Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 27, 1873, Page 4

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For Limploson the Faco, {nokhioads, aud Floshw T ot Gresk ‘Skin Rodlcing, Rorody—~tho Gros In Mot N o only by Db B U Verry, Dermatologisl, Eoudate, Now York, MPTION. OAN BE OURED-SCHENOK'S ronte B Bolicnck’s Hoaweod Tonle, Sohonck's Rmoaks g'mm'-’,' aro tlio” only modicinos thiat will sure alinonary Copstmption. i modiolnos’ that stop a cough will occa- e o0t i pationt. Tisoy Took up the 1vor, rtop the_ ofrculation of tho biood, hiomarrhage fallows, snd, i faot, tloy clo tho sotion of tho vory organs thal sansod tho cough. vor Complaint and Dsspopsia aro tho oausos of two- IS of the Laagh of Consuupiion, ® Bany porsons com= plain of a dull paln in tho aide, consifpation, coatod 0, pain in tho shoulder.blado, feclings of drowsinoss tfessnoss, tho food lyiny heavily an tho stomach, Jccompanted wiih acldity and bolohing up of wiod, Theso symptoms ususlly orginato from & disorderod sondivion of tho stomaob of & totbid livor, Peraons o aflectod, I thoy tako ono ar two hoary colds, md 4F tha ough in tiivea cancs bo suddonly otiockod, wil Iod tho stomson aud liver clongod, romaining torpld and waotiso, and almust boforo thoy aro a) mass of soros and ulceratod, tho rosult of wl fonthe MiENOCK'S PULMONIO SYRUP is an oxpoctorant ook o Cough suddenty. IHENOR'S BEAWIZIED TONIO dissolvos tho food, nfx"o{lfl:&’ u.? nciric Jutcos of o atomach, aids’ digor: 205, nd orosteen Tnvanuus appotito, Bownis aro contivo, skin sallow, or the symp- Avhon o bowals acq ontice, kin sallons SEAR AYAN: BRAREPIELS svo conrod. 1 byt Thioro medichios3rf ViERIHIRNCK & SON. The Chicags Tribune, - Fridey Morning, June 27, 1873, CONS! Macready, the lato tragedian, loft an catato of About 100,000, which is distributed by his will (o family boquests. All his mauuscripts aro intrueted to his wifo, who may publish any of thom at her diserotion, Sonator Carpontor's long-horalded speech at Janoavillo, yesterday, in defeunse of the back- pay stoal, drew an audienco of 450 people, half « of whom woro ladics, and most of whom are suid to have acted as if they wero attending o funeral. Threo hundred tin and galvanized-iron work- ors of this city met last night to protest againeg tho systom of lotting the Isbor of convicts in the Illinois Ponitentiary to contractors. ‘Choy and their employors find thomselves hurt by tho sompotition of a firm who have employed ono tundred of the conviets, They domand that the contract system bo abolished, that the convicts bo put to general work, and that tho products of their labor be sold st public auction to tho high- est bidder. Mr. Johin H. Daniels, a well-known bankor of Wilmington, in this State, susponded payment yestordny. His linbilities range from $250,000 to $475,000. The causo of his insolvency i stated to bo the failure of the Kankskeo River [mprovemont Company to pay the July interost on its bonds, which ho had guarantoed to the oxtent of $50,000, The sufferers are the busl- ness menof Wilmington, and tho Will County Troagury, which had a emall sum on deposit. Mr. Daniols promisos to pay 75 conts on tho dollar if his croditors allow him timo to settlo. Gen. 0. 0. Howard had tho handling of some £20,000,000, a8 Commissioner of the Frecdmon's Bureau, and, as Bocurity for Lonest dealing, he was roquired by law to filo o bond for $50,000. His associate Sub-Commissioners wero hold in bonds of 320,000 each. Tho unpleasant fact Is reported from Washington that nono of those bonds can bo found on record. They aro not in tho First Comptroller's offica, whora they should be; thoy have been looked for in the ‘War Dopartmont, where they ought not to be, and aro not thoro, The quostion is, Did Gen. Howard ignora the law, and negloct to fila the bonds, or wore they filed, and then quietly stolon back ? Dublin was the scono of a frightful riot on the 7th inst., of which full accounts are received by mail. The occurrenco of a lnrge firo gave tho tower classos a covoted opportunity for plander- ing and disordor. About 80,000 of them gath. sred in tho streots, overpowered the police, Arove away the fire-ongines, and atoned eoveral pricsts who atlempted to rocall thom to reason, Tho fury of tho mob was heated by liquor, which they pillaged from unoighboring wine- atores. After smnshing things gonerally tho rioters were subducd by the interforenco of tho milltary, but only after a brutal fight, in which they fought with bricks, ntonos, sud bludgoons. Fivo of tho largest railroads doing busincss itk this city havo signed tho agroemont to lssuo no more pasges aftor July 1, oxcept to employes and o thoeo ontitled by contracttoreceived thom, Thoyo ronds mro tho Illinois Contral, tho Burlington & Quiney, (he Rock Isiand, tho Northaostorn, and the 8t Puul. Tho Chicago & Alton Road rofuses to Join the movomont bocauso it is not sweopiug ouough. Iis Prosidont aunounces that overy pass herotoforo issucd by that road will bo re- called July 1, and no more passes will be {usued in any case. Tho Indlanspolis, Bloom- ington & Woestern, tho Peorla & Rock Island, and tho Rockford, Rock Island & 8t. Louis Rall- ronds doclined to sign the agreoment, but for what reason is not stated Tho Mev. O. H Fowler was yestorday formuolly inauguratod Présidont of the North- westorn Univorslty, over which ho has so accoptably prosided during tho past win- ter, In lis inaugural, Prosldent Fow- lor gave an intoresting statoment of the achiovemonta of the University in the sixtoon yours of its briof history, Ita staff comprises fitty oxporlonced cducators, mnd ita rank a8 & Unlvorsity is mesurod by the num- ber and oxcellonce of I8 echools, which iuclude Preparatory, Litorary and Belontifio, Modieal, Tloological, Logal, and Tochnological dopartmonts. Tho Commenco- mont oxorcisos of the University wore held on tho samo ocoaslon, and dogroos wore conforrad on the graduating claescs in tho Acadomic and Medical dopartments, Tho Commoucomont ox- orolsos of the Ohleago Univorsity, the Clty Nor- mal Behool, and 8t Ignatius Collogo were slso hold yosorday. The Chicago produce markets woro firmer yos- torday, and grain wns moderatoly activo. Moss pork was quiot, and 6o por brl highor, at 14.00 casly, aud $14.25 sollor August. Lard was quioct and firm at 8.05 por 100 1bs, Moats wore quict and strong at 0@0}4o for shouldors; 73{@75¢o for short ribs ; B@8go for sliort olear, and 9X@ 111¢o for swoot-picklod hams. MHighwines wero dull and nominally easter, at 88@88}go. Lako freights wore active and 3¢ lower, at bige for corn toBuffalo. Flourwas dullandstondy. Whoat waa moro nctivo and 3¢@10 bigher, closing nt §1.20 @1.20)¢ cash, and 81.173¢ soller July, Corn twaa activo and }¢@5¢c highor, closing at S4}(@34}fo for now recoipts, and 330 sollor July. Oats wero notive, and ¢o highor, clesing at 2834o for cash or soller July. Ryo was quist and firmor at 60, Darley was quiot and stondy at 51}4o for good No. 2. Ifogs opened active and firmor, but closod woak. The cattle market was without decided ohange. Bhoop were lowor. Young Walworth is given & good character by Lis unclo, tho brother of the murdored man, who says that Frank was as noarly perfoct as may bo. Much of his mother's toatimony s of only collnteral interest, relating thoe story of her married life with Mr. Walworth and the mannor of their secparation. Her husband wag always in the habit, sho says, of carrying a pistol. 'Two letters wore submitted by the do- fongo, ono from Frank to his uncle, tho last ho wrote bofore the murdor, and the othor, Mr, Walworlh'a last lettor to his wifo. Theo Iatter i a pitcous appenl to be allowed to 800 his childron, written in a style of high trage- dy, and interspersed with vaguo throats. It warna Mrs, Walworth to keep Frank out of his way. This lotter nover roached Mrs. Walworth, It woa intorcoptod by Frank, and was the occa- sion of his last journoy to New York, Bofare Ieaving ho wrote his unclo, inclosing tho inter- coptod lotter, aud stating that ho wns about to g0 to his fathor in Now York ; but, beyond an ob- souro phrase or two, nothing that ho says shows that he liad taken any such desperato resolutions o8 his subsequent actions would indicate. BENATOR CARPENTER'S DEFENSE OF BACK- PAY. Wo present elsowhero, in full, Sonator Matt, . Carpenter's speech on the Back-Pay bill, de- livorod Inst night to a portion of his constitu- onts at Janesville, Wis. It may be ncceptoed as the ablest dofonso of the Congressional nction in this mattor which can be made. It is cortain- 1y an ingonious and well-constructed argument, and if it will not stand, then tho apologists of what tho peoplo call the salary-grab may na woll givo up thelr position ns indofensiblo. Wo do not bolieve that it will stand. We do mnot loliove that it will convinco a dozen peoplo that the voting of back- poy ‘was not an Importinont outrage. Wo do beliovo, on the contrary, that those who have oxpocted a satisfactory explanation from this speoch will bo dissppointed. Tho fundamontsl error of the whole offort is the assumption that, if it can bo demonstrated that Congrees had con- stitutional authority for its act, the actitself may be justified. This constitutional authority has been clearly demonstratod by Henator Gar- pentor, But it bos novor been doniod. The popular coudemnation of the salary-grab has been with the full knowledgo of this authority. To coufirm tho suthority, therofore, with a con- stitutional argument, at this time, is simply bogging the whole question. It fails utterly to meet the eriticism of tho people. Tho constitutional authority given to Congress to fix its own compensation was mado in an ora of pure patriotism, and with a confldenco fully justified in the earlior yoara of our Government by the consciontious offort of Congross to keep down tho pay to the lovel of exact compensation. If it had boen suggested, at tho time the Constitution was mado, that Con- gress would some doy take advantage of this privilego to-vote away the people’s monoy for Its own benofit, in the faco of & great popular protest, tho suggestion would have beon put away as unworthy of credit and altogether vile. It, thon, tho day huscome whon a Congross doliborately abusos its priviloge, the mon who are responsiblo for this abuso ara accountable to the poeople, aud canuot find protoction in the aathority which they have subvorted and de- gradod. Mr. Oarpenter clatms that Crodit Mobilier is the canso of all tho uproar about tho malary- grab, 'Thereis no doubt thatit hos had somo- thing to do with it. - Had thore not boen evi- donces in the Credit Mobilior caso, and in tho Congrossional troatmont of that case, and other wmatters of a epirit of corruption among our public men, tho people would have been more inclined to regard the enlary-grab as prompted by puro motives, and tho reaultof an earnost conviction of ita justice. Dut, back of all this, ia a ressonuble .cortainty that the sal- ary-grab could not have beon passed had it not boen for’ the loose and corrupt ten- dencies of official lifo evidenced Dby the Crodit Mobilier transactions, Mr. Carpontor's rocognition of the influenco which a roputation for unfair dealing in public life has exerted in socuring a condommnation of tho back-pay bill has botrayed him into the error of defonding Crodit Mobilier, in order to proparo tho way for justifying the salary-grab. o revives the old patriotio tall which was tho fashion when the building of the Paciflo roads was undor consid- eration. o recounts the listory of the roads, and speaks of ¢ postponing the lion,” which is his way of doseribing the saorifico of the Gov- ornment's socurity, Ho says the Governmont haa not boen dofranded, and rofers to the vari- oua construction contracts which wore oventu- ally grouped under Crodit Mobilior as mere busl- ness arangoments which turned out at a profit. But he Ignores tho evidence of n broach of trust on the part of thoso who had the Goyv- ernment intorests iucharge; of tho donations of stock; of tho fraudulont transactions that at- tended tho lotting of contraola; of the implica- tion of mon in high places; and of tho tacit indorsomont of, all thoso frauds by tho action of Cougreuu'.' It is not noceseary to go ovor the ground again, Tt is obvious that, if the justifl- cation of back-pay depends upon the dofenso of Oredlt Mobilior, Mr, Carpontor has placed him- solf In a worse position than he occupled bofora, A large portion-of the epeoch {s dovoted to the purposo of proying that 87,600 is a falr compon- sation for Congressional services, and, s tho Conatitution uses tho word compensation inotond of ealary, it wan nocessary to fix this sum as an oquivalont for mor- vicos. It the word “componsation” is to be literally countruod, thon Congroun falled in not voting a larger amount to such mombets a8 do the hard work, and could enrn moro monoy outsido of Congross, and cutting off tho groator numbor with s small sum, and many of them, who actuslly oarn nothing, without o dollar. As it would bo immnulblo to do thin, it is ovidont that the word * compensation * wna intonded to moan n ixed salary. As nmatter of fact, * com- ponsation,” in the sonso of oquivalont, doos not ontor into the question. Mr. Carpentor has un- neoessarily made an exhibit of his private bank account. o says hio can savo no money. Yot ho says, also, that ho earncd last yoar $10,500 in Lis logal practico outalde of Congress, Add to this tho 87,600 ealary as Bonator, and Mr. Carponter had au income last yonr of $18,000. As ho waves no monoy out of this amount, ho might olnim that 18,000 is nocos- snry for the support of himself and hls family, and, if ho is oxpooted to devoto his wholo timo and ability to tho intorosts of tho Govornment, {ho Government should pay him 18,000 & yoar. Othor gentlomen might domand $30,000, $26,000, or 560,000 on the samo basls, Incidontally, Mr, Oarpontor endeavors to fix upon thosa gentlomon who have rotused to tako tho back-pay o deliborato violatlon of the Con- stitution, which says thnt thoy * shall receive o componsation for thoir sorvices,” Ho then pie- tures tho dangors of violating the Constitution iu o style that would have boon admirable as applied to Loulsiana offairs, and which is cor- talnly vory humorous (a8 he probably intonded ittobo) in comncction with a rofusal to take ‘back-pny. ‘Whothor or not the sum of $7,600 is only a fair componsation for Congressional services is o circumsatanco that docs not affect tho retro- nctive charactor of the bill. This Mr. Carponter justifios becauso thero was no contract, under tho Inw, that mombers of tho Forty-second Con- gross should serve for £5,000. This is true onough. If thoro were such o coutract under tho law, Mr. Carpontor and others who haye takon tho monoy might oxpoct to bo sued for it. But thore waa a taclt agreoment, when membors of Congrosa solicited tho suffrages of their con- stituonts, that they would ssrvo for the salary thon fixed. As the flrst Congross fixed its own compensntion, and g8 othor Congrosscs have chavgod the rats, Mr. Carpentor claims that overy Congress may moke & change ovory day if it chooses. Porhaps so. But wo venture to ssy that futuro Con- grosses will bo slow to take advantage of the prorogative. The increaso of pay in 1856 and 1866, to which Mr. Carpontor rofors with par- ticular stross, occurred undor circumsatances that offer no apportunity for comparison. Tho in- orense of 1856 wes from $8 a day to 83,0000 yoar. Thero was no popular protest against it, and the incroase was mado just prior to a Presi- dontial oloction. Would tho lato Congress have darod to mako the incronso beforo tho late cam- poign? Tho increaso of 1866 waa from $3,000 to £5,000. It was a» just concossion to tho in- crensed cost of living, aud thore was no general complaint of its unfairmess boforo or aftor, It was mndo just beforo a Congressionsl cam- paign, snd not just nfter. It was ab & timo whon tho country bad faith in the deatiny of tho Ropublican party, and confidence in the integrity aud patriotism of Republican londers. Congross was still engagod in the work of roconstruction, and tho adoption of what was not regarded as oxcessivo pay was an insignifi- cant evont ua compared with tho vital intorests at stako, Tho incronso of 1878 was at tho fag- oud of Congross ; was tacked on to the gouoral Appropristion billin sch & way that ita dofoat would have endangored tho wholoappropriation ; was tho supplement of a long sories of publio abuses; was condemned in advance by the people ; and was another ovidonce of the selfish and corrupt purposes of the men in power. The cages sro not parallel, but, if they wore, two wrongs does not makoe ono right. Mr, Carpontor's speoch may borogarded as the torlorn hope of tho ealary-grabbors, and it has failed. The offort may have been honestly con- ceived, but it was unfortunately undertaken. Tho poople will join with him, with o elight vari- ation, in tho closing ontiment of his specch: “Womay hope that tho present sore, fidgety, sickly (im)morality will somo timo give placo to tho manlyand healtby vivtue taught by the Mastor of Nazaroth." THE I0OWA REPUBLICANS, The Iowa Iepublican State Couvention has nominated Gov. Carpentor for ro-clection, It adopted tho Maine roxolution thanking Congress for exposing the Credit Mobilior robbory, and urges tho punishment of thoso who may hore- aftor commit such crimes. Not n word of con- suro for those who have been convicted already, nor & word of cengure for the selection of ono of the Credit Mobilier stockholdors as Ministor to Jopan, The pnssage of tho back-pay salary bill is denounced, and the roponl of tho law incroas- ing salarics domanded, but not s word of consure for tho Prosident, who, being tho rocipiont of tho largostineronse, signed tho bill making it alaw,and making it &0 far as o is concornod irropealablo. "Tho same Convention resolved that tho Repub- lican party consists of thoso who are opposed to slavery ; who believe that all men nro entitled to oqunl political and civil rights ; who favor the administration of tho laws 8o a8 to sccure the same rights to all; and who bolieve in free schools, froe opinion, and universal oducation, If all porsons thus described composo the Re- publican party, who ave those who do not belong to that party ? Thoro is not a party or man in the United States at this time, outside of the Re- publican party, who is not opposed to slavory, and who is not in favor of thoe political and civil oquality of all citizons, To claim or intimato that thero is auy differonce of opmion on theso questions among the Amorican pooplo is, to expross it mildly, the snggostion of an untruth. Tho declaration that, as tho Republicau party hnd abolished slavery, and had done various other things, it was now oqual to the seltloment of all othor quostions, was & wesk bogging for meroy at tho hands of the outraged and plundered poople of Town, who, disgusted with tho falschood, corruption, and treschiory of the Republican and all other political parties, have resolved to take tho choico of governments into thelr own hands, and to out looso from all organ- izations which have mno principle or pure pose save to smooure oflees and divido the plunder they may obtain. Tho empty coffors tho Tows Colloge Fund, the refusal of the par- ty Loglstaturo to prosceute the guilty mon who . uppropriutod (ho monoy, and the' equally gullty mon who connived at and permitted the robhory, aro facts which stand out {u strong contrast with tho profossions of Louesty prosonted on the ovo of tho cloction. Our advico to tho farmers of Town Ia to pormit no man nominated by & Dom- ocratlo or Ropublican Convontion to ho olectod, If the farmors of the country ever propose to malco tholr powor folt as agalnst monopoly, lot thom do so mow. If thoy permit this Towa oloction to go by defsult; if thoy pormit party o again overrulo thoir purpaoso to opposs monopoly, thoy may as woll abandon suoh purposo sltogother. If the farmors of Towa aro too much davoted to parly to voto for thoir own Intorests, thon they must look, as thay have dono in tho past, to party to atill furthor strongthien tho bonds in which they aro hold by corporato and othor Loldors of special privilogos, A victory over party and politiclana in 1878 will sottlo tho quostion of a union of sll opponontss of monopoly throughout the country. — e THE HOT-CORN CASE. Tho Committee of tha Board of Trade appoint- od to invostigato the posting of hot corn in the’ Fulton ond Northwestorn Elovators yostorday mado & xoport, in which they declared that the propriotors wora justifled in posting the corn aa hot., The Committes think proper in their re- port to criticiso tho action of Tur TamuNzin publishing o statoment that tho corn in the Northwestern Elevator, which had boon posted, upon being shipped was found {o have beon bub very slightly injured, and that possibly not over 1,600 bushols of tho 23,000 postod was, in fact, hot. Thoy accompany the roport with statomonts by tho proprictors of the ealovator, and of their subordinates, and of tho Inspeotor and his assistants, to tho offect that tho corn wag hot,—so much 8o that it was not sound corn. Thoy publish also tho statomont of Bir. Boymour, ono of the ownorsof the corn, to tho offoot that tho corn was hot snd cool in stronks ; that it was muoh better than ho ox- pected, but he would not say what proportion of it was good and whot was hot. Tho tostimony of Mr. Marble, in which ho statos o conversation with Mr. Boymour, had the day after tho shipmeont, indicates that Mr. Boymour was not 80 doubtful at that timo a8 ho secms tobave been whon tho Commitico saw him. ‘Wo made tho statomonts without any purporo to do any porson wrong; wo made thom upon what wo deomod honost xoprosontation of facts by thoso intorosted in having tho truth madoe publie, Upon their information wo made tho statement, and, assuming it to bo true, we com- monted upon it 05 wo thought tho facts warrunt~ ed. Our roporter recoived his information from Mr, Thomas H. Boymour. Tho difference bo- tween that gontleman's statoment to tho Com- mittoo and to our roporter is & matter we cannot oxplain. INVEBTIGATION OF GEN, HOWARD, Thero {8 no official in the Unitod Btates who stands 8o thoroughly in need of investigation ag Maj.-Gon, 0. O, Howard, lato Commissionor of tho Froodmon's Buroau, Frosidont of the How- ard Univorsity, and Havelock of tho Amorican army. Thoro is no bottor time to investigato Maj.-Gen, O, O, Howard, late Commissioner, oto,, than the present, as thero aro no other in- vestigntions pending, and thoro will bo mno difiienlty in fluding out the exact truth of tho worious charges which aro laid ot his door. Moj.-Gon. Howard i8 in an awkward dilemma, It s morally certain that ho is either & very unforlunate, a very caroless, or a vory unscrupulous public official, Circumstancos have cither been cruelly ogningt him, or olso ho has managed cir- cumstances for his own porsonal good. Itis duo to him, therofore, and to his frionds, that an investigation shall detormino his real position,. Thoro are manf who boliove him to Bo”intiocent of any eorrupt intontions. Thoro aro many othors who believe thab ho has boon euriching himsolf under the garb of rolig- fon and pgonerosity to the blnck wards placed undor his charge by the Govern- ment. The snnouncoment that the Attornoy- Gonorol hias decided to commenco suit ngainet him in the civil courts will bo received with vory gonoral satisfaction by all clasges of pooplo ; by those who are his staunch dofonders, as woll o8 by thoso who havo doubted lus rather osten- tatious displays of roligion and philanthropy. Theo suit in question ia brought to recover a cor- tain amonnt of money for which Lo failed to nc- count 28 Commissioner of the Freedmen's Buroau. Of tho fact itself, which was long ago stated on tho floor of the House, and which has boen roiterated ecorcs of times sinco in a varioty of ways, no donial has ever been made. The financial statomonts of the Burenu during his sdministration have been published, and show for thomsalves that they were kopt in tho loosost and most unsyatematio mauner, and ulso exhiblt a very serious doflcit. The fact iteelf boing one of plain record, tho suit must tend to show whether he was simply incompo- tont, was decolved by his subordinatos, or whother howas a dishonest man, who was en- riching himself out of his pratended love for tho black raco. % If this was tho only charge against Maj.-Gen. Howard, it might bomot and epoedily decided one way or the othor; but thore is another chargo against him fully as serious, and which has an indirect boaring upon the former, aocloso, indecd, that it will hardly bo possiblo to try tho first {ssuo without bringing the second, or some foaturos of it, into court also, Bhortly after tho organization of tho Freedmen's Burenu, it was decided to cutablish a university for the ed- ucation of tho blacks. Gon. Howard was mado Preaidont of tho institution, and it was called Howard Univeraity, in complimont to his sor- vicos in bolinlf of the froedmon. Tho property of tho University waa turned over to it by Gen. Toward from proporty belonglug to the Burcau. e was thus Commissioner of the DBurcau and President of the Univorsity at tho samo timo. As lio could not perform tho duties of tho lattor oflice, and, indood, has been absent in Arizona during the most of hiy time, he magnanimously doolined any salary ss Promidont. It I8 now chargod, however, that somo wonths ago tho Trusteos, under the load of that model of incorruptibility, Bonator Pomeroy, voted Gen. Tloward §12,000 back pay, making tho salary ox- tond bacl to the first moeting which was held to cousldor tho project of establishing the Uni- vorsity, aftor tho Congrossional baok-pny fash- ion. This action ocourred Loforo the University was incorporated, aud since that time soveral moro thousands have boon addod to this smount, tho total amounting to about 830,000, It fs fur- thermore clarged that tho institution je in dobt $100,000, for which tho very property which Gon. Howard conveyed to it Is mortgaged; "that 1t ran behind over $10,000 Jast year; and that the currout oxpensos cannot be mot with- ont stlll further mortgaging ita property, The institution is virtually on the verge of bankrupt- cy, and has not anawered the purposos for which it was ostablished, g Tho chargos, whioh are claimed {0 bo matters of record, have an ugly look about thom, The accounta of tho Unfvorsity are as hopolossly con- fusod as thoso of tho Freodmon's Buronu, snd that an incapablo man of this kind—concoding that ho is honest—ehonld be allowed to draw & Major-Gonoral’a pny in the army, which bo {a not gorving, and an oxorbitant salary from an nl- moatingolvont Univorsily, which ho is notsorving oitlior, 18 simply o publio scandal, Tho Trustees aro now investigating the affairs of tho Univor. sity, and tho courts will Iuvostigate Qon. How- ard, Tt will bo nn outrage if both thoso investi- gotiona are not mado in the moat thorough mnnner, 8o that it may bo finally docided to what clroumstancos his present position is duo, aud whothor he should furthor serve the Government in nny flduciary capacity, o has cost the Government very doarly, It is duo to the Govornmont that his caso should bo scttled. It I8 duo to Gen, Ioward that tho suspicions of the peopls rolative to his honesty ehould bo romoyad, it thore I8 no ground for them. If he s not hon- ost, it is duo to the Congregational churchos of ‘Washington, to which ho baaboen making lavish donations, that they should know whore the monoy comes from. If hois onlya blundering incompotent, that fact ought o bo made known, Anything to sottlo the question and ostnblish Lhis propor status, for the affalra of Maj,-Gen. O, 0. Howard, Iato Commisslonor of the Froedmen's Bureau, President of the Howard University, and Havelock of tho Amorican army, aro gotting to be & nuisanc THE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS. The oaso that attracted so much attention in Cincinnatl and throughont the country, as to the uso of tho Biblo in the public schools, has juat beon decided by the Bupromo Courtof Ohio. Tho ongo bogan in the action of the Board of Ed- deation of Oincinnati, which body, on Nov. 1, 1869, prohibited * roligious instruction and tho ronding of religious books " in the common schools, and ropealed go much of tho rogulations a8 roquired that “the opening exorclses in evory dopnrtment shall commonce by reading & por- tion of the Bible, by, or under tho direction of, the teacher, and by appropriato singing by the pupils.” An application was made to the Bu- porior Court of Cincinnati for an injunction to rostrain tho Board of Education from putting this prohibition into effoct, and tho writ was granted. Tho cago was olaboratoly argued, and the roport of tho debates and of the judgment of the Court was publishod, making s Inrgo volume. In nddition, thoro were seversl public ‘mootings held, and the action of tho Board of Education furnished o toxt for many sormons in’ tho churches, not only of Cincinnati, but 1n all parta of tho couniry. It now turns out that, in tholong arguments bofora tho Buporior Court and intho judgmont of that Court itaclf, the only question of law involved was not touched at all, Tho Buprome Court of Ohio have had the case boforo them for somo timo, and on Tuosdsy last unanimously declded as follows ¢ 1. Tho Constitution of the Btato does not enjoin or roquiro religlous instruction, or the rending of ralig- foua books, in tho public achools of tho State, 2. Tho Legialature having placed the management of tho public schools under tho oxclusive control of Direotors, Trustecs, aud Dosrds of Education, the Courts Lave mo rightful authorily to interfere by dirocting what instruction shall bo given, or what books shall bo read therein. The Cinciunati Commercial atates that tho docision of tho Supreme Court is in accordance with tho gonoral oxpoctations of the Dar of Ohio, There boing no law requiring religious instruction or the rending of the Biblo in the public achools, and the Doard of Education and tho Bchool Directors being fully authorized to presoribo the courso of study and the books to bo used at tholr discrotion, tho Courts bave no suthority to control tho exerciso of that dis- crotion. This places religious inetruction on the same footing with instruction in arithmotio, and tho use of tho Bible aa a toxt-book with the uso of Mitcholl's Goography,—to bo excluded or changed ot the discrotion of the Board of Education, Tho other question, ‘whother o School Board may include religious instruction and tho use of tho Biblo a8 a toxt- book, was not decided, thongh the spirit of tho decleion is to the offect that the authority of the Bchool Boards is final a8 woll in tho introduetion 88 in the oxclusion of books and studics. There in » Stato Convention now in sogsion in Ohio preparing a new Constitution for that Btato, sud this decision of tho Court will probably lead to o controversy in that body botwoen those in’ favor of sccularizing the common schools and thoso who inaist upon religious instruotion as part of their courso. A roligious principle being supposed to exist in this caso, the strugglo over it In the Convention will :probably bo a warm one, A MEXICAN RAILROAD SCHEME, A contract has been made botween the Moxi- can Government and tho Moxican Intornational Railway Company for tho construction of a rond from tho City of Moxico to the Pacific Ocean and tho River Rio Bravo del Norto, the dotails of which Lave just come to hand in tho Cosmopol~ dtan of Juno 6, & papor printed in tho Mexican Capital. As thoy will be of intereat in showing how railronds aro constructed in our neighboring Ropublio, wo reproduce some of the moro img portant foatures of tho contract. Tho fourth articlo providos for an ingonious list of induce- monts for the Company to hurry up their work, If the rond is floished in nino yenrs, tho Company gots but $100,000 as akind of promium ; if in eight years, $400,- 000; in seven yoors, £000,000; in six yoars, $1,600,000. Tn sddition to this, tho Govornmont grunts a subvention of $0,000 per Lilomotre, which I8 equivalent to about $13,600 per milo, for which tho Government issucs non-intorest- bearing bonds, payable by 8 por cont of the im- port dutics raceived at the custom-houses in cight of the principal citles; and s further grant of right of way to 65 motros of land in width. Tho ninth articlo fixes tho capital of the Com- pany at £50,000,000, divided into hundred-dollar eharos, aud the tonth fixes the gaugo of tho rond at 4 foot 8)¢ iuches. Tho eightoonth articlo doclares the froo transit of pnssen- gors, muils, and merchandiso ncross the Mexican torritory, for the torm of fifty years, ‘whon not destined to remain at any point within the Republio,—which probably means that thore shall be no import tax ouemerchandine passing through the Republio and not destined to ro- maininit. In case of transportation not going through, the CGovornment gots 60 conts por passongor aud for each ton of merchandiso, which is to be handed over to tho Government overy six months, The nineteonth article pro- vides that the Company, after the Govornmont Enginoeors Liave oxamined and approved the sec- tions of tfo road, sball fix their tariffs not to oxcood tho following rates: TPer ton of 2,000 pounda for morchandise: firat class, T cents por kilometre, or 11%¢ couts pormile; soo~ ond clasa, 5 couta ; third olsss, 2%¢ cents. For Ppassongera s Firat olass, 4 conts per kilometro, or 03¢ conta por milo; rocond olass, 2§ centa, Aftor two yonrs, tho tariff may bo modified, but always must gooure to tho sharoholdors a roturn of 10 por cont por annum. The tolograph rates aro not to axcaod 25 conts por 10 words for & dis- tanco of 100 kilomotres, or 60 miles, and 2 conta moro per word for each additional 10 kilometres. Article 20 sooures to iho Govoramont the tranaport of troops, ete., at a discount of 60 per cont on the ordinary tariffs, immigrants on- joying tho mame favor, and for fif- teon yoars tho postal sorvico shall bo froo of chargo, theronftor bolng subject tu srrangomont with the Government. The Gov- ornmont further protocts ita intorests by declar- ing that nt lonst 120 kilometres, or 72 milos, must bo conatruotod oach yonr; that the Com- pany shall bo hold to bo Moxican and debarred from all claim to allego the rights of forelgnors in any way ; that tho Company ehall not be con- siderod organizod untila copital of 2,000,000 hiag boen subscribod and 10 por cont thereof pald inj that tho road cannot be transforred to any forolgn company; that the Company shall mako an annual statoment, of tho mont comploto charnotor, of ita condition and 1ts oporations, and that it shall also givo a mecu- rlty in tho sum of 400,000 to tho entlafaction of the Government, na & guarantao for tho faithtul ©oxocutlon of the torms of the concosslon, and that tho failure to givo thia socurity within oight monthe from the dato of tho concossion shall mako tho contract null and void. Thoso aro tho principal torms of the contract, and they show that, if tho Mexicans do not know how to fun & Republican govornmont, thoy undorstand Low to build & groat publla work quito as woll ag oursolves. Tho * Blatars of 8t. Mary ” is the name of Protentant Episcopal association of ladios, some- thing attor the stylo of tho Oatholic Bistorhood. Thoy have two schools for girls, ono in Now York City and the othor in Pockskill, which bave just boon closod with cxaminations. The echolars aro algo organized ifito two soclotics, tho ““ Guild of the Holy Obild” and the * Guild of 8t. lilds,” with hours for charity-sowing and rulos for visiting tho sick and poor. Tho dross and customs of tho Bistorhood aro very similar tothosa of tho Cathollo sociotics, Thoro are threo grades of memborship, Thoy romain pos- tulants for six months; thon bocomo ° nov- icon for two years; and, ot last, pass into professed Bistorhood. The order is governod by a Mother Superior. Do- sides the rogular sistorhood, thero is a branch | called tho ‘ Gray Bisters,” who live at their homos, but spend ona month evory yoar at ono of the institutions undor the management of the Bistors of Bt. Mary, during which timo thoy woar & gray habit and give up cortain hours to prayor. Tho houso of tho Sisterhood hus a chapol attached, in which thore are no soats, ox- oopt tho stalls for tho Siaters. The altar and surroundings sre doscribed as giving tho im- prossion of a Oatholio church, and, nside from tho rogular roadings of prayer, there is o special sorvice of the Holy Communion, whon twenty-one candles aro Mghtod. Tho ob- joot of tho Bisterhood is charity. They give tholr particular attentton to tho caro of tho sick, the needy, fallon women, and tho oducation of youth. Thoy maintain & House of Morcy, which is o quict rotreat for outcast women, and have projected a *“St. Mary's Houso for Invalids.” Tho intention is an- nounced of spreading their sphere of usefulnees, and it is said that o branch will soon bo cstab- lished at Memphis, Thero seems to be no rea- son why an organization of this kind may not vie with the Catholic Blstorhoods in doing good, unloss it bo that the disciplino of the Protestaut Church ia not strict cnough to hold them to- gother in tho eame harmony of notion and stoad- fastnoss of dovotion. A Fronch scholar hag recently published a pa- por which the Now York World thinks demands tho immediate andspecial attontion of theliquor- proliibitionists. Thisgeutlemau provesthat cow's milk, at tho moment that it is drawn, contains & porcentago of alcohol, and that this percentage increasos by a slow procoss of fermentation while tho milk is allowed to stand. If this bo truo, and the Fronch writer oleims it a8 an as- cortained fact, tho quostion ariges, Ia there any escapo from alecohol? If bread and milk aro charged with alcohol, what othor form of food is thero that man can useand escape tho horrors which are alloged as a nocossary consequonce of taking alcohol into tho systom ? It this bo truo, we suggest that the thousand-and-one milk carts that supply our citizens with milk, being no more than peddlers of ‘liquid poison,” distributora of “mixed drinks,” itinorant whiskoy-shops, and rotailers of fire-water, should pay liconse, and should be subject to all the rogulations governing tho salo of liquor, including tho Bundaylaws. But the devil—assuming for argument’s sake that ho su- porintenda tho production of alcohol—has not contented himself with mixing the poison with tho mill of cows; ho has, it is suggosted, ac~ tually incorporated it into the founts whence humsn infants draw thoir natural suse tenanco, aud overy mother, wlule nour- ighing her child, supplies it with a certain percentage of nlcohol. Whother tho Mayor and Common Council should roquire s liconso from those mothers, is a question for oaroful consideration ; and whethor, when that day of universal beatitude shall arrivo when tho g0 of alcohol will bo absolutely probibited by law, mothors must refuse their infauts sll ro- courso to the maternal springs, and nourish thom on something which doos not contain aloo- hol, is a question that will have to bo docided at that time. In tho meantime, do these domostie disponsaries of alcohol fall undor tho olass of institutions that ought to be closed on Bunday ? nnd is it theso ostablishmonta that Ald. McGrath proposcs shall be allowed to he open for business aftor churok-hours on Sunday ? The Czar of Russis has administored a severe robuke to tho Russlan women students in the Univorsity anud Polytochnio Bohool of Zurlch, Switzorland, It scoms that the young Russian women have been guilty of mixing in political agitations, Therois a * Blavonic Democratie- Bocialist Bociety,” & * Blavonio Contral Rovolu- tionary Committeo,” and o * Slavonio and Rus- sian Beotlon of the Intornational Socloty,” at Zurioh, to which theso orring daughtors of tho Ozar bolong, and into which thoy are enticlng numorous young malo Russiana, The Ozar also atatos thot many of them have beon doludoed Dby tho communistio thoorios of froe love, and, under tho protection of a flotitious marriago, 44 wet in uttor forgotfulnoss of all tho fundamen~ tal principlos of morality and decorum,” and to such an extont that lodging-houso-keopors hesi tato to tako thom into their homos, In view of this atate of things, tho Ozar anuouncos in Lis oftioial paper s Lo order to put an end tq this abnormal atato of things, it Is heroby announced to nll tho Russian womon who attond theso loce turos at tho University and tho Polytechnia Boliool of Zitrleh that such of thom aa shinll cone tinuo to attond tho nbovo lecturos nfter tho 1st of January, 1874, will not bo admitted on thelr roturn to Rusala to any oxamination, educations ol oatablishment, or appolntment of sny kind under tho control of the Qovernment.” It ro- mains to be seon what action the fair Blavonia Dolles and rovolutionnry propagaudists will take in tho promisos. It {s Lighly probablo, howevoer, that thoy will enap their fingors in tho face of tho Ozar, and that, if ho won't lot thom return to Russla after thoy hyvo complotod their studios, thoy will pack up and go Woest, whero thoy can do s thoy ploase, without boing robuked bLy Ozars or any ono elso, ‘We printed yostorday & communication from a gentloman who roprosonta himnolf as s stocke holder In two ‘Westorn roads, in which Lo cons domns tho rosolution of tho railrond monngerd to rotnin tho practico of issuing commutation tiokots ata lowor rato than tho full rogular farc. Ho holds that this fa *“a direct dircrimination, on tho part of the railronds, in favor of the rich men who s ablo topay ot oncefor 25 or 100 ridos againat the poor man who is not ablo ta eparo 60 much money at once.” Weo do not think that tho facts warrant this age sortion. Tho argumont in favor of come« mutation tickots has always boon based on tha advantagos which tho syatem affords tho poores peoplo, thereby onabling thom to buy cheap homos in the suburbs, and support their familios moro gonteolly and cconomically Tho groaton smount of patronage which they give tho ronds i8 & rongon why tho roads should make tho cond cossion in prico. Under tho Massachusetts Ratlroad law, the railroads are compollod to fssua commutation tickets, After tho presout Ralle road law of Ilinois was drafted without a pro vision that tho railroads may issuo coma mutation tiokots, tho force of publio opinion induced tho Loglslaturs to incorporato this featuro. It would bo a sorious hardship to the poor poople if tho commutation systom were dropped, for the rich could afford to pay the full fare for their two trips or moro n day, while tha poor poople could not. The cases must bo very raro in which tho men who is able to havo his. home in tho country is not able to Luy 25 or ovon 100 rides at o time, by which ho saves from G0 to 100 por cont. When such cases oceur, the obatacle may bo romoved by the joint purchase of this number of rides by two or moro partios who tako tho samo train. It seoms to bo tha inevitable destiny of some English olorgymen to got boforo the courts on ono chargo or anothor. Tho Intost instanco is that of tho Rev. Dr. Rouben Allundez Berson, & graduate of Cambridge, and ostensibly a clorgy- man of tho Prosbytorian Church, who was ar~ roated recontly for bigamy, having married Misa Emily BSarah Boulton, while his first wife, Emily Gamblor Xidd, was still live ing, Upon lnvnéugn_flon of the circumstancea, it oppeared that the much-morried clors gyman had beon carrying on a whelosalo systom of yoduction, if not of marringe, by moans of ad~ vertisomonts in the daily papers. Lotters and papers found in his posscssion showed that he had been carrying on & very succesaful serios of oporations in this dircction, and entrapped a long list of victims both in England and on the Continent, NOTES AND OPINION. Tho Springfiold Republican thinks that, withh Andy Johnson Governor of Tonnesses, aud Gan. Butlor Qovernor 0f Mussuchusotts, thore would bo groat davger that tho peaceful and fricndly relations now oxisting botween the two sovere eign States might bo intorruptoed, ~—It is announced that Gen. Bingham, tha nowly-appointed Ministor to Jnpan, will delay his doparture for his post until after tho fall« campaign in Obio, in ordor thatho may holp ““guve tho party " in that olection, With con« siderable asperity, the Cinciunati Times and Chronicle (Administration) romarks: “Ha could not do a less wiso thing, Huving beom ont of mind for somo time, it is proper for him to bo out of sight.” —8omo ono asked Col. Thomas O. Howard, of Goorgia, the other day, if ho thoufhk B cortaim Radical in that Stato would steal. “Steall’” said ho; “why, by Jove, if he was lx’nrnl zod and bamstring, I wouldn't trust him by hlmself in tho middlo of tho dosort of Belara with tho bigs gost anchor of the Great Eastern. Bteal! should think ho would,” —Tho Oinciunati Gazefte is not pleased with the action of tho Conatitutional Convention in that Btate in loaving appoiutive ofiices opon to women, and unfia: “This is moant for o sop to appoase the uoble rago of tho femalo mind ; but it {n an insult to womau, and it places the con= vontion in ridieulous inconsistoncy. It allowas that officors who have appointed power may aps point women, whilo the puo‘fln are not ellowed to olect women. And slthough tho intont 18 only ta open the subordinato offices to woman, it in fact allows bor to bo E‘Med in any vacancy which tho Govornor fills by appointmonts, even to the Judgeships aud to tho Suprome Boneh.” —The New York ZTtimes has certsinly mada its point, if it wanted to_lot its porty in Philne dolphia know that it was determined to wash ita hands of any furthor complicity in_sustaining the infamios of, Ring rule in Phil m]uls)hin. Tha roign of silonce has boen completely broken. After nine days of darknoes, * Tray, Blancha a0d Swoatheart, and all tho littlo dogs,” bave opened their oyes and commenced barking., The most somuolont citizens havo beon waked up, 01d gentlemen, who long sinco coased to read tho papors, havo bogun agnin, They find to their amazement that tho great Ropublican Grunt organ is-solemnly alleging and proving things 16 to which somo of thom signed thoi¥ names or allowed thom to bo forged to cortifl- cates of doninl, in which tho{ doolared their familiar acqunintance and high respoct for no~ torious scoundrols, aud_profasued porfoct faith in thoir intogrity.—Philadelphia Age. —If any doubts oxistod of tho fact that Bon Butlor has got tho Prosidont whero tho wool i short, tho appointmont of Judgo Sangor will re« movye'thom. Butlor Las bottlod Graut ss_tight au ho bottled tho Armyof tho James. Ho i rocognizod by Prosidont Grant a8 tho loader of tho Ttopublioan party in Mussnchusotts, and the - Adminlstration will support him for Governor. ‘We commond thia only correot viow of tho caso to the faithiful organs which bavo boon playing 4 TIail to tho Chief " to the Prosident aud the “ Rogue's March ™ for his distinguished political frluufi. They eannot continuo to makoe discord in this way, We cxHont soon to hoar a now tune from them, the burden of which will bo tho rave virtues of the soldior snd statesman who sits in his tont at Cape Aun and ogles tho north pole with one eye and tho equator with the other.— oslon_ierald, i —A Minnissippi loiter says : “ Tho situation of Btate politics is very complicatod. Along the Missiseippi and Tombecles Rivors aro located a largo number of nogroos who in olection thnes make up a Stato majority of 20,000, Tho result is that while tho negraos can elect » Governor and control the Btato Senato they can not choose a majority of county ropresontatives. Unitod Btatos Sonator Awes' torm is about to oxpire. 1lis succonsor must bo ratifiod by the Lower Iouse, This will necossitate a *scrub race,’ aud B, D. Napors, who once dofostod Jacoh Thompaon, has boon brought forward, almost from tho catacombs, to manipulate the negro voto, and porhaps to go to the Vnifed Btatos Senato, No othor man, white, or black, i 5o popular with tho Misnissippi nogroos as 19 Nabors, Ex-Gov, Alcorn, finding the prospects docidadly agalost his eloction to (Lo United Btatos Sonato, has porsuaded his frionds to in fluouco parties who would not_support him to voto for Nabers. Ames and Powers sro both gooking tho Sounto for tho next torm, and if Nabora can sjiccced—as many think ho will—in socuring the whilo voto and that of Alcorn’s frionds, Amon and Powers have no ghanco, Ine doed, tho situation is a0 sarions for Amon that Bon Butler fu coming hore to canvasy tho State iu tho intorost of hiu son-in-luw,”