Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1878, Page 1

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Address, C0., Publisters,’ 1v3 *: 478 454 busemeat, 34 Lasalle-st.. 1n good loestion Volrel sdapred for mircantdo o JMputacturiag — 8 % ribune Bulldli. Gl'ivernment Bonds, Cook Couuty Orders, City Serlps und Vouchers, Boutltandmody || LAZANUS SILVERMAN Bask Chaiber of Commerce. TEETH FILLING! Thelih A ¥ Es: Bafs. SHetiES T p, Cur. Ciare sad Lisadoiph-sis SPENCERIZED. \d New Departure in the Gut- ting of Savings In- stitutions. Thieves on the Outside Do the Work in This Case, z The Manhattan Savings Bank of New York Totally Cleaned Out. Over Three Millions of Cash, Secu- rities, and Valuables Oar~ ried Away. A Solitary Janitor, in Posses- sion of the Vault Com- bination, Forced by Eight Masked Burge lars to Give It Up to Them. 1) The * Burglar-Proof” Safes Ri- fled with Neatness and g Dispatch, Total Lack of a Clew to the Identity of the Audacious Gang, New Yorxk, Oct. 27.—The Manhattan Savings Tustitution, at Brondway and Bleecker street, was the victim to-day of one of the most daring and successful burgisrics ever perpetrated, It is estimated that fully $3,500,000 in cash and sccurities were carried off, and, beyond mere suspicion, it is belicved the police have no clew to the robbers. The bank bulldingls six storfes i hight; the bank Is on the first floor. On the extrems northern side isa door and hallway lending to the wupper floors, This ex- tends but bhalf way down the building, makiog the shape of the banking-room {rregu- laron that side. Into tho wall of the latter, , beneath this atalrcase, is an fron safe for unim- portant books and papers. The main entrance 1s on Brondway., On Bleecker strect is the scc- ond entrance, with a storm-shed in front. The building at the eastern corner iscut off from too to bottom by a wall designed to furnish lght and mr. A continuation of tho stout brick wall of this well parallel with Bleecker atreet divides the room, torming & recces on its south elde, part of which is taken up by A MAGNIPICENT IRON VAULT sbout thirtcon feet long, eight feet broad, and eight feet fo hight, which cost $40,000. The vault faces Broadway, and bas double duors openlog outward. Oun it is & Jarge clock, which can be plainly seen from cithur street. Behind this vault {s & room for the Diroctors, and on the north side of the dividing wall is tho Presl- dent's privato office. In the rearof the Direct~ ors' room, entlrely separate from the bankiog oflice, is a hallway and staircase leading to the upper floors, with the eatrance door on Bleecker street, The 8t. Charles Hotel flanks the bulld- {ng on tho north, and & chop-bouse on the east. 1T IS BTRANGN that nobody in these places saw what was belog done in plain sight of either street. Inthe room just overtho President’s room ltve the janitor, Louls Werckle, his wife, and mother-in-law, o To reach thess rooms it is necessary to enter by tho rear Bleccker street door. The asdjoin- fug room bas beeu occupled for the past fve wecka by A MYSTERIOUS PRENCEMAN, supposed to be & manufacturer of artificial flow- ers, whose pame the police refuse to disclose, and the fumates of the bullding, fncluding the bank oflicors, pretesd not to know, Louls Werckle, the janitor, 1s a little old man of no physical streugth, and apparently less courage. Lle has been over twenty years In the employ of tho bank, and was Implicitly trusted. The bank employs as night-watchman Danlel Haley, a brawny Irishman. He went on duty st 6 o'clock Saturday evening, locked him- self fnside tho Usok, sud remained on watch all night. At 8 o'clock in the morn- fog be went out the Bledcker strect cotrance, lockiog the door behind bim, and pro- ceeded up-staira to Werckle's apartments, sbutting the street door, which closcs with & catch. He rapped with his club on Werckle's sitting-roorn door to wake him, and, baving heard his respouse, PASSED DOWN-STAIRS 4ND OUT, shutting the street door behind him, He walked to the corper of Broadway. and stood there ten minutes. He then went home, At that time, s0 far a8 he know, the Bank was all right. $1o saw no auspiclous or other persons about, to fesr, as she would uot be harmed. The bandcuffs wero removed from her by Officer Kennedy, who was tirst to arrive. Bhe was 70O TEURIFIED TO NOTICR CLOSELY the men's clothes or sppearance. Kohlman, the barber, baviug s shop in the basement under tha Baok, arrived about 7, looked futo tbe Dank, ss was his custom, to compare his watch with the Bank ciock, but aaw nothing to srouse suspiclon. Nor did Lo after that hear suy uolse, though s heavy footfsll fu the Bank could be plaiuly heard in bls shiop. ® A Httlo while later Werckle cameo rushing into the shop snd said the Bank had becn robb:d. Kohlman'ran up, looked tuthe Blecck- er street door, wod saw the vault open and the stlver scattered about the floor, = OF COUNSE. ‘The oficer who had the Bleecker-street best passed the Bank several times between 6 and 7, and looked fo every tlme, but saw nothiog wrong. Tho Broadway officer was taking (n s prisoner abous 7, and as ho passed the Baok be saw & wan o his shirt-sleoves busily dusting ¢he Bank shelves. As this was au ordinary occur- renco at that hour ho thoughbt mothlug of it. ‘This mav was undoubtedly ou the lookout. The police dre activelyst work. Theysay they bavea clew, but refuse to disclose its nature. v 5 MONDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1878. The beat detectives on the force have been put on the cate, which is likely to be a baflling one. No robbery could be more perfectly perpetrated. It was DONE IX BROAD DATLIGHT, Werckle says he was awakened by the watch- man as usual at 6 o'clock, Kealey rapping on his door. He began to dress, and, as he was draw- ing on his pantaloons, the door of his sitting- room opened suddenly, and SRVEN OR BIOHT MASKED MEN WALKXD IN, They seized and handcuffed Werckle and his wife, and tfed his mother-in-law in a sheet. ‘The women cried out, but Werckle told them the robbers would kil them unleas they kept qulet, and they subsided. Ono of the men took Werckle's keys from bim, and another put a revolver to his head and told him to give up the combloation. He sald he didn't have it. “You llie, You—. You open the vault every morning. Give it up or I'll blow your bralas out.” ® Werckle says he urged that §f he told them they could not tnrn the knob, but they sgaln threatened him, and he gave them the combi- nation. Three of the gang then remalned to zuard the prisoners, and THE REST WENT DOWN-BTAIRS, After » long while, during wnich Werckle beard them pounding, one or twoof the gang came up aod whispered to the guards, and all left together. Werckle soon after went out, and, secing no one about, gave tho alarm. Mrs. Werckle corroborates this story, only she saw but fiva men, They wore white hand- kerchiefa below the masks. Those who ®uarded ber rcpealedly told Ler not {0 a room with large windows facing on twe frequented streets, It ia little sbort of marvel- ous thatthe robbers escaped notice efther by the patrolmen or passers-by. ‘The jauitor and watchman have been arrest ed, and other parties cautioned to keep silence. The President of the bank is & brother of Augustus Schell, who s himself & Director, and who called todday to see shouta $30,000 security which was found untouched. The bank officials Joined the police fn reticence. Neither the pollce nor the bank officluls suspect the Janitor. TAEY DELIEVE TIS STORT asha tells it. Thelr theory is that the robters opened the Bleecker strect door with the key they took from Werckle, snd, once {nside, locked it agatn, With the vault key and combina- tion in their possession, thoy were soon fuside the vault. The night watchman had put out the gas, leaving the roowm in a gloom, so that evérything ‘was obscurs to an outsider unless he looked ¢closely in st the windows. On both sides of the vault are shelves holding bank-books and & largo number of tin boxes of valuables, the property of individuals who ‘hod deposited thewn for safe keeping. The baok officials re- fuse to give the names of thess depositors, and L1 = Y zax anx 18 nor nmsroMstLE for the deposits,. It was for the convenfence of these depositota that'the combination snd vailt key wers ititrusted to toe Janltor, s proceeding that creates considerable comment. As many ot tho depositors wanted thelr boxes of valusbles before 9 {n the morning, they were o tbe habit of gettiog them from the Janitor. But for gettiug the key and combina- tion as they did, tho burglars could not kave carried out their schems at all. .. THE THEORY 1s, that, baving opened the large outer doors by the key and combinatlon, two of the burglars went {uside and worked at the inger apartients, passing out the nepositors’ boxcs and other . valuables: to the confoderates, who warked beliind -the bsuk counters. Meanwhile, the vault doors being closed, there was no suspl- clous sight, and the sonnd of the jimmies wers muflled. A number of compartments were not touched. The burglars found some that opened comparativcly casy, but other locks they could not move and DARED XOT ALOW TUEM OPEN. Having occupled as much time as they dared venture, they probably let themselves out by the Bleocker-street entrance and hurried away with thelr booty, It isthought thal from ths depositors’ boxes the burglsrs got not less than $1,000,000 In bonds and securities. About forty boxes were rified. Out of the $3,500,000 but $11,000 {n cash was obtalned. TUR VROPXRTY LOAT which stands in the bank's name was as fol- lows: United States 5s of 1881, registered, $300,000, United States 8s of 1831, registered, §200,000. United States 1040 bouds, registerod, $600,- 000. United States 4 per cents, registered, $300, 000. United Btates 5-20s of July, 1805, $48,000. New York 8tate Sinkiog Fund, $32,000. ‘Twa 8 per cent reglstered bonds, $202,000, Beven per cent bonds, registered, $250,000. New York City improvement stock, 7 per cent, registercd, $200,000. New York City revenue bond, registered, $200,000. Youkers City 7 per cent bonds, $118,000. Brooklyn City water loan coupon bonds, $25,- 000, East Chester town bonds, $50,000, ‘The Bank officials send out this manifesto: **Tha Manhattan Bavings Institution was, on the morning of Sunday, the Jith of October, 1878, robbed of securities to the amount of 82,747,700, of which $2,505,T00 sre reciotored in the pame of the Alanhattsn Bavings lnstitution, and sre pot newotiable, $168,000 are made pavable to t, $73,000 are in coupon bonds, snd $11,000 In cash. For toe pur- pose of preventing loss todepositors it ls deemed advisable that uo payment be made without alxty days’ notice, as proviaed by the lawa of e fustitution. “Epwanp BcusLy, President. 4 Cuarexs F. ALvouy, Sccretary,” TUB LAST ANNUAL REPORT of tbe condition of the bank showed its status Jau. 1, 1878, The resources of the bank were then $S,001,617, and the liabilitles due depositors, $S,164,508, leaviog a surplus of $537,000. This, bowerer, is represcnted iu part by stocks and rest estate not worth now whst they cost, sad the surplus may be morse safely estimated at $23,71.37. Toe fovestments u bonds and wortzages were $3,503,063; amount loaned on stocks sud cash on dopoalt in banks was $364,~ 229; cash oo hiany, $22,471., TUBKE WaKE 17,510 DEPOSITORS, the depoeltors averzgiog $406.27 eacb, uod none belog above $5,000. Durlng 1877 2,369 new ac- counts were opened, dnd 8,034 close), whila thera was deposited duoring 1877, $2,404,470.53 against $3,377,120.52 withdrawa. ‘The avallable fund on Jan. 1 was $1,843,500. TAR BANK lql‘LDllfl was surrounded by s crowd'daring the day. A vumber of auxious deposithrs called st police beadquarters to faquire abéut shelrdeposits and sccuritles. VICR-PRESIDENY M'LEAN safd the loss of the registered bonds bothered the bank most, for, slthough they could get the intercst the eame . sa (f they bad the bonds, they would be prevented from reslizing the peincipal o case any considerable number of depositors should apply for thelr money. He seemed to sppro- bend a panic smong the depositors, owlng to the Iack of confidence which the savings-bank troubles have caused.” The vpolicy of the bank In inves in bonds had been fts streogth . o the general depreciation of real estats and shrinkage of values In mortgaged proverty. He expressed himself as convinced of the stabllity of the bank, which has & surplus &f $400,000, and was not even threatened. The officers snticipated nothing more than grest trouble, annoyance, and fnconvenience. ANOTHER AGUOUNT. To the Western Asoctated Press. Nzw Yonx, Oct. 27.~-Between 6 and 9 o’clock tbls morning masked hurglars entered the Manbattan Savings Baok Ballding, at the corner of Broadway and Bleecker street, and, after bandcufliog the fjsultor, msde him, under threats of {ustant death, reves) the combination of the safe to them and deliver up the keys of the bank, They rifled the vault of presumably a large amount of mouey, as twenty tin boxes known to bave contained bills were found on the floor quite empty. The bullling Is ix- story one, the bank occupying the ground fioor, ‘with entrances on both Broadway sod Bleecker street. Wendel Kohlman keeps @ barber-shop in the bascment under the bank,and the janitor livea on the secand floor. The barber opencd bis shop thirty-Ave minutes past 6 o’clock. He #ays there was nothing unusual in the bank at that time. At twenty-three minutes past 9 o'clock ho was startled by tho spjearance at the head of the basement-stairs of the fanitor, Louls Wertel, WRITR WITI PRIGRT AND RXCITEMENT, with is hands handeufed tightly and the key of the bank clutched betwgen them. He wan only hall dressed, and gasped, ‘* Thicves! rob- bors! come und seel” The barber accompanted bim {oto the baok and sew the doors of the great vauit wide open; and the floor littered with tin boxes, all -emptled of their con- tents, The burglars’ tools were scattered In every dircction. The barber motified the police, sud Bupt. Walling, Inspector Dilk, Capt. Byrocs, sad Capt. Kiely were soon on the scene. The doors, windows, and all means of accces from without were found Intact, snd [t was evident the thioves bsd entered by means of keys. Dan Keely, the night watchman, left his post at 8 o'clock a, mw, and arouscd the fanitor, as was his custom, and left the bullding, lock- lug the ball door wfter bim, He left the corner at 6:10 a. m,, aad then everything was right and quiet. A lthographer who does business on tbe upper Boor, says that, at € o'clock, he arrived at the L jlding, and found the entrance open, and wondered st ibe care- lessucas of the watchman. He passep up stalrs and met nobody, and beard no notso or dlasurb- ance, THE JANITOR, WERTEL, created an unfuvorable impression on cross-ex- amination. Ha sald that, at 10 minutes past 6, while he was dressing, seven masked wen sud- denly rushed {nto bis room, handcuffed him and his wife, and demanded the keys of the bank. His mother-In-law, an old lady, who was pres- cnt, scresmncd, when the burzlars drew plstols and tbreatened instant death to any one who made s noise, Thoy then carried him fulo an adjoining roum aud forced bim to dellver up the keys of the strect doors. With theae four of the party went down stairs, leaving three on guard in his room. Three bours passed, and Wertel heard & clock strikiog. Just then ooe of the men from down stairs roturned, and, after 8 whispered consultation, they all left. After he regained his courage he went down to the barber-shop, as described. Wertel admitted to Supt. Walling that he bad given the combloa- tion unlocking the doors of the vault to the robbers. He gave 1t under threats of lnstant death, but he falied to state how he got posses- slot: of the combination. IHis wife corroborated bis story of the sttack, but said there were ooly five men In the party, BMr. Leot, a Broadway merchant, passed the bank soon after7a.m., n ‘llA' A TOUNG MAN DUSTING TUE SHELVE and desks fnside, It issupposed this was ono ol the burglars, endeavoring to make things look as natural as possible. Ofiicers Van Nor- ton and Tully sald they lnoked through the bsok windows betwecn 6 and 7 o'clock, and all was quiet. The vault can bescen from the street. (nside the main doors of the safe vault the burglars found s space with shelves, which wore tin boxes filied with jowelry, stlver- ware, and valusble papers, Theso they emptied. ‘They overiooked one box on a back sheil con- talniog $50,000 in valuables, the property of Edward Hchell, President of the bauk. The upen spaco of six feet between the malo door ot thu vault and the doors of the fnner safe gave the burglar plo space to work in. They pricd openonecompartment containing $11,000iu small bills, Thoy next forced the bottom drawer, but ot nothing of valuc therefrom. The wedges were found In the upper compartmeots, which they wero trylng to force when they were avi- dently disturbed. A dozen drills, & sledge- hammer, three scctionsl jlminies, snd otber tools were fouud scattered around. The ofi- cers of the bank adinit that the janftor posscss- ed the combloation of the vault. It was given bim months ago so that he could take put tho hooks and make ready for ousiness. The oili- cers of the bank are: Edwand Schell, President aod Treasurer; C. ¥, Alvord, Becretary, Fol- lowlng Is THN BANK OYPICERS' STATEMENT! #The Manhattan Sawings lastitution was, on the moroing of Bunday, the 27th of October, 1878, robbed of securitics. to the smount of $2,757,700, of whick §3,305,700 were registered in tbe pame of the {ustitution, snd sre not pegotisble, $163,000 are wade payable to i, $75,000 sre In coupon boods, and $11,000 In cash. For the purpose of preventioz loss to the depositors it {s deemed sdvisable that oo payment be made without sixty days’ notice, as provided by the by-laws.of the justijution.” ‘Tois 13 s!gued by Edwarg 8chell, President, aud Charles ¥. Alvord, Becretary. g TUR NUNBERS. Following is & list of.the stolen securitics: Uultvd States B4 of 1351, registered, elwt of $50,000 each, Noa, 105, 168, U43 to ¢4, 737, aud 7353 ten of $10,000, Nas. 13,488 to 13,495, in- clusive; total, $300,000. Uuited Btates 8¢ of 1581, registered, tweuty of $10.000 esch, Nos. 9,376 to 9,205, incluglve; total, $200,000. Uunited Btates 10-40 boads, registered, sixty of $10,000 esch., No. 8,7H to 5,763, aud 15,W3 to 15,944, fuclusive; total;i$600,000, . Uuited Btates 4 por cents, registered, thirty of $10,000 each, Nos. LE7L to 2,000, {uclusive; total, $300,00. : Uuited States 520e o July, 1805, §43,000; tweoty-six of $500, Noa.. 820,007, 53,144, 82,145, B0, 65,040, 65,107; 80,080, 80,943, 87,475, 89,707, 89,723, 90,319, 00.419, 1,043, 93,170, Y577, T9.928, 07,033, 09,510, 99,576, 101,110 102,702, 102,008, 103,421, 105,009, and 106,030; twenty-five of $1,000, Nos. 152,410, 152411, 158,094, 154,410, 157,844, 161,602, 163,159, 105,120, 165,167, 100,794, 100,821, 169,044, 169,747,171,939, 172,543, 172,544, 173,052, 173,784, 173,785, 175,642, 179,050, 184,701, 187,141, 104,430, 194,507, 194,743, 199,678, 212,201, 202,897, 207,003, 203,069, 208,746, 208,828, 200,419, and 200,633, Thirty-five thousand dollars, New York Stata Binxing Fund gold Gs, registered, No. 32. Thirty thoussnd dollars, New York City Cen- tral ;nflx Fuod stock, certificate No. 724, regis- tered. Tweoty-two thousand seven bundred dollars, New York County Court-House stock, No. 2. BIX per cents, registered certificates, No, 4, $10,000; certificate No. 23, 835.000; certiflcate No, 24, $5,000; certificate No. 82, $10,000; cer- tidcate No. 33, $47,000; certificats, No, 39, $95,- 003 total, $202,000, New York City accumulated 7 per cent bonds, registered, two of $100,000 each, Note1 and 2, duo 1893, One of $30,000, No. 1, due 1537, New York City improvement stock scven per cent registered, ten certificates of $20,000 each, No. 1to 10 incluaive; total, $200,000. New York City revenue bond, registered, $200,000, Yonkers City 7 per cent bonds, 118 of $1,000 each, Nos. 213 to 242, 251 to 278, 231 to 310, 311 to 840, and 531 to 550, all Incluatve, $118,000. + Brookiyn City Water-Loan coupon bonds, twenty-ive of $1,000 each, Nos. 2,167 to 2,101, inclasive, $25,000. East Cbartestown bonds, fifty of $1,000, Nos. 27 to 75, Inclusive, 850,000, All of said bonds, etc., are registered cxcept the $48,000 5-20 bonds of July, 1805, and the 825,000 Brooklyn City Water-Loan coupon bouds. ¢ CASUALTIES. BHIPWRECK. Cirarrestox, Oct. 27.—The amack Whinpoor- will arrived last night, bringing Capt. Cheese. man and the oflicers aud crew of the lost steamer Gen. Barnes. Capt. Cheeseman states that his ship encountercd the Lurricane on Tucesday last. On Wednesday marning she was fast going to pleces from the forebatch for- ward;when the oflicers and crew took to the boats. Boon afterwards they slghted the schouner M. W, Drew, " Capt. Mahony, who took the shipwrecked crew on_bosra an brougnt them to-Charleaton bar. The Barnes went down at noon of Wednesds ‘{ Her cargo consisted of 630 bales of cotton, 855 barrels of oil, B4 casks of aplrits of turpentine, 400 barrels of resin, 8 barrcls ot wuste, sud other mer- chandlise. BAN FRaxcisco, Oct. 27.—Arrived, the steamer Collina from Pansina, bringiog the passengers of the steamer Georgis, recently wrecked at Punts Arcoss. ‘The passen- gers nake conslderable complaint of the clrcumstances attendant upon the wreck, clalming that the officers of the Georgla fatled to exert the proper con- trol over the crew, and that the latter scted likze & lot of pirates, refusing to render assist- ance to passengers In saving thelr eflects, and, after a landivg was accompiisted, returning to the ship snd helping themseives to the baggage and otlier property of the passengers, e ——— OBSCENE LITERATURE. Tronble In the Comstock LodewProcoed. Ings at Syracuse, 8ynicusg, N, Y., Oct. 27.—At the morniog scssion of the Liberal League to-day, tho ma- fority faction offered a resolution which in effect postponed consideration of the question of re- pealing the Comstock Postal law until the snoual ‘meetiug ne:.t Yéar. The' ConVention elected the Tollowing officers: Presldent, Ellzur Wright, Bostun; Sceretary, Prof, A, L. Dawson, New York; Treasurer, Cortland Daimer, New York: Chairimon Ezccutive Committee, H, L. Green, Bslamanca. (rent contuslon existed on tue announcement of the vote, nud the minority faction, headed by F. E. Abbott, seceded from the Convention. Judge E. P, Hurlbut, of Albony, declared be could no longer remain in the League atter its action in displaclug Abbott from the ¥residency, and directed the Secretary to strike bis name {rom theroll. The chargé made against Abbott, in removing him froin the Presidency, Is his oppo- sitiou to the circulation ofgobscena literature through the mally, and those who withdrew from the League with bim entertain the same vlews, The members who sccoded, led by Abbott and Judge Hurlbut, organized a new Tieague, to be called the Natiousl Liberal Leacue of America, and elected ¥, E, Abbott President. Fifty members of tuo old League, comprisiog the most intellizent snd respectable portion, signed the constitution of the new Leacue. ———m— THE WEATHER. Orrice or Tum Cmxr SiGNAL OrricEs, Wasmixoron, D. C., Oct. 238—1 a. m.—Indica- tions—For Tennesseo sud the Ohfo Valley, clear or partly cloudy weather, northwesterly winds, becoming variable, folling followed by rising temperature, and, iojthe western portious, lower presaure. For the Lower Lake Reglon, raln or snow arcas, followed Uy clearlog weather, winds mostly westerly, stationary or lower tempera- ture, aud, in the esstern portlons, lower pressurc. For (this) the Upper Lake legion, clear or partly cloudy weather, narmwener!( winds, backing to southerly, falling, followed by riae ing, temperature, stationary, followed by fali- ing barometer. ror the Upper Mississiopt Valley, warmer, clear, or partly cloudy weatber, soutnerly winds and falling barometer. For the Lower Stissouri Vailey, warmer, part- 15 cloudy weatber, southerly winds, aod falling barometer, Froat will generally occur to-night o ‘Ten- ness d thie Oblo” Valley, and 1a the South :. '"|"f nd Gulf States Tuesusy and Wednes- Digh ‘sutienary signals are ordered for Frie, Buf- falo, Rochester, Uswego, and Bection Bix, Hueeial Dispaich to The Tridune Manpora, i1, Uet. 27.—Snow to thedepth of nearly three tnches fell here yesterday and last night. 1t was {ollowed by a'severe iwn and the snow is now as crisp and the sidewsiks as slippery as If it were the depth of winter, dpectal DipateA 1o ‘The Triduns. MapisoN, Wis.,, Oct 27.—Bnow commenced falling hera i"“ y st 3 p, ., continuing unil midolght. ‘Tnere was about four tuchos ou tho ground this wwormug. It bas melted some to-day. To-night the weather fs very cold and ciear. . Avecial Dirpatch (o The Tribune, DxRavs, Hi, Oct, 27.—11 cominenced snow- fng hers sbous 10 o'clock yesterdsy morning, and continued until noon to-dav, At 9 o'clock this morning it wus six fuches deen. The warin suu this alteruoon has welted i, leaving tue atreets and roads in o fearful condition. WATEKTOWN, .y Uct. 7.—Four_{uches of snow fell here laas nlgbt,” the first fall of tho scason, giving things to-day a very wintry ap- pearance. H . Sie 34 2 F-1 ko 31 33 It a 81 i by a5 b7 37 3 3 S8 w 3 u s 33 3i o | w7 2 S¥. 3 POLITICAL. Ex-Secretary Robeson Certain of Election to the Next Congress. The Outlook in Pennsylvania Dail Growing More Satisfac- tory. Propositions to Compromise from the Red-Bhirts Now under Arrest. What Becretary Gorham Thinks of James E. Anderson as a Witness. A Campaign of Pecnliar Characteristics in the State of Michigan. Speculation Concerning the Un- known Quantity in Folitics Thereabouts. Baview of the Field as It Appears iu Wis- consin—Tennessee News, WABHINGTON NOTES. KEW JRRARY, 8pecial Dirpatch (o The Tritume. Wasnixatox, D. C., Oct. 27,—News from New dersey i3 that cx-Secretary Robeson is very certain to be elected to Congress from the Camden District. It is now only a questionof wajority, Republicans, clalming at Jeast 2,000. Robeson expresses great recret that he couid not get Whitthorae, bis old euemy, face to fuce in the Forty-sisth Cooerces. ‘the Demociats bave left Whitthorne at home. LATER NEWS PROM FENNSYLVANIA snow thut the confldence of the Republicans in the success of thelr Btate ticket ts dutly Increas- fug. The Democrals clalin now thut, if they lose the State, they will still have s chance in. the contest for Unlted Btates Benator Thelr candidates for that office will be Dill, the present candidate for Goy- croor, Curtin, and speaker Randall, One of the fullest votes ever cast will be poiled at the coming election. Those who have been fixiog 10,000 as tle lwit of the Itepublican ma- jority in Philadelpbla now place it sbove 15,000, Bame of the opponents of the Kepublicans con- cede 12,000. The Democrats arc greatly feariog " the effect of the Orcenback vote, and ali indlca- tions point to its beluy drawn wmaiuiy from the Democrats. THE RED-SHIRT GENTLEMEN lately arrested in Bouth Caroliun have mado a propusition Jooking to thelr discharye from ar- rest to the Attorney-General throughthe United Btates District-Attorney, Judgu Devens has replied: ** I want no traflicking or guarantees, but judiclal investization of an vutrage aliezeil tohave been commitied upon unoffendinzpeople in the exercise of thelr rights as citizens of the United Btates.” It is also known lerc that the Attoruey-General has given such instructious as will oblige District-Attorn ud United dtates Marsbals to do their whole duty or put them- selver-fo a'posltivn whare removal.is cortain tu follow, SECRETARY GORUAM, of the Republican Congressionsl Committee, when asked what bie thought of Anderson's con- feaslon, replied that e thought it the most re- markable development of the Potter Commlt- tee. “Above two weeks azu,” sald Gorham, it was reported to me that Anderson wussbout. to make another revelation on Lowuislana affairs, but 1 sald that he could not mnake It to me. I bad no use for anythiug of the kind. When s man becomes a professional witness, he loscs bis value entirely. I dun’t see how any party can draw the Jeast encouragement from any- thiog be says. Cortainly, we have not the slightest {dca of .turnfuk his confession to ac- count." ‘The fact that Anderson has made a statement hostile to the Democrats is QIVING TIIEM MUCH CONCRIN. They agree that, It hie docs not staud by until the Potter Committee can get in a revort based on his evidence, the whole basls of & report would be swept away, They are not inclined to place much rellance upon the sensationa! intecview, s briel statement concerning which was sent East Baturday. They bave reason to know, however, that he has expoacd sowe of those whio were act- Iven prepariog evidence upon which to base an {ovustigation, andithat he Liss corroborating evi- dence, without which no statument from him would carry any welght. Among others who Agured in the attetpt to force an fuvestigation upon Congress, It Is understood that It can be proved that COL. PRITON came down to Baitimore and had interviews with a pumber of those futerested here, and that he then insisted, fn the name of Tiden, that the investigation should bu started, and that the resolution covering it should be so drawn as to prevent (lnvestigation into any charges which might be made against Mr. Til- den or his near fricnds {0 conucction with the attempts at corruption during the coutest. ILLINOIS, BNTHUSIASTIC BREPUBLICAN MEETING AT FOLO. Bpecis) Duapateh o The Tridune, Poro. IIL, Oct. 2i,—The Republicans ot Polo and vicinity met on Friday evenlug to listen to the discussion of political questionsby Maj, 1. M. A, Mlawk and tho lon. James Shaw, snd the way theso gentlemen waded fnto aud exposed the fallacies of the Greenbackera from Cary to Pomeroy was a caution to Fiat shrickers and re- pudiationists gouerully, The Grecobackers here liaye been holding weekly meetiugs for a loug thing, snd Judze Miller spd the Hon. M. D. Hsihaway, Democratic caudidates for Corgresas, had beeu here & week before, giving the peoply the fArst dose of mild Ureenbackism. But the sclid srguments addressed to the peaplo by Messrs, Hawk sod Bhaw Friday night dlspelled tho misté of Greenback delusion, and you muy look Lo seu this part of Old Ogle give ber accustomad vote for the Republlcun ticket from State Trcasurer to Coroner. It gives pleasure to add that Tice and Dysart, caundidates for Represeutatives, were present at this mectiug, and were fully u sympatby with the doctriues aunounced by the speakers nawed. It looks now as though the Grecuback duancial craze would be fa tho future coufined wholly to that class of our citizens who are weutal or tinauctal bankrupts. WHEATON. . Bvecial Dissuich to Tha Triduse, ‘Wararon, liL.. Oct. 2.—Despite the storm, & laree sud euthusiastic Republican meeting was held 10 the Court-House this eveuing. Tue spirited addresses of the Hon. Willlam Aldrich and Gew. A, L. Coetlafu, of Chicago, and the Hon. J. G. Wright, of Naperville, wery well received. OTTAWA, Bpecial Corvespunitence of The Tridune OrTAW4, Uct. 35.—The voters of the city were addressed this evenlog by Charles Blauchard, Esq., a prominent Ottawa attorney,who reviewed the political situation fruw a Revublican stavd- puint. After refcrring 1o otlier ucts of the party duriog the Late Rebellion, be spoke of tho ueces- sities which required the issusuce of vot ouly tle Trussury-notes Lut tue Natloval-Baok notes, and of the govermncutal faith upon which tuey were based. He believed the prescut currency the best aud safvst ever knowa, sud compared it with the Democratle sute-bellum * Witd-cat” wyucy, His cutire sddress wad full of sound f @@ / 4 PREQl FIVE CENTS, of & & g / l?'g £olnts, and was lstened to with earnest 1 @) pateh tn The . Broowinarox, Iil., Oct. 22.—Willlam M. Will- fams, Greentrack canuidate for 8heriff, yesterduy withidrew from thé campaign, declining In, favor of Haltzn, Demourat. WISCONSIN, OSHKO8M. Ewoetat DieoteA tn The Trimne. OsnrosH, Wis.,, Oct. 27.—~The Republlcans of the First District nomivated for the Assembly Capt. Willlam Wall. Capt. Wall is a brother of Tum Wall, and Is popular with all classes, 18 clection is certain. The Greenbackers of the First District iomi~ oated Christlan Kabler for the Assembly in place of R. 1. Torrey, declined. The Republicansol the Fourth District nomi~ nated T. J. Bowles, of Utica, for the Asscmbiy, Bowles [s one of the solld men of the district, aud will polla heavy vote. Wargntown, Wis, Oct. 26.—To-lay the Detnocrats of this (the First) Assembly dfstricd of Jelferson County nominated Hezokiah Flins for a third teriu ua mewber of tha Assembly. AHEAD 0¥ TIIE GREENIIACK CRAZE. Spectal IapateA 1 The Tribuns. i MiLwaukse, Wi, Uct. 25.—The Republican campaign is assuming decided actlvity through- out the Stute. Al the best pubifc speskers In the Republican party sre on the stump, and they generally take strong and high grounds on tho Lard mouney side of the financial ques- tion. Public opinion on this snhject is bejog rapidly corrected, aud a collapse of the Green- burk movement, with & growiog distrust and hustility between the Democrats and their Greenback ullics, are the main festures of the wock. The Greenback heresy and foollshricss 18 certatuly on the wane. Republicans who had. caught the contaglon are rapidly returniog to their furmer party ranks, The Fiat craze nevee had a hold 1n this Btate, cxcept uvon n few visionury theorists and a few hopeless bank- rupts who thought they might risc with a al- Ioon siwilsr to that from the collapse of which they hud fullen, The Irish Democratic-Green- backers are raplaly becoming convinced thag they have been misled and bamtoozled, aud that no Ureenback blarney can mislead them sgain. IT I3 & BINGULAR RESULY of a palitleal epidemic. sense lus struck tho Grecnback fever as Jack Frost has steuck the yellow {ever, midway duwn to its pestilentlal seat and hesdquarters. The Greenback vote scparate from the Democratic vote would be buta “scatteriog result. It Lias derived credit and consideration solely from baving a powerful patronin the Democratic party, and from some weakness in the Repub- liean partv. Mud both parties kicked the rag-laby out, locuotinently, in tho start, neither would have eover suf- fered from the loss whirh might bave been fncurred. The rag-baby was a bastard, lett on the door-steps first of oue party and then ofthe other. If It biad not have been given hos- pitality it would have died of {nanitton, and been burted in a bard-wood coflln 1 a pauper’s grave. 1T 18 NOT AN UNKIND TASK to make s Wisconslu niiudon tu ex-Senator Doolittle. His ringlog volce and earnest appeals Lave been Licard un the stuinp in every vart of Wisconsiu, somctimes for one party and some- times for the other, since about the year 1812, when be first took au active part in Wikcousin politics, He fa a most aminble gentlemnn, falr 1n lis professional and business relatious, & brilliant advocate, hut not ' altogither a lwer, and u public life howas undunbta y &8 honest as most tmen of his day or tinie. & Tue Inexcusably foolish sud eccontrlc Counatty correspondence does not caucel this view of ‘his, Hife und character. ‘Ho was not rich? he had® nothing but Wls Congressional salary lor the support of o lurge and expensive family; ho sam troops and battations of political and Congresss fonal shoddylsts, adventurcrr, and speculutors becoming rich by questionuble meavs. The purchuse of u larze quantity of cottoa ut a low wrice, as myght be done under a war trads permit, aud its sale ot & high price, was not. uolawful. Hundreds did. the same thing. - Had ho done it boldly, with & dash, defying criticlsw, declariog that it was lawful, aud atulivg py the result, he would Lave suffercd nothing, But his correspondence with Conpatty was futal, Conuatty had'been & school-teachier AT KENOSUA AND RACINE. 2 He afterwards, through Doolittle’s influence, procured a Washiugion clerkship. IHe thero tound the ways of trade by which fortunés were made In cotton-trading, oud supwesed to Doolittie to " procurs him a permit and divide profits. In an el Lour Doollttle agreeu—hot to et the permit; tuat would bave been sl rightund regular, They were all doing It, and nobody was criticli- ed. Buthe Iuthat evit hour wrote a massof correspondence for the purpose of explaining, excusiug, and justifying the transaction, which needed nelther explauation, excuse, nor justifica- tion, Connatty presorved the correspondence, It was ot gulity, butit wus cffusive; it wus plouss; it was ridiculous, for Doulittle wrole his own letters to Conuatty and Connatly’s repl In 1572, wihile Duoolittle, with u hitherto un- stained name an reputation, brilliant, cloquent, and persuasive on thie stump—tho Boanergzes of the Liberal-Grecloy movement--was advocating the Clucinvatl movement, CONNATTY WAS DYING at s New York boarding-house. His cotton~ schemes had fulled. Consumption, uduced by dissipation and excesses, bad fustened upon him, His family wanted bread. This unfortunate correspundence—bls orizinal letter to Duolitile, and Doolittic’s anewer, the lutlers alterwarnls in Doolittle’s haodwritlug—wera fu lils posscasion. He sent for & New Vurk newspaper wanueee; sold the budeet for $1,500; he diee In peacs, and was burled: the New York paver won which lusted Tor huif a year. vareer, LXeebl us a mere lutriguer in. alitles, cnded on that day. He did not deserve fi‘. except for bis blunder in making a plous ex- cuse fu & fictitlous correspondeuce for & plece of business in which powerful yollticlans wero datly engaged, Loldly, openly, as & matter of course, und without drexming’ th excuss Wus UeCeAsRTY, * THBIN 18 KO MAN IN POLITICS 1o Wisconsin so dead as Doolittle, A traphe: might ssy let these dry boues of Matt Carpen- ter live, but uo prophet would ssy so as to_ Doulittle, Al sduit his hovesty, Lis ability, bis genfus, his versonal purity of char acter; and his claline oo public respect. But, i< the Democrats should 'bave a majority fu the the Levislature, ho is not ooty the last niun tiuey would select for Senator, but thev would select Matt Curpenter in prefereuce to hlm. ‘The Re- publicuus have fur hiu a more sturdy hatred than for any man in the Deaiocratic party, be- cuuse be was the inet recreant under Andrew Johnson's Aduiuistrativn to the Kepublican party and to its organization fu this State. Ho thouwnt he coul carry th Republican party with Llus, but they would not go. Thelunzuazo of Pustmaster ey es, of Madison, whenusked how Republivaus of the fulerior of the Stute stood us to Audrew Jounson, was: “‘They are as radi- cal @8 bi—Il.” Bagucious politiclaus, the men who go with the curreut of opinton, sud sec s drift before the curreut woves, suw that Avdrew Johosonism could not live auy wore than Ty- lertsm hived, und that all connteted with it mast die with it. " 'The oppouents of Johusonisu w Radicals, and with a wighty {few excepiions ull Republicans were Radicais. Those whu were vot, drifted with Doclittle iote the Dewo- cratic party. In that party Doollitle snas only bad considerativn ns be could ba used, aud It a3 impossible that he should rise to leadershipy as that be should siuk to osiguitt~ cauce 1 politles und public atfaire. * He 16 sime ly one uf tuw Kreat LED WHo Fise 13 3 oloucie, uud then descend, but never reach szaln tha sume night. This yrar bhebas:stmply beon warplot in Wiscuupin politles, and hels s littla Le is by the Republicaus. IN Tik MILWAUKER DISUUGT there are fur grounds o expet tuusJudza ; The frost of common- more ucmu{{ denounced by the Dewocrats than