Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1883 — Page 1

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

ESTABLISHED 1823.

WHEN INDICATIONS. WEDNESDAY.—I.ocaI rains, followed by slightly cooler, partly cloudy weather. FISHERMEN, BOATMEN AND TOURISTS Can all be supplied with their SUMMER OUTFITS! AT WHOLESALE PRICES AT THE WHEN CLOTHING STORE, 30 TO 40 N. PENN. ST. WASSON’S CASK. The Trial Completed, but the Finding Will Not Be Known for Some Weeks. Galveston, Tex., June 12.—The New9’ San Antonio special says: “After the formal preliminaries in the Wasson court-martial, the accused, pale and erect, proceeded to submit his case with a firmness of voice and emphasis of intonation evincing that he realized he was leading the final charge in the Waterloo of his military career. The court was visibly affected, one member having recourse to his handkerchief as the defendant unfolded the story of his fall; but there was a perceptible revolution of feeling when he recited nis deliberate perpetration of the hoax of the alleged robbery on the train. Later on the defendant regained the sympathy of the court. The judge-advocate informally, but at some length. After the court was cleared, there was a session of three hours and an adjournment till to-mor-row. The finding will not be known for some weeks. Wasson’sfriendsfear the worst.” Return of the Scientific Expedition. San Francisco, June 12.—The scientific expedition sent out by the government in March last to observe the total eclipse of the sun at Caroline Island, in the south Pacific, has returned to this city. Professor Edward 8. Holden, of the Washburn observatory, of Madison. Wis., in charge of the party, reports that the weather oir the day of the eclipse was perfect for observing purposes, and the result is a great success.* Several good photographs of the corona and spectrum were obtained. The supposed planet Vulcan could not be found. The party arrived home in good health. It will be remembered that this expedition went from New York to Lima, Peru, and thence for a voyage some weeks in the United States sloop Hartford to Caroline Island to see the eclipse of May 6, 1883, having a totality of six minutes. Embr.vo Heroes Let Loose at West Point. Newburg, N. Y., June 12.—The annual exercises at West Point concluded to-dav, when the graduating class of ’B3 received their diplomas. The diplomas were banded the cadets by Secretary Lincoln, who made brief remarks to each. General Terry made the annual address. His reference to Grant and Sherman were loudly applauded. Rear Admiral Rodgers also made an address, and speeches by Secretary Lincoln and General Sherman. The latter urged the graduates to attend closelv to the duties of their profession and trust the government and country, ami trust God for an opportunity, and they might become heroes as others had. He said this would probably be the last time he would speak to them, as in a few months fie would retire. Archbishop Purqell. Cincinnati, June 12. — The Rt. Rev. Bishop Fitzgerald, of Little Rock, Ark., and Rev. W. J. Halley, of the Cathedral, visited his Grace Archbishop Purcell, on Monday, at the Ursuline Convent, Brown county. Father Halley stated to a reporter that the Archbishop was in unusually good health, better, in fact, than he has been for the past two years. He recognized both the Bishop and Father Halley, and smiled when they shook hands with him. He endeavored to speak, but his articulation, was so poor that he could not be understood. He eats and sleeps well, and seems to enjoy himself in the company of those who are making the declining years of his life as pleasant as possible. Amasa Stone's Bequests Settled. Cleveland. June 12. —The heirs under the provisions of the Amasa Stone will were paid their bequests on Saturday. The property of the deceased will realize at least $6,000,000, outside of the losses in iron and steel channels. The extra SIOO,OOO left conditionally by Mr. Stone to Adalbert College if the estate realized $3,500,000 will consequently be safe for the college. The payments were made very early, but it is said that the executors found money accumulated on every hand only ready to be taken in. All the investments of Mr. Stone are especially good ones. Western Union Law Suits. Saratoga, June 12.—1n the Court of Appeals to-day Win. M. Kvarts made the closing argument for appellants in the appeals of the Western Union Telegraph Company from the order of the general term of the New York Superior Court reversing the orders of Judge Truax, dismissing the complaints in the several actions brought by Wm. S. Williams and Rufus Hatch against the stockholders in the Western Union Telegraph Company to restrain and prevent its purchase of the Atlantic <fc Pacific and American Union Telegraph Companies. Wisconsin Masons. Milwaukee, June 12. —The Masonic Grand Lodge of Wisconsin convened to-day in annual session with about 4,000 delegates. A Stirring convention is expected owing to the alleged shortage in the accounts of Grand Secretary John W. Woodhull. Fbf.dt.f. ladles, aged persons, weakly children, U 1 need Hop Bitters dully. See testimony.

THE NEXT GREAT CONTEST Gossip and Guesses as to the Candidates of the Leading Parties, The Editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal Visits Mr. Tilden at the Latter’s Residence at Greystoue, And Announces that the Cipherer Will Not Bea Candidate. On the Contrary, the New York World Has Information that the Sage Is Seeking the Nomination. MR. TILDEN. Mr. Watteraon Declares He Could Not Be Induced to Accept a Nomination. Louisville, June 12.— Hon. Henry Watterson, editor of the Courier-Journal, recently visited Mr. Tilden at Greystone, and will print the following in his paper to-morrow I have been spending a few days at Greystone with Governor Tilden, and not merely because his old friends in the West and South have an ever-present personal interest in him, but because his name is at the moment upon the lips of politicians of every class all over the country, I propose to give the readers of the Courier-Journal some particular account of him. When I parted from him, a year ago, 1 never expected to see him again. Indeed, I was so skeptical of the stories concerning his restoration to health as to feel a delicacy about intruding upon his privacy. He was good enough to send for me, and I went over to Gramercy Park in a somewhat sorrowful, sympathetic state of mind. My surprise almost exceeded my gratification. The old house is undergoing reconstruction and enlargement on a magnificent seal# l , but the old library is still the same, being held from the hand of the workman for the last, I take it, as a tribute of affectionate remembrance of old times, old friends and old books. There I found the Governor. If an apparition had stood before me I could not have been more astonished. The days of ’75, ’76 and ’77 seemed to have come back—his low voice was found again; his eyes were bright and his cheeks rosy; his intellect as sinewy and clear, and his wit as incisive as they were when he made nothing of riding Blackstone to Harlem and back or driving the Kentucky bays from Gramercy Park to Greystone. He took me all over the new house, pointing out the various changes, explaining his general design, and discussing architecture and architects with characteristic intelligence. He quite tired me out—a favorite and malevolent way lie has of punishing his friends, climbing long stairs, meandering through labyrinths of decorative art, and threading the tapestried and frescoed mazes of corridor and chamber. On current affairs he talked with his usual pungency and candor. When endurance had ceased to be a virtue, I said: “Governor, don’t you think we have had enough of this?” He smiled, and in Ids dry, half pitying, half sarcastic way, replied, “If you are tired, we will go down stairs.” At Greystone his life is of the simplest and busiest. He has a farm hard by, and no end of pigs, poultry and blooded stock. Os course, I had to be dragged over this farm, and the devices which the old gentleman put slyly forth to trap me into some nnguaraed “treason to the butter and eggs of my blue-grass country” were many and ingenious. I stood my ground like a hero, but it must be owned that she Governor’s farming is, like everything he undertakes, thoroughly well done. I asked him whether he tried to make any money out of it. “Oh no,” he said; “it is made some other way.” While I was at Grej'stone not so much as the shadow or the ghost of a politician crossed the threshhold or appeared upon the grounds. Surrounded by his nieces and his books, the old statesman and philosopher was as unreserved in his conversation as he was and always is simple and cordial in his hospitality. One of the young ladi< told me that the little household had got through over 200 volumes during the last winter. The Governor is a voracious and versatile reader, no less than an attentive and wise observer of affairs, and we talked of everything, from Thomas a Kempis to Thomas A. Hendricks. He playlulty observed that the chief objections lie had heard to the election of Mr. Carlisle to the speakership was that in some recent volumes, published by one Mr. Froude, there was a suspicion that he had mistreated his wife. Here I must stop. I know that the public is most curious to learn what are Mr. Tilden’s views of the political affairs, current and prospective. I have little doubt that, had I the right to speak, I could by faithfully reporting him, make myself at once entertaining and instructive; but the opinions of every man are his own, and his house is sacred. I never knew a man more entirely frank in his intercourse with his friends than this sage of Greystone. But I am not his mouthpiece, and it is not for me to come all the way from Kentucky to New York to do that which he is so much better able to do for himself. I can say, however, for myself, that nothing passed which leads rue to modify the opinion I have so often expressed, that no power on earth could induce him to accept the presidency. Mr. Tilden Busily Laying Pipes to Secure the Democratic Nomination. Albany Special to New York World. The trip of Mr. Manning, the chairman of the State convention, to New York and his interview in the Sun about Mr. Tilden and the convention of 1880 turns out not to have been the accidental affair that it was announced. A member of the State committee who lias been let into the secret informs me tha the sending of the interview was all arranged at Greystone, and that it was put out as a cover to plans being arranged for the fall as a preliminary to 1884. The same person states that “Mr. Manning had two or three consultations with Mr. Tilden at Greystone and Gramercv Park, and that the programme for "this year was all mapped out while there. The result is that some of the politicians who have acted as couriers in the past for Mr. Tilden were sent for and requested to commence their work again as on former occasions. The Manning interview was all an arranged ruse to throw the politicians off the scent until Mr. Tilden’s agents get their work in. I tell you the plans are all made. The politicians, outside ot the few in the scent, don’t believe that Mr, Tilden is a candidate, but I have positive evidence that he is. I obtained my information from one of Mr. Tilden’s old workers, has been pent for and requested to go to Greystone and receive his instructions. What that particular person did when he received that request, or what he

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1883.

proposes to do, T am not at liberty to reveal That much of the affair I am pledged to keep a secret, nor am I at liberty to give his name, i but he is a man who has always secured dele- ! gates from his section whenever Mr. Tilden 1 or his friends asked him, and has helped to secure them from other sections as well.” The correspondent of the World then adds: “The foregoing is the main point and substance of a conversation had to-day with a politician who has been for eight years at least an active worker in the Tilden forces —one of the captains in the ranks. He has in the past known what was going on among the Tilden Democrats. If he is mistaken now it is the first time he lias been as to the plans of that interest for eight years. That Mr. Tilden is actually a candidate for 1884 will be news to many, and may account for the sudden talk that has sprung up in the West about the old ticket.” HENDRICKS AND M’DONALD. New Facts Concerning; the Struggle at Cincinnati Three Years Ago. Evansville Courier'Pern.) it looks as luougli Thomas A. Hendricks did not Intend tlmt the next Democratic candidate for President should come from Indiana.—New York Sun. The interview with Mr. Hendricks that was published in the Wabash Courier, more than a week ago, must be accepted as the true expression of his feeling in regard to the next presidential nomination. To the surprise, . not to say the indignation, of his friends, Mr. j Hendricks has avowed himself willing to accept an honor in 1884, which he temporized | with in 1876, and which he absolutely declined in 1880. At the conventioaof the latter year the Indiana delegation stood by Mr. Hendricks, although it was clear that he had no chance whatever for the nomination for the presidency. With the exception of two or three delegates from , lowa, a Republican State, he had not a, single vote in the convention outside of In- ] diana. Yet the hurrah for him was so strong < and so loud in the Indiana delegation that the opportunity of nominating Mr. McDon- ! aid was entirety disregarded. It was treason | at Cincinnati to say a word in favor of McDonald. It mattered not that the nomination for the presidency was presented to him from hundreds of sources, and in the most ; tempting forms. The Southern delegations were unanimously in his favor, and it is not stretching the truth of history to say that had it not been for the sentimental allegiance of the Indiana delegation to Mr. Hendricks, Mr. McDonald would have been nominated at that convention. On the night before Hancock was nominated, when every possible chance * for Hendricks was gone, a committee consisting of M. E. Ingalls, B. C. Shaw, ex-treas-urer of State, and another Democrat, whose name the Courier does not now remember, went from Cincinnati to Indianapolis on a special train, Mr. Ingalls being the president j of the railroad, to lay the exact condition of j affairs at Cincinnati before Mr. Hendricks. | That committee informed him that his 1 nomination was simply impossible, but that McDonald would be the choice of the convention if lie would but say the word. For some unaccountable reason Mr. Hendricks declined to consent to the withdrawal of his name, and the consequence was that Hancock was nominated because McDonald refused to be a candidate without the consent of Hendricks. These facts are well known to Indianians who were present at the convention. It would be idle now' to suggest what might have been the result of the presidential campaign of 1880 if McDonald had been the candidal*-, Indiana was then an October State, and it is fairly reasonable to claim that the Democrats would have carried it in that month if McDonald had been the presidential candidate. Although Mr. Hendricks had been the favorite of the party, it cannot be said, even by his most enthusiastic friends, that his nomination was essential to Democratic success. Much as the party loved him, it also loved McDonald, and the nomination of the latier for the presidency would have inspired the Democracy of Indiana to the same enthusiastic effort that would have been witnessed had Hendricks been the nominee. The Courier lias always been the steadfast friend of Governor Hendricks, but it is also the steadfast friend of Joe. McDonald. The possibility of Hendricks’s advancement has gone, and we regret the fact. But his willingness to see McDonald sacrificed, especially after the loyalty which the latter has shown to him, indicates a degree of egotiem and selfishness that is at once a surprise and grief to his friends. As the Democracy of Indiana followed the fortunes of Hendricks at St. Louis and Cincinnati, they will rally to the standard of McDonald at the next national convention. We have respected the honor of the nomination for the vice-presidency, which has been conferred upon the State by the conventions of 1876 and 1880. It would be folly now to speculate as to what might have been the result if an Indiana candidate for the presidency had been chosen at either of these conventions. But Mr. Hendricks may as well understand first as last that the Indiana Democracy will follow his flag no longer. The party has loved him, and loves him yet, but he ought to see that the Democracy of the country does not want him for its candidate. If he cares anything for the respect of the friends who have stood by him in years past he will join with tnem now in advancing the cause of the only man in Indiana who has a chance before the next national Democratic convention. That.man is Joe McDonald. THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION. President Arthur the Republican of Whom Senator Beck In Afraid. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, June 12, —Senator Beck said, this morning, in the presence of a party of friends, that the mysterious man referred to by him in the New York interview as the most dangerous the Democrats could fight in 1884 for President, was Chester A. Arthur. Senator Beck has lately become an enthusiastic admirer of the President. Washington Special to Chicago Herald. In an interview, the other day, Senator Beck said he was afraid there was one Republican who would be successful in the next presidential campaign, if his party had sense enough to recognize his merits and nominate him. Beck arrived here to-day. He was tackled at once by the correspondents and politicians. They wanted to know which Republican of prominence lie referred to. Beck dodged the question. “I may have made a mistake,” said he, “in throwing out a hint of that kind. I will say nothing except that there is such a person. You can make as shrewd a guess as you are able to make as to whom I meant.” The guessers are at work to-night. The shrewdest of them are of the opinion that the Kentucky Senator has Arthur in his mind. Said one of them: “Arthur is coming quietly to the front. He has repeatedly said he is not a candidate. But he is, and he is working in the most skillful manner for the nomination. The chances are good for his getting it. His boom will be started in good season. It will be engineered with the greatest skill. Every effort is being put forth for reconciliation in the Republican ranks. Arthur lias the means to bring the factions to terms. Ha will use them, and, by reason of nis using them judiciously, he will be the banner leader in 1884.”,

BEGINNING OF THE END. The Stubbornly Contested Star-Itoute Trial Drawing to a Close. Judge Wylie’s Statement of the Legal Points luvolved—A Charge Containing Small Consolation for the Defense, The Indictment Found To Be Faulty, But Not to a Serious Extent. Every Effort To Be Used to Secure a Verdict —A Record of More than Four Million Words. JUDGE WYLIE’S CHARGE. Statement of the Legal Points Involved in the Star-Route Case. Washington, June 12.—Judge Wylie began his charge to the star-route jury this after- | noon. After thanking the jurymen for their patient attention during the many months iof the trial and reminding them that they had nothing to do with public demand, newspaper articles or appeals to sympathy, but must decide the case upon the evidence, he at once commenced to state the legal points involved, and said, in part: The policy of the law must be found in itself. No public officer had any right to set up bis own policy against the policy of the ; law. He held a great trust; it was his duty to obey the law. To allow him to set up his policy against the law would lead to great and innumerable abuses. But the mere violation of law by a public officer was not necessarily a crime. He might misunderstand his duty; he might be guided by an intention to do public good. These remarks were intended to apply to General Brady, to whom the law said that in making increases in service he must pay due regard to productiveness and other circumstances. It hardly seemed reasonable or fair for Brady to say that he disregarded productiveness. That was the policy of a present ! Cabinet officer—a witness in this case—but 1 the court could not sanction that policy, j The law prohibited any public officer from 1 expending public money or making contracts for expenditures beyond the appropriation. In this case there was evidence that all money appropriated by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, had been expended by December, 1879, and an appeal had been made to Congress to supply the deficiency. All that might have been done from a mistaken sense of duty or an exaggregated idea of public good. Men in such positions occasionally beconie enthusiastic on that subject, and if there was no corrupt motive it was no criminal act. The Judge next took up the question of conspiracy. A conspiracy, lie said, was charged to be a combination of intelligent beings to defraud the United States by fraud in affidavits, petitions and orders. The statute of limitations covered with its protection all crimes committed more than three years prior to the finding of the indictment, which was delivered in court on May 20, 1882. The jury could not find a verdict of guilty against the defendants for anything done prior to May 20, 1879. If convicted, it must be for what they had done since that date. [Note. —Some of tiie most important evidence in the case related to occurrences previous to May 20, 1879.] In establishing a conspiracy all the facts in the case tending to a different conclusion from the majority of the evidence must be considered, but due regard must be given to the weight of evidence. The jury must infer from all the facts whether or not there was a conspiracy. SUFFICIENCY OF THE INDICTMENT. Judge Wylie then commented upon the attacks made upon the sufficiency o* the indictment. He reviewed the evidence touching the beginning of the combination. Benator Dorsey, he 83id, seemed to exert the controlling influence over everybody in that business. He corrected their estimates and changed their bids. Being in the Senate, lie could not become a contractor, so Miner was brought here, and, with Peck and John Dorsey, secured 130 routes. Bidding separately, they were mutually interested in the bids. Here was a community of interest. Although not a bidder. Senator Dorsey seemed to be the most active man. not only in preparing bids, but in carrying out the contracts. If lie had a sinister ami unlawful purpose lie was as guilty as if he had a contract. It was a matter of no consequence why he did these tilings—whether from love for his brother ami brother-in-law or from self-in-terest, There was evidence of what Miner, Vaile and John Dorsey did during the sqgpeeding period. It was for the jury to say whether they had a corrupt purpose. If they were satisfied it was a fraudulent combination, then that made out its character anterior to the period fixed by the statute of limitation. Immediately upon S. W. Dorsey’s retiring from the Senate be took an active interest in the business, and an entirely new organization was effected. The jury must determine whether Peck and John W. Dorsey, who then stepped out, were men of straw, and S. W. Dorsey the substance. The government claimed that Peck and John Dorsey still remained in the combination, because they continued to make affidavits—they held contracts in their own names. 8. W. Dorsey and Vaile, who held no contracts in their names, were unable to make affidavits, and the old parties remained in for the purpose of carrying on the business. If it was lawful business, then it was all right. If Peck and John Dorsey knew it to be an unlawful combination, with criminal purposes, yet agreed to further its objects, tlien their going out did not relieve them from the conspiracy. That conspiracy did not depend upon the contracts. A person might remain in a conspiracy although he had parted with his interest in tlie contracts. The indictments so alleged, but that was dangerous and was regarded a surplusage. If, in fact, the evidence was to the contrary, then everything depended upon the character of the combination at that day, before the 20th of May, 1879. whether unlawful or not If the combination ceased after the 20th of May, 1879. there was no evidence of it and in absence of any proof of its dissolution the jury would have the right to presume that the organization formed in April, 1879,

continued after the statute of limitations ceased to protect The jury must judge of the character of the association after that time by its antecedent history. AN OVERT ACT MUST RE PROVED. But it was not enough to find the existence of a conspiracy. They must find an overt act, committed by someone of the defendants, after the 20th of May. 1879. Difficulty arose at that point, and most of the alleged fraudulent petitions—and they bore that appearance upon their face—were filed before the date spoken of. On route No. 34,149 a false petition was charged to have been filed July 10. 1879, but the evidence was that it was filed April 3, 1879, and it seemed that it was barred by the statute. But here another question arose, whether the parties interested in procuring the order in using the false petition filed April 3, 1879, to secure the order of July 10, 1879, had not committed an act in pursuance of the conspiracy. There was a statute bearing on that subject, and he should hold to the proposition that a party availing of a false paper to secure an order on a certain day would not be protected by the fact that it had beeu filed before that day. Judge Wylie then enumerated other papers corresponding in character to that already commented upon. He believed there was not a single instance where papers were filed within the statute of limitations. Mr. Biiss interrupted to say that the affidavit on route No. 41,119 was clearly within that period, but Mr. Ingersoll declared that the description of tne paper was fatally defective. Judge Wylie then turned to the indictment. He said he was not disposed to attach any weight to the averments that there w’ere fraudulent sub-contracts, for they amounted to nothing; he could not see how they resulted in loss to the government. An indictment should set out any overt act as having been done in pursuance of the conspiracy. and f'erhaps this indictment was defective in that respect; but that fault was cured by section 1,025 of the statutes. For more than a year the indictment had been under constant fire, exposed to demurrers and to every species of attack which the ingenuity of able counsel could devise, but that fault had never been mentioned. The indictment was defective throughout in that way. It charged Brady’s orders with being fraudulent without alleging that they were made in pursuanceof the conspiracy, but the same statute cured that defect, and he would hold the indictment sufficient as against the defendants, including Brady. Judge Wylie then turned to the printed prayers and commented upon those not already disposed of in his preceding remarks. Touching the amount of credence to ue given Rerdell’s testimony, Judge Wylie said it was not to be discredited because ft was that of an accomplice, if it was corroborated by other witnesses and sustained by the material theory and aspect of the case. In considering the testimony given by the defendants the jury must make allowance for the temptation to which they were exposed. He could not grant the government’s prayer that the jury be directed to regard as a circumstance tending to prove guilt the refusal of the defense to produce books and other written evidence upon nolice. That was not law. It did not allow unfavorable inference to be drawn from such refusal, but it allowed the prosecution to give secondary evidence, and it was good for all if it could fairly prove, and could not afterwards be impeached or contradicted. The court thought the jury could find any other defendant guilty of conspiracy with Rerdell. Os the failure to call Bosler and Williamson, the court said the jury was at liberty to draw inferences if they believed that those witnesses could have given important evidence. This disposed of the prayers for the prosecution. THE PRAYERS FOR TIIE DEFENSE. Judge Wylie then proceeded to answer such praj’ers of the defense as were designated by that side. The jury was instructed that it was their duty to find that there was no conspiracy, if the facts proven could be accounted for by any reasonable hypothesis in no sense based upon the evidence. A large number of prayers attacking the indictment upon the ground that it had been drafted under an improper statute and complaining of erroneous description of papers were refused. The ninetyninth prayer, admitting the right of the jury to disregard the entire testimony of a witness who knowingly swears falsely on a material point, was allowed. The nineteenth prayer, clothing the defense with the presumption that it was in no sense guilty until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt was allowed. Many of the remaining prayers for the defense were refused and the remainder withdrawn. A number of exceptions to the charge were noted by the counsel for the defense. At Mr. Bliss’s suggestion, the jury were instructed that they might find conspiracy between Peck and one of the defendants. The foreman asked that the jury he furnished with a copy of the charge, but Judge Wilev smilingly said that it was "all in the air:” he had no record of it. If the jury were at a loss in regard to any point of law the court, upon their application, would relieve them. A bailiff was then sworn to take charge of the jury, a copy of the indictment was given to the jury, and they retired. The court then took a recess until 10o’clock to-morrow morning, with the understanding that if the jury arrived at a verdict before 10 o’clock to-night the court will reassemble to receive it, THE JURY. A Verdict Not Expected for Several Days— Discussion Not Yet Heguu. Special to tiie Inulanapollfl Journal. Washington, June 12.—The star-route jury retired much as other juries retire, that is to say, the jurors got up and walked out in charge of a bailiff. From the moment they left the court until 10 o’clock they remained in imprisonment, and subsequent to that hour they were as isolated from communication from the outer world as if they were on a desert island. Various sensational rumors were afloat in regard to jurybribing and the like, and the wiseacres were numerous who knew exactly what the verdict was going to be. In point of fact, the jurors themselves haven’t the remotest idea what the verdict is going to be—officially—that is, they did not begin the consideration of the case to-night. Up to 11 o’clock they had done nothing except to gossip and sing songs. Two or three of them expressed a desire for a pack of cards, and the pasteboards not being forthcoming, they fell to chanting “Wait till the clouds roll by,” and other cheerful melodies. Any stories that may be Afloat in regard to agreement on a verdict at this stage are the sheerest fabrica tion. No verdict has been reached, and, as frOoutlnued on Second Page.)

PRICE FIVE CENTS.

CROOK AND TIIE APACHES. First Official Statement an to the RoBult of the Expedition. After a March of Great Hardship, General Crook Succeed* in Capturing tiie Apache Stronghold, Nine Indians Killed and Nearly Four Hundred Prisoners Taken. Crook Accomplishes His Purpose Without Losing a Man—A Sketch of General Gallardo’s Campaign. CROOK’S RETURN. An Account of the Capture of the Indian Stronghold with Plunder. Tucson, A. TANARUS., June 12.—A courier arrived at Tombstone last night from Crook’s beadquarters at Silver Creek, Arizona, bringing the first official information of Crook’s expedition. It left American soil on the 3d of May, marching 200 miles southeast from San Bernardino on the boundary line of Chihuahua and Sonora, following the trail of the hostiles. Crook was guided by the Apache, Nadakis, who was captured near San Carlos, just previous to the expedition leaving. At a point about 200 miles south of the line the command crossed the Sierra Madres range, and advanced fifty miles over an indescribably rough tract, eight mules being killed by falling over precipices, and pressed on without delay. ‘The men were rendered nearly barefooted by the sharp rocks. After fourteen days’ hard marching, night and day, the Indian camps at Cbato and Bonito were discovered in the heart of the Sierra Madres in an almost impregnable position. The Apaches did not dream of an attack, for the entrance to the stronghold was next to impassable, and the warriors were principally out on a raid under Juh, only thirtyseven bucks being in the camp with women and children. The San Carlos scouts, under Captain Crawford and Lieutenants Atvaod and Mackey, with Al. Sebree, Mclntosh and Mickey Free, chiefs of the scouts, surrounded the camp before the hostiles were aware of their proximity, and advanced from different points and were near enough before they were discovered. The scouts secreted themselves behind rocks and commenced firing upon the camp, creating a perfect panic. A number succeeded in escaping, though nearly all surrendered. Nine were found dead in the camp; five Mexican women and a little girl were recaptured. They were taken from Carmen and Chihuahua and are now with Crook in good health. Everything in the camp was burned or carried off by scouts. Among the property captured were 100 ponies and mules, forty being loaded with plunder—saddles, girdles, clothes, gold and silver watches, and several thousand dollars in gold, silver and greenbacks—showing that they had been very successful in their raids. After the fight most of those who escaped came in. Altogether 383 prisoners were taken. The chiefs captured were Chato, Bonito, Geronimo, Nachez, Loco, and Kama. The two latter were long reported dead The chiefs say an American boy. six years old, captured a month ago in New Mexico, is with the squaws in the mountains. He is, no doubt, Charley McComas. Runners were sent out, and he is expected in hourly. After the fight the command, with the prisoners, marched leisurely back to the American side, and the entire command, with the prisoners, is now encamped on Silver creek, about sixty miles south of Tombstone. Not one of Crook’s command was lost during the campaign. The courier states that the reason Crook remains at Silver Creek is that he is awaiting news from the Secretary of War as to what disposition is to be made of the Indians, as Wilcox, agent at San Carlos, refused to receive them, and that he will go back to the Sierra Madres after the rest of the hostiles if they do not come ip. In conversation with the courier, he stated that the hostiles bad plenty of money. One old squaw, who was the possessor of three $5 bills, made inquiry of someone at Colonel Biddle’s as to the value of her possessions. Upon being informed that the notes were lor $5 each, she grunted, and decided to negotiate, and pointed with her skinny finger to the naught after the “5” on each note. Quite a number of bucks bad silver stars and other ornaments beaten out of Mexicau dollars on their head gear, and several of them American double eagles, made into necklaces. A rough estimate of the amount of wealth among them is fully $5,000, and probably more. SCENE OF TIIE CAPTURE. The troops and packers of the command state that the place where the capture occurred is the prettiest spot on earth, and the road to it rougher than mortal man ever trod. Large numbers of hostiles seem pleased with the situation, evidently expecting an immediate return to the fiesispots of Ban Carlos. The only complaint comes from some of the squaws, whose bucks are among those who made their escane. The’officers who were with the expedition state that Crook had surrounded the Indians before they knew of his presence; that if he had not done so it would have taken six months and all the men in Arizona to have gotten them. As an illustration of Crook’s modesty and total absence of fuss and feathers in his make-up, it may be stated that although the light ami capture occurred on the 17th of last month, he leisurely retraced his steps to the camp of supply at Silver Creek, not sending a courier ahead to signal his movements. The first intimation had of Crook’s return was the arrival of a lieutenant at Colonel Biddle's headquarters at 8 o’clock on Sunday forenoon. with dispatches for Camp Bowie, the nearest army telegraph station. Upon making inquiry concerning the General, who was supposed to he 100 miles distant in the Kierra Madres, imagine the surprise that! awaited the camp when informed that Crook was only two Hours behind, with the captured Apaches. At about 10 o’clock the General rode into camp with his escort, and greeted Colonel Biddle with, “Nice morning. Colonel!” and straightway struck out for the wash-basin, which he had spied, and was soon engaged in performing nis ablutions, after which he threw himself into a campstool and engaged in conversation about h'<i campaign iu an off-handed way, ns if hunting