Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 26, 1874, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY,. AUGUST 26, 1874. e e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATEA 02 BUDACRITTION (;AY:‘LI 1IN ADVANCE), R 12, unday of H15:00 ] Wooiar %.00 the rame rate. e mistazes, bo suro and givs Post n , including Btate and County, ‘a3 o mads olthor by dratt, axprost, Post ¥ 1 registered latlers. at o risk, TERMB TO CITY ll"‘lu’u-""illfl‘ & Ay srcopted b cents per wook. Fat dellcarad: Pihane tasiuied, 10 conts por wook. "Addiere Phip TR GOMEAN Y 0 or Madison and Dentborn-ate.. Ubicago, il st fospines Ofico ot TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, ACADRMY OF MUBIO—Hnlstod stzest, botwosn Mad- . “Kngsremont of Olivor Dond Tyron. e mcons - Douald R Eroning: *Boa McOul. Aftornoon: ** Donald MoK Tough* TRIC—Madlton street, betweon Kngagomont of Hdwin Adams. NIGIITS1-OII0AGD OOM- e O Taciliors aro horehy ro- 2ATTENRIONS, W 2 i t'tho Arylum Ll Ll uniform on Thurs- B‘:;t.'fi?’,::fn?':‘f 750 Y etaeh, anarp, fur 1o purposs “h nte R e o af rlontal Suv. Causistors at 1 ek, Y Catents courtoously invite ko e, U R S BINGLATh. Uhe Chicagy Tiibune, Wednesday Morning, August 20, 1874 Tho Cmm't)' Commissioners ara boginning to wish thoy hiad loved God and fenrad the Grand Jury when the Tomptor baited thom to buy tho Matthows hoapital-lot. William M. Springer, Esq., was nominated by tho Damocratio Congrossional Convention held at Springfiold yestordny. Mr. Springor is an ablo fawyer, is thorougbly familiar with tho his- tory and wants of tho Stato and of the West geoorally; hos bad considorable exporionce in tho State Legislature, aud is an- excellont apenkor. 1f electad, ho will mako sn industrious and practically usotul momber of Congross, et 1t is very unhandsome of tho correspondonts in Washington to speak uukindly of the men principatly concerned in the fraudulent safo- xobbory. That affair hus been furnished forth as moat and drink to nowspaper readers during two woary months, and, though it must ba cou~ foaged to be very lean picldng, yet it is tolorablo. Wo shuddor to think what nowspaper row would have dono without it e e Gon. Singloton can tell a bawk from & horn- shew when tho wind is goutherly ; and ho says that gold is o glittoring fraud, Itis quite timo that tho poople should correct thoir opinions by Gon. Sfugloton's. Binco gold is o glittering fraud, and groenbucks are promiscs to pay gold, tho country is clently going to tho dovil. Hence 1t makes little differonce whather Gen, Single- ton becomes Presidont of the United Statea or ig sent to » lunatic asylum, Thero ia tho logio of 1t plainly expressod S An agent of tho National Boara of Undorwrit- eva {a now in this city consulting with local in- aursnce authoritios and ascertaining the views of tho Municipal Govarnment in regard to proposed improvoments in the Fire Department. The Council remaius u8 immovable s over, if womay judgo from ontward indications, Who pays for tho delay, it snybody, is a matter for conjocture, Tho probable explanation of it is that some of the necdy Aldormen are waitiug for propositiona which may cloar a path of duty before them. ] Tho Rev. C. D. Boynton, - pastor ot the First Cougrogational Church of Cincinuatl sud ex- Chaplain of Congress, bas croated & gront sonsa~ tion in Ohto by preaching a sermon in favor of tho liquor license, sud taking tho ground that Christians must ro-urguo tho whole guestion. While thero is no doubt of tho sonudness snd even necessity of his position, it bas caused this great geneation from the fact that Mr. Boynton has boen & tomporance advocate over since the Washiogtonion movement, and was one of the shief supportors of the recent crusads in Obio. s s Atty.-Gon, Edsnll yesterday advieed tho State Board of Equalization that it Las not the power to compol tho attendsnce of persous and tho production of pnvers, but may, through the courts, ouforce the penalty of witbholding in- formation nceesssry to its intelligent action. Another point on which his opiniou was desired is tho status of corporstions which last year re- fugod to make proper returns, and wero thoro~ foro not gasessed, Tho Attornoy-Genersl holds that oll arvoaragos thus creatod, and inter~ st at 10 per cent, way bo included lu the asacas- monts for the currant yel Y Afr. Matthews Las begun to weop over the do- genoracy of the times. Aany of his friouds bavo besn implicated in the course of tho in- vestigation by tho Grand Jury, and it seems to Lim hardly poasible for the truths to provan with- out hurting somo of them, The reporters say ho camo out of the jury-room yostorday with a flushed faco and trembling lip. When one's frionds bappen to be knaves, they ought to bo ofterod up for the general good without much waln ropining, Tho troublo with Mr. Matthows appears t¢ be that he had been obliged to place himsolf in tho position of one who doos nasty work without hope of row: Y The Convention of Domocrats, Liberals, Con- gorvatives, whito mon, and all others in Loui- pions opposod to the usurpation of tho Kellogg Administration, adopted a platform yestorday which is in the main commondable. Thercisa certafo degreo of vaguenoss in the resolution in sespect to tho payment of the State debt which wo should like to soe nvelded; but the tone of i, aftor all, {4 manly and bhonost. All good peopla at the North, whatever may bo tholr political connactions, must feel their hearts warm to these oppressed citizens of Loulsiaua, who aro maintaining, with only the woapons ‘which & monstrously nojust codo of laws affords thom, a strugglo for their rights quite ae d&;w zato aa the ono which was fought just bofora the ‘War of Iudopendence, e e—— Tho Chicago produco markots ware lrrog- dlarand uosettled yostorday. Mess pork wos dull and 30@260 por brl lower, closing at §23.60 @22.75 for Beptambor, and 816,875¢@17.00 seller the year, Lard was moderately active, and 26@ B0 per 100 Ibs lowor, closlng at 814.26@14.80 for Boptember, und 811,00 seller tho yoar, Moata wora in falr demand and flrm, oloslng at 83;@8%o for shouldors, 12%@ 123¢o for ahort riby, 133¢@13}¢o for short cloar, and 183 @189{o for awoet-piokled bams, High- wines wera guiet and stoady, at 970 por gallon, Lako freights wero dull and unchanged, at 80 for corv to Buffalo. Flour waa quiot and steadior, ‘Whoat was actlve and firmer, cloalng at 0330 ©aali, and 92)40 for Boptembor, Corn wag quiot snd advanced 1o, closlng at G0c oash, and 06340 sellor Boptombor, Oats woro sotivoand 1@2 lower, olosing st 40}¢@47 3o oash, aud U830 @u September. Nye woa fa talt domand aud firmor, at T4@74}go. Barley waa activo and wonk, but olosod firmer at 84@85o wollor Bop- tomber. On Saturday ovening lnat thore was in storo in this oity 1,110,060 bu wheat; 2,140,810 bi cornj 252,005 bu onts; 28,051 bu ryo; and 61,424 Lu barley, being an incronso of 877,020 bu of gralun during Inst wook. Hogs wore aotivo, ond pricos of morchautablo lots ruled 15@3200 higher than on Saturday. Bules at £56,00@7.76. The cattlo market was quiot and stondy, Shoop wore {n fair domiand, at & shade lowar pricos, e ——— The actual smount of damage done by the loousts in Dakota bas boen groatly oxaggeratod. QGov. Ponnlugton, in company with the Hon. 0. Q. Wickor, of Chicago, and othors, had traversed tho greater portion of tho Btato covering tho entiro distriot invaded, snd provounces the im- presulon of o gonoral dovastation entivoly false. ‘Wheat is' tho staple product of tho Territory. The ncreago this yoar groatly oxcoods that of provious yonvs, und, though the carly heat pro- vented tho ears from flling Jborally, the aggre- gate yleld will Lo gremter thau ever. Yo~ tatoos hove suffered slightly, oats con- alderably, and Dbut one-half of the ogrn crop will be barvested, Altogother tho damago done will not excoed 20 per contof the crops, aud may be legs than 10, Thoso obsorvalious are ombodied in o raport to the Mo, F. Watts, Com- missioner of Agrioulture at Washington, and will dispel the fooling of despondenocy existing n that part of tho coundry, Tho recont atat ement of Suporintondent Hoag iu justitication of the conduct of the Osage In- diana in tho eouthwostern part of Kauena has boon sharply criticised by thoss who srd kuow- ings tothe facta. It is shown that Superintend- ont Ifong derived his information entirely from the Indiaug, and was asked to produca his proofe or buvo Lis statements contradicted. to do either, It hna been shown by positive evi- donco that the Iudians brought upon themsolves their punishiment at Red ‘Mounde by making depredations upon the tottlomonts, 'mlliug set- tlers, and driving off stock. It seoms very ro- markable that tho Indian Agents invariably sym- pathizo with the Indluns and take part agniust tho settlore who ato trring Lo plaut Lomes upon the border. Tho pooplo of Ksusas sre about tived of this partlality, and somo of them have alrendy notifled Buperintondent fHong ho may rogt assured that *'tho citizen soldiors of the Southwost propose to *fight it out on thislino® Indian fushion, and that thoy hold thomselves perfectly reaponsible for their conduct,” Mr. Jo Ledlie, Gon. Singloton, and ono or two mora gontlomen who have uudertakon to rosur- reet tho Democratio party in Illinois, mot at Springfield yesterday and celobrated in heroio mensuros thoir ancieut deeds of prowess, and their still more valorous intontions. They did nothing more. No convention was held, because it was very clear that tho small company present would botray tho ridiculous weaknoss of their causo if they should bo gathered togotnor fn ono place. So thoy substituted o mass-mecting, and made arrangemonts for a couvontion to-day, hoplyg to piek up from the refuse matorial of tho Oppoeition party suflicient for their own humble wants. Singleton's speech, by all accounts, was worth going on bundred miles to hear. Ho roared himself red in tho faco in & painful effort to show that the Domocratic party wont down into the valley of humliiistion aud death in 1872; and thon gracofully advanced to the position that it would bo & boceming und profitable thing to stiing up tho old skeloton as & warning to ovil-doors. He rolled such words ag daath, tomb, aud resurrac- tion, a8 aweet morsels under hiy tougne; and sesured big hearors that tho stouo Lad been zolled uway from tho sopulchre. Onb reflection, the General will perceive that, unless thore is somo divine powoer by to restora the den to Jifo, it is altogether desirablo that that atons be rolled back with all possiblo speoed. THE SPRINGFIELD CONVENTION, To-day tho Convention called by the rarfous persous and organizations which united at the meoting hold fn tho Sherman House in this city wilt meot at Springfiold. It will, by Ita procoed- inga, detormine the palitical complexion of the ‘mafority of the noxt Cougressional delegation, and of the noxt Legislature, and of a large pro- portion of tho couuty snd local offfcos, It may by 1ty action seoure theso for tho Opposition ; it may, fo liko manner indirectly, so ropel sup- port that tho Republicans will vecure oven a greater propondorance in tho officera olected than thoy havo had for soveral years, That Conventiou will dotormine tho value of its procecaings by its action on the resolutions relating to financo and curroncy, Those who callod tho Convention askod the attendance of all those who favored : 1, The restoration of gold and sflver s tho basle of thio eurrency of the country; tho spesdy resump- tion of epeclo puymento, sud tho payment of alt pa- tlonal Indobtedncss fn tho monoy reqoguized by tho ctvilfzed world, 2, Fevo commerce, 9, Individual tberty, and opposition to samptuary Lo, 4. Rigld restriotion of the Goveruments, Loth State und National, to tho legitimato domaln of politi- cal powor, by excluding therofrom all oxecutive uud legisdativo tntermeddling with tho afiairs of socioty, whereby monopolics are fostered, priviloged classo aggrandized, und $ndividual frecdom unneceasurlly and oppressively restrained, 6 The right oud duty of tho Slatoto protectita citizens from extortion and unjust discriminstion by chartered monopolics, If the Convention ehall sdbere to and aflirm this declaration, it may anticipate the support of all the immense population, who, without sny referonce to pust political aesociations, will give their support to any doclaration in’ faver of houesty and good faith, and in favor of tho elovatlon of tho uational currenoy to the specie stondard, The peoplo are tired of falso- hood and equivoeation. The Unitod States Con- gross In 1862 by law onnotod that the groenbacks shauld be & legul-tendor for thoir face value; but, despito tho law, thoy lave not after twolve yoars, ulue of which have been since tho War, evor had any such valuo. A curroncy that haw not in fourteen years advanoed over 81 conts on thoe dollor, and is subject at any moment to fall to 81, ie not honeat, and there can be no stability to trado sud commerve so long aa that ourronoy is tho only ono in oirculation, So long as greon= back are worth b:$ 00 centa on tho dollar, the man must indeod be ignorant who supposea that ho can purchato with thom more thaa 00 conts on the doltar of sotual value, The man who contracts a dsbt with ourrenoy st 80 obtaina for his obligation no more thiau 80 conts on the dol- Iar of it amount, No one proposcs auy violont disturbance of the valuos of the curraucy, 'I'he popular iutor- eata demand that the ourronoy be advanced to par, &nd that the gold-room In Now York Do closed for ovormore, With groenbacke at par in coln, all transactions will have a real valuo, and trade of all kinda will heve & degrao of wiability une known for many yesrs, It tho Conventivn; howaver, shall depart from THe failed” tho call, and sball follow tho mon over In Indi- ann, who domanded the still further doprociation of the groouback, aud tho repudiation of tho publio dobt by foreing upon the publlo creditors the dopreciated ourrency fu payment thoroof, tlion the Qonvention will forfolt tho respact of every hopost mau {u the Htate 'and in tho coun= try. It will thrust from it tho support of all those who desiro to support o tlcket on tho plat- form of nntional integrity, and, of course, wiil invito that dofoat which it will most cortalnly ro- colva &t the polla. e THE COUNTY CONTRAOQTS, Y Wo vestorday publishod tho statomont mado Dy 3essrs. Bogue and Clough to the Board of County Commisalonois in which these gontlo- mon sbowod that tho connty had contracted with James Forsyth & Co, for cortaln articlos of grocories ab cortain prices; that tho contraotors hind prosentod bills for articles furnishod, and Lind boen patd at prices rangiug from 5 to 100 por cont groator than tho contract callod for. Waalso published what purported to Lo an ex- planation by Mr. O. T, Poriolat, which was baged on what wo supposed was a copy of tho contract. Sinca then, howaver, wo lisve found in tho publishod procoodlug of the Board of County Commissionera for the Decombor sossion, 1878, page B4, tho pricos nb which tho contract to Forsyth & Co. was let. Au oxamiuation of this papor shows that Mossts, Clough snd Boguo wero correct in overy particulnr fu their tablo of prices paid and contract pricos, Even in tho matier of the corn-moal thoy wore equally correct. Mr. Po- riolat exhibited, it seoms, his bid, aud not the contract. ‘Tho Commissionors solected from tho onumoratod articles in his proposal a largo num- ber, aud awarded him the continot at prices _plncod on tho record, and from which thore can #0nooscopo. In ihis liat are three kinds of sugar and two kinds of toa, inatead of nine of sugor and many of ten, as euggested by Ar. Pariolat, Theso prices for tes, sugar, and corn- meal, ng coutracted for and as paid for, wore ag given by Mousrs. Boguo and Clough 88 follows, Wa give but one purchase of cach: Arlicies, Contract price. Prics paid, $1.10 &0 Coffco sugar, A, por po Coffea bugar, C, per pound. Livingston sugar, C, per o Corn-menl extra, per barrol... 8.6 Thero was but ono kind of sugar furnished by tho contractors, the common brown sugar de~ eribed in the contract as Livingstoa sugar, 0. Tor this 934 conts per pound was chargoed, and the quantity was large whon iho contract prico waa 6760, In tho matter of tho ten, tho caso ia too plaln, The contract called for but two kinds; tho bills show that noue but those two kinds wero furaished, and, in both casos, the prices chargod aro double thodo in the con- tract. Wo hopo that the Commissioners who Lavoe startod out in this investigation will not abandon 1t until they have arrived gt the full meansure of abuse that lins boon practiced, 1091 7,60 £ THE QUESTION OF VERAOCITY. Tho tuability of the genorality of men accu- rately to weigh evidenco, fo eift it, or ovon to distinguish what is evidence from what is not, ‘has roceived a striking illustration in the com- ments of the prows sud of the public on the Beechor-Tilton cage, This iuability is observa- blo not only in the illiterato and undiseiplined, but In those who have bad all the advantages of & liberal oducation, Somo of the ablest and ‘most rospectablo journalists in tho country have fold themsolves opon to this eritieism, Thus the Now York Zribune, commonting on Moulton’s statement, Eaya: * Tue is- suo, then, is between the word of Mr. Deechor on the ono lhand, and the word of Mr, Moulton on tho otlor. Baya tho Springfleld (Mass,) Republican: “ Looking at the testimony a8 & whole, it is not difficult to goo that tho entiro caso turns upon & quostion of veracity betwaen Boeoher and AMoulton." Now, the eutiro case does not, by any means, turn on a question of veracity betwoen Moulton and Doccher. Itturns on the interprotation of the written docuwents in the ovidenco—on thomean~ ing to be put on Becchor's own lotters. Becchor and Moulton may be dropped out entirely, or, if retained in tha case at all, greater weight should be attached Lo Moulton's word than to Boccher's, according to tho best rules of evidence. By falscliood Beechor has everything to gain, Moul- ton nothing. Dy nssorting his innocence, Beeoh- er saves, or endoavors to save, his homor, his good name, s influence, his poslcion, hie posthumous femo. By confeusirg bim-~ self goilts, ho would loso everything worth prosorving, reputation, positin, weslth. Tho inducowont to swear away his guilt 13, in Beocher's cuse, 80 great, tho motives prompting him thereto 8o strong, that, to ovorcomo them, ho would bave to bo eondowed with a moral strongthalmost superbuman, aod which, if guilty, ho could scarcely postess. Moulton's induce- mont to bear falso wituoss is, on the othor hand, abgolutely nothing at all, 1e boro no ill-feoling toward DBeecher. o bad, to the lust, been friendly to him. He rofused to -spenk ahout his conuection with the scandsl until Beooker told him to tell all ho know. Had Lo servad Boechor by siding with him agninst Tilton, ho would hevo beon tho vartner of Beacher's influeuce. Beocher would biavo said o thousand times over, ns he had smd onco be- fore, that Moulton was tho bost friond God hnd ovor sont bim, o would Lave told him thot to Moulton kLo owed bis all; hins roputation whon it was imporited ; Lis position whon Lo was Lang- ing on tho Lrink of ruin. So far, thorofore, 8 the question of veracity goos, Boocher's word is, in thu ww:ance, where ho has so much at atake, open to doubt rather than Mr, Moulton's, Dut, lenving the word of thdso two gentlemen on- tivoly out of the question, thoro rommm tho written documents, Whoat do they all point to? Buppoelvg thaé noithor Deecler, nor Moulton, nor any othog party, hud uttered a sin- gle word concorniug thom, wnpposing thoy had boon discovered in a portfolloor found on the streat, without one word of commant to explain their origin, what impression would thoy make on tho mind of tho reador? The findor wonld digcover In thom the oxpresslon of romorso terriblo, doep-seated, heart-ronding, dospairing, And what would heiofor? That tho writer had boen guilty of some aot Involviag the groatest moral turpltudo, einco ofly suoh & one could ac- count for tho torsiblo despalr and remorse ox- pressed Jn the lottors. Ho would find, furthor, that Mr. Boooher was in the groatost anxioty leat tho act which was the causoof his ramorso should como to the knowledgo af the public. From this ho wonldl Infor that tho act was ono the very thought of which was shameful, and that it wag not & moro mistake of judgment,—for no moral wrong attaches to & mistake of judgmont, and 0o dospair 8 felt on scoount of i, That the wrong way councoted in somo wsy with Mra, Tilton ls slso ovident, for Bocokier In hls lattors Tofors to hor by napo in couucotién with his offeuss, L.ooking ut 8fra, Tilton's letters of the i sane dapé ad tioss of Deockiet, we find thad alis \ apeaks In them of bor '*gim,” and says that sho was misled by s good man, Wo find, too, that Mrs. Tilton gave & lottor to Becohor to onnble him to defond himself from a chargo of improper advances against evory ono but hor husband. Trom all tho documonts, an thoy stand, tho in- foronco in almost irrosistible that Docehor committod some grave moral wrongj that tho wrong was one In which his rolatlon with & married woman was Involved; thab it sas a sismoful act, aud not s moro mistake, And this conolusion {s reachod withiout the ald of Baochor, or Tilton, or Moulton, or anybody elso. It {8 roached from the doouments brought to light in the Investigation, They are witnesacs which canuot lo. Thoy are Bocchor and 3Mrs. Tilton writton, It Boochor is condomnad, it will not bo on Tilton's tostimony, nor on Moul- ton's, but on his own, Tho atrongost witness sgalnet Buooher is Boocher himaolf. |/ Thore is auothor polut which ehould bo Dbrought out in referonce to theso Jottery, or tho dooumentary evidonco In the case, and which wo do not think has boon mado hoeretoforo. BIr. Boechor, in his statemont, says tuat ho nevor hoard of tho clhiarge of adultory until Ar. Tilion mndo it beforo the Committee. Up to that time Lo bad undorstood the gravest chargo to bo that ho bad made {mproper advances to Mra, Tilton, Ho insists, howover, that ho wus not guilty oven of tuis, and hiu only offonse against Afr. Tilton woe in the advico ho gavo Mrs. Tilton to sep- arnto from hor husbaud, Is §t not strango, thon, that Mr. Boocher, in making Mr. Moulton the confidontinl vepository of all bhis lottors on the subject, should nevor have made tho slight- cat roferouco to the difference botaveen his roal offenso aud the offousa oharged upon him by Til- ton? Is it not strauge: thnt in nll tho letters ho wrote Moulton Lo should not have said in sotno one of them: “Yes, I havo done Tilton & groat wrong of which I now repent, sud for swhioh I imploro his forgivoness, I did sdvise his wifa to Inave him, nad to that extent injured him. But ho does mo wrong swhou he charges mo with having niade improper sdvauces to Tlizaboth, That 1 never did" v Uuless Mr. Boechor is to bo treated a8 a boing difforontly covstituted from other men, the evi- doneo In the case so far mnst bo regarded in shis light: (1) Beecher has evory inducomout to bear false witness nnd Moulton none ; (2) set- ting asido both Boecher’s and Moulton's stato- mouts, Mr. Boechor's lottors remaln; and (8) it in nocessary that Mr, Boocher shall mnke an ox- planation of these loitera that will eommend itself us ronsonablo to an intelligont jury. ‘As tho caso now stands, it is not o mere quostion of voracity ; and, if it were, the prosumption would b unfavorable ta Beachor na againat Maulton, GOVERNMENT IN LOUISIANA. The roceut duol in Louisios belwacn Dr. Clinrles Gray sud Mr. D. J. Richards, in which both partios were killed, had its origin in a flerco quarrelin & Ropublican caucus. Both of the men woro leading Ropublicans ; Gray was a member of the Logislaturo and Richards s Dopu- ty 8horiff, T'he disputations in the Republican party at Now Otlesns have become so violont that it is moro than hkoly thore will be moro shooting boforo tho clection. The night before tha rocont State Convontion, o caucus of Pinchback's friends was hold in the colored Baptist Clurch. Pinchback mado a furious speoch, donouncing Gov. Kellogg in the sovercst terms. In tho height of tho exocite- ment Kollogg and some frionds enterod tho hall. Ho immediataly got the floor. From tho debate that followed wo take tho following extracts sa wo find them roported in & Now York papor : @ov, Kollogg~—Hearing my Administration was at- tacked, I have come hers 58 your Goveruor to render a0 account of my stowardship, If thero boany mau luore who can say'sught ugainst mo porsounlly or as Exocutive, lot him appasr, for I throw dowa the gountlet, Piuchback—T am your acouner, i Gov, Kollogg—-fake your soal, air, until I am through ; then we will hoar you, Ium sorry foeoy it,but whola thls, my accuser? Ifohas forced the Bghts lot him take tho conmequences, This man (poluting to Pinchbuck) I purchsscd to withdraw from the ttold ns Governor and glvo lus support to our tok- ot in 1672, ‘AL this point Piuchback aroso, and approaching Kel tong fu o threatening utiitudo, sald : * You ure s Nar, sir, Como outsldo of thls sacrod tomple ond I will muko you eat your words or I will kill you,* Pinchlack’s partlsana crowded forward =ith drawn rovolvers to the nutaber af forty o« A1ty, Kollogg, on s part, falling bock on bl police, Kollogg, atter much confusion, was allowed to procend, making a bitter sssault upon Sonator ‘West and Pinchback. Trenaurer Dubuclot, & colored man, was called upon, and made tho following statoment : On the 24th day of June lust Gov. Kollogg kent for me ut Lis oftice, and aufd to me, * Dubuclet, you must 1ot bo » eandidats for re-eloction. The poople of tho North havo so littlo faith in tho Intelligenca of o colored. mau thet your re-olection would deatroy confidenco in my fnsncial measurcs to rostore the crodit of tho Btate,” I ropied to Gov, Kollogg that 1 wasa froo- Lorn man, cducsted in France, and from s good parentage no bimsolf, Every committeo appointed by overy Legislaturo to {nvestiguto my accounts, and sp poluted by my Toquest from the Domosrutio mewbers, Lins always npproved of the same; therefore, I don't couslder it sny business of the North's who tho soverelgn people eloct, But, G ovetnar, I beliove you lio, Tho renson you do not want wme to bo & candidate 44 thut T will provont you and your ring from steallng, under your pot schieme,, tho Fauding Lill, sud thia ne- counts for your opposition to e, You had batter sottly your own nccounts us defaulting Collector at tho port of Orluans, aud then you can talk of houesty und competouoy in mansgoment of monoy alfaire; but I am 10w done, aud tell you I will oxpose you If you use \nfulr moaus ta defeat my nomination,” Tho Gover- nor then sald, “Leavo my room, air; X will hold no further communication with you.” I bowed mysolf out a8 graclously as I kuew how, and have Lild no commuuleation with Lum since, Pinchiback finally got tho foor and made this plain and distinot allegation: 1 toll him [Kellogg], bowover, I am on the war-path, sud, bo I admittud us Souutor or not, I hold i1 my hunds bis Gubernatorial crow, for if ever I opon my ‘mouth, undor outh, to Congross and the cauntry, and tel} thiem how this Qovernmont wus sot up by the Kol- togy, Durell, Packerd, sud Norton conspiraoy, sup- ported by such men a4 Curter, Billings, and others, Who were prosout durlug ull the arrangements for tha conspiracy, this Kiug Wiliiam, tho promiser, fn the momentous fssue of tho coming Prosidential came paigs, will have to go undor, for the Republican parly caw’t survive the moral indiguation of this country, if ever tho truo.hivtory of tls Loulslana uurpution la ‘made known, Qov, Kellogg, thus doseribed by the mon who foroibly Inatalled him in oftico in 1872, has, undor olaw of the Logialature, axcluelve power to ap- point all the Reglutrara of Eloction iu tho Btato; and, in bis specch to this coueus, Lo doolared his purposo to appoint no person & Roglstrar who was not & Republican, and, of courso, not bo- longing to hia own faction, Aud thie is callod froo government lo the United Btalow'in 18741 et e— Tho Oook County Oonveutlon of Monday olooted dologates to,the Btate Conventlon of to- day, Tho aversge {8 bottor than usunl. Whon tho dologates were all choson, the Convention oxlmly proceeded, despito s protest, to perpe. trata o blunder. The resclution indoreing tho nominntion of Mesurs, Coro snd Etter was pastiod with #0 littlo diflenity that it Lad ovi- dontly boon planncd and preparud for long ere tho Convontion met. ‘Iheso two gentlemon have acoopted the nominationd of tho Farmors’ to the roapective poaltions of Tronqurcr and Bu. petintendent of Publio Ioatruotlon. Thoy hieve prosumsably put thomaelvos on record na {ndors- ing tho Farmors' piatform, which containg this pospago 1 Resolved, That wo demand thorepeal of the Natlonal Danking law, aud bellove that the Guyernment should Isauo » legal-tender currency dircct from tho Treasu- 1y, interchangeablo for Govornment bonda bonring tho loweat possiblo rato of futereat, It s bighly improbablo that Messrs. Goro and Ettor sro hypoorites, who have accopted nomi- nations from a party while {ney ropudiate its principles. Wo are, thoroforo, constraiued to belfovo that they cousuder this resolution as right. Tho rumora that they aro heartily in sympathy with the financial beliofs of the Con- ventlon of to-dsy ere trueoruntruo, If they aro true, Mesars. Gore and Litor aro roady to ngreo to anything for tho ssko of getting oifico. 1t they aro untrao, & convontion of bollovers in Bpocts paymont zannot, vory coneistohtly, uomi- nate two professed disboliovers of tho doctrine that 18 the cornor-stone of all wiso plattorms of to-day, Their nomination would prove an em- bLairassmont o the vital fusuo Involved, evon though thoy are cundidatos for olicos which can exert no dircet influonce on the question. ————— TAXATION, The supportors of our prosent barbarous and oxtravagant systom of assesuing and collecting taxes arguo against indirect taxation that it makes every man pay in proportion to what ho cousumes, 8o that the rich mau does not give the Government noarly ns large o proportion of Lis wenlth a8 tho poor mon. Thoyquote tho caso of two persous, with respective incomes of $100,- 000 and £2,000, who spend on their Lousoholds £10,000 and 82,000 ench yoar. Tho first would then pay, if taxation is fudircet, about five timoy as much as the other, whilo his income Is fifty times ns great. So theso mon gay and then Laranguo tho people : * We are tho defendors of tho poor; vote for the systom of taxation which givos us fat sincoures.” If wo look bolow ihe surface of thin shnllow sophistry, wo shall find that all taxation, divect or indireot, is patd by men in proportion to their consump- tion, If this is an objoction Instead of 8 favorable argumont, 1t onts both waya and militates equally against both systoms, Tochnicslly spenking, a man consumes whatover hobuys. it moy ke ! @xfstesk for his broakiast, apietare for hia gasior, nplot of land., Allot theso aro reckoned in his consumption. Ou all of them ho pays taxes, uuder either system of aggessmont. Take tho case of direct taxation. The prico the butehor puts upon his boofsteak is mado higher thau it otherwiso wonld bo by the fact that the sellor has to got sufiicient money from it to help psy, notouly for ita prime cost and his own labor, painstaking, znd skill, but for the rent of his shop and his house, for tho sorvices of his nesistants, and for the original cost of his tools, Both the ronts aro higher on sccount of tho taxos on renl estate. The wages of labor vary, of courss, with the prico of pro- vislous, which is incrossed by taxes onreilroads, lunds, warehouses, aud dozons of othior things. The coat of tools is raised by tho taxes on land, tho duties on raw and manufactaredarticles, . the taxes which enter into the cost of labor, oto,, etc. Thus the prico of tho beckstoak is in- creasod by the jncidence of taxation {ninnu- morable waya. It Is evidont, then, that tho con- sumer pays part of his taxes whenever he buysa pound of meat. Ieis, under tho prosent sys- tom, taxed directly upon the painting snd tho real oetato, nnd, in buying thom, ho pays the original cost plus tho amount of taxes since paid upon thom. A similur train of ressoning will show that direct taxation iucronses tho cost of each aud overy article represonted in tho con- sumption of every man, rich or poor. Indircct taxation nots [n procigely tho same way. Lot us supposo that our man of $100,000 income iuvests tho $90,000 over aud above his houschold sx- ponnos in paintings, In the capital stock of a cor- poration, and in land. In each transaction he really poys part of his taxos. Thus in purebis- ing a painting, altbough the groater nax¢ of the prico represonta the sork o¢ tho artist and ia only remotely affected by tho taxes the lat tor pays, dopending almost eutirely upon hig ety yot tho romainder of tho cost 18 the result, in pat, of the taxes upon matoriusle and labor ropresented by tho colors, brushes, and goneral impedimenta of » studio, and by the frame. The stock bought in a corporation sells for a prico that depends not only upon tho capital originally invested in it, but upon the taxes which, by affecting tho prico of materials and labor, and the cost or rent. of tho roal catate ocoupied by the corporation, havo alfeotod tho returns to tho stookholders, and 80 the valuo of thoir shares. Finally, whon this man buys real estate, tho price he pays is higher on acoount of alt indircct taxes which have raised the prico of the labor employed in surveying, or draining, or fencing, or buildiug upon, or otherwise fmproving tho land, and tho price of the materials snd tools cmployed in all theso oporations, Whatover uso this man makes of his surplus income, indircot taxation will find Lim put. The objection to this ppeedy, suro, and eco- nomlicsl system of aseessing and collecting taxcs, which is fonnded upon its supposed favoritiem to the rich, is, then, groundless. No mattor how we tax, directly or indirectly, onoch oitizon will pay In proportion to the money ho spends,—in other words, in proportion to his conaumption.” Tho quostion botween tho two systems, thon, rosolves itsolf into this: Is it bettor to havo dircet tasation, with tho cum- brous and incompotent machinory of assoss- ‘mont and collection, and the host of petty and uneless ofiicos which it luvolvos, or indlreot tax-~ ation, by which Naturo plays tax-gatherer, and Ly which ono or two men can collect all the taxos of a city like Ohicago, and a dozen all the toxes of s Btato like Illinois? POLITICS IN ALABAMA, ‘The Radical State Convention of Alabama, which was hold at Montgomery on tho 21st inst., for tho nomination of Btate ofticors and Con- gressman-at-Largo, soems to hnve besn one of tho mosat curious on record. All Radloal Con- vontlons In the Bouth aro curiositios, but this one oxcelled them all in deliborate political rag~ calities. The nominatlons were & packed and ploked fraud, consummated by Unlted Biates Qustom-House oftficlals, Postmasters, Mail Agonts, and otber Fodoral ofiloe-boldors, among thom sevoral United Statos officials, from adja- cent States, Inthomob of theso ofilcials was Judga Bustesd, who atepped down onco mora from the Boneh to eoll hia ermino in the dirly puddlp. Ho wont into tho Convention to be tho Joader snd to carry out his own nvpurposes or broak up the Convon. tion, The result waa that Le failed In eaoh, and was snubbod Iu the mosy declded and peremp- fory manner. During the earlier part of the procesdinga bo was Involved in sovoral disgrace- ful wrougles with whites snd blaoks, in which ho camo off socond bost, Iu tho latter psrt of the proocedings he lnsleted thsb every person nomliated for Congrssa-at-Large aliould aoawer tho question whother or nat ho was in favor of tho Bumnor Civil-Rights bill, At this juncture, a negro delogato arose and oharacterized bim ann domagoguo. After o long discusslon, fn which tho amonitios of pufitics peculiar to tho Bouthorn Radical party wore hurled about very loosely, Judgo Busteod's motion was tablod. Tho noxt movo of tho Convention was to dofent Busteed's candldato for Congross “aud nominato Albxander Whito, who origiuated the White }an's mavement in Alabama in 1808, In ite resolutions it aluo emphintically rebuled Bustoed by deolaring that “the Ropublican par- ty doos not desiro to soek mixed nehools or mixed accomnodations for colored pooplo, and wants no special equality enforood by law. Wo recog- nizo tho fact that avory houso 18 sacred from in- trusion, and that, in & freo country, every one can dictate for bimaelf.” It {s chcoring to know that this blatant dema~ roguo who las so long diegraced the United Btatos judiciary bas beon robuked, that tho re- buko has come from his political friouds, and that the sevoreat condemunation Las beon placed upon bim by negroes themsolves, The people of Alabama are ovidently waking up to tho fact thot white mon have some rights as woll ag nogroes, and that tho Btato lLog somo rights which ovon carpet-bag knaves and political Judges aro bound to respect. Ono fact which bLans recently comeo to light shows tho mannor in which the clique of Radical office-lioldors intend to conduct the canvass. Tho monoy which Con- greay voted for tho relief of tho overflowed dis- tricts is to bo distributed only to those who promise to voto tho Radical ticket. Tho whito men of the Btate, however, are thoroughly arousied, and, now that Busteed's power lias boon wenkened amovg his own frionds, thoreisa hope that they will bo abla to carry thoir cause in the faco of the intimidations aud threats from the United Biates Bench, THE SB0UTH KENBINGTON MUSEUM, This famous ehow-place aud study-place will colebrato ita majority in a little less than n year, Tt was opened nonrly twonty years ago. Nation- 1 and privato benelicenco have mado it first of ita kind in the world. In tho great cluater of buildings which sheltors tho Museuni, nearly ovory trado, profession, and art csn be studied, in part or in whole, Everything in the vast col- Ioction is for use. Bouth Keusington is gradu- ally bocoming the educational centre of Iondon. ‘Wu noticed, the othier day, that the scientific courses provided by the University of London for women wero but poorly mionded, owing to the superior ndvantngos offered by the lectures glveninono of the sohools attached to this groat Musoum. Tho inatitution is so rich in diagrams and specimons of every kind that it can furnish thio bost attainable illuatrations. Itis for this ronson that Prof. Huxley's lectures to young ‘women aro given there. The ptipila at tho diffor- ent schools maintained by the Musoum authori- ties aro numbered by the bundred. Tho visitors to the Musoum proper are numbered by tho million. During its twenty voars' existence, 18,660,624 porsons have eatored its doors, This yoar tho visitors will number just sbout 1,000,000. Theso figures are the more romnxlinble becauso the AMusoum, in dofor- ence to & mistakon projudice, is kept closed on Bunday. This ia eho chiof day of leisure for the poople for whoso benoflt tho collection {s maluly designod. If they could uso tholr holiday in visiting the Musoum instead of the liquor-saloon, tho attendance would probably bo doubled forthwith, AMr. Bheep~ ehanks, who gave the greater part of tho picture- gallery, which is capocially rich in Landacers, coupled the gift with the roquest that the paint- inge should be shown on Sunday. Othor donors havo oxproasod the ssme wish, but in vain, Tho oponing of tho Musoum on the first day of tho waook is, of courag, ooly & question of timo, but it ia o pity that tho time hus not yet come. Bosidea giving opportunitios of education to all the poople who live in London and visit Lon- don, the Muoseum does a missionary work throughout England by making up collections from its abnndant stores and keeping.them in circulation from town to town. Buch & ssge practice deserves imitation, Thore are a fow collections in New York City which could bo transforred to the West for a timo with groat ad- vantage—at least tothe Wost, Such a thing would probably “pay from a pecuniary point of view. The Di Cesnols antiques, for instance, would cortalnly “draw” well. So would the Rav. Dr. Primo's wonderful pile of pottery. The Acado- my exhibitions of paintings might be ropeated on Wostorn ol whon Eastorn sigly-seers woro antistlod. Talher Tranquil Wolfgang, who dlod .at Munich lagt yonr, roalizing that with him Eu- ropean tranquillity diuspposred, indutgod In oou- donsed propheey. Tor 1874, Lo pradicted the strougthoning of the Spanish Republic, a now chief of governmont in Frauce, and the death of Piua IX, Tor 1875, war betweon Iialy and Franca; Italian ocoupntion of Algiors, snd do- feat of tho Fronch army; for 1870, the sur- rendor of Pgris in March, fall of the Spanish Iopublic, peatilonce in Russis, snd Princo Fritz Emperar of Germany, sud rovolution in En- gland; for 1877, the reconcilintion of the new Popo with Italy, the division of IFranco into four Btates, Luropean Congress in Rome, snd goumal armament In Europe; for 1878, & now Kuropean Congress in Borlin, the daath of Quoen Victorin, anothor now dovornmont in Spaiu, cholora in Franco, and o romedy for it discovered in Bavaria;e for 1870, univorsul peace, great diecoveries at sea, aud tho suspeusion of the Ordor of tho Joeuita; for 1850 t0 1890, universal peace, sud the blossing of the Pope on all nations. This i rather harrowing to somo persony aud Blates, The chmohuan seoms unnecossarily ssvero on Paria and Franco, but that is intolligible, Why the suspicious si- lonee 88 to the fate of Emperor William, and tha rosult of the ravolution in England? But, like othor romances, it willenu happily, for tho Popo will bleas all uations, Malays, Choctaws, and Kanakas, a5 well as Davarians, Spanisrds, and Englishmen, The Ordor of the Jesuits is to ba thesacrifico made to briug about such ploasant harmony, —_——— To & great mauy people, the world hos stood atill whilo Moulton has talked. Tho papots on whioh they depend for sheir dally modioum of information about the doinga in aud outsido thoir town have bad nothing but Moulton's statomont, Tuo tolegramu bave beon thrust {uta no apace at all ; tha local itema have boon Luooked iuto pi. Save in the case of & dozen- or-80 journals of tho largost 8lzo, such as Tux Onrcaao TRIBUNE, tho pross ko boon unable to grapple with tho 80,000 words iu Moulton's statement, oven when overything else, editorl- ale, telograma, news, and ovon adveriisomonts, wera snorificod to it, It has beon priutod in do- {achments through the {sanca of twa or throo days, Theea faots show Low intenso the popu- 1ar Intorost on tho subjoot tn, g s Down in Now Orleans an intoliigont eolored man oan obtaln prompé politienl recognition. We nood not go deoply into history to fiud ox- swmples, for the Picayune has one ready for ime modiato use. A Now Orloans gontloman hap- poued $o ‘obrervo & vory Intelligeut, plossants mannsred mulatto in the dlnlng-room of tho Qslh Houss ab Loulsville, 8o atrusk viaa e by tho agreonblo manner of the man that he made him stownrd of his honschold. For throe yesra Bruca Julinaon was au juvalusble factotnm. At tho oxpiration of tiat torm ho roported to bis omplover tho fack that ho had beon asked by & loading politiclsn to *worl up tho ward" ‘I'ho eivillan remonatrated, but Johnson had high hopos and lof¢ bis sorvico. A month Inter n ring at his door-boll at midunight aroused the ocoupant, who found a person on the door-step ouquiriug for Judgo Johnson. Explavations followod. Drues Johnson was Assoclate Judge of tho Fourth Municipal Dis- triot! This biographical skotoh mightbe postod up I tho late South Hida Atrect-cars wuen overy passongor would conso smoking for an instant, thrill with joy and resolve to go furthor Bouth withiout delay, and iusist on not leaviog the car until it reached Now Orloans, —— That was a solomn and awfal cago {u the City of Portland, in which the anciout Btato of Maina wag tho proscoutor, and Honry L. Fuller, diug- gist, of Augusts, was defondant, The charge agaivat Mr. Fuller was tho violation of tho Pro- hibitory law of the State. Mr. Fullor had four bottlea of that deadly polson known ss Califor- uie claret, which ho bnd purchased for an inva- 1id gontluman to whom Oalifornia claret had beon proscribed by his physician as a gontlo stimulug sud tonlo, The four bottles woro duly solzod by tie City Marahal, duly carried away from Ful- lor's storo, duly locked up in the Mar- shal's liquor-dopot, duly produced in court, and duly teated in presenca af a grave and golemu jury, It was found that the Cali- fornia clarot contained G per cant of alcohol ‘lhore was tho rub. It waa useloss for the pro- seribmg physiclan to say thatn man’s stomach would not contain onough Californin clarot to makoe Lim drunk; it was vain for the drugglet to pload that the liquor was sold on s medical pro- seription, Tho majesty of that majgstic folly, the Maino Prohibitory law, must be vindicatod. Aud the drugylst wos convicted. Happy Stato, ‘where tho law is so vigorously euforced against California cluret, aud whero fusel oll elays its thousauds with impunity, i This in & great country,—too groat for inno- cont foreigneis who Joso their way, But it is limited aftor all. Paor Charles Moyers and Wil Lielmina, bis wife, Gormans, speaking very littlo Euglish, were suparatod on the cars noar Byra- cuse, four yoars ago. Moyers, man-like, went to work spending the surplus of his slender warniogs over hourokeoping expenses in . hunt- ing for Willelinina. U'he newspapers of New York Btato hed a stanch eupporter in Moyers, Ilo advertised unromittingly. The postal au- thoritios lind o patron in Moyors, for he spenta small fortune in stampe and stationery, Woman liko, Withelmina weut'inenue over hor troubles, and was taken to the Ouveida County Insans Asylum, whore 8s tho years went by sho slowly lesrned Engligh and recovorad hor reason. At Inst o tramp stopped at the Asylum, aud, liko every one olso, lenrned Williolming's sorrowful story. Ile had hoard hor husbaund's, and the two corresponded. It was not many lours boforo the poor immigrants were rounited in tho full cenjoyment_of & second houoymaon, both autis- fied with tho greatness of a country whora the success of a German looking for his Wilkielmina was about equal to that of tho eardest seurcher for a needlo in & bundlo of hay. ——— The burning of tho great landing-stage at Liv- erpool, the Lirat mavel of Dritish enginecring skill tho astonished forcignor boheld on rauch- ing the ieland, has been provokiug o many com- monts 8 our firo, The#¢a50 Waa bnile »xéli & woodon deck on hugo fron pontouns conuected wWith the smeinland Dy iron bridges, Such a vast w88 of wood wa4 nlmost a8 certain to meot with uttor destruction 8 our Southwost Divis- fon. Tho stage was nearly one-tbird of a milo long, aud thore was no means of cutting off tho advance of the flames by dividing it, Now the onginaers of England are advoeativg a priuciple not uulike that iuvolved in tho proposiion to divide our bueloess district from the fire-trapa Dby a broad boulovard. It is proposed to con- struct the stago in soveral compartmouts snd conncct thom with iroun bridges. In the ovent of o firo 1n sny ouo compartment tho romafuder need not be sacrificod, Under tho offete English systom of providiug lor the general good at tho oxpenso of & few private intorests, this plan will undoubtedly proveil. We are botter governed hero, whera overy man has liconso to anmbi- late tho proporty of lus meighbor aa woll as his own. Thete is at lenst one clergyman who does not intend to be blackmuiled or to quietly submit to plovders, One Combs bad beon slaudering Tather John J. Kain, s Roman Catholle pricst of Harpor's Forry, Va. Asgoon as tha glundos roachod bis car, bo wrote to his accusor tho fol- lowing very plain note: You must declaro these reports false, aa you know they uro; you must deny that any such crinica sre e puted to mo fu this couinuuity, dud you must spulos {izo ; otherwiso I will braud you in s court of Justico 49 a {nfumous defawer, This noto must ba replivd %o at ouce. I will tolerate no deluy, Tho slnaderer by retwn mail promptly retract- ed, decloxing that the charges were not true, aud added: e I riing such infamous tales I have done an fuenlnblo tejury fo G charactar of hls reverend geutlemau, whose reputation 4 pure and bluuelosd; Bud T rogret most wincerely tlo harm whish T have dona by caroulntiuy theso buse wlauders wud T do fully sud freely upologlzs for thla fujury to the character of & Cluvistin, a gepticwan, aud & mister of God. By this wimple plan Fathor Kain was acquitted without any statomonts, doouments, lottors, in- vestigation committoes, or mutusl frisuds. —_— Even tho model nowspapera of the greatest city in tho world bava got at it, notwithetanding tho hoe woathor. ‘The St. Louis Dispatch rofers ta the oditors of the St. Louis Ipublican in the following torms: * Wateh these bribo-takers and bribo-givors.” To this rophes tho Repub~ lican: * Weo stato oxplicitly that Stilson Huteh- 1w, the author, 8 o willtul, covardly liar. The scoundrel know bio was a liar whon ho wrote it.” Now thig is curt, plump, aud handsomo. What is Hutchins going to dowbout it Tho mont amusing feature of the squabble I8 the attitude of the Globe, which takes the partof the good littlo boy, sud imploringly saya: ** Wo would begof both papers to study the .mmgu of dig- milod roserve which tho Glole stondily main- taing lusll of ita political discussious, and we hopo that further indulgenco in suel_a ungeomly personality will bo preveuted.” This is good advica; but whowould bave thought of such an~ goomly porsonalities iu the model city of the Unitod Beates ? i A duel of nocossity ogourred down in Kansaa & day or two siuce which did not rosult fatally. Ono Elegan Drislell, a manine, had throateued the Lifo of Sherift Patrio, and with that object in viow huntod him with a rifle, Patrie choso & _shot-gun, and meeting the mauiso tired simults~ 'lio Kaosan duel ditfers from usly with bim, Wk in that only one of the prioe tho Louisiana type cipale was a maniao. —_— CANADA ITEMS. Svectal Dispatch to The Chicago Triduns, Tonoxto, Out., Aug, 95.—A Committes of In- vostigation is sitting to-day {uquiriug into the trrogularitios of the Trostdont of the Ges Com-~ yauy. Tho allogations are, firut, of charging the Company with paymontd that had never boen made j sogond, with overcliargiug acoounts that bad boon paidj thurd, with dotiting the Company wWith ltoms that ehould have boen * charged to his own porsonal oxpendituze, The Coxfmiunn site with closed doors, and the reauls cannot in the meantime be kuowa. o Court of Common Plous bas granted the Hon, Joun Hilliard Camoron, Q. 0., counsel for the Tlon, Geurgo Brown, leave to filo criminal information sgainut tho publlshera of tho Na- tional, 'ho lou. Georgo Drown was ouo of thosa appoluted by the Ouisrio Govornment to atlviso 04 Lo tho ostablisbment of & model farm noar Guelph, and the charge that was coms plained of s libelous is, that ho hed placed thore and was mslutalolng ab pubile exponse hiv llogitimato son, the ohild of & woinan whom Le bod seducod in Bothwoll, and to whom or &4 whose fricud ha had paid tho swn of §3,000 ¥ huab e mstiar up.