Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1874, Page 4

4 0.50 sollor May. Monts wors quict, at 530 for shouldors, €8.20@8.26 for short TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE XXRME OF BUDACAITTION (PAYADLY IR ADVANCR). S e BB | Evmin Honq | Tibs, $8.45@B.60 for short olear, and 10@ At Weol Mm'w;nw. 2.0 104¢o per Ib for awoot-piokled hams, Highwinos Partaota the samo rate, were quict and unchinnged st 930 por gallon. Fjour was more actlve nt formor prices, Whont was quiet, and }go lower, closing ot $1.20%¢ onsh, and $1.243¢ soller May. Corn wns nctive, and 3{@1o lowor, closing at CU3{@C030 cash, and 04}¢@045¢o sollor May. Oats woro dull, and X{o lowor, olosing at 433¢o cush, and 40}4o sellor Mnay. Ryo was nctive and stondy nt D0o. Borloy waa dull aud onsier at 81.61 for No. 2. Hogs wero dull and wonk, olosing nt 84.76@ 5.85 for poor to cholco. Cattle woro In good' To provont delay and mistakes, b enro and givs Post ©ffice addrosa n full, Including Stato and County. Remittances may be made olthor by draft, oxpross, Post OMeo ordor, or{n registorad latioss, At our rlske TLRMA TO OITY BUDAGRINRLS. Tuils, dolivered, Bunday excopteq, i coute per weok, Datls, dolivorad, Bunday included, 29 conts por wook, Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Coruor Madison aud Denrborn-sts., Uhleago, il TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. X —Mndison strest, betweon D ae R A SHnan of das Coomba. FHGNGeT tor BoananL.t TIQOLEY'S_ THEATRE-Randolph stroch, hotween Ol LaBan A angemont of Kathorine Rogers, | domand at atondy prices, Bheop woro firm and . Romeo and Julle unchanged. 810 Halatod straot, botweon Mad- —— 1A O M easomont of Bitlo Hondorson. Jones, of Novada—Bonator Jonos—was \** Littlo Sunshino." MYERS' OPRRA-HOUSE-Monroa Denrbom and Siato. Arlington, Cotto figatrols. Minstroisy and comioalitios. o1 own Up Alivar ADRLPHI THEATRE—Cornor of Wabash avonas AT egtino, Moulton, Hlgnor Constan. B Congro e e Fantarbimo of * Co-00. plekod up for a flat tho othor day. It was whilo 9ok (etT99% | tho onrronoy question was undor disoussion. Ho , New burlosque' | 00 4o jnquire what waa tho ronson that Califor- nia and Novada—two Btates rolatively poor and haying a small acoumulatod oapital —woro able to find gold and silver enough to answor all thoir purposos in the way of currency. Benator Mor- ton answored that it was becauso thoso Siates produced gold and silvor in Inrze quantitios. Jonos roplied that thoy didn't got thelr gold and silvor for nothing; that they worked for it, just : ITS-Dospiatncastraot, botwoon Mad- unnnrflfi'{vmfi"f: Dolctianty & Honglor'a Combina: o A bort Niokle, sto. Varioly sntortainoiont, ——— BUSINESS NOTICES. —WILBOR'S 0OOMPOUND ot T O . withat. possomaiug Lo Yary o o ag fiavar of tho artiolo aa boratofora nsod, ia ou- | na othor pooplo work. They paid for their gold f limo with s bealin, =fi:§ b{,a;:ll'r',':é?}lsxi‘m Ghtusotoun, Tomar and silvor with thelr labor, and other people fiflfifffl: 'th:;‘ ¥ could bave gold aud silvor on tho samo terms. oaton. 5 Trom thatpolat ho made o fow romorks about the tondenoy of an irrodeemablo currency to! promoto gambling, Thereupon Morton chipped in with tho inquiry whothor thore Were no| gomblers in Novads, to which Jones rotorted: #Wo hiavo never oalled upon tho United Btatos Govornmont to rolievo the gambler from his lia- Dilitios by issuing more cnrroncy.” The repork sny8 there was applausein the gallories following Jones' anawor. : The Chivags Tribune, Mondsy Morning, April 8, 1874. ‘o prospoect of & division among the Ropub- licans of tho First Congroasional District of Town probably disapponrs with the rofneal of Mr, DMcOrary to bo a candidato for ro-olootion. BMr., MeCrary gives no other reason for withdrawing from public 1ife than that his privato affairs de- Our columns of religlous nows this morning aro mainly givon to a descrintion of the beauti- ful services with which Eastor Bunday waa: mand his undivided attontion. A hotored By the ,barches yoatérday, " i\ o : follow tho | PIto tho contrarioty of tho weathor. Mr. Tusa v AT Spemimana e McCarthy preached a sormon in Grow's Iabyrinthine couras of the Bonate regarding the Curronoy bill—and there raust bo logions of thom—will find in the Washington dispatohos & trangeript of tho bill as it now stands smonded bofore tho Bonate. The amount of groonbaok cireulation is placod at £400,000,000, and, in ad-" dition, thoisane of $46,000,000 is authorized to o mado to Notional Banks in sccordsnco with, tho Banking act. Thero are somo provisions for tho rogulation of the reserve roquired by law, . and it is stipulatod that nothing in tho act shall. swarrant any increaso in tho national debt. —— * Gen. Butlor roported to tho Houso of Repro- sontatives on Saturday a bill to suspond from offico_ eny civil officer of tho Government, ox- ‘gopting thoe President or Vico-President, during trinl for impenchment. Tha bill ia understood 40 bo nimed at Judges Durell and Busteed, who. arosoon to be impoached. The nocossity for, gach o procaution was shown by tho_conduct of Judgo Dolahny, who stayed in offico, helping him- golf and his frionds to everything good within xonoh, until just befora trial, and thon rosigned. Judge Durell has intimated that howill employ similor tactice. An objeétion from Moroy, of Louisinns, compolled tho withdrawal of the bill, ———eee Opora Hall and has *declared - hia in- tontion of oatablishing an indepondent church of his own. His caro waa the theme in two pulpits yostordsy. Tho Rev, Mr. Ravlin, of tho Temple Baptist Ohurch, eriticises the action of tho Conncil in vory uliang languago, and. looks upon Mr. McCartby as ita viotim. Tho Tav. John Gordon, of the Western Avenuo Bap-* tist Church, has resigned bis pastorate in consc- quence of the displeasuro of his people with Ms defonso of tho Luofer of tho ‘Unlon Park Baptlst Ohurch. As & partial com- ponsation for its lossos, tho Baptist Ohurch has . pained o nowand zoalous momborin the Rov. E. E. Doyliss, who throws oft tho orrors of Presbytorianism, sud sccopta fmmersion as thoe only true menns of salvation. Tho temporanco quostion is discussed by tho Rov. E. F. Will- {ams, in a sermon ontitled ‘* Abimoloch and Al- cobol,” and in a locturo by Miss Elliott.- Thore ‘was o tomporanco moeting in tho Wabash Av- onuo Methodist Church which was falrly at-: tondod. ONLY A LITTLE INFLATION. The inflationists in Wasbington have recoived o back-set. They have beon losing votes in tho Sonato for a woek past, and cannot count on'a majority of more than three or four when they poll their maximum strength. And now it is announced, with considerable show of author- ity, that the Presidont intonds to voto their bill if thoy pass it, and Lo voto sny bill which doos: not make provision for tho redemption of tho new greonbacks 14 coln. Undor théso discourag- ing circumatanegs, it is stated that they aro pre- pared to compromiso on Moriimon's bill, which; provides for anincronso of $16,000,000 of Nation- ol Bank circulation. > Buch a compromise, however, Is not probabls,” “ for tho ronson that nine-tonths of the support- ors of ivflation throughout tha country are not only opposed to more National Bank notes, but in favor of wiping out thosoe wo already have, and filing their placo with groenbaoks, Lot Logan and Morton come homo and toll their fol- lowors that thoy couldn't got any more green- backs jesued, but that they did tho noxt best tbing—they got more National Banks au- thorizod—and thoy will hear Rome howl, And tho mow bonks will not be startod evon if tho bill passos. Bo thoy. will Linve failed to socura iuvflation in any form, but will bave attompted to secure it ina form in- tensely objectionablo to the great mass of thoso who want it, For theso reasons, the proposed compromise i improbablo if not inadmissible. A good deal has beon said latoly abont a con- flict betwoon tho Enst and tho West on the sub- joct of inflation, and pains has been taken in somo quarters to crento euch o confliol. It has boen representod that tho linaof the Alleghanics subatantislly divides those who are in favor of watering the curroncy from those who areopposed toit. In point of fact, thoStato of Pennsylvania ismore thoroughly onamored of shinplastera than the Stato of Iowa, All tho Eastern Btates togothor have not struok such hoavy and woll- directed blows ngainst inflation aa Bonator Hehurz has givon. Tho * leading statesman ” of Massachusotts ia s loud-mouthed advocato of inflation, and Mr. Dawes himsolf roported tho $44,000,000 bill from tho Committeo of Ways and Means, Thero isundoubtedly a proponderance of votes from the Wost for inflation, anda proponderance from the East opposcd to it, but tho contlict, when it comes—nas como it will if tho country enfors anow upon & new course of irro- deemabla curroncy—will not ba a sectional ono, It will bo a noighborhood fight everywhore, Let tho Covornment commonce debasing tho cur- roncy, impairing tho obligation of old contracts, and rendoring now once impoesible by destroy- ing or threatoning to dostroy the valuos in which they aro to be fulfilled,—let it carry out tho sys- tom logically, and ndd a frosh lot of groenbacks whenever demanded by peapls who are hard up, and tho bonds of society will bo sundered in ovory direction, The Enst will havo ouongh fighting to do without coming West, and the ‘Wost will have enough to do without going East. Wo will do tho inflationists the justico to say that very fow of thom want unlimited inflation, Thoy want only s Jittlo—just onough to got startad agaln aftor the panie, Thoy do not re- flect that tho panic eignifios a want of oapital, not & want of oarronoy,—tlhat owrrency consists of nothing but tiokets by whioh capital 18 ox- changed and distributed—that since Congress cannot croato capital it cannot inoreseo tho pro- portion which each ono shall enjoy, however it may multiply tho number of tickets, DBut, they way, It will start up business, It will starbup epoc- ulation undoubtedly, but it will starbup no indus- try. The only thing that will put vigor into logitl- matae business s thaclement of certainty, Qivothe country assurance that invostments ehall be geoure, and that a dollar lont to-day suall be'paid Charles Ernest Beulo, a distinguished French archwologist, and Iattarly active in Fronch poli- tics, ia dond. In 1853, BT, Boulo, then in his 27th yonr, was appointed Professor of Archmolo- 'gy in tho Bibliothequo Imperislo, snd was given the Oross of the Logion of Honor. His archmo- logical discoverios at Athona and the site of Carthage were vory important, In 1862, ho was olocted Perpetusl Becrotary of gho Acadomy of Fino Arts. His latter works are remarkable for their unsparing attacks upon despotism, and wore written while Napoleon III. wwaa at tho height of his powor, Likemost Func!;- men of literary habits, M. Boulo was a jour- naliet, and his contributions wore frequont to the Revue des Deux Mondes and other period- icnls. While the Sanborn trisl wns in progress in ‘Brooklyn, United States District-Attornoy Ton- noy was greatly ombarrassed by one of his aa- sistants, a Mr. Hughes, who threw overy possi- Dile obetacle in the way of the prosecution. Tho Iatter hus now boen roquosted to resign byhis su- perior in a lettorwhich has the merit of very plain speaking. Tennoy chargea distinetly that Hughos told Banborn the searets of the prosecution, and nided bhim in eovery other way in his power. Huoghes was appointed at the urgent solicitation of his brothor-in-law, Atty.-Gon. Williams, and ‘has recontly boasted thaot his influenco with the Administration would procuro Tounoy's dismiss- al within & month. Tonnoy's offense is his wigorous pursuit of the Sanborn gang. Pig-Iron Kolloy was tripped up in his finan- cial speach tho other doy by Br. Eldridge. o . was trying to prove that the only banking sys- toms which hiad mnintained thelr integrity wero +thoso that had .discarded bullion as the basis of ourrency. Boaring aloft in ferruginoous elo- quence, ho askod who bad ever lost a dollar by the failure of & greenback to buy Lim a dollar's worth of any Amorican production. When Bir. Eldridgo, with & very proper appreciation of the fact that United Btates bonds are a consid- erablo Amorican product, asked whothor ono who purchased them with greenbacks had not to take somo 123¢ per cout less than the faco value of the notos, Mr. Kolloy declined to bo inter- rupted. o ought to be more careful not to ask questions that can Do truthfully answored only to his own discomfiture, The tonth ballot for the Mussachusotts Sena- torehip shows no epecinl chupga. ‘The various candidates aro trotted out each day, and tho Legislatnre goos through the empty form of casting tho enme votos for them, Thore is somo talk now of adjournmont, with the design ot throwing the election over to a new Logislaturo, T'his would he in accordance with the plan sug- gested by Tae Cmicado TrinuNe at the outsot, 1t is becoming very ovident that thero i8 no one fitted to fill Mr, Bumner's place who is likely to Lo olected, and it would bo & much more grace- ful and sousible act for tho Legislature to ac- knowledge it cannot fill it than to sond a soo ond-clags man there, and at the samo time it would put an end to political bickeriug, Mr. Bumnor's vaoant chair Is a more eloquont ropro- sontative than any politician Blassachusetts is likely to placo in it. The Ohicngn_m'o_duoamn:fia; Woro moderatoly uctive on Baturdsy, with an easior fooling breadstuffs and groater strength in provisions. Moss pork was aotivo, and 40c por brl highor, closing at $10.873¢@10.40 cash, and $10.45@ 164734 soller May, Tard was in falr demand end & shado firmer, closing ot $9.40@ 0431 per 100 s cash, end $0.47X@ ‘tho rates with as good a dollar at tho agroed timo, and business will rovive, Tho voto of Congress to insy 944,000,000 of groonbnoks, Waa & vote to dostroy confldenco ;. and what honost calling can prospor without confldenco? BSomothing might bo done to rostors confidenco in tho way of muking gold contracto—that s, contracts whore the loan {8 made in gold and tho paymonts mado fn the samo kind of monoy. Our laws, as intorpreted by the Bupromo Court, authorlzo and enforce such contracts, Dut, unfortunately, tho facility with which Bupromo Coutt deolslons are made and unmado, to sult tho oxigonoios of parties or of dobtors, hes ehakon confldonco evonin this clnsa of invostmonta. Tho Inflationists—that is, thomo who want just s littlo Inflation—do not reflect that tho doso, once taken, must bo ropeated, in ordoer to goin ovon tho semblanco of beneflt. We deny that any roal bonofit can be gained in any ovent; yot & somblanco’ or susploton of it osn bo galned by taking s largo quantity and;taking it all at onco. That is, oreditors oan bo dotraudod of a lump sum, #o that both dobt- ora and croditors will feel it. But tho $44,000,- 000 bill will bo a shoor aggravation. It will ex- asporato many without satisfying any, And here ia whore the groat dangor prosonts itsolf. The precodent having beon sot of issuing greon- backs in #imo-‘of poaco, and no bone-: fit hoving ncorued, it will' bo con- cluded ' that tho amount was not largo onough., Then will como & florcor domand for moro. Tho first borrier hoving boen thrown down, it will bo essior to take tho sccond step, and prosently thoso who wanted only a little in- flation will find that the power to say how littlo thoy shall hove has gono out of thelr hands, They will bo helploss to stay the movement oven if they desire to do so, and most likely thoy will not 8o desire, for the samo impulso whioch fivat moved them will movo thom again. Tho ond ‘of the operation will be the destruction of publio aud privato oredit, payment of tho na~ tiona! bonds in grocnbaoks, and final ropudistion of the greenbncks themsolyes. A CORTRADICTORY RAILROAD LAW, ‘Tha Wisconsin Legislature passed two laws in relation to railreads, which go into_offoct on the st prox. The firat, known na tho Potter bill, provides for tho appointmont 6f threo Railsoad ‘Commisslonors, who, in the languago of Boo, 17, #ghall Liavo the right of passing in tho perfor- manco of thoir dutics concerning railroads on all railways and railway’ tralos in the State freo of |. chargo.” This would ho a cioap way of travel- ing did not Bee. 7 of the socond or gonaral law | intorfere. Tho Inttor snys: ‘*Any Stato officor. who shiall accopt any froo pnes, or pass at a dis- count, from any railroad, rallway, or trans- ‘portation company, eball bo deemed guilty of » misdemeanor, and, upon conviction there- of, shall bo pumshed by fno or im- prisonment, .swch fino to be wot loss than $25 nor moroe than 8100, and such impris- onment to bo not less than ton days nor moroe than thirty doye.” The contradiction in this caso is direct. I tho Commissioners *'dend- head® their woy as authorized by the act cront- ing thom, thoy must pay a fino or go to jail. Tho goneral lnw (8ce, 2) prohibits diserimi- nation either in ratea or facilitios for tho trans- portation of freight within the Btato, * or com- ing from or going to any other Btate "; whilo the Pottor bill specially discriminates botwoon Stato and inter-Stato business, declaring against any intorforenco whatover in tho ratos charged for tho Intter, and still furthor discriminates by arbi- erarily dividing tho railronds uto olasses snd proseribing difforont ratos for tho amo articlos according to tho closs in- which tho road fe “placed. Still nnothor conflict oxista in his clna~ sifieation. It nllows tho roads grouped in Clasa B and Class O to charge much higher ratea than . the roads in Claga A, while tho general: law de- clares thet all individuals, associations, and cor- porations sball have oqual right to havo persous and ‘property transported over railroads in tho Btato without disorimination. Here, certainly, is n most apparent conflict; and, 1f tho clussification mado s thoreby ropealed, baged upon it . must . necos- sarily fall, snd tho Commissionors op- pointed to ‘onforce them will find their oc- cupation gone, Tho Pottor bill proseribos what tho ratos shiall bo aftor May 1. Tho railronds in Class A" comprige all the linos operated by the Clicago & Northwestern and tho Milwaukeo & 8t. Paul Companies. Tho rates establishod for thom vary for every twonty-five milos up to 250 miles. On grain, thoy are from 20 to 25 por cont lower than prosont rates. On flour, tho redue- tion ranges from 18 to 25 per cent; on lumber, from 28 to 40 por cont ; on livo stock, from 18 to 80 por cont; on sgricaliural imploments, from 81 to 43 por cent; on coal, brick, ofo., from 86 fo 44 por cont; and on coal, por carlond, from 18 to 85 per cont. The average reduction oxceceds 80 per cont. Tho operating oxpensos of theso roads, lnst yeor, excoeded 70 porcontof their gross enrnings. Iftho proposed roductfon is onforced, from whonco will tho monoy be d erived to pay intor- est on the bonds, irrespoctive of dividends? - In tho faco of such s showing, it would not bo maintalned in any competont court that the rates imposod aro unreasouable. . But tho gon- cral law says the rates chargod shall be reasona~ ble. Tt wp“lfl soom, thorofore, the Compauica bove only to prove tho ratos estabiished in the Pottor bul uoressongblo in ordet to -lave them abolished. - No provision is made for thoir incroasa providing thoy are adjudged unroasonably low. Buoh dis- cretion was allowed the Commissioners when tho bill left the Benato, but tho House, engoer to outdo the other body, struck out tho clauso; leaving only tho powor to lower the rates. Wero ita validity to bo immodiately tostod, the railroads couldafford, porhaps, to awaititho rosult; butex- pedition in logal matters ia not common, and, moantimo, the bill deolares that,}it any railroad rofusos tho rates of fare or froight proseribed, it shall not bo ontitled to any compeneation whatover, and the parties tondering tho logalized rates shall have power to replevin thelr goods, Aguin, the Pottor Dbill gives Justices of the Poaco jurlediotion, wlile the goneral law in- suros the right of trial by jury. Danicl 0'Connell once sald there wag no law on tho statute-book through which ho could not drive » oconch-and-six, Tho Pottor bill leaves tho requisito gup. Tho rates deflned in its Bovoral sections aro for * carrying," Nothing 18 suld about recelving, handiivg, and delivering, Tho servico ombraced in those dutiesis quito distinct from oarrying ; besides, ite cost is not saffocted by tho distance tho froight fs carrled. A proper obargo therofor merely on- ablea tho ocompauies to ocovor the ox- ponges inourred Dby thelr bocoming com- mon carriors; and, ag tho firat sootion of the socond law deolares all rallroada in tho Btate common carriors, thore appears no roason why thoy caunpt sdd tormiual charges to tho ratos ostablished by the Pottor bill for ' earry- ing," and thus moko thelr ratos about tho same 2a thoso now in forco, * Upon tho pointa indicatod logal advico ia bo- fog taken by t!lo railrond companion, Within ® fow doya tholr polioy will bo doolared. Gront though thelr differoncos may bo in othor mattors, upon this {asue thoy are uitod, and will stand or fall togathor. L ———— THE TOWN CANDIDATES. Tho onndidaten for tho town offices aro as thiol s tho flalos in yoatordny's storm. Obicago 18 litorally swarming with thom. Thoro aro Re- publican tickots, Poople's’ Party tickots, inde- pondont tokets, roform tickats, workingmon's tiokots, saloon tickots, Irish tickots, Gorman tickots, whito tiokets, black tickots, all sorta of ticketaand oll sorts of condidates, and & con- sidorable army of patriots who aro not ranning on any tickots, but aro raiding around, guerrilln foehion, with o emall followlng of bar-tonders and frec-lunchora. Taken all togothor, itfan choico lot, composed in the mainof professional offiecholdors, profossional bummers, profossion= al whisky-sollors, aud vetoran whisky-drinkors, and & fow noviees in tho businoss of small pol- itica who aro putupon the track because a war broko out thirtcon yenrs ago and slavery was sbolishod. - What thoso historicsl ovents may havo to do with the fleecing of town tax-payers, or why a man cun run his arm any forthor into tho Tronsury beeause ho fought, porspired, and moarly starved {n tho Homo Guard over ton yoars sgo, aro conundrums no one will try to guess, but ss those anclent patriots have got to .hwvo somo issue to run- on, they might os ‘woll run on a doeayed platform a8 any othor until they got into training. ‘Wo prosume beforo Tuosdsy thero will bo sovoral moro tickets in tho flold, and & matorial incroneo of indopondent candidatos, as thore aro numeroud other patriots from Bridgoport and the North Bido yot to hoar from, and eoveral de- foatod condidatos who may make up thoir minds to run after thoy gob sober. Xt is rathor dis- trossing to an avorage voter to make up his mind how to vots, but this difficulty may bo' ovorcomo in & very simplo manner. As any ono man in the list of candidates is about ns good as tho othor thousand, tho nomos of all might bo' putin & lat and shoken up, and the first five drawn out would undoubtedly bo just as good patriots s any other five. As the law has takon awny the privilogos of froo plunder, it i aafo to’ vote agalnst almost any ono. A PAIR OF ENOW-NOTHINGS, Dunng tho pas t week the country hos boon hu- milinted by an oflicial statomont of Mr. Riohard- son, Bocretary of tho Troasury, and of Mr. Baw- yor, Asslatant Soorotary of tho samo, that both thoso officers were in holploss ignorance of tho dnlly transactions of tholr Dopartmont, and that they nover did, and had no time to oxamine the papera prosonted to thom for signatura. A yoor |* ago, an English Oabinet officer” who granted s contract to one biddor, ignorant that another bid hiad been filed in his Dopartmont, voluntarily ro-: signed tho offico, from: which public opinion would othérwise have demauded his dismissal, ‘This ploa of ignoranco on tho part of Richard- don and Bowyer i8 disoussod in the New York Triune by a writer who is thoroughly vorsed in tho dotails of tkio Tronsury Department, ‘The organization ‘of the Tronsury. Departmont was tho work of Aloxander Homilton, and has boon rogarded a8 the most porfeot governmontal ma~ chine of the world. ‘Tts general plax is to pro- vent the withdrawal of any monoy from the Tronsury oxcopt by suthority of, and in tho manner provided, and for tho purposo designatod, by law. Tn no casa oan ong officer slone author- 420 tho paymont of moncy. There are no loss than three soparate dopariments, each inde- pondent of the other, which must con- our in tho logality of tho payment boforo tho paper anthorizing or directing it is prosont- od to tho Bearctary for hissiguaturo. Unlessthero ‘e o corrupt collusion botweon all thesa subordi- nates, thoero can be no illogal transaction, When tho pagpor is presonted to tho Sccretary, it must bear upon its face the oficial record that it hos boon’ passed upon and approved by all theso of- ficors, each of whor is rosponsible to the Inw, and while the Becrotary cannot examine into all tho facts of ench caso, ho can and must seo, be- foro ho nttachos Lis signaturo, that all the pro- liminary dotails have beon complicd with, so that, in case of future inquiry, io can place tho re- sponsibility whoro it belonga. Fraudand irre- sponsibility aro thus rendered impossiblo, unless tho Becrotary, a8 in this caso, confosses his ig- norance of the mode of doing businces, and at- taches his signature to whatever papor may be presonted to him by any subordinate. . It 18 not nocossary that ho oxamine oach case in detail ; ‘but it is his duty to seo, boforo ho attaches his nemo, that thomatter in hand bears thoovidenco of having passod through tho proper buroaus. In this way tho cases raquiring the specinl por- sonal attontion of tho Secrotary or Assistant Beorotary aro vory raro, and nover ocour in the ordinary business of tho Tronsury. In tho prosont case, Richardson and Bawyer Lavo signed and oxccuted a contract with San- ‘born to poy him 50 por cent for colleoting tho publio rovenue, and doclare thoy did soigno- rant of what they wero doing, In othor words, thoy confoss that thoy havo departed from tho unbrokon polioy of the Dopartment, and violated tho uniform rulo of their predecossors, and tho whole syatem of checks and balances. This was not ordinory businoss, nor was it & moro routine transaction, It was farmingout tho publio rev- enuo by contract—n most unusual and oxtraordi- nory procooding. During Mr. Chase’s adminis- tration, whon tho War mado the rogular and ex- traordinary business of tho Trensury more than twico as great as it is now, ho had no difileulty in disposing of all the business promptly, and this Lo did by striotly following tho ostablished practico, Mr. Richardson and Mr. Sawyor say thoso contracts weroe signed without having been road, and without the loast kuowledgo of what thoy involved. Under the adminiatration of Mr. Chage or auy of his prodoccssors, tho onse would havo hoen managed thus: Thoe applica- tion of Banborn for o contract undor tho lnw would bo roforred, as & mattor of courso, fo that branch ™ of the sorvico whioch it most directly concorned, tho Internal Rovonio Dopaitmont, and tho hoead of that Do- partmont would have beon requirod £o roport in wriling upon tho proprioty sud logalily of tho propused contract. If his report were unfavor- able, thiat would hovo beonan ond of the matter; it thoroportwero fayorable, it would thenbo rofor- roil to tho other branoh of tho revonueservicecon~ cornod, snd & like roport roquired from tho head of eaoh Dopartment ; and in this way each Do- partmont wWhose business was to bo affected by tho contract would bo advisod of the contrack itaelf, and roquired to pass judgment upon it Whon the information thus collected from tho rosponsible partios wascomploted, thoapplication and tho sovezal roports would be reforrod to tho Solicltor of tho Treasury for hia opinion, not ‘upon the polloy of the proposed procceding, but upon the law govetning it. Whon his opinion waa obtainod, the papers would bo submitted to & confldontlal clork of the Beoratary, who would proparo’s brief but cloar'and dletinct abstract of tho wholo caso, to bo prosentod to tho Boorotary for his porsonal Information. Upon this abatract of tho papers, tho Sccrotary would form his judgment. If tho cago was not clear, or ono of doubtful proprioty, or concorning which ho donired furthor information, ho would summon tho soveral lieads of Dopartments for consulta- tion. In this way, tho Beorstary, with tho ocou- pation of buta very fow momontsof hisown timo, would be fully advised, snd would act un- dorstandingly, % 2 Inthis cnso of tho application of ‘Sanborn, nothing of this kind was done. Tho applieation want diroct to the Sollcttor of the Troasury wha drow. tho contract, and Richardson snd Bawyor declaro- that it was signed without any knowl- odgo on thelr part of what it contalned, Tho Commissionor of Intornal Revonuo deolared: on onth that this contract, glving Sanborn G0 por cout of all colloctions of intornal rovenue lo might mnko, was unknown to tho Intornal Rov- enuo offios until aftor the wliole thing waa ex-' posod fn tho nowspaporsi-In tho’moantime, Bonborn had claimed to have collected . over £400,000, and Mr. Richiardson had direoted chat one-half that sum bo pald to him, tho Beerotary, tho wholo time ignorant of such s contract, and’ ignorant that ho wos paylng monoy ont of - the Tronsury undor it. And this is the way the busl- noss of tho Troasury Dopartmont ia ‘transnotod by ono of the succossors of Aloxander Hamil- ton! . BWING ON BPRING. Prof. Bwing soems to Lavo a special gitt for running over othor poople’s toos. With tho mannor in' which ho has not only run over but tramplod upon Prof. Patton's bunions, the publio Is quite familiar, although very fow may bave any ides what Prof. Patton is growling about, or why ho should growl at all. In this restless, busy world, full of peoplo straggling for bread and butter, thore aro very fow who havo tho timo to find out whothoer Prof. Bwing is trylng. to make people good on Babollian principlos or sdvising them to journoy onward to Hoaven by tho Weatminator through-route, a8 the only lino whioh makos fast time and is froo from nccldonts. The averngo man has all ho. cenn do to observo the Golden Rulo and keop the Ton Commandments, and we fancy thero aro, very few who caro whother they got to Heaven by tho Westminstor, tho Sabellian, or the Rogor, ‘Williams route, so long ns thoy got there. In this direction, therefore, thoe forthcoming ox- amiuation of Prof. Bwing's orthodoxy will bo of about a3 much intorest to the,gencral publio as tho gencalogy of o sacred Assyrian bull. But, now and then, Prof, Bwing’s 1concclasm assumes o very practical everyday shapo, which all of us can appreciate, and if his Enstor sormon of yos- tordsy doos not bring Old Probabilities down upon him with a firat-class libel suit, wo shall be disappointed. In the commoncoment of the sor- mon to which wo bavo reforred, and which will bo found clsewhere, tho Profoasor mokes the following startling aunouncomonts: ¢ Wo would' do woll to surrender tho ocoasion to song nnd’ flowors and tho full heart’s moditation, It is a Sunday in spring!" By looking out of the win- dow it is ovident that the Professor’s idon of & Sunday in spring i » blesk east wind chilling ono to the bone, » ‘turions twenty-four hours’ suow-storm, drifte o foot deop, a dull, lendon sky, no sun, forlorn beasts trying to pull horse- cars through the snow, stroots desorted savo by & fow unfortunatoes in furs and heavy overcoats, boys ringiug your door-bell and offermng to shovol off ‘your sidewalk for a quartor, women hugging coul-stoves, and othor such little sen~ sonable phonomena which the Professor groups togother, and from which lio infera it is a Bun- doy In spring! If yostordsy wera tho Profes- sor's boau ideal of n Suuday in spring, what wonder i8 it that ho may have made some slips in Babollianism? Iu this conncotion it would be somewhat intoresting to know what the Profos- sor's boair ideal of a Bunday in winter may be. By all laws of sntithosis, ono of his winter Sundays [would froozo. a far-geal, ond could only.be'found in all its beauty at the apox of the North Pole. 1t is a plessant little ‘ recommondation of the Profcssor’s to his cone, grogation that they shiould devote thomselves to song and flowers, but how is & man to slng when lio is cold, and tho bleak northeasters are blow- ing, nod what is ho golng to sing sbout? How {s o man going to devote himself to flowers with soveral inchos of snow on tho ground? Tho Professor should have been more particular in laying out the programme of his beautiful spring Sundey, suggested o fow appropriato epring tunos, and pomtcd out tho spots where the spring flowers might be oulled without the dan- gor of golng up to one’s knoes in snow or freoz- ing ono's fingera. In yosterday's isene of Tue Tmngng, 0ld Probabilities informed the Professor what Bun- day would bo in the following unmistakable lan- guage: * For tho Upper Lake region, increns- ing northenst to soutnonst winds, clondy weath- er, rain and snow.” Notwithetanding this warn- ing, the Profossor sermonizes about song and flowers and tho beauty of spring Suundays! If tho Professor's area of theology is as dublous 88 his aren of low barometors, and his thoologl- cal formulm aro of tho samo naturo as his thor- mometrical, ho must look out for Yatton when bis trial comes, > GRAIN PIPES, A corrospondent of the Rochester Democrat and Ohroniclesuggesta an adaptation of the puou- ‘matio-tubo iden for tho transport of grain from tho West to tho East. Ho wishes to |lay .a long pipo undorground botwoon the Northwest and theseabonard, and blow the crops through it. Stations would bo built every throo or four miles, in which largo faus would bo steadily ot worl foroing air into tho tube, Ho calculates that a pregsuro of two pounds to the squaro inch could bo casily maintainod, and that this would shoot forward wheat, corn, oats, ofe., at 150 or 200 milos an hour. Tho exponse of the iron tunnol is put at 85,000 por milo. This ecoms ridiou- lously low. Tho pipe would have to be laid deap in ordor to oscapo the action of froat. It would bave to bo cnamelod or mado smooth in somo way within in ordor to koop friotion at the lowaat possible point, and to provent tho grain's wear- ing into dust by rub bing along rough surfaces. ANl plons of this sort are fascinating. It would bo delightful to avoid tho necessity of using tho cumbrous maohinery of cars, and looo« motives, and tracks, by simply pouring grain into & hoppor aud recolving a tologram announc- ing its safo arrival at Now York four hours aftor wards, It would be doubly dolightful to got guch spoody transportation by a route whioh nooded to pay Intorest on only $5,000 per milo, It half the promisos these pipe-plana hold out could be veritied, the cheap-tranuportation prab~ THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1874, W e b Al i i o s St s S Y S S e lom would bo solved forthwith, It Ia known $hat grain oan be sont in tlug way for short dls- tancos. Tho way in which alr las boon forcod into the Iloomaso and Mt Conis - tunnola shows this, In either of thero cases, the ¢urront waa strong onough to have onrriod considerablo wolght bofore it. ‘Whother, howaver, it would bo posalbilo to over- como the mechanical difffioultics which llo in the way of convoylng a solld substanco by alrprons- uro any groat dislanao, only oxporiment can toll. Tho quoation is well worth the attontion of mon of aclenco. Fortuno and famo and tho power to groatly hiolp hifs follow-mon will bo the roward of him who solves it. e ——— A gontleman in Now Orloans seoms to Liavo put bimsolf to n groat deal of unnecessary trou- blo. His wifo, baving a sult with ‘s millinor, took oconslon to annoy the lattor's counsel by calling bin namos. Tho lawyor rotorted by do- olaring that ho should hold her husband rosponsi- bla, . The husband, being prosont, applied to tho lawyer somo opprobrious epithiot, whercupon the lnwyer stayed not upon his going, but wont for him st onco aud knocked him down, Not seatis- flod with boing knocked down, tho husband challongod the lawyor and the Iawyer acoopted. On Baturday last, they woilt out to Bay Bt, Louls, snd the lnwyer comploted tho easo by kilting the husband at the firet fire. All this trouble waus oceasioned the husband by o milliner's paltry biil! Binco SBouthorn chivalry has- reached that fastldlons degreo of nicoty that human lifofan't of aa much ‘consoquonce a8 & millinory bill, it will striko loss chivalrous poople that bonnets in Now Orlonns ore rathor oxpousive, to say the Jonst. ——— It wonld be cruol indoad to omit mention of & Migsourt tragedy whilo that peaceful Biate is do- ing so much to prove itself tho most lawlesa dls- trict in Obristondom. Two Bundaya ago, Cartor Ingraham, of Now Madrid, came to tho conclu- ston that his unclo, 8. B, Ingraham, had playoed the part of fathor to his (Carter's) littlo sistor long onough. 8, 8, Ingraham had brought the ohild up from infanoy when, & noglooted orphan, sho would have diod of ntarvation but for his timoly assisianco. - For this reason 8. 8. Ingra- ham declined to surrondor the child to a brutal; bully of & brothor, Xt would bo superfluons to assure tho reader that Oarter Ingrabnm fired a rovolver at his unclo and killed him, aftor which' Lo sont his sister to o friond's houso, *and then took to tho swamp.” —_— NOTES AND OPINION. The Connecticut olootion ccours to-day. Tho: Hartford Courant (Jo Hawley’s paper), in & final argumont to Ropublican voters, uses this form of appenl : H Tho good nome of the party has Loen assailed on ac-i|- count of tho bad deeds of o fow prominent men, Tho' Connocticut Rtepublicans huvo no spologies to maka, for wrong doing, but they say thero s virtuo enough’ iz tho party to it down tho wrong, . . . Will tho. Republicans of thie Stato doacrt thoir party when it {5 striving, as novor boforo, 1o mako that party worthy. tho suppiort of honeat mén? This would bo irrational and cowardly, Now is tho opportunily to make tho docfelve Sght In favor of reform in thopacty. . o . By tho glorlous momories of tho past and thie glorions hiopes of tho futuro, cvery honost Ropublican is ad-' Jurod to stand by tha old 1lsg, and_ earry out the fight Tor roform within thoparty, And the Hartford Post (Marshall Jewell's pa- por) uses this form of appeal: 3 d When Gon. Grant was engagod in tho death. le; yith tho rebeliion {n Virgiuie (a0 man wholud atriagen’ thosword from his Land would hnvo boon toru to piecea 08 » trator unflt to live. And now that tho dcatinles of this great country a0 agsin devolved upon this mon a3 novor beforo upon 1n American President, shall wo stand by him, Lold up bis bund, sud give bim ronowed courago o do right in tho faca of oppusition; or shall wo gmite him in tho face, ropudiato his good will aud 30d wolght (0 thi burdes ko L underiakon o bear or ua! . . o Inits presenc [L e, tho sbovo issus) the potty squabbles over Oustom-Houso sppolntments dwindlo to ineignificance. What if tho Presideut Las 0 now and then a mistako? Will the peoplo of Conneeticut giva him & £lap in tho face at such a time 8a this, for tho sako of gratifying potty party spite? ' Aud the Nuw Haven Palladium (Custom- Houeo paper) usos this form of appeal : In the rocord of the Ropublican party in Connecti~ cut thero §a nothing to apologizo for, nothing oven lat exn bo criticlacd. Our oppononta tacitly acknowle odgo this by dragaing in quostious that have nothing to tlo with tho issuo at etako, It is Ropublicsulsm in Qonnectiout thot is the queation, and not Republican~ 1am n Maanchusottss, or evon af Washington, In the language of the showman : ** You pays your money and you takes your choice,” g —Tho Boston Journal ssys : * i o have felt that a portion of tho Republican prosa of Conngcticut were laboriug under a strango miscon- ception of tho_political situstion, Thoy bava madg light of Ropublican disagrcemonts in this Stato, ns it thoy woro wholly of ‘a persoual character, more ‘social rejudico gainst o sninrt politictan, enobbo: Tice, otc, Thoy havo seomingly nof oon awara thnt they havo got to mect the samo disorganizing, corrapt. ing Influonces which have broken ground in Aasaat glusolta, and that thoy v beon playlug luto s hands of the enemy at liomo. Buch inseusibility muy noed the correctivo at the polls which it invites; but ‘we trust that the Republicans of Connocticut will wake up in season to avert such a rosult, —Tho Providence Journat decloros that a clas- siflontion of tho Rhode Island Logislaturo, at this time, would bo impossible, and prodicts a con- tost on the Senatorship, in Juno, not unlike that now waging in Massachusoits, Tho Democrate have about 25 mombors, and the 80 or moro Re- publicans aro hopolessly divided into two (por- Laps threo) noarly oqual factions, —Tho Boston Globe takes for its toxt, #The El Dorado of Scoundrelism,” and says: - . Our country is a nominal Ropublio ; but in_{ts rov. enuo laws, its #Sauborn contracts,” its “systom of spios, informers, and molotles, it is, to tno business mau, ono of tho most distrossing of dospotisms, . +'s Wo wondor thot any shrowd pickpook- ota and bouscbreakers ghould pursus thelr calllng undor tho watchful oyes of the police, Thelr gains aro notoriously uncertsin, and, on tho wholo, do not amount to the' waj of an honest aud sidilful mechanic, Besides, their occupation is illogal, and subjocts them, ot any moment, * to odge of penny cord and vilo ropreach.” What fools theso sncaks and rufilans aro! ~ A humorist might supposo that all they havo to do is to go to tho Bocretary of tho Treas- ury, and, by & littl mousgemont, get permits to pludder, 'y % .. On Hounslow Hoath and the Dod- bam turnpiko the profils aro procarious; on Central or India whorf they aro sure, Our roveuue laws would ba tolerated uo despolic Goverument in Europe, Thoy aro slmply, as Prof, Rogers Baysy ine uctions to *Tlo El Dorado of Scoundrellsm,” —With & two-thirde mejority iu Congross,—the absolute control of eovery dopariment of the Government,—and unrestrained power to adopt any policy they chooso, is it not rich to soo such organs o8 the 8t. Paul Press lnboring to show thut the Republican party Is not responsible for tho inflation maduoss ? Tts hiedgo is too thin for o hiding placo.—St. Paul Pioncer, . ~—1It 14 vho solo redeoming feature of this infla- tion action on the part of Congrosa that it has o divided tho Republican party, If the Mor- tons, Logans, I gy Butlers, and Flolds are Ropublicaus, financially spouling, the Conldings, ‘Humline asud Hawloys are not,—Delroit Press. —Tho disintrogration [In the Ropublican party] has bogun, nnd tho less timo spont in trying to galyanizo tho cadaver into lifo again tho bottor will it be for the future historieal roputation of tho party, if theso praternatural contortions are to bo recorded ns n logitimnto part of its ovent~ ful lito.—AMilwaukee News, * ~—If tho Domocratic party has consistently maintained aay doatrino, it is that papor money could not uonatizuuunnll'y be mado legal-tonder; but it appears that our nominal Democretic Cou- rogsmon have desorted this principlo,—Iilinois (ale Reqister. '—TFacllis desconsns Avorni. Tho plunge Into o debauch of irredoomablo papor gomes as oasy a8 riotous intoxication aftor the flrat glass of brandy has paralyzed the' ronson and mudo reclk- Jous imogluation mostor of the man.—0ievcland Le ree T, —* Ensy got; Eulnk!y spont,” Having voted to print 44,000,000 worp of groanbnoks, tho Houso has sinco voted to havo the United Btates Tronsury take upon ftgolf tho burden of tho Loulsviile Canal around the falls of the Ohio Tiver. This is natural.—Delroft Post, —T'ho moro wo look at this question, the more thoroughly uro wo convincod that an irrodeem= nblo curroncy swindles overybody, morchant, manufaoturor, lnboror, and oapitalist, No one Fnlns anything thoreby but profossional speon- ntors in values, aud gamblors in stooks,—Aile wankeo Wisconsin, ~—The ovils of iuflation will fall most hoavily and most directly upon this very olass—poreons of limited incomo, dopondent upon wagoes or aal- arlos for tholr living—workingmon, mechanics, olorks, laborers, cto,, ote, Tho logal and inoy- itabloresult of tho inflation of tho curronoy {s that gold will go up, or, in other words, that the ourrency will bo dopreointed, Tho ‘lmmhul.n power of avery dollar will be reduced alightly hu’: lu:m;p“bls;, dwuxl‘lu-‘ lvl:znn znd xlmlurlun &vi 1 cmfil in . tho proson! 08, bo lucronsed at all— Delrolt Tyibune, ' «cooded in renchiny - Wi = FOREIGN. Prof. Goldiwin Smith on Home Rule. < Arrlval of the Noew Captain-Gens oral of Cubn in Porto i 7 Rieo. The Campaign Against tho Carlists in Bpain Actively Prosecuted. - GREAT BRITAIN. 5 Lonoox, April 06,.—Prof, Goldwin Smith has & long lotter in the News on Home-Riilo. Ho ad- voentes tho gonoral improvement of looal insti- tutions and giving them legisiativo powers for the sdmiuistration of loonl affairs similar to thoso ‘of tho Amerioan Btates. —_— QUBA. ¥ New York, April 4—A lotter from Havana snys that on tho 19th of March Oapt.-Gen. Jovel- lor took procautionary monsures for protecting tho excliango offices, Rumors of manifestations to bo mado’against thoso Institations woro afloat. Word wna sent to tho Bpanish Admiral to have the marines in yosdiness for landing at & mo- mont’s notics. Mowitzora wore mountod in tho bows of tho launchos of the Spanish men-of-war rondy to bo landed, Bovoral groups of mon wore O st et g that s 0 samo lottor anys that tho accounts obtain- ablo of tho battlo of " Guasinmis show that it was ono of the hardost contested fights that has token place bobwaen tho insurgonts aud tho. Bpaniards, Of the wounded who wore brought to Havann slmost all received their injurics by the musiot. Thoy roport that thoy woreover two hours fighting at closo quarters. Brigadier Arminian, with about 8,000 mon, cavalry, infant- h? and artillery, becoming awaro of the masain, of tho insurgenis under Maximo Gomer, marcha forward, and on_tho 16th oncountored thom in forco. An attack was immedintely boj by tho Cubans, g0 that Armintan’ bad {nm y timo to form a aquaro, placing bis artillery in tho con- tro, the cavalry being ordored to cut its way Lhmui;h tho enomy's linca and pro- oure roinforcomonts at Pucrto Principe. Tho covalry was fearfully out up, vory fow bolug loft to bring the” nows of the orit~ ical position of tho Bpanish golumn. Those sug- norto Principe with thoir pursuors olose at tholr heels. Brigadier Bacco- nes, with a column of 2,000, sl:nrh)fi out, but had hardly gone boyond tho suburba of Pucrto Prin~ cipe ‘bofore Lo was attacked by the Cubans, Buncones succeoded in in passing on, and had auother &ovoro oncounter with tho insurgents, fiunlly uniting lis column with that of Arminian, Tho loss of tho Spaniards hos been vory sovore, sud it is roported that over forty n!l;fcnm AT kitled and- woundod. Doth sides fought with groat bravery, - : : HavANA, April 5,—Gon. Jogo dola Concha, tho new Captnin-General of Cubn, hns arrived at Porto Rico, Ho is oxpected horo Monday. J —_— g BPAIN, o BAYONNE, April 6.—Active oporations in front of Bilbas wore resumed on the 3d inst., with the bombardmont of Abanto by the ltepublican forcos. Pravious to that dato there had been no fighting sinco tho 28th of March, Marahal Ser- rano is reorganizing his forces, and tho Carlists aro strongthiening their positiona, 5 Gon. Tristoly. is xeported to have ml?l'l!cd. and captured n dotaclimont of 600 Republicans noar Calaf, 400 milos from Barcelons. - The surpriso was 80_completo that the Republicana’, surren- dered without firing & gun. ' . placsiiad R INDIA. OALOUTTA,:April 4.—Roports from the famine . diatricts show o general improvemont in the con~ dition of the peoplo, except iu tho Northenstern portion of Tishart, whore over 500,000 persous are 8lill dependent upon' tho Government. The Bpring orop is good except in Tighart, CRIME. 1 Infanticido.- Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Jaxesvinre, Wis., April 4.—A singular caso of intanticido has just come to light.: Yesterdsy aftornoon the section” men -following tho south- ward-bound 8 o'clock express train on tho Ohie eago & Northwostorn Railrond about two miles this side of Milton Junotion, discovered & pewly~ born babis Ih o 1alf rozen aid dying ocondition, lying about_eight. fost from tho track, in the tch, Mr. Koran Braswal, foroman of that seo~ tion of the road, immodiately _notificd Mrs. Jamos Hughes, living closo by, who took charge of tho infant, conveyed it to her home, and kindly oared forit, Although Mra, H, did ay- erything within her power to rostore life, the little stravger expired about 10 o'clock last night. It appenrs that tho’ child was dropped Jrom tho wator-closet, fell just outsido the rail, truck.againat tho oid of o tie, and, by ita ownk motion, causcd- by the moving train, glanced off into tho ditch, some “elgbt.ar_ten feoct. Blood was visible for a distauce of to miles along the track, Tho infant's lott side, right foot and head wore considorably bruised. Tioney Obtained of & Quincy Banik o) o Forged Ohucke Special Dispatoh to The Chicago Tribune, Qurwoy, T.; April .—The Firat Nationul Barik |, ot this city was Loaten out of $690 to-day on .a forgod check, purpotting to Lavo boon signod by the firm of Brown, Lros. & Co. Shortly after thio monoy was paid, suspiclon nrose as to the gonuinenoss of tho check, whioh, upon being presonted to tho irm whoso signature ib. Lore, was pronounced o forgery. - It appesrs thatan individual unknown fo tho firm wont to their store this morning, .mado o purchase and ten- dorod » _bill .ih- oxcoss of tho smount, and asked. for o check for tho . ance, * which was givou. It also appears that another individual s strangor to the frm, stop ed into their storo, yesterday, and askod politely for & blank check, which was fur- miehod. 1t is now seon thnt the two men wero: confedorates, and that the check obtained yese torday was the ono fllled up and prosentod to- day, the chack for tho difforenco in tho purchaso. baving beon proourea in order that tho signnture of tho firm might bo bad for imitation, The #amo operation was attempted on another mer- ohant without success, Tho signing ot the cljock waa ovidently the work of an accomplished #3rgor, who Laa thus far. olnded the polics. It 1a suid the police woro on the track of the rasoal &t the timo Lo committed the swindle, E Dishonest Conductors Sontenced. PurLAperLrmna, April 4, —Founimore aud Foy, conductors of tho Now Jeraoy Division of the Ponnsylvania Railrond, who ‘pleaded guilty to embozzlomont, woro ench sentenced to-day to pay a fino of €6 and cosls of court, The Judge safd he listonad to tho appeal of the conasol for the corporation, aud did not add imprisonment to the tine in the sentenco. Murder in Binffton, Xnd. Snecial Dispateh to 'Ihe Chicago Tribune. Buurrroy, Ind, April 6.—A brotal murder took place in this placo last night, which caused tho greatest exoitement, A varty of roughs wearein the last remaining eafuon playing bille jords, Thoey got into s dispute which ocaused a bloody row. During tho molce, & rospectable farmor nnmed Phillip Jones attompted to stop it, and one of tho roughs struck hin in the Lhead ith the butt-ond of n aue, eplitting his skull open and rendering him insensiblo, While un- ‘congoious, one of the roughs kickod him brutal- ly in tho faco, 'The murdorers made good their ofonpe, hut thoy will no doubt bo- arrosted. Jouoa will certainly dio. Murdor In San Francisco. BAN Fnaxcisco, April 5.—A torrible traged ocoarred hiere this afternoon, at tho Now §m Pioture-Callery, One Condon, prompted, it is supposed,by jealousy, entorod theroom and shot Charles fl\uguloy through the bead, killing him instantly, and thon bfim‘ his own braine out. i{hz ulny“lmd boen ushor of one of tho theatres n thix city. » DBurglary at Ueicn, No Ye Urioa, N. Y., April 6,—Tho drug and grocery store of Comstocle Dros,, thia city, was onterod by burglars this morning, The vault and safo inuide woro brokon opon and 9160 in money and ©20,800 in railroad, tolograph, beuk, avd Park Asnoolation bonds takon, ‘Tha following Utics, Olenango & Susquehanna Ralirond bonds were stolen: 112 shares, No, 760; 106 sharos, No, 488§ 4 sharen, No. 741, JMurder tn Elmirn, N. Y. Eramia, N, Y., April 5,—Two colored men named Chnrles Bmith and Goorgo Doyer quar- reled to-day in tho presenco of their wives, Bmith drew a lnife upon Boyor, when tho latter shot Bmith, killiog Lim instantly. Doyer gave himsolf up, & bals _ ‘4