Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 17, 1875, Page 4

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ADELPRI THFEATRE-Dearborn streat, corner Mooroe, Eugigement of the Rimlfy Troupe. ** Around the World fu Fighty Days,” Aiternoon snd evening, NEW CHICAGO THEATRE~Clark sireet, betweon Randolph snd Lake, l-‘.u[(uemcm of Kelly & Leon's Miusirels, Aftcrnoon and evening. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1875. was in store in this eity 1,001,313 bu wheat, 702,561 bu corn, 325,144 bu oets, 104,918 bu rye, and 525,361 bu barley ‘Tho Judiciary Commiltea of the Common Council, a8 was generally expected, hnd reo- ported adversely to the abolition of the ofice of City Marshal, upon tho thin pretext that Ahe polico forco is not yot rcorganized. Tt wrill bo a matter of soma surpriso to this com- munity tho announcement that the foree is {o bo reorganized ; but, even assuming that this in the case, why is n City Marahal neces- sary for the work? If tho Superintendont can't reorganize it, afler all his experience, how ecan n City Marshal do it? And if he can reorganize it, what need ias there of em. ploying two men to do onoman's work. The offfee is a sinecure 50 long as tho offico of Superintendent cxists, a8 the duties of the two nro fdentical, If the Council must have a City Marshal, then abolish tha oftie of Buperintendent, a——— Judgo McAvrisTen, fu resigning hiv posi. tion na Associnto Justico of tho Ilinois Su. premo Court in order to accept the unani- WOOD'S MOBEUM—Manron sireet, botween Dears born and Blate, * drifith Gaunt." Afternoon and sventug. HOOLET'S TOTATRE-—Raudolph aireet, between Ciark and LaSalle, Engsgement of the Calffornis Miostrels, Aficrnoon and evening, MoVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, beiween Dearborn and Biate, Engsgement of Jane Ooombe. # Adrienne the Actrcss,” HALSTED STREET OPLRA TOUSE — Halated sreet, corner Iarrison. BlacEvoy's Hibernifon, FARWELL HALL—Ma on_ streat, betweon Clerk nd LsBzlia. DuQuidey's Tonr of the Loly Lepd,” o ey SOCIETY MLETINGS. FICSPENIA LODGE far comnuniratio dolph_and Talut Nov, 17, THIND Qally invited, . CHAS. F. FOERSTER, 5 ST, BERNARD COMMAN! Btated Couclave thin (Wedn: o'clock, Work on the Order o J. O, DICK 0, 411, A, Masonie T ., this (Wednasday) eveuing, COREE. Vistting bratten core ©. M, BRENAN, W, M, 4 " & A, M.~Ttequ- nple, corner llans The Chicagy Cribune, Vodnenday Mormmng, Wovember 17, 1875, Greonbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- change yesterday opened and closed at 87§, Vicror Exanoru yesterdny issued a decree preating o subsidy of 100,000 lire to tho Italinn Copunittes having in charge the rep- resentation of that nation at the American Centennial, A significant episode in the Spanish civil war is chironieled in the cable dispatches. It is the delivery by special messenger of a letter from Don Carros to King Arnroso,—a cir- cumstance of 50 unosual p chareter as to ex- cite much attention, and give rise to rumors that tbe conclusion of peaco between the Government and tho Carlists is awong the near probabilities, Tt is now understood that the recent diplo- matie correspundence between Washington uad Madrid has not had direct reference to the Cuban struggle, but was initiated by our Government to secniro an abrogation of au old treaty which allows Spaia to board any Amer- ican vessol on suspicion and instituto search for articles contraband of war, 'fhis onerous obligation is not recognized in treatics now existing with other countries, and thie recent activity at the navy-yard botokens tho ur- gont effort which the Administration will make to secure provisions less galling and sxtraordinary. All that remnins of Joszrn Gumonp was yesterday committed to Mother Earth in tho Catholic Comctery at Moantreal. From tho Inpse of time—six years—since the man's spirit parted with tho flosh, it is not to be supposed that much remained, but the Iriendy of the decensed hiove shown their steadfastnoss, and tho Conadian civil authori. Lies have established n precedent. Whether the enemics of Gumnonn will rest eatisfied with this solation of tho problem remains to boseen, "o concreto that confines the dust will hardly prevent a resurrection should such o course bo determined on. An enterprising gamester in Washington coneeived the brilliant iden of selling Pools on the result of the raco for the Speakership of thenext Congress. 'Tho scheme was all right nnditaprojector responsible, but nobody would buy. If it was n backing of one's judgment 23 to the swiftest horwe, the best onrsman, tho strongest base-ball nino, or the most ox- pert billinrd-player, plenty of people womld invest ; Dut this thing of bettlng on what . *he average Democratic Congressman will do wlhen it comes to making judicious uso of his vote, ik worse than huying o lottery-ticket or “ ropresenting " at bunko, No wonder the Washingtoi pool-scller lind to shut Lis ampty box and sbaudon the scheine, In reply to a request by the State's-Attor noy for an opiniou as to tho constitutionality of tho statuto requiring judges of election to number ench bnllot, Judge Jawesow, of the Buperior Conrt, now presiding in the Crim. iunl Court, has written a letter in which, of- ter citing numerous authoritics, he takes the ground that the statuto ix uucoustitutionsl, the object and meaning of the Constitution being that the ballot shall bo strietly sccret. 'This objeot s defented Ly tho system of numbering ballots, aud, according to Judge JaxssoN, the clection judges of the Firat Precinct of the Fifth Ward, in rofusing to number tho ballots at the recent election, oboyed 'the Constitution while violating the statute, Judge Hoarus Les alrendy rendered a decision to the same cffect reganding the illegality of placing numbers upon ballots, aud tho Grand Jury, acting upon such au. thority, will therefare fiud no indictments sgainst the Fifth Ward judge 'Tha Chicago produce markets were steadier yesterdny, though not strong, Mess pork wos quict aud enaler, closing at $19,00 soller the year, aud $19,20 #3r Fobruary, Lard was in better demand and firm, closing at 211.80 keller the year, and $11.974 for February, bleats were quiet, aud 4@Jo lower, closing at 7o for part shouldery (Loxed) ; 11@11}c for short ribs do, und 11}e for short elears do, Uighwines wera quict and Jelower, at $1.114 ver gallon. Flour was dull and unchanged. Wheat w2 more nctive ond o higher, closing M 3106} cash and §1.06} for December, Corn wes more active, but closed weak at Ulc cash ond 50Jo for November, Oats were quiet and steady, closing nt 50}o eash sad 8l for December. Rye was yniet and flrm ot 670, Barley was qulet and stronger, closing tame at 85jc for November and Bio for December. Hogs were dull and aver. aged 10clower. Sales mostly at 26.90@7.10, Caltle were firm and unchanged. Sheep ware quist, - On Saturdav evening last these 4 moro than one.half of the business of the mous clection of Judge of the Cirenit Conrt of Cook County, hns written a letter to Gov, Bevempor explenatory of his reasons for thus voluutarily taking a step downward in the seale of judicinl eminence. The eanse of Judyge MeArLisTen's course is, briefly, over- work. From tha showing he makes it will bo seen that nn utiequal, unfair, and really enormons apportionment of Supreme Court Iabor and rosponsibility has fallen upon him merely Dbecause ho happened to vesido in the district embracing the City of Chicago, which furnishes Supremo Court. Failing health and tho cer- tainty that total prostration would result from tho terrible over-tax upon his powers compelled his resignation. Cook County is the gainer in scenring Judge McArrwter for tho Cirenit Court, but the facts sct forth in his letier of resignation nre such as to set on foot a serious inquiry as to the necessity of mnking provision for tho enlargement of tho Supremo Court Bonch by the clection of at least three more Justices, all of whom, to sa- cure convenienco and dispateh in the trans- nction of businesa and fairness in tho division of Lubor, should reside in the Chieago dis- trict. ETFECT OF SPECIE-PAYMENT. Last weok wo published a letter of 3Mr. Jesse Cox, JR., of this city, on the queation of resuming specie-payments. While ap- proving of much of the substance of the lot- tor, we then suggested that some of thestate- ments wero untenable. Aa Mr, Coxbut gives expression Lo views entertained by thousands of othera.who are honestly considering the subject, wo reproduce from Lis letter ono ktatement : 1t ts, nmongst ather things, the prospect of groat demand by tho Government for guld with which to comiply with tho terms of tho WNesumptlon nct, that Leops tho gold premiun doublo what 3t was two yoars ago, whilo paper will buy wearly twlce as much of overy otlier commodity sa it would buy two soars ago. To create a great demand for gold by making the pa~ per-nioney redeamable i gold, will causo goll to risn in value snd prices of overy other commodity to fall, uot 15, hut 60 per cent, and bring ruin upon every ona wha owes money, however amall tho amovunt. Toper- eist in enforcing tho Resumption act now in forco will bring cortain ruin, Lo troublo with us is that the demand for gold in the United States is comparatively 8o small that tho supply is cqually limited. Every dollar in gold we raceive in oxcess of the small demond is shipped to other places where it is wanted more than here. Practi- cally, we bave nousa for gold in this country but to pay our foreign balances. Wa buy merchondise, aud we owe debis in Europe; wo export & certain amount of domestio pro- ductions; the differencoe between the valuo of theso oxports, and the value of our fmports, and the amouut of our intercat payments, low the nggregnte of onr payments abroad. . A remedy for this may bo found in such a change of our tariff and rovonue policy ns would inereaso our manufactures, ko that the Iatter conld bLe exported. Tho manufgeturors have tnken thin thing into thoir own hands, and, discarding , tho delusive frand of Protection, have begnn the exportation of cotton and leather goods, which hias been practieally suspended since the beginning of the War. Tho nnuunl ex. portation of a hundred millions of dollars’ worth of iron, cotton, leather, and other manufactures wonld rendor the demand for thy exportation of gold to setllo balancos wholly umneceasary. Tho declino in values sinco 1873, reforred to Iy Mr. Cox, has not been so great as ho !imegines, savo in thoso kinds of proporty which wore Iargely spooulative. In many | linea of mapufacture thore was great over- ' production, induced by the wild speculations » of thotime. 'Fliere wore various grand specit- i Intions in operation, and bonds aud stocks wers buoyant and lively. Everybody could borrow’ money on these socurities, and specnlation extended to larga dealings. "Tho panic of 1878 waa o collupse of speeulation. The wind and wator escaped, but nothing real nnd sub. stantinl was destroyed. Actunl took the place of fancy valuos,—that was all. Those who had stocks of goods on hand boyend the demnnd naturally suspended production, and waited until those stocks were got rid of, and thon production was resumod at real and not spec- ulative prices, < If Congress shall have the wisdom to fix a dny after which groenbacks shall not be legal-tender for the payment of now debts, aud will authorizo the funding of greenbacks in an interest-hearing bond, itself a logal- tendey in the payment of all old dubts, spe: paymentscan be resumed at any timo without the Tenst disturbauce of actunl values, and without any interforence with the equitios of debtors and ereditors. AN EXTRAORDINARY SILENCE, ‘What nils the St. Louis papers? For weeks past the Governmnent has been investigating and prosccuting frauds in the revenuo in that city. A very gencrous proportion of the population of that city has been indicted, nud a largo number moro are under surveil- lance for *ways that are derk and tricks that are vain " in denling with *¢ erooked whisky."” Some prominent peoplo have already gone to the Penitentinry, and others must shortly follow. The conrts are running night and day to nccommodato the Government. No man trusts his neighbor any longer. No ane knows whera thoe bolt will next fall. Every whisky.shop is ngitated. Every distillery tranbles. Lawyers, cditors, merchants, Governmont officials, private and publio peoplo of all sorts, kinds, snd colors, evon dead ren, have been scooped into the not, and the work is still going on, Evory news. puper in the country outside of St. Louis is filled with tho dotails of tho regmant sen. sation of the dny. Stute Governments and the Nationn! Administration itsclf stand by in muto surprise, wondering what will como next, And yet the nowspapers of St. Louis do not seom to bo aware that anythingis golng on in that city beyond thedaily inspoc. tion of the Big Fifteon-Million-Dollar Bridgo ond tho daily grists of tho Police Court. Bearch their columns through and you find no mention of crooked whieky, of arrests, investigations, indictments, prosecutions, and penaltics ; uo obituary notices of those who have been caughit in the vise ; nolamentations for those who are ovidently doomed; no sorrow over the misdeodsof the past; no bright hopes for tho futnre; not even an allusion to tho matchless oratory of the much- muleted Joxce. All his pre.Penitentiary rhotoric was wasted upon the peoplo of St. Louis, and ho went to * the prison.walls that hemmed in Garireo, Corumnus, Tasso, oud the amount drawn by Amerienns in Europe, must be pald for in gold. That §s practically the only wuse we hava for gold in this country, under the system of irredecruabla paper. It iy, nevertheless, true that this demnnd fop gold, fimited us it s, determnines tho valuo of the paper for the time. The valuc of the green- backs is ascertained exactly when the holder wishes {o obtain gold for them, Tho value of all enr exports is ascortuined by the srount of gold which can be obtained for them; the value of the imports is ascer- tained by the smount of gold we have to pay fov themn, It is not . true that it is tho pros. pect of agreat demand for gold four years henco with which to resumo specio-pay- meonts that keops greenbacks of a lpss value in gold than in 1878; and if tho pricesof commodities in paper are less than they were two years ngo, they aro also proportionately Icss in gold. Whatovor is produced in surplus in tho United Statos has its price fixed by the price oblainable in gold therefor in foreign countries. The price of wheat in the United States is deternined by tho prica obtainable for tho surplus in gold in England. The same rulo applics to all our agrienltural products of which we export tho surplus. The prices of all our manufactured articles are fixed and determined by tho prices in gold nt which similar articles may b ini- ported and rold for in this country, Al other commoditios have their prices fixed by the general overage of the finportoble and exportable articles. Btono and ico will ordi. uarily coutinue their relativo values withiron, sugar, tin, mackinery, eto. The real valuo of overything, after aull, is the gold value theroof. No matter how the paper value may rise and fall, bohind the fluctuation is tobo found the real value,~thu equivalont value of all things continues to be measured in gold, Trices, then, in the United Btates aro not only influenced but determined by tho world's prices, I papor-money wero wholly gbollshed, prices could not fall, wolong us wo are ablo to buy ny we do now, what we nced at forclgn prices, and .nell our kurplus abroad, as wo do now, ut foreign prices. “The nbolitibn of paper- nionioy in this country eannot affect prices in foreign countrics, 8o Yong ns we can sell our products’ sbroad, as wo do now, domestio prices will not fall belaw what we cun got elsowhero; anddomestie pricescannot fall be. lowthelowest price ot whichwecan import the samo articles from cliowhere, Thero might, aud probably would bo, a temporary strin. gonoy in loauable funds, but, the demand be. iug created, tho country would rapidly re. ceive all the coin ngeded to make all thg ex. changes in our trads and commerce, The *ruin,” thorefors, whichMr. Cox pre dicts resnmption would prodaco is purely im. aginary,~—an idle fesr ; we mean, of courso, if the proper stopa ara takon, 88 we suggosted, to ensble debtors to pay their debts contract. ed on a paper boasla in paper itself, and con. -finlng obligatory speole-payments to now con. trocts, ‘We know of no way of avoiding the de. mand for gold to be paid abrosd so long as pour exports of domestlo’ productions fall be. aud Navoreoy,” unheralded by tle 8t. Louis poapers. They knew not even that ““the rain falls lightly on the mouniain, the sun shines warmly on the plains, and the flood evon now is sottling into ita former bed, where tho crystal waters shall agnin reflect tho green folinge of theoak and tho syeamore, and tho gentla breezes and birds shall make merry music in the cathedral aisles of a gen- erous nation." And such a plaintive pastoral a4 this, that Comypon might have piped to Puyrrm, tending his flocks beneath um- brageous elms, was wasted upon the desert air, likewiso his prond propheey : **1 ghall breast tho pelting storm and lift my head olem and hpld to the coming sunshine of truth and redemption.” Truly the prophat is not with. out honer:eave in his own country, oud the nrtyr Joycr goes to the Ponitentiary with a halo about his hiend, the whole country ad- wising his farewell speech, and yet no one in 8t. Louis knows it. And others mnst como and go, and who in 8t, Louis will know it? She hides her hoad in the sand, lko the os. trich, and fancies no one secs her becanse she €cod no one, ‘What is the meaning of all this? What has come over the spirit of the St. Louis nows- papors? Their discussions of the Skuptehina, of the Herzegovinians, and of tho oporations of tho Khan of Khokand, sre able and elo- quent; but why do wo hear nothing of tho operations of Cox Maoume, snd Cox Mrarvg, and CoNn-OANNON, and possibly of atill more Cons to come, concerning whom they concur in continuing wnconscions? It cannot bo that they nre ignorant of whnt is going on in their midat. This would betray most Inmentable ignorance and want of en. terpriso, and that thoy are not unenterprising iy shown by the fact that they are even now agitating the posuibility of a war batween England and Malacea, and the possiblo con- sequences of the proposed inundation of Sahara. Aro they so utterly demoralized thnt they aro paralyzed and patic-struck as they contemploto tho foarful corruptions which lhave. so long festered in that wicked city? Or, still more startling sup- position, lave thoy, too, been wp to the elbows in iniquity? Have they boen in whisky that is crooked? Do they alio fear *the prison.walls that hemmed in Gauieo, Conuvsnus, Taseo, aud Narorzon™? Aro their eyes, liko those of the lamented Joxer, fixed * where tho eryutal waters shall again reflect the greon follago of the onk and ihie sycamors, und the gontle breezes aud Dirds shalt make morsy musio in the cathe. dral alsles of a genorous nation"? This sol- omn, blank, and ominous silonce }a painful,— especinlly painful to their professional broth- ren clsewhere, who, in the general wrock and crash, ave ongerly waiting for some tidings from the Bt Louis nowspapers, We hope they aro not singing so mmall because they, too, have bsen overtaken in the general smash, The engerness with which the Aldermon conspired to continue themselves in an office to which no pay is attached beyond the torm for which they were eleoted haa not escaped all penalty, Thoy put upon Chicago a char- tor which the people did not want in order to @ratity this salflsh purposs, and now they find that they cannot bo the Leneflcinrios to the extent which they had hopod. Mr. Hit- nretit i3 one of the disappointed. o hoped to bo City Marahal. but the ehartor maken it an offense punishiablo with fine and imprison- ment for an Alderinan to take any othor offica dnring tho term for which he is elect. ed. And now Corporation-Counsel Dicgry has deoided that the Aldermanic term doca not expire Dee, 1, as would have boen tho enso if the clarter of 1872 hnd not Leen adopted, but that it oxtonds over till mext spring, or till a snccessor shall have been elected. So not only eannot Mr, HiLbRETH De City Marshal, but none of tho other ‘“*hold-over " Aldermon cau take any of the numerous positions which they ara about to creato, nor sharoe in the benetits of any con- tract. Wo fancy that, if this effect of tho now charter lind been fuily appreciated be- foro clection, there would not have been o much ballot-box stutling to sccure its adop- tion, THE COURT.JOUSE BUILDING. The simultaneous action of tho County Board and tho Common Council last Monday on the Court-1louse building shows that pub. lic opinion has not yet lost all its forca, Tho conviction evidently heamed upon the Com. miscioners and Aldermen that the peopla of Chicngo would not tolersten plain violation of tho contract botweon tho eity and couuty, and have two distinet buildings excctod onthe Court-House Syuaro without any harmony in design, Perhaps it was the movement of citizens to bring the matier into tho courls, nud to cnjoin the prosecution of tho work until a uniform style shall be agreed upon, which brought the two bodies to their senses. At all events, tho Common Council instructed the Anyor, Board of PTublic Worlky, and the Duilding Committee, to consult with the Commission. ers as to an agreoment of plan ; and & resoln- tion was introduced into tho County Board anthorizing the Joint Coromittee of Commis- sioners and Aldermen to confer with the city ruthorities to agres upon a plan whereby the county shall coustruct tha entire building, rnd rent one-half to tho city at 7 per cont per annum on tho cost of tho onc-half whichthey shall occupy. Though fhis resolution was Inid over for one week, there is o hope that it may be adopted, Itis to tho advantage of the cify, and, therofore, also to all who pay soven-cighths of tho cost of tho entire structure, that tho entire building shall be paid for out of the county funds, The city has no authority to borrow more money. If it goes on with its share of the work, it will have to pay for it out of taxes lavied upon tho property-owners, Buch n course neeessitntes one of o things, —oither that tho city's part of tho work hall be done very slowly, or that tho tnx. payers be oppressed beyond their re. sources in order to meet this cx- troordinary expenditure over and above tho payment of the regular sud enormons cxpouses of the City Government, The county, on the other haud, has tho anthority to borrow all tho money necessary to the con~ ntruction of the entire building; and, in rent- ing one-half of the building to tho city at 7 per cont on the cost'of the construction, the city poys the interest on half the money bor- rowed, aud may at some future time pur- chaso its half of the buildingat its actual cost if it shall prove to bo mutually desirable. The advantage of such an arrangement is perfect- 1y opparent when it is remembered that both County and City Governments represent really tho sama tax.pnyers. The city tax. payers pay for all the construction of the city's half, and four-fifths of the cost of the county’s half, thus making nino-tenths of tho whole. ‘While this arrangement will be the proper one to make, if tho Aldermon sud Commis. sioners are intelligent and honest cnough to recognize it, any failare {o agreo upon it will not excusa a continuntion of the work on the present basis of n house divided agatnst it- self, “This will bo an outrage that the peo- plo qf Chicago will Sot endure. If the Com- missioners and Aldermen do not quickly agree upon some common design for the bnilding in peccordance with tho contract long since made between tho city and county, tho Citi- zens' Association must step in and demand a judioial enforeemont of that contract, and a suspension of the work until a commén plan shall bo agreed upon. ‘We hopo that the Aldermon and Commissloners will lhave suficiont respoct for public opinion and the public interest to come to such an agreement without being forced to it by the courts, THE BT, LOUI8 WHISKY RING. . The oponing speech of Assistant District- Attorney Peppuicx in the MoDonirp caso gives tho best outline that Lias yot been pre- sented of thooperations of the Whisky Ring, Bo far s the implication of Government officiala s concerned, and shows how bold and rockless all partics had bocome. In trocing {he various checks imposed by law, it was shown pretty certainly that the frauds could not have bLeen committed without tho co-operation of the higher as well as the sub- ordinate officials. It soems that the forma- tion of the general Ring and the scheme of syntematio plunder were begun in 1871, when McDonap was Supervisor of Internal Rov- enue and the recently-convicted Jovon Specinl Agont in the same servico. The two men wecro most intimate in thele public and private relations, 'Thoy imported a maun. named Mranug from Cincinunti to act a3 go-botwoen. Iis duty wii ¢ collect tho corruption fund, from the digtillers and rectitlers and diatribate it awong tho officials, The fund for a time was collected and divided uander the thin disguise of a campaign fund, Jt soems that the distillers came into thia Ring ono by ono, until at last many were com- polled to chooso between becoming membors of it, and dividing with the oflicials, or retir- ing from business, They could not eontinuo to manufsoturd and pay tho tax on whisky when othora were selling ovon bolow the tax without counting anything for the cost of tho material and manufscturing. This or. ganization of tho Ning lnsted up to 1874, when Macuine was appointod Oollector, Meonve then went away, snpposing that the Ring Jmd been broken, but it was soon yevived, and a man nomed Frrzaoy took Meanus's place. The practice way for Mranuz to divide the money received from the distillers into five parts which bo placed in five envolopes,—a process strikingly similar to the manner in which the Twxzp corruption funds were distributed. The Distriot-Attorney says it will be proved that the parties who rocelved thess onvelopes wie Joun A. Joxcr, already convioted, Joun MoDoxarp, now on trial, Wirztane MoKez, proprietor of a 8t. Louiy papor who haa boen 4ndioted, Mragvz Limself, and the former Colleotor at Bt. Louls, who is now dead. According to the rulss of the Ring, the Qaugers and Btorskeopers ware to receive §1 por barrel at timos, §1.50 st other times, snd §9 ab others, Bub the Gaugers and Storekeopers sometimes combinad with the distillers to **defraud” the highor oficinly of | their share, 'T'he distillers could nake moro money by paying tho Uaugers and Store- i keopers @ a barrol to got tho whishy ont, and not report to the higher offiolnly, and this wns occasionnlly done, Jovcm rogarded this as ¢ swindling,” and put the scrows on the distillers whom ho snpected of practicing jt. But McDovaup aud Joror also occa- sionally suspected that tho proportion of “straight” to the *‘crooked" whisky was too large; nud, in 1872, McDoNarp called Mranvr to account, and wanted to know ‘‘why in hell more wns not manufactured.” Ahout the snme time, Jover and McDovarp made a tour of tho warehouso in ordor to nscortnin what they might expoct, and the former asked ** which was thostraight and which the grape-vine,"—tho lnttor being tho “‘crooked™ whisky which was put out without payment of the tax. 1t can searcely be doubted that so plain a atatomant of tha caso s beon mnde up on nctunl avidenco, Thia view of tho matter is further confirmed by Jorce's demand for nentenco on tho Jefferson City trinl, and by tha pleadings of guilty entared by many of the 5t. Louia Rinp. If McDonarp be con- vieted, tho whole history of the Riug will un- doubtedly como to light, and no bene floiary of tho corruption can roasonably hope to. eseapo, THE WIFE OF TWO0 IUBBANDS, Tho Empress Evorsiz, the mnatch-makor of two hemispheres, persuaded Countess VAz- ENTINE DL Crirvay, beautiful, good, and ricly, to marry the Prince pr BravrrnuMoxe, hand- vome, bad, aud poor. The only points on which the two ngreed wero good looks and youth. Theso proved insufficient to keep them togother, The Prince went on the Mexican expedition; the Princess stayed at homo, led a spotless life, and wroto him long lottors which ho did not talte the troublo to auswer. Whon he returned, she wont to Brest to moef him, But he had alrondy started for Paris. 8he pursued him thero only to find that he hod left for his chateau. Heo wrote theuco his firat letter to le, after an absonco of two years, It was composad of these touching words; Madame: What have you done with my shirts? I don’t find them in tho armoire, When the two finally met in Paris, it was only to separate, ‘The Princo began a sean- dnlous life, The Princess sued for n separa- tion. It took her seven years to gnin it. The Fronch lnw does not recognize divorce, so that neither party could legally marry agnin, ovon after the separation de corps had been decreed. But moanwhile the Princess hnd 1allon in love with Prince GeonorBinzesco, of Moldavia-Wallachin, aud was bound to marry him, Having tho will, sho found tho way. A very devious way it was, She moved to Dresdon and liad horself naturalized as n 8axon. Then she got an absolute divorce from nDresdon court. There was mow no obstacle to her civil mamiage, ontside of France, But a religious diffieulty romnined, The Catholic Church repudi- ates divorco., The Pope would not sanction n remsrringe, Tho Princess BeavrrnesoNT received the news calmly, abjured Romanism forthwith, and became a member of tho Greok Church, The Grock priest at Dresdon, o nativo Russian, baptized her and snid he would perform the marringo sorvice for her, provided the Emperor of tho TRussiss would givebis consont. That poten- tato hnd the case laid before him and made no objection. Everything was legal, ns far 08 Russian lawa and Groek Catholio rules wera concerned. Tha religions marriage was promptly porformed in Dresdon, and tho civil marringe followed it at the Wallachian Legation in Paris, Tho Russinn Mindster at- tended the cercmony oud signed the con- tract. And yet the Princess Bmzsco is still tho Princess Deavrrnesonrt in France French law and Catholic law give her ono husband; the Greek Church and tho rest of Europo give her another, Bhe is the wife of two wen. Her position in Frauceis unique. Bho is liablo to proscoution for bigamy, aud can be, it §s said, extradited from any other civilized country to which she may flco. Her Gt husband can take possession of their two chil. dron, oven if the latter shonld wish to remaln with their mother, If she has any ohil. dron by her second husband, they will be egally known by the name of pz Braurrne. MoNT, not Bmesco, If the courts should gront them the latter name, it would make {them illogitimate and incapablo of inheriting any port of their mother's immense fortune, Finally, if Madame B.-B, should ever decide to go back to the firat B., tho second would be helploss. So this wifo has the choice, in France, of her two husbands. Possible poly- andry is introduced upon the soil of Europe, Enen B, Wimp, when 12 yoars old, wos o cabin-boy on a lake schooner; at 28, he was a Oaptain; at 88, a citizen of Dotroit, with o fortune of §260,000; at 03, an apoplootic cap italist with liabilities of 1,000,000 and re- sources of £6,000,000. About 11 o'clock on tho morning of Jan. 2, 1875, bo foll dead in tho stroots of Dotroit, The news was carrled home beforo the body was, Two of the doad man’s sons jumped into s wagon and drove down town. Another wsgon passed them on the way. It held tho corpse of their fathar, They did not stop, hut drove straight toa lawyer's office, These two wero the sons of Capt. Wanp's first wife, He had by hor five children, including two imbeciles, bofore 1869, In that year, he compelled her to sue for adivorco. 'T'womonthsafterit was grant- ed, ho marricd another womap. The pres- ent Mrs. Waup has two children, a boy and gitl. Whon tho will was opened, it was found that the bulk of tha proporty was left to hor and her children ; about $100,000 was sot apart for legacios ; and the remainder woa vested in truatoos for the bonoflt of tho older children, The conditions attached to the trust gave the holders an almost wnlimited powar to beggar the beirs, Thoy were never to pay them more than $200 a month apiece, except in caso of siokness, and might givo thom as much less as thoy chose, This, the mout stringent of the provisions, was added iu o second codieil, doted March 18, 1674, Mirron D, nnd Omarues Wanp, tho oldeat sane sona of the Captain, decided to contest thy will, Mrs, Wazp offered to pay them $200,000 and compromise the matter, but this wasdeclined. The case opened Bept. 21, 1875, After the failure of an attempt to quash the will on technical grounds, the contest was narrowed down to the queation of insanity or undne in- fluence. To ostablish oue or both of these points, evidence was introduced to show the: dead man's bellef in Bpiritualism, The Judge ruled{hat such o belief was no evidenoe of in- sanity, becauso Spiritualism waa merely onoof many religions prevalent in this coustry, but ho held that testimony of thiy sort might bo produced to show unduo {nfluence. A num. ber of noted mediums ware on the witnes- atand, Ona of themn was a Mrs. Martix, who finds roomn within her amplo frame for reven splrits, nmong whom are thoso of Dzan Rion- MoxD, the rallway king, ox-Henator Howanp, of Michigan, and o German geologist with tho unouphonious name of ** Cabbage Jorw.” 0. J. waa n great favorita with tho capitalist, 1o tnstruoted him in variouabusiness mattors, and said unkind things about a cortain Michi- gan atatesman who was then runoing for ro- election to tho Honate, and who was opposed by Mr. Wanp., 'The snccessful speculator askod **Calbngs Jouy” about railronds, abont mining on Lake Supe.ior, ahout glass- making in Missouri, sbout all manner of onterprisen. Tho spirit of tho noted Indinn “Rep Jacker,” who malerinlizes in tho shape of o red-faced merchant of Dotroif, notifled Capt. Wanb of his imponding death, and the Intter nfterwards said that the Indian hnd told liim to * keep his Llankots gathered up, for they would eall him beforo tho flowers bloomed ngnin.” Most of tho spiritual guides wero consuited about the half-dozon different willa which wero drawn up by Mr. Wann, While he scams to havo taken or rojocted the business ndvica of his goblins nceonling to his own provious views of the matter, hie fol- lowed ghiostly counsel quite implicilly in the matter of his wills, The trinl, which lasted nemdly fifty days, was fruitless. Ninety-two witnosses sworo to various pros and cons, Nine lawyers emmed big fecs by examining and erors-cx- nmining thoe witnesses, by trying to bully onch othor, and by roaring sonorous sound at the jury. The Iatter retired Nov, 10, After fifty-four hours of disagrecwent, it was dis- charged. Eight jurors wished to break the will, aud all of them agreed that tho codicil ought not to stand. ‘Che caso i8 to como up ognin next Januory, unless it bo settled by ngreement before then. The anuual roport of the Fire Marshal, mada at the Inst mceting of the Common Cbuncil, 11 o very encournging one, and shows hat the Fire Department hes prefited by the experionces of the great fires of 187! and of 1874, Dnring tho year there have been no less than 142 fire alarms, and yot the loss by firo hiag been only £49,058, or an averago loss at each fire of about §i15 in the ecaso of property involving %1,001,335. This shows that the firomen havo been on Lho alert aud have worked with skill and intclligence, and it nlno reflects grent credit upon tho executive nbility of Fire-Marshal Bewyer. There is one fenture of the report which deserves im- mediato nttontion, and that in his recommond- ation that telegraph wires, north of Van Buren strect, shall be rn underground, beenuse thoy obstruct the stroets and beeause he may at any time be obliged to cut down the poles in order to raiso ladders to tha upper stories of bLusiness blocks, These poles are the most nuicorous and lofty in the most crowded thoronghfnres, whore, in cnse of firo, tho emergency contemplated by Mar- shal Benxen would besure to exist. If thero bo any practical renson why they cannot bo 1aid underground, they might at least bo run in moroe isolated streets, where they would not be ko much of a nuisance and obstruc- tion ns {hoy are now, This, however, is but nn incident of the roport. Tho whole docu- ment wo wounla rofer to the earnest attontivn of the New York World as a samplo of the manner in which Chicago Las been protect- ing horself agninat fire, and in confirmation of our pravious assertion that Chiengo is bet- ter protected even than New York City. The Common Council, at its last meoting, conourred in a resolution ealling upon tho Mayor to make an jmmediato demand upon the Hon. Enwix D. Aonaan, Chairman of the Now York Committeo, for the funds con- tributed by Fronch artists at tho time of tho groat fire, “‘to bo used for the purpose for which it was originally intonded.” As tho purposo for which the fund was originally jntonded does not now and haa not for o long timo oxisted, the resolution nppenrs gratuitous, to say the least, and suggests soveral questions, Supposo that Mr, Mon- aax declines to doliver up the money, as ho moat undoubtedly will, inthe language of Mr, Tweep, what is the Council going to do sbout it? If the money is dolivered, who is to recolve it? To whoso boneflt is it to beapplied ? This monoy was sot apart for the benefit of sufforera by the firo. Who aro they ? Where are thoy ? The monecy bos been held for nearly four years becauso they bave not beon found, Has tho Council sud- denly found them? And lastly, what has the Council to do with it anyway? The purpose for which tho fund was intended no longer existing, and it being impossible to obta’n any new instructions from the donors as to its disposition, some of thom being dead and many others scattered far aud noar, tho fund should long ago have been returned to Frauco for the rellef of sufforers in that country. Even if it should bo seat hore, what guarantoo can the Council give that it will over bo ex- pended for public charity ? U . ‘Tho hustory of tho run that broupht abont the suspenslon a fow days slnoe of tho National Goki Bank and Trust Company, of Han Franclsco, is mignificant as {llustrating Liow caslly n panio is oxcited. ‘Tho bank had a circulailon of $800,- 000, socured by s deposit of £1,000,000 United States bonds in tho Trossyry Dopartment. It tomporarlly susponded upon the collapse of the Bauk of California, but a fow days after ro- sumod business, and on iuvestigation “of ite affairs by the offictal examinor ib wae found to Live sasois to tho amount of 81,300,000 in ex~ ocoes of all s libllittes, and its solyoncy was unquestioned, Dut a chook for §1,000 was pro- wootod, sbout which there waa some frregularity, until the correction of which tha bank rafased payment, Thereon the holder {ndustriously ciroulsted the nows on Califoruts ntroet shat the bank couldn't paya 24,000 check, snd the run bogan. ‘Tho bankatood tuotil iwo minutes of tho cloaing hour, baving patd aut 860,000 lu gold, and having still a small balsuce left, when a ohook for $17,000 wss prosonted, aud tho doors were clossd. The offcial examiner thon found that the ausets wero 81,320,003 n oxcess of all labllitfos, but such was tho axtent of tho panlo (bat it wan {mposasible to gotndsy's timein which to realizeon s portion st least of thia amouat, and the concern wont into liquidation, ————— The dofenso of the Young Men's Christian Asqoalstion of Washinglon to the suit of the Assignoo of the ¥reedman's Daok would indic cato that the Ausociation stands in need of muoh Christianising, ‘The suit ls bronght to foreolose & trust deed on the property of the Assoclation, given 1o noouro & loan of 33,000, and whatover should be recovared in it will go toward paymant ot the swindled negro deposltors, The Assools- tion mekea no deaial of the debt, but pleads that the execution of the truet deed ia delective, tecbaically, in form, and on that grouod rosists the foreclosura, That Iy, tho Associstion, fluding an opportunity to evads payment of the 233,000 on s mera techuioalily, intends to do 80 if posible st the expenss of ‘ho poor negro depoaitors. Whst makes the matter look worse is, Vuat the Asosiation has evon refused to pay Interest on the note siuce Qctober, 1873, There may be auother side to the queation; but it thero be, it 1s alpgulsr tho Assooiation baanot set it up in defonse aud the fact that no otber defense la toade indicaiea powerfully thay tuere is hono other, and that Lhe Young Men's [ tinn Aseactation of Washington, reduced to gy alternativa of retarning to the noyre deporitory the §13,000 o¢ of dalng tham out af it on a ey, tifogging ples, daliborately choso tho latter, A bigh £3qard for tho Atness of things compely to axk 'T#E CAIoAGo TRIBUNE how many 'y, dollarn of other peoplo's motey " did Congrea donyy to thateity after tho Are 7 Huch an satenaivo pniye beneNclary ar Olilcago s bught 10 be one of thy Ym“ object {o a river impravement that whliminenacly e, ot tho wholo Misaigslyn! Vallay,—St, Lotwia Tympe, Tnr Cntcaoo TRIDUNE roaponds that Congresy did not donato soy *‘milliony of othor Pooplay monoy” to Chicago attor the gront fire. Conpres i enact that during ono yoar eertain closses o buktding material might bo sdmitted fros of duty, sad under that peovision of law somg Tow individuala paved somo thoneauds of dollug, We donot knoaw that thin waa a donation o other poopla's monoy. Tho nrticlen tmporg. cdunder that low would not hava beey i, ported at all bad that law not beon in fores, Thoro has been no timo sinco or befory hat lntw when Clicago has not beon willing agy anzions that nil the dutles on dailding Diaterial, of whataver description, espccially lumbey, shonid Lo abolishod, that the whola count might bo relioved of tho burdon of taxation ity out rovenuo, Chicago would have rejoicsy 1 havo had the malerials used fu the constraetiog of the B, Louls bridge exemptod from taxation; had thits boen done, thoro might havo been roms. thivg lesy of otlier poople's moucy lost iy thay maguilicent undertaring, et e e g Tho Nattonal Association organized to seenry the adoption of an amondment to tho Consity. tion of tho United Btates which sbill recogoiz. Christinnity ae tho cornor-stono of our politica} inatitutions bold its sunual meotivg at Philade). phia on {ba 9th inst., tho Tion, x Brosor prosiding, Tho object of thoe Bocioty was de. clarod to bo the maintenance of tho Sunday lawy and of tho presont form of Judictal vath, the re. teution of tho Bible In the public rchooly, ang tho securing of projier recognition of Curistisne 1ty In alt new Constitutions for the Niatey, Bteps wero also taken to mocure aiticles of incorpors. tion for the Soclety, under tha name of tho ¥ tional Reform Acsocintion. Tho Avasetation ade Journod to meol nt TPhiladelphia during the (u waok of Juno, 1876, Thero socma to be a disposition nlready upes the part of the Amerisan gaographors to ae. oredit BraxLey with tho diszovery of tho soures of tho Nile, A writer In the New York Time has alrendy accordad bin this proad distinetion, and now eames Judge Dy, iu a paper read b fore tho American (Goographical Hocloty, and Alaton that tho region oxplored by Staster it that montionod by ProLeyy : *“On tho westom bunndaries of tho Anthropoplingi are tho Mona- tains of Lhe Aoon, whose snows ara recoived by tho marshies of the Nile. Thaao marshes, th Jndgo contends, aro tho very locality of Staw Lry's exploiations and tho roel sourcea of the Nite. Meanwhilo the Tondon Geographical 8o clety {3 discursiug the statemouts madoe by Sraxrey in his rocent lettors, and its declajo svill bo awaited with groat interest, —_— Aftor nn oxhoustive research lo digcover th “indopendent votor,” about whom 80 much hay of loto been said, tho Dotroit Free Press com cludoa that lio is tho voler who stnys at homs. Tt was thoso indopendent voters, the Free Pres concodes, who gavo the Dotnocrats the majority in tho presont liouse, and who, that journs vaguely observes,—perhops hecause of tho fact that the stny-nt-tome vote wed bronght out & the late elections for the Ropublican ticket,~ “ wlill decide the Presidential election of 1370— porhapa directly by participation thereln ; if nos direatly, then indirectly, but just o offectively by sbeence from tho polle,” p - ‘Tho politician of tho old school, with nicacon scientious scruplos, has come to tho surfaceis tho peraon of Gen, A. IL H, Broasr, who wu lately alected to the Loglalature from Augusit Couuty, Va., though ho doclined tho nomination, bva majonty of two votes, X now resigns vaylug ¢ 34y public career_han now extonded throngh mor tun thirty yesrs, Duriog that time I havo illed many nigh positlonsin tho Htate and Natlonal counctls, Up to hi9 timo, 80 faras I am fnformod, nots Lresty of ausptclon ‘has over rested on tho mind of any one a3 to the lutegrity of my miotivos and conduct, . . « If 1 were t0 nccopt tho poestion to which I have beex -slocted by & majority of only twa votes Iahould fo'r &1.?:{41 capacliy for usefulness would bs seriously Far eutertalning tho challongo—which Lie overruled—of a juror on the ground that he was & Mormon, the Salt Lake ZXerald, Buiamx Youxa's organ, savagely asssile Judge Bonzyax, aud says This practica must bo set down as simply ancihes attempt to overrido the principles of law and jus.ty on the patt of & small minority, in ofder {0 secure cer- taju results through the medlum of the couris. . . + Wo protcas and sball coutinuo fo protest sgainst the, wicked and suti-American sttempta which sre 80 ot stently bolng mada by & lithe ring {u Utah o resurt to the conveuiont polloy of packed jures in ordes 1o carry thelr polntd, . —_————— Tho latest Parisian ontororige for the amolio: ration of the miserien of maukind Is tho organiza: tion of & socloty to war upon the pump-basdle praotioo, stylod by tho Frouch fe shake hand. The good Abbé DEFOURNEY liag roinforced the movement with an appesl to ploty sgalozt the practice, which, he says, originated amon: ghn Froo Masons, and of coursa had soms disboliesl significance, and he has potitioued tho Pope l?’ forbid It *in the @ of roligion sud deceucy. ————— Joux Fonsyrn finds hib 1 doacried by the Alsbamn Domocraoy In his advocscy of Lonesh money, who generally are a8 onthnsinatic for 1ag-money repudistion a4 they aro for their re- pudiation new Coustitation, But ho sottles s score with thom by mepely obssrving Jn i3 paper, the Moblle Regisler, that ** Avy Fadiest candidato can beat out of sight any Demoeratid candidate who may be pitted against him upce such ao {ssue,” e e Tho telegraph yesterday convoyod tho Infor matlon thae gold haa boeu dlasavered in the Chariton Hills, Missourl. As tho Black Hili havo not panned out a8 woll as was oxpetods It 14 now in order for tha Iufer-Ocean to bt lp Slis- sourl agontu and speoulators by wrging tuo pax= plo to rush pell-mell to tho Chariton il s The completo ofolnl raturns of the lm‘m{,\_’l vanin election pive IlanTnaxrr 12,030 pluraiit over Prrsug, for Governor, DBROKSE e Problbition caudidate, received 18,244 voiod PERSONAL Camills Usso snd troape are at the Palmer. Tuo Ion. W. 8, Taylos, of ¥rle, [aat the Bher man, Tho Mo, 0. P. Whittord, of Beloit, I st (Lt Sherman, Col, E. A. Howard, of the Spotted Tall 4gouch is ot the Pacifio, s 0. I Drité and the Hon, J. J. Hagamsh ¢ Milwaukee, are st the Tremont. Tho Iong. A, IL, Pettibons sad Petor Heleadss of Oudar Falls, aze at tho Tremont. John Allen, President of the Poorls, Jacksonville Ralirosd, s at the Pacifle. Charlotto Oushman has recovered her hesiity and will soon give & reading in Philadelpbis. £ Pellotier {a the best dasoer who has \'ls‘:“ Clucago sinco Donfanti, Tha peoplo do approciate her, p;ho Hon. M, 0. Kerr saya Thomas lom‘{uz_: s bla model of & statesman, * Webator bo thiv w2s 1ot & statepman, but aa orstar. it Richard Grant White bas been saclously ‘lfi but [s pow {o & falr way:nf recovory. Hy :u. not kieterophemize, however, for m;flu ltll:m: o’n v auk Rickis, Direator of ibe gl w?-‘u?u :wuou?'-ud J. A. Grier, Freight Afll::;' of the Pittaburg, Clncinnati & Bt Lows 1 r0ad, are at the Tromont. Oue of our soifd men was at his ofice ls:; Sunday afternaon, whea » friond pas#ing b saw the door open and walked in, Tho lf’l-m mag, sias| was discovered with his fece barl 5 inabiy ledger, “Thisls fine smploymant (o Pokin &