Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1880, Page 2

ee WASHINGTO Gen. Sherman’s Brave Old Heart Worn upon His Sleeve. Certain Daws in High Po- - sition Pecking It Up Pitifully. The Funding Bill Will Not Be , Reached in the House To-Day. Statesmen Gotting Uneasy Over tho Forecast of Mechanical Hindrances, “The Printers Must Have Time, ‘ and the Paper Will Rot if Not Seasoned, Wilson Will Talk the Langue- dokiahoma to President Hayes To-Day. ~The Negroes on the Auction-Blook— No Tariff Commission Prac- “* ticable—Bayard. Blaine Wants Thirteen Supreme Judges —Toothing Trotbles of Baby States-The Poncas, GENERAL OF THE ARMY. HE FILLS UP 118 STAFE. Speciat Dispatch to Tha Chteago Tribune, Wasitnaton, D.' C., Dec, 19.—Gen, Sher- man has Issued an order filling the vacancies on his staff, ‘The new nssignmentsare Licut.- Col. Richard 1. Dodge, ‘Twenty-third In- fantry, vice Col. Andenrled, deceased; Maj. John C, ‘Liuball, Second Artillery, vice, Gen, William P, Whipple, resigned; Maj. A, P, Morrow, Ninth. Cavalry, vice A.D. McUook, relieved to necept promotion to the Culoneley of the Sixth Infantry. The General snys, in his order, that the assigninent of Maj. Mor- row Is made to take gect Jan. 1, 05 he feels confident that the Senate will confirm the nomination of Col. MeCook for promotion. Gen, Sherman Is recelying much commenda- flor for the manner in which he has com- plited Jhis staf, Selections have not been madoifor any personal reasons whatever, asida froin the ono fact that {ACI OF THE OFFICERS CHOSEN is recognized as weil fitted for the place to which ho ‘has been assigned. Col. Dodge ‘ign officer of wide information on Indian affairs, Maj. ‘Tidball is an officer of high + Atanding {n the artillery and the author of the new artillery tuctics, Maj. Morrow {s the ofticer who commanded in the lute cam- palgn against Victurlo in Naw Afexico'n fow months.ago, Cen. Sherman, as he informed several of his army friends, contemplated asking to be retired noxt April, Vartly for this reason he had taken no ation looking to completing his staf, But having changed “hisymind, as indicated in the Ietter printed yesterday, ho concluded to fill all vacancies ‘arid organize his staff with a view of con- tinued seryico on the activo list, f SNUBHINGS. In the late military changes Gon, Sherman has found himself ignored in a way that has given him much annoyance, beenuse, nt no previous time, not even daring his contest ‘with Secretary Belknap, have so.many im- portant changes been made without giving him any volcoin tha matter. In fact, while that contest over thu relative powers of thé Sceretary of War and General of the Army was fn progress, Secrotary Bolknap never fafled to consult freely and fully with Gen, Sherman whonever new divisions or departments were, to bo established or new hendquarters designated * or ehanges mode affecting the = rank and duties of the general officers. In all these things Secretary Belknap regarded It as both proper and courteous to consult the General of the Army, Lut in late changes tho Intter had little volvo, and, In most. re- speets, hig recommendations wero entircly disregarded. He was shown the proposed organization of the now division to whieh Gen, Schofleld has been assigned, and the Departinents whieh wake it up, but ONLY, AK A MATTER DETERMINED UPON, and not ag a subject upon which his oplaion was desired. Ashe has always been con- sulted in such inatters heretofore, he nature ally—and as hits friends think very properly— feltslighted by thacourse taken, Ln the matter of ussignments of officors, and the retire ments, while the Jaw gives the President the solo power over them, still It Is notstrange that Gen. Sherman should claim that he should have had some voleo in the matter, So far from this belng granted, however, his wishes were in the main disregarded. Ue felt THE RETIREMENT OF GEN, ORD, taken in connection with the retention of Gen. McDowell on the retired Ist, very keenly, Ho tnsisted with the President. that the latter should be retired If the former was, We wrote a very earnest letter to the Presi- dent on the subject, iu whieh he declared that Geu. Ord wos a better soldier than Gen. MeDowell—younger, and was poor, whileMeDowell was rich, The President, how- over, held thatthe power to retlro was vested in himself alone, and tn thls case he close to oxercise it. Ho decided that his attitude in the mutter of theso inilitary changes should bo the saino as thathe has maintained toward the Senate—namely: that nomlua- tions ara wholly within the prerogative of the Exccutive, ‘Chis fs a new departure with reapeet to the’General of the Army, and one that, as a matter of course, is not rellshed at army headquarters, FUNDING, THE THINTERS TALKING SHOP TO THE STATESMEN, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasutnatoy, D. G, Dee, 1%—The ‘Treas: ury officials say that they are now confident _ that Congress will enact a new Funding law before adjournment in March, Gut they also say there will be mechanicul diimcultles connected with the printlugof the bunds of which Congress does not seem to bo advised, and which make It of the utmout lmportance that the proposed bill should become a law, at the latest, early In January, ‘These me- chanical difficulties Include the size of the bonds, the making of the plates, and the printing, ‘The Government has no paper on Which to print the proposed bonds, and it cannot order the paper made until Congress shall determluo on the length of the tine which the bonds shall run, as the length of thie determines the number of cotpons, and, consequently, the dimensions of the bond paper, . . THE ENGRAVERS, Moreover, cannot bexin their work until they know the size of the plate required and the length of time of the bond, ag the device de- pends on that. One of the greatest difl- culties, however, 13 that the paper ought to + lay some months before it is used, for the Teason that the printing cannot be as well THE cmicago ‘fRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER ‘20, 1880. done vpon fresh paper, and for tho more serious reason that bonds printed upon fresh paper are very likely to mold when stored Away in boxes or yaults for, safo keeping,,, ‘The interest cannot be saved upon the bonds: at thelr maturity untess the Secretary of tha Pas gives the tires months’ notice on eb, 1, THE POINT 18 RAISED, in connection with the Funding bill, that the proposed rate, of 8 per cent, may result ina contraction of thé currency, ‘This arzumont is based upon the ‘fact that, Inasmuch as the banks donot find Itprofitable now to take out the cirentation that isauthurized with bonds deposited as security foreirculation drawing 4 per cent, they may be «disposed. to surrender or to decline to take out, even, more eircula- tion whet they are cupelled to’ take bonds drawing only 8 per cent interest as seaurity for thelr efreulation, It appears that: the New England States have $18,500,000 fess, the Middle States $50,000,000 less, Southern States $3,000,000 Iess, the Western States $10,000,000 leas, the. Pacific States $1,500,000 less cirenlation than they might have under tho existing law aud UNDEM THEM PRESENT CHARTERS, If thoy found ft profitable to keep bonds drawing only per cent Interest ns seeurlty for their circulation, Tho total authorized circulation of National banks is S5%1,- OS7,77), while the actual amount of circt- Intlon of National bank-notes outstanding {s_ only $321,860,400, Ieaving $69,718,370 not tuken ont. ‘I'he least Interest now paid to banks on thelr deposits for their clreulation is 4 percent, while on a portion of their bonis deposited for elreniation 5 per cent Is pald, It Js the propositton of the Funding bill, however, to compel the banks, as fast as their present property In bonds is disposed of, either by sale ar maturity, to invest the amount required to bo deposited as security for clreulation tn 3 per cont bonds, THE QUESTION, THEREFORE, may ariso in connection with the funding de- bate that, It the banks do not find the 4 per cent bonds sufficiently profitable to Induce them to take out all the circulation they’ aro entitled to, how much more ctrenlation will they relinquish and to what greater extent will they contract the currency when the rite of interest on these deposited securitles shull be reduced to 3 percent?, It must be remembered, however, that a good many banks have sold a considerable portion of their 4 per cent sccuritles and retired a cor- responding amount of circulation in order to tako advantage of THK IGI PREMIUMS on thod per eonts. ‘To-morrow will be the third Monday in the month, and, under the rule of the Ilouse of Representatives, motions to suspend the rules aud pags bills reported by Committees will pe in order. as every: one of the leading Committees ling a number of Important bills on tha calendar, {tis very probable that the entire session of the House to-morrow, after the roll of States has been ealled for the introduction of new bills, will be oecupled by Committees in Iudeavoring to secure action on some of the more Important and pressing measures passed upon and ap- proved in Committee, IT 18 HARDLY 'TO RE EXPECTED, therefore, that the Refunding bil will be considered at all tuemorrow by the Ilouse. It such should be the case, and the Senate should agree to adjourn on Wednesday, the Refundlug vill will probably not be sent to the Senate before January, 23 {tean hardly pass the Hlouse in two days, 3 WILSON’S MISSION. WILSON WILL NOT GET ANY SATISF ACTON, *__ Speetat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasittnatos, Dee, 1%—Tho interview of Wilson, the agent of the Oklahoma invaders, with the President to-morrow, will not re- sult inuny change of program on the part of the Adiniulstration, The President has Issued hig proclamation warning all persons from encronching upon the Indian ‘Territory In violation of the treaties, aud the fact that he in hls nessage expresses the opinion that the vast fertile domatn of the Territory should be open to settlement is not to be consid- ered by the prospeetiveseltlers, as it evidently has been, a8 hidieating the probability that tho Administration would countenance au Invasion which It has Instructed its military olicers to prevent. From all that can bo learned of the settlers, as represented by Wilson, they aren band of earnest advent- urers, Ignorant of tho Inwe and the treaties, and actunted by that restless spirit so often seen on the frontier, % THEY WILL HAVE TO TURN THEIR ENERGIES in another direction, however, or incur the danger of runuing their heads against Fed- erat bayonets. ‘The Committees having the subject In charge scem more disposed than they wero Inst winter to favorably consider tho proposition to open the Indian ‘Territory, Undoubtedly the President's message has had its influence, but the slort- ness of the sesston, the length of the prob- able holiday recess, and the great pressure that will be upon'Conareas after Jan. 4 will probably operate to deny to the project the attentive consideration which It deserves ‘and might otherwise receive, THE ARGUMENTS OF TITE OKLAHOMA AM; at BASSADOH, Special Dispatch ta The Chicago Tribune, Wasuixaton, Dee, 18—Dr, Robert M. Wilson, of Jefforson, ‘Texas, but ostensibly from Oklahoma, Indian ‘Territory, arrived th Washington to-d, y ds the accredited agent of tho settlers now camped at Caldwell, 'Kns., with ample powers to treat with the United States Government respecting the proposed Irruption of white settlers into the Goyern- ingnt landsknownas Oklaliona, Dr, Wilson présents 0 pleturesque appearance ina white summbrero, heavy blue flannel shirt with no collar, diamond studs to matelian Imiuense soltalre ring, and a full beard a foot and a haig Jong. Dr Wilson says in elfeet that he has coma to represont tho case of lils people to the Prestdent first, from. who hy hus something to hope; Cougress, whose car he has less hopo of catching, and the publle generally, whose sympathy te feels sure of securing, ‘Thy Territory which the settlers have In thelr mind's oye Is only separated from Southern Kansas by 9 strip of Indian reservation fifty-seven mites fn width, but they dare not cross this tn tho face of what Dr, Wilson styles the opposition of the Indian Ring, ‘This Ring Is composed of army officers anc contractors, who make n- good thing ont of the tribute they ave now able to loyy on the herds of large cattle-dealor@who are permitted to eross tho ‘Territory, ‘Cils tribute amounts fo about half-n-dollur on eneh head of, stock, and the aggregate amounts toalarge sin wach year, Poor men, however, are strletly forbidden to set foot within the charmed elrele, ‘fhe 14,000,000 aeres of arable Innds, says the Doctor, which ts held by the Gavern- ment, and from which the Indians them- selves have been debarred aceesa for soveral years past by legistution attached to Appropriation — bills, Igy. the | God given hurltuge of the people who care ta go Jn and possess it, and If the Government per- sistsinits dental of these rights they will be assumed tn spite of such dental, although an Indian war follow as a consequence, Dr, Wilson exhibited a certificate of coloulzation signed by D,}. Paynans Presluent and W, A. Shuman ua Seeretgry,’ The certitients simply sels forth that, In _consldera- Won of the payment by A. LB. of §3, ho thereby becones 4 member of the Oklahoma Colony, ant is en titled «tg all its benefits and protection, and tonn equal voice in all matters pertain: ing to tts Joeal government, The colonists now at Caldwell number sume 600 or 600, and allare well armedelther with heayy double barrel shotguus or rhiles of the best pat- tern, besides smallaris of every gescription, “ We do not intend to give it out that we are armed for any wluister purpose,” explalned Dr, Witson, “but on such un enterprise, and {nu wild country Hke Oklahoma, wo thluk the possosston of arms a measure of pYéen! “ tlon, and, moreover, these are essentfal In, procuring the means of livelihood. where 4 hunting is ono of tho leading tndustrics.” Dr. Wilson anys, however, that if Tayno's crowd goes-Jnto the Indian ‘Torritory with-' out the ¢onsent of the Government that there will be trouble, as tht Indiana are Cully under. tho {influence of tho Ring. “Ilo-auoted Ma). ’ Randall as having sald in auch an“ dyent he “would turn 6,000 well-armed Indians Inésa upon tho colonists.” Dr, Wilson denies that the rallronds have anything iy intstee i bo, And, nftora conference with tho Pouca tribo do with tho movement. If eceds, he says the railroads wilt nbt, by that fact acauiro the right of way through tho Territory. Dr, Wilson confirms: in part the story that Capt,,Papye has been deposed. The réason of this Is not that led fg unpopular with lily own people. but saat he hns enemies throughout the West, and particularly In the Indian Ring. ‘The nan, who will probably succeed Payne fs Maly Maidt, who is personally without enemies: Wilson gays hie has already seon a number of| Congressmen from Knisns, Migsourl, Arkan-| 6ns, and Texas, and they are, to--use lls ox- pression, “heart and soul with the cnter-| prise.” Dr, Wilson !s not very well informed } as to the treaties and Inws relating to} the Innds in question, and admits as much, He Is simply the nergonal representative of a company of rough men Ike himsolf, who | are on the lookout for a chance to make a} -Btrlko, SAVERY. RECENT SALES OF. NEGHOES IN VIRGINIA. Bpeclat Mtspateh to The CAteago Tribunts Wasttnatoy, D.C. Dee, 19.—The negroes. of sons portions of CVirginta are exelted at tho fact that, in Bedford County recently, three negroes were put up for sale at auction for ninety days, under some ancient Vagran- ey Inw.: They were sold in nceordance with adecree of n, local Magistrate, from whose deeision, it appears, under the old State Inw, there was no. appeal. These threo negroes, however, weru subsequently released on a habons corpus by a Superior Judge, who do- elared that tho process under which thoy were sold were vold for informality; but the excitement, notwithstanding, Is reported as very great, many of the negroes maintaining that tt fs the part of THE BOURBON PROGRAM now to attempt to enfores this obsolete statule against all colored men who assist either the Republleans or the Mahone ticket. ‘The charge of vagrancy 4s enslly made and sustalned against a negro in most Southern States, but tho Virginia negro is Jn better condition than are the negrocs of many other States to resist the attempts of the Bourbons to restore sich an old feudal process, a3 they hold the political balance of power, and If thoy should unite with the Mahone faction they might reasonably expect justice. Any scrlous attempts of the Bourbons, therefore, io even partially retnslaye the blacks is not MRals to prove successful in the Old Domin- jon, TARIFE, NOTHING WILL HE DONE, Speetat Dispatch to The Chicagy Tribune, _ Wasutnatox, D, C., Dev, 19.—The Demo- crats hays not sufficiently recovered from their tari fright during the campaign to sugecst any legisiatlou looking to tariff re form, and the probability is that the Demo- erats will relinquish their control of tho House without having serlously attempted tonccomolish any reform in tho tariff: or’ taxation, except the unimportant modifica- Ulons which have been suggested by Speaker Randall’s high-tarit! Ways and Means Com- wilttee, A revenuc-reform member of the Committee says that there is Mttle prospect now that the Committe will report any- thing favorable upon the subject, even after the holldays, The proposition for a “Tariff Conunisston contained in the Eaton bill hag luany supporters, and would recelye much favor at the hands of the Ways and Means Committee possibly, but thera are: 1. ' TWO OBSTACLES Of which threaten to be fatal to that measure. ‘They are, first, the probable Radical and ir- reconellable condition of opinion between the two Houses of Congress as to the manner Jn which such a Commission should be ap pointed. ‘Lhe Senate Is disposed to provide that the proposed Connnissioncrs shall be ap- pointed by the President and confirmed by tho Senate, the power of confirmation giving the Seuaturs the practical yeto power which they desire to. have In the imatter, whereas the louse, in order that the Representatives. “muy have some voice in the appointment of the Commissloners, 4s disposed to tosist that these Commissioners shal! be appointed by the Louse and Senate, and not by the President, The claim of the House Is strengthened by the argument that, under the Constitution, all revenue mensures must originate In the House, and that, in so important a matter as a Commission to con- sider the propricty of revising the entire tariff system, that branch of Congress which | has the constitutlonal power to originate revenue measures ought to ba consulted, TUE SECOND DIFFICULTY ‘ Nes in the fact that thero is much opposition to the Tariff-Comimission plan on tho part of some of the genuine revenues reformers, for tho reason thot they consider that the plan Is slinply another pretext of the Protectionists to postpone, which they say means to do- feat all efforts to secure any tarli€ roform. ‘The fact that the Eaton bill proceeds froma most radical Protectionist, and that it finds ity strongest supporters In the Pennsylvania Jron and Steel Association and in repre- sentatives of the consollinted New England protected industrivs, is cited to prove that the Eaton bill ls only a mukeshift in the In- terest of Protection to dufeat ull attempts at tard reform, BAYARD, “CHE WRITTEN LETTER IEMAINS.” Spectut Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Wasiixayox, D. CG. Deo, 10,—Sume vel- Unteer defenders of Senator Bayard evince a disposltion to try to impeach the credibility of James 1. Andem, the gentleman who innde the stenographic report of My, Bayard’s Dover speech. ‘This will probably be found wu tinpossibiiity,- Mr, Andem has been a stenographer for twenty years, during which (hne he ling been professionally connected with several of the most fuportant events In tho political histery of the country, Ie was ehtef stenographer of the Potter Committee, and was ONE OF THM STENOGNAPIIENS oF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION, Mr, Andem has filled the position of clorik to the Hougo Appropriation Committea and to thu Sennte Committee on Education, Ho was the official stenographer of the: South- ern-Clilm Counntssion, and was at ono time Private Secretary and stenographer to Chief. Justica Drake, of tha Court of Clalms, At the Dover meting Mr, Ande took'e posl- tlon a fow fect from Senator Bayard, stand- Ing upon the ground and placing his book Upon the platform, Ifs notes are full gud very legible, He has now written out the entire speoch, and will swear to Its correct: Ness, if necessary, THE SUPREME COURT, BLAINE’S BCHEMK TO HAVE THINTEEN Jupaes, Hpactat Dispatch to ‘The Chicago Tribune, Wasuinatox, D, ., Dec, 19.—Senato) Blatne’s proposition (o lucrease the Supreme Judges to thirteen Is’ bemg much dlscuased, : and ig recolved with favor, The Court ts: overworked, wid more clroully are needed ' for our large and rapidly-growing country, {i is well understood that Senator Bialno | takes the ground that out of thirteen Judges the appuluting power should select three or four of the most eminent Democratic law- | yers of the country, le thinks the Court would stand stronger In popular favor it composed in that way, aud that the Repub- lean party would be freed from all charge of organizing and matntatning on partisan Judiciary, Me thinks minority represonta- tion Inn court fs just as advantageous and beneficial as In Legistatures, 4 THK PONCAS. PRESIDENT AY MEG 'TITE COMSIISSION, Wasntnaton, D:., Dee. 1%.—Tho Presl- dent has issued the following request: Executive Maxston, Wasittnaroy, D. G, Deo, 18,—1 a a tho following gentlomon to Proccod to thofindian Territory na acon as may of Indinysyto vscertnin the facts tn regard to thelr revolt remoyal and present cundition, 80 far ng '}# neceasnry to determine the question -whatJistica and humanity. require should be dono by the Government of the United States, and‘ report thotr conclustons ‘and recominenda- Mona in tho premises: Brig.-Gon, George Cronk, U.B. Aes Bri.-Gon, Nelson A, Miles, U. 8. Ay “Willian Bilokney, Washlogton, D.C, and Wal- ter Allen, Newton, Mass, It 1s tho purpose of ‘tho foregotng request to authorize the Commis- slonto take whatover ateps rany, In thotr Judge mient, bo necessary. to enable thom to accom: Plish tho pitrpose sot forth, Gen, Crook Is ntt- thorizad tu take with him two Atdes-de-Camp to do clerical work, At D. Hayes, u NEW MEXICO. - ITS OF1*¥MEXICO CHARACTERISTICA, +» Speetal Dispaten to The Chicago Tribunes MWastnaros, D.C. Dec. 10.—Gov, Ritch, of’New Mexico, has transmitted a letter to Congress in which he points out that tho re- ‘eontly-elected Legislature of that ‘Territory is ‘| Mtegal, In that it consists of thirteen meim- ‘bers of the Council atid twenty-six Assembly- ‘nun, u instead of twelve Councillors and iventy-four Assemblymen, as provided by ‘the Hederal law, Gov, Ritch proposes two 'Somedties, the first being n legullzation of tho ) Legislature already chosen, and that {tbe Sauthorized to meet in March next. If this is ftone, which ho thinks very desirable, in -ylew of the heavy immigration lute the State, 4n appropriation of $20,000 will venceded. If this recoinmendation is not adopted, thon Gov, Ritch recommends the appointment by Covgress of aN ron A COMMISSIONER with authority to make an apportionment for members of the Legislature, as directed by tho act of June, 188, tha Conunission to meet after tho censugroturns are In, and to designate a tine for holding an election which shall be the sane ns that for electing a Delegate to Congress, and within ninety days ofthe assomblinig of that body. He also recommenits that the sessions of the Legis lature bo hold biennially after 1881, . a NOTES. : CONKLING, Spectat Diepateh to Ths Chicago Tribune, Wasitxaton, D, 0, Dec. 10.—The New York Conkijng pollticians are evidently pro- paring tu secure the New York State Federal offices “under the Garfletd Administration, Ex-Congressinan McDougal, who ts United States Marghal for the Notthern District of New York, is now here, and expetes to be re- tained. Te ts ono of Conklings strongest supporters, and ‘® very prominent anti- Mayes man. Ie is one of the host of Fedoral officers In tho dnterlor of the State who have not been disturbed by the Hayes Administration, and who wera permitted to remain to defy tho Administration and de- nounce its Ciyil-Service polley and disobey its orders. It Is reported that such distin- guished personages ns Cornull Payne, United States Marshal of the Southorn District of Now York, and Crowley, Representative in Congress from the Niagara District, have re- cently spent two uays at Mentor with the President-elect on business the nature of which has not been revealed. , _ AT MENTOM, A gentlemat ‘who has just arrived from Mentor suys that Gen, Garfield is taking Ife as comfortably as he can this oxtremely cold weather and with’ so much work, He ha not spent a winter J1i Ohio before for twenty years, and, of courge, has become somewhat unaccustomed to thoextreme cold and>the heavy suoty; but he isdn’ excellent health, whateyer contrary reports may haves been published, Ho did syffer at one thne from dyspepsin, which hag not left hin since his camp disease, incurred in the War, and he has to be somawhat cnreful of his dict, but ho fs in yery robuat health, REPRESENTATIVE CONGER, OF MICIIGAN, referring to the reports that he has with- drawn from tho Scnatorlul race, says that they aro untrue; thatthe Is still a candltate, Ig making earnest efforts, hopes to be elect- ed, and has not, for a moment, thought of retiring from the race, He thinks, Indecd, that he has more votes assured than either of tho other candidates,-and that It would bo folly for him to withdraw. Many of Con- Rer’s colleagues in Congress share his con- fidence, DOWNTRODDEN GAVITALISTS. ‘Tu the Western Associates J’reas, Wasiunaton, D. C., Dec, 19.—lepresenta- tive Morton will to-morrow Introduce in the House a vill for the repeal of the taxes on bank-checks, bank-capital in excess of tho amount held in Government bonds, oud bank-doposlts, ; FIRE RECORD. * AT ROCKFORD, ILL, Bpeetal Diavatch to The Chicago Tribune, Rockvoun, I, Deo, 1.—At twonty minutes bofore 12 o'clock last night fire broko out in tho ature on West Stato street occupied by Mra, DeWitt, milliner, The tire-alarm was at once sounded, and the Departmunt wero on tho ground {ua short time with four stroams of water playing. on the dovouring f{inmos, Tho fire waa very dificult to fight from the fact that. it was bard to wot at it, ag it orlginatod noar tho milddlo wall betwoon two stores, ‘Tho: store on the wost was ocoupled by William Gibscn with a lurgd stock of furnishlug goods, and the ono onthe east was occupied by Shunt & Adama, tailors, and Chria Henry with a full stack of clothing. Tho stocks from those buillings wore removed before the flames roachod them, ale though they were somewhat dumaged. ‘The fire burned sonte tino before the Mantes were gotten under control, ono bulking beta oe, dus stroyed, ‘The loss will be from $15,000 to $19,000, it ts stated that thoro is $!: Insurance on the milijuory stock, which will cover tho loss, t > : . IN CIIOAGO.' + Tho alarm frou: Box 486 ut. 19:07 yesterday morning was caused by a fro tu the laundry of atwo-story and basement brick dwelling, No, 603, Weat Washington streat, owned and occupied by-J. 8, Kollor aa a residonoa.- Tho ‘dnmago to tho building is estimatad ut $100. ‘Tho house is {nvured for $1,500, and tho furniture for $1,600, Inthe Girard, of Punutolphia, wud the Weaturn of-Loronto, "Tho cause of tho fro 1s supposod to bave been the spontancous combustion of barry rags in the bayewont, The alarm from Box Té nt 5510 jeatovaning: wag on by a fire in-n threa-story stono-Cront buliding at No, 8 Barus court, owned by De, Eldridge, and occupied by Sra. athows aaa residence, Damage to building and furniture Dyteuining Ines coutnee witht snelole Tie comin, pont * 1 farm wus turned in by Ald, Bullasde 1 Q ——_-: AT DUKE CENTHE, PA, uBganvoun, Pa. Dee, WerA fire in Duko Con- tre, un oll town twelve nilles cast of Bradford, thiy morning, destroyed ning bulidings, enusing a loss.of $20,000, The principal losors ure Weay- or, & Wililuma,. proprietors of tho Applobee Mouse aud stutloners, brat insured tor $1,600; 1M, Alilior, Jewoley, oud inaured tor SUN; Grecnburf & °Ca,, ofuttiiur, $3,500; insured” for $2400; Appleboe £° Rayorss grocers, £4500; ins sued for $120, ‘Tho fre’ originated froin an Sirtpressuso of yng Ina stoye in the Applebea ie INSANE, ; Spectal Dispatch tu ‘the Chicago Tribune, Toomtnaton, li, Qoo, 1.—For svyeral days past B. F, Allen, a prominent coul-den‘or of ‘Normal, has been sutfering from derangement ‘ef mind. Altdy served aga jurymyn on ‘the Bell-Talbot murder trial, tried in MgLean Clr- ult Court, and bie trionds say that tho excite. wuent of tho trial go proyed upon Lis wind us to iMethrone biy reason. : 3 $$. 4 PETROLEUM, | ) Tirvsyittx, Pa., Doo, 1.—The oll market Dhoned ut ¥l% cents; hiyhcat, YX ,centa; Low- ext, O1N conte; closing ut YI cents; Bales, Idd, 00 barrels; abipmcute, 119,000; charturs, 25,000, “NEW YORK. Jayne, the Detective, Now Working for Philp and ‘Hart. Ifo Assorts that’ Hutchins, Had- loy, and Huntloy Wrote tho Forgery. Gov. Sprague Will Not Men- tion Oonkling in His Cross-Bill, A Fish as Heavy as Sam Tilden's Heart Now on Its Way to Chicago. Tho Monstor to Bo Displayed in the Ex- position Building, or the Building in the Monster. THE FORGERY. MORE ABOUT IT, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ‘New Yor, Dee. 19,—It would seem that We are to hear more of the now celebrated Morey tetter than has heretofore got elthor into the prints or the courts, Thera Is no doubt that the proseention of Philp, and the proprictors and editur of the paper which published the forgery will ba prosecuted vig- orously by the oficlals who lave worked tho case up, the details of which have been glyen with the utmost minuteness, and that no compromise will be accepted on the part of the prosceution, Recent Investigations of Government detectives have more thorough- ly convinced them that tho original suspl- efons were correct, and that the authorship of the letter and the guilt of publication BELONG WHERE THEY WERE PLACED AT TUE OUTSET. Notwithstanding this, tho Indicted parties are making strong efforts to putin a rebuttal that will overthrow the evidence against them, and be Instrumental in securing acquit tal. For this purpose they have secured the services of 1. G, Jayne, who was some years ago In the Government Secret Servico in this elty, and who, it is stated, left that gery- ico for reasons entirely satisfactory to the Government. It has come to my knowl- edge to-night that Jayne is pretty well con- vinced that he has secured the identity of + THE ANCH-CONSFIRATORS, who not only. wrote tho Morey Setter, but who subserlbed the perjured testimony of which so much has been published, It ap- pears that Joyne reported yesterday to his princlpals that, on Friday nizht, he shad- owed tho conspirators, of whom he said there were four, to a: house at the lower ond of ‘Third avenue. They were Stillson Hutchins, of Washington; IL IL. Hadley, who Is said to have worked up the Cumberland witners, O'Brien; ‘Lhomas EK, Lonergan, the New %York detective who originally turned up Philp; and Stanley Muntley, formerly of the Brooklyn Eagle, le was, he said, ‘satisfied that he had tho parties who had been guilty of the whole affair, and tho next thing was to get AN UNQUESTIONATLE CLEW to the reason for their congregating so mys- terlously, which he was morally satisfed was for the purpose of discussing the Approach- Ing trials and devising schemes for thelr per sonal safety... Saturday evening Hutehina, Lonergan, and Huntley met, purely by acel- dent, nt the Gilsey House, where thoy were shadowed by Jayno’s men, who were dumb- founded Inter on to seo them joined by Join I, Davenport, who had dropped in at tha hotel, and, knowing all the partles, engaged In a friendly chat. This has completely dumbfounded % TUE ASTUTE JAYNE, and ne now Js valnly endeavoring to sottle Davenport’s connection with his suppositl- tlous gang of. conspirators, Furthermore, Undley is notin the city, rad nelther of the other threo mentioned was at the plnco designated on Friday nignt. ‘Tho operations of Jayne at first created some comment in certain circles here, but his disposition to tatk nbout tho matter, and his declarations that he was backed up by the newspaper con- ceri now in such an uncomfortable; legal trap, lias greatly militated against what he Js doing, and no contidenco whateyor Is placed in lils operations, SPRAGUIS STORY. WHAT THE GOVERNON SAYS OF 1139 WIrL’s . BILL OF DIVORCE. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago ‘Tidunc, Nuw Yon, Dee, 10,—Goy. Sprague was in Providence, 2. 1, yesterday evening, and, after reading tho full toxtof his wifo’s pe- titlon, he suid: “ho charges are false, every one of them, and they know St,” and then donled in detail the — accusa- tons = of infidelity, . saying that sume of the women mentioned in the potition ho actually did not know. Tho remainder of tho petition, aside from the charge of non-support, was not dwolt upon, Gov, Sprague sald that he had never refused to support his wife, and that sho had never, since tho day of her fight, asked for admission to tho house she ran away -from. .Any timo tat his wife might ‘sea fit to come back and bring the clifidren they would all find plenty to eat and plenty to drink, He scoffed at the idea of being called upon to support o wife who Would not put herself in tho way of bel supported, In reply to f THR PROPOSITION OF MR, CORBIN, a wealthy New York banker, Mr. Sprnguo’s cousin, to settle $70,000 of Spragua’s Indobt- edness on condition of allowing a dlyorce sult to zo uncontested, Gov. Sprague said: “2 would rather snerifice what Intercst 1 now hve in the Sprague estate, or may have in the future, than accede to such terms and Tetrent trom tho position L assumed on that Qvoutful day at Canonchot.!” . THE QOVERNON FURTHER SAID that ho should not bother himself with the divorce sult until St came lito court, next February. Ho proposed to go on with the equity suit aud have that matter fully established In the Courts. Ho thought thas he would not accuse Senator Conkling of adultery If ho filed a eross-bill, but simply accuse his wife with reckluss extravagance and squandering of hls estate, preferring not to bring disgrace upon his children, fl ” ANOTHER REvoT, Speclat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, New Youu, Deo, 18—Gov. Sprague sald to-dayto Tue Tribune correspondent ot Providence, relative, to hls wife's appll- cation for divorce: “Mrs, Spraguu's position {4 a — pecuilar one. Sho has applicd for a divorce, when her coun- sel, if they have nny knowledge of the Jaws of this State, must know that sho has no legal status, ‘Tho Rhode Island divorce laws are very expligit, and ennnot be misconstrued, ts. Sprague loft Canonchet two years ago, and ins never sluco thon ‘knocked at its doors and asked for admittance, Herntrustes: has sought to got Into- tho hall, but’ not: iu person, so that her counsel cans not prove that sho has Ilved In: the State for a year, nor that she has been dented bed and board at hor foriaer home during that thne.” ‘The Governor says that he wilinot pay any attention tothe diyorce suit untill he has got his equity sult far under ways that there can bo no fallura nit, ‘he Su- preme Court of Washington County docs ons not tnect until the third. Monday In Feb- rary, and he thinks there will bo - PRENTY OF TI to answer the dlvorea petilion and tts allega- before the court conyones, Me {sand always has beens, ho says, anxious to shicld his ohiltren, and should he flo x cross-bi{l will present such a one as will spare them mich pain and sorrow (nthe future, “However much Limay know derogatory to the good name of my wite,” he says, “LE will slmply atiege that by her reckless extravagance sho has squanderad my —yast .wenlth and beggared mo." For Mr. Conkling he declares that he will re- serve tho -atrongth of his battery, and cliargo him with adultery, ‘The Goy- ernorcharges coltustonbetweon Mrs, Spragua and Trusteo Chaffee, and in proof thereof cites tho fact, as he alleges, that Benjamin 1 Thurston, who holped frame the petition for divorce, Is private counsol for both, A WITATIG AS DIG A8 THR SECOND OF LAST NOVEMBER, Spectut Dispatch to Ths Chteago Tribune, New Yorn, Dee, 10.—A dispatch from Boston says: What may fairly be termed the Jargest erenture on the faee of the carth to- day has been seeured by certain parties in Chicago, and is now belng prepared tor ship- ment, the Exposition Building In that elty being its destination, where it ia expected toareive pbout Tuesday next. This mon ster is a real “right whale nearly sixty fect In length, and weighing over forty tons, Several sniulier speclinens of so- ealled whales have been brought to this har- bor, and have been exhibited to hundreds\vt thousands, but the best-known experts on this const claim (hat this 1s the frat and only true and genuine one of the ‘right whale” species which has over been taken ont of the water without being cut up, , The oxtraor- dinary opportunity to examing this leviathan. has been used by many of the fearned men. of the Enst, who aro sadly puzzled over some of the contradictions given by Nature to their valuable books of learning. —————____—. POWERS OF CONGRESS. - The Sennto May Inquiro Into tho Legal« Aty of n State Leygislature—Demecratic Procedonts in Behalf of This Right. New York Ieratd Uind,). Somoof our Democratic contemporaries fre Alarmed and outraged ata recent dully- trance of ex-Secretary Boutwell- on the fut- ure policy of the Republican party. The St. Louis Republican, one of the ableat of the Democratic organs, solemnly warns the pub- lic agulnst the policy proposed by Mr. Bout- well, nnd particularly against the following part of It, which it quotes: Moreover, tho Senate muat assort and oxerclsc ite undoubted right and constitutional preroga- tive of {uquiring into the election of legislative agsombllos whenever the question ts rufsed hn. deviding tho right of a clatmant toa xeat tn the Benate, "Of course, the Senate of the United States has no power over the Orgnniaioen of n Stato Legislature; butif, upon Inquiry, it finds: that wState Legislature ts an unlawful assem- bly, and to such un extent na toluyalidate ita uc- don, thon & peraon cialining a seat In the United Stutes Senate by virtucof the vote of sucha body ought to be rejected, In othor words, the claim of 2 body of inen ina Stato to be the Legisia- ture of that Stute dees not preclude inquiry by. tho Senate when it is called by the Constitution of the United Stites to decide upon tho olection, euatigunons, and rotturn of tts members. - Ui jer the Conatitutton the right of Inquiry knows ‘no limit, and tho exerciso of that right is within tho discretion of the Scuate, This, says the Republican, with oa faco Tongthened with horror, this is the policy of the Republican party. We nre not so cértain about that. What wodo know ts, that It Is the polley—tho present policy—of the Democratic party. It “my become tho policy of thelr oppunents hereafter for aught wo know. Undowibted- ly, if the Democratic Senate porsists In un- seating Mr. Kellogg on the pretenses set up for that act, the Democrats will have set a -precedent which the Republicans may Unk themselves Justified In following. - in the case of Mr. Kellogg the Democrats insist. on doing preelyely what Mr. Buutwell proposes to do. The whole course of the Senate debate has been, on the Democratic side, an investigation into the ctection and the legality of the Legislature which elected Mr. Kellogg; and, moreover, it is a second investigation, for ho-+was orlginally seated not on what is called a primA facie right, but after due inquiry, and the Democrats aro now trying to unset the former conclusion under which he was admitted to his seat and turn him ont of if. “Show us the rond how to vacate seats in this body by a majority yots, If you dare,” exclaimed to Inte Sena- tor Chandler to the Democrats in Muay of last. year and ag usual the Democrats aro doing wha respectfully request our Demuerntic contem- poraries who think Mr. Boutwell’s proposi- tlon extreme and dangerous to compare it with a few oxtracts froin tho debate on the Kellogg ease which follow: Hirst-—Senator Bailoy, of Tennesseo, agrees with Mr, Boutwell that the Senate huis the right to Inquire into the acts and proceedings of Logisinture, Mr, Batley, urging the ex- pulston of Mr. Kellogg, sald last April: ‘Tho Sennto is 1 {eplsintlve body with inhorent ng well as constitutional authority to Andie oF decide who shill bo admitted to tale part In its doliborations and shnro te edepcosibl ives, In oxcreising this function it may becallod upon to. consider tho relations of n State to the Muderal Goverment, to inquire Into and decide upon. the right of tho poople of a Stuto to Bottle their own government, or upon the regularity of the acts und proceedings of a Stato Legisinture. Sccond—Senntor Vance, of North Carolina, agrees with Mr. Boutwell that: tho Sennte inay Ingnire Into the legality of a Legisla- ture. Jlewitd last May: : pers If ho wns not chosen by tho Logisinture thero- of, or If, the body chooalug boing tho Leulalature, ho was not chnaun frvely, and without vorrup: tlon or nny improper pructicos, thon it 18 a crime against the Conatitudon of the vountry, and It does vlolence to the outh of every miu Who hie sworn to aupport tho Constitution if that sittimg mombor ts allowed to mlaroprusent tho State which he purporta to come from, Mr, Prvaident, Tain wilting to see every Ben- ator's suat Jn this house disturbed and called in queation and put iu Jeopardy whenever it ts shown to ing that ho fa here us tho choice of an Mlegal mob tn the stroeta of somo elty tnsteud of the cholou or representative of the ‘Loyislature Of n sovereign Sinte. “1 nin porieetly witting to have my own Ur aay othor Sonutor’s ecat, so far us Lam concerned, diaturbod whonover that state of fuct uppeurs, : Third—Senator Hill, of Georgla, agrees with Mr, Boutwell that the Senate hag the broadest right of fnquiry both into the legal- ity of o Legislature and Into the legality of itvacts, As quthor of the report unseating Kelloge he said Inst May: ‘The report of the Comumittoo alloges two rea- sons why thut propoaltion Is true, First, tho re- pert declares that the body of porsona which it nus buen alleged elocted Rultugy was not in fact tho Legiatuture of Louialnna, aud thorufore nid no powur, no authority, te el 0 him as Sena- tor, ‘Tho second reason fa, that, conceding for the argument thut thia’ body of persons was tho Juuialaro of Loulsinna, yet quat andor the oyldones there wus no quorum ‘presant ut tho tmo of the alleged cluction; and, secondly, that the wembars were contrullod in thelr yuics by prlburs und other corrupt practices, and thero- foro ufd nol choose the sitting momber to the seut ho occuples, He added: want to prococd now to tho second ground of the reports It ta that ff that cortuin body of tuon called tho Paokni oxlduture was tho Legislature Kellogg was uot obogen by it to the sont be occuples,—irst, because thera wag no quoritin when ho was alleged to have beon etedt- ed; second, because the cloction was. tho result chute vleut! juriadiction to thete Gaoationss My nant te EC eee nid further, he contended, as Mr, Boutwell does, that {t 18 ‘competont for the Buuate to reopen n question of a Senators seutatany thing a NeW evidence presented: low, I lay dows the proposition that tho fudy- mont of tho Sonate: before rondoreds wins ree: guniptivoly tt covers all tho uestomk that could bayo been mado, yet conclusively it covers only tho questions thut wore tmadv, and that the quostiona now betere us were not wads, wore hot passed upon, and aro not deterinined by the former Judgment, ‘Chat is u vory smportant emul propos! ton, and! shall procuod tu catab- Fourth—Senator Saulsbury, of Delawai Agrees With Mr, Boutwell, tr, he reviewed tho manner In which mentbors of that Legis lature Were chosen which ulected ML Sith ytt ou ate Reagent of acontestants pcnags Hoi reba ‘This ie not a new trial bet tr,» aud Mr. Kellogg, It ta a procceditgy ings examine the case, It ls, et Fohourin, “And tiawe If chose to. pe: ieee abe evidence contained in tho 120 pages of te: tony taken by the Conuuittes hte Jato luved> Ugution, L think L could dumunstraty must cons the Republicans want them todo, We- chose to go Inta the | clusivel, not onty that th Biectea: Lonty thi we body of any Mr, Kellogg wore not In fret. (ne) "2 et the f Anture of tha Stito of Loulaiana, b ans FI€ ithad ben, thon the election ot Me wert was an compromised by bribers. ind fran et {ha donate woutd not be justined in Tetalaint FYyth—Senator Morgan, of Alabam: with. Mr. Boutwoll's raposition that theses ate mitst inquire Into the constitution of 4 Janisintire which has elected a Senator, i Bik Whonover the Sonnto tn tho exces trust haa dented to the peaplo ornate ine tte uenttlOnt OF tote rluhteiu Stato Gavernmmae e: Wighest duty ig ta: reverse. Ie own nett at nurrv'et tho wrong by the oxeluaion of thee ya rRCH LYE, A the poople would havo dure meclves while the confederation wae” exiatenco und while they were in tho full et clau of this power, “Ani ao itds tho duty oa Sennte, which it owan to ft own digultyos ett? acter as well as to the people of every singe exOjnat pan Bie ie seat tn the Senate whe re en! cucrelo aus by bribery, at by perjury, 7 SNe, by fxti—Senafor Garland, of Ari agrees with Mr. Boutwell’ that the iansny jieedt nut iB hinda iit tho Anstanee ot g che estant, but that the Senate must 4 complaint of any citizen: Gehan the Thia Inquiry could bo brought toth any person, If Mr. Spolford had romano silent at tome us tho tombs themselves aig at Apectable gontioman vould havo sont'a wane hore aiid bad this inquiry instituted tijon teat, javernor, 18 orncys| CAVO tule make still fi Hoey ia - Wo tight make s' urther eltations, It is needless, It Is enough to sagen ut leading Democratic Senators all agree with Mr. Boutwell, A small and Unintinentiat intnority of thoir party only, consisting of Messrs, Bayard, Pendleton, tlany pton, Rane dolph, and two or three others, Wold the cone trary; and, we may add, have bean sharp denounced for go doing. : Mr, Boutwoll’s proposition may ve 1S ox treme, as outrageous, and horrifying as soma of the Demoeratic organs contend, but ho will still plead, and justly. that what he bro poses the Democrats are doings what he asserts thoy have defended In carefully pros vared ond elaborate speeches extending over aconsiderable purt of a Congressional Bese flon. nf NA right for the Pumuerats, ean it aso monstrously wrong for the Rey; ans when thelr turn comes? bull THE LAW OF LIBEL, Views of Various Journalists, 5 rot Post, Dee. 18, At tho January meeting of tho Michigan Presq Aasociation x committee of flye was ‘Appointed to correapond with journalists throughout too country and obtuia thoir opinions asto tho needed modifications of the Jaw of nowspaper “Nbel. Mr. J, M. Shepard, of tho Carsopolls Vige flant, was mado Chotrman of the Committee, and Mr. dnmos E. Seripps, of the Dotroit News, Ne Secrotary, ‘Tho inttor has hold correspondenca 8 editorial on pale auf cot with membera of th and hag fraternity inall ports of tho Union, published some of tho results Inn small pam phiot of twelve pages, which contains letters from Wultelaw eld, of the Now York ‘Trijune: Charles A; Dana, of tho Sun} (for) George Jones, of tho mes; J. M. Francis, of tho Tr Tinea; A, McCluro, of tho Vhiladelphiy Times; W. FE, Cramer, of the Milwaukee Wie conainy Murat ifaistedd, of tho Clnoinnatl Come mercial; JB. MeCultigh, of tha St. Louis lots Demoernt; C.K. Backug, of tho Port und Tribune: and Nathin Church, of the Grand Rapids Time, —closing with the suguestiona of Ne, Scripps bhinsolf, who may be conceded as the local vx port in fipol sults. Tho pampuiet containg much matter of Inter est te tho public, ts well us to the newspapers, Whitelaw Hoid’s suggestions are theses “(1) Malice la tho Pablication of a ilbel should not he presumat, but should be a matter of proof, @) In well-reguiated newspapers most libels aro tho result of neeldent, frequently growing outot the diiculty of proporly verifying information within tho required time, or out of Intentional deception on the part of trusted informants, sub anes a gaan ‘beled pict junocent an 10 lowspapor wi publlanes tho Mbel ta ulno. fanoeent yet one ortho othor of theso Innocent parties inust sulfer. Tho Inw now says that tho news: paper must bear tho Jos. Doubtives this is right; but thero ought to bon litnit to such a josa. Whero it is cloar that tho libel was not inaitclous, and whore no actual damage {4 proved, there ought tobe no verdict saya for costs. The vordict itself is a vindlention for the Nboled man, if habas not beon actually ine jured, he ought not to have tho chance to make a speculation out of tho Hbot at the exmengs of the paper, which, whilo exercising due dillence, was innocently mialed,” Mr, Dann .trananiltted a memorandum pree fared by his" friend and logal advisor, William surtlott,” and fully indorsed by himsetf, This fa valuable both in its suggestions and ite refere cnces to uuthorities, and it incindes thoes rece ommondations: % * ‘Tho falr and honost discussion of a matter of pie interest, or comments thorcon, even hough statements which would otherwise eu tain un action for lbel were made in such di cussion ar comments, ought to be Brivileye ly unleas tha plaintiff can establish actual imaltco, “If a newspaper can prove n customary and careful guporvision of tha matter to be’ pub. Usted. thorein, tho estublahment and habltual enforcement of auch rules ns will probubly ox .clude defaroatory articles, tho publication of tha wleged ‘libel in tho ueual courso of busine: without netual malice, and Inthe beliof that tt was truc, with reasonnbio and probublo cauru torsuich belief, aud finally the subsequent pubs Veution of a full and falr retractton—nll thoso facts may be shown In mitigation of dainges; yotcourta refuse to instruct juries that a di Tense of this kind, satisfuctorily established, inands that tho yordict be onty for nominal duimnges. It scoms plain, howover, that the law ought to autuorize such instruction—at alt ovonta, Iu cased whoro tho plalutiff has uot aut- fered any actual damago, or what the law calla speclaldumage, by roason of tho publication. “A very finportant distinction Ia pointed out InCooley’s Constitutional Limitatious' between tatters of public or quast-publlo charicter, which the community ought to be Informed of, or may properly be Informed of, through the peas ‘and those mattera which haye ao litte res ution to publio Interests that thore fs io almitar necessity for thelr publication, As tothe lntter, tho juw ‘should justify thelr publication .only whon thoy ure trucin fact. Ag to tho former, good falth aud proper caution on tho part of the ublisher, togother with auch correction a8 © Jucy" shall tind tw have beon fall and fale under tha circumstances, ought to [rere him aguinst punishmont for the publication of t false state lent, nado fn tho usunl course of bualness and without actual mnulice." ‘he lotter of Col. McCturo, of tho Phlladelphla Times, cloacs aa followas * I bollove it bottor furreputable journals that thoy suifer.gamnetimes by the soverity of In than that Heenge should bo given for disrepue tublo to abuso und disgrace tha profession. £ havo hid nlnotcen Nbel auits ainee the Times sturted, and we have stopped voxutlous prosus cuttons by forcing every cise to trig), and novcr compromising any or allowing even a nolle pros. tobetaken, In avery cago thor ia a verdict of aequittal from a jury, aud tluitis made uluw for tho Timea that works admirably in reatralillny thieves and advonturers frou bothering us. think, oy w rule, that there must bu awfully bad Jawa if tho ithe howspapers suffer when sey Joulously muititain thoirown prerogatives: ‘The moat Incunle of wil tho nuswers wns thist CINCINNATI, July 20, 1880.—J, E, Scripps DeAnsin: CE would not undertake to fruuoa hibeltaw, Thaye bad iny shure of annoyances but, if T could bo nasured against corrupted Indgee and packed Jurios, 1 am not afrald of tho Jaw us it stands, M, HALSTEADS ‘Tho concluding lottor of Jamua 8, Scripps, of this clty, cofitaing these apie, “ Publlahers should not besubjected to the nn noynnco of nrrest on cnplas in caaes where they are permanent rosidents, possessed of property, nnd not likely to run oway and lvavo the sult undefended, 1 myself wis thus urresited onco at the instanca of notorious scoundrel wid Subsoquontly diod in Stato Prison, “In cusea where, by 0 typogruphical error, 2 ‘orror in te! ‘aph transinission, or any other ule inteutionn cklent, Abel results, wid wherd prompt correction 1s mse upon the attention of the publishur being called to it, ouly wotual duinuges should bo recoverable, “Justification asta the main facts ought to sulicu, and the publisher ought not to bo enlled’ on to provo the truth of every ince detail in an sileged' libel, 'T Crit ifa Cin paper asserts that a pbysiclan killed a chil by inoculating scarlot-toyer, it ahould bo a site ficient defense if it be proved that the child was killed by the Inoqutation of disease uf any sort, the inoculation, and not tho particular discuse, Detng the glat or the charge, and the charae es bolng aggravated by the specitication of te o “deat latitude should bo ullowod tho prost “Great tatitude should bo xtlor in caves whore tho protoction of tho publio frum ewindlers is tho ult of tho publicution. " “It should bo mudo illegal far counsel to a any contingent iuterest in tho outcome Of & Ubvol wutt. Under the - presont condition oF ‘Unlugs, most sults that | have bud any sequal © ance with huye been brought by Jawyer [oe Panty oe eee bu ih art eh ut nominal + tind aro the Lehrer to binokusstting pure 0808, Which shoul 0 prevented. verime law should ‘aivorininate between tho logltimute newspupor und a sheet pubitabed ouly for the dissuwinutan of ‘scawdal! _—$———=—$—_—— CANE-GROWERS, all Sr, Louis, Deo, 1.—The Mississipp! Val Y Cauc-Growors', Association's A beta tlon will meot hereTucaday, Prof, Callior, ager f the Department at Wusbington, will bu nt, wud A large nuMber of cune-growerd ID ho valluy wilt bayy sumplus of wun und Hirupd ce exhibition, ruttrouds contering bere buve duved the tare to members. THE STEAMSHIPS. "3 - LONDON, Dec. 10.—Tho steamships German's from New York, aud Moravian, trom Boston bave arrived out, » of New Youx, Dee, 10-Arrived, the city’ fi Ghestur, from 3 Liverpoolt tha: Greece, from Lo tas at uy Ee ¥ PiltcaDuiitas Lacs Wie-arsiveds the Vase , from Antwerp.