Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1872, Page 4

4 THE CITICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1872 e e A e e et et Bt e PP e e e e e e e e e e e e e e —— TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TXRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (PATADLE IX ADVAXCE). sily, by radl.....§12.00 | Suada 2.5 PR B12:001 ey S3:58 Pzrts of a year at the same rato. ‘To pratent delay and mistakes, be sure and pivo Post Dfce scdress 1 full, tnsluding Stete and County. Komitcances may be made eitber by draft, expreas, Post DSce order, or 1o registered leiters, at our risk. TEEMS TO CITY SUDSCRIDERS. Batly, deltrered,” Sunday excepted, 50 centa per meck zily, deivered, Sunday fncluded, S cents fer wi Addens THE TRIBUNE COP, Coraer Madison aud Dearborn-ats. ch Office, No. 463 Wabash-ar., in the cokstoro of . Cobb, Andrews & Co., whero adrertisome) subscriptions will be received, and yill hzve the same attention s if leit at the Maln Difce. TRITTST Br CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. IRST PAGE—Tho Calamiiove Era: Loss of Lifo and Property by Sea and Land—New York snd Wash- ington News—Miscclianeous Tolegrams. ECOND PAGE-—Dubuque Letter—Coshocton (Ohio) Lotter—*rs. Sam Jones About Homo—San Diego Letter—The New York Fires—Tea Growing in Toww. YEIRD PAGE—Periodical Literature—Railroad Time Table—Adrertisonents. {OURTH PAGE—Ediiorials: Tho Credit Mobills In- vesiigatloa; Extemng tho Arcz; A Dangorous Clsss of People—Curreat Nows Items—Notes and Opinon. £:FTH PAGE-Tho Law Courts—Rallroad Newe—Resl Estete Transactions—Perscaal—Markots by Telo- graph—Adsertisoments. {IXTH PAGE—Meaotary and Commercial~TRISTNE Prospectus. il PAGE—A Two-Million-Dollar Suit: Two Valuable Tracts of tho Scuth Side Tzken iato Chan- cory—Small Adverticoments: Real Estate, For Sale, T Reat, etc. . LIGETH PAGE—Forcign Newsby Telegraph—Aiscel- Linaoas Telograms—Freisht Discriminations—City n Briaf—Auction Advertisements. AEV TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. 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Prodac ndiately = euperb Lluck or nztagal brewn, and I 0 St clean, eott, end beaucifal, Tho genulne, signed Y. #- Eatetiolor.” Sold by ail _druggisis. CHARLES CATCHELOR, Propsictor, N. Y., ‘GUGH TURKE ed wine rest hea {mes, ” 25th on **Ch has just astived, being tho firss fns: jc Lignid Pepsin. Your drugygist can 2ble preparation. Hare no other. 23110, or aay Urovhins arising ‘rucred stomach Aromaijo Liguid” Pepzin has mo_oq co & Co., Prosidon s, Fran 3 and G.T A mmfigjd. C., D. —~ Saturday Morning, Deccmber 28, 1872, Heok Smith has been re-slected Presidens of tco New York Police Board. e — By the busning of the City Pest House of Bos- jou, Thursday night, 300 small-pox patients were turned out of thieir beds and cast npon the sommuzity. Stokes festificd yostorday in his own behalf f1:at Lo shot Fisk, who aimed a pistol and forced sém to fire in self-dcfonce. He sys he had no wtcation of killing him. g to & visit from Professor It is reain thet his serica of lectures would be 2nd well appreciated here. <1y sttend. General Francis A. Walker has resigned his position as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Prosident has accepted his resignation, but =11 not appeint Lis successor until Commission- ¢x Delano returns from his Cubaa jaunt. Khiven troops sre attacking tho Russisns on the Tuerbs River, besicging the forte, and inter. fesing with the fishermen. England has assured tae Czar that her concorn with Ruseian opera- tions in Central Asia cxtends no further than the protection of Afghanistan. Amaalsing in jail st Scranton, Towa, on & e of murder, was taken out day beforo yos- terdey Dy fifty citizens to be bung without the zormality of o trial. Feeling thet his necessity Linow 1o Jas, be saved his life by making a full vonfession, sud was then returned to the author- tiies to aweit more regular proceedings. Twenty thousand peopie living in the subnrbs of Toston wers enow-bound in that city yoster- dar, £nd unable to reach their homes. A similar state of affairs exicta fu New York, which has £3en mo such fall of enow for twenty years. Some idea of its extent may bo gathered from ¢he statoment that to clear Broadway will coet £20,000. The candidetes for Senator in Louisiang are Durell, Casey, Pinchback, and a lawyer named Dillings. Sinco Pinchiback got Lis tremendous 3ift from mothing into the Governorship, the colored legislators, 77 in number, aro seid to :av0 boea impressed with 8 superstitions dmi- n of his Juck, which notbing but green- £acks can conateract. Cssey’s chancos are the Yest, however, if the Federal intervention con- tinues. A suit throstening thetitles of over a hundred owners of real estatoin this city, and involving property to] the value of £2,000,000, has been ‘begun in the Superior Court of ihis city. Else- whereis given a full statement of the charges ! the plaintiffs, who sallege astounding frauds on the part of several well-known citizens, in the conceslment of decds and the dishonest ap- proprietion of the property of others to their own uses, lemphis has been the sceme of one of the fa0st extraordinary of tho disasters which have .Pomercy do @ an ico gorge, which had been formed abovo the city, swept down the river, stripped the docka from the shore, snd ran down all the coal barges, and mearly every ono of the many large river steamers lying thore, which were sunk, driven into ono arother, or broken to picces. One of thoimmediate ef- fects of tho destruction of the coal was to ad- vance its price to $2 a barrel. Lavge quan‘ities of cotton were destrored. What the loss will bo camot be told, but it will be very heavr. At last advices it was thought that tho icowas form- ing another gorge. The developments in the New York Centre street fire, where several girls were burned to death, show that those unfortunate victims owe their death to niggardliness or carclessness, which may properly be called criminal. The foreman of one of the establishments in the building testified that the building had been on fire twice previously within thres weeks, 2nd that he told one of the proprictors thai the fire eacapes should be put in order, “but in the burry and prossure of business it was forgotten.” The bodies of the girls now lying under the ruins of tke building will not be forgotten so easily if the Coroner's jury do their duty. The jury in the Fifth Avenue Hotel case disposed of tho corpses of tho scrubwomen with much dexterity. A correspondent of the New York World writes to that paper, suggesting an amendment to the statutes, which shall compel every persoa who ‘muzders another in New York to & : at his own expense, oud to cause an obituary notice to be inserted in at least two daily papera at his own proper cost and cherges. The corre- epondent thinks that those who aro kindly per- have rendered themeclves in any way dissgree- sble to them, will nst object to this elight recogmition of their paivilegés. have this much respect shown them by their murderers, inasmuch as they have no other recognizo. When this reform tales edfoct, the common salutation of friends will not be, ¢ liow do you do eiz#" but, “Where do you bury dead 2" oar No eearch hns been mads for the missing victims under the ruins of the Centre straat fire, in New York. The owner of the burnsd build- ing lives out of town, and has not been keard from. Without his authority the police have not veatured to disturb his property, notwithstand- ing the Leartronding appeals of relatives and frienda. The Superintendent of Tolice has, at last, determined to move in tho matter, say- ing that no red tape ought to interfore with so plain o duty. Thonsands of buiidings ara said by the Buperintendent of Buildings to be in even a woreo state than tie oma which was ihe scene of this horror. One of them, a doublo tenement house, took fire yestorday. There were no adcquato escapes, and only by superior human exertions wers the inmates rescued. Some of them, when taken out, wero at the point of death by suffocation, General 0. O, Howard has indorsed Senator Pomeroy a3 “pure and simplo in private life strictly temperate in cversthing, with & pleasant little family eround him, & regular attendant at church, & man of preyer elways leaning on the mighty arm of strength, full of kiucness to the peor,” etc. This proves, of course, that Pomeroy has never swindled tho Government or the Pottawatomio Indiaus. Deing amen of preyer, and alweys lezning on the mighty erm of strength, he could never have pocketed the Chiriqui Colonization Fund. Now let good tun for Gen- eral Howard. The Iatter handed over 8 quarter of a million dollars of the Freedmen's Bureau funds to a missionary society of which his nephew was & prominent oficer. Thero was no secret about it, to be sure ; but the existence of other missionary socioties was so coolly ignored that Pomeroy ought now to step for- ward and indorse Howard. The Chieago produce markets wero less activo yesterday, but generslly firm. Mess pork was quict and Sc lower, at £11.50@11.55 cash, and $11.80@11.85 geller March. Lard wasin fair de- mand and steady at Tc cash, and $7.82}4 per 100 Ibs seller DMarch, Meats were quiot and un- changed, at 3§¢c for shoniders, 5¢¢ for short ribs, 53¢ for short clear, and TH@7}4¢ for grecn hsme. Dressed hogs were firm and 5S¢ per 100 1bs highor, at $4.30@4.85. Highwines wero less nctive, and Jgc higher, at 90c per gallon. Flour was quiet, but firm. Whest was less active, and averaged fc lower, but closed at 1193 cash, §1.201¢ eeller January, end $1.223¢ seller February. Corn was quiet and firm, closing at 303Zc cash; 3lc seller January, end 363jc scller diay. Oats were dull, and & shade easfer, closing at 243(c cash, and 213@ 245¢c seller Jannary. Rve was quict, and ljc lower, at 69@69}¢c. Darley was quict and firm, at 66@G614c for No. 2, and 53@5ic for No. 3. Live hogs were quiet and firw, at full prices, or at £3.50@3.80. The cattle trade was moro active, but prices were without improvcmont. Sheep remain unchanged. s That the newly-confirmed ster to tho Ar- gentino Confederation, General Julius White, ‘may undersiand {he naturo of things in general whither he is goirg. and be enabled to steer his way intalligently through the political intrica- cies of that delightful country, wo present him gratwionsly with & summary of the treaty re- cently formed between tho Confederation and Beazil, which will remain in force mil it is broken,—an cvent that may happily not tako place until bo gots there and Loists his diplo- maticflag. By tho termsof this troaty Beazillolds itself bound to obsorva tho treaty of 1865, which General Whito will have to study up in the Pori- ugueso iongue. Tho Argentine Government recognizes tho separate treatios botwcon Brazil and Paragusy in rcjation to commerco, naviga- tion, and boundarles, and will negoliate eimilar treaties with Pavaguay, if possiblo. All thoallies are to ctand on an equality inrespect to the modo of payment, by Paraguay, of her werin- demnity; and that, within throo months after the conclusion of the separate treaties to be n2- gotiated by the Argentine Confederation and Trogusy with Parazuay, all the Argentino acd Brazilien forces shell be withdrawn from Para- guay. The Nation, which has for gome time winked at the Federal interforence in Louisians, on ac- count of the bad character of Warmoth, now takes ground against it. Tho Boston Advertiser and the New Yerk Independent have also joined in chiding. The latter geys that the question in issue i “whether the constitutional Govern- ment of s Btute shall, in tho time of pesce, bo been ceueed by the late intense cold. Yesterdsy subverted by Fedoral power,” Tho Washington mittcd to remove from their vicinity those who | It wonld ecem as if murdcred men ought to | sights which the murderers are compell=d to | stronger | correspondent of the Nation says that the Re- publican members of Congress Who aro op- posed to the proceedings of Louisians are afraid of opening their mouths lest they be classed with the opposition. This is precisely what we Lave suspected. To be classed with Trumbull, Schurz, and Sumnperwould be the signaltoset the dogs on. Betterthat the Constitution should bo subverted, States subjugated, and our system of government turned upsido down, than to bo classed with the opposition. Perhaps by the time Congress reassemlles there will be €0 many peopls classed with the opposition that an unloosening of tongues may be decmed at icast as eafe as an indictment for murder in Xew York City. Tho Administration’s construction of the Civil Service Reform, to which it has committed itself on several occasions, was illustrated in New York about the same timo as in Chicago,—tho differonce being thet it concerned the Post Oftice and the letter of tho rules in Chicago, while it concerned the District Attornoyship and the spirit of the reform in New York. The gentle- man vho was sppointed District Attorney, a chort timo since, is AMr. George Bliss. Ho ia described as a lawyer of smell practice, who has devoted most of his time for meny years past to New York politics, and who is spoken of by the Nation ss *the confidential friend, and adviser, and coadjutor of Tom Murphy in the busineas of ¢control- ling primaries.’” e is also described to be tke chief manager of what is known as the Cus- tom-House party. Itistrue that there wasno rule laid down by the Civil Service Commission to cover & case of this kind ; but the very spirit of the movement is such as to preclude the ap- poiniraent of such = man as Mr. George Bliss is i deseribad to be as United States District At~ | torney enywhere, but especially for & city like i i The mischief which a few degrees of tempera- ture, moro or less, can produce, is fearfully oxer- plified by tho intelligence which tho telograph brings daily. A fall of 10 degrecsin the {her- mometer in 2 few hours has caused terribly | destruetive fires all over the country, produced by overleating, and involving a loss of millions of “dollars; has broken rails and wheels and wrecked numerous traine, with a fearful loss of lifo; has effeciually stopped tho business of two large cities, New York and Boston ; has sum- marily supprossed ‘ho transmission of mails and merchandizo all over tho Easiern States; has destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of stezmboat and barge pruperty at Memphis, and will probably do tho same thing at St. Louis before loug, as the ice is gorged both alove and below that city; has caused great cxpense, acd, in some instancer, loes of life, Ly the explosion of oilers and kitchen ranges; has cut off, it is reported, tho Michigan fruit prospects; and has resulted in 3 muliitudo of minor casualties end accidents all over the country, not to mention tho extrerao suffering incidert to poverty and exposuro. During tLe spring, summer, and fall, all the diesstrous clements of thosa geasons seom to have been lot looss, and now winter 24ds its dismal catalogue of horrors, caused by the ice, tho snow, the frost, and tho cold. The Xew York Times is disposed to trest the gettlement whick Jay Gould medo with the Erie Railvoad Company as & means whereby 3Ir. Gonld cscaped the just punishment for hia for- mer frandulent transactions. Spesking of the manegers of tho road who Lrought tho' settle- ment to & successful end as elmost equally guilty with “ihe arch-trickster, Mr. Jay Gould,” the Times asks: “Is not this con- donation almoat &3 bad for the financial honor of the community-es the original thieving of Gould himself ?” We think not. In the first place, we fail to see how the scttlement can be properly called a *condonation,” implying that the Erio 1anagers bad made some agreement that they would not prosecute Gould criminally in case the latler would pay them & cortain amonnt of money. This is the first intimation that Mr. Gould was arrcsted on . criminal suit. Mr. Watson, the Presidont of the Erio Railroad, sued Mr. Gould for some £9,000,000 worth of property, which, Lo claimed, Gould unlawfully longed. Gould virtnally acknowledged the jus- tice of the claim by offering toturn in property, the cash valuo of which was 7,000,000, and the actual value of which to the Erio Railroad Company is sald to bo | £9,000,000, or the full emount of the claim. Tn accepting this pro;erty, Mr. Watson avoided all the risks of a New York lawsuit, saved the inter- est in the value of the claim, and secured the present edvantage of an incressed valuoin Erio stock. As the purposc of the Erie Company was to recover what belonged to it, end mot to pun- ish Gould for any offence egainst good morals of which he may have been guilty, the settle- mont was a strong stroke of financial polic; Nor does it seem to contain any prohibition of & criminal prozecntion against Gould, if thero is good ground for it, and if the New York Times can spar on the proper authorities or undertake tho matter on its own account. THE CREDIT MOBILIER INVESTIGATION. The s2cret investigation of the Credit AMobilier scandal bas gone far enough to establish certain facts, beyond any possibility of question, and these facts may bo grouped into turee clagses, as follows: 1. Tt is established that three dividends were paid by the Cradit Mobilicr, cither in cash or se- curities of the Union Pacific Railroad, between tho time when Congresemen received tho stock from Oakes Amos ond the time when they re- fused to take it, or handed it back. Bome of theso Congressmon took the dividends and somo did not. Most of them had the matter under advisement for seven or eight months beforo they could satisfy ticir consciences as to the moral bearing of tho transaction, showing that the average Congressional perception of right and wrong is much slower than molasses in January. 2. Tt is established that the modus operandi of ‘manipulating Credit Mobilier etock for Congress- men was for Oakes Ames to hold it as Trustee, and poy the dividends as they accrued. After rumorscamein clrculation that Congressmen were holding this stock, they surrendored it to Ames. When Ames sought to ensnaro & Congressman by offering him this stock at par, ho referrad him to Alley, whereupon Alley, of courso, vouched for Ames. This fact, which has boon clearly os- tablished, makes another fact equally clear, which involves the guilt of these Congressmen If they hod made s fair and squaie business transaction, like honest peoplo, thsy would have acted like honest people, taken the slock into their own bands, and held it them- selves, instead of having Oakes Ames hold it as @ trustee. If it had been a fair and square busi- ness traneaction, they would not Lave sought to retained from the Erio Compeny to whom it be- | conceal it by makiig relatives responsible, neither would they hive surrendored it efter- ward, when rumors ware afloat that they had it in their possession, . All the verbose reports that can bo made, andall the financial and po- litical technicalitics taat can be employed, can- ot cover up this clea: and simple result o that people will fail to unierstand that theso Con- gressmen know the tmnsaction was a corrupt one. Honest men, diing an honest business, do not cover it up vith convenient relatives, or allow trustees to hold the principal upon which they are drawing interest, and then surrender tho princifal to the trustee when some ono finds out they are cngeged in the transaction. . 8. Tho drift of the festimony, as far as it has been mado public, thows that all of tho Con- gressmen mentioned {n M'Comb’s memorandum, and some others, had stock in some form in tho Crelit Mobilier, excepting Blaine, - Boutwell, and the late 3Ir. Eliott. The latter never held any of the stock, although & nearrelaiye did. Mr. Banks wos never approached by Oakes Ames., Boutwell was offered stock, tut, after deliberating upon the matter, declined it; likewiso Blaine. As to Henry Wilson's connection with it, the Washing- ton correspondent of the Boston Journal makes the statement, for the trath of which he vouch- es, that Mr. Wilson's wife held for o time £2,000 worth, the money paid for which ‘was & part of the 3,500 given her at her silver wedding. At that time, according to this writer, who is a friend of Wilson, Ames was a fellow- boarder with the Wilsons, and they askedhis ad- vico about investing. He recommended Credit Mobilier stock, and offered to guarantee 10 per cent interest, on condition that they would divide the profits aboe that amount with hum. They made tho invesiment, and: Ames delivered tho stock. When the Crebit Mobilier business began to be noised abroad, Mr. Wilson at once asked hiswife to getrid of the stock. So sho surrendored it to Ames, who returned tho pur- chasomoney, with interest, to Mrs. Wilson. After her death, all ber property was divided among her relatives, so that Mr. Wilson claimshe was never enriched a single cent by Ames. A special to the Boston Globe puts Mr. Brooksin acurious light. After Amos Lad nearly completed his contract for building the Union Pacific, Mr. Darant, then Vice President, sent one Bimon Johneon to get President Johnson to accept the ! road, and to see Sccrelsry McCulloch about issuing the bonds. |At the same timo, tho Credit Mobilier sent Mr. Brooks on the eame errand. -He, finding ths work already done, ro- turned to New York, claimed the credit, aad, it is alleged, received $40,000 for the job. Afr; Hooper held Credit Mobilier stock, being en original stockholder in the Pacific Railroad. Alessrs. Alley, Bingham, Garfield, Eelloy, Sco- field, and Patterson are belioved to have held Credit Mobilier stock for a longer or shorter time. Peading the investigation, it is hardly fair to comment upon the case; but it has slready ad- vanced sufliciently, snd damaging facts enough heve leaked out, to make it evident that an at- tempt will be made to cover up and gloss over the facts, or, falling in that, to justify them. For this reason the people should demand and Tonest Congressmen should urge, that,when the Committes meets agaip, after the holidsys, it shall meet with opon doors, =0 that the public may know the exact trauth. It is already inti- ‘mated in newspaper quarters et Washington that an attempt has been made to surreptitionsly ob- tain and euppress tho evidence. Congress has not half g0 much to do with the evidence as the public. It belongs to the latter, whoso servants theso Congressmen are, and to whom they are responsible. The public, therefore, have the clear right to demand that, hereafter, this investigation shall not be in the nature of a Star Chamber proceeding. Truth does not fear the light. A closed dooris clear evidence of something wrong behind it, in such & case as this. If theso implicated Congressmen are as innocent as they have beon declaring themselves to be, they themselves should be thoe first to de- ‘mand that the doors shall be opened, lest their roputations bo injured by false and garbled reports. This scoret investigation answers no good purpose; it answers o bad parpose, by af- fording an opportunity to tampor with the evi- dence. Let everyman seeand hear what is going on before Judge Poland’s Committeo. f 10 one has been guilty, no one will be harmed. At the samo time, it will eave many innocent par- ties from o suspicion which may always attach them. Open thoe doors. Letin the light. The investigation belongs to the publio. A DANGEROUS CLASS OF PEOPLE. Promiuent among the dangerous classes of large communities are architects and builders who do not understand their business. Their claims to consideration are ofton ignored. We make laws to protect people against burglars and garroters. . We somotimes require that phyeicians shall have their diplomas bofora they take buman life. o have even canvassed the edvantages of pharmaceatical education, and required that druggists ehall not deal out medicines until they have acquired suf- ficien$ knowledge to -tell prussic acid from jalap. Al those lawe and popular demands have appeared tobe reasonable enough Every individual case of malpractice on the part of physicians, or fatal mistakes on tho part of druggists, calls forth a torrent of public indig- nation, and & new demand for greater strngen- cy of the laws. The crime of horse-stealing is not permitted to go unpunished in those communi- ties whero the law orits executives are inopera- tive, for vigilance committees take their place. There is but one class of people who enjoy & complete immunity from punishment,—the in- compotent architects and bu‘ldars. We have plenty of illustrations of this cari- ous exception to the rule of punishment for ‘murder, but not always of so striking a charac- ter 88 that afforded by the slaughter of the in- noconts st Williamsport, Pa., on Christmas evening. There was a holiday gathering of tho Sabbath-School children in a Baptist church, held in snupperhallof the church building, evi- dently provided for the use of assemblages of this kind. It is said that 800 porsons were pres- ent. The number is probably exaggersted, as is ‘usual in cases of this kind. Of the entiro num- ber present,.it is safe to estimate that two- thirds wore children. The sggregate weight of the persons assembled did not, in all probability, exceed that of 150 adulis of average size. This gathering was in & hall, 26x40 fest, expresaly built for holding alargo number of people. With the peculiar ingenuity possessed by architects who do not kmow their business, the flooring hed been con- structed 8o as to admit the crowd, allow every- body to get comfortably settled, and have the interest in the exercises fully insugurated. Then the floor gove way. Only fourteon bersons were Lilled, and forty or fifty more scriously wounded. It was not the builder's fault, how- evor, that the deaths were 80 fow. Praparations had been made for s much moro sanguinary affair. Tho lamps were upset, and tho barn- ing oil ignited the woodwork with all the facilitios for fully carrying out the work of destrnction that had been 8o well begun. No adequato meana of escape had been provided for a panic-stricken crowd. The. * accident” is explained by saying that the weight of thoso assembled had sprung tho truss- bearers, and the supports slipped out of their places. It would be & better explanation to say that tho law of gravitation caused the people to descend in tno rapid & manner. Tho destruction of Dr. Talmage's Tabernacle in Brooklyn, and of the odifica occapied b Bar- num’s Museum and Circus in New York, may be quoted in support of the proposition that incom- petent architects and builders come under the head of the dangerous classes of large cities, and should bo 80 recognized by the authorities. Both these structures had been erected with the express purpose of sttracting and eccommo- dating unusnally large crowds of people. That these crowds were not actually present at the time of the fires was simply fortnitous. A few hours later, or a fow hours ealier, ‘would have overtaken them, and brought about s loss of buman life, in comparison with which the Will- iamsport slaughter wonld have appeared insig- nificant. Yeb both the Tabernacle and the Museum had been deliberately constructed after a fashion that would have been condemned by every compotent r.chitect in the world. The material was mainly of wood, so distributed as almost to necessitate ignition upon the applica- tion of a match, and to assure total destruction a8 soon as ignited. Yot, so far from condemn- ing the men who are responsible for achitecture of this description, the rebuilding of the Taber- nacle on the same plan is deliberately discussed. We would ruggest, if this is to be done, that the architect and builder of the Baptist church at Williamsport bo also called in to supply their method of constracting floors. Thereis no use in doing things Lalf-way. EZTENDING THE APEA. Servico Reform, and favors tho annczation of San Domingo, complnins that the opponents of the latter measare do not troat the subject fairly. Tt cites the repeated declaraiion of the Commis- sioners, that snnexation would be & good thing for San Domingo. It quotes from the report of Mesars. White, Howe, and Wade, as follows: In reviewing the whole field of their investigations, 1ooking to tho interests of both divisions of the islsnd, they are firmly persuaded that the nnnexation of Santo Domingo to the United States would b hardly less Deneficial to the Hayticn than to the Dominican peo- ple. This benefit would arise, first, from the example which wouid be aforded of a well-regulated, orderls, and prosperous State, th:o great need of that part of tie world, and which it has ‘never yat seen, « s NG ‘There is but one chanee for thai Republic ever to re- cover its incependence—to become, after o proper poriod of probation, one of a union of States, the freedom and substantial independenco of each bein gunranteed Ly the strength of all. . It is beyond the provinco of the Commissioners, un- der the resolution of Congress, to recommend thab such a courte te adopted or absteined from. They simply state, as their belief, founded upon all the ob- servaticns they could make, and of all tho facts they could lears, that this is the only way in which Domin- fcan independence ean be sccured, and that if it bo Judged best not to adopt that couree, even the prosent shadow of independence will be taken swar. Tho Dominican territory s oze of the fairest and richest on. earth, There is no controversy, we suppose, upon the point that tho material and political prosperity of the Dominican Republic would be greatly promoted by annexation to the United States. But the question which the people of this coun- try have to consider is, how it would affect our intercsts, However much we may sympathize with all those portions of tho human family that do not enjoy the luxury of living under our Government, it is not our particular business to go around buying them up, and dragging them, willingly or unwillingly, into our family. Friar Burke, in his controversy with Froude, insists, 1n an eloquent and claborate ecgumont, that the condition of Ireland, moral, soclal, and political, can nover be 80 substantially and permanontly improved as by the admission of that island as a State of the American Union. On our Southern border is Mexico, with her sixty or cighty States, snd the several sickly and ro volu- tionary States of Central America, sll suffering gratly for tho want of a stablo government and really free institutions. It is possible that any Board of Commissionors sent to these countries would report that thobest and short- est means of elovating their condition and giv- ing peace to the people would be to annex them to the United States. There have been those who have assumed that oxtending tho area of freedom is part of the ‘““mission ™ of tho United States; that it is our duty to encour- age ropublicanism in all parts of the world, and that, when rany Government shall undertake to repress democratic move- ments, or crush out revolution, we should draw tho sword and champion the catso of the peo- ple. Kossuth, twenty years ago, sppoaled in person to our Government and people for inter- vention in behalf of Hungary against Austria and Russia; and had Mr. White, Alr. Wade, and Dr. Howe beon sent as Commissioners to Pesth, thoy wonld unquestionably havo reported that the condition of Hungary as & State of the American Union would be infinitely botter than | in her subjection to Austrian despotism. Some poople 1magine that all that is need- ed to improve tho moral, industrial, physical, and political - condition of any poople is to have them become part of our Republic, and we have taught ourselves to beliove that all those not living under our flag must be enduring unhappiness, oppression, and suffering to o terrible degree. Neveriheloss, the only part of the Lubitable globe which ab this timo is evon seemiugly asking us to take them under our protection is & comparatively few negroes living in San Domingo. After the war, 8 number of colored persons living in Louisiana moved with their families to San Domingo, in hopes of finding thero that per- fect sociel and political equality which is vainly sought uunder coercive laws at home. These families, after s short residence, roturnol. They ropresented the Africans in San Domingo as more ignorant and de- graded than the worst-treated slaves of this country had ever: been. They found {hem unaccustomed to labor, and whelly unwil- ling to perform any ; they found them incapable of being interested in any measure for their own improvement, and, consequently, having no con~ ception of any better political ormoral state than their present. A few intclligent men used the masg of the peoplo as they pleased. Now, Cabral a8 the popular hero, and now, Beez. The lattor has enjosed o longer leass of power than usual, because protected by an Amorican squadron dur- ing the tegotiations for the sxie of the country to the United States. This is the condition of San Domingo at this time, and, whilo it is clear that snnexation to tho United States, as an ad- ditional State of the Union, would bo beneficial to these ignorant and degraded blacks how can it be benoficial to the 40,000,000 of peo- ple now in this country 2 We can imagine how the carpet-baggers who have plunderod North Carolina, Georgia, South Corolina, Texas, Louis- iana, and other States might fora season find some pickings in San Domingo, and could have themselves pensioned as Senators and Represen- tatives, aud Custom House officers, but beyond these who would bo benefited ? These negroes are not like our own. They do not speak-our language, have no scquaintance with our 1ayvs, customs or habits ; not a man in the coun- try except tho Chiefs, probably, has the remotest knowledge as to whero the United States are to be found on a map, or even what a map is. They know mothing of laws or constitutions ; they only know that Baez is boes, whenever Cabral is not, and that political science consists in determining which of these men is the greater scoundrel and robber, and, therefore, the most fitted to be Chief. Have w6 not enough of trouble at home on this ques- tion of race ? Is not the colored population of this country, which, compared with that of San Domingo, isrefined, educated, and accomplisked, socially and politically, a source of enough national perploxity and strife, that we must go out on a voyage of discovery to find some wild, and profoundly ignorant, tribe speaking a for- cign tongue, snd drag them into tho Union to be clothed with the vestments of ‘American citizenship? The question, therefore, is not one of benefiting the Domini- cans, but of protecting ourselves. Our ports are open to all men who seek to bemefit their condition. We have an unoccupied territory capanble of holding 50,000,000 more people, in- clnding the Africans of Sen Domingo ; but it is as foreign to our policy and to our system of government to acquire colonies by snnexing San Domingo, as it wounld be toincorporate the whole Teutonic, Scandinavian, and Celtic races, by an- ! nexing Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Ircland. Againet that riode of inereasing | population and citizenship there are insuperable The Baltimoro American, which opposes Cisil | i objections. The third great tunnel of the world, if com- ploted, will be the Sutro, in Nevads, which is in- tended to supply sir, drainage, and means of transit for ore, to the mines of the Comstock lode. Fourmiles will be the length of the main tunnel, and to this numerous branch tunnels maust be added to strike the different claims. The Bank of California, the principal owner of the Comstock, has been {rom the first hostile to the tunncl project, end it was in spite of its earnest opposition that the work was com- menced. 3 By Congressional legislation, the tunnel company is entitled to a royalty of $2 per ton on all the ore raised from each claim which it taps. Only a few of the claims are paying good dividends. The Belcher, one of the richest, raises probably one bundred and fifty tons per day. The royelty does not seom in the least excessive when thetremendous expenses of the tunnel are considered, especially if the advantages totho mines claimed for it are realized. These mines, at a depth of from fif- tecn hundred to two thousand feet, are so hot that the men work with difficulty, and in clothing almost primeval. The water which is pumped out is nearly hot enough to cook an egg, even when it reaches the surface. The heat, which iucieusus s tho miges dospem, will un- doubtedly prove an obstacle to the full development of their riches. This ob- stacle, it is claimed, the tunmel Till in great racasure overcome by the free circuls- tion of cool eir wvhich it willafford. This advan- tage, with the others enumerated, the owners of the Comstock evidéntly do nct think sufficient compensation for admitting so powarfl an ally to tho territory which they have hitherto ruled with an almost absoluto sway; &nd, with tradi. tional miner-jeslousy of interference, they are sbout to carry the act of Congress allowing the royalty before the Supremo Court, in the hopa of having it declared unconstitutional. It is wonderful that, in face of all the diffi- culties, the tunnel should have strug- gled into existouce, and even have passed its first holf-mile, It was pro- jected by s man who had neither capi-~ tal, practical knowledge of mining, nor powerful friends. The first $50,000 for it was raised by the Miners' Union, of Virginia City. This suc- cess was due to the untiring enorgy and perse- verance of Mr. Sutro, who, undismayed by either ridicule or opposition, plesd tho cause of tho tunnel, almost literally in the streets and high- ways of the city, and sccompanied his eloguence with the convincing argument of s plodge that the wages of the miners should be raised from threo to four dollara per day. From this small beginning it started, and, by dint of like perseverance, & compsuy has been formed, ground purchased, and from one to two million dollars already raised and expended. The rock.through which the tunnel is being driven is porphyry, and though hard enough to Toquire constant blasting, yet tho tunnel has to ‘bosecurely timbered atintorvals of about four feet toinsure its safoty. The leader; or small tunnel, is about 2,000 feet ahead, and the only actusl progress the work is now making is in this, a8 during the past fow weeks large numbersof mon havo been discharged, including those employed in widening this small drift. This, as well as other reductious, has evidently becn csused by 8 scarcity of funds, and, indeed, the grest daily expenditures necessary to carry on the work might well find tho bottomof even alonger purse than that of the Sutro Tunnel Company. Grand undertaking as the tunnel certsinly is, yet it is too problematical in its character to in- { vito confidonce, with the prospoct of spending at least twelve millions bofore any remuneration is obtained, and, with the additional cortainty of an unceasing fight with its powerful and wealthy neighbors, it becomes too uncertain to tempt prudent capifalists; and tho greatest hope for the tunnel sec¢ms to be that it may strike one of the rich leads with which the region abounds. 01 50 fortunate & circumstance, however, there are no present indications. —_——— The Springfield Republican is publishing » series of communications, from Republicens prin- cipally, severely condemning the action of the Massachusetts Legislature in passing a vots of censure on Mr. Sumner on account of his reso- lution, introduced into tho United States Ssnato, to strike tho names of battles in the war of the robellion from the regimontal flags. The gen- tlemen who wnte theso communications fail to discover wherein Mr. Samner has insulted the loyal soldier, although many of the writers have themselves been loval soldiers. Several charac- torizo the legislative censnre as & piece of arrant impudence, and call for s publication of the vote. The opinion seems to bo pretty general thereabouts that the gentlemen who' voted to censure Mr. Sumner for his resolution should be permitted to retire to private life. ity e sl NOTES AND OFINION. Mr. Scammon says that Mr. Whitelaw Reid “to-day occupies the position of a double politi- cal prostitute;” and he rightly adds that, *If this is not & degree of moral turpitude sufficient to destroy the political influence of a newspaper then honor and consistency are empty names, desetined forever hereafter to kick the benm in journalism when ambition 2nd falsehood are thrown into the opposite seale.” - -. The szme authority observes that “ There are not wanting out-spoken journels and powerfu} public men who refuse to bow the knee to thg Railway Belial.” 4 —The Cincinnati Gazelle eays the New Orleang Times’ bankruptey case, in Judgo Durell's Court, “‘no more concerns the public than any ordinary Iawsuit between business men. An anxions op- position will have to look in some other direce tion for evideace of Republican encroachmenta on the liberty of the press.” Dut why was the oftico locked up, and farther publication pro- vented, by Judge Durell's order ? Ia that course usual when & newspaper goes throngh bankrupt- cy,—much more, upoa & petition of involuntary bankruptey ? —A Washington telegram says: *There is a deficiency of $300,000 in the Judiciary sppro- ?rintiuns, by reason of the Ku-Klux trials snd investigationa. All United States officials ara out of funds, and in Alabama and Georgia tha Marshals of the United States District Courta Lave been obliged to issuo certificates of in= dabtedness to jurors and witnesses for the ate endance at the last session.” —General Dlair goes to Jeffersor 70, a5 by 80" ot sonves merps a s minor candidates against hiw to clear the track. It is gradually narrowiug down toa cuntest Lo tween Blair and Hyle, with a si Hutchins or Palitzer.—3t. Louis Jjegleb-:ll:‘a::‘.v o —The Now York Evening Post thinks it s not fair that, the orgauization of bath houses of tha Alabama Legizloture having been given to tha Republicans to compromise the diFerene they i now utterly refuse to recognize the Sieto-lioasa body, and tha Governor still seads his messsges to the other. ‘‘It begins tolook 23 if the Re« publicans were fairly defeated at the election, and dare not submit to the At' - :37 General's plan of settlement.” Sumner’s effort to removo che traces of civil strife is regarded with frierdls indifference by the Louisville Courier-Journal. It conside ers that the South hss no special interest in tne matter, and says: ‘“Before the next Presiden tial election we may fairly look for new combie nations, which will obliteraie all the old sece tional lines. General Grant himself may be the nominee of the Southern people. The most dis~ tinguished of Confederates may be his arden$ supporters.” —*.Traditionary usage” is the euphemistic exe planation of suspenston of Civil Service rules in the matter of the Chicago Post Oiice appoint= ment. It has been a traditiorary usage, 1t ape pears, to allow & Senator to coutrol absolutely the Postmastership of his own town or zity. But wouldn't a reai Cival Service Reform mei's Bhort work with traditionary usage?—New Xork Tribune. —Here is a precious document, Gug up in the Senate archives: EXECTIIVE DEPARTMENT, STATE oF MissIssteeL. I, Adelbert Ames, Drevet Major Gemeral Usic Statea Army, Provisionai Governor of tne Stata of X aissippi, 40 hereby certify than Adellert Amnea w. elected United States Senstor by tue Legisiatare of th'a State on the 13th day of Jazuary, 1970, for tho uncze pired term which commenced on the 4ta dsy of March, 1869, and which will end on tho 4th day of Maveh, A~ In testimony whereof, I have hereurta { T.s ) setmy band, and caused the great seul of * § the State of Mississippi_to be atuzed, thig “~~" 25th day of January, 150, {psenenr Avze, Brevet Major Grneral U. §. A., ‘Provisionai Governor of Missiseippi. —Do you want to know who were the spotless Enights who wished to sit at the New York Iria- une's round-table, andpaid 510,000 to that end 7 Here are some of- the honored names Thurlow Weed. Zach Chandler. E.C. Cowdin. Don't you think ‘om Maurphy, Zach. Chande ler, and Honry Clows, of Georgia boad fame, Would have kept Horace Graaley's me:mory green? But the enterprise has falleu through, and the Tribune has had, what the Puritans saw in the Battle of Worcester—a Great Deliverance. Hov it happened, why Mr. Colfax rejected tha bribe, where came the split in this great leagus of politicians and jobbers, what induced the spotless Marphy and’ the ethereal Chandler ta soll back, we do not know. Bat, if the peper i not to be owned by Washington jobbers aad Wall street jobbers, tho rest seems of Compara~ tively little consaquence. Who may hold cramps to-morrow cannot, perhaps, be prelicted, bus i does look now as if Whitelaw Reid ha't dzalt himself both bowers and the aca. The carual micd infers that that unregenerate editor, Lav= ing been turned out last week by the pubiisher, will be likely this week to proceed to turn out the publisier.—New York Correspondence of the Springfield Republican. . —1The Louisizne matter is a very delicate and difficult one to deal with, and it would havs been quite as well if the President had from the start declined to have anything to do with it. We are firmly of opirion that the United States District_Court had no business to entertain the application for an injuction made by Senator #23 would-be Governor William Pits Kellogg, and even more thoroughly persuaded that the United States army was wrongfully employed to. give effect to the unauthorized intervention of the Court. Perhaps Kellogg was legally elected, and perhaps he was not; but whether he was o2 was not, the United States Court had no jurisdic~ tion to provent whatever settlement of the ques- tion might have been arrived at by the proe cesses of law established by the State of Louisi= ana.—Boston Adcertiser. —The following is one of the bits of evidenca obtaiued by the Senate Committee inquiring in= to the charges against Senstor Caldwell : Just as John A. Perry, President of the Eansas Pa- cific Road, was ‘sbout to lense for Europe, ka called on’ ex-Secroiary of ths Interior Usher, now Attorney of that road, and 10ld him Calde woll was insisting tiat the Company should pay him $30,000 as ita share of his election expenscs. Perry refused, on the ground that no such un- derstanding existed. Caldwell fusisted, sod des clared that the regular lobby agent of that roal at Topoks had agreed that-the road would help to that amount. ~ Perry then agreed to go with Caldwell to Topeka, and leern from this egent ‘whether any such promises had bean made. Tuo latter denied Caldswell's claim, but in such terms 23 to satisfy Perry that, while Caldwell had soma right to expect that amount of lelp, the Coms pany was not bound to pay it.—Bosion Advertise er's Washington Special. —The new Postmaster at_ Chicago was not the First Assistant in the offico there. It i3 therefore concluded that tho President disre~ garded the Civil Service rules in the appoints ment he has jost mede. As the gentleman aps pointed (General McArthur) was recommended by Senator Logan and Representative Farwell, that is additional evidence, we are told, that Congressional dictation is’ still accepted as rule. It happens, however, that the head clerks of the office was not acandidae for the position, and was not recommended. while General Mc- Arthur had the highest recommendations. So it cannot fairly be said that the President has iolated any rule of good service in the appoint= ‘ment made.— ¥ashingten Chronicle, —A few days since 1t was reported that a nume ber of ministers were applied to to attend tha funeral of & young woman who was murdered in house of ill-fame in this city, and that they de- clined on_sccount of tha character of the de- ceased. Upon this we commented with soma geverity. e have since learned that the report was wholly incorrect, and of course the censure was wholly undeserved. The fact turnsout to be, that no ministor refused. The undertaier fisé applied to an Episcopal clergyman, who at oxca consented to go, but only remarked that ha could not use the ordinary burial service, which recognizes the Christian character of the depart- ed. The undertaker thought i better, in that case, o ask a neighboring Baptist minister, wha st once performad the service.—New York Ecen- ing Post. - Z Whetherthey [tha New York Tribune editors] will try to get back into the bosom of the perly and the good graces of the Postmasters, or g0 forth to seel their fortune in the wilds of “‘in- dependent journalism,” remains to be seea. The former course would doubtless be the bet- ter course pecuniarily, but 2lso the meaner, and loss likely to succeed in the long run. Thbe Iatter might not pay so well at firet, but would pay tenfold better in the end. Thoy print at the head of their columns Horace Greeley's ex- pression_of satisfaction at_having established the Tribune. If they will print also_the programme for the conduct of the Ziibund which be issued two day= after the elaction, and Leep it standing, and live up to it, they will cons forone of the highest berefits on American politics and society which it is now in the power of a journalist to bestow, and will have ti:e hearty eympathy of all honest snd patriotic men. The paper has, ever since Nov. 6, been & model of decorum, and the decornm_ has cer- tainly not diminished its vigor, and has no¥ preventod its boing—we thini we may say— mach in advance of all its daily contemporariea in the fulness and arrangement of its news, 83 well as in the selection of topics of discussion. ‘Why, in the name of® wonder, can We.not have & continuance of this decenoy and common sense? —The Nation, ¥