Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1877, Page 4

4 . THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY- DECEMBER 21, 1877. The Tribmne, TENMMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANUE—FOSTAGE PREPAID, i1y Edition, one e $12.00 Caricof 3 yerr. oer kit Ennday Faltio erai Toufilc &1 ga0 Eatunitoy + i X it Weekly, one yeir ag "artaof a vear, per montie & rect Give Poit- Uftice address In fall tncluding Btate and County. Remftiancss maybe made elther by draft, cxpress, Toit-Ofllee order, orin regiatered letters, at onr risk. TERMS TO CITY FUNSCRINRRS, Datly. Aclivercd. Sunday excepied, 25 conta per week. iat Tially, delircred, Snnday Included, % ceots per week. Adires THE TRIDUNE U Cortier Madiron and fiearborn sts.., 4 Orders far the deifyeryof Tra T At Eyanston, fnlewaod, and liyde Furk leftin the Counting-room Sillrecaive urompt attentlon. 3 TRIBUNE BRANCI OFFICES. ‘TR CICABO TRNTNE has cotablished hranch officen for the recefpt of subscriptions and sdvertlsements a3 followes: NEW YORR--Room 20 Tridune Rullding. F. T. Mo- Fanoxw, Manager. SAN Fit W. Xonrn . Cal~Pataca Slotal, Criantes Manager. ‘rance--No, 16 Mue Ao Ia Grange-Bateltere, . Manixn, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—Amertcsn Rxehangs, ¢40 Strand. Hzxgr ¥. Ly TAMUSEMENTS, Farwefl fiall, Medionn street, hetween Clark and LaSalie. ** Moth ar tioave." MceVicker's Thentre. Madiron street, between Stste snd Dearborn. **fraonle.” Itooley’s Thentrn, Tandolph strect, between Clark Fngagement of tho Hi **Thue Chlmes of Nor Huverly’s Theatre. Menroe sireet, corner of Deatborn. Engsgement of D. 1L Hsrking. **Jack Cade.” and LaSalle, Engllsh Opers Troupe, Colisenm Novelty Theatre, Clark street, opposite Co SOCIETY MELETINGS. URIENTEL LODOE, N many of the brethron &Y ca funeral of our Jatu broghey M. Iven, au t20'¢lock’ this (Fri- Episcopal Chiureh, Wabia day) atieencon, “T'he annunl commanteation will be beld thiis (Felday) evening at 1:300clock for e3, clection of officers, ete. A full stiendance rec B.W. ¥, ted. Iy order of the Uc i hecrettey. HOME LODGE. No. %A A. F. & A, M.—Annual ‘Communication this (‘Pfldl() evening, at 144 Twenty- srconil-at., commencing af 7:30 p. m. sharp for pay- ment of dues, election of officers for tho cosalng year, and otkar Lusincss of importance, % . Z, HERRICK, Sccrtary. COVENANT LODGE, No. 83 Tiegular (AnhuAl) C: At 7:30 0'clo for electlon of tendanca brethren WAL ki WABHINGTON CHAPTER, No. 43, R. A, M,— nnusi Convocation this Friday eveningz, st 7:30 o'clock. &t Hall corner ftandoiph and Halsted-ats, , for thoeiectin of oflicers. and stenianco denred. \ L, B4 1. quILFORD, i1, P, CHARLES B, WHIGHT, ec'y, VR FRIDAY, DECEMDER 21, 1877 e —— o] CHICAGO MARKET GUMMARY, The Chicago produce markets wera fairly active In the nggregate, nnd casivr. Mess pork closed T3@10c per brl lower, at $11.80@11.82% for dununry and $11.05@11.074 for February, Lard cloeed fic per 100 1ba Jower, at $7.72% for Janu. ary and 87,8215 for Fevruary. Meats wore easy, nt 4}ic for boxed shoulders and $0,00 per 100 1bs for do short ribts. Whisky was steady, at 81.00 per gallon. Flour was quict. {Wheat closed canler, st 81.08% for Decomber and $1,08% for January. Comn closed lower, at 44%c cash and 43%c for Janusry. Oata closed casler, at 245@25¢ cnsh aud HXc for January, Ityo was steady. at 50c. Darley closed stropger, at GHi(c for January ond FDtic (or Pebrukry, Ilogs ciosed dull iyl weak, at $4,00024,16. Cattlo wore quiet and nnchanged, with eales at $1.55@5.80 for in- furlor to extra. Sheep were quoted quiot, at § @4.23. Inspected Into store In this city yer day morning: 102 cars wheat, 38 cars corn, 17 car oaty, © care ryo, 62 carw barley. Total, 272 cars, or 101,000 ba. One hundred dollars In gold ‘would buy 8102, 87 In groonbacke at the close. e e Groonbncks ot the Now York Stock Ex- choango yosterday closed at 97}, Uay Cosedab b ment of dues A'full i Eucouraged by their success in tho first sttempt, tho Dairymen’s Association will hold their Gouvention and Exhilution in Chi- cago again next year. T —— Tho twentleth auniversary of tho Institu. tion of tho noon prayer.meoting in Chicago was celebrated yostorday with interesting oxerclsos. A charactoristio lotter from Mr, Bloovy was ane of the gratifying eplsodes of tho ocoasion. T t— In the South Carolina Legislature the queation upon the ratification of tne pmend. ment to the Htate Conatitution providing for an sunual levy of two milla upon all taxable property for tho support of free schools re- ceived an affirmative voto of more than twot thirds, —— The Nebraska Grangers closed the pro- ceedings of their annual Convontion yester- day, and before so doing passed o sertes of rosolution favoring the unlimited issue of greenbacks. U'wonty.elght out of thirty counties were unanimous {n favor of tho ‘‘rag-baby." Another case of Constable-shooting is recordod in our local roports this morning, As usual, the accounts of the affair conflict, but the woight of testimony o far as has beon uscertained wosms to be in favor of the colared man who dofended his premiscs agaiost & violen Another lifa-insurauco swindler has come to grief, The jury in the case of 7. 8, Lausent, Prosideut of the American Popu. lar Life, of New York, charged with swear- ing to fulse reports of the condition of the Compauy, yesterday returued a verdict of guilty. There are soma cases of the same kind In Chicago which the peopls would like to see brought to a similar fssue, —— “* All quict ou the Ltio Grande,” is the re- port. A portion of tho United Btates troops orderad 1o El Paso srrived youterday, and no further trouble at that point need be appre- leuded. The Grenser of to.day, like the rioter of lnst July, has a wholesowe droud of fullivg afoul of the regular arficle of blue- cont, aud the Mexican citizens who are sald to Lave come over to the help of their brethren in Texas will ind it convenient to Telire ucross the border forthwith, ———— A horrille catastrophs startled the people of Now York City yesterday afternoon, und ita dotails, when more cowpletely knowu, sy possibly attruct the sttention of tho whole country for several days, ‘The boiler used fu an inumonse candy manufactory in that city exploded with terrific force at 5 o'clock, demolishing the whole front of the buildivg. 'There wete from 110 to 200 boys and girls ut labor in the structure at the time, most of them direotly over the Loller, aud the immediste outbreak of an ungou- trollally couflagration greatly lessened their chauces of reecue. It is thought that the seotbivg ruins contain from forty to fifty dead bodies st tus very lowest calculation, but nothing ehort of thorongh exploration to- dsy and to-morrow will fiz tho actual num. ber. * Thirteen children moro or less danger- ously wounded nro now in the Chambers Btreet Hospital, nnd almost every one of the romainder of the employes who escaped did so with personal injury, not sutlicient, howaver, to prevent the mnfferers from ronching home. At 5 o'clock tho night force of workmon usunlly eame fnlo the bnilding, and thus a double number of victims may have beon offered in this awful oblation to the Furies, ey The Rov. Dr. Hannis, Rector of St. James" Church in this city, doclines the Bishopric to which ho was elected lnst weck by the Quincy Diocesan Convention, In this action lio is influenced by tha very earnest dosire of hin parish that he should not sever a con- neotion which has boen of such inestimable value to Bt, James' in particular and in duo proportion to the Chnreh at Jarge. Quincy misses the opportuuity to gat a good Bishop, aud n goot Rector is saved to the parish in Chieago. ‘The retreat of the Turks upon Constanti- nopls’ has begun, Soreisan Pashs, with 10,000 mon, has arrived at the Capital, en ronte for Adrianople, whero ho goes to tako command of tho second line of de- fonso. A gouernl withdrawal of the Ottoman forces in Bulgarla seoms to have been ordored, with tho exeption of the bodics of troops occupying Rusichuk and holding tho position on the Lower Lom. Roumelin will be {hie noxt battlo-ground, and after thst, Constantinople —————— If thera is one thing moro than anotber that the strects of Ohicago need in order to mako them passable and endarable, it {stliat o roformation stiould bo instiluted in the matter aud manner of laying wooden-block pavoment. The Common Couuncil has just passed an ordinance which makes it possible for tho Department of Public Works to require that o suitable foundation shall here- after bo constructed, not only in the prepn- ration of the streata for tho laying of pave- ment, but in the use of planks and boards of sufficient solidity and strength to keep the blocks -in place and provent the premature sinking of thoe surface In spots, Bince thore sooms to be nothing availablo that is preforn- blo to tho wooden pavement, it is time some attontion wero paid to the question of dura- LRty ‘The Democracy of Indiana are somewhat exercised over selecting a date for the maet- ing of their Stato Convention, It hna been proposed by some of the Executive Commit. teo to designate Wasnivaron's birthdsy as tho date. Tho mossbacks, who regard Havzs as n fraud, LixcoLN a tyront, and The Father of his Country a woll-menning but misgnided old gentleman of the old school, favor a new departure, AlansoN, a gontleman hitherto comparatively unknown to fame, happens to be Chairman of tho Execative Committee, and it is gravely sug- geuted that his birthdny, which falls forty- cight hours carlier than that of Wasmnaroy, be specially honored, by appointing it as the day, which, two or three ceuturies honce, will no doubt take equal rank with B, C., A D,orA UG CARTER HARRIBON'S LITTLE SCHEME. **Qur OanTER" hns como home to protest against beiog called n demsgoguo and Com- munist, but at the same time to demonstrate the justico of this characterization by ex- ploining and odvocating his ¢ progrossive” income-lax mensure. It we suspocted ** Qur Canren's” motivés before, wo hiave moro rea- sou to suspoct themsinco his exposition of the sobeme, Ho does not suggoest this new tax nttho present time for puiting monoy into tho Treasury. His purpose is to reduco the tax on whisky and tobaceo, and * give the poor man & chance to enjoy himself,” In other words, he deliberately proposos to lovy a burden of $40,000,000 or $50,000,000 ayoaron the frugality aud scbrioty of the conntry In order to bestow a liko amount upon the whisky.drinkers and tobacco- cousumers, It wmay not be the provinco of the QGovernment to ox- ercise o paternal soporvision over tho persoual morals aud habits of the poople, but it thero is avy Intorference, it certainly should not be In bohalf of Lad morals and to the discourngament of frugal habits, The proposition to change a tax systom for the express purposo of secnring cheaper whisky and cheaper tobacco may be received with favor by the Communista who desire to attack all saviugs, and by that clasy of work- ingmen who profer to spend -their monoy in grog-shpps, but it will not bo recelved by the commualty ot large as vithor dignified or patriotie, & An {ncomo tax, even when it is based on a fair aud equitable distribution of the burden, iy regarded na nn cxtremo measurg, to be ro. sorted to only in tima of war or some pocul- {ar financial embarrassmont for the Govern- ment. It ia an odious, injurious, and in. quisitorial system of taxation, which leads to perjury, concealments, overstatemonts, black- mail, and business troubles, The experience this country onca had with it proved it to be the most obnoxious form of taxation, It probably led to more general frand than any other tax over lovied, Bome men exaggorat. od their income returns to maintain a spuri. ous credit ; others falsiffed their returns to ovade tho tax; others injured themsclves and their business by making trus returns, subjecting themselves to tho beggars and speculators when their profits wers large, and impairing thoir credit whon thoy could show 1o profits, As an instauce of the prac- tical effact of such a tax upon the morals of the cowmmunity, wo may recall to Mr, Haunz- oY the paiuful experionce of his late Presi. dontial candidate, who, after all those years, Las not extricated bimsel{ from the meshea of susplcion with which it surrounded him, Tut Mr, Hanuson proposes to make an odious tax still more obuoxions by giving it u discriminative churacter, Undor his soheme, mon would not poy according to their monns equally, A man with 24,000 of 4 per cent Government bondy, Lriuging hita an incomo that just falls sort of §1,000 a year, would cscape taxation altogether, A mau with an income of $5,000 would pay, not five times as much 8s the man with sn incomo of $1,000, as should be the case, but tentimes as much, That is to say, hard work, superior talont, and saving babits ara to Lo especially discoursged,—and all in order that whisky and tobacco may be cheaper and the laboring classes more de- worulized than ever by these pernicious sguncles, If thia doctrine docs not establish Mr. Hamrmison's Comununistic tendencies, then wo aro willing to acquit him of the charge, 4 ** Our Oanen” evidently hopes to acquire favor amonyg Western people by oxplaining {but tho measuro is simed especially at the boudholders, who pay no taxes, as he thicks. o scems ignorant of the fact that the bulk of tho United Btates bouds held i this coun. try aro in tho hands of National Bauky, sav- ingy banks, insuranco cowpanics, aud trust companies, and constitute the principnl part of the capital stock of thesa corporntions, which aro subjected to heavy taxation. Tako the Nationnl Banks of the country, which hold not less than £400,000,000 of the bonds. Nearly thia amonnt of bonds is deposited as o secarity for cirenlation which is taxoed ; thoy form a part of the eapital stock, which is also taxed. 'T'ho loenl taxation on Nattonat Banks amotunts to 2§ per cent, aud the ua. tional taxation to about as much more. But undor Mr. Hanrisox's achieme the man who owned §24,000 of 4 por cent bonds, or 21,000 of 4§ per conts, or $19,000 of & per cents, would not be (laxed thereon, so that there wonld be a class of fa vored bondholders. He couples this de. sire to tax (lovernment bonds along with tho promise to reliove the West from a part of ita taxation paid on whisky, Iut the in- tornal rovenue taxes collected 1n tho West are paid by the East to the cxtont that the East consumes the productions which are taxed, so that this relief would be enjoyed by Now England atid New York as well as Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois, and in propor- tion to the consumption of whisky and to-’ bacco. The concealmont of those things seema to warrant the suspicion that Ar. Haszison is resorting to tha common devices of tho demagoguo. 1r Mr. Hannisox has in his mind the mat. ter of his re.cloction, and looks with n long- ing eys on the Communistic vote in West Chicago, which assumed such nnoxpected proportions at the late fall election, we would romind him that this Iarge vote wns tho result of carious combinations not likely to occur agoin. The Communinta themselves, on thelr own merits or domerits, probably cannot poll 500 votes in the ontire City of Chicago, 8o it will bo the part of wisdomn aa well as justice for Mr. Hanrniso¥ to adbiere to the conservative clements of sooctety. SWINDLING LAND-CLAIMS, Every now and then the publio ia startled by tho announcement that some enterprisiog gentleman haa ontered undor the lawa of the United Htates some floating land-sorip, aud claims a patent of title to somo pieco of land bLitherto used, occupied, and which probably has been bought and sold time and again. We bollave thore is just now pend- ing at Washington a claim of thia kind, by which somo person is demanding a patent for several hundred acres of land lying just enst of whatfifty years ago was the Chicago River, which then flowed southwardly nlong the cast front of the city to Harrison street, and there entered thelake. Bevoral pravious attempts have baen made, we beliave, to got possession of the land occupled by the Illi- nois Central Railroad Company enst of Michi- gan avenue and south of tho cxtonded piers of the river. Thoro are several kinds of land serip, isaucd at various times by the Govorn. ment, and all nuthorized to bs located on any public land not rescrved by special law. ‘This acrip is held by spoculators, who ot various times havo taken advantage of some supposed defect in provious ontries or do- scriptions, aud have entered land, somotimes ombracing the whole or o part of o flourish. ing city or town, or including a profitablo water-power or othor valuable natural privi- lego already occupied in good faith, The purposa is to prosacnte tha claim, cloud the title of all the oxisting owners, and compel ownors to pay liberally and bLeavily for a ro- lcaso of tho cloud,. . Anothor form in which this blackmniling businoss bias beon carried on is that of looat. ing this scrip on the land covered by the small lakes and streams in all the land States, Those lnkes abound in Northern Indiana, some in Illinois, many hundreds in Wisconsin and Western Michigan, while in Minnosota they aro numbored by thousands, Tho surveys all loft theso lands outside of tho land system; that is, the bedsof the lnkes woro not surveyod as publio land, the lines being run so as to conform to the moandoring boundaries of tho lakes. Tha lands adjoining these lakes have long since been purchasod and occupied, tho owners of the land oxtending their foncss and occu. pancy to the beach or wator-lino, but olaim. ing and exercising no propriotorship over tho beds of tho lakes. Tho sorip-hold. ors, hawaver, have undertaken to entor their scrip, and have patents for the lands under the waters of the lakes, and for tho strips of land, wide or narrow, lylng betweon tho sur- veyed lands and the wator, and thus by be- coming proprictors of tho land ander the wator bocome propriotors of the lakes them. solves, No land thus covered by water and embraced in these lakes, nor in the adjoining marshes or streams, was over surveyed, or offered for sale, or rogarded as within the publio land. The scrip-holders who bave boen thus spoculatiog claim thot those lakes were tho propor. ty of tho United Blates, and, as tho, title has nevor been parted with, the land under the water is still tho propoerty of the Govornment, and subject to private entry, The lakes, however, havo beon regarded ns public property, not in the sonse of land sub- Joct to sale, but Lold by the Stato for tho publ_iu uses, and under the Stata protection. ‘Thus many of theso State have oxpended large sums of monoy for stocklng all thoso Inkes with varloties of the finer qualities of fish, and mede provision for their protection and establishing penalties for violation of the fish laws, Thero are perhaps one to two millions of acres, porbaps more, of laud in. cluded in those lakes,—they ranging in area from 100 acres to 5,000 acres each, Thoy are of great goneral valus 1o the country in which they are located, and the attempt to grab them upand appropriate them to private use a8 personal propoerty is regurded as a system of publio robbery, Oue of theablest Iand Iawyers of this clly, in answerto a ques- tion as to the logal character of thesupatents for lake lands some time sgo, furnished the following statemoent : N\ To s Eduor ef The Tridune, Cuicago, Dec. 1U.—Iaquiries concerning the yplldity of patonts tolhe beds of small Jakes and 10 lany along the margin of lakes snd rivars prompt sn answer of more complete circalation 1ban reply to individual questloners. We belleve these patents wholly vold. In 1568 a Commis- sioner ul the Land-Offce st Washingion printed an arguutent ia the Land-Ofico report, ia which he cspoused the docirine that lsnds pistied sud sold by the Guvernment as boundingon lakes and waler courses do uoi reach dbe watur but abut on what fscallcd the mesnder line. \When the surveyors orfglually ran oul the Jlucs to ascertain the sreas of fractional scctions, it was negpgaary $0 runs line along the water and keep Jts courves sud dis- tances. This was tue only way the size of these irregular parcels could bo wacortalned. The taw ro- quitced acomputation of the srva 80 that the land could bewold st s 8xed price peracre. The Gove emment surveys are generally liberal, and a quar- ter-section, though suld as 160 ocres, often overruus seversl acres. In surveylog fracilusal vleces, a8 the lsod was generally low or rough, this liberallly shuwed in running stralght lincs across polots projecting ioto the water, and setting tbls mesader Boe back from the water. ‘The Seld uotes wtow {u thls form: Mirsi—~Hud uorth uo east boundsry of Bec. 1, ar33 coatnk lesre wol pralrie, 40 cliaios, sel ?umuue- Hou #2404 8O 00ULY, B0 Learings; 43 chalng 23 iiuka set pust un w0argia uf Lake Micuies, from which 8 ycliow vak teg fuchies o dini afs N. 03 Jeg. . 63 1inka. aud & whltd uak elghicen Liches in diad ter bears b, 8 dey . 84 ok, March 4 1534, Secund—Ncanders of Lako Michixau—Cowmenciog B0 4 Pust va the tuwo Line 86 weat aldy of laks, thcuce 1 Along \V. margta ta 8. 3 R 1eeriinks 8 81 ieq post on east Iloe of Bee, TAird—A rough platis ‘maite sod s letter. as ABC, farked ateach ehango of conrye of the meander-line, n ¢ cu! deg. . B 1. e contour of the shore also Apresring; snd & table [sattactied showlng that & post was placed st each polnt frum which trers of ize sad kind asmed bore in named divections so many links. These fleld notes were returned to some ofMce of the Surveyor-Goneral, when (hey were copied into nLook by xome peron who would certify as fol- 1owa: '*The foregoing field notes are teuly coplea from the original scraps, Samuet. Moumisox,' The law required the Surveyor-Gonersl to make from the flald notes plats by which ail landa shall be nold, and to number the aubdivision in & cer- tsln manner, Those plate show no posts, and do not give the meander lincs, batparport to give the actual contour of lakes and rivers, and bound all fractional sections and lots on the watér or other nataral obstruction or Indian boundary line. They show the numbers of the townships, ranges, scc- tions, and lote, sud the number of scres each fractional tract {s computed to contain. Along Lake Mtchigan the meander posts men- t1oued above atill atand e they were placed, 200 or #0U feet back from the water; far cnough to bie nafe from being washea unt by the waves, ani the witnesa trees atiil marked by the surveyor's blaza and noteh at tne ruot. Along small takes and rivers such poste may be found At some distance #tom the watler—from two feel to hundreds of feet from it. Thens linen being tocated by posts the Commise sloner's Iden wre that they constitoted vieible abmitals, which, being flxed In grants, control courses, distances, and arens, That s, if the srant o unnitg north ten rods toa described trec or pust, you will goto that visible object, though you have to go northcast or easttwenty rods, And 1f the grant saye, ** Containing ten acree of A 1L will convey exnctly the smount included between the vlatble Iand-imarks named, no moie, no less, thougl it 18 in Iact only five acres or is more than tweuly, Another branch of the Commissioner's reasoning was that the great rivers of America arc navigable, aua the grants bordering on them go only to the water, and that lakes and large ponda are governed by the same law, the title fo all the lands within their beds remalulng vested tnthe Uniled States. Putting the two together, hu resnmed that aa the granted fractlonn go only to the meander lines, the ttle toah within the meanderdines remains in the United States; and where they were far from water, orwher retion of reliction has loft large arcae of dry land, he uesnmed that Government had large amounts of land subject to sarvey and enty, ’l‘h’u law provides for private persons obtalning the survey of lands omitted inthe original survéya; and private persons have caused surveyd to he made where the tocation of the land gives it especial value; end where the locatiun {s such ns to appear valuable, whole laken have been sus-. veyed Innsland, 'Thon they took privileged scelp, Jiko the Bioux half-breed acrip, which may be lo- cated on any land not otherwiss approprinted, and 1t iswald have obtained patents for the land along tho nargina, and even for the beds of lakes, and are now offering them for salo 1n this markot, vr are trylngto extort large aums of money for them from farmiers whoso farms nre cut off frum water, in which they sapposcd they haa a perfect right. To whatever uso-they are put, I consider them swindling clalims, The rule relatiog to sbuttals Lias no apolication to meander lines and posts; thoy are not glvon Ia the patonts, but the Inkes and rivers are. This bas been disttnctly nd- Judged: and the fractlonal sections go to tho water, A number of decislons makes this settled doctrine, 1, vy accretlon ur reliction, land has been added that Lelongs 1o the owner of the shoro, his lands contloue to go to the water, Any man who clouds that title and sets up an un- Iawful patent to extort monvy from bim ls a swindler, The extent to which this nefarious traflc can bo carrled fs -n;m:-‘u from the fact that it already hua struck over elbhty farmors in ono county, and is llable to cut off every farm In the Northwest borderiug on water from the water-course or lake, and make the driving of cattlo acrosa tho little strip cutaide of the mesnder lino a trespass, 0 that the owner of the lttlo strip can compel the farmer to buy it The water in tho Iskes is not subject to survey and eale; indced, the authoritics Indicate that the beds are vested inthe Btates, and as all the land Lelongs to the ownora of the sliore, thexo patents, in my opinion, convey nothing, and the titlcs are wliolly wortblees except toswindle romubody with, Euwanp Rony, Should lnkes of the Northwest be thus oponed to cntry as publioland, wasee no ron- son why Lako Mickigan itself may not be all patented aa privato property. [ Ay THE VANDERBILT WILL, When the lato Commodore VaNorrsiLT oxpressed tho opinion that thero would be hell to pay after ho died, ho very clearly foresaw the fature, and ybt it may be doubted whether ho anticipated any such lively mnnifestations of that undesirablo 1laco os havo boen oxbibited in the testimony taken during the last few days, Leaving out of considoration such little occentricitios on tho Commodore's own part as advising his confidential broker, who had made groat profita for him, to usload one line of stooks and inveat in aunothor, promising to see him through, and then doliberately stopping one sido and letting him go to min, the testi- mony of that Lopeful aclon of the Vanpxz- nitr family, ConNELIUN, revenls some very lurid glimpscs of tha hell that the Commo. doro anticipated. Upon his diroct examination, Coanxrius gives himself n gilt-adged charaoter, e loft home whon ho was 18, becausa his father trontod him roughly, and malnly supported himsolf, though ho bad o wmonthly stipend from the Commodore, ‘Che latter was projudiced sgainst him through the influ. ouces of WiLLiaM, who was jealous of what ho might securo ns an heir, to the Com. modore's millions. Aa the rosult of one of his conspirncles, & chargo of forgery was trumped up ogainst him, and, under pre. tenso of saving bim from the Ponitentiary, Wrriax bod him confined in an insane asy. lum, from which, however, he secured his rolesso by & writ of Aabeas corpus, Bubso- «quontly the obdurate heart of the Commo- doro softened towarda his youngest off. spring, and he promised to make & now will which would provide quite handsomoly for him, aud also volunteercd to set bim up in a paying bosiness. ‘Thd®eupon WiLLiax again poisoned the old man's mind with falze- boods, aid prevented the fulfiliment of his charitablo intentions, e worked upon Mrs. Vaxpznvier also until she refused to allow Corxerive to sce his fathor, Having out off CouNxrivs from any prospects on the father’s side, Wirrian persistently ro- fused to give him any employment. The Injuatico seoms all tho move aggravated it wo aru to believe Corwerius’ declaration that he hes nover vislted gambling houses or Loures of {ll.fame, that he never drinks, has nevor. {nvested in lottery policies, and, with the oxception of Laving occaslonal atiacks of epilopay, is in all rospects a model citizon, Iiis is one side of the picture. The reverse is not so rosy, o faras it depicts Corneurvs' personnel. We find from the cross-examination that he has been in the babit of signiog his name as * Convzrivs, Jr,” “Couvrvus J,,” “ComwxLios Jreae- unan,” ¢ 0. J.," eto., in order to pass him. self off as the xon of Wiriam and thereby facilitate bis various mothods of oblaining woney. He bas been arrested soveral times both on crimiual warrants and in civil suits. e bas spent avery liberal portion of hislife in insane asylums. Hehas been in jail and in the debtors’ prison several times. Notwith« standing his notorietydin these regards, he succeeded in victimizing peoples, and among thewm was the good-heartod and unsuspect- ing loracm Gurxrxy, of whom, according to bis owa statement, he borrowed $40,000, others soy $70,000. When he (Comwriivs) went iuto bankrupfoy, Mr. Gerruzy sent bim the notes, but afterwards he gavo him newwotes which were just as valuable as the old ones, siuce they wers never paid, We find alwo that he victimized a lottory- policy broker to the tune of about $10,000, How many more victims he had it isim. possible to eay, as the festimony waa not allowed to cover that ground. At first sight it seoma somewhnt surprising that a man of Conrxrrivs VAxpranitt's reputation shonld have succeeded fn finding victims o ensily, but they foll into Lis toils readily becaune they thought that the old Commodore wonid maka good hin son's deficiencios ont of regard for the family pride and reputation. ‘Fhe Commodore, howover, not only secms to lave had no family pride whore dollars and cents ware involved, but to have bad no pride of any kind in Connetivs, whom he unsnally alladed to with such ondenring opithots ns *‘ chuokle.hend,” ** beetlo.liend,” ‘“*geamp,” *n fellow with one cog gone,” ote. 1Ma never paid any little obligations of this sort for CorveLivs or nny other of his children, Even Witriax, who was n favorite son, was called a muddle-headed nuisance by his nffectionnte father, who scoms to have taken this method of illustrating his family pride and patornal relntions. Accepting Corxzrivs’ statement that hio does not drink, gamble, or patronize lotteries, and the infor- once that hois'a stendy, moral, industrious man, the question immedintely arises, ‘What has he done with the tlousands of dollars whioh, according to his own story, he has Lorrowed and never repuid? The money has been obtained and lost, ovi- dently not in business. From tho goneral dnft of the testimony, it would seem that Conyetivs answors pretty well the deserip. tion of on aristocratic dead-beat. At the Anmo timo it lonves a strony impression that thoro is vory “ much of a muchuess” In the whole lot, and that none of them have de- veloped thoso exemplnry traits which would mako it desirable that this vast fortuue shonld be controlled by any one of them. As Conxevivs monifests a decided talent for dcattering money, he ought to have n very generons slics of the Commodore's fortune, 80 that he can sproad it over the largest pos- sible area, and thus ward off the danger that will inevitably result from its concentration in tho hands of a railroad monopoliat seck- ing to control the business of the country. R A CASE OF CONVERSION. It is always plossant to note the influonce of good roasoning. Bome tima ago the Chi- cago T¥mea evolved a scheme of government which Tng Trinuxe was compolled to call “acaphalous,” from the fact thas it proposed a Government without a head. It wns o proposition to apply the British system of a rusponsible (Government toour own, but it omitted the vital clement of an Executive Chiof who should be the pivot upon which responsibility, or response to.the popular will, should tnrn, Now, howsvor, the T'imes ravives its suggoation with the modification that the President shall bo elacted for a fixed torm of fifteen years, and bo inoligible for ra-clection. Thisisa more reasonablo ap- prosch to the responalble systom. It is nacessary that thoro be an Exccutive,— coll him King, or Emperor, or President,— who shall bave tho cloments of fudepondence and permanoncy. No Exccutive Chiof who is tho creaturo of party, and is ongagoed in scheming for party advantago or his own re. eloction, can carry out the spirit of the Eu- glish systom, The oxperienco of the French people with MacMauon has demonstrated the dangor to beapprehended from Executivo roslstanco. Tho term of soven years fs ap- parently insufBolent (o sssuro sn independ.’ ence of pprty loaniugs, ‘The Aarshal- Prosidont hos resisted tho submission to popular will to the very vergo of civil strife, and has been tompted to this course by hin natural affinity with tho Bonapartist party, 8o every Prosident olected for a short term by a politieal faction, nand eligible for re.olection, would bo governed by similar partisanship, Yot it is im. possiblo to conceive of a Cabinet chango- able in keoping with the change of n popular majority, but without a permanent Executive to symbolizo governmentand serve as the agent of the pooplo in making the changes. Purhaps the Z'imes, in abandoning this impracticable scheme, has adopted tho bost moans that could be devised for allying tho American and British systems in sug- gesting o long torm aud jneligibility for re- election as the most feasible plan for dis. associating tho Chiof Executive from partisan attachments and influences, But if tho professions of the Times in favor of the responsible system of govern. meut be sincore, it is unsccountable that this journal should call for President Hares' resignation as o step toward the attalnment of tho Gritish system. Thore Las probably never beon n Prosident 8o much inclined to follow ont the rosponsiblo theory a8 Mr, Hares Is, He has procecdoed in that direction about as' far as he can under the rostraints of our laws and oustoms, Ife is loss of a partisan thon nny Prosident of recont years, Ifo found in the popular House o wsjority made up of the party which opposed his election. He called to his Cabinet a momber of that opposing party and placed him in the position whore he comes in contact with the people more gonerally than any other Cabinet officer, Ie selected twa or threo others of his Oabinet on account of thor quasi- independent attitude. He has made several sppointments throughout the country from among his political opponouts, 1lo has en. deavored to establish & pormauent olvil service, which is an essential elemont of the responsible systom, Iad he carried out the theory of reaponsible government to the full extent, he would bave seclected a majority of his Oablnet from the modorate Democrats, and a minority from the modorate Xepublic. ans, to the exclusion alike of the Bourbons and the Implacables, But had he undertak- on this course Lo would have beon checked by the Benate, which has a Repnblican wa. Jority, and also the conatitutional right to refect his appointmonts. He has gone as far as e could, and is doing much to famil. farize the American people with tho theory of a responsible Government, and to test its working and popularity, This tentative ef- fort is much lass dangerons thau would bo a radical departure and sudden plungo into the English system, even if tho latter wero pos- Tun THnoNs L8 10 quest of Information. 1t asksthe Joursal Lo snswer certaln questions, which, belag very secommoasiiay, the Joursal wildo: the bulliva ¥ w0 half-dol! ) oF 165 Shiben of - oar saLy e m Ay quasters, ceuts In legul-tender guld? Yea oF no¥ Yes. 13 not the purchaaing-power valus of tlls same sub- aiclary Coln BOLNRING Over U7 Cebis Iopal-tenter La luvldl Yes or vo? cs. What ls {¢ that adds this 13 conts on the dollar to the value of the sulaidiary culo—fa it Dot the legal-tender Qquallty taereof? Yesur no? No, air, thu copper peonics and tho nickel three sud five cent pleces which are In ctrculation hava mo **ls &ul-tender quailty, "—are, a tact, of egul colnage,— 80d yei those are pald out sad received st par s **change," he saine as aro tho subsidlary sliver cuins JOuSpEaX of. The fact that 3 cants worth of sllver colued nto subaldlary pleces uf moncy 1s actually pald out and rucolved s If vaual to & grecuback or a cold dollar, ta 8ok properly sttributable to its **legal-tender Qualliy.” but Lo the urgeat domaud there tafor theso subsidlary colos tor the practical sod lodispensable burouscs of **change ™ Lu the dally and Luouriy trassace tions of busta ter.~Erening Journat, We are puzzled which 1nost to admire n this Anewer, the Ignorant cang frold exhibited, or the imbeellity of the reason given 1o necount for the ¥i-ent value of the subsidiary volns, s it puossible that w paper which has twinkted for nearly thirty-five vears dou't know enough to know that copper pennles and nickels ure legal- Aemlers? Every reader of the Journa! who lius ever il oceaslon to tuen to title * Legal- tender," vage s Of the Revised Statutes of the United States, has read the fol- lowing: Bxr. 4,047, The minor coins of the Unitod Atates sliafl be & legsl-tender, at thelr nominal value, for sny amount not excceding 33 cents [a any one payment, Tho five-cent nickels ara not intrinsically worth, perhavs, one-Afth or one-lenth of their nominal value, but by virtue of thelr legal- tender quality which compels everybody to take thewmn In payment of debt to the amount stated, milliuns ot them freely clreulate. Strike out the legal-tender quality und they would elren- late for what they are commercially worth ns metal, and no more; so of the vopper pennies, shele value would be 15 or 20 cents 8 podnd avolrdupots, or about two mills aplece! The *urgent demand" argument will not clevate any meial above its market valuc as a vom- modity. 1t they were not legal-teuder they would not be money, and would wuly cireu- late by the pound. Augthing to cirenlaty ot more than its intrinsic value mnet either be legal-tender for delits or be reaeemable n legal- tender, The ** plain trath of the matter ! is that the editor of the Journal has never studicd even o horn-book ou tluunce, aud should in Justice te himsell fgnore it tn his paper untll bie has given the subject at least ' two weeks' study.!” ¥ i New Yerk Tribune Dispatch, Wasnixarox, D, ¢, Dee, 17,—The impatlent sdro- cates Lf Ut BLAXD Siver bill, who came tu Washington Last Octobier buastiug thut thoy would re fur b cqually aatl Jruceds of el ptes tiovornment is pay. uy willtuns of fte debt, i the nacanvimre 1 fug 6 per cent luterest on which miizht have been refunded at 4 per crpl, except for the tuterfercnce of thesiiver men and the advo- cates of the repes of the Reaumnption act. The Tose lo Ly this unnecesiry suspenston of the funding will be many tiies. ureater than any gain it tellkely ever Lo securo by paylug the intars eator princtpat of fts bond It is true that, notw thirds majority In Congress iu favor of restoring the sliver standanl, the gold sharps have, by practiclug the arts of parllamentary deluy, pre- vented the ol passage of the bill belure. the loifday udjournment, They have thereby con- tinued the payment of 6 per cont wold interest on §730,050,000 of bonds whose Intercet by the contract Is payable hu silver, snd wliose prinetpal 1a redecimable In the same kiud of money, The New York Tribune wud its provricior, Jay Gourp, well know that the principal and fn- terest of the 520 bonds are payable In * eoln,” £ ¢, silver dollars, at Lhe optlon of the Hovern- ment. ‘They also both kpnow that whenever the Government advertlses that it will sell 4 per cent bunds for sliver, and volns silver dollars so° that the publle can get them, the people witl subscribe for such bonds in unlimited ageregates, and that, two, without the;intervention of any patent syndleate contrivance. With tha procecds of those popular loan silver bonds the Govern- ment ean recommence the “process of refund- fngr,"" which had stopped of Itaclf before the extra scsslon in October convened. With the silver thus obtained by the salo of 4 per cent bouds the Govermment can call - the 8 per cents and’ pav them off In “coln,” acccording to the exact letter of the contract, and thereby stop the 0 per cent gold interest which the Gov- ernment continues to pay through the manipu- Iations of the Shylocks. The loss to the Goy- croment by this unnecessary deluy In passing the Silver blll, enused by the obstructlon of the #old sharps, Is about $300,000 a week, If it weroe practicable, this loss vught to be taxed on the ubstructionlsts who have caused it. . 1t making light-weight stiver lozal-tonder for tho amall s of §8 Las the vifect of Keoplng $40.000, 0 uf auch coln st & purchasing value uf mory tien L7 ber cout of legal,tender gold, wiiy o you wiasidis or maliclously peretat 1 elght unlhnit leyal-tender dollar eent coln?'—Cnicago Tribe Your premlses boing wrung, as shown abave, your coyeluslon fale Lo tho ground, A pleco of maney eolued ouf of sliver bullton worth 81 cents would, by being tnado a legal-tender, probably be enbnced fn valua to the extont of & cent or two, but it {s an ssumption, & nioro gucss, (0 supposs that it would neceasarily be wortn aven that much in esccas of its (ntrinstc market valuo, Destdes, 1t Is Bot truo that $40,000,000 0f tho *light-welght sliver legal-tender” have Leen lawed and put Ioto clrculation. Thus far caly 826,000,000 of tha subsidisry siiver coin s been laned. When it shall bave reached $40,000,005, wa will talk to you sbout ita then value, whicts, you nsaured, wiil not b wo s its present valuo,—Naening Jour- nat, ‘Tho Journal has forgotten or overlooked the subsidiary coins lssued for grecnbacks, which up to Nov. L amouuted to over §14,000,000. ‘The fractional curroncy seut Iu for redemnption wero ot that datu over $23,000,000. Tho exact amounts were, Nov, 1, us tollow, For fractional currency, ¥or legal-tender obligations Total stlver coln to Nov. 1. 06,020,731 How unuch mors has been fsaued eluce then we havo not learned, but, purhups, 8 miliion, But ev:ry&on has notleed the largs quantity of old subsidiury coins lssucd bufure 1863, when tho mints ceased to coin silver small chango. It 18 u very'low estlmute to placs them at an aggrogateof §5,000,000,which would make thy existing subsidlury silver at least $42,000,000. Tho Journal will thus percelve that “the thme to tulk about Its valuo® has come. From afl present appearunces thero will be po dificulty to float the entire 850,000,000 of subsidiary sils ver authiorized to be fesucd in additiou to the old stock of colus which bas come vut of thelr ulding places, Thus wo sce thut by virtue of the legal-tender attribute of $3 wore than forty mililons of 83-cent allver o frecly arculating withu purchusing power of 97 cents. In legal- tender gold, In the face of these facts, It Iy wallcious to call s full-weight, Tull Jegul-tender dollur **a 91-cent coln," —— e Tho following sketeh of the Bluc-(lrass farm- er, taken from Mfe by tho ideallstic editur of the Courier~Journal, supplics’a long-fols want n fictlon: ile will walk out ou ho front plasza of & mornlng, stiering tho sugar in thy botiow of thy glass, followod, by tho wrouiaof tho thirty-yesr-old , sud b will survey th luodscaps, <kl tu rotlove the Juunolonuus wove- nient of the spoon, I the light of the verfect dsy. The sun, iku s young sorrel heifer, Is climbing the hill, ‘Pausing fur s moinent ut tho p, Tho dewdropa, halfs drunken, ss thougl they liad takeo & tura at the Fpen. ing corn, stagyer about the sdges u woud-lut, and try to bo familtar with tha Llades of grass. The boys are takiog the horecs 10 water fn the branch that flows off, a tiny sirip of al' ta thia meadow, Two or thres pretty girls flush their un. dyed blonde beads and uupainted red chosks out o the second-stury window tu sec that Loy aronot outrivaled by les, There i», to cut seutiment us ahort sy ono misy at such & momieat, & wealth of serenity and heauty, prosperons, loxuriant, viriuous, snd bappy Hre, which ollsthia soul of the provincial &s he stiraitie sugar in the glss sirokiug anoa tuc beard upon his cliln, and causcs him tosay fo Llinselfs ** Well, they tmay 1sik abuut their boulevards aud their Central Parks, thelr Unfon Clibs snd their theatres, but, aftay al, tathoro aay Lo (a aakure of 1n art equal Lo Kea- tucky To which the resaer, alter pondering awhile upon thoe sstonlshing thetorle of the Courier- Jouraa', will probably be moved to remark that there is cortainly uothing in naturcor in art like Kentucky, > Buveral stage storfes are floating about at prescpt, 1l going to show that the theatrival roscs are not duvold of thorus. It s related that 8 few eveniugs ago, durlng & perforinance of “Romco aund Julict” at Clevelsud, the corpse of the hero happened to be lylug directly underneath the drop curtaln when that pouder- ous picee of muchinery began to descend. ‘The vorpse eycd with sgonized expresslon for some woments the huge, round beam slowly but surely bearing down upon him. It was ezveca- ingly unfortuvate that he was dewd,—atone dead,—hoving given bis last kick before noticlog the cmbarrassinent of his situation; heuce, 16 Wwas impossible for Lim to squir out of the way under the paltry pretense of a dylug throe, Abero was only s slogle alteruative. Witha 100k of Intense disgust the corpse arose, walked & fuw paces to the rear, loy down and smootlicd “Letween Buffalo and Touawandu, . That fa the pistn truth of themat | y1s features In death as before. Unpleasant cplsades ore not wanting even In the egverlence of great uctors. JE¢¥ERSON played recently ug Troy, N. Y., and the viatinee had an attendunc of Jess than & hundred peopte. 1u the eventng, Just as he wos about to dress for Kip Vyy \Vinkie, n Deputy Sherlfl sclzed his wardrobe, Some woman bad bought u ticket under a mls. apprehension, and, hier mouey not belny refund. ed on demand, had hroughit u euit for damages, Such dreadful experiences as these surely ougly to put a Jdamper upon the ambitlon of rising young smateurs. ———— ‘The New York papers unite in declaring Mr, Bercurr’s last Suwmlay acrmon a great depart. ure frotn the old lines of orthodoxy. The Zimes says: Although Mr. Nemauxn's relatlon to the ereed of the religlous body with whih hio la atill connected, It bas often barure bsen preached by pure ltatlunatists. This probably ecvlalus why ia e latterly apoken with so et rosyoct of the Churel religlon 18 & novelty fn fty uf Rowe. * ie Tine Joubtlcss recognizad as trod the tavorlte latly at **therd 18 no haitoway between Jtom Me respeets the Boman d Cathnlts Chureh bev: makes tta teachings logteal and ¢ spisey orthodox Protestantlam bec: an fufalllble Chureh, 18 st el 1o nn tnfatiible bugk, il fustate that reasn must bow 1o ravelation. The Itomau Catholle vita, hay commidted adultery, or pors Jury, urany sihier erline can ohtaim sbevtutlon from the wrleats the Tatlonailat stuner tewd not touble iinael cuncerulng tha consequences of bis crime, since he disbelieves o future punfahmnents but the orthodux Protestant who commita grave vtinses auflers frown the dread of hell, M. Baxcurn does not cate to emnbracy Romanism, hut ke scurcy peaco uf wiind by eibracing atlouatian, and there fsnJ doubt that fu 40 tolng he vroves imackf » wise and jrudent man, ot infalliblity 1 but he de. To the Liditor of The Trilune, Laxcapven, Wis., Dec, 19.=Will you pleare explain the relstive difterence betwaen the old slver doftar, subsidinry doliar, and trade dullar, and obilce an vl subscriber and many teadets of your paper? The mas of vur people ate fu full syoipathy with the slives movement. Jo roL Toe old silver dollar always welghed 4121 arainy of stdndard sityer. The subsidiury dollar, since 1353, welghs 886 gralis, The non- Iegal-tender trade dollar, 420 gralns standard sliver, v e —— The Philadelnhia Bantists have declarod that the commerctal and Industrial depresston of the vountry are due to moral causes, sitch as scltiah- ness, preed of galn, publie and private (i honesty, waste, recklessness, and u disregard of. the sights of man and the Juws of God. The seiredy which they vropose for these erylug cvils Is prayer. As if the goud peopla haven't been prayiog all these yeara, e e The problain of using steam-power on the Erle Canal scoma to have been partlally solved during the past year, as the records of the Collector's offlce ot Buffslo show that steam tugs and regular steamers have heen plsing to ' a considerable extent on tho scetfon of the canul Moreover, ull of the boats have beon worked protitably. = e — Thera Is sald ta be a great anxlety In London us to the policy of the Uovernmert in relation tothe Eastern question. In general terms it inny bo prophesied that thero fa”less danger of England golng to war than of the downfull o1 the Beacoxsvixto Miulatry. Tae immense strength of the Liberal or peacs party can only be known on a party vote fu Parllament. s ————— The story of the lady who dppeared at Washington bail In'n dress covered with bonde and bills s eclipsca by that of the Utah mau who turnished his eotire house with postage stamps. i —— CoNNELIUS VANDERGILT, on'bis own show. Ing, was a very promislog youta of the auclont order of 1. O. U, ———— Scontor PatrensoN had vertizo—and he f3n't out of the woods yet. st Lo The bables on cxhibition at the Tabornacle rua to fat and blubler, e — PERSONAL. Mommeon has just colobrated his GOth birthduy. Gen, Bhermau is paying bis family o brief vielt at 5t. Louis, I'atjeon, the no¥elist, constructs his novels with the typa-writer, Oskoy Hall had an audience of loss than n dozen to hear his lecture In Troy. 1lo dismissed the congregation, Faunio Davenport will visit the Bouth and Eogland upun tho conclusion of her present cn- gagemunt at Booth's Theatre, The Bpringfield Republican says: * Tho closing tableau in tho Senate consisted of Senator Davis standing with an arm around the necks uf Dial Conkling, " Mr. Iuskin has come to tho conclusion that ** music and preclee dancing are, aftar all, the only safeguarde of morality." Mrs. Sherman I Bolng to take tho suge in hand. 2 T Mr. Willinm ¥. Darwin, eldest son of the eminent naturalist, was married in London on Nov, 0, to Sara Price Ashbutner, duughter of the late Tyoodure Sedgwick, of New Yurk, Huochior's vongrogation wns increased this year by the accession of thirty-four mombers, and the mowbership numbers 2,643. The contribu. tiune, hotyever, amounted to only $10,420, Lut the amount ralsod (rom pew-rents was $40,000, Boveral Indiauapolis Indies called upon Gov, Blue-Jeans Willlams for charitable contrie butions, **Why don't you stop bulldicg churches, be askud, **and leave off dremsing 1 fing clothes?' Ar. Alexander McOlure contradiots the re port that he ls about to become editor of the New Yark Tribune In place of Whitelaw Reid. Nobody has ever approsctied him on the subject, ‘would not accept tho position If It were ol blw. Itis geatifying to hoar that the higl - ary pald in tho country for journallstic services wouldu't compensate Mr, McClure for abanduning his Interct In the already lberal and steadily growiog profta of the Philadelphlia Z¥mes, Kate Field writes to Jenny June to deny that sbe had gone abrosd becauso sho could not get try of the Ametlcan man,' 1 came here (London) because I As to ou tho gl Field aay: wanted to come, not becausc I was driven, Ao gallentey of tho American wmay, the bost frivnds 1 have in the world ate American meu, and #f [ bave not marrled one It is beca love too msny of them. Awerlcun men, at home and ubroad, are the oest follows § koow. " Prince Charles has {ssued the following order of the day Lo the Roumanian army: **From the Grat day that you oncounlered tle enemy the Euaperorof Russia has been able to convince bime self of your bravery, 7T'he pralses psssed upun you by that sugust Boverelen wore as dearto you #4 Iaurels, since his Majesty bae conlorred upon you 8 special mark of bonor by Lls p: tcipation fu the herolc dangers of tla. The Roumanian army will pres remembrance of tho days when Alexs: under Arv before your syes, tlhe angust and mighty Ci whose allies we sre Insps pos ing, fo soldior aa bo (4, the 8re of th In the fort Leariug hls name. His M delgned to accept at wy hands our militagy wedal. Our emblem of gallantry on tho breast of that as- gust Manarch will be sn eternal houor to the lome wanlan army, and will stimulsie it L0 fresh sacrls fices and freab successe Mr, W. W, Story made an interesting wpecch tho other day to a Senatls Commitiee on the subject of Lho Washington Mouumeat, . Mr, Story presenied two plane for desliug with the wmono- ment-—-without deciding in favor of eliher, though he would probanly prefer to sce its construction ‘begun suew. Onc ls to complete the prescnt mons ument, sbandoniug the idva of making an obelisk, and \wproving its rigid and barren outlines la s way that be suggeats, but to place the statue st the Lase with suilable surroundivgs, The Becessity for some change in the plan for the position of 1be statue Mz, Story Ulustrates by showing that, to be seen at all well oo the top of the mouument, It wust be uuarly or quito a bundred fect bigh, Uat bia saggestion for rebullding is far morv atirsctive. 1t ts. 1 brlef, tbat the mouument should resomble sowowhat the Albert Memorial Statue, the beauty of which those who bave seen it werely in pictures will remember. The statue would stand uuder & magniicent canopy, svd upon s pedestal which might be made 1o illusirate 4e whole history of Kevolutionssy tiuce.