Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1872, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1872 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TERME OF EUBECRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). b ety 31 ¢ 2.00 Parts of a sear at the szmorate. To prevent delay and mistakes, bo Furo and gire Post Ofico 2ddress in full, including State 2nd County. ‘Remittances may bo mado either by draft, express, Post Office order, or in registercd lotters, at our risk. TERNS TO GITY SUBSCRIEDS. N excepted, 25 centa per woul Baie delivered: £a09%7 Shchuded, 20 cents per woek. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, 7823 or Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Iil. TRIBUNE Branch Ofice, No. 469 Wabash-ar., in tho Bookstore of Mossrs. Cobb, Androws & Co., where advertisements and subscriptions will be received, and will have the same attention as if left at the Main Difice. ——— CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE—Washington Telegrams: Proceedings of Congress—Miscellancons Telegraphio News. SECOND PAGE—Tho Indisn: Wrongs of tho Red Man; Violation of Treaties—Indiana: A Review of tho Politicsl Situation in That, State—Speaker Blaino's Remarks in the Credit Mobilier Investigation—The Gale at St. John, N.B.—Wonderfal Horologue— Tragedy in Missouri—Silver: The Wealth of Utah and Nevada—Tho Whipping Post—Personal Items. CHIRD PAGE—The Law Courts—A French Play; A Drama on tho Man 2nd Wifo Question—Datch Heinrichs—Buffaloes on the Rampage—Miscellanc- ons News Items—Railroad Time Tablo—Adsertise- ments. FOURTH PAGE-Editorials: Sauce for the Goose, eto. —The Fight over the Body—Warchouse Legisla- tion—Miss Anthony's Claims to Office—Current News Itoms. FIFTH PAGE—Ths Grand Pacific Hotel—City in Brici— ‘Announcements—Markets by Telegraph—Advertise- ments. SIXTH PAGE—Monetary and Commercisl—Marino In- telligence. SEVENTH PAGE—Tho Last Railroad Horror; Two Promineat Business Men of Chicago Among the Victims—Pallman Enterpriso—That §2,000,000 O} ‘Babblo—Women's Training Schools in Germans— Small Adsertisements: Roal Estate, For Sale, To Rent, Boarding, etc. EIGHTH PAGE—Europesn News by Telegraph—The Tone of Wall Street—NMiscollaneons Telegrams— Anction Advortisemonts. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. #UVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison steeet, botween to and Dearborn. Engagement of Miss Jane Coombs. ‘School for Scandal.” Afternoon and evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Hzlsted street, south of Ifedison. Liogard Combination. *‘David Garrick,” “‘Delicate Ground,” *‘ Das Afterthe Wedding," with Lingard sketches, Afternoon and eveaing. AIKEXN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue, corner of Con- gressstroet. Rubinstein matince. Evoning—Lawrence Barett. **Richard JIL. MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroe street, betweon State and Dearborn. Arlingfon, Cotton & Kemble's Minstrel and Burlesque Troupe. Afternoon and evening. GLOBE THEATRE—Desplainos streot, between Madi- fonand Washington. Tho Lelia Ellis Ballad Opera Com- ‘pany, snd farce of *‘Poor Pillicoddy.” Afternoon and cvening. BUSINESS NOTICES. PINMPLES REMOVED AND SKIN 3MADE SMOOTH 5 gaing Jusiper Tor Sosp. Manufactured by Caswell & Co., New York. SWEST'S BAZAR, 20 AND 00 WABASH-AV., 1S by far the cheapest, place in Chicagoto buy fancy £oods for Christmas preseats, A large and attractive stock at Jow prices. WEST & CO., importers. TORDYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, DEPRESSION of <Spirits and General Debilitr. tha Forro Phosphorated “iixir of Calisaga Bark (Calisayn Bark and lron), is the Dost tonto. Made by Caswall, Hazard & Co , New York, and sold by Druggists. BEST, AND OLDEST FAMILY MEDICINES, —SAN- ford’s Liver Invigorator.—A purely vegetable catbartic and tonic—for dsspepeia,, coustination, dobility, sicl +hoadache, bilions attacks, and all derangements of liver, ‘stomach, and bowels, Ask sour dreggist for it. Bewaro of imitations. 3 BATCHELOR'S s the b HAIR DYE. _THIS SPLENDID in the worid. The only true and per- mediataly a soperd lack or matural brow, and Jostes the soft, Batcbelor.' Sold b $ATCHETOR, Proprietor, X. Y. THE GREAT REMEDIES FOR CONSUMPTION, “Wasting, and Indigestion, aro Savory & Moore's Pancre- atic Emulsion ard Pancroatine. Medical men who havo ‘made it 2 special study, testirs that life is prolonged in a remarkable manner, appetite, also stren, and weight, increased, digestion greatly promoted, nondshment im- Tted, and the general condition of the body improved. B3TG ix bottios b Savory & Moore, (Chemiststo the Qucen, . R. H. tho Princo of Walos, His Hignees the K, aivest Eqypt &c.), 13 New Fond-st., Lendon, snd el g sts, and_storekeepers zhmu&anl the intes. NoTE—Name and trade mark on each bottle. The Chigage Tribune, Saturday Morning, December 7, 1872. Tweed's trial has been adjourned another week. The Credit Mobilier Investigation Committes will begin the examinations of witnesses, among them Oakes Ames, next Thureday, and will eit with closed doora. Mr. Stenley has discontinued his lectures in “Kew York on his African adventures, for the reason that the expense exceeds the receipts. His failure is attributed to poor elocution, and ‘badly-written lectures. Chicago begins to feel the horse diseise £gain throngh its ravages in the interior and the neighboring States. In many districts trade and travel are almost at a standstill, and the ef- fect is seriously felt in the stagnation of much of our wholegale trade. The trouble in Louisizna has received a new complication. Governor Warmoth has issued his proclamation convening the Legislaturo -elect, and now the United States Court has been appenled to, toprevent the meeting of that body, .and troops have again been placed in charge of the State Hous: By some accident in the returns from this county of the vote for Senator in the Seventh District, Mr. S. P. Brown was credited with the ~ote given for Mr. Williamson, and has been de- clared elected, when In fact the vote stood : - Willismson, 4,716; Brown, 1,282, Mr. Brown will ‘hardly claim the seat under the circumstances, The disreputable effort thet has been made in . some quarters, to render Mr. Greeley’s defeet and death a great financial disaster to the wel- fare of the New York.Tribune, has received a . practical get-back in the offer of $10,000 per Commissioners say the Illinois River msy be “made navigable throughout its length of 230 miles for the largest steame: The announcement that the accomplices in the great California diamond ewindle have made aclean breast of their connection with it, and disclosed the names of the principals who con- cocted the frand, and that detectives are on their track, is a cheering one. Happily, distrust was thrown upon the scheme, and the Btato Geologist proved it to be a fraud before the ‘public at large had invested very heavily in the shares. The only losers will be & few specula- tors in San Francisco. This, however, does not alter the character of the offence. It was a bare-faced swindle, which was, by good fortune, nipped in the bud. Had it gone on much longer, thousands of people would have been victimized, The scoundrels, if they are overtaken, deserve an esemplary punishment, which may forever be & lesson to this class of reckless and unprincipled adventurers. The Chicago produce markets were rather more active yesterday, and breadstuffs averaged higher. 1Mess pork was a shade easier at $11.75 cachor eeller the month, and $12.00 seller March. Tard was active and easier, closing at £7.10 per100 1bs cash, and $7.55 seller March, Meets were quiet and steady at 3%{c for shoul- ders, 53c for short ribs, and 6c for short clear, 21l part salted ; green hams, 634@73¢c. High- wines were quiet and firm at 8835c per gallon. Dressed hogs sold sparingly ab 44@43(c per Ib. Flour was quiet snd firm. Wheat was more active and 24c higher, closing at $1.103§ cash, and $1.11}¢ seller January. Corn was dull, but a shade higher, closing ab 803¢c cash, and 8074c seller January. Oats were more active and bigher, closing at 25%c cash or seller January. Rye was quiet 2and 34c higher, at 60@602¢c. Barley was rather more active and steady, at 6134@62¢ for No. 2, 61@613¢c seller the month, and 51@51ic for No. 8. Live hogs were dull from the opening of the market to the close, and late sales indicated 2 decline of 5@10c ; £3.70@3.90 being the closing rates. The cattle trade was fairly active, with cows and thin steers somewhat lower. Sheep were steady. Postmaster General Creswell, in his remarks on Postal Telegraphy, says that the press aro generally opposed to that scheme, because it threatens to break up the monopoly of news en- joyed by the association or associations of news- papers now existing. We fail to see how it +wonld break up any such monopoly, if it exists, since the advantages of the Associated Pross consist in the collection rather than inthe trans- misgion of news. It is not probable that the Government can transmit the news at any less price than the existing telegraph lines now do the work for, and certainly tho Govern- ment cannot hire reporters to collect and prepare tho news in any way that would be sat-- isfactory to the press. It might a3 well attempt to edit all the noewspapers in the country. So for as the monopoly is concerned, we admit that the privileges of the Associated Press ehould be accorded to any newspaper which can show that it is able to pay its proportion of the expense for collecting and transmitting the nows. The cost of establishing a newspaper, and defraying its operating expenscs until it is able to pay its own bills, is all the protection that any existing newspaper needs, or ought to have. In the Senate, yesterday, the Standing and Select Committees were elected, Senator Morton taking the Chairmanship of the Committes on Privileges and Elections in place of Senator Sumner, and Senator Edmunds succeeding Sena- tor Trumbull at the head of the Judiciary Com- mittee. Senator Schurz, by the courtesy of the Democrats, represents the minority in the Foreign Relations Committee. Bills were in- troduced to create a Commission to distribute tha Geneva award among the claimants for losses; to replace National Bank notes by TUnited States notes, and to repesl the Iron-Clad oath., The Finance Committes were instructed to report what measures must be taken by Con- gress to relieve the tightness of the money ‘market, and whether it i3 advisable to issme additionsl legal-tender motes. In accordance with the suggestions of Com- missioner Donglass, the House has passed & bill abolishing the office of Assessor and Aseistant Assessor. During the discussion, 1fr. Fernando Wood said that the real measure of reform would be the sbolition of the whole system, 28 the import duties yielded mearly & hundred millions more then the Government expenses. Mr. Kerr, on the other hand, be- lieved the Internal Revenuo system was the chespest, because the most direct, tasation. In its amended form, the bill does not go into operation till July 1, 1873, . The frightful accident which occurred on the Pennsylvenia Central Railroad, on Thursday ovening, was but & repetition of the oft-told story of “telescoping.” It would be interesting to know whether these cars were provided with the patent platform which unites two cars closely together, and which, it is claimed, is a certain preventive againet the danger of one car run- ning through another by reason of a shock at one end of the train. This platform is so con- structed that, instead of a series of concusgions from one car to another, the main ghock affects the entire train at the same time, and it is rea- sonable to suppose that ““telescoping” would ghare for that portion of the stock which has now become the property of Mr. Greeley's dsughters. This is as large a value 2s has ever pefore been placed upon the stock of the New York Tribune. *The double-headed Government in Alabams continues. There are two bodies claiming to be the Legislature of the State. Eachhasadmitted \ eight members, who are refused admission by the otherbody. Of course, the political majority in the real Legislature turns upon the eight members. Both Legislatures have appointed committees to go to Washington, and ask thein- terference of the National Government; but upon what grounds the President or Congress can decide & case of contested election in a Btate Legislature is not stated. — The State Board of Canal Commissioners ro- thereby be prevented. If the cars ca tho Pennsylvania Central Road were mnot provided with these platforms, tho accident ‘must be regarded as resulting from a failure on the part of the Railroad Company to take advan- tage of the precautionary means that lay within their reach. If tho cars were provided with these platforms, the accident proves that they donot furnish the protection which has been promised, and railroad companies must look for some other means of preventing these acci- dents,—to be found, perhaps, in reducing the sizo of their passengor cars and making them conform more nearly to the character of Euro- pean railrond coaches. In either case, it isa matter of public interest to know whether the Pennsylvania Company uses these platforms or not. We have reccived a pamphlet containing an acconnt of the organization, and s copy of the port that the receipts on account of the Tllinois and Michigan Canal from May 1, 1871, to Nov. 30, 1872, covering two seasons of navigation, have been $480,363. Of this sum, after paying 1l expenditures, there has been paid into the State Treasury §258,546. Thisisa most grat- ifying exhibit. The receipts from the river Jock at Flenry have been £8,484, of which there 2105 been aid into the State Tressury & surplus over expentes of $4,000. The receipts from the Little Wabach River jmprovement have netted oxly W0, _B_gostof $1A000 a wile the Constitution, of the ¢ American Public Health Association,” which was definitely formed Ilast Beptember, and which will hold its first annual gession in Washington during the last week in Febrnary. While an association of this kind, national in its character, and including in its membership gentlemen who live in all parts of the country, can scarcely have any direct practi- cal working, the same good maybe expected from it, in the way of precept and diffusion of Sociel Science Association, or the Society for the Advancement of Science. The organization hss its foundation in the cause of Preventive Medicine,—s study of com- paratively modern research and application. It naturally includes progress in the sciences of physiology, teaching the nature of healthful functions ; pathology, treating of the modes by which the normal laws of the body are per- verted; and chemistry, analyzing the elements of contagion and the agencies of disease. It will be the province of the American Public Health Association to guide and assist Legisla~ tures and municipalities in the formation of Boards of Health, and in determining the best preventive means that canbe adopted to guard against the dangers that thickly-settled com- munities always develop. The Committees which were appointed have various subjects of importance under consideration. Among them are the possibilities of co-operative sani- tary legislation between National and State Gov- ernments; comparative mortality of different seasons and various sections of the country; dwellings for the poor, and the reconstruction of unhealthful houses; o digest of laws relating to the public health in the various States; on drainage and water-supplies for cities; on the propagation of the diseazes of animals to man: on the provention of small-pox and Asiatic chol- erz; on the medical management of the mercan- tile marine; on restrictions upon prostitution, and its concurrent diseases; on the relations of hospitals to the public health; on 2 uniform system of registration of diseases and causes of death; on heated terms; on public health reports, and their advantages for promoting a practical knowledge and applica- tion of sanitary science among the people; on theinfluence of native wines upon intemperance ; on the uses of shade-trees, parks, and forests'in relation to public health. All these subjects are of great interest and importance, and they have been committed to the considoration of gentlemen who have had some - special prefer- ence or experience in each of them. It1s prob- able that many of them will be presented and discussed in the general session next February, and the result can scarcely fail to be of practical benefit to the whole country. SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE—SAUCE FOR THE GANDER. The House Committee on Commerce having agreed to report & bill to pay private individuals fifteen dollars per ton per annum for building and sailing American steamers, and ten dollars perton per annum for building and seiling American ships, to and from foreign ports, that being the supposed difference between loss and profit in the business, we suggest that the effort to make American industry profitable by act of Congress be extended to all the suffering classes alike. Wo submit that the farmers, being the most numerous class, and the one uponwhom the burden of paying the bonus will principally fall, ere entitled to at least a sufficient annual appro- priation to enable them to pay their local taxes, which they are scarcely able to do now out of the proceeds of their crops. The price of corn is only 15 cents per bushel at the point of shipment in Iows, and only 17 cents ot corresponding points in Iilinois. It doesnot reimburse the farmer for the cost of production. The real grievance of the ship-owners is, that the price of ocean freights is too low to afford them & profit. If it were higher by the amount named (315 per tom), the business would pany. Hence, Congress is called on to make up the difference. Now, if the price of corn were 15 cents per bushel higher, the farmers could raise cornat a profit. Why should not Congress make an appropriation of 15 cents per bushel to them, and keep it up till corn-growing becomes profitable ? There is far mora reason for doing this than for appropriat- ing money to ship-builders, because the capital of the farmers has slready been invested in land, implements, houses, and stock, which are good for nothing elee, whereas the capital to build iron steamers has not yet been invested, and tho main object of the bill is to induce persons to invest capital in them, which is presumably in- vested now in something which pays better. The oil-producers of Pennsylvania are in very much the same situation as the Western farm- ers. Itis only a-short time since crude oil was selling at $1.50 per barrel, or sbout 8 cents per gallon. The distress caused by this condi- tion of things compolled tho producers to stop work entirely for thirty days, and to prohibit the boring of new wells foran indefinite period. 3fen who bave invested money in lands and me~ chinery are losing tho entiro interest on their capital. They have the same right to ask reim- ‘bursement at the hands of Congress that the ehip-owners and ship-builders have. Sinco the price of crunde oil hes been advanced to €450 per Dbarrel by the artificial and arbitrary action of the producers, the refiners have bogun to complain. They say that, if the price of crude continues at tho pres- ent figure, they too will soon be compelled to stop. Would it not be a fine thing for Congress to appropriate, say, a dollar per barrel to keep them in blast ? There are some newspapers that wo know of, which are running behind at the rate of a firat- class ocean steamer withont freight or passen- gers. Why should not they make common cause and get an appropriation of, sey, one cent persheot for all the papers they cau gell or give away ? They have justas much right to it as the would- be ship-builders have to a bounty of £15 per ton for the freight-room they propose to sell or give away. There are a large number of real estateowners, inall partsof the country, who are unsble to meke o fair profit on their investments. There aro others who would like to invest in real estate if they were sure of a profit. Let them come in behind the ship-builders, and ask an appropria- tion. They have just as good & right to it. ‘We lay down the broad proposition that what is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. If Congress is about to paya bounty to persons desiring to engage in an unprofitable business, it should pey corresponding bounties to all persons engaged in unprofitable business, whether it be raising corn, boring for oil, pib- lisliing newspapers, specalating in real estate, or anything else. If it can be proved that the thing don’t pay, that should constitute as good a claim for one man, or one class, as for another. The demand of the ship-owners is, however, just as valid as the demand of the iron-master and the cotton-spinner for public assistance. Itis even better entitled to consideration, for thereason that the sum appropriated to the ship-owner is a certain fixed amount, which the public can see and count. There is no decep- tion nbout it; whoreas the sums reslized by the iron-mester, the cotton-spinner, and the *pro- lhoyrlesize. g8 from the. conferences of ihe tected " classes gencrally, by virtue of the taxes imposed by Congress for their benefit, are un- seen and nnnoticed, though none the less real and onerous. If Congress would apply the same rule to them that it is now proposed to apply to the ship-owners, and, instead of enthorizing them to levy indirect taxes on the community, vote them the same amount out of the Publio Treasury, the system would not last long. THE FIGHT OVER THE BODY. Oncof the last incidents of Mr. Greeley's life was his recognition of his editorial assistant, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, and an effort to extend to him his almost pulseless hand, and thisat a time when his mind was wandering, and he had failed to recognize his old-time associates, who had ‘been identified with him many years, both in his ‘business and his political career. This effort of Mr. Greeley, in his struggle with failing resson and approsaching death, to greet his friend, is of itself a sufficient answer to the disgraceful at- tacks upon Mr. Reid by the New York Sun. As some of our readers mey not be familiar with the circumstances which led to this sudden and bitter attack, instituted at & time when Br. Reid could not reply to it, and when it was pecu- culiarly & gross violation of the eolemnities of the occasion, we will re-state them briefly. On the morning after the election, the Zribune pub- lished a card from Mr. Greeley, announcing his resumption of the editorial control of the paper. On the same day, there appeared in the paper the following editorial article, entitled ¢ Crumbs of Comfort :” There has been no time until now, within the Ilast twelve years, when the Tribune was not supposed to keep, for tho benefit of the idlo and incapable, o sort of Federal employment agency, established to get places under Government for those who were indis~ posed to work for their living. Any man who had ever voted the Republican ticket belleved that it was the duty and the privilego of the editor of this paper to get him a place in the Custom House, Every red-nosed pol- itician who had cheated at the caucus and fought atthe polls looked to the editor of the Tribune to secure his sppointment s Gauger, or a8 Army Chaplain, or as Minister fo France. Every campaign orator came upon us after the battle was over for & recommenda- tion, a8 Becretary of the Tressury, or the loan of halt o dollar, If ono of our party had an interest pending at Washington, the editor of the Tribune wes telo- graphed in frantic haste to come to the Capitol, save this bill, crush that one, promote one project, or stop another, He was to be everybody’s friend, with nothing to do but to take earo of other folks’ business, sign papers, write letters, and ask favors for them, and to get no thanks for it either. Four-fifths of these poople were sent away without what they wanted, only tobocome straightway abusive enemiea; it was the ‘worry of life to try to gratify one demand in adozen for the other fifth, The man with two wooden legs ¢ ongratulated him- self that he could never be troubled with cold feet. It 1s a source of .profound satisfaction to us that office- seekers will keep aloof from a defeated candidate who hasnotinfiuence enough at Washington or Aluany to get a swoeper appointed under the Sergeant-at-Arms, or & deputy-sub-assistant temporary clerk in the paste-pot section of the folding room, Atlast we shall be let alone to mind our own affairs, and manage our own newspaper, without being called aside every hour tohelp lazy people whom we don’t know, and to spend our strengthiin efforts that only benefit people who don’t de- serve ussistance, At least we shall keep our office clear of blatherskites and political beggars, and go about our Qaily work with the satisfaciton of knowing that not the most credulous of place-hunters will euspect us of Dhaviog any credit with the appointing powers. That 1s one of the results of Tuesduy’s election for which we oown ourselves profoundly grateful. *When Mr. Greeley learned its effect, he was greatly shocked, snd wrote a disclaimer of ita suthorship, which Mr. Reid supprossed, although Mr. Greeloy twice requested its publi- cation; thereby adding to his mental depres- sion. Against this statement of the Sun, there are many strong arguments, which make it highly probeble that this scandal originates purely in the imagination of the editor of the Sun. But argument is rendered unnecessary by the fact that Mr. Greeley's privato secretary has con- tridicted the story in acard published in the Herald. . Moreover, there is nothing in the erticle * Crumbs of Comfort” calculated to produce any such effect as the Sun asserts ; and there is no evidence, outside of the Sun’s state- ment, that it had any such effect. The entire article is written in a half-humorous, half- gatirical vein, expressing a senso of gratitude that the Tribunewas nolongerobliged to keep & Federal employment agency to got offices for politicians and dead-beats indisposed to do any honest work for s living, and that, not having any credit with the appointing powers, the Tribune would not be troubled with such bores. Asapioce of good writing, the article would have been creditable to Mr. Greeley, whose pow~ ors of humor and keen appreciation of fun and satire were particularly happy. Under any cir- cumstances, it was creditable to the person who wrote it, whoover ho may be, and that it should give offence to any one, Republican or Demo- crat, is simply preposterous. Anybody thin- skinned enough to be aggrioved at this broad- side of humor would not be found in politics. Mr. Greeley in sane mind was 0o positive & writer ever to need to disclaim what he had writ- ten. At the time of thege occurrences, it is now known, that he was not in sound mind, 8o that whether he wrote it or not Mr. Reid acted with discretion in assuming responsibility where there was no one else to take it. If Mr. Greeley wrote the article, and afterward, while his mind was wandering and in the delirium of diseaso, he wrote this disclaimer, then Mr. Reid would have shown very small editorial ability had he published the latter. If Mr. Greeley did not write it, under the same circumstances it would have been folly to have printed the disclaimer. Viewing the matter i any light, even if every word of the Sun’s charges were true, there can be but one opinion concerning the conduct of that paper. It is & most disgraceful and mortifying exhibition of journalism. MISS ANTHONY’S CLAIMS TO OFFICE. It is not for us to dictate to President Grant. We have too eincere an admiration for the prin- ciples of Civil Service Reform to commit our- selves to so false a position, We may be al- lowed, however, to express the opinion that Susan B. Anthony ought to have an ofiice. She presents 2 double claim, politicel and personal, and unites them in a degree proportionate to -herage, her devotion, and her sacrifice, for what she esteems a high purpose, of 21l that contrib- ‘utes to comfort in this world. Politically, Mies Anthony has not only worked hard, but worked without the hope of reward. Guileless and unso- phisticated,she did notstop to consider that there might be anything like ambiguity in a partyplat- form, but, rushing in where angels might well have feared to tread, she buckled her armor sbout her, and fought nobly with the colored troops for Grant and Emancipation. Bhe made speeches, She converted the unbe- lioving. She rescued the faltering. She voted. This was “sorrow’s crowning sorrow.” She little dreamed, as she walked mp to the polls with the pride of citizenship, that she was courting & term in the County Jail instead of & term of office. But, if she had, this would not have checked her onward course. She voted. She might have voted twice—it would not bave been apy mer9 illogal, Binco thom, her political claims have been incressed. She hasbeen indicted. Thus has she braved the prejudices of her native City of Rochester, the wrath of the Commonwealth of New York, and the despotism of the United States of Americs, in the glorious cause. Who shsll gay that Susan B. Anthony is not entitled to an office ? Miss Anthony's personal claims are not less deserving than the political dangers she has en- countered. She has devoted a lifetime to the Cause, She has braved the low aseociations of three political conventions in one year; she has foresworn the fascinating arts of theloiletle ; she has been the heroine of & thousand newspaper squibs; ehe has eschewed sewing-societies, church sociables, and the untold fascinations of - female gossip,—all in the interests of the suc- cessful party and of the Csuse. If Miss Anthony is ever to berewarded, the reward should be deferred no longer. Moreover, she is not rich in this world's goods, and she has to pay the ex- penses of the Rochester lawsuit. And she is certainly better qualified to discharge the duties of an office than many of those who Wear pan- taloons. ‘We would leave the choice of Miss Anthony’s position to those whom she has served so long and go faithfully. We only insist that she ought to have an office. There is sufficient precedent to justify it in the 500 postmistresses through- out the country, and in the several hundred female clerks who enliven Pennsylvania avenue of a bright afternoon in Washington. But Miss Anthony should aim higher than this. A Burean position might possibly be found in which she would be but the successor of soms old woman. Why might not a foreign position be selected, where she could be useful in counteracting the unfavorable impressions created on the Continent of Europe by some of our male rep- resentatives ? Would she not be useful in set- ting the American people right in the eyes of the Alexandria people by taking Consul General Butler’s place? How wounld Miss Anthony's vigor of mind, severity of countenance, and em- inent faculty of sticking to one thing, serve for & Collector's post at home? She might be Sec- retary of the Senate, with the particular mis- sion of warding off the fabled beauties who are 8aid to be such successful lobbyists in Washing- ington. Seriously, Miss Anthony is entitled to recognition by the appointing power, and we cordially commend her to the Administration, and especially to the Vice President-elect, whose efforts in behalf of the Cause are second only to those of Miss Anthony herself. ‘WAREHOUSE LEGISLATIOR. The legislation of April 25, 1871, known ss the ¢ Warehouse law,” is conceded to be imperfect in some of its details. The end sought by the act wasa proper one; but the nct as awhole rests too much upon the notion that the only remedy needed to correct an evil is an act of the Legisla- ture. The Warehouse act contains many excel- lent and well-matured provisions for the protec- tion of the persons who may engage in the grain trade ; it defines many acts which formerly were' classed as frauds, and provides for their punish- ment as crimes. It generally providesthe means Ly which the respective partics doing busincss through warehouses may invoke legal protection against frand, and enforce rights which are de- nied. To this extent the law is unobjectionable, and is not opposed by any person. But the act goes further, and provides that no person en- gaged in the warehouse business shall receive anything in store without first obtaining & li- cense therefor. This requirement, if it werea mere provision for revenue, might not be ob- jected to ; but this requirement is coupled with another, that before ho shall receive such license hemust give bond to comply with all the provi- sions of “the laws of this State in relation there- to.” By the fifteenth section of the same law, thecharges for storage and handling of grain are established. As no license can be issued without the filing of the bond, and as the bond is conditioned that the party shall not ask or receive any more for storage than the statute permits, the person taking onta license must bind himself to accept the statutory compensa- tion for his services. The same law provides that, for any violation of the law, the Court, upon complaint, end by summary proceeding, may revoke the license, and refuse to issue another to the same person for one year. The result involved in the matter of taking out licenses for grain warehouses, therefore, is, that by so doing the warehousemen must accept the rates fixed by law; and the reason for which these warehonsemen have refused to take out such license is, that they deny that the Legisla- ture of the State can prescribe the compensation +which men shall charge and receive for carrying on & legal business that does not concern the public health or the safety 2id good order of so- ciety, and is in no eense s franchise. The same act contains specisl provisions which render it impossible that warehousing ghall be either & legal franchise or an actual mo- nopoly. Any person may erect s warehouse, and railroads must deliver grain to the waro- house to which it is consigned. Warehousing, then, has no special privileges any more than any other business which is open to any other person. Noris there any pretence thet itisa ‘business in any way affecting the public health, or that it operates to the injury of social order and decorum, or to violations of the peace. It presents no feature, either in its general con- duct or special management, which can bring it within the restraining sauthority of the police power of the ‘State. That police power rests upon the inviolability of the maxim that all the rights of individuals are to be held and enjoyed subject to the condition that they do not invade, impeir, or destroy the legal rights of others. It cannot be pretended that,in carrying on the ‘business of warehousing, the charging of g cer- tain rate per week for storage can in the re- motest manner be an invasion, destruction, or interference with the legal rights of any citizen- Bo far as the act of 1871 does exercise the great inherent police power of the State for the pro- tection of individual or public rights, its authori- ty is undispated. The great question which st this time is 80 widely discussed among the people, and is in one form or another before the courts of nearly every State in the Union, as to the anthority of the State to dictate to corporations holding cherters, in the metter of rates for the trans- portation of passengers and freight, does not have any bearing upon the controversy between the warehonzemen snd the State of Illi- nois. These warehousemen are not public corpo- rations ; they do not derive their right to carry on business from the State any more than does the man who cultivates grain; and while they 2dmit the power and duty of the State to compel them to sact honestly in their deslings with other men, they deny that the State can fix the price they shall charge for storing and handling the grain, apy more thag. it can fix the pricaat which the grain shall be sald by the producer, or the price per barrel at which the floor made from such grain shall be sold. The law declares theso warehouses public, to the extent that they must receive all grain offered them. It is not optional, therefore, for these warehousemen to receive grain or not &b the prices fixed by the State ; nor can they, by contract with the owner of grain, receive & ‘higher compensation than is fixed by law. They must either do business at the statutory rates, or cloge their warchonses. This latter resort is not an easy one. The grain warehonse is a costly institntion; it cannot be adapted for other purposes; to close it involves a total loss; and to carryon the business at less than paying rates is but adding to the inevitable sacrifice. This business of warehousing was lawful long before the State took cognizance of it ; it was regulated by com- mon law, and the rates of compensation were controlled by competition or agreement between the warehouseman and his customers. It stood on the same $ooting a8 all other private busi- ness where one charged another for labor per- formed. But this act of 1871 makes this busi- ness unlawful, unless performed for cer- tain sums prescribed by law. The want of justice in the esercise of any such power is shown in the fact that, if the Legisla- ture may fix & maximum rate of storage beyond which it is unlawful to recsive, even by contract, it may also establish & minimum rate, below which it shall be equally unlawfunl for warehouse- ‘men, even by contract, to storegrain. TheLeg- islature of 1871 fixed one rate; the Legislature of 1873 may prescribe, if the power exist at all, tunes grow. In quiet streets in London, and the great cities, especially of the North, there are hundreds of such men, ‘rich beyond the dreams of avarice,” but leading quiet, unosten- . tatious lives, making no bosst of their wealtb, spending or saving 1t as it seems good to them, but in neither case demanding from the com- munity the kind of recognition and deference which on the Continent is accorded to exception- al riches. : ; They are very seldom extravagant, except in & quiet way, spending, for instance, enormously on a hobby like fruit_culiure—we shonld like ta Imow the real cost of the peaches annually con- | gumed in England—though thoy are apt to con J tract s taste for a practice which is really an odd method of investment, but looks smperficially like an extravagance. The millionaires of to- day, like the old Italian nobles, are maniacs for collecting. A quiet man, whose name is mn- known three streets off, will produce to his in- timates a collection of an%phues no “crowned head could rival, and which he has bought he scarcely knows why, except thet snyp}uresm beau! and indestructible, and 2s * good” as most_bonds. Aunother tells * 7ou, without. any ides of ostentation, that he fias % most oz tho jsde that was in tho Winter Palace," say about sixty thousands pounds worth. A third haa plates on his ground floor worth hzlf & plum, while a fourth has &lsaesinn for pictures / like that of Mr. J. Gillott. Nobody ever hears / of these purchases, but, if at the other end of / the earth a sale ia going on of objects they covet. ! they hear of it, and somehow the articles malé H:eu- way to England. The concrete wealth, tie portable property,” s one of Dicken's chari— tera calls it, which 15 in this way shovelled myor our shores every year is almost incredible, s i2. the growth of the desire for purchasing costly and beautifal things. The dealers who soppl¥ them multiply like the millionaires; they wan- der overywhere—Italy and Jopen, for example, are at this moment being searched, ad it were, with microscopes—and they always find s markot. Hidden eaway in plain house#® or shops, which seem fo be full of rubbish, are treasures that would have de~ lighted Louis Quatorze. People repeat with & mile the phrase attributed to Blacher and to latoff that London would be *a splendid place: to plunder,” but thoy do not realize to them- * selves what the amount of plunder would be, or | what would be the loss in another geat fire, or. another rate, or s minimum rate for storage, and compel the producers of grain to pay that rate, even though elevators would readily store grain for less. Once admit the power of the State to prescribe the rates of wages for labor; the wages of storing grain; the compensation of lawyers, or doctors; the price of bricks or lumber, and then there must follow a scale of prices for corm, oais, wheat, flour,and bread; the price of drawing teeth; for making a man’s coat and & woman’s dress; for ‘boots and shoes, and so on, until the reward of the Iabor, industry, and prodnction of the conn= try shall be taken-out of the hands of the peo- ple, and be regulated by statute. There have been demagogues in all ages and in &ll countries that have songht temporary applause by laws regulating the prices and compensation of pro- ductions and Iabor, but in no instance have such laws survived the panic in which they were enacted, and they stand condemned by the uni- versal judgment of mankind. No onme in this State would advocate & general regulation of prices and wages by statute; no one will claim thet the State has any power to prescribe such _regulation ; and no class would more earnestly oppose such & regulation than the producers of grain. It is not surprising, therefore, that the warehonsemen object to being eingled ont from the multitude of private occupations, trades, and business, and have their compensation arbi~ trarily fixed by law, and forbidden, even by con- tract with their customers, to receive any other price. There are other considerations upon which this provision of the act of 1871 is opposed, such a8 that private business or property shall not be injured or damaged ; that one man’s property cannot be taken from him and given to another; but we have stated enough to show that the re- fusal to take out licenses by the warehousemen is founded upon strong reasons of justice and private right, which cannot be surrendered antil how high and broad the mass of wealth depos- ited each year in Great Britain is gradully gromng. Most of our readers have wandered | own the Rue de la Paix in Paris, marvelling at* the jewellers’ shop-fronts. They would marvel" & good deal more if theycould sce the interior ¢f | -gome very quiet shops and very unobtrusie honses, 1ooking as if their owmers mightbo - thaukfol for & profit of £3 a week. Vast / would a casual country cousin’ sppraise Entton Garden at in fee-simple, and what woald an experienced Amsterdam Jew gem-cutter give for ; itz It maybe eaid indeed alwaysissaid bytheedu~] o cated virtnosi who begin h})'s swarm 'myLnndo that the millionaires waate money in these par{ chases, but we doubt if thatis the caze. New and then you hear of 5 rich maniwho has spent & plum on rubbishy pictures, orstill more rub- / # bishy manuscripts, or who will buy_jowels by, candle-light, and 80 on; bt as a rule the mill. ionaires take good care of thumselves. The; end a little in acquiring {heir education, bt théy have clear brains to lelp them; they are jealons of their reputations fir business abil¥, and they learn the vilues of o8 as they “would of grar shirtings, And 50 &re very seldom_* done” Sometimesihey become marvellously acus, Mr. — i a man, but just try to pas a_forgery m him for & Petitot; and Mr.— looks very,stupid, but the cleverest Jow deales in Venicawill nob get out of him sixpance mox than its selue 1T the piece of lace which to omer eyesis & pie® of lace, but which, when it cOmey homo, JF- Heywood will verify as matchlesé Tt is tio would-be-connoisseurs who are ‘‘&ne,” Db the millionaires, Nor do we perceive that they depravo taste very much, as they are acmsecof doing. _They are shocking architects, no dowt, véry often, chiefly becauss they enjoy *he ol bit of creative work they can indulge in so m;j that they grow impatient of ecientifio advic); but taste, as far as we canlearn, does not grow “orse, but better, as witnzes the great improve~ ment in furniture, the extinction of costly tawdrinessin dress, tho inconceivable improve- ment in glass and porcelain, and the suddsa ecthusiasm for the Oriental style of color—3 | style as Temote from the vulger- English taste 23 the design of & modern dinner-plato is from the willow pattern. It takes timeto culiivate the eyes of nraco like ours, which is not taught by its climate to fly from garish brilliancy: but it 8 not from this sids thai We dreed the accimula- tion of wealth in Britain, but from a very diffe:- entone. Greal wealth mOW gives 50 mu. 420 much even of intellectual enjoyment, so" AR freedom, variety and pleasure to life, that evin the wise and good begin to hunger for it, and to postpone to its acquisition the efforts wheh alone can advance the world. MMoney is not he root of evil only by any means, bat still sHeh the law is sustained by the highest tribunal of the State. ENGLAND'S MILLIONAIRES. The Wealth of Rich Men Recently Dead—-How the Living Spend Their Money—The Mania for Collecting. The London Spectator has had a list compiled of persons who have died from Jan. 1, 1863, up to Sept. 1, 1872, worth £250,000 (81,250,000) and upwards. This list, which ngpeued in'its issue of Nov. 16, is thus commented upon by the Spec- tator : Ten persons_have expired in Great Britain +within the decade leaving more than & miilion, 53 leaving more than a half million, and 161 leaving more than a quartex of s million sterl- ing. Thess fortunes are exclusive altogether of fortunes still more numerous and vast invested in land. They are under- stated in extent becense the official ap- praisers are bound when estimating the value of 5 business to be extremely lenient, and concerns Teally indestructible, or at all events safe for & generation, are taxed as if they were worth only Eiwo or three years’ purchase. _This is perfectly jnst, becanse although Mr. Base’ brewery, or aron Rothschilds’s bank or the Times newspa- per owners may be worth fifty years’ purchase to their owners, other breweries, banks, and news- papers may be worth only o or three, and the same rule must in fairness be applied to all. Moreover, the value of brains employed in any great business is 80 Jargo & portion of its capital that a rigid estimeto is impossible—suppose, for instanco, that in 1860 one of the Gurneys had boen & splondid finencier—or would in an im- ‘mense number of instances involved pillage so gross that succession duties would be suppress- ed by popular disgust. The number, moreover, is no indication as_to the number of such fortunes in existence. Men liave been accumulaticg since histmg began, but the seale of accumulation has varied exceeding- 1y from age to age. We have no space for the inquiry just now, but we think wo could prove that no private individual in_our day, not even the late Baron James Rothschild, ever possessed smch g fortune—estimating it by the quantity of wheat it would buy—as one or two of the Roman nobles, while just before the discovery of America great fortunes were in epparent amount ridiculously small. There is strong evidence to prove that Charles V.'s bankers, the Fuggers, whose_wealth made them ' princes with sovereign _ Tights—their is defying Bavaria at Q.Eia minute to expel him as @ Jesuit, because he is a mediatized prince— never had more than a quarter of a million, hde in 1730 scarcely any Englishman could have produced half amillion, perhaps not one. The new scale, under which a man with less than & million is among Tich men quite_poor, 2nd men can be quoted worth twenty ons, 1as only been in force tenty years, and most of the new millionaires have not had time to die. We expect, should we bo sble_to repeat this record ten years hence, to find it enormously enlarged, both in scale and number, venturing to predict confidently that it will contain at least s hundred fortunes exceeding a million sterling, the figures which Wo may in 1873 accept 8s the lowest at which a mercantile or financial grandee could begin to thinlk that he should by and by be almost a prosperous man. [f the account should then, under some new Ilaw, include the landed fortunes, it will be swollen out of all -knowledge, for no truth about English propert; i8 B cortain es this: thetno man in Englan can become wealthy without part of his wealth going to the owners of the soil, and especially to three individuals—the Ma 8 of Westmin- ster, the Duke of Portland, and Lord Portman. With ail these eilowances, the list we have given is still a curious and almoststartling proof of the wealth which is accumulating in these islands, and which, if it does not tempt con- quest (think what & British indemnity would be!) may carry us through long seasons of seri- ous calamity. " The well-known names in that list are as few as the plums in a poor men's cake. There aro men in the city, no doubt, bankers, and loan-dealers, and brokers, men whose _interest it is fo know the mill- ionaire peerage, who can recognize every name, and can tell you how the money was mado, but to the mass of our readers the majority will ba &8 unknown ag the who this week allowed & fortune of £250,000 to be forfeited tothe Crown. Very few of them outsido the pecrage were in any way conspicuous, or suspected by the gen- heir eral publicof being more than ordinarily wealthy. They Lived quietly, occupied themselves in su- pervising some large business, aud ot their foz- | spiritual truth of the few we have—sey, forex- ample, the duty of sympathy—or which proved Pohhcnl doctrine, or which science, or, to go ower, which proposition in Euclid, would the nation sell for another million ste:ling 8 year? HIGH AND LOW CHURCH. Convention of tizc Protesiant Episcos pal Charch of Iiassachusetts—The Eev. Benjamin J. Haight, 0f New York, Elected Bishop of the Diocesee Boston (Dec. 4) Despatch tothe New York Eercld. The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal, CRarch: or the Diocese of Massachusetts, which assembled in St. Paul's Church, in this city, te-| dez, was a gravo and important gathering. Iy ose wos to elect a Bishop in place of th ate Rev. Menton Eastburn, deceased; and ] beirg the first Convocation which has been hek for bhirty years with the intent to elect & 5u cessor to the Bishopric, the clergy ad lsil attended in large numbers. Thon, i, thero wore echisms which have attracted 3 gt deal of attention and cansed much feelingfin / tius diocese. Whether High Church or Low Church was to predominate formed the chief bono of contontion. - Tho advocates of thedoc- ¢ trines of High Church put forth the Ref. Dr. Benjamin J. Haight a8 their candidate, :0d his, opponent wasthe Rev. Dr. Alexander . Viu= ton, both beingrfimminent clergymen, resident in New York. There are about one huxdred and {wenty-five parishes in the State, andthey were represented by their sovernl Recfors<nd laymen to the number of 240. Dr. Vinton'was elected President of the Convention by acclame- tion, and for s time it seemed as if his election was assured. The Convention, how- ever, took a recess after this proceeding, ind ‘a great deal of logrolling was accomplished before the repssembling in fhe efterncon, when the balloting was commenced. Four ballots were had; in the firsé threeof which Dr. Vinton re- ceived the most votes,but not sullicient to secure his election; the fourth ballot resulted as fol- lows: BenjaminJ. Hoight, 43; Alexander H. Vinton, 36; and Mr. Height will hereafter per-, form the daties of Bishop of this diocese. 4 testimonial was propared end signed by all tha clergymen present, and _to-morrow it will bs trangmitted fo the Bishop-clect. Tho result it | thé Convention is rogarded as a bitter pill ly the disciples of the Low Church. \ \ Corn for Fuel. From the Council Bluffs (fowa) Nonparei?, Dec. 5. ‘We are glad to see that many of our citizens are taliing advantago of tho low prico of cornto | ! lay in heavy supplics of it for feel. We have expefimented withit the lasi weel, and find that it 1s an admirable substitate for both wood aad . coal, and that 2t present prices there is both : economy and comfort in 1ts use. A ton of cornm, 33 bushels, at 17 cenis per ‘bushel, is $5.60. We consider this equal {5 a cord of hard wood, as supplied and mezsured in our market, ot $7; the cutting of this cord, $1.50,—totel, £8.50, Tnus making a saving of nearly three dollars a cord. B Tor kitchen fuel it is superior to wood,\oxceph hickory, and cheaper than that, It makeda very ot fire with a great deal of blaze. wWejndsa that three tons of corn are equal to the lea: of one ton of herd coal, while in economy of #a use it is equal to one and a half tons of col. In small families and emall houses there is Jways great waste of hard coal, while there is rme in the use of corn. Besides this, there is thypub-/ lic benefit of Tefaining in the couniry:lthe money we send to Pennsylvenia for cod, axd feed our farmers by consuming their prodicts. —_———— Photographing the Eyc and Eare That the interior of the human eye kas bee! photographed is well known ; though the ex: periment is_a somewhat cruel one fora living! subject, still there are victims who endure i An instance of this kind is given by Dol that of a very handsome young brother i8 a physician), who paticntl tract of belladonna until the pupil sufficiently large; the interior of tha cYPm then illuminated with magnesinm light and 0B0+ tographed. In & similar manner his been photographed—that is to eay, the™ . _ num only. Atnbeis ineerted, in which is a mi ror, nclined at & certain angle. The mirror throws light into the interior of the ear, andis’ also provided with s central hole, through w2 the illuminated tympanum can be insnectg: system of lenges projects an image on’ tive plate, and the pictur: made "] BATY mARBer, ) -~