Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1873, Page 4

TITE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 11 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. D TENMA OF AUNBCRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVA)g;).r ally, by mal 2,001 Sunday. 2. Bockiattrs BLEQ0) Qe it Parta of n'year at tho samo rato. To pravent. dolay aud mistakos, bo muro and aivo Post Oflico addrosn n full, Including Stato and Coun Romittances may o mdo olihor by draft, oxpross, Post ©fico ordor, or in togisterad lottors, ab ourl TENMB TO CITY RUNRCIINENG ally, dollvorod, Hunday excepted, 26 cents per wook. Bnlly, llvored, Bunday includeds @ couta far wook, Address THE TRIBUNI COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearboru-sts,, Chitengo, 111, . TRinONE Branch Oficn, No, 469 Wabash-av., In the Noukstori of Mossrs. Cobb, Androws & Co., whern ailvortisomonts and subsoriptions will bo recalvad, and will bave tho same nitontion as if lofL at tho Main Otico, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE—Washington Nawa: Proceodings in Gone ress—Tho Lato Louls Napoloon, BECOND PAGF—~Washington Lottor—Rudo and Swift Justico—St, Panl Lottor—Mr, Reod's Oriminal Bill ~QGonoral Nows Itoms—Mrs, Jonea on Housohold Aflatrs—Important from Tollsia. CHIRD PAGE—Tho Lydo Parkites va, tho Staughtering Tutorost—Rallrosd Nowa—Tho Canman Trisl for Allogod Mail Robbory—A Cutlous Souvouir of tho Missing Bankor Winston—Tho City in Briof~Tail. rord Timo Tablo, FOURTIL PAGE~Edltorials: Tho Paclfic Rallway Act of 1861; Rllronds and Warchousos ; Tho Tows Troas- ury—COurront Nows Itoms. FIFTIl PAGL— Indiana Lottor — Porsonal—Tho Law Conrts—Markots by Tolegeaph—Advortisomonts, BIXTH PAGL—Monotary and Commerolal, SEVENTH PAGE-Tho Erio Canal: Ixteaots from tho Messago of Qovornor Dix, of New York—Hurlod Into n Gorgo—Murdor and Bulcido—Mothodiat Treachers of Now York Discuss tho Quostionof itornn] Damnation—Small Advortiscmonta: Roeal nto, For Salo, To Ront, Want+d, Boardlng, oto. T1L PAGE—Btato Legislaturos—Forolgn Nows— Miscallaticous Tolegrams, TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS, ACADEMY OF MUSIC~ Halted streot, south of Madison, Tho Scguin-lloraoo Knglish Opora Troupo. 4iternoon, ** Bohomian Girl,” Evouing, **Fra Dinvalo," i—Wabnsh avonuo, corner of Con KEN'S TILEATI AIKEN'S T ! cm fnees stroot, Jingagoment of Josoph Prootor, 1ied Pocket-Book.” Afteonoou and evening. M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madlson stroot, botweon Btnto and Dearborn. Lngagemont of Miss Charlolto Uushman, ** Henry VIIL' and ** Shupson & Oo," Af- ternovn and ovenlng, . HHOOLRY'S OPERA HOUBE—Randolph street, be- tweon Clarle and LaSallo, Now Comedy Company. *‘Babes in tho Woods.” Aftornoon and ovening. MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroo streot, botween 8tato and Dearburn, Arlinglon, Cotton & Komblo's **Tho Black Pocket- ““Potor Plpor." Af- *'Wantod: A Nurao, ternoon and ovoning. GLOBE THEATRE-Dasplainos strost, botwoen Madi- sonand Weshington. Dramatlo and Muslcal Variotics, Aftornon and ovoniny NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE-Clintonstreot, betwaen ashington and ltandolph. Engagomont of Mr, aud Mrs. A, O, Millor, **Hidden Haud," and ovoning. e e BUSINESS NOTICES. Aftornoon \IIAVANA LOTTERY—~ORDINARY DRAW.: 5! {;fia«fi (Llckots I MARTINER & 0 Wa BEST AND OLDEST FAMILY MEDICINE: E fore's Liver Invigorator.~A purely vegotablo cathartic I tonlo—for ,_constipation, dobility. alck clie, il 3, and all dorangomonts of Iivor, Ask your drugglst for it. Bowaro I “BATCHELOR'S WAIR DYE. THIS SPLENDID B T 12 s Mot i oy to B feet dye, Harmloas, reliablo, und instantancous; nodisap- ointiient ; noridiculous tints or unplonsant odor. Romo- and washos. Produces {im. o puporb blak er naturalbrowr, and lonvos (ho nir clcan, soft, and beautiful. Tho genuine, signed W, . Bateholor, ' "Hold by. il _drugglsis, OHARLES Sk, o v ANOTHER SESTIMONIAT, TV FAVOR OF THE f Dr. nok’s m nest e O Banott: Batom oc: N, J.. Teb. 27, 1872, Dr. I, 17, Sclienck, worihcust corner SIxth and’ Afcheste, Iiladetphia : Sin: Itako ploasuro fn sdding my teall. grony to thut of tho mans olliges who lass boon gured tho oicacy of chionel’s Pulmenlo Syrup, Seai Tonte, ond Mandrako Pills, Consumyitlon has been horeditary with my famils, most of ita membors Invtag diod of 1t at curlyagoy. My motlior and throo brothor dlod at tho ago of 31, ona brothurat 87, and my istor at 10, \was, whon about 22, sclzed with livor complatat, which rapldiy dovelapod futo pulimonary consuinption. Tas con ul:n;ulm ollnghish my omployment, {(that of a inckumith, 1 Gonsultod skilfal and ominent phyaicians, and tricd many patent nostrinns, but without success, so that my frlonds wora suro that thoro was 1 hopo of my rocovary, (urdl was {flllucnd"‘]ru|ntlvw u;umle t0 104, and was not ablo 0 do anything without asslstanco, toSPiat | e ook anomns a-Frovidontinl tatarposition, 3 e fuduced 10 try your rammodios, and, place impsolt ua' dor your troatuwent, and so rapid ' and thorougls was iy rocovery that §t scomed as though ino superhuman powor was at work, and to-day I am i ssat any timo durlng mylifo, 'T woigh 16 pounds, am voura old, and for sama thue havo beon regularly Attand- 15gto my Dusiness, bidding tair o ivo o s good old ago, an thankful toyou boyuud oxpression for having inced mo In position whereln Lam & bonotlt {nstoad of & ardon towy fawlis, Your Mandrako ¥llls aro tho only modicina I ovorusa aw, 1 think they aro tho best in the world, 1 can roforyou fo bundrodsof my nelghbors who will werity all that I havowritton, Yours, ote, The Chitagyy Teibumne, Saturday Morning, Junuary 11, 1873, JOIN 0. HEWITT. The jury in tho Tweed caso has beon com- _ pleied, The trial bogins Monday. l Busan B, Anthony's enso has been postponed mntil the 218t inat. l * Mrs. Woodhull and Colonel Blood were sent back to Ludlow Stroot Jail, yostorday, in dofault of bail, Six mombers of the Xellogg Senate withdrew sesterdny from that body, and announced that horoafter thoy wore to bo considerod ns Fu- sionists, | — Mr. Joln I. Early was nominated for Prosident of tho Illinois Benate yostorday by the Republican coucus, on the second formal ballot, The vote stood: Early, 18; Short, 9; Sanford, 2 ; Richardson, 2 ; lampton, 1. e Govornor Baker, in his message to the Indi~ ann Legielature, statos the forcign dobt of the Btate to be $744,930.12, and the domestic debt £3,905,906.25, Tho exponecs-of the Btato for 1878 will bo $785,388, to meot which ho rocom- wmouds a lovy of 15 conts on the $100, e t———— In answor to tho intorpellation of mombers of tho Prussian Diot, who askod on what pretoxt the Government prosccuted tho newspapers that .publishod the Papal allocution, the Ministor of Lhe Intorior replied yesterday that the purpose of tho prococdings was simply to ascortain whethor or not such publication of mattor cal- amnialing the country was logal, Mr, Alloy says that Onlos Ames is an honest aan, and that Lo ought to have a monument erected for him. Wo agreo with Mr. Alley that & monumont ought to bo orocted for Ames, and wo think the bost place for it wonld bo dirsotly du front of the Capitol. "The members of Cou- gress who had Crodit Mobilior atock would un-, doubtedly subseribo liberallyto oreot it, provided it wore placed where they could soo 1L avery day, Now that Louis Napoloon is doad, the nowa- papers of London are wrillng of him in a strain of high praise. A differont tono is taken by (ho Fronch papers of Now York. Tho Courier Des Titals Unis Las found among the prominent Fronchmen in Now York no othor foeling than of indifferonco or disdain, Ze Messuger, dotor- minod to speak only good of tho dead, says that tho ex-Imporor was & good comedian, Btate Attornoy Reed's or tho amendment of tho criminal code, to whigh we have called attention, was brought bofore the Loglslaturo yentorday, togethor with a bill similar to thass Iately introducod in the Ohio and New York Legis- latures, providing that whe){mnna]nyef sooks yhnlter bebiud ke plon of insanity he shall bo imprigonod for & torm corresponding to tho grade of his crimo. : About 61,760,000 will bo needod to makoe tho Illinols Iiver navigable to its mouth. Among othor waysof gotting thissum, it is suggostod that tho Btato appropriato $200,000 and lovy a tax of four-tenthe of o mill for four yonrs, which would yield %800,000. Add to thia the annual canal revonue of $150,000 for four yoars, and got the approprintion of $160,000 from Con- groes for whieh it hos boon nsked, and the necossary $1,750,000 is tho cney Lota prsitioe de S The olection of Govornor Oglesby to the Son- ato (or hils unanimous nomination thoroto by the Ropublican canous) is ono of the decrecs of tho popular olection in Novembor Inst. That he will prove himeolf the equal of Mr. Trumbull asn Sonator hardly anybody oxpaets, That tho Btato of Illinols will loso somothing ‘of her command- ing position by the change will bo admltted by most of thono who havo voted for the chango, Novortholoss, wo rogard Govprnor Oglosby e o pure man and a patriotic citizon, and wo nre con- fidont ho will nover do anything to dishonor thoso who havo awarded him so distinguished n mark of their confidonce. — In opposing tho propoeal in tho Houso to incronse tho appropriation for the Bureau of Edueation, Mr. Bock, of Kentucky, massed tho figures of our Natlonal recolpts and exponditures for tho last sevon yoars in such a way as to produco startling totals. In that timo, if his figuros are correct, the pooplo have poid in customs duties and Intornal rovonue taxos nonrly $3,000,000,000, This, with tho ro- celpts from tho sales of storos, and from tho Post Office and Intornal Rovonuo Dopsrtment, raigod tho amount rocolved by the Trensury to $0,402,696,252. About one-eighth of thisimmenso sum, or £427,306,541 has gono to tho roduction of the National dobt, loaving $2,975,189,011, or 425,019,987 a yoar, to bo accounted for, — Operations in $he Now York Btock Exchango lnst year in twonty-soven of the chiof stocks, amounted to fifty millions of shares, valuod ot nently double the honded dobt of the United States. Tho Pacific Mail was the favorite foot- ball for speculators, it having boen bought and sold to fifty-five times tho amount of its capital stock. West- orn Union stock was turned over 20i¢ timos ; Nortliwestern common, 37 times ; Union Pacifle, 16 times; Lako Bhoro, 8% timea; Erio common, 83 times; Ohio & Misslssippl com- mon was turned ovor aboub onge in overy two wocks. Now York Contral, onco as mercurinl as any, has now sunk into a comparativoly stondy stock, standing soventh in the ranks of epecula- tion, — A paragraph is going the rounds of nowspaper roprint, calling attontion to the fact that a do- linquent tax-list of Cook County haos just boon printed, filling 164 columns of tho corporation nowspaper. *This,"” says ono, jonrnal, ‘ ox- coeds noything wo have over soon in that lino;" another jumps ot tho conolusion that Chicago is bankrupt and cannot pay its taxos,—all of which is vory absurd, Under the law, tho delinquent tax-lists must bo published in n nowspapor ono month beforo judgment can be appliod for in tho courts. Itwcrves as a notification to prop- erty-owners that tho last days for paying their taxos aro appronching ; and, ss advortising adda only 10 conts a lot in the way of costs, a good many people naturally wait to rocoive the final notifleation. It would bo difficult in these times to obtain monoy at s0 low a rato of interest in any othor way. e Tho Sonato Committeo on Privilogos and "Eleotions havo at lnst renchod the caso of Sona- tor Oaldwell, of Kansas, whose eloction to that body is belicved to have been accomplished by wholeaslo bribory. It ia nearly a year sinco Committoo of tho Kaneas Logislaturo invosti- gated this matior, and roported that Loth Gald- well and Pomeroy owed their seatsin tho Bon- ato moro orloss to bribery. Tho ovidence in the.case of Caldwoll was romarkably dircct and conclusivo, tonding to show that about £60,000 was expended in buying votes. Tho Senate Com- mittce have summonsd » large number of witnossos from Kanans, and wo havo no doubt that the investigation will be thorough. The Oredit Mobilior disclosures have acted as & mor- dant to the public mind in the matter of bribory and corruption, vory much as the succession of murdera in Now York awakened tho jury in the Btokes caso to the fact that somebody had Loon kilted, When Caldwell is disposed of, Patter- son's turn will come next—Patterson, of Bouth Carolina. E— Of nll the porsons who havo testified heforo tho Orodit Mobilier Committeo, Mr. John B. Alloy is the most likely to be gibboted before tho public a8 an untruthful witness. Ilo appears ot gront disadvantage in his controversy with M'Comb. o denied circumstantially that Con- grossman Brooks had any stock, and denounced as faleo tho wholo conversation which, M’Comb aayd, took placo betwoon Alley aud Brooks in Lis prosence. This portion of M'Comb's tostimony boara intornal ovidenco of truthfal- noss. It s direct, conciso, connected, and charactoriatic of all the partios botween whom the converantion is alleged to have oceurrod. And now M'Comb produces a letter from Onmo,' the Becrotary of the Oredit Mobilior, giving tho timo and placo whon and whero ono hundred shares of atock wore transforred, by Brooke' di- roction, to Charlos H, Neilson, his son-in-law, “‘the men doing business in Pino streot, noar ‘Wall streot,"” as Brooks particularized Lim in his spocch, Up to this timo M'Comb has had de- cidodly the advantago of his antagoniats, and wo can 8eo no reason for doubting his voracity, Tho danger, nat that tho Crodit Mobilier In- veatigating Committeo will not make therough work of it, but that a public sontiment mny bo oreated by parlinan nowspapors oxonorating everybody from blame, and thoreby making n safo procodont for similar transactions in the futuro, Tho Boston Advertiser sooms to o en- goged in thue lowering tho standard of publie morals, Wodo not soo why any act of bribory might not bo oxcused and condoned in the same way that Mr, Oskos Amos oxcuses Limsolf, Ilo enys that ho wanted theso Congrossmen to bo interosted in the Union Pacific Railway so that they might have an incontivo to study up the laws relating to thal Company, * for,"Lo adds, “I hove found tbat thore iy no AiMe culty jn inducing wmen to look after tholr own proporty.” ‘Chis. ocoura in Amoa writton tostimony, and (horofore oxprossos his deliberato and matured oxpjanation of his mo- tivo in placiug tho stock whoro ho did, Bupposo & stoamehip subsidy s wanted, and tho lobby or- gonized to put It through Congress distribute hialf tho stonmship stock smong Sonators nud Ropronontatives, grats. Thay aro dotocted and brought boforo an investigating committos, aud thoy sny, ** Wo liad no intention of bribing theso gentlamen, but wa wanted them to look iuto the morlto of this proposed lino, and seo for them- selvos how much it would bonofit the country to have it started, for exporience hns taught us that thore In no diffeulty in Inducing mon to look aftor thoir own proporty.” Would this ho bribery, or would it not? It yor, thon is Onkos Amoa convicted of bribory out of his own mouth, e ———— Porhaps Governor Ogleshy's addross, delivored beforo the Republican caucus at Springfiold, Just aftor this body had declded to givo him the Senatorial nomination, mny Lo moro proporly rogardod ns his innugural than thot which Lo will deliver upon. taking the oath of ofiico s Govornor, a8 ho ig to bo Sonator and not Govornor. In thin address ho followed tho tholorieal figuro known as olimax, Mo had tried to bo an honost man; lio would still try to bo nn honest man; Lo loved his country; ho adorod Dhis country; Lo would do his duly in tho United Stntos Honato; ho world be true o his party, 'This was ovidontly an estimato that boing “truoe to tho party" was tho groatest virtuo & publioman can possibly possoss. It might havo boen nccidontal, had Lo not mado the samo estimato of Licutouant Governor Bovoridge. This gentloman, enid Governor Oglosby, has had oxporioncs in military snd civillifo ; ho has had logislative oxporienco ; hio is a compotont man; but—and horo ia the summum bonum of political virtuo again—he hiag beon {ruo to bis party. To Governor Oglos- Dy's mind, this qualifieation ovidently loaves nothing to bo desired. Tho Chiengo produce markats wera loss active yeaterday, but firm, chiofly as & consoquenco of light recelpts. Mess pork was In good demand and 200 por brl higher, closing at $11,80@11.85 cash, and £12.20@12.25 sollor March, Lard was quiot and 100 por 100 Iba higher, closing at $7.20@7.25 cash, and §7.60@7.65 sollor March. Moats woro atrong and e por Ib highor, at 837 @3 for shoulders, 53{@b3go for short ribs, 6@6%0 for short cloar, and 73¢@8o por Ib for green hams averaging 10 and 15 lbs. Drossed hogs were active oud 10@16c por 100 1bs highor, closing ot $4.50@4.00, Migh- wines wore quiet but 4o bighor, closing at 890 per gallon. Flour was in botter domand, and stendy. Whoat was loss activo, and steady at tho insido pricos of Churadsy, clog- ing ensior at $1.20@1.2027 cash, aud $1.22 sollor Tebruary. Corn was dull and unchangod, clos- ingnt 3050 cash, nud 813o sollor Fobruary. Oata woro moro active, and 34@3{c highor, at 26}go cash, and 251{@253o sollor Fobruaiy, Ryo was quict and stoady at 67c. Barloy was steady on No. 2, at 6524@6Go, and firmer on No. 8, which closed at Bio, Live Lioga were notive and again highor, pricos advancing to £3.75@ 4.10, whore thoy closed fim. Cattla wore nctive and firm. Thore wag no change in tho sheop markot, E— Wyoming comes forward with a prompt pro- tost egainst dismembormont for the beneflt of Colorado or any othor Torritory. Tho Choyenno ZLeader rocontly printed soven reasons why ‘Wyoming should not be pulled to pioces, which may be briofly stated asfollows: 1, It would boabreach of good faith on the part of Con- grosa to thoso who had invested thoir capital in tho Torritory, on tho faith of tho ot that thoy should have & Government of their own. 2. That tho duty of the Govetnmont to protact its citizens must probibit tho dismemborment, ns one- third of tho cltizons would bo virtually without protaction of lnw, Baveral towns, it is claimed, would be romitted back fo Dakots, and tho in- habitants would havo to travel about 1,500 miles to tho capital of thoir Territory to find a Court exceeding in jurisdition that of & Court of Pro- bate, 8. Tho Torritorial Government of Wyo- ming {8 cconomical, the tax being only 2 mills on the dollar. It would, thereforo, be unjust to attach the pooplo to other Territories, and compol thom to assist in tho paymont of dobts which thoy had not helped to contract. 4. It would destroy tho prosent communion of intor- cats, Morchants would havo to refaso to trado with thelr present customars, or to incur tho risk of enforeing their collections in four separatofu- risdictions. 6. Tho old reign of terror would bo revived, as tho people of tho presont Torritory would bo so much igolated from tho various courts of justico that thoy counld only look to Vigilanco Committees for their protection, 6, ‘I'ho peoplo of Wyoming aronow contentod and prosporous; the towns aro all incronsing rapidly and making permanont and valuablo improvo- ments. 7. Tho samo reagons that prompted tho croation of tho Torritory of Wyoming oxist to- day. The principal of these reasons wns, that thoro was a large ssction of the country, with o conslderabloe population and important proporty intorosts, which necded tho protection of n Governmont. THE PACIFIC RAILWAY ACT OF 1864, Bohind Oskes Amos' distribution of Crodit Mobilior -stock *whoro it will do ua tho most good,” stands tho great original fraud without which thero could have boen no Credit Mobilior. Congrony, it will bo romembered, grantod this Company o compact bolt of land oqual to ten milos wido tho wholo dlstanco of the road. It also granted them a subsidy of nntional honds of $16,000 por milo for tho first 207 miles, of £82,000 por milo for tho next 600 miles, and then for the monntain rogion $48,000 por mile, A stock company was organized with a capital of many millions of dollars, upon which 5 por cont cagh was paid in. Bubsoquent disclosurcs of tho actual cost of constructing and oquipping the road show that the Government subsidy of bonds was alono suflicient for that purposo, Dut tho managers of this corporation woro not contont with building tho road at the cost of the nation, and hiving 20,000 squaro milos of public land ag a profit, #o, towarda tho close of tho sossion of Congress in 1864, thoy presonted to Congross a bill which proposed to roloaso tho railway from tho Govoernment mortgnge, and to give the Company authority to iswue its own bonds, to an amount oqual to the Govornmeut aubeldy, aud to secure tho samo by n first mort- gngo upou tho road, its franchlses and its proporty, tho Governmont to accopt n socond mortgage, This bill was urged upon thoir solomn doclaratlon and protostations that tho road conld not bo buwilé with the amount of tho CGovernment subsidy, Sonatora and Ropre- sontatives took upon thomaolves, honestly or otheriwise, tho rosponsibility of deolaring that, uuloss this oxtraordivary monsure was passod, the rond could not Lo built, When tho bill con- tuining this great fraud waa put upon its pas- ango, in tho [Touso of Ropresontatives, tho yoas and nays woro called for by some momber, but tho Mouso rofusod to” havo tho roll called, and tho bill was passod without any rocord of tho nnmod of thoso who voted for b, Whila thiabill was ponding, andin auticipation of it, Mosers, Amon, Durant, and othors pur- olinsod & chartor granted by the Loglelature of Ponnaylvania, and under it organizod tho Com- Py kuiown n tha * Crodit Mobillor of Ameri- en” Tho officors of this Company woro the 8amo pergons who woro tho oxcoutive oflicors of tho Union Pacifio Ruilrond Gompany; tho Intter, acting for the Railrond Company, mado & con- tract with thomeclven ns officors of tho Oredit Mobillor, by which the Crodit Moblllor under- took to build tho rond, rocelving thorefor il the bondis granted by the United States, all the bonds lssued by tho Company known ns firat niorigago Londs, all tho eash capital of tho Com- pany, and all tho lands, rocoipts, and enrn- ings of tho Company, Tho firat mortgago bonds of the Company sold ropldly ot par; tho proccods thoroof was all that was nooded to pay for comslructivg the rond, loaving tho Govornment subsidy, tho 1ands, and tho onpital, rocoipts, and oarnings of tho rond in tho hands of tho Crodit Mobllior, Tho not profit of tho transaction may bo undorstood from tho fact that tho amount of national bonda in tho bands of tho Union Pacifio Rallway was $27,287,000; first mortgago bonds, 27,237,000 ; Innd grant bonds, $10,000,000; incoma bonds, $10,000,000 ; total bonds issued and sold, 84~ 474,000; length of rond, 1,032 miles; actual ox- pondituro for construction, $26,000 por mile, or total, $26,892,000 ; nmount of lands granted to tho Company, $12,080,000 acros, Of this land the Compauy hias sold 409,000 acres, at an aver- ogo prico of ©4.29 por acro. Tho difforonco bo- tween tho amount exponded on tho. road and tho smount of the proceeds of tho bonds issued was tho extont of tho robbory committed through tho agonoy of the Oredit Mobilior, It will bo soen that none of this wholosalo plunder could have been porpotrated wero it not for the amendatory nct of Congross, chianging the Hen of the Governmont from a firat to o soc- ond mortgago, and allowing tho Compauy to is- suo firsb mortgago bonds and soll them. Hero wes tho boginning of the froud, Tho Credit Mobilior arrangomont had beon planned and ma- turod in advance ; Oakes Amos was & membor of Congross, and on tho Committes on Paciflo Bailroads. It i diffoult, in tho light of oll that bhas sinco transpired, to under- stand how euch an onormity as tho surrondor of the first mortgage in favor of tho Government, and tho suthority to mako o firat mortgago for tho samo amount in favor of an- othor roditor, shonld have been passed through ‘both Houses gof Congross without somo actual showing of the probable cost of the rond. Yot it was done, Thero is another Committos appointed to in- voutigate not the mere question of the bribory of membors of Congress in 1867-8, but tho ontiro history of the Pacific roads, and wo respoctfully commend to that Committoo that they devote somo attention to this supplomentary nct of 1804, That was tho liconse under which all the subsoquont acts were perpetrated. That was the Congrossional authorization of the groat fraud, whoroby the country was robbed of over thirty millions of dollars. RATLROADS AND WAREHOUSEJ, ° Tho report submitted to Governor Palmer by the Railrond and Warchouse Commissionors of this Stato i an Interesting and important docu- ment,—intorosting in tho faots which it pro- sontg, and important in the changos it suggosty for the lawa which were intonded to control tho nbuses that had cropt into theso two systoms. Binco tho last report of tho Railroad Companias, 1,709 milos of railway have beon constructed, making a total of 86,268 miles of road in actual operation in this Stato on July 1, 1872, besides 1,687 miles in procoss of comstruction. Tho aggrogate cost of theso roads, as takon from the reporta of the various corporations, fs $225,320,271, or an ovorago cost of £42,204 por mile. The Comuaissionors ob- sorve that tho oxcossivo cost is not to be attributed to any topographical obstaclos prosonted by tho Stato, for thero {sno zmuorqu tho Continont botter adapted to the choap con- struction of railroads. Thoy bollovo that the ac- tual cost has not avoraged moro than 825,000 por mile, and that tho oxcoss is to bo found in floti- tious stock, tho sacrifice of securitios, and othor losses incident to bad managoment. Tho totnl capital of Ilinois railronds is §254,012,663; tho groa oarnings for tho yoar wora £48,227.48, from which 65.60 per cont is to bo deducted for main- tonanco and operating oxponscs. Tho averago not carnings woro $3,789.18 por milo. It is found " that 78 por cont of tho land in tho State of Illinois lios within fivo miles of railroads in nctual operation; 2134 por cont within five to ton miles; 4 por cent within ton to fifteon miloa; and 13§ por cont only botwoon fifteon and tweuty miles. Counting the railroads run- ning near the border (not includod in the osti- mate), tho lakoe, rivers, and cansl, and it {s con- cluded that no othor Btato in the Unlon pos- Bo8ses aqual facilitios with iho Btate of Illinois for the transportation of porsons and proporty. Tho Commirsionors have now had suflicient experionco to enablo thom to determino the mer- its and dofeots of tho law which called thom into oficial oxistonce, Their report furnishos abun- dant proof that the charges mado againgt the Commisslonors of nogloct of duty have Loen unfoundod, Thoy lmvo done overything that tho law ennbled thom to do. They woro moet at tho outsot with tho failure to provide thom with authorily for commencing actions at law, excopt in tho way of asslstanco to private partios, or with monoy for retalning counsel, or with penalties for the adoquate punishment of infringemonts of {holaw. Inuthoonrlier part of their eareer, thoy asked thelr Iaw officer, tho Attornoy Genernl, to ndviso them how they shiould proceed, aud rocoived from hiw the roply that tho Inw failed to Indicato tho nature of tho action thoy should bring, and aleo failed to pro- vido the kind or extont of the ponalty for viola- tions, All that tho Commiscioners could do was to awalt complaints from porsons {ujurod, ‘Wheonever theso camo in, they acted promptly. Their exporienco bas shown that the orIghml porsons proforrod to submit rathor than under~ talo acontest ngainat powerful corporations. If, thon, thore has not Loen e vigorous w prosocu- tion of railrouds as way intendoed, It s bocause tho Inw is dofootive, and not bocauso tho Com-~ migsioners have hoon dorolict. In oue case, whoro thonocesasry information had boen fur- nishod, the Commliuslonors filed & bill In Mo- Toan County ngainst the Chicago & Alton Rail- road Company for unjust dlscrimination and oxtortion. Tho easo wag that in which $6.65 por M. foet had boen charged for transporting lume bor from Chlcago to Lexington, a distanco of 110 milos, and only &5 per M. font from Ohicaga to Bloomington, a distanco of 126 milos, 'The Rail- rand Company ot up a contract with tho Stato under their chartor, by which tho gorporation wng to bo pormlited to fix its own tariff ; argumonts woro flled on DLoth sides, and Judge Tipton rondored n verdict in favor of tho Stato, Tho case has boon apponled to the Bupromo Court, whoro it ow rosts, U'his is tho only cnso which the Commisslonors havo had tho suthority to commonco, and tho oxponso of speclnl counsel for conducting it (B600) was. paid by Governor Palmor vut of the Contingont Tund. 'Tho othor oxponses attonding it still ro- main unpaid. The Commissionors mado an offort at tha Inat sossion of tho Loglslaturo to Lavo 820,000 appropriated to cover tho nocos- sary gort of Inwsuits, but tho proposition failed in tho Commitico to whom it was reforred. I'wo otber sults hnvo boon brought agalust tho rail- ronds undor tho law by privato individuats. Doth wero for ovorcharging, and both agninst tho IMlinols Contral Railroad. The ono brought in Ford County is yot undosided; tho othor brought in tho Kankakeo Circuit Court was do- olded ndvorsoly to tho plaintiff, and hag boen ap- ponled to the Supromo Court. In mpito of tho Bindrances which the Commissionors oncoun- toroad in the law’ itsolf, thoy feol thnt tho Board ias beon ablo to accomplish many nesdod roforma by calling the attontion of rallroad companios to the violationof cortaln polico laws, of which complaint had beon mado to thom. Thoy could have dono moro it thero had boon the roquisite authority and monoy to prosocute, and adoquato penalty for violations, In the application of the law to tho waro- houses, thio Commissionors brought suit againat the Chicago housos of * Olass A," which rofused to talo out licenges, This suit was unavoldably dolayod by remson of tho * dostruction of the popors in tho Chieago fire, but wns finally declded, tho Olrouit Gourt Imposing the flne of 8100 on tho dofondant, who immodiately took en appesl to the Bupremo Court, whero it {2 now undor ad- visomont, Thero aro, theroforo, throo casos at present in tho Suprome Conrt, which will detor~ mino tho virtuo of the law ns it now stands. Thero have been decided improvemonts in the modo and cost of inspocting grein, and in tho precautions to Protect the public against fraud. The course now adopted is to requiro ware- Lousemen to furnish tho Rogistrar with cancelled recoipts, 8o that tho smount shipped out can ba proporly checkod on his books, As these books show tho amount of grain inspocted as it goes in, it is thought that the amount on liand ean bo accurately detormined at all timos. At all ovonts, it in tho most that can bo dono at present. Tho cost of inspection has beon matorially reduced,—132,204,263 Dbushoels of grain have beon imspeoted. in 1872 ot & cost of 845,882, whilo tho inspeotion of 70,810,004 bushels, or littlo more than ono-hnlf thot amount, cost 40,203 In 1870, Tho Commissionara call attention to a plan for consolidating and digesting all tho various laws relating to railronds and warchouses into two Dills,—ono for ench,—which shall roduce theso Iows to a simplo and intelligible shape. A draft of theso bills was submitted by tho Commis- sionora to tho lnst Logislaturo, but the pressuro of business wasa such that thoy worenot renched, Tt is to bo prosumod that tho oxporionco of tha Commiceionora hns boen usod to its best advan- tngo in the construction of these two bills. It is cortain this is the only way' to give tho Railrond and Warohouse lnw the efiicioncy it “was intonded to have. The quostiok of fixing tho maximum rates of chargos is tho most por- plexing one for tho Negislature to considor. The Commissioners boliove that infloxible teriffs aro entirelyimpracticablo, but leave to the Logis- laturo to dotermine who ehall have the discro- tion of providing tho modiflcations that moy become necossary from time to time. Alfe- gothor, tho roport is one which proves the Com- missioners to have dovoted earnest study and sorious applicetion to their work; but it also proves that, if the law ia intonded to have & practical operation, it will be necessary to chango it in many importaut respecta. THE IOWA TREASURER, Tho most pitinblo circumstanco attonding the rocont dofaleation of tho Btato Trossuror of Tows is the obligation which n large numboer of thio Ropublican papors of that State nssumo to rest upon thom, of denying, spologizing, ox- cusing, and evon justifyiug tho act. The officor In question was Tronsurer of the State, and as such under bonds for tho safo keeping of tho publio money. Ho was also Tressurer of the Agricultural Collego funds, which by some re-, markablo proceeding were deposited with him without any security, The foct scoms to be gonorally conceded that the Tronsurer used tho SBtate fundy, just as public Trene- urers do in many other places, to make some- thing out of them in addition to his logal salary, Whother tho money was lonned out or invested in businesy, or used in- speculating in stocks, or gold, or otherwise, is not known. But olargosum was lost, Anothor Lrensuror was elected, and accounting day was close at band, The Troasurer, in o fow duys, made & rapid dis- position of bis own proporty. On somo ho oxe- cuted mortgages, othor” piecos he sold, and othera Lo disposod of variously, Finally, whon tho now ‘Lrensurer was sworn in, ho received from the old ono tho books and papers, and the full amount of all the Stato money thnt ought to bo in the Treasury, Thore was no defaleation, doficlt, or anything inconsistont with bhis ofticial trust. As Btato ‘Uroasuror, he hud n cloan bill of henlth, DBut, instead of thore hoing o dofieit in tho Btate Tronsury, which would Liavo boon soeured by & bond, thoro was & dofleit in tho Agrioultural Oollego funds, A considor~ ablo portion of the party pross of Iown have belioved it to bo their duty, becauso the lato Trensuror was a Ropublican, to draw o distine- tiou botween a doficlt in the Colloge fund and & doficlt in tho Btato Tronsury, and thoy oxpross deop sympathy for tho misfortunes of the gon- tloman who had takon and lost the Colloge fund, It'may not o suscoptiblo of proof, but the fact is, probubly, that as tho ‘I'reasnror's bondsmon woro all good party mon, the funds of tho Agri- cultural Oolloge wore used to mnke good the deflelt in tho Tronsury, and the Collogo fund, to muko which good thora was nobody bound, was loft to talo caro of iteclf. There fsno way In which tho Ropublican party in Iown can be made reaponsible for the misconduet of a State ofticor but one, and that is by apologizing for, oxtonu- ating, or justifying tho act. Parls hns o Revuo des Merveitles Seient{flques, and, if a1l ity artiolon are ny startling ns n rocont ocontribution from the pon of M. Harnols-Con- damino, it cortainly haa good elnims to the title, T'his gontloman hag discovered actunl ovidenco of wnow departuro among the human reco by which man s oventually to take to himsolf wings and fly through tho aly, Tho application of faith in tho Darwlnian theory of tho nolaction of spocion to the phonomonon that M. Hrrnols- Condamine describos is all that is necessary to forccast on ostrich-like eroatura ns the Coming Mau,~balf-striding, bLalb-fylug through the world. The addition of wings to womon will, of of courso, mnko thomn nangols instead of ostrichos, It was {n tho mountaius of Auvorgno that tho ombodimont of Uhe firat ovidoncos of tho, mnew departure was diucovored, Tlis nano was Andro Faglin Ho wna nn athloto, n famous swimmor, and o great walkor, o apponred to walk a8 much with his arma as with bis logs, Tho motion of tho arms inoronsod s ho ran, untll, ss hois dovoribod, *lio soomod to bo notually propolling himsolt through tho nir like o swimmer who goos through tho wator hand over hand,” e Insistod that this incronsod hiwspocd, Whon Andro dlod, M. Harnols-Gondamlne, nssistod by M, Brovais, o physiolan of tho consorvativo achool, dlssectod his body. Abnormal dovelop- monts wero found, which, tnken sopnratoly, might bo rogarded as doformitios, but, togothor, pointed dircetly to n now typo,—iho bird typo. The arm wes cortainly tho boginning of tho frame-worlk of a wing, nccording to theso gou- tlomon. Tho formation of tho broast, tho longthoning of tho shoulder-hlade, tho inclosuro of tho thorax, and various othor dovolopmouts, indleatod tho samo ultimato condition of a buman being with wings, At his donth, Faglin loft o ochild, about & yoar old, that shows tho same dovelopmonts in a moro pronounced doegree, with two additional foatures of the bird type. Ono of these is a dis- tinctly-marked, though rudimentary, third eyo- 1id; tho othor ia & looso and flappy mass of skin that folds bnek of the nrm when this momber Is ot roat, Thoso additions indieats rapid ad- vancoment In the process of developing tho now specios that s promised. This process would nnturally bo gradual, and talke its slow courso through marriago and offepring. It is claimod that tho strongth of the muscle roquired for flying s not noarly 8o gront ns lns boen outi- matedin the past, and thut olnatleity fs quito as important an ndjunct. Tho dovolopmonts that have boon notéd are of patticularly olastio qual- ity. DI. Harnols-Condamino proposos to uudor- tako the oducation of thia child, probably for tho purposo of bringing it up ac it should fy. ———— A bill Iing hoen introducod Into the Massa- chusotts Senato, onabling Boston to annex the towna and citios immaodiately adjoining it, sub- Ject to a vote of tho peoplo who live in theso suburbs, Tho projoct ombracos the annoxation of the following placea: Wost Roxbury, haviug o population of 8,088 poople, and Brookline, with 6,050 peoplo, both in Norfolk County; from Middllogox County—DBrighton, with 4,967 peoplo; Watertown, 4,320; Dolmont, 1,618; Aslington, 8,261; Modford, 5,717, Muldon, 7,307; Evorott, 2,220; Charlestown, 28,23; Cambridge, 99,004; and Bomorville, 14,685; from Suffolk County— Rovere, 1,197 people, and Chelsen, n city of 18,647 souls. It this projoct should ho car- ried into offect, therc would bo 147,000 poopla added to the population of tho Oity .of Boston, which, with the 250,526 pooplo that it countod at tho taking of tho last consus, would mako it a city of 897,613 population, In tho mattor of numbers, this project of snnexa- tion would bo moro succossful than that of 8t. Louis, which took tho entire county within tho jurisdiction of the municipality. Boston will thus draw upon threo counties, The fact s, howover, that tha torritory actunlly covered by the towns that have been enumeratod, including that occupied by Boston, is not much more ox- tonsivo than that ombracod within the city limits of Chicago. All thoso places are, in faot, o part of Boston, connocted by horao-cars, and doinga. common trado in tho city. Beveral of thotowns, —such a8 Brooklino, Bolmont, Arlington, Med- ford, Maldon, and Evorolt,—aro simply elegant residenco districts of tho city. Somo of thom,—notably Charlostown, Cambridge, and Somorvillo,~hove largo munufacturing intorosts of their own, but enjoy Boston motropolitanism in its shopping, nmusemonts, crts, ote. DBoston probably foels tho need of annoxing these towns for the purposo of oxorcising & munigipal au- thority which may transform tho sait marshes into building lots, just s Chicago fillod up tho swamp upon which it is built, Tho towns them- selves will probably resist the monsure, for tho reason that thoy now enjoy wll the benefits of Boston city life withoat paying their pro rala of the texation which is necessery to maintain met- ropolitan comforts and luxurice. Roxbury fought tho aunoxation for twouty years, but finally yiolded. So it is probablo that tho sub- urban towns which now view tho proposition with suspicion will nt last sco grontor benofit than damage in being swallowed up, and suc- oumb to it. Tho New York World is just now engaged in domonstraticg that Gonoral Grant is o minority Presidont,—that 18, that ho Lolds his oftico by virtuo of losa than half the votes of the pooplo. It reachos this conclusion by a comparison of tho vote at the lnst Presidentinl election with the largost provious votos of the various States, es- timating the incroase by tho common staudard. Tt discovors: 1. That ovor balf & million Demo- crats did not vole for Mr. Greoley; 2. That 5,100,000 legal votes, bLeing n large majority of oll the voters of the country, did not indorso Presidont Grant ot the polly; 8. That Prosident Grant carried but one Btate (Vormont) by a ma- Jority of tho wholo numbor of logal voters; and, 4, That the olection wont by dofault. As tho World is advocating the abolition of the Elec- toral Collego, aud tho eloction of President by o direct vote of the peoplo, wo infer that it rogards its demonstration as an argu- mont in favor of tho proposed popular vote. Weo do not see, howover, how this would have holpod matters in tho recont Preutdential clection, as Goneral Grant received a populsir mnjority of over 700,000 of thoso who voted. ‘I'hoso who did not voto have no claim to bo counted. Under tho well-undorstood condition that thoso who did not vote were actually asaist- ing Goneral Grant's re-olaction, wo do not sco why ho has not tho right to count this class among his supporters, aud so add 500,000 to tho 700,000 majority which ho actually rocoived, It is oxcoodingly far-fotched and sltogother un- profitable to claim at this timo that General Grant was not the choico of a majority of tho people. If ho was not, they chioso him in spito of tholr “choico," and both he and they are ontitled to what credlt Lolongs to tho achiove- ment. —_— A bill will shortly be introduced into tho Now York Btato Logislaturo to cousolidate tho Oity and County Governments of Now York. Tho boundarios of the two are now the same, and thero aro many rensons given why tho Govorn- mont should be tho samo. It was owing to tho opportunitics for shifting rosponsibility from the City to the County Govornwment, and vice versa, that tho Tamwany frauds wore succosstul. Most of tho big jobs, such as tho building of tho Court ITouso, have beon worked out under theauspicesof tho Couunty Government. DBut if thore wero mo othor ronson, that of oconomy would scom to =suggost tho consolidation whoro tho intorosts sro thorough- 1y idontienl,—New York City Leing Now York COounty, and Now Yorl County being Now York City, in fact. Thoro appoars tobo no uso in a separate government, whilo tho dvopping of the Board of Buporvisors, the county officers, and . tho oxponsiva cutablishmonts that are rotalued for them, would save thousands, porbaps mill- fonw, of dollars annually to tho poople. There would bo o groator concontration of rosponsi- bllity, whioh Is tho bost safoguard that ean bo provided for local govornment, A bill for this purposo oneo passed tho Stalo Logislature, but it was yotood by Govornor Iloffman. It i4 now thought that a similar bill will bo passod eatly in the prosent session, and that {4 will moaot vith Govornor Dix's approval, S e +The excitomont which has beon roported from {imo to timo as exIsting in Borlin on account of tho great influx of strangers, and the inadequato houso-necommodation, i proved to bo natural onough by tho census and tho munlelpal statis- ties which havo just been lssued, From 1867 to 1873 thoro woro only 789 now housea erected, whilo the population Lnd incrensed 160,426 por- eons, Of courao, this doos not reprosent tho netual incronso In the numbor of renldences, Ono liousa nccommodataes pnusibor of wohnu yo, or rogldoncos, On Dee. 1, 1871, thoro wore 14,478 hounes usod for dwelling purposen, and thoto woro subdividod Into 178,501 ronidencos on tho apartment, plan, in which 00,000 pooplo had Lo find llving nccommodationy s ont they coul, Taking the relatlye incroano of howsos nnd popu- Intion, 203 porsons mmst havo beon no- signed lo overy hoyso (hat lhas been orceted during the last fivo yonrs, It is not dificutt to poreolvo that thin in vory sorious atato of things. Among the natural resnlts hag Loon an_onormous inoreaso in ronts, In 1623, it wos oatimated that tho averago ront repra- sonted only from 13 to 16 per cont of tho avorage incomo, while it now amounts to 25 and 80 per cont. Dorlin wan origiually marked out by TFrodorlole tho Gront ns o largo city, and ho ocausod the oity to ba mado without the poopla. Orliginally unattractivo, it roquired a very largo amount of timo to induco an immigration in proportion to the housing nccommodations, It is only within comparativoly fow yonra thot Borlin hna incroased rapidly in populntion, and tho offacts are such aa havo boon deseribed. It the sama enterpriso oxisted thon that is found in Ohleago, tho causo for complaint wonld not be of long stuuding, for Berlin kns, liko Chicago, an unlimitod expanso of lovel torrilory in which to oxtond tho city. ———— Tho illnoss of Mrs, Elizaboth Pattorson, of Baltimore, tho wifo of Jeromo Bouaparto, lias recallod somo interosting ovents of her onrilor lifo. Tho lady was tho roigning bollo of Bal- timoro moro than soventy yours 030, Wn8 mor- rlod in 1803, and, consoquontly, must bo at least 90 yoaraold, \Whon Jeromo Bonaparla went to Baltimoro, ho was so deoply smitton with Mise Pattorson that ho proposed at once, aud thoir marriago was celobrated by tho Catholie Bishop of tho diocoso; Napoleon waa furious whon ha lieardof it, Howns atthat timepreparing toseizo tho throno of Franco, and donirod to strongthon his rulo by .allianco with royal familioa” of othor countrios through the marriago of hia relatives. Under a lnw pasgod during his Con- sulato, his consont was roquired for the mar- riago of all the momlicrs of the Bonaparte fomily. o, thorefore, forbade Joromo bring- iug his wifo Into Franco, and sho wos loft in England. Bhonoversnw hor husbend aftor this, Tho Emporor daclared tho marringe void, snd it wag not long oftor that Jeromo was united to tho daughter of ihe King of Wurtomborg and placed on the (hrone of Westpllin. His first wifo roturned to Balti- oro with her fon, who Lad been born in Eng- land, who Las loft o descondant of tho Bona- partos in the direct live. Joromo Bonaparte had sovoral childron by his second wifo, two of whom aro living, and who figurqd prominantly in the duya of tho Second Empiro,—Princo Na- poloon aud the Princess Mathildo. —_——— ‘Tho progress of Amoricon litorature in forc- ing rocognition in England is woll illustrated by & rocont paragraph in tho London Athencunt. In reforring to tho year's work in litornturo, tho Athenaum gays 1t bas hithorto boou aceustomod to make & genoral resumo of Amoricun publica- tions at tho closo of tho your, in comwon with thoso of tho smaller European Statos, In fu- ture, howover, it proposcs to notice Amorican works ag thoy appear, and give thom tho ssma promiuonco s Bnglish publications, Tho Sat- urday Review has adopted this practico for some timo past, and notices the rrom- inont Amorican buoks 28 fast as they appear, Bo nlso doos the Speclator. In this connection, tho corront number of tho Saturday Review has w very appresiative roview of Dr. Holmos' ““ Poot at tho Breakfrat Tabio," whoso goninl humor and quict, optimistic | osophy meet wilk hoarky recogaition. The fe- view clonos its critique with the foliowiag para- graph: ‘We do .not profess to be prophete, and wo cannot thereforoconflrm or dispute the Yordidt of the ingt. nary roadnr in bia conoluding stanzae, vho fa th3 yeir 1972 flnds o ragged copy of the Aulocritiria exnased o 8 boolstall, Few und fortuuate uro tho viiitsra who will boread o century nftor the nppearancs of their oo by any excopt curdous historians of )itorature, Dut it ought to bo cuough to lin(h:l{ an ordinsey vanity if a man hag givon pleasure to o Jurgo circle of rosdors on both aldes of tho Atlantlo for one genoration; sud Dz, Holmes may clafm tho praise of uving uccomplished tut foat without fear of contradiction, —_— Lord Roscbory recently made o speech, to (ho poople of Edulurgh, in which ho fold them, oa the authority of tho ccasus roturn, that thero woro forty-uix familios living togothor iu singlo raoms without windows of suy kind, and 15,000 familios—a third of the entire population of tho city—dwelling in singlo rooms with windows, Ho pointed to an inereaso of self-respeet as tho ouly truo romedy, but Intimated thnt grontor liberality might materially help these out- rageously poor peoplo, Edinburgh presents the snomalous combination ot being, et one and tho samo timo, tho most gorgeous and tho most impovorished city in tho world. Tho now city, which ia clegantly bu'lt up oand - ornamented with some of tho most claborato of monuments, looks down upon n squalid community In old Edinburgh, at tho foot of the hill, that is fairly reeking with filth, Tho fact that one-third of tho population is so huddled togothor that wholo familios aro forcad to ocenpy singlo rooms, will afford a cluo to the accumulation of filth and tho oxhibition of in- deconcy that is mot overywhero in the old town, and which contrasts so strangely with the bright cloanliness of tho now city. Edinburgh's troubla is that thevo nre o sites for building tonomonts of tho chioaper kind. i 1t is stated that the roport of Dr. Klein on the Unitod States Cousulatos will lead %o the intro- duction of & bill, consolidatiung tho provious acts of Congrers, and providing a gencral supor- vision about as follows: A CousularBuperintond- ent, with a separato Buresu,—the Consular officers to bo mombors of the Treasury Dopart- ment, but still corvesponding with tho Bocrotiry of Btato in their executive and judicinl dutica, Tho bill fixos the fol- lowing yearly ealaries: Two Consuls Goneral at 87,500; ton Consula Cenoral at $6,000; Cousuls of tho flvat class at $4,000 ; of tho sccond class at £8,000 ; of the third clasa 8t §2,600, and of tho fourth class at $2,000. The Consulato system is to include 144 officials, It furthor provides that a tax of one-half of o cant por ton of vegistared tonnago shall bo col- leoted upon Amorican vessols ontoring cach EO" to bo oreditod ton fand for tho honeflt of catftuto Amorican aonmon. As tho Amcrican Consulato systom lag fong boon in need of roator eupervision, it Is fo bu hioped that tho otnils of tho proposed bill will mcet tho dus .mauds for reform, e, Tho custom of potition must bon groat boon to tho peoplo of England, Eversinco the time of the throo tailors who announced thewmselves 8 *“Wo, tho Poople,” all tradesmon have resort- od to the consolation of visiting their grievances upon the Govornment, Mr, Gladstono has just Dbeen obliged to liston to, though ho has not yot hooded, o mos soriouscomplaing from tho groon= grocers of Lngland. As it tho “hardships of co-operation wero not bad onouglh, their saered privitege of waiting on dinnor-partios in full-dross, in houses whero tho numbor of domostics fulln short, has been invaded by tho messengers In the public dopart- mente, The Govermuont i callod upon to ra- drees thiy griovance, but the Ministors cannot soa tholr way oloar to a solutlon of tho problem. 1r the poople who givo dinnor-pavtios have the voor tasto to prefer dopartment messengors to Fruuuflfromrs, tho Government is t n loss{o know how to corvost it, 1lowaver, tho groon- grocora have pelitionad, and ihis olveumatnnce atono will roliove thelr minds it it duoa not Lolp tholr pockets, i, ‘Tho Now York World staten thet o now ntory haw just boen fssued by Measta, Dodd & Moad ontitled’ “ Darriora Burnod Away,” tho scano of which is Iaid in Ohioago at tho time of tho five, und adds that “ it 14 not & great novel,” We ¢an readily undorstand tho Vorld's verdict when wa recall the wany remarhablo works of iletion which wero basod upon the fire, aud publishad in Oluoinuati shortly aftor that notable ovout,