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Tho Joliet 1sop Company or ot tho Chicago Con-.

Since the flinf Of the pstitlon, Tho Joliet Oon-
pany, or Mosea TAYLOR, hes removed m,ny thofa-
auds Of dollars worth Of iron and otnor personsl
property, without the jurtedfotlon Of Tho Court
ora! to creditors. to aeoure eg,hll empunts, with
elvon wore not paid at maturity: pIakoy there:
joliet Iron and stool Company, and j. l. 'Ceuo
10 prevent them from dfspoaing Of any Of tho
Oouapauga property In thoir possession, or soil
ipg tho sumo until tho further order Of tie
gnn GREAT wxsrEnx rNsunANoE COMPANY.
g: ": Upton. assignee q tho qrsst WestarH
tho condition Of that Company, showing,
useeEpa paE 1Psn oas5@
Expenditures, ,,,,,,..,,,....,,.. :, '1a;Ss;s ;Ss:s
p.1snee ss117s.2o
THE EQUITABLE INSURANCE. COMPANY.
!, Tho following ia the report OF tho Assignee ct
the Equitable Insurance Company:
Caah, April f.93
s,ooa.al
s21,ss3.o4
E1peuded.. Observation-Disclosures. aeA.0e
Balance. ..sla,o4i.ta
Judge MoRoberta will assist Judge dary thia
present torn, aud will hkvo no call.
Judge Moore oyerruloa the motion for 4 nsv
trial in the Meoker will case.
to-day.
James Morgan waH appointed Commissioner
for THO South Park in place Of Potter Palmer, rc-
sfguod.
BANKRUPTCY ITEMS.
=, George O. Clarke filed q petition against ADO
iia 9. Tuttlo, u widow. claiming that ehe had
neglected TO pay s876 for seven months Tsnt Of
No. 6 Eldridge court. Clarke also alleges that
10 No. q Eldridge court to 0haunoy j. Bowen.
with intont to glvo him prefosouca, aud hinder
ind defraud her other creditors. 4 rule to show
cause Msy,o, and an injunction against Bowen
Woro lssuGd.
Dato & Stone filed petition against George
Wells and James WellB The petitioners claim
that Wells l. Go. owe them s41399 on two notes
and an opon account, and that they have made
. preferential assignment Of their propsrty At
tout to dofraud creditors, A rule to show CAUSE
May and warrant Of seizure wero isBued.
Ii the matter Of aalkoy b Qonaon an order
for tho examination Of DIrs. Censor Waa made,
to tako p1aco Msy 0.
ohsrlos ". Doynson and ". B. Cooper fled 4
petition against Elisha B. Spraguo and othors,
for mechanics lion on tho promises known al
sho Sprague Block, foE 4l,a4l.
el,60U against Robert Mcolelland and Charles E.
Jenkins.
Wolcott, Smith d Co. filed petition against
James McNair, making for mechanica lion on
No. 222 Wabash avenue, for tho sum Of &1 ,1s2.
CIRCUIT O0UlT.
Hanna, Barrett l. Co, commenced sult for
$1,5OO agninst the Elgin Gas Light Company,
a. e. Swift and George F. Wright.
THE CAL14
JUDGE nooHns-250, 2o9, 801, 3o5 to 805.
JuDaE Booru.--161 to ITO.
JUDaE TRRE.-No call. ....
JUDGE GARY.-00 to 112, except o., 9G14, 90,
ana 103. ~
JUDGE JAMEsoN.-127, 1870 to 1a2, 1s4 to 142,
144 to 148 leo to 151.
JUDGE MoRopEn7s will assiet Judge Gary.
JUDGMENTS.
JupeK JAAEsoN-T. T, Ellis '. Richard Chastef ;
verdict, $l54, and motion for new trial.
SUPERIOR ouaT.-CoNgEsz1oNs-John q. Date ct
a1. '. Edmund palmor $316.87.
JuDaR Mo1onEara- William D. Diilard ': Thomas
Eoatsr ohssg9 5y9ns l' aud
C1uoutr CouRr.-Jupos noaERs---Davd Rundlc '.
E. 8. Alexander; yorlics, s3.757a9 and motion for
nav trlxl.
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"a ths Edttor af Tht Chicago Tribune:
S1u: The following, cut from TIE TRIBUNE Of
yesterday, furnishes smother OF tho constantly
occurring instances which show how aasy it Is to
b. mistaken in Judging from appearances, more
especially when the said &ppearancos appeal 10
our sympathies in aome touching, pathetic way:
SD case Of dost!tution presented before JUS
tics 9culy yeAterdAy In the person Of bright and In
teroating little boy who gayo tho naus Of Johnny Wna-
The lst day Of May, thst hl. father aud moher vera
both dead that ho had sert around out-houses for
the past few weeks and that no had relations Hv
Ing that he over hoard Of. The child sens to the
Cisholio Aa9lun.
This little fellow came to our "Home" on
the 2lst OF April and remained ono weok, which
Is about 40 long "a tho little ohsp stays in any
ono place at q time. We had secured q good
homo for him In tue country, and ho ahid he was
tha hoy was missing. and = few daya after we
hoard Of him again with some kind people who
had taken him to = good home, but one or two
days was the length OF ti1ne 1t took for him to
tire OF it and aeek for new pastures. tho road to
which, It eeo1ns led through the Justloa Court
whero Judge Boully preB!des.
II tho "Catholio Asylum" whore he has boen
eont, uae sufficient caro- and depend upon good
locks and bolts, tho rnorourlal lttlo follow may
stay until bis parents can be heard from Tor
tho1e is but little doubt Of lila being runway
from eome home.
hope whom our new building Is completed, ne
shall have eaa Of this class Of vagraucy, for Buch
little royers Gun be put under 1ouk and key until
some information CAN be obtained, aud proper
provision made Tor tAom. ". 3. B1I1INts,
General superintendent Nevaboys Home.
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SIN: In your report ln this mornings paper
Of tla trial Of Auguht Fisher bafore tha Board OF
1'rade Oh charge Of stealing proferEod by US,
and for which lie was recommended for cxpul-
aion from tho Board by tho Directors. you pub
lsh statement made by said Fisher tn his ro-
Williams 4 Co., had failed five or ak tmes In AZ
many yeara," The absolute faisity Of this stato-
mont becomes quite apparent from the fact TINT
tho lirm Of htellen, Williams l. %. was not or
gaui4ed till Dec. J., 1878, aud consequently have
boon in business but about five months; and the
ma!clousneas Of tho falsehood becomes further
tic firm Of Eellen, Williams j Go. has evor
failed in business. As Fishers statement hos
been published In your paper, It IL ont simple
Justice to I'D that you publish tho above, aud
much otliKe. Yours truly,
&1Eti.Es, WILLIAMS d Go.
CHICAGO, My H. 1874,
, 1874-05-04

MICHIGAN CENTRAL q GREAT WESTERN Ra,tRosDs
depot, y.ot q L1kt IT.. and feot u Issnv .tepnd.,
s4ckt. ases. 2! carS ~ toshsast corner " Randolph
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The following laughable incident comes
from the Mobile Register. When Forrest
turned over in his mind what he would do
under the similar circumstances, he calamity
retreated in good order. The negro not be-
ins SO much of a savage as the rebel Gen.
eral allowed him to slide off easily:
1t is said that Forrest went into barber
shop on Broadway to be shaved. The COL
ored gentleman who ofiicIate was voluble.
Forrest was in a good humor and disposed
to be laxative. At last it came out that
the gentleman who was being shaved was
called General Forrest, whereupon the
colored gentleman wanted to know if he
was having the honor to shave General
Forrest of the late Confederate cavalry.
General Forrest mildly assented. Where.
upon the barber remarked that he was glad
to make the Generals acquaintance, as his
brother was a soldier in the federal army
"Where is your brother 2" asked the Gen.
eral. "He was killed at Fort Pillow u
answered the barber.
Silently and gently as the fall of the
w-fake-but accurately and without
hesitation-the General slid from beneath
the razor Of that barber, gained his feet
and with face bare as to one side and
lathered as to the other, remarked; "You
can't shave me this morning?" A friend
who met him moment later remarked the
singular appearance of his face. The Gen
eral merely observed 81 liked to have hall
of my face shaved at a time"
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bia do not wish him ~ be the President of
the Monument Association, whether for good
reason, or without, is not material. He
is not the choice Of the people, nor can he
be chosen as President of the Association
at any public meeting, properly advertised.
In the controversy between the exclusive
organization and the people, we took the side
Of the people. Because Of this, the Presi-
dent of the Monument Association makes,
through the columns Of the Progress coarse
and insulting attack upon us, and in the meet
ings of the Association INDUCES in ISLANDERS
against our personal honesty and fidelity to
the cause of our race. And this without any
personal reflections from us upon the Pres-
dent of the Association, whatever. In his
letter to the Progress he clearly shows that
his anger against us is because we have not
come to his rescue in the severe thrashnc he
had to endure at the hands of Sella Martin,
whom he had selected as the target for his
coarseness at a public meeting. With our
knowledge of the untruthiul insinuations
against our honesty, made by Mr.. Downing,
we CCTtdluly CdllllOI TcColcilc our ulnelenccS
with him, and ''jOg along together in the
good, old-fashioned way We feel that a
man with disposition to naii.n those who
may differ from him on a matter of detail, is
not the proper person to hold a position of
such prominence and Importance as Presi-
dent of the Monument Association. For
that position we want gentleman who can
accord to others the same respect for their
opinions as he would ask for his own. Geo.
L. Downing is not that man. The moment
we differed from him, he insuuatcd in a
cowardly manner that we had sold our prin-
ciples for money, that we had no brains,
that we were cowardly, that we were poor,
and consequently afraid to speak our sent-
ments. He would make the same kind of
attack upon any person who differed from him.
Already he has occupied the time OF the AS
ISOLATION, at one Of its meetings in an at
tempt to lash members for not assisting him
in Safeguarding the New NATIONAL ERA
The ERA claims that the people of Wash
ington will not cooperate with the Monument
Association while George T. Downing is it's
President. George Il. Downing is known
here
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Our Party Managers.

There is strong disposition on the part Of
the men in the Republican ranks, who arc
looked upon as leaders, to disregard the eff:
forts made by colored men to assist in keep.
ing in power the Republican party. The
feeling is that cO!ored men are but doing their
duty when they expend their money and
bring upon themselves financial ruin by
working for the party, and that they are Ell.
titled to no such compensation as are white
men for like services. This is the sort OF
treatment that has caused the feeling among
many colored leaders to do nothing against
the apathy that in many places controls the
colored voters. We all remember how the
refusal to vote by the colored people of the
State of Ohio, last year, affected that State.
We speak for the good of the party when we
remind its leaders that coored men, like
white men, feel political Sights and take the
same means of showing their feeling as white
men. Why should there be any Sights
Are the managers so inhu enced by prejudice
against color, that they cannot treat with
proper consideration their colored helpers ?
We know of an instance of colored men ex.
pending their all in the interest of the party
and the services rendered by them of no tri
fling character, still the party managers fai
to assist them, even when their attention is
called to their extreme need; an extreme
necessity brought on by fidelity to the party
This is all the more painful when it is known
that party patronage is lavished upon luke.
warm adherents, whose adhesion is not I'M
PEELED by principle, bu. because it pays.
Here in the District of Columbia ever,
colored man who held office up to the time o
the appointment Of the Commissioners, who
now control the District, have been kicked
out of Office. 1t would seem that color is {
crime, rs much with Republicans as will
Democrats, judging from the action of certain
Republican leaders.
Here also the New NATIONAL ERA is thu
only Republican paper denied government
advertising, though it is as faithful to the
party as the other Republican journals. W.
have stood by the Republican party, not be
cause il was pecuniarly advantageous for III
to do so, but because we believe in its prin
ciplcs. We complain because others who do
no more for the party than we do, are remu
neratedby party patronage, while we have t.
pay our way to the extent Of impoverishine
ourselves. We can but feel that the cool
ness towards our efforts as well as the dispo
silion exhibited in the matter of colored o.
ficeholders, in the District Of Columbia, by
Republican leaders, have their founda ton in
feeling inconsistent with the professions o.
the Republican party.
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4 Representative Democrat.

w. w. Eaton, who was last winter elected
to the United States Senate from Connecti-
cut, is making desperate effort to become
the leader of the Democratic party. And
he possesses one of the main qualifications
for that office. He was malignant rebel
sympathizer during the rebellion, and just
as much of a traitor as he had the courage to
be. He seems to have been too cowardly
to go South and enter the rebel service, and
SO remained in Connecticut, where he could
render them valuable aid and comfort, with
out personal danger. But his bravest exploit
even in that line was in a sneakng attempt
to pull down the United States flag in the
night at Hartford. That is the sort of
bravery Northern Copperheads generally
managed during the war. But it constitutes
a great merit in the estimation of the party
now, and would 60 far to give him the posi-
ton he courts, if meaner and more cow
ardly traitor than he had not already been
officially recognized as the Democratic leader.
The Copperhead majority has assigned that
position to the notorious Fernando Wood,
and it will be hard even for SO devoted a
rebel sympathizer as Eaton to supplant
him.
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From the New Orleans Republican,
Domestic Servants,

The White League proposes to exclude
colOred people from all employments, and to
run the business of the country on white ac-
count exclusively. We have cited the Cot
ton Exchange for the proof that the colored
laborers throughout the cotton States are
orderly and Industrious. There is no COM
plant of the amount or quality of the labor,
and the crop is far better than average. 1t Is
apparent, then, that the producers Of cotton
and sugar are by no means prepared to dis
pense with the labor of colored people, and
still less to take upon themselves the toll
and exposure of cultivating these important
staples. AS the Attakapas Register says:
1t cannot he that these white citizens pro-
pose taking the pillow and hoe cultivatng the
land, for as general rule, the white man
won't work, and particularly in the cane
field.
Yet such is the salary famine among us,
that for the sake of holding the offices of the
State they would cheerfully sacrifice its crops.
1t is an agreeable duty always to bring a
mischevous fallacy to the test of indisputable
facts. 1t was, therefore, that we exploded
the excuse for White League by showing
the order and industry of the cOlored labor
ers. Since in the pursuit of Office with shot
guns it is proposed to exclude all cOlOred
people from employment, it occurred to us
to examine the social effects which this war
on the washerwomen would cost our people
We have used this term fguratively since
the men engaged in the pursuit of Office with
shotguns could usually dispense with the
washerwomen without much detrment to
their personal aesthetics. But to the ladies
of Louisiana whose Jealous friends proposed
to put them over the wash tub and the cook
stove we have respectfully to perform pub
lie duty. 1t is to point out to them precisely
what is proposed in their name aud behalf.
In Illuminating on the conduct of these cam
vassers with the shotgun, who would dis
miss much the greater part of 97,7S3 agri-
cultural laborers, we have turned to the
same authority to learn exactly what sacri-
flee these rabid men propose to make on
behalf of the ladies of their families. 1t has
opened subject very well worthy the de-
liberate thought of the economist and Of the
statesmen. 1t appears from the census Of
1870 that the percentage of domestic SER
wants is to the gross population, aged ten
years and over, in certain enumerated states,
as follows:
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Murders in the South.

The following, which we take from the
New York Tribune, is evidence of anything
but civilization. The murders cannot be
laid at the doors Of ignorant and corrupt
negroes. The Tribune has of late been in
the habit Of attributing the evils existing in
the South to the ignorance of the negroes,
or to the avarice Of the carpet-bagger; but a
little honest investigation Oh its part must
reveal the fact that the people of the South,
those who claim to be Of the highest order
OF humanity, are lacking in essential intelli-
gence, culture, and enlightenment. And
that for the want Of true civilization among
what is known as the better classes of white
prevalent in the South than in the North.
The following comment Of the Tribune
is probably intended for wit, but we think
the occasion might have been improved, to
speak a little wholesome truth, to the
"superior race" of the South:
"Thc administration Of Justice in some
portions of the South is attended with a
variety of sensations. AS an instance of
the former we are told that Mr.. Everett,
DSPN.y NiieSu ')ColSo III
see, having recently succeeded Mr.. IIildreth
who was killed on duty, was found dead
by the roadside near Tullahoma, with
two bullets in his head. The dispatch
states that the balls had entered his
skull just back Of his ear" which shows
that the assassins were prudent folk who
| dlslikcd to have any fuss or quarrel when
they murdered Marshal. An incident
showing what compensations an official life
affords comes from Columbia County in
Georgia. A Deputy Sheriff and his posse
had arrested four colOred men, father and
three sons, on a charge of riotous conduct.
These dark jewellers did not keep the road as
they should have done attempted to run,
says the chronicle. The Sheriff and his
posse, not feeling inclined to run in this
weather, showed their disapproval of the
untimely activity of the colored men by kill
ing the whole family. A corOner's jury
perhaps improvised from the posse--relurnetl
a verdict of justiliable homicide. Certainly
the colored men should not have attempted
to run in the middle of July, but most peo-
pie will think that killing the whole family
was too stringent commentary on their
t1eetncss OF foot. And in Il country where
law officers murder their prisoners in this
fashion it is perhaps not singular that law
officers are sometimes found in the road with
bullet-holes in their cerebellums."
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Per cent.

These figures divide themselves strangely
between the section long accustomed to free
labor and that which has heretofore employed
servile labor. An approximate estimate
and-nOthlng more, is pretended would
show fraction over two per cent. of the
population in the Northern and Western
sections, employed in exclusive attendance
upon the remainder, while in the Southern
section about four per cent. or double the
number in the North and West is employed
in the same mental services. We dismiss
the conside ration of the large charge upon
capital, labor and enterprises involved in the
annual outlay for such services as are else
where furnished in great part by the men,
bers of society for themselves. In all its
bearings upon the accumulation of wealth it
is well worth careful and consistent study
Our present use for these estimates is to
show what a burden the White Leaguers
were about to cast on the fcebler part of our
people. Shall we translate what they were
about to do? 1t was this: To secure to the
gentleman of the household official honors
and duties with regular and liberal allow
ance for lake dinners, Canal street break
fasts, whisky, billiards, cigars. and theatres.
They were about to drive all the colOred do
mestcs out OF the State and remit the ladies
OF their families to the intellectual duties of
the kitchen and to the calisthenics of the
scrubbing brush and the wash tub. From
the figures given it would seem that Vir-
ginia, in which State they have more judy
ment than to make war upon labor, there is
six per cent. of menials. In Louisiana there
is five per cent. When, however, we regard
the fact that the proportion of colored people
to white is perhaps sixty to seventy per cent
in Virginia, while it exceeds the number of
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Has' The New York Graphic, though it
expresses the strong conviction that Gen.
Grant is not seeking, and does not desire, o
nomination for third term, nevertheless
thinks such an event possible. 1t says lit
is easy toimagine condition of public affairs,
especially in the South, which would seem
to require his continuance in Office four years
longer to complete the work of reconstruc-
ton he has carried on. lie has to very
great degree the confidence of the Southern
people, and, having conquered their territory,
is fast conquering their hearts. AT any rate,
should he be elected for another term, it
would be by the free act of the American
people; and, backed by their confidence, and
by all the experience acquired by two event
full and successful terms in Office, his third
term might possibly be more popular and
brilliant than the other two"
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lssy1 WE perceive bv the paners that

aA5- WE perceive by the papers that
some very we'll meaning, but badly informed
persons forgetful that Frederick Douglass
was only elected President of the Freedman's
Savings and Trust Company, long after the
troubles Of that institution had become
chronic and incurable, are now endeavoring
to attach blame to that gentleman because
its affairs have, under the late law of Con-
gress, passed into the hands of Messrs.
Cresswell, Purvis and Leopold as Commits
sioners. The time will not be long in our
judgment before these grumblers at the
course of Mr.. Douglass, if they have any
money on deposit at the Freedman's Bank,
will thank that gentleman for the course he
has seen fit to pursue. In placing the Bank
i'll the hands Of Commissioners so honorable
and trustworthy as the gentlemen named,
the poor depositors Of the Freedman's Bank
will probably receive ninety cents for every
dollar they have placed in that institution.