Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1873, Page 4

"THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MARCH 28, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. ITERMS OF SUMMONIETION (PAYANLE IN ADVANOE). » * Datly, bymail... .. 812,00 | Sunda Ralpotat...-812.00] fandar. Parta of a yoar at the sanio rata, To pravont dolay and mistakes, b mare and givo Post ©Offico addross In full, {noluding Btato and County. + Rémittances may bo mado oithor bydraft, oxpress, Pos Ofioo ordor, or u rogistorod lottors, at our risk. 5 FEINS TO CITT pUBSGAInENS, s 1l tod, onts per waok. Bally Solvarad, Sndey Sactaded, Bb conts por wook. Addrose THE TRIBUNI COMPANY, + Cornor Madson and Doarborn-ste., Ohlosgo, Iil. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. TIRST PAGE—Washtagton Nows—-Now York Mattors— ‘Miscollancous Tologeams—Advortisomonta, BEOOND PAGE—Tho Law Courts—Tho Farinors' Movo- ‘ment: Tho Firat Farmora' Olubs and ‘thele Objoots A Summary of tho Grlovancos Complained of. - THIRD PAGE—Myslorions Death in tho- Wost -Divls- {on—Farmors' Mootings at Pooria and Lagallo—Tho * Lako-Frout Bill—Woll-Foundod Susplcton~Tho Oity in Briot—Adrertlomonts. FOURTIL PAGE—Rditarials: An Incondiary Schomos Rovoraing tho Supromo Court; Tho Tazos on Carn— " Ourrent Nows Itoma. . FIFTH PAGE—Yestorday's Procoodings fn tho Tllinols Gonoral Assombly—Markota by Telegraphi—Advor- . tisomont. BIXTH PAGR-Monotary and Commorolal—Rallrond Timo-Tablo. SEVENTH PAGI—A Bloigh Rido Suddonly Torminatod —Small Adsortisemants : Roal.Estato, or Sale, To . Font, Wantod, Boarding, Lodging, Kto, EIGHTIL PAGE—Vorelgn Nows~Town Officors—Amuso. ‘mento~Miscollanoous Telograms—Adrertisomonts, TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. AIKEN'S THEATRE—Wabnsh avonus, cornor of Cone gressatroot, Aimoo Opara Troupe. ** La Belle lcleno," M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison stroct, botwoon Stato and Dearborn. Engagomont of Edwin Booth, “*4 Richard 111" HOOLRY'S OPERA HOUSE-Randolph stroat, bo- “twoon_Olark and LaSallo. **Poril; or, Lova at Ldng Beanoh," y e ACADRMY OF MUSIO— Halsted stroot, south of Madlson, 1ingagoment of Frank Mayo. ** Davy Craok- ot i MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroo atioot, botwoen Stato oud Doarborn, Arlington, Colton & Komblo'a Minstrol and Burlesquo Troupo, NIXON'S ‘Washington sud Randolph stroots. National Clret AMPHITHEATRE —Olinton, botween Wildor & Co.'s BUSINESS NOTICES. ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY. THE EXTRAOR. 2d of Aprll, 1873, fuary drawiog will tako glagoon the pl 1878, 3 Thore will 18 o1 T 0 Tt a3 001 et o 1i; MATCPIR 2§ GOry ankors, 10V oy ox 4, Yorl The Chivage Teibune, Friday Morning, March 28, 1873, = COanada wants to oxohange weather observa- Jons with tho United States, Ono million dollars has beon appropriated by tthe Peunsylvania Legislature for tho Contennial Celebration. Congrossman Bpraguo, of Ohio, who voted againet tho salary steal, offers to roturn the monoy to the Tronsury, or uso it for tho roliof of tho taxpayers of bis district. ’ Twood has profited by Caldwell's examplo,.and rosigns his seat in the Now York Sente pending tho investigation of his cngo. The Committes in choige of the oxamination have been dis- charged. . Boyond pnesing tho Donahue and other rall- rond bills to o third roading, nothing was dono by the Houso, yesterday, for tho solution of the transportation question. 'These billa are made the special ordor for Wednesday next. " The Lake-Front Repeal bill Uns passod the Houso. It goes now to the Senate, where ita furthor progross will he resisted by a powerful combination of railrond men and of persons within and without the Legislature concerned In tho corruption which nttonded tho original grant. A S LR In their doubtasto tho conatitutionality of tho schemo for throwing upon tho Stato tho de- fonso of tho citizons involved in the railrond treapasa euits, tho Mouso votod it down. The voto was afterward reconsidered, and the bill ro- ferred tothe Judiciary Committoo forits opinion. psusinl i All the gold offered by the Governmont yestor- day in Now York, $1,500,000, was bought by Jay Cooko at the highfigure of 116.33, Iamor on ‘Wall stroot bas it that this purchase was made upon a hint given from tho Treasury, and that it indicatos that the logal-tender * roservos'—so callod—are to be drawn upon again. e . Bonntor Sumnor has never let a word cseape him to move tho Massachusetts Logislature to recall its voto of ceusure for his oblivion rosolu- tion, but tho poot Whittior has circulated s peti- tion to tho Logislature, whick has beon widely signed by thoso who felt tho injustico of its ac- tion. This potition was rejected tha othor day by tho Lowor Houso, and yestorday met tho same fato in tho Senato, Tho Hon. James Dixon, who died yostorday, ropresentod Counecticut in the Senate from 1867 t01869. His public career bogan in 1837 with his election to the Connecticut Logislature ; and einco that time hio hag boen in the sorvice of his Btato, almout without paugo, oither in its Legis- lature or in Congress. Mr. Dixou took part in the procoedings of Androw Johnwon's *Broad- £nd-Butler” Convention at Philadolphis, in 1866, He was also one of tho National Committeo ap- pointed to convey Prosident Lincoln's romains to this Btato. Thero was an ofiicer who wont through nenrly ell tho battles of the Mexican war without a ecrateh, nud was killod by tho kick of a mule on bis journey homoward before he reached tho circlo of admiring frionds who wero proparing to givo him an ovation, His namo wes not Gar- {leld, but there is a Gonoral of that namo whoso exporionco has been somewhat similar. Aftor storming the hoeights of Credit Mobiller, and brensting tho doadly contonts of Oakos Ames’ memorandum-bool, to bo killed by the §2,600 salary-grab is worse than boing kickod to death by & jackass, The farmora of Peoria County mat yostorday at Poorin, and formed a permanont organization for tho dofenso of thoir intorests against tho en- cronchments of the railroad companios., Their. resolutions plodge their votes, regnrdless of perty, in future to ropresentalives of theso Interests; dony the railroad doo- trino of vestell rights aud oxomption from log- ixlativa control ; call for Congrossional regula- tion of through traffio; warn the Logislature not to adjourn without having achioved. somo ndoquate railroad logialation, and rebuke anyuse of forco by the railroad companios to compol tho poymont of illogal fare, As vossols are now ng chartered, on 'Change, to carry grain from Chicago to Buffalo at 16 cents per bushel, and it has boen clearly proven that 6 contsisa profitable onr- rying rato, would it not bo well for the complain- ants azainet Westarn rallroads to ive some of | ‘| Bank thoir attention townard providing inoroased facil- itloa for roaching tido-wator? Elovators and the storohousos along tho sovoral lines intoracoting tho grain-flolds of tho Woent nro filled with tho unpredontod yliold, and to tranaport the corn from *Chicngo to tide-wator, oltlior by:rall or vomsol, -conts moro than the farmor recefves_ for hia pro- duok.. Yot tho ratlrosda aro abused in somo quar- torn for daclining to transport froight that thoy cannot disposo of whon it arrives, — e From tho statement authoritatively made on Dbolinlf of tho raitronda concernod in tho postal- ©enr combination, 1t will bo soon that, whilo thoy objoat to tho torma on which thoy are asked to run postal cars, they will not rofuso to oarry thom 88 boforo. In their dofonso, tho companies plend that thoy have ran theso card -since 1804 without any " componsn~ tion, although promised overy yoar that thoy should bo paid. Although tho lnst Congross did not maot thoir domand, that aftor Aprill they should bo allowed second-class froight rates for the servico, it offered thom an insufliciont com- ponsation which many of them will' accopt. It {a thought in Washington thatno intorruption will occur ns waa foared, since tho companics - that rojoct tho presont arrangomont will con- tinuo tho sorvico, and look to future logislation for adoquato remuncration, — Tho' death of Amodee-Bimon-Dominique Thiorry is announced. Like his brothor Jaoques, M. Thiorry dovoted his life to historic rosoarclh. In 1828, ho published s history of tho Gauls, which gained him the Ohnir of History in tho Acndomy of Boeancon. Ho was soon forced out of this position by his liberalism, for which, aftor the Rovolution of 1830, Lo found full scopa in tho Profocturoof the Hnute-Saone, whoro ho introduced somo pot roforms. In 1842, he pub- lshed a socond part of his Gallio inquiries, m which ho troatod of Gaul under tho Roman ndministration, His other works woro *'Rocits ot Nouveaux Rocita do 1'Histoire Ro- maite;” “Tablesux do I'Empire Romain ;" ‘ Histoire d'Attila ot do ses Buccessours,” and Bt. Joromo." Howasa Grand Ofiicer of tho Loglon of Honor, and was made & Bonator of the Asgombly undor the Empire in1860. Io ‘was 76 years of ago. Thero was more doing yesterday in the Chleca- go produco markets. Mess pork was activo and a shade firmer, at $14.75 cash, and £15.00 sollor May., Laord woa activo, and closed stondy ot £8,00@8.05 por 100 Ibe cash, and ©8.15@8.20 sollor Moy, Meats wore in good demand, and averaged }o highor at 5}¢@55c for shoulders, 15@7%{c for short ribs, 73{@73ec for short clear, and 10@120 for swoat picklod hams. Lake freighta wore dull and nominal at 16c for corn to Buiffulo. Highiwines were quict and steady at 87c por gallon. Flour was dull and unchanged, ‘Wheat was active, and 3{@1c lower, closing at $L10K@1.20% cash, nud §1.28%¢ sollor May. Corn was more activo, and J¢o lower, closing at 80%@9234o cash, nnd 345G wellor May. Onts wore quiot and firmer, closing at 25}4@20140 cash, and 28%{c soller May, Rye was quict and firm at G4}¢@00c. Barloy was lesa activo, and stondler, closing at 78!@700 seller April, and 80@8l1e for fresh roceipts. Thore was an active domand for live hogs, and prices ndvanced to $£6.10@5.50. Cattle wore in good roquest at for- mor prices. Sheep woro unchanged. Thero comes from Wall street the announce- ment that the Bank of England has advanced ita rato of discount from 8§ to 4 por cont, that gold i up to 11634, and that Mr. Socrotary Rich- ardson proposes to throw an additional issuo of groenbacks on tho market to onablo those af- fected by tho riso in the bank rate to bridge over the difilculty,—~and of course to send gold up still higher. Last Docember, thore was begun in Now York a branch business wholly unlmown beforo. Tho foreign bill-sollors,—tho American agonts of London bankers,—have been lending sixty-day bills on London to stock speculators ; theso Dbills have found their way to London, wnd lhave been placed in the of England for discount, Tho great amount of this papor, issued in such a questionabloe manner, has caused the advanco in tho ratos of discount. Tho rosult s that some- body will have to suffer. The borrowors of theso bills form ono faction of speculators, and it ia now announced that the Secrotary of thio Trensury is to placo anothor extra issuo of greon-, backs on doposit in New York to relieva this clagy, which seoms to bo in favor at Washington. Tho wholo praceeding of issuing greonbacks in exces of the moximum oatablished in 1867 Ig not only illogal, but is doubly reprohonsiblo when resorted to in ordor to enable one faction in Wall stroot to got tho bettor in o fight with another faction. The Govorument has no law- ful or moral right to interfero between stock- gamblers, and we hope the announcement is unauthorized and unfounded. I AN INCENDIARY BCHEME, Thoro is o detormined offort mnking in the Common Council and out of it to chango or ro- poal tho firo limits. Tho long contost over this mattor just aftor tho firo will bo romomborad, Tho ordinanco that was passod, establishing tho boundarios within which wooden buildings wero prohibited, did not go into effoct until Fob. 22, 1872, noarly five months after tho firo, during which time hundrods of woodon buildings wero actually pul up, The offort now is to have certain dlstricts within tho limits cxcepted from tho oporalion of tho law. Thus, Ald. Dixon, who repro- sonts tho ward Iying Lotweon Monroo and Har- rlson stroots, In tho South Division, and wholly within the burnt district, wants to have one-lalf of his ward oxcoptod. Thoso who remembor tho firo will novor forgot thatit was tho congroga- tion of sliantics, sheds, and old wooden build- ings, of various kinds and sizes, on tho waest ond of the Socond Ward, that brought tho five across tho river from tho Wost Sido, and sent it for- ward to the Court-Ifouse, and thoenco to tho Wator-Worke. Ald, Dixon wantstoroplnce thoso frame buildings with now ones, so that, in cnso tho southwost wind shall bring another firo from tho West Bldo to thoe river, it will flnd kindling-wood and inflammablo material on the Hontli Bide, s was tho cnso in 1871, This i not Lhis intontion, of course, but lie wants to run the risk again. Wo all romombor the memoralile mob which sought to torrity tho Council agaiust passing any ordinanco rolating to the North Side. In that quartor the demand i renowed. Thero hing beon » number of fine atone and brick bulld- ings erocted on tho onst sido of tho North Di- vieion, and others are contemplated; but tho demand is mado by corlain well-meaning incon- diarios that the firo limits should be aboliuled, and that tho wholo divislon shall bo opened to tho construction of woodon houges. In liko manner, certaln Aldermen in tho West Division aro clamoring to have their distriots excovtod. Particulsslviu this demand made In tho sonthwest part of tho city, whorn thoro aro alrondy thousands of wooden hounos, 80 ologoly built that, in easo of anothior combina- tlon of firo and galo, thoy will o swopt away liko prairio-grass. A largo numbor-of porma~ nont buildings hinvo boon oreoted In tho North) Wost, and South Divislons, ‘on tho guntantoa from tho oity that no more framo or woodon buildings should bo orocted wlthin cortain liita. Upon this guarantes thoro bave beon oxpondod at lonst ono hundred millions of dol- lars in pormanent buildings, Not only havo theso boon eroctod in the burnb Qistrict, but in all other parts of the olty,—North, Houth, and Wost. They lisvo boon orected undor tho logal mesurance that not only - should thore bo no' moro woodon ‘buildings orcoted within cortaln preseribed distancos, but that theso framo bulldings nirosdy existing should only bo replacad by brick, stono, or iron ones, Having rebuilt Ohicago, and having in- duced thousanda to oxpend thoir monoy in por- manont and costly buildings in nll parts of tho firo limits, it is now proposod to repent or'ossoni- " tinlly chango tho guarantoo of protoction, and to givo freo loave for tho ercction of all kinds of wooden structures again. . Tho pormanent buildings of Chicago, includ- ing all thoso within the prosont fira limits, with their contents, pay a tax for iusuranco on noarly ©200,000,000 of property. This tax rangos from 1to2porcont. This high rate isdue to the gront numbor of wooden buildings which oxist not only within thoe fire limits but boyond it, and ‘which surround tho city to the west aud south, The provailing winds, and thorofora4yo dangor- ous winds in cases of fire, aro tho southwost and west winds, Theso wooden aud inflammablo struotures are botweon the wind and the permn- nont and costly improvemontsof tho city. Honco the high rates of insurance. At an avorage rato of 1 per cent, this city pays out $2,000,000 snnu-~ ally for insurance, Thig does not includo what is poid on tho wooden buildings thom- solves, whoro tho .rato ranges from 2-to 6 per cont. To tamper with, restrict, or contract tho present fire limits will result in the virtual ropenl of the whole ordinanco ; 1t will bo accepted by the whole cowitry ns thio cortain precursor, if nota direct invitation to, anothor conflagration ; it will weaken our credit ; causo an advance in tho rates of-intorest on all invest- monts in Chicago, and lead not only to an ad- vance in the ratos of insurance, but cause tho withdrawal or the reduction of-the amount of risks by tho best insuranco companies, For what is all this cost and troublo to be brought upon tho city? Is Chicago ovor to bo & wollbuilt city, or aro wo to continno like .the Indians, dwollors in tents and other tomporary habitations? No wooden building enn be regarded as a pormancnt structuro. They aro not built with any rofor- enco to pormanency. Thoy are Luilt to be burned down, or to Lo gold and moved to somo other placo, whoro thoy are finally to bo food for fire. Tor- this purposo, theso buildings aro placed on stilts,—n couvenient arrangement 'in easo thoy are moved, and conveniont Lo give good draft tonfiro gotting undor thom, The Com- mon Council now propose to throw down tho ro-- straints upon tho orection of such tomporary Dbuildings, thoroby putting a dsmpor on the oroc- tion of pormanont buildings, and meking Chica- 8o once more & vast Iumber-yard, with a cook- ing-stove, sshoot-iron pipe, and a keroseno lamp in fufl op’:rntiou in oyery twenly-five squaro foot of ity nron. . The State of Illinois has an interost in Chica- go. This city pays one-fifth of tho Stato taxos. Tho Stato has incurred, in consequence of our noglect of rational procautions against fire, o dobt of three millions of dollars, It has wit> noesed tho dostruction of two hundred millions of taxablo property. Tho Legislataro of Illinois cannot afford to let Chicago bo again burned down, even if our City Governmont provides the means for tho conflagration. From the Common Council, 50 lost to rosson and common sense, Chieago will appoal to the Logislature for pro- toction—protection against firo and the Common Council. - ‘‘REVERSING THE SUPREME COURT.” ‘Wa givo room in auother part of this papor to a lottor rocontly written by Btate Souator Castle, in oxplanation and defenso of the position which he assumod in a former communication toa farm- ors’ moeting in DoKalb County, wheroin he hold that it would be necessary to continuo the fight until the Bupreme Court should be * re- versed,” and some new progressive olement in- fused inlo it. AMr. Castlo's oxplanation is, that ot tho timo ho wrote the lotter to the farmors it waa “‘rumored” that the McLean County Rail- way case had boen roversed by fho Supremo Conrt, but tho decision had not beon publishad, ond ho was not familiur with its points. Alr (Castlo now ndmits that tho decision fs just, and ) oyght to eatisfy the peoplo. It would have Loen moro daocorous for & grave and reyerond Bonator to wait until he know what tho decislon of tho Court was boforo proposing to’ overturn the Court on account of it. o will probably not deny that it i highly unbecoming in o public man to reviow n Supromo Court do- cigion on mere rumor. His own cnso is an apt illustration of tho fact., Novertheloss, M. Castle undortakes to defond tho position which ho assumod undor an unwarranted misapprohon- sion, It appears that his idea of ‘‘rovorsing tho Buprome Court" was more roprelonsiblo than that odvanced at some ®f tho farmors® meetings, It was propoeod by thelatlor to de- feat at the polls the Judges whose offense had boon to deolaro the law to bo what it is. It soomi, however, that Mr. Oastlo contomplated the roversal of the decis- fon Dby incrensing the numbor of Bu- preme Judges, and appointing Lo the now places men who would agreo to do the job, 'Thiy is tho inferonco from thoprecedents which ho citos. Ono of thesn is the caso of the contost botweon Jobn A, McClornand sud A, T Fiold, in 1859, for the position of Socratary of Htate in Illinoly, ‘The Bupreme Court having decided ndvorsely to MecOlornand, tho numbor of Judgos was in- cronsed by five, Stophon A. Douglas being ono of tho Iatter, and the roputed loader of the movement, Another easo was the eppointment of new Judgos on tho Buprome BDonch of tho Unitod Btates to roverse a former declsion on tho.constitutionnlity of the Logal-Tendor las. Tho third caso eltod--an incrosse of tho Bupromo Judges of the United Btatos to rovoreo Justico Tanoy's doclsion on tho Fugitivo Blavo law—novor oceurred ; this doclgion stood until Congress ropealed tho law, and bng nover beon rovorsed, Tho Buprome Judges in Tilinols woro incronsed for political purposos undor the loadorship of Judge Doug- 1as, and tho procoeding haa always beun regarded 8 disroputablo and immoral, It was ono of tho | strongest polnta made by Lincolu agalnst Doug- lny In thelr fmnous jolnt dobatos, The inorease in tho numbor of Supromo Judges of the United "roads. Bintos was pactially juatifiod by tho faok that it Court hind heon proviously roduaed to two losb then tho law allowed, but tho action la univer- enlly rogardod as one of the most dangerous and roprolionaiblo ‘of Gon. Grant's Administration. Mr. Osstle o caroful not to sny, i so many wordg, that theso onses ought to stand ns proce donts, but ho would have dono himsolf moro cradit by omitting all roforonco to them it cons noction with tho proposed roverssl of tho Bu- premo Court in this Btato on the railroad quos- tlon. It'fs unnocomsnry to produco nrguments to show that such a practico, it it should bocomo gonoral, would bo ruinous to government and subvorslyo of law, Mr. Cnstlo enys that “ the groat quostion to bo decldod is whothor the Stato has parted with its govorelgnty, whethor rallroada nre superior £0 tho Btato, or thoir will suporior to Inw.” This i not tho question at all. None of thoso propo- sitions oro true. Tho quostion Is slmply ns to how tholaw shall bo onforced, which provides that rallroad charges shall bo roasonabla, Mr, Castlo sooms to think that the Btato should fix an absoluto and arbitrary tarift. To do this, ns M. Harris stated to tho Loglslative Committeos, would bo to contraveno tho oxistonoo of rafl- It the railroads should submit to o statuto fixing 8 conts n mile as tho maximum charge for travel, without regard to its reasonn- blonoss, the noxt Legislaturo might fix tho rato at 2 conts, and the noxt ono nt 1 cont, or bolow tho ratos that would onoblo tho railways to pay tho wages of thoir opera tivos, A tarllf might readily bo ecatab- lished undor which tho railroads could not bo opernted at sll. If the Logislature should follow ont tho principlo thus applied to rallronds,” and fix the prico of Inbor, of cars, of fron, of locomotivos, of ail, and of all othor matorial used by rallronds in the samo proportion, and would guarantee that all citizons should abide by these pricos, tho rallroad companios would prob- ably nccopt the rule very gladly. They would then bo rolieved of tho oceaslonal floss and in- cosennt annoyanco incident to strikes among their employes, and to bargaining for ovorything thoy buy. As this {a not possible, it is not just that railronds should bo coorcod to submit to an arbitrary tariff whioh any Logislaturo maychooso to prosoribe. Tho Buprome Court declares tho Inw to bo that railrond charges must bo rensona- blo. The Legislaturo must provide & way for ng- cortaining what rates ara unreagonablo, which is preoisely what tho Donahue bill proposcs, which Mr. Castle voted for. Mr. Cnstlo claims that tho railronds must bo compelled to obey & law enacted by tho General Assembly until it has beon decided unconstitu- tional, and intimates that private citizens would bo required to do as muck. In othor words, Mr. Castlo says that if tho Logislaturo fixed $10 as o ‘moximum foo which ho should roccivo as.a law- yor; or 20 cents » buchol as tho maximum for whicl: Iio should sell his corn as o'farmor; or $1 o day as tho maximum wages that ho should do- mand a8 a laboror, hie would have to obey this statuto until, in the tedious processzs of tha cowrts, this Inw sliould bo docided unconstitu- tionnl. Mr. Castlo, us o lawyer, & farmor, or n aborer; would do no such thing. Ho nnd Lis class would refuse point-blank to nbide by so palpably unjust o law, and would resist it .moro violently than tho rallroads have rosistod a simi- Iar law in theircaso, Neithor lnwyers, nor farm- ors, nor laborors, nor any othor class of peoplo, would recognizo it ono minuto, nor ‘wait a singlo day for the decision of the Buprome Court. Mr. Castlo has contributed nothing to his do- fense, nor to tho cause ho ropresents, by his new Iottor. It contains a proposition which i more untonablo than that which ho. recommandod to the farmers of DeKalb County, Ho ndmits that be and tho people should bo contont with the Bupreme Court declsion, as it is roally on their sido, but ndds that ** thoro is etill » distrust on tho part of tho peoplo as to whethor similar fail- inge might not be found in any law enacted,~ns to whethor it ia possible to enact any rogulations of rallways which this Court wonld doom con- stitutional and without flaw.” 8o the Supreme Court is to be rovarsed not for what it has done, but for what somebody guoeses it will do! This is tho appropriato reductio ad absurdum of Mr, Castlo's original letter. - —— THE TAXES ON CORN, Tho consus roturns of 1870 show the value of tho domeatlc manufactures of the United Btatos in that yoar. . The tablo is intorosting. It ‘em- bracos an immenso varioty of articles of com- mon use, and it will bo of interost to the pro- ducers of the West to know how much they pay for tho actual articles thoy uso, and how much for bounty. The wholo product of boots and shoes in the United Btatos is valued at 8216,000,- 000, and sawed lumbor at £209,862,000. 'Theso two artlelos nlono amount to over 300,000,000 This lumber is in itaroughoststate, Upon theso two articles of prime mnecessity ~ the tarift imposes taoxes, not. for rovemue, but to onablo tho producer to increase tho prico of his manufacture. The tax on boots and shoos itaolt 15 but 85 por cont, and s wholly un- necessary, and gives no advautsgo to the boot’ andshoo makers, bocause wo haveslwaysoxesllod foreign countrios in that brauch of manufacture, and can send theso articles abroad in succoss- fal competition with the foreign-mado goods. But wo have so taxed the articles that enter into tho boot and shoo manufacture that tho cost of the article is largoely onhanced, and thus not only i theexport trado diminished, buttho actual por capita consumption of boots and shoes i re- duced in the country. Itisin vain that wo have Invented machinery by which four men can now produce as many shoes in n given time as ten mon did boforo, wo have 80 taxed the machinory itaclf, and taxed tho raw matorial of the shoes, that wo have destroyed all the benofit of the machivery and added to the cost of the shoes, ‘The tax lovied on tho raw materialg which ontor into the manufacturo of womon's ordinary gaiter boots is 50 conts per pound and 85 por cont ad .valorem, equal to about 40 cents por pair. That taxis to compel tho manufacturors of thoss boots to use matorials mado in this country. Thig enormons tax i3 paid by tho consumors. Tivery farmer and mechanic in the United States has to pny, i addition to tho ordinary prico of overy pair of Buch boots for his wifo or danghe tors, 40 cents tax, The numbor of porsous ou- gaged in manufacturing these taxod matorinls ave vory fow, not oxceoding porhnps 1,000 in all, nud yot the whole forty millions of peoplo of tho country aro compelied to pay this tax, Evory poir of women's boots s taxod two bushels of corn, When tothis tax is added that on men's and children's woar, the producer of corn can ostimato how many meres Lo hng to plant annually to cover the tax on this one article of boots aud shoes. Assuming that tho averagotnx on thematorlal of mon’s, women's, and childron's boots aud shoos is 20 per cent, thon the wholo tax paid by tho ocountry upon the $240.000,000 o boos and shoo manufacturcs, in tho “way of Incronsed cost, Is 40,200,000 oach’ yoar; which tax, i pald Into tho Tronsury, wquld- oqual haif the Intordst on tho publio dobt, Thia £40,000,000 of tax p ald by tho ceuntry ia oqual to over 200,000,000 bushols - of corn_ at 20 conts por bushol, How many bushols each' farmor givos to pay thfi tox ho cin ostimato by computing tho total of hin oxponditures for boots and shoos in a yonar, and countlng'80 por: cent thorcot as a tax pald a8 & bounty to tho maniifactaroin of tha raw ~matorlals, The tax on lumbor has beon, until last Au- gust, attho rato of £2 {n gold por thousand foot. Tt wus impowed In ordor to koep out tho lumbor of Canadn, It is oqual to 20 por conton tho cont of tho American production, It is safo to hssumo that this taxamounted to sn averago ot $40,000,000 & yonr, and s of vory doubtful utility to tho lumbermen themsclvos, though thoy raiso o frightful scronm whenover anybody proporos to reponl it, oven to rebulld a burned olty. Lumber is ono of tho articlos of primo necessity to the farmors, yob on overy rod of fonoing, overy shed or outbuilding, every board, ho hina to pay, in addition to thoe cost of tho lum- bor itaclf, this incxorablo tax. Tho 840,000,000 collectod from consumers of lumber is equal to 200,000,000 bushels of corn, or the entiro product of mnoarly 7,000,000 nores. Adding tho incroased cost of boots and shoos, and on lumber, due to the tax, tho country pays in round numbors $100,000,000. To pay this tax would roquire 500,000,000 bushels of corn; or, placing the averngo crop at. 80 bushola to the acro, it roquires to pay the tax on boots nnd shoes and lumbor the ontire product of over 16,000,000 ncros. Wo submit thoso fots to tho considoration of the agriculturists, who at this timo aro sooking remodies agninst oxtortlons that are consuming not only the productions of theirlabor, but aro dostroying the valuo of the land a8 & sourco of révenue. Tho value of land is, of necosaity, to bo ostimated nt the valuo of its products, Loand that produces $10 por moro s rondered valugless if the whole product is ro- quired to pay tho taxes, and it is immaterial whother thoso taxes bo for transportation or upon tho oxchiango of commoditics. If, of the rocoipta for o busliel of corn, four-sovenths aro takon by tho railronds and two-sovenths for tax on tho goods purchased with what is left, the rosult ia that the producer paya six-sovonths of all his land yields for taxes. "Thoro should bo an unanimous domand on the part of the wholo people that overy tax that is not levied for rovenue purposes shall bo re- poaled, and this demand should be ropeated at avery public meeting called, for whatover pur- poso, until Congross shall comply with it. s e % TODERN BORGIAS, ‘Tho recent ceso of Lydin Sherman and her polsonings is fairly matched by tho develop- monts mado inthe West Aucklaud poisoning cases, now on trial in England, in which ono Nary Cotton stands chargod with the murder of Lor stopson, & healthy child of 7 years, who roquired more care and attention than his stop- mothor was willing to confer upon him, Being anxious for move lucrative work, she rid Leraelt of tho rosponsibility of waiting upon'him by edministering arsenic. In the progress of tho trial, many other murdors have been incidentally dovoloped, including lusbauds and children, for, like Lydin Sherman, Mary Cotton had Doon many timos married, and, as if thore wero somo indefinable, myasterious . connection betwaen murder snd marriagoe’ in the minds of theso Borgias, no sooner had sho assumed tho respon- sibilities of wodlock then sho prococded to froo hersolf from them by moans of poison, Liko Lydin: Sherman, also, she mado no concealment of hor crimes, but, on tho other hand, confassed them with porfect freedom, and oven gloried in the confossion, a8 if sho had por- formed some praisotorthy deed. - In studying the aunals of murders committed by women, there arc two singular features to be noticod. Tho first of these is tho fact that whon & woman sets out upon a wholesale carcer of murder, sho almost invariably chooses poison for the agoney of destruction, and las o profor- enco for arscnic. Men commit murders with the pistol, tho knifo, or tho bludgeon ; rarely with poison, Womon scarcely over use either ono of theso threo ngoncios, excopt in cases where thoy aro actuatod by sudden or ungovornablo fm- pulges, oud ‘goize the first weapon which comes to . hand. In cascs, -however, where & woman coolly and deliberatcly makes o life-long business of murder, she invariebly sclects poison, Notwithstanding tho ingenious attompts of a modern magazine- writer to whitewash the character of Lucrozia Borgis, and make Lor a model of womanly in- nocenco and virtuo, tho burden of historical proof ostablishios the fact that she wos tha.poi- gouor of all hor political enomies with whom sho camo in contuct, a3 wellagof those who gavo her porsonal offonse, Tho Marchioness do Brinvilliors wes one of the shrowdest of poi- sonors, and hos mado: tho name of Brinvilliers odious tho world over. The Gorman poisoner, Anua Marls Zwanziyor, was oua of tho most au- dacious of poisoners, and literally planted ar- senic In overy direction, where' it might reach gorvauts and children against whom sho Liad no anfmosity whatovor. Auother English murdor- css, Mrs. Holroyd, used arseumic without the least compunction, and at one timo achieved considerabla reputation by hor succoss in prophosylng the deaths of her vietims, Our rondors will romem- bor the caga of tho woman who, not long ngo, distributed poisoned swootmoats among all hor frionds in order toreach n cortain man againat whom she ontertained 2 disllko. In our own conntry, tho cases of Lydia Shorman, Mrs Wharton, Mrs, Qrinder, Mra. Van Noss, aud othoers aro atill fresh in tho memory of our readers, Evory country, i fact, has its living and its his- torical fomale polsoners, who have ecattored doath far and wide, and almost overy town and villago can nameo somo womaun who has com- mitted a singlo murder by tho use of poisons. Hoy are wo to account for this univorsal uso of poisons by womon ? Is thoro any othor solution of the quostion than the nssumption that oven fomele murdorors lave tho qualitios of reflnoment and dolicacy, tho aversion tosconos of sufforing and torturo and the po- cullar shrinking from brutalily and blood, which Qistinguish womon ns & olnss from mon? Polson 18 & moro quict but oqually effectivo instrument of donth, In involves no physical struggling, no violent endoavor, no question of strangth, Tho chances of ogoapo, and the opportunitics for conceanling the crime, aro groater than in othor forms of murder, Tho womun who shonld Lill hor firat victim with a pistol or & knife would attract suoh attentlon, and the deod would becomo so public, that in all probability she would never flud an opportunity to Lill the socond, Tho firat viotim of poison, however, dles apparently n natural doath, and no Inquiry {8 mado or suspicion arouscd. The socond dion in tho samo mannor, and the third, and tho publio still noos nothing romarkablo in tho faot. Tho poisonor, omboldencd by hor Bucosss, at Inst grows calloused and indifferont, and doos her work in such sn sudnoiously public mannor that sho s sure to bo dotooted. Itis anothor ourlous featura of fomalo polsoners that thoy nmevor appoar to have any compunotions about thelr diabolical doods. Wo do not bellbve it would bo posuible for a man to contlnue mur~ dering, yoar aftor yonr, na did Mary Cotton ana Lydin 8horman,—murdering oven thoso against whom thoy had no nnimosity, and for some of whom thoy even entortalned feolings of nffoo- tlon,—without at lnst publicly confossing thoir “orimos, oven If thoy wero not detottod in the vory first instance by the bungling manner in which they would commit the deed. : d Tho motives which induce tho fomalo poison- ora to commit thoir orimos aro in most cases so flimsy that it may bo sald thoro fs an utter ab- 8ouco of motive in thoir conduct. The woman, Mary Cotion, poisonod all who wero dopendent upon hor beoauso thoy made life hiarder for her, ond becango shio could earn & moro considorablo pittance it they woro out of the way. Motives oqually inndequato marked tho crimos of Lydia Bhorman. Bomotimos tho motive is n paltry sum of monoy; somotimes becauso tho victim stand in tho way of corlain social pros- poole; momotimes from sheor malignity; and somotimes from those ecrmel im-. pulgos which #oom to bLave been im- plantod in tho femals breast nt birth, oand to have grown g0 ungovernable that tho vie- tim {8 juat os likely tobo one who has always boonan object of endearmont as onowho hasbson an objoect of aversion. Buch aono poisons for tho sako of polsoning, ns Noro killed stmply for the enko of killing, Iiow far such a porson is responsiblo for what is in reallty o montal dis- ©a80, growing out of somo horeditary taint, noar or far romoved, ia & nico quostion to dotermino Complote igolation from socloty is thd loast that oan bo done, for tho fomnlo poisonor has no choico of viotims. Sho kills without hatred, and sho acknowlodges her crimo without auny com- punctious visitings of consclenco. b ‘WATERING RAILROAD STOCKS, To the Editor of The Chifeago Tribunes * Bm: I noticed tho articlos in your paper of yostor- day and to-day in regard to “Watoring Railrond Btock,” aud (ho quotation from tho clause in tho Con- stitution bearing upon the subjoct; and Inotico tho tenor of tho article, indleating that “ watering raflroad stock ? can be provented by enforeing that clauso in tho Constitution, T do not Lellove tho writer of the articlo Is correct in stating that the clause quoted In tho Constitution can ‘provent what ho thinks is s0 unjust to tho public, nving lately had occasion to study that very sub- Joct, nnd baving dlscuseed tho matter with leading counel, I am of tho opiulon that tho Conalitution docs ot provent the Issuo of an unlimited amount of stock by railroad companies; nnd Iam also of opinfon that 10 law ean bo passed to remedy thio objection (if wator- ing stock bo 8o very objectionable), unless the lnw sliould specify the preciae aum that raflroad companica should pay for construction, If it should do that, T contend 1t would practically proibit the bullding of railronds, Tho parties interested in bullding new lines of ratl- road aro two, viz.: Thoso living along tho proposod line, sud forcfgn capitalista who advanco monoy for tho profit in tho onterprise. It is an eatablisbed fact thiat thoso parties living along tho lino cannot furnish monoy moro than suflielent to grade and He a road,—n very small proportion of tha cost of tho rosd and equipment,—so that it follows that forelgn capital must bo obtainod. And, befora obtaining it, largo in- ducements must bo offered for it, espoctally in viow of the fact that all suck new ontorpriscs havo elomonts of uncortalnty fn regard to tho futuro, oI contend tbat & Inwpassed {n this State, naming a limited sum to bo pald by new lines of rafirond for construction, would practically shut out forolgn capltal from assist~ ing now lines within the State, and consoquently pro- Bibit any nioro raflroads boing bullt within tho Stata, In regard to prolibiting au unlimited fssuo of atock by now liucs of raflronds, by enforcing tho provisions of tho now Constitution , I will will show you how, snd Dy what means, stock 1n fsauod £0 as to come within tho limits prescribed by the Constitution, A raflrond company (a now line)-contracts with o “construction compauy" (tho membors of tho cone struction company bolng or ot being, large owners of tho ratlroad franchises),—the contract botween the par- tieabelng, that tho construction company will build tho road, and rocelve In pay for tho sam, say, tho first- ‘morigago bonds of the raflrond company, the cash subscriptions to the stock of the rallroad company, and $25,000 por milo of full-pald stock,—tho construc- tion_company belng onabled to mako s profit (of courso [t must Lave a profit) of tho stock thus re- colved, ) Hasnot tho raflroad compsny complied with the provision fa the Constitution by giving its atock for materlal or property, the samo belug tho ron, tics, cquipment, etc,, that tho * construction company * glves as an equivalont for tho same, according to tho terms of tho contract 7 1t might be nrgued that tho rafjrosd company pays an oxorbitant prico for building fta rond, Admit that, Ts thero auything in tho Constitution probibiting a corporation or an individual from fixing tho torma of n contract 3 it moy clioose, or.o8 it may deom ndvisa- blo? But fg {tan oxorbitant prico? Tho “construction company ¥ useumes ull tho labor and nnxiety attendant upon completing n largo onterprise, beeldes risks of fAnancial distress that frequently sweop tho country, and has for its roward a largo amount of railroad stock which, in the future, may or may not bo of value, Ou10Aa0, March 27, 1873, : ANSWER. At common law a railway or othor corporation can iesuo neithor stook nor bouds, oxcept for monoy, labor, or property actually roceived and oxpended in construction and oquipmont, unloss oxprossly authorizodso to doin thoir charters. ‘We nro not aware that any railrond companios have received such authority in this State, oither Dby genoral law or apocial charter. The provision in tho Btato Coustitution was undoubtedly in- tondod to prohibit the Legislaturo from granting such authority to railronds. Tho plan suggostod Dby our correspondont of “ whipping the dovil round the stump " may answor to circumvent the plain words of tho Constitution, though wo doubt it ; but it will not, in our opinion, circum- vout the common law, which limits corporatious to the express provisions of their chartera and allows thiom to tako nothing by implication—cer- tainly nothing adverse to the public interests. ‘What the country wants most of all is to put tha stock iesued by the Vanderbilts and the Tom Beotts under o chicese-pross and squoeze all the wator out of them. Tho thing can be done it the peoplo aro.in earnost, X, Thore is said to have been n panic recently on the Fraukfort Exchaugo in American railroad socuritios. Tho oxplanation of itis found in tho following rocapitulation of worthless bonda which, the New York Staats-Zeitung enys, have Loon nogotiated in Germany : Alabama & Ghattanooga Rallrond, Des Molnos Valley Raflroad. . Eant Tounesnco, Virginis & Goorgin, Yort Wayno, Muncie & Cineinnatl, ; Georgin Ald Bonds (Brunswick & Albany; Tontusular (alll 3 Tort Hoyal, TRockford, It /000,000 Orogon & California allrond 10,950,000 DAL cssvvavovannisn ssssivassirinsvHIBI00,000 On the bonds onumorated above, it is Impossi- ble tocollect the interost, andof course they are sold, whon they can bo sold at all, at ruinous pricen. Tho Orogon & OCalifornia bouds aro quoted at 85 conts, Tho construction of this vond wasof a similar character to thatof the Rockford, Nock Island & Bt. Louls, recontly deseribed in Tug Tripuxe, Mr, Bon Holladay had tho contract for tho building of the road, and took the bonds' and laud-grants, He sold both bonds aud lauds, and out of tho proceeds constructed about'280 miles of tho road, Hare tho work stoppod, leaving tho most costly part uns dono, and that which was completad to bosoriously damaged by tho snow storms, That part of the rond which fa oporated docs not yicld enough to pay tho Intoroat on the bonds, and the Frankfors bondholders have appointed a committos to ine stitute logal procosdings nagainat Mr, Iolladay. In tho caso of tho Rookford, Rock Island & Bt. Louls nund, the Gorman bondholdors surron- dored one-half of tholr bonds in tho hopo of getting tho intorest on tho othor half, and are now disappointed evon In this. Tho other roads montlonod aro probably In the samo condition. The Chicago & Bouthwostern wants to pay its gold intorost in groonbacks. In view of thoso clroumatances, it fa not very surpriging ' that thore should bo & Inck of confidonco wbroad in Amorican railway soouritlos. ) ———— Tt {s not surprising to find that the ZLoglslaturo of Virginia agroes porfoctly with Gov. Walker's project to havo the Gonoral Govornment assumo the debts of tho Southorn Blator. Itlsnot at all improbablo thnt all the ather State Logiale~ tures in the Bouth will givo it thelr official fn= dorgomonts, and cortify them to tho favorable cousidoration of Congross. Thore would bo general rejoicing among the carpot-baggers at a Juncture which would enablo them to reopon the purso-strings of speculating capitaliats, and bo- gin their carcer of plunder all ovor. Tho cone coption of this schomo indicates that .the inge+ nuity of tho carpot-bag governments for raising money on Stato nccount Ia exhausted, N Tho cablo brings tho intalllgonco of tho doath " of the Countoss Gulccioll, whoso namo hns bee come world-famousg, a8 one of the numorous paramours of Lord Byron. During his stay In Italy, Tord Byron rosided in the family of the Countess at Ravennn, who beesme vory much attached to him, pootically and porsonnlly. Tho membora of the family at thet timo woro the Countess, hor husband, and hor father, tha Count di Gambn, Tho attachment was mainly. on her part, andnt Inst grow so tirosomo that Lord Byron, usho Limsolt acknowlodged, wont' to Greoco and identificd himsolf with the Grecian war of independenco to got rid of hor. Aftor hisdoath, the Countoss wroto & VOry on=, tortsining worl, entitled * Convorsations with Lord Byron,” which, without throwing any naw light upon his lifo, is novortholoss intorosting a8 presonting his viows on social, religious, and political topics, = « NOTES AND OPINION, Bocauso Vico-President Wilson called Gen. Gordon, of Georgin, to the Chair, tho othor day, whilo ho stretchod Lis logs in tho corridor, all tho Organa declare that Tho ora of Reconcilin= tion hns come,” [ ~—Congressman Williom A, Wheelor, of Now York, invosted his in bondsof the United States, and destroyed the bonds. —T'he amondmont to the Arkansas Constitue tion, removing tho disnbilities of white men, hng boen ratified almost unanimously. Tho official voto (less {hrea countios unroported) stands 24,208 to 3,604 = ~The grossly-partisnn apportionment schema of tho Indians Legislaturo (Republican) Is boing copied by Mr. Cameron's Logislature of Penn~ sylvania, Dasod on the Gubernntorial vote of last Octobor, the 853,387 Itopuclican voters are to Liavo eighteoh Roprosentatives in_Congross, nud tho 817,760 opposition. voters nine Roproe sentatives, Tho Philadolphin Press obsorves that, “ Even to the ordinary politician, this must look like robbory,” Putting it in another way, tho Buffalo Courier says : Tho question of # minority roprosentation,” which - hing exclted intorost in various parts of tho ‘country, hnd better be laid on tho table untilft {s determing ‘whether political majoritics may bo systematically dige franchised with fmpunity, ¥ —The m{:latomfl voto of 8t. Louis, for the munloipal eloction noxt Tuosdny, is 41,115, —Tho Hartford Post SA(lmiulsln\Lion) inti~ mates that the big steel of the noxt Congraes is to bo tho assumption by tlie United Btates of the cotton-tax, and of the repudiated debis of tha South, held by a cliquo of Ropublican bankers aud politicians'; and the Post.woll says: Wo want some mau in Congress of National reputae tion, of fuviucitlo courage, of vebemout energy, of powerful cloquence. A leader who can gather and combine the opposition required to atom thia advance 1ing tide of war upon the Treasury, —All the Iowa dolegation, Bonators and Rops rosentatives, united in rocommending H. O. Vau Louven, of McGregor, for Mail Agent, vice E. 0. Dovid, and tho Vrosident informed ll.lon‘ ho *would fake tho mattor into considoration." But the Dubnque Lerald says: Meanwhile, David rests upon his osrs, bland ss o summor morning, e has uot been uear Washington,' but has the advantago of all his cnemics fu tho fact that ho {8 some kind of a left-hand relation to Grant ox to Grant's wife, and Grant, if Lo knows bimsolf, does not let any of his or his wife's relatives go hungry. “Tho Presidont had positively nothing whate avorto do with the matter.” [Organs.] —There i8 scarcely a Sonatorial election i any of the Btato Legislaturcs that tho charge of bribery is not bundied back and forth_ botweon: tho friends of the rival aspirants.—Ballimora American, ) —The days of covering political offenses withe tho mantle of partisan charity have passed.— Toledo Blade. ~=Thoso mombors of Congress who have de« clined to take tho oxtra compansation have done. o good thing, and desorvo full crodit for it. Butl \\'51 thoy give us the assuranco that thoy havenot: only refusied tho grab, but have fixed it wherg' thoy can't oach 1t Léroattor.—dibany (X, ¥.) Journal. —*Ig thero any monoy in it?"” This is the, great touchstono by which all propositions are! tested now-a-days, In overy-doy business life, in politics, and we foar, in many cases, in re=' liglon, it is tho oriterion which decidos the quea- tiou, "If a friend broaches & now profcct. thoy firat quostion he is met with is, *‘Is there any. monoy in it ?" If a porson approaches nnothos. on the subject of accopting an oftice in the gift' of tho pooplo, tho first quostion that arlsos is, { “Is there auny money iIn it?" And so, on throughott the various transactions of life.! 8o intricatoly is this {Fmstlan of dollars and’ conts intorwoven into all tho afMairs of lifo, that,| if the motiva for any uncommon acl brought to, public notice cannat bo traced to this root, it is vory apt to stamp tho actor as & lunatio.—Fort Dodgo (Jotwa) Times., | 3t Ya ‘cortainly dostrablo that tho oausos of, this provailing corruption should bo investigatod nud & remedy supplicd, Tho disposition mani- fested of late to look Into this disense of the “body politic,” we considor ono of tho most en-| couraging “ sigus of tho times,” Late your ara; full of illustrations gotng to show that politicat power obtainod at the oxponso of honor, truthe fulness, and integrity, is worse than * apples of Sodom, turning to tshos on tho lips” of thoss, who are dazzled by apposrances, nnd blinded by, o will o the wisp.—.Nashville (Tenn.) Bulletin, i fln:inl paper of the Uniled Slales Qovern= ment.” * Z\What ought to bo dono; what is tho bost! monns of dolug it ; who aro the safest men for; the pooplo to trust? Theso things neod careful ond mu]y cousidoration. The nntion ia ealling for somothing highor than_ soliishuass, venality," sud usnrpation.—st, Paul (Minn.) Pioneer, sy —On Baturday u\'num'g Iast thoie was o’ very large mooting of tho quiot votors at tho Opora~ Houso, without distinction of party ; and, from the quiot and business way in which tho meote ing waa conducted, it would soom that the peo- ple of this city aud townsnip * mean businosa ;' and, if thoy renlly do,—if the peoplo aro goin, about this mattor in earnest,—the politicians of Doth partios may aa woll tako off thoir hats to the * moveuent, for tho powor s with the people,—~ Freeport (fII.) Journal, " atoro tho teimpliant dyanco of tho “bos civil sorvico on the planct," Stato subdivisions aro of nomore valuo than so many chalk-linos. Boo how admirably tho son of u faithful Sonn- tor was provided for in Virginia. The Wash- ington Ohronicly complacently remarks : *The Prosidont, by virtuo of authority vested in him, hg tho sevonth -section of the ‘act of Juue 80, 1804, haamnde tho following changes in tho colloction districts of Virginia: Tho Countiea of Oampboll, Bodford, Boutotourt, Craig, and Roanoke to form the Tifth District, snd tha countios of Ilalifax, Dlittwylyanin, Franklin, Honry, sud Patrick to form the Ninth Colloos tion Ditrigt. 'Mify divlelon wau mado in order - to mako a distriot for the son of Bonator Lowis without throwing a good officer out altogother.” Vorily, the son of Senator Lowis is blossed above his. fellows. How liappy ha must bs, with & bran new district oreated for Lis epecial bsnoe At l—New York Tribune,