Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1879, Page 4

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Madinon street, opposita McVicker's Thestre, Dalse ‘brega the Wizard. 3 FRIDAY, JANUARY 81, 1870 Indications lato lnst night at Topeka point %o tho success of Senntor IncaLrs in the Lalloting to-dsy in the Kansas Logislature for United States Senator. Mo had appar- ently sccured enough Republican votes to render his olection cortain. The qnestion of the relocation of the Chi- cago Poat-Office is still pending in Washing- ton, with an npparent certainty, as developed yesterday, that the Honore Building will be rooccupied until the regular Government qnarters aro ready. . Micnarn L. Svrtavant, lato of Burr Oaks, Ford County, Iil,, and who becamne famnous B3 the owner of tho largest farm in the Unitad States, diod yestorday at Evausville, Ind, From being tho proprietor of 47,000 ncres of fine farming land, whose product in mnrketing required 200 mules to do the haul- ing, ho died penniloss and in dobt, Whnshington yesterday was made the oo- cosion of a rocoption by numerons friends, T'ho Domocrats constrno the demonstration os in the intorest of Gmant, but nothing in Dr. Oagprxrrn’s speoch on the oceasion in- dicates that he was a party to that featuro of A story is in circulation at Springfield that is far moro wnteresting than probable. Itis 1o the offcct that inducements will be held out to Benator Davis to resign his seat in the United States Senate nnd accept the va- cant Borlin misslon, while SBenator Oaresnr, in such an ovent, would bs olected to fill ont Judge Davis’ tarm, Wintezaw Reio was before the Porren Committes yesterday, and gave the Demo- crata n gort of nervous shook by presenting the origiuals of the ciphor dispatches in consocutive order. This display of mate- xinl for investigation doos mnot scem to have excited any enthusinsm among tho gontlemen who were not long ago 0 ardent in the pursuit of fraud; on thecon- {rary, they are said to have received itin gloom and dojection, and to be more than ever convinced that it will be impossible to complete the cipher investigation before tho expiration of the Forty.fifth Congross, ‘The Bouthern Democrats in the Houso aro eagorly awniting the arrival of the time whon parlinmentary atrategy shall have exhnusted {tself in devising means to stave off the de- bate provoked by Gen. Draaa's scorch. ing specch on the claime question. Thoy are watchful aud wary, and when tho, Speaker and the party managors can no longer find a pretext for shuiting off the inevitable, their turu will come, Thoy made an effort yosterday to get an opening, and wore asaistod in some degroe by the Republicans, who are ¢uite willing to help on the quarrel in the rauks of their antagonists, but, through various devices for, tho consumption of time, the morning hour was passed, and the im- pationt Southrona were kopt back by the advent of & special order ot 2 o'clock. The Northern Democrats are nervous over tho outlook, nnd would gladly avert the impend. ing wranglo, which may make a breach difi. cult to repair, but there is no apparent way ju which the Bouthern Drigadlers can bLe deprived of their revenge. The mecting yesterday at the Peoria Board of Trade of delegates from all the towns along the Illinois River in the intorest of the lilinois & Michigan Canal, a4 againat the ‘war waged by tho railrond compauies for ity destruction through disnse and sbaudon. ment, attacked the subject in vigorous fashion, and fin the rosclutions and pro. ambles adopted coverod a large extent of ground. ‘'I'he meoting stuck the key-note of the canal question when it wffirmed the power of the Btate to protect its own prop. erty from destruction and to moke sppropri- stions for that purpose, mn spite of that clause in the Constitntion, upon which the cuowies of the canal rely, forbidding the Btate to loan ita credit or to wake appropria. tions in aid of railroads or cansls. The meeting also adopted a resolution calling in question Chicago's title to the Lake-Front property, originally douated to the Btate to aid in the oomstruction of tho Ilinois & Michigan Canal, and requesting the Legisla ture to enact laws enabliug the Htate to ro. establish its title to the Lake-Front, A simi- lar resolation was adoptod yestordsy at o canal meoting st Morris. The Tyvza-Fostza-Cuaxpres cipher dis. patches, ju which the Duwoeratic members of the Poryxn Cowmittes thought they Lad found a bonauza, prove, upon translation, to bo very harmluss and mutter-of-foct come Conrt for 25,000, mnunicationa about the propor disposition of campaign-funds, show that not nearly as much money was spent in the Indiana eampaign of 1876 as has been generally believed, Tho statoment has been all along, and the goneral improssion aleo, that the Republicans had squandered about $75,000 in Indiana, and the Democrats ol they conld raise, whatever that sum may have been, tolograms that only $10,000 was sent to that State after the October olection, and aboat the same amount previous to tho State elec- tion, in the campaign of 1870, If more money was put into the Stato, the factis not shown by auy of the telegrams, letters, or other documanta so far produced. shown, however, that the promised scandal about offleial appointments in consideration of contributions to campaign funds had no fonudation in fact, and that it was merely inferred from the harmless nse of the word “appointments ® to indicata the install- ments of money lo be forwarded. This proves to bo a side-tssue of so little interest that it will scarcely serve to divert public at- tontion from the TiLpex ciphers. and really only serve to It secms, however, from the Itis 1n the roport of the Legislativo proccedings occurs the followieg item : ** By Senator Henvxax, of the Fortieth District, toamend the act creating the Appellate Conrt, t0 21 to give thoso Courts jurizdiction uf appeal in ali criminal ¢ ‘Tho Senator might with great justico en- title Lis bill ** A bill to provide for addition- al dolays and legal obstructions in the prose- cution of all indictments for crimes in every caso where the nccused persons are able to employ lawycra to inatituto procrastinating proceedings with a view to defeat jnstico and the oxecution of sontences in cases of con- viction,” On the same day thero was o bill introduced to direct that in all criminnl cnses the Courtsshall nssign connsol to the accused, ond that the connty shall pay such counsel a feo of £50, These aro additional specimons of the trades-union praoticesof the legal pro- fossion, bill to incroaso criminal business and the other to pay for tho businoss out of the Coun- ty Treasury. Now lot tho bill provide that 1o nttorney paid by tho county shall ba re- quired to work moro than four hours a day, unlesa paid extra, gontlemen, who make the laws and so design them to compel and encourage litigation, and dofent justico, nnd incrense the business and profita of tho legal profession, not know that they are croating a publie sentiment which will eventually reform the wholo le- gal profession out of the Legislative halls as o public’ nnisanco,—nan offonss agnainat the penco and welfars of soolety and against good morals? TRE EVIDENCE IN THE BLODGEIT CASE. One member of tho Bar proposes a Do these trades-union Tho teatimouy of A. C. Hrsivo beforo the Cougressional Committee investigating the charges against Judge Broborrr gives (his caso n moro sensational intercst than it has horotofore acquired. Till day beforo yosterday the Broporrr caso was n mere matter of rumor, specifications were filed, and the Committeo began toking evidence, rupt collusion on the part of Judge Brop- oxrT with the Assignee of the Germania In. surance Company to save A. O, Hesine from bis full liability as a stockholder, and with tho cflect of defrauding the creditors of that Compauy, was first teken up, Then the charges snd The chargo of cor- Meame bad given kin notoa for stock, secured by o de- pesit of 170 shinres of Staats-Zeitung stock as collateral (of a par value of &17,000), which wera s0ld Ly private sale under order of the Testimonuy was taken on Wednesdny, and some moru yesterday, with the purpose of proving that the stock thns 80ld was worth at that timo at lcast par; the Becretary of the Staats-Zeitung Company estimated it =ns worth a premium of 83 conts on the Dbnsis of ila onrnings, and lolding a nowspaper stock which earns 15 per cont per annum to Lo worth par, day, given by several reporters of the courts for the newspapers, agreed that the npplica. Other testimony on Wednes- tion for the salo and the incidental procecd- ings woro not enterod in Lhe book usually in- dicating such trausactions at the date of thoir actual occurrence. Jowed yesterday by thoappoarance of Ifesiva Limsolf, who told a story which cannot fail to startle the community, as lald before them in detail in Tne Tripuxe this morning, All this was fol- Mr. Hesixo began by recalling his intimate personal relations with Judge Brovorrr fu the past. e was among those who solicited the Iatter's appointment to tho Bench from Gen, Grast, (Hesiva's) inatance, furthered by Mr. Wiss. ToN, o former law.partner of Judge Iirop- orrr's, that Judge Brooarrr appointed Vocke Asaignoe of the Germania Insuranco Cowpany. says ho went to Judge Bronarrr and made n warm appeal for the latter's ald to enable him (Hesino) to socuro the repossession of the Stuats-Zeitung stock pledged as collatoral, Heaiva's purposs was to socuro this stock at ‘‘auominal figuro.” Mo allegesthat ko told Judge BroborT the real value of the stock; that Bropozrr adviked him to go around aud Mo eays that it wns at his After this appolnlment, Hesina induce cortaln cupitalistato send inlow bids; that he did so; that Brobarrr then ordered tho sale of the colluteral to IxNay Onrene- 1AM, who boughit it for esiNg for £5,000; that creditors of tho Uermania Insurance Company subsequently protested privately aguiust the salo of Hrsixa's notes and stock at s0 low o price, amd that Le gave two of those creditors §2,600 to induce them not to push tho matter any furthor. Hesiva related this story with great cir- cmmst notality, 1o gives the namesof Kissox sod Weruereen as ,tho men to whom he paid the §2,500 as & consideration for not pushing tho affair to an investigation, Ho says that the gentlemen upon whom he culled about tho proposed sale cf stock were Messrs, Coorvaven, Bcunmprs, Sow. A, 8y, Gaor, and Loes, bLankers, and Mossrs. ltenstnud Goopevy, personal friends, all of whom promised to meke small bids or uot to bid at all, as o favor to him, All these gentlemen except Alr, Cooruavay, who bos since died, sro within reach. o also says thut Vocxr, the Assiguce, was presont at ono of bis iutervicws with Judge Brop- oeTT when this transaction was discussed. In addition to HusiNa's testimony, Mussrs. Gurenesavn avd Vocxe were examined yes. terday about this sume affafr, Mr. Gneeve- savx corroborated Hesiva's statement as to Lis purchaso of tho stock for Hesixa, and Lis subsequent transfer of the sawe to Hes- 150, but jusisted that ho belioved at that timu thot tho stock was not worth more than the 25,000 which be paid forit. "The Cowm. iwittes went to the houso of Alr. Vocke, wbo is wick, aud there took his evidence. Mr. Vocke wus placed ina very embarrassing position, unlcss he were preparcd to deny Hesing's stutements, so far a8 Lo was con- ecrued, snd (o sustain bis denials. Those who read Mr. Yocxr's evidence will probably be impressed with a fecling that the witness baud o fuvensh sort of desire to relicve him. vantage in the tr Asslignee of withdraw from power.” self from all blama for what actually hap. pened : he reiterates his alloged warnings to Judge Brobarrr that thero waa stroot talk of favoritism to Hesixo, and his consulta- tions with Register Hippanp, in which he sought to impress upon the latter the im- portance of holding Hezarsa atrictly to his full liabilliy ; and he tells, with a monifest sense of relicf, that Mr. Hmpanp allayed his apparent avprohensions by assuring him that -Judge Bropozrt would do just what waaright in the matter. Hesixa's account of the (ransaction is sus- The estent to which 3r. tained without qualification is that, finally, Mr. Hzsina's lawyer, who was nlso Mr. Vockr's pertner, submitled an order for private sale which Judge Brovaxtr signed, and under the nuthority of which Mr, Vocke, as Aesignoo, sold the stock to Mr. Greesz- BAUM. Mr. Hestxa made othor statements which, thongh not benring on this particular case, will not fail to attract wido attention. Iie swore that when the whisky case of Pamr. AN & Rusn was tried, Judge BronoerT eall. ed four of the jurymen into his room nnd told them he wanted a verdict of * gnilty,"” ond that it was the krowledge of this fact which jnduced him (liesive) and the othors of the same * batch " to plead gnilty rather than stand a trial, ToN came to him with tho statement that Judge Droboerr wanted Warp convicted, and jntimated that he (izsixa) would fare o snid that Mr. Wixs- botter if he wonld **lay down” on Wanp, He swore that he .had givon Wixstox $2,600, to wuss his (Wrxstox's) influence with Judge Brobaxrr in his behalf, and * had heard " (which, of itsolf, is worthless tostimony) that Winstoy had offered {o get back thelr books for the whisky men for 320,000, He also swora that Winston had eaid he could *‘mako the Judgo a present,” when the question of get- ting back the books for the distillers was under discussion, ‘Wo havs endeavored simply to give o brief and impartial summary of Mr, Hesrxa's evi. dencs and the other testimony growing out of it, 5o far as the investigation has procoed. od, investigation has proceeded far enough to dovelop further corroboration or Judge Bropoerr's defonse, except what Tuz Trin. uxz sald at the timo the privato sale was publicly announced. Then, in its jssus of April 24, 1874, Tux Trinn¥E spoke of the ‘We hiave no comment to mnko till the transaction ns one **which requires some better explanation than has yot been given”; sud, nfter describing tho manner and result of the sale, it added : *4 Ve do not sec how Mr, Ilnnixa gaine anyad- 8 Mr, GREEXE- time than tho e Germania Insurance Company, in whoto shoes he now stands as s creditor of Mr, HEsING, could give, What we olject to Is that the nAUX content “ordinaty course of justice was intorrupted by an arblrary judicial act, to tha dotriment of the credltors of o bankrapt estate., Falr dealing ro- quired that th Court, should these notes that a private indlvidual would nse fn collecting his own clams, gneo, under direction of the te same diligence in collecting Indeed, & privato individual might use Tess diligence than an As- signee, since the Iatter acts in & Aduclary capacity, and caanot consult his own feelings and sympa- thier. A private Individual really desiring to col- lect this debt would, after defanit, have ndyertised tho zecurity and sold it, and then, If any balsnce had remalned, would have obtalned judgment for such balance. In this case,” ‘This is precisely what was notdone If Hestxa's present story shall atand unre. futed, the explanation then demaunded will havo been given, but it will be of a charncter {o bring sorrow to tho hearts of hundreds and thousands in this community. MACMAHON'S RESIGNATION—THE FRENCH CRIBIS, The French Republic is once more under- going a tension which threatens to break it in the middle, resigued. M, Grevy has beon elected Prosi- dont of IFranco for saven yonrs by a vota of 636 to 99, and a new Oabinet will now be formoed. Tn his letter of resignation Prosident Maclanox has the President says: *‘ Being in disngreemont with the Ministry, and being bLopeless of forming another Cabinet, and unwilling to nisent to the measures which I regard as contrary to a good armny organization, I The ostensible caunse of his resignation is his unwillingness to comply with the demands of the Repub- lean leaders for the removal of certain high corps commanders in the army, but tho real cause lcs doeper. M. Mac- Manox has never beon a Republican at heart, He is very conservalive in his ten. dencics, and his sympathies are with the Legitimists. lis military services left him with o strong admiration for Narorrow, ‘Thero I8 no nftiliation betwcen him and the Radicals, and he Las never yet assimilated closely enough to the model of government sdoptaed by tho Itepublio to entirely abandon the idea of persoual power. e has several times been in collision with the Cablnet and lower branch of the Assembly, but when the people pronounced against him he reluc. tantly yiolded, The receut Henatorial elec. tions have consolidated the Republican strongth In. tho Assembly, and placed the porty in such a powerful ascendoncy that it s in o pouition to tost the willingnoss of the Presidont to carry out the instructions of the Assembly, As the Fronch Republie is based on the modol of tho Huglish system which makes the ruler shuply the instrument to exccute the will of the Parlinment, ropresenting the wishes of the people, it waa Lis duty to have obeyed tho order of the Assembly to remove thio corps commanders. Tho momont that L refused, there was but one possible issuo to the struggle. Eithe¥ the systom of gov- ornment must bo abandoned or personal power must give way, For MacManon there was but eue way out, Either ho suust carry biu point and retain the offensive officers by a coup d'elat, or he must resign. Afraid to trust 1o a coup d'etat, he did the wisest tbing under the circumstances and re- wigned, though it would have been wiser had he yielded to the demands of the Assembly, which is tho constitutional power. ‘The now regiwe is undoubtedly the work of Gauserra, who is now the power bohind the throne, M. Guevy, ths DPresidont elect of the Repulliv, iy a very conserva- tive Ropublican, and Ganuerra is o Radical, though not one of the extreme sor¢; butit m y be accepted as certain that he would not bave juspived the nomiuation of Guevy ond taken the Premiership if there were dangoer of a collision, Briefly, it may be said that M. Guevy's Republicanlim dates back a long distance. 1le acquired groat in. fluence by bis early opposition o Bocial. um and DBonapartisio, aund in 1848 gove expression to bhis unational views Ly advocating that tho Exoculive should Le chosen by tho National Assembly, and hold office at its pleasuro, with the titlo of President of the Couucil of Ministers. In 1871 he was elected to the Netional Assembly from three departments without opposition, so great was bis popu- larity, and was President of the Assembly from 1871 to 1874, but duclined President Trrens' Invitation to serve longer in that ca- pacity, With M. Gnevy for President, and an Assembly strongly Itepublican in both branches, evervthing looks favorable for the Repnblic on the surface, but it must be re- membored that the French are n fickle and hot-headed peoplo, It is not likoly that Gen. MacMapox will remain milent, though he has resigned his office. Ha wil appeal to the consorvative elements of the French people, and he has, no doubt, the sympathy of the army. Ho will give them the reasons of his resignation more in dotail than lio expressed thom to the Ministry, and he will point ont in very strong language what he believes to be the dangers in the future from the reorganization of the army. It romaina to be soen whether thera will not be a resction from tho shock which so im- portant o resignation must inovitably causo in France. The pendulum may swing clear to the other oxtreme and indicate the exist- ence of n conservatism which may ultimato- 1y facilitato the restoration of n King. Thero ara other dangers lurking in tho Republican programme, suchw,ns tho effort to par- don and bring back to France the cxiled Communists, tho gigantic *system ot publio works proposed which almost rivals the extravagiwnciea of the Empire, the changes in the laws of trades-unions which nro alrendy giving displonsure as opening the door to the International Soclety, sud the dotormination of the Government that the Btate shall be the only judge of the scholastic or professional qualifications corti- fled to by degrees. ‘The latter proposition hins alrendy aroused tho hostility of the whole ceclesinstical body, which i3 determined that the Btate shall not exorciso stipreme control over tho nationnl education. Tho changs of Trosidents is not only a meritorions one, but it comes nt n momontous timo, It is to Le hoped that the Republio will wenther all the threntoning storms, but the outlook is a tronbled one, and the ontcome cannot yet be clearly scen JAY QOULD. The story of Jax GouvLp's carcer would furnish a tolerably correct bistory of the American speculative and kiteflying era which began during tho War of tho Rebell- ion nnd ended so suddenly and disastrously with the panioc of 187, Gourp was one of those who escaped the gouoral ruin, and his operations since the groat erash have been enormons aud usually successful, ¥e has been n *‘benr,” and mon who havo sold “ghort” during the last fuw yonrs have nearly always won, for the unerring ton- dency of prices has boen downward. The recont apeoulation in stocks has boen o radienl change from the provious condition of things, and GouLp is said to kave been caught and slaughtered. In the vulgar vernacular of faro-dealors nnd stock-gamblers, he hns beon ** whip-sawed”; ho misealoulated on & rise in gold, which ko endeavored to forco as ngainat specio resumption on the part of the Government, and likewise on the fall of stocks, which have boen strengthened by tho new fooling of confldence in the community and tho seeking of investment by enpital that hns beon pormitted to lie idle. .Wo do not place absolute faith in the latest story of GouLp'’s utter ruiu; it may be true, but it is just as possjble that it is proma- turo or exaggerated, or, indeed, that it has been manufactaroed at Goury'’s own sug- gestion, and as an incident of some secret and gigantic operation Lio may have on hand. Whoether true or false, however, tho ruin of such a man {s an ovent that need occasion no excitement at any period of his career, and one that can have no effeot upon the genoral business of the country unless n beneficial ono by renson of the moral lesson it should teach, Jax Gourp first becnme conspicnous aa a member of the firm of Jrnu Fisx & Gouto, ‘who wore Wall street brokers. Thoy bocnme ponsesaed of tho control of the New York & Erie Railrond, and proceeded to wreck it, so far ns the stockholders were concerned, but for thoir own personal benefit. They struck Londs with the Twzen Ring in Now York nnd sbared in the contrul of the corrupt judiciary of the Ring-rule. Fisx, boing the songntional member of the firm,was credited for mnny years with the rockless sudacity and ultor unscrupulounsness of their trananc- tions, but it has now been known for some time that Gourp furnished the brawns nnd directed all tho mnnenvres, Il was the ovil genius of *Black Friday,” ‘and the bero not meroly of the gigantio awindle porpetrated upen the public, but of the sub. sequent, belraynl of his own friends and brokers. Aftor Fiax wont where the wood- bine twinoth, hia speculations bocame more extensive and iy mothods more mysterious than ever, There Lins not for many years beon nny great gambling combination in which Jay Goorp has not been a controlling spirit, All the prominent American stocks havo fult his influonce at onetime or an. othor, and in nearly all cascs to his indi. vidunl bonofit and the damage of legitimate owners, o grabbed the Unlon Pacifio Railroad at a time when the stock could Lo secured for o song, and since thon Lias dic. .tatod a policy for the mauagement of tho rond which has beon a swindle upon the Govornment and tha people, It has boon widoly stated and genorally believed that ho purchased ono of the priucipal daily nows. papors 1o New York Oity some years since, and that this journal bos been runin his intorest so far as he chose to shape its course, 'I'he amount of monoy at which liis personal fortune Las been estimated dnring lnto years is alnost fabulous, and it was sup- posed by many that he had grown %0 rich as to be beyond all danger of failure, no matter how mmoh specu- lation ho might undertake, It is this fuature of tho case, along with bis well-koown habit of rosortivg to ** woys that are dark,” which creates couslderable doubt as to the accuracy of the rumor of his failure. Jax Gourn has been chief among a set of gamblers who Lave been o curse to this coun- try for the last fifteen or twonty years, Tho singlo desire for fraudulent money-getling has ruled all bis actions. 1lis efforts to this end have not been impeded by any conscion. tious scruples, nor by any consideration of the public welfare, nor even any thought of friends or business associates. Judging from Lis actions, there is not a particlo of patriot- is, philanthropy, veneration, friendship, or ouy other sentimont in his composition; an utter and heartless selfishness, indifferent alike to social, moral, and commercial tonets, seems to have governed Lis conduct. To all appearances there never was 0 unscrupu. lous aud cold-blooded a scbemer for wealth, aud even wealth did not scemn to satisfy bis fondness for plotting. Wae presume that to his direct responsibility and examplo might be traced more commercial disaster, more heart-burnings and disappointments, wore exvesses and failures, wore gawbling and Luok- ruptoy, wore moral deforwity, more ruined families and desolate hearthstones, than to any other man living. Yot he hias nover oce on in offico at conduct of sivility in cupied a public position; he bas never led a conspienous personality; hns led a private and rather rotiring life, Wo cannot rocall, howavor, in hin entira career the manifesta- tion of asinglo generous impulse, nor an evi. denco of any devotion to his country or love of his fellow.being, nor the record of any chnrity or good action. Ho lns beon a sort of devil-fish, renching out his tentacles over nwhola continent and squeezing the very lifo-blood ont of every corporation and cren- ture npon which his hold is fastened, If he has mot his fate at last, it has been in this war which he scems to have declared against Government, the people, and the prospority of the conntry ; there will be fow mourners st his financinl funeral, and his single col- lapse, no mattor how large, will not go far towards compensating for the wholesals wreck and ruin which he has worked in the past. THE COUNTRY DEXANDS A REASON, A carcful perusal of Secrotary Buzrnan's lotter to Vice-President Wnrxres, contains ing a resume of the grounds upon which Gen. Antrus was anspended from the Col- lectorship of the Tort of New York last July, lends ua to modify somewhat the se- verify of tha lnte strictures of Tnr Tninuxe upon bis course, Csndor compels us to admit that Mr. Snersan's arraignment of Gen, Anraun's administration was suflicient 1y clear, forcible, and convincing, Assuming that this lotter wna considered by tho Com. mitteo on Commerce, it is fmposmble to conceive how o solid vote fu favor of the refection of Gon, Mermirr and MMaj. Bunr conld have boon obtained. Indeed, it Is explainnble only on the hypothesis that the Coxxuino ring of politicians, aided by tho corrupt importers’ ring of Now York City, were powerful enough to induco the Com- mittee to stullify itself. Gen. ArTnUR's answor to the arraignment of Secrstary SuerMAN is utlerly pointless, except ns it shows tomporizing and woakness the part of tho Becretary at the time of tho fimst attempt nt removal, when a foroign appointmont was tondered to Antnun, and nt the time of the suspension in Jnly lost, when he (AnTuug) was told by the Beerotary that no charges wero or should be made against him or his administration. On the morits of the case, Antun'sroply is not worth n rush ; it constitutes no defonse atall. The charges of Mr. Sienaan’s lottor show tho gravest dercliotions of duty on tho part of ArTuur, and irregularities and frauds on the part of subordinates in every branch of Lis administration; and Aatmun's reply consists of peity evasions and attempta to show that the responsibility for his failure to colloct the revenuo rosts, notupon his own shonlders, but upon the shoulders of the Becretary himself, Thera s, doubtless, » grain of truth in Anthon's charge that Sccrotary Smenmax is responsible for the rotontion of certain corrupt subordinates Now York, In the the castoms braoch of the Treasury Depnrtmont business 1lr. BuenyaN is compelled {o act through subor- dinates. Tne Tmpuse hes always main- tainod that nmong theso subordinates thers are men actlng in collusion with thoe import- era'ring in New York City. It ia in this way that tho offorts of Mr. Burmaux to re- form tho customa sorvico thors have been thwartod. It is through the influonco of theso ngdnts of the importers' ring in the ‘Irensury Deparimont that corlain clerks in the New York Custom-Ilouse who ought to Lavo been summarily dismissed at the time Lrprcken retirod are still retained in placo. Ifencoe tha sola basis of Antnun's defense is the fact that Secretary Surnman has josisted upon retaining near him in the Trensury Dopnrtmont certain unworthy men who have deceived bim to his hurt, But this does not relieve tho Senate from respon- the promises. The fact that Mr. SBuzmaax has boon too leniont in doallng with tha inefMicient officlals and cor- rupt oflicials exposed by the soveral investi- gations that have boen had, doos not warrant the Senato in rotaining in ofice Gen. An. rrun, who is shown to have winked at in- officiency and fraud in overy dopariment of ns ndministration for the last ecight years, It Gen. AnTnun’s ohargo is true, mamely: that certain corrupt clerks lave beon ro- tained in tho New York office by the direct order of Becretary Snensan, ho (Auruus) {s guilty of o grave offonse in submitting to the indignity and neglecting so long to publish the fact to tho country, We repeat: thore is nothing in the roply of Gon. Anraus that tends in the least dogree to wesken the caso made agntnat him by Sucretary Buemsan, It consists of bold denials uusupported byargu. ment or eircumstances, ond insinuates that Bucretary Bmeman is o party to some of the dolinquencies of which he (Antuun) is confessedly, by implication, guilty. With these countercharges tho Sen- nte has nothing to do. 'They may be in- quired fnto later. Becretary Surnax is not on trinl; Gen, Antnun i{s, Tow the Com. mittoo on Commorce can have taken a diffor- ent viow of the case is incomprehensible on any othor hypotlesis than the one suggosted in the opening of this article, On Wodnes- dny Senator Conxuixa tricd fo take a snap. judgment. e failed, Tho Secnate begins to comprehend tho importance of the ques- tion at i about to decide. It coucerns every port of the country, every Blato in the Union, It is this: Shall a corrupt ad- winistration of the customs secrvice in the chiet port of the nation be permitted to overrido the laws of the country in order thal business may be retained thoro that would otherwise Le distribute to various points according to the laws of trade? No moro important sub. joct hos como, or is likely to come, before tho Scnate at its prosent sesslon, It cannot bo settled by partisan nppeals, by exoiting Administration or anti-Administration paz. slons, nor by a resort to tho ordinary clap- trap of porional politics. Tho country de- mands an honeat adminfstration of the cus. toms servico at the port of New York. It aska uothing more; it will accept nothing less. It is notorious that such an sdminis. tration was uot hind uuder Anruus, If the Benato replaces him in the position he dis- graced, the country will be indigusnt, and demand of Benators reasona for their uunc. couutablo action, Gen. Braga, of Wiscousin, not only stirred up the Coufedurate Brigadlers in Congress the other day by Lis wanly specch on the Southern claim queation, but he Las sroused the disgust and {ndignation of all the old fire-catipg news~ vapers {n the South, which score the Wisconsin Cougressinau most unmercifully, Ous of the ablest Jouroals n that scctiou fs the New Orleans Zimes, and its suger inds vet in ditter and defiant lunguage. **Braao, of Wiscousin,” it says, ‘‘sccms to 1} & weat loug felt. What the country has npeeded, long and sadly, is sa artlstic staudard by which to measure idiots, aud BuaGa cumes forward with the articla Huvlng sct Busca down as an idiot, the Times proceeds to give other Northern Democrats s turn after this dircct fashion, which remtnds us of the old plantation maupers under the pro- slavery repme. *Braca,” it goeson 1o aay, *18 ¥ enemy and taken a profound inten a Northern Democrat—s typleal Northern Demo- crat. Habelonga to that small but cheeky gang of which the late Mr. Moratan and the early Mr. BAMOEL, RAXDALL aro represcntatives. e fs one ol the thirty or forty Northern Democrats who muintain that they are the party and that the one hundred or more Bouthern Democrats hava no rights except thoea of laboring for them ond taking a back seat at the feast. Ho ex- pounds that large and lovely statesmanship sc- cording to which the thirty or forty Northern Democrats are tanght to consider themeclves entitled to all the money In the Federal Treas- ury whilst the hundred or more Southern Demo- crats aro entitled to nothing,”” On one point the Zimes writer 1s not well posted. He evi- dently never heard of the glorious old “Iron Brigade,”” and ho fancies DBrico belonged to the breed of * Copperhieads,” for he speaks of the General as “ono of the patriots who bowled for the old fiag whils he stayed st home and Invested fn substitutes.”” If the editor of he Zimes hiad Leen at the front himaell durlog the Robellion he wonld mot talk like that While BRAGG is the target at which the shot of the Timesis almed at first, it concludes by let- ting fiy both barrcls at the whole flock of North- ern Democrats who aro supposed to sympathizo with bim fn his opposition to the Bouthern claim business.. “ Wao thought that,” continucs the Times, ' with BRAaa’s wooden head and wildly- waving ears projecting throngh the disguise under which the Northern Democracy moves, our people fn the SBouth who have been bofooled and deluded so tong might at 1ast coma ta a real- senso of the sftuation and govern them- accordingly.” Bnaco has pitched. the tune, and thero will now be musle by the entiro band. . ——— Prof. Faancis R. Warksn talked !na very entertaining way beforo the Statistical Boclety of Boston Inst weck. Incldentally, he touched upon some of the reasons why the truths of po- litical cconomy, which have been so widely taught of late years, have not had more {nflu- cnce upon the condition of tho workingmen. ‘The chiel sourco of the evil Prof. WALkzR con- sidersto be thecustom of ressoning from'the action of = supposed *‘cconomic man,* who never did and never can have an existence. The result is the common oneof a priori reasonlog,— conclusions untruo in fact. Now the curreot Is sctting o the opposite direction, Instead of the Intuitional schoonl, tho historical schiool, with Rosonzn nt the head of ft, s com- fog in. Gen. Warxam, in this lecture, spoke very warmly of RosCiER, who, he thinks, 1s the great hope of the sclence of political economy, spltaof BoNAMY PRich and his school. # According to Prof. WALKZR," says the Spring- fleld Kepublican, **Roscnzr s broadentog and decpening the domalin of the sclence, and giving it o practical turn. With writers of this class the study of statistica occuptes an exceptionally prominent place, and the reader of Roscnen fluds & good part of his volumo taken up with historienl and atatistleal notcs. Pernaps this sort of argument has not the influenco with the averago mind that might bo supposed, A pret- ty theory has often as much welght as a solemn ond attested fact.” Dut we think that facts, in the long run, bave an advantago over presty theorles. ——— The “Illinois Year Book and Almanac,” fs- sucd by Donnzirey, GasserTe & Lorp, and published by the Western News Company, is & very superifor work, even when compared with the almanacs which have been for soveral years past {ssucd oy the Eastern preas. It s the first work of the kind ever complled in this city, 1t wa except one for 1871, which tho fire prevented from being followed by a similar publication for 1873, The fnformation given in the **Illinols Year Book ™ is very full and complete, and ap- pears to be as nearly accurate ss {a possible. It Is eapecially valuablo to the people of this Btate, being compiled with especial reference to thelr wants. The hook gives a calendar specially cotnputed for Chicago and Springfield, with full astronomicat data, statistical Information about this city, the votes of tho different States and Territories, carly history of Iliinois, Its court organizations, and dates of holding all courts of record in which I1linols cases can botrled, brief bio- graphlcal sketches of State und county officera, with powers and salarics, synopals of laws of interest te farmers and athers, and even in- cludes%he official time-table for lightlag and ex- tinguishing street-lampa in this city. Indne, it {8 a genulne vade mecum of {nformatlon which will be wolcoms wheraver it is met with, ———— They have a Health Officer [n Milwaukee, Dr, 0. W. Wiant, who not only knows what his duty ls, but (s resolved to do it. Rocently he visited all the public-school builaings 1n the city and made a thorough examination in ro- gard to heating, ventilation, means of escape in case of firo, etc., aud made s startling roport to the Common Councll, in which hedeclared soms of them to bo public nuisances. The Doctor ls now on the war-path after the swill-milk estab- lshments, 1o has visited 173 stables in which cows are kept, the itk from which Is sold to customers in tha city, Ile has prepared aro- port bearing on each separato case, which, it s sald, will make the milk-dealers howl and the consumers squirm, Not long ago the average Milwaukeo intellcct was turned topsy-turvy by the knowledge thnt bis famous lager beer, that waa supposed to be manufactured frow barloy and hops, was simply a decoctlon of rico, aloes, and other ingredionts; and now, when Dr, Wianr juforms the citizen that his milk is even maoro unhealthy and impure than bis beer, ho will turn to lake-water in sheer despair, ————— In the first cdition of Kinkuax's Grammar, pruted many yesrs ago,there is an claborate address to the reader fn which much sound and fatherly advice Is glven, particularly Ia rolation to tho pursuit of knowledze, and the close ad- herenco to a strictly moral code, It winds up with the oft-quoted adage, * Be virtuous and you will be happy."! AMaTz CAnrexNTER gave utter- auce to & scutiment very much lke this at Maod- Ison the night after his election to the United Htates Bonate, After all yas settied and every- thiug was lovely botween the Kzxrms menand the Hown men, tho boys went over to Mara's room en rmasse and had & **high old time.,”” In the midat of the cungratulations and hilarity, the Bcuator's “‘maguetic’ volce silenced the crowd for an fnstant, when he said; with appro- priate solcminity: “Younggentlemen! you ses Low it (4 in order to succecd o political life in this country a man mnuat b good/™ Those who aro lotimately acquatuted with Mr, CARPENTER will approciato the joke. —— D= Witr TaLMAGE has been obliged to con- fess that hie used measures not precisoly candid, to say the least, to secure subscriptions to his church debt fund when Debt-Ralser Kiubavt was around. Ho caused a number of fctitious subscriptions for larze amounta to be wade in order to stimulate the falthful. Amoung the persons whom Lo approached with a view to borrowlug his nawe for thls purpose was Joux F, TaLMAGYX, bis nepbow, then in Baltimore, Yowjz TaLmaon told bis revered uucle that hooesty {n this case would be the best policy, and refused to bave anything todo with the scheme, After thls, the Rev. Mr, TaLMaow ought to be dropped into the company of the mock-auctioneers, smoug whom such business practices are customary. ——— President Wunrs, of Coruell, is the only “literary feller” iu New York who fervently supports Roscos CONKLING; yet GRORGE WiILL- 1ax Cunris recommended bim for the Berlin misslou, No other man in the State could have bridged with bis unsupported person the chasm between thoso two. ‘Thls fact slone la a strong recommendation, —— The dlsgust coused in Bescon street by the aunouncement of Ben BorLew's futention to run agaio could only be compared to the sensa tion of & truly “culchured " man who secs bis Dext neighbor eating ple with a koife, ——— Col. W. T. Tuomrsoy, ot Bavannab,—* The greatest bumorist In Auwerics, Ltell you, sir,""'— 13 a vandldate for Uongress to il the vacancy caused by the desth of the late Mr. Hanr uiwas. Bluce BuxssT Cox has gone over to the et fn 1y gensus, there {s a great dearth of hulnnrm.h Conjgress. Col. 'I'HOMPION Will by w, But he il be spolled as n humortst ;:‘::,’;‘ two years. Look at Procton Kworr gy mt head of the Judiclary Committee, and Ugyqy. going Into’ the Bouthern queation ljke &1’1‘" vitrioly not to mention the sad fate of Cox, L ——————— New York merchants and DCWAPaDers by slowly to get a glimmering of the truth g, they can't terrify the peopls of t\“mmllnydu“ tato silenco by slmple bluster, Boston e out with as much cmphasis as Philagely Cincinnatl, or Chicago; nnd all say the un}; discrimination must bo stopped, i — President MAoMAnOR I8 very nnwieg profit by the exparience of Tusens, who o‘;{‘:": his resignation once too often, anduncxpegteg), had It accepted. 1 | In the great glove contest the New York glove-importers’ ring wera first sent to Rrus, Now for an earncat bont without gloyes, ———— The xnedition to Discover a Free-Luncheey in the Interior of Mexico has already met wity somo highly satisfactory results. ——— Benator CHRISTIARCT Rocs 0 Peru to pecyry aspecial lot of cinchonn bark for some of hiy colleagues fn tho Senate. ——— 87, MaRTIN got fnto the calendar of sainty Y the strength of a joint afldavit made by bimul aud Ji ANDERSON. ‘PERSONALS. Queostion by Mr, Tilden: nophew's keeper? Mr. Conkling is the curlod darling of by New York Custom-louse, Nephew Pelton's iutentions appear to hyy been strictly dishonorable. The Rov. Mr, Marrsy i great jocksy, Murray makes tho mare go. Victor Hugo will soon publish a newpoen entitled **La Pitie Supreme.” An exclamation from Gramercy Purk, Oh! my prophetic sonl, my nephaw! Mr. Shorman Evarty, son of tho Bocretary, is the new editor of the Yale Record. London T'ruth has five libel snits on ity hands, brought, we presume, because it told Iy, BIr. 8t. Martin's efforts are meeting with some recognition, Ben Dutler calls him a lar, A grost revival will soon Login in New York, Itinarevivalof the ** Black Crook," boy. ever, = From soveral Domocratie papors we are Ted to infer that Gon. Grant had rather be tighy than be Preaident. ‘The mule is a greatly abused animal, but what wonld become of the ** Amorican humoris™ should hie be abolished? Just ag Mr, Schurz was organizing an honestand pacificstory policy for the Cheyeanes, the Cheyennee got killed. A naturalist doclares that cat can seo best atmidaight, They can weo well enough to dodges boot-Jack at all hours of the night. Beveral 8t. Lonis young men have ex presscd a determination to o to the opera If they have to Hauk their overcoats lo do it Bob Ingersoll laid up no treasures ja Heaven, bat he made $20,000 by lecturing lest year, which ia more immediately avallable. A London publication gives Mr, Tennyson two gulneas a linc for everything ho writes, Eure 1y, hia lines have fallen in pleasant placen, It appenes that the Louisiana Legistatars hae never drawn anything but blanks. It Intesds 10 bresk up tho Loulsiana Lottery scheme. ‘Wouldn't the Indians Lo a great doal bet. teroff if the Indlan Agents wore put on & reserm- tion by thumaclves and mada to siay therer A book once owned by Martin Luthor, acd containing MS., noles mado by him, isownedln Maine, It s & tranalstion of Solomon's Sonz. "1t ia quite probable that the foll of Adsm might have been prevented had the custom of pats ting aahes on alippory sidewalks provailed fnhis day, Mrs, Logan fs an ontorprising and pnblie. epiritad Jady, and doubtices she would have msde & batter Senator had she liad the matcrial to do it with, The price of a 2.yonr-old tame bearin Michigan {s only $20; and thoy aro a source o great joy o & family with supceflucns small children, Bills for the emancipation of the Jews have passed the 8kuptachins, but it fs very diacoot nging to learn that they must atlll pass the Gresd Skuptachina, A woman cannot atop her own nolse, bt it appears that & woman has invented o conlrire ance to atop the noise of the Now York Elevated Rallway tralne. A door-nail {8 dond becauss it Lins been struck so many hard hlows on tno head. The New York 1Worid may sond the prize to this ollice, ex- press charges propaly. Qov, Hampton Lias recaived olght bushels of lef of congratulation upon his recovery, snd hete almost ready fo send a viclous mule o lbe ‘writer of avery one of them. Mr. Vanderbilt offers to match bhis tesn for §50,000 sgainst any other tcam now workiat togethor, tho team that kills the most people i & mile beat to take the money, The prics of sn Alderman in Cincinnatl, we learn from the Detrolt Free Fress, la $3.8%0. Yet thesa are hard times, and the tendency 16 @ reach befote-the-War prices. The Reno investigation scems to sho¥ clearly that Tteno loo far awsy at the time#d have been in the eaponalblo for tho masscH of Caster snd Coster's command. Ben Butler will rotire to private life insit weeks, This would ba the best of good news Il thore was the ulightest probabllity of his stayisg there until bia country cailed bim, Gen, Bchenck wns one of our most Fuc caesful and pooalar English Minteters. ThePrincd 13 a great adwiror and a porafatent plaer tiful American gawo of poker. The St. Louls papers do not make much sdo over the Mapleson Opera Company, evidentls being dlsgustod with the peaceable manncr 8 which the first night's performance went off. The Moffatt bell.punch yielded a revonu? of $100,000 In Virginla last year, and tuo thitey and patriotic people of that State ate determined {a pay off thelr entire public debt by the ure of I 1t has rocently transpired that Basconsfield once wrote 8 play, This revelation, however, i much less damaging than it would otheswiee be from the fact that the play was a complete failure A medical journal discusses the w“”‘ the hand, and how to strengtoen it, Viewinz subject practically, we aro convinced that power of the hand depends entirely on the valod of the cards, and thats weak band mayoftead strengthencd in the draw, Seuator-e'ect Vest, of Missour, writes 10 afriend lu this city; **There is some foundatios for the statement s to Mra. Pollard's sttack 08 m; stRichmond, Ehe struck me witha cowhide 0 1handed her over to the palice. My offcase w&t the baving sdvised & mewnber from Tenneascs 6% tobe blackmailed by her. The whole thiog ¥ ridiculous, snd mignt bave happened toany “:. tleman {n Richmond. It was published here ; tho Iate canvass, but does ot secm to have secleld theresult. T have long sinca ceased Lo pay s0J .u tentlon to mewspaper atiacks, and my clection %31 1o tho facoof the 5t. Louls press, which I 008 slnglo-handed and beal. Asto the woman, « - * 1neard that sho afterwards forced Pollard 1o 31! er. "—¥askinglon (D. C.) Puit. s e o SERIQUSLY ILL: ) Cixcpuatt, Jan. 80,—A, C. Bavds, the bus ncss manager of the T¥mes, who was prostrat by congestion of the brain yestcrdsy, rewsist about fn the same conditlon us last ercaliss Som:d.hnpu of his rocovery are now en® Am I my e LOTTERY DRAWING. & Louisviiey, Ky., Jan. 80.—In the seved . drawiog of he Commonwealth Distributi® Cowpany to-day, ths followlng frst nu_urufl;)’_ wero drawa ‘Ilcket No. drew &2, 26,655 drew $10,000; 83,004 drow 3,000 $1,000; 7,449 drew §1,000; 16,43 drew 8