Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 1, 1879, Page 12

= e e e e et THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1879—SIXTEEN PAGES. WASHINGTON. Fult and Free Resumption to Be Inaugurated To= Morrow. No Difficulty or Hindrance An- ticipated from Any Quarter. The Various Steps Taken by the Treagury to Reach the Desired End, Potter’s Committce Again Con- fronted by the Sharp-Wit- ted Mrs. Jenks. A Bogus ** Sherman Letter ” of Her Preparing Unearthed and Exposed. Propositions to Facilitate the Busi= ness of the Supreme Court. Legislation Proposed by the In- dian Territory Com- mission. Indians to Bo Mnae Citizens and the Tands to Bo Divided, RESUMPTION. KO TYOUDLE ANTICIPATED, #pecial Dipaleh (o The Tridune. ‘Wasuinuroy, D. C., Dee, 81.~Treasury offi- clols to-day stated that they unticipated no trouble about resumption; the banks wero able to go through with tolay’s business with- out being troubied by demands for zold. After to-morrow ail demands for gold, by arrange- ment of the New York Clearlng-House Associa- tlop, can be met with legal-tendors, but it has oceurred to the ‘Ireasury authorities that the demands might be male to forco payments to- day, and the gold banks might have neglected to provido an adequato amount of gold coin for that purpose. The Hubicon was puseed, how- ever, they think, with the close of to-day’s busi- ness, and the progress of sesumption will be easy. THE DIFFERENT STEPS . taken by the Treasury inits uso of silverin vreparation for speclo resumption have been annouuced fu five circulars, commencing with the first in regard to the siiver dollar fssucd carly In September. This Is almost fdentical in terms with the last silver-dotlar circular and with the one which will bo Issued under dato of Jan. 1. This cireular authorized the shippiog ot sliver dollors in sums of 81,000 aud its mul- tiples to any person withiu reach of the Sub- ‘Treasuries, desizuated depositorles, or Natlonal banke. It was first lssued carly in September, and withdrawn the second day after it had been vromulgated. ‘Tho renson assigued for this withdrawal hoas . NEVER BEEN STATED. The public reason given by Sccretary Sher- 0an was that after more mature refleetion it had been decided that thers was no law to war- rant tho commencenment of resumption fn silyer or gold colu prior to the date fixed In the Re- samption sct, Jan. 1,1870. Grave legal oplo- fons were delivered on this subject, and o fetter was furnished the Secretary of the Treasury by the At,orney teneral setting forth theso vicws, but thero always was a couviction in fluancial ircles that tho doubtfulness of the legatity of the measure was assigned twercly as a pretext, for the reason that the Becretary of the Treasury 18 too careful and astute a man not to huve dizcovered all the legal points fovolved Lefore the proamulgation of the order HATHER THAN APTERWARDY, Indeed, the first question to huve been de- cided beforu Issuing tho first stlver-dollar clreu- lar determined on, would naturally have been whetlier or not such act was legal. Thero 18 no doubt that notwithstanding the somewhat specific and indirect assertions of the illegality of such an nct, It wos entirely withiu the prov- fnco of the Becretary of the Treusury, under the general powers with which he s clothed to preparo for resumption, to have fssued ellver dollars as ot tirst suggested. Another reason assigned for the withdrawal of the order wus that Becretary Buerman was given to know by vromincut political personages that it WOULD BE UNWISE POLITICAL POLICY, o the midst of & campalgn, to commence re- sumption, or to do anything that could attract public opinlon to the yuestion, especially to ex- clte the opposition of tho Greenbackers, or to Kive them o new text for opposition to the finan- clal polley of the Administration, ‘Ihera fs o doubt that such ressons wero submitied to the Becretary of the Treasury fgom fuflucntfal quarters, but that was not the deter- winlng reason in the witldrawal of the order, ‘Fbe controlllug reason for it was this, and thy fact has never before been publicly sunounced; 1t huppened at the time thissilver-dollar clreular U per cent bondn"lnlul per &"f!‘:l’:l i converting OWED THE GOVERNXMENT $30,000,000 v coiN, U per cent bonds to thut amount haviug been called. Under the operations of that clreular the Byndicate would have been able tu pay that £00,000,00 to the Govermment In silver dollars, ‘Ibly would have absorbed every sil dollar that was colned, would have ex- hausted the silver-dollar certiticates to the {ull awouut, aud would Lave left tho Treesury without nnl)' old receipts with which to redeem thu called bonds as they should be prosented, 4 othier words, at the very tlrst step b res tlon the Treasury M SRt 1WOULD UAVE LEEN CRIPFLED, and have seriously cmbarruvsed ftacif In one of Iis cursent tiscal operations, This fact wus dis- covered tho duy after the silver<lolar circular liad beeu fvsued, and it was deterinlned tu withe draw the circular and to subject the Lepart- amcut to criticiuin of vacelllutfon rathior than to Tun the risk which would bave been lucurred Ly plactog it withiu the power of the Byudicate st thst thing to bave canceled its oblizutions of it §50,000,000 fu silver dollars or silver certil- cates, suInp! us the circular of Sopt, 13, 137, whick uswned certalo National banke sud depositories sa disbursing-ageats of the stand- urd silver doliur, with u limitation that the cotn stould be pul fu dreulation through public dis- bursiug-o y manufacturivg sud other estab- lahmeuts, aud eliewuers whero 13 was to b used as curreut money. ‘The object of this clr- vular was to prevent stiver dotlurs from reach- tuiz Wall street, ang kecp the Syndleate or jm- porters from absorblu them, o thy cmbarrass- went of the Treasury. Uuder this cireular s comparatively fuslyuliicant number of silver dollars were put In circulation, BToe next ateo was the clreular of Dec. 14 de- clariug sthat aiter Jou, 1 no distiuction would te made Io Treasury accounts between coin and :wuejr ::d that coupons and ‘Freasury chiecks o PAID IX COIN ur collected n New York, This circutar was jutended to publlely announce the fact that re- suuiption would take elfect, al¥0 Lo throw un saditional Lardfer wboul the Treasury cotd Ly requiring fntereatchecks aud coupousto be vald through New York, fu'ordor that the gold dusources wight vot be weakeued by betng dis- tributed at semote poiota, The next aud last step wus the circular of Dee. 21, authorizivg customs oilicluls 1o recelve Uuited States notes and sllver doljurs s well ss guld colu for baports, sud 1o defosis the same Witl tbe Treasurer or Sub-Treasurer, to be re- deemed from tiwe to thoo facvin un Govern- sucut account, us the conveulence of the service wny demand. Noothersteps will be takeu, The Eccretary of the Treasurs reats the success of resumption upon the preparation which he has made and upun these arders, THE TFFECT AT PIILADELPUIA. Speeial Dispateh to The Tnoune. PrOILADRLPIMOA, Pa., Dec, SL—The business of to-morrow will open under the auspices of resumption of specie-nsyment, and the genernl expression in financial circles s that It will creste mo disturbance fn the ordinary rous tine of business. Tho experience of the past ten days, durinz which time gold has been rated- at par, has given the banks the tenefit of an experiment, although the transace tlans In goll, grecnbacks, and sfiver wero kept until the close of business to-dav in reparate ac- counts. Inquiry atthe diferent banks in the city shows that tbey are all in a condi- tlon to assume their part in the new order of things, while at the SBub-Treasury the preparations begun long ago are practically completed. The banks, on and after to-mor- row. will cease to reccive pold as a special de- nosit,—in fact, several of them, sinco the ace tion of the Clearing-Housc Commitiecddclarior that atver and gold ahould be upon equal baels, have received aud pald out gold and greenbar Indiscriminately. One pank has received over 0,000 n gold coin on deposit. TIIE ASBISTANT UNITED STATRS TREASUNRR in this city says that the SBub-Treasury is somewhat restricted as compared with the ‘Treasury in Now ‘ork, in that the Jaw provides only for resumption fn New York City in sums of 850 and upwards, the ubjcct being to concentrate the matter at one point untll things ~get to runniy sncothly, Atterwarls, tne Becretary woul deslznate other places If It _was found necessars, Meanwhile, the Sub-Treasury hero woilld pay the interest on the registered bonds, where gold was demanded, ingold checks tpon New York, this plsn baving been adopted 1o guard against hitches or miscalculations that may have Ueen made. To-morrow the Cashier of the Custom-[fouss will recelve greenbacks In payment of duties, nud for that reason {t {s thought that, there being no actual necessity touso gold, the demand for it fv this city, and’ fn «ll parts of the East, will 50 small. A NEW BILVER VAULT 18 In course of constructton in the Sub-Treasury, caleutated to hold $8,000,000. It is divided fnto compartments of certaln capacity {n order that the labur of connting may be facilitated. Thero arc about $1,000,000 §n nickeis fn the vaults now, the sliver 10-cent plece having taken its place in cireulatfon. THE IION, FRANKK DRWEES, Chalrman of the National Committee of the (ircenback Labor organization, s In this city. Belng asked, **With resumption sccomplished, what wiil tho Greenbackers doi” he replied: “Well, there 1s pleaty of room for us, and there will be n great deal more when resumnp- tlon begins. The Ureenbackers are going rizht ahead, because resumption ean't be main-, talned.” ‘“But it It should bal" “0h! then we wonld make an fssnoon the policy of resumption. It Iln’l‘fuod polley, auy way. lesides, wo save our old fight with the National banks, which resumption can’t affect, But yon wait a littlo while. Gold won't come ju so fast under resumption, and it s likely to go out much more rapidly. A good deal s out to pay the interest’ on our dcbt held abroad, and the balance of trade Is not certaln to continue in our favor, There is & big future for the tircon- back party, and you inay say that it fan't easy to surrender to cither of the old partica yot." THE TREASURY. MORM BONDS CALLED IN. Wastnixoroy, D, C.y Dec, 81.—The Becretary of the Treasury to-day Isaucd the soventy-sixth call for the redemption of the 5-20 bouds of 1865, consols of 1807, The call ts for ten miil- fons—six millions of conpon and four milliuns of 1egistered bonds,—~tho principnl and ioterest to be pald on and after April 1, 1870, Description of the bouds: Coupon bonds, doted July 1, 1807, namely: 850, from No, 1 to Nu. 5,000, Loth inclusivo; $100, from No. 1 to Nou 5,000, hoth inclusive; $500, from No. 1 to No. 6,000, botl [nclusive; $1,000, from No. 1 to No. 6,000, botn foclusive. Total coupon, $0,- 000,000, Reulstered bonds: 850, from No, 1 to No. 162, both Inclusive; $100, from No. 1 to No. 1,600, both Inclusive; $500, from No. 1 to No. 1,050, both inclusive; 81,000, from No. 1 to No. 8,700, Loth incluslve; 85,000, from No. 1to No. 1,150, both inclusive; $10,000, from No. 1 to No. 1,000, both Inclusiv Total registered, $4,000,000; aggregate, $10,000,000, CURRENCY .OUTSTAKDING. Following s the United States currency ont- standiug at this date: 0ld demand note: W s.cgal-tender notev, ali (ssnca Ugeeyear uotes, 181 Two-year notes, 1861, ‘T'wo-year coupon notes, 1803, Compound interest note Vractional currency, a1 jseues, Total... 208,700 16,108, 158 $30, 208, 684 NEDEMPTION AGENCY. ‘Tho followlug Is the statement of the opera- tlous of the Natloual Bank Redemptlon Aizency for tho month and six mouthe_ending thia day, us compared with correspouding periods Inst year: Natlonal bank notes Morthe Persie 2 disporrd af, monih, moniks, Notes nt Tor cireuation sorfed and returned to by l b Taaue.., $ 5,815,600 $22, 454,000 Noleaunti T0v Cvaiation ag- oriod wnd deiivered 1o untrolier of Currency for A e ptce ACTE 00 10,211,700 Nutea of fatied, Nguidatig, G and reducing banks deposite ed In Yreasury... ree 314, 100 9,413,430 Tatal for 1A78. $ LR7,T0 g, Total for 1877. AT AR 70 Decrease. .. $ K008, 400 §21,014, 350 COINAGH, Puinaprryites, Pa., Dee, 81.—The total cotn- are at the United Stales mint in 1878 was 22,- 54,439 pieces; double eagles, 543,015; cagles, T8,800; haolf-cagles, 191,740% three dollars, B3,- U243 quarter-cagles, 286,200 dollars (fiold). 8,202 “ditto (sflver), 10.509,550; trade dollars, 0003 "half-dolinrs, ~1,578,400; quarter-lollars, 2,210,800 20-cent pleces, 6003 dimes, 1.678,500% Seent pleces, 3,U50; 8-cent pleces, 2,890} cents, 5,T0,00, JUDICIAL. TROFOSED LXGISLATION, fpectal Disvalch (0 The Tridune, Wasnixarox, D. C., Dec. 81,—Tho 8enate Ju- Qictary Committee hus been In sesslon duriuge the recess, ond has hud seversl lmportant bills under consideration. Oune of tlcse, which was futioguced foto the Scuate by Judge Davls, pro vides for tho establishment of a Court of Ap- peals In cach Judiclal Clreule of the United Huates, which sball have appellate juslsdiction. ‘The declslons of this Court of Appeals upon questions of fact shall be final, but areview upon yuestions of Jaw way be had by the Buprewe Caurt where the matier 1o controversy excoeds the valuc of $10,000 exciualvoe of futercst and costs, or whers adjudicatlon Involves questions upon the coustruction of elther the Constitution- ora treatyor o law of the United Btates, or whers u court shall certify that adjudication Juvolves a legal question of sufllcient ymportance to re- quire that the flual decision thereofl should be wado by the Supreme Court. TUEB OIJECT OF TUIY BILL 1s to thus finally dlsposo of at leust one-hail of the cases whick now cumber the dockets of the United States Bupremeo Court, aud to relieve that Court ol & great amouut of work which uvow retards fta action. It appears, how- e¢ver, to bs the opinlon of many lead- fng lawyers that this cumbersoms addl tion to the muchinery of Federal justico would uot by of ueh servics fa expeditiog business Lefore the Supreme Court, They gen- erally favoran increase In the numbor of Jus- tices of the Bupreme Court to iftecn, and the divislon of cases before the Court juto three viasses, cach one 'to ba hesrd belore five Justices, Admlirslty cases would con- stitute one class, equity cases a sccond class, and cases involving commnon law and constitu- tloua! questions a tbird class. Whepever lo the oplnion of the Judges before whom s case was brougnt it werited u hearlug Lefore the full Bench, 1T SHOULD BX 30 BBALD. ‘This focreass of the number of Judges of the Bupreme Court aud division of cases referred to that Coust into three classes finds more favor awoug uenbers of the Bar than Judge Davis’ L creating Courts of Appeal. 148 A LOUDLE MEANING, ‘The Benate Judiciory Cowmittes 1 aléo con- siderlue Conger's utacndiocut to the Constitu- S10u, which passed the Houss last year by o vote Of 145 ayed to 6} voes, 34 not voting., “Repub- licans and a fow Northern Dewocrats voted uye, but nost of the Democrats voted noe. The ln- tention of the framer of this sweudment, and of those who voted for ft, is Lo wake It & barriur ugulnst Southerun was-claius, A wory careful cuumipation shows that uuder Its provisions clalins swountiug W wavy wililous of dolisrs Committee, cons of New York, and Qen. J, D. Cox, of Oblo, met to-day and examined sevoral witncsses, among them the Secretary of State of Lonfsiana and Judge Billings, Unlted States District Judge. Considerablo merriment was luduiged In when the honorable Chairman gave a full aceount of of the Agnes Jenks letter, or rather tho discov- crywo! the supposed-to-be-oririnal Bherman let- ter. Quite n number of witnesses have been summoned, and the Committes will probably be here a week or more. loge, testified to affixing hi tirat sot of Republican Electoral certificates: signed it Dec. 8. Dow't recollect signing any second set during Christmas week. also testified that he furnished to Gov. Kellogz during August, 1876, blank comimissions for the Bupervisors of Registration and ¢lerks, to be uscd by George L. 8mith, the prescnt. Coftector of this port, while suuning for Cangress i the Fourth Diatrict, liad not spirited away the negro y }mn‘ charged by somo of the Northern papers. n_ fac monthll.' In Washington. in a earpet-house here, teatificd to havin In their store on Sept. 19 o bundlc ol nients left thero by. and addressed to, Mrs. Agnes Jeuks, Thess documenta wers produced one purporting to be theslleged original * Sher- ment to the preas to the effect that these docn- ments tiad been dropped by Mrs. Jenks for the nurposc of lm{mslnz u‘mn the Committee. declared that the so-cal letter waa a forgery. day morning. can he prasented for therelief of colleges, churches, lodges, absentees, and minors, Senate will doubtless mak The meamendment. POTTER’S COMMITTEE, Sorelat Dispalch to The Tridune, New Onreans, La, Dec. 81.—The Totter sting of Clarkeon N. Potter, To the WWnatern Astociated Pise. RE, JRNKS' LAST JOKE. Nrw Onumans, Dec. #1.—The Potter Sub- Committee met this morning. Present,the Hon, Ctarkson N. Potter, Chalrmap, and ex-Uov. Cox. Oscar Arrayo, Sccretary of Btate, produced the records of his oflice relating to the election of 187, ', (3. Destinde, Sccrotary of State voder Hel- ignature to the Witness Judge Billings, of the United States District Court, testificd to a request having been made on him to return tho flrst sct of Republican cer- titicates, as it was allcged they were informal. Judge Billings dectined to grant tho request, t?d subgequently a sccond set was handed in to . Poter Joseph, Republican Elector, testifled to the facts sirendy known about signing the tirst and second sots of Republican certificates. J. D. Kenuedy was examined, and declared he Kelly, as had Kelly was now, and had been for Messrs, Raymond, Lioyd, and Malonoy, clerks found doru- before the Committee. ‘The most important was nan letter.” Chalrman Potter made a atate- e led copy of the Sherman Ty, ‘The Committee then adjourned to Wednes- INDIAN TERRITORY. PROPOSED LEGISLATION. fpectal Dispaich to The Tribuns. WasninoroN, D. C. Dec. 8L.—It {s pretty well understood that the Bub-Committee which visitea the Indian Territory to consider the sd- visal\lity of openlog that Territory to scttle- ment and to raflrosds will decide when the re- port is made in Feoruary to favor the opening of the Indian Territory to settlement, and to make it & Territory of the United States. Eomo of the opnouents of this scheme clalm that the Committeo dld not act fairly, and declined to take ' any testimony except that which was {n favor ot the railroad companles. No testimony was taken except; at the raliroad statlons, and ng official visit was vald by the Bub-Uommittee to any place oft the raliroad. ‘The fnvitation to tho Sub-Committee to visit ‘Tablequelt, whero tho Natloual Council was In sesslun, was declined on the ground of the fll- health of Benator Patterson, who neverthcless gaincd twenty-five pounds by the trip, PROPOSED LRGISLATION. To the Weatern Assoclated Press, Wasmixeron, D. O, Dec. 8l.—S8enators Pat- torson, Garland, and Grover, who in bebalf.of the Senato Comimitteo on Territories have con- ducted an inquiry futo the condition of affairs in the Tudian ‘Territory, will Lo ready next week to report to the full” Commiitee. ~ They have agreed to recommend the enactmout of fegisla. tion by Conuress which shall provide, first, for the csiablishment of & Unlted States Court in the Indlsn Territory, to possess both criminal and avil lurlsdiction; second, that all 1ndians com- vrising the* Five Natlons™ shall bamada citizens of the United States amenable to Federal laws and competent to serve on jurles in United Btates Courts, ctc.: third, that the lands now lield in common shall be divided and held In severalty, but fnallenable for a limited term of oars. 2 ‘The Bub-Committes do not at present rocom- mend the establishment by Congress of a requ- lar Territorfal Government for these Indlaus, but to provide merely that they shall be cntitled {o representation by a Delegate, The Sub-Com- wnlttee will probably advise the jusertion in the proposed bill of.a proviso that the cou- ditfoual land-grants which the various raliroad compaunles desiring scttlement In this Territory have announced themselves willing to re- linquish _themselves shall be formally re- linquished, ‘The recommendations of tho Sub-Committee will Embnhly be indorsed by the majority of the full Commlitee, buttho cntire project of leglsla- tlon Is strenuously opposed by tlie suthorized legul representative of the five Indian npations. “TOM” OSBORNE ABROAD. TUR EVANSTON DIFLOMAT ON MATTENS AND THINGS IN THE AROENTINE REFUBLIC. From Our Own Correspondent, Wasminaron, D, L., Dee. 27.—Chlcago peo- ple probably have not forgotten that Thomas 0. Osborne, uf Evanston and Chicago, familiarly known o8 Tow Osborne, Is our Minlster to the Argentine Republie. It fs to be hoped, how- cyer, that Chicago readers have better informna- tlon ns to what and whero the Argentine Repub- lic Is than & United States Henator bad who re- cently wrote nletter to Mr. Garcia, the Minlster of the Argentiue Republic here, fn which he poke of the U'resldent of the Confederation ss “the crowned head whom you represent.’”” It happens that the President of the Argentiue Republic fs mot & crowned ruler repre- sented by auybodys that the plucky little Argentine Coufederation, diminu- tive and unfortuvate as it s beun, lias beon too proud avd plucky to permit the Emperor of Brazil, or oy uvjber *crowned head," to have dominfon over it. 1f Untted Htates Benators do put koow these facts, they ought not 1o be fudiscrect enough to etbalun thelr fgnorance fn autorraph Ictters to the Min- fstera “of our ilepublics. Tho tie that bijuds us to these Bouth-American Republics will not be greatly strengthened by muanitesta- tiuns of lunoranes of that sort. Chicago, which is first I everything, ia first tn the diplomatic correspondence ot this year, and the communications of Gen. Thomus 0, Usborne from the Argentine Hepublic stand tirst, not on_account of yiclr tinportance, but becauso the rst lutter of our alplisbes 13 A, A QUESTION OF ¥TYLE, ‘The confused idea which tho average Amer- fean eitlzen may huve of the political condition of the Argenting Republie will searcely be ren- dered loss confused by the tollowing scotences fruin Uen, Osborne's first comimunication on th.s weighty questiun. ‘Ihe followlng sentences, whatever elge they moy do, do notserve to shuw that Towo Osborne, durlug lls abscnce, has -m;lled the most approved English models of style: ‘The people of the provinee become dissatiafied with the Governor legally slected, and then unuer- tako 1o dupove him without form of law, and make wvauo ono—for the time favorite—thoir chief. ‘Ibia procedury, of sttewmpted procedure, has uiven fisc 1o all the Iate_uutbresks and troubls Proviuce of Santa Fe, which asiee 10 the busineas snd prosperity of ¢! taco. The betior class and the busine o the country now begin to beliove~taken fucop- nection with the late order of the President to thy ravuiutionsry Uovernor of San Juan, thet recently lie scut the chief of his Uabiuct to banta Fe to foru the peopie of the province thal ho much they dislika thelr Governor, aud however wany b faulte, be would remainin hia position uutii be was properly selioved uuder the law wnd Constitutfvn—thal thie pruvincial troudl revolutions are abuut to by brought to WAKLIKE PEACE. But It appears froms the subsequent corre- spundeuce with Mr, Osborua thiat one uf the pe- rlodical revolutious which it keeps him busy writiug about has ended, and that this Republic bias fur a mowment stopped to take breath. Sti), a few dsys later, they were at it gizain, for Os- borue sayst Bul s few m&nu 2go, In the Caplialof the Proy. ince of Hanta Fe. 8 revolution was sttempted b an sttack on the ity by au arwed furce, aboat v'clock st uigal; tha stiack was repulsed, ss tho Governor, Itiundo, had suficient nutice 10 recelve it, but wit 8 duss OF somo tbirty lives; and the Governos auly sared himself by Laking “refuge on Lo top of & church., TUN ARGENTINS REPUBLIC~FACTS, Tbis swlglity Republic, according to the lufor- terror of the inhabitanta. ever, and_are reduclng tholr annual exoent tures, and Iast year pald off $4,000, debt. ahout 80, Southern Eurof showing "{n tho diplomatic correspondence thia yearthan he did Inst year. Tho correspoudenca of last yesr showed that Mr. Qsborne devoted much of his correspondence to photographing his own appearance at this Bpanlsh-American Court, and to describing the Fourth-of-July fes- tivities of tha American Colony. e Jooked In Wasnington. here Is tho Vice-Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, and, fn all questions of ctiquette and dence, ranks accond an]rr to &ir Edward Thorn- :m;‘ Dritish Mintster, The n aceredited _to that Court, he having Leon sta- o b ill Chicago, who carried It on during his absence, i % mation which Mr. Oshorne communfeates, con- sists of rome 2,000,000 souls, who receive, ne- corling to their post-oftice statistics, an nverago of two lctteis aplecoa year, There arg in it 4.530 miles of telegraph-lines, more than half of which hotoags to the (lovernment; and there i3 a mile of telegraph In the Argentine Republic for_every 020 inhabitants, which, {t s clnimed, makes this little Republic the foremost country in point of telegraph. GEN. ROUM, This Republie hoasts a somewhnt Iarzer army than one of the European Republics, which has twelva general officers and oug man {n its army. ‘The armyv-list of tho Arzentine Republic sbows twelve Generals, forty-two Colonels, 700 minor officers, and some 2,000 Nattonal Guards, exclu- sive of 824 Inainn auxiliaries. Yet thére ara thirty-one war-vesscls, tvo fron-clads with two A0U-pound guns,—all sald to be first-class, which 13 something more, pernaps, than can be aaid of any one vessel In our own navy, ESTERITISE, The little Republic at the whip-end of South Ameriea proposes to break down the barrier of the Andes, and, by opening a rallroad called the Teans-Andine tallrond hoxu to connect the ne Republlc with Chill. A *conces- " g their charters arc all called, has beon f\vcn to aman named Clark, who hopes, Mr. ) sborne says, after hig abtains the money tn the London market, that *‘but & short time will ell“--u before the ‘pack inule’ in the Andes w give way ta the stenm-cagine, and direct and raphd communlcation will be fhad between the Pacific coast and the River la late,” THR ARGENTINE DEDT. Tom Osborne's poths are not all paths of leasantness. ‘The country Is hot, and the yel- low fever nearly always close at hand, to'the The total natfonal debt of this petty Republic amounta to 801,377,027, mora than half of which Is tield in Europe.. The people are thrifty, how- ,000 of ¢l They have an anpbual {mmigration of mostly from the countrles of Altogether, {leém Osborna makes a belter DIPLOMATIC PIECRDENCE. The_ Argentine Republic s not to be over- The Minister-Kesldent rece- e Argentine Minister 'arfs {s the Dean, ranking all other Ministers tioned In Parls for a quarter of o century. He is a man of great wealth, E, B, W, BAUMER. DIPLOMATIC CORRESTONDENCE. From Our Own Correspondent. Wasmixaroy, D, C., Dec. 20.—The following’ i3 the full text of the correspondence In the Baumer case: 0. AEWAND T0 NN, EYERETT. DaranTRENT OP BTATE, WaAnNaTox, April a0, 1878, —Bin: A complaint has recently besn sub- mitled to this Departmont on hehalf of Mr. Jullua Baamer, 8 citizen of the Unitud States, who has been put to many conafderable inconventences,and incarred also some pecuniary loss m e quence of certain arbitrary proceedings inst.tated against him by the local sufhorities of the Prurince of \Westphalin, The circamstances of the case as ropresented to the Department are these: Alr. Banmor, who was a uative subjoct of the King of Prussis, aud a realdent of Monater, la tho Pravince ot Westphalla, in February, 1808, le belng then 20 years old, obtained from the superlor autboritics of that Province a formal permission in writing, and duly authenticated, to emigrate from his nativo country, Tue docnment in question (a cupy of which, as 1t has been furnlshed fo the Daopartmont, [ herowith inctose), in additlon to tho permission to omigrate, forinally sbsolves him from nls native 0 and declares him to no_longer a Pri aubject, lLimmadiately thereafter, Mz, Naumer camo Lo the Unitad Blates, and tovk up il Parmlnnnl reafdence ot Chicago, in the tato of 1llinols. After undergoing the ordi- nary probation,and in all other reapects complylng with tho laws af the United States on the sabject of naturaization, he was, on toe Oth of November, 1874, dlll! admitted to citizenship by the Circuit Court of Cook Caunty, Hiiuals, and from that tima has been and stil] remalns o citizen of this Rovub. fe, In Septomber of last yecar (1877) Mr, Baumer, desiring o visit his parents, rotarned to West. bh.lll. intending to remain some six mont! pon biearrival in Mnostor, his native town, summoned before the Pollce 10 an examination In reui Wi o8 what he lone siuce his arrlval in Munster, an what ho intended to 4o, Notwitidandiog his ane awers to all these and other quostions, which were entirely frank, snd showlng clearly, aw they dia, the vurpose of hia visit to Munster, and his (nten: wu for tho potformance of military duty ur submit to banislment from. the brovince, which would certaiuly be visited on hiwn in the event of bin fail- ura to 0 report. From this arder of tho Police Magistrate Baumer sought selict Ly applymg lo tha superior authurities of the Provincial Gavorn- ment; but t| uthorities, on the 1:th of Octo- ber, , issued an order placing him under the alternative of reporting for milltary duty orleav- Ing the Gorman Empire fa cluht days, 1 then appliod to_tho Minietry of the Intorlor; but the Minister also approved the order, extending the time he might remain iu Munater, howover, to Februnry, 1878, lle was informed of this de. ctalon by the Inspector of Pulice, and ywas, at the wame time, given to understand by that tunction- ary that, If he remalned one day over histime, he waould be escortad under guard across the frontler, and, if he returned, would imprisoned, Baumer was thue abliged to leave the wnnlr{ the only escapo from jwprisonment or il service,” At his own request lie was furolshe with & written dacument, dated Jan, 22, 1878, 10 iho edect that he was, by order of {he Royal Governmont, banitshed from tho country. - suming the facle to be corractly atated, the Depart- inent has reachod the conclnaion that tho proceed- ingw thus directed againat Bauwer were nnwarrant. and fllcgal snd clearly in contravention of the pulations of he first atticle of the treaty of May, 1808, between the United States sud the North German Union, and were, moruover, in want ah larmony with tliods priaciples of comity which lisve nlwaya been extended by the United Stutes and Uermany to citizens of ¢ither country tempo- rarily zealdingg in tho other, Mr, laumer's cane {s exceptional in this regard, that bofore lesving bie rative rflun"’h was formally released from his allezinnco to Frossin, and declared to be no longer 1ts subject, Ue thencolorward owed to ove cinment none of tho duties arlalng trom citizenship, and ho wae, at the time of thicae ac- curronc cltizen of the Lulted Htales, and, ns such, entlticd 1o ciutw tho protection of this Gove ernment. v You will take a rmner occasion to bring the subject 10 the attentlon of the lmperial Minister for Furelgn Aflairs and ruquest that proper inquiry 1ay bo Instituted, tha facts be fuuud to b as roprescuted, that messurcs may oe taken to pro. vent a recurrence of Hke annoysnces to citizens of the Uuited States similarly situated, and you will add that it Ju cxpected that Mr, wer wlll bo re- {mhursed for any cxoundrs ke may have been sub- Jected to In consequence of these arblirary pro- cvedinge of the Westphalian suthorities, [am, [N ¥, W, Buwaup, Acting Becretary, N, TAYLON TO Mil. KVARTS. LEUATION 0P Tik UNITED BTaTEs, BEnLIY, May 20, 1878, —8iu: 1 have the hooor tu ackuowledge the recelpt of your dispatch refative to the cavo of Julius Baumer, of Clicago, who was ox- velled from Prussia in February last, by order of the ltoyal Quvernmcat, Juavuuch us tho divpatch contatue nothing whicn 1 win uot lustructed o briug to the nutice of the Minieicr of Furcly - 'Ih’l\ 1 _have forwarded to bim « copy thereof, as the simolest aud most etticaclous methud of socur. ing a promivt fuvestigation of tho case, If, how- ovi uch investigation snould Lo delayed bovond a reasonable thine, | persanally recail the matter to Mr. von Hulow's attention., Assuming Mr, Bau slalements to be correct [n every particular, it le to Lo regreited that ho did uot tmmedlately claim the asslstance of this Lesa- tion, In slmilar cases 1 prescutation of the fscta 10 the Minlatry of Foroign Adairs has been abnost invariably followed by o siay or nrocevdings and a declslun lu sccordance with the terms of the treaty of Febeaary, 18us. The chiet dificultive au, herctofore, frum (he fngxe perience or arbit tempor of the locs) authori- tiva, who aro unly eradually learning what rights Lavo boon onferrad upon former Usrmau vubjicts taruugh tholr naturalization use citizens of the United Statos. It shall be wy duty (o cusrd those rights carefully; and. Jadging froin the recorda of 1hie Legation for the bast year, I do ot abticipate any lack of s demru 1o fulsll, in good falth, the provisiuns of the trealy on the part of the Minlsiry of Forelgu Afluird. 1 bave, eic., Bavaup Tavion MR, TAYLOR TO MR. KVARTS. LxaaTioN or sux Uxitkn Stativ, Bauuik, Moy 27, 1578.—5ms ] havethe honor to report to you that 1have recelved s nole frow Mr. Ven bBulow, Miulster of Forelzn Affairs, informing me that the necessary lyvestiativos in the case of Nr. Jullus Baumer, of Chleago, have already bevu com- mencod by the Guvernment. This prowptoses of action way bo faken asindicative of & desire 13 provent the fecurrence of similar casen. | bave, etc., Bavaun Taviou. ME. TAYLOR TO MR. XVARTS. Tux Uniten Staris, Beaux, July \ 1878, —Siu: 1 havo the bonor Lo transwit herowlth tho report uf the Minlatry of Foreign Aflaira fu the case of Juilus Bagaier. [ have.ete., Davamp Tavrow. MR VON PHILIPSUOLN TO M. TAYLOK, Fouriox Orrice, Byutin, July 18, 1578, —The undersiued has tho honor, refecelng tu bl coni- muulcation of the 25th of May last, 1o Inform tha Euvoy Extraordinary :nAd BMinister ‘l:nlbulen}‘!ury of the Luitud 81 o ica, Mr, llll{lll‘d - gatlon lustituted In the wattes ulivs Laumer from Germany st Munster has uow been cou- ciuded, Tuis fuvestization has resulted fn showing tost thy facte of Lhe cdss are substauiially iu accord with the ststements coutaiucd fu tbe dispateh of Departmeut of the Stato st Washlugion, et Abstl 30 last, a_copy of which waa Inclosed in the es. teemed note of Dayard Taylor, of tha 18th of Mny following, and on ihis basfa the following exposi- tion of the care is prerented: Hiaamer, who, by descent, waa of Prusalan na- tlonality, sought and obtained his discharge from this natlonality in the year 1808, at the age of 21 aving acquired Nortn Americsn citl hip, re- in Sejn!mber. 1877, to Manster for the prposs of sofontning there'with his parents. After ho had remnined thora for several monthe, the ltoyal Government at Munater, acting on tha asgumption that it was not Baumer's intention to retarn to North America, bt simply o evade the petformance of German miltiary duty, ceusad him be notified, under dato of Dec, 12, 1877, that ho German Em- shoald re. piro within eight days, or, In . main in Germany, perform his military duty. This notification cansed Hanmer to address to the Noyal Miniater of the Interior, on the 20th of the same monh, & request that ha might be permitted to mako & longer stay at Munater, as, owing to want of means, he shonld not be able to enter npon his return journey to America unt!l February of the followlng year. This request, which contained no complaint whatever as to the decree of expulsion itself, was responaed 1o by the Roys! Minister of the Interior at once, and In'such manner that primarily the ex- pulsion was suspended for the time being, and per- mission accorded Hanmer to reside at Munater nn- til the middie of February next. Baumer, informed of thls by the pollce anthorl ties of Manater, declarcd, howerce, that he dhl ot purpose availing himself of the respite yranted him, butshoold start on his retarn journey to Amarica on the 3lat of January. In Accardance with this declaration he did leave Munster for America on the last-mentioned day without the uso of measurcs of force, or even the existence of & necessity for the nse of such., Baumer did not, it 1 thus aeen, make the mens- nre of expulslon adopted againat him tha occuslon of any complaint whatever, either to the Royal K}r President of the Province of Weatphalia, eventnally competent In the first Instance for snch a complaint, o to the Roysl Minister of the Inte- rior: and tha only request of any nature made by Baumer lu the course of the whole ailair at once met with full consideration, An_regards tho admissibliity of this measurs of expuision iteelf, the Royal Government at Munster adapted It in the cxercive of Its conatitutional com- etence. Pk very vorerelgn tate fa entitled. under fnterna. tlonal-law pr!nulrl from actuating motives of internal Btate poilce or Stats poilcy, to refuse to forelgners tha privilege of sojourn, A renuncla« tion uf thia right is, a8 nas been pointed out by this Uovernmont on former occasions, nawhera con- tained in the treaty of Feb. 27 1808, This riglit may, therofore, be exercised withont dotrl- ment to thst treaty, as well by North America against every German, and by this Uovernment Bgainat o North American citfzan, in the same manner azainat Ruunnl of all other forelgn na- t{onalitles, in case there exiat for its exorclse par: tlenlar motives of the charactee sbove Indicated., To judge of the auficiency of thess motives 1 concrete case apporiaina to the constitutionslly appointad organs for auch purposs of the particn- 1ar State engaged in the exercise of this, its sover- efgn Stato right. This State organ is in Prussia, in the first instance, the particalar Itoyal Govel ment, wr a4 may be, the Landdrosfel, and w therefore, I the present caso the Roysl meat at Munster, The decision of this lstter trihnas] was es) Govern. years past, 8 not inco ge ons liable to nilltary duty who had been dlscharged from Ger- ‘man, and had acquired a forelgn, and particnlarly also s North Amorican, nationslily, had retnrn- ed to reside permanently. In viow of the fact that this falee siato of things which had become a gencral annoyance and s danger to public order required thore m moro severa application of the right of expulsion, naw particular reaso al the sald Government for & non-indulgont course toward DNaumer, ind coosequently decreed hie expulsion. it fegratted that Tianmer did not complaln of this expnlsion either to the appropriate iaternal aathorities, or to the Imperial Guvernment through the mediation of the Envoy of tho United States. ~ The undersigned does not henitate to declare that on the hasis of such 8 complaint, the decree in question of the Royal Gov- ere.nient at Munster, aithough Its legality is boyond qucstion, would have been canceled in view of the circumatance that In the decision of the case by the higher authorities the existing considerations of a lucal nuture would have been subordinated to the general paints of view involved. And In viow of thia clrenmetanco the Ttayal Minister of the In- terlor gladiy lolds himselt in roadiness to airect that Baumer, 1n caso he sbounld return to Prussla, be Ynnplmd 10 sojourn for the perlod of two years on Prussian territory, in 20 far as other and dlffor- cnt valid reasons for {be prouloition of sach so- Journ than those Indicated by the Royal Gavern- ‘ment at Manater, are not made to appear. Moreover, tho undcraignad will iake care that 1 future in ke treatmont of slmilar caxea the genoral polnts of vlew established by the Tmperial Government shall also raceive fall coneld- cration at tho handa of the lucal authorities. On the other hand, tho undersigned cannot recog- nize an oblization to u]lvllcu the dnmages incnered as alloged by Unumer throogh the action of the itoyal Govesnment &t Munster, for thls reason, it for no other, that this tribunal, sa already shown, scted within its competence, not exceeding ity powers. A sufliclent foundation for such a clalm would aleo be wanting for the reanon that Banmor st asoarly a portod aa Novewber, 1877, bofore thera was any question of his exvnlelon, had de- clared {n a communication to the Royal Govern- mentat Munster that it was bis_intention, us he liad & business of bis own in Chicago, to visit his R:m:nlt nnill the spring only; and also for the reason that hie voluntarily made no use of tio poruission accorded him for & further sojourn until the middle ot Febroary following. “T'he undersigned afeo avails himaelf of this occa- slon to ranew to r, Boyard Taylor the sssurance of Lis most distingulshed consideration, T ¥, PuiLirsnony. 31z, Bavannd Tavron, Envoy Extraordinary and Minuster Plenipotentiary of the United States. NOTES AND NEWS. TUD VENBZUELA FUND. Special Diwwatch (o Tha Tribune. WasnixeroN, D, C, Dee, 81.—The Stato Departmont bas agreed to decide at an early day what method it will adopt in the distribu- tion of the 8100,000 undistributed Venezuola fand which it holas. This was pald underpro- test, and claimants arzue that it should bo pald to them pro rata. NO RITRA SESBION, Members of the Appropristion Committec ‘have setticd down to the conviction that it would be very poor policy for the Democrats to force au extra scasion of the Forty-sixth Con- gress. 'Lhey feel confldent that tho strugele over the Benato oflices, as well as those of the House, would prove a moat unsecmly affalr. They desire nlso to “delay ans lonz as_possible any opportunity for the Greenback men to In- troduce trouble by indopendent sction, They say also that most of the leaders of the party fecl confldent that it will be far better to walt until December before assuming the entire ro- spousibllity for tha leglsiative branch of tho Uovernment. SUGAR PRAUDS, Tho Treasury Departmeut has sent special agents to New York szain to prosccuts the sugar frauds to m couclusion. tnformation gathered by tho last movements has proved of great Importance and it is belleved it will lead 1o the full exposuro of all tnethods now prac- ticed In the fraudulent lmportations of thls artlele, TUR APPIOPRIATION BILLS, Membersof the Cummities on Avpropriations now believe that all their bills will be reported to the [tuuse by tha 7th of Junuary, instead of the 15th, and they expect ta have work enough ready npon the assembling of Congress to eu- gago the Jouse for all tho time it can spare for appropriation Lllls up to tho time of reporting ho lastone. The object of the Commitieo wiil bo to crowd all business aside which s not of vital fmportance, untll their purticular work Is 0 far advanced a8 to prevent the recurrenco of the confusion and errors which attended tho wur)it of enrolling bills at tho closc of the last acasion, TUR ABMY BILL. White a formal vote has not beon taken, ow- ing 1o the abseuce of severul members, It is the luteution of those siow hera to opuose the prop- osltlon of friends of the Ariny blil o attach it to ono of the appropriation biila, Mewbera of the Army Commlssion hava been trying to dure the Committes to accept the eutirw bill an amendment. This movewent Is regarded ag a virtual confessiou that this measure caunot vasa as an indépendent proposition. The Armny Appropriution bill s tn an advanced stagy, and will bo comploted upon the basks of the present organization and laws as they now et CRY OF PRAUD. Finley, of Ohlo, sgain suuounces great dis- caveries of extravaguace aud fraud fn the print- {ug offlce. 'Fho facls are that be has conducted hls fuguiry in » mauoer thas caunu. und {usome points excel, tho wethods of Glaver aud bis no- torluus experts. TILE FRESIDENTIAL PARTY. Ta the Western Associaled Press. WasuiNaToy, D. C., Dec. 81.—The Presl. deutlal party rctursed from Now York this afternoon. BUANDY TAX, A circular from the Interval Reveuuc oflice modifies the existing regulatlons concerning the payuent of tax upon brandy distilled from ap- ples, peaches, or grapes, excvlusively, so that bercalter Collectors will uot report to the Com- misaloucr of Interual Rovenue for assessment the amouot of such tax which becomes due and Pnylbln on the 10th of the wmonth, except du- uult Ia paymeut within foar moatbs from such 10th day of the mouth. ——————— > CAPT, EADS. 81. Louis, Mo, Dec, 81,—~Tue- United Blates Grand Jury, after 8 brief sesslon to-dsy, ad- jourued unlll Jau. 4. Tbls action is tuken ‘would inflate the carran partly on sccount of the bholldays and partly because Judgo Kreckel Is too sick to held court. It was stated thia afternoon, on what s sald to be perfectly rollable authority, that the Jury " have fgnored the bill pgainst Jamea B, Eads, falling to find any evidence agalnst him to justity an indtcte ment; also that the jury have not deeided to tn- dict any of the Dircctora of the old Bank of the Btate of Missourl. Tha rumors previously men. tloned in these dispatches seem to bave been without any foundation in fact. POLITICAL. WISCONSIN. Speelal Dispateh to The Tribune. MinwAuree, Dec. 81.—The Hon. Matt H. Carpenter has written a letter to Mr, Cramer, senlor proprietor of the Wisconsin, which is published In that paper this evening, concerning the charge that the lctter to H. M. Kutchin, of the Fond du Lac Commoneealth, was ante-lated, Mr., Carpenter begins tho letter as follows: My attention has been called to your paper cone taining a libel; upon_me, over 8 fictitioun name, andan editorialin which hear from me on this notleo of the Hbel, bat that you, who aro s gentle- man and my friend, call on me to respoml, o1t cxpress a desire (o pafnt, nld take no 1 anawer you, the charge that m[ fetter to Mr, Kutchin was anta-dated s niterly false: andany one who makes the charge [s eitberstrangely misied of intentionslly untrathful. ‘Then follows s posteript based upon an an- nouncement by the Visconsin that George W, Allen was the suthor of the communieation re- {frrcd to, fn which he cauterizes that guntleman hus: Mr, Atllen published a letter last enmmer, In which be rofused to e Henator; and then, ms though the hearts of the peuple were not sufl- clentiy wounded by that annonncement, procegded to tortnre them further by laying down his plat. form to show what an excellont Senator ho would make i he would but consent to accept the place. 1 did not feel called upon to fullow this examnple becanne 1 did not auppose thaflpeopl- cared abont tha views of any private individunl upon any pub- lic question; and sonsible men might hare made as much fun over my doing 80 ma Lhey did over his performance, Concerning his voles upon financial measures, while & member of the Senate, Mr. Carpenter says: I nover voted {n the six yoars T was inthe Senate In favor of say financial measuro which I belleved ¥; not, as [ bellevo, other- wisa than with Lhe mnjority of Hepublican Sena. torsa upon any fiancial mossure, rave in one in- stance. 1votcd mgainst ono bill which declared that it was the Intentton of Congress In lsaning Uovernment bonda to pay them in coin: and T ro voted, remnrks In the Senale at that timo otr—elaven days aiter [ took my seat in the —because I thought there was no question that, under the acts anthorizing tle ssuo of bonds, they were payablo in cotn: but that the bIN undor conslderation would do more harin thau good; hecause, If wo conld them, years after the bonds had been on the market, declare what had beon the Intontion of Congrees in fesaing Lhe bonds, the Domocrats, If tiey should ever get Into power, could repeal otir act and declars exactly tho reverse: twhillo tho acts under which the bonds were lsaued formed a port of the bouds and could not ho ehangod by eubsequent logialation, 1 agreed with the Republican Senators, that tha bonds must be paid in coln; bot, as a iawyor, diffcred from them as to the cifect of the then pending bill. . . . ‘The bill praviding fot ** resumptlon and a retarn to a redecinable paper currency,” or, in_ofher words, speclc-payments, was Iynufll In the Bonate Dee. 22, 1875 Whoever will turn to the Con- aressional Record, Vol, 3, part 1, pp. 188208, will flnd that 1 voled against every amendment offered to the biil, and voled for (he btk on its [na} parsage, s 1f sny one after thia charge, In tha very face of the trath and the rocord, can placa sny conddcnce in Mlr. Allen's charges, 1 commend him for his credulity, brt must question is discrimination, On tho Oth of August. only five days aftor my letter to Mr. Kutchin, I authorized tho publication in tho Chicago Zmes of an fnterviow of the Wash- ington _corrcspondent of that paper with me, In which 1 declared [ waa in full fellowship with the Ttapnblican party,~its doctrines and inensures, Vhen 1 said that | meant, as 1 supposed every ano would underatand, {hat I was lu favor of the prin- ciples anid meastures of tho Itepublican party, 1 aid not proceed to enumeratn those meanures, but evervbody woll kuow that the hard-money theory was then ona af (ho cardinal principles of the le- publitan party. Shortly afterwards, in reply to unrrlemll.{ critt- cism in Tig Claeago TaisuXe, 1 published a let- ter defying It to puint to a single act or word of ;n:n:dd'lnluyll 10 the Republican party since 1 olned it, Indocd, T have nover unaerstood that my Repnbe licanism was really doubted; but that the cliarge that I was not & Itepublican was doemed by other candidates csvontlal to thelr success, Ay frieads n Milwaukea did not griestion my political integ- rity, or they would not invo regueated me to be- come the lepublicau candidato for Congress. Mr. Carpenter devotes cansiderable space to a reference Lo bis speeches In Milwaukeo just be- fore the November election, and then returns to Mr, Allen, as follows: Again, Mr. Allen saye: ‘‘le only made two doclurations—oue, that when n bond was drawn payable in qlllll. it ahould be s:nylblu {n gold. Who dispnted thiar 'Sccond, that ho stood squarsly up- o publican piatform,—which platform or what platform he avolded saying, The laat plat- form mado by the Rlepublican party of thia Hiate was In tue Convention of 1877, and it was more safl than hard," etc., and toat no honest-mouvy Tpublican over stool upon it. ‘This charge s againat tho Republican party, not me, as I dif not draw that platform, por was I cuns suited about it. The form to which I referred ininy speeches was the platform adopted at the last Presidentlal Conventon. Jut it Is falee that ] only declared myself n Re- pobllcan standing on Ita pistform. 1 declared my- self in favor ot honest monoy; and my baller that upon nu other basia could the permanent prosperi- ty 2t any unation rost, In polut of fact, | did declnra over and again that that 1 was in favor of honest, redcomsbio moneys and, a» 1 have shown, I vuted for *‘the present imptlon law." 1 have shown that Mr. Allen is gullty of baviog publishod a libel upun 8 neigtbor, and attempting to uppart it by & Hflnndcd atatemont of facls equatly falee, 1 witl lcave him to auch repose as s lbeler can expect. Carpentor's friends have lssued the following elrcutary o Mitwaukex, Dec, 31, 1878,—70 fAe People of the Stale vf Wisconsln : We will suppurt tbe, & “I‘l. ° co-oporation fu our eforte o . H, Carpenter for United Slates Beoatar. Invite your Licarty secure s election: BLENATORA-LLECT. 1, W. Van Schaick, Fifth District, Edwin Hyde, Boventh District, ABSEMBLYMEN-ELECT, Christian Widule, Sscond District, E. I, Slmpson, Fourth Dietrict, €. B, Hoesscr, Hixth District, Anson Ileu, Seveuth District Henry Piacher, Elghth Dstries, Chenat, Suruow, Ninth District, Jd. €, flart, Tenth District, Wiiliam W. Johnson, Eleventh District, MASSACHURETTS, Soecial Dltpaleh to The Tribune. Bostoy, Mass., Dec. 3L, —Thera §s u hot con- test for ths 8peakership of the House of Repree sentatlves, which neets to-morrow, and an un- digoified fght over the Presidency of the Sen- ale. The opinlon of tho full Bench of the Su prewe Court, deliverca fo~lzy, upscts the theory formerly held that the Ilouso alone can originate mulw{ appropriations, sud 1s likely to fcud to several deadlocks. Notwithstaudivg the loud talk of retrenchment, tho sslarics of mem- bers will probably not be cut, and the sesston will lust uutll May, as usi - PENNSYLVANIA. Rpeclal DIspsich (0 The Tribune, Pirranung, Pa., Dee. 8l.—Uovercnor-clect Hoyt, who will be {nauguraten at Hurrisburg next weck, hias made sclection of the following Cabinot mdvisers: Secretary of State, Willlam 8, Quay{* Adjutant-General, Howard J, Reeder, of Easton: Attorney-tieneral, Charles Glbbons, of Philadelpbia. In the Gual ruvision of slate, Judzs Paluier, ot Wilkesbarre, may Le substituted for Gibbous. Long, of Plttsburg, will be elected Bpeaker of the louse. NEW YORK. Urica, N. Y, Dec. 8l.—~Scbastian Duffy, Qrecnback and Democratic candidate for Con- gress {n the Oswego, Madison, Dlstrict, an- nounces that he will contest the seat of Joseph Masou, alleging bribery. —i—— FINANCIAL, . 87, PauL, Miun,, Dee. 8L,—A serles of small faflures fu the clotbiug trado probably ends to aay with the assigument of Isidore Heinman, who coufesses judgaient upou notes of $3,000, This is the fourth retail clotkilug fallure berg since Nov. 1. No other fatervst has been fu- olved, b Speciat Disoateh 1o The Tribune, 87, Paur, Dec. 81.—ILvidare Helnwan, s cloth- log dealer of this city, closes his doors tu-day, the attachment belng levied ou sccount of bis wother for $3,000 during the day. ile bas ss- signed bis propurty to his sister, leavioy bis motherasa rmlumd credizor, fur the benelit of creditors. His Mabllitics, otber tnan to bis mother, uro _about 33,000, due to New York, Rochester, Chicago, wnd 88, Paul merchants. ‘Ll oods ou baud ars worth about $6,000. "This waskes four clothing-bouse fuslures Lero this month; but two Lave resumed business. < Epectal Dispateh to The Triduns. B MiLwauggg, Wis., Dec, 81.—Tue lurge cloth- fn Louse of Abrabatu i1, Markwell went fto 1he beuds of the Sherlfl to-day ou four execu- tions, calliune for $13, : Muclter Bros., lewelers, 93 Wiscovsln street, have made an assigoment. Liabilitles une kuown, Fpectal Dlwmateh to The Tribune. Rock 18LAND, (il Dee, $1.—The stock of the firm of Field Drothers, jobbers In notloms, cigars, tolacco, ele., was Laken poseession of to- day by the Shert(T. 'The liabllitles are eatimated at about $30,000, $19,000 of which Is to Rock Island parties, and_accured by mortgage, while t! ru{’ is in smail nmounts to various partles in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphfa. As- sets, stock, $50,000; real eatnte, cost price, £15,000; book accaunts, mostly zood, $24,600, ‘The flrm has been In business twenty years; and they attributed thelr fatluro to the shrinkage ju valites and hanl collections. CASUALTIES. BURIED ALIVE. Special Dispateh fo The Tridune, Mitwaugee, Dec, 81.~At 6 o'clock this evene fng an earth-cave occurred In the uew Washing- ton ayenue sewer-tunnel, partially burying four laborers engaged In drifting. By ding of persc- verance, they were rescued nlive. John Craliz, alias *'8cotty,” suffcred a sovere contusion bt the hips, John McManus was hurt about the shoulders. John Peters had a hip and an arm severely bruised, and Thomsa Campbell suifer- cdcutdupon his head, Cralz and MeManus were taken toUnasanant Hospital for trestment, Juhin Loltus, James Butler, and James Rocket escaped Injury, and Jabored at tho risk of thewr own lives to #ave their injured comrades. The tunnel, at the point where the cave oceurred, 1s fifty fect below the surface of the street. Threa cuble yards of earth fell. a sand seaun, GUN EXPLOSION. Special DispateA to The Tyidune. Crixton, 1L, Dec. 81.—Isnac Blue, of Ken- ney, 1ML, seven miles from Ciinton, Satorday, while at a shooting mateh, exploded his tun, ‘The tube entered the back part of his brother's head, making a terrible wound, from which he is not ltkely o recove MINE ACCIDENT. Fpeclal Dirnatch to Tha Tridune. LaSauLe, til, Dec. 81.—This morning James Young, of this city, employed at the Unjon conl hine in Peru, when at the second-veiu landing accldentally slipped into the shaft and foll tc tho botton, a distunce of 150 feet, ns;i was I stantly kitled. He was 14 years of oge. — TATAY, INFURIES. Speclal Dispaten to The Tyibune, Fonr Warxz, Ind,, Dec. 8t.—Fred Iletker recelved fatal tojurics to-day sithe Hoosler Manufacturing Works by talllng through an open batchway a distance’of twenty-iive feet, BOILER LXPLOSION. Dzrrorr, Mich, Dee. 81.—The bead of s boller in the meat-packing houseof C. Dettman, Jnckaon, blew out to-doy, John Lucks, en- Rincer, was severely scalded. Willlam Coulson ‘was also injared. LOUISIANA. The Yellow.Fever Sub.Committes Now Taking Teatimony—The Big Steamship Guy Mannering—The Cotton Valley Caso Appenled—Dofault on Intereat of Btats Tonds, Apectnl DispateA to The Tridune. Nzw Onrreans, La, Dec. 8L.—~The Yellow- Fever Bub-Committeo bad befors It to-day Drs. C. B. White and Joseph Hull. Both gentlemen gavo very Interesting evidence. Scnator Lomar's suggestion that the subject- matter be divided into two parts, as follows—first, tho scientifie features and phenomcna of the past epldemlc, and, scc- ond, the subject of quarantine legislation—Is 8 Rood one, because the medical and ecledtific experts can dovote thelr time to that compli- cated brancl, while the able gentlemen compos- ing the Congressional Committec can best judge of the feasibility of n Natlonal Quarantise law, The questions propounded by theso gentlemen to the medical experts convinco tho lstener that they aro tho right men la the right place. Tho British stenmship Guy Maunering, Capt. Archibald Campbell, one of the largest veasels that cveriarrived at this port, is.now. lylng at tho head of Eralo gtreot walting for a cargo for Liverpool. Theuy Mannering was bullt In Nowcastle-on-Tynoin 1878 by Andrew Leslle, s constructed principally of irom, bhas four masts, and cost £80,000, or §400,000 In gold. Ter length s 800 fect, by thirty-six fcot in breadth; registered ton. nage, 2,114 tons; gross tonnage, %850 tons; apove the teak dock is auother teak, bullt of fron. The chict cogineer, Ar. John Murdier, statcd that tho engines wero built In London by Mandsley Bons & Fieldy, and are of 240 horso power, The hawsers arc made of stecl instead of hemp, The appliances on deck for loading and unloadivg consist of four steun cranes and four steam siuches, which are supplied with steam frem ssparate bollers from thosa which supply the engines, The speed of the Guv Mananering is between nine snd ten ntles an hour, The passage from Leith, Eng., to New Orloans was mnde In tweoty-two days. ‘Thero are seveu ol cers and a numnber of petty ofilcers, Tho crew conalsts of twenty-elght mon, Accommodativns are provided for forty firat-class and elght see- oncsclass passengel In 1870 the Guy Manner- g loft Bombay for Livernool wih o carge of 14,000 bales of cotton, -Uapt. WV, 11, Kounso, of the lost _steamboat Cotton Valley, which was sunk ueur Donaldson- ville, on the morning_of Dee. 1, by colliding with tho steamboat Charles Morgun, hus ab- pealed from the deeision rendered by Capts. Jolmson and Moffitt, United Btates Local In- spectors. ‘The case will now coms up for trial ou the appeal before the United States Buper- yising Iuspector, Capt. Norton, ths law requir- oz that {n such Instances the caso be re-exum. ined and the dectefon of the United States Locul luspector contlrmed or reversed. To the Waern auociated Prov, Nxw OuLzaxs, Dec, 31,—Beforo the Yellow- Fover Commission to-day, Benator Eustls stated that tho Serount-at-Arms had reported thut Dl,‘.‘sm)'lllu declined to appear before the Come mlttee, Mr. Hooker moved that subpenas be lssucd for such witncases as the Commiiteo think proper to have, The. motlon waa carrled, and the Sergeant-at-Arms was jostructed to Lisue iuclr,m{:u& aubpa:uas to wituesses whose cyldence 3 desired, Lr, C. 1. White, formerly President of the Board of Mealth, testified: Persons may comy here from oo infected district and even die of tho fever without causing tho spread of the disease, and he belfoyes the yellow fuver can Lo fwported, Ho does not believe in the germ theorv, Quur- antine strictly enforced would dimiulsh fever epldemivs here, T fever of the past sumimer was aimilar to previous epldemics, excent In thy lurger uumber of ehfidren attacked, Ho cuse his experience in regard to disiufecting, He favors both quarantine and local disinfectlion. Mr. Hooker l’bliutlll.‘d Dr. \White to furnish the Committeo with such data as vould be pbtalned fromn his rvports, Thera sccius to be oo alternative but for the Btute to default on the Junuary coupon on con- sols. The Btate authoritivs express the beliel that the eutire fnterest whil be patd within thrce imunths, : Tho Returning Board In executive session Lo- day adopted the following: Itesolred, That the Uovernor of the Btate of Louisiana be dirceted and requented to pubhiab the fellowing notice* lu view of the fuct that under the existing laws Tax Collectors arv not called upon to s:tils their accounts withs the Biate uulll ine 2uth of January, 1870, uud as & result of 1his fuct ouly ihe swatl suw of $8, 404 ta now Lo the credit of the u- tereat tax fund of 1878, therefore, nolice 1t hereby given 1o holders' of Stato “bouds und coupony, due Jan. 1. 1478, that tnis hnportaut wubject Wil be submitted to the Loxistature for :flhm and romedy juwediately upon s sseew age. Tue Legtslature mects on Monday, itk stk bt . COAL. PoiADELENIA, Pa, Dec. 81.—The Lebich Valley coal operators Layve appoluted a comnit: tes to adfust (on Thursdsy) the question of prices. The Schuylkill operators have fnformed tholr customers tust the followlug figures will rule, fur the present, for the lnc and city trade: Egg and broken, $215; stove, $2.95: smsl) stove, $2.50; chestout, $2, Wheu present ordir wre exbausted, it s bollaved pricgs will shov anotber decline, e ———— SKELETON FOUND. Bioux i1y, Is., Dec. 81.—This afterncon twe. boys who wers gatbering drift-wood on B lilsod about fvo miles below the city, camd across the skeleton of a woman lodged in tue drift-wood. ‘They came to the city and notitied the suthoritis, who went down and took charge of the body. It te evident that It wus Todged there duriug the rlie lu the rver Jab suwmer, No clow s to lta ideutity. Au tus quest will bebeld to-worrow. The cave vceurred fu |