Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1877, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1877—SIXTEEN .PAGES. N 2 Chairman, to produce all the statements of votes and polling-place tally-sheets of erera\:‘ in Lonisiana, together with affidavits, etc., and remanding them to the custody of the Sergeant~ at-Arms. o 'G.The resolution was adopted—yess, 135; nays, 7 WASHINGTON NOTES. A DIRTY DODGE. Special Dispatch to The Tridune. ‘WasmseToy, D. C., Jan. 27.—Fernando ‘Wood with his special committee intends to present 8 report to impeach the President for the use of troops in the South, and his commit- tee was evidently orzanized for that purpese. ‘The plan is to present the report late in Febru- ary, in order that it by no possibillty can be sent to the Senate, 50 that the President can bo tried and acquitted. It is a contemptible plan of Jow partisen iutrigue. A 3UDGE DAVIS will accept the Senatorship, but he has stated absoluiely that he will not leave the bench be- fore March 4, as the Chief Justice bas assigned him 2 number of opinions to write, the prepara- tion of which will occupy every moment of bis time till that dsy. From this statement it is inferred thot Davis does not expect to be a member of the grand tribual. THE SENATORSHIP. SOLD OUT—MALIGNANT TREACHERY. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 2 radical Re- ‘publican paper, and one which takes decp inter- est in Llinois politics, is not pleased with the part played by Gen. Logan in the Senatorial struggle. The Globe-Democrat supported him as long as there was 2 shadow of hope of his elec- tion, and then demanded of him and his fricnds a full and complete support of anv sound Re- publican who mizht be nominated by the cau- cus. Under the heading “Sold Out,” it says: ‘When Senator Logan annonnced himself as a candidate for re-election to the United Statcs Sen- ate from the State of Lilinois, and when hissupport- erz, in advance of the caucue, began to assumea ‘bullying demeanor towsrds those who donbted the ynsemfily of Logan’s re-clection, we warned themn hat this was a very bad year for that kind of buosi- mess. Of course, after the Republican cancus had met ana unanimously adopted Mr. Logan as their candidate, we held it ta be the duty of cvery good Republican to sustain him by every honest means, and to stand by him until it shonld become evident that his election was hopelese. This was done; 1he Republican Legislators, the Republican press, and the Republican sentiment of Illinois bave lent their whole strength to Mr. Logan. Wkhat 18 the return which Kepublicanism has received st the bunds of Mr. Logan and his friends? Simply a sell-out, a betrayal to the enemy, 2 revelation of 3r. Logan's ability to rnin where he s failed to rule. 17 Mr. Davis hasany sense of gratitude in his ponderous body he will ascribe his election, not to his own merits, but tothe Zencrous and devoted manner in which the Logan adherents sacrificed their parly on the altar of their csndi- date. MNr. Davis had all the Democratic strength, but all the Democratic trength alcne. was insufli- clent to clect him; before him, another candidate had climbed to the slippery summit of the Demo- cratic support only to slide down ingloriously, be- ceue the {ndependents on top refused 10 cxtend him the nceded help. Davis came in_and gained their votes only after they had received a very di- rect avowal that if they proposcd to vote for any other candidate exceps Logan, they would waste their sirength and merely Lhrow away Lheir votce Mark the contrast between the generons and un- swerving manner in which _the Republicans sup- ported Logan, and the flimsy treachery which ‘Wove its web around the candidate who came for- ward 38 Logan's successor. Logan entered the contest with a fair potice that the Independents would not, under any _circumstances, or ou any terms, support him. - He Enmed the crucns vote— Do one will quarrel with tkst—a Seuator who Jeaves his seat at a critical moment in the national history to lobby for his own re-clection deserves at lesst the acknowledgment of a complimentary Vote. The caucus nomination generally carries ‘with it a claim to a full day's support. Logan was supported with the full strength of the party through four duys' balloting, and Lhrough twenty- eight Dallots, Was not thut enough 10 prove thut ke could not be clect=d¥ He was forced off the track and Lawrence nom- inated in Lis place. Instcad of receiving the full Repablican strengih., as Logun had done, and be- ing upheld by 1t through twenty-ninc ballots, ss Lozun hod been apheld, received only 86 votes on the first bailot, S1 on the second, 50 on the third, and 5Y ou the fourtn. - What a trinwph of Hepub- lican strategy! How inscrutable it is that after &ach tactics the session shoula nave adjonrned af- ter one :ore ballol, and on reassembling should have put Davis throuzh on the irst tallot. The proof of deliberate cishonesty on the part of the fricnde of Lozan, ard of their determina- 1i0 0 betray the party ratherthan aliow any other Republican _ to be elecled, is clear enough; bat it does mot_ need such proof - io wuke them responsible for a defest which may costus dear. They hed the victory in their hauds, and it does not maticr whether they sacri- Liced it through deliberete walice or through sheer stopidity, tBe resuit and the blame must fall on tiem equally. At the second baliot cast on Tues- day, the thirty-first ballot 1n the whole scries, there were 60 Lallots cast for Logar and 11 for WWash- burne; on the thirty-second, 89 for Logan and 13 for Washbbrae (a clear majority of all votes cast); Erox:nte with each other on terms to be estib- shed by the Secretary of the Interior after making due investigation, and for this purpose he may employ three cxperts and otherivise ob- tain opinions and recommendations calculated to throw light upon the inquiry, the expenses 10 be paid by the railroad companies as fixed by him. The bill also empowers she United States Cirenit Court to cumpg the cbservance of such regulations as he may establish on the subject. Mr. Wright called up the Senate bill to ex- tend for two years from the 0th of March next the act establishing the Boanl of Commissioners of Southern Claims. Passed, with au amend- ment providing that nothing in the bill shall ba 50 construed as to extend the time for filing claims before said Commission, or to enlarge its jurisdiction, or authorizing the filing of new aims. The bill to ratify the sgreement with certain bands of Sioux Nation Indians and with the Northern Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians passed. A message was received from the House an- ‘nouncing the passage of the bill for counting the,Electoral vote. “Soon a second message Was reccived announcing that the Speaker had £igned the corolled bills to be delivered to the President of the United States. ‘The Pacific Railroad bill was again called up and read at leogth, when Mr. Thurman, in charge of the bill, yiclded for an executive ses- sion, and when the doors were reopened the Scnate adjourned. NOUSE. Mr. Enott, from the Judiciary Committee, made a report in the case of Beiford, claiming 10 be the Representative from Colorado. He gave notice that he would call it up for action next Tuesday. The report favors the admission of the Representative. t The House then went into Committee of the Wholc on_the Indian Appropriation bill, Mr. Thatcner in the chair. ‘The Committee, without-sdopting any im- ortant amendments, rose and reported the Bl to the House, and it was passed. 3r. Holman, from the Committee on Appro- ‘priations, reported a bill authorizing the Secre- tary of the Treasury to deliver to James B. Eads, or his represcatatives, $500,000 for thc construction of jetties, ete., at the mouths of the Mississippi River. Mr. Buekner offered an amendment directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay $500,000 in United States bonds bearing 3 per cent to J. B. Eads. Mr. Holman said if Eads were paid in bonds it would take 600,000 more out of the Treasury than if he were paid in mobey. Mir. Hurlbut (Ll.) supported the amendment, holding that under its contract with Eads the Government was bound to pay him in bonds. Messrs. Blount and Clymer sgoke in opposi- tion to the amendment ‘that the payment be made in bonds, and Messrs. Foster and Conger in favor, but the House, without action, ad- journed. SOUTH CAROLINA, BARRED OUT. New Yorg, Jan. 27.—A Columbis special says: “Judge Mackey has granted a prelimin- ary injunction restraining State-Treasurer Car- dozo and Comptroller-General Dunn, respective- Iy. from_drawing any warrants or - paying out any funds from the Staso Treasury under the Appropriation bill passed by the Mackey House atits late session, upon the ground that that body, which pretended to originate and pass it, ‘was not the legal House of Representatives.” KANSAS. THE SENATORIAL CONTEST. Torrga, Kan,, Jan, 27.—Three lallots were taken to-day for United States Senator. The seventh and eighth were about the same as the ninth, which was as follows: Harney, 22; Os- born, 35; Sears, 25; Plumb, 24; Simons, 28; Martin, 12; Stillinz3, 4; Dlair, 1; Fenton, L. Adjourned till Monday. FIRES. AT INDIANAPOLIS. Special Dispalch to The Trioune. InprANayoLIs, Ind., Jan. 27.—The most dis- astrous fire that has visited Indianapolis since the burning of the new Hotel Block is the destruction of the Academy of Music to-night, corner of Illingis and Ohio streets. The alurm FOREIGN. - | Ex-Premier Gladstone Speaks His Mind on the Eastern-Com= plications. He Thinks Turkish Talk of Re- form Is Not Worth Lis- tening To. The Turk Has Always Studiously Ig- nored All Treaty Obligations. And the Treaty of Paris, Therefore, Can- not Be in Force. He Says the New Turkish Constitution Is Worse than an Imposture. England Largely to Blame for the Present Con- dition of Things. THE EAST. GLADSTONE'S SENTIMENTS. Loxpoy, Jan. 7. Gladstone, in a speech at Taunton to-day, said: * We ought to mind our own business, and why we shoula mind the Eastern question is because we have chosen to make it our own question. It was made our business under circumstances which no frue-’| hearted Euglishman will disown. Ihave heard within a few days the tenor of o letter from Mr. Schuyler, the United States Scerctary of Legation and Consul General at Constauti- nople, in which he says he is about to make a further report on the triuls and executions in the State of Bulgaria. *©1 thiok you will find in it," he writes, * abundant confirmation of the re- mark at which Selim Effendi took offense.’ I first sounded a few minutes before 10 o'clock, but so rapid was the progress of the flames that at 11 o’clock the work of destruction was about completed, and the building presented 2 dis- mantled appearunce, with a large portion of the Oo strcet wall fallen. The gen- erzl alarm bad the effect to fill the streets with people, and within fifteen iminutes 10,000 ¥c0plc were in the immediate neighborhood of the burning building. With fresh memory of the Brooklyn korror, the first query was to whether an audience was inside the building, and_great was the relief when it was known that there was no performance to- and in the t¥o succeeding ballots the total vote for Log=n 2nd Wasbburne was 101, without counting ke scattering Republican vote. or cnongh to elect if they had been caet jor Washburne; and onm Wednesday the vote stood, at tho thirty-ninth bsl-* Jot, 69 for Huines and 42 for Lawrence, or enough 10 have elected a Republican znd ten votes to spare. Itis not worth while 10 waste words in charac- terizing such proceeiings; the facts speak for themselves. They show that zman who may be powerless to heip the party may be potent to hurt it, and that the third-party enemy withoat is Jiess tobe feared than the rule-or-ruin enemy within. Nr. Logan has served the Republican party in 1llinois just as Mr. Conkling has served the Repub- Yican party in New York, andas Pinchback served itin Louisiana. e has illustrated for the ninety- Dinth time the depressing trath that in politics the only rule without an exception is the rule of in- gratitude, and that, when o party has exhausted s resonrces and weakened its stremsth n hesping honors on a ‘‘favonte eom,” and standing by him for the sake of the intcrests e represents, the only reward it need expect is be- trayal, surrender, ‘and defeat. This his been a costly Icsson to s here in Missouri, yet there is 10 Republican who hasmot learned jt. It will prove a costly lesson to our friends in Illinois, but there was no other way for them to learn 1t except by experience. The humiliating defeat they have experienced, when they Leld the victory in_their hands, onght not to_be loat on them; yet it will have been endured in vain'if they fail to ascribe it to anything else than that rale-or-ruin policy ‘which was apartof the Logan programmc, and which 10 man onght, ina free country, 10 be al- Jowed to carry out more than once. 6IVE TIE FACTS. 7o the Editor of The Trivune, CHICAGO, Jan. 27.—Althongh the majority is ‘well satisfled with the selection of Judge David Davis as the successor of Gen. Logan, believing that he is too large a man to become a strict partisan, i for one cannot forget that he was clected without the aid of one Republiban vote. ‘The reports of the different ballots taken after Logan had withdrawn from the contest, together with a kmowledge of the “Independents™ and the districts by them represented, would lead one to believe that the election of sn undoubted Repuolican might wasily have been secured,if such had been tde plan. Indeed there are those who claim tha. enoush Democrats would' have voted and did vote (in accordance with a written acree- ment) for candidates of undoubted Republican autecedents to sccure their election, if the Re- pablican members had becn aliowed to unite their votes on them, or either of them. , Mr. Editor, is a grave charge to be made sgumst one so_thorouglly party-man, and who at that very moment had rcceived the united support of the representati of the party—mcrely because of party iscipltze— although both he and they well knew that n very respectable minority, if not amajority, of their coustituents didrot desire his re-clection. It is hardiy to be credited, Mr. Editor. But whether true or false is 2 question that must be . answered and ought to be thoroughly ventilated and understood by the people, in” common jus- tice to all concarned. The independernt course of your admirable journal promiscs a fair cxpose of the true in- ‘warduess of a subject of suchuniversal interest to your reades T'hat all facts in your possession in rezard to this matier may become public croperty at once is the wish of all true Bcpubhclnsécchoed by 2 A SPECTATOR. ® CONGRESS. SENATE. WasSEINGTON, D. Jan. 27.~During the morning bour the Military Academy and Forti- fication Appropriation bills were called up. The amendments reported by the Committee on Ap- propriations were agreed to, andthe bills passed withomw discussion. The bill reported by the Judiciary Committee, creating a sinking fund for the liguidation cf the indebteduess due the Government by the Pacific Railroad Companies, was laid aside. The bill to ratify the sgreement with certain bands of the Sioux Nation of lndians, and also with the Northern Araphoe and— Cheyenne Jodians, was taken up with the understanding it should not displace the Pacific Railway measure, which should be called up at any O Allison introduced.a bill o construs Sec. 13 of the Pacige Railroad act of July 1, 1862, and 1o determine the fil‘flmn of the main line and The biil provides that the Union Pacific Rall- road and Burlington & Missouri Railroad shall pight. 'he first floor of the bn.flding ‘was occupied by H. H. Lee, tea store: Smith Potts, grocery’; one saloon; John Lyons, stoves an hardware. One row was used for the entrance. The total loss is esmated gat $100,000, of which probably $75,000 is covered by insur- ance. Of this, $58,000 is on the buildivg, car- ried to cover a loan of $50,000 in the New York Trust Company, and §3,000 by private parties. Lec loses $20.000; Smith & Potts, $5,000; Lyons, $7,000; and the lessecs of the theatre, Pearson & Dickison, between $5,000 and $10,000 in scenc- 1y and turniture. H ‘The building was bailt in 1565innd cost $113,~ 000 independent of the eround. It was sold four years ‘ago to Col._ N. R. Reokle, late roprietor of the Journal, for mau,oc(}l who_Joses the $30,000 “cash he has paid, an much more by depreciation of property. W. H. Leake was manager for 3 nunber of vears, and until he went to the Grand Operu-House last season. Barney Macauley was lessee and Dan Macauley mavager this season. The Academy has not been regularly run as a theatre. AT REED CITY, MICH. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. EastT SAGINAW, Mich., Jan. 17.—One-half of the north side of Reed City was destroyed by fire this morning. The flre broke out in a shed attached to Cotton’s grocery, The losses arc as follows: J. Cotton, grocer, $3,000; insured for $2,000. . Dettman, shoe shop, $600; insured for $400. Buck & Son, gro- cery and 'liquor dealers, 31,200; insurcd " for $800. Three or four familics occupving build- ings sustained more or less lose. The total loss is $0,000. Believed to be the work of an incen- AT PARKER CITY, PA. PiTTsBURG, Pa., Jan. 27.—At9 o'clock this morning s fire occurred in a frame block on the river, in Parker City, which totally destroyed Burgain’s battery, McLaughlin’s furniture store and ‘warehouse, Gleason’s clothing store, and Miller's grocery. Several other buildings were g:smxgid. Total loss about $25,000; partially ure NEAR SIOUX CITY. Special Dispateh to The Tridune. S1oux Crry, Ta., Jan. 27.—A dwelling-house belonging to Louis Lemoreaus, living near Big Sioux, six miles west of here, burned to the ground lnst night. Nothing of value was saved from the building. Loss, $3,000. There was Do insurance on the property, the policies hav- ing expired a few days ago. It i3 believed to bave beon the work of an incendiary, e — THE WEATHER. WasmiNGTo¥, D. C.,Jan. 25—1 a, m.—In the Lake Region falling barometer, after a tem- porary rise east of Michigan, casterly to souther- 1y winds, warmer, partiy cloudy weather and possidly occasional rain or snow, except_fower temperature than on Saturday in the Lower Lake Region. LOCAL ODSEEVATIONS, Cnicaqo. Jan. 27. Wind. : Weather, Time. Bar. Tur Hu.| ) Fair. Cloady. Clear. Population of Paris. The results of the census of Paris were pub- Jished & few davs ngo. The total population is 1,936,748 persons. It was in 1612, 1,652,793 per- sons. There has, therefore, bcen an jncrease since that vear of 134,956. The increase has Eeen chielly, as was to be expected, in_the out- Iying arrondissements, and is strongest in Pop- incourt, Moutmartre, Batignolles, Monceaux, and Pasey. In the centre the increase was the smallest, the arrondisscuent of Louvre haviug diminihed about 3,000 quote this, because those who wish to lull the people of Englaud into an ignoble slumber are fond of saying there has been exagperation on this subject. THERE TIAS BECN NO EXAGGERATION except the exaggeration that the Turks had in their capacity and desire of reform. Do not listen to that for a moment; but as to the black deeds done in Bulgaris, the whole vocabulary of buman language is insuflicient to paint them as they deserve.” The people of England are bound toresist the seductive language of those who tell them now the Conference has met and failed. There is no more to be donme. It is you, the people of England, whose rc- sources and whose actious have maintained ‘Turkey in the position of power she has abom- inably misused. After the Crimean war the European Powers took the engagement of Tur- key to do her part. They declared by the treaty of Paris they would not interfere with her in the fultillment of that engegement. The result is that the treaty of Kainardji, concluded & century ago, which gave Russia the right to interfere for the protection af Turkey's Chris- tian subjects, was destroyed, and we, in con- Jjunction with France, DESTROYED THAT RIGHT. Can anything be moro plain than if we de- stroyed that right we cannot divest ourselves of the allegation to put in its place something equivalent or better. Therefore, to say our re- sponsibilities are discharged by haviug sent hon- orable men to Constantinople to give the Porte good advice, and then come away with nothing but refusal, that advice is pothing more nor less than mockery. Doubtless you have read on various occasions specches of the Prime Minis- ter. “I have not sought to make tnis speech an at- tack on the Government. I think we are justi- fied in attackiug them, and it is just possible at the proper time 1 may be taking a share in do- ing so. But the settling of past accounts is of sccondary consequeunce. The Prime Minister bas repeatedly dwelt on the importance of maintainjvg what be calls the faith of treaties. Now the vital qustion for usis this: Arc the treaties of 1856 in force or noti Turkey had not fulfilled ler obligations, and therefore the treaties are not in force. Ihold it to be ridiculous, I hold it to be monstrous, to gay they are in foree as between Turkey and us. 1f the treaties arc in force I hardly know what liberties you possess. You are IN A DISGRACEFUL POSITION, you became aceessorics in the maintenance of a power marked with perhaps the deepest dis- grace recorded in the whole history of man- kind. The Turkish Constitution wasworse than an imposture, beeausc it committed the Chris- tian minority to the tender mercies of the Mo- himmedan mojority in the Council to which ‘weare invited to leave the task of doing justice to the Porte’s subjects. IN CONCLUSION, Gladstone said the good fame of England was never more completely at stake. If the inces- sant dinning into our cars of maintensnce of British intercsts, if the infusion of every word of suspicion against the policy of Russia, if the abuse of those unhappy Turkish Christians,— who, having been an enslaved people, are neces- sarily in sucl . respects open to the ae- moralizing influcnce of slavery,—if the recent invention of the Turkish Constitution made to order and intended to act asa barto the propositions of the Conference; if by these orany other like device (for I must say the imagination of the Turkish press of this coun- try is fertile beyond anything in manufacturing them); if by these things you are going to be drawn aside from the great purpose . you bhave in view, then we shall leave to posterity the melancholy les- son that the people of England, having long dwelt in the apathy which was due to the igno- rance that we all Iabored under, and having been once awakened to the gatlant and noble effort in Tavor of the principles of humanity, justice, and freedom, were content to be LULLED TO SLEEP AGAIN. they found the task of duty too heavy for them. It was more convenient for every man togo about his own pursuits, his own money-maki his own pleasures, and dismiss from his min these painful and harrowing subjects. It may be 50. But if that be true, these are marks of a degenerate nation. This is the conduct that emphatically ¥ CONFUTES THE DOCTRINE OF HUMAN PROGRESS. But, zentlemen, if you really wish to be worthy of the forefathers from whom you are descend- cd, of the civil and religious liberty you possess, and of the religion which it is your greatest privilege and blessing to possess, for heaven’s sake do not allow yourselves to be corrupted (for corruption it is) by these debasing insinuations, but grapple with this great duty which is given you, and leave to those who comc after you a° lesson and example which I will yenture o say will nether bo less noble nor less beneficial to mankind than the noblest of all lestons which vou bave received froma longline of ancestors.” [Great cheering.) IGNATIEFF 1.EAVES CONSTANTINOPLE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 27.—Ignatfeff, the Russian Ambassador, left to-day. PERSIA. Persia is likely to observe a pacific policy toward Turkey unless great pressure is exercis- ed by Russia. FRANCE. THE NEW MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES. Panis, Jan. 27.—Max Outrey, appointed Min- ister to the United States, will leave for Wash- ington next week. ROME. BoxE, Jan. 27.—The Pope, indisposed since Sunday, was up to-day for an hour, and will endeavor to give an 2udience to-morrow. —— k& TILDEN'S TAX. NEW YoRrrg, Jan. 27.—Green B. Raum, Com- missioner of Internal Revenue, has sent a letter to the retirine United States Attorncy, George Blise, acknowledging the receipt of a note from the latter advising Commissioner. Raum of the institution of a suit against the Hon. Samuel J. Tilden for therecovery of $15,000 of anpaid taxes upon his income. The Commissioner writes to Bliss; “Your action inthls matter has my approval. My aim has been to treat Mr. Tilden Ela'. as Iwould any other. citizen. If be owes overnment taxes and déclines to pay them, I see no_reason why he should be exempt from rosecution more than. any other citizen. While the canvass lasted I thought it unnccessary and unwise to fostitute pro- cecdings arainst him, and the instructions from this oflice of Sept. 26, 1876, to.you, in re- gard to suits for incom-tax, were the same.that werg given to,a number of oter United States. District Attorneys where it was_believed taxes of that description were due. I trustyou will put your successor in possession of 2ll the facts in connection with the subject, so that when the time comes for a trial he will be prepared to present the cause of the United States in such & manner as the merits of the case require.” CRIME. IN CHICAGO. . Harry Adams is the name of a boy arrested last evening by Officer Wells while trying to pawn a yaluable oxercoat. An owner is wanted at the Armory for the garment. George P. Murray, a nice young man, was at the West Madison Strect Station yesterday charged with bastardy by Sadie Conway, an in- mate of the Woman’s Home on Jackson strect. Commissioner Hoyne yesterday held John D. Fitch, retail tobacco dealer who paid no special” tax, in $500 to the District Court; and Williamn Seegarth in $700 bail to the same court for counterfeiting nickels. Joseph Macauley, another of the thieves con- cerned in the O’Brien shirt-store robbery of last October, was yesterday arrested by Detective Scott, and to—(fuy e will be lodged in the Coun- 3‘ Jail, as an indictment has been found against 1 parties concerned. Dr. Alexander Sterl, who tried so hard to kill off Fred Partell, husband of Lis misiress, was )écalnrduy held in $2,000 bail to the Criminal ourt upon a warrant for assault with intent to kill, Partell was so far recovered {rbm his in- Juries as to be able to appear in court. Before Justice Pollak yesterday Julius H. Koch und two sons were héld in §2,000 bail each 1o the Criminal Court for the larceny of $2,000 worth of clothing from IH. A. Kohn'& Co., but at the solicitation of thedefendant’s friends the amount was reduced to $500 cach. Thomas Moran, vagrant, was discharged by a jury, but was at once arrested upon i warrant for burg- Iary, as was also Edward Burns, vagrant. Justice Summerfield yesterday held the fol- lowing: Frank Dow, larceny from George Holden, of No. 767 Monroe street, $500 to the Criminal Court; Joscph Girard and John O'Brien, larceny from k. H. Haddoclk, of No. 1127 Michigan avenue, §400 each to the Criminal Court; Harry Meyers ana Edward Levi, receiv- ing stolen property, continucd to the 30th; Thomas Lee, vagrant, sixty davs; Tony Foster, larceny of eight pails' from Milton Kine, of No. 120 Van Buren street, $100 tine or nincty days; James Dounaldson, larceny of suit of clothes from William Iveson, of No. 82 State street, $500 to the Criminal Court; Angle Homer, re- ceiving stolen property, upon complaint of Lewis"Stern, of 170 Jackson street, honorably discharged. A neat but unsuccessful game was attempted yesterday afternoon upon A. I. Miller, jewelry- dealer at No. 61 Washington street. A young fellow, giving the name of John Wilkie, an falsely representing himsclf to be a son of Frane B. Wilkie, drove up to Miller’s in a rig he had shortly before hired from a livery-stable at No. 912 West Mudison street. Entering, he selected two ladies’ gold watches, and ssked that the salesman be sent with hiw to his wife's room at the Clarence House, on State street. The salesman went as requested, and, kecping an eye upon his customer, nabled him as he was escaping with the plunder through a rear passage-way in the house. Recovering the prfl;euy. he gent young Wilkie to the Armory in charge of Officcr Mcver. CRIMINAL COURT. Daniel Maloney and Michacl Fecney, larceny, were found guilty. Maloney was given two years and Fecney one in the Penitentiary. Tim Hogan pleaded guilty to larceny and was remanded. Thomas Conuers was tried for robbery and found vot guilty. James and Thomas Dorsey and Thomas Mo- gfil ‘:crc tried for malicious “mischief and found - BIG DIAMOXND ROBBERY. Special Dispatch to The Tridune. NEW Yorr, Jav. 27.—A bold diamond rob- bery was perpctrated to-day. Charles V. Hand, who gained notoricty last fail by managing the mustang races at Flectwood Park, ‘had dia- monds reputed to be worth $25,000Ieft in his keeping by one Mattle S. Whitney. There were sixtecn picces of the jewelry. Hand wished to 2o into p:u’ml.'rsh!if in the cattle business with a young man named Willinm F. McCarthy, whoin he had known but a week, McCarthy said he could getaloanof $12,000 on the diamonds, and induced Iand to take them toa building on Nassau_street, where the loan was to bo effected. - Hand allowed McCarthy to enter the building with the jewelry, while he waited his return. McCarthy.at onee passed through to the Fullon street entrance, where he met a_ confederate, and both hastemed away. Hand saw the game, and gave chase. McCarthy was caugit, but his unknown ally got away with the diamonds. The police have a clue, and will probably effect his arrest. 2 SOUTHERN ITEMS. Mexrems, Tenn., Jan. 27.—Nothing has been heard of Drury, who Lilled his uncle, Deputy United States Marshal at Gibson, last night. Sheriff Anderson and several deputics are in pursuit of him. Detective Pride, who was shot by Jack Will- iams, the colored burglar, a few days since, is improving, and strong hopes are ¢ntertained of his recovery. Parties from Austin, iiss., report a terrible state of affairs there sfuce the murder of Sheriff Manning. Scveral of his friends have been no- tified to leave there, and have done so. ILLICIT DISTILLING. Spectal Dispalch to The Tribune. Sourn BEND, Ind., Jan. 27.—Two detectives belonging to the Revenuo service, in company with Deputy-Collector Chestnut Wood, to-day, in Herris Townsbip, = few miles from this city, seized a still with its accompaniments and some ten barrels of whisky which has been Dlicitly manufactured. The whole wns concealed in an underground room off the cellar, and belonging. to Jacob Myers. There is talk that there are several more stills concealed in out of the way places, within aa casy ride from bhere. GUILTY OF MURDER. Des Morxes, In., Jan. 27.—In the Warren County District Court, at Indianols, the Jary in the case of Benjamin Westfall, for the mur- der of George Howry, in the Warren County vendetta last February, rendered a verdict of guilty of murderin the' sccond degree. There are indictments against him for three other murders at the same time. There are eight others who are to be tried for the same crime. BUSINESS RIVALRY. COETENNE, Jan. 27.—A serious shooting af- fray occurred Tast night at North Platte, Neb., bewween two saloon-keepers, J. M. Price and David Perry. Four pistol-shots were fired, Price was severely wounded in the leg above the knee, and Perty was shot through the left breast and in the licud. He will probably die. Business rivalry is supposed to be the cause of De tight. CHLOROFORMED. CincrwNATy, 0., Jan. 27.—A Gazelte special from Lancaster, O., says a peddier called at the house of 8. 8. Chalfant, near Thornville, Friday evening, and obtained permission to Jodge over night. _During the night he chloroformed the entire family, and ransacked the house, carry- ing off $900 in money and $35,000 in drafts. The ;%u':!g], s traced to Lancaster, but not appre- THE LOUISVILLE MURDER. !_‘omsmr.s. Ky., Jan. 27.—J. W. Stockton, chief clerk of the Willard Hotel, Louisville, wio was shot yesterday by his employer, W. C. D. Whipps, died this morning. The affalr pro- duces more excitement thun has been known ]‘)‘:'rc since the killing of Gen. Nelson during the yar, PLEADED GUILTY. Bpecial Dispateh to Tne Tribune. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 27.—In the United States Court to-day, Joseph Woodward, of defferson Couaty, pleaded guilty to the charge of passing counterfeit money, and wassentenced to the Penitentiary for a year. e R sk SN THE TELEGRAPH WAR. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. PITTSDURG, Pa., Jan. 27.—he injunction suit of the Merchants’ National Telegraph Company against the Western-Union Telegraph Company, to restrain the latter Company from removing or interfering with the poles, wircs, and fixtures of the former Company, vyu’us to-day before Judge Ewing, presiding Judge of the. Court o6f Common Pleas for Alleghény County, and deefded in favor of the vlaintiffs, the injunction hcin% continued until further notice.” The lines of the Mcrchants’ National Telegraph Company are now in possession of the ~Western Union Company, under a lease which expires March , 1877, at which time they will fall into the hands of the Atlanti¢ & Pacific.. Tetegraph Company un- dera working arrapgement rccently entered -into, and to prevent the control of the lines passing to its competitors the Western Union attempted to tear down the lines, leaving the Atlantic & Paclfic Company to bring suit for damages as their remedy. CASUALTIES. FELL. THROUGH THE ICE. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. GALENA, Iil, Jan, 27.—Maheen Coleman, & resident of Mount Hope, just west of Galena, and for twenty-two yecars last past a2 mar- ket-man . in this city, dropped decad. about noon to-day while m a fit of apoplexy, super- induced by chill and excitement attending the rescue of his team, which had broken through the ice while crossing Galena River at the foot of Gear street. Deceased was 55 years of aze, and was Senior Warden in Galena Commandery, K. 'T., also a prominent Odd-Fellow. He leaves o wife and five children. B FATALLY FROZEN. * Spectal Disoalch to The Tridune. JAaNesviLLe, Wis., Jan. 27.—Dr. Judd, of tials city, was to-day ealled to see Mrs. Timothy Lynch, who was found beside the road about four miles below here Iast Wednesday morning, with her limobs badly frozen. The man who {found her thawed them out _as best he could, neglected to call in a physician until it was too Jate to do much for her, and she will undoubt- edly dic. . THE BOSTON -EXPLOSION. BosToy, Jan. 27.—The loss by the cxplosion of the oil-works of Jenncy & Co., West First street, last nizht, is cstimated at $40,000. In- surance, $27,000. The body of Corliss, the em- ploye, has been recovered. e— WASHINGTON. The Texas Pacific il —-Armg‘ Reform-—A Simple Form of Resumption, Sgecial Dispatch to The Trivune. WasmixneTox, D. C., Jan. 27.—Lamar will try next Monday to have tixed a day for the consid- eration of the Texas Pacific bill. A two-thirds vote is necessary. A Southern Dewiocrat says the success or failure of this motion will have a considerable effect upon the organization of the next House, in which a majarity for either party will depend on the half-dozen votes from the States which favor the bill. The Commission appointed to prepare' a plan for the reform and reorganization of the army reported to the President that thore has been a very general discussion and interchange of opiniuns, but other matters have so occupied them that they have not been able to give tie subject that attention and delbberation its im- fortance demands, and they cannot, therefore, make recommendations. The Senate, in _exccutive session, to-day con- firmed the nomination of §. W. Rathbunas Postmaster at Marion, Ia., andiGeorge R. Buck- Der, Postmaster at $t. Charles, Mo, . WasHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28.—The followine bill has been introduced in the Housc of Repre- slgul tives by the Hon. 8. B. Chittenden, of New or! A bill for paying the legal-tender debt in harmony with justice and the repeatecly pledged faith of the Government of the United States. WaEereas, Tae legal-tender uotos of the United States, when first i-sued, were, by 2 provision of the act anthorlzing them, fandable at the opticn of holders into bonds of the United States bearing 6 per centum anaual interest; ang, -whereas, but for snch provision for funding, neither ihe Sccretary of the Treasury nor eiher House of Congress would bave conmsented to their issuc; and, whereas, the exigencies of a prolonged civil - war to the temporary withdrawl of the said funding provision of the Legal-Tender act; and whezeas, it is. apparent in the present and prospective condition of the com- merce of the country that the amount of paper woney in circulation i3 greatly in excoss of the proper demands of trade:and whereas, the Gov- ernment of the United States is solemnly and firm- Iy_bound, by actof Conyress approved Jan. 14, 1575, to provide for the redemption in coin of its- lcgal-tender notes on and after the 1st day of Junuary, 1879; and whereas, it is obvious that, in order to resume coin payment in the manner und at the time fixed the uforosaid act of Congress, the previous withdrawal from circulation of a conviderable portion of ssid legal-tender notes is an indispensnble 4ct of prep- aration; and whereas, it i> now apparently practi- cable to fund said notes in bonas having forty years to rug, at a rute of -futerest not exce per ceutum 'pee anuum, withoat commissions or coet to Government; and wiereas, the United States must, like all other debtors, public or pri- vate, provide for and pay ali its honest obligatios to the extent of its means and resonrces, or be dis- credited and dighonorea: thercfore Beit enacted, by tie Sena’e and iHouse of Repre- senlatives of tic United Siutes of America in Con- gress asscmbled, That the Sscretary of the Treas- ury be and is hereby autborized 1o withdraw, as Aoon us the necessary preparations can be made, the legal-tender notes of the Unitcd States, when- ever presented by the holders thereof, and issue thercfor, dollar for doliar, of face-value coupon or registered bonds of the United States in_the spirit of the original Legal-tender act: Provided, That the bonds autnorized by this act shall be payable in coin at the expiration cf forty ycars from the lst day of January, 1877, and bear interest at the rate of 4 per centuui per annum, payzble quarterly in coin. Skc. 2. That the bonds anthorized by this act ehall be availuble for deposit in the Treasury of the United States for banking purposes under the yarious. provisions of law - relatiug 1o Nutlonsl anks. Sec. 3, 'That the legal-tender notes received in exchange for bonds under this act shall be destroy- edlunder such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. SEc. 4, ‘That all laws inconsistent wita this act are hioreby repealed. st e MEX1CO. A Chance for Adventurers, Special Dispalch to The Tridune. St. Louss, Jan. 29.—A eensation has been created here by a rumor that a recruiting office s to be cpened in St. Louis for the purpose of recruiting troops for the Mexican President Iglesias, and that a certain prominent cavalry leader of this State bas been comumissioned by iglesiass to mise a brigade of veteran ex-Confederate and ex-Federal horse- men for immediate -operations agninst Diaz. Iglesias, accompanied by bis Cabinet, will be in 8t, Louis in the course of a week, and will re- main here long enough to confer with his ad- visersand condjutors in this city. Hence the party goes to New Orleans, and thence to Mexico. Special Dispatch to The Tribuna. WAsHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 37.—The State De- partment has no news that Gen. Diaz will at- tempt to purchase recognition from the United States by paying $300,000 on account of an in- stallment due on the Mexican indemni Should the moncy come through the Mexican Minister, the . recognized representative of Leredo’s Government, Secretary Fish would undoubtedly receive it. If it sliould come by special messenger, the question of its reception would be a grave one. New Youg, Jan. 27.—A Washington special states that a uumber of oflicers of _the Jate War have determined to offer. President Iglesias their servi At the conference yesterday one of th number was deputed to wait upon Iglesias and formally tender bim their services: This gentleman gradu- ated at West Point, and was in the regular army when the Wa: broke out. Onc of the principal cavalry officers of the Confederacy will leave immediately for St. Louis, where he hopes to mect the ex-President and his Cabinet, and lay a scheme before_them.- They say they can easily raise 10,000 or 15,000 men in’ Louisiana and Texas, who will be able to sweep Diaz’s forcea before them. ———— TELEGRAPHIC NOTES, Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. PEORLA, IIL, Jun. 27.—For the last nine days the case of James Stratton against the Central City Horse-Railroad Company hids been on trial before Judge Burns. Sult was broiight for §10,- 000 damages, plaintifl clalming that in crossing defendant’s track, owing to the poor condition in which it was, he was thrown from his wagon and badly hurt. The'case was given to the jury this eveniog, and a verdict rendercd for the de- fendunt, An appesl will no doubt be taken. NEw York, Jau. 27.—In the suit of the half- sisters of Eugenc Sue, Rose and Blanche, against the execators of the estate of their father, the late Dr. Niles, judgment has been given against- them, The Judge holds that the plaintiffs bave not made out a case which makes it the duty of the Court to interferc to Ilz‘rotcv:t. the funds from improper acts of the rustees. NEw ORLEANS, Jan. 87.—William R. Messick, Democratic Sheriff-clect of Avoyelles Parish, was shot and killed - by Policeman McMahon, who claims that he only fired to frighten, not to injure, the dcceased. “SECRET SOCIETIES. MASONIC. WILL NOT BE RECOGNIZED. St. Paul Pioneer Press. The whole of the forenoon, and a portion of the afternoon, of the Grand Lodge meeting was deyoted to the discussion of what Is called the ‘ African Lodge.” The question of recognizing the colored lodges has long been discussed by the Masonic fraternity. Last year the Grand Master alluded to the subject in his address, and as the lodge had an application from Prince Hull Lodge of Boston, and tw&from two lodges here in the State asking to be recognized, it was dcemed best to bring the matter to a conclusion 25 soon as possible. Accordingly, that portion of the Grand Master’s address which referred to the question and the three communications were referred to 2 large committee. Yesterday three reports were made, one by Mr. A. T. C. Pierson, one by Aaron Goodrich, and one by Mr. Griswold. The two first reported against recognizinyg the colored people. The last, Mr. Griswold, reported in favor of recog- nizing them. The whole question resolves itsclf, according to the reports, into a question of history. The two that agree against recog- nizing the colored lodges are not now and never have been recognized as belonging to the Ma- sonic fraternity, and all scarched diligently the Masonic history to ascertain whether or not the colored brethren had béen taken in. Mr. Good- rich goes to the oldest kind of English law to show what a free man is, and claims that none but a free man can be a Mason. Mr. A. T. C. Picrson’s report was also quite long and reaches the same conclusion but by a different line of argument. The discussion was brought 1o a close by"the adoption of three resolutions, attached to'the report of - Mr. A. T. C. Pierson, as follows: Resolred, That the Grand Lodge of Minnesota declines to recognize the Prince Hall Grand Lodze, located in Boston, Maes., for the reason of fts ir- regular formation. Teesolred, That the Grand Lodge cannot recognize charters as having any validity i this State except those issued by its suthority; and that it cannot issue charters exeept to such Masons asare of its obedience, Resolred, That color is neither a bar nor a recom- mendation to theacceptance of the Masonic degrees” in this jurisdiction, and that it is pertectly Som-. etent for any Lodge in this jurisdiction to make asons of any partiesposseszing the required quali- fications. i The vote by which the resolutions were adopt- ed is 321 in favor of them and 7 against, which appears to be sufficiently decisive to settle the matter. ADYVICE FOR GRAND MASTERL. The Grand Master of Michigan, in his report to the Graud Lodge, in session at Detroit last week, said: * 1 desire to say that to caltivate public morality, aswell as private virtue, a the duty of every Mason, Worshipful Masters: Have you in your lodges the netoriously profligate and profane? Have you those whoze daily life and occupation is to sow the seeds of death amony their ncighbors, whose presence by your fireside with your wives and daughters would ce a contamination and not to be endured? Purge your lodges of such. They are a source of weakuess and a cause of shame and disgrace. A socioty makiny the professiuns that we do ought to be heard from upon questions of public morality. ‘The trumipet pf the Grand Master at least shall ive forth no uncertain sound. Masonry has out- ived all its persccators and etands to-day pre-emi- nent among all huwman institutions, because its principles have the vitality and the sanction of the Word of God. 3USCELLANEOUS. ‘There were 227 lodges represented at the recent scssions of the Grand Lodge of Michigan at Detrait. The following officers of Reauseant Com- mandery, No. 11, of Quincy, were installed Friday evening: E. C., the Rev. Freeman Danicl R ckerson; G., Edward Starr Mulliver; . G., Evelyn Charles Selleck; P., Joseph Rob- bivs; S. W., William Henry Konantz; J. W., Thonas Jefferson Mackoy; S., Samuel Eastman Seger; R, George Worthington Wood; S.B., Thomas White; 8. B., Charles Heary Bagby; W., Charles Sherman Groff. The following are the oflicers of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey for the ensuing vear: M. . Grand Master, Marshall B. Smith; D. G. Natban Haines; 8. G. W., Hamilion W 5 d. 3. W., Joseph W. Martin; Grand Treasurer, Charlés Bechtel; Grand Sceretars, Joseph H. Hough; Deputy Grand Scerctary, T. H. Kedway: Grand Cbaplain, the Rev. N, Petit. Grand 3. Deacon, George B. Edwards; Grand J Deacon, M. AL Doran; Grand Marshal, Charlzs Russ; Graod Senior Steward, Eenjamin B. ‘the -Order, except in Ohio, | own insurance, and this n :%;%fiuwflh the City of Cincinnati, in whichy ARSI ted, therehy causing a heavier mmfi" Pennsylvania, Ohio, and” Ioyy are ek risdictions, carrying their own !nsu“p'm’h' rately, and, by the Supreme Recorderrs o0 for December, Kentucky will carry b s fer the Supreme Lodze meets ixuy o gLt 2,300 members. New York bas 1, and over 300 not assessabl; xi 400, West Virginia 65, Californ, 110, Mmmg:in 635, Tennessee “50, , making 2, total of nearly; e under SupremeLodge jurisdictios oo Beben 3 appl lor ?:ce sjcusl}sdicdon“w the asfiggg:.fi?;‘ session, s o providing 2,000 members rex;:in n;? o premo jurisdiction u5 under the. caruch ¢ & the Supreme Lodge. An assessment o of- made of over 3105 on camber ot be leath, to raise the required & for. the heirs of thg deccns‘;.nn;tu“ Eflh Iowa has been under separate !\ll'-isdiacfl‘a;‘!“hm April1, 1676, and has had huy fecu00 they the present date and five Assessments, - thousand dollars. always remaiy s %o ance fund to pay a policy on the ooy g:zéha’:n% 2 call is &;wm:n fssued of § “&"’" mber in go 2 St 800d standing to iy T ——— -~ E LETTERS FROM THE PEOpL, ‘ i & A DEXUL, : To the Editor of The Tribume: - ... CuIcaco, Jan. 2%7.—In the interests of o we begt leave though your columns {5 pgg 2 report current fn last Saturday's-issgs of TRBGNE relative to the grounds ‘on whig; contract far covering . the pfim.: the Cook County Hos, el to the Drupriktgrs‘ ofm,'t"llnle ‘;’;‘l:znfi“m b and Boiler Compound. It will be reropl® ¢ the report Virtually is, theirs was o 2Dl bid, and the preference given them mhgh“' | sult of $600 Leing put up Tor the job gag oS $100 in excess of what was offered omqbdn‘ peting parties. The following Tacts, e G m:il sgxu[fiic to sil‘m\r fair play in the transactioy’ ! and vindicate the merits of articly re;‘u{fescmnfires. tais e and iy, ter responses to the bids for for bids to cover the pipes hnu"'bfi.'ffn'fi"‘""; owiug o the magnitude of the Job (there wod not a few), it was deemed most Droper by thy »Board of County Commissioners'to reques; each bidder to show a sampleof comj ditiop work on the pipe of the Crgesot d fo which all acquiesced. This . beirg” ot the specimens were thus ail tested by 3 stapg] thermometer, whichdeclared the follovingressys Cottou's . Aspestos, test 80 ‘digrees, ug m thick; Webber's Phenix, T8, 137 Diypes Asbestos, 80,1345 Kirkwood’s Asbestos, ¥, 1 Asbestos Flake, 65, 3373 Dean's Asbestonts 1}?; Rirkwood’s no Asfzesma, 8L, 13, ’”‘ t will be seen that the superiority of th, Pheenix Compound as a non-conductor of heat, with lasting adhesive qualitics, was 'bh?; deme. onstrated, and the merits t00 apparent ‘to T quire the fabuloys sum of $000 fo its adoti, We have also th deny that our bid wa (s highest made. There Were others -higher, and we remember only one lower, and in this s the article was shownto D lnferior, nd oy principle - that the. lowest-priced * are Dot always the cheapest bhag' be recognized.” Our price, 24 tenitc er foot, is six ur . recvay sdvertised figures, which reduction we madejy! meet compctition. The rate is*lower than g, have yet. given, or could give in_ ordinary casgy Regarding * the allegzed obscureness of tiy Phenix Compound, We Liavé only to 4firm thy discovery is comparatively- young, being anly patented in 1575, bat for testimony as to its rext merit, etc., we shall have pleasure in refemring. your readers aud all true seekers to ™ 1 putable firms 1o this city, where our wurkaa: inspected. Yours, respectfully, THOMAS | zngu,'?_mpm GeoreE KELLY, Agent. ° S8 It JACESON. Ty the Editor of The Tridune. = CnicAGo, Jan. 27.—Having noticed artidesh our papers ,of tho 20tk 2nd 21st insh. Fhiey reflect greatly to my discredit, I: deem if neter- sary to write an explanatory article; in orderto do justice to myseli and satisfy the miod of ibs public that I have been misrepresated. I never was associated business’ with Barney Aaron, nor employ Minnie - Marks. % striculy horse-jockeying, and Ilay claim to'ss much honesty as any other man in Chicago who is in the sume business. I never was associated Ayerigz: Grand Junior Steward, William H. Beonett; Grand Instructor, Heber Wells; Grand Sword-Bearer, Samuel Batcher; Grand Pursuivant, James Vanherstein; Grand Tyler, Amos Howell. ODD FELLOWSHIP. THE MANCHESTAR UNITY of 0dd Fellows (England) reports a member- ship of 508,013, of which 468,357 reside in Great Britain. They received last year for initiation fees £15,885 11s.; contributions from non-ini- tiates, £504,507; interest on capital, £133,635. Paid for sick benefits, £845,060: and for funeral benefits £100,43f. The rcturns show the acen- mulated capital of this branch of - the Order to be £3,679,780 9s. 2d.; that the Socicty granted in sick and funcral benefits £1,245 3s. 3d. daily. Were the Society to be brought to a close at once, as Correspond- ing Secretary Spay affirms, there is sufficient stock to distribute about $88 to every present member. This isa decidedly favorable exhibit, showing the Maunchester Unity to be in a healthy financial condition. AISCELLANEOUS. A pew hall is svon tobe erected by the fra- ternity in Towanda, Pa. A dispensation has been granted for the insti- stution of Northern Star Lodge, No. 45, of Bumlln‘ N. Y. The New York Ifeart and_Haxd, ably edited by William H. Barnes, . G. M., is a very newsy periodical. > The Order in Berlin, Prussia, has lately pur- chased a building at the expense of $i5,000, to be devoted to the purposes of the brotherbood. Grand Sccretary Foster bas dedicated the new hall of Meridian Lodge, No. 480, at Indianapo- lis. The new hall of Eden Lodge, No. 69, Ke- wanng, Ind., was recently dedicated. The Order in Michigan, despite the hard times, is steadily progressing; the same being true with regard to the fraternity in this juris- diction. Past Grand Sire James B. Nicholson has been renominated for the position of Grand Scribe of the Grand Encampment and Grand Sceretary of the Grand Lodge of the leading jurisdiction of Pennsylvania. He is one of the oldest clerical officers in the Order. The Logan County Assoclation of 0dd-Fel- lows Leld their semi-annual session at Atlanta, 1L, on the 23d inst. Dr. W. C. Maull, who has done much toward building up the Order in that Joc alilg'. was presented with a fine and elaborate 0Odd-Fellows? badge. ‘The anuusl report of the General Relief Com- mittec of Columbous, O., shows that during the year 1876 the sum of §1,29.40 was disbursed for the relicf of sick and distressed members of the Order. The amount in the treasury on the Gth inst. was 362.91, The number of visits to the sick made by the Committee during the term was seventy-nine. . ‘The various lodges and encampments in Chi- cago are doing good work, and increasing their membership from among the ibest class of cit- zens. As the promised mood,times approach, they find that the number of applicants for adinission is on the increase. The following oflicers of Adriel Encampment No. 106 were installed Friday eveniog by P. C. P., Thomas Chalmers, assisted by P. G. R., A. G. Lull and G. S. W., W. H. Crocker: C.P., R. Ward; H. ., J. Mooroe; 8. W., John Park- er; Treasurer, Jobn P. Foss; S.. K. Monroe; A. S., James Berth; J. W., W. B. Lewie. A grand concert and ball took place at the opera-house in Galesburg, 111, on the evening of the 25th inst., under the auspices of Amor Lodge No. 534. Some of the initiatesof this lodge are well-known members of *fushionable society, and the affair was a very recherche one. The musicwas furnished by the Light Guard Band, and the terpsichoren exercise was kept up to an early hour. 3 A. 0.T.W. MEETING OP THE @RAND LODGE. The Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, which was in session last week at Peoria, clected the following officers: E. W. Boyington, P. G. M. W., No, of Lodge 4 Tock Island: E. C. Palmer, G. M. W., No. Rock Falls; M. Piggotit,G. G. F.. No. 10, Quing) W. IL McCormick, G. C., No. 22, Keardstown; G. R. Wells, G. , No. 7, Streator;’ G.- A. Sol- ander, G. R., No. 4, Rock Island; E. Krell, D. G. . 8. Rock Island; T. §. dathews, G. W., W, Yirzinia; A. NcLain, Trustee, three years, 29, Macomb; E. W.. Sanford, Trustee, one Fesar, No. 19, Jacksonvilie. The statistics of the Grand Lodge show that during the past year twenty-eight lodzes were organized in the State, with an aversge mem- bership of thirty-five. There is now a total membership of 1,300 in the State, and the Order is - rapidly spreading. Its objects arc a }\ollcy of . $2,000 st death, costing on an average for fusurance and dues to subordinate. lodgea not to excecd $20 per year—at least it has not exceeded that amount during the existence of . eight-fold ‘in’ threc 7cars.m’!l'he tbflu with swindlers, and confine inyself stritlyio the business of buying ‘dnd " seHing. harsés Your n:rr comments at it length o mp style doing business. ~My horses.are not represented to me as being deficient in anyre- spect when I buy them, nor do I misrepresent them when I make & sale. I have had appor- tunities to take as partners scveral gentlemen whoare well known as respectable fradesmen E in this city. - I sell n:g horses to the very best uuv;\nt:g‘e, which causes '3 grest’ deal of enviousness in the trade. Mr. Linnett, a dealer in my neighborhoad, has no reasonsio make any distinctions, as there is not the slight- est difference in our business, as we are-both i horse dealers.” Hoping that you will gire the above room in your paper, Lam your hum- ble servant. Haxar ACESON. . DANGBIAN BRIDGES. To the Editor of The Tribune. CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—The editorial which Iresd in your to-day’s paper about the Russo-Turkish campaiga is very correct, only for one mistak: You say that ¥ thereare no permanent bridges across the Danube anywhere.”” There are msaf of them, and good ones, too. There. are four of them betiseen the cities of Buda and Pesth= a beautiful chain-bridge (built about thirty years ago), perhaps, the most magnificent bridge i urope; a great railroad bridge, all fron ull! about. three years ago); it is us _‘b{ passengers as well: +a plain but very strozg iron bridze from Pcsth to )largxuuiet o island between Buda and Pestb); one like the third from Margitszizet to Buda, finishe lil:fh ago. All these bridges are very solid and high ciiongh for any steamer Without masts to pes under. -Besides there is a heavy iron bridge Esztergom (Hungary) and one .in Raab (Hur gary). Therc are also many other bridges across that river between the latter towns and the City of Vienna. Respectfully, A HUNGARUE. ADVICE WANTED. To the Editor of The Triduns, CmicAGO, Jau. 27.—Will_Gen. Pleasonton &€ some other medical scientist give us, thro the columns of Tue Cmicaco .TRIBUNE, N opinion of living and sleegiug rooms where the sunlizht never enters,—where only a north Wiz dow is avalable for air and light? Also, if the blue glass, placed in ‘a nortlr window, will havs. a beneficial cffect upon_the bealth n'}x‘gp:,mu‘ occupying a room thus lighted, an ‘is e ot S~ e X AMONG THE INDIANS. CHEYENNE, Jan. 27.—A mail carrier from Tndian agencies, arrived"at Hot Creck to-dsfy reports a1l quiet at the agenies and along the trails. Jose Rooks, onc of the partaers of the Hot Creek Ranche, left Red Cloud last Tuesdsy for home and has. FOLhIS:(wEf l;unl of slocs: Much anxiety is felt for his safety. 2 - . Louts, Mo., Jun. 27.—Maj. Marston, Io* dian Agent of the civilized tribes fn the m’“‘m‘ Tegritory, who is here on bpsmummes ask the leading men of the civilized tri favor o project of sendiny the northern . Sloux to,m> territory. The motive larbmu view Z: &bl ject 13 belicved to. be 'one - A 25 they think that it all the Indians et of the Rocky Mountains were concentrared Iite, would bea strong argument az'.\lnstwm 7o ing the ‘Territory, making s State of it fovem- tinguishing the’ Indinn’s’ risht to ell ment. # o OBITUARY. s B ) Spectat Dispatch to The Tritune. ANN Arpox, Mich., Jan, 27.—Capt. erdefln: E! Huson, for 21 years living on a small kn: 5 mile west of this city. dicd to-day of unns; il tion of the bowels, after Lwo years .skl oot THuson was, for seventeen years, Canuln; ™4 British Army in Indig, whea be sold Oum right for a large sum and came to th_u minu {14 Quite a large property has been amasst t’\\'ifl— since. He was 2 brother of Mrs. GeomRe 1o fams, wife of the oldest professor in higxa University. g Salils Supcrseding Steam. - A remarkable change in the character :l“g: ship-buildizz o the Clyde has for some L becn soing 01, and daring last vear G oy very large proportions. Tais is te substitit; of ‘iron sailing ships for iron sieamers, o in- change :s’ ntacrlbcd lin atclxnn q:; H crease of late years in the pric crease which makes it difficult to nmb at a profit. in 1873 there werc Clyde 126 iron screw-steamers, of b and only twelve iron sailing ships mleh were: lauuched. But in 1376 only ch’i] ety iron_ screw-steamers wero built, W eere ol scven sron sailing ships of 96,000 1003 WEF structed. fs an inerense of b il which will be welcom¢d by sail-inakers ors; who generally dislike steamers 10 of their own. e