Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1874, Page 4

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Filling v nied at hal( tho ui P e The Chicags Tribune, Monday Doruing, July 37, 1874, o thinnoss of the congrogations along tho tincof the Milwsukco Road yesterday Wwas no- ticoable. Tho men-folk romoluod at lomo to 'rnfld tho Sunday papors, aud tho womon-folk to sco that thelr husbands aud 80nd Woro nob en- ticod awsy by ovil advigers. Gen. Dutlor has como into the caso with, the avowed purpose of quashing the whole affair. fo is s man too ncute not to kuow that tho wholo affamr cannot bo quashed st this stago without quashing Tilton or Bocchor. Undor which King, Bozopian? + ' - Tho Rev. Florence McCarthy proached aboub tho scandsl in Drooklyn yesterday. Ho caro- fully refrained from oxpreeaing an opinion, and thus avoided dolng damago to cither sido, Nr. McCarthy is qualifiod to speak of such msttors with emphnsls. A man who has boen in tho dock has & rango of oxperlenco that Judges and Iawyers Liopo never to hinve. Sheridan, Klokke, and Rouo ought to yindi- cato thelr honor snd manhood agalnst the as- anults of tho indecent morning nowspapor. Tho words ** hog-stabber,” *barbor's boy,"” and “old cow," moy bo nctionsble. Tho Commissionors Lave only to prove that theeo sppollations aro undosorved sod cnloulated to bring thom into contempt, iu ordor to obtain full pocuniary sab- isfaction. "Lis 28 ensy as lying. et Joha Jay has raturned to Viennn, but the cor- respondents sny it is not for long. The talo of men who want just auch an offico ag would bo TYoft vacaut by Mr. Jny'a resignation begins with ex-Gov. Shiopherd and ouds with tho Hon. Gon. Butler. Therenro notmany Honorable Gonerals liko Butler. No manin America would occupy tlo oxaltod station of Minister to Austria as ho ‘would occupy it. Thore was a good attendauce in all .the eity churchos yesterday, Attor all, Christiapity stands up under tho ehock remorksbly well Possibly our intelligent correspondent, “W. O. ¥F.,” who predieted that all manner of dismal things wonld happen to the Christian’ schoma in consequence of the seandal, waa alittlo out in bis caleulotions, Thare bo somo men who koow 28 woll 08 others, The apostacy of no preachor, dend or living, could by any possibility. bo an sppreciablo factor In tho products of Chris- tinnity. Judas went out and hanged Limself; sund that s all any apostlo cav accomplish by otraying tho Church, Tr. Henry W. Bollows, editor of the Ziberal @hristian, s ova of the most prominent Unita- rian clergymen iu tho country. o has been iu wympathy with tho liboral tendoncies of Mr. Boocher., 1le has loaned toward the orthodox viow of Clrist’s divine nature and Mr. Booclior townrd the Unitarien viow. Tho two mon have thus been placed in poculiarly closo relations. Dr. Bellows would bo quick te dofoud r. Booch- or if he folu that ho could doso honorably. Tead his words in the last Liberal Christian : 4 Mon look agbust at Mr. Boeclor's apology and ot bis lotters. Thoso aro damning evidence in tho case. It Mr, Boechor wroto thom, ho will fall by them.” The sensilivonoss of peoplo in Chicago to an alorm of fire was woll Nlustrated yestorday, wheu the thick clouds of black entoke rote up from tho burning oll warchouso. Though the nows sproad with incrediblo 1apidity, 5o that the chavacter and extent of the fire was early un- @erwiood in all paris of the clty, everybody in Lho streots soemod dispoged to mako personal obsorvations. A moderato estimalo would place tho crowd in the vicinity of the burning ware- ‘housa during thaafterngon at 20,000, ~mon, wom. @n, aud children, Newly all prosout wote in holiday diess, and not disposed to quarrel With God or man over the desiruction of railroad property. 'The sceno was worth taking in fiom a lofty moral standpoiut. Sovaal momburs of thio Citizens’ Reform Au- soctation, in conversation with a Tniuws ro- porter Suturduy, aflizmed atoully tuat the Asso- ciaciou would never mix In’ polities, They did not explaite how {c will b possivle to Tugura tha genaral woliaro aud prosperity of the city, whicl i tho uvoned object of tho Atgocintion, withe out taking distinct polltical nction, Bomo- thing on _this point would bo scooptuble, Tio Assoclation Is nmou-partisun; that In, politieal antecedants are no bar to membership, If the momborg divide off at evory election on old patty liucs, * tha gouaval welfara and prog- pority of tho clty " will not bo auy moro ussurod than undor tho old order of things. Qen, Web- ster suys thut tho projoctors of tho Assoclation hopo to avoid tho rocks on which other orgaui- gatious have eplit. Ouo way to decaps drowning is not to go nonr tie watoer. . Phantom ships aro never wrecked. The leading produce markels were weak on Baturdag, with loug dolng in brondstuffa, Moss pork hwas loas activo, and doclinad 8176 por bel, but closod firmer, at 22,36 0ash, and §32,50 sollor Beptomber, Lard was quict and steudy, olosing Al 81L.76@11.80 cash or soller August, Moats wero modorately aotive, and ensior, at Tifo for sbioulders, 03¢o for short ribs, 10@103o for short olear, and 12@13}6e for swoolploklod hams, Highwines wore sctive and strongor, st 95@800 por gallon. Lake frolghts wora dull and woak, »t 28{c for corn to Buffalo. Flaur waa in faw ro- fuest, and unchanged. Wheat way quiot and #@1lo lowor, clouing at $LUTH cash, §1,05% wellar Angust, aud 8118 for No, 2 Minnesots, Corn was loss aclivo, aud 1@1go lower, closing b 60¢ casb, and Gijde gollor August. Oatn woro dull and very wea, closiig ab 406 eash, 48340 goller the month, and % sellor Auguot. Ryo was quiot snd sironger, ab 8le. Dar- Joy was quiot and fiumor ub §1.04 mcllor Sop- toumbor. Hogs weio Iu aotiva demand, and pricos wero firm at £0.007,00—satos chiolly st $6.60@ .85, Cnttlo mot with only o light dumaud, and prices woro unchanged. Sheop wero scatea and pommnal, The Rov. Mr. Halliday, uselatant pastor of Plymouth Church, is in fmminont’ dangor of waliing upsomo morning to find himsolf—not famous, but notorions, This will be & pleasaut distinction for Mr, Hallldny, and not tho less so becauso it will .bo gnived by accident. The kind of notorioty that he will awake to is presumably a mattor of uo consequence. Malliday spid, at tho prayer-meoting on Fridny ovoning, that Mr. Deechor was in admieable spirits, and woighed moro tham ho bad for n yonr, 'Tho luferoncd is, of courno, that it Mr. Boachor loses no flosh ho is olently funo- cont. Itisno crodit to M Beacher, it 1tbo truo, that bo docsu't Joso flesh, o ought to bo gottivg Lhin vory fost, whothor -bo I gullty or {unocont, white such o chargo s banging over bis hoad, sud Hallidey lives o defond him. I anangel from lenvon should sy it, vobody would boliove Halliday to bo & man of avorago .| common-seuse. Tho full text of Mr. Tilton's cross-oxaminn- tion by the Plymouth Church Investgatiog Committes i publiehed this morning in oneof tlio New York papera, and tho importaut parts of itaro ent to us by telograph, So far from diserediting Mr. Tilton's statoment, 88 wo Lad boon led to supposo it did, tho cross- oxamioatlon sustaivs it in ovory essontinl par- ticulnr, Thore aro not any ucw dovolopmonts of absorbing iutorest. Mr., Lilton could not bo bullied into saying that ho lad over testifiod to tho pmiy of his wife after bo 1ad bocomo aware of her conndotion with Mr, Boecher. Why bo should not beve go toatificd is nob olonr to us. Thoactof for- givoness, o bo effectual, roquired some dacop- tion; nnd that Is what Mr, Tilton practicad. Ho Dad *#a strango, tochnicaluso of words;" that was all. Io said that Alré. Tilton was *a dovoled Curigtinn'woman,” not thatuhe waspure; and ho abided by thte fine-drawvn dlstinction, bofore tho Committeo, OF courso, thoro wasmuch that was potty obout the examisation, of which the pas- sngo Toferred to will kerve 08 au excollout iltua- tration. Tho crossfexamiuation culy confloms and atrongthens tho stntoment, It addugey tho fact that Mrs. Woodliull had & confersuca with Air. Boochor at Tiltou's house, Whother this vas about tho ** unadvised inteifercuca in tho do- mostle affaira” of tho Tiltous is a quostion thaé may enfoly bo left for tho publio to decide. Ting tostimony is oficlally given out for publi- cation. ‘Wo do not se0 bow thio Cowmitieo can decontly rofuso to admib roportors to 1l cos- sious in tho futuro. e irm——————e THE LATEST WARNING. Thero are saveral proverbial plirasos expross- ing that experioneo Is a cortain toachor. Theso, Lowover, do not noom to Lave their forco in Chl- cago. Youtorday weliad anvther five, aud, thanks to tho bravery and labor of tho firomen ond the absenco of tho usual summor galo, it failed to lay wasto fifty or nixty acrosof theecity. Tho firo occurtad thiy time at tho old Ireight dopot south of T'welfth strcot, and botwoen Clark streot oud tho river. This dopot was used asa torohouso for potroloum oil in all its forms, The dopot was used for this purpose by tho Michigan Southern & Lske Shore Railroad. It was statod at tho flro that thero were botween ono thouenand aud ¢wvo thonssnd barrels of oil on tho promiucs, It was all destroyed. Horo is another case showing tho lamontahle negligouco of the putlie authorities, Tho sor- ageof oilis n matter regulated by law ; this butldiug could not lawfully bo uged for this pur- paso oxcapt by tho couseut of tho Mayor and city nuthorities, This warchouso was nominally fire-proof, aud was detached, It was firo-proof to tho oxtont that its walls woro of brick. Tho roof was supported by woodon raftors, and in- pido tho depot thero was o wooden platform on all four sides of tho building, It is usoloss to sposlk of a iro-proof building with 1,000 barrols of oil stored within it. Tho wivdom shown iu authorizing thio selection may bo best judgoed when ft s romembored that all the epaco cnst of this warchouso to the luke way . covered muinly with wooden build- ings; north of i, aud porlaps B0 feot from tho oll warchouaoe, was Gous & Phillips’ im- mense sesh, door and Dliud warohouso ; while west of it, soparated ouly by 100 to 200 foet of railroad track and the nvor, woro threo clovators. Iad (ho desizu boon to - locate this oil depot whoro in cusoof firo it would provo destructive, no more appropriate selection could bave boen made. The firc was Inestin- guishable with water, the blnze wog fearful, and tho heat intcuve, Al the fremien could do was to protect tho adjoinmg proporty. The wind was from tho novthesst, carrsing the heat and flame in the direction of the elovators. Up- on theso the fivemen lucrted thomsolves, and alio upon all the threntened property in the im- wedisto viclity, aud succeoded in savivg all. ‘Thoy bad practically to let tlio ofl bsn itseif ont. Ten days ngo wo had sixty acies burned over, resullivg from the fivlug of au ol fuctory located not far from tho aceno of this fivo of yesterdny. On that occesion there was a fiorco southwest wind, which, whon tho oil tanks oxploded, peattered the burning Jiquid moss over o wido area of wooden Lenomonty, giving tho fire n slirt that bid deflanco to human effort to stop its That this samo result did not follow the fire of yostorduy s duo to thoab- seuce of tho high wind, Wo have, thorefore, within two weoks, had one fire from an oil fectory, which flro .cost nearly €8,000,0003 und yosterday wo had wuothor fire from an oll vorchowso, tnd both of theo entablishmonts wero fn full operstion In tho licurl of tho city, whoro firs onco under way is diflicult to mannge, and this by ths spocial cunsent and liconso of tho City Government ! Aro wo nover to prolit by thio costly oxporionce of tho past? Aro we nover to try avaidenca and provantion? Ara we to give freo liconuo tg tha storago of oil, and naphths, ahd gunpowdor, and the ercotion of saw and planing mills, and the mauufucturo of oils aud the yoduction of grosse, anywhere aud ovorywhoro that nny men wuey ohoose? s tho Oity Governmont nover to take any procautionary action uguinst tve and for tho provoution of_fivo? » ‘Ihoro {8 not tho laast necesaity for the atorago of oils anywhere iuthis city, ‘'bis oil warehouse or depot might be louated teu or twonty miles from tho oity without the lonst Incouvenionce to the railroad or to the publie. It was kopt here to bo shipped to othor pointy, and ths shipmout might bo made as well from & warohouse far boyond tho oity ss from ons on Clark’ and Twolfth stroots. Now that this firo hos given its solomn warn- fug, will the Counest tnko immediato notion ta prohibit the storage of these Infammable arti- clea or (ho munufasture of ofls within any part of tho city mitn? Two fivos within as maay weoks ouglit to b suflielont ta prompt the Com- mon Councll to lmmediato action. Noxt week, porhiaps, thoro will bo a pianing-mill, which will start 8 firo that will awoep hundred aorcs or Kiore of bulldimgs, the weok aftor a lambor-yard, or 8 hiny-press, or box-favtory, mny add to the waste » bundred sores mors, and, dospite theao'con- atantly-roousring devastationa, which aro largoly duo to tho eriminal nogligence of tho City Goy- ornmont, tho Council meots weols aftor weel, and does nothiug to requira the romoval of theso oil fnetortes aud ofl warchousos, and other oqually dangorous causes of firo. Blall wo go on this way forevor, or until wo exhaust tho con- fidonco and tho forbearance of tho country, or tho olty bo sgain swopt of its bsbitations, its stores, and its warchousos? How many moro fires will bo necessary to exclte tho Commmon Counail to notion? HALLIDAY'S OPINION OF THE ANGELS, Afr,. Halliday, ssoistant pastor of -Plymouth Olaurel, sud Mrs. Morao, mottor of Mrs, Titon, aro & romarkablo palr of boliovors, The former would ot bolieve Bocohor guilty ovon though s angol from Hoaven should’ toll him so, Gnbriol and oll tho honvonly hout might toatify beforo tho Investigating Committoo thac Mr. Teachor had brokon the Bovonth Commaundment, but Mr. Halliduy would only say that ho didn't balieve it. Howould coaclude, ot couras, that Gabriol bad onterod fnte tho conapiracy sgainst the Rov. Heary Ward Bacclior, ba- ing - jonlous ‘of bis trumpot tonguo. Ar. Hallldiy does, iudoed, make short -work ‘of tho whiolo case. In bis, view, If Lo is.corroctly roportad, it s moro probablo that tho soraphim and ctiorubim should lic thau that tho pastor of Plymouth Obirch should bo guily; that tho spirita tlint hovor about tho great whito throno should sposk” untruths tinn that Honry:Waid Boechior should" yiold to tho most Imperious ot buman pacelons, In othor words, Beecher can- ot sin! .. Burely there was an’ ovorsight.in nat putting Mallidey on the Investigating Commit- too. % b 3% ¥ . 3 i e, Morso s M. Halliday's eqrat: Sho would “ g woon think of accuslug, the Virgin Mary of adultory 08 Ellzaboth Tilton.” Mra, Morse is Mrs. Tilton's mother, and’ wd pass by this opinion of, howswithoutcommont. A mothorlsalways oxous- abla far bolioving in her duughters purity. Wo bove not so much pationce with the Rov. M. Hallidsy. Wo think that all man aro capablo of sin, . No man should bo condomnod without suf: fciont ovidonep. But no man, arraignod as Mr. Beechor kins bodn on charges of Buch gravity as thoso mado agnajuat bim, should bo acquitted on the ground thut st fs not supposnblo in his case, Thero {8 no mau but may fall.. Beochor may fall. Thero is no a priori ronson why ho should nob fall, ‘Ilo bes ail tho tompla- tions that ofbor wen are -Bubjoct to. s opportunitics aro ot fower ilian those of others, Thoy are evon moro numorous. Whethor bis olf-restraint In greator than that” of other men cannot bo assumed. It is the very quostiou At Issue, Wo do ot balive tliat pure life and doo- trinnl boliefs have any necesuary connection, A man may lend 8 puro. lifo, as Marcus Aurclius did, because of Lis innata noblences, or becanso, on tho whole, it fs tho Lappicst life to load. But it has boon often remmiled thntan acei- dontal conneetion Is froquontly croated betiveon dogme’ and morality. . Dogma is some- times mudo the basis “of morality. A men may Do taught mot o commit crime, bocauso God forbids it and punishes it in tho nost world, In each’cases it lg not been unfroquontly observed that when tho boliof in otornal punishmont goen; whon tho ground of the morality, in othor words, is removed, tho moral principle favory apt to go, too. Taught; na most peoplo aro fn thoir carly’ Fouth, to baso their morality on the foar of otornal punish- mont, when tho beliof in oternsl punishmont goos overboard, thore ia mo basls for morality loft, unlogs it has been supplemented with some other bagis, Mr, Boocher had ovidently lost tho traditional ono, Whother he had adopted any other with sufliciont firmnoss to ake it tho rule of aotion, is slso the question now at issue, Ov o par with Mr. Hallidsy's fulsomo adula- tion of Beccher and his asporsion of tho an- gols, s tho position of an Eastarn journal, which acquits hiw *‘on gouoral pringiples.” It is a difieult thing to destroy & poworful men like Boechor,~in fact, he can only bo dostroyed by bimself. Itis difficult, ospactally whon iIn his ruloho pulls down, Sameon-like, tho pillara of Plymouth Ohurob, tha Christian Unwon, and o goodly portion of Broollyn socioty. Peouniary aud wocial considorstions of tho greatost magnitude are involved 1 bis scquittal Tho Plutoeracy and aristocracy of DBrook- lyn aro largely coucerued in shielding him. The Ohristian , Union propriclors do not wishh thoir business Tnined. Tho socloty in which Beeohor moved, the wives and daugh- tors n which he may possibly bave saen tao fre- quantly, are juatly anxious for his oxculpation, Wa do not blamo those who aro juterosted In 5 verdiot of not guilty for protestiug bia inhoconce and fighting his battle. Only lot them not pro- claim his mors than Papal iufallibility, Let thom not placo him, os Hulliday does, alitue higler thun the angols, A FIRE PATROL. “Tho yoquest of the Now York Board of Under- writors that thore Lo provided a force of 100 mon Lo act as a flio patrol in Ohicago has not been understood. by the people of this city, Wo have & Firo Insuranco Patrol which is of gront sorvice In cascs of fire, hut ita solo Lusiucss iy to gavo property. It has, howover, in pumorous cauos, by its prompt action and speody arvival at a firo, put out tho conflagration before 1t had mado much houdway, This {s not s fire patrol, au that phraso Is known in'Now York, whore it s ay wlost indispenssblo auxiliary to the firo do- portmont. In that city tho duty of tho putrol is to waleh for sud prevent firos, The men traverao tha dlstricts ansigned to them at all hours by dey sud by night, %hoy are in wearch of flra and tho poesible cauees of it. ‘They have made them- selves familinr with tho buildings and the ocou~ pations of tha tenuntu; thoy know whero there 14 & dangorous businoss carried on, whero s build- ing 1a dofeotivo, whore avery stoam engino and furnseo fs locatod, aud whore fire fu likely to ocour, Thoy have also beonso tralned that thoy havo s keen swoll for fire; aud, on ropoated oo~ caslons, thoy have sctually discoverod firo by ametliug, that pocullar sensa bolug quickenod by oconstant practico, In thodo cases, by tho prompt dlscavery, tho firo is at once suppressed, whilo In onocase, so quiockly did they dlscover and it o 1ts cauae the smoll of burning combua- tiblos, that they actually canchit the incoudiery, who lind firod his own promisen, beforo Lo had timo to got away, Tho Incondlary thue canght 1n tho not is now iu tho Btate Prison. i Tlese mon aro & sort of fire polics, Whoao dution aro thoae supposod to bo discharged by the fira wardons of Chicago, Theso liro wardons arothireo in number, and as n mattor of -coursa aro of 'littlo or no practical ueo, Tho numbor suggeatod by tho Now York Undorwriters 18 nok au extravagant oue, Fifey of thoso mon could be proitably omployed on tho west sido of tho rivor. Thoy should inspect tho Interior sr- rangoments of all iouses; sbould know how the flues aro constructed, Low furnaca-pipes and stove-pipos aro placed with reforonco to roofs, ana to partitions and other divisions of rooms; should visit all livory and otbor large stablos, and goo that oll procautions againat firo are pro- vided; Bhould porsonally obsorvo whothor tho ownors of tho soveral thonsands of sheds and barns when visiting thom at_night uso linterns or . korosena-lamps, Their duty would bo ‘to, patrol tholr rospeciivo dimriota and know - and undorstand onch locality, ond o' bo ever on the lovl-out for firea, . Thoy should,. in conjunction with the nolice, be ablo to discover & fira at tho earliost possiblo momant, and both give tho alarm and bo ot work supprosaing it at onco. They shou!d Dbe abla to know not only tho exact shod, barn, or otl:or building whoro tho firo ovigimated, but also tho osuap of the firo. A forco of 100 mon, togethor with tho rogular polico and the varlous forcos of private polico, ought to bo ablo to give prompt notico of firon, aud algo furnish active aid in suppressing them Lefore thoy attan much headway, especially fn small buildings, But tho groatost sorvico of tho “patrol would bo in tho provention of fires by o ocoiistant supervigion of sll buildings in thely distriots, Suoh a force ought to bo able, whou ouco thovoughly irained, to detect ovory caso whoro promiscs are firad from within, and catels tho incondiary beforo Lis cacapd. Tlio powor of tho aity to organizo such & foreo .48 unquestioned. It onn be dvwe under the authority to. incroaso tho police forco or tho personuel of the Tiro Dopartmoi. Uha patrol: may bo either policotnon or flvamon, or huyo the functions of both, It is truo that the appro- pristion” for-1874-6 Loa boen mado, sud no suthdrity, excopt for same uuforeseen contin- goney, oxists to add to that appropriation. Nov-' crtholens, the employment of 100 mon fromrAug, 1 to April1, & period of oight months, at the ‘rate of $800 oach, would cost nob oxceeding §65,000, and wo can hnagine no monoy that can bo 1a0re witely and benoflcially oxpended by the “clsy.” That sum is froquontly wasted Iu o wool ; in fact the city is just now on tho ove of voling $100,000 to a couplo of axchiteets to su- peintena the erection of » Court-Iouse, and from thres to five millions of dollars for the Court-Houso itaelf, Tho city can disponso with’ both . architeets and Oourt-Houso for sovernl years, but these patrolmon dre o pressing and immodiote neceaeity, ‘Thoy are wanted 1 evory port of thecity. Thoy ate noaded to bo presont ab tho firat appearance of overy fire. Tho late firo on July 14 broke out botwoon 8 and 4 o'clook in tho aftorucon in a donscly-populated noighborhood, -and yob 1t is unluown to thin ‘bour in what bullding it origivatod. At tho trisl of Isaacson, ilio testimony of overy witness who sought to locato it was fiatly con- tradioted by thas of a dozon. othor witnesses. Lot us lave this fico patrol. Tho Common Council, at {ts meeting to-night, can do no bot-" tor aot of logisiation than to authorizo its ap- pointment, If the cily has no’ money to pay the mon, tho money can bo onsily obtnined for that purposo, oven if it boraised by subzciiption. Tiot us havo the patrol stonco; tho publio will tako caro of - the money oxpenditure. In one ‘month such o patrol, i£ it do its duty, will, by ils provontive measurcs, such a8 sbating tho cousos of fire and removing illogut sud dauger- ous firo-traps, have gaved ton timos its cost for ayear. Wo hopa tho National Board of Undor™ writars will adiore firmly to thoir ultimatum. ———e TILTON AS A HUSBAND, ‘The world approciates conragoand ondurance; but tho cournge of tho battloflold, sud that which enables a man to endure physical wounds and brave doath, ig not the only courage which mun con show. appoarances, has glvon to Doecher tho faith, sympatby, and devotion that were duo {o tho braye honrt thnt was living a daily. lo . for her protection, "o thun bravo publio apinion, thus to onduro tho scoff of tho world, to witness ‘tho taunting bonsting of his enomios, to hoar him- solf roviléd and oalumuintod and novef braathe the word whioh would havo vindieated himsolf and coverod his enomios with shame, raquired & courage nnd golf-abnegation that are soldom paralleled In ordinary life, Thoro may bo testimony yot to come which ahail dotract from this oxtraordinary showing of pationco and dovotion on tha part of Tilton, bub tho Inter testimony points vory oloarly to the conclusion that hia acquaintance with tho Wood- Lal-Claflin arowd was brought about by tho feot that thoy wore In posscsslon of his wito's seorot, and in no other way ; that ho went o thom, and coneorted with thom, and proto the biography of ono of them, for no othor reason than to stop tholr gobbling, If this thoory of his assoolation with thom shall bo folly suatained, thero will pregently bo & groat chango in public opinion xo- gardiug Thoodots Tiiton, for, although ho bes boon romewhnt consured for poraonal vanily and orratio raligious viows, thero fnno chargoagatnat Lis charactor, so far a8 wo know, oxcopt that ro- Inting to his iutimacy with the Woodnull-Glaflin gaug. TUSURY LAWS IN FRANCE, M. Limporani, s momber of the Fronoh As- gombly, moved, some time sinco, that the usury, laswa ghould bo abollshed in the Republio. . The bill waa raforrod to o committco, Tho report _waa advorso. Tt covored somo aixty pages, and is of intorest ns showing how tho argumonts for the abolition of tho usury lawe aro somatimes met. Any tyroin political oconomy can show that tho uso of capital is sometimes and undor sonio clronmatanees moro valuablo than at other timeg aud undor ather ciroumatances ; that usnry lawa have always missod thoir aim, and sorved only in the long run to raiso tho rato of intor- eazo, the author of tho roport abovo montioned, doca not beliovo this; aud he demolishes Adam Smith. Benthan, Ricardo, and Bastint, by quota- tions from Juyonal, Pliny,, and Livy. o will ot Liear of the abolition of tho usury laws, bo- causo nefas ‘est corrumpere leges palvie. To country! Ilo wonld preservé thom, becauso nov to dosio would bo to.encouinge thab torriblo thing, quacstuosa segnitia, or avariotous idlonoss. Tho Enghsb, Lo argues, grow Tioh by produc- tion ‘and the' Fronch by saving; therofore tho usury'lewe should not bo sbolished. M. Bacazo s a faculty for logical inforenco pos- gessed by 1o othor mortal, for no cther mortat cnn 800 why such s conclusion should follow from snch premises. But AT Bacazo would not _bave it appear that ho is ignorant of tho works of the cconomists. -Ho knows all about thom, espeeilly about Montegquion, who was no oconomist st all, and did not cisim to: bo, but whom Bacaze dubs tho most satioual snd Ingonious among them. . Agming ho would not have tho ushry liws ro- pealed because of the terrible ‘smount of immo- rality thore fain the world already, and beeauso this repenl would havo the offect to {ucresse that jmmorality terribly, Ie furthor argues that Frouclimen are too apt to forget the griovances of their forefathers. Henco thin agitation sgainst the usury laws. pl Wo doubt whother this gentleman's lopic will convine any ono of tho truth of hia viows on the usury question. We do not present them ad & spocimen of .sound reasoning, but s o fair samplo’ of tha logio of thoso who undortako to rofuto the reaults obtained by political ocouo- mists, without sa much as taking the trouble to oxamino tho groundson which they rest. COUNTING THE VOTES IN ARKANSAS, A Republican victory In Arkaness, u 1872, bo- ing ontaamnd & politioal nocosaily, and Mésérs, Clayton, Hadley, MeOluro, and their Bopablican confroros or oroaturcs, having the golo power to count and declaro tho voto. the roturns for Gov- .| ernor woro declarotl a8 follows : Tor Elisha Baxter (on Grant tckot), ¥or Joaph Brooks (on Greeloy tieks Daxter’s apparent majority..... Binco tho oloction of 1872, Messrs, Daster and ‘Brooks have changed sides politically; but tho political nocessity for a Republican Governor of Arksness 8 unchangod. Thoreforo, Mesars. seesseneene 3111 Nearly four yoars ago Theodora Tilton learned from hor own lips that tho wifo wlom ho Dad cherished as the embodimont of tho Olris- tion virtuos hind been seduced by hor pastor; ho loarnsd from hor, also, that this hnd boen dono uuder tho guiso ot spirituality,—that under tho glamour of roligious love and voneration elio hod beon led to tho commission of crimo. Tuat ho wns shockéd, no one . can doubt; but Lhis love for tho woman whom he had so long chorished was strouger than all oleo, Ifo hud rogarded hin wife 08 80 oxcoptionally pure that, to exouso hor and to sequit bor of all sharo in the ehame, ho attrib- utod to her oxcess of religious forvor and Chrigtian zonl tho woskness sho had shown. Ho took hor to hin hosf, forgave tho past, even assured or that ho would not pursue hor so- ducor, aud gbove all, to mako tho presorvation of Lor secrot the principal worlk of his hfe. Unfortunataly, the secrob was not his alono. Beaclier was goon awaro tbat Tilton estoomed him to bo o bypacrite, Tho bhithorto porsonsl aud business union of Bowen, Tilton, and Beecher was soon torn ; Beechor allowed yar to 1o mado upon Tilton, fooling safo under tho lat- ter's devation to his wifo ; ‘Iiiton dofonded him- “golf with Dowen, by intimations that Booohor was not what be pretended to bo; and Dowen s tho ono ngalust the othor, until in timo ho got rid of both. During all thia timo Tilton know the hand that was pmiting bim; kuow that, despite Lho past, bis wifo still udmired and, revorenced her husbaud's onomy ; and yeb, for lier sake, o kopt lus lips sealed, The Woodhull fraternity got an inkling of the slory, and to them he hu- miliated himself, porforming the most degrading ofliocs, to save his wite. Tho story was at Jast printed. Plymonth Cburch nsgumod that Tiiton Lad told. tho Woodhull, and proclaimed bim n slandorer, Everywhore aud by overybody ho was donounced s o liur, knavo, aud dog, All'| this bio horo, losing atending and position every day, ond fuittoring away® tho lifo thut might have been so filled with honorable doods, At Inst, after four years of lorturo, con- tuwely, sbamo, dlsgraco, humlliation, and sorrow, tho wifo for whom he lad ondured all this abandoued him, went over to the eno- my, sud, joiuing In tho ery, donounced the huse band who bad sagrificed hig lifo for hor as a llar, forger nnd scoundrel. It wag uoy untll thus publicly denounced by tho woman ho had g0 sorved that ‘Tilton mudo tha rovelation of factn which oxplains tho four years of mysteri- ous gilence on his part, and the humiliations he Liad endurod to save the woman who, o prosont Cleyton, McOluro, et al, who failed in an attempt to violontly install Brooks as Govornor, have in- voked the prosonce of o Congresslonal Invosti- gatiug Committeo ot Little Rock, and have osused to bo brought in to them, undor oath, what_purports to bo tho *truo returns,” show- ing the voto of 1872 for Qovornor fo have boen: For £liaba Baxtor (on'Grant ticket in 1673, now s Demoerst) ..o Seinesiiine 35,008 wor dosopls Bosis (i Gfsalay’ tekid ' W8, 10W 8 Ropublicat)sessevrerssssesnes Brooks® apparent moJoriyeses seveess. 9,683 Thero is now in session at Littlo Rock n Btate Constitutional Convention which has tesolved to vacato all olective offices in Arkansas, sud to order new clactlons for tha same. Tlue, doubt- logs, disposes of tho Brooku-Daxter contest. But will not the proof adduced bofore tho Con- grossionnl Committoo, on the tostimony of Re- ‘publican witnesses, thac tho Grooloy \tiulmt. or Domocrats, oarriod Arkonsss, in 1873, by 10,000 majority, swaken suspicion, if no more, that a Democratie Logislature woa atso olected, and wrongfully doprived of oxiatencaj that the Re- publicau Logislature, scated in the Stato-Touso, was o living fraud; aud that Samuol W, Doraey (Ropublican) holds his seat in the Unlted Btatos Hemate by & title of fraud, It showld be bowne in mind that the disclosures mado before the Congressional Committoo do not coma from one set of mon laboriously un- covoring tho acts of anather sot. Thoy aro the confensions of tho very men who perpetrated tho wrong! Tho Prosldont of the Republioan Btato Seunto, for cxawplo, i8 now not a retuctant wit- neau to tho faoy that tho Bonato waa organizod with a packed Kopubllean throng, * admitted by tioket," and thut Dowogratio applioants nt the door,woro “ruled out.” “Tho Hougo wos simi- farly organized, but the Bponker of that Iouse 18 now a fugitive. Dwiing the soxslon no uingle caso of contested electlon wos hemd, in oither Dranch of tho Logisluturo, and 3r, Brooks’ poti- tion for o “truo count’ of tho votos for Gov- ernor was flung on the floor, That was tho Ro- publican Loglslatura which olected Dorsoy ; and Dorsoy, with singular blindncss, urges on tlio Inquiry to oslablish the *trmo oount " by which Drooks olatms the office of Govornar. By way of oiplanation of iho figures given ag the truo and falao votos of Arkansas, it should Do rememborod that Brookn ran behind tho Groe- 1oy tiokot and Baxtor yan ahiead of tho Grant tickot. Thorefore, aftor the roturue had beou manipulated o first time, to deprive the Arecloy- Drooks ticket of 10,000 votoy (oleoting Baxtor), it was found nooessary to go over tho roturus a gocond thno and work 1o an oxtra 3,000 (o the “gront: dolay; oat luatend of Loeping it s fixed figuro. M. Ba-" abolish thom wonld bo to corrups the laws of the- Grant-Daxter toket in ordar ta oloot tiio éholo of thnt Ho!me.l Thoso changes ;uqnlrcd gorrespond- once with dlatant county seats,. sud causod and - tho popular vota for. Prosidontial . Elootora wns not . ready to bo ofticlally - doclared nt - Little . Rock until somo wooka aftor the Grant Bleotora had, *in duo form," returuod the voto of Arkansas ns for Graat and Wilson, At tho last, whon the re- turns camo to bo officinlly doclared, it was found, to tho surpriso of the topubltean manipuintore, that tho Graoldy candidato for Cougress at Iargo, though alroady chontod out of 18,000 votes, was olooted by 2403 nud it was too lato to aller it. Tho Arkausas olection investigation attonda tho docadonco of tho Ropublican party as fittingly ae did tho Kansus oleotion Investigation attond its early and hopotul days. AND THE DEECHER P QASE. - Whan Tilton's statomont was firat made publio, 1t was forwarded to overy nowspaper, largo or omall, which received Associated Pross dia- patchos. Evon tho lttle shoots, which never got anything but abstracts of mportant docu- ‘monts,—" pony dispatehes™ in the phraseology of tho trade,—jot this in full, Tt kopt the ordi- uoiy nows from thom, and crosded almast ovorything elso ‘out of thoir columuns. Fow of them had tha nocoessary resources for printing tho whola statomeut. They gavo s columnor two of it, and issuod oxtras during tho morning com- pletihg tho story. A faw of thom got ol of it into thoir rogular oditions. Tho Burlington Hawk-Lyo bas boon oxulting over most of tho other Iown papors on tho distino- I(nn‘ of baving published tho statoment promptly and fully. Tho papors of Thuraday and Friday havo now roached us. All iell tho samo story, Tho offices havo beon bosleged by orowds clamoring for the nows. The prosses have toomed with oxtras, Tho Dos Moines Reg- {ster publishod Tilton's statemont in its dally snd -woekly oditlons of Wednosday, Buth ware lu- _stantly oxhousted. Thon an oxtra, with a ro- print of tho statoment, wna jesued. This was al8o at onco oxhanatod. In & numbor of caxos the same paper printed tho .acousation in full both.Wedneaday and ‘Thursdny moralng. When wo romember that tho rogular weokly oditions of the lafgoe popera all ocontained the story in detall, its . onormous circulation may bo -guesasd at. Probably no document of ‘similar longtl, ovon in the mont Leated polltical struggles, hins ovor boon forwarded in full toso many papers, or rupd by so many thousands within s fow hours of its first publication.. It ebows; too, that tho public take an intenso and abuormal futorest in the caso, AMr. Boechor must stand’ at tho bar of tho American peoplo. Not six men, but 40,000,000, are his fudges. flo must_plead fully and- f2itly to oach and overy polut Tilton mokes against him, or ho miust expect to bave, the verdict of the six, whatever it mey. bo, drowned in tho shout of *Guilty" | from tho wholé Euglish-spoaking raco. * THE 00UNTRY . A CO-OPERATIVE INSTITUTE, Tho luet number of the London' Agriculturay Economist contains an account of tho *Co- operative Institute™ racontly oponcd in that city. ' Tt ins boon foyndod with tho approval of tho Contral Co-oporative Board of Groat Britain, but is indepondont of it, although par- tially controlled by membors of that body., Ac- cording to its prospectus, *it Is intonded to teach more espeolally social economy, political economy, and the principtos ‘of co-oporation or mutusl solf-Lolp,” Its mémbgra have the froe usp of & roforenca nnd clioulating library, tho Inttor of whicli includos Audio’s onormous library. Thoy have the run of s rosding- room, which *ia suppliecd with papers, reviews, aud magazines, besldes chiess, checkors, domiuoos, ote. Each momber roceives a copy of tho Oo-operalive News, the organ of tho thousand co-oporative socicjios of tho British Isles. Loo- turoa nre to-be given evory fortmight. They will alternate with dobatos on soctal and politi- cal subjects, Every mouth ihere will bo a con- cert or somo similar enterlainment, Through the winter, monthly social and danzing partios will be given. All thoso priviloges are pald. for Ly the mombership foo. - Members can play bill- larda tor 6 conts & gamo, orybagatelle for 2 conts. They can buy foa, coffee, and light ro- freshmoents at cost. They ‘can attond scloot singing olagaes for 60 conts por torm, aud olasos in olocution ana political economy for $1 apioco por torm. Tho following torms of mombership arc offorod to co-oporativo roclotics ¢ 1, .£25 donation to givo membership privileges to all tho Bocletys officlals for ten yoars, 2. £6 per annum to givo momborslip privileges to the Bocloty’s oficlals, und also o supply .of Gfteon books per week, sbont half of which can bo_selectod from Mudlo's List, and tho tost from tho Instituto Libeary, Soclstios Lo poy carriage, & 3, Mombers of acclotfos in unfon with the Inslituta 10 bo admittea to all fla otbor privilges on spocially advantagoous tormis, 4. Boolotles 1o uplon with the Institute and with the Central -Co-operativo Doard to bo provided with Joo turors on payment of simplo axpenses of traveling, Life-mombership in the Inetitute costs £25 88, Annual momboralip costs, for mon, £1 3. and for women, £1. Quartesly tickets are sold at €3, 62 ana bs, Thoy can bo paid for at tho rate of 6d. a weols, In advauce, Itia evident from tho bigh prico of lifo-mombership that men of woalth aro oxpected to aid this organization, Tha fact is & bittor commontary on tho state of tmngs on this side of tho water. Deapiteall tho offorts that have beon mado in Amerlea to alle- viato tho hardshlps of thelaboror’slife and chock Cominunism by removing tho grindlug poverly thatis tho eauso of it, searcely pne rich man has boon aclively identifiod with any such plan, Tho groat concontration of wealth in Englond and the consequent grealor lelsure of tho wonlthy cinsscs partionlarly, but nob ontiroly, nocounts for the disadvantagoous com- parison, An {doa of tho work which the Tondon Qo-oporative Tustituto proposos todo may ho got from tho following progismmo, which wo tako from its prospeotus : Baturdey, July d.—Tnnugursl sdidross by Thomas Twaghes, Esq,, Q, O,; eliort adidresues by Walter Mor- rison, Esq,, J; M. Ludlow, Bad,, Hodson Pratt, Xsq,, T, Vanelitart Nenlo, Buq,, Guorgo J, Jfotyonko, Eaq.e Lloyd Joues, ¥aq,, Johu Butcher, Bsq., Edwsrd Qwen Qroening, Esq,, und othor friouts, Irecoded by o tea purty at 0510 o'clock, prompt, ‘Tucaday, July 7,—Opening locturo on Elocution by Olatles Furtado, Eaq,, M, A., with llustrutivoreadings by Misa Maeson, (of Theatro Ruyal, Munolioster), sud by Yidward Oweu Greoning, 3y, "Tueaday, July 14,~Dalate upon * Tha Rolgn of Law in Opindon," Introduced by Robert Harpor, Ksq, Weduesday, July 16,~Concert aud miscelluneous entortaduinent, Muslea) Dircctor, Btatford Trego, Esq, Tuesday, July 21,—Dobato npan - * Dovolopment.” Introducod by ¥, Veuslitart Noalo, Eaq, Tueaday, July 38.~—Locluro Ly Goorge James Hol- ouko, £8q., on *'Iho Literary Genlua of Buuyay,” Thoro'is somo obanoo that the Chieago Athe- noum, whon (¢ rids {tecl? of its (to workingmon) menningloss name sud of the atmosphore of patronoge aud kind condescension which now makos visltors thoroughly uncomfortable, may dovelop juto somothing liko the London Co- operative Institute, Ohleago, first of all oltles, hies ustalued & gourse of Buuday-aftornoon leos tures on the London plan. ,Why should wo noy Imitato this now motropolitan fden? The loo- tures, whiols aro to bo rosnmod noxt Ootobor, might bo undor its care, v o — e - NOTES AND GPINION, ‘Whatover may bo ko division of pnrties on: Btato; tickets, Iu_Ilinois, it now appears prob- ablo that tho Republicana will Lo roquired to: maot tha combined Opposition In the Congres- slonal Dlstricts, aud that the Ropublicans will whotly abandun two 'distriots (the Fifteonthi nnd. the Ninotaenth) ta contests botwoen Demacrat. and Indepondont candldatos. —Tho Macomb (McDonough County) . Eagle; while urging otraight Demooradio action in Stater and county tokets, says of tha Tenth Diatrict H0 far ‘on tho Congrossional fight 13 concerned, Demootata aro treatod half way fair they will wupnort o candidata n appoaiiion Lo tho Repubiicans, no inut- ter ‘what convontion brings him out. » o . It s, woll understood no Demoerstly candldate for Oongrens iil o put {n tho fleld, ¢i—'The Earlvillo (La%halle County) Transcript anya: We Iearn {hat no Homocratis Gongreasionat Gonven= on will Do hehi s tho Beventi 1imgis Biytriot. Tainsa on notion in the rightdirection. Now let the propor man bo nominntod by tho peopla and his clectio fs. suro, 1 Wil Gounty and_Rendall County will agros on miich & man as Mr, Buvrroll or Mr. Scoflold, of Ken~ dul, or My, 11l af Wll, Lanllo County will indorss him. Tho peoplo ara ripe for a reform movemnt.. Lot iiem unlto and ancecss fa surc, i fall. G ~Tho Frooport Bulletin hopea the Democratio: Btato Contral Committos, at tholr mosting in: Chioago, this weok, will *go slow," aud says: Bpoaking for onreelves, whila anxiots to malntaim and perpetitato tho princlploa of Demooracy, wo bo= Iove tbat, In tho presont_emergency, o nomination on thio part of Domourats would aot dotrimeatally to the futuro of the party, —Tho Bycamoro Tyrue Repullican announces that O, W. Marah will not be a caudidata for the Ropublican Congrosslonsl nomination, against Bteve Iurlbut, in the Fourth Distriot. Tho Elgin Times speaks of 8. 8. Mauw, of Elgin, na & probablo candidato for the vomination. But Stove has uct all tho ping, —A Ropublican back-psy #nd selary-grabbing Oongroseman, who s nol a caudidate for ro- oleotion, writes : Font HoorT, July 19, 1874, Qsvr. LixpsT—Mx Dran Sim: Your favor of fha 234 ult, reachiod mo here, You oro awara that I am ot a candidate, but I am nono the les grateful for your good wishoa and offora to ald in that dircction, T want the pooplo (o oloct somcbody who can nocure n farm or su oflico to each oue-of kily.supporters, and work for nothing himsolf, without stealing. ~ Yours tealy, ; D. I’ Lowe. —Tho Postmastors of tho Sixth Iilinos Dis-- trict aro on tho point of nominating Congross-- mon- John B. Hawley, and tho Rock Island: Union (Ropublican) s on the point of n bolt.. Tho Peorin Transeript (Ropublican) seya Tho {ifion s at porfoot Nborly to oppono Mr. Ham- Toy'a nominntion Witk Al ita. DOVeE, bLIT b s Homis- wated after n fair contoat, that popor 18 morally bound 10 yleld him n support, If it wants Lo assume tho. anomalous position of an ¥ Iudepeudent,” it can Qo 80, but it ean Liave no ¢laim to be considered A Ropub- Ucan nowspaper if it allows its privato griofs to fuflu-- enca (ta publlo atfon. Tho Tostmastoraof tho Boventh Lows Dis- triot:opposo tho renomination of Congrossman Kaeton, who bog eatried tho Ropublican primu- rles in spito of thom, and the Des Moines Regis-- ter (Postmastor) is on the point of a bolt. Bus. thoro s no Peorin Transeript ln Tows to crack the whip over tho Dos Moiuey Register, ~Iu tho Fourth Towa District a oumber of Re-- publican oditory (nok Postmasters) have bolted: tho nomination of Congressman Pratt. We: quoto ; x Pratth henshinonand hirclings in the Conventior yenterdsy outrayed doconcy und thotights of delog: ous In sucl a flsgrant munnor tual thoy ean hnve claling whatever on tho minority,—Milchett County; e Pratt® Unitod Btatea Maralial and tho big snd Uitlo- Postmastors id 1t sud the peoply of tho Fourth Qon-. gresalonul District will ropudiato tho nctlon of thix socond nomiustion of Mr. Prutt, or wo mistake thelr tempor,—New Hamaton Couricr. ‘Wiitlo tho Titnes is thoroughly Republican in prine ciplo, it will not follow any mun, convention or measure, through “thick and thin,” “right or rong, " for wo lellova that tho only wiy to. maintain the Bupromacy of tho Rapublican party flt to weed out with unsparing laud all corrupt ochommea and to with- hold support from wnworlhy candidates,~Cresco., Limes, o "Tho Watorloo Courier, whilo relugtantly sup=- porting Pratt, says I Mr, Pratt's volo ia Nht it w4 To the fault of the moa profemsiug fo bo, par excdlout, by frlends, A eaterio of gentlomen editiug sundry howse ‘popers and bolding cortxdu-Powt-Ollices have twen, and, ara now, blatuntly talking ubidut the ** desth” of gen~ tlemen who voled nguluat Mr. Pratt fu tae Convontiont That Lind of tulk comes With Yery bad_ grace, sud ia not calculated to Incriago tho Repiblicsn voto | “—The Minnoapoli Tribuna publishos & lottor which explalus moro than a local gtate of fealing, Speaking of Congressman Dunuell's renomines tion, tho writer says: Tlo pooplo aranot golng to apond a_great dos e o iy NUEti g Chan Oigautsod oo of oI, ‘holders u tho catous or couvention 3 but look out for Novombor, Tho peoplo aro fust loslug faitls fn pare ties, espevially whion thoy seom ta bie ruu fn the inter- grlwof a cortaln few for tho sukeof tuoloavos and ca, And tho St, Paul Press, quoting from editorink and othor oxprossions of opinton in Dunnoll's. district, says : - The £'rcay doea not feel disposod at presont to com-- mout on {hese’ vivlent outbre:ks of dlsnitection with which Mr. Dunuell's nomination baa beon gracted by sovoral Republienn nowspapers {n that district; but wo rozord thow simply a3 corroborativa proofa’ that tho predictions of thn Press ne to probablo canees qQuonicos of that gigautic Llunder woro not unfounded, . ~~Wo want honost men in Congreas—nien who . will represout the peoplo—men who will rocog- nizo tho fact that thoy ato tho sorvants of thio pno{:\u. and men who practieally kuow notbing of tho trioks aud corruptionn af profossioual, mourlng, unserupulous politiciaus.— Toledd: lade. —T'ho chief complaint of the enlary-grab neala~ wags sgaluut tho_Clovernmont, thirky yeara ugo, is, thab it wan docidodly vulgar. Juut al what time the vulgarity cropped out. old Zach Chan- dlor's address doea not state, . . . It i8 tiuo that thore wero fow ‘investigations,” no salary-grub stoals, or Sanborn rangalities, o Cr lobilior . robbarics, or Districk frands. Lhe paoplo, thurky yoars'ago, wora not refiued enough for these thingn, Thero iy littlo doubt that the salary-grab scalawaizs have grad- nated {n thig kind of roflnomeut. 1t iy not vory popular, and peopla are not gonoraily eatisfiod with the comparison instituted by the prabbers. Thoy prefar o little of tho vulgarity of the olden timo to tho eliowy corruption of tho prosont Ad- minstration.—Sl P'aul Dispatch. —The people Lave fised their eyes upon those who comumizted a deed [tho ralarv-grab] aliko dishonest aud cowardly—dishouest, a8 nn almost uuiversal public vordict long since do- cided; cowardly, beenugo, bnving been porpes trated in the closing hours of tho Forty-socoud Congress, twenty mouths would intervene bo- ‘for batrayedl cauutituoncies could umito the of- fouders who might dare to confrout them ns candidaten for tho Yorty-funrth Congress, For thewo, tho hour of relribution las come.— Juneau ( Wis.) Democral, 5 —Tweed is pot tho only ““old gentloman " who *lived ju o big hause™ ihat got his monoy dis- honestls, Thore are men in high placos 1 the *bly housen ™ avout Wushington that would to- day Do keeping compuny with ‘I'wood m prigon di thoy gas hatf tholr deserts, and the story ia not all told yot.—Monmouth (Jil.) Revicro, —a corrupt Radiend purty, whose Congross was gnilty of tho **Credit Mebilior™ rabbery, and whoso membor of Cougrosu and candidito for ro-olactiou fun thiu distriet will aowas hofors the lmnplu with a povtion of the salarv-grab (which ho ohould have paid into the Tioasury) in i, pookot ; thocoxrupt Radicalruto, with wif of “eq robbories anderimes, witl ho hroughit to Judgn: er:, and no man oan stand bofovo the peopla ay 1ta, vindieation,—Jonpsboro (1) Gazitle,” . —Tha dloging appesl of tho rudress put forth by tho Congrossional ‘Rtopublioan Gomumiriee, thay Republivuns be sont 1o Cougross Ty Daimociats, docs nob ontiraly plonsa tha Losion Advertiser, Ttwnyws That {s very woll, Day: thero aro hundreds of thousands af Ropublicuta scattorod all ovor tha Iand who aro tive.l of thn. old party jupslory, and, i€ thoy cannop havae honont mon to voto for, will answer all sach. ulioitution fu the troo Boviptuva. fashion s * fw, Py woryunt o dog, that.ho shauld do thia lllmfl?‘ 10 gl ~—~L& wauld give groat eat{afaction tn tho foos of corruption” everywhera 1f Cton, Farnswoith, of 1lmais, wanld conkont to run for Uongross in his dlstziol, Tho Goneral in o tried man, aud Iis undoubted cournzo whila in Congross in attacking all nehomes whinh wavored of plinder won for him houts of friends, o was ona of tha tow Republioans fu the Forty-second Cone grosa who always davod apeak thoir nunds, and Who bad not ouly abuolutaly no fear of Butler, of Masunchusetty, but looked upon the lutsed and upon his dovious ways with }uuz oontompt, Yise dintriet in which Qon, Farusworth rosides is, on tho basl of tho lnst Congressional vote, oue of tho very strougost !Iu;mb‘fwnn dlatriots In tho country; ?'et in_ tho provout stata of publia fooling, and with such & well-known wan as Gen, Yarnsworth as tho opposition candidate, the Republican nomince would hava ne ety of an oloction,—Dulroit Freo Presa, of