Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1879, Page 1

VOLUME XXXI1X. RISTRTS. SHIRTS e Desire to call the atten- tion of the public to their superior facilities formanufacturingthese goods. Sixteen years’ experience, close. appli- cation to business, and a desire to furnish the best goods at the low- est prices, has given them the largest busi- ness of the kind in this country. They pur- chase all their goods di- rect from the manufac- turers of - Europe and this country, securing them at Bottom figures. Their help in the Man- ufacturing Department is highly skilled from long experience. Your patronage is so- licited. 67 & 60 Washington-st., Chieago. 69 & 71 Fourth-st., Cincinnati. 408 North Fourth-st., St. Lonis. COAL. J. L HATHAWAY, COAL, Clean and Dry. 38 Market-st., cor. Randolph, L North Morket-gt, tel et %7 Archer-ay, * MR TELEPHONIC ¢ONNECTION. Large foroe of men and toams em- ployed. All ordors rocoive prompt attontion. Also largoe stock of Dry Maploand Boeoch Wood on hand, AND JEWELRY. The Last Call, Tho oxcitomont causod by tho burn- ing of tho Post-Ofico i8 only ox- ceoded by tho Groat Closing-Out Balo of one of our oldest 'Wholo- scle Jowolors. You can buy Watchos, Jowelry, and Platod- ‘Ware positivoly for less than half tho usual prices, and first-oiass Goods at that. Everything war- ranted. John G. Ashleman, 157 State-st. METALN, &c. The ChicagoStamping Co, 10, 12 & 14 Lake-st,, IMPORTERS OF TINPLATE S METALS, MANUFACTURERS OF Stamped and Japauned Tinware, Grocers” Caddies and Druggists’ Boxes, Galvanizing and Tinning a Speeialt ARTINTIO TAILORING, DISCOUNT Ou ali Usrmeits Ordered of us o January, 1874, Standard the Highest. EDWARD ELY & (9., Tailors, - 163 10d 165 Wabash-av , corner Moaree 4!, SB8TORE AND BASEMENT No. 254 East Madison-st. (Possession Jan. 1), opponite Field, Leiter & Co.'s Wholosale Store. Inguiro at SILVERMAN’S8 BANK. 8 suited 1o ull siglins oo scientific pria- Sliles, Ope u;x.‘u"t."‘u..a. Teicscopus, Stlcro- . e 1 e SEMENE oo W VAN STAN'S STRATENA" \hrlnls W;l“(.'t"ml‘nl In the wond for meadipg every- Learbura-ai., Clicago: g SENATORIAL. Springfield Filled with Ho= sannas to Logan in the Highest. The Charivari Exceedingly Im- pressive to the Incom- " ing Granger, Prompt Subsidence of This Side-Show at the Begiuning of the Performance Under the Great Canvas, Review of the Contest for Prominent Places in the Legislature, A Chapter of Forgotlen His- tory Daling Back to, 1887. How Logan Assalled Gov. Blssell and the ¢ Blaclk Lepub. lican: Becausa Bissell Accepted a Chals lenge to Fight Jeff Davis In Vindioation of tho Honor of Illinois and the Bravery of Her Soldiers, SPRINGFIELD. EXCITEMENT. &pecial Disvatch to The Tribuce, Spamvarixep, 1L, Jan, 6.—The importance of -the Senatorinl campaign is fully indicated in the nppearance of the corridors of tho Loland Houso to-might. They swarm with logislators, patriots, and: candidates for the amall offices in the gift of Loth Houses, Applications for all sorts of places, from "Third Assistant Doorkesper down to janitor of the cloak-room, are thicker than frogs in Egypt.- Each one cinims that ho can control a voto for Bonator, aud all are playing that card with lenders of the faotions of tho dominant party. During the greater portion of the day the Sonatorial confliet engrossed tho mnost attontion, AT LODAN'S LITERALY DUREAY, ] which lins fnatulled itsol€ in two of tho Lo- Inud paorlois, o constant tide las been obbing and flowing all day. John wasin the bost of humor, Long Jones and Dan Bhepard were kopt Lusy watching the avrivals of the {irains, and, whonever tho omnibne backed np to the, liotel door, “tio: Joglslative statcamen_were - taken in bovd sud'man into the Burenu be. fore they bnd even timo to. register. 'Tho strilcers nud clacquors kept up n constant beatiug of drums and pounding of cymbals, well ealeulated to inspire the uususpicious Grauger with the beliof that there was noth. ing but Logan, Nothing wns mentioned but Togan, It was Togan overywlere. 1lis followers were lond in proclaiming that ho UAD ALL THR VOTES IE WANTED, in faot, didu’t waut to mako any more, and, when tho averment was received with an in- timntion of o doubt, it was thon suggosted that thoro was a éertain amonut of political patronnge that could bo secured if overything went etraight, Tromiscs of Postmasterships and othor protty Government places were thicker than the oft-quoted leaves in Vallom- brosa. Others who look forward to enlarged politieal influonce wera throatofiod with the displonsure of the great Iudian Chief, and in somo instances there is no room for doubt but whot the threat sccomplished its pur pose. \ TOM RIDOEWAY, tho unsuccensful candidato for State Trensur- er last summor, is Lere, working with all his might for Logan, notwithstanding that, at tho last Btato Conventlon, he was mercl. losaly slaughtored by the ex-npologist for slavery. Ridgowny is tho ost pro- nounced 'typo of tho political OChris. tion that bhas been mcen lore in wmany o day. ‘The secrot of his adlierenco to John lies in the fact that, two years hence, Lo will turn up ngatn a8 a candidate for tho Stato Treasurership, Tho Literary Bureau Los become bolder in tho manufucturo of canards to influenca the doubtful and waver. jug, Tho latest is that Charloy Farwell dovs not ijutend to put in an appoar. anco hero duting the Bonatorial cou. tost, for the reason that Seuator Dearborn {5 said to have pronounced "Tne Trwune's interview with him (Farwell) on tho fight of two years ago o tissue of falsshoods, Dear. born is not here, but his Demacratio col- leagued are unanimous fn the statemont that L did not, and caunot truthfully, sk any such assertion, Farwell bas engagod rooms lxr the 10tk BENATOR OGLESH Y arrived this ‘evening, much to the delight of tliose friends who ore taking cara of his interests, 'Tho chango that pervaded the corridors of tha Lotol after Lis arrival was o marked one. Tlhero was less bloviatug on iho part of the Logan gang, and, as thoy saw tho gruduslly-iucreased {futerest taken in Oglesby's hendquarters, their souls becams fllled with more envy than they led known since the campaign commenced. 1o waa wormly greoted by a large delegation of the old-line Abolitionists from the Egyptian counties, with whom he worked when to bo an Aboli. tionist was equivalent to political ostracism, This delegation has been doing good solid work to-day, aud sowme votes which wure not counted upou have been secured. ONE OF THX DOLDEST THINGS of the cawpaign, o fur, was an attempt wade this morning by some of the Logan faction to put up a job for springing the Senatorial caucus to-morrow evening at the conclusion of the caucus for House and Senate organization, They had an idea that,by giving tha thiug & grand hurrak, with a tio-pag ac- compsniment such as-is used in s Chineso battle, they might force the caucus to give the nomination to their chicftain, Through tho Indiscrotion of oue of the fugle- wey, the schomo lesked out, and was promptly sat down upon. It was 8 bold and impudent propgsition, and so in- tonso was the indiguation which it worked ¢ Thicage D JANUARY 7, 1879—TWELVE PAGES, MeLean; 8fato Charitablo Institutions, May- borne, of Kano; Municipalities, George E. ‘White, of Cook; Cannls and River Improve- menta, Whiting ; and ro on, TUESDAY, that the manngers of the Burenu were, fig- uratively speaking, breaking their necks to disown it. Another movement was con- cerled Iate this evening to hold the cancns on tho 13th or 14th, threo or four dnys earlier then is customary. LOOAX 18 RVIDEXTLY ANXIOUS TO NURRY UP the reault, - Ho is fearful that, on the sober second thonght, the parties to whom ho lins mado unlimited promises will discover that his noso is slightly out of joint with the present Administration, and that he cannot doliver. To tell his vie- tims that he will take care of them two years from now is o postponement of the quid pro quo, in which the average offico-socker will tuke no stock, In political trades prompt delivery la just ns necessary as in swapping jacklknives, Ogylesby's frionds will not sllow themsolves to bo caught in any trap which will give the Indinn Chief nny present advantage, and will not depart from the time-lonored cus- tom of holding tho caucus about throe days provious to the time established by law for tho elcotion, BPEARRR. "The vigorous contust among the numorons enndidates for thoe position of Speaker of the Houso of Representatives has absorbed all otlicr issues for the moment, and the Bena- torial fight hus, ns it were, dropped into in- significance. 'Tho loading candidates to-day are the same ns yestenlay, with {lio oxception of ex-8penker Shiaw, whose flicker- ing light, dim nt first, has at last gone almost out, and he may be considerod ns laid prac- tically on tho shelf. 'The old friends whom lie Dbeguiled with specious promises hnve turned their backs npon him, and his tondered ndvances hinvo been met with an incredulous smile, ‘This gentleman was rash onough, when struggling to attain this coveted position two years ago, to make somo promises which, in the nature of thiugs, le conld not fulfill. The disappointed candidates for Chairman of important commitiees lave remembered this oversight, and lave nourisied their wrath until the hour for retaliation and rovengo lias come. . In the oaucus, to be held to.morrow night, therofors, tho ex. Bpeaker will soarcely figure at all. Mr, Bhaw, however, can console : himself with the thought that he 4id tho best ho could under all the circumstances, and, with the roflection that lo wsde n creditablo Bpesker, whilo the House may congratulate itsel? at this session on having oblained o usefuljmember on the floor, s MORRISON, MITCHELL, THOMPSON, AND JAMES aro still on the track, und their respectivo bosoms are bouudlng with hope. What the reault of the quadrangular fight will bo no one can tell, but, bo it aa it may, the House is cortaln to Lave an ablo and effcient 8peaker. Morrison to-night has more votes than auy other individual candidate, probably, and for that remson he in greatly feared. The Logan Senatorial faction of Republicanism is backing Lim; and his following does not extend Lioyond the Humits of that support. The knowledge of this combiuation lLics had the effact of an- tagounizing tho other threo candidates, ond it s more than probable that they will uite 1n tho oaucusin laying out Morrison, and then have tho ight ont among themselves. That is tho way the thing scems to look to- night, Thus, whilo ‘Shaw dles su official doath from innnition, or not having cnough {riends, Morzison's demise will bo cansed by bnving too any friends, Mitchell, and ‘Iiompson, aud Jamos bave about an equal following, and, upon the shouldors of one of those threo, tho. mantle of the political Elijoh will most likely fall, THOMPION 18 A COOK COUNTY MENBER, and as sich o hos to coutond with many untoward ciroumstances, It {aurged ngainst him that the Prosident of tho Bunate is a Cook Couuty mau, and that the gontlemon from tho northern part of the Btate nro graspiug for too many favors. Col. Thompeon mosts that phaso of the con- test with tho argument that Mr. Shumnn is President of theé Scnato by virtuo of his offico as Lioutenaut-Governor, and that tho peoplo of Minols placed bim there, and not tho General Assombly, Col. Thompson has the presenco, bearing, and experience to mako n good Spenker. ‘Tho Hon, Thomas F, Mitchell, of Bloom- ington, is widely known throughout the Htate ns n bnsiness inan and o wan of large experionco in public affairs and in logislative bodies. ITis nbility nud standing aro beyond question. Il gupporters aro from the Contral, Bouthern, and some from the North- orn part of the State, He will go into the caucus {o-morrow night with probably twenty-fivo votes, Col, James, of Lake, hins the advantago of & fino appearance, a thorough kuowledgo of parlinmontary law, sud experience in the chalr, ‘which Las exhibited Lis capabilities as a presiding officer in a marked degree, Tho nuwes of the contestants for the subordinate ofices of the Legislaturo were forwarded yestorday, and there is not much change in the attitude of affairs. Amoug theso o colored delegation from Cook Coun- ty, hoaded by Willinm Baker, have arrived to clalm theie rights to a portion of the smaller officcs, 3Mr, Baker was Asslstant Door. keoper of the House at the lust sossion, and sgain aspiros to that position of uscfulness. Mrs, Soustor Whiting is a condidate for Tostmlstress of the Bonnte, As sho has o ‘great, brond-shouldered, wealtly, but rather homely husband, to take cara of Lez, nll the other unmmarried and unprotected fomale aspirants for the place. - UAVE §ET UF A SIIKILL CRY OF PROTEST, which is likely to causo the honorable Beua- tor's lady to retiro, as she should do, as graclously as possible A Bonate caucus for the purpose of seloct- iug officens for that body will be held to-mor- row aftornoon at 4 o'clock in the lady's ordi. nary of the Leland Hotel, Mr. James H. TPaddock hes no opposition in his candidas, for Secrotary of that body, . AT TUER LATEST WRITING, the contest for Bpeaker seoma to be rapldly narrowing down tetween Mitcholl and Alor- rison, with Mitchiell {n the lead. . Thoe Dem- ocratic caucuses of the House and Benmate mombers will be held to-morrow night to select officers for the organization of those bodies. Tke Hon. James Herrington will re- ceive the Domocratic nomiuation for Speaker without opposition. Of the Benate Com. mittecs, the most important will probably ba disiributed as follows: Railroals, Sena- tor Bash, of Cook; Judiciary, Seustor Hunt, of FEdgar; Appropriations, Joslyn, of MoHoury ; Stato Iustitutions, Hamilton, of TOGAN V8. BISSELL. A CIAPTER OF PORGOITEN JUSTORT. T the Editor of The Tribune, EprixorigLp, 1L, Jan. G.—I have been watching for some weeks tho sagings and do- fogs of the shteliites and strikers for Gen, John A, Logan, who are working to throw Oglesby out of the Benate, and have listeved with as- tonishment, and with something of pain, to the extroordinary claims which {thoy make for him,—claims which would have no influcnce on us old stagers, who wore at the cradlo of the Republicau party of Illinois, but which may have thelr effect on & younger generatlon whose politiral memories do not ron back of 1804, ‘The young Republicans of to-lay, listening to the talk aud reading the letters of these men, would get the impression that Gen. Logan was one of the *0ld Guard,’—that hie was one of the original Republicans bt 1llinots, whose adlicsion to that party took niaco before Gov. Ozlesby jolued it gather the impression from their talk that tong One would Uov. Oglesby wna n sort of latter-Iny convert who came Into the camp long after Lozan had cnllsted in tho service of freedom snd anti- slavery, and who waa tot uearly: ns rellable = Republican as his competitor., The younger wencration could hardly avolu getting the im- presston, from i TNE HOWLING OF LOUAN'S STHIKENS, that Jobn was o rampant, roarine Abolitionist pledged from boyhood to the destruction of human slavery, and that, too, at a timo when Oglesby was supposcd to be earrying the flag of slavery, and he dolfug what ho could to assiat 1o fts spread, 1 sco the mischief that theso things ara dolng, and, for the suke of counteracting it, and giving a little instruction ta the Republican young men, I want, with Tum ‘TRIisuNe's per- misslon, to revert to some old records and some old facts.. I don't- go futo this disagreeable cbapter In doho A, Lugan's Mfe for the parposa of raking up old scores agafnat hin personaily, but I want those persons who don't remumber the early bhistory of the Republican yarty to kuow where Logan stood on questious of human freedom about the time the Republiean party rescued the Btate of Tiltuols out of thd clutch of the pro-slavery, doughface Democracy ;s and to shiow them how little of ‘truth and how little of mod- eaty thero Is fu the protentions made In his be- Lalf that ho was ‘*one of tho founders of the Republican party,” that ho was' firm i the falth at a time when Orlesby was still in the gall of bitterncss and thu bords of old pro- slavery iniquity. S IN 1857 MR, LOOAN WAS A- MEMBER' OF TRE ILLINOIS JIOUSH OF HEPRESENTATIVES from Franklin County. At the sime election ot which be was chosen to the House, Col, Will- fam IH, Bissellhad been chosen Governor of 1N nois by the Republican partyafter a desporate volitical campalgn, When thie Hovse assembled, after the Governor bad beon sworn fnto ffice, the nllczation was made by the Démocracy that he was fucligibic, ho haying kecepted a chal- lenge to fight a duct with Jeff Davls, which aceeptance, under the .old_Cogstitution of 11N- nols, bareed him from holding/offico fo Illinols. Col. Bisscll, of Bt. Clalr County, was one of the most brilllant and distingulsned citizeus ot Ilinols. At tho outbreak of tho. Méxlian War ho had ¢olisted In theservie, hecoming Colong) of nn Illinots regiment, whoss' rervices, eape- | clully st tho desperate ‘battloyf Buena Viats, ‘wera surpassed by tliose of ‘no ‘other American troops. At the closo of the war Col. Bissell was cleeted to Congress as a Democrat from St. Clair district. Duriug the scssion of 1850, Jof- ferson Uavis, then a Senotor from Misstasippt, tnade xome ibsulting remarks disparaging tho conduct of the Illinols troops at the baitle of Bucna Vista, In a speech delivered soon after- wards In tho House, Col. Biasell warmly viudl- cated the honor end bravery of tho Tilinols solalers, und made some remarks tnretort in ro- gard to Col. Davis® Migsisalupi troops, to which Senator Davis took exception. A correspond- ence ensued. JEFP, DAVIS INS|STED UPON A RETRACTION OR A PO Col, Bisscll had uo retractiuns to make, and ex- nressed his cheerful readiness to fight the fire- cater, Tho blustering tutimidation of the Bouth- ern slave-driver bad no effect upon Col. Blsscll, and ho Intimated bis perfect wi with rifles nt twenty paces. This lud a res was uot anxious to stand within sixty fect of the muzzle of o wellloaded rifle, held steadily, ond over whoso Llarrel gicamed the keen eye of tho angry Illinolsan. Jeff was not at all prepared for that kind of fighting, and by the interventlon of friends an agreement was ar- vived at by which Col. Blesell mado a sifght ad- dition to hus remarks, and Jeft Davis withdrew Lis warilke propositions to Blssell, In 148, Cal, Blssell, who had joined the Antl- Slavery wing of tho Dumocratle party, wos nominated for Governor by the Republican party, and clected by obout 5,000 majority, ‘Ihis was the flrst tims the Pro-Slavery Democracy bad been vanquished 1o Iinols in s falr flght sluce party Mnes wers formed, Col, Bissell took the cath of oftice, and then, when the Leislaturo met, this * duct” objection was mado on the part of the Pro-Sluvery Democrats: ‘That,” haviug occepted a challenge to fight a duel with Jofl Davis, hio was Incligible, because the Coustitution provided that auy person who fought & duel, or accepted a challenge for that purpose, or alded or abetted in fighting a duel, should bo deprived of the rizht of holdivg any oflico of honur or profit iu [ilools, THEY POUTIER ALLEGED that he had committed perjury when he took the cath ot office. The Republican members lusisted that thls act of accepting a chullenge was somethiug which had bappened outsido tha lmita of the Btate, and beyond fts Jurisdictiom, aud that, therefore, the constitutionsl provision did not wpply to it EHluolscoukd act oaly upon offenses committed within her termtury, The further provision in the Constitution that s person takiug port lu a duel should be punlshed accordiog'to law wanifestly applled ouly to ducls fuught withlu the HState, and the rest of tho provislun stood on the same footing, Atwong thoss Democrats who dellvered them- aclves of speeclies on thls subject, the wost bitter, the most vindictive, was John A. Loean, Ho went far beyoud all others In the terins of reproach which bo applicd, not only to the Re- publican party, but to tho gallent Col. Bissell, the Governor ot Ilinols, the brilllant soldier, tho able statesman, the spotless patriot, aud bonared cltizen. Iu & speech delivered Jan. 18, 1857, fn the House, GEN, LOGAN 84ID: *‘The lanquayo which I emploved yesterdsy in debate sces to buve given oifense to Gov, Dissell’s peculiar friends.” 'Fhey bave uttributed 10 16 & waut of courtesy aud due respect to the chicf executive oficer of the State fy my al- lusions Lo the oath which be tuok on Moiday last, whea bo was {uducted foto ofllce. No gen- tleman on tue otber side of the House has falled to allude to 1wy remarks u relation to that vath, Indeud, sir, I ot thotarzet as which all of those goutlemen bave leveled thelr artiliery, 1, sir, praless to be an bouoriblo mao, and as such claim the right to defeod wy position. What, sir, s my crimer What crime have I comuut- ted agaiust parltamentsry lawl In what, slr, bava 1 been wantiug In respect to toe Coustitus tlou and laws of wy wuntryl Ounyuwnhy I rewarked ¢ that the m;fdmu ot Quv. Blssell was more clasle thafi wlue.! ‘That, sir, s my vrime, For that the Black Repub- lcan leaders of this House have arraigued 1ne before the country, and 1 am bapoy, sir, in beluy: thus srraigued. ' 1 du uot shrink frowm the arue, and 1 wost williogly wect the fssue, sud subiit mysell to wy countrywen for trial Aud, sir, 88 the lssuots oue of sucs, I nold wy- ) ugness to flght ko ably soothing cffect upon Mr. Jeff. Davis, who sclf responsible to prove the truth of my as- sertiona; and, as much as I dislike to fasten upon any gentleman a total disregard of sil constitutionsl oblfzations, I feel myself called upon on this occasion to take myv stand In the sunlight of truth, althouga it may bring me In cuntact with the highest official in the Btate, ond demoustrate to the world a degreo of moral tarpltude without a parallet in the history of our State. It 18 now too lato to hide behind sifected modeaty to prevent the cxposition of & reckless and unexampled attalnment of power in the State Qovernment. The means and ap- vllances used by the party to whose keeping the Executive of this State has submitted him- eelf fu securing for him & plurality of the electors of this Btate were startling enonzh of themeelves without the course since pursued by illm to attain the cousummation of thelr ob- ects, o . '* Gentlemen on this floor have averred that Gov. Blsscll awore the truth and the whols truth on Alundl{ last, before Justice Caton, when he held up his right hand, in the presence of God and an sssembled multitude, and sol- emnly swore that * ie bad not aceepted s chal- lenge to fight a duel since the adoptlon of the Conatitution.' If what gentlemen say i true, then I am prepared to shiow that Gov. Bissell (s Rulity, and willfully guilty, of the grossest false- hood. * But, sir, if Gov. Bisscll told the truth in tho year 1852, thean, sir, permit me to hold upto the gazo of the reorcacntatives of the ncople a bieoding sud violated Constitution, abrogsted, avnulled, and trampled underfoot. . . . ** Mr. Bpeaker, when Ilook at sil this shifting and dodwivg—when I hear Gov. Bissell sy that he did not seeept a cnnllcr‘ilzr. and theo Aer of his swearlng that he neeer did—when I hear him aay that he must commit perjury to hold the oflice ot Governor, aml then hear of his taking the very oath which he sald would amount fo perfury, 1 am lost in amaze- ment; and, slr, s it npot alarming when wo sce and kiow that the highest office In thic State, the executive power of the Govern- ment, is standing before the people with false- hood upon his lips, and averring his own gullt of a reckless disrezurd of ull that ean Inspire cop- fidence in wanf . . . A **This 18 tho oath that Gov. Biseell took on Monday last. It Is trie that the vath was taken at his residence, in this city, and not in this bail, a8 has hieen the custom, No Governor of Tii- nuls has over sought retirement to take the outh’ ot offlce. We might fnler irom this that a gullty mud blceding consclence had sought seclu- slon rather than stand crect upon this floor and pass the tery ordeal. But thu oath was taken— the fearful oatb—In the face of his own previous declorations to the contrary, The secluded and unueual place at which it was taken may afford grounds for an inference asto the workingsiol & mind goaded to desperation with a welghty con- viction of moral turpitude. . . . ** Bupposc, then, sir, that_you (Mr, Lind y) and [ wero to get nto'a difficulty (which 1a by 10 means probable), and you were to address e 8 note, requesting me to meet you in St. Louis, and afterwards we were to meet there, and vou wero then to challenceme to fight o aucls I ask you, sir, If rnm would not violate your vath. Will the gentfeman answer! The entleman makes no answer. He kuaws and feels that in sucli " case ho would violate his oath. I feel the same—1 know it, sir, and so does every eentleman who feels the fores of truth, sod haa & vonsddence. . No member of this House would eutertaln an fdea of doing such an act during his continuance in office, The very idea of duing such a thing shocks the consciency of an honioruble wan. No entlghtened mind— no man of common honesty—would propose ty dosuch sn sct. No, sir, 1f any gentleman on this floor was to feel himself compelled to resort to the code of honor for redress ol o grievance, ic wonld reslgn inatanter, sud tnen executo s purpose, But nover, never while b s clothed with the robes ot uifee—wille the oath s upon Mm—wouid o daro violate it In nny such manuer. Wilt any gentleman on this floor say, for the dbing of such an act, my canscience goads me not,—I nm free trom anv such stingl 1 am not liablo th auy imputation of falscliood and morat perjury | Teil me, 18 thero a dishonorable man upon this floor! s there man licre whose conscience i scarred a8 with anhot iront 1€ so, let him spesk out, aud deny the obligations of un 3 oye, sir, the penat'sanctlon of an obligation, Who is it, sir, that would dip Lis tongue In perjory, and o God by snere construction? . . . ‘1 shall not name the offcose. 1 leave it for his friends to christon, I can onlv say, Mr, Hpeaker, that the moral senso of & milllon abdu balf of people has been shocked by that fear- ful oath, Truth, sir, has been crushed to carth. ‘The high standard of titude has been broken. The votaries of virtue und honesty have been vanquished, and onu unlversal wall from Chicago to Calro hns been heard o consequence of the prostras tlon of the Exccutive chinir futo the hands of a man whosa lips are quiverine with falsehood, of awbltious otllce-scokers, stevled agaiust the beseechings of truth and clothed with the gar- ments of vice, clanorous for destruction, and offering as anInducement for the suffrages of the people w heart bent v mischicel, und capable of the most wicked acts, The Constitution of my beloved State llea prustrated {n the dust, blceding and mangted. “Ob, sir, 18 that tho ex- ample sci by him |poiutivg to the portrait of Washilngton] wlose lkeness stands above your headd Bir, “it Is the youth of my country for whum 1 entertain tlie greatest’ fears. On Monday last the bpeople of this State witnessed an utter anulhilation of all moral ond conatitutional oblization. Wil 1t be my valnful duty to tell my constituents that Col, dlssell did secept a challenge to Gght s dud, uud then, In the prescuce of his God, he swore he did not! 1 warn young and otd agaiust the example set by him.” 1 pray QGod that we may never agaln witness nuch an oceaslon,—virtue and truth bereft of all their churms, while the hideous and hateful gods of vice hold duminion over the peuple, g “ Mr. Bpeaker, the present s pregnant with Imyportaucs. Al sround us looka dark and sor- rowlul, Toe mun ot God is hushed Ioto slence. The prayers of the plous are drowned by tho clamars of the viclous. My only hope, sir, 18 in tho justice of a God and the fn-nl. moral senti- ment of my counteymen. 1T this wickeduess woes on, and fills every departiment of Uovern- ment an it has fllled 1his Exccutive, we are a lost and o rumed people, Babylon, slr, was not more wicked than we shall becoins it this reck- less disregard of moral accountabliity to God goes forward, I pray the Almlehty to avert the durk pall of disgrace and ruln which uow so serlously threatens our speedy destruction.'? On the 14th, GEN. LOUAN RETULNED TO TIIN BUDJKCT, and, after reading some correspondence, pro- ceeded os follows: * How now, sir, do the declarations and con- fesalons of (Gov. Disscti, niade in tho years 1853 aud 1830, vomparo with the fearful uath be took at the Governor's maovsion I thls clty, lu the preeence of w paziog and astonished mualoitude, ut the hour of B. w00 thy 120 dust, | 1 call upon ge on Lo aneet the lsue. Gdn- tlewien, i, may swile upon this occasion, Wero 1 statding in the uncuviable Hgbt it which they stand, 1 would uprefer w clothe my- #elt ln suckeloth and ushes, and weep Letween the purch and the altar, for miy trunszresalons, L8 81 acCess0ry 1o one ol the most unparallele iustances of disregard of moral obligation i thu histors of mau's achlcvementsol power, o + .« ¥ Qur biate, siry 15 not to becawe the refuge ol duclists, assussivs, and crimnals trom for- elgn jurisalction. 1 woulu be pailued with a conviction of the existencs of any policy that would warm futo 1l aud scuvity the vipers of auy country., We have a sutllcicut bumber of Iaw-abldingZ citizeos within our widst to il the ollices of Heate. And hervafter, »ir, I feel saths- fled the people will look intw the truo inters rmmlou uf vur State Coustitutlon and |ursue ts true policy ! This §8 tho last time i the bis- tory of our State that the Coustitution will bo traiupled under fout 1u this way. I would tura away from the solemn refiection tuat auy of fts provisions bave been vivlated with lnpunlty, but the fut i now too apparent to elude observation. I would falu cover up the ignominious act with s cloud of sympathy for the unfuriunate victim of uns umvur:ul wwhition ; but, sir, there 18 uomautle derk enough to bido it 'troin the visan of ul} lonest e, The hearts of my countryinen ara blecdlg from the wounds lofllcted” by the polsunous urrows of treachery and falachood, ‘Tho counteuauce of every buucst muo expresscs hia burror und dread of 'disgrace. dir, we bave been burled from the bights of bouor aud renown ss a State dowa foto the debts of lofumy, The bldeous wrinklcs of amoliion fur- row the cticeks of yirtuous emulatlon. The clouds of jutuny dium the Justre of honor. Tus™ brave soldier bas descended futo the drunkes halls of the viclous and de- vraved spleits of the condemued of earth and the accursed of heaven. The boly precepts of the Decalogue bave been brukeo sod wade to bleed. Bir, the furbldden {ruit Las been approached, sud man's last aud ouly bope of sccunty luvolved. [ call upon my fellow-citizeus o fy to the rescue snd savo toelr Comstatution suateh v from the bund of thien seek ahelter from the thunder of an eveng- moral roce * Mr, Speaker, 1 look down through the long vistaof the future and behold a reckiess throng ’ tions yut unboru, Goal en for from "tho altar of ittic oo’ than rather chioose to stretch the attain their enda than sce the faith of our fathera practiced lllllf belicyed. I, eir, am not one of that class of politicians who believe in the accomplishment of my 1 entertaln too tender o rezanl for tho Constitution to itisa nicntable as purposes at all bazards. be wiiling to see it Invaded by nn{ one. fact, Mr. Bpeaker,—and Is as la; true,—that the principles of the Black Repub. lican party are raptdly driving its members Into the practices of fnfidelity aud o total disrezard of all moral and social duty, 8ir. need I say that the actlon of that party in the promotion and defenseof the Governor is au cvldence of gnbllc fimmorality? . Ris elunuong 51‘: cordant clements” and political inigkru brave, chivalrous, and konert taan was beaten by y the present Exccutive throuch the appliances This - fusion pressed with- fraud . and concelved in of was corruptton, Inlquity, out scruple, and its ultimate accomplishment jafned by & gross fnfraction of the Constitution, aud by downright talschood. But, sir, I am not responsible for all this, and 1 thank Uod my constitucnis have no share in this hatetul tragedy. ‘Tho Demovracy of this State are ex- empt from the vdlum which attaches ltself to this uoparalicled proceeding. 8ir, asa member of this Louse, 28 the reoresentative of an hon- est constituency, I enter iy protest agalnst ullflrlrudp-mm in this unholy, God-<defying affale. If gentlemen are determined to call up the whelpa of hell to chaso honest men from this Capltol, aud from any farther participation In the affalrs of Government, 1 claim the right to unter tho protest of my - conatitucnts upon the records of my country, J{E constitucuts Lave chargel me _ wif tue duty of lookiny to thelr interests. If core ruptlon enters futo igh places, it s my auty, as 0 falthiful public gervant, to drag it from fts poliuted den and expose its hideous deformisy to public eriticlem and contempts, S8tr, I nsy manifest too much feeing In this oxpusurc. 1 caa only offer as an apology the deep interest I feel In the morality, peace, and prosperity of the glorlous young Htate of my nativity. **‘T'his, air, ts my bome. ‘Beneatn the green and hallowed sod of this beautiful Prairie State He the bones of my azvd and veoerated father. Stall I stand quleils by, as ene of tho people's representatives, and see ner public mor- als corrupted, her Constitution violatod, her honor lshed, and give no sound of alarm! No, sir, not while I bave s tongue to speak and & constituency to represent. 1 will never crecp away like a quarry slave from the influcnces of corrupt and veisl power through fear of giving offense. Bir, 1 know nothineg of the ‘courtesy,” the conventlonalities, walch deter honest men Irom exposurs of currnption, offlcial or otherwise. 1f such ‘courtesy’ has been practiced hitherto, 1 hupn for ‘spcedy amendment. Corruptlon, sir, 1n nigh moral placeal—woral depravity shall never forge chalns to biod my coustituents as loug as I buye' the honor to represent them. No pall ol fnfamy or disgrnce shall fall upon them without thelr wvrotest. No, sir; 1 staud here to deprecates wrong and plead thie causo of virtue. It isthe willof my coustituents, sod it is iy pleasure. [ uow say, in conclusion, to my friends on thy oppoaiteside of the House, that I will continue to expose their nttacks upon tbe Constitutinon whenever they oceur. A depraved ambition will not over- ride the righta of my iwnrle. aud be passed un- noticcd by me. 1 hold fu iy hand the lash of truth, and, sir, treachery and falachood sholl feel ts effects; and, aithouwn I mav fall in the conflict, 1'will fall by the inaugled remains of & rviolated Constitution~. It is the provines of an houorable mao to defy tho efforts uf vice, aud scoru Ita degrading bebests, The eloguence of 1ts advocates shall uever compel we to beatu, retrent. Lam encouraged 1o kuow that by my sidoand foremost in the conflict stand the vir- tuous and brave. **"Chis dark gloom must continue to cuslave our beluved Statu for that perlod, but, aa certain s the wajestic King of Day coutrses his path- way beneath the starrv-decked plaina of heaven and dips bis l:ohicn Wwingsn the western scad, so certululy will the Demuocracy of Egypt, with a Httleaid from her Northiern brethiren, dispel this midnight gloom, and resurrect luto_new life and vigor truth sod virtue. The Executive chialr, which has recently been snatched by the hond of viclous aud depraved ambition, will be returned to tho Laude of an honest man. A bleeding aud mangled Constitution will be healed and revurned to she hands of 1ts supporters uud ’)Nlm‘tu . The virtuous Indignation of an honest people will drive from this Capitol the motley hordy whose onty vbject {s place aud power, po matter how attalned, “1 turn away from the thoughts of this bold and unprecwlented sct, ubporalieled in thoe hls- tory of civilized and enllghtencd Uovernments, with feellngs of commiscrution and sorrow,' Aud now the YOUNG REPUDLICANS of Illinots are fnu position to sec just exactly what Geu. Logan's Republlcanism was {n 1857, atime at which (Gov. Oglesby wus ounoof the prominent and honored members of the party. They can now sce, I Judige, which ono of the two men {3 the oldest in the faith, and will thus bo euabled to judes more Intelligently how much value I3 to be atzached to the clalme made by Gen, Logaw's frlends that he wus ousof the original Abolitioulsts of IMivols. OLD REruBLICAN. LOGANISMS, X ADMITS IT NIMSELY, To the Fditor of The Tribune, Bervioene, i, Jan. 4.~To people who know tho great modesty of John A, Logau it is @ grest surprise that bo should so readily adinit that ho Ls (now that Grant is out of the country) the grestest mop, by large odds, init. Time was when a great man would refer questions so purely personal to some friend, lest {u should bo remarked that seif-latercst micht possibly in. fluence Lis judgnent. But here is o genuino case of “ho adinits It himsell.” And, having admitted it, the whole Republican party must shout fn chorus, “Great ts John A., and we will have no other guid (or Benator) but him,” And then the beantirul stinpliclty with which he ad- mits that, excenting the fow scifish fndividuals who desire the place themselves, the Republic- an party of Illinols Is unsnimous for Join A Logun for the Scnate! . What a monstrous fraud ft will ba it the dear people are clicatod out of the desire of thelr hearts, sud somo vther mau whom they loathe anddespise Is chosen lustead | There 1s uo doubt of the truth of the followlng stutement: ‘That Juin A, Logan s the greatcst man, has the most mossive aud comprehensivo futullect ol auy wan now §u the United States. hat, exceptiug tho few persons who are la- saucly snd wickedly desleing the position them- scives, thicre 18 ot a member of the Hopublican party who is not—tirst, last, aud all tho time— for Jobu A. Locan. ‘Tat, with the cxcoptlons sbove woted, the whole Rupublican party bLate, detest, loathe, aud ‘abominate, all and slugular, every other wan who may announce, or from his heart de- sire, that be kimself, or suy other person than the sald Logau, shall by olected Sunator, For tho truth of tyese statcments we refer to the great John A, Logun hiwself, In his dally haudbitl, priuted ou Lake strect, and somectimes called the Juter-Uceun. " The above, stated In sgber esruest, Is falr suwinary of the slush scrvid up to the readers of John A. Logau's paper dally, and Is beginnlog to act very wuch ke an emetlc on its readers, Johuuy s trving to play bis gaye of two years 240 vver aguin, but be will fiud thet Republicans of lluois will na longer subuwit ta be rulod by political bumwers and dead-bests. ' Axri-Humvoa, LOGAN AND THE M'GARRANAN CLAIM. To (v Edidor of The Tribune. Cuicago, Jau, 6.—Reference bas been made fn your colums to Logau’s part in the Credit-Mo- Lilier, and to his taking back-pay, ss provided the defller, and preserve it unsuilled for genera- *Some of my friends on the other side of this house boast of Jeffersonian Democracy. Great What & slander upon the memors of the fllustrious dead! 1 know, sir, that men rome- times change without knowing it, but I am slow fo believo that any entieman on the flour can staud at sach a guiity distanca from the great principles of thé time-honored Democracy and e entirely femorant of the descent he has made. Why, Mr.Speaker, they have wandered Democersey that the avostles of our party could not save them If they were to rise from the slumbers of the {(ruw. 8ir, they arc more excrvised about s they are about the principles of a free government. I doubt not, sir, they would CGonstitution to rinciples and ailn Tribmne, PIE, l I & Fad I ; $ e 3 R . $'lE FIVE ‘CENTS, = =3 fao@ anact of Conpress which ha helped to Brn, sut you have not called the attantion of the peonle to Logan the lobhyist, ¢ By courtesy, an ex-Senator has the privileges of the Senate-floor, and on this account persons Za with schemes find it profitable to em- ploy such mew as alforneys ‘to reorésent them before committees and - in the lobby., ‘I am assarel by, m member of the House of Representatives that after his re- tirement from ofliclal life, Logan was emoloyed as.an altorney. ln the McGorahan claim case, Now, the most rotten of all rotten cases is this McGarraban case, and it rather shocked -thd friends of & former Senator to find Mm em- ployed in such work. *\Why, sald this mem- ber of the House to me, **s0 cofrupt is this McGarraban case that even the flesh of the lying who have had to do with it stiuketh.” ;. Is & Congressional lobbyist for such s cause ~—a one time Benator who lins forgotien what 18 due to the dignity of sach a statlom—a proper man to agaln represcut the State of Iilinols in the Senste, where he would be called upon to pass upon the claim he has represented as @ professlonal lobbyist! I think mot. ' . - Jusics. CASUALTIES. FIGUTING A SNOW=-DRIFT. & Burraro, Jan. l.—An accident occurred on tho New York Central Road tolay, five milcs cast of Batavla, on what s known as the Byrum grade, The ofticials of the road arc very reticeat, and the facts, a8 near an can be obtained, arv as fol- Jows: Assistant-Superintendent McCool start- cd outabout 2 p. . with fiveenginesand s small snow-plow Lo clear up the rosd to Roch- ester, preparatory to sending out the first traln since last Thursdny, Onresching the designated polnt, they encountered a drift forty feet long and five feet decp, which was frozen nearly #s solid as the earth, and the enginecr {umpcd the track, the second engine breaking ts fastenings and yolng down the south bank, the plow and first engine wolog on the north #ldo, the locumotive lylng flat on fts slde across the track, and ‘the third cogine being badly smastied up, swhile the fonrth and Ath voly lelt the ralls. Bamuel Cooper, of this city, driver of the first cugine, was badly scalded. Thomas Lawless, fireman, had one_of his legs caught as the engine went over, and it was necessary to saw it off befurs be could be extricated, James Welsh, another fireman, was badly bruised, \wieas cannot survive. FROZEN T0 DEAYO. Bpecial Dispaten to The T¥ibune, Dernoir, Mich., Jan, 6.—About 10 o'clock this morning a washerwoman known as * Qld Agnes " was found {n a lumber-vard just off Bandwich strect, Windsor, sittiug in the snow, with her back agulost o pile of Minber, frozen stifl. By ber afde was & baskot dontalning, amoog other articles, o bottle of whisky, and ‘at her feet shivered her littlo dog. The shanty In which sho lived is about fifty yards from whers ber frozen Lody was found. sle started for Lome the previous evening about 7 o'clovk tn & drunken condition, As the-Key to her shanty was not found on her, it v supposed she 16st 1t, aud, being unable to gatn aamittance, sat down where fuund, with the result statod. BURNED 1'0 DEATIL 7 &oeerct Disvatch to The Tridune. i DaveSronT, Ia., Jan, 6.—A tesrible lcc(file_ni occurred nt the farm-louse of ‘Mr. Thomas Hogzan, In this county, yesterdoy., Mrs. Rogan woa scated before & atove with her cblld In her arws, when she suddeuly found her'dress un flre, burning fast. She hnmedlately threw ber babe from her, oad, her hnsbaud comitig to hier assistance, succeeded fn tearing off her clothics, but not until Ler body from the knces up was & wmass of burned and blistered fle three-fourths of her body belng shockingly rousted, She lived In the greatest scony nil this torning, when death vame to her relief, 1n his etfores tu put out the ilames, Mr. Hogan's hands were burned to o celsp. BADLY FROZEN. Hpeclal Dixpatch to The Triduns. MiLwAvkee, Jun, 6.—Thomas Mossey, a deater {n crockery, residing at No. 287 Green. bush atreet, South Side, arose early this morn- Ing to build the fires aud verform other chores about tho house. Two hours later his wite found Wim tylng in tho yard, unconsclous aud nearly frozen stiff. With tho aeslstance of nelzhbors hie was carried into the houso and u phyaician called, whoexpressed the opinfon tha teu minutes more of exposure would havo suf- flced Lo cause denth, As it s, but little hope of recovery exists. Mr. Massey's richt hand is frozen to the wrist and may require amputation. He is also badiy frozen othorwise. The causa of tus prosration cannot be determined, but it may have resulted from paralysis. UNDER THE WHEELS. Rpectal Dispateh to The Tribune. Miwavker, Wis, Jan. 0,.—At lolf-past 3 o'ctock this afterncon o brakemsn named William Callaban fell from a trunsfer. freight- train ou tho Northern Division of ths Chicago, Mitwaukeo & 8t, Paul Nallway, three miles this side of Schwartzburg, and was fustantly Killed, two cars passing over biin. The pegents of the deceascd reside fn the northern parl of this city. he was 20 ycars of age, aod un- warried. 5 ITORRIBLY FROZEN. Soeclal Disatch to The Tribuns. Erarx, 1, Jau. .—~A blackamith, employed at Wayne, named James Rodeers, was nearly {rozer. to death on Saturday night near the In- sano Asylumn, between this cliy and Clluton- ville. Ilo was procceding on foos frut this city to hls hume In Clintouvillo, when e lsy duwn in the rond aul remalned thero until: Sunday moruing, ut which thne hoe was found, witl both arua aud bis left lee badly frozen, 80 that am- putation will be ni ——— FINANCIAL. Br. Louis, so., Jan, 6,—The extensive wholo- sale hoot and shoe liouse of Appletou, Noves & Maude mado pn assignment this mornhig to ‘Thomas Richeson, an old aud promiueut citizen, Liabilities and ussots are uot attainable at this wrltlug, ¥ ¥ But little of a dellnita character regarding the condition of the flnin can be obtatned, but it {8 stated shut the creditors will lose, IL anyihing, by the falture. 'The real causs of the ussigi- ment Is salit 1o be the duath of Robert Jarvis, ot Loulsville, whbo wus u stlent purtoer in the house, laviug iuvested 8 quarter of & miliion la It about o yearsud a halfogu, and whose in- veatment 13 understood to hove teriluated by his death. MiLwavkze, Wis., Jan, 0,~The last case lo Wisconsin under the Bunkruptey act which e- pired on the 16t of Just September has reached [(wuwr in Baukruptey Bloodzood, The bank- rupt is B, F, Corrtrun, of Ureen buy, with la- bilities amounting to 813,065.04. A ‘neetlog of creditors will be held un the 28th of Jsnuary at the ofilcs of the Regtster. e ——— e GUTTA-PERCHA INSULATORS. Niw Yo, Jen, 6.—Judge Blstchford to-day reudured his dechidon fu tho cuss of Colgate sgulust the Western Unlon Telegraph Company, beiug an apolication for a periuaneut fojunction rustruiniyg defondants from usivg gutta-percha fusulators, 1is fionor deuicd tho wotien fur an jujunction, but prohibits the sala by detend- ant of guita-percha wires or cables which it now has or ey wxxl)nru. and aleo probibits the munufacture or use by defeudaut of any gutta- percha covered wires or cables othier thau thosy whilch are now tu use. SUICIDE. Special Disalch to The Tribuse. ADRIAN, Mich., Jun. 6.~Rbods Jobuson, & comely married womav, sged 24, motber of oue cbitd, ended her life with strychalne yesterday moruing. 8be had lved uubappily whh hee busbaud, althousl merried six years, and & scp-~ aration bad been sgreed n|§n. Both belonged to good Detroit famities. Mrs. Johuson was u daugbter of Robert Wade, & tewperance lects urer of sutpe Btata repute, kuown as the Do~ trolt Blachswith. A Coroter's jury this moro- Hug declared ft 8 case of seli-destrustiog.