Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 22, 1874, Page 3

THE . CUSTOM:HOUSE, Shall 1t Bo Abolished ¢ And Shall tho Extiso Systim Bo Abandoned ¢ Free Trade and Direct Taxation ==Shall Wo AdoptThese ' ' ' Iu‘stcnd? JANESVILLE, Win., Ang, 18, 1874, %o the Editor.of The Chicago Tribuns B’ The ‘above gnostions, with afirmativo fnaters, hava boen dictinctly | brought before youx nepdors by an,able writer . in your issup of Aug. 1,'.who signa hidisolf: 8 .+ Ono of - the PosplalV ;- PSR , Xt 180t to bo pupposed Lhateithor Lho Colleet- or of s Customs iu New ., York City, or tho Commissioner of tho Internsl Royonuoat:\Waal- Ington will bo grodlly slnrmod at & Journallstio dinouasion of: tho subjoct.’ ‘And thoy'need” nob be.": They may quiotly make 'up thoir pilos, ro- tiro, and perhiaps bo “ gathorod to tholr fathors,” bofora ‘the-fountaing of .thair fortunoes will bo dried up, or tho- palaces of tholr magleal opors- tons will eruntblo; Yot thorbis * -+ - % " 7" o KNOWING. WIAT aiAY MAPPEN, * Wa livo ‘{n times.in whick, a8 ouco of .ald, & cloud -rising’ out «of' tho . son, no. bigger thon & xian’a band, mey -ovorapread -tho heavens, and pour down fdrronts upon tho.parchod carth, e~ foro . kings . in. thoir..ohariota. can roach thoir shelterivg places,-. Revolutions, -as .woll ne “.nations, nro born in. & day.! . Innovations: are 1o longor abnormal. . Nature novor changes, but men's kniowledgo of 1t ddes. 2 « Thera is eomptldng prophotic in the rovela- tions . of y .Belenco, : when .:they ..aro . real Tho results -of .thom may ' ofton bo predictod,” ‘while' ‘the: oxact dates of thosa.’ resulta may rowain , uncarlafn. Boit:may bo, in xespact to ‘thia question. Tho loarned world claima.to :possess..and-to teach & sclenco of - political -gsonomy, At tho Lend.of that “sclenco” stands, “by ‘common’ consent, tho nomo of Adam Bmith, who s placed that sel- ence upon the basis.of, fron trado. ) It ds el that no othor.systemds tanght in any nniversity or college in'Ohrfatendom.: How could there bo? ‘Who bas over.rend or conceived of o scionco of Proteptive or Rovonuo Talf,.or Exoisa? Or of = gelenco that cauld Iay s foundation: far oither of thom? What but -a.disgusting contest of cons flisting, soffish intorests -18-over witnessed in o logislalivo dobate on tho adjustmont’ of o tarill, ~The- writinga of :tho;late Willism Leggott, in bis Plain-Dealer, and in tho Eveaing Sost, Now York, opencd:thé'eyes \of intelligont readors «to {he abisurdify of Protoctive Tariffs, Binco then, moroe.than * Onasof thoPeapla” havaentartatued nowidess.on thosubject. Tho volume in which thioso essaysarore collectod is now out -ofi print, #ud -ghould be ‘republished. Compared, -or rather contraated, * with "thoso of II, ¢, ‘Caroy, siid of hisidisciple, Horace Grealey, thoy would eupply matter.for.rofloction and-atudy. +/Tho history of Tarifi-logislation iu this conntry wotild-'bo evba moro instructive. A& fow faote within therecollection and parsonal obsorvation af- the preaent writor (au -cctogenarian) may sorvo £o throw:some:light on . T 3 T s - HE/PRACTIOAL WORKINGH of tho much-vaunted *Amorican Byatem of Protection’ 18r Domestic. lndultrfl," its beating on the genoral .prospority of. .the people; and particularly ‘upon tho mannficturing iuteiests proposed’to -bo fostareil. and. bonolited by the outigcinl stimulus thus.administored to.it.” " Tho mauner inwhich oar .politics, palitical morality, and idoas of tho proper. functions of Civil Gov- ernmont have boon nffécied by .it, miight profita- bly be brought uaderroview, slong with glimpses of the adroit.summersets snd gvrations of 'poli- ticlans,.thrown by changing purpones into con- flicting positions, or. whirled about.in the eddies of popular.sentiniont or.tho fl)hfl.fllgdvnnlurous apooulation,~batraying, in allfhis, thoalsenceof auytliing rokobling scientilio stafosmanship, or fixod principlos.of sound policy. An opportupity i owiiie bo alforded for lnquiring and for Judging whother.tha origin and . the elaborato ¥,I,lh“ advocacy of ths so-called’ '*Protective olicy "1 hpvo arisen moro from a comprehengive and disiiterostad .regard t6 tho .publlo good of all ‘soctions.of the ‘country, thon from a ono~ sided viow and.conaideration of .either sactlonal, clasg, -or porgoval benafita; .And whathor the olaims.of a.narrow, temporizing, and temporary expedioncy have not been exalted over tho do- mands of oqnal justice And.atornal right ? . Logltat s fow outataiiding facts: Tho finan- cial policy.of onr Govorsimont, st the beginnivg, 'was naturally.and nstinctively S PATZE] AFTER TUAT [OF, THE MOTHER COUN- . in, which g-Qistinctions, vosted rights, and taxation by Jinpasta.and exciées on.commodities consumed by-tho peoplo,—thus taxing. tho poor for.tho uecasarics of 1if0, as.nuch as the rioh,— ‘were all to.ba expocted of ‘coureo, .Our Rovolu- tionars fathers Jiud domurred at boing thus taxod widiout ropresentation, but into this obnoxious featuro .of "tho tax they siem nover to liave Igaked.*. “Bo \tho English modo'of taxation was continued, withoul , disturbanco. excopt in the the whisky-insurrection in Ponngylvania, 01 ero for purgoged of rove- 3 protection to.homo manufac- turos was porhapa intonded, to a modorate ox- tent, but not'1o the ombarrassment of foroign co, ar to.thio unhealthful stimulation of nastic mmanufactures, until the year 1816, And tha Liigh, dutica thion imposcd wefo.not askéd for nor desired by tlio manufscturers themsolved, by whom they had.boon commenced, in Now Ep- g{nnfl;‘nbnul ‘a8 early as 1800, and had'incrensad and- progparcd, without .apecial protection, 08 rapidly as could ba reasonably expected o wieo- ly deaired in tho judgmant of those most airact~ 1y intoreatod and best qualified to fudge, ® By whom, thea, was the'High Taril of 1816 {faatened upon tho country, against tho advico of tho manufackirera 7* Not by tho impotting mor- chants, .most. assuredly., An unrelentivg war u‘gmn foreigh commorce had been carriod on by by s A i BOUTIIERN POLITICIANS.. who, thon ruled tho.country, by mesns of em- bargoos, nob-intercourse, and war with Great Britain, fromDec, 1807, untl Docombor, 1814, —n poriod.of sovon yoars., Hostility to foreign commerce, .and consequently to Tree Trade, was no scerebithon, Tho theory advoeatod was that “ Commorco is corrupting ; that the apirit of comimarce s tho ,uflrit of cupidity and sub- vergive of the epitit ‘of froedom ; that ‘great commercial’citics "are great slores’ upon tho body pdlitia; that tho coucentration of eaplial B dangoroud in’'a Ropublie ; that' independonce of.rumlsn nations yoquires us $o ‘bo agricultur- lgts and manufacturers, not merchanta’; and that, Jiko the. Chineso, we.should atay at Liomo, and lot foreign nations .who want our products como aftor thew.” ) > Buch was'the politieal philosaphy, in the as- eondant, dissominated thraugh the country, and inslsted npon a9 o baajs of public poliey. How much this nccords with any systamatie *solouce of political economy ™ tsught 1n tho colleges of civilized nations, or found in the writings of any reopgnizod muklora of that gelonce, we niay loave for the ‘reader ‘to Inquire, Such a philosophy wai not fn'harmony with tho common gonso_ of Nocthern agrioulturists, Svho wantod au open matkot for thoir praducts in foroign countrics, and, marchants and ahil:ping to carry thom,thore, and to briug themn back doptrable Toroign com- moditles in yoturn, Nor ‘did it beltpr accord withtho ~ "° b3 it S 8 ¥ COMMUN BENBE OF NORTHERN MANUFACTURERS, who wantod an .opan commerce to bring thom thioirrawmatorials from suy part of. the world whoneo tbey could best be «procured,. and to sransport 4hoir fabrics to any part of the world whera thoy could bost find a markat.” *They did not, wjsh 10.bp .dgbarred, as they wors by .tho lords of - Protective Tarifl, from buying thoir raw cotton from Houth Americs, nor to ho sostricted to their owu country. for a market for their manufactured goods. Thoy did not auk for the excluajon,of forcign fabrics, Nor did the nu- porting merchants ask for any loglslntion agamnst domeatic mannfactures. 5 AJl clasgos wore contont that Nature, with ber Jaw of supply and demand, togethor with indivi- dual-anterjise and uagacity, should be loft froe 10 adjust :tho relations and proportions of agri- culiural munufactures, and commerco, a8 ax- Enrleuco might dlotate, withouk nurpomu! squab- o8 in (Uongross for -tho * protectiou ™ of ona favarito intorest from honout compotition with anqthior;.detormiving Leforohand, in tho lght of ignoranco,.or by the impulse of solfishnoss, what .commodities the peoplo shonld bo pormit- ted tpdmport, and what thoy should be compelled to manntuctnre; and detormining also whothor Iabior, in a normal aondition of sooloty, should-be lott troo to distribute iteulf, in guo proportion, ‘botweop sgrioultire, mauufaotures, and goaman- flup‘,‘:befienu mllngn \Vuumfi: !a;-z-u‘w, u\fl- valng ald ar .uow solly, peopling factory-vil lages, sad plowlug. the .coean} .of whothare frifhled A Bodioed, i Wot Virthally: cofipanear by tho articial s stimulds 6 High Tarlits; sl conaeguoht over growth mud” di uprnlinnhm of mannfagturen, {ho labor of the countty shonld bo loglalatad into " ovor-orewded and compoivg ‘moagos Tu fiopulous eltios'rnd yillages, T AT ATARYATION PRICES : and onalaving louts of Iabor, and liable, at suy day, from the turplubof ovor-pfodnction, always incidont to High Tarlils, and from tho ‘ruinoita man|a for indofinité oniargoment of operations, squally ‘lisoparablo from’ tho samo’ causs, to be thtown out ‘of eniploy, from tomporaty aits- pennion of business, and, at oft-recurring Intor- vals, td'bd tirnad adritt, ontiroly, by a wido- sprond bankeuptey of manufseturin chpltnlista themuolVo, followed by thoir renotred ‘claniors for {ncronsed leglslativo 'uu‘lmllcn of the ‘eno caysa that prm{.uch' the disnster,—~hike’ frash aupplies of -strong drink to the inobriated. eneo ¢omed the appa)ihig labor quositon that now throntony the stability of onr: social fabric. To our High’ Protéotive ¢ Tarifa, " ~with -tho' tho train of kindrod evilathat thoyhinvo bronght with them, wosraiddohted Tor' ill'this, Al this waa forasaon end prodicted boloroband. But the warning waa wohaodod, - :. +Tho, writor's popition, at the time under ro- ‘yoiw, 'In the ' ‘counilg-room of an {mpori- ing millionaite, who . was likewlso largely lugurnuto(l 1n a wall-ostablishod and prosperous cotton-manufactitring compahy, still -in opora= tion,—tha Dinckstono,—enable ‘him’ to Hston to the dfscussions froquoutly hold on tha’ aubject af tho Protpative Turlll by tho, owners of that eatiblisliment, ‘when canvoned.to nttoid to ita coneprng, aud'at . other timps. Somo of them wero likewiso lmrarunu morchants, and othorg of thom woro eapitalints, bankers, and | it TIACTIOAL ' AB" WELL' AR ‘BOIENTIFIO TOLITICAL T T " RCONOMIRTS, thoroughly veraed o tho ilrst principles in- d,.aud pll of them'tli€ architcets ‘of tholr own'large Jortunes. 1t. may not Lo, awisa to name & fow of thom: Thomns P." Ivos, .one" of: $hig forinders of the houss of Brown & i\'us, and of Brown Univeraity; Both Whanton, tho father, and no dpubt tho duatryotor,'of ‘Honry Whonton, the world-renigwned writer.bo iitoiuational Jaw 3 Samuol Butler, Imrmuml Sath Whoatou (Buler, & Wheaton), fathor .of . Wiiliam “Butler; and fothor-in-law of Aloxandor Duncan, the foundor of tho_liouse of Dnncan, Bhorman & Co. ; dnd Cyrus Butler, brothbr” of Sainuel Butlor; and, fouuder of Bptler Asylum. Elero wag a, coterio of.copnomists - fron whom lessops of ‘windom might have. beon learnod by the..gancration of .-Protectionists and. . Inflationists who unbnppily . -succoeded them, - had" -they, listened ~ to them, beard ' their the an retsons” for thair ' auticlpations of . tho' dis- nstera that have followod. " To thead rapronenta- tivo names I might ndg othors of like charactor, to whoso utterancos'on the subject I havo not porsouslly liatencd; bub whoso “sumilar views wore woll dtnown -and. spoken of ‘in the commu- nity.abthe:time. Moses Brown, Obadiak Brown, William Almy, Slatezrnd Willdinaon, obiof capital- {uts.among the cotton-mevufacturars, aud not en- geged in foreign commoran, Woxo.uob omong the advocatos of tho High Pratoctive Laritl of 4816, but woro ppposed:to them. -No, honost, legitimate, industrinl intorost in conntry iiad" potitionef for n Proteative, axtT. No thon axisting political party.lind inuorporatod it dnto ita platform, . Norecognizod. system of political economists hed pipneered it by the rophistical advocacy. with which the conntry has since boon ‘made.po familiar, The mupsuro was diatated. ol s e s ks b BOLELY.DY TR SLAVERY INTEREST, in itsincossnnt warfaro.against tho ‘rival inter- osts of freo labor by -whidh it ‘was in_danger of Deing_ ovorborno, and, iv fact, was'already. dis- taucad and voxad withibunnhintion and..poriodi- cal bankruptoy, which it indignantly. coarged upon:tiio oppressive taxation intliotod upon it by Northern.commerco, although the greater part of its Josses wora sustmned by Northern oapital in theform.of dobts due to Northern Jbanks for loans, and to Nortberndmporters for unpuid bills of goods, of whicli not mora than 5 or 10 -couty on.the dollar,.at.each reourring crisis, waa com- monly collectod, T aots On .tho roturn of peace, after the War of 1812, Northern ..commoetrae, 80 long . proscribad, had nuddevly revived, and s lerge influx_of for- oigm goods at:tho: North was sutloipatad .or al- rcndicommnnmug. -:Now.was:tho timo to.inflict another blow upon oppressive Northorn com- merca 3 and-how could itibo done but:by & diigh ‘lariff on importa 7 *. By.this moeasure. (includiug 8.ligh duty on Bouth Awerican raw cotton), the domund and.the prico of.:tho \staplo ‘produgt wof Sluvery in tha Unlted States -could..be . doubled, Northorn commerco :could bo. erippled ; .aud it was vaioly imaginad—what was fudeod attempt- ed.but'proved a failuro—that the Southernman- ufacturo of cotian:by slave Inbor could guccess- fully.compete with the. Narthorn.manufacture by-free.Inbor, gspecinlly.as {ho Bouth.would havo tha .eaving .of. transportation . and . mgreantile chargosof-buying.and selling, by:having inhapd their own.raw material.on she spot., . ..., Buehiwas:tho .. oo, oL . + DREAM OF JONN C. CALUOUN, the life-long -dictator-of ‘Bouthern -slava-labor politics, and -.life-long enomy of -free-labor, whether in .agriculture, manufactures, or com- morco. ~'To such-a man 4t .was, .of course, .no.ob- Jjection to big proposed moasura that it was pat- torned aftor the system that, in. England .Etha land.of.aristoeracios, monopolics, and elusg-log- islations), hiad reducod ita Jaboting.popnlation to a gecond - serfdom, moro orushing than the old exploded foudalism, and thot it -would resistloas- 1y tond.to produce similareffectsin this couatry.: Tam sorry to Lo able to add, from vivid recolloc- tions, that Tarif? .advooates’ in New Jingland, a fow.vears Inter, woromot.slow to admit that such would ‘bo .the olects; nor backward to siguily their spathy ond acquicscence. in $ho ronults of taeirpolcy. I could rapoat.what I myself heard from ono of the vory ablest,.earlicst, sud most succossful advocaton of tho measuro, tsen. dosig- nated ** tho Amorican System,” yet ropresented as Iuéing in Imitation .of the wise -policy ot Eu- gland. - b sice.) % - :Oalhoun, by sshom the old United States Bank was doomed to death in 1811, because it was the Northorn collactor of it Southern debts, aud who dietated..tho War of 1812 against Northeru commerce, decreod tho Tariff of 1816 for thoe pur-" poses ehoady stated, decreed lilcowino tho aron- tion of o new United Btates Baik.tho samo year. (1816)," becauso the South-wanted to barrow. its Nosthern capital, which it sooa..digd, to tho ulti- wato ruin.of the bank. In 1833, flading thnt the Tarift bad neitheribrokoen down: frae-labor at the North, nor_mnda_slave-labor. -pratltable at .tho South, ho declured Tariffs unconstitutional and opprogsiva.to tho South, and domanded. the ro- poul of:thom, undar. threats of nullifiestion and disunion,—na siguificant comment upon any.pro- tonso of v A ACIENTIFIO DABIS FOR TN POLIOY. Tow High ‘Tunills protect manufaciures may bo seen by this first and -most thorough experi- mont of " them. -Subsognont . experiments, in proportion to their thoroughness, huve dovelopod similar tondencics. ‘The spirit of wild speonlation engendered by thethou- recent War, and which survived tho colamitous effocts of it, wns stimulated inco now activity by tho proapocts, and espocinlly by the onactmont, of a High'I'aniff. ‘U'ho manis of suddenly amassing wealth -by. tho cotton-manu- facture “seizod uvou all classos, Professional moa,lawyors, dootors, and even clergymo, nog- looted or” abandonod their profossiois to turn cottou-manufacturors, : Wholesalo .and ratail dealers aold out_thoir merohiandise to invest in spindles and: Luleg.of cotton, Farmera rold or miortgngod thoir farms for the same purposos, Lono widows put their little all into the yonture. Handicraft-mochaics conoluded to-lotwatorfalls dud machloory unp&ldv tho pluco:.of musculur ox- ortlon, -Sallore and day-lnborars, withithair fAm. ilios, along with lurod mon.on farme, and. house~ sorvants, “allurod by the wew = demand for oporatives, rushed iuto. tho cottou-fuctorios, which stirted up. lke .mushrooms whors evor. o pond.of wator could .bo: ralsed,— aometimou-whora.tho supply or tho * fall"..was insuflciont. What woro “tho consoquoncos?. Pricos .of raw inatorial woro doublad, prices of Tabrica . roduced oye-balf, -and. no additional neocguity-croatad for a singlo yord of thom.. gezm ©. .. DANKRUPTOY AND DISTRESY woro tho wide.aproad rosnit. Now . advonturers wore nearly all ‘hopolessly ruined. .0ld estab- lished companios .survived,.:but wich :heavy logues, a6 o siuglo incidont.muy iHustrato, In tho warcrooms. of .the ‘Blaokstons’ Com- pany (Uutlor & Whoaton, agents) I baw thom woigh & balo of .raw-cotton in the hugo scale with heavy woigths, then in s, Tho woights belug then romoved, their place was_ filled with theoir manufaclured cotion goods, till they .bal- aucod-tho balo of .cotton. Lhon, .on caloulating tho valuo of each at itheir markot-prices, 16 wa found that tho.balo af . raw cotton' would sell for wore than the kamo welght of the mamtfacturad tabries}. Aud’ this iaiho way in which Pariifu proteot.tho wanufacturad! Our American man. ufactures- have. prospored, In spite ol ** Protoot- wvo ‘Larilfy,"—nnt by tho bolp of thom, “*3ioro ondoth tho Hustilesson," WiLuiax Goobkrr, “54 3 not 40 2o forgotten, howovor, that, In fori {h lunl‘auummfi.?u. oy did comtemplata. tha tovying of *“diraet taxe und polut out. he ratto ot {helr *“opportionmient ¥ *amiong tho sovéral Htutes 't aoe Art. | B 3, Olaune Autpdy of that clao, u connsatlon with o 'history of our wubjection toa ooutrolllng_arislocracy, mny ‘show why & Ievonus ‘TArl bad wiiporsedud direct taxation, siintominieid i —Nathan Bargont, author of .the ‘¢ Ollvor Old Bohool Lettors,” and farmorly Commissioner of Custom, who lins boou on tho paysroll sluco his removal fram tho oflion.of Comumiasioner, was droppod from tho.xoll buig.wook, : . ... , . W. PARENT. Ilstory of iho Persow’s Renl- 7"t Estate Operations. :ém TFiled in the Bupax:icr Qourt.” Probably the most dlatinguishod Canadian in Chiledgo, nofr that Earl Dulotin has loft tlis ofty; in.one G, W, I'aront, & getitloman whoso businosy lios in tho roa estato Jine, nud ‘Who operatiotis, it tho susplolous which cansod his arrost Inet weak arg vorifiad boforo Justico. Soully this gftarnoan, , will shiow him to bo the boldost and tnost original oporator who over sold avamp lots at $10 a foot. Mr. Parontis ® = B R .+ ADIFFIOULT MAN TO PIND, Y Japhot- in soarch of - n fathor did not oxpo- rlorica groater, diffiontty in indivg him than did Tk TainoNe roporter whilo bupting tho ity for this Parent. , Tho first information of his whore- sbouta sottlod bis ofiico st .the corner of Wash- ington'and LaSallo streets, thon ivwas at tho cornor of that stract aud. Madlaon, and lnstly at tho cornor of LaSalla and Monroo, whoro a zoal catato gontloman intimated thot Afr, Parent's ofiic wag ono of ithe kind usually purclinged at & hattor's shop, - Tho olrcumstancon. which led to Paront's arront havo alfoady beon publlahod ln bridt, but ‘thoy aro of so luteresting p npturg that thoy. will bear & fullor doseription, cepecially as thia is thio fourth timo that he has boen ar- rostad on suspicion of 1llegal practices, ‘A brief ®qeotint of the " ' 3 % TR o TREVIOUR TRANSACIIONE |, . may bo & plonsing proludo to that of tholast one, which groatly outshinea the othors in both bold- ness and symuotry of dealgn, and in maguitade. Amgig tho, most trustiog of Paront’s patrona was & Madomp Rosnlio Chnprop, ong of tho,old- ost, it not.tho.oldest, residents of Ohicago, and the ownor of sundry-valunble pieces of renl oa- tatodn this city, - Tho old Iady was, and atill i, of ‘a déeidedly susplelons, temperament, and “'sho daubtless trustad iu Parent ay a gort of fellow- countryman, she coming . from .Ja bello France, whilo bo hailed from St. Jean Baptiste Village, o slumberous * humlat in tho vicluty of Montren), Somo_ twolve yeirs ago Patenl wos intrusted by horwith the selliog of her xy»rmmn.y iu the vieini- ty of . laworo aud . Mngdison streots, and ab . that - timo Lo gonducted the, businoss enprgetienlly and honestly.. Bome fow yeara ago howavr, it s alloged. that "o bugan his tripks by selling, againet the will and contrary to _the dirgotions of tho old Indy, 10.-ncres of land waich sho owned ot Irving Park for 7,000, which were warth, at” that. timo from $12,000 to 15000, Tho old Indy yras advised to tako logal stops againgt him for. this_ transaction, bul sho had a hiorror of the law aud rofusad to do o, «-Thp;socand swingling transnction nlleged was the maklvg by Parant, in August, 1873, of s con- tract to spil to Mr, Dralie, of tho firm of Drakn & White, aveliteota, for 6,000, a piece of land on Moppo sireot, Dolwoon Weod and’ Honore, bt | feab, (frout, tho property of ‘s Mrs. Gueronlt,. a danghter of Madamo Chupron, . Mr, ~ Guoropit was nwsy at tho , ,timo. . of the, sale, and ~whon Lo raturnadt he refused to staud by. tho_trans- action, It isalloged that Mr. Drake paid $200 ap.the contragy, and that he las never been splotogot tho monoy back. 'This contraot was signed G. . Earont, for G. Gueroult, B TTHE THIRD SNINDLING TRANSACTION ALLEALD woa the gelling to two difforent pritips of & piece of jangd hrving,n frontage of 197 feot on the oast #do of 1lonore streat, and belonging to s Madame 8alles, anothor mnnrried daughtor of hadame Chispron. Ouo.of the buyers wass Mr. Kauff- may, who has au oflico.at’ No. 160 Wasbington etroot, and-who paid §150 to” closs contract. Tho.othor-buyer paid §400 for the saio pur- ose. For this tranenction Parent'wan brongbt botore Justico Ilaines by Mr. Kanfmnn, who, -it _is: allegod,, hps in “his posscssion tho deed of coutract , bear'ng tho forged signature.of Madum Balles, Justico Haines dis- charged the prisoner, and it is'statod that noithe or buyer has yot got back -the monocy paid to cloge the contract. THE LAST TRANSACTION, it will bo remémbarod, was first brought to light by the pulilieatiod’among other deeds recordod at tho Rocorde’s oflice of ono' purnorting to be from Malame® Chapron, ‘and -moking over 4 neves of land on the Elston :rond, between tho Northwestern Railwoy ned tho,river, to one Eva- line Chesbro, -for. s conviderntion of 850,000, This was egon followed'by'an advortisomarit by T, Queroult, o son-in-law of Madamo Chinpron, sunouncing that tho deed-was bogus, and whrn- ing tho public not to havoanything to do with the picco of Iaad in.quostion. 1t is statod that tho old lady bnd groat, faith I the Mtura of hor Llston-road proporty, snd thiat'ale had at times rofused: almost fabulous offers’ for it, among otherd.ono of . 960,000 opsh somo _six. years ago, ‘The affair was placed in the hands of Dotective Simmons towork up, and.{ho reaultaof bhig inves- tigations wore oa foflows: 0 - ' TUE DEED waa found to have hoen drawn out en the 7tk of April Inst,.to have been acknowledgod befora Notary Henry Winner, and ta haye boen recorded on tha 15th of August, It was also discovered that Paront ordered nn abstract of the property at Mesara, Handy, Simnions & Co.’d’an "the Sist of.January last, and romaved it somo time fn the month.of July. * The ovidont gonnaation of Pa~ rent with tho.caso resnitod in his arrest on aps- picion by Bimmona on. Mm\day last, and his sp- perennco beforo Justico Scully Tueeday, who held b in 91,000 bail - for furlbor oxaminstlow at-1 o'clack this afternoon. .#Cho bail waa furnished by oua N, Qhiniquy, & nephaw, it is_sald, of the converted priest of Kankakeo, It will ba at ouco 8een that, whila'tho eubpiclon againet Pa- ront is juatifiably 8o strong as to sccura kil condemnation by all; still 1tis doubtfut whothor u[n;.n\'muucq can’bo ‘brought to seoura hia can- viction, THE NOTARY wha, by the by, some: years baok lvod in clons Eraxlnuly to Aadamo Ghapron whon -thero wero ut very fow houses m thoir vicinity, is utterly ob~ livious of tho appearance of tho peopls who brought him the dood «and .acknowlodged it bo- fors Dhimy on the Oth .of April last. Ho enys o knows that tho man was ot Laront, 'but*who the woman who-porgonaterd Madamo Clapron was, sud whint aho looked liko, hocannot yomembor, The doed was drawn auc on one of Ira Browa's blauks, which are very com- ploto, and all that'hie was required:to do was the slgning ot lis.name, and the aflixing of his’ seal of ollce. Tu viow.of tho faot that tho law males it inoumbant upon Notaries ‘Public to knaw.the paities to deods ncknowlodged ‘before’ thom, AIr, Wisnor, :by his own.. admission, atands convicted of profeasional ourolessnoss,~s thing which. preatly indualged in by Notarlos at largo, and.should vo chockéd assoon na possible. Tho production of tho personntor of. Madame Oliapron or Ars. Evaline Oheabra .will'be nacos- sury to faston the aot on the guilty party, .and it is..doubtful. whethor, .with such "an oblivious Notary, this wili be offoctad, i In' the opinion of thoso moat intoroated, the man Parent is.but tho tool .of swivdlors in -the background, aud 1t 14 :towards .seouring those that the dateative is hondiug s efforty, y TISL.ODIECT OF TILE SWINDLER * is apparent .to.auy one who is at all versed in. roal gutato trananctions. Jb was to got duly ro- cordod a -warrenty decd, purporting to .coma from tho awner of tho Elston-road properly to Evaliue Chesbro,..n mythical porson. probably, who, when -the occasion called for_it,'conld ba porsousted by svy woman with ordinary swindling sbilities.” With the deed .in -bund it would be 8 very essy matter for tho holdor to sell.tho.property, qr .at wiy rato to oifact upan it a loay,.. s consummation.of tha conspiracy. wis frustrated. luekily. Buch operatious as this ara nlso froquently ro- sorged tafor tho.purpose-of blaokawil, . When a deod, evon though bogus, is once upon tha |. racoids, it clouds the titlo of-tho.rightful owner, who hins to resort to tho ‘law courts to romovo this appsront .dofect, and, if tho other sido ehiooso Lo resist, tho proporty may be practically tiydd up.for -8 year oruo, . Undor suok .circum- atances, 1 tho Jand I8 of greas value, it may Lo worth. thio ownar's whilo to.pny pomothing.down to securo n h\'m‘rnn!{ deod from .a person who hus .o carlhly titlo to tho lund. "Lhon, if. the hogus deed romain on_tho records, . and an innovont purchasor ghould buy from tho pordon whom tha.rocords slowod to.be tha own- ar, tho roul .pomsossor wight find Iumeolf in disagrocablo pogition, for in such cases courts will not go bavk of tho rocordy, i IIndtho swindlo succondod it in hardly doubtful thnt tho raal-oatato -fratornity of Chicago would ut.this momant.be minus a.unle whoso ubsonce would hardiy bo rogratied by the rospootablo pore ton o ihakboldy, Tho osso will come up “bo- foro Justico Boully thia afiarnoon, but (v in doubitfnl whether suy Zucls not statod abayo will be ohioited, v . IN THE HUPERION . COURT, kel Yonjorday dira, Bonalie Olapron flod.a bill tho Suporipr Court ogainst Parent, stating that nho Iy tha ownor of corlain land inBlook 18 of Elger tow's Addition ; that, on tho 15th of August, 1874, thero was tled for record .a doad: purporting .ta | be slgped Ly.biwm, dated April 7, 1474, conveying tho abovo mantionod corealn land,~ Hhd' chisrged thnt Paront made 4hife 'd.oM,"mkun_wlndqud‘ it, and'gavodt to the grantes’ namied ‘thiorein: with ho intont to'defraud | tliat he navorhdd Avtlior- 1ty 1D sign hny'such oo for hat, and Alist altd naver.reocived-tha 860,000 sllogod conalderation; Bho thorefore anks that thd dosd may bo declared lmndnloix_zl, sud no eloud on hor title. " T THE COURTS, b sacted. Youn £ WELL-MERITED Divbnog, - oo "It the ptory pold’ by. Dlrs. Bilso Wolt bo truo, nud the manuer,of- itarocital sgoms’to: compel eredonco), Teldore Wolf, biia; boon- guiléy of_tho mosi oxtromo and aimost Inlinman oruoity, aud L vithortp patient it flled p bill inn tho whicly elip rolatos ‘s bad- story of ‘want; and erel brpdtmont. “In July, 1867,at Carrof Manor, Md,, sho.wag marriod. 0 tho dofondant 1n her sully’ * Juidoro Wolf, . and -hag lyod' "with bim’ “sico. up .(to _tho .dth .of _July lust, .Whon sho Htates sho waa obliged to leayo kim. About a-year afior hor marringo sho ond hor husband romoved toOlevoland, where ho Boon sfter commonced ‘bosting and strling hor, at_ times: with gront violopes, ., Tn Blay, 1809, for-instanco, Wolf foll “on hor, and slapped and butfoted hor doversly bocause ' sho' had mildly‘expoatalntad with him fof nassoiating with 8 woman of doubtful roputation:- In Janu- ary, 1878, -0 camo -homa o one accaslon, sud threw sn_her fnge- a. bill of itoma of, diy goods dosigned capuv_i,nll( for Jadies' wonr, at tha samo tima openly bonst] ng that ho had ‘bought them for' somo womhn not bia wife, - 1 S Somo'time aftor Lo assaulted her, and pulled off herrings, lucluding Ler wnddlng-ring. and throw thom all iuto the Rewor. Sha..resolvod to Jonve him, but Lo perguadod hor to remain on Ppromising to'roform, " At other times Lo throat- enod to take herdife by shaotiug hor, and ho has repoatadly beaton: her until her limba were black and blue.” In August,- 1873, they romoved to Cbiosgo, and boarded for s time on Bishop court, ‘and’ tho #amo condyct, though’ not &0 violont, was continued,” at “tho eimo’ timo that * Bhe’ ‘wos ° eubjectod: to - insult in the . preaenco of .itho - other -boarders. A cbinuge was mado te 96 Ashlangd avenue, whers the samo indiguitigs were heaped on har, Abaut tho 1at of May lagt, thoy romoved to"No, 95 Park avanus, Wwhore, on" ono - oecasion, \Wolf thruw tu bor facoa letterin & femnle band, commencing with somo torm of cndosrmont, and onding wath ¢!, Yours aa ever, June,” or:& Jaue.'* Wnlg ¢hop. told her lio bad n mistross becauso ho kated lior,, Mra. Wolf uayé hok liuabauo, who 18 agent for the Empiro Insarance Company, (5 &° man of dotor- miuedly rovongoful character, and that sha fetrs hor life will b in dangor if slia lives longer with Lim, She accordingly dehircs a divores and ali- mony. 3 p . UNITED STATES COURTE. . Tho ‘Charter Oak ‘Life Insurance Company filed » Lill againat Joseph - and- Rachol Harris, Eugene I Sallsbury, 'l L. Parker, H. Adams, L. J. McCormick, ‘. M. Sturgis, and R. H. McCormick to forecloso & mortgage for $20,000 on Lots'91, 32,98, and 34, of © Lifin & Watkor's Bubdivision'of Block 8 of Candl Trustees’ Subx diviston of the W. 3¢, aud W. 3¢ of tna N, E. i, of Bocalq, 89, 14, bewg ou the N..3V. corner of. Adams and Latlio streots, %5 i BUPERIOR GOURT IN BRIEF. * Kripfor: & Trieber ‘begun a’ suit ‘for £1,200 against- the Atlantio ‘& Pacific Insurance Com- pany.: BEER .. Qliarles 1, Morse commenced & sult ngalnst 0, L. Jouks to racaver $3,000, . Lo senthal, Kaufwan & Co. suned Leon Erman for'S1,000,” S S Laurs -B. Granger filed a bill agninet E. L. Bomors ta forocloso a mortgage for 81,200 ou'the N. 24 of Lot 12 iu ¢ resubdivision of Lots'9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 14, 16, and 16, in Margarot Jubustou’s’ Subdivision of the 8. 1§ of the 8, E. ¢ of the of Sac. 8, 3, . G. Dayis bogun & suit for £3,600 against the Trusteon of Schools for Towaship 39, # CINQUIT, COURT. Joln” Fauble illed a 'petition -,fupae Fritz Soyoren, askiug. for o mechanic’s lien to the mmount of $1,573 for carponter work doue on | tho bulldiugs on Lots 18, 10, 20, 21, and 22 of the Tumbermen's Bubdivision of n parcof tha 8. W. 3 of Bac, 34, 97, 14, A : Simon Phillips bogan & suit in trespase apainat Sapyel . I, Swool . .D. Dpmoster, Charles - Hutchinson, and ‘Androw W. Mitchell, laying damoges at 825,000, TIE COUNTY COURT. JTudge Wallace was_cccnpied uunfl(y the ontiro _of yestordsy heasing arguments of objectors against the State, county, and park taxes, Tho argument apon objection No. 8 consumed tho autirs aftornoon. , In tho matter of the City vs, Alvin Salisbury, tox appedl bond was approved. JUDGMENTS. Burenion Count CoNFEsaions.—E, W, Chamber~ laln y. ‘Aljo J, Hovey and G, F, rk, $538,13—John 31, Dunn et al. v, K, N, Scbroedor, 0 JYPGE GAn! {1, Koehsel v, Jacob R, Sliepherd, g:;;.sz—fll 'ge 0, Cook et al, va, Napoleon Boardman, it A Singular Coses A aurious patient is just now an inmate .of Dr. Meanot’s ward at.the Hospital. 8t.. Antoine. Hig profossion was that of a singor at the Cafes Chantants. During the war of : 1870-71 he was Lit ovor the left esr by . a_muaket-bullet, whioh omried off. nbout 21¢ inches of the Fnrlum hone, and laid baro the brain on the oft gido, This ledto a tomporary paralysis of the mombers oo the opposido side, 1s. is always. ibo cago; _but he was.ovenluslly. cured of this, whilp the tremendous wound.on the ekull bogan to beal, g0 that aftor a.timo ho could resume his profossional duties at tho cafes to tho satisfac- tion.of kho. publio, -Suddenly, howover, he-wag soizod with snervops. aymptoms, lasting from tiwpnty-four to forty-eight haurs, and of such an extraordinary naturo that it was considerod eafe to take bim to the hospitul, His malady is.esalor to illustrate by example thao to.define. Whon bo jsin his fit be bas no :Bensitivoness of his own, and will bosr physical E:m without beiug aware of it; but his will may influenced by conisct with extarior objects, Sot him on hia faet, and, as soon.as thoy touck tha ground, they aweken.in him tho desire af walking;;, lio thon -marahes straight on quita atoadily, with fixed eyes, without ssyiag o word, orknowing what-ia.going on about “him. “If ho mgats with .au qbatagle on his way he will touch 1f, .and then -attompt to get out of its way. , It suv,amhgonoun jolu hauds and. form..s riug around him, he will try to.find an opoving by ro- Roatadly crossing pvor frpin.ane side to the oth. or, and this without botraying the slightest con- 8oigusncs or impationco, Tut a pon into his baud;. thiz will ingtantly awaken in bim o de- Bire of writing; will fumble about: for ink and paper, and,:if these bo [‘x)lnn_ud Lefore_ himy, Lo wil writo A very sonsible business. lot- tory Lut, whap the fit. is over, ho will royollest , nothing at all apput it. Give him somo ojgatetta-paper, aud ho Wi insiantly tako ont bl tovacgo-bag, roll..n olgarette very clov- oly, sug Jight It with a matol frow bis gwn box. T will L_x‘,xmm Lut thom out one aftor another, Mst to lnat.to got a fight, K with his {ll-sucuesy. X 4 Xut ignito a match yoursolf, and give it him, hie will not ugo if, 4nd ot it burn bobweew bis fingers, , Fill his -tobacoo-bag with anythiug, no mattor what,—ahnavings, cottan, lint, bisy, etc.,— hp will ol his,algarotio Just tho #amo, Jight and smuko it jout porcaiving, tho, hoax.” But, botter syl put s pair of gloves iuto his hpng, snd fio.will pt thom on a¢ onge: this, reminding bitn'of his profession, will meko him look for his musie, . A.xolt of .paper s then givon to hlm, - upou which ha assuimes tho attitude of . alngor (- before the publiy, and warbloy seme pisco of luy raportory, ,ll‘ydu Dplage ,valir’:ihu hq'l"arp Lim Lo will foel .aliout on ‘y'u‘nr -parson, and, meotlig with {pur,wulch,. ho'will tiansfor ft from gnnr .pockolto bis own; buf, on the othdr hand, ho will atiow you, withol nix{ rotatico or YmBie tionco whatever, to take it back sguin.—Gallg- nani's Aegsengor, i ———— " Brince Leppol A good denl of prominence, says the London Medical Record, hus beon glvou, during the last ,faw days, and on furmor.oconsions, to telograms concorping. tho #orioys llnoss of Priuge :Loo- pold. at may bo well, thorafors, tp osplain that the.illnoss to which reforenco Ia -thus made .is nothing mora thau «tho accidents -which from tmo ¢o time raroly fail -to .pmbareass & young .mun who suffors from tho particular form.of coustitutional delicacy to which tha young Fringo is linble, It has boon already mudo kuowu that Princo Loopold is ono of those persous. who isve an whaiont thickuegs of hlood, whioh makos overyallght soratel give rise to a moro or less serious lomorrhezo, and mukos tho littlo seel- donta and. bruises which aro incidental o sotive lito, matters of maro or loes serious eubsoqUONY ipconyeniouco, It 1w rather a havd - fate that overy. ann of thososhonld bo ohranioled, and that ovary timo tha Princo outs bis flyger, or that bis foot slips, and ho gota » little stran or bruise, compating telographiata whould flll the news- !mpn{a and postors with mzrnurtlpup .couoaruinfi 1ju.gorlous ulnoer, -We fave - all. & natural an loyal intargst iu.tha hoalth apd welfure of tho uony.aud hier family; put ;we are Inclined ;to . think that in tho oaso .of Princo Leopold sugh intorony. would: bo ;Dogk- phowa, by. letting im wlono. llia, . & AR 6 e Bl to one Evollna-Oheedbrd; for thb ‘st o $50,000, Tho Probable Caugen, In tho, onrly part of' 1873 tho annusl invostiga- 4ot by s legialative committod into'thio mnnyos imarit of the Sfats Ponitontinry took pluce. ", Tho inyaptigation, waa brought.about by.a nublished cherge that tho mansgomont was not what it aught to'be, and that the Btato wan' being de- traudtd 1 ~vudry” wiys: - The' investigation was thorough aua tadions, and tlis vordiot of the committaa was that a fow ‘*lrrogulacitiea” bad ‘beon discovared, but that the lustitution’ W88 pros- erongand bolf-sitstatning. Goy. Boveridgo, while dtter G.\a Yordict hooamo "public, deterhiltiod upon. ,, o i I. . JTHE NEMOVAL OF TUE COMMISSIONENS, Rield, Rowott, and Dute, for “ noglact of duty;” thoy having failéd to regpoct an tuvitation to re- sign,’ The'ordpr of romoving them ivas isaued ou tho 9th of May, 1878, and at tho samo.timo tholr successors wera appointod In' tho person of Gon.“M. M. Baug, of Quney; " Dr. Thdo- doro Canlslus, of - Aurota; ond "~ ‘Maf. J.° W, Wham, .of Salpm. Tho day fol- lowing two of tho now Commissioners, Bane and Caniglus, were ‘duly installed. Mr. Wham did net put in an appearance for soversl monghs aftorward, and it wos thought for somo tima thob e nevor would,: The new Board wss ac- companied by the Governor, who brought along witivhim £ i o Wi EX-MAYOR SMITH, + of Springfield, to suporsedo Edwards s Wardon Lhe now men took hold with s grest flourish.of trumpots, and for a while evoryihingran smooth- Iy, The Commissioners ‘seomed inclinod to do their best for tho intorest of tho Stato, uniil thoy bogan to allow - . ' THUEIR INDIVIDUAL INTERESTS to interfore. Gen. Bane had a brather-In-law, & donuet, “fnsialled as ‘Prison Phyasiclan, at the +oxponuo of the romoval of ‘the old physician, sngd algo imported one Capt. Hamilton, from Bpring fiold, toenjoy asincoure. Dr. Canisius furuished tho, Matron of tho- inatitutiok from smbng his friends, whilo tho noiv Wardoen found it necadsary to make cortain clorical changes to nccommodare ‘friends. Diroctly * attor theso chiangos had boen mado came. P “TUY MEMOMADLE BAG-BRIDOK DIGASTER, on the Ollee.go & Alton Railrond, n which tho | Wardon was'one of the Lilled. ‘This sad acci- dont threw the entire prison’ into tho 'grentest confusion, which was only quicted by the oarly mocting of tho Bonrd, nud its anpointing ono of its numbier to tho Wardonship, Maj. J. W. Whar. Col. John'M. Southworth, of Woodstock, was then sppointed Commissionor iu Wham's place, and at once onterod upon bis dutios, : THE NEXT TROUBLE the prison endurad grow oub of tho blunder of the prison physiclan'in ordoring s convict bathed who was physically unable to sland tha treat- ment, and “who died while undergoing it, ‘Cho Comunusgioners happened to bo ot tho prison at the timo, but the Wardon was absent. “Thishis- tory of the entire affair is familiar to all—or it ought to bo, from the atteution tho ' casg received @t tho ‘time. Growing' out of this drowning case sprung’ up o fael- ing mot of the friondlicss naturs, becwoon the ‘Warden: oud the Commissioners. Tlioy wantod'to remova Wham's depucy, Hall, to which Whnm roplied that **if you romove Hall, you'll tako niy dcalp, too,” Tho fusling angon: dered upon that oceasion continued to intendty up to s fow woeks ago, when it culmingted in J SWIAM'S REMOVAL, and tho appointmont of one MeLavwroy, of Mon- mouth, in" his placé. Bofore Wham wns ra- moved, iwowaver,’ ho gave hig man Iall tho ‘grand bounce,” which the Commiusioncrs in- dorsed. The charge aganst Hall was insubor- dinasion, 'The first act of the now Warden in taking cliaygo was to reinsiato Hull, which tho Cownissiencrs nlso approved. Everything way - ngain_ supposed to bo serong, until Waam's muttoringd had boon nndersteod to havo rewchod the Gubernetorial ear, and to Lave Ikindied in tho Governor's mind o desire to Bee justico done. The Governor wae at onco importuned to vigit the' Erlsnn by the Commissioners, and Wham to bs reinstated. Whnm camo to this clty : ’ % AND SAW THE QOVERNOR. Mia Excellancy was uvo [Littlp’ pravoked, as wag alao Maj, Wham." Tho sequenco shows thoe Gov- ernor listened to Wham, bii€ not the Commis- slovers, for, in vc{Iy 0 thoir invitatlon of over o waek ago ko visit tha pricon aad partake of o sumptuous dianer, the Governor indlted a litilo 1ioto to Mossrs. Bane and Canisius, “°T " ASKING THED TO RESIGN, Thoy refused, and tho Governor jusisted.. Yos- terday. tho quarral resched a lemporary climax, whon tue Goyernorromoved Mesars, Bano and Canislus, for * noglect of duky,” sud appointed in their stead "Maj, Woodbury AL Tuylor. of tho DLost’ ana’ Mail of this city, aud’ Maj, J, W. Wham, " “ex-Commissioner "and —ox-Warden. Wiiethor eithor of the new appointeos will ac~ copt or uot is not settled.’ “Mai. Wham, it is un- darstood, has'a havkering afcer the Wardeusbi) again, but may concludo for the pregant thel half & waf'is batter thnn no broad at all. A Trisuse roporter enlled upop MR TAYLOR ' yestordny “afternoon to loarn what couree ho would take, e stated that Gov. Beveridgo was in the city Monday, and offercd him tho appolot- mout, bub thot ke did not say whether ho would accopt it or not, ' He further said that he had no idoa that ‘tho Govownor, tnder tho °clreum- stauces, would avpoint him, and that tho fitat intimation Lo had of lus appointment was iy tho following tologram, raceivod o the forenaon : - or, SEGRGEELD, A, 31, 990 A, 31, fofs W ¥, Tulor, ‘Exenin and Yionso bacts'hows Boara’ dt " Deituatiory to-morrorr, Pupers will be thore. JouN L, BEVERIDAE, Commissfoner Southworth was in the city yes- terday, and recoived s similar dispatch, ~Both Mesars, Tiylor and Houthwoith loft lnst night for Joliet, where thoy will bo met thie morning by tho Governor aud Wham, TIHE FOLLOWING CARD from the removed Cowmissioners appeared in tho Journat last ovening: You will probably learn this dsy that Goy. Beverldge hav removed from oflice the undersigned members of tho Btale Board' of Foutlentury Comimissioners, Wa wiil oon furnish you with tho full correspondence, 60 thpt the publio inay undoratund all the fucts in the cane, and 60 that our fault was ot nogict of duty. AL ML Bang, g {Pizobonk CANTaIUS, The explunalion promised will no donbt bo voluminous, it s undorstood that the removal of Wham, without the advice and consant of the Governor, and wittiout any given roason, will | figiro on' one of ‘the *noglocts of duty,” and | tiat Bome dillicalsy botween the romoved Coms missioners and_tho prison contractors will buve apartin the oxplanation. It 'is also. rumored thut there {s vomothing uun_nhulmtprf' about the lottiug of certain contracts for supplios in con- nection with thp old Banrd's history, all of which wilt como to light 1 duo timo. Lot the oxpluus- tlons bo what they may, tho State is donving no bonafit from _the” frequont troubles at thn Pan- itontinry. "Forsomo time that institution las beeu run a8 a political machine, to the dotriment of dlgeiplino aud’the confusion of overy subor- dinate uround it. ‘Lhe Alloged Adulieration of 'Pen. A short timeago quito . broaze was oxeited in British housoholds- by tho. spposronce of & lotter in the Loudon Zmes signed * A Whole~ ualo ‘Con-dealar."* The writer appears to bo one thoroughly versed- in all tho dotaiis.of the toa trade, and Lo brought tho mout sorious oharges of adnlleration agalnal mavy louges in t.hnt buslposs. « * Coloring " und * facing'" ten 8o as to_givo it an artiticisl valuo; drying ' rotting munskes” of loaves, and coloriug thom dor murkot—such wora said to be froquont praotices und Manclioster was siuglod out for o sppoial cousire oy a- ''hol-hed of adulteration.”” Tho writor of this letter was a Mr, Whitworth Juckson, who wag {u consequenco summoned to givo evidouco lLefore u Larliameutary com- nutteo, ; Ho aas sharply exemined, ana hig augwors cortaluly did nol boar out tho charges ho hpd scattorod brondeast agalust the mombery of, & mos¢ respeatablo body of tradors, - A'hoe noxt duy, bhaweyor, tho father and unolo of this ' vory witness wero oallad, and they gave svidenco flatly gantradioting ou most cssontinl poluts the ussorzons of thoir rolatve., The [futhor - gald that bis son hud sorved in 1o othor houses thay i awn, pud, o far a8 thoy wera concorned, tho ovidanco was ¢ thoroughly falue.” The unole suid nparly ng muol ; & largo part of tho c;xnrfnu, ity deolared, exigted only 1x Ly uophow's lmagin. ation, and the othor lmt conpigtad of oxaggora. tlous, “This was prot {Iutruu(;. hutitavas justiled by mpuy ciroumstantlal facts. dotailed o tho vourso of & lengthened pxamination, Thus.tho outcomo of this eplsode i that the pengor is hime solf oonwured ;. his ~dununciutions of a highly rospactuble tyade are utrerly digoreditod, and our muoh-mpllfiuud .ten—tg borrow tho phiascology of thp Seu ilong-honaorwlonves o oqust withous | 1ogn--tlio-*¢ coloring " tain Onfts Ghitactor, Astald il Shiiclar r:! Jackaon, Bri ads or “ffich\%,‘;‘ Wwhichi o7 mitn, oan b namo,” We fanoy (rdmarks a London pnpor) thig {8 & vory” fair inforetco f_mmpll“hmt “hns tnkan, Y\m:u. Choap'ton will not *‘pay " for any oxtensivo . pdirttacation, ‘while thn coloripg ‘of seantod oapor to-moot tho-domand for groon, It 8 common praotico onco; 18 oW not much fn ko, for "lu.llgmln rongon that onli;_ml £onn liave boen found out; And'tho pubilo will net have them, i S il A LITILE BIT OF HISTORY. The Victim of n Proxs-Gang. = % - Frow Cassels Magazine, Eolipaes, comats, and extraordinarily high tldes can bo p;ndlutnd with acouracy ; thoro oven B00mA 20 bo probabilily that in time tho wanthor will also.strike jta.flag Lo sclence, and thot moans will bo-tound of disontanglitg tho conflicling in- finoncos' which sond an aneroid upand down. But in the art of forotelling tho probable current of publlo enthusinsm’ thore 13 no sign of prograss, ‘Tho keoneat observer of human nataro can no moro .guass whather.tha .oarecr of auy partio~ ular wuitor, warrlor, exploror, or .eriminal will simply sppear in the newspapors and exclto nomoro attontion, or will bo gonorally taken up as.a.mattor of national mportauce, then the morest tyro can, It was muro than s milion to ona that Robort Jolfroy's wrangs ;would remain unnoticed, or rafae but a.feeblo and pasalng in- toreat, - Ho became .a. Fupnlnr idol, however,—s roprosentative victim of the pross-gang svstom, and the tyrannical customs which naturally grow out of It, aud so & vory curiqus story hsa boon handed downtous, ., : In 1897 a privatoor named the Lord Nelson was fitted st Folporro in Coruwall, a placo famons.for its hardy race of smugglars, the on- tiro population boing hruthe up.to look upou const-guardsmen as natiral ouomies, who might bo killed with ss .good a consaionco as though they ,wera . Frouchman, Tho profits of pri- ‘vatosring wero often greater oven than thosoe of smuggling, and.the Lord Nelson hag no dificulty in gathoring togothor a firat-rato crew. Amongst thom was o, man who had boon brought up, asa blacksmith, but had found both oxcitemont and profit in aw oceasional mea-trip, and indeod wns =8 good at tho tiller as at tho forgo, porbapa a triflo botter, Tho nsme of this ampliblous Cornlshman was Robort Jefroy, and hiscaroor s & privatoorsman was a shorl one; for tho Lord Nolson, at the véry com- moncament of Ler ¢ruise, waa forced o put into Falmouth, where she wag boarded by a press- gang. It waaa porfeotly illogal proceadiug ; the proes-ganyt -had no moro right to take & man out of the Lord-Nolson than you or I'bave to bresk intos house and talts tho plate-baskot, But ab the commoncement of this century privato rights woro vory lIttlo rospacted whora tho pub- lio servico was -concarumli unloss tho porson whom it waa proposed to injuro had plenty of monoy or political influenco. ~Robert JofTroy had neithor, and ho was carricd on-board H, M. 8, Reerui’, and converted fnto s man-of-war's-man quita against his will, andin dofiauce of his clenr and undoubted protaction. Tho commander of the Recruit was a young officor at that time woll known in the navyas a rocklens, self-willed, pagsionate man, tho-folbles of whoso nature woro forcod and oxasporatod by déspotio powors and drinking habits, As if hia normal thirst were not !noné:h. be was now sent to cruiso in tho Caribboan Son, -whoro -the heat of tho sun whetted it to -8uch an oxtont that he was soldom or evor sober, tho mildest potation that he used to quonoh it belng spraco-heer, - of which he kept a cask always on tap in his pri- vato cabin, g | Boforo he had been on board many days, Jof~ froy's proficiency a4 a amith-was discovered, and bo was made armorer’s mnte. Bo that thero wag o fair change of his making: his onforood trip lvmfl{‘cnmlnrl‘;h\v, and, returniog after & fow montha to his hative place, with- & pocketful of prizo-money ‘aftor all. But -an_-unfortunate roup of circumstances got in tho way., Tho -xpenln was-not tho only thirsty man.in the sulp; his armorer's mate, for oxample, oceanionally -bad ~a drought upon hm, which was - condlderably. - aggravatod oy the oxirema --hot weoather and tho amall allowance of -water served out datly, Tor tho ship was running sbortof thab treasure which wo never -prizo-whilo wo have it. During this atato of affaire, Jeffrey was sent to oxecuto some job in-the Oaptaw’s cabin, sud, boing left alone with the barrel of spruco-boer, ho began to ogloit. Thero-was a drinking-oup, which bad beon used, lying vory handy; the Oaplain wason declt ; o ons coulil seo him ; he-was very thirsty ! Ho snatched up-tho cup, and desisted from his work A -momont to draw off hinlf a -pint aud tou 1f down, Very-good it was, and very re- fresniug ; istolen watera are awaot, ‘what.mnat rmrlninmf gpruco-beer bo? Piesontly anothor drink was taken, with oqual Buocess. A..-third. however, was_spoiled - by tue thick and .wrathful Yoice of ‘hin-Captain, who had comoe balow un- heard, unnoticod, in time to witnosa thia out- ragooud seb of -daring prosumption. It wonld buro & hole in tho puperto writo down Capt. Lake's remarks upon tho oaocasion. Sovouty years ago all gentlomen awore a little ; naval oflicers awore “very much, Jnoroasing in vehe- mouce a4 they rosein rank ; men in liquor awore, 08 at the progent day, hardest of all.” You msy imagino, then, what tho language of a drupken sea Captain must have been when ho saw his be- loved spruce-beer flowing: down the throat of a common armoror's mata] Thet : audaclons wrotoh wad olappod:in irons prosontly, whilo his infurinted commandor, having . xefroshed him- olf, refurned to the.deck, which be paced with unstoady elaps,. rovolving in his mind what unishment -would, be enfficiont for.a crimo so gaiuoun. It oughtto b somothing unusual, sturtliug, appalling po tho act whick it.avengod. Buddenly bis oyes caught slgm« of.a small {al- and, now turned into a jowol by the raya of the sup, which was siuking in the west, sud the in- spiration came. ot * éfm\mmnntl " ho eried. MEiez" 2 “ Man the gig, and gend for that fellaw I havo bod confined.” el It wne done, and theu, to tho Licuteuant's borror, bis superior oflicer ordered him to talio the prisoner, land him on the barren rock,. and leave him, **I'1 bave no thioves.on bosrd my ship,"” Lo said, o ‘Tho Cantain was evidently the worse for drink, and his Licutonant hositatod. *‘Do you hear mo, sir?"-thundered the aston- ished .commander: -oud digcipline_provailed, Deoply.as ho lonthed tho sct, tho Lientouant lind.po..optian but to oboy; the arew, though they murmurod, did not mutiny, and Robert Jellroy.avas. put ashore without food or drink. Ho Lad his Lnife, aud one sailor gave him a handkerchiof, sud suother. & long stick which he had thought to throw into the boat ns they atioved off, for tho doserted man tosignal with. By thia timo the sun bad sunk, and whou the Lot roturned to tho sbip it loft tho poor follow bohind, alone in tho dark, Sy He fully betioved that the Captain only meant to frighten him, and bore up pratty well through thonight witl.that idea, But when the morn- g dawued {ho Reoruit was & mera spack in tha distance, which slowly but mirely passed nway boyond the horizan. Then the unbeppy- man renlized that ho waa a caatawsy, ¢ Tho Recrut, indeed, had. cavght a favoriug braoao, whiob carried hor quickly to Barbadaos, where sho joined the squadron nndaer Admiral Six Aloxander Coohrane, “Here oficars sud orow, mingling with those of .other ships, spoko. f:ea? of the affair, woich presently resched the Ad- miral's aars, who sews for the Captain, quoationed hiw, sod, finding the story trus, savorely repri- maaded him for his brutality, and ordered um Lok to rescue the man, - 2 Iho island upon..which Jeffroy had baen so hurbarously loft waa one of the Looward group, & degolate rack called Sombrero, and the Reoruls Rot back to it just o fortnight after:tho, event. Acaroful gearch woa inatituted, but all that was found was a pair of trousars,.uot Jeilrey's, sud o tomabinwk-handle, ua trace of the midsing maw heing dlscoverable. . . v T T\fiu rosule bolng roported on the Aip's raturn to Harbadoes, Sir Aloxander Uochrane felt aatis- fled .that the.man. bad beon . roscued by somo passing voauol, sud let tho matter raat far the time, Buta gaod many formed & dilferont opin- {on, and suspacted that Jeffroy had coma ta gome violout end; and when tha squadron raturnoed to England tho affalr svas taken up by the pooplo at homo, and mado g0 much noigo that, afior two yenrs hnd elapsed, the Usptain was brouglt to & court-martial, coudemnod, aud dismissod the sorvice, ‘Ihis, howevor, Instead of apponsivg tho publio. oxcicoment,. ouly intlamed (¢ tho wioro, by the suthoutio dotsila which ware brought to light in the .caurso . of the court-martisl, ‘tho illogality of the man's hav- ing becu prossod at all—~tho voninlity.of his of- foune, expevinlly: considering tho circumetances of thirascaused by short allowauoce of .water iu 80 1ot » olimnto, und the ready tomptationta ap- poas it Immu directly In his way, combinad, with tholnhuman cruolty of nia abandoument, to Atir (o publip indiguation, Meetings wera Lald, artiolos -written, , petitions sigued,. yrging the proprioty of ondeavering by all mesus to discover what bad booome or the muasjug man ; and Bir Fravols Burdett loat no opoaitunity of keeping tho quoetion hotore .Governneut in tho Houne of Commony. . lloge! prevniugs, keel-hawnlings, flogiugs to donth, wora not 6o uncommon in tlio nayy at that thuo aa 10 account for tho upually Wndiitor- out publio’s opponning Robort Joffroy’s cavve ¥o warly ; but it did 4o, and made & Teprasoutn- tjvp man of him, " v hofirgk authouto nows came Lrom Goorgo snid'to gongtituto a Dot on its good °| g, Tinaeol, marlner, ‘svho .depoped . on anth Lofora th Mayor of Liverpool that lio lind just rotumed rom Haverly, n town (u Massnobusets, and that o man was living thoro who was nickunmed the Gaya of Hombraro, - whoss. roak name yan “Whoratipon this Jeffroy was'communi- catad with, and fu.dns. timo .8 loter in reply, purporting to come from him, woe receivedl, glviug a full account of-his adventura, Whon thio Reeruit had quite dissppeared, Lo romalted for “some tlid ovgrwhelmod with'do- spalry buit'afier a white aw “eaim, and foit very lungry, s0:ho qxplggufi" pis fsland to seo if there was ‘angthing fo ot upon 1, but could find “nothing_oxoapt birds, whioh flow away, birda will, when he tried to cateh them, At taat L. discovared au .6z, but, . alaE 1. It was.pu oloction egp—n yory good inlmslle, but nob edible, Boon, howevor, - tho. ‘pangatof. hunger Rave placo to tho severer suferlngs of thirst, which he tried to.appossa -by amallowing the sca wator, and that of course mado mattors worso, But Hoavan, mora mercifal tisa min, son Wi s showor of rafn, whicli lodged in the crovices of tha rocks, and inflicted.tho punishment of Tane talus upon him until ho thonght of cutting the quills, of wiich thero wora plonty strown about, and sucking up the puddles g8 wo moderncra do shorry gobblors. '+ g 3 In additign to huoger and thirat, ho endured tho ufi;any of iopo deferred, for Hh[pfl wore coti- stantly passing, but fatled fo_sse Luis siguala till tho ninth day, whon somio obo on boprd the Adams, an Americau sghoonor, nuticod bim way- ing the stiok ta which hia handkorchlo! waa tied, Tuo master, John Denunis, sout n boat, and brought him off in an Apparently. dying slato, 8o exhnustod as to be unablo to spenk. With care and kindnoss, however, bie rocovered. and was carriod to Marblohoead, Mass, whero hio aup- portod-himaol? by his trado ae o blacksmith. . ‘Tlid eiroumatantial cecount patisfiad poople at firat, but when thelotler was sliown to Robort JofTrey's mother she pamtod out that not ouly was it written iu o atrange-hand, but that' it wea nob ovon signed by her son, who could write woll ©enough, and was .vory unlikelyto make his matk, a8 tho man who voucled for iho gonuineness.of this eplatlo had.done. This ohjociion naturally carried woight, and many peoplo suspectod ' that tho ovidonco of (Gaorge Hassel and of the lotter hod beeu got up by tho Coptain, who was anx- ioua to prove tho man to ba alive, and eo escapa fromtho odium ywhioh attached to him, . Tinnlly & sbip was sont to bring this profess- ing Robort Jefiroy to England, whoro ho arrived in duo course, and proved to bo the Xight man gafo onough, 'n cortain shyness and ‘difiidonce which ho felt in}hc,rrnuuuna of tho gontlemon who had deawn.np his roport being tho cause of Lis making n cross iistead of sigoing, it. Ha landod at Portamouth in the Octobor of 1819, threa yoars sfter tho- ovent which had caused kim to bocoma a publio character. Tho, Admir~ alty forwardod him under the cherge of a unval officer loPoIrun-o, whore tha ontiro population rocogulzod him, and his arrival was made the oc- carion of great public rejoicing. : But bofore settling down in his nativo place o accopted an.offor from the maunger of a Lon- don thoatro 4o oxhiblb himsolf for » certain num- ber of nights, and ps it becimo tho rage to go and soo " Jollroy the Ballor,” e made rather o good -thing of it. These profits wore preacntly gwelled by & sum of £600, which was prid_him hf' tho family of the Captain in acquittal of all ofaims ' ho ml{(m havo against that officor, who was still liablo to a civil action, and in tho ax- cited stato ot public opinion waa likely to be cust in boavy damages. ' Aftor the. 1apse of & forv months, swhen. ho ceased to * draw,” Jeflrey roturned to Cornwall with monoy enough to [)\uchn!e & coasting schoanor ; marriod, and, if this wore tiction, would bave lived happily forover aftorwards, But-tha story being & parfootly.true ono, Robort Jeffrey was Bubjoct to all those ills which sfflict ordinary mortals. who have nover bean the sub- Jocts.of popular sympathy or cutiosity., ¥ Ho_ falod ‘to msko his schooner pay, and ho died early of cdnsnmption, leaving Lis wife and doughter in great distross, . (S . ks o " A Ruined Duke’s Plate, From the New York Times Thers i6 & ‘passage in a slory called *Young Brown,™ Which lately. apponred n the Corne hill, Magarmu, which dopicts with forco.and fi_np\no otail an English nobloman seated in the hbrary of his palace, sppprontly in tue objoy- mont of all that woalth and rank can' give; but really & heart-broken bankrupt. Tho writer-bag overy qualifieation for giving this portrait, for the ruined Dulto was his own fathor,, tho late Duke of Buckinglam, Thero ecems something of » fatalily attonding eertain titles, Nono hag Leon moroe ill-fated thaw that of Duckingham, ‘Thrice it has become extinct. In the reign -of Woury VIIL Stafford, Duko of Buekinghmm, one of the most eplondid nobles of Lis time, fost bis faead on the Block and his lionors wero attuinted About & h\mdred‘yonr- Inter tho title was ro~ wived in favor of Villiors family; and the holder foll by tha hand of Falton; tho nasassin, at Portu- mouth. Tio death of th&lst, Duke of thfs lino, who' marticd ‘the danghter of the celebrated Lord Fairfax, a familiat to most all, by boing clronicled in tho famous lines:— 4 In the warat inn's worst room, with mat half hung, Tho walls of plaster and the flaoe of dung, The Georgo and Garter davgling from the bed hoee tawdey yollow atrova witl dlrty rod Great Villiors Jies, alag how chauged fram him, ‘Thie gluss of {sehionand the soul of whim," -, Not many yems after the doath of the last Villigrs the title of Buckingham, or, to bo moro exact, Buckinghamshire, was again selected for a Dukedom, 88 though it bad some irresistible fascination obout- i, and, John Buopleld, wns raised fo the dignity. But it .hecamo extinot thraugh (ailure of legitimate heirs in 1735, _"The old Anscination apparontly remained, for in 1784 Richard Grenville, Earl ‘Fomple, was created Marquis of Bugkigham, aud in. 1823 xaived to a Dukedom under the samo title, The Greuvilles, or Groenfields, forthename has beon varjously epolled, wore an ancient Buckingham- shire family, sented at Wotton, in thnt connty —a manor which still bnlun&;s to:tho duke— from the time of Heury I, and in the eightconth coutury gained both honors and forimae by the marriage of BMr. Richard Grenvillo with the boirers of the ‘Temples, of Btowe, .From that period dates the great political-aud social im- portance of the family and tho colebrity of their soat, which ero loug bocamo oue of the aizhts af flnglnud, and -the groutost private tressuro hauge withia its borders, By Hoster ‘Temnlo, Riobard Gronvillo had deacendants whose names aro famlinr to all edacatod Anglo-gaxons, Their eldest son becamo Earl Templo, and.wns, eminont 28 2 party lepder early iu tho reign of Georgolil. ‘Thoir on! fldnugmor, was tio wita .of Ohatham and mother of Pitt, and their great-grand- dnughter was Lady Hester Stanhope. The second Earl Tomple married the danghter and heiress of Earl Nugent, an Irish Pecr, and thua lim:u! cht » frosh infusion of fortune to the amily. 1t was moro than needed. Tho foriunes of an Astor, w Vonderbilt, and o Stowart combined would not have been too Iur;:e to support the rrofuso hoapitality aud princoly liberality- which lha Tomple-Rugont-Grouvitles loved ‘to - din- peuse, When, in 1706,, tbe Lead .of tho house married tho only child of tho (nst Duke of Chon- dos, people were amazed at the wonderful com- biuation of honors which had fallon on s single fawily;. but,-it this n[url-ru increased the splendor of the heraldic shivld, it brought na correrponding nerosso of wealthy, for the Duke of Chaudon bind dicd atmost pennfless, and, ine deed, from tho time of- this allinnce, which soomed sp magniflcant, tho fartunes of the houso began fo dacline, The superb banquety of Buckinghwm Houss—now the. War . ofice in-Pall Mall, but atill distinguishable, by. tha ducal armd qugraven upan it—the splendor with which tho firsb mnrquis bad: maintained the vice-regal oftice in Iroland, aud the regal estab. lishmeuts maiutainedatStowe Gosstlold, Wotton, and Avington, his various country seats,. began to ont taryibly futo his ynst fortune, Nor wera theeo, tho only sourcoa of -expouso. Ior a huudred yoars ormore the Gronvilles wore the greatost purchiasors of worke of art, Tho bnlls aud gallorios of Stowe were erowded with such s wollection of gold. and silver. plate, stutuos Em“m' and porcolain a8 had never before con collocted in a privata abado, About 1846 the Quoen, then in the hoyday of Ler happy married. duys, wae. paying visits to the - most distinguishod of hor subjacts, ond. it, wae arranged that ube should sty somo days..at Btowe, Probably aven thea . tlie Duke thought ho might, in some way. or othor, stave off the nvalaucho which threatoned to overwheim him, At nll evonta, horegolynd Lo receive bis xovoreign, aud superb were the proparatfons mado, .. The Quoen and Conrort oane, The country rang with the splondars of their reaoption, ' But there vas anothier sido £ tho picturo—that which Ar. Gronville Murray hes portrayed .in ' Yaoung Brown." Two years later. the, avalsnclie fell. Uttor ruin had goyo, Tha presont Duka with & filint desiva to halp his fathor, lad cut off tha antuil of helrlooms, und tho tressures of Stowe wara doomed to the hammor, . . i *hege ovonts aro recallod to us b{ A generous clauge in @ rocont will. There diod lately w -gentloman of the namo of Guissoll, who made l““«gq purchasesy of .plata at the Btowe gale. - Hymfm(luzlllu‘ 1o doubt, with tho. prosont oxe emplary Paer, Mr. Grissoll has orderod in his will that thig &lln;u sball b, at his doath, offared to tho Duke at cost prico, I8 grace’s fortunes are N0W 0nee more prosperous. . His watorual nnele lofe him a fortune, which his onere; 51 upuko und businoss hebits huve servod to ifi'n- prove, - Mo is onco moro fu his encestral ‘bally of Btowo, apd Las brought many of ity troasures tlo ultjazxnguuul:muug nav‘)mulh:\: w!‘:l vm(x., Qrigeoll doubtlese hopg e plato Onsouslon Wonld Aad ite oy i