Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1873, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JULY 14, 1873 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TRERMA OF SUDACRIFTION '(‘\‘AV‘AI!LI w ABVAI!CB,). ally, by mail. 12,0 unday, AL 00| Seeulay Parts of n yoar at the samo rato. 'To provent delay and mistakes, bo sure and give Post. Ot co addsess in full, including Btate and County, Remittancos may bo mada olther by draft, oxpross, Post Oftico ordor, or it roglstered lottors, at our risk, TRUMB TO CIT? BUDRCRINENS, Dally, delivered, Sunday oxcoptod, 25 cente por wook. Dally, dolivered, Bundny fncluded, 80 cents por wook, Addross TIIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madiron and Dearborn-sts,, Oliloago, Il TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. TOOLEY'S THEATRE-Rnandolph Siroot, botwoon Olark aud LaSallo. **Hlon MOVIOKER'S THIEATRE~Mndison stroot, botwoon DA Rl Stetor e Katle Vatuath Teoupor ! World and Stago." NIXON'S AMPHITIEATRE-Olinton atroot, botoon Washiugion and Raudoly. Xouy Fastor's Varloty Gom- nation, “BUSINESS NOTICES, LYON'S INSROT POWDER I8 THE MOST POW- ‘orful and offectivo (nacet poydor in the world, THT POOR LITTLE 8] TiE. fintaly solovod by naiog dra. TROVAL HAVANA LOTTERV—WE BOLD IN me:‘.:r ot 220 Apeil lst tho Cironlars Tinnitors, 16 Wallat. ox 4595, Now York. TFOR PREOKLES AND MOTH PATOILE HL,AHK % TN Winntow's Boothing Syrup for ohlldron tothing. 40,0 privo. L o e, . e MARTINIZ & 60, v d ‘Trooklo st for ¥ Moth an tion. gr‘l‘x;n(“:‘fili‘i‘l‘uulll-vflil Nowiiork, For Pimploson (he T Binokhionds, and Fleshworms, uto Porry's Jmrrased O odono and Plmplo Romod; ‘ropared only by Dr. B. Boudat, Now Yorks The Chicags Tribune, no. Porry, Dormatologist, 49 Monday Morning, July 14, 1873, Grand Rapids, Mich,, suffored & heavy loss by firo yostordsy, Ono hundred dwollings and o numbor of stores, mills, hotels, and other build- ings, tho wholo covering six of tho most thicldy built squares in the clty, wero destroyed. Tho 1088 is noarly half & million, of which $100,000 is covered by insuranco. énpt. mckfion’erml his resiguation to tho Mayor, on Saturday, who immediately accopted §t. Inconsoquence of this nction, tho investi- gation begun by the Polico Commissionors lins boon dropped, and the public will have no moans of knowing the truth abont eithor tho epecific chargos made ngainat the Captain in the jewel- ry caso, or thoso vaguer-intimations of other mystorious doings nt tho Armory. —— Russia pursues tho ssme polloy of concilintion in Khiva a8 in the othor Khsnates of Turkestan which sho hns overcomo. Tuo Khav of Khiva lins beon restored to his throno., His placo iy assurod tohim by the support of the Russian troops, and ho is nssisted in tho work of admin- istration by o council appointed by Gen. Kauf- mann, By this treatmont tho Russians have al- " rendy obtained tho abolition of slavery in Khiva, and Linvo thereby reslored to tho Shah 10,000 of Lis subjocts onglaved by the Khivans, Boforo Dnden Froras & Co., tho New York laco importors who are charged with having defrauded the rovonuo, gavo the Custom-Houso gaug to undorstand that no compromise was to Do ex- - pectod from them, Jayuo and bis dotectives gave ont that thoy meant to bleed them to tho mag- nificont figuro of §2,600,000, Actorwards their tuno was lowered to £609,000. They have finally found themeolves forced to go to the courts, and sppenr with a anit for the comparatively modest sum of $102,000. It would be somothing to offset the criminal recklessness with which they imporiled their passongers’ lives, if tho officers of tho City of Washington, after tho accident, hud done every- thing thoy could to protact them from hunger, cold, and oxposuro; but thoy seom to have done the very opposito. Bteerage passongers come plain that thoy wero left for five days on the beach without any sholter whatever. They woro given such food a8 putrid beef and a scant al- lowanceof hard crackors; and, in addition, many of them were robbed by the crow. This yoar, happily, the followers of the Prince of Orango and their opponents have forborne to colobrato the anniversary of tho battle fought on tho hanks of the Boyne, nearly two hundrod yoars ago, by rohenrsing the struggle in the streots of Dublin, Now York, and other Irish citioa, In Iroland, the day passed off quictly enough ; in New York tho Orango parades wore small and spiritless, and tho attondance of two policomon to cach Orangoman proserved the pence. In Toronto, tho demonstration was marked by unususl euthusiesm, but was not mo- lested. The Chicago produco markets wero steadior on Baturday. Meas pork was quiot and a shade firmer, closing at S16.87%@16.60 cash, and $15.50@15.60 seller August. Lard wae inactive, but quoted 5o por 100 Ibs higher, at £5.20@6.25 cnel, and $5.35@5.40 soller August. Mcats woro quisct and }¢c highor, at 74@17%¢e for shouldors, 9@9%0 for middles, aud 10@12}¢c for swoot- picklod hams, Ilighwines wore active and 3o bighor, at 8934e por gallon, Iako freights wore quiot and {0 Ligher at 5io for corn to Bultalo. Flour was quiot and unchanged. Wheat was moderately octive and 1c higher, closing at S1.163 cash, and $1.13}¢@1.13}¢ soller August. Corn was unchanged, closiug at 863¢e cash, and 8810 soller August. Oats wero in fair demand and a shade firmor, closing at 20c cash, and 28340 goller Augast. Ryo was dall and 20 lower at G¥o. Darloy was quiet and flrmor at 630 cash, nud 60c soller Soptombor. Tho hog market was nctivo and highor, sales making at $4.35@4.80 for poor to choice, Cattlo and shoep were quiot st nbout Friday's pricos. The managers of the forthcoming Iutor-State Industrial Exporition Lave done well, even at thia Inte date, to includo s Fino Art Exhibition within its scopo. Great caro should now Lo talton in the selection of a proper committee to superviee this part of tho schome, That com- mitteo should not ho composed oxclusively of artists, but of connolssours and artists, with Bomo onergotle mon among them who can afford to give timo to thelr duties and who will also bave good taste mufiicient to reject the innumerable daubs which always come throng- ing in upon such occasions, and crowd out really meritorious works, What Is dono in tho Art Dopartment will Lisve to be dona not only judie- Tously but also in o very short space of time, as noarly oll tho promMent artists are away for the summer, sketching for tholy wintor’s work in the studio. Meanwhile, what aro the monagors doing with reforence to tho musical atiractions of the Exposition? T'hero is great dangor in deferring action too long. Whatover musiois to o given will require a great deal of time if it is to be given woll, and it should not he given othorwiso. Tho Bt. Louls Democral rocoatly indulged an ungracions fling at Chicago, implying that 4ha nholora was raging i this olty, and that tho nowspapera wero supprosaing the fact, It singu- Inrly Linppons that nowspapors, which are not Chiengo nowspapors, arc now making tho samo oharge in regard to Bt. Louls. A letter from 8t Lonis, publishiod h an Indisnapolls papor, a short timo minco, mald that thoro hnd boon - ovoral casos of cholara thore, and that " the local papors had eupprossod tho fact. And now the Bt. Louis corrospondent of the Now York World, reitoratos it with much emphasls, and says that, last yoar, when tho small-pox was provafling thore, tho Bt. Lonis Democrat publishod the truth rogarding b3 ‘wheroupon a numbor of indignant morchiants and huockstors signodan agroomont that thoy would “ gtop thoir papor, and would not adsertieo in tho Democral ; whoroupon tho Democrat wont through tho dograding scono of disolinrging its ‘city odltor, and- taking back: all that it had snid about tho small-pox. According lo our rocollection thore is & largo sub-stratum of truth in this story. The publio can judge from this rocitsl how much truth thero is in tho Demo- crat's yarn concorning cholorn in Chicago, As to tho cholora In 8t. Louis—it s bad onough to have an opidemic disenso in one's neighborhood, without having the nowspapera of othor citios oxulting over and magnifying it. Wo shall loave all such bad manners to such papers as the St. Lonis Democrat, but wo would suggost that ‘when the cholera is around it is bottor to toll tho whole truth every day, and publish tho number of cases undor official medical attostation, than to strive to suppress the facts, which are sure to lonk ont, and aro likely to bo magnifed ten-fold by irresponsible publio rumor. The Granges of California havefired their firat gun at monopoly. The farmers of tho Ban Jonquin valloy lave taken tho flold againet o largo and powerful company, which has been formed to scouro a land grant from Congross to aid in irrigating the Ban Joaquin Valley, This valloy contnina the richest soil for wheat in the world, but Iacks one condition to mako crops pormancnt and roliablo. There is no danger of smut or rust from summer raing, no hazard in leaving the grain in tho open air, and threshing oud bagging can be dono without barns ; but thoro is a dfroquent failuro of rainfall, in which case tho valley 18 parched to ashos, and tho losses for that year have to be mado up in more favorable yoars. With proper irrigation, howaover, there would be no clement of chanco in tho cultivation of whoat, and tho valley would yield its crops in richor abundanco than any othor soction of the samo aiza in this country. The natural sonrces of irrigation are abundant, tho valley boing traversed by the San Jonquin River and ita throe tributarios, the Mor- cod, Tuolumne, and Stanistaus, which take their vigo in tho Bicrras at a groal nltitude. The nocessity of irrigation is ovidont onongl, and the farmors, in tho position thoy have taken, do not opposo it. Thoy nasort that to control tho water of tho Ban Joaquin sud its tributarios is to control the wheat crops of the valley, and that such con- trol belongs to thom, and not to o compeny of speculators for the purposes of monopoly Thoreforo thoy have mado their protest and thoy havo dono wiscly in protesting before thoy are swallowed by the monopoly, when it would bo overlastingly too late. The nction of the farmers of the Ban Joaquin valley shows that tho Granges are “‘alive and kicking" in California, and the arguments which they prosont against this particular monopoly ought to procuro its immediate rejoction whenever it comes bofore’ Congross. The editor of tho Yorkville (I1l.) News scoms to Lo ontirely ablo to hold his own in a joint de- bate on tho tariff question with a protectionist in Lie locality. Tiis general statement (published elsewhere) that manufactures will grow up and thrive in Illinos without protoctivo logislation as fast ns marketa for their productions aro crantod—that is, as fast as they are necded—is true. To build up manufactures faster than thoy aro noeded is to destroy and obliterate n certain portion of tho oxisting capital of the country, Tho writer (Mr, W, Atkins), to whose article tho Yorkvillo Netws makes answor, scoms to assumo’ (1) that thero ara no manufactures in Illinois nt tho presont time, or noxt to nono; (2) that what manufactures wo have are dependont upon a protective tarifl for their oxistonce. Noithor of thoso gratuitous assumptions aro sufficiently roplied to by tho News. The following catalogue of manufacturoes now oxisting in Illinols ia a list of thoso which are not only not protocted or beneflted by thoe tariff in the least, but are de- presgod and discournged by it. Tho amount of capital and tho numbor of hands employed by them is sufficiently groat to assure us that no Liarm would come to our maunfacturing industry 08 a whole if every protective duty were ropeal- ed to-morrow: Tonscs and fences, Yingone aud carzizos, Hubs, spokes, shufts, and ‘whdols, Agricuitiiral imploments, Printing presscs und quart| mills, Cara and locomotives. Raflways and atroot rafl- Wave. Stoamers, safling vossols, and caiel-boata, Staves, barrcls, and pumps, Firo englnes nhd hoso, Bloves, grates, rangos, sud furntucen, Rooflug and plastoring. [ soap. Engines, Loflers ud- ma-JLamps, lsnterns, and can- chinery. dleatloks. Quarrying, stone-cutting,|Oloth aud paper bagn. ‘and brick-making, Paper collars, cuils, boxes, Water-works, paving, sow-|and paper hnugiuge, ors, and gos, Woodeu-ware,wiliow-waro, Bridgtes, Iron, and wood, | and mntchon, Puluting and rlazing.” [afla, wwnings, and tents, Sealen and safes, Trunke, boxvs, and show- Brooms and brushes, casen, Tioots and shucs, Wheelwrighting, wheel- Cement and eloncwaro, | barrows, and handearts, Marblo manufactures, [Saddlery, barncss, ani Ice-cutling, Tulting. Tats and Liutters’ goods and|Tobsceo manufaoturing. Leathor and leather goois, Churnw.wishing machines, {Butchering and packing, \¥lour, crackers, and bis- cuit, Canned frutta and vegota~ o4, starch, oft,vincgar, lard, tallow, glue, and groane, priuting, stercotypiug, eli- graving, and gilding. Gon-tting and plumbing. Gusls, doovs, blinds,. aud Iadderw, Printing snd writng fak, Blank liooks, binding, efc, Butter, chécse, candics, ashied, saleratus, on furs, Vault lights, olevators, heating apparatus, and| and elothes-wringers, ll;l‘htmuf-mls. Olothing mado by tailora, TLooking-glass aud pleture-| miliiners, snd dress- franea, makers, Howing maobines, Ouns, gunsmithing, ond Planos and organs, tinwaro, Thotographa aud’ photo-|Locksmithing, Lollliang- graplifo guods. % fug, and speaking-tubies, Dautal gaods, Wiackamithing of alf kinds, Tatont medicines, {fouschold nud school fur- Tron castingn, nituro sud upholster Jewelry, * opilenl, mathe-| fng, untfeal, s {clegraphic instrunients. sinca prolnbited the ritos of clvil burinl to nll mien who have been Radicals and Freo-Thinkers 1n life, and who have died without the npproval or Llessing of thoclorgy. The National Assembly has sustained his decision, it appears, by a voto of 478 to 174, and has thoreby given the world & vory good ides of tho mort of Topublicanism which obtains o Franco, roprosonted by Marshal MucMalion and the monarchieal coali- tion in tho Assombly which electod him. Wo con undoratend, in tho light of such a proceed- ing aa this, how the Liberals of France may ha driven into tho hot-headed oxcessos which charactorize the popular rovolutiona in thnat country, ‘fhe iufluence of the clorgy husnot nbated, aud they can count upon the majorlty of the Assombly in its presont division, But, if this majority nnos ita power in tho unronsonablo and dospotto wny indicated In tho abovo inatance, it may oxpoot to precipitato now troubles upon thg country. - IOWA POLITICS. Tolk County, Town, is tho politieal contre of {hat Stato, Dos Moinea Ia the county seat, and also tho eapltal of the Blate. It is tho strong- hold of tho Republioan manngers, DBelng tho Btato capital, politica there are subjeoted to tho direct control of the politicians who happen to bo Btate officors at tho timo, Xtis tha ofMeial renldonco of tho Governor, who is o eandidate for ro-oloction, The rocont Republican Stato Cone vontion souglt by overy menns to ropross any Loatila organization smong tho farmors of that county. But tRo farmers of Polk County wora not decoived by the specious promlscs of thoInte Convontion, and, thoreforo, on Baturdsy, mot in convention of thoir own and nominated oandidatos for both branches of tho Legislaturo, for Gounty Trensuror, Auditor, Sheriff, Suporin- tendont of Behools, Buporvisor, Surveyor, and Coronor, This convention was entirely froo of tho ordinary profossional politiclans and ofilca-sookers, and was oxclusively of tho claes who bave hitherto dono the voting for caudi- datos selocted by othor poople. N This naotion I8 very significant. Like action had been previously taken in othor conventions, Lut the action of tho Polk County Anti-Monop~ olists will havo an extonded influence on all parts of tho Btato. It makos tho holding of a Btato Convontion, ond Btato candidates of the Anti-Monopoly party, a cortainty. Thore can, thereforo, be no longer any doubt that thoro 18 a vory largo portion of the peoplo, of Tows, aud cspecially of that clasa who have lorotoforo taken no activo part in the sclootion of candidates and managoment of partios, who havo roachod tho conclusion that there {s no uso’ in looking to oithor the Republican or Domo- oratic partica for reform, and that, to effcct o ohange, thore must bo o movement by tho maases of tho peoplo thomesolves in their own interost and for thoir own deliveranco. Wo supposo that thoro is hardly any doubt that tho ticket nominated by the farmers of Polk Comnty will bo olocted, and, it this can bo donoin that connty undor tho vory shadow of party patronage and in tho vory camp of party powar, thore will bo little doubt of its success generally in tho other counties of the Btato. Thiswill give to tho Anti-Monopolists the control of the Legislaturo ; it will take that body out of tho hands of party. It will also so- cure to tho Anti-Monopolists, and take from tho Ropublican party, tho local officos of tho groator part of tho Btato, by the possession of which the Ropublican party bhas boen able to maintain its supremacy. In the mattor of iho olection for Govornor, it is possiblo that the new organization will boso burrled and immatnroe that tho Republican ma- Jority of 60,000 will not bo wholly ovorcome. Tho Republican party is stronger in numbers, hna possession of all the offices, has coutrol of all tho moans of corruption, and Is fighting for its lifo, and, therefore, it may at this alection bo sblo to elect o Govornor. Novortheless, the ro- sult of tho election will bo the destruction of the party rule which, ns in all other placos, hns degenerated into corruption, tho selection of dishonest officors, and a general postponement of all publio intorests to the advancement of those of individuals manipulatitig party caue cusos, The Farmers® Convention has struck tho right blow at the right timo and in tho right placo whon they doclared that they would support no mnn for oflico who was tho nominee of any party convention, or had any ontangling allinnco that could lead him from his duty to the whole pub- lic in order to promoto thoso of a party, Thoy showed tho fearlossnoss which follows independ- ouce by tho frank way in which they denounced the net of Congress granting back and increasod pay,—as well tho voting for sa the Executive ap- proval of the samo,—and demanding its uncon- ditional repeal. Altogethor, the election promises to bo a lively and exciting one, and tho result can in no way bo doubtful if tho farmers will vote for their own intorest. o rr——— AN EXTORTION DEMANDING NOTICE. Boforo we concludo what is an extortionato chargo for transportation, wo must of necossity considor what transportation costs. Tho chief object of the Railrond law waa tosocura cheaper transportation. DBut, because it interfored materially with tho adoption of especinlly low rates for through traflio and competing points, the firat result has boen such that tho Commis- sionora are reported to boliove that tho railroads aro not trying to comply with the law in good faith. Rates charged are in ,many cases higher than thoy woro bofore the War, whon there were by no moeans a8 many roads to com- poto with ench other, and tho conclision arrived at by many is, that a failure to reduce charges for transportation must of itself bo evidence of extortion, i ‘Tho rato from this oity, or from other chicf points of shipment at tho Wost, to New York or other Enstorn cities, is not higher than it was in 1860, By rail toNow York grain now paye 456 conts por 100 in curroney, and in the summor of 1860 it paid 45 conts in gold. Throughrates gen- erally soom to be about the same in currency as thoy were in gold thirteon yoars ago, which is an actunl if not an apparent reduction, Probably the averago of rates to and from compoting points is now lower in gold than it was then, and {hio number of such compoting points has been groatly inoronsed. If, moanwhile, rates for Jocay frolght ond to or from non-compoting points havo boon inorensod since 1860, it is nooossary to considor whother any sufiiciont cause exists, The gonoral cost of living hos Inorensed, and, consequently, the wnges of machiuists, ongin- cers, clorks, watchmon, brakomen, and baggago- men, and of nlt omployes, have inerensed. Tho avorago swmn paid yearly to all machiuists wan £892.98 in 1860, and £573,16 in 1870, and tho pay of machiniats omployed by railronds hes in- crensed at lonst ay much, As to alllaborro- quired, it costs moro in gold to build, maintuin, and oporate & rond than it did in 1860, The cost of wond nocessarily incroasos ns timbor near atationn becomes exheusted, and the cout of wood and coal isnecosgarily incroased beeanso highor cost of living compels highor wagos. Upon sevoral Illinols voads, the averago cost of fuel por mile run waa 8 conts, of engincors and assistants T3¢ conts, aud of repairs (chiefly labor of machinists) 63¢ cents, whero the wholo average cost wns 23 cents, mo that Incroasain cost of fuol must watorially increase the expenso of oporating. But tho chief cost, nlike of buildingand of operating, is that of tho iron used. If tho cont of building roads, with full equipmont, 1a:2560,000 por mile, with Iron at 285 por ton, fully one- hialf of that cost, or §25,000 per mile, I8 tho cos of iron in various forme, If it costs $0,000 yor milo to run a roadof Inrgo trafllo, from ono-third’ to ono-hinlf of hnt oxponso fs tho- cost of ro- placing iron urod up in track or rolling-stook, A fow facts will holp to show tho justioo of those cstimntos, and tho offcct of chenges in theicost of iron sinco 1800, B According to records publishod by the Amerl- onn Iron and 8teel Aseociation, the average cost of railway bars in 1800 was $48 por ton, and in 18721t was £80.124, At 100 tons to the milo, rails which coat £4,800 in 1860, mow cost €8,612,60, and tho Inoronso in comt of ralls alono hnd beon about §9,712.60 por milo. Bpikos, ohalrs, flsh-platos, bolts and nuts, bridge iron, whools, nxles, and iron used for othor parls of cars sud onginos, has inoronsed quite s much in cost a8 the ralls. Of other iron in sll forms, at lonst twico nemuch s usod na intho rail alone, Every oight-whooled car uses about throo tons in whools and nxlea alono onginos woigh about thirty tons, and aro almost wholly of iron and etool. If twico as much lronis consumod por miloin othor formsns in the rall, tho cost of iron slono Is $25,500 por mile, aud the incroaso of cost slnco 1860 8 $11,187.60 por milo. Upon this groater cost the road, whon built, must pay intorost, Under the proeort tariff, the Incronsed cost of iron used in building roads compels every road built sinco 1862 to carn $770.62 moro than it otherwiso need earn, in ordor to pay 7 por cont Intorest onits cost. Thisfe s porpotual tax upon all transportation over suchroads. The main lines in Ilinols carn about $10,000 por’| milo, but the averago for all ronds in the Btatois probably not more than §5,000 per milo ; if so, tho roads of this Btate might reduce all chargea about one-sixth, and yot make ag much money as thoy do now, if tho cost of buflding ronds had not been inorensed since 1860 by tho tariff on iron, The reductlon might be much groater if thoy conld uso ateol instead of iron. The track onco laid necds constant relaying. Exporimonts by Mr. A, 8, Howitt, given in ro- ports of Massachusetts Railway Commissionors, show that tho averago duration of iron rails on tho Erio Railroad was about 8%{ yoars, and that on ronds with tho heaviest business iron lasts but threo to four yoars ; on roads with fair busl- noss five yoars, and on roads dolog a small busl- ness from twelve to fiftoen yoars. Reports as to tho Michigan Southern, fn 1870, ehowod thot the avorage of iron rails in that track was four years, snd noticed that rails did not last as long os thoy did be- foro tho War. The Erle usod 2,000 tons por month, or 28 d-10 tons yearly por mile of rond In operation, which, at tho rate of 1860, would havo cost $1,308.20 per mile yoarly, but ot tho rato of 1672, 82,417.50 por milo ysarly,~an incronso of $1,054.70 per milo yoarly caused sololy by tho greater cost of iron rails used in rolaying, On small roads, where rails last twolvoe years, the cost of B3¢ tons por mile yearly at the rate of 1860 would be 408, and at the rate of 1870 it would bo $728.560, an incroaso in cost of $316.66 per mile yearly Bat the former is upon a road whose gross ro- coipts wore $18,000 pormile; the latter upon ronds of shortor line or lighter business, whoso recoipts averago perhaps $2,000 por mile. The higher cost of iron for relaying, thorofore, may caugo not more than onc-cightcenth of tho wholo charges of n large rond, doing a heavy throngh business, and yot equal one-sixth of the entiro receipts of . a emallor rond, or ono depending upon local trafile. If the ronds of Nllinois average receipta of £5,000 por mile, probably tho incroased cost of iron for relaying is atloast 8600, por mile, or ono-tenth of ontira rocelpts. Wo havo yot to es- timato tho cost of ropair ud roplacement of engiues, cars, wheels, axles, brakes,.and all ofh- or iron usod,—which, though.exceoding the raita in quantity, wenrs out loss rapidly. Yot the year- 1y supply of new wheols and axles alono, ns con- sus roports show, was sbont 975,000 tons when only 50,000 miles of road were in oporation,—an averago of 734 tons to thomilo, Thonumber of on- | ginos mado was 1,137, probably averaging 80 tona ench, or nearly 7-10 of s ton to enchymilo oporat- ed. The increased cost of 8 1-5 tons to tho milo i8 8207, If woadd only $36 por mile moro for incronsed cost of all other iron used in re- pairs and renowals, wo lavo 888 por milo yoarly, or ono-sixth of the average roceipts. ‘Thus, if the averago of charges on all our roads has boon inerersed one-fifth, and no moro, since 1860, that increase has just covered the groator oxpenso causod by a high tariff on iron used in ronowals and roplacemonts, and ylolds the roads no additional profit. . One-gixth of present recoipts for the incroased exponso of iron used overy yoar, and one-sixth more for intorest on the increase in original cost of iron used in buildiug, makes one-third. If one-third of all presont charges has boon added slnco 1860,—that is, if rates have increased one- hilf,—the railroads only recoivo enough moro to poy the oxira expense caused by the tariff on iron, and tho interest on tho extra cost of iron "used in building. Get rid of tho tarit on jron only, and the roads can chargo ono-third loss-~two dollars whero thoy noyw charge throe—and yot mako as much money a8 they do now, Itwill bo objocted that tho railronds havo not incroased their average rates ono-half since 1860,-and that is unquestionably | trae. Thoy aro doiug a much largor business in tho aggregate, and, us wo have seen, tho larger tho business tho lightor tho burden becomos. Tho Jargest ronds, on heavy through busiuoes, charge no incronso; the great volume of Luai- negs onablos them to bear the added burden of about $1,600 por mile, and yot mako monoy. But tho emaller roads, and especially thoso dopond- out upon local traflle, paying from 98 to §500 por mile yearly mora for iron used, may bo forcod to kome incronso of ralos, oepecinlly if the great multiplication . of railroads bas divided tho bLusiness dono by ench. With theso, tho queation is whothor they hiavo Incronsed their charges ns much ns the tarlff on iron alone hus increased the cont of operating. It is timo for tho farmora to understand that & tariff on iron snd stool, which adds about one- half to tho necessnry cost of building and oper- ating railronds, I thelr worst onomy, Not nog- lecting other offoits to soouro thoir rights, they ought to makatho ovorthrow of this tarift tho grent aim of tlsir undertaking. As long ag it is Bustained by their consent, everybody can Pplend it as an excuse for chargos somotimes just and somotimes unjust, and the worst swindloi on earth can sy that ho does not rob the farmora a8 muck as thoy rob thomselvos by menns of this tarifr, —— From the last ounual ohusotts Bureau of Lnbor, it nppears that the number of aores of improvedland bas decroased 20 por cont sincoe 1850, aud the cash value of farms b por cont, Whorent thoro Is considorable wonder, Many of the Massachusotta papors aro disouesivg tho problom, They will undoubtedly 1eport “of tho Masen- |- find tho snewer in tho fact that the roil of Mas- pachusotta {8 an- ungratofnl ono, and that the youngor rage of farmors would rathor work on iis prairies of tho West than smopg the stumps and siones of Naew Englaud 3 that young mon don't like farming whon other snd mors favorabfe opportunitics for making money aroso plonty and that as tli0 West ia 1moro ond moro doveloped, tho East must bo fod by it, and in turn Esstorn farming must givo placo to manufacturing, to supply the Woat. s THE GOODRICH MURDER CABE, Tha Inter developmonts in the Goodrich mur- der caso, instead of cloaring off tho fog in which 1t bns boon onveloped, have rendored it more mystorlous and rovolting than it scemed before tho arrost of Kate Stoddard, About four monthe 0go, Charlos Goodrioh, a mun of considorablo moans and respootable connoctions, was found doad In his own house, in Brookiyn, where ho hind been lving alone. Holay on tho basomont floor, with & revolver at his side, and under cor- tain ciroumstances that at first induced tho be- liof that ho hod ocommitted suicide. Bub- soquont gurgleal oxamination showed that it was impossible that ho should have killod himself, and search for the murderor was commonoed. A woman named Lucetto Moyers, with whom Lo was known to have hold criminal relations in life, waa first arrosted. Sho dentod all knowledge of the murder, though sho admitted the relations botwoen hor and the do- consed, said that ho had been in tho habit of visiting her house, and that, on the aceasion of ‘his last visit, ho had been in altercation withn fpaniard named Roscos, who waa algo in the habit of visiting hor. This pointed to Roscoo a8 tho murderer, and the detectives have boen scouring all the principal cities to find him. Boveral porsonahave boen arrested junder sus- picion, but have proved mot tobo thoman, and he is till at large. A short timo nftor the murdor a lottor was found among Goodrich's offects, signed Kato Stoddard, ney cusing the decensed of having decoived tho writer with & mbok marriage and thon cast hor oft. This lead the polico to beliovo that Kato Btoddard was connected with tho murder. A woman named Handly was found who had for- morly roomed with Kato Stoddard, and she was ongagod to sccompany tho dotoctives in the soarch now instituted for the now party to the erlmo. For soveral months no cluo was found, ond the police wero shout abandoning the search when the Handly woman accidentally met Kato. Btoddard in the streot, almost unrocognizable from hor haggard and forlorn condition, called o policeman, and had hor arrested. Kato Stoddard, who was also known as Amy Stono, and whose xeal namo turns out to be Liz- gio Lloyd King, was inn dreadfully impoverished condition when found. Bho hiad on nothing but nn old skirt, shnwl and bonnot, was without un- dorclothes or decent wrappings, and hed nota singlo poony in her pocket. Bhe made n con- fossion to tho polico at once. Bho said that sho wos the murderer of Charles Geodrich. Sho hud booirliving with him as his mistross for some time. He tired of hor and had dotor~ mined to cast her off, Bho plended with him not to do this, but he was decided, ns ho was ongaged tobo married to a New Yorlk lady. Tho night preceding tho murder sho spent in his house. In the morning he told hor that sho must got hor things togother, go off, and never return to him again, Ho then went down stairs. According to hor story, sho fol- lowed Inm, and, when ke was leaning overto light the firo, sho called : “Charliel” As he | 1ocked up, sho shot him in tire head threo times. Bho says that sho remained in tho house watch- ing tho corpse all that day and tho following ight, disposing tho body g it was fouud, wiping tho bloed from his face and head, oud wrluging out the towel. On the following ‘morning, Friday, the day on whichthe dead body was found, sho wont over to New York. Bhe started back to go to the houee, but lhadno sooner stopped on the ferry-boat than sho heard tho newsboys, who were selling the ovening popors, ory out : * Tull accounts of the Good- rich murder I Sho bought & paper, and road tho account of tho finding of thobody. Sho thon changed her lodgings, Hor room was visitod by the polico, and, in her trunk, was found all tho missing property that had been takon from Goodrich at the timo of the murdor, ~—bis wateh, jewelry, pockot-book, and 840in ‘money, the preciso sum which ho was known to hiavo on his porson. Thoro were tworemark- ablo fentures about this confession. Ouo i that the woman who murdored Goodrich should havo romeined with the gory victim of the body twenty-four hours after tho commission of tho’ crime and in momentary daugor of apprehon- alon. Tho othor is that, during sovoral months of penury, privation, and almoat starvation, she should not havo touched a pouny of tho money which ehe took from Goodrich, nor any of his othor property in her possession, This confession scomed to explain the mystery. -of Goodrich's death; but tho ovidence before tho Coronor’s inquest, which was in sossion sgain Saturday, briugs it back into the old confusion, Kato Stoddard was idontified by Lucotto Moyers, who had proviously stated that ele did not know hor; by Miss Handly, who had formorly lived with hor and had her arrestod; and by Miss Adeline Pine, who was botrothed to Good- rich, and who had once seen the girl at Good- rich's houso and had been told that sho was his sistor. But, bofora the Coronor’s jury, whero Kato Stoddard had counsel, she doclined to mnke tho confession which sho had proviously made, and thers wore many evidences of insanity in Lor conduct. Miss Handly atated that she had for~ maly beon in the Insane Asylum, driven mad from disappointod love, Thoro was a gonoral improssion among all presont that sho waa do- ‘montad, anda circumatanco occurrod which makoa this view entiroly probablo. When a police ofticer took up & locket, found among Goodrich’s Jowelry in hor possossion, to sLow it to tho jury, sho oxolaimed: “Bo cavoful! Do careful | Thero is minoral in that which I don't want to loso.” When the locket was opened, something dropped out of it, which sho mmediatoly picked up, put in hor mouth, and swallowed. When aukod what It was, ahio looked the oflléor steaight in tho cyo and answored: *That is Charles QGoodrich's blood,” Bubsequont analysis of what remainod in the lookot proved, indeod, that the substance was congealod blood, Kate Stoddard afterwards statod that alio had taken a cup-full of DLlood from Goodrich's brain, and that sho hod eaton Aomo of it evory day since the mur- derl The verdict of the Coronor's jury was that Qoodrich came to hig doath at tha hands of Kate Btoddard, but this is by no mosus certain as yot., "The revolver found in Kato Btoddard's trunk, with which sho sald that sho Lad killed Good- rich, was recognized at the inquost by Lucotte Moyery a# one which shobkad goon in Roscos's handa a short time provious to tho murder. This woman, whoso conduot has been vory singular thronghout. the wholo investigation, de- olinod to toll tho Coronor's jury tho clroumsiancos of the interviow with Roscoo at tho timo she mnw tho revolver, becauso {t might “dofeat tho onds of justice.” The Tolico Commissionors of Brooklyn boliave that Toscoo 18 the real murdoeror, and that Kate Stod- dard was In'somo way sn sccossory. Lvory ono sooms to bollevo that Kato Stoddard is notually Ingano, and it is cortain that Lucotto Moyors ln an oxcoodingly shrowd porson, who does not toll oll sho knows, Thero ave mystorics and horrora onough in the csso to have gladdened tho honrk and stimulated tho imagination ot Eugone Sue, and tho ond is not yet. A COURT OF HONOR. Jofferson Davis has Intoly acted as judge or umpiro in & caso of Lonor, and Lis judgmont and award bavo beon publishod. Tho ciroumstancoes aro as follows : Bomo timo ocarly in Juno, Col, R. W. Wintersmith, of Loulsville, Ky., visited Momphis, and, whilo thoro, wasintroduced on the stroot to Oapt. E. A, Cole. While talking, tho namo of gome porson was moentioned which led to a controveray, Cole ovidently mistaking Win- torsmith for gome one olso, and Wintersmith mistaking tho person of whom Colo waa talking. High words—** oxpletivos"—woro used on both sides, which endod in Winteramith knocking Cole down. It appears that Cole holds eome office, by thoe oath of which he is prohibited from sending or receiving a challenge to fight & duol. But that night his friond, Capt. W. RB. Lucas, onlled at the hotel and demandod that Wintersmith should name & time and plnce whore, without any formal o)ml.longu, he wounld moet Cole, and whero tho rencontre could bo ro- nowed. In othorwords, that both partios should moet, armed as they ploaso, and havo s stroot fight, Wintorsmith promised to give an answor | noxt morning, ho haviog, in the meantime, been arrosted and hold to koop thapeace, Noxt day, ho loft the city ; some hours later Lucas ¢alled for hig answor, and, finding Wintersmith out, wroto a vory insulting note to Wintoramith, accusing him in goneral terms of having avolded o fight. Aftor Wigtorsmith got back to Kontuoky, ho published & long history of the affair, which lod to rojoinders, aud eventually thore booame mixod up in it tho following’ pordonsa: Col. Win~ torsmith, Onpt. Oolo, Capt.' Lucas, Col. W. In. Duft, Dr. Clarke, Dr. Blackbnrn, Col. Coloman, and Judgo Fouto. Aftor this, Mr. James G. ‘Wintoremith, of Loulavillo, son of the Colonol, wrota to Capt. Lucas, informing the Iattor that, 08 ho had intorfored as o substitutae for Colo, ho (young W.) offerod to fight in place of his father, “This Lucas rofusod to agroe to, and the wholo thing broke out suew in tho shapoe of corro- spondence. Finally, Gen. Johun O. Drecken- ridgo and Col. Johnson, ropresonting Kontucky, and Qov. Isham G. Harris, and Gon. W. Bate, tho Btate of Tenuessco, consented to act as erbitrators. Tho four arbitrators mado awards, all of thom differing, and the matter was then roferred to Joff, Davis ns umpire. Davis mado short work of it. Ho de- cided thnt, as Wintersmith inflicted a blow, doing g0 undor o misappreliension, ho should spolo- gizo therofor, and, that being done, all the rest of tho correspondence, which makes & page of tho Momphis papors, should be withdrawn. Tho decislon 18 g0 just that the wonder is that nono of the Genorals, Colonols, Captalns, Judges, Governors, and Doctors who had boen concerned in tho case had nover thought of it before. The decision is final. The Boveroign States of Kone tucky and Tonnesseo are content, The sword, and pistol, and bowic-knife are put away, Jand smity once more provails among the kuights of chivalry THE CODE IN OMAHA. Elsowhoro wo print thoe story of a quostion of honor betweon certain citizens of Kentuoky and Tennessee, and ite final adjudication by Joft Davyis, 08 umpire, While thls was going on in the Bouth, there was a somewhat similar breozo in Omahe. In that city thereis o poper called tho Bee, editod by Mr. E. Rosewater, and another poper, called tho Repiblican, edited by Moj. Baint A. D. Belcombe, Msj, Balcombo rofuses to recognizo, oditorially, the existence of Rose- water, but pormits his local editor to refor to that person in the local columne. Rose« wator laving donouncod this local odi- tor sovoral times, has been repaid with intercst. On July 8, & moro than ordinarily of- fonsive personal paragraphhaving appeared in tho local of tho Republican, Mr. Rosowator, in s’ noto to Balcombe, demanded * smplo publio apology.” This Balcombe took ho notico of, troating it as & quarrel betwoen Rosowater and the loesl writer. On the 9th wo quote the Beo: * About 11 o'clock, having completed his edi- torial labors, Mr. Rosowator purchased a com- mon cowhido,” and procoeded to the most pub~ lio part of the city to wait for Mr. Balcombe, ‘in ordor to disgraco him as publicly a8 pos-’ siblo.” Tho result was that whon Balcombo ap- peared, Rosowater ttacked him with the cowhido ; DBalcombe jumped on Rose- wotor, knocked him down, and while upon him, ' beating bim, they wore eoparnted, and tho affair torminated. It seoms that physically Rosowator is much smaller than Dalcombe, and that when the latter foll againat Rosowator, tho latter sunk undor tho woight. The most unfortunate part of the affair, perhaps, is that the disgracoful controvorsy ia continued in tho two papors, NOTES AND OPINION. Tho Minnesota Republican Convention meata in 8t. Paul, Wednesday. ~—Theo apologlos and explanations now current in Adminiatration nowspapors of Iowa suggont this question : Whother Gov. 0. Q. Carponter ought ro allow Gyrus O, Carpenter, bondsman of Ranlin, to avail himeelf of an orror of the Gov~ ornor, and to oscapo paymont of tho bond, It Cyrus O, Carponter was on o bond that wouldn't hold, Gov. Carpenter ought to have known it. Tho Des Moines Leader soys : 1t Gov, Carpenter 1 wisa bo will at least havo pro- ceciings lustituted Leforo.the oloction wo a8 to holp Lim a littlo, His Attorney-Genoral, Outte,” can easily mausge thio easa for tho Stato,’ 80 18 'to bring no Habllity to bondsmon Carpenter, As & matler of policy, this would bo a splondid scliomo, —Tho Chorokeo (Iowa) Times holsts tho Ro- publican Btato tickot, excluding therofrom the namo of Gov. Carpentor, under that clanse of the platform which declaros it *‘the duty of ovory Republiean to opposo [tho clection of & bad man,” whothor *‘on our own or uny othor tlokot.” Tuo Zmes, thorofore, dolormines to aupport, “For Governor : an Honost Man, of any COounty ; and it hopoa snch o man will be namoed by the Conventlon of August 13, —The Mills County (Iowa) Journal, whoso editor, 0. W. Bhorman, was sn oflicer of tho laut Blate Sonato, doclares that the Lowry resolu- tions woro, indecd, p * hugo joke," but the par- ties wore veritablo Graugors, aud not “ railroad attorneys," as Sonator Lowry now roprosonts, —Col, A, B. Bmodloy, Mastor of the Btato Grango in fwa, spoaking at Waterloo, on the Tourth, declaved that the railroads must can- LA & eminent domain will find n Apoody and praotical oxomplifieation.” . Having also doclarod thaf “ Nonrly ovory rallrond bullt in Tows us had ' Crodit Mobilior in ita conatruction,” tho Dubuqud Telegraph nekn ¢ If ovory ratlroad in Tows lind Gredit 3y cnmlyu:{(nn, anit ig trin’ they had, ...‘,’l‘é“,‘,:fifil. Eflrt) Init that fn responalblo for th talirand 'legialnd jon which pormitted or enabled any combination of persons Lo swindlo tho Stato sud thoir aisocistes, and’ {0 oppresa tho pooplo, s thoso railrond. Orodit Atots Tiorn havo beon dolng7_We don't aek Col. fimedioy (ot anawor thia question. o nak tho_pooplo of tha Slaty anawor it, and wo ask that tholr anewor shall b ‘more than In mero words. ~—Tho country proea. is boginning to bo fillea with lottora of the pooplo, for tho most pact tomperataly worded, and giving ovidenco of thoughtfulnoss and firm determination, The volitieians and monopolista who still think “ thiw storm will blow over," aro wofully mistaken. —The Utica (N. Y.) Herald, the homo orgaiw of RRosooo Conkling, has boon busily at work all summor dofending the Republican -party fromd. biamo in any and all mattors nllogod ngainat ite/ administration, ¥ot, nolonger ngo than 1871, whon Hoffman was Governor and Tweod w ‘¢ Boss," at Albany, tho Ierald is found to have put itagl? on rocord thus ¢ Wo lay this down nsan axiom: ‘Whenevor any pol tcal patty ia In power, it s reapdnsiblo for all. oyl growing directly out of the adminisiration ot Ui overnment, . . . By thia standard we aro willing that tho Republican party,should be judged—by 555 ‘must and will bo judged. —The Providenco Journal, Bonator Antliouy's supur defonda tho Congrossional salary oft 7,600 and tho drawing of it in advanco of gor~ vico, bacause * obviously it makes no differsnca to tho Troasury.” ~—Thore was, on tho 7th, a great rally of' farm- ers at Blountaville, Tonn,, and a correrpondontr writes to the Knox: 'ress and Herald, I was proud of thoe occasion, I freely confear i raa oo cafoulatad to Arouss iho movt.stupia.” & pa ticed Lore what I have obsorved everywhero, that theral in o glant purpodo smong th farmors to orgsnizo. I crops out all over the m\xnlr{. At firkt thoy spoke of the mattor in whispors, but now thoy prociaiin thein wontimonts alond, Tho' tide kas mot in, and it will ine erense in volumo and force a8 tima advances, —All ovor Tonnogseo the farmors—the boney, and sinow, and indnstrinl Tospoctability of tho rutal distriote—aro bostirsing thompolves, taling Eruund lfiunqfi “rings"” and ‘‘monopolies,” ire long thia movement will dovalop into a powen: that mako itsolf known and folt. Tho ork- ingmen of tho country moan, by thelr united_cf: forts, to put down this party-lash systom, which. ‘'as hitherto essayed to drive men to the polls,— Nashvillo (Tenn.) Banner, s —Wo havo lodked upon this Movemont w'ily ontiro confidonco and favor from the start, rad time has but strengthened our conviction thrt it is_destined to succeed gradually,—Richimond (Va.) State Journal. —The Farmors' movemont !prusontu 80 mnom- alous, as_woll as a gratifying, spocitacle im Foutlcs. Doserving sucaess, and fortunato- posseesing the power to compol it, the transportation " ond othor monopos lists, who havo rocelved xtortionate rates whero tlm{ should have received only com~ ponsation, and tho middlomen who have pocket- ©od much whon thoy deserved nothing, had botter try to renlizo and ndjust themsclves to & new order of things.—Portland (Ore.) News, —Most of tho Fourth of July orations at the West woro in tho intercst of the farmers, an reflect the intonaity of the feoling against cor- porations. Tho eryls, *“Down widh tho railroad. ompiro and up with tho pooplo/V At this dis= tanco thoso orations in a single intorost read lfltnngnly on our national birthdsy.—Baltimore jun, —The war ia over, and with it also should there be an ond to its flush timos, its abnoxmal succossos in spooulation, it licensed robborios, and ite monstrous and villainous stoals.—Kansas Ol:lit‘}flaa) Times. udges who are uaurping tho wholo logislas' tive power of the country aro bocoming the groatost cursos in tho land, ~As their rulings ara raroly against the monoy-ring,.which claims ab- soluto dominion, tho grent farming intorost can~ not be too prompt, enargetic, anfi united in ag= sorting ita rights,—Richmond &Va.) Whig. —The power of tho Grange {8 not to bo measa ured by the numerical atraxzfim of the ordor, but must be ostimated from tho fact that everg: mechanic and working man_outside of ring ine fluenco, is sure to soo that his interests are oursc. On tho ono ‘sido stands ari(\mizod capital in the uhn%u of gigantio monopolies of all kinds wield- ed by s few thoussnds; on tho other aro tha working millions, poor, because robbed, sugry from brokon promisos, but detormined af Inut ta swoop tho evil out of sight foraver.—Corree’ spondent of the Ieokuk Conslitution, —Is {t ot time for the rank and filo of the: party to cutlooso from leaders who are fast/ rivoting the ohainaof sorfdom upon thoir limbs, by making Legislaturcs and courts subsidiary to/ tho intorests of capital, to tho utter negloct aud rosifivo dotrimont of thg interosts of llfimr? I t not trao, to-day, that tho Government is fast: hocoming as sorvile to railronds mnd certain pro=: fected manufacturing intercsts of tho East, iny which immenso capitul i invested, as it over wam to tho exacting slave Bu\mr of the South?— Correspondent of Fort Dodge (Iowwa) Times. —The pooplo have becomo alive io the facti that if wo would havo reform it is idlo to lookt for it to tho parties who have established andl aro pmfltmfi by the abusos, or to thoso who dare not openly denounce and oppose thom, but that thoao whosinceroly dosiro it must cut loose from all old “imrty asaocintions, and loaving bobind them tho dend and frivolous issies oven which they hava boen quarroling, harmoniously unite in a party of their own untrammeled byt any of tho damning precodonts established by tho old partica and free from the influences which undor the old organizations have becm brought to_boar upon them.— Correspondent of Princeton (1U1.) Tribune, ) —18 the Order of Patrons of Husbandry to bar o clty of refuge for bammers and dead beats iny polibles ? Aro the Grangora_sxpooted to gathion n tho foundorod, ringboned, spavined, wind— ‘broken, hide-bound, and hoof-bound, sweonied, alled, snd jaded linoks who have boon turnod ooso upon tho political common to drop sud dio 7—i arrespongmt of Nebraska City News, —To bo sure we are not used with leading § but, a8 in the late war, timo and hard vervico fn- yolopod lendors compotent to carry our armion through triumphantly, wo Liopo for a liko roaut and are not compalled to take for leaderv, flgm‘ duoks who have betrayod. ovory party < frioud who los trusted in ‘them.—Corress ondent of LGM‘“UH)[ (Min‘u.) Lcazlcr. B —Wa caro not ono straw whothe'r the farmors got up a new party or not. Thexr g will bo o new Rnfiy—fl Bquaro anti-manopoly ‘reo-trade party.! 'he leavon is at work, and, v g Love oy said of abolition, In 1853, it will brob's s uis oy 5 o the smali-pox.—Maguoketa Ja.) Sentinel, —Our own opinion is tFiaf 5 disintogration of partles consequont uPoY. now iseucs, and purty. organizations upon now ‘bages, are not far dite tant, Noither of tha t'yo ‘x‘nrllcs harmonize im ity bfor i T spne. kg e, T 3 0’ ople.— Michis it . ontly bt PO ople.—2ichigan City (Ind.X —Tho formere ‘cnuso is & just and righteous ono. Thoir host ‘intorosts have long beon tram« pled under foat by hard, grinding monopolies. Uentralization or capital'ia ecating up their sub- slanco, andn reform is demanded. Their or- ganization, if ita principles aro adhored to, must and will hting about this reform, and that, too,, at no distant duy,—Geneseo (I1.) Republic. ~Tho railronds havo made the pooplo * pay the iper,” aud now the people propose that s pore ion of the oxpenso of piping for the danco shall bo puid by tho ronds, If to the companios this appears unjust aud exacting, thoy will now **know how it foola” themeolves. Butitis not und\mt nor wrong., Can these companiey truth~ fully assort this of some of thoir policy towarda the peoplo P—Rock Jsland (1) Union. g —'There is rapidly growing beliof among the peoplo, causod by dovelopments attonding'tho Crodit Mobilior ‘investigations, means usad ta alect Unitod Btatos Senaters nnd members of Congress, aubsidios of 1 and moneys ap- propriuted to private cdeporatiuig,., back-pay steals, and many other dots ik s charactor, that ~ Congrera couvenos now for tho purpose of ‘onacting mons- ureg for the gonoral welfaro at a cost which wil; bo tho loast chargo ufl)ou thé industry of the jn.: Tiabitants, but, like the Buccaneors, thoy anuual, 1y sondoatous for tho pusposo of dividiug winong; thomsolvos and their immediato followors tha substanco of the peoplo.—Prairie du Chien (Wis.) Union, . ‘Tho New York Fvening Post truly remarke that tho salary bill sooms 1o have bean dosignod® for o swindlo from begioning to ond. Whila ovory chance {8 givon the indolont and usolons mombors to draw Emy bofore they earn it, no chanco {s givon the tax-payors. Tlhioy wmust pay full for services whichwore never rondored, 1 tho nulhors and abottors of this schomo thinl: that after those ropoated oxposurcs such an nf= fair will “blow over," thoy mistake the publia, Judgment.~Burlinglon (lowa) Hawk-Eye. —T'he moro-tho buok-pay amendmont is dine, anssed, tho more gluring become its objootiona-, Dlo features, It appears that the practical op- oratlon of tho smondmont makes it not only, as it ling boen popularly termed, a * back-pa; rab,”| but also an ndvange-pay soizure, In mn{fiz 18 o mensuro looklug both' backward and forward, ! ounbling membors to incroas their own componts +sation for work nlmnd{ performeod, aud the now comors of the not yot assembled Congress to form to now aud equitablo law, or the doctriue of ronch forward aud roceive pay for seryioes yaf o bo rendered.—Ballimore Amzrwan. il m\‘ 1