Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1879, Page 10

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1879—TWELVT. PAGES » The Fath or of the Outlet Theory Eroes His Mind. e He ghinks HIs Cheap And Decl Jobbors Are A sharp From Our O N, Feb. 10. 2 pl River outlet system, 1s the Mississippl River Cominis- el ol from the following Inter- WA father of nctfl]‘:‘ s jon billy 88 :;g« with T! \Yhat % o the M th " 1o all probsbilil it was with the J whose onlln‘om are or leve :lll‘t'd for npunlntm.,q.n_ doths intentionallys Lo urged upout il a1 (he place.” wiyhat Plan 18 Too to Be Popular, —_— . ares that tho Politicians and All Against Him, — Review of the Levee and Jetty Jobs. RS c Misslssip will appear g TRIGUNE € il b the fate, s wn Corrirpondent. —Capt. Cowdon, the orrespondent? Captaln, of the pass- sissipol Rlver Commission bill?" y, theresult witl be the same ctty Committee bill, proven to bo favarable to the e scheme will bo the oues deafg- Men The Preafdent will not dut this class of men witl nd will be likely to secure akes you think that the reprosenta- {ives of tho outlet theol Jace upon t W Because (hese people 1t moule Lase fore o what ex theory?" W.l-l;: .;mplv recognizes it far enough to au- {hotize &R amendment ovlys ptio cxamiuntion for anythivg clee” m:';low do yon make that1” ufiecause they pretend, under this bill, to in- yestizate this question fale beginoine, ry will not also ind o he Commisaion ' have no uso for them, nflict with theinterests of thoso who dv:: the bill thirough the House." tent does this bill recognize the to bLe ade, by an My opinion {a that this was MORR TO KILL THE DILL but, being prejudiced they would practically make o peport adlserse to the outlet system, nnd mako the country belfeve thut t liey really had fovestl- gated 1ty whon they had not.” UTLat procecds npon sorearesentative of the outlet theory will be oo the CommIssioni™ “] do not thiuk that there will; but there py be. I have understood that the men fu Louisiana and Mississiopl who are known to fvor the levea ystem arc nlready selected, Gibaon and those men will probably be very fn- focatial §n forining the Commission, should the Mil pass the Senate.!” #low do you think your plan could bo best trought to the attention of the country " W] think that, It a committeo of Senators snd Representatives WOULD G0 DOWN THE RIVER {bts fail, startine at St. Louls, when the river Is low, they could obtatn accurate und relable In- Buch a Commisaton should go on steamboats, and take the testimony of all the men ofexperience who live aloug the river. They should took fnto the Bomnet Carrc outlet and at the proposed Lake Borgne outlet. They could then arvive at some acnsiblo aud renson- able conclusfon. It 18 Impossible to legisinte with any degzree of intetligenco uoon the subject formation. without visltiug the river, the presumption that The Governmncut Engiucers bave always recommended levees, The report In 1875 recommended a system of levees costing 346,000,060, ‘I'he letter recently published fram Gens, Wrkelit und Barnard recom- mepded leveess und, asaniliustration of thecost of this plan, it was admitted that to maka o test cucat Plumb Polnt Bar would cost $000,0005 ‘wd there avo some forty-five other slmnilar bars i the river, 830,000,000 Bof 1he fettles " "I'its wonld mnke the total cost of me place it at §50,000,- “Da you think that the jottics aro successful atthemouths of the riyer??* “No, siry they bove all the water at ihe mouth of the river they ean ever get, They bave the same pmount that 4 Wwas TitERE 150 YEARS AGO, and that was obtainca by fetties; while at the Soutbwest Vass there #8° to greater depth of Water than there was when they commenced.,' “Did you say thut Jetties were in existenco 150 years azol?? “Certalnly. It 18 not gencratly known, but there were “Jetties thero nt the mouth of the nver 150 years ugo, which sceured from tienty | to Lirenty-tio fect of water," I there any trace of them left? ota particle, The river itself, indeed, 1s from scventecn to ‘twenty miles away from where It then was, The truth is, this whole #ratem has been thoroughly tried. The French, frem 1718 to 1780, tried jettics, dredefng, wud scraping, and talled, just os wo bave for the Jast Aty years, There 18 a contintous 011 goine on, uufeide of whicl, by orders of th,&overnment, We really know nothing." *llow bas the Government Ing knowledge on that subject i 33 5n prevented obtalo- “When Don Cameron vens Sceretary of War, Jie stopped Ma; Soundings," ' Why woa thatim "1t vwas done, 1o doub quested [0 *What p] W let that can ItIs on the :hlrh {8 gulnze castwar Lay I8 uncol the finest hurbors on the t has from twenty. lan do ever be made weat side of d all the ti ). Howell from makivg any more t, because Mr, Eads re- YOI e e meut of the riveri” u propose for the improve: The proposcd Buratar! Ia Canal is theonly out- that, WILL EVER BE WOUTIL A CENT, the Misrissippl River, e, and the Continent, -four to seyenly fect of Tuterand covers four or flve superttcinl nlles, There fs w har av; uperiicial square T3 the out. vhicl 1s besther drlft nor delta, utside, which ':l the continent, aox fect avart acroga this bar, ermanent aty feel,” “How fa; When sen-wulls forming the boundary are placed It will secure a depth of water of (hirty-five to tis that from New Orleanst “ e l‘!"hn duc north about Nity-five miles, There througly whic fg aud tive Wiy sod auid lu.uu to filf » Wast would * It hag hee Piace, at 85, e y elzht mily the imareh, Yaus, frons B2 ta thirey engluecrs, feel diep, now six feat decp tilles long to the Tot this canal fill 0, becauso 1t would o water would the locks, 000,000, i I o’ s of new cut to make u The balance of 150 10 1,600 feet wide aud twenty- the way 1s to Huorvey’s Canal, und fifty feet wido, Misstsalppi River," up with mud " be Jocked at the upper Lo adwiltted excopt o Lo the coat of this? fmated for a twenty-four feel 159 feet wido 1o mayxhnrruwcnt s catimute cotnes from cheaper {lp u"“.euu po done ngreat deal Ypen the bal 2 w What wauld 1o It wo Settiry Son ket woney Ucts 1o New Y 1 Suntregt, less thian lance of oiteru States to plag OBt vreducry gy x\n ol 20 thnt i eunble thiun 1t now e lh-lrhnnm one-fifth woulrd ¢ ¢ of the t'x])enlt‘l.‘;‘"m““‘ eplaney the uffect upon commerce? " the peuple of the South- co thielr grain und oil tiele e markets of Liverpool for GBS Lo carry the same wrk City, or to i Lo b 1t would suve bo the cgu‘;v:'y :;‘: n ' UUNLUED wiLLioNs op DOLLARS ANNUAL~ X, This gay, i lhellm" §!20wntn per bushel would be di- liog v, ooR Wi entlrg Wisinand for sur prod 4 Would this B Wixta Sues iy O nuUlaL d way 0 througt i aned pugs shipa carrying from und toy, faors gy ke, Oy ons carry ('llrlcn than Ny 0 jears. Vbt § ¢ o Sang g, P .oll ¥ater Ty Syl ke ier Uiber g, ke g Mgy, ould wany 1 o 3400 th 8 It would Outlet ark, t g t M Pl g e Quachigy 0 the " Jonas enty miny o Erly Cany 8 the PO, 0ru in 2 thiero ould Wik fnto iy 3ier ot e R Tk ri] An additions) $250,000 T gy (B0 1e0t o Jow-wuter el fully uix feot, Tho second Jrould bo- the diverston of the Lulf of Mexjeo through Babilu or the the Atenafuyls, T 0 draln the eutire water-shed i fta tributaries, redveing producer and the consumer, ol und monopoly of the This would augmont sbipplog as 1t "would not requiro P8 to o through the al uow, canal-hoats of more freignt in- seven wonth 4 ships to forelgn ports u:' u-l’:: outlet system syatem 1 tha name of the man- r:t:.llr:,gm:}mu lumlcmlnnf' of amal} cxpc;;m nnlu 8 hort Cimos worg i enm i in & sbort time, Wwo hundred und woull reg ® t New Orloays mll reduce the high-water in m:klufillhu ‘l;luko ou- withln ten fect of low- would tho high-water Lalcasfou, which would ed River “““E from the (s would Lre) Alangy ived bortionot Loulstae, and ailog ‘e Arkansos Riyer, | The duyer- slon of this river would lower the water ut Cairo NOT LESS THAN TEN PEET at high-water mark," ** What would be ko elfect of this Jowering grlu}-r-‘lngh-w-tcr wark on the low-water chan- els s ** The river would fall just ns much lower, ‘The conseguence woutd bie, thatall the bars nt the while shonl places would be dried, with a Shanuet throneh them no wider sud as deep as In the banks above nid below,! ** Does thus comprise the whote of the outlet systomy ‘That s the main part of the work." What more wonld be necesrary to bedone ! 11 the Ited River 1 diverted into the Subine or the Caleaslen, it will be necessary to mnke slack-water navigation from the month of the Habive to New. Orleans. This would greatly benelit New Orienns,' ** flow lone have vou been thinking out this !IIGUI‘G,.CnDtI\ln'I th * Weil, Tor twenly-five or thirty years. 1 made up my mind about thirty years ago thut THE LEVES SYRTEM WAS A FIAUD,! * What induced that. contiusion '* **1 came to that conciusfon for the reason that the river Is continually raising itsell, At New Urleans, for lnatar 1t Iins rnised reveral feet since I can recollect, At Miiliken's Le Vicksburgz, In 1820, ot the highest wa were ab: 1he water Ihat now are protected by levees seven or efeht feet high, My Ty At thut tiue, lived on the opposite slite of the river. His stock in 1520 aubsisted on land which was unpruotected by levees, ‘The high water of 1867 stood seven on those same Innds, ‘Therg ure many simllar Instouces all the way to Cairo, Besldes, the banks of the river show that it has heen butlt up, one strazum after another, Just a3 bricks are Jaud, At Catro, in horing forawell 18D feet deen, they found a cottonwood Jog, At New Qrleans, in 1348, 15} feet below the stirface, o eypress-tred was found, At oiler plaves trees have been” found forty mnd fifey feet under ground, In many plices, whera tliey hive driven wolla, of Iron-tublng, 180 feet, they have found reliea of trees, “Ulits shows that the wiole river has been lled up und, the mure they try to conflne the water in the levees, the more they will decrense theflood-thle angle, which slackens the current ny the volume of water accumulates; and 1t Is bound to burst the levees and OVERFLOW THE COUNTRY, This 18 the exourlence in Louisfaun and Missls- slopl. MeActhur tells us, In s travels In China, that, as a resule of levees on the Hoange- ho River, atter 8,000 years, they rased the bul- tomn ut the stream sixty feet gbove the surface of the country, until (¢t finully broke thiough the levees into the China Sca, the woter devast- fuge the country o distance of 200 miles. The Misslssippi River will do the sume thing at the Red River sumo time, 10 they keep building levees below * Have you had any ald tn bringlng vour plan to the atention of Cun;iruual" ' Not that I know of. “ Why do all the Hepresentatives seem to favor the levee und jetty system ! *1t {3 not the people that fnvor it, These peoplo liere represent the contractors und others whoso futerest it I3 to have the levees built, more than they do the people, TWO-THINDS OF TIE PEOPLE . are with me, und belleve that levees will ruin the voantry. “ You'have sald that the Lake Boreue outlet coutld be mude {n sixty days. How lonz would it take to give permancut rellef, to decpen the chuimel of the rlver to elisht Teet between St Louis and Caire, nnd teu fect from Calro to New Orleang, as it 6 clafined can be done by your nlan,—the present depth of the water be- g live feet” . “I think thut the whole could be accom- plished fu ubout three years.” “low docs this compare with the estimate madg for the levees wud Jettiead? 4 Well, they have estimated $100,000,000 to start with, und bave fixed no detlmte thing for completion, and kuow putning whateyer of the amount i would finnlly cost. My plan s too cheap; it costs too littie to be popular.” Ty . B, W, OPINION. One from Many, . Teston Puat (Dem.), Ger. 8hields will now have represented threa different States in the Senate. What o pity he could not have bemun younger, 50 as to get the ofllce from them all (b tura. le Is the man “lm kuows the real mesving of I8 Pluribus nuia. A Great Loss to Moses, N Clevetanit Heralg (Rev.). Manton Moses Marble had nbout the most reputation to luse of any of the coparceners, and he was eminently successful In mixlayine it. In fact, there1s not the remotest oussitility llm!l. he will cver be able to put his band on it agaln. . Badly Overdone, Etmira Adveriteer. (Rep.). ‘The game 18 to use Peiton as o scapeggoat, e was the cbhap who did all the business in Tilden's own parlor without ‘lilden’s knowledge. It was bad cnough for these gentlemen to be kuaves, but when they assume thut the people are lools tue matter {8 sadly overdone. Having n Fool for n Nepliow, Tretrots News (Ind.). Notwithstanding the fact that the cipher in- vestigation bns falled to conuect Mr. Tilden with the attemnpt of his nepliew to bribe the Returning Boards, enough hus heen shown to furever destroy ‘Lllden’s’ hopes of o renomina- tlou. This I8 ‘whal cowmes of hayiug a fool tor ouuls nephew ! Anxlous to Know, Boston Heratd Und. Dem.). When Mr, Tilden says hesaw noneof the telegrams from Florida, in cipler or transla- tion, we arc bound to bellove him, of course; but we arc anxious to kuow it he ever recolved Nir. Marble's peremptory message: 4CTell Thilden to saddle Biackstone’; also whether ba saddled bit, Of Couran 1o DI, Wasliington stevtibtican (Rep.). That gulleless old railrond-wrecker, stock- jobber, nud {ncome-tax thlef, Bam Fhden, re- proved ‘*the boys™ very sternly when ho dis- covered (1) that they had been trying to pur- chuse the Presidency for him. Of course he did; who says he didu't! 1t wus so wuch like him, you Kuvw. An Era of Ioform. Cinctnnats Commerdiut (Ind, Rep,), What un era of reform we should have had lind My, Tilden been declared President, and ull the able stutesmen who negotiated for the Rte- turning Boarus of SBouth Caroling aud Florida, and attempted to purchase a Republlean Blector in Oregon, surrouiding hhn sud rapg thy muchine, Men would haye sletied for the priml- lmi{ virtues of Becor Rubeson aud Col, Bub- covk, Manomotaliam In Sweden, Nt, Louis Rewublican (Dews.), Bweden has been weakly following fn the teack of {ts erester nelihbors in the matter of putting 1ts currency on u sinile cold bosis, and it is not surprisivg, therefore, that it is reaplog the sao whirlwind, Business depression and ull the at- tondont distresses, dus to the erest fall in prives, or the advsnee in gold—for it 18 six of ous und balfa-duzen of the other—are working the sutie trouble fu Bwedon a3 in Englund sud Qermany, +The Sunis Young Man." Now York Wurld (Dem.), Bo far as we can gather from recent testimony developed before the Potter Cowmittee, the enterprise aud acuteness of our cstecmed con- temporary, the Z'ribune, amounted to thls: Somebody zave it the civher dispatehes, aud it wistranslated them, We lufer from the brutal manuer in which aur estecmed contemporary’s Chicago namesako has recently set the Y'ribune Almanac o 118 head, that the sutue Young wman wust buve doue the elpliering in botl fustunces, Tliden un Unnvallable, Rickmand (Va.) Disoatch (Den.). This for Mr. ‘Vilden. With regard ta his be- Ing agaln & candidate wo cau, without detri- wncut to our fulth in his honesty, say that wo should think fu dissstrous to the Democratic party to run hin agafn, It would be rather too mucn of Now York, und rather too much of Mr. Tiden, who docs not, in our oplulon, pussess the wagnetie mtluence over the mnsavs, nor the deup sympathy with popular feellug, thut aro essentiul {n a coudidato for the sideuey. T'als ts ¢xactly our opiuion upon this mutter, A Queor Play. Ruttand (V1) lerald (fev,), Truly it {s u queer play, o8 comic as a farce In somo spots, as -welavenoly as o tragedy In others; uud now the eurtaln is rung down uud we wend our way homu with tha naugbty nophew's last words in our cars, thut “he did i, that hie {8 proud of it, that bls incenuous uncle wus Invoccut of all knowledgu couceruing the negutintions carrled un from his house unttl all was over, and when ho did Near of them bis unger blazed hotly; e would never, never, nuuyer, 88 long uws Lo lived® uud bresthed und had his belne, hecome Prestdent by purcha Men and brethren, 1sn't the tale a (rile thin? How could 8o nutghty and _corrupt a youth be uephew to 80 nnocent ond uptieht an uncled 'Tlie negro who consented to baptism and wos nearly drawned by the awkwardness of the offl- ciating minister, struggted to the shore, raving: Yon'd better not do dat awtn, or some ceninan will lose a nigger? The Potter Commitiee had better stops they have nearly, {f not qulite, drowned thelr ¥ nigger” 4411 1Mo 1tndl Seen an Inch from tils Nose.* Witsningian (N, C.) Sun (Do) Outslde of New York City Demourats have steered clear of those enuvrmous eorruplions which amaze nnd disguat plain, honest peaple, 1t {8 therefore pecullarly unfortunate for the Reform candidate and President-eiect. that he ehould unwittingly have had working for him a hrave of ruch vrecious political knaves as (his nephew Peiton and this “friend " Weed, A sober, finnl publle judzment will yet acquit Mr. Tiden of compliclty with these nefarfous trans actions, But how ek hetter would L have been for a standing candldate for the Preatdency it he had seen an fnch from his nosel Palnfol Skepticlanm, Cinetmnati ommerctrl (fl, Rev.). This manifest diserepuncy between Mr, Til- den's denisd of ull knowledge of the negotia- tlons und Mr, Couper’s positive evidence that he was acquainted with them, puts Mr. Tilden in an unenviable position, especially when It is conaldered thut, after fair warning of what bls tieptiew wos about, there was no change in their contldentinl relations, the neplicw continning to resfde fu his uncle’s hotise, sending aid recelv- iz dispatelies frum Florlta down to 1he 4th of December, It ds to he feared Mr Tilden's dis- pleasure was not visited tpun Col. Pelton until all his attempts to buy the Presldency had ended In fafture, nud the full extent of the catustrophe of Iis defeat duwned upon the fn- telllgencs of the grest und only Uemocratle Re- Tormer, ® A Simplo-Miuled Old Saint, St Louin Globe: Demacrat (Rep.y, The popular Idea of My, Tilden fs thut iels a very shirewd, cunuing man, who delights ln ways thut are durk und devious; o politiclan who al- wuys takes a very uctive part In the mavages ment of all canipaiius In which L'e Is perzonnily Interestedy and un able favwyer, with o marked factlity tor getting af the bottom Incts In all things affecifng bimsell, The recent examinu- tlon uid his owa evidence are ealculuted 1o make him apoear tn 1he rols of o simple-minded old samt, who, knowing no guile in himself, is unsuspicfous of guile In others: n confiding unele who 18 betrayed by a pet nephiew; and o pur-minded vitizen whose_soul scorns fraud In every shapo and form. I he becomes acan- didato fu 1880, it will be aporopriate to paint his pleture on the Democrabic bunners with o sulut- 1y aureole around bis head. A Valuable Warning. Lattimore frulletin tnl.), It 13 a great misfurtune that Mr. Tilden should over have atlowed the impression to get abroad that Mr. Pelton was his *confldentiul agent.” The scandals of thecipher dispatehes might have Leen avolded bad hie kept his nepbew boxed up ot home from the start. M Tildew’s expert- cuce ouly shows the danger of making use of men whose reputations are nut Lhorougily clean ntd above reoroncli. So far as Mr. Tilden is concerned the evidence already in is suflicient to show that hu discountenanced any sttemyt to buy the Presldency, und that hie was in no sense » party to the eplier negottations. At thfsame time Lils close personal velations with th who conduvted those negotiations is tunate. His exverlence will verve us a valuable warning to other public men nat to employ per- sons ol whose actions they muy slterwards huve causg to be ushamed, “Dender'n n Wedge." New York Cammerciut 4 dreriiser (Ren.). Mr. Marble says the {deaof purchasing the Florlin vote never oventred to him, and that he was horrified to read the translatious the ZTrib- une printed of his telegrame, in which he was showu as trylug to buy the vote of that State. This naturally fnciled Mr Reed toask him if, belng o that framo of mind, and being con- gelous of his own innocence, he had not endeay- ored to recover the true eipher, properly trans- Inte the dispatches, thereby coverlng the ma- Hunant Tribune with confuslon, and coming out hitmsclf before the world, clothed in his spot- lessness, To the surprise of u\'urv!:mle; who thuught that this coparcener hal a hankering for the *keen punllzht of publicity,” he was obliged to confess that ho had not sought to find the ciphier; in fact, that lic had never men- ttoned 1t even Lo hls partner o prallt, Pelton, Of cours, this one admission tells the whole story, w n‘)lluw Marble any further, Out of hls own mouth he hus condenmed himself. The ** keen, Dright sunlizht of publicity* has lald him out $ideader'n o wedge," Whers It Hurts Tilden, Snringfleld (Mass.) Republican (Ind.), Manton Murble wourd have the world believe liat he recefved the bropositions of the corrupt Beturning Bonrd, which were before Wim for days, that he simply telegraphed the fucts to Pelton, but that he never, conseuted toany bar- guiin Mr. Marble's provious character s in his tuvor, but his own testimony yesterday ‘will count heavily agafust Iim even smong those who'would ‘gladly Uelleve him . innocent in fn- tention and get,~ Mr, “Lllden drew to hlinselt Inrgely of the Indepondent vote of the country beeause of his catabllshied record us a reforiner, and the popular fulth that 'he was clear-slehted und shrewd cnough to surround himselt with eood meny to do the best thing for his own reputation, il seek the good of the country. Hu was credited with beior an astute. political munggzer, who knew his ten, und could and would grovern his surroundings,—with heing o leader und a commander, That the old wan must now appeur I the hiumiliating rolo of the tndulgent aud hoodwinked untle, the victim, up to the voint of beiny utterly compromised, of. awayward but blundering uenhew, tnkes uway from Gov. Tilden uuch of his power as an usplront entitled to respect, and qualified to command doubtfut support. ~ The country wil not be ready agaln to vate that men like Pelton be gedven the run of the White House, A Democratlc Faper on Smith Weed, New York Express (Dem.), Mr, Smith M, Weed coufessed to having taken an setive part fo negotiations for the purchose of the votea uf the Bouth Curotina Returning Board, The members of thut Board wero Re- publicans, But they wers willing to scll out to Tilden for o conslderaon, Indeed, they wors fn the market, but having 8 good thing very uaturally wunted the lurgest sum they cowld get for it helr nsking price wus $80,000, uud Weed, who ut Pelton’s request acted us agent in the disgraceful frunsetion, < wanted o the barguin for that ¥ payable wi Blectorul vote of the Stute wus given to T e detalls of this deatestable “wml desplenble business were given undor oath yesterdny, with shumcless fusensibiifty to the moral obliquity of it, The wreteh who uctitully dickered with these Southern Republicans for tho votes, cons senting to their proposed vitluiny, told of his shame’ with unblushing eheek, s thoueh his consclonce was congealed or fronelad, ‘Lhe fuct thut this man was u Democrat, and hes flgured conspleuousty in the party fu former years, only minkes his cobduct 1he more reprebensible, 1o v:as ulwauys niore uoted for the vigor of s lumgs thou the value of his kteas, und showed more brass than bralus or honor. o has told the worlu, with his own lips, what a base, con- teptible creaturs ho Js, e gocs his way to bis own pluce, Exit Bimith M, Weed. Mow Now Hampshire Settles the Tramp Nulsnncao. Phiiadetvhin Press, Up fn Now Hampshira the peoplo have grown tired of talking about the trump nuisance, and havu sct themsclves pructically to the task ot wbattng it Tho Legislaturo hos passed w law for the fprotection of restdents i the rural parts, and citizens generully, from tho vopga- bunds whio buve made Iifo burdly less than o ter- ror tu people fo many localities, aud the statute hus proved such a positive success thut the ex- ample cau certaluly bo followed with proliv by other communities. There 8 no need ot this latu doy to fusist upon the reality and extent of the evil, For years the reports of sucl outruges bave been creasing i number und otroclty, kit 18 no exsygeration Lo utlinm that thousunds of families du aik parts of the country live In o constait - stuto of excitoment and alarm, which It Is the clear um{ of the unthori- tlea to render unnecessary, but which duty g only {n very rare dnstunces been atteapted, Iiere and there have been noted locul attenipts, stch as thut made by the people of Bryn Slawr last yenry to protect the citlzen, but ‘the only largs or general avtion of which we are aware is the New Hawpsnive movement, Stern wens- ures are needed, because the ovil has grown steadiy fn proportion with the weakness shown {n {ts suppression. The trumnp 3 no longer the mere disugreeabie loater whomn 1t was vnce easy 1o rebull] trom beegury he bus advauced Lo threateniuz violence; bejuesou s travels now Affer ihat [t would be o wnste of words’ in nany {nstances with other rogues of Mke tendencles, mid the ndvance ol such a gang upon an unprotected furm-liouse is asapt as not. to he n very aerlous .matter, The way of lifo on fhe * farm leaves (he women fn & majority of cases alono during 4 great part ot Cthe day, while the “men oare In the ficlds, and it is on this fact that the tramp thrives. Murders have been common, and the anproach of the open part of the year causes re- newed anxlety,evidences of whicl reach us from varlous quarters by onr exchanges, New Hamp- Alure’s auswer 1o nll this is very summary, ‘Fhe tramp I8 there, nnd, by the very nct of trainplng, =by which fs meant vagabiondagra al begiary, ~ninensble to Juw. 1le {a arrested on alghit ! remandend to fall, whero he I8 toreed to work out 0 1ot too long sentence, for his own support and the good of the Btate, Women are exempted from the provisions of {he act, together with childeen under 17 and bliod peraons, but all other begpars are 1lable to eonviction under the Jaw. ‘I'he results of this legislation are excel- lenty New Hampshire enjoys a rural peace to which alie was long n strangzer, atd the hint she gives her siater States may certainly be improy- cd to thelr advantage. Jolin Shermnn us n Canadidate for I'resi. alent, Neie York Sun (Dem.). He is a wiac politiclan who, without biink- Anz, looks the truth In the face, whatever the truth may be. Ilowever distasteful it muy be to many, the fact nevertheless {s that John 8herman has been making very rapld progress of late as n candidate for the Prestdency, ‘The chavge in the Custom-llouse In this city was a victory for Mr, Snerman. Mr, Hayes did what hie could In complisnce with Mr. Sherman's wishes, but little it was that lay in bis power, The efTective work was done by the Secrutury of the ‘Iyeasurs, To him the responsibility of the result attuches, If there bs adyan. tage In it, the ndvantoge inures to his benefit, We observe fn certain quurters o dis- position to disparngze this victory, It s, how- ever, of agoud deal of divect Importance, It sets to work for him o powerful maching which tnd been working against him tiuretofore, ‘The utiuence of this machine is widespread, It s not only potent in this Btute, but extends, through vurious ramitications, to differcut parts of the countrs. Dut thils s not sl The vie- tory tn such o hard fought battle with a man of Mr: Conkling’s ablivy und fufluence imparts a new prestige to the nuwmne of John Sherman, From his uchievement of this victory people will feel coulidence that in the future he may win othier anl greater Lattles, Jobn Sthermun, as ocandidoto for President, 18 not to be despised, Per Coutru—0pintun, of thest, Louia Giobe- Democras Ealtar (e Correspondent—** What do you think of John Snerman’s chiunees for a nemination Mr. MeCullngli—+* None whatever, Even {f Grant were out of the way . Saeran could not be nominated. His only clalm would be the suceess of resumption, and thut will ve an old and forgotten story before the nomination comes round. ‘Uhe Amnerican people are princl- pably grateful for fovors to come; that's why the epublicans are for Grapt, Destdes, no ong man {8 entitied to the eredit of bringing about resuwmption. flugh MeCulloch paved the way for ftynnd the Republicans in Congress left notl fug lor Mr. Sherman to do but to exceule o plamn faw. He bns done that well, put there fsn't a Uresigency in it for him. Sherman's nomination would be bit- terly opposed. He conld mot carry ‘the Ohfo delegration to begin with. e has never been popular with the Jmoplo of Ohilo, and has never peen elected to offlee by a popitur vore outslile of his own Congressional District. Mr. Chase sade him Seoator in the Arst pluce, and he was twice re-elected each time by the most vigorous use of the * maching” to which the Adiniula- trationis now so stronuly ovbosed, As a nomi- nee Mr. Blierman would bevery weak, especinlly i the West, where ho wounld be denvunced by Demuoerats and by a cectaln class of Republicans as the Wall strect candidate, He would be budly beaten in 1llinots, for instauce; und { think he would lose Wisconsin, too, ‘lhese arg penerally counted as Republican States, but they ure, In faet, doubtlul States,—fust as much soas Ohto. L eco the Cloeinoatl Commercia’ Is for'8herman, und Is printing his biozraphv, But 1lie Republicnus cannot elect any man this time who hus to start a eampaign with o biography.” Rlden as o Know-Knothing, latadetniia Milleun (Kev.). Mr. Tilden's sworn statement in his own de- fenso is now befure the country, and it may be aceepted as the very beathe has to say for him- self. Its vatue 1s to be ‘csthmated,’ not by the enerey of hils protests or the veliemenco of his dunlals, but by its success’ in deposiug of the material evidonce ugalnst him that {s contained In the cipher dispatehes- and fn the admitted “tucts of the conduct of Pelton and the other conspirators, ‘Uhat Mr. Tilden, It zailty, would stoutly deny the fncts, wus nearly certaln, A man I8 his position who would not scruple to use dishonest methods . would hurdly hesiiate to cover the offense with misrepresenta- tion, Jle would have the strougest fn- ducement to swear limsell out of the trouble, and if we shall e nsked to belleve that Tlden s incapable of either offense, we may urge that the plea of ood reputution can- not be aeeepted fromn a man who s now on trial \in u Federal court for mukineg-fulsa pworr, turns of his income, aid who stauds tac fuce with praots, which hie hns not overthre ol his complieity with Pelton, Marble, Wi Co. {n tlielr operations in the South. M, den's defense is stmply o declaration of firno- rnee of the entire business, He declares that what wus done in behalf of the purchaze of the Presideney for bin was done without his per- misslon, lils knowledee, or bis connivance, 1t we nceept this, we inust belleve thut he, the one mun who had a mighty interest o the rettle- ment of the watter, was completely hoodwinked by half o dozen men who wers his fatluate persunal - friouds, who were knowu by fm to be laburing in his behalf, and whose movements tmust have nt- tracted the ottention und excited the eorfosity of any ordinary man oceupying his position; we must believe that be had 10 fpulse to inguire respectiug the meuniug of teleirrams which poured 1uto bis front deor by scores day after duyy we must adwit that bis nudaclous nephew took from the uncle’s bank the uncle’s money without the unele's knowledgte, and sent it npon an errand of bebery to Oregon, and that he promised other suta from the same source, mu;i'lm: from $L0,000 to $200,000, without nsking the leavo of the owner of the moneyy we must belleye that the neplew, atter belng rebuked and denounced for promising §60,000 as o brive in Bouth Curollua, actually, only ten days Inter, bruved his uncle’s wrath by offering $200,000 as o bribe in Frorida; we” must belleve that ‘Iiiden trusted the whoto management of a most delicata business, in a most momentous erpistg, to a mun who be knew had botrayed his confldence, aud that e tnaintaived tntlmate re- Tations with this man aften, ho had been prove:d guflty of jeoparding Tidei's good nume and risking hismoney in the attemoted perpotration of un_ Infawous ceimes and finully we tnust be- Hevo that one of the shrewdest politicians in the country, one of the keenest Iawvers, o man who 18 fumous for the dexterity with which ho can muninulate politienl muchinery nnd bend ovsti- nate conditions to his own results, ngreed to tnko a back seat ata moment ol intense politieal excitement nd of eritieal Interest, and to told nis hawds nud shut bis eyes white welerk wl o fow riff-raff politiclans were trylng to save his cause, Nobody will believe tiwss things; no- boay can belleve them,s ‘They make a demnund upon public eredulity 8o preposterons that the mere mention ot It exeites derlsfon, ; e —— Gresloy Wantea Tom Corwin Iustead of Znch Vuylor, Cincinnan Commerctal. Among s nuiber of» letters to the late Josn- un K. Glddings, published in the Clovebnd Ilerad, 18 one from Horavs Greeley, under dato of April 24, 1817, in which ho urzes the noml- nution of Tom Corwin by the Whige for Prest- dent, ond William 1, Seward for Vies-Prest- dent, ‘The Tuylor lhurrab, he sald, must bave 1ts run, and then [t would o seen liow much of it wos munufactured gos, Old Rouh wml Heady was writing *lots of letters thut wonld Kilk I, i€ e Mexivans did not,” ~ As for Cor- win, while ho _ureed Lim for the Presidency, he pronounced him a timid muw, snd wore afrall of getting M3 feclk web than woy- body he (Girceley) hnew, But the great ournalist was out of hia reckoning. Ol Yack ™ was the Ldol of the hour, und the hure rali not only nomiuated, but_ clected him, Mr. Greeley did not sutliciently take into uccount 1he fact that wars develop con slers who, ut thelr successiul . termination, becomn populur fdenis for whom nothine short of the Py oney 15 good enouzh, Washingion, after the War of the Rovolutlons Juckson, alter that of 1813; Taylor, atter the Mexican Warg i Grant, at thie end of the great avil contlict, became Vresl- dents. Whon our Civil Waropened, Hawthorne, the novelist, then at Washington, bomosued the fact that wo ghould bs under the ruts of bullet- Leaded Generals fcr 'forty yems thereafter. A un who has commanded armics sud led troops to vietory, stuands nomneh botter chancs uf the Piesldenty than ane who eots blmselt eleeted Governor of Ohlo. e Confused Hurwinlsn, Alttoaukes Sun, Actual occurrence jn 8 Chleago strest-car: Btyiish Jady holdiug & lup-dog 18 xbout reudy to lvave the cur, Dog wantfusts inpaticnce, Lady says, (n ber sweetest toucss *'Wail, dariiug, i) wammy puts oo ber giove.' B. ¥, ALLEN. A Case in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court at Des Moines. Some Hidden Railroad Stock Discover- ed---The *‘ Eastern Dry-Goods Company." Some Discropancies in Allen’s Statements Under Oath. Bpeelal Covreapandence of The Tribune. Drs Moings, Ia., Feb, 11,—=The case of Allen va. Withirow was befora the United States Bauk- ruptey Court lust week. 1t 18 proper to atate, bhere that, when the Chi- eago, Rock Islam & Pacitic Railrond was opened weetward from this city, a Company was formed, kunown o the Jowa Land Compnany, conaisting of B. F. Allen, Ebeuezer nnd John 8, Cuok, and Jobn F, Tracy. The Company purchased land along the road, 1ald out towns, snd sold Jota. By the term of the purtnership, Allen was to advance the money, and bo repaid out of the proceeds of the sale of lands, At the ttme of Uil fallure, by n peculiar system of bookkeeping, and the charging of 17 per cent Interest, he wade a showing that the Company owed him over £03,000. This account, being purged of all excessive und wrongful charges by ex- pert bookLeepers, uuder order of the Court, showed Allen {ndebted to the Company. It was also shown that be bad ueed property of the Company for his owa benefit, und had not aceounted for ft.—no- ticeably §15,000 (n bills reccivuble as collateral seenrity to Obudlah Jackson for slgnini his bond to sceure s release from arrest under an indict- ment for perfury; all of which hio was flually compelled to disgorge. Beveral months azo IE PILED A BILL IN EQUITY fn the Federal Court here, askime that Thomas . Withirow be compelled to trunsfer the interest of John F. ‘[vacy in the Land Company to him ns trustee for the heirs of his wife. In the blil he alleges that, in August, 1875, Mr. Tracy, in consideration of friendship for Mrs, Allen, fn consequence of her many aets of kindness, and in conelderation of the bankrupt econdition of Mr. Allen, execated n deed of convevance there- of; did acknowledge and deliver the samne lo Allen for hers and that the sald deed waos deliv- cred to Thuste M. Allen, his wife, the grantee thereln, and held und kept by her several months, when some of his creditors began to make trouble about It, and used threats of criminal prosceu- tlon unless o part of thie Pronerty Wos couvey to them; that, in view of these ilreats, it was thought hest for Mrs, Allen to surrender the deed, and have Mr. Traey reconvey the property to some person as trustees thut T, I, Withrow was selected us puch trustec: that, In Oclober, 1875, a new deed was made to Withrow ns trustee; und that Withrow now rlalms the property as his own, and refuses to convey the same to the children and hefrs of Mra, Allen. Withrow denled the allegations sct forth in the bill, Issue was joined, amt the cause came on for hearing. Allen was eailed Ad A WITNESS. On the first day Lie testified that, fn June, 1835, in pursuance of an understanding with With- row, he (Withrow) drew up n decd, amd fuon atter he (Allen) took it to New York, presented it to Tracy, wnd told him 11 was written under Withrow's Instructions, amd would convey his one-fourth fnterest In the Land Company to Mrs, Allen, Tracy signed it. aud gave it hack to him, after belng acknowledeed. The deed was complete; except the name of the grantee was blunk. This wos in Auzcust. He told Tra- cy the renson why Mra, Allen’s name was vot fnserfed was, that, if the name were put in, ereditors would eay It was covering up properiy. He nsked Tracy for permission to insert her name us granted, and he assented. [le brought the deed home andgave it to Mrs, Allen. She kept it until some {1mu in October, In October {L wae decided to have n new deed, beeause it was though* mnot best to have the pron- erty in Mrs. Allen's name, aud cause Traey's Intereat was bell to be one-hall matead of one-fourth, A ecco deed was made by Tracy in November, in which Withrow wasnamed as rrantee,—it befne under- stood in trust for Mre. Allen.. lie (Allen) has 10 knowledge whiere the teed fn blank was. He surrendered it to Rausom, to be returned to Tracy, supvosing Tracy would not make i new e IlnllPlhe old one wis glven uo, fle teat fird thut he read the deed to hls wito with much care, anvl wus famtliar with {ts contents, On Detniz referred to his bl fn_which he allezed that Teaey excented to snid Thusie Allen deed, uned that said deed was thereafter delivered to his said wife, Thusia M. Allen, the grantee therein, he was nsked 1P IT WERE TRUE AB JIE ITAD SWORN. Te reptled he thought it was, s be _had Tracy’s authority Lo fngert her name In the deed, Q.—* That {s u sample of your slatements under oath, 18 1t Beeause you hud the nuthorl- ty to put her nuime fu the deed, you swear o was executed to her, und she was the grantee lll\uh ’; Tt A.—" Yes, sir. Q:—* You swear [n your bill that Mes. Allen had tho deeil in her possession several months. Is that trued? A.—*T could not say whether it was or not.” Q.= Is that the paper exeeuted I blank as the deed to yovr wife!” A puper wus handed Allen, which bo sald was thie deed n blank to his wife. [t was exceuted Qct, 11, 1875, und conveyed all Tracy’s Interests fu the 1.uml Company to a blung grantee, su- thorizing bim, with fall pewer of uttoruey, to caforce a purtition of the property. A= That {s the deed,” It was sliown by Allen's testimony that he left New York with this deed Oct. 11, and ar- rived at Des Motues on the 11t aud that, on the 17th, he detivered it to his attoruey, Ran- sont, to be seat back 1o Tracy; which KNOCKED THE PITH OUT OF 118 OATIL that his wife had it several months. On belne interrogoted us to who the numervous creditors were who hod made threata azainst him for seeking to hide his property under his wifu's name, he couldl mention but one, and he way Gen, Joun As Lozan, to whom le owed mnoney. *To toke n side chute on this point, {L 8. Mon- roe testatted that he made an effort to collect this debt for Logan; that Allen suld iv wus o gacred debt, und siould be paid; that, in the winter of 1875, Allen told him lie hud au foter- est with Julm ¥ Praey i some Linds, and Traey had deeded an futerst to Mea, Allen, und that Logan sioull be paid from the proceeds of aales ndo of the lunds in which Mrs. Allen had an uterests but, whea he ape plicd to Allen for an order on Tracy to make secure Logn's chanees, Atlen refused to give it. 4t will be seen that Loeaw's attorneys id not press thelr clalm until in the wititer of 1875, whlen knoeka the plth out of another sweur of “Allen,—the deed having then been surrendered by Allen. To comu back to the deed azaln, after hav- fur shown thut the duress of creditors WAS ALL 1081 Mr. Allen was interrozated thusty: Q. DIl you have any fears of threats be- foro "Tracy exhibited that deeld A.—*1'aid buve, or elso § would bave had her name inseried,” 3=+ Why did you take it, when your fears {nduced vou to surrender It soon attert” A1t woulld not have been surreadered [0 1t iad called tor one-lindf fiterest, Q.~+* DId you yead this deed over corelully " A=t Yew mn? Q=" You wore satistied could bo put {n that degad® A=Y, sir, 1 was,” hie intervogator read to Mr, Allen the graot- ingz elause of the deed, caltinir bis utteation to thie tact that the masculing prousoun 18 used in every place whero ppronoun 18 used. Q.= Were you accuvtomed o deelng o female grantee reterred to by a masculiie prononn” A.—** 1 did not take iny notics of that." Q=**fu this bill, unider oath, you allee Aluit this deed, ‘undo to the sald “Thusiy M, Allen by the salil Tracy, was destroyed.! Are yuti now sutistied it was not destroyed !’ Ac—'*JL scels 80, But 1 knew’ [ ave i to Rausom 1o give to ‘Uracy to be destruyed, wud | supposed It was destroyul,” Durig the examination of Mr, ‘Allen by Me, Withrow, thero wus brought out a fuct which wiil by OF INTEREST TO ALLLN'S CHEDITORY, und which the asslgucs of hils estute will he ureently pressed (o Inake u note of, Mr, Allen said: YL turned over to my ussignes all of the usicts of my vatate. 1 did not reserve any- thing, directly or tnalrectly, thut [ recollect of, 1 did ot have uny bondsor stock of any incor- porated company thut Tdld nut turs over to auy asalzoee, Norodid [ huve uny under my control, divectly or ndircetly, 1 did mot bave any Canada Soudhern, nor Detrolt, Tuledo & Cansds Southern bonds, but what wers pledized as collaterals to pavtles fn New York—{do not know who—for detts thut Jowed. L never had uny such stock of my ow witer wy fuilure. L unzht baye tad in the your wile's bumo . Danids of partles ns collaternls,—I do not recol- lect in whose hands, | never attempted to use any of those bonds alter my fallure, I could not state how uany shares of* Canada Southern stock § had at the iime of my tatiure. Theorigl- nal subscription was £30,000. I id, in Novem- ber, 1875, transfer to H. L. 8words 1,13724 ahares of Canads Bowthern stock, IHeis my son-in- law, from whoin 1 borrowed a part of the money, fie had money, { don't recollect, to whom Idid transfer (e balance, [Allen faifed tn January, 1 I bave not, directly nor indirectly, re- cetved any procecds of thesate of Canada South- ern stack since my faflure. T did wot report it in mv schiedule a8 stock hypothecated, hecanse L did not think it was worth anything, T have never tried to borrow money for myself by hvpothecating * thut Canada “Southern stock slnee my failure, 1havo never written a letter toany one proposing to borrow money upon that stock to use {n my business, Mr, Allen was licee handed a lettor, sl asked s Q.—* 1) you write that]" A= Yea, i I did." THE LETTER reads thus; Cigeaun, Dec. 28, 1 ~Futexp Tracy: 1 wrole you this morning anout Canads Southern stock, ‘and Toledo, Canada Svuthern & Datroit bonds, Iather thian sell at the price offered, I would prefer ta borrow what 1 could nn the same, Conld you tell me where a loan could be made on the minc, a3y for six montha or o year? I think it would he dbetter to hold the stock and pay in- terest, If 1 conld get money on it as collateral, 1 would rather pay 10 ver cent Interost than sell, Coutd you tell tae where I coull placy them? I muat go st something to make a living, and mnst have some money ‘1o etart on, 1f you can tell e where 1 can make & rabse on thla as collat. erul, you will_coufer a great favor, as 1 don‘t 11ke to sell at 10 cente: It wlil ecrtainly be worth moro to hold. Yours very truly, B. F. Autey, Mr. Allen continued; **1 was discharged from bankruptey fn December, 1875, That fetter wus written within three weeks arter, I think Tra- cy understood . 1 had talked with him about tie \mllc v of surrendering a certaiu amount to the Vanderbilts, a3 he aud Dows nad urranged, The letter was written at the request of Swords, who was in Chleato, und wanted the mouey to use in business. I never tolda my assiguce about the stock, and never putit in v sched- ule. Teannot rive any fdea of the amount of money for which this stuck was hyvothecated. ‘I'ie money was furnished me by Swords.! Q.—*Wihen I asked you whao held this stock, you knew Swords had It, though you sald you uld not recolleet who bad (L' A—"*1 suppose | did.” Q. ;—“ D1d hie bold 1t ut the time of your fali- uref! A.—*1 think he dil. 1 do not know how long he held it. L never transferred it to any vne but Sworde. Q.—"Diln’t Swords transfer 1,187%¢ shares Jau, 21, 18783 87?{ In Murch, 1878 und 1,100 shares Jon. 7, 187847 Av—i+T could not tefl.” .="Don't you kuow the procceds of that stock went Into that ATOCK OP GOODS ON COURT AVENUED" A—"Itdid not. The goods were bouht on credit, 'The parties have my Itfe-iusurance as collaternl. I own it when it 8 paid for, Bugbee aud I carry on the business,” Q.—* 14 {t uotearried on In the name of Bug- bee ni'ngcut of the Eastern Dry-Goods Com- [ —* Well, Peake & Co. own the zoods until they are paid for, Lam the B. F. Alien who {8 under indlctment for perjury in the United States District Court for the Nouthern District of Hilnots, L tave never bud a triul under thut ln- dictment, I bave never manifested any yearne inus for atrfal. 1 have endesvored to get the fudictment dlgmissed. A dlemissal would be vreferable to o trial,” About the time this stock was transferred by Swurds, o lare kto dry roods appeared here, shipoed Lo Georee H, Bugbee, Agent. On euch box was privately marked with lead penetl the name of B. F. ALLEN. A bi slzn was holsted, which read, * Eastern Dry-Gioods Company,—Guorge . Butnere, Agent.” Mr, Swords and Ailen wero appar- ently Individually iuterested. Allen bas decided tu leénye the Stute, and last week the & Enstern Ury-tivods Company ' clused up, the govds were marked 8. 1. Allen & Co., ad shipped to Leadville, Col. 1t s understood the *Co." is 1L, L. Swords. It is not fmprobable that t'ie nssigmee of Allen will mvestigate this # Epstern Dry-Goo s Com- pany*tand this Canada Southern stock buslnesss foryat 10 cents on the dollar, there would be o goud many thousand doliurs of proceeds belong. tugr to the ereditors. It {s Just 1o THE MEMORY OF MRS ALLEN to say that publie oolnfon here cxonerates her from’ glving a willinz assent to Mr. Allen's ut- templs o reerete or Keep property from his creditors, ke was o true-hearted “and noble wormnn, und would have surrendered homestead and all else to ereditors, and taken her pusition awaly In life where she started, without money or fulluence, except that which comes from i #ood pame und true womanhood, " TILDEN. As He Appeared In 1876, and as Mo Ap- penrs Now. Corvesnondence Cincinnatt Enquirer {nem.). Cotusinus, 0., Feb. 8.—~The pleture “ Gath * drew of Tiiden a dav or two eince, fn his tele- eraphie correspondence from New York to the Euyuivery 18 doubtless a true one, uid may have more to do with crowding the veneravle Sammy off the Presldential race-track uext vear than alt other fufluences combined. No political party will put n man who shows sigus of imbecility, or even senflity, on the ticket tor the Presidency, thougn it be clalmed for him that he can carry the States of Now York, New Jersey, and Con- necticut, and has the SoMd South within 1he grasp ot bls pulsiedd arm, It moy bea sad pleture 1o contemplate that of a once vigorous and brilliant jeader driven In physical and ental nonentity by the disappointnitnt of o llfetime, but it s ubt the custom of political partles to reward disappotntment,—much less to put men into ofllce heeause they have been wreeked by them. ‘Ihe fizhling men o to the front; the shatiered and wounded huva to drop to the 1ear and bo forgzutten. In the nutumn of 1876 I went with my wif New York up to Albanv, We took the duy-boat, nud, with a party of Exposition tour- 18t8, sevaral of whom were from Columbus, en- Joyed what s, perhaps, the most dellghtful duy's bt of travelingg to b found ou thy Ameri- cun Conthnent. In the evening we arrived ot Albany, und, atter supper, I salied’ out to call on Guy, Tilden for the purpose ol interviewing him, ‘Ther ulty o finding his resi- denee, for the State of . New |York, unlike Ohlo, furnishes her Governor with a ltting place ta Niye, and does not compel lim to rent or board at the hotels. Neither did I bave dillieulty n inding m, thongh when I fiest reachied the house he hud gone out borseback-riding, Still, he soon returned, und Lsaw him aligne trom bis horse, and, with an clastie, agile step, ha came bustling nto the room where I was wale- e, s greetive was cordiul, snd s manner unnffected—alzost frauk, He took mo Into his Hurary, whera three or four clerks were employed” weiting, und, as T sut there, trying to Iuterview lham, ho walled back and forth across the roow, giving each ol these clerks Instructions what to write, whot to ad- dress, where to send this or thut cluas of docu- wents, aml, at the same time, he never sfled to Keen up the thread of his cosversation with e, or rather to take up where he had Jett off, Heo talked of reform and the restovation of olticiul purity: no denounced the plundering rings e Dol ulready broken, nod the coreuption fu publiie Hire which he hoped to do away withi but most of all, s discoursed of hinaell, of hia fawmily, and of what he had aceomplished fo his 1ite, He revealed nothiog of bis blans for the catu- puizn, but he usked everyihing of our plans out i the Weat, i several thaes when I izave him [nformation lie had nob botore recelved he turned to one of thess derkia und. had notes tnude Jor future reference. ‘Uhie fntervivw lasted acouple of hours, und [ left with the fden that 1 bad abtalued very little thut was worth writing out as an faterview, but at the samo time had et the most wonderful man fn geoeralization, the most swarvelous man 1w bis executlve abill- 1ies, und, b 1he same e, the wost absolutely secretive man of the present generutlon, Here, thought 1, 18.a Cuvdinal Richelicu In that the Stute I8 wife and family und all next of fn to him; o Navoleon In his concentration of mful, i daring pluus, aud wondrous exceution, audy ot ihe sumio time, a Mucchiavelll in hls diplonaey, hs secretiveness, and bis statecratt, Suly perhinws, the broadest af his race fu mea: ures of policy, not the deepest n politleu) wh dom, perhops; but still with knowledeos of men aml affates and & familiarity of detail {u the contest in which ho wus ¢ d Lo inake up fur the lack of bothy~uand liviug embodiment of jo- telleetual energy. ‘I picture tiat * Gath " portrays of thy old owun was carroborated by tien, Charley Gros- venor, fu g canversation [ had witn him Just nlizht, Len, Grosyenor was Ib Now York only a few weeks ago—in fuct he I8 thers enough to ulimost clalm citizonatilp—to take Tilden’s depo- altiun 10 u cage whereln ho §s oo of the attor- ueys,—somy case, I helleve, arising from a leuse of “cual-lands duwn about Nelsonvitie, Tilden was made u party to tho sult somchow, und (b becamu necessary to take his testimony, Tesld to Urosvenur: “ D you notlee any pecullarity in Gov, Til- den's muiner when you took s depositlon the wihier duy in New York (" W § certaluly did,? was his reply, “aud au Ko Hawkeye, uirer correspondent alludes to it. The old man s zone—cleariy gone. He has brooded over his disapoointments until he appears demented. Bomething wrun* tapped hia head significantiy. ““Where did you seg him{'" ** At his house, No. 15 Gramercy Park. 1 was there off and on - for several days, taking his depgsition, und most of the time was alone with hita, I'dask.him & questfon, sud, thuugh wo were nlone in those great doubla parlors, ho would hesitate, luvok around the room, and then beekon e off into one carner, whero he wanil whisper his answer luto my ear. e aeemed In nbsolute terror for fear somcbody should ovore hear him." *\Wero thess answers matters of secreey 1" * Noi how could they bel They were to go Intodepositions to bo used fn Court, and thaope posite sido hnd a right to be present and hear them {f they wanted. In point of fact, they thought thetn of so little importauce that they let ina take him alone.’ - f What about his personal appearancei *“Fhere bio scems to be racked nlzo. Une of hisarms appears to bo all drawn up, nd ho holds it up against his side about the hight of his vest-pocket, nud there it stays apparently helpless. 1t is only with an effort that he can up_here,” and the General v great |luw.ly move it aroitnd to ahake hands with any. on " *What did you think of him_generally—tho de jure Prestdent of the United Statesi® **1 thought he was u badly uscd-up comma- nity, 1o truth, I feit sorry for the old mon.™” * You had scen him betore, hadn’t youl 40 yes, often.” ‘* And you notfced a great change in him®"? “ Yo very great chanee, Indeed.” * Wera his duswers, such as they wero, clear and direct " £ ‘“Yes: what he said was clear enough; but there was that air of suspiclon or fear about him~—a kind of startled air, as if ho distrusted cversbady—thut convinced me he wasn’t all right up liere." The other oight I met Capt, Henry Manlesou, Jr,, whose wifa s the beautiful Mine. Roze, o the Roval Opera Troupe, und his statoment about Mr. Tliden suwrces with the foregoing. Capt. Mapleson wrs at Saratoga with his wifa last summer, und while there Goy. Tilden showed many attentions to the beautliul primn douna; todeed, so marked was his preference for hier society above all the other visitors there that some of the uewspaper correspondents aliuded to it, hinting that the Britsh Captain had hetter look vut or e might be robbed ot his pretty French wife by # O1d Sammy.” This didn’t cause bim any alarm or jealotsy, how- ever, for he philosophically remaried that, lay. Ing aside all questious of love, s wife had too much good seuse to leave him for a withered, dried-up ol mau, even thougn he might Lo n President by right without holdine the office, Speaking to e about Tilden, he soid thnt he was parulyzed fn une side, und followed Mme. Roze In an shinless, ruther distracted otr, listen- ing to lier tal 4 ter atnging by the hour, but searcely opening his mouth, — One day the Cap- tao hud an {ovitation for his wiie to rlde out with u varty of ladivs und gentlemen, but he, thinking it would be rugd to take her away irom her sged udimirer, omitted to tell her until the carriage had gone. “How provoking.” sald she, wien told how she had been left, ¥ that uuld lie obliced to cutertain the litic old man go long, and do all the talking mysclf, and then be cheated out of & drive besides." ‘Uhe next day the Captain made full ackuowl- edgment by gettine un o graod picnfe, at which his beautitul wife relzned o sylvan gueen in her court of youth nnd beauty and gayety, with Un- ele Suinmy omitted, All this {s Is not mera idle gossio nbout onc of the foremost men In American polities. It is not iischicvous scandnl {nvented for the pur- pose of injurini his prospects for a renoming- tion to the Presldency. It is, moreover, too scrious a matter to jest sbout or luy asile lizhtiy, Whatever may be the fecling of the Democracy of the Centrul States toward Mr. Tilden, whether of frioudship or opposition, all will reizret to fearn that a blight s fallen upou him, I bis wrongs, brooded over, huve unsct- tled a onee noble miod and disordercd o once viizarous body, there are many In the great party hie onee led, who wers never his friends, but who will now breathe o slgh of rezret a8 the order oes forth trom fresh leaders, * Strong mon to lead the vau 3 wounded aud stelc ones inust full to the rear!” HEBREWS AS FARMERS. Jowish Farming Colunles to Bo Located In the South und West for Intending Eml- granta. PhilaceloMa Record, Anlmportant movement {s ou foot amone the Hetrews of the United States looklug to the formation of a Jewish coluny or colonies In the South or West. “Ihe eubject was first mooted at the amnmuat Conventlon of the Unlon of Hebruw Cungrezatlions, which was. hela in Cincinnatt lost July, when it was re- ferred to a Committee on Agrleultura)l Pore snits for consideration, This body, alter hav- ing eonsidered the question for balfa vear, has Just rendered a report to the Executlye Com- mittee in the following lawraage; “In our upluion the true cmancipation of Jows couslsts fn theareater infusion of the apirit. of munhood und self-dependency, which can ho Dbest done by encournzing the large mnaskes of Israclites dwelling in Eastern and Southern Europe to become farmers, agriculturists, und inecbanles. “The milllons of acres still lying waste In this country awsit the toll of thethrifty und In- dustrious bustandnun tnd laborer to yleld the untold wealth sleeping in the undeveloped soll. and to milllous of Jews the fudependonce of the farmer would be the true redemption of bondage. *“I'his _country, onr brethren all over the worla, und soclety at farie would bo greativ benetited by the culistment of willing hands aid stout hearts In an cuterpriss that would lurgely affect the great soclal questions of mod- ern thnes. #8uch work would ba carried on with facitity fu co-operation with our sister socleties In Eurul'u:—um Alliunce Israclites und thely Ger= man brauches, the Board of English Deputies, il others, "The Buard of Dolerates on Civil and Re- ligious Rivhts are hereby Instructed to take Into capsyderatiun the feasibility ad {muu- cability of our active co-operation with our sleter “sovieties in Europo for the purpuse of encouruging agriculture wmang Jews, und the settlement in tois country of such s ure willing und able to devote themselves 1o that pursuit on the lands of the South ami West, und the Executive Board are also guthorized 1o accopt tonations of lands and funds umd hold them io trust for such purpose,’ *‘This movement I8 one which promises im< portant results,” says a prowinent Hebrew, who has beon In this clty o ottendance upon the sessions of the B'nal B'rith. “lo I8 true,” ho continued, “that it iknocks the inuch-talked-of theory about our all returnmgto Palostine fu the head; but of the two fdeas, this vraposed fmaiigration fs much the more feasible nud practicable. Onw thiog iacertaln, itk o the right hands, and before many yeurs you will tid thousunds ot now forelgu Jews enguzed (n farm- ing lu this country, Plonty of them uro rcady to eotue, and they will be hiere as soon as the fund und the umount of laud secured permits,’” e —— How o Profcssionul Burglar Liuded tho “ Babblew,” Zawton Times. It {s understood thut Posce hasynade no sceret of biscarcer aficr the Botuner Cross mirder. Toa friond he sald: * Do you want to Know how I dudged the hobbiest™ and, on recelving a re« ply ln the aftirmative, he sakls ¥ Well, T will tell you, then,” Ho asked them to turn thete backs 10 hm a bit. They did so, and wero aatuuuded to tind thut Peaco had complotely ale tered tho expression of bid fuco, aud s0 pro- truded his chin wnd curled s Mps that, under ordinary clrenmstances, it would hiava been fin- possible to recodnize him, espectally as ho bad, Ly the peculiarcontortion of the features, furced tic bload fato bis_fucs until lie tooked Ttk o mulatto, One of the apectators safil: ¢ No wonder you could gt clear from Sheltiell when you van chango your faco like that.” Where- luughed wwd satd: 1 can do some 1 cau dodgo uny detectlye 1 existe —t—— . To Thaw Water-Pipos, Pumber and Sanitary Enyineer, If you cuu get e them, podr hut water on them slowly, v weap them with a towel unl put hot water on it The specille eat of - water ld very bigh, which makes It a goud thlug o convey tho heat to the plpes. Inaccesaible plipes und wuste-ploes can oficn be melted oue by Inserting into one end a smull rabber or lead plpe, und pouriug or furcing ot water through this mall pivs wid pusbiug 1t forward into the frozen plpes us the fee welts, Sumetimes a jes of steatu la avatlable, carried through gardeus boso und used throu:gh a branch plpe, Newn Yok Kraning ‘The contonnlal unulversary daring ride in Greenwich, Cosn., during Revolutionary War, when be spurred bla lvrse down a rocky declivity to vscapo cupture by It ( tien. Putuam's ho Britlsh troops, 1 to bu commemorated au ths 25th st by o rand celebratlon. Prosldent, Ltayes und ey, dl-zlnmmhcuucm_nu ty be usked to nuum.uugmprhw dresegs will o delivercd, und Col. Butauor, of Bridgepors, will be fuvited to coutribute u botin. ‘P (restwich u-.-np:u are makiug exteuslye proparativus Lor tha eveut.