Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1876, Page 1

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ESTABLISHED 18490, ‘Town of Lake Taxes and Bpeclal Asscenment sronow due and payable at 1y officg, 161 and 104 LaSalloest, Pay up and save costs, as tha second instaliment of wdded, Thoso desiring can payup the whols nsscss. meat and save tho interest, PEFER CALDWELL, Collector. BLANK BOOKS, Stationery and Printing, Turnished promptly sud &t falr priccs, by J. 3L W, Two Privato Rosidencos. SIGN PAINTING, TAXES. Ibe Walar Bpecials are now due, with 10 per cent T ddaibe il Bactesen L BLANK BOOHS ,STATIONERY, &c. JONES, 104 and 106 Madlson-at. DYEING AND OLEANING. DYEING. Lad{oa'and Gentlemen's Garmenta dyed and cleaned to s superior manuer, TON FANCY STEAM DYE HOUSE, 1% Bouth Clark, 168 liinois, snd 205 W, Mudison-ata. e COAL. Prices for Ooal are as follows: Tango and Nut, $10; Egg, $9.50; Briar 11, $7—delivered. 3. GOLDDERG, T4 Washington-st. FURS. SOLID REDUCTIONS ON FURS, AT J. 8. BARNES & CO.'S, 70 MADISON-ST. PROPOSALS, Proposals for ook County Bonds. Basled bids will be recelved at the County Trossur- er's Office until Thuraday, ¥ob. 3, 1670, at 12 m., for 1he sale of twenty-five Cook Counly Fire Bonds™ of the denomination of $1,000 each, duo May 1, 1502, and Deasing {ntorest at the Tste of Tper cent per aunum, yabls semi-annually on the 1stof May snd Novem: ¢ at tho Motropolitan National Bank, Now York, aud this office, There will bo sccriied interest on tho bonds from the Ist of November, 1675, aud the bids must bo mds nccordingly, Bids will be roceived for all or any Portion of the bouds, the county rescrving the right 10 N-c;:pt such ae §t may deein nocessary, or roject sll the Exvelopos containing bide must bo marked ¢ Dida for Oook County Bonds,” L, 0. HUQE, County Treasurer, OHARLES 0, P, LOLDEN, THOMAS LONERGAN, JOUN HERTING, JOHN TABOR, AL B, JONEON, Cominitfes on Financa, WINTER RESORTS, FLORIDA. THE WINDSOR HOTEL, on 8t, James Park, Jack- il Florids, now opeil for gucats, 4 now, came and fAral-clsss in ove res| . s o7 FUREUTT & Mook, OLD PAPERS, OLD PAPERS FOR SALXR At 75 cents per 100, {n the Counting-Room of this Office. [ WHISKY. THE FHBELITY The Great Trial of William S SRR OCE S S i e R S L s S et SN AR SN S MocKee Ends in His Conviction, ‘ Intense Excitement and Disap- pointment Created in Sto Louls. The Hdtels Crowded at Mid- night, ' and * Nowsboys Crying Extras. A Plain and Comprehensive Statement of the Milwau- kee Prosecutions. The Evidence Upon which They Were Instituted, , and That * Upon which They Will Proceed. A Vociferous Element of Dis-’ satisfaction Over Mr, Mc- Kenney’s Manage- ment, “One Gauger in he Hand Worlh Two Big Politicians in the Bush ** Thought to Bo lis Motto. The Cochran Case Set for Trial To-Day in Chieago. Rumors About Bribing the Petit Tury-—Judge Bangs Denies. What the Second ' Batch Think of the Situation Now. The Grand Jury---Things at the Custom-House---That Clerk, THE ST. LOUIS TRIAL. POOR UNCLE BILLY. T8 UNEXPECTED CONVIGTION. Srecial Dispatch ta The Chicano Tridune, ‘8r. Louis, Jan. 81.—8t. Louis has had her rroportion of importaut criminal trials, but no -old citizen romombers any like clrcumstance to tho MoKeo trial, which resultod st 10 o'clock to- night with a vordict of gailty. ‘Tho trial Las progressod for twolve doys, and, during this wholo time, the intorost manifosted by tha poo- plo has beon oxtraordinary, until to-day it ro- sulted in such throngs in tho streots near the conrt-room that it was with dificulty that a pas- sago could bo mado through the thoroughfarcs. THE OHARGE TO THE JURY, delivered by Judge Dilloy, was of unusual lougth, and it bore ou its faco o survey of the wholo evidonce nnd tha able arguments both for ita dofonro and tho QGoverument. After tho evening papers wero circulated, containing tho chorge of the Court to tho jury, but ono sentimont scomed to provail, and that wag acquittal. Indoed, it I8 apparent that o caurreot of sympathy for tho defondont had boon sotting in for soveral days past, bat it was not belioved that such & fooling bad roachoed the jury, as thoy were, during tho whols trisl, kopt closoly quartored in o room at Barnum's Hotol, which was spocially provided for their accommodation. Bo confldont was DAN YOOREES, tho leading connsol for tho defondant, of & di- vided jury or acquittal that ho bad retired for tho nigbt at s hotel. No soonor was tho verdict annonnced than hundrods of pordons vieited the Globe-Democrat to oxproas tholr sympathy for the defondant. It is quito noticeable il through this trial that tho Dowogcratio politiciana exhible a great deal of fooling for the dofendant, and this particularly rofors to tho Southorn soldior- oloment. Thisis accounted for from thofaat that McKeo was always poreonally friendly to this class of politiciaus, EXTUAUBDINARY CONFIDENCE, Thoe dofondant was permutted to depart from the conrt-room on his own recognizance. Bev- oral leading citizons sccompanied lim o bis resldence. It is presumod a motion will bo mado for a new trinl, It iu also thought that thio vor- dict of the jury la defoctive in not beiug tnore spocific, - AT MIDNIOUT thore {8 great excitement in tha Lotols and othor public placca, Boveral of tho papors havo issucd lato oxtras announcing tho reault, and it in o sirange sound to hear tho nowsboys broaks ing the stilloess of tho witching Lour by tbole unoarthly yelle. (70 tns Associated Press.) TUE CHAWGE TO THE JURY, Br, Lots, Jau. 31.—Tho jurora in tho case of* ‘William Molieo, ono of the proprietors of tho @lobe-Demacral, charged with complicity iu the whisky frauds, recoived thoir Inatructions from Judge Dillon, Judgo Treat coinciding, at hialf- past 10 o'clock this morning, and retired at half- past 12, Tho charge was vory long. It com- monced with a reviow of tho oparationa of the Whisky Iting, sdmitted a8 a fact by both sidon, from 1871 to 1875. 'Ihere was no doubt the Government had beon dofrauded of millions in Bt. Louls alone, and it seemod astonishing that tho conspiracy could oxist 80 loug, Tho expla- nation Isys in the admitted fact thot jufor- mation_was rocoivod from Washington, aud that 35000 was sepent in tho buy- of roveuue sgents osud ln ing invoatigations, Thoro was every rosson to bo- lievo tunt tho conspiraay bers hiad ita counco- tions in other cities. The Government had laid ita hands upon these fraude, but tho Govern- mont sustained a duty to its citizous 28 woll o8 ita revonue, and would ool bo benofited by tho conviction of o single man. Tho jurors wero warned to approach thoir dectsion “dispassion- ately, but to do thoir duty foarlesaly sud impar- tially ; especially must the jury bo on thoir guard sgafust feeling the pressure of public in- digosation sgaiust theso frauds. ‘The ouly ques- tion boforo thom was whether tho defendsnt was, and had boon fully proved to Liave beon, in tho couspiracy, Tho only motive which tho Government had advanced in the tlicory for tho defendant’s conuection with $ho conspiracy was that of pocuniary gsin. Tho Court then passed In veviow the evidence, point by point, for tho Governmant, with that Taised by the dofonse to contradict iy taa tuen pussed ta the ippqitant question af the weight C to bo attached to the teatimony of co-can: ators. The ruling may bs gatherod from such Bentences aa thoaa: **As to ca-conapirators, they aro compolont witnesaes, and, under tho loginla- :Im:l of Congress, muat tostify, Thelr tostimony 5 always to bo receivod with extroma caution, ;{ldfio wolghed with great cars by tho jury, 18 proper for tho Jury to ecek for material facta in support of this ovidonoe. 1f any wit- ?cu inshown to have sworn falnoly hore or be- oro tho Urand Jury in this matter, tho jury _:‘_r’: at liberty to rojoct all of his teatimony. ; 0 most important and dolicate duty of the jury s Lo soitle tho orodibility of thieso witnessos,” To tho jury, and to the Jury alane, bolangs tho Tmmm of wolsrhhzr; and dociding tho worth of this ovidonco. They sliould bo governed by tho maanor and condact of the witness, his apparout mol.llvu, and_tho strength or weakness of his :ceo lection. Tho law cloties thio defondant with o protection of funocenca until bis guilt i proven beyond a ressonablo donbt. Tuo evi- donco of guilt must bo clear, positivo, and ahid- fng. It not suflicient that thore bo a atrong rrubsblllt_v. ora prls{mndenncu of testimony, but t must be mch that whon 1t {8 all given to tho Jury they shall feel a clonr, undoubling eatiatac- %100 of the dofendant's gullt, Aftor tha fury rotired, tho Court annonncod thas the tral of Oonstantino Maguire, ox-Col- le‘awr of Intornal Iavenue, would bogin at2 «'olook, and directed tho atlornoys to notify Gou. Babeock sna hin witnasses to presont them- Solves uext Monday, unloss otherwise ioformod botoro that time. 7 TIE MAGUINE CASE, On the opening of the Court this afternoon the impancling of tho Jury in tho Maguire caso was immedintoly progeoded with, roeulting in the solection of “twelve gentlomen fron in- terior countien, Thoy wero closoly questionod by counsel on both aldos, but nono of thom had auy opinlon touching the guilt or innocence of gju'ondnnt, and biad no projudico for or against m, - - aj. Lctan Eaton, ono of tho apeclal counsol far tho Government, thon oponed tho causo with 8 statomont of what the proaocution expoctod to Provo agninst necused. ko stated that tho proso- cutlon proposod 0 provo that Maguiro had knowlodge of the exiatouco of o Ring and des- truction of tha records fu the Coilector's ofiico, snd failed Lo roport to bis suporior ofticor ; that he bad made inquiry as to how much money ho plre | waa to rocolve, ehoiving ho sxpected a sharo of tho Riug fund, and somo other genoral matters, The cotamissfon of Maguira a8 Collector of In- toroal.flovenus and somp_otbor docnments wero then, submitted, and the Court sdjourned. “ourLry.” # According to provious announcement, tho Court reconvened at 10 p. m., Jadgo Treat on tho banch, to receive what the jury in tho McKoo caso might have to present. A quarter af an hour later the jury camo in with the fol- lowing vordics : ** We, Lho]urs. find the defond- sot gullty.” Counsol for tho defansa aeked that tho Jury be poiled, which was done, aud all re- aponded afirmativoly, ToNDS, * Judgo Troat then stated in rolation to bonds that wo would profer that matter should bo do- cided by Judge Dillon. It was theo agroed that dofendant ahould bo called to-morrow morning upon tho opening of tho court and the amount of bonds dotermined by o fall Bonch. Dofond- aat loft the court-room with his couneol and nu- merous sympathizing friends. Tno verdict was unoxpocted, almost everybody anticipatiug o disagroomont or acquittal, . feimo ol OPINION AT WASHINGTON, % AM'REE. &7 &pecial Diapateh to The Chicago Tridune, Wasmuvatos, . O., Jan. 31.—Information re- colvod . at the Trossnry Departmont from 8t. Louis states that tho trial of Gou. Babcock will not take placo until aftor the conclusion of that of McKee, which will doubtless run into noxt wook, 1t Is also intimated that thore is a strong probability of the aoquittal of McKoo. His prominenco in tho community and his high in- fluenco and woslth, it Ia thought, will go far towarda turning the batanoe of any doubts which may oxist in the minds of the jury in his favor, BADCOCK, ‘Tho trial of Gon. Babeock will conanmo mony days, aud will bo one of tho most important of the kind on rocord, Thore is an Immense quan- tity of correspondonce in the posscasion of the Governmont which pnased betweon tho Goneral and divera officlals and porsons of promiuence, and boaring on sppointmonts. It fs pald that tho tasight into the manipnlation of offices and political workinga will bo quite novol and enter- tainiog, It will slso possess increased {utercet on account of tho high charactor of tho wit- nosses who ara likely to be summoned, and who will appear in porson or by deposition, ‘Tho Sce- rotary of the Y'ronsury biss not yot been sum- moned, but it is predumed that he Wwill be, inwhloh event he will be present. Tho muin feature of the trial of Babeock will bo the in tor- pretation of his correapondenco with couvicted or suspected partios. Thero is no doubt that tho ordeal through which ho will have to pass will bo wost sovere, The frionds of Gen. Bab- cock, feeling sesurod of hia ability to satisfac- torily oxplain his letters and telegrams, oxprosa themsclves as gratitiod at the proposed thor- ougliness of his trial, aa the proof of his jnno- couge will therofore bo more positively aflirmed. —_—— MILWAUKEE, THE PROSEGUTIONS. BOME INTERESTING READING YOI EVERYNOOY, Special Dispateh o T'he Cmcaan Tribune, MiLwaAukes, Jaa. 81,—Tho eituation in this city at present i 8o peculiar, and diffors so greatly from auything that bas been chronicled in Chicago or Bt. Louls, that it is necessary to roviaw it briofly In tho light of all that has hap- poued from the beginning. The tirst point that is of intorost ks thas horo, oven moro thau in other citles, was the testimony of membors of tho Ring nocessary to insure convictions, It has not beon gonerally knowa that whon tho first ab- tempt was made on tho Iing tho work was given to J. J, Brooks (* Old Brooks"), who camo hero with sovoral assistants, and devoted somo weocks to watching the distillories and carefully noting tho quantity of ‘spirita takon away from each. TUE NESULT OF 1118 BRSEALONES waa t0 show that tho distillors wore carting away from twico to throo times as mavy barrels a4 thoy roturned to the Government, Now, hare was a prima facio caso against the lionees and on tho strength of it Gon lHedrick and Ar. Brooks wero ordored to seize tho places, It looked on tho faco of it a3 if thero was no doubt about tho proof, but, whon the Governmout bad possos- sion, they came to sos that tlisy ad somothiog liko an clophant iIn tholr Revennuo stablo. Ior behold tha distillora had been allowed to buitd sheds adjoining their distillerios aud to storo epirits in them. To houuro, tho law says that no such atorehouso shall bo suffored withiu 600 foot of a distillory ; novertholess the shods wera thero, and woro used for tho purposce named, aod in many casca thoy had nootber eutrance than through the distillery promlses, Tho offect of shison Mr, Brooke' discoveries Ia fnstantly apparent, 1T SPOILED THEM A LEGAL TROOF, for, whon tho detootive came in ana swore that ho saw 100 barrels romoved from a certain dis- tillory during a given wook, when the distiiler's roport wos only indicalive of flfty, then in came tho distiller and ewore that the other fifty bar- rels wore takon from the storenouse, and the glovemmout had no testimony to controvert m, Again, tho Brooks testimony was incompleto in that be could not ewear that the barrels had whisky in them, To bo suro, the chances wore sbout a milllon to onw that the barrols wera fillod with * crooked,” but yet the diatiller would Ret out on tha odd chanco unless it wore stopped. Bposking genorally of the testimony on which $hio soizures were mado, it is quito enough to say thint 1t was so littlo eatocomed by tho Prosecuting Astoruey that {n drawiog his indictments sgaiust tho distilless it did noy tigure at sll, Aftor coocluding the Drummond torm of court, matters rathor dragged for a while, and there fs no misdoubting the fact that the Gov- eroment officors bad serious doulits as to tho 1sue of somo of the casod sgainst distillors, At Teugth, THE COLESIVE POWER OF PLUNDER boing removed, there began to ba a weakness in tho knees of the members of the Iling, and threa woeks ago Buporvisors Matthowa and Hedrick, -mith » Bovenua Ageat ar ¢wo, and a missionacy HICAGO, ' TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, from Chicago, came ap hate and praparad to ro- celvo thio confossions of thy culprita. The nicht aftor the party artivod, a harmonloun consulta- tion waa had, and it waa decided to “lot In” turoo or four of the smaller offendors whose tos- timony would fasten the distillars. Whan this bocame known, the penitents tumbled aver each other in thoir cageruocsa to offer themselves up, sud tho Government oflicors had almost to har their doors to provent the consuleuco-stricken sinnors frowm coming in vi et armir, When thie scloctions had been made, and tho robust Judgo Miller bad extracted and minuted down what osch man knew, it was found that tho casen against tho distillors wero made im- proguable,—osaraliolming, iu fact. Ilero endath tho firss losson, and I would T could toll you of a8 good luck as rogards COXD PANT e of the proseention, o we now to tho mon who wero Lokind the Ling, and who stolo from the ntealors. Unllko your Chicago Ting, the Mitwankoeans had no Joke Robin and Hoslug to manipulato of- flcord and work the Gaugers i they didn't need such mon, because the men In tho Ihng wore themnalvea the political power ; thoy held tho machinery ot (Jovernment iu tho Lollow of their band, and, lostead of getting Xehm or Heslog to do a thing, tuoy went thomsnlvor.—ana wont, 100, with more power than either Rebm or Hes- ing could show, Then, ngatn, they purchasod tho Rtevenuo Agent,—whicti tho Chicago Iting didn't try,—and necmed to Jinve gotten tho Col- loctor's olllco retained as 8 sort of Aldo-rhow to their circua, 1If tho allegatious againet Wolssert shall bo proved, they Lear out what I say. ‘'hila niato of ' tuings, thou, disposes of the iden that any minor polilicians are to bo looked for, and points the iuquirer up higher if ho ex- peata to got back of tho Ring. Fotlowing the oxsmpla of other cities, tho peoplo Liero havo seemed to demand the implication of somo pali- ticians, sud thoro is no uso in seeking out fiue words or synonyms to say that the only = HIOI-PLACE FOLITICIANS who can very woll bo suspected o M. IT. Car- ponter, Koyes, Murphy, ‘Theso men havo been pitched ou by the rough tonguoof public optuion, bocanse they ars about tho ouly mou who could bo inplicated, and when Iinontlon their namos I respectfutly declino to boliove them guilty until 1 have seen more proof than has vet boen brouglit forward, I novershe- logs ** toll the talo o8 'twaa told to mo " au huu- fl;zzfl times n day by the gosslp and the poli- an, Againsat the three men named the Milwaukeo public bua cberishod vatious ramora. It is eald thiat a distiller has been negotinting for somo days with the Government officials, secking to procure for himselffaud hia certain terme in con~ sidoration of tostilytug to facts which will impli- cato Keyes. THR BTORY GIES that this distillor wns & friond and co-worker with Herman Nunuemachor, who is now in Con. 8da; that omething ovor a year azo tho twain wont around;to tho distillers and collectod 31,500, with which they journeyed to Madison. Tho story gous on to atate tliat, wheh mufoly thero, they mot Koyes in o room 1o the Capitol, and thot Nuunomacher thon and there hended over the eum of monoy named to Koyes without any consideration whatover. 1 nim protty suro that this story bas been told to the Government officors Lere, but I concludo from all 1 can seo that thoy don't take much 8tock in it for various reasons ; First~It way be eutiroly false. Seccond—1f truo as Holy Writ, it alleges no crime against Koyos, but simply provos toat lio took cortain money for political purposes. ‘Thoro is anothier story of tho sama kind, or athor worso, which i8 bandied about with much freedom, aud which, were it true, would impli- cato Mr. Cnrpenter. It I8 overywhora told, with Lowls lindekop( as tho Lero, but that gantl man lias omphatically disavowed it to mo 8o e tiroly that I will not give it the bouofit of print. All theso rumors, bo 1t underatnol, aro growing day by day, end whito, in tho interest of nows, I should be plensed to seo soma proof of them, L om freo to eay that I have found nuno yot. It is quite possiblo, howover, to keop a report travoling until it Ia rocognized na a fuct,Aud por- Liapa that corryo in to be alopted Lere. OUT OF THIS BECOND VIEW of the position grows o third, and not entiroly ploasant oo, which may be statod, without cir- cumlocution, by eaving that some of the veoplo of Miiwaukeo, and perbaps soma of tho uov- erament oflicors, aro diesatisfied with Mr. Me- Kounoy's treatment of tho whisky cases, ILdo Dot say that this portion of the population fu small, neitbor do 1 aecert that it is large, but T am prepared o certify that it is loud. As o impartisl chiropiclor of events, I nm ta mvo you of Chicago both sides of tno story, and I will promive it by saying that tho diseatis- faction is gonerally expressod by Corpettor's foes, ~—though not entirely nmony them,—and that 1t 18 based on au sllogod failuro to indict that gon- tloman when the testimony was offered. I havo before noted that whon tho Jatest cam- paign was oponed theto wasa couforonte of Uovornment ofiicers at Rovenio heagquarters in tuo Newhall lionse, nnd that thore were present at that guthering Buporvisors Matthows and Hed- rick, Heveuuo Agent RMiller, District-Attorney Hazloton, Prosecutor McKennoy, Collector Bean, tho United States Marsbnl, and Assislunt Prode- cator Dixon. Now I am fnformod by one of the gentlomen who was prosent at that gatheriug thas Mr, Ae- Keuoney then and thoro oederted that ko bad in hia possesnion, or in Lis power, TIOOF ENOUGH TO INDICT MATT CARFENTER, ox-District-Attornoy Hubbell, Mousre, Goodwin und Adaws, sud oo other promunout mes. Trom tho churacter of my informant, 1 am forced to believe that Mr. NMcKennov did mado ths as- sortion, aud therefore I am tho wmore lonient to tho public opinion which blames McKenuey for not dowy what ho declared ho bad tho power to do. 1 donot assume to know what tho tosi- mony agsinst Carpeator is, furthor than it ia qnito hkoly to bo tho matter of tho payment to lLim of & large sum of inouoy for campagn purposes which fs alloged ngaingt him horo by the considorable numbor of Porsons who tmay bo classod s his encmics. I state nothing more than an open socrot whon I say that tho failure to introduco tho testimouy against tho gentlomen named very nonrly causod au opon rupture betweon Buporvisor Hedrick and blr, dcKonuoy, sud at any rato bred ao {ll- focling botweon thom. "Tho cause is cany to bo #oen ; The Suporvisor, who was acting for Col. Matthows, and was in accord with his poticy, camo to almoat boliove that the Prosecuting- Attornoy did not wish to implicate anybody ox- copt tho distillers thomaelvos, and ho was ac- cardinBly ludignant,—aed with some slow of reasoq, 100, I may say. ANGTMEN MATTZR which causes & sort of nusundorstanding bo- tween the two was 1u tho Lroatwent of tho first lot of witnosies, At the council which I havo mentioned it was staiod by somo party who kuew that tho propor persons ¢o be admitted nsg Btato's evidence wero four of tho lesser hights 1 tho lower rank,—four men who had boen Blore- kLeopory, and hiad takon bribes, and bad scted al- logully, but who were, uevortholess, meu of charactor outeido thoir Qovernment misdoings. Theso mon wero good witnesses, botn for the ronson last naimned and becauso thoy wero know- ing to the frauds at every distillory in tho city, Their numes woro Kllis,” Shoars, Gridithy, uud Ballentine. ‘Tho agrecoment which tho Govern- mout oflicers wore willing to entor into way that tho four prisonors named should plead guilty, rod receive the miuor punishmont which tuo law wet forth—na fno of &1,000 sod o short torm of Imprisounment—or perhaps tho fino with- ont the Jocking up. It way stated that all four woro willing to take thoso toru, and thoy were gottled upou with that understanding. ~After- warda it was nlleged that Mcliouncy gave to their counsel & written agraomont thst the four sbould not ba prosocitod at all—neitlior for tho criminal offouso nor lu & civil sutt, This agein ralsod & row, and it took Cul. Matihows to straightlen out mattory, BEILL ANOTARR QUEITION which caused a sort of ll-feoling wes tha proposal of McKennoy to adjourn tho Graud Jury ovor to Sarch, “This was juade just oftor the equealing had begun, und it earvied dismay into theminds ef the Governmont's frionds, who thought, with much reason, that such o messnro would riico trouble with tho weak-kueed, and put over tho day of wrath, a4 well ag comeut tho broken Ringg again, It is sure that Gen. Hodrick protestud ngalust such action with his wholo power, sud st length proveuted it It is no doubt ting that if this had beoa dune it would bave renderud very precarions the (fovorumont's bone of geitiug uuyhud{ to plead guilty. But now that tho pleas have boon entered, and tho whole Ring I8 in the lxgnrur of the Gov- ernment, the question arises, What Rro you go- fug to do with tho vtbor W 7 TUE ANTLA £Y wE say that ho will do nothing at presout, it ot all ; and thoy allege that his (riouds—who aro, ace coraing to Shis etory, Carpouter and Koyes' friends—are moving Loaven and earth not to «bavo any bestimony brought sguinst thcso men, 1876. at least not until after tho Btate Convontlan, to be hield Fab, 22 or thoreabouts. This dows not appear a vory probable atory, but it is ona of thosn things on which the chorgea against Me- Kennoy aro based. ‘Tho wholo thing mav bo put in a natshell by saying that thero I3 no sort of doubt that ‘movoral distillora have nsserted that thoy can swear damaging things sgainst Carponter, JKays and the others. ‘They bave told thiesa things tudafinitely to MaKeunoy, nod that gentleman somowhat “doubta thoir storica—in the firat placo ae to thelr truth; lu the wocond I\lmn a4 to tholr powar to convince a Jury, taking nto accotnt tha charactor of the witnesse ; and, laxtly, nato thelr commorcial valuo when set over agamnst tho tmmunity whicli is domanded as TILE PRICK OF TELLING THEM. That i to say, Mr. McKennoy hositates to decide that it iy worth whilo to give up hia cer~ tain hold on ono or two mon In roturn for a chanco to catch ouo or two others. This, I tako it, is hig position, while Gen. Hedrick thinka it feasiblo to conviet the higher mon on tho teatimony on hand, aud {a fully couvinced of tho propriely of trying. PAYNY, APPOINTED POSTXASTET, Spectat Duapaieh in The Chicayo rionne, Mirwauker. Jan, 31.—Ueory C, Pasno to-day received a telogram notifying him of lis appoing. mant as I'ostmaster of this city. Il sppeara that Mr, Pasno hiad the influenco of Gov, Lud- ington and_Henator Howe, and that a certificato waa givon by couusel representing thoe Govern- ment that no evidence implicating bhim hat bean bofore the Grand Jury, as was genorally undor- stood,—honce his appojutment. — 1'ayno asys ba would not accept wers it not for tho necessity of vindicating his charactor. FITZGERALD, EX-0AUOER, camo tuto Court to-day and mado tha firat pay- meut on his forfeited ofiicial bonds—namaly, £10,000—in anticipation of a verdict agatoat biw, Fitzgerald froely admita that tho whale of tlis sum and more was made out of crookoed whisky. TIIE LAW'S DELAT. * Nino of the critninal cases boing ready to-dav, glxm ufll{m criminal calopdar was continued il arch 1, —_——— CHICAGO. COCHRAN'S CASE, WHAT HIS CRIME WAS, Tho Cochiran caso, which will bo tried in tho United States Court this moraing, is, sa will ba remembored, ouo of those vory plain caees in whicli the avidence is sll on ono eido,—the rido of the Qoverumont in this case. ‘Lhe two Cochrans, with their ablo coadjutor, R. I, Hutening, wers ongaged in crooked tranwactiona fur gome timo provious to their scizure Inst spring. They had at first worked sccretly, carting away barrels, and bringing them back to the distillery to ba refilled at suck times oud in such n maonor ag to escapo detec- tion, At last tho » cyes of the local dopartment wero turned on this particalar distillery, and thoy discovored the varions processes Ly which ~tho firm wero dofrauding tho Gosernment of its rovenue. They had grown eo bold from successful exploits aud apparently perpotual [mmunity from detec- tion and punishment that they had by this time ceaved to remoembor that eternal vigilanco ia tho prico of carsying on successful oparatious in swindling tho Governmont oul of it whisky tax. Ono evening about duss two or tureo Deputy Collectors omerged from their biding- places . in the meighborhood, from which ° the; hnd © observed the men o about the distiliery sonding away barrels of spir- ita. Thoy lad remained concealed until the empty barrels bad been returned on the distillery wagon. ‘I'ie men counccied with tho place woro leisurely roftiliog the same barrels with apirits from tbo wino-room, takiog no more precsution in tuelr octions than auy ouo would who had long been used to o careor of crime and bad hitherto succceded in escaping arrest. Tho doputios put a sudden stop to pro- cocdings by soizing tho outire eatablish- mont, The two Cochraus woro subsoquently indictod by the Grand Jury, but one of thom, Aundrow by nawe, bad taken the procaution wo propars for thix very probable fato, aud hiad left o' scones of his-danug - explolts for & my favorod aud far moro congenial clime. ‘The’ other Cochran and_Ilutching wero left to bear tho bruut alone. They appoared in Court s fow weeks ago, gave boad, and bave been looking forward to tho time of trisl, which has beon ecs for this morving. Tho tiovernment has becn roady for montus past, and is anxious to move oo thie encmy's works, Although "tho evidonco im0 plain that tho wayfaring Juryman, though a fool, ueod uok orr therofy, 1t 18 quite likely that TIE DEPENSE will sot up somo speclous plea dosigned to work uoon the feclings, aud teat tho guliibility of the jurors. It is said that tho defense will show, or try to show, that the two defendants woro not at thodistillery : that tho actsof the men canght in the procoss of tetiiling wera unauthorized by thom, and that thoy are not, therefaro, respou- sible. In tho face of this ples, it will bo shown that thoy were cognizant of all that was golug ou, end that they reaped thoir reward in dumping their epirite 1nto certain rectifying houses withoul oven 8o mnch as the ueo of stamps othor than those poor, worn-out, much. used pictures which had originally graced tho burrets, and which they designed should serve samu usetul purpose for all titae, S —_— THE PETIT JURY. TIHE LATEST RUMON is that threo or four mombers of tho potit jury have boen tampered with by parties indicted for couspiracy to defrsnd the Qovernment. Tho story is guing the rounds, but es yet no definite sgsertious havo boon mude as to which of the jurors bad yielded to tho temptation dirocted to- wardd their itching palms, how much they re- ceivod, or who tho corruptionists wore. A ‘Tninuxy. reportor moutioned the rumor to Judgo Bangs yosterday. While it did not appoar a now story to him, he distinetly and very ow- phatieally stated that bo did not put the least faith init. It Lnd also been seserted, bio maid, that tho Goveinment was nol very auxious to proceed with the whisky trials, and tho rumor in r“mutlan bad probably been tho occasion for such a statcrcut, Mr. Bangs eand that cho Gove ernmont wae BEADY TO TRY HESING, REIY, HOYT, AND OTEERS, now, and that the Uovernment counsel would movoe ta take up their cases aunng this term of Court, Dofendants mighit object on the ground of uot having sutticiont time 1or the preparation of their cascs, but that would be loft to tho Court, ‘Tho Governmont was fully prepared to proceed against tlesing aud Rebm at onco, real- 1zing that thoy were tho very hoad aud frout of tho Ting, and that without thoas tho Iting nover could have existed or boen cared on. Mr. Mangs had no evidenco regurding the rumored brivery of jurymon eithor nus way or tho othor. lie had known several mewbors of the potit jury for years, and bad learned to vogatd them a8 thoroucbly honest, irtoproach- ablo mon. ‘Tho very suspicion of bribery would voro hauat thom ror wmonthy, and bring to their .chooks a blush of sbame to whicl corrupt mon tutnl strangos. Hesidos, if thoy had accepted mouey, 1t would be too ousily dizcaverod by thoir iral” compenions, sud it would subject thom to their enduriug wcoru and reproach. ‘Tuig might not bo couclusive evidenco said Mr, Bangs, but ho had net heard any direct ovi- denes golug ta ahow that tho bribos had boon oftered or accepted, aud Lo was disposed to ro- xard mon whom bo had kuown to bo honost ag houest untll thoy proved thomselves othorwise, —_—— THE SECOND BATCH, TOEIK OPINIONS ABUUT MATTZUS AND TININGS, Thero iy ono wambor of tho secoud butets who docs uot fully outer inuto tho apparently cordial rolations which havorecently spruug up butween his Latch and tho first. Mo js o rathor tall geutluwan, of quict, casy, unostentatious mau. uor, and, whilo he occasionally takes his noon- «uy lunch at the Tivoll, it Iy ovidont that ho holds aloof from the squoalorsj and lus brothron of the sccond batch, and doos not lood bis ald Lo the machinations of Lis plottiug comrades in uusfortune, At times bo sccopts thoir houpita- ble invitations to soup or sowothing stronger, bt it I8 easy to soo that bo is reslly not ono of them, although ho may bo ono with them, A 'I'rinoNe roporter met thogentioman yeater day and nsked him what was tho causo of THE FAMILY BEUNION betwoen tho squoalers and thie socond batch. T am euro I don’t kuow," replied tho gontles mau., + What plot are thoy Latching now, anyway 2* = »#Tdon’t know that olitter." “1Well, how do you oxplain this ronowal of friendship, which sppears to an outsidor te sur- pass that of David aud Jonathan 2" “Well, it may scom #0 to you, but it don't Lo me. Itell you Idon't boifovo it inreal, Itie a ruore surfaco indication, in iny mind, and noth- ing more.” ** Do yon know whetlier the socond baten hava entered into arrangemnnts with the firat, where by tho first should tell only a part of their story " *+0h, wolt, thn firat-hatch follows DID BAY BOMEITHING OF THE KINI e Thickgo Daily Teibune. - NUMBER 159, Rock Ialand, to testify regarding the running of Tarner’s distillery, Ho was not called fnto th Jury-room, bowover, and this dirconrtesy on ln: py ;nl tho jury gave bim s livol, mi.? u(ndmjud.r 8 Rllwolrmmucor, Ha —_—— £ . AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.. GIVING DAIL, ( % a0 lodions formality of offoring ball formed =t tho only nide atiraction in tho Cuatom- &, ruse yeatorday morning, Tho Graud Jury did ) o $Work in the fourth atory, and ita imagivary #omo time o, but if any atrangement waf &7 ehberationa wero tho chiof topio of inquiry, so mada I don't know st I know it wasu's in m' ¥ caue, for they hadu't o thing to say agaluat o 5 Lefors any Grand Jurs.” @ ** Do the second batch want Lo got tho car/, the Grand Jury 2" ¥ ** It ntrikes me thoy've got too much ear now, and too much mouth t00: & d—d sight too much for their own good. I know I haven't auvthing to tell to the Grand Jury. Iam going to mako u fair, stand-up fight in my caso, wasibier suybody etao does og not." Iavo the othor boya anything to tell, and oaeo thelr conecicnces sud perhaps got '! SYHAT CAN TIIEY TELL? 1amunre I don't kuow. It is my opinfon that they coaldu’t tell anything agaust others oven it they wautod to,” “ Do they want to 7" B *“No. I think they will all plead not guilty, and demnnd nn carly trisl. A for myself, I am readv for trial any day, and it can't’ como too 50 wasg reported that the sccond-batchers con'd t2l eume unpleasant facts about BUUFELDT. Inttatso 27 *1 dow't think thoy know anything of his matters, for, if he was crooked. ho was sliarp exough'to keep it to himself. Beaides, I undor- etund tho Governmeut Las pleaty of docu- mautary evidence against tho bouse, and it won't neod auy outside help,” ** 11 the Goverument reslly haa this evidence, why don't it seize Shufelds 7" **Well, that's one of tho mysteries. The Governmont s alroady sescssed thom 810,000 for back taxes, eaid to bo duo for ro-lilling bare rels aud making crooked returna about March 3, 1874, Now, It this is trite, and the assesement would seem Lo indieate shatit was, 1t looks to me a8 if the Governmens vughit to nug in Bhu. feldt aloo with us follows," * I their immunity due to political ur other influsuce at Washington? " “ Shufeldt his no political influenco thero, He's » Democrat, I boliove, and bates tho whols crowd, from Graut down.” ** Has ho auy influeuce, then, NOT OF A POLITICAL NATURE?" you'ro comiug to the point, I think bo "o Now Las.” . **How do you know that?" ' Well, Shufeldt is supposed to have been ono of the first informera in the first batch, Ho kot thom into trouble, and hzd pretty good evi- denco, 1 guese, aud they told a lot of lios and pulled us in after them," ** llow do you know that Bhateldt informed on the fiiet batch ¢ **Oh. I was told § H L of a gg‘mlemnn who kuows." What's his uamo 7" Bovis—Alfrod Bovis, of Bevis & Frazer. ouo Cthe tiret finns struck by bghtuing last upnng:" : ** What did he say about this matter 3" ** Why, he #aid this : that he bud scen o poti- tion preseoted to the Rovenus odico at Wasii- iogton eigned by H. H.Bhufeldt & Co,, Maddaz, Hobart & Co. (of Clocinnati), Ed Lawreuco. of the Iiliuows, and some two or throe othors, 1ho petitiou stated in x0 many words that the firws namod knew tho Government was being de- frauded out of its revenuo in this ¢ily and in 8t Louis ; that thoy knew tho partics who were Tunning crooked, and would give their hamos if tho Uovernment desiredit. Tha Goveromeut did desiro it; and tho namoa were given. I suppose the Government feols indobted to Shu- feldt, oud for tlat reason they bayen't touchied them vet, altbough thoy did get Ed Lawronce.” "’:Ihnt'l your expianation of the inatter, is “It' the only one I can make, aud it looks pretty reasonable, I think," ' HOW DO THE BECOND DATCHERS tool in regord to their casos, as far as you Lnow 2" *Thoy expect to stand up and take thoir trial liko men, I beliove. But they arenuxious to oo Low thivgs turo oat in 8t. Louis, 1f McKoo is convicted it will opon tho flood-gats and lot in tho tostimony of men who ac- knowledgo themssivea thiaves. 1f tlus pro- codent should bo established by tho Mokce trial, no man will bo sufe from euch testimouy o4 this, and the Government can get anvbody it cbooses, and send lim to the Penitentiary or tako his property awusy from him. If McKeo i8 ac juitied, tho bays will take heart.” **You thiuk, despita al! rumora to the con- trary, that the second batels will go iuto court and plead not guilty " * 1 kuow oo who will, and I thiok tho othicrs will do tho eame."” And thero the conversation dropped. While tho gontleman's opinions on tho subject of tho apparent fricudsbip botweon the flies and second batchos mauy be correct, tho most casual obverv- er may notico tho members of the two battalions daily enjoying that degroe of conviviality and closo communion whichi ia most charmiug 10 ba- bold. Hoyw swoot and pleasant it is for brotbren to dwell togotbor in unity ! ——— THE CRAND JURY. DRAWING TO A CLOSE. Tho labors of thollustrions body of men who hiavo been for soveral weoks past **reading up” on whisky arodrawing ton close. Tho volumo sprors wpon for their privato porusal was pon- derous, many-paged, aud full of intricate ox- prossions, requiring closo study aud decp thought, Beveral chapters wers vory lengthy and complicated, and 8o involved was the plot that for a long timo the readors were unable to mako head or tail of tho story. Tmpelled, how- over, by s stern sonse of duty, the jury labored through tho hugoe tomo, aud, a6 thoy ndvanced, carafully woighing each statemeut, they bogan evon lo gruw futorested in the matters which yroviouely secemed to them so dull and unprofitable. As character nfter charsctor was [utroduced, each presonting difforont phascs of perfidy aud ctimo, tho readors notod ouch with mingled ndmiration and abhiorronce. Hav- 10 now arrived at tho final chapleis, the jurors aro loath ta close tho book and leave anarra. tive with which thoy have beoea so deoply im- pressed. Thoy bave passed o carofal eriticinm upon the horoos of the plut, so far as thoy bave gone, and are willing to sland by their own do- cinlon, A8 to those clisractors who am now pasting la reviow, not much can bo satd a8 you with propriely. The jurors sro cunsddenug thon with due doliberatiot. The voluwo is almost at an ond ; and it {s fitting that the readors * turn ats last pages with rovorouce aud good hoed.” ‘This 18 tho last woek in which the Graud Jurs wiltsit, Thoy bave acaomplished agood deal, notwithstandiug tho slowness with which they Linve condueted their procoedings. Of all the distilling and roctifying housoatuat wero noized, only thoso of Matthoi and of Keoley & Horwin havo so far orcapod publio recogultion by tho jury. It is possiblo that thosa parties will alvo como under the ban of fudictment boforo the wook is out, In fact, tho caso of KELLEY & KELWIN is now under cousideration by the jury, yeator- day's ression being partialty devoted to” thoso gentlemen. Gholson G, Russell was tho principal witness, Hlocamo into thu Cnstom-Honss furtivoly,— more 10 than tensl,—and asconded tho siars on tintoo, Soveral dwtillonn, soemng him, turned their backy, ‘This was about 11 c'clock. 1lo mountod the ubpor flight of staire and ontered tho zoom whero Clitof Droaks bolda b4 huml‘\nnrtum. 1lore ho was closetod an Lour, until eallod juto tho jury- room. 1lia testunony was uot dissimilar to that which ho gave ou_provious ccousions, He liad shipped goods to Leeloy & Keraio which wero not as siraight a4 was desirablo to the Goveru. ment. This was about the extont of his lufor- matton, sud It wgs backed u){ by suudey fiures taken from lils bocks. Mr. Ruusell, aftor beinyg pumpgd to a far degreo of dryncss, was dis- missod. Mr., 0. A, Vergho, o Blorokuepar, was also beforo tho jury, 1l tiad oficisted at ditferent astillerios, iucluding thoso of Russall and Will- i Cooper. His tcatimony wuay ruther vague, 1t is oxpocted thas tho cuso of JACOL FUEISINGEL, proprietor of the Milan_distillery, will coma be- fore the éury to-day. Freisingor, it will bo re- membered, was in Chicago avout tivo weeks ago, accompanied by sovoral revonus of Lrowm hat when Coopor, Ruah, and Pahiman, in com- pany with thoir counsel, Col. Juesaon, eamo into the Unitod States Court-ronm. thers was not that bustlo of futerest displayod on former sitn. ilar occasions, Giving bail has become n dry, matter-of-face buslooss by this time, sud tho sudionce inuldo the room was quito small and jn- attantivo, whilo that outside was large and curious, The process of giving and accepting bail was not in the least notoworthy, with thoe excoptior that only ono of flva suretica waa compelled t¢ rubimit Lo a1 oxamination, Hermau J. Pahlmay and David J. Rush offorcd ball in the enm of 1000 each, with John Worley, Asw Dow, aud W. A. Ray a8 suretios, while William Coopet #ava Lond fn the enm of 95,000, with Charles H. Lizeven aud Charies Shohny as suraties, VETTY I'ABES, John Stadman aud rd Clancoy, twoe boys indieted Inst Saturdav, tho tiet for passing counterfeit monoy and tho second for altering the amounts of Fust-Oilico ordors, wore Lrought tnto court, Thay had uo stlornoy, nud Judge Blodgete, after canting his eyo nbaut tha court- 100, picked out Meesrs. Sackett and Bean, under wuose mdvice tho hova leadsd not guilty, Jamed Rivors and Martin Ktateman, indicted Batuiday on thecbarge of coanterfeitiuy, plended not guilty, The andiencs had by this time dwindled down t0 nlinost vothing, and with tho anusurcoment thnt o civil caso was noxt to bho tried, thera wna eimultaneous movo on tho part of these who had remajued through the prodeedings to leava the room. No farther action wos taken in con- vection with whisky mattera during the re- mainder of the day.” Peoplo in tho halls spoke rather hopefully, though, when they reflected that the Cochran case would come nv this morn- ing at 10 o'clocs, and that Hesiny, Retim, aud Iloyt “would bo prosent to plead. It is quite fair to presumo tha' o large audicnce vl attend Judge Blodgeit's loveo. ———— MISCELLANEOQUS. THAT CLERK. The Grand Jury Lavocomm-need investigatig tho clork 1n the Collector's ofics, ‘They interro- #ated Glolson G. Rtusgell, and bo denied ever tiaving poid the clerk anythiog, Furlong also was aeked. ITo deuid it also, Tho Grand Jury should call other witnesnze. Furst, they sbould eall Williatn Cooper, and ask him it Lo ever paid that clerk money for moythiog. Then for what, Then if ho did not pay him for tho privilege of running oxtra maches Tuen how much, After Cooper leaves the room, the Crand .Jury should wait from twn liours and o balf to throo boure. Thou they should mond for DByron L. Sawyo:. Ther should agk him tho eamo guoations pro- pounded o Mr, Cooper, “Aek him how much he paid, aud for whom. It might be wise to giva Mr. Hawser a chanco to find ** Buffalo " Miiler before calling that gentleman. When ho 18 callad, it wonld not bo out of place to nalk him when ho pafd 24,200 to tho clerk, and for what, and it it had anvtbing to do with oxtra masheo. Then Cleorpo Aflillor's story will boof intorest. ** Buffalo " should bavo an opportanity to reg George befuro ho is yanksd up, aond then the wholo bugiuess will bo complete. It this echewo is properly worked, it will ehow whether * most of the stealing has been douo through the clerk,” or whother thess gone tiemen bave d.parted from tlo truth in their dsily conversation, 2 01 the forty-ono Gaugers in this district, thir Bome have fallen t5-ncvon are now on duty. frowm graco. e ELSEWHERE. SPRINGFIELD- *fHE MYSTERIOUS PEKIN PAPERS. Sreeral Disvateh to The Chwago Tribuns, Senivarizuy, I, Jan, 31.—Tho matter of ths captarod Weaterman papers continucs to absorb stteution. Earlv this morning the examination waa to take place, but it was postponed until afternoon, shen now difticulties presented them- eelves. The tiret wos whether the correspond- ent of Tue TRinusc ond other newspaper rep- reeentativos should Lo admitted to tho oxamina- tiun. Cellector Mernam and District-Attomey Van Dorston, examiners on tho part of the Gov- oromant, expreseed & willingness to eccedo to the roquest of the correspondents, and Gov. Palmer, on tho part of Westerman, offered no objootion, but his associate examiner, tho Hon. A. L. Knapp, stroouously objoctod. THE JUDGE GNWILLING TO HAVE THE LIGUT OF DAY SUED OF TIE DICEMENTS. While tho watter was under discu<slon, Judge ‘Troat approacked, and voluotarily etated, in em- pbatic torms, that e would nat consont te tha preecnco of newspaper men at tho examiuation, adding that it would gratify the pruriont curl- osity of thoso who wauted to sproad scandal broadeast ovor the land, This he sad looking directly ot the roporters. No roply was mado ot once, but, a8 soon ad tho crmioe got out of gight, tho Chicago Tines man swore like the trooper ho protonda Lo used to bo. Thon tho Bonrd of Examiners wont up into their Star- Chamber, necompanied by Westorman ; but an- other difiicalty presonted itsolf, VERY STRANGL. Asnistant Dietne-Auoruoy Ros, who hat had charge of all tho Pckin cases befors the Grand Jury, and postod himself 1w tho Wester- mau cave when VanDorston conldn’t attoud to 1unttors, wos refusod admittance to the cxamina- tion, ovon though wpeeial dnstructions trom tha Department at Wadhington bod been dirocted to Lim a8 to the cxaminatiou aud a communication regarding it asked-of Lim. A Roo went bo- fore Judgo Trout, representivg tho elr- cumstances, ond . that the Governmeut Diad ouly ono sttorney present, while Westerman hud two. Thu Judge refosed to include bim, cousouting, howovar, to Westers man's_prosenco, Later, Asaistant-Snporvisor 31a). Wilkinson applied to tho Judge for permiss Biod to bo presout for Rovenue-Agont Somerville, who hnd mude the seizure nud worked up the cano i councetion with Col. Matthews, Maj. Wilkiuson, snd Attorney Ros. Tuo permission wa graniod, but, ou application of Goy. Palmer, at once ruvolied. and Maj, Pinkbow, of the Cul- loctor's office, substituted at the dictation of tha Wentorman sido, OFFICIAL ASSURANCE. OF TUE TOUTI OF THE ABOVY BTATEMENTY, Tho {nllowing dispatch, reut this afternoon to Kuporvisor Maithews by bis Doputy, shows up thiis phade of tho contlict 3 2 SraiNavieu, Jan, 31, 1876.—4. C. Maftheve, Swe perowsor, Girand Pacine, Clacavo, 1L, Palmer gol i order from Judis Treat admitilng Westeeman but cxcluding sveryboiy, on our kids froia the Foom ex- cept Alerriam aua Van Dorston, 1 got bim to baue sn orier saszitting Homeryills, wbich Tulmer got him fo rovoke, and ditated tho sduimion of Pinkbam in place of Somuryilie, ¢ is significant that the defrnsa should bo permitted to nawie tho otficurs who are 1o ropresent tho Government, Koe, Bomerville, and iy- self wer.objected to by uame. T bave the followitg telegram from Wilson: ** Extrsordiuary messura shioitld bo taken to securs Westermau's papers beyond peradventure, 3 thoy aru vatuable you will loso thems wuro unlcss this fa done. Dun't trnst him, Bhow loe, M, €, WiLxiNeox, IMPORTANCE ATTACTIED'AT WASHINGTON, In addition to tho Witson dispatch uoted by Wukinson, the following is given to ebow how important tho capture of l.h: papons 18 regarded the U'reasury Department 3 M\\‘nu{mnnm, Jute 5, ini0,—ByvEnvison Mat- TaLws: Tho capture vught 0 ba of groat valuo aud vury fnteresting reading for mavy pooplo, I congrate late you on ity Beud e details, Bruronn Wizsox, 1T 18 MORE THAN CURIOUS . that theso who wera prominently wentified with tho working up of the cuses und the sezure of tha papurs, suve Merriam, sre axcluded from tho uxauntation, aod the fionds of the Whisky g, who wero downcast this morniok are Jubiant to-utabt, iucludivg the ex-olicial who ‘aused 1t to bo koown to the Exawining Bosrd that? 1f any dispatchios of bia wero fouud in the Loses, thoy wote forgeries, and mugs mod be publishod, * 'The ofticers exclnded . ' NATULALLY ¥KEL HOKE, and Capt, Somervillo has retorasd hecme &0