Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1874, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBY provo what {s supposod Thoy lind novar pro- tonded that they could provo that. ‘They did not oxpoct to sustaln the eharga; thoy only wanted Lo way thnt; it waa told to them, not that it was truo.” Thoy confidontly looked forward to acom- Dloto vindication of Loth parties, After ' THE QNDEN FOR THE REFENER hiad boon entored in tho gourt and n stipulation botween counsel filod, counsol pmcnu'd‘ml o the honso of Mr, Siltimns, the rofore. Thoro thoy wee Joiod by Gen, Butlor, of counaol for Moui~ tan. A eanforenco was lold as to whothoer vaferenco shonld bo opon to roprosentatives of tio press, Gen. Dutler opposod tho admission of reporters or any, ono outeido of witneasos, Miss Proctor wag willing that reporters shonld Lo ndmitted, as was Gon, Lracy. It wag flually deciden that £ Ot Phrss toutp b REPRESRNTED, tuder corlain conditions, The party thon went to tho Unitod Btatas Court building, whero the referanco wed to bo lield, ~ Plaintil amended her eorapluint so that at tho Hmo of tho commonco- ment of the actlun and thwo of anid Hbel defend- | ant \wns o residont of tho City of Brooklyn, Btuto of Now York, aud plaiutdff ronidont of thio Stato uf Mnsonchuentie. Mr. Tracy thon brief] opaned the caso, after which Miss Lroctor testl- fiod to TUT NIGUEST ESTEE FOR MM, NEECHER, and declarod that thoro was not tne slightest aslidow of truth in tho stories that hind beon cir- calated In which her name had beon mentioned, TI'hero was novar auy fwproper boliavior on Lis port. Nefthordid ho ovor offor any insulls to bor, Whilo {u tho cmplo{muuz of Mr, Bowen sho wasin tho habit of attending Plymouth Churolr, Iioro sho was 80 attradted with cortain snyings and ox- ressions of Mr, Beechor that sho took to jotting lom down. Gradually sho got into tho custom of taking notes of hin sormous, and slo thon concolved tho idenof publishing thom In book form. Ifomry C. Dowen suggosted tho titlo, ** Lifo-Thoughts,” for tho book. It way through this work that eho first mado tho ac. quaintance of Doecehor, Miss Proctor says: I that & now book was to Do issued, of , hich I recoived a prospoctus, and which appar- outly lind rocoived Beechor's upproval, I folt very indignant, and wamBA LTIETOIREGuE, ru sritg my Indlgnation at his courno, - Salvad o Teply oxplainitig bl conudction wits the boolk. I ufterwards had sovoral-poreonal inter- viowa with Mr, = Deocher. The wey I understuod the romsons why ho took this eourso, f't nover could forgot hin bronch of Iaith of Lusiness arrango- monts, 1 noyor complotod this volume, I have seon vory little of Bocchor since then, bub at all timea wo hiave boen very friendly. THE LETTER OF JAX, 10, 1871, wa givon undor tho fotlowing cirewmetancos: Ar. Beochor ealled to seo mo on New-Year's Day of ‘1871, aud told mo that thero wna_somo troublo botwean Lowen aud Tilton, and that ho Doocher) wns implicated; aud femving that if ~ I died thero might bo somo wrong construction put upon tholr (Proctor and Bnnclmr'u? transnction, nud that, to save any such trouble, ho wanted mo to writo au oxpres- slon of my feoling toward him. I went up to my library, aud wrote tholottor which Moulton publiskoed. ‘* T nover went out with dr. Itecchior but ones, I behove, in my life, aud that was for two or threo houra in the middle of tho day, to seo some pictures in Brooklyn. I romember goius with him to New Yorl to oo samo pictures, from porhaps 11 until 2 or 3 o'cloak. 1 went to the studio of o Mr. Johnson, whoso sistor I had known, and that fs the only tiwo I evor went anywhero with Mr, Beccher. 1 was two or threo times at his-houso, with Irlends, to seo ploturey and ougravings. I romembior going ouo ovenlng with tha lato lenry J. Baymond to visit Mr.Beecl- er, on his invitation, Mr. Raymond enllod for mo at Mr, Bowen's, and on going over wo laoked at tho engravings and pictures for un Lour or two, with various other fricuds, smong others Mr, and Mra. Donedict, Mr. and Mrs. Lowo, and #omo othors whom I have now forgotten, 1 think, perheps, on anothor oceasion I wont to Mr. Doechor's louso in the morn- ing to BCO ongravings, of which o hnd a largo collection, I remomber bolng in bis study for n few momonts, ‘Pheso wero tho only oceasiong in which [ was in Mr. Boocher's hoie or study.” ey Proctor wnd ecross-oxamined by Gou, Butler, and tho testimony closed. BUTLEIS NEMARKY, Mr. Butler snid : Wo have no kuowledge at all that. this lady was guilty of wuything ; do not mean to aver it, and for thet purpose shall lot your tostimony stand ag'it dors stand, eutirely uncontradicted, Wo only publishod what wo did in justitication of our” controversy with Mr. Beecher, and of what Mr. Beccher told us, As no damnges aro clnimed, (as I understand thoy ore not) I dow't emre to go into the' gquestion of Gamagos, I havo no doubt wo ghall py auy FEABONLLI axponsos Ui lady 1ny linvo hoeh puik o 1 this mittoe, 11w fojondy gn tho other side are content we shall let it 0,80, Mr. Van Cott—Ir Your Ionor pleaacs, it kas always beon the purposo of our cliont in tho evout of the recovory of Intgo dumingos hn that onse, and sho lan 80 axpressad that purposo to as on varivus ocensions with great ournest- ness, nover to recoivo any poition of tho tudgmens boyond s s s would [ndemniry cr” for tho baro oxponses of tho prosccution and vindiention. Hor own mind semed uttorly from the beginning to abhor tho idex to make tlis an occasion for tho recovory of monay, Judgo Fullerton wnid his cliont” had not” been guilty of what may be technically called libol in tho worat sense of that torm. It was merely told as o statemont of what hnd boen communi- cated to him. 'The circumstances in which ho way placed veomed to Jnstify him in doing all vmlfl doiug it for tho purposs of protecting him- self, At tho suggestion of tho referae, nll the coun- 10l rebirod 1o fix upon s eum that woutd cover the actual oxponses. . After n short ahsonco connael returned. Gen, Butler nnnoBneed that 54,475 had been ngroed upon as tho amount to be'paid by tho dofonse, wud Miss Proctor and her friends rotired. A coarnos The Brooklyn Eagle eays: ‘Tho Proctor nuit I ut an ond. “Yostorday tho dofenso made for- mal ovortures to the proeccution for n compro- miso and sottlemont, which, nfter consultation with thoir client, the attornoys for Miss Proctor oonoluded 1o entertnin. I'he mattor cameo ton slimax Inst night. It was then agroed that at tho opouing of the conrt this morniug o pronosi- tou should bo wmado by ox-Tudge Futlurion to huva tho caso rofarred, which” proposition Tracy & Co. shonld, aftor 30ma arumont, aren to, und thai ex-Disiriot Altornoy Donjamly ¥, 3illiman bhould be selooted o8 rofores, = It was further stipulated that Miss Proctor should somo forward and tostify that Mr, Moulton's al- logntionn as to hor illlel councotion with tho Rtav, Honry Ward Boecher woro in ovory respock Talse, It way further stipulated that Moulton himself phould mako afildavit that ho knows of his knowledgo nothiug whataver agninat Miss Prootor's cliarnoter, and that tho libol to whicl he guvo utteranco way JASED WHOLLY UPON JIPARTAY, It wan further stipulatod that Moulton shoutd mako an xlpnln,’,-i' to Miss Proctor, and that ho #hould pay nlt the costs Ineurred ‘on Loth nides thus far iin tho suit, amounting to over 25,000 ; that, iu cousidoration of tho foregoing, Miny Froctor would elaim no Jmauuimr dumngens asainst Moulton, but would rest satlsfled with tho vindication of hor cliarnotor, and that tho referoo sliould mnko n report in consonance with theso conditions, and thus ond the gront suit, Thoso torms wera all agraed to by tho portios, nud this afternvon tho referas began, ——— SPRINGFLIELD, Ioports of State Institution: —Etecelpty OF the State Treasury, Sneciul Diaputels to e Chicann Tribune, SenixorieLy, 111, Dec, .—The Biate oficors and oflicors of Stato institutions nro now busily ongaged upon thelr raports, Lo bo submitted to tho Govornor properatory to beiug lald beforo tho Gonoral Apsembly when it moata In Tan- uary, ‘Thoy -will probabiy all be in print before tho Logiuluture mooty, - T'ho rucolpts at tho Btato Troasury for Navem- bor aro: IRovonuo, B25,85.46; rehaol fund, 30,026,723 nukuown minor hoick' fund, gu0.7: Tilinols” tlvor fmprovamont Tuud, 10062601 local bond fund, 819,001,11." Totut, £508,485,63 Disbursomonts for tho HRmMo time: Ruvouue, 200,418.1 s 1linois River improvemont, &4, 586,48 ; echool fund, 81,804,035 ; Centyat Ttnilroad fund, 860,097.31;_local” bond 'tund, 11,070,854, Total, $1,307,966,29, Willinni 11, Harpar, tho Chief Grain Inspactor, bas submitted his report for Novembr, i & furthar balanco, notwithstanding tho g r duction of foes, 'Tho balance on “Nov, 1 was §30,204.25; ensh collocted in November, &6,061.67. Tho oxponses for Novomber wera $4,018.80; Tnlanco Voo, 1, €J1,800.93, Tho roport s approy «d a4 ubove, OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. QueensTowy, Doc. ,—Tho steamer Kenll- worth, from Philudelphia, arrived cut this motn- ng, gh:w Yorg, Doo. 0.—Arrived, the steamships Bchiller, from Hamburg ; Glamorgan, from Car- ditr ; and Abyssinia, from lem‘,mul. Lonnox, Deo, 9, —Tho steumships Queon and result THE UNDER CRUST. Composed for the Most Part of Gritty Ingredients. Likely at Any Time to Rise Up and Run Over the Upper Crust, Robbers, Thieves, Murderers, and Lascivious Scoun- drels in the Cate- gory, Tho Kansas Train Robbors Not Cap. tured---Ploro _ Rowards Offered, Highway Robbery and Murder Near Scranton, Pa, THE KANSAS TRAIN-ROBBERS, Special Dispatel to The Chicavo Tribune, Kaxsas Ciry, Mo, Doo. 0.—A man exhibited o Lorso bolongiug to ono of tho train-robbers on our streots to-day, Ilo wns overtalten on tho lughway southonst of this city lato last ovening and forcod to trado for ono of tho horass of lho robbors, which was jaded. Tho man followed the trail of iho robbors for 5 milos south of Westport, in this connty, aud found whoro the robbors hnd camped during tho night, to- gother with somo papors and a box iwhich had contalnod gold dust. Ho also found a fow joces of money, Tt i gnid Gov. Osborn, of Kansng, hng nsked for o dotuchmont of cavalry to pursuo the highwaymen. The Governor offors 82,5600 roward, nud tho Kansns Dacifie Railway 25,000, In addition to Wolls, Fargo & Co.'s raward, It is thought the party may bo ovortakon boforo they rench the Indian Terri- tory, toward which “they upeedily. HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND MURDER, Succial Diapateh to Tho Chicao Tribune, Wirkesnanny, Pa., Doe, 9.—A desporato easo of highray robbory’ and murdor ocourred noae Scranton on Mouday night, n farner named Kloin being the victim, ~Kloin was toturning from Scranton, whera ho bad disposed of two loads of farm-produce, Itis son, a boy of about 12 years, followed with anotlior wagon. oy wore passing through n defilo in the mountains Jnown uy tho *Notch,” whion o party of slx mon rushed from the woods, whero thoy hud been concealed undor cover of darkness, two of whom_ brought tho horees to a stand atill, Kloin ~ was then weized by tho four other dosporadoes, draggod out of his wagon, thrown violently'to tho grouna, and terribly kicked and benton with billies, Ho at longth gavo up tho strigglo for lifo, but bo- sought Lis nsenilants to sparo his son. Plhits ap- peal was followed by a pistol-shiot, and tho old man sank lifeless upon the rond, shot through tho heart. ‘Tho dovils, having nccomplished thoir bloody work, Lastily robbad their victim of ks monoy and wateh, aud disappeared in tho woods, During tho struggle the boy was paralyzed with foar, “gud wag umsblo to move or spouk, but remnined motionless it bis wagon, whero ho was discovered about misniyhl by n farmer who was roturniug froin Seranton. The boy wns unablo to describo auy of tho gang, und there scomy to ba no clow to nid tho dotectives, Up toa lnte hour to-night thero bavo been no arreste, but o rumor reaclios Lere from Scranton that the suthoritics are on tho track of tho guilty parties. seom ta Lo beading A OLERIGAT: KLEPTOMANIAC, Special Dispatch to The Cldeugn Trivine, Minwapker, Wis, Dee. Y.~The Mathodint Epigcopal Chtireli Cohforonico, Applaton Distrlot, 40V 10t sossion at Oshkosh, hng takon activn in referonce to the easo of tho Lov. Dr. Craig, the pontlemun who was arrested and_ jatled n Mit- Waukeo for stenling books from book-storos in that city. Mr, Craiz, being 4 momber of - this Conforenco, surrondered his liconso to proach, And anvowneed his intontion to rotire from tho ministry, It is atated that thogentloman n short tima sinco, Lioivg impellod by is friouds, pald n visit to Dr, Kompstor, Suporintendent'of the Stato Hospitsl for tho Inuane, for medical ox- amination, and tho result was the doctor declaros Mr. Cinig catmot bo held rosponeibla for any of his netions, that hoe is a true kloptomanine, and that tho condition of his mind is such ho is linbio ta do very strange thingn, . PLAGED UNDER MORE BAIL, Speciul Disaleh to The Chicupo Trivune, Mirwavikg, Wis,, Dee. 0.—Reuben DeBarro, yosiorduy Lold in SLUUD to angwer clirgos brongut by tho Post-Oflice authoritics of boing uccessory to fruuds on tho depnrtment by ro- ceiving stolen post-stamps, and disposing of thien, wns to-doy beld in the further sum of $600 on a chnrgo of couspiracy. in tho esme mattor. Tho ovidonco whowad that large and organizod Luefts of slamps have for a long timo been tak- ing placa in Missouri, and a portiou of the prop- erty was traced to Milwaukeo, DeDarro is tho #upposed consigneo. Two mon aro in prigon in Springliold, Tll,, aud ‘anothor tn Jofforson City. 1\}0. DeDarre will be tried with tho othors at tho Intter place noxt month, Discovories havo boen mada that indicato that most of the gang Lave been discovered. ANOTIIER ADDED 'TO TIIE ROLL, Special Dispatel to The Chicago Tribune, Graxp Ravios, Mich., Dec. ).—Auvothor caso of the Doooher-Tilton ordor has just como to light in this cit; Tho pastor of a Univarsalist church is oponly necuscd of {mpropor rolations with tho organist of tho church, o youug lady who bas heretofore borne an excolient Toputa- tion, A sorvant girl in tho family in which tho youug Indy boardod is the aceusor, Hovoral ron- sons, including the continued flluces of tho min- istor's wife, hinvo combinod to provont an oarlier dirclosure of tho faots. It is understood that tho gontloman is to take chargo of a colloge in Indinan, o loft this city ta-dny. TIP TOLEDO MURDER. Suecial Dispatch ta The Chicago Tridune, Tor.eno, 0., Dee, 9.—Tho Inquest uvon tho romuins of Barney Mahon was continued to-day, "Tho phyiiclans who wmado tho post-morten ox- amination utato that fivo of tho ribs wero brokeu, tho breagt-bone crushed in, and fatal ruptures caused fn the stomach and liver, T'ho body wus in 8o advanced a stago of decomposi- tion that 1t could not ho dotermined definitely whether tho wounds wera inflictad bofore or after death, but it seoms ultogether cortain that Lo was murdered after n violent struggle, aud then thrown iuto tho wat HELD FOR''RTA Snectal Dixpalch to The Chicado Tyflune, Maxerizp, 0., Dee, d.—John Wullaco, Albert Lewis, and John Ward, tho threo porsons ar- rosted for the murderaus assault on Con San- man, a firoman in tho Water-Works, on Sunduy ovuning Iust, biad their proliminary trinl to-duy, Wallaco was bound over as principal_and Ward ag necossory in the sum of £800. Lowws woe held as o witness, Tho Grand Jury i now in rogson, und will pass at onco upon tho case, and tho prisoncrs will doubtless bo put upon trisl t onco beforo tha Oriminal Court. Beaman's cats, four in munbor, ero govero, but ha will likely ro. cover. TIE WASHINGTON 5AFE-RURGLARY UASE, Wagiixaros, Doo, .—In tho District Oriminal Court ta-day, Mr. Itiddle prosented a loiter from the Altorney-Goneral, saying, in substanco, that tha Glovaramont did wot consldor 1t adviunblo, in Yiow of tho fact that tho Grand Jury which had Indictod larrivgton and others had beon de- clarad llognl, to procood with tho uow trinl at present, Tho Caurt directed & nollo prosoqui to 0 entered, and all tho defondants dischurgod, whioh was done, Mr, Tiddlo Iw convincod that tho Attornoy-Clenoral by fully dotermined not to hava anotlier erinl, and that mo furthor pro- coodings will bo taken agalust uny alloged cou- spirators, MILWAUKEE CHARITIES, Spectal isputel to The Clacago Tribune, Munwauzer, Wis, Doo, 9,—1ho Ladios’ Visit- Ing Committoos of Cliaritles Lo-duy appointed a Qaglio, from Now Yorl, huvo arrived out, Moviine, Dec. $—Tho stonmubip Beandlny- vian, from Baltimoro, hay arrived, commitlon La tako slops o securo & chartor for a reformatory industrinl sehool for ohildron, ''he oontrol of obildron 14 to bo vested In tho man. P Agord untll thoy mro fit to tako oaroof thom- golves, Thoy also appointod o committeo to soauro leglalatlon providiug for skillful moiton! caro for all (nsano persons,’nnd romoving the iusane from count, ]fimr-lmuunu and adopted & }mulun to tho Biato Bonrd of Gharlties asking urthor inveatigation into the allogod inhuman praotices at tho Milwaukeo County I'oor-Ilouso, FIRES. AT 8T, JOSKPIL, MO, Spectal Dispatch to 2'he Clicago Tribuns, 87, Joserm, Mo,, Deo. 0,—1ho slaughtor-honse of 8.8, Connott & Bro., pork-packora about D miles ftom thin olty, was burnod yostordny at noon. ‘o firo originated from tho kottlos, Tho build- fug and machinery, and about 200 slaughiored hoga woro entiroly cousumed, Tho total loss {s AOmo 28,000 ; ‘no Insuranco. Tho accidont will not {ntorfero with the operations of tho firm, nor glvo thom tho loast nnncial inconvonienco, AT MONTREAL, Mowtaesr, Can, Doo, 9.—Ono_of tho two buudmim cnm‘!rlnnd in Pillow & Horsoy's roll- ivg-mills, in thls cily, was burnod thia morning, I'lto Joas is sald to bo honvy nud govered by fu- BUrANCo, MoNTnEAz, Con.,Doo. 9.—Tholoss h{ tho burn- ing of tho rolling-mills of Plltowy & 1 nrsoy thig mornivg s $30,000 ; insurod for $41,000, AT LEXINGTON, KY, CINOINNATL, Deo, 9.~The ZEnquirer's Loxing- ton, Xy., epooinl anys J. B, Raddick’s Hlourin, will in Chat oity was bunod to-night. Losy ests mnted at 816,000 to 320,000 ; Insuranco, $5,000, 1t is supposed tho fire origiunted In the' ongine~ room. AT LILLE, FRANOK—LOSS, 850,000, Lamtg, Dea, 0.—Danol's printiug-hotse in Lille, tho largest ostablishmant of tho ki in Fraveo, hag boon burned, I'bo lous is 8300000, AT TALL RIVER, MASS,~LOSS, $30,000, BostoN, Doo. 0.—A portion of the Ameriean Print “’oflm, at Fall River, Mass,, was burnad lnst night. Tho loes 1s £80,000, AT DRIDGRPORT, CONN,—LOSS, 869,000, Brnaeront, Conn., Deo, §,.—Tho Prosbytorinn church and chapel burned this evening, Loss, £60,000 3 insuranco, £36,000. AT OTTAWA, OAN. OrTAwaA, Can., Dac. “Che Custom-Touso in this oity, togothor withall ita papors and doou- menty, was burned this moraing. THE INDIANS. A UTE RAID IN THE SNAKL RIVER VALLEY. Ourvense, Wyo,, Dec. 9.—Iuformation was reeoived hero to-dny of o raid of Uto Iudiang into tho Snake River sottloments, Onrbon Coun- ty, Wyoming, Tho Indians oro known s Jack's band, from tho Whito ttivor Agoncy, Colorado, Lut hava loft thoir resorvation to o on the war- poth. Tho citizoos of Snake River Vailoy nro arming, and proposo to give the savages a warm rocoption. WARLIKL SIOUX ABROAD. Stovx Crry, In, Deo. 9.—A Jowrnal specinl from T'ort Bully to-night pays tho hostilo Sious, about 1,000 in number, who oncampoed ot Littlo Bond, on tho Missouri, near tho Chuyonno Agoncy, o fow days ago, and who havo not beon tothe Agencies for sovernl yoars, havo colo- brated their appearance by driving the wood- choppers from tho woods, threatoning to kill nud tnke tho Bealp of any white man found outting wood In that country. 'I'ho clioppers wore cutting wood to fill Governmout contracts for difforont agoncios and posts on tho TUppor Stissowri. These hostiles elnim to Lo the pro- priotors of that country, i to bo in eufliciont number to outorco thetr de:gands, i LUMBER REPORT. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, EAsT SAc1vaw, Mich,, Doc. 9.—From tho ane nunl roport of the Inspootor-Gonoral of Lumbor of tho Baginaw District, it appoars that tho fol- owing amounts of lumboer passed through his offico and wan iuspooted under the law: This s five million more then last your, but Iess thon hintf tho minount shipped by water du- ring tho yoar, showing that tho law bas beon avoided by a large number of manufecturers, —— I0WA PUBLIC LANDS, Y. Apeeial Disnatah to I'ha Chicago Tridune, Des Mormes, In., Doe. 0.—Stato onlcors havo received n certiflod lisk of 263,000 acres of Iands under tho uct of 1808 for tho Burfington & Missouri Railroad. A drafe was reccived yestorday by the Stato Treasurer for £9,274 in favor of Mononn County in tho Swamp.Land Indomnity Fund, It was " searcely rocelvod whon it was covered by an in- Jnnetion from thoe Amorican Emigrant (g:)mpnny, who claim titlo to all swamp land in Mononn County. —_— THE GRANGERS. Crxersaty, 0., Dec. 9.—A council of tho Qrangors of Southwostern Ohio, Southeastorn Indiana, and Northern Ientucky, was hold at Greenwood ITall in tius city to-day. About gixty dolegntos wore prescut. A rosolution was adopted that purchasiug agent bo choson, to bo located in Clueinuati, for the purpose of pur- chosig aud solling for membera of tho Order, The Council also decided that as tho prico of pork was 6o near their viows thoy saw littio no- cesaity for packing it. Commictees worg ap- poiuted to look aftor tho coal, tabacoo, and frnit intoronts, and tho Council adjourned to moot in Coviugton in March noxt. . - TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES, An ogod Indy, Mra, Fay, of Iown City, foll dend yestorday whilo walking tho atreat. ‘Tho Chieago & Alton section-hands woro re- duced in pay to 1,121 por dsy Monday. A DBohemian roligious paper will soon bo startod in Lowa City by Dr. L'airall, A largo oat-maal factory wilt go into operation in Towa City In a fow days, McLoau County, LI, owos, a8 por ofiicinl fig- ures, $177,500, Tho Town Boutlwostorn Rnilroad will soon ronch Town City, A largo forco is pushing it to complotion botwoon Clinton and Tows City, Tho Scerotary of tho Towa Htate Grango ro- ports the nunibor of subordinate Granges in the Stato at 2,000, au wmoronse lnst yoar of 162, Tho pork-packera of Hloomington, IiL, aro busily at work, William VauSchock & Co, have vacked 4,000 this season, The numbor of hoga killed to date at Des Moines is 47,000 ; averego weight, 230 lbs, 40 1bs Jesu than last yenr. In tho Ohio ITouse of Roprascntatives yestor- day, a bill was introduced to provide for com- pulsory oducation, John Q, Harman, of Gairo, Ik, has Loen ap- Yointml DBankrupe Rogister in_ placo of Capt. sana Clomonts, n momber of tho prosont Con- gross, Mr. Harmen 18 woll known a3 a loading sud prominent Domoeratis lawyer in Bgypt, "L'ho Directors of tho Dloomington & Woestorn Railway woro in sosgion at Indianapolis yostor- day, dluuuuhlnfil tho dinunclal standing “of the Company and tho question of tho Recotversblp, ‘T'lto Hosion was Bocrot, Tho Baltimoro & Ohlo Company, It is under- stood, aroseoking to lenso the whola line from Chicago to 8t, Josoph, Mo., and will nlmrulo it 08 fast n4 comploted in conucction with thoiy Chieago lino, ‘Tho Indiana State Hortiouttural Boolety is in nession nt Plaiutield, Uendrickn County. Tho Hon. J, G, Itattlr, of Riclumond, is Yrosidont, aud dolivered un annal nddrous, Toviowing tho progress of fraib enlture 1 tho Htuto during tho past yoar, About 100 membaors sro in attondnuce, ‘ho roport to the Stato Doard of Chinritlos, of tho Sherlit of Racino County, is,, for tho yoar onding Nov. 1, shows 281 prikouers conflnod 1 all, "of whom ouly 8 wore femalos, Ouno bundred and sixty-four wera foralgn-born mmales, and 46 native-born mules of foroign pavontago, ‘tho ¢ fomules woro all native-bory, Lighe malos woro ovor 60 z’unrn of axo, 86 botweon 50 and 60, 99 botwoon 40 and 50, 70 bobwoen 40 and 40, 113botweon 20 and 80, and 10 undoer 20; 2 fomnlos wore boetwoon 40 and 50, 8 Latwoon 80 and 40, and { bobwoon 20 and 40, * Niuatyfonr wora in for drunkoness, 74 for vagrancy, and 88 for disordorly vonduct. — OBITUARY, Iriraoa, N, Y., Deo. D.—Ezra Cornoll diod thiy afleruoon, RAILROADS AND WAREHOUSES Report of the Illinois Btate Board of Oommissioners, Number and Condition of tho Suits Brought Under the New Law, A Large Decrease in the Number of Complaints Against Railronds, Many Improvements Noted in tho Inspection of Grain, Goneral Conclusions as to the Working of the Law, SeniNorrenp, Ill., Dec, 9,—Tho following is on abstract of tho annual roport of tho Blato Raflrond and Warehouso Commisstonora : In submitting tholr roport tho Commissionora stato that thoir oxporionco of the practical work- ing of tho prosont systom of Stato inspoation In this Stato loads thom to constdor it tho bost nt Ppresont practicod. Binco the dato of tho last roport the rates had boen gradunlly reduced, Tho performance of thair dutlen by Inspoctor Harper and Rtogister Tyndula Lad been omi- ucntly satisfactory, 'Tho roport roviewed tho couditlon of tuo various ‘rosccutions ngainst warchousomen in Chicngo, showing tho ns- surance of tho State's Attornoy that tho cases would bo tried on the 14th of the prosent month, and that ko would prosocuto tho casos ns rapialy ug possible Inn REVIEW OF TIE BUITS YOR EXTORTION Instituted aganst railroad corporations the Com- migsfonera sob forth fu compaot form tho various logal quentions which havo arlson, aud which havoalrendy boen mado publie, and, sporking of thonecessary longth of timo which must elapso in tho decinion of &0 wolghty questious, asl the fonerous publio to boar in mind that thoy cau- uot move fastor in auy way, looking to thoir ro- Tiof to tho courta to whom in rightfully confided tho final adjustment of their differonces, Tho Commiggionors then show the presout condi- tion of tho casos in poiut to bo as fol- lows: In tho caso of Tho Paoplo ote, ve.” Tho OChicago & Northwestorn Railrond Company after soveral dolays the caso was continued by sgreement with a view of awaiting o docision of the Supramo Court of tho United States, in which woro invelved questions beariug on thoe case. Iu the caso of The Poople against The Illinols Central Railroad Company & preeipe was filed, and boforo any othor ateps woro taken tho suit ‘wae digmissed, the Commissioners preforring to instltuto suits agaiust this Compauy nfter the clauso Ju the law making tho echodules prepaved by them prima facie ovidenco, ote., had taken effeet, TIE FOLLOWING BUITS woro brotglit by tho Comumissionera aftor tho tehedules propared by thom had their full foreo in law, and their condition is ns stated : Suit ogaiust tho Chicago, Durlinglon & Quiney Road was commenced in Mare} , 1874, in the Bureau County Circuit Court, and Judg- ment was obtained for tho peopla’ for $1,000. ‘his cnso was appealed to tho Supremo Court atOctuwa, A second suit sgainst tho samo Com. pany was inatituted in tho MeDonough County Cireuit Court, whoro n similar verdict wap obw teined and appenled from Lo tho Supremo Court, whoro it Is pending for Loaring at tho January torm, 1875, On tho Gth of February, 1874, suit was insti- tuted in tho Sangamon ~County Circuit Court against the Chicago & Alton Railrond Conpany, and a judgmont obtained agninat dofendants for $3,000 and costs, from which_they appealed to tho Supromo Cotrt., At the Juno torm of tho Unitod States Circuit Court vory full arguments woro submitted by the counsel for the rospective partios to tho full bouch, consisting of Judges David Davis, of the Supromo Court of tho United States, and Judges Drammond and T'reate, upon_tho procoedings ingtiuated in tho Sangamon Girenit Court by a A}' coriornr] commuading tho trausfor of-tho rom thu State to the Foderal Court, which & tho Stato Court had dectinod to obey. Tho decision of the United States Court quashod the writ, and dismissed the procoedings, from which deleadants took an appeal to tho United Statos Supromo Court, whera tho question i uow pend- ing for hearimyg 't thonoxt torm, 'Fhus comes tho tnomoly of tho sumo case pending in tho W0 courts ot thoe samo timo. SEVERAL OTIIER CASES are degeribed, und in roviowing them gonoral- ly thu Commlssioners state that all the suits are based upon that cheracter of complnints or griovances that thoy supposed to bo at tho time Loast cnleulnted to test tho questions ombraced in tho act of May 2, 1873, fusistod on by tho corpor- ations as beiug untenable. 1u ccordnnco with tho soventh seotion of the act of May 2, 1873, which makos it tho duty of tho Commissionors “to porsonally investigato and ascertain whothor the provisions of this act aro violated by anv railroad corporation in thig Stato, and to vismt tho varlous stations on tho o of aach railrond for that purposc ay ofton ny Dpracticable,” tho Comuwissioners visited tho milroads not only at tho pointa at winch suits had boon ‘instituted, but aiso many other points on” tho soveral linos of roads and thoir branches aguinst which suits havo boon commencead. Tho result of theso fuvestigations Lag boen tho discovory of n gratifying DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF COMPLAINTA of incivility to which shlplperx and tho Lraveling publio hayo boon subjected by tho omployos of the ronds of tho Btate., Thore wern oxtenuating clreuwstancos for tho oceurronco of incivilities, promiucnt antong which was tho distant removal of superintonding hewds from thoiruubordiuatos, but etill it scomed poseiblo that o still groater improvemont migLit b obteined, and somo menmy dovised by the manngers of rouds to seenra tray- olora aud shippory from theso AUUOYAUCOY, - TUAGK-SCALES, Enrly in tho yene the Commissionars fssuod o olreglar to all the railrond compnnies in the Stato, calling thoir atioutlon ta thy law roqulring “Urack-scales” nt al poiuty whero 60,000 busholy of bulk gruin wers shipped during the proviouy twolvo mouths, Thoy recolved prompt respous- 08, convoying expressions of roadiness to conl- ply with tbo Inw ‘whero tho shippors requested siich complinnce; but, accompunying them, wero liste of signauros of shinpors, Who statod thoy lind no neod of trnok-seulos, 'aud ospooially It tholr use would entail ||Puu them oxtrn oxpenso, In viow of this fact, the prosocutions in theso cakes havo beon limited to points whero com- plaints woro mado. JOINT CONFERENGE, Tho Commirslonors referred Lo conforen: hold by them wilh tho Railrond Commissionors of tho Btatos of Minnosols aud Wiscousin, one held at Dubuque, In., on Aug, 12, 1874, tho othior in Boptombor luut at Madison, Wis, 'Tho regnlta of thoeo conforances wus tho appointing of sov- oral specinl committoes, who will roport on varlous subjects at tho third conforence, to bo lhchl In Springfield, commencing on tho 29th ust, In tronting of RAILROAD LEGISLATION, Tho Comunssionors show the kouvce of tho preseut trouble in Minols, which Stato # {5 Pos- #osed of n soil and olinmto unsurpassed in oxeel- lonce by any torritory of Hko oxtent in the kuown world, “Illinols av ouco recoguized hor Imporn. tive need, that chaunels of communiestion with martu of tho world shonld bo opened {n order 1o the dovalopment of hor wondorful enpacity to proiduue articles of primo nocessity to man, - Ac- cordingly, ber Logislaturoand hior people offorad avory inducement to the building of ruilronds, Glnrtors woro grantod to partics sooking tham almout upon such torms ns thoy choto to write, Lardly auy power of control, save that dorived from the common Iy, was rosorved to the pog- plo. 'I'homost implicit velinnee was placed jn natural laws, or incompotition, to ko regulate turiffy of ratos for trausportation of froights und pasaongers a6 to muko thom just aud only fuirly romunorativo to the owuers of tho roads, Exporlonco has fully domonstratod tho vanity of Lhid ralinneo,” THE LAW or 1878, A full statomoul of tho opoerationa of the Board undor the formor law (1871) s contnlned In tho yeport mado to tho Governor for 1873, A test caso having made under tho law, it waa dectnred unconstltutionsl by the Suprome Court or the State. ‘L'io pructical offeot of that do- oiufon is found in the law of 1873, now in_forco, Lho lnew In furthor dwelt upon, and it is clahmod that, by it, ovory spoolos of oxtortion or favorit- inm s prohibited, 'hio ltourd ju ohargod with tho duty of propar ivg schodulo of y REASONANLE MAXIMUM RATES OF OITARGEA for tho transportution of froight and pusson. fum for onch raflrond corporation doing businons i this Btato, aud any nuch schodulo, whon ait- thontiented ‘aa roquilred by Inw, {a hold prima faclo ovidonce, to bo rocolvad’ in all courts, thnb tho satos namod thoroln ara just and ronsonnblo, Iolativesfito unjust diserim- inatlon, it will bo obsorvod, Bays tho roport, thak i any fogal procaodings ngaiust any railrond corporation, for n violation of this not, upon proof of. tho comnission by tho dofondnnt of an not declarod hi' tho law to bo primn facie and unjust disorimination, or upon proof that the dofendant had charged o highor tato than that named in the achodulo propared by tho Commis- misaion, tho burdon of proof i sliifiod from tha PIaintiff to tho dofondant, and that thoncofortt tho onus of proving that tha net cnm&lnlnod of, €1t o’ unjuit dlscrimination, s dons e such cireumatances a8 to duprivo It of its prima. faclo foatures of Injustica; ov, If tho suit bo for oxtortion, that tho rato eharged wae roasonablo, ''ho nocoasity for thig chango in tho rulos of ovidenco is sliown and defouded by tho report, which says ¢ It wi‘l bo observed that this Inw in 1o re- spoct abridgos any rtvhl vestod by chartor in tho corporations. In other words, conceding that their chiartors ara in tha naturo of contracts with tho Btato, tho obligation of tho contracts i nat impaired. ‘Plioro can bo no protonso that tholr cliartors ovor antharizod unjust discrimination or extortion, and the law probibits nothing olso, {Cho samo diserimination that might ho praoticed boforo the law way enactod mny bo practicad now, but, if tho not is questioned, the corporn- tion must shiow that it way not ml{uut. Thoy havo tho enmo right to mako schedules of ratos for transporting froights and Eg»uongom 04 ho- foro, but if thoy mnko thom highor than the rates named in the schodnles nropared by tho Commlssioners wnder the luw, thoy must ho rondy to show afll rmutivcllly thnt they nve reason- able. I'he remedy provided by tho law for tho peoplo for a viotation of what was and still is n duty undor thoir chartors, {e ouly changed, and nol the contract itsalf." TI'ho roport of the TAILIOAD COMAMISSIONENS OF MASSAGNUSETTS 18 quoted from to prava that Franco fs oporating hor railronds succesntully undern lnw almost idon- tieal with that now in forco in Llinois, 'Lho re- nort goos on to sny: **Agnin tho Massachusotts Commissionnes say: “I'ho railronds (in ¥'rance) are accustomed to suporvision, and tho community looks to tho Govoramont for it.' Tho nuswor Lo this iy, the railronds hero are hogluning to be, and in the ond will_bocomo fully neewstomod to suporvig. ion, and tho community is oven mnow do- manding it in tho most imperativo mannor. Bulll furthor: “The French railrond poliey is aldo thoroughly logieal,—it is built from {ho bano up. Tt does not, liko that of Ltinois, bogin with o sublimo reliance on tho oflicacy of natural lawn and end in o jury-box,—trying, throngh tho vordiot of twelvo interested mon, to forco tho re- sults of political cconomny futo conformity with the ctornal fituoss of things.' T'his tis not n far statoment of tho presont system of llinoly, 1t is o blending of n system now entirely abandou- ed (ns iy statod clsowhore in tho report from which wo quoto) with that now in fores, Illinois did rely wholly on untural lnwe, that of compe- tition, to securo tho desirod rosults, but, s wo havo ' scon, that uttorly failed, nnd i mo arb of tho prosent systom, which riugs corporations before & * jury-box.” Wo " confess wo a0 noy miro what is moant by forcing tho rcsults of political cconomy Into a conformity with tho oternal fit- ness of things’ ‘through tho vordicl of twoive interestod mon’; butir it simply means that o jury, intorestod oniy nw all ;ioml citizons should bo in tho enforcomont of ull wiko and salutary Imwy, ghall docido whother or not n railroad cor~ poration charged with unjust diserimination or with oxtortion is guilty, wo ndmit n projudice in {favor of a trial by jury, even though iho “ con- formity’ may not ‘bo attained. *'We haliovo iu tho wisdom and officacy of our Inw. Wo belicve that, howeyor much Lho attain- ment of the resnlts contemplatod muy bo delnyed m obtaining o final adjudiention ag to the valld- ity of tho law, yot in tho end thoy will bo.seenr- ad, and that the law will becomo an enduring monumet of tho wisdom and sagacity of it framors. Thoy consider that tho fourth method sug- gestod—ronds ownod nud operatad by the Stato, With which all othors mmuat compoto—is not practionblo for sovoral good ranons, and they do not boliove that any such oxporimont will bo tried at prosont. TUE PREPATATION OF SCHEDULES of rates of chargos for trausportation of pasgon gors nud froight is donlt with rathor volumi- nously. This siguificant passago oceirs in that retation : “ Forbunately wo havo, in_tho yoports tho Di- rectors of many of our oldor roads hove made from timo to time, for tho uso of iheir stock- holders and _tho Pllblle, and in tho records kopt by our Boards of 'I'rado and our business-mon in all party of tho Stato, of tho rates paid for trana- portation, data upon which roasonablo rates might ovon now ho nscertained with o good do- £reo of corrovtness, A sot of statistics, caroful Iy collected from yoor to year, with diract refer- once to thoir hearing on this #ubjeot, wlll furnish tho wmeans of constructing schedules of rates with o gtill groater dogroo of neeuracy,” TIE EFFECT OF THE LAV, tho roport asgorts, tins been to roduce matorially tho rates of inspection and to corrcct many irrogulnritics connocted with tho inspection of grain, and it will bo etill moro potont for 0od should tho Suprome Court of the United Stules suatain tho decision rocontly mado by that of Illinois, declaring the law unconstitutional, and requiring tho ~ warchonseman to tako ont liconses and filo bonds conditioned for tho falth- ful performanco of thoir dutics. BENEFITS OF THE LAW, In conclusion, the Commissioners obsorva: “ Tho bonofits resnlting to tho public thus far from tho passagn of tho uct of May 2, 1873, are particularly noficonblo in that tho railroad éom- panies very scldom now, ns horotofore thoy wore in tho constant habit of doing, unjustly dis- criminate in favor of ono polnt on the line of their road to the dotriment of anotlier ; nor do thoy practico to the snmo extent as formerly thiat objectionable rort of favoritism to individu- al shippers that has beou in the past the causo of somuch complaint, aud wero doubtloss among the prineipal, if not indead the primo, oauses of tho cuactinout. Whilo this law las not as yot accomylishiod a full roformation as to the oxtor- tion, wo thinle it mny safoly bo olzimod that it hus in o gront messuro put an oud to - Just discrimination, 6 is gratifying to obuervo, aluo, that wsovorsl of thio roads havo rogulatod tholr chavzes to correspond, if not oxuctly, very noarly, with that of tho rates flxed in tho schodulos of the Commissionors ; nud that tho nggrogato clrgos of all the roads in tho Blato, talon npon the suma amonnt of bugi- ness dona, ix loss than boforo tho pssago of tho law montionod. Tn tho suits nlready named, institutod ohiofly for tha purposo of testing tho quostions in dispute, it will bs ob- sorved that, in every instance whoro tho courts have passed upon the question, tho law has beon sustained. : ** Wo avail ouraolves of tho opportunity to ro- now to Your Ixcoelloncy tho aesurances of tha high consideration with which wo havo tho Lonor ta romwa your obadiont sorvants, # Jonn M. PEAnsoy, *Davip A, Drowx, o Javes 1 ELT, “ Commnitssioners,” —_— THE WEATHE! ‘Wasmxaroy, D, 0., Deo. 9.—For tho Lako Togion, gencrally clondy snd coldor woather, southwost to northwost winds, rising baromoter cast of Michigan, aud Jight snow nonr Linkes Outarlo nud Huron, For tho Northwost, incrong- ing clondinoss und nrens anow north of Missour, with northorly winds, shifting to eustorly and southerly, slowly risiug tomperature, aud ligh, but fulling, baromotor : NISCELTANEOUS, Broux Ciry, Dou, ).—Iloavy snow-storm pro- vailine at Yankton Ageucy, and us far wosb ay Fort Bully, ——— HIS SEVENTEENTH TERM, Bavrnront, Doo. 0.—At the rogular monthly mooting of tho Board of Diroctors of tho Bultl- moro & Obio Nuilroad to-day, John W, Garrett was unaulmously ro-olocted Presidont, it boing tls soventoenth torm. ‘Uho gonernl adminisivas tivo dutles of thn road will be Yurmrnwd by the Vico-Prosident, sud Gurrott will only nid in ye- gord to tha policy of the Company pnd the mane ngomont of its naucos, —_— REINSTATED, New Youx, Doo. 0.—Mayor Vanca hns roap- pointed, ns Commiusionors of Acconnts, Mosmrs, Hown and Boland, who were summarily romoved by Muyor Havomaeyor boforo lis doath, P oy An announcomont uprnnm In tho Bneramonto Union Lhut, on account of 1, \y, Larkin, one of the propriotors, wishing to rotira in cangoqaence of continmed iil-lionlth, the proprictors havo, by mutual vonsent, vonsluded to offor tho proporty for snlo, Undor sich ngroemont tio ropristory WL yeeoivo proposuts for the property until tho 41t of Decombor, 1f not uull} ul Drivate walo, the wholo proporty will bo ofored ni publio wuction ou Monduy, Dov, 29, in front of tho Union oflics at Hacrumeuto, FOREIGN. Opening of the Trial of Count Von Arnim at Berlin, Points in the Indiotment Given in Detail, e Soveral Favorablo Replies Sont 1o Russia’s Poaco Invitation, The Represenfation of Lafayetie's Watch by Minister Wash. burn. CERMANY, THE VON AUNIS TRIAL, Bentis, Doo,,9.—Tho trinl of Count Ven Arnim bogan to-dny. Tho court-room was deusoly crowded. Tifty roportors, of various natlonali- tics, woro prosent, Judgo Itoich nonounced that the Court had dosignod that tho procoodings should bo public, oxeopt tho reading of tho documenty ralutivo to the occlesinntionl polley of tho Govarnmont, which Inoludos papors of thie first class montioned in tho tndiotmont. ‘I'ho prosccution read THE INDICTMENT, Tt nceueos the Count of deroliction in his ofl- clal duty, and says that whon Pritco Iokonlolio succeodod to the Embnusy at Taris ho found, after strict sonteh, that a largo number of doon.. monls wera missing from tho archives, Theno documonts tho indfotment divides into throo entogorion : Firat, thoso Count Von Arnim con- fewsos having abstracted, nnud afterwards ro- storod ; aecoud, thoso which tho Count acknowl- odged having takon, but which, rogarding s his private property, ho rofuses lo rostoro; third, thoso which ho profossod to bavo no knowledgo of. Tho indictment proceeds to provo tho ofticial charactor of all the dvonments, b statos that thoy woro partly communications from tho Gorman Fflml?" Oflico to its roprosont- utives abroad, and partly roports of roprosenta- tivos to_ tho Toreign Oifico. Tach docamont, tho originnl draft of which fs in posscssion of tho Forelyn ORico, is nunbored and ontered tho ofiicial rogistor, If somo of the documents contain additions of a rummml, socinl, or conll- dontinl naturo, their ofticinl character la in no wino thoroby altorod. ‘Lho nutograph lettors of Princa Bismarek aro not in quostion. Count Von Arnim kopt throo journnls of- correspondonca sent and recelved fn accordanco with tho rogula- tions of tho sorvico, but during tho Inst momth of his #iny in" Parks ho secrotly lkopt a journnl” with o fow ontrics, Tho In- dictmons asscrts that tho documonts which wera not outred nevor roached, tho archives, and that tho grenlnern of tho missing docu- ments wero not entored. Thon fol ENUMERATION OF DOCU: of tho first cluss and copics of corraspondonco of tho Foroign Oftleo with Count Von Arnim, whicl xresulted in thoir resloration, Tho indictnent rofutes the {den that tho Count took tiicso doonments maroly for tho pur- Poxo of restoriug them to tho Foroign Ofiice. Tho indictmgut nlso onumerates documonts of tho_socond clnss, . among whioh {8 o dispateh dated Nov. 8, 1872, nsking tho .Count to explain o couversation, in which, ncsording fo tho l“l"m !uQ;)rb of Gon. MantoufTol, ko, tho Count, nformed AL Saint Vallior, ac Nanoy, that ho ro- gorded M. Thiers' Govornmont ns untenable, becauso Gambetta, then with the Communo, thon tho military rogimo, would follow it T'ranco did not shortly adopt & monarchical form of government, ANOTHER DISPATCIT, dntad Jan, 3, 1874, admonishes Arnim for neg- locting to soud to his Govornwent n roport on tho pastoral lotters of tho Fronch Bishops dircot- ed against Gormany. A dispatch, dated Dec. 80, 1872, follows, in whieh Bismarek points out that tho roport of Aruim upon tho political situation in Franco ia partly buged on erroncous promisos. This dis. pateh thoroughly discussos tho question as ta what form of Government for Frauce would bo most profitable for Gormauy. OTIIER COVIES OF DISPATCIES follow in tho cuumeration of the indictmont, all relating to variousoflicial reports from Count Vou Arnim, and ovo dated March 4, 1874, iu in rofore ouce to a diroct application made by the ac- cuged to the Emporor. It complains that tho Count forwnrded to tho Emporor an incorrect copy of o dispatch addressed to him (Arnim) dated Jun, 1, 1874, and domanding that tho Count show moro pliability and o greater rogurd to tho inatructions of Bismarck and adopt a loss lngipuuuunt initiative, ho DOCTUENTS OF THE TIIRD CLASS sppendad to the indictmont comprise & memo- randum of convorsation with Gen. Flour Y, dispateh rospacting tho position of Count Ol'{ufl', the Russian Ambassndor at Paris, towards Ger. many, and a momorandum of n conversation bo- tween Orloff and ‘hiors, Tho indictmont . proceods to oanalyzo Arnim's motives, It says on his arrcat Lo nl- leged that tho documonts of ‘tho first and mecond ealss woro abroad, and offered to produco thom if ho was liberated, In conse- quence of tho diplomatic relntious of the Vienna press, Arnim way summoned by Imperial com- mund to muke n declaration whotlior bo was in eny way conneoted with the publication of thoso rovolations; alo whothor lo wroto and cuused to bo publishod the lotter to Dr, Doolli gor which appearod ini the Augsburg Gazelle, Arniw's roply of Mny 7, 1874, moroly ndmittod that ho wrote tho letter. In answorto furthor inquiry ho doclarod tlmt ho wns not from suy point of vlow rospousiblo for tho didclosures of the Gazelt, nnd wns nob wwaro who wore thoir authors, I'ho prosecution opposo Lo theso statemonts the lottor of ansor, tho drafts of publishod papors found ninong tho documontn soizad in tho Connt’s residenco ; alao the original draft of an artiola upan the oyacuntion of France, in tho Cologno Gazetle of Marel 26, 1872, alluding to mattera of which Arnim atone was oflicially cognizant. Theas documents woro ospoclally usoful to the nccusod, not for his dofense, but for atzacks npon the policy of tho Governmont. TUE INDICTIENT CONCLUDES by chinrgimg Arnim with purposcly malking away with documonts oflicially Intrusted to him, and with ilfogally npproprintitig the samo, offanscs doflued by Articlos 313, 830, and 78 of tho ponal code, WITNESOLS FOR THE PROSEOUTION, The prosceution aunounced that they wonld call ng witnesses Gon. Munteufol, revoral diply- watn, oflicinls” of tho Dorlin *Forelgn OMco, and mombors of the Germun Logntion b arig. No modifleation . of iho indiet~ mons _in fuvor of the acensad was offacted by the smrendor of tho docunouts, which Horr Munkel handed to tho Court pro- vious to tho wocond arrost of tho uccusod, When tho roudling ol the indictmont was con- cluded, Lhe dofonso offored n PROTEST AGAINST. THI JURISDICIION OF THE counr, which was ovorrnled. Thoe public proweoutor stated that tho in- diotment preparcd by tho Foreign _ Onico doclurod ' that tho acensod , had hig domiclio in Dorlin, and, considering tho necossity of secrocy and the imporiance of oblaiu- ing dosumonts tho publication of hich might ducido quostions of peuca or war, o long llmcor.u to prave domicilo wan wnndvisable, Tho veatuiont of tho acoused had buen excoptionully wilil, Tho prisonor wase thon oxamined, Ho declnred hio was not guilty, and adhered to his Drovious statoments, Counsol for dofonre nrgued that the disciplin- ary powor of the Forelgn Oflice over tho nceused I:ml tupsod becauso ho was placod on tha rotived Bt Tho Court ordored the rogulations of tho Diplomatis servico to bo read. Tho witnosscs wora thon oxamined, who testl- flad that it was an Ambassndor's duty to hand over (ko arehives of tho Logation (0 bis sug- cousor, 0 FRANCE, _ TIHE TAVAYETIH WATOH PIESENTATION, Panis, Deo, 0,—In conformity with the reso- Intion adopted by the Amorjoan Congross on tho 224 of Juno Inst, Mr. Washburno, Unltod Stales Ministor, to-dny handed to M, Oscar do Tnfay- otto, Doputy in tho Natiomnl Assembly: from Kolno ot Marne, aud grandson of the Marquis do Lafayotto, tho watoh Washington prosonted to tho latter as & souveniv of tho capltulation of Lord Cornwallis, 'l'lo wateh was 6tolen from tho Marquis de Lufayotto whilo ho was travellng in tho Unitod Healon in (ho yonr 1825, but was rosoverad in Iator yemws, The presontation coromonios took place ut the hotol of the Amoti- can limbasny fu tho presonco of the autlre Iin- fuyotto sud othor familiey, attachoy of the United Staton Logation, and many dlalln;flnbn Amorleann, Mr. Washburno, in addrossing A, do Lafayalto, uarated tho choumstancos of the thaft of (ho wateh, and pnssngo by Congross of o rosolution for its restoration to tho descondanls of thoe Marquis do Lnruyoua, and smd: “Iom fuliiling n ploneant duty, Tho inscription on the watch mind recalls “to dood, which nover Lo cun o groot offaced from the history of tho Unitod Statos,—tho doed which torminatad tho Amerloan Iiovolue tion and nssured tho indepondonca of the United Btutes, I am lioro ag tho intorpretor of tho son~ timents of tho Qovernmont and people of the United Statos towards you und othor doscondanta of tho Marqus do Lafayotto. Lot us join in enruost wishos for tho bappiness and pmsperllK of nli benrln;rg your vouorated namo, and wit| thosa wishon fot us nesoolato Franco, who wad nl= liod with the Unitod Btatos, who fs our tradis tional friond, and whono glory I so dear to us,” M. do Lnna'aun, ih roply to Mr, Wnshburno, acknawlodgod his“thanks for tho rollo prosonted to bim by tho United States Congress. = Ho also thanked” Mr. Washburno for the kind words ho hind uttorad, and addod that tho Lafayatto family wore flllod with profound gratitudo for tho sympnthotio yemembrnees which havo basn preserved for tholr ally by Amoricany after g0 many years. 116 roquostad Mr. Washburno to ¢xpross to tho Amorican poople, and to tholr longross and CQovernment, the thanks of tho Titayotio family, and tholr homago aud admirae ton for their second country. IN THE ASSEAMILY, Panrg, Doo, 9.—)L. Christophio to-dny with~ drow his candidaturo for tho Dresidency of tha .'M Contro of tho Assombly, and M, Corno was chosen for that.position by & 'vota of 63 againab 10, By this notiou tho unity of tho Loft Coutrs ] ;!n;tnxed. i 0 Assombhly to-day passed o resolution fore m]nlly nngonting 1oy }‘,“m Rtanc and Malyello Bloneourt, who hinvo boon condomnod to death in contumucinm, g Xy 3 11 con) h for pavticipation in the Com. n LoNDoN, Dec. 10—5 n, mo: lins a spoclal dispateh rrn|nnillunfi%:;o.1:;ll¥l!€hlgg?‘l tho object of Goi, Lomn) 3 tie {um ] W atiaclk on the Oar. was to forco ‘Tolosa A8 o rosult of 1?!‘: 1‘1'»'2{ l‘t: tompt, ho wae driven from Umiotta ta Lronut uftor throo honrs' 4 hitin, troopu i n thoroughly disorgeasel it M4 rouswod tho attack on Tueaday — with his “wholo forca of 8000 mon and four guns, Tho Carlists meanwhila Ind boon reinforcad, ond, aftor an ongagomont Instivg oll day, Loma was compelled to rotreat, Tho Calists ndit o losa of 200, Tt ig Letiouad ll.\ill\!mlbllfinu Igus \v\n{m;xch&(mnlur. ONLON, Doe. 8.—A Carlias dispately slial Serrutio bad mirived ot Logrons. . *¥8 Mlare ‘Tho Carlists dony tho defection ©Of tho Bishog flrl?ffllo" 4 ologram to the Standard roports that Gen, Lomn, with 4,000 men, attacked pfl.m Carlists 3:- dor Magronojo and Igann, noar Andoain. g s ropulsed with hoavy logs, and driven b Bau Sobastiun, 2w Sl = GREAT BRITAIN, DESTRUGTIVE STORS, Loxnox, Deo. 9.—A heavy galo provails on the coast, and alrondy much damngo i reported to property aflont and asboro. Nino vossels are ashoro at Hartloport, and soveral ot Soahm. A Inrgo vosuol, from Quoboa for Shiolds, hny been totally wracked, aud fifioon of hior erew worg drowiiod, WILL DE REPRESENTED AT TNE OENTENNIAL, New Yonw, Deo, 9.—Col, Tornoy announces that ho lins offfelal informntion to t[vm coffoct that the Dritlsh Government assonts to recognizo tho Gentonnial colebration at Philadelphin, end bng rosolvad to appoint Commissioners to the exhix bition there. Loxnox, Doe. 9.—Disracli ia at tho Villa, 0 of Bournomouth to-day. He rofused t0.800 o dopu« tatton which requested an eudionco, nnd remurie od that his nbsonco from London would probs ably bo protracted. —_—— ITALY, THE POPE'S POBITION, Pants, Doc. 9.—An anonymous letter, which, it ia undorstood, omanates from tho Promior of Italy, Signor Monghotti, rof uting Bishop Dupane loup's chinrges agniust tho Italian Government, is publishod in Paris and Florenco. It donlon that tho Pojio is a prisoner, and decluros that tha Govornmans of Victor Enianuol will falthfully maintain tho Papal guarautees. —_— TURKEY, THE SUFTERING IN ANGORA. CossTANTNorLY, Doe. 9.—Tho Sultan hag given 100,000 for tho rliof of tho faming. strickon inhavitants of Angorn. Tho prospecta thoro, howevor, aro improving; tho prices gt Dprovislous hava boen reduced, and agriculture’iy reviving, —_—— RUSSIA, THE INTERNATIONAL LAW CONFERENGE. Sr. Prrenspung, Dee, 9.—Several Govorne monts, including that of Frauee, hay sont favore ablo raplics, with cortain rosorvations, to the ine vitation of tho Czav to tako part in the Interna~ tiouu] Law Conforenco to bo Leld liore. SPORTING NEWS. BASE BALL. THE KEOKUL NINE. Spectal Dizpatch lo The Chicado Tridune. Keoxur, In., Dee. 9.~I'ho Woatorn Iaso Balt Club has duly apptied for ndmission into the National Assaciation, and forwarded ita ontry feo for tho championship of 1875, Tho officors ara as follows: Prosidont, Joln N, Irwin ; Vicoe Presidont, Frank Maddon ; ‘Croasurer, John W. Ilobbs; Secrotary, John W, Ranson ; Directors, Trank Maddon, C, L. Williams, and W, Trimblo, Contracts "havo been signod with oloven playors, who will bo' disposed in th fleld ns follows: Cntaber, W. Barnig lato of tho Hartfords; pitoher, M. Golden ; firt) base, Joe Simmons; sccond base, J. W, Millor; third base, W, Goldsmitl ; short stop and changa catchor, P, Quinn, lato of the Franklina; righy flold, W, Tiloy; contro flald and chango pitcher, Al Praté; Toft fleld, I\ Baker; substitutos, W. Lapham and * Baby " Jonos, ' Tho playora' ara all salnriod, Tho uniform hns not yot beon doe cidod on,uor havo the Directors s yot solooted a Onptain. ‘Tho managers boliovo thoy bave a very strong nino, Goldon's undorhand throwing being p:xrhluulur]y rolied upox for its oxtraordie uary speod. Westerns played during tho sonson that; has Just closed twonty-sevon gamos With amae tour elubs, losing four, and fivo with profossional ninoy, losing a!l, maihig o grand total of hirty- Lwo games, whorco? twonty-threo were won, "'hoy scored iu thouo 480 rana to tholr oppon cuts® 201, 'Their professionael games woro as follows : Chicago, 1to 8, 2406, 0to 7, 5to 10; Mutual, 1 10 13, Amonyg thelr Lest games with amatour nines wera the followlug : Union, of St, Louls, 710.4; Towa City, 0 to 5 Fmpire, of St. Touia! 6106,9t0 2, 6to't, and 4 ta8; National, of St. Lowia, Gto™1; Baglo, of Loulsville, 3 to 5} Staton Islaud, of Now York, 14 to 8. Thoy whitowashed the St. Louis Rod Stackings with 9, the Fraukfort (y.) Capitals with 19, and the Bt. Louis Rowenas with 4§ runs, —a ‘THE TURF., OASES IEFORE TUH LOABD OF APPEALS OF ¥Im NATIONAL THOTTING ABSOCIATION, New Your, Doo, f.—Tho Donrd of Appoealy of the National Trotting Assoointion this morning cantinuod tho casoof Wilson ngainst J, 13, Lodor, and unother against J. M. French, until Muroh, Tho next argument was heard, and tho decision wus rosorved in the caso of John A. Bacholor, of Chicago, ngatust B, 8, Wright, of Boston, boing the protest and complnint alloging nn ineligibla ontryof the chestnut mure MNoily Morris ot Heavon Parlc, Tho caso brought by Stolios agninst Bmith, which i on the calendar singo 1871, was theu takon up, “ NOT GUILTY.” Speclal Dispateh ta The Chicago Tridune, Towtwo, 0., Dao. 0.—For the last week, the Common Plens Court, in session horo, has boen ougaged in trylng W. IL Bishop, o wealthy and yory respeotablo young farmer living in the out. ekirts of tho olty, ox tho chargo of porticipating in a burglary and rocolving stolon goods, Sorng Pnnln» who wore dotcoted in n course of BYHa cmutio Plundurhxn of o bardwarg storein this city mado n contossion implieating him ng an nevomplive and a part of tho stolon zoods wera foundl on Lin promisea, whero thoy hud been eara riod by ono of the wblmm. who was alko an ome ployoof hisasa furm hund, ‘The trinl has ox. oitod o izrout deal of intorest horo on account of tho high standing of the parly ncensel, The onso was concludod this aftornodn, and tho ju aftor o briof cossion roturned a vordict of e qulttal, David Drant, n studont of the Towa Blate Umivorsity, rocontly mrested for pblishing [] libolous lotter 1 a”Davonport papor uuncornflu one Mott, hny beou diseharged, 8