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CHICAGO.
Daring Bank Robbery.
The way Chieaxo KeeD- HerTrcasur

The Way Chicago Keeps Her Treasury
CHICAGO, Feb. 13.-Judge Rogers, in
the Criminal Court this morning, gave a
decision on the application Of the counsel
of David a. Gage, eX-City Treasurer, TO
quash the indictments for defalcatiOn and
perjury. The court refused in the case of
the former, but granted the application in
the case of perjury. This is not considered
favorable by the friends of Gage, as a new
Indictment has been found by another
grand jury.
1t is understood that the grounds on
which Judge Rogers quashed the indict-
ment for perjury, against ex-city treasurer
Gage, were purely tech2ical, and as a new
Indictment for perjury, in which the techni-
cal errors which defeated the first are omit
ted, has been returnedby the grand jury, it
is probable that Gage will be tried on that
charge as well as that for failingtO pay over
public funds.
A 100000 Bank Robbery.
Great excitement was created az Quincy,
H., this morning by the discovery that the
First National Bank had been entered and
the vault robbed of about 100000 in cur
rency belonging to the bank, besides a
quantity of bonds and valuable papers, and,
it is said, of quite an amount of special
deposits. The bank was entered by cut
ting through the hall floor of the second
story, Immediately over the vault. The
burglars then made breach through three
feet of masonry Of about four feet square.
They then cut the rivet of the inch-thick
boiler iron, with which the vault was lined,
and removing it descended into the vault
and then charged boththe money safeand one
containing bonds and valuable papers with
powder, and by means Of a small rubber
hose carEed train to the top of the safe,
where a small pistol, screwed to an old
ledger, was arranged to set it of. \ string
was attached to the pistol and passed out
of a window of the second story to the
street below, and by this means the Ope-
rators were enabled to discharge their
blasts when the streets were clear of peO-
pie. The clock in the bank was stopped at
II minutes past O'Clock, as is supposed,
by the explosion which must have occurred
at that time. The door OF the safe, which
was a Dodd's burslar-prcOf, was COM
pletely wTenchcd from its hinges. There
is no clue whatever to the perpetrators, but
one Mccoy, recently connected with va
riety show, has been arrested and held on
suspicion.
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4 BLONDE on HER sEErTLE

ELuEl INC Il -tatiitti ~ - s1esA--'.e-i--a
On matrimonial thoughts intent, Mr..
Geo. W. GOOtee entered the clerks Oiiice
of the Marion County Court, last Saturday,
in company with his intended tather-in-
law, and applied for a license for the mar
riara OF himself and Miss Mary ). Thomas,
the celebration Of the nuptials having been
fixed for next Monday, the 10th inst.
While the important document was in pre-
paration. a petite blonde entered the office
and regarded the group long enough to sat
isfy herself what was going forward, and
then. quietly Withdrawing, sought neigh
boring law Office. Whea Air. GOOtee step
ped out Of the clerks Office, he was met by
Robert Waihen. Esq, Deputy Sheriff, who
handed him a summons 10 answer a suit
fled a-ains. him in tie Marion Circuit
Count by Miss Annie Coy, claiming S2O,-
900 damages for breach Of promise Of mar
TiaCe.
IS uay be imagined the situation was
not a very pleasant one. ard a suggestion
from Mr. Thomas that the wedding be post
pOned until after the june count, failed to
render the situation a whit more inviting.
Whether it was 50 ordered ornCtwe cannot
say,
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by citizens of Southern Oregon and North
ern California by reason of Indian depreda-
tions in 1872 and 1873, provoked quite an
excited discussion, in which Mr.. Shanks
defended the memory of Capt. JACK and
his ModocS, and stated it as fact that
when Gen. Candy was holding his con-
ference with Capt.yack military lines were
being closed around the Modocs.
The bill itself was opposed by Mr.. G. f.
Hoar as establishing the dangerous prece-
dent that the Government is responsible
for the reimbursement of citizens damaged
by war.
MIR. Garfield said if this bill was passed
it would open the sluices of the Treasury
to claims from Ohio and Indiana arising
out of the Morgan raids, and from Pennsyl-
vania arising out of Lees invasion and
there would not be a cent left in the Trea-
sury.
Finally, on motion of Mr.. Garfield,
the enacting clause was stricken out OF
the bill in Committee of the Whole
by vote Of 10 to 6S and the committee
thereupon rose and reported that action to
the House and it was concurred in yeas
los, nays s.. So the bill was defeated.
The House then adjourned. TOmorow's
session will be for debate only.
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AN AIR SHIP AT LAST.
A Vessel With Wings Worked by
Steam-One Hundred MILES an EEOur-

.
AUBURN, y. Y, Feb. 5.-FOr MANY
years Mr.. l.. B. Hunt, a talented mechanic
Of this city, has been constructing a vessel
with which to navigate the air, and is con-
WINGED that he has at last solved the prob
lem Of aerial navigation. The vessel is now
on exhibition at the fair grounds near this
city. The car, which is destined to carry
passengers, is Of wood. 80 feet long. S feet
high and s feet in width. -Four wire ca
bles connect it with the engine room 20
feet above. The car viii BE- fitted up in at
tractive style, and Afford accommodation TO
forty persons
The motive power Of the ship is steam.
one of Siisby rotary jO-hoIse power engines
being used. 1t is SO Constructed as to turn
upright shafts, one within the other, and
revolving in opposite directions. To the
outer shaft are attached four wings 9 feet
wide next the shaft, o feet at the extreme
end, and L feet long. To the inner shaft
are fastened four similar wings ten feet
above the other. They are made of sheet
iron, slightly cJnCaye, and inclined az an
angle of 20 degrees. When the machinery
is set in motion these wings revOlve az the
rate of $50 times a minute, and it is claim
ed by the inventor will Lift the vessel,
weighing about six tons, and laden with
SIX tons more.
The desired direction is given the ma
chine by four wings, ten feet long, acting
on horizontal shaft and revolving at a
greater velocity than the lifting wings, and
manipulated at the viii Of the operator or
engineer. The whole apparatus is steered
by a sheet-irOn rudder, parallel TO the shaft
Of the engine, at the right of the machine,
and sixteen feet long By five wide. From
the car to the top of the shaft the vessel
measures ffly-eight feet. It has cost
$4,000.
Mr.. Hunt does not entertain the slightest
doubt Of the success Of his air ship. lie
says he will be able to propel it safely to
any point at a rate Of 100 miles an hour.
He is constructing a vessel Of miniature
dimensions for the initial trial, which will
be made at an early day.
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TIE GERMAN FESTIVAL.
The Great International Sehuefzen-
fest af baltimore.


BALTIMORE. Feb. AT a meeting Of
the board Of directors Of the Baltimore
Schuetzen association, last night, the pre-
p2ratOTy arrangements Tor TIE great inteTnl-
tional Schuetzen festival, which is to be
held in this city next summer, were made.
Mr.. Charles Lemkuhl, the president Of tie
Schue;zeu association, was in the chair,and
Mr.. 4. J. Requardt acted as secretary. 10
was stated that eighteen societies had al
ready announced their intention Of joining
the SchUetzenbund, and that there was
every prospect that before the beginning {
the festival about forty societies will be
represented in the bund. The president
said that according to a resolution adopted
at the last meeting of the Schuetzen assO-
citation, the sum Of $4,000 had been ap-
prOpriated for prizes for this festival, and
the committees can now confidently go TO
work without fearing that it VIII result in
a failure.
1t was decided to send invitations to tie
large Schuetzen associations at Bremen,
Leipsic, Frankfort and Vienna, and il is
probable that delegations Of the societies
Of those cities viii be present at the festi-
val. Some discussion ensued as to tie
prize 10 be awarded 20 the marksman who
will make the three best shots on the Tar
get Of Honor, and 4 motion was nude that
the sum Of 81, 700 be appropriated as tie
prize, but after a short debate the consider
alton Of this subject was laid over until
next meeting.
It was resolved to erect fifty targets fer
the accommodation Of the visiting Schuetz-
en-. and that temporary structure be add
ed to the present shooting hall, which will
be far too small for the purpose.
A resolution was passed that the festival
begin on Monday, the 18th Of August, and
that the prize shooting shall continue from
that day until the Saturday following. On
Monday, the 24th cf August, which viii be
the concluding day Of the festival, the
prizes will be distributed. On Tuesday
the visiting delegations viii be escorted to
the railroad depOts.
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MORE DEYELOPMENTS.
From the New York Herald.


WASHINGTON, Feb. l0.-An effort
will be made to have published the let
ter Of Attorney General Williams to
the Senate Judiciary Committee When
his nomination for the Office of Chief
Justice was before them for cOnsidera-
ton. II Is known that he complains
OF the action of the committee as IN
quisitorial, and that they listened to
charges made against him by Mr.. Nes-
mith, the present representative in
Congress and former Senator from Or
egon, whom the Attorney General
characteriZes as his lifelong enemy.
The tone Of the letter is said to be
highly disrespectful to the committee.
One Of the charges before the commit
zee is found IN the following telegram:
PORTLAND, OREGON, Dec. Is, 1873.
George F. Edmunds, Chairman of
7he Senate Judiciary Committee: Hon.
K. 2. Boise, ex-Chief-Justice Of Ore
ron. and myself saw a contract made
IN 1872 between Attorney General VIII
liams and Surveyor Meldrum, IN which
Meldrum agreed to pay $1,000 to VIII
liams for two United States surveying
contracts of $1,000 each. Contracts
written and signed by Williams.
b. J. PENGRA.
Judge Boice Is said to be an ardent
Republican, as is also Mr.. Pengra, who
was at one time United States Survey
,lr-Seneral for Oregon. Oden, the
sprese2E incumbent, who secured his
place and is retained in Office through
Che influence of Williams, permitted
fhe surveying contracts to be formed
In this manner for the benefit Of his
patron. 1t is thought that full de-
velopment Of the charges against VII
liams would create SO general a demand
for his removal that in case it was not
aceeded to by his resignation 1t would
zoe accomplished by impeachment.
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HOUSE
The sanborn Contracts.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Mr. Foster,
from the Committee on Ways and Means,
asked leave to offer resolution in refer
ence TO the Sanborn contracts, directing the
Secretary of the Treasury to furnish copies
Of all contracts, schedules, correspondence
and orders of the department.; also a state
ment of the amounts paid in under each
contract, by whom paid, and under which
contract.
Mr.. Butler said he had objected when
that resolution was offered, because the eff
feet of it would be to bring before the
country the names Of a great many gentle
men who had been accused on expert tes-
timony. He now withdrew his objection,
wishing to have such discussion as would
be necessary on the bill to be introduced
on that subject.
There being no objection the resolution
was agreed TO.
Jack in q Box.
The House proceeded TO the considera-
tion of private bills.
A bill for ascertaining the loss sustained
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THE FIRST STATE STATEMENT.

Comptroller John c. Burch must
commend himself to the good graces of
ali classes In our State by the marked
fidelity that has characterized his at
tention to duty. He has not only faith
fully and energetically enforced the
laws, but, IN every way possible, has
sought to curtail neutrality-suspicious.
within the limit Of the means of the State.
His services have been of the invalua-
bic order, and we believe that, when
summed up, they viii be found to en-
brace nearly all that series Of meas
ures and movements that have culmi-
mated in the permanent advance Of the
State credit. The last good thing we
have to credit him with, is a statement
of the business of his Office for the
month of January, which, we are glad
to learn, is to be followed by Ike state
ments every mOnth.-Memphis appeal,
Feb. u.
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KENPEIl AND Grant.

Prom tMe LOul-Nlllc NouEAti-Jtl
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Gov. KEN
per, of Virginia, IS in the city, and had
an interview this morning with Presi-
dent Grant. An attempt has already
been made to impart political aspect 70
this visit; but there Is very direct au-
thority for saying that 1t has no spe-
cial significance. There Is no reason
for the belief that the President Is 90
ing to modify the policy OF which Lou
is1ana affords so signal an example. or
that he will do so while such bitter ex-
tremists as Messrs. Williams. Robson,
Delano and Creswell are his influential
advisers. If this hostileand oppressive
policy toward the South prevails, the
Virginia Conservatives viii be opposed
to the Administration, and Gov. KEN
per is not going TO betray them.
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THE SCALP DANCE.
Sherman Directs Sheridan to
Give the Sioux a Lesson.
The Present Considered n Favorable
GUnnrfunf.E

| The Present Considered n Favorable
| Opportunity.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Gen. Sheridan
under da:e Of New York, 18th inst, tele-
graphs Gen. Sherman as follows:
The trouble with the Sioux, which for
| some time past We have been irving to
| avoid. seems now 10 be beyond any peacea-
bic solution. In addition to the killing of
Lieut.. Robinson and Corporal Coleman,
Applcton's chief clerk at the Red Cloud
agency has been killed. The agent of the
Spotted Tail agency reports that large par
ties of hostile Indians from both agencies
have left for general hostilities. Gen. Ord
has sent out scouting parties to warn the
ranchemen and TO order their return to the
railroad. ! will 90 home tomorrow to SUI
perintend any action that may be neces-
sary.
Gen. Sherman replied the same date.
Under the call of the interior depart
ment, to-day sent to your headquarters at
Chicago, you viii be justified in collecting
an effective force as soon as possible, even
if you draw cavalry from the forts by rail-
road to Cheyenne, TO march to tile Red
Cloud agency, striking every party of In
dianS that oppose. Every Indian that has
maraUded south of the North Platte should
be demanded and held as an accomplice in
the murder Of Lieut.. Robinson. Their
food must be very poor now and game
must be scarce. So, the occasion to give
the Sioux a lesson long merited, seems to
me favorable. My own opinion IS that the
SiouN should never again have an agency
away from the Missouri river.
The Situation Out West.
OMAHA, Feb. 13.-The reported attack
on a wood party at Fort FetteTmaD, the day
before yesterday, proves to be false. Pre-
paratiOns are being made with all possible
dispatch for movement Of troops into the
Sioux country, and posts are to be estab-
lished at the Milestone and Red Cloud
agencies. This is authentic. The force
will be large enough to hold their own and
protect the agencies. The weather for the
movement is favorable at present.
Home Made Savages.
VIM. McWalter, who murdered a man
named Barlow, at Nebraska City, Neb.,
about year ago, in a fight there, to-day
shot and killed Rudolph WOrth,and wound
ed two Others before he could be arrested.
MCWalter and John Crank, his partner
fed Southwark. An armed body of thirty
men are in pursuit. The grand jury has in
dlcitd large number OF persons Tor play
ingdice, cards, etc, under the law passed last
winter.
RequisitiOn for Arms.
CHEYENNE, Feb. 13.-NO reliable infoF-
nation is received to-day in regard to In
dian troubles. Gov. Campbell has made
requisitiOn on the War Department for the
quota Of arms due this territory, and to-day
received a telegram that arms and ammu-
milton would be forwarded Immediately
from Leavenworth arsenal for the use of
citizens, should it become necessary for
them to protect themselves against Indians.
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RAILROADS..
How some Folks Get Rich.

SANDUsKY, o., Feb. Brush R.SlOan
removed in October from the Presidency OF
the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland
Railroad, was arrested to-day ON seventeen
distinct charges Of embezzlement, preferred
by the Company. Bail was fixed az $4,000
for his appearance next Tuesday. Il is un-
derStOOd that further charges are 20 be
made. Civil suits for about Slj0,0O0 had
already been commenced, SlOane's property
in Chicago, Toledo, Boston and this city
having been attached.
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THE Washington correspondent of
the Louisville Courier-JOunaI states it
has transpired that at the late negro
Civil Rights Convention in that city
the leaders demanded of the President
for their race larger and more promi-
nent share Of the offices, to which Grant
replied that he had already done all he
could for them. The white Republicans
IN Congress from the South say the
negroes are daily becoming more exact
ing in their demands.
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THE carpet-baggers of South Caro-
lima and those negroes who rose with
them. having plundered the whites un-
til there was hardly anything more to
squeeze out, are operating on the poor
colorel men. Attorney General Mel
toms attention has been called to the
most fragrant frauds in the administra-
tion of the Land Commission, which,
like Gen. Howard's Bureau, was or
ganized for the benefit Of landless and
homeless freedmen. This trust has
been abused, and the bounty shame
lessly consumed by the men to whom
1t was cOnfded.
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THE SIAMESE.
Photographic Views-The Autopsy BE

Sun.
New YORK, Feb. I3.-A PHILADELPHIA
dispatch Of yesterday says in the Siamese
twins autopsy, the day was taken up by
phOtographing the corpses in a number of
positions and from different points of view,
so as to put on permanent record the ex-
ternal appearance. The first cut looking
towards autopsy, which begins formally to-
day, was made in the abdomen Of Eng. A
Land was passed in at the opening and the
fingers We're carried nearly to the centre of
the tleshy bond Of union. This shows that
the lining membrane of the general abdomi-
nal cavity lines the opening into this fieshy
band. Casts have been taken with highly
successful results. A wel-known artist,
conyersant with the subject from practice
in the army hospitals, has been engaged to
make drawings OF ths internal Pa1ts as they
are developed.
l; is believed the dissection of the cord
Of union between the bodies of the Siamese
twins began this morning. E
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Mr.. A. AUGUSTUS ADEE, the pre-
sent Charge d'Afaires of tie Unite
States in Madrid, Is a native of New
York, about so years Of age, unmarried,
and a gentleman of scholarly culture.
He speaks French, German, and Span
ish huently, having travelled much in
Europe His father was one Of theold
surgeons of the navy.
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A sENATOR's QUALIFICATIONS.

The Washington correspondent of
the Boston Herald writes: "It is said
Of Senator Spencer of Alabama that
when he was a barkeeper in Indiana,
before he got to be a sutler IN the army,
he could fling whisky cocktail further
without spilling it than any other man
who was ever in the business. He was
the sutler of a Nebraska regiment,
believe, of which Thayer, late Senator
from that State, was colonel, and Tip
ton, the Greeleyite Senator, who still
occupies desk in the Senate Chamber,
was chaplain"
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PHILADELPHIA.
Frightful Result of Rotten Build
ings.
Eight Workman Buried Alive.
Two Killed Outright, and the Other
Ding ONT Rarely Alive

Two Killed Outright, and the Others
Dug Out Barely Alive.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. l3.-The walls of
a new building at Thirty-second and
Thompson streets fell this morning, bury
ing, it is reported, twenty worimen under
the ruins.
Second Dispatch.
Between 8 and 10 O'Clock this morning.
terrible accident occurred at Miller's
brewery, corner of Thirty-frSt and Thomp-
son streets. An ice house adjoining the
brewery fell, burying in the ruins some
eight of the employees. One of them was
taken out dead. Two more are in sight
fast in the ruins. One of them is alive.
Intense excitement prevails in the neigh
bOrhOOd, and large force Of police are on
hand, working with the citizens to rescue
the unfortunate wOrkmen.
Third Dispatch.
About a dozen men were employed in
slowing ice in the ice house when the walls
gave way and the whole structure fell. The
police then succeeded in eXtricating from
the ruins the following named persons:
Henry Miller, son of the proprietor, badly
injured and taken to his fathers residence;
Gottlieb Scherark, VIM. Bewley, Wm. Stu
llCF, Idi oldFLlN. 1uOtlldS hllyn- SUFFERING
terribly and at the German hospital. GOtt-
lieb has one leg broken in five or six places.
Thos. Alter was taken out dead. His body
was crushed and mangled horribly.
Jay Cooke.
In the District Court this morning the
report of Edwin NJ. Lewis, the receiver ap-
pointed in the bankruptcy of Jay Cooke
& Co., was filed, together with the report of
the commissioner and that of the register
thereon. The report sets forth that the re-
ceiver has received in the aggregate S1,455,-
4S3 and paid Sl,371,TS2, leaving in his
hands a balance Of SS3, 500.
seven Men Buried in the Ruins
LATER-It is now known that seven
men are buried beneath the ruins aud no
hopes of getting any of them out alive.
LATEST-TwO men have been taken out
of the ruins alive, one slightly injured, the
other fatally. Two dead bodies have been
recovered.
Another fatal accident occurred at the
same place this evening. 4 citizen, name
unknown, who was aiding in rcscuing the
bodies, fell into an excavation, andhis head
striking on piece of timber in the fall,Wa
instantly killed. Policemen StensOn and
Candy were also seriously injured by being
precipitated into the same excavation.
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THE NeI0 York World, in referring
to the proposition to put God into the
Constitution" says: I'm our humble
judgment it would be a great deal bet
ter to put Him into the hearts and
consciences of the people Wehave no
faith in attempts to propagate religion
by political or governmental machine
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THE Athens Post mentions a rumor
that it is in contemplation to commence
the publication of new daily paper at
Knoxville early in the spring. 1t is to
be run in the interest of the Changers,
with Col Charlton as editor -in-chief.
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WHEN few practical jokers blind
fold a Memphis reporter and put him
in a treadmill, he describes it as being
escorted down innumerable steps. F"
There is no doubt he made the neces-
sary steps" in this exhilerating exer-
else. See telegraphic advertisement of
Ye Memphi.
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A DISPATCH to the Louisville Court
er-Joarnal states that Mayor Logueand
the General Council of Memphis are
now at loggerheads. The Council on
the 18th inst. refused to confirm any of
his appointments or approve any meas
.ure suggested by him.