Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1878, Page 7

THIE CIHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 187 THE COURTS. * Judge McAllister Decides in favor of Lipe and Holden, But the Other Side Appeal fo the fSupreme Court at Mount Vernon, Judgo Drummond's Decision in the ‘Whisky-Tax Caszs Advetso lo thio Distillors, New Suits, Bankrupteies, Con~ fessions, Judgments, 2 Ete. ONT. FOR LIEP, Tadge MeAllister yestorday morning sent over to the Cominal Court hie decimion in the caso of Clark Lipe et al,. ousted West Side Park Commis- sloners, againel Sextus N, Wilcox et al,, sucecs- sate, appointed by tho Gavernor. The pariies in Interest were pirercat, in the ofce af the Cleck of 1hd Court, and (he anccessful onca—~tho quartet headed by Lipe—twers In ureat glee over the read- ing. Following Is n brief abstract of the deciatons The act of removal refleid upon hy tho defend. ants, Wiicox et nl., wad the ‘mere onler of (ho Governor, Temosing tho relntors, and (he question af taaue binges on the legn] enflickency of that act. The ofMice of Wenk Elde Park Commlesioner was created by n local mpecial act, wijch went into force In Felruary, 1800, It provlded fhat seven restdent frecholders, desiznated by the Goveraor, shall Lo conatfiuted » Joard of Vark Comwlssioners, * Should any of the persous #o “defymated fail to accent and auallfy within slxly dayd, tho Goverpor may an. puint otheed Theto {8 nothing fn the state to reautring the Governor to kend o names {0 the femate for confirmation, or thot that Vedy ehould nct n b preme Jaem. In regard to removal, tho statute pro- wldes (At tho Commtssioncra or eliber at inem tany he displaced by the Clrentt’ Conet, after (rial nnd convictlon, upon petitlan nnd swatn clutegen, for any misdemeinor oF malfeasancein oflico, The Clerk of the Cotrt shall certify 1o the dovernar o copy of suy such Jndgment ar removal, Fpon the ceeipt of mch ceitificd copy the Goveenur Ix od 10 Al the vacancy. It will be i op- cd thut 1he atatute points vut 8 definite mode gmoval, Thin in snafiirmative statute, und in it ks un’ fmplicd prohivilion against the remaval being accompslied In oy - ofher way. M @ thing I+ dluied ta ue dona in uny certain form or manner, it excludes overy ollier mode. Afien xpteneions’ introdncini » new raie Imply & thve, ‘Thin Jocul special miattite, Itie clabmed, has hoen abPogated by the Constitation, This view 1 not warsanted by the facte, ‘Ul tag 10 the Constitn- tion provids that all lnies in force it ita wioption, atid not ncon<stent with Jt, ahall conthie 1o be v, The tenth vection of that fnstenment pro- viden that tha Governor shall nominate, “mudy by and with tho ndvice of the Senate, appoini aft wlifeers whose olllces are antablisked by the Constle tatlan, or which muy be created by luv, and appofitment fu_uot otheewive provided 1 ollices of Fark Conunleeivniers wers eats previons to the Lonstitation, and tha moao af Ap- polniment proserivu, 3t i not n prospeetive wflico, und there 12 nothing In the words Justifying n_canicluslon that tho_effect of (ho expression **niay be creatva by faw' sk intended 1o be reiro- active, The apporitnent wus the dealguation by 110 Glovernor, —iis suls independent act,—without resort to the Senate for ndvice or cohsent The conchistun arrived ol s, that tho specind #atuto creating (hesy ottices, Lroviding a certain manner and tabunal for the' tomoval of L In- cumbents from udice, uit certoin pretequisics for bringing before the tovernor the matter of vacan- e in bo Slled, will not, upon pensral ond settfed prinelples, be Feurdud do repester or nbrogated by uny mere peneral afinmstive provistons of the Constitution; that there Is no_Inconstatency or re« pusmaney briweeh hem and 1he Cowstitution, ant Lty thorafore, they ure prusorved in tiicir éntiro fatugrity by the sliet soctiun of tho scliedute fo the Constitution ubovo’ referred to, and continge I force, ‘This belue so, the certaln wanucr of re- moval from olfica pointed oul by th st ule, betwr jutroductive of o new Tuw, althougl I:i' an aflrmative statute, -fs implicdly pro- bibttory of any other mords, . Tho aliczed ro- moval by the Exceutive not Lemg fn the mode woiuted out, Is without lewal authority, and inop- eeative to create s legnl vacancy. Wherefore the defendants ehow no legal itio 1o thelr renpectiyo olleey, The demurrer o dofendants’ rejulndem will be sustainec and judgment of ouster entervd againet thewm. fata in the afternoon Messes, smit Ronney and attorneyn in the ease, avrevd upon on ap- Hupremo Courl, which convente at e condition being that e present Commissivnera sl contime to e~ wrclue hio_ functiond of thelr ollico peading tho aypeal, upon glving bond, "They canto over o tno Crinlal Court, duuze dameson presiling, ot lter hourto have tho bond fixed, ¢, Lonney urged it the lond should be not. fow tan £100,000, while Gen, Smith thouzht 4 bond f §2,000 would be ample.* The quention was ar- gued’ on either aido at kome length, tio fornfer aintaining . that troabla wus bownd 1o follow the colluction of taxes, and that the peoplo wouli bo damaged thereby,' hienco the nocossity of n Leavy bond. The latfer contended flmt the fact that “an appeal lud been taken afnyed the exects 1 of e Judgment of ouMler, ANA tha Conul sivncrs, 3 from tho Gy “rnor, nding the scl tlement of thu cave, honco no gamages conid aecruy, and hence the bond rhonld be u nointual ono, “irhe Conrt way Inchined to tnink with Gea, Bl und_cunclided (o witihold the cntey of udgiment nnttl to-morrow morning, instructing Ir.- Louney ta prepare such a bond ns by desired 1u the meaiitline, um peesent 1t Suvesal Disgesecn 10 TAe Calontn Trilune, SemNLIDAD, ., dan. £1,~The Guyornor and & leading membors of' the ifar hero are greally ur- Ilsca ut the declvion of duige MeAllistor, uf Chi- In tho Weat Park case,” It will De taken up 100 Supremo Court. THE WIISKY CASES, Jnidze Drummond soma. time ago doilvered a de- clrfon avstaining tho domurrera 1o the pleas in tho s0.called” whiskyeamesiment casos, A short #3t:0p41a of his deelylon was published at the te. The following f¢ thu declsfon In full, ax written guttobosent to Commbuloner Raura at Washe ugton s ‘his and varlous othor cates are dulta on diye tllers' bonds, avatast thele princibale snd thuie sureties, Tho pleadings n the didyrent caace aro 1ot preciscly alike, but they have all been argied togethgr on duintierors Lo~ pleask, and thoy huyo been ebnstderod an fving many questions In con- mup, o Dreach ulleged. ls In subetance that Yuuro witsturcased by th Commtssioner of Ii= temnal Revenau aealnst tho distiller o certalny In teepect 10 the business of - diatiilin, aliip tux 0ue 10 the Gevernwoent frous th tiller, undl which had_heen cer ur, of which notics wos duly giv aiid whichtax was unpald, Tho bleus st up diferent defenses, Koy Aro defoctive for dupticity and otiier catsed, aud to tiem tho demurrers will be auniatucd, Bt ax 1ho cuupsel o both sides do- o tha viows of tho Court_on tho merite of th Qufonwe, 1 will yraceed w siafe hriefly iny opintons 4 to the ditferent defe 0 pleadedd,’ ‘the Intornal-ilevenus law uives to tho proper ohicer anthurity 10 make un assevament undor cere Lty circumstances for dolluqucit tases, oud tiy declaration having alleged thot the atticer mada the Swussment for tha lax due, 1t willbo prevumud Siiat tho tax wue righsly aanearcd, Une delenso fv thet between the distillers and the Goyerniunt thery was an agresment -Gat, 1y Sunsequnce of certuln nete dons or to_ be dune, burforinance of wileh 18 averrod on tho part of thy Ulstiller, he was to be oxempt from punishwent, benglty, or fox. 1t ja notstated with whou thiy rechint was puide, nos wuder what ciream- siances, 1t b pleuded In ar to tie action oud as & fact to o trlca by u Jury, 106 person las beon suilty of any olcnis uguinel tho Governmont by Whichi he haw becomy wibject (o pumslinont or Penalty, If o voluntandv, 1w relation to the samo Sra elintlar utfouso, shal) be of scrvice tu fhy tov- grumeat by the diiclosurs of facte withln s vuwledyo uader the provision, vxprees or kmgiltud, that favorsball bovxtended to bi, acourt, wheucver A e appenr, witl direct the prosecution to by rested, or will suspend the punisbuent of petil- 1ri becauwa e Cauct will requize th tiaverument $0 act fuirly mnd fo good falth with el person, Hat 1Liw ruthera watter of -considerston for the Loart than of fuct for the Jury. ~ And it v often at- fended with so many 1mphicoifons aud fuferciices {natlt beconies w auantion peculiarly uppropriaty 1o Lo pawed ou by the Collre. 1t T B s a cehuleat bar to 1ho uction tiat such a pofut can bo Drescnted, but it becomes @ queation of propricty, O Lanor, and of gaod faithy 2% Lo which the Court :v;:;xlln.;vin s ouinion to Tho coausel o o Uur- cut uwt slate whether it ruper W prosa. ;:‘::‘-1‘:‘;" dercudaut or to lmuu-op .u!fi-.umm or Anotiior defense v, that tho Presdent has par. Joued the defendunt for the offenss committed and ur te punaisy, Thero e nu dougt of the power 91 the Exvcutive to do Shis, eithur befors or after Drusecution, Bot so far’ as theso ary actions fsuinst the' distliters and thalr surciics for tho unpayment of tazew due Lo the Governuwent, th :nnlun doce not aud was not Intended to include uch cases, . The main controversy (v as to the effact of the usesimuent wade by the Commineioner. ‘Therg 110 pleas thatwllog fucts whict 1€ true, show that e " Comuteaionir's ssessmicnt was withe Vv Juthority of law. It s lushied 't fuch " & dofense caunot -ba et up B thess cascs, Tho argument le that S jeituta providos a mode for the rectification of 13 lovalld uvscsstaunt, and, 4 that 1 ot followed 748 Muplication to'tho proper oficer 1o uch it s U7 1 Currect 3, 1t becowea tonclusive against btiller and’ the sureticw on biv Lond. ° Tiba '+, BUt stews Lo have buen the viow taken by tis Voquiiy of the Supremo Court tn Clinkeroeard vi. ey, 2L Wallacy, 65, “That way, like these, o Vil s dltiiler and biv auretied on o boud Beiemty the Uulied olates, swl | underetund the Tipebide decided by the wiajorlty of the Court I AN Le, tual, ugty fihalauding tae 8el requirti:e b8l 1o the proper ol W correct tua Claiiieut, At delense ebuwa fucls whicl i Vi At th wsecsapicut 19 erconcots oF illu ‘E\.l At wouid e u bar 1o tho petton, sud L WrsRaud, A thy fucts aball sbow that the wuols asserament 14 lilegal, then thete wonld e no dif- ferenca of opinfon; Fea dirwenting npinion of Cliford, Swayne, Davls, and Strong, Jd., In Clinkerheard vo, United States, 1t follows, therefore, fn mye opinton, that pleas relting forth facts which, if true, prove to the Court that tho fuscesment wan lile:n), constitnte a godd defenn, for theg show [n thie caes Ahposed that_the ofiieer had 10 authority o mako the asecasient, : THE NEPUBLIC LIVE &amnel . Ward, Lecciver of the Hepublic fife Tneurance Company, fled a report yosterday ahow- Ing that he 18 reddy and abla o make & Alvidend of 15 percent on the elaima proved op againat the Company, The followltiz 1 hia statoment of o celpta and dlabursements from Oct. 19, 1877, to Jdan, 21, 1874: RECRICTS. [ixt Lot iun art Luans ou culial Tieal estate . Iten) estate Taxes for | Tialancs on fiand Jan. 21... . £203,730.47 ‘The Receiver turthor atates that sinco his Oato- ber report siditional clsims to the amount of 7, 028, 41 have been proved up u,u t the Com- pany. En pursunnco of an order of Court July 17, 1877, tho Recolver states ho caused to bo mado o separate taluntion of each outatanding palicy, and A notice tu cach polleyehiolder ankhug him rpecifically to nceept or ruject such vsluation, A nmber of policy-fioiders acevpted the valnation made, bnt more made o reply, and at the cnd of ixty Ways, by osder of tae Copirt, it wan held that the valnat Deegpted. Notleod weto it b th policy-holdery of _the “Eeonvmieal Snfual Life-Insurauce Company, notifybe thei that the Jtepublic murunce Company “did not consider Javuff Habls for any relnsieaice of thule policiea, The Habihties now are about $1,100,000, and 205, 781,47 cnall on Liwwd, or autilclent to 3 of 15 per cent. 1 hy dndae Williums to b | Ulees oljections should be filed Wigein ten doys, and a teiden of T3 jor cont waw undered o Jald sa Nutlonat Life-Tnsurance Coutnany ate fled A pention, veiting fortl that on the futaf July, 1874, the’ Henublle Life, by varranty deed of thit e, for u conmiaeeation'of 81G0,000, conveyed ta petifiener the peoberty on which tha present Re- publle Lifo Bniding stands: that defendant ngreed thiat, atthe time of oxeeutingnnd deltveriug tho deed, the prembacs were fres wnd cleat frow all taxes nud mcatbran 3. thae utthis tme thero were venlly due anid napatd State and ebinty taxes of 1874 unil prior years to the smoun of $3, 1L, 0 that the pebitionde was aftorwagds, Eept. 10, 187 compellea to py Ut dmount, for'whieh pellilaner now cluhina that defendunt In fiabin, Tho petitton aleo xete focth that three polfcles of the Mahucanen Lifes Infuratic Company wore ra- Smmuredd by potitioner, sud that, by o clericat orrar, premiums smotnting to 8504, 70 were puld 10 the defendant tnsteud of to the petitioner, The tatter clims thut dofondant ia §iablo for thakamount, ‘I'ho pulitioner thereforo naku thut the Lecctvor of the Republle Life be ordered to pay over the above amets, eggregsting $3, 622,20, Jo L Fafrbak & Co, of Uoston, also fled o petitlon wetting up a clalin aguinst the Republic Lits of §1,460, for xeven montle® rent of roumm i o, 100 Washington, atrect, Doston, which tho fondnnt rented us urfotlice. | Fne petitlon sho that the feane was for Qve yeava from Jan. 1, 1 at §2,.400 pr gunnmy; that the defendent defaulted on tie rent—§000—fur e montiia of June, duly, aud Augist, 1977¢ that petitioner then ook puss custluny bk s boest 1t o reut (o premine ever wlnce, i lostie $500 more, Petitlvner uc- cordingly usky that this be allowea a9 a valld elalin againgt the defenilant, BANKRUPTCY. FEphrahin W, Bond yestorday filed n creditor's billacainst the Chleago & Minols Thaver Raflrod Compauy to ratlafy a Judguient for $14,070 obtafne ed In November, 1675, amainst the Company in favor of Frinbie & Tappleye, ' Complanant sots out that the Cuicago & ililnols River ond In Scp. lewmher, 1475, convoyed Ité road-bed to the Chica- go, Pekin& Soutlwwestarn Rallway Company for 214,004, which, however, has never been pald, Thd Intter road wns pat into the hands of o Rucely er last yeat, and tho Chicago & Iinols Itiver Roud hasfiled an Intervenlny petition I that caec, ask- Ing for a vondor's lien on the property convoyed. ‘Fhe latter Company {a ULopelcaaly jusolyent, and its propérty hins been lessed In perpetuity to the Chieago & Aliwn Rallroad Company, suibject to a first morfmge, which nreceden ;fimnlu(nnnl'n . A L v now pending to Yoreclosn this 1, aud a number of vthor snits aro pend- Ing In vurtona countfos agatnat it The Conpany®) in“blessed with two eets of Directors lostito to euch vther, sud if ono setadvocatos u mensitew of auv kind, ihat f generally suflicient 1o indiico (he otfier ket {0 vpposa it, Contrary 1o tho Conxtitu~ tlon of the Btaiu, gno of Uhess keta of Directors aro_nop-residunte, of They are attempting to en- tangle the affaira'of tho rond, und 10 procuvo th allowunca of filegnl claims, su'thnt the Company's property will fall Into tho hauds of some other Taflmad, Tho prosbeety ara cheerrul that Letween thess two thers will not Lo enongh Jeft to pay court costs, Complainant 10 concluelon nsks for the usuu) diccovery of enets ond for the shpolntuent of a Kecelver. "An appils cution was at once made to Judge Willlents, and ho appotnted Thomas ¢, 1IN Kecelver, inuer o bond for §:45, 000, wiich was at once furnishod, Tho Jadge aino entered an order directing ‘the Rteceiver Lo tako posscesion of tho road aud af) its frapchlsos. 1o 10 sautiorized (o colloct and pay clabme, and dofond and prosecuto suite, The Come vauy or Whoover mny have poxnessian of ite pro erty v alrected o surronder the i to tho 1t ceiver, 'Tho Tatier 3a to keepa ull and accurate account of ol his seir and don 10 of the Combany's nroperty, e To of road, . colivet ull moncys diig, employ nocewsary connel, uid report troi fite 1o e o the Court, The Coutpatiy and ity omicors uro reatratied from ntesferiig with sl the nesets, of whicts the le. ceaver by 1 tako posscafon, Nenjamin V, Tago and William Sprague, form. erly coparticrs I this city inihe bustuess of deat Iug In paluts and olls as Page & Sprasue, fled thutr vohintary petitlon in bunkruptey yesterday, ‘Plerr aucured ionts aro §1UM, 503, i thy 1. mecured, BONANDND,C bosidos 81030 due on dlacounted’ paper, Tho firm” awvole cone st of inuds worih 890,000, Ineumberod for 81,000; Wik and notcs, Sthi,a00, the majority of which ia_papor of T, B, Yaung, the Chicago, Danville & Vinconnes Nallroad Com - rnn{. or L. §I,_Honore; nml fnterests in lands iehd in trust, alout 301000, Benjamin V. Yugo 44530 of aecurott doblx anul $12, 063 of unsce 1ls pavets embrace blile wnd notes, about eureil, £11,000; horeva nnd_ carrlnges, $300% aley 220 hores of Lancaster Conl “upd lroun Lompany stock, aud 570 shares of Maxwell Ol -Com- y stock, and 250 Khares of the (Hobe ¢ lfigng Compsny stock, Tha ve- cured dobita of Willlam Suruguo are $11,000, 11ls 19 nro 467 shares of slock in the corporas gy, Eprague & Hmith, which the petltion- or suyule orthlos, (i thiy connectlon, the Tollowine pas bauded Intohis o2lco laat even) cattu :‘rlllunlhtfill or, puhll- **Tals should not be confounded with Pago, Spragnu & Buith, Nus 47 and 40 Dear- vorn atrect, which iy an facorporated Compuny, sniluto wl g, ) ey 4 Yolunlary petitlon was filed vesterday by Sam- wol Bl und Willlam e Topi, sehorias & 470. cerd ak No. 37 Wanash avenue, o4 Samuel illen & Co., andby Samuel Bllav, W', Topilir, and Otly N, X Ill"_'m s n‘n;u‘lllrh at Na. 20 ho sccured debiu of il & Co. ure S14. 34208 ae to J, anl Merchants® Savings Losn & unwecured debts sitount to $113, Kus, y in amllating, - Tao ascts comprise Jand, 91,0007 cusli, $46U.581 horve sud wugzons, $230; maehins ory, Oxtures, elc,, 359,705 stock of gouds. §2! ALT.0B NULes UG uccount, 122N 1Y, and otér asscts, 82,000, Thy Judlviduul debls of Ka el thn wro. 917,508 G0, * 1116 aacle uro a holso and lot,=No. G4 Wabuwh svegus, ~worth 10,000, ond an uwsojtled interest f !hu old drn of Bliw, Moore 5. Cu? Toplif owes 35,673 Indiscriniinnicly. Tlis oesots ure_schednled ae conshuting of §7,000 worth uf Tond, bills, und notes, 3725, ‘and_ a unseitiod in- tereat 1n_tho Grm of Bliss, Muore 'S Co. Tho Orin at (. 8. Fevor & Cu, show dobis atbuutiug to §0,035% RE, Flicle assots compring cavh, 31,003, 111 Hidek Of fracer's suulrica, SUTR.D0F bureo and wavon, $130: open uccouniy, 50,858.07: and ma- chiuery, Gxturve, vic., part being at No. 25 Micas fewn avuuo ond part at Nos. 47 and 39 Wabash uvenue, §243, 4 . B, r owes 824610, bag h3u o bassts, Fhe case Wi selurred 16 Keghater Mivbard, ond 0. A, Hoguo was uppoluted Proe vislonal Auslgnee, A compoaition fmseting wil bo hesd <. 1 the esus of Williaw ilutclinaou et al. Hradford Ilancock was yesterday appoiuted As- 0 of Joseph W, Hulnivr, Py combosition meeting In the caso of Mets Dros. was yeaterday continted oo weoks A small tual dividond was declared in the estato of A. N, Beard. An Awsiguco will bochosen st 10 8. m. to-dsy for {he ostit of Jesss Cox, A ¢ompouition mecting will be hold at the same hourin the case of erman K. Scuusbel, MISOELLANEOUS, Jemima Warmlngton began & sudt 1n tho Baporior Court by attachmeut yestcrday sgainst Ira M, Drow, clalming $1, 021, 14, Stephen Swift ficd o dlitrcss warrant sgaiost Eaward J, Cunolft, clabniyg $250 rent for atorv Nu. 102 Rundolph strect. CIKCUIT COURT, A. M. Dunge bogan & suit for $4,000 sgaiost Newton Lull. August Schmidt sacd Puliip Mers for $1,000. Jawes Stack fled a petitiva for babess corpus, atating shat Lo was acrceted by Charles Keraon & cayua lnued by the Clerk of Dekialb Countr, Stack s4v ke wuv and hos keeu at the tno of and inice the iyica of thecapize o rowldent Of Coui Cuatys 1hat the writ was served ou b ju thi county, Gud hat such service was Higgul snd Gpprasive, fae Sheril t abaat to. take® b Deliwb County uod put biw lutke jall thasy, asd Stack wanta {0 be relloved from tha danger of such a dolofni fature, Mary Baccalonp! commenced s anit in trenpnss againat John Mlariin, claiming 85,000 damaves. Ellzabeth A, Btono ct al. saed Eldridga & Tourtellotta for 81,00, PHOBATR COUNT. In the extate of_Sarion ;. Town et al., minars, A veent of guardtanshin wae made to Martha A Town, wnder bond For 12,060, CRIMINAL COURT. Jerry Eorden was tried forbuzaiary, fonnd goilty, and given two years In the Fendtentiary, Thowas Farmee and Jomes Grayhill pleaded Quilty to Inrccay and were remanled. 11 M. Carfation plended wnflty (o Jarceny and way remanded, —John tonley waa tried for the eame offenee and acquitted, - Anton Tettner wad tried for arsauit and ace atiitted, denos emin anr N A58, 309, 33, T A on trial, than: Tnctusive, Miang~11 THE CALL. 1. 41, 41, 43, 45, v, 47, and e U L), Ng cave on trigl , “No carn on trlal, 1, 7,0, 10, 12, and 1o 20, fuciu® 1L v, Newiran on i TARZNLD Of, ineinaive, escept4d, 1,33, and @07, No ar WiLLiass=Uenceal husinessy BroEiton Court~Coxviainin~The Flzat Xatlonsl Janic of Cifeago 6, Later g d. 0, 78 L 8 Piweil, §200,85.— e xa AV dackain, v, WML T Vs Patwdll & Go, va. il F, Dy, ] dupnxtiany=J, I.Quinn va, l.l,; toy (rnnr, 8470. M. ==Asahel Gridley et al, &, The liock Vailoy Paper Comgang, €is.61. 21 U lowman v, Frederick and Anveila fiyckinan, #1101, Arnue Soona: Mamschisotts Mutaai Life Insurance Company v8. E. 1. Shorman, $4, 841, x1, Gty SUINPEAHIONs~Joseph smith v, JenoR Ronriv—Colimbus, Chicago & Indiana Cen- trel Uinilrond Company ‘s Armtrong: verdlet for #502.31 40 fayor uf nania ¥, Anpattong, Jiste T, thers, Engehe and Annie 2. Fearce, John d Mattie Arstrong, and for §3,000 In aflrey, 1in Dilhan v, James Glader, 47260, drbnk MoALLisTRER=Charies T, Barnos ys. Peter Vetersun, §1, 5 e ——— CANADA, Great Oarsmen~Towvd Dufforin's # Sub'— Horrible Crunlty Practiced by s Son To- ward Hin Father=Othor Matters, Sueelal Disputch to The Chlengs Trivune, Toroxto, Ont,, Jait, 21, —{lanlan has cabled Higgeing, champlon of England, that he will row him a flve-mile race for 84,500 a shle at ‘Foronto, and allow htm 8500 oxpenses, or row on the Kenncbeeasls, each man puylng his own ex- penaes. Hanlan’s arrangements for next season will preven® him from going to England thl fult. €. E. Conrtney, of Unfon Springs, the Auwcrican oarsman, arrlved here to-duy on o brief visit, his principal object belng to sco Hantan and the course on Toronto Bay. 1 Spectal Disnateh ta The Chicuan Tribune, SIALIPAX, Jut. 2L—Cen, 8t Wiillam O'Urady Tinly was sworn fu a3 Adwinistrator of the Gove ernment to-day, to act during Lord Dufferin’s absenca at Washington. Immediatoly’ after- ward Gen, Haly aduilnlstered the osth of ofll o Mr. Jones, the new Minister of Militla, The clection contest between Mr. Jones and Mr. Richey will be the warmest ever held lere, Loth bartiea hold meetings nightly, and the nt- 1ot uxeitement prevails, Speciul Dinpatch 1o The Chicaan. Trivine, MoxriEaL, Jan. 2L—Josepls Charest, of tho Parish ol St. Anne Dy l.n,mrurll.‘, wus arreated to-duy for the murder of his father, It fs al- leged that the prisoner had for sofso Lo shown 3 Geslre Soy his pasent's dunth, nmd systematio- olly abused und inaltreated him. Last weok ho broke his leiw and otherwise fnjared Charest, Sty from tid effects of which hio died, Thy contractors on the Lachine Canal having reverted to the old system of paying thelr men in duc-bills and store-urders, another general striite {8 threatened. The workingmen have called o meeting for touorrow to discuss the subject and take avtlon, ‘The case of the Hon, Mr, Laflamme, Mfulster of dustice, and member for Jugues Cartler, whom [t §s being nttempted to unseat on the ground of corrupt practicen at his election, tommenced beforo the Supreme Court at Otta- wa to-day, . e SAN FRANCISCO, Ttuas on Two Hanks—Tho Panlo Attrihuted to tho Troublous ition of tho City— Men ut Last Sot at Work by Onpltalists. BAN Fuancisco, Jan, 21.—Saturday thero was something avproachlug a run on the Odd-Fel- Tows' Savings Bank, which, however, uttracted Nttle attention. 'Tuls morntog the run recom- meucedat the openlng of the Lawk, and has continued durlng tho duy. As a precautionary mieasure the bunk, s, lu conformity with its by-laws, required noties to be given on all amouilts of §1¢0 and over nt the rate of two days for cach $100. ‘The officers nssort coull- deutly that the bauk can pay all demands un- der tho provisions of Its by-laws, The nc- counts and securities wero receutly exumined by the Board of Directors, and found in proper condition. ‘The run extended to the Cthy Strect Saviags Bank, which nlsu has been bedeged by deposit- orsall day. Tha President states that thero bs B0 ground whatever for the run, aud that tho ank 1y ready to fullll} all oblzations, o other savings bunka hiave oxperienced any unusuul demand upon thelr resources. Thero is u disposition to purtly, ab e redit the runs ta the present {neeudiary agltation An vonforimity with a notles given by tho rall- road authoritica that uncmployed workingmen would_be eiven work on thy Company’s proper- tynt Mission lluy at 81 ver day, eoveral hun- dred men ngsembled there early thts morning, About 830 wer sct ot work, umil others wiil by given an opportunity as fust us the Company ean make orrupgenicnts. Within o fow days employment will Lo furalshed to 1,000, if 50 maby offer thelr services. — e g——— . DISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS, Spectul Dispatch to THCAicugo drihune, Naw Yous, Jan. 20,~Tie Tlnes’ Phttndelphia speclul suys: A few days azo the Germon Boelety of this city beld Ite annunl dinuer. TVhis organlzation s & leading German charitable soclety, and Its members are composed of tho Vest cltizens, Tho recent dinner nearly broko up in a row, and many of the expressions used there have beon brought to the attention of the Btuts Departiment, ‘The Cousul of the German Empire, Charlus Moyer, made a speech {n which he ridieuled ond ddended the Govermment of the United Btates and all connceted with it, and sald the only perlect Government was tho German, Steplien Remuk, a prominent lawyer and Counsel for tho Uer- man Consnd, ofg0 made o speech of the same tenor. ‘Uhen the party of luperiatists tousted health and suceess to the German Ewperor and coufusion to the United States Governnent, Th ctions so divgzusted some of the other ncwbers ot the Sociuty that they left in s ml{ aud wgreed that the State Department should by notitled of the seandalous proceeding, and that efforts should tie wade to fave Mever's conduct brought to the attention of the Gurman tovernuent, ‘The atfale may resuit in the ye- cull of Moyer,” e e DEATH OF AN HONEST MAN. Special Diswalék to The Chicago Tribune. Broosinaroy, 1L, Jan, 21,—This moraing a telegram from Duxbury, Mass., shuounced the death of John 3Magoun, of Bloomingtoy, at+4 u'clock Sunday sftoruoon, The news brought deep sorrow to Bioomington, for nu nobler or purer man everJived fn Bloomington, Ho was Lorn In Pembroke, Muss., (u 1806, and had lived iu Bloomington siuce 1830, Il sccumulated a lurge fortune by judiclous speculation In Jands, sod Ly money-lending. Last summer, when tbo Home Bauk of Bloomington fafled, he, bo- fug a leading stocklolder, throw hia eutire fortune, awounting ta nearly $100,000, futo the lguldation of tho bank's latl- ftles, Ho felt lerg lase Friday with his Lrother Lutber Magoun for bis family’s bowe, i Murshileld, Mass, aml divd aluost fwme- diately upon hia arvival of chronie laryugitls, brougit on by heworrtuge of the throat elghi- cen mdutbs “ago. o was umiarried. His charitiva were without uuwmber, sud no good caues cver -pnfimd to bl in valn. E£X-GOV. LUDINGTON'S TRICK. Dispateh ta Milaukes Commerciul Times, Mavisox, Wis., Jan, 14.—It scems that tho late Governor of the 8tate, when & copy of Gov. Sulth's messags bad been delivered to the Lhl- cago Limes eporter, ufter the Jast trafu that could get it toChleazo to be published before its delivery bad Jeft the station, recelved the proof trom the reporter, drove furiously in his carrluge to jutercent tho tralu ut the Jower depot, and bimaelf brouzht the ducuwent luto Slwaukee, und dispatebod it w Chlcagol It s eutirely salu to say that oy one wan lives w Wiacouaty who I8 cabable vl buviug been s Goy- erior of this 20 sitall uu 3 Jexlst Lion. Ly ull we. Juguiry into thls sud,eet. RELIGIOUS. Eternal Punishment Still the Sub- ject of Discussion. . The §Hethodist Mintsters Forinulate Thelr Creed Regarding H.-The Raptist Faith, TIIE METHODISTH, THE UBY. 8, S AVAMA, ‘The Methodist minleters 4ieid thelr regalsr weekly meeting yesterony wornlng, Fresds in2 Elder WIling in who chair, Jesldes the large aitendunce of ininisters, there was present no-amali aprinkling af thenlezical students sncd Ingmen, drasen together by the prorpect of hearing the discnrrion os 1o the way the Cliurch shall teach the doctrlue of future punishment, The Rev. &, Earngey, of Woodstock, led in the devotiona) exercises, Tho Ttey. B, 11, Adame, who was requested at tha last meeting to prepare s paper on the sabject, Tlow shsll we tesch the dactrine of fature pun. falimont?" procesded to read what ke hod prepared on the ahject. . After spenking of the importance of tho thenie, and the neccnsity for enterin® npon its discussion wih a heart full of love to Goa and tenderness to man, ho sali that ministers should preach 1t clearly, as it was taught (n the Bible, and yot with tears. It was a guostion whether the torrivle mode of preaching this doctring in the past had not beea & fruftfal cansoof infl- delity. The Mcthodlet minister rhould not presch 1t in auch 8 way av to cause donbts and idle quea- Uonings. He ahogld dlsclose the Bible teachings on the subjact a3 ho honestly belleved them, with 8 heart fall of love to Uod and man. Ir a man didn't but half believe in it, ho ought {o let it slune. Heretofore the Univeraaliats hiad - wppenled to prejudices und moro feeling, triumphantly asserting that & merelful God could not forever punish sinuers, In teaching the Bible doctrine the miulstor aliould distingaish between fecling and reason, and the appeal to the former shiould bo roled ont, floll was an awful reality, and God had Intepded that all lfocling shomid he azafost it in order to deter men from commltting #in. 1fe could nat interprot **slonlon fnean. ing nnyibing Jesy fhan ** everlanting,” althongh thero was just a shade of donbt about that. vanon Farraz and others hield that it meant age-lonz. and hestionld slways cherish them aa brother workors in tho caaso of Christ. \Was the Methodjet Churet Dbound up s0 tahtly un this matter by a crood that It could not wiggle? If thore was any- thing ltke that, ho dil mot know ur 1. Jlow should tho Bible doctrine be defended from tho docleihe of unrcasouablencsa? Tho first ob- Jectton to it was that 1t wae oppused to God's mer- cy. Dut Mothodiem was not Calvintem, ‘That wan dead, and Methodiam hiad had a large share n ita deuth. 1§ indicated no advance thought to gt Yoy wid and_icic thin coey dead corpec, cocher's futo sermon_amounted 1o no more thag that, It mieht bave chocked tho waniug of hily popularily aid_ helped the newspaper to cet up a Pontivn and inoke moncy, biit it contatned notl ing new. The Methodist minister should teach that thero ruat be at leasta preat wulf fized beliveen the raved and the Jost; that without hollners ho man should ace God; and convince by reason that no mon who dled Imponitent coulu dwell fatever with (od. ~Ile rlwuld Tny moro atress on the guilt of sin and the noed of converajon: preach often on tho cross of Chrlst; snd endeasor to correct & morbid, sickly sentimentallstn which was pain- tng el hewlway in religious circles, Tho Bille doctrine of future punighinent shonld by preached ut gl tlmes, and tue rernons shiould be warnligs to men to desstt their sing and flec thy wrath o come. 'flm nafrer won received with applause, and fts publication requested In tho Norfawestern Chris- tlan Adrocale. Dr, Hitehcock moved to postpone the discustion for the present, with a view to bringing up on lm- Rortant business matter, The motlon was earried. Dr. Ilitchcock then sated that it Waw necessary to falve mioney for ho # OARLRETT BIMLICAL INSTITUTE, and hie hoped the meiting. would postpone (ie ds. cusnton In land ‘fur the time boiug, aud tuke up this matier of the Invtiinte, After some discusvion 1t was agreed to postpono thie dincunslon of the auestion efure the leetiug, and To taka up Uie Institale matier. Wudge Goodrich, one of tho Trustoes, was calied nipon for o stutement of tho condiston of the msti- futfon, und reprosentod that 1 incouie at present syus tairely onough Lo meet Lie payiments of ' totee. €ot, und, unlesms oll wora furnistied, it must o don, Thu Trustees lind dona alt the'y could, und wero now forced 1o uppeal 10 tho churches, Dr, ‘Thoman snoke In favor of sustulning much Institutions ot alt bazarde during thess hard thncs, Jun few year the uancint deprosvlon now restini on the country would be at un cnd, but In the meantinmo the charches ought not (6 et these edu- catlonal institutlous go down. Dr. Fliomas then excwed himself frum’ further aitendauce during the sevalon, pleadingan jmportant cngagoment ax hiy rearon for lenvini, e, Ilizeheuck otfered the followlng: Iteanieed, That we approvo tho plan of the Garrett Dinlical {ustces iy, appealing 1o tho telendeof the b sututlon Tor 0 Endowinent ¥und, and that we wiii 1end our aid. 80 far 831 in GUr power, 1o furward sch an udertaking. Treaied, Uit thla tmeettni appalnt the Prestding Eider, the'PASLOF 0f the chured ot Bvansion, aod (e 4. Adaun av s Cominitios 0 advis with tie ucully 1 TIeReuce 1o thu est plau (o b Pursuca Lo rals such endowinett. ‘e resvlutions wers addpled. Il discussion of the subject of future ponish. went wus then resumed, THE UEV, 8. 1T, M'CUESNEY desfred to ve thoroughily nndersiood on tha ques- Uon o fature st aud be therstoro moved the wiaption of the (oliowing_ gesolutiuns, drawp up by himself, tho Rey. Dr. Edwarnls, and the Lo, M. Trusdeli: Wirgnias The subject of the propor mody of teacl- T A AT e e re Tt o T e beote ke ntotIng: for wisctimlony thervfore, s of the Chieaso Chiuren, tuky this ve ‘caalon ta Featiirin our beliet In The Tutire endiess pune fshuent of the wicked, as distibgutehied from * the tiwary of the Ticsturaionlsta o the tno taid, Aud Trom that of the Aunlbilation(sts on tbio other. Mr, McChesnoy added that ho Lolleved tho reo. lutions to bo u falthful exprewsion of Methodlst sentlment throughout the country. Mo wus fu favor of their lmwedlate adoption, because thy more tho ministery talked the more would the in. [ql;g.:’ll:(: g0 out that thoy were divided ou the subfect. Tho Rov. Mr, Cauldwell moved to postpone action on the resolutions untll the next micetiug, n wrder to givo all tho winwters an epportunity to vuto un tiein, Tho Rey, Dr. Willlsmuon, tho Rev, 3r. Park- luret, aud TIE REY, DIt EDWARDS oppoacd a portponcment, Tho latter etated that ut unaccountably (mpression hod guuo out that thy Chicayo Methot mintutors worg i doubt on this suojuct, * It necoanary to rocord the aplulons of wl tho winlaters, o xccoud vote could be tuken next Monday moruing, e belloved It quits proper 10 pinws the Fesaiutions tow, {u ardet Lo shaw bow 1ar the Mothodtet minwlers bad wdvanced In the discusiion of this question, senlly old, but uow brought up by certain divines as vometbing quite nuw, The motion Lo postpons was withdeawsn, TIH UKV, Mt CRAFTS belleved In foture punishment. Others bad thelr doubts, und o thought the controverted point should Lo waived for the woke of certainty. A great many honest Curixtians had doubis on this wubject to-day, and he belluved in presching thut about Which thure was wol the smallest shaidu of doubt. o anort, he belleved in futuro punisi- monty bat Wwith tharily for thoes in the chutcl, wha did not mllllrukv ufiirar altbough thoy did put dony o belief in the dostsiue. ‘The [tev. Mr, Parkhurel wunted tho resolutions pumsed and spread befor (ho wurld, xl‘nlld the Itev. 3tr. MetChesney, who was un. wiiling 10 have thie fupreesion, that the Méthodiat K{u‘ucl;mn of Cllcago werv 1o doubt, o uncontras cted. “I'he Rev. Mr, Canldwell resonted the Impllea. tlon that thoro waw uny doubt suong the preactiors on (hta subject, aud Weut on (o show vory con. clustyuly tuut thers werv no doubts 1n biv mind that future punisiment was bverlasing, ‘Iho resolutivue of the Rtev, Mr,” McChesucy wore read ayaln and adopted without a ulasentini voico, On motfon of tho Rev, Mr. Truwdoll, tho min. {atura wury requested o turn over the procesds of noxt Bunday's church-esteurlon collectlons 1o the Bayment of 8 deba of 8500 zuinet bublelt Church, o Hev. Dr, uumx‘(. ;al the Lusincss Come owin, miltiea, roported the fullowing tople fur discustion uest Sonday morsin How sholl Wo best rencis With tha Goepel, und 1L salvation from ai, thy tnultitudes uf people in thiv city who ars but yond the {nlugnco of our urdioury evangelical weuny of soul-winnlug 2 Thy report augseated thiat the Itoy. Johu Willlameon prepare & piper on e pubject, I'ho &vnurl wss adopted, and the meoting ad- : AT OTTAWA, Jourae Specinl Ogrrespundence of The Tribune, Orrawa, JiL., Jun. 21.—Lust evenluyg tna Rev, Tuouas I Blrbwurldge, - padior of (b Sethudit Epiacopal Chiarct of Otiawa, dolivered o discourss upon that popuiar subect, *flell, " aud thy eter- nal punlabment of tho wicked. 11y text was from Matlhow, xx¥., 48, il anuoimced bis bellef jn u overlusting uato of unhapplnces for slnucrs wha rejuse the otlory of merey, but did not believe fu 1he Calyinfatic 1doa thut the husis uf the unchris- thunzed uattons were Lo go down imfo cudices tore ment, Tl wae Lmornce, aud o chance to kuow the will wf (od, and’ sual rodcupiion, aud mever-onding buppluces would all Lo gven. - But io- those who willfully fye nured the wercl(ul haud, aud passed from thie fite in thy midst of unrepoutunt siv. he did not think a state of fotuge probation would do- thew any good. e believed i o Heayen and in a Hell, but tho language used fu Luke, vixtcenth chapler, ana Sievelations, twenty-Gral thupter, derenbiive of theso placcs, gkt be, und probably Was, Burative. Tlo'real dorcription bas but cotercd the mind of wan, He concluded with the wsser- tion that any peron who desled (o, cutee Heaven would Lo gladly welcomed oy thy Futkice, sid that those who preferred porwtion would bu in buwbars like the cnuuduale to th wass of tuu people of the batvw. The church waa crowded, snd proleuud Attentfon wan given the speaker throoghout hus | entlrc scrmon, THY, BAI'TISTS. ETERSAL PUNISTIMENT. The Baptist minfsters met vesterilay morning st No. 71 Iandolph sircet, the Rev. Iyf. Everta in tho chalr, After prager by the Rev, % 11 emingtan, and sketches of sermons by the Rer. A. Blackbnen and K. P, Mlisen, thetopic for discussion = ** The Present Outlouk of the-Doctrine of Future Panleh- ment —wna taiten W, 3 The Rev. br. Northenp led, snd said that, in conslderinz the aepectof thin roligions diepute that had beconse s gencral over the counlry, An allow- ance should be made for the clas of mon who had aranred the puiereat in the snbject. Themn wan nothicg in thelr utierances. 18 they denfed the genureslly neccuted fortrine of fell, that deninl wa1 o evidence that there wan o be a chdnge of dactrine, 'they ween ol the men (o fonnd a new round docerine, They onginated the dieputes fur the prrpoes of inflamil the minds of the geaplo With niew reneations, “1he prousnence Which The duetrine of lei) and ponistracrt liad sasumed At the prosent mament lu punlie thonzht wan ignif- cant, 1t wna tn ocrordance with the law of histor- teal development of all the gecat dactrince of the Goepel. The dorteines of the Iieing of tiod. tho Porson of Chriat, Man's Melation to Cod. the Atonement by iood, and the Justdeation by Faith, wern g1} evolved and establisticd only aftur great’and lasting general discussion. Thia prom- inence wan ale Indicative of the connelon sup. reesion an'l depreesion to which the ficll docs rine_has been anbjected. The proachers of tne Word kept tack from setting forth the doctrine, and now, the depeesston hasing been removed, the ducteine had sprunz nv with a strong rebound, The catises of this depression wera va- rinte, . ‘Thers had heen an exvrens deninl of the true docteie of Justice by larce and inflaentiah ‘Lodles Soristiand who had announced a doctrine whiéh was based upou the expreesed belief that aatice wan ** benevalenre guided by wisdom,'" ‘ne correct definition of *fnatice,” the speaker . was **arendering 1o every tonn what is hia *or **juntice 1a Justice,' Another cause of U eprermion and holding back of this doctring of liell and pnnishment wan certatn infscon tlons entertained hy diJercnt charchies, even thuro of the asmo denomimation. Onpe of these mircomccphons wan ihe ton grest promimenco given (o the eternal and phyaical as: cta of the punishmient i the hercafter, ** Hell, eaid the speaker, **1a a atate tn which aln relgusin ail aud over all,—s moral and sniritosl ehaoe. " il wpeaker dig ot deny that there mii be in clipoed. #o that at1ast the current siver enln had bern diminished 1n waight nearly one-haif. = Of this chippod coin €1,000,000 wete fn clrentatlon, whilat §1,000,000 of unclipped coin wan koarded: As fust me pew Mivee colns were (rened from the iot they dirappeared,” Whilat a ringle unciipped rhilllng Wwas clrenlating in the same town with tha shilling that was sot inteinsieally worth moare than sizpence. traded or put hizher ptlce on helr gnods. “The laborer w10 twas patd Lis weekiy vares in deprecinted eol contd ¥ ohtaln a emall foaf Aned i e, The money-rhianzers amil han s Inz lagge foetanes angof the peeplexities of all thoe wiio had to by or sell.Lnacombe, not long since n mean goldsmith, haw parchased the Pucks Ingham estatd for £10, 000, Tn 1655 the _money difficulties of Enugland weve awful. The Bank of Enuland could nut Py ita notea in n;’wflm &af panfe thraughom the fand. and the whofe natlon drifted inlo the eonlition of semi-civiil- zation—narter. King William gaid It they conld nut rajse moncey alf was fost. Every efiort was made to_change the standards of “moncy, and, in the face ol probuble nattonal destruction, the House of Comuons passed this nobie resos lutfon— That they would not alter the standned of gold and siiser tn finencss, welght, or denomination, The effect, " saya Kmight” (Vol. VIIL, p. 1i45), *twag fastantancous. The expectations of those who hoarded gainess In the bellel that n gatnes wonld pase for 50 shillinea were at anend, The trie_money flowed into clreutation, Trade ro- vived. The finsncisl snd commerclil crisn wns past. " The natln was solvent, One linndzed and twenty.rix yesrs aftermardn tho great Hoskinson, in realuting”a motion avuinst the reaumption of cash paymente, concinded by moving, ™ st this Hlouse will not alter the rtandard of gold and mil- ver in fineness, weight, or denomination. The men who fonoded our Constitution and Taws knew the listory of the Old World on this question. They kuew that the colns of Eu- gland had been clipped thine and again to the utter ruin of thousands of peaple. 3 Bo enormous had been thoss national erimes, and 8o great wos the estimate In England of the restoration of moncr to its true values by Eliz veth, after the fraudulent dippiggs of Edward, uud ‘the flenrve, and Japes, that it wns put upon er monuinent, “Monels ad suum ratoren reducla. The fanguage of the Federalist mizht be well applied to thiee legisiators of 1635 and 1374 ‘The sober people of America have seen swith gret and Indienation that sadden changes nnd les store for the wicked efernal punishment, Not- witustanding (hat, 100 great pron hait heen iven to the'luko of fite and brimstone, the walling of lust voure, gna the crackling of dry o Anonther nilsconception swan that o punishment,. that punishment was based upon zailt fucurred In thia " 1ife. Endiess * punishment was nnt for the eln. Incurred §n thls dife. Endless punlshment — was for ondiess stuning Kin, whenever und wherever and by whomsuever commnitted, mmust e punivhed. 16 sl wae in the world to come, then it would be punished 1 the world to come, If 1t was not In e world 10 come, then tuere waa o cessation of 1hat punishment bestowed for the commirsion of wrongs bu the itfe that now Ix, Stns in_ this life fixed tue stale und condition of man in_the world to como. - 1n closing his femarke, the Doclor sud tat the thorouyh airinz wileh ' the snblect wad recelving and ws to recelve would donbticas have the eect of intercstinz the people to aict an ex- tent that tho great teaths of tho Bible conld bo #hown through tho arguments which had been and would b made, Dr. Northrup was follotwed fn the discurion by the liave. Maeyalt, flowitt, Goodspeed, Morzan, Church, Binckbyurn, aud Moorchouse. puiiiabeteih MISCELLANEOUS. THE PRESDYTERIAN CLEROYMEX held a regular weekly meeting yesterday forenoon In thiete room In the McCarmlck Bullding, corner of Dearborn and Randulph atrects. Keporters wers cxeluded, and the eubject only nnder consldera- tion could be obtalnea, **Woman's Public Work in Sortala' was the topic discussed, and it was the tltlo of » paper read by the lev, Dr, Pate terson. Owfng to u lack of telephones and other purtorlal apphiances for eatching langusge as it flows, from the foncue I sceret concluves, the arift of the discussion could not be obinined, Tho Heeretary fnformed the reporter that the Rev. Arthur Mitchell would nut deliver his address un the **Preaent State of the Papal Churel in Eue rope ' uptll the next meeting, SACON'S PILLAR, To the Liitor of Tiue Tribune, CLixtos, In., Jan, 20.—1notlce with great sur- priso In yoar paper of the 16th Inst, n slur wouzht 10 he thrown ona sermon preached by the Kev, Jdokeph Wild, In which he ade some stateménts about the Aris of the Covenantund Jncol's tiilar, 1 have not hud the good fortune to_either hear or read that discournes bit, from what i stated In your baper of the purport uf i1, hu whowa hiraself to o nn cdueated gentieman, and f . you, Mr. Jditor, wonid unly tuke the tronbis 1o read history on the subjecs you will flud that his tory s fuily corroburated, not only by Irish, hut Ncoteh antl Engiieh historians, Mr. Wild certainly deserved betior trentinent b tho hanis of such o generally fulr paper on Tig CiticAuo TBUxE. Wik sou altow 1o to correct the crroneous opin- fon hiit yuur critichm may huve formed (i tho minds of your rendern who aro ot familisr with thic matter na Jar an dacob’s MiiaT idconcerned? Une 0fYho rtonea of whicl tiat pillas v mado ls known in Irieh hislory as 1he ** Lia faff, “—~stono of deatiny, ~and was brought to lrclond by the fret Celtic suttlers of that Bland, awd placed oy Tata, in the County Meath, —whic, by tho way, s in thio caat of Treland, not the norib, as stated by you, —where the monarehs of **AN Jreland " crowned. About the year 60 1, C. this rtono wi Takien by am frists Prisieo nauied Ferauy, who colons fzed Seutland, and placed It at Dunsaitoage that Kingdon, wherg It was uued ad g onntloni-seat of the Kcottlsh Kinge. it war tuken by Kenucth 1 to Bvone, © whieh was eyer afiur tho coronition pleca of the Cultic Hings of Scotland unt) Edward I, of Enplond, ig one of hia raldw Into Hcotiund, succeeded In ge 1ing possession of it, and Lad 1t placed in Weat mifnstor_Abboy, London, wheeo (6 sitll reniminas and every Mopiirch of England from Edward to Victoriabos sat on this sincularly feresting relic of thie _far pust during tha ceremiony of ther cor- omtion, e the most wu-leld Bugiiiman eane notdeny, S The old Insh prophecy regarding this atony rayw, *+Tho race of Souls 6t the e Gload {aslaly), 1F this proplicey boniot fulek, uniess they Juaeces Lhe stone of atialt fiull 16 retain reyal power,” When King Kenucth took the stona fo Seope, ho lind it inctosed tn a creat oak chair, and tho nl:huwm Iconine verses cngraved o tho back panel: N1 fallst Fatum, Heutuni quoctiyiie Tocslurm, Tavenient bidem, Jivignuro tepentew thidem. Thos translated Ly the old Kuglleh historian Camden: Or Fatg s bilnd, Ur broia shall shd, Whiere'er Liis slade, A Hoyal thrune, A Ilmuhncy elngularly fulfilled so far. womio other Coltcan givo equally as walistuctory proof of the Ark of theiCovcunnt bejug at Tura, 58 you, Mr. Edttor, can fiave shout the Lia fail] if You'ehould visit Westinlnster Abbey, Muplug, oea matter Of justice, yon will insert the toregolug. UALLNATINADUG, - A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR SILVER, To the Bditur af The Tribune, Cnicado, Jan. 21.—The great trouble in mak- fng men understand the argumeuts for the res- toration of the dollar of our fathers arlses from thy fact that most of us Lave come ou the stagy sfuce colns of all kinds, and especiully sllver dullars, ceased to dreulate, When wo speak of tho dollar of our fathers, wa mean tho founders of our country, A very slight examination of history will show that the dollurs ot our {athers was the sflver Spanish milled dollar, or Amneriean dollar mudo equival- ent thereto. That was wot vnly the standand and unit of valus tixed by the Contiucntal Con- gress, but readoptod by the United States ang contiuued so from 1776 to 187, To talk}about tho fluctuution of tho silver dollar {4 nonscuse,—it was the flxed standard of value for elghty years, and was never ahiered one gram. Uold was lowered 6 per cont In 15H, and, after the Caltfornia'supply of gold, subse- quent to 1518, gold becumie o much cheaper thansilver that all our sltver dollars disappeared, Then In 1863 we suspeuded specio payments, uud when we come to discuss resumption ju 1578, we_have forgotten the real relutions of silver. But there is scarcely a writer or atates- wian, or United States Juidge prior to 1853, who dues not reiterate the statement that the money of this country s unalterably flxed fo gold aud silver cofu, of which the unit of value is the silver dollar of 371 4-10 grufus, Whyy' for the Airst AfLy glorious years of the Jile ol s mar. velows country thire was nothing but aitver dol- {ara and Jurelin evln, 1 dely cny prattier sbout obsulete silver (0 show any evidenve in history or the debates in Congress that, prior to the oveniug of the Califoraia mines n 1845, there was suy gold colu in this country.” The Secre- tary of the Treasury in 1533 seports that up to that thno therebud been Tess thun 812,000,000 of gold ¢ miuted, and that bo did not believe there wus theu o shugle 1zuld plecs tuthe country, It was worth u trifie more tian the dollars, aud heneo was hoarded or suld abroad. Mr, Potter fu the legul-tender cases (4 Wull, 1. 409) savs: Frow the first fasuc of cofy by (his Goverumoent 0 thia tiwe (1570), thy unit of calculation uod of coinaze, the sliver dollar, huy remulued the same. Othier Iezal-tender coins have been dobnsed Lhrice o in dune, 1684, wien the gald coluage wa | duced about ver ceutlu value, oucy fu 1891, When the thres-cent Uleces were Orut cowod, aud obe 1u 1633, when thu fractional silver cois was reduced wowe U per cout b vatue, At the riak of beluf tedious, let us review sute o Lhe listory of culaage, that we may, il possible, seo Low to uuderstund Lhis matier Wil its beanuge. Evelyun says: T 1693 the futoleruble corruption of colu wus alone witiclcut o buve provoked auy natlon ou carih o extecuitice, 1 wiw compited that ¥, - 000,000 “were o ©rculation, TLo old moncy woieh bad vo willed tuze bad been gradually 1 hopo atire tnterference in casen nffccting persanal richty hecame Joha In the hande of enterprislig and influcntinl fpeculatars, and snare o the Kors Induntrious sud less informed part of tho come munity, But the language of Serivture 1s still hetter: B Cv{rw’d be ‘he who removeth the old lpud- inarks, " « But, returning to 1376, Jeflerson, amiitan, Madlsun, Morrls, uud the rest believed fn the wonls of Biazkstone: Tlint tae colning of money i the net of soverelen panier. taat its valou nuay bo kiowtt on hispection. T thls sierling nicta) ali tie coln ol the hingdum must be madvi but the Kiug's preroeative recnetn not to extend o the debusing o enhancing the value of the con above or below the sierllug salne, Wiat would he bave thought of cltminating onehalf of fti Lord Coke says: The law doth give the King minesof gold and “liver thereof 1o make woney, and not any other rautal, hecanwe thereuf money €annot vy made, und hereof there Is preat rea®u, for the value of utoney, belng 1n e@eetihe value of all contracts, la in effect the value of cvery man, Chlel-Justice Chase #ays: We sesume 08 a Yandamental propositlon that 1t was the duty of our (Governmentio csiablisha slanidard of alug. Tho necesnty of much o sand- ard s “univereally acknowledzed. The aclection, by the comnmon conseut of all nationw, of gold un ryer 13 1o staudard of value, e natural and lu- evitable. Guid and silver was adopted to sorve the purpose of exchunste by the tacit concurrence of all natious atn very curly period fu ihe Listory of commercial transaciions, — Wulker'a Science of Weaitn, 127, Lxpenence showed comuiercial natlons fhiat goid and stiver ewboaled the qualiiles desirivio. in mongy in & wuel greater desrew than any othor :"cmnum.myur subelance.~Suitth's Wealth oe, Sajd Danlel Webater: Most unquestionavly there 1 no_legal-tender, and giere cun bu no Jegal-tender i thia country under the autnurity of this Goverument, but quI'J a@id aiteer, Congréss s no power eeantod to 1t in_thin reapect bt to coin woney and to regulate the value of foreizn coins, Conress hias exer- cixed the power fully, ¢ has coined ooy, and il cosus It "o legal-tender—the conatitutional etaudara of value—1a catablished, aud cannvt ba overtirown. Now turn to the Statutes and see what that legal-tender wus that Webster thought could not be overtbrown, By the act af '92, follow- iugr the ordinance of the Contluental Coutress, thoy were gold eagles, half and quarter cagles, aud dollars or unifs, cach 10 be of the yaluc of 1 Epanfah milled dollar, as_the samo I8 uow cur- x’}ul‘ sud that coutalued 871 4-16 grafus of vure silyer, Now what was the dreulating mediumi Clear- 1y not cagles or guld coins, for 1 1823 none of them were in the conutry, and lesa than 12,000, W had ever been colned clearly not Engriish ounds sterllug, for England did - wot eelny to colt them untll 1815, And hero Jet mo remind the man who asks, Mo cau you yesume, 1 sitvey dollas when therd are no sliver doliare? that England resolved, in 1515, 10 resume In gold with pounds sterling when therd was Bot swch u colu u oslstence, and never hnd been winco Henry VN, colned few, which were wuun debased unid disappeared. With tno bulllon of the globe tu deaw from, It becawo easy 10 cain into pounds sterling when they were novgs ed, und wo can coln siiver enough to meet the wants of the country (€ we try, ‘Ihe culn currency muat then have been of miver and foretim coluv. ~ Nowuduys we forget what an funpariant olewent Toreleu calns were w g for elghty years, * Attiret wo had ull Kindwof foreign cotn, "I 1500 Congress declared tuat, ot the ex- ulration of thevs yuars atier our own coinage of goitd wid wlisee whould comuience,all foreign coin, except Spanish milled dollats, stvuld censo ta b A Tegal-tender, and that faw was tehealed in 1800, audl full lesal-tender admitted (0 the pold cotnw of Gireat liritain, Porwugal, France, Spain, aad 1o Spunish miad stEver doltars and Froneh evomns, In June, 185, Congrcas extended the leeals tender 1o the dotlurs” of Mexico, Peru, Chi, Centrul America. liruzil, and the Ave-feanc vleco of Frauce, wid tu the gold coine of several yations, Iu Murch, 164, Congress ro-enacted tho snme, aud fxed the rate at wilch the United States should valug At customs the sllver covsim of Vrug- ain, Portugnl. Bremen, Madiera, tha Azores, lam- Lur, Ntussis, aud Beitish America, 161857, fur the tret tim siuco 1776, or moro than eiplity yoars, forclyn colns ceased to be & Tewal-tender Tor all debts in the Unlted States, They continued (0 bo lozal-tcuder for purchiase of putlte fundy and payniont of dutive on fmports untfl 1874, when ' the wame secrel management that atrack out sliver from our own cofnagy lime {ted the Teceipt of forizu colus for those purpres 1w gold colus, and miver (o th fractionsl quuricry, ciitl,“und sisteeutli of spintal and Meican ollure ‘Yo abuvo citations show that when the world at largs waw enpullod with a cfuage of accordiug to the tables of 1852 twelve hundred millious of il- verund eleht bundrud millions of guld, wm) when W _liad the rlzht 1o two foreln -coln parl pusen Witk our oW coltin, OF elo 10 tako the furoign coiny o our mintesud have i recoled frou of vxe penge, all ereditors and debtore, national o indl- Yiaual, knew the sources to which they could go for Jegal-tender colu, and that it was lnmnaterinl whethor at any given thue th ratio was Jarco_ of gold toeilver or silver 1 gold; thar whenover fn any country, Ivland, or coutinent ung metal bo- caing aearvr than unather 1L would be hoarded, and tho cheaper motal would pass current. it lg, then, {ileratly truo that the wament Cane grons declurcd silver uo lunzera legal-tender That it did in trath and fact strike out ohe-half or tore than u bulf of the comago of thy World from one uso, a8 certainly rabinig the price of gold us the pride of wheat Would bo (ncreased by Lurniog up all the corn u tho world, 1belleve the uek clearly ancoustitutionsl, Tho Comtitution gave Congress tho rigut 010 toin money, regulato tho value thereof and of foreign coin,"' The oplulon of all vur great staleaumcn ahow that by regulating noihing moro was Intendod than to adjust thy lueal.teuder amount of value to tho aligicat varying wtrinsic vatus between yold andliver. 1L was never uuthl 1873 dreasaed’ of it Congress hud the right 1o actually demonetize clther metal, Liut whother conatitutional or not, It was s fraud Beyond way (1 the World's histary 48 say thit 4 na- ton that had consracted 8 devt of two thousand millions of paper kuuave ity existence, nudhad ticn miade ® New contract (0 pay thy debt in coln, should b forced by thy stroug ‘lnud of desperate vlunderers 10 pay not tn the com lawful at the tmo of the sgtecuient, buta cuin 10 which doubie yaluo wee given by wurikini oub daif tho legal- ender, g % “Uo tho disgraco aud wmisfcrtune of America fhe Montazuo of 160U sud tbe uskiton of 1815 le Tepreschted by Jolin Bherting, who, fu 1n05-dY, auvocated the huyment of our public debt tn paper. Nuw thie tater With & nation's safety wdvocatea puying two thousand wmiliions of debt, not b gold wid wffver only, but fo guld alove, wn it v was covertly (rylng 1 €0 now what e sired 1 (808, ~compel the uation o repudiotion fn ot aud open thy w;nylupapurunl{‘. ¥ ahuuld auy buucat wan Wil to chauga the sunuards sct bY Jotiermon and Uamitow, —(he staudants under which this country proepervd for wiglity yeata? Let s cata the forty-alx willlivus of stider our wined produced 1 Iv77 at thosawme prico sl terne we cau the furty-8ve aullions ol goid, throw the products that Gud bus biesscd us with upgu tho warkets of the world with uil their vt ural und artificlul sdvantages, sud then, perhap wo_can reaume; but, if o eurich bodduolder utikers, Woncy-changers, 804 8 few wen of dxe incoty, yuu desteoy vite-bialf your bullion as legol- tender, and Ury 10 resutig payient of two thourand williots of vublic devt, sud M times nivre of pri- vule debt, 10 kold ouly, yon whi dupbie thy value of old us compared with uil oiher property Leld 1 107 and Banhrupt overybudy wWhu owes suye (biuz, You wilt cause tepududtion, distress, sul {omo 0 life Leyond calculation. ~ Hisfuriuni will say u sy £ uu said fn 1686 <UL moneys chanzers atd Litieseuse wiukiog Jardo fostunts UGLUT iy perplexitics of all olhe Cudder the lytainous lawa of 1973 aul 1574 thero are to-tay illiots of eatated &) over this laud, —~ Eaal, Weel, Aurih, dul Svuth, —that can be 10d eIt arhet prics Uit fug utie-bal{ or oy 12574 B WaSeT 1he Bow ataiuard ul guid aluue would drmand the honeet shithog | ‘Lliere wvas one univer- | resumption does laks place, 81l the estales of il debtors fn America will belong to the Duncombes #nd money-changers of 1870, D. G. e —— e CUBAN EXCURSIONISTS. FAVANA, Jan. 21.—The steamship San Jacinto arnved this morning from Favannah and ) tan, brineing the Amerlean excurslontats, in. eludinz delegations from the vrincinal ctles ln the West and South, Al are {n goud healtn. 5 e —] COTTON. Gatvratox, San. 31.—Corox~TWeak and irregular, mid lifng, 10%es net pece 343 bl L G €olpta, 8,999 sales, 504 exports (o (reat Dritatn, 6,800, ol Continent. 7214 cosstwin, 3,172 fan. 2|.~CoTroX=Steady miniling, toddes ,5,8% bales; vales, 3,05); exports cosetwise, lng, 1Gia ts, L0705 o i contwlar, 10 1316c; sules, 1,00 balers net re tirnat Britala, 8,310; 10 the contt, 2,5 "RAYANNAN, Jan, 21, —Crrrox—Itregular:_midiling, 22301 to the I{cy het recelpts, 5,067 aless saten, P A o e AN B S 810 not 0ught to be—with the wonderful meritsl that grest Auerican Jemedy, the MEXICAN Mustang Liniment, FOR MAN AND BEAST. hisliniment very naturatly orlginated in Ameit. €a, whero Naturo provides in her laboratory such Surprising Entidotes for tho maladies of her chll- dren. 1ts famo has been tpreading for Syears, ntll sow it encireles tho hisbitable globe. Tho Mexlcan Murtang Linlment 30 mntehless femedy foraiexternal pitmentsof manand bewat, Tostock owhera nnd farmers [t {3 tavatuablz. A single boktla often saves a human 1ifo of ro. storcs tho uscfulness of an excelient horse, 0z, caw, or alieep. 1t cures footrot, hoofall, hotlaw harn, grub, screw-worm, shoulder-rat, matge, tho bites and #ing3 of potronons reptiies and insects, and every such dmwlack to stock breoding nnd bueh life. 1t curea every external troublo of horses, such aslamenesa, scrtehes, swinny, spralns, founder, ‘wind gall, ring bone, etc., cte. “The Mextean Mustang Liniment fs tho quickert curo in tho viorld for cecldents oceursiug in the famlly, in thy absenco of & physiclan, such as Ditrns, sealis. goralng, cuta, ete., and for rhouma, thim, and siftness cagendered by ekposure. Pan tieularly valusbloo Siners, 1448 the cheapesy remedy 1n the world, for It penctrates tha muscle 10 the bone, sad & sinsle pplication 1s gencrally suticlent ta cure, Mozican Mustang Lintment s put up in thres #lzes of botbles, tha larger anea belng proporeirs ately muchi tho chespaate Bold everywheiv, AMEUNEN o TUE TABERNACLE, MMENSE RUSH! The TWO GRAND FARPYWELL CONCENTS and R ST R S e only GN—M@RE,S Next Priduy Night, Saturduy Afternoon andEvening BAN U, For whic resctecd seats are being sold st the extrane dinary price of 25, i 743 cts,, at Jloot & Suns’, $258 miateaL, Grimonn tlian BTANDING Rundreds In'Jine To keenive soats for EIt, Manager, HOOLEY'S TUEATRE, Prices, 3¢, boc, 75, and 81, Matiies Prices, 23380d 500, MONDAY, Jan. 21, overy evening, avd Wednosday sndl kuturday Mutiaee EXTRAORDINARY ATT. The Finlient Coucdiats and C NROBSON und CRANIS T thelr 1nost sceesstul of all comedies, Written exs Pressly for them Ly Jusapl Brsdfond. of lioston, eatitied “OUR BACHELORS.” Juan Nangiv, Prof: uf Muste,., Judio Juseph Juwier, a reitred BuppOred by ‘i MeVICKE! AMERICAN FARCE COMEDY. ’ 1 " ' i THE RS nn v L. \TUREE OF A KINDY U PACE TO YACEL gzgéghg'fi,lv’,}ggg‘:\} Tone Comedians HARRY PEARSON, “;J Tl-t_fim _%%T. beens=New Yurs and Lov Liranch, y 1y, Every NJht uid saturday Slatince. HAVERLY’S THEATRE, (Law Adeiphi ) J, 11 HAVERLY, uptletor sod Manager, ‘To-ntglit and all this week, the Very Orvat Comedlan, MR, . N, CHANFRRAUD « greateat popul eatied RIT, THE Al LN T A S R i Hunters, Rrusiraied Shol, wivambuat. Eaplasion, Howlu ki 1 and twenty uthors. Mocts, New acghers, i, ot ctiete brice pouulir Fanshy Thieatra, Matiner wiliion Weducaldys and sasurdays. " COLISEUM NOVELTY THEATRE, w7 s (. 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