Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 21, 1880, Page 4

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L, Phillips, Postmaster of Springfleld, took pluco In-that welty yestordny, and wus attonded by a large con- course of friends and acquatntances, THE organization of a Garfield and Arthur Club has becn elfected among the Engilsh- speaking Polish residents of tho Fourteonth ‘Ward, with every prospect of good results in ‘tho ensuing cumpaign. . ° Ir Ia belleved that Victoria and his trouble- “some band of hostiles aro recuperating In tho Mexican State of Chihuahun, preparatory to nn other incursion upon Amerteun territory. Gen, Hatch hus applled to tho Mexican Government to follow Victoria Intound through tuat coun- try, and it 4s probable he will bo alowed to do BO, AND now there fs all of aaudden a boom for Randall, whoso chances are considered to have been immensely improved, by M'ldan's lot- ter of withdrawal. It is euld the Pennsylvania delegation will eolidly unito on Randatt, anid they really belleve the Ightulng is coming bis why, Sosuys a Pittsburg dispatch, MEYER, the German farmer at Wilinctte who is under arrest on suspicion of having had w Land fn murdertug bis boy Wille, stoutly nas severates Kis Initocence and that of bis wife, und expresses tho bellof that sume enemy of the fumily was the perpetrator of the murder, The fact that ho discards (ho theory of aceldental drowning, bebind whieh if gullty he would naturally take refuge, Is reyurded as strongly in his favor. Business at the City-ILall will have to rut itself this week, as there has beon a general desertion of posts by Mayor Harrison's ap- pointeos anda rush for Cincinnatl, whore the purtles paid to attend to the ntfalrs of the City of Chleago will carn thelr money by working up tho Harrison bvom, They have taken slong Carter's engle, In the hope that the exhibition of tho poor old bird will somelow help along the Muyor's prospects for getting on the tull-cnd of the ticket. ; ‘TuE sermons which we print this morning are those of Prof. Swing on “Tho New Quullty of Fulth”; of Bishop Chenvy, of. the Refurmed Eplscopat Church, on “Infidelity; of the Rev. W.d. Petrie, of the Church of Our Savior (Prot- estant Episcopal), on" Heligion and State Life"; fad the Bacculuuronte sermon by the Rev. Droid. A. Bruaddus, of the Southorn Baptist Thoologi- cul Somiuary at Loulaville, delivered at the First Uaptist Church In connection with the Com- inencenient exercises to occur thle week ut tho Chicago Univenatty. ‘THe question of the power of 1 Common Counoll to bind its successors for an indoflnit term of year by mating long contracts, which wos passed upon about three years ago by Judge Drummond, of tho United States Cirentt Court, has just been adjudicated in the Ninos Supreme Court, and tho oplulon, rendered by Justion Cralg, fully colneldes with the view taken by Judge Drummond. ‘Tho latter ensue wus thut of tho East St. Louis Gaslight & Coke Company ugalnst the City of East St. Louls to enforce a gis contruct running thirty yours frum October, Wit. ‘Tho decision of tho Bue prome Court, syllabug of which is givon in anothor column, wns to the effect that under tho power conferred ty the Legislature ina general charter so muulclpal corporation can Jawfully bind its successors fa the manner at+ tempted, and the contract was held to be un- authorized and votd, Sous of tho arguments used by the Hei Oricks men ut Clnelnauil to further the hue of thelr candidate might well gorve to stimulate tho Nepublicuns of Judiany to extrnardiniry oxerdons 110 October. The Mondricks men, to iMuatrate tho ‘necessity: of bls nomination in order to make sure of the Electoral voto of Indiana, furnish from tho pollticnl almanios some figures showing that tho State is close and doubtful at the best, aud that thore iy Hut litte prospect of carrying It for the Democratic party ‘Untogs Hendricks bo the nomlnoe, All of which fs undoubtedly true, and duadnuch as there ts scarcely .the ghost of a chance thit Hondrluks wif head tho ticket, and very ttle Mkolihood ‘that bis naine will appear on it nt ull, thore ta tunple reqson for the Reprblicans-of Indiana, with thelr splendid State tiekot, to (nko off thelr conts and gu to work as men do who feel that thoy buve ut teuyt an oven show to win, * —_—_—_— Mu, Tinpen 1s out in a letter withdrawing bienamo from among tho lat of aspirants for the Dommocratio nomlnutton ut Clnchinutl. Have ing, as ho says, defeyred this step to tho Inst moment—thuugh he does nut say what ts obviously the fet—untll ft had became evident that be could not be nominuted, Mr, lden once tore purudes ble yrievaneea and ble sacred eliinia before the Democratic purty, and with characteristic mugnuutinity announces that ‘be will not take whut he cannot yet, Through: out thig lotter of withdrmwal may bo read bes tweon the linewa Hugeriug hope that the Cony vention would, ina burst of sympathy and Ine dination at the sorrows of tho disappointed old oun, tender blu the nowlnation and jusfet upon, his accuptancos but there 1s uo dangor of that— the Coyveution will be only too glad to take bin at hid word and drop him ag an wncomfortable burden with ull the prompliess and alacrity con slatcnt with tho anienitios of Lhe caso, Se Cor Davin L, Piriirg, editor arid pro- prictor of the JUtnuls State Juurnal, died at bis realdence at Spelngtold Saturday morntoy. Col. Poilllpa, aluvo the outbreak of the Itebellion, bus taken o leading purt in Littnala politica,—al- ways on the Rypublicin ide. Ho held tho ottive of United brates Mursual during Lincoln's Ad- minfatration, ran for Congress against John A. Logan In 1400, and against Mr. Spriuger in 1870, but was unsuccessful on both occasions, He bos been Postmaster at Springfich! sinco 1877. Col. Phillips wasn oman of aterling ins tegrity, strong canvictions, ontapoken and vigorous on behalf of tho right, and against wrongetoing of — cvery Kini. Senrcely tad Col. Phillips been dead an hour when Senntor John A. Logan, with characteristic indevency, proceeded to intrigue for tho ap- pointinent of Paul Selby, of tho State Journal, as Postmuster at Springfeld. 16 is to be sine cerely hoped that President Hayes will rebuke tho Impidonce and utterly bad taste of tho ex- Boss, He wll And no dimoulty in tnding in Springtleld a more competent man for the place anda better Republican than Logan’s hench- man Sethy, CoxanessMAN Conaun, of Michigan, ono of tho notablo men in the Chicago Convention, and one whose valunblo services as Chuirman af the Committeo on Credentials and on tho floor of the Convention will nut soon be forgotten by tho Mupublican party, arrived in Chicago yesterday on his way to Minnesota for a mucheuceded pertod of rest und recuperation. fle necom- panied Gen. Garfield as far West us Alliance, aud benrs testimony to tho onthuslastio reception uceurded tho General by the people along tho no of travel. Me. Conger, having convorsed with Sonator Hlalne on tho subject, is ablo to state that tho Intter is entlroly plonsed with Gen. Gurticld’s nomination, and will go into tho catm- paign and exercise his splendid abilities as a speaker to thu utmoat to ussist in his elvotion, Senator Cameron, of Peunsylvanin, who alac traveled with the party ns for as Altoona, was very cordlal in his intercourse with Gen. Gar- fleld, discussed campaign plang freely, and ox- Pressed contidenco of. grand Republican vic- tory lu November. It is twelve yeurs aluce tho Republican party was so thormtghly united ns now upon the Presidential question. mee Ocn Canten didn’t go to Utica for noth- ing. He onme back tmnpressed with tho fdea that be hud discovered the secret of how to se- cure Seymour's consent to be the candidate of the Democracy this year, and ho wont on to Cin- elnnati to confide hia plan to the sorely per- plexed leaders, doubtless In the expeotation that his success in this matter would have tha effect of helping bis own boum for the Vice- Fresidential nomination, After conferring yesterday with some of the New York maungers Mr, Morrison drow up no dispatct to bo tele- xraphed to Goy. Soymour, imploring him, in bebnit of tho purty which hus londed him with honors heretofore, to consent now to snerifice his personal inclinations and once more assume tho leadership, Seymour must besome- thing moro than human to resiat this pitiful ap- peal for help, and Harrison, who suggested the oxpedlout, probubly feels sure of its success, If Seymour yields to this desperate solicitation it ia believed ho wil ba nominated by acolama- tlon; if he refuses or hesitutes, the Democracy fre ull at Rea, and no one can tell what the Con- yoution will do or whon it will be able to do It. Tim. anxiety of tho Democratic managers of Indinua fora puro ballot and fair vlectons, 89 cloquontly urged by Govs, Hendricks and Willams In tholr messages to the Leylslature, and by Dan Voorhecs in bis flerce assault upon tho Republicans in connection with tho arrival of n few hundred negro voters from tho South, {3 forclbly illustrated in the recent action of tho Vemovratle majority of the Supreme Courtin tho mutter of the constitution! ‘nmendments. ‘These chunges in tho organiy law of the State were devised for tha express purpose of secur ing purity in the’ conduct and management of elections,~to exclude allke the colored colonist: and. tho Uourbon importation from tho south bunk of the Oblo River; but when that result had obviously beon uccomplished by the rutifiva- tlon of the amendments by a liege popular ma- .| jority tho Democrats, undor the advice of lead- era ike Hendricks and Voorhees, mude up atest ease and carried it toa Democratic Supromo Court, well knowing what tho result would be. They were not disappointed; tho door stands as wide open ag ever to unrestricted fraud in elections, antl the Democratto party in Indiana felloltates itself upon the opportunity of earry- jug the October election by the samo corrupt means thoy have so successfully employed for weveral ycars pust. OAKES AMES VS. OAKES AMES, Onkes Ames was a willing witness, In his haste he made statements that don’t hang tugether, Giving him the benetit of a doubt, Itmust be sald that his memory was very bad. Let one sworn.statement stand op- ‘posit another sworn statement: Firat oath, Second oath, Q—In reference ta] Q.—In reguridto Mr. Mr. Gurtield, you sayiGurileld, state tha dee that hoe never paid any | tally of the transactions money on thit stock,|butween you and htm. hor reeejvedany money} A.—1 got for Dr. Gar- Troi A.—Not onjficld ten shares of tho neconmt af it. Credit Mobiller, for ‘i He reociyod no watt he pald pir and ave ntereat lends? Av—No, Bits |i q U think not, 1 du not} Q—The So which you puld him waa the recotlect | paying him any dividends. surplus of earnings on the stock? A,—Yes, alr, Q—Whoen you pald Min this St did you tiderstund it waa the catince of his dividend? \.—L supposed so, Philip sober. Q.—You siy tant $29 was putd. How was it Phitip drunks How was thnt) pald? A.—Pald in mon-| vy, [bolleve. paid? A.—L presume by u check. amen pro, “Amex cath —Did you consider) Q.-Hus there exer t the bewinnlig of this} Investigation that you held these other divl- dends which you gay you did not Bi y him th his buhale? Did you ro- aura sueselE ws ouato- beon any couveraution between you and him in reference to the Hacite stock ho was entitied to? *A.—No, sir, Q.—Havo yousyer of- fored it to bln? aw tink Of those dividend: | No, alr, s for him? *A.—Yos, sir;} Qing there over ho pald for his stovk./been any convorsation, and is entitled to hisjin relation to it? A. dividends, Noy slr, .=-¥ou did not ace ‘iver the certiticate of tock him? A.—No, iit, Ames offered in evidence entries In his (lary for 1808, showing an account with Gen, Garfeld, and also made a verbal state- Went of the same aecount. ‘The two recounts present few polnts of similarity. ‘Chey com- pure as follows; Diary account, Sworn statement. JO shares credit. * M + $1,000.00) 1808, To 10 shares. a. | 4hUH] stock Credit-Sto- ———|_ bilier of A 1,013.35) ntorey ju 80 per cont bd. Ave, ut UT. i 8 Int. to Juno20,. 4) 1808. By dividend bonds Unton Pa » Total +8 ZiL0u) olf Ruflrond, 1,000 CM $1,000 ut 6 per 1,W0U.), g. cont, loss 3 per. COME. oye cree reed THE sune 1, By te dend " callecte foryouraccount 000 . TOtdlss.se004 6 BLE _ Amos asserted that the account in the right-hand column was made up from that in the left-hand column, but it will be seen that the Item of $29 cush in the lntter—the yory element ta dispute—does not appear in the former table at all, ‘The only proof of the payment of money to Garfield offered by Onkes Ames was a cheek drawn to hisown order on the Ser- genubat-Arms, This cheek did not bear the initials of Mr, Garfeld, as the checks sald to be paid to Colfax, Patterson, and others did those of tho persons respectively numod, ‘The check ideutined by Oakes Ames aa the one that might hava been cashed by Garflelq was dated June 22, whereas in the above stitement the deblt of $399 cash ts dated Juno 12, on which day uo check for that Amount was cashed by thoSergennt-at-Armns, So Ames swears Iu one place that Garteld ro celved the money three days before the check was drawn, which in another place heswears was the means of payment, Auother discrepancy that has been gener- aly overlooked ts this; Ames swore that the eurnings of the stock allotted to Gartield had pakt for {t-and produced asurplus of $u20; that It had earned and was earning other dividends which were not pald over or accounted for, and that the stock Itself was ‘not delivered. Now, if the stock was puld for, why did Ames retain the custody of It? Why was i¢ not delivered to the owner? “ton This natural inquiry was put to Ames with the following result: Qe Why did he not recelvo his cortifeate? A.=E ilo not know. In attemptliys to get over this stumbling- block Oakes Ames contradicted himself flatly: Q—Nid- you regard) A.—T put Mr, Colfax's yourself n4 custodian'initinis: in. the check, Of those dividends forjwhite T put no initiate in? Aw-Yos, ales helin Mr. Gurtieli's chock, patd for his atock and land Tinny have drawn entitled to hfe dividends, [the money: mye ft. Poland re- Creed not Mr Gare Neld's check belong to en paid}iiiny Am—Mr. farfetdt KEY did youlhad not patd for hisatock, understand {¢ was tho} fe waa entitied NF? batunes of his dividend) balance, [Bala ater pavtiyy for his|whtly}--Fuge 471 alock? “A.—U sippored and report. 80—Page a5, A fow words from Oakes Aines' ownsworn statements concerning tis memory and busi neas habits will round out his character asa wh ness: Q.—You had an onvelopo tho otber day in w you stated Mr. Alllaon returned his stack, and tho postinark on which shows (t was mailed in ulate in March; the year was not given, No, wits Q—Kon were {terror then In your first atatc- pe suying that he returned his stock last A & "A —Xes) ales according to tha postmark, As J told yous 1 cannot remember dates. He may have heen three years ago, and st Dintght hare thought twa last fall, A witness whose momory” Is no better than this cannot be depended on for any statement ot fact whatever. Q.—Thig statemont of Mr. Garfield's account Io the imemorandumn-book Is not crossed olf, which Indicutes, does it, that tho, matter has nover been settled or adjusted? A.—No, sles it never hig. Q.—Can you state whother you have any other entry in relation 4o Mr, Garflotd? #5 A.—NO, Bit Q.—Is i; ur habit, ns 0 matter of business, In conducting various transactions with different peenulis, to do it without making any mumo- randn $ A.—This was iny habit. Until within a your or two T huve had no bookkeeper, and fused to keep all my own tatters In my own was, and very carelosly, [ adiult, Q.—What wis the character of tho book In which the inemoraudn were kept? A—It wis Inn sinall pockot memorandum, and rome of tLon slips of paper. Q.—Was this entry upon this page of these various names Intended to show tho nmount you were to pay. or that you had pald; was that inade nt this date? A.—I do not know; it was mado about that tine, T would not have writton it on, Sunday, it is not vary likely, It was mado on’a blank page. This simply a list of names. Ware these names put down after you bad tudde the payments or before, do you think? A.—Bepore, [ dink, Q.—You think you made this Hat befora the parties referred ty bad actually recelyed thelr ehocks or recelved the money? A.—Yea, siey (hal tas ta sow whom TF had to pay and who were entitled to recelye tho 60 per cont dividend, 1t shows whom i had to pay hero in Washing! .—It says pad"? —¥es, sir; well, 1 did pay tt, Q.—What I want to know 1s whothor tho Ist wits made ott before or alter payment? fi A—About the same lime, E suppose} probally be- ‘ure, The only evidence agninst Garfield was tho oral statement of Oakes Ames. On this evl- donee, full ag ft is of contradictions und ab- surditles, no reasonable theory of guilt can be constructed. Itis unsupported by facts or probabilities, It convicted Ames and nequitted Garfleld befors Congress, nnd it will do the same now before the country, yout 29 THE IMMEDIATE-TRANSPORTATION ACI. Upon ocensiun of the adjournment of Con- gress wecalled attention to the barrenness of the session In legisintive- results, From the standpoint of the citizen who regards a fail- ure to pass Jaws as tho greatest blessing Con-. gress con confer upon the country, the late sesston was nn eminent success, “ Mow not to do it” seemed to bo the atin and end of the Democratic statesmen who controlled the netion of the second session of tho Forty-sixth Congress, It is: but just, howover,.to make an excoption in favor of the two or threa members who fought’ minnfully for and succeeded finally in secur, ing the passngeof the Immedlate-Transportu- tion DI, Known firstas the “Aldrich bill,” and ultimately as the “ Wilson Compromlsu.” Mr, Aldrich, of the First Ulinois District, never flagged In hls efforts to-_push the muns- ure, and Mr. Morrison, of the Seven- teenth District, by reason of his posl- on the Ways and Means Commit- ‘tee,’ was ble, as he was willing, to so second the ufforts of Mr. Aldrich as to render thom effective in the passage of tho Dill through the Committes and the House. In tho Senate, Mr, Beck, of Kentucky, showed thorough mastery of the subject, managing tho bill with patience and Ingenuity through- out an extended debate, which developed this significaut facts that hardly a Senator on the floor, with tho exception of Allison, Bayard, and Beck, knew anything whatever of the Interlor. customs system, which has been In operation nearly ten years, and hence were entirely ignorant of the object of the pending bUL, In the conrse of the debate the names of many ports of delivery were in- serted in Sec, 7, and, among others, Sena- tor Davis, of Ilinols, moved to Insort Peoria and Quincy, In thls State, Meing asked whether they wero ports of: delivery, he replied: “I think Peoria and Quincy both are, . Peoria” 1 know . 13, and L am pretty ‘certaln thot Quincy {8.7 Subse- quently Mr, Davis gave his fdea of a port’? by stating that Peoris and Quiney wero larger than Burlington and Dubuque, In., and Grand Haven, Mich. (which had heon Inserted), “all threo put togcthar? Ho -thon added: “I think they are ports of de- livery; but I will guaranteo that: Peoria and Quincy are as much ports of delivery as Burlington and Dubuque,” and this honest ignorance on the subject of ports of tho doughty Senator from the Ewpire State of the Weat—inmoly: Unat the question whether welty be w “port” or not depends upon its size, does not appear to-have ralsed a smile in the Seunte of the United. States! Ho must, however, have obtained some tnfors inatlon on the subject, for Inter in the debate and consideration of tho bill he moved to have Peoria omitted from his former anend- ment, which had been adopted, Mr, MeVonald, of Tudlann, ontered oxten- sively Into tho debate, without knowing any thing of the subject, offering an amendment the ubsurdity of which at. Inst, under the ex- position of Mr, Beck, became so evident that it was withdrawn, ‘Tho Senate passed the bill becnuse its Committee reported in favor of it, ant tho Committee reported favorably because Its members were enlightened by Conxressinan Aldrich and Mr, John (. Wil gon, the apeclal agent and representative of the Hoporters of Chicagd, to whem the Com- inittes gave a hearing, ‘To the gentlemen specially named In this connection ig “lua the credit of haying se- eured tha passage of a measure of general public Importance at a session singularly voli of lutercst and almost utterly. barren of statutory results, Thanks to thulr persistent efforts, the bill so much destred by Chicago and other intorlor cities of the West las be- come a law of the tand, and will go Into effect on the Ist day of July next, : ‘Tho luw does away with the vexatious re quirement of the Ming of bond and making oath to the entry at the coast port by the ime porter; pertults tho transportation to tha in- terlor of express: packages; opens the lines of transportation to the interlor to wines and dlatilled spirita und articles 1n bulk; provides for the security of transportation companics by giving them a freight Men on mer ehundiss in the hands of Collectors; and facilitates the entry of Imports by re quiring consular tnvolces to bo made in quadruplicate nstead of Jn triplicate as formerly, Under the present law the pracy tlea has been for tho Consul to return dno copy and send the reuuluing two coples to the Collector of tho cunst port, where ono Is used to make the original entry and tho other forwardod to the Collector of the Inte- rior port, pon which the final entry is mado. Under the new Inw one copy will be retained by the Consul, one sent to the Collector of the portof destination, and two delivered directly to the shipper, for use in making en- try respectively atthe const port und the Ine terlor port. ‘Tho Int fs along step forward in the direction of pincing the intertor In- porter onan cquallty with his rlvalof the const city, IMPORTS AND REVENUE FOR 1880. Tho receipts and expenditures ot tho United States Treasury at Washington for the eleven months of the present fiscal year end- Ing May 31, 1880, foot up rather largely. Thus the recelpts from enstoms duties reneh St71,012,126; from Internal revenne, $119,083,- 9503 and from miscellancous sources, $21, 181,- 759; making a grand otal of $305,283,817, ‘The oxpenditures for the same the were $243, 71,04. This shows 2 surplus revenue of over 800,000,000 during the eleven months, to which the month of June wilt add probably $10,000,000 more, making tho total surplus revenues for the yenr nearly $75,000,000, ‘Thy receipts from customs are unusually large. The total duties on Imports collected for the twelve months Included In the fiscal years ending June 80 for several years have been: Year 1877, $128,$28,H3 Yen 3878, A AMD Yeur 187 ¥ Kleven mm W101, 26 ‘This: Inrge tncrease In the duties on fn- ports fs due to the recent boom in prices, which boom had its rise and collapse all within the present year, ‘The Increase in the sum of duties collected during so much of the present fiseal year as has passed Indleates an Incrense In the tofal yalus of tho goods imported within the twelve months of. $250,- 000,000, cumpared with the valus of imports Inst year. ‘fhe total values of imports for soveral years have been for the years ending June 30.8 follows:, * dinar ~ 708,000,000 The American manufacturers who started the advice in prices Inst July simply re- vived the slagnant industries in European workshops sud drew hither §700,000,000 of foreign goods to compete with thelr own. It is trie that the most of these who have im- vorted. these goods have: suffered serlously from the mistake, many of them having be- come bankrupt in consequence of the-fall in prices. Nevertheless the Imported steel, iron, und othor goods have been brought into the country, and are hore to be sold for whatever they will bring. ‘he competition will be the more Injurious because the amount is so ex-" traordinary and so wholly needless. The British manufacturers have made their profits, The gouds were ordered of them when prices were at the highest point; they have got thelr money, but tls goods are Iere inthls country tobe sokt at a saerifice to wind up the estates of the bankrupt import- ors. ‘Tho addition of even fifty milllons of dollarsto the revenuesof the Government will be but poor compensation for the self-sought alestructive competition of foreign goods, sokl at uv sacrifice tothe injury of ourown sinanufacturars. Never wus there a clearer illustration of the trath that protection never protects, when protectlon would be the most serviceable. Under the very penalties of protection our manufacturers opened the niarkets of this country to the foreigner in the most prosperous suason there has been for yenra, and the foreign manufacturers have cofried off all the profit gnthered In the hume-nvented boom, * Fortunately for the:country our export trade ling largely increased, thongh: manu- “faetures have not contributed much to the Increase, ‘The agricdltural exports have gone on Increasiig. even beyond the largo amounts of previous years, While wo are rapidly becoming the food-producers for other nations, and are shipping hence nearly $800,000,000 of agricultural products annually, our manufacturers are fanatleally clinging tothe old delusion of a “home market,” when they, too, might be converting the raw aaterlal at thelr doors into fdbrics to be sold in avery part of the world. Let us hope that the late abortive boom in prices, with its dls- nstrous consequences, may so expose the fallacy of oxclusiye production for the home market that henceforth Ameriean manufaet- urers will follow the policy ot tho fanners, and produce not only all that is needed for domestic consumption, but a surplus to be sold wherever It can be sold in all the wide world. THE WOES OF INDIA. There are three questions of prime im- portance which must occupy the attention of the Liberal Government in Englund,—the Irish question, the Eastern questlon, and the Indlun question. The two former have been pretty thoroughly canvassed In the columns of Tux Tripuxe, and we have brought to thelr dixenssion all the evidence and sug- gestions that have been furnished ‘by those invst competent to express opinions upon them, Thu Indion question fs now begin- ning to excite great interest, as well from Mts pressing importance ug from the fact of the dreadful mistakes made by the present Oppoattion in dealing with it. That quos- tlon, ke several others connected with the English Administration, haa nt Inst reached a crisis that demants solutton or implies ruln, and consequently any fresh Ight thrown upon it Is of interest, In the Nineteenth Century for June, Ameer Ali, a native Indian, lias addressed himself to the task of settlny forth the condl- tton of his country and the reforms neo- essary for Its improvement, and points out that tho first thing which must be considered 4s the finaucial status of Thin and the sya tem of taxation in furce there, In this con- neetlon He dwells at some length upon the serlous inlulake that was made Jn partlally repealing the duty upon luported cotton goods, which has glveh riso to the fmpres- sion that the cotton dutles are maintained not for protective purpoges, but for tiseal oxt- gencles. The Indian people want an jadl- rec tax, and therefore uppraved of tho cot- ton duty beenuse tte ineldence was impor ceptible to thom, ‘Iho Mcense tax, however, which was substituted by the Government to make goo its losses after It withdrew a portion of tha reventie,. has imposed tremendous hardships upon a peoplo who Hye fron) Land to mouth, and does not even realize to the Government the actual amount taken: from the taxpayers, as munch of itis eaten up by collectors and informers, Under direct taxation the public debt has grown to twenty milHons of pounds in four yenrs, Withln ten years the expenditures have In- creased sixteen milllons, and within the last 6x yeurs the army expenditure has Increased. three millions, ‘There ls now not only no surplus, but an actual deficlency of four wllHong, or twenty milllons of dollars. ‘Vo offset this he recommends indirect taxation in the form of & reimpoultion of the cotton duties, an exelso duty upon the consump- tlon of intoxicating drugs and’ liquors, and the euuatization of the duty on salt. Finuncelally, Ameer All claims that India is¢ ou the vergo of bankruptoy, ‘Tho necessaries of life are at the highest price, Tho value of money has dhuintished, of course, ‘There Js no profit Iu trade, The farmers are fmpoverlshed and the Jand-own-' lug class Is not much better off, and year after year au§enormous amount of money is tight be remedied by native rule, drained out of India in the shape of sayings, pensions, home charges, ete.,—n drain which Upon thls point Ameer All boldly declares that “thers can be no donbt that, taken ns a boly, tho native public servants are as efficient as any ordinary European official. In personal Intogrlty, tu the shnple-nminded dixcharge of public duties, and ‘the grasp of administrae {ive detalls, thoy are not infertor in tho small. est degree to any foreigner. ‘Shel judicial capacityls everywhere admitted, and there Is therefore no reason for the further continn- ance of Imported Inbor, which Is not only burdensome, but In many cases unnecessarl- ly large. In some districts the hend of ade partment cannot find work enough for his subordinates, ‘The legisiation of the country fs Just as ruinous in expense and barret in resulta as the exeentive departments, and here also changes must be made.” In stunting up his reasons forthe wretched condition of India, Ameer All finds others besutes those wo have mentioned. Justice ts taxed so heavily that It drives the poor out of the cuurts nnd becomes an agency of op- pression inthe hands of the rich, ‘The reln- tlons of tho Innd owning and cultivating elasses, which are very siinilur to those !n Trelaud, form another cause. The masses of India, since the abolition of the law against usury, ho claims, are at’ the, mercy ,of money-lenders upon whose rapacity there Is nocheck, ‘The lInnd-revenne system is an- other cause of «lstreas, since It is so righl that it has entailed ruln and beggary tn number- less cases. Nothing tnterferes with the land tax, Itimust be paid on certain day re- gardless of ull questions of droughts or floods, goo or bad harvests, Thera enn be no hope for Smprovement, he clatins, wntil sonicthing Isdtone to free the Ryots from the elutehes of landholders. Ife also urgesthe repeal of the Vernacular-Press act and the Arms act, which assume the disloy- alty of the people; but these are of slight importance ag compared with the revenue and iand Jaws, which are tho main factors of India’s distress, and in which regards she {gs even worse off than Ireland. It isa tough problem, however, which the Liberals have to confront in recuperating, or trying to re- euperate, a country which has been squeezed dry by the grecd and ravacity of ‘Tory landowners and officeholders, : GRAIN-CONTRACTS TO BE ENFORCED. Acase of great Interest to dealers in prod- uce was decided Inst Saturday. D. W. Irwin & Co. had sold to umscy Bros, & Co, 40,000 bushels of whent, to be dellyered at such time during Inst May as the sellers mightelect. On the last day of the month the sellers did not own the property, but could have bought it in at not less than $1.13 or more than $14 per bushel, ‘This thoy re- fused todo, and a special committes of. the Chiengo Board of Trade was subsequently Appointed to Ox a price at which the matter should be settied. Tho Conmittes fixed upon $1,133¢ as the price, and In addition de- cided that the defaulting party should pay $356.25 damages, with $25 as fees to the Com- mittee, ‘The price fixed upon was one-half cent less than that claimed by the plaintiffs in the case. After the deoiajon had been made public the defendants In the case announced it ns their Intention to pay the full price, $1.14, elulined, inadiltion to the damages and costs, ‘Thoy stated that thoy had simply-destred to test the value of the rule recently adopted by the Board for the. purpose of seeing what rights commission men have under it. ‘The understanding was that they had “defaulted” on delivery by order of the party whom they represented in the transaction, and defended the case in his interest to the best of thelr abllity; but were not personally In favor of repudiuting the obligations, of contract. ‘They had agreed to deliver acertain quantity of wheat nt'a specified price, and the buyers stood ready to recelye and pay for it, The buyer had taken the risk of paying moro for the wheat than it wonld bo worth at the the of delivery; and the seller had taken the risk of huving to puy more for {t than the price he had agreed to receive. ‘The record kopt in our commercial depart- ment shows that tho lowest price of No. 3 spring wheat in thls market during the month of May Inst was $1.12,—on tho 3d inst. Tho highest price of the month was $1.19,— on the Tth inst’ The nyeruge price for tho month was $115.58 por 100 bushels, or fully two cents per bushel moze than: the prico claimed. by thy plaintiff, ‘The market, thers “ore, wns not exvited in the latter partof the month by any of tho sub- terfuges agntust which the iew rule of the Board of-Trade was designed to afford pro- tection, The market for future delivery had been depressed,by vigorous “short selling” on the part of those who belleved that prices could not be sustained on the bountiful crop in prospect. But the new crop was not available in May, and those who thought that Muy prices would decline In synipathy slmply reckoned without thelrhost. They did not rightly esthnate the strength of tho po- sition of tho mon who helt the great bulk of the wheat, hero and elscwhors; and who prob- ably still hold ull of it that has not since been sold tor export or domestic consumption. The way in which the decision was re- celved indteates that ft secorded with the views of the great mofority of members of the Board of Trade. It thus becomes agauge of tha future course of the Board tn inter- preting tho rules recently. adopted. It may be understood that contracts for the future delivery of produce will bo enforced by the Board, excoptin cases where thorols mantfeat attempt at injustice, The mere fact that the market has gone agninat elther buyer or seller during the fe of his contract awill 2ot he aecepted ax sufficient renson for repudin- tion. We emphasize this point beenuse there Ja a rather wiilespread Impression that the rules of the Buard of Trade favor short sell- ing, by permitting the suller to abstain from dellvoring the property In case the market turn severely against lim, People who send orders hore, either to buy or to sell, should do so with their eyes wide open to the fact’ that the contractentered into must be fulfilled to the lettor, unless under very exceptional cir- cumstances, ‘The Board of ‘I'rndo insists that itsmomberashall dons they agree to do, under penalty of suspension or expulsion; anid Ita members are obliged, therefore, to Insist that thulrprinclpalsshall live up to thelrcontracts, Itshould bo understood that the commission merchant Is obiiged to pay, whether his prin- celpal pays him or not, 1f this were gener- ally known thero would be less of unjust Tullog in our courts In commercial cases, and probablya ttle moro caution exerctsed In giving orders to buy and sell produce on 'Change in this clty. Tue Republicans in Chicago had only one roud out of their perplexities to perfect bar mony; and thuy took that road, Tho Domocruts at Cincinnati are Jn a worse fx, Thoy ure Ina “no thoroughfare,” or blind alloy, Seymour is shelved, ‘Tilden is ald, feeble, corrupt, and the most unpopulur man in the United States. Hendricks and Buyurd were Copporheads,—ono of them u Knight of the Golden Circly, and tho other a whipplog-post Pro-Blayory Disunionist ‘and Kebel-sympathizer; besides, their financial records are troublesome, each representing ex~ qreme and unpopulur opinions, Where would Hondricks be ju Now York, with his soft-money, fence-straddiing views; or Buyurd with bis single-standurd, ant!-paperemoucy record, there belong 60,000 Greenbackera in the BStute to con tend with? Davis ls au old. Abo¥tionist and balf a Hopybjican uow, and would ropel nearly as many Democratio yotea Horace Greeley did. Btate-rights Field fa on ultra Democrat and a Pacific Tall- elsions show. His monopoly record would lose him three times ns many votes on the Pacitlo Const ng his Chinese record would gain for him, Henry 0. Payno, tho heir-nappurent of Tiiten, Is a Standart-Oll monopolist, having mide his imillions by taxing tho Ight of every farmer, every nthicr, every poor shopkeeper, In tho United Statos, ‘Thurman was beaton in his own Btate for the Senate, and has acted most sly on tho tnanelal question,—showing 0 Ant of cournge and moral principle, which is worse than Ignorance. HMuneock ts only a soldier, nnd nu braver or mora fllusteious thin hunutreds of othors. Handall bails from a solid Kepublican Siate, and hus no strength In New York. Tho othor candidates ure unknown or insignificant persons. Truly, the outlook fora strong nomination at Cinalnnati Ja not promising. —$————————— pi Froyp Ineson, tho subject of Whittler’s poem, which puts him in a most uncnylable ght, hus been vindicated by a local historian of Marblehead, Tho tradition was, that Ircson passed a alnking vessel, aud refused to rescue the erew, who all porlshed; and that, for this ine human aet, ho was justly tarred and fenthored by tho brawny women of Marblebcad, Whittler’s Unce desoribing tho ovent ara: “4 Hero's Fudd Ojrson, fur his horrd ho: Vorr'd an’ fathered, an’ corr’d io a cal Ty the women o° Morblo’end: Bimal pity for him!—ho sailed away From a leaking ship in Chaleur Bays Rulled awny trom a plnking wreck, With his own townspeople on her declet “Lay by! hay by! thoy called to hlm. Hack ho answered, *Sink or awiint Brag of your cateh of teh aguint! And off fio auiled throuyh the fog and rain. Obl Floyd Treason, for his hard hourt, y and feathered, and carried in a cart, Dy tho women of Murbtehend!" ‘Tho local bistorinn hus learned thot the deser- tion of the alnking vessel was not the fault of Cupt. Ireson, but of his crew. Tho sen was run- ning very high, and it wus impossible to reach the wreek ina bout. Tho Captain wished to lie by and take the men off when tho storm subsided; but his men would not lstun to It, Tho histo Hun who delved out these facts forwarded tho evidence to Mr, Whittier, and obtained from the poet this very quaint acknowledgments “Oak Knont, DANVENS, fi Mo., 18, 1880,—My Dean Muexp: VT heartily thank theo for 2 cop: of thy history of Marblehead, I have rend ft with grent interest, and think youd uso has been made of the abundant material, “No town Jn Essex County bas a record moro honorable than Murbfchcnd; no one bas dono more to doyelop the industrial Intoresta of our New England soaboard, and, peta nono have ven such evidence of gelr-sacritiel ing patrict- iam. Lam fin tho story of it has been told at Jast, und told go well, “Lhave nodoubt that thy sersion of Skipper Treson Is the correct one, “My verse wns solely founded on a fragment of rhyme which [ heart from one of my carly schoolmates, a native of Marblehead, {supposed the story to which It referred dated back nt least a century, I know nothing of tho purticulars, and tha narrative of the ballad was pure fancy. Iam glad, for tha auko of truth and justice, that the real facts sre. ven iu thy book. certainly would not know. ngly do injustice to any ono dead or Iving. [ fun yery truly, thy friend, *JouNn G. WinltriER,” a Mn. DrkEmAn, of Logansport, Ind., {s an Elector on the Democratic ticket, but has al- ready enused the fact to be widely published thut he will not serve if Sam ‘Tilden js nomi- nated at Cincinnati, In conversution with a correspondent of the Now York Post, Mr. Dyke- man suid: It would bo Impossible to find more than one Tilden Democrat in a thousand iu the district. I shall not yote fur him if he is nominated, and T would — realgn. re placa o8 a candidate for Elector, In the frat place, Mr. ‘Vilden is not considered an honest mun, Hoe fa too un- -serupulous for us Hooslers. We are ufrald to trust him. Ho 4 too ready te buy votes and to control conventions by the use. of money, We Demourits in this State do not belfave in that way of mange ing polities, We may siya good dual that might be left ansaid, and we muy mike 1 xd deal of unnecessary noise Hari & campaign; but wo don't belleve in purchusing elections. Anothor roagon why Mr, ‘Litdon 1s disliked by Demouecrata here Is, that ho did not tuke tho Presidoncy be- fore when It washis, A indy who will not claim his own right, aud fight for it, can’t be of ur use to anybody else, — India was loyal to Tis den. Weout bore wor reudy to fight for tho Inat Presidency {f wo bad bud 9 mun to lead on. Hut Tilden sat stilt, and so did tho Democrats of his State. If thoy had all felt.as wo did in In- dlinw, Tikten would be President now, or there wouldn't bo any Prealdont at all.” ———— a ——$§ ‘Tir Clncinnat! correspondent of the Bos- ton Herald called on Stauley Matthaws, one very hot day, and reports: “¢Te Garileld should be elected. President,’ anid T, *thore would bo u Senatorial vacancy in Objo,’ “*Yos,' sald Mr. Matthews, In an absent: sort of manner,—'‘ yes,’ t by Matthews will se sup pose f tiny say that ben candidate for that position “*Mr, Matthows, ho answered with a smilo, ‘will uccent almost any position of honor which the poople of this State muy offer him. Tho Bonniocsiin isa very plengant position, and T surely would not object to nccapting it again If offered me”, ** Your frankness, Benntor, is very refresh- ing, T laughed. * Whut other candidates aro there Hikely to be for the position?’ *T dow't know; L suppose Dennison would not objeat to it.’ ~ " * And Gov. Foster?’ I suggested. “*Tdan't know about that. The people clectad Foster Governor with the expectation that ho would bo Governor,” i Stunley can ulford to bo frank, Ho has no moro chunco than Private Daizell has of being elected Senator from Ohio. Stantey’s jonlousy of Charioy Fostér is nmusiug; it shows what way tho wind {s blowing. ——— Dr. Suearen, of Pennsylvania, enlled on 8am Tilden afew daysago. Mr. Tilden passed tho compliments of the duy. Tho Doctor sali: “Well, Governor, | wis prepared to moot a very eld man, 2 sort of dilapidated ghost of a mor tal, who could nolther talk ubove a whisper norget olf a chair. 1 seo, howovor, that 1 havo boon entirely misinformed.” This happy open- ing won the Governor, who immediately entered upon an account of himself and the trouble ho had with tho gontlemen’ of the press, who, ho suys, “print all sorta of bad things about him,” and “dwell cspeciatly on his left arm." And thon tho old gentleman put forth his loft urm for the Doctor's examination. “Dovtor,” suys ho, “examine this mb careful ly; tell mo what you think of it, Ja it pura- lyzed?" Tho Doctor exnmliued it, and valid it was “nothing moro nor less than the result of chronic rhoumatisin.” Then thoy hid a good thme talking polities, The Doctor, without’ bo- ing ablo to say positively that the olf man is candidate, indfcatca a kind of suspicton that ho won't need uyrent deal-of urging to take tho nouuution. : a “Gari” has been interviewing Prealdent Mlusdate of Hiram College avout Gou. Gartield, Among othor incidenta Afr, Hinsdate related the following: Garileld'a oldest chill dtod in this house [at Ilirumj. | It waa a daughter, and would now buve been poehane eine old. Ho bad juat come back from Chickumuuga, and Stanton bud made him u Major-Genoral, He was on tha way to Washington, and hid no change of clothing, To had not fino to got himself a now ault of clothes. You know well cnough that bo was not the nan te take any vanity ins uniform. But, when his child wis dead, and he stald aver for the funeral, he had to wear that suit with the Major-General’s buttons on it. Thore wus no photogeuph of tho child, to whom the parents were both tenderly utjuched, and, there belng io. the town n traveling photographer's woyon, bo wns called upto make A ploturo: of the Httle otk after deuth., Garfleld took tha little erouture In his Jup to bold it while thoy madu tho: ‘ploturas and he told moe that, whén ho looked jown on the cold fico of hia child. hia eyes -fell onthe buttons of the Major-Gonerni, and ho batt ht how little there was tn tho honors uf the worl te Irturns out that Gen. Grant was an Ed- muds mun, which fa a protty aifvet for the fat that Edaunds was a Grant ma-Bugston 20) ‘This friendship waa a besutlful sentiment, nota Grunt vate went aver to Bdiunds, white allthe Edmunds votes wont over to Gurtlali, Such deticute manipulations of feel! iG American polltice. out of the commonplace.— Cincinnats Commercial. ' So also Washburno wag & Grant man, but all the Washburne delegutes yoted for Garfald; and Windom wasu Grant man, aud ull but two of the Windom delegstes. votgd for Garilold. ‘The trouble with tho Northern delegates was, that'they wore no'man's cattle. Thoy vonfesacd no allegiance such as would bind them to yoto not only for thelr candidate, but for thetr candl- dute's candidate. Pe ee Taman > Prince -WIitrray, eldest son of tha: Prus- stun Crown-Prince, hua Juat boen sulemaly ber ‘trothed tothe Princess Augusta Victoria. Tho aged Emperor brought in the bride, and beamed with gratification as be presonted Bismarck and, other guests to her. Bho hus great personal at- tractions, andisin her 224 yeur,—nearly tho +| samo ayo us Prince William. She woro a white silk dreas, and a bat trimmed with. Maytiowers, Witt white voll. A bouquet of toa-roses restod on ber broagt, and jo bor band tha Prinvces beld. sone of white rowed and Maytowers, A six-fold road monopolist, as his Supreme-Court te-, string of pearls, with a golden medullton, waa round her neek. ‘The ninteh ts anid to ho ate of mutual affection ruthar than of state arrange mont, —<——<— Somx of the rough approximations of ulation, from the census-retirns alrendy tn, ns follows: Now York (Herald cstimato), Philadelphia... Drookly ts ceseeee Chicago, Bt Louie: china Dope are Itis probable that tho New York cstimato fa considerably overdone. Tn tho othor cities, now tubty In Chicngo, thousands havo beon missed, In tho enumeration, ——— Wer havo been told that Titden d to Lamar, Gordon, and other tanutbemn een azed list of the regiments of milttia it Connections, hen ne pee are aa Maryland; nnd that outhorn mien did not want any : Witr—Cineinnatl Commercials ns more ell The milltin regiments of Mlnols were not in that tists but they would bave been on deck,and amitton the Hobel hosts with torror and panto, ‘Tho next time Sammy wishes to subdue his Southorn friends he ean show them, besides the milltinelists, tho ponston-rotls, By ali ruloa of Proportion and average, those rolls ought to represent an able-bodied nrmy of 2,000,000 mon, << Snystoun Is tiree-scoro and ten, the Bible Age for man. Army-oflicers nro retired at 00, and Judges ponstoned at Boymonr's ago. It was st proposterous {dea of the Democracy to nomt+ nute Beymnour. He haa more senso than some of hia deluded followers, His letter to tho editor of the Cinclinatl Engitrer says that ho could not. tako tho ollica if nominated; thut be ts “not nblo to do tho duties of tho ofiice.” 1s noming- Uon ought to be tmporsible; but, if he should be nominated, his own statement, tint ho fs Incas pacitated trom serving, would prevent bis cloo~ tion, . ——— Bitrs that did not pass in the late session, wero: Tho Sugar bill; bili for tho retlef of Fits John Porter; for tha relict of tho Irish poor; Political Assessments, Chineso lminigration, Clayton-Bulwer Trenty, Turi! Commissions, Inter-State Commerce, and Alaska Territorial Governmont bills. The joint resolution enfore cing tho Eight-Sour law, andthe attempt to uns seat Kellogg in the Sannte, also falled, rr PostMAsTeEn-GENERAL MAYNAnD’s Inst oficial uct a8 Minister to ‘Turkey wus sitting in Judginent on an American citizen charged with, tho murder of a Turkish Pasha. The American was found guilty und sentenced to death; and this {8 bolioved to be tha first Instance in which tho extreme pennity of tho law has been prow nounced by an American Minister. ————— ‘Tn late Empress of Russia Germantzed her Court as much us she could, und gave cons stant offense by apemking her native tonguo Instead of Froneh. Her antipathy to things French nover relented; and ber frequent warn- Ing to returned travelers wast “Talk to me of anything except Paris. ae Tue World is reminded by the patitical Bituntion of tho behavior uf tho two jelous British commanders before Waleheren: Lord Chatham, with bis aword drawn, Btood Jnok tne at Sir Hiohurd Strahan; Bir ttichard, longing to bo at 'om, Btoud looking ut the Eutl of Chutham, SS Many Southern States have adopted, as far us thoy could, the barburic, Chincse-wall pulley of non-intercourse by Imposing a heavy tax on commorciat travelers. ‘The Louishua Supremo Court has Intely pronounced a Inw of this Kind unconstltutionul; and it 13 probablo ull the others will bavo to qo tho samo way. —————— Catironnta is euthusing for Garfield most agreeably. That was sipposed to be his weak spot. But, by some sort of futallty or Providonco, jt seems be is right and sound usa trivet on the Chinesd question. ——— GARFIELD sald, in an Interview with a Pittaburg roporter: “The Grant men mado a gallant fight for tholr candidate, and If he had won ho would have had no heurtlor support than anine." CANADA, Sult Against the Internatlonal Bridgo Company—Ottawn in Trouble, and Wants Government KellofKhe Be« grow Potwoning Cuse. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Tononto, June 1.—A fow years ayo o ault was instituted against tho International Bridge Company, owners of the bridge over the Niagara Alver between Vort Eric and Buffalo, to compel thom to mnke provision tor the pnasnge of care rlages' and foot-srasengors anross tho bridio, ‘The action was disused on the ground that tho timo altowed for completing the bridye—to Oct, 1, 1876—had not then expired. Since then tho complaints of thoso livlug near the bridge havo Leon growing every day moro urgent, until at Inst tho mutter has again come into courte With Dr. Ht. G. Baird, of Toronto, as relator, the Attorncy-Genoral of Ontario entered a sult in tho Court of Chancery for a mandamud to compel tho Britge Company either tocom: plote thelr bridge by making a sultaule way for carringes, or to remove the bridge altogether, ng an obstruction to the navigation of the river and a nulgange, ‘The cage his just been argue before the Court of Chravory hero, Wiinesses: were oxamined on both elites. Col. Growsit, tho bullder of the bridge, tustiiled that it coutd nok bo sv altered; and: his opinion wus indorsed by Mewrs. Hannaford and Hickson, of the Grand ‘trunk Rallway. Judgimont wus reseryod, Bpectut Liapatch to The Chicago Tribune Orrawa, Juno 11,—Tho Free Presa says: “Tho time hus come when the people of Ottawa muy fairly and properly ask the Dominion Goveri- mount to help thoni out of tholr difticuities, most of which, it ta alleged, wore Jngurred in making the olty worthy of Its desdny, and fit to becowe the Capitul of tho country, While times wery good the citizens did not feel the prissure of taxation; but now thoy are oyerwelghted, aud amauy bave already succumbed to the. st rug i ‘tho ‘Free Press argues that tho Dorntoton should shoulder somo of those burdens, ny thoy would never have been taken up bud ‘not tho Capital bean looted ut Ottawa; and it also udvocates .the removal of existing exemptions. | it i guml-olliolally stated that the Governe mont is nut payhig tho occan-pnssnges of navvies or other porsons to this country, bus thatthe Minteter uf Ayrioutture bay mide ao arrangoment by which the fares from Queveg of a Tinted number of nuyyiea, required by rullway-contructors with the Government should bo ndvanced to poluts fn tho West, upon the condition that such advinues should be tes pe by tho Staliway Dopurtinont by deduvtlons ‘rom the Urst paymonts inde by the Gover: ment on tho progrosd-estlinutes to tho cot tractor, ‘Tho men themselves sign obligations to repay tho atlvanou from Welk WuBes. «The Minister of Marinu and Fisluries wit! vis - Englund sbortly, in conncetion with the Cutla dian fashion of shipping grain In butt. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicugo Tribune. CMONTHEAL, June 1.—The Legros poisoning oase proinisea to dovelop into a very sinarlur Unsiness, Hexros fe an uetisg Sergeant of ie Miva foreo, nud for four yeurs eet bw bat ‘ound eficient in tho discharge of bis duty. fi is Intely suapeoted bis wifear an attempt to po! a Alm, Ho carried dome mispected bread to i Edward Baker, the Public Anulyat, who fot tartaromotioin it, When Beyros charges io wifo with the attempt, thery 1s un usdortion mud ig that the man Ja insane, ‘This ho denies, and lawyer into whose bunds bo ane ble cago. But the strange purt of ‘ities business 18, that the palice suthoritic huye suspended tho ucting Burgoant pondiuy & dt tmedical exauiination which is tobe made, if 18 looked upon as a Httle queer thut bo hat nis bring a charge of RICH ad murder agalnist nis wife to bo found insane by the pollee wutho ma tes, who have had four yours of constant cole ‘munication with bly uud the {uote id me argue tint thoy are not very competent judy 0 unity. The poles authorities aye information from Chiet pert a, Willlama, of Liver! ae Eng. that Alexander Sluddall wbsoonded true Liverpool, May 23, with £6,600 of hls, ouployers money, He ivdvseribed ws being U0 years oly tivo foet ten Inches Ligh, bas handsome fou ay dark eyes, and olive complexion, with Jet-bluc! halr,whiskera, and mustache, sated A woman named Meliugh bas beon rarer for stout Vestipents aud prayer bale cme &t, Paul's Itoman-Catholle Church. on feted taken into custody, sho bud op priestly i hor monte, with twenty stringe of beads Deas Wy neck and a bushel of prayur-books on & ta tbat,” -her aide, there, but sald tbat -belng unwell, abo thought, if she hud the Lars c thinga bevonging ta the’ privst, aby woul better, and took them with that object. prisonor hus buen committed for trial. CROP NOTES. Dispatch &% The Cdicago Tribune Wartentown, Wis, Juno 20,—Notwithstanding the reoent beavy ruins in thia section, Cadet all kinds aro goneraliy doing well, and promiso sw Quo ytold, Crops on low lundu, however, va beon set buck some, but, with w continuation 1 -tho preseut dry weather, will goon be prowgnt outall right. Bomo marshes and . meadows Le -to tho bay c: ‘ou i ‘ited between now and haying Hosa with eh Woe usually heavy olde *