Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1873, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: EDNESDAY, JULY 2, 183, - TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TERMS OF BUBECTIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANCE) f (10| Bund: 32, ot gont 15:00) ey 2 Partsof oy To provont dolay and mistakos, be suro and givo Post Oftico address in full, Including Stato and County. Remittances may ho mado oithor by draft, oxpross, Post ODico ordor, or fu rogistored fottere, at our risk. TENMA TO OITY BUBRCRIDENS. Daily, doliverod, Bunday oxcoptod, £ conts por waok. Daily, dollvorod, Sundny includod, 80 conts por wook, Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, v Coruer Madison and Dearborn-sts,, Ohleago, Iil TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. AIREN'S TIIRATRE—Wabnah axonue, cornor of Con- sross stroot. Bpoutacular opora, **Zoloo.” 1QOLEY'S_THEATRI Tandolph stroot, bet: OlOR A A, ottt AT ornona SR vamod: MOVIOKER'S THRATRIE—Madison streot, botwoon thorn nod - State. Qe Kntio Putnam Traupo. ACADEMY OF MUSIO — Halatod streot, botwesn Mindison and, Monros, 7Thoatre Comiquo Coinbination, Af{ornoon and ovening. MYERS OPERA HOUSE—Monroo, hstwoen Dearborn and Btates **Bohiool™ STANDARD HALL~Ohristian Unlon Deamatio Olass, Charitable Sooletios bonofit. ** Love's Sacritico.” NIXON'S AMPRITHEATRE—Btatson's Comedy Com: pany, ** Daring Dick." Afternoon and avoning. BUSINESS NOTICES. MOTHIERS! MOTHKRB! MRS, WINS. lo&?ggfim e e oo usod for ohildron With nevor-failing safoly aud suocens. S ROVAL HAVANA LOTTERY—WI BOL drwing ot22d April lant th 600,000 pelrc, Uiscaisrs sont: [nformation givon.-J. B. 'MARTINKZ &CO0., ianktors. 10 Wallat.© P, O. Box 4685, Now York. “REMEMBER TIIE PHAOE TO BUY YOUR OALT- t tho old Plonoor ARoD- o T AfoOH & O8., i Clancat. (ucoosior to Horkis, Stomort & Co.) " OTH_PATOHES, ABK TOR, FREOKLES AND, M FATONES, ASK our drmgelst, for Perry's Moth an 49 Bond-st., Now York, Yor P loson tha F'aco, ;:’mi‘huu-. 3o Hlosiwoemy, o Forrys Improsad (o my o 5° Grows Skin Moilloin, Propared only by Dr, B, U. Porry, Dormatolokist, 49 TUPTURK,_DRS, MARSH & DOWLES AR THE only porsons in the ety who havo for soars mado & ape- oialty of ruptare, doformities, and mecuanical surgory. ‘raptire, bow-logs, club-feot, spinal curva: turo, woak ankles, and physioal doformitios meohisnical tronled, and all istrumonts guarantood, and gat our onso oxaminod, and our oplaion, without chargo, ot i Washiingtonat., two doors cast of Clark. The Chitage Tiibune, ‘Wodnosday Morning, July 3, 1873, Yostorday was colobrated ;hrnnghnnt Canadn 23 Dominfon Day, the anniversary of the Con- fedoration of the Provinces. The Qerman Govornment has investod - $10,- 000,000 of its surplus fnnds, which tho French indomnity has mado to overflow, in United States 6 per cent bonda. John P. Reynolds, II. 0. Rannoy, snd J. P. Beasloy havo been named by the Raflroad and ‘Warchouse Commiesioners na tho Doard of Appeals in grain {nspection, [ ——— Tho railrond valuation of Ohio has increasod noarly oleven millions during tho lnst year. Tho Bonrd of Equalization fixed the valuo of railroad property last yoar at £68,312,040, and this yoar at 879,218,560, The bill to allow womon to vote in school-dis- trict olections, which was roported favarably to tho Lowor House of the New Hampshiro Logisla- turd tho othor day, hns been indofinitely post- poned by that body after briof dobate. Tho Railrosd and Warehouso Commissioners are now studying the railrond tariffs propared in secordanco with tho Iaw. Thoy are reported to bo unanimous in the opinion that the rail- roads aro not in good faith trying to comply with the law. 2 That part of tho Treaty of Washington which rogulates the fishery question end the relations botween this country and Canadn has been pro- claimed by Prosident Grant to bo in full opora- tion, all the preliminary logislation noedod hav- ing beon cnacted by tho British and Dominion Parlisments. Tho statomont that the Dutch have been forced by their defeats to subatitute negotiation for tho arbitrament of war in thoir troubles with the Acheoneso 18 donied by the suthoritics at The Hague, who eay that no pacific arrangement of any kind has beon mado botween tho com- Dbatants. Four phyeicinns were colled on yesterday to tostify concerning young Walworth's sanity. One of them thought him affected by opilop- tic insanity; tho throo others held 'that thero wore mno signs of any such ‘montal unsoundness. All the ovidonco tho de- fonge havo to offor is in ; nothing remains but tho argumonts on both sides, and it is probable that tho case will go to tho jury to-day. President Pi y Margall jyostorday proposed a Gordinn remady for tho chronio Bpanish crisis by thointroduction of a bill conferring discretion- ary and oxtraordinary powoers upon the Gov- ornmont. This was at once pnssed by tho Cortos by n vote of 130 to 18. In tho midat of this helplessness to preserve the intogrity of constitutional government even in its Capital, the Govornment reiteratos to the inbabitants of Cuba and Porto Rico its dotermination to pro- serve tho integrity of its dominion, Dospite the unfavorablo weather, soveral thousand persons attended tho first summor meeting of tho Dexter Park Club yestorday. Tho prospocts for good races are fluo. Itis doubtful whother n fastor track ia to bo found in thio country, and the accommodations for those who attend or participato are noarly perfect, eud more important still, the unusual list of prizes has brought out fullor and botter eutries of horees than ever boforo known in the West. Many of the horses, both trotting and yunning, arc colobrated in the annals of the turf, Duden TFrores & Co., Now York importers ot lnces, who aro charged with frauds on tho rov- onue, do not proposo to fall B0 ensy a proy to the barpios of the Custom-Iouso as Pholps, Dodge & Co. Tho detectives acouse thom of baving cheated tho Govornment out of £2,600,000, and have summarily solzed their books without legnl process of any kind, and of course bave thrown thoir busincss, into utter disorder. If thoy woula compromise for somoething handsomo, the virtuous Jayno and hin agsociates would relax tholr grip, but this tho firn sturdily refuse to do. Thoy declare thom- selves innocont of any intention of dofrauding tho Tronaury, and sunounce that thoy will fight the informor, who is & dismissed clork, and the whola crew of Cuatom-Llouso detootives, in the courts. Some Wolverhampton manufaoturers Intely sont to this country for their iron, which Ameri- can manufacturors, notwithstanding the burden of our opprossivo tariff, could supply moro oheaply than English makors, hamporod by labor- troubles and famine prices for coal. Theso man- nfanturers arg now complaiuipg in thelr tum of tho suporiority of Amm:lenn manufacturors. Amorlcan hnrdware, thoy say, is not only driving thoir English produot out of Amori- ean markets, but ls dispossossing thom in tho Colonial and Bouth! -American markots, Thoso facts are tho highost possible -tributo to Amorloan industry snd ekill, which, burdoned with a ruinous syatom of taxation, are”| yot ablo to compoto succossfully with the Eng- lish manufacturer, whoso taxes aro roduced to the minimum conafstont with rovenuo. The Ohieago produce markets woro modorato- 1y nctive yostorday oh prosont doliveries, Lut quiot for future. Mees pork was in fair do- mand ond stendy, at 814.20@14.80 ocosh, and $14.50@14.55 sollor August. Lard was quictand steady, at $8.06@8.10 por 100 1ba, Monts wero quiot and firm, at63¢@83¢o torshouldors, 8@8}{o for short ribs, Bi(@83¢o for short clear, and 10@1134o for swoot plekied hame, Highwinea wore quiot end unchanged, at 880 por gallon. Lake frefghts were rathor moro aotive, and firmer, at @630 for corn to Buffalo. Flour was dull and unchanged. Wheat was modorately active, and 1@2 lower, olosing ot 1.16}@1.10% cash, and §1.18%¢ soller [August, Corn was in good domand, and 4o highar, closing at 33340 cash, and,87%{o sollor August. Osts woro active at the eame rango, ociosing at 293¢ cash, and 290 scllor August. Ryo was quiot and unchanged nt 603¢@0lo, Barloy was inactivo and nominal at 613ge for good No. 2. Tho stooks of grain in this city on Saturdsy ovoning }ast were : 625,355 bu whoat ; 8,600,660 bu corn ; 1,266,704 bu onts ; 99,056 bu ryo; 49,- 990 bum barley. Ilogs ware more activo and strongor, advancing 10@106c, and closing ot $4.20 @4.60. The cnttle markot was fairly active and firm. Bheep wero stoady. STOP THE FIREWORES, ‘Tho appreach of the National Anniversary is already indicated by tho froquent popping of that ingonious symbol of Chinose dopravity—tho firo-cracker. It is yot throo doys before the patriota are roquired to prove their loyal- ty by touching oft firo-crackers and squibs, and making other noisy domonstrations of thoir patriotism; but tho noise has alrondy commenced in our publio streets, and, it it incronses in anything like tho custom- ary ratio, by Thuradey wo ehall undoubtedly: colobrato Fourth of July with & grand blaze aa woll as noire. Wo have now mearly re- built the burned portion of the city. Wo have spont noarly two years of timo and many millions of dollars in roplacing the buildings which wore dostroyod by the Groat Fire. Wo have got about rondy to commonce making great publio improvements. Our mor- chants have got back into their stores and waro- houses, Our banks and insuranco oflices have rosumod business in their old quarters. Wo bavo got & new city which is the pride of all our citizens and the onvy of othor citics. Nowisa good timo, theroforo, to Lurn it up sgain, and destroy in a night the hard labor of those years. Wo have got so much monoy that wo should hardly miss the loes of oue or two hun- dred millions, ond tho ineurance com- ponies would undoubtedly bo gratified to have an opportunity to show their solvency, It is nearly two yoars sinco we have had any fire of consequence, because wo haven't had much of congoquonce to burn. Now wo afo ina condi- tion, however, to make a splendid fire. Wo have flnished buildings full of goods. Wo have Invgor hotels than bofore. We have many un- finished buildings full of shavings and litter, and we aro without a sufficient supply of water in tho business portions of the city, inasmuch as wo are using pipes laid down years 8go, whon only a emall supply Of wator was needod.” We thus have all thoe conditions for another dispstrous conflagration, and wo could make & greater soosation than wo did bofore, and show that a fow hundreds of millions of property moro or less are of vory little account horo. We probably shouldn't got tho sympathy or assistance we had bofors, for peoplo might got tired of tho sonsation ; but then it would domonstrato our disregard for the values of this world, and wo could show more creditors and mortgages, broken banks aud bankrupt insur- ance companies, than any other city in tho world, and o colloction of ruins which would throw Palmyra ‘.ud Baalbec all in the shode. Having tho conditions for a fire, wo havo also the means and plonty of them, There are yearly imported from Chinato tho Unitod States about 275,000 boxes of fire-crack- ora, which is suflicient to givo each one of our forty millions of peoplo abont two bunches and o half each of the inflammable matorial. Tho avorago would glve to Chicago about s million bunchos, and, a8 ono firc-cracker is a3 good as a million, thore will be no diffieulty in gotting up o conflagration upon short order. Thorois no ‘moro offcctivo ngonoy in amatour incondiarism than the fire-cracker. Aftor it is ex- ploded, tho fragmoents burn a long timo, aud they bave a way of gotting into, pilos of straw and shavings, of straying into barns, and gotting under sidewalks and hounes, which is very insidious. Iiven if the firo-crackora shonld fail, thore instill o hopo left in' Roman' candles and rookets. Combluing thom all tggethior, & suflicioncy of horsos can bo seared to kill or maim & few peoplo, numor- ous other peoplo can bo badly burned, and wo can have o firat-class conilogration all in tho namo of patriotism, I'ortland, o fow years ago, noarly burned itsolf up with fire-crackers, ani is sotisfied not to firo them any more. Boston, taking a lesson from its groat fire, has also pro- hibited _their wuse, Iave we no lesson to learn from our own firo? CUan wo afford to spend millions of monoy to restore * tho prop- erty dostroyed two years ago, and thon reuke lessly oxposo that property to flre for three or four days, simply to make & noise and hulla- baloo, in order to prove our loyalty ? It wo dro thus reckloss, thow it i the duty of tho City Govainment to stop inand interfero. The Mayor has ample authority in the following city ordinnnco: L No persou shall firs or discharge any canuon, gun, fowling-ploce, plitol, or firearma of auy description, or firo, oxplodo, or sot off any squib, crackers, or ofhicr thing contalntug powder, or other combustiblo or ox- ploslvo materiul, without permisuion from the Come wmon Councll or writfen pormlsston from the Mayor, which pormiusion shall limit the thno of sucl firing, aud shnll bo subjest t0 bo revokad by the Mayor or Common Couucll ut any tme after it has boun granted, Any violstion horoof shall ubjuct the parly 1o a fino of not lesa thau §2, nor more thun $10, The above is a standing ordinance good for Fourth of July or any othor day. Undor its operation, the prohibition of fire-worke oxtonda to every day in the yoar, and thoy can bo used on the Fourth only by express permit. It ia ono of thoso ordinancos, howover, which hag been so frequontly iguorod on the National Anniversary that its oxistouco 18 almost uuknown. Tho Mayor, therofore, should call attention to it by & spocial proolamation, In thiy conuection, thoxo {8 nnothér ordiance which the suthoritios should also ntrictly enforoo.It rends ag followa ¢ No squibs, rockets, erackers, sorpants,.or ottior firoworks containing powder or other comlatiblo, or oxploalvo matorials shall bo kept or storsd within the 1imits of tho City of Ghicago, oxcept tho samo bo kopt or atorod {n n fire-proof vaull, Any porson, firm, or corporation violaling tho provisions of thia ordinanco ehall bo subjoct to a flno of not loss than fifty nor more than ono hundied doliars for csch offenso, sud 6 liko penalty for ovory twonty-four Liours that said rookots, aquild, crackern, or oiher firoworka containing the nfaroraid materfala shinll ho kept or atored nfter the first conviction for a viclation of thia chapter, -Thoso ordinancos aro oxplicit in their inton- tion, and constituto o valuable snfoguard to the property of tho city. Wo cannot afford, os- poclally at thia time, to tako any risks of burn- ing up tho city again just for tho anke of mnke ing o nolso on tho Fourth of July, and moking tho Fourth of July.a nuisance. To provont any possibility of fire on that day, tho Mayor should issuo his proclamation promptly, onforeing tho ordinancos wo havo quoted. THE CITY APPROPRIATIONS, On Monday night the Common Council con- etnded its action and pnssed the ordinanco mak- ing approprintions for tho flscal year ending March 81, 1874, Tho ordinance, aa passed, ap- propriatod tho following sums ¢ g Asacasmont oxponsos, 3 2,075.00 Btroot cleaning.. 15,000,00 Sidowalk aud atroot obatructions. . 59,900,00 Btrect improvounents. L 10157491 Chicago Tarbor . . 74ds0.00 Land damay . 66,101,34 Bridge bul o susIes Bridgo ropalr; 4,000, Bridgo-tond 13,800,00 Vinducts, 45,817.20 Tunnols, 19,467.73 000, Pounds, Fublio biifdings, Balarica (B, P, W) Oflico oxponsos, . Drinking fountains, Uloauing North By Qity Gemoery. sy Bealos, Contingent Tz sales, Evening schoola, ;llnlxm:—rl-‘im Dopartiiond opaira of apparatus, Loso, Xow ity ad appacatu Ropairs of builaiuga, TFirs alarm telegragh. Health Dpnrk‘nm 2 Balariea Polica Depari G, fucl, socrot Aervico, Now atatfons and lots, ‘and grounds, Apparatus, jonitors, oto, Balories, . i Miscollanoona, Bowerago fund Building sovers. Binking fnnd for School 10,000. Water mains.... 400,000, Total.uvaree B .$0,113,039.28 + Under the charter, the appropriations have to bo made within tho tirst quartor of tho flscal year, which quartor onded on Monday night, Juno 80. Under the act of the Logislaturo known 08 the “ Mayor's bill,” tho Mayor is suthorized to voto any item of appropriation without voto- ing tho wholo ordinance. On Monday evening the Mayor, aftor tho ordinance was passed, vo- tood thio following itoms: Bridge at Fourteonth stroot, $88,676; artesian well and fountain at Union Park, $9,000; poy of pipomen of the Firo Departmont, £100,000; pay of watchmen, 811,620; pay of drivors, ©57,000; laying wator-mains, $400,000; Deputy Oity Clerk, £2,600; Asswstant, $1,800; Sccond Assistant, $1,600; messenger, ©1,800. Thepo itoms aggrogate 8627,106. But, in votoing theso, bho designed not to dofeat oll of them, but to ennble tho Council to reduco somo of thom, Ho recommonds that tho appropria- tion for water-mains bo reduced to $500,000; and that pay and sslaries of the pipemen, drivors, watchmen, clorks, &o., bo left as thoy wero lnst year, 1lo votoed only tho increase in tho snlarfes made by the Counecil. The total re- ductions designed by him is $160,816, loaving tho amount appropriated 80,950,000, Under the opinion of tho Corporation Counsol, tho wholo ordinenco datea on the day it was approved by tho Mayor, notwithstanding tho ‘Council have yot to acton the items vetoed by tho Mayor. If tha Conncil ovorrulo tho voto, then the ordi- nance will stand a3 originally passod ; if thoy do not, then thoy must amond the itoms specially vetoed, or thore will be no appropriations at all for tho objects named. Tho ordinance males the Jargest appropriation over yot mado in Chicago, It must be remem- bored, however, that it includes the whole expon- dituro, ond that there aro not, as in former yours, sovaral millions of bonds to bo sold and tho money ospended. It also includes the ox- traordinary oxponditura of $700,000 for the con- atruction of sowors to ropair o doficiency and supply & necossity that it would havo boon crime inal to havo neglected oven for another sonson. Thero is not a citizon who does not wish this money had been long since oxponded. Largo as ia the appropriation, there iy, porhaps, loss wasto in it thon thore hay been in tho annual appro- printions for several years. THE NEW ORLEANS DUEL. The tragio result pf the Rhett-Cooloy duel is aunounced in the dispatches of this momning. Btated in tho briofest words, Mr. R. B. Rhett, Jr-, tho principal editor of the Now Orloans Picayune, murdered ox-Judgo Cooloy, nléo of Now Orloans, yostordsy morning, by shooting him, - Tho duel grow out of a libel-suit recontly - brought by Judge Mawking, of the District Court of Now Orleans, agaiust the Now Orloans Print- ing Company, which is the stylo of the corporation that publishos that papor. Tho Picayune, undor tho ecaption of “Tho Usurpor Hawking,” charged that Judgo Hewking was guilty of porjury and venality, and mudo an inflammatory sppoeal to the public of anaturo tending to provoke mob viclenco. Judge Iawkius at once brought an action for libol, and Judge Caoloy was ono of tho parties ongngod in tho prosocution. Tho dofendants, on tho trin], offerod to prove perjury in goneral torms, but tho Court would not admit tho tosti- mony, and docided that tho dofendants must provo spocifio nots, which constituto a orime in- dlotable undor tho law, Tho dofendants thore- vpon declined to mako any dofengo, and tho suit went to trlal. The instructions to tho jury weoro of such @ nature that thoy woro obliged to find for the plaintit in tho full amount of damages olalmod,—§80,000,—and thoy so returned, whore- upou the dofoudants suppoaled to tho Bupromo Court of tho Btato. This ended tho cusoe for the time boing. The duel grow out of subsequont’ proceodings, Aftor tho verdict, the Pleayune publishod an artlole called ¢ Huwking versus the Picayune. To this articlo, Judge Coalvy ro- plied in tho Now Orlonuy Zimes, nud it {u prob- ably tho lattor artiole which induced Mr. Rhett tochallongo bim. Tho Judgo, in consonance with tho brutal and barbarous *‘codo of honor" which still provails in many parts of tho Bouth, ageoptod tho clullongo, and kay paid tho ponalty with his lifo. Tho ! codo of honor " s on tho decline in tho South. In sovoral ifstances of lnts, challongod partioa have shown tholr man- linoss and courago in rofubing challorigoes, and publicly announoing that they woro roady for any attacl, and would dofond thomsolves if at- tackod ag bost thoy could. 't will now go far to- wards entiroly supprossing this rolio of barbarism if tho authorltics of Now Orloane do their duty in tho promises, arrest this man Rhott, hold him rosponsible for the murder of Judge Cooloy, and punish bim for it In this ngo of progross and olvilization, it fs unnocessnry to ontor Into any argumont to show tho' criminal charactor of duolling. Tho only nocossnry and propor courso 18 to stamp out tho brutal practice, whonover tho opportunity ocours, by sharp and. swift punish- mont. Tho Now Orleans authoritios now have such an opportunity, and if tlioy have the cour- 8go to Improvo it, as thoy should, by tronting Rhott as thoy would any othor murderer, thoy will tako an important stop towards suppreseing forover tho brutal practico. SPEQIAL RATES UNDER THE RAILROAD LAW, An observed tendonoy of the new Railroad law is to dofoat competition. It tonds toward cut- ting off tho advantages poasossod by compoting’ points, and {8 intended to give full play to the natural advantages of nonrness to markot, loav- ing thoso placos which havo n less favorablo lo- cation to tako care of themsolves, . Tho com- plaint that comes from Springfield, that the opo- rition of tho now law will cut off tho coal mines of the contral and southern portions of tho Stato in favor of the Indiann. and Wilmington mines, inn onso in point. In theapplication of thia law, tho railronds madoe up thielr tariffs on s common basinin order to avold outting onch other's throats; So long as they had the priviloge of maldng rates to suit spocial circumstancos, oach would ocontrol tho busginess naturally bolonglng to It, indopendentlf of the othors, Tho policy of solf-prescrvation undor tho new law, however, suggostod uniform action sa the only practicablo moeans of conforming to its pro- visions, Now that the regular tariffa have boon conatructod, the question arises whothor spocial ratos aro ollowablo. The Slate Register rocontly printed an article which Is understood to agreo with tho Railrond Commissionors' construction of tho lnw with rogard to large and rogular ship- ments. The Register held that, as the law ox- prossly limita tho application of o largor rato for tho greator distanco to'**like quantitics,” ship- pora of largo quantitics may lawfully enjoy speclal ratos, and that, it i only necossary for the railroad making such special rates to bo ablo to produce evidonco of their ronsonablencsa. This is cortainly & common- sonso construction of the ldw, and, if tho Rail: rond Commissioners adopt it, tho railronds will undoubtedly avail thomselvos of tho privilege in. their own intorest. It would likewiso roliove the 1aw of what now threatons sorious oppression, if not oxtormination, of some of the' most im- portant intorests in tho State. Tho present linrdships of the situation may bo illuatratod by tho caso of Dlosers, Mathioson & Zioglor, who manufacture zino at LaSalle, Il As tho new tariffa have been made up, their in- dustry would bo atfacked in every direction. They manufacturo zinc from what is called the ““dry bone," or tho refuso matorial of the sbandoued load minos at Minoral Point, which containg a proportion of gino.' This material thoy have to transport by rail to LuSalle in largo quontitios. Thoy have Loretofors enjoyed aspe- cinlrato, whichis cut off by the now tariff. Anthra~ cito coal is also necossary to the smolting pro- ceas, though the bituminous coal mined st La- Ballo is used in still larger proportions. The anthracito conl is takon from Ghicago to LaSallo by rail, aud Mosars. Mathioson & Ziegler have heretoforo had & special rate on this. After the zine is manufactured, it must be sont to market, which it fnds cither by way of Chicago or Bt. Louls. In cither case, special rates on account of tho amount of business furnished has beon cut off by the now tariff as it stands, The increnso of transportation rates on tho raw material, on the hard coal, and on the finished article is so Iarge, in tho aggrogato, that Afosars. Mathioson & Ziegler would bave to mbandon o large sharo of their present business If thore wore no means of pro- viding roliet, Tho Illinois Contral Road might mako a special classification for; frolght on zino if this woro tho only maonufsctory. But thero gre two zino furnaces ot LaSalle, and one ot Torn, the latter on the Rock Island Rond. As tho Illinois Central probably carries more zino than tho Rock Island, it conld afford tomako a lowor rate. But this would bo cut- ting under, and the Rock Island might rotaliato by making o separato clsesification on cortain articles of froight in wlrgh it Lins the advantage. In this way a wor would bo inaugurated which would provo injurious to the intorests of both roads. Tho only judicious course for tho rail- ronds to pursue, therefore, is to construct their soparato classifications and special ratoson n mutual understanding, as they have done in tho cago of their gonoral tariffs. It is probablo that tho railroads will adopt this policy in reforenco to large and rogular shippors. Thero is ovidenily nothing in tho law to probibit it. A construction of tho Iaw which should oxcludo this priviloge would be prejudicial not only to the intorests of tho railronds and of the largo shippors, but to tho intorests of the com- munity in gonoral. All tho business encrificed bocauso spocial rates are prohibited will have tho offect’of incrensing the ratos on the businoss that romaius. An-increase of busincss dimiu- ishes tho rates, sud vice versa. It is tho duty of tho railroeds, thoroforo, to mako special ratos or sopmato clnssification for freight trans- ported in large quantitics for long distances. Any doubt as to tho mouning of the law on this point should at onco bosot at rest by tho Railrond Comnissionoms in their ofticial con- struotion of tha law ; but, if thoy fall to do this, tho railroads need hiave no approhousion, ns the law now stands, in making*spocial rates for largo shipmonta or oxcoptional articlea of freight, when thoy are propurcd to ebow those spocial rates to bo fair and reasonable, Tho New York Z'imes, of arecont dato, states that many of tho Itullan padroni of that city, who hold 2he littlo strolling italian minstrels (n servitudo, having discoverod that the New York mazket isigluttod, Lave gone to Chicago to os- tablish ngencios, and that thoe arrlyals to como during tho noxt two or throo Wooks aro destined to tho West. Tho rapid incroaso of thoso littlo Italinus on our stroots gives w decidod color of probability to the statomond of tho Zimes. Stato and Clark stroots, and some of tho stroots ) in tho West Divislon, litorally swarm \ with them aftpr ' nightfall, | snd in elmoak ovory saloon thelr harps and violing may bo hieard until midnight, amid olink- ing of glassas and yvolloys, of oaths and slbaldry, Many of theso childron aro young girls, and thoir condition is thus doseribod In the Times: A8 to tho littlo girls, it 1a slmont Impossiblo to apeak, for the dopth of tholr degradation s o deop that ro- covery i not only imposaible, but it fa eo foul it ean- not bo apokon of, Loug aftor the night hon closod in, theso tender childron aro yob upon tho stréet, not of thair own freo will, but owing to tho demanda of an insstiable mastor, Tholr profession hes no pmno bub . thoy must bring. monoy with thom, and tholr means of obtsining 14 18 not quastionod o that thoy bring it home. So young aro somo of thosa bosutiful children that thoy do not understand tho moeaning of the few foul Eng- lish words thoy hiavo boon taught, but in yeara to como thoy will nnidorstand them, and tho memory of thetr dogradod youth Will provont. tho possility of refor- moation, Theso poor children are notto blame, for thoy aro gnorant of tholr own infainy ; but tho maator who owns.thiom, and who rospn the profits of tholr ca roer of unconacios otimo, must ono day glvo sn ac- count of bimsclf, Aviait to tho lodgings of theas littlo girls fs somothing that cannot bo describod, Thole ultor dogradstion, and goneral infsmous sur- “roundingn aro rovolting, and tha voil of socreoy must bo drawn. Thoso girls, aa woll aa tho boys, are kidnapped in Italy and brought by hundrods to Now York, whance thoy are sent to olhier largo citios, Thelr rapid increase horo during tho past few months showa that Chicago is bocoming an important markot for thom. Burely hero is achanco for tho philanthroplo, aa well as for tho city authori- tlos, to investigata thelr condition and to accom- plish a groat and benoficent work, Tho abuses of thogo childron and the character of thoir sur- roundings may bo scon any night on any of our principal thoroughfares, THE TAX-LIST. The Olovoland Leader calls tho ationtion of the country to tho publication of tho annunl tax- list of Chicago and Coolk County as an evidenco of tho “'hollowness of Chicago's prosperity,” and proof that *“Chicago is n city of protenses rather than realities.” Other papors in other citios onvious of Chicngo are likely to mako sim- ilar comment. For tho information of those who talto any Inferost in the subjeot, wo stato that, under our rovonuo laws, thoro Is o tax lovied for Btato and county purposes every yoar, and aleo » tax for municipal pur- poses, The Oity of Chicago contains about 25,000 acres of land, nnd tho county outeldo tho city 700,000 ncress Al tho land in tho city and a large portion of that in tho coun- tyis Inid oftin lotsof 26 feet frant,so ihat sn enumoration of this land by lots makes o list of cnormons longth., Each lot is taxod soparate- ly. Underour rovenuo laws, tho payment of taxes is not compulsory oxoept by o salo of such lots upon which tho taxes are not paid by o day fixod by a decroo of tho. Court; consequontly, whon tho Tax-Collector gives notico of his inton- tion to apply to tho Court for an order of salo on & dny named, his lst practically includes all tho roal ostato in tho county do- geribed by lots, This is tho notica to psy taxos, and betwoon the dnte of this notico and the time fixed for salo tho com- munity pays the tax. Instond of being n delin- quent tax-ist, tho Collector's notico is o dotailed cenumeration of the divisions and subdivisions of tho acros of real estato in Chicago and Cook Coun~ ty, with the smount of tax levied theroon, and ninotoen out of every twonty tax-payers got their first information from this printed list of tho amount of tho tax that is charged ngainst their property. The actual delinquont lst of prop- orty sold for taxes ia a vary small one,—both as rospeets tho valne of property sold and the smount of taxes not paid. The exposures which have been mado in Now York Qity touching tho condition of tho little strolling Italian minstrels, and the nbuses to which they are subject by thoir brutal mustors ‘who omploy thom, and somotimes own their sor- vicos, ought to have tho offect to call attontion to the condition of the same class of unfortu- nates In this city. There are now hundreds of those Italian children hero, who nro sent out nights with harps and violins, and kept out unti midnight. Thoy live in squalid placos, and aro subjooted to all sorts of abuse and ill-treatment ‘Worse than this, their brutal employers usually sond thom to grog-shops, and houses of -the worst description, from tho fact that thoir chances of profit aro larger in these placos. These childron nro thus oxposed to all kinds of contamination at & very impros- siblo age, Thoy listen to constant profanity and obsconity. They soo licontious sights, and many of them, searcely 9 or 10 years of age, commonce drinking in thoso saloons, Thoy have no advan- tages of moral instruction or scheol education, and aro growing up surrounded by ecenes of vice and dopravity te which, from ho vory nature of things, thoymust spoedily bocoma hardened. It is o school from which they will inevitubly graduata with all the vicos of human nature. There seoms to havo baon s gooddenl of nseless comment on the subject of the new Civil-SBorvico rules which have been inoubated undor the new Oivil-Borvico Commissionors, Tho principal changes havo been in recognition of local de- mands for o fair division of offices among the various States. This is slmply & provision that has always obfained under tho old systom of Civil-Bervico, and which is calculated to sustain the power of patronage and tho influence of Sountors and Roprosentatives. But whatover changes thoro may havo beon, thoy do not appear to bo important, from the simple fact that tho rules are mnot obligatory upon tho President oxcopt in o far as ho soos fit to apply them, and bocauso Gon, Grant has soon fit to disrogard thom whonovor it suited his individunl pleasure or his political interosts, It is fair to agsumo that Gon, Grant will follow the now rules in about the same arbitrary fashion in which hio obsorved tho old rules ; and, so long a8 this is the condition of Civil-Sorvice Reform, it Ia an empty and meaningless farce, Political appointments, with a view to porsounl rolations or party sorvicos, will bo a8 pumorous in the tuturo av they havo boon in the past. Thoro lina beon no change in the rules that could rendor this impossible, and wo have heard of no sudden roform in tho President's method of onforcing them. —— Tho Spanish inhabitauts of Cubn have added ono more crimoe againat humanity to the long list which must, soonor or lator, arouso tho pro tents of civilizod nation In nubstituting Chi- nese for black labor, thoy have gradually ro - ducod tho condition of the Ohinamen to com- plote slavory, By tho original contracts mado at Macao, and indorsed by the Spanish Consul thero, the Ohinaman was entitlod to hiu liberty on comploting his torm of sorvitude, Tho slave- ownors, not sutisflod with this, obtainod the priviloge of ostablishing & Junts, of which Mr, Julion Zuluots, & succossful slave-trador, I8 the Yresidont. Valmasoda ollowod the Junta privilegos by which tho Chinaman waa partially placed in ita power, and Coballos, the new Governor-Gonoral, hag complotod the work, and made the power of the Junta nbsolute, The new arrangemont vouts tho wholo power and authority of the Govora- mont in tho hands of this Junta, Thoro are riow 80,000 Chineso in'the island of Oubs reduced to tho condition of humnn bondago, from which thoy can only escape by suloido. Tho timo is not far distant when tho whole olvilizod world will ba compolled to protostngainst the inhuman outragos of Bpain; although practiced in tho namo of a Ropublie. Bovoral popors, both at tho North and the Hontl, ara calling attontion to the recent appoint- ment of ono Maj. Elins Griswold, of the South, as a Bpooial Agont of the Post-Offico Department, Tho cditor of tho Rock Teland Union, who had the misfortuno to make tho soquaint- onco of this man during the war, is' not overplensed ot the appointment. Tho Union sayn: ' Tho writer of this had tho honor of sorving undor him—that is, the Major was In command of tho prison camp at Columbis, 8. 0., and wo woro ono of tho unfortunato prisoners, For about fivo months thore, wo rovelod on o plot of cornmenl & day, and a little sour sor- ghum, and nothing else. Ho granted no favors, and never usod his influonce to obtaln any for the hungry prisoners.” Lest this may be ohargod s exaggoration, coming from s Northe orn gource, hore ia a rocommondation coming from a Bouthern sourco, tho Savannah (Ga.) Advertiser: Tho notorious Capt, Wirz was a sergeant under Griswold, and esrriod out his orders, aud we know from actual oxperionce of his trestment of Fodoral snd Union prisoners, that I 1¥irs deserved hanging, Capt. Griswold should have been hung by hfs side, Hia brutal ordors, and still more brutal treatment of tho sick, deserve soma othor reward than Foderal appotnt- mont to offico, The appointment of such & man as this by the Drosident to & Fedoral office is’ o sufficlont com- mont of itsolf. It is but a fow wooks ngo that o 8-yoar old child killed a- baby but & fow montha old be- causo it didn’t want to goo it around. This hap- ponod in Tonnosses. Wo have now anothor in- stance of prococity in the szme State. A fow doys ngo s baby in Nashville, twenty-throo months old, throw an alo-bottle at its colored nurse with such forco that tho woman died o dasy or two aofter from tho rosults of tho blow. If theso aro ssmplos of tho coming goncration in Tonnesnco, what may we not oxpoect horeafter? If such things happon in tho groen tree, whot will happon in tho dry? Tho averago Tonnossco baby is evidently a dan- gorous cuslomor, Poople in that acotion od dicted to fondling babies or petting children should ba caroful to bo fully armed when they indulge in that dangerous pastime. Tho Leglalaturo of Michigan, as longago as 1865, by law roquired the Rogonts of the Stato University to sppoint among the medical pro- fossora ono bolonging to the homeopathic school. Tho Rogoents refused to ‘comply with tha law, and the Supreme Court of Alichigan deolined to issue a mandamus to compel thom to do so. The Logielaturo of 1878 passod a similar law, and the Rogonts Lave ngain rosolved that they will not oxecuto it, claiming to be tho oxclusive judges of what shall bo taught in tho University. ‘Thoy offered, howover, that, if tho means wore farnished, they would tako chargo of an inde- pondent school of homeopathy. Thero was but one Rogent in favor of complying with tho law, The Unitod Btates Naval Obsorvatory, at ‘Washington, has just issued o most important astronomical work, boing tho resulta of all the obsorvations mado of fixed stars from that Ob- sorvatory from 1845 to 1871, roeduced to tho epoch 1860. Tho lst was prepared by Prof, Yarnall, U. 8. N. The positions of 10,658 stars aro given in right ascension and doclination, and tho list includes stars down to the tenth magni- tudg. ‘The Fond du Lao (Wis.) Commonweallh, en Administration papor, is not able to stand tho Bnlary-Grab Iaw, even if it bo sdvocated by Sonntor Carponter. Provious to his spocoh nt Janesville, Mr. Carponter wont up to LaCrosae, whore thoro was au Editorial Convention in gossion, and made & specch to that body, The editar of tho Commentcealth was prosent, and, eftar he got homo, ho thus noticed tho spooch of tho Benator : "That ho uttored gomo truth when ho condomned the Washington P'ress Association there i no doubt, but when he declared that uuy of the Washingion corre- spondonts could be purchased for $50 to send tho meancst sort of a falsehood to his paper, ho offered an insult that wilt not bo {or;xotlm ht away, Somo of tho host newspaper men of the country are Washington correspoudents, We will vonturo tho nasortion that thore ara twenty Washington correspondents, oither ono of whom it would bo wmoro difficult to purchisse for $10,000 than it would fo sccuro any ono of twenty Benntors wo can name, Alr, Carpenter being of tho number, Wo wero nuri\rhed that Carpenter should congent %o attond tho editorial meoting, and atill more {lat ho should palin off such & speoch, It will not add to hia roputution, nor to his strougik at Madlson in 5, — e Tho dotails of the recent divorco of Paulino TLucca will bo of intorost to her many admirers in this city. Thoe plaintift’s complaint sot forth that sho was married to Adolph von Rhade, in Berlin, Nov. 26, 1865 ; that hor husband subse- quently lived a very profligato lifo, and squan- dered her earnings; that ho was an habitual gamblor, and that ho had lived sdulterously with two women in Berlin, On these grounds, she nsled for o divorco and tho custody of hor child, Maria Helona, born Nov. 16, 1870. Thero waa but onme witness introduced, who hed boon brought from Berlin expressly to give tostimony in the case. ‘I'his witness tostifled both to tho gambling and adultory charged against tho Bar- on. The witnoss also averrod that tho intimacy of the Baron and a certnin actross waa well known in Berlin circlos, and that they wore shortly to bo marricd, Upon this showing an abgolute divorce was granted, with pormission to marry ngain, and the child was awardod to hor custody. . P NOTES AND OPINION. Tho Congressional * forward-pay" forces itaclt upon Congrossmen-olect, It doos mot neod to be drawn ; it is to bo takon a3 it comes—&626 por month—to gach man, in conveniont shapo for prosont use. If their share in tho * enlary- stonl" only Iay ncoumulating in the Tronsury, Lonest-mindod Congressmou-clect might imagino that thoy would not draw it, and that by-and-by it wonld somohiow turn iteolf buok withont their over touching it, But chooks for 9626, like 21,000 bank-bills, are & pleasant surprisent one's broakfast-table. Dosides, roady monoy is hundy to have; and, if this thing ls not oxuctly lonest, the woll-iutontionod gontloman con virtuously resolve to make it all right horenfter. Ho will go down to Washing- ton, noxt Docembeor, and rofund the monoy. But next Decombor may find him -(and moet 1ikely will) ‘under bonds of 5,026 money spent that Lio keop tho pesce with Ben Butlor, lot peo- plosay what thoy will. —Thore {8 not a day but some local papor of our oxchange-list announces an invostment by Congronsman In jmproved resiilenco-proporty at home, Will Congressmen thus fly in the face of » kind Providence, which, through Matt. Oar- pontor, fuvitea them to live in Washington ? —Bomobody in the Third District of Masen- chusotts, who will bo nomiuated for Congress tho middle of Octobor and eleoted Nov. 4, will find that Congrossional baok-pay duo him from Juno 29,—§9,225—ostonsibly for sorvico ron- derod! Thou his formard pay will bo $035 por month. 5 ~In ordor that ' n poor (?) man maygo to Congross,” thore i a gash-proimlum offered . 0,225 to tho Tucky chap who gots elected viso " Willism Whiting, deconied. ~—The Governor of Nobraska haa n solary supe posed to bo $1,000, but which is, in fact, £10,000. Tho salary of Gov. Dix, of Now York (#4,000), is this yoar * made up " to $18,000, ~—Oharles Francis Adams i mentloned by the Boston Traveller os thopossible candidnto of the opposition to Bon Butlor for Governor of Mas- sachusotts. v i —Tho engorness with which tho most servilo of Administration nowapapors, in the Wost, aro secking Lo commit the Republican pntty to . all tho domanda of the Farmors' Movement, is one of tho signs of tho iimes. Thun, the Chinm- paign Gazelle anys, and tho Ilinots State Journal quotes with high approval s Tot Ropublicsna aland fast. Let the farmors bo in 0o hnato to condemn tho party or loavo it, Juat s it wipod out thosin of slavery, and maved the country from threatening robellion, 80 will it dostroy the corn= lh.l.l:l;fl:;\;nlolzehtl‘llmnlun avnrflm‘llmll intoreata of the 0 _producera of crushing hand of giant monoplies, Wogkifrom e Bo, aldo, the Bloomington Pantagraph declares tho Rapablican to bo * tho truo Farmers' party;" and tho Alton Telegraph® #nys, *The Ropubli- eans cverywhere will do their utmost to main- fain” tho demands of the Farmors. Now lot's hoar from Logan, Ogleaby, and the othor rocog- nized Genoraln of our Illinols Ropublican Army Corps. —Gov. 0. 0. Washburn, of Wisconsin, has beon, and ‘is, fighting the railroad-monopoly in that Btate; and haa rather conrtod ita hostility, Now comes forward Bonator Carpontor, acousing tho Governor of boing sa bad as any of ‘om, himaolf o salary-grabber in 1850, whon the 8 & dny principlo was changed to €8,000 & yoar. Also comes tho Milwaukeo News, Democratio orgnn of tho monopoly, and flings at tho Gov- cornor soro choico oxtracta from his speechos, Inot yonr, whon the Oredit Mobilier ovidencs was denounced and denied by him. ~Tho Iatest opinion of Oliver P. Morton’s homo organ, tho Indianapolis - Journal, s this : Tho quention of Gen, Butler's candidaay, ns of his oloction, s on for tho Republicans of Massachusctts to mottlo, and as they have shown a tolorablo capacity for pelf-government horetofors, tho whole matter can bo nafely loft to thom, Butlor 1a not in all respocts & model atateaman, and hin responaibility for the aalary- grab ought to enrp him & gonsroun sinount of public In‘aI roval s but it the Republicans of Massachusotts Iiko him woll enough, in spito of Lis faults,to make him Governor, wa don't cxactly sce that outslilers, and oa- pli}cln:l ‘.nutalda Democrats, need to troublo themsclves abou! ~—The Oleveland Merald (Administration) gives prominence to a correspondent, who says: Tho rightful sbare of Congress' responsibility for tho # grab” {a cortainly heavy; but in m of m’. une mistakablo intent of tho Conatitution, nud of the spes cls] facta atated above, in rolatlon to Prosident Grant, 1t appears to mo that a considerablo show of tho public censuro bolonga to him, —Sonator Bherman has dononnced in the strongest torma tho passngo of the rotroactive salary-grab, and that be never intenda to touch & dollar of tho monoy involved in it. This ho has declared, and wo havo no doubt that if ho is ro- quirod 0 go through a cortaln formula to got rid ot it ho will do so, nlthough he prefers to have nothing to do wilh the corrupt transaction. 1la ia too honost o man and upright a politician to have ylru:ed ogainst bim such & record as accopting his back-pay would bo.—Afansficld (Ohio) Xer- ald, Sherman's organ. —3onator Edmunds loft for Europsimmediate-- 1y on tho adjournment of the Senate. Havingno: timo for considoration or comparison of viows, ho contented himself with sottling his sccounts. on the old basis ond declining to recoive back pay. When ho roturns he will, we undertske to &ny, not loave any room for'doubt about tho final disposition of the money.—DBurlinglon ( V1.) Fres Press—Edmunds’ organ. % —J¢ tho money bolonged to the poople, what moro direct way to got it circulatod than to givo it to such follows as me to spend ?"—AMatt. Carpenter to the Wisconsin Editorial Association at La Qrosse. —HBonntor Carpontor has made o bold—ns it soems to us, & shamoless—attempt to divert tho Bopu!nr resolution, or to dofy it. He will havo ttle succoes in eithor.—New York Times. —The Pittaburgh Commercial prodicts that evory mm that stands up in defense of tho salary-grab * will bo swept from off his foet aa by & swhirlwind.” Does thisinclude Grant?— Pittsburgh Post. —8alary-grabbers all over the Union are prob- ably beginning to comprehend that thair dis- reputable action seals their doom politically for evor.—Omaha Bee. —Thoro is renson to boliova that tho country would bo willing to disponso with tho eminont gervices of oven Moessrs. Carpentor and Butlor rather than with tho safoguard of a watohful aud critical pross.—Buffalo (N. Y.) Ezpress. —Tho office-holders’ platform: o goloedy That stosling 1 wrong, but wa willsupport o thioves, Resolved, That the Ropublican party han saved the country, but wo denounco tha corruption of tho party, and renominato tho same seamps for offico, Tiesolved, That Rankin's bondsmen should be hold rosponsiblo for tho money hostals, but wa unanimotisly approve af Carponior, oo of said bondsmen who has: not rofunded, aa our cholco for Governor, —Tho Towa Republican Convention ronom- inated Carpentor for Governor, and rosolved. that all dishonest officors_ought to bo punished under tho criminal law, and that their bonds- men ought to bo compelled to mako good the embozzjomont. of tho publio monay. ~ Troasaror Rankin embezzlod 938,000 of the monoy sppro- priatod to tho Airlcultuml College, and Carpon- tor is ono of his bondsmen, and aided in ro- olocting Rankin Treasurer of tho College fund whon he know he was & defaulter. Ravkin hag not boon prosocuted under the criminal law, and no stops havo baen taken to compel Carpenter and his other bondamen to make good his em- bozzlomont of the public monoy,—Keokuk Con- stitution. * —Tho Ropublicans will find this a fatal mis- tako, It cannot bo possible that the losson of the judicial eloction in Illinois has boon loat on Towa, and yot it is overywhere known that tha farmers of tho latter Stato ara bottor organized than those of the formor, and tlat thoso wha depend upon their taking no political form rooks on without tholr host.—Davenport Democrat. —Thoro is & quiot dotormination existingg throughout tho masses of the Ropublican party in Ponnsylvanis,if an objectionablo ticketis ne,m. inated, to permit tha clection to go by def ault —in ofhor wordy, thoy will take no part ir, tha canvass, and givo the ticket no support. Thore was, Tecontly, an intorohange of opinions among prominent Republicans from more thay three- fourths of tho counties of tho Stato, aud . this de- terminntion was unanimously oxprers sed. Wa warn the manngers, therofore, that it obnoxiona men are placed beforo the people, theyy will in- evitably be dofeated.—Pillsburgh Tel egraph. —Tho Allen Dountf movomsnt is taking hold of tho Domocratic mind throughiout the Stato of Ohio. It seoms to bo an effart wit} iin the party, oxclusively, to got it out of the mr.d and mira o past politica and put it upon high ground.—Cin- cinnati Commercial, —The great question of the dwy—that of rail« way monopoly—is boginuing to loom up in tha South ea woll as tho Went, . . ., . Itisat rogent riding rough-shod over the peoplo; ut tho poople aro graduslly roaching o piteh of indignation which promises to in- augurate spoody und offective measures for the corroction of this gront evil, Everywhero tho railrond question soowms to be caming to the sur- faco ag tho all-lmportant quostion of the day,— Leavenworth Times, —The furmlut; portion of the anti-monopolists aro vory spoodily organizing, aud it is right thut they shiould organizo firat, but it is now time that tho meohavics, laborors. and those of overy olags who favor tho new party,shouldbe initiated into the work, and thoreby, by harmonious co- oporation, bo onablod to withstand corrnption and all the undue influencos and uses of nionoy (lLiat willbo brought iuto requisition to defoat the now nud great cause.—I’coria Lemocrat, ‘—T'horo aro somo sighs on the political horizon which are worth studying, Thorois the conrse arroganco of Honator Curpentor's recent specch in dofenno of his voto for the ealary bill; and thoro is the suporcilions declaration of tho samo Bouator ropoatod by Attornoy-Goneral Willinms, that tho poople_ought to lot politica alone anc attond to thoir busincss ; and thero in the cold- bloodod gssortion of the Hastorn Ropublican organg, that the Westorn farmors have nothing but their own mismanagoment to complain of 3 and thore iu the almost Nupoloonio ignoranco of, and indifforouco to, tho public business of the Washington Admiunistration. Thon, too, we sca tho commencemont of libol suits and other sim~ ilor procoodings by Government ofiicials sndt favoritos againet daring and, perhnps, unsern- plous journalists who aro exposing their profli gacy and corruption, Ifow all this rominds uu of thodaya of Rochofort uud tho Empiro of Fravce, wien the Emporor was dawdling away- hin timo at tho watoring-pincos; whon Lis Bin- ittors woro noglecting ovorything but th?h' own cago and profit; and whon tho Zanferne's nerid and unendurablo attncks on the Qoyernmend wtung it to desporation and to ruln, Tho ehiof businows of the Fronch Empire inits lnot doyn was controlling eloctions and_ prosecutin i]uur- nalists, It would not bo fair to say that this a Lo chlof businoss of tho govorning party in this. country, but it cortanly seoms to bo tonding in that divoction.—8t. Lotis Kepullican,