Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1876, Page 4

TERME. AP TUE ERIRUNE BATES OF SUNECRIZTION (PATANLE IN ADTANCE), - 2 -Poxtane Prepald nt this OMco. Pally Rdition, post-paid, 1 year. 913.00 Parts of year atsams tato. Bpeclmen copien sent froe, "To prevent delsy snil mistakes, bo surs and givo Port-Oftice nddrera in full, fncluting Stateand County, Rtemittances may be mada either by draft, express, Poot-Ofiica order, or in reglatered leters, at our risk, TERME TO CITY BUDSCRIRRS, Dally, deliversd, Bunday excopted, 27 czuts per week, delivered, Sandsy fncluded, 10 rents per week, L 'THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornar Madieon and Dearborn-sia., Cliicago, it Daily, Ad AMUSEMENTS. #icIORER'S TOEATI Dearborn and Btate, Logng J, Florence, *‘Tha 3Ll adiron mireet, batwesn b of Az, and Ara, W A, TOOLEY'S THCATRE—Randolph street, between Olark and LaSslio, The Califurnia Minatrels, atroot, cormer Liontoe, Varlety perfuriuance. WOOD'S MUSEUM—Montoe streat, betvoen Deare born and iate, Afternoay, * Tickat-of-Leavo Man,'t Evenlng, ' Littls Barefoot." FARWELL ITALL—Madiron siroet, hetween Clark ecd Latialle, Richings-Bernard Costumo Concerte T "SOCIETY MEETINGS. BLASE LODGE, No. 303, A, F. &nd A, M.—Tho members ar hereby notified 0 Tnet at Freo Sasons’ Fall, No, 33 Mouroa-st., Tucalay, Feb, 6, b 13 1n,, for the purpose of attendivy the funeral uf our late Jiro., @Gea. O, Marshall. Members of other Lodzen eardlally tnviled, By order 0. M. WHITE, W, M. The (flbm‘m@’fihum Monday Morming, February 7. 18706 At the New York Gold Exchango on Sat- urdsy, greonbacks wers worth 883@883. tion will be recommended in tho House for ‘branch Mint in tho Mississippi Valley. The Committce on Appropriations are snid to *old that, with spoecie-resumption so far in tho futuro, tha mints nt San Francisco nnd Philadelphia will bo nblo to coin all the gold and gilver needed. It is oven contemplated to convert the branch Mintat Oarson City 4nto nn nasay office, The farewell report of Gon. Gronam B. Bancs, the rotiring Buperintendont of the Railway Mail Bervice, is printed clsowhere in thig issne. - It relatos chiefly to the fast-mail gyatom, giving some valuablo statistics of its cost compared with that of the posial-car sorvico upon tho rontes where the changohas been made, After reading the report no one \will disputo the conclusions of Gen. Baxas, that the value of the fast-mail servico to the business and intelligenco of the country is in- ealonlable, and that tho service would be eheap if it cost far mor e than it doos. Secretary Bristow will heartily co-opernts with the Houso in tha effort to roform the customs sorvico by dispensing with Custom- Honses where the exponses of collocting the reveonue are in excess of the amount of reve- nuo collectod. There are in all fifty-seven whoso exponses are greater than their re- ceipts, and the Beeretary will to-day forward the foll list, giving tho figures in each in- * stance, and also the namos of the ports that aro nearcat to the Custom-Houses that arc not sclf-sustaining, so that the House mny act ndvisedly in tho movement to abolish thess ‘worso than uscless appondages, The reply of the Porto to Count ANpnAs- £Y's note announces a concurrenco in five leading points in that proposition of reform in behnlf of the disaffected provinccs—the eatablishment of religious liberty ; a modifi- cation of tho systom of tax-collection ; tho granting of facilitios to agriculturists ; the spplication of s portion of the revenues of the provinees to local improvements; and tho appointment of & mixed commission of Turks and Christiaus to watch the exccution of theso reforms. It reads very nicely, and dooks well on popor, but the promised ro. forms will noed watching by somothing be- sides & ‘‘mixed” commission beforo any guaranteo is afforded of their cffectiva aud permanont enforcement by the Turkish Gov- ernment, In the scheme to eripple the diplomntic and consular servico by reducing salarios, consolidating embnasiey, and abolishing con- sulates, the Democratic economists in the Touse are likely to encounter strong opposi- tion in their own ranks,—from Democrats ‘ropresenting great commercial constituencies .whose interests will tako precedenco over 4 tho good of the party.” Mr. Hewrrr, of New York City, has given notico to the Ap- propriation Gemmittee that ho shall oppose the pending Diplowmatio and Consular bill for tho renson that the reductions contemplated would be cortain to soverely cripple Ameri- can commerco and ontirely dostroy somo branches of trade. Mr, Bwany, of Maryland, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Af- fairs, and likewlso n loading Domocrat, will oppose the measure for similar reasons. An interosting editorial article in the Lon- don T¥mes is givon in our columns this morn- ing, respocting tho manner in which the supe- rior enorgy and resources of America havo, within the past ten years, wrought a revolu- tion in the grain supply of Europe, and the embarrassment and alarm which provail in Russia in consoquence of the fact thnt hor corn-producing rogions have boen distanced In tho great compoetitivo race with tho United Btates. Tho Z%mes shows thut, whorena nine years ago 44 per cent of tho graln exported to England como from Russin and only 14 per cent from America, now 44 per cent comes from America aud but 21 per cent from Russia, To this stato of things is partly at- tributed the great monetary crisis at Moscow, the continuous deprecintion of the paper curs roncy, and the excessive distress in Southern TRussia. Tha Chicago produce markets were irregu. lar on Buturday, Bess pork was active and advanced 20c per brl, but closed weak, at $20.871@20.40 cash and $20.55@20.67§ for March. Lard was more active and firmer, cloging tame, ot $12.25@12.27} cash and $12.40@12.42} for March, Meats were active and firwer, ot 7o for boxed shoulders, 11jo for do shiort ribs, and 11je for do short clears, Ilighwines were quist and unchanged, at §1.06 per gullon, Flour was dull and stoady. Wheat was more active and 1o higher, closing at 99je seller t'0 wmonth and 990 for March., Corn was wull aud stondy, closing ut 89}o cash and 40c for March, Quts wero quiot and steady, closing at 800 cash and 81jo for March. Rye wus quiet, Barley was drumer, closing at Tuo for o snfer starting point for harmonizing than ceod from it on either sido meroly to develop tho old-tima rascalities nnd strife, thoy will bo long under the ban of political corruption, and their material and social intorests will suffer accordingly. dition of things will fail to secure the sympnthy of the people of the country gen- erally for either side. ponics among the crowds nccustomed to sides, baleony and gallery shall have a direct and sepnrate exit to the atrect or alley adjoining. No building not constructed in this way of- or othor sccident, or even in case of an un- founded panie. nati “opera-house ' was not so constructed, because MoVicker's Theatro in this city is the that is ro construoted, beeause the great ma- jority of public halls throughout the country boyond its capacity,, The audivnce consisted Tohswmary and- 70e. fov Aarch, Hogs wore nctive and n shnde firmer, at $7.80@8.00 per 100 1ba. Cattls wera dall, and shaep stoadier. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.75 in greenbncks at the closé, PO Jere Davis is out in n letter purporting to bo n reply to tho famons speochios of Mossrs, Bramve and Garrrerp, In point of fact, the letter in nothing of thosort. It isn bung- ling mixture of Bey Iin and Ronenr Toosns,~n #ort of tripla Hibernicism on the ntrocity quostion: Iirst, thero were mno ntrocitics nt Andersonville; sccond, there wore greater ntrocilics at the North; third, Jerp Davis wns mnot responsible for thoss commilted at Andersonville, If anything were mneeded to confirm the wirdom and justice of the position of tho Ttepublicaus on the Amuesty bill, Jeer him. self supplies the missing argument when ho deelnres that he has no desirs to bo reckoned s other than an adherent of the Lost Causo and a citizon of tho Confederacy; no desire to bo included in an Amnesty bill. False- hood, trenson, and defiance mnke uvp tho “reply,” and more than justify tho scathing denunciation which called it forth. The Lonisinna politicinns aro evidently not content with n quict life, aud they aro doing thoir best to get themselves fnto n muddie and a row over nnew Election law. Tho Senate wonts o Returning Bonrd ond the Houss does not, but both propositions are probably suggested by sclfish partissn mo- tives and in order to securo unfair ndvant- ages, It is evidontly not the law o much as it is tho political spirit of the peoplo that needs reconstruction. *Thoir troubles will never be brought to a satisfactory conclusion, cithor with or without a Returning Bonrd, until they reform themselves, and rid their public servico of tho extremists on both sides and the vicious clements of their politics. They will probably nover find a better nor the WaeeLen Compromise, and if thoy pro- A roturn of the old con- THE CINCINNATI DISASTER, Tho goneral defocts in tho construction of our publio halls and the constant danger of gother in them is consplenously brought to mind by the horrible catastrophe at & Cincin- nati theatre on Snturday afterncon. Without any renl cause, without fire, without the giv- ing wny of aportion of the building, but simply in o panio which resulted from o falso alarm, nine persons were actually trampled to death and many others scriously injured. It is not too much to say that such an ac- cident would bo simply impossible if tho common dictates of prudence and a decent regnrd for the safoty of lifo kad been obgorved in the construction and management of tho bouse where the panicoccurred. Without any special informatiot ag to the construction of the so-called opora-houss whero tho dissster ocourred, wo aro sura that it mustbo in vio. lation of every rulo of safaty, it lacks ihe rapid and that every reasonable facility for exit of large numbers of peoplo. Liko too many other of our pub- lio Lills, it is probably ronched by the ascent of n long stairway from a narrow passage, snd practically hommod in go that thero are but one or two contracted passages for get- ting in and out of it, end possibly only in one direction. Yot tho local laws of every large city ought to strictly prohibit the erco- tion of any opera-house, theatre, or public liall, unlesss, like MoVickor's Theatre of this city, it is surrounded on oYl sides by a wide opon spnce, with many openings in the shape of doors and wide windows from all four It shonld also be provided that every fords adequato protection in the caso of firo Wo nssume that the Cincin- only public building among nll of its kind Inck theso safeguards, aud becauso a baseless alarm of fire resulted in tho crushing of people to death, smothoring and mangling thom in tho impotent rush of the crowd to got out. ing to the balcony was narrow and crooked, It is certain that the stairway lead- for it was in an anglo of this stairway that most of the lives wero lost, Tho Cincinnati catastropho also illustrates another vicious practice in tho management of publio places of amusenent which should bo prohibited by law. TRobinson's Opera- 1louso Saturday afterncon was crowded far Inrgely of women and children, as the enter- tainment was of o kind that engnged sevoral hundred of the pupils from the public schools, The crowd was packed in among the nisles, pausages, and lobby so densely that it was impossible to move tho mass, excopt in tho most quiet and deliberato manner. This was simply an outrngo, and nob the less s0 beeauso tho outrage is repeated in every cily in the country whenover tho peoplo can be induced to como in sufficient numbers. It is o common practico to fill tho pnssago- ways of thontres and halls with camp-stools, ospeoially when tho building is small, con. tracted, and In ovory way dangerous, This custom can only be changed by a Inw which shall limit the number of persons ad- mitted into public buildings to the reg- ular and permanontly-fised seating capaci- ty of tho buildings, and which shall provido savero poualtics for any violation of this rostriction, Tho averago greed of public amusement caterers cannot bo trusted to regulate 8 matter of this kind; aud, o8 a rule, they will never hesitate to risk human lifoin tho intevest of their pockets, unless they aro enjoined from doing so by the strict enforcement of ordinauces against it, An- othier vequirement that might be imposed upon tho munogers of theatres and balls with advantage is tho coustant keeping of large placurds, casily accensible and ready for uso nt all times, which shull contain injunctions legible frowm all parts of the houso to quict & panic. If thero bad been sn enormous pla. card containing the words ** False Alarm ! No Danger 1" nud it Lhad beon brought npon the stago of Robinson’s Opern-House, and the attention of the nudieuce attraoted to it by a gong, it is probable that .the pumo would have boen lulled ond the loss of life averted, 1t is nover possiblo on occasions of this kind to got the car of a terrificd crowd, but thelr intolligence can be reached through the oye. The frightful disastor in Cincinnali shows that the device of thisves or the inzdvertance THE CHICAGO W of a ohild may st nny timo oreate-a panio | tives Lavo docided to roportin tavor of grant.’ among & large audience, and it shonld not morely prompt the managors of publio amugomont places to adopt tha precautions wo havo suggosted nnd others, but it should also induce tho local nuthorities of large citiea to compel manngers to make such chnngos and maintain such a syatom na will afford rensonable protection for human life. Protaction ngainst tho madness and folly of o frightoned crowd is as nocessary as protec- tion ngalnst firo and accident, and ownors of public buildings should bs compollod to recognizo it, nnd provide for it in the con- struction and manngemont of their houses, P Bt e FIRE INSURANCE IN CHICAGO, ‘We print this morning a roviow of the flres in Chicago during the yonr 1875, It will bo seon that the nggregate losses during tho twelvo months onding Jan, 31, 1876, wns only 157,000, of which moro than half, or $240,000, was in Wanw's glue factory in Feb- runry last. Of this total loss, but $217,000 was covered by insurance. The property on which these losses occurrod was insured for $1,801,000, but tho portions destroyed which wero fnsured at all only embraced $217,- 000, ‘I'he aggregate insurance in the City of Chi- cngo is probably in the neighborhood of £200,000,000, aud tho receipts therefrom $3,000,000, The insurable property, includ- ing stores, warchouses, factories, dwellings, and other buildings and their contents, have o volue approximating that of the land, Much of this escapes taxation, and henco the land bears gonerally more than its propor- tion of tax, because it s all visiblo and is more rondily assessed. Tho total taxes on this property are probably $3,000,000. Tho proporty insured in this city pays probably as much for that insurance ns tho same property pays for taxes,— Stato, city, connty, and other purposes,—that is to say, abont $1,000,000. Regarding in. surance premiums as o tax, the public ‘aro ns intorosted in having low rates of insuranco as in low taxes. 'Tho figures given of the losses by fire in Chicago furnish their own commen- tary. The fusuranco business in this city in 1875 was nenrly nll clear profit, and in this respoct was moro o than in any other great city of the United States. There hns been during the Inst six months an abatement in tho rates of insurance, but thero is room for o still furtherlarge reduction. Tho City of Chicago has dene much within tho last two years in providing proventives against fire ond means to extinguish it, The distribution of water by mains and immense foeders, by reservoirs andinexhaustible tanks, has been on the Iargost scale. Theve is no part of tho «city where thero s not an abundauce of water, In July noxt the second wator-works will bo in operation, and tho two Iske tunncls will contribute o supply such as is furniched to no other city in the United Btates, When these second works aro in operation, so com- plote will bo the water supply, and 8o suf- ficient tho means provided for its uso in case of fire, that it may be safely assumed that no fire can have more than a very limited sweep. Even in tho southwestern part of tho city, whore the lumber yards and the frame buildings are thickest, tho menns of extinguishing a fire will bo such by next sammer as to give positiveassurance that thero can bo no extended conflagration. It is con. sidered thnt these new works, when in op- oration, will be equal to any demand for the extinguishment of fires, no matter how or under what circumstauces they may originate, Had thore beon such mesns at handin 1871, cven tho firo of that yenar could have boon arrested and conflned to tho locality where it originated. Under these circumstances, Chicago is al. ready a fleld of ripo harvesta for insur- anoo men; and in the nesr future, with its comploted arrangements for proventives nud protections against firo, this will be the most profitable insurance district in the conntry, and thereforo justifying a great reduction of rates to the minimum standard of safety. THE SCOTT BUDSIDY FRAUD. Thero are two propositions before Congress for a railroad connecting the Mississippi Riv- or and the California coast. Tho first of these is Tox Bcorr's proposition. o has control of two railrond companies, ench pen. niless and bankrupt, but each having a char. tor and a grant of land to build a railrond to the Pacific. o proposcs to unito theso nt the 103d meridian, and construct thenee 2,000 milos of milway through "Texns, New Mexico, Arizons, and California, to Ban Fran- cisco, To do this ho asks Congress to mako the nation indorse his bonds at the rato of £40,000 per mile, interest payable in gold at & per cont, and bonds payable forty yonrs af- tor dato. ‘Lhia involves o Lnbility on the part of tho -United Btates of over $#,000,000 in gold snnually for forty years, ot tho end of which time the only security would bo a rail- rond thyough a desert 2,000 miles long. That is Tox Scort’s modest proposition, In the meantime the Bouthorn Pacific Rail- road of California has built o railrond from San Franclsco noarly tho whole length of the Btato to its southern limits, and within a fow months will have 700 ailes of this railrond to Fort Yumn in oporation, ‘hereforo a rail- road covering so mnch of Towm Bcorr's ' pro- posed line i actually built aud the fiold oc- cupied. ,This California Company has con- structed this rond at its own expenso, without one dollor of Government subsidy. Having reached the point for a connectian eastward to the Mississippi River, it finds Tox Scorr's two baukrupt Companies holding large grants of publio Inud, but utterly unable to build the road, being without credit, and already heavily loaded with dobt, on whick they are uunblo to pay tha interest. This California Company now proposes to accept the land-grant already forfeited oy Bcorr’s bankrupt Companies and build the road emstwardly to the 103d meridian, or through to the Misslssippl River, without any cash or boond subsidy thao the land-grant, ond thus furnish o western connection with all tho roads running to Galveston, New Or- leaus, Memnphis, St, Lonis, and Louisvillo, "I'ho object sought is u railrond connecting the Southern States with the Pacific const. The meouny offerod aro: 1, ‘Tox Hcorr's railroad, 2,000 miles to build, for which the Government i3 to gunrantee from four to five millions of gold nuuually for furty yeors, smountiug to one hundred and sisty to two hundred nillions of dollars cash. 9. The California Campany’s rond, of which 700 miles are completed, ond the completion of, the remaindor are guuranteed without any cash or bond subsidy, or any otLer aid than the land-graut already Leld by Scorr's bank. yupt Company, Congross Las to choose between theso two offers: Tho one involving an increase of the public dobtto tho mmount of two hun. dred millions of dollars, and the other in- volving no expense or liability to the United States. On this chofco of propositions the Bub-Committes of tho Houss of Represonta- TRIBUNE: Mt ing tho mbsidy asked by Toy Soorr ! Now comes n statomont by tho Washing- ton Chronicla of Fab. 3, that Bcorr, driven by the superior means of tho Californin Com- pany, has atated to the Committeo of Con- grosa * That ho was content to have the Cali- fornia Company build eastward as far na tho Texas lino, provided his Company was grant- ed n subsidy for- the rond in Toxas, and that liobe allowed to build n branch from San Bor. nardino to San Diogo, in Cnlifornin, also with o subsidy.” This Is perlinps moro coolly impudent than anything yet proposed by the Pennsylvania railvond king, It ia that the erstern end of tho Pacific Rnilrosd, the westorn part of which has beon built by the Californin Com- pany for 2,000 miles at its own exponse, slinll be handed over to Toxt Scorr, and to bo built for him by n subsidy of 140,000 of national bomds per mile. 'The Company which, bo- ginning at San Francisco, has built 2,000 miles of rallway through barrons nnd sands, through aud over mountnins, is to bo arrested ot the 1032 meridinn, gnd Tox Scorr is to have the castern conneetions all built for him by the United States Govornment. Tho road through Y'exna has beon liberslly endowed by that Stato, but Scorr insists on having Fed- eral bonds besides, Tho California Company, howeyer, offer, if the land.grant alrendy forfeited by Scorr's Compnnies bo granted to it, ¥ build the road onstwardly so as to furnish connoction with Shreveport and Memphis. 'I'he fact i, Scorr has boen attempting to grasp tho whole rallwny systom south of St. Lonis. o has absorbed all tho charters. Ho has built various pieces of ronds,—all point. ing westward,—s0 08 to communicate with hig proposed main road. On nll theso piecos of rond ho is lnrgely in debt. The ronds are not worth the amountof the bonds duo on them. All his Companics, especially his Con- struction Company, nrc hopelessly insolyent. Hia only hopo of extrication is the obtaining o snbsidy from Congress. A subsidy of five millions of dollars in gold for forty yenrs would roscue him from fluancial ruin, and tha only possible inducement thero can bo for voting him a subsidy, when another com- pany will build the road withoutany subsidy, i to enoblo Tox Scorr to extricate himself from bankruptey. The country has hardly renched that point yet when it will consent to bo taxed to pay Br. Scorr's dobts and settlo n fortuno on him for lifo. In offering to take the enstern half of the rond with o subsidy, Scorr has practically confessod tho fraud and scandalous sttempts to plundor the National Trensury for an ex- clusively porsonal and solfish end. 'Thocoun- try, howover, will rend with astonishmont that, in the foco of nll theso faots, n majority of a committeo of eithor Iouse of Congresa should report a bill to give Scorr the eontira subsidy originally asked by him. COUNT THE MONEY, “ Hewrrr's Resolution,” which was adopted by tho Houso & fow dnys ago, mny becomo famous in our financial history, It sets o new and n good precedent, It nsks of the Bacretary of the Treasury a dotailed account of the so-called cash bnlanco in possession of the United States on tho 25th of January. Tho Becrotary is instructed to submit o statoment which shall cover not only the money on hand in tho Treasury, but in all tho Bub-Treasuries and in any and every do- positary of the publiofunds, ‘This is in- formation {o which the publio hna s right, but which the press has in vain attempted to obtain for it. The art of booklieoping as practiced by dofaulting cashiers and in tho Treasury Dopartmont scoms to have as its objeot to conceal the renl stato of affairs from tho popularcomprehension. Thero aro nevaral simply questions which tho published roports do not nnswer, and which nobody will an- swer, 'Thus, the Government has some millions of silver on hand, which is held as a fund for the redemption of fractional cur- rency, and therefors should not figuro as “ funds available,” Does it so figure? The people do not know. Tho Government has o number of redecmed bonds and paid coupons onhand. *“Thess,” a8 our correspondont woll snys, **oro not - available cash any moro than o mon's note which he hos paid at maturity, canceled, and filod away is cash.” Do they appenr in tho rcports as cash on band? The people do not know. Again, Na- tionnl Banke wishing to withdraw all or part of their ciroulation have paid into tho Treasury 918,000,000 of greenbncks in excess of their notes presentad for re- demption to date. Does this sum nppear—ag it ought not to do—ns cash ? The people do not know. But the people, aswo have said, have n right to know all theso things, Hewrrr's Resolution will bring oot the facts in all such cases, Meanwhile, the investigation into the mysterious system of bookkeeping used in tho Tronsury Depart- ment, which hns been placed in the handas of the Sonate Financo Committeo, ought to ro- sult in samoe notable improvement in the gen- |, oral plan, 'Tho Anglo-Saxon mind surely must’bo eapable of inventing some system {or kecping the books in & way that will pro- duce correct aud unvarying vesults, If not, Bien Nyg was right, and the Caucaslan s played out, 'Tho merchant who cannot keep the. run of his books i8 running towards bankruptey, and a natlon in the samo plight must fear tho sama fute, CORKLING AS A CANDIDATE. Somo ltopublican papers in New Yorlk, acting upon the very provalent and foolish assumption that it is incumbent upon ench Btate to present a candidate for the Presi- doney, avo putting Roscor Coxxrixa into vory vigorous tralning. With rofreshing unanimity the Demooratio papers, under the leadership of the Merisropnzres of the pross, the New York Sun, are eagerly patron- izing the movement by taking up Mr. Conk. uvo ond patting him affectionately on the back, The Sun thinks that *‘ Roscox Coxx- Lisa will be presented in the National Con. vention ns tho unanimous choice for Presl. dunt of the Ropublicans of New York," and concludes that, * with such backing; zealous, pationt, and discreet, it is by no means im- possible that the Convention may finally se. lect him as ity candidnte.” Of courde it wishes 80, snd so docs overy other Domo- cratio paper in that Btate, and thoy wish so bocauso thoy waut it to bo so, believing that ko wonld bo & very wesk candi- dato it nowinated. Tho samo class of jesuitical papers insisted thot Gon. Gmaxt would be tho candidate for a third tern be. couso they saw ho could not carry the North. ern fitates. Thoy are loud in their praises ©f any Ropublican who is without any par- ticular constituency or strength, or who would prove to bo a woak caudidate. Itisa littlo ingular, however, that the Republican papers in New York should swallow thiy Dumocratio dose of flattery without perceiv- ing its real charaoter, Even Mr, CovxrNa i8 pluming himself upon the situation, and is more maguiticont then ever, Alr, Conxrxa DAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1870, ony gob the Yoto of tho Now York delegation and rany got n complimentary vote from tho Convontion, Beyond this thero aro no prob- nbilitiea In tho case. The Ropublicnn Con- vontion will b least of all likely to tnko up a man whoso nomination wonld be gratifylng to the Democratic politicions in any mannor, Tho Ropublican papers of New York, thero- fore, can possess their souls in patience. Tho first lesson in political aconomy for our statesmen in Washington to learn and comprehiend is that inflation by law of the prices of goods prohibits exportation of man- ufactures, Donr goods cannot be sold abrond. A high tariff mnakes denr goods, re- duces domeatic consumption, and culs off forcign domond. Such a systom is not pro- tection to Amerfean industry, and its advo- cates have no moral right to call it by that nnme, The sacond lesson which our siatesmon should learn is that the surplus agriculturnl productions of our farmers and plonters which enn find a foreign market do not ex- change for tho quantity of foreign commodi- tics which the American people inslst upon purchasing and enjoying, Conscquently the ontiro production of our gold and silver mines has to bo oxportad, and thers atill re- mainy o serions deficit. In order to fully pay for our imports and chango tho balance of trado in our favor, it is absolutely neces. sary to oxport large quantitios of Amer- jcan monufactures to foreign markets and oxchange them for moncy or commodi- tics, Ilard times cannot bo banisbed and the idlo oporatives pat at work until tho loom and tho anvil roinforces the plow nnd tho hoo in producing surplus articles for sale abrond. Having absorbed theso two simple but imn- portant lossons, and digested the same, the noxt thing for our statesmen in Washington todois toremove the artificinl snngs, ob- structions, and sand-bars placed by previous Congrossosin the channelsof industry, Things must ba lowored to their natural lovel, the exponses of production chesponcd by re- moving the causes of inflation of costs, and rendoring housckeoping cheapor to tho la- boring classes. ‘Whonaver tho Iaw pormits our mechanies and artisans to co-opornte with the tillers of thosoll in producing commodities for expor- tation, bLusiness will become brisk, times good, money plonty, and the **wintor of dis- content"” will become glorious summer. But, until that be done, tho prospect of an oarly rostoration of prosperity is dim and discouraging. Mr. Fenvaxpo Woop, the distinguished representative of the Eastern Democracy, is an opon advoeato of the Do-Nothing policy s tho rulo of nction for the present Demo- aratic Congress, He wants Congress merely to pass the Appropristion bill and thon promptly ndjourn. He doesn't want any tariff reform or revision. He doesn't want any currency logislation whatover. Ho doesn'’t want tho tariff made worse, and he docsn’t want the tariff made bettor. He is not sgainst protection, nor is he for revenuo re- forin, He doesn’t want tho carrency onlarged or improved, and ho doesn't want the cnr- rency curtailed or changed in any way. He doesn't want ony oxpression in favor of apecie rosumption, and he doesn’t want any ox- pression agoinst specie resumption. He doosn't want anything said on one sido or tho other abont any question, including Bouthern Rebel clnima and cotton tax. He wants tho Democratio party in Congress to play the part of the Sphinx, in the hopo that it mny bo sccepted a8 on oracle. If it is truo thot an open confoscion is good for the soul, Mr. FeaNanoo Woop must feel considerably relioved. Ho has confessod, in point of fact, that the Domocratic party dare not revenl ita roal purposes onr auy subject, and hero is their serious dilomma. - Mr. Woop is probnbly corract in his approhonsion that, if they do, thoy will simply court defest; and it is cor- tain that, if thoy do not (having had the op- portunity), they will not deserve success, bo- causo they cannot command tho confidenco of the people. 8o the party is in a bad way, and My, Woop is a prophot. « T PEmsoNAL Mark Twaln ia going to Europe In the epring, on busineas, Tho Earl of Danraven is a guest of Bleratads, the Amorican artist, u New Yorlk, Dr. John Hall, of Now York, Las begun his courso of lecturea bofore tho Yale Thoologica! Hehool, The Cincinoatl Commercial says that Don De Dar, when ho ien't playing Falsiqly packs his bowaels ‘of compassion in & trunk, Dr. Konealy's gown worn in the Tichborne trinl has bosn given to o Bcotoh mussum, 88, since his disbarment, the Doctor has no use for such nu article, Mr. Cateb Cushing, our Miolstor to Bpain, has fallen into that lass infirmity of wvoble miands,— lio has written a poom for the birthday anniver- sary of a Fronch Princess, § years old, David Dudley Fiold is & bad ponman, He signod his name rocontly to alogal dooument snd sent ft to the printor. Tho signature ap- poarod {n print, ** Teiod and duly Gled,” It le said that tho Princess Doatrice of En- gland—who {a not, as proviously roported, to marzy Princa Louis of Balteuburg—is deoply in lovs with tho Prince Impenial of France, A dsughtor of Lucion W, Pond, the Worcester forgor, hea boon for soveral montha employsd in » rostauraut in that city, working out a debt of $100 owed by hor father to sho propristor. ‘Tho Berlin correapondont of tho Now York Tribune refcrs nnonthuslaatically to Mr. 5, M, Pratt, tho Chicago planlst, as * a Jabonious and couscientions srtlat,” who, within proper limits, will yei acsomplish o groat deal, Dockray, tho American who has juat escapsd from tho Spaniards at Valencia, writes to a friond io Florids, advisiug him to bowars of Bpaulsh prisops, ** Lot them choko you first with the garrote,” writos Mr. Dockray, The New York Graphife publishes tho follow- ing intoresting itom: * Prof. Tyndall is about to be married to the daughterof Lord Claud Hamliton. Looking iato futurity, we think wo dlscern the promise and potency of—aheml’, The New York flerald, having examined tho mattor, decldea that the first throe aots of Mr. Daly's new play, * Piqus,” are takeu bodily from Florenco Alsrrystt's novel, ** Hor Lord and Mauter,"—the aialogue being used without es- seutlal altorstion, ‘¢ John Paul,” who has been for sovoral vears a favorite watering-plase corregpondont of tho Now Yori papeiw, has crosssd over to Eurape, and {s writiog spioy lotters from there to tho Tribune. Ho bas altesdy arrived at the conclu- sion that hotel-keopiog is not oua of the things thoy do better in the Old Country, The Shakspeare Lexicon of Dr. Alexander Bebmidt bas boen completed. Itla in two vol- umes, and shows tho results of much painstak- jog Iabor. Mr. Bmalley sayu that every Bhak- gpearoan student will find the Lexicon aq noces- sary a pattof bie library as the Concordance of My Clark 4o the plays, or that of Mre. Furnoss ¢ the poema, s The Cincinnali Star rises to & polnt of order on tha paragraphing that ie going on about Col. McKeo ss a * jourcallst,” and statos ita point 83 follows;: . *Mcleo, \ though a convict, nover was a joucnalist, He owned stuok in a nows- paper; bt that no more mado bim a journalist than owning atook iu & ratlroad makos tho ownor an engiucer. Drawing dividonds from tho earningn of o nowapapor does not make s man a journalist any moro than drawing dividonds from a atreot-ralirond mokos & man o mule.” Exception haa boen takon, by captious epirits in Now York, to tha phrase. '*s convorted actross,” as applled to Mrs. Lowery, the roviv- slist. Tho Idea in, that these worda in soma inan- nor throw roprosch upon the dramatio profes- slon, They only imply, perhsps, that actrossos aro not often convertod; which way, or may not, bo a reproach upon the claca, Joln O. Van Pelt, tho Olio srloon-kesper who took #o prominant a part in tha recont liquor-crusade, lian beon found guilty of grand Iarcony at Cape Girardoan, Mo., aund sent to tho Missourl Penitentiary for fivo and n iaif yoars. His offenne was the atealing of a buggy and har- ness. 1o had & colored girl with bim dressod 88 n boy, A Philadelphla dootor gave an original yorsion of “Iamlot™ last weok, at Concert Hall. ‘The snpport was ronderod by s prompter, who stood belind tho scones, and read afl but the principsl part. Tho Doctor's volco was conttnually drowned by tho shouts of merrimont and de- rision ; and thes orohostra—a fiddle and a piano —struggled with **Oh! Poor Robinson Crusas,” and other sultablo tunos. Madamo MacMation, wifoof tho Fronch Presl- dont, {a tho despair of the milliners and dress- makers ; for ber slout, short figuro doflas the graces of their arl, A correspondent enys, howover, that the poople, dotermined to flad somo good qualitics {n the porson of the Prosi- dont's wife, call kor * a motherly soul.” * Loult at that back and shouldera! " whispor pecplo at recoptions, * How homely |—how motherlyl” A complimentary beneflt was tondorod to Mra. Oatos, tho comlc-opora singer, in 8t. Louls, lagt Thuredsy. At tho closo of tho socond act, & coral necklace, valuod at 8300, was presentod to | the bonoficiary. Bho affected to bo surprised, but managed to respond in an ornato littlo spoech, in which she referrod to her proposod Journoy across tho cornl-reefs of tho Pacific and Indinn seas, ond promisod to think of hor nock- lacoat that timo. It is nnderatood that Mrw. Onten has entored foto an ongagement with Al lison, {he Australinn managor, for a tour of that country. She is naturally aoxious to win frosh aurols in {ho flald so Iately occupied by hor tru- ant busband, Tracy Titus, and Emily Melville, JIOTEL ARNIVAL#, Palmer House—'fho Hon, 0. 1. Yiliey, 8% Louls; A, 8. Latth, St, Louts; Thomis Brown and D, N, Lock- wood, Buffaio; Both E, Thomas, New York; T. A, Theln, New York; Il K, Duley, U, 8, Army; T, G, Carson, Ditisfield, ‘Ma ‘Thomaa Ilalleck, ‘Nuw Yorks N. L. Roun, Peoris; L, 1, Etselo, Philadéiphia 3, 11, stuart, Toutaville; Jowoph Low, Dutrolt.... Grand Paeifie—A, Rimball, Davenport; Joln 0'Connor, Boston: G, I, Bacon and A, M, ‘Iruo, Now York; Isato K. , Natlek, Masa,: 1T, Albrecht, Philadolphia; John A, Donglase, Memphin; Rodney D, Wells sud ¥, H, Lokee, 8t. Louls; Clurles L. Wiite, Lauissille, Ky.; 3, 8, Neally, Rhode Island; W. J. Florenco and, wifs, New York; L, E. Kingsbury, Corniug, N, Y....Trement IHottae—Cyritn V, Bacon, Tawtucket, it, 1.} Gen, E, O, Hancock,” Now Orloausi Charica Bent, Morrison (Ill.) Sentinel; Col. G.F. Winter, 8t, Panl: Gen, Thonins Hollihan, Ban Fran- clsco; L, A, Bmith, Now Haven: W. W, Horton, Do- trolt; A, N._ldate, Now ' York; dJudge’ A, I, Gladings, Muskegon; J. 1. Rice, New Yorki G, 1L Doylo, Tioston: W. M. Ciark, (rand Rapid: 0, C, Markle, Dittaburg....SArrinan_Houss—Col, G, D. Lates, Boaton; the Ifon, O, If, Bacon, Liostonj J. A, Mclloth, Denver; Thouias . Cooper, Coopeni 1, Doud, Mayor of Hacine; X, 3 burg, I'a.; the Ho 3 @, Waldo, W. Sloplena, Jr., Omsha’; B, R, Harsls, Pittabnrg; Charlod rackott, Bost 11, Ttomos, ‘Troy, N, rank ¥ ton : Teld, Peorias Thomaa Flynn, ‘Piltabi ardner Houge=D, J. Doherty, 8t Louls; L. W, Porter, 8t, Thomnas, Ont.; E, W, Harrison and Misa L. O. Iarrl- son, Dloominglon; Frank Murdock sud wife, t. Loia; 0. E. Fargo and wifs, St Louls; E. L. Hali, Ballimore, POLITIVAL NOTER The composition of the Ropablloan Congres- sional Committeo is sald to ba in the Morton in- torost. Tho Hartford Courant gives countenanco to tho absurd report that Benator Conkling la no longor a candidato for tho Pracidency, but favors tho ronomiyation of Gou. Grant. Tho Loulevilla Courier-Journal thinks that the Demooratic party in almost toa virtuons, It noeds politieal intuitiona. Itlsintho sitnation of tho interosting Mathilde, who waspronounced by Lior mother to bo loss than adorablo becsuse sha waa A fool, and tha roason why she was o fooln hior mothor's oyea was, that she waa vir- tuous, The Now York World's ' Paraco” is Mr. Thomas G. Moore, a graduate of Trinlty Collogo, Dublin, with long red lnir and an oxteusive Lkuowledge of political oconomy. tlo hag writ- ten for tho World sinco 1850, Ho is understood (o bo the principal author of the now Tariff bill, and doos not hositato to clalm the honor for himself. Tho Rov. Mr. Tibba asaerts thiat Dishop Haven did aay at Omahs, in substauce, that the Harper -Beothera had no political proforences to expross, proyided thoy could make monoy. Tho Bichop now allegea that tho story is a slandoroun fabri- cation, and, st any rate, the conversation ho had with Mr, Libbs waa intonded to bo strictly confl- dontisl. Hero Is o littlo itom sbowing hosw tho Distriot of Columbia bualneus is managed : Tho statement showing tho snount pald by tho Commussionara for ndvertixng, printiug, aud cuyrav- {ng, from June 20, 1674, to Jan, 0, 1876, uhows that tho Nuttmal Lepublican Company hna reccivod, fnclndig its chargs for ndvertisiug property to ba soll for fuxos, §55,193, Tho Washiugton Chrunicle bas ro- celved $14,643, Evening Star $3,641, That {s the way Lo keop tho press amisble to- ward tho swindlos that nie called improvementa. The Now York Evening Post drawa thie com- parison Lotwoen sturdy Keorr and Iodis-rubbor Hondricka: Hendrleks {a the completest antipodo of tho charno- tor und sontiment ascribed to Mr, Kerr—a politician of {ho polliciuue; o, uor, shanbiiug, alunling, two- faced, dloxible waiter npon tho tides; with uo' moro cousistency Wau A lump of dough, which ho who handlos kneads juto shape; whoso habitual sttitude for years has boen that of stridiog fonce; who, in the ULIo elsatiow, strova to rido the kard money horso while ho fondled the rag-baby: and whose auccess in the wwmbitious scheme Alr, Xerr mocka o promote would vend o pang of deapalr to every ciltzon dovoted to the gread causo of frea trade, of Livncst money, ul rigld ndwinlstration, with which Mr, Korz has boon {dentified ¥ Private Dalzoll's letter to Gon. Bherman, which called forth the Iayos lottor of tho latter, waa quito Jong. It informed the General that thounauds of soldiors, North and South, would like to soo il Prosldont, andasked him to clear up some msunderstandinga as to hia relations withi the Roman Catholics. In conclusion, the Privato requested tho General to tato whothor, i cass ho should declino tho nomination for hjmselt, ho would agreo to support Gov. Hayes, The Uonersl was, a8 {t sppears, invited to ox- proes sn opinion an this particular subjoct ; and bis doclarations in favor of Hayes do not, thero- fore, possoss the samo slgnlticance a4 tho vol- uutary and complote Huyes lotter of Bonator Bhorman, Tho Cincinnatl Timea hoa been entorprising ouough to obtain tho * viewa" of tho Hon, Bard- well Slots on the political aitustion. Wo have space only for his opinions lo rogard to tho school question, * My informatiou ou that sub- Ject,” aaye tho Ion. Dardwell, '*18 necessarily limlted, wover having given schooling much atteution, nor Laving over attended ouo, Tho toachings of Luther, Blucner, Doochior, Buchu, Aristophanos, and Pogasus, iead mo to tbluk that overy one should follow such doctrines as would make the good citizen. * In oo Jawbone Sio Saleralus.’—Jon, Morrissey," This is about s fntelligible &8 ove of Uov. Hondricks' war- spoeches. Trootor Kuott, Clisirman of the House Judici- ary Committoo, drow this alluring picture of tho Presldential office, in the debate ou the conati- tutional smendment limiting tho ofiico to one term Of 8ix yoars: A salury of $50,000, & mausion sustained fu & stylo of luxury thst fow persons dreswcd of, furnshod, re- palrué aud heatod at au ounual oxpouso of §25,00, with tlia very alr breathiud thers perfumed by rurs oz~ otiea, propagated I a $35,000 1 houss, waintained at a0 aunual c3peuss of §5,000; » privato secretary at $3,0008 yearto do tho Vresldent’s writlog dwo as- siztant secrataries, st §2,600 a yuar, Lo do ths work of tho privat sectetary s two clorkect £330 to do the ‘work of the assiataut secrotarica {laughtor] ; & 8 st Bj0te supply’ the Vrealdeuts table choicaut wines sud the richest visnds thab could tite; with §6,000 & year for onery, telegraws, sud (& conus templ oF satiate his , periodicals, s! et i ot know, but he thmoked’ God for the % continy Rencion, Fighed for tls fleapot of Egypi Aihiial of a neneitive Aol what (4KIng 14t 1oug faro, wall of such sslary and lnzuries. tered into the publio mind, bo Lsa socond choice, which {8 Grant for a third torm, o] other contingencios, * What that moant be {lavgutor] 1If the childten of Israel t, Whal IHAE he thg ‘Wo wore not awaro that snybody had thought soriously of Mr. Conkiing as a probable candj. dato for the Republican nomiuation to the I'resi. donoy ; but {t up}mnfl that Mr, Conkling 2 And, now, ronlizing that the idoa hia not on- disclosed hig Porbaps Mr, Conkling thinka that tho third term would bo tho end, and thus Lho chances of & new doal would como round sguin ia_four years; wherens the tiro-term custom would put that off olght years in case of muIvI otber candidate. But, if a third term, why should that bo thoend? Furthermore, when a third-torm candidate Liad givon the Daomocratic party the ,""I"Y' it surely would—what chiauco wanld that leave for Alr. Gonkling ?—Cincinnalf Gazelte, With alt. respect for Qov, Hayes and his ain. cero frionds who are pushing him for the Prosi. doncy,—and he has such frisuds, in spite of the bypocrites who aro_howling iu his nawme,—it is o misfortune that the Ropublican party of Ohlo, whoto position {8, within limitations, oxceadiog. 1y intluontial, shonld waste themsolves iu au ufe fort that arises from local cousiderations, and that conld only prove & success through » com. brnation of accidents. The Ile]lnlfilcnflu of Obio triumplied Inst summor ovor the Groon. back Dragou,-not through the power of Hayoa, or of any man,—but by forco of thoir devotion to a good cauuo that atiracted honest and intal. ligent reerulta from the Domooratio oamp ituelf, and commanded, by virtuo of its intrinsio ox. collence, tho German and Liberal vota that had beon ostranged by Graotism. It the National Ropublican parly s to win in the Presidontisl campnign, tho Ohio pecodent muet bo followed, and & Atandard.bearor is noedod whoso nema wlll} reprosont the cause.—Cincinnati Uommer. cial. Tho efforta to uncover tha Whisky Ring in Tili- nofa are not balug attended with” tho success that could bo wiskiod. Thus far it looks liko great pratongo of doing somothing with & pro~ saution that it shall not bo done, Thore is every ronson for bolioving that the whisky frauds in that Stato would, if rovealed, put those of 2lis. souri to hamo. Dut they hava not beon uncov- ored yot, and will not be {f powerfal influences can provent it Somo soiaures and arreats have teon made at Chioago, sad, at ono timo, it was hopod (hat a breach hiad bean effaotod that would lend to n full exposure of the Itjog ; but the lo- cal reiating ngencioa have beon atrong snough to pravont this so far, and it ia not probablo wo shall get more thau o dim view of tho Chicaga conspiracy. 1f Lhe Chlcago and Peoria distiller~ tos contd be- uncovered, there would bo lively times in tho United Statos Courts in Tilinols for months to come, A Missourt Grand Jury is sad- ly neoded 1n that Stalo.—SL Zouis Republican, In all probablility the Ropublican party will contintio to maiutain ita ground of ‘the paat. Assesting tho constitutional right of tho Gov- ernmont to usc its crodit 63 tke basis of » unl- form currency, as ngainat tha Btatos-Righta thoorists, it will maintain that this ourronoy can be kept good only by limiting the quaatity, and Jooking to its fiual rodemption 1 coin. Insiste ing that Troarury notos aro simply promises to pny, it will also ingist on koaplnq the promise of paymont ot tho oarticst jracticablo period. It will ipgivg that » rolumn to ppocie pavmens doos not menn an nbandoument of nback irauo, but tho jmprovement of the public credit until they aro as ood ca gold. IHow soon that timo will comoe i uncertuin, bud that it must be kept in viow o the nltins'o parposs, is cortaln. Tho truo poticy of the Rapublicsn L{mty 18, un~ doubtecly, to stand by its sstion snd its pledges. Haviug iasnod the greoubaolis, it must defond thoir levality and expodiency. And having plodgod itself to make thom a3 good ad gold, 1t must by wiso and oconomicsl administration ro improve tho publio crodit as to redoom that pledgo.~Indianapolia Journal THIEE WARD ESTATE. A Now Phaso of the Cavo 'Turns Up ia, the Court—1i1ton Suys that Nr. Doxe tor and Mrs. Wivd Ave s spofintang 1 the f£ine Louds—ils Wants an fne Junction to Stop £t. Detroil I'ost, Feb, 5. Milton D, Ward and Ibor Ward, gnandian ol Elizabeth V. Ward, havo tiled s bill in chaucery in tbo Wayno Circutt againat Wict Dextor, of Obucago, Mossrs, Bissall, McUraw, snd Mum- ford, apecial administratora of the estato of tho Iate E. D. Waid: Mre. Cathorine w. Ward and hor infont childron; Monry H. Swap, gunrdian of loury 8 Ward; Q. II Bull, gnardn of Mary BE. Ward; Charles L Ward aud John 8. Woodruff snd others. of Ludington, Tha bill acts forth the fact of tho aoath of Capt Ward aud his leaviog a documont which hay been admitted 1 tho Pronate Court ss his1ast will and testament, but asserts that theso complainants douy that it is his will. Is furtlior allegos au agreement with Mrs. Ward relative to contribution by hor to pay tho debta of the ostato, by roason of which no reuistauce was offsrod to the probating of tho will, and then recitos tho fxots rolativo to the coutosl over tho will 1n the Wayne Circuit Court, which trial resulted in a disagroomout, of the jury, swhich stood eight tor the coutestants to four in fayor of sustainiug tho will. 'Tho cass is to be tried again and has boen noticed for the March torm of 1876, Tho complsinants furthor alloge that tha oae tate of tho enid 1. B, Ward way vory large, liav- inyg beon appraised st $5,345,040.63, wlficlx, 80~ cordiug to thair best fuformation, s an over-esti- mate. ‘Lo dobts of tho estuto aro alao largo, bus wuoh lesy thon the nwsots, The Commuissioners ou Ulaiws havo allowod the clalms of direct in- dobtudnesa at §327,937.4 nd for contingent in- debtodizoss at 8u44,595.43, bolng for indorae~ ments and guarautees, Thoy charge that eaid iudebtodness 18 go sltuntod that no part of it ls bo:ug pressed for immediato payment, aud no neceusity oxists for thio uacritice of propeity to meet It, and they further allego that there Is saf- ficiont porsunal proparty not i pladge and in tho control of tho administrators to wout all present dowmands, ‘Lo bill then procooda to recito the provl slous of tho will rolative to the bequeat of Ludivgton to Mrs. Ward sud hor infant children, and avers that sbie took Kosucnnlan of thia proporty tinme- diatoly after the probating of the will. ~ It then Eots torth cortain prococdings whereoy the ad- winistratos sold to Wirt Doxter cortain logs and standing timber at Ludington, aud allogos that Woodiut aud tao others wontlonod as de- fondanta are councorned with him in the cutting of the timbor aud disposition of the logs fuclud- od in said salo. The bLill aileges that tius upoli- ation of tho pine lands about Ludington aud olaewhora belongiog 10 tho catate is & great damago to these complaiuante. ‘Thoy chargo distinetly and_oxplicitly tuat the defoudants, Wirt Dexter, Cathorine L. Ward, and John B. Woodruft, professing to act with tho asseut of the speciul adminlsteators, and without any su. thority iu law, aro sngagod {u the most oxtandive schiemo of spuliation, wasto, aud illogal mppro« priution of tho bost of tho pine lumber growing upon tho lauds roforred to, Thoy obarge thas Woodruff hins given contracts to various partios, signing his name as sgont, but withous specify- 1ug for whom, for ihe cuitiug and romaving of more than 16,000,000 feot of pino timber from these Innds during tho presont winter and wpring. ‘Uheso .parties have alraady out many loge, which have been hanled to the banks ef tho strontns roady to be floated to the mills in tho epring. Numbers of poople are employed in custingnud hauling this timber. The vaiue of tho timber included in thoso coutracty ia sllegod 10 be moro thau 100,000, ‘The purties eugaged I thus cutting and removat of kmbor are nfilgod to Lo pocumarily irresponsible. ‘The uamos of woither Wirs Dextor uor Alrs. Ward supear on the contraots, but thoy aro signed by Woodruff in his own name as sgent, without asying for whom, 'S'uo complaioants sy thoy hiave Loou unable ta got the peruval of one of thoso ountracts, bub they chirge that if theso logs sre allowed to be rewovaed it will ba vary dlficult, Ifnot impossls blo, to fix the responuibilily and no meaus of pecuring 0 tho vutats adequato remuueration thogefor. Cowplainants chargo that it is neceusary for tho preservation of the timber already cut sod belug cut that o Recelver should Le appointe. and that it ls necessary for the prescrvation ol tho estato, aud of the interests of the lelrs theroto, that furthor epoliation should be ar~ rosted by injunction, They ssk tust defend- ants may be required to “suswer uuder oath what logs or tiwbor each of them bas cas o romoved, or Bold, and that they may soverslly disclosa and set forth at leugth the contractd or weitten agreoments or porwita glyon by any of thew, or to any of them; and that au ao+ count may ba taken of the valua of all such logs or timber, and of the damage to the ecstateof tho late E. I, Ward, ocoasioned by the_outtin or rmuoué or both, of such logs or timber, sn: that such dsmsges may be propc| ’y npponlone;k and tho partios rospousible therefor bo chazg! with thetr liability, and thst they wsy sovorally come to s full aud just sccouuting, and that & rropur porson may be appointed by the Court as itocalver to take pouseusion of tha Ugl, oto.,and prescrye the same, and, if desmoed boat by the Court, to attond to their manulscture and sale, ‘Tl lojunction Liea uot beon iasued as prayed, Dy consent of counsel on both wides, the matter Lias beon set down for bearing oa Monday noxt. In all probability an soawer will bo filed by thad time, A lively conteas is anticipated,