Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1876, Page 5

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNii: FRIDAi:, VFLBiUAR: . 11, lob. +inebria TIe managed to escapo from the jam by duping s lunatlo, promising, It he 314 get the loan of a back to help him over wall, to lend his own back for tho wamo pur- 6, The luoatio wan furious when Ilolmbold, ving got eafoly over the wall, did not redoom .prxum|io Mes, Helmbold aleo says that her 1sband has “amania for nowspapers,” '*not iog What they say, so that.his namo is in om3" **hio borea the mon to doath in the offi- s whero they print papors.” Thia a8t assor- >n is true, boyond tho shsdow of n doubt, ‘olmbold msils to tie londing nowspapers {n tho nited Btates, two or three times & weok, arkod copies of other newanapors containiog tloles far from complimontary to himneit, Tho xponsa of gratifying hls nowspaper manla et bo cousldorable. . TIOTET, ARNIVALS, wtmer House—C, D' layward, New York; R cinensna and wifo, Japm; O. B, Aldrich, Boston 7., Doan, 8t, Louls; J, B, L. Frasr, Tolosdo “offett, Philadelphis; J. 1, Bulterfield, Lincoln, No! , @, Norris, um-mmu-' 30, A ng!-&w ll'.. 8, 3 W 1, i 3 10) \'Tfi#:i:,wx‘!g:flm‘:: B T orn s Now Yorks +W. lisinmond, Penirlo Oty 1a.... Grand Pactjie~ * 7. ilackwortl, Ottumwa s if, 3, Waters, Dayton; L, Emerson, Bay Gity; Lucten 1ill, L. . Higgina, an T, 1t, Mclay, Glovelsnd ¢ 1f, L, Diebl, Tndianapolis 0, Matthow, Bpringel “Kimball, Aua L. B. ot m ooth, New Y e ison, Manager Oatea’ Opern Troupo; T. slone, Fobad dn Lac; O, K, Pearsoll, Grand ftapid 5/1L, Dogle, Boston: ‘M, V. Nlchols, Detroit: O, umnson, Connecticuti W. W. Horton, 3, 8, \Wisbock, Russell Iouse, 1, Winfeld, Detroit; Danicl 3. A Dright, Fort Wayne; C. 3, Pheips, Ralunzoo, ~..Sherman Honse—Tho ilon, J. Wyatt, Fond dn fass AL, D. Deecher, Delavan, 1M.; . "M." Richarde, Rlish, Kensas Oitys J. C. Matt, N.'B, 3cott and Col. D, ltankin, A llen, Cheyenno City; O, 5 ilou, B, V. Dlielps, lndlan ol W, il Hostetter, Philadeiphias 1L 1. Skerman, ankinlais House, Milwaukes. .. Gandner Housr—W. A teota, ore; Mrs, B b angbier, I V. 1. Cotiton, 1, T. Car Co.; daraus Allthorpe, N ork; G, 8, Liborman nnd wifo, St. Louls; | Atsauel_Jones, Dubuque; E, P. Madison, Gounclt stuffa; Davia Judkine snd wife, Clacianatl, sty POLITIOAL NOTER, ¢ Yotk J. V. i o ertord, N. Yoy Cofumbus; the Hon, 3. Hull. Detroft; th The next Congressman from Ben Butler'a old District may be, not & party of the namo of Thompaon, but s doctor of tho pame of Loring ~—familiar name ! The roport that ox-Soontor Iarlan has Leon offerad tho Engtlsls mission s not credited to oy grest exlent, but it comes from a sourco notoriously unfriendly to Harlan. Pendleton and Woolloy don't propoeo to have 8¢r. Hendricks play it on them again. They mean war o tho knifo; and Pendioton, though he may not bo a formidablocandidato bimeelf, s » formidablo encmy. Ex-Gov. Morgan, of Now York, ia anothor msn of whom thoy say that ho might Lave baon Minister to England it ho had wished, His al- Jogod roason for rofusing waa that o waoted to havo = band {o tho Prosidential campaiga. Hardenberg, of Naw Jersoy, totd the Demo- eratio Congreselonal caucus {n Washington bold- ly that tho rag-monoy mon were * digging the gravo of tho Domoctatio party.” Hardonborg has tho roputation of being o very seusible man. Batt Carpentor's rosidonco in Wasbington will be almost continuous, includiog all tho timo that the Buprome Court and tho Court of Claims are in sesgion. o will, however, maintain & xmominal residenco in Milwaukeo, and keep an eyo out for tho main political chauce, Which socms to neod watching just now, ‘The Indisnnpolis Journaluotices n;l'd approves the posltion taken by Tue Cumicado Tiinuus and the Cincinnati Gazelte on the currency quogtion. The Journal ngrees with yTnz Tuin- ¥R {n belleving that A naked Resumption sct, unassisted by preparative mossures, wounld causo = dlsaatrous shock to the bustnoss of tho coun- try when {¢ should go into offect. The Journal, however, seems to bo in favor of unconditional repeal aod indofinito postponement. Donn Piatt tries to rellove Minister Schencl of tho odium which hsa fallen npon him by ox- plaining that the London corrvspondant of the Now York Tribune bhss beon slighted by tho Ministor on savernl occasons. ‘T'ho correspond- ent reforred to is Mr. G. W. Bmalloy, 1Io lins pursued Schenck with unrelenting hostility nt- most from tho fnception of the Emma Mino scandal.. The worst of it Is that the procoedings In conet have borno out the allogations of Mr. Bmalloy in every particular. ‘The New York Herald correspondent at Wash- ington noticesthat Bpoaker Xorr, and tho other stropg men in the Demoacratio party who give him a backing, are daily galning strength. Thoy do not mean to hava their party dragged into in- lation follios, **Theso men have courago and paiience, sod they know that the session must »long ono. They arc not in a hurry, nor are they much alarmed about small blunders. Xt {:’uu a8 though thoy would get control by and n The Bpringfield Republican ssya: ¢ Thorols discuseion a8 to whother John Bnerman is sorl- oun or slyly sarcastio whon he writos and pub- lishes of Gov, Hayes that ho is ‘eo eituated in regard to the quostion of finances a3 to be ablo tosupport any plan hat promises succose.’ The probabjlitics balanco protty ovenly, but wo -incline to the opinion that the irony 18 quite un- . consclous; that John is writlug in good faith, snd seriously thinka tho top rail of the fenco a good place, tho bost possiblo place, to look for o Prealdential candidate.” The New York Tribune, which wan disgusted 2t Blalne's speoch in favor of excluding Jeft Davis from tho general amnosty, more recontly bua nn odlitorinl on **Mr. Dlaine's Luck, It #ays tho comment of tho multitude ut tho North on Joft Davis lotter will bo: *“Woll, Blaine kuew Joff Davis best, aftor all;” aod continuos; “What good can possibly como out of tho rosurrection of tho sliolotons of Andorsouville? ‘Why, mere lack for Mr, Dlalno, 1o will bo marchiog through tho country in a littlo whilo as the special champion of disabled Union prison- ora, just s ho did a month ago fn tho character of champion of tho publio echools, That, Mr. Davis, wlil bo tho trulc of your lotler.” The pooplo of Arkaneas send on to Congrosss hot remonstranco ngainst the establishment of & Fodoral Court in the Lndian Torritory, thoe burdon ©of which Is, that tho Territory now murders threo or four United Btatos Marehals o year, besides a largo number of other people, and ia tho Alsatia of deaperadocs for the whole Wost. Theattompt to ontablish a Federal Court, according to tha ro- wmonstrants, would load to “unprecedentod ag- .mazsination of furors, witnesses, roarsbals, law- yers, ote.” In this connection tho Bpringfield Republican asys: *Courta must b eatablished some tlme, and the difficulty would acem to Lo got over by not appointivg any Arkanasa peoplo to those officos, Tuo fact that the prosont United Btates Court of Arkansas now hae juris- diction, and gotaall tho *ewsg,' ls whoro tho shoo pluches. Kearly the whola population of Arkan. susars on the pay-roll of ¢ho Unitad States Courty and the mortality of these oficors ju tho Indisn Territory s largely oxplained by their lendonoy to got In the way. ‘The Benatorial campaign in Nobraska has talrly opened, ‘The principal candidatos appoar tobaJudge Clinton Lriggs, Gov. Alvin Baun- ders, Gen. O, ¥, Mandorson, the MHon. Lorenzo Crounse, M, O, aud Souator Iitchcock, tho present incumbent, Gon. Triebin, who had be- come exceedingly popular in Nebrasks, was ot oo time considered a formidablo candidato; but he has latoly beon ordersd by tho War Dao- Partment to Mantaos Territary, it is eaid at tho Buggestion of Benator Hitchcock., Thoro fe, however, no proof of this last statement, and it Probably does an injustics to tho Bepator, Of the other candidates, Judgo Brigge was & mém- ber of the Iate Conatitutionai Convention ; Gov. Baunders was sppolnted Governor of the Terri- tory by Prosident Lincoln ; Gon. Manderson,who was » gallant Union soldier, stands very high soclally, and was aiso a member of the late Can-~ stitutional Convention j Benator Hitohoack has Slwaysboen o tiard worker, bat lost strength by his oppoaition to tho uarrow-gauge mallroad; Congreasman Crounse fa above xopcoack, - UIHISKY. Yesterday's Proccedings at St, 1 Louis Manifestly Damaging to Gen, Bahcock, The Evidence of Everest, (he Mysterlous Witness, Proves to Be Very Impor~ tant, Ile Mailed Letters (rom Joyce to Avery and Babeoek Containing $500 Lach, Statement that the Prosecution Will Prove that Babcock Received Such Letters. The Chief Mourner’s Friends Not In. spired with Additional Cong- dance by the Day’s Events. Supervisor Tutton and What Ts Thonght of Him and His Way of Talking, Vily Ald. Jonas and Phitip Goldberg Wero Lugged OfF to Milwaukeo: Letter from District-Attorney Van Dor- ston. BABCOCK, FEELING AND BELIEF, EVENEST. Bpestal Dirvateh to L'he Chieaao Tridune. 8r. Louss, Fob. 10.—To-dny’s proceedings in tha Babeock trial wero markod by unusual in- terost, the groat nonsation being the appesranca of Abjah M. Bvorest on tho witness-stand, Ever- est {8 tho Gangor who fled to. Livorpool, in 1875 to escape arrest for complicity in the groat con- apiracy. 1o wasthe last Colioctor of the Ring. Tho Govornment knowing him to bo o vory valu- able witucse, ovcned negotiations with him for bie roturn, and, & fow wooke ago, he landed in America with sn assuroncg that bio would not bo molosted i ko, wonld sppear when wanted , oa o A witnees, ‘o In the whisky cascs. For abvious ressons Evoreat has boon hid awny from publio gaza sinco his roturn, and, on that account, ho Lasa acquired the sobriquet of * the mysterious witnees,” [t is qulto probablo that bo knows more of the Inttor history of the Whisky-Ring thon any oth- er poteon who playoed a part thoreiu, Thore is quite a diversity of opinion as to tho probable offcct of his evidonce. Good lawyors bolove that the sdmission mede by witness on cross- oxamination that Lo did not actually seo Joyco put the 1monoy in the onvel- opo should dostroy tho value of his testimony altogother, and 8o Dabeock's attorneyn will mafotain, ‘Tl prosecition, bowever, assert {hat, bo- fore they aro through with the case, they will prove cortaln corroborating circumetances which will eutal- 1ish boyond reasonsblo doubt not only that thoe lotter 1o Babeock contaiuod tho $500 bil), but that latters en- closing like mmounts woro sent 10 Lim periodically, Evercat's manzer {s plain-spoken and apparently can- did and truthful, and tho effect of hia teatimony ontho %ury was thought to bo manifestly sdverse to tho do- eudant, AT TIIE OTHER END, 1t fa stated that ono of tho witusasce now liere from Washington will festify fo secfg fn Babcock's posnes~ alon one or mars cnvelopes addressed to the dofoudant la Jogea'a handwriting and tnstked porenal. This circumstance will be put in evidence to prove Labe cock's receipt of the letter, though tho Governmont attorpeye claim that, baving proved the majling of the lottar, it s not necessury to show ita actual rocalpt, THE CHOWD instdo the court-room lo4lay wa greator than ever, 1tiough not so many congreated around the enfran to the bullding ns ou forner daye, Veopla euriously inclined fn tho diroction of tho {risl Lavo lesrned by cxperienco that thoy can noftlier 808 nor Hoar without ttioy go catly and socure soats, THE NEWSPAPERS, Tho cagernesa of tho publio to gt {fie news at the carliest practical moment 18 noted in the enormous sales of ovening papers. Each of tho evoniug publi- catios {ssue tlirca oditions, and the norning papors print sfternoon cditions and astran. Tho peoplo talk about. nothing axcopt tho Babeock trial, Groups of micn discusn it on overy carner, and 1t is the absorbing toplo in all tus hiote] rotundsa, TUE PBESIDENT'S DEFOSITION. Tho fnterrogationa propounded to President Grant woro forwarded to Washington Ly this morning's mall, 1t Isundoratood that ox-Comuissionor Douglass will be on the stand to-morrow, TRODABLY A FALSEHOOD, A atory lisa been {elographed from hero to the offect hat J, K. Bhanuou, of Fike County, ono of the panel from which the Daboock jury was drawn, had been spproschied with o propostion that Lo coutd maks $5,000 by Lianging tho )nr‘y. ‘The objoct of the report 18 Lo produce the impressfon that Dabeock's friends had endeavared 10 corrupt the Jury, and propossd to use monoy for that purposs, Tho Atory can ba traced to no relfable sourc, aud 1s undoubtedly s canard of tha first water, STORRS' PROTEST. 0, & 1,—1876—8500, Spectat Dusvaten to The Chicage Tridune, 8r. Louis, Feb. 10.—Following ig tho argu- mont of Emory Storra agoinat tho admisslon of Evorest's testimony rogarding tho lettor with #8500 in it which he mafled to Babcocks May it pleats {ho Court, thls trisl has Em roasod with ver{ fow intorruptions or objections by ihe de- fense, 1t hsa been and f4 our purpose Lo interpode no objectlons tnat could in sy dogroo bo considered su tochuical, but the evidence oficred Lero s so clearly & violation of those fusdamental principlea of law tho maiutenance of which 18 o ossential for tho protec- tion of private righta aund civil liberty, that wo would be untrue ta oursolves and to our {[mflmlnn, ‘wero wo to withliold objections, Those abjections bo. cow all tho more nocensary here, becau tho danger that thess fundamental priuciplcs may be violat all tho 1uore fu this claas of cuscd—triale for conap acy, Itis this danger that bas brought tbls clsss of Jprosecutions Into such universal disfavor, An inno. ceut man may be trisd and convicted by the utter- ances and acts’ of others, and because, fn il whola criminsl law {ho oucnse slanda’ out so pecu- lar, ftho wisdom of ftho wiscst mon hoa beeh dovoled toward | restraloing | evidenca from turuing iuto persecution and ‘making the fono. oentauffur, ‘This prosecution proscnts thiu yery dan. ger, 14 sdmonishoa us and tho court of the cxtrums Sittion with which we must procced lost au fnnocent Toan may suffer for an uct kv Bover performed, Thie proposition 14 to connect tho defendant with s cone Spiricy,—uct by sy ct b lts dono, OF a2y word io Lascyer wpokon, Hois brought in thie courton a chorgo sa Vegue aa languago could maka 3t, sud placed o fue dark where his sdversaries may firo on bim ond Lo uot seo whers the 4hots cotae from, on the chardo of defrsuding tho Government of {ts Lax on dlatitlod spirite, Atter two sod aall days, Wo begll 10 approsch’an, affone, *'wo aud & half days have been used, and 0ot one Ma- gle syllablo which tends to jmplicato the defendant— $1eh thio prosocution can say tenda Lo establisk e agaltal tha defondant—Lins et been prosented, Tho procf e obvious that, Waers » couspirscy culsts, it o foct i clear, thero I8 uo diticulty In_ cetablisuing tho fact of accused’ uili—uot by hearsay evidonce, or 5echn“unl of thosa who' oxploit their own criminsl uctiona 1o ruln somebody clse. 1t must bo proved by theacts of tho accusod themselvis, Wed thero auy Aificulty in proving Joyco s cosspirator? 1t scems not, Or Bassett—If ho wero on trial? 1t secma not. ‘Fhoy would all b convicted by wiat they Lave dobe, The propesition 1s to show that, duriny the 1o of tLis carrupt conspirscy, $500 was eliulied 1uto 80 unvelap 11d séat to Labeock, For (b jurposa of this cato e are to presume that bo recolved it, thaugh tho fact of seuding f% s besed on_tha wurds of t'vo con- wpirstore—Joyce and Dasaptt, Bo far as theso doclara- tions are concerued, we cak, Whoss declarations aro they? Not Habcosk’sj no: 4,200 autles separated o froin Joyce; honce thw doclaration is ot competent to convics ‘him af thu scts of Joyoe. We are willing to stand byour scta, Thers ie Lot & prelense (hat TR ocl b ¥ act, but Joyce's, ~ Heuce, we come Lack 10 the first ruly ¢ ovidencs sud the woundest Tulo fa justiov, y ok ta conict this defondsnt by the acta of St Mohen by ook o part 0 thom,—know noting about then, No attoiopt i mado to show that L re- § culved tho niosoye Let mo go further: W they \ are hesping sonfectnre ipon eonjacture,—a Potton of ronjecture ia piled on an Osxa of guess-work,—tnate {a % presumption that 1t wen recolved, & presumption that §t waa recelved for a guilty purpose, and a pres sumnption, third, that 1t wan neut for & guilty pur- Tuse, fletm &ra threa presumniions to convict (his ilefendani, Jn the antire abseuce of proof if each ; bty the rounsel my o the jury, “ Yon mayquesa it Dut in» conrtof justice ‘men eaunot bo canjecturad onton gatiows, of guessed into the Penflentiary, In 1aw It in concluslona wa preaitme, and not facta: hnt thie bain of the concluaionn drawn must be satabiish- od by exfdence which the law deoms competant. On rule, TWe don't clsim onnclusive proot of payment by witnees, but ouly prammtive svidence. Wae act on presumption a groat deal, Ifardiys case intried in our courtn that the Jury 14 not compelied to conaler | not pomy prosumptivo fact. If (s ietter inentloned was | thorefars, th fury conld do little tnara than ritagonn recelved by Gon, lal.cock, wo clatm that {s mors or loss | nnd 1waks thewmselvos a8 comfortabloas possiLie, This an act connecting him witl tha conspiracy, iy did unll about 2 o'clock, when the meilictaut - R, KTORRS batfT cautiously opened the door, and told thom tiey RAve pretty much the xame argnment as Jndge Porler, | might ga fos thedsy, The hint wia immedistely And added thibthora 14 no avidence tina far toshow thaf | taken, 5 th money was aver placod [n thoso envelopen, Might | To«layitia expested that W, E.Gnlen will agsin thers not have been s dexterous manipulation | fake thie witnoss chair in the csan of K erwin. reley & K through which tho witness wes induced lo bLe. | Ho will be sccompanied by sevensl new witneases, wha 1a1d betare the Jury, Among them, ho sald, wa Col. Frank Eastman, who mignt b shis to shed s Nitis light_apon the' mubfect, 5{r. Eastman, howesar, had M come over ta the Government Bullding, aud, the atrect {t might be presumed B was gulity bucause | lieve the money Wea put into the ~envelopes, | Wil add welaht to wiiat ba hiasa already dovloped: In- A raid he waw, aud. in 1he (hoory of the fearned conn- | but which {n ’mt might have slipped into | dictments will then be fn order, 7ilgn thaotiernille IF wo oot imisuduca A Inthe | Jogooy pockal or chsembiers’t Thers n the utter s, —t e eirest 0 arui’ of Juailea are paralyzed. | encaof proof to show that (he monoy was aver Aen TOM- 50 st nct, they Lndoriike lo. Frovn Tatses | fona catrunt parpames Afan ctnnat b cmjactired THE CUSTOM-HOUSE, no presumption which proves the act, | futo the gallowa of guesssd into the Penftentiary, Tie NOTIINI EXCITING. and there Ia uo acape from that portion of tho act, 1t «quention 14, Dosa (s denosit of this envelopa luto the 001 not riso a legal presnmption, Vox prove that it was evor roceived 7 The Court—They merely advance the proposition JUNGE DILLON QUESTIONA WITSESS. that the letter addresicd sud malled rainms s prosump- | Jndgs Dillon—I nnderstand that tha prosscution tion that It was vecelvad, bul dun't say what strength | hold that the depostt of « letter Into the masl-box 3d- [t aitachen i ft. rosvod Lo a person raista the presumption that that Sir, BOFTa—Our reply 1, it dos nt rahe any. pro- | fuiter reachien fia destination. . © oo numuption or fanndation for oua as roved by the | ““Afr. Gorrm—Tust in what (hey slaim, but we dony autitarition, Tho that (hiers inany Ingal preanmption of such o reAult, Inercinl paper tha Judge Dillon~t6 oricr 4 have Uils properly pit to :::’m;-[“umn.l::, the Jlury, l"wonld ek (to the witness), Wers there fwo i v In depended npon unless suthorized by o local atatute. | *“Nitaeesmyes, atr. ‘Thero fs 1o law of fhe uited Alates whicl; makos th | Judge DloneWors they prepatd 7 Poatalegul clisnnol of eommunication, 1 tha cas | WitkesnesYom Pirs of tho Commonwealth 8, JofTey, the ielegrams ro- | Judge Dillon-—Yod may you dont know whotber ferrod ta worn sent by thn defondant, And 1\ was Bin | thoy contaiied Iottarn oF not 1 nct, and It Js {nconsequentisl whether ‘they wevo ro- | ' SHitnensol aiouid 43y they U1, but an 1 maw only The expectation of bettor things st the Cus- tom-Houso yosterdsy ln the way of nera was to o certaln oxtent delusive. It was hoped that the Grand Jury would advanco cortain ovidence of their right to exist in tho shape of indictments, Lut nono were returncd. As sct forth in an- other place, the jury epont thoir valoabls time in tho preparatary work of drawlug tho indlcte ments, scanning them over their apectacioe nith the most marked attontlon, and mondiug the woak epata, After thls was donoe thoy ontersd into an Inveatigation of other matters, aud it is quite probable that prosentmonts will be re- folrag by the B e T o of thiy | Lie zaper, and not tho writing, cannot siate defuitely [ turned to-doy sgainat all tho ~Gasgors , et lotters. iscussion, wiil say the Focoipt of the. leiter Itselt | “Suigd Diliou—Did you drop the cavelopo dn tne | 20 Btorckeopers whoso cases have been would prove nothing, Thers s po sttempt made o show ita receipi in any maumer whatever, The mera_inclosurs of a letter conlaining $600 to defondant raissn no presumption that it was received, aud is many degreen removed from connecting Gen, Babcock with thin eounplracy, Lat us sugiest the queation of agenct, aad tha Juct that the sgency murh rat be establishied by the ncts or deciaration of tho prineipal before the sgent's act or declaration can bo admitted, (o think this fs clearly {nadmiasiblo,and (a not rompetent. e reapoctfully insist that it Tuay be excluded by the Court, —_— PRESIDENT ORTON. ME CONNECTS CERTAIN ERRONEODS IMPRESSIONS. Execurive Orrice, WesTEnX UxsioX TrELE- anarn Courasy, New Yonx, Fob. 10, 1876.— To Edilora: My sttention haabeon callod withe in & few days to tho pross reports passing ovor our wirer from Washingtou containing stato~ ments to tho effect ; msil-box 7 Witnems—Yes, T did, Judge Ditlon then adjmirned tha Court 1 3 p, m., 04 requeated counsel 10 send ansliorities 10 bis room. APTERNOON SLWBION, On the reassembling of the Court for the afterncon sesnfon, Judge Difion said : * The Coust fs prepared 1o dispose of the qucetion raised on tha objection to recelye cortain evidence,” The Judye then recited the oblections aa made in argument of counsel for the do- fense, and gaid : * Upon' s ruview of the suthoritices relating to the subject of tho sdmissability of letters duly considerod, ss well as against the proprictors of the Miian Distiliery, and tha orlginal proprietors of the Sorris Disullers, It sppears that this Latter con- cern yas onoe farfaited (o the Government, of whom 1t wan purchased by Ald, Jotm Corcoran and otliers. It ta now saught (o get sll o evidenco i stiape and enter auit ou the distiliers’ bonds, which are collect- able by the Government, Around tho Custom-Hause generally tho rame MONOTOXOUY, DREARY YUIET provailed. Of thoGovernment counsel, Wirt Doxter Ly onu person addreased (o notlier by nawme ot his | waa Iaborlpg with the Grand Jury, Mr. Boutcll Lown [ost-Oftice midross, prepaid, anid actuslly de- | and Mr. Ayer were locked within tho inuer posited Iu the Poat-Olfice, wo con b of ur, in | panctnary of the District.Attormey'n office, and gaticluslot, adopting laugtags' of Chletwlustica ige- | Ar. Basge himnelt was kept busy with the reguise fow, to wit's * Thia [x esidence tending to show that | dutiea of hin ofiice, interrupted ow and then by's auch letters reachied thelr destinadon. and werw ro- | call to tho Graud-Jury footn oF the court-roun. Nune cefved by the person to whoin they were addressed.'™ | of these gentizmen had any news to impart. The do- ‘Tho Court then procecded: This ia uol a con- | Isy of the Grend Jury in getting Lo work lind nu visle elusive presumption, and ¢ does not oven creato s | bie etfoct Ilko unto disspruintment In their featurch, Iegal presnmption that such lotters were actually re- | They took everything in & quiot, eany sort of n wa; celved, 1t fa almply evidence of admineability tead- | reslizing that thero was no wery apecial need of hur; 1R, If ‘erodited by tio jury, o aliow the rocelpt of | ing Luminoss. It I protty well underatond that 110 foet o such letters, a fact with other circumstances o be re- | trisly wali come up until after that of Hening m, Btflz&fla’mg:mfifl‘m‘fi’:flm x;&‘r:fln: ferred to iho Jury under appropriste imatractions, as | nnd Hoyt. which has been Nxed for Maren 7, - Ad: 118 valne il depend upon the circumstances of & par- ticular cass. 1t ls obfecied, also, that tho evidenca aven of admissability aa tending to prova the recuipt of the moucy sliould be rojocted s immterial o ir- relovant, a8 having 0o proLative force, If 1t was ade mitiod biero by the counsel for tho Goveryment that thin was all tho evidenco which they expocted to produce for the purpose of connccting tho defendant with the slleged conspirae lta couclunive character, standing alouo It & caro where the defendsnl’s moutn' ia sealed, would doubticss o each 8 {uat tho Court would e bound to say to tho Jury that it could oot Le safely mado the basia of i conclurlon Inenljating the do- fendant, 1t may not ave been uctually recaived, Tho writer may not iavo been known, his purpose may ot Tiayo becn known, ot tho person Who rocelved 1t may nof have known why 1t was sent, Or imay uot havo fu- vited it, -or havo_ known ihat 1 was in soy ditlonal color 1s given to 1his opinion by the fack ihat THE PETIT JUlY for tha prosent term wers_discharged yesterday after Doon, on whiel oceasion Judgs Biogett complimented tho jurors, thanking them for tlie thoropglness with sehich they lad dincharged their dutios, No new jury will 'bo called until the commencement of the mest term, which occura the firat Mondsy in Maroh, No- ticen wers nerved on the distillers of tle accond latch yesterday 10 afipear in court at au early day and enter thelr pleas, g0 thst it 14 quite probabin something may badone eitlier towday or to-morrow, Wilnesss will be summoned before the Urand Jury to-day to Aubstan- tiato certain portions of the testimony slready given by Galson, Mason, Rusacll, and athiers, aganst certain partivs bero who havo uot' yet been tudicted, but over twhom the welght is supetided with a prospect of ita falling snd crualiing eomebody., of oue of soveral subpenas which had been sorved npon the Company made more eoxplicit, waa really made for the purposo of prevanting L dis- closuroof what was considered by me ns dsmaging testimony to Gon, Dabeock, - Secord—That my recent trip fo Washington was mado upon or in connection witls this Lusiness, sud {Lat while at Washington I had adimittcd that the rec. ords of the Western Union Company at Now York and Jong Branch, recenlly examined by mo, pursuant to subpaena, contained mesasges between Dabcock and members of the Iing which show couclusiyely that Babeock s guilty, Reports containing somp of theso all siréady boen published. 1 doum It due siiks to publls aud privato justice tn say concerning the matior ro- tions hiave ferred to in these reports : way connected with lhe guilly purposo —as- TUE GENERAL PIOGRAMDIL Firat—The application mads to the Court in behalt | ciived to it by the prosecution s4 any lllegal | doen not seemn tobe in the lesst o complicuted ona, In of the Company st Bt. Loufs, waa not at tho inatigs- | purpeso or plany and as e sct diiferently | gmtoof the rumors ingeniously circulated that wit- under the gamo circumstances, it i for the Jury, uns der proper_instructions by tha Court, (o look &t the Tettor, 1f it was sent and receivad, in connoction with ail {Lo other circumstances in evideuce, THOSZ LETTERH, Mr, Eyerest was then recalled to (Lestand, Ho testle Aed :* Col, Joyce hauded me two cnvelopes and dis rected me'to put them in the otter-box, which 1 did, Joyca was watching e from tho window of his offics, 1 was fosring bim. Icould scotum watching, Baw tha directionn un_the envelopes.” Uno was directed to W, O, Avery, Washington, D.C,, and tho otbor o den, 0. E, Baticock, Wasbinglon, D, 0. Each of them Tiad % Perronal ou the jlefi-nand corner. They were ordinary onvelopes, and Lsd no printed matter on fliem or other directions except what 1 bave stated. Thoy had postago wtamps on them. 1 did notres Jayco sup more tWat day, L1ett the cliy Juno 1o, 175, and wend to New York City, and from thero to Liver- pool, 1 feft Liverpool faut Ohristmas and arrived fn New York on the 7th of January, 1nRovor saw Gen, y ton, solicitation, or suggestion of Gen. Babcock, LOF af aby parson acting in bls hehalf, nor was my trip o Wasliington n that busincss. Second—No effort has ever been mado by or {n be- half of Gen, Dabcock ta provant the Company from fumnteling aif woesagos in its custody that had been called for by rocesa fasucd from auy court, and all such have hetn furnished, Third—Tha search mads through the Now York and Yong Bronch fios fniled o find sluglo message cither covered hy tho subpoons or outefdo of it, which relatod to any of tho cason st 81, Lonis, “Faurth—1t follows neccararily it 1 have not stated to auy person anywhere that tlie records of {lis Com- pany contaiued ovidence conclusivo of ihe anilt of Gen. Batcock, 1havoststed in o fow Instances ox- nclly the contrary, Very rospectfully, WiILLIAM OnToN, E— ‘THE PROCEEDINGS, DASSETT'S TEATIMONY. nesees were mysteriously disappesring, aud that the Government would bave a blg job on 164 hands & try- ing the whisky casca next term, sucl does not appear {0 be the caso, The Government counsel refect ail auch rumors s abeurd, and eiate thas they have enangh evidence, documentary snd otherwise, to sis- tain the indictments, and to give the distillers as co- fortabic a doso ax thoy will cars to take. ‘Tho Grand Jury will probably continua to sit, investigating whit- ever arines of any finportance, for some days, 1n the menntime the dlstillers aro expected to enter plear, and 1t f» not altogether out of the question but that some of them msy enter motiona to ynash, invalving much tat {8 filmay and fancital, the whola o I backed up by long, if not weighty, atguments, It hea boen sorn Jrotty conclusively that the evident dispowtion of the Court 18 not to favor the muitifarious forun of deluy which may be resorted to, but to expedite matters, and although a set-back bna thus Lcen given to thoe Aooking dolay, iL husiad the elect to make them moro cautious and more discerning, 8o that their motions to quash Tlaveock beforo thia trial began, il probably be more elaborately gotten up than were 81, Lours, Mo., Feb. 10.—In tho trial of Gon. TIE CLOBH-EXAMINATION. those argued in the Heaing-Rebmi-ioyt indictmenta, If Cross-czamined by Mr. Btorra: ‘1 Lave been in thix city sinca Jan. 20, 1cannat tell the month in wlich 1 mafled the lélters. It waa in February or March, 1873, but 1 am not posltive. 1 think it wos latter part of Tobruary or tho early yart of March. I got the moucy fimat from the Biporvisor's ofins. Col, Joyea atood in frout of bia desk whon ho put the money in the envelopes, The otivelopes wore on the Labls when 1 bianded bim | their rocompenso therefor in United ftates legal- the two$500 bilia, I then sat down to hinlefe, Iwas | tenders, When tho March ferm begins, the new petit watching Lim sttoulively. 1o (st took hie iwo en. | Jury will ‘bo choscn and tho Hesing, Dhem, and velopes up, took the pajicr ous of ane of (ho eaveloj 034 cases called and irlod, sfler which tho remaining and put (he bills in, 1 did not seo Lim put the o cases on the docket will bo called in tholr notural $500 bill {n tho otlier ouvelope, 1m not positivo he | order, Winla many of the distillors now talk Qidput ftin, Woetber ft was tho letter dizectod to | boidly sbout pleading not guilty, ft fs not fmprobatic Tiabeock or to Avers that Lo put tho bili in T cant say, | that a coniction in tho first two or threo casea would When Tent to Liverpeol T bad mno special business | haves rather disbeartenti wifoct Bpon them, while there oxceytlo an acquittal would buoy up thelr Lopes to s coresponds QEI OUT OF THE WAY. ing degree. v ‘The above i# the programme on which tho Governs Jknow T wan fn i Whtaty Ring, ond santed 19 | snent s now engaged, snd tsera s ho doutit that 1t eop out of troublo, 1 vwent to London and Para after !’ua\'xllnu u\:r'}mulo:' thea went fo. Horae, Whra T ror | il bo vory elogciy followed out I every de celyed n letter from wy brother to roturn home, il AROUND TOWN- LOUIS DINDSKOYF, did not tell me it was safa for moto come, and T did ot thinkitsafodo ruturn, Tmet Cal. Alc¥all when 1 ed fn Now York, but the_meeting wos nccldental, !]':'r;m ri':w ;m-! went to rmxaaelfim-, wbm{m.-‘: ono of tha boss Choctaws of the Milwaukeo Diatrfet Attorncy Dyer. Ho came to séemo. E10ld | \higky Tting, was in tho city yestorday. e did bim just whatllave testined to, Itold Col Dyer . s . uu::lx cama {,.,lr; Mwnnl 1 ,?““, ‘;’:‘,u;y‘um not put up at Alny hotel. % lLlll vx:;z,blboafh s on the stand, ol m I could mot bopoeitive | ghort ono, was long enough to enabls bim to go i put o 4900 billiolo. | on *Chaoge sud oxchange & fow plonsunt vords that there wana $300 LIl placed in both envelopes, | with his brethren in misfortune here. Under ordinary cireumstauces, tho fact of Mr, Rinds- kopf's presence in tho aity would not be worthy of moro than personal mention. But he forms ona chaln fu the link which connects the Whisky Rings of tho two cities. Viewed as tho liok, Mr, Whien I wan before the Grand Jury, and on my direct examination, I said I presumed thi ‘socond $500 was Tindskopf should not bo allowed to go uuherald- ed and ungazotted, tho Ring I August, 1874, and continuod to act donliation, TR0 T pecautied tio aeepnd $303 5 ut_{n the other envelope n o1 saw, # euch untll tho golauron in Moy, 1876, Tho | P4, o kaw whether 1 have been Indiciad hero of calloctions during that timo ran as followa onch | not, ‘Ths papers say Lam, 1 made 1o inguiry about Iuwill be remembered by the readers of Tue TrinoNE that last Friday Ald. JULIDS J0NAS AND PRILIP GOLDDENG, wook : Ulrici's distillery from 81,000 to $2.700; | it. I hovo neven been strodted on any indictment, " Can't ssy why, Thero has bect no_understanding or Bingham's from 8500 to 81,6005 Joustt's from | Fafiain'aboutit. - Thero have beou no bints 1o o tuat $500 to $1,100; Choulatan's from $500 to $1,100; | T n‘c;:‘m lin‘lvz: ;ermud;u é '\;::‘a -‘flufilxfls\lll:!{‘:: m:t ‘le:vrilzl et ot ba, foro A Bovie & Frasor's from 81,000 to 82,700, Com- | 108 5, Tk Foey 110 T Kavw mothlog wbout the Ing down to tho spring of 1876, ofttier Into in | whisky frauds. oG ini 3 0n the redirect examiuation, witners explained thef }“{'f“"’ or "’f’{flm ga’:héf‘:‘;.m::s "’in‘:‘": Joyce was stauding up at his deek when he put the oyea.qnco sanh limko Ll FEREREY. money in tho envelope, aad aflor placiog ous bank- | of thin city, woro arrosted by Deputy-Yarehal packago of 31,000 in small bills, to got two $500 | note in one of tho envelopes, ho turned partialiy Buackloy, of Milwaukee, on a charga of conspir- bifla, Mo brought them back, and Joyco pat | Bround so that witncss suw only'n pazt of tho otlier X kee, caarg aus} 5 envelope, sud dld not seo tho other bill put futo it noy in connection with tho Whisky Ring in that them in an envolopa and told him to taks them MUEKRY P, ALEXANDEI, burg. Tho two gentlemen wore taken to Mil- acrozs the stroet nud put them in tho lotter-box. | chlef clork and teller of the United states Bnb-Treasu- 3 Ey of (his city, featided to havo given two 8500 nofea | WAUKoe the sams evening. Tho following day 3ir, ‘Thie witnesa sald Lo did so, and was sskod It o | E.°C 0 iy man to whom bs did nut kiow | Jonss gave bull in $0,000, Gen, Waduworth, of tha Chl- observed the dirsctions on tho letters. about a year ago, but be could not {dentify Eversstun | cago & Erio Railwsy Lue, going on the bond. Mr. Boforo ho could aaawor, the dofenso inter- | tho perian to wiiom ho gavo thom. I fact, Lo ratier | Goldberg remained two or thre days tn Milwaukeo f posed an objection, claiming tbat tho prosocu- | {OUBRL Eversst MR IO A the custody of tho Maruhal and, Gudlug himuelf une tiod wero now tryng to show that Laboack's | of the distiiling firm of sovis & Frazer, then took the | $U15 10 brocteo nondefer (L Shat city, wis periniited namo Wi on ono of thiowo lotters, snd tnet (ho [ siatid, and for the fourth e repuated bis stary of | quired ball. o returusd bere Tuesday oveniny, but ovidence was not compotent. {ho connylnacy and.tho apersiions o use dUriDg | o haunts which knew ldm dally provious to his ar- roet havo nmob known him sluce tho pcnlo to tho A long argument enaued. V'Cream City." Judgo Krom sald this ovidence is incompotent, ‘The day previous to the arrest of Messrs, Jonas and i Goldery, Louls Lindskopt was in thia city. He w. boeauso it 18 preatimptlve, aud i Intended to Here youtarday. Tho coificldenca In & striking one, in show that tho envelopes or one of tho envelopos vm‘.} of 3"\“ h:;»uam. Thin llpx:lur{’nn:kl'\h}. ;luu{ &:‘a was addressed to defendant. At this stage of Philip Gollberg, accompan )y Ald, Jalin T, Cor- s d, probabls, Cits-Arsessor Obarlos Dentiebery, tho caso It is 1ntonded to establish the conspiracy | 1" lhs" cuveopes audreased to Tabcock Aud AVEry, | it procusd to Stiiwaukos, whore elflier one o of bais tlicro was o great senastion in court, and the interest | ghe jajter wiil qualify as bail for Mr. Goldberg sad in the testimony was futense, but when the crowauz- | yign it sbowid happen that some of the {udictments aro decided by th Court to be defective, tho Grand Jury will agaIn bave the pleasuro of exerclsing its nat- ural prerogativo in _drawing the mesbes still moro tightly around the distillers, Itis lu;)po.u! that o this way the Jury will bocome n sort of an Institution 10 be relied on in case of an cmergency, and that thus they will ill out the measurs of thelr timg, snd receive Babeock to-day, tho first witnesa put upon tho stand was Willinm J. Bassott, s Gauger in tho Ring. HBassott testified oa to the operations which camounder his observation in 1874, and the winter and spring of 1875, Ho acknowledrod that, acting under instractions from Lis superior officers, bie conuived at tho frauds whilo at Bovia & Frusor's rectifying houee, avd used to find on Saturday eveuings sn envelope fu hisjovorcost pocket contalning from $100 to 8200, Two whisky-barrel hoads with tho Gaugers' etampa upon them wero producod in court, and tho stub- ‘books from which the stamps were taken, On comparison f¢ was shiown that in oach case tho stamps on tho barrol registered Lho contonts sy 403¢ proof-gallons, whilo tho corresponding stub roported only 6 proof-gallona to the Col- loctor for taxation. Tho witness also oxplained what Is known among tho revenue officers aa »Form 122," aad tald how the disposttion of Itlicke whisky was covered ot the rectifying ‘houses. EYEIEST. Mr, Daggott was followoa by Abijsh Af. Ever- oat, who tostifled that ho beeame colloctor for 3 BENSATION IN COURT. During the examination of Evorast, and pafbcnlarly when he was testifyluyg aboul the placing ef money its bxintenco, There was nothing new -Lrought out cither in tho direct ut crosv-esamiuation. 'Thid wit- 11088 knew nothing whatever relatiog in sny way to botweon tho partics at 8t. Louis sud defendant, It {n tho conuooting Jink {n the thoeory of tho i botus, prosecution, Thus far the caso is barren in | amlustion revealed the fact that witoews saw tho | * At the time of tho nrrest of the two gentlemen it was evidencs to show that tho defondant had any } money placed in Lut one envelopy, uud hu could not n connoction with tho conspiracy in Bt. Louis, | {oll which ono it wa Lo saw to' Lank-noto put into, Pho uaked quention Is provontodthat tho dofand- | there was & seaction, and reat rehef, seemad 1o b aut did roceive n lotter containing monoy from Vo oXprv 5 Counsel for tho defeuso have expressod themnolves the conspiracy, No auch presumplion can arise. Now, | since the adjournwens of the Court 88 greatly de- lighted ot breaking the force of Evercat's evidenco, tha ovidoucs of the witnssd has in fact no rolsvaney to thie question, bacsuse thero 18 no evidonos Lo follow t0 | and peem 1o bo very ssuguine thoy will succced in Uiko maner on all pocasions, reported that tho_ reason for their jndictment w alieged conspiracy entered futo Ly thew wWith one A, H, Croaby, at one timo counccted with Lho reveuny service of tnis city,to burglanously cuter 1ho Distrct, Attornoy’s oifico 1 Milwaukos and destroy the docis mentry evidenco collectist agatnst * Priuce Sum " and the other members of thy Ring, A TUIEENE yeporter has wluco fermoted out tho fact whow that the defeudaut ever recaived tho cnvelope, that whils s job was put up it was not u job of :fi?‘.‘:fl? 1;:’:‘:\"‘1’ no‘:d lm‘?n::. y‘g!::“ lfi‘:fmf %;"u’;: S Lurglary, as was was stated under Saming boadiiues in Jury o show, thus faz, (Lt tho defendant over had CHICAGO. tlo Atilwaukee papers, THE STONY LS SIMPLY THIS Louts Rindskopf came down to tuls eity last July and had su interview with Ald. Jouas, fn° which ha atated tho dosperato condition hie, his brother, aud other member of to iing Wero placed in, consequent upon tho vigorous promecution uf their carod by the Gorerument oficers. 1is cry was, * lelp mo, Casalus, or1aink1" o alsa interviowod on thu suwmo subjret Phillp Goldberg, whomn Lo had asslated in business after the Lig fre of Octeber, 1831, nua with whom be 8 somewhat remotely contiscted by marstage. ‘They referred im 10 8 well-kuown poli- clan,—~an_ex-lawyer, who i well off in thls workd's goods. 'Tho four, [t 18 clauned, held & consultativn, tha abject thoreof being o dovis sumo meats whervhy Supervior Hedrick, who was then working uwp ho cauo sgatnet the King, might be induced o let doywn cavy on the tangie-foot manufacturers, aud make any conuection whalover with the Ring in 8t, Louis, snd thercfore there can be no presumptive evidenco that L ever roceised the envelope. Judge Porter—Will your Honor allow 1o to stats, more spocifically, the grounds of objection. Tha rulo of 1aw s this ' that when thora ia o conaplracy, that ‘conapirscy can be provsd by tho confesslons of tho comspirators thomselves, but tho oconaection of suolher party to the oconspiracy must bo shawn by extrlutle ovidenco, Tha doclaretions, written or oral, of conspirators, canuot bind a thira party, Thoy cahnot prove thelr’ acta auothier man's actu, No declaration of Joyco 18 EVIDENOR AGAINAT OEN, DABCOCR. 1 learn from tlie opentug romarks, of tho District-Ats forouy that he proposen (o atow by tho witness fhat Joyee wrols thio nsmoof Gen, Bsbeack ou thia letter, It Joyce biad sald, * I juteud to d this monoy to Babs ‘cock,” that svidenco would bo sdmissible, bus this evi. denca dw only s written doclaration, Joyou ia mo agent of ours, He la not entitled 1o speak for us, No act or declaration of Lis can bind us, Thoy can't @avo seccndazy ovidence without iroving the distrio. ton of the primary evidonos, Tho queation je, Iu thia competent avidence? If they had {ound the ietter ln iha possesaion of Gen. Haboock, tho law would not chargu hitm with » knowledgo of its contonts unjess Lu lcm&nn 143 but this 18 nol tho case, It novor beard of until THE CGRAND JURY. THE LONG-LOST BRETUREN RETURN. The compenent parta of this very important ‘body surnod up yesterday morning, sccording to sunouncement, looking as uatural and as frosh 88 could bes dosired. Tho adjournmont from Ia8t Friday, it was gonerally understood, wos takon becausa thero was no furthor bueinces to be accomplished, and in order to allow the District Attorney tima to draw up & number of jndictmonte, It was also surmisod by pooplo of theoretical minds that thoro was 8 hitch in tho 4 e s procaedings, cansol by an uacertaluly on the | (i 0k besle, Tio, thiy part of lh‘v: Jury h:hnlger to indict u:"rt-ln }:nr‘ilb! l:;u.ll(:l;;xt IJ.Ind‘:lm 'fi ulfg-:m “n:.: L‘. ;::fltu\‘m "I‘n.r‘k:‘: agatnet whom the evidenca was nol convincing. 4 o2 J cRode 1t wag 8aid that tho ndjouroment was therofora {“mf‘";flf.‘{.‘;h;";“',;fm:fl.‘.‘.’: &E“’.fl{v{t’c.":{“‘x‘fl‘,‘; takon eithor for tho purposa of obtalning furtbior | Croaby, who was at one tino & resident of Pekiu, and tostimony, or to dl:w x:;a Govornmont cousol | 8 bosous friond of the luwyer, to miake the tntroductory opportnuity to communicato with tho aatbarities averture, and bave tho pipes properly lid. The st Washington, and get thelr sdvico aa to toe feasibill schema then eatered into Was 10 108KO LD & purse, which was to foally land o tho bands of Bupervisor ty of making out the indictments nyhow, “Thu lattor view of tho matter Las certalnly scquired Hedrick, If ha would consent to let up on tio whisks~ {tes, Whother the Hupervisor waa oyer spproschiod 18 sotiye pIausILAlly, coavldortiy o ACHOR of thiy Jary | Dot kDOWU, Ut it ia certaii that if ho werd ilo scheru Featerday—which action couiated fu doing alinost ua fiztle a8 nothlug, The District Attoruey hias boen al- falled, beckuss 1ho caste wers vigorously prosecuted, and o Ring thoroughly broken, 1t s aeverted that lowed plenty of opportuuity duriug the week fo draft any pumber of fndicunents, sud bo inatiers have JONAS' CONNECTION WITII TUE OUPME aattiasof atakeboldur, iy was o bold, thewseater transpired sinca jonrument which need thejr n. | part of the uioney, aud not to pay it over to tho Lekin vmu;“uou: yot, ‘yfilmhy tho jury camo together, | Darties unti) advised by the g that things bad beon b 413 couclavo two boury, sl thon sdjourned for tho day without making thelf sppvaraiice 10 o District Sxed Lo suit them, Tnis, Tux TRIBUNE reportor {8 fnformed, fa (ho Cunirt-roum a4 was expocte: ‘The firet Juror inounted tho stalrs of the Cu substance of the testimony glven Ly Louls Rindskopd ate Housa shvetly aftos 10 oelock, Bud took proud pos cock it must Lo proved by som oudent to the tinw (L was sent, The evidenco ia frvelo- vant on ita faco, Thors was only s nakod Jnolosure, but fnit clear Wit ho mallivg of vollued motey 19 your lanor or to mysclf would make ud s mewmber of Lo conspiracy 1 We submit that it would not, and wo Hiold tho testinony of tbo witness TOTALLY ITMIELEVANT, Uol. Broadbead (for tho Government)=It is not a questiou au to the conclusiveness of the tostimony, but aa l0 ite wmpelvncy, sud that ia all we claim for it. 'Wo clalm that'it ia competout 1o show to the Jur{ whethier or uot Oen, abcock was a inumber of me | to tho Milwaukeo Grand Jury, sud on thls basis wero the indicuments fuuud aud tho warrunts lssued. o consplracy, We dou't say it {u conclurive ua to | sion of 1ho ‘dusty and ried Jury-room ou il Judging from tha fuct that Goldbery was allowed Lls that Mnkp \V-y don's 4ay that t0s 18 all the ovidency | fourth floor, Tho others wers slaw in appesring, coms | Parole to como to tils city and procurs ::;!‘ nl.l. ;f: i ioebals on i b bl s st ke . | Lo o b7 o am o ML bt | S0 Lol G R atart, Bl uce a testimony liera aud | The gallaut you: wl erto acted a8 o o # e i, 10 saLabLISh tho chArde, NO Diopoiion i | suspherd of tbé bquistion Gouk Ixbored armoatly | . 1t 1e alleged that the warl paliticlan referted to ta aud paticotly alf the foranoon 1 the puts to conatitute 4 by got un 0y 0u Oue of tho Jurors ttowpl b0 corrsl uoruLL. Aw ¥00R tio wonld plunge ihie law of eyidence i» moro thoroughly established than that jury OF Ay otber tribunal may tafor from 2{stunce of another fact, Supposoa murder Mr, Elins Siipman, Tho fsch st Mr, Shipiusu pro- coeded (o Milwaukeo with tho party ou tha day of are Fest, and the further fact that st the e tho gentle- belt vitica i buen comtnitied 5 Al orchard, and & Wilhowa so4d | fowards bim, surround him effectively, sud drive bim | 1meu were in custody 8¢ Marsbul Oamp! B e ths arab) will 5. Gl 0t hie. st s U o the Jury-Foora u triampth In this slow toesce | e ehty hio was pualing arousd tho Lullding it o about the time of ibe murder and the yin | bu succeedcd fn capturing ¢:ghuseu, and - bo | kood deal of suxlery dopteted i Bs couni "4 lisd been discharged (hat doon't provo st the | tien sunk down exiausiod st tha dior, - After K kood dead of color to e allegatia, committe o wurder, domsn't { o quorum was obtained, iIr. Oliwon = went up 3 Teove tuat ha 10 JAva & l1itlo socta) conyérwativts, 105 fold tham thay | Thers lu a fuony story gnizg the rounds anion, gacharyed _ the quat ol tho Court {n the trial of tha case would tell the fury thas thioy may inter tho existenca uf another fact from tha cuo el 30me doubts weze yot ualaling s4 (0 tha guilt of Keeley | whisky men concorniug s chap who hug lately arrive tncasce had bean tatlishod, . This caso 10 o exceplion 1o that & Horwly, and wil inwionsd who | from Loulvitle, Whot lils ruiusion was 2o oue seemicil alresd; wero cxpocted $0 corroborste thu jy | to undorstand until yos! Hu was ween wround with th unfortunates, to Aomo of whom he had been frlandly whilo a resident of this eity, nome years o, Tly many ha was supponed to be 6 Government ntieial, 282 the “glorfonn 147 (nquealers) watched i natrosly, as e sialtsed aronnd with the gentiomen of the mrcond batol, Finslly 8 Gorsrnment ofichil clapped eyos on Lim, and deterinined to hola him, A #py was put on the Loulaviliian's track, and fuafew Lanrs tho paie were comfortably sud gloriously drunk, ‘Then did he of Loulavilie manifest bimaelf, D, 5 wad of Lilla from his pocket, he hinted myate: how he came thersby, 1o wan a {riend of the tleman's Rting;" they hiad pat up o and nobly, and hin misaion wss (o discover facta abotit # yery prominent official, In order that charges might be preterrad and the v, p. o, straightway removed, It waaadenp plat, Lo said, and it took a'deep man not It of money 0 carry St through, bt Loulavilia had furnisled tha man and the boya hiad found the mot.e: and ft would ot o inng befors sn eenption would come, which wanld * tear things, split things, disin. tegratn things, ralso thunder, whoop 1" ‘I'neraupon tha Apy straightenod up to s wonderfal extent, and reported what hio had learned, the Sureriment oifical put o Y. p. 0, on s guard, and well, L fa the story, But (he ©gentleman's mnli: thio truth theroof, ad the Onveroment offclal mays ho never heard of the natter, while, per coutra, a yary redabls witnose testifien that he overheard tho convereation betwien the #ny and the [nulsville 1man, ond that §12cous sud aubacquent thereto be raw tho spy aud (ke Government odtichal in close consultation, == SPRINGFIELD, ously H G VAN DORSTON. HE WAS NOT REMOVED, BUT NESIGNED, To the Fifilor of The Chicaco Iribune UxiTrn BIATES ATTORNEY'S Cyice, BeniNg- FELD, I, Fab, 0.—In jour iwmus of yosterday you allude to mo as haviug been rewmoved from tho office of District Attorney for this Distriet, In your elatement you acem to take conmsiderablo plessuro in tho supposod fact of wmy removal, and exproea o boliel that moro skill and sctivity will bo shown In prosocutivg the Whisky Rtiug lereafter. The fact s, I resigned,—a mattor 1 have 124 In confemplation for at least two months. Iwrole out a resiguation Dee, 27, aud before this court com- menced, which my fricads persusdid mo not to for- seard, and it is & well-known fact to & Rumber of prom- {nent gentlemen liere that 1 bave several times cx- pressed 1ho opiniot fu 4ood fafth that I cared notbing for tho office, becouse the compensation Iu fhis Dirtrict ia meager, and that I could do better without it, Auy lawyer who haw & falr practite ot home cau- not, aw'a pecuntary consideration, aford to tako the ofice of Listrict Attoruey frr this' District. 1 matied my resfgoation iere Feb, 1, which was aecepted. Arto ' pkill and activity,” 1 would say that the Grand Jury s Leen i ression aboat five wesks, and have found o number of {udictmentd against counter- feiters, cet.Gnice tldeves, and minor whisky cases, and fu'nearly all of which convictions hiava been had or plean of guiity entered, Tha jurors havo worked hard, but Lave rejorted to indictnents against any of e Whinky lng Lut some three or four ex-Gaugers and ex.Storekespers who have run away, A grest mass of testimouy bay icon taken, but they sre mot through yet with the evideucs, Audif yon know liow to convict befete indiciment bLine been found, then you know a practize that dovs not prevuil in thi wection, Your carrespoudent hero Lias seen it to osmil me frequantly in Lis communt- cations to your paper. A friead of mink a fim the othor day why ha sttazked me Ao un! and nutruthfolly, ne 1 had alwaya treated bim us o gen- teman, Hin reply, my friond stater, was, that the cditor of Tits: TRUUKE had lastracted Wi to da so, aud be wan merely carTying out fustruetions. As the Attorney-General deriros me to remain vntil March 1, t woulid apjeur he was not s exgur far nie 1o leave b you infer; but, 8y I have business in our Blate Couriy, 1 w. 0 54 hOON A can arrive, Liespectiull successur A . I' VN DonsToN, AND 1S WROTIL Chlram reidorae, A Serikee cird sppasés Col, Julau L, Van Do S BERTNGELELY, HHL, Feb, I 18 the Zeguter this eventng, ton, late District-Attorney, eut clous aarsult upon Sup-rvianr Matthews nnd i depo utlcs, and upon the cotrospoudent of Titt: Cnitcaco Tauipusz and other Dewapaper min, but contsius uo defense of the Atiorney’s acandalous conduct, *hich Lax brought the otierr and the oflice 1ntu digzeptity Lo the courts and upon the yublic streets, Tao Corre- Apoudents take some censure to themeelves for paat ienicncy to Col. Van Donton when' o was pablicly disgracing btmeelf montts eluce, aud when the De- purtment ut Washington was already conehderiug bis snmpary diamissal, snd the Attornes.Geteral geked the I)iinole Senatorial deleation to_nate & successat of lesn unpleasant notarfety. Sr, Van Dorstou’s iz trltie In tho outiaming of Srcling at his removal, which the pross gemanded 1 the buterest of publfc doceuzy, Skl ot HMISCELLANEOUS. WASHINGTON. TUTTON, Speciat Disnateh t The Chicaao Tribuswe, ‘Wasnisatos, D. C., Feb. 10.—Supervispr Tut- ton i3 certainly the porson who told tho Presi- dont the msrvelous tory about Bluford Witson, the Solicitor of tho Treasurs, aud tho Whisky Ring, and this is what Tutton told the Premdent snd soveral other peoplo : He eaid that Bluford Wilson Liad told twolvemen in Chicago who were uuder iodictment that, if they woutd furnish the ovidence to mdict Logan and Farwell, ho (Wilson) would fnsure sll twelve men fmmunity from punistiment. Bluford Wilson prosouuces o story au otroclous Ho In every particulsr, and, ss for Dristow, he lafler, u respons to B epoific foquiy os to Logan, very recently sald bo bad never heard a Word & of evi- denco toiu any way fmplicats Zogan,and did not Lufieve thers would Lo any. It way not liave been geuerally known that the Troasury Depurtment has not hud the fullcet confidenca in Tntton during_tho whisky opers. uns 1a Clucago aud Milwaukee, ORO Yery NUporatt movemeut n copucetion Witk tho orgiisl eeizurcs fulled, owing to the neglect of Tatton 1o act. That neglect wav seedlly roported to tho Depurtmient, aud this Information n i the Treakury Iecords, Ovii. Wobster i esprected bere to-murrow, It fs wniders elosd thot bia vielt bas refereace fo thls Tution slors, DALCOCL'S FRIENDS ate not encaamged by o dispitches tocelred from St Louls this worning, THE PRESIDENT. Tho President, in conversation Witk a frieud to-dny, observed that, during the tormy Aceues in the Cabe fuet within 1ho yast few days, Le must have beeu sent, us too firat knowledge o bud of thelr extateiice ras Wirougl sormo uewapapurd whicl had Lien sei 1o Lim by rome friecnds, Lo produced one of theso cholce spcclmens of journaliatic fiction, which was Is- ing by his s{de on tny Cabinet table, It Wus printed in tho Culoago Inter-Uceann 11y took It up and read o few sogely-concocted expressious, and enjoyed them with au_unwully hearty laugh, olwerving that tot only wan the stylo'of contpouition anticently contra- dictory to show o pafuful eort 10 brivg the parts to- ctlier, but equally a0 was the endeavor 1o Lide the guoraiico Of o jarty ou wuch wubjects. e mis- chtevous oifects of such irresponniLio. uta 1hat they fea to lusinuate that there by a dispoattion ou the part of the Govertient to falter fu thy prozo. cution of tho whisky cates when nothing of e Siud is desigued, Tho Presidens and the Secretary of the Treasury are revolile on thia point, and it 14 desirod that tho public should not perait thetasdven to Lo misled Ly sensations. The whisky frauda will Le pished o tha babtum, no waler whuiu the Loy aurikes, MEQILUR IN WASHINOTON, po i o Lwsia fepublican, WaSHEXTON, Fob, 0.—Co Megric 18 hure (n Wash. {ogton, aud, un meeting your correayondeut to-duy, wald o had Just got up 3rom bed, whers bo but been {oniined Ly s sovero autack of piounionis. Lle wat vo hourso s to bo utablo to talk above a whisper, aud was elthier really very sick, of makiiz o toat diicconsful counterfeit “of filness, Ho Tocoived o1 last night from District-Atorucy Lyer, u cume to bt Loula ut vucs W Lntify e, but télograplied u Teturn thia’ evening that bo Liad consulled two phyelelans and both swid tiat ho would riek biw lifo by Altempting to travel 10 s pres- cnt conditiou, and that be could not start until kix hiealth tmproved. 1o I8 much conccrued fest it will bo thouglt that e 18 dodging, kud b says Le will go useoou s Lis physiclava will permit, ilo ways that Jio knows nothing sbout Baboock's connection with the ring, and thatho docs not beliwva Babeock L anytlinit (0 do with it, Ilo(3legrus) kuow all that s gorg 0B, and I Babcock hiad bevu 1 tio 1isig bo woulld isvo Knuwa it. RS TNS > THE PEKIN PAPERS. IMPORTANT STATEMENT, Special Disvateh to Tha Chizagu Inbune, Sruixevizi, i, Feb, 16.—Luvonuo officons havo this ufternoon and evening beun overbsul- fng somo of tno captured Wesformau papens and find some baviog au important bearing on thio pondiug Ht. Louls cases, and thow wero to-uight forwarded 1o District-Abtoruey Dyer. A telegrau Was olso idixcovered implieating wn’ex:Supervisor other than Muny, but the aieers witl uot disfoss thy nawe, s o FI1RY INCHICAGOD, An overticated atove Ignited tha woodwork fa a two- story brick houseat No, 153 Fifils aveuua aud caused s alarm bavoundod at 13 o'clock yesterdsy morn- {ng., 'Tho flumes wero extinguistied with loss of §13 o ibe furuituro, § Al alirun was giveu o, Euglng Gompany No, 24 cuicrdsy woruing st 7:43 ocluck, caused” by fire Ja¥ila framo dweling_ comner of Monros aud - Keds T slreoty, ocenpied Ly Jobi Fianigen, Dawago estie nated at §1,000% Iuwured in the Agricuitural for $,000, Causy of B0 uukuowd, ' AT HOLYOKE, MASS, SruNarieLD, Mass,, Feb, 10.—A dispatels nays that Iutcbins' Hotel, at Holyoks, was fired simultancously 10 the cellar and attlc, early this morning, sud com- ltely destroged. Kol sioree ou thy firat, tloor wore urucd out, T1o loss 18 $16,000; partially iusured. —_— POULTRY. Special Dispalch ts Tha Chicage Tridune Cxpan Mavios, 1a., ¥eb, 10~Tbs Poultzy Eshibie ion s been Uberally patronized here 10-lay, sud the managers sre 50 well satsfed that Uedar Haplds Lus Loon choscu as the place for holdlug the next sunual exbibition, A anectiug for tho electiot of olicers, £.0, Luce, of lowa City, wea cliosen Proaidont, au Liichards, of Qcdar Bapids, Hocretary, raseing | REVERDY JOHNSON, Slngular Denth of this Aged and Distinguished American at Aunapolis, Md, He Falls and Is Kiled Whils Walking in the Yard uf the Governar's Mansjon, Spectal Dimaleh to Tha Cheage Tribwes, ANNAFoLrs, 3d., Feb, 10.~The ifon, Reverdy Johns ' #on wa found dead this avening, in the grounds ade Jacent Lo the Governor's manslon. The clrcmatances counected with his deceass aro as followss Mr, Johne son arrived (o Anpapolls yosterdsy, to argue & cise boforo the Court of Appesls, s, at the invitation of Gov, Carroll, took w his D;uilfienm At tho Gubernatorial manslon for he ma of hls siay, To-lay Gov, meat Lln ot dioner, Mr, Johnson was, sa usval, full of humor, and enlivancd {he tabla with hia aneodotor.” At the closs of iho repast, the couversation turted upon the qualities of gome ! Madelrs wine on tho hn‘i‘;‘: and M, Vohoaon ‘oo & - anly the ono an i e o hn S A alterwards sald arnor, wil you taks me iolo the parior.’ Gov. Carroll guve him lfa arm snd cscoriad him iata the parlor, where he #at down ona sofs, Gov, Carroll remarked to Mr.Johnson: I think I wili have coffes Lraught In Lere.”” Mr, Johnson replied, saying that (f tho company waated o smoke they had Gor. Gacrall thea, Letter romalu In tho dining-room, loft his venerabls friend, and Teturulng AELL JAW ILL A Conpex. uruing to the dining-room, Gov, Carroll, after .+ short futaccul, remarked to the gentlemen: ' « Bnb’- pose wogoinand folu Mr. Johuson.'’ A, Gharlos. G, Kerr, Mr, Johnsow's sou.indsw, who wis present, ' omaid that Mr, " Jol iways ook & wuap after dlogar and | (bat upposed Lie bad gons to alecp, Gov. Carroll then * i the malter from bis mind, and was aiiting simoking with Lis guests when ooe of the ta cailed bim ot of tho room and told him tbat Ay, Jobou yalying out I the yard on the '\ Gov. Carroll {miediad yard and found bim Jeyes Ut da thy LYING INANIXATE on tho ground. Tho place whero the body was dis Covered war on the cuet side of the mianafon, close to the side of the house tear tho anglo tnade by & proe Joctiug bag-window. The boly wan {mmediataly ro ‘moved {0 8 roum o the Lacmout, And medical ss- tintanco pent for, bui Lfa was extifict, e, Johnson, when 'found, was iying prone b grotind where sowo coal ust was Acattered & poot af Tilod was abott Lis hesd. Thore iy 0o doubit conceruing tho manuer in which ho met bis death, Although hie vislow was very fecblo, Mr, | Johuson wan very venturesomo lu his woing, and, wishe fuy to go In tho yard, did uot call for malstan but went out the front door and down the fronl Binp by binsseld, Turning to the left, ho walked over the grars-plot aud down n short declivity to the bricked nros njacent to tho baenieut of the bilding and pro- ceeded towarda tho nugin formed Ly the projecting bay window. Iu turuiug kmeelf soout when closs 10 thio wall bie murt llave STUMDLED AND FALLEN. There were Inoxe pleces of coal Iyiug un the ground, and e supposition i3 that b trol tipan one of there, His head probably atruck the edgze of the projecting o we of tho wull, producing fracture of the il The medical opiuitn s that tho chief sud fatal injury ‘was o fracture of the froutal toue of tuo wkull, extending from uear fthe outet nngle of the Tigbt Oruit upwards and backwards 10 W corinal untuze, Tho tragic uecurrenco has cast A DEEP GLOOM OVER Til¥. COMMUNITY, and decp iegret 1s expresnad at the luts of ro brilliant ai oruament of tho Har nud of public Iife, Mr, John= Aol way bora May 21, 13w, aud wan In the eujoytaent of excellent Lol whi 0 was 80 saddonly takeu off, wted Press ) . 10.—Roveray Jolinson, tho distine gitialied atatsden aml Jurist, was fonnid doad this eventuy ut K35 In the grdauds aurroundiug the Exeo- ntive Mansion ot Aunapolls. Mr, Johonon was the guert of Gov. Carroll, nud ditied thin afterioon with uther gentlmen at 1Ln Exocutive Mansion, o was found doad b tho yard Ly n servant, Atr. Johowon cauie herd Tast nigat to argue the cass of Baker ve, Prick, argued in tho Coiirt of Appesls tom vitation of Gov, Carroll, Lio hecame his ceutive Sanslon fo-day. The Governce, tico Barton, of this State, soit sovera) otlier gentlenen, t ineet Mr, Jobuson at dinner at tha mausion, Tuey diucd ut about &p.m. At diner, Mr. Jolinson pyncarcd in osecllent spirits and bis usual Lesith, und eotertained the company by Liy conversation snd relatiog ancodotes. AL dinuer Do took onu glaws of Madcirs, and tako noy more. Ajter dinner be sudden)y saked tho Gavernor to {aks bim in to to parlor. Ho took the eruor's atm, and walking in thers mt down on A 80fa, At the roquost of Mr. Johnson the Governor rejoltied tho uests at the table, Shortly after a sere cared at the door, and, beckoning the Gove 1, tohd i Mr. Juhnson was lylog tn the yard on the ‘stouen, Qov. Carroll | went immedistely to tho puaec ond found Mr. Johnson iying on the cobile-tone earriage-way that passes un~ der the porch of the mansion, cioso up 0 the wall und near a door leading tnto the bascment, Ha had evidenly gone down the front stops and around to tne stde of the Lonse, and fallen whero bo was found. "[cis was atout &15 1 ni, and the impreasion & {hiat L 1ad e tero ot loart blf an Lour, He was et d-ad, sl Ll peen bibwding profusely from (o woundn ot the right ido of Lis bead and face, i Lody wa at unco rumeved into the_bascment in, aud physicians eummoned, Dr. Willlam G 'wis the it to arrive, and, siter cismining the prosounced lfo extinet,’ Dra, Bldoout snd arrived afterwards, There bre Jarge wouds on tho right side of the fore- 1iead, ¢wo fracture of thy whull fror tho upper por- tion of the forchead to the eyebrow, a dislocation of & tinjter of tho left band, and ciite on the hauds sud the legd, The pliseicians ure cxamining the body to doe tertatne tho catizu of deatlis THE WEATHER. WasttNarax, D, €, Teb, H—1 5, m.—Iu the Lower- Staourt nd Upper Miesiraippl Vallesa and Upper Lako region, Tring barometer, falliug tempiersturc. freslt 1o belsk northwest winde, end partly claudy weathier, aucseeding Nght raiua from the Last districd to Mignourd, pariiy Rrulig to suow, In the Lower Like: regwn, Middle Btate Euglind, ralifng wnd ow bzrometer, west 1o southeat wind and ralny weather, pattly Spaeral Dispated i OTTAWA, L., Yol X two dugs cuttaed 3 great rise lu tha Fox Miver, he waiu brldge ut MGG Wau carTied a%ay yebe terday Torning, vA Was lko & portion of the duia st that plave, Lons, $10),000, In Ottawa the flood drove 0ut 3 number of faunlics Srow their shanties slong e Tauks of the river, snd what §s Known bero as the 1lat, aud the dimage s cousleersblo, Spcaut Duppteh oo The Cuteao Tribune, AnniaX, Mich,, Fob, 10,—iteavy ralus bLava causod bad overitaws Dureabouts, Ono bridge fn the city {8 Daily weakened, and ut datk i farmer snd teim, as Tuwieline Lrlidge, i dles est, wero awept nto tho Ihaluits sl drosiuie LOCAL OBSEUVATIONS. Usicago, Feb, 10, £} HAELVATIONS. Cit1zaa0, Feb, 10~Atidnight, Tain, Weather, jeaay N SPORTING. THE TRIGAER, Special Dizpateh to The Chicago Tribune, East HaGiNaw, Feb, 10,—The socond dsy of the. shoollug touruament was favored with falr weather,bus, Lo outrien wera low thau yestorday, Fiflald, Eldredge, uud Lot baving gono howe, The birda woro lively | ories, ‘Thio slicoting was ind!fareat, a8 14 sbown by thoncorat Ilall, 9; Esson, 8; Btonton, 0; Olose, 43 leadley, 5; Bharrow,4; Ducharme, 7; Thomas, § ; Gile man, %' Tus first money Wea Oivided betwesa o1, of Detrolt, and Hall, of Saginaw ; the #6cond won® 1o Gilmay, of Detrolt, who boat i the 7, And the third weot to Ducharme, Ina sweepstaks which immudiately” followsd, Wby first mousy was taken by mfix‘:x‘ the socoud by Eharrow, aud the third by ey, JOURNALISTIC. Bpeclal Dayalch 19 The Chicuao Tridume, B2, Josen, Ao, ¥ob, 10.~The two-thirds interesh of O, B, Wilkinsou {n tho 8t Josoph Morning Herald Wan 4ol (0-day ut BbierifT's slo for the sum of $4,100, tho nominal purchaser belng 3z, I, N, Tarner, Mr. “Turuee is ot a uowspaper man, nd s not engposcd fobotho veal ownar. Tha clietk for tho purshates money wes drawn by 8. Adler, of the firm of Adler & Furat, aud tho posseasion given to John L. Bittinger, who G tho ot third and will control tha oricey 28 herotofuru, W, D, O°Toole, who bought & amal fudgment on the oflicd ¥ome W 30d notifid tho purclisscr that he ‘Thero 14 probably no doubt, howover, but what ther tal to-day waa good and Linding 44 Lo Wilkiasoo's e "BUSINESS NOTICES, To Oneand All-Are You Suffering) frow u cough, coid, satlma, bronchitis, oz any of ibe’ varlous pulmOnary troubled, that s0 oflen cud in cone mption? 1f s0, use * \piibor's Pure Cod Liver OU d Lio o safosud oflcaclous sewnedy. Tla 18 pa quack proparstion, but is regularly prescribed b medical fculty, Manufuctured by 4, By Quewulyt, Bostons Hold by all ds ! '