Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1874, Page 10

o THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 =2y 1874—SIXTEEN PAGES. DOWER. Origin of That Benevolent Custom, The Fxtensive Litigation to Which It Has Given Rise. How Propcriy Was Conveyed in Early Chicago Days Bketch of Noted Dower Suits in This City. The . Kinzie, Nicoll, Clybourn Campbell, and Other Cases. DMorality of These Suits. The complications ayising from dower claime, tho hinarances to the purchase and sale of fands, snd tho not nfrequent frandulent claims of Jower in estates, are of guch general and wide- spread ocecogrence that & smoll sketch of the orizin of dovwer, and of the prominent claims of that kind in our own city, may nob bo unintorest- ing. THE ORIGIN OF THE CUSTOX a of giving a widow tho nze for lifo of one-third of ler. husband's lands is involved in great obgcurity. - Some writers claim it was®known to the Mebrews, others thst tho Greeks first . adopted . it. By st otbers, the Romans, tho Germans, the Gotbs, and the Anglo-Saxons are credited with ‘ho first adoption of the custom. The most reasonablo view, howerver, secms to be th\f. it a8 formed gradually st TSt AmOng NALioDs in & sime when?women were beld in little estcem; & »onus, 4s it were, wos given with the womanas an inducemont to 3 map to ake her, 85 woe the custom with .the Grocks and Romans.” Ad- sanciug civilization, with its refining power, Taised the opinion of the world in regard to the gentle sex, and the gift was thropn on the man. Later still, and apparently first in England, tho aridegroom AT THE OWUBCE-DOOR ras accustomed to endow his ride with a por- tion of his real property, which was understood. to be a ihird interest, but wihich might be less, tut not more. If the happy man was not po&- sessed of any eorner lots, he could still give his wife o portion of bis stocks snd bonds, or what- sver substitute our ancestors might have had for such modern commodities. 1In fact, by tlie com- mencement . of the twelith century, dower in {ands was established by the Chacter of Heary L. This endowment ar dowry, however, ooly in- tluded & thirdof the Innds which the husband possessed st tho time of his marriage any property purchased subsequently was free from euch an incumbrance. At thet time, how- yver, the wife being in potestate viri and con- sidered as baving no legal power of bef own, wos 20t obliged to join in & conveyanee with her hs- »and, but he could sell her dowry donpg his ife 1t pléasuse. Very early, however, the wife Wwas ALLOWED TO HAVE A WORD, nd by her solemn declaration of dissant pre~ Jerve a right which could be enforced, after her ausband's death, agsinet the purchaser. beir also seat, give by whero the wife &id_not sign the original decd to atractof land. She would subsequently give roleases to many of tho lots, when tho tract was sucdivided and rosold. 3any men also grew rich by their failure in selling. Laods would be bought for ressle, aud the owners, being unable to tind purcbasers, 8a they expected, were obliged 'to keep the property -umiil by ~its vise in value they " Dbacameo wealthy, as it were, in apite of themsqlves. Such is the gtory many s man can tell, that ot by his judgment, not by his rorgelfiht hor_exporience, but by sheer imability to Lelp himseif, ha bes came a millionaire. Such examples of want of ability are, howover, ot of Buch frequent oc- currence &g Degd cause any apprehension on the partaf any oue het hamey be in dagerof suffering a eimilar misforfune. As was asid above, DEFECTIVE ACKXQWLEDGUENTS have been s fiuifful source of trouble, The title of the grantor beiug good, and tho land in any case being of lityle vajue, tha particnlar form of acknowledgment was lightly regarded: Nor was thig all, for certain Justices of the Peace, ond .occasionally & Notary Public, sold them certificates. in blank at g0 much & hundred.. A mon could go into s bank, and find blaok certificates with the Jus- tice's vamo attached, hung up on convenient nails, ko biank checlis at tho present day, and Tor sele ot a shilling aplece. This; howaver, thongh at one time not jufrequent, cannot be congidered 88 n regular custom, but it will gerve 88 an_ illustration fo° show how carclessly acknowledgments wero - made. Abstracts of title, which ~ wers first introduced hero in 1849, of courso did mmuch to correct thia looss method af business, as the makers always voted sny defecls in ac- nowledgments, or otler inslances where dower-claim woald be likely to srise. Theso dower-ciaims, arising from dofective acknowl- edgmenis, aro now in threc-fourthsof the cases, it may bo said withous feer of -contradiction, first put forth through . B BRPRESENTATIONS OF SOME ATTORNET who has disoovered the dofect. Indeed, to such dogreo is this waich for dofoctive certificates carried, that there is certain class of Jawyers Vho liavo partica -emptoyed for the special pur- pose of finding and noting all deeda which have Hefoctive ackuowledgmcuts. Tha attorueys then send printed or written circulars to tho partics intereated, and, if _possiblo, geb - permis- gion to bring suits on ehares, or else an assignmont of the claim ltself. 'The lato amendmont to the law of scknowledgmonts will, however, seriously dnmi\{;a uns business, and by simphifyipg tho formuln decrenso dower euits based only on technical irregularities. THE KINZIE DOWER GLAINB are probably the best known, _chiofly from the wide-spread acquaintance with the Kinzie family. Thers are two Kibao _dower claime,—one of Mrs. Julictte A Rinzi¢, widow of Jobn H. Kinzie; the otber, bogun within the past year, of Alrs. Guinthlean Kinzie, widow of Itobert A. Kinzie, who died in 1864. The clsims of tho former, who died in 1867, befars all her guits were decided, wero based on defective ac- koowledgments, and covered sbout 40 acres on tho North Bide, in Kinzie's Addi- tion. The claims of her sister-in-law, 3rs. Gwintblean Kinrio, are interesting from tho Tact that tbe Jand in which sbe claims dower was not in existence, or at least was submerged, when her husbabd lived or owned it.’ It seems that Robert A. Kinzfo, born here in 1818, entorod 160 ncres on the North Side, known a8 Kinzie's Addition. A pert of this bo aftorwards gavo to his brothers and sisters. About 1342 be went tliough bankruptey, and hisland waa sold by an Assignes, without, Lowever, cutting off the dower right of hie wife. Subsequent fo that time the action of the lake has mado Lirge accrotions or sdditious along the shore from the month of the Cnicago [fiver to Chicago avenue, the land thus made being in the peighborhood of 20 acres, and it is to & part of this that Mrs. Kineie lays claim, She, however, only demands dower to langs actuaily conveyed by her busbsud_withont her consent, and not on avy defective stknowledpments. Tlie accrotions are now mostly owned by the Chicago Canal and Dock Compeny. Of course, WILLIAX B. OGDEY, who was the North Side thirty-five years ago, bLas been a sufferer by dower claims, ai1d one of s loeses was the Nicoll clsim. Io 1834 Francis An could, with hie father's as- a dower ont of lauds owned the porent, but which would, by ihie Jnw_of descent, come to him. During the next 200 years the dower was extended g0 38 to rmbrace, where not specifically stated other~ wise, one-third of all Jand held by tbe husband Bt any time during marriage, as st the pres- ent day. _And if the wife had even ascepted & dower aa ostium ecclesial, or church door, she conld zenonnce it. and claim ber one-third of all {ands held by her husband. Thus, over Six cen- turies ago, was established the right, during kife, by the wife, to one-third of the husband'a lauds, and this right has desconded witbout alteration, the later minor modifications or 1aws relating to the subject having ‘been oply directed to the modes in which: it might be barred or relin- guished. - - - - = = TRE QRIECT OF DOWER s undoubtediy to mako provision for the wifa ang children aftor the death of tie husband aod fatber. Iv is fif unlikely that it may have been Tegtrded pertly also 88 3 compeneation for the esiate brought by the wife to the husband, which became his eatirely 1f he chose to reducs it to subjection. This was a most wise provis- « oy, a8 the wife was utterly uuable to take the title to any' property in her own .name during marriage, and her earnings, if sny, were ~ also - the property of her busband. Modern laws have tended toward the op- posite extreme, and our own Legislature, 8t its Inst #eecion, recognizing the fact thata wife’s earnings ate_her separate properts; that he can take property tud carry on business, bae—~but with doubtfal wisdom—abohshed the tenancy by courtesy, ond. given the husband a tho wife's estate; a6 well as dower by fe in the husband's landa. Until within a few vears it hea always been sescesiry for & wife, when she signed o deed, EXAMINED APART FROM TER TUSBAND, %0 8ce thas the same wus dond without coercion, Swhich fact was required to appear in the Noiary's certificate. Very frequently, in consequence of these epeeific directions, erpecially when deeds were-acknowledged out of tbe State, where dif- fefent Tans cbrained, somo of the réquisité for- malitics are omitted, and tho scknownledzment thercby renderéd defective, and out of theso de- fectiveacknowledgments, or Notary's certificates, Rriso a pumber 6f the claims made for dower. SUCH CLAIMS, IT 18 EVIDENT, ARE UNIUST, \a the wifo hes attempted to_convey her right, atd,as far as her will and purpose are con- serned, has actually done so. Not unfrequently 1ho has lived for yesrs totally ignorant tuat she 185 any claim to property which ber husband 1 posseased, until the critical eye of somo awyer on the scent for an _opportunity to get & rse notes the defect, and the innate svarico of tho Luman beart -awakened by -the sossibility of fndwg some Eldorado arges the widow to begin Buits, iroquently not with tho expectation or desirs of aaviug (he coses como to trial, but ouly, by sroating a cloud on the titie to the land claimed, .10 compel the luckless ownors to compromizo, 1t in not, however, intended by auy mesus to zreata tho impression that all the dower suits now peuding erounjust or techoieal in their tharacter. Jinuy of them are broughton just * laims, where the land had been £0ld in the hus- b band’s lifetimo without the wife's consent. - TRIRTY-VIVE YEARS AUO, i % when Chicago was a low, swempy flat, with a singlo hotel,—the Lake House,—and tuat on the RNorth Side, before the opening of the Dlinois & Micoigan Canal, which decided whether Chicago tould ;:«“; tho, mouth of the Calumet Riser or sent location, there was very lj Siiract 5 capialive o tuloes ey e Bes 0 vest money in marshes or low prairie lands, A few men, bowover, such s W, .- Og- i G. 8. Hubbard, C. W. Upton, Grant Goodrich, 8. 8. Morris, 8..T. Logan, snd s, felt that thero was & futuro for the little hamlet, and induced others tobuy land here. A crisis in 1827 depressed vzlues here when they wore not 50 low as to be slready below zero, For many years nfter that, When the population was small, capitalists at tirs East who bought Chicago lands did €0 on tho Tepresentation’ 0 real-estato men here. The Ploneers hero established a” reputation.—often thesr only wealth,—and. invested money - for Others when they ‘conld get. it, or bought on ime for themacives. Promiscs and contracts ‘Wero plentiful and bard money scarce. it the Em"flll}i HARD TIMES CAME Writo to biyesy b0, bad propercy Lero Wotld the grantor baving & wife, ; ach price, the wamanty in_the conveyanca was. eon~ sidered sufficiont. . Men looked to the character -sad Snancial condition of their grantone, aut fariber. Lands too werpof so Littla vaino, ang 1ho poezible advance in Prico o Jittle expectoq thas zemote possibililies were not considered. A .dower claim on sccount o g -defective acknowledgment was nos known, and Jf made would have -been considerad 84 of tag flmu:] a l:ha’ncler o be reganded. B B. Nicoll, and_a number of other gentle- men of New York City, formed an asso- ciation, or real-cstalo coparivership, snd purchased $100,000 worth of land _here, which wss sometimes called the Hunter property. This was placed in the bands of trus- Tees, of whom Nicoll was one foratime. Dy taw, wheo Isnd §s bought by partners on a joint epeculation it is considered s personsl prop- erty, and no dower atiaches until it is either divided or so chauged in charscter by a declaration of truet that the shares of each member can be ascertained, and they be vested i Tins property was chiefly on the North Side, cast of Wells streot snd gouth of Chbicago avenue, Some algo being in_ Rociwell's Additfon. - A part of it was sold, ana tha remamder held in trust by the Trusteces for the benefit of Nicoll and othefs. - Subsequently they made a declaration of trust, as 1t 13 called, whereby they scknowledged that Nicoll was entitled to a one- third interest in the property so held. This whole tract was subsequently conveyed, either directly or by mesne conveysnces, to Ogden. After Mr. Nicol's death, his widow claimed dower in_ the one-third iuterest formerly owved by him, and, after su appeal fo the 8u- preme Court, she obtained it. The case is re- ported at fength in the 29th Illinois reports, page 324. One of {he largest claims is that of 3ILS. MAKY CLYBOURN, widow of Archibald Clybourn. She claims dower in 490 acres_fn Scc. 32, 40, 14, bounded by Fullerton and North avenues, Bhefficld streef, and Ashland svenue; also in 160 acres in Riverside, and & strip of Iand 90 feet front on Canal street running thence east to the mver through the depot grounda of the Pitrsburg & Fort Wayne Railroad Company. It appears that in 1830 Mr, Clybourn owned the land above men- tioned, and cave a mortzage on the portion on the North Side o securo the payment of 27,500 to Artbur Brouson. In July, 1839, Broneon filed Dill to foreclose this mortgage. Iu June, 1840, Clybourn, before fiual decres was entorod, made an sgreement with Bronson Lo givo_up the Jand, and bo discharged from the debt. In puréusnce of this agreement, Lie gave » deed, bub_withouc procuring the signature of nis wife, She, how- ever, hind signed the mortgage, and, in Decom- ber, 1840, a final order was entered in the foro- closure suit against tho land. Mrs. Clybourn now brings suit for dower, claiming that the déed was made without her signing it; that this was dome in satie- fadtion'bf tho' morigage, which was therehy extinguisbied, and that the mortgage-titia was svaliowed up in the guit-claim deed, thus re- viving her dower-claim, because sbe bad not joined in that deed. Moreover, she aileges ronson conid not thereatter go on and atiempt to acquire a titlo under the mortgage, and thus wvoid her dower-rights, 2s it had been previbus- 1y extinguished. Tho cascs are still pending. The claim to the Riverside property is Pasnaon s defective scknowledgment. Another case, 2nd ons whick astrates the easy-going manuer in which real estate was con- veyed, s that of o DS, CORNELIA RUSSELL. It scems that somo time in 1834 or 1835, John B.1. Rassell, an ofticer in the United States sorvico, bought 70 or 80 mcres of land bounded by Douglas place, South Fask avenus, Thirty-first _street, aud the lake. In 1837 Mr. Russéll mortgaged the property to E. K. Hube bard, o secure aloan: the mortgage purporied to bosigned by Mr. Tussell and wifo, and was duly acknowlcdged. In 1845 the mortgage was foreclosed and tho property sold, sud & Sherifi’a deed executed to W. H. Brown’ in 1849, In18C0 Mr, Russell died, aud eleven years later Lis widow fled a petition for dower, claiming that stie had ‘nover joined iu the mortgage, but ihat the signature purportivg to be mada by her was actually written by her hasband. She tosti- fied on the tnal that she never exccated such a mortgage on the land above mentioned, tha sho never authorized any ope tosign for her, and that the rignature, purporting to beby ber attached to thodeed, was in the bandwriting of her husband. Sho claimed that in 1837 when tho mortgage was execated she was in Virginia, and did not re- turn until the spring of :1833. 'Miss Sarah A. Campbell, who hias alko & large number of dower claims, was e witueas in Mis. Russell's hohalf to prove her absence from Chicago at the timo the mortgess wae: sseigned. Judge Williame, who hoard the case, dismissed the bill on the gronnd of negligence on tho part of Mrs. ltussell in not commencing 'her suit before, ‘s eho testified that sheknew of tho conveyance at tho time of Lis death, or eoon after;.sad-the Suprema Court & shost time ago afirmed tho decision. DS, BARAN A. OAMPEELT, of whom mcution han been made, claimed dower_io' sbout 100 acres botween' ‘Biacison and - Lake strects, ond just besoud Wast- ern - avenue;' alto sbout’ 20 acres where * Northwestern depot stands, - besides - 90 acres of land in the corporace limits of Joliet, valued at £500,000. Her busband was aleo an oficerin the army, and afterwards gradusted into the real estate’ bominess. Indeed, fighting Indiaos and buying land seem to have been the Prominent buminess of séttiers here forty years ago. Maoy of e couveyances in which Ars. Campbell she has not reloased ber dowes, were actwally . made oms of the State by her haeband, or made bere, with- out her_joinipg thelein, aud, to such an oxteut, are undouotedly good, and will bo subjected to hér dower lien, but she also makes a largo num- ber of claimson account of defective acknowl- edgments where sho had sttempted to sonrey her interes;. Qne. case of bors aghinst J. ¥ mon, in. which she claims dower in tpe tbreo lots on which the JInler- Ocean building stands, bas been alroady decided .in the ' Supsrior Court, -and s qarly paymens of $540 been awarded to Mrs, |m£)hollulang‘s sho :lives. Tha. lsud was vatad ay §750 a frant foot, and the dower fixed [ oé]e—thkd of tho income; on - basis of 6 per eent. - 3RS, MABY A. TAYLOR, ¥ widow of Charleg A. Taylor, also claime 160 aores on tug lateshare northesst of Ravensnood, and 80 weres on the North Side, between Division stroot Her ¢lsims are baged on 3 sale under an execu tion against her hnsbang, Auothar dowercas was P LS, THERESE LA FRAMBOJSE, & haff-broed, and resident of Kansgs, who lafd claim to an interest-in 80 acres just west of Western avenus, betwesn . Kinzio -and Lake streste. Some of the Jand-ownars sent an agont, ;’lov‘:]\a“ 1q gee her, gnd bought a releass for quout Concerning TIE GOURSE OF CONDUCT which an aftoruoy onght Lo pursue in referance to prosgouting euits whore the widow has at somo umo atigmpted to gonvey tho rights, but Las ot complied with the terms of tho statute, thore seems to bs some difference of opinion smong the luwvers, Some hald that iz is unprotossional o praseouts such suits, on tho ‘maral ground that tha doweross hasattempted Lo convay hor incboate right and supposed she had done 8o, while otners insist that, as the Suprome Court has Iad it down ss s rulo that s widow: has = e when she hos noj releaged it in the manner preseribod by Juw, therofore they are at liberty aud bound 19 obtain for their clients all the law witl givo them, and the question of mom right or wrong is left with the claimant. It is very doubtful, however, whether tius can be regarded as arulo, but it must be left to each to decidg for himself under the circumstances of the case. L —— PERILS OF A JUROR. Row A Former Convict Managed 10 Avoid Unplensant Investigntions. Several murder trials -aud cases of official fraud occupied the Recorder's Court, now known 23 the Crimina} Court, of this city, in tha spring ot 1870. Fully cogoizant of the infiuences brought to bear upon persons acting as jurors in similur casestheretofore, the prosscuting ofticers 1eft nothing undono to prevent the preseuce in the jury-box of any one who was eupposed to be in sympathy with the accused in the slightest degree. Political afiliationa and business rela- tions wero recognized as powerfol instru- ments of influence, snd, when they failed, money was used, in many iostances with effect. Hence tho caution observed and the great care exercigsed py the Btate's Attorney and his assist- ants in the selection of jurors. The prelimina- ries to aceoptanco as juror partook of THE NATDLE OF AN INQUIMITION into the whole lite of the resident who was o unfortunsto 4 to be, 1 she opinion of the Su- pervisors, a good and, trusty citizen, Did tho prosecution, by a mera chance, show a willing- ness, or rather a desire, to Intrush the interests of the sovorcign people of the Siate with tka judgment of the one under examiuation, the de- feuso, sssuming an esistence of projudico sgamst their client, subjected tbe intendug juror to & veryYx searching inquiry, Dot ouly 8s to his creed, hin shade of _ politics, bis - vocatfon, and his Ppodigrea, but even o to bis moral character. THE CRININAL DECORDE were consulted, and if, 10 tila courve of s life- time, the would-be juror had once offended tha majeaty of tho law—bad miade one fsux pas, which was more than atoued for by loes of repu- tation” and trua evidences of repentanco given by a subsequent Life of uprightness—still it was eoupht to disqualify him from sitting in judg- meat on the accused. The anxiety of the prosecuting officers lest instice should misoarry did not cease as 5001 &8 the jury were sworn and the trial begun. A BYSTEX OF ESPIONAGE was practiced, so that information of every movement of the jurer after court hours, while the trial lasted, and every indi- vidual epoken to snd commubicated * with by him was conveyed to the State's Attorvey. It was well knowu that the jurors on a certain trial werc approached with offers of bribes, snd ru- mor hed it thas one actually accopted s larzs bribe; bus peither the bribe-oferers por the bribe-taker were detected, as_the Depaty Sher- iffs were corrupt, were wholly in sympatby with the accused, and wers believed to shars in the purclirse-money. . AN INCIDEST ocowrred during “that sesson of criminal slg- nificance which is worth recordiog, a8 it shows how a reputable citizen wss saved from being bunted down a8 another Bob Brierly through the saBacity and charity of the Btate's Attorney. Oue afternoon in March, & wall-dressod man, 3 rentleman 10 all outward sesming, euterad the office of the Clerk of the Recorder's Court. Ha addressed the Clerk by name snd begged the favor of an interview. Rotiring to a privats room, the stranger obened the conversation : % Do you kuow me?” s “]t is probable Ido; bub I cannot mow re~ member where 1 have evar mot you!” was the Clerk’s roply. ‘ “ Well, sir, I will be frank with yon, as I want you'to do me a favor. Do sou recollect that in 18— one Frank — a3 convicted in your oourt of embezzlement ?* The Clork referred to the eriminal record and found an eutry of tha charge, trial, conviction, and ventoncs to the Blate Prison for two years and pix mon ® **Now,” continued the stranger, 41 A THAT PERYON " Tho Clerk, utiorly amazed at this ontspoken- ness, oponed his eyos wide aud looked in as- tonishment upon the speaker. ~+Yon, Frank —, who was cashier in ~—'s Btato strost catablishment? * Yos, yes,” ojaca- lated the clerk, anxious to hear what the stranger was next about to eay. *You cannot recognize me ; I am 'glad of it. Well, I served only nine mouths of my sentence, when the Goveraor, throagh thainfluence of my fricnds, pardoned me. I then left the city, went 0 Europe, studied French and a0, - camo back and got istalled ns foreign traveler for auotber house. Thatfs, years ago. I have lived an honeet life sinco, got marnied, sod have s family.” - ¢ i "l'm!L !” again joterrupted the clerk, de- siroua that the stranger would come to the point. “1Vell, sir, my business with you is this—" hero the clerk looked momowhat relieved of his fidgetiness—"'1 hiave & summous Lere "—pro- ducing it—""to attend the call of the panel of jurons in the —— —— murder case. I feared ihat yon or some dotective may recognize me, or that the counsel for the peopls or for the de- {fenze, in the course of their searching inquiries, may put questions to me that would cause tho dikcovery to be mado of 1y youthful misfortune. Such a disclosure wouid ruin moe, and bring dis- grace upon my family.”. “I'ho strauger’s voico faltered, and it was evi- dent that he was much affected al ihe reserence to hisfault. The Cletk quickly came to his relief. 1 undorstand, sir; you wank to be relieved of attendanco as b juror 7" Yes, sir. God knows how I have sorrowed for that offenso, and if it were known to my pros- eut employers I would- certainly be Gischarged and, a8 is generally the case, tbe world wopld hunt mo down 18 if it were guiltless. If you imorw of any means by shich such & musfortune can be avérted you will have my most earnest prayers, and God I am sure will reward yon.” *" My dear sir, your wish will be complicd with. Ism only too g1ad to baye an opportumty to do ‘an sct of kindness. I will sce that yonr name ig etruck from the jury-roll, 2nd besides, T will take caro, 85 far a8 lies in my power, that yon sball Tever again be froubled with a summons ssa juror.” «Ig thers any chance thatyonr action will attract the notice of officiala to my pomtion or the—public learn it ?" ‘The Clerk aseured him that there was no rea- gon to fear the mention of Lis name or sny reforence to bimsel, aud the stranger left the efice 8 much bappier man than when be en- tered it ¢ Ameliorntion of War, - - The Brassels Conference decided on_the pro- ‘hibition of poisoncd arms, as well 28 of the mur- der of any disarmed man, the .use of explosive projectiles, and the declaration of *“no qusrter.” Ruses de guerre ara covsidered lawful. Forti- lied placos can alone be besiged and_open. tonns are not to be bombaided. In a bombardment sl buildings cousecrated to religion, art, and chari- ty must be spared, a5 well 25 hospitala ; bt they st bear s tiag or other viewble sign. No-plan- dering is allowed. Those only ara t0 be conkid- ered 8 spies who, under false preteases, seek to gather nows with tha intention of communicats ing such information to the evemy. Newspaper correspaudents and roparters can be made prigon- ess, but shall nov be treated s spies if thay poseces o certificate from o competeut authority Proving their quality. and Chicagoavenue, and west of Larrabeo street. * JACK OF PITTSBURG. How He and His Female Friend Are Working Up Chicago. Hs Is Identified by His Wax-Candle . and False Keys: 4 Description of Some of His Most Daring Operations. Admirable Caolpess with Which He Escapes from Dangerous .- - . Positions. J His Skill in Seleeting Plunder. : The air is full of rymors and roporta of burglaries in the Sautd, Norh, and Weat Diz visions. Honsekeopers are beginning to nl:‘;ep with one oye open, and ara sending thair ilver tq the savings-hank and eating thelr divners off of delf, with a atesl fark garnished with a wood- on handle. There secms to ba no safety for any- thing more valushle. Jewelry, plate, currency, and othor proporty that is redesmablo or con- vertible, takes unto itself wings, in s most mys- terious manner, and is gone. ‘There are nosigne of when or where it vanished. Perhaps a few drops of candle-grease are to boseen on the parlor carpet ; perhaps some ono will tell Bow, being awake in the night, they beard p russling, orarattling, or & scraping, but, os it stopped presently, they went tosleep sgain. And so, from dsy to dsy, the stories multiply and magni- {y and spread, until the usual burglar-contagion, which for several yoars past has set in about thig time, seems at its height. As Tae TRrsose has been, since the days of the famous but deparied Handy Andy, the only channel by which information of these outrages comes to the publie ear, it is not surprising that it has euterad on the pregent campaign with apirit and enerry, and tells the varfons stories that are aflont with all tho aingularity of detail which truth, and the dark ways of the light-fin- gered tribe, make necessary. Itis expected of it. A new chapter in tho doings of these gentry is made public throngh the efforts of one of Tng TmBUNE reporters, this morning. It ia told for the information of the public and the police. It records the operations of whet is be- lieved to bo ONB PARTICULAR GANG who are working the bess houses fn the best style, and condescend to tske nothing but fina Jjewelry and money,: It I belioved that the gaug biail from Pittsburg, s city of dark deeds. The burglar party consists of two, and perhapy three individuals, certainly two, - B ONR OF WHOM IS A FRMALE. She has been eeen and vonversed with, and ia s woman of apparontly fair intelligence, poorly but not meanly elad. of good addrass, and on- gaging candor. Her business is to turn night Iatches, or, i other words, sbe *sets the door for the entrance of the discriminating pravtition- or who stesls along tn behiod her. The mothod of doiog this in mapy instances has been s fol- lows: A ring s beard attha door-bell. Tha servant soswers, She finds there a woman who is evidently not a visitar, bat who is yet too re- speotable to be shut out without ceremony. The woman ssks fof the geatlewan or lady of the mausiop, aod, while the girl is abeent, TURNS THE NIGHT-LATOL A fictitious name or o mistake of somse kind easily gives opportunity for withdrawal without suspicion, and - the jobis ready, In the after- noon, or along towards dusk, the thief comea deliberaiely up-astaira and enters the houss, choosing the moment when the inmates are st dinner, a8 bolng the most auspicious time. FACK 1s the name of this thief, or at least the cogno- men under which be travels in a professivnal way. A few uveniogs 8go bo droppod inata Wabash avenua residence. The family happened to be awey.” They had had an early dinner, and had gone to the West Side to visit some friends. The kitchen was inspected. but nothing of valne wos to be seenhara, so the burglar eanssed the diniog-room adjoinmg, and found the door lockt Nothing daunted, he crawled throngh tha small square oritice through which dishessre passad 1nto the china~closet, and thenco found his way to tue dining-tsble. - After partaking of a slight lunch, and testing the ta- ble-ware,which, 10 his evident disgust, be found to be plated, be tndited a short note to the lady of the house, Baying that he had called during her absence, and was very sorry to see that she was 6o poor. He extended bis sympathies, and begged to remain her gbedient servant * Jack." lo was not seen on this oceasion, but has been at othor times, and, a8 the known burglar has shown himaelf to bé a master of the art of ap~ pearifig to advantage fn. & d.rl\vini-mmn, it is supposed 1o be the same one, and thas tha appel- Iation of Jack is his professional pame, NOT MANY NIGHTS 460 ° Juck called at a residence on Prairie svenue. The owner hopes to gét back his property, and inmsts on baviog bis name withheld, As ho was gomng out tho door bo was_surprised to meet s lady comlug in. As tha lady lived there she was equally eurprised to Ses him going out. He litted his bat serenely, and would have passed on but she stop) bim with the remark ‘‘ what sre you doing bero?” * Ah. madamo,” ho ro- plied, it ia a mistake; I was lookinfifar So-and- 80, and I fina he lives in a eimilar house in the pext block. Good day,” and he passed on smil- ing chesrlully end sssuringly. An bour after- wards it was discovered tuat $2,000 worth of jewelty, including watohes, bracalets, clsins, earrings, hoirloows, aud money, had been taken from the upper rooms of the house, while bulky silver waro: bAd been passed by untouched. That's the kind of & man he is. He is farther described by those who have seen bim. It is eaid that during the late pleas- aot weather bié would pass along the sidewalk in o fashionable residence neighborhood, swing- ing his cane and Ewirling Lis mustache, and lookiug up at the houses as if taking s choico of the most advantageous of them, which he n?amfl to buy atan early date. Afterwards e hag boen caught in VARIOUS SUEPICIOUS ATTITUDES, but escaped by reason of hia astonishing self~ possession and sangfroid. With the mosy con- summate impudence be would turn upon his interlocutor, and question lum with severity, or sesume that a mistako bad been mado by him- self, with careless praco, and laugh it off as if it waa something very odd sad amusing. : Tohe other day s lady ou Calumet avenue en- terod her room, which iginthe front of the house, and was amazed {o ses a man standing at the ‘mirfor brushing his' bair, and sdmiring his own appearance with tho prentest eatisfaction. He turned around on her entrance, looked surprised, gazed about him with increasing ntpui!hmenti and fivally making a deep bow, said, * Madame, ‘beg your pardon. Iam ovidentlyin the wrong house. 1 do not know how it conld bave bap- peoed, I am somotimes absent-minded, but this i t00 bad,” and with much more carnest protest of the same Lind, ho bowed himsalf gracefully oni and left. 'He had not obtaived anything, but waa ovidently scarching the room when he hoard footsteps, and being too ‘late to conceal himeolf immediately assumed this desperate role described. 1t wos auccessfol. THIS AVENUR . ] seema to have been particularly favored by tho crackaman in hiw operations. - There are some very five houses upon it; especially between Twenty-sccond and 'Fwenty-fourth streets. Alost of these have been entered, or attempted, within 2 month’'past, Dlonday might the elegant rosi- dence No. 79 was entered by the sido win- dow, outside of which 1s & small balcony. It was a dark, rainy night, and the gas-lamp on the street corner uear by was tnmed o, 80 that no passer-by could see his operations. The thief thep climbed up _the porch, and with a fimmy pried open the side window, raised it, and found Limselt in the perlor... Ths family wero still up, but were in the back rooms, Ho medo his way ap-stairs, first unbolung the froni door. He secms to have ransacked the rooms pretty thoroughly; bat, a8 in all other instancos where the Pitteburg aperator has been tracked, he passed by: valuable things, but opeoed trunks, ‘bureau-drawers, excritoiry, and jowel-boxes with false keys,—~and took nothing but gold, jewels, and money. 1he lady who owns the property taken is now in Europe, 80 thet it is impoesibie 1o tell bow muck he got. Nothing down-staira was disturbed, and be escaped without rousing any of the iomates, or leaving any ather sign except the ‘droppinga from = wax-caudly upon -] tapers in lightng the carpet. To show thas ~ 5 ope erator, : = THESR I¥DICATIONS SHOULD HE MARKED First, ho pried open tho wiodow with sonie strament, breaking tha sida isweh, Which.ipcks it. Next he opened the. various looks with fylee keys, showing ihet. bo is skilled, in the busineds, aod ;perl-lms with ."fi:fl‘fi.":‘ffi :;‘1): tch. Sxsin, he always use e ing hmesif about, It 18 further obsarved that bo yenersly enters g housa a4 the hour of supper 3ud gets away before the family retire, ipdicatiops are all borng out 1 ‘heas i thie instance that occurred > "TUBSDAY N1OET at No. 121 Calumet avenue, pear Twenty-third streat. It is & Jarge masbie-front house in & long. row.ef eigular gwellings, au nojablo.for ita atfractive_ outaide appegrance. ' Noxt door to thip Mr. Charles Raymond is building & new res- jdence.' The burglay, fortbeieisno doubsha was alana in this case, by way of tho unogeupied bilding faund seceas ta she rear of No, 131, tha back building bewng one story Iower thap the frout. . 4 ladder hangs from the upper par, and by means of this be easily let himself down to {he Tour part of tho dwelling. The windows were forced with the jimmy, and -the visitor waa in- &ido, - In the ropm in Which he foynd bimself thereis a Jarge guaatily of valuable cloihing, and many littlo articles’of - frterest” and valne. None of tliese were touehed. The front raoma offered more favarable chances. These werg en- tered, and ,trunks, drawers, boxes,.cased, and secret hjding-places wera all. yansacked,. ¢n~ trance inta them bejng effectedin every instgnce, a8 bofore, by means of false keys, ‘The right ‘keys required for' that article ard of all kinds. Soma are plain ; ope buresu ia 2 inclos thick, taking an enormouply-long key of s pecpliar kind ; others are of the Yalalock f}"“‘“‘ 5 and othars of various atrango shapes. The (m;l that tho thief was able to unlock ‘these locks shows very cloarly that he is an adop, snd goes faly 'propared for his work. About the carpas, aw ;la-ndfibe»gtni_{wny drops of melted wax were ound. After the thiet'had gone throngh the upper rtion of the house with grea circumapootion, Kg showed: his audacity by proceeding down stairs whero the. family were fitting. A lady heard him_from one rogm, sud hor father heard Dim from"snother. TFach thought it was the other of ‘the two. He entered a room mnext to where the daughter was engaged, ‘and only Beps- ated by & pattition, = He:did no evan cluse te door jnfo the hall bohind him, hut wext delibor- ately ta work, The lady heard him. and called out'over to know if it Was a domestiy, but the’ noiso ceasing her ausploion was allaved. Finallv, after s thorough examination, and taking evory- thing that wae most conyestible, he coolly walked down the srairway sud out tho {ront door, sfill escaping dotection. Fortunately, owing to the fact that the family were wearing mourning, nearly all of the jewelry and other valuables hud been sent down somo days previoa to the Safety Deposit Company. . i _THR NEXT JODSE, 2 Nao. 123, which is occupied a3 & 'bnardmg-hm;se. waa entored tho rame night, probably before this time, The ready-witted rascal immodiately spw that he was in greater danger hera than in a. private residence, aud withdraw, it is ssid, with- ont getting anything, though the residents here azo reticent on this point, and yefused to tell whettier the thief had tsken anythiog of value ornot. The same marks have been noticed in other caees previously reported; snod-it is be- lieved thal these and other Oalumes and Prairie, avenue residences hava all been robbed by the same thief, and that he is “'Jack ™ of Pittsburg. A dwelling between Twenty-third and Twenty- fourth streets, on Calumet avenus, was visited by some:ona duriug the dsycime, a weak or fwo. ag0, and the keys 10 the loer part of tho house, wbich is unused, were abstracted and mada way swith. There haa been np attempt upon the house since, but it 18 snxtously awaited. Toe residence No. 1142 Wabash avenns was entered early last weok. Iiis ono uf ablook of marble-front dwelings, the next one 50 it be- g unoccupied and 1n process of repair. The thief effected an entrance by way of the scuctle, which was reached by coming through tue vacsni house sud clunbing over the roof. The_gliar- aoterisuce of the robbary go to sbow thay it was also tne work of the same man who i8 elsewhero koown 28 #Jack.” The burglarv was effected at oarly candfe-light when the 1amily were at sup- per, aud waa all finished 'by tho time they had swallowed the last bite and returned np-stairs ; which was in just twentr-five min- utes by the watch. In {ihat timethe cracksman got away with "$2,500 worth of jewelry, downg his work in a neat - sy~ tematic, aud thorough style, that shows him to be pertectly experienced 1 trade. Among the jewolry tken was a waich of high vélue, even more 50 than Mr. Hesing’s titker. or Went- worth's circumscribed elock: Tihe owner felt that patofal feoling that comes over ono when he goes to see whethor his watch is going, and finds that it is gone, He i8 seeking relief atthe Yno- lice-station. Tha residenco of a physicitn living ornnmla wns entered tho ‘same night, but no plunder was sooured. Bot if soy one thinks’ that the borglar from tho smoke-begrimed regions of Pennsyivania is 80 particular as to confer only on oue particular section of the city specimens of the sbatractive seience which he practices »o well, they ars greatly mistakon. ~Ope svening two Wéaks ago he appeared at 5 THE HOUSE OF DB. HALE, . at the comer of Aun saa Washuogton sireete, with bis little wax candle, bis strong jimimy, aut bis own audacious wass, and succeeded in make ing s very beavy haul of yalnables, showing the singalar predisposition in favor of jewels and cash that he hss exhitited esewhera. Adver- tisementa bave boen inserted looking to the paymeant of & large reward for the retarn of this property, but withont effect, it seeming to be the polioy of this thio? to take only that which can be sbipped off readily, or has an intrinsic value. In . this instapce entrance was effected by the dinipg-room window, which was deftly eut aod lifred out. The windows were guarded by burglsr-plarme, This was also the case in the house No. 79 Calumet avenue, ' entered Monday night,—bat they were not disturbed. Qace within, the houss was stripped from garrel to cellar of - all actessi- ble valuables of the kind mentioned, aud ths thief got away without discovery. Bpots from a.wax ecandie wers scattered all over the ocarpots in the _parlors, snd upand down the stairway, and the drawers were u&cnnd with false keys., Theso aro sufticient indicattona to show that ¥ Jack ” is also a visitor to the West Division, and_keops Lis eyes opan for the profitabio ** takes,” Wherever they may be. Ho seems to be s burgisz of rare_sudacity, skill, and coolness. ¥ FROM OTNER REPORTS, which are too general to be worth repeating, but which coincide in many details, bo: seema to- ba % person of good appearance and engaging man- mers. e wmcts the part of a fasniopsble oung map in gome cades, snd thud isarms suspleion, Otber instances po to show that the woman referred t6 acts with bim in prepariog the job. At any rate, be seems to be more than a match for the addle-pated fel- fows who, for the most part, guard the resideace distriots, and who, while they may be courageous euough, Lave neither tact mor teady compre- Lension to cope with such thiaves. People must be on their guard themselves, sod nse o0x- traordinary case in tho safe keeping of thelr val- uables, and in guarding the entrance to their houses. : While it is pretty evident that the Pittsburg gaug are doing the nice wouk, it s not clear, by auy means, that thoy are the only burglars around. - 1tis well known that thersars - s SOME NEGROES i who do petty thieving a)l around, but whether 25 8 gaug or Dot cavnot be told. Several oficessad rooms on Twenty-second street bave been brokea into during the dsyand evening. and clothing and other articles stolen. A youog man'in Bart~ latt's drug store lost his wardrobe, and snother in & shoe atoro near by had a valaable watch and overcost taken last week. A pegro woman has visited 2 number of houses pesr by, and ha act- ed in a puspicious way, withoutappearing to have any particular business. ' An account was given reek or two 880 of a negro who was esught in ‘abash avenue house, aud after » Jong pursuit and some shooting a¢ his pursuers was arrestod. 1t ia belioved by someé that all thess aro oper- ations of soma one_gang who are working to- gether in various parts of the ‘eity. Thore are also complaints of i ¢ ; . ' ' “F00TPADS, . which some way never come_to the public ears. A pentleman was robbed of 335 and & waich on Tark avenue one night,” aund another wag heing choked up agzainst' A" treo- at- the ‘coriier of Lincoln and’ Hubbard ‘streots, when s bnil’s eve suddenly-appeared in sight, and the robber fled, leaving bis_victim well-nigh, unconscions. "These instances bappened within a fortaight, * - Altogéther, it seems that, notwithatanding the denee iguorance of the Polico Department con- cerning the facte of robbery, Chicago is' now passing through -a regnlar dttack of the mast danpg attempts on private property and on per- sonal eafety that were ever aystemstically made within ‘the” corporate limits of any city.' It is readily belioved “that thé burglars-have the ad- misarable sud uomercantile mess acarcely bo quostioned. Moro sgeecy, given o this charge than jt deservay, Scema naaeysart, in arder 1o direct yq the raal poiut st jusue, aud an this horrdk shan 3y gtlier it is 80ugh to mpantY yeit B0 wiud. Lot it bo updoniiood that iy o POk & - THE STURGES CASE. vuficls’e‘ ‘Summary of ihe‘nm for ... Yihich Ule Is on Triak bonduct Hitherto Unkmn an the xBuérd *UUUof Trade, T not arraigoed for rooning a *. R livoring property uat betors s, o, refusiog tomake settlenicats of ontain 2% tracts, but simply aod ouly, ao fyr th?‘rga dm cnnqemted, l(:rnmsking Y ”M aud endaavoring to exto: of tlnt trade. 087 500 he bugy B TITE NEXT CHARGR in the onder of the data of the tranyas; ity e o5 & gertain psper sgbmil n ey The Duty of Tts Membhers | .4 Sl o8, submiied br ko S iy 3 2 muted both in tho clirge itsely oi2 s 27 . Storges in hia pamplet, In' yyatd X Ta the Bdfter of The Chicago Fridunes " ment_be virtually repudistes the 63 i Brm:-The test which'is about to be applied to | the Bosrd, and spita upon the .':1" ¢ the members of the Doard of Trade of this cily, -mhog’wm gr;]g{:r‘i ‘:‘L ?oud of DM";’."; ) ¢ e ¥ 22 o whother they havs suliolont sel-respeot 10 | £4358 83 complaths spainst menihe ) oy parge that body of disgraceful operations under. cover of ita memberenip, excites, as well it may; a largo degree of pablis interest, and those-both inside and outside of ‘the organization who bave" given'tha subject any dogree of- sttention ars. watching elosely the'result, some with more or 1css of eolicitudo fearing the elemént regarded 88 the reckless and largely charscterless-portion of the Board may control the question, being en-' abled' to do so through lack of information on the real issuca of the case, or from indifference on thé Bubjeas by the less demonstrativé portion of the members. * fosemn Tl 'THR BOARD OF TRADE OF CHICAGO & pasition of great inflnence for good or evil in the commercial” affairs of the conntry ; tho bunminess candusted by its memberd is in large part a8 peceassay-to’ the well-being of ‘8o~ ciety a8' is the selling of dry goods ar groceries over the counter for the convenience of con- sumers of ‘those- articles. The vast amounta of proparty oftered for sale In ita exchange room attract -buyers from far and near, and tha pro-. portions to which thie business thers gonductad bas grown have given it 3 prominence’ in- influ- cuce socond to no gimilar body in the country.. mn':: dity B courtsin mors than one iosta: ways bean sustained. 1t segma fi"‘;“‘f‘hw meiber of the Board had & disagreeqnt ; gard to 8 cortaln_transaction, the ,x:h ) resting on the tha terma of a eartai b tweéen them. The case was Yoluatarily sqney to the Commwitteo of Arbitration, ang Wi quently 1o the Commitien of Appoals, o vt Committeps decided agaiust Alr, sgwm aiso appeard thal, pending those proceggs I the samo parties had another transaction, ing in a balanca due fa M. Sturges of ’Hfls it. This maney was, indtead of being held. Q oflgat for tho claim 0u Mr. S, of SLat pa him g8 the axpress agreement on his ucd [fi“‘ wonld promptly pay any award that the Compy tees might find against him on the pry transastion. Tha awards being againat, mw"'“l 3, being cited before flio Disess snd, heing cil efare the Direcy » Siou nors the roles of 1 Bestd jor LU 80, ho tprows in their teeth the documay ot ferred to. ' It ia not & queston as to whelhg’): bad the logal right to make any snan pey, rovosation, denial, of WHMGYF it way ho e but rather whether the Board will toun%: its mombera ooo who Seeks thus o dagy 1 rales,rales, tao, that s hizaself i soacky iy protection of - in several instances withi Feelka immodintaly procoding. T L iy ‘the factity and esso with whioh largo quanti- | Mr. Storges refused before the tics of property, are haudled, and the further | to camga% that the ncaxd,: e 1act thas fhere is always both a demand and a.| commiftees should be received ag eridensy supply for ‘the leading priicles dealt in by the i by ided members, have tvited 3gaiost by, provided they were projuduein b -vantage of superioc’ intelligance on-their side, and probably the police speak with all candor waoen they say they know nothing abont it, and belleve that the city is pot E-dlr ‘watched. Facts, however, aro stubborn things to get over. —An Englishman who" is traveling in this co‘u!n‘lry ‘_rrm:z;“_l wwcue Londfln}n Times; that 0y wives have Tovolvers 30 protect themselves from their b bis case, but he parades the evideucs case in detail in ki pampblei. with the eyess purpgse of geeking o retry the merityof iy caso before the wholo Board, It is not prapy ble any considerable number of men who gy . familiar with the rales of the Bosrd will eady any different verdict on the evidauea from why the Committee did ; but the quesuon is nocy | to thio correctnoss of the award. Witk ik i Oommuttags to whom it was yubmitted had to, a4 tyey anly. The question now with the . i8 28 to the attempt of & member o oversida i rtles.” If thods rules csn thas be st st nouit on the whim of aoy momber, ther curely g Assaciation will 80on become 1 by~woid in iy nomm‘ orcial world, and & nwssncy in the ege munity. The n’b(\ve may be considered the minor, in the indictment sgainst ilr. Btarges, - THE PRINCIPAL OXR ralates to the operatians of i(r. Bturgesife. tempber, and ia placed firss in order, with atati. ance to the same in the third specificatigs. (e tainly no member of the ‘Board will clain it : thege oparations hava avy precedent, wnd w bonorable merchaut will claim that they bng semblaace of decezay or cammotdisl wiegry about tuem, Uuparsieled as werp theJ, transactions, those of September far them 10 downright perfidy. : Tt saema that sftar mouths of Gpertiotsca the purchasing sideof cozn, and when fuswos 1emping had become gresily redued, be torped and aold largely for dolivery in fejtin. ber, apparently with & View of Speculating ors dechne. aad, according ta his ownstatement, v Iargely short of corp, due and deliverabie o Bept. 80. Elv:dan dar i . i oD pri 3 wou! he markes and seltin, nvc::'_ % be deliveréd that da; bem o'clock at 8 trifls under che legittmate masiet, which was abous 80 cents per buuuel. It dppet he sold 1n lots 180,000 bushals at from 7 to Bt cents. Tnose lots wera BOUGHT 1¥ GOOD FAITE, and in some instances vegsols were chartered & faka the corn to Buffalo. Only 25,000 bushels o this 130,000 pushels wers aelivered as all, ao! the partiea were abliged to repurchiaze the com a% a loss. mediately after thess gales Lo coo tinued in the magket, and pretended fosellta e parmoen, mime. 30800 Bosses oF ek purpose, some 500, el8 ar moid corpi at 60 £0 70 cents, " and he says ke deliverd and got bis pay for thess laterealea: If thls d true (which probably Do -one belleves)itiia operution litcle if anything loss tuan dowbright ul«l.m%l 88, if ho delivered 1t st all if must bave been 'delivered from ibat phe viously mold on the eailter sales, and cox sequently it wae zos$ his propéry to el He bad also ‘large coatraats for the sala of cam mataring on Sept. 30, at least serersl modred thonssnd bushels, of wiich, &o far efcu be learned, not one bushel was delifeted.” Far tna protection of many ‘of thess tue s be clamed to hnve marging deposttad id the ook County. Nattonal Bank: - He has refused 103t just, s0 far us is known, auy of thess contracts, or to release any of the n;a:pm,d-ppsnted o ) A SPECULATIVE ELEMENT, reanlting in the sale and resale of property to an axtent ot perhaps obtaining in suy ofber mar- ket in the world. * Thus elament has perkaps oc- . cagioned the Amsociation’more solicitude’ than all'otiier causes combined, and 1t has been this that has subjected 1t Lo more of eribicism than all things elsa, 2 3 ‘Those who have carcfully studied the evil and the §om effects of the speculative element as developed on tho Board of Trade have, with scarce an exoeption, come to the oonoclusion that the balanes of infivence aas been and is .on the wide of fostering it, if restrained within reasonz- blasnd proper lumits, gs. by it and 1 only we are at all imes eénabled ta realize on property promptly and to 1ts full value. Icisnottrue, 8B tasuy seem to suppose, that speculative opara tions are cunducted mainly in the iaterest of the members of the Associauon. . There caa be xo. doupt but that fully two-thirds of ali such opera- | tious are ou the orders of parties living at points’ more or less remote, and wno operate -through membe:s of thoe body acting as commission mer- cnants. For the must parr, tuis specuiption is aa legitimuto as the buying and sailing. of . any other kusd of properiy with a view to an ad- vanciug market ; and, in the hasty condemoa- tiow of what, in exceptional instances, seem to be transactions of. doubtful commereial pro~ priety, injustica is ot unfrequeutly dooe to wha may be properly termed enurely legitimate trading. 1t is undenlably truo that BECKLESS SPECULATIONS : Bave been freyuently couauoted in tha past that lave resulted in occaslousl diseredituule ex~ plaitg, and worthy and honotable membera have had to suiffer, generaily in silence, for the acts of their tellows whose sense of meicantile honor was bounded by their own prospects lor gam. Hemedwes have oeon devisad to oarrect abusea as they huvo been oeveloped, 80 far as the mem- bera baye been able to do 8o without materially dwsturbing the course of legitimaté business. * THE CASE XOW PENDING DEFORN THA BOARD Ppresents 8o many LeW features that.tbe ususl Temedies are found to be toually inefficient i their application o tha case, X is becausa the improsiion is sought to be forced on the mem- bers of the Board sud on the community that the proceedings now in progrees ate simply & .Spas- wmodic effort to cortect long-existivg evils, and that the attempt 1s being made to sacritice Ar. Suarges for dolog what has otten been doue be~ fore, thst this gtatement of the cdse {s present~ ed. For aday or two past the drift of argument by Afr. Srurgessnd his friends. hus been—and such intinuations have also been made in the public press—to the elect that, while it may be admitted toat Mr. Sturges has been gaitty of some acts f doubtfal propricty, atll he should ot be made to suffer too severely for what has grown to be & common practica. At is 8aid “ corners have been engineered both befors_and since AIr. Sturges’late operat &nd that the projectors haye not béen brought to the discipline of ‘the 'Bdard, even wher they bave resulted in disgracing the ‘body, and-hence he showd not be; that there is no reason | their secarity. why the weeding-out process should begin with | A1l the sbovo atated opefations In fegard ¥ lum, while others have been pormutted to go | the September tradesara . - : free. 1t may be remarked in passing that this species of ar ent must * forever tie the Lauds of the Board. Unlese a begioping in made somewhere remedies could never be applied. Ir, however, it were truo that Ar. Sturges had been arraigned simply for running & **carner,” whetber 1t Was a Successful one or not, 1t might be proper, a8 an initistory proceed- ing, that tho infliction of discipline sbonld be soniewhat tempered with the quality of mercy, and that,asa beginning of reform in thatrespect, only some nomiual panishment might be proper. | expressing their opivions, and tesybs from s Bug it is not true.that Mr. Sturges 8 arraigned | ing tneir honeat convictions, from the fess thst simply for running & *corner,’ or for foliowing | balances dae them by Sturges may be lost ifb any eustom smong members of the Board. 18 expellod ; and that in some wiy, if e is delr THZ - OPEBATIONS WITH WEICK MB. STUBGES I8 | cately haodled, the; in conxisf 1 CHABGED 135 from hum thelr just duss.” Such may, be briefly stated as follows, giviog them in | darstand that their insction id lisble to resuit the order of their occurrence rather than in | s disgrace to themsolves.. Tbe issuo cannobhy the order of the specifiestions. ~ First, making | shirked. It muat bo miek, and the resalf will by flctitions purchases of property to influence | either & credit or s disgrace to the organizai® vrices, 8o that he could, if possible, extart exces- | of which they are members. sivo nioney damagea from . those with whom he | No member of the Boatd, whethier intersil bad contracts uufulfilled. ‘Fhis relates to a transaction on Jaly 31 whereby he publicly made s purchase of 250,000 bushels of corn st 80 cants per bushel, full 16 conts above its value, and upon which operation, & & is of vaine, he sent bills for claims upon those who failed to de- liver_him corn sold for delivery in July. ‘He says in bis late arzument he believed those bills would be promptly paid, thus indicating tha fsot that he supposed he had succeeded in extorting very large Bum from thoso with whom he had dealings. That this pretended purchase was wholly fictitious there can be no reasonable doubt; he adinits the corn was not delivered of paid for, aud the proker of whom the purchase was made refuseu. 1o develop for whom the sale was made by bum, and has no kmowledge whether it was delivered or not. Any aftempt to argue that s % RNTIRELY XEW 2o in iho grain trade, aud are.of suchachaai 48 €0 utterly destroy all confidénce i tfadiog among members of the Board. Thaf dufi o wall 83 the mntters aisowhere rofetred tg in thé are highly uncommercial aod disgrace: fal, will soarcely be questioned. % !\bow. will fl.\e of M&lfi e 85 becomes it 08 an’ organizatiof b bave s reputablo commerrial standing? by said that many membérs ard_intimidsted in the grain trada or Dok, caa afford to b d farent to the reault of these -proceedings, &2 ‘= the credit of the city, far sad near, 18 invol in the action taked by tlié , évery. e e Comiod a ° O 5 ‘A, M. Wat, Chalrme - OxaAGo, Nov. 21, 1874 + HEAVEN. Heaven i3 a mystery ! The phuce of G Angicus the glaries of Eternity i 1s hid from mortal knowlade. Fho &3, The wonders of that “ conntrs from %! “'5"‘“"; No traveler hlum::.f‘ Sllnl‘:\:::/ T Prophet nor bard, that epeke. iz - Unto this gueation of humaulty = i bl Has over answer made, - Not evet cm. 5 this transaction had any real foundation in good o fath will ‘be treated with the contempt of all | TPemIsery besohvad tomacttl mind] | o, sensible men. Now this operation . | Conscion of immortality, our tacé, fal 1 HAS N0 PRECKDENT w ‘With souls aglow, péer throngh tnd swf n' m'”uu in the history of the Board of Trade, and to ik shrouch 8 ousow ot opp vk that Mr. Sturgés is being persecated for Ia)lmv! ing the examples set him, “is, 80 far as this chbarge is copcerned,. simply nonsense.. Not 8 little of the discredit of thia operauon srises from the fact that ju all the investigations bad beforn the Board. it has not beon developed that there was one bushel of ‘corn dne and not delivered in Jnly that the sellers had not pur- chased either from him, or {rom brokers who ‘wete weil endersiood to. be acting in his- inter- ee:f—ar, a¢ lewst, it appears to be reasouably well eatablished that all the corn due bim, 50 far 88 it hds been daveloped at all, was comting from him, snd the only ressor it waa not deliverod was because he arranged that s shonld mot be delivered in timo to be redelivered to him. He stated repeatedly during the investigation that he Lisd Do corn sold_for delivery in July, but it was proved beyond & reasomable doubt that this statement was not trne, w0 casos bewg developed in which 80,000 buskels were sold for ‘him aud were delivered by him, and_one broker, who was well uiderstood t0'ba sacting for nimé ‘delivered' & very large samount just before o'clock, 1n some instances stipulsting in advance that ho would deliver the cora in reasonable time provided the parties would agrea that it should not bo detsvered south of ‘Madison strost. “Ar. Storges’ office is on Monroe street. “This broker ‘declined tosay whether or not tne corn thus de- livered was sold for Mr. Swurges’ sccount. Prob- 2bly no friend or foe,of Mr. Sturges, who was at tha tima . familiar with the cory trade, will hesi- tate for onie moment to boliave the d made by this party were'for - Mr. Sturges' ac- ‘count. " [t has not been-developed tha: apy man was ahors of cora sold Mr. Sturges for July de- hivery, in the usual snderstanding of that tarm, _sad, votwithstanding the extravagant pretensions of Mr. Starges in that respect, the evidence all;| ‘tends to ehow that no one was in default to him but'snch as his conmvancs in that ?[(nl- tiop. 8o much for the July transaction. That he attempted to & comer will not ‘be_qne‘-unm‘d.,mdrm S That separstes the Temploof onf God e mumbaam\:;:,m?‘um"" Has penetrated 10 the dad: As when ‘norn of Earth Grsb daws' (- O knawleds here s chock'd of God sod HssTt Iato the glories of faturity Man nisy not penetrats ; and, thoug! Coase thou, then, O Man] in thy mortality tovex * .- '% Thy ptuny mind with thingd thstever b | Excludad {rom the range of hamsau 19 not forever more effectual . H!d from our knowledgn B2 the ghartofs piscd ’Dfllm:‘lfllmlvhlnmymflfl ¥ i Ve g, W, D % ————— Loss of n. Great Gift to SAB l‘rln“:; The San Francusco Alta, of. Nov- ng' o) & Horaco Hawes gave property ¥or, gt 92,000,000 for the establisnment of tbeiee] educational insutations in Sao Frav it Meteo. Thess gifts were: madd yt: e, doed and partly by will. The will wss 800, ‘because tzo jury did nat beliove hSIP“"' _when he execated it; and now tbe b Court bas declarod that the doed wss 1000y ‘cause it did pot convey the land st lhna' Sl itd execntion, but gave it, reserviog 8 I8 i for the grantor; whereas, nnder the 1s¥ 950, & such & conveyance in the mun'!‘.xeflfl-“l ‘atand. S0 end the publis inatitetions chd Hawan” e k!