to The Chicago T'ribune, INFLATION OR REBUNPTION. ‘Wasminanox, D. C,, Fob, 16.~The question whother it sball bo resumption or oxpauslon is likoly to bo sottled, as far as the Sonato is con- cernad, this week. A voto will bo had on some ono of the several propositions now bofore that body within a duy or two, Immediately undor consideration are TEN ANTAGONISTIO FINANCIAL PLANS, tho flrst of Mr, Bherman, providing for the withdrawal of £25,000,000af cliculation from the Now England National Banks, and the redistrl- bution of the sumo among banking aesocintions 1 the Bouth and Wost where a scarcity of cur- ronoy oxists, 'Thisis an anti-inflation mens- uve, Agelust this I8 pitted 3lr. Morri- mon's substitute, which Jprovidos that £40,000,000 in notes for circulation shall bo issuod to National Danking Assoclntlons now organizod, aud whjeh wav bo heronttor ore bureau distributes Mr. Richavdson’s mail, and: | " Ennlzm!. This monns the sxpansion of Natlonal ank ofroulation to 100,000,000, Upon this proposition, Benator Forry, of Michigan, las madon entoful convass of tha Bonato, and, na ’Hm‘ result of tho enwno,,clalms o small ma- ority. OAMERON'S FINANGIAT, REMEDY, To-morrow Mr. Camoron will offor, ns & sub- stituto ror both the above plans, a bill to ropeal tho restricting clauso of tha National Cuarroncy act, This monns free bavking in its brondest songo, and Mr. Camoron is confident” to-night thatit will carry. o will have the support, of courso, of all the oxpansioniats, and expecta the votes and moral support of the New England aud othor Enstern Souatora whose banks, 1f Mr., Bumner's blil passen, will have {o.dlegorge 26,000,000 of thoir ciroulation, Tho Houso, Mr, Cnmeron_believes, will pass his mensuro with a rush. If his oxpoetations are realized, ho looks for a grest tumble in tho fancy prices fixed upon tho stock of - cortain influontial Na- tionnl Banks, i ——— THE POSTAL SERVIOB. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, EOME QUEER CONTRAOTA, Wasitixarox, Fob. 15.—Tho attention of mem- bein of the Committecs on Poat-Officos and Post~ ronds of both Sonnto ahd Houso Lns_beon callod to tho fact that, if ecdnomy is roally desired, thoy cnn vastly reduce expense by changing the mauner {n which the mall' contracts are mado, Of tho routes advertissd for, 1€ is neserted that, thoro is not one in ton'which'really conforms to the advortisomont. Talke, for instance, tho fol- lowing ns o specimen : 3 ¢ In the ndvortisements for’ mail-gorvice from July 1, 1870, to Juna £0, 1674, tho following wos nmong the advertisoments INVITING BIDS} Routr 15,703, frum Rolss City, by Bllver Olty and Orglice, ta Wintomucen, 280 milled atid back, wix timea aweek, Leave Bolso Oity dhily, excopt Bufiduy, at o lve at Winnemuesa o threo days, Ieavo wucea daflyat 6a, m., excopp Bunday ; arrivo at Bolee City in threo dags, ‘I'his was the form of tho advertisoment. Tho contract was awarded to A. 11, Brown, tho lowest bidder, at £9,990 per annum. 1n a fow dnys this wag dlscovered to have been n mero sham bid, but, as the mails had to bo delivered, the Post- mnstor-General contracted for thom for tho timo being. p: 8 D On July 26, 1870, o coutrnot wns mado with Tuller, Smnlly & Balow for three times a weolk sorvico, o tho rato of §38,000 per annum, On May 8, 1871, the Yostmaster, Genoral ordered Tour additiounl trips per weok, to dato from May 1, 1871, two davs bofore the contract was actu- n(ly mado, at tho rate’ of ;844,000 por annum, thus putting the wholo -gorvice at 377,000 per aunum, I MUCOA . is on tho Contral Pacifio atlrond, Boise Oity is supplied soyon times a woek upder another con- tract from Kelton, on the Central Pacific, which 10 827 miles cost. It therofors appears that Sil- vor City is th only oflice nat. on, othor routes supplied by route 16,705.._ According to tho con- sun of 1870 Bilver City liad np%]mlnuan of 1,472, and tho cost of gorvico to,the United Slatos was, n fraction over 962,80 fox ench citizon of Silver Y SN * in DBy tho ndvertisomont af Octobor last, for n contract from July 1. 1§74, to Juno 80, 1878, tho samo routo is ngnin ndvértised for, aud it in add- od that tho present pay of the routo s 877,000 per annum. From the .above statement it, will' uppear that the public know -nothing of any of the bids but the une of Bigomer, of §9,990. PUBLISHING, BIDS. The Committee aro of tho.opinion that tho Postinastor-Genoral should be roquired by law to publich all bids for mail contracts, In this way the people ean nscortain who aro logitimate and responsiblo Didders, sud who rio straw bid- ders; and also who are indoraed by Postmastors ag. responeiblo biddors, the law requiring, it should bo romembered, that Postmastors must vouch for such biddors, INTERNAL REVENUE AFFAIRS, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tyibtine, + | Wasnxatox, D, O., Feb. 15,—Addizionat In-! formation rogarding the Hanborn contracts will tho Treasury, on Tuesday. It s said that of about 1,000 names of individuels and firms con- nooted with {heso affairs, not more than one- twoutioth of the number can or wil likely be found to have bosn guilty of fraud, or intention to defravd, tho Goveroment. Buk the namens of - Ay sggfl aa tho guiity, will be made pul nmidigh the investigntions now going on in tho Woys aud Mleans Com- mitteo, Many of thoso included ‘in tho list aro parties against whom suspicion only oxisted, aud oven that suspicion may, in numerous cnses, havo boon manufactured by SOHEMING ISFORMENS, The feeling in Congros4 in favor of ropealing the laws allowing moicties to informers is very strong, and is constantly gaining strongth, aud thore is good ground for tho balief that all Inws of this chnracter will bo freponted outright, or materially altored duriug this session. THE LIQUOR TRAFIIC, The House Judiciary Committeo has instruot- ed Judgo Poland to report favorably the bill providing for the appointment of a committee to examine into and report upon the quostion of the liquor traflic, ——— NOTES AND NEWS, Spectul Disvateh to Phe Chicago Tridune, DEPANTMENT OF JUSTICE INVESTIGATION. VasuiNaTox, D. C., Fob.' 16,—To-morrow Mr, Soner, the Chairman of the Houso Committee on Expenditures in tho Depnrtment of Justice, will submit a resolution empowering the Com- mittee, in the investigation thoy aro making, to send for porsons or papers, . This will undoubt- edly bo adopted. Mr, Hynes, a membor of the Committee, from Arkansis, will also submit a rosolution direoting the Commitloo to investi- gote nffairs in tho Western Judicial District of Arkanses, I'hero is goed rension to believe that tho National Bauks in that region were in col- luslon with the thiovos, and profited by the al- most unexampled corruption of Goverument of- flcialsin tho district, LOUIBIANA, Senator Carponter says that he has no doubt of the passugo through tho Senato of his bill Bmvmhxg for anew eleotion in Louisiaua, to be old undor the supervision of a military officer of uot higher rauk then Major-General. Ho proposos to push it. - JUDICIARY DILLS TO BE REPORTED, ‘The bill for distribution of the Goneva award and the Civil Rights bill will bo reported bncl on Tuosday by tho Judiclary Committeo. (7o the Assoctated Press.\ TILE IRON-CLAD OATII. ‘WasmryaTox, Fob, 16,—Gon, Butler and Judge White, of Alabama, Laving boon appointed a sub-Committeo on_two bills horetofore intro- duced in tho Houss and roforred to the Committos on Judiciary, to -abolial tho test or iron-olad onth in all casos wheroe it i8 now required by Iaw, have pre- purad a report upoun tho subject in favor of abolition, wnich they will this® week submit to the full Committe. “Thoro soemato bonodoubt thlnit rtlm mujorily of the Houso are in favor of relief, ——— XELLEY AND HIS FRIENDS. THE ' CONVERTIBLE IOND DIVERSION—HORROWS OF TIE HIGH TANIFF PEOPLE. Lrom Our Own Correspondent, ‘Wasuinarox, Feb, 10, 1874, 1t is apperent to anybody who has followed tho debate on tho Curroncy that wo want some millions of the acros of land whioh wo annunlly bestew upon Agrienltural Colleges, sot aside for A PACULTY IN PRIMARY POLITIOAL ECONOXY, You cun tell of a man who geta up to spoakon tho Currency quostion, almost in the firat sen— tenco, whether ho bas read a book of rudiments in Finance, ov pioked up Lis notions botwoen his tomporary intorests and his country newspa- por. A man had botter undortake to addross Congross on Goealogy without firat providing him~ solf with n toxt-boolk, than to heranguo about. Finauce as AMr. Kelloy doos, quoting such nuthorities a8 - Archibald Altson,—a Tory who ocouwld mot write about oven politics with any philosophy,—and Fraser's Magazine, and tho Flrst Book of Kiugs. "'his Jumblo of nuthoritios oxposos tho ears of the spoakor, just us wo seo in Cuba, over tho top of u grout paunter of huckstoring, the oms of tho nass, Besidos, » man makes but one goneral record in his lito, unloss ho bo o man of moro area than Mr, Kolloy has holghts aud by that standard lm‘ be transmittod to the Honso by, the Socrotary of | t6'to hu.nppreclnhd. Therefore, we know, when Kolloy s slopping over to financo, that his Tarift-oart has struck a rut. What ho eays in TFinanco s moroly tho spilling of an imporiled Tarifl-intorost, whase condition ho insonsibly desoribed in bis speech of Jan. 17, in the follow- ing sontenco, which {s not bndly composod : “Tho story of our development,” ho eays, **during tho lnst olght yoars, if fitly told, would road liko a story of Oriontal imagiuation, Yet, slr, wo nro in the midst * of "bankruptoy. Grodt local and national entorprisos have been arrost- od or abandoned ; the fires of forge and furnaco liave gono out; and tho loom and spindlo aro -silont,. Hundrods of . thousands of frugal and industrious poople aro unomployed and oating tho Dittor brond of charity; and tho Govern- ment, alarmed at the sudden decroase of its rev~ - oriués, abandoina its hopo of porsistont reductlon of the public debt, and domands the restoration of war-taxes," ’ 1t would bo impossible for writo o bottor description of THE RESULTS OF TARIPF-GTIULATION § and overybody knows how it worke, Tirat, the Tarifl-intorest mokes the. Ooogross, nnd tho ' Congross builds » wall around the country, by «which an assoclation of .private intorosts are in- sured a profit too inordinate. to be long con- . sontod to, Thoy malko tho most of thelr; timo, aud, In ordor to” incroase "the market, creato ol ’;unm which shall 1equiro tho uso of their waros, - iChoy uso the. credlt of the -country, which s million mon died’ to establish, to float :bondy abrond and at -home, which (aro nothing moro than thoir ruse to got pay for the cross-tion, radirond-bars, shovels, tools, bridges, car-works, anginos, ferry-stonmors, oconn-ships, house-fac- tocies, and tho innumorablo. articles which enter futo the conutruotion and ‘settlemont -of tho lina ,of a vasy corpurntion, Bvery appliauce of influe oneo, overy public talont, oven the highest hon~ ors, aro prostituted to keep’ the' world morry, | whito‘the nuctioneer hawks: the “bonds, < Mr. Colfax stakas Lis everlasting. famo writing for tho New York Independent such articlos as TWAWILTE 2" and “It Will,"—meaning o railroad- i’ub, and its probabilities to reimburso the bond- olders, * Mr, Kolloy, who is an unusunl aes, nnd alwayb rises to tho hoight of his great ar- | gument, grows so jeslous of Colfax that ho writes -oysays boforo the world to prove that Lo ~was tho . first grent cause of tho job in question, Thoy have their construc- tion-companics and laud-compnnios, leaso - their own iron-mills, establish car-works, and actu- ally buy Lroasury-ofiicers to expross tho opin- ion that thar bonds aroa littlo bouter than | Gpverumonts, aud had boiter be. taken in ex- ‘chaufe. If ' you'quostion thelr railrond-schems, you are & low wrotch ; but, if you impugn the doctrino of Protection,—which is thie four elo- phbanta on which tho bonded tortoise stands,— you ara worue than on Atheist, TIUE DY-PLAY. Theso Kelleys, moreovor, or their principals,’ the -jobbore, havo o refroshing ‘inconsistoncy : notwithstanding their plontiful spaech,..which is liko two rivers lowing contrary ways oup of -the | samo chaparal, what an outrage it is thac tiio fufamous foreign- ! ors Liold so'many of 6ur *Governmont bonds and | recoive interast from us in gold,' drawing blood | .from our country annually, thoy are ‘moving heavon . and onrth to eoll the yailroad-honds, which nre “better than Governmont's” an Dring highor intercst,”to overy nation undor tho sun. \When sich enterprises fail, theso fels lows doliberately turn around and say: . ** Al-+ . though we havo defuulted our intorest, it is tho ‘misorable Europosn’s loss,"—thoreby proving that their'codo of morals has, not a grain of: Christinpity fa it 5 for thoy do “not evea ‘rob I‘l"\lt)nr topay Paul, but rob Poter to pay Bar- abbag, an Pt Thot this is the _positian. of .hopest men, in: TPenugpylvanis, as woll as olspwhere, is plaiu from Ahe'speueh’ of | Washisigton Towngend, Mémbgr! i of Congross from the "old" Qualer* counties ad-| ~joining.. Plalndelphia,—good - old - Ghoster and; elnwire,—and who 1n & Republican, and algo . ‘anker and lnwyor, and was a Whig. , Liston to' hiis description of tho panic and its cause : o Many of tho wheels of industry have ceased to run; groat cuterprises Lavo -been stopped;- agriculture, manufacturcs, and commerco ecens to Lo refusod (o make thelr usual proftablo returns, aud the labor of tho nation aprears 10 bo parniyzed, . ', . o' The whole sufforing we st preacnt oxperience is the result of what §8 famillarily. known os * overtradiug.” We hovo overtraded in_almoat overy direction, Our rail- road-syatem is, perhaps, tho most notableexample, In 1860 We had 30,633 miles of ratiroad completed ; in 1670 we had 52,898 miles s and at tho presont time it is #ald we have 07,000 infles finishod, at & cost of over 0,200,€00,000,—~tho extent of rafiruad: having izore thin doubled'in tho last ten years, and being n groater. length of raiiroads than is owned by all the rest of the waorid together, We hava run railroads out on the David A, Wolls to scitlement, o have bult thom up through moun- tain-canons and dofiles, We have extended them | overywhoro that the speculative fancy of thelr pro- motors induced them to bellove that tiey would prove beneficlal to tho atockholders or to the speculators in town-sites {hrough which they wero to pass, This 0x~ pausion of rallroad-operations wan far too rapid to bo healthy ous, Of course, a Ponnsylvania man would rather cail it ** ovortrading ™ than anything else; but WIHAT MAKES OVERTRADING ? It must either bo the pasaion of tho consumer to buy more than ho was wont, or the condition of tho producer to forcs tho market. It hordly needs an argumont to show that the artificial prices establish by tho Tarif were, in themselves, an inducoment to speculation oua geale which mere gamblera llike Gould, Drov, Bmith, Clews, etc., could nevor uphold, exco\)t forn day oraiwook. Hero was an inaxorablo National decroe, which said to everybody in the groeat Tariff-pool: **You can have the lnrgest percontagoes ovor awarded to reasonablo men for o torm of years, or a8 long as the publio patience will stand it ; and it is your fault if you do.not find customers.” There wore but two ways to crowd the mar- kot: Bond-Solling and” the Enlargement of Credit, ‘Iho first of those had its Limit in tho oredulity of men ; the second was to havo its limit WHEN PAY-DAY CAME. Now wants, now discontents, new fripperics, now landaulets, excited by the abundant eredit concomitaut upon » High Tariff, made the Amer~ icnn pooplo almost druvken, and appetites were called into oxistonco unknown bofore. Tho farmer's wifo must move to the oity, or spend hulf her timo there. Tho farmor cumbered him- gelf with machinory to do tho work whioh he hnd formerly done with his strong arms, Tho aren of land sowed in mero grain was extended to nccommodate the supertiuous machinery, and tho very versatiity which tho Tariff- advocates proach was made impossible by the oxcessive sugplwu which tho Enast- ern mouufacturers piled up at tho frontiers of the country, sent free of freight-charges ovor the superfluous and ecleemosynary railroads, How could the frontiorsman manufacturo for himsolf when tho tariff had been made solely with “referenco to mauufacturing intorests nlrondy established ? And the limit of things was roached whou nearly 200 railroads utonod in- torest upon their bondliolders ; when a hundred bankers, 8o called, closed thelr doora; when even men like Sprague, who was at once o Sonntor, with his hiaud on the Jaws, and & manu- facturer, with his hand on the loom, failed with tho Incrodiblo assots on his hands of botween $11,000,000 and 818,000,000, Tho house of Juy Cooke, with nominal nssets nnm-y a8 great, sot~ 1las at 10 conts on tho dollar ; and its oreditors, appavently conceious of the hollownoss of all values in our period, hoartily indorse tho settlo~ ment aa perfoctly satlsinotory, Senator Morton in elated to soo that overytlung doproclates Lut tho grocnback, “All" un{s ho, *fecl of this m“ci“"l Tooplo honrd it1 Who would have gold : " But the Tariff-monster—lilw the hippopotamne with its unmnanagenble body, whonever it gets ou the solid ground and devastates all that it does not oat, on tho bauks of the Nlle,—is as for- midible when it wprawls as when it de- vours, ond hag tlally come to tho place whore it {8 nocessary for it to pull tho groooback down, as it hns all other forms of crodit and confidenco, THE DEBAUGHING OF THE OURRENOY BY THL TARIFF, It is moro curronoy which Mr. Kelley wants, aud he uses the ingonious figuro that '*'You can- not floatagreat ship in o small pond, nor can you float thousands of millious of debt with the presont curronoy,” In this flgure, tho illustration and tho object aro transposed, The whole troubls has beon with the ship and the pond, sud not with the ourrenoy, g Wo bad no business to bulld such a ship whon wo kuow the sizo of our pond, Wa had no busi- nos to manufaotura so much, knowlug both the moasure of the market aud fho our- renoy, Tho figure of Mr, Kelloy ux[mmm bis motive, The willalny of tho past’elght yoars is to baflgatad off en’anothor unsuspooting gen- Whilo thoy; nre telling, you'f: prairies far beyond the bounds of civilization and |* NUMBER 177. eration by Inoreasing the modlum. This ought to bo called a bill to mako rain. ‘Thora is noth- ing compnrable to it, except in tho atory of Rob- inson Orusoo, who hewod himeolf a gront boat in the {nterior of his islaud, nand, whon it way dano, it was soon to bo o vory good bont indeed, but it would not go tosea. Ilo thoroforo mot himsolf to making a oanal which should dluYoeo of tha boat, lmf many wore the objurgntionn _which he wroto on his own stupldity. RELLEY DUCKED IN JII8 POND, - Mr: Relley's proposition has boou ignomin- {ounly kicked™ ‘out of two Committe- roome: Wavs and Doans, naod Donk- ing and Ourrenoy. DBut it had beon alroady riddlod by Ilawley, of Connooticut, and Davwes, and partioularly by Barchard, of Illinvis, who appoars to bo one of the fow men in Con- gross who studled hLis political economy at first prineiples. . B Burchara showed that this ‘'8.05 convortiblo ourroncy-bond,” whioh was to boar 1 mill o dey interest, was nothing more than s schemo of ‘overlnudng suspousfon of specic-paymonts, even whilo our axchaunges wilh foroign nations aunu- ally approximato “one-haif the wholo Natioual debt, and our exportations alone, for which wo expict gold, oxcood by one-third tho entiio smount of curronoy for which Kelloy's harlequin bond provides, -Theroe wore three quostions aslkod of Kelloy by thros men, which oxploded him and broke his tompor. Hawloy aslked him how therocould be too little curroncy when .thero wos & currency- balance in Now York groster than before tho panic. ! Daywen avkod him how he was going toinorenso' the bullk of currency by Ionk(nfi tha wholo $400,000,000 of legal-tonders up in bonds, which K3 y;lnlo_flko the present would be as likely to ro- sult in a8 not; for, when peoplo hoard their money, thoy muy ns well hoard it with tho United States, and lot it bonrsIntorest as bonds, lustond of Eying it up in stockings, 2, Mr., Ward, of illinois, asked him how the Gov= ernmout could rodoom #svoral hundrod millions of theso convortiblo bonda it thoy wore all sud- douly prosented for redomption. [ Thoro was no escapo whatever for our friend, whoso thoorfes on Finnnce are mado to order, whenever his Tariif-ship roquires moro pend. But it may be predictod of that Unriff-ship, that -thero will', E A NEVER DE POND ENOUGI for it'; it {s arranged on tlio ‘principle of Mnc- ‘both's ambitioua crime, which all firont Noptune's ‘ocoan'could not flogt clear from his hand. Like onything unnatural or uueasy, the Tariff will nover e contont with o ‘sound cnrronoy. Whon it has exhausted all {ho propriotios, -pervorted the institutionsof the country, an corrupted tho Logielature, as well as business moraly, it says finally: “It can't boour boat that sinks; 80 wo sball have to make o medium in which it can ride.” Whon it gots so far, it bolonga to Bocialiem, Atheism, aud such other moisbegotten paradoxes, conceived in the crimes, ' the Justs, and the ignornnce of men. W All that is necded to smbollish 3lr. Kelloy, and, give him & coustituency worthy of himself, is the rod flag "~ with which tho Communists drove tho Gorman’ mechanics out of Paris, aud clamored for assignuta, GATI. " "FOREIGN. “Further Returns from the Parliamentary Eleotions in Great Britain. Sovere Repulses, .. GREAT BRITAIN. . Lonpo, Feb. 16.—Tho London Observer says tho now Miuistry,will probably bo composed as +a8 follows :* Disracli, Fiist Lord of the ‘Lronsury; Lord Calrns, Lord High ‘Chancollor; the Duke of Buokingham, President of the Council; .the ‘Duke of Richmiond, War Scerotary; tuo Earl of Northumborland, 'IFirst Lord of tho Admiralty; Wavd Hunt, or Mr, Hubbard, Ghancollor of the . Exchoquer ; , Gathorao mm]y, Houwo Secrotary. 1t is rumored that Gladstone will navise the Quaen fo elovate Ohichestor Fortescque to the pecrage. - * LATER. Loxpoy, Fob. 16.—A fow olections in Ireland are shill ponding, With the week -ending Sawur- day, 396 Conservativos, and 207 Liborals and Home-Rulers bave boon roturned to Parlinment. Tho Consorvative gatn, sixty. The Houso of Commons yill contain 416 now membora. The Emperor of Russln will visit Eugland ndxt April, © . ! £ —_— BSPAIN. Mapnip, Feb, 16.—The Carlists will soon be obliged to raise the sioge of Bilbos. Gen. Ri- yora, with tho advance, 2,000 strong, of Gon. Morfones' army, is now within nino miles of Portugualote, ‘The Nationul trcops hnvo dofont- ed a baud ot 2,000 Carlists beforo Toluss, and rovictualed the city. bSO CUBA. Havaxa, Feb. 18,.—The polico linve mnde sov-~ oral nrrests of parties charged with taking load- ing parts in tho domonsgmuon of Thursday evening, among them Senor Mooto Sals, editor of the defunct Republican journal. AN ODD FELLOW. Death in Galena, Tk, of the Oldest Nicmber of the 0dd Fellows? Organs zation. . Suecial Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, GaLENA, 11, Feb. 16,—Tho body of the lato Jolin G. Potts was interred this aftornoon. M. Potts was tho oldest Odd Follow in good standing in tho world. He was initiated in Lodgo No, 1, at Philadelplin, Sopt. 25, 1825, and was Most Worthy Grand Masier of tho Grand Lodge of tho Btate of Pennsylvania in 1820, In 1886 he and George i, Dallas woro arrosted by ordor of the Legiuslatura of Penusylvania, for being connected _with secrot mociotios, . Ho moved to Galens in 1838, and wns in 1839, and for four years nfter, District Deputy Grand Bire of “tho CGrang Lodge of the United Btates for tho Territory of Town, which included Wisconsin nnd all tho country known as tho Tarritory of Jown. After 1841, he was District Doputy Grand Sire for the Grand Lodgo of the United States for tho Northwestorn Statos north of 40 dc‘fmua of north latitude, e instituted tho Grand Lodge, six encampments and eight lodgos in Iowa ; six lodges in Wisconsin ; tho Graud Lodge, one en- campment and throe' lodgoes in Minuesota; and two oncampmeonts and six lodges in Illinols. Ho wns_presentod, on .the 24th of May, 1873, by Pounsylvanla Lodge No. 1, of Philadol- phin, with & gold medal for tho faithrul pexform- anco of tho duty of A'reagurer of that Ladgo for twenty-threo years, and for twenty-oight of Load Mine Encampment, of this place. Tho body was iulln\vmi to tho grave by over 600 Odd Fellows on foot, and 500 porsons in car- risges and sloighy. e THE WEATHER, ‘WasiunaToN, Teb. 16,—I’rouAniLiTiEs—TFor the Middle and South Atlantio States, falling barometor, northwest winds veoring to south- woat, oloudy weather, aud possibly light rains, For tho Gulf Btatos, eouth anud-wost winds, falling baromotor, cloudy and_rainy wenthor, -followed in the Wostorn Gulf Btates by rising barometer and clearlng weather. For the Ohio Valloy,tho Northwest, and tho Vsnuanknu, rising barometor, north ond wost win i, partly cloudy and clearing weather, with lower temporature. Cautlonury signals are ordered for Eastport, GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. Cu1oA0, Feb, 16—1 v, m, Bar, | Thy} Wnd, Weather, 120,80 49,79) 20, 75) 20, 73] Drock'rldge Ghoyeune, . Guleago, . Clueinnati,, ©ons.IClear, \85(Cloudy, Clouay. iCloudy, 1Olear, 20/, Hiht,..o. 100 [Qlear, Loavon e I B Mitwaukeo, [20.06 BLN, Wiy briak, 1.0 110 ear, Omul 20,1 83{Calm. U.qur. Tolodo v nef 10| 441V, frcel rureating . — ————— %A cable dispatch from Paris, TFrance, an- nounces the death in that olty Baturday night of Richard H, Rudd, a prominent physloian of Loulsvilte, Ky. Dr. Rudd went abroad n month since for his hiealth, THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE. ‘Dr. Dio Lowis Calls Loudly for Loce .. turers and * Organizers.” The_Movement Antagonistic to Repube lican Principles. s e s | The®. arty in Dayton Trying to Evado the Issue. OHIO, OENERAL BURVEY OF THE FIELD. recial Dispateh to The Chicago Tribue, CnZ iNaty, 0., Fob, 16.—Roports from scores of ta 3 in Southorn Ohio and Indinna show & stoad uxtonsion of tho Women's Tomporauco erusade. The following is : DR. DIO LEWIS' LATEST communieation to the prosy: ; Lenaxox, Fob, 1, 1873, Dear Smm: In three or four towns where the Womon's Tompetanco Movement hoa been inaugun ated, natead of Leglinniug with a largo meoting, nné gnlisling. e leading womon of (Lo plao,a fow une Tnppy drunkards’ wives have gono about pleading, singlng, and_ proying, snd & heartloss -publin Lave loughed mt thom and thus brought the movemont rlioulo, The work in every town should be begun with a large, well-appointod meoting.: I ain happy to say thint soveral ablo speakers are abous to_outer tho flold, and supply the demand, I trustths Temporance Bu~ reau formod will bs -announcod within a day or two, 1 have mora than a hundred invitations, and ‘am dofi- nitely cngaged for. ten niglts. If {lo friends of tho temperance cause will organizo a Lureau, surs that ton ablo apeakers and organizors wiit spring to tho work, Yours truly, I WAR CONTINUES ot itshieight in Springfield and Xenis, whioh are tho largest citiea the movement hns yot reached. At Xonia largo prayer-meotings are held daily, and tho ladies go their rounds of singing and preying in tho saloons. Quaker-women from Wilmington, 0., are assisting at Xenia, Sub- stantinlly the same programme ia carried out at Bpringfield. The rumscllera in theso two cities aro not numerous, howover, and all kinds of business are languishing. Merchants com- Pln{n loudly of the unpatural dulluess provailing n their stores. ;T'he crusaders nseod], Jo into 10 LEWIS, . AT LONDOY, O., roport that aftor threo weeks of offort, threo drug stores lhave boon reformed, five saloous Liove boon pormanontly closed, aud all the ro. mpiuing enloon-keepots, oxcopt ono, have offor- od to soll out to tho Committes, A movement is on foot to provide tho young men of the town with & lecture-room and gymuasium. Bix snloons have beea closod in Athons, and a grocery that gold only cider was successfully bo- niogod yostorday bg tho women, A drinlk can bo procured only in the suburba, ‘Chere is but ono saloon iu Lsbanon, 0., and that was surrounded all day yestoiday and por- tion of the night by Tho Carlists *Sall to Have Sustalnod |- . SIXTY DETERMINED LADIES, Ono hundred women mado the rounds of the Gallipolis ealoons Inst night, The Pomoroy Indios are iudefatigable, althougt thoy hiave not yot succeeded in bringing one saloon-keepor to torms. THE REPUDLICANS IN DAYTON are fighting off the crusadoe with all possible ine dustry, but very quiotly, (0 the Associated Press.t Croinyati, O., Fob, 18.—Speclale to the @azelte from vatious parts of Bouthwestorn Olio report about 80 out of 140 places wacre liquor ‘was sold closed since tho bogin. ning of the temporanco movement. Che roports come from fourtcen towns uud villages. “ho women of Logan, Loesburgh, New , Viennn, Washington, and , Blanchestor bave wan acorrmoto vietory, Muncie, Ind,, reports eizht .out of eleven plnces closod. Tho averago titne of tho movomoent in these places is leks than two woeks, XENIA. XuNia, O.; Fob. 16.—Thirty-five saloons have boen visited, . In only nino wore the Committes admitted, .Two saloon-keepers promised to stop solling, but refusod to sign the pladge. Fom wera willing to sell- out aud quit, but must got something for their stock. Bome who ot first refueod to talk, attorwards admitted the visitors and conversed freely, and allowed srnyern tn be offéred, - Froo lunch was furnished at Temper- ance-Hall at noon for *the women who could nof conveniently got home. Who morning prayor- meoting at the Presbyterian Church yestorday was very. largely attonded. Businoss houset wera closed, and . 3 ** A MARS TEMPERANCE MEETING wag holl atthe City Hall last night. From 1,000 L0'1,500' wero present, and hundreds turned from the door, unablo to obtain admittanco. Bevarnl good spocches wera made. Daniel Gon- neara, & saloon keepor, was on tho stand, and made n !:{meeh.‘ He said he came to surrondor. Mrs. Hadloy, Mra, Runyen, Miss Walkor, all of Wilmington, and some gontiomen, also mado roe marks, , Tho enthusiasm was at fover hoat. Buch a meeting.was nover before held in Xenia. Augther mass mocting will bo held at the same Lall Monday night. The women are still detor. mined and confident of success. AT BOUTI OHATLESTON, Spectal Uispateh to'T'he Chicago Tribune, Bouti CnauvLestos, O., Fob. 16.—At u mass meeting composed of about 800 poople ting evening, spoeohes: wore made by sovoral gentle. men in favor of Temperance, Onoe ot tho enloon: keepers, James Gallagher, came out decidedly in favor of temporance throughout the United States, ‘Tho Indies are sanguine of success in the Temperance movement here, AT GREENVILLE, Special Dispatch to T'he Chicago Tribune, GneenviLig, O, Fob, 16.~The tomporance people of L place are still busy, A moeting wa lield in the Mothodist Church Iast night, aud the pledgo was signed by about seventy por- sons. Stops wore taken to lead to pormancnt organization, Some think the Adair lnw strong enhough to drive away the ovil of intemperance, while othors aro advoeating moral suasion. In- toxicating liquors are sold in twonty-two places in this town. AT LONDON, Loxpox, 0., Feb, 15.—The Ladies’ Tompor- ance Leaguo' besiogad tho saloons all day in roupa of Linlf & dozou, and 8o continued uutil fite to-night. The Council Inst night passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale of alo, beer, or wine within the corporation of London. An or- dinance prohibiting the game of billiards and other games also passed its firat reading. Bub- seription papers wero oponod to-day for o young mon’s gymnasium, and tho undertaking will suo- ceed, o soveral prominont men havo taken the matier in hand. Tho saldons did little busincsa to-dsy, as the namesof all porsous entoring them'wore takon down. _RELIG 10US. Iishop Cummins Announces that tho 4imo hans Come for the Orzanization of a Xtcformed Church in Now Yorke Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune. New Yorx, Feb, 16,—Blshop Cummins, of tho Roformed Episcopal Church, pronched to-day at Slolnway Hall, on * Tho Teats of Christianity." Bofore boginning the sormon, the Bishop said ho thought the time bad come when the congre- gation should organizo as the First Reformed Episcopa! Chureh of Now Yorl, He according- ly invitod thoso who proposed to unite with the Church to remain and chooso a Chairmen and Becrotary, for tho purposo of °“°“““lil an_or- genization. After tho congregation had been dismissed, about 100 porsons remained. Blshop Cumming said that friends were organ- Asing altaround. 1la had just roturned from Thtladelphia, whero two churches would proba- bly ba establishod, asd on next Bunday a church wonld bo orgauized in Brooklyn. COol. Coorigy was chosen Chairman, and Mr, Lawton Seore- tary. On motion, » Committeo was appointed to proparo a plan of organization undor the laws of the Btate, and report next Sunday, The time and placo will then be fixed for holding n meot: ing for the clection of oficors, Tho following aro membors of the Committee: Mr. Dake, Mr Tililson, dMr. Woodwortl, blr, Bmedloy, and Br. Alton, z g OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yong, Fob, 15.—Arrivod—Sioamer Yo gor, from Bromon, peeENsTOWN, Fob, 16,—Arrived—3toamshiy Manhattan, City of Obostor, and Daltie, frot Now York..