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RS e, ; GNIS 14, 1578, THE CIICAGO TRIBUNLE: FRID. commissions was $161,000. And this man Fasxcn deliberately, in his ofitcial ohnraoter ns Assistant Bocretary of tho Tressury, asserts {hat anything which tho contractor could lay his Lands on and take, ho wns entitled to Tho contractor scems to Lave soted on the expectation that therc would bo in the Treasury Department, in case of an Investigation, somo officor who wonld write just such & judicial opinion as that now actually written by Frexom. That officer conclades that no person has been quilty of any wrong; that the Bupervising Architect, the Buperintondant, the Assistant Buperintendent, the Inspector, and all others officially employed and pnid to protect tho intorcats of the Govornmont, failed to discover any of theso notorions and scan- dalons frauds, and, therofore, should not be held in any way responsible, Lo dismissen with a complimont for making All he conld ont of his ehamefal nnd dishon- est contracts. Tho only porsons he holds guilty aro Ssrrrn and Troxsox, for oxposing the swindling, and the stone-outters, who, employed by the day, accepted payment on dnys when no work was done,—the stafl of Government officsra boing ignorant whether the men wera at work or not, and certifying to pay-rolls which wero grossly fraudulent. There can be but one judgment as to Mr. dismissed from offico without the slightest delay. s roport is scandalous, It s disgracefal to the Trons- ury Deparimont, of which he is an It {s an open encouragement to at which ench of the contestants claim fo have | (Forcign Rolations of the United States for All the troops can be called 11 be to suppress violence If any slsonld take place, and Irave tne conatitational au. thority and means ta seitlo which ia tha rightful Gorernment and which 1s the legal Lezilatnre. This done, the {roops may bo ased to uphold the rightfnl Qovernment {n the State {f called upon In the apirit and meaniog of the Conatitutlon, waid that the English Promier will employ every means to secure the acceptance of this proposition by the Congress, and that pure- ly Enropesn questions will be left to the several Powers whoso proximity to Turkey gives them the right to act in mattors of such grave national intereat. Figaro, reproduced tha ZHerald's article, do- nounced ft, and declared that not only bad the erald been mado & cat’s-paw to exalt Le Figaro and tohelittle the other Parlslan papers,but that tho Jlerald's “*interviow!® with the oditor of 1. Univers was bogus, Ita correspondent—a rc- vorter on L& Figaro—never baving scen M. V8u1L1.0T, though hs called for an Intorview, which was refused him. sult.whers the Court declded that, as Ze Figaro had “*put up? the article and copted it, mis- stating facts ond refusing a correction, it sbould pay I} Univers 500 francs damages, and print the sentenco of the Conrt in its ordinary type upon its first vage. Metropolitan journalism s a high and bely thing. THE RAILWAYS. m):c @tfirhxta; /c. Menlm:\\lyc‘kcml. TERMS OF KUBSCRIPTION, TT MAIL—TK ADVARCE—POSTAGE PREPAID, ails Edition, one year 1240 oni The Dritsh Commiseloners repli no arrangement wowld be acceptal admlssion inlo the Uniled Stales free of dutyto Jfish, the produce of Nritieh flakerles, did nat form Page 12 givos the view of the other side: The American Commissfoners raplied that they were willing, anhject to the nction of Congress, to b “ana fah oll a8 an cquisalent for the ure of the inshara fisherics, and to make the arrangement fo & term of opinion that sres foh an uicalent for thos ble of Sehieh the Gould Swallowing the West koep and enfoy! While Vanderbilt Clutches This is a statement of the polioy ” which Presdent 11avxs followed out after his {nauguration, nothing efso, had he boen disposed. 1t was during Gen. Gmant's Administration that Arkansas, Texss, Missisaippl, Alabsma, and e The result was 8 law- Burree's expeotation of seouring ovidenca a5 a foundation for the prasentment of arti- cles of Impeachment againet President Haves whs further manifested yesterday in the ex- amination of Gen. Surra, 1ate Appofntment Clerk in the Treasury Depariment, before Porrza. Committeo, encouraging to this revolutionary ranks. Gen. Surra's tostimony confirmed the pre- vious showing that the Prosident became disgusted with Axpxnsoy very eatly in the game, and refnsed to tolerats his aspirntions for office. For people who wera complataly in the power of the Feliciaua ex-Bupervisor the President and Becretary SuenMay have oll long shown an astonishing indifforence to his desires and demands. tirday Fdition, {wEiTe - Weekly, und year e WERKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. e He could have done earn: that (hey seere of Ash oMl rould be more Atheries, but that they wers also willing to agree (0 & referance 10 DETRR. MINE THAT QUESTION. That {3 precisely the question which the Halifax Commission refased to determine, In so refusing, wo hold, it abdieated ita fanctions and provided logically for tho ane nullment of ita verdict. —n 8o many roports coma concerning the fli- honlth of the Popoe that unbelief can no longor o maintained. TRomo dated the 13th inst, says: The Pope's henlth ladectining. and phvsicians da« ctare hin removal from the Vatican I8 neceesary to {' but a majority of tho Cardlnald reslst Consolidation of the Union Pacifle, Kansas Pacifie, and Colo- rade Central. Give Post-Ofco address 1n fall, lncluding Blate snid Temittances maybe made either by draft, express, Fost-Oftice order, orn reglatered letters, at our Ask. TERMS TO CITY SUDSCRIDERS, Taty, delivered, Bunday excepted, 28 eents per week, T aiy, delivered, Bunday Included, %0 cents per weok. THE THIBUNE COMPANT, Corner Mafison and Dearborn-sis., Chicago, fiL. Orders for the delivery of Trx T Engiewond, and Hyde Park left Wlilrecelve promt sttention. the hands of the Democrats by son of this very policy of nom-interfor- onco, The lotter we have quoted was the basis of the Conoral Government’s position 1n tho case of Loulslana, It was a rosult of 1hls non.nterferenco, proclaimed by Gaant, that the Lonisiana Logisiature, which connt- ed the Governor into office, was Domocratio. 1t, then, Gen, DBzarrr'a donnnomtion of Havzs for * botraying " the Republicans of the Bonth had been tnrned upon Gen, Goaxt, the answer wonld have bsen complete. such action was not wrong or improper on the part of Graxr, it was not wrong or im- proper on the part of Hires, To blame Haves and praiss Gnaxr for the same policy —doing exnctly the samo thing—is too glar- jug dn inconsistency to ba defonded. —— e ‘Trie Taisuxs was tight when, monthe ago, it predicted that an allianca would be developed this year whereby, as a roward for his excrtions tions against Mr. Haxas title, the Tammany Demoerncy of New York would furnish Mr. CoNRLING with any votes he might come short of to securo his ro-election to the Uplted Btates Bonate. Now comes Mr. CORKLING's own Dockot organ and says that {t belleyea **falt-minded Democrats™ will give *more votos .for so pure and able & atatesman 28 Roscos CoNxLiNG than he will loso by the desortion of the followers of tho Adminlsti Simultaneonsly Tammahy Hall goes back to fts vomit of threo weeks aro ogainst Mr. TiLvay, laps it up, and “enthuses® for tha Sllent Man of Gramercy Park, ple of Now York don’t know what pure Repub- lieantsm and undefited {s, Mr. CoXRLING |8 go- ing to teach them by the oid of BAMUEL J. Tit~ DEN and Jonry Ksiir! Text of the Agroement Which Is to Bind Them for Fiity The contractor A dispatch from Many Plucky Adverssries Btill Un. wiiling to Surrender to Black Friday. TRIBUNE BRANCU OFFICTS, TRE Criicaqa TRENCHR has estadl forthe recelptof subscriptionsand NEW TORK~Tioom 29 TriduneDalding, F. T, Mo- Panpxx, Manager, PAILIS, France—No. 10 Rue da Is Grange-Datellere. . Manzem, Agent, 2 LONDON, Eng.—American Exchaoge, 449 Strand. Rexkr F, Gr.tam, Agent, ) C1! 1t tho Popa leaves Rome for gome henlthy Toention during the summor, the fiction of his fmprisonmont will bo destroyed, It is clnimed by tho Oardinals that he is s ** pris- oner” in tho Vatlcan, and under political constraint from the Government,—which, of course, is an absurd falschood. It is aleo thought if ko loaves Romo for the sake of hia health it may lond to an abandonmont of the Papal **claims " on tho tomporalitles, It Logins to look na if the Ultramontane Cardi- nals aro willing to sacrifico his life rather ihan explode the imprisonment fiction or sveakon thelr protensions to political ruleover tho Capital of Italy. Yanderbllt Possibly Carrying the Rall. e r——— The statement of Mr, Antaun, the Chief road War into Russin. of the Brothorhood of Engineors, which was made in our columns recently, to the effect that thero wonld be no tronble smong the railroads this snmmer, is confirmed by the opinions of the officials of all tho roads’| centoring in Ohicago, and many of tho em- ploycs. Put in a nutshell, the testimony is that thoro will be no atrike bocatso there is 1o cause for a atrike, and because tho condi- tions which existed a yoar ago donot exist now. Tho relations of employes and em- ployera are perfectly amicable, and, asthoro is no disposition to reduce wages, thera is no This will bo renssur- ing to tho business public, but will bring enld comfort to tho Communistio ragamufing who have beon Iaying back in tho hopo that another rallroad strike will givo them fresh opportanities for plundor and arson. THE FRAUDS ON_THE OUSTOM-HOUSE BUILDING A COhaenco that His Eighty Millions May Thaw {nto Thin Alr, AMUBEMENTS, Ho shonld be MoVicker's Thentre. botween Dearborn and Btate, **Uncle Tom's Cabln.™ COLLAPSE OF THE RAILROAD POOL. It will not bo surprising if Mr. Vaspen- piL7's recont trip to Europo, ostonsibly un- dertakon for * rolaxation from business," makos him the railroad diotator of this country, and irretrlovably smashes the pools, Bofore that trip was mads he had control of the Hudson River and New York Central in Now York State, tho Groat Wastern in Canads, and the Michigan Contral aronnd ona side of tho lakes, and the Lako 8loro & Michigan Sonthern sround tho other side. o Lins also rocently secared control of the newly-finished Rochester & Btato Line Rail- road from Rochoster to Salamauca, thus securing o connection with the Atlantio & Great Western Rond, running from Bala- msnucs to Cloveland. The only romaining link necessary to give him an absoluto con- trol of the bulk of tho freight-business of tho West wag the Atlantio & Groat GOULD'S GOBBLY, Apecta Dispatch to The Tribune, Leaveawonti, Kan,, Juno 13.—Tho follow. inig is tho baosts of tho traffic contract entered into between the Unlon Pacific, Kansas Pacific, and Colorado Central Raflroads, flled fn tho United Btates Clrcult Court hero to-day: oadrnolicate, be- ———— Nasby has been employed by Porrsm and BuTtLER to get In testimony against HAYES electlon, and 1s putting In some heavy licks for tho *clatmant?? TrunEn, 1o says of tho good and pure reformer aud {ncoma-tax-payer: ate fint as for ez wo want to, and t enuft States to elect TiLpxx. t Mr, favxs this time. the Abllahiniets that when s poor man like Sake Tirpxx hez bought and nald for an offls, Wa hov swore not to bo swin- Tlooley’s Theatre, Randolph street, between Clark and LaSalle. Unlon Squaro Theatre Company, *'The Man of Suo- whitewashos official negligence, no mat. laverly’s Thentre. Monroa street, corner of Dearbora, eonconrages fraudulent contracts and the moro fraudulent execution of them, Itlays down ns the law of the Trensury Dopartment a morality so low that tho most dishonest ring would not have the hardihood to assert {tinits own dofouse, Fortunataly for the publie scrvico, Becrotary Smeamax ropudi- ntes the loose morality of bis assistant. Ho declares tho officials 5o zealdusly cham- ploned by Faexc to be guilty of auch wrong that thoy should bo all romoved, and tho question of thoir criminal prose. cutfon shonld bo yeferred to the Departe Instend of recogmzing the right of tho contractor to “onjoy " all hie hns succoeded in grabbing, he says that suit shall bo proscented to recover whatever Lo may havo obtained by fraud. The Beo- rotary docs not intimate what ho will do with Faxxcny that, probobly, he has ander advisemont; but tho character of the Gove ermment aud constderations of public moral- ity domand that, whatever action bo taken with regard to the othors, Frexca ought to bo bounced from the importsnt offico in which frand and dishoncsty may find & champlon aud defender, or be brought to sovoro aud proper punishment, o fsnota porson to £il} such an offico. be in thst il g tween the Unjon Pacific Itailros of the f1st part, tho Colorada Contral e arty of tho sscond parl, tho Kansas Company, ang tonry Viliard and Carlos 8, Grecley, Tecelvérs of tho Ranaas Pacilic Ttairoad Compeny, party of the third part, wit- nemethy Th:t it Is agreed betwoon tho parties, as fol- wa 1, That the rallroads of the partles hereto al under the genoral direction of tho Union Pa Rallroad Company. bs misnaged, operated, disposition to strike. Yerahey Musio Hall. In his wonderful whitewashing of the Madtson street, opposite deVicker's Thestrs. The frauds on tho Custom-House building, As. sistant-Becrotary Frexcm robukes o Oblen- go paper for publishing Surrn's and Tmoxt. #oN's roports, and denios that they wero fur- nishod from Washington, leaving the infere onco that thoy wero fornishod 1o the papors by Collactor Sattn. On this point the Assiste ont-Secrotary falsifies. The reports wero ob- tained in Washington and sent to this city by tolegraph, As tho reports were in the oustody of the Tronsury Dopartmont, Mr, Faexom, it intorested in finding tho truth, can traco out how the papers got out of hia custody long. onough to bo copled. If stolon, perhaps ho will roach the conclusion that the person who took them was, like tho contractor on tho building, whom he eulogizes, ** entitlod to enjoy " all the gain he conld thus soouro; the robbery, it any, was only of tho Gov- ornmont, in which caso no official con ever Lo blamed, according to Frryeu, e 18 goln to glt it. dled ont uy wat was ours by purchis. t hin too much to biy the nom- 1nashen and the elekahon, not to havo foln to be Preaident. kam arrangin it ain't agoin (o be no tronblo abont it. here wich will swear to anything. reputashion far hevin money, comnin here to us in swarms, there wazn't nosich thing asa falr cleckshun in i that in both them Btates nd then voted sgin os; that ‘Merchants® Bank Bullding. Corner Dearborn sad Madieon, lock. and witnesscs aro Wa ahel prove that Palmer House, Corner State and Monroostreets. Exhibltion of Ed» PR R iy i the tolie, Incomes, In- e T T otber A OF mwar, of Toam Ihe syt er, and il other tralic of, ovar, or from the el BOCIETY MEETINGS, the existing branches of {ho ¥ Floridy and Loolsiana That, to thia end, 8 men took our mone; aur et clubs wuz eaters in Loolsiana wus kept aw Bince Dogberry wore the jodicial ermine, there has boen no profandity equal to his, until ¢ JIndge Frexom,” Asclstant Scerotary of the Treasury, had made his sddition to what ho calls **the Hterature of the Tronsury Department.” The facts aro fow, plain, and direct. The frauds practiced in the work and moterialsof the Chicago Custom.Houso build- ing, in the stone furnished, in tho cutting, sawing, and Lauling of the stone, aud in tho mason work, exhibitarobbery of possibly half The Goverpment was roprosonted by o Snpervisiog Architect, & Suparintendent, an Assistant Buperintend. ont, on Inspector, and a libaral staff of subor. dinntes; and yat this fraud, which Is so glar- ing nx to admit of no deninl, was snccessfully carried into full oxecution. An investigation was ordered, aud the facis reported by two Chicago officers who wers wholly dis- conuected personally and officlally with tho Custom-House bnilding, admitting the the Supervising Architect, tho Suporintendent, the contractor, aud tho sub- ordinates, and charges bLoldly and unspar- Ingly on tho rascality, ignornuce, and gen- eral depravity of the two men who collected tho undisputed facts and Iaid them bofore tho Secretary, Until this Jottor of Judge Foexch, the presumption of guilt, or of neglect of duty, was only againat the persons officlally in chargo of the work. The labored |defenso by Judge Frexcr of the contractor, tha architeot, the Superintendent, nnd all othors, except tho stone-cuttors, may be ac. copted ns {ndicating that the responsibility far tha loss to the Government partains to a larger and more numorous circlo than was supposed by Mr. Tamowsoy or Colleotor e 11t shonld turn out that tho SsTm-TrHoxson ent to the 7imes from Washingtan, n ont to it by any one connected with tlon, aa we susnect will prove to bo excit will be o asorey fz.— Work on ¥. C, Degrie. ment of Justico, €. HOWELL, Becrotary, over the Missourl braska, and Connell Bluffs, in Iuwa, aball cons| tote & common fand, of pool. 3. That the gross earninge contributed by the parties hereto ahall bo apportioned, divided, and Temitted monthly to tho proper oficers of specilva parties horeto, a8 followa—L. e.: to tho party of the firat part, for Jte main line, 72.858 to the party of the first past for its Oma- of the second part, 04,673 per cent; to the party of et cont, these porcantuyes by mutual agreement, tho ertlen of the parties hercto for aving buen troated as the bsis of tuin apportionment. the aatd carnings for tho £ boan agreed to have bocn os FIORIESTAL LO] was tho sucoessful object of his wisit to I et T o Europe, whero tho road is owned. It will thus bo seen that ho has grasped the entire earrying trade from Chicago to Now York by tho routos north and sonth of Lake Erie, connecting with his splondidiy-aquipped and quadruple-tracked Now York roads, and has smashed the ruinous compotition of tho Now York & Erlo, which has hithorto ratained it connoction with the West by the Atlantie & Great Wostorn Road. It substsntially ro- duces the Erie to a loénl road, boglnning and ending in Now York State, and lenves it to the tonder mereles of tho New York Central and Pennsylvenis., Instoad of keoping up compotition with the. Central, snd running reight cheapor, it mustaccept terms dictated by tha Contral. The situation is summed up in tho old snying, ** Tho longest polo knocks the persimmons.” The mauagers having con- trol of the most monéy nnd tho most roads tho masters, ' snd diotats rates and control freights, With tho Lako Shore, Michigan Southern, Michigan Ooptral, Qreat Western & Atlantic, and Great Wostorn under his control, feoding his Now York lnes, "Vanprasitr can hold any or all pools of 6thor roads in utter con- tempt, sud defy thew if they attompt com- petition, until they*are on the way to the Tecolver. ‘The broaking of the pool tho othor day by tho failure of the managors to agroo upon sny basis vory conclusively that, while No. A1, A, P. & A Kpecial Communieatton { il Wiy prr st ‘This je precisely tho way tho casc will turn out. Collector Surtst has the necessary proofs to show that the report was sent by telegraph from Wasbington; ho ascurtalnod tho fact by an investigation Intonded to rosult in the dle- charge of nny person in his own offics who had been guilty of stealing the report and making it publle. As the document was sent from Whasbiogton by telegraph, there was no other offico from which ft could bo obtalued except that with which Judge Frescrt {s connccted. Judgo Faexcu, then, is fo a * sorry fix.” amillion of dollars. tho third part, 10,603 baving boon arrived af CGirconbacks ot the Now York BStock Ex- camings of the bro clinngo yosterday closed at OB} —en o proceding yoar havigj ‘The Socinlists of Chicngo mot Inst evaning to disavow nuy sympathy with tho attompts 1o assassinnte the Emperor Wirttax of Ger- maoy. The specohes mado would hardly lead nnybody to suppose that tho Chiengo ‘branch of the mob folt desperntoly grioved over tho matter. P ] Tho defest of the Catholio party in Dol gium ot tho cleotions last Sunday has ro- sulted in what 1s got forth in this dispateh @ -In_conscquenco of the rexult 0 Vatican has determined lo clo from Drusscls. Popa Lro XIIL himsolf wasonco tho Papal Nuncio fo Drussols, diplomacy and got some ideas of Europenn politics which have been wseful to Lim over 0f tha party of the 8nt part for ftsmain safo or proper THE OHIO REPUBLICANS, The platform adopted by the Ropublican Stato Conventlon of Olio is an excollent specimon of political literature, It {s devot. od largely to State mattors, and condemns in torms tuat will find sympathy everywhere the Democratic misuse of power in redistriot- ing tha State for partisan advantsge previous to the ascertainment of populstion by the next United States census, nationnl issues, just now conspiouous, are pointed nnd foreible, It domanda that there shall be no more financial logislation for the presont, ond that the Resumption act ba pormitted to work out its own dostiny nunder tho laws as thoy now stand, which haye added silver to tho coln rosources of the country, and have forbidden tho furthor re- tiroment of greenbacks. It denounces in fitting Ianguago tho Domocratio purpose of Mexicanizing the United States Government, which has become perfaotly apparent under tho thin pretense of an investigation based upon forgeries and porjuries, President Hayzs' Administration an indorse. ment which, standing alone, is cordial and licnrty, and which the subsequent prooced- ings showed to bo the honest soutiment of o vast majority of tho Convention, and of the Tiopublicans of that Btate. Tho only disturbing olemont in the Con- vontion was furnished by Gen. Brarry, who offered an implacable substitule for tho reso- lation approving Presidont Yavss and his Adminlstration, and thon advocated it in a spooch of the most bitter and irreconcilable charaoter. CGon. BEATTY was so promptly snubbed by the Convention, and his resolu. tion #o overwhelmingly voted down, that tho incident would not be worth any epeclal attention §f it wero not for tho wenk and trimming atyle in which Gen. Grosvexon answored him, While giving the Adminis. {ration even more hearly approval for bimself than was expresssd in the plat- form, Gen, Grosvevor took occasion to any tbat ¢ There is nothing in this platform that stultifies the action of any gentleman with rogard to his opinion of tho Civil-Servico reform or the Bouthern policy.” There wea an ovident purposo to conciliate such men as DBratry and his bandful of followers, though they themselves show not the alight. «est concilintory dlsposition, No such con- cosslon as this should have bLeon made, was both nnwise and uunecessary. men who attack tho present Administration in the spirit and tone adopted by Gen, Bzatre nre governed, ss o rule, by motives outsids of patriotism and party loyalty; thelr griovances are of a naturo nol to Le assusged by good words, but partake of too much spite and malice to Learken to tures of compromise, The Bratry faction arralgned Presldent IMavss for what they call hiw * descrtion " of the Republican party at tho Bouth, They clalm, in Bearry's own words, that the whole party bas been * disappointed, humil- joted, and betrayed”; that * two Republican tates havo been turnod into the hands of Nobels and Democrata”; that Domocrsts “have beon concilisted by sacrificing our friends”; that Ropublicans of the Bouth have been wronged ¢ who went through holl-fire to put Rurnzsrorp B, Hares into the Exocutive office ”; aud that all this has boen brought about by the President’s Bouth. om policy, It was the same spirit which prompted one Mr, Aurr to offer a separato yesalation (not adoptod) which was a glow- ing tribute to Gen. Gmawr for his patriotio efforts in behal? of Bouthern Republicans. Now tho montion of Gen. Grant's usme ln connection with President Harzs' Bo: policy should have suggested to Gon, Gos- vaxos the proper suswer to the Brarry fac. tion. That snswer is furnished by' Gon. Grant's own letter to Gov. Kxiroaa in Jan. uary after the Presidentlal elnction, which has vecently been brought to light by Mr, MoPuxaso¥ in his latest political . com- sendium, The leiter is as follows ; Wasuingros, D. C,, Jan. 7, 1877.—70 Gov. Ktlogy, New Orfeane: 1 am coustrstued to de” elino your request for the ald of troops to fna rale & uew Biate Government, % recoguixe ana of the two b the State, exccutive sod le tiwe when » Comtalttes of ea 1ain tno Stato Capital of Louisians fovestiy Wl thy facle couuccted with the lato electiva, ——————— . Brick"” PoueRoOY, tho orzanizing agent of the Greenback **flat money” clubs, has mount- cd bis warhorse, and makes this bollleuss proclamation in his Democrat of June 1 izstion of Grecuback clubs, wo lo-bodied member of these organi- rationa ta lecomd as proficientas possiblo in tho 1n tlmo of peace it ls well reparo for war, In every Grecnback club hould be a_drlil-mastcr—that ls, in ever whoso members are brave onongh to stand times, under sl clrcumstances, rights aa cliizens. . We fn robollion against the untaxed , Proposs 10 have our neans of the ballot, if possible,—by the bayonet, if wo must. nd arty of the third part. Aggrezste grom exralogs for the pre- Provided, however, th T of Belgian eiectio: recall tho Fapal N ve aneeeess SITUDTTT if the contributions of of gross carnings foe Lo ln cxcossof ita disteibative ross carnings on tha basls of this hore ehall bo retatned by such party ot of the sgeregato gross earniugs nnd thero studied Tho Quobeo rioters nppoar to bave been temporarily awed into subjection by the prompt arrival of sovern! bodies o? Dominion troops. No further violent demonstrations of consoquencs wera made yesterday, and it ig tho pravailing opinion among tho author- itios that the striko has collapsed. counse] avory abl manual of arme, ] 50 nuy earninge. such sums to be allowea to anch party as # compensation for the lons of condnctin transportation of freight by it, but notto boallowed gamssngers, thirty days alter the expl- ration of the it year afier thie exccution of this srcament, and within thirly days after the oach succoeding year of 1he Bucnaxax, Mich, . June 1 » day 0f twa'stace {f he was {n favor of vensiosing Iio sald tho idea Aas ab- surd, and tnat 1 could not namo a nrominent man red jt. 1 reforred him to tns ¢ of june B rolating to the rrsnsoN ot Dayton, O, can sbsolutely aked 8 Democrat the Southieen soldiers, Ita roforonces to 1a tita Bouth who wpeech of Hexur replied that that was only what a bad written, and was not anthority. red him tu that portion of the speech published in tho Saturdsy TRinuxa's editorial columns) sud Le says that refors only to thie ltobols who hiad been 1o that WATTERYOX only ad) coted restoring them to the pension-rolls. 1 do nat sev it that way, and wish you would publish what you belleve to be the correct ides ol Watrenaox In that speech, R, ‘The “Democrat" reforred 1o hns no suthorl ty for saying that Mr, Wirzansox ouly ro- ferred to Rebels wha had fought ta Mexizo, snd who hiad been pensloners previous to the War, Webelleve thatabill has passed ooe or both brauches of Congress restoring this class of penaioners to the rolls. 1ad Intended to restrict his propoaition to those few persons, hio would i gusge. o was making a specch to 700 or 800 maimed and smputated Unton eoldiers, (There wera probably not hall-s-dozen Mexican pen- sloners in the cotire mecting, and nobody was thivkiog of them,) e was talking sbout the #1ate unpleasantoess,” Lo having fought on the South sido of it, aud fn the course of hls re- Now that n socond conviction has boen pecured in tho *'etink cnsos,” the way is opon for a total supprossion of tha foul sud intolorable nnisanco which the people of Chicago havo «o long endured. If tho pro- priotors of {he establishments yot to bo placed on triel are wise thoy will lose no timo in putting their houses in order; othor- ise, in the atage of crimnal prosecution now reached, tho law will, by a summary process, suppress thoir buslness. And f, through any jugglery which money and shnorp lawyers can bring to bear, tho law should fail, thero are some remedios left outsido the law which will not fail. fore, if the stink-mnkers are wiso, they will sdjusiment of tho nabove-mamed shall be mado on tho application of either of tha rifes herato, If they be not otherwise agreod, in he following manner: Tue party of the flrst part sual dimnterested expurts,ono of whom shali bo cnarged rosenting and acting i the in- ———— | Vo bear » great deal about the Now York Na- tional Guard, but when eleven uniformed and armed infiftiamen, veturning from a plenfe in & ctrowdod horsewar, saw five thicves with ro- valvers cnter tho* horse-car on Third avenua at 10 p. ., aod proceed to rob a man with a satch- cltal of monoy, the whole cleven dofenders of thelr couptry climbed over cach other in hot hdste and bounded of? the front platform with wonderful agility, Perhaps they wanted to form in fonre, with proper distauce snd alignment, be- Tore golng Into engagoment. Yerhaps they hiad no cammanding officar on hand to givetue word of command. Perhops they were scared. e —t———— the Mexican war, snd 1l nominato two t of perceniago and the parties of th ont third parts shall each nominate & disintorested ex- pert, each of whom shall be charped with the dnty of reprosonting #nd natlug In the Interest of the ‘The Assistant-Secretary, speaking of Mr. Tuomsox's report, ssys that, “Iad Mr. ‘Tnomsox been familiar with the literature of the Treasury Departmont rospectiug the ma- torinl for the Chieago building, he probably would not have drawn tho concluslon stated in bis report,” The conclusion was that the stone wos much inferior to what was oalled for by the contract; and the inferonco to bo drawn from Judge Frexcn's criticlsm {s, that a logal contract, drawn in **the literaturo of the Trensury Dopartment,” could not well bo violated, no mattor how ecandalous and dis- gracoful may have been tho character of tho wnterinl farnished. Tho Assistant.Socrotary ia forcodto admitthat 14,642 days' workon tho chimnoys and attic were paid for which wero not oarned, end, not content with denying that this swindle was due to collusion be- tween the contractor end the Governmont officials, he has the unblushing effrontery to put on record ju an official judgment this “As to Mozurxn (the cone tractor), thera is no evidence tonding to show ony sctaal fraud (1), or misrepresentation, or collusion with any person whatever, and tha it fu dealing with the officials of the Treasury ho othorwise gained any adcantage, ke is Jully entitled to enfoy it." Tho disgraceful charactor of this whitewashing of tho frauds perpetrated by the contractor is polutedly whown in tha comment of Becrotary Swer- ax that “ Tho contractor, especially uuder the 15 per cont contract, was s much in the amploy of tho Government, and as much bouad to fidelity in fta iuterest, as it his compensation wag an annual salary iustead of o percentsgo on the cost of tho work.” It this man Frexen had the deconcy which ought to portain to o man holding the place Lo doos, he would accept Becrotary Smensan's reaponse fo his declaration that the contract- or wos eatitled to enjoy all the unfair and dishonest gains e could make uuder tho con. tract as s natice that he should immediately ‘The moral tono of ¥uzxca's whole roport is extremely low. It betrays & wym. patby with all thoss who, charged with the protection of the publio interests, permitted this wholesale robbery to go on day after day and year after yoar until the plundor had Lecome gigentic, This man Muvzrixs, the contraotor, whs entitled to 156 per cont com. mission on the wages of the workmon, and Moxerzs veceived, Fapnem admits, 15 per cent on the wages of 16,000 dsys' work ueover performed, and that on & small por. tion of the work, What wére the frauds un- cartied, and their commusion fully estab- lished? Thero was fruud in tho making of the original contracts, and fraud in their ex- ecution ; fraud in the beginning and fraud in the prosecution of the work; fraud in the supplementary contracts; fraud in the time consumed upon the stone,—titne wasted in cutting sleeve-buttons, yschting, and ball playing ; fraud in futerpolations made in the contracte; fraud in the sawing, cutting, carving, handling, and bauling of the stone. There was swindling in the quarrics, at the depots, in the wagous; there was fraud in the work from thefoundation to the chunney tops, 8ome of the approximate items wero fraud in 20,000 dsys’ labor, $10,000 swin. dling in the chimneys, §30,000 on stone cut $100,000 swindled on tho ing, $48,000 on the bhauling. roceipts under tho 15 per cout coutruct for they have aquabbled over percentoges, Van- pxaniLt has grabbed the lion's sharo of the frelght business from the Wost to New and mado * himsolf of the pools. It looks now as it he wonld control the graln trado with Europe, as, in nddition to his control of the graln-carrying roads, it Is understood ho bas also perfected arrangements for tho monopoly of transporta- tion by the White Star Line in connection o is now at liborty to make all Lis future arrangemonts for froight without roforenca to the other roads, and it s natu. rally to be expocted that freight should be With such vast rosources ot his command, and with so many important roads undor his control that oarry the exchanges of the East and West, he onn fix the minlmum rate of froight sbsolutely, and thus compel all other roads to come to them or go undor.* Tho movement appears to be jn tho interest of chenp frolghts, and frauglt with disastor, to rolton roads, expérts nominated shall unanlwouni a docision of the mattors and qucations submitied for thelr determination such decision shall be final for the suicceeding year, upon & unanimous deciston said experts ree upon a (i(th expert, and a decision of & #nid five experts upon the matters und pal fot tha succeed- tho duty of such experts, 1t Mr. Warransox sald po {n plain ian- This Berciten-TILTON case s getting more Mrs. TiLTON {8 to ba ex- poiled from the fold of Plymonth because the Elders believe that sho nevor did nothlog, . e et PERSONALS, 1le is the Khediv of Egypt—not the Khe- and more confused, bmltted shall be d 2 ring the matters and questions submitte for tholr determination, and In forming their des clilon, to give earefalaad dno rogard totha nat and Joritimate growth of I tramo of the rmilroads The gnthering of Michigan Republicons nt Detroit yosterdny fs pronounced the moat notable Convention in numbers, ability, and influenco that ever nssembled in the State, A well<lesorved compliment was beatowed upon Gov, Crosswery by Lis unanimous renomination, togother with Lieut..Gov. Sessroxs, and the remaindor of the ticket Is regarded o9 exceptionally strong. resolutions ndopted the Convoution sfirmed its geatification ot tho unmistakablo evi. dencea averywhero notieed of the recovery of the businesa interosts of the country from the long perfod of depression, and its disap- proval of any stops which arein the diroction of n greater inequality Lotwaon coin and pa~ "The doctrinos and tendencios of tho Nationnlists, Greonbackers, and Bo- cialists were unsparingly condemned, and tho doctrines and tondeucles of the Tiorx Mexicanizers wero denounced ss dangorous to tho peaco and stability of the nation. mining spective parties therat tics horato whall rec e sllowance for the from frelght and_pawenger traflc nat- onging o aald railronds respectively; and duty af such exparts 1o’ glve 1 should liketo be autocrst for ono day, duuble the pension of overy onsof you, I Institutions of thie kind. encfices of Government with no nl; op on Mason's and that tho cripoled ot & little slong with the would ask nothing fo! 1 0mn not ready to givet but I do ask all for myselt y o glve, 16 & Reuublic thore tuust be no discrimination, Equality la indlspousable to The meanlng of thls languago Is uwmlst, ble, and tho Michigan * Democrst® uuder- standa ft perfectly, however he may dodgo and squirm tho point. As we remarked beforo, Mr. WaATTERSON sald that **if ho were antocrat for ono day, lie would pensfon al! the ex-Robels and provide them with Boldlers' Home: pense of tho General Government, public,” says he, ** thory must bo no dlscrlmina- tion,"—that 1s, tte Government rmust not dis- criminate botween the men who tought for its maiutenance and the men who fought to destroy ft. Rewards must bo bostowed upon them The result of Mr. WaTrerson's autocracy would be to place Robelllon upon the ame footing as Unjoulsm, and to extend tho same favors to thoso who for flve years aought to break up tho Governmeut as to those who resisted tha attempt and thwarted it 4The Donna ™ is what thoy call Mrs, Don hand, I would ne line, but would sce Hahuemann's widow has just died in Parls st the ago of 78, Wade Hampton hns bought a cottage at Salom, Va,, whore he will spend tho aummer herehy ~doelared to rallrosds of the patties herato s one property, and inauch manueras to produce and ta assure tho reatest flasuciul benedts o them asa unlted ln- G, That the account of grors recoipta of ail froight, passenger, aud oiher trafiic of the ralls roads of the partics hercto ahall be kepl by the or officers thereol, and all of sal I be remitted tothe jolny Treasnrer of said Company at loston, under vach ruled af tions ae the man; 1. 6, That each of the parties hereto, when It can consistently be done without espoclal difiiculty or injury 1o ltself, will, if required, accommodate artics hereto swith nnteriala aald tines of rail. Prof, F, V. Hayden, of the HaydonBurvey, {san honorary membor of forty- acientific societles, Dan Botlor has given 8500 to Phillips Academy, Massachusctts, to found a scholarship for o soldier's vrphan, Mr. Vanderbilt is credited with having purchased $200,000 worth of pictares during bis tacent vialt to Europe, Mrs, Willism Waldorf Astor wore at hor wedding laat week @ dlamond necklace worth half s million dollars, the gift of Mra, J. J, Astor. If the Presidont wera & bird—an American eagle, frinstance—be could make an oration {n 120 difforent places at once on the Fourth of July, Archibald Forbes, the war correspondont, Bas beon aued Ly sn Edinburg shopkeeper for £17 188 94 for mouey leat and tobacco furniehed, Bonator Davie’ favorite horss s cnlled $*floodls-bug.". Fe would be described byan English advortieer as **up to 8fty-olght atone Witk ono (41) forelga THE FISRERIES AWARD, Tho Monetary Times and T'rade Review, s comuuercial paper published in Osuada, says, in the courso of a discussion of the fishorles .uku of the other atotlale and supplius shail 1s agrecmuent sball continao oporaslve and ontrolling apon the partics heretn for Sity years fram date of its fuceptiv dato shall be withln thisty day ‘Thera is no doabt that, on one point, the word. Ing of the treaty (s not facorable to the Unled By the tresty, $ho Amoricans put access L fisheries and we Ket 700 access to thelr Lut Lhe treaty dozs not, in any way, m-lmfinu wecoud privilogé s compensa~ which Iast nauied s from the waking eroof. 8. That thie agreement {s subject to the ratifica. tion of the Uniied Btates Clreuit Court for tha Dis- trics of Kansas in the sult of A. Meir et al. va. The ‘Tho result of yesterday's attempt in tho Henato to pass the bill for the repeal of the TResumption act was a total rout for the ultm iuflatioulsts, and probably disposes of that 1mischievous mensura during the life of the The Benate by o vote of 43 yeas to 15 neys declarad against the polioy of obstructing the rapid progress of the country toward a complote equality between greenbacks sud coin, and adoptod a substi. tute for tho Repeal bill which ought to sat- infy auy but the most hopoless of the fiat- Tho bill as passed provides that United Biates notes whall immediately ba received equally with gold and silvor in tho snlo of tho 4 per cent bonds, and that on aud after Oct. 1, 1878, groonbacks shall bo re. ceived in payment of customs duties, Iaw, together with tho provious enactmont forbldding the furthor retirement or caucel- Iation of greonbacks, shoull put the cur. Toney question boyond tho resch of further to the dato whon the Roswnp- markets for our tish. This is so dircetly at variance with the truth tbat we think the editor must bo Ignorant of the provisions of the treaty. Art, XXII, of the Treaty of Washington, in accordance with which the Halifax Commis- slon assembled, is ns follows: Inasmuch as 1t ¢ suserted by the Government of hat the privilegus Acvonied 10 be oxecuted by day of June, 1478, th 0 with thelr own proper haud 1710 RAILLUAD COMPANY, Dillon, Prestdent. Tas Kaxsas Pactrio RaLway Couraxy, by Rob- present Congross. et Chilcazoans, at whise exponse the Now York papers made merry during the riots last July, witl read thesa extracts from the Now York Timnes ol Tuesday with fnterest: Elitorial—Fourth People who look at N\ York's 20,600 Natlonu! Guardemen, mosily woll curred in "long \ime was parpelrated o the by fva highwayin rmous-|bosrd & Third avenue ear cy this to ba'at 10 o'clock 1 g far Judging waile the car was erusse - Ing Ninaty-fourtn l\relL‘ That dog which bit ox-Minister Bealas danghter, the Countess Backhmetef snd hor ho band at Parls, proves not to have boon mad & all, to the immense soliat of svarybody, Esrl Granville speaks and writes twenty Lord John Russell wan represented by Lord Palmerston as saying 1o a foreign diplomatist, **J¢ voudrate sb Je couldrats, mate J¢ suls dorry Jo can'dt John O, Framont's son, who {s an Enalgn ted the Capltolisna to a suz- ing just introduced them to bis wite, 3 wae married last Cetober, 1n the aecret, oo ait. Tun CoLowsdo CENTHAL TtAlLmOAD Coxpany, by W. A. H. Lovelsud, President, C.'8, Grosley, Kecvlver, aud i corver, Wituess, H, B, Cranx, her Britannic Majeaf 10 the citizens of XVIIL of this Sreat, accorded by Aris, o the subjecta of News—Fifth page. augy Villaed, 1ter nd XX her Uritannic"ilaJs wsserlion b4 nof admitted by (he Gogernnient of the Untted Sfates, it1s furiher agroed thinl Commis- appuinted to determinie, having regard to {Ae privileges aecorded Ly the U Btates to (he aubjecis of Aer Dritunnio Majety, an stated In Arts, X1X, and (he smount of XY compensstion which, in thelr 1d by the Goverument of overnment of hor Britan- for the privileges accorded to the cltixens of the United Slates under Art, XVIHL of this treaty, It is thus twico assorled that the United Btates did accord privileges to the subjects of ker Dritannio Majoaty by Arts. XIX, aud XXI. of tho treaty, and the Halifax Commis- sion s specally directed to *‘regard" these privileges. Art, RXI, of the treaty, ono of the two speclally referred to &s sccording privileges, s the one which- gives the Cana- dians freo access to our markots for their ——— VANDERBILT'S AMBITION. Spacial Disoaleh 10 The Trisune. New York, Juoe 13.—A raliroad manager sald to & Times reporter to-day that & ruilrosd war was immiuent, and nobody could tell whes or where it would end. pose of Mr. Vauderblit to veach after lmmenst contrulling power, ho sald: “It fs 8 hazardout game, Unless Lo shows he 18 posscsscd of & great deal more foresight aud prudence thau (his father, there is great dapger he wilt become im- o & sca of trouble. Whatever ho docs, ha will be caroful not to comblos the other roads, the Erie, Baltlmore & Objo, and the Penvaylvauls, agalnst Lim. Bhould be do su, they could wake it so extremely unprofita- bis for him that he would bo glad tomake cou- cesslons, and once more be content with & faly enger traflic at llyiog rates.”” There is no doubt amosg rsiiroad men fenerally that the object of the Ceotral v tofind s great deal more business than v bas at present. A raflrcad msn said it “was not ooly deslrable, but neceseary, that the road sbould have moro freight 1 1t 1s expected to make jte four-track road & paying ove. That enterprise was & greac oue, but very oxpensive. Tue two extra tracks were put down when ralls Inngunges with fnency. militia strength snd “The militis of New Btates forn remarkable tun exceptiuna 10 & gonoral rula of foeble numbers aud focblor clictency. XXZof this treaty, opinion, euebt to be tno United Bistos to th nic Majeaty, In return Conceraing the pur: In the Navy, has i eloven unlformed rmed soldiers of the vouth Negiment the e Mot s 300 but themely Col. W, A, Cook, a well-known Washing- ton lawyer, hae flled & petitlon for & rule agalnat fimaclf toshow cauto wby he should not be dls. barzed. He does this Lo get & chance Lo explaln wome matiers with whbich people whom be can't kick and won't aua keep taunting bim, . . Acocording to Guiseppe Massari’ Vietor Emsnuel,'* just t aliodt to deuth, robbed b ! §150, und The first formal sitting of the European Cougress for the settlement of the Eastern question took place in Berlin yesterday. No business of importance wns {ransacted be- youd tho election of Princo Bismanck us President of tho body, It 'is official- the work of the Congress will not commonce urtil next Mon. . Iu tho meatitime the individual Plenl. poteutiories will confer with each other, with uviow taarranging a common basis for future proceedings. It is alleged that Disnarrs has u policy which will startle the representa. Contivental ' Powens, proposition being so little in accord with Englond's professed principlo of non-inter- veotion, ‘This proposition is said to com- yriso, among other things, the supervision of curtain reforms to bo instituted at the Turkish Capital, and the assumption of & ——— Among tbe recent curlosities of suicide may be cited the casc of the Brookiyn life-fnsurance canvasser, who, being lald up with swckncss, His victime will conclude that, belng unabtle to go forth and compel them to take out polleies ypon their lives, Lo had to 1elk to himself, rehicaralng in his own ears while holding himself by his proper batton-helo tho advantazes of tho Tontiue plan sod the irre- spouslbility of eyery other azent and cumpauy, till finally, wearled out by his own lmporunl- ties, ba shot himsulf dead. e ‘The New York Herald's *cuterprise has got onc of its Parls correspondents Intotrouble. In October last the Merald printed a lot of “wpecials” from Varls giving the alleged viows of all the leading fournalists of the French Cap- {tal ou the elections which were to tuke place next day, the ioterviower alio giving somo “facts” us to the influence aud clrculation of The cditor of L'Unlvers, wheu bls bitter curwy, M. VirLxumssanw, of Ls our, was rteally the of-policy by which slllod heraelf with shaze ot frefght and p: Surdinta, in the war of 185 Franco and Englaod sgeinet Rasla, Oue of the advantages of marrying an En. gisk Princess: ‘The Loudon Court Circular con- .o nt: **The Queen received Jesterday with deop regret the sad pews of the wudasn death of the Duchess of Argyll, mother to ‘her Majesty’s son-in-law, the Marquis of Lorue," ‘They bave just had » high old time ot a Parls wedding, wher Duhsmel celobrated tho sizty-A1ih souiversary of thelr wedding, surrounded by thelr chiluren, grand- chitdron, snd grest.grandohildren, with 8 numer- ous gathenng of relatives sud friends. concluslon of the dianer, M. Gourdin, who is 03 years of axe, saug 8 song which be had written for the occaslon, and Mme. (ourdin, who Ls &3, open- ad the balt with one ot her grandsans, danclag as Yls-a-vis 0 ous of her yreat-eranddaughters. Auother youoyg lsay, in the same degree of rela. toualiip 10 the VI peoile, played the ylsao, ly announced The Commission failed to observa tho clause of the troaty which commandsd them o Liave *‘regard” to these privileges, They declded, coutrary to the expross dircctions of tha treaty, thet the sccess to our markels granted by the treaty was not a valuable con. sideration. We salmit that in s0 dolng thoy transcended tho terms of the submission and violsted the treaty; and tunt thelr verdiot is consequently null aud of uo effect. is plainer than thet both . parties to the sub- mission considered thy concession of fres ac- ceas to our warkots a valuable privilege. Wo quote frown the miuutes prepared by the jomt protocolists and sdopted by the Joint High Cowmumission et their last cetiug talns this sopovaceme! found that tho sdditional tracks wers like « compotiug line—that all the business might ‘e doneé on the two original tracks without serl- ous futerruption to pssscugsr busiuess, und that an enormous trafllc would have to bo done on tbe road for years toinake it a profitable io- vestment. As for pretending to monopuliza buiiness, thero are 400 maoy rallroads reudy to Jofu 1saue againgt bin, “He imight ss well try to buy up the lakes sud closs thew With & daus'

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