Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1876, Page 6

THE ~ FOREIGN. Additional Particalars of the Bteams . ship Disaster,on the English Coast, Review of the British Money and Breadstufls Markots. The London “Times” Has a Caustle Tteview of Spain’s Reply to the Fish Note, Gambetta's Ambition ns a Political Orator - Again Disappointed, The Turkish Insurgents Will Accapt No Compromise. CREAT BRITAIN. THE LOKDON F1MES ON SPANISH MISRULR. Loxpaoy, Feb, 18,—The 7imes devotea & lead- ing article to thio recout Spanish note on tho Cuban question, ‘Tho sriter snya s ** We cannat congratulato the Spanish Ministry ou the force of their long and claborats anwwer to tho com- -plajute of the United Btatea. If their roply sroves ansthing, it proves too much. Tho in- surgenty are made out eo insignificant that it {8 fifMenlt to un'derstand why they woro not crusiied fonrs ago. Tho damage dono by the struggle fe tesumod to s so small that tha complaints of Amctica appear not only unjust but iucompre- Lensible, Rpain spoko as if she hiad not mercly been guiitiess of obpression, but had treated the feluud :with generosity, and sltogeth- or wo nro led to infor that tho peoplo which has fought sgeinet w0 Roud o yprotector for moro than soven years witis indeseribablo bitterness musi bo nu un- paralloled compound of etupidity and wicked- nery, Bucli s livs of argument Incks, firat, tha o'ement of wood advocacy, for it is notoven plausiblo, A very slight- knowledgo of human asture, or Bpanish bistory, and of coloniai lifo. would ruftico to shaw that it must bo fatany in- camplote when we test it by the roal facts ot tho omso. It 8 found toomit tho circumstancos which make tho origin and cantiusuce of the gontest lutalligivle." Tho articlo coucluden as followa: ¢ No country eeokuiu interfers Ly foreo with Spain's nosros- vion of Cuba, but it sho cannot govorn it she wonld do wall to considor liow she conld hoet preparo it for tho troedom which always follows colouial misrule.” LONDON MONEY MABKET. Loxpox, Feb, 18.—Monoy easy on clore settis- ment. ‘Tho discount mnrket is steady, with much of the business going to tho Bank of En- flnn ‘The prospoct of hoavy rocaipts of gold rom Amorica and Auptralia_bag wealenod the sate somowhat. The Stock Exchange Las beon withont special feature. Consols for monoy swung monotonously betweon 94 1-16 and 94 8-16, closing at tho nsido rate, while American Qovernmonts gonorally show o fractional de- clive. Railways, after rome fluctustions, cloae higher than at the oponing of tlis wook. THE GRAIN TIADE hins received a chock in tho upward movement. The demand har bLosn slack, and last woek's pricos maintamed with difioulty. At Birming- ham, Bristol, and Mauchester, yestorday, whent, barley, and oats wore slow, but stoady. Denus aud peas lowor and noglocted. Msize deglined €d. Tho quality of wheat coming to Groat Britaln is slowly diminishing, but the number of oarstoos on aalo off the coast 18 sgain lorge. Tho rork morkot on Wednesday was very quiet. The prices of wheat, flour snd rico was maintained only in the absence of the prossuro of sales, Last wook's wlhioat and flour imports jnto QGrost Iiritnln foot up 250,000 quarters. Thoro were fair doliverics of Inglish grain, and falr avorage pricos obtained, English wlioat bo- ing now quotod at 43, barley at 8Js 7d, aud oats st 248 44, Tho quotations in the Alark lLane Iz‘x‘mm this morning aro unchaoged from thoso of last Monday, but the domand is roduced. Bellors aro sanxious to rcceive offera evon at some declino for wheat, maize. and oats. LIVERPOOL WEERLY MAURETS, Livenrool, Feb. 18.—The Liverpoal Brokers' Aneociation circular, dated Fob. 17, says cotton bas been dull throughout the week, aud closed with o deprossed feeling. Quotations of most doscriptions aro_sgain roduced. Americau in stiil much pressed for eale, and pricos have !}tburdoclinud‘fgd for all grades, oxcept lower fsir qualities and good middling Orlesns and Toxas, which nre uncbanged. The domand for Sen Island continucs_timited. Pricos of better grados aro staady. Lower qualitios mneglocted sod nominal. In futures business continnes 1limited, and prices are about 3£d lowor. A loadiug grain circular to-dav says the whoat trade througliout tho country has boon aniform- Iydull, In somo markets prices aro slightly lower, axcopt far choica qualities. A large sc- cesgion of supply has nppearcd at calling ports, for which few bids havo bLeon made yet, an those at lower rates than Inat woolk, but the ‘guantity afloat for Great Britaln {8 much re- duood, bejng about 400,000 quarters loss than . Bt this timo last yoar. JAX MULLER, Loxpox, Fob, 10—6 a. m.—Prof. Max Mailer writen to the Vico-Chaucollor of the Oxford University cousenting to remain in the Univer- * mity fn couslderation of the rocont decroo of tho + Convoeation rolioving him from tho duty of ~lecturing, 5 —_— INDIA. TUNIBUED FOR TUEARON, Ranaooy, I'ob. 18.—Fiftoon porsons Lavo been - convicted of tresson on account of tho roceut conspiracy, Tho head conapirator was - gentenced to twenty-ouo yoars and tho othera to Yon yoars transportation, THE PUINCE OF WALEH, Gwavion, Jan, 81.—The Prince of Wales, se- . companied by & strong Dritish escort, arrived ‘loro this afternoon. The Mahurajsh Yeindish ‘et IMis Royal Iighnosy soveral milos from the city, and accompauied him to tho old Palace, tho rooto to which was liued by 14,000 of Scwidiah's picked troops, ‘I'ho Prince aftorwards mounted su olephant wearing gold-embroldered velvet trappings, sud, followed by & processlon of clo- + phantsand Beindiah's infautry, procosdod throngh thio crowded Iazaer to the new Phoolbagh Pulace, which is commanded by the Dritish foitrexs of Morar, Gwalior Ia brilliantly illuminated this avoning in jhonor of the Prince's visit. The population, thongh not warmly demonstrative, . mavifesied great curlosity to sea the Prince on Lis ontry. Thousands crowded tne windoasand Liousetopaand packed the beautifully-picturesque bozaars, On bis way to_Gwalior, his Tloyal Highnoss Junched with the Rajab of Dholopore. + Monan, Feb, 1L.—At the roviow held by tuo Prico of Wales to-day, ubout 8,000 mon .of Beindial's forcos of sll arma wera present, Thoy all prosented an sdmirablo appearance. ‘Tho march past was followed by un - pxcallont sham fight, in which Soindish direciod tho operations poraonslly, Lis Ioyal Hlighuosy . and the military oflicors’of his muito scting - formally a8 umpires, ‘Yho objoct of the manou- vres was tho capturo of s villege, and in tho iourss of tho prococdings soveral brilliant cav- Alry charges wero oxocuted. In the sfternoon ois lloyal Highness visited tha Forteass of Owalior, and returned the yisit paid bim by Sicindlab, Gwatton, Tob, 2,—~The bauquet given st tho Palaco last night, and the firoworke which fol- lowed, wero on 5"““‘ #calo. Boil h entered at the ond of the dinuer, and cordislly propodod aud drank the boalth of tho Quecn and that of the Prince of Wales, Ia expressed how dooply ho felt the Lonor of tho Prince’s vieit, Ilis Ioyal ighuess replied in folicltous terms, thanking Bfl:l'l‘ldllh for his magnificont recoption, sud say- * jug that ke should remembor his visls to Gwalior wmone of tho pleasantent of his tour. 1o was - proud to rank Bcindiah as & persoual {riend, ‘Thero was a grand assenibly of noblos whon the I'rince returned the visit of Bcindiali in tho *afterncon, nud the latter spoko in open Durbar ; before thow, refersiug warmly totho lloyal visit, Many Scindiabs, ho sald, hiad goue befo nono had boeu s0 highly lionored as he. * wremony was most improssive, i e SPAIN. ABNY NEWS, Loxpox, Peb, 18,—A speciul from Vero states lat the Alplionsista aro attacking Eetells to-dav from Vills Tuerta and Otelza. All quict at Vero. ‘Fhe Carlists recccupy Dursngo, Mapgip, Feb. 18.—King Alyhonso reached Vit- Jorla yostorday. Mo starts to-day for Vergara 10 assnmo the clief command of the army. Gen. Quesada will be appoiuted Chief of Btafl. ¢ "In the Cortes yosterday Sonor Canovas dol Mastillo read a tolegram which hio had recolved trgm the ariny operatiog iu the uorth to_tho Wesi hal G, T Tasaara lad advauced to Yilia ‘Taorta, and that tho Rogatista had captnrod Aran- glfiuaen. ‘Tho following ofiicial dispatel fs pub- shod ; ‘The Carlists at Tona I'lata baving killed o French Captaiu on French torritory, Gou, I'vun- oot, tho Franch commander, Las seat & battory 1o tha direction of Pena I'lats. Don Carlos {a said to bo in the nelghborhood of Valearlon. Bholls from the raysl battorios Liava destroyed achurch fn the suburbs of Tstella. Tha Carlist Tnnta are preparing to seck refuga with tho Carlist arclives 1o the moustainous districts of La Samezonas. YUSHING THE, CARLIETS, IeNpAve, Fob. 18.—DPersous arriving hero from Toloss assert that Gen, I.oma lias entorad tho towu, and Don Cailos hag gono to Andoaln, A tolouram from 8t. Joan do Luz roports that Gens. Morionca and Lams aro threatening An- donio, Don Catlos and his Generals, Pornis and Casertn, wera on Thursday night at S8an Ka- taban to the northward of Andontn. Heavy fic- inr, noar Pons Piata hias been heard. '['bo Alphonsiats aro advancing towards Echa- lar. ‘Their troops at frun aro atill waiting for ordors to ance on Erdarlaza. ‘The Carliat rdoputations are evacnatiog San Marcos and 3an- tlayomedi, Mavuip, Feb., 18.—Official information is ro- coived that Gen, I'rimo do Rivora liaa capturod Arroniz, and other towns, forming a completo tino to mouth of Estolla. Tho bombardment fram Villa ‘Cuorta contiugon. It s thought the Carlists will bo compelled to evacuats Estells almost immodiatoly. - GERMANY. VON AWMIN'S CABE. Benutx, Fob, 18.—The Gerichisblal, » logal journal, sunounces that tho Btato Tribunal haa declded to indiet Connt You Armin for treason. Lownoy, Feb. 18,.—~A Berlin speclal saya : “Von Luck, the prosocuting counsel, has spplled for tho meizuro and sequestration of Count Voo Arntm's catato. Tho sunouncement of the cliarge of transon causes a profonud sensation,” CHURCH AND BTATE. Tho Bayarian Diet will renssombio on Monday. and It Is beheved that the Ultramontanes will nccept & compromiso with the Calinet. whose reuignation the King fsdotormined not tosccept, A Dol corespondent asys it is groatly doubted if Count Yon Arnim can bo convicted af troason. ‘Thoe law requires not only proof that the publication of the docnments waa dan- ;:nm{lln. but also tint the accused was awaro of the fazt. FINANOIAL. DBenway, Feb, 18.—Tlo specio in tho Imperinl Davk of Germanv increased 4,462,000 imnarks Guriug the wouk ending vesterdad. COUNT ARNIN, Benty, Jan, 24,—To day's Official Imperial Gazelle, roforring to tho Eoglish translation of Count Aroun's pamphlet ** Pro Nitillo,” saya : As far ns (lermsn readers arn concerned it might wall e loft unanwwered, An oqual acqualntance with German pereonages and eventa cannot, hawever, ba asgumed to oxist fn England, and we et too high a valuo upon pubilio npinfon in' England not to give it aceest {0 & fow Jdocuments from which English readers may percelvo what viaw has prevailod for the last two yoara dn the highieat clreles fu Germany with regard ount Arnin's credibitity, The ofticlal_journal proceeds to give a report from P’rince Biamarck to the Emperor, dated tho Gth of Decombor, 1872, wherciu the former re- minds His Majesty thot the facility with which Count Aroim sllowed his parsonal “impressions to sway his political jndunont had eaused His Mojesty to feel great mingtviogs with rogard to appointing bim to tho post of Ambassador in Poals, Prince Bismarck, covsoquantly, bogeed tho Emperor not to attach the uaino welcht to Count _Arnim's reporta as might be claimed for impartial and conscientions acconnta of political affairs, Then followa a letter from Princo Dia- marck, datod the 1ith of April, 1873, pointing ont that Couut Arnim's report upon thio nego~ tiatious thea ponding with regard to the Convention with I'rance was incomplete, inasmuch a8 it miade uo reference to the previous docigive tulograms sent by Prince Bis- marck before tho oponing of the negotiations. ‘I'ie Imperial Chinpcellor calls His Majeaty’s at- toution to Count Armm's untrustsworthy charac- tor, and to the conflicts [which had arigon with him aa earty a8 the previous sutumn, when the Count advocated s policy opposed to that pur- sucd by tha Prince in regard to Thlors, Prinos Bismnrck askod the Embperor to inatruct Connt Arnim to send his oficial complainte to hissove oreigu respocting his supeclor through the bands of the Iatter, Otherwiso, It would be impossi- ble for the Prince to obtain Ly correspondance tho oflicial authority needed by him for tho con- duct of public bueiness, consideting the strug- gles ho had simultanoonsly Lo carry on in Parlia- wmont, in the Ministry, with foreign Cabinots, and ogainet soclal juflucnces, and the action of the pross. ‘Tho impertat Chancellor romaris that for yeara paat he had never concoalod from His Maj- esty his opinion of Count Arnim. Hao alludos to the oxperionco ho bad of him at Rome, and montiona the suapicion which he had shared with otliers that tho Connt subordinated ot times Lila official Iabors to hls‘rurmnnl interosta, The stop Count Arnim bad taken, and in which bo bad beon enconraged from Dorliw, loft the Im- perial Chancellor no longer auy altornative. Fi- nally, Irinco Bismarck rominda the Ermiparor that when hao spoko af tho ramoval of Count Ar- nim {rom Parie to Loudon, o most vigorous pro- toxt yan roceivod against the appolntment on ac- count of tho Count’s teudency to fntrizue and Lmlruxlh{'ulucuu; “*No ono would bolievo & word 0 sald. S, THE POPE, TIUA IX. REPROACIER TAK CZAD. Dispateh to Xow York Mavi, Tour, Feb, 10.—The Pope has written a lottor to tho Czar of Ruesia, roproachivg him for the persecution of tho Catholics lu his dominions, and threatening the wholo Imporial family with tho chnatisoment of the Lord. e summons the Czar to tho judgment of God. TUE ITARIAN (UVERNMENT AND THE CONCLAVE. p ispateh to London Times, Panta, Jan, 25,—Undoubtodly the doath of Pius IX,, whose persounlity standa for no muach in the relations botweon Italy snd the Vatican, and, {t may be seld, in the auxisty of the world, would make » profound sonsation 3 but, beyond what tiis sensation would borrow from the por- sonal disappearance of Puis IX,, any alarm as to the future indopendouce of tho Conclave is, to wuy the least, prematurs. Tue Italian Govorn- mont bas alwaya protestod ita dotermination to insuro the entira hborty of the Conclave. Ita well-knowa policy ~ coneists in render- ing defluftively possiblo tho prosont position of the spiritual and temporal power, aud thero i no reason to think its ideas have changed in this respoct. This prafound idos, woithy of the political spirit of tho Italian poople, Resms, morcover, to bo uuderstood by the whole nation; aud, setting saide tho most oxtreme among tho Ttalinng, thoro is every qund for thinking that in such 8 contingency all modorate ltaly would raily round tha Govarnment sud_strongthon itu determination to protest tho liberty of the Conclave. ‘Tho ouly trouble which could then ariso would be if the Bacred College, not con- fiding in tho declarations of the Uovern- mont, or_resolved not to confido {n thom, wore to assombla voluntarily and spontsneously olso- whero than ay Ruwe, and nula\dn 1taliay borri~ tory, ‘This, howeyer, ¢cannot at preseut be ap- L:;uhouuml ir thoso aro to be bellevod who havo en ablo to form an {dea on the subjoct, It (a known, 1ndeed, that, in coneequunca of cartain TUmArs, ey BNXivNH uY to tha evontusl liberty of chiolce of the Pupe's successor, havas nounded tho Italian Government, and that it bas given thom tho fulleat asanrauces on the polut, aflirn- ing that no recont external events have altored ity policy or rosolutions, aud that i iu etill do- wlrous of consorvivg to Romo and Italy the ad- vantsgos aud strengih they dorive from tho prosoncs of the spiritual power sad iis repro- sentative, —_—— FRANCE. BENTENOE UNDED TILE VLESS LAW, Dans, ¥ob, 18,~The Carrectioual Tribunal oy sontenced tho editor of La Hepublique Fran- cuise to ona month's imprivonment with a fine, far attacking MinisterjBuffot, Pauts, Fob, 18,—M, Lenair ia tho rosponsible editor of La Republique Brancais, and will uu- dorgo the sentoucoe of tho Correctionnl Court, MEETINGS SUPPRESHED, A, Gambetts addrossed a public mesting at Caivillon, procecdings wore disturbed by the Bonapartiste, The Legitimmts, Bouspart- iste, aud Nadicals had arranged to hold meelivgy in Sarscibion to-might, Gambotts propossd to upoak at the Repubiican gatheriog, but the mili- tary nuthontios probibited all mectingy. — THE STRATHCLYDE DISASTER. YURTHER PARTICULANY, Loxpon, Feb, 18.—Of twenty-nlns persons who landed st Doal from tho steamer Btraths clyde, which waa sunk by & collision, many wero groatly exhausted, and three Lave sluce died, The crow ubumbored ibirty, aud there woro twenly-six paesubgors ou board, of whom sloven woro #avod, and aro at Dover, The total number loss 1s put at sixtesn in ad- aition to the three bofore mentioned. Tho stesmor Franconis, whioh ran down tho steamer slmhul{da. belougs Lo the Hamburg & Amorican West Iudls Lin nd way outward bound. Bhe anchored in the Dowus, off Deal, friend who would thom onward {n their journoy through lifa to tho @roat hereafior. the Constitution and By-Lews, on Education reported, recommonding thas sub- ordinate Grangos fostor sud sncourage publio instruction {n tbe schools of their jurisdiotion. Whare practicablo, to have advanced or centrat CHICAGO TRIBUN SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1876—TWELVE PAGES Inet night, ana steamed eoasiward at daylight, comiug to Tondon to ropatr. T'he Btrathelyde lea in Fairway, about & milos off Daver, lier aata standing 20 feot above tho wator, Two adies and thred gentlemen aro roporied picked up by s passlug veasel, bound for Lon- lon, Lists published Ly tho papers show that the Strathelyde had twonty.thres passengers, snd & crow numberlog forty-geven, Another porson iaa died nt Doror, Of forty known to be teacued. unls aiz wero E-unn:nru, ono of whom 18 smony the four who ave gince died, Au inquest on the body of tho victims was opened at Doal yosterdny. The Captan of the Northelydo complained that the Franconia never attempted to aseint his peoplo, Nut oven A ropoe was throw to save tho urowning. e AUSTRIA. THE AUSTHOIUNGATIAN DANK, Pegris, Feb, 18,—The llungarian papors con- tradict tho statoment of tho Austrian jonrnsls that a tasis has been found for tho establiah- ment of tho Hungarian Bank of Tsaue, LEDOCKOWAKL Loxnoy, Feb. 10.—A nowapaper of Lomberg, Austris, areoris that the Austnian Government bavo went to Cardioal Ledochowskl en orlor of exilo. Tho Cardinal Is ot prosent dotalbod by {llueys in Lomberg. 1R00D8. Toxpoy, Feb. 19—1a. m.—A dispatch from Vieuns saya the Dauubo hias ovorflosn ity banks and jonudated the outlying suburbs of Viouna. Tolegrams from the Bavariau frontior say tho Danube bas rison 17 feet. A Derliu dispateh ro- ports s prolonged rain, csusing freshots through- out Germany, some of which are sorious, ——— TURKEY. NO COMPROMISE. Loxpox, Feb, 10—6 n. m.—The Times corro- spondent telegrapha from Caatel Unova a6 fol- lows: 41 have mes tho insargont Chiefs at Bul toriua. Thoy are nvavimously dotermined to refuso all compromise with tho I'orta, no mattor by what Powor recommended. Thoy will tight to the last for the completo freedom of tho country." LATEST. Loypoy, Feb, 18.—Austrian gemi-official pa- pera nsaert that tho groat powera will guaranteo & loan for the indemnitication of tho Turkish landholders for thacossion of soma lauded prop- erty to the Chiristians, RAILROAD NEWS ELEVATOR CHARGES, The Board of Trado Comumittes on Digorimi- nations hold a yecret meoting yosterday morning for tho purpose of taking some further action regarding tho high torminnl charges on grain made ot this poius by tho railroads and cleva- tors, with tho warchonsemon and railroad managors, the olovater mon signilled & willingness Lo take off the chargo for trimming, which is 81, and the mnansgers of tho Weatern ratlronds stated that thoy would abalish tho chargo for switching, pravided the lines laading from this city to tho Esst would abste tho tax of $2 a car now charged upon cors witched to tho elovators for mrain. At tho Jast meeting of the Committoo Tho mooting yosterday morning was for tho urpose of taking some further notion regard- ng tho above matter. After 8 lengthy dobate tho Secretary waa instrusted to sond & lottor to the managers of the Fastern linoa ro- queatiog them to confer with the managers of tho Westarn roads, aud try to bring about the abatomont of tho switching tax, ‘The Commit- teo beliovo that tho Eactern lines will rendily aseont to such an arrangomeunt, a8 it is claimed that thoy have boretofore imposed this tax un- willinglv, and from necossity, because it was im- porod ipon them by the Westorn linos. Tho Committeo is unanimously of tho opinion that tho moneya collected for ewitching weat into the treaaurios of tho rospoctive companice, and that tho rumors that this monor waa s . porquisito of womo of the gancral oflicers of tho ronds was without foundstion in fuct. It is undorstood that the Comnmittoe is also considesing the bost means 10 bring about & reduction in the chargos mado by tho olevators, and an jmmediste or- ganization of = transportation uasociation, as roecomniended in its report. HEAVY VERDICT, MiLwAUKER, Fab, 18,.—In tho colebratod oase of Danlel Hend sgainst tbe Penusvivania Rall- road for belog put oft tho cars whilo on passaga from Jacksonville to Chicago becauso his tlckot waa wrongly dated, as it now appesra by tho issuing clerk, tho jury rendored a vordict to-day of 20,000 damagey. AT RICE POINT. MINN. 8t. PavL, Mina., Fob. 18.—At Rica Point, near Duluthy, a firo in tho round-liouss of the Lake Superior and Northern Pacific Rallronds dostroyed ono wing of tho bnildln;i and badly damagod four locomotives. Totnl losa, 820,000 to $25,000, RELIGIOUS, MOODY’S NEW YORK MEETINGS. New Yorr, Feb. 18,—Tho Moody and Bsukey meotings at the Hippodromo wera attonded by 12,000 poople to-night, Tho nervices opoued with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Hall, Moody took for his toxt, ** I am tho light of the world.”” Ho said that Christ was not only aleador and a shapherd, but was a burden-boaror also; and that all who lean u{:on thio Savior would bave & 6al thoir sorruws and halp ‘Tho inquiry-rooma wore filled with those under conviction, and Moody and Bankey couversed with them ‘poraonslly as far as gn\ctirahlu, and thou, after o faw romarks by X, Moody, tho mootivg was dismlssed with the bonediction, FINANCIAL, MANC‘E’E_“, N, H. Maxonaren, N, H., ¥ob. 18.—Addleshow & Warburtor, manufacturing chomists, have faitod, with lisbilities eatimated at £500,000. e OHIO GRANGERS, OrevrLAXD, O., Fob, 18,—Tho Btate Oraovga of the Fatrona of Husbaudry way ongaged this foranoon ia tho considoration of amendments to The Committes schools In tho townships, The Com- mittes, whila not favoring compul- sory oducation, urge tho attondance of countty youth ab loast six months of the school year until shoy reach tho age of 15, and the prossnt school-systom be improved acoord. g to tho facihiies of agricultursl cowmunities orual to thouo enjoyed ju citios ; recommending tho ostablishmant of librarion of standard scion- tifa works by suhordinate Granges, aud tho use of literature of an olovatiuy or practical charao- tor by tbo mombors, . THE EASTERN COAL, TRADE. New Yong, Feb. 18.—~Tho Zeening Lost eay Anmportant meeting of the sovoral great coale producing companies of New York aud Pounsyi« vanla has boen {n session to-day and youterdsy in thia city, st which the parmanent organlza- tion of & so-called Board of Control was effeatod, a sorios of resolutiona regulatiog tho coal traflio of the seaboard, and & echednle of prices for the government of tho trade for tho ousulng yoar, wara mneml. Tho conlgactors’ prices for March will bo ag follows : Prco on boat in Now York—Lump, §1.40; wleymer, 84.50: grato, g:),, egg, eL70; stovy $6.80; chestnut, PuitapELyui, Pa., Feb, 18.—A report, pub« lished this morning, fo tho effact that the Ponu. sylvania Ralroad Company’ had joined the anthracite cosl combination, ergunized to keep :p ):i:‘n;u. is emphatically donied by Col, Thomas ST, LOUIS® AMBITION. Br. Lous, Feb, 18.—A larga delegation of Pprominent citizons aud 8 committes principaily of hotel proprietora loft for Wasbluglon by spo- cial tratn on tho Vandalia Hailrond to use thoir inlluenco with tho Democratic Naslonal Commit- toe iu behalf of 8t Louis a8 the proper place for holdiug the Dewooratio Natioual Convention, ong tho dologation are Gen. John eud, Cliairman of the Btute Central Committee, the Ilou, John 8, Pholps, ex-Mayor Brouson, D, 11, Armitrong, Joha G, Priest, sud Gon, Eston, $he latter of Kansas. it Qen. i1, Dilger, Neocelvor of tho Teutonts In. suranco Company of Obicsgo, is s+ Bprivgfleld arraugiog with the T'reasuror and Auditor tor withdrawing tho secunties and closing up the business of the Company. ‘Lhe socuritios are awplo for the proteotion of tho policy-bolders. LONDON GOSSIP. Antagonistic Views on the Eanst- ern Question.. One English Writer Claims that Turkey Cannot Even Claim to Be o Nation; Wiile Another Ono Asserts that Xt Is “{ho Only Nation, in the Proper Sense of the Term, In Europe.”? "Warkawk's" Alarming Lettors to tho Thunderor ; Revelations in Begard to Murder-Booieties, Srecial Ccrresponidence of The Chieaoo Tribune, Loxnoy, Eu., Feb, 1.—Of all tho natioos in the world at this present ora, ‘Curkey, [ imagiue, is tho most hated and dosplsed. In England eapeclally, the unpopularity of THIs UNFONTUNATE EMPIRE ia decply-rootod aud Yrido-spread, That large clusa of worthy citizons who romo veara ago con- Reatulatod themselves, ln undisturbed sercnity of soul, on tho possession of invaluable Tarkish bonds, now logk to the Kast with storu and wrathful countonances, with whito lips cam- prossed, and threatonlng Rosture. Thero ia 8 whols army of tbeso unfortunsto creditors, whoso principal occupation and conrolation are denouncing tho authors of thoir presont woos and impocnniopity. ‘'hen the snfferinga of Christinn peoplos in tho revolt- od Siavonio rovinces have aroused a far deopor and noblor indignation fn a vory difforont class, —gonerous-hoarted, largo-soulod Englishmon, who from $iwo immemorial havo boon tho first to respond to tho cry of dlstressod humani- ty. And stnong theso aympathizers with Horze- govins are ablo writors, who occupy thomsalves withh exposing tho foarful corruptions of the Ot~ tomau Empire, aud ondeavoring, with all tho force of eloquont invective inspired by burning enthusissw, to kindle into deadly actlvity the at-presont-somoshat-aimless hostility agalust tho Turks, and compel tho Govornmont 0 bocome the instrumont of tho paoplo in oxe- cuting their vonzeanca, Turkoy has long boon tho “*sick man™ of tha Europesn famlily; bt this mild nnd compasstonate term has coased to be applicablo. In tho oplnlon of thess writors, its so-callod Goverament is A DELUSION, its voryclaim to boa nation falss; it is mot a nantion, but s horde of barbariany, a don of thioves and murderors, who hays loog cnough desecratod tho soil, and ngainat whom it is Lho daty of ‘all Europosn nations to arm thomsolves and oxpol them with a etrong hand,” Aud yet, hated and despisod ans Turkey i8; poor, horasacd, tureatened, burdovod with debts, dishonored, on tho varge of dissolutlon; with all her ealamitios and crimes, sho [s not too pour to find frionds and defondors. Nay, hor frionds, strauge to say, sro as onthuslastio o their praies and onlogics as her coemics are itter in their donunciations. Evou Lord Dorby Las boon accused of snooring at the otorogl “LEast- orn question,”—as sbarp s thorn in England as the **sternal Woman quostion” in Americs; forvent words bave boeu uttorod In hor favor in the Iouse of Parliament sud last, but not Jeast, that able writor and diplomat, Mr. Butler- Jonnstone, Wwho occasioually souds his bnlliant communications to one of the leading London journaly, {a writing n acrios of lotters from Con- stautinoplo, whieh read ng if ho had found in Turkoy AN ELDORADO peovled with blessed spirits pewly doscondod from tho celostinl splioros. It js beat to lob peoplo speaik for themeelves whore thoir views aro extraordinary,—most oxtraordinury, not in- deed ns opinious, but in tho degroa of thoir wide divergsnco. Roforring to tho recont insue of au admirablo Journal, I tind two articlos, oue ou the Lucitica- tion of Horzegovivs, by 31r, Edward Clarenco, ono of the Nico-Turks=~g0 aro called the most violont oppoucats of tho Ottoman Emplro of whom I have spoken ; snd a lelter by Mr. But- ler-Johnstono, 1t {4 ulmost noodless {0 sny that tho opponents of the Wurks regard with con- tempt and bitter hostility the diplo- watic exertions of tho thres grost North- ern and Contral Enropesn Iowers. avow- adly for tho protection of <ue Hlayonle Drovincos, which have culminated in Count Ap- draeay's note, now creating so much cornmotion. ‘Ihoy assumno that thouo olforts Lave beeu insin- cers aud dangerous, and that the note in o glaring instanco of diplomatle caut snd tyran- niu;:‘llI fraud. I shall glve citations from both articlos, M. CLARENCE L §ust road the spoctal tologram, dated ** Der- lin, Wednosday,” and has beon aroused by it to oxtromo indiguation. 'The Orst part of his aril- cla i6 to prove that professional diplomatisis aro tuo last parsona In the world fitted to copa with 8 question Jike the ano now Lofora Lurape, sinco they aro olaboratoly trained to deal with meaninglcss formuliv and conventional technic- alition ; whereas the conaideration of this quos- tion domanda that all formulm and convention- alitios be cast oeido, Ho continuoes : o ahort, 84 soon 82 1 had read the telegram, I thought of Lora Macaulay's desoription of the nagotis- tions st Ryssrick; Low the Arbareadors wrangled for- over I (lio bouse with two wings and o centrv, while 1ho two Geuerals agreed on termd of posca in a walk of nalf-an-hour wuder the apple-trecs. ‘I do not know that T should chooss Generala to sottle such a mattor au this, becauso tho prejudices of military mon, like thio projudices of diplomatio meu, are apt to be on the sio of aoything that bears o abow of nuthority, Hat Generals or anybody else would be bettar able fo look (ba facts in tho fucs, and would have their minda leas bamboozled with ' ampty formulm, They wonhl be better able to understand the dfstinction letween Government, howover bad, snd organized Drigandage, 1 was aujuscd th othoe day at weelug mysclf, or sume_one elso who hixa taken thio same line, cliargell with “‘ motaphorical yehemouce," metaphori+ cal velimonoa which w4 “nol to tho purpose.” This @ metaphorieal velioweonco™ had beon shewn in sol- ting forth the plaln facts that the dominion of ihe ‘Purk In Europo {8 not goverament or misgovornment, 1u tho scuse Iu we should apply thoso words to the worst of Enroresn Goverumonts, but that it is simply military occupation by » forelgn army,—military oc- cupation of the vocy wort kind, uone the bolter, but ail tlio worse, bocaiise {t lisa gorla on for 600, years: Tistw way of apeaking in thought o bo metaphorical, bocauve it puts facts duatesd of formulo, Liut the wmetaphor 1s sil the other way with thoss who put form- uln {nstesd of facts, When I speak of the Turks in Liurapo a1 as army of oocupation, [ am pot ueing any metaphor; Yam spetking the word of trith and so- bernoss, Tam puiting tho facts of the case in the words which tost clearly express thoso facts, Dut, when peopls talk of ** the independence and iutegrity of the Oitoman Empire,” they are cerlalnly using ‘metaplors, bocauss thuse formulo havo nothing thut auswer to thom fn the world of fucta, 8o, wheu Lord Derby, at Edinburg, sneered st *tho eterual Kastorn quoation,” he was exactly snswerlug his owa definition of cant,” f was using & cant formuis, which ha muat Lia¥e kiown haa no scaniui, of uissiing qulta tlie opposita of that which ha wishod ta convay, What 1, and those whio think with me, wish isto get rld of cant, 10 ot rid of motaphors, ta got rid of emply formule), to look thinga full tn the faco, aud to sco wnat we aro resily taught by tlo facta of the present aud of tha past,—a padt which in this case lx simply prolonged in tho prasent. Leaving, then, cant, T will sak to be fndulged in » Ittlo raui, 1t'is surely the losser ovil of the two, i Haut,” accordlng to Lord Derby, is_speaking of amsil "things ns if thoy were great. It i rant, no dotbt, when wo attach {mportance to mucl small 1nat- teru s trutl, and right, and fafth, and frecdomi it was Tant, na'doubt, when tio Dukeof Argyll, in 1367, atood up i the Hose of Lords iike an Loneut wman ta donounce the order by which Engllsh Consuls aud of- ficers wers forbidden 10 g0 on With the good work which tloy had beguu of aaving Crotan women and children from thelr Torkish murderers, In such cases a littio rent i« needed in order 10 see through the cuut on the otbr side, If wo do exaguerats the m- portaiico of Uoing slght, of aving a1 oppressed poos plo from theif oppressors, L aw sure that rant of tuls kind fs s less fsull than the cant of wnecring at the “ctornal Eastera question,” Now, {f 110 telegraw be gonuloe, we have iu the combiued Work of Lo thres Fowers ous of ths fuest plocos of cant o Feonrd, and it may neod 8 little Tant (0 exposo it. 1f tho “sedommendation of adinine Istrative reforms " means that the three Powera roo- omuend the Girand Turk to ruls in tho Blavonio lands with & ruls not worso (hau they themaolves rula in the warst-rulod corner of ilr own dominions 1t moaus they aro recommending what ibey must know ta b jwpossible, Unleus they sro bilnd ‘1o every fact, past aud present, thoy must know that the Turk canuot re« form the sdministration of hin Curstisn Froviuces, except vither by gulug out of whera or by ceaslug to be turk, Administrativo reforms Lave Lewn recomn- mended over ogain, snd they have becy promised over agelu LUt they hava mever beon carrled oufy Thero'ts bo reason to expoct that the pres. euf promise, the prosent rocommandstion, will como o soythiug iwore than the promiies and recowmendations which have gone beforeit. Any ousbut » diplomatist must g the plain reasus, simily becauss thuy canuot be carriod out, It ts s i Tocommended iho Lo to eat straw, and saif the lin promised {o eattt. The lion can 'eat straw only by cassing o ben lion, aud e Tutk can voform W administration only by osasingtobos Turk, The diplomatist ia, professionally bound to think thas, be- causs the Uovernments of the thies Yowezs or the six -with tho dlsmal huesof the inforpal al Towers concerned can, it they will, reform snyihing tuat may bo amisn {n thetr savaral countrion, thersfora the * Clovernment ™ of “Turkey’ can reform any. thinp that 18 smisa tn §ia conntry, The Govetnmont of Eugland or termany, or sty othier country,can mako ro- forma bucause it 18 & Governmont, aud becaitae Englhid and Germany nre England and Germiony, The Gov- ernmant of Turkey cannot make reforms, becatso Turkoy s not Turkoy and_ becaniss fta Government i not & Government, Ta alk of tho Grack, Alav, Dulga- rian, and Albstlan lands as * Tirsoy,” to apeak of the chiet of tho liords of alien Invaders who are en- cam Iends es Uie “Government of Turkay,” o recommend that #Governmont 1’ to maka H aqminiriraiivo roform pure motapbor, purs eaut, The words, as words, are timply witiiout mean. ing, The sad thing (s, that words offen are facts, snd {hAD Hiceo words, meaniinylcs s srords, sy, 48 facls Bave a foarful meaning indecd. (They ey sodn tunk tares Olirfatlan Lowers bavo n& only mada np thelr miinds to do nothing for the delivoraiioe of brotbren who aro crying to thom for Jielp, bnt that they aro even prepared to call u thom agsia to: subniit to the yoke of alien tyranis in their own Land, 1t would pe bard to find a stronger or mora sarnest statomont of tLo opinionw of * this party, viz,, that Tarkey eannot evon clalm to be's nnuor. or to havo a Govornment, Let us now turn to NN, RUTLER-JONNSTONE, Tiis lottor ia upon the larem, which ho regards 84 0 most respectablo aud vouerabla [ustitution, —ovidently regrotting that it has not beon adopted in all civilized cotamunities, Ha writes : Now it would probsbly satoninh the good &eogla who have derived $heir uotions from such anthorities, to Tio told that the harem {a nothing more or lesa than the Turkish Aomie, and, as_muchi, I3 fnvested with quito an muck sanctity sud’ purity fu the ayes of & Turk as in tioso of a European. Iam corlaluly not going to en- ter into the stupendons quention of the relatioun of the soxes, uor to defeud the Mussulman in comparison with (o Curlatlan viow on thishubect;s but T wish to mako ono or two olservations with ‘Teferenca to it, The fret {s, that the very prevalont opinion that tha Munsulman sysiem denfcs the possession of sonls by women Is, liko 8o many olber current notions, simply arroneons; eacondly, ihal, although polygamy In not robibited by the Molammedan any more iisn by tho oswish code, yob that publia opirifon in Turkey has set atronaly n favor of monogamy, which lisk now be- como thorule; and that, ana mattor of fact, tue in- stances of double marciagea are oven raror in Turkey thay eleewhera and lastly—— But hero I pause, It roquires somo conrago— asort of indrawing of the spiritual preath—to procood. Imaging anAmerican woman, accus- tomed to the sbrill war-whoops of our WOMAN-RIGUTIBTH, although somewhat softened by tha roar of tho far-rosounding Atlantle betwson us,—distance ot only lending snchantmont to the viow, but algo softemug the bareh discords of tumulinous voicos,—coming upon and belufi abliged to ro- port such a paragraph as tha following, shamo- luu{al)’ insortod 1 An estimablo English jour- oal Aud Instly [continues tbia infatusted correspond- entl, sltough [ do not think tint oither plilosopy o religion bas said fta last word ou this sublect, yet that, 1) thinga consirered, if the clioics only Iy hetwacn tha fnmato of a harem and (Lo * emancipated female,” 1 do not think (hat apy rational man would fora mo- ment hesllate, 1t is onay to Beo upon whom the choies would fall, sccording to Mr. Butler-Jounstono; al- thiugh, througk mero insdvortnuce, prabably, ho docs not actually commit himself by assort- ing, The conoluding paragrapha of thia letier are of such {ntoreat, they glve so VIVID A TICTURE OF TUDKIAL LIVE, and of tho viow of the charastor of tho Tarl taken by this eminont man, that I give thom on- tiro: Howover innocont the Turkish woman may be of # women's righta ' outwide te home, within the pro- cincta of ho harem shp {a abwolutely supreme, Tho ceremontal and _etiquotte otsarved within ita walls would, I fancy, Tather astonish the fippant crittea of tho fustitution, The deference especially which fs paid to tha mothor hins no_parallel in the \Wast, Tho Bultan bimself docs not dream of aliting down withi- out Teave in tho preseuco of the Valideli Sultan, Oer- tala institutions sanctioned and hallowed in tha Wost would be abaoluteiy inconcaivablo ton Turk; such, for instance, as the widow-mothier_quitting the homo snd abdicating ber position in favor of the son's wife, This would apyear to him an act of leasnature, Bo would othor Institutions and laws th glory of our age, such as tho provistons of tho Codo Napoloon which enjoln tho compulsory divisfon 0f & man's proj all hiscnildren: and miverasl suffrags, distingnished from honyehold or domoatio suiTregs, For bath theso institutions would appear to i iu- compatible with arental authority, and in direct con. filct with his dornestlo instlcts, which areat tho root of hin whola chiaracter, sud upon which reposos tho whole fabrfo of Lanlorn eoclety. Tor the patriarchall chiaractorof the Tarkish hiomia Ts ita chisf oharsctor- fatlo, Lvory morning tha houtohold rather round thelr hiead and respactiully kiss Lis band,—no cmpty forimailty with them, but n neccesary and 'oven indis- yoauabla token, I lio eyes of respectful allopfaucc. 4 tho kouschold, oo, ara ticluded not only o chlte dron, but thoss yhoin wo are obliged by the poverty of our languaga to deaiguato ua * alsves,” Nowhero aa in Turkoy s tho procopt, of 8t. Pl 10 tully selized, #geryauts, be obedient 0 your masters,” und % Tho non ahell bo even as a acrvant,” If, on the oo hand, it be trus that the unit of theState’ia tho family and not tho individusl, on the other hand it may bo said that the irue sdes of the family only exlsts in the East, Nowhera elio, too, do peaplo 1ve so continuall in_the presenco of ‘eseh othier. A Roman once sald, “Buld ma s bowia wiore, | alail bo noen Ly every oné evory hour of tne day,” This is litorally tho caso in the East, Living, too, continunlly 1n tho pressnce of each other, thuir conduck fs subject {0 and infuonced Ly tbs publicopfnion of those around them n & way that o Europoat can be. Two things aro to bo acen in Turkey which at fiest alght may seem contradictory, bui are in reality intlmately caunactod, the entire ab- eencoof caste, sod tho Instinctivo deferenco and rospeat pald to evary dlegree of rank, ‘ticre 1s no such thing in Turkoy aa $ha aspartion of clasacs, each Hving abut up Ly ltaclf, suspiclous of each other, liko antagonistic oud hostilo forcea; thero {s no such' thing, therefore, s olusa dirisions, clasa hatreds, claes inforests, and the rovolutionsry passiona they engonder, Consider for s moment, whon you talk 80 gliuly of Ariving tho Darharina ont of Furope, of tho strength which sacl & fact ox hia gives to 8 natlon, Tam inclined to think, deiiberatoly, that tho only nation—in the proper sensu of the term—(n Europo ia thie Oftoman, Now, what renders {his Intermixture of ail olasses n Tur- Jay possible, and the shuence of which would xender the pamo thing impossible in Europe, i{s exactly Turkish_politences, formulated in & fixed codo ot msunors, which regulates tho intareaurag of the dif- forent classoa with otlior, and rouders impossibla fhat familiarity to which, but for thia -bartler, such gemoral intérmizturo would be liabls, and which would quickly dissolvy it (nto genoral con- fusfon and mutual coutempt, If this view ba correct, ‘with stich taots befora oar 1t would be very diin. cult 10 talk lightly of thie vafuo of polltouasa snd atr. quotte, It isnot too much to say that the very bond of noctety {n Turkey s reapect; that politeucas ls with Tl 11 O1aOFALod codo of Fospoct; and that thia ro- psct and 1his codle of politaneas urn the firnt and most important fomons inculeated in tho harem. It takes first tha form of Slial reapect,—the source and spring of all other reapeat,—and then, in natural progreasion, of honor o all thoso to whotn honor s dte, 50 1t becomes tho very basis and foundation of the Utto. Tin character, the secret of thelr military diactpline, aua the very bond of thelr soclety. 3 What {s the bowildored mind to think of such CONTRADIOIORY BEPORTS AND ATATEMENTS P Ono rapoata involuntarily with Hamlet : ** Look upon this picture, then on this;" but only to ro- member that the quotation ia not in point, sinco tho Dauish Princo waa direoting his mothortolook upon the portraits of brotheis, whoreas the plci- ures which I soud you are of ono and tho same rsopln. Ono romembora the legend of tho two Cnights who, aftor contemplating roverno sides of tho same piliar, ongaged in a fatal duel, be- canse oach mfiecdvely was unable to convineo his ofponnnu at tho plilar was all of ailver or all of gold. Each statod tho truth In go faras ho aaw it, without belng oapable of comprohend- tng that bis fact did not inctudo the wholo truth. ‘I'ho Turk appears to be a belng who is rovealod to an admiror in tho radisnco of o trans. figuring hnlo, and to an opponent hideons o B 3 eharactor of Mr, Butlor-Tohwstons, and his woll- knowa sbilily, proclade the 1dea that bo would, intentionally or unintentiopally, exaggerate; he is ovidently giving a faithful ploture of the facts that bave coma under his obsorvation, and ‘which led bim to the doliberate vonclusion that the Ottoman Empiro Ia tho only nation fu Bu- rope. Dut the faots of his opponcuts are oqual- Jy patonts tuat Turkey has baen aud is. so_ mis- ruled that, in avery sense of tha word, in all her rolatiol ith other pooples, commorelal and financial, shoe i3 cutlawed snd dishonorsd ; and that sho has shown horaolf so unjust and tyran- uvical to tho provinces nador hop away 83 to have hiscome a crying reproach even to auch deupot- jems sa Prussis and KHussis, For my owa part, Idonot protend to harmonize discords so vio- lent, but simply prosons the two views aa [ find thom, leaving the subjecs to tho boter consid- oration of vlearer winds, WARHAWK. Are you, in that far-sway Woatorn World of ours, kuMicient doyutoeh of the proat organ of the British Plulistive, tho much-abused bour- geoiaie, tho all-powertul Tinies, to have obaerved ® seriea of alsrming lottors appearing in that paper from a most truly formidible and myste. rious Individual refoiving.in the signature of “Warhawk?" Whoover he may actually be, this visionary “Warhawk" roporta Limsolf as biaving bad wide exporicuce of the most lpor- tant nocret socletios in differont partu of Furope ; he i mequainted with tholr orgauization; he has beou Initiated in tnelr socrets; and tho description ho gives, of thom s, on the whole, atarthng: that thoy are composed of criminals only aqualea by our own garrotors,—in plain language, murder-socichrs; tlias tho fact of their oxistouco and employment is well known to pensons moving 1n the highest soclety In ¢howr mYlaouvn oountriod; that the murderars and out-throsts thomsolves move in thoe higuess soclety, aud pross freoly tho hsnd of thoman for whode messssination they have ar- ranged. Al this, and much more to tho same offocs, * Warhawk " relates with a Iroedom fruwm ombarrasvment and ucianos which i re- freshiog. Dut uaturally the highest socioty in London bas been & good deal agitated in rogard 1o the persoualisy of so dubioua a journalist, WO I e ‘What is ha? -Is he roally n mombar of thoge egoioties—n Beores astmsain? Aud, if B0, how Lias Lo dsred divulgo thelr secrete? 1s detectivo who hins gainod sdmieston to theso torribla orgauizetions through profound mastoryof hisownart? But no, A detoctivo would not rovoal Aix pecrots fn the enlumns of tho Times ¢ and, asidon, that powerful fonrs vonchon for ina reapactability ; and no o person thau tho Daron de Grauley, Attachae M tatro of tha Frouch Embuufl aasures tho Ln- glink publio that hie knows Im to hiavo aoted, and to be ncun’g dana Pinterest de Ukumantle ; and tnat, for hie_aeroioen, whatevor they may have boon, fl n'a jamais demandele mowndre veo- nmpense. (4 In proven, (liorefors, conelusively, that hin ig nolthor n cat-throal nor a datootive, Anides Juet occurred to mo, whioh I shall xend to the proper authorittes, viz.: that he ia the apirit of an Indian Chbiof, writing to tho Times through a modium. . The namo 16 auggentivo of much & ecombination; and I havo heard in Amorioa of foats oxecutod by mo- dimus possossea by dofunct Indians, Acarcoly loas romarkablo than ** Wathawk's" porformances Ono otbor euggestlon of doop intorcat has beon mnade by & vory abla writer, whose remarks on the subjoct I "sond yon ; they are too good not to ba oironlated ay widoly rs poseiblo, You must Lear fu mind that thoso rocrot organizations not only arm thomselves with tho deadly weapon of aesagsination, but make usoof thin weapon in the most blundoring and rockless manuer,~— boing quite as apt to kill the wrong pordon sa fl;srlg tono, Andnow for tho last word on o VEXED THEME OF ' WARNAWR'S" PERNONAIITY ! There 13 ons more tlrory; but, In accepting this, Wo must regerd 4 Warkiawk ? 08 a belng qulte as far romuyad from the pale of comimon sympatly as ff he weroa ghoat., Ife may Lo alast surviving rells of that grim society of sympathizers with murder as ono of ihe finn arta of which Do Quincey foft us {he records, There ia amplo faternal ovidoncs in his_last lefter that {hiln §a tho nolution of the mystery, Thero s a calm- nens in Lis treatment of mirder, as an interesting rubject of clacussion, which De Quincoy's amatours linrdly reachied, * Warhawk " discusaes murdor in ite legal aspeets, am it has como to the atiention of the various mocieifes of which ha or hss been o member. To llustrate s subject, ho asks us fo supposo tbat YA was depited to aseansinato 1L o scome to regard thin ar perfoctly comfortablo Auppoition, Tio moral dinttuction bolween geomotry and inurder never vo- curs fo bim, Dut, in tho attempt o nupposs that A 14 deputed (o ‘assssinate 1, ono almost invarisbly con- fusen onesell with tho ancond. letters and, inssmuch 25 tho verllor in a nelf-coufessed momber of many mtr- dorots soclolien, it 18 10 great atroteh of th tlonto supposc that A stands for * Warhawk,"— though any achaolhoy, of courac, could correot us on this point, Wa aro ihno way Tosssured when our amafour asks us {0 anpposo, furthor, that A makes & mistake, and kilts another member of tho niphabot, O, inafead of B, Tne ‘smeuranco {hat we have not inqurred ibe lostility of any pecrot #aciety protects us from sil fear, perhaps, of ropping Into 11 alioes; but 1o man can be cortain that homay ot bo ropreseutod by O, 1lowever charmiing tha acience of imurder may Lo to ono w0 learncd as * Waz- hawk " bas become, thero in nothiug outieing about tho A B Cof the atiidy. Tho latter part of his lotter sliows that ko hns come to regard touxder, with sl its appurtenances, sn & matler of Eccondsry'lnportance compared with tho refinemeuita of ctiquatts and fhn elegancos of pocial life, Ve have already quoted n Tasnago {n whicly 1o westus to lualify his mombership of theso societies on tho gronud that there are other memberw, active murdcrers withal, who move in the Srat circles of Bpin nud elsowhero. Equally remarkable fs n passago of. his feltor im- modiately following tho above. Ho mays: “I do R0t think that my duty to foraign soclty roqulros mo to turn informer.” This may or may uct be a cor- ract view of tlio mntter, Tt * Warhawk " gises special rosson whiy ho {a not hound {o raport fifa ap- pareutly gullty knuwledgo: * Farelgn socloty n repro- sonted Dy officials not over-courteaus,” This certaine 1y raisos n Irgnl quostion quite Interosting as that which hos boon rozanily dlscusded {u Germany auil England _concerniug thy lawa bearing on nasassin ‘whoeo roal plana misoirry, To whiat extant {4 an En- gllsh amataur, being an accomplico of foreln murder- ern beforo and after tho fact, morally of legally usti- fedon_tho ground that forvlen officiala lave bud manuers? Tho diacuraion of ibls question will in- volvo » wiilo range of moral philosaphy, technical law, and soclal etiquerte, Tt bolug allowed fhat # Warhnwk * fa a rello of Do- Quincey's celebrated soclery, wa canuot hitk cowsis- erato with him on the frontiency with whih Lis e1- thetlc suncept{Lititiss muat have been Rhncked, The variona socicllos of which Lo Ia n member have not Rucceedod l\]l[ml’o:\fl{l in treating murder as one of the finsarte. The bungling mannor in which they aro conntantly killing the wroug persons iy excovding- Iy dlczoditablo o thole professional kil 1i”ls for this reanon, ‘porhne, that * Warhawk” has finally furned his back upon' thom, Aud this briiga ua to & practical llllblflcn of deepand tmmodiato futerest to ritish subfects, Pazllament should tak Into consd- eration whether thers shonld not bo mmnl’wm(:fl’ sovors law againat killing (he wrong man., Thls la surcly n moro Liewious vifenss thun killiug the wrong man. This {8 surelya mora heinous ofterao than killing tho right man, 1t {s an offeure which intorests s much larger number of peoplo, Quly & Hinited vumber of ieu enn bo the right onen, bawereraweapine tho mur- dorous designy of » fociety or an indiridual may bo aud the wroug ones aro no fower than all tho rest of WK, As (hinga now stand, tho wrong men aro in morg danger than tho right man., - TUa cais of ** Warliawk " 18 & direct Sustanco 3u polnt, Liko Couut Fosoo, iu the caso of o siuglo moclety, a has mada himsell tho Dropor oblect at which miany dontiuental wocletics must Javol their murderous snfts. o slands, hore- fore, I lesn porsonsl_dangor than_ any otiier inan fu tho United Kingdom, No insn in Groat Britain ia #afa oxcept * Warhawk,” as long aa s dozen or twaaty Coutinental societies aro thiretlng fur that genttamar blood, Tho reat of us can only look n him frewbih and euvy him the prospiect of o long, long life, woautime, may quiotly sud cheorfully * tako_tiio will for the docd,” and pursuo bia favorito study at our exponse, **Warhawk " i 0 yood targot for the ehafta of wit and satire ; but, in paolut of fact, tha sub- X BELIOUS ONE. the public does not know: and it {8 oqual ignorant au to how wuoh truth may be veiiod fix Li8 #o-called rovolations, Dut this voice—he in cortainly n voico and a pon, whatover elso lio may bo—is only one of many witnesses, - merabla voicos, wlio all baar ovidouces as to tho Iamentablo couditivn of Europesn sooictys that it is complatoly undermined by Communiats and lawless deaperadocs of oll kinde, who are only Liding thoir bour to como to tho surfaco and put tuto practico thoir thoariea of violenca and niur- dor, “ With all tho actual dissensiona and pros- tive oauses of etrite that aro disturbing tho ow World, wo can_congratulato ousolves that wo yot stond upou Ormer ground. Y. V. VITHORAWS. B8rrixarrEnd, Maas,, Feb, 18,—Williama Col- loga voted to-day to withdraw from the Collogo Boating Associalion, —_——— Xow Ioverdy Johnson Becnme Ate tarnoy-Gunoral, Neww Yorx Hvening Post, In 1845 Reverdy Jobuson becamns a membor of the United Htates HBouate, but resignod in 1840 to accept the oflico of Attornoy-Gieneral, by sppointment of Presidant Tavlor, The circum- slances of this appolntment have nover bsen ro- Iated {u ‘mnt. wa bollove, and tho anccdote will boar toll] n;f. Mr, Willlam Ballard Proston, of Virginls, was from tho first nn active partisan of Qen, Taylor, and In onsof his speoches bosst- ed that lo bad ' beon tho flrst man in the country to ‘‘mount Old Whitsy sod show off his paces,” As a roturn for Lis services to the pn;fly aud to tho President, Glon. Taylor, with small knowlodge of mon, dotermivod to mako Preaton Attorney-Goneral. His advisora smong tho Whig Senators romanstrated, urging Preaton's 1ok of groeat logal abillty and loarning, but all to no parposo. Taylor was immovablo. Willlam 8. Archor, HBepator from Virginia, Ainally ook the mattor iu hand, sud, calling ul)- o the Proaldent, hold a briof but cboraotoristio convoraation with bim on the subject, 41 hear,” hio sald, **that you thiuk of making my friond Proston your Attornog-General," “Yes,” ropliod Taylor, “{ do." “Arq you awaro of tho fact, continued tho Bovator, **that an Attornoy-Conoral must ropre- sont the Govorment in tho Buprems Court 7' *'0t courso,” vaid Tn?'l.or. “ Do you know that ha muat thero moot Dantel .Yow mueh of roality thera fs in i pflrnonn"l{, iy Wfl:fltor snd Ravordy Johugon as opposing coun- *sol e ‘' Cartalaly, ropliod Taylor, “‘what of that?" *Nothing, oxcept thet thoy will mako a—— foal of your Attorney-Clenoral.” Without another word, the Virginia Benator took hly leave, but ho had made the dosired im- pression, Proston was appointed to another ;Ellwo. nl?dnovnrdyJohumn ocamo Attorney- . enoral e ¥ioans In o Barrels Lows!t (Maas,)|Courter, One day last weok in a wholeaale conntry produca store in this city proposed & guo. - mateh in rogard to the number of pea-boaug fu a barrel of that vegotable. There wore ssveral grocers ju the atoro, and tholr estimates varied 1rons 40,000 to 4,000,000, all giving wild guessss. It was ascortained that thero woro about 508,000 poa-beans in n full barrel; this rosult being ob- tained by counting tho nimber of boana in & ound weight, and u\nmll;lyhlf that by the num- ior of pounds in the barrel. This of aourso would give ouly an approximate numbor, s4 the figuros for each pound will vary probably very slightly, snd the atated number of pounds fna barrel nay slso vary. A gentleman of an sd- vaboed mathematicsl cducation who happened In the stare was saked to guess the numbar of boaus, Ilereaclod aresult by messuring one boan, and thon nFm‘ln“ how 1mrny beans could ba put in a barrol, e piaced the numberin the barral at 2,000 less than tho result obtaed by tho eavier metbiod of caleulation, and his figures mn{h\aaown wore correct than thoso by theiooso wethod, A compromise hss boen offected by which tho bauka sud the Lioaviest taxpavers of Bpringtield, 11, will st onca pay the Town Qollsctor the Btate sud county tax, snd $3 of the §3.88 clty lovy, 8o the city will resuwo again. - STATE AFFAIRS. The Wisconsin Sennto Passes the Rallrond.-Men’s Bill to a Third Roading, Artloles of Impoachmont Prosonted Agninst the Lioutenant-Gover~ nor of Missiesippl Aholitfon of tho -Death Ponally by tm Jegislature of Malne, WISCONSIN. * THX RAILROAD BLLZ, 1N THE AENATE. 8pectat Duapateh ta The Chicaas Tvibuns, Mapwon, Wis,, Fob. 18,—Tho Henato haa bssa malnly ocoupiod with tho railroad contest over ho Asgembly Vanco bill materially modifying tbio law rogulsting rallrosds, Frieuda and op- ponenta aro spparently dotormivod to bring the matior to s deqiaiva Isauo. Tho Committes on Railroads, only two ant of :Jlr;o dissonting, roported {favorably on tho il “ ‘When it camo up on & third rexding Benalor Borden moved and Benator Potter, the author of thoe Pottor law, advocated its postponement i Wednoaday next, Bonator Poltar, in objooting to considering the bill now, olalmad st It was full of dlscriming. tions, and pceded amendment. Beuator Hudd sbly advacatod the passage of tho bill now, i4 boing woll understood and what was noeded to promote the prosperity of the B;ut?, and was scconded py Bakoraund I N, nvis, Postponemant was rofased by 22 to 10. Tno bill was thon taken np by seotions. Honator Potter complained that tho railroad roports, particularly of the Chucego & North. waatorn, woro not oxpliclt enough, and moved an amendmont to tho third soctlon, to includs tho numbor of articles and kinds of froight moved of various classes, which was rojcoled— 12¢010, . An amenament wss adopted substituting for the laat part of Boo, 4 that no rallrosd corporas tlon ahall charge or raceiva = larger aum per care load from ono porson than any other shippiog from tho Inst place, but the Iast provision ehall not apply to shipping from competing points. Tho senate tuen took a rocoss tili the afiep noon, At 2:30 tho Benato resumed consideration of tho bill, Heo, 11 was amendod so a8 to include the Westorn Union Rallrona. Honator Pottor moved to amond so a8 toros atrict pasnongor-furo on firstclass roads to 8 conts per mile, which was adyocated by him, op~ posedd by Hudd, aud lost by 14 to 18, Potter thou offered sn emondmont to Bec. 12, that it should not affact legal procaodivge bofore the parsago of the bill, which was carsiod 17 to 15, reconsiderad, and lost 12 to 20, aftor which Heuator Darron offored an amondmont, which was adopted, adding 1o the last lina of Beo, 13, **or any coutt or courts in the United Btates, which wan adopted, and covers subatantially the ground of tho rejected nmendmont. Bonator Wolch then offered anotbor amend maut agsinut discriminations, which was lost. Bouator Potter roviowed the bill at longth, mak- ing n long, ablo, and earncst spooch agaiust f Bonator IIndd oloqnontly sad foreibly roplied. Beoalor Barnoy, thongh not nltogether approve ing, thaught this was not o bad bill. Sonator Farr briofly sud warmly advooated it. Henalor Dorden was nob wattsfiod, Senstora Barron, Rounds, and Campboll briefly supported tho bill. Bomator Pottor, who had boen vathor govero in fomo of his ro- marks touching tho advocatos of tho bill charging them with being in tho rallroad intar- eat, dipclaimed sny iutontion of aseigning un- worthy motives fo any one; expressod his regrot it ho had bnon the means uf dischiarging any railroad workmen, Iu his opiuion, tho law with which his name had beon idontifiod had beon a good oue, and catabliehed the principleof Btato control, The blil was then ordered to o third reading- 23to 9; tho nays being Borden, Bryant, Cava naugh, R, E. Davis, Douglas, Lastman, Patior, Ireat, and Welch, nix Ropublicans, ‘I'bo Souato thow, after throo liours’ seusion, adjourned, OTHER BURINESS, Tho othier important sction of tho Senate was tocall for more railzoad information ; to pass Dills for tho better protoction of 8t, Croix lnud- grant timber ; providing for tha artificia}l propa- galion of flsh, and appropriating $10,000 for os- tablishing a Stato hatohory ; amonding tho aol authorlzing munioipal corporations to ald in constructing railroads ; for the doatruction of wolves, lynxes, nod wild-oats ; rolating to ao- tians for forenlonuro f mortgagos, IN TIE ASAEMILY some fifty potitions ‘wero tiled—on inmicance, taxation of clhurches, echools, nnd niortgaged property, interest, otc. Boveral mombers foaling nfigrluvod that thoy wero not admitted freo to the Liegislative Enter talnmont pnfi{glven Inut evening to rajso money for Dentennial purposes, put their heads togathor and psssed a rosolution 1n tho Assembly grante ing the use of tho Leglalative Hall the ovening of tho 224 for a froo party. Au ablo and conclnsiva roport was preaonted from tho Ralirond Committoo against the renenl of tho law oxempting tho West \Visconsin Rail~ road lands from taxation as unjust to the road snd stockholdors, sud 88 & violation of the pledged faith of the Btato. 3 ; Sonnto bills woro concurred In t0 appropriaf ta tho Industrial Bekool for Boya 816,000, for the purnose of introducing tho manufacture of shoos; to authiorize tho taking of fsh for artificial prop- “‘L‘“"" ; to providoe for registoring iu towns wliora votors voto in & villago. Tho Assombly bill passed to confirm snd lezal- Izo & vortain mortgage of tho Miiwaukeo & 8t. Paul Road, 1o Commltteo of tho Whole, the Chippows Dolly bill camo up, aud oocupiod conidorabla timo, withi moro spoochiea by Writao, of Chippe- wa Falls, against, and sbarp passagos between Leos and Charlton, rivals for the Demooratio londerahip. Fiually, the bill was made & spocial order for noxt Thursday. ‘Cho bill imposing o further tax on life insur anco companles of tha Btate, aftor a short do- bato, was indaflnitely postponed,—60 to 30, —as wag also the bill to croate aud provide for s Btate Comnusaionar of Immigration, i % LOUISIANA, ALLEOED MUNICIPAL ROTTENNESS, New Onexans, Feb. 18,—Tuo imposchment schemo sooms to be getting wosk, It fs atated that tho majority of conservatives in caucus op- poao tho impeachmont of Gav, Kollogg, Tho Bonato to-dny adopted tho following by a voto of 760 25 : : Wirnzas, It has boen publicly charged in the courts and by prees of {ho city Bt (he Mayct and Adwdun: irators of Now Orloaus bave uniawlully devoted, ais. uaod, and migapplied this cousclidatod intorcat fundd in violation of the provislons of Hoc, 50 of the (:ly coarter, Act No, 7, extrs sossion of 1870, which Lw fizoa a ponalty of fino, mprisonment, and dismlisal frum oMica for #uch offensa; thorefors, ba It Jiesoived, That the Financo Comunittea be required to o1ainina into said olaryes, aud if the same b fownd true to roport a resolution for tha sdidreas of mid ofticers out of ofice, and 10 direct tha Attoruoy-Qeror- al of the Btate to tnutituls orimiual procssdings sgaiust il . ‘Hesaleed, Thst th Flsasice Cowmltice hava power ta seud for persons and papers, and admiudsier osths, It is rumored that the Grand Jury have also takon hold of the watter, and subpooasd 1 number of witnesses, epe—s MAINE, _THE DEATH PENALTY ADOLISUED, Avausta, Mo, Fob, 16,—Tho bill to abotish tho death penalty in this Btato and subs:itule {wprisonment aud bard lavor for lifo passod the Baonate by a vote of 18 to 11, The moasure Lad Ersv!nuuy passed the Houso, An attempt o avo the question seitled by tha poople at the nozt eleotion was defeated in the Henate by s vote of 18 to 12, —— IOWA. . THE RAILHOAD QUEATION, DrsMorxes, Ia., Fob. 18,—A joint meeting of the Nwlroad Commistecs of the Heuste sad Houso took place this evening, ¢ which the Lion. J, ¥, Wilson delivered an able addrosd In favor of a rapoal of the allroad tariff law, M. C. Woodruff, of tho Dubuque Twmes, upoke fn de- fenso of the law, * — MISSISSIPPI THE INPKAGRMENT OABN. . Marxpms, Toon, Feb. 18.—The Avadnche's Jackson, Miss., spocial to-nighd eaya (3o Housw in » body accompanied the Davis Iorestigaticg Committes Lo tho bar of the Honate and made a formal jmpeachment of ghe Lhkutensut-G ornor, Tho caso was sob for Lo-BOITOW,