Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1873, Page 4

4 THE CHICAG® DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1873 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE IERME OF EURSCRIPTION gn“x’:m.: IX ADVANCE). Dally. b 12.00 | Sandsy. PR S 800 | waky it Parts of s year at the ame rats. g To prevent delay and mistakes, bo ruro and give Post Cce address In full, {ncluding State and Caunty. Remittences may be made either by drat, azpress, Post Office order, or in registerod lettere, st our risk. ' TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Dalls, delivered, Sunday exceptod, % cents per week. Diiiy, delivorod, Sundsy fncladod, 30 cents ber week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ‘Curner Madison and Dearborn-sis., Chicago, 1L TRYBUCXE Branch Office, No. 469 Wabzsh-av., in tho Bookstors of Messrs. Cobb, Andrews & Co., where advertisements and subscriptions will be received, and will bavo tho samo attention as if left at the Main Otfice.. § CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE—Washington, New York, and Miscells- noous Telegraphic News. SECOND PAGE—Manitoba Lettor: Somothing About 1ho Canadizn Pacific Rallway—Washington Lottar: Crodit Mobllier and the Contest in Massachusetts— The Bostwick Clatm {Communieation}—Art Aat- . tess: What San Fuancisco Has Done—Goneral Nows Items—Miscollancons—Railroad News. THIRD PAGE~A._ 8130,00 Fire: Destruction of the Northwestern Fertillzing Company's Works at Alns- worth—The State Insurance Company Muddle—The German Pross and Mr. Scammon—Board of Under- writers—A Warnlng to the Mayor—The Law Courts —Railrosd Time Tablo—Tribune Prospectus—Ad- Yortisemonts. FOURTH PAGE—Editorials: The Two Per Cent Claim; The Louisiana Imbroglio; Tho Cost of Iron and Stoel Ratls; Firos in Theatres—Current News Items —Notes and Opinion. X FIFTE PAGE-—Tho New Route to tho Sea: The Hu- ron aad Ontario Ship Oanal—The City in Brief. SIXTH PAGE--Monetary atd Commercial. BEVENTH PAGE-Buriington (Jows) Letter: A Brief Sketch of tho Early History sud Futare Prospects of tho City—Forrest: How He Rshearsod, and Handled Subordinate Actors—~A. Tar-Heel: Golng Eack from Indiana to North Carolina—Small Adver- tisemonts: Real Estate, For Sale, ToRent, Wented, Boarding, Lodging, Etc. TIGHTH HAGE—Forelgn News—Miscollansous Tel egrums. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ATREN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenne, corner of Con. greas sireet. **Don Cissr do Bazan.™ M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison streot, between State and Dearborn. Engagement of Miss Charloto Cushman. *'Henry ) ACADEMY OF MUSIC— Halsted streot, south of 2Msdison, Engagomentof Robert MeWade. ‘‘Rip Van Wiakla," HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Raodolph street, be- tween Clark and LaSalle. ~ New Comody Company. *Peep 0'Day.” MYERS' OPERA HOUSE~Monroa street, between Stato and Doarborn. Arlington, Cotton & Kemble's Minstrel and Burlesqno Troupo. GLOBE THEATRE-Dasplaines street, betwoen Madi son and Washington. Tho Loon Drothers. *‘ Dick Tar.* gy NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE—Clintonstroet, botween Tashington and , Randolpl. Esgagement of Z0d. ** Uncla Tom's Cabin." BUSINESS NOTICES. “LARYNGITIS,” OR CLERGYMAN'S SORE Throat. 1Y DR. J. H. SCHENCK, Thero Is a modification of this form of consumption, which Is a terror to the clergy and tho members of the ar, in that part of tho macous membrane lining tho lanx, sising Tiso 1o tho clorgyman's sore throat con sumption. Tl dissaso ts often extremoly fnstdious ‘at the ccm- ‘moncament, and its progross 14 80 tardy thata great deal, 06 often irroparable, mischtof is don beforo any alarm’ isaken by tho patient, or be applies for reliol., 'Ar uncasy soastion, and, in somo cascs, patn is felt in 150 larynx, and oxtends over that organ, and at other times {3 rostricted 1o a single spot. Usually a ticklin £eneation extals, which provokes coughing, attendod wi 8 fecling in tho throst as if thers wero somothing in the thraat thut ought to bo removed, and foals raw. Thopain 1s incrensed by coughing, speakibg, {nspiring cold air, or ‘pou prossuro beink made upon the larynx, The taice beooming altored is frequentls the Hrst aympiom thatar- estis tho atténtion of tho patient. it iy at first wesk, then ocomes hoarse, and may suddenly or graduzily be ontiro- Tost, amounting to complote aphonis. Tho cough, in the st nsiance, is drs, but s aftoreard acoompatied sith the expectorntion of muccus, mixed ocoastonally il pus o blood ofica there aro paroxiams of dificall Riag. Tho genceal hoalth ovontuslly begins to- ant- e, Emaciation, huctic, night swoats, and often tadica- ons-of tuberelcs pccur, as the disease advauces, and in 1o Tatier stagos dropsical swolliag, which incrossos until cath. “SCHENCK'S PULMONIC SYRUP, SEAWEED TONIC, snd MANDRAKE PILLS. Tuclg prc the only fodictaes _that will CURE CONSUMPTION. Dr. SULERCK has Veen I constant practice oror thirty 11 years, continually examining lungs, and knows his me: eines. if properly taken, wiil curo consumption. His }!,DT’](AK&P cleanse the liver and stomach; his BEAWEED TONIG diseclses tho food, stimulates the gustingof tho stomach, end aids digoetion, PUL AONIC SYRUP ripsns the matter, aud nature throws it ol withoat apy exertion. Prepatod and for sale by J. H. & SON, northeast corner Sixth and Arch- delphlz, sod by druggists and deslers genor. P €. 6. COLLINS, BOYS' CLOTHING, 184 AND 18 CLARK-ST. T Chivago Tribune. . Fridsy Morning, January 3, 1873. - A New York Court has decided that tho United States c.;.n{mt tax the ealaries of Btate Judges. " Ruseig, in ofder to ullay British uncasincss as 1p thé possiblo Teech of her Asistic movemonts, 2nd to gain for them o clear field, offers to lay her plans beforo the English Government, and even consents that English officers be allowed to sccompany her expeditions. Governor Perham, of Maine, in his inaugural speech, states that among ‘other reviving inter- ests of that State ship-building is again prospor- ons. Horecommends that the law forbidding the sale of cider bo altered, 28 it has proved in- operative. - A statement is going the rounds of the nows- papers, on tho authority of tho Détroit Free Press, that “the appointment to the Chicago Poat Office was first offered to the Deputy Post- ‘mastor in that office, and by him refused.” Tho siatement is entirely orroneous. A citizen of the United Statca has boon son- tenced to six months' imprisonment in Huagary for talking disrespectfully of {he Emperor Fran- cis Joseph of Austria. An Evglishman, wbo vas travelling with him and resisted arrest, bas ‘been committed for three months. - There Wwas an increase of 31,684,307 in the -.public debt, Iaet month. In explanation it is pleaded that, when the Treasury accounts are completed by the returns from distant banks and Custom Houses, this apparent addition to our indebtedness will be transformed into a decrease of some millions. New testimony bas beea offered in the Stokes trial to prove that Fisk was in the habit of carrying a pistol, and that, after the. shooting, such a Wweapdn wae fonnd on the stairs where Lo stood. One of the witnosses was ready to swear that she kad heard Fisk proclaim bis in- tentica of Lilling Stokes, but ghe ‘was not per- mitted to give her evidence. The exciting guestion in Kansas politics now is, whether Senstor Pomeroy will beable to dis- prove his own festimony in reference to the Pottawatomio Indisn Iotter which Ross publish- their activity has compelled the withdrawal of all regular troops from Havana for service in the field. In order to infuse s still grenter vigor into the conduct of their affairs, the revclation- ists propose to miske Agramonto President st the next clection, instead of Cespedes, their ‘present chief. Governor Noyes, in his annual message to tho Obio General Assembly, states the sggregate debts of the State to be $30,197,569.87, in which is included $4,000,000 of debt in aid of railroad enterprises. He urges a thorough revision of the school eystem as one of the most pressing public needs. Concerningthorelation of the Com- monwealth to the railrosds, he says only that while theso should be built, if necessary, com- munities should bewaro of burdening themselves with excessive debt. The evil of Jocal public debts is one continually growing, and must be met by legal or constitutional prohibition. He asks an apprapriation to enable all the railroad bridges of tho State to be examined. General Frank P, Blair haa written a Iettor to A member of the Missouri Legielature explain- ing, or rather detending, Lisvote, in the year1862, in favor of the Confiscation act. He says that it is well known which side he espoused during thewar, and that he Lias no apologies to make for tha zeal with which he maintained his convictions in Congress and ont of it, even'if he sometimes erred in judgment. Tho Confiscation act was prepared and introduced byJudge Trumbull, and its passage gave rise to a protracted debate in theSenate. Judge Collamer, of Vermont,was its most pronounced opponent, and when the bill was finally passed it was vetoed by President Lincoln, or, rathor, it was intimated Ly him that lie would veto it unless it were 8o modified that decreos of confiscation of real ostate should not extend beyond the Iife of the person against ‘whom tho proteedings wore instituted. The bill was accordingly amended (or a supplementary bill passed covering this point), and wes then signed by the President. It has mever been en- forced, wo boliave, excapt in a fow cases in tho District of Columbia. A Convention of Farmers’ ¢ Granges” er Clubs is to be held at Bloomington, on the 15th and 16th inst., to perfect tho organization of & State Farmers' Association, and to take into con- sideration the questions of reform in railway transportation, the sale of agricultural imple- ments, the sale of products by commission mer- chants, and to discuss generally the reasons why farming is 80 anprofitable. The opening address will be delivered by Hon. L. D, Whiting, and ad- dresses on special subjects will bo made byJ. B. Porterfield, M. L. Dunlap, W. C. Flagg, H. C. Lswrenco, J. H. Rowell, J. B. Turmer, J. M. Gregory, and Newton Bateman. The Conven-’ tion promises to bo ono of the most important gatherings of tho year, aud tho repatations of thio geveral speskers will undonbtedly Lelp to secure a large attendance. The transactions of tho delegates will commaud the fixed attention of politicians, for the farmers of Illinois if united have the power to unhorse every office- holder in the Stato. Agriculture is ‘certainly in a bad way, and the farmers ougkt to be able to tell us whet iz the matter. Tho Chicago produce markets were moderate- 1y active yesterdny, except provisions, with con- siderable irregularity in pricos, Mess pork was inactivo and steady at $11.85@11.40 cash, and $11.65@11.70 scller March. TLardwas in fair de- mand, and eteady at 7c cash, and 7}4c seller Harch. Grean hiams wero active, and X higher, at T{@7%c for 16 and 15 Ib averages; other ‘meats quiet and stoady ot 83c for shoulders, 5¥e@534¢ for short ribs, and 53 @5%e for ehort clear, all salted. - Dressed hogs were dull and ¢ per 100 1bs lower, 2t $4.30@4.35. Highwineswero dull'arid o shade easier, at 893dc per gallon. Flour was quiot and firm. Wheat was activo, nd advanced X(c, cloging strong at £1.2074 cash, and $1.23 seller Fobruary. Corn was getive, but dectined X, closing " ot 303{c cash, and 815" seller February. Oats were more active, but declined X @34c, closing at 2434¢ cash, and 253c geller February. Ryo was weak, and declined 1c, closing at 67c. Barloy was dull and 3fc lower, closing at G43¢c for No. 2, and 52}¢c for No. 8. Live hogs were active and without ma- terial change, closing steady at £3.55@3.85. Cattle and sheep wers unchanged. 1t is generally known in Washington that the law which forbids Congressmen to act 28 at- torneys or claim agents in the Departments is practically inoperative. While the letter of the law is observed, its epirit is constently evaded. A Washington correspondent describes the method which eome Congressmen have adopted as follows : Whon it becormes known that the legal adviser, or the chief of 3 Bureau, hos de- cided to report unfavorably on & certain claim, the mext step is to get tho matter in o dif~ ferent light beforo the: Commissioner or tho Secrotary. The regular attornoy ia notified that thero is but ono woy to do this. Ho rauat securo tho co-operation of somd Congressman who has infiience with {hio ‘Secretary, or Com- ‘missioner, and ho s told that this co-oparation can be securod only through a third porson who is on friendly terms with tho said Congressman, Tho regular attorney then employs tho’ go-be- tween aud pays him a feo for his iuflucace. To all ontward sppearances, the Congressman re- ceives no pay, but hoexerts his influcrcs and his “ friend” gets {ho money. It is said that theso operations have become froquent of :late, The.example socms to have been set up by Sen- ator Carpeuter in thoNow York Contral Railroad case. THE TWO PER CENT CLAIM, Theo States of Tlinois, Indiana, and Obio aro potitioners bofore Congress, {hrough their re- spective Governors, for a sum of money amount- ing to 81,900,000 Tho bill appropriating that sum has paesed the House of Reprosentatives, and isnow before tho Senate. The history of the claim is this: Soventy years ago, tho grand ides of internal improvements among American etatesmen was tio construction of a macadam- ized wagon road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the Ohio River, with a branch from that point to Kentucky, and another through the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Ili- ed gome time since—not whether he can show that the lettar wasa forgery, but that Pomeroy's Ieiters are ntterly worthless in determining any guestion of fact. A better way to mansge tho matter would be to adopt the theory of the Credit Mobilier Congresemen, and allege thathe 34 & right to “*his ehare™ in all Indian contracts i tho Stato of Kaneas, Caban nows reports several fights, in all of which tho insurgents have been whipped ; but it §s to be remembered that theza sccounts may be colored Ly tho censcrship under wlhich they pess. Tho fvsurcents oro certainly busy, and nois, to Missouri. It was the intention to ex- tend tho Kentucky bratch of the national road through Teunesses, and thence to Louisisna and Alsbams, and the Western read was to be extended et least to Jefferson City, tho capital of Missouri. i In the saveral zcts of Congress admitting the States of Ohio, Louisiana, Alabama, Indisus, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tllinois, it was stipu- Iatod that, as a condition precedent to their ad- mission, such States should agree to mbatain from texing any land cold by tho United States for tho poriod of Sve years efter such salo ; and tha!, 08 & considorstion thercfor, 5 per ceat of the proceeds of all pablic lands eold in such State should be set apart for the construction of roads ; three-fifths of this sum {0 be paid to the States to bo expended by th:em for that purpose, and the other two-fifths to be expended by Con- groes in the construction of a road or roads “to and through” Olio and “to™ the States of Nli- nois, Indiana, ete. For a quarter of a centary Congress was engaged in constructing this road, and fipally, in 1833, sbandoned it. During this time there had been expended by Congress the um of $6,700,000, us follows In Pounsylvanis, 1,701,795 Tn Marylind, ‘60,189 30,090 2,077,631 2,128,200 . TS When thisaystem, which was the grand political topic of the day, and gavorise to the great debate between Webster and Hayno, broke down, it was estimated that $7,896,790 additional was needed to completo tho road in Indizna, Ohio, Ilinois, and Missouri. The beginning of the railroad system, and thé appalling expendituro of §8,000,- 000 additional, resnlted in the abindonment of the work. It will bo scen that the Government expended in tho States of Ohio, Indiana, end Tllinois about £5,000,000, but the road was not completed ** to and through " Ohio, nor was it completod ““to™ eithor Indisna, or Ili- nois, or Miesourii or Alabama, or Miseissippi. Many years was spent in fruitless offorts to induce Congress to resume and finish the work. The States of Alsbams and Miesissippi, finally, in 1855 and 1857, brought their claims beforo Congress, and acts wero passed anthorizing them to receive from the Treasury the amount of the 2 per cont of the proceeds of the public lands withheld from them, and they ac- cordingly got the monoy. Tn 1859, a like act was passed in the case of Missourl. 1t is but proper to state, ns part of the history of the case, that tho whole 5 per cent reserved in the caye of Louisana was paid to that State ; that in 1836, Michigan and Arkansas wero admit~ ted, znd the wholo of the 5 per cont was paid to them; that since then, Kansas, Iows, Minnesots, Florids, Oregon, Nebraska, and Nevada have all recaived the wholo 5 per cent fund set apart from the ssles of the public lands therein. The ohly three Btates that have not received more than 8 per cent are the States of Ohio, Indians, and Illinois. They now esk tho payment of the withheld 2 per cont, which amounts, without interest, to £400,000 in the caso of Ohio, £400,000 in tho case of Indi- ana, and about 8500,000 in the case of Illinois. In the cases of Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, and the States admitted sinco 1835, Congress ex- pended no money in the construction of s road either “t0"” or “in and through” either of them. If the amount expended by Congress in Ohio, Indians, and Ilinois on tho road bo con- sidered, then the 2 per cont lias been more than expended. It is insisted, however, by the claimants, thet the contract was to complato the road ; that the failure to coniplete tho road was o failure of thoe considerstion that theros had béen nearly 3,000,000 cxpended on tho rosd, and in completing it in and through Pennsyl- vanin, Maryland, and Virginis, which States con- tributed nothing towards the cost; while tho three other States wero left with an incomplete road, and wore debarred from collecting taxes for five years from sll tholand sold by the Gov- ernment. The only question open in the case is, whether the United States, by constructing detached patches of this national road in these States, and then abandoning the work alto- gether, has eatisfied the contract undor which it retsined , this 81,800,000 Can it justly offset its actual expenditure upon au incompleted and abandoned work againat tho monoy it retained under its contract to com- pletoit? The bill passed the Bouse by a vote of yeas 104, nays 52, and is now beforo tho Sen- ate, where it will, perhaps, meet more oppo- sition. President Lincoln was onco appealed to, to order the Secretary of tho Interiorto sudit this claim =p far a8 Hlinois was concerned. He ‘made a reply in writing to Hon. L. N. Morris, the Illinois agent, stating that he believed the argu- ‘ment supporting the claim was good, but that he deemed it ungracious for.the State of Illinois to ask its payment at & time when all the resources of the country were needed in the prosecution of the war. For this reason he declined to give any order in referenco to it. TEE LOUISIANA IMBROGLIO. The New York Herald publishes a letter from F. J. Herron (lato of Jowa), who was Acting Secretary of Steto in Louigiana, and the man who headed the bogus Returning Board which found support from Judge Daurell's Court and General Emory's troops. Herron's etory may be briefly told. He was ex-officio member of the Roturning Board, composed of the Governor, Lieatenant Governor, Sccretary of State, T. C- Board. Herron's case i8 consequently not affected in the least by Warmoth's suthority or lack of authority in tho premises. We shonld naturally say that Governor Warmoth had not a right arbitrarily to dopose a Secrotary of State who had been elected by the people, but Louis- iana has some queer laws under the carpet-bag dominion, and such suthority mey exist. Atall events, Herron cannos plead the contrary, since that would oust him andjreinstato Broco. Thus it appears that Warmoth had as good & right to remove Herron and to appoint another man Acting Becretary as ho had to make Herron Act~ ing Secretary in tho first place. Having beon removed from the office of Secrefary, ho ceased from that moment to be & member of the Re- turning Board, and could in no mauner proceed to organize a Board that would possess a shadow of authority or legality. The Herald is right in eaying that the interest “of the people at large in this Louisiana squeb- ble is not in the sparring of tho opposing politi- cinng. We don't believe that it wonld help mat- ters to Have Warmoth take Kellogg's place in the DUnited States Senato, aud it is a matter of supreme indifference to the people outside of Louisiana whether Pinchback is Governor or whother he goea to Congress. We presume that the Louisiana people would profer the latter, as Pinchback would then be removed from their sight for the time being. The concern which the people of the conntry feel in the matter is, that United Statss forces should have boen em- ployed in a Siate withont the. request of the Legislature or Governor thereof. FIRES IN THEATRES. . Another prominent place of public amuse- ment in New York has been destroyed by fire, and at an hour following so closely upon an im- menss holiday attendanco at the thoatre that the narrative gives one a terrible shudder as ho thinks of what might have taken place had the fire broken,out an hour sooner, when this tinder- box was crowded with human beings.. It doos not diminish the inovitable thrill of horror, caused by it, to remembor that it adjoined the Fitth Avenuo Hotel, where, ozly o fow days since, 80 many poor servant-gizls were enffocated 2nd roasted to death. - Had the fire broken out an hour moomer, there iz no probability that =sny of the andienco could bave escaped. 'The {iwo sceno- painters, who appear to have been the only per- £ons in the building at the time of the fire, and who wero at work in the flies, only made their escape by cutting a holethrough the roof, and" descending, by means of ladders, from the cor- mice. Tho Tifth Avenue Theatro was a little shell, vory gaudily ornamented and profusely decorated, the ornamentation itself, however,’ only serving as meaus for the more rapid spread of the flames. There was no rear exit to it. It was built in between lofty buildings on each side, and of course had no side exits. The only modo of egress was {rom the frout, and that was very narrow. The fire broke out under the box office, which was in front, between the single auditoriam =~ door - and the street. If it had broken ont an hour sooner, all egress wonld have been cut off, and the dreadfal lesson of the Richmond Theatre, & number of years ago, would have beon ropeated. The old Dearborn Street Thea- tre, which stood between Madison and Washing- ton strects hefore the fire, was almost an exact counterpart of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, both in size and maoner of construction, the only essantial difference being that the latter was much the most elegant, James Fisk, Jr., having lavighed a large sum of money upon it io fit it up for the nses of his opern-bouffe troupe. ‘The rapidity with which the firo spread shows that no one could have escaped. The Treasurer testifies that at a quarter to 5 he saw flames coming up through the register ; but, before he could reach tho street to give the alarm, tho whole structure was enveloped in flames, and in lees than st honr's time the bnilding was in ruins. Here we have a building devoted to the uses of tho public, not only constracted of and filled with inflammable materials, but so arranged as to have but one exit for the crowds, and that exit cut off by & fire breaking out in the front part cf the house. If the devil had set to work to constract o trap for the immolation of human beings, he could not have done it more cunning- ly or ingoniously.” Thero ia but ono door to the trap, and the fire closes it. Providentially, in this instance, no one was in the trap. This .does not lesaen the enormity of this architec- tnral offence. It is only a few dsys ago that the Building Superintendent of New York made & tour of inspection among the- various theatres in that city, and reported the Fifth Avenuo Tho- atre safe. The event has shown how much re- liance is to be placed upon such reports. It al- Anderson, and John Lynch. Tho duty of the Board is to count the vote and declare who is elected, which they do under oath. The law_ provides that any mombers of the Board who wero candidales for ofice aro disquelified from serving. Pinchback and Anderson having beon candidates, the Board that met consisted of Warmoth, Herron, and Lynch, with itwo acancies to Gl At - tho meeting, and before these vacancics were filled, Governor Warmolh netified Herron of his removal, brought.in Mr. Wharton, whom he appointed Acting Secrotary of Statoin Herron's place, re- orgamzed the Board, and procecded to elect Messrs. Hatch and Da Ponte to the vacancies. Herron, however, refused to recognize Gover- mnor Warmoth's authority for removing him from the offico 0f Becretary of State, by virtue of which alono ho was a member of the Board, and, withdrawing in company with Mr. Lynch, ke or- genized another Board by electing Longstreot and Hawkins to fill the two vecancies. Then fol- lowed the series of removals, temporary and permanent injunctions, the interfersnce of & Federal Court in a matter in which it hsd no jurisdiction, and tho variely of complications ‘which the public have had thrust upon them ad nauseam. . The point on which Herron's whole defence hinges is, that Governor Warmoth had no an- thority to remove Lim from tho office of Secre- taryof Siate. If he had this right, then of course Herron's functions asa member of the Board cessed. To make his ples the more plausible, Herron refers to himself thronghout his letter as the Secretary of State, and notas the Acting Secretary of State. The fact is, that Herron keld the office by appointment of Gov- emor Warmoth, who bad removed Bovec, the Secretary of State who had beon clected by the pesple. Governor Warmoth either had tho right to removo Bovce, or he had mot. If ha bad, then he certainly had the right to remove Herron, who w28 & mere substitute for Boveo by 2ppointmont. If Le-had not the right to re- move Boves in the firat place, then Horron was in Do scnsa Secretary of Siate, 2nd wasy pot gumalil=l to on the most secms a3 if Divine. Providonce were trying to enforce tho lesson of prudence and caution, by theso constantly-recarring disasters, and it scems also'as if builders and property-owners were wilfully and resolutely dotermined mnot to :read it, but to keep on in the same old reckless path. Within two weeks, five firea havo occurred in New York growing out of identical circum- stances. Baroum’s Museum was destroyod by tho unsafe flues, and there was not time to get out the enimals composing his menagerie, Tall- mage's Tabernaclo was destroyed by » fire orig- inating in the flues only a short time atier the congregation had got out. The Fifth Avenue Hotél fire caught in the same manner, and twelve or fifteon servants were enffocated. The Centre street bindery firo broke out in the flues, and the cecape of ten employes was cut off. And now comes the Fifth Avenue Theatre, destroyed in precisely the eamo manner. It is almost use- lees to hopo that people will pay any attention to the lossons taught by these ewiftly-recurring disasters, or that they will give any heed to the sacredness of human life, until some crowning disastor occurs, involving the lives of hundrads of people and cattering destruction far and near, which will g0 shock the community with terror and alarm that that it will rise up and peremptorily demand that this building of fire- traps and man-traps shall cease. It is impossible to resd the account of the burning of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, 2nd learn the narrow escapo of that holidsy audience, ‘without a curiosity to know the condition of our own theatres, and what protection is afforded in caso of fire. Thero is » feeling of relief in the fact that most of our theatres have been ‘con~ structed with a view to epeedy and convenient cgress. The two West Side theatres,—the Acad- emy of Music and the Globs,—have but one mode of exit—from the froni, the stage exit at the rear neither being accessible to or understood by the sudience; and it adds to the insecurity of ths Globe Theatrs that it is an old wooden shell. - Ths Bouth Bide theatres aro in the main secure. Hooley’s Theatre has a conveniont front exit, and the stage exit is 50 axranged that it canbe immediately thrown open snd mede availablo to the public. Myers' Opern House has front and sido exits. Aiken’s Theatre, being on a corner, has admirably-ar- ranged cxits on ono side, toree in front, and, if nocessary, could have some in the rear, opening upon the alley. McVicker’s Theatre is a model in this respect, and is probably the safest thea- tro in the United States. It bas numerons suditorium doors opening to tho capacions strest exit, several side doors on the alleys on two sides of the theatre, aud rear exits; whiloits numerous windows aro all within easy distanco of tt:o ground on two sidea of tho building. It is safe to say that McVicker's Theatro can bo easily emptied in less than five minutes: The tr e each Con- one Midshipman . once The country will not regard and alent than West Point and Annapolis can turn out overy four years. A plan has boon suggest~ .ed by which the unnecessary increase may be avoided. 1Itis thattho Congressional sppoint~ ments should be mada once in five years, and the Academicsl term still kept at four years. Another suggestion is to lengthen the course of study to five years. The latter plan would not obviate the nocessity of tho new sppointments, burning of the Fifth Avenue Theatre conveys s | yut it would make the yearly graduates less warning to all owners of places of amusement, | pumarous, and would not overstock the ermy a8 well as of other buildings whefe Luman life | with officers who are now uscless. is exposed, and if thero are sny such structures A very important. discovory rolative to the in this city, the owners or agents of them owe it to the public to remove every obstacle which may now stand in the way of safety to lifo. THE COST OF IRON AND STEEL RAILS. We have previously called attention to the | Jesves the hydraulic press, as gun-cotton will fact that, while wo constructed between Janu~ ary, 1860, and January, 1872, 17,000 miles of new railway in the States north and west of the Ohio River, we have not increased tho number of rail- ‘way routes from the West to :he Atlantio. have in that eame time put several hundred millions of additional zcres under cultivation, and have not provided an additional outlot to market. Ordiparily, railroads will be construct- ed whenever thers is business enough to pay them a profit; and yet, notwithatanding the vast number of tributary ronds construct- ed sinco 1800, we have no more fa in 1878 for getting to tho Atlantic thin we had in 1860. that we' have been construction of railways in the West by dona- tions of public lands, while in the Eaat there bave been po lands to give awsy for this pur- pose, Another reason (and this applics equally One reason for stimulating the to all railwaye) is to be fouad in the costof iron and steel rails. The duration of an ordinary iron rail is ten years. We have now in the United States 60,000 miles of milwey, and of course 6,000 miles have to. be relaid overy year. Estimating 100 tons to_the milo, tho quentity of iron rails required annually to keep these roads in running order is 600,000 tons. Iu an item of current cost, the expenditure required to keep these tracks alive is enormous, and each dollar added to the cost becorues a matter of serious consideration. These railroads require, in addi- tion to new rails, large amonnts of other iron. During the last ten years the Government has lovied a tax on thisiron at the following rates: Per. !on.’ Per ton., Tron in bars. $15,00!Iron, beiler plate. ... §25.00 Iron rolled o; 20.00{Iron axles. ... 50,00 Rallroad iron........ 17.00/Iron hairs,. 28,00 Tho tax on ordinary railroad iron, at 817 per ton, is an addition fo the cost of the annual re- newals of 6,000 miles of railway frack of £10,200,000 in gold, annually, every penny of which has to bo paid for out of the freight transported, with all the profits and incidences of thotax. That is tho sunual tax which has to bo paid by increased rates for freight. Putting the distanco between the Mississippi River and an Atlantic port at 1,000 miles, the tax upon the first purchaso of the cheapest Lind of rail is $1,700,000, and for a double irack twico that F Pproperties of gun-cotton has just been made by the chomist of the English War Department. The principal dificaity which bas hitherto been encountered in its manufactue has boen the ex- treme danger attondant npon drying it, after it explode at a very low temperature. The chemist in question has succesded in exploding several dises of tho cotton, containing from 15- to 20 per cont of water, without the process of drying. The discovery is one of great im- portance, for while tho cotton in its damp state is incapable of ignition, it still retains its detonating qualities, and can bo used with less danger to the user. If some ingenious chemist will now discover some similar property in nitro- glycering; g0 that when it i to bo nsed for some local purpose it will not be necessary to deztroy the wholo surrounding country also, another valuable contribution will bo made by science to sgociety, and some new protection will be guar- enteed to human life, if that is of any impor- tance now-a-days. The India Times contains some extromely in- teresting particulars concerning the African elave trade, from which it sppears that tho in- habitants of India have thegreatest share in this business, and that there are Iarge numbers of Parsees and other clagses of Hindco marchants io Zanzibar, Mozambique, Madagascar, ‘and other places, living with African mistresses, ‘who are doing a thriving business with the west- ern coast of India. It is stated that these Indian tradors procesd eecretly into the in- terior of Africs to catch their slaves. Ivory being. a commodity commonly received on the coast, these traders carry on the elave trade under cover of the ivory trade. It flourishes best in the districts under Portugucso dominion. As Great Britsin is now moving vigorously tosappress this trade, we may reason- ably expect that she will first of all bring her Indo-African subjects to a speedy reckoning, and that the specious ivory businoss will soon begin to wane. e et e el The latest obituary intclligence from Europe includes Vincent Pol, one of the most eminent Polish poets, who was especially renownod for patriotic songs ; Chancellor Massingherd, one of the most learned and orthodox of the clergy ot the Church of England; Edward Bannerman Ramsay, an eminent Scotch divine, who has con- tributed much to theological literature; Mad. Clemence Robert, who at one time stood at the hoad of French romance writers; Thomaa Keight~ loy, tho historian, best known by his “Fairy Afythology”; Thomas Combe, the Oxford Uni- versity printor; Capt. A. J. Smith, an old Aus- tralasian explorer, who waa associated with Sir John Franklin in many of his explorations ; Neil Johnson, ex-Provost of Rothesay, Scotland, the most extensive fish curer in that country; and Edwin Norris, the antiquarian and auather of the sum, one-tenth of which (for remewal and re- “Cuneiform (Assyrian) Dictic " pairs) has to be paid in sddition annually. Even (ot Dictonarr.” greater taxes aro imposed mpon every other | - NOTES AND OPIMION. articlo needed in the construction of the road. But oxperienco has long einco shown that stecl rails aro tho most economical, though cost~ ing moro in the first Instance, and no first-clasa Theo popular vote for President ia still lacking in the States of Kansas, Nevada, and Texas. Taking, howerer, tho Congressional voto of Toxas, and the Warmoth count in Louisians, rozd ought to be constructed with any other | the Louisville Courier-Journal figures tho vote ‘of the old slavo Btates,as follows: Grant, 1,062,715 ; Greeley, 1,029,589, Even this total of 2,092,254 the Courier-Journal believes to bo 800,000 ehort of a fall vate. 'The vote of Nebraska : rails. Hero, too, our Government has ‘inter- posed, and has levied a tax upon cteel rails of £98 por ton in gold. Wo have befora us & state- ment made in London by the President of the | * Grand Trunk Railway of Canada of his purchase of 23,000 tons of steel rails for thatroad at ten guineas, or $52.50 per ton ; and of his contract, made since the recent enormous advance in the prices of all kinds of iron, for 82,000 tons at £17, or £85 per ton. With this it is proposed to replace the present iron tracks with steel rails. The edvance in the price from $52.50 to 385 per ton took place in 1872, and during the five years preceding that datoourrailroed companies might havo purchased stecl rails deliversd at Montreal for £55 per ton, or at o smell fraction above the cost of common American ruils. Bat tho tax of $28 per ton was fatal. To reley the 60,000 miles of railway in the United States with steel rails wonld roguire the psyment of a tax of $168,000,000. To substituto steel rails for the worn out iron rails would require, in ad- dition to the cost of the rails, the payment of $16,500,000 annually for tax alonc, and this tax would heve to be collected from froights. The tax, moreover, is wholly unnecessary, for if it bo true, a3 they claim in Indiana (and we think it. is truo), that Dessemer stcelcan be produced’ there a8 cheaply as in England, no protection is nceded, and the taxis a sheer gratuity to the- rail monufacturers, ‘Wo pablish below the resolutions of a meeting of farmers at Dizon, in this State, relating to tho Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners. This meeting, wo ate told, was composed of dele- 7} gates from moroe than fifty agricultural organiza- tions located in different parts of the State, They respectfully request that ono of the Com- missioners to bo appointed shall be a farmer possessing the confidence of thosoin the same vocation, and of the people generally, 8s to his ability, bonesty, tact, and general fitness for tho office, and who ebAll be g0 recommended by them. Ar. Bocll, the gentleman put forward by this Convention, we understand, is every way quali~ fied to fill the office, and, if appointed, will 0 ra-elect them, and estentially 21d the opposition in bringing outa reapectable vote. fidenco in its sbiilty to reeloct Hibbard, Bell, and ‘Parker, there is 0o resson to doubt, returns, and other ststistics. —The Connccticut Republican State Conven- tion is to meot in Now Haven, Feb. 5. Henry B. Harrison, of Now Haven, ia on tho slato for Governor, and John T. Wait, of Norwich, for Licutenant Governor. —The Concord (N. H.) Monilor warns the party of tho Administration that— ‘The clrcumstance that our three members of Cone ‘wero chosen by Democratic votes, and the desire ill be tho mainepring in the canvass, And that it entertains much con-. —The time-honored newspaper names in St. TLouis have been the Afissouri Republican and the ZAfissouri Democrat; but the latter now calls itself the St. Louis Democrat, like other folks. —This is the unkindest cat of all. Blanton Duncsn has changed the name of his paper frorm | the Truc Democratto the Commercial Adrertiser, and will henceforth publish it on Sundays. Bourbonism thus loses its last organ. —Colonel Casey, tho Collector of (‘ustoms at New Orlcans, and the Preaident’sbrothor-in-law, does not think of running as » candidata for the TUnitod States Sonatorship, and Judge Durell will probably be elected ; 8o says & Bostonisn direct from New Orleaae. —The Leavenworth Timcs brings out for Sen- tor from Kanses (if Pomeroy fails) a man who, it nays, “v.onld have st Washington an influ ence and power second £0 no other man in Kan- eas.” Mo is s brother of Goneral Babcock, the President's Privato Secretary. —This is the eeason foralmanacs, with eloction The St. Lonis Times says: 1t is the Atlantie Almanac which snnounces John D, Henderaon as_Governor of Missourd ; but then it makes partial amends for §t by Brooks as Governor of Arkansss. The ihot Brooks was clected, thoughs ho didn't get his eat, while Henderson wasn'f elected and hasno seat to get, Teporting Joseph difference is —The Exoter (N. H.) News Leller *hears it suggested that in the reorganization of the Prosident’s Cabinot, after tho 4th of March, the name of Bcnator J. W. Patton of our own State, will bo prominent for sn appolntment.” New faithfully represent the interests tlat the law | Hampshire hias had norepresentative intho Cab- was designed to protect. 3 inet !‘m?’ S;;he retirement ‘of Secretary Wood- bury in 1841 . The fallowing aro the resolations referred to: WixrrAs, By the provisions of the law to creato s Board of Railroad aud YWarehonse Commissioners, it is made the duty of the Goverror, by and with the advica of the Senate, at (s meeting of the next General As- sembly, to reappoint then suck Commissioners for said Board; therefore, ced, That the sgricultural interests of this Stateare most decply nvolved in the issucs arixing under the operations of this law, aad that to lts proper eforcement and to the wholeasmo regulation of the carrying trade, by judicious legisiation, we look for re- lief from some of tho burdena wa now beaz, That at least one of theso Comruissioners ehionld be farmer, poscessing the confidenco of his brother farmers, aud of the peorle, as to his ability, honesty, tact, and general fitness for the office, aud who shiall be £0 recommended by them, Resolced, That in tho apicit of the foregolng resclu- tion we recommend to His Excellency the Governor of the State of Lilinols, C. C. Buell, Esq., of Rock Falls, 1iL,, for appointment £ this important office, Resolred, That the Sectetary be {nstructed fo cause n €opy of these resolutions to bo placed {n the hands of His' Excellency the Governor, and thst they also be communlested to our Senators znd Representatives ncertain extent, If he accomplishes anything ~The Goodkua County Republican adds itself to the list of papers which recommend Governor Austin to zppoint Judgoe McMillan United States Benator “ when Senator Hamaey takes & st in Grant's Cabinet.” Of course it tickles tho old chap to be talked of fora Cabinet offica and wo are glad to amuso him, but supposing the awfal conbingency of his recéiving a Cabinent 2ppoint- ment should not arise 2—St. Paul Dispatch. —The Keoknk Gate Cily, whose editor sat in the United States Senate fow months, says: 1t i harder to bea virtaous Congressman than 8 vir- tous Christian; the methods of legislation that Lave grown up, and of aitempts to influcuce legislation, are Sevnitions and batefal. " Xek o man sa e Home s Senste can control the. e can caly realt thew to at 3 if he gets through measures for which he hnlnfloul, and capecially if he hopes to secure eppropristions, bowover just and necessary, he i umpal";lo to defer in son:o degrea o pernicions motuods cf legialation, which he detests, yet which he cancot abolish or cir- cumvent, Now {0 disclose those pernicious methods in all their hateful datall and fasten them upon the membord connected with tha Credit Mobiller elect, with ths request that they use their infinenco 10 | eortatn secure the appoiniment, legislation, is to fasten upon those certain ones the on- tire odiom of & us syeters. —_— 1t is discovered that the military end naval ex- penses of the Government are likely to be in- creased largely. Ope item of $300,000 is foand in the increase of pey of the marines. Tho ma- rines are placed upon ths ecme footing as the private soldiers and non-commissioned ofiicers of the army, and the increase of army expensns added $300,000 to the navy expenzes. Tic new apportionment of Congress, under tho prosent 1w, 2lso adds 49 siindonsl Mitilipmen (o the —The New Haven Courier informs us that the ofiice of Poatmaater of Chicago does not come under tho Civil Servica rales, and intimates that this offica 8 placed on tho same footing as Cab~ inet positions and Foreign Miesions. With the Civil Bervice reform es bofora us, wo have been unable to so resd them. Evidently the Chicago Post Oftice is on the same footing as the New York and Philadelphia offices, unless there i3 a spacial exception. Of course there is Do syecizl exeaption.—New Haven Register. —Respecting those alleged four thoussad sfi- T T e s bl e s T sl vk e Seioie i o s ion et Moo R IRRTIDE LR e T T L davits which Kellogg filled with his bill i Chap- Naval Academy, and the same number of Cadets to the Military Academy, gressional District has tho right to zominate one Cadot overy four years. the additional expenses which these appoini- ments wounld entail with anything like com- placency at the present time. We do not seem to be in any special need of any more warlike cery to show that ten thouesnd of his votes had been suppreused, or non-registerod, wa ha authentic information that they wera all hsnd:; iu, throogh -tho window, to tho United Sias, Commissioner, by one man. — And theso are f.l:Es ehameless villains who complain of frands in m° clection! Four_thousand printed afidavits oy signed with an X, the rame Eeing Written by ong and the samo pen. Upon such proofs alons . (haflnvemxmaut cjf flkb‘L’Ale been revolution; and a popular majority of fificen i side ;Efi'e& Orlns Simes, o> hosand v —I{ the Chesapenie & Cincinnati Railrosd spent 8300 i o Eighth Ward slono o cagy he election on the million aad a quarter g sidy question, how much did they spend i tiy entire city 7—Cincinnati Cammern‘jkm 4 —Reader, remember tho One Great- Question» that overshadows all”others is, ate great nil. road corporations to mle the conntry, or will th country rule them ? Thisis the first question tg be answered. The noxt is, in case the answer iy in favor of the country’s raling, how shall be rulod? We invito discusaion on both thee i‘r_cut primary questions.—Marshalltowen (fowa) ‘imes. —Business in Central Wisconsin this wis is near akin fo business in Central m:;‘& The only difference is that, owing to drouth, the Wisconsin farmer had no crops, whilo the Min. nesotian, with abundsnt crops, has no prices. The resnlt is not matorially different as it ate fects trade. Without markets it doesnot matiar €0 much. Whother a largo surplus is not ag evil to the groducor, is an open question. It js capital, to be qure, bat then it is * fixed "—bad. 1y fixed, too, when wanted for use. Over in 3lichigan the thing is & littlo different. The State rnises zbont s muck fruit as wheat Its leading industries are lumber,on which thers ia s protective duty of 25 per cont in gold to kaep ont the Canadian competition ; salt, 45 per cant ; coal, 31.50 per ton; iron, Ed per ton pig, and from 10 to 920 on all other kinds. Besiday this, there is waocl, 25 per_cent, aud_sbont tha ssmo on everything else. Dut a3 the State is on the frontier, it has Canada to draw upon for cheap supplies, and swnggling is a re; suit. This is what koops Chandler’s Statein such good humor. Tho way it brags over ifs *‘prosperity” is something wondezfn:f What » ity some of it was not manifest west of the' akes. Freo Trado oven with Pembina wonld help 1|':ha.--Sl. Paul Pioncer. —There is ono very small virtue in tho merc. lo6s Massachusetts hounds. Thoy aro a0 bigotal and intolerant that, conceiving one of their own number to bo wrong, they furn upon him and seck to destroy him. Sonow tho wholo pack turn upon Charles Sumuer becauso he can sea beyond them. The same spirit sent Rogar Wills {ama away into the wilderness, and strung up poor old women 15 witches, That seatiment of intolerance and meanness has always character- ized Massachusetts, and made many men almost regret their Now England natirity, despite its proud record for sturdy pluck, indomitabla pur- pose. and high intelligence. But time makes al} things even, and it will require but very littlo of it for all to recognize the purily of purpose snd noble generosity of Mr. Sumucr as a representa- tive of manly Northern sentiment.—Portland (Me.) Argus. e David K. Cartéer, formerly of Ohlo e epells his namo with two t's), who is now a United States Judgo in the Distrlct of Colambis, in & recent decision, where X d laws were cited—Maryland having ceded the District to the United States—Lad tho good tasta and the je- dicial decency to say that hie had_“ not much ro- ct for tho sacrad rights of ¢y Maryland’ on e gubject.” This reforenco to a sovercign Btate, and that State the one to which we owe the existenco of the Federal Capital, is charsc- teristic of the men who now run the United States Govornment. Thdy are delightcd o hava aa opportunity to sncer at the conquered Btazes. Itissuch a delightful mothod of maintaining ppeace and brotherly love in the Union!—Cincine nati Enquirer. 2 —It is not pleasant to write abont. the Credit Mobilier. Alter taking an active part darin, the campaign in circulating ali the douials tha were made of what wes thon belicved hera to be slander undiloted, and without even the fonnda- tion of distorted truth to rest upon; after ran- sacking the Globe for ovidence that charges of even the slightost complivity could not be true; after writing, by direct authority of thuse interested, two of tho denials so vmle? published; after a full . belief, founded wupon such information as conld be obtained here, that the doniela wore il trme in the nuqualified sense in which the publicre- coived them, it was very far from pleasantto know that the Committce pf Tuvestigation had searcely tonched the matter in hand before the whole Tabric of denial leubnnd evory one whoss name npg:uad on the Oakes Ames lisiwaa found to be in grester or less degree inv.ived. Thero is no intention of asserting herg thatsl wero disreputably involved; but in the verp ‘mildest form in which tho matter can bo stated, all ero in = very embarrassing position.—Cim cinnati Gazelte. WALL STREET. Revelw of tac Moncy, Bond, Gold, Stock, and RProduce . Marikets. _Special Despateh to The Chizago Tribune. New Yorg, Jan, 2.—To-day was *invostars day" in Wall street, and in tho Treastry, banks,- trust companies, and private bankers' offices could be scen long lines of individuals collectisg their semi-annual intercst and dividends. Inre-: gard to the debtsof the Southern States, Florida’ pays coupons on cerfain 8 per cent bonds. Texas aléo psys the interest on ker debt, which is emall.” TLare secms to be somo daabt abaus. Louisians, but the New. York holders of her ‘bonds are sending their coupons to the Citizens Bank of New Orleans for collection. Soms brokers, to-dny, wera buying ot 1) discount. This Btate did not psf the £70,000 Orphan Asylum bonds which fell duo in October lagt. It Is_stated tho monay if in the Treasury, but tho Legislataro failedts. mako the neccasary mpproprintion. Alsbama and Georgia 5Te paying interest on a portion of’ their dobt. Teanesace, and North and South Caro-: lina continue in dofsult, and Mississippi ropudh- ated hor debt many years sgo. North Carolioa Tas been paying intcrest on bonds issued to the’ North Carolina Railroad in 1853 to 1855, Tho to- tal igseue of this loan was $3,000,000, aud themat- ter ig in the bands of ' tho Courty, which requaire- bonds to be proved. Already £1,600,000 of thess. bonds havo been proved, and the Btate has paid 80 per cent of the coupona up to April, 15'%: =bout 20 per cent on tho faco of the bonds. Court has oxtended the timo for proving the' balance of the loan to May 1873, and no farther payment will be mads natl the balanco gets the snine bonefit 23 tho bonds already sent . old railrond companies pay out largo amounts for dividenas and interess. Tho Northwestera Company divides $£525,000 with its commoz and ©714,525 with. its preferred stockhald-: Reading, 81,760,000; Cleseland & Tl Michigan Contral, £783,302; artford, $150,006; Harlem, $100,000; New Jer sey Central, $100,000. * It is probable the tota® disbursoments in tho United States in Jaousy® will cxceed 210,000,000, of which abont 875,08 000 will bo disburied at this point. HONET, 5 Money wesactive and stringent to-day st 148 t08-16. It will ¢sko some littlo time ye: for Jauuary disburséments o relieve tho mar! Prime discounts ere quoted nominelly at 12. The Bank of England dieconut_rate is mo, changed, still being5 rer cent, which does 1ot bear out the despasclies received on Mondaythst, maney in London wes 53@6 per cent outsids, the Bank of England. 5 ah Prizato advicos from tho Gormaa markols &1 favorable. American pecoritis, notably Centnl: Pacific bonds, beipg bigher than the last proth. oua guotations. The January disbursewents of tho Germen Government, 1ot less than 260,000° 000, are calenlated to impart buoyancy to tb8; market there. ER R e T A s AU KA £ N EICEANGZ AND GOLD. P Foreign exchanges wero more active. , ruled dull, aad ranged from 11234 to 11%. DONDR. C e Govornment bonds clozed st 3@J¢ lower, 128, steady at the decline. : 8TOCKS. ki The stock market was dull and prices ™ s The leading operators were generally from tho stzoet. > RBENEEG Stahie AN AN A AR S i Y PRODTCE- e Flour closes stronger, aa holders, owing to‘s very light receipta, present and. mspo&u:;am . o er. Wheat mcl(éu; bettor;t‘ n‘tv ig?:zhw 0 inquiry is chiefly for expos 4 : highor. and quiet. “Porl: s quict, Sales of froa brla at'813.50 £or now mess and $13.25 for & ¢ nary. Cut meats rule ntcmlgofor shoulders othorwise quict. Sales: 325 boxes dr:-”’aw. i shoulders, on spot, at 42/c. Bacon quick. T7; clear is offered for ehort delivery st 1},{c:a‘ = i clear is quoted at G3c, Lard ia qul e E ‘Western at about 73(c ; 350 tierces city 30! 75 @7%ec. For fatare delivery, 500 tierce3 March at 83ge. Bratal Wife Murder. ~ Crscrvaty, 0., Jan. 2.—At Springfeld: o.,&n; Tuesday night, Nancy Harthington, 0 seams &, wes brutelly murdered by hor buabsnd. o bodywas horribly mutilated and Ler ekall crs with en ax, Whiskey ia suppoded to bave gated ths deed. L) E i e S ST 30 i i s ! ,‘% ..;q.uusmmfilu.xfim;\r\‘ifflimflmmmfianAd-l%fil{fi%fifirufiifi,@ 5 EERRR