Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1874, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SA’I‘URDA‘Y, NOVEMBER 28, 1874--TWELVE PAGES. WASHINGTON. Annual Report of the Comiptroller of the Currency. Statistics of the Nation- al Banks for the Year. Effect of the Currency Bill Passed at the Late Session. How It Works as a Meas- ure of Contraction. Tho Railway Postal-Service-- Review of Its Opera- tions. The Plan to Establish 2n Exclu- sive Mail-Train from Chi- cago to-New Yorke Imperfections of the Present System of Compensat- ing Railroads. Tnjustics of Making Weight a Basis of Payment. Reports from fiilltary Diviston and Department Commanders, The Army Appropriation Bill---PNo Mate- “ rial Changes. THE CURRENCY, REPORT OF THE COMPTZOLLER. Speciul Dispateh to The Chicago Iribune, WasurNerox, D. 0., Nov. 27.~Tho Comptrol- {or of the Curroncy has finished his report and it is now in tho bands of the printor, It ehows that 2,200 National Banke have been organized sinco the establishment of tho systom. Tlurty- fivo of theso hava failod and thirly-soven Lave gono into yoluntary liquidation by & vote of two- thirds of tho sharcholdors, ioaving 2,028 banks In existonco on tho 1st of Novembor, 1874, The roport contains tablos ehowing the rosourcos and Habilities of tho National Banks at corresponding poriods for tho last flve years; also a tablo of their condition on the 224 of October, the dste of their laat report, the roturns from Now York, Boston, Phuladelphia, and Baltimore, and from the other redemption citios, and the romaining banks boing arranged soparately, In the stato- ment of Oct, 2, tho loana of the banka in the cities named ara sopatated, first, into loans ou United Btatea bonds ; second, on otnor stocks wud bonds on demand ; third, on commercial and fimnl:l\’nndnlion paper ; aud fourth, losns payabls gold. Two billa possed the Jant Comgroms roistlng_to tho National Banking nyse tom. The first bill, which is_ quotad, failod to recoive the approval of tho Prestdont. Tho princlpal points af the socond ack are given, which went into effoct June 20, 1874, -, 'the amount of ocurrency distributed under thin act, aud the effect of the act on the rouccves of tho National Banks, aro brieily diecussed. THE BUBIECT OF REDENPIION §a discuswed nt groater longth, and tho hopo ex- pressed that the presont rystem of exchmuging utilatod notos for new paper iusties will, ot long henco, be suporadded by o truo syatom of redemption, namoly : the paymont, an” demand, of Nativual Bank notes in coiu or its represunta- tive. ‘The amount of National Bank-notes outstand- ing of insolvent banks and of banlks in yoluntary Jiqmdation, which srs redecmablo at tho Trons- wy, in §612,285. Tho awount of circulation, thefefura at tho disposal of thio Comptrotlor, or to be placod at lus disposal for distribution from thess different sources, iv as follows: Tho portion of the £350,000,000 romaining unissued, ~ §2,072,76¢; notes of banks which bave deposited lawful _money for tho withdrawal of ciceulation, $7.714,- 550 ; notes in civeulation of buuks in liquidation, £0,492,285, nmounting to §16,279,580. The Comptrollor oxpresses tho opinion that s eaflicient amount of the circulation will bo re- deemed to supply the anplications that mayv bo received for somo months to ccme. When the smount withdrawn and uunua{m.l from thoso soarces shall have been reissuod, it shall bo the duty of the Comptroller to 1ake requisitions upon bauks located in BTATEN IIAVING MORE THAN THEIR PROPORTION. This circulation will*bo withdrawn chielly from Ihode Island, Connecticut, aud Matsachusetis, The aggregate amount of circulution bereafter to be placed at the disposal of the Cowmptroller from &ll sources is §47,50,743. DANK BESERVES. The whola amcuut of legal-tendor money re- quired to bo Leld {u thw vaults of the banks un- dor the National Bank act, would have been, on Oct., 2, $124,873,751, avd tho amount required to bo kept ou hand iu the Treasury under tho law now in forco is §104.528,000, 'The nmount of legal-tender notos, therslore, leased from the reserves of the bavks under the now act of that date, Nov.1, was 820,350,000, Tho amount of cush resorve hold in tho vaults of the bauks at the dato of tho last roport, Oct. 2, was £55,000,000, anid the total resorve £91,- 700,000 In excosy of tho requiroments of tho presont nct, A tablo in given, showing the kinds and amounts of rosurves held by the baulke in Now York Gity, in tio other redemiion citios, and in the romawming tanks on Oct. 2, and the swount theso bauly vould have been roquired to hold if tho revervo Yaws hud romained unchy 1 THE BASK TAX, Tho amount of taxes paid into tho United ?!;:eun{l;nfiiur “ll:y l}tu‘?‘_f‘ununl Dr%naisu {x?;f; tln; oo og July 1, 1874, wos §7,083,98, o which $3,404,000 was' dorived from ciroulation, Tho rates of taxatlon under tho State luws dur- ing the last yoar wire : In New Yark City, 3 80- 100 per ceut; Boston, 2 84.100; Clicago, 284100 ; Cincinnati, '267-100; S, Louls, 2 44-100; Charleston, 8, The avorage amount of _ taxution assessod on the capital of Nutional Danks js estimated at from 8 1o 34 ypor cont. Roal estato aud porsonal property aro genorally as- sexged at not more than ono-third of thoir actual valug, but banlk shores are usually negonsed at their full value. Thore i8 no doubt that the rato of taxation of National Danks is greator than that of auy other ppecies of property, ‘Tho amount of fractional ruvenuo tax dorived frum the sole of tho 2-cont stamp sflized to chiecks and sight dralts for tho vear ending July 1, 1674, wus §,500,000, The Comptrollor recom= wmeuds the repeal of the Ialter tax, aud if it is not repouled that the sot shall be 80 amended snd such penaity Ylm\‘lnlnll as ahiall tend to pre- vont evasions of the present Iaw. DANK RANNINGH, A tnbleis given shoning the aggregate oani- tel and surplus, total dividends, and tutsl earn. Ings of tho bunks, with ratio of dividends to capital and surplus, snd eapital and surplus for prols half yesr, Leginning March, 1600, and end- IugBept, 1, 1874, From thls table it appeara that tho aversge dividonds on capltal duriug the pass yuar have boen &t the rate ul 0 9-10 per cont, the fiyidend on capltal and surpius 7 87-100, and the earnings to the oapital and aurplua 8 (8-100, BTATE AND PRIVATE BANKS, a%o amount of taxoy collectod by the Com- missloners of Internal Revenue from savinga Lsnkn, State banks, and private banke and bank- ors during tho last year was 83,387,000, Tho Comptrollor givea atatistica of the re- nourcea and Lisbllitien of Htate banks and navings bLauks during the past year. But fow of the Htatos hinve lawa requiring m;f\llnr roports to be made tho Btato authorities, and a atill loss numbor of Statos cumTHu such roports whon recoived, Tho returna glvon nro ohiofly from tho banks tn New England aud the Midale States, nnd the Comptrollor hns addrossad a cireular-lotser to the Govornors of tho Stntes muggonting Lhab recommendations bo made to the sovoral Stats Legivlaturon, urging tho passago of acts whioh mill socure inforination inreforsnce to the monoy institutions of the States, and auks tho attention of membora of Congross to tho subject, aud tho cxortion of thoir futlucnco to that end, DENOMINATION OF NOTES OUTHTANDING, ‘fhe Comptrollor givos & tablo showing tho amouut of National Bank natos of euch don 1ation ontstauding, from whicl it appeara thak tho amouut of notes lous than the denomination of 86 now ontstandivg s, §0,077,841; tho amount of Nationsl Bank notos lesa than’ $10, is §189,080,406. Tho smount of legal-tondor noten outstanding of lews than 6 fs $50,220,852, and tho nmount of luf»\-mmlar notes losn Lian #10 is $107,408,065. 1T tho whole issue of | tender motcs and National Bank nctes undor 86 should bo withdrawn, it would requiro $66,223,000 of spaclo to talte its placo, aud I all the paper monoy, including tho frac- thonnl eurroucy, under 310 whould bo withdrawn, 1t would roquire 295,535,000 of speoie to take 1td plnco. “Llie Unitod Btates Treasurer holds §186,400,000 of Usited Btates bonds as securlty for circulatfon of notew, Thouo bonds con- wint of 145,981,000 of 6 por cone bonds, and 239,044,000 of 5 per cout bouds, and there has beon an. iucrease of G por cent honde during the last fonc yonrs of 143,497,000, and s decroawo of 0 por cont bonds of $160,00,000, TUE DANK-NOTE TLATES, The Comptrollor roponts his statomont of laet yoar, that thore is no present uccossity for the CURFAVING. of uew dosigug for tho Nationnl Dunk uotes. The average number of impressiony printed nupon tho proxcnt plates does not exceed 4,000, while they are capabla of printlng aa avor- 8o of 80,000 impressions, The largo amount of ongraver's work on tho National ank notes, and the similitudo of depign of each denomination, bave tonded to prevent the issuo of countorfoity, not mora thnu forty-six of the whole 6,000 platos which have boon™ engraved for the Natioual Banks having been succosnfully countorfoited, whilo nuder tho old plate syatem the countor- fola wore numbered by thousands. The Comptroller recommends an apprapria- of §5,000 for the redomiplion of unsigued notes of Nationnl Banks, which were purlolued from tio Lroagury in 1867, [7a the Associated Press,) Wasniyaron, D. O., Nov, 27,—'te annual ro- port ot the Comptroller of the Cwrrency shows that during tho past yonr eoventy-one Nationnl Bauks havo been organized, with an autnorized capital of 6,745,000, Ahrve banke uve farled, aud twonty gone into voluntary liquidation, 'The actusl increaso of National “Bauk circulation during tho year I8 #3,576,207. ‘lhie total cireu- lation outstanding Nuv. 1, including 3,116,094 duo to bauks for mutilated notes dostroved, wan #861,927,240, leaving %2,074,754 yol to be issuod of ‘the 4usl,NUOOW authorized, Sieo tho passnge of the =xct of June 20, 1874, foitv-six Nationsl Dauls hove boon orgunized, with a capital of 4,019,000, to which circulation bas been tsaued. Applications have been mado for thy organization uf sixty- four othor national banks with & capital of £6,110,000, aud wirculations amounting to $1,500,000' bas boon mmfinml to those proposed vrgamzations under Koo, 4 of tho act of June 20, 1874, Sovon million soven hunsred and fouiten thousand five hundred and fifty dollara legal touder notes bave boen toposited for tho purpose of withdrawing from ciicnlation tha sama amouut of Nutional Baglk-notes, THE AMOUNTS 185010 TO NANKS aince June 20, 1874, aro as tollows District of Columbia. Michigan.., Wisconsin, to banks already organized is £J,707,000, and to be Issued to propousd organizations ' £4,500,000, of which Rbodo laland, Gonnocticut, Naw York, sud Penn- Rylvauin recoive none, but Ohio recolven S1,355, 000, Indiana 586,000, Ilnois $1U5,000, Iows $315,000, und others amonnts smalior, MOUNTS BUBECT TO WITHDRAWAL aud 9 of tho act of June 20, 1874, in States g mora than thoir propostion of cireulation is uo foduwe ; Lanks, Where situs ted, isng ew York C .. ~Providence, 15 Conneeticut. ag Boston, + The amonnt of circulation remninivg tnissued and the amouut to be withdrawn, as belore sated, is £16,279,649, ‘Total §47,350,74: AI'PECT OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF LEGAL TENDERS, ‘I'no Comptrollor says: 1f Congress should provide for tho withdrawal of logal teuder nutes, and the 1ssucof Nntional Bauk-notes ns neoded in placv theroof, when tho amount ot leual ten- der notes shouid bo reduced to, suy 300,000,000, thio logal tender notes would then bu in demund, and, ib proportion a8 they should bo reduced in amonnt, the demand " for tiem would incroase, until finally when tho amount of bank-uotes 1esued should b lurgely in excces of tho samount of legal tonder notes, outstanding, the National Liuk votes would themnelves bo withdrawn at coitain seasons of the year, on account of the difliculty or exnouee of obtnit ing luwful mouey with which to redeom them, Lo gold o of the country would taou make ite appearunce in suswer to the demand for an additional amount of Jawtal monev, and spocie payment would follow. Redemption in its propor eonso implios tho exchauge of & prom- ise to puy for the thing promsed, namoly: coin, or its reprosentative, which is conyertiblo into coin on demand. T'ho (ffect of such redemption iw to confine buuks of iwsuc to s logitimmte business, which is tho discounting of commorclul lupor. I bauks of issue are obuged o pay heir circulating notes onco in sixty or nivety days, thoy must digcount such prowissory voten only as will ccrtainly bo puid witkin that time, 1t tha paymoat of bauk-notes bo frequently de- mandod, bauks of issue caunot safoly investtion: capital i rest-ontazo lonns, 1w doubtful stocks or bonds, iu accommodation-notes which requiro rounewa), or in loans on doubtful sccurity, but must have their capital at all tiwos in- vested fu loans which will Do promptly paid at maturity, Such a condition indi- cntes & bealthful busineas, aud promotes sound bavking; aad the rodustion of tho amount of leg ndor notes, accompanied with such increase of Nutioual Bank-uotes as may be required, will secure o proper systew of redemp- tion, render free baukiug practicablo, and grad- vally restore speclo paymonts withont necossntj- ly decropsing the amount of the circulating me- dinm. ANENDAMENTS RECOMMENDED. The folloning smendments fo proviony acts aro rocommonded ¢ *irst—Au amondinent to Boc, 1 of the nct of March 3, 1878, providing that if any shacoholdor or sharcholders of Lunks whoso capital ntock is impaived shall rofuse, aftor throe mouths' no- tica, {0 pay the asseasment as provided in snid nection, o sufliciont amount of the enpitat stock of such delinquent shurokoldor or shurobolders may bo sold to make good the deficlency, Second—An amondment of Sec, 89, of tho Na- tional Bank act, extonding the limif of the line bilities of auy association, person, company, or firm, for money borrowed, from 10 per cont of cupital paid in to 16 por cant of capital and sur- plus for banks loouted in redomption cities, and ono-tanth of capital and surplus for ather baunks, Third—Also prohibitng the doposit of mora than 10 per n«mf of the caplial of a Natiunal Dank with auy private bauker, or any person or nasocistion, olhor than & National Dsuking As- clation. lm}"ourll).—'.['hut no National Banks sball bo lia- blo to make good auydeticienoy which mey here- after arlno in sny spacial deposit with such bank, unless w roceipt shall be producad by the owner of such deposit in which the liability of the bank shall be distinctly stated, Fifih—Tho repoal of tha 2-cent stamp-iax, c. an act providing that sll billa of exchanyo, checks, or racoipts, in place of chocks drawu upon any bank or banker, shall be subject to & stamp-tax, with a ponalty of $20 for each viola- tion thercof, ‘Tho Comptroller renows the recommendations coutained in hiu last two reports for the passage of an met to Jxmunt the iasuo and cireulation of unsuthorized curconoy, and roquiring tho words “roounterfeit,” “altered,” *illogal” to bo atsmpod on &Il counterfeft or unsuthorized is- nmion s alao his rocommendation for the ropanl of the fourth soction of the et of Juno 1, 1870, so {ar an it applies to the organization of savinga banks in the District of Columbis, and for iho ennotmont in ity stond of » genetal Iaw in rof- etance to anch savings honks, with judicious eonditious and roatrictions, —_— ‘THE POSTAL-CAR SYSTEM, WIAT 18 BEING ACCOMPLISUED BY THIS BRANOI OF TIE SERVIOR, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasmineroy, D. C, Nov, 27,.—Georgo 8. Banga, Buporintondont of the Ratlway Postal Sorvico, hing comploted Lis annusl roport. From this roport it apponrs that, at the oloso of tho fiscul yoar ending June 30, 1873, thoro wera in oporation 60 lines of railway post-oflico cars, oxtunding over 14,860 miles of ratlroad, on which was porformed 34,926 miloa of service duily, and 12,747,026 milos of sorvico aunually, by 752 rail- way post-ofico olerks. Theso cloarks nre clansified s follows: 283 hoad clorks, 879 clerks, snd ninoty aesistant clorks. By tho establishmont of now lines of ratlroad, tho poatal facilitioa have bocu groatly mncreased, During tho throatoned relusal of tho railroads to oarry tho maily, an offor of thao Laltimore & Ohlo was accepled by the Departmont. This gave dally sorvica batween Olnoinnatl, Q., aud Chicago, 1L, 810 mitoy. This complotes » TUROUGH LINE BRTWELY WASIINGTOX AXD OmI- cAdo, and formn a connectlon botween the ronds con- toring au Cincinnati, Indisnapolis, aud Chicngo. Of thie proveut condition of the railway post- offico sorvice Mr, Bungs says: * Tho railway post-oftice ears aro now in operation on most of the most mportnnt connooting and trunk linea of rnilrond, giving the most direct and availabla transit to tho mails botweon the oflice of origin and destination, and forming wearly s poricct conuection betweon tho various railroads upon which sorsics i porforumed by route ngents. THE PENNBYLVANIA RAILEOAD MYSTEM, perhaps the most extonded and importnut iu the country for mail transportation, is now used toagront extent in tha forwarding of through and direct mails ; but, owing to the poor puaial facilition at prosent furnishod by that road, it ocannot be utihized to any grant oxtont m the dis- tibution of mnily in tranvit, As this Company has oxpressed its willingness to graut improveu naccomiuodutivns, the bouetlt to Lo derivod would fully warrant the Departmont in the acceptance of thoeamo, Tho neceswity of this nddition to the postnl-car lines can best be judped Ly tie following atatoment of the balk of nuuls prssing botwoen tho East aud Wont: Now York City ongmntea FIFIY-FIVE IO MIXTY TONS OF MAIL-MATTRR DALY, a8 abown by their ofilcial statement. Forty-five toifty tous of tlus 8 forwarded on tho trunk liues loadiug to the Wost and Southiwest, Lhrow of theso linea—tha Peunsylvauia Railroad, Now York & Eno Railroad, snd” New York Con'ral & Hudeon River Ratlrond—corry daily over their wholo length an average of 93,00 pounds of aonil, and as the bulle of this mril 18 depasited in the ofiicou at the latest hour possiblo to make tho trais, or Arrives oo conpecting traine, it must bo distributed in tronsit, taxing tho pros- ont nccommedation to tho utost, ogpecially as tho Eria Hailroad is the only oue upon which the Department huve such acecommodations as ure roquired. 'Tho proprioty of establishing A FAST AND MXOLUSIVE MAIL-TRAIN botseon Mow York and Chicago bas beon dis- cussed for nomo tiato, and there appears to be a growing necossity for Lho #nme, ti train to bo under tis control of tho Dopartmont go far ae it {n necesuary for tho purpeses designed, aud to run thedistanco in about twenty-four hours, It is concedad by railroad oflicials “that this can bo done. Tho impottance of & line liko this cannot wa ovorentimated, It would reduco the actuni time of the mail botweon tho Iinat and West frouw twelva to twonty-four hours, asit would necessari- Iy bo establisbed upon one or more of the trunk lines having no oxtended syatem of connections., 1ts benatits would be in wo wise coulined, bus extended to all Emtu of the country alike, lu would also, if this line bo cetublisliod, bo prac. ticable toreduco to one line daily, beside this through ine, tho servico upon tho tbree trusk Luen to be Wost. ‘L'bis reduction would compou- aato for all the addivonsl oxponse incurred by 1ha tast muil-train, espacinlly us, by thooporution ofthe law goveroing mail transportation, theomore mail concentrated upon 8 siuglo line of raitwny tho losy 18 Lhe aygrogute cost of trausportation por pound or ton por unlo. Witk raferonce to tho complaints of somo rallroads thab TIR COMPENSATION 18 INADEQUATE, Mr. Bangs suys: * Lu tus connection it would be nuavisuble fo recommend logisiation placing the comypiousntion to rulroads on anutbor basis, that of weigus ulous. \Wuen weight wae flest mude the busis of compenution, the mails were mootly carried in bulk, anda the spaco roquired way refativoly so small that it did not enter invo cousivorazion, but with the iuncitasing railroaa facilities and closer counection made at tornuual points, cmme the necoesity ol distribution m transit, or elso dolay, Thus hay spaca grown o primary nportauce, aud the rolations between the spaco requirod wud weight carried ure becoming so varied on diforent ruil- rouds, governed outirely by the country through whicll the railrond pasees aud itd counectivus, that it works unequnily, and 18 an iucreasing source of complaint ppon the part of thoe rail- roads who furuish ample accouuuodatious, aud of embursassmont to the Dopurtment nhew rad- ronds rofuss to jurnieh the ksmo, ‘The compon- sntion should be 8o bused that ¢ would commuand the use of’any or all waibs Tam upon auy railvoad, and awmple space for the prover working of the muils. It should by so fHexibie thus muila could be changed from one roed to anvther at the option of tuo Depuranen:, when somanded by u cuavge of connectivns.” Bir, Zangs seviows Lo subject of THE COST OF 'THiZ RAILWAY FOSTAL-SERVICE, about which erionsvus Opinions obiwin, ife says: *‘Lho waditional gompenssiion givon to o railvoads for furnmhing and tisusportivg railwuy post-ollice cars is, us noarly as cau by es- timated, $000,000 snunally. The compensation ot cierkd po.tocming s ~ Bervico is 1,053,200 annuslly ; the cost of the Suporintendvhey fus wlary and per diem is £84,420; a tutul ousc of 1,692,620, ‘Phat this cost 18 sppaiont, however, and nut real, will be uacn ia the fullomug : ‘Lhe rotlway post-oliices, with throe or four excop- tions, pevform the way or loual service ; tnat 18, supply tho oftices along the hue of the Taihon aver el they pass. A earoful eatumate suovs thut to do tws wore would alone requirs 3,0 clerks or roate-ngents, which would cust at losst ®1L,000 each per year, whio averuge salary ivon on that clas of routs, amounting to ¥370,000, Agam, wers uot tnis aistnibution made on the curs, it would necessi- tuto the establishment of gt Jeast fitvy uduitionul dmtributing post-oftices, employing from one additional elerk in tho wmaliost to sevonty-five in tiso targest, ‘Lhis lattor is the estimute for Ubii- cago, ‘I'm® it would yoquiro a larger forcs’in tha offices thau are oa tho cars to waka tha dis- tibution of tho sume smount of mail, 18 ovident from the following 1casons : Ou the cass, they hove ihe whole time in transit, whilo n the pust-otlico tho destributivn must bo mwae iu the shortest posrivle time, requiring & lurger force, 1 order that ic way be furwurded by tue tirat de- purting Lrains witer its arrivel, This must at ooy ommet tho balanes of compeonsation to clerks, Uho additiounl space requred fu tho post-ofifces would alone agsregate to no incon- mdoravble itom. 'Tao Suporistendency would be necersary under avy systom, ns tho distribution and dinpitel of maus would rogaire the same goneral supervieion as now to securs the bost possible results * Not tbe loait considoration In favor of {he railway post-othice .8 THE AVOIDANCE OF DELAYS resulting from suy othor systew than the distribution of mails in transit,” A curious componsation, not ombodied in the roport, shows what the Governmont wowd be comuelled to pay if tho postal-car system waa abolished, o feturn to the oid systom of dis- tribution oftics, & vast additioual sum would be requived tur remtal aud olovkebive, There would Do, besldos, an ouormoud additional expenditure. 'Lhe rn\\rond compantes would require componsation ‘for tho weight of tho pouches, ach weighs 74 pounds. ‘There ure now in use 150,000, A rotiirn to the old system wonld roquire an incronse of 1,000 por cent in number. ‘Lhe coss of transportation of the nd- ditioual mail-bags under the old systow, if the prosout facilltios were maintsined, would bo mads more than ho entre expouses of the poatal-car transporintion. % —— THE WAR DEPARTMENT, APPROPIIATIONS FOI TH1 KNBUING YEAR. Speciat Dispateh to The Chicaaa Tribune, saannaroy, Nov, 27.~Tho Comuittes on Appropristions bave nearly comploted the War- Dopartmont bill, Thoy Lave olosely followed tho bill of last year, The army is to be siill majutained at 25,000 men, Thero is no doflelen- oy in the War-Dopartment estimatos for this yoar. DEPARTMENT AND DIVIBION REFORTS. Washinglon Dispatch to the loston Advertuer, ‘The Bocrotary of War has raceivod tho aunual roports of all the officors commanding the mill- tary divisions nnd d»(‘v)nrtmunln. on, Schio- fleld, commanding tho Division of the Paoifio, eayu: Binee my Iast ro; sntinfactory roes fownrd the final aottlemont of the Indisn question, #o far ag ft doponds upon militacy operations, kisa boon made, Unider tho wins and vigoroiis sdministration of Gon, COrook, the fow Apnchos who obstinately refuset to aubmit to meceanncy rostrictions bLave been hunted down and Kiliod, and Gon, Crook thinks if tho Indinng of tho varlons roservations in Atizona aro now prop- erly managed, kept to work, farnishod with socds and implomeuts, and thelr prosont intarest in sgriculture encourggod, o furtlor tronblo neod o expectad, aud thoy wilf gradually become selt-nup- porting, Tho business of ko Depariment has beon conducted in a satisfactory manner, with duo rogard to cconomy and tho gouersl interest of tho puibilo rervice. I 'lake glolsura in renowing my provioua commendation of Gon. Ul:)‘nl‘lurlfl;ugumanl of tho diffioult Apacho problom, and cordially sppravo of tho minlstrtion of the Depnrimont of Coluinbin by Col, Jofferson G, Davis, . Gon, Emory, commanding the Department of tho Galf, roports at lonzth upon the position of troops in his Departmont, sud detnifa the cir- cumstances under which a portion of thom have Leen omployed in matntaining the awil authori- ty. In rogard Lo the dificultios surrounding a military_olicor in commsud in the Bouthern Btates, Gon. Lmory aoys: leava lo_call atlontion to the dalleste and un- {ofinad mntuiro of dutiea Smposed o tho troopasorving horo, and to suggest thnt & eperal rule of action bo dofitied, and_tliat porsons parforming auch dutien ba protocted by law In tho exocution of them, At present o troops aro expected 10 kosp peaco wiilont haviog any power fo correck abuncs, Lowever flagrant, o power to arront parlica for tuo most oriminal offonnen ; and yet thelf prefonoe in case of riot or disorder ron- ders’thom 1tablo to civil auita if enaunitios phould no- our, avon by accident, Yclb §t canuut be donled that {hicfe procesics fs mocossary to the consorvation of fosce in tho Southern counirs, and atock-raising » and, In my opinfon, to he existence of the Governmicnt itsalf, X, therofore, do uot consider it too much to aak that the wholo aubject of those duties {n tho Southorn couutry may form the subjuct of connlderation, Gon, Hancook, commanding the Divislon of tho Atlantie, shoirs o most favorablo condition of military affairs throughout bis commaud, Tho health of tho troops hiaa been excellent, and the numbor of descrtions lina materially docrossod. e Hoys Lhat epeclal attention bas been given to ordets of the War Dopartmont issued in January Innt, sotting forth the nocessity of rigid economy, and all purchases and exponditures havo boen roduend to the lowest possible lumit consistont with the abyoluto nooassitics of tho sorvice, —_— NOTES AND NEWS, LOUBYING IN ADVANOE. Spectal Dupatch to The Chicaae ribuna. Wasnisaroy, D, C,, Nov. 27,—~Retiring Con- gresemen report & curious operation on the part of the managers of tho Northern Pacille Rail- rond during the past summor. It sppears that they have sent agonts into wmearly every Goupressional Diatrict $o make personal visita to Congrossmen in connection with the intonded attempt to seours legislation this wintor, OFFICIAL CHANORS IN THH TREASUBY DEPART- MENT. [T the Asxociated Prees) Wasnixaron, D. 0., Nov. 37.—Joha P, Bigelow, ehiof of tho Loan Division of the Trensury Doparunant, who has boen in Loudon some monthy past in counection with the fundiug oporuiionn of the Treasury, will arrivo hore to- morrow, and bave s coifaronce with Bocretars Dristow. Ho will shorily retars to London, but it is rald will resign hia position na cinef of the Loan Division here tomporarily, as hia duties abroad will engago his attention for the noxt two yoars, Mr, Bakor, at present chiof of the Warrant _Division, and formerly oseistant in the Losn Division, will bo appointed chief of the lattor until tho return of Mr, Bigelow, and R, T, Loopold, who resigned the position of chlet of tho Warrant Division to secept tho Commissionershup to weLtle up tho ar- fairs of tho Freadmau's Bavines und P'rist Com- pany, will be appointed chuef 6f the Wuirant Di. viston. APPOINTMENTS, James IT. Hemypin)l has beon zppointed In- tetnal Revenue dtotekospor for the Lightn Dis- trict of Kentueky. Tue Prosident to-day appointed E, S, Maskell Postmustor al Poitage City, Wis,, vice G, P. Austin, commission expired, THE BUTLER-JAYNE RING have not yet given up, althougn they were badly beatew dast seusion, ‘Lhoy took pact tn tho cam- paign this fall, working notively ngainst cuudi- dutes for Congress who had been justrumeutnl in securing tho overthrow of tho moiety system, under cover of which they rabbed and opprossed the moreantile interests of the couniry #o ont- rugoously. They made u specially etrong affort o defeat Mr, Chasden Yostor. Bice tho clection they have boon vreparivg tho wuy for a re-enact- ment of the bateful law, They uke advantago of tho dccrenss of customs receipte fo chargo that it is due to iucroased ewnuggling and frandulent invoicing, whichk thoy claim i3 not detected uow thak tuere are na maie- ties paid to spies wsnd iuformers, ng it was vuder the old woities law. 'Lioy usterly {rnore the fact Lhat tho hurd times huve operated to decresse importations, They will maka a vory plaustvlo showing to Congre 8, and Alr, Ben DButler will do all in bis power tohelp them. e lobby that they will biiug to boar witl o oue of the most formidable that has ever been in Washington, It will not bo so bungling proba- bly as to speud or offes much money by way of bribery, but will comumand brains, and ~tho shrevdest manipulators that mouey can buy will be culisied in 1t. ‘Phoro are doubtless defects in the prescot Jaw bus it can be made as offective an the mojetios kya:owmjin tane, The small thieves who faltoned st the oxpeuse of the me community have grown vory lean and vo K1, and tioy will work desperataly for a renewat of thelr old privileg ONLY A PAUPER, Elow the Penutentiary Auntharities Are Dnposed upon by Meansspirited Conuty Ofueuts—tadigeat Porsons Seut (0 Privoa en - Framprd-up Charnos. Jouirr, Nov. 26.—The frequont receipt of prisoners at Lo Poniteutinry,—of conviels whose worst orimos seoin ugon the nuface to have boon that thoy wore paupors,—has Jed to tha bellol ihat thoro myzht be such » thive us a tromped- up charge, to free tho countios from cbuir sup- port and cast tho burdon upon tha State at the Povitentiary. A trio of this class, apparently, weia recoived at tho I'enitentiary on Lho morn- ing of the 24th inst, Gov, Boveridge, being at tho ivaticution, bacame personslly cognizant of thelr condition when raceived, and called upon the Warden for an ofileiul statement. Upon the recoipt of it, the Guvervor will mvestigate the nutter fally, Lha following is tho statement of the Wardon : A WARDEN'S OF¥ICE, Tsunvors SraTe PENIIENT Joviex, Til, Nov, 46, 1874, To_ilis Excellency John L, fiezerilie, Gocernur o llliiofs Brn: In complisnce with your verbal request, Thave honor to yeport the followlyg facts concerning tlree psisoncrs recofved from White County on the evening of 1o 24th fust, : Jumea C, Douovan, tontenced for five years oun charge of burglary and lareeny, by prisouer Lad to be brougbit on u wtretcher from White Connty, vud wis #ont to the hospilal us soon ay received, “When re- coived Lo wns unable to ypeak from pxhanstion, Ho i%, und was when roccived, sulloring from_congsstion of the apiue, 'Thio muncles of the loft ley are contruot ed and powerless: hia loft hand {1 cripplod, and Lo s minus the right sye. 1iv says Lo has been in tho abave condl'jon sbout two monile and & balft was taken to tho courl-room for frlal fn (his condition, He clmms to be Innocent of tho chargo, and to lelung in Cold 8prings, Pulnsm CQounty, N.%'. Bays ha did not recoive neceasary miedicing or atfeudauce while sk {n fuil, the physician piving asa reaton Cor e lucting him that " #it was putting the county fa tuo much expenss ” {o vislt him as often a8 it was neces- sary. ‘The prisoner clalms thot his bedding was not chiangod during lfs ontira afay in the jall, and that his cell was in a fthy condidioit wll the time, Howas sentoucod on the 13th fnst, Miram Raukin, rocoived sams day from White Caunty, under uctitenca of (lires yeate, for Istceny of & loree, This man fsa school-teacher, ho says: pyea his agoas 21, Is minus o right arm; belongs in Gal Iatin Countys “was arrasted July 13, and sentesced Nov, 10, 1674, Bllas Baker, recolvod the same day,from Vhite County; wontenond to ona_year, for larceny, Mmus right ‘oo aud toes of left fuot, Hin fumily lveat Grayville, Whito County; havo resided there for thzes yourn, 'Uho siutements of this prisouer and Rankln, taken separntely, sgrce in tho msin vith thious of Jauies 0. Donovan, aa to Lis treatment whilo in Jait In White Cotnty, and 21 to the sceming six- foty of tha anthoritioa 10 got him off their hands snd iuto the Penftentisry, T lira the bauot to be, Governor, your obadient servaut, . W, MoOLavauky, Warden, P Skl g CONYENTION OF SHORT-HORN BREEDERS. Spectal Diapatch to The Chicago Tribunes Braixarieco, 1L, Nov, 27.—Tho halt of the Tlonsn of Iteprosontativos haa been necurod by tha breeders of short-horn cattle iu this Ststo, in which to hold their Nntional Conveution on Doe, 2, Nopresontatives from Cunada wud all thc‘: Htatos iu the Univn are oxpected to be pri- ent. —_———— FORMALLY ACCEPTS. Newang, N, J., Nov, 37.—RBev. Dr. Boir- borough, of Pittsburg, formully accopts tuie Bishopriv of Bouthorn New Jorsay, in & lettar publishied to-duy, —_—— The Rev. L. IL Iumason, of Rock Dell, Olmstead County, Minn,, srenc\xedn KOrmou ol the 16k wat., It bung his B0th Lirthday, HARDENED SINNERS. Some Have Been Caught at Their Tricks, Others Tao Numereus to Mention Are at Large, End of the Famous Burglery Trial in Washington, The lury Unable to Agree as Regards Whitely and Harrington. Shocking Cnse of Wife-Murder in Fond du Lae County, ‘Wis, Preliminary Examination of the Chi- cago Defaulter in Pittsburg. The Roign of Terror in the Scranton Coal Reglon, The Washington SafesBurglary Casc. ‘Wasninaron, Nov. 27.—Tho court-room was crowded to-day from 10 to 11 o'clock, In expec- tation that the jury in the safo-burglary couspir- soy would bo sent for by Judga Humphroys, but, aftor a visit to Judgo Maralall, he aooounced that pothing would bo dono till 12 or 1 o'clock, Indleating that tho jury would bs allowed an ox- tonglon of time, 1 ordor, if possible, to mnke up a vordict. Harrington, Whitoly, and Will- iama (tho accuse), wero progent. THE VERDIOT. LatEn—At twenty mioutes past 11 o'clock tho jury came into tho court-room. The roll was called, and the Judgo said: “Tam about to ask you a few questions, but yon need not anawer noything excopt just what yon are asked.” Turning to tho foraman, ho said : ** Iave you agreed upon your verdlct 7" Forqman—Wo have, sir, 8 o one of th de- fondants, The Judge—Ia there a reasonablo probability that you will not agreo upoa tho guiltorin- nocence of the othor dofendsuts? Foreman—1hers is. Tho Judge—What do you all say, gontle- hion ? The jury were unanimous that thoy could not agree as to the othars. Tho foromon said that aftera full consulta- tion with the mombers of the jury, he thought it impossible to agres. The Judge—Well, that is the only way in which you can find out about it. MNow, I want to caution, sll in the court-room against sny domonatration when the verdict skiall ba given. Ido not foel as thongh I ought to hold tuis jury any longer, alter what I 1eol has beon a vory careful considoration of the caso on their part, I forowman, ristng—*,We agres that Arthur B. Willinmns 18 innocent, and_catnot agroo upon Whitely aud Harrivgton.” The juiy was then discharged., Tho Judgo ordored the clork to con- 10 the recopnizances till the next term, Tho Court then edjouruod. Tinmediatoly siter the adjonrnment, Harring- ton, his brother, aud A, B, Williams at ouce slopped forward aud cougratulated Barker, one of tho colored jurors, After tho jury wus dis- mitged tho fact wus di.ulged that on tho first ballut they stood oliht for acquittal and fonr for convietion in Harribgton's cage, tho foliowing jurors voting for couviction: Cralg, Maun, and Dickling (white), and Mosely {colorod), and tho voto did ‘not change during tho whole time they were ont. In Wihitely's caso the voto stood nine for acquittsl and thica for conviction, Ilickling changing his voto in tho caec of Whitely, and. tho Yoto was not fuz- ther chaugoed, ‘Phicre wus no difference of opin- ion in Wilimy' cago, all agrecing that Lo was innocent, The jurors agreo in thuir statoments that Craig stood like a rock for convicetion, sad that Maun aud Moslev adhored to bim. Thoy also asgort that Craig was cureed, roviled, and cailed every vilo epithet it was porsible Lo imag- 1o, in order to meko lim chango bis opinion, but he ¢id not fliuch, He was incimidated by avory plan thoy conld dovise, but witbout effect. ‘I'ho erowd lingered abonl the coutt-roomn for Balf au bour, dizenvsiny 1he subject, and talking with the jury, who wore feo to rolate what trany- pired in the jury-room, A LIGTORY OF TILE AFFAIR FROM THE DEGINNING. From the Boston Auvertizer Jov, 43, The gafo-burglary cuse, now on trial in Wash- ington, bas bewn 80 lobg the subjoct of dis- taiches fiom tho Capital that very likely most 1eadors bave got tired of it, and giveu np the attempt to keop Lrack of its dovious and mys- terious courses, In anticipation of tho conclu- sion of the casoe, it In perhaps worth while to re- view 1ty origin, and the circumstances which wake it impo: tant, During tho Inst session of Congroes, investi- gation of the conduct of affaim by the Terrto- rial Government of the District of Columbia way cutered upon, and prosecnted with energy, ‘Tho motive of this investigation wus a momo- il to Cougrees asking for it, which was sigucd by Columbus Alexandar, W, W. Corcoran, and otber respectablo tax-paying citizous, who alleged that thoy hnd reasons to belicyo the ofiicers of the Terstoriel Government guilty of a corrupt exereise of their authoity, Tho us- picion of such malfeasanco in tho offios was notoriously common in Wasbington, nnd olse- wheeo wherever onough was kuown to base a judgment upon, When the mattor was brought befure Congress by the memorislists, an investi- gution way ordered. 'Thero was somo roluctance on the !)mtal sevoral Souatois, it will bo remem- bered, to serve on the luvestigating Commitiee, but aftor & while & commitioo wne counstitute which sot about its usiuess, and with little dufli- culty founa that the condition of thiugs was bad enongh. The result of their 1eport was the over- throm of the District Government, tho appoint~ ment of & Cowmmission to draft 2 now schoine of governmont for the District, and the eelablish- 1mentof & provisional government to have ohasge of the public interests ad interim. The Asgistant District Attorney under the Ter- ritotinl Government was a lowyor named Ilar- 1ington, and ho appeared at the sittings of the luvestigation Committes as couunsel for Gav. A, R. Bheplierd aud the othier members of the Doard of Pablio Works and ofticers of tho Ferri- torial Government, who soon camo to bo dosig- nated popularly s the Washington Ring, 1lar- rington wag super servicenble to his clionts in tho way of proventing the Investigating Com- mitlea from finding out the facts they were searching for, Bomo information the Commitieo and ‘momorialists particolarly desred to obtain wos gu; posod to be spread upon the books of Jobn O. Evans & Co., o flim having dclllnfiu with the ring, Thera was turned ovor lo tho Comumitico a set of books purporting to be those of the firm, but tho suspicion was strong that tho o wns not tho genuivo, original one, 'Ihis suspicion, togathor with many other circumstancos in couneotion with the investigntion, made the casolovk blue for tho ring, It beeamo clear that notbing would re-ea- tablish their prostige but the breaking downin some way of the charactor of the men active in pushing tho nvestigation. Ono night last apriug the safe in tho office of Hurrington, the Assistant District Attotney, wns mystotionsly robbed of & bundle of papers, The robber was " taken into custody when lonving the doorstep of the houwo of Columbus Alexander, ono of tho memorialints, whithor he had bLoen trucked by ofticers of tho Bocret Service, who, by n remarkablo good fortune, wero standing by to seo tha burglary committed. Immediate- IA' the roport was™ diligontly liyrund that loxander had put up the job in bis excensive zoul Lo prooure ovidouce rgaingt tho ring, aud he wus, wo bolievo, arreated for complicity in the robbery. The mattor was at onco tuken oog- nizanen of by the Investienting Committee, who made a thorough investigation of tho whole case, with tho result that Alexander wa clearod of suspicion, and evidonce obtained whiol Indicated that tho job was put ||Ir by 1lorvington himself, with tho guilty complicity of A. B, Williams, an Assistant Prosocutin Attorney of tho Washington L'olice Conrt ; Cul, 1L, 0, Whitely, Chiotof tho Beorot Sorvlvo: of the Tronaury Departmont ; aud I, 0. Nottloship, Col, Wiltoly's Hist nesistant, ‘who omployed some notorious burglars to broak opon the kafo, abstract cortain documents, nnd delivor thom to Aloxandor, who waa to bo nrrosted at the instant of 1ecelving tho atoleu proporty, and so involyed in a felony, by which moans ap investigation of Harrington's ollents would be broken down. It Loppeuca, Lowaver, that Aloxauder did not au- " river, swer tho summona of Lis door-bell, and the plan fullod to that extent. The evldonca boforo the Congreuvional Com- mittoo was of Auch sorfona charadter that the Transury Dopurtmant toolk eognizauce of it in 80 for as it nffocted the rices of ity Becrok Bor- vico Dopartment, and t.at braveh of 1t was thoroughly Invostigated by n law offlcer, whoso information being submitled to tho Soorolary of tho Trensury, that oficor dimmnizsod from tho omploy of tho Governmont Whitely, Netilo- ip, and tho rest, and, indeed, roorganized tho crot Servico Divimon nltogother, o tho courdo of tima tho Grand Jury had thoe caso sub- mittod to them, and Iarrington, Willinms, Whitely, and Nettleship wero indictod for n conapiracy to commit burglaty. 'Their trinl on thig indictment {8 tho case how drawing to an oud. Tho ehlof evidence for tho proscoution in aupplied by ona of the burglurs, named Hayes, who = turned Btate's evidenco, and told a _startling slory of tho negotiations con~ dugted by Whitely and Nettleahip, by which his profonalonal sorvicos wora socured for a prica and » guarantoe that he would not have to re- main in jail long, During the post week some of the dofondauts in the earo have procurod tho arrest of Hayos on a charge of porjury, but this ia in nomo quarters held to be only a trick to dis- crodit bis story with tho jury. Thers axo many oplsodos connectod with tho ewso which have n apeoial intorest, auch aw tho spiriting away of important witnesses, and tho release on nominel buil by application of one of the alloged con- mpirators of an nileged confoderato, 'iihu Dis~ trict-Altornoy, Harrington, being on trinl, tho prosceution of tho casd has boen in chargo of Ansistant Attorney-Goneral Cloment I, Hill and As G, Ihddle, Euq., of the Winchester Bar, who wad wpocinlly connnissioned by the Dopartmont of Justico. 'Corriblo Pomestic Tragedy—A Wile Murdered by fler ¥usband, Special Dispateh te The Chicace Tribune, Toxp vt Lag, Wis.,, Nov, 27.—The Evening Contnonucealth of tlus olty publishon tho por- tieulars of the moat UEARILESS WIFE-MURDER that over occurred in this county, Tho terrible doed was committed in the Town of Bpringvale, about 12 miles weut of Foud du Lac, at an carly lour this morning. Russell Biown, the mur- derer, {8 a well-to-do farmer in the Town of Springvale, on old renidont, and was for many yeara regardod aw ono of cho finest men iu town, 110 hnd much trouble with bis first wife, and a yoarago last April be sttempted to kill her. e claimed that the attowpt was made in solt-defonso; and that his wifs had often at- tompted to kill him and Lis children. Soon af- tor that veeurronce BROWN DISATPEARPD. It was supponed for u long timeo that ho had committed suicide by throwing bimself into the Bix weoke later ho was heard from in Syrucuso, N, Y., where ho was crazy, but with Trionds. ' Lhat yoar his wifo got n divorce, In the fall Drown returned, and was - a4 Bano aa _cver, nud took charge of his large fmm and attended to tho busiuess with. his usual thnift. AN of tho ncighbors supposed that he bad beem permancutly cuted. In Apritlsst he was marrled lo a widow named Booth, » vory fino woman, Thoy seomod to live iv barmony, no ono thinking there was auy TROUBLE BETWEEN THEM. On Thanksgiving, Brown showed some figns of aveturn of the terrible malady, but it was not thought worth whilo to wateh luim. Boou after fln'ch‘)ck this morning the children, who slept up staiig, awoko, and, in sttempeing to como down stairs, found the door fastencd, Thoir cals awskebed the larger childron, who slopt dovin stairs, aud they opened the door. Upon looking abous, they foutd that all of tha outsido doors and soveral of the inside douois were securely fastoued, A gisl 12 yours of ago, dwughtor of Ar. Brown, went to the room in which ber parents slept and called them., Ito- colv"il“ no suswor, she untastenod the door and wentin, A 3(03T SICKENING SIOHT met her gaze. Thero on tho bed was hor mother, her face covered with bloud, liteless. Phio alarm was given, and & son of Mry, Brown, Albert Booth, at work ialt a milo away, was sent for, By the timo Lo arrived a large number of the neighbors woro present. Tho scone was ono ot the addont cen in that parc of tho couutry, The children, xevoral of whom are quito young, wore mourning over tholoss of thoir mothor, It was found that the fatal blow Lad boen struck wWith an ax, which woa found in tho bedraom. The impression Is, that the deed was done bo- tween 4 and 4 o'clock in the morning, as Mr. Brown's mothor, who lives in a house in the ‘same yard, and but » few feot from TIE S0ENE OF THE MURDER, heard Bome ove waulking aboul the house at that hour. The indications aro that the blow was struck whilo the woman was asleop, and that she wa instautly killed. Thore recws to bave buen but one blow, and that with tho head of the ax on the tomple. Upon going to the barn it was found that one of the ioraun hiad boen takou away. 1t was thought that Brown had taken tho horso, and slarted for this city immediately after commiitting the deod. Sherul Klotz and neverat asgistants aro making & thorongh SEARCH FOR THE MURDERER, The terrible deed hos cnused intonse excilo- ment, and it s thoucht this balf-insane fellow, o fivst tried to kill one wife, aud afterward sv brutelly murdored & noble, loving wowan i cold blood, and without cause, would fare _badly if osught by the friends of the lato Mrs. Brosn. Cnllon, MeGrath?s HBookkeeper, Held in §10,000 Bail to Aw:iut Chicuago Oificers. 7 Speciat Dispateh to The Chicaan Tridune. Prrrsnung, Pa., Nov. 27.—Cullen, the man arreetod for ntealing $20,000 from J. J, Me- Qrath, of Chieago, wse comuitted to jail in deo- fault of $10,000 bail for = hosring on Monday, on information mado bofore tho Acting Mayor, charging him with being & fugitive Irom justice. Dotective Gray, of Piukerton's Ajency, nrrive with the necessnry papors, aud has gone to Har- risburg to bave thom approved by Gov, Hart- ranft, of this Stato, Cullen will probably be do- livered to the Chicago authorities Monday, nn- less ho comes agnin Lefore tho Crimiual Court on & writ of habeos corpus, Terrible Condition of Afinirs in the Scrantox . (i) Conl Kegion —Riot snd Marder Kampants Seranton, Pa. (Nov, 24), Corvespondence of the New York Uerald, On arriving at the depot here, I learned that the Lody of n man, beaten and mutilated, bhad beou found at the foot of & stoop embankment just outwide of the town; that tho timo and causo of tho murdor were mystoiics; that the party who committed the deed was unknown, and that tho Mayor of Scranton bad offered o reward of $500 for his apprehension, I proceed- ed in the direction of my hotel, buc could not help toking note of tho extraordinary bustle amd confusion which #cemed to exist everywhere atong tho streot. Tho uatural supposition way that the mows of tho murder down along tho river had been widely ecirculated, aud that the poople had rushod forth to ascortsin additional particutara, As I pnssed along the thoroughfars, however, an opportunity was afforded mo ot cateliing the drift of the genoral conversation, and I iad not procecded very far bofore I dis- covered that the murder in quoestion wad not being talked of at &l I addrersed n mon standing at the cornor of tho street, ud asked biw the cause of tho ox- citement, 3 A young man was murdored in a dance-house Iast night,” way tho unswer. + Bus togt vight way Sunday night,” 1 said. #Do you moan t0 say that your dsnce-housen are m on Bunday 7 o :Jh yea 3 d’;n:u-hmlnuu of that kind are open at all timen,"™ was the response. "van l’;;ey arrested the wan who aid the was my noxt quory. " ho anewered, © ha 18 now in the Lands of tho authoritics.” 3 Upon aniviug at my hotol I was informod that the evoning !nu\'loxm twa men lad become ongaged fu an altorcation in a low drinking galoon ; that one hud fired a plstol at tho othor and killed bim, whilo, Incredible an it may bo, 1 was nseured shot in a goction of countiy voar horo, numed Dleasant Valloy, n wman was found who had notually boen ernettied, Dolow will bo found tha nawmos of the threo mon who, within tho past twenty-four hours, have beon killed 5 Michael Joearney, found dead along tho river; Willistn Goodman, killed by Michaol Conneli § Jolin Rtoland, shot by Frederick Dergoys; nsme of the mun crucifled at preseut unknowi. 'ho Lucknwanua \'uuufl coutaity too muny in- habitants dopondent ou the mines for their mip- port, 1t ly, thoretore, a necessmy coussquence that #omo must sturve, and that “whon all yurh for the bread that at beat will foed ouly lalf of them, many must fall to tho dust and bo trod« don moreilessly and rovengefuily undor foot, Were all tho mines in the Wyommg and Lagkn- wanng Vulloys runniug at * full blast,” they could barely omploy the wen who rewids about thom ; and whob tlio fact is tken mto coneldor- ation that many of tho mines are not woilod at all, and that all the othors, with a Binglo ox- capslon, we runniug on partiel Ume, somo slight & — — gonasption ean bo formed of tho I i - bu{vtl)!;‘mnn who'nr? ldl;:. e iflo on routo for this point I mado soveral Atoppoges, and I flud that in the Wyoming and Lackawaunarogions there aro over 8,000 mon une omployod. ~ Thero {8 no use of begeing the ques tion nor of turning anny from ingvitablo insien | thewo 8,000 mon must bo fed, and n atarving mat knows no Jaw, Unless theso 8,000 men securs \\-mlrI riat, outrago, and bloodshed wiil continug all wintor; not tho comparativoly insigniticans outbrauks of tho ‘unt faw dayy, but a ravolution tuat will comprehend the entiro ares of Wro- ming and Luckawanna, and which tho entire tilic tin of tho Btate will find ditlenls to quell, . . . Ttiots aro a dm]f ocourrence, and tho few mon ongnged 1 the miucs ar compelled to 1o to and from thelr work armed with riflos, Muvders aro froquont, and thoft and amsault the products of overy hour, Thero in na yraspeat of work, and tho long wintor in Just oponing, ‘hore Is no doub that this outire rogion is on_ the vorge of ariot unlike any that tho country linn ever soon bofore, aud a rfot which only thd antive country shall forestell, Though tho awful moment has not yot artivad, it will suroly como, whoens ory of sgony, Dronght aboul by the cravings of hune gor, will go up from this region for broad, and, if that cry In unavwwored, 8,000 human 'souls; with their'shivoriug wives and childron betuud thelr back to urga ther o, will seizo tho knife, the plntol, or tha bludgeon, 'to find that tood 10 doflunco of cisil taw, aud at the wsacrifice of human life. Tho issno in novitables 1L wuat como; this vast community cannot survivo tha wintor withont ald. Tho fact is alroady mada ‘manifost by the sesaults, murdors, and crucifix- ions that have slready orcurrod, Murder and Mutilation of ‘Two Prome :nunt Oitizens of Chnch County, 500 HUumerville, Clinch Cottnty, Ga, (Nov, " e of e e Ko Corresmond= One of tho most atrocious crimos ovor com- wmittod in this county (it indeod it kias » Darallel anywhere) oceurrod on yestorday. You doubtless romomber that some time ago Carnway and Padgott almost beat tho wife of Carawny to death In Suwannce County, Florida, aud minda tholr cacapo into this Stato, Uuder a roquisitfon from the Governor of Florida, Gor. Brpith issned bis warrant, and recently Caiaw. y swns arrestod by tho SherlfT of this county, M Ttobort N. Brady, and his brother, Jaclaon Brady. 1a was delivered to the nuthorities of Bnwanno, Connty, and placed in jail at Live Oak. At tho time of his arrost the Bradys took possession of lin horso, gin, and pistal, which Caraway asked them to hold. Tho Bradys live soma 30 milen from hero, iu the lowor part of tho county, aud uear the Florids lue, . 1taDbears that on yestorday afternoon Robort N. Brady and his brother wore at liomo alone, tho Tamily being absent ona visit to some frionda iv the noighborbood, A body of six armed man wero seon by differont partios going in the diroce tion of Mr. Brady's, he party consisted of 'ip LDadgett, the nowly-olocted Representative from Echols County, whota won wae implicsted with Caraway in bonting bis wifo, Leo and Huntoer, of Lchals County, and two Llounts, and anothior maa not known, from Florida. Thoey statod that they ware going aflor Carawny's propesty, snd Iato in the afternoon thoy were scon rotuming Sith the proporty, Just before night s litile nepliow of tho Bradys, and s Mr, Lane, wont ta Mr.Brady’a place, whon they found, to thelr utter astonishment and horror, Jaokson Brady shot to doath and fearfally mangled, sud Robert N, Biady, the Sberlff, lying speechlosa snd sweltor- ing in hia blood, shot in goven places, and bis thront out. At last accounts he was not dend, but was sup- osed to bo dying. Mr. Drady bud boon notified v the nuthorities fo Florids not to deliver up Caraway's property, sid it is supposed he roe fused to do go, whon he and his brother wera both shot down, After committing the murder, and in passing some peopla w the neighborbood, the partios stated that thoy were going st onca ta Live Onk, and that letore day, tho jail there would be broken, Caraway rolossed sud on hin Loreo with them, Aunother brotuor of the Bradys, Mr, Asn Dra~ dy, cumne boro last night from tie_sceno of tha i3 murdor, and tho nuthoritics at Livo Onk were telegraphied a8 to the intontion of the purties. Lvery effort witl be made to arrest the murdoers ors and mete out ta them the punishmoat they 80 richly doservo, Tho Bradys wore mon of groat daring, bl peacoful and Inw-abiding citizons. As Shoriff )f tlus county, Mr. Robort A. Brady was o fuithid and oflicionst officer.. . 3 Another Victim of tho Vendetin, From the New Orleans Bullctin, Nov, 24, Thore cau bo now no question but that the man Nicolo Cottona, whose body waa found in the awamp back of Algicrs, was tho ictiw of the voudetta, On the afternoon of Ock. 21 last, the citizona living In the neighborhood of Dumainoe and Ram~ part strosts, wero startled by the roport of a gun, sod, {n their search for the resson of its dis- charge, found ono Pedro Giroche, a Sicilian, woltering in his blood, which flowed from sevoral DLuckahot wouuds in tho back. ‘When questioned, ho would give no Informa-~ tion us to who wero bls murderers, and he dicd tho next night without revealing his story, Buspicion pointed to soveral who wero mem- hots of tho crowd, against whom e had a vone dotta, and altbough an afiidavit was mado, nona of the suspected parties could bo found. Nicole S;xuunn, tho man found yoswrday, was one of osi0, Capt. Mwlone, of tho police, had been aftor Lim for somo timo, and last weok made inquiries of woveral Sicilinus 28 to his probablo whore- abouts, In responso he was told that Nicolo Cottona wau then lymg with the buzzards back of Algoris, Thinking that tho men were joking with him; ho paid no attcution to the matter, and only 'yostordny reulized thas whnt ho had been told was trus. 5 Tho otpunmg faction have probably tracked Cottona ko the wools, aud, in pursuance of thoir bloody codo, avenged tha lifo of their compatriot Pedro Girecho, with that of Nicolo Cottoaa, I'hin vendotis does not end here, A dav, n woel, & yenr may pass, but as surely as tho world moves, ive will bo callod to chronicie anothor mygtorious murder, and tho victim will be gome Siciiian, who waes o party to tho Inst tragody, Nover for~ gotting, nursing durig lifo thoir determination to_be rovenged upon one suother, the vendotta will be kopt up as long a8 thore in & man Jeft on eituor gido. Additiannl Correspoudence Iclative to the Smith IGduapping Case, Spectal Diapateh to e Chicano Y'ribune, Semixoriznp, 1, Nov. 27.—Goy. Boveridge o to-day in receipt of u lotter from tho attorneya of Goorgs W. Smith, who was Lidnapped in Mnsare County, in this Stato, some time ago, and taken to Houry County, Tonmossce, st which place an iudiotmenc was pending agsingt lum for a murder which he is charged to have committed during the War, the particnlars of which bave beou furnislied in theso dispatches. Tho attornoys write that Smith in still i jail, awaiting s trisl. They furthereny that thoy think tiab Smith “would bo released should Gov. DBovoridge rcenll the requis sitions which he hss made upon Gov, Brown, af Tuunossee, for tho arrest snd doliv- ory to the ageuts of Ilinols of tho men who par- ticipated ln tho Liduapping of Smith. Gov. Bovoridge, in repl, deslines Lo bo a party to any compromise, and agam ronews his demand for Ltho eate roturn to thin Stato of Smith ; and, trom intimations dropped from the frionds ot Smith, it I8 bolievod that if ho whould bo rownrned it would bo difticult ta got evidenco upon which to convict tho lidmappors. It thernfors seema probable that a compromisa will Lo effected be- tween tho frionds of Smith and tho authoritics of Henry County, ‘lenncesco, by which the kid nupped miva Wil soon bo rortored to his tawmily 'Mm firmness with which Qov, Doveridge hne stood for the vindication of tho law in thia cose 1u cortaiuly comunondsble. A Safe Foreed and Some 82,000 Stolen Specat Dispatels 1o I'he Chicago Trivune. Pronta, 111, Nov, 27.—T'ho wholesslo grocery houso of Ilenry Oakford & Fahuestock wus en- tored some tima last night, tho safo blown or forced opon, and about §2,000 in cursonoy aud bunk checks stolon. \'mterdx;y bolng Thanke- iving Day, a laurgo amount of monoy accumu- %s(ndgm UI}(; sufe, ua tho Lanks were closed, and thara was no opportunity to dopowit. It fa thought that tho burglary was commitied hg hucties horo, and that thov were familiar wit llm promisus. LTho mattor I8 in tho lands of tho dotectivos, who aro_busy at work_ endoayor- ing to forret out tho guilty prties, The Recunt Rallrond Bond Forgories. Special Dispateh to The Chicage Tribune, New Yong, Nov. 27.~Dinkerton's dotectives in this city eay thus Cooige Hilk, aliss J. B, Buteholdor, Sucrotary of the Bafoguard Iusur- ance Company of Philwdolphia, mrevted in that eity, s wuspectod of being uccensory to the forgory of tha Chicago & Northwestorn Railrosd bounds, It ia altoged that thewo bogus bonda bave boon traced to the prisoner Hilt, who had i