Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 17, 1876, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1876, ihonld be detacted [n tho not of charglag 50 per tont for collocting_ **n just claim " againat & passongor, hie would bo fnatantly dismisscd, —_— NEW YORK TOWN ELECTIONS. 4 REPUDLICAN OAIY OF 133 SUPEAVISONY IN TWEN- TY-THNER COUNTIZS. o New York 2imes, Maroh 13, Tho elections of Supervisors ta sevoral coun- tios of this Btato, held on Tuaasday last, show remarksblo and most gratifying gains. DBelow wa prosent & atatoment of resultsas far as hoard from. Tho tabloshows tha party composition of tha now Boards of Buporvisors in_the coun- tiea named, compared with thoir condition last yoar, tho ‘fignrea for the Boarda of 1475 boing taken from the Albany Argus Almanac, which, ‘of courso, will be acosptod aa good authority by ali Damoorata ¢ 290 . (23 Theao twenty-threa countios, thorefore, shiow » net Republican gain of 133, —— MISCELLANEOQUS. + . JACESONVILLE, ILL. 8pectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, TAcrsoNVILLE, Ill,, March 10.—The Republic- su Oity Convention was Lield to-night., The con- feat was & vory warm and closa omo. E, 8. wuroenleaf, Superintendont of the Jacksonville & Sauthonstorn Railroad, was nothinated on tho twenty-firat Lallot for Mayor, i R Upbam for Clerk, and C, O, Bporry for Marshal. Upham and Sporry aro the prosent incumbents. Tho bickot ia m strong one, and will bo .elected by n targe majority. TIE THIBTEENTR ILLINOIS DISTRICT. Spectal Dupateh to L'he Chicago Tribune, Benixarienn, - Iil, March 16.—A number of prominent Ropublicans of McLean County mot at tho Court-1lonse at Bloomington last night to confor rogarding oanpidates for Congress in that district. Prosident Richard Edwards, lato of Normal, Gon. Bioomflold, J. II. Rowaell, of McLean, aod O. R. Cammings, of Pokin, wore consldored in that connoction, but the sentiment of the meeting socmod to bo mostly in favor of ¢ {’rkn!. Edwards, though no decwsive action was akon. THE NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. New Yong, March 10.—The Democratio State Convontion {s to be held {n Utica on thio 20th of April. Goy. Tilden's frionds waated it held in Albany, o fow woeks oarlior. OII0 AREENBACK MEX, Cor.uxnus, 0., March 16.—A cotorie of gontle- men from difforont portiona of Ohio, favoring tho lesna of grosabacks, held & meotiog bero to- day snd isauod o call for n Btate Greonbaok Con- yention to be held in this city April 6. | . BUODE ISLAND DEMOORATIC NOMIXATIONS, Provipexce, R. L, March 16.—Tho Democrat- jo Biate Convontlon to-day nominated Gon. G, Jowia Cooks for Governor } Baba O. Slocuin for Lioutonant-Govornor; John B, Prico for Bocre- tary of Stato; Oscar 8. Lapham for Attorney- Genoral, “and Willim Y, Congdon for Goueral Treasurer. . NORTI CANOLINA. TRavezow, N. O, March 16.—The Democratio Beato Couvontion will bo hold bere oo tue 14th of Juno, Gon. W. R, Cox, Chairmanof tho #tnte Democratic Exocutive Committoo, wasar- restod to-day charged with conspiracy to doprive I, M. Normont of 'his seat in the late Constitus tional Convention. e POLITICAL NOTES, Willlam Walter Pholps 18 sgaln talked of for Congross in Lis old district. Qov. Tondricka also, It appears, bas ongagod rogularly in the business of pardoning convicte. Gen. McNults, of tho Dloomington diatrict, bas positively refused to be a candidato for re- elootlon to Congress, and publio sentimont’ seoms to bo tarning in the direction of Richard Edwards, formerly of tho Normal 8chool. ‘The Cincinuati Enquirer lneurlntl;hy Auggosts ‘Walt Whitman oa & Repubtican candidato for the Prosidonoy, bocauso.hois honest and Lau held oflice under Gen. Grant. Tho iutimation Is that thoso aro all tho statosmauliko quslities Mr. Bristow has displayed, Tho Enquirer evidently thinks the nomination of Bristow would bo bad for the Domocragy. ‘Tho Oincinnatl Commercial is not afraid to declare ita profercnce for the Prosidency. * % Dlaino, of Maine, i a mighty smart mau, bat hie {u not oxactly the kind of man the Republic- aus will want noxt summer, 1o {8 a good man in a gbod placo now. 8o is Morton, Conkling likowiso, ~ Dristow is tho man who has got his . work in." We thonght it would como to that. Dolkoap domands an [nvestigatlon. Ie can show that ho *novor abstracted n cont.” Abstracted s good, + « + Wo wondor whethor Bolknap usod tho torm * absiracted ¥ innocontly or acutely. 1le says ho spont $837,000,000, and nover abuiracted » cont. Thero m? hiavo peon somoe odd change, however, that hio did not drop'into the drawer.— Oincinnati Commercial, It is rolated of Becrotary Bristow that, while *looking for a Louso last autumn, when he had found ono that bo liked ho asked what the rony woe. “Hoven thonsand dollars,” answered tho agent. My, Bristow thought for o moment and then said : I was wondoring what I cauld pos- sibly do with that othor thousaud,” s Cabinot Minister’s ealary being only 28,000 a yoar, Tho 27,000 houso was not reatod. . Country nowspapors ara unnblo to undsrstand Tiow It should have made sny difforence to Gen, Bchenclc whothor his esignation was known ‘Voforo bo lott London or not, since i diplomutia tivilego protected him whilo ho held the Am- Enuubflo lnp it protoctod him uflutuy, 88 avory- ‘body knows, while going to aod returning from s post. ‘Tho oxplanation iy eimpto. Write sgainst him were aiready out, but had not boen servod bocauso the Iawyers raised doubts whother his was s easo in which diplomatic privilego did protect. If ho bad cnbllcly resignoed, servica ‘would cortalnly bavo beon risked nt ooco boforo bhio could got out of reach. Evon when ho ytarted for home osteneibly on leave of absence, ho found na officor at his hocls.—XNcw Yo Trivune, Mr. Shaw Peass, lato Indopondsnt member of 1he Legislsture from Macon County, bas writien » acathing lottor on the Indopeudent Canvon- tlon to sho Dcecatus Jtepublican, e calls at- Bontlon {o tho fact that four out of tho aix can- didates aro life-long Domacrats, snd the two Itepublicans aro nominated for tho uuimportaut pAicon -of Lioutonant-Governor and Atiorney- Ganeral, 'Tho slats was fixed up by tho Domo- crudic loaders In thle State, and it waa for tha ‘oxproe purposo of propitiating tho Domocrata that Eteward was nominatod ovor Ilaines and Togg, both of whom have served the Indepen- dont party falthfully and desorve some of the scanty honors it has to pive. Yosee, for his art, hou abaudoned tho Indepondonts and ro- fnmcd to the Nepublican fold, s A corzeapondent of the New York IHerald, writlng from Jackeon, Misa., charges thio lon. B, K. Bruoe, present Unitod Hiates Benator from that Stato, with Laving obtainod his seat by a \ umclal of modifled bribo! ‘Tho allegatlon iy that Brace cashed warranta issued b{ the Btato doverument to cortaip membora of the Legisla- taroe at their full faco value, the market valuo of the eame belng 63 cents on the dollar. Lruce afterwarda turned fo tho warsants so oblained in settloment of his socounts x-Colloctar of Bolivar Conoty, 'The certificates are receivable at their faco value for taxes; and, though the law forbids any Gollector to buy cortificatos at Jeaa than thelr face value, it does not positively and explioitly prokiibit such & transaction as that which Blr, Bruce ongaged fn, Byt it fs evident, if tho Leraid's story bo trus, bt Bruce used tho peopla's monoy to buy up depreciated cer- tifloates, In order to win over soveral dublous mombers of tho Loglature. His actlon was tochwlcally legal, bus morally wrong. e AILING PORK. Bpectat Dispaleh t Tha Chicago Tridune, DroouNaton, I, March 16.—Thero is con- slderable alarmi among hog-raisers ou accouns of wnow diseaso of tho bead snd jaws, which is ‘panaing mortality among berds nesr Farmer Olty, Jiog chiolera I provalont in Logeu County. WASHINGTON. Testimony in the Hays COadet- ship Bribery Case, One Lilly Takes the $3,000, and Assumes the Responsibility. Ex-Oongressman Coffroth, of Penn- sylvania, Sadly Tripped Up. Republican Scoators Desirs to Do Con. sulted Concerning Indian Appointments,, [ S — Analysis of the Vote on the Democratio Caucus Finance Bill. Soclal Items of Noto from the Nationnl Capital, f Wonders of the Cmsh-Room of tho Treasury Building. CADETSHIP SALES. TIE OHARGE AGAINST HAYS. Byeciat Dispatch to Tha Chicaga Tribuna, Wasmixatox, D, C., March 16,—Charles ITays bas requested tho Ifouso Committes on Judi- clary {o liston to his sxplanation of tho circum- Btances attending the sppointmont of young Beardaloo to the Woat Polnt Military Academy. Ho will be heard to-morrow or nost day at tho meeting of tho Sub-Committeo, Td-day two witnosacs wero oxamined. Mrs, Boardsles, the mothor of tho young man, testifled that sho waa desirioun of sonding her son to Woss Point, and, having no frienda possoased of political influonce, applied to Charlior, in whoso school young Bonrdsles hod fitted for college. Clorlier mndo * the negotiation with Lilly, tho Washington broker, - and on recoiving from Mre. Bonrdsles n check for 83,000 turncd it over to Lilly. Sho admitted that her son had nevor boon in Choctaw County, Aln,, but eaid that he did go to sco Hays st THayaville, in Groons County, aftor he roecoivod tho nppointment, 1le alao gpent some tima In corpany with his mother in Tuscaloosa and nirmln)iylmm. Aln, Lilly alao sald that,althongh lie bad long boen In the business of nneuxlnfl | tho appointment of codels, ho Lad never pai a momber of Congross for one, excopt in ono instanco. That man was Coffroth, & Democrat, from Yonnsyivanis, who served in tho Thirsy- ninth and Forticth Congress, to whom he paid {20 the Associated Press.) CHARLIER'S TESTIMONY. Wasmmeaton, D. 0., March 16.—Prof. Ell Charlior, propriotor of n largo private school in Now York, appoared bafcre tho Commitioe to- day, snd dotalled the mnaner in which he ob- tafned the admission to Weet Point of Guy It Beardsleo, ono of his pupils, who waa appointod i March, 1875, by Roprosontativo Haya, of Ala- bama. An attorney in tlia city namod Lilly agrood to furnish the appointment for $3,000, with tho oondition that the boy should muko a residence 1n Alobams, from which Btate ho was to be nppointed. Tho _appointmont was mado, and the $3,000 paid to Lilly, and the boy and his motler resided two months in Tus. caloosn. Lilly dontes that Lays received a dol- lar of tho feo which ha took from Charlier, o saxa that ho practiced an innocent decoption on Ynya by uaurini( him that the boy was a bona fide residons of aya' district, Ho never told 1iays of tho feo ho recoived, Mra, Ualen O. Beardeloo, from Herkimer County, N. Y., the mother of the boy, corrob- orated tho statomont of Charlier and Lilly. Thers I8 a question of a noto of Hays for 91,500, which bas beon in $ho hands of his friend Lilly for colloction, and it {8 surmisod that there may bo somo connoction between it and tho salo of - tho cadotsh ip, % —_—— THE INDIAN PQLICY. REPUDLICAN BENATORS JIAVE A URILVANCE. Apectat Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. ‘Wasuixaron, D. C., March 16.—Lho Sonate Ropnblicans mot in caucus this morning to con- eidor the subject of tho peaco policy In tho s~ poct in which it has been debated in the recont executive svasions. Tho caucus adjourned with- out definito action until to-morrow, when a pro- tracted sossion Is expectod. Tho dotatla of tho subjoct beforo the caucus aro, in brief, thoso: A spirited contost bas boon in progross sovoral days In oxecutive soaaton, tho controversy being tho policy of tho President in nominating Indian Agonts npon tho recommondation of roligious denominations. Thus far the opponenis of the Prosident's policy 1n this particular are in the mojority, Rocently two agents wore appointod for Nobroska Indlans, ono recommeded by tho Socioty of Fricnda and the other by the Epis. copal Church, Issuo 18 mado on tho#o nomiuas tions, Hitcheook and Paddock, of Nebraska, OPPOSED CONFIRMATION bocauas tho nowinces woro unkuown to those Sen-~ ators snd tho people of Nobrasks, and upon tho onoral principle that tho polloy permitting re- ligious denomlnations to solect thess ofticory had not rosulted in promoting ofticioncy and integrity in tho Indian servico. Thoy furthor claimed that the principlo recognized In other appoint- mens, of consulting Benators of tho Stato for which the appointmaents are mado, should bo observed In selocting Indian Agents. This theory was oppoaed on tho ground thut In- dian Agents had nothing whatover to do with the administration of any laws directly affecting citizons of a parttcular State, Thoy sustain thoe same rolation to tho Goverumont a4 Territorial officars, and should not come under suy gonoral rule applicablo to appointmeata mado for Statos.' ‘This question was disoussod for threa sesslons, Iogalls aud Harvoy, of Kavans ; Mitcholl, of Oro- on; Clayton and Dorsey, of Arkansas; aod Btodeor, " of Alsnama.coll Tnpabiicane,— {:Imng with Iliteioock an Paddook opposlng the “contirmation of the two lfianu, and all the Domotrata except Withers, of Virginia, uupmunx the Ropublican Bonasora uswmed, sud conflrmation wad dofeatod, An of- fort is now being made to Lave ths infunciion of sootooy removed from ¢he vota rejocting tho socand confirmation, and the yoas and nays pub- lished, so that the mnnu{ may be informed of thie fooling of the Benato in reforenco to the pol- loy of the Prosidont in nowiuating Indian Agon ta upon recommendation of religious denomina- tions, and loarn who favors or oppodcs, An at- '.om[)t has bean made to unito tho Weatorn Io- publionns against the Kastorn on this question. ———— THE TREASURY BUILDING. TIE OASU-KOOM—LIFP-BAVING APPARATUS—TUR LUREAU OF ALCHITEUTURE AND TUL CUICAGO POBT-OFFICE, Speetal Currespondenca of Tha Chicago Tridune, Wasnixatoy, D. O, March 10.~The cash. room of the Unitod Htates Tronsary is sald fto bothe most boautiful room tn Amorica, Oune may sludy the marblos for hours, 'Tho polished panels in the socond story bave the varied color- ing ot w choice palntiug,—or, from the gatlery, ho can look down upon tho busy clatks below, who are cashing drafta; filllog boxos with green- backs ; moaling she packages; oounting the fresb, crisp bills, so unlike tho dilapldated rag- money that they are destiuod " goon (o become; pouring gold thuroogh tunnols intobags, occasionally stopping to ‘ring" » wuepiclous coin. But, beyond this, there ju not overmuch {o ece. Uncle Bam keeps atrict guard over hla huge monoy-boxj aud {Lie vaulis, processes of ongraving, sorting, exasminiog, and destroying of notes, must gener- ally be left to tho {magination of vimtors. It Was iy good fortuno, however,—aduo totho kind- ness of & frieud who promised to seo that I should carry nothiug away, as I had brought nothing ju,—to go throug! e of tho rooms to which curious visltors are not always ade mitted, ‘Tho models of marine life-preserving appar- atus ore in ono apsriment of this spacious build- ing, O alargo staudard uear tho daor is what looks ko & hugo invarted mortar, 7= rounded Ly ball-a-dozeu large iron bulle, each with & curlous kind of baudle, A lino 18 fasteucd o this handle, m clargo put into tho mortar, aud the ball is sbot over thy naporiled vowsely tho live resting on ber deck, s siroug cable 14 attached to the muo, aud thus tho lifo-car 1 brought to tho belp of tho drowning paesongars and crow. Wo wero ahown a model of tha Jife-car. It is shaped Jlie a graat pos-poil, shd will hold soveral porsona it 1a qaite light, and is aupplied with alr, an drawn through tho water. This apparatus is used with euccess on il our cossts, Tho first Unil nont—which was tho means of saving 200 Yives—has an honorable placo in this room, The wors of tho drawers in tho I remt of Architesturo interestod me as much ns anything, The room of tho HBupervising Architect la hnng with large viswa of various Government bulldlnfin through- out tho country. Thoy are noarly all of them tho doslgns of his orminent predecessor, Mr. A. B, Mullett, The Chicago Custom-louss and Tost-Offico, ns it was to have boon, flils tho wall at ono end of tho. room. It ia handsomely framed, and It scowls, under its heavy stona cap, at ia vis-a-vis, tho Now York Custom- 1louro and Iost-Oftico. 1t daes look very ime osing ; and ona of tho pnr!'y‘ who had not vis- Pwd lgu Intorior rocontly, of kopt trackJof tho differoncen of opinion rogarding eald_siructurs, ‘nid: * This Is & fino building “for Chicago to bave. T euppose yon hava seon it often. Did it ctand tho Great Firo? " “I'd like to kuow what could atand nows- papor-fira In_Clicago,"” said tho clork who was showing us about ; and thoen ho explained to my friond that it was only o costly air-castle that was haugivg bLefore us, from which tho roof has sovoral timon beon blown off, ITe gaid that o would abow his last plan whon wo resched tho drafting-room. Tho now Superintondent, Mr. Pofter, {a fol- lowing an ontiraly difforent achool of architeo- turo from that of Mr, Mullett. He hasdroppod the classloal entirely, and brought in a stylo lees distinctivo and beautifal, moro cconomical and sdaptablo. Tho new designs, of which the Iost-Oftico at Atlanta, Oa., is & good examplo, show a mixtare of the Eng\lah mauor-houso and tho Fronch chatoau. They look like churche: cottagos, castles,—anything but Govornmon bulldings,—and tho coloring adds to that offoct. Itwill bo 101-;: bofare tho eyo that is eatiafied with auch buildings aa the Unitod States Patont-Ofica and Trossury, and tho Post-Offico at Raleigh, N, C., can accustom {telf to theso lrrogular lines and sloping roofs. With certain tints of sky and coutours of Jand, they would harmonizo por- fectly, As Government dooe not orect ita build~ ings entirely, or evon principally, for scenio offect, and as thoy aro gemorally placed iun tho bemt of o great aity, whore the proportiona aro only seon from below, by stretching and twlist- g, or from above, by olimbing and growing dizzy, it 1s well to have thoir picturea takon be~ fora they como into oxistences, thas thoy may be commonted upon, criticisod, and altered to suit tho tastos of tho **doar five hundred.™ In the drnfl.ln?-mnm. ofie sces not only tho buildings of tho futuroe, but the men and women, tho horscs and carrages,that aro yet to bo. It is safe to say that the poncil of proportion, rathor than tho oyo of phopliecy, places them thore. I alwayn diallko to eos pooplo put into s picturo Juat for » mensure, balancing on somo perilous cliff, hauging over a frightful precipice, lrvlug to climb a branclilsas palm, standing bare-hoade on the sunny sido of a building of dazziing whito marblo. It may give a muro dofinito idoa of the bight of the mountain, tree, or bouso, but tho man is dwarfea and the scenery belittlod. It 1a botter to 'lot tho rocks and the steeplos reach up grand and calm into the clouds, than to try to bring that msn,—who I8 supposed to bo just G feob tall—by a° wearl- somo proceas of the imagination, up thalr sides, until ho geta to the top and Yalls off ; while wo learn—to forget the next minuto— about how many feet above tho lavel of the aoa ono can go in that particnlar part of tho world, This is a digresaion. Wo are in tho drafting- room of the Treasury. Itis a vory long room, and a grost many pooplo ars buslly at work. The_tables aro atrown with uniinished roofs, windows, sketches of Lurrats, basas, cornices. ‘Wo aro atl intorested in tho drawlug of the Chi- cago Post-Office, that has just beon flnished and put upon_ stretchors., Thero is no difference in tho foundation and first and sccond stories, bo- twoon it and tho first dosigne; but tho nppor stories and tho roofa arc outiroly unlike, Tho now. roof iy to bo of slato and fron instond of. stono, which will mako it lightet and less oxpensivo, It slopes more, sud tho uppor windows sro sharply pojot- od, not corrosponding st all with tho slight curvos of thouo of tho lowor stories, Tho clork saya that it s very difficult to alter a part of a plan without throwing tho wholo out of har- mony. [t s loss mnassive and impoeing than tho firet design; but thoro will bo no dauger that the eidos will cnrve, or tha foundations givo way. Tho plan has not yot boen submitted to the Committeo for approval, nor have the osti- mates boen oxactly made. But, aa Bt. Louis has rocoivod 375,000 for tho firat tloor of her now Post-Oftico, Chicago will be content with nothing 1083 thinn 8100,000 for each atory of hors. 1If the new plan {s socopted, as it probably will be, I woald saggest that Chicagoans havo the first plan photographod for the Cantennial and othor oxbibitions, a8 it is certalnly much tho flucat in apposrance, QuUIxoTE QUICKAIGLT. iy WASHINGTON SOCIAL LIFE. SACKRCLOTH AND EOMROW—IRESIDENTIAL CANDI- DATES, DRISTOW, LLAINE, MONTON, AND CONK- LIX0~—MAY TUF DEST MAN WIN-~THE DELKNAY BCANDAL—WIAT 18 QOING ON MERE—OFNTEEL QAMBLING—COLORED CHRISTIANITY AND HEA- THENISN—FIDELITY—ART QOSSIF, & Spectal Correapondence of The Chicano Tribune, Wasuvaron, D. C,, March 12,—Sooloty re- maius apprelonsive and in groat grief. Heads of twopeuny buresus who have managed to work up thoir salaries {nto considorable incomes ; of- ficors of the army, the navy, and tho marino corps, who have beon dotailod into fixtares here, with all sorta of exira pay and allowances ; orafty ex-mombers, ready to sooure the passago of a bill through Congress or tho allofvance of o ciaim at tho Dopartments, are alike incousolable. It s theso bright lights In Washington soclety who, following the load of Bhophoerd and Bab- cock, have kept up the talk aboat the re-eloction of Gen. Grant for a third term. Talkiog about it incessantly, as what Calob Cushing wontd call a ** fixed fact,” thoy have madoe thomeelvoy and & vory fow others bellove that they have ropreaentod she Public Opinion of tho conntry, and havo thought that they have thns por- potuated their own positions hiore, eo profitable, pleasant, and nseloss. But thoy now regard tho recont disclosures of scandal and nepotism with alarm, as TIE MANDWRITING OK THE WALL | It hag been very ovident during tho woek past that the Ropubiican pary, me represented in Congrees by good aud érue men, s “ unlosding," and returning to its anclont landmarks, Tho centralisms, tho gift-onterpriscs, tho extrava. gances, and the imitationa of monarchical gourt- castoms, aro being ‘prompily repudiated, and must all be shakon off, oven sbould i ocost the support of thoso who havo saddled these Joads upon Republicanism, the true principles of which they bave never loved, or oven comprohendod. Leading CUongressmon predict that before the closa of the presont scasion the Republican party will be found in botter trim than it hos Loen since the scoond Bull Run dofo: broad, manly patriotlsm, and mination to persevers in the work of retronch- ment, rogeneration, and reform, SKCRETARY DRISTOW Lisa been gainiug rapldly in the Presidevt!sl race since tho humiilating avertbrow of ths power which attempted to proscribo him, RHis un- swerving honosty of charactor, which has boon 80 con epicuously displayed in his berculean st~ tempts 10 sweep the Treasury Dopartment clean of corruptions, frauds, and {dle tying and unty- 10g of red-tapo, commands goneral admiration, Posueusing nd mind ln & sound body,: with industrious habits, Le doca not leave his dutles to subordinates, but keeps them within his own control, Depond upoun it, Briutow etock la just now rising. JAMES O, DLAINE ia the favorite candidato of the Eastern men, aud of & largo majority of those Republicans who Lave served with bim in the House of Jep- rnunnm:vol.-—flmnwn rather tarning up their ‘Dogcy at those nol mombers of their august body, Well-informed, cloquent, witty, and chock full of political craftinces, ho makes o clivalrio loader for tho m(norui i the Houso, aud whon ho entera the arens of debate Lis is aure to make tho dry boues of tho Southern Confederacy rat- tlo. But whero ho makes fricndu of viaitors 1a at hls own pleasant houso on Fourtesnth atroet, where he eufoys domestic life with his wife, their mx children, snd his clevor relative Misa ary odge, known bottor as Gail Hamilton, Ho is o delightful chatter before his own firo~ sido, and has the rare knack of switchiug off troublesoma topics onto side-tracks, wuilo he 008 on o talk about what bas no porsonal ob- gacucn. Ocoasionally, when somo fricud comos erc, ho gives him a diuner, sud brings soven- teen congenfal spinta around a great circular tablo, the only oroament on which is a low bas- kot of flowerd in the centre, 80 that the guosts oau all soo and hesr each other, 3r. Blaine in an example of the value of an cditorial sanotum as training-school for atstesmon, and bs full; recognizes bis alma mater by Lis courtesy ang kindnoss to all mombersof thoe prosa horeabouta. OLIVER P. MORTUN ocouplos & modoat suita of rooms at tho Ebbitt | becomethinguof the Ilouso, which nro the hoadquaitors of thoso ndoptod Southiorn politiclana who havo terrible talos of thoir griovances to rolnto, Ilis healih 18 oxcallont, although hio is obliged to walk with two cance, and ofton sits in tho Bonats whilo speaking, bia lower litabs hiaving loat thoir power to somo oxtent. As a pawerful speakoer, of the :mudqm\ln Waobsterian school, ho ina no oqual n cither Houso of Congress, and, when ho opened n fow days einco on Gen, Gordon, of Qoorgis, ho almost annibilated hita, 1Tis friende aro vory canfldent that Lo wlll rocaive tho nomi- natlon at Cincinnatl, and they count on the solid Houthorn voto to bring this about, TOBCOE CONKLING is to tho pressnt Sonato what Lienry Clay was to tho Senata thirty yoars ago. ' Of commanding tigure, remarkably cloquent, haughly in man- nor, and imporiousin tone, he appoats toregard himsolf loader of tho Bonato by Divino lelll. and woo unto Lho Benator who will not perform allogiance, Yob in private life thoro is not a moro aifablo, kind-hearted, courloous gentlo- nau in Washington. Ho boarda thie wintor at Wormloy's, having sold his houss noxt door two yoarn ago and purchased n lot in tho newly-laid- out parc of tho city, upon which Lo Las not yot built. New York will throw hor large voto for Lim at Cincinnatl, aud Lis friends olaim tho vote of Pennsylvania ss o foturn for his voluntaer dofenna of Simon Cameron's action s Becretary of War, when the old Winnobago Chiof was 80 mumllouuly hanlod over tho conls in tue Louso of Roprosontatives. So much for our Washington i QUANTETTINOF CANDIDATES, whoes frionds aro ever souuding their rospective praisos. Up to Babeock's tria),” tho bofore-mon- tioned cliquo wero {n Lopes that thore would bo such rivaley and joalousy displayed at Cincin- nati betwoen tho adhoronts of thoso four candi- dates, with perlinps ono or two mora, that, aftor two or thrao daya’ ballating, Grant's namo would Do bronght in, and ronominated by acclamation. DBut that hopo s protty well oxtiognished now, aud it 1s bacoming evident that the Ropublicans will, boforo the Convortion, point unmistakably to ono man,—pominato him at Cincinoati,—and eloct him in November, And, a4 tho tinh bozxars say on entoring o ring to fght, “May thio best man win." , Moanwhilo tho Domocrats in the ITouso aro 1nvestigating everything that mortal man can fiud to investigato, nnd in saveral instances thoy havo como squaro upon evidonco of terriblo sorruption oo the part of thowr awn loadors, Tolitical guns will kick somotimes, and even TIE BELKNAP ACANDAL may prova that Lthe ox-Confederates gro moro beut on injuring the Itepublican party than thoy &ro on unearthing erimo, Alas for the Belknaps, thoy must feel the floklencsa of their former friends fn tho soclety of which they were the ornaments, The Genoral had to pace the foor | of a littio room used by the Judgo of tue Polica Court to take an occasional nap in for threo long hours, waiting for a responsible man to sign his bail-bond, Yat Donnelly, s cootractor under the Board of Publio Works, Lad promtsod lis autograph, but ho was not lortheornlngf, nor could any one bo found who would do this sor- vico nntil the Inwyera thonght of a stovo-dealor namod Raploy, for whoso son Bolknap -had ob- tained a cadotship at West Polut. o was seut for, and ho bocamo soourity. Ars. Bollknop is just now the victim of some of our woman-correspondonts, who have gained admission to bhor house by professions of friend- sbip and sympathy, and who havo gona thonco to narrato fictitious nccounts of thelr “inter- viows " with hor, Her frionds nssort }mul\-e}y that, actiug under the advioe of couuacl, ghe han quiotly doclined conVersing about hor ‘rouh‘,u. and that these roporiea *‘inicrvinwa™ Leo all fabulous, It is mudoubtadly true, howover, that & bigh old row batwoon hor and Mrs. Marsh was :‘h? primary causa of the oxposure of the wroug- oing. LAST WEEK'S ENTERTAINMENTS, Tho obrorvance of Lent hag checked tho gayo- tics of Vanity Fair, but thero woro several pleas- ant partios among the Prosbyteriang last weok, awong them ono at tho Smuthaonlan Iustituts, o portion of which is inbabited by Prof, Honry, who has two accomplistied daul(h(nm. Bir Ed- ward Thorntou was ** at homo " totho membors of tho Diplomatic Corps on Thuradsy ovening, inviting o voloct fow to moot thom, And Inst ovening Mra, Admiral Dahlgron had hor custo- mary Hatarday ttornry recoptions, which aro ofton quito interoating. Somo of tha shoddy coplo talk about having s * ehort saason " aftor instor, but X doubt whothor thoy can ravive tho goy scencs of the pnat, aftor tho rocont terrible lossong. Thero always will bo, huwovor, A TLEASANT BOCIAL LIFR Liore at tho National Motropolts. Wo have not only the best political thinkers and talkers 1o Congress, but tho forelgn diplomsts, and the bost of tho army and navy ofilcors—all meoting on o nentral groand whoro gonius, nnd talent, and the sbility to talk fluently aod well, are mora prized thao wonlth. Sach was Washington so- cioty in tho old days, bofore tho Bouth gt tho cxampla of oxtravagance and diaplay, which the North followod whou it gained the ascondanoy. UGLY BTOBIES ALE TOLD about two or threo' of the moat clogant housos at tho West Iind, the ocoupants of which are spparontly millionaires, who give delightfal din- nors, It is nssortod that a Coogroasman who | accopted an iuvitation to ouo of thoso repasts n fow days sioco, and who was boguiled into drinking moro wine than was his oustom, was artor dinner asked to git down at o card-table, Just for amusement. 'The result was, that ho was meroilosaly pluckod of evory dollar ho had ia his pockots, and thon signed an ordor on the Borgoant.at-Arms for 9500 of his pay. Asho is o marriod man, and Prosident of the Tomper- auco Bocloty in tho town whora ho rosides whon at home, ho has not cared about making any fues |- about his loss, but It is noticed that o accepts no more inyitations to diunor-partios, ** A purat child drends the fire,” BT, JOSETA'S NISSION, Misslonaries from Bt, Joueph's Mission of the Bnored Ienrt, at Salford, England, aro busy omong tho colorod people in this District and tho adjacont 8{atos, and aro making many cone vorts, Thoy not only found churchos, but {riendly socioties of difforent kinds in which places aro found for the young of overy nge, who ara thus enlisted uuder the bannors of Mothor Church, Ilundrods of Mothodists and Baptists are, undor the proachings of theso ‘mixsionarics, bocoming Rowan Cstholics. It is positivoly assertod, howover, that, not- withstanding the numearous churohes snd sclicols for tho colored poople bers, and their marked progross, p FETICH-WORSNIP in atill practicod, with sll tho disgusting dotails brought from tho African coast, ‘Thore is an ola binok man who calty himsel? an horb-doctor, who is rogarded nd the high-priost of these bar« barous ritos, and it is sald that & number of white persona attond a4 boliovers, e not only oures the siok, but for s oansideration he will so bowitch the well aa to provont sny undesirable operations on thelr pari, either in love or in business. Might ho not be of sorvice in tho cowing political campaign ? ' THE FIDELITY OF TUR COLOLED RACR to their old mastars and wmistrossos ls displayed Lore ju & numbor of justaucos, Tho slavehold- ers, roduced to povorty, live in small, uncomfort- able rooms, and subsist on the oharity of thelr former slaves, now well off in tho world, Oue lady, who used to rido in hor carriages and givo elogant entartainments, now rosides in the houso of a colored drosumakor who used tomake hor fahionable toilettos, and onrue hior daily bread with her noadlo. ANT-GOBBIP, Afr. Moaly Lias sent to Lurope for some of his bost pictures, to oxhibit at the Centennial, Mr, Faassott has just comploted a life-aizs porteait of Judge Miller, of tho Suprema Couré, wnaring his silk judicial gown, Mr, Baumgran has paintod & rtrait of tha'late Bam Lloopor, a Massachusotta ‘ongrossman, _Alr, Brown is at work on & por- trait’ of Qon, Nansom, and AMiva Godfrey has eorumenced a lifs-like portrait of Gen. Logan, Qoverument commlsaions for works of arte, how- over, Are 8Carco, RacoxTiun, INDIANS. MEMORIAL FROM THE LEGISLATURE OF WYOMING. Washington Dispatch ta tha New York Evening Pout, Tho Legielatura of Wyomlng Territory bns adopted a memorial to Congress In relation to ludiau affairs, which has beon laid before tho Houge of HRopresentatives, and ordered to bo printed. In thomemorial, whioh was apparently drawn up by somo membor of tho Legitlaturo who had no scruples sgalnat speaking out plaily, even though he wounded tho digaity of tho House, is the tollowing appeal; Tn bohialf of & long-4ufering people, who have heen misrepresented by philauthropiats from abroad, and by rapacious speculalors who haye cas their lot among us for awhils, wo would sk that theso Iuufaus shall be removed frum among ua entirely, or elso be made senabls to tho comwmon Iaw of the land, snd trested aa reasonable beings, or confined and cone trolled u the sama manuer sa any body of lawloas and uncultured white med wonld aud should be under the same clrcumatancea, Wo would sak that our Delegato in Congroas, who da theonly medium of commuuication which wo havo to directly reach your Lunorsbio body, may be Lstened to and heodod with at loast 89 mucl Teapect and cousfd- scation ss some Indian-loving fanatio of the East, who knows notbing of the situation u reality a4 18 oxists wr somo persois whose iutereats require truatioa and vaat terrilorio for (b Iudians, with all tho parapher- nalla of Ageacies pud all tho ueccussey appenduyes be- louglng o and eoiug. withs tuo proscal ayaiem of wman. g Tndi With a1l dus deforence to the wisdom of Congress and the Excoutive, wo earneatly bellevo at wezo tho trulh known by yous Losorable bedy, as 18 extate in reatlty In regard (o thess maitors, Todlan treatios, Indian Agenctes, and Iudisn wars would soom, ——giiiia NOTES AND NEWS. MORE Al Specint vienateh ta The Chteago Triduns, ‘Wasmixoroy, D, C., March 10.—Burgeon-Gen« eral Darues, with a chomical oxport, to-day ox- amined tho condition of the ventilation of tha House. Thoy found that whilo 50,000 cublo feot of alr aro noeded for health, the prosont orificos and machinory supply only 16,000, The mom- bors aro becomiug alarmed at_tha incroasing slcknors of Roprosontatives and tho coudition of tho hall, TILE TARIFF. The Waya and Means Committes had & lang conferanco this morning over tho problom® pro- nontod by & deslro to do somothing with the tar- f, Morrison, Chairman, movod to tako np his Dill,—called his by courtesy, for it is wo!l kuown to biayo beon tho product of David A, Wells and J. B. Mooro, tho Parsoo morchant,—but n ‘mn- eral dobato followod, and no actlan waa takon, NMr. Wood, the strongost opponent of tho bill, ~was absent on account of serfous glcknoss, It proposed to take tho bl up on noxt Tuesdny and contlnuo it from day to day. Iteannot in any event rocslve favorabls action, and thors is ntrong probability that no_important roviston of tho tari(T will bo mado at tho presont gession. [70 the Aasoctated I'ress.). THE VOTA ON THR PAYNE MILL. Wasminaroy, D. O., March 16,—Tho voto in tho Demooratlo Caucua last evening on agreoing to Payno's bill waa aa follows : In tha alirma- tive, 23 Henators and 43 Roprosontatlves ; in tho negative, 1 Beuator aud 44 Roprosantativos, QUILTY. p The Jury in the Hallock case brought in a vor- dict of guilty. * GARDAGE, g Dirvatch lo §t. Louis Repudlican, ‘ ‘Wastninarox, D, 0., March 16,—Judge (Jero; Blnck workod very hard among his Democratio friends yosterday to persuade thom to voto sgalust committing his “client (Kilbourno), and waa highly indigoaut at tholr actlon. *Bat, Judge,” uaid ono, ** wo couldn’t do difforently.,' * Couldn's do differontly I" retorted tho Judgo, contemptuously, *‘all the Democrats in this Honao aro thinking of {s garhago, garbage, and 1t won't bo long bofora sou'll bo thrown out s parbage yoursolves,” ¢ ———— THE RECORD. BENATE. . Wasnixarox, D, 0., March 16,—Mr, Anthony, from tho Commitico an Prioting, reported baok two rosolutions in relation to printing tho de~ bates, and nsked to bo dincharged from its fur- thor consmderation. Agroed to. Xio also submittod tho following as tho roport of tho Committoo on tho subject: Hesoleut, Thsk thio prooeedings and debates shall be priated in'tho Record as they wora achually dolivorod nnd takon down by the offielal roporters, grammatical errora exceplod, and ehall bo furnibhod 10 the printers in scason for tho nozk publication of the Reeard, Mr. Windom introdagod a bill for establishing tho Territory of Pomblua. Reforred. 3ir. Boutwolt introducod the following 1 Resatved, Thattha Socrotary of the Treasury bo ro- nested to furnish for tho information of tho Senata tho annual product of gold and silvor in tho United Hlates from 1843 to 1875, incluaive; alao, tho amount of gold nud siizer in other paris of ile world for tho #ams years, and an esthnate of the gold aud aflver in 110 United Btaten ot the prescnt time. Adopted, INJURED INNOCENOE. Blr, Cameron (Pa,) ment up a alip from s newspsper charglug that sovoral Sonatora kept privato secrotatien wha woro p3id ss clerks. As ono of the Senators mentioned, hio deairad the truth of the article,: Houators' Wost and Logan, whosa names wore 1a the getlel, both deaounced b ae s unmitigated felse- ood. B Mr, Edmunds read from the Baltimore Gazctle s Alapatch stating that the Judiclary Commitico were holdiug back thio House Witneas Bill whils Sonatars Conkliug and Logan wera looking up anthoritios for defeating it to savo somo of thelr frionds who were mizod np in tho whNky frauds, o eid, av a member of {he Committeo, Lo felt authorized to pay that ot one particlo of influenco from nny orsom or source whatever had been brought to bear on tha Committeo in relation to this bill, . Mr. Thurman, ks a momber of the same Committes, #ald they bnd taken tha blll up out of its turn, Mr. Conkilng said thera was not an {ois of truth {n tho nfatement. Tho timo was passiug, if i Iad not already yoao by, when tho peopla could be gulled and decolved by much nbusive nriicles, The time will come whon such abusleo articlos of misrepresentation wilt bo Justly considercd as covspiracy and defams- ton agalnat our fuatitutions themselves, sad the ques- ton would arise, What country would noxt try tho ox- periment of a government of tha people, for the peo- 1le, and by thio peopln 1iMr, Logansald he dld_not know much a bilf haa reacliod tie Henate. Vhon he did, snd should sea it, ho wonld advocats It or op o 1t that 2 ne’ thougit beat, IV el 2 was cha hie was afraid that some of his frionds in ti ky Ttug would got burt, 1fe had no frionds in the Whis- &y Ning. o had never traMuked In a gallon of whinky 4u bfa lifo, never visited o distillery, nevor owned o dollar's worth of stock in one, novor had opo of bis friends in the frauds, nover knew of thom il o saw 1 he papery, nevor iad ono of 1its friendx ndicted in whinky frauds, Ono nian, whom bo hed rocom. mended for & position, bud been indictod, and many 8 mian bos o friend’ whom he Las recommendod turn ozt badly, In wshott, ba pronounced all the statements concerning him ss infamous lies, and 1o 1an dare atand up before Lim aud char him with theso things la Lis face, and only cowards nknlk behind corporations and howspapers,—men uever did, COUNTING THY VOTES. The morning hour oxpiring, the Senslo rosumed consideration of the Benata Uil to provida for and regulate tho counting of {ho votes for Preaident and Vico-I'residont, The bill was discussvd by Thurman, - Chirlatisucy, Fralinghuyson, Johuston, Iowo, wid Morton, The lsitor sald if it wad necesiary {0 havo _&n_ umpire at all, tho y vots to the Bupromo Court of the Unitod Htates, Ife ambmitted a plan for ealling them tn as followa: That thio Judgos of tno Supreme Court shall be assmbled 5t thie samo time, and, in cago tha two Houses caunot aee, {0 quostion slisll bo submitted o the Judgen, who shall procoed at ones to decldo which 1s tho valld return, AfF oxecutivo session, adjournsd until Monday, CONFIRMED. Tho Senate confirmed Mosars, Noyes B, Pronties Unlted Btates Barshal for tho Northorn Distrlct hlo, Yostninsters—8. J, Perry, Paala, Kan, ; M, V, Kin Dodford, Ta.; T, G. Wats, Biarglsy Siich,' % b Jtouse. The bill for the Alstribution of the wnappropriated monoys of tho Geneva sward wus recommitied, and mado the wpecial orer for thio 29th of March, Thie bill o provide for holding terma of tha District and Clreutt Qourta of tha Unitcd States ot Jackaon, Tonn,, was passed. Ar.” Hunion, from the Judiclary Commitfes, re- irted back the resolution 'directing tho Attornoy. eneral 40 transmit to the Houso il the pepors and lettors sakiug for the umoval of Judgs Dodford, tho Distriot Judyo for tho Tarritory of Colorads, nud the appaintment of Judge Stane ; ‘alio, all_popers appere taining o the alloged corrupt'rulings of Judga Htone, loptail, Mr. Hnrd, from the Jndictsry Committee, reported » bill'providiog for holding terms of District’ and Oir- cult Courts {u Chaltanoogs, Tenn, Pussed, Almo, & Bill prividing for Lolding terma of District aud Circuit Courta st Kansas Clty, Mo, Passed. - * " THM GUIDENOY BUBEAU, Tho Hanzo thon went into Gomunittes of the Whole, Mr. Baylor I tho chalr, on the bill (o supply the dos ficloncy 1n ihe Currency, Printing, aud Fograving Burwai of the Trossury Dopartment, and for tha {saue of ailver coln in placo of fractionsl currency, The biil appropiristes $163,000, and 2 ot the Seccelary of tho Treasury to sssun #itsvr coin in Tedomption of sil fractional curreucy outstanding. 2r. Jtundall, Cliatrman of g Appropriation Come mittoe, procevded to.oxplaln and aavocato the bill, Iie #ent ta the Clork's desk and had road an argument propared by Mr, Wells, of Missourd, s member of the Corumitteo, but who was unavoidatiy 2 Moeara, Ward, [lowitt, ana Kelloy o gainst the fsaun of sllver coin, and Mr, Retgan {u sdvocacy of it Witbout actiou, the Cammiilco rose, BAD AL 3z, Young, from thie Sub-Committea on Ventllation of tho Honwe, tnado report to the effect that it was lin- aibio ta fusce fath the Houta s sumcteut supnly of reah air for the supply of 600 persons, and wih It & roaolution to oxcluds from the galleries'slt persons ox- oopt those who hava the privilegeof the reporters® and diplomatio gallerias, and such sa mey bu ad- mitted ou cards of membera, After dobate, the report wan recommitied, Mr, Landers, of Indiaus, offered a rosoluifon to re. store hs Flectlve Government tn tho Diatriot of Co- wmbis. Roforred, “Tho Houso sdjourned, — TELEGRAPHIC NOTES, Special Dispateh tn The Chicago Tribuns, Demorr, Mich,, March 18.—To-dsy a long seried of objeations to the method of drawing a Jury offerod by the conteetanta of the Ward will were overruled by thoJudgo, aud the day spent in gathering » jury, The Court adjourn- ing tbls oyening with eleven impaneled. Mr, Daxter put in an nfleum ta-day. Speelut Dispileh to The Chioado Tribune. Cuauiaign, 1L, March 10.—1I¢t has |8' soma mesns becows rurmored that Dr, J. M. Gregory, the Hogent of the industrial Unlyoreity, has re- signed, but such la not the case, Ju hia sunual roport ta the Trustoos, mada this week, ho said that ho should probably roalgn about the st of Juno, but it 43 by no meany certain that ho will 0, HaN Foancisco, March 16.—At s delinquent of atock of tho Haok of Osliforuls yeaters day, eloven shares wore snld, tho buyortaking tho stock aund paying tho THE TURF, Ban Fraxcieco, lluf.h 16,—Springbok and Pouter will run s 4-mile raco at Bacramento April 22 for £5,000, bal? forfeit. " CRIMINAL NEWS, A Cnso of Marital Infldelity with Btriking Consequonces at Lan- castor, Mo. 4 i A Cholee Potpourrl of Racent Tragedies in tho Indian ’ Territory. Tho Alloged Quinoy Murdoror, and His Ohances of Futuro Acquittal, * Racord of Minor and Miscellaneous IKnavories and Inlqu}tlun. A WIFE'S INFIDELITY AND T8 TRAGIO CONSEQUENGES, Laneaster (Mo.) Ezcelstor, " On Baturday aftornoon, March 4, sbout half- past 2 o'clock, s numbor of plstol-ahota in quick succession, in {ho asloon bolow our ofiice, at- tractod our ntteotlon, snd npon rushing down atairs to ascortaln tho causo of tho shooting, wo saw D, IIamilton, of this place, sitting on tho sidewallt supported by somo one. 1fo bad his lips and ofes. closod, hia Landa folded across his breast, nnd-dendli pallor ovorspread hils face, Just then ho sank Lack Intho arms of his eupportor with a gronn, lie was jmmo- diatoly taken to hls room in ths Lancastor Hotel, and 08 ho was Ind on the bod ho wna pronounced by the physicinna s dead man, o had boon shot and kilicd by Joshus B, Bimmons, of Coatesville, in this cointy, From tho testimony and what wo can learn, tho alfalr ogcurred in this mannor : For about six monthd passed, it is nlloged, and it is without doubt, that D, Hnmilton, o watchmaker of thia town, Laa hold rolations with Bimmons' wifo which wers vory eriminal, Notwitbalauding this fact, whuch, it is alloged, Bimmovs was cognlzant of, he continued o ilve with his wifo until abont two weoks ago,|" in hopoes, we supposo, that sho would mond. hor ways and do right, Dut mattors kopk ot~ ine worao, until about two wooks ago, whon Bimmone and his wifo parted, she leaving tho homo, Last Baturday, at tha timo beforo men- tioned, Hamilton wad playing pool in Hehmit's nnloon, below tho Excelsior offico, Ho hnd lost the game, and, nocordln[: ‘1o tho tulcs, went up to tho bar to treat, - While IInmilton had been playing, Simmons bed entorod the room and waikied up to the bar, IHamilton, boing at the bar, asked Bimmons to drink with him. Sim- mons roplied, (olling iIamilton not to ask him (Bimmoos) to drink with- bhim. Hamiiton re- marked tfint it was no uso of Bimniona boing mad, and repeated ia lovitation to drink, Bimmons roplied by ¢olling Hamilton fo, get mway from him. Hamilton tarned and startod towarda tho door. . When oft o _fow foor, Bimmons fired at him, tho shot taking offoct in Hamilton's right side. Threo othor shotn wore fired thon in quick succossion, Hamilton still walking Loward the door and Sim- mons advancing® on him. Whon Hamilion ronched the door hio foll forward, face downward, outo tho sidewalk. Somo ono immedintoly ralsed himup, But ho had beon killed. Tho firat shob lind cut through the loft vontricls of tho heart, Anothor hed- “ponotrated the right kidnoy and livor, Anotlier bad cut through both vontricles of tho hoart, while tho last shot, which caused bim to fall, passed directly through tho Bpinal column® at the oleventh doreal Hia doath was almost instantanoous. Ilam- ilton did not niter o word aftor bLoing sliot, Ho was immodiately removed to Lila room, atripped, nod oxamined by Physicians Pottor sod Rockwell, Throo xovalvers wero (onund on his body, Tho Coroner, A.D. Fatris, waa im- modiatoly sont for, but did not arrive until ovoning, when an jnquost jury was summoned. A post-mortom inquest was hold, after which tho evidonco of Oyrus Cloavoland and Samuel H, Bmith, barkeepor ot tho saloon, was takon, It is from tholr ovidenco that o have mainly based our aocount of tho offair, and wo hava triod to fiot tho account as noar tho truth as possible, oing govornod noithor by sympatby nor pm{u- dico, 08 wo wore only slightly soquaintod with oither of tho main partios to tho sad affalr, Attor tho stiooting, Simmons was immodiatoly arrested by Sheriff Moore, 1lis preliminary ex- smination waa boforo Eeq. L, N, Molvin, Sim. mons did not dony the shooting, but claimal it was justifiable. On Mondaytho proliminary ox- amination was ndjouroed ton days, and the mat-- ter went before tho Grand Jury, then in pession, which summoned witucsies on both sides, and on Tuoadsy Sinmons was roleased, tho Grand Jury failiug to flnd an indiotment agatust him, Simmous nevar donied the killing, but elaimed i was justifiablo, and the Grand Jury took tho ¥ame viaw of tlo case, ) FRAUD ON A LARGE SCALE. Specrat 1hisnaleh to Ths Chicago Tridune.: New Yom, March 16.—Huit has boon bronght In thoe Bupremo Court of this State by the Union Consolidated Mivivg Company of Tennossco sgainst Jaliug E, Rabt, ita former Buponintend- ont, charging bim with dofrauding thom in the courso of ten yoars out of 31,275,000, and charg- ing his brother, Charles Rabt, thelr formor Beo- rotary, sud John Thomas, thoir Prosidont down to Novomber lnst, with' connlviug at and alding in tho frauds of tho firs-namod dofendant, The mothod of frauds is claimod to have- boon through what l¢. Xknown in Knglangd, and to somo oxtent s .thls conntry, a8 tho storo system, by * which ' olaima are paid from tho store In merohanding instead of cash. Tho complainant statos that the Com- pany gavo Juling K, Italit tho right to opena store on thelr proporty near the mines, for tho purpose of snpxmylng tha miners and employoes with goods. t charges him with fraud ivas- muoch na ho claimod to the Company that ho pald his pay-rolls 10 cash, and roccived from them for this purposo cash amounting to over 81,400,- 000, and that inetead of paying cash ho madoe it cowmpilsory on tho laborors to tako from 50 to 80 ner cont in goods st inflatod prices; and, fur. ther, ho fe charged with baving secured in his contracts for hauling capper to the railroad the lauling to_bis store of goods froe, on which plaintiffs claim' $100,000, - Bovoral other oharges of n similar natuzo appoar in the complaint, TRAGEDY IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY. Tho Waco (Tex.) Ezaminer of the 2d inst. saye : ‘“ An old man, his wife, and thres dangh- tory passed through the.city yostorday in a coy- ored wagon, en routo to Hamllton County. . Ho atated to an Ezaminer roporter that ho was Irom SBoulhiwestern Missourl, and had Joft thero four monthe sgo with a family conslsting of & wife, four daughters, and & son aged 41 yoars, Whilo passing through the Indlan ‘Torritory thoy wero joinod by a ruan, Lis-wifo, and two small childron, who wore alsd ob their way to Toxag, and tho two parties traveled together for seversl days. Thoy camped ono'night at A point noar tha Htats lino, aud daring the night the man who liad joined the Missouri family ook two horsea and ran off with tho old man's youngest daughtor. Next morning her brothor started iu pursuit, and, aftor following thotw for soveral days, suddonly came upon thom &t a Elwo called Drush Auuntain, ia’ tho Creok Na- on. The floolug party were on tho alert, aud tho youxxlf 1wau wes shot dead an he made toward them. Ifwas a month lator that the old man hoard of his son’s daeatb, aud ba rosumod Lis way almost heart-broken, Ha told our reportor thiat, s soon a8 he could find a place to loavo hiy fawily, be intends to Luut down the murdorer of biy son aod kil Lim, Af is should bo the last act of Lia lite,” KIDNAPPING, Kansas Gy, Mo, March 16.—1he Times' spectal from Wiohits, Kan., gives the partioulars of the kidnapping of James W, Phillips, alias James Herringtoo, oharged with baving robbed a Conuty Treasuror's safe in'Crosco, In., March 6. Pending actlon oo & writ of Dhabeas corpus, Davios and , dotectivoa of lows, kidnapped l’hilflpfi and hurrled him off to Iowa. Although pursued, tho kiduappers enccesded gotting wuto Missourl with their nav, Itis now announced that I'billlps escspod somowhors in lowa, and b st lsrge, It is atso stated on the _authority of {elegrama from Ulinton, Ia., that Chsrles Waodbury, who was arrosted in Wichita two years mgo as 000 of tho partles who committed the bur- lary §o Creaco, sud who ls alleged to be Charles glcmnglan. s now in fail In Olinten, Is., and that ho was fully indentifled as Charlos Her- ripgton. 1t 18 stated that & man namod Hillis bas exposed the robbery aud named the entire party sugsged in it THE QUINCY MURDER. . BSpecial Dispatch la Tha Chicago Triouns, Qurxey, 1L, March 10.—~The young man. Adsmes, now in custody for the murder of tus woman Anas Ferris on Taesdsy morning, waa to-day beforo tho Coroner's Jury for examina. tion, Ho was asked s numbor of queations by Btate's Attornoy Ewing, bus, by direotion of hig counsel, Mesurs. Arntzer aud Moore, who wero prenont, tho rrmonur ositivoly réfpsod to ap. Bwer a quoation or mako any nhm&:ont what- evor. ‘Lho tostimony boforo the- jur: brought out nothing of intorost, oxcopt what has al- rondy boon tolographod to Tne TninuNe., The prigonor was romandod to Jail and bonsd ovor ona olmrfia of murdor, Tiio ovidonco thus far discaversd ia only olroumatantial, but is o con- clusivo na to leave no floubt {n tho mind of an: onaas to the prisonor'a quilt. Tho high sooial standiog of the youug man'a family-connections 1n this ity 16nds unusual intorost to tho tragody, ltough tt1a stated thatdlio prisoner's mmf‘u, by wlmr'n Lis was brought up, will make no efforts in his Botialt, boyond snolng that ho has a fair trial, It is ntlmatod that s strong dofonse will b mado. Young Adama assorts his innocenco, and tho caso promises to bo intoreating. A RASH ACT. Pronua, 1L, March 16,—This afternoon, abont G o'dlock, a gang of rougha and vagrants wont into tho distillory promlscs of Zoll & Francla and commencod drthking slop beor, * Thoy havs boon at this ss woll as other distilieriee frequently, and bavo boon ropoatodly warnod to keep nway, Thoso elop-beor drinkors are always liard cases, and always on hand fors quarcolor dlaturbanco of any kind, Jnha Ward, night watchman of the distillory, ordorod thom off the place, and they mtarted away, but he soon afterwards found thom in tho ongino-rom. Ilo ngalu told thom to loave, and said he would shoot them If thoy dld not go, As saon 84 ho snid this, Max Smith, who was ono of the pm& started towards Ward, at tho samo time raaching bohind ss if $o draw » woapon of soma kind. Ward stoppad bnole o fory paces, deow his rovolver, and firad, Bmith foll over, and in- atantly oxpired. Op oxamloation jt waa found that tho ball bad gone through his hoart, Tha polico arrived on the spat seon aftor, and Ward was arrostod. Ifo was soon after releasod, on tho propristors bocoming surotios for him, 'and oa inquest over the body will bo hold this morn- ing, "No ono blamoa ,Ward,: bub, on the athor hand, o la_commonded “fof rldding thio clty of snch n desporato charsotor, = . ITEMS FROM ADRIAN, MICH, Svectat Dispatoh to Tha Chicago Tribune, Abnaax, Mioh., March 16.—Marllis, ejster of tho Rov. Norman Curr, of Lona, Iil, who at tompted sulcida by starvatlon horo Inst waook, ta- day proves to have boon a mont disgolute ohar. acter. Grent sympathy was hnlng oxcited, and 1 committos of Indien wero ralsing fands, whon, lust ovonlng,- s lottor was rocolved from the Buperintondont of the Tolodo City 'Infrmary reclting auspioions thas she wes s iramp Wwho, two -years ago, nttempisd n similar starvation-sufcide dodge at the Boody .Houss thoro, 'Tha gir), being quostioned, admitted ail. Ilor imb waa sacrificed in sn offort to osoape from justice by jumplog from & train three yoors 810 on routo from Kalamazoo to the Datrort Houso of Corrootion. Bho 18 yob stck abod, claima to bo contrito, and wants to dlo, Mrs, Marks, tho womsn who dn(m’tod with Couductor Androw Kuoight's daughtor, came ‘bnok with hor protogo to-night, escorted by a dotective, who found them at Cloveland, 'flm twatn will bn‘famnucutod for larcony of 866 in :no’no:. a gold watch, and Mrs, Knight's cloth- ng. THE SPALDING FORQERIES, Bax Fraxcisco, March 16,—In the Bpalding court-martinl the managers of tho Bank of British Columbia aud Bwiss-Amorican Bank identificd a numbor of forged cortificates my baving boon prosented by them to Spalding for payment, and pronounced by him gonuine, but payment was declined on account of lack of funds, Tho trial fa procacding vory slowly, aud but vory few points of intorest Lave thus far beon alloitod. ; GRAND HAVEN ITEMS, Special Dispatch ta The Chicago Tribune. Gnaxp Hayey, Mich., March 16.—The jury in tho caso of Molvin O. Fuller was out twenty hours, and dlsagroed,—olght boing for sequittal and four for conviction, Fallor a roleasad. In tho caso of The Peopls va, Johu F, Shaw, sgsaalt with intent to. murder, tho vordict was **No caneo of nctlon.” Tho polsoning cage reported from thia city in probably a Loax, 5 A DEFAULTER CAUQHT, CrxomnaTs, March 10,—The Commercialy speolal eays Wililam R. Davis, defaulting Treas. uror of Kaneaa City, who absconded last fall, wag i:nrrutm. at Chillicotho to-day, e confessed 3 gul —_—— STATE AFFAIRS. OHIO, Coruvynus, O., March 16.—In the House, to- day, tho bill to empowor munloipal corporations to rogulate, resteain, and prohibit the salo of ale, wino, beer, and portor wasroported baok by tho Tomporance Committes.. The majority of tho Committes recommonded tho indofinite poste E:nnmonfi of tho bill, which was agrood to by tha ouso—yons 41; nays 81, « Tho rosolation adopted last wook, appointing A committes to inquire into the trath of the charges of cruelty and incompstency mads agaiost Bupt. Korr, of tho Boldiers' Orphans' omo, waa reconsidorad to-day. Qov. lloyos to-day sont to the Benate the namos of the followivg gentlemon, to bo Diroo tors of the Ponitontiary under tho law reorgan- lzlnfi that institution + Charles O, Wolcokt and H., B, Albort, of Franklin ; A. R. Kellar, of Fair- flold; D. L. Juno, of Sandusky ; and Griflith Ellis, of Hondusky—four Republicans and one Demoorat. TOWA, Drs Monwes, Ta, Maroh -10.—The Bixtesnth . General Assombly adjourned eins dis ¢ noon. ‘With tho oxcoption of tho appropriationu for all tho [natitutions herotoforo telographod, in- oluding that of $250,000 far the now Capitol, ne bills of vory marked importance suceesded in bocoming & law. Among thie suocessful are ths Amnesty bill, - ro-called, to remit ponaltics |nmu-m3 by raliroads ; bills providing thns fomalos may act as County 1 Buperintena. euts, and a bill to' arect the pew County of Qrimes from a part of Pottawatomfo, . A largo amount of unfinishad buatnoss, woll.. matared in committees, falled to recolvo final action, —— e OASUALTIES, STEAMER SUNK, Bpacial Diapatch o The Chicaga Trivune, 3 Dunuqug, Ia., March 16.—A dispatch recsived hore Lo-day from SBupt. Woods, of the Diamond Jo Lino, stated that tho Arkansas, which left here Monday night for Bt, Lonls, struck a snag oppoetie Comanche, § milea bolow Clinton, and sunk. .There Is about 2 fost of water on het waln dook. Bupb, Woods loayos this evening {or the p of raluing Liar, which he s quite sanguine of daing. ,Valuo, $15,000; not in wred, Ifer cergo was 400 barrels of flour aud 2,200 sacks of graln, SCALDED TO DEATH. G Bpectal Dupatch éo The Chisaao Tribune, Mexpora, Ill, March 10.~A communication has just reached hore that a shooking acaident ocenrred this ovening noar Earlville to freight train No, 87, The atay-bolts of Engine 164 gave way nnd tho stoam ana water rashed from the boiler, scalding the englnoor, fireman, and for brakeman, The fireman, Fred Hotchkiss, jumped from tho englne, bal was dead whon found, The euglneer and brakomau, while fearfully acalded, will probably recover, STORM DAMAGE, Cricraty, O,, March 16.—The damage by the gale to-day iu this city is catimated at 80,000 or 88,000, cauded chiefly by unroofing butldings. Roporis from country points mention a almilsr disasteras Xonis, Bpringfisld, Delawaro, Wooator, Janesville, Mariotta, Ironton, and Athens, O., Richmond, Ind., and a number of other poiats, but no loss of life fa reported. Tha atormn was widospread aud accompanied by rain, hail, and Ughtniog, WENT THROUGH A BRIDGE, Br, Lovuts, Mo., AMarch 16.—The looomotive and elght cars of & freighé train on the Atlantio & Paciflo Railroad wons through s bridge over tho Meramos River yestordsy noon, killing Chirls Loason, engineor, badly brulaing Harrison I'renmlx. firoman, and deatroying a good doal of property. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Font MapisoN, In,, March 18,—The man whe - was roported last evening sa belog buried 80 foek desp by the caving of » well, was rescued from hia cramped pesition this morning about & o'clock, aud, strango to say, usivjared except & fow brulses on his head, ot e TURPENTINE. ‘WrLanxorox, N, (\, March 16,—Bpiritaturpens tino quist st Yo, W ’