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Year: 1875

By far the most encouraging of Prof. Jcn-
news reports on the gold in the Black Hills
region. is this mornings dispatch from Chey-
cnnc. The district in which the deposits are
found that appear to he profitable, is only
10 miles north of IIarney's Peak. If tolcr-
ably direct route eau be found TO reach this
locality from the southwark. its comparative
nearncss to Cheyenne will be Il point in its
favor as compared with the position of ear
lier discoveries in that region. While, how
ever, the prospect of SO TO So per man pee
day will serve to lure a large number Of all
ventmcrs thithcr whenever the valleys of the
Black Hills are open to settlement, the pioneers
who may realize even that amount of profit,
will be vastly outnumbcrcd by those who only
make deeper plunge i'll poverty and drsiitu-
tinn
Year: 1875

To-day begins the trial of one of the suspended
engineers, Messrs. Yates and BabcOch, by the Canal
Board to be quickly followed by that of the other.
The Board has resolved to make its own examinations


NOT ONLY ignoring the findings of the thorough and
impartial investigation of the Canal Commission


but refusing to allow the testimony of the witnesses


as taken by the Commission, t. be read before them


The Canal Board puis an atront on the Canal Com
mission and body, twothirdS of which N composed
of members Of tie party which has adopted the
often abandoned changeling of canal reform, casts
reflection at least on the body chosen to map out
that reform. In our opinion it is an action
10 he regretted. The canal thieves are
and have been getting great deal
more aid and comfort than is safe
for the cause of honesty. A section of the Demo-
cratic party is doing what il can for them the
whole Republican party is doing everything in its
mower TO hinder and confuse those who are doing
thc campaign against them. At such a time the
moral effect of this action can hardly be anything but
unfortunate, az tending to impair the general
confidence in the most successful and most
searching investigation seen iii this COIN
try for q great many years. II ~ 10 he
bopcd that the Canal Board viii DE content
to assert its own dignity as an Independent body,
and not attempt to crafty the grudgrs or increase
the slight political capital of some oi It's members.
Year: 1875

The principal part of the fifth Report Of the
Governors Canal Commission relates to the
Buffalo dredging contracts which have already
been described in The TRIBUNE, and have led
to various indictments and arrests for conspir-
acy and bribery. Our readers know the out
lines of the stOry-hOw George ID. Lord con-
spired with Bennett, Davis, Belm, Bowman,
and probably several others, to get from the
Legislature a large award for the "reef" of
contractor already well paid for his work /;
how the contractor QIand) never imagined
that he needed relief till Lord put it into his
head how the scheme worked so well
that the cOnspirators made second
raid for "relief" on the same contract /;
how Hand never got a cent OF the money
and how-tO crown the iniquity-Lord himself
was bound by existing contracts to do the
very work for which he induced the State to
pay Hand three times over. This is already
familiar tale But the Report which we print
this morning sets 1t forth with an abundance
of interesting detail and pertinent suggestion.
The net result of the series Of operations in
connection with these Buffalo contracts, by
which George d. Lord as a member of the
Legislature succeeded in obtaining fraudulent
N~NA''
contractor may be briefly stated as follows
He was paid $44, 400 year under repair
contract to keep a certain section of the canal
dredged to a specified depth, and he got from
the treasury an additional sum of $185,OOO,
every dollar of it by fraud.


We shall have no difficulty in understanding
how these affairs were managed after we have
read the Report. Here we see contractors
keeping State officials in their pay, and engi-
neers in partnership with the contractors whose
work and charges it was their duty to super
wise. Assistant Engineer afterwards Division
Engineer) Behn was partner of Benefits in
the ownership of a dredge which seems to
have been much more useful in scoOping money
out of the State Treasury than in taking mud
out of the canal. When Canal Commissioners
Barkley, Stroud, and Jackson met at Buffalo
to Examine the claims for the "reef of
"JOhn Hand" Thaddeus C.. Davis, who acted
as counsel for the State, seems to have
been also retained in the interest of the
other side.-an arrangement which certainly
Year: 1875

. THE TWO RACES IN PHILADELPHIA.


A remarkable story comes to us from Phrfa-
delphia, behind which we hope there is some
explanation yet to be given. In April last a
respectable colOred woman purchased Of the
Mount Moriah Cemetery q lot, receiving deed
therefor, and the assurance that the ground
was free to persons of color as to whites. Her
sister was subsequently buried in this lot with
out objection on the part of the Association.
Last week the husband of the owner of the
lot died: q man of means and respected not
only by the better classes OF his own color,
but by large circle of white citizens with
whom he had transacted business. His remains
were refused burial on account of his color,
and the agents of the cemetery would not even
allow the body to be placed temporarily in
vault until means should be taken to bury Ii
elsewhere.


Ii seems incredible that so fragrant an out
rage of all decent or humane feeling should
occur in a city which has been for years the
stron ghold of anti-Slavery feeling, and where
the free cOlOred class have reached hight OF
culture and refinement unknown elsewhere.
Even in the far South, in the days when the
slave-pen was reality and it was illegal to
teach black man to read, the feeling of per-
sonal attachment and kindness was strong be-
tween the races. The white child lay on the
breast of its black foster mother, played
with her children, and as on adult nursed
them and was nursed by them in time OF
sickness; and it was no unusual matter to
find some faithful slave buried in the farm
graveyard beside the master or mistress.


Ideas such as are nourished by this very ex-
elusive burying association are in advance of
the EXTREMIST bigotry of either North or South.
The Philadelphia press is unanimous in con-
demning the outrage, and, as might be ex-
pccted, it has caused, as does every extreme
measure, strong reaction in favor of the in
jured class, whom it was meant to humiliate
and degrade,
Year: 1875

labor where they could get it cheapest. Dir.
Butler Is % capitalist himself, and we
doubt not invests his money where it
will bring the largest returns. IL he has
work to be done ho probably hires OF
two men who arc equally capable
the one who will do it cheapest And
we have no idea that no contemplates with
sadness the man who demanded 81 80 for tho
work which plenty of other men would be glad to
do for 81. Mr.. Buffers sadness, we take it,
grows out of what he calls " this system of
contraction to which he attributes the re-
"duction of men into slaves" Mr..
Butler ought to know, and doubtless
by this time does know, that the
depression in business which has COM
PEELED reduction of wages is
not duo to any "system of contraction"
or any contraction whatever except in
public confidence. But suppose it were true.
What is Mr. Buffers specific Let us look at
it briefly


With currency expanded vastly be-
yond the demands of legitimate business,
tho country at the close of the
war entered upon an era of speculation
of the widest sort. Prices went up
and up according to an unvarying
law of trade-wages with the rest-till
the inevitable crash came, the bottom
fell out, and all business was pretty
nearly at a stand-sti, waiting for
revival of confidence which could only come
by giving stability to the currency. In this
lull and waiting time, prices had
to come down, wages with the rest.
The country was sick-in pain; it
was and is paying the penalty of
years of speculation and extravaganza
growing largely out of this vast volume of ire
deemable currency. All trade and industry,
capital and labor alike, are suffering. 1t is one
of tho sad things in life that we
have to look on in such straits, whether
it be nations or individuals that
suffer, and feel that we are helpless except as
we are patient. 1t is sad to think that any
man should be obliged to work for less
than what he considers a fair days
wages sadder to think that in these times
thousands cannot find work at any price, and
saddest of all to think that there arc
dcmagogues who propose to get out of
the slough of imitation by initiating fur
ther; to restore confidence in an ire
deemable currency by issuing more of it.


There is no sadder sight thln a drunkard
recovering from debauch, unless it be a
drunkard who upon tho approach of
consciousness, knowing the penalty of re-
morse and pain that so surely follows his
excesses, resorts again to the bottle to drown
rcmorse and Overwhelm the pain. For the
drunkarG who takes the pain az the legitimate
penalty of his fault, and through abstinence
and sef-rcstraint comes soTOwfully back to
himself made wiser by his experience. there
is hope. For him who undertakes to
dodge the consequences of his indulgence
by renewing his connection with the bottle,
there is nothing but short dellrium of life,
and then the end. Mr.. Butler is saddened
by tho spectacle of nation slowly
and painfully recovering from q financial
debauch. And he recommends brandy on an
empty stomach. Better be sad little while
longer, and have a surer recovery and per-
manent reform.
Year: 1875

Not altogether pleasant thoughts to tax
payers are suggested by what was said and
done in the Board of AppOrtiOnment yester-
day. Assessment bonds to the amount of half
a million dollars were authorized to be issued
for the Eleventh-ave. extension, and the Con-
troller stated that $S,0O0,000 more must soon
be issued to meet bonds falling due next
month. Mr.. Green took the opportunity to
explain further his position in regard to costly
up town Improvements. He accepted the re-
sponsbility-about which there has been much
ado-of share in preparing the plan of these
improvements, but he declared that he was
not responsible for their prosecution far in ad-
vance of the city needs, nor for the enormous ex-
penditures lavished on them of late years.
Whatever may be thought of Mr.. Green's part
in getting up the plans, prudent citizens who
are not interested in real estate speculatiOns
will applaud his present attitude in regard to
these improvements, and give him their sup
port in his vigorous and tireless resistance to
excessive outlay on them.
Year: 1875

The Jersey City authorities solved the tramp
problem yesterday very successfully as far rs
their own city was concerned. All the able
bodied paupers were set at work on the roads
This action so astonished those who had tasted
the sweets of public charity for two years or
more that they Indignantly left the city to
find more lenent poorhouse officers.
Year: 1875

1t is creditable to American enterprise that
the second attempt to send peaches to England
has been attended with complete success. The
fruit being in good condition on arrival and
having readily found purchasers in London,
peach-growers are now assured larger market
FOR their fruit which will doubtless be produced
In greater quantity to meet the foreign demand.
II all perishabls fruit and vegetables can DO
Year: 1875

The sad termination of the search for the
missing boy Joseph Sullivan, while it brings
sorrow to his parents, somewhat excuses the
seeming powerlessness of the police in the
matter, and will certainly afford relief to those
mothers who have lately been haunted with
fears of the danger to which their children
might be exposed from professional child
steaieTs.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Moody, the evangelist, who is making
flying visit to this city, is still uncertain
where he shall begin his work, which
he wishes to be about by November L.
lie said last evening, however, that
his first labOrs would not be in New
York as there did not exist here that union of
the churches which he desired as preliminary
to his preaching. This announcement will be
received with regret by the thousands of
people in the metropolis who have been look
ing forward with eager interest to the coming
of the renowned lay-preacher
Year: 1875

President Grant has 80 often exhibited par
tiality for the District Ring and gone to such
indecent extremes to shield its members from
the penalty of their crimes that he cannot com
plain of the suspicion that he acted in It's
interest when he killed by pocket veto the
Grand Jury bill which passed both houses of
the last Congress by an almost unanimous
vote. Whether he willfully executed the be-
hests of the Ring or was merely careless, the
result is the same. The President again puts
a brake on the course of justice in the District
of Columbia and the Ring rcaps the benefit of
his act.
Year: 1875

The cases of the Clmal and Drainage
Company, and of Warner Van Norden
against the city, having been argued two
days in the Superior District Court, were
yesterday finished by the mandamus being
made perpetual by Judge Hawkins. The
amount which the order of court was in
tended to cover could not be determined at
the moment, but it will be very nearly
ssO,OO0


The long continued case of Earle and
Garvey was given to the Jury last night
Judge Cullom's charge, requested in writ
ing by Mr.. Luzenberg, being published in
full in the court record. The arguments on
both sides were exhaustive recitals of the
facts of the case. Mr.. Luzenberg's state
ment of the evidence was thorough, inter
spersed with many apt quotations of the
law, and almost entirely directed to
the object of showing the absence of proof
on the part of the prosecution. The counsel
dwelt continually on the subject of the
confession of Earle, the continual refer
ences to it during the trial having brought
it prominently before the jury, and argued
that even if it had been admitted it could
not have affected Garvey. Attorney Gen.
eral Fields perfect familiarity with every
fact in the case gave great power to his
closing. argument. which was shorter than
usual Every incident was detailed and
every circumstance effectively connected
with the crime. While he was speaking
it seemed to many of the audience as if
the grave clothes of the accused we're being
shaped.


Mr.. Luzenburg excepted to portion of
the charge-that where certain proof was
in the power of the accused absence of it
must be construed against them-and of.
fered number of charges, all but one of
which the court gave to the jury, who then
retired. The foreman, at half,past eleven
O'Clock, reported that there was no pos
sibility of an agreement last night, and the
jury was locked mp to remain till ten o'clock
this morning.


The Babcock war has broken out in q
new place, one of the parties arrested hav-
ing sued four members of the board of
delegates individ ually, in the Fourth Dis
trict Court, alleging that they conspired to
injure his bu siness by the resolution of
arrest. As the resolution was passed by
the whole board of delegates, the members
sued have doubts whether there ought not
to be more parties defendant, and whether
demurrer would not have some effect on
the court.
Year: 1875

During last Monday night the Office of
the recorder of mortgages of this narish
was entered by some unknown person or
persons who took away the books belong
ing to the parish and the parish seal. As
yet no clue has been obtained either to the
lost property or the burglars. As to the
mode OF entering the house it could have
been done several ways, and even without
key, as the fastenings to the doors and
WINDOWS were very mperfect.-Amite In.
dependent.
Year: 1875

General Butler'e Postal Telegraph Bill
The bill to establish certain telegraphic
lines in the several States and Territories
as post roads and to regulate the trans.
mission of commercial and other intel.
ligeDce by telegraph, recently reported
by General Butler from the Committee
on the Judiciary, is accompanied by
report which seeks to show that it was
originally the settled purpose to control, if
not own, the telegraph as part of the Post
office service, and that the right and power
OF the government to do this, in the interest
OF good government, and for the prevention
of mOnopolies either in the prices of the
transmission of intelligence or by the su-
perior advantages of early intelligence,
which shall give one man an undue, unna-
tural and fraudulent advantage over his fel.
lows in carrying on the exchange of commo-
dltles amorg the people, or in affecting
the value of the securities of the govern.
ment, IN whichever way it may be stated,
is complete under either the third or seventh
clause OF the eighth section of the first ar
ticle of the constitution. The report crit.
icises at some length the business arrange
ments between the Western Union Tele-
graph Company and the New York
Associated Press, and asserts that
the former ''can crush q or buy
up all rival lines whenever it desires to do
So" and that ''every leading journal must
have full reports both of the general and
commercial co news, and that they can only
be obtained from the Associated Press, and in
compliance with whatever rules and regula-
tlons it may dictate. A refusal to comply
with them would be the loss Of telegraphic
news, of readers, of advertisements, and of
subscribers. The choice is between auh.
mission and failure" Washington Repub.
Hean.
Year: 1875

VIZ have the authority of two such
journals AS the New York Nation and the
Chicago Tribune for the statement that
business in these cities at last begins to
show signs Of substantial Improvement.
The Tribune reasons from the talk Of the
streets and Board Of Trade, the testimony
Of It's commercial reporters, and by its
own advertising patronage, which on Fri.
day exceeded that Of any other week day
since the Tribune was established. The
Nation speaks from equally definite and


reliable authority, so that the main fact
Year: 1875

THE Directors OF the Citizens Street
Railway Company yesterday declared Il
dividend Of per cent out Of the earnings
Of the road for the past six months. Con-
sidering the general depression in bnsi'
ness, this dividend must be very satisfac'
tory to the stockholders, some Of whom,
perhaps, did not expect the road to do
much more than pay expenses during the
last six months.


The work on the new extension to
Benson's Ferry will shortly be com.
menced. The Directors yesterday all.
thori1ed the President to contract for as
much iron "a may be necessary to lay the
track. The company has already con.
siderable amount Of iron on hand that
will be available in the extension.
Year: 1875

lima, Ohio (May y, Cor. Chicago Times.I


A bold attempt was made to rob the
express car on the Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayne and Chicago road, on the tram
that passed this place at o'clock this
morning. After the train starts from
here it does not stop until 1t reaches
Forest, about thirty miles distant, and
passes over lonesome part of the coun-
try, but thinly settled, and, for the most
part, covered by large marsh. While
this train was speeding along over this
dreary waste, robber disguised In
black muslin cloth drawn tight over his
shoulders back of his head and over his
face, and tucked down in his vest, en-
tered the car by saving out one OF the
panels of the door, and approaching
George II. Price, the express messenger,
who was doing in his chair, demanded
his surrender. The messenger jumped
from his chair and drew his revolver,
but, before he could shoot, the robber
fired at him twice, one ball taking effect
in the right wrist, and the other
wounding his chin and lodging
in his right shoulder. While this
was going on, the express messenger took
deliberate aim and fired, shooting the
robber square i'll the forehead killing
him instantly After the messenger was
sure his man was dead, he pulled the bell
connecting with the engine and stopped
the train. Upon search no other men
were found who could be i'll league with
the robber. The train then continued its
journey, and when it arrived at Crestline
the corpse was delivered to the express
company.


Up to this time the mask over the
man IS face had not been removed. After
it was laid out in the office, it was pulled
aside, revealing the well-known features
OF Il. @. Binkley, of Fort Wayne, once
a conductor on the road. The feelings
and astonishment of those standing
around him, and who had been his asso-
ciates for years upon the road, cannot be
described. He hal hitherto borne a
good character, and was generally liked
by those with whom he was thrown in
contact, and the terrible fact that he had
SO suddenly descended to an express rob-
ber could hardly be realized. He was
member in good standing of the Order of
Red Men, and also of the Conductors
Brotherhood. The affair has created
great excitement.


He leaves wife and two children. He
was discharged from the road some time
since for gambling. This was the only
real vice he was known TO have had, and
that contracted within year. His body
will be taken to Fort Wayne for burial.
Year: 1875

Sam Randall has announced what will
be one feature of the Democratic House.
His opinion is of some value, as he is a
prominent candidate for the Speaker
ship. He says that the Democrats pro-
pose to abolish the Office of Commission.
er of Internal Revenue on the ground
that since the bulk of the internal rev.
enue taxes is now collected from whisky
and tobacco by the means of stamps, the
expensive machinery of the Internal
Revenue Bureau is no longer needed.
This was Senator Summers idea, and he
introduced a bill for that purpose. The
only way, of course, in which the Domo-
Gratis can abolish the Bureau is hy refus-
ing appropriations.
Year: 1875

Weekly Review of the Chicago Market.


FINANCIAL


There was better local inquiry for favors at
the banks from local spectators. The supply
of funds was large and rates are without change.
Government bonds firm.


BREADsTUFFs.


The grain markets have attracted large share
of speculators' attention, and al active business
was transacted. The June option was the
favorite, tho bulk of the sales being for this
delivery. Seller May was at a discount, nobody
wanting the cash property shippers being out
of the market. May shorts bought quite
freely, but not until values had sus-
tanned general and quito severe decline. and
then the shorts were willing to take III their
profits. The stock in store il steadily and rap
idly accumulating and there was general local
pressure TO sell. Wheat was weak and lower
and tho other grains shared III this weakness,
sympathy with wheat being the principal cause
of the reductions. The advices from New York
and Liverpool were of an unfavorable tenor,
and the receipts were large, while the ship
ments were light.


The following tables shows the prices current
at the opening and close of the past week:
Year: 1875

As an old man and his four sons
were hunting the wilds of Cooke
county, Texas, a large cougar jumped
out of tree and knocked the father
down. AS it retained its hold on
him after he fell, the boys dared not
shoot; but fortunately the old man
held the beast by the throat with one
hand and by one Of its fore legs with
the other. The boys gathered round
and three caught hold Of. the cougar
while the fourth emptiedboth barrels
Of his gun into its back, breaking its
spine. It was then dispatched with
out difficulty.
Year: 1875

ALL the type now in this Office Is entire:
a ly new. We hsYp oil tho late styles q
card and poster type, and fatter aprSel.
that We can do as good work as. any ofice
in the State. Give usa trial.