Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1873, Page 4

4. THE CHICAGO DAILLY RIBUNE ONDAY, MARCH 24, .. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TERMS OF AUNSCTITTION éw\;ufl). 1IN ADVANCE). 818 anday..i, b B2 Doyl gmate. 81300 Sesinys 8588 Tacts oba yor AL tho samo rata. o pravont dolay and miatakos, ba aure and give Post Otten nddross in full, Including Stato sud County, ‘Romittancon may bo mado eithier by draft, oxpress, Post Onleo order, or i 16giatazad loltors, at our risk. TENMB TO OITY aunmmnr‘;mnm & , Sunday oxcoptod, conts por weok. Pallsr dalivared: Rinday Thcudod, 59 conts Dok wooks Addrosn TING TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornot Madison and D Olloago, 1it, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE, FIRST PAGE—Washington, Now York, and Forolgn Nows--Blfacollancous Tolograins—Advertisoments, SECOND PAGE—Saturdny Night's Tolograms—Ohleago Ronl Estato Transactions—London Leitor, TUIRD PAGE~Christianity in Rulns—An Experimont that Failod—Graln-Inspootion—Nows Paragraphs, Railroad Timo-Tablo. vortisomont!, FOURTIL PAGE-Editorials: Rallroad Discriminations Graln:Tnapootion; Tho Loulsiann Conspiracy; Tho Now York Uontral Kalrosd—Onerent Nows Para- aphs, N L2071 3 PAGE-Farmors' Mootlngs at Earlrillo, Elgin, Bugar Grove, Olinton, and Champaign—Notos and Oplntous—Markots by Telegraph—Advertisomontas, BIXTH PAGE—Monotary and Commorolal, SEVENTH PAGE—Tho Law Conrts—Canjugal Rights : An Opinion by the Buprome Uourt of 1ilinols—Small Adsortisomonts : Ronl.Estato, For Salo, To Ront, ‘Wanted, Boarding, Lodging, Kto. EIGIITH PAGE—Church and Stato: Bormon by tho Rov. J. F. Walker—Death for Death: Bormon by the Rev, Jolin Wood—City in Briof—Advortisomonts. TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. AIKEN'S THEATRE~Wabash avonua, corner of Con. gross stroot. Almeo Opora Troupe, **Barbo Bluo," 2 e il MWVICKER'S THEATRE-Madison strect, botweon Btate and Doarborn. Eogagoment of Edwin Buoth. **Ricbard 111" JIOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph street, be- twoon_ Olark and LaSalle, *Peril; or, Love at Long DBranoh," ACADEMY OF MUSIO- Halstod stroot, outh of Madison, Logagoment of Frauk Mayo, ** Davy Crock- et i MYERS' OPRRA HOUSE—Monroo stroet, botwoon £tato aud Dearborn, Avlington, Cotton & Kemble's. Bizstrel aud Burlosyuo Troupo, NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE —OClinton, betwoon Wasaiugton and Raudolph stroots. Wildor & Co.'s Natloual Clrous. BUSINESS . NOTICES. A LOTTERY—WHOLE TIOKET, O i ot taforaation aivans o ¢ SAR: o ankers, 10, Wall The Chivags Titbune, Mon"dny Morning, March 24, 1873. Casoy hns been confirmed again a8 Collector of Customs for New Orleans, 'Tho Sénato dobated tho nomination soveral lioura. Now York City owes a gas bill of nearly a million dollats, and the authorities have been told that, if it is not paid forthwith, tho Gas Company will cease to supply tho stroots and public buildings, * Gommodore Vanderbilt gave half a million dol- Yars, a fow daysago, forthe endowment of a South- corn university, and now follows this liboral char- 1ty with Lalf o million dollars for the orection of o fomalo sominary on Staten Island, to bo man- aged on the plan of the seminary at Now Bethle- hem, in Pennaylvanis Blavery in Porto Rico has been abolished by tho unanimous vote of the Spanish Republic. This omancipation is immediato, and tho freod- men aro invested with all the political rights of other Spanish citizons. One of tho clauses in the act of omancipation gives a plain hint to Cuba, in the statoment that the Republic meaus to keop thio Spanish Dominion Intact, Tho Farmors’ Club of LaSalle County, which has & membership of 800, held a meeting at Enlvillo on Saturday. Resolntions woro passed censuring the Congressmen who wore concorned in the salary ateal, and calling for the immediate and total abolition of tho taxes on the materials of railroad and ship-building.. Absolute free tradein thoso articlos was claimed to bo Indis- pousablo to onable the railroads to reduce their chorges. Rimilar mootings’ have Loon held at Bugar Grove and Elgin, Tho superior address of Italian diplomacy has won from the Japanese Government a favor which bas been denied to other forcigners. Italians aro to bo permitted to live and travel in Japan without any other restriction than compli- auce with the usual munieipal regulations. This is a priviloge which Japancse exclusivenoss has withhold from the Dutch, who bave traded with sbe fsland for conturies, and has not granted ovon to Americans, although we have sent them soveral of our officials to teach thom the myste- ries of Amorican law, financo, aud political scionco gonorally, I the Judicial Apportionment bill, which awaits the Governor's signature, wore to become Jaw iu its prosont shape, it is said that all the Blato outside of Cook County would bo left without o jiidiciary for tho noxt three months, and all pending litigation would bo thrown out of court. This singular dofoct is dus to tho wordiug of the repenling clsuse, and can only bo remedied by a supplomentary bill which hall con- tinue tho powers of the existing courts until the timo comes for the olaction of the now circuits. fuch abill is boiug prepared, and Springfiold dispatchos atato that Gov, Beveridge will with- hiold his signature from the former bill as long 8 possiblo that the twomay become Inw togethor. — Thero wag & newspaper started in thia city about a year ago, which wag to give tono to tho Joarnaliem of this dying world by avolding per- wonalities, It commonced by belng oxcoedingly aud offonsively porsonal toward sowo of the most chorished frionds,pf the proprlotor, and Jina now been sued for liliel, in an action whore damages nro claimed to the amount of §500,000. What the morits of the action may bo wo do not know. Wo judge, howover, that the plaintift will not bo able to rocover moro than one-halt of the amount claimed. Bat it is certainly o little romarkablo that A, nowspapor which was mtendcd to give olovation and tone to tho pro- fesaion phould have so soon glyon rise to a libol suit of this magnitude, tscelng that tho matter complained of rolated only to tho family affalig of a citizen, and Was of no publio conceri or intereat, The Ohloago produce markota were lesa activo on Baturday, and most of them at luwer prices. Mess pork was dult and 200 lower, closing at 14,40 cash or sollor Aprfl, and §14,00@14.06 dellor Mag. Lard was dull and 23do por 100 Ibs lower, at $7 B2}@7.85 cash, and $8.021¢ sollor Aluy. Moate wore dull and unchauged st 5o for shoulders, 736@7}{o for short ibsg, T¥o tor ahort olear, and 10@120 for awoot pickled hams, Highwines were quiot and stosdy st 863¢a per gallon. Lake froights wors quict sud 3o higher, at 14q for corn to Buffalo. Flour waa qujot ond Auul’y. Wheat was in modorate demand sud s sbado enuior, closlug ab $LAM@L.2036 cash, #1.20%¢ eollor "April, and $1.24%¢ sollor May, Corn was dull and 3o lower, closing at.81%¢@ 83)¢o cash, and- 85tgc moller May, Onts woro dult and }4@2{¢ lower, olosing at 20@265¢0 cash and 2036@3292¢o sollor May. Ryo was quiot and steady at 04@063go. Barloy was oxcltod nnd 2@ 4o highor, closing at 700 seller tho month or soller April, and 800 for car lots whero wantod, Livo hogs woro ndtive and firm at f4.76@5.20. Tho cattlo and sheop markots woro quiot and unchanged, —— A potition that the Grand Jury systom ho- abolished in this, Btato was roforred, by tho Sonate of Illinols, to a Boloct Commlites, con- slating of Mosers, Baldwin, Cusey, and ‘Warren, and this Committeo has unanimously roported n Dbill to abolish Grand Juries. Thoy objogt to tho socrat Inquisition, whoreby any one may bo ac- cused, Indictod, arrosted, and injured in loss of Iiborty and charactor upon the most unfounded protonso. Thoy contond that no ono should ovor be hold for trial on an ex-parta examination, and that evory man acoused is ontitled to have both sldos of the caso heard bofore hio ig de- prived ovon temporarily of Lis Hberty. Thoy hold that Grand Juries dolay and dofest Justico; that they provent tho spoody and cortain adinin- {stration of justico, which can alona dotor and properly punish erimo. Thoey rocommend in thefr bill that all persons acoused of crime, in- stond of boing committod to await thd action of & Grand Jury, as novw, ehall be examined by a Judge of & court of rocord, or by three Justices of tho Peaco, who shall hear all tho ovidonce, and who may discharge or commit the prisoner for trial. Tho Legislaturo has, s yot, taken no action on the bill, The bill making an appropriation for the new dam on tho Hlinols River will probably become 818w, and its offcot will bo most benefleial. The dam slready constructed at Honry givos a sufii- olont dopth of wator ab all seasons, from that point to LaSallo, for stoambont navigation. Botweon Honry and Peoris, thero aro no bars now that give any trouble to navigation., Be- twoon Peorin and Capporas Crook, thero aro dov- ceral bars which forbid navigation during o gront portion of the year; at somo periods the water on thoso bara Is as low as 20 inchos, but the con- struction of the dam at Copperas Crack will put thoso all under soven foot of wator at all on- sons. Whon the dam 18 coustructed, thoro will bo porfect navigation from Chicago to LaSallo by canal, and from LaSalle to Havans by river. Tt will bo a practical extension of the canal to Havaon, Below that point the obatructions to navigation aro fow and unimportant, and from Chicago to 8t. Louls thero will bo, by rivor and canal, continuous navigation from April to Do- coembor. The dam already constructed at Henry is amodel of engincoring skill and of masonry. No public work was ever oxocuted more oredit- ably, expeditiously, and faithfully. -Not a dollar was atolon or wasted. 1t is undoubtedly a suggestion in the interests of tho poaco and good order of the community which the Board of Police Commissioners have made in recommending the Common Council to, pags an ordinanco closing the saloons at 11 o'clock nt night, or thereabouts, not to bore- opened until 6 or 6 o'clock the next morning. Tho time of closing might be reasonably oxtend- od, perhaps, to midnight. It is proper and de- airablo, howovor, that all the saloons should Le shut up after that hour. Thoro will be no objection to such ,an ordinance from tho moro decont drinking rosorts. On tho other hand, the all-night or ‘‘break- o-day houses” are the princlpal rosorts for tho rowdies, roughs, low gamblers, vagrants, and.thioves of every description, Thae largest praportion of the crimes of violence are eithor commitied in theso dives or traco thelr origin ‘bacl to thém. It shonld be ono of tho rules of tho police systom that keoping open aftor mid- night {8 prima facte evidenco of the disreputable charactor of a public saloon. This rule would reach the Italian shops that aro 80 numerous on Clark, Stato, Wost Madison, and othor prominent thoroughfares in the eity, and which aro among the worst of tho class of public houses that ranlk ag disroputable. The suggostion of tho Board of Police ia worthy of prompt and favorablo action on the part of the Common Council. Tho Momphis dvalanche of the 19th inst. mon~ tions that a suit has beon commenced in tho Haywood Ciroult Court against tho Momphis & Loulsvillo Railroad Campany by Moessrs. Austin & Thomas, Henry Taylor, and others, merchauts of Brownsvillo, to recover £300,000 alleged to have been extorted from them by this Railroad Company, in discriminations on froight, princi- pally cotton, shipped over the road by them dur- ing the past four or five years. Tho plaintiffsin tho caso proposo to mako a thorough test of the quostion whether the railroads have any right to discriminato in their tariff of rates against local shippors In favor of through shippors, Tho caso Las croatod o great deal of excitement in Ton- nesseo, whoro tho poople have long been groan- Ing under tho burdorsomo discriminations im- posed upon them by the raflronds. This is the first caso which has boon brought before tho courts of the Btato, and, as all tho parties to the suit aro posscssed of amplo moans, and aro detormined to make & tost caso, unusual intorost attachos toit. Thero will also be a very goneral faoling of intoroat in tho case throughout tho West, asit isonly part andparcelof tho grent movoment of the people, farmers and merchants, to protect thomsolves against tho unjust exac- tions of large and woalthy corporations. By rather strango colncidenco, tho people of Eng- land aro agitating tio same mattor, and a bill s now ponding in Parlinment which is caloulated to protoct morchants, by the appolntment of a Board of Railway Commissioners, whose duty it shill bo to onforco tholawa againut discriming- tious, and also by a provision which compols tlio railroads to adopt aschedule of uniformraton and adhiere to them a cortain length of time. ——— The appointment of the formor Unitod Btates Marshal 8harpo, of Now York City, as Naval Officer of that port, hug created considerablo ex- oitoment and discussion. According to tho Olvil | Horvico rules, whon Mr. A. B. Cornell, the head of the dopartment, resigned, tho next incom- mand, Mr, Jamos L. Benodict, shonld have taken hils placo, At firat Ar, Benedict way nominatod, but for some reason was subsoquontly ordered to give place to Marshal Bharpe. Pending the confirmation of tho lattor, this flagrant trang: grension of tho Civil Hervice rulos created such marked comment in the indopondent press thnt o Doard was appointed, conslsting of Uoorge Willam Curtls, Chestor A. Arthur, and Jackeon 8, Hohultz, to solect & propor mau for the place, Whothor ihe Doard over hold n meoting doos not appear, bub Muiplinl Bharpo was dosignated, and wpe thereypop coufimyed, It s cortain that Mr Curtle was not consultzd at &ll jn the maiter, frow & lotter which apvears in the Now York Tritune, ovidontly Inspired by Mr. Ourtls, If not writton by himsolf, Tho writor taya: ** Iliog to nesuro you that such Committoe lina nover, to the knowledge of Mr. Curtis, takon any notion in the promisos what- soovor. If tho other mombors havo noted, thoy. Lavo dono so without consulting him—who hos boen on & sick bod fora month past—and against & speelfic promise of ono of thom, If Marshal Bliarpo has boen appolnted Naval Officor not only in violation of tho Clvil Borvico rules, but without roferouco to tho Bpecial Commilteo obnrged with the duty of desiynating o propor. man for thoe place, bo assured that it is without Br. Curtls' knowlodgo or consont, Mon do nob willingly consont to be thus publicly—shall T 6say enubbod ? or would a stronger word ho moro appropriato ?" It is inforred from this that Mr. Gurlls, a3 o Civil Borvico Roformor, will roslgn. RAILROAD DISORIMINATIONS. Tho rallroad corporations of Iilinois sro mal- fng o vory serious and costly mistako if thoy misconstruoe tito menning of tho Bupromo Court dacision on the subject of disotiminntions, or i€ thoy disrogard tho sentimont of ho farmors, n declared in their meetings nud conventions throughout tho State. Tho declsion of tho Bu- promo Court is not in tho interests of the railronds, us somo of the farmore' clubs have boenled tobollove. Itisndocleion that theromust bonounjustdiscrimination in raitrondrates ; that .compoetition alone will not justify discrimina~ tion § nnd that location at a junction point shall earry with it no special advantagoes ovor an equal or bettor location which doos 1ot happon to bo favored with competing ronds. This {s a do- cislon basod upon the principles of common Iaw, and the railronds will find tha there is no encapo from it. Thoy must conform to it, and spoedily. Tho complaint is woll ground- od that there is wunjust discrimination on overy important railroad .of the Btato, It fa mnot the single cnse of Loxington and Bloomington (which was mado tho test of tho constitutionality of the atatuto), but uujust diserimination on all tho lines, which the Su- promo Court declares to bo illogal, and which only need to come bofore it in tho propor shapo to bo duly punished and obliterated. Tho propor modo of proceduro hes beou provided in the Donahue Railroad bill, which recently passed the Sonate by a unanimous vote. This is o statute which ombodics tho principles of tho common law, provides penaltios that will atand tho constitutional test, and furnishos the means of enforcing thom at tho public oxponse. The pounlty provided for arepeated violation of the lnw is £100,000, ond. it becomes tho duty of the ail- road Commissionera to bring auit upon the uppli- cation of nuy cltizen, and to employ all tho logal asslatance that may bo necessary to prosecuto succossfully—the costs’ to be pald out of tho Btato Freasury, paid out of taxes levied upon the raflronds themselves, This bill i the rYesult of tho popular senti- mont, outraged at tho position which the rail- ronda have assumod iu rospect of discriminations, and determined to assert the rights of the peo- ple. The railroads cannot be ignorant of tho growth of public indignation sgainst them, and it would bo as foolhardy on thoir part to ignors it ns it {s wrong for thom to continuo their un- just dlseriminations in plain violation of tho law. Tho conviction of injury and the doter- minatlon to seoura thoir rights, and perhaps in somo oascs to oxcood thiom, bas takon n firm hold on tho poople throughout the wholo Wost. Contral Illinols is nearly a uuit in the purposo of fighting tho railronds to tho bitter end. Tho fevor has oxtended into Town and Indinna, Wis- conein and Minnesota will catch it by and by, Tho same spirit is ¢ropping out in Kentucky and Tonnoseoo, and it will extend South simultane- ously with the movement to the Northwent. Evon the giant corporations of tho East are dis- covering that they are not all-powerful. The Ponnsylvanis Company Lave just had a signifi- cant sot-back In Now Jorsey. Their money had socured the passago of a bill through tho Senate . porpotuating for thoir benefit the monopoly of the right of way across tho State. But tho Low- er Houso has dofeated tho mensure amid the vociforous rejoicings of the people, and it is now confidently predicted that o gonoral rallrond law will bo paseed by tho Legielature which will grant. equal privileges toall tho railroad companies which ore necessary to accommodato the public domands. Theso ovénts nre not isolated and spasmodio, but the concerted action of & whole peoplo, roused to vigorous resistanco, gathering strongth and reinforcoment a8 thoy go, and pre- paring to overwhelm tho wonk and strong alike with the forco and impetuosily of a tornado. The raflroads must look upon them as tho hand- writing on the wall, If tho railrond diroctors, managors, and officers of thoe roads will not heod thom, then It is time that thestockholdorsshould talto thio matter into thelr own hands to save themsolves and their property. Thero are demngoguos in tho movement who will not hesi- tato tocounsol tho most extromoe messures. If theso wore to bo met alonoe, the sitnation would not bo so alarming for the railronds. Dut, in this cage, the domagogues are simply taking nd- vantago of a deop-rooted conviction on tho part of the people that they have boon swindled ; and they will, on this account, bo the mora oasily led Into desporate aots, oven though they bo detri~ mental to thomselves, untess the railronds have tho diserotion to conform to the law, Tho immodinte issue in this Btate la unjust digerimination. Thero is no doubt that it ox- iste, Thoro is mno doubt that it must bo stopped. In this plain view of tho cnso; the railroada should be shrowd enaugh, if not honest What this remedy shall be it is not for us, nor the Logislature, nor for tho conrts, nor for the poople in town-meotings, to dotormine, It ia a matter upon which railrond mon must concone trato their undivided attention and exporienco, Tt ia enough for tho courts to doolaro, a8 thoy Lavo, that unjust discriminntion fs unlawful ; for tho Logislature to provido, ns they will, the adoquate ponsltlos for violating tho Iaw in this rospect; for tho poople to provo, As they cam, that {hig unjust discrimination is practised by tho rall- ronds, It iw forthe railroad corporations to loarn how thoy can mansgo thoir business ao ag to avoid the abuso, Other peoplo aro not allowed to conduct buainess in violation of tho law. Nor do the courts and the Logislature stop toinform thom how thoy gha)l conduct it otherwise, Al that is nocoseary is to say that thelr manuor of dolug buslnoss I8 unlawful, and thoy are thon required to stop it or to suffor the penalty, This ia tho position in which the raiironds stand now, They aro openly, dofiantly, and poralatently violating tho law, which says that thoro shall be no divoriminations on the more ground of com- potition, 'Tho people know it, ahd aro detor. mined tha it shallbo elopped. Itis now s question for tho rallrouds to decido,—whetlor thoy Wil ebaudon the wnlawtul practice volua. onough, to provide tho romedy themsolves, [ tarlly, or wait until tho pooplo put o stop to it in & way they will not relish, . GRAIN-INSPECTION. Two bills aro now ponding in the Logislaturo having tho samo genoral object in view, to ron- der tho grading of grainin Cbioago more floxi- ble, At presont'thore {8 an nrbitrary statutory standard, whioh admits of nomodifiention oradnp- tatlon to tho varying elrcumstancos of tho erops, or o genorat oharacter of the grain production. ‘Wa print thoso bills In to-day's Tnmune. The first of those, the bill of Mr, Johnston, proposes to amend the existing Warchouss law by roquir- ing tho Commissionors to keop sn offico in Chi~ ©Ago,—n vory oxcollent and much-neaded pro- vision, It furthor provides that the Coms migsionors shall have powor to incresso tho numbor of grades of grain, or to change tho oxioting grades, first giving notico of such change. All complaints rogarding tho inspection of grain shall bo submitted in writingto tho Com- missloners, who shall rofor thom fmmodiately to o Committoo of Appeals, to bo composod of competont Judgos of tho qualitios and condition of grain ; and tho docision of this Committeo shnll bo fiual, Tho sama bill vests the appoint~ ment of tha Oblof and Assistant Inspectors of® Gratn ind Warehouvo Reglstrar in the Commis- slonors, and givos thom power to fix the rates of inspection, ‘Cho other bill ia that of Bonator Williamson, which confors upon the Commissioners tho au- thority to establish, change, and modify tho grados of graln, and to appoint ' Committos of. Appozls to hoar complaints, and whoso deolsion {a final. . Both bills ‘proposo substsutially the 8amo amondments, and .both cover ovila ia the presont system which need romodial logislation, It in probablo that one or tho other.of them will pasa; and,whilo nefther of thom comes up to the monsuro of rellof asked for by the Doard of ‘Trade, thoy will, if intolligontly administored by tho Commissioners, bo n great improvement upon tho oxisting mode of grain. -inspection, ¢ ————— THE LOUISIANA OaNBPmCY. The teatimony takon by tho Senate Committoo on Privilegos and Elections in rolation to Lonisi- ana affairs fills o volumo of 1,008 pages. An ox- amination of thia bullcy and forbidding document discloaes some facts not hitherto mado public, or not sufliciently so to attinct genoral attontion, smounting to a pro-mrranged conspiracy to count tho voto of the Btate on Prosldential Electors in favor of Grant and Wilson, whatever the actual voto might be. Provious to tho last election, parties in Louisi- ana wero known as the {Republicon and the Fusion partios—the former for Grantand the Iatter for Greeley. Packard, United States Mar- shal, who bLad his oflice in tho Custom-House, and Casey, brother-in-law of the President, Col- lector of Customs, led tho Republicans, and Gov. Warmoth and his frionds tho Fusion party. Packard, Chairman of tho Ropublican Stato Ex- ccutive Committeo, a8 Unitod Statos Marshal, appointed 600 Doputy Marshals to suporintond the elootions in Now Orlenns, and from two to fourin every parish in tho State. Tho United Btates Court (Durell, Judge,) also appoluted two Bupervisors, nominally one from each party, to bo pregont at each place of voting. Provious to tho oclection, 80,000 blank forms of afidavits, to bo signed by persons who wers not allowed to reglstor and to vote, wero printed. The acknowledgments, or Jurats, wero signed in blank by thousands, by Judgo Prescott and othors, and distributod all over tho Btato to the Republican Marshals and Bupervisors, Ono witness, Theodoro Jaques, swonrs that ho fllled out moro than 1,000 of theso blank afiidavits from names dn the poll-books of 1870, and othors, not kuowing. whethor there wore any such persons or not. Xy the lnws of Louisians, the election roturns must be canvassed and tho result deolared by s board of five per- song, nominated by the Governor and confirmed by tho Senate, of which the Governor is ex officio & mombor, Tho old Board, keaded by’ Lynch, had beon abollshed by law, and snother, with DeFroit as Chairman, duly consti~ tuted. Tho regular roturns wero sent to tho Governor, thoy wero countod by this Board, and MoEnory was declared electod Governor by some 10,000 majority on tho 4th of Docombor. On the 5th, an order was issued from the United Btetes Court, (Durell, Judge, )ordering tho United States Marshal to take possossion of the Btate-Houso aund to provent the meoting of tho rogularly- eleoted Loglelature. In the meantime, tho Lynch Bonrd, without the returns of tho election from a singlo parish beforo them, from nowspapor roports, from streot rumors, and from alurge batch of the blank afdavits sbove re- ferrod to, declared Kellogg olooted Governor, and cortnin partios olocted to tho Sonato and House of Roprosentatives. Those bodies, really ap- pointed by the dofunct Lynch Board, met in tho Btato-Hougo, undor the protection of Fodoral ‘bayonets, aud procooded to businoss, Tho order of Judge Durall being uttorly * illogalana void, overy act of Kellogg to this bogus Logislature is also void. Of that ordor, Carpenter, Logan, Alcorn, and Anthony say ‘“Itis imposaible to concelvo of n moro irrogular, illogal, and in every way fnoxeusable act on the part of o judge. Tthnsnof oven tho form of judielsl procens. It was not senled, nor was it signed Dby tho Clork, and bad no moro logal effect than an order issucd by any private cltizen, The Fodoral Court hod no moro right to seizo tho ‘Btate-Ilouso than to seize tlns [Washington] Capitol,” 'The other members of the Committeo mado separato reports, but do not diffor on this poiut. Can nuyono find, in all history, o baser act of judicls] tyranny ? Ingross Injustico no or- dor of Joffroya' oxcels it. Tho bost frionds of Prosidont Grant in tho Senato have pronounced upon it, and their judgment cannot bo gontro- verted. Now let us oo how ho aund his Cabjnpt linve mado themsolves rosponsiblo for it. On the 8d of December, Attornoy-Clenora Willlams sent the following order to Packard, United States Marshalp You are to enforca the mandatea of tho United States Gonrty, 1o mattor by whom resistod, and Gen, Emory will furnel you with sll necossary troops for that purpose, No troops had beon uskod for by any of the Stato or Federal authorities; but, on the ovening of tho 6th, Capt, Jackeon arrived with two bat~ torlos from Florida ; that evening, Judge Durell, “ at his privato apartmonts, in hia lodging-room, without application from nnybody," orderod the Unitod Btates Marshal, with the troops just ar- rivad, to solzo the Btato-House and prevont the meoting of the regularly-clected Loglslatura, Oapt, Jackson, by tho Marshal's order, took pos- sosslon of the Htato-Houso between 2 and 8 o'olockon the morning of the 6th, Boldiers, undor that ordor, with crossod bayonets, held the door of tho Btate-loyso for sovoral weoks, Can nny evidence connoct tho Washington Governmont with thig “illegal and in avery way inexousable aol' moro directly than the datoa of the ordor of Altoruoy-Goneral Williams, the uswrpatlon of Judgo Durell, tho arrival of the troops from Florida, and tho selzure of the Blate-Housc? It might bo clalmod that it was not kuown at ‘Washington what kind of an order Duroll would fstuo; but, after it was known thore, and what illogal acts hind hoon done under it, viz: on the 12th of Docomber, dov, MeEuory tolographed to tho Prosidont bogging him to suspend thoe recog- nition of olther government till o and eno hundrod of the beat oltizens of Louisiana conld Iny all tho facts of the caso bofore him; and on tho 18th, Attorney-Goneral Willlama ropliod : Yotir visit with a lundred citizens will prove un- availing, 80 far as tho President s concornod, Iia declslon 1a‘made, and will not bo changed. ©Of courso not, 1To had made up his wind on tho 84 to sustain Durcll's decisions, however ille- gel thoy might bo, and somo ono—wasit tho Sec- rotary of War, by Grant's ordor 7—hnd talton caro to have two batteries on hand, brought from n distanco, to exccuto that ovdor. Amid alt tho corruptions and tho stonlings of tho last four years, 1t is humilinting to connoot the Prosident and liis Cobinet with tho tyranny and usurpa~ tion by which n bogus Government has been imposed upon the State of Loulslana ; but tho bost frionds of tho Administration Lave fur- nishod tho ovidence of it, and wo Liave merely transforrod an abstract of it to the columns of Tue TRIRUNE, - % But it may bo said thet tho Buprome Court of tho Btate of Louisiana Lave passod upon and confirmoed all the procecdings connootad with the organization of the Kellogg Goverument, And Low was that Court organ- izod ? Thoe bogus Legislaturo, constituted under injunctions and ordera of Judgo Durell, pro- nounced by tho Committeo **most reprehicnsible, orroncons, nnd wholly vold," nholished the Bupromo Court of the Stato, and, by nct pur- . porting to be Inw, established a Supromo Court, who, of courso, legalized as far as they could all tho outrageous acts from which they derive their official exiatonco. Tho laat fow years havo shown that our insti~ -| tutions can onduro almost any strain thot enn bo put upon them. Undor the improssion that, it tho Administration planned, or was privy to the | villainies that woro to follow the ordors of tho Attornoy-Genoral of Dec. 8, it waa duo to his wenkness toward his family relations, of whom Chnaoy In one of the worst specimens, the poople might rost In fancod security, had ho not in his inaugural messago doliborately declared that nothing had beon done in Louisinna which would mot bo doue in -mny othor State. It s firmly belioved by thoso bost informed on the subject that, had it boon necessary in order to cloct Grant, ar- raugements had been made to carry Arkansas, Alnbama, and Florids, by menus equally illogal and vold” 08 woro thoso used to enrry Louisi- snn. This assumption is not more startling than tho facte doveloped in tho Louisiana investiga- tion. — In discugsing the question of capital punish- ment, the New York Nation makesn strong point against the advoentes of imprisonmont for lifo, 08 tho punishment for murder, by showing that therois in renlity no such thing as imprison- ment for life, 'The records of the penitentiarics show that sixty-three cases out of every hun- dred of thoso who aro sentoncod to imprison- ‘ment for life are pardoned out beforo the expirn-~ tion of soven years from the date of pentonco. A porcontago of the romnindor becomo ineane. The opponents of capital punishment, therc- foro, bofore they advocate imprisonment for lite, as tho ponslty for violation of law in capital cases, should cstablish tho fact that thero is wuch & peralty. Every ouno Inows that, in the majority of the six- ty-threo casos, imprisonment for life meana sim- ply imprisonmont during the torm of the Gov- ernor who has commuted the sontence. By the timo that a now Governor comes in, public ox- citemont has subsided, tho facts in tho cago are forgotten, and the now Governor has little care or intorost in tho matter, It is, therofore, possi- Dlo for any convict who las influontial friends and money, and who has maintained an outward show of goad bohavior in his prison lite, to bring such influencos to bear as will seetire Lis roleaso, and leave Llim freco to knock somo- body elss on tho hoad. When tho advo- cates for the abolition of capital punishment can conyince tho public that there Ia any such pon- alty ns impyisonmont for life, and that whean murderer {8 sont to prison for life, there is no possible escapo without sntisfying the penalty, their arguments will make much doapor impros- sion, Qov, Dix set a good example in tho Fos- tor case, and Qov, Bovoridgo in the Driver caso, in refusing to commute tho penalty pronounced by tho courte, It whows that in fwo States, at lonst, if o man takes another's lifo he does ro at tho certnin peril of his own lifo, and until tho sontimental portion of tho community ean givo society some gunrantee that thore is such n pon- alty a8 imprizonment for lifo, society will go on domanding that murderors shall bf hanged. —— Tho Liondon News has a valuablo and instruc- tivo lottor from o tourist in tho Soutborn Btates of this country, whose views may bo regarded as impartial, nud cortaiuly benr the impross of intelligent observation, Io roports that the wholo South 1y sufforing for want of money to ropalr its doserted plantations and broken com- moreo ; that tho taxes are ovorywhere in arrears, and that they are ko oxorbitant as to ruin the small landholders. ¥But," he adds, “capital- {sts will not carry their money into communitios whore rascally legislators seizo so much and give o little in return,” Horoln he touches the vital spot of the whole difilculty, He doscribes tho nogroes aw working, aftor their fashion, just cnough to keep starvation from tho door, in isolated settlenionts, He pic- tures a woll-known wonknoss of tho plantation lends whon he snys that ¢ whero thoy have no pigs or poultry thomsolves, thoy probably live vory noar gomobody who has, and that anawers just as woll,” The Bouthorn Logislatures aro desoribed as “a duily burlosquo upon govern- ment moro monstrous than the extravagancos of the Ohristy Minstrols.” He spoaks of tho situa- tion a8 deplorable and melancholy, but thinks it only a notural result of the great social rovolu- tion, and bollovea ihat it will bo righted *as soon a8 the Government improves.” ‘Tho ques- tion is, how soon tho Government will improve at tho prosont rate? Vido Louistann ! Tho Academy of Selences, and most of our othor publio institutions whoso buildinga woro destroyod by our great firo, have boon rovived and put in succossful operation. The Historical Booioty, of which E, I, Buoldon, Euq,, was the Prosidont, Is an oxcoption, Why is this? Tho membors ought to inquive what hus Locomo of the real ostate and the permanont funds of the Boolety, Ite valueblo lot on tho North Bide was mortgaged or homo $16,000 or $18,000 to tho Mutusl §oourity Iusurauge Company for tho e Y monoy which was used to complote ita Luilding. Tho lot {s worth the monoy, probably much more, and the mombers ought to bostir thomsolvos and sco what can’ bo done to rovive tho Bocloty, and place it on n new carsor of uso- fulness, Tho permanont or endowment fands of tho Bacloty, amounting to somo 20,000, woro intho hands of Mr, Beammon, Tha boud for theso funda was, If wo mistalie not, burned up with tho Booloty's building. Doubtless Mr. Boammon will keop thom safoly, for, Judging from his othor transnctionn with trust monoys, kooping funds which. ho holds in a fiduclary cnpacity is Mr, Beammon's *¢ bost holt." e ——— The following is o transcript from Oakos Amos' “littlo book" of ono of his accounts with the purchasors of Oredit Mobilier stock 3 Dr. K. tock Crodit Mobilier of A. o 90 1608, ; / ol By dividend of bonds Unton Paciflo Rallrosd, $1,000 at 80 per cent, lexs 3 per cout,.., K Junb 17—-By dividondcollectad for Your ace...ss otk coseriobabdussesibinsdi 81,570 This is the account of the groat shovol-maker with Mr. W. D, Kolloy, of Philadelplia, Kelloy ‘bought £1,000 of Crodit Mobllior stock, on which thoro was thon duo dividends to the amount of 8776, M. Kolloy theroupon pald him cash §339, wthich, with $14 due him for intorost on his dlvi- dend, paid for the stock. In six months more ko roceived anothor dividond of $600, or 60 per cont. Furthor on ho got anothor dividend of 300 and §700. Kelloy saye he has no rocolloc- tion of recoiving the dividends, though ho doos romember * borrowing " at difterent timos about 81,000°cash from Amos, whioh ho neverreturned. ‘Whon Ames told Lis story, Kelley was astounded, and went through the farce of offoring Ames o check for tho momey, which Ames rofused, Kolloy thon, with a grand tlourish, made n for- il prosontation of the stock and its future dividends to the United Btates, and immedi- atoly votod himsolf £5,000 extra pay out of the Treasury,’ Xelloy's nccount thorofors foots up: Recolved from Oalres A Dividend. Dividond,. # Borrowed Total ... .. Tess cash... EXt8 0% 0 0evnnsnereennns Ampignod to tho United States, stock Kolley's profi The New York Central Railrond. Ono day lnst October, Commodoro Vanderbilt got togother every Director and general officor of the Now York Central and Hudson River Rail- rond, snd askod them: “Bupposing wo should tnke all tho passonger trains off tho road, Liow much cheaper could we movo our froight 7"’ The matter had beon talked about beforo, but had never boen eo directly prosented. Vory difforent nogwera woro given; and, torench s defluito conclusion, the Commodoro put a simpler ques- tion: * How much through freight do wo énrry running from Albany to Buffalo?” Tho ready roply way, $12,000,000 sunuaily, “THow much choaper could that froight be car- ried 7" Tho lowoest cstimato was 10 and the highest 20 por cent. “Thon it will pay to build two through tracks for freight business slone,” concluded the Commodore, and the four- track schome was ordered carriod out. ‘Whon the bill camo beforo the Logislature last month, the Company wore askied to pay ©500,- 000 for thy punmission v lay two additivual through tracks. This disbursement they do- clined to make, on tho plea that the $25,000,000 thoy would expond in putting down a double track of stoel rails to facilitate . business and tho interests of commerco should bo considered o sufliciont roturn for tho desired privilege. They proposed to build along the line now ocoupied, and, whero practicablo, pasa around the skirts of g city thug rolioving the citizens from aunoy- ance and shortening the through route, During the last fiscal year the gross carninge of the Company oxceeded 26,000,000, Their equipment comprises 600 locomotives, nearly as many paesonger cars, and more than‘ 10,000 freight cars. Last year's pay roll, for labor within Now York Stato, oxcoeded 6,000,000, and the fuocl itom for locomotives was o tritlo over $1,600,000. The Company now have more than 800 miles of elnglo track of steel rails, and tho closa of the current year will see the whole line Inid with steel. Tho immenso volumo of trafiie ereatod by 8o grent an enterprise, and tho rapid devolopmont of the tributary territory, Lhas con- viuced tho Diroctora that prosent facilities will not cnable them to do tho business as cheaply a8 thoy could with ndditional tracks. Not many years ago, it was thought the per- foction of railroad management had been at- tained iu the possession of a double track, Tho exporience of the Now York Contral dissipates that bolief, Dotwoon Buffalo and Now Yorlk the Company has in daily transit about sixtoen miles of froight cara, In-addition, amultipliolty of pasgengor traing are run. These have the right to tho rond, Running at various rates of speed, they block up tho track unequally; whereas, the economy of running cars deponds mainly upon their constant movement. Locomotives and cars enrn no monoy when standing still, although the coat goos onm, because steam and o working force have to bo kept up. Upon & track wused for freight and passongors jointly, stoppages nro unavoidable. Tho track must be clenr ot intervals to insuro sofoty to travellers. BSchedule rules compel the ongineor of overy froight train to side-track his train fiftoon minutes beforo the coming passen- gor train iy duo, and not move out until ton minutes after tho othor has passod. Conse- quently, even should all tho traing bo on timo, ench passing costs .tho Company twenty-five minutes lost time. Who pays for {t? The shippor, Thoreforo, inadequacy of facilition 13 n tax on commorce, ’ The fact being,concoded that three-fitths of all tho freight traneported over the Now York Contral Roud s destined to poiuts in Now Englaud, an additional double track botweon Buffalo and Albany will go far toward meoting tho increasing domands of transporta. tlon, TLimiting theso facilitics to froight trafila will bo oquivalont to at lonst four now through lines, Nor iu this dircct Lonefit the only advan- tago likoly to follow. Solf-tuterest will compol rival lines toinnugurate nlike ogonomieal policy; and, in theso promised improvements, may, per- Laps, be furnished a satisfactory solution of our most irritating prablem, —— Ono Mr, Brown, of London, hos sot an oxam- plo to Lusbands whoso wives elope from them, Brown's wifo eloped with one Crellin, DBrown hind no disposition to challenge Crollin, as Lo @d not Lellove in tho codo of honor; neithar wag Orollin'a estato sufilcient to award him dame agos which would satlsfy his vougesnge, So DBrown Lit upon anothor plan. Whon Mra, Brown flod with her paramour, she curriod off 28,000 worth of jowolry, Irown had Crollin ar- rostod for thoft, aud brought him bofors one of tho London Folico Courts, In vain did Crollin pload that ho did not carry off anything but Mrs, Brown. Invalu did Mrs, Brown plend that the Jowelry was hor's bofore martlage, Boma of tho Jowelry wag found upon Crollin's porson, Tha Moglstrato hold that, s tha law now stands, Brown was the logal owner of it, and Crolliu was thereforo hold to amswor tho chargoof folony, Ae most of tho olopemonts in which Lotharto takeg paré grow oui of his-de- wire to gain possossion of gurtaln valuables and proporty belonglug to the woman with whom be flics, Brown has put a damper both upon Lotharlo and the silly googe Who rune away Y with him. Whon Lotuarlo discovors that o ls to bon felon, and Mrs, Brown dlscovors that sho is to loso Lotbarlo, Mr, Brown, and hor Jowelry also, both of them will lesitato a long timo biforo thoy declde to dlsturh AMr, Brown's domastio posco, —_— LoglnTative invostigation fn Now York shows that imprisoumont for debt in practically ro- tained in that State and extonsively practisod in Now York City. The law suthorizing imprison- mout for debt was repoaled by tho Logwlaturo some time ngo, but cortain oxeoptions woro made, anthorizing thoe courta to issuo ordors of arrest in cnses whero dobt wne fraudulontly con- tractod, whero an agrooment In trust had beon violated, whore goods woro seocroted, whoro thoy woro carriod away in o suspicious mennor, ete. . Now it is fouud that o rovengoful croditor and unserupulous attorney can sand any man to 3nil who happens to got into dobt and caunot Pay, by causing his arrost undor ono of tho ox~ coptions which romain. A number of casos of peculiar hardsbip are noticod to illustrato tho working of tho law, A small merchant, a fow hundred dollars in dobt, was arrosted on & suspiclon that ho wne going to take suddon leave, Tho moh wns thrown into prison, hin goods placod In the hands of the Shoriff, who sold them out atn third of thetr value, and then had onough to dis- chargo all the debts, aftor which tho dabtor was rolonsed. But his business was broken up, ho diod from tho shiock, and his family was loft in an impoverishod condition, Anothor case was that of & workingman who wag {mprisoned for & dobic of 8100, Hin family wag foreod to soll and pawn thelr housohold furnituro for money to Eupport thom, and (Lon bod to nppoal to the Olty Mission for neslstanco. Abusos of thim naturo should not bo possible under any dobtor 18w in this country. —_—— Tho London Slandard has pronounced nmy opinion upon Prosidont Grant’s Iusugural Moge- sago. It.declaros it to bo the most curfous. , documont which hau aver omauated from the ruler of o civilized nation, nud commends the: minglod apirit of pioty and platitudo which: shinos through it. Tho Standard analyzes tho! mossnga In the following humorous mauner: In tho firat._sentenco waaro catlod upon to B tho fact that Providenco forn r.m:nudpflmu l:nrlm'xal:xe‘—l: ceeded in calling Gen, Grant to tho hoad of tho Fmori. can untion, A sort of ndmiscfon fa mado (t the Dresident hus not hitherto Justified tho choico of Prov- ddenco in the remark that whon Lo firat nssumel ofieo] the country had not recoverod from tho offectu 4f “ th great rovolution.” Wo may lore noto that tio cl\‘fl War In for the first tinic, 80 far as wo con remwmbor, called o rovoluifon, From thin sentenco W pass to anotber, in which wo are abruptly fiformed: that b is’ Gen. Grant’s “firm convietim thnt the civilized _world fu fending towad ro publicanism.” %ho _elvilizod world 1s mwt oily tonding . toward ropullierniem, but, awording {0 Gon, Grant, it 1s dofng uo diroctly undor Mmerloas inspiration, subject, as (ho movoments of Arfomus Ward’s constelintions were, to tho Constituttm of the - Dnited. Btatos, It {3 not stated, but wo have § right to - imply, thot the Amcrican QGovernment §s tle bettor - qualitied for this great civilizing mission through tho « circumatanco of Congroes having recontly dabled tho, salaries of the President, the Senutors, and tie Repre-. rentatives, “1¢ ao much bios been dong alrency for cive. {lization by a Leglslaturo which Loasts of a Behuylor+ Colfax and an Oskes Ames amoug Hts momlors, what miny tho world not expect wlon tho virtue of Jongresat l&;:;wtin“!luflad and fortified to the extout o salaries: o L6007 —_— Tho English Governmont hins committed itself' to nvery palpable folly in suppressing a play,. “Tho Happy Land,” In which two or threo prominent officials were caricatured. Tho pleces was & burlesquo, produced at a theatre known aas the Court Theatro: The Lord Chamberlain took: ndvantago of a power vested in him fo dictate: oxcisions, which, as may bo supposed, deprived: tho pieco of what little value thoro was in it, ond' the play-houso was closed. A similor picca off Government absurdity in Franco has,boou justly; rebuked by the production .in Now York of thor vory play which the Fronch suppressed for foar: of offending tho great Yankeo nation. This nc~ tion in Englaud is much more surprising, how- - over, than in Franco, and is cortainly vory diffor- - ont from tho gonoral iden nof froe institutions. which are supposed to provail in Great Britain. . As the Lord Chamberlain of England nover sup- - préused disroputablo porformances known. in: this country as * British burlesque,” he cortain. - ly did himself no crodit in rescnting mero cari-- caturos, —_—— John Bmith has beon hoard from sgain, Fo« appoars this time iu tho character of an Obio+ logislator, and has introduced & bill, in which he + proposcs thint avery oitizen of his Stato shall honcofortl bo prohibited from naming his off-+ epring “*Johm Bmith” Tiis is o blow ot tho, traditions and tho prospects, the ancostry and! posterity, the history and the future fame of tho: Smith family. It I8 a plot against the: family integrity, and ovidontly concelved in thes intorest of tho directory-publishers. Whother~ tho partienlar John Bmith who makes this propo-- sition hopoes theroby to ombalm his own idontity; in tho fomo with which his name is inseparakly ssgociated, or desiros to destroy tho happivess; of all future Smiths by depriving them of wpre= fix that has becomo slmost putronymic, orin- tonds to doprive all-sucecssors in the, Smith family of tho comfortablo confusion of duns, canpot bo dotormined; but, in any caso, tho offort {s one which should call out the combined . condomnation and opposition of tho Smith tamily, f ——— 3 Thore {8 o district in Indinna whore the#Jarks ing" system of roligious rovivals hosbeen re. - contly re-established, with the usnal sppliances * of nnimal magnetism, and the usual contirmation of tho principlo of total dopravity, Somo of the people who havestood highest in the, com- munity have mado the most astounding confeg- - sions of thoir wickodnoss. Ono Cbristiay doncon. in tho fervor of Lis dovatle, deolared.i that ho had vory reaorily committed : porjury In cowrt, and fhat ho had! beon a liar and & hypoos’o all tho daya of his: life. Anotlor confoséeq that ho hind cmbozzlod schoot funds {ulrus’ed to Lim, and a third ace- knowledged that ‘ho was nddicted to atoaling: whonover ho Upiil achanco, Others wora equally” candid in 'ir statoments. As thess people. wore these, who had raukedns the most pious: and xorpectabl in tho community, the moral. Qftoo’, of tho rovival may woll be exlied into quos-- tezn, Tho only saving featuro of the enno is thats ‘men confessodly o wicked arenot to be be-+ . lioved undor the influence of spirits, Rt el A man in Maino Les recently invented my oyater, which he finds to bo morchantable 14ith inobriated parties, and which has come ‘intor vory ganoral request among his customors, aftor: thoy havo renchied that condition wh.un one oyster appeard as'two, and an order for/s dozen oan bo eorved with half-a-dozen. Tids honost and onterprising Maine man fashiong his oystor out of flour pasto, taploen, endt, and wator, which aro placad in socondchaud shells, caro- fully glued round tho edges. 'Tho only obstacle . in the way of thelr vomploto succoss is that thoy don't cook well; but, ns Intoxicated people + usually rrorer thoir,foyutors raw, .ho does nob : find that this difiioulty hurts tho salo of his - taploca oystars vory muterially. Mr. Andrew D. White, tho Presidont of Cors nell Univorsity, has addrossed a lottor to Gov. Dix, thanking him for the flrm position he took: and maintained in tho cnso of Tostor, who was.. hanged yestorday. Mr. White takes a broad vlew of the caso. Ho says that It was & conflict botwoon tho right of porsonal socurity ou ona- sido aud “ influence” on tho othor, and Lo con. cludos that Gov. Dix's decision, and similar ox- bhibitions of Exeoutiva firmness, must add per. manont barrlors againat tho rising tido of ruflianiem and crime, as woll i g of maudiin sentiment. e sgnlzattto ood ————— A ® Tho Momphis Appeal, in a ‘woll-considorad axr+ ticlo on the recuperation of Trance, sluce the Fronce-CGorman war, makos it tho bznis of some vory sonsiblo edvice to the Bouthern Btates, and uhows that in order to prospor thoy must socuro | Immigration,” bulld faotorics, and so framo do= | maostio loglelation a8 to make it to tho Intorcat of natives to stay at homo, and at tho eamo timo tompt the thrifty and industrions from overy - climo to mako thelr homo in tha South,