Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1875, Page 8

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE BATURDAY DECEMBER TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE RATEE OF STBECTIPTION (PATARLE TN ADYARCR). I'repald Tot: Dalty Edition, fafled to an, :u‘nrll’ld] feaitio ateet. Tl W Onegapy, pec yoar., Clobof tve, per oo Clnb of twenty, per co; The poutage Is 13 cents & year, which Specimen coplen sent free, To prevent delay and mistakes, b sure and give Pont-OfMice address §n full, Including Stateand County, lemittances may b made either by draft, express, Post-ffice order, or In reginterad letters, at ourtiek, TERAE TO CITY ALTECRIDLRA, Dafly, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 ceute per weok, Datly, delivared, Bunday tueluded, 30 conts per week, Address THE TRIDUSE COMPANY, Corner Madiron and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Lil, THE CHICAGO WEEKLY TRIBUNE. As the season hes mow nrrived for renowing sub- #criptions and making up cluba for weekly papare, we roapectfully offor to the resding publie Trie WrExLY “FRIOUNE a8 nne of the very beat, largest, and chespost fournal published in the United Biates, We pullished, somo weeks ago, the prospactus of TAE Catcaso WETRLY TRIGUNF, Tho fablo of cone tents of thio weekly for Dec, 1 shows how well the pub- Lishers sre carrying out tho promtaes then made, Tho depertments of the paper Lefors us aro: Literatare, Tho Fine Arts, Bparke of Sclence, Astronomfcal Ob- scrvations, Famillar Talk, Foreign Gosaip, Gossip far the Ladies, Fushlon, Art of Dining, Btories, Posms, - Perscual, Blograpbical fiketches of Noted Persons liew cantly Deceated, Sketohos of Romantic Carecrs sud Advoutures, Farm snd Garden, Fiold and Stalle, Financial and Commerclal. Oatalde of thess departmenta we have the Story of tho Life and Death of Viucenzo Copraro, the most famous of the Itallan Driginde; Willam B, Astor, the Richost American, with an account of how the Astor fortuns was accumulated; The Visit of the Prince of Wales to the Pstamids ; Becrat Corroaponde ouco Letweon Diemsrck aud Von Arnim; The Fimone clal History of tho Tnited Btates—meastires angd mis- takes: The [aat letter of Slanley from Central Africy, In sadvance of many of the prominent Dallies; The Latest phiaso of the Dsecher Scandal; Proseedings of the Natfomal Ratlroad Conveutlonj Ofictal Re- ports of Gem, Sheridsn, of the Postmaster. Jenersl, Indten Commimloncr, Comptroller, and sther Government oMere; Tho latest Tashing. son, Forelgn, aud Mome News; Reporls of Crim- tnal Castw tu difiercnt parts of tho Country ; Full Re- ports of the Obuequies of Vice-Preadent Wilson at Washington, Baliimore, Philadelphia, New York, Bos. lon, and Natick : Full Roports of the Whieky Fraud Trials at 8t Louis and other pointa; Edltorials on Ibe Third Term, Why Greenbacks Were lssucd, The Iriplo Alllance, The Caban Situstion, the Supremo Couxt, Tue Complicaticnn with Spain, the Union Pa- eific Raiiroad Suft, and the Navy Depariment, This atstement gives 3 fuir idea of the parer svery week, and {n thls connection attention fa called to an kmportant poiut. THE WEEKLY TRrsvae fu dated Wedneaday morning of each weok, 1s tade up at & o'clock on Wednesday morning to contain the nows of tia daly of that date, 18 printed with the ssme expo- dition &a the Dafly, mafled with the sams dispatch, aud in thic way goes to he subscribor at once a Weekly Lu Its comuletonuss and a Dally in its freshness, TAE WeEkLT TRBONE 18 mafled to single subserib- ers at §1.60 rer year; in clubs of fivo at $1.20; in cluba of twenty at $L.15, postago paid by the Publishers in i coeos, Tk TAIBUNE {5, without question, oue of 1be ablest Republican papers in tho country, and Ro- putlicans should put specimene (sent free) in the bands of all persons deatring a good political and fame Ay paper. —— AMUSEMENTS. MCVICK:R'S THEATRE—Madison_street, botween Dearborn and Siate, Lngagement of Barry Sulitvan, Afternoon, * The Strauger,” Dvening, * Richard 11L% ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn sireet, corner Monroo. Engagement of the Kiralfy Troupe, * Around the World in Lighty Days.” Afternoon and eveniug, HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph strest, betwsen Clarkaud LaSalle, Eogagewent of the Oslifornis Miustrels. Afteruoon and evening, NEW CHIOAGQ THEATRE—Clark street, betwoen Randolph and Lake, Lngagement of Kelly'k Leon's Miustrels, Aftarncon and evening, WOOD'S MUSRUM-Monroe streal, between Deare born and Blete, “Psep o Da; 000 sod #rening. SOCIETY MEETINGS. CHTC'ARO COUNTIL, No, 43, R. and §, M.—The An- Tel A newbly will be “held Ssturday evening, Dec, 4, at 70 o'clock, All members are requeated 1o Lo prese entan bsloess of importance will ba transacted. By onder J. U, MILES, Th. 1L, Master, ATTENTION., 8IR KN1GHTS l—5pecial Conclave of Apollo Comuywidery, No. 1, R, T.. thin (Baturday) Hing 81 Knighta Sourieqmuly B By h o courteonely fuvitad grderof the E 8. B, L xrl Recorder, “BUsINESS NOTIGES. COUNTRY DRUGGISTS VISITING CEHIQAGO slsuld not fail to call on. © Fuller x Fuller, Van Bchaack, Stevenson & Reld, Lord, 8mith & Co, E. Burnhsm, Son k Co., 1. A, Hurlbut & Co., -&J get o aupply of Dr. 8, D, Howe's Arablan Medi- cines @bn Chicagy Tdibumne, Saturday Mormug, Docember 4, 1875, WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greenbacks at tho New York Gold Ex- change yestevday oponed at 87, rose to 874, aud closed nt 873, Additional developments regarding the pon- sion frauds implicnte, it is said, quite & num- ber of Western lawyers, aud it is broadly hinted that several Ohicago solicitors have been forbidden to pmetice longor in that ca- pacity before the Pension Burcau, The trinls of the Whisky Ring cases in the United States Coust in Chicago have boen set to begin on Tuesday, Jon. 11, 1870, Judge BLopakTT, of tho District Court, will occupy the beneh during the progress of theso cases, and grent care will be exoroised in selecting such o panel a3 will secure in. telligent and incorruptible jurics, ———— ‘The sovers punishmont yesterday inflicted by Judze Bropakrr upon a dishonest juror in the United States District Court will not fail to havoa good eoffect mpon the forth. coming whisky«raud trisls, It is o notice to the world that juroms will be alosoly watched and beld to a strict noccount for any dereliction. The mun TFereusox got no further than a puipable attempt to negatiato with one of the parties fn an jwportant suit, but he was rigorouzly dealt with, and justly, too, ——— The battle for the Spenkendip of tho Na- tional Mouss of Representatives will, it is presumed, be settled to-day, Ths contest has raged flercely, and more bad blood Las rosulted from it than mppears on the surface. Iriends of Rawvary and Kxen bave uot been choice in their Xpros- slous in the work of decrymg and bolittling the merits of tho opposing vandidates, and it ghwines were in fair domand and steady, at §L11 per gallon, Flour was dull nnd cosicr, Whent was more active, and 1}e low- er. closing -t $1.00§ cash and £1.01} for Jan- nary. Corn was dull, and jo lower, closing at 45je for Decembor, and 463c for May, Oats wore more netive, and }@{c lower, closing at 29jc eash, and 40o for Jonunry. Ryo was quiot nt 686 68}c. Barley was more nctive, and 1@1}c lower, closing at 8t}c cash, and Bijo for Jannary. Hogs were netive and i@ 10c higher, with the bullk of ralos at 6,756 7.00. Cottle and slicep were firm and un. changed. Ono hundred dollars in gold would Luy £114.75 in greonbacks ot the close, Count ANprassy, the Russian Prime Minis- ter, ns raprosentative of the Groat Powers, hag drawn np a list of reforms for the Turk- ish provinces. Tho document has already been snbmitted to BrsManck and Gonrscus- RorFP, the German and Russinn Promicrs, and receives their full sanetion. The swaller European Powers will be invited to lend their influenco in behnlf of this movement, after which the Porte will be notified that the will of the combined Powers of Enrope 1s the law of the Ottoman Eupire. Euver Wasununy, Chisf of the Treasury Secret Service, makes a fine whowing in bhis report covering tho operations of the Sorvico during the nine montbs ending Juno 80, ‘The counterfoiters claimed tho larger portion of tho attention of the Chief and his detoe- tivos, whoue captures of **crooked” curroncy aggregated a face valne of 124,069, and it is carious to note that among the counterfeiters arrested there was one clergyman, one law- yer, and thirty.threo farmers. Valuable ser- vico wns also rendered in ferreting out intor. aal revenue, pension, and bouuty frauds, ——ee 2, Wirrtax O. Aveny, lato Chief Clerk of the Internal Revenue Burenu, hns joined tho list of Secrotary Bristow's vietims, and will be relegated to the enforced companionship of Jorcs and McDoxarp within the walls of the Missouri Penitentiary, unless perchanco he may bo so0 fortunate as to receivo n sentence of leszer length in the County Jail at St. Louis. A verdict of guilly was yesterday rendered by the jury in Aveny's case, and he was romauded to jail in accordance with Judge Treat's policy of withholding sen- tenco until all the trials have been concluded, and the relative mensuro of yuilt in ench case can bo determined, That *‘soction of the day of judgment,” Mrs, Esna C. Mourroy, is heard from ngain, In her roply to the Plymouth Church letter sho hos announced four supplemental propo- sitions to bo submitted in ker own behalf to the proposed Mutual Council, accompnnying theso with o full and forcible reiteration of the rensons she has before assigned for her nbsonteeista. Bhe puts her foot down firmly, aud, s usual, it mckes an impres- sion. The points she names for present. ment to the Council are, in substance, whether her conviction of Mr. Bexcuen's wickedness was justified by the evidenco she had; if jostified, ought she to have continued her attondance upon Mr. Brecn. En's spiritual ministrations? and, after bav- ing stated her reasons, ought her name to have been dropped, and, if improperly drop- ped, will the Council certify to that fact? Thus tho issuo is sharply defined by Mrs, Mourzox,—scarcely less so than in Deacon ‘West's laconic synopsis of tho merits of the grent scandal case. Betweon the two, Plym- outh Church is fairly pinned to the wall, and can hardly escapo the necessity of coming squarely befors the Council and facing the music. There is » prospect of a ronowal of the scones of violenco and bloodshed which oc- onrred last winter in the Pennsylvania coal rogions, It is announced that by the 15th of this month a general suspension of work {n the anthracite mines will occur, and that 10,000 men will bo thrown out of em. for the winter. ployment The or- der for this wholesale suspension pro. ceods of courso from the Anthrs. cite Monopoly in New York, which Lolds in tho Liollow of n merciless hand tho controt of the cosl production, and which dictates the price of coal at all the principal centres of shipment. Tha reason assigned for order- ing & general uspension of mining operations is over-production,—that is to say, acoatinu. anco of work throughout the winter would result in the mining of n larger quantity of conl than could be disposed of at present Pprices ; but the lordly monopolists keep up tho price just the same,and in tho end inflict s doublo damage in limiting consumption and in throwing out of employment thon- sauds of mon. It ean bo claimed for the idlo sud discontented miners, and with not a little Jjustice, that thoy alone should not be held accountable for the ern of lawlessuess and crimo which follows a genoral suspension of work, but that the eelfish and grasping policy of the mine-owning monopoly is in some mensura morally responsible, for the bad blood and violenoce of the unomployed thou. sands, e ——— THE BUPREME COURT ELECTION, The Chicago Republican Central Cornmit- teo is contemplating tho expediency of call- ing a Convention to nominate a Judgo of the Supreme Court from this district to fill the vacanoy caused by the recent resignation of Judgoe McAruisTen, and the Governor lias is. sued his proclamation fixing the 21st of this month as tho timo for the election, Tho Demoerata alrendy have their caundidato in the field,—Judge Dicery, late of Ottaws, and the present Corporation Conusel of tho city, e will be supported by all mers Democratic purtisaus in general, and by the Cowviy crowd in partioular, The former will work for aud suppert him because ho is o Demo. crat. The latter will work for him for n ore special aud personal reason. The ques. tion must come before the Bupremo Court whother CoLviy shall hold over for eighteon twonths longer than the term for which he was elacted, and, us Mr. Dicrey hos already givon an nflinuative opinion upon this ques. tion, ho of clurue would feel bound to up- bold this opinion it Le wero clected to the BSuprome Dench. Ionce the City- Hall erowd will bo expected to work for his olection. On the other side thore are two candidates who are alrcady bofore the people for eleotion,—Judge Vax H. Hicoing, ex- Judge of the Suporior Court from 1839 to is Intimated that nroney is laying around vory loosely in places convenient to those mera- bers who have not the moral qualifications to Teuist temptation. The Chicago produce markets were general- 1y tame yosterday, Mess pork was in mod. erate demand, and a shode firmer, closing at $19.07§ for Decomber, aud $19.25 for Febra. ary. Lard was quiet and firm, closing at $12.12} per 100 tvs for December, and $12.80 @12.33} for February, Meats ware quist axd eaxiex, 8t 744 for shoulders, 10@104u for short sibs, and 10}s 1ux shord elewrd, ali boxed, 1865, aud Mr, H, B, Huup, who resides in Evanston. 'I'e latter Lag Porewptorily de- clined to withdraw in favor of the former, %0 that s mutual agreomont on one iy fin. possible, and the Republican vote being thus divided the result of the eleotion is obvious, and Dicxry's election assured, if both run, Finding themselved in this dilomma, the Cen. tral. Committes have made a suggestion to the Central Committess of other counties in this Judiolal Distriot to meast here on the Tth ingt, for comsultation with refersnce to the sxpedisncy ol o oalllig & Comvention, There is no doubt that many Republicans are averse togiving the olection n partisan char. soter, if it can bo avoided. They want the bost man for the plece, reganlless of his party affiliations. Incorrupti- ble character, legal learning, aud abili- ty and industrious capacity ara tho throe essontinl roquisites for n Supremo Jhdge, but in the presont stato of tho case they must either mako the election appenr to bo partisan in character or they must surrondor it to the other side, and thus give the Democracy fire out of tho arren Supreme Judges. The Dem. ocraty have nlways made it a rule to nominata Judges from their own party in Democratic districts, and in Republiean districts to raise the hue sud ery of “'no party " and *the best man for the place,” aud by this sharp policy have secured nearly all of the Judges in o Republican State, Inasmuch, thercforo, s there is no probability of one of tho two candidates in the field withdrawing in favor of tho other, it seems necossary to eall n Con. vention and present a single candidate, and then lenve the responsibility of electing him totho citizens. The vole polled will un- doubtedly be a light ono. but if nny effort is made the Republican candidate can be electsd. In muy event, tho clasa of peopls that will vote are those who fesl intarested. and they can bo safely trusted to discriminato in favor of tho best wan. To avoid the nocessity of primarics, the dolegates of the recent County Convention might bo called togethier angain, aund with propriety, since the vacanoy on the Supremo Bench was in part caused by the action of this Conven- tion. No ono should offer any objection to this plan, and it will save the public time, trouble, and expense, That Convention was wmnde up of fair-minded and respectablo dele- gates. Theynomicated a good county ticket, and they can be relied upon to nominate n good man for the Suprome Bench,~as good o man as con be found who will consont to undertake the great Iabor for the small snlary of tho position. Thero does not seem to be auy other avonue of escape from the present couplicated condition of the canvass, and the people will still bo left free to oxercise their own choico and cleet the best man, e THE LAKE-FR0NT AND ACT OF 1809, We printed o communication yestorday on the Lake-Front question, written by a prom. inent member of the legal profession in this city, which alleges that the real purposo of the Tlinois Central and other roilroads in offering to pay §9300,000 to the city for a quit-claim deed to tho three blocks bounded by Randolph and Monroo streets is to revive the rights they acquired under the aot of the Legislature of 1869, & ‘While we favor the quit-claim sale of tho throo blocks for £800,000 so far ns the city has eny claim on them, wo are unalterably opposed to the transter of any such rights as the act of 1369 gave to thoso railronds, and do not understand that a quit-claim deed for the threo blocks would carry with it any such powers and privileges, or that the rail- roads offering to purchase & quit-cleim to the three blocks so understand the transaction, Tho lawyer who has set up that this would be the effect of such transfer thus states the cose: The trus question at frae s this : Shall the ratl. roads now Lo atlowed to come n, set sside tlelr de- faults of the past, and comply with fhe conditions re- poaled in the act of 1862, Ly tho conniranco and con. sont of tho City of Chicago? Henoe the queation s ot thesale of the thres blocks of ground for £5:0,000, but the acquisition under au act no longer in forco of 3 aquare miles of territors—submarged land—outaido their breskwator aloug and sbutting on the wholo Hichigan avenuo frous from the South Pler to the ronnd-house of the Minots Central Baitroad. Tho legal gentleman who puts this con. strnction upon the proposed sale fails, we think, on his own showing, to make out the caso. Wo understand that this offer is renlly an ontirely new transaction, and do not com- prebend how it can galvanizo the ropealed act of 1860 or its intended effects, nud this we conclude from the vory statement of the gon- tleman who holds to this opinion, and who says, farthor : Should the City of Chicago concedo tho Hght of the ralirosds to claim, under the act of 1869, ali that tefri- tory, a milo 1n width aud nesrly 3 miles fn length, of submerged land, which, under that act, the ruiroad has lost by its tepeal, by suffering the road now o comply with the conditions which it befors negleoted ; snd which, before tha repeal of tha act, bad never been acted upon or nccopted 7 No righta had vewled, and theruforothe ropeal was not void, s the railrosd clatma, It will bo soen, thercfore, that if the condi tions imposed on tho railroads, by the act of 1849, wura not fn fact accepted by the city, nor perforned by the ratlroads, that all yretense to riuhts veated, which could N9t be tuken awag by repeal, falis to the grouna, Tho nct of 1860 conferred the right upon the railroada to claim & certain stroteh of sub. merged lnnd as far south ne the round-house upon ceriain conditions. Itis nnotorious fact that all theso conditions wero not complied with, Concedod evon that the first tender was properly made, the second tender wns certainly never mado at all, and of course not within the time required by the law, Pend. ing tho failuro of the railronds to comply with the terms of the lnw, tho act of 1869 wasropealed. Had the railroads fulfilled the conditions imposed upon them to the letter prior the pasange of the repeal.act, it may bo conceded that the State could not have vi. olated a contract which the contracting par tien hiod nccepted and fulfilled. Dut it cor- tainly seems na though, the rnilroads having permitted their rights under the act of 186 to lopse by their fallure to fuldll thelr part of the contract, tho Legislaturo had a perfect right to repeal that act 8o as to provent tho railroads from acquiring in the futare any rights which they had failod to no- quire according to the terms of the act of 1809, If thisls a correct statomont of the law of thecase, then the purchase by the raflronds of a (uit-claim deed from tho city would not revive the provisions of an sct of tho Logislature that has been ropealed, nor galvanizo rights under that act which were never saved by o complisuco with ita pro- visiona, If the railroads forfeited the privi. loges which tho act of 18GY sought to confer upon thom, and after such forfeiture the nct was ropenled 50 as to prevent the railroads from ncquiring the samo rights at auy time in the future, how can the city recouvey thoso rights to the railronds by giving a quit. clnim decd to three blocks by mnictes and bounds ¥ In other words, how can the city's quit-claim deed to the property lying between Randolph and Mouroo strests convey, of and Ly itself, a title to the submergod lands abut- ting on tho property lying sonth of the soutl. ern limit of the property which the city quit- cluims ? While we cannot possibly understand that there is any law which will warrant such a construction of the proposed sale, and while 3Mr, Dovorss hos certainly avowed no pur- pose on the patt of the railroads to recover by this transaction rights which his Company bave fost by the repeal of the act of 1869, we should think any well-founded danger ©of such & possibility could be fully met and tet aslde by an sgreoment between the city #3d the rallcoad or Tallroads purchasing thy thres blocks, If the railrosds which desire 10 purahase the thres blosks botween Bau. dolph and Monrue streets have no purposo ol theroby nequiring by such purchase any claim to the submerged land in frout of property lying south of Monroe strect, they will not decline to enter fnto a formal agreeruent waiving nny such effect of the quit-claim purchase, The Corporation Coun- scl may cnaily draw up an agreemont which shall expressly stipulate that the quit-claim deed of the city to the threo blocks shall not earry with it any rights to the sub. merged property lying south of the threo blocks that may be claimed by the purchoser under the nact of 1843, but thnt all question to riparian rights in the submerged land abuttiug on the property ly- ing south of Monroo shall remnin as they wero beforo the sale by quit-claim. Tho rall- rond compnnics purchasing the three blooks will not refuso to enter into such an agree- ment if it is simply their intention to acquire a titlo to tho three blocks such ns the clty can give. If their purpose is what onr cor- respondent charges, and if there is danger that the city's quit-claim to the throo blocks would give thoe railronds the rights south of Monros street which the act of 1869 confer. red upon them, in spite of the failuro of the railronds to comply with the torms of that contraot before it was repealed, then such an sgreement must bo mnde batween the city and the purchasers, or the sale must be in. definitely postponed. There is noboedy In Chicago who is willing to give tho railroads or any other party for 2800,009, nor soveral times that suw, the right to build docks, alips, warchouses, and a great commercial city *from the South Pier to the round- house " in frout of the present Lake Park. EX-SENATOR OARPENTER AXD THE MIL- WAUREE WHIIKY RING. Wo find in tho Milwaukee Yentinel of yes. terday the following communiention purport. ing to como from ex-Semntor CampeNTFR, printed under tho title of ‘“An Open Letter to the Editor of Tar Caxcaao Tnisuse You have secn fit 40 cbarge 1n enbatance (7), or pub- lish communications which {n substence, chsrgo mo with having boon o member (7), or orgapizer of, or conuected with, what you choose to donomlnite tha Whi:ky Ring in Miiwankeo; by which sour resd:rs will ainlerstaud, as you ntend they ehat { ), that I wae, wlile a Senstor (1), n sharer In tho fruit of frauds ugon the Lutornal Bevenus laws of the United States (©h!ohl 1sm now very mach cngaged fn attending to therights of (Whisky Ringj lients in tho United Btates Courts here; but 13 2000 88 L can get the necessary lelgure, which Thoze will Lo withhu n faw weeks, I will sue 30m for libal, and thus afford you a falr opportunity to prove your charges, if you esn, 11 your chargos 7o truc, T4 a diegraced man; it not, you are; and which is tho villalo wo will aubmit 10 tho determination of a fury, whore the differenco Dbetwyon truth aud faleehood I8 recogmized, If yon can etatlish my guilt I ought to be disgraced, and am wiling to ba; If you cannot, 50u ought to be, howorer unwiliing you may be, 1 will ot take you ¢3 Washington, nor Nova Scotla, ner Cubs, nor Cheynnne, nodor the PoluNp Oag. Iaw11! Lut will ano sou in the United Statea Clronit Qourt for the Northern District of Illinols; and you may 28 wll bo collecting your evidence upon the sub- oot M7 1, CanreNTER, If 3Ir. OaRPENTER Were not so busily en. goged in defending his clionts in Milwaukes who are amaigned as mombers of the Whisky Riog, wo shonld be jnstified in saying that hia letter containy the only libel that hasboen utttored thne for when he ncouses Tme ‘In1punE of giving its readers to understand, and intending that they shell undorstand, that he * was, while a Senator, a sharerin the froit of frauds upon the Internal Revenne lnwsof tho United States.” Wehavesecarchod the files of Tne Trmoxe vory oarefully, and can find nothing in its Milwaukoo corre- spondencae or clsewhere which warrants Mr. Caneexren in any such conclusion, and wo presume that, when he brings his libel snit to trial, the law will aZord Tax Tamuxe an opportunity for filing a cross-bill for tho libel which he has thus uttered against it. Weo shall make sllowance, however, for the pressuro of his present ougegemonts in Afil- waukes, and charitably sssume that he has been misléd by somo mallolous or ignorant pereon, and hoa not had time to oxamine the case for himself. Tho facts in the mattor are simply theso: Tnr Tamuse had good renson to suspect, from the indictments that had beon found in Milwankeo, the existenco in that city of a ‘Whisky Ring similar to that unearthed in 8t. Louis, But it searchoed the Milwaukee papers in vain to find any information on the sub- Ject. It nlso endosvored unsuccessfully to procure local correspondenco from that city setting forth the faots and ramifications of tho whisky frands in & manner Lefitting the public interest in the subject. It was on thiy account that Tnz TninuNe detailed a compa- tent and, we believe, trustworthy reporter, to ascertain and communicate tho actual state of affairs, and from day to day to telegraph the facts and the progress of tho varions tri- als. This roporter was dispatched to Mil. wankee without any other {nstructions than to roport what he should sscertain after a thorough investigation, Personally ho could Lave no possiblo interest in the matter, and wo havo yot no reason to bellove that ho has willfally botrayoed Tig Tainunz into printing any charges or statoments which ars not founded on truth. The burden of the entire charges of our Milwaukee dispatches, as wo bavs gloaned it from ro-reading the, is, 50 far ns Mr, Can- PENTER is concerned, that he, while Senator, cansod certain officials to Lo displaced and so- cured tha appolatment of others who have since been indicted, aud somo of whom con- victed, as members of the Whisky Ring; and that ho is now eugagoed in defending, asa lawyer, tha men whose appointmont he se. cured throngh his influcnce as Scnator, If this is not trne, then wo shall have to admit thet Tar Trrovse has *liboled” ex-Senator CazeryTER ; but otherwise not, for this is all that it has said, It was charged, for instance, thut Senator Canesxres hod n Revenue Agont named Buarex removed, and told him that it was bocause certaln Wisconsin political infla. ence wouldopposo Mr, CanpexTEN's ro-sloction a3 Senator, unlers his (Bunees's) place were given to a man named CovsLmig, This man Coogvrva, sppoluted, as our reporter was in. formel, at Bonator UanrexTzs's instance, or through Lis influence, i now under indict. ment and is thought to have been the treas- urer of the Milwaukes Whisky Ring. It has alio beon reported that Mr. CanrentEn was favorable to the postponement of Rrupsgors's case, and Musn's lettor to Commissioner Dovarass is our suthority for it, It has been published that Weisazer, Chief Doputy Col. leotor, and MoeLiEn, 8 Gouger, who have sinca been convicted of fraud, were once ro- moved on suspicion and afterwards rein. stated ot the inatanco of Senator OanrenTES, 1f thiv is not truo, then Senator JaRPENTER bas been misreported, and is entitled to a correction, W shall assist him in ony way in our power in bringing out the faats elther in ot or out of court, as that {fa all we dealre to print. But when he says thet we have charged that Le ** was, while a Senator, & sharer in the frult of frauds upon the In. tornal Revenus lawsof the United States,” be lbeld Tum Tumvwn Indesd, ons day Tne TRIRUNE's reporter sont dispatches to this journal that he had investigated tho rumor in Milwaukeo that ex-Senator Canrex- TER was to be Indicted for complicity in the whisky frauds, **and had discovered it to be wholly unfounded.” Whatever Tue TamoNE hea actually said about Mr, CanrENTER ho cau properly submit to tho Court and jury in lis proposed libel suit; but what he imngines or has been told it soid about Lim can hardly bo accopted ns evidence, Tmz TrimuNe, however, is not averse to o legal investigation of the oxtent it hins “*libeled " the attornoy of the Milwau. keo Whisky Ring. TRE POSTAL DEFICILNOY. The annusl report of the Postmastor-Gon. eral for the year ending June last, a synopsis of which has nirendy appeared in Tuz Tnip- UNE, presents somo very uncomfortable facts which call for the serious attention of the next Congress, ns they have grown out of the hosty and reckless legislation of past Con. gresses, By tho passage of omnibus route bills and In othor weys tho expenses have been increased faster than the income, and there is n serions deficiency, which is entailed upon the general tax-payers. Daily mail ser. vices by tho hundred have beon ordered which were not needed, mud don't pny. Weekly Lines to remote places have been changed to tri-weekly, semi-weokly to daily, and daily to double-daily, withont any necessity for the change, untl tho actual expouse of cmrying n letter to some of these remote regionn has reached 40 cents, or more than gixteen times the pay for the letter. A considerable su has been lost to the Department by the convoyanes of froo nows. papers,—how much Is not stated in the Post. master's report. It is nleo reported that somo change fm the modo of compensnting Postmasters and othor ewployes has added o million a year to the oxpensos. Straw-bidding for mail carrying has beon reduced to n fino scionce,—and ngainst which the Postmaster.General is powerless nnless he is aided by additionnl legislation,—nnd has ndded immensely to the gxpenses of the De. partment. The gonernl result of this combi. nation of causes is shown in tho Postmaster- Qeneral's figures. Tha receipts for tho yoar onding June 1, 1875, wera only §97,- 411,80, while the exponditures were 83,611,309, or more than $6,000,000 in excess. Tho receipts exceed those of the previous yosr only 1.18-100 per cont, but the expenditures 4.02.100. The increnso of exponditare since June laat makes the to- tal deficit for the next year $8,000,000, und, if it keeps on at this rato for a foew years, the deficit will reach proportions alarming to contemplate, which will have to bo added to the deficiency bill and levied upon the general tex-payers. This state of things must be charged as the result of careless and reckless legislation by Congresamen who, for purposes of buncombe or re-election, arealways ready to vote for any schemo that takes money out of other poo- plo's pockets. The new Congress should grapplo with this condition of things ond remedy it. They should recog. nizo the fact that, whilo roceipts aro sbout stationary, the expenses aro con- tinually going up, and that there {s alroady & deficiency of £8,000,000 which tho people have got to pny. They must do ono of threo things—eithor continuo to lot theso oxpensos increase and incrense taxation pro- portionately ; or they must cut down ex- ponsos ; or incroase the rate of latter post. age. Tho increnso of rates on lattors would wndoubtedly make good n part of tho de- ficiency, but the firat and most necessary mensure ig to cut down tho expenses. The swindling system of straw.bidding should be remedied, and thera is ample raom for econ- omy in reducing tho services on non-paying routes. The condition of things hos become too serions for indefinite delay. ————— IMPORTANT DECISION IN COMMEROIAL LAW, Bome recont decisions with regard to billa of lading have sproad nlarm among merchants and commission men in the hnbit of making largo advances of money on the security of theso instruments, In Chicago alone, hun. dreds of thousands of dollars are advanced every day in thls way, and yet it appears thnt by the common law, a8 interproted by the courts, the security of the bill of lnding may be nothing, The principle of law involved is an old one, bt its application has bocome serions in those days of tho extonsion of tho bill of lading with the enormous traffio of in- land trade, growing under the stimulus of the railrond with a ropidity unexampled in the commercial history of tle world, The cotton, grain, ments, tobacco, petro- loum, and other products of this country constitute by far the largest part of its an. nual produetion, nud thess are, virtually, oll moved by bills of lading, Millions of dollars are advanced on them to the producers by the mercantlle class before they obtain pos- sesglon of the stuff, Tho advances are made solely on rolianco on the bills of lading, Tho possibility of sorious loss through this trust is therefore of great concorn to all our busi- ness intercts. Buch a danger it now ap- puars arises from the principle of law that bills of lading nre not negotiablo instrumonts, —a principlo that derives an importancs it could never otherwiss Liave had from tho ap. pearance of tho railroad as the great common corrior, ‘Thoconsequences of the principloare best shown in & recent case that tumed upon it. Mrizser, & Borp, of Baltimore, sued the Littlo Miami Railway of Obio to recover ad- vances mado to ong ALEXANDER on the faith of Lills of lading issued by the ruilroad. The bill of lading issued by the railroad stated that 200 barrels of flour had been re- ceived from Arexanozn. Proportionate ad. vances were therenpon msde to him by Mxrx. 8xL & Bovn. Arexanpen became Lankrupt, It was discovercd that the shipment of flour hod been only 100 barrels, not 200, and suit wns brought to get back the oxcessive ad. vances from the rallroad on the ground that 1t was lisble for the mistake in its bill of lad. ing. The Court held that the Company was not Hable; that the bill of lading was not n negotiable instrument; that, therefore, third parties acquired no rights boyond those of the original holder; that the bill of lad. iug transfers, by indorsement, tle title to the property it notnally represents, but not to fiotitious property ; that a common carrier or Lis agent has no suthority to give o hill of lading for property that is not reccived; that overy one taking a bill of lading is pre- sumed by the law to know that itis good only for the property actually received; that whon & bill of lading is issued in excess of the nctusl goods received, the agent is ex- ceeding his authority and doos not bind his principal, Thisis the law, The same decision was givon in a similar case,—that of the Second National Bank of Toledo against Warsrivox, ~acd the same ruling is held in England, This law leaves svery one making advances on abill of Iading at the mercy of the saze. 4, 1875.—TWELVE PAGESR. lessness or villainy of the railway agont who receive goods for shipment. No mntter how gross or criminnl his mistake may be, tho railroad {s not Louud. In one fostauce, a railway agent, who was also n grain denler, attempted to swindlo several commission houses in Baltimore by false bills of lading, and wag sucoossful ; but his conucience ress- sorted itself, and ho made restitution beforo the fraud was discovered. The railroads have apparently all the advantage and all the law on their sido. Even when the bill of lading s ali right, they do not hold them. selves bound to delivor a full con. signmont. Tho merchants in this city,—in fnot in every city,—who have vainly sought compensntion from railronds for *shortages,” know how true this statement fs, Such n stato of afairs mny bo Inw; it is not justice, Law is not always just; but it is approximat- ing more and more to justico; the establish- mont of equity courts ia a famniliar instance, The presont attitude of thelaw to bills of 1ad- ing ls liko that in the last century to bills of exchange. The English courts, it is n mntter of history, long resistod tha negotinbility of bills of excliauge, The order to A to pay B on Q' account hud to be oarried by B from O to A, and payment made to him in porson. It was not until after three conturies of wuse that the courts ; yieldod to the convenience of the publio and allowed inland bills of exchange to pms by indorsement. To meet this cnso of the bill of lading, tho courts must yield ngain to public convenienco or tho Legislature must devise gomo remody, It {s intolerable that roilronds—which exist as corporations only by the permission of the people, obtsin thair right of way only by the delegation to them by the people of the right of eminont do- main, and make all their enormouns profits on stock, watered nnd other, from the peo- ple—should be aliowed by tho law to main. tain any such attitude toward the publio. THE PENSION FRAUDS. Lightning has atruck again; this time not omong tho crookad whisky-barrels, but among tho crooked pensions. Brisrow's bold nttack upon the Whisky Rings has beon quickly fol- lowed up by an egually bold attack of old Zace CruxpLenupon the Claim-Agents' Rings, and it now looks o3 if thero might be o gon- eral movement all olong the line at an enrly day, and that tho Presidant’s peremptory in- junction to **Lat no guilty man escapa” will be Caaxbren's as woll ss Bristow's policy. No prisoners are to ba paroled. Itistobs o warof extermination. Tho new uest of corruption is quite ns Iarge, and in some respeots ns serious, as that which Becretary Brrstow discovered, These frauds have long been suspected, and tho Commissioner of Ponsions has for somo timo belioved that, during Deraxo's administra. tion and even before that time, there was a goneral thiovish ring of clalm.ngents running in bogus namos upon the ponsion.lists until they have become loaded down with thou- sands of improper names, and the tex-payers have thereby suffered a loss of millions of dollars. 1t is nearly eleven years ginee the War closed. Many thonsands of pensioners have ded aud othor thonsands have been ro- moved, nnd yot the list has constantly grown and the accounts inve constantly incressed. In Philadolphis alone, 23,000 oases have beon suspended for re-examination, Involving & payment of 32,000,000 annually, which has gone into the hands of this Eostern ring of claim-agents. How much moro hes beon obtained by theso fraudulent practices of the claim.sgents time alons can tell, but intima~ tions aro already given that there sra similar rings in other citics. The discovery of this new nest of corrnp- tlon is one of the benefits which has attonded the recent, but too-long delayed, changein the Dopartment of tho Interior. Socretary Craxprzs belng a now man, of course has no nafilliations with the past and no satellites to protect. He is nothing to Hecona nor Hze. una to him, He s at perfect liberty to pull out and root out everything in the Penalon Daopartment, uptarn every rock in the fleld, and stamp out the vermin whick have been swarming ander them. In this cnse he hag struck a perfect bonsnza of scoundrelism, aud, being absolutely freo to dig and blast, and having tho disposition todo it, the coun- try can rest contented with the assurance that ho will mine the bonanza to its dcepest dopths, It is 8 good year for this kind of work, Becrotary Bnistow is cleaning up his nest slowly bat vory surely, undisturbed by the fiuttorings of the foul birde and the squirming of the reptiles which havo been swarming in it Secretary Craxprer will work with oqual in. dustry and determination, and betwaon thom thero is every renson to hope that two dopartmonts will bo clenned and purifled. The country is precisely in the condition of o cancor patient, and Drs. Brisrow and Omuxpren are cutting and cauterizing in a manaer which will romove the disesse. Now that the operation has commenced, it must go on without delay. If there aro frauds in other dopartments, they, too, must be ox- posed and removed. Every fibro of this great cancer of corruption must be killed. Fora year to como no bottor or more important work can engage the attontion of the an. thorities than to exposo and punish the thieves and rascals who have been rioting upon their {ll.gotten gaina and bleeding fhe tax-payers of this country, Tho ouly injunc- tion of the pooplo will bo to make the work thorongh and to punish to the extent of the law; to turn and overtnrn without ragard to persons ; and to utterly root ont every vod- tige of carruption. This done, the country will be in a healthy condition once moro. —_—— AN INDICTMERT OF TRADE-UNIORISM. W. T Taonxton’s book on *Labouk " isa standard authority. In conjunction with Brasser's * Work and Wages," it forms an indispenanble tool for tho social scientist, The two contain a mine of information for every woge-getter. ¢ Work and Wages"” ia written from tho standpoint of cepital; “Liabour ” from that of labor, Each corrects the other, We mny say, en passant, that the Chicage Publio Library contalns the former Look, thanks to the generoalty of one of our cltizens, but that the latter, though ropeated- ly asked for, has not boen obtained. The wmoney that should have been spent for it bas been ezpended oa **The Red Bloud. bound of Murderer's Guleh,” * The Adven. tures of a Oue-Eyed Detoctive,” and gimilar trash. Wa have extracied from Tromwrow's book some very Interesting facts in relation to the defocts of the trade-unionism which the aathor, as a rule, praises so highly, The instances are necessarily isolated, but they form together & strong indictment against the combination of labor on the plan at Ppresont in vogue. Throughout Lancashire, the unions of brickmakers and bricklsyers are in lsague, The whole county is divided into districts, and in ench bricklayers will only lay bricks that have bean made in the particular dis. trioh The comsequsnse has been a rulnowe destruction of capflal, Thero fs alittls Crosk 4 miles from Manchester and 2 from the Town of Ashton. This hao been choson g 8 boundary. All brickn laid in Mancheste, wust bo made on ono side of tho ereel; o those laid in Ashiton on the other. Tigre 1 not very much building in the Intter; they ia much in the former. On tho Ashion side of tho crook, thore {s an exteusive brickyarg, ‘Whon the trade.union rules went into open. tion, 500,000 brick wore stacked thiere, They aro there still. Tho brickmakers and Drick, layers of Manchoster have earried out the theorfen of protection to its utmost limlt, ang tho result i that the capital formerly nsaq in the Ashiton brickyard lies idle, and the di. minislied supply of bricks in the Mancheater mnrket hns rofsod the price and chieckeq bLuilding. The unions aro so atrong that they liavs catnblished an fmperinm in imperio, with lawg and o judicntura of {ts own. Their courtg aro o8 gecret a4 thoue of the Vehm-Gerehy of mediseval Germany, and liko those bear only one sido of the caso, ond that the Plaintifrs, Tho unions flue any one, no matter whay his oconpation, who transgresses their rnles, ang the fino must bo paid before the viotim con " havo any more work domo for him, Ia Bolton, some bricklayers who were passing by a8 Mr. Dars placo of businesy heard some one hammering inaide, They looked in and eaw who wns fixing some foists Lnoclk out g brlok or two from the wall in order to inser oneend of a joist. Their union fined Day £2 for allowing the carpenter to do Lrloklay. or's work. At Blackpoo], the bookkeeper of a Lionsa painting firm had to mensure some work, He o carpentey - found that tho warks on hia rod wers nenly rubbed off, aud ho therefore took a littly paint and re-marked them. His emploger soon after got a letter from their operntives' union, asking that the bookkecper shonlq not be allowed to do this ogain, * ho not be. ing o painter.” Fortunntely, no fine wag losiad for this heinous offense, Tho umions forbid a first-class operatives % doing moro than an averago hand. Thera is [ regular senle of fines for such offensey, The legal amount of labor is often explicitly de flned. At Leeds, * any brother in the union presuming to carry more [bricks] than the comunon number, which Is eight, shall be finod 1e.;" and oy brothor knowing the samo without giving the eatli. est Information thereof to the Com. mittee of Management shall bo fined the same.” At Birmingham, the hod-carrien aro allowed to convey twelve bricks to the first floor, and ten to the second, but only eight to the third. And if o ledder reaches the third story, o hodwan going up only te tho first will carry but elght bricks, alleging in excuse that the ladder isn “threestoy ono.” We might give many mare instances from the samo authority,—and it is to be remem. bored that 3. TnonsToN is an almost ps. | sionate champlon of workingmen,—but thess suffice. Such barbarously stapid rulesare s disgrace to the unlons, ond Justify alwost overything that haa been said against then., It is ovident that labor is not sufliciently well educated to fight its battles in o roasonably sensiblo way. It is but falr to say, howerer, that all these monstrous mistakes can find parallels in tho measures sdopted by protw tionist omployers in this country. They me founded on tho basis of ell protection,—{he fatal error of * making" work instesd of doing it. y = contradiction 1n torms, but & cage of it ia reported from Lyoas. There bag beon an exhibition of palmingsond statues In that Red Republican oity. The atatues were, of courso, more or less nude High art has not yet sunk to the lovol of repro- sonting a man io pentaloons and stove-pips has ora woman in 4 pull-baok and naw spriug Loa. met. But tho nudity was too much for the Lyons Committos on the Fiog Arta. They pur chased & quantity of flaunol and endowed the marbles with sweddling clothes, The effoct must bavo been uniqus, but:tho artists wers probably not deoply obliged to the Cowmittee. The lattor, bowever, might appeal to s somohat notablo procadent. When AMicmzi Avoxrio tios isbied his great painting of the Last Judgment and uncoverod it for the inspection of his Papal patron, the latter was horried by ths genoral nakedness of God and dovils, the good and tho damned. Axogro refused to siter bis derign, and 80 DaNteL DA VOLTENA, the painter of tho ' Dercent from the Crow,” which i called the third grestest pictureln the world, was called in. He painted garmonts for Chris) xnd the Virgin Many and for most of the mu_lu- tude. This was woreo than tho Lyons practice for flsunsl can bo taken off and palot cavnot. "Tho clothes oling to the figures in the ** Lust Judgmeut™ etill, and Daxmzre pa VorTexa goes domn luto history by the name which the paople of Rame gavo him,~—*‘Davm the breeches-maker.” Tho ex-Fon. Marr Canrxy7en, tho attorney of the indicted members of the Milwaukes Whisky Bmg, bas sont the followiog open lo}o- letter to tho editor of the Chicago Evening iy Chi Evoning Journal: Tuo 1 i ag0. : ,x,f,"g':‘:nfi'd“fi’;u“.frw rof Do, 1 with havims acted e ey fos fhie Whirky Riog duiring my Beatorid term, aud say 1 had no right to da %0, 8 Tam exossdingly busy st pressut, but a8 soon s can find time I will afford you an o) auity to prove yuur ehirge snd it 700 o 1 ah g;;-,mm @ Fe4E souniluon ey Cares'ren Referring to tho above throat to begin libol sult, the Journal saywt m" wz-Benator, it I8 scid foels aggrieved t the following words in an editorial in Wedneadsys Juure nal on the Milwsukes Whisky Ringof revenus-ds- oo i has Leen ceesful In ‘ba Milwsukse ning has more aue n:vflu down disciosirea. tiag the one &t St Lotls; but the facts are leaking out, and tha prosecuticn wey rosch to bod-rook yel, Ex.Benstor Canrmsizn is clief counsal for 1hs defense, [lo Las » purfuc rigd tasctin (hat capacity, for lie i & private citizen, bub Le bad no right 1o act as st for the riaj uny Lits Banatortal terns, fact thst ho did so eluat 1a rv-daction. ” OLe: gaos! 1 true, @ cou 1ot besn for bie dureliction 1a (DAY partioular, ; Sonators and Hoprosentatives should take waruini. Tt lastimony ag.Lust Walsxxa, s rectifer, and Tty & Gauger, wue concluded yesterday, A very # “;"‘ cado lius Uoen made out agebuut theus, MorLutk, te conicted G ,Dulglxfl.hllfll wissing, 10 bably country, w;an..mpbh 10 sos whare tho ibel cores 1o, 148 report that & sult for Libel has been commeniwd uw: tho atrength gf the above paregraph b probatly Wit out foundation. ‘Woe cannot recommend our readers to investin Cuban bonds, unless, irdsed, thoy can gal'lhem 1o exchange for bonds of the El Paso or Nortbe ern Pacitie, It aoams that the authority of tue fnsurgent chiefs to isane the bondsisof ll:; slightest, and tLat no court in this oounlrycaud sustaln & suit for tle zecovery of money nn- vanced on such & secunty, A declsion of :h: Buprome Court of tho United States munfl b Istter poiot. Dutlng tho Texan rebsllios sg nn_ Mosico, s Tezan barrowed money froms Cu 4 clonstian, giviog & mortgego oo his farm a8 ;.r curity, in order to buy arme and smmaaltion od the rebols. When the lender afterwards uul to gel pcsssssion of the farmy the B“p"ll?r Coust faully decided that tho agreemont wae 1ot valid, becsuse the treaiy between the U: 1 4 Etates and Mexico bound the former toa nnu cere frienaship" for the laster. Thls m:d l‘ q citizons of the United States to the same f :m ship, aud loasing » Texsn money with wbl 2 buy arms to be used sgaiuas Mexico was m“p vioistion of the trealy. The plalotif was ao! sulted. By s takdar odd colacidencs,