Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 1, 1873, Page 4

5 Mfign Aribune. i CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNL TURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1873, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. ERME OF AUBAORTPTION (PAYADLR IN ADYAXOR), vent dolay and mistak )i, including State sud Connty, hanorn a7 ho e olior by draty siprew, Posk tod, 95 cents per waek. Bl dolroredy Somty scteled £ ol o vesk: THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, 1 Daarb Ohtoago, Tike CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. R Washington, Now York, and Forelgn B A aseanoous Tolograms—Advortisomons. BEOOND PAGE—Now York Lotter—Dubuque Letlor— Droadtul Acoldont at the new Binger Dullding— The Bostwick-] Balt—~COounty Matters—Tho Courts—Tlio Town Elootions—The Engllsh Forgor- for. E—Annual Report of the Titnofs Contral mm)&l?,: S Goropns-Tho Diake Caso—-An Uahelthy Bullding—PorsonalCounoll Mooting Last Evening —Destruolive Fire~Tho Oity in Briof—Adve ‘ments. 3 RTH PAGE—Tditorlslss Tho Ratlroads and the Nu-mduwmum Compoting with Faupor Labor— t Nows Paragrapha. FIFTL PAGE- Yostordsy's Froosodings fn the Tlinots ‘Genaral Assombly—Markots by Tolograph—Advor. tisomonts, SIXTI PAGE-Monotary and Commeroial-Ratirosd ST PAGE Nowogay War—Obitusry—Smal; ITH PAGE—The Nosogay A ivartwamonta: Toal Tatate, Tor Bale, Ta Tent, ‘Wanted, Bosrding, Lodgh to. RIGHTH PAGE-The Farmors' Movoment: Bplrit of Thoso Engaged in 1t; Addross of Ool. Frod Hockor to the Gormans of Oblcago—Missoliazoaus Tolo- grams—Advortisomenta. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ash avonuo, corner of Qon- '8 THEATRE-Y Lot ¥ Rankin, ‘'Rip gross stroot. Eogagomont of MoKeo Van Winklo." , M'VIOKER'S THEATRE—Madison atraot, between Btate and Doarborn, ** Asticlo 1. HOOLRY'S OPERA HOUSE-Randolph atroot, be- tmoon Clark and LaSalle. *'Fate." tod strost, Bunlight.” wouth of ACADEMY OF MUSIO- If; Madison. Kngagoment of Olara, LOUSE—Monroo streot, botween Atlington, Cotton & Kemblo's **Juliue Suoozor." MYERS' OPERA Btato and Dearborn. ‘Minstrol and Burloaquo Troupo. NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE ~Olinton, botwoon ‘Washington and Randolph straots, Wildor & Co.'s ‘National Cirous. —— BUSINESS NOTICES. AL AVANA LOTTERY, THE EXTRAOL AR drsulin vk (8o glagacn ho . of Apill 100 uat drawm 15’ $1,500,000. Thora will bs only ‘tokots nnd 3,007 prizes. J. I MAIUTINEZ & CO., i oors, 30 Wailat.: Post-ofico Hoz 4,655, Now York, FLORS HAIR DYE, T8 SPLENDID Bt tho Loat 1 tho world: Thioanly truo and per- Foatae, Miammlets, solisble, and {nstantanous: noqissp. et Eoridicaious 14543 or Wnplosaant.gdse. Kowmo. Bion {0 M offeots'of bad dos and washes. Drodiicos im- ootk il it andloats e o aigad e Bt oty i _druggiste. OIUARLLS $arCIREGk, Provriotor, N. Y. GONSUNIPTION GAN BF OURED.-SONENCK'S J ok'a Seawgod Tonlo, Holionok’s Bhaioaico BT aco the oniy modicinos that will uro Ful: ity Congumiptini: e ey, maoiioincs ¢ circulation of tho fact, thoy olog tho acti the boughl, A Tood i herily an the atom. dviln acaify nd otching up of wind. vunily originate froik s dlssrderod ST Log {ak o af o ey ecld, o hior bo udduny ohieckad wiil o Sath: ¢ Syrupt an oxpoctorant which doos B s iunp ovl aTatod 1o Shoek s Cough Saddonly ¢4 Seawaad Tonle dissolvos the food, mizos with ek Rt or o atciiach, i digoatios, aad Cradion s ratonous appotito: firo, skin sallow, or tho symp- s otkotelsoof & biloss 10ndoncy, Behonek'a Blandrebo s equin 8 d Theso madlolucs aro propera n"."nnnm{ ARON, MNorthosat comor Siz(h and Afch -§’nlhdnlphfl- ) u balors. Ahoioomte hgonr, JOINE: HIENRY, Nos. 8 and8 Oollago-piace, Row York. ladie. - Tuosdsy. Merhing, April 1, 1873.\ Judge Anthony Thorntou, of tho Supreme Court of this State, has resignod. His resigna- tion Is accopted, and tho cloction to fll tho va- cancy ordored for Juno 2. An attempt was mado in tho Houso yeaterday to strike out tho omacting claugo of tho Lake- Front bill. It failed by a tio voto. The bill 008 to a third reading. Judgo Shorman's carcor as a lobbyist for the New York Stock Exchange hos oxcited dedp Qisgust among tho members of tho Cloveland bar, sud many of them Lave declared thoir un- willingness to practice in his court. At o moot~ ing of tho Clovelsnd Bar Asrociation yestorday, ® Tesolutlon was considered calling for his rosig- natlon, but sction mpon it is delayod to hiear what the Judgo hus to eay for himeelf. Gold went higher yosterday than it has been for two yonrs and o holf, Sales woro mado at 118}¢,—a promium which it has not commanded €inco Aug, 9, 1870, This fluctuation is tho more disheartening when wo remembor that the year 1871 closed with gold at109. The money market growa tightor a8 gold goes up, and yestorday Joaus wero made on Wall streot at tho rato of 230 per cént o yoar, and thero were ramors of trans- sotious at tho rinous ratos of 1 por cout a day, 265 por cont n year, Tho Tilinois Central Rallroad s shown by it lnst aunual roport, just mado public, to have oarnod $2,145,847.74 lnst year boyoud its ex- . ponses, Tho Iows roads leasad by the Company wore run at & loss, whichlossons tho not oarn- inga to $2,103,100.88. Tlisisn loss of §629,- 740.61 88 compared with tho yoar bofore, and sbows that tho exponsos cat up about 67 por contof tho reccipts. At tho eamo timo, the amount _of freight ocnrried was one- touth gronter, aud tho ovorgo froight charge was 7 or 8 por cont logu. Prosident Newoll eays that tho Incroso of lake shipping, the enlargoment of tho Canadian waterways, and tho additionsl tracks being laid batween Chicago and the East,will soon oaso the outtiow of Northwestorn produco o tho East. Chicago dotectivos hava the Lonor of having dealt, years ngo, with tho gang now kuown to fame us the Bank of Euglaud forgors, aud of Daving routed thom out of & eindlo which was robibing the farmers and morchonta of thin Stato of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The threo cbiofs in the lsto stupondous frands bogan o business in this clty in 1805, which, 18 s told In full clsowhoro in our columus, consisted of buying produco of all kinds in tho intorior on eradit, which was nover honored, sud of solling alwoys for cash, which waa 08 fuvariably pookoeted, Of courso, thoprofits of such a ono-sidod business wore heavy; ono of tho trio made 910,000 n & few months, The nest was brolon up, and ono of tho gang arrost- d, Hobroko fail, and he and bis comradoa sought & wider fleld for tholr gonluy in tho Old World. Tho Chicago produce markets wore "rather moro activo yostorday, but chfofly iu a specula~ tivoway. Moss pork was in good domand aud 10@160 bigher, st S16.45@16.60 cash, and §10.00@15.85 tollor May, Lard ayas aolive, aud 100 por 100 1bs higher, closing at #6.10@8.15 oash, and 88.00@8.95 sollor May. Monls woro vory notive, snd @0 lowor, ot 0@03o for shouldors § 8o for ahort ribn ; 83@8}o tor short olonr, and 10@133o0 for mwook plokled ham, Highwinos wore quiot ond unchangod, ot 80}@870 por gallon. Lako froighta tworo insotivo oud nominally lowor, at 16 bid aid 160 asked for com to Buffalo, Flour was moro notivo, and 16@3250 lowor. ‘Whont wnas rathor loss sctive, and 13o lowor, olosing wook at 81.1736@1.10 onsh, aud $1.223% mollor May. Corn was moro sative, and un- clinngod, closlog ot J0%@3% cnsh, and 8130 sollor May. Oats woro dull and 3¢o lowor, clos- ing at 243{@2030 oash, and 9830 mollor May. Byo waa dull and stoady at 043¢@0B3o. Barloy s mora activo and 1o highor, cloaing ab 70s soller April. Livo hogs wero activo at 85,266 5.70. Tho enttlo and shoof markota woro without ‘matorial chango. Mr. Goorgo Willlam Qurtis has roslgned as o Civil Sorvico Commissionor. Tho ovent is sig- niflosat, though not very urprising In “view of tho uttor disregard of the rulos aud spirlt of Civil Borvico, Roform which has been shown in Washington. Tho Presidont’s contompt for the rulos waa brought ‘dirdctly homo to Mr. Ourtls In tho nominatlon of United Btatos Marshal Bharpo as Naval Officor of the Port of Now York. Mr. Bonodict, who was tho noxt officor, was on- titlod to tho place upon the resignation of Mr. Cornoll, but Mr. Sharpo wea nominated. Indof- oronco to tho popular rosontmont that waa oxhibitod, tho Prosidont sppointed a committao, conalsting of Georgo Willlam Curtis, Chos- tor A, Arthor, ond Jackson 8. Sohultz, to soleot tho proper man. Two of tho committeo mot and dosignated 1, Sharpo, in complianco with the Prosident'a proforences, but without con- sulting Mr. Curtls, or notifying him of tholr meoting. This exporionco probably Liad consid- erablo influenco in oalling ont Mr, Curtls' rosig- nation, though tho sppointmonts of Casoy and Holdon would havo boon suffiolent provacation. In connootionwith thosoappolntmonts, itia nota- blo that tho Nationhaa “‘goured on " Gon. Grant, T commonting upon his contompt for Civil Sor- vieo Roform, it cannot, however, refrain from sonding s Parthian arrow baok at the Liborals, It saya s The appolntment s considered o great scandal in ‘Washington, in viow of Casey's conduct in ofice, (ko formal condemnation of it Ly s Cougresslonal Commit- toe, andhis rolstionship to tho Prosident (brother-ine 1aw), and tho Liboral Republicans point to it as proof thiat the Prosident looks on his re-cleofion not only s absolution with regard to past offensos, but os n plen- ary indulgence with regard to future onea. It may Lo that ho doos, but thoy have themaelves to thank forit, Thoy deliberately mado up the iamue for the Iate cam. ‘polgu, and, I£ 1t did not contain the real poluta n tho controvorsy, thero 18 nobody olso to blame, Tho resson sssigned horo for tho abandon- mont of tho Oivil Sorvico Reform s mot altogothor intelligiblo. Tho only polat in con- trovoray that waa not duly mado up in tho issucs of tho lato campaign was that of Protection, All tho ofhors wero distinotly ot forth and prominently brought beforo the public. Now tho faauo of Protoction canriot cortainly affect that of roforming the Civil Servico ono wy or tho othor. Tn what way, thon, tho Lilioral party can bo rosponsiblo for Gen. Grant's failuro to conform to tho spirit or lotter of Civil Sorvico TRoform, tho Nation hos not yat explained, THE RAILROADS AND THE TRADE OF CHIOAGO. Thoro Is well-fonnded apprehension that if tho Donahue Rallrond bill bocomes & law, na it is likely to bocome, it enforcomont will serionsl; affoct the trado of Chicago. Tho point whx:i this bill covors moro complotoly than any other’ is thet of discrimination on ncooent of com- poting lines, Undor tho Donshuo bill this will 10 longer bo possible. Tho Suprome Court do- cision holds that compotition alono will not Justity discriminativo ratos,—that is, tho Obi- cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, for instance, may nob chargo & losa rato from Quinoy to Chi- cago than from s noarer atation simply bocauso it finds compotition in businoss at Quincy. This fonture of the docision is ombodied in tho Dona- o bill in the strongest possible torms. The bill males it prima facie ovidonoo of unjust discrim- ination and extortion for sny railroad to charge the snme or a Jarger rato for tho transportation of tho samo smonnt of goods for a shorter dis- tanco thun anothor distanco for which a lilo or 'less rato is oxactod. Tho offect of this clouso will inovitably bo to break down tho compotitive ratos botween Chicago and junction points. At tho samo timo, tho low ratos on tha compoting ronds, which are mainly under tho jurisdiction of other Statos, will bo rotainod. Tho offact of this upon Chicago trado is ob- vious. Tho stations on tho Ohicago railrands that have dircob communication by rail or wator with other largo marketa will undoubtedly avail themaolves of the lowor rates of froight which will bo offored thom, and will transfer théir bual- nos from Chieago to anathoroity. Take tho case of Bloomington. At Bloomington, the Chicago & Alton Road i crossod by, tho Toledo, Pooria & Warsaw Road, and tho inbabitants of that town will, of courso, patronizo Toledo whenever tho 8t. Louis & Alton is inbibited from carry- ing thoir property to and from Chicago at ns low ratos it ennbo transported to snd from To- ledo. Tho samo will bo {ruo of all the junction stations on tho Burlington & Quinoy, St. Louis & Alton, Illinois Central, and Rock Island Roads, when anothor market of about tho samo advan- tages can bo reached ot o loss cost thau Chi- cago, Moroor lessof tho Chicago trado will thus bo lost, unloas somo offsot can bo dis- covorod. Tlow much of it will bo encrificed will dopond altogetbor upon tho ontorpriso of our Chicago morchants in affording botter fu- cllitios and groator attractions for this trade from junction poiuts than th other cities can offer everr at lowor rates of trausportation, Tho quostion fs: Bhould tho possiblo disad- vantago to Chicago oxort an influonco agalust tho Doushuo bill? Tho answor is: Docidodly not, Chicago must stand on Its own morita, It will rotain all of the trade which is naturally tributary toit. It may bo ablo by fair means to nequire othor trado that would naturally go to Toledo, or Bt. Louls, or Cjneinnatl. But it has o right to domand that undue or unfalr mosns &hould be omployed for its oxclusive benofit. It has no right to demand that small towns should Do Injured and their business prostrated in ordor that it moey control trade. That thin bas boon the result of unjust dis- crimination in DMassachusolts las boon cloarly shown Dby Mr. Charles Franoly Adams, Jr., In his railroad reports, Capltalists hiave sometimes been forced to abandon their works and remove tholr factorlon to othorpointa ; communitics of laboring peoplo have boen broken up, and groat loga and sufforing hava onsued by resson of unjust discrimination in froight charges, Tho same gonoral rosult would bo folt in the Wost if tho practice should Lo tol- orated for any longth cf time, Tho oventual Tosses Lo tho country undor unjust disorimina- ton would bo much grontor than any témporary losa to Obiengo through tho opposito polioy. Moroovor, 1t i probsbla that tho oxpooted iosn to Ohleago I oxaggeratod by inoat of thoso who lavo bavo glvon thought to thls phoao of tho guestlon. Tho trado ' from thowo pointa whoro compotition doos mot oxist would undoubtedly incrosso in proportion to tho falror facilitlos thoy would Lave, Tho trado nt compoting polnts will, in timo, bo govornad by thio samo princlples of oquity. ‘Tho railronds con- trolled by otlior Btatos will, sobnor or Intor, Lo governed by tho samo 1aw ngainst unjuat dls- orimination, and Chlosgo will. rogain all that Iegitimntoly bolongs to hor, Cicago, tao, ‘by ronson of ita groator population, suporior antor- priso, largor purohnacs, and ofbior ndvantages ill bo ablo to offsot, to o considorablo oxtont) tho clioaper ratos that will bo affordod to tho compoting statlons by other oities. Bit, rogard- Toss of this, ‘tho law against unjust discrimina- tion is a'gaod ono, and it should bo etforcod. COMPETING WITH PAUPER LATOR, Thoro Ia 10 olass of Amorican laborors who aro brought so diractly fnto compotition with tho paupor Isbor of Europe as tho producets of grain; mor I8 thoro any othor class of worlmon in this country whoso carnluga nro 8o diraotly dotorminod by the paupor labor of Europo. Tho prico of all Amorienn grain fs govornod in all Ameriean markots by the prico It commands fn Tngland, and tho prico of grain fn England is govorned by tho prico ot which tho grain pro- ducol In Europo ls aold. Tho gralu-growing provinces of Europo aro Bouthorn Rusels, Southorn Franco, Hungary, snd the Solavie Provinces, Transylvanis, Croatis, and Dalma- tin. In thoso countrics tho condition of tho agrioultural laboror s Lnrdly bottor than that of the Amorican slavos boforo tho Into war. Com- parod with thoir wages or oarnings, thoso of tho mochanioal trades arooxtravagsnt and luxiirious. Tho condition of tho mechanieal and othor manu- facturing oporatives of Europe are far in ad- ‘vanco of theso moro farm Inborora of Russin and Hungary, and oven of thosoof Tranco and Eng- land. Aud yot it is this voritablo paupor labor of theso Btatos that fixos tho prico of every Dbushel of graln producod ntho Unitod States. Tho fact that Amorican farmors can compoto at all with tho grain labor of Europe 1a due to tho stolld Ignoranco and projudices which rofuso all thoaid of machinory, aud which insist upon tho ontio work of producing grain by hend Isbor, - In this cultivation thoy aro but littlo moro ndvanced than ‘were tholr ancestors conturios ngo. Anothier rosson Ling beon tho want of intarnal transportation. Excopt in tho istricts contiguous to tho Danube and tho Vistula, tho mosns of transportation of grain from tho intorlor of Ruasia aud Hungary havo not been vory groat ;.but within & fow yenrs thoro havo beon lnrgo additions to tho railrond systom, and espoclally witha viowof bringingtho whoat-growiug aron of thoso Btates nearor to markot, Inviow of theso facilitios, n now im- ‘potus Lida boon given to tho proiluction of whaat, yoars at most our prodncors of grmn will find_competition not only from tho pauper Iabor of Europe, but from = vastly-incroased production. It mny bo roasonably expected, also, that tho iutroduction of‘raflronds and & familinrity with trade will ovontually romove tho projudico againgt agricultural machinory. Some entorprising propriotor will placo modern’ plows, and renpors, and rakos upon bis flalds, and bosble thoroby to gathor crops from two acros Whora Lo now colleots but ono. When that timo comes, tho' Amorican grain will find itsolf oppoeed fu tho markot of Europo by tho product of paupor labor, and in such incrensed quantity 28 to reduco tho prico largely. Thomy..cnt that the Russions ond Hungarians adops farm machinory, tho Americon farmora will loso tho adventogo which thoy mow possess. What s the romody? Thoro is but ono, and that is to reduco the taxos with which wo have noarly overwholmed the production of wheat, and which hes, in fact, rondered tho production of corn unprofitable. Tho cost of produotion muet bo reduced by the romoval of every tax on tho moans of production, Tho cost of transpor- tation must bo reduced by tho ropeal of all faxos which ar0 not Jovied for rovenuo, but which con- sume tho groator part of tho grain product, Tho cost of living must bo reduced by the repeal of all toxes not levied for revenuo purposes, and which swell o cost of ovorything tho farmers have to buy, ond the cost of all things produced off tho farm. When our farmers can worl thoir flolds with an untaxed plow ; can purchase harness and shoes for his hhoraos froo of &80 per cont tax; can clothe Iiimselt aud family in cotton nnd woolon goods conting ono-thirdloss than prosent pricos ; can provido himself with implomonts, Inmbor, iron, stool, glass, craclety, furniture, boots and ehoes, and womoen's and childron’s drose goods, at two- thirds of tho prozont cost; whon overy hundred dollaru ie recoives will purchaao as much s ouo hundredand fitty doltarg will now purchiaso, howill bo that much bottor preparad to compata with tho paupor Inbororn of Russia and Hungary, When ho can sond Lis grain to market at one- half the cost of transportation that is now oxtorted of bim; whon Lho cost of produc- tion, tho cost of trausportation, and the cost of living shall bo thus reducod from 90 to 50 per cont, thon, and not until thon, will o bo ablo to compolo with the nunually-increasing product of tlio paupor egricultural labor of Europo. “Tlio agricultural products of this country aro taxad 60 por cent in order to protect n fow mechanteal trados from a supposed competition with tho pauper labor of England. Tho skilled Inbor af the Unitod Slatas needs no such pro- toction, nor doos it rocoive nny from theso taxos lovied upon tho agrioultural clnss In its namo, But the grain-growora of (ko country, who numbor half the population, aro dircetly placed In compotition with tho lowost claga of paupor labor in Europo. Tho lattor fix tho prico of Amorican grain ; and overy pouy of tax lovled upon Amorlean grain, whether in tho form of incronsod cosb of produotion, cost of living, or cost of transportation, isn tax lovlod to doprosa tho valuo of that grain to the pro- comparalively sorvile Croats of Hungary nud Russia, Mr. M. D. Conwy writes from London that Amoricn s roslly bocomo & hindranco to tho prosout rovolution in Europo in tho diraction of ropublicaufum, o tostifion thatthio variofs po- litical seandals, tho Onkos Amos Crolit Mobilior, and tho corruption Hngs throughout tho conn. try, aro paradod In publio Journals as samplon of o puroly domoeratio form of gévermunant, Though It I8 not altogothor just that such inoi- donts of domooratio governmont should Lo quotod a8 nccossary accompanimonts, it in riot to bo doubted that thoy Lavo a detorrent effcot espocially in tho Sclavome torritory, and i fow . ducor, aud eripplo him fn his strugglo with tho | upon all domooratio movements in Europe, and” that thoy sorve ng dxcolloyt argumonts sgainat ropublioan oxporiment; JUDGE LAWRENCE AND MR, PETERS, Oimicaao, 1, March 81, 1879, To the Tidilor of The Chicago T'ribune : Bun: Do you not do fnjuaticn to your friends, tho zadlrondw, in your aditorlal arlfelo of tho 20l nat,, cu- Hitled “ Ohiaf Justica Lawronco?". . - In that articlo you say, *Whon tho Farmora' Cone ventlon moots at Princolon, to maka a nominatlon, if 141n wiée it wiil nominato' Judgo Lawrenco® for o= elaction, who has siown thom tho only way in which thoy can freo thomsclves from ' tho oxactlos of tho radlroad monopolion, . Tho propoaition of Judge Lawzence, to ramit to tho cotirla to dotarmine whether ratiroad foros and dis- criminations bo reaonablo or, unrossonable, did mot emanato from thie Judgo, Ho only borrowed tho dea from tho railro They firat anggostod thin, which, you s o only way in which tho farmors can freo thomaclves from tho oxactions of tho Tallrond monopolles,” ) * In tho briof of Bockswith, Ayor & Kales, tho attornoya for tho Ohifeago, Alton & 8t, TLouls Raflroad Compans, An thoir caso with tho Pople, in which said opinion *of Judgo Lawrenco waa rondored, appeara tho follow- ingt " !"Tho Judiclal Department of the Government ok thio #olo authority to defermino botwosn tho publio snd tho sppollant (tho Ratlrosd Company) what Tatcs aro rea- sonablo and what aro unroasonablo, and what disorlinl- nntlons ero Just and what aro unjust, oo Vol,5, No, 23, Chicapio Lepal Netcs, of Tob, 22, 1879, pago 258, 1t yonr oditorfal of the 24th inst,, eutitied * Ratiroad Disotiminations,” be truo, that tho “said decision of the Bupromo Oourt s not {n the fntorest of the rall- Touds,” thon tho raflroads bavo oxhibited tho unper. alloled gonerosity of suggeating to Judgo Lawronco how o pooplo can defeat tho railroads, Thio Judge hins not revealed Lo tho pooplo * tho only way fu which they can freo themaclves from tho oxacs tions of tho rallroad monopolics,” biit said rovelationtl 1t bo onc) was from tho railrond themsolves, snd Judgo Lawrence ouly adopted thelr revelation second- hand, If thlnidos bo new, o8 you clalm, then tho credit Hhiorofor 1 duo to tho rallroads, and not to tho Judge. Agaiu: I ho Leglalature cannot dotormino whnt Tates or dlscriminations aro Just and reasonable, hiow can thocourts, ara matter of law, so delormino? Havo tha courts grostor legislativo power fhon tio Legislnturoitsclf? 1f Judga Lawronco's opinion bo correot, tlieso qdestlons aro solely quostions of fact, and not of Jaw, and havo fo bb detormined by fo ‘welglit of tostimony in each case, and neltlier courta aior Leglalatures can dotormino, na mattora of law, ‘whnt fares or dlscriminations aro ressonnblo or wnros« sonable, Can tiero bo doubt as o who will win—the railroads or tho people—in auch trials? Would tho railroads Lavo proposod this mothod of dotormination f thoy Liad not kuown that they could always furnish tastimony to outwelgl that of thio peoplo? Tho great and undoterminad quostion is, Ara tho raitronds subordinato to tho Constitution and laws of tho State, tho o8 {0 peoplo thereof 7 1 think they sre, Yours, ke, MiLToN T, Prrens, ANBWER. Tho polnt that Mr, Potors makos is more nlco than wiso, *Qur frionds, the railronds,” a8 ho calls thom with charming irony, admitted away their case fu tho Alton sult—if. that it is to bo takon ns a ropresentative of tho wholo contro- vorsy now going on, It Mr. Potors is & prac- tising lawyor in this city, he knowa that the briof of Beckwith, Ayor & Knlos in that caso i ro- gardod by othor railroad attorneys as contafning an oxtromoly domaging admission. Probably Mossrs, Bockwith, Ayer & Kales, who aro cer- tainly good lowyers, took ground which they folt suro would win this particular suit, and woll thoy might, sinco tho franchise, tho' very oxistonco, of tho rosd depended -on it. The ponalty, in caso the sult wont against them, was s judgment of oustor,—oquivalont to o fino of sovoral millions of dollara. Thoy wero probably justifiod professionslly in adopting sny liho of dofenso which would avort capltal punishment, But that {8 neithor hore nor thero. Tho quos- tion fa first, whothor the decision was good law; and second, whothor it was in the interest of the pooplo as againet tho railroads, Upon neithor of these quostions doos Mr. Potora throw any lightin his communicntion. Ho contents him- solf witha faw inainuations, which are unpro- fessional to say tho ledat, againet Judgo Lawronco, implyiug that lo lLnd bor- rowed tho iden of tho ‘decision from tho railronds—as though it wero mecessary for the Supremo Court to borrow the commonest principlo of the law relating to common carriers from one of the litigantatothosult! Supposing thoy had borrowed i## What nro counsol om- - ployod in lawsuits for if not to collect aud ar- rango tho Inw for tho consideration of the Court? ‘What s tho usc of Loaring the arguments of counsal if the Judges are not ab liborty to *bor- row" idess from them? Whatsort of courty bag Mr. Potors been in tho habit of practising in? But, to wupposo it necessary for Julgo Tawronco to borow -this por- tioular opinion from Beckwith, Ayer & Kalos, is to supposo that ho doosn’t road tho gowspapors,—lot slono tha law-books,—for this vory idea was sot forth inn lucid mauner by Judgo Wood, of Kankakee, only n short time 8go, in an opinion which was extonsively pub- lishod and circulated, “If this idon bo now, as you claim," saye Mr. Potors, with insinusting adroitness, “ thon the crodit thorofor is duo to tho railronds, and not to the Judge.” Wo have claimed nothing of the kind, On tho contrary, wo olaimed that tho ides wns a8 old as the com- mon carrler himeolt—that it datos from & romoto antiquity, and that it hos beon afirmed many timos boforo it was roaflirmed in this docision, It Mr. Potors is a candidato for Judge Law- rence's place, hio has farnished abundant ronsous why hie shiould not o votod for by lawyers. Wo think tho farmors will find oqually good roasons for withholding thelr votes from Liw, or any ono of his kind, bofors tho clection takos placo. Tho *Slato Gravgo," as wo aro advisod, havo approved the decision of the Court in tho Alton caso. Thoy are not mnearly 8o mervous ubout it a8 BIr. Poters | THE CUBAN REBELLION. All reports from Cuba agroo that tha Spanish forcos aro no nearer to tho supprossion of tho rebollion in that wnfortunato fslnd than they woro four or flvo yours ago, whon it first broko out. On thie other hand, tho ovidonco ls protty conolusivo that tho Insurgonts aro graduslly galning ground, and that tho fraodom of Guba atno very distant day fo by no means s im- possibility. Binco tho outbroak of tha robollion, Spaiu has sont, from Lmo to timo, botwoon 60,000 aud 70,000 troops, and the call for aid has not yob consod. Roinforcomonts from tho mothorcountry, Liowavor, canno longor bo oxpocted, Tho iutornal difficultics of Bpain consoquont upon tho rocent chango of government, the rapid and dangorous adyanco of tho Onrliats who aro alroady throat:, oning Madrid, and tho spirit of insubordination yinch i domoralizing tho Spanish army, must put an estoppal on tho farthor shipmont of troops to Cubs, A still moro potont auslliary for the Insurgonts 1 tho omptioss of tho Span- fsli oxohoquer. Bpnin hus no monoy; worso than that, no orodit. Sho 4 o bankrupt, The vory exiatanco of the now Republio i throat- onod by its hnpecuniosity, With an ompty tross- ury, snd no’ socuritles with which to nogotiato loans fn tho markets of tho world, with & poworful army hoaded by a soldier who 1has tho sympathio of the péopla throatoning tho Natlonal Capital, tho Cubsn ineurgonts Lavo evory roason to bo encouraged and to strugglo on with ronewod confldenco in their wltimate sue- cosg, In nomo rospoots thoy have gxoav sdvan- tagés oiithotr slde, Thoy rocrult from tho nogroon | and Ohineso laborors upon thio plantations, and cneh plantation which thoy overrun furnishos n vory considarablo and, at the gawe’ timo, vory willing neconsion Lo tholr rauks. nach ono of thoso Iniorora {5 armod with his sugar-knifo,—n wonpon as formidablo na tho bayonot in n fight. Thoy hiave no nood of a*commissary dopattmant, for the uatwal products of tho island,— orangos, yams, plantains, &o,, whioh grow ovorywhora In graat profuslon,—furnish thom with nbundanco of food. Thoy bave no noed of of quartormastor’ storos, u4 tho climato of tho ‘slond roquires Jittlo clotbing or sholter Having tho menns of subsistenco, sud clothing, and arma to a cortaln oxtont, already at hand, n Jonn trosaury docs not matorislly affoct thom. ‘Tholr'positions aro such that tho Apantards must saumo tho aggrossive, and must, to very largo oxtont, attack without artillery, as thoro arono ronds for Its transportation. If It is used at nll, 16 ‘must bo oarriod to tho seono of notion on tho Dbacke of mulos, In nddition to this, no systom of blockade which tho Spanish authoritios have yob established Liau boon snccassful in provon - ing tho landing of grms, ammunition, and mup- plien for tho Insurgonts, ¢ Tho renl condition of affalrs in the fuland in shown by ita offect upou tho Bpanish rosidents of Havann, Amorleans who havo recently ré- ~turnod from thoro roport that, while tho Spanish morchants of thnt elty talk but littlo about tho robollion, thoy wear a dojoctod look, and tholr facos oxpross an anxioty moro significant than words, Tho suthorities thomsolven ara no moro hopoful than tho morchants, They seem to havo given up mnot only "Cubs, but Spaln itgolt, sud, Loving conaludod that tho wholo thing ia tottering to its fall, they bave commonced o systomatio plundoring of tho rovenues In Iavans, and, in collusion ‘with cortain ringa in Now York aud olse- whoro, oro loading thomsclvos with booty proparatory to lenving tho wrock. Corruption, dofalontion, and gonaral demoralization smong tho publio oficials aro always tho signa of a bronking up. § Buch is o goneral picturo of tho condition of tho Cuban robollion aud tho prospeots of tho in- surgonts, Tho frionds of froo Cubn have every roason to bo oncouraged. Tho policy of our country, meanwhilo, should romain what it has boon,—that of strict neutrality, Tho policy of sunoxation which hus beon mooted In somo quarters is highly ropugnant to tho Cubans thomeolves, and overy cousidoration nt prosont is ogainst it. Tho Cubans themsolves would ro- ‘sist to tho bittor end any attempt to onforco it. Thoy havo nothing in common with the people of tho United Statos. Thoy aro n differont raco, spenking o difforent langungo, obsorving diffor- ont form of roligious worship, and aro of diffor- ont binbits, customs, snd feolings. Evon if thoy woro in favor of annexation, and tho way was cloar to if, there is no good ronson why snothor largo Btato ehould bo added to our Southern dominions, to bo dofotod to carpet-bag plunder- ings and corruptions. As far s tho quostion of tho emancipation of tho glaves s concorned, that will' soon settlo ftoclf, Dolwoon tho ro- bollion on tho ono hond, and the internal convulsions of Bpain and tho cmancipation of tho slaves in Porto Rico on tho othor, tho pooplo of Cubn aro already coming Lo tho con- clusion that omancipation would bo more favor- ablo to the praspects of tho island thun slavery. Thora is no good resson why tho United Statos should hiavo any other than commercial relations with tho islnd. As mattora look ab prosont, Guba is amply bla o work out Lomiown saiva- tion without any interferonco from us; and, whilo lior freodom from Spanish tyramny would o hailed with satiifaction, especially if hor frao- dom was socurod by hor own arms oxclusively, thero 6 no xenson why tho United States’ ehould bo mixed up with tho strugglo. Tn anothor column wo present tho dotails of n sorious casunlty which took plnco yostorday In tho Singer Building, With cuffering and loss of lito to sovoral of the workmeon, It is an oceur- renco that atira the community deoply, 88 it should, whon o party of worlmen leavo their Tiomos for thewr daily dutios in porfect hiealth, to bo brought home cruehod and mangled, lifeless, ormaimed for life, And inquiry should bo rigid into tho causes of euch disastors, In the hurry and rush of our great robuilding, it is surprising tliat those calamitios havo beon 8o raro. It is marvollous, indeed, that, with dorricke roared thicle as forost troca along our thoroughfaros, oud tall buildings rieing rapidly on all sides, thoro havo beon #o fow nceidents. Our work- mon soom almost to huve led charmed lives. But this doos not lighton tho blow of yosterday's calamity, nor abato the domand for caroful in- veatigation as to responsibility, From all tho statemonts on tho spot, however, it would scom thet tho accidont procoeded from that most forlilo source ,of poril to work- men—their own lnck of caution. The cool- ness with which workmen move through the most exposed situntions ofton calls o thrill of torror to tho obsorvor, Thoy swarm upon light seaffolding, clamber aronnd dizzy cornlces, trond tottoring ladders ag if thoy woro ferra firma, and push thoir marrow footbolds whera it would almost soom that a squirrol could not climb, Horo tho intogrity of a fow tonpon- ny uails is all that holds tho hoad of o family from o fall of an hundrod fost, and thore o slonder and worn-out bit of ropo is all that kaops half a dozen children from orphanago. ‘Theso focts do not lesson tho responsibllity of contractors and builders. It is not enough to warn workmon against the insccurity of an over- 16aded platform. Rosponaibility should go fur- thor, and provent tho uso of such a platform, Noman s fit to bo ontrusted with tho oroction of & uilding who docs not mako the eafoty of bhiamon tho first considoration, Tho rackloss- noss of workmen should bo taken into tho ac- count, and platforris should bo mado so thay thoy cannot bo ovorloaded, Tho publio statomont of tho Canadian Na- tional financos for . .yoar 1872 has just boon ado, sbowlng rocoipts of $20,714,818.68, and oxpondituroa of 17,689,468.82, showing o sur- plus of about 3,000,000, Tho surplus, how- aver, I only appatont, onch Ministor of Pinanco ‘malking it a point to oxhibit surplus at tho end of tho flacal yoar. Binca tho Confodoration, the Govornmont hus had o surplus overy yoar, tho wholoamonnting to ovor £9,000,000, all of which os boon expendod, and ovar $0,000,000 was added to tho National dobt, ‘To thne debt thoro s yot to bo added tho Pacific Railway loan, the conal finprovomont loans, and miscollanoous Habilitios of tho Treasury, which will givo Can- adn & vory roapactable National dobt Bufialo Xnrbor Opon. Burriro, March 81,—'uga aro moving about in Buffalo crook to-day, tho hoavy rains hoving romoved tho ice. Ono tug steamod out to open wator in tho Jake, . THE. PULLMAN 'PALACES. The G'rm;d Result of M. George M. Pullman’s Visit to England. Order for' a Supply of Palace Cars for the Midland Raliroad. The -System . Likely to Be Adopted on All English and Continental Railways. On tho 23tk of Decombor, 1872, Mr. Goorgo M. Puliman, Prosidont of tho "Puliman Pelaco Car Company, lott Chicago to go to Europe. Tho objact of bia visit is oxplained in tha: fol- lowing pasengo from n spooch mado by. M, W. P. Prico, M. ., Chairman of tho half-yearly mooting hold at Derby, England, Fab, 18, 1870, Wo. oxtraot from tho London Railway- News of Fob. 2. Mr. Prico raid : - During his rocent viuit to_Ganada and tho United Slaten our General Manager, Mr, Allport, was vory ‘much atruck witli tho vast amount of accommodation afforded to thio_travcling ubllo in thoso-countrics, and o male a apecial Lustness to study mota especial- Iy the meatin and appliances afforded by tho syatem known s Pullman'a cars, Adting unilor his wdvico wo woro Induced to fnvita Mr, Pullman to this conntry fo confer with na na to {he iniroduc- tlon of this syslem, at ol ovonta oxperimentatl and L am bappy to i you ot gontioman s 1 thfd country, that 1o is In this room (spplausol, and that T liave vory much sstisfction In Iutroducing bim to ‘you, (Applause.] T furthor hopo thot tho Midiand Gom- pang, which bia nitintod other groat improvemonts foro iow, runy also bo fie means of Intraducing to i Britih publio o moto of onvoyauce whieh rfleots 0 much cradit upon the skill, nud tho practical entor= priso, and tho practical sageeity of our cousins on tho othir aido of thio western oceari, [Applatic,) You aro you, awaro that by tila systom, it syslem ; accommiodation” equal o frst-clasa botol s ‘nffordod, botl by day and by night toall yamongers wiiog io pay for'lt By & small addition to tho amo: thelr, ordinary faro, Dy thieso means, ou tho other sido of {ho Atlantic, tho Tongesl nnd_most tedlous Jonrnoys, oxtondlug ovoy ‘many doys of dsy and night. truvelling, aro porformed ‘with, coruparatively apenking, vory Wit discomfort, “Mr. Pullman landed in Now York last Friday, and arrived in Chicago yestordny morning, hav- “ing mnde o most succossful businoss tonr. Ho - was undor no specisl noed of sooking businoss abrond, having all that bis company could do in thiis country, whoro thoy run ovor 700 eara over 110 different linos of railrond. Mr, Allport, Gon- coral Maungor of tho Midland Railrond, visited thia country last fall, passing throngh Chicago going and foturning, and ‘oxtonding hit trip west ward aw far s Ban Fraucico. Doforo ho visiod this country ho was no groat ad- miror of Amorican Tailway institutions,” Coming bk to Chicago from ncross the continont his viows woro materially changod. o visited Mr, Pullman at his offico in_this city, complimentod his improved modes of railway travel, and in- vited him to vislt England with n viow to placing Dis ears upon the railway with which ho was con- noctod, Ho much was Mr, Allport plonsod_that ho stated at n public meeting aftor his return that “while in America Lo had ridden a distanco af 8,000 milos with 1o graator songo of fotiguo than bo had exporionced in ridlng from London to Dorby." Tho Midtand Raflway Company is tho groateat railway corporation in Grest Britain, 1t now operates 900 miles of road, and will #oon operato 1,900 miles, having it northorn termini at Edin- burg and Glasgow, and lateral linos tonching overy important cily in England. Tho action thet it Ius takon in ropard to_tho Amorican rail- way systom cannot fail, therefore, to bo attendod with vorylmportant rosults, Therailwny syston of England s familiar to tho tourist, but not to tho uutravoled Ynkeo, Tho common Eng- lish railway conth is twenty-sight feet in length, and divided into four compartmonto, antorod nt tho eldo. They nra not romarkablo for any great ologanco of finish, nlthough tho first- cings conchos nro handsomoly upholatered. Thoy aro supported upon whoels unliko tho car- trucl used on'Awmoriean railronds, yiolding with & jolt at curves in tho track. On how American rallronds wuch sn arrangomont of whools conld not be usod at all. Luggngois carriod In * vans" ‘mudo for tho purposo, and on the tops of tho conohes, and novor checkod as In Amorica. Whon pogsongors_ reach tholr destinntion, lndios d gontlemen must wake a scramblo for tholr trunks and boxos, obtaining thom tho best way thoy can.. Tho contract of Mr. Pullman with the Midland Railway Company is for Lftcon years, corro- spondiiig with bis agroemonts mado with tho rallronds of tho United Statos, Tt involvos radi- cal changos in tho prosont railway system of Eugland: o Pullmeu Compuuy fe to buld eighteen'cars at thoir worke in Dotrolt, which are vo bo shipped to England and put_upon the Midlond Railway, botween Londonand Livorpool, in Soptombor next. Thoy will ho ologant coachas, fifty feet in longth, and will have ol the most recont improvements of tho Pullman systom. Tho day-coaches will hayo four compartmonts, & respect in which the English conchos and flio Amoricon parlor car alrcady correspond. _Thoy il ail bo placod upon the Amorican truck, and will havo the dotailed conveniences hithortolnck- ing in tho conclles of foreign railways, Tho Amarican checle systom will bo ndopted in all particulars, and tho bggage will bo carried in o boggngo-cor mimilnr our _own, Tho conchos will all have tho platform, and will bo enterod from tho roar, stead of 'from tho eido, as hithorto, Thoro will Do &wo traina cach wy botwoon Loudon and Livorpool, American in all rospoots, oxeept tho Totontion 0f tho compartmont syatom on all day conches, third-class travol, and fow other un- important dotails. A slight difforanco in tho gaugo rondors it nocossary to make thenew Gonches about 8 inchos lowor and 8 inchioa nar- rowor than thoso used in tho United Statos. Tho torms of running thocars aro tobo tho same 89 in Amoric. ~Tho Pullman Company fur- nishos tho crs fully equippod, with uttendants, and rups them for the oxtrs chargo, The rail- way will koop thora in fopair,and collct its usunl farcs. Tho prospect for tho goneral o of tho Pullman car not only on all 1ines of tho Midland Railway; but on ofbor railway linoa in England and on ' the Continont, aro excollont. Although thio wholo thing i an’ oxporimont, Ita succgss must bo considered nlrondy assured. “Iho above facts wore obtained from Mr. Pull- man, who was visitod last ovoning at his rosi- donce by o rtoporler of Tue Thmuxe. Of tho paragraph which has boon cirenlated throughout tho country, in rogard to a slooping-car nlrondy started on somo Euglish line, ho says that nothing of tho kind Tan really boen dono, Tho English rail- ways havo long bnd a pecial conch, whick could bo chartored by any persons dosiring to uo it, but which has never boen run oxcopt with oight tickots. This car has boon mado into throo compartmonts, ono which has six or oight chars that oon- bo mado’ into bods. This 48 all the apolg slooping-conol now used in Eug this is not ran on_regular trips. Mr. oxpresses himsolf hopofully respoctiog tho auc- cess of his oxperiment. His trip was o most agrooablo ono, and although Lo did not nogatiate with any partios, oxcopt the Midland Lailway Company, ho talked with many promiuont mon roupocting his mission, and way ovorywhore woll recoived. Ho doos not intond “to oxhibit ot Vienna. Tho Austrian Patont law is not _entisfactory, and if his patonts wora violated, o "could nover obiain adoquato ustico bocauso of vexatious logal delsys. The ueingss of the company i oxtendivg rapidly, and will soon nocossitato tho building of n largo manufactory, probably at Chicago, which wilt omploy 1,600'mon, Ono of tho grontast benefita o o dorlyed from thio introduction of tho Pull- man ears iuto Englaud ia likoly to bo the iu- crenso of Engliuh travol in America, whon 1t is discovorod with how littlo faligud grost dis- tancos can bo travorsed, : The Erlo Investigation, New Yonk, March 81.—The Erie oxamination was rosumed this moruing, and Johm Taylor Johnston was examined, Ho was a_member of tho old Board of Diraciors which doclared the dividend, but was opposod to_such daolaration. 1o thought tha Company ought to have boen on nound {inancini basls boforo declaring tho divi= dond, Mo did not boliove that tho' dividend could_havo beon paid without the monoy obe tnined from Enq]nnfl. It was tho English stock- holders who wishod tho dividond declared. e wa not awaro that doclaring tho dividond faolli tated tho nogotistion of bonda, * Tlomor Ramsdoll was uoxt eworn, and testifled thint hio was & momber of the old Joard, but ro- signod at tho Lmo of tho coup d'otat. 'Ho_bo- ligved unnocessary oxponsos wero inourrod at Albany by thoso who wont up to assist in tho pagsago of tho bill, ‘He undorstood that no ill wero passed af tho Lirio oflico unloss thero ‘yas avideiieo thnt 4omo eorvico ad boou xon- orad. Gon, A. 8. Diven was callod, and_tostifiod : Have boon a Dirootor sinco Maroh, 1873 ; was prosont at tha Board of Diroctors whon 1t was Yoted to declare tho dividend ; voted for {Ls dividond with somo resorvations bad not time to oxamino the statomont, and. was not Mte ‘uro thore. was o ~good: basia or tho dividond; voted for it on accau.t of tho Preaidont's ‘atatomont thiat tho road hiad gartiod that amount; the firat dny X camo to New York, aflor hocoming n_Diroctor of tio Erle, I -mot M. Vandorbilt, who anid I should: go'to Albany to nsniut in ‘dofeating tho pro ratn bill and tio Drovoned_roponl of tho Classifentfcn nots Iwould not go, hut enid I thonght &' o thottld bont n pet of ‘the oxpenyes in defenti g the bill; aftor the Loglulature had_ndjournce., mot Mr, Vandorbilt ngain, who stated the amoutl of tho oxponse, Lut could not toll how it wau ox- onded;, I promised to bring tho mattor bo- oro our Loard; tho only’ monoy T paid to partlos b Allany’ e to. Yan Vochton and_ Barbor, VanVochton {old o .monoy had beon Ynlll to membora of. both branchos of tho Loglalaturo, 1 waa told fivo or ofx Houators namos who woro sald to havo booy paid €6,000 each. T only romembor tho name of ono of thom now. Thoro woro no names of mome bora of tho Assombly mentionod. Rocoss, . AMUSEMENTS. AOADESIY OF MuS0, A lavge audionco flled tho Acodemy of Music, a8t night, on tho occaslon of tho firat nppoac- anco of Olara, & young Indy who has onterod the dramatio domain herotoforo almost oxclnatvely ocoupiod by Lotts, whono rival sho assumos tobo Tt was donbtless tho expoctation of seoing n suce consful compatitor in_tho Inttor's peouliarly pop- ular school of porformaucs thet induced Ho many pooplo to attond lnst night. It fa tobo fonrod thnt thoy found tho réalization for short of tho enticipation, lisy - Clara u o littlo lady of undoubted talont, which, undor skilful traiu- Ing aud Judiclous dirootion, would probably so- cuto for hor afolr mensuro of szecess § but slio now manifosts Hittlo benofit from althor training ordiroation. Sho has no claim to tho distinction of belng called a rival of Lotta, whoso fival sho in not in any Aoneo. Lot it bo' told Kindly, but plninly, that" sho hay mnch -to learn boford shiy ean como bofaro motropolitan audloncas na a: “atar,"—that tho attompt Lo 'Jump from the: bottom to the topmost round of tho lndder of: fomo, and georniu tho beuo dogroos” bobwon, will duroly” vesult I o fall. Clarn hus o bright; * pleasing “faco, potito, protty fignro, and dig. Dlays not n little ‘musiéal ability of tho protosn ordor. All thoso ndvantages wonld Lyring sno- cens in timo, If woll improved. Tut shio bug boon Durriod forivard toa fast. Tho 3 o'olosk train hos mrivod at 2 aud tho Inoxornblo timo table of paiusteking progross I endly dise arranged in consoquenco. ‘Tho sprightly little Indy lins boon singulnrly nfortunato {o bk dra- matio oquipmont. Tha play, “Sunlight” was writton oxprassly for licr, w aro told. DId Clutn over injuro Mra. LafittoJohnson, that sho shiould thus oxprossly” mar Lo flatioring prospocts ¢ Inall tho lood'of “epocial® trauh whith ovor- Tuna tho stago, wo know of nothing infevior to “Suntight.”” I¢ should o rechristoned * Drize 2lo,"for that It is, of tumo, commonplaco, thrond- baro and frequently coarso Incidonts unekilltully put_togothor. Tho sotross who could cood u epito of much o must o n gonius indeed. Clara desorves bottor at the hands of the guild of dramatic nuthorship, but sho muet leary, and tho coonor tho bottor, that_tho *introduction of offonsivoly vulgar elang {onds toward tho concert hall gnd vatloty show, and_docs not lend in tho direction of reputablo, logitimat enccess, Hor seloction of Hongs 18 not ospcoially happy, 86 thoy havo tho morit of neithor being new or popular. Ior porformauco throughout Is cruda aud unfinished.” It showa tho ncod of tho toning down which caro and tasto alono can_give it. Tho saprort by tlio Acudmy compuny va ouly pasenblo. It might bo inforrad that Miss Waite's ‘wardrobo has suffered sorious deplotion, s she, intho charactor of o wealthy and fashionabld young lady, could mustor but ono dress for ball- room or streot, and that a rather plain affair. Tho othor ladios of the company sliowed much Loiter taato, and moro olognnco in thoir cos- tumes. ACVICKER'S THEATIE, “ Articlo 47 was givon ¢ MoVickor's last avoning to.8 good audiouco. It ay o zplio to &co tho ladios tud gontlemon of the comyany ro- lonsied from tha Sholspoaroan straight-jackets they Linyo worn {o long, and onco moro walking the enrth in modoru” garh. Thioy appear to ‘much battor advantage in_** Articlo 47, whoro no “gtar” monopolizos tho illaminative privi- legos. Tho piozé If hundsomoly placod upon tho stage. A moro oxtonded notico of tho porform- anco i nocessarily doforred. FOOLLY'S OFERA HOUSE. Tho rovival of * Fato " brought out a good atiendanco nt Hooley's last ovening, Tho play fain tho hundsof o suporb onst, Miss Mook Miss Glovor, Miss Cowell, Mra. Macdor, and Measrs, Blaisdell, Dillon, Norris, Soggs, Wilson, ote, all acquitting themeolvos with signal oradit. 1453 placod upon tho stago evon more. ologantly: than bofore. " CITY ITEMS, Tho Coroner hiold an inquost yestorday on tho body of a babe, 6 months old, tho child of a Mr, Schultz, residing at No, 220 Fourth avauno, who dled snddonly on Saturdny night last, Dr. Em. ‘mons, Couiity Physician, mado n post-mortem oxamination and fonud that death wos caused by infatilo convulsious, Lagt ovoning, at 10 oclok; 8o broks ont o tlie basomont b Davy Block, under tho U. T, R. Shirt Manufactory, No. 209 Wast Madison stroot. 1t is supposod to linve originatod from tho over~ hieating of tho stoam-pipce. Tho waod-work of o stairieay, loading from tho bsomont to tho storo abovo, and tho intorior of tho bnsomont, was damngod to tho oxtont of §150. Tho alarm, was sout in from Box 914, it eich o BEORN NOT A CANDIDATE. To the Eilitor of The Chfcago Tribune : T wish to stato that my namo was placod upon thio © Paoplo's Ropublican Ticket” as o candi- dato for thoofilco of County Constable without my knowledgo or consont, 1 havo no objoctions to tho ticket, but I am not o _caudidato for tho oftico on any ticlot, and weuld not sorvo in that eapacity if olooted. MaLick VESEY. lsticaGo, March 37, 1 873, Suspected flurdorer Arrostods Corvarnus, O., March 81,—A polico officer from this city, Tnsk night, at Cadiz Junction, arrestod and brought hero o man, giving his namo as Da- vid I Drak, but who e alius——D.IL. Grogg— on suapicion of Lis conucction with tho murder of an aged Indy and child at Mattoon, Ill., some five wooks ago, Grogg camo to this city somo. tima Iast fall, and applied for work on tho_rail- road liore, and was sout to work near tho Pitta~ burgh ond of tho Pan Haudlo Road. At the tima of tho murdor, Grege was abscnt on cight days’ loavo, aud this, with his resomblanco to pliotograplis of tho iuspected party, cuused bis arrest. fiu was taken to Mattoon this ovoning for_oxamination. Grogg declaros he knows nothing of tho murder. i o flodocss Wasimxatoy, March 81.—Gen. Cauby fols ographs to Gou., Bhiorman that tho Coinmiitaion to tho Modoca orks woll, 1Ta eaya that on the 7th int. tho Modoca wero again invitod to a conforonce, and Col, Gillom, with n party, ox- amining the approaches to tho lava-bods, had a short Interviow with £wo of the most xugnin,fuuc, ‘both howoverof tho poaco party. He is of the opinion that thoy are moro subdued and moro amenablo to rorsoning than at the last interview. Canby thinks " that when tho avenues of ©eBCADC. aro closod, and thoir supplios cut off or abridged, thoy will come in, —_—— A Horrible Murder, From the Georgia Clipper. A horriblo wmrdor way comnitied in that por- tion of Warron County known as tho “Nock,” on Saturday, 16th inst., by & Mr. Ed. Olark, ipon tho body'of his wifo, Wo havo boou unsble to 860 anyono {rom tho locality whoro tha deed was committod, and aro thoroforo unablo to give full partionlars. Rumor states, however, that ho struclk hor blow with a largo iron epoko on the back of hor hond, cutting o throo-iuch gash, Ho then piled tho chairs and table over Ler lifcleas body, and, sotting fire to thom, took ono of hia childron in his arms and mado his oscapo. The fire burnod through tho floor, and tho' body of tho unfortunato woman foll to tho ground and ‘was plotend thiough aud throngh by the flling of a partly-burnod _eill—tho raggod ond of tho slll tore tho liver, Leart, aud _cuitrail out of the , lifoloss body. Wo also foarn that the youngeat . of tho obildron, which tho flond lofb In-the | burning bulding "with its’ mollior, was badly * urned. Sulclde. Barrnone, March 81.—William T. Landatroo, . ronior mombar of tho firm of Win, T, Lendatrect & Compony, commission morohunts, committed sulolde thid morning, During tho war ho sorved | a ehort timo as Colonol of tho Rloventh Hogl- mont, Maryland Volunteors, Burned to Dont Nasuvirre, Tenn,, Maroh 81, burned to doath hero thiu evoning, b} sion of & lightod Inup, {nta whish sho was tompting to pour ofl,