Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 1, 1873, Page 4

L1y CHIWAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1873, — i8S OF THE TRIBUNE. R TTRMA OF RUNRCRIPTION (PATADLE IN ADVAXO) Datly, by 812,00 Sunday. CH a'ri-Weokly SUEO0! Weny Parts of n yoar at tho eamo rato, I'a provent delay and mistakos, bo puro and givo Post Omeo nildress in full, including Stato and County. Remittanees niny bo mado elthor by draft, oxpross, Fost Otlico ordlor, o in renintorod lotters, ab ourisk, TR O CITY RUNGRITARG. : ‘ d, tiundny oxcaptad, 2 conts par woek. Dalls: deltvered: Bunday Thedod: 5 conts or ook Addross TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornior Madison aud Dearbora-sts., Uhleago, il TMIMURE Yiennoh Offco, No. 469 Wabnsh-av.. in the Tooketaro of Mosrs, Cohb, Androws & C'n,, whora advertiroments and subscriptlons will be sevi.,ed, and will havo tho samo attention ns if left at tho Maln N0, e b JNTENTS OF TQ:DAY'S TRIBUNE. AST PAGE-Washington, Now York, and Miscol Iancons Tolegraphio Nuws. BRCOND PAGE--** Throo Times," n Story by the Author of “*Lady Audley's Secrot"—Negro Rulo {n Florlda —Ttevolr to 1873 (Pacm]~Tho Now Year: Bomothing Abont Now Yoar's Unstoms~Tho Now Yoar [Pocin] —Gouoral Nowa Ttoms, ATIRD PAGE-Tho Bostwiok Clatm: Ravlow of tho it~ uation by n Cltizen of Hyde Park—Candlidatos for Juliot-Custom Honso Ohanges—Tho State Insur- nnco Company Mnddlo Agaf Tha Tdbrars Dodication Te Tablo—TRINUNT: Prospeols FOURTH PAGE—Lditork: Proteotion na an_Individunl Enterprises Tho Mor. chants' Frolght Unfon; Astronowieal Phenameua in 1873—Ourrout Nows 1toms—Notes and Opinton. FIFTH PAGE—Tho Law Courts—Ollcago Livo Btock Markot—Adrartisomonts, BIXTII PAGL-—-Monotary and Commerolal. BEVENTI PAGH-Tho Too Wavo: Immonso Destrue: tion of Praporty on tho Missiaslppt at Momphis—Lo- cal and_Goneral Raliroad Nows—Smill Adsortiso- ments: Real Estato, For Salo, To Ront, Wanted, Tienrding, Lodging, cte, . RIGHTH PAGE—To bo Vatood: Tho Now Liconto Law —Amusomonts_To-day--Cook-Fighting—Porsonal— City tu Briof—Markets by Telegraph—Auction Ad- vortisomont: TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. A'WICRER'S THEATRE~Madison streot, botwoen Seato and Doarborn, Engagemont of Miss Charlotto Ca-liman, Aftoruoon, * Simpson & Co." voniug, **Meebsth,” JIOOLEY'S OPERA TIOUSE-TRandolph atreot, bo- twoen Clark and LaSallo, Now Comedy Compauy. Afternoon, **Fun," rening, ** Poop 0'Day." ATREN'S TIEATRE-Wabash nvenno, cornor of Con gross strot. **lcket-of-Loave Man," Afternoon and oventag. ACADEMY OF MUSIO— flalsted atreot, sonth of Madisor agomont of Nobert BoWada, **Rip Van Winlle." Aftornoon aud evening. MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroo stroot, between Stato and Dearborn, Avlington, Culton & Komblo's inatrol and Burlosquo Troupo, Altornoonand oscnlng, GLOBE THEATRE~Dosplalnen stroot, botwoon Madl #on and Washington. Tho Loon Brothors. ¢ Dick Tur- Pio" Afternoon aud evonlng. NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE-Ciintonstroot, bolsreen Washington and Randolpb. Engagoment of Zoo. #* Unclo Tom's Cabin.” _Aftornoon ond oveniag, BUSINESS NOTICES. REPORT OF JUDANS TO TR GENERAL Commlites Cincinnat! Industrial Exposition, on tho LUnlted States Watch Co.'s (G ‘Whales & Co.) Watehes, Marion, : pointad to examino Into merits of Brticlos contalned fo Class 10, bogleavo tamako th Jowing report: No. 164, Unfted States Watch Com Terion, New Jorscy. “lioso watch miovonionts, eult of Amoriean capital, skill and porsoverance, as speos Amcna of this branch of acienco and manufactury, rical thosoof tho Kuropean mako. Tho watches oxhibifed by !hlflflflln{:flm‘ aro of all grades, from that of thy most ex. Act timekeopor fo tho dlienper kind for the miltion, - AR ao excollant of tho kind, nud are too woll known and ap preciated by the peoplo to nuod furthor cammont. Fimt Dremlun s swarded to tho Ynlted States Waten Gompnuy. : JAMES POWELT, WILLTAM M. DAVIS, TOUGHS AND COLDS,—LVERY OASE OX GON - sumptlon commonces with cough, oxeltod frow thy {ndl- widual having taken cold. Tho dize1sas of thio alr-passages aro of gront intorost to evory ingolligont bolng, Tho dolieato argaulzation of tho Junge, thoir constant aotixity, and thete 8, W MEN: 'Tho gudges ap- o Judges. boing oxposad to g EEE contagt of alr of auch difforént temporature, and which containg various irritating mattorssuspended fn it, ronder 2hioin capoctally Lablo to disoaro, and thoso ufa ot ac- ous cliatacter. F19i6% fao dlrect sour attention to tho ssmptoras, and dif- Seront paxts whioh aro discasod, who & porson s o com- on cold ¢ o ¢ “Flio mouth, nogo, thiroat, organs of Solce, and lunga aro 2incd by o continous mucous membrane, which, 1n 4 vtato ©of honlth, 18 constantly moist, The socrotion of this amolsture, tos certaln amount, constitutes n vecossars Tart of its hoglthy tanction; bu whon an Indizidua) got 2 'cotd, n part of all this mombrano becomos {nflamed, tho first offect of whiol is to alter its soordtlon, T4 f ut firat dey- 1o anaratlon fs suspandiod.—1t hocomes mwollen and thicker than boforo, it Is redder than natural, find its sonsibility fs' porcoptibly altgrsd, Wo cnnsoo a portion of this membraue, and by notiolng thio changos produced in it by ntlammation, wo infor thoso changs #¥rhich aro apt to takoplaco in tho ?nnl WO cannot seo. Jiverybody has exporionced in their own porson an fn. fiwation cf thagpac of tho mombrauo liniag tho noso, wonatitntinga cold in thohioad, At first the nostril {8 dry, and. ‘though it {sdry wo cannot breatho through it—it I stulfed 2p by tho mombrane being swolled—tho senso of smell la lftemd or lost; the part Is rod, tender, snd lrritablo; tho Sontact of nir & Litt10 coldor oF foss pura than comlo.ox- eites ancezinir, ‘Somotimes, Wwhen tho discaso {s severo, thoro g a slizht chilingss, and toward ovening & Hitlo fuser. After tho drynuss tho mombrano socrotes a thin, wators fluld, whioh Dy darroos bocomes thickors tiio swolliug of tho mom- brane dlminishes, and as the inflammation subsides it is Tosa rvw, tho secretion resumes 1ts natural quality, and fa reduced in quantity, and tho incmbrano again [a fn ita nenenl stato, Buch {8 tho gunoral courso of & cold in tho oad. When tho fnflammntion goos down Into tho Inngs it in #2 to hio o cald {n tho cliest, It samatimes teavols from of the mowbrano to anothor, boginning ia thy i geadually creeplng down intd the windpipo and Wliea o poreon Lins such a cold thorofs dry roar loss difficulty of broathiug, somatimos o utn or ouprosaion norors (o chosty st foror a n wliite coat upon tho tabguv, which i 3o, {loaf Schenk's Paimonto Syrup and & Mandeako Pills, frecly taken, will earry f thiskind, Inavery éaso whero o parson has 1+ enllod 4 frosh cold, they should tako n dosy Mandrako Pills, or somothing that will uct of Schsnck’ Dou thi Jiver (not, calomel) and physlo tho stomach: o, with tho aid of tho Pulinonlo Byrup, It iscarriad offy not like the unilnini romedios that aro used for o cold, or t h, which I Jeft in the system, to hreak out botore, ut tho slightest chaugo of the 1 cotirsg. was followed, Gvon ta Fiko n goad _down of Bghonck's Mandrako Pilla, Cwithout the Pulmonio byala the bowels well, — hundrods, cseapo Consymption, When 'tha liver nch parform their duty, it §s difienit to tako cnl in Fnct, uny acher disense, Typhiold, billaus, or chills and aver cannot bo taken when the systom ia in jts proper con. ition.. Tlow oftun norons go out In cold, Tainy weather, £t wet perhaps, and oxpoct to take a sovere cold, Jind yet recolva mu Inconvonienco from it ; whilo at otbor $iinch, with tho slighiest 0xposuro, thoy tako a savero coldi Fho reason s, (rmlhtr 13 Innctive, tho gallbladdor is Jockort up, the'blond Ik mot its matural ciceulation, Aud o wutehi s {o o condition ta_entoh nuything, An uicar. Atndthront, cankeor, or catarel la caused by acldlty of tho Ftomuch s coatod tonguo, bd breath, and ¢ok headacha T from tio same ennro, and thoy are” all oaslly ramoved fichenck’s Palmonio Syrup, Seaweed Tonle, and Pills, uccording to_tha directiona which . . H, SCHENOK, M. g CK! PUTM TONIO, AND MAND ONLY BY . 1, SO COURER 0T SINTH DE 1 dzalors. T - The Chitago Tiibune, ‘Wednosday Morning, January 1, 1873. Tuz Trwse will bo issued to-morrow, as ‘acual. ] New York merchunls are petitioning for the roponl of tho Usury laws, Susen B. Anthony refuses o acok rolonse from §mpzisonmont by giviug bail, and has been gont Pack to jail. Ier companions gave tho bail asked, and are st liberty until their trial for ~oling begins at Albany, P ] Bpringflold was relioved yeotorduy by tho ar- rival from without of 80 car loads of coal, which avan sold at tho prico ruling beforo tho strike, Still, tho miners although further menaced by an offer from Wilmington minc-ownors to send 1,000 workmen to Springfleld, Lavo not struck their colors, Tho rivor part of Cincinnati has boen swoph $yanico gorgo liko that which worked such snischiiot at Momplia tho othor doy, Sovoral steamers woro destroyed, and it is fearod that another gorgo which s forming may cub awny the wharves, > Milwankeo has shipped, this year, whost and Hlour o tho amount of 17,633,821 bushols. Its amonufacturos aro olaimoed to faok up ©20,000,- 100, of which iron and lager beor aro the largest, tho formor ylolding ©4,000,000; tho othor, £3,000,000. E———— B Bocrotary Boutwoll bas never taken a‘choorful ylow of tho flacal offootn of Jowering tho taxos, and when Congross had tho roduction of taxes undor connidoration, Inat sosslon, ho ontimated that tho surplus for thin flacal yeor would bono moro than 44,860,000, 'he roturns for the firat Lwo quartors are sufciontly full to oliow that the surplug will veach §70,000,000 at lonst. Tho tomporaty injunotion granted somo thmo ngo, to provent tho oxtonsion of tha Chicago City Railway through South Olark stroot past tho Bhorman ostate, on which tha Shorman Honso 18 situated, bas beon mado porpotunl. An appeal will bo takon by tho Company to tho Bupromo Court. Bosides othior mattors, it hns bofora it tho oloc- tion of o United Blatos Honntor to succood Frank Dlair, Domocrats hopo to gain cuntrol of this as woll ns the othor action of ihe body, and hold a caucua to-day to maturo tholr plane to that ond. Sonator Bclurz, who has boon charged with attempting to influonco tho olec- tion, Is many hundreds of milos away, viaiting Govoruor Jowell, of Conneoticut, McNulty, of Chillicotho, who was to hava boon hangod next Fridny, at Poords, for the murdor of Ll wifo, will bo grontod & stay of oxccution, Governor Palmer announced yesterday, until Lis application for a supersedeas can bo Leard, Ono Oluck, in Indinnapolis, who was to have boon oxccuted on the samo day as McNulty, and for tho samo crimo of wifo-murdor, has oscaped langing, to which no murderor submits now-n- days, by committing suicido. Anothor wifo- murdoror Lias been sontonced to imprisonment for 1ifo, in Milwnukeo Co-oporation is making rapid progress in Eng- land. Its most recont application has been to farming. Consorvatives and Radicals havo jein- od hands in fowarding the work of co-oporativo tillago, which is cnlisting {ho attention of tho ‘Dbest and wealthiest men of tho realm. Bir John Pakington, Earl Nelson, tho Earl of Carnarvon, and Mr. Walter Morrison, o mombor of Parlia- ment, bave all announced their intention of working thoir lands on this principlo. Mr. ‘Morrison has purchased one of tho flnest farms in tho United Xingdom, and hag actually hegun oporations ; 80 that tho rosults of co-opozativo farming, tostod with npocinl advantagos for maks ing it profitable, will bo given to tho world with- in o comparatively short timo. Ienry L. Clinton, o Now York lawyer, has drafted two bills, which will bo submilted to the noxt Assombly, which proposo somo radical changos in tho low relating to insanity in capital cases, and algo in the law of murdor. Ono of theso bills provides that, whenovor a jury ren- *dorg a vordict of asquittal In murder cases on tho ground of ineanity, tho jurora uhall 6o Apoc- ify in their verdict. In folonics not capital, the ill provides that tho respondont shall bo confiti od in an asylum not losy than the shorlest nor moro thau the longest time to which ho might havo been sentonced if he had been found guil- ty. In capital cases, It provides that the ro- spondont shall bo confinod for not less then twonty nor moro than tbirty yenrs, and until it 18 proved that ho hes beon restored to sunity. It is staled, with somo show of authority, that Mr, Boutwell hag datormined to withdraw from the Cabinot noxt mounth, and that tho Prosidont hag alroady decidod that Judge Rich- ardson, tho presont Assistant Scerotary of the Tronsury, shail succeed him. Mr. Boutwell withdraws presumably to take the eeab in tho Benato which will be vacated upon Mr. Henry Wilson's nccession to the Vico Prosidency. If e shall be suceessful in Lis Senatorial ambition, Mr. Boutwoll will thou virtually hold two posi- tions,—thnt of Sonator from Massachusctts and that of Becratary of tho Trensury, roprosented in tho lntter ponition by Judgo Richardson as proxy. It is given out that Judge Richardson will rocoive the place for tho purpose of por- potusting the Boutwell financial policy of tas- ing tho pooplo to pay off annnally 100,000,000 of o 6 por cont dobt which is not yet duo,—tho poople borrowing the moncy to pay it at 2 per ceut o month, A dofault in pagment of tho Deccmber coupon of the bonds of tho Atchison Branct of tho Cli~ cago & Southwostorn Railway hng caused somo excitomont at ¥roakfort and Amstordem, Tho bonds doolined 1) por cent. Thid is & part of the dofault of tiw Chicogo & Southwostorn itself, which wae snnounced some time sinco, and which caused oven Government bonds to decling 34 por cont in Frankfort. Tho Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Company guaranteed tho Chieago & Sontliwestorn bonds in crrency, and {hoy werosold abrond as gold bonds. The Atchison B ranch bonds wero not 50 gusranteod, but thoy constituted a second mortgago on ihe South- weateru Road, Tho Anterican News, o financial papor publiehed in Fraunkfort, iy loud in its do- nunciations of My, 'Tracy for this default, and it snys that legal mensuros will bo taken by tho holdors of tho Londs to obtain their money. Wo approbond that Mr. Tracy will not bo found tobo tho party nt fault in this matter. Thpt thero hias beon swindling in connuction with the Cbiengo & Southsrestorn Ruilwuy thoro can Lo littlo doubt. Homo timo ngo, the Mayorand law ofiicors of tho city proposed s rvision and congolidation of all tho oxisting city ordinances, snd this roviced and coneolidated ordinanco had been beforo tho Council for some timo for onactment. ItLhas been amended in nomo respeets, and has beon shom of mauy of its inconsistencicy and ab- surditics. On Monday ovening, that part ro- latiug to licenses, and tho ealo of liquor on Bunday, was renchod, Tho presont law mukes tho closing of the saloons on Sunday & condition of tho license, and anothier gection imposes & ponalty for keoping such plicos open and for tho gale of liquor on puch day. A substituto for this, in tho form of o roquirement that tha front doors nnd w'ndows of all nloons slail o kopt closed during Bunday, was adopted, afler goveral votes, by 12 {0 10, eix mombors boiug absont. Tho ordinance was then roferroed for cngrosamont, and will probobly pass at the meoting noxt Monday. It is understood that the Mayor will voto the ordinance, becauso of this chango permitting saloons to soll llquor on Bun- days, Tv s bolioved that publio opinton is op- poeed to the chungo, proferriugu lax enforco- mont rather than o ropeal of tho Bunday ordl- nanco. The Mayor's veto will, of courso, apply to thewhole ordinance, znd, as partios aroso equally divided in tho Councll, it will result in tho do- foat of tho whote rovision of the city laws. he Chicego produco markots woro moderntoly active yostorday. Mesa porle was active and 100 lowor, at $11.35@11.40 cash, and §11.70@11.75 sollor March. Tard was & shado casior, at To cash, and 7)go scllor March, Rugllsh monts wero qulot aud steady at 924 for ehoulders, 53¢ @b 4o for ohort ribs, and G3{@GJ¢e for short olear, CGroon hams woro active and flrm at 7@ 75opor b, Dronnod hoga wero qulot andstoady, closing at $1.95@4.375¢ por 100 1be. Iighwinos woro & shado oaslor, at 93¢0 por gallon, Tlonr was quiot and firm, Whont waa active and 20 highor, but olosod weal b 81,293 cash or sollor January, and 81213 pollor Fobruary. Corn way quiot and o ahado onslor, closing at 8030 onoh, 1340 soller Tobruary, and 873c, sellor Moy, ' Oale wora moro no- tive, and X@%o highor, nt 26@2B3e cash, and 253{@263%o sollor Fobrunry, Tya was 1o lower, closiug at 080, Barley was dull and doclinod o, closing at 650 for No, 2, snd 52¢ for No. 8. 'Tho livo hog trade was moro netive, with pricos o shado firmer. Balos wore offoctod nt £3.60@3.85—chiofly at $3.06@3.76. Cattlo mot with o falrly activo inquiry at full yostorday's pricos, snlos making nt $3.00@0.12}¢. Shaop romaln stondy, Tho following woro tho rocoipts and shipments of brendstufts {u this city during tho past year, with tho grain in storo at tho closo: Jecclpte, Shipments. In otore. Flour, brln..... 1,625,078 7 Whoaf, bi 12,717,193 07 1,010,658 Corn, bu 5,090,820 40,089,000 1,410,110 Oats, ATIRLD 138, 804,020 Tye, bu 06,418 77, 190,127 Barloy, b 4,797,765 4,887,871 800,530 THE OLD AND THE NEW, Tho old yenr, which has juat boon laid away in tho comatory of tho centuries, commenced in tho shadow and gloom of tho Chicago firo, with a great clond of uncertalnty hanging over ua. ‘Twolvo months of remarkablo disnstors on son and land, of oxtraordinary convulsions of naturo, and of unexampled destruction of human lifo and proporty, congldoring that no groat wars woro in progroes, have passod, nud tho vew year com- moncos in thomidst of a financial stringonoy more #ovore than any tho country hins kuown sinco 1857, Neithor the rotrospoct nor tho pros- pectcan bo called romarkably chicerful. Tho Chiengo fire soomed to have ibogn tho signal for a gonoral onslaught of. tho forces of destruc- tion,and thoy hiavo dono their droadful worl with o persistency and completoncss novor before Inown in tho history of the world. The yenr which haa just closed deserves tobe known in tho calendar of timo ns the Biack Year. Faminoe and tho pestilence have ravaged Asis, and swept off thousauds. Storms and floods hovo dovnstated Europe, swoeping the shipping from its corsls, inundating citics, towns, and villages, and destroying great numbers of human beings with their violenco, Qronb conflugra- tions and fearful casualtics have added their torrors to thoso produced by natural causes in this conntry. I'no eataloguo of these calamities, if priutod in doteil, would bo nstartling ono, and their localilies ombraco elmout ovory portion of tho civilized world. The destruction hins been at lenst impartial, ‘What tho now year may havo in sforo for mankind, it is impossible to foresee. In tho ordinary coursio of things, it can burdly dovolop anything much worso than tho old yoar Iiaa produced, sud tho common saying and com- mon beliof is, that any change must bo for the bettor, ‘Pho disnsters of tho year, however, havo boon prtinlly offuot, as far ne Chicago I8 concorned. Binco tho groat firo, wo have had no gront ca- Inmity. A very largo portion of the burned aren lias heon restored to bueiness and living in more substantial and elegant mannor than be- fore, and property-owncrs may congratulato themsolves upon the fact that the iucronsed business of {lio cily lins found ample facilities for its transaction. No interost of tho city is suffering ab presout. Tho schools, churchos, ‘banks, insurancae oftices, general businoss offices, warohouses, and flio Chambor of Commerco, aro onco moro in successful operation, and nestly all the public worke of tho cily aro cithor provided for or ara completed. If tho financial prospect is discournging, and if it is difiicult to esoo how linbilities aro to bo met, still thero is consolation in tho roflection that it might havo been o great deal worso. "The city Leg boon romarkably healthy. It fs algo oxtrnor- dinary that so much building has boon accom- plishod, under such disadvantagoous circum- stauces, with so fow accidonts and so littlo loss of lifo, Wo havo oscnpod tho slaughters by railroads, tho tragedios by fire, the eufforing by storms, and most of tho hardships which have afllictod othor cities, and, n theso respacts, it was o your of spocial providenco. In the yonr which has just closed, I'ne Cnicico Tnipuxe has returned to its old locality, and thin Now Yonr's Day will recoivo calls from its friends in ‘moro clegant, commodlous, and conveniont quar- tors than ovor bofore, and is mow bettor pre- pared than ever to give the public rll the nows and an_impartial discussion of all toples, without much rogard to the dictation of King Caucua, o offer ndvice and to make good resolutions aro tho provailing woakuessos of humon na- turo ou each reewrring Now Year's Day. Tux Tninuse has but little advico to offer, and that littlo may bo summed up in s goneral commonda- tion to hwman beings of Lhe old-fashionod vir- tues of honesty, probity, lumanity to man, and lovoto God. In & gonoral way, it would adviso public officials not to steal any more than thoy collect in taxos ; railrond corporations not to talto moro than tho valuo of poople’s property for carnrying It; drinking pooplo to drink lexs, and tomporance pooplo not to drink at )l 5 gro- cora Lo ma¥o tho proportions of iho gonuine ar- ticlo o littlo larger than tho sdultorating mattor; elnnors to go to chwreh; builders to havo tho Horoafter in view when they aro conatruoting buildings; murdorors and other oriminals to oxorcise moro forbearance townrds thoso who are personally obuoxious to thom and Jurios to oxorcino loss ; and in gonoral to all tho world, including public ofilclals, rail- rond corporatlons, drinking peoplo, sinners, paiuts, builders, and murdorers, to subscribo for T Ourcaao TaruNe, which will supply thom with 1l things noedful to socuro temporal prosperity, and, in conjunction with colportours and foreign missionary soociotics arid other simi- &r agoucies,will alyo help to keop them in sound moral health, Having offorod ito advico, 'Tur CioAco Tnin- uxe has bub ono rosolution to mako this Now Yoar's Day, Tho most plentiful crop of every your, sinco the boglnning of time, s that of broken resolutions. Thero aro only two clusson of pooplo in the world who do not naoed tomako rosolutions,—thoso who aro alroady 80 good that thoy emonot bo made bottor, and thoso who aro so Lad thet thoy cannot bo made worgo, Theso two classos, howover, compriso but a emall pert of the world, and tho groat ro- madnder, fooling the noconsity of doing somo- {hing to Linston tho advent of the Millennlum, proparo and cousnmumato & Aumerous string of rosolutions on each Jan, 1, and breal them on ool Jun, 2. Conscious of tho woaknoss of Imman nature, Tug Cnicado TninuNe has but oua resolution to mako thiy morning, aud that is, to continuo lsaulng tho best papar in Chica- go or anywhoro olao, Dismissing both ndvico sud rosolutions, it only romaina for us to ex- tond tho complimonts of tho sorson to our oll rondors; to hosposk for onch and all of them n largo moasuro of prospority, and, whatover fate may have in storo for thom, n confonted dinposition and & cottragoous hoart; to wish that all who tako Tnr TrinuNg this morning may bo spared to take 1t tho noxt snnual roturn of tho day; to oxpross gratitude for {ho approciation and patronago of ts frlonds ; and to wish overybody, from poloto pole, n Iappy Now Year and many roturns of tho same. THE MERCHANTS' FREIGHT UNION. Inview of tho oxcosslvo ratos for froight, thero hava boon formod in Ohicago, 8t Louls, Clncinnati, and porhnps othor Weatorn cftios, organizations of morohants, numbering, any, from 50 to 200 mombors, each of whom rocotves annually latgo omounts of froight. Thoso or- ganizations proposo to offor the entire businosa of nll its mombers to that railrond company which will offor thom tho lowest rates and the bost terms, Thisia portectly logitimato, and is but tho exorclso of ordinary business prudonco, ‘This procooding has attracted the nattontion of cortain officors of tho railrond companies, who, at o mooting at Buffalo, Deo, 4, united in s doclaration of their purpose ‘“‘to use overy monns to dispetao and abolish” theso froight unions and associations. They furthor declared that they would not, under any circumstancos, givo to such organizations of morchants nny rates for frolght but tho rogular printed tariffa agroad to by all therailrond agonts, That rebatos or othor allowances given topersons not members of such union of merchants shall not be given undor any circumatancos to anymembor of such union, 'This formal declaration of war {s signed Dy tho Gonoral Frolght Agonts, and by the man- ngora of tho Fast Frolght, Despatels, Transporta- tion, and *“ colored ” lines, as follows : 7,1, Rutler, Now York Contral & Hudson River Taflroad ; G, R. Blanchard, Erlo Tailrond; 8, D, Kingston, Peunaylvania Ratlroad ; Addison IIills, B. & M. 8, Ry, John B. Carson, T., W, & W. ' Lucfen Hilly, O, C,) O, & L R'y,; H, W, ibbard, Van- dolin Lino 3 A, E, Bchracder, E. & G, R, R J, M, Os- born, A, & @, W, R'y.; IF, O. Hinman, 3, M. & LR, W, Duneau, O, & M, Ry.; 1L O, Diohl, I, B. & W. IV 2, 11, Waldron, Bupt, U. L, & G, T, R; John Oramp- ton, Great Weatern Raflway of Conada; Johu O. ,; B, I, Bimith, L, & N, and B Georgo Darling, General Mannger T. 0, Vilas, General Manager Groat ch Company; O, B, Bkinner, Gonoral Manager Merchants? Despatch Tronaportation Comi- pauy; B, ¥, Smith, General Managor Red Line; J, W. Smith, Goneral Manager Erio & North Shoro Line § 3.D, Hayes, Goneral Munagor Bluo Lino, It will bo econ that this combinntion includes overy tranl railway from Chicago to tho East, oxcopt the Baltimoro & Obhio Railroad aund it includes all the * colored " lines and transporta- tion companios, A subsequont mesting, hold in New York on tho 18th of Docember, hLos rati- fled tho nction at Duftalo, and_ tho neccssary ordors hiavo boon fssucd to cuforce thus combinn- tion ¢ to disporso and abolish " tho unions of merehants. This procooding provokes the faquiry, What covstitutos an honost and legitimate rato of froight, aud also who receive the tax collactod of shippors for froighit over railronda? Tn other words, whon o man pays $100 froight chargos for the tranaportation of merchandiso, to whom ddooa tho monoy go, and for what is 1t paid? Tho annual etetoments by railrond companies of their grosa recoipts for tho trane- portation of merchandiso, and of ox- penditures thoroon, do mot toll tho wholo story; they artfully conceal the fact that the public is robbed, and the stock- holdors aro robbod of . cortain porcontagoof tho money paid for freights; and itis novorious that the monoy thus taken is dividod among men who porform the oxccutive dutios of the railway companics, An illustration of this i furnished by the ) 3 courge of proceodiug over one of theso trunk | railways, which may bo doscribed thus: A ships morchandise from Chiesgo consigned to Xin sn Eastern city. Tho car goos direct to its des- tination; but on the books of tho company the merchandiso is consigned to “Z & Co,” st some intormedinto station. Z & Co. are & myth; they boudle and receivo and forward nothing; but Included in the ratos of freight collected of tho shippor or con- signeo fs & commission of 2 to 6 por cont paid to Z & Co, Intho courso of a year, tho comrmis- sions thus creditod to % & Co. amount, sy, to £200,000. % & Co. havo o tronsuror who ro- coives $10,000 yoar salary ; and his principal, il not gole, businoss is to divido tho $200,000. For this £200,000Z & Co. perform no sorvics, muko mo oxpendituro, have no capital. Things havo reached tho point that tho only monns of gecuring transportation for merchandieo is to employ some “colored” or othor transportation company. Applicants for transportation gener- ally find that to got a dozon cars, or oven ono car, thoy must go to tho oflico of ono of these privato companies, which nlono socm to bavo auy cars or othor facilities for trapsportation. Shippors, thoreforo, are froquontly unnblo to sond morchandisa over o railrond unless they employ some pri- vato corporation, or outsido organization, to uso tho railwey constructod for tho uscs of thoe public. The “Yollow " lina daes not wark with- out profit, and evory cont that such lino rocoives for freight, ovor and sbovo what it pays tho railrond company, is 50 much monoy taken im-~ ‘properly trom the public or the compsny, It s commonly bolioved that these colored lines aro ownod by officers of the railway companics, but upon this point wo have no knowledge, Tho only thing cortain about it ls, that & mystorious organization, known, for instanco, na tho Pon- Groon lino, stands bobween tho shippor and tho wilway company. Thoy Thive of tho railroad company 1,000 of its froight cars- ab & pominnl ront; thoy enter into o contraob with tho raiirond company by which tho Iattor agreocs to furnish brakemen and motive powor to haultheso cars, ot & givon sum per car, from Chicago to Now York, or whatover the Erstorn torminus may be, Anap- plicant for transportation is told by tho Gonoral Froight Agont that ho in short of cars, and ro- fers him to tho managor of the Pea-Groon. Tho managor of the Pos-Groen furnishos all the cavs that are nooded. It has boon estimatod that, at tho lowost, 10 por cont of tho gross payment for froigh. I pald In tho way of bonus or divided among (hose perasito organizations for no sor- vico that ought not to bo performed by the rail- ways dircotly, Why caunot a trunk railway from Chicago to Now York or Philadolphia do {ts own frolght businoss ? ‘'Why oaunot it havo rolling atock of Its own, upon ils own road, to perform the business now dono through the intermedi- ato agoncy of tho rainbow lines? Wo undar~ stand that theso privato freight companios hava capital stock, upon which, as thoy have no uso’ is pald, snd . for capital. but Mitlo or nothing that thig hing boon watered nnd duplicated ovor nud over again. Tho organizations of tho merchants’ unfons and nassoointions threaten tho destruction of all tho intormedinto tolla upon froights which aro now divided among thoso parasites. ‘Thomor- chanta proposo to offor tholr business directly to tho railway companies, and to disponro with the sourcesand profitaof all the colors of the rainbow, and tho sun, mooun, and stars, bows, arrows, and Drondaxen, and ol tho other Intermediate ngon- clos by whom tributo Is demandod for tho priv- ilogo of shipping goods over tho public rallways, They aro right, They refuso to bo robbed any Jongor, and thoir rofuenl to bo robbed ia met by a gonoral doclaration on tho part of rallway offi- cialg that rulnous and unlawful discrimivations shall-bo mado against them, While wo applaud tho morchants for their resolve, wo confoss weo do not seo any prospeot of succoss. This spocies of oxtortlon s thoroughly ramified through tho wholo railrond system. It will roquiro some- thing strongor than a morchants’ unjon to broak it up. PROTECTION AS AN INDIVIDUAL ENTER- PRISE, A number of private citizons, constituting what is known as tho Dotroloum Producors’ Associntion, have entored into n contract with a number of other privato citizens, constituting tho Potroloum Roflners’ Association, to assume tho funotions of Goveinmont, and to declaro o protectorato over the industry of ofl-producing. The causo of this remarkable procecding has ‘beon, that the potroloum produced in the Ponn- sylvania ol rogions, boing largely iu oxcess of tho domand, bus, for somo timo past, fafled to yleld a profit. As this was mnot tho rosult of any foreign competilion, thero was no opportunity to provide the necosgary proteotion by Congrossional onactmont, and tho producors and rofiners have concluded to securo tho same adynpiages enjoyod by woollen mannfacturors or | iron producers through a combination of their own. Tho Refiners’ Associntion, on tho one hand, have agreed to tske all tho crudo oil which tho Producors’ Association pump, at o price of not less than &4 por barrel when tho prico of rofined oil Is 26 conts a gallon, or loss, and at 25 centa por barrol additional for every advanco of ono cont por gallon on the price of rofined oil. The Producers’ Asgociation, on tho other hand, sgreo: 1, That, from Dec. 26 to July 1, no mew wells shall bo drilled; 2. That tho uso of artificial mosna to incronso "production shall bo discontinued ; 8. That wells now drilling shall suspond work twelvo hours per day; and 4. That all wells pumping moro than ton borrels por day shall be run only twelve hours in tho tweniy-four. Tho two nssocintions hnvo chosen n Comptroller, who shall supervise tho nffairs of Loth nssocia tions, and keep the individusl mombers down to their ngrooment. Tho wholo project is ono to limit production in on unnatural manner, and there aro & nuni- Dot of roasons why it cannot bo expected to suc- coed. In tho firat place, the associetions do not posacss the powers of Govornment. They can- not onforeo tho rules they bave luid Jown. Con- gross may Ymt supplics in articlos whoro thoro is foroign competition by imposing duties, which enable the menufacturers or producors of those articles to maintain cortain prices. This is o mattar of law which canuot be evaded. But if an ofl producer, who now belongs to tho nsso- ciation, discovera that hin well will pump twonty barrels & day, whilo tho rulos of tho associntion limit him practically to ton barrols, o will bo protty apt to withdraw from thie association, or sacrotly to bronk over the rnles, as soon as tho prico bocomes lorgo cuough to tempt him. Thoro is no logal ponalty attachod to any such infringoment of tho rogulations, aud ho will avail himsolf of this opportunity o make monoy of which ho is voluntarily depriving himsolf. It it wore possible for tho Roflnors’ Association toin- cludo all the rofiners in the country, and for the Producers’ Asgocintion to includo all the pro- ducers in tho country; and thon, if ovory rofiner aud producer would abido by rules that have no logal force, it s possible that oil-production might bo limited and pricos bo correspondingly increasod, Theso contingencies, howevor, are too romoto for serious contemplation, Itmay o unprofitable to pump & woll which only pro- ducos ton batrols a day, whon oil is sellingat o price which will mako it profitable to pump & well that produces twonty bar- rols, or to ollow tho flowing of & woll that produces fifty or o hundred barrels a day spontancously. At such a juncturo it is unven- sonablo to suppose thiat tho man who owns the twonty-barrel or fifty-barrel woll will voluntarily nacrifico his profita for the boneflt of tho man who owns the ten-barrol woll. Iuman naturois not Bo constituted. Dosides, tho cloment of foroign competition may possibly onter Into tho contest. If tho prico of crudo oil should bo run up by this Potroloum BSyndicato to 26 or$7 o barrel, it may be profitablo to start upthe Canada wolls again, apply tho torpodoes to old wolls, pub up derricks for now ones, aud take advantage of the new range of prices. Pro- tection has o hard road to travel with CGovorn- ment at the back of it; without Government to sustain it, it must inovitably succumb to the natufal laws of supply and demand. 1t is obvious that tho only way i which living pricos can bo secured for crudo oil is to limit the production, which is now oxcossivo. But it Is oqually obvious that the ouly.way in which this oxcoss can bo curtailed, in fact, is for thoso who find thelr wolls unprofitable to give them up, and make room for thoso whoso bottor fortuno or suporior judgment has givon them botter wells. Tho natural courso of things will 1ogd to this rosult, Thoro was s timo whon thousands of barrels of oil flowed daily into tho Alloghany Rivor, moro worthloss than it is now, bocwuso it prosont ugos woro unknown. Whon tho oll bocamo valuable, thero was a rush of cap- ital to that region altogothior unparalielod in tho devolopment of any othor of tho country's ro- mources, It is only natural that oil-producing now should suffer for this excossivo develop- ment; and no combination or individual devico can pormanontly disturb the law of supply and domand, or artificially raise the prico of oil above the figure which that law cstablishos, Astronoy 1 Phenomena in 1873, Thse following aro tho principal nstronomical phonomens of tho coming yonr, caleulatod for Chicago mean timo, which [ 421¢ minutos later than Washington, and Gh. G0}m. lator than Qroonvich timos ; Month, Full Moons, JANUATY .0 rs T, 100025 A, Yobruary. e, .. 13th, 5h42.7 aom, 1t 110543 pon 4L, 4b 05 paa, 2 New Moone, 291h, 11 fie: Tl 4.1 . 3 n, , UNIRT poan, 141 pm, 4th, OLSS. . 2, 101 I8 i, moon of May 12, the moon will bo totully colivsod, Moon outors shudow at 8h. 00.8m. 8. m.; boglining of total eolipno, 41. 44.4m, 0. m. ; ond of total eclipse, Oh. 16.3m. & m. ; moon lonves sliadow, 7h, 20m. n. m. Honco tho firt phage of this oclipse will bo visiblo ab Chicago. At (ho now moon of May 26, the sun will bo partinlly cclipsod; Invisibio at Chiongo. At tho full moon of Nov. 4, tho moon will Lo eclipsed ; and at tho new moon of Nov. 19, iho sun willbe eclipsed ; both invisiblo at Ohi- cngo, Bun ontora Arles ; Vernal Equinos, March 20, 7h, 2m. 8,1, Bun onters Onncor ; Summer Bolatico, Juno 31, Th. 1, 0, 1 . 0, 1, Bun ontora Lbra; Autumn Equinox, Sopt. 22, b, 45m, ., Biin outers Gapricorn ; Wintor Solatico, Dec. 21, 11h, 42,0, m, . Vonua'will bo an ovoning star till My 6, when sho will boIn inforior conjunction with the sun, Hor greatost olongation cast ocours Feb., 22. or groatost clongation wost will bo on July 14. Jupitor will boon the meridian at midnight on Fob. 14, and in conjunction with the sun on Hopt. 4. Botweon those two datos ho will be vigiblo In tho evening sky, a litilo orst from tho Dright fixed star Rogulus, in tho handlo of tho woll-known Biclle of Leo ; and south from tho bowl of tho Dippor. R Mars will bo on the meridian at midnight o April 27, In tho constellation Libra. Ho will bo u consplouous objoot in the evening sley during tho summer months. , Baturn will bo on the moridisn at midnight, Bopt. 21, Ho will b6 visible in tho evenings pro- vious to thot date, & little northeast from the principal stars in tho constoliation Bagittarius. Ho will riso boforo tho sun during the last five montha of the year. Utauua will bo just visiblo to tho naked oye on clear nighta in the first half of tho yonr, noar tho Beohive Nebuln, Ho will bo in conjunction with the sun, July 29, Moreury will bo ot hin greatost castorn olonga~ tlon March 18, July 10, and Nov. 10, Noar théso dntes ho may bo soen in tho west, just aflor sunsot, Hia grentont wostern olongations acour Jon, b, May 8, and Aug. 10, whon ho may bo seon in tho east, just boforo sunrise. The rogular aunual prediction of collision with a comet, somo timo in Augnnt, will undoubtodly Do made, and belioved by thousands. So far 8 wo knov, the carth is in no dangor of dnmago from collision with n comot in 1873, —_—— S The Seed Business in the United Statos, Botwaon two aud threo millions of capital aro {nvostod in the sesd business in this country, and tho annual trado turns over not loss than fivo million dollars, Ithas shared tho growth and chango of tho lnst quarter of o contury, and now has locked Liands with the advancing civil- ization of tho country, nnd ospecially of the Wast. Thirty yonts hgo, the ontire trado scarco- Iy renched a quarter of a million, and of thig tho Bhalars did by far the Inrgost sbaro. Now, tho Shnkora do about as much as thoy did thon, but tho gonoral business has long since passed thom. Wo depend no longor on homo-grown soods, and tho caroful savings of tho farmor from floldand gardon, but import in alargaly-incraasing ratio tho best variotics of scods from all parts of tho world. : It would scom that America, with her wide rangoof climate, widor thau that of any otber country, might at loast raiso all hor own sood nftor tho varioties were onco introduced. But Naturo, nover forgotting any link of tho chain of mutual depondenco which sho draws round nations 08 woll o8 individuals, will not make us entirely indopondont avenin tho matter of seods. Evory land has its natural advantages, ovory plant its favorito habitat, whero, under somo myaterious harmony of soil, climato, and condi- tions, it attaius its perfaction. Our own country, with its agriculturo basod on corn, affords us tho bont soods of that family, ond of its nttendant vines. Nowbore do the scadsof thomolon, squash, pumpkin, snd simi- 1ar vogatablos nttain groator excollence than un- dor our burning sunshine, and in our nights full of warmth and moisture. But corn is not a good noighbor for pons. ‘Tho hoat whick kindly maturos it and its frionds brings into oxistonce 2 fly which piorces the pea whilo yot in blossom, with tho egg which dovelops into the large and lively bug that infosts all our poas. Bo for our eced-pons wo go to Can- ads, whero thoy, slong with wintor whont, mature admirably in on atmosphere which excludes the products of warmer climea England, howovor, supplios us with our dwarf pong, and other choice varieties, That country, with its molst and femporato climate, Las its agriculturo based upon tho turnip as food for stock, as ours is upon corn, and, naturally, there wo obtain our largest and most roliable stocks of turnip and rodish seod. It is not that our own {urnip sced is not good ; it ia oxcollent if it only ripons, and, 8 ia tho case with other soods, fsbet- tor adapted to our uso on sccount of boing ac- climatod; but the oxirome heat and drouth of ourJuly froquontly maturos it so rapidly as to injuro its quality. If it cscapos this danger, It, a8 well a8 othor similar scods, bocomes quito valuable, ono pound of it, indoed, vosting ns much ay threo of the imported. Tho boot, whioh is tho principal root erop of Trenco and Germany, has beon moro complotoly naturalized boro, and, with tho excoption of tho sugar-boot, wo raise tho lnrgent proportion of aur own sood. 'Lho bost cnbbago ood is im- ported, and for that rofined varioty of it, tho caulitlowor, wo are almost entirely dopondont on tho South of Gormany and Northern Italy. It is almost o pitywo canuot import caoks for cauli- flowors, for tho procasses to which tho unfor- tunato yogotablo is subjocted by caroless or un- skillod hands, gouerslly doprive it of all its fln flavor. Tho East produccs tho very finest lottuco and onion seed, byt oxchanges with us for onr vino soods, which far surpngs hors. Flowor seeds wo got principally from Franco and Cermany, the old town of Erfurt Leing tho great contre of advanced agriculturo and hortieulturo in Gormany, as Rochoster, N. Y., which doss fully one-hal¢ of our &ood and nurkory business, is of the United States, Tlofland supplics us with bulbs of all variotics, and tho finest qualitios, oxcapt lilics, which are | Jargoly raisedin New York, Tho bulbs como packed in buckwhoat hulls, which most offect- unlly proteat thom from moisturo. The common- or variotios of secda are transportod in five- busihol sncks, the finer ones in closo linon bags. Prudont importers avoid paying more than ono duty on bags by seading them to bo refilled, s thoy aro not liablo after tho' first transit. The avorago froight from tho foroign ports to Chica- go is from §1.00 to £1.50 por bushel, of which two-fifths {5 ocoan and throo-fifths inland froight. i The Western territory fs rising in agriculturo and hortioulturo with the grontost rapidity, as is indlcatod by tho kind and quality of the sdods sought for, and tho doubling and oven trobling of tho noodsmon’s ordors snnually for tho past fow years from Knnsas, Iown, Colorado, Mis- souri, and our own State, whick zro all among tho bost customars, tho two flrst named, how- ever, with our own, scoking most oagerly tho finor varioties of moods. Tour principal firms,~ono in Rochoestor, one in Philadelphia, one in Dotroit, and one in Chi- cago,—do probably throo-fourths of all tha com- mission, importation, and othor soed businoss west of tho 1udson aud north of the Ohio Riv- org, Provious to 1862, soeds were on the froo liet. “Thoy now pay & duty of 20 per cont. It Is to bo hoped that Governmontin future reductions will, in tho futorost of agrleulturo throughout tho country, romember soods ospocially, as it is itwolf taking pains to Introduco thom froo, turough its Dopartment of Agrlculture. e A Chicago corrospondont of tho Now York Trib- une, doveribing the rebullding of the city, snys : #'ho two Houoro Blocks, immediatoly south of Monvao, ata gomowhal gaudy, their classio foatures bolng murred by profuso ornamenta- tlon, cupecially on top of onoof thom, wharo thoro o n figuro of Moroury, sevoral ‘birds of freodom,’ snd innumorablo vases, urns, cto. Thoro {5 no fountaln, ay thore ought to be. to comploto the landscapo on tho raof.” Wo have no doubt that our ontorprlsing oltizon, Mr. Honoro, wilat onco rorody the dofoot pointed out, and have e good n fountain rg ean bo pro- curod in Now York among tho othor ourlonities ‘of his galvamzed uppor-air musoum. Moan. whila ho s taken down the ““Dlrds of froo- dom," —_— NOTES AND OPINION. At tho Matt, Carpontor Yanquot in Milwaukeo, Mondny night, Frod Nlorn was initiated into the party of tho Administration, —'Tho Missouri Logislaturo meots to-day, and tho firsb groat fight in for the Sposkorship, in which ia involvod tho Honatorship ; bocause, if Btillson Hutching, Iato of tho 8t, Louis Zimes, shinil bo olocted Bponker, it would indicato o possibly triumphant conlition betweon o faction of tho Liborals and all the Ropublican mombors on'tho other question. The 8t, Louls Bepubli- can Boys: Ar, Hutchine! eandidacy seema {0 bo purbied by tho Minsorerd Democrat, whono cdltor was solected o pro- #ido ot o recent * bnnquot 7 to Mr, 11, Wo do not proposo {0 bo aquenmish In speaking about Mr, Ifutching ns on anpirant for the houor of occupyin the Bpenker'a chinir, If tho Dowocracy of (Lo Btato of Mingonr, na ropresentod fu the Legislature, should so far forgel ia (uty to tho people, shonkd 8o far forget its own aclf-respcct, n to elovato a_character lka Hutching, 1t would ' desorvo (o sovorcat condonina on. And the 8t. Louls Democrat says: Thore 15 » good deal of unnccessary distresa in the Democratic bosom of Missouri leat tho Republican mombera of the Legisintuio 2522t iieaco :th tho “robol clement ” and olcct n Sountor, . When dia tho Democrata discover (hat the @ robel olement " waa s bad {hing to coalokeo with?_If thoro aro thirty-four mon williog to join' tho Ropublican minority in tho Legislaturc, they can' namn tho nest Souator, - That's oxnctly haw tho caso Atands, It comes ot in ovidenco that 1utchins offorod to {nsuro tho olection of Samuel T. Glover, an United Statos Sonator, for 210,000 Franlk Blair has ostablished his hendquarters for theSonatorial campaign at the Madison Hotel, Jefforson Cily, whero he has engagod o magnitt- cont suito of rooms, —Tho total voto of Toxan, in Novombor, just declared, waa n littlo over 115,000, and for Con= gross-at-Large waa : Grecley Tickot, Asa 1, Willio, 168,622 | Lammel D, Evans...40467 TRoger Q. Mill 163,723 | A. B, Nortoy 0408 ~The whole vote in the Arkanurs Legislature 16109, and of theao tho Liborals aro allowed 92, The 76 Ropublicaus aro understood to be divided for Bonator, thns: Bowen, 83; Dorsey, 26; Hadloy, 18. McDonald holds oft as & second choice and possible compromisa. —Horschal V. Johneon pormits tho use of his pame for United Statos Sonator, in Georgin. —Tho Quiney TWhig discussos the Prosidency of tho Iilinols Scnate as a question to be decided by locality, and, noxt to its own momber, Major Burns, it profors Mr. Yager, of Alton; becausa Northorn Lllinois is going to have the Governor, in tho porson of Coneral Boveridge, and should not have also the acting Lioutenant Governor in tho porsons of oithor Messrs. Enrly, Strong, or Whiting. But will the Wiy toll us whethor the orodits, as rogard locality, are nok nll in favor of Northern Illinois ; aud whother the *locality " cry is tho only tost of fituess. —1t fs said that Bon. T'urnor, the colored Con- ossmun of Mobilo, Als., has commenced, or g sbout to commenco, & conteat for tho seat of Mr, Drun\borg in tho noxt Congress, uPon tho round thin * through {lo noglect or rofussl of 1o election officers to dischargo thoir dutics, Lo lost 1,950 votes in Drilan County.” —Tho managors of tho Union Pacifie Reilrond aro playing the Credit Mobilier gamo over again, a8 will bo seon by tho lattor of our Washington correspondont. Thin time an insido ring have secured b munnpoli' of tho coal, and use tho road to mako it profitablo. _Thin ia anothor renson why Onkes Ames dosired to give Congressmen an futerest in the Credit Mobilier.—Cincinnati Gazelle, —Don. Butlor mysteriously hints that Iio can divalge_somo stariling facls concorning tho Oredit Mobilicr businass, 1o says that if tho Committeo really desite the wholo matter fully undorstood they shonld cnll upon him, and ho agroos to conduct tho invastigation. —Sam. Bard, of Chattanoogn T'ost Offico and nowspnpor notorioty, is guilty of this splondid soreasm: “‘Chore is not o wora incorruptible man in the nation than Senator Hurlan, and to imputo to him any but the purest motivos in al! thinga s the height of prosmption.” —Tho most alnrming fuet In- this tondoncy fo disrogard tho. Constitution and ¢ s ol .authority in the hauds of the Presidont is, that n large proportion of tho prosont votora of tho country hisye como of ago sinco tha outbronk of the robellion, and Lavo been trained_in political affairs during_an opoch whon the Constitution was almost a doad lottor. All through the terri- blo trinls of the war, 80 far from being taught to rovoronco the Constitution, theso young men rathor imbibed tho notion that it was an antiquated instrumont, which did woll onough £0 guido tho slow stepsof _oar fathe ors when the country was in its #ap, but quito unsuited to theso progrousivo times and our rap- idly expanding nation, and wholly unfit to moet tho exigoncion of war and intostitio commotions. From all this, two consoquences naturally flow ; largo numbers of tho younger class of votora cry out for a strong govorninont, and look with ndifforanco wpon tlio sterlthy usurpations of . tho gentral authority at Washington ; “while thn Presidont, taking advantuge of the loose coudi- tion of publio opinion, moves straight onward toward arbitrary powor.—New York Sun. i ~It is the beliof of tho negro Congrossman Elliot from South Carolina thnt Simon Camer- on's friend, John 8, Puttorson, kpent §560,000 in ordor to bo clected to the United Btaics Senate from South Carolina, 1t was all usod in buying up the negro mombera, But for his mouey, Bl liot ssys ho would not have roceived a singlo vote. In view of this thero is much portinonco in tho following quory of tho black Congross- man : * Now undorstand me: T am not saying thin ont of porsonal fecling, Iwas n candidale bo- foro the Legisluture, and was defented. I can boar defoat, but tho humiliation tho thing las brought upon our colored ruco—thats what hurts me. Our raco is now on trinl bofore tho world 28 to its fitnes to govern, What will bo,unid after nuch o wholesalo buying-up as this? ~Tho colorod mon, aa you know, aro i larga majority in tho Legiolature, and thoa for thom to_ delib- eratoly sell out by wholesale is n bLlow that we eannot got ovor for yoars, It i o blow nt our indogrity, our honesty, onr manhood, Tho ro- ort has gone to tho world that tho colore 1 logis- Intors, making laws for South Carolina, huvo beou bribed by wholosnle, and “tho roport i unfgumnwly trwo.z, What' will the world think of it?” —Thora is no defenco for tho netion of tho oil roducors sud refiners, Thoy aro simply a com- Gyant Licket, Fination to oppross tho’sniull propristor nd Iaborors, and to tax the cousumcrs beyond the natural prico of tho_ articlo m demand. It can only bo axcused by the moustrous doctrina thnt rivato corporations un wall ns Congrosscs and egislatures huvo tho right to forco Naturo from its chaunels, and to drivo induslry whorover it prs, capital, tho most. 1t anay bo uried y thoso who utill coneciontionsly cling to tho_horosy of ‘ protection” that the action of this combinod monopoly i extromo and much Doyoud what protectionits contemplate, Yot it is & fair oxatuplo of tho policy, for * profection ™ monns simply tho statuto licnso of capital to mako largor than natnral profits, and this is il tho oil men aro after in_anothor way, Once ho- gin to hamper trade with luws or combiuations, and thero is no limit to tho oppressions that natuzally follow. ‘Tho oil combinntion is meroly o child of the Congressional protectionists, bnt it novertholess dosorves the sevorest condomug: tion. It sooms hardly possiblo that it cau sug- coed.—New York Eoening Lot —Tha romarkablo doctrinos of tho Presidont’s meseago on tho enbject of Internal improvo: mouts aroalroady Loginnini to bear their natural and inovitablo frnit. Illinois inuotting up a clamor becauso ier pob intornal improvemont liau beon loft out in tho cold. Bho insints, and with porfoct reason, that tho Illinois & Mis siuafppi Cannl haa ns valid o_clnim upon Fxceu. tivo and Congresuional bonevolonco and Trons- ury aid, as any othor eanal going ; and sho in- vios ' paterinl Government {owholl out the £12,480,010 nooded to ey thin groat publio work through to_complotion. Why not?” Isw't ovory sootion, und Steto, und district, aud freo- Dorn, tax-paying ollizon, us good as oYery other ? Thoro muen’t bo any favoritism in this business, It Unclo Sam puts his hand in his pockot for ono Tooal entorprivo, ho must do the wnwmo by the noxt, and tho noxt, and tho next; it munt bo sharo and sharo Wliko, all around tho Fodoral Board,—Springfleld (Midss.) Repuhlican. —Wa domand thai. thia~ Credit Mobilier busk nosa bo at onco dropped, Its further dovelop. mont is caloulatod to makto soveral memborn of Oongroas fool unhappy, — Lbuwisvills Couwrier- Journal, —Tho Davonport Gazelte has an articlo apolo- lelnp for the usurpations by the Fadoral quthar- ty of Louisiana, It is about tho only paper ln Towa that has yot daved to tako this stop.—Durs ington Gazetle,