Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1876, Page 4

\ THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1876. je TXibwne. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. VATADLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGN PREFAID AT THIS OFFICH. 1, postpald, 1 year, Palty Editlen. PR s Al v Malird to any sdaress four weeka for. . 1.00 Funday Kaitlon: Literary and Religios B 8.0 b Weekiy, porpaia 1 T T of y WEEKLY EDI eopy, per year, Ol e Capy Ciubof twenty, per cop: The portge (8 15 centa a 3, Bpectmen coples sent free, To pravent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Ofmce address tn full, fncluding Btate and County. Remittances may bomade either hy draft, express, Font.Ofloe order, or in registered letters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY SUNSCRIDENS. Dally, delfrered, Bunday excepied, 25 cents per week, Datly, delivercd, Bundny Included, 30 cents per week TIK TRIBUNE COMPANY, CEfcago, 1L AMUSEMENTS, Iinnley’s Thentre, Randolph strect, Letween Clark and LaSalle, **Rose Michel.” New Chlengo Theatre. Clark street, betwoen Randolph and Lake. Hooleys' Midstrels. Wood’s Musenm. Monroe street, be(ween Dearhorp, and Btata, | After; s ey Corner™ mnd, ** L & +CFTink E. Alken & **The Tickot.of-Leave SOCIETY MEETINGS. 1, 0. 010. P. NOTICE—AIl memhers of Unlon Lodge No. 9 are requested to stiend thia cvening, June 1. 1870. Specha Lusines of tmportanceto b acied upos. FIED TUORDE, tec's 8 TIIURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1876. Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yestorday closed at 88]. The Minnesotn Democratic Convention meets at 8t. Paul to.dny. All present in- dicntions favor the sclection of a delegation pledged to Tiupen, * To-day Secretary Roncsox will testify in his own behalf befora the Naval Committee, whoso sessions will be held with closed doors, though BIr. RonesoN will be permitted tor employ a stenograplier, and to make public a3 much of the procoedings as ho may think proper, TrunLow . Weep has a high opinion of Minister Wasnuunye a8 8 Presidential can- didate, and ihinks bLis chances are by no means poor for the nomination, He rates CoxxriNo s out of the question, believing that tho Camenox arrangement will do Lim wore harm than good, The very difiicult theological feat of elect- ing an Episcopal Church Bishop was again attempted yestorday in the Diocese of Towa. 'The choico of a mnjority of the Convention fell upon President Penry, of Hobart Col- lego, Genova, N. Y. Tho namge of Dr. Ec- CLESTON was withdrawn beforo tho docisive ballot. For the first time since the establishment of England's groatest racing ovent, the Derby wns yesterdny won by an unnmned lLorse. ‘Thero were thirtoen starters, and it was not until the race was over that the winner was given n name. ‘Tho colt had richly deserved it, and his owner would probably not change places with Disnazer to-day. higher, closing at 6]o for boxed shouldors, ¢ for do short ribs, and Hje for do short cloars. Lake freights wero moderately active and firmer, at 2Jo for whoat to DBuffalo, Roil freights wero dull and unchanged. Highwines wero firm, nt §1,09 per gallon, Flour was in light demand and ensy, Wheat as 13c lower, closing at $1.03} for June and $1.04{ for July. Corn was unsettled, but closed firmer, at 43}e for June and 4#ic for July. Oals wero stendior, closing at 284c for June and 28fo for July. Rye wis 1@1le lower, at 68@6%. Darley closed nominally 8t 720 cash and #iGe for June, Hogs wore in better demand, and advanced 10@150, clos- ing at #6.00@6.30 for common to choice, The cattlo market was unchanged, aales of poor to choice makingat £3.00@5.00, Sheep wero firmer, Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $112,50 in greenbacks ot the closo. 'The impetua given to the machine by the recent Caxznon.Conkrinag dicker has set in motion various conncctions of the central apparatus, and trades aud bargnins are the order of the dsy, Certain mysterions oon- forences are aaid to have takon place between Mr. ArexaNpen Sanps, of Cincinnati, and the friends of DMonton, CossLiNg, and Braing, wherent it was confidentinlly sug- gested in each caso that an arrangement was posstble whoreby Gov. Harxs' support could be transforred provided ho waos nssured tho second place on the ticket. Tho Haves vote is an importans factor in the nomination, but it is very doubtful whether it can be bought, sold, and traneferred by machinery. When it shall appenr that Ohio’s ** favorite sou™ is out of the race so faras the first place is cou- cerned, thero will bo found a large number of his frionds who will refuse to be turnod over in accordance with any previous bar- gain. Samples of Democratic mlo;m are con- tinually coming to the surface among the in. cumbents of the Iouse oflices. Some of thein have beon discharged for stealing, some for arson, some for perjury and forgery, some for selling offlces, and the last one, the House Doorkeeper, for being *a biger man than old Grast.” Now comes auother, o big six-foot cowardly mffian named ScirLy, Chiof-Assistaut Doorkeeper, who yesterday morning knocked his grocer down uear tho door of tho louse becauso he presented a bill to him. The victim of his Lrutal as- sault, of course, was a little, inoffensive man, or the cownrdly ruffian would not have at- tacked him. 'L'o bo a successful Democratic reformer, thercfore, not ounly includes an aptness for arson, larceny, perjury, forgery, braggadocio, and blackguardism, but thore- former must nlso bo too high-minded to pay. bhis honest debts, or even to have his alten- tion called to such a trifling matter as a gro- cor's bill. Of courso such matters aro beneath the notico of a miodel Democratie reformer and a true Southern gentlemnan serving his country, but if the House does not immedi- ntely kick this great hulking cownrd out of his position it haa little regard for decency. THE TARIFF IN CONGRESS. Thoro was a feeble, spasmodic considers- tion of the Tariff bill in the Xouso of Ropre- sentatives a fow days ngo. Mr. Monnisox, Chairmau of the Waye and Means Commit. tee, rend o very long, claborate, interesting document, in which ho exposed the harsh The Common Council has solved the ques- tion of the City Marshalship by simply abol- ishing tho office, un ordinance to this effect baving been passed at a special meoting yos- terday afternoon. The offica ought never to have been created, and would not havo been if the prosent Council had had tho disposal of the matter, The Marshalship was a sine- curo and a superfluity, and the interests olike of the tax-payers and of the Police De- partment will be served by its discontinu. nuce, The arguments in the quo warranto caso involving the qucstion of the Mayoralty wero heard yesterday beforo the five Judges of tho Circuit Court of Cook County, and the caso was taken under advisement, witha probability that the decision will ba rendered this week., While no stipulation has been entered into that the decision in the case sholl bo received as final, it 18 the goneral anderstanding that no appenl will be taken by the defented party, whoever he may be. A conditional nccoptance of the inflation nomination for the Presidency is the most that Prren Cooren can afford just now, 1o thinks thoro is yet n possibility that the groat end and aim of the greenbackers—an unlimited issue of irredeomable shinplasters —may yet be attnined through either tho Ropublican or Demoeratic party, in which ovent hig candidature would be unuecessary ; Lut if the order to start the printing-presses is issued neithor at Cincinnati nor St. Louis, Mr, Cooren will then consent to be voted for as tho rag-baby nominee, It is ovident that the construction of the Iowa Republican platform wus not intrusted 1o ring politicians and whisky-fraud npolo- gists, In this respect it is in marked con- trast with the Illinois monatrosity put forth at Springfield. Tho Iowa Republicans havo declared uuequivoeslly in favor of *‘men of unsullied hounesty and purity of character for public trust, and for the swift oand unsparing pursuit and punishment of all dishonest ofticinls, high or low ;" rigid economy in Goverumental affaira; continu- ous and stendy steps in the direction of specio resumption ; unrestrieted immigration from all civilized countrios, and u free and ungectarian system of public schools, 'The Town delegates to Cincinnati are stanch {riends of Mr, BLaxg, and the Convention frumed o plutform that ho can stand on. In his decision overrnling the motion to quash tho indictment against Pentorat and Knssenvy, Judge Moo kit the nail squarely on the hend when he said, reforring to the question raised by tho coungel for the de. fendunts: *'It occurs to me that the posi- tion taken is simply arefined interpretation ; eud at the present day, whon wo aro trying to enforce our luws ruther than to fiud ways and means of ovading them, that mouey can be taken from & corporation by false tokens aud protenscs just the same as from an iudi- vidual.” Having in view the enforcemont of the law, rather thun the finding of ways and means of evading it, Judge Moonk put his Judicial foot flatly down upon the tuchnical quibble that Cock County, being a corpora- tion, could be robbed with impunity, aud do- cided that Prmiorar and Kivsesiy must wome into court and stand trial. Tho Chicago produce markets were mod- erately active yesterday, and irregular. ‘Wheat was lower, provisions stronger, and other grain finm, Mess pork was 4U@G0G per brl higher, closing at %18.27} for June snd $18.47} for July., Lard wus 20@800 per 100 fbs higher, closing st $10.80 cash und B1L.02} for July. Meats were {@o per v features of the protective system, and the necessity for its mmelioration, Mr, Aorni- sox spoke from the standpoint of Chairman of the Committeo on Ways and Menns and of a Democrat. 'The Democratic party has been resolving in most of ity Btate Conven- tions in favor of a tariff revision for several years, but it kns mndo no use of ita mnjority in the Houso, and of the strong Republican support to perfect such n measure, Even Mr. MonuisoN aunounces that he will not press the bill to the exclusion of other busi- ness. There has nover been a greator abusa o long perpetuated in any country as the American tariff; but the aversgo Congress- man bas not the industry nor the intelli- genco to comprohend the subject, or to lag- islato thereon, The tariff, though an avowed robbery of tha favmners, cannot obtain n henring in the House, and, excopt by a fow informed members, thore is not even an at. tempt to debato it. Mr. Bourcuanp (Rep.), of Illinois, fol- lowed Mr. MonnisoN in one of the ablest spocches delivered in Congress on this sub. jeet. The two speeches comprise n valuable compendium of information on tho princi- ples und theories of taxation, and the practi- cal operations of the protective system. In Mr. Buncuanp's claborate details thero are many vital points established with great force, carrying conviction to every rensoning and unprejudiced mind. While conceding that the pending bill is not by any means perfect, and is in some respects objectiona- ble, he contends that a revision of the tariff is most desirable. Tho proper o fiice of o tariff js to raise revonuo; the object of our tariff is to divert foreign competition, The principal protected industrios are cot- ton, iron nnd steel, woolen, silk, paper, und glass. In 1875, the value of the domes- tic prodnuets of cotton, iron and steol, and woolens and womted goods was $708,000,- 000 ; the duty collected in 1875 from the im- ported goods of thesa classes was $414,673,- 000, whils the untaxed prices of the domes- tie production was 225,000,000, The ef- Tect, thercfore, of the turiff on theso three clusses of goods was to imposo o tax upon consumers of $270,000,000, of which but #44,000,000 went into the Lreasury na rev- enue, Jouxn QuiNoy Avams, who during bis whole servico in Congress was Chairman of the Committea on Manufuoturcs, had the honesty to declara that the doctrine that the foreign mannfacturer paid {ho duty on all his goods imported into this country was in. consistent with common senso, and Mr, Busenann in several apt illustrations shows tho transparent fullacy of such doctrine, as aulso tho doctrine that the effect of protection in to lowor tho prices of proteoted goods to tho cousumors, ‘Ihe injustice of a protective tarif to the unprotected industries is one of tho grentest abuses of our tariff. Tho total number of per- sungengagedin the production of cotton, iron, stecl, woolen, and worsted mnuufactures is less than . 400,000, whila over 12,000,000 of other persous, liviog by their wages and the product of their labor, are taxed inordinately to protect theso comparatively few. The tax, Lowever, is ouly nomiunally to protect labor and increase wages. It is the oapital that is omployed in manufactures which reaps the Liarvest of protection. ‘The tax on tes and coffes is ono of the wisest, least burdensomo, and least oxpensive that con bo lwposed, It is all reveuuo. Lvery dollar of it passed into the "L'reasury &y rovenue, and no part of it is divertud to uwell the profits on capital. 'The wddition of 20,000,000 tax on ten and coffee would per- mit, without luss of revenuo, the ropeal of protective taxes equal to 75,000,000 now paid by h\g people, Under a tax luvied for | protection the Treasury roceives one.fourth | language of ‘the curroncy resolution is or less of the whols tax paid by the peoplo |‘mero vorbinge lending up to the concluding on tho class of goods taxed. A repeal of n [ rentiment protesting ngainst * nany legisla- protective tax will average a loss of ona dol- | tion that might by any poasibility causs n lar of rovenuo to three of tax ropealed. The | return to o system of paper currency” re- levy of a proteotive tax involves tho collee- | deemnble in specio, That in thowhole story, tion of ona dollar of revenue for every thres | nnd that is tho Rag Baby. or four dollars' tax exacted from consumers, Wo obsorve tho warm omeominm which But a tax on ten and coffeo, being & rovonus | Mr. §Tarn pays to Bocratary Bristow for his and not & proteotive tax, in all rovenuo, sud | offorts ** to break down that most unhallowed therefore the loast burdensoms tax that cau | conspiracy against the public welfare,” the be imposed. Whisky Ring. We suggest to Mr. Brann The Democratic party in nearly all its | that he appeal to Mr. Exxzny, who hna boen 8tate Convontions has resolved that the tariff | appointed to represont tho Pooria District at should be romodeled toarevenue rystom, | Cincinnati, and seo whother ho will vote to but thess resolves nro idle wind. The Dem- | rocognizo the distingnished services of Secre- ocraticHouso has been in session six months, | tary Brisrow. 1t might be well, also, to and has failed to give the Tariff bill oven a | nscertain his construction of the fifth section rospectful hearing. 'Tho Democratio majority | of the platfarm, nnd see wirethor ho undor- on the Commiltee on Ways and Menns per- | stands it a3 pledging the Republican party of emptorily refused to includoe n tax on ten and | Itlinvis to uphold the Pesumnption act and to coffes, and Lad it not been for tho Repub. | redeem the greenbncks in gold in 1879, licans on tho Commuitice the Choirman would | The seventh resolution, to which Mr. never have beon nble to report any decent | STABR points with patarnal pride, is all right, bill at all, Tho fact is, the Democratic party | but it stands thero as a sort of common i3 not capable of any legislation upon any | count, ita gontiment being found in most of question of practical interest. It s divided the recent platforns; Dut for its bad gram- into factions on tho currency question, and | mar and buugling, phrscology it would Le the faction inspired by ignoranca in largely | Wnexcoptionable, It is tho right thing said intho majority, In like manner the puty | In wrong words, . which is o unit on voting ammesty to Jrer S Davis cannot bo induced to give even ona | INDIANA I8 NOT FOiR NYBODY TO dny’'s session to the consideration of the tar. BEAT BRISTOW." iff, which is taking from the producers sov- Tho information couvoyed in » letter from cral hundred millions of dollars of their hara | Iodiaunpotis, which Tme Tninuxe printed carnings, to distribute thom undor n system .yutanl.ay. relativo to Mr. BrisTow's ntu.ngth of somi-genteel robbery among a class of | 7 ‘Iurlmnn, 15 orluvo reuon: 16 ellovs; privileged paopers, Lven Mr. Monnmsoy | Shrelytrustworthy. An interview with one in_bis place in tho House, freely doclared that'| O the prominent Indinnnpolis gontlemen b had no hopaof ven getting a voto on the | Mentioned in that lotter hos confirmed its bill, and consequently no hope of any changa prport in ovory particultir. Tho tentimony in tho tariff. Clearly, thon, thero must boa | ™ nlmn_dnxet that Ml:. Bnarow hnan large and change in the Houso if thore i to be any de- enthusinstic following atnong tho mnk and liverance from tho present iniquitous tarift filo of the Ropublican party in Indians, and robbery, compared with which even ‘os | 1nrBe part of tho delegation from that Stato Scorr’s subsidies and tho Pacifio Iinilrond | ' Cincinnati will go over to Buusrow from land-swindle loolk small and contomptible. persannl r.no(nranca. 6ol Ja d{dernnca tothe —— e best sontiment of the party, just as soon as STARR, OF PEORIA, ON THE PLATFORM!, it shall become apparent that Mr. Monton Wo print in another column a letter from | CAuROb get tho nomination. - This Buistow Mr. J. 8. StAnn, of Peoria, who wns & mem- sontimont in Indiana, like the same senti- ber of tho Committee on Resolutions in the | Ment in other States, lias been. tho outgrowih recent Republican State Convention, in which | of that gentloman's personal and practical he secks to extonuato and pallinte the frauds dnvc:f.mn to the work of reforining tho publie and injustice of certain portions of tha plat. | S0rvice, but its special dovelopment at tho form adopted by the Convention. Tha sec- present time is partly the retalt of a convie- ond resolution, it will bo remombored, de. | ton that M MontoN has no chance for clared that the *policy of leniency by tho the nomination, nud partly of tho reaction Republican party " toward tho peopla recent. | 8gniust tho pronounced policy of tho ring- ly iu rebellion Lad resulted in tho death by | Sters, which is *‘ Anybody lo Beat Brstow.” violenco of nt lenst £,000 Unionists, had filled | Thero'is no reason to beliove that Mr. tho Houso of Roprosontatives with n Demo. | 3[0nToN will uso any of liiy persomal influ. cratio mnjority, and had given over tho re. | 9nce With tho Indiana delegotion ngninst contly robellious States to the control of dig. | BRISTOW, aftor leis Btato :shall feel justified in loyal whites. Agninst this falso and malicions | Withdrawing Monrox'a mame, i It would be libel upon the policy of reconstruction fol. | Y&y blike Mortow, incleed, to run counter lowed by the Republican party Tur Trmune fo. tho pruvmlmg s.untimnnt of his oWn State, hns protested., Mr. STane objects to the al. | Wich will only give hin up whon further most “universnl amnesty granted by tho offort in his behalf shal £ \_mcomn hopeloss. Republican party, nnd insists that the Unijon | * One renson for boli oving that the strong men of tha South are left without protoction, | BrisTow fooling in Indiaua will have an op- The people of the Sonth bave all the pro. portunity for saserting- iteelf is to bo found tection that tho peoplo of the North have, and | in tho fact that Indinmm Li.as not been infoct- something more. They have special protection | 4 lke Illinois, by the. poworful Whisky in]laws which mako it penal crimos to in- Ring. It is true thfnt. thero woro some timidate or do violenco or in any way inter. | ** crooked " uperations in ‘that Stato, but thoy fore with negroes becauso of their color or | Were confined maiuly to o ne locality and did race, oud the Federal Courts have speelnl not ramify throughout tlie State and fasten jurisdiction to punish all offensos agaiugt | UPon tho Ropublican parly as thoy have negroes, The statute-book is burdened with | dove in % Illinois. 1 Miwy scctions in specinl lnws for the protection of theso col- | t8 State has bnen"mon or less intocted ored people. Tho Republican party has had | With ¢ crookedness.” Tho Obicago Ring the execation of thosa laws, and tho Federnl | ¥88 poworful and far-reaching; the Bt officors havo all belonged to the closs known | Touis Ring had its corancctions in various s Unlouists. Congress nnd the Prosident | Parts of Illinois, reaching from Quincy in have done all that i in their powor to pro- | 000 direction and Cairo in nnother. Peoria tect them, and gradually the conflict of races | hes beon tho focus of tirs sort of villainy, and the strugglo for political mastery are with ln:tmdms in Springfiold and Pokin. becoming quioted, and, under the Republican | Thore is a closs of paoplo whoso personal policy of pence, lifo nnd property are daily liberty d.opqndx upon tho defeat of Brisrow becoming more seeure, The President hos | o tho Cincinnoti Convnnl.lm.x, nand wl{o are nover failed to interpose the Executive au- ready to subseribo to an ything and unite on thority and military forco when tho oircum. | 88¥body to benb him. “Thoy wera largoly stances authorized him to do so, What | Topresented in the Spririgfield Convention, moro is wanted? Do these platform-makers | Tho two confessed argans of tho Ring in smean that tho Presidont of tho United States | Chicago, ono English and. the othier German, shall, by military forco, justall Republican | Wore ropresonted thero. Anothor daily, politicians in possession of all tho Stato’| Whoso sympathies were a'll with the whisky- Governments, and keep thom permanently thieves' crowd, had ita ropresontativo seatod in power? How long would the people of | in the Convention. It would bo safe to say the North uphold a President or a party that fl.mt: ot lenst 100 of tho delegates wero would ndopt that policy? How long would the | Whisky-Ring men whoso first care waa Stato of Illinois sustain such a policy? Tho | to best Buwsrow. They soon discovered “policy of lenioncy” of tha Republican | that Bramns hind groat strength in tho Con- party, of which Mr, BraNg hns beena con- vention—that he and Bristow divided the spiouous chinmpion ns opposed to Mr. Coxx. | dolegates a3 to their firat choice, with a 11xo, Mr, MonroN, and Bex Borwen, disci- sprinkling for Molm.!x. The Whisky-Ring- ples of the bloody-shirt dootrine, has been | Stors concluded to unite on Bratve, and rule aud is ono of the brightest and noblest that | out all Bristow mou ta- tho Cincinmati Con. hau ever adorned the history of any nation. venlion, not for any lave for Brawe, for ho 1t hos robbed civil war of its greatost hor. | W88 by no means their fimit choico, as their rors, and bns converted conquest, defent, | Plotform clearly showss; with them it was humiliation, and loss into additional Londs | 88ybody to beat Burniow, lnd thoy sup- of union, peace, prosperity, and national | Posed that Coxwane would devalop tho power. Tho day for Forcs bills, standing | Grenter strongth as aizainst Bristow, they srmics, and Military Governments has possed | Would Lave taken up Coxziwva, So they away foraver, would have united for the samo reason on Mr. STaRB, in our judgment, faila in his | Jouw Logan, Bix Burri, or any other man construction of tho curroucy resolution, | —"* naybody to beat Buusrow.” ‘The statement *that it is the duty of the 1t is well that the Ileprublican party of In- United States to redvoin overy promise it has | diana is not to be weighod down by the des- mada in absolute good faith,” is understood | porats crowd of revenue» thioves, blackmail- by Mr, 8ranu to mesn the Resumption act | ers, and their political . tllies, and that the which promises to resume specio payments in | prospect for a fair riimpresentation of tho 1879, and that such promise must be kept. | Bristow sontiment of t]3at State in the Cin- It tho Convention intended that tho Le. | cinnati Convention is wo favorable, There sumption law wus to be carried into cxecu- { {1 no question but there is & class tion nccording toits letter, why did mot tho | of pretonded Repuljlicans, who have Convention say o ? their nowspnpor organ.s aad their friends Moreover, if tho Tesumption law is the | among the active politic ians, who would pre- fixed currency pulicy of the Iiepublican par- | for the defeat of the jjarty rather than its ty,—tho withdrawnl by poymont of the | success with Hmistow at its hend. Success- greonbacks in 1879,—why did the resolution | ful scoundrelism in na tional politics is gon- rofer to the Cincinnati Convention the work | erally worked out by t he counivauce of ras. of solving the problem of the surrency ? If | cals in both politica’l partics. ‘Thorefors the party was solemnly pledged to oxceute ( those Ropublicans who /five on publie plunder the Reaumption law nnd roturn to specio pay- | understand that they w ill kave better oppor- ments by rotiring the greenbacks in 1879, | tunitiea under a Dewo tratfo President than and that promise was to be redeemed, what | under Bristow. It is:t matter of dollars and currency problum did the Committeo supposo | cents, of political life or destli, with theso way loft for the Ciucinnati Convention to | fellows, and it is thoe. certainty that Bristow solvo ? will be elected 1f 1 0minnted at Cincinnati But to show that the resolution was not | which induces them, to make wo bitter and intended 1o mean that the Resumption act relentless a fight sgainst him, Their eyes was to be euforeed, itis only unccessary to | are fixed on the r ain chauce, and their main quoto the second clauso of the resolution, | chance disappesr ; the moment Buisrow tukes which recitos that *the Kopublican party | the fleld. They are vxpertsin political trick- Lins givon to the people the best system of | ory, and mny su ccoed in forcing their policy paper curroncy ever dovised.” 1w paperis | of “anybody to. beat Brurrow,” but Indisna at a heavy and fluctuating discouns, and ir- | is to be congra tulated that neither Mr. Mon- redeemable, If such a currency is the **best | 7oy, nor his friends, nor the Ropublicans wystow " of paper monuy evor devised, how | generally in tlint State can be wade parties could the resolution weun that tho | to this schemae, Resumption act, rotiring that curron- cy in 1879, should be religiously executed? Did the Convention mean that tho bLest sys- tem of paper currency ever duvised should bo obliterated? What in cither case was left for the Cincinnati Convention to 40} If the present puper currency is the ** best,” how is the currency *‘ a difiicult problem™? Was the Cincinuati Convention to deviso somncthing botter than the best? And thew was it to declure that the best curreney the world ever saw must bo swept out of exist- enco by enforcing the Resumption law in 18797 Mr. Braus overlooks tho fagt that the them ont, Tho late Sultan, whon he acceded to the throns, made (he identical promiscs that have now been mado by his ruccossor. He also promised ta remove cortain Minis. ters, ta abolish the seraglio, nnd reducs the civil list. Iia kept his word for alittle time, and then deliberately broke overy promiso, led a lifo of proflignoy and dissoluteness, and plungod Turkoy into almost Lopeless bank- raptey. Thoro is littlo gronnd for hoping that the new Sultan will keep his pledges any moro faithfully than tho old one. No radical roforms in Turkey can mako head ngninat tho fanatieal conservatism of Moham- medanism, If tho now Sultsn should at- tempt to introduce any clement of European civilization into 'Turkey, tho sonio power which sentod him on tho throne would un. sent him, The power behind the throne, composed of the fanatical Softas, is stronger thon the throno itself. Ono by ona the members of the Committeo on Resolutions of the Iate Republican State Convontion are disavowing all responsibility for that oxtraordinary platform, which, for its imbecility, incongruity, betraysl of dense ignorance, misstatemonts of facts aud at- tompted stultification of the party, has al- ready been indigngntly repudiated by the Republicans of Illinois. The latest of tho Committeemen to clenr his skirts of respon- sibility for it is Cnpt. Kent, of Quiney, in whoso behalf tha Wiig of that city says: 1n Justice to Capt, Kuira, of thia clty, who was a member of the Commitice on Kesolutions nt Springfeld, it Is proper to explain that he is not at All responalbla for the foollshness and inslpidity which distinguishes the Springfield platform, the style of which he by no means approved, This ex- planntion i made forthe information of Mr, Kritu's friends, who might otherwirs bo apprehensive that the Captain tiad become demented entirely, 1In fact, for the reputation of Quincy Repullicans abrond, it 18 proper to explaln further that there Ia not ono of them who would not aplt vigorously upen the platform If its very ridiculousucss did not compel hiw $o laugh at it In o fow days, doubtless, several other members of the Committee—porhaps all of them excopt the writer of that astounding daclaration of “ foundation principles"—will have washed thair hands of the whole per- formnnce, In view of that, ovidently, and to hedge upon his responsibility to tho Re- publicans of Iilinois, whom in that platform Lo has atrociously libaled, belittled, nud misrepresented, the nuthor of the platform inthe Whisky-Thieres' Organ, of which ho is editor, has issucd a revised and corrected edition of the platform,—** to correct errors,” his protext is, *“that crept into tho tele. graphie report.” That this is a mere sham is conclusively shown by the State Journal, which states distinetly that the platform as tolographed . and ns furnished the“Journal is the platform ss reported to and rushed through the Convention, * Further, tho Jour- nal states that tho ** absnrdities and info- licities" (as it mildly puts it) of the platform nttracted nttention in tho Journal office, and so glaring were they that a reporter was di patched to the Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions to have him correct the ab- surdities and infelicitios aforesnid. The Journal says: The question having been propounded as to the accuracy of tho report, the Chairman read over the resolutions two or three times, finally, in answor to all suggeations that there were omissions or in- accuracics, insiating that the document was carroct In form, and it was thus printed. Bo it scoms that all tho blundera, and ig- norance, and ‘stupidity, and stultification of the Republican party, and arraignment of it for 1ts Reconsiruction polioy, wore imper- ceptible to the Chairman of the Committes on Resolutions when pointed out to him, Now the Journal sharply domands to know by what right at this time he sets about howover, that thers is no ground for alarm on that score. The platform has already beon repudiated by the Republicans of Illi- nois, whom it cannot worse misrepresent than it does. The revision, it is true, is oven worso bungled than was the original ; but it retains tho marks ot all the ignorancoe, and stupidity, and hostility to true Ropub- licanism in its arraignment of the policy of tho party, that characterized tho original, and cannot bo mistalten for othier than an omanation from the offico of the Z'hieces’ Orwn, The Quiney Whig truthfully remarks of the mess of lylng and slanderous trash called the Illinols platform: The WAlg ana every other Republican journal of senso In the State, a8 well a8 every tutelilgent Re- publicun, has cast um‘fllnflorm anlde ns u prepos- terous plece of twaddle, I r{ Intelligent man who undertukes to rend (tis dlsgustcd with the thing ot first slght; und the Jnler-Ocean is at un- necesrary palns to puint out the fact that the plat. form fu . **perfect refiex of the ecntiments which find expreesfon In ite own columns ™ becausn cvery one who lus seen both percelves the Hkencss fn an Instont. 1t Is pechaps ity thut the thing had not heen quictly laid on the table by the Convention that adopted 1t; and If the Convontion had been favored with a little more time for retlection It wonld undonbtedly have made such a disposition of lt. 1t istoo silly tosamount to a fruud, lu ahort, it fs merely idivtic; and we ore of the opin. fon that the mext Ntato Conventlon, if it muat needn have a platform, would do well to have upon the Commlttes im Resolutiona a few men who have bevn ¢ ndowed with a reasonuble share of comumon sende. And the TWhig should bave added, “and honesty.” et ——— s The great Amerlcan League, which some tine ngo {ssuedits programms for the organizationjof a party “for the Bible inthe public schools,” met at Philadelplin & few dugs sinee, but so quletly that there was scarce u chauve to tind it out untll the League bud sdjournced. They mean to make more nolse, however, before the canvass ls ended. A Committee hus been ap- poluted to deaft an address to the people of the Unlted States, urgrdng ¥ all Amerfeans to voteln favor of Americans rullng Awmerlen," and for the Bible in the public schools without any compromise, The Lengue has also opened Nu- tional Comnmittee rooms in Philadelphia, and bus called a Nutiunal Council to meet In that city on the 19th of July, to constder the propriety of nominatiug s Presidential ticket, ——e— Another Confederate officer of the Confeder- ate Congress—a subordinate of the * biger mun than GRANT P—haa been Indulging himself fn an assauft on an lmpudent person who attempted tocollect u Lill. Of course, all the Confederate dignity of the entire Contederate Congross Wivs lusulted by this impertinent and unheard-of effurt to collect a bill from 8 Dewmocratle poli- tielun, It 8 possible, therefore, thut there will be no movement fu the Ilouse to punish this individual for violating the decorum of the Capltol building, since he defended the naturul und fuherent vights of Democratle creditors. Anuther reason for thls forbearunce is that, if this sort of thing s not stopped, the Confeder- ate Congress won't have ao offleer left, Mr. Tox B. NegbLEs, of Nushvllle, 11, received perfect ovation on his yeturn home from the Conventlon. ®The town wus ong blaze of light from bontires, while tho cunnon pealed forth its deafening discharges at short fotervals” It 5 expected thut be will run far abead of his tickvt in the southwestern coyntics, where be is exceedingly popular. e s s man of very con- siderable ability, and his fricuds contend thut he will make the best Auditor the Btuto hus bad. o twenty-five years, S —— ‘P Staats-Zeltung appears to be afflicted with an Evvesr Wasuuunn unightisare, It fuslits thut he is to be sppolnted by Mayor Hornm Buperintendent of Police to enforce the Bundsy Jaw sgadust beer-drinkingl It was geocrally suppused the unday law oo the sulject was e The new ¥ ultan, Munap Lreesps, is hardly upon I s tlirono bofore he commences to make pror niges of reforms, Ilu prom- ises to reinow 4 certain objectiouable officials, to abolish th o weraglio, to reduce tho civil list, aud to 1 juke othur radical changes in the iuterests of the popular wolfure, Wo doubt, however, ¥ hethier much confidence can bo placed in? Lese promises. The Turkeluve s gift of po swising aud of nover carrying out their po omises. They promissd to make cortain v oforms asked for by the Helaves, and quieted, their disaflection until the Hclaves found tley Lod no intention of carrying Kentucky, numination for the Presidency, and Interviewa a8 well, and talks with as sulemn gravity upon the situntion, as though he were really liable to be the Centennial President, party n atrength of 700,000 votes, which are to be welded so a8 to muke the Democratie and Republicat partles do what is right upon the Temperanee fgaue, und, If they don't, will elght years hence sweep the land, Greex CLav's head, however, fe level upon one polnt: says Bristow Is the strongest man the Repub- )icans conld nominate, aml that TiLbEN I8 the best candldate among the Democrats. York Monday. #ign hiangs over her door. New England, and practlcing for Ler debut on the Now York stage next fail, *tdished up In o palatable mannee' along with the news ln Bir. $torey's now evening paper, manner " In the Grand Jary report., althongh accustomned to that sort of thing, dida't half do the subject justice in kis report, acting, and she I8 rlch enough to gratify her fancy i apite of thy critica. Inat week did Lady Macbeth to hor own admiration and delight, and internatlonsl pounding miatch hetween the theological atudents of our conntry and thelrs, we should tremble for the reputation of muscular Cliristisnity. used to talk to the bad boys in the Juncs School. In those dnys Woodued carried n raw-hlde In hls coat-tall pocket, uud it tiugled ahout one's logs— o3 the bad boys will recollect. So, now evening puper, thut the nowa will be **dished up In o palatable manner,” it {s unneceanary for Mr. Storey to cxplain that the corpa of cditors and reporters will be entirely different from that of the Timen, tinkering the platform, It occurs to us,’| London are not of the best, tled to membership b the Club, other things belug equal; and, a8 the chronicler of tho Club remarks, ards, Mation, os inndvertantly stated In "ThiwuKk, of whom trreverent poragraphers speak a8 *the man who s wilent n ~oven languages, " he writer of the presumably jocose ltem In regard the 18th fust, —— ‘The Republican candidate for 8tate Auditor, | pealed nbout three years ngo. Envon is doing very well where he i3, looking after whisky~ thieves and counterfelters, resume control of the police foree, although he waa the best Superintendent of Pollee Chicago ever had, The Zeituny will clicerfully and can- dldly admit that to be o fact. He has no desire to o ———— ** The alr {a Ailled with tho cries of the dying and wourided, ™ remarked Father Gonnran, this morn- ing, v he rat wearlly down to the Kenn-Investiga- tlun Committer tahle, and contemplated Murni- aan's damaging testimony apalnst Braivg, while awaiting another Instnllmeat of HAnNEY on Kenm, — Waskington dispatch, As fast a8 ono charge ngalust DLAINB (8 re- futed, nnother 18 stated, ench subsequent obe belig more difilcult to exptaln than the preced- g, and stlll wo have faith BLatg will pull through and be able to prove his entire Inno- cene 0f any corrupt apeenlation, tncluding this Mutptean-Little Rouk & Fort Smith $150,000 charge. —————— Gen. (now the Rev.) Greey Cray Sy, of has accepted the Temperance He clulms for lis He ———————— Until a few weeks ngo the Clnefnnati morning papers hud been paylug 45 cents per 1,000 ens for type-setting. paper, gave notice to its compositors that alter acertain date it would only pay 40 cents, on aceount of the shrlukage In business. time named the workmen concluded to uceept the proposition of the proprictors, and keep thelr cases, dlately thereafter, and voluntarily reduced their seale of prices to the same rate for the Unlon papers. 8o there was no strile or quarrel be- tween the workmen und their employers, The Gazette, o unon-unjon At tho The Printers’ Unlon met fmme- ——— PERSONAL. Annie Loulse Cary arrived from Europe in New Burbara Frietchie's raco is o'er, and a tinsmith's Annn Dickinson s making a provincial tour in We fear the Chicago Post and Mall will be The County Ring fs **dished up In a palatable Mr. Storey, The wlilow of the comedian Iackett is fond of She lives in Dnflnlo, and 1 the torrlblo Softas of Turkey should propose Willard Woadard talks to Charley Farwell aa ho TRobort? After saying, as he does, in the prospectus of his TIHE COUNTY RING. One Link in the Chain Badl- Broken, * ‘Warden Kimborly Makos a Clean Breagy of It to tho Grand Jury. IIe Tells ITow Perlolat Led 1im Astr, aud How They Robhed the County, The Way in Whick Clem and the Commiissioners Did Business. Judgo Moore Refuses to Quash tho Perios Iat-Kimberly Indictment, TIIE GRAND JURY. MOSES THATER, The Grand Jury entered upon its day’s work yesterday under nnything but favorable cireuin. stances, It had previously agreed not to lsten o any further complaints, und, from the dim. culty which it had met {n sccuring the attend. ance of certaln witnesses, there wasan uncer- talnty ns to’ what work would be done. The outer room, however, contalned {18 usual quoty of persons ready to be called, and amony them was Moses Thayer. He buen looked for by half o dozen officers for sey- eral duys, but {t scems had successfully dodged them all, He bad been captured, however, by a publication In these columns, which had vexed him. e wos not uuxlous to testify by any means, but he was anxlous to have Tz Tribuxy suffer for |l|rucll|:i._;‘puhllu attention to the dif- ficulty experienced in suinmoning him. There wus ulso present In the motley crowd a Mr, Irons. The former was expected to know some- thing of the disposition of n large amount of money used In Fctung the Wabash Avenue Rufl. way charter through the Council, but when subijected to questions in reference thereto he was remarkably lumorant, and had nuthing whatever lo disclose. Mr, Irons was to testify in regard (o ex. aminations he hod made at the Instanco uf the jury of the plumbing wnd gns-tting at the new County Hospital. e simply substantinted and elaborated his report in writing of n few days ago, tho sab- stance of which hiw already been preseutod. DAXTEH-ROGERS. The charge agalnst James Baxter for conapiracy with one Itogers to rob the safe of Pardridge & Co., to which attentlan has slready been called, wan next takenup, The witneesen were numerons, ond confirimed what has already been publivhed, though It Is churged that an attempt wus e to cut oif the vidence. It was proven, for Instauce, that Bnxter roomed over Pardridge’s store; that si the time of the Rogers burglary ho hod a quantity of valuables in the eafe upon which advances bud huen inade; and that the day before the burglary he waw acen to accompany Kogers up i the elevitor with reveral auspicions packages; thut he fixed up the steaw-bail dodge of Htogers, which fell through, fi:lm: w0 far even nx ta describe the property i tho ud, ete. The henring rewulted in hin belng Jolntly indicted with Kogers for conspiring to con wit burglary, but the end wns attained with conrlderable dificulty. Tozerals in cuatody, and Baxter will be arrcetéd to-day unless ho Junips tho town. The money that logera put. up’ with State's Attorney Reed to secure Lis relense o a former indictment for the swmne oflense will of course be given up. The next withesa called before the Jury wan COUNTY AGENT DIEDEN. He pretended not to have. the remotest Idea o what had called him away from hispauper patrons, but, once Inlde the Jury-room, he was brought th a realizing sense of what wus wznted of him, U repeated ~much of bis former testlmong, adding, however, that was the Com- mitt Clerk of the Board who tad delivered to him the fraudulent Periolat wumples, o matter that he could nut remember before. le was questioned very closely, and the result wos that tho good fmpreselon he made in his former Loatimony” was cntlrely overcome. le left tho Jury Inclined to write him_down a Mar and a de- ‘eiver of the firat water, and this Inclination was based upon hiy canduct In pretending not to know that which it was settled in the mind of the jury bo dld know, Whether he will be indleted or not on ils own evidence remains to be secn. White, the ball-player, who I¢ mid to be study- Ing for tho Methudist ministry, will not iko to bo confonnded with White, the bad Aldermun from the Tenth Ward, who s shuping his courso {nan opposite dircction. ablo gentleman, ‘The ball-player fa an henor- Haron de Palm left twelve lots of land In High- laud Park, T1l., to his friend Emma E, Berringer, late Emma E. Potter, of West Washington strcet, Chicago, and tha residuo of Lis estate to hia friend Uenry 8. Olcott, counselor-nt-law of tho Clty of New York, Philadelphla papers try to explaln the failure of Theodore "Thomas in that city in the Centonnial year by saylng that ho **lusisted on the hlghest of ‘sl art ol the time. "' An examination of the pro- grammes shuws that this ls not the truth, Strauss figures more lurgely than any other composer, The cooking and wines nt the Albemarle Club in loth sexea are enti- with profonnd phitorophy, ** Wonien have no real appreclation of good enting, and they will sip the vilest wines with the placld satisfaction of o con- nolssour enjoying tho best.” Theodore Tilton saw a tombstons in North At- tleboro, Mass,, bearlng tho name Ellzabeth Riche e wept over it, and gave 5 to hove It re- puired, As the tenantof the grave was nut re- lated to him, people wondered why Theouore wept. The reason was, he ssld, because this was his wife'a name before marriage. to think she hadn't died before whe consented to chunge her name, Doubtless he wept It I8 Marshal Von Moltke, not Marshal Mac- yeaterduy's to the Marshal's warital relations, ur wantof them, i **humbied Into dust,” Ten thousand apologies 1o Madame MacMahon, whose noble prominence in the cause of charity has made her name respected wherever It ia known, Michelet's funeral In Pere Lachalse was fixed for 1lin widow published a strong Jet- ter, some dnys before the date of the funeral, dep- recating auy polltical demonatration or sllusivn, She atated that, having rescued the rematus from those who wishied to deprive Purls of them, herlast duty was **to prevent their falling Into the hauds of wen necustomed to convert funcrals Into noisy manifestations, making use of the dead to kil thu living.* Schenck's frionds ueed to be throwing tho Duke de Suldanha at our heada whenever donbts were expresved of the propriety of a Miulster at a for- elgn Court cugaging In stock-epeculations. 1t was waid thut de Saldanba, the Portuguese Mintster, was the oldest Miulster i poiut of residence at the Conrt of 81, Jumes, and he had pnt Lisbon tram- way stock on the London market, Now deSuldanha s belnyg Iuvestigated, sud not wtanding it pretty woll. 1t fs sad, The Rtov, Henry D. Moore Is prstor of the church in Clucinnati w which **Dully” Lewls, the famous gambler, lutely presented a communion servico, Last Sunday Dr. Moore expatiated on the wonderful story of **/Che Prodigal Son," in con- nection with the destructlon of Dubufe's painting on tho sume subject. It wus noticed that 3r, Moore made no mention of gambling, which, it wlill be remembered, was one of thy most striking features of the lute painting. Ihe New York Sun bas intelllgence ** from traste worthy sources ™ that the necessury capltal for the purchase of the World wus furpished by Col. Phoinus A. Scott. The same heavy operator, It fs sald, bas recuntly became owner fu fact, though not in mame, of the Balthnore Gaselte, & hard- woney Journul **of rather Copperiah antecedonts, " sccording to tho Sun. With Juy Gould's Yribune aud ‘Tun Seott's World togethur I ouo city, there ought to bo uo lack of activity in the department of high-toned journulism. A charmning young harplst liag just arrived in this country from s tour of trlumph fu the Spunfsh- Americon States. She fs but 15 years of age, and her utagu-name, conferred upon hor by hor cu- thusinstic countrymen after her frut grand public success, in 1873, on the occanion of the celubration of Corvontes® death-day, §s Esmeralds Cervantes. Strausa presented ber to the public of Munich, and from tbat time her career has been oue of con- tinuous and marvelous success, Sho b received diplomas from many crowued beuds, ‘I'hat wealthy Livston glrl who hay boen searching for a long-lust lover, of poor but honest purents, found the mun Iu Iudiunspolls last week. Her name ls Carrfe M, Cocbiran; his uawme is Charles A, Brandenburgh. Iels a native German, and met Miss Cochrun in hils own country, He fell wadly inlove with ber, and when whe refused him he quistly emigrated to America. Then who selzed this funcouvenlent mowent to fall wadly in love with bim, and her mamma had to Jook up the young fellow and arrange watters. Moral: Extermiuate the POUF YOUDE et When the jury was abont shrough with Dieden, Thomas Moran knocked gently at the door, an asked toosco Mr. Keed. Ho appeared ua the ai- torney for ORORGE 8, KIMBERLY, and hls mission was to glve up bis cllent ana the fucts he hud I hls powsession, on condition that he be granted Linmunity, 1lo stuted that he bad been persunded, uiice slng weverul times, to take churge of Kimberly's case, und, sinco takios Told of it; had Hatened to thu whole story, and had becotne convinced that he _could not be ssved from the Penitentiory ona fair trial. ‘Cho condition of his tuking tho case, be suld, had been that bis sdvie should bo takon, Iie had advised his cllent to tura State's evidence, or, in tho latter-day parlance, o **luy down ™ onl, **uquesl " og, anl ** give a those who had stducegl him and led him Into durk ways, ‘Phe proposition was uncxpected to Mr. Tteed, but tho Juturs were better puated, for the dny provious most of them had heard tho eamo dircet from Mr. Moran, In their unxlety to cap- ture 8 **aquealer,” u matter which had often been discussed, thoy were Inclined to treat Kimberly kindly, bt not to make him any pledgen thut would uot be subject to _alteration or smendment uttor the hmportinco of klw story bad been tested befure a petit jury, Mr. Heed wos of tho suna opiniun, i 11 was not long befora Kliberly lad agrced fo Yuke the chunces and tell what he kuew, o entered the Jury-ruom nervdus, and persplra tlon stood upon Ll face In drops. 1o was ters #ibly frightened, On the outside hé had expressed & doublo fear, ‘nd to bla wind authing that he could do could wursen hia condition. On the one hand he feared those with whom he had been Identitied in his stealingy, even to the extent thal they would tike his life if he theit, agadn, unlees did w and make o clean breast of ft, he felt thal the Peoitentinry wonld cerulully by lls portiou. Uence, ho chose to throw himeelf upon the mercy of the Court, and tuke all risks of porsunal viu- lence, realizing thut in & pursousl encuunter he could defend himeelf, while before the Court he would have to wilt fu the face of the accumulated facts ugaiust bin, 115 BTORT. occupled three hours (n the telling, and It held the jury spell-bountl. Much of It had already been tuld by other witucases, but tho fact that hu cor- roborated them in many waterial pofuts tended 1o increass hiw credibility s u witness uud the interest In o blm, He started out with ~ the open confession that e lud been a consptiator with Periolat In robbing the public, ond then proceeded to tell how be came to joln hiu. tfo was it spproached, &4 far back a4 1671, with otlers of presents, AL Hind he refuscd (o accopt anything, but under the per: sussion of Periolat he wus soon drawn into the v Yerlolst would uay to him whea ho ob: Jected to accepting anything, **1 10 use for Wand it tuy do you somu good," Once led lnt accepting tritles, o friendubip grew up between bim und ~ Periolat, which incrensed the buoldnest of the latter. The next was to talk to him about Lu poverty, wmull salury, etc., and finally Perlolat told tim he conld moke money if be wanted to. A huld was dunlly gotten on tim, sod soun he waa driven to do just 4a Perfolat and the **Hlog " dictated. TUE ¥LAN OP MAKING MONEY was to make bls requisition for supplivs for the Asylum, sud to certify (o whatever Perolit wished w8 to tho amount recefved. e cited uue merons nstances how the steating hud beon pere fectad, Fur inetance, e would send (n a requis tion for double the amount uf gouds wanted; tle Board would psss upon the order, and turu (L ove? 10 Periolat 1o bo ulled; Perlulat would send l:l: : seductive achewe much of the order, of un liwe, 81 waw AL, but the goods would by uccon: punled ' by o meworandum covering only that which hud been delivered, o susterfuse adoptod Lo prevent the subordinntes frot discover: ing the steal. ‘Ilus waa brouphit to Periolut’s store afterward, snd the guantitics were doubled ob teebiled a¢'will, & bill made out, and the teworis: dum destroyed, He bad realized au bis share o th sten] froming 3, 00U Lo 83, UV0 peryoar, sctistat and would have gutten wore but for the treachery o Poriolat, who did not divido ss ho Lad promsed 1o belicyed that Veriolat's individua) sharc uf the steal amounted 10 $25,000 per annuin at thie Insuue ‘Avyluw aud Poor-ifouse wlout, to ssy uothing of Whiut wus divided amongs the Comumlastoncrs. Darlug the relation of hus stury be s understood to tuye paluted the followiug picture of sotus @ the MEMUERS OF THIE BOARD, s to say nofhing of ather deeda of **craokeduess which have lust their savor on account of belng covured by 'the statate of limitations. ~Conceruivg ex-Commlasioner Ashton, he corruborated Fut: sytl's testimony about hls getting goods fiom For- ayth & Co. which the county bud paid for, the specic bill mnnmlnfi' 10 ubout $30, udding thathe hud Individually paid hin wonoy which canie trou) Perlolat, with un understaoding tbat It was (07 “legul™ fecw, e bud consulted Ashton a (eW days previous in refervacy to testifylng Lo fore the jury, and when testifylug \-lmnwsu ucted upon his bdvice, which was ‘tha Lie ahould any In refereuce to all watters likely to erimisuty hitneel or the inembers of thy **Ring™ that b kinew nothing about it. Awhson had sdvised hin to take this course in prefereuce lo refusing 10 teatify, usho bud right to, in order not W criminate himsclf, Of ex-Colnmissioner Marrls. o wald thot he hud receivod bolh goods sud molicy from Perjolat, the Iatter to sutlely certalu xuuuhx,{ Judgments, smountiug in wll to about §1,600. Ul ex-Cowmldsiouer Itusscll, iy tostimony was eveh inote dsmaging showlog thot b bad been & aupple toul in the bamds of Periolat, and that ‘l:; hud ot been the loser by’ his acts. U Crawford the story was not materiully mucrc:fi cxcept. that o lud gone o Periolut und given 18 chuct for whatuver guods he bought, sad had wa celved in turn check for a slwillar umount beforo lhw lefi the utore. 1n fuct, he muintaiuod that L8 exchunge of checks hud beou a favority plau with tho Cotnmissloner In sytiling thelr bille with I olut.” Of Joues, Lo repeated a portion of Futs, teutimony ubout lita belog driven by a fury i gatlon to kive Berlolat s check for his grocery billy and to bis subscquently—safter the stond 7 pussed over—uccopling & cheek for 8 simildd umouut from Poreyth & Co. Of Commisslous McCaflrey he related some vory ugly