New York Times, The (Newspaper) - January 8, 1882, New York, New York VOL 9465 NEW-YORK SUNDAY JANUARY 8 SHEET PRICE FIVE CENTS STRAW BONDSMEN IN COURT ARRESTED STAR EOUTE MSN HELD IN BAIL TO REQUIRED TOT COMPLAIS OF THE BY THE MASTER OP HIS RECORD WASHINGTON Jan 7 The men arrested for bavins to defraud tho United plates by means of worthless bonds used ia with bids and contracts for tho on moil routes wore the police Court to-day Edwin J Sweet Samuel jf Hoyt W S Borringer James W and John W Minnix wore arrested last Tight These men had served only as A E Boone and other contractors were not arrested until to-day Thoy were very busy completing bids for star service to bo filed tho Post Office Department 3 o'clock this of It was understood however they would not to evade arrest OB soon as their business had been Mr Boono was taken into custody morning and also C H Dickson who is a cleric employed by tho Government With these was taken Mrs K II Armstrong In to-day tho Hon Jeremiah Wilson for Hoyt C H for Boono C for and A K Browne for Tho desired that amount of bail to bo required should bo Mixed as Boone Cabell Sweet Jackson and Hoyt each JDickson and each and Mrs Armstrong each i The defendants urged that the Government at onco proceed or that they should be to go on their own recognizance It wos shown that there had been 30 warrants land Mi lift the amount of ball required was in- to suffice for all the charges iu the rants The attorneys for tho defendants de- the course by the and bitterly complained of tho mont of some of the persons arrested last who worn obliged to remain in tho all night Mr Boone's lawyer that tho arrests had been ma do for the purpose of preventing Boono from getting his bids at the Post Department An- lothor attorney complained because Col was not in court who represented defendants who are employed by tho made tho assertion which was ably well that clients were in danger of situations The not borne ready to proceed to-day mid having asked for a postponement Wednesday Mr Wilson demanded nn Immediate hearing and tho whole proceeding a outrage upon respectable Tho greater part of tho afternoon was de- voted by the defendants to tho of gettme bonds and at last all succeeded in satisfying tho court Cabell was born IB Virginia and was a man on the for many years before the war Ho camo to this city 17 years ago and lives on Capitol Hill Charles H Dickson is his nephew He came to this city in from Indianapolis and is a dork In the Indian Bureau ian smith and is thu Secretary of the Washington and Virginia Mining Company Sweet is a real estate broker Donohne is a clerk in the Pennon Office and was at ono time employed by Cabell In a small hotel on Capitol Hill Boono Ls a native of Tennessee who was a few ears ago thn Chief of the Pay Division in tho ost Department Since ho has been a contractor and now lifts many star routes Two routes were recently awarded to him on temporary contracts Boono is an en- tuan and it is tho general Impression that he used straw bonds not for tne purpose of defrauding tho Government but for the purpose of continuing in the business of ing the mails His reputation is that of a con- tractor who ful tills bis contracts and keeps his ser rice in good condition No cases of failure on routes standing in his name are reported but one has been described in which tue con- tractor was Buck who is supposed to be in some way with Boone D B Postmaster of this city a cord to-day iu relation to the action taken by and his assistant M M Parker in certifying to tho responsibility of bondsmen Mr Ainger I am larly proud of my record in reference to this question I the broad assertion that no Postmaster ot this city or in the country has beea more careful particular and ing in complying with tho law than I and my assistants have been The time ia which could bo received for the star service ID the Territories recently ad- expired this afternoon at 3 o'clock and before that hour arrived about bids bud been Tho awards will bo made Iu about two months It is said that Mr Boons had intended to submit about bids but the against him prevented the presentation of about one-third of these on routes tho annual pay amounts to Tuo bidder must present with bis bid a certified check for 5 per cent of the annual pay As Air Boone had not completed these moro tant bids when the warrant was issued for him last night ha found difficulty this morning it is said in securing the required amount of certified checks and therefore failed to sub- mit a number of bids which he had intended to put in Jerome J Hinds who has served for several months as an Inspector in the Post De- and who was recently reappointed for another term has resigned In tho letter tendering his resignation to al Howe Mr Hinds Though I sever my official connection with your ment yet iny services may bo at any time commanded when necessary to nid in tho exposure of the star route frauds or tho conviction of tho perpetrators of them Mr Hinds has been employed in examining the condition and history of ring routes in Arizona and Indian Territory He has collected much important evidence and has been ono of the most valuable of the Inspectors thus employed A number of civil will bo instituted soon against several persons connected with the star route ring to recover large sums of Illegally obtained from the United States Most of those suits will be brought in York as that is the place of the parsons who will become defendants and where service can easily bo made upon them Very few if any suits will be in this city j THE CHOCTAW RAILROAD GRANT THE OPPOSING TUX RATIFYING FACTS IJf THE CASE Jan The question which bas arisen In regard to tho new railway con- cession iu Indian Territory has been sub- mitted to the Attorney-General Tho facts are as Tho Choctaw National Council voted as his been announced in THE TIMES to give the St and San way Company a right of way through country and to ratify the decision of the Choctaws has been favorably reported to tho Senate Within a few days representatives of tho Chickasaw Nation have reached this city and havo entered a protest assorting that tho wore not con- iu regard to the matter The projected railroad will run from Paris Teras In a northeasterly direction the ern corner of tho Territory and then Into Arkansas In tho Territory it will He wholly within the boundaries of the lands of the and will be many miles from tha Chickasaw country which lies to the ward of the Choctaw country Inasmuch as the proposed line docs not touch their lands It bas mot yet been made plain to the Interior Department that tha have ground for complaint It Is understood that an attempt will made to support the that the lands are all held in a sort of common bond so that a concession must on tho consent of other nations as well as the nations whose lands are to be traversed It is believed also that an attempt will be made to show that tho concession was secured by Improper but tho documents already submitted to Con- gress seem to provo that this was act tho case Tho Missouri Kansas and Texas Road is ono of those which secured a right of way through the Territory in accordance with treaty stipulations Tho now lino will be nearly parallel to this existing linn but will lio some to the eastward Tho Missouri Kansas and Texas Road runs through ono cor- ner of the Chickasaw country It is suggested that tho company which opens this existing line would bo unwilling to admit a competition in the Territory and that opposition to tho St Louis and San Francisco concession may be to some extent duo to this unwillingness THE TARIFF PROBLEMS WHAT OPPONENTS OF MR BAY OK THE SUBJECT Jan Tho Morrill for a tariff commission will bo opposed by Senator Sherman mainly on tho ground that its passage would only delay a revision of the tariff which could bo more speedily and made by tho Housn Committee of Ways and Means and Senate Committee on Finance Tho committees ia his opinion could them experts on this question and get sufficient data from thorn for an revision To proceed by commission make necessary a long delay If a re- port from tho commission should be received at the next session it would not bo acted on because the time of Congress will bo all used in considering the appropriation bills and other important measures In tho next Con- gress new complications might arise Mr Sherman favors a revision of tho tariff which will be fair explicit and permanent Judge Kelloy Chairman of tho Ways and Means Committee said to-day that it seemed impossible to the iron and steel men that he did not intend to draft a now tariff Ho had written to some of them that ho would not prepare such a He had nally been opposed to the Eaton for a tariff commission in tho last Congress but afterward had agreed to support it Ho does not propose now to change front again and oppose a commission Congressman Blackburn ia opposed to any tariff commission holding that the power to raise revenue and prepare laws on that sub- ject is vested solely in Congress Ho doubts the constitutionality of nny act which would vest that power in any other tribunal Tho Committee of Ways and Meam could make all the revision necessary He I could summon exports to its aid but the Merrill commission would probably bo a body in tho interest of protection and exposed to influences could not prevail to any large extent in Congress COLLECTOR VAN HORN'S OPPONENTS THE TO HAVE HIM NOT TO BE PUSHED AT WASHINGTON Jan friends of Major Sill ono of tho candidates for Collector of Internal Revenue to succeed tho Hon Burt Van Horn say that tho question of Mr Van Horn's removal has been prematurely agitated and that it is not expected by who ask that a successor bo appointed that tho change shall bo mado immediately Thoy say it is hoped that Mr Van Horn will be allowed to serve for four years that being the longest term for which bo could reasonably expect to hold tho place Some exception is taken to tho claim of Mr Van Horn increased the revenues of tho Twenty-eighth District from to in throe years It is said that In making this report Mr Van Horn has not mado allowance for tho fact that the increase was largely effected by adding Niagara County to the district and it is gested that tho taking of Niagara from tho Erin district correspondingly re- the revenue in tho District From good authority it Is learned that thoro if every probability that Mr Van Horn will be allowed to hold his office until midsummer when the eighth District will bo changed Niagara being restored to the Erie district While tho next Collector has not been decided upon there is good reason to believe that Major Sill's friends will be successful in securing his nomination Ha is strongly backed by tho Grand Army man NOTES FROM WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Jan Tho President has signed the act to ize tho election of tho Territorial hold Nov 2 1880 The President has recognized Friedrich helm Meyer as Vice-Consul of gary at New-York Marshal Jack of Louisiana whoso term of office has expired wdl bo by the President early next week Tho circulation of the standard silver dollar for tho week ending to-day was against for tho corresponding week of 1880 Tho presence of C W of Pennsylvania in the city revives tho rumor that ho is to become an Secretary of tho Treasury The requisitions for stamps received from Postmasters to-day at the Post Office ment aggregated more than This is tho largest issue in ono day in tho history of tho service Tho total nearly 000 stamps and postal cards Tho Post to-morrow morning will publish a letter from Gen Joa Johnston tho charge that he recently accused Jefferson DavU of appropriating tho Confederate funds carried through North Carolina to his own use Gen Johnston admits having that Davis ought to havo accounted for tho money The of the temporary force in tho Post Department is now about moro than tho legal allowance Under these circumstances Postmaster-General Howe has said that so far from making any now it is his intention to reduce tho clerical force beginning next week A caucus of tho members of tho House from tho Mississippi Valley bos been proposed for the purpose of considering means to procure legislation for tho improvement of tho sluoi Uiver Tho Missouri delegation will meet on Monday and request delegations from other States in tho Mississippi Valley to join them in a caucus without regard to tics It is assorted that a majority of the Commerce Committee is inimical to sippi River improvement and the object of this movement Is to take from that committee jurisdiction over that subject Tho idea is to got a special on tho subject Tho members from the valley Bay they are mined to havo an appropriation at this session Assistant Secretary French says that so many are claiming to bo his relatives that it seems necessary ho should say something on tho subject A statement has been published that Judge French has In three sous and enough near relatives to foot up an annual salary of that ono of his sons Ben is in tho Boston house at a salary of that he has two nieces named Ralston in the Internal Revenue Bureau a nephew in the Census Office and a nephew who Is a Lieutenant of Marines Judge French says that ho has only two sons one of whom has never received a dollar from tho Government except as a volunteer in tho Union Army that ho never had a son named Bon or auy son in tho Boston house that the ladies nro not his and ho has no nephew or other relative in tho Census or Marine Service He says that it has also been that ho baa more than SO relatives In office alt appointed by himself and that his son was sent to Europe to be educated in ture at Government expense for more than year that in fact there are only two of hb relatives a nephew and a niece who oro in tho Government service through his tion tnat his son returned from Europe where be paid his own bills beforo Judge French was IB in Washington and that that ho has 10 brothers and sisters most of whom havo children ho thinks tho Frenches have been very lucky La being ablo to keep out of public ARMY AND NAVY NEWS TO FOR AL COURTS-MARTIAL WASHINGTON Jan Superintendent of the Recruiting Service hai been dered to forward 40 recruits to Santa for assignment to tho Fourth Cavalry CO colored recruits to on tho Touts and Railroad for assignment to tho Tenth Cavalry aad 40 to Omaha for assignment to tno Fourth In- fantry Tho orders direct lag Second Lieut A Corps to repair to this city and report td tho Chief for duty In his have been revoked On completion of bU present duties ho will report In person to tho commanding General Department of tho to take charge of tho military telegraph lines In that department and of such other duties Inc to the Signal Service as may bo devolved upon him from to by tho department com- mander A bus neon appointed to meet at David's Island New-York Harbor Ian 12 or as soon thereafter as practicable for the trial of such prisoners as may bo brought before it The following Is tuo detail for tho Henry M Black Eighteenth Infantry dore Eleventh Infantry John II Assistant Quartermaster and William S koy Twentieth First Hiram II Twenty-second Infantry John O Nineteenth Infantry and Honry Seton Fourth In- fantry Second Lieut Benjamin F Hancock ond Infantry First Lieut Frederick H E Twenty-first A general court-martial lins been appointed to meet at Columbus Ohio on Jan 12 or as ioon thereafter as practicable for tho of prisoners as miy bs brought before H The ing Is tho detail for William Seventeenth Infantry Capts William O Sixteenth Infantry Edwin Ii At- wood Quartermaster and First Joel T Kirk man Tenth David U hatu Fifteenth Infantry John Fourteenth Infantry and First Lieut Markland First Infantry A general la appointed to meet at tho Cavalry Depot Jefferson Missouri on Jan 12 or as soon thereafter as practicable for tho trial of such prisoners as may bo brought before It Tba following Is tho detail for tho John First Cavalry Capts Louis S Assistant Surgeon William C Second Cavalry and F Foote alry First John W mid Hoel S Fifth Second Lieut Charles O Ayres Tenth Cavalry First Llent Richard A Williams Eighth Cavalry vocato Lcavo of absence for six months to take effect when his services can be by his department commander has beon granted First Lieut ick Von Twelfth Infantry and six months to Second Lieut William R Abercromble Second Infantry Hrst Lieut Crawford Jr Second Artillery been relieved from duty at Brunswick He and will Join his Midshipman John B lUlah has been detached from the Alliance and ordered to special duty at Institution Master John O and Midshipman S Sloan have been ordered to the Jamestown Fob 1 THE FEUD WASHINGTON Jan following letter from Representative Blackburn to Gen has been furnished for Ky Deo 27 1881 Cm S O Your note of recent date with from one directed to vou was handed me by nu Door-keeper of tho House of on thu day of tho adjournment of Congress to wit lust In your tion yon complain of my reopening tho wounds of war and you with dotted mv over with of men whom you had murdered during tho war and seek to apologize for Tour action of that period This Is thn contents of your letter I would havo re- plied f had I not been leaving the city aa soon ns I well enough to do so I am thus forced to answer by mall I wUh you to understand Sir that I havo never sought to morion tho of tho war nor havo I over at any spoken unkindly of any officer of tho Lulled unless hit acts put him boyond tho palo of civilized warfare In the 11 tht of barbarism Nor will I consent to employ harsh or severity of criticism toward my opponents In that under the But consideration mo to say that In suite of your apodal plea that a number of distinguished gentleman whom you name approved vour conduct who In so must have acted without a full knowledge of tba facts whenever require or I muv bo called upon to speak In thereto my statements snail bo consistent with tte truth and those heretofore made by mo J 0 B BLACKBURN OVERBEARING OFFICERS BY AND CITY TROY N Y Jan Judge Osborn's slon In tho Pollen case almost caused a quarrel day between Mayor Murphy and City Attorney who was tho Democratic candidate or Attorney-General tho last election on ono side and 1 Lawton recently a candidate for District Attorney nnd Deputy Attorney General on tho other Mr Lawton It appears procured at tho ex- press office papers In tho case which were con- In nn to enter lie brought tho package unopened to ibe City At- office When tho package was handed to Mr Parmenter ho Where did you not At the express replied Lawton Well said by what right do you to go to an express and got a package addressed to mof You as woll to tho Post Office and my letters It U the most Impudent piece of that eror camo under my observation Mayor Murphy who had catered walked be- Mr who was at desk and Mr Latvian and It has gone so far that you think you can do Just what you If I were In your addressing tor I would pitch him out of the window Mr Lawton to tho What have I over done personally against you that you should speak In this Mayor I know what you have done and 1 could take you if I chose Mr I you could for you havo everything your own way here Mr I meant to do nothing out of the way and I havo I ask your pardon Mr I won't accept You Jind BO moro right to take that up tho you bavo to my mall I wouldn't trust you with my papers I don't love good to them I tell you just what I of you Mr again proposed an apology and said he was Incapable of a dishonorable aot You are capable ot any dirty act and I know said tho Mayor I could tell you things about yourself that would make you your boots I know you young man better than you know yourself Do you want me to toll these what I know about Mr Lawton at this point left tbo room and It IB not Improbable Chat his action prevented nn en- counter with fists Tho prominence of the persons who took part In the Interview has made tho affair tulk Mr Lawton says that Ibo package con- papers belonging to him Legal proceedings may ba Instituted OF THE STATS N T Jan Tho application of Gaff Co against tbo Governor ot tbo State of York for mandamus to compel tho audit by him of a claim for damages growing out of the quarantine of their promises at Queens County under the late Oov Robinson was hoard at Special Term before this afternoon Ex-Judge Cadman of Hudson appeared for tho Governor and E T Wood of York for tho petitioners Tho counsel arguad that a cannot He against tho Governor In such a case and that whon has onco considered and rejected a claim no can enforce that claim or compel him to audit and allow it Mr Wood referred to an opinion of given at a when this case first came tho court in which It was held In effect that a mandamus would lie against tho Governor In certain cases and the counsel claimed this to be one of cases The evidence In tho cnse has boon ted to Referee Armstrong of Queens County who has mado a report In the matter which h In favor of tho petitioners Counsel scorned to differ m rogard to tho relating to the ress of tho case and Indulged In a debate Judge Cadman characterizing the Referee and his report as shams The claimed arc The court took tho and reserved decision Tbo claim has been rejected bv both and Cornell TO SB MADS AN ARCHBISHOP MONTREAL Jan Itoman Catholic of Three Rivera Is about to be made an Archbishop with his early retirement from office afterward Be Is the leader of tho Ultramontane hi this AFFAIRS IN FOREIGN LANDS THE STATE POLICY AND LEMS OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE AH THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTB Off THE EU- NEW OF- THE VATICAN BERLIN assumed tho functions of his as to Gen Count von Moltke It is stated that Gen von will soon take a long furlough Gen appointment is a mise as Gen von wished to retire from tho office of Chief of tho General Staff because of his advanced ago He was however over- ruled by tho An imperial rescript dated Jan 4 counter- signed by Prince Bismarck has baen to tho Prussian Ministry It The right of tho Xing to direct tho Government and policy of Prussia in accordance with his own judgment is restricted not abrogated by tho Constitution Tho official acts of the King require tho of a Minister and are carried out bv his Ministers but thoy remain the official acts of tho King in whoso resolve thoy originate and who in them gives constitutional expression to his will fore it is not permissible to represent their as proceeding from responsible Ministers The Prussian Constitution is the expression of the monarchical tradition of this country whoso development rests on the living relations of Its Kings to the people These relations not be transferred to Ministers because they appertain to tho person of the Klne and maintenance Is necessary for Prussia It Is therefore my will that in Prussia and also In tbo legislative bodies of the empire no doubt will bo allowed to attach to my constitutional right or that of my successors to direct tho policy of tho It is tho duty of mv Ministers to support my constitutional rights by protecting thorn from doubt and obscurity and I expect tbo same from all officials who have takon the oath of loyalty to mo I am far from wishing to restrict the freedom of elections but tho functionaries intrusted with tho execution of toy official acts are bound to support tne policy of my Government even at the elections I shall acknowledge the ful discharge of this duty and shall expect all officials their oath of to hold aloof even nt tho elections from all agitation against my Government There is much disappointment among tho Clericals at tho decision of the Government to introduce no more comprehensive measure than tho July The Clerical leaders in tho Diet are preparing a series of amendments which if adopted will practically bavo the effect of repealing the Mar laws Tho Conservatives regard tho forthcoming Ecclesiastical as purely temporary to bo followed by a of the Falk laus as soon as the with tho Vatican are concluded It is only on this assumption that the Conservatives havo agreed to support the PARIS Jan Defense publishes a tele- gram to-day from Homo Baying that Prince Bismarck has Bunt a courteous but very ex- noto to tho Quirinal in which ho states that in his opinion tho independence cannot be regarded OB a question for Italian home politics but should bo held as an international question Tho noto declares an intention on tho port of Prince marck to promote a meeting of a congress of tho powers for the purpose or ing tho guarantees of tho independence of tbo Holy Bee stronger and more effectual than they are nt present Tho telegram Russia Austria Germany England and Spain favor tho holding of a congress as as possible Franco has not yot enunciated hor on the subject All arrangements nro complete for the de- parture of tho Pope for Malta in case ho deerm it impossible for klm to remain in Home THE SITUATION IN IRELAND TIIK DE VISING LEAGUE HUNTS DUBLIN Jan Lord Mayor of Dublin in receiving a deputation to-day promised upon receiving a requisition to call a meeting of citizens to devise means for ing an industrial exhibition Iu thli city COOK Jan Connall who wua recently arrested in this county on tho charge of ing Arms in a proclaimed district and in whoso possession were found papers disclosing plots to commit and crimes ban boon together with his accomplices committed for trial at tho Assizes Jan Cabinet Council day was unanimous in considering that tho state of Ireland made additional precautions necessary in order to to justice those sons engaged In supplying to tbo people Mr Chief Secretary for Ireland will havo an audience of tho Queen at borno on Sunday and will submit important documents relating to Irish affairs Tho Standard Tho principal subject of in tho series of Cabinet councils to bo bold will bo BS to M hat form of cloture should be adopted Tho Daily News considers that a cloture will a necessity It Tho state of in Ireland will also probably occupy tho attention of the Ministers It is well known that stronger steps than those already taken havo recommended themselves to some bers the Government who are moro Im- mediately responsible for tho peace of the country Special dispatches from points in Ireland show a groat development of tho latest form of lawlessness namely Land League hunts A number of these wore organized In rare cases where the authorities had not had time to interfere quantities of game were destroyed and preserves damaged In other instances tuo hunts woro prevented by sending large bodies ot troops to tho places menaced This was particularly tho case in the County Cork This necessity for moving tho troops and thus weakening tha hands of tho authorities is considered tho most serious consequence of tho movement At tho Cork Assizes yesterday conviction was obtained against ten persona for assaulting a bailiff CURRENT FOREIGN TOPICS LIVERPOOL Jan biscuit tory consisting of five stores and containing a valuable stock and machinery was burned to-day Jan editors of 11 can newspapers have signed a declaration In favor of continuous efforts to establish a democratic government The organs of havo abstained from participation in tho movement WARSAW Jan authorities took groat precautions on Christmas Day which occurred yesterday according to tho Russian calendar and thoro was no disturbance Of the persons arrested for Doing implicated in tbe recent riots 850 have been hold for trial The others have been discharged Aix Jan tho Assizes hero tke trial of the cases arising from tho disturbances at Marseilles lost Juno on the occasion of tho re- turn of French troops from Tunis bas resulted as One Italian has been condemned to 10 years imprisonment and 10 years Police supervision two others ment and 5 years Police supervision another to 5 years and two moro to 0 months imprisonment VIENNA Jan to-day a report of an encounter between a body of Austrian troops and a band of 60 at in which 4 of the latter fell The baud retreated to Tha suffered no loss FOR CAPITAL Conn Jan test case by Taloott H Receiver of the American National Life and Trust Company against tbe Executors of Bristol whose uto yean axo to recover 000 of tho unpaid capital stock of tbo suspended company with interest has been decided by the premo Court of Errors against tbo Executors Two of the Receiver's oases other persons woro previously settled by the payment of largo amounts and 000 or more will ba from other subscribers to tbo capital stock Suits making tho Directors responsible for tho mismanagement of the company Involving or aro yot to bo reached Tho jr Is the one of which Benjamin Noyes President DEMOCRATIC PRESS OF INDIANA THE POLITICAL CONFERENCE OF THE AS A INDIANAPOLIS Jan event of tho week bas been tho meeting of tho Democratic editors of the State Tho Hon John B Stoll of Elkhart Journal tho President Is ono of the and most consistent Democrats in the State Thoro were present between SO and 40 of tho editors and thoy talked plainly and pointedly to each other of tho party prospects in tho State Mr Stoll voiced tha general sentiment whon ho said the outlook was far from encouraging Tbo party lacked tho old time steadfastness In tho matter of tho tariff foi instance the Imd no principle nnd was being blown about by every wind of doctrine What was was to revive tho old ards and to bland by them for weal or woo As to tho prohibition amendment pending tho of the State a was passed to oppose it from tho beginning On the question of woman suffrage also ing tho conclusion was to allow each member to follow his own judgment and not make it a party question It Is well understood that a resolution was introduced practically ing Mr for his recent utterances ea tho tariff The meeting had no hotter luck with tho question however than did tho caucus Tho resolution only served to develop a difference of opinion and no little At night speeches wero made by Gov dricks and Mr McDonald speech was ono merely of courtesy but Mr McDonald's address an elaborate sion of tbe tariff Thero wero not more than 15 persons present but it was Mr McDonald's opportunity to got before tho country It was his Hrst public stop in tho canvass of 1884 Tho spent tbe entire time in debating a protective tariff which ho opposed upon two grounds Tho first that inch a tariff is in no just sense a tax and to tbe extent that it excludes foreign merchandise from our kets it is no tax at all it IB a bounty and tho Constitution does not authorize Congress to impose a burden of that kind upon ono class of our for tho benefit of In tho second place It is unjust and unnecessary even considered from tho of tho Tho claim for protection rests upon tho assumption that manufacturers of thin country cannot compete with tbe cheap capital and cheap labor of Europe or to use a favorite term with tho advocates of Iho pauper labor of Europe fbo last proposition was by a panegyric upon tho greatness of tho country and Its nameless resources Its wonderful ness and its intelligent labor All com- did not need protective tariffs Tho en- tire meeting significant of what has been sent to THE TIMES and that is that Mr McDonald is to be tho Democratic boss hereafter day is over and Mr Is to bo shouldered aside QUEBEC FAVORING A LOTTERY THE TO HAVE A TO AID CHARITY AND COLONIZATION OTTAWA Jan Quebec ment it is stated to-night bas approved of an mado to tho Government by tho Rev Fathers and Lacosso to organize a provincial lottery of It is proposed to have two annual drawings of Tho conditions offered the Government are that it shall take tho lottery under its patronage and a revenue of 10 per cent which amount will bo applied to payment of tho large amount which is annually to tho various table institutions of tho Province of Quebec Tho remainder of tho is to bo expended by promoters ana tho Government for colonization purposes Tho drawings for the Province of Quebec will be limited Tho amounts now out by tho Government yearly are for charities for tion Tho Premier of Quebec states that the Government favors tho project and although aware that certain persons do not look favorably upon still ho says ho is not convinced that when tho objects for which the lottery was organized are mndo and Is certain that the ment's proposed action will be approved From inquiries ho had made of various ers ho ascertained that from to was takon out of tha Province for lotteries in tho United States and Tho ho said looked upon it favorably as it partook of a charitable and national character FIGHTING ABOUT AN ICE POND THE ICEMEN ABOUT A SHALL LAKE KKAR KINGSTON KINGSTON N Y Jan gloomy peat of an Ico crop In tho river up to this tune has led and speculators In lee to watch every lake and pond which Is within handling distance from Ice forms Booner and moro rapidly these than In tho river where tho currant Is swift and a partial crop has frequently obtalnsd in these lakes In seasons when no loo could bo taken from tho river One of tho loading has been so In this region In past mild seasons Ii Aunt Lako a sheet of water about five north of this city and about ono mllo from tho river On Its borders a Summer lias of Into been erected and the lake Is also a resort of some noto For a week or two past a great strife boon on ns to who should own tho Ico which was forming upon this lako A old Dutch farmer with a sharp oyo for gain by tho nutno of Dims who re- sides not far away early In tho Winter formed a partnership with Mr Kelton tbo proprietor for Catherine tbe Ico from tbo lako and stacking It upon tho Innd of the latter They havo been on tho alert all and every the Ico strone enough to hold a man they went on and staked out the Ico which to Oe a pre-emption by iho laws of this Stato to tbe lako be- longs Dut several times warm would en- sue und Ice ana stakes disappeared This last cold snap however cave four or Qvo Inches of Ico there nnd these men con- than ever But now they were met by eral other parties who contested claim to tho loo on tho ground thuy woro owners of land bordering on tho Ono party would eo over and carefully stake out tho Ice and tho parties would pull thum up and replace them with own stakes And thus the battle wont on many bard words members of the sumo church and there would bo a near proach to blows at times Both claim tn bo acting under legal and litigation will doubtless follow In case tho luo thick to gather but at tho ent writing tho weather u nealn warm nnd tho congealed surface of the lake is disappearing once moro The laws on subject of ownership of Ice forming upon the waters of the Stato seem to bo somewhat and uncertain or at lonst of varied construction And this fact has given rise to much controversy upon previous casions as to lakes and creeks not only but olio on the river which la becoming vury thickly lined with ioe houses at some points Tno lake Is about half mile long a quarter mllo wldo aud It would perhaps tons of Ice If 10 or moro Inches thick Air OLD WOMAN TO N Y Jan tho road that loads from Valley Cottage to Haverstraw stands an old partly broken down stone house tbat was built doubtless a century ago The only occupant of this honse for tho lost 25 years has been the owner a woman named Leah abont 80 yean old who was tbe possessor of a good 100 acres upon which tho stands Flro daughters married of this woman live within a few and all baro tried for years to their mother to Rive np her lonely mode of and como and live with them This hu stoutly re- fused to do In every Instance and she continued In her until Thursday hut Two little of the old lady were at a near hv for two weeks past and quite frequently called In to sea her On Thursday afternoon they went to make ono of their customary visits and when they reached the house they found the front door ing wldo open They entered cheerily when they were horrified to see tho body of the woman lying OB the floor In front of tho old-fashioned stove the burned off and tho remains In a terrible condition Tbe girls Immediately gave the alarm and a of the dead woman Jacob hemns -n ho owns farm camo at once and made an Investigation As the door wu found open and tracks were discovered leading out of tho home and back again It was thought that the woman's clothes had fire from ho stove and sbo bad In her fright run outside for and back again Into tbe room where sbo to tho Dames and perished Tbe woman's mind had doubtless beon unsound for many rears and this was of her refusal to give np mode of living NEWS OFFERINGS OF INDIANA IK THE OLD CITIZENS OF FUNDED INDIANAPOLIS Jan An important caso was beard before tho Supreme Court Ibis week It Is a cult bv tho Stato against tho com panics of Pennsylvania brought to recover a tar of 3 per cent of tho gross receipts taken In tbe State and a license foe of to which claim ii made under tbe retaliatory law of 1877 which vided for tho assessment of tbo same taxes on com panics of States ai tho States to which belong upon foreign companies where such tax Is greater than that Imposed by tbe State of Indiana Tbo defendants base defense on tbo alleged unconstitutionally of tho law claiming that legislation Is virtually a delegation of tbo legislative power and IB unequal and uncertain In Its operations and alsu that It enacts tho laws of other States on tula subject to bo tho law of Indiana The lower court decided In favor of tbo Pennsylvania companies Tbe cose Is one of great Interest to Insurance men The Court rendered an opinion day reversing lono In tho caso of tho Indiana tbe court now that where County offered a bounty for volunteers al tbo time of tho drafts und men accepted the terms and wero credited to tho county's quota tho con- tract between tho two was not such a written contract as to bring It under tbo rule allowing 20 within which to enforce U The court bad ruled tho other way and springing up all over tho State which threatened to bo an arrears of on a small scale It IB now that such contracts requiring parole evidence to substantiate them are to be treated us contracts to be sued on only within years This decision will save the counties a largo and break up a bounty syndicate Tbo Franklin LUo Insurance of this city will an effort tn change Its business to an accident business at tho next meeting of the directory During tho last year tbo company has dong B business owing to an unusually heavy death-rate Actuary Howey of bt Louis Is DOW examining tbo affairs of the company and mako a report to the Directors This lithe second such an examination of this company has been necessary Elliott Is writing tho Supremo Court opinion In tbo cane Involving tho of the Sunday law which ex- from Its operations snob as In toe sacred of any other day of tho Auditor of tho Indianapolis and St Louis Is to take the same place on the of roads In tho South controlled bv Leney syndicate are embraced miles Gen Daniel now In Boilon formerly of this city Is to lake a position with tho same combination Dr W L who fell a vat of boiling water several months ago and has Dean sick ever died this week Ho built tho Ohio Insane Hospital at Columbus aud was tho founder of tbe Hill Sanitarium in Cincinnati of which Dr O Everts late of this city Is now Ills body taken to Ohio for Inter- ment I nan o N of the oldest citizens of tho city founder of Church died on Wednesday Ho was woll at breakfast Into tho yard where ho was found dead by bis within half an honr Tho firm of Co confectioners failed with liabilities of tors are largely In York and Philadelphia Thoy will pay SO An indication of condition of tho Iron Interest hero In tho fact that at thu annual meeting of tho rolling mill a profit of for tke year was OB a capital of 400000 Tho company had abont completed a steel rail mill All branches of are healthy the demand being for additional labor Gov Porter bus jeopardized bis standing among the agriculturists by alluding hi his address this weak before the Slate of Agriculture to carnivorous plants which lived on animal food After tho meeting adjourned tho board privately tho propriety or rebuking tho Governor for bis Insult to the Intelligence of practical ers Thoy don't like one of thote blank literary fellers All tho Slate have forwarded ters asking tho promotion of tbe flon W W Curry to an office commensurate nil abilities and services A CAREER OF CRIME TOE FROZEN IN TUB SOUND A RUFFIAN AND Conn Jan body of the man found frozen to death In tbe stoop B of on Long Island Sound Wednesday night lies at tho Alms houso Tbo has been ascertained tbat he bad beea dis- charged from tho Connecticut Slate prison only a few days before be was found It boa been also ascertained tbat his came was Chapman Ho was a desperado and thief who with bis er terrorized tho people in tbe southern part of Connecticut by repeated acts of recklessness nnd crime Tho Chapman boya wore natives of In Ledyard in this State Thoro were three brothers Henry Lorin and Noah Their exploits rivaled of tbo family or the James boys Their father's name IB Orr Chapman a mechanic now living In Upper ono sister married an man named Clark and now resides tn Oro ton Tho flnt exploit of Noah was to steal a from a neighbor escaping punishment on account of the fear entertained by tho man he had wronged tbat a worse thing might happen wero there to bo a prosecution Tho farmer did not his barns burned by brothers Tho boys after this followed a course of petty crime with impunity Tbo next thing Noah stole was a sail boat belonging to Capt Reuben Chapman of Mason's Island It on Long Island Ka re- turned to Ledyard and gloried In his aot Ho next stole a horse and soon after a boat from Mason's Island This was about 18 years ago Noah had by that time married a respectable woman who wu driven to an early grave There was Joy In tho neighborhood when Ibo family moved to Missouri The boys drove their father back to Connecticut wan shot Iu for horse and died from tho wound Noah was arrested for complicity In a cold-blooded murder and sent to a prison for four years Afterward Noah and Lorin re- turned East and thulr depredations In con- three years ago terrified the people by entering houses with drawn They woro dirk knives In their bolls and lived In secluded places In and the neighborhood paying for nothing but stealing what they wanted The smack fleet Buffered from their outrages as they would borrow any or tako anything they Their plunder was secreted on er's In an old thn junk being fences They did a large In stealing boats and selling la ferent places No dared complain No darod go to lair on er's Island Thoy wero not molested for years but frequently seen together They stole In worth ef tools After old Mr Walker's was burned at Bridge that he fired U It wu In- sured for three times Us value Tho crime tbat sent Noah to tho Connecticut wan tho theft of a hone from Zachary three years ago It Is believed that Lorin Chapman was lost on the schooner Delia near last No- Ills wife and children are In tho The end of Noah has greatly relieved the minds of tbo people AMBROSE'S DEFALCATION CINCINNATI Jan J D Cor the special Master appointed br tho United States Court to Investigate tho defalcations of Thomas Ambrose Into Clork of tbo United States Court In this boa made a report tbo to be as Ono or ono of 3.230 one of and a fourth of The latest Information concerning Ambroio who fled nearly two years ago Is that he Is In Hani to bm FOB A N J Jan bas been received here that EUza Newell daughter of William A of Jersey wbo resided at Allentown tulles from here or many and who Is now Governor of Washington Territory bu beea appointed by Territorial THE OBSTINATE FACTIONS AND OPPONENTS STILL AT ODDS KB JACOBS WILL NOT NO TERENCE HELD OH TO DE HELD OF AID Humors lacking confirmation however were circulated freely yesterday that a con- ference was to tAke place between to devise some plan of organizing tho ture The Idea Beams to bo growing in favor among the regular Democrats of both York and Kings of organizing both Senate and House without tho aid of Tammany Hall viding John Kelly still refuses to recede from tho ground ho has taken that neither of his three Senators shall help elect Jacobs as dent pro tern of the In order to sure themselves whether Jacobs is in earnest In his refusal to withdraw at dictation a number of his Dem friends called upon him yesterday Ho told thorn that ho had already his to remain in tho Held nnd ho had not changed his If It would give them any satisfaction to hear u more emphatic sion of opinion ho would say that bo would not withdraw lor John Kolly or for other man His associates bad pledged him their support and even if ho was disposed to tho party could not afford to havo him do to The Democracy of tho State could not pel mit itself to occupy tho humiliating position of a big strong bey being bullied by a small one If Mr Jacobs adheres to his determination and John Kelly to his tho Democrats either branch of tbo They must rely upon thu aid oC Republicans It remains to bo soon whether Tammany or tin regulars will avail themselves of any such assistance Mr Kelly is reported to have said no longer apo than yesterday hu was op- posed to Tammany making overtures to CM tho r regulars or Republicans The beo must indeed have lodged in his bonnet if ho can temptation to dicker with somebody Mr Kelly nmy havo worked himself into a fervid over the principle of anti monopolism his lowers certainly have not With thu single exception of Senator Boyd they nra to a sick of tho whole business no matter what they may say in public to the contrary As a man be by hK works HO must Mr Kelly bo rated according to his disposition of thu issue ulnch for political purposes solely he has Tho belief that tho will bo this week which is many to be upon thu that two courses cither of ulm h provo effective can be adopted One is that of tho committees by nnd thu other by the union of enough to cure the election of us pro tern The method has been discussed and is conceded be practicable With in tho tho com- appointed Sena to by means the who will hold over until their are appointed could any nesa brought before ft Of tli pointment of such would re- quire the assistance of at least publican Senators It is not improbable tmU buch a number could be to tho step As a whole however thu Republicans seem to bo opposed to any interference in this matter of organization that tho ro- lor tho nets ol Legislatures of rest upon tho Demon ulic Party which has thu majority in both houses The acts of a Democratic turo it is argued would prove so effective in demonstrating the incapacity of that party to legislate for a great wealth that tho voters never an- other There are a number of Republicans m thu who the ground that any groat delay in organizing causes a waste of valuable timo and money and this in thu interest of tbo ot tho Klate for whom important u demanded cannot bo tolerated us proceed to tho thoy tho Democrats the drippings of Iho for which they are in reality now Hunting bul under no consideration committing ourselves to tho schemes of legislation vt Inch they mur hare on hand Bv all moans if wo can do this without however lowering our dignity by a disgraceful barter let us do it When the subject of a being held was broached to Hubert O Thompson and Alderman Patrick yesterday both declared that they knew nothing It They wore positive in that if one was held nobody who was to speak for the County De- would bo A cratic who loon and harmony between Tammany ami tho bus dropped subject Hu was hourd to declare yesterday that if any conference was held it would bo attended by regular Democrats only nnd that lummany would neither bo invited nor to at- tend His statement that no be- tween tho regulars and Tammany hud held or was likely to bu hold was a tion of the assertions of Thomson and other representatives of tha County Democracy A i ii i T r i t THE NEW-YORK ALBANY Jan is understood Superintendent Dutcher's friends havo been urging him for the of York Mr in reference to this says that he bos had no intimation that ha Is to bo appointed to that position CANADIAN RAILWAY MATTERS sin Quan ALLIN'S OFFER ron THK ROAD DEFIED OTTAWA Jan rumor that Sir Hugh Allan has mado an offer to tho Government for the of the Quebec Montreal Ottawa nnd Occidental Is denied by Ibo Premier of The latter stated last nine that Sll Hugh Allan had un offer to iho GOT eminent either to or tho lie was sorry to ice thul had not apo denied tha The bo sal a bad received offers foi tho purchase of tho road some time OKO but Ing had been dona belui ted to the of tbo Government Every ac tho road drat bo sub- mitted to tho and Iho Government would act according to thn of the represents of tno people It hai Ivon generally believed that Sir Hugh made an iar tno Quebec Rond and tho made by tho of Government yesterday created much excitement In railway circles air Imi iiol yet denied tbu statement no fur eau ascertained On beine yesterday whether ho hnu withdrawn his offer for the Provincial Railway 01 hcd beau ho suld that was not ft of truth In tbo HP at thu same time there was little to be said upon the offer and thai tho perhaps the bitter Tho W says U U no that Mr and Ilia arc opposed to Mr having to do with tho nlloiro that It woald be tbo railway A prominent railway man woll posted unon subject that ho authority only for stating that Hlr purchased road It would ba carried west with the view of tho trade of tno Northern Pacific at Souk Ste Marie It Is BO secret thit the Northern Pacific rt connection with the Canadian system of railways SHIPPING BT WA r OF TUB Jon 7 Arrangements concluded to-day for of 5.000 ot J r J I t u tf from Ban Francisco for Great Britain by war of port In llarch and April FOR A Jan Paddy Rya party arrived here to-day and anj from the is now In j t V T-i
