Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 1, 1874, Page 2

TRy Y. BEECHER-TILTON. " ‘Statements by Friends of Mr. . Beecher. Thfiy Deny {hat Mo Evor Wrato {ho Letter Quoted from by Tilton. The Latter Says that the Lelter Is Genuine, and May Be Pub. & lished. ] An Assnult upon Tilton by the New York Herald, » Statonicnty by Erionds of Rocchors From the Lirooklyn Eanle, With two futimate friouds of Mr. Boecher, who vigited him yostordny, an Hagle roporter had an Interviow thismorniug, ‘Lhe following queations ® aud answors give tha substauce of tho convorsa- Hon ¢ Q.~Ilow did Mr, Beochor scem to feel about Tilton's lettor? A.—ON, hedid not feel bad nbout it at all. In~ dood, convidoring it nature, he looked at it with - astonishing composuro. Lty appUAIRICO Was auch more of & surpriso to the commuaity than to him, M. Beeeher know vory well that Til- ton had boen contemplating sometbing of this * kind for quuto & whilo past, aud sconiod quite ro- Hovad to learn that it war out. You ses, the .+, men who got up tho council also obtained the # 4 gonfidence of Tilton, and, falling in their orighml " deutny vory nnhl‘:\lllybdetulrml;md to junyy mnelvag, if possibla, by nafug lim. Ke-ny aos coded it poranading Thoodoro that ATr. oschior i 13" and bis filonds had boon wung him bndly; that } the way to rchubilitate lis roputation was to ! ssanil that of Mr. Beechier, and that whatever i+ lossof caste ho had sufferod uy a public man way 1 ¢« entiroly duo to tho fact that he had been induced i to hold lis ponce about the scandal, Disposed, a8 most men aro, to blamo everybody but them- = ° solyes for their failures in lifo, Thoodore was rather pleased with the iden of appeariug as a martyr Lo charity, and, with tho fine spirit of & French dnncing-master, ho, at th&instigation of-his ow friondy, determined to do a littlo pos- 7 turing nt the stake, Q.—Woll, what s Mr. Boecher likoly to do, : mow that tho letter has appeared ? i, A—Woare not in & position to express an . opinion on that subject, ~'This, however, wo may L 8uy, namely, that Ls will do nothing rnsh, e ..+ bas not at all lost his bslanco, nor his confldenco in himeolfl and his friends, Bofore wuyiug or doiug_nnything of o public naturc, e will con- sult with his friends in the city, and will, in all . probability, act upon their advics. If theydeom it beat for him to remain silent,—~maating this Intest charie, 08 ho has mou all tho others; with the rec of his life,~ho will remsiu silent. 1If, on the contrary, they deem it for the interest of the Churchk aud of good hiving thas he should make a statement, he will mnke one. As to his : sbility to meot and to nullify all that hhs beon ¢ eaid “agninst him, thero is no doubt in * tho minds of those who Imow this mai- tor most intimately. If tho issue involved Mr. Boochor alone, his course of action would bo clear, but he caunot epeuk on this kubject with- . ont practically ruining a veiv lntge numbor of roputations, Ho has suffored for others, and % the only question now 8 whether be can’ con- tinuo to do so. 1lis own disposition is to suffer on, Lelioving thay when people como to consider quietly tbo cuto, oven as it has been stated, thoy will accopt his life as a sufilcient answer, It i o httle difticult for the averago mind to Dbolievo in Lhe existonce of magnanimity so large 1 B3 this; it sceww iucrediblo that & minister should be found to act out be CGospel he preaches ; but that Beecher in attainted with scandal to-duy, that men are in doubt ns to the purity of his munhood, is due wholly to his muguaninity, ~~Lhat is precisely what Mr. Tilton donics, —And there 18 no man in the cily to-day \illm counts more ou that mognanimily than Mr, ilton. = Q.~What, if anylhing, does Mr. Becchor sny about the npologetic lotter cited by Mr. Tilton, in which M. Beecher, aftor acknowlodring guilb, is mado to appear us implonug Mr. 'Lilton's pardon ? A.~—~1f Mr, Beecher should conclude that tho caso requires utteranco on bis part, he will dis~ 080 Of that letter very offectually. What he rlnuku of it we are not at liberty to state ag pres- k. - Bhis, howeyer, we will say on our ofyn ace sonnt, that Ar, Beecher nover wrote any such letter; that-Mr. Tilton knows ho did not; and Shat thare is no such letter iu existenco. Q.—1Is thern any truth in the siatemont that 8Ir. Beeclier authorized any persou to uifor, s o prico of wilence, to sond Mr. Tilton and his fam- iy to Europe? A.—Thore is not, and wo doubt whether Mr. Beccher evor heard of such o thing until it ap- pearod tu tho lotier, But Mr, Beecher has be- iriended Mr. Lilton in a thousnnd ways, whicl might bo mentioned, which Mr. Tilton, of courso, forgets to mention, and continued to bo- friend him until ho (Tilton) got into wsuch a position that to help hm along meant the help- ing of Woodhull and Claflin along, aud that Mr. Beeclor wae not will to do, Mr. Tilton was not the easiost muw in the world to shouldor under any circums:ances, but when he becamno the spologist, the ostentatious friond, and tho cloquent biographer of theorstical if not practien! Cyprians, Lie had to bo dropped. It is amustag to henr him talk of the loss which o has suffered by this Boccher scandal, wWhon overy intellectusl man in the country knows thut ho had ruined himwelf by his attachment to freo-love and spiritualism before tho seandal ind aver been Linted at iu print ¢ uay, more: when it is notorious that tho scandal owos its existonce wholly to the fact that, in bis hours of dalliance, b took into his oxtromo coufidence the woman whoso biograpby ho wrote. He talks of the lous imposed upou Lim by mlence, but no man knows buttor than he that but for lus letter to Bowen tho story of Woudhull, which he now calls n “horriblo seandul,” wonld bave fallen dead at the foes of thoso who formed it. Q.—Whut does Ar. Booclor think of this pomt ? A.—Wo wonld rather not answor the question dircetly at pregent, bitt we may say that 1t af- feets i no woro sorlousiy than aty of tho al- lo,;utions 1ade that are notorionsly ‘at variauce with fact. Q.—How is Mr. Beecher looking ? A.—1lo has not looked better in years than he does ot prevont. Hin honlth i good, bis spirts oxerllont, dnd hi nerve unshakon as ever, It he uhould decide upon war, thosa who have boon asaniling him wil find him o romarknbly ugly antagouist, What Mr. Tilton Snyy About the Lete ter of Apolopy. New Yong, Juno 80.—Fhoeodure Tilton, in an interviow Lo-day, epoko as follows in roference \ to Mr. Boochor's lotier of apology: **T'ho lettor was overy woid of it Mr. Iecchor's own compo= sition, signod by himeelf in by own bohalf, T did not domand “the apology., The fuct that it was sent tomo uuasked ulwuys added to tho re- luctauce with which 1 subsequently contemplatod Taeking my dofenso against Becolier's injurious course by which he pormitted his chureh to fu- dict me hetoro the Council, and by which tho charch and Counal togather, with Dr, Bacon supersdded, buve follen upou me like a mille 8tons to erush mo to powder. 'The remainder of lue letter bore more hoavily upon him than the Yurlinu which I quoted. Hud I printed_the whole, bis friond Truoy would noy bave eaid, ‘T am glad of Tilton's publication,’" Ruporter—** Mauy poreous believe that the lat- ter put of tho lettor would bave oxplained uwsy the firat part," ‘Lilton—*" It #o, then Mr, Boccher iu entitlod to have it published, Itisin his power to pub- Tislh it nt any momont.” ; Rtoportar—* Lins ho o copy of it #" Tilton—* I presume he rotulned one; but, if Lo did not, ho ls only to ask me for o copy and hio shull huve it Mr. Beecher and Jiis Accuser, Fyon the New York Herald, June 21, Thero lius never avisen in the soclal life of this cotthtry i casio which roqured wo wisa an oxercino of cundor, humunity, and_Justice as that which Lun been brought into fresh publicity by the im- prudenco of Mr. Tilton, Tho grouter portion of the respactablo pross of this city hns prao~ ticod tho conmiderato forbearsuce’ which |s duo to the genius, ominence, and chore seter of the most gitted popular preacher who bas adorued the Awmerican pulpit in our oneratfon, But tho pross olsowhere has besn jous cautlous, and bus indulged in limsty judg- ments which the facts, o fur as they ‘arc yet dovolopad, do not warrant, Tho thiladelphia Press, for examplo, declaves that the noturious oharges ngainst Mr, Tuecher aro ** now confirmed boyond atl doubt if My, Tilton's etatemonts und oxtracts trom lotters aro suthontic, and it in Lrdly possible to think that they aro not;” and tha Presagoss on to say thet ' the Benchor kean- dn) becamy puch publio” property that silence is uspuseivio, 16 18 tho unloriunaty event of the THE CHICAGO DAILY T ER P e RIBUN. age. It drags down to tho mire a man whode ability was akin to genius, 1le was tho forsmoat prenoher of the day, nud now ho s found guilty of tho most holuous of orlines, made more o- from tho fact of hilw calling and his plnca In $ho puublio estcom.” The Albany Journal enys, with mora rosorve, that it publishes tho substanco of Mr. Tilton's statemont * pimply to judicate tho pain it rilvnu s, ns 1t will givo thousands of oth- ora.” Wo will not muitiply oxamples of the of- foct of Mr. Tllton's unwigo lottor on tho country pross sud tho fatal improssion it 18 producing on tho publle mind, Qreatly as the rovival of this scandal in to bo deprooated, it han prssod to astage whora tho most quloting and judicions thing'is_such an_inventigation an will elicit the reciso facts aud {,“"“ hom {n clonr ovidoneo, Kiennwbllo the public ought to auspend its judg- mont and_consider how littlo fias yut “beon proved, Bo tho roal facts what they may, no right j“dgln[‘:r man should - hesitato fo consuro Mr. Tillon. Thoinconsiderate ant of tho prous is discussing this matter au it it Boucorned only Mr, Beochor and lius acouser, ‘Ihis 18 too nar- rows viow. Thoro is a third person whose rolation to thia nnfortunate soandal cannot bo ignorod in o fair oxamination, and something in certainly duo to hor sex, wouwled in its most dunmitive point, nnd to ber utter hoelpleasness fn such & controversy as this, in which her own husbaud 1s the acousing party, In any sup- posable or auy rmmhlu stato of the fuctsitina pleco of unfooling barbarity to torture Lor by a publle_oxposuve at this Iato stago of tho quos~ tlon, By Mr. Tilton's own statomont, the oense agsingt him, whatover it was, was porpotrated more Lhen four yonrs ago, and was confossed in writing by Mr, Boochor on tho 1at of January, 1871, ~As Mr. Tilton has continued to live with Tuls wite, it ia to.be prosumed that ho forgave hor ab the timo, it sho had doho nnything ro- quiring forgivonons, Whou the faots firat came to us knowledgo hie lind tio courses oon to him —aoparation or forgivencss. By bestowing the Iattor he bouud himself to ailonge, and nothing cnh oxtonuato the meanness of deagging hor bo- foro the publlc and coveoring bor and his chiliron with shame aftor the Iapso of so mnny yoars, By contimuing to live with hor he made o virtual pl’;nl 0 of bus houor ns & mnn and a husband to shicld hor roputation aud to protect hor, us far a8 possiblo, from every publio consequonve of her transgression. It I8 not oasy to concoive of & moro inexcusnblo, » mare despicablo menn- nosy, than dragging hor faulls Into pub- lio 'view yoars aftor be had thus ocon- doned them. 'Uho flimsy apology ho mrkgs’ will stloda ns 8000 a8 it is touched. 1lo says lie hns boon ncournd of slandoring Mr. Bancher, and that hte owos it to his character to prove the acciantion falso, 1t is not ousy to express in tomperato language tho sontiments which suwen an exouso i4 caloulated to oxeite. What can be #nid of n man who seta a highor valuo on bis own 1opitation for truth than upon that of his wifo for chastity ? We cannot undoratand tho sense of honor which thinks it a greater suin to have riven way to rash and mistaken jenlousy thuu to hvn with ' wifo who has boon unfatthful, Tho more Nilly the public comes to bolleve that Mr, “Pllton’s Jontonsy was unfounded, the moto offoot~ unlly wonld the roputation of lit wife have been protovted agninst suspicions which eanuos toueh hor without, at ths sams thmo, wonnding him and bilnging disgeaca upon his childron, -~ Bup- positig tho nesusntion true, there wns n timo when ho might with honor Lave vxposed abuandonod her, but that time passod when he consonted Lo sn act of forgivoness, If he should hereaftor sny that hia latior was not meant to braud ker, the public will regard it na n wenk aud cowardly subterfugo. It 4 tiuo that no specitie ciarges aro mado in tho lottor against her or Mr. Deecher, Dut Me, ‘Tilton knew porfectly how tho letier would be undor- stood. Public rumor Lias long been dotinite enough on this painful subjuct, and Mr. ‘Tilton was aware that s letter wonld be futerpreted in accordanco with the notorious story, unless ha statod o dilferent ground of complaint. 1lechoso to leave the curront rumor uncontradicted, and by mlduciug proofs that Mr. Boschor bnd griov- ously wronged him in some way ho las caused tho public to beliovo that it w8 in possession of the reul accusation and that tho indefinitetioss of his lottor was owing to the indelicacy of n subjoat upon which precision of statemont would offend public propriety. 1 tho fault complained of is loxs than of different from wtint goneral rumor has mado it, it was a cioar duty whteh Mr. Tilton owed to his wife to decisively provent the public from sup- posing_ greator gl than has beon incurred. I'he offect of his letter on tho countyy [l‘rouu s o orfectly natural impression which he must Enw foresoan and jutended when ho pubhshed it. 1f nothing Lins taken place beyoud ceusurn- blo freedom of eaveswes or improper advancos, whioh wora repeiied, Mr, ilton has crually and wintonly wounded the reputstion of his'wife. Liven supposing tho worst that bas boon sur- misud, it was inexcusablo nnd infuwous to make hor o public spectacle after consenting to live with ier, Tor har sake nud the sake of his childron, ho ought to have beon glnd to havo it supposed that unfounded Goslousy bind curriod bim boyond tho bounds of reason, siuco it cou- corns his hovor as well as hors to have the our- rent story disbolioyed. Lven supporing the_worst—of which thero is uo proof at all—AMr. Beechor has ncted a far more honorable aud manly part than his aceuser, We_of courdo, mtond this rewark to apply to their conduct siuce the offense, if & grent of~ founo hus beou committed, A man who accopts or guins the kind of favors to which allusion is Liore made, who induces a woman to place her reputation'in his keoping, is bound to guard and shleld her at overy possible hazord to himself. A niun who acts otherwise renders himwolf in- famous iryvespective of his protession, This ob- lyation kolds oven if thors has beon no_more serious fault on either sido than more indiscro- tion, The porfectly innosent Cassio and the purely innocont Desdomonn, in the great play which 80 powerfully doplcts the passion of jeal- ousy, wonld have owed 1t to cach other to ‘con- coui the inculpeating fact of the Landkorchief so loog as concealmont was possible, bo- onuso no innoconce could have sluelded thom from the injurious suspicions which snch ‘o fact Was caleulated to engendor, There may bo cireumstances in the prosent caso which it would bo equally difficult or awic- ward to oxplain, and which justify Mr. Boecher's rollconeo, although the real truth may bo con- siscent with his Christian charactar, ~Bat this unfortunato affair bas now reactiod siich & pags that the wholo truth, whatever it is, ought to como out, since nothing can be more damaging thnn the prevaillng suspiclons, Fairness to Mr. Becolier roquifves that due al- lowance be made for the charucter and passions of his accusor. ull tho passions to which humnn nature is subjoct nono o tortures the heart or so distorts tho judgment as jonlousy, In its jaundiced oyes *‘triflos light nsair” are rogurded a8 irrefragablo proofs. Nothing is wo ulterly untrustworthy as the opinion of & joalous man on tho agonizing topie, It Mr, Tilton's calousy Liaw not warpod his judgment and flled in mind with distompered tuncios, he iy an ex- ception to tho common pulo. DBut this man, whoso intelloct is crazed with jealousy, is Mr, Becchor's ouly ncouser. ‘Lho boliefs and assertions of a joalous man should go for nothing oxcept ®o far ns thoy are supoorted by fuoty and proofs, of which® cooler men can judee. Lut Mr. Tilton presonts no tangible facts. Tlo does nat ovon state the nature of the wrong whieli ho things bo hus suffered, and no- body can Judgo of (ko bearing of facts ou an un- known accusntion, ‘There is an alloged con- fonsion, but the garbled extract which be pub- lishes duos not show what [s confesnod, What 18 given tallics well enough with the common rumor, but it s equully consistent with fm- prn‘pcr freodoms not reaching the lnst stuge of gullt, aud may, for aught wo know, be alka con- sistent with a wrong of an anflrulydlflurunt nature, Mr, Tilton should have printed the wholo of that conferslon ornono of it. Tho uuq- pressed contoxt might havo given it a totally different faco, His trontment of his wifa tn this matter hna been eo utterly heartloss, oruol, aud Indefonsible as to pormi the supposicion that he has doalt foul blows at one who Las not hor titla to forbearance, And yot, we cannot see on what hypothesis, conmistont with innocenco, Mr, Botehior and bis church can now afford to parry a full publio fnvostigation, Mr. and frs, ‘Tilton. From the DeaMoines (Ju.) Ifeprater, Of tho athior purtios to the controvorsy, it is said by the Minueanolis Zribiune, whouo oditor in porsonally requainted with all of thom, that A, wnd Mra, ircodore Tilton live together as husband and wifo, and seom bappy, o bas for years threatoned this expose, and sho hay ploadod for mostponoment, She s n dolleata, amiablo, sewsitivo, rofined, cheerful littlo womay, with o mobile put not handsomo faco, and a' pleanent voico ; apparontly not at ll frivolous nor carlng for the company of any gentloman but her husband, of whose™ brilliant qualitics she is a constant worshipor. DE KALB GOUN;I‘ l!ENTML’TJHANflE. Hyoasone, THl,, June 29, 1874, To the Editor of I'he Churayo Lribune 3 iz Lho Do Kalb County Central Grango will bLold its noxt regular meeting at Bycamoro, on Wodnesday, July 8, 1874, o Grange will bore- orgunized, undor authority of tho Btuto Grange, The Cirangos {n thin (De Kalb) Conuty number cighteon, and, from Wie zeal they havo oviuced at tormor meotings, it is expected that thora will Vo & full altendunce and an_jmportaut mocting at thiv timo, Ronenr Haseroxn, Mastor, Lo, Lizaoy, Boorolary, MULLETT. His Convorsation with Senator Logan About That Elevator, Mr, William E, Halo Gives a Full Ac- count of the Whole Trans- actions How Gen. BII"QI; Was Snubbed by the Architect. Actlon of Secrctary Bristow, The recent wordy sltorcation botweon Sonator Togan andSupervising-Architeot Mullott, in tho Trensury Buildng at Washington, las boon the subject of muoh comment and attontion, togoth- or with not a little exaggoration. The story grow with ropatition, until at longth tho chroni- clora had tho Sonator and Architoot engagod in & rogular knock-down fight, The truth was, it gid not quite reach this degroo, owing to the fact thiat oue of tho partlos was able to keop his tom« por. Iunsmuch as THE EXACT FACTS in rolation to this notabls rumpus nad not yot appearod in print, & TatnuNe roportor yosterday waitod upon Mr. Willimn B, Hale, of ‘this city, in whose bolilf or upon whoso account tho troublo arose, and who was prosent amlng the warm consultation, and from him learued some intoreating partioulars, g Provious to cutoring upon a recital of tho Lio- gan-Mnllott nnplensantuoes, Mr, Halo,who is tho sonior partnor fu the firm of William I, Hnlo & Co., manufacturors of the water-balanco olova- tor, briolly skotched TIE OIMUUMSTANGES PRECEDING and leading to tho accurienco in quostion, Wo glvo tho atatomont in his own worda : Mr., Halo—Our firmn desired to prosont a bid for aupplying tho clavators in the Now York Post- Ofico, according to tho advortisement for pro- poenle publisied by tho Bupervising-Architect of the Treasury Dopartment. Accordingly, wo applied to Mr. Mullott for specifications so drswn that our peculinr make of clovator might not be excludod from the compotition. Ho as- suaed ns that ho would bo vory glad to have us. pus in & bid, and nlso stated that the contract would bo nwarded to tho lowest bidder, without roferonce to the merlts of the article sup- plied. I oxcepted to this, urging that the quostion of morlt ought to be constdered, but ho nain declnrod that tho contract shonld go to tho Jowest bidder. Whon tho spocitications bad boeu prepared, it became ovident to mo that Mullets bud preparod them with n viow to FAVORING THE FIRM OF DAVIDSON & MARSI, of Naw York, who had introduced an clovator of paculiar consitruction—one oporated by the pres- sure of wator bonoath thocar. By Mulislt's ver- sion of the specifications, na ono eleg could bid ; all othor elovators were shut out ; but, accord, ing to ouo coustruotion of the specifications, our elovator conld be used, On that understanding- we put-in a bid, and on tho 18t of Juuo the bids weore apenad. For the combined siairs and ole- vator, thero was 8 Lid from & verson enid to bo irtesponsible, aud whoso bid Mullet said he could not amccept on that account, Their figures woro tho lowest,—&62,949,68; M. E. Hale & Co., &55492.40; aud Davidson & Mnrah, 887,819,81. ' Tlicro ‘were somo otherbldy, but all were higher than thowe, lenving, ns I supposed, tho contest between ' our firm and Davidson & Marsh, A fow days Inter, T went to Washington and saw Mullett, who told mo onr bid wa tie lowest %0 bo connidered, and Davidson & larsh's tho noxt lowest, and that it luy betweon the two firms, . I then offered to show him somo lotters trom prominout gontlémen in_Chicago who had used our elovator, and tostified to ity moerits ; but he dechued 1o rond thom, aaying that ho was entirely sutisiicd with the operation of our slovator, aid also 08 1o the reaponsibility of onr firm.Tho objection was raised ac this conversn- tion that TN ROTES USED ,, in oporating our elevator obatructed the view of tho stnircaxs moro than the piston wsed by Davidson, I contended that ours did not ob- straet the view so much, and finally agreod to arrango 1t so that there shonld bo no obatruction atall, Mullett ackuowlodged that he hud never seon tho Davidson elovator, and mudo an ap- pointment to meot ma in New York and inspect ono there in oporation, My brother, G. W. Halo, met him in_Naw York, and wont with him to the Brooklyn Nuvy-Yard, where a Davidson olovator wus in ‘operation. Thoy drove over in a carringo, and went about tho Navy-Yard;, and Mullott gavo tho olavator n hosty, cnsusl inspection, without lookiug into its real merits or domerits at all. 110 did, howaver, notico that the water-tube way anppocted by Iatoral arms, and when his atten- tiou was oalled to the obstruction these arms constituted, lie at first safd they were unneces- sary, and when the engineer told him tho nrms Wers ticouBRATY L0 Keep tho wator-tuba from buckling.under tha me\lm’ Mullett got around thin by fuying that the arms could b mado * or- namental.” Pleaso remember that s ouly ob- jection to our olevator was on account of what Lo ealled its ** obstruction of the view," Reporter—Muliett was evideutly projudicod against your elevator, Mr, Hale—From this time I saw plainiy that he was actermined to nwurd tho coatracts to Davidson anyhow, and then 1 HEGAN TO TAKE BTEPS to obtnin wny rights, if it wore possible. I should meutlon tigro tint Lhad proviously told Mu ilett that.we hind the contract to put in n passonger elovator in the new Western Union 'Fulnm'uph Building then in courso of orection in New Yorl, but the building was not ready, nnd the elovator wad not yet n_operstion, Tho next interviow with Muilett, after the trip to New York, was hiad by my brothor, who wont to his oftico in Washiugton, in company with Gen. Butler, who ‘wont with my brottier to hielp bim 1f he could, Reportor—Did the presenco of the Maesachu- sotts statosman have tho dosired offoct ? Mr. Hale—\ell, not exactly. No soouor wns tho subjoct of elevators bronched than Mullott begau A TINADE OF ADUSE, plontifully interspoersed with oaths, Ho snid he biad boen intormed that we had no coutract Lo put in sn elevator for tho Western Union Tole- graph Building in Now York, and thon he swore and cursed foarfully, calling us & pack of hats and scoundrels, Gon, Butier got disgustod and left, aud my brothor rccomplisbed nothing, Reportor—you muat have thought Mullett a goaly customer by this timo ? 3. ale—I mude up my mind that I could do nothing towards gotting my rights unloss I was backed up by sume influence, L'horefore 1 ASKED BENATOR LODAX o go with mo and soo Mullett, and he did so. We oamo noross Mullstt in oue of the corridors of tho Lreasury Building, and when the Senutor axkod hum what ho proposed to do about the awnrd of the olevator contract, e flow Into a torriblo rage, pouring ont s vuliey of oaths and abuse. o chinrged agaln that wo had liod sbout tho contract for the Tologiaph Building in:New York, and sivore we had no such vontruct, Reporier—Tine wos growing somowlnt tonot- ouous, [ shonld muy. Mr. Hulo—I thuitght it had gone far enough. Aubiciputing something of the kort, 1bad taken the precaution to bring TILE IDENLICAL CONTRACT with me, I hud it 1 my pooket, and told him #0, at the gamwe timo tolling him I had heard enough about it, aud I proposed to mako him take ack what ho had said about liurs aud seoundrols, I told him the mattor had not been misropresonted to bim ot all, but, on the con- traty, tho Now York olavator wns noarly com- plotod. 1 nsked kum to satisfy himsolf by rend- ng tho oontract, but this he uttorly declined to do, Mo kopt on with bis cursing and b abuso, until Bonator Logun got very much diagustod, and sharply remonstratod agalnst such lnnguage, saying thnt ho would not subuiit to it from any~ ody, Reportor—What offoct did this have upon the forovious urohjfoct ? Mr. Hale—It dld no good. Bonator Lognn indiguantly declined to hold auy further conversation with & muu who conld not rent people decently wisen Lhioy camo Lo see lum on busivess, Mullote coulinuod his curs- iug, and, at my anggestion, wa conoluded to AFPEAL TO THE NEW HEORETARY of tho Troasury, Wo loft Mullett to his oaths, and wont Lo the Bocratary's ofco. o tronted us with perfoot politencss aud considoration, aud whon £ told him I wan the lowest bidder, and tuought I was entitlod to tho vontract, aud that 1 dasired to be hoard in tho mastar, Mr.Instow anla ho conld assure mio of s fair fwarmg, and that I should have my rights in tho watter, Hu addod that Mullety had boeon urgivg bim to de~ cldo tho olovator bualngss for romo days, but he 8w §6 waa su Important mattor, nud ho proposed to Invostigate it thoroughly, and to know 'what was going op, evon If ho hind to go to Now York for that express purposo, I {uforrad from Lis manner that ho was consldorably disploased with_Mullett's groat hasta for n doclston, Sona- tor Logan and myself thon left, and in_n fow minutoa tho Secretary seut an orbor to Mullett dircoting him to give notico to all tho biddors to be in roadiness to appenr Lefore tho Socrotary when ho was propared to act in tho mattor of the elovator contract, Reporter—May not thia have beon tho renson for the angry intorviow which !llbsa(&l}mnflv toolk place betweot Mullolt and Euurutnr}" ristoy ? Mr. Halo—Vory likoly this_swas what cauned it. Under provious Searataries Mullett hns boon ac- customed to have his own way with rogard to contracts, and I presume he went in a rago to the naw Bacrelary's ofiice, though I do not know thin to bo the cnse. He s probably convineed by tlun timo that tho presont hond of tho Trons- uty Dopartmont (s a mian who proposes to know vmm.l 18 golug on in his branch of tho Goyern- ment., TIE COURTS. Miscellnncous XSustncns Yesterdauy. Judgo Willlams gave n decislon yestordsy In tho caso of William . Bonnor against the Iil- nols Land and Loan Company, the Cook County Loud Compnny, L. B. Otis, the Councotiout Mutunl Insurance Compnny, ot al, Tho caso, which oceuplod four or flve daya, was an action to rocover two-ninths of a strip of land 108 feot on LeSallo stroot by 163{ foot on Madison streot, boing on the southwest cornor, Tho bill alloged that — Bonnor, wlo thon owned tho whole atrip ' ahove montioned, died in 1855 Intes- tato, lenving threo childron,—Galila Vie- ginin, Rosolia, aud Porcle W, his boirs. ‘Thoy took oach one-third of his ostate. Vir- ginla subsoquently died, leaving tho followlng obseuroly-worded wlll a8 proved aftor tho firo from tho abutraot of 16 mado i an abstrack of title : Givea end boquenthes to Joln Jones all her eatatn,” reat, personal, and mixed, whether inherited by her fallior, or Liowever acquifod, (o holi tho samo upon the the Lrusiu utid conditions’ following : Prat—To pay ber debt, ote; (o to hold satd eae tato in equal molotles for lior hrother, Porclo W, Bouuer, aud ber nlster, Romslio ' A, Bon® ner,, until sald eister nrtlve at (ho ago of 18 “yenrs, aml hor brother attaln the aye of 21 years, using no much of xakl ostste us shall be nea~ emnary fo wipport und educate ler madd brother and winter, and whon astd brother and sister slinll attain tho ages above stated, to convoy und deliver ovor by proper deod, neulgumont, elc., eafd eslato In oqual molcty to-rald brother and’ alster, and upon the furthor trunt that s cuxo eaid aister Ml dlo without dssno beforo the full exocutlon of the Erusts of thiv will leaving her salid brother murviving, thon tho whola ostate, to sald brotlier when 31 years ofd, That in cuxe both sald bratber and ainier bull die without fxaus prior to thelr altaluing the ngon of 18 and 21 years ro- pcllvely as abavo stated, thén to convey kald catats to her aunt, Anielis M, oglo, sud Rubert Bogle T're- ler, hor cousin, n equal mofetios, Rosalin died after -attaining tho ngo of 18 yonrs. Ilor tntorest was sold to pay dobts, and purchnsed by O, A, Grogory. On the 20th of January, 1870, Porclo, then aminor, conveyoed his interest {n tho atrip of Iand to the Ilinols Tand & Loun Company, for the professed considora- tlon of 10,000, P'ercie was thon o youug colored Doy, in faoble henlth, ensily influencad, and with- out any disinterostod adviser or friend, and it is charrzed that tho deed was proeured by fraud and unduo influence on the part of tho Land & Loan Compnny and its agouts, T It iy nlso donied that the expresssd consider- ation was over paid, and complainant charges that tho deed was withleld from racord until tho day Yorcio dicd. Tho complainant, who is Poreie's uncle, haa boon a rosidont ot Louisinna, and is entitled to two-niuths of the strip of lnd, Ho clnims thae Yirginin's sharo wont to Porclo, fiiv(ng bitm two-thirda of the strip, and that on is deuth his ostato went to his uncle flcomblnin- ant) and two aunts, giving each two-ninths, L'ho auswer donied thae thers was any fraud or unduto influence used it obtaining thoe deed, and claimed that the conslderation Percin was to re- colve wos a3 much as the land was worth, incun- bored as it was by mortzages and tax-sales. Tho evidanco showed that thoro was a private agreo- ment made by tho Compavy with Percie, by which the laiter was to receive 923 a month from the datoof tho kalo, Jan. 20, 1870, une til tho 1st day of May, 1871, and thon £83.93 aftor that 80 long 88 ko should ilve, nnd thiat if le died before Jiine 1, 1871 (ho was to bo of age in May, 1871), cortain porsons dosignated by hum wore to recoive 35,000 ot his death. It also appearod timt Porcis, in 1809, started for Now Orleans to veo his unclo, whon ho was stop- 70d by V. Kolsey Roed, and induced to como ‘back und protect bis interests. Eight thousaud dollars wore then obtalned by loan from Reed, aud expended it paying taxes and in attornoys' foes, ostensibly for Pescie's estato, Tho Judge held that ths objections mado to the illegitiimaoy of the complalsant wero not proved, and that ke was cloarly au Liir of Parcio, who diod July 26, 1870, Percio always racog- nized bim ns un uncls until after he foll under the control of W. Kelsey Rtecd. 'Tho complain. ant could not ba held guilty of lachies in ropu- diating the deed mnde by Percie, a8 lercie would Luvvo hind tha right to rescind the contract within threo yeurs after he camo of go, and tho com- plainait could not be Jimited to a shortor time. 1t wns alwo claimod that the complainant’s re- caipt in tho County Court, in full of all clnims aguinst Porclos estnto, estopped him ; but this ouly referred to his claims ny runrdiau, aud not a8 heir, The Judge, therefore, held tbat Bonuer was ontitled to bis share in(m{mndant of any (lluuuthm of_traud, and ho should not dis- cues thiat point. But bo could not holp saying thut the action of Kolsey Reed had -boen very reprohensible in the matter, He had united with Gregory Lo get Rosulie’s portion for & mero song, and his whole conduct In roferonca to both the childron was oue of {lio worst piecos of business ho hud ever khowu, In rogurd to the construction of Virginin's, will, lio rogardad it a8 very inartificinlly drawn, aud tho fact thora was only an abstract ol it made tho cass miore dififcult, so that ho sibould mot attcmpt to ‘coustrue it or decido whothor it gave _ Porcio her sbure. Mo would give Bunner, thorefors, only onec-ninth, but fres from all taxes or mortgoges, #0 that ghould the Bu- prome Court doeide that Bonnor yau entitled to twa-nluths, the decree conld ba modified 8o ns to {:mludu it, without nocessitating anothor trial oro. Messrs, Togo and Plum appeared for com- plaiuant, and Boovill, Corwin, and ayloy for the dofendants. TUE INZVITANLE STEPAOTHER. Mary A. Braley filed o bill 1n the Guenit Courb ostorday agast hor stepuathor, Jobanna Col- ius, aud ngainst Jobn M, Colling, Frank Bralov, Lllen O, Sullivan, aud Miclinol J, Sullivan, Com= plaluant says umZ in 1863, bor fathor died, loaving Lier, ber brother Frank, hor sister Bllon, aud bin socond wifo, Johauua, his only beirs.' Dy his will, his ostate was giveu tohis wife, with powor to use so muoh of tho incomo s might Transncted bo . nocossary for her support and that of tho obildren, ~and also with authority to well any of tho laud that might be nocossary to pay dobts, and to reinvest the baluncs for tho nuispurt of his oliildren, and ut lior death_the whola proparty was to go to tho threo children, Amony other proposty, the deceuwsed owned n lot 63 toot fiout on LuSallo streot, 25 foet from the northoust corner of Madison street, and nuothor Tt 25x80.9 on tho northwest corner of Mudison aBalle streots, just opposito, Complainnnt ulleges that Lor stopmother, who has since matried J, M. Colling, has sold the lot on the northwest cornor of Madison and Lasalio stroots, protonding that it was nocessary; whint sho has collectod Inrge amounts from the ostate, aud spont them for her own uso and given somo to her busbund, who heretofute hus had no visl- ble moans of support § expended othor sumy in the purchado of patont rights, aud finslly invest- ed n goodly amount in real eatate for her own Individuul wwo, Whon complunant asked for somo mouoy, Mrs, Colling rofused to Bive hor any, alloging that it wao dopondont on hor dlsoretion only, and Mary Liuw thus besu dopandont on tho eold ‘oharity uf tho world for her support, Sue thoroforo askes that Mrs, Colling mny bo compelled to accouut for all hor socoipts ; that sho tay bo compelled to answor a formidablo liat of quostions append- od to tho bitl ; and, tustly, thatsho and the other defendanta may bo restrained from moddling with tho aifairs of the cstato, and that tho ne gome bareuftor may by puid Into court and dis- tributed ratably, “The dusived injuuction was granted, DILL TO COMPEL CONVEYANOE, o.a. chklu", J. I Wicker, A, 13, Smith, 0. H, Beckwith, ¥, D, Uray, J, H, Barnest, i, 8. Law, Elljott Aothony, aud —— Knox flled o _bill againgt Joseph 16, Moys, stating that {n_ 1865 they, togather with tho dofondant and J, O, Haitles, mudo up a common fund of 4,000° for the purposa of exploriug the southiwostern por- tiou of Missouri along the Ozurk Mountaing for minorals, and also to purohnse suchs, lands ay should be dosirable thore, Luw mid Anfhouycon- tributed 300 cach, the romaindor of Pho party giviog {400 opiecs. An exploring Party was sent out under the guido of Fthe Iato Col. Ioster. and - ome lands” fu_Tanoy Oounty found wiuohk it vias doemed advanta- WEDNESDAY. JULY 1, 1874 geoua' to buy, About $1,000 wore flwotfllnfl{ placod in Moes' hanuds, and ho mont out with [mwur to purchaso somo Innd in that sonnty, the 161 to bo takon in bis namo and thasa of tho complainauts jointly, Moss bought-the N. B, ¢ of Bao, 1, 21, 21, tho 8. W. If of Bec. 88, 23, 41, tho N, 1. 3¢ of Soc. 85, 23, 21, tho 8igof the 8.'W. 3¢ and fiio W. 3¢ of tho'S. . 3¢ of Soo, 26, 22, 21, all tn Tanoy Conntv, Mo,, but took the titlo in the namo of William Bonnott and him- solf, Moes lias minco nol(uowludfiad complain- auta’ intorent in ke proporty, and promisod to convey to thom, but has neglected, and refused aince to do so, and tho compiainants therofore filod thoir bill to onforco n compliance with their wishos, % DANKRUPTCY ITRMH, In tho matter of O, W. Androws, a dincharge waa fsaued, In tho mattor of Coan & Ten DBroske, tho Asxigmoo way ordored to advertise for bids for the bankrapty' property uutil the 16th of Tuly. Tu tho caso of L. E. Btoinman, the l'lntlrloumg erethitor waa orderad to amond his potition in ne- corduuco with the now taw, ; ' BUPERION COUIT IN DRIRFE. * Willinm Curiie and I, . Ourrie began o suib in trospass againat John Price, claiming $8,000, 4. W, Hallom & Oo, commonced a suit nynainat Allen O. Miller to recover $2,076. An attach- ment waa fusned, Charles W, Cutting filed a bill against Rnnsom Richards and wife, . F, Wothorell, Georgo Gardnor, the Union Mutual Life-Insurance Com- [muy, and L, D, Boone, to Lnve his onc-fourth ntorost In Lots 21 and 22, in Haywood's Sub- division of ‘thie west 4-6of tho northwest If of tho northonat 1¢ of the northwest 1¢ of Boo, 84, 89, 14; uet ol tv thom in movoralty, CIRCUIT COURT, A. R, Barnes hognn & auit against Algy Dean, T, M. Bradloy, W. W, Gibson, aud E, Inylng dumazos at £6,000. | .M. Gillespio and 1T, M. Edwardn began an action agalnst 1, 0. Akely, E. Blalr, aud Goorge Parks, for the wum of §5,000, John C. Montgomory commenced & sult {n ojoctmont n‘inluui William Brackett, Fryor Mar- wood, John Harwood, Anson Gorton, F. X, Don- ohe, €. Walto, O. H, Bockor, aud L. W. Haud, lnying damiagos at §10,000, THE UALL. Jupar Roarna—611, 637, 539, 500. Junan Bootii—271 lo 233, Jupar Tuee—1,496, 817, 101, 2,649, 1,778, 819, Junar: GAny—No osll tlie balanco of {ho form. JupeE MeRonknts and Jupur: Burxs—No oalls, * JUDUMENTH, Burraion Count—(UoNFEAION v, Carl Holnta and Albert Joun, Jupar Gany—3atthias Kol $300,~1V, M., Vornon va, John Nuor " Junar: Mcltonenva~it, O. Rounmvoll vs, Thoman Backin ; verdlot, $1,392,33, and motfon for new trial, CinouiT Count—CoNreastons—0, T, Happel et al, John Rubin, $742.98, Ernst Bonsonbach Jamos Grosham, 189,72, Jupak oo —Ullbert Oloson vu, Nicls P, Loberg; oI , $1H) 4 motion for now trial, Junak Boori—Leter Wolf va, 0. 5, Hough; verdict, $1,102.49, NEW ORLIANS. A Prighttul Sensation that Failed to _Eventuates Snecial Dirpateh to I'he Chicago Tridune, New Ounrans, June 80.—The sennational artie clo aphoaring In this morning's Pleayune; to tho cffect that tho colored militin, on their Fourth of July parado, woru io convort the oceaslon into & sort of 8t. Bartholome day, by kiiling all saloon and soda-sliop keepors, and white pooplo in gon- oral who denfed thom their eivil rights, proves foboncanard. A Zimes reporter interviewed Brig. Gen. Barber, colorad, to-day, on ths sub- Ject, e slated that no permisalon had yot beon given for parado, and that thore probably would ' not bo, Lho story originatod with tho employes of tho Police Department, who passod it off on a roporter of the Picayune, which paper gave it publicity. The artlcle oliclted cousidernblo re- mark, but was not goncrally creditod, and there- fore did not cause much excitement, GRASSHOPPERS. Tremendous Swarms Minnesoia, 81, Pavr, Minn,, June 80,.—At Buttorfleld and St. James stations, in Watonwan Couuty, Satur- day noon, the sun was bid from sight by clouds of prasshoppors, apposring from below like drifting snowilikes. As lhey settled to tho sround near St. James, horses could not bo urged forward, but grew frantic under tho incos- sant polting of tha insocts. From that timo to Bunday night = large portion of the crops in the viclnity wero outiroly eaten away, including 1,100 acres of whoat owned by J. W. Bass, of this clty, anjgmost of 2,000 acreg on Butterfleld farm. Yot only a small portion of the fiylng swarms stopped thoro, the main body keeping on to the northwost, and it Is feared that they will ight in the best farming regions of tho Up- per Minnosota Valloy, Wilson, the Goyornor's Secretar y, just returned from the southwest counties, reports the devast- ation mostly in Cottonwood, Jnckson, and Mar- tin Countiod, whero il the crops uro dostroyed. Devastating Tho grasshoppers are also doing grent dumalie in tho weatern part of Faribault County and In some parts of Brown County, He confirms. tho reports from Watonwan County, but says tho gmuubonn«n are not 5o nunierous thero as in Lo country southwand, After everything olso was takan, lo observed that they then ato tho peas. Ile says many settiors aro alrondy in gront destitution, this bolug with some the third yenr of lowing thefr craps, having lost them in 1972 by biad, and last yeur and this by grasshoppers. SNAKE-VIRUS AS A MEDICINE. T'o the Editor of The Chicago Tribunc: Bm: In your issue of Sunday, you refer to “A Use for Poisonous Saakes.” The narticle gives ovidenco of two cases of cure of hydro- pliobia—one that of n dog and tho other that of & woman—by' the bites of suakes. 1t may bo truo that the,poison of vipers niny neutralize that of mad dogs, but It can scarcely yot be rocommonded by the modical facutty. Tho olophantiasis of tho Groels was sald to bo cured Ly the bile or poison,of the rattlo- snake, The medical faculty of Brazil had long disputed wholher the olephantinsis of the Greeks and that of Brazil are identieal, Tho offoct of tho pofson of the rattlosnake upon ono disensed with modorn elophantinsis was choson as umnpire. Ono man, in the City of Rio Jaueiro, doformed and boing destroyed by the discaso, not only esnsontad to bo bitten by a rattlesnako, but beeg/ue oarneatly desirous to test it. Tho dinensy rotarded for o little tho offect of the virus of tho snalro, but the man soon died, DPurbaps the friends of somo one in tho last stages of hydrophobin might bo will oy & denter rossort, to try the oxperiment of viImru virus. . e = = ’ A ttorribio Death, From the Evansuile (Ind.) Courfer, Ono of the moyt Lorrible and sickening acei- dents that has over occurred in ‘our oity took lico at noon yosterday, tho victim roosiving, no oubt, instant death. ' About 11:00 o'clock, an old gentleman named Billy Baborion, betier known as *Tailor Billy,” and who did odd jobs, oapooinlly trimming trocs, cutting grass, snd kindrod oceupations, went into Mr. N, Btles' milly, on Canal street, near Lighth, and asked permission to sharpen n soythe on the grind- #toue run by steam in that establishment, IIis roquest wad grantod, but whon ho went down into the collar, he rotwned and nsked for o light, as it was vory dark and he could not find the ntono, and was nfraid of the machinory. A light was furmshed him, and he wont down into the collar again. At nearly 13 o'clock one of tho miliers, Mr. Williain Elles, had occasion to go into tho collar, and rewainod about tho machin- ory ten minutes, but, upon looking around, saw nothing of the man who had gone loforo him to sharpen the soytho, Just as ho wasseaiching the placo, something struck one of tho window- glasien of tho onginc-room, which is in tho collaran o platform raised abouty four feet. Lo rushed in, and thero a horrible sght met his gaze, ‘The engines aud wulls wero bospattered with blood, aud tho lnrfic fly-wheel, 14 foob In diametor, rovolving at tho race of ninety revo- lutions a minute, wus recling with gore, Tho ongina was gtopped, and, though piooes of bono and flesh and clots of blood weie found allabout, thoy woro idontifled as thoso of the unfortunato Billy Baborton. "Pho skull waa picked up in four pieces ; the two oyes wera thrown together from their sockots near the door ; his heart entiro was found hanging to one of the small bolt whools, and the largost parts of the trunk and hmbs wora found noar the pit of the fly-wheol ; it was the outrails which hod struck the windaw of tho ongino-room, 1t wes o most hornble and sick- oniug sight, no ono pieca fouud weighing over six pouuds. The Coronor wus onlled, and brought with Lifm a cottin, in_whioh was placod the unfortunate viotiny's hoad, a4 noarly sy pose siblo, rud the two feot, No attompt was mado to gathor tho other portlons of the body sys. towaticully, but thoy wove soraped togothor and daposited ‘poll-mell in the coliln, boing plokod up with o shovol, An inquost was keld, and a verdiot of mocidental doath rendored, B. Colliny, | PAYING THE BONDS IN-GREENBACKS, Tho Natlonal Banks, Their Privileges, and Thelr Profits, Another Lotter from Charles Shackleford, Esq. ~Broostixaton, Til,, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribun, Bint I feol too woll conviuced of your doalre to doal fairly with the Indepondent party of this Btato and tho West to suppose that you would futontionally misroprosont their views on any subjoct, partioularly on so vital and important A0 lugio as that involved In tho financo ques- ton; henco I bog loavo to trospass muill further on your pationco, to roply to what was certainly » misnonstruotion of tho statoments mado by tho writer inan artlclo on flnance publishod on the 27th Inet, in your journal, and which you were ploased to honor with a longthy answor. The tonor and offect of your mnewer, in conatrue ing the sarticlo roferred to, placos the In- dopondent party of this Btato in tho alti- tudo of favoring tho rodomption of tho 5-20 bonds fn grooubacks, Whilo it 18 truo that vory many mon n that party think such a courso Just and lawful, yot thoro is nothing in thelr platform on tho subject, and I kuow of no cit izen antborlzed to sponk for tho party in that bolinlf. Roforenco was had to that subjoct in- cidontally, for the purpose of illuatrating the proposition, that, in making thoss bonds tho baats of the National Danks, and by lator Con— grossionnl action declaring them payable in iold, the Topublican party and Cougross had cen Juno 29, 1874, GUILTY OF A DREACH OF FAITH, repudiated thelr agrecmonts with thopeople, and logislatod adversely to thom iu the intorests of capital. 3 Tho Inw of the issuance of lagal-tonder notos and tho first iskue of 6-20 bonds, passcd Fob, 25, 1802, 18 ono and the eame enactient, and pro- vidos that such notes may be converted into that olass of bouds ; that Lho bonds are redeemublo at the pleasuro of the Government aftor five years, and puyablo in twenty yonrs, 'I'ho same act provides also for tho paymont (?) of those bonds In thin language: “Aud sich Uniled Stales nofes (4o ounvortible into such bonds) shall be receited the same as coin, at their par value, in Jnuvmcnl Jor any loans that may be here- after sold or nugotiated by the Scerctary of the easury, and may bo reissusd from time (o tima as the exigencies of the public ‘tnlercst shall ve- quire,” You fail” to dicuss this clause of tho statute, What does it moan? ‘o evident intondment of the Iaw was, that tho legal-tendore sud 5-20 bonds wero INTERCUANGEABLE AT GOVEONMENT OPTION from 1867 co 1882; that, ou loug as tho debt ro- mained in tho shapa of a boud, it should bear iuterest in gold, but, if the oxlgencies of the public intereat 8o raquire, tho boud might bo ro- callod and roconverted futo a non-interost-bear- ing dobt in theshapo of logal-touder notas, As to whethior such a reconversion would ba consid- eredin lawa anmenl or not, {8 another ques- tion, upou which thore aro different opinious. Tho Logal-Tonder act snys tho Sonds shuil bo 4o redcomed ; and, when tha law was passod, it was o auugunced ou the floor of the House, Tho Bupreme Court of the United States has sustained the Legal-Tonder act; and under tho decisions of that Uourt, as well as the Conrts of the sovoral Stntes, railroads and other cOrpors- tions wottled thoir obligntiows, incurrod on o gold bauis before 1860, by the payment of greon- backs; tho entiro ante-bellum iydebteduess of this country outstanding in 1862 was settled in tho same way; tho soldiers and eailors wera EAhl in thoso notes; aud yet, in dealing with the aukers, whose bonds, by the very law of their creation, wero redecmablo atter five years in legal-tendors, Congrees has ndopted a differont rule. Tho quostion of how the 5-20 bouds should bo pald, 18 not now an ieano befors thia pooplo, unless wado 50 iv some local campaign. The Independont party, ns such, bas not spoken on tho supjuct, excopt'Iu itsIowa platforin, whoro it advocntes tho sottlement of Government debta aceording to the original contract, Wiilo, according to commercial usnge and commoun cousont smong civilized natious, gold biag beon adopted as o standard of valuos, yet, in the supreme eniergoucios of national lifo, thiy rule is ot times ‘o ) NECESSARILY ADROGATED, and an arbitrary standerd erscted for a term of yours. ‘Lhis was done in Euglaud, aud spocio- Ppaymont suspendod for twouty yonrs, during the wars with France, Our Govornment did the same thing in 1862, and impliodly announced that tho suspension would'continue for twonty years; and, in doing so, provided for tho intors convorsion of its curreucy sod the 5-20 bonds, for the wise pm‘]mun of preventing such a speedy return ton gold standard as wonld seriously disturb the commorce, industries, and prosperity of the nation; and, with the further design of Prcvt'n!mg the perpetuation_of the national debt. The advocates of an immedidto return to specio- paymont, of paying tho 5-20 bonda in gold, and contiuing tho National Banks at nn unnecessary expenso, aro, 1n (act, endeavoring to prevent an bonorable oxtinction of tho national debt, sud aro urging & financial policy on the nation which must fnovitably rosult in disastor, and such wholesalo ropudiation of the public dobt as will give to our craditors wortnloss rags and bittor cures, instoad of gold and gratitudo. 1t i coneedod on all hauds that we nover hava had enough specia in the United States to fur- nish o sale basis for private banking ; and the probabilities nro, that we will not have for many yours to como, The people, with ong voice, do- uounce & roturn fo the curroncy (commonly called “ wildeat " and ** stumptail ) ssued be- fore tho War, current only in the neighborhood of their 1ssuance, and invariably repudinted in tinies of commorcial stress, TIE REAL ISSUE 18, Bhall we have moro curroucy; and shall it bo Natioual-Bank notes or logal-tonders? The Republican_party advocates an increass in tho nunbor and circulation of National Banks. Tho Indopendonts dononnco tho wholo National Bankiug system, aud demand its abolition. Thoy say that it touds to porpotuato the nntioual debt ; that it wcronses the burdens of the poo- plo; that its power is contrahizod, and undnly In- iluences Congress, the President, aud thoe press; that it is & monopoly of bauking priviloges, and, o8 such, is opposed to the spirit of our Govorn- mout. The history of the National Banks, as shown by thoir oflicial reports publshed in Now York, demonstrates that thoy havo roapod largn and unusual gaina_ by “remson of their apeelal privileges and the oxclusive rights vouchuafed to them Qongress, , If their business fs anprofitablo, as_yon stato, why is it that New England still persists in retainiug Ler greedy clutchies on the currency, struggling dosperatoly, in Congress and througi the pross, to keep untuuched lior chartored banks, and do- prive this and other oxcluded sectious of the country from enfoymng tho buuking privileges monopalizod in the Eant? If 1t is unprofitable, how is it that National Banks in Now York can deolare 33 Fer cont anouul dividends on stock, ovor and above the largo salariea paid to om- ployes? Chlcago banke may withdraw thorr cir culation, but the same capital can find new and moro fruitful fleids for profits i the Bust, It is not'only n profitablo busincey, but is hedged in by powerinl surroundings, It is no small W uY dor" which tho Independent party is pre- paring to arusls upon a whoel s but au iutronohod and dangerous onomy, strong in ita alliaucos with tho rulers of tho State, and determined to perpetuate ity privileges aud maintain ity power a¢ auy Cost: The Independent party denounces tho whole syatem AH A FIAUD, and asks thet ourronoy be issied direct from the “Croneury, intorconvortible into low-interost- bearing bouds, As far as tholr platform goes, it is unoxceptionable, o demand that the Go ornmont shall withdraw the National Bank notos from oirculation, and that logal-tendors in thoir stoad be issued in such amount as will moaet tho domands of the logitlmato trade, and provent tho useloss and arbitrary sacritico of property, is a proposition not ouly highty con- servativo, bus just to both debtor” and croditp: Suoh currency, intorconvertiblo into gold bonds Losiing low Intorest, will adapt itaslf to tho commorolal wants af tho poople, and will bost provide agalost moustary panios auna tho in- triguon of combined capital” in disturhlng the values of proporty. It will provont o deprecin- tiou of the currency, and afford such rvelief to tho pooplo as the present and probublo ne- cosnitios of trado and tratic domand. Thora is no ropudiation, nor tho sceut of it, in the propo- wition, It loaks to specio-resumption by gradual vud Aafo procossoy, aud is the ONLY FEABINLE AND NONEST PLAN yob_announced, bocause it proposcs : ;slval, to remove tho great abstaclo in tho way of re-esiab. lishin:; a spoolo-standard for tho ourvenoy, viz.: tho Nuuional Banke; second, to provide for re. tronahwent sud diminishod taxal mnl provent kudden dopletion and intlatlon of the ciroulation, aud fo koep our conunuproo in a hird, to, hoalthy condlition, tho tradosmon nud ta mnko tho onrroncy iniform in kind, and have it in sufliclont amount to provont the nacriflco proporty In timos of mauctary dlsturbanco, 48 far ag curroncy can sasis{ brokers in 8o doing; four! If yoit reply to this communication, be king ?]nuu 1: llu ln‘s‘ntylo\llr nttltunldon to the clnuse of ho statute nuthorizing the lssuauce of 5-20 boj aud logal-tenders, Lorolnbofore citod. ndt P CUANLES SHAOKLEFOBD, PAYING IN TRADE, A Dentist’s Bill to Be Scttlod by Newspaper Pufly, A Times Reporter in Court, ‘Whon so many new wavs of paying old debts are invoutod dally by impecuulous but ingenfony evadora of Nability, two distinct propositions must bo considored as oxceedingly diffienlt of oxplanation, the one that in theso days any ona can bo found to give orodit, tho othor that any ono can bo so foolish as to pay an accounb Perhaps 5 ‘THE MOST ORIGINAT AND DOLD DEVIOR « for tho satisfaction of an importunato oraditor wag that indulged in by a Times roporter yos« torday aftornoon, who had boon brought boforo Justice Dovdon In, s muit of nusumpelt for 8100, bogun agalnet him by a dontist named John N. Crouso. Oub of rogard to his friends, the npamo of the dofond- aut in the sult {s not mentionad,—suflics it to #ny that he 1 not tho religious oditor of tho Times, but that bis articlos, without being: necessarily witby or spicy, ure froquently of s ragy duscription, Both plaintilt and dofendant aro flanked by & numorous array of frionds, -who took a doop interoat in the procoedings. 'Tho caso for the prosccution was conducted by Mr. Welnhart, that for the defeuso by Mr. A, 8, Trude, the suc- ceasful advocato of Mike Jones, Gurrity, and, on one or two orcasions, until the last time, ‘which was o failuro, of the notorious Barron, The case for tha prosecution proved the existe once of tho dabt and by the testimony of one or two city physicians the fact that the bill, which was made on n baeis of %0 per hour, wax not an ovor-charge for tho prolessional sorvicos rone dored. During the oxamination of ONE OF THE DENTIST WITNEHSES tho counsol for tha dofense asked the question 3 I it not a fact that it ts customary for many pro forsiounl gentlemen and tradesmon to make a reduction to Times roporters for scrvices reudered, in_fact occasiounlly to perform thosa sorvicea gratuitously ? ‘o witnesss donied all knowledge of such a state of affairs, but ace kuovwledgod that dontists fraquently oharged poor people b very low ratos compared with the charges mado to what Mr. Trude olaracterized in his cross-oxamination as tho * igh-toned millionaires” and the **upper-tendom of | society.” ‘Chis rebuff brought vut the question, whether It was not within the kuowledge of wite nees thnt T¥mes 10portors oceasionelly provided o quid pro quo for services ronderod in tha sliapo of A GRATUITOUS FRIENDLY KOTICE in tho colunms of the papor to which they wer( ottachod. 'Thio witness exprossed iguorunce on this poiut likowise. When the counsel for the dofense had gcarified suficlently the dente Em(enninn, and tendered some gratuitous, bul ccidedly ~ conrso, medical advico to the couusel for the prosecution, he placed the doe foudnnt upon tha stand. This paty was evie dently ill at case, Iis volce tremblod o at the beginning of his evidence that it was quite inau~ diblo, This mended, however, and ina few munutes bo was iv tho midst of his etory, which dinclosos 80 poculiar & pags In the sacret history of a uswspapor that the story he told to tho jury igb;l:i\'uu sbout as ucar to jthe vorbalim «s pot= sibla. TUE DEFENDANT BTATED thatin the year 1870, whilo stopping atthe Diiggs Houso, Lo was introduced to the defend= ang, who, in the courss of sonvoraation remarke ed to him that his testh wero in very bad ordor. Defendant asknotwledgod that such was the cuse, but addod thut he wns ONLY A “TIMES" RETORTER, and he know that tho doy wonld never arriva when be could afford to Lave them attendud to. The wily dontist, huving thus sproad his toils, proceeded to coil them round hus guill Vioe tim, Ho boldly statod to the innoount reporter that such a circumstance need ot delay the come mencoment of operations upon the decayed mo~ lars, the moribund inciyprs, and the dilapidated eye-tooil, which woro 10 hn{‘y that overy tina their propriotor uttered a word with tho Jetter 8§ inat n double whistle* was aimultaneously pro. duced, the effect boing very peculiar, as the nots of tha loft eye-tooth whistle was a high C, while that of the right ono was B flat. Withou! going into detmls upon the very dolicate naturs ol the negotintions which ensued, suflics it to soy that 1 consideration of the pingging up of bis defectivedontal organism thoe Zimes reporter agieed to > _BEIZE UPON EVERY POSSIILE OCCASION tobring betoro the eyes of tho wo:.d, through tho valuable medimwm of his puper, the high qualities, the low ehargoy, the excossive urbane ity, the gontle firmnens of Dentist Crouse, nok forgotting the lasting nature of lus fitlings, and the fact that ho never took morothan throo- quarters of aun bour to extract the most iirme rooted acher, even though bhalt a pound ot Samson's weapon had to come along with it. The first tima tho reportor brought the namo of Crouso bofore the oye of the public was through the medium of the * Porsonal” colump of the Times, when he announced that: YDr, Crouse, tho well-known and populas dontist, whoso fame as an operator upon the Lunny tooth s as wide-sproad as tho hoaveus above, is about to loave his_immenso practice for fow days’ shooting in Indians, whore the stoady arm whiok has o often torn the stubborn molar from its rosting-place will direct tho fata] pu}luttlnlwnu tho gentle woodcook aud fast-flying suipe.” L'hig effort paid for.the oxtracting of onomolay and the filliug of auother. A few days after the dentist's return, ILE WAS ABOUT TO READ A PAPER befaro tho {llinois Dontal Association, and thic oceasion also wns taken advautago of by the ilk toothed reporter. At this point Lo took particus Iur peius to montion to the jury that the meet ing of the Dental Association Way a dry, unine toresting afair, which ouly the Times publivhe which was by no means an item of unews, buf which ho gained adnigsion to its columus simply to have the docay of ‘three prominent incisorg arrestod. A Dargain was struok upon these, the dontal meeting with Mr, Crouse’s fiqper on the * Application of the Bledges ummer in Looth-Pulling " was publisbod, sud the thres prominont iucisors woro made glorioug with 810 worth of kolid gold in oach, whish fact ‘wad frrefutable, as any of the jurors could sea who had eyos aid tried to uue thom. Tho dofendaut was unable to montion any othor occasions in which ho had lauded tha dentist, but ho was sure that he never lat an ope portunity pass—uuntil all his teoth were tilled. ere, no doubt, came tho trouble. When the roportor's teoth were made a mass of gold, leaming ou an ebony sotting, he dropped the finutluz. and pg no more favors were forticoming in tho Tumes' columns, the latter bogan to forgot tho favorsof the past, and to BEND IN HI8 LITTLY DILL, Theso wore for a long time disregarded, but the defoudant assorted that he had paid $10 on acs count, though hio had no receipts to show, and had alwoys mado his payments when thoro wag nobody prosent,—an unfortunate circume stanca that is invariably tho case when the victimizod debtor is unable to produce the aoe knowledgoment of bis paymonts, The dise cussion of thoe case did not take vory long, IT WAB A JURY TRIAL, and Trudo was tho counsel for dofondant, and the verdict was for tho defondant, too. The usual appeal was tnlmnX and it {8 probabla that, unless an * honorable™ compromise {4 veached, tho caso will shortly roappear in tho_higher courts, And now the question arises : Did Mr. T'rude got paid cash on the dolivery of tho vor- dict, or iu bio, too, going to take 1t out in trade ? ————— Littic Triclks J'rone the Hutchinaon, (Minn.) Enterprise, Aunother of those dovicos that some fomates are 80 full of hss como to light. A youny lady of Hutchmson—who {s fair to middliag in fooks, puts ou 2 goad doal of stylo, aud would like to ba populer, and who dwells in & bousa that, while 1t is docont and respoctable, {s not grand.— hind tho luck somo time sines to rocsive an in- traduction to a stranger who hailod from & nelghe borlng town, It wae at church that she was mado acquaintod with him, and e asked to sse her bomo ; sho accopted, aud they started. It ocourred to lior sy thoy walked ouward that, af- tor what sho had waid, it would m'dg do to enter hor humblo dwelling, for tho lad might think she was not what she seemod. A few housos distant from hors stand stauds & finc- looking rosidonce, before which she balted, He, nob bong nequainted with Iutchlnson or hor, supposcd, of gourso, that everything wes all r(fin, and loft tho gate with bright visions daneing through his brain, whila sho bid behind tho stoop until he got oub of eight, aud thon wout howe happy. A Minnesota Girl” 1ae 4 ki