Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1873, Page 4

1o 2 the . )’ ‘whora ? ecalved, and wit ot tho Main . «NTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE, FIRST PAGE-Our Publio Libeary~Insuguration Cors omonles Yostorday, : BEOOND PAGE—Now York Lotter: Chrlstmas Colo- bration~Tho Slaux Oity ailraad Blockado—Vator- onary Holonco: Dofoctivo Stato of Our Sanltary I stitutions~Tho Fleld and Stablo—Bank Burglatlo Tho Vault of tho Firat National, of Hastings, Minn,, Opened—dolin on the Shoot: Ematlonal In- eanity Among tho Uolestials—Cunfodorato Ourrency Printiug, THAIRD PAGQE-Porlodical Litoraturo—Mark Twain's ‘Now Oock Robin [Poom]-Bolaiorons Brokors—Alico and Phoobo Qary—Railroad Timo Tablo—Tribuno Prospootus. FOURTH PAGE—Tditorlals: Mr, Sumnor's Oblision Rosalution; Why Farmiog 1s Unprofitablo: Com- fortablo Pooplo; Intorcaliegiato Hoholarships—Cur- ront News Itoms—Notes and Opinion. FIETIL PAGE—Tha Old Water Tawer—Slmpson & Oo.— Poreonal—Adrortisomonts, BIXTH PAGE—Commorcial Mattora—Tifo in Slam—A Whirlwind of Flro in England-Bishop Totts, of Utah: 1lfs Trinls at Ohristmas Timo—A Classleal Darkoy—-Now York Emigration Blatlstics, BEVENTH PAGE—A Happy Now Year—Iilinols Far. mer's State Oonsontlon—Tho Now Yeer {Pocm]— Genteol Syindlora—Ritnslinn~Tho Comfortablo Clagses—Small Advortlsonients, EIGIUTH PAGH-Now York Nows : Burning of tho Fifth Arenuo Thoatro~Washington Items—Forelgn Nows , —Dliscellancous Tolograms—Local Mattos—Auc- tlon Advortinomonts. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VIOKER'S THEATRE-Madison stroot, botwoen fiaro aud Doathorn, Vngngomont of Miss Olastoto Cughman, '*Roary VIILY s 3 HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE-Tandolph atroot, bo- tweon Clark and LaSallo, Now Coniedy Compaus. “Peop O'Day." * ATREN'S TIIEATRE—Wabash arenuo, cornor of Con. gross strcot, **Don Casor do Bazan,” ACADEMY OF MUSIO- Haleted strect, eouth o Pladison, Logagoment of Robort MoWade. *‘Rip Van Winila," MYERS' OPERA 1JOUSE—Monroo streot, botwoen State and Dearborn, Arlington, Cotton & Komblv's Rflnsitrol and Burlesque Troupo. GLOBE TH EATRE~Dernlatnes streot, botween Madi 100 nnd Wasnington. Who Loon Brothora, ** Dick Tur “pin." NIXON'S AMPIITHEATHE-Clintonsiroct, botweon AWashiugton and Randolph, Engagoment of Zvo. A Unglo Yom's Cabin." BUSINESS NOTICES. TLSKIN MADE SMOOTIT by USINOJUNIPER p, manufasturcd by Caswell, Huzarl, & Co., L JIAVANA LOTTERY. ary denwlog: wholo tickats 8 $'C0., iaukare, 10 Wallst. GRAND, EX- R A Tox 46w, 1. 0., FOR DYSPEDPSIA, INDIGESTION, DRIIESSION of pistta and (iunocal " Dollity. the Torro Phusphoralod ifieie of Calisnyn Hark (Callensa Bark and Lo, 13 thy hoat Lonc, Mndo by Caswoll, Jiazazd & Co , Now York, by Drugglsts. Jix 1ELOR'S HAIR DYIE, TIHIS SPLENDID faatidys 18 tho bost in tho world. The unly truo and per. Btk e, Statinicen: eeliable, amd instantandouss wod pointinent: v ridtcnlons tints or uuplessant odo diug tho i1 offoetn of bad dyes and washos, Froduces fm- . latoly n suporh black or natural irown, and leaves the Binir clean, foft, and bonutifal. Tho gennino, signod W . I3 olor, _Sold by afl _druggists, CHARLES ATOHELOR, Proprietor, N, Y. T BHONCHIAL _ CONSUMPTION, J. 1, Sohonci, M, 1. Tranehisl cousumpiion 14 tho*couno- wuenco genorally of m?( cotod cold. AL iirst tho symp- Aoms recemblo thoso of an ordInary cold or catarrh, tho ):l’mc!nmflnnlmllm tough, thick, nud opaque, but not Fuliow, coutaining suill, keasish’ lumps, which sink in Fvnter. As Lo disunso advancod tho cough fnereasys, and 2hs tough mucus or phlogm becomnes moro and more snlzed \'fil o yollowlsh fluld resembling pusormatter, snd ‘oiten slightly'streakod with blood. In m who expoctoration is of & whitish appearan wream, and sunietimes & greenisli-yellow "y ‘;'\'I\ll“{ sluks in wator, At tivet tho pulse becuwes Plisutly accolortod am tonte towned eroatie, wud the eat of the surface of the body varies In the coursn of tho day, boing somotimes ahovo and sometlmes hulow ¥hio natural standard, Dartiul swoats occur In th head ypd Dronel ot i, Tuo' chivat” s gonorally comnidure: 1y incroused ; tho urino 18 highly coloreil, and deposits a copious roddish sodhment; '8 Beuto ol soruncss At (lin choat, with an vecasioial translent stltch In tio pide, oceurs [n & major| L“n lustauces, but thero I8 nin' zarely any ixed paln in tho chest. Tlio cougl I8 uaually Fovuin, particularly on rlsing out of bod In tlo morntug, Bt which {lmo tho breathing 18 maroe orloss wheoziug, Bud nttundud with a foeling of tightnoes I tho broast, 31 ‘the diseaso continues, tho’ oxpuctoration bcomos urulent and satrenioly caglous, Dablilty aai saciation E\Irwmfl!" mlmllf', tho ditliculty of Lreathlug and sonse of olglit and tiklitness across tho chost becomo more and anore dintrossing, The pulse I8 now goberally vary fro- auent, buiog seldom under 120 In a winuto. In the casly part of the dne tho (aco1s usually pale, but a doep tlush un ‘ono or both cheoks ks commonly observed toward ovoniug, 'lie tonguo becumes cloar, and In mony Instances §t 3 £t alarining appearance, oud is reddor than i I hero aro gonerally profuso and oxhausting night ¢ Lhis advancod stago of tho discase, and, ualess Juuid, swalling of tho ankles and dlarrhes szpor- und doaty close tho acenn,. BCHENUK'S PULMONIO SYRUP, BLA-WELDTONIO, NI MANDRAKIS PILLS, Thiaso aro thi only modiclacs that wilh ustauces omblin which s, TTON, . SCHENOK a3 beon in constant practice ovor thirty yoers, continual- 'bi‘h\fl(ll‘l“lg lungs, and ll\‘lnmru I‘;II, modictucs, If proporly TILAINR Sty oareumpton. - Tils MANDICAKE PILLS otoanso tho livos anid stawaciy s ialzon tho lnnld,.mé;ru.luws tho coating of tho stomach, 1 Wiontions his nad atds diomloligioxio syrue zipens tl:o L matter, and nature throws it off without auy Bzuntion, 4 ond for salo by 3. 1. SCHTRION & SON, Tronn portlionst: cornar Slxth and Arehste., Philadolphia, b rally. [¥'o by coutinasd.] 5 drugglsty and denlers Y The Chivags Titbune, Thursday Morning, January 3, 1873, Governor Prlmer has given tho murderer Me- Nulty o rospito of 95 days in which to prosent s appeal for n supersedeas. Buits have been begun by the German Govern- guent against all tho nowspapers within it juris- diction which published tho spocch lately made Dy the Popa to his Cardinals, and which has deoply irritated Emporor William sud his Cabi- not. Goneral Dis was yostorday inaugurated aw Tiovernor of Now York, and Judge Caldwell as Governor of North Carolina, Bovoral State Legislatures met and organized, among them jsose of Maino, Miggouri, and Maseachusclls, »n which Dr, Loriug was chozen Presidont of tho Bonato. A lsrgo audienco had bsrely loft the Fifth Avonue Theatre of Now York, yesterday after- noon, when tho building was econ to boin fiamos, aud In fiftcon minutes lay in rehes, This littlo tinder-box was built into tho side of the Fifth Avonue Hotel, which ugain cscaped do- struetion by fire only by tho most strenuons ox- orttions, and, as it was, suffered somo damnge. Tho Josa on Lhe building and the ecenory and proportics of tho thoatro will bo $180,000, Tivo bodies wero taken yostorday from tho pindera of tho Contre street flro. Thoy wore re- povored limb by limb, taken out piocomeal, and yeoognizod by the Lroken-hearted rolatives, who for moroe than a woek havo been kopt walling for tho romains, only by a necklaco, or & shoo, or a shrod of clothing, Among tho bodles were two rlgtora who had died so tightly clasped in cach othor's armo that tho flamon loft tholr broasts un- georchod. Aa two moro operativos perished thau waa at flret supposed, throo are yot to bo found, Tha Chiergo produce markots were gonorally Tnootlve youtorday, tho Obsmbor of Commorco being clonod. Tho excltomont {n wheat of the proviouy day drow out o fow oporators on the pidowalle. and whoat doolined 3o tarther, cloar R @TUABICES OD L P RIS UNGS 319 canh, and 61.21@ “awas dnflnt303¢e ensh, + "8, Thoro was an notivo 1 and pricos woro strong at S salos ot §3.65@3.00, Caillo e with a fnir inquiry at yostorday's 48 rocalpts and shipmouts of live S this cily during 1872 woro ag follows: Receipta, Shipmenta, 4,252,02 1,835,604 X 510,025 U510 1245 10,02 During tho past month, tho rato of Intorost paid for tho uboe of monoy in stock spoculations in New York bes ranged from 7 por cont to 180 por cont por annum, Most of {heso transace tlons aro for carrying slocks from ono day to snothoer, Tho avorago rato of intorest on theso loans has probably beon g high a3 50 por cont per annum, The stocks themselves meanwhilo havo not earned o dollar moro than usual—per- haps not as much ag usual, Consoquently, the oxorbitant ratos of intorost have boon paid ent of the pockets of the spoculators, who have suc- ceodod in carrying tho quotations high onough to roimburso thomseclvos if the great groon public will only come in bolween now and tho first of March ond buy thoso mlocks ot tho pricos which tho bulls havo forced thom up to. If tho great groon publio dow't take tho balt, thero will bo o tumblo boforo long. Fifty per cont can't bo pald for wonoy to carry stocks that earn loss than 10 porcent, It can bo paid only so loug as tho Dbuyer can got it out of Lis own trousera; and that will not bo vory long, wo apprehiend, for Wall streol is mot a romarkably productivo country, Wo advieo tho great vordant public to keep out, ‘Tho Btack Exchango is 1 an un- boaltby stato. Thoso fictitious prices must como down, and thoso oxtraordinnry rates of intoreat must coaso to bo. Tho bost thing that could happen to the country would bo & panio in Wall stroet and a Black Friday among tho stock- gamblers, Yostordsy was Now Year's Day, and yot Mr, Scammon was not happy. 1o sags that ono of the mombors of Tt Tuimuse Company *f wenb Enst, and raised and brought homo thousands of dollars by appealing to_tho sympathios and bonevolenco of {he public.” Also that Tus Tamuss was conobled to restore its building out of tho procceds of ono year's business by ostortlonato oharges for ad- vertising. Also, that Tue TRIBUKE, or ano of its proprictors, hns boen guilty of “blacke matling.” Now, tho moro fact that Mr. Beammon wag not happy on Now Year's Day did not justify him in boaring false witnoss, o insinuntes that ona of tho proprictors of Tus TRIDUNE went East on o bogging oxpedition for his own profit and advantage, or that of Tut 'TRIDGNE, and ob- tained thousands of dollars thereby,—which is simply fulso. Lvery dollar obiainced throngh tho ngoncy of Tur TRIBTNE, or any of its pro- prictors, by oppoaling to tho cympathion and bonevolenco fof tho, ;public, wan turned over to tho Teliof Rociely. As rogards extortionate rates of advortising, it is well known that Mr. Scammon was at tho samo timo publishing & nowspapor in which ad- vortigoments woro insorted for nost to uvothing. The businces community hed their choico be- twoon paying Tur Tamuse's rates and DMr. Seammon's rates, 1f thoy preferred the former to tho oxtent that Mr. Scammon alleges, thoy must bave believed that advertisemouts in Tne Tmnuse possessed considorablo value, while ad- vertisoments in My, Scammon's papor possessed no valuo, or noxt Lo none. At sl fovents, thoy waero undor no compulsion to prefer ono papor moro {han anothor. In tho mattor of blackmail- ing, we think nobodyin Chicago cen claim pro- ominonco over Mr. Scammon in that respect. TIu the Dearborn etroct asscesment cage ho lovied blackmail to the tuno of eomo 830,000 on tho othor property-holders. o blackmailed tho whols of Wabash avenuo to tho extent of his own nsscesment for paving that thoroughfare. 1fa blackmails every public improvement that ho can possibly obstruct or binder, and hing done g0 for yenrs, and ho Dblackmails the whole commu- nity rogularly by reslsting tho payment of Lis city taxos on tochnicalities, nnd earrging thom to the SBupremo Court, while common peoplo pay theirs at the propertimo, Tholegs Nr. Scammon says about blackmailing the botter for him. MR. $UMNER’'S OBLIVION RESOLUTION, Some highly patrlotic individual, who Is preke- bly accustomed to rally round the ilag when there is no fighting to Lo done with delightrul regularity, writes us, wisbiog to knowif wedo not boliovo that threo-fifths of the peoplo of tho United Btates indorso tho actlon of tho Maesa- chusotts Logislaturoin censuring Charles Sumpor for liis oblivion rosolutions. As wo have nevor oxpressed an opinion about the matter at all, wo aro at o Joss to discovor what the Patriotic Indi- vidusl wants with our bolief any way on this subject, and why ho did not also ask us to ox- press our convictions of tho bollef of throo- fifths of tho peoplo of the United States on the Darwinian theory. Tho Patriotic Individualis ovidoutly an inquisitive individual, how- over, mnd, to gralify Mis curiosity touching our boliof as to tho beliof of Lhvoo- fittls of the paoplo of this country of the boliet of tho Massachusotts Legislature in Mr. Bum- nor's bolief in the mattor of oblivicn, wo aro willing to gratify him. At tho outsot, wo nve abliged to declaro our bolief that throo-fitths of tho peoplo of the United States don't know any mora about the aclion of tho Massachusotts Laogislature in this matter than thoy do about tho codfish which bangs over tho Hpoakor's clinir in that Great and General Court, and thab {ho romaining two-fifths doa’t cars n siraw sbout it any way. Ilaving expressed our Lnowledge ug to the beliof of the (hreo-fifihs, about whom tho Patriotiv Individual is con- carned, and tlho other two-fifthe which wo throw in ay o gmatuity, wo bave a fow words of comfort for tho Patriotio Individual, whick weo bog bim (o secopt as & Now Year's gift, with the ccmpli- monts of the seaeon, Tho Tatriotta Tndividual probably knows {hat fho organization eof tho Aueeachusotts Loglslatura is eo strongly Ropub- licun that tho Demoerats n that body can Lard- ly bo found with u lac-taoth comb, ‘Tho reao- lution to censure Mr, Sumner was introduced by an individual whom five-fifths of tho people of tho Unitod States nover beard of,—a pasty by the name of Hoyt. It wosintroducedasa party nicasure in o Leglslaturo almost usarimously Reopublican, and barely went through by o very amall majority, sbowing that nearly throo-fifths of that body eithor didn't Xnow or didn't earo anything moro about Mr. Bumner's viows onj obllvion than they dld about his views on the Big Trecs of California. ‘Wo may also stata for the comfort of tho Patrie otlo Individual that this (3 not tho firat time Mr, Bumnor hag Introducod his oblivion rosolutiony. 1o Lo prossod thom twine hatara. anaa In 1842 in tho vory flamo and fover of tho war, without oxciting any publio opposition or anyahimndyor- nlon, publlo or private. Wo aro not awaro that tho lapso of timo or difforenco in olrcumatancos Tiny ohangad thelr tonor nt all, and wo avo rather surprinod than othorwisa that tho Tatrlotio Indi- vidual did not sound his war-whoop on thoso occnslons, inslond of walling until this late hour in the day beforo ho uttorod his protost. As Mr. Sumnor's oblivion resolution is virlunlly part and parcel of tho omnosty rocommondatlons which tho Prosidont hae twico urged upon Congress, and am, in fact, tho lattor cover n much broader ground of oblivion than Mr. Snmner's rosolu- tlon, wo aro surprised that tho Patriotio Individ ual line kopt his wrath bottled up so long. Tho outory which ho, and a fow othors of Lis sort, aro making, is not against tho spirit of tho roso- lutions, but against Mr. Bumner himsolf, If tho oblivion resolution had boon introduced in Con- groso by Oamoron or Pomoroy, na & caucus meas- ure, thoro would havo boon no cxcito- mont about it, and sory ltllo opposition toit. It would bave passed ns quiotly na tho confirmation of & ¢ untry Postmaster, and tho Patriotio Individua? - seuld novor havo como Lo the surfaco, but would have recognized 1t as anothor oblation on tho altar of liborty, and maintained & solomn silonco, All tho wrath and Chinomo indignation anent tho oblivion resolution grows out of tho fact that it wae Introduced by Mr. Sumnor after & Prosidontinl campaign of unoxampled bitter- noss, in which Mr. Bumnor's views of the truo publie policy for tho country wore not gustsined by o majority of the poople. Thoros- olution itself is & more expronsion of sentiment, which can do neither good nor harm, Thoro is 10 evidence that tho Bouth wants it poassed, or that the North docs not want it passod, or that oither care vory much about it.- The sonsiblo way of treating the rosolution would bo for Mr. Sumnor to make his speoch upon It (liohas carnod tho right to do that), and thon lot it drop, rather than consumo valuablo timo with it, 09 ling beon dono twico bofore, - Thero is neithor use nor senso in howling about it. If tho Prosi. dont ind recommended such o measure in his annual messago, it would Lave been pasuod with- out opposition, and our Patriotic. Individusl would have boen highly dolightad. Wo do not wish to distross tho mind of the Patriotio Indi- vidual; but wo nre ready to declaro to him our bLolief that if the resolution is not passed now, it will bo somo time, and that when it fs dono 1o will toll his neighbors that ho was in favor of it all the timo. WHY FARMING I8 URPROFITABLE, A Convention of Farmors i to bo hold noxt ook at Pontiac, in thia Stato, to consider ques- tions affecting thoirintoresta, Tho Gilman Star of the 28th of Decomber, i noticlng tha call of tho Convoution and its objects, discusges tho quostion why farming is unprofitablo, and itt attributes tho fact to tho ostortionato ralos of railrond transportation. It eays : Why I8 farming so unprofitablo? It is becauso ol thio capital in thw world is against tho farmer, Thero 10 a continued Watfaro golng on against {ho products of his Jabor, and yet it represonts monoy. Tho do- ‘mand for thio products ara tho same at ono time 86 at avother; (ho local domand may vary, but tho gencral demand 18 the same, Teoplo must eat or die, 1f the demand for grain fa tho samo; If it ia ono of tho nocessariea of 1ifo, why Ia tho business unprofita- ble? A farmer dn n singlo indisidual, with limited eaus, Fhoso who trasport hia products to tho mar- Xeta of tho world aro muny men combined together, and whose uuited capltal gives them the power to monopolizo tho business sud to extort 3 nuch moncy a5 their coneclenco will allow,—which in a ratlroad oftictal is rather clastic, Thig is all vory truo, so far as it goos; but it does not toll tho wholo story. While tho de- mand for grain per capila of the population may bo nesumed lo be slwayas the same, it follows, nocesearily, that whon tho amount of grain pro- ducod is largoly in oxcoss, tho producer musb sell tho excess at a logs. Homay, indced, havo to sell tho whole at o loss. No man will pay mora for corn than ho is compelled to, and when there is more in tho market then iy neoded, the excoss muel Lo s0ld for whatovor it will bring, cither for food or for fucl. Tho policy of our Govornmont during tho Jaat twenty years (and nobody has been especially to Vlamo for it), bas beon to peoplo the unoccupied Iauds of tho West with fovorish hasto, Each additional quarler eection placed under cultiva- tion Lae addod that much to the stock of grain produced. Tho grant of lsnd to tho 1llinoie Central Railroad opened up o now couns try to cultivation, and transforred lo the owner- ship of private persons and brought under cultl- vation about two millions of acros of wild land. Sinco that time, under like grauts to railronds, nearly tho ontiro land of tho Stato of Iowa has beon disposed of, and immonso tructs have boon brought under tho plow. Tho same thing has been dono in Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnosots, and Kanens, and is now boing dono boyond the Miesouri Rivor in Nobrasks, Dakota, and Colorado. Evorywhero thero bas Leon o frantic offort to poople tho unoccupied land and to ewell the aggrogate of ‘farm products. At thls mo- ment thero aro railrond compnnies who Thold 200,000,000 of acves of land, and have their nagents in overy city and villago in the United Stetos, Canada, and Europo, inducing porsons to settloupon this 1and, and, of courso, to raisocorn. Thoro is moro corn raised than can bo consumed at homo, or transported to foreign markolg by any osisting modo of carriage. What canuot bo consumed or transportod, must bo uged as fuel, What is true of grindatonce is true of corn. When tho supply .oxceeds tho demand, thero i no #ale for tho surplus. Corn now solls in Now Yerk at 67 conts, whiloat Gilman it is worth but 20 conts. 1f all tho ourplus corn of tho Wost could bo landed in Now York at o cost of 10 conta por bushel, the prico would pot remain at 67, but would fall to & point whore supply and demand would find their equilibrium, Wo do not quostion that tho rates of railrond freights aro far in exceas of what they ought to Lo, sud of what thoy would bo if tho railrond ‘business wae conducted honestly, and not for thio aggrandizomont of stock-gamblora at fho exponso of the public, but wo must treat tho facts ag wo find thom. T'ho meana and facilitics for tho transportation of grain to tho scaboard have net increased, during tho Inat twelvo yenrs, in enylhing like tho proportion of tho now land brought undor cultivation. Wo bavo constructed railronds weetward al- most without number; but in thoso twelve yoars wo have not added a mile addition- 8l to tho trunk railways from Lako Michigan to tho Atlantle, Tho ErloCanal, in 1860, was unablo to onrry tho surplus graln of tho Wost tomarkot, and its capacity has not beon inorensed an fota gainco 1660, Whilo wo havo gono on, yoar afior your, giving land away and orowding tho Wost with men fo ralse corn, wo Lavo not done any, thing toncronso the means of sondingit to wmarkat .ok at what wo havo done sinoe 1880 TURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1873, in tho way of constructing locul railronds con- nooting with the trunk ronda: MILES 01 RAILWA . T, States, Jan., 1000, Jan,, 1672, o X 140 Michigan. i Indlano ‘Wo bave in tho twalvo yoars [‘v:\'((:]gfml hundrods of millions of acres of now land, and sot them to producing corn; we bave built 17,000 nddi- tional iniles of local rafironds ; but wo have not addod anything to the trunlk railways, or to tho Erfo Canal, by which this additional product of corn can bo movod to the East. Tho railways have, of courso, inoreased tho number of thelr cars and locomotives, and havo laid down double tracks In somo placoes, Lut tho amount of frelght to Lo moved hay largely outrun tho meang of moviig it. To bavo kopt paco with tho incrosso of farm products, thero ehould bo at this timo ecight trunk routes to tho Atlantio, inatead of tho four railrondand one canal routéa now in oporation, Tho quostion, thoeroforo, might bo sppropriatoly dlsoussed at tho Far- mors' Convention, and by farmors overywhora, * T thoro mot too -much corn produced, and 18 thero not-too much land undor cultivation 2" Tho quostion might also be asked, whothor far- mors, falling to got highor prics for corn, may not find monne to pay lower pricos for dry goodls, hardwaro, and lumber. This brings up tho tariff quostion, but we aro not now discus- sing that, TAY UP, 4 Lt is now fourteen montha sinco tho great fire, and yet thero aro a numbor of broken insurance companion whoso Assigneos aro keoping tho funds of policy-holders on deposit in bank, whoro somebody s gotting tho intorost at tho oxpenso of poor peoplo who neod every dollar of it to pny for fuel and food. Hundreds orthou- sands of dollars bolonging to thesopolicy-holders have boon locked up in Mr. Seammon's bank. Thia monoy, though quito valuablo and convon- ient for his une, justly bolongs to thom, They sliould Linvo kiad it long ngo. Thoy have rent, coal, snd pgrocory bills to pay, and thelr pro rata share of the money justly duo them would bo of great sorvico at this time, Thopgh it may cost somothing to print tho drafts to pay dividends, and bo somo troublo to tho Registor aud Assignecs, yot all is not worth & momonl's thought when the valuo of the monoy to tho policy-holdors is considored. Bo Inoxousablo doos this dolay in somocasos appesr, {hat gravo charges hava boon mado that cortain Aspignees woro in collusion with Scammon to keop the funds of tho insured in his bank ns Jong oo powsible. 3r. Scammon bos & way of holding on to iosuranco money in his bonds that is becoming provorbial. Tho £40,000 ho Lolds as Treasurer of tho Mutual Sociirity, and somo $10,000 in stack notes which ho also rofusca to pay, would divido about 3 por cont among the policy holdors of that Compnny, ond bo of groat servico to them. Wohope tho Assignecs of all our bankrupt companies will mako their colloctions au fast a8 possible, and b onco pay tho money to thoso to whom It s due. & COMFORTADLE PEQPLE, - "Mr, Locko King, & membor of the British Par- liament, haa discovored en ingonious way for de- tormining tho scveral degrcos of prospority among tho people who may be classed as well- to-do, or comfortablein this world's goods. Ho has induced Parliament to givo him a list of tho asscssed rontal of all houseain tho Kingdom, county by county, and borough by borough. It is not always true that o men's condition can bo dotermined on tho basis of the rent ho pays, for itis o lamentable fact that many peoplo pay moro ront than thoy can afford. But, while it would be impracticable to cstablish tho indi- vidual prospority of overy man according to tho ront o psys or carries, it has been reasonably concluded that those poople occupying Lousos, the rental valuo of which is assessed at £100 o yoar or more, belong to a class who may bo called Comfortablo,—that is, a class of pooplo who aro always ablo to pay their grocers’ sod butchors' Dbills, clotbe themaeclves decently, snd are nover in tho habit of staring hunger in the face, It i ostimatod that o housc-rent at this rate implics en income of 4600 Iu tha city and £600 in tho country, This incomo ropresonts o family outiroly comfortablo inlife, in & condition to indulge (hemselves in rensonablo nmusements, tako thoir daily papors, educato their childron, and maintain o position in sacloty of greator or loea proteusions, Thero are less than 60,000 of thosa Comfortablo "Pao- plo in all England, or less than 1l per cont of tho ontiro population of tho United XKingdom, whose incomes equal or excoed this amount. Muany of thoso, of course, have Immeasurably larger incomes than aro ropresctod by £100 rontn), but the great majority are poople who can baroly come up to the estimato of the Com- fortablo, The classes which are ranked ag ‘‘ Rospeelas blo,” in tho sonso of boicz euporior to paupers, Lut not yot possessiug tho adequato monns to socuro tho constant onjoyment of what ia re- quired, are much moro numerous, About 150,- 000 familios pay & houso-ront of from £H0 to £100; 250,000 moro pay from £L30 to £L50; and 800,000 moro are in & moro embarassed condition, but still pay more than £20 annual ront. Counting fiva porsons to a family, it is found that thore aro about 8,650,000 people in the Kingdow, or about one-cighth of tho entire popnlation, who can bo ranked as reapectablo in this sonso of tho word, It is spparcnt, thon, in {ho sonso of political coonomy, that tho taxation of tho country, rich as it s, falls upon o poople, aovon-cighthe of whom livo in bouses worth Iess than £20a yonr; or iipon tho masses who find it diflcult to make both onds moot, and Lo whom a aovorelgn 18 o very largo sum of money. Tlo assosaed roninl of £300 & year and upwards is mado upon only 8,128 buildings; thore aro only 748 build- ings which havo an assessed rontal of £1,600 and moro; 80 that the number of familles who may bo rogarded as rich is cxceedingly emall, oven among & pooplo where wealth has boen the chief alm in lifo for vory many yoars, 'ho rosources that tho English people have had for amassing fortunos must forco tho ad- mission that the proportion of wealiby pooplo in Groat Britaln {s much largor than in America, 1In applying this test of the Comfortsblo and Tlo- spectable clagaes to tho peoplo of our own coun- try, howevor, wo should not be willlng to admit that the number of these la proportlonatcly so small, 'Themeagre roturns for labor, the over- crowdod condition of tho population, and tho oonoentration of Jargo landsd ostates, do not aftord tho middla oleasos of Great Britaln the opportunily for comfortablo incomes which they poososn in tho United Btates, But, while it is undoubtodly truo that the comforls of lifo aro moro ovenly dlstributod among us than in Eng- and, wo nre nob suro that the burdon of taxa- tion does mot in like manner fall upon soven-oights of {ho pooplo who nro as little ablo to bonr its action. Tho advantages which our pooplo in tha samo walks of lifo have over tho similat class in England will bo fully coun- torbalancod, porhaps, by tho tarlt which forcos them to pay lsrgo promiums on protly much ov- orything thoy ont, drinlk, woar, and do ; and the proportion will bo tho moro nosrly spproximated boecnugo this tarift is professodly maintnined for tho purposo of “ protacling” tho richor clessos in their comparative froodom from taxation. r—————— Intorcolleginte Scholarships. Qolonel Higginaon, in the surrent number of Seribner'a Monthly, suggostan systom of iuter- collogiato pcholarehips as an additionsl incon- tive to study. Itla not uncommon, eithor in England or in this country, for wealthy men to ondow soholarships at somo particnlar institu- tlon of learning for graduates or undergradu- atos by providing o fund, tho intorost of which shall bo used for tho benefit of tho successfuy compotitor in continuing bis studics. In Har- vard Collego, for instance, tho foundor of ono of theso mcholarships directs that a mombor shall Lo solected from tho gonior clagg, necording to his stialomonts and charactor, and shall have & cortain annual in- como on condition that ho shall resido at Cam- bridgoe; ehall faithfully devoto his timo to a cor- tain branch of studies that may bo selectéd ; and shall, from tmo to timo, give evidonco of his progress by cssays aud dissertations, which shall bo at tho disposal of the collogo. Tho pur- poso of this and similar cndowments is to ena- Dlo collegiatos to pursue their studles, in tho partlcular branohos which may bo most congo- nial to them, further than they can do it in the collego onrriculum, and that they may thus cone tributo tho moro to sclence, litoraturo, or gomo ono of tho professions. Theo idon of the proposed intercolleginto sohol- arships is that tho benoficiaries may not bo con- fined to any one univorsily, but may, aftor grad- unting; onjoy the nesistanco of tho annual Iu- como at any collego which mey offor them the best facilitios for tho studie# which thoy desire to pursue. Buch ondowments would slgo promoto & honlthful rivalry botweon tho varipus oduca~ tlonal institutions of tho country. Lnch senior class would biavo & collego prido in securing for ono of its membors tho distinction of such a scholarship, 1f it woro to bo bostowed upon & graduate; and the same would bo true of all othor classos in tho caso of undorgraduate scholarships. Tho iden of intormediate scholarships was suggoested by tho universal intorest that all col- Ieges, including tho faculty, tho undorgraduntes, and tho alumul who are scattered throughout tho whole country, find in tho Intorcolloginto Ttegntta which is hold onco a year, If musculer dovelopmont and superior skill in rowing a Loat can command go much rivalry among tho stu-~ dents, aud so much interost among all who have ovor beon students, it is only reasonablo to supposo that a pubstantial roward for iutellectual advancement -will eall out & strugglo for the mastery, Tho wealthy men who aro willing to grant ondowments for educational purposos cabnot, porhaps, do bottor than to cu- tablish scholarships which, in bestowing €300 or 8400 ¢ year on succossful cendidates, will ena- ble thom to fako advantage of the instruction at Yalo, at Harvard, at Brown, at Amherst, st Ann Arbor, or at any colloge in tho country which offora them tho best advantagos for the particu- lar study which thoy wish o follow, Colonel Higgiuson suggeuts that the eatlier intercollegi- alo ucholarships should be given for oxcol- lonce in Philology, in Mathomatics, and in Natural Hislory, tho Examing Commitieca to bo chioson respoctively from tho Philological Bocioty, the Const Survoy, and iho Smithsonian Institution. As tho number of theso gcholar- shipa incroaso, of courso, tho range of studics will be enlarged, It is reasonablo to suppose that the effoct would bo much tho snwme as among the schools in England which compoto for tha schol- arships at Oxford and Cambridge. Theso inter- collegiato scholarsbips would be & kind of uni- vorual followships, that ultimately could not fail to contributo to tho advancomont of American scholarship far hoyond its prosent standard, ————— ‘While tho Now York Bar and tho Medico-Legal Bociety are endeavoring to find somo moans of chocking tho application of omotional insanity to all cases of murdor, Dr. Maudsloy, an Eng- lish physician, has dovoloped a thaory by which it is intonded to clagsify it a8 a digeaso, Inap addross on “Medical Puychology,” recontly do- livorod boforo the British Modical Association, ho held that thore is the samo councction botweon tho moral songo and brain as thero {a batwoan thought and tho brain, or botwoen any ono of tho physioal sonses and-'* its spocial ganglionic centro in the brain Tho conclusion which Dr. Maudsley draws from this 1e, that conscionco is & function of organization, aud that certain peoplo “ go criminal, as tho ine gano go mnd, becnuse thoy cannob holp it Aftor giving o tochnical deofinition of his theory, Lo adds: * No woudor that tho criminal paycho- sls, which is tho mental side of this nourosis, is; for the most part, an intractablo malady, punishe mont belng of no avail to produce a permanent reformation.” In othor words, ho con- coives that & man may bo intolloctually sano, and yet romamin a3 insomsiblo to the moral rolations of lifo asa poraon color- blind is to cortain colors. All this was made to illusirato the doctrine that aaylurs aro more usolul to socioty than pouitontinvics. But tho doctrine necossarily goes furthor, and Dr, Mundsloy says boldly that theso viotims of mornl blindaoss should not be held account ablo in the same sonse or degroo as otherpooplo. Oredit baa beon givon tho doccased Mr. Brady for tho invention of cmotional insnnity aga moans of oseapo for murdoroers; but this Inter doctrino soems to bo tho ioanguration of & movo- ment to givo tho thoory a ecioutifio character, and to socuro its spplication on tho tostimony of modical pxperts. —_—— The Now York World comes forward with n proposition that railroads sball bo accountable to tho State for tho valuo of every human lifo which thoy dostroy. It* thon procoads to figura out this valuo in tho following ingenions fash- Jon: Tho koop of the averago porson, up to tho agaof 17, costs about 3100 n yoar, taking the ostimatos that aro mado for army and navy, asy- lums, ponitontiaries, &o. It will tako him sov- ontoen yonrs longer boforo ho will have carned enough to pay off tho dobt ho awos tho Btato of $1,700. Ho will then bo 84 yoses old, and will havo a ressonable oxpoctation of Jiving thirty years more, Iu this Lime hio bould pay into the Btato about 8,000 over and abovo tho debt ho owed ft. o will, thon, lavo a veluo to tho Btata ns follows : Duo the Btato for balanco on year z nproductive 3,600 $4,600 Vafue of averago human lifo to tho State, —Qeaulng th average Lt e, of courdd, au it ta Impertlled by tho brutality of corporations.) This roprespnte tho aum, says tho World, that tho rallroad takes from the BState when it do- stroya & human life, and tho sum which it ought to pay aver to the Biato for every Individual luman lifo 80 dostroyed, Wo havo not etoppod to oxamine whothor theso estiinates aro corroct or not, but wo aro protty suro that if railrond corporations woro required to pay over 1,600 for overy porson thoy killod, thora would bo much fower fatal sceidenty by rail thun ab tho pregoent time. — Afflicted husbands will bo glad to loarn that n suro romedy has boen found for hiyutories, It Ia suggosted by a medieal nraatitionor, aud ape ponrs in a modieal magazine, Othorwiso, it might bo regarded an unwarranted. Tho roriedy Is choling tho pationt, pur cf simple. *Ono 'may roemain sbruggling for hours with a acronm- ing glrl without any good rosult, writes thin madicnl gontleman, #*but carofully choko ono, ind sho immodiately eabsldos,” Ilo adds, as a sort of conflrmatory oxplanation, that It {8 unplens- ant for hor—it frightonahor.” Wo should think it might. Bovero maladies corlainly require sovoro romodies, and wo can conceivo that thero hiavo beon cagon of fomnlo hysterica that would Justify tho employment of the trontment which 18 horo suggosted. Tho ouro is vory difforent, howover, from tho uso of chloral whioh was mado by o Galifornin husband, who did not give it to hic biystorical wifo, but who tool it Limsolf 50 that ho could sicop through hor porfor- mancos. ——— It appoars,, from tho roport of tho Firo Mar- shal of Now York, that all the thontros woro in- apected shortly boforo the fire in which Barnum's Musoum was destroyod. Among soveral that woro pronounced unsafo was this vory edlfico. Tho proprietara wero notifled, but whon anothar vislt was mado, o weak or ton doys after, it was found that no mensurcs had hoon taken to as- pure preeantion agalnst flve. The Mu- soun, lhowover, was not closed, and it shortly aftor burned up, it belng puroly accidontal that tho burning occurred at o timo when tho house was not filled with peoplo. It will oceur to most peoplo that the work of in- spection is of vory little ueo if thore is to bo no menna of onforcing the cliangos that may bo necosenry to place a publio bullding in n sato condition, Hero was o building that wae so coostructod as to ronder the danger of firo con- atantly imminent ; it was known to the authori~ tios and to tho owners ; it was the resort of hun- dreds of peoplo ovory night. Yot it was pormit- tod to romain in an unsafo condition until tho firo actually camo and destroyed it. ———— Mr. Charles Roado lins alroady got himaolf into troublo in rogard to tho novel ontitled *Tho ‘Wandoring Heir,” tho poriodical publication of which has only just bogun. The story is ono of lifo o hundrod yoars ago, and is ovidontly o grouping of charactorintic episodes, such as Mr. Toado confossos that ho makos in writing his storics. A rondor hag found, however, that Mr. Reado, in ono place, has actually repeated in proso what Bwift told in voree in his * Jour- nal of a Modorn Lady.” In quoting Mr. Rendo's toxt sido by eide with Swift's vorses, tho similarity is otriking. Reado Lias proserved not only the sentiment of the econo, but almost tho vory words and their ordor. Thoe differenca is simply that of reconstructiug tho pootry into proso. —_— A roadjustmont of constituencios has boon again under discussion bofore tho Eloctoral Ro- form Association of England, ' Thoe result was tho passage of & resolution declaring that such a roadjustment must bo affected as will mako tho power of an elector in ono place equsl to tho pawer of an clectorin any other placo; and othor resolutions approving the assimilation of county and borough saffrago, urging tho amend- ‘mont of the Rogistration law concerning dodgers, and doclaring that no oloctoral syatem will bo oatisfnctory which doosnot provont paid can- vassing, oxtond tho hours of polling tll 8 o'clock, and reliove the candidatos fgom oflicial oxpentos. Tho conforenco was largoly sttonded,—forty- cight citics and towns being ropresentod. o e Tho Indian Ohiof at the hond of tho Modoo tribo, ouphoniously called ** Bhack Nasty Jim,” is ovidontly of tho samo mind as tho New York ‘murdorors n the mattor of summarily removing pooplo who eroin his way. Ib recontly becamo necossory for kim to movo rather suddenly to his rosorvation, and that ho might goin light marching order and without unnacosaary bug- guge, ho murdorad his othor. Tho good old lady had been suffering for somo time with nou- ralgicgout, and was not wollablo to travel. Unlike his cotomporarios, the whito murdorors, how- over, wo do‘hot bolisve that he would put in the plon of emotional ineanity na an oxcuse for his eriwmo, NOTES AND OPINION. Mr, Scammon publishes an article ontitled “Tho Yem's Lousos,” but docs not mention hia own. —Tho Sms Francisco Post claims that postal tolography fs s Domoeratio mensuro, and, by way of making good its assortion, says it was urgod as far bick as 1869 by tho Domocratio State Convention of California. All wo havo to nny is, that tho Democratic State Convention of California know preoious little of Domaoracy when it did it.—Zouisville Courier-Journal. —TIt i strange how many people-can’t 80 sny ‘miechiof in the Credit Mobilier. business, * How could thero be anything wicked in such a pur- chaso of stock ?* asks tho diatrossed innocont who corrosponds from Washington for tho Bos- ton Congregationalist. —We know it is snid—** consumo tho products on tho spot, and cease the absurd attempt to ship oither grain or meats across the continent.” ‘bt Jooks [iko n relict, if wo only had tho con- sumors, If the manufacturers and othor non- producers of food worg amoug us, then wo could o our way, but to bring this about is the work of timo, and it is immediato rolief wo want.— Peoria'(JIL) Democral. —Tho Philadelphin Press calls upon Congress to appropriato somo nilliony of mano y for tho proposed celebration of the onc-hundrodth anni- vorsary of tho foundation of the United States, Ttsays that * Congross must bo improssod ab onco that tho pooplo desiro that tho nation's funds shall bo voted to celebrato the nation’s progross, power, and glory.” Unfortunately, tho yeopla have given no wign of being possckacd of this desiro. * ¥ Ic i apparont that the language of tho Press is too fine for tho occavion, _ That wo, tho Amorican eople, shonld colobrato ouf one-hundrodth irt] nln{ in eome _ appropriate way is especially propor end hecoming, aud we know of no botter form than that proposed, namely, an jmmenue agricultural, mineral, in- dustrial, and artistic show. But it 18 also omi- noutly yropar for tio Amorigun pooplo to pay for it, ‘This should bo dono, too, by themselves dirctly, nud not through tlieir ropresentatives, unleas tho stook company plan i throw nasido and tho Uovornmout bocomes tho solo managor. Under the presont arrangemont, tho schomo is asrontinlly a privato ono, and tho Govornmont hias 1o business with privato schomes, oxcopt to 1;\;0(; aloof from thom.~—New York Evening ost. —fTho gamo_played by Grant in Louisiana foreibly reminds ua of a glory that is rolated of an old monnrch who was wont to talo groat do- light in playing & rabbor ab whist, but in o man- n0r not utriotly it nccardanc with " tho laye ot 1loylo, or any ofbier quthority on the subjoct. Aftar tho cards woro dealt round it was not ous- tomary to follow the usunl practico of turning up tho lest card to demignato the trump suit 5 but sfter ench playor had liad an opportunity of examiniug his hand, ouo of the courtiers woulll say to his sovorcign: **Will your Majosty plonso fo name tho trump?” It is noadloss to eny that his * Majosty lnvnrln\flg camo off tho wiuner, and ut least coul seoro the “odd tuck,” it nothing more. Nov, tho manner in which Grant sottlod mattors In Touisinua ia vory much aftor the samo fash- ion, and1f the practico is allowed to oxtond to Arkausas and othor Statos, the {mmlcnl gamo witlbe asmuch in Lis hands es the card gamo was in that of the old monarch. To mako tho similo mora comploto,, itis only nocosanry for olcetions to tako placo, and for tho citizens to voto just as usual ; but, instend of turning up | tho ballot-boxes and counting tho yotos, tho re- turning ofticors must Appl{ to tho Prasident, saying : * Who will your Lxcollency have for .Governor 7" or any othor oftico for which thero is u contoat, Tho ~Louisiana offair {8 just as farcical, snd would bo Jaughablo if it woro not that it lu o sorions ono for tho libortios of tho sopublic.—Netw York Sunday News, e e WANTS TO KNOW. Tv the Editor of The Chicago Trlbune: Bin: I eaw it stated In atolegram in Tne TnuNE of yestorday, in rogard to a ship which was overduo at Now York, that ¢ Fears wors en- tortainod for its safoty.” My impression in vonding this paragraph was, that tho writor was & bard-hoartod, wicked man; that ho desirod to havo tho ship and all on board go to the bottom of thoson; and that ho was laboring undor a fonrful apprehanaion that sho might_otill arrive safoly inport, But 1am told that I have mie- Judgod tho man, aud that it ja tho possiblo loss f tho shiv which occasions his foars, and not ity snfoty, If this {8 ao, will you atatohiow it Ia that this revorso mothiod of slating o thing hna como to provall so gencrally, and that writors In tho nowepapers should ao oftan say diractly the op~ posito of what ts Intondod? 1f, on the othor hand, tho undorsignod in wrong in Iig viow, and if tho “enfoty " of a ship at son cnn I'Emmunl:[ly farnish grounds of fear in the minds of kind- hoarted People, wiil you plonso stato by what twint of the Quaon's Iinglikh this can-ho madotc appoer 2 Yours, in pursult of knowledge, a. Haer. —_——— BEHIND THE CURTAIN. An Instido Glmpno of tho Morcantio Azoncy Businens, Tho dotails of tho recont groat firo In Cdnire stroot, Now York, by which o vast nmount of proporty wan dostroyed, and at lonat six Nvos sacrificed, aro familisr to the rondors of Tue Trinose, but it may not bo goperally known that ono of tho morcantilo institutions of thls city was among the sufforors, In tho lst of tho establishmonts which woro deatroyod appoared the names of tho woll~ knownpropriotors of ' Tho Mereantilo Agoney,” Mossrs. Dun, Barlow & Co., who are mentionad 88 losers to tho oxtent of at lonst 250,000, Tha Agonoy has an important branch in this clty, snd desirous of soeing what offoct tho loss of n quartor of a million dollars had upon an insti- tution of this kind, & roprosontative of Tug Trinune callod ot their oflice, and had an inter~ viow with its manager. The branch offico in this city, situated ot tho northwost cornor of Fifth avenue and Madison stroot, liko tho majority of the other branch’ officos throughout tho country, does business undor tho firm namo of Mossra. R. G. Dun & Co,, and its managomont has been such ag to improsa ita claims strongly upon (ko fayor and support of tho mercantile community. The offico was firgt established hero about twen- ty-two yoars ago, and s, thoreforo, ono of ko oldest ‘business housos in tha city, Though known sud nppreciatod from tho first by a ms- Jority of our businoss men, it had many difficul- tien to contend with, and both timo and patienco wora neoded to build it up to tho thioroughly racs ognized position it holds lo-dny. Twico its of- fices woro destroyod by firo, ouca on Wabnsh ayo- nue, and_ aguin 1 tho great.confingration, by whiclt all its valuablo records woroe destroyed. ‘To most inatitutions this would have beon almost a death-blow. Not so in this case, Tho head ofiico in Now Yorl kept among its archives du- plicato rocords - of osch branch in tho country, and,regardloss of the immonso oxponse, the Chicngo rocords were yeported and even im- proved upon within two montha from ibe dato of thoir destruction. The rocords thua restorsd ar0 now socured onch night in o largo fira-proof vault, twonty foot squaro, situsted in tho roar of tho spacious ofiicos the company oceupy. ‘Pagsing tho ofljco, which has an’unprotending oxtorior, tho pedestrian on Madison street las littlo iden of (ho hivo of industry within, It ia a lar%u spacious offlco, well lighted, érowded with clorks, and apparcntly oxcollontly man- agod. The forco omployed consists thirty-fiva ‘mon, tho dopartments boing divided into country travalling roporters, city roportors, counter clorks, raforence book clorks, copyists, rating clorks, nud tho collection dopartmont, Tho ol- fico #8 in applo-pio ordor, aud judging from a singlo visit is conducted in o manuer to wmerit the confldenco it has socurad, From conversation with tho manager of tho Chicago offica, tho following genoral facts, which cannot fail to boof intoroat, woro obtained. Tho A%onnlv ‘s now about, fithy-four branches, ono boing located nt cach of tho contros of trado in tho United Btates, Cannda, Europo, snd Austre- lis. Tho forco of corrosyoudouts employed is in tho noighborhood of 1.{ty-two thoussnd, -this in nddition to the travelliug agonts of tho’ Arm, who vislt each town and villago throughout tho country twico oach year, and collect reports which aro used to test tho acouracy of tho atato- monta made by tho local correspondents. Tho oxpenso of maintaining such an_ostab- lishment will casily bo_imagined by bueinoss men, and whon tho public aro informed that the simplo itom of rents averages over 38100,000 a yor, and that the postage uaccount for tho past. Year was over §116,000, nom idos of tho mag- nitudo of tho business may bo gainod cven by tho least iniated in such mattors. In addition to theso oxpensos, the firm omy‘llny in its collec— tion dopartment throughout the United States alono over 8,000 attorncys, Tho propriotors cf* tho Agonay, howevar, ara smong the weallhiest mea in Now York. Bomo of iho au!mnfl;‘)luuua rocoived thoro from largo jobbing houses amount to §5,000 per aupum, and whon it {s rombored that the firm bas over ton thousand subacribors, and that tho Ageney was tho originnl ono in_this conntry, soma idea of tho magnitudo of its oporations may bo: formed. Tho firo in Now York las delnyod tho insuo of tho yoarly book of roferonco. Ovor $90,000 warti of "typo and printiug matorials was do- stroyod, but. tho firm dotermined to sllow no caigiurdpho to slumd in tho way of fhely pro- ross ; immedintoly ordored now. materlal, nnd flo baok i8 undot way. Tt will bo issucd early in Fobruary, in timo for. tho spring trado, and will give all changes,. both fn tho nomanand status, of firms up to dato, I¢ this plan Is car- riod oit, tho loss of & quatior of million of dol- . Tara will bo mado an ndvantago to,subscribors by giving thom a hotlor book, aud that at o Lettor Boason of tho year, S S R, A YEAR AT THE STOCK YARDS. Thio following ia . summiery of tho soventh, annual utock report of tho Union Stock Yarda. and Transit Comprny, Thore wasn lorge gain ovor 187 in the Tocoipts of cattlo, hiogs, and: horsos, and & glight doeroaso in tho sheep trada. Tho valuo of live stock received at tho yards in: tho yonr 1672 waa : The following tablo will show the racoipts of* stock during tho twelve montho onding Do, 81 3 684,075 ,254,023 . V10,211 . 145 . No, head all kinds. erensesevenerseesad)250,054° , Tho shipmonts during tho sumo period woro : Cattlo, v 510,025 Hogs... 835,504 Bhoep,. 1. 0 Horeea, “Tont!. ene Tlhioro woro 100,086 car londs of stock received and 54,275 ehippod. Tho avorage weight of hogs. _xecoivad during tho year was 219}{ pounds. il Tho Modorn Wonder. Experlenced proplo are found wonderlug howso pors. foct u sowlag-machino as tho New Wilson Underfeed can bo made 8o perfect dn every purt, so thoroughly adapted to tho requirementa of family sowing, and yeb o aold for $20 less than any otlier firdt-class machine, Tho renson 18 vasy and plain, First, heeanro tho Wil son Compauy I8 content with a fair profit, und do not belony to any combluation whozo object is to keop up tha prico of rawlng-machiues ; and wecondly, Locauzo tho uost perfect machinery Is uked In it construction, Tho splondid entablishment of the Company §s tho vert ovidenco that this policy hus Leon a suecess, Balees room at 378 West Madleon atrect, Cii o, 11, and in all otbor citios in tho United Gtstes, 'The Cowpany want agents in country towns, e A Tho Sarntoga Geyser Wator, Buck & Gayner draw true Gegeor wator wt thio 4 Spa A i Fonimore Coopete Mr, IHazewell, the Doston critie, having as- gerted that Cooper hnd not writton a novel on tho Revolution, witl Lenthor-Stocking as tho horo, bocauns the hero's principnl frionds, the Eflinghams, woro loyalists, ncorrospondent of Applctons' Journal points out passazos in ** The Prairie ” which provo {hat (hoEfiinghams oro Whigs in that great contest, Wheroupon tho oditor of the Journal makes the following contribution to this ullbéect: “Our corrospond-- ont is ontirely correct in bhis criticism on Mr. Hazowall, But on this point wo are atlo to stato: positively that it was Mr. Coopor's intention ta write & Hovolutionary novel which ghould have Leathor-Btocking for its hiero, but ho was do torrod by tho -ubjections of bis publishern, Mongrs, Biringer &'Townsuond, Thisfirm had pur- chnsod the copyright of tho ontiro sovios of the Coopor novols, and were nudor tho strange ap- Emlmuu[m\ that an addition to the Leathor- tocking worids would injuro their morcantile value. Mr. Coopor wont to thom with groat en- thusiaem to proposo the Revolutionary story, but thoy discouragod him. One of thisfir, in doneribing the incident to tho writor, romarkod: +1 never Buw such an oxpression of biank disa; Falnlmuut a8 that which crossed Mr. Coopor'¢ nco whon we objoutad to His proposnl) Mr. Oooper did not porsiat, as he doubtlosy would Lave dono in carlier Jife; and so the world owos it dllglh‘llflml of what would, in a)l likelihood, havo boon one of tho most valuablo aud ontors tnlnl:\g of tho sorios of pionoor picturos to tha -.bul‘n‘ sud seliivh opposition of Lis publish~ o'