Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 9, 1874, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. IRT4. eI OF gunEMETION (PATATLE X romase, atly, by nuat 00 | Sundny, Ptodnpunttse SUEO0 | Sy E: Parte ol « ot at the satao rata, To provent doluy aud infainkee, bo sura and glve Post- Offica ndurcen In full, including Stato aud County. Rouwlitauues may bowmadovitherby dralt, expross, Post- Qe ordar, ar In registered letterr, &t our risk, TERAIB TO CITY RUNICRINENS, Datly, dollvercd, Sunday exconted, 23 conts porwoek, Dally, dolivorod, Bundsy fustudod, 80 conts por wosk, Addree I TRIDUNE UOMPANY, Cornue Madison sud Donrbornesta,, Chicago, Iit, TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. PERAHOUSE-Clark stroot, pnposite ngfifl:‘l}uum elly & Leoms Migstrols. e Duteh 8" Afternoon and evaniug, EY'R THREATRE--Randatoly etract, botweon o e e A notn and evouiog: DM'VICKER'S THEATIIK-Madisau_streot. botwoon Deacborn and Stato, Iingagomont of Joha Brougham. **Tho Lottory of Lifo." ADEMY OF MUBIC—Hatsted ofreat, hotweon Mad. LIAR Nonvoa, Maegomntal Tenk Mayo, + DAYY Orookatt. Altyrnoon snd eveuing. SOCIETY MEETING! , nod A, M, ~Tho mome BLANEY LODGI, No. &2t the annual communiea. e to it this (Wi f'(‘f;?':iz“ifi_fi'r”x%l bl (adosais) eslow st 718 wolock. Froo Musow'e Hall, f35 05 WHHTN Y, Boo. INDEX TO ADVERTIBEMENTS. THIRD PAGE—Cty, Country, “and Boburban Real Batatg, Tn Hens, Wasits, b, Kto, SN B dnte, Loxal Notices, Pro- e R e and Jodleal Cards, etc, olo, et s, Stoamabl) 268 Fumo-dable, s The Chivano Teibune, “Wodnosday Morning, Docomber 9, 1874. A Virginin Congressman is charged with gelling a naval cadetship. Thero is one now investigation this winter worth keeping vount of, Al the gambling-houses in Cineinnali have been closed by tho police. The suthorities in Chicago would follow fhis example if they wera vigilaut and honest, But they’ro not. One of the signsof the time is the trial of distinguished * Reformer" in Wisconsin, tato candidate for Congress, ou a charge of atempting to Qefraud the United States revenue, Don Cavlos is sui quetting with -Queen Isabolln, with & view to o junction of their forces. Doth nrmies combined—if the Queon can be said to Liave control of an srmy—could be whipped out by an orgonized Qosernment in o fortuight, There is no wrganized Government in Spain. Bills to reduce the President’s salary, after the expiration of Gen, Grant’s texm, to £195,000, have been introduced in both THouses «f Congress. We are pleased with such an exhibition of zeal by Congressmen for tho re- daction of other people's salaries. Wby not «ommence the work of retrauchment by cut- ting off the forwnrd-pay ? Politicians who favor en incrense of the volume of the currency are still proclaiming t hat the President’s messnge is o ** fire-brund.’ \Vhet if itis? It wiil serve a good pmpose {1# it touches off Mr. Butler snd 3Ir. Kelley, cad causes their final diseppearance in smoko wud pshes. They seem to have got o8 faras + o blazing atnte yesterday. An excellont bill was pnssed by the House yesterdny by nnanimous consent. It forbids viembers of Congress to nct ns agents or 2 punsel for parties to suits under the revenuo haws, ‘Tlo spivit in which tho bill wes re- cpived, as much as its actual pasange, isa 103t encouraging indication of the good in- tentious of the present Congress. R Spaaking of weddings—everybody is speak- ing of weddings in these deys—thore was one it Brezil o short time agowhich quite eclipsed the Sharon affair. A report of it is given clse- where in this paper. Mr, Sharon, and Miss Sharon that was,will not feellike naying menn things about Mr. Honore's chaudelicra after reading the Brazilian story. If the Republican party hns bondbolders &t its hend and negroes at its tail, nnd the Democratic party hog boudholders at its hend nnd Trishimen at its tail, whet is to become of the blessed country? Gen. Butler suggests that the only chance of salvation is in the cs- tablishment of a party which shall have thieves ot tho head anud Comnnunists at the tail, Another trainobbery is veported this morning, It oceurred in Knusas, No vio. «ence was done to the pussongers or muails, but the Wells-Fargo Express Company was xobbed of 00,000, ‘The people onght to snow that the Stete of Missouri shelters the bandits who have committed this aud similar outrages, and that the Democratic State Gov- ernwment has not the power or the will to ar- rest and punish them. MMy, Edward 3L Lowis, Trustee of the Jay Cooke estate, has presented a report to the creditors which iwpliedly charges the bank- rupts with fraud, ‘Che nssets have been so muuch reduced by the pnyment of preferred claims that searcely anything will be leftforun- protected ereditors, It appears, also, that for many years bLefore their failure Messrs, Jay Caoke & Co. were spoculating on other peo- plo's mouvey, and were dividing the profits among themaelvaes, One of the billa intraduced in Congress yesterday ought to be, and doubtless will be, closely watched, It proposes to catablish a Government lina of telegynph between Wash. ington and DBoston, with offices at Hurtford, Now York, Philadciphia, oud Baltimore. Tov purposes of comparison, sn experiment of this Lind wowld be aimost velucless, sines it would he mado un- der tho most favorable conditions, taking the very richest youta in the wholo country; and it would bo positively unjust to private enter- prises to trench in so partial & manuor upon their fleld of operations, [ — The Ohicago produco muvkets were gener- ally tamo yestorday, escept in provisions, and they wera weal. Dess pork was retive, aud 25@i0e per bil lower, closing at £19,25@ 19,80 eash, nud $19,£0@19,90 seller Pebruary, Lard was active, and 10@20c per 100 lbs low- er, closing at $12,75@12.80 cash, nnd 313,05 for Febyuary, Meats wore quiot und eqsder, v 6 1.20 for shoulders, 9 1-4c for short vibs, aud 9 fi-8e for short clears, 1ighwines wero In light demand and stondy at #7c per gallon, Drezand hogs were quiot and flvney, cloaing ot B7.75@8.25 por 100 tos, Flour was dull and auchanged. Wheat was quiet and 8-fo lower, rlosing at 890 cash, and 84 d.do for Jenunry, Oorn was quist with little change, closing st 16 1-20 for old, 67a for new, and 72 scller May. Oats wore quict aud ensior, closing at 64 4o cuah, and Gdosellor January, tye wae st sl Pada thwe, at 99 1.2@940, Barley was dall and ensior, closing ot $1.25 cash, oud 81,26 for January. On Saturdsy even- ing last thevo was in store in this ety 1,240, 641 bu wheat, 879,021 br corn,, 206,130 bu onty, 25,460 bu rye, and 205,459 bu Larley. Togs wero dull and 15@20c lower than Sat- widay 3 sales ot $0.40@7.10 for good to choice, Caltlo wore quict. Sheep wore no- tive and firm, . The gentlomen in Washington who arve so Joud in thoir tallc about tho euyrancy will grin something in point of propriety aud acournsy by using words preaisely. Whe word “bondliolder,” for inytauce, does not convey to the ordinary thinker the iden which Gen. Butler aud Mr. Kelley wish it to express, 'Iicy should in somo way make it clear that when they say ** Loudholders ™ they do not menn the enpitalists who fur- nished the Governmeont with means of emry- ing on the War of the Rebellion; and, hav- ‘| ing done this much, they should eoxplain whom they do consider * bondholders,” aud the unturo of their offenses, Wo shall then understand Gen, Butler’s statomont that the Republiean parly hins bondholders at its hoad and negroes at its tail, The uumE' question has Tbeen precipi- tated in the Lower Houso of Congrosa much sooner than anybody expected. Mr, Kelley's convertible-bond schemo eame up in Com- mitteo of the Wholo yesterday, nud it wos made tho theme :of n dcbato which at times took o wide renga. Neithor Mr. Kelley mor Mr, DButler, so far a3 we oon seo, touched the merits of tho bill, They dwelt rather upon tho op- prossod state of the poor Inboring man and tho onormous iniquities of the * bondholder,” and said, with that refreshing impudonce which is chavacteristic of them, that the con- vortible-bond scheme would furnish a romedy for the wrongs of the poor. It was gonorally understood on the floor of tho Honge that both Mr. Kelley and Mr. Butler wero at- tempting to frighten the Republican mem- bers by an exhibition of what they can do on an occasion, ond a hint of what they will do, if thoy ave diven to extremities, But tho Repiiblican mem- bers didn't scorce, Dnawes md Gnefield met the attaclk skillfully and bravely, with a firm- ness quite worthy of their hest reputations, Kelloy and Butlor will underatand, before the session is over, that the Republicen perty can do much better withont thomn than {hoy can do without the Republican pnrty. LXFOUTIVE INTERFERENCE IN THE STATES. That portion of tho President’s mesange dovoted to tho question of Exccutive interfer- ence with the affairs of the States is not only remarkably conoisa and pertinent, but states- manlike. His uttorances upon this question are 80 brief, simple, and yot encrgatic, that no one can mistake their meaning, or doubt that the Prosident wes thovoughly in carnest when ho wroto them. Tha Sonth caunot complain leveafter that thero s auy ambiguity in tho policy of the President; and, if Ex- ccutive interferenco becomos necessary, thon the BSouth will have proveked it with o full knowledge of the consequences. With vegard to his general poliey, tho Presi- dont deprecates interferemco, and hopes ¢ that oll necessity for Executive dircction mny become unnecessary and obsolete,” but at the same time he wains them that, while ho remains the Executive, **all the Jaws of Congress, and tho provisions of the Consti- tution, including the smondmeuts added thersto, will be enforced with firmness, but with regrat that they should have odded ono jot or tittle to Exceutive dutics and powers.” This emphatic snnouncement of policy is coupled with an earneat moral appeal to the people of tho South they would do well to heed, In making this sppeal, the President takes high moral ground without reference to party or polities, and nddresses himself to both sides in the following language : T4 thero not . disposttion, on ono sKd lo magnify wrougs nnd outrages, aud, un the ather aie, 10 beliis tle them or* justify thom? If publio opfnfon could ba directed 10 o correct gurvey of whut 5, med (0 rce Luking wrong, nod aiding tho proper anfhorities in punfalifng it, u botter stats of feoling would bo incul. cated, und thio Roouier we would Tiave that peseo which waould Ieavo the Ktates free indeed to regulato their owp domestie atfuirs, I beliove, on tha part of our cltizeny of thn Southern Statas,—tho better yart of {hew,—thero In n Wisposttion to bo Juw-sbiding, nnd to don vielenco cithor to_individuala or tho L oxlst. ing; but Qo they do right it fgnoring thn existenco ot Hlolica sud blosdslied i rositaiica o conslituted au- ority The President follows this unselfish and magnanimous apponl with a coucise state- muent of the cause which ha led to Executive interference, namoly: *‘ Violenco has been rampant in kome loeslitics, and Lias further been justitied or denied by those who conld leve prevented it,” and then states the remedy : *‘'U'reat the negro as a citizen and a voter, ns he iz and must remain, and soon parties will be divided, not on the color line, but on principles, Then we uhall have no complaint of sectional interferences.” This statement of the President’s policy ghould ba cavefully studied in the South, He hins sunk all political considerntions, all party prejudices, and addressed himself to the common sense and tho conscience of the Southern people. He has pointed out to thew the eausos which hiave led to Exceutive interference in thé past, the erroys into which they hava fallen, and the only method in which they can avoid such interference in the future, and his policy upon this point is founded not only upon the Con. stitution and the laws, but upon impmtial justico and humane cousiderations, If the South had acted upon such a policy from the outeet, there would have been no occasion for Executive intexforence, If tho Soutlhad appealed to the law instend of overriding it, there would havo been ovder instead of anar- chy. If it had recognized tho colored man 18 a citizen and voter, *‘a¢ ho is and must ro- main,” the South would heve been as pencefu o8 the North, end there would have been uo more oceasion for Executiveinterforenco in Louisieua or Arvkan- sas than thero lips been in Illinola or Ohio. ‘The vialence at Vicksburg, reported in our Inat issue, is o case in point, There was un fnformality in the bond of {he Bheriff, a col- ored man, Tho citizens olaimed that ho was auting without legal bond, and the Board of Supervisors rofused to order n new one. Heve wny o grievanco for which thore was & cloar fud simple legal remedy, In- stead of availing themselves of this remedy, 09 tho cltizonx of suy Northern State would have done, thoy baud together, with avms in thele hands, and diive the Bhevitf from his oiflea, The frionds of the Sheriff band them- nelvon togother in turn, meet force with foxee, snd hloodshed is tho neceusary result, "This ettempt of the Demoerats of Yieksburg to get rid of Republican county ofdeers in o Rtepnblicon connty by ferce wnd violence, is a fair sample of the inanuer in which the purty of violence in the South b defled law and sought to eavry out ity woeasuves by forco, To such, the stntement of the FProsident is both o lecsen ond @ warning, o persist nny lonzer, therefors, In tering to THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY DECEMBEfi 9, 1874, manngo their internal affatvs upon the * color lino " in only to perpetunto bloodshed and tmmoil and to necessilate Exaentive intorfer- enco, in order that tho Constitution and tho Inws may bo vespected, It is nota quostion “"h')"lel“ tho Llack man s entitled to thoe vighta of a citizen aud {8 qualified to oxoreine thom, "Tho blnel man it a oitizon, ad must romaiu so. When this fact is recognizod hy all prxties, ponce will come, and not Hll then. st . THE LEGAL-TENDER ACT. "T'ho President ndvises and eommendy to Con- greus the ndvica of the Secretary of tha Lreas- ury thot, ny n preliminary stop townrds o ro- sumption of specio payments, Congrens should by luw flx n dato aftor which greenbneks shall conso to bo a legal tendor except for dobts contracted prior to that dste, ''he grent argument herotoforo used egainet any return to specie payments has been, that it would ba opprossive upon the debtor class; that the Inttor have contracted debts upon tho bnsis of & deprocinted curronoy whose valio has ranged from i to 90 cents on the dollar, nud that to compel the payment of such debis in coin or its oquivalont would be to ndad to the indebteduess of tl:o individual the amount of tho doprecintion oxisting when tho dobt was oronted, This clnss includes not only in- dividuals] and privaie corporations, but it embraces - the wholo rango of municipal corporations, which in the aggregale owo nomly n thousend millions of dollars. While wo do mnot consider tho nvoidanco of this seoming hardship ns at all com- pousnting for tho gonoral evil sud loss of n permnnent guspension of specio pay- monts, ending oventually in tho panie of 1878 ,and wide-sprend baukruptey, wo have felt that the remonstrance hiad considerable forco, But the comwrso rccomunended by the Presi- dent avoids evon the appeoranco or possibili- iy of any injustice to auy one by flzing a dny in the future after which all debts cou- tracted shall bo upon the coin basis, leaving the greenback a3 now o legal tender so long 08 o debt remcins unpaid. The proposition to return to specio prymonts has beon re- sisted by those who have mede loans of Danks, end by the banks who heve outstand- ing $250,000,000 of bank notes, which they would have to redeem in coin; but the plan now proposed takes away these objections, Graonbaeks will remain 4 logal tender in pay- ment of overy note, boud, mortgage, or other form of indebioduiess issed beforo the dato fixed by Congress. Any coniract mado after that dete will be made of necessity upon a coin basis, and can worke no possible injury or inconvonience to any one, Hove, then, we have the mode pointed out by which the country con gradunlly emerge from the depreciated curroncy standard of values without tho lenst shock or disturbanco of any right of cither creditor or debtor ; and the re-catablishment of the business of the country on the real and permonent standerd rocognized by the whela commereial world. ‘Tho time being fixed when all now contracts ehall begin on u coin basis of value, without any disturbence of the presont legal tender for all existing contracts and debts, tho busi- ness of the country would rapidly so adapt itself to the coming change that the trausi- tion from {he ono system to the other would be marked by no confusion or derangement. As tho President well points out, the xeturn to Bpecio payments must come at some time, Every day it is postponed but aggravates the ovil and pushes Lle country nenver to gonernl prostration, Lesumption must be brought abont by the Government taking such steps oy will promiga Dboyond all donbt a rosumption at some set time, or re- sumption must come by ihe genernl prostration of all credit and the general repudiation of ell debts, A choice must be made, and ought to be mada at ns ently ndate as practicable. Capital isabundant, but is un. employed. 'Wo have all tho means of pros- pority, Tabor is abundant, snd the capital to moko that labor productive is at Land, ‘What ia wanted is confidence—faith in futare stability. Capital will not invest whon the national credit iy drifting no one knows where, Wo must begin snew without re- pudiation, or we must begin anew nfter re- pudiation. The favoreble action by Congress on the recommendation of the Secretory of the 'Trensury would havo an instant effect upon trade, production, and commerce. It would give that confidence thut is now wanting, and set free the hoarded and unemployed eapital which does not now dere & venture. It would put laboy at productive employment of every character, and once move place upon a per- manent basis the prosperity of the whole country. THE MAYOR'S MESJAGE, There it only one point of comparizon he- tween the President’s imesinge and that of Mayor Colvin,—length, TPresident Grant went over the whols field of our domestic and foreign relations nsa nation in a little less spnco than Mr, Colvin required to deliver himself on the condition of a singlé city. ‘The Mayor's messige wns a sort of mosaic; and, as such, may be regorded os a litorary ewriosity, The vavieties of style which are prosonted in six columne are exactly equal to the number of hiends of departmonts in the City Goverument, Poor Joe Forrest wos made to pay the penalty of his contribution by having to vead thie entiro document beforo the Council; but, perhaps, ho wny the only man connccted with the presont Administration who is familiar with the vorious bandwritings of tho departmental chiefs, Tho composite style is a novelty in Execufive messagos, but, con- sidering the tedious length which it necessi- tates, we can sorcely give it our approval. The messngoe might have boen longer (though this is bardly possible) hed not Mr, Colvin started out with the comforting nssurance that this is not ‘‘one of thoso speoial occa. sions at times whicl call for prompt legista- tivo action,” So far as 2Mr. Colvin entered upon tho suggestive field, he divected his cf- forts to the State Legislature and not to the Common Council. Yor tho xest, thoso who ave willing to drag through several coltunng of hoterogeneous matter to discover a fow spechnens of very funny stylos of composi. tion will be rewarded fox their pains, Ay, Colvin must have been ina pleasant framo of mind duriug the construction of hiy message, for ho wllowed every head of vvery depnrtment to congratulate hinwelf ud (ibitum upon the sdmirablo muniter in which ho hnd condueted his branol of tho City Government during the past twelve months. It would linve boon more malixfactory to the gonoral public to have hiad wu intelligont oxhibit of 1hio clty's indebtodness, and practlenl sugges- tions g8 to the ways and menns Jov eseaping from the flnancinl emburrassmonts v hioh wo vagnely foel to bo hnnging over us, L placa of this, howevey, he predents ts with uone digjointed paragraphu and djsconneoted fig- ures that utterly foil to throw uny light upou our present condition, The wmost wo vau Jonrn I8, that wo owe somewheyo botwoen six. toon aud soventoen nillions, that more than thrao millions fall due within tho next nlx months, and thnt wo have less than amillion and o haif in tho Treasury all told, Tt isnot very enconraging to bo fold that $0,410,1 1, in the shupo of a tax-wnrrant for 1874, will bo in the hands of the Colleetor by tho middlo of this month, when wo know that all this has heon appropriated, and are told that more than a million dollars of the tazxes of 1878 venmnin uncollocted. I s truo tho Mnyor stggests thab thoro shonld always Do **an export in tex-proceedings” connectod with the Linw Department ; huat as the city is now omploying five or six **legal experts” in thnt departient aban oxponse of aver $20,000 & yoar in salmies, to say nothing of tho incidentaly, we should think this branch of the Governmont is already pretty well pro. vided for. - T'he Mnyor's hint that the City ‘F'ronsurer should not be pormitted to ngo of loau the city moneys for his own benofit s timely; butb we quoation tho expodiency of tho Coun- cil's undortaking to do the smne thing, au he suggests, Wo hnvo alvendy had o snficiont experiones with tho anthorization, or assmmed authorization, of lohning the monoys of the ity ; and while it is within the province of the Couneil or city offfvinls to see that the City 'Cronsurer doos not lonn or use the funds, the city itsolf will Qo well not to go into the samo business, 'Wa mny admiro 3Mr, Colvin's goneralizations on the subject of the reduction of ourcxpenditures and limitntion of our taxos, but wo fail to find in the ontiro six columns any praotienl snggostions to that ena. Cor- tainly his quosi approval of tha Court-House sclieno ia not in this diraction; for, though he ndvoentes tho sale of city property for this purpose, he must bo conscious that Court House building will offer an exhoustless op- portunity for raids upon the City T'reasury, THE The President’s determination to reserve n moro detailod statemont of our velationy with Spain for a future communication to Con- gress seems to have a special significance. We take it to bo a notico to the Spanish Gov- ornment that it must abandon its dilatory, double-denling policy townrd this Govern- ment, and 1aako a speedy and satisfactory set- tlement of the differences betwoen the two nations, The Sponish nuthorities may take tho hint conveyed in the preceding paragraph of the messngo on the condition of Cuba, and geeept n lesson in fairness without push- ing the mattor any further, Butif they do not, the special mossage which the President will communicate to Congress on the subject will undoubtedly be expressed in such terms 09 to bring the diffioulties to a direct issue, which will have to be settled on a bLasis dic- tated by the United States ss an outrage aation, 2 If thero is a people on thio face of the earth who merit the contempt of an independent and self-governing nation, it is the Spanish poople. Their glories, such ay they are, must b sought in the pages of history that moy almost bo cnlled ancient. ‘They wero glories then only beeause civilization had not advanced to s proper appreciation of fair. denling, nor to o proper dopreciation of vilo cunning and brute foree, Within tho present century, 8pnin has been an outlaw mmong nntions, The buceaneers and pirates of former times have been simply repressed in their maraudings upon the high seas 2nd tho other nations of the world, and allowed to work out their own deatiny, ‘They set about it in tho smmo old cut-throat fashion; but, instond of cutting the thronts of foreigners, thoy have been engaged in slnshing away at their own, Their internccine struggles begru with the death of Ferdinand VIL, oud they have continued over sinco with varying success on the part of the military despots, tho priest-ridden peasants, and the desperato Communists. All through tho reigu of Teabell, the nation wes a foot-ball formilitary dynesties, A change of Ministry was equivalent to a revolution ; but it was always o revolution that brought no relief to ihe people. It wad the displacomont of one military ndvonturer to makeroom for another. Then the people, unconscious that the evils aud wenknosses of their condition wero all their own, thought to find relief in the ecom- plote overthrow of the monarchy. Isabelln was drivon out of the ecountry only to leave chaos behind. On tho one side were ithe Communists ; on the other the Ultramontune priests, 'The Carlists organized and offered Absolutism ns thesolution of their difticultios; the only opposition the paople have offered is anareby, The struggle bas been sustained with {be desperation of a bandib race, en- cournged Dby the ignorance and superstition of one party, and tho ignorance and vicious- ness of tho other, Awnadous sought to give them a Constitutionnl Government, hut they could not comprehend it, The mountain dis- tricts have been given over to the despotism of tho Ultramontanes; tho cities to the des- potism of the Communists. There i but one common ground on which both the priest- ridden and tho anarchists bave met,—com- mon inhumanity. Their struggles have been characterized by tho most barbarous eruel- ties. All factions hiavo ovinced the most bratal indifforence to the rules of civilized warfore. Alions nud non-combntants have alike suffered from their barbarous practices. ‘Dhero is searcely a nation that has not been visited with indignities or .outrages at the hands of some one of the factions, and those fnctions have been hitherto treated withe forbearance that s now geased to Lo o virbue. It isno part of our national polioy to in- terfore with the domestio struggles of Spain x50 long ns owr rights reccive respect and our interests aro not directly and unwarrantably assniled. DBut when the Spanisk Government restmes its old-tine mirugance along with its old-time brutality, and first essails and then ingults this Government, it becomes nduty to omselves to pssext and maintain our rights, With all tho vicissitudes of Spain, there hins been the ono contraliden of kesping Ouba nu- der anivon heel, and of 1making her vonivibute of Ler great Lounty to the support of the Home Government, 'he policy has beon one of extreme despotisin and brutality, Not only have the Cubans Dbeon mndo to suller the direst indignities ond tho most Dbrutal oufrages, but Spain has gone to tho length of cxtending the some policy in Hu relations with other uations whenever Cubn was concerned, ‘The United States havo borne o full haro of theso in- dignities, Wo have sullered unjust comimner- clal diserimiuntions without protest, nnd, at 1nst, Bpanish bravado dored even to seize an Amoriean vessol and slaughter Amoriean citi- zons, Wo forchoro, oven at this, to adopt avy Hevere mensures of vedross, and Spain hag conetrned our forbeprauce into fenr, and abuged our pationee, It ju now thne thut sho, bo enlled to a reckoving, Wo muny stand idly by aud ree o nation of pro-slavery baudits in. dulgo thelr bloodthlyity propensities to thoir honrts' content so loug s they let ue alone, Wo uny oven fuatify our fudifieronco to the Oubnu outrages so long ns other nations hold sloof. Bui wo caunol consistent- Iy with our own dignity, nor in justice (o our own interests, nllow such a peoplo to slaugh- ter our citizons and then delny just satinfac- tion for tho ontrnge. Tho Virginjus affair hias hung in aboynnce long enough, Lot us linve o pronupt satisfaction of all onr claims in this mnttor, or, in defanlt theroof, lot us tako suoh steps toward rotribution ns com- mon humanity suggosts nnd onr national dignity demands, Thero is nothing in our pant velations with Spain, nor in the promise of the future, nor in the Spanish ehnrncter, nor in ity shan Republicanism, nor in its commereinl denling, nor inthe lnw of nations, which clabns n longer forbearance on our part. 3 STATE BOVEREIGNTY—AGATN. The fow Democratic papers which lhave at- tompted to hold i Csnicaco Trmune guilty of libeling the Demoeratic pavty by imputing 1o it the doctrine that the United Statos ave o wation, possessing oll the inherent pow- ors of nationality, and mnot the mero ngont ncting undor delogated powers of sovoreign States, aro ovoking shmp roplies from ihoso other Democratic papers that rep- resont Domocyatic constituencien, State sov- ereignty is not popular in Ropublican Michi- gon, and tho Datroit Free Press refuscs to ac- knowledgoe it as partof the Democratic creed. In Democratie Missouri, the St. Louis Z¥mes doclaves thaot the Genoral Government is bhat the agent of tho soveral States, Tha OChi- cogo T4mes, under the pretext of “inde. pendent journalism,” thowgh at hoenrt a Dem- acratio prper, denounces Stato sovereignty as afraud, aud denounces oll those who advo- cato it os ignorant and dnugerous onomics of the country ; while down in Georgin the Domoeratic papers, so far as we have seon, oll jusist that tha cloction of 1876 must turn on that issue. Now comes tho Dubuquo Zelegraph, edited by that veteran Demoerat, D. A. Mahoney, who insists that the * principlo whickwas, nnd for our part which we hope still is, the doetrine of the Democratic party, that tho States aro soveroign,” and that * tho General Government at Washington s but an agency " of tho people,—that is, tho sovereign States,—is just. It goes furthor, and decluren that to chavga thot the Demooratie party, if rostored to power, will pay the people of the South thefr individual losses dur- ing the War ‘““is to pay that party s com- pliment upon its feirness and justive”; and then procaeds to arguo in favor of paying all the losses of all persous who cannot bo proved to have been n Rebel. Just imagine where such o docirine leads to, How many hundreds of millions of dollars would be re- quired to dischavge tho claims for damages in the South under such Democratio construe- tion of the logal obligations of the * Wash. ington agency of the sovercign States”? ‘o next assumption will be that only those who weroe voluntaily and willfully Rebels can ‘bo denied full and ample componsation for ll their losses during the Rebellion, The Louisville Courier-dournal, whick at fivst was disposed to ridiculo the ides that the Demacratic party, if restored to power, would adhere to the doctrine of State sovercignty, now copies from this pnper tho following paragraph : Tbore 18 no eseapiug tho fact that the fundamental i26us belween tho two partica Is, that tho Kopublicun purty bolds the United Btatea to b o uatlon possessing every pover necessary 40 o completo natfouality 3 that it hilda theso powors, not e o gift from ihio Statos, wor a3 an agent of otjer eovorelguties, but as o natlon innowiso dependent upon o States, The Domo- cratie party holds, on the contrary, that this uot u ntion, but & confeieracy. of soverelgn States, which bave delegated cortaln Limited powers to a certain Foderal sgency; that the Genernl Government isa creation by orlginal sovoreigutiea whose iuhevent sov~ crelgnty {8 fntact, This the Courier-Journal concedes “isn just and candid statement of the chief issuo between the two parties,” and adds: Tt 35 Just upon this leano that we meet TIE TRIBUNE, tuoughi 1t declares it Is ¢ journalistic folly vergiug on waanity for us to do &0, Wo mointaiu {lat the Blates which gove birtlf and iife to the Federsl Qovorn- ment_woro, independent Sovorefgutiea befora thst Government wag formed; thut the lattor la tho crea- tuve, and not the creator, of tho formers fhat the Fedbrnl bead ta tho mero ogent of the peopls of tho Htatea: thut {ts powors are detned and limited by tho Constitution ; and hat It fs dependons upon tho Btates for ats lifa and perpetulty, The some paper now says that, up to the time of the War, “no person of respectablo intelligenco could be found to dispute” this Democratio doctrine ; and that; unless the exe tire chernoter of the Government has siuce Dbeen changed, it is equally truo now. It then proceeds to deny that the chavacter of the Government is any’ tho less that of o con- federncy or an agont exercising certain dele- goted powers receivod from tho States. The samo paper insists that the Southem peoplo will not claim compensation for dmmages sus- tained in the War; but the fact i thoy havo done so slrendy, and are now doing so, and when the Domoaeratio patty comes into power denying that any citizen who obeyed the order of his sovereign State could com- mit any crime thereby, thero will be an ava- lancho of these claims, backed np by * sov- evelgn States,” for compensation for damages inflicted upon theso pooplo by a * mero agent " without authority from the prin- ocipals. TEN MILLIORB GORE, Tha Seerotary of the Intorvior in his annual roport gives ns the total cost of construetion, surveys, equipment, and operating expenses of the Novthern Pacific Roilway, tho sum of $21,808,416, and the amount of outstsuding Londs and other indebtedness at $81,558,681, What hos bocoma of tho missing ten millions of dollara? It will bo noticed that the de- ficiency is full 50 per cent of the cost of the ropd, For overy dollar expended on the rond, somebody ks talen a toll of 50 cents, Instoad of ten millious surplus, oqual to the construction of sevoral hundred miles of erond, the Company owes that much in ex- cesst of what it hias exponded on the part of tho rond completed. Has this monay or any paxt of it been ¢ placed where it will do the most good”? Who has got it? and what was tho considerntion therefor 'The Company which has wasted this $82,. 000,000—notually given awny one-half as much a8 it has sunk in tho rondway of a uge. less roadl—is at Washington acking Congress to give it fifty or sixty millions of dollavs out of the Treasury to complete its usoless rond ! Feiling in this, it proposes to surrender its Jand-grant in consideration of so many thou. sunda of dollars perinile, Bubstautially, it propoees to soll the landt back for double what it is worth to the General Government, 'hat is whipping tho dovil around the stump with nvengonnes, In the meantimo, with the fact (hat the Compauy bas already given away or squandered ten millions of dollars, and expended but twenty-ons millions, Con- gress ought to undersiand what will bocome of auy subsidy that may be voted by the Gen. oral Govermnent out of the National I'reas wy, ‘Lhe Orodit-dobilier affair is not so old us to be forgotten, and hns not yot blown over, uud ono rotton and dishoneat operation is no justifioation for another. No wuun ean vota for this subuldy, or any subsidy to this or any othor xoad, without dofug so with a full kuowledgo of the past and of tho judg- ment to come, : To the Editor of Tha Chicano Triluns Hut: Vour gupoino Gourt edlturlats o eon (0 mo i Aitrpriso. It ecoma that your eriticam should chleily yont on tho courts lelow, Tho mufority of nppnaled canes nre rovorsed, This fact osoucrates tho lawyers, 'Tho Judgen of (he lower conrly hova Ao iguorantly ducliled or mnged tho caso Lt tho lawyer 1% obliged to nppeal to get fustica for bl client, And the Hupresno Court more frequently Austalua tho Iawyera appeniing tian tho Judges apponlod from, No wonder {6 16 yulost for thio Buprome Gourt to roview the wliolo ense, tid then Loy focl compelled fo yivo an elaborato opfufon (o Siairict tha Judgo holow i tha Iow, 'hese erroncoun declalons vuuiit {o be reveryod und romauded by the bhigher Court. 1Tow can tny Inw affecting tho Supromue Conrt diminiah o erroncouy s Uit Ut to bo apealnd totlat Cotiet 3 mhioulid thie acopo of tho Court by contractad whea ft ovorywhiero Sidw evror 2 ‘Tho Cotet la argane {7t to avevrila error, st ought to have ho opgor- tunity und power to dlaover nmd covecet tho eiror wheravor oxlutiugg, lthough it msy wxperlotca the fuconvenloncer i which tho law " niwayn abounds, Qutaido of tho {niconvenfences cssontful to'mn unfuiling dinsavery of the arror 5o llablo to oxist n our appeatol ruoed, What 8r6 tho abuses aud roforms you polut ot T fail'to eco auyliing of impurtanco, AWYER, Wo nro surprived that a **Lowyer™ hna raad our Supremo Coutt editorinls with so pooran underatanding. Io moots but ono point, while wo have endeavored to cover tho whole caso and point out tho proper remedios, Wo bavo ulrendy shown that, nndor our laws, tha Court is forcod to give contrary instructions furnishod by tho opposing attorness; aund that, after eil tho rullugn and Ivstructions, the Jury iy fteelf tho {udgo of the taw, and muy disregard the polnts of the Court whonover it soes fit, Wa have called for the ropeal of the statutes which permit of the prosont ubuags, IP theroisa * Lawyer" who {ails to comprohend the srguments we binvo mado at longth, wo must decline to go all over thom again for tho benefit of his 1wdividual obtusoness. —_— Tmogino the disquiet of the world in genoral sliould tho Tichborne Claimant summon a erowd round his death-bed in order to hear his con- fossion, anil thon whisper tho)words 1 am——"" and die, Tt would be littlo short of infamous, and both Dr. Konealy and his opponents would unito in denounciuy the confossion as » awindle, And yet not long ago a man did it who had been lost inlf n dozen yeavs in Florida, Ila turned up recently younger by 80 yenrs at lonst than when lie went away. Jlo claimod o grest doal of property, and whou folts asked him how ho could, even with his illimiteblo choal, sccount for his rojuvonation, ho was equal to tho omorgency. Mo said that while wandering with his littlo boy in Florida he foll into the famons Fountsin of Yonth, sought by Ponco do Loon in tho gwamps of Florlds, nnd wes rojuvenatod against Lig will, Thou Lo ducke:d his boy, aud tho boy remalned a boy ever slnce, and & young one ag that, s cago was threo timos triod, and an ex- pedition sent to find the Fountalu, which it nevor did, and nover would evenif it searchod until that {mmortal boy grow to Methuealeh's sge, The third time the suit was being tried our Tithonus nenrly bamboozled tho jury into de- clding in Lis favor. But while peddlivg Domo- cratio tioketa nt tho polls on eloction day an on- torprislog friend testod bis immortal youtn with an ounce of lead {n his vitola (a way thoy have in TFlorlds), sud ho went through the fmitating pan tomlno of ssylng somothing to arm both sides in tho suit. Ho was smart ; but with all his brill- inncy could not tell the truth, —— Paatoral visitation iy attended with a new porll in Toxas. It 16 nob the lauguishing love of the fair but frail feminino parishioner which threatens to put anend to ministerinl useful- ness B0 much #s o moro metorial danger, Ao- cording to the Dallas Comunercial, tho pastor of o fasbionablo church called ona nowly-ar- rived business man at his oflico, welcomed bim, and invitod his wife to call at the pursonage aed have o good time, The busincss man, with hnt indeclsion of character which busisess mon €how inepiritual mattory, eaid **that would ba all right,” and tho proechor went his way. Ho found out bis new friond’s residenco, and in the absence of tho husband mado » **postoral visit.” Tho lody of the houso asked him his busincss, Ho satd ho came on an errand of moscy and poace. Bho sard she dian’t approve of gentlomen visitors in her husband's absouco, nnd ho replied that e waa o olergymon and above suspicion, and sat down, She said sho didn’t know abont that, and waen't golng to risk anything. And whon heo found the revolvor under his noso wase absolutoly loaded aud cocked, ho thought ke wouldo't risk anything efthor, and obuyed her mandats to % gat out of thoro * with a singlencss of purpose consistent with a Christian lite, and s gymnastio font that would bave geined him natlonsl reputa~ tion in the saw-dust ring. A privato lettor from a clergyman in Fort Soott, ¥an., plctures tho dostitution thers sa it comes to thba knowleago of & viditing minister in torma which bring the sconos home, BMapy of tho poor peo~ plo in bis parish have absolutely nothing to live upon. Somo of thom have come in from their dlgtant farms hoping to securo enough to keep lite iu their wivos and lttlo ones through tho help of tho bonevolont; one family had lived upen salt-pork aud corn-meal for thres montha; snothor family hed been eo long without sus~ tonance that thoir firut moal throatoued to bo their Jast. Some have suffered two congecutivo yours from tho porsocutions of tho looust, and their littlo farms are morigaged to their full value. Tho writor soys: “In a emall town, snd ene small chuvch, ono soon ex- hiausts the surplus of the bonovolent, ana these repoatod culls woary thom." 'Thoe lotter was written in ackoowledgment of tho recelpt of a hox of food and clothing sent tho writer for dis- tribution among the suffering poor in his imme- diato vicinity, ‘Tho bonevolent of Chicago who would like to supplemaut the good work done by this ono box can find pleaty of oppostunity by addroesing tho Rev. W. O, Torter, pastor of tho Presbytorian Ohuroh at Fort Beott, Kanaas, —— ., Prohibition against liquor stimulates the in- vention of the gsloon-kespor without dispensing with tho stimulation which fs his atook in trado, Iu Waterloo, Ie,, wuere the license hes beon raised to a prolibitory flgure. tho saloon has beon crushied out, and n healthy spoclmen of club-room has grown upon ity remufns. Tho ox-publican sells stock in his club-room, haviag formod n corporatipn under tho Stato law, mud igaues certificates of atoak in tho form of cards, When the bibolous membor of tho club takes a glase of beer, bis ticket {s punoched ; when boue zino lacalled for, or * dry cabbage,” two hioloa aro made, Tho prico of liquor is thersforo yo- ducedt, and dram-drinking wrde both fashion~ ublo ond ingenfous, Honeo drunkennoss is on tho increaso at Waterloo, and tho lquor-Gealor thrives accordingly. A gront dea) deponus npon the decision of the caaa in whick tha heira of 3lve, Cruger wro con- tostivg lier will, in which ghe left 5925,000 to the Amoriean Diblo Society =nd notbing to lor tawily, It is very cloar that she was vory fu- #ano whon sho mudo Lwr will, end mado a sort of bargain with the devll not to pursuo her, by promisug to lenve her proporty in this way. As ‘bofore hinted, half tho plons boquests in history would bo set aelde upon this ground, But hoero {g the poiut, If it cun vosdily bo shown that leaving monoy ta o noctety was & symptom of {n- souity, coutested wills will bocomo so nuntorous thet the religfous institations will dio of lu- nuition, e Mayaor Colvin solves the problom of poor ga8 1u Wiy mnossnge 1 All uttachments ond globular appoudages which give o atrange ond globular APPeArAuoq ara no wora than ornsmental,” This startling fuct, coupled with the furthor au- nouncoinont thet fn cold woathor tho lumiuous constituents of tho gas aro condensod in passing through tho pipea uatlafactorily acconuta (¥) tor poor gas in wintor, Dut how about ¥ tho globu- Jar appendagos " lnst sunmner? What becarse ot »ilio Juminous coustituents” in the hot mouthe ? 1t will bo remonbored that 8 fow dave aoce the 1Prosldant of and tho old Board of Covaty Comuilyatuners woot sut of oxlateuce vith A “hoopla" aud a vigorous blowlng of trnme pota ovor the financial condition, And the reiin Ing Preaidant, fn bty oxultation, mado tio un-~ nouncoment that thoy wero tho admirution of the world. Wo nio glad to noties that tho racont jubllation hus had no effoot upor: Coin- mizgionor Burdlel, tho now DProsident, who is disposcd Lo regard tho cunnty fnancos rsany~ thing but watislaotory, eud weges tho sivetest acenommy and Judiclous managomont of funds, an well na tho sbolitiou of tho pressnt syrtam of contracts for furnishing supplios, whioh ali ths world did nob aduilre, ex-Premdont Aetton to tho contrary notwithatanding. SR S PEREONAW IN CHICAG, 0. M. Cottrill, propriotor 6¢ tha Pla-iintan House, Milwaukee, s 1 guess at Yo Grzug e cifie, Gon. John Kilpatrick, the well-knowa laoturar, I8 etopplug u tha Grand Pacitle, 1o 'levos thig morning for Storling. The marriago coremony of Miss Huttington and Mr, Wileon will take place at the C: al ut b o'clock Thuraday, Instend of 4, ng unced In last Bunday's paper. John 0, Gault, General Passonger Agpsat; A V. IL. Carpontor, Weatern Pazgonger Agc'.t: 2nd i;?- ilesr:ill. General Manager, of tho au. 5 St Poul Ruilrond, sre stoppivg nt th Grand Paoific, ¥ L Prof. 0. 0. Marsh, of Yale Callege, who hea boen on & prospecting tour to the Blr.:k country, yestorday paseod through thit his way homo. e fy ac-:o\upun(gd by lc uf 2 ton of minoral gpecimon { o P W from “that portio:siof tiu 1?lrx.lfi. ‘Y flnrnlmv:. 3! th who has giveu a good deal of atientio.: atudy of ustronomy, hes wvulv:d ‘r:‘ ‘l‘f‘mfixflg the Royal Astrouomical Sucioty, of L hia olly, & geatinman forming bim that ho lins beon alcotod g ¢ tho Bocioty, This I8 o well-morit 2 warthily boatowed. i TOTEL ARRIVALS, Dalmer Houae—R, Da Haven, Rock E, Kovillo, Isoston ; M, Marx, New Yo T, Bryaut, Boston; B, B, Ch ¢ L. Austiu, Cloveland; D, P, Ames, Jr,, Bt. Louis; L, 0. 0 DPuri . . Grand Pacific—Goorgo Wilduio, C) clunatiy J. L. Jowets, Omabas Leughton, Milwaukeo ; the Hon, . Eau Clara; tho Hon. Robert Camp! TR nl: I, W, Oliver, Pittaburg; tho I Godhrane, Sontronl. o~ < Shorm J. B. Summer, Now York: George W. Buffalo; W, . Smith, New York; E. B Aanisteo; R. I, Worriner, Tolodo; O, C. Yalo Collese; J. D, Emery. Bt Peal, . . Tremont House—A. Knopfcl, Grand ilapid W. Donios, Daltimore; §, C. Bonrdm.an, Nashe ville; B. F. Btoddard, Boston; E, 8. Ward, Terro Hanta; L. A Willouglby, Weiseka; O W. Cudy, Douver. . . . Skinner's Lotel—Tua Itou. Sam Burchard, Beaver Dam; O. Copingeo, Paris, Franco; James Cery, *the Craubovry Prince,” Berlin; Dr. E. A, Guilbere, Dubague Geou. Bl G. Runnals, Kenosha; the Mon, G. G, Carvolle, Faribault, Minn, LLSLWHERE, Soecial Dispatch to The Chicaan Ty bune, Brooysaros, I, Dec, 8.~Jumee il Rubine fAon, of this city, died Jast night, aftor a weels Liners, with puenmonin, in bis 67th year. He was President of tho National Bauk ot this cisy’ having boon elocted in 1859, He was n native of Baratoga County, New York, and has becu # rasis dont of MeLenn County since 1835, kince whick timo ho s boon actively engaged in business, and bas amassed & Jarge fortune, A telegram Gaflagn}g‘ o, . Hon, T, J. Cruilhonk, fyd: 4 sl was rcelved_from Washington, D C., to-doy, from Judge David Davig, bis old friend aud asgociate, expressing to Mr. Robivsun's widow ond childron his condolencoaud symputhy. The funora) will take place Tuureday. In the Inst cloctions, Mr. Purman was elected both to Congress and the Florida Legislature, snd mnow bo sosks to bo Unitod Htates Senator bosidos, Puir man} Lovi Hopkins, Buporintendent of the Northern Home for Friendless Childron for tho past oighteen yoars, diod Thursday at that institntion in Philadolphia. Ho wag well known throughout Penusylvania. That stocy about Gavernor-elect Gueton mak- iug lots of mouey out of renl-estate iuvestmeuts in Colorado docsn't prove to bo a trun ope, -He bought somo landed Eroperty ont there and sold it again, but bis bank sccount was not onlarged atall by tho operation.—Boston Globe. ‘Ex-Sonator Cornoll, af Ithacs, founder of Cor- nell University, i dongorously ill, ead his puy- sicians hava litfle hopes of Lis hving more than thrao or four wooks longer. Publio oares for tho last two or throe years havo been hurrying him rapidly towerd the grave,—Suffaio Advertiser. Maj. John Beard, who recently diod ot Agency City, Iowa, was Indian Ageut for the Lacs and Toxos in tho Territorisl days of Towa. He Erndunhd at West Pojnt in 1882, o classmato of 5, D. Koyes, nmdolgh B." Marcy, Evwell, Crittondon, ond othors known to famo, and, in bis ilitazy service at the thon frontier posts of Rook Island aud Pralrie du Chien, he was Regimental Adjutant to Zach Taylor. Judgo Oscar Stephenson, of 8t. Taul, Mian,, hos just gaived a ridicalous notorlety. 'Iaving visited New York nnd put up at tho &t. Nicholas Hotol, ho degired to son the fact duly chronicled in print, and therofore sont the anrouncement of ligarrivel to the New York Sun, inclosing with it tho sum of H1. The Leplietophelos of tho fun published the personal with o sardonid grin in_ the shape of the following commant: “itho dollar was at onmco returned toJudge Htephonson, with the information that the Sun rocelves puy for advortisoments only; aud we take [p]onsuru in giving his aononncemont a gratuitous inkortion uod in thik more ¢ mspicuons mannor.” Probably the Judge will nover do sa auy mors. —_——— TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Tha frolght ratos go up 8 conts fron Indian- spolis, on aud atter Monday vext. ‘The Capltal City Rolling-Mill, of Indlenapolis, teswmmen aperation ta-dey ou full thme, avd with o full got of hauds. Roports from Fort Sully atate thet the Gove ernment troops ment out after the Jilack Iilla gold-gackors hava struck their trail and are closs attor thom The failure of John T. Edgar & 1.704l of Omaha, Nob,, Is officlally aunounced., ‘Fhoy havo wude s usdigament, It i not knon wha their assots are. A mesting of the New York Producs xchangs wae hold yostorday afternoon to tako wuousu:os to nid the ufforors in Nebrasks. A oyumittco was appolnted to reselvo subscriptions. The centenry meoting of the Plii:lelohia Contarence af Haptist ministers wag bol § ¥astor- doynt the Blockloy Church, West Philulelplua, The Rov, David Spoucer rosd u skotoh of the hiatory of tho Philadolphin Baptiats. The Yankton (Dak.) Press and Dikolian changod 1:«: rlum(-u Baturday last, 8, V. Cicnen- gor gelling tho paper to Wheolor 8. Bowen, trom Jancuvllo, Wia., who nas asumed aontrol, The poper will remoin Ropublican iu politics, Partion from Iows Lave presented k.clham Coltoge, Richatond, Ind., with & lorge fuy wics of bones of roma unknown auimal of huge prooor- tioun, Trwo tusky messure over 4 fect, and one, noatly Lwico aa long, i6 ic a good stats oi' prese ervation. They will ba ox: ed by oxpects for woioutiflo clasailloation. The Ruilrosd = Commiasioners hold their wonthly mootiog at Spriugficld to-day, and, af- tor trapsuctivg the ordinary buciness, thc ¢ will completo und loy bofore tho Qovornor their ou-~ nual ropovt, which, it s said, will bo somowhat voluminous, glving o comploto history fn dotall of tho work of tho Commisaion siuce he last ro- part, Lt will alko contain somo veluablo ut:tie- ticaltablos., In the Unitod Statea Court, at Grand Ravids, Mich., tho cuse of the Couuty of Bt, Josepl: va. Em:l&ue & Turtolotte wus on trial yeatorlay, Tho one grow out of the theft of a number of valuablo records boelonging to tho county, for which they advertised, and which were subas. quently returned, _The county doposited a tum of monoy with tho defoudants, and uow sues for tho recovery of 1, claiing thai it wan Wrouge Tully paid. A sickening wonstrosity was leth In the barne yard of a forwer noar Huntortown, tnd., durini Alouday night, and found in the morning, I was wrapped in o course coffos-anck, u\nf wed about the holght of & yoar-old chid, Its head was of a pale load color, tho body appearing vat and brujged, The noso was juverted, and under tho neok, Iustoad of two mrms, a erooked limb, eimilar to an srm, projeotod from the back, This could bo moved backward and forwad, but not sldeways, Where the fost and loga should be was a long, round, tube-llko mena ey, appasently hollow, The Body was zibbed and wrooved "¢ rogulap lutorvals, It Lo uudergolog ah oxamivation by &t a oub wfint 1 caatl da, de il e