Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1872, Page 4

v R e e i . ; « THE CHICAGO<DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1% 1873, : [ e————————eSS— s —— - = TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, 2ZXEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (PATABLE IN ADVANCE) Daily, by mail B eekdy. Parts of a year st the same rate. To prevent delsy and mistakes, be sure and give Post Ofice address in full, including State and Couats. Remittances may be made either bydraft, exprest, Post OfSice order, orin registered letters, at our risk. TERMS 7O CITT BUBSCRIDEDS. i Dafl 3 cepted, 25 ceats per wael Pally dolivered Eundey $acilied; 30 conta por week. dress THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Sotner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Hl. TareUNE Branch Offce, No. 469 Wabash-av., in the Bookstors of Messrs. Cobb, Andrews & Co., where ‘advertisements and subscriptions will be received, will have tho same attention as if left at Ofice. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’ FIRST PAGE—Proceedings in Oopgress—Miscellaneons ‘Washington Items. SBCOND PAGE—Washington Letter: House and Sen- ate; The Beheading of t he Girondists—Berlin ZLetter: Tho Miseries of Crossing the Channel— The Late 8, M. Pike—Goneral News Items— Pursonal. THIRD PAGE—County Matters—The Law Courts— Baso Ball Gossip—Tho Gas Works Troubles—The City in Bref—Evanston Jtems—Railroad Time Table—Adrertisements. FOURTH PAGE—Editorlals: Tho Now York Zribune Imbroglio ; Internal Improvements; Christian Burial—A Model Woman's Ifluonce. FIFTH PAGE-Murder and Burglary on the North Bide—Council Proceedings Last Evening—Tho Field and Stablo—Personal Items—Advertisements. SISTH PAGE—Financial and Commercial. SEVENTH PAGE—The Hoosao Tunnel Enterprise—A. Policemen Roughly Treated—Death of a Wisconsin Pioneer—Small_Advertisements: Real Estate, For Sale, To Rent, Boarding, Lodglng, Etc. ZIGHTH PAGE—Foreign News by Telegraph—Political Matters—Bliscellaneons Telegrams. TO-DAY’'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, between State and Dearborn. Engegement of Miss Jane Coombs. ** Lady of Lyons.” BUULEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph sircet, bo- tween Clark and LaSalle. New Comedy Company. *Fun.” Operatio Bagatello. ATEEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenus, corner of Con ss street. Engagement of Lawrence Barrett. *¢ Juling Cresar.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC— Halsted street, south of SMadison. The Lydia Thompson Troupe. ¢ Robin Hood.” MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroo street, betwoen tsto end Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton & Kemble's Hinstrel and Burlesque Troupe. GLOBE THEATRE—Desplaines street, between Madl son and Washington. The Lelia Ellis Ballad Opera Com- pany. NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE—Clintonstroet, between ‘Washington and Randolph. Morlacchi Troupe. **The Scout.™ 2 — e BUSINESS NOTICES. AND FACF CURED BY USING CHAPPED HANDS Y UsIG geuiger Tar Soap. Made by Caswell, Xow York. A1, HAVANA LOTTERY. GRAND, EX- B ey Arawingy wholo tckets 860 J, B.’ MAR- dinary drawiog: FIEZE7C0"; Batikers, 10 Wallst. = Box 4a%, P.O., New York. TORDYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, DEPRESSION of s‘:")"‘n?":‘:’.fé"“lg"’f‘{é“fl;.‘ Bark snd Lot 35 10 i Ak . Lot tontc. Mado by Caswell, Hazard & Co , Now York, £32401a by Drogists. ~BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE. , THIS SPLENDID beirive g the bast I tho world: Tho only trup and per- St &Y%, Bacmaless, reliable, and {nstautancous; nodisap- entments 5o FidieRlons tAts or unplessaat edor. Remo- Qies the ill effects of bad dyes and washes. Produces im- reediately a superb black or natural brown, and leaves the T e 2 o a2 beautital. Tho genting, sizned W e e e by all _draceis. CHARLES £ TCHELOR, Propriotor, . Y. G. C. COLLINS, BOYS' OLOTHING, 184 AND 188 CLARK-ST. The Chicags Tiibune, Tuesdsy Morning, December 17, 1872, Tllinois has lost one of her earliest and oldest citizens in the death of the Rev. Hubbel Loomis, cf TUpper Alton, who died yesterdsy. AT Loomis wes aged 97 yearsand 6 months, He a8 the father of Professor Loomis, the astronomer of Yale College. Mr. Colfax’s hesitation about accepting the editorship of the Tribune is due, it is stated by nis friend, the editor of the Brooklyn Union, to the fact that he hssnot yet been assured of 7all conirol of the editorisl course of the paper. o will not accept the offer if it requires him to compromise or ignore his “positive political principles.” Homesteads are gacrificed every day to hard <rink, but probably for the first time in the his- tory of the liguor trafficit furnishes a home- stead to the family of one of its victims. This anique justice has been obtained by & woman of Jowa, who has recovered s homestead worth £1,500 from the desler who 80ld her husband the rum that cansed his death. The retort men in the Chicago Gas Company, instead of striking as they had threatened todo, .sccepted the reduced wages offered them yester- .Cay, and went back to their work. By s strike among the stokers in the Gas Works, London was left in darkness for several nights week be- fore Iast, but & similar result would not be likely 12 follow here, for, as the laborers know, their places can easily be supplied in the winter. ‘There is one advantage in having no money to carry on a political campaign with, snd that is, that you don't have to account for it afterward. The Cincinnati Courier (German) is out with & cearch-warrant to find $1,000, eaid to have been contributed by the National Committee to its comfort and maintensnce during the cam- peign, but which the local Committee did not Tork over. The Itelian Society of New York style the immigretion of destitute Italisns, which ina fow weeks has brought 2,000 lazzaroni into Castle Garden, an “infamous white slave ‘trafiic,” and want Congress to forbid it. They censure the Itslian Government; but whether for mere negligence in the matter, or for some share in the fraud on the poor creatures, is not stated. Tweed's connsel having failed in their motion to quach the indictment against him, and in the dilatory motions they made thereafter, the great criminal was eolemnly called upom, sesterdsy, to plead; but bhis lawyers were equal to the occasion, and de- roanded the reading of the indictment. This the Court had no discretion to refuse, and, as the indictment is & printed book of 1,050 pages, two @ays more are gained by this maneuvre. e The political article in the December number of the Atlantio Monthly, which has excited so much discontent in party circles (sssuming that the verdict of the people in the recent election wasnot 5o much an indorsement of General Grant 85 & choice of evils), is attributed by the Cincinnati Commercial to the pen of the leading editorial writer of the Cincinnati Gazetle. We £uppose Mr, Samuel Reed is the person re- ferred to. The Senate, yesterdsy, with but three dissent- ~ing votes, passed & Tesolutioa for the sppoint- "ment of & Committes of Seven to report on the question how cheaper transportation between the Fast and the West may b obtained. It has also whether Congress has any right to regulate the rates of fare and transportation on railroads ‘which connect different Btates, or to suthorize the construction of any such railroads. The amendment to the Internal Revenue bill, ap- pointing twenty-five Treasury Agents, has been withdrawn by the Senate, § By & very large majority the House has adopted a resolution the opposite of Senator Sumner's bill to blot cut the battles of the Civil War from the army register and regimental colors. 'The House resolution forbids any messures for such obliteration. A motion fo suspend the rules and pass a bill soto amend the Constitution that naturalized citizens should be eligible for the Presidency and Vice Presidency received 71 votes out of 155. A resolution offered by Mr. Cox, asking the Presi- dent to explain his interference in Louisiana and the conduct of Judge Darell, was voted down by the Republicans, to whom its language was distasteful. Another resolution, covering the sasme inquiry in different terms, was then of- fered, and passed without division. Senator Wilson's connection with Credit Mo- bilier is said to have come about in this wise: Mr, and Mrs. Wilson celebrated their gilver wed- ding four or five yesrs ago, at which time some of their friends gave to Mrs. W. & present of several thousand dollars. The proceeds of the silver wedding were naturally invested in a sil- ver mine, in which Mr. John B, Alley was head speculator. The silver mine proved a dead loss. Alley and Ames, moved by pity for Wilson, tendered him shares of Credit Mobillier to make up the loss in eilver, which shares Wilson took and held until rumors of bribery in connection with Union Pacific Railway matters became un- pleasantly thick, when he handed the shares back to Ames, and received the silver wedding ‘money from the great American Shovel without interest. A curious question in life insuranceis liable to arise in Delaware, growing out of the recent murder of & negro by Prof. West, the horrible details of which have already been related in these columns. His professed object in killing and mutilating the negro was that the body might be mistaken for his own, and that thereby he might defraud the insarance companies out of $25,000, the amount for which hislife was insured. Bome days after his disappesrance, however, he returned and confessed both the deed and the purpose. The question which now arises is, if West is hanged for the mur- der, will the companies be compelled to pay the insurance to his family? This question is now exciting almost a8 much interest in Delaware as the murder did, especially as, if the companies are compelled to pay it, it will be for their in- terest to get his punishment commuted to im- “prisonment for life. The motion pending before the Supreme Court of the United States, relative to the Louisians imbroglio, is for & writ of prohibition forbidding Judge Durell’s interference in the local affairs of that State. It is said that there are a num- ber of precedents in the Court establishing the rule that the Supreme Court will not entertain a canse in which it has appellatebut not original Jurisdiction until it has passed through the lower Court, and comes before them in the reg- ular way. The Louisiana case is still pending and undetermined before Judge Durell,—a tem- porary injunction heving been granted restraining the Warmoth Government from counting the votes and declaring the result of the election. The motion for a writ of prolubition was, yesterdsy, dismissed, for want of jurisdiction. The Court said, however, that when the District Court completed its ac- tion, by making the temporary injunction per- manent, an appeal could be taken, and the Su- preme Conrt would take cognizance of it. The Chicago produce markets were rathérmore active yesterdsy, and averaged somewhat firmer. Mess pork wasin fair demand, and 10@20c ‘higher, closing at 311,62}¢ cash, and $12.00@12.05 geller March. Lard was moderately active, and closed steady at $7.10 per 100 1bscash, and §7.50 (@7.55 seller March. Meatawere steady at8}4c for part selted shoulders ; 53§@53€c for do short ribs; 534@®6e for do short clesr, and T3@754c for green ‘hams. Dressed hogs were in good demand, and Be per 100 Ibs higher, closing at $4.55@4.60. High- wines were quiet and firm at90c per gallon, Flour was dull and steady. Whest was active, and 8/@1o higher, but closed dull at $1.13% cash, and $1.143¢ seller January. Corn was 20- tive, but declined 2@XC, closing at 30%c cashy snd 81}c seller January. Oats were more active at Saturdsy's decline, closing at 243/ cash, and 2434c geller January. Rye was quiet and firm at 63¢c. Barley was quiet and firm at 6134c for No. 2, and weak at 48)@49c for No.8. The hog market was active and higher, sales making at $£3.70@4.05. The cattle and sheep markets were Qull and easy. The expenses of our Fire Department last year amounted to more than 325,000, and it is probable that the expenses for the current year will reach the sum of £400,000. This is recalled for the purpose of comparing our expenses With those of the London Fire Department. The City of London maintsins an organization con- sisting of 50 fire-engine stations, 93 fire-escape stations, 4 floating stations, 51 telegraph lines, §2 miles of telegraph, 8 floating steam fire-engines, 17 emall pteam fire-engines, 16 seven-inch manusl fire-engines, 56 six-inch and 13 smaller manual engines, 104 fire-escapes, and 887 firemen. This establichment is main- tained at an annual cost of about £300,000. ‘When we remember that London has a popula- tion of about 4,000,000, or about ten times as many people as livein Chicago, the differance in therelative cost of London's Fire Department and our own becomes more striking. It is prob- able that the difference in the character of build- ings accounts for s large proporiion of the difference in the cost of maintaining the department; bub it aleo evident, from the composition and tested efficiency of the de- partment, that London gets more for its money than we do. The fire-escapes and manual en- ginea appear to be the leading features of the London organization, and, undoubtedly, they enable the firemen to get closer to the flames, apply their extinguishers more quickly, and handle fires in their incipient state with greater efficiency then among us, where these appli- anees are scarcely msed at all. Another in- structive feature of the London organization is, that the fire-insurance companies pay $58,097 & year, or more than one-sixth of the entire an- nusl expense of maintaining the Fire Depart- ment. The result of the Hepworth Dixon libel suit against the Pall Mall Gazelleis received with very general satisfaction by the English press. }:atmc'ted the Judiciary Committee o report The provocation of the suit Was & remark made by the Pall Mall Gazelle at the time Mr. Dixon was called on to preside at one of the Walter Scott centenary dinners. It said that “a suc- cessful compiler of obscene literziure snd ‘vamped-up travels " was not the sort of person to be chosen to & position of this kind. Mr. Dixon thereupon brought suit, claiming damages to the amount of $25,000. * Obscene literature™ was intended to refer to “Spiritusl Wives” and “vamped-up travels;” to books which Mr. Dixon had published on America and Russia. The counsel for defence urged that books of travel that are written by one who passes rapidly through & country, without taking time to study the people, are not entitled to coneideration as original and tristworthy productions. As to + Spiritual Wives,” he simply referred the book to the jury’s examination, convinced that they would find & perfect justification for the charge of obscene literature that had been made. The counsel for the prosecution did not even sttempt sny justification of the “8piritual Wives” book, and said that Mr. Dixon himself had regretted its publication. Ho simply claimed that the enormitics which it described bad been collectod for the purpose of tracing a connection between them and the re- ligious revivals common among the churches, and hoped thereby to check the frequency of these enthusiastic or fanatical gatherings. The ver- dict was o victory for the Pall Aall, and the press has chosen to consider it & victory for their privileges. But one newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, discerns any possible harm in the verdict, and this is, that it may encourage literary personalities. ' THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE IMBROGLIO. The family jar which is now going on inside of the Now York Tiribune office is very unpleas- ant one, and its parade before the public still more 0. If it had been kept within doors, as it should have been, it would have been of no pub- lic concern, and no detriment to itself. As, however, like s man and wife quarrelling upon the street corner and appealing to the byatand- ers, the disngreement has been made public, it is now a matter for open discussion. The New York Tribune is one of the half-dozen most important papers in this country, both in influ- ence and income, and the result of the recent political campeign has not lessened the interest, either of the public or the politiciens, in that paper. The day has gone by when a political campaign can decide the fate of & newspaper, or even influence its busi- mess. The prosperity of the newspaper now depends mupon its comparative merits with other papers in collecting and arranging news, upon the excellence of its editoriel mat- ter, and its general adaptation to the daily wants of the community in which it is publiehed and circulated. Men buy a newspaper as they buy other articles of daily consumption. When politics is the nppermost thing in their list of wants, they select a newspaper for its politics, ‘When news and market reports, and general instruction and entertainment are wanted, they select the paper which comes nearest their tastes in these respects. A political campaign is only an incident in the business of a great paper. Iis principal aimis to gather the news, accompanying it with editorial comment, and prosent it to its reeders in attractive form. The New York Tribune is not in the Republi- can caucus as it was formerly, but, as an organ of public opinion and apurveyor or dissemina- tor of news it stands to-day where it always did. With the exception of Mr. Greeley’s loss, the general status of the paper is unchanged. His loss was purely fortuitous (it must have hap- pened st some time), and does not affect the policy of the paper in its relationa to the public. Tts object is still the same, and the most pradent course to preserve and increase its prosperity is to take it up where he left it, and continue it in the course which he marked out for it, or rather which it marked out for itself, for the twain cannot be separated as regards that. It appears now that a clique of the stockhold- ers, headed by Mr. Sinclair, who urged Mr Gree- ley to run for the Presidency during the recent campaign, is striving to divert the Tribune from the couree previously mapped out by Mr. Gree- ley and himselt, and to convert it once moreinto party organ, under the management of Hon. Schugler Colfax. In such a conrse, the Tribune ’has everything to lose and nothing to gain. If the employment of Mr. Colfsx as its editor is simply & method of signifying the repentance of the Tribunefor its political sins, and & request for sbsolution, them that paper for- feits its sclf-respect, and sacknowledges itself to be s moral coward. A peper, like an individual, which has not respect for itself, can- not commsand the respect of others. Ithas nothing to gain from the people, for the people are mot now buying newspapers chiefly for politics,—certainly not for political tergiversa- tion. Tt hasnothing to gain from the politicians, ‘because the politicians furnish no material sup- port to a metropolitan newspaper. While it can expect no support from the politicians, it can, however, earn and receive their contempt. A newspaper which can be forced to its knees to ask pardon from the politicians, can only expect to bo regarded by them 28 a servant to fetch and carry without pay. 1f, on the otber hand, the employment of Mr. Colfax is an attempt to place an experienced and sble newspaper man at the helm of the Tribune, then the stockholders can do better, They have already as the maneger of the Tribune & gentle- man who i better qualifiod for the position than Mr. Colfax, Webave no desire to prejudge Mr. Colfax asa journalist; but it is patent to anymen in the newspaper business.that he has not been trained for the place, He has had no newspaper experience, and has shown no news- paper capacity, though as a politician he has shown striking ability. Prior to his publiccareer, he edited & smell country newspaper, which did not succeed in attracting notice outside of the village in which it was published until its editor had become prominent in the national councils, During his public career, he has written eseays for the New York Independent and various Sunday School journals, and de- livered Odd Fellow lectures. This is the sum total of his literary experience, and it does mot contain the special quelifications of the conduct of & great metropolitan newspaper like the New York Tribune. But every one to his taste. Meanwhile, the daily publication of these intestinal wrangles in the New York Zribune office is injurious to the paper. Family jars sre never pleasant to the public or profitable to the family. A few days after the election, when Mr. Greeley resumed editorial control of the Tribune, he printed n card setting forth the policy of the Tribune in the future, which was marked by such eminent good sense and wisdom that it received favorable comment from almost the entire press of the country, and elicited praise in quarters wheroit was not ex- pected. It is evident that Mr. Greeley would not bave assumed such & responsibility without con- sulting the other stockholders, and that they acknowledged the propriety of the course which his judgment had suggested. Had Mr. Greeley lived, that course would have been followed with-~ out a murmur of dissent, Is it any the less proper or Decessary now that Mr. Greeleyisdead? If that course commanded the approval of the press and public, and the stockholders of the Tribunes monthor more 2go, what has occurred since the death of Mr. Greeloy that will justify a change, or warrant the supposition that it will pay ? —— INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. There seems to be & general marshalling of forces from all parts of the United States, to make & combined assault upon Congress, snd through Congress upon the National Treasury, under the pretext of establishing water com- ‘munications between the Atlantic and the Mis- siseippi Valley. The schemes, taken geverally, are frequently hostile to each other; but com- bined are intended to tickle the fancy, excite the hopes, and obtain the supportof all sec- tions of the country. We do not know that we cancall off at one sitting the whole of these jobs, but among the more conspicuous of them are the following : 1. The purchase of the New York and Erie Canal at its cost.. .....$ 50,000,000 2. Th o the same....... .. 25,000,000 8. The improvement of the Miississippl River above Cairo. 20,000,000 9, The construction of & canal from the Mississippi over the mountains of Georgia. ....oeunn .. 10, The improvement of , and Ouchita Ri X 11, Lateral canals connecting other rivers with these water routes...... 12. The Lonisville and Portland Canal... 13, The Fox and Wisconsin Rivers Canal Total Government aid wanted.. There are others mentioned, and the eventual cost of these is, in some cases, perhaps under- stated ; but what we have given will furnish & fair idea of the general magnitude of the scheme which Congress is expected to approve and adopt. When it is remembered that there are at .ot this time bills, paesed by the Benate and pending in the House, granting from 100,000,000 to 150,000,000 acres of public land to railroads not yet begun, it will be understood that the Treasury is to be attacked by land and water, and thet the country, now taxed to the ex- tremest point to pay off the War debt, is to be taxed in addition to pay the interest and princi- pal upon several hundred millions of bonds to be issued to these internal improvement com- panies. The argument in favor of all these schemes is precisely the same. There is not one word that can be eaid for building the Fox & Wisconsin River Canal that does not apply equally to the building of the Kanawha & James River Canal in Virginia, nor for another river and canal route through Georgia, nor for like improve- ments of the rivers flowing into the Lower Mis- sissippi River from the west. The Ohio River is an afflicted stream. It requires surgery. The fact is, that it is a river that has ceased to be navigable above Louisville because of & want of water. There are a few weeks in the year when it has water, and then it is & torrent, carrying eversthing beforo it, and sinking all the craft that may be upon it. Cincin- nati, which depends Ilsrgely upon Pitts- burgh for s supply of coal, has frequently ‘been reduced to & coal famine because there has not been water enongh in the river from June to January to float down the coal boats. It is impossible for Congress to onact that there shall ‘be at oll times water enough in the Ohio River to float steamboats. The most that Congress can do is to dig out & bar, with a certainty that & now bar of equal size will form ina weqk within balf & mile of the site of the old one. Congress may expend money building wing- dams and other contrivances to keep the water from spreading out over too wide a surface ; but experience has shown that all' these things, however costly, are useless in the end; they cause new bars to form, and are themselves washed awsy the first time the river gets on & spree under tho elation of high water. The only practical way to overcome the chronic absence of water is to put dams and locks upon the river; and to this the people of the river towns sbove Cincinnati vehemently object. They protest against any toll-gates on the “natural highway,” and, while they admit the want of water, they seem to think it is the business of Congress to furnish the river with water, no matter how it is done. To make the Ohio River navigable for ordinary steam- boats from Louieville to Pittsburgh wonld require an expenditure of about two millions of dollars a year, to be continued from now until the year 1900, and by that time Congress would have to sink wells and keep pumps going night and day to keep the river-bed moist. The Kanawha River improvement is precisely » work of the same kind, only it is somewhat | shorter, and possibly & little more expensivopro- portionately. The canal part of this scheme is for a canel from Lyken's Shoals, on the Kanswha River, to Richmond, 895 miles long, over snd through the mountains of Virginis, and thence again by the James River to Hamp- ton Roads, 125 miles. The whole distance by this route from Cairo to Hampton Rosds is 1,345 miles. There is & canal on the Ohio River from TLonisville toPortland, not quite three miles long. This canal was built to enable vessels, at low water, to got around the Falls of the Ohio. Con- gress built the canal originally. Of late years, after importunate appesls, Congress has ex- pended $1,250,000 enlarging the canal, and gave its conzent that, when the work was completed, it should be free ta everybody except atoll of 5 cents per ton to pay the expense of operating it. There isa debt of about a million and a quarter on the canal, which Congress is also asked to pay. Ithas been just discovered that the cost of keeping this three miles of canal in repair and working 1t, will necessitate a toll of at least 30 cents per ton on stesmboats. An average steamboat rates at 800 tons, and, con- sequently, will have to pay $240 toll each time it pesses through the canal. If the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers be converted into slackwater streams, and the locks and dams be kept in repair, and the 400 miles of canal over the Virginia mountains have to ‘be kept in like repair, with the small army of lock-keepers from Cairo to Hampton Roads, the toll on the Louisvillé Canal will furnish an idea of what the cost will be of run- ning a steamboat from the one place to the other. Boat and cargo together will not be worth the aggregate tolls, The President of the United States, in his message, though he did not advise Congress to vote aid for this enormous and preposterous job, didyield 8o far o8 fo suggest that Congress would consider that as well as the varions othee y schemes for constructing water zoutes, where there was no water, and steamboat canals over mountains that will require a month to navigate from one end to the other. Yet this wholo scheme, monstrous as it is, will find friends in Congress. Taken separately, not vne of these works could receive the slight- est favor; but rolled into one, embracing in its folds something that appeals to the local in- terests of a variety of sections; having, also, the support of a strong lobby, nervously anx- ious to handle the many hundreds of millions of national bonds, and flushed with visions of the profits of another grand Credit Mobilier, or of a dozen of such organizations, this scheme has s strength which is not to be despised. . Have wo not gone far enough into the internal improvement aid business? We owe $64,000,000 represented by the principal of bonds issued to the Pacific railroads. Theso bonds have 30 years torun; the debt is increasing every year from the interest which we heve to pay on the bonds. This interest now aggregates $13,000,000. The accumulation is at the rate of $2,500,000 & year, and, at the end of the 30 years, we will have paid out abont $140,000,000, being twice the cost of the entire road. Does the country want to go any deeper into thia business? Do we want to issne one hundred or two hundred millions or any other amount of Government bonds to aid private corporations to build canals, place locks on rivers, or generally engage in works of in- ternal improvement in which no sane man wounld invest one dollar of his private fonds? Bome of the advooztes of this scheme refer to the successful improvement of the Illinois River. That work has been done at the expense of the State of llinois. The people of this State taxed themselves {o make that improvement, and the work has been done, eo far, at perhaps one-third what it would have cost the United Btates. Let the States whose trade and com- merce are to be benefited by the improvement of the Ohio River, tax themselves, and accomplish their own work. We venture to say that a prop- osition to raise ten millions of dollars for such & work, by a tax on the people of Ohio, would be almost unanimouely rejectod ; and yet, the Rep- resentatives of Ohio in Congress will, perhaps, vote to tex the people of Tllinois, and of Nebras- ka, and of California, to pay for that job; and, to secure its passage, will vote to tax their own constituents iwenty millions to build canals in Tlinols, Wisconsin, Georgis, Tennesses, and YVirginis. The whole scheme, from beginning to end, s 2 mera job to tex the country to enrich enother tribe of Ameses and Alleys, after the manzer of the Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier, A MODEL OF WOMAN'S INFLUENCE. The death of the Viscountess Beaconsfield, wife of the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, sug- gests how much of & man's greatness is fre- quently due to the influence of the womean whom he chooses as hia partner for life. The history of thislady is no other than that of & good, faithful wife, the features of whose life rarely come to the public knowledge, and whose mema- Ty belongs to those upon whom she has bestowed her cheering enconragements, her delicate con- solations, £nd her inspiring companionship. The Viscountess Beaconsfield was only known =8 Disraeli’s wife until her husband made public testimony of his gratitude and love by trans- ferring to hor the Peerage which was proffered ‘him in acknowledgment of his eminent services 88 & literateur 8nd diplomatist. She waa the dsughter of John Evasns, and was first married to Mr. Wyndham Lewis, & member of Parliament. Mr, Lewis wasan inti- mate friend of Mr. Disraeli’s, and extended to him all tho aid and encouragement which the latter received during his’ earlier experience in Parliament. In 1839, two years after Mr. Lowis death, Mr. Disraeli married the widow. At this time, th@Viscountess was no longer young nor ‘beautiful ; but Mr. Disraeli had aiready become familiar with the many charms of her character; and eatimated them at their proper value. Itis historical that Disraeli made a dismal and dis- heartening failure upon his first sppearance in Parliament. Much had been expected from him on account of his former brilliant career as an suthor, but his meiden speech was go tame and flat that it was received with hisses, laughter, end constant interruptions. Disraeli sat down with his memorable threat that he would make Parliament listen to him at some future time,— & threat which he fully carried out. There is reason to believe thet it was through his wife's influence that he was enabled to fulfil his prophecy. Before his marriage, Disraeli, petted and spoiled by his literary admirers, had formed hebits which were likely to dissipate his brill~ iant talents. He gave himself up to the adula~ tion which he received in society; sought fre- quentrespitesin Continentsl travel, and indulged his eccentric tastes to the fullest extent. It was his wife's influence that checked these dangerous tendencies, and monlded his acquire- ments into the more severe shape which was necessary to achieve & successful career as a statesman. She was a woman of brains and ambition. But she aspired rather to her hus- ‘band’s success than to any personal brilliancy in gociety. A familiar story beautifully and sadly illustrates her self-sacrificing spirit. The ocea- sion was one on which Mr. Disraeli was to de- liver & speech in Parliament from twhich he ex- pected great results. His wife accompanied him to the House in s carrisge. In closing the door at leaving home, one of his wife's fingers was caught and crushed. She forabore to ntter any exclamation, fearing that it might disturb her husband's thoughts in such manner as to endanger the success which he had eo fondly anticipated. Sho bore the tor- ture until he left the carriage, when she drove quietly to a surgeon’s, and had the crushed finger dressed and bandaged; but when Mr. Disraeli roturned, flushed with his forensic triumph, she showed him the bruiged finger as her share of thevictory. Thereis no doubt that it was her, influence which gave stability and direction to talenfs that were originally of an erratic nature, unsuited to the triumphs of statesmanship which Disraeli attained. His love and admira- tion for her were g0 pronounced, that they be- came the talk of London gociety, and, in zsking forher the Peerage which was offered to him- self, he publicly attested her worth in the most delicate and deserving manner, . 5 CHRISTIAN BURIAL, ‘While England seems to be in trouble over the question whether orno the clergymen of the Eng- lish Church are obliged to prophesy the usual #gure and certainhope" over the corpse of a per- son of immorallife,there appears to be considera~ ble difficulty in securing any burial servives what- ever over the bodies of those who die in gin in America. Themost noteble instance of the dis- position among American clergymen to svoid the dutyof consigning the desd to their last rasting-piace has been de veloped by one of New Fork's latest murder <ases. A girl knownas Maud Merrill was sh't dead in a house of pros- titution in which shs had been living. Her his- tory seems to bave been one of pecalisr tadness. Her life of shame had mot ex- tended over the space of more than & year. Thero was evidence at the Cozoner's in- quest indicating that her uncle, who was her murderer, was also her seducer. She had been engaged &8 & servant at private houses, andit was intimated that this uncle had not only se- duced her, but had taken from her all the moaey which ghe conld earn. This treatment finally drove her ont of service, and she took refuge in ahouse of ill-fame. After her uncle had found her wheresbouts, he continued to visit her there, and to demand the money which she received, going 50 far as to question the other inmates in Tegard to the sums she had earned. The mur- der took plece in Maud's room, and it is sup- Posed that it wes the result of her refusal, or of her inability, to furnish him with any more fands. The story has some significance in conection - with the circamstance that search was lopg made in vain to find a clergyman who would consent to give the de- ceased & Christion burinl. Her life of shame was notorious ; the more notorions on acoount of the tragic manner in which it terminated. Butit is an importent question for Christian Churches to determine, whether their ministers are acting in consonance with the spirit of their calling when they refuge to extend the formal decencies which friends of the dead usually de- sire to observe in consigning the body to dust. Shall the minister of the Lord undertake to de- termine the extent of the Lord's mercy ; how far the sinner may” have heen sinned against ; how much or little the misfortunes of life shall miti- gate vico; Where Christian charity shall begin and where itshall end? Iathe refusal to give the traditional consolation of & minister’s pres~ ence at the grave of = -~rourtesan in keeping with the Saviors treat- ment of Magdalen? Oris the Magdalen story an interpolation and amyth? Is it following the injunction to judge not lest ye be judged? The minister’s calling has duties that are more clearly defined than those of gny other profes- sion. It is his vocation to bring words of com- fort,consolat ion, and hope to whomsoever he can. It is his province to encourage Christian forgiveness and charity. It is his place to sooth the sufferings, calm the emotions, and reconcile the trials of an erring people, wherever and whenever he can. If possible, " the miniater of the Lord should have more to dowith sin than & man in another calling. Who knows but that one of the several ministers who refused to officiate at the funeral of the unfortunate Maud Merrill might not have uttered words that wonld have led her comrades to repentance, or have pointed-out a practical means of reform? Had 20y minister of the Chirch aright to neglect such an opportunity for extending the claims of religion and improving the morals of the com~ maunity? It will scarcely be denied that minis- ters are frequently calledupon to deliver eulogles over bodies of deceased men and women who were not purer than Maud Merrill, but whose half-hidden vices lent more mockery to the oc- casions than her unfortunate notoriety could possibly have brought out at her grave, It is probable that simple but impressive’ services over her body would have produced & solemnity and infensity of feeling rarely discovered at large and fashionable funerals. The neglect ta use this opportunity for doing practical good may be the direct means of daing practical harm, by creating an impression of the hollow= ness of Christian charity smong the very classes who have most need to belisve in it. A casobas just been tried in England which involved the question whether or not aiding and abetting another in committing suicide cane stitutes murder. The English law i8 very clear and well-settled in favor of the principle that such an act is murder, but the trial resulted in the acquittal of the prisoner, in spite of the fact that his co-operation in the suicide was vary well established. “The circumstances of the case were these : Two young men, named Nagel and May, came to England from Germany together, having & considersble sum of money in their possession. They lived extravagantly, and soon found that their money bad been dissi- pated. Bhortly after this, they were found in their rooms, both . lying on the floor, Nagel dead, and Msy in what was supposed to be a dying condition. May recov- ered after two months of intense suffering, and was placed on trial for his life for murder. The strongest circumstantial evidence was produced at the trial tending to prove May's guilt in abet- ting and co-operating in Nagel's death by his own hand. It was proved that both were found together in their room with the door locked; both breasts wére bared, and there was a gen- eral appearance indicating that snicide had been premedidated. - A letter was found in the bed- room from a girl named Burgess, which con- tained expressiouns showing that the intention of comamitting suicide had been communicated to her. Furthermore, the Chancellorof the German Consulate testified that May had told him that Nagel had first taken the pistol and shot himself, and that he (May) had then taken it and fired into his own breast. The evidence throughout was of a character to leave little doubt of consultation between the two, and premeditated suicide on the part of both, This would bring May within the law which defines the aiding and abetting of suicide as murder, It is stated that the jury brought ina verdict of acquittal, partly because of the prisoner being a foreigner, and partly because he had already suf- fered greater tortures than those of death in his long and painfal illness. It is entiraly probable, ‘Thowever, that & sentiment opposed to construing the aiding and sbetting of suicide as murder had something to do with determining the resulf. A year or more 2go & man and woman in Massa- chusetts resolved upon suicide together; the woman died from the poison and the an re- covered, but he was convicted of aidingin the desth of the womsn, and punished accordingly.’ —_— Japan hes recently taken two important pro- greasive steps whichindicate that the recent re- port of a conservative reaciion among the rulers of that Empire is untrue. The firat of these steps is the decision to create an elective Parlisment of two Houses, and numbering 600 members, by which step, for the first time in the history of Japan, the people will have a judgethet it has been emizently suecezaful, if the glowing language of thevorrespondent may be accepted literally. Though the idea is mew to this country, the English ‘‘bar-maid” in first-class inns is the only representative of what we call the botel-clerk, end it is not ua- likely that much of the cleanliness and excel- Ience of service which are found inthe English inns are to be credited to her influence. it e The New York World states that justifiable homiclds 18 now held to include “the case of every man wha any other man on account of any woman, aud of every woman who kills eny man on any accomt whate ever.” The question whether a man has a right to. kill his niece because she voluntarily enters ona life of ghame is now to be decided. This in- volves the question whether a life of shame is. not itself as severe a punishment as the wrath of man or God can devise for woman. —— POLITICAL GOSSIP AND OPIXION. The Connecticut and New Jersey pape,rg are demending (State) Constitutional Tevicden. In Virginis, the Legislature proposes to submit amendments. —The next, Senntorship of California (vice Casgerly, 1875,) will be decided “py the election next September; and Governar: Booth and John B. Felton have come to & *“ go-od understanding ” that George C. Gorhsm 8hr .\l noi carry off the honors. —The vote of Oregon : ! Notember, President. 1637 Srant, 1 12,347] Greeley.. {0°"Conor. —The vote of Washirgton Territory: 1870, Dusleate. 2,1 34{McFadden, Lib, A 5/:55]Gerneid, Bepn: —The vote of Bost on : Sor Hayon, 1 5resident, , For Mayor, December, 1872 Gaston, D...9,828/Gro aley..... 10,40 Talbot, Ber.6.194/Gront ,757Ig;::‘c°ex:'nx.' The vote for Mayor, this year, is to be re- counted. —The vote in the South Carolins Legislature, for Benator, was : John J. Paiterson, 90; Ei- léott]; 83; Sawyer, 8; Scott, 7; Poinier, 7: Graham, 4; Moues, 1. A Columbia despatch informs’ns that “tho most shameless and opers buying of votes pwevailed in the contest,”™ and a ymhn‘gt%nudesp;tfi_h Paays: “There is [no ?] eason to believe 3r. Patterson wil - mitted to & seat.” e bend —XEalloch, pl: hos laid dova b init. —The new apportionment of Indiana gives the Republicans eight of the thirt - sional Bistfichs. £ se Cangres —So far as we have observed, the list of candidates for the Speakership of the next As- sembly embraces the names of Curtis, of Green Bay; Baron, of Polk; Kelsey, of Margmette ; g;}ema%u of Bock.s snd ésmlcte, of Eca re. on was Speaker during the 3ession of 1866.—Aalilwaukee égn!inzl, 5 —That Mr. Colfax would add largely to tha Dresent influence of the Tribune by allowing i3 name to appear as its editorial manager thero can be no doubt. That he would put the Journal back whera it waa before it unfortunataly fell from public grace, is a matter of more macer~ tainty.—Buffalo Commercial. —There is talk in Washington of & spedial tobe passed by Congress permitting Minis Washburne to accept some reward from the G- man Government for his services to the German. Tesidents of Paris during the siege. We sicere- ly hope that better counsels will prevail. Los the Emperor send a letter of thanis, and it will bo better for Mr. Washburne, better fc,e history, then s medal of gold.—Mikwaukee Scmtingl. ~—The election of Grant is, ‘nerefors, the choice of the lesser evil. It i8 nc; gn unqualified indorsement of his condvct, nor e declaration. of popular contentment, wit?, 'the present statua for another four yesiz. On the contrary, his. Te-election liberat®’s o reform sentiment which. was repressed by the necessities of the election contest. TL’; gense of having been placed 85 o disadvan>.ge before the enemy by the shortcom- ings of the Administration, will give the reform. demoind an energy it did not have before. The: Wounds of the battle will give an unwonted: Bharpness to criticism in the Administratiors E:ny_. ‘Whatever load the supporters of the esident have hed to carry in the fight will now be freely cast upon him, and his conduct will be ;uhjeczedt :a s meverity of judgment which will @ ‘something now to OUT party experiences. Atlantic Mmfizxy. L ,~—Was there ever anything so cowardly in the history of our politica as that which we bavo witnessed in the House of Representatives dur- ing the past six days? Read the list of Republi- cans from beginning to end, and there is not, 80 {ar a8 anything has yet been seen, a man of courage among them all. They have been gov- erned by a mere sentiment. Courtesy to Mr. Banks, consideration for Mr. Farnsworth, kind- ‘mess for Mr, , isrank treason to the men Who in the Iate terrible struggle carried thirty States against the most fearful odds, in the facy of the most terrible opposition. Henceforth let our so-called leaders in the House live. in the novels of Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., for his are the only scenes in which they =zro. fitted to play a part. Technicalities, we are. told, are in the way. Gentlemen, call it by iis true name—downright cowardice, The will of the peopls is higher than the mere ruling of the House of Representatives. The expressed. wishes of 80 States and 40,000,000 of freemen. , 1871, | November, 1872 9,294 8,92 ing for the Kansas Senatorshy his Land. Thera was mothing acs ‘voice in public affairs, Commenting upon this, the Japan Gazelte says : It is an experiment of tho deepest interest; ar’y nothing that lios yet been done by the Governme~ 4 ig 80 big with mighily consequences s is this, gape all praise is dus to the Government which b 4q jod thy ‘people, step by step, to freedom, and Who 4w place s large an amount of POWeX in their han’,g The second step is the issuiT,p of » decres by the Government, which mak_g the sale of young females for the PUTPOSES, of prostitution illegal under severe penalties, and thereby removes one of tho worst feattices of the Japanese polity. Tho mMOvament for enlarging the sphere of employment for women has received a new im- pulsein the suggestion that the conventional male clerks in the hotels shall give way to ladies. The proposition is one that is fall of hope for the convenience, comfort, and dignity of Amer- ican travellers. A newspaper correspondent hes discovered & hotel in Massachusetts where the change bas glready been tried, and we should Tepeal all rules and regulations. It is not law, itis cowardice—cowardice the most mean and. abject, The Republicaus of the House to-dey quail before Blair, who was repudisted by his State; before Banks, whowas scorned by his. coastituents; before Farnsworth, who has beer. spat upon by every decent man in tho countiy; before Liberal Republicanism snd Democrads.. that have been trampled ont in two-and-thirty Btates, Who will be our political leader in ihe. House ?— Washingfon Republican. —Washington hag two morning dsilies, both. 50 truly loyal thatitisan exciting, rivalry be- tween them as to which shall be the first to lick: the blacking off the President’sboots. Theyaro without independence in discussing any ques~ tion involving the capacity, honesty, and integ~ rity of the Administration. Being supported iz gr_ent part by Government pap, nothing but lind subserviency to the powers that are is to be efict!d. If ‘the President should kill his grandmother (if he had cne), theao two papars would_speak of it 8s & straightforward, clesr~ headed business_transaction, indicaticg an wo fathomable depth of patriotism, and a firm pur- pose to do the right through evil and good re- ort. A%un,xf s Excellonty should regular- ly stand on his hesd fiftesn minutes éry morning in_ front of the Whito. Houge, these tosdy jowmals would speslk of the performance 8S_denoting ‘s depth of origipality in the Exeutive mind which of his most devoted admirers had not bes fore credited him with ; We see in this innova- tion of Presidential exercises another illustra~ tion of the firm purdose of President Grant, his simple habits, unostentations parade, and iroz will'to do his duty,"— Cincinnati Commercial. —The anxiety of Postmaster General Creswell to add the telegraph and news business to the Postal Department is in one respec. very hope~ ful sign. It ehows that there is inthe Post Office Department a latent force not called ou Dy the present way of doing business, that cr_q be made living force and applied to making the sdministration of the mail business Waai it ought to be, or bringing it up to 0-gewhere- near the efficiency that is fonnd in #,yilar lines of business under private enter cise. In this way the reserved energies_that *rgquire tho tele- graph to utilize them can find, ghyndant occapa- tion. The Government ms7, gervice is far belund similar Lines of: busine” s in private hands, sucn 88 the express DUsir g5, the general transporta- tion, and the can™ 5o of passengers, in energy,. the spirit of 8" .ommodation, and in Fesponsibile: ity.—Cindir_ngt; Gazette. - ‘Colfax is & gentleman of grest moral WOIt?,, but he has none of that marked individu~ 2%y which is so necessary in the editor of a greatmetropolitan newspapar. Wethink it would Pprove the mistake of his Life should he accept of a position for which he has none of the requisite 1y |.tatent, and from which he would certainly retire within 8 very brief period.—Jacksonville (Zil.) Journal. . ous —A{"Comb and Ames are simply managing the inveatigation to make the best terms for & set- tlement, and will tell or threaten only so much of each other and each other’s friends ag wil' contribute to that end ; both knowing, 88 g0o¢ many other people know, that there are tod many prominent public men in all parties inter- estedin the suppression of the real history o1 the business, to make it very dangerous to play this little bluff game with one another, Tho in: vestigation will simply force a settiement of their suit; it is only carried on for that purpose, and to 80 puzzle the whole scandal before tha public 25 to encourage the notion that there was nothing very bad in it, after all. If anything more comes of it it will be by accident, and be- cause the investigation gets beyond the control ot it up, and now have it in of those who band.—Springfield Repubkican,