Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 13, 1873, Page 4

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San Franoisoo Minstrols, ( —_ 4 rorb}'n‘gmou's OIROUS—Madison stroot, cornor of GLODE THEATRE—Domlaines troat, butweon Madi- son and Washington. 16 & of Miss Oarlotta Hutey, * Critad: 0%, Bogrerof Oty Lifa.” lnton atreet, hetwoon Randolph o R Vit g laTateur . Vensh, ths Tiothide BATOHELOR'S AAIRL DYE. THIS BPLENDID uirdyo s the bost In tio world: o only truo and por: Toct dye. Harmless, rollable, and instantancous; nodiu lous tiita or unploassnt odor, Tor ARG i £b blaok or natuzal brown, a; ‘and bonutiful, Tho gontitue, signod Bl Dy wli _drasgiis. OIARLES Proprietos The Chicage Tribune, Tuosdey Morning, Moy 13, 1873 Twood I8 to bo tried again in two ‘wooke on tho chargos on which ho recently escaped con- . viction by the mismanngoment of tho proscou- tion and tho disagreoment of tho jury, Fitteon sdditional indlctmenta have licen fouud againet lum, on which his trial begins to-morrow. Sm—————— " The latw of Now York requires that at each " possion of tho Grand Jusy its attontion bo called to the onforcoment of the Usury laws. In ac- cordsnca with this eustom, Judge Davis yostor- dey charged the Grand Jury of New York to find indictments for the violation of the laws. — The Republic has boondeclared for by » Repub~ " lican Conferonce at Birmingham, Englsnd. How large or influontial tho meoting was doos not ap- poar, but its influonco is mot likely to equal smong ovorage Englishmen that of the om- phatic lotter John Bright addressed the Con- feronco disavowing auy eympsthy with thoir movement, and condemning tho wholo Ropubli- «can agitation, About a thoussnd of the miners who have 80 long beon on a atrike at the minos near Youngs- . town, Ohio, bave returned to their wark. Two or-throa thousand of the strikera still hold out, and tho ming-owners declare that’thoy will not toko them again into theiromploy.’ Their places aro to bo filled Ly immigrants, of whom 1,000 have been engagod in Now York. One hundred of thoso arrived yesterdsy snd went to worl, protected by the polico, The complaints which Liavo lately beon mado concorning the inspection of grain in this city oro ropeated from LaSallo, Ottawa, and other poiuts along ‘tho’ Iilinofs & Michigan Canal. Shippers aro said to bo sonding thoir corn East by rail; in somo casos taking it from warohouses . situated on tho very bank of the caual, aud bsuling it In wagons for miles to tho railway stations. They profor, thoy esy, to pay the oxtra fraght ond soll their corn a8 No. 2, rather than to send it by waoter to Chicago to bo graded rojocted. In- spactor Harper, it will be remombored, has ox- plained that-whenever corn has boon graded re- jected, it has beou because moro or less of it Was * damp or dirty, Thisisin accordance with the Iaw which forbids him to grade any lot of grain Ligher than tho poorest quality it contains. Civilization has yot somo work beforo it In thie country when two men can deliborately, in presonco of witnossos, and undor tbo delusion that they are doing an honorable nct, stand at ton paces apart and shoot each other to death. This is what the two young Virginians did who fought & ducl near Richmond a fow daya ugo, tho causo of which was a differenco between thom concerning some young lady. 1t was thought that the experiences of the war ' had blotted out with blood the false notion of clivalry that formerly provailod south of Mason & Dixon’s line. If the war had failed in any man- nor to eradicate theso idens, 1t was thought that dntimato relations with the carpot-baggors would bave completed the work, As both these sgencies scom to havo failed to breek down tho duello g8 an institution, it Is timo that the law should stop in and punish the survivors, whothor principals or seconds, in o mannor that will dis- coursge dueling in the future, “The Directora of the Milwaukeo & St. Paul Toilrond have boon holding & meeting for soveral days in Now York, which has given rise to sev- oral sorious rumors. Closo upon the statoment -which wo have pronounced at least promature, -that they had agreed to pool their earnings with thoso of the Chicago & Northwestern Company, comos the roport that thoy will rofuse to accopt the Bt. Croix & Buperior land-grsnt given thom by the Wisconsin Legislaturo at its lsst masslon. The grant is worth soveral milllon dol- lars, but ta recover it the roed must build about 810 miles of track, laying G0 milos this year and 40 miles cach succocding yenr until tho road §s comploted, The Milwaukeo & Bt Paul and the Chicaga & Northwestorn Companies ‘woro competitors in the lobby at Madison for tho land-grant, and ono of the reasons given for this rofusal of the succossful road to accept the grant {g, thiat thole rivalry will bo ended by the wirangemont to pool their carnings, and that ‘bot Companies are sativfled to have proventod other railrosds from gotting tho grant. The Chicago produce markets were rather losa active than on Baturday, and genocrally steady, excopt in provisions. Mess pork was oxcited, and sdvancod 50¢ por brl, closiug easler, at 10,76@10.875¢ casb, and 216.95@17.00 sollor June, Lard was quict, and 10@150 per 100 1be highor, closing at £0.05 cash, and $0.10@9.12}¢ mellor Juno, Moats were quiet and unchanged, at 03§@05¢o for shoulders, 85@83¢o for short ribe, 8Y@8%c for slort ocloar, and 10@113¢0 for sweet-picklod lams, Lake treights were modorately active, and easior, at @)o for corm to Duffalo, Highwines wero less aotive, aud a shade ensler, st 89360 per gallon, Flour was quiet aod un- phanged. Wheat was 1ess sotivo, and & #hade higher, olosing strong at 81.203 sellor the month, and $1.203¢ gash or sellor Juuo, Corn waa active and unchangod, -closthg biglér at 4030 acllor tho moith, and’ 433¢o sellor June. Oats wore quiet and stoady at §3!{@020{o cnely, and 3830 soller Juno, Ryo was quiel and un- changed at 60io. Batley was inactive and nominally nnchangod at 74@83 for common to good No. 92, IHoga were in good domand, and sold at $6,00@5.60 for poor to oxtra. Thooatilo mirkot was active aud flrmor. The exprossion of opinion acoredited to Dr. L. X, Hayos, tho Arctlo explorer, concerning tho losa of thoe Polaris and tho death of Capt. Hall, {a rather atartling. The statoment mado by tho survivors scarcoly warranta'the extromo conolu-~ slons that Dr. Hayes has repohed, viz ¢ o suspl- clon that Capt. Hall had boon murdorod, Yot Dr. Hayon'ideas concorning Arotio expoditions aro ontitled to sorlous coneldoration, and it is cortain that the statements of those who have oacapod 8o far have loft the Hall oxpedition in s mystorious and unsatistactory shape. Dr. Hayos cannot undorstand why the party rescued should have beon doserted by tho sehip, nor why thore should havo been tho roported division of storos, if thore Lad not boen somo troublo on board ; and he rofuscs to oredit tho statomeont that Oapt, Hall died of spoplexy, bo- causo that disonso is unkmown in tho latitudo deseribod, and Cspt. Hall was by no mesns of apoploctic habit, There are certainly some sin- gular foatures about tho whole caso, whick, as yot, remain unexplained. If thero was any mutiny or othor serious trouble on the vesse), ae Dr. Hayes scems to think, it s protty cortain that it will. como out, for tho survivors aretoo numerous to koop tho socrot. . It is also ontiroly probablo that tho Polarie will yot bo heard from. m—— It is fit that public attontion should bo drawn to an ordor said to hiave been jssued from Washington, o fow days ago, suthorlzing Gen. Emory, at Now Orloans, to soizo any stonmboat which ho might neod for the transportation of United Biateatroops. Tho order waa forthcom- ing upon a zoport madoby Gon. Emory, in which bo roprogented that Lo could not obtain n steamer to traneport his soldiers. This order proclaims the falso and dangorous ides of oxec- utive power which prevails in the presont Administration. Tho nation is at peaco; tho war powor Is vestod in Congross; ihe Govern- ment of the State of Louislana baa not called upon the Foderal Governmont in tho formal mannor required to put down an insurreotion ; Gon. Bhorman had espocially ordered Gen. Emory to tako no action in tho Louislaua difl- culties “which would require the sanction of tho Presidont;" the disposition of the Adminis- tration haa boon to retire as much as possiblo from tho complications whioh it had precipitated in Louisisus, and there was no military neces- sity which could bo cited in oxcuso for o invaglon of private rights. Yet it s ordered that. s United States Gonoral may seizo stoam- ‘boats at will, and for his own purposes, when ho oannot hiro them. If steambosts, why not any other proporty which & Goueral or commanding officor may deem nocossary or advautageous ? ‘Whero shall this kind of authority end? If an srbitrary seizure of private proporty i8 thus di- roctly ordered in timo of peace with impunity, what would bo the nature of & Government or- dor which tho poople of this country would be likely to regard in tho light of a dangorous usurpation of power ? . e RAILROAD CHARGES AND OPERATING EX- PENBSES. .The criticiom which some people down East aro making upon the recent Convention hold at the Astor House, in Now York, Is, that thero was no attompt made to present any tangible and usoful facts that might lead to tho solution of tho railway problem, The Convention mot, lis- toned to somo spoechos, and passed resolutions, tho purport of which was a domand that railway charges should be lowerod, that now linos shonld bo built, and that Congress aud tho Btato Loegis- lIatores should interfore to suppross railroad abuses in ovorcharging cnd discrimi- nating, It s ssfo to assumo that the farmers oxpectod something moro than this from the New York Convention. Thoso aro general domands which thoy have re- peatodly mado thomeelves, and which they sro more competent to sustain than any emall body of men nssembleéd in convention. But tho gen- tlomen who met in Now York might have mado themselves usoful to tho antl-mouopoly move- ment if thoy had collosted facts besring npon the gonersl quostion, if they had considered tho influence of theso faots upon the cruses of com- plaint, and had eubmitted the rosults of their investigation to the people. This i what must be done bofore tho anti-monopoly movement can be crystalized into = practical, working shape. Tho points of attack must bo well do- fined, or tho vitality of the movement will ba dissipated. e Among tho notual and important facts which tho Now York Convontion neglectod to consider, woro tho relations betwoon railroad ohargos and operating oxpenses, Tliore are many other cir- cumstancea affocting tho quostion of transporta- tion which are material to the completo compro- honsion of the difficultics, but theso rolations will serve to shiow what the Convontion cught to ‘have dono. Without a fair consideration of what tho railroads aro doing in tho way of lessening tranaportstion ratogand of what they are forced to pay o8 operating exponnes, it 1 imposaiblo to gaugo their rosponsibility for the praseut situa- tionr, Inthoannual report of the Lako 8hore & Michigan Bouthern Railway for 1872, tho Diroc- tors tell the- mtockholdera that ‘it hos bo- como ovident that low rates must pro- vail, and tbat a trunk line like this must depend for its prospority upon the incrosso of the volumo of ftn traffle.” Tho details of the report indicato that the man- agoment hiave pursued the policy thus sot forth, From 1808 to 1873 thero hos been a steady dimi- nution of the rates. In 1808, the rates of freight aversged 2.43 (two and forty-three-hundrodihs) oenta por ton per mile ; in 1869, 2.84; In 1870, 1.60; in1871,-1.80; in 1872, 1.87. There Las ‘besn, meanwhile, an ncreaso of freight earnings, but not in proportion to the Increaso in tho Increased 24%¢ por cent, but the froight actually carriod incressed 20}¢ por cent. All ihoso changos have been in the interest of the shipper, and in the dirootion of the vory polloy which tho pooplo demand,—an Incronse of business by a reductfon in rates. The roport points out that, it the rates of 1868 had boen rotained, tho Dbuslness of 1872 would have ylelded 23,183,781, or 23 por cont o the capital atock, instead of 13,618,400, which were the aotusl earnings, or barely 8 por cont on the iuvested capital, The Diroctors say that, but for tho subatitution of steol ralls for iron ralls In renowala of the track, those low raton could not havo been renched without ano- freight thot was moved, The freight carnings | rifloing dividends, It is farthor wortby of noto* that, while thia railroad has inoroased its faclli- tios, fmproved tho chbaractor of tho road, on- Iargod Its buslnoss, and roducod its rates, tho gross oporating oxponses and taxos woro in- cronsod, ‘Thoy amounted to 67- per cont of the gross osrnings for 1873, while thoy woro only 68 porecht for 1871, Asitis thodeolared policyof tho rond to reduce ratos and inoroaso ita busluess, it is fair to prosumo that tha increase in oporating oxponscs was through no fault of tho mannge- mont. + & Tho Take Bliors & Michigan Boutborn Rall- road ianot the only one which makes a similar axhibit. The following table shows tho snnual rates for the past flve yeara—tho earnings por tou por mllo-.of tho Michigan Central Railroads Through - busineas, 1,89 conts 3. The ssme tondonoy to gradual dooronss of rntos will bo found {n this statomont, and it Is worthy of note that tho reduction in local ratos has boen even moro steady and uniform than that of through rates. 1t isalso true that, with this deoline in earnings por ton por milo, tho oporating oxponses havo largely increased. It bos beon estimated: that tho cost of fuel and 1abor hns incroased 25 per cent, and that of ma- torials nearly 60 per cont. Iron xails now cost $00 por ton that formorly cost $70; stoel rails formerly obtalned for £00 now cost $125; ro- rolling that formerly cost 830 por ton now costs $40 por ton. Noarly all othor matorial nooded for maintaining tho rond has incrossod in prico proportionately. With this inoronse of oxponses, tho road has roducod its rates. Mr. David A. Wolls rocently mado an oxamination of tho Now York Contral Railrond accounts, and.found the samo facts,—an increaso in tho operating expena- o5 and & docroaso in tho freight charges per ton por milo. Tho Astor Ifouss Convoution should havo takon cognizance of those facts, and pointed out tholr import. If it bo truo that somo railronds aro making honost efforts to reduco rates, the pooplo sliould know what railroads aro doing this, and what railroads aro failing to do. so. I tho roflroads which dosire to .reduco rates find thomeolves ballked by Incronse of taxation, ad- vanca in labor, and tho greater cost of all tho materials thoy use, tho causes that produco those results should be run down aud oxplainod. No intolligont and successful fight agninst monopoly can Lo made without a full un- doratanding of those cause3. Itis woll onough to make such war upon railronda as will compol thom to reducoe thoir charges to living rates, but thoy cannot bo mado to do moro than this. Capital will bo withdrawn, aud talont and enorgy diverted into othor channols whenevor anything moro than this is enforced by thie peoplo. If, in the meantimo, thore aro false theorics of Gov~ ornmeont which constrain raflroads to pay moro for theirmaterial, thoir fuel, and thoir labor than thoy ought to pay, then it is tho duty of the anti-monopoly loaders to attaclk the causes over which tho railronds have no conirol, and to brenk thom down. THE MATTER OF STATE TAXATION. Bonator 8. P. Cummings, of Fulton County, at the close of tho Logislature, addresses a lettor to ono of bis conatituents, in which ho exultingly statos that It has boen determined at Springfield to abandon tho onc-fourth valuation heretotoro followod for State taxation, snd to ndopt the full, or cash, valuation. Mr, Cummings Lins con- sidorablo to say about making overy porson pay taxos according to the valuo of. hia proporty, but fails or omits to stato oither of tho vory ques- tionablo enda which are to be accomplished by this chango of valustion. In the Oonstitution there aro two provisions which hiave proved very objoctionable to local politicians. Thoy read as follows : 1, Oounty authorities shall never assess faxos, the aggregato of which shall oxcaod 75 conts per $100 valu- ation, oxcopt for tho paymont of indobtedness existing at tho adoption of this Constitution, unless authorized bys vota of the peoplo of tho county. 4, No county, city, township, sehiool district, or other ‘munleipal corporation, shall bo allowed to becomo in- debted in any menuner, or for any purposs, to an amount, {ncluding oxisting indobtedness, in thooggro- gate oxceeding 5 per centum of the taxablo property theroln, o bo ascortatnod by tho last nssessment for Btatoand county taxes. Tho effect of those has boen to limit taxation for curront oxpensos, snd also to stop further indobtodness. Intolligent and patriotio Bonrda of Supervisors all over the Btete are loud in condemnation of provisions of the Constitution which prohibit thom selling bonds and spending the monoy, and which rostrain them from tafsing funds by taxation to be by thom distributed. DBut there is another trouble in the way. Tho tax-robbing act of 1869 providos that, in all countles and towns which have contracted debts in ald of rail- roads, il State taxes collocted on any incresso in tho valiation of property in such countios and towns over the valuation of 1868, and all taxes on the proporty of railroads nided, Instosd of being paid into the Btate Treasury, shall bo held to pay thoe intorest on theso .gailrond-ald debts. The nsscssed value of taxablo property in 1868 was about $480,000,000, In 1871, it was 80600,~ 000,000, and it s now proposed to make it $9,000,000,000, The amount of moncy to bo raised for Btato revonuo for 1873 is £2,500,000. This comparativoly small amount could be as woll raised on the valuation of 500,000,000 a8 upon tho $2,000,000,000; but the rall- road-ald dobt snd the other dabt of the counties is boginning to be sorionsly folt, and now it {8 proposed by such towns and countios to avold taxatlon for that dobt by directing tho Stato tax to that purpose. Tho aggrogato rallrosd-aid dobt duo by coun- tlos, citios, and towns in this Btato is $13,693.058. Tho amount colleoted in 1871 to pay interest on this dobt was as followa: Collectod frow lovy for intarest. Qolleotod from property of aidcs Couuly taxes from nfded railroads, ‘Town iax0s on rafiroad proport Htato tsx on incroased valuation Tax not yet colloctod..ve..ve TOML. et ssavins sanseraanniessean oo nans $4,103,047 This largo sum was raised in about one-half tho countles and towns of tho Stato by direct lovy, tho act of 1868 only permitting a “ grab” of ©60,000 of Btato revenue for this pur- pose, It Is now proposed to quadruplo tho nssossmont of 1808, and have the Btate tax collectod on 8 valuetlon of $2,000,000 000, At tho valustion of 1871, the proceeds of tho tax on only so much of §20,000,~ 000 of proporty a8 ig in thoso particular counties and towns would be availablo for tho intorest on theso railroad-atd bonda; but if tho valuation of $3,000,000,000 be adopted as tho basis of taxa- tlon, then the proceods of tho tax on so much of the 81,520,000,000 worth of property se i found in these countios and towns will bo applioablo to pay the intorest on thess bonds. To raise the $3,500,000 neaded rovenuo for 1873 on the as- soaged valuo of ©2,000,000,000, will require v " THE CIICAGO 'DAILY TRIBIHVE:‘;'I‘UESDAY MAY 13,~ 187 wralo of tax of otd aiid orie-fouith mills on the dollar, But, undor. tho. act of?186D, this rato will havo to. bo fnoressed fn onder to supply the doflolenoy caused by tho diversion of {ho tax to pay tho local rallroad-aid debts. Tho' practidal oporation of this business can bo soon in'tho caso of Sangomon Cdunty. That county and its towna have a railrond-ald dobt of ©401,000. 'Tho nssossod valuation iu. 1608 was about $10,000,000; tn 1871, it was ©18,000,0003 in 1878, it will bo $53,000,000. It tho Btate tax was lovied on tho samo valuation ‘ns in'1871, the rato to ralso tho roquired rovenuo would be 8 mills on tho dollar, In thin Iattor case, the tax on Sangamon County for Btato purposca srould bo €05,000, of which 50,000 would bo paid into tho Btate Treamury as rovonue, and 810,000 a8 applioablo to intorost on the rallroad-sld bouda, Butin 1878 the 13¢ mills rato on the valuation of §62,000,000 will produce tho sasmo amount of rovenuo proolsoly, 805,000, but that rovonuo will bo paid into tho Treasury, aa follows: Tax on $10,000,000, pald in as State rovenuo. .,.$12,800 Tax on 42,000,000, Incroase in valtia over 1 2,500 Total tax of Bangmion COUntY.see ssseres s 806,000 Undor this incrense of valuation, Sangamon County, inatond of contributing hor legal sharo of Btato taxes, §05,000, will only pay into the Tronsury $12,600; and instond of having to ralso $52,000 to pay Intorost on hor local rallroad~ id bonds, that sum will bo taken from tho Btato Trossury and appliod to that.purpose, Thoro aro fifty-four counties in tho Btato having this kind of ‘Indobtednoss, Tho towns of Fulton County hiavo &’ hoavy dobt, To pay the intorest on tho railrond bonds requires over $1,100,000 snnually. ‘Thoy. propose, therefore, to appro- printe four-fitths of tholr logal 'obligations for, Btaté rovonue to pay thioir 1ocal indobtodnosa, If this wero & matter botwoon tho boudholder and thoso towns and countlos, which alroady sre fooling the consequences of tholr rashness in yoting theso railrond-ald bonds, it would be of no particular concern to tho rost of tho Biate: But tho countles which have no such dobts will hiave to meot tho deficionoy, and, instead of hav- ing to pay their proportion of tho two million snd a half revenue roquired by the tax, they will Dave to mako good the deficienoy caused by tho diversion of moro than a million of that rovonue” to poy tho local dobts -of' tho othor countfos. Tho time has now arrived, wo think, when the logality of sapplying o tax lovied ‘for Btate rovenuo to pay tho intorest on o local dobt contracted by tho City of Springfleld, or any other town, should bo tested judicially. In this wholo proceeding tho hinnd of tho bondholder is manifest. It is not enough that thoso countios shall bo mortgaged: all over to pay theso railroad dobts, but it is now proposed to lovy a tax upon tho property of all thio othor countios to pay tho principal and in- toreat of that dobt, . Tho ressons, thorofore, for incrensing tho as- mesged valuation of the property of tho Btato from five hundred millions . to two thousand millions of dollsrs are three: 1. That cities, towne, and countlos may quadruplo their prosont debt. 2. That counties may raise by direct tax for curront expouditures threo dollars whero thoy aro now limited to soventy-five cents. 8. That thoe interest on tho thirteon milllons of out- standing railroad-aid bonds, instead of boing raised by direct taxation on tho properly of tho munlelpalitios owing It, may be paid out of tho rovonuo raisod for Btate purposes. Wo submit that none of thoso reasons are sufficlont to jus- tify tho robbery thoy involve. —————— MORE PROGEESS BACKWARD. On tho 18t of May, 1873, whoat was sold in this market at.$1.15@1.25. Just thirteon yoars be- foro, May 1, 1800, whoat sold hero at$1.01@ 1,113, in gold: Tho premium on gold May 1, 1873, was 17 cents, and tho gold value of whoat at Chicago, * 93c@81.003¢—~threo to fivo conts lowor por bushel than it was thirtoon yoars ago.. Yo, {n 1860, wo wore axporting only - 4,115,168 bushols of whoat, and 2,611,796 ‘barrels of flour, or 17,218,893 bushels of whoat In sli; and last yoar our oxports of whoat wero 20,423,080 bushels of whoat, and 2,614,525 barrels of flour, or 98,005~ 695 bushels of wheat in sll. With a domanddor export more than twice as groat as existed in 1860, and with & orop of wheat far lessthan twico 88 groat, we find it selling for less money in gold tha it commanded in 1860. The necessary inforence is, that the homo mar- kot 15 not #0 good g it thon was; thas tha peo- ploof this country cannot afford to consumo as much wheat as thoy did in 1860. Thia is on ugly conclusion, espocially for the protectionists, who havo boastod of the wonderful improvoment in tho home market which their systom of taxation would produca. But tha facta prove that it ia truo, . y Tho consus of 1800 gave the - wheat crop of 1859 ag 178,104,944 bushols, and in the fiscal yeor during which that crop was marketed we ex« ported 17,213,833 bushels, leaving for consump- tion 165,801,091 bushels, or 4.95 bushels per capita. DBut the crop of 1871 was 230,723,400 busliels, of which 88,995,005 bushols were exported, leaving 191,726,705 bushels for consumption, or, with a population of 40,374,000, only 4.74 bushels per capita. Tho ratio of 1860 is taken according to population at tho close of that fiscal yoar, namely, at tho taking of tho consus, Juno 80; thorofore, for fair comparison, tho population of 1873 must bo computed with Just two years® increase since tho census of Juno 80, 1800, and cannot bo lower than the number sbovo stated. Tho estimato of the orop of 1871 1s taken from tho official report of the Agrioul- tural Burcau, which ordinarily allows too largo entimatos for crops. It appoars, then, that tho poople of this country in 1860 congumed 4.95 busbala of whest per capita, with Chicago pricos May1, $1.01@1.12 in gold. But in 1872 thoy consumod only 4,74 bushols of whoat per capita, and Ohicago prices now fall to D8c@$1,00%4 in gold. Not only s the homo market able to consume less whoat to-dsy than in 1860, in proportion to population, but the samo ia true of all cercals, In 1859, according to thio consus taken Juno 80, 1860, we produced of wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, snd buckwheat 1,239,030,045 bushols in oll, but during tho yoar ending Juno 80, 1860, wo oxported of these praducts 22,955,185 bushels, loaving for consumption in that year 1,216,171,- 091 bushels, or 88,08 bushels per capila, taking the population of Juno 80, 1800, as bofore, DBut in 1871, according to tho Agricultural Bureau, wo produced of the same oropa 1,628,776,100 bushels, and tho commerolal statistios show that during the yoor ending Juno 80, 1873, wo exportod of those produots 07,544~ 705 bushels. This losves for consumption during tho year oodlng Juune 80, 1872, 1,461,261,895 bushels of ceroals, or 86,19 bushols per capila. Wo mayadd that while tho con- sumption of 1871 Was lsrgor—and just onme ‘bushel per capita Isrger thsn the consumption of 1800—that of 1870 was still smaller, The oonsus glves us the faote for that year, boththo oropa of 1809, and the population by which they woro consumod j- 8o that the rosult for that yosr | 18 moro reliablo, and glvos a basls of more just comparison with the offioial recorda of 1800 than auy based {n part’upon ostimates, The orop of ‘coroals, acoording to the consus, was 1,888,102,053 hushols; the exports, 67,300,631 bushols; and tho consumption, 1,090,811,632 bushels, or 843§ bushels por capita—over four bushels less for overy inhabiiant’ than tho consumption of ton yoara boforo, Tho home market proves to he worth loss to the farmor than it was beforo the adoption of the protectlvo system, Ho js forced to ‘a greator depondonce upon foreign trado for tho consump- tion of his products, and espocially of his whoat, 1In1860 wo oxported only 10 per cont of our whoat, and in 1870 about 20 por cont ; 18.79 per cent of the orop of 1809, 22.50 per cont of tha crop of 1870, and 10.91 per cont of tho crop of 1871, Avorago for throe yesrs, 10.40 por cont, Inatoad of making him moro indepondent, this blossed tarift has mado him moro dopendent than ever bofare. And now, Groat Britain begins to got tho larger sharo of itu grain from Odessa. 'Tho imports of whoat into British ports for four yoars past comparo thus: - Tutal Fyom ' From imports, United States, Ruasta, aet, cut. out, 97,008,899 13,181,807 9,168,091 001, 13,871,922 10,200,198 150,407,040 13,405,057 16,629,435 141,900,228" 8,000,403 The rapid docrease in 1mports from this coun- try will arreat attontlon nat less than the graat inoreaso of imports from Russis—of which we ‘Thiave not tho figures for 1872, but the startling docreaso of Amorican wheat, taken with the in- cronss of 2,500,000 owt. in all British imports of Whoat, indicatos that the (mports from Rusaia thust bave riuen above twwonty million owt, Not loas signifiosnt {8 the deorense in British imports of Amorlcen flour, which foll from 2,148,261 owt. in 1870, to 1,704,805 in 1871, and to 743,412 owt. in 1872,. In 180t wo sont to England 9,704,865 awt, of four; in 1862 wo sent 4,400,684 ort., and in tho throe yoars 1861-8, inclusive, 58 por cont of all the flonr imported by Groat Brit- ain was from this country. ‘But in 1872 only 16 ‘per cent of hor flour imported came from us. In 1861-8 wo sont to England 87.5 per cont of all hor imported wheat; in 1872 wo sent only 20.5 por cont of tho wheat imported byher. With our foroign markets thus fafling, and the home ‘market ablo to consumo loss wheat per capita than {t did thirtoen yesrs ago, s it any wonder that pricos fall and farmers aro pinched ? Let thom put the blame whore it belongs,— upon tho iniquitous system of wholesalo rob- bory called protoction. By that systom thoe la- borors, tho groat majority of congumers in this country, are 8o ‘plochod that they cannob cou- sumo as largoly a8 they did thirteon years ago. Dy that systom, now a8 at overy other trial of its workings in our history, the natural incroase of oxporta has boen chocked, and the moat val- unblo foroign markets closed agalust us. By that Bystem tho cost of transportation and the cost of production havo both been enhanced, and tho farmer, plundored when ho sells, is alsa plundered whon ho buys, That systom is bis chie? onomy. Pormnpont relief for tho evils which oppross Wm can come only when he hes uprooted forover tho system falsely ealled. pro- toctive, = THE MORALE OF THE CINCINNATI FESTI- VAL, The groat musical fostival which closed at Oincinnati last Batuiday wasnot tho moro pass- ing evont of a weok. Its imporiance is not slono to bo measurod by the fact that it was tho groatest musionl euccoss of tho ago in this coun- try, groator oven than tho fostival which pro- codod it in Now York, under tho avspicos of the semo trud musieian and accomplished condaotor, but it was also an exporiment, which, bocanse it ‘was guccossful, muat have s lnsting and radical influenco in shaplng tho standard of musio in tho West, just as tho Now York fostival will bave in tho Eeat. In thoso rospects, Mr. Thomas bas proved himself a national benefactor and mado for himself a national reputation. He oo- cupioa tho same position to-day in - this country 88 Pasdeloup in France, Costa in England, Wag- ner in Bavaris, and Liazt in Austria and Hungo- ry. Ho 18 tho monarch of music, and his ediots will hereaftor bo oboyed, becausa he has shown himself to bo a compotent mastor, and has pro- duced & success out of puro musical merits, ‘without having recourso toany sensational or ox- trancous auxiliarics. Thero Lsa hithorto been no musical cvent in this country with which the Cincinnati festivsl can bo compared. Thetwo ‘Boston Jubilecs had nothing in common with it. They, filled s larger space in the public eye and ear, thoy made more noise, and were in the na- ture of very glittoring pageants, but they did nothing for music while they wero in progress, and, if_thoy havo Lad any influenco sinco thoy trauspired, it has boon & bad ono. They died and loft no sign. Tho Olnoinnati fostival was organizedds novo, out of apparontly crude mate- rials, and with many misgivinga on tho part of Mr. Thomas that the porformers wonld weary of their work, and that the public would not accept the work, even if they porformed it woll, Itwas in every rospoct a doubtful exporiment, Tho tastes of a cortain class of Gormans wero offended bocauso the festival did nothave the ‘boor and the Gemuotlichkeit of the sacngerfosts. He also ran counter to the Amorican tasto, which likes to bo tickled with noise and show. Ho put his fostival oxclusively upon its musical ‘morit, and thore he dotorminod It should stand or fall. Ho made only two domands: firat, that only the beat musio should bo performed, and sooond, that it should be performed in the best mannor, and he inslsted upon those.domends with the stubbornnoss of & musical Omsar. ‘What his programmes were i8 already known, They reprosentod the highest order of mualo, and fromthe first noto of the * Dottingen To Doum,” to tho lnst noto of the * Walpurgls Night,” with the intormodinte * Orphous" and tho Fifth and tho Ninth 8ymphonles, ho had not only thoe sympathics, but tho enthusiasm, of tho vast sudiencos, Five yoars ago, tho man who had eaid that an audionce of 6,000-pooplein Oincinnati would rlso to thoir foot and choor the Ninth Symphony, would havo been estoemed a madmen. Tho reason of its success, as well as of the succoss of all thoroat of the muslo, was, that tho poople heard it given for the first thne as it should be. It gave thom an indication for tho flrst timo that thore wna somothing highor and botter in music than the choap stuft to which thoy had alwsys listoned, and which was the common property of hand- organs and brass bands, country siuging-schools and Boston panjandrums, The amount of fatiguing work which was done by the ohorus and orchestrs, by Mr. Bingor, the chorus-master, and Mr. Thomas himself, by day aud by night, for several months, would hardly be belioved it it were told. Tho success of the fostival was Thomas' greatest reward, and hereattor, both in New York and Oluclnuati, theso feativals will bo the annual events. Noxt yoar thoy will also be hield In other placos In’ the United Btates, The fosnlbility of givivg one in Chlcago was dlse ousgod ‘in Clnolnriatl, and by no ono more earnestly than by Mr, Thomas himself. In ro- gard to such nn'ovont, thero are two important quostions to,bo consldered. Tirst, have we men sufffolontly intoroated in musle to guaranteo the oxponnos of such a fostival simply, for tho sake of muslo? We have mon enough wWho will guarantoo anyihing that makos & gront popular display and offors opportunities for advortising, But bave wo thoso eifMiolently intorostod in art, to do something for the sako of art, without reforonco to dollars and ocnts and solt-glorifica- tion? That. ls the first quostion' to be sutiled, MHaviog sottled this, have wo matorial for ‘& chorus? Wo' make no roforomco to moloists or fostru- montalists, for thoso ocould bo importod. Havo wo the alnging matorial? Tho Olnclumatl chorus was a vory romsrkable-ono. In refino- ment and quality of volcs, it has had no equal in this country. Throo-fourthe of It was from Olnolnnat!, and it was throo-fourtha Amorican, ond a largo proportion of its mombars, oapocial- Iy fn tho soprancs and altos, bolongod to- tha oldost and wonlthlonty fomilies in Cinolnnati, | This chorus studied and sang fof tho sske of musie, Thoro woro no joalousics, no bickorlngs, no soloista, No salaries worc paid them, and all paid thoir own oxponses, not evon hav- ing the reward of complimontary tickets for their frionds, - Tho Exccutive Committoo it~ self bought its own tokets, It is morally cogg tain that wo have not now the matorial for any chorus at sll, Thoro is not & socloty of mizod volcos in Ohioago, It" might bo possible to or- gonizo ssmall chorum, by dint of hiard lsbor which in tho courso of time would b ablo to pro- duco such music a8 was sung in Cincinnatl, but to ostablish & largo and competent chiorus seoms woll nigh Impossible, Chleago, like Now York, 18 n coamopolitan city, with & changeablo popula~ tion, and sproad over n great aroa of territory. It is only an old and atationary pop- ulntion of lofsuro and woalth which can produce .moh & ohorus, Now York could not do 1it, and =80 the Doston Handel and Hnyd\: Boclety, was imported for the oceasion of tho fontival in that city, Oluoinnati had the material at home, and its singers sub- mitted to a drill aad discipljne whick wore rigid- 1y sovero, and at the closo of tho fostival woro g enthusiastic as whon thoy commenced. Tha ronult of that fostival to-day is, that Cincinnati 15 tho first musioal oity of tho Wost. Chioagohas & musical public—that has alroady boon sufil- clontly teatad—but whore is our chorus? Whore are our sopranos and our altos who will endure Thomas’ discipline for throo or four- months at thoir own oxponso and with no Liope of 'a solo? One thing, howevor, is ‘cértaln, that if Obfeago would hold out o sufliclent financial and musical inducement, snd if its singors will subject thomeolves without mur- muring to Mr. Thomas' discipline, which has neither nonsense or child'a pley in it, Alr Thomss will mako the exporiment next spring, Thers is amplo time betweon mow and winter to think of it; but it must bo thought of with strict roferonce to art, and nono whatovor to show or advertising, Jubiloes of show can bo got up without musical labor, but festivals like those of Mr. Thomas aro organized to educato the musical tastoof tho people, and to develop tho truoe rofinement and sublimity of the highest class of music. - To do this must require months of hard labor, Ta Ohicago ready for a festival a yosr honee ? 2] ——— The Emperor William, of Germany, hns once moro boen mado a target of by, some ambitious fanatio, but, with the usual good luck of the Europenn sovereigns, cscaped with only s hole through his holmot. It will bo romombered that & dosperate attempt was made upon the life of tho Ozar, somo time sinco, in Paris. , Amadeus wag hardly on his Bpanish throno befora tho ngsassing tried to shoot Lim. Napoleon was whany times exposed to assassination, but seemod to bear & charmed lifa, and evon-the good Vie- toria has not boon exompt from the assassin’s conspiracies. Tho dispatches give no clus to tho cmuses which lod to this attempt upon the life of tho Gorman Emperor. His +visit to 8t. Potersburg, it fs now rumored, 18 for adistinot political purpose, and Bismarck wont with him to negotiate, or, at loast, to proparo the way fora troaty, itis snid, Tho Prussian pross has all slong eided with Russia in hor dosigna of making the. conquest of Kniva, and has assnilod England without rosorvo, The at- tempted assassination, however, could hardly have grown out of political matters. Tho assor- tion in tho dispatches, that it was & priest who fired the shot, would seem to indicato that rohigious troubles wore at tho bottom of the affair, The courso of tha Emporor, with reforence to the ponding strpgglo botween the Old Catholica and the Uliramontanes, and the rigid mannor in which religions establish- ments hievo beou rogulated and in some instances suppressed in tho Gorman Empire, may have led somo roligious fanatio to attompt the dood. Notwithstanding all the priviloges of royaity and tho splendors of courts, thoy must be very materislly oftset by the reflection that evory timo royalty goes off for rocreation it sots ltsolt up o8 & targot’ to boshot at, It maybe possible, howavar, that royalty bocomes sccus- tomed to the oporation 88 ecls do to flsylng, and that tho proverbial unskillfulness of the Lunters of royalty has coased to arouso any fears. The Iast decision rondered by Ohiof Justice Chaso, which would have- an interest on thia account alone, concerned an acoldent lifo in- suranoe poliey, The case came from Mich- igan, and was ono in which tho holrs of tho de- censad, who had como to his death by violence whilo waling, sued for $5,000, tho amount of an accidont polioy which ho had taken out for ono day on tho day of his doath. Paymont was ‘rofused because tho policy stipulated insuranco agalnst accidont sud death while *traveling by publio or private conveyance in the United Statos or Dominfon of Canada.” Tho assured proceeded by Ateamboat, aftor purchasing his insurance ticket, aud then walked about oight mmilen to his residonce, It was during thia walk that bo met his doath by violenco, Tho Miche ignn Courts hold that tho death did not como within the torms of tho contract, as walking was not “travoling by public or private convoyance," and Chlet Justico Chase's opinion afrmod tho Judgment of the Stato Court. i Church Disbanded, Bpecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune. Janzsyitie, Wis, Mny13,—On Bm.urdn;bn‘jhb Iaait tho Trusfoes of the Conrt Btroet Mthodlat Ouurch voted to closo the church, turn it over to the mortgageo, and disband the fociols , On 80e count of tho [nability to nfl’i{ the intorest on thoelr debt, and koep the bt ng in ropair. Yes- torday tho Sooloty ratlfied the voto, and the last servicos wore hald Iast evening, ~The debt amounta to neasly 10,000, most of which waa sdvanced by E, Romington, of Jlion, N. X. NOTES AND OPINION, It 18 vory much quosilonod by Repnblican nowspapors in Minnosots whother thia i & good yosr for Mr, William D, Washburn, of Minne« spolis, t6 run for dovernor, Tho Minnosols momber of the family doos not, itis underatood, agreo with tho Wikconsin and Illinois mombors in thelr rogard of the Farmorn' Movemont, * ~Lligiblo for Ollef-Justicos Roscoo Conks ling, of Now York ; Timdthy 0. Howo, of Wis« consin § Willlam M., Evarts, of Now Yorkj Qoorgo 11, Williams, of Orogon. Tho Conkling Intorost 1s backed by politlciana in Marylgna, Virginla, Wost Virginia, North Oaroliua, and Bouth Carolina (belng the now vacant Cireult), sinco Conkling would uudoubtedly arrango to tako his own home Oiroult, vice Ward Hunt, rosigiiod, leaving a placoon the Bonch for Qroawell, John Pool, Hugh L. Bond, or soma other good friend to the Adminlstration, It waa underatood, last winter, that Mr, Hunt - wan appolnted only to koop the seat warm until sucly timo na Conlkling might bo ready to take it. —The Pittsburgh Gazelle (Adminlsiration) s8y8: The position of tho Ohlet Jusiice should bo filled by person of ripe ngo, oniinont at tho bar, profoundl Varwod 1n thoo. brosdor. queations of tha Taw whic como before that Court for doformination, It should not be filled by a political parlisan, in tho uarrow sonso of that term ; but by & man of puro character, of high pt e, of solid attainments, and matura {udgmen ks far e v bunen ot one, in g Mt of thio montioned candidates, who mootn thie mato, . —Tho Rook Island Union doos not accopt as final tho prosa telogram from Washington thad tho Hon, Jobn B, Hawloy hina roturnod his oxe tra pay into the Tronaury, and saya thero are pe« ouliar ronsons, in this individual caso, for being suaploious. A brief line or two from Treasuror Bpinnor wonld solvo all doubts; but, then, Trosaurer Spinner's silenco oan only bo unlooked Dy the Congrossman in quostion. ~ —All over the country, from Maine to Calis fornis, tho pooplo and the pross aro beginning to tolk of tho now mon to bo next clected to Congross—in 1874, Itsoemsto be evorywhore concodod that *now men” will bo elocteds —Tho Freoport (1ll.) News saya: . ‘Wo approhiond a change moro radical than a: s cal ohango Auting tho Hiatory of oy e, s plnco during tho noxt two yéurs ; and that 11 1670 such turning of tho tables will ocotrog will toach politi~ ana that oy it obey iho will of thopoopla§ tust thoy must bo hioucat and” cconomieal, nnd logislate for tho good of the whale country s fhat monopolios, cliques, and Jredit Mobiliors esnnot control tho Exace ntivo, Judiclal, and Leglelativa Dopartmonts of thi Gavatament, = e —The farmors’ moverment (though thousanda of mon not farmora aro interoated in it) is an awnkening of tho masa of tho pooplo to Togain their own, It is, or may bo, & broaking of the thralldom of party. It will lead to the detoction of rascals who hayo done thoir wickedness bos hind tho acreen of party. It is & tumbling from their stools of local political rulers and mans sgora, 1If, with this suddon ronlization of power, the pnn})lo Tocognize also the dominion of consciance ; if mon realizo thatthe man wha says that kuaves cannot bo doposod from high placesia a coward, and that tho ‘man who votes for & rascal bocomos to a cortain extent respon- aiblo for that rascal’s conrso, tho country will be Eenm‘nlly Dlessod through thio presont moving of 110 masses,—Lewrence (Kan.) Journal. It i woll that the pooplo aro rlrsing to dlas uto with theso monopolios thofr right to imperil ho industrial entorprises of the country by their unrensonable demande,—Providence’ (X 1) Press. —The nation ean with as much propriety taka chargo of milroad routes a8 of water routes; while thero can bo no doubt thnt tho Constitu« tion glvos it power, undor the clause to rogulate commerco batweon the States, to do either—pros vided the public wolfare domsnds it. But it must move with discretion, and prosorve a due regard for the rights of sall. And this, wo un- derstand, {8 all that the farmers of the Wost dos mond.—Utica (N. ¥.) Herald. ~—The combination of tho Bhicefia & Northa wostorn and Milwaukee & 8¢, Paul Rsilroads throws the entire railroad systom of Wisconsin into the control of n powerful monopoly, and will bo almost cortsin to procipitata the anti« monopoly question upon tho poople of this Btate. Though our sister Btate of Illinois has boen dise tractod with s florco pgitatlon of the voxed quos tion, Wisconsin had not shared the exclhmm but now it is quite sure to epoodily enaue.—¢ du Lao ( Wis.) Commonwealth. —Tho Hon, Adeibort Ames, of Maine or Mas sachusetts, who now roprosonts {he power of Fodoral byonots in” Missiappl In tho Usitad Btates Sonato, has appoured in o now role. To the glory of his achiovoments in the arm; his 3 E{ngnlshud Distory in’the United Bonato, ho now adds the_titlo of Vice-Proaident of tho Nationsl Cheap Transportation Associae tion. Just think of Ames, & Wost Poiator by education, o earpet-baggor, and tho jauntiess kid-glove goutloman In the Bonato, fcoling an interest in tha neceasitios of the honost farmers and bard-palmed workingmen of tho United Btatos. His connection with cheap transporia- tion savors vory much of an offort to monuface ture cheap capital to aid in making him Gove ernor of Mississlppl.—New York Sun. . ~The mombera of Congress who united in tha pasuaga of this ealary swindlo scom to have sup~ posod that it would be & nino-deys’ wondor— something which would elicit comment &t the Dbegluning and immediately aftor the injury was consummated, but which would soon bo forgots ton and cense to bo an object of attontion. ‘This iden seoms not to havo boen justifled by subse- quont experionco. It is o mattor for continual commont, and the people do not forgot it.—Phile adelphia Inquirer. '—Whoroin it becomos loss of = crime for & Congressman to tako monoy out of tho public troasury and beatow it on somo loca! institution than to use it for individual purposes has not yot beon oxplained.—Forreston (IiL.) Journal. —Lot tho North learn that tho veriost military despotism is proforable to tho reign of savago blacks, lod, organized, and compacted by more savoge white nion. Wo do not gay this becanso Kollogg reigns. The differenco bolween Kellogg and Warmoth isnot worth the toss of a ponny. The ovl lies behind and beyond all this, and iz inherentand inseparable from systoms instituted by which ignorance and brutality may bo subor- dinated through the ballot-box to purposes of baaest selflshness, corruption, and scoundroliem, —Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal. —1If tho people of Louleiana find thomselyes unablo to roassort thair rights,thoy will probabl. koop up tho contost until tha sham under whic! thoy have beon living for yoars gives way to'n milltary govornment. Of tho two ovils this ia proforablo, and whon tho enbro io sgein placed eeross tho Polican Stnte, Cagsandra can move northward with her voico of warning.—Vicks- burg (Misa,) Herald. —TFrom present appoarances tho peoplo of the United Btates will not become fully soucible of tho torriblo consequences of Graut's despotism until it is too lato.—Galveston (Tex.) News. It it was tho Rev. Anybodyolse, with esy 8. J. after hig nomo, who was ap] ointed by Progi= dont Grent to mako o tour of the American Cons sulatos abroad, and not tho Rov. Dr, Nowmsn, would there not bo a howl about it all over this country, and when would tho last bo henrd of Priostoraft and Josuitry? ‘But why is any Rev. Dr. n[;lpahlmd on such & misaion?—Dubugue Tel- egraph. —Mrs, Btanton says: “Let women assist themsolves now a8 they have nover assisted thomsolves bofore, Lot them tako caro of thoir own intorosts, They have too long lob their bonevolent inetincts ~work toward the Chureh and mon; lot them now attond to themsolvea, Lot _the ohurches alone; don’t carpot churches, don't have fairs to deck thom \vht; palnted windows; don't give your minjeters donation partios ; put all your enorgics iuto earnest work for your own emanoipation. Make o social revolutlon. Cnrr{ the war, if nood Yo, into your own familics ; 1ot tho baby go with~ out bibs, tho husband's shirts without buttons, tho home without care, until tho mon give in. ‘Whon thoy find their comfort doponds on sltow ing us the ballot, thoy will whool into lino and giva it to us. Women hive too long patitioned and bogged of mon ; lot thom now ‘make slogs and carry tho war into thoir Lomos, It is coming t that, aivs, and it 8 going to bo & dorr pioco of businesa for you, Wa are going to vote “—~poacoably it wo can, but with war if we must." —Thogo who havo actually drawn tho money out of tho Fronsury and then roturned it, have recoguizod the fact that thoy ars guilly of taking that which did no$ belong to them, and tholr re- turning docs not do the head nor the Leart any oredlt, nor roflect nn{Klmnor upon thom, We do not rofer to cithor political party inpartioular,be« caugo tho mombors of each have boon guilty of tho same outrago, andare alike oulpablo; but wo wish to improsa upon tho minds of the peoplo of all partioa tho noccssity of repudiating the whola lot of political mountebanks who are and havo boon dlsgracing this uation for yoors past. —Pazxlon (IU.) Journal, —It in usoless for the Prosident of tho United Biatos to try to oconduct our Govornment an ‘monarchial’ p\lnv' for, while * Kings or Queens may dono wrong,” wa havo conolusive and un- denlable evidence thata Prosidant osn.—Du» buaue Herald and taten