Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 12, 1874, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. MATRA OF SUNACRITTION (PAYADLY IN A""flfll’: Daily, by matl,, Bunday, W enkly Wookly Partr ol a yearat the tmo rate, To provent delay and mistakes, bo sure and xiva Post Qcunddres in ll, including Btate and Countr. Ientt tanicws may bo mada olthor by draft, ozpiross, Poat Ottive order, or 1 rogistored lottors, a our risks TEe TO CUTY SUIRCRIDERS, i, Sundny otcoptod 2 conte por weok. 2::’:;.':‘:‘:‘;::5, Bunday ineluded, 7 conta yoe wook. Addion It TRIBUNE COMPANY, Coruer Madison and Dearborn-ats,. Ultcago, Il Made ACADFMY OF MUBIB—Hnmnd-lmnt.lml'wnn A fron and Monros, Kngagomont o1 Schumann's Trausat~ Iantio Novolty Company. Aftornoon and evening. HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolnh streot, between Clark and LaSallo, ‘rno Uroat Adeipht Uompany. Biia- strolay, Faroo, and Varlaty, Aftornoon and evening, ®XPOSITION BUILDING-Lakeshore, foot of Adams atreat. ** t'arls by Moonllght.” Altornoon and ovoning. ——reee OLLROY OF PHARMACY,—Thore will e R Cltes oo Hey et 0 o' (o L) 10 ix Seromun (i comunciion with tho Ohen '&E:"m‘\‘«l of th. shebine and Sutgoonn) a1 L AL, Socrotary. BUSINESS NOTICES. NVESTED IN STOCKS AND GOLD i..:‘,‘." s T Bt for varticulars, TUM- 3111 D1 ankers, 8 Wallst,. Now York, A GOMPLETE: STOOK O &CU., ¥ TUE VERY BEST aaantcs, fold.ginssan, vio., D ot ot “tll'll;.j'i:.\wlrli Siro of Ham corrior of WWasbington: "Tlhe Chicaga Tiibune, bo found 99 State. Wednesday Morning, August 13, 1874, Mouiton's statemont may not bo a big thing, after all. To avoid disappoiutmont, it may be swoll to moderato groat expeotations—ospoclally pinen thate is no way of getting at tho truth, Thindisgusting Beccher acandal hae so shocked b moral sonse of the community that well-con- ducted ebildren do not nek to seo tho morning papor until aftor their parents have finished. i A -y Argumontsin the railroad-injunction suit pend- ing boforo tho Wisconsin Supreme Court closed soutorday, and the cage was taken undoer adviso~ ment, Not to vonture nroputation for prophecy on tho result, it mny safely bosald tlnt if the Court rofuses to issuo tho injunction it will bo for want of juriediction. A good indorsoment of the Citlzone’ Associa~ tion is furnished by the election to the Presi- doney of Mr, Frankiin MacVeagh, a business man pf scholarly attainments. 1f common fame has not been too kind to Mr. MacVengh, he will not allow Lis namo to bo used by the Association s moment longer than he can approve its work- fnge. — e Marshal Bazaino hns escaped from the Istandof Bt. Marguorite, off Marsoilles, and socured safo carringo to Italy. o it goos with the Btato prisoucrs of tho Frouch Government. Firet it wns Rochefort; now it is Bazaino ; and, if thero wero any moro to got away, we sliould expoect to hear of them within twelve months, It would bave been bottor, all thinga considered, if no political prosecutions had beon attempted under the new regime. An indignation meeting of colored people in Baltimore who have beon dofrnuded by the or~ ganized swindle known a8 the Froedman's Bank was beld yestordny. Owing to s limited ac- quuintance with tho vocabulary of polit terms, the spokesmen of the meeting were not able to vxpress their sentiments in elegant phrases, but they wero porspicuous onough. Nobody will rupposo Lhat they cherish sentimeuts of venera~ tion and love for the Freedman's institution and its mnvagors, Mr. Beocher's friende ought to understand that tho caso againgt him cannot be compro- imised, yet the advices from New York indicato Ihat an attompt at somothing of tho kind is now vecupying tho attention of the Committeo to the sxclusion of overything else. The abrupt close of the investigation would be a confossion. As woll attempt to roconello truth and falsehood as Titon's statement with Mr. Beochor's, Tilton will certainly not bo content with any settlemon which convicts him of perjury. Tublic opinion in New York has beon much ai¥ectod by rocent developments in tho Boeoher Inveatigation, Frenzied attacks upon Tillon's caso, it Is now admitted, are misdirected, and attontion is given solely to tho character of tho mun who is oun tiial. Persons of a chantablo disposition are puzzling themselves for o satis- factory explanation of tho delay in giving ont Moulton’s statement, but thus far withont notuble succoss. On tho suppoeition that itis favorable to Mr. Beecher, its suppression fora ningle day 18 absolutoly inexplicablo. S — The Hon. doseph Ledlie has gone back six yoats for a basis of ropresontation in the 0'Conor Conventlon, called to meet in 8pringfiold Aug, £9. This is a virtual admission that the Dom- ocratie party in Ilinols censed to oxist when the voto for Horatio Soymour was cnst, yot no man more stoutly proclains its vitality than the Hon. Jo himself. We ace no way out of his presont dilemma, 1T tho party has been alive all theso years it ought certninly to have cast soma rep- resentutivo voto since 1868; if it is dead, Mr. Lodlio is doing au nccursed work in moving its bones. —_— A fire-ordinance drafled by Mr, A. O, Ducat and M, T, Baumann was presented ton committee of the Couneil yesterday. It was not considerad for want of o quorum. Mr. Ducat bas the ropu- tation of an excollont Insurance agont, and Mr, Buumann is a woll-known archuteet, Their com- * biued work ought to be eminontly entiefactory, Wo givo the text of the ordinance in suother purt of thia paper, aud resorve commount on it for a future accanton. We aroonly echoiug publio ¢ontimont in demanding prompt sction of some kind by the Common Council, Though the fire of IInIy 14 [u some wooks old, yat it has not been forgotton by tho insurance companies or tho poo- plo, Only tho Lody of law-mukora which was chosen to perform public dutios lacks an appro- cintion of tho value of time, and the partioular noed of prompt action on thiy question, Tho Chicago produce murkots wore generally nlow yostorday, and soveral of them tended downards, Mess pork was tame, 500 por bri Jowor on cash, at §23.02)@28.76; and firmer on sollor the year, at $10.02/5@16.06. Lard wag nomiually 260 por 100 Ibs Jower on cash, atb §11.02}¢@14.75 ; and firm on seller tho year, at® £10.50, Ments were quict nud steady, at 8lga fur shouldors, 113{0 for short ribs, 113c for #hort oleur, and 184(@13%{c for sweot-picklod sy, Highwines wore active snd firm at 070 per gullon. Lako froights were in fair re- quost and Urm, at 2% for corn to Buffalo, Flour was quiot and unchanged. Wheat was dull and 3o lowor, closing at $1.003¢ soller tho month, and $1.003¢ sollor Boptombor. Corn was quiot and 3fo lower, closing at G6o cash, and 64%o nollor Beptember. Oats woro notive and onslor, closing at 40340 cash, and 373{c soll- er tho month. Rye was guict and firmer, at f78c. ‘Barley wa in fair demnnd, aud stronger, closing at $1.02)¢ ensh, and §1.02 sollor Bep- tembor. On Saturday ovening lnst thero was in storo In this city 920,086 bu whent, 1,010,676 bu corn, 179,041 bu oats, 20,140 bu ryo, and 11,840 bu barley, Iogs wero activo nnd sold at €56.75 @150 for inforior to oxtra. Cattle wero in good demand at unchanged prices. Sheop woro quiot and stondy. A sorlous collislon botwoon colored and whito meon at Austin, Mius,, ia roported this morning. Tho romoto causo of it seoms to bo tho occontrio conduct of s cortain Dr. 8mith, who shotat a oolored gentleman and accidentally killed a col- orod child. The Doctor oxplaing the whole caso with oxprosslons of poignant regrot. ITe makoa it porfoctly olosr that the colored. man bad insultod him, and - leaves the world to infor that Nis obvious duty under tho elreumstances was to shoot * tho d—d nigger " on the spot, Tho colored peoplo in Austin, strangely enough, do not nccopt this futorprota~ tion of the facts, They caught and were about to hang Bmith, but wero induced to surronder him on condition that ho shiould bo held in con- finomens. A promise to this offcot was passod, but - it was immodiately broken ; Smith was aliowed to leave for Memphis, and honce, tho war. 'Tho nogroes throaten to burn the town If Bmith is not brought back, tho whites bhave reaisted, somo skirmisheshave takon placo, many lives have boen lost, both sides aro oxpecting roinforcoments, and gotho situntion wns. at Inst accoimnts, For onco tho reports favor tho color- od men. Dr. Smith cortainly onght not to live again a8 tho principal actor in so groat an allair, Wo havo alroady commented on the tromen- dous ronction that has shown itself in sovoral Statos of Iato sgainst the Ropublienn porty. Tenucsgoe, with its 8,000 majority for Girooloy in 1873, and ita 60,000. anti-Republican mojority in 1874, f8 not an isolnted coso. Kentucky gavo Grooloy 12,000 majorits, and has just boon car- ried by the Opposition with 76,000 votos to spare. We append the votes of severnl counties for 1874, 03 typos of this sweeping chango: OLERIL OOURT APPEALS, PRCATDENT, 74, 1872, Tnde. Greeley. Grant, 683 9810 6u16 1,208 067 1,053 G 125 't PITSRS 70 B K 6@ 106k BT Gl 113 1,010 89 c08 '030 I 1,7 1018 1 00 1,0 57 068 666 360 443 613 724 [ETO 7] 25 on BT 81 [T I 1Y TS BT ) 648 20 1,890 Tho - anti-Domocratic candidate for Olerk of . tho Court of Apponls this year, thouglh not regu- larly. nominated by the Republicans, received their full support. Tho issno is not encour- aging for them, Thoy will evidontly have plonty of leisure, after November, 1876, to carry out that ®roform inside the party ¥ of which wo have heard so much and have soon go little. Binco tho main fight in Kentneky docs not como until November, the magnitude of the vote at this merely proliminary election is all the moro romarkablo—and significant. THE CITY-TAX DECISION. Judge Wallaco yestorday refused to give judgment againgt tho delinquant tax-payers whio filed objections to the city tax-lovy. Wo publish bis opinion this morning, The trouble is too much logislation, and legislation of n caro~ less, rockloss unture. The State of Illinoia has o systom of taxation and collection for Stats and county which might have been cousidered antiquated fivo conturies ago. 'That systom boing wholly inoficiont for tho purposes of n largo city, it was attompted early in 1878 to havo a special rovenne system for cities. Tho majority of an ordinary Legislature in Illinois rogard the Btalo system of taxatton with as much reveronce and respoct as thoy do the Obristlan system of roligion; honco thoy looked upon this special Revenue law 88 proposing & rank lhceresy. Unfore tunatoly thoro wes not in the Legislature, out of tho 28 Benators and Ropresontatives from this county, a single momber who had the lonst idoa of the reveuno syslem of the State, or of that desired by the city, sud, when Bill No. 800 was prosented, not ono of them could underatand it, or point ont what it wns intended for. Tho Logislntive Committoes oxamined tho bill, and, while thoy had adisposition to oblige Chicago, thoy wore opposod to anything that might inter- foro with or undermine tho State Revenuo law Ho they patched the bill up at every point; and, instead of malking an entircly indopendent aya- tom of taxation for city purposes, they converted Bill No. 800 into a supplemental act, or an ad- dendum to the State Roveuue Inw. All'things not expressed in Bill 00 wero to be shaped and governed by the Genoral Rovonue law, Undor these circumstances it {8 not strange that, whon Judge Wallace was called upon to ou- forco proceedings against delinquents under Bill No, 800, e found that bill and tho genoral law 80 completoly mixed up, and yot so complotely incousistent, that neither oue nor the other, so 1ar as tho onforced collection of city taxes was concorned, could be relied upon, As all tho pro- ceedings of tho oity autliorities were under Bill No. 800, and this bill had been made subordivate to the gonoral law with which it was wholly in- cousistent, Judge Wallace was compelled to suse tain tho objections and rofuse the judgment asked for by tho city. The result of this in that the porson who hiave filad objastions to the tax- levy ascape poyment of taxos for tho prokont ; shonld this deaision be sustained by the Bupremo Court, theu thero will have to bo a rosssess- mont in 1876 for theso tuxes. The snle of tho proporty on tho dolinquont tax list will take plnoe Aug. 24, Tho injury to tho clty, however, consists In o fuot thot, if this docislon be suetained on appoal, the purchasers of proporty a the tax sule oan novor ubiuln Litle nor have & fixod lien, An a consequencothore will be 1o pur- chagers at tho tax sele, and tha proporty will bLave to be bid in by thae city. It 1a to e hiopod that thera will bo some effort mado at tho olection thia fall to choose Benators and Ropresontatives to the Logislature from this county who will bave soma knowledge and in- formation of tho soveral systoms of rovenue, and of tho wants and neccesitios of largo cities mthe way of collocting rovenue. Wo want less opiulation, and we want logislation so inteligont and dirockat loast that therowitl bo twokoctiona inhsrmony with each othor. Inthomenntimetho City I'rensury and the oity erodit, in addition to all their othor troubles, will huve to bour the losscs resulting from tho broak-down of Bill No. 800, ey —— BUSINESS BINCE THE PANIO, Ouoof tho most marked offeotss of the panta in the country haa boon the romarkablo decroaso in tho consumption of forelgn goods, Accords ing to the last roturns of the Buronu of Statls- ties, tha imports for tho ton months onding Aprll 80, rs compared with the anmo ton months the yoar Loforo, are as follows—{ho yaluation in gold: 1873-4, 1873-3, $469,700,670 538,006,001 o 25,804,607 18,660,508 Thua the imports of morohandiso are §08,~ 237,322 loss for tho ton months ending April, 1874, than for thoe corrosponding montha ending April, 1873, 'The imports of spoclo on the other band aro §6,074,189 Inrgor, loaving tho reduction 201,208,033, Thoro woro in warchonse on April 80, 1878, goods valuod at 877,040,670 5 on April 80, 1874, §08,476,074, Thoso figuros reprosont tho amount of importod goods, not the valuos consumod. .To obtaln this wo must remomber that there woro in warchouse on April 80, 1878, Imported goods to tho valuo of 377,046,670, On April 80, 1874, the goods in warchouso were val- ued at £68,475,074. It thus appears thov tho smouut of imports consumed in the ton months onding April 80, 1874, was 488,040,284, while for the ton months ending 1873 it was $698,082,008, Fully £100,000,000, thorofore, rop- sont tho amount of cconomy in imports alono consoquont on the panio.” . ‘ Our oxporta for the ssino period woro : : g 18734, 1872.3, S$4T0,716,110 - $420,705,311 13,683,281 13,418,200 Total morchandlso, .. $103,468,001 $434,189,520 Fho export of spocio, domostio and ‘foroign, was §44,184,607 for 1878-4, nnd $78,870,420 tor 1872-8, moking tho' fotal oxports in tho one in- stanco £537,063,658, and in the ‘other $507,563,~ 040, | Those figures show that we have exported in bpecio and goods $80,000,012 moro during tho ton months eonding April, 1874, than during tho ten. months onding April, 1873, The Now York Datly Bulletin thinka that thoso figurea are an evidenco of economy on the part. of thio American peoplo, Weo wish we could look Domestle morchandiao, Forelgn morchandiso, -upon it in the same light. To us thoy are evi- denca ‘raller of poverty. We imported $100,~ 000,000 Zess, simply bocanse wo hed nothing to glvo In exchango for that $100,000,000 worth ot goods: And, if wo oxported more by over £80,000,000, whilo our importationa not only did not incronse but docrensed, it is bocanso wo have been largoly fiu dobt to foreign countrics and had to pay it In exports. On neither fact have Wo any ronson-to congratulato oursolves, GETTING OFF THE TRACK, A rumor gots afloat that the County Commis- sionery have boen bribed to purchaso alot for Tospital purposes from one Matthows ; tho Com- missionors evontuslly purchase a Iotof a man named Baldwin ; then Matthows naturally finds fault with his sgont Poriolat and moro dark hints of briborics aro eet afloat; then Matthows tells wrong storics about Periolat, and Poriolat tells wrong stories about Matthews; thon the report- ersmix {n and intorviow overybody, and tell all kiinds of storioa; thon Matthows says Mr. Hosing wig bribed ; then the Times calls Hesing'n liar and a thiof ; having done this, it. gots somebody olso to got out o warrant for Hosing #0 that ho may not damage anybody; thon it sonds & man round to Hosing to sk him it ho is & liar and a thief; then Mr. Hosiug, boil- ing over, bounces the roporter into a gutter for asking such an impolite question. Thus stauds the great County Commissionors' Imbroglio ot present. Tho Zimes offico is” boiling, Mr. Hesing i boiling. The Staals-Zeitung of- fico {8 boiling. Every one is boiling, Even the weathor {8 bLoiling, and doge aro run- ning mad, ond eoda-fountaing aro burst- ing. Against all this we protest. Tho case ngaingt the Commissionors has gono off on a plde-track., There is danger that the main fesuo may be overlooked. 'Tho Commis- sioners moy be dolighted thoreat. Nr. Heslug's little unplensantnoss with the Zimes oflicois o puroly personal matter,—a neighborhood quar« rol, Lot thom have it out. Incidentally, Mr, Hesing moy be of somo mervico to the community by demonstrating to the young blackguards of the Zimes offico thnt thoy will somotimes bo held accountablo for their bogus interviows and slushy vilifications, 1If he tenchos thom to dodgo into alloys and bBy-ways, and hide in tho shadow of buildings, the community will bo benofited in tho proportion that their fenr keopa them out of docont people’s way. But this {a not the main question, and wo warn the people not to run off aftor this mde-show, The roal question at issuo is tho chorgo of bribory against tho County Commissionars, which tho Zimes has sought to obsoure, Tho distinet point which necds clearing up is why the County Commissioners paid Col, Cushman $145,000 for a lob which Baldwin had offored them for $130,000, and which Cushmon pur- chased at that price (paying only $116,000 in cash) only an hour before he sold to the Board, There is groat dangor that this mnrgin of $16,000 iy bo lost sightof in tho dust kicked up in the serimmago botween Mr. Hesing and Mr. Btoroy. Tho Times is printing a vast amount of ill-written and ungrammatical stuff about the Matthows lot, which was not purchnsod, and Mr. Hesing {8 thrashing Times roportors whorovor ho can find them, for misrepresouting him. Moeautimo nobody goes to the bottom of the af- fair pointed out in Tne TrmuNe two months ngo,~tho suspicious purchnse of the Daldwin properly from Cushman. —e HOPE FOR LOUISIANA, Thero i8 kopo for the Btuto of sorrow. Do- epito Fedoral bayonets and suborned Federal Judges, despito Piuckbacl, and Packard, and Kellogg, and Cnsoy, despite fraudulont dobts of milllons of dolinre, and dospite usurpation and anareby, the neople are waking and working, In unlon lies thoir only hope. With the Opposition tord asunder by factions strifo, tho Ropublio- any, with their control of registration and oleo- tion, could easily triumph, With s harmonious Opposition, that trlumph loses its cortaiuty. Tt may oven bo turnod futo & Wutarloo of dofeat. ‘Thora is now a prospect of harmony, The Dem- ooratio Btato Committeo called & Convontion at Now Orleans, Tho Democratio party Is divided Into country and oty factions. 'I'ie formor took alarm. Tts leadors, headed by Gov. McEnory, protented agninat a session in Now Orleans, and urged tho issnsnco of & call to ull houost oiti- zenw, irrespective of party, to moot in convon- tion at somo point outside that city, Tho Now Orleans Committeo of Beventy, an organizee tlon on the plun of the New York Commiltoo of equal numbors, Indorsod McEnory's muanifcato by & majority of 40, “The Democratio cull was wubsoquontly revoked. It has now been decided to hold the Anti-Ropublican Convention at Iia- ton Rougo ou tho 34th of August. Tho nddress convoklig it appeala to ** all Conservative voters, without rogard to past poltleal afilintions, to unito on tho olootion of dolegntes.” ‘¢ Romombor ontrhged and wronged Loufsiann 18 to bo tho battle-ory of tho campaign. Natlon- a1 polltics are to bo aubordinated to State Issues. ‘The ouo question will bo tho oloction of honest mon, Thoro aooms to Lo but little opposition to this programme. ‘Tho extromo spirits among the “Whito Loagnors” ara trying to fnsnro nogro domiuation with rosulting knavery by gotting up & sido-show for Bopt, 1, but tholr efforts aro not Loartlly secondod. Somo of theso Longuors aro bolioved to bo in Radical pry. Thoy are boing uaed to split tho anti-Rad- fonl voto, If they can bo checkmated, the nnfon of tho Congorvativo—to wit, tho honost—party will bo complote. An attompt hiag boon made to heal the broach {n the Republican party by plac- Ing roprosontativos of hoth tho Packard nnd tho Pinchbnok olans on tho Btato iicket, but tho fight botweon tho ohlofa waxes hottor than ovor. The mildoet term which Pinchback's organ ap- plies to tho frionds of Packard Is **Thugs,” and Packard’s journal roplies in kind. Tho rogues bave fallon out, and the honest mon may got thoir duos. e — OUR WESTMINSBTER ABBEY, ©Our honorod dead nro seattored over the conn- try. Boldiors and statosmon and authors lic un- dor unfinishod monuments from tho Atlantio ‘to tho Paciflo, from tho Lakes to the Gult. Thero is no ono spot whare the dust of horoca is gath- ored togothor. In a word, wo. bavo no Wout- minater Abboy. No great Amorican could ocho Nelson's cry, as -hiaship stoered Into tho thick of thio fight at Trafalgar: A Poorago or West- minator Abboy!” Pocrage wo bave not, though the ‘Prosidoncy may woll roplace it. A West- minstor Abbey wo have not, and have nothing to ropiace i, Why should wo not have somothing of the sort at Washington? Btate pride would not long stand In the way. Xllinols was bLound to bury Douglas, She bas bullt tho foundation of a monument over his grave. Thoro the work hos stopped. Qur monument to Lincoln will probably bo ‘finlehed, thanks to his martyr-like death and the deop-folt reverenco it excited. But in’ gonoral lowly graves mark tho places where our grent mon reat, The man who would visit their tombs to draw inspiration from the presence of all that fs loft of Amorica’as horoos must wandor through, comoterios ecrowded with common cadavors. There is no concontration of honored sopulehros ; no placo whers tho blood can thrill with tho sight of long aisles crowded with tho marble offigles of those who have desorved well of (their country; no Pantheon; no Bnnta COroce; no Wontminster Abby. It is not sonti- moutality that calls for such a placo. It is roason. A grove among a nation’s honored dond js o legitimato object of ambi- tiun; cnlonlated to -stir tho blood for noblo'deeds. Pictaro a lofty aislo studded with tho tombs of Washington, and Jofferson, and the Adamses, and Jackson, and Wobstor, nnd Clay, and Lincoln, and Sumnor, and Irving, and Hawthorne, and then imagine, if you can, the thrill of patriotic inspiration that tho man who wandered over tho marble floor would feol.” Our blessed lnck of & State Ohurch would prevont our having stich a thing built for us by a sect. It is far bottor that wo should build it for our- gelves. It might bo used for the service of alt donominations, or it might not bo dovoted toany roliglons services othor than those common to funoral corsmoninls. If wo are over to have such o placo, it should bo a splendid building, solid in brick, and stone, and bronze, aud worthy the uses intended for it. The Governmont and tho tax-payors seom just now to be tho two partios into which the South- orn poople are divided. It has boen often said that Governmont is anecossary ovil. This is the character of the institution, somosny, even at its best. In the Bouthorn States, however, Gav- ernmont ia fast becoming an unmixed, a8 woll s & necessary, ovil. Tho Govornment of the Southern Btates, made up for tho most part of carpot-baggors, are arrayed againet thoproporty- owners, The Property-ownors are arrayed againsttho Government. Rulers and tax-pay- ors, or the dovourers and. the devourod,—such arothe two gront classes into which South- ern socioty is boing differontiated. Omno of the Inst triumphs of the carpot-baggors was in Floride. Tho TFloride carpot-baggers issued bonds to thoe oxtent of amillion or 8o, , Thoy wanted, they claimed, to raise money to meet tho deficioncy in tho expenacs necossary to carry on the Btato Government. Bofore the War, the money raised in Florlda by taxation wae oniy ong-fhird of what it is now, and that third was ‘found suficiont to run tho Government, Tiadical, carpot-bag, loyal Republican rula i & grent luxury, A Stato must surrender its all to obtain it. Tax-payors must consent to be bled to death In ordor to purohago it Tonco, pros- pority, order, security, Justice, oivilization al- moat, must bo given in oxclnnge for it. It is not to bo woudored at, then, that Florids, which is blossed with Joyal, Republican, earpet-bag ruto, should pey four or five imos a8 much for gov- ommentnl oxponses as it did before the War, Tho million bouds voted was in addition to four millions more of railrord bonds for which tho Stato obtained just about s much consider- ation as it {s likely to obtaln for the Inst million, —nothing at all. The four million bonds bave boon fssued, but nota singlo milo of road has been built in return. Floridn has & carpot-bag Bupremo Court, just as Bouth Carolina has a carpot-bag Governor. Of course, whon thebend question was brought before that Court, it held the bonds to hnvo boon constitutionally Issued. The Court held a special sossion for that pur- poso,—au oxtraordinury session, ono not pro- vided for atall by the Couslitution. It is re- markablo that tho Court should have beon baro- facod enough to maintuin tho legality of those bonds, considering that somo months bofore Judgo Fraxer, of tho Uniled Btates Cowt, had decided ndverscly to thom. Judgo Fraser is o Ropublioan, but not a carpet-buggor. Mo thought it vory olear that tha jsauc of the bonds way prohibited by the Floridn Constitution, This did not suit the loyal carpot-boggers, Thoy accordingly mudo up xuother caso, and had the quostion argued beforo u court supposed to bo wmora friendly to their interests, ‘They succooil- od to thoir henrts’ coutont. Judge Nandall went countor to tho United Btaton Judgoe in the most loyal, Ropublican, carpet-bag way. Littlofield Is tho mun who represents the holders of Flovida Londw, and & wily man ho s, He is roprosonted s having reduced bribery to ono of tho fine arte, ITe would not offer 4o muoh wonoy to the Chiof Justico for o fuvorablo dooision. Iint tho Chlef Justico ownod a houso, and Littleflold iy said to have purclmked it av protty ronnd fig- uros, It ¢ wuid that ho approached Judge Fraser, tho United Btates Judgo, in this way: Frasor owned o honso in JuoksonWhlo, Littlo- fiold offerad him & vory high prive}for it ; but the bonest Judgo caw through tho thin disguise, and SDAY, AUGHET 19, 1874, bado Batango. It s to bo rogrotted that ho suc- cooded any botter with tho Btate Judges, The cano of tho Florida bonds is ono moro link in the chinin of praof that tho country must do some- thing for the South, Birds of tho air havo nests, and so have Re- publican jofMolnla of Loulelana, and tho Inttor are ncoustomod to lino them oven moro com- fortably than moat birds of proy. But, _even with these industrial procautions, tho lattor somotimos find thoy have not whero to lay tholr honds, Tho parish officers of Natohltoches wore quictly roquostod to losvo the parish, and bied thom by untrod patha to Arkansns in the doad of night. Passing tho Btato lino by.forcod marches, thoy restod at'the firat homso they came to, whore food was hospitably placed be- foro -them, During tho progress of tho meal, it lonkod out what thoy wore. With a drawl aud n grin, the host advised thom to got out of Arkansas aa enrly as convonient, The woary travolors Inquirod tho roason for this advico. Tho hospitablo Arkanssn roplied that the people of his Stato wore preparing & Consti- tutlon for the hanging of such thioves and ras- cals, and might, porbaps, practice on tho Lonis- {aun spocimens by way of gotting tholr hand in. ‘Whoroupon thoe ox-ofticiala roso sa one man, and rotracod their stops with n rapldity quito aston- ishing -in weary, travol-worn politicians, In the rolo of Arknnsna -travolors thoy oxhibited a unanimity of fecling and action in contrast with thocourso of most officials out of n situation, It would bo Just a8 wall for othor.Btates adjolning to koop thin political disoaso confined as much’ a8 posoiblo to Louisiana, e T Nr. Storoy beiug afrald to meet A, O, Hesing in porson, dispatclied the amallost reporter on tho stafl to ropresent him. Thore aro some lin- goring idona of conslstoncy romaining in thisold sinuer's mind after ail. Tho rosults of tho “in~ torview” only ndd to tho dlunpgnlmmunt that Mr. Btoroy omployod a pm:g, and that Mr, Hoa- ing was forcod to bogin at the wrong end of the mies eulnbll!hmfln{ NOTES AND OPINION, At thia timo lawyers atand a poor shovw, in the country districts of Illinois, for either Congress or tho Legiulature, The Danville Times ex- pressos it in this sontonco:® Tho_provailing. ;;m,gmum againat gontlemon who mako tho practico of tho Iaw thelr busiucss must not be confrontod I! you would auccocd at the polls. ™ —Tho Nowton (Jasper. County, Ill) Press | wants tho 26th of August Convention to nomis nato a straight Democratio tickot, and sayss. - I¢ but for no othor purposs than to got rid of boltors and disorganizers, a Stato ticket should bo nominated, aind, with a sound platform, wo aro confidont it s aure of success. - Tt s nonsense for ua to talk of co-oporat~ ing with the Indopendents. Exporionce hos taught us that it i inexpodiont and aufcida! for the Demoaracy t0 adopt another Greeloy courwo. o —Tho Ottawa Freo Trader's advico: If Gon, Richardson la in tavor of a papor-monay, Te pudiation platform, 1iko that adopted in Tiinn fn. Btead of golng tuto a Domocratio convention with 1t wa . Liopo ho il bo Loncat nnd manly about i at once, and call a canvention of the followers of O, I Morton and Jon A, Logan, and put tho thing thiough under au honoat isme and with a lagitimato parentago, —Reobort Rankin (Ropublican) doolines the Indepondent Reform nomination for State Bena- tor, in Adams County. ~The Rockford Journal saya:. Gen, Hurlbut was in {own Isst Monday, and scou- plod rooms at tho American House, wlicre Lis fow £aithtul followars in this connty woro fuvited in to soe Lim aud plot for the campaign, What was singular ahout it iy, that he dia not call on Lathrop, nor Judga Chureh, nor Emorson, no Talcott, nor Dr, Lano, nor A.1, Esioch, nor N, 0, Thoiapsun, nor Judge Datloy, nor Judga iller, wor ex-Mayor Fowlor, nor E, W, Blaiadoll, nor the Hon, T, M, Wight, an othiors of the wheol-horses of ‘tho parly o Winnobngo County, I did call, howover, at the Gazetts office and tho Post-Ofiico, aud 'take a rido with John Early, Ho ovon gave tho Journal tho go-by, ! g —Tho Bt. Charles Northern Granger declares for John Y. Famsworth, in tho Congtessional raco, and Bnys In him wo shall Liave a candidate who in the past preforrad privacy to position won by intrigua or tho encrifico of principlo; who is known and roapatted for his poet carcer as & Represontative, from Maino o Oregon ; & man who will not baw down to Preaidential caprice, nor worship at tho feot of tho Alassachusotts ddol, Bitler, A man who was tosted by Crodit~Mobil- for dinhonesty and salarg-grabbing thiovery, and came away unstained, A man who, through all the reckloss oy of war-leglslation, maintalned hia honor at- ndard that, in tho last campaign, sil tho miniona of a Lost/lo Adminietration falled to find a apot or blemish to oxhibit to his injury. ~—Tho Independont Reformers in Iilinols view with jonlousy the suggostion that tho Democrata adopt Mossrs, Goro and Etter on their tickots. Tho Moultrie Gounty Indepondents say : Recnolved, That wo are in favor'of making a ptrajght~ ont fight in the County, State, Representative, snd’ Congressional Districts, ~—Tho editor of tho Lowistown Democrat has travoled oxtensively through Fulton County, and - bas not found a Democrat but ia 1n favor of a straight Democratio ticket; and of tho call for tho 20th of August Convention that paper says: This {8 n magnificont actting forth of fulflun Demo- cratictruths, Carried out, these principles will restore fraternal rolations and truo proupority throughout all our borders, and again place our Republic among the bonored nations of tho oarth, Wegive to this declara- tion our warmest fndorsement, —VWa don't propose to bo sold out body aud soul by a fowjinterested individuale, and doliv~ ored without & struggle into tho camp of tho Phillistines, We want nong but Democrata in the 26th of August Convoution, & platform of DBoemocratic principlos, true and honest Demo- crats for our candidates, aud then if thoso per- sone who do not wish to act with the Republican !mrty aro onrucstly secking after reform, lot hom join with tho Domocratio party In ils of- forts to restoro purity and honesty o the Gov~ ernmont. But} if the Convention i called with the intention of making the Demooratie party a tail to tho Gore and Liter kite, tho projeotors of this infamous trick will find that they have reclonod without their host, and thatthe true and unpurchnsablo Domocrats of that Conven- tion will withdraw from it, and organizo a ronl Domogratic Convention and nominato & ticket and adopt n platform in porfeot accord with the foclings and intorests of the Demooratic party. —Cumberland County (1ll,) Demasral. ==Tho nction o tho [McCormick] Committos will bo approved by the Domocratio citizous of the State, and weo Ercdlct that the 26th of Au- guat Convention will bo the Iargest and most on- thusiastic of any over bofore held in tho Stute.— Carroliton (ZU.) Gazelle, ? —The Jeegister bolioves that tho time has ar- rived whon the Democratio party is to again ad- ministor the affnira of the nation, if tiue to tho pooplo and itsolf. The Reqister belioves that the ouly way the Democratic party can bo true to ituolf and gain tho confidenco of the peaplo ia to honestly and boldly declare for Demoeratio doctrinos on all quostions and sl all times, that the country may know in what we bolieve, and knnwlu[,;, muy cither indorae or roject, The da; of shatlling, subtorfugoes, and experiments past,—Jilinois Stale Register. —Trom nll parts of tho countycomes to us the voico of the old Domoctais’ of tho county clamoring for a straight Dewmnooratic tiokot.— Canton (JIL.) Ledger, —8inco the Domocratic Btate Committes {ssued o call for o Btato Couvovtion, wo notico govoral nowspapers favoring an indorsemont of the Indopoudont nomineer, Gore and Etter, b\v that body, thoteby rovorting ta tho old *polley subterfugo in an attompt to gag unkuown and incompetent men down the throuts of tho INinois Domocracy. . . . Democrats who have stood up to the rack, fodder or no fodder, aud Atronu- ously opposed ovory villainy insuguratod by tho Ttndical pnrty, havo cast Cholr lnst policy Voto, Thoy will vote for principles horeafter, nud {f thoy ean't got honest mon' to support they will quiotly romunin at home on olection day and por- it King Grant und hiy nub{cctu to send ropub- llcan governmoent to thadovil.—2LL, Sterling elll,) Mesaage. —'I'Nie courso of tho Chicago Times in rogard totho 26th of August Convention will not do- coive auy Democrat, or any friend of the Con- vontion.” Ita objoet, in fho chaste langunge of wnio of its wrlters, In' % to play holl gonoraliy,"—. that is, to bronk down the Convention of Aug, 20, 1f the writor of theso articles in the Z%mes wan podessed of Lho lenat particla of decency, ho would not wminko statemonts us to the offickl action of tho Commilteo which ho knows to by liea, having, unfortunately for the good nawme of the Conmnittaeo, obtained moans of information which _gontlemon would respeot.~Springfleld () Register, —T'ho manifosto of tho Exocutivo Committes of tho Iliinois Domocracy s Anoly in conirast with the mineing policy-mongering of tha Dunio- cratly Conyontion” of- Tndiana on ' the eurroncy question, ‘I'ho formor demuuded tho hard-monoy ourroncy in uso by the civihzod world, The It~ tor stolo o nhln{zllmlur plank from Morton's plate form,—Mobile (Ala,) ftegister, ~Upon the llinols piatform the Demooratio party will swoop tho country. It glves assnranco of sound finuncial admivistration, of vigorous commerco at low priees, of tho ovorthrow of fm- potinlism and the anuihilation of unjust and op- prossiva monopolion. And thus It responds to tho popular domand, ~Albany (&, ¥.) Argus, B Acore of - McCLENTHAN. A Times Reporter Suddenly Becomes Famous. He Is Elevated Into Notoriety on (he Toe of Mr. lesing’s oot How the Bogus Intorviewer Came to Grief. Mr, Hesing's Statement of the St Oloir Sutherland Story. Litlle Frank and His Legal Friend In Search of a Warrant, The Trinl Comes Off' This Morn- ing at 10 O’Clock, Matthews' Getting That Explanation of ¥ A ‘Warrant, _'llo ‘Wnas. Driven to it by Mr. Storey. A Bonsation Spoiled, MoOLENTHAN'S WOES, The city was in & blazo of oxoitoment yoator- day afterioon. It was undorstood that A. O. .Hosing, of .tho Staats-Zeitung, had Lkicked a Times roportor. The oxcitomont did not arise from the moro act of kicking a Times ro- portar. Wo blush to'say that scarcoly s day pnases that tho city oditor or his assistant, os- pedially the lattor, with one or two other mom- bora of tho local ataft, does not recoivo this do- grading troatmont, It was not tho eircumatanco, thoreforo, which crestod an excitomont. It was tho parties concorned, and thelr mutual rela~ ittons. When an irato husband whose wifo hes boon’ maligned, an indiguant son whoso mother ‘has boon vilifiod, or an onraged brother whoso sistor's roputation has boen nssailod by.n Times roporter, hurrios up-stairs nnd chastises tho city editor and his ssaistant,— enpocially tho Intter,—nobody pays any nttention 0 ttio clrcumatances. The boy who runs tho olo- ‘vator leaves his post for a minutoto seo whether tho chastisor woars TUE SAMB GONT OF DOOTS that his prodocessor in this exhilarating amuse- ment did, or whethor tho’ chastiscd sssistant city editor squirms under a’ raw-hide with the same gracoful oolincss which distinguished his illustrious chiof editor on that oue notable oc- casion when tho Inttor thought of “ drawing his pistol.” Homelimes, when tho onso ia an ag- gravated one, and the avenger is a henlthy brother ~from- the country, two or throe of tho oditorial writers just drop in 'to tako - lessons in- fortitude. But the chastisomont is usunlly inflictod without crenting any sensation oxcopt in tho seating ar- rangements of the sssistant city oditor, or his nominal superior. The fact is that TIE PRINGIPAL INTEREST in, the public mind was duo to the fact that & man-in Mr. Hesing's influontial position should condoscend to kick a Times roporter. Thero is whero tho oxcitoment came in; there is whore thp public at largo found a point of interoat. ¥ho newspaper fratornity, bowever, had an- ‘other interdst. i THE RETORTER RICKED, by ono of those accidonts which will sometimes happen, was. one of throo roportors on the. ZT9mes who atill .rotained ..a lit- tle rospectability. o was in every respoot the most able (which means the wmost mondacious) young maon oconvected with the poper, and might to-day, but.for tho demoraliztn; effects of bad compsuy, hayo remained a usef: member of socloly. ut boing rather a merry, and outeide of his position on the paper, a harm- loss, inoffensive littlo follow, his follow-invent- ors of tho Times uxpmnod row that tho fatos should havo eingled him out to bo _the recipient' of Br. Hosing's boot-toe. His diminutive sizo, too, incroased tho gonoral fl?' for him. Mc- Olenthen is only about feat 7 inches high: It is tho first “inatanco on record whore the kicking of & T'%mes reporter has not given the fullost entisfaction. But as such chastisoments for tho pust four or five yours have averagod ONE A DAY, it iaroally timo thnt a mistakoe should occur. Br. Hosing's action in tho abatract was not more oulpablo than many thet have taken place with- in tho past wook. “Io made s mistake in the hont of unbridled passion aud bolabored a little Lollow of less weight, without hurting him, how- over, THE OIRCUMATANCES OF THE CASR wora 08 follows: Frauk McClonthan had heen agsignod to tho duty of interviewing Mr. Hesing on ‘s previous doy, Ie Lad taken the intorviow by lheart’ instead of on paper, ‘or othorwlso invouted it. Ho had attributed to Mr, Hosing somo angry romarks about Alr Matthows, and,{acting nidor instructions from his’ unserupulous eomployer, had driven Mr. Matthews to procure s warrant for Mr. Hesing's arrest on tho chargo of making threats, as stated moro fully bolow. Frank hiad also interviowed 8t Qlair Buther- Iand in A manner highly offensive to tho editor of the Slaals-Zeitung. In other words, had Frank invented it. It is neodlens tosay that the Publiah- od aocount_of that intorviow was ns falso ag that with Mr. Hesing, convoyed to Matthows, Mr, Hosing had read somo of those things, and what he had not read hobad hoard of from some kind friond. Tho conscquence was that, whon McClenthau saw bim stonding in front of the Staats-Zeitung oftico yostordsy morning, and ad- dressed him, Mr. Hosing recognizod the mis- ohiovous mosquito whoso mendacious stings had conusod him so much unoasiness. MoClonthan asked him if ho had suy nows, Mr, Hesing turnod away. lo reflected for a moment, and asked McClontban if he was tho Ilul(limr of tho intorviow with Bt. Clair Buther- and, McClonthan ingonuously (think'of & Times re- portor being ingenuous) repliod that he was, Mr. Hosing's bovine pussion got the botter of his policy. lnstead of toudoriy raising tho men- dacious boy to tho lovel of his kneo, a4 ¢* Guth " did anothor Times man, and applying parontal chastisomont to that portion of the nischievous howunculo which Nature designed to veceivo unkdud jmprosvions, Mr, Hesing slapped him. In the moleo that ensuod Frank shouted for meroy, Olnrlio larrington, auothor of the threo half~way decont sort of Inds in the olleo, and not much largor than BfcClonthan, ran across tho sircot, cane in hand, and deall the asuailnnt a blow Lobind the gar,—+o ho says. McCOlenthan found his feot, and the two children took refuge in tho Z%mes ofiice. A erowd col~ leclod, Mr. 1oaing mounted his chatiot, aud tho affair ondod. INTERVIEW WITH 3R, NESING, A roportor of 'I'ite; Uninune, dusirous of hear- ing Mr, Honing's mido of tho story, subjocted him to an intorviow as follows Tigporter —Wo undorstand that yon had somo difticulty with a_1'imes roporter (his mormng? Mr. Hosing—TI had, sir. R.—Will you bo kuud enongh to rolato the oir- otstaucuy of tho cane? ; Mr. 1L.—Tbia chap of the Times hunted mo, followed mo from atap to utop, aud from sticot- corner to atroot-corner, on Huturday ovoning, to obtain my reply ta the infunous charges made by the Chivngo Tmies pninst me. 'R.—In the Bundny ddition of the Times thoro wag what purportod to bo su iulerview with o ? ¥ Mr, M.—Yes ; I refusod point-blank to give him wy dofonso, considoring 1t beneath ‘my standing to bo defonded in the Chicago Times, Thin answor I gave him. Tee—Dud thue interviow actually take placa ? Mr. I1,—No Interviow took pluce ; not a sword was put on paper ; uol & ponoil was sliown, It.—No notos tukon ? Mr, IL—No. —L'hon the futorviow was o bogus one? My, IL—It was manufacturod out of wholo cloth. R,.—This Inforview was writton® by the same raportor that you had tho diffeulty with ? v. Ll,—~Tho s1mo ono. considorable gor-. e e R.—Ho appronched yon agaln to-day for th pus of intorviowing you ?g = 8 . I.—To-day, when I went with s friend to buy a clgar in tho storo under tho Slaats-Zcitung roataurant, ho followed mo as I camo ot on tho sldowalk, and wantod to know whothor I had any nowa for him to-dsy, I turnod around and askoed him : * Did you writo that intorviow ho- twoon Butherland and n Z'imen roportor "' Says hot "“{]l:lril;-"; Hfll\:!hl U "“Pl:l‘i ou \Xlll‘r tlljmh was o oys oy " And thon wont toward him. 7 L R,—What did you do—atrike him ? Mr. H,—I struck bim, and, ns ho ran, I stumbloed, but I grabbed him by tho ooat-tail, and had hitn on the atreot, and gave him two or, throa kioks, I saved lng }nuo, and aimply kicked him on thobody or somowhero. Idid not want him to fall. Ho hollored “For G od's sake, don't hurt mo,” and tho bookkeopors and writors of tho Rogordor’s offico camo around him, T.—I understand anothor roporter of the Times hit you or struok you. Mr, H.—He struck at a friond of mino with a cano. Ho grabbod that canc away from hLim, and tho fellow cleared out, and went info the bouse. """ BT, OLATR SUTHERLAND. R.~I noo 8t. Olnir Sutherland angs yon looked tho door, and had o conaultation with Sun Ash- ton and I, B. Miller in rolation to his (Suthor~ Iand's) being madae & County Uommissionoer, Is that tho fact? Mr, H.—No, gir, R.—What are tho facts in‘the caso ? Mr. IL.—It wad not in my private office but tho offico which I hnd “given gratis to the Com- mitteo until wo liad arrangoments complote to ronta hall for tho use of tho Pooplo's Party. Ona afternoon, while there woro probably six_or oight gontlomen present in consultation, Mr. 8am Ashton camo into tho room with Mr. St. Clair Suthorland, R.—Suthorland ias with Ashton ? Mr. H.—Yos ; Ashton brought him in. R.—Hutherland did not wait outsido tho door ? Mr., H,—No, sir. Ashton_took him {nto tho room and fntroduced him, He sald, ** Gontle- men, lero is 8t. Clair Sutherland, a good old Domoorat, who thiuka ho would like to bo nsso- cinted with us,” R.—Did Butherland assont to that ? Mr, H.—Suthorlond shook hands with gontle= mon presont and eat down. While ho was sitting Mr. Bum Ashton camo to mo, and said privately: 4 Nr. IHesing, Mr. Bt, Clair Buthorland would ba a vory strong oandidato for County Commissioner, He i an old Domocrat, and has had a host of frionds on tho South Bido."” * Well,” anid I, “ho is not a man, in my opinion, who can beat Mr, Galloway. We must liavo n man of the charnctor and atand= Ing of Mr. Gallowsy himuolf, Ican’t sce that he would add any strength to our !mrty." Ho thon waid: “Well, you aro mistaken, sir.” “Well,” gnid I, *that might be, but I boliove that I am correct, I think wo can got Mr. Bure dick to run. His namo has boen montioned to mo, and ho will bo a far safor man," 1,~Did you nob tall Ashton ns botwaen Suthors land and alllow'l\(yi ou would vote for Suthors land rathor than Galloway ? Mr. H.—No, sir. I told him I would profes Qulloway overy timo, R.—Do you think that it was at Sutherland's motion that his name was suggestod, or ot Sam Asbton's? Mr. IL—TI don't knoty which it was, T.—Anything elso? Alr, H,—Tharo {5 one thing I would like to add to this ntorviow, I will not” stand it any longer to ba usod na a targot to bo shot at by overy damnod acoundrel in this town, aud if anybody calls mo a thief ho must tako the responsibility. I don't want to be callad a thiof until the courta gay that Iam., Then I am ready to leave town. i BEERING JUNTICE. On pleking himself out of tho mud, Frank ro« troated to tho ofiice, told his sorrowing talo to tho city editor, and thence to Alr, Storoy. It may be undorstood that Mr. er:s Inughed gleofully to think that o substitute had appeared for him’ to receive Mr, Hosing’s chastisomont, Ho know that half tho fury of tho storm had boon spent_on his misorablo littlo subordiuato, nod grinned ot the thought that his own bones wero in loss dangor in consoquence. He listened to tho statoment made by McClouthan, and in- structed him to go about his busiess. Isis ono of tho characteristics of the old man ihas Le noevor picks up tho_ cudgels agninst thoso who ohnstiso his subordinates. Much grioved that his first booting should not have raised him 1n his omployer's eatcom, Frank Hstened to the disntorostod counsel of tho aesistant city editor (who had boen thero himsolf o often that his chuou was comnaratively invulnerablo), and to that of tho office at lnrgo, and dacided to cause Mr. Hesiug's immediato and coudign pun~ ishmont. Not knowing procisely how to pro~ cood, ho visited tho ofiice of a young logal friond, Mr, Mills by name, and OPENED NEGOTIATIONS, Notico has alrondy been given of the endears ing imnunor in which tho local assistants of tho Times obtain -accomniodations, Ona oung man, whose solo claim to lrill- nncy lics in cortaln gold tooth, obtnined tho plugging of somo fifteon cavitics by promising o puil in the Zimes in payniont of ench molnt or incisor filled, It will bo remombered, and should bo especially borno in mind by Mr. 3ills, that this reporter fuilod to fulfitl his promiso, and was sued in & Justico Court somo fow weokd 8go by tho coufidenced dontist. But this wng tho only eago which had como to light, and many other doubtful transactious of this charneter had not. 8o Frank decided to riskit. Ilo nrgued thus with Mills: You undertake the case of tha injured Times reporter, and you have tho influence of the Z%mes to back you. BMilla roplied that tho Times wua a vory unrolinblo paper, and would ashuso and praise him alternatoly. Were ho oneo won- tlouod iu the Times, that paper would claim tho right to vilify his family, Could MoClentian guaranteo auy immunity from binckguardism ? Frank could, aud wouid. (Z%mes reportors guarantoo _anything,—immunity to gamblons from tho raids of the police, for instauce). WHAT CONSIDERATION then would McCleuihau givo for his legnl ser~ vices 2 Frank etipulated immunity from blackguard- ium, a mention throo times n weok, a full report of lis arguments in criminal cases, and viiety of personnls in tho ** Streot-Gossip " column. The agreoment wns made, aud then the two get to work to draw up an sflidavit provious to rocuring a warrant, THIE DOCUMENT got forth that on tho 11th day of August, 1874, one A, O. Hesing did cruolly, maligna viciously, villainonsly, and_with extrome mali and barbarity, siuch as depouentconld nover have belioy possible in lono of the human family, kick, wound, beaf, bruiso, holabor, cudgel, and pound dspouent on cortain portious ot_doponent’s body, to-wit: (hero tho reader will excuso & transcript); and thet ssid A, O, Tlesing had botrayed such unexpeoted forocity and vehemenco iu his mothod of attack, that de- ponent could not sit down without Lo oxtrement pRin (extremont wos putm as u joke) ; and that, furthermore, doponant went about in foar of bhia ifo. a ‘Tho afildayit complotod, tha pair walked with uncasy gnit to Justico D'Woll's oftico, and thure procutad o warrant for tho arrest of ' A. C. Hou ing, The warrant was given to a constablo, who gorved it on Mr. Hesing. Tho dofondiut wasy not roquired to nppear, but wmorely notitied tho coustablo that o would appear beforo Justice D'Wolf this morning, 1t was subseguoutly raprosontad to Frank that D'Wolf was ous of town, A wecond warrant wus thorofore proourad from Justico Boydon, and tho enso sot for Learing b the Polico Court at 10 o'clook (his morning. —_— MATTHEWS—HESING. Tar Trmuse stated yestordny morning tht & warrant had been sworn out by J. 1. Matthows, of hospital-lot notorioty, to the effecet that he was in drend of his lifo, on account of thrests made by Mr. Hosiug, and that bo wuuted lhim bound over to keep tho peacs toward him, Thub waw all that was then known. Yestordny, how- wovor, the history of tho wholo affair came out, und is not without intorost, It sooms that My, Storoy, of tho Times, had concoived the impresaion that it wonld bo vory risky for him to meot Mr. Heasing, Yot this wis something which might happon at any wmomont, their oflices being 80 near togother., Yot Mr, Btoroy, though in mortal - drend, did not liko to own p to it, nor did he hika toliavo Mr. Hoslug bound ovar tolkoop the poaco, 1t would look too mueh like ploading the ** baby not," Btill somothing must bo done, and 80 he hit on tho ingonious idon of gotting somobody to brenk tho ico for him, If Lo could creato the improssion thiat Mr, Hosing wan roaily o dangor- ous man, and gould got two or thros to havoe him bound over, then ho could onnllf' follow wuit without belnyg outrngeously laughod at, Ho ho sent for liltlo L'rank McClonthau, tho writor of bogus intorviews, and told Mrancis the Jovs to go up to Matthows' houno Mondny -~ morning—this was Sunday even- fng—and impross on that individual tho nocessity of going boforo a Justice of tha Doncn and swoanring that ho was in dread of hia Illo for the aforesaid Hesing, In form and man« ner as pravidod by tha statutos of Illinois. TFruncis wont up to Matthows' houso as ordor~ ed, and told him what waa wauted of him. Mats thews at first statod that ho was not in mortal terrory that ho did not hollove Mr. lesing ! would sssnult him, aud thut ho groatly dishli