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FRANCE, scmanon’s THANKS 10 A MINISTER—M. THrERs AND THE PEOPLE—REPUBLICAN PREPARATION FOR THR RBLECTIONS. Parts, Dec, 26, 1875. Prosident MacMahon has written a jetter to Minister Barer thanking him for, and expressing approval of, @15 speech in the Assembly last Friday on the Press pill M. TurERs’ PoPCLaRrrY. Ex Prosident Thiers has accepted the invitation of the town of Belfort to stand for the Senate, He has received and declined similar invitations rom eleven departments, REPUBLICAN HOPES. ‘| The republican leaders are confident that in the general elections the partisans of a moderate Republic ill secure 4 majority of both houses of the new sembly, SPAIN. BOYAL PALACE ALMOST DESTROYED BY FIRE, Mannin, Dec, 26, 1875. The royal palace at Barcelona was almost entirely Moatroyed by fire to-duy. THE LENNIE MUTINY, Nawres, Dec, 26, 1875 Two of tho crew of the Lennie, who are not impli- yoated in the alleged mutiny, have been sent to England ifor examination, BRAZIL. OPENING OF THE BRAZILIAN EXHIBITION—RE- JOICINGS ON THE EMPEROR'S BIRTHDAY. Wasainaton, Dec. 26, 1875, Advices bave been received from Rio de Janciro that ithe Brazilian Exhibition was opeved in that city on the of December, which was the filtieth birthday of the see and on the same day his grandson was bap- (hized by the name of Pedro. There were GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS of rejoicing at these events, and as usual on birthday ccasions gifts were given to the poor and many Blaves were liberated, apart from the law of gradual emancipation, TUR CHOICEST PRODUCTS sexhibited tn Brazil will be sent to this country for the ereaniat display. The entire sum voted by Brazil for is representation at the Centennial Exhibition is (8.450, 000. BERMUDA. ‘ONE OF THE “STORMY ISLANDS” SWEPT BY A TORNADO—BUILDINGS DESTROYED AND SEV- ERAL LIVES LOST—FOUR CHILDREN CARRIED INTO THE HARBOR AND DROWNED. Hasartoy, Bermuda, Dec, 22, 1875. A fearful tornado passed over ‘Tuckerstown and St, Dayid's (sland on the evening of the 17th inst. A DWELLING ‘KPT AWax. ‘The dwoiling house Of Daniel A. Smith, a well known pilot io Tackertowp, was blown into the harbor with all its inmates, Captain Smith was hurled into a clump of trees and saved, His wife was carried across the harbor, where she was found clinging to a plank, Sho was so badly injured that she died ina few hours, ‘Their four children were drowned. The wails and roof of a stone tank near the house ‘were torn asunder, SEVERAL OTHER BUILDINGS were demolished, but there was no further loss of life, Halt of the boats moored in the harbor were de- troyed, and tn St. David’s Island the sturm levelled verything in its cow ¥ A NARROW ESCAPE. Happily the tornado passed by Hamilton. Had its ath been across the town the entire place would have Jeu. more Or less injured, or destroyed, CHRISTMAS IN NEW ORLEANS. & FIGHT ALONG THE COLOR LINE—NEGROES BOR ONCE DO THE KILLING—SUICIDES AND ‘ACCIDENTAL DEATH, New Orxeans, Dec. 26, 1875, Yesterday a diMiculty occurred in Freetown, opposite this city, in the forenoon, between a few whites and blacks, which resulted in one or two of the latter being soaghly handled, After that quiet reigned until about seven o'clock in the evening, when Barney McCabe, John Roussotte and Jeantis Roussette, while standing ja front of the bar at Bowen’s coffee nouse, waiting to be served drinks, were fired upon by negroes, and the lrst two named instantly killed. The latter is probably fatally wounded. The police from here crossed the Siver and made somearrests, The fire bells were rung, and much excitement prevailed on the Algiers side of ‘She river. SUICIDES, A. Stoiuhauser, druggist, recently connected with the ‘United States steamer Rio Bravo, committed suicide at Algiers by poison. ¥. Weinegartner, at Gretna, while drunk, cut his wife’s throat, The murderer was arrested. An unkuown man jumped into the river and was drowned He ts supposed to have been one of the hands Gonnected with the steamer Eva, ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. Charles Adams, aged nine years, was shot through ithe bead and killed, it is supposed by the reckless dis- charge of a loaded pistol in the hands ot James Gibson, aged oiueteen years, The latter has been arrested, KLLNESS OF A NEWPORT CLERGY- MAN. BIY. MR. WHITE, OF TRINITY CHURCH, EXPECTED TO RECOVER. Newrorr, R. 1., Dec, 26, 1875, Rev. f. P. White, rector of Trinity church, at this place, lies at the point of death, He is well known ¢hroughout the country and especially to the summer fos'deuis. He was formerly acanon at the Cathedral | In Montreal At the request of the family of Mrs, John Winthrop Chanler, deceased, he attended the latter's funeral recently, in New York, and while there con- tracted a severe cold, which hastened on other dis- eases which had been lying dormant. Dr. Barker, of New York, has been here in attendance upon him tor weveral days io counection with the local physicians, hey euteriain no hopes of uis recovery, CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS POSTPONED. The Clristmas entertainments to come off this week in other Episcopal churches have been postponed on account of his illness, In the Catholic church to-day prayers were requested for his recovery. MURDER BY A STEPSO! NOT BAD TERMINATION OF A FAMILY QUARREL— EVIDENCE OF PREMEDITATION—SUPPOSED COMPLICITY OF THE WIFE AND MOTHER, Harnisecna, Pa., Dec. 26, 1875, Hampton Miller, aged nineteen years, has just been committed to the Harrisburg jail for the shooting of fis stepfather, Thomas Morgan, at Lykeng, this county, Morgan, who had been toa lodge meeting, on his re- turn, at ten o'clock at might, asked who bad taken sev- @ral missiag articles from his valise. His wife said sho would assume the responsibility, and a quarrel ensued, While they were having words, Miller DISCHARGED A PisTOL at his stepfather, who was on hisknees packing books into a chest and bad bis back turned to the young man, ‘The wound produced is fatal. The murder was pre. meditated, Four weeks ago Morgan received a letter warning bim to be careful, as a member of a certain society had been deputed to kill him if he came to bis way. The writer expressed his willingness to do the deed, and safd: For God's sake keep out of my way, for I must do ft if there is any show. The wife of the vietim is believed to have been cogni- | want of the plot concerted for the slaying of her hus- ‘Wand. THE LOST FISHERMEN. THK ANNUAL MEMORIAL SERVICES AT GLOU- CESTER, GiovcrsteR, Mass., Dec, 26, 1871 The annual memorial services commemorative of the Qshermen lost during the year were held here this af- ternoon, the clergymen of the various denominations participating. A collection was taken up for the families of the lost marinor ESCAPED FROM JAIL, St, Aunaxs, Vt., Dec. 26, 1875, George Welcome, who attempted to escape from “Prison last Thursday, but was prevented by the vigt- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1875. 4 THE RIO GRANDE. ing the Border Raids. ANOTHER DASTARDLY OUTRAGE. The Case of Harris Referred to the Government at Mexico. Wasuwvoron, Dec, 26, 1875. 1t appears from official correspondence that last sum- mer Minister Foster stated to the Mexican government that it was in the power of the government of the United States to provide a remedy (with the approval or con- sent of that of Mexico) for the frequent incursions and depredations committed by Mexicans on the American side of the Rio Grande. The remedy he proposed was permission for the regular troops of the Unised States to FOLLOW TIL RAIDERS across the border when in close pursuit, or, what would be still more efficacious, permission to temporarily occupy certain points on the Mexican side where the raiders are accustomed to cross the river, The reply the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs was the Executive had no authority to grant such ission without the con- sent of Congress, and tt would not be prudent to ask for such consent, as the sentiment of the country would not approve it, Mr, Foster remarked to the Secretary that, should the depredations continue, and it should be apparent that no serious attempt was made by the Mexican authorities to restrain or punish the raiders, a repetition of GENERAL M’KRNZIN’S COURSE might be anticipated as protection to the citizens of Texas must be afforded, and if not given by the Mex- ican government it would come from the United States. ‘THR ACQUISITION QUESTION, Tn addition to the denial of Mr. Mariscal, the Mexican Minister to the United States, of a pending negotiation for the acquisition of Mexican territory, it may be stated that Minister Foster informed the Mexican gov- ernment that he was authorized to give the assurance that our government had no information of apy design for acquiring an extension of territory on that frontier, but the public press of the United States, in reporting the frequent incursions aud depredations, was creating a strong public sentiment in favor of an aggressive and vigorous policy on the part of the governmont, and the acknowledgment by the Mextcan government of its in- ability to restrain the lawlessness of its own citizens would afford the strongest possible argument to all ad- vocates of the acquisition of territory there may be in the United States, THE EXTRADITION CASE—HARRIS NOT DELIV- ERED TO THE TEXAS AUTHORITIES—THE MATTER BEYERRED TO MEXICO. Brownsvitin, Texas, Dec, 26, 1875, In perfect accord with general expectations, Judge Monteil did not deliver Dr. Harris over to the Texas authorities yesterday, His answer was simply that the case had been transferred to superior authority at the capital, Consu! Wilson and Sheriff Thomas next interviewed General De la Barra on the subject, and the latter promised to communicate the situation to the authori- ties of Mexico through Colonel Christo, commandant at Matamoros, At a late hour this evening Colonel Christo had not informed the Sheriff, as he bad prom- ised to do, whether or not he had received an answer, The attorney of the Sheriff in Matamoros says he does not believe a word of what Montiel says, though not in so polite terms, ANOTHER DASTARDLY OUTRAGE BY ROBBERS, Brownasvitur, Texas, Dec. 26, 1875. Another dastardly outrage has been committed on this frontier, this time six miles above Edinburg. The store of Mr. Estope, a Floridian originally, was entered and rifled by bandits early yesterday morning and the proprietor stabbed and left for dead. Par- ticulars Lave not reached nere. CENTRAL AMERICA. GOVERNMENTAL PROSPECTS IN COLOMBIA—THE ISTHMUS TBANQUIL—TREASURY ECONOMY— POLITICAL TROUBLE IN THE INTERIOR— CHURCH FANATICISM—THER STATES’ CONFEDE- BATION PLAN AND THE CAUSE OF CUBA, Panama, Dec, 18, 1875. The Isthmus continues tranquil and the provisional government meets with no signs of opposition. A few citizens signed their names to @ petition addressed to the Constituent Convention, expressive of their wishes that the Assembly would elect Colonel Atzpuru, the present Provisional President, to continue in the post for the next constitutional period, which will commence on the lst of January next. The question was put to a vote in the Assembly on the 13th inst., and Mr. Aiz- puru was unanimously elected constitutional President of the State of Panama. RCONOMIC REFORM. A bill has been introduced in the Legtstature to-re- duce expenses by curtailing the salaries of civfl and military employés. The Treasury will gat, if the measure is carried, $12,000 in the civil branch and some $4,000 more in the military, THR MuLITtA, The militia force in 1876 is not to exceed 120 men, with corresponding officers and chief, TROUBLE IN THK INTERIOR. The reports from the interior of the Republic are of @ less pacific nature, Mr. Arosemena, the expelled President of Panama, went to Cauca, where a groat deal of sympathy has been shown on his behalf, [tis even rumored that General Mosquera is getting ready some 400 men to come and reimstate him in the Presidency, PRIESTLY PANATICISM. ‘An unusual and unexpected display of religious fa- maticism has been made at a town called Chitre, in this State, instigated by two friars, aud having all the signs of culminating in a savage outbreak, such as took place in San Miguel, In Salvador. From the accounts pub- lished by several of the leading inbabitants of the dis- trict, a Mr. Guardiola, meeting a gious procession in the street, had treated it with disrespect. The two Spanish friars alluded to not omy excommunicated Mr. Guardiola, but said:—'He ought to be stoned out of the village, a8 well as all foreigners, who were nothing but Masons and heretics, and that {f they did not do so their souls would be condemned to eternal punish- ment."” On the preceptor of the boys’ school refusing to let the said (riars spend four or five hours in teaching them jon, they induced the parents to take the boys away, so that the number was soon reducod from ninety to thirty, The preceptor objected that so much time occupied in religious exercises left the boys no chance of learning anything else. RXCOMMUNICATED. The friars have also fulminated from the pulpit ex- communication against the preceptor and all those who adopt his opinion, The said friars also object to the boys being allowed to read history or be informed of Bolivar's war for the independence of Spanish America. A representation has been made to the Prefect, but it jg not vet certain if any and what steps the government will take in this serious matter. ‘THE WEATHER AND PUBLIC HEALTH. The dry season has begun on the Isthmus, The rainfall in Panama in November was 7.25 inches, ‘The city of Panama continues healthy, A new foreign hospital bas been established, under the care of a Catholic association and Sisters of Charity. THE PLAN OF STATES’ CONFEDERATION. Panama, Dec, 18, 1875, By the steamship Winchester, which arrived from Central American ports on the 10th, the news in general continues hopeful and satisfactory. The movement toward # confederation of the five States gains ground. THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION, General Barrios, of Guatemala, is spoken of in some Journals as a candidate for the Presidency, Cuna’S PLRA, Mr. D, M. Mufiez, the Diplomatic Commissioner of the Cuban Republic to Salvador, has been named in a pendence of Ouba as did Guatemala, SAN SALVADOR, Don Andres Valle is a candidate for the next Presi- dent of Salvador, and very likely to be elected, FATAL KEROSENE EXPLOSION, gence of the officers, made another attempt last night and succeeded, He had been furnished with imple- meats by outside parties, by means of which he ‘Wrenched of the bars of a window and escaped, He ‘was pursued, but magaged to get over bli wile line, PuraveLrara, Dec, 26, 1875, Frederika Greiner, occupying a room at the corner of Fourth and Brown streets, was burned nearly to a crisp this ovening by the grim of a coal oil lamp which she was carrying on COMMALICALEN fg [he Diplomatic Correspondence Regard- similar capacity to the confederate States, which he | also hopes to succeed in getting to recognize the inde- | LOWER CALIFORNIA. BEPORTS OF THE RECENT SURVEY BY THE UNITED STATRS STEAMER NARRAGANSETT— INTERESTING GEOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL DEVELOPMENTS—THE MINERAL WEALTH OF Wasuincrox, Dec. 26, 1875. The reports of the survey of the Lower California peninsula recently made by the United States stoamer Narragansett contain many interesting facts relative to that country. Assistant Surgeon Thomas N. Streets, United States Navy, who had charge of the geological Portion of the work, in his report refers at length wo the geological formation of the peninsula and neighbor- ing telands, mineral products, &c., and says he found on San Josef {stand, in the Gulf of California, fossil marine shells imbedded in a kind of calcareous sand rock on the mountains, at least 1,000 feet above the Present sea level The identity of these fossils with the species now existing in the surrounding water is very evident. He says:— Tfall this land, extending far up into Alta Californta, were sunk 1,000 or 1,600 foet below its present level it would no longor be a peninsula, bat an archipelago of islands. This was undoubtedly the exact Position of things at the commencement of the post pit- ovene epoch. The bigh mountainous land at the south- ern extremity of the peninsula formed one large island, separate (rom the rest. THK MINERAL WRALTH, Referring to the mineral wealth of the peninsula he gays:— The silver bearing veins of Triunfo are two in num- ber and thoy run in u converging direction northerly and casterly, Tho present company produces bullion w the amount of $50,000 per mouth, They have sufi. cient ore in sight in the mines already opened to treble or quadruple that sum. The mines are particularly rich. In our own country all the silver bearing veins have been found on phe eastern slope of the Sierra Ne- vada range. This fact has been adduced as a proof that this range of mountains is continuous with the moun- tains of Lower Cahfurnia, [f this be the case we may look to see gold being found on the westeru slope, a4 in Alta California. The copper mines of Pargatorio and Providencia are being very actively worked at present and yielding large quantities of very rich ore. Another source of wealth are THR GUANO ISLA: and of these the priucipal 13 za, A company commenced working here wo years ago, and up to the present time they have removed 10,000 tons of the fer- tilizer, 1 1s computed that there 1s in all 60,000 tons upon the strand, which is three quarters of a mile long THE» WHISKEY FRAUDS, The Attack of the Chicago Inter-Ocean on Secretary Bristow. THE STATEMENTS POSITIVELY DENIED. A Desperate Attempt to Stave Off Investigation. INDIGNATION IN KENTUCKY Wasninoros, Dec. 26, 1875, The arrival of the Chicago Jnter-Ocean here this even- ing, with a long story ofa plan by which General Babcock and some of the persons prominently accused of being concerned in the Chicago Whiskey Ring were to appear before a Congressional investigation committee, has created some excitement. The proposition that General Babeock shall appear, and by confessing also incu!pate the Secretary of the Treasury 1s based upon the theory that a witness before a Congressional committee thereby AVOIDS THR CIVIL PROSECUTION for any wrong he may have done, Tho Chicago distil- Jers are also, it is said, thus to avoid punishment as well as General McDonald of St. Louis. But if this is more than bravado, the persons who propose thus to act have forgotten that they could not thus be saved fronr a civil prosecution on evidence by other parties, The case of the sate burglary shows this suf- ficienuly. Whitley, Nettleship, Harrington and A. B- Williams were all WITNESSES DSTORE A COMMITTER of Congress; were ail examined touching their com plicity in the safe burglary, and yet were indicted and tried at the next term of Court. The statement that and halfa mile wide. Assistant Surgeon Edward Evers, of the United States Navy, also submits a lengthy report upon mineralogy, botany, salt deposits, &e. He says: The mineral weaith of Lower California is wonderful, and embraces rich deposiis of silver, gold, iron, copper, aptimeny. asisbaster, &e. Traces of silver are found almon* every“bere, and though few of the mines are workine *4#! fe wutmerous and rich, He refers t the mehness of the mines at Triunfo, and says) — The majority of the miners are Mexicans, though there is a goodly proportion of foreigners, All the officers of the company, chemist, the assayer, the captains of the mimes and ‘the foremen aro American or Europes nut one a Mexican, The ore is brought from the mines on pack mules over distances of from six to twelve miles to the stamping mills, which are constantly in operation, betng stopped only for repairs. The silver bars are sent to La Paz by wagon, and hence shipped to San Francisco by schooner. Other mines could be worked with equal profit, but the high duties and the arbitrary and tyrannical measures of the Mexican government pre- vent foreigners, the only persons who could possess the requisite capital, from investing there. Next to silver copper ore, which is perhaps more abundant than any other metal, bas been worked most successlully. THE BEST “MINES are at Purgatorio and Inflerno, whence the ore itself is transported to the seashore on pack mules, sometimes many Jones, to be shipped to San i and to Europe. How wonderfully productive all these mines would become im the hands of an energetic and enterprising people, sure in the protection of a good government! But the want of security to capital and the consequent want of protection to labor ig the great curse of that country, At the island of San Marios, above Mulege, is a rich mine of alabaster, which, if properly worked, ought to yield an immense profit.” ‘The salt lagoon at Carmen Island is an INTERESTING PHRNOMENON in more than one respect. It is so rich that the whole earth may be supplied by it for ages, if indeed it is not inexhaustible. It isamile anda half in length and halfa mile wide, while its depth bas not yet been as- certained, This salt deposit is no doubt due to the evaporation of sea water, for it is connected with the ocean, distant from it 400 yards, by three or four underground streams. ‘The salt itself is perfectly pure aud beautifully crystallized. He refers to THR BOTANY OF THE PENINSULA, which has not yet been examined, and says:— No doubt a thorough examination of the interior would enrich the science of botany by many a valuable and interesting discovery. Nor is the zoology of the country less worthy of study. The same applies still more to its birds, but the Held of greatest interest is the sea in the immediate vicinity to the coast, and the Gulf of California itself, with ita whales, sharks, sword- fish, sawfish, skates, porpoises and countless multitudes of seals, while the number and variety of smaller Osh is wonderful. The lower organizations are represented by forms of rarest size and beauty. Maguiicent sheiis, too, are found on the coast, and Would well repay the research of the conchologist. He refers at some length to the condition of the set. tlements, industrial pursuits, wages paid for labor, &c,, and in concluding his report sa; ‘Tous we find the State of Lower California almost as unknown to us as the wilds of Africa, but alike iull of interest to the botanist, the zoologist and the chemist alike full of promise to the merchant and the tarmer; immensely rich in tisheries, {n pearls, in minerais an in native products. It is very probable that at no dis- tant future Lower California will become an integral portion of our Union, A thorough knowledge of its charactertstics is therefore desirable. The study and research necessary to acquire it should be intrusted to a special commission of men of ackuowledged eminence im the departments of botany, zovlogy and mineralogy. The results of their lanor would be of the utmost im- portance to science and of material benetit to the com- | munity atlarge, New roads of commerce and weaith ‘would be opened and science would be enriched by important and interesting discoveries, RAILROAD ACCIDENT. CARS THROWN DOWN AN EMBA) REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM DEATH OF THE PASSENGERS--THE INJUBED, Jamustows, M. Y., Dec, 26, 1875. The express train No. 3 on the Atlantic and Great Western Ratiroad, leaving Salamanca at eleven A. M., met with a serious accident while crossing a bridge three miles west of Salamanca, which was caused by the track spreading. Two day cars, one sleeping and hotel car were thrown down an embankment twenty feet end first; the first passenger car going into the creek, The baggage and smoking cars remained on the track, THR INJURED. Three persons were seriously injured; two slightly. Mary Durvin, of Hancock, N. Y., was the most hurt, receiving injuries about the head. Johnny Miller, baggage master, had his nose broken and the brakeman was thrown iifty feet into the creek. It is miraculous that no one was killed, KILLED OW THE TRACK. Woncrsree, Mass. Dec. 26, 1875, Joun McKay, of West Warren, Mass,, was killed on the track of the Boston and Albany railroad in this city Saturday night. THE SHIPPING INTEREST. Boston, Dec, 26, 1875, The Journal's review of tho shipping interests of Maine gives the tonnage built in 1876 as 75,060.45 | against 122,548.74 last year, a decrouse of 47,488.20 CRIME IN MASSACHUSETTS. A DARING BURGLARY AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER. Boston, Dec. 26, 1875. Moses A. Wood, residing at No. 28 Mount Auburn street, Cambridge, was awakened about four o’clock «this morning with the impression that burglars wore in the house, Partially dressing, he went down stairs, found things in confusion and both back and front doors open, Stepping upon the back | piazza he was confronted by a man, who stabbed him three times, He immediately grappled with the burglar, when @ second appeared anc, placing the muzzle of a pistol to Mr, Wood's abdomen, fired. As the pistol waa placed against him Mr. Wood turned | slightly, so that the bail did not go directly through him, but passed around, coming oat just over his hip. | The robbers then fled and escaped, leaving a bundle in | which they had tied up avout $2,000 worth of plunder. Mr. Wood’s injuries are’very serious and may prove tal, SUICIDE OF A LADY, Baurimonn, Md., Dee, 26, 1875, Mrs, Lillie Patterson, aged twenty-three years, shot herself in the left breast this morning, inflicting a wound which will prove mortal, She separated from hor husband a few weeks ago, DIED OF HIS INJURIES. Crvormmatt, Deo, 26, 1876. George H. Hamilton, clerk in the Treasurer's office of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad, who shot himself in the head on Tuesday morning Inst, this morning. He retained his consciousness uy ae daa od General Babcock is ready to confess to any connection with the Whiskey Ring is scouted by his friends here to-night, who say the Inter-Ocean article is AN INSULT to him after his protestutions of innocence. Tne Statement that the persons in question have arranged to go before a committee, of which Mr. Randall is chairman, with four democrats and three republi- cans, 1s DENIED BY MR. RANDAL, who authorizes the statement that he hears of the thing for the first time to-night, Hoe thinks that the Ways and Means Committee ought to investigate the whiskey frauds with the purpose of preventing their repetition by proper legisiation. Neither he nor any committee | will do the least thing to shield any one, He adds that he is perfectly sure that SECRETARY BRISTOW FEARS NOTHING. The statements about Mr. Bristow’s connection or friendship with whiskey dealers in Cincinmati and | Louisville are entirely false, as is also the statement | about certain railroad frauds. THE CHICAGO INVESTIGATIONS, The Treasory Department has information to-night that everything is moving well in Chicago, and the publication in the Inter-Ocean is regarded by Chicago men here as additional proof that the Ring there are badly frightened. The whole scheme is evidently born “ of fright and desperation among the guilty men in Chicago, who have planned a counter attack in the hope of avoiding the conviction which awaits them. THE ATTACK OF THE CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN UPON SECRETARY BRISTOW—INDIGNATION IN KENTUCKY—THE FACTS OF THE CUNNINGHAM -WITH SUPPLEMENT. IS BABCOCK GUILTY? Both Sides of the Question Discussed. How the “Sylph” and Other De- Spatches Were Discovered. HOW THIRD TERM HINGES ON WAHL The Secretary's Explanation Before the President. EY. Wasuingron, Dec. 26, 1875. The report that the President contemplated exerting the pardoning power in favor of Joyce was not only at terly unfounded but in direct opposition to the Presi- dent’s views as to Joyce's claims to executive clem- ency. Having had unusual opportunities for ascertain- ing the opinions entertained by General Grant concern- ing Joyce's criminality in the fraudulent and thieving operations of the Whiskey Ring at St. Louis, I can state confidently that the President regards Joyce as the Greatest criminal df all whose names have been prom- inently mentioned in connection with the whiskey frauds, WHAT THE PRESIDENT BELIEVES. He believes that while some men may have been incau tiously led into the Ring and others may have been forved longs to neither class, but stands prominently in the foreground as one of the original sinuers, one of the or- ganizers and constant managers of the Ring from its in- auguration to its exposure. And to Joyce and his cun- ning manipulation of letters and telegrams ts much of Babcock’s present sorrow and apparent disgrace attrib- utable, cuRious vacts. Notwithstanding the almost daily accounts which have been published broadcast throughout the land concern- ing Babcock and bis connection with the Whiskey Ring, the public, save a glimpse at certain published tele- grams purporting to have been sent and received by Bavcock, remains in ignorance as to the inner history of the case, whether relating to the prosecution or do- fonce, Knowing the deep interest already manifested throughout the country touching the guilt or tnnocenco of Babcock, and that upon the verdict of the jury empanelled to try Babcock may depend the determina. tion of the question who shall be tho next President of the United States, I have been actively engaged for several days in obtaining for the readers of the Hkeatp as many facts as could be gleaned upon the Babcock case, and am prepared to briefly summarize all the points of both the prosecution and defence which ara likely to reach the public in advance of the trial. It seems that Babcock’s connection with the Whiskey Ring was first discovered in this wise. During the prosecutiou of Joyce and McDonald, or rather during the investigation at St, Louis which led to their pros- ecution, it became necessary to overhaul aud examine carefully all telegrams from Washington to the members of the Ring at St. Louis. These were found among the retained copies of despatches kept on filo in the telegraph office at St. Louis, Hon, Bluford Wilson, Solicitor of the Treasury, acting under the spectal orders and instructions of bis chief, Bristow, was the person charged with this duty. THE “SYLPH’ DEsParcH. Among other telegrams he came across the now famous “Sytpu”” despatch, dated at Washington. Following up | this clew he proceeded to Washington, and from the tel- CASE, Lovisvinie, Dec, 26, 1875, The Chicago Inter-Ocean's charges and insinuations relative to Secretary Bristow, which were published at length on Saturday last were reproduced in the Cowrier-Journal to-day, and read very generally in Louisville, As it was well known here that Secretary Bristow isnot noreverhas been connected with or counsel for Louisville whiskey firms, these statements only receive ridicuie in Kentucky. WHERE THE SECRETARY LIVES It is alleged in the /nter-Ocean’s report that when Secretary Bristow visits Louisville he invariably makes | his stay at the house of Mr. Jacob Weller, his brother- in-law, and the brother of W. L. Weller, whiskey dealer and rectifier, Both Weliers deny this and say while Bristow and his brother-in-law have always been friendly they are not at all intimate; further, that Bristow always puts up at the Galt House and votes in the ward in which ail residents of the hovei mentioned are required to do their voting. As faras Mr. W, L. Weller is concerned, he says, Mr. Bristow has never acted as counsel for him, but at one time assisted, as in | duty bound, in the prosecution of bis firm for alleged technical violation of the Revenue law in reference to whiskey of J. A. Cunningham seized at Peoria, and re- ferred to by the Inter-Ocean. THE Pacts are, the whiskey was sold by Monks and Cobb of this city, toJ. A. Cunningham. After the seizure, Bristow, while here, and before he became Secretary of the | Treasury, as a friendly act for the Messrs, Monks and | Cobb, wrote tho district Attorney at Chicago, reques ing that he defer action until all the facts are ascer- tained, Subsequently, that whiskey and part of the same lot seized at Uhicazo were forfeited because there was no defence, the parties interested in the defence | having been taken by surprise. A new | trial was granted and the is still pending. J. A. Cunningham has refused the compromise offered because they insist the whiskey was ali right. After | Mr. Bristow became Secretary of the Treasury he was applied to by Cobb to’order the release of the whiskey, | but declined to give any order upon the subject, for the | reason that he had been consulted by Cobb prior to be- | i} i} | \ | with the prosecution of the King, t egraph office here obtained tho origival telegram signed ylph,” of which a fac-simite has since appeared in the Hena.v. Sul ignorant as to its authorship Solicitor Wilson carried the despatch to the office of the Secre- tary of the Treasury and submitted it to Bristow, who, familiar with Babcock's handwriting, no svoner cast his eyes upon the paper than he exclaimed, “Why this is Babcock’s writing.” After consultation it was de+ cided by Bristow and Wilson that the proper course to pursue was to proceed at once to the White House and lay the matter before the President, The latter read the despatch and at once summoned Babcock to his | presence, The telegram was shown to him and he at once admitted it as having been written by him. He then and there submitted to the President an explana- | tion as to the trne meaning and occasion of the send- ing of the telegram, which explanation satisfed the President that Babcock’s action, as explained, not only | was free of all criminality, but was really a step taken by Babcock to prevent rather than commit fraud. The long established eoniidence of Generai Grant in | his favorite aid ande private secretary remained | unshaken. According to Babcock the despatch had been signed “S nature appended, simply owing to the fact that the word “Syiph’” was a favorite one with McDonald, and the adoption of it would at once convey to its rectpiont the source from which it came. ever, by some of tho officials prominently counccted Babcock’s inno- cence, as explained to the President, depended upon his solemn statement then and there made that the despatch in question, the only one at that time dis. covered by the law officers representing the govern members of the Ring, whereas later inve: tigations unearthed several other telegrams, ail in the handwriting of Babcock, addressed to the now convicted leaders of the Whiskey Ring at St. Lonis, the authenticity of which has since been acknowledged by him. PRESIDENTIAL LOGIC. This apparent discrepancy in Baboock's explanation to the President does not receive much considera- tion from the latter as tending to Babcock’s guilt. The President says that while Babcock may have sent many coming Secretary, unless the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Solicitor of the Treasury should recom. | mend its release. These are the facts ae gathered from Mr. Cobb, a gentleman of high standing here. He also says an agent of the government investigaved the whole case and reported that there was nothing wrong | about the whiskey. He has really complained that Secretary Bristow’s sensitivenese as to official propriety | has prevented him from doing what the facts would have justified him in doing. WHAT MB, CUNNINGHAM SAYS, Mr. Cunningham says there was no excuse for the | seizure of the whiskey; that ex-Commissioner Douglass was apprised of the facts concerning it and inumated that money would secure its restoration. Mr. Cun ningham says he bas paid nothing und does not intend | to use money to secure what properly belongs to him, All other whiskey men named in the Znter-Ocean arti. ele ag having empioyed Briavow, including Newcomb, Buchanan & Co., deny such statements, Democrats bere are indignant at the Jnter-Ocean’s attempt to ally them with a scheme to aid the whiskey men aud Babcock. ANOTHER STORY DENIED. It is ascertained from reliable sources that Secretary Bristow does not know Hobart of Cincinnau, with whom the Chicago Jnéer-Ocean charges he always stays when in that city, MOODY AND SANKEY. ENCOURAGING RESULTS OF EVANGELICAL LA- BORSA SERMON ON NOAH AND THE ARK TO LADIES—THB INQUIRY ROUMS CROWDED. Puitansrnts, Dec, 26, 1875, Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather Moody and | Sankey’s services were largely attended to-day. At the morning service Mr. Moody sald it was the most eu- | He | discoursed upon the Bible and referred to many texts to | couraging meeting he had held in this country, iastrate his sermon, which the audience also referred to in ther Bibles, which they had been requested to bring. Me advised his hearers to stndy the Bible and to buy the bandsomest ones they could get, and they would then prize them more perhaps, THR APTERNOON SRSSION. In the afternoon the service was for ladies. Mr. Moody preached upon ‘Noah and the Ark’? and showed how the old patriarch, with his family, was saved and all the rest in the world were drowned, IN THE RVRNING he preached the same sermon to men, These two ser- mons were certainly the best he has yet delivered in this city and apparently had great effect, The inquiry rooms were crowded both afternoon and evening. Mr, Sankey’s singing, if anything, improves, and is (taut to with great pleasure oven by those uot re- Uipiounly, Ayala | regards | to be his motto. telegrams and letters, and undoubtedly did send several telegrams to parties in St. Louis who were subse- quently discovered to be defrauding the government, yetof all these telegrams but oue—that one signed “gylph’’—seems to require explanation as having con- tained any allusion to Whiskey Ring matters, and as that one the President accepts Bab_ cock’s explanation ae correct, and to this day | the confidence of General Grant in the innocence, in, | tegrity and honor of Babcock remains unshaken, thus furuishing another exemplifcation of that oft-rem: and certainly commendable trait in the President's character which renders bis triendship, when once formed, lasting. Once a friend always a friend seems | While the President admits that Bab, | cock, while discharging his duties as private secretary, had frequent occasion to receive and answer letters in- tended for the President, yet the latter does not hesi tate to assert, in conversation with his friends, that he knew nothing of and never saw the contents of any of the despaiches sent by Babcock and made pnbdiic during the trial of the leaders of the Whiskey Ring ut St. Louis until after the investigation brought them to light NOT IN THE WHISKEY RING. ‘The effort, therefore, vy certain unscrupulous par ties to connect the President in some crimi manner with the operations of the Whiskey Ring ig unjust in the highest degree. He may have erred in the choice of his friends, and his con- fidence in their official honesty may have teen misplaced—in fact of this there is not # particle of doubt—but beyond this his culpability does not ex- tend, Opposed to the grounds upon which the Presi- dent bases the innocence of Babcock, the prosecutors of the Whiskey Ring, guided by Bristow and Wils claim to be in possession of evidence which fails to coincide with Babcock’s explanation to the President. Neither Bristow nor Wilson was saustied with the menner in which Badcock endeavored to dispose of the “Sylph’ de- spatch, Hence they continued their efforts to dis- er farther evidence, and by their success brought cao upon them the disapproval if not the ire of the i@ belief in the innocence President, who, maintaning of bis secretary, gradually acquired the impression— | probably inspired in this respect by his intimates—that | the attempted implication of Baboock with the frauds upon the Treasary was nothing more nor less than an \udirect attack upon bit and intended as & movement | hostile to the third term as well as an endeavor upon | the part of Bristow to make Presidential capital for This idea has grown day by day since its origination, and notwithstanding the oft repeated M himself, into {t to avoid failure aud ruin of business, Joyce be- | hb,” instead of having his real sig- | 1c 48 claimed, how- | ment, was the only one he had sent to the St. Louis | 5 ial and sincere, thors i¢ no doubt that Bristow as Well as Bluford Wilson, the Solicitor of the Treasury, are ander the ban of suspicion; aad, but for the out- cry raised by the public press upon Henderson's re- moval a3 public prosecutor of the Whiskey Ring leaders one or both of the two officials gamed would have beon removed from office. BRISTOW AND THE THIRD TRI Bristow is looked upon by the advocates of the thire term ag one of the most dangerous stumbling blocks im the way of the suceess of the third term. Some who are experieuced in predictiug future political events go 80 far as to say that if Grant fails to secure the nomination for the Presidency, Bristow will be the successful man. Whether to disparage the mam or diminish bis chances of success it is asserted by the third termers that so anxious (s Bristow to obtain the nomination for President in 1876 that he would accept it from that party which is the frst to extend the offer The officers of the government charged with the pros. ecution of the Whiskey Ring leaders at St. Louis are prudently reticent as to the evidence in their possession against Babcock. They claim that to make this public at the preaeat time would be to defeat the ends of jus tice, At the game time they are confident that a fair | trial will result tu Babcock’s conviction. From strong hints thrown out by vartous parties eoanected with { the prosecution at different times there is good Teagon to believe that they expeed to show on the trial that valuable considerations have passed between the leaders of the Ring and Baboock. | Even should this prove true such facts might be sua ceptible of explanation, as {t is well known how appli | cauts for official favors frequently prepare the way by the bestowal of munificent gifts, and, while their ac- ceptance might be, and almost invariably is, of doubt- ful propriety, innocent and unoffendiag persons might be drawn iatoatrap the ateps to which have been made inviting, DREAD OF A CONVICTION. Notwithstanding General Grant's unshaken delict im tte innocence of his secretary it is safo to assert that not only he, but every member of the White House circle, shares the belief that if Babcock is arraigned and tried at St. Louis the almost im evitablo result, owing to the highly excited and praju- diced stato of public feeling in that locality, would be conviction, It is altogether probable, therefore, that an effort will be made to etfect a change of venue from St. Louis to some other point where an impartial trial can be had. Should Babcock be convicted and the President stil | maintain his belief in Babeock’s iauocence the Latter would inevitably recetve a pardon FROZEN TO DBATH. Bostow, Mass., Dec, 26, 1875. A special to the Herald says, Owen Reilly, a resident of Bluckstone, R. L, fell turough the toe in the olf canal at that place, this morning. Ho battled bis way to the shore, but froze to deatt and his body was soma | time afterward found on the bank, where tt ts supposed | he tell down exhausted. STORM IN THE WEST. Crversart, Deo. 26, 1879. A sovere atorm of wind, rain and lightning visited the country north and northwest of this city thus afternoon. Near Rushville, Ind, a froight traim was ditched by atree which had fallen across the track At Hamilton, Ohio, the Miami River rose rapidly, flooding cellars on the west side of the river. At Gar- thage, Ohio, the Hamilton County Latirmary was par- | tially unrooted, MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. War Deranrmunr, \ Orrick oF Tux Curse SiaNal Overcen, Wasuinarox, Dec, 27—1 A. M. Probabilities, For Monday ta the South Atlantic and East Gule States, southwest to northwest winds, rising barometer clondy and clearing weather. For the West Guif States, rising barometer, northerly winds aud clear weatuer. For Tennessee, Ohio, Upper Mississippi and Lowor Missouri valleys and upper lakes, rising barometer, cooler northwest winds and clear weather, followed ta latter sections by falling barometer aud southerly winds. For the lower lakes and Middle States, rising ba- rometer, cooler vorthwest to southwest wiuds, cloudy, followed by clear weather. For New England, winds veer to westerly, falling fol- lowed by rising barometer, rain or snow, followed by colder clearing weather, The rivers will generally rise. For canal regions (rom New versey to Virgiaia tom- perature remain above freezing, Cautionary signals continge on the lakes and Middle Atlantic coasts. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in cou parison with the corresponding date of last year, as ia- dicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, Hexaio sawing, cooler AM | 6AM 4a A, M. 12M. “a | Average temperature yesterday cove BONG r corresponding date last | Average (emperaiure | yeat...... Early yesterday alight fog hung lazily ovor the bay | and the two rivers, shutting out the views of the citiea | on the opposite shores, bat was not dense enough to delay the movements of the ferryboats, Toward aoon the atmosphere was somewhat clearer, but as evening closed in the clouds became thicker, and a high wind from the ocean drove them in great banks into the harbor and over the city. At half-past eight o'clock several ot the ferryboats on the long rontes ceased running, and hundreds of paasongera were compeiled to waik from one to two miles in ordet | to reach their homes by other ways. At the Roosevelt | street ferry a boat left for Soath Seventh street, Brook- | lyn, at twenty minutes to nine P, M. At ten minutes | toten P. M. seventy-five passengers who had paid their tare and gathered on another boat were notified | by adeckland that the boat would not run until the fog had lifted, and that It they wanted to get homa | they would’ nave to cross Grand street " | All’ of them, including many ladies and chil. | drep, accepted the advice, got their money back | and walked to the other ferry, about a mio and a quar. | ter, "As the hours grew the fog became still denser | until the drivers of the street cars were compelled te ud | drive slowly to avoid accidents, and foot passengers wore | almost mvisible a a distance of twenty feet. The | Staten Island ferry boats discontinued their trips earl; | tu the evening, all communication with the land except by telegraph, was stopped. Ata late hour it night no serious accidents resulting from the fog had | been reported. 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