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remacy earth 4 “KING CALICO. 4 Chance tor the Sort of Relief Sug- gested by Mr. Evarts. | ——- PARTIOULARS OF ‘THE NEW SwVEREIG) The Extent of Its Authority and the Sources of Its Revenue. . -_——————. PACTS THAT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. * PEE te The distinguished aavocate who represents the non possumus position 1m the great national argument now | pending over the Presidential succession felt moved the other day to utter a somewhat solemn warning, Prophetic Iv tone almost, us you read it, of the danger Vhat the popular will in the present crisis rebelling | agatust the rule of the judges would find no other cure, no other recourse, than that which the children | of Isrucl had in praying fora king. This is a matter of dread portent enough one’ would think when thus presented; but happily for the country, and still more happily for the people, this saving supplication 1s likely to be addressed in a somewhat different guise Bow than was thought of mm ancient Judea, There seems to be, it Is true, an almost instinctive yearning | Yo the human heart tor kingly government. That in- horent feeling in the human breast which goes out in reverence toa lord has ap almost insatiable longing to serve, Ail the nations of the earth, from carly eivilization down to the present time, have had their Kings in esse, no matter by what title they may have designated them, according to the funcy of the hour. What right therefore have we to hope for a better exhibition than that of our fellows, all of Adam’s household? Cortainly none, if we trust to any superior Virtue of independence in our nature different from the rest of mankind, But, apart from that we have, in the conditions of life by which we are surrounded, these safeguaras—viz., the entire absence of prece | dents, our indffference to traditions, and tho practical methods of working out, or shirking, as the case may be, each for himself, the primal curse forced upon us daily, Weare thus driven by an outside physical pressure into elevating to the highest place in our thoughts the physical aifliculties or the physical ad- H vantages we meet with iu our constaut struggle, into kood or evil genil, whom we readily for the sake of | familiar recognition endow witb royal titles, paying of | course our reverence only to our benefactors; thus | reversing the usual form in respect to the kingly au- thority, which is used to being honored 1m proportion ag it exncts allegiunco rather than receiving nomago tm the meusure only of its bounty. Thus then even if Mr. Evarts was right, aud the progress of events ehould provoke a desire to get rid of the government 1 the judges by seeking outa new king, that might Not ufter all be the least of the compensations roserved tor the present evil. THX INTRERRGNCM. We have had as 2 peuple a soufewhat protracted Interreguum since our once famous monarch King Cotton was consumed in a whirlwind of fire and blood. Ola King Coal at one ume seemed to be fixed pretty firmly upon a throne among us, vat “ally old soul,’? 4 tradition proclaimed him, he did not seem to tbrivo iu our atmospbere, and quictly abdicated, Royalty, | alter these disasters, whether In the form of king or kaiser, was in sad disrepute with us, iminediately | following a dual experience of this kind supplemented by w reign of Shoddy, and it almost seemed as if we ard to even a septennate of unsecured allegiance, when out of the very condition of things spoken of by Mr, Evarts, patting only “politiciang’? in the place of “ judges,” comes that reliel so essential to national prosperity, aud a new sovereign is born to Coming with a very considerable sow of legitt- macy, a des:endaut of King Cotton, whose treason, be it noted, worked no attuinder of blood, Prince Calico, itheriting the prestige of bis uucle’s early su . seemed p tined to the highest royal dignity, to which may say ho has now been ruised amid the acclamations of a very large party, who, grown tired of the struggle elsewhere to ascer- us. we ain the popular will, trast to the beneficent reign af King Calico thus crowned to draw the whole coun- iry, this time without respeet to sex, age, race, color oF previous condition of servitude, to ts support, The *xireme danger then with which the distinguished | advocate of one of the claimants for the Presidency seemed to afiright us proves on examinaticn to have deen forcarmed against by the people in their sovereign. ndividual capacity, With “a plague on both your houses’ to the conflicting parties, and an absolute in- diference tn a business way to the result of their con- (roversy, the couutry turns with relief to its new King, pledging its allegiance to him in the resolution that henceforth, be the political situation what it may, there still suall be cakes and ale for Brother Jonathan, independent of whe fills the federal ollices, while Mrs. Jouwthan and daughters will not wait any more for new styles upon the speculative disposition of return. ing boards, “With all my worldly goods 1 thee en- dow,” 1s what he said when he married mo, Mrs, J. recites, ‘but I found out it meant ouly one sixpenny calico print ayear, and nowto have that pet of because the President ain’t elected yet is whatl won't stand.” And she didu’t, but went right out and Vought it. KING CALICO’S HOME TROUBLES. This is just where we stand in respect to the opening conditions of the dry goods trade in this year of hope, ‘1877. The renewed activity which was so marked a feature last summer, but which received a severe check in the closing weeks of November because of the political crisis which then seemed threatened, bas breasted this repressive influence and exbibits itself now in greater strength than ever. There is even great hope that this upheaval of popular necessities over « time-honored expectation that business cannot be looked tor pending a Presidential contest may serve to set aside this jallacy forever, That the serious de- lay which too great a respect for this legend has oc- casioned in the revival of the industrial activiues of the nation atu time when all the material conditions seomed to favor and stimulate such revival may work an absolute divorce between politics and Dusiness, and the people, resting in the con- viction that as their liberties cannot be whoily stolen from them by one set of politicians, all they need do is to change them about once ina while, and make them do alternate guard duty, one set upon the other, without further bother. Iu the present case, however, this lesson, tike all great lessous, has been learned out of the very necessity of providing for current wants, The history of i THR VRY GOODS TRAVK DURIXG THR PART THREB | YRARS has been, for the first two, a record of the most rigid veonomy in respect to domestic consumption, the lust year the daily postponement of an 3 necessary renewal, tearing to jose the chance of still lower prices, always looked forward to until the tide sets strongly contrariwise. How this feeling mantlested itself here is an old story now, I 1s only necessary to deal with tue result it worked out as a conaiion present in the market, That condition is the absolute paucity of stocks in the Lands of dealers. Nor is that ali, as this interruption of any lorward movement, coupied with other dificuliies sufficiently well known, checked production right at the mills to such an ex- tent during the last year that it 18 estimated the mar- kot ig pow short some 130,000 cases of prints alone | with which to open the spring seasou of 1877, M18 GROWING DOMINION ANKOAD. This brivgs us to another very important fact by virtue of which King Calico claims our allegiance. It i# Observable, im the first piace, that of the total weekly exports about one-third goes to Liverpool and Londun, with a stare w Ginsgow, while South America comes uext in tho order of buy: ers, the balance being shured between the West Indies sad the Dominion of Canada, The South American trade of course would seem to present the hope of quickest development ut tue present time, but the pos- wibilities of avery active and growing competition with England in her own possessions 18 no longer a | chimerical view on the part of our manutacturers, On | the contrary it is alroudy looked (orward to with a surprising degree of confidence as promising the very agency needed to keppa sale balance between produc. tow and copsumption at home. Uf course the trade a this titne 16 and must for some time be competitive in price as In other respects, just a# in the trade now in fresh American beel, which, after paying the cost ofa Hal CHEZO, CaN De sold in steaks in Liverpool po than it cau be Vought in similar shape up town in New | York, A margin of profit must be sacrificed to make trade, but rado once being secured the larger pro- fit will ens ‘A recéut cable informs us bow keenly the British manulaccuror seents tho danger fBhead in this trade iu the observation of the President of the Manchester Chamber of Con merce that “the exports of Manchester 1 United States which formerly afforded an Seat mt market, are now nil, and there 18 consid @rabie trade in Manchester in cotton fabrics manufac- ' cloths to the other side, it ts understood to be princt- pally tor colugial account, the greaier ineticct of neat~ ness which the habits of colonial hie encourages aud | the superior taste which a freer life nearer to nature | develops, guiuing a preference for American pattorus as well a8 goods; for the former because of their supe- rior beauty and finish, while that for the latter ven | to ther lasting qualities, The British print de pot j Wash as well as ours owing lo the quantity of sizing put to it, woiléJobn Ball as a uanulacturer ts equally different in respect to that quality in goods made ior aforeigo market as be is to the watheticism which in | a crude state cries out against gaudy colors, although | its untutored preference yet reaches out to “plain yaller und red.’ There 1s more in this, bowever, than Joba Bull thinks, avd he may tind it to be the very means | orlosing a large part of his present profitable trade, | tt bas been a matier of common remark among for- eighers who have visited this country that the women | secimed to have an almost universal appreciaton of tho | merits of dress, and one bas only to walk the stroots in pleasant weather to pote this even among the poorer | clagsos, going to or revuruing from work, while it is | well known that ouce any new designs 10 the way ot | costiy dress patterns aré introduced there is the larg- | This is not exclusively un America trait, but arises from the natural pride of every woman to lok as well as ber neighbor, even if to uccomplish this she hus lo woar vinchbuck tor gold or paste for diamonds, 1b finds the opportnity of expressidn here in the absence of caste or class distinctions, and in the assistance | which the superior character of our cotton goods iu their | really superior imitations lends to persouul adorament ‘The sume class in Australia, Canada or India have the same instincts, aud ence these are roused will seek the | same gratitication, while the childrea of the Flowery | Kingdom are sure to be impressed, when the chance is | given them to judge, with the higher value of a garden Jandseape or other design that will outiast wator than one which disappears in a rain storm or the wash, | ‘Thus we have solid ground for encouragement in the | prosent outlook in regard to our export trade of cotton ¢loths. We are enabied now to mauutaciure cheaper ‘han ever before, and with every appearauce of u sutis- factory labor market for some time to come inay hope to continue manafacturing at such tgures as will enable us to push our competition into every channel of active consumption uader favorabie conditions, COMPARATIVE PRICES. A thorough study of the dry goods market just at this season in the light of these tacts is found to be full of interest, but 18 too great a work for the scope of a single article, Condning, therefore, present tnvesti- gation into the realm of King Calico, we find a com~ parigon of prices such ag rule now for the principal cotton staples very suggestive and fairly going to prove that not only bave bottom prices been reached, but that we have made considerable progress on our return. ‘Of course, iu presenting a comparison of this kind, it is essential to huve some uniforin standard by whieh the prices quoted will be recognized, und for the pres- ent purpose we have selected ‘jobbers’ prices,” trom Sueldon’s price list—well xuown in the trade and geuerally accepted. Our comparative price list, therefore, exhibits the market price thus fixed on Thursday, 15th inst, on ‘hursday, November 23, 1876, and on Thursday, Feb- 15, 1876. | We select the brown and white cottons and prints where offering such comparison as fairly re- Heoting the general character of the market, omitting otber leatures for luter presentation, BROWN COTTONS, i Net Net Feb. 15, No aa 1 Width, 36 Auantic, A, Atlanuc, Atlantic, © ‘Auanue, D. : Atlantic, ee P jantic, LL. aul = ig 4 2 ad ot 25 30 Andover, A. Androscoggin. Androscogyin. ‘Androscoggin. . Augusta ‘Augusta, A. Bedtord, R. Boou, G.. Ps x Cabot, W Conest Charter Uak, A, Crescent Mills, A. Cocheco, Conestoga, 3 Conestoga, W Continental, C Dwight, X Dwight, Dwight, Dwight, 8+ Granite Mills, B Great Fabs, 8 Great Falls, E Harrisburg, A. Harrisburg, B. Harrisburg, If re MeaeSanccca RR Saaue Cremer Cat Sarr396¢ 7 8 6 6 7 9M 53 G55 8 7 6 5 = Indian Roc! Indian Head Indian Head Indian Head. , Indian Head. . 48 Indian Orchard, AA. Indian Orebard, EE, Iudiap Orchard, N Indian Orchard, RR. Indian Orchard, double weigbt.... 36 Indian Orchard, Ps ae © One doable weight... Laconia, 1. Laconi 8 845 r 91, U nu” 10 Massachusetts, BB., 8 sachusett, 1 7 Massachusett é 7 Massachusetts, Std. 8 916 Medtord.. iM 9 Mystic River f i 81g Mackinaw ¥ 6 wh Nashua, 0. H 8 Nashua, Ry 1% 9 ashua, » 40 Oy lo nua, W + 48 By 6 Newmarket, 36 644 8% Newmarket, RR... 40 8 8 8% i Ok 6 Pequot. Pittstield, 6 % Pocasset Canoe. , 9 944 Portsmouth, P Fy 5 Rockinghan., ‘ 8 83g Salton Falls, E,.., 7 4 8 Salmon Falis, M.... 6% } Te Sulmon Falls, W.... 40 8+ 8 8 Saranac, O. . iM 7 8 Sarapac, 36 84, 1% 8% sarunac, EK. 40 9 ~ 10 Shawiout, X. 36 83 85g 9% Shawmut, LL 36 6 6K 8 Suitolk, A 6 61g TM ‘Tremont, CC 6% ae4 Utica. wz 1235 Utica, Heavy. le Virginia, family. Wachusett. Wachusett..... Wachusett. Wachusett, .... Waltham, B Waltham, C, Waltham, 1 Warren M1g Uo, A. Warren Mfg, Co, AA 40 Warren Mig. Uo., R 40 ULKACH RD COTTONS, a“ 6 Allend: Allendale. Androscoggin, A A, Gold Medal . Androscogin Androscoggin, ‘Androscoggin, Androscoggin. Allentown Mig Co, . Boston Boston. Goston. a America.’ We bave only atter this to make poipments ‘of coal to Newcastie, not a very impossible pventcven in the present century, to assert the su ‘of the universal Yankee aution over ail the . Regarding this movement of American cotton @ Berkeloy, NEW YOR | est profit in imitating them in the cheaper fabrics, | K HERAL 3 na M et ‘ow, 28, Feb. 11, Width, 177.» isi6, . 36 1s 8 5 36 10dy 30: Commonwealth, 26 tig Cabot 46 124 Cabot. 42 lig Cabot. 3B 945 Cabot. 3h Bie Collins. 36 7 Davol Mills, 36 Bey ord Dwight 36 Uy ny Farwel 36 iY 10), ‘or 36 9 Big Flower of Mill, 36 ns 13 Fearless .. 36 9 9 Forrestdale + 36 wo lo Fruit of the Loom., 36 1g 1044 Fruitvof the Loom, 100’s.... 36 13 13 j Fruit of the Loom log lw Fruit of the Loom My 16 Fruit of the Loom. 1b 18 Fruit of the Loom, 22 Fitehville, 9 9 big | ‘ 8% Big 845 Gold Medal. iss 7 1% Green M’fg, Co,, ced 7 8 1044 ‘ee ins (Tiger) 1 7 7 Great Falla, M (Dog) cers 8 © She Great Falls A (Stag) 8 8 BE Howe M’fy. Co. 9G 9 10 Hartiord,. Ms ping ioe 10 a 10 9 9 9 2 121% rr 9 8% 9 A aaetnan bi Bi Homeaville, XLL..4 16 7 8 Hoimesville, 635 6} 1% Hoimesvilla A. 10 0 Wh Molmesville, night- i 16% 1656 Ww Wh sg 1K J. Y. Smith (Elm- wood), 26 13 1% wf] 36 36 i 36 36 10-4 Bt Lncout, .. 9-4 Laconia, 10-4 Miantonomi, 36 Mount Hope. 36 New Jersey. m4 Pas 36 42 45 9-4 30 i 35 3 1333 8-4 30” Qo 33 104 38 33 1% Newark, 32 6% Old York, BB 36 13 Peubody ... 36 Big Palmer River... 36 83g 5-4 16 9-8 u O+ 20 14 Sed 94 10-4 1 - 36 Pocasset, family 36 Pocassel, H. 27 ve 54 6-4 Pequot. 10-4 Prite of the Waat.. 36 Rosebuds. 36 Red Dog, 33 Rockland. . 36 Rustic Beauty 36 Saracen. : 36 36 33, 36 36 9 2t Ff 36 8 ‘Tuscarora. vee 86 Wy Utica, extra heavy. 36 13 Utica, Nonpareil... 36 134 Utica ‘ 35 12% Uuiei 54 20 Utica 6-4 2 Uuca 84 30 Unica Qed 33 Utica 104 28 100 60 36 96 36 9 8-4 25 Waltham, 9-4 30 Waltham, D, 10-4 25 oo Warren bi’!’g Co — Bewre 36:18 18 Linen finish . 4 125g 123g Roses cares 36 10 Wamsutta 6-4 20 Wausutta 4245 Wamsutta, twill....10-4 424, Wamsutta AS 1y Wamsutta 2 y 12% Wauregan, cambric. pra Wauregun, 100’s.... iu Wauregan, No. 1 1a Whitinsville - 95 Whitinsville : = 8 Westminster, B . iM 8 Wessacutneon, a 8h 9 Wessacumeon, G.... Ts 8 Wessacumeon, H.... 64, ef Wessucumeon, D.... 124 1345 Worcester. . lo _ Albion, solid..... - U4 7 % Albion, suitings.... > Te 7 ‘The Albion, fancy. “ 7 oY Albion, grays. . 7 m, Aibion, solid blacks.. % 7 Th Albion, shepherd plaids...... 7 Vs ‘American, green and orange. 814 ord 8 American, blue and white... a 9 9 Allen's. i i 7 Allen’s pin! 4 1h Allen’s check eee Te a a Berlin solids and suitings.... 74 7 Tbe Cocheco, tg The Cocheco, 8 = Cocheco, 8 4g Cocheco, oe % - Me Cocheco, purple and robes. My as Freoman’s. 6s i Freemau’s ruby a 7 Hamiitou. fancr . 7 % Hartel, green and grange. ..., iM 4 Hartel, German plaids. i 7 Merrimack, F, pink.. ; 8 1, Merrimack, F, purpie, cheéks and stripes. A M6 % To 7a Burro ov tuk Hexary;— Merrimuck, D Merrimack robes. . Oniental Orientat Oriental robes, purp) Oriental robes, raby. Pacitle roves Pacilic fancies.... . Richmond, frock, cord and checks sees . Richmond, double pinks,.... Richmond, German, blue and red. . Sprag' Simpson's mMOUrMING,. «6.446 Simpson's silver gray: . Simpson's shepherd's plaids, Simpson’s solid black......° Wamsutta,....0. Wamsutta rove, . A SUMMARY COMPARISON, Prices of staple goods at this date tor the year 1865 and 1875, the year immediately preceding the recent id subsequent yea Descruption. 8 6 8 6 H! 7 if 1 8 8 te 8 7 8 id 7 8 7 if 7 Re ® x Ew I WE ERED OHO CHHAI ARIS OE TITRE HOE ; {1 | on} 9 ¢/200 Hasglitasturs hues sooo e [ld 2g [LM jy [LL 105 Merrim’k F, Privts| 30 Ty io" | 8g HH Spool Cotton...... [14 | 70 | wo | e74} 65 Corset Jeans. 13 J 1 | 10%] 10 -| 9 New York Mills. 19 Ji9 | 18° "| 1834) 18 THE NEW COMET. ‘The new comet disvovored by Professur Borelit at | Paris on the 8¢h inst. !n the constellation Ophiuchus Is Moving northward with increasing motion, and is al- ady sufficiently bright to be seeu with the naked eye, Although I nave not seen a single accurate ob- servation—and three are required to determine the orbit ofa comet—I think it is safe to conjecture that ia a few days this comet will become visible In our evon- ing sky, below the Pole, and will very soon afterward disappear, This coujecture is founded upon two prio- Gipal fact#:—First, that from its position, the direction of its motion and its brighiness when first discovered, weare meoting It, and {t will woon pass ua; and, sec. ond, that from therapid increaso of ite motion it 18 quite near us, and therefore not intrinsically bright or large, Unless it should be approaching the sun rap- idly—of which we nave as yet Ro indica. tions—it will not be likely to become 4a cédnspicuous object in =the = heavens. A hasty computation trom the original announcement, aw general estimate telegraphed to me Ly Prolcssor Swift, indicates that the comet Will pass us within the next two days at a distance of {rom ten to twelve million miles, being easily visiblo with an opera glass, aud that within apother week it will be percepubly Juding away in the distance. It may ve looked tor not far trom the line between Lyra and Cassiopeia, A siugle definite observation will aid much in determining its future course; but iny anticipation now taller this coming week it will cease to be vistbl telescopes; tor although it 1s provably approaching the sun itis uniikely that it will pass very near it, and alter pussing its perihelion it will be distant from D, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1877. the earth, aud in a position to be seep best trom the southern homisphere, HENRY M. PARKAURSS. Nuw York, Feb. 16, 1877. THE APPOINTMENT OF A NEW STATE SUPERIN- TENDENT-—PURBUING THE CONTINENTAL OF- YICERS—WHAT Wa8S ELICITED AT THE REF- ERENCE PROCEEDINGS, The appointment of a new State Superintendent has somewhat disturbed the outlook of insurance toatiers in this city, What offect the change will create in the bresent programme of examinations, apd bow, if at all, it will influence the disposition of insolvent con- vorns, questions of foremost consideration, Per, haps at any otber time the appolatment of a new head of the department would have occasioned compara- tively ltile concern; but in the present crisis of life insurance affairs the event ig doubly eubanced in im- portance and public interest, The appointment of Postmaster Smythe was geuer- | j ally unexpected, though it bas beex conceded tor woeks past that some ong would soon succeed Mr. William Smyth in the oflice, A strong opposition had shown itsell toward Kun, while nony for a moment doubdted bis integrity and honesty of purpose, Many who are now endeavoring lo strip the Jong worn masks from bogus iusurauce corporations fear that tho change in the office of superintendent is ay “invention ol the enemy,” intended in some way to thwart the dosire lor investigation aud publig exposure of dis- Lonest officers, j Anumber of polley holders in the Continental, Se- curity apd Nationa! Life lusurance Companies tor- warded u petition to the Senate at Albany, expressive ofthe above apprehension, This petition recited in forcible terms the value of the services of Willian Smyth, acting superintendent, and expecially dweit upon the veed of his services at the present time, It coucluded with un appeal to the Senate not to cuntirm any appointment “aesigned to supersede tho prescut Insurance Superintendent, Willan Stwyth, until he has completed his exposure ol life insurauce frauds aud brought the guilty parties to justice,’* TUR STLONG ARM OF THR LAW, It ig not Known whether the confirmation of the new Superintendent will be followed by the removal vi the Deputy Superintendent, John A. MeCuil, Jr, or whether he will remains jn bis position, at least until he shail have finished some of the important ex- aminations that he has commenced Mr. MeCull went yesterday alternoon to Albany, having before starting, it 18 believed, firs, gone before the Grand Jury for the purpose of securing tho indictments of tho President and Secretary of the Conunental Life lusurance Company. By the uction of Roceiver Grace, civil proceedings o! a most stringent character bave been commenced against the Continental olticers who are supposedly detic ny their accounts with the company. Papers of attach- ment are already prepared, and will at once be served, to secure the property of the two Frosts at Youkers, Nothing yet hus been developed in regurd to the New Jersey Mutual securities now in the possess.on of the national capital, Negotiations are yet in progress, und it 1s thought thut some settlememt may be obtained eurly next week, Mr. Grace, receiver ofthe Continental, is moving all the bgoks and office materials to apartments ou the floor just above the former jucation. He says that the original room was more than large enough and can be rented, while at the samo time be hopes that the re- moval to another story may serve to tumigate in some degree the books aud accounts of the company. THK CONTINENTAL BXAMIXATION, Proceedings before William Allen Butler were con- j tinued yesterday afternoon at No. 22 Nussau street, ‘The first witness was F, Barnett, the former ugent ‘of the Continental for New England. lo testified that he had been un agent of the compaby from its iirst existenco; accounts were squared monthiy by a check from his office iu Boston to the main ollice in New York; nover knew until this week that there was a charge against his ageucy on the books of the com-- pany; the company hud never advanced any money to him, excepting bis proper dues, ‘The books were then produced vefore the referee, showing a balauce charged agaiuat the Boston agency of $158,663 70, Witness said that this balance could not by any possibility exist; he could give no reason for its appearing on the books as it did, no such ac- count had been rendered him nor wast ever the sub- ject of correspondence; Receiver Anderson sent him certain instructions relative to the settle- nt of some pending sults; funds to the pount of $39,039 56 remaining at the Boston agency were tetained as por contract; witness was a stockholder, aud was iuiormed tat he had been elected a director, but was never notilled of such elec- tion, and never had uttended any meetings of the Boutd of Directors; never received uny lown upon his stock, apd bad the same now in his possession, in Boston, umounting to $2,000; when witness sent on bis account to Receiver Anderson the latier wrote him that it was doubtiul i! it could be passed, so far as tho items of charge tor the Boston ageucy, since ho had been receiver, were concerned, AGENCY BALANCKS, George W. Thomas, the torimer vookkeeper of the Continental, was examined with regard to diverse en- tries existibg in the buoks, He sald that the bulauco due from the Boston agency of $158,662 70, was tor advances made to agents; it should have been charged up long ago; when the Receiver took possession tuere were $1,000,000 of such advances (o agents outstand- ing; tuiy amount was not used in making up the an- nual statement, M. K. Parrott was called tothe stand und presented a list of suits pencing against the company. Witness said hoe had been connected with the Continental since 1873; itcame to his knowledge that in 1875 1. Frost became oue of tue directors of the New Jeravy Mutual Lite, . JohnJ Anderson was questioned with reference to the suits pending against the company; knew of no others than were on the list presenied by the previous witness, comprising about forty suits; owned some certificates of the Hope Lite In- surance stock in Decemover, 1874; was West when the Hope amalgamuted with the New Jersey Mutual; never received aby money irom the New Jersoy Mutual or trom J, H. Stedwell for distribution among the Hopo stockholders, . John A. Brady testified that on December 31, 1874, be was a director of the New Jersey Mutual Life In- sprance Company; before that time he wasa director of the Hope; be recollected a contract for remsuring & portion of the New Jersey Mutual risks in the Continental; mo one received « ponny for the transier of the Hope to the New Jersey Mutual, or the first sale of the Now Jerse: Mutual to the Hope; sold his stock in the Hope to J. H, Stedwell for $12,000; some of the Irienus of w ness were aiso paid $32,000 for their Hope stock, which was covered by New Jersey Mutual certiticate: J, H. Stedwell said these certilicates were worthless o worded that they could not constitute a legal claim; they were paid nevertheless, As the witness left the stand be asked tho referce if he bad sworn that he had never received any ques- tionable payments trom the Hope, the New Jersey | Mutual or the Continental, Betny answered in the aflirmative the witness looked satsiicd avd muttered, “I’m going for some seaips; they suid $20,000 hud been divided up among us.”” 1. V, Styles, tho former cashier of the Continental Company, testified in regara to the accounts of Will- tam Blaxe, the California agent of the Continental, He knew of & contract for the purchasing of policies, | which was in the handwriting of K. ©. Frost, Mr, Thomas, the bookkeeper, was recalled and read from the account of William R. Blake the amounts paid him from time to time under the contruct tor the pur- Chase ot policies; between July, 1874, and February, 1876, about $26,000 was credited to Mr. Blake’s uc- count. ‘The examination then adjourned until Tuesday next | at two o'clock P. M. SAMUEL CANTRELL’S DEATH. jamuel Cantrell shot himself at the Putnam Houso on Thursday, February 8 He was reinoved to Bellevue Hospital, where he remained in an unconscious condi- tion until bis death, which occurred ou Thursday morning last. Upon application by tho relatives of the deceased Dr. Arthur Pell, the house surgeon, gave a cor- tfleate of death, and the body was the same day removed to the residence of bis family in Filtieth street, When Coroner Flanigan arrived at the house to take charge of the case he was shown the certificate of death issued by Dr. Poll, The fumily readily con- sented to an autopsy, but roquested that it should be mide as privately as possible, Yesterduy he proceeded wo tho house, J quiotly hold an inquest. Arthur Pel D,, house surgeon cf Bolievuc Hos- pital, testived that ia his opinion deccased died of meningitiz, with exhaustion, Wilham McVey, who rung the elevator (a the Put- nam House, tostiiod to the finding of the deceased Upon the flour of his room altor the shooting. George Cantrell, son of the deceased, testifed that his father Jolt bis store on Fourth avenue at baliepast four o'clock on Wednesday week last; he had acted in avery strange manner for some months past, and at Umes was supposed to be demented; when be Jolt the store he said be would not return; no notice was taken of his words, but that evening the family became un- oasy and jnatituted inquiries ag to his whereabouts ; the next day he ascertained from the police that bis tather had been injured. Deputy Coroner D. B, Miller testified to having made an examination of the bedy of the deceased, and expressed the opinion that the cause of death was meningitis, trom the result of @ pistol shot wound ia tho brain. ‘The inquest was then adjourned until Monday next. The funeral of Mr, Cantrell will © place to-day, MICHAEL CLANCY'S DEATH. New Yor, Feb, 15, 1877. To Tax Evitow or tuk Henauy:— By the Hunan of to-day I seo that the certificate of death for Clancy is given by J. Piatt Foot, M. D, Why 1s this? Dr, Yoot resides in tho village of Platwsburg, seventcon miles from Clinton Prison. Why 18 not the death certified to by Dr. Ferguson, the regularly appointed physician of Clinton sg BROOKLYN'S POOR. ‘The furnishing of supplies to Brooklyo’s poor, which ‘was stoppod on Thursday last on account of a new reg- ulation adopted by the Supply Committee of the Kings County Bourd ol Supervisors, was resumed yosterday, —TRIPLE SHEET. INSURANCE TRIBULATIONS. \ i ' WAR OF THE. DISTILLERS Habits of the Outlaws—Their Numbers and Purposes. PRIMITIVE LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS, How the Whiskey is Manufactured and Disposed Of. . ——_-—___—_ BAD CHARACTER OF REVENUE OFFICIALS. eeheoneceneeetee .A Bloody and Desperate Fight Threatened. Artanta, Ga., Sev, 14, 1877, The unprovoked killing of Licutenant Melutyre, of the Second Infantry, and private Sutnerland by tho illicrt distillers bas caused the imtensest excitement tn military circles bere. ‘The bushwhacking volley that killed these m@ was the first that has ever been fired by the distillers against rggular United States troops, Time and again they have riddle@ tho depaties, but heretofore they have always’ seutrered in confusion upon the approach of the biue coats, ‘This audacious attack, 60 unexpected and go deplora- bie in its results, will hasten into immediate execution a plan that has long been ripening 19 revenue circles to make a grand raid through the tnvested belt and sweep itclean, As this systematic crusade 1s apt to be protracted and full of desperate work it has oc- curred to your correspondent tliat it would bo well to furnisi some facts concerning tho strip of country that is held by the ile: distillers and touching the Labits of these lawless men themselves, THE ILLICIT DISTILLERS, I doubt if any" section was over so thoroughly in- fested with illicit dealers as is the mountainous region rupning throagh North Gcorgia and the western end of both the Carolinas at the present time. Italy, tn, the palmiest days of brigandage, never had one-half as many ineu who were defying Justice, They baunt every hillside duripg the night time apd people the friendly shadows of every vale Quring the day, They have regular camps, with sentinels throwa out to halt all passers by ugd throttle the revenue spies, ‘The mountains are filled with caves and “burrows,” in which the wreiched men hide when pursuit becomes too hot and the pursuers aro of overwhelming strength, lt 18 impossible to calculate as to the number ot these illicit’ distillers; there are thousands of trem; they swarm amid the almost impen- etravle. fustnesses of the Blue Ridge chuin of mountains ia countless bands Beyond the reach of railroads, way beyond even the desul- tory stretch of “the wagon ronas,” where they can ve reached by horsemen or pedestrians only through certain hidden paths, they plant their primitive ills’? In natural or artiticial ‘snuaggerica,” and soon have “crooked’’ whiskey gushing trom every rock, They live as wild and restless a life us the trap. pers of the upper Rocky Mountains, ‘They aro all wellarmed and of course good hunters, A more ath- Jetic, hardy and self-reliant people can be found no- where, {he mountains abound with game of all sorts, even up to bear and panthers, «Tho distillers are about the only inhabitants of theso tnacccssiblo parts, and hold them imviolate by a sort of Alexander Selkirk ttle, HOW VISITORS ARE TREATED, Occasional parties of hunters from the cities stray into these mountains, und as soon as they make it perfectly clear that they are‘in no wise connected with the revenue service, are received with the most cor- dial hospitality, Guides are furnished them and the vest game haunts are treely pointed out. Tuey are handsomely entertained by the outlaws, and aro regaled with what is peculiarly exhilarating to a Southerner— namely, hume made rye whiskey that was distilled in mountain clett, under the winking stars, and has never been debased by ove of Uncle Sam's revenue stamps. Buta man who looks like a revenue iaformer, or has not clear titles to being a ‘good, square man,’? had better not yeuture into this wilderness, Our brawny rustics feel no more hesitation in “shucking’’ a revenue iniorimer or any man who ivoks like one than you would: have in'kicking a pebble from your path. They ure a law unto themscives up there. Not jong since the State Goologist, with a force of some ten men, carried in three wagons, struck one of these mountain ‘nests,’ and without suspecting that his labors were being careully spied upon irom bebind every bush went quietly to work. The distillers stood 1t for sume time, and then coming out in some force they notitied the ustomished scientist that he must get up and travel. Alter some argument he succeeded in convincing them of his thoroughly pacific designs, and wus then pot only permit to proceed, but was almost overwhelmed with Various sorts of ‘rocks’? that the simple-hearted mouataineers would bring to his camp. * RXTENT OF OPERATIONS. Some idea of the extentof ono ot these “squads” may be bad when we state that the revenue oficers, with a company of troops to back them, frequently de- struy from forty to titty stills and from 10,000 to 20,000 gallons of crooked whiskey, besides capturing anywhere from twenty to eighty distillors at one singie rad, The great bulk of Silicit distilling 1s done, how- ever, ina much quieter and more unobtrusive «way than this. Ip the vast area of the section of the threo States referred to the settlement 1s very sparse, and the people as a class exceedingly poor, The enormous prolit of distilling, *wijhout the ceremony o! a stamp,”” has tempted great numbers of these squalid people to engage in tho business. Asa consequence there are little stills, tucked away snugly under the overhanging bunks of nearly every creek or branch. Hundreds of families have their worm at work somewhere, the wie or duughter usually stationed on some adjacent hilltop to announce by # hvot or whistle the commg of #lrangers, and the father managing the a”? with lus rifle thrown mto the bend of bis arm ready to muke it “speak’? (0 any new comer this side of a biue cout, The whiskey thus made is caretully packed away in old-fashioned wagons, frequently being hid- den under a load of chickens und eggs, and carted off to a neighboring town or to the city of Atlanta, where it 18 quietly and surreptitiously sold. OWGIN OF THK BUSINESS. The origin of this ilicit business is given as follows by ulegisiutor from one of the counties in which it 13 niost practised:—When the strite over secession began it was discovered that there were a large number of C men in the mountain districts of Georgia, Ten- nessee and the Carvlinas, These men clung to toeir faith even alter the Stotes seceded. There, then, very naturally arose an ugly spirit against these Unionists, which grew so strong finally that muny of them wero torced to tke to the woods to save their lives, They were soon joined by large numbers of descrters trom the two armies and by refugees from the Confederate Conseript law, who found an eusy hiding place in the mountains, They were hunted vy the authorities with great flerceness during the war, und soon won the eu- phonious utle of “hogbacks.” Having nothing better to do during their eutorced outlawry they nearly all became distillers, and finding it very profitubie have kept it up to the present time, They were reiniorced at the close of the war by many soldiers who had been made utterly penniless und had no other opening for a living. CHARACTER OF REVENUR OFFICIALS, ‘Tho practice oi slicit distiiling has been increased rather than checked in the past ten years by reason of the class of men who have been employed to pat it down, The revenue collectors, ageats und marshals are almost without exception either aliens (carpot- Daggers} or native republicans who have made them- selves, outside of their revenue relations, thoroughly obnoxious to the white people. The revenue spies, or informers, are alaios( universally of the worst class of local bummers, enjoying the cordial contempt of all good people and the respect of nobody. They have op- pressed and angered the people; they have torn inno. cont people from their beds and carried them huu- dreds of miles under arrest; they are charged with having levied blackmail, with having taken pay for ong pardons granted by the government, wih hav- ing murdered wnoficading citizens under cover of law, with baving insulted women and maltreated mep, and they are consequently despised and hated with the ut. most bitterness, So thorough is the public hatred of these fellows that the septiment of the people is al- ways against them and with the distillers, In this ‘way ab apparent respectability is given to the lawless practice that has encouraged hundreds of people other- wise pertectly respectable to embark in it, Whole mmunities who haye no interest whatever in ooked” whiskey yet sympathize so thoroughly with the distillers a% against tho ‘informers’? that they hiuder the latter ip their search in every way, ire- quently combining to ride him on a rail, duck bim in & mill pond or treat him to a suit of tar and feathers, ‘THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. Indeed, it is hardly too much to pay that this matter of illicit distilling went very tar toward deciding the late Presidential contest, as follows:—In Nortn Caro- lina 7 ‘ance, Who bore the Tilden banner as guber- natorii candidate, Was exceedingly unpopular ip the Western goun' As the war Governor of North Caro- hoa he had prosecuted these Union bogbacks with grout severity and they Were thoroughly incensed with bim. 1t was said that he even put their wi to torture to make them tell where {heir husbands wore, In the Senatorial contest of 1874, after Vance bad received {he nomination of the Gemocratic caucus, tho members from these counties boived, and, Tne with tho re- publicans, clected Merriman, Jt was believed that these counties would vote against Vance and thus givo the State to Settle ena Hayes. ce, however, pre- the roguiatiun baying been modilied pared a bitter tuvoctive against the syavem of revenue nr ee van spies, and, bottling a huge Kansas grass! ma vial of bracdy, a3 4 type of the ‘informer,’ he went into the disaffected district and swept it like a whirl- wind, That was all tho argument needed, In their seme of the spies they forgot their animosity to A candidate for United States Senator in Georgia busied himself in asking fora general pe he for all olfendors Poy the revenue laws, and it was ggavely Said that this action would. secure to hin the Mound. mous support of the members from the mountain counties, A BLOODY STRUGGLE axTiciraTeR, The movt careful observers anticipate bloody struggle in the coming attempt the distillers, It will be marked by many a murd ous ambuscade, many 4 doudly midnight struggle. The people of these ipfested counties have been badly treated, The corrupt and tueilicient corps of depatict and fot cht have been, time and again, charged with the most iniamous outrages, many of which are true beyond question, Man; innocent _ men have been wantonly — distur! aud == whole communities embittered and angered at the cruelty aud meanvess of these deputies and informers, 1 have been numberless fights already, ‘There ts hardiy a deputy in active service who bas not been wounded time and again. The distillers usually escape wa Sligut injury. They generatly outnumber the deputi and put them to fligut, or, having tv fly themsely. find ready und easy rotreat in any of the thousan mountain fastnesses with which they are familiar and which are inacceasible to strangers and even improgoa- ble toun armed troop, A hundred or so of these wiry athletes, scattered avout in this cobain of mountains an@ possessing the activ? sympathy of the entire pop- ulation, will make it exceedingly interesting to a regi. ment of soldiers before they are taken, The kiling of Emery by a soldier, who took the body of the murdered man and carried it off and bid Jtin a swamp, 18 the climax of a long list of grievances, Fined imaginary, bat more real, that hay infuriated ‘The ring on this company of soldiers, quietly en- camped in a yard ab night, shows that a very ugly spiritis aroused. While the-distillers treated the dep- uttes and informers eraelly often, putting all sorts of indignities on them, they bave never belore resisted, much tess attacked, regular United States soldiers. ‘The daring and audacious spirit inspired by their wild mountain lilo has evidently taken possession of the “crooked” men, ‘They will not give up their en invusly profitable busine: 80 weil suited to their hubits, Without a stera resistance. ™ ‘THE STATE AUTHORITIRG, It is needless to say that the authorities of tho-State and the great muss of the people denounce lawlessness in every shape, and that Governor Colquitt will d¢ all that can be done to bring the murderers of Lieu. tenant Melntyre to justice. ‘The lirstthing that should be done tn this mattor 1 toremove the whole corps of deputies now serving sand put iv good men, whom the people respect, and whose hands will be upheld. The reply of Marshal Smyth (a thost admirable officer by the way) to this suggestion, was “But [cannot get the class of men you speak of te serve us depatics, They consider the business dis reputable aud will have nothing to do with 1t,’? Tt wouid certainly be well if the collection of the revenue tax could be put in the hands of people thoroughly in sympathy with the communities trom which they are collected, LITERARY CHIT CHAT. Valumes nine, ten and eleven, of Black's edition of the Waverloy novels, now in course of publication by D. Appleton & Co,, will appear during the present woek. ; A work on the “Ruling Ideas in the arly Ages,” by Rev. J. B. Moziey, D. D., Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, has just beon published by E. P. Dutton & Co, “Mozley’s Sermons, ’? published last fall by the same firm, have met with a very large sale, nearly 1,000 copies having already been aisposed of, and a now edi- tion 1s soon to appear. B, P. Dutton will publish a ‘History of France tor Children,”’ by Emma Marshall, in March. Robertson’s “Notes on Gonesis’? will be published by the same firm betore the end of the present month, ‘A work on “Physiology”. by M, Foster, M. D., of ‘Trinity College, Cambridge, has just beon published by Macmillan & Co, It is intended chiefly for the use of medical students, The price Is $6. G. W. Carlton & Co, have issued an American edition of Offenbach’s travel boutte, Bret Harte’s latest story, ‘Thankful Blossom,” a romance of the Jerseys, has been published uniform with the Little Classic series, by James R. Oagood & Co. It is illustrated by C, 8, Rhinchardt, Allan Pinkerton has.written another book on the profession of which he is a member, called “The. Spiritualists and the Detectives,” which G, W. Carlo. ton publish, “Helen’s Babies” hasbeen the means of bringing more precocious babies to light than one dreamed tho world possessed, ‘‘Annals of a Baby’? is the latest. G, W. Carleton is the publisher. The ‘‘Autocrat at the Breakfast Table’? has been translated into German, under the title of “Der Tisch Despot, » ‘The reader of curious literature cannot fail to be in- terested in ‘Finger Ring Lore,’’ by William Jones, F. S$. A. (Scribner, Welford & Armstrong). There 19 nothing relating to this subject that cannot be found in this book. Not only ring superstitions, but histori and social Incidents connected with the mystic circle have been hunted up and given tothe public The book is {ull of itlustrations and is as fascinating as an old crriosity shop. Scribner, Armstrong & Co.’s cheap edition of Eugene Schuyler’s “Turkestan”? is cheap only in price, The binding is neat and rich and the letterpress, maps and illustrations the same as in the more ex- pensive edition, “The Herald Almanac and Financial, Commercial ana Political Register’? for 1877 is one of the most timely and most useful publications of the day, The amount of information which it contains, the various dopart- ments of knowledge which are covered and the care with which the facts chronictea {n its pages have been verified combine to render it a hand-book which should be found on the desk, in the counting-nouse and library of every professional man, every mer- chant and every private gontloman in tho United States, To the presidents and officers of our yreat railway, banking and steamship companies and other incorporated podies the Almanac is an absolute every- day necessity. They will recognizo m its present ad- veut the appearance of an old friend, improved and made up to the very Jatest moment, In the compila- tion of this valuable book of reference special caro has been taken to portect the politcal department of the issue for 1877, The “Heraid Almanac’? for 1877 also gives 1ull lists of Senators and Members of the Forty- fourth and Forty-fifth Congress, with poat office ad- dress, &c.; American Ministers and Coasols abroad, Foreign Legations iu the United States, lists of Govern~ ment Departments, Army and Navy Returns—all the interesting specialties that make the work so valuable a work of roferenco are continued and amplified, “The New York Herald Almanac’? (1877), price twene ty-five cents, mailed to all parts of the United States free. Sold by all stationers and newsdealers, Address “Herald Almanac,” New York city. ‘‘Herald Almanac”? for 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875 and 1976 mailed to order. GREATER DEBT FOR BROOKLYN. It is stated that Comptroller Burrill, of Brooklyn, is about to advertise Brooklyn bonds for sale, to the amount of $750,600; $500,000 will be in six per cent bonds for the completion of the East River Bridge. Of these $300,000 mature in 1909 and $200,000 in 1910, They aro either coupon or Sy aged $250,000 six per cents, assessment fund bond: water und sewerage, ‘The bonds ure registered an will matare in three years. No proposals will be re- received after March 1, noon, KINGS COUNTY SURROGATESHIP, The bill of particulars ordered to be furnished the defendant by tne piaintif in the suit of Abram H Dailey against Walter L. Livingston, contesting tho Jatter’s right to the position of Surrogate of Kings county, was served yesterday on the defendant, It sets forth that in the Fifth district eight ar more bale \ows were cast tor A, H. Dalley, which were intonded for the relator, and which have not boen allowed him. in the Sixth district, Seventh ward, thero were two or more ballots cast for “Abraham H. Dailey’? and threo of more ballots for “A. H. Dailey,’? which were intended for the relator, in the Siath district of the Twentieth ward thors ware one or more ballots cast for ‘J. B. Dailey’ which were intended for the relator, In the Third? district of the Twouty-lirst ward there were one or more ballots cast Jor ‘Abram H. Bailey” which were intonded for relator, The plaintiff! claims and will offer to prove that the returne made are Invorrect, and that he intends to prove the Silegality of such retorns by the production of ballots in court and by the cans vassers aud roturas made by them from the several elec- tion district, LAW AND ORDER FOR NEWTOWN, A nomber of residents of the villages ot Maspeth and Winbold have formed a Law and Oraer Association for tho town of Newtown, Tho membership comprises two from oach school district, who delegate them- selves not to be candidates for any political office dur- yng the timo of their connnection with the association. Stated meetings are to be hold for bearing the grieve ances of citizens in connection with the administra~ tion of town affairs, Tho main object of the assovine tion is to compe! the town officials to periorm tbeir duties honestly, in strict accordance with the law’s provisions, .