Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1873, Page 4

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Con- Wabash avonue, ATKEN'S THEATRE-Wabasl 1 Sgemox, Gon. s stroot, Vaudovillo Porformsncos. ing." Affernvon and oveniog. [ BUSINESS NOTICES. INSTEAD OF BITTER, o cowprn QUININE. TEGULATE THE BOWELS — MRS, P iatants Bootbina Syran s the ol thing thamotbors can Fely upon for tuolr ohildron. 'mvmiklmmg'mlv—vnm SO1D o’f'}.‘.‘i.?f’ofém N Wl ril 23, re e riven. J B RANTINEZ & GO, 10 Wal . 0. Box 1,655, New York DATCHELOR'S DALRR DYE, THIS BPLENDID hairdye s tiio Dost in tho world. Tho only teuo and por fect dyo. Harmless, roliable, and instantangons; no disap- iutient; no idiéulous tirta or unploasant edsr. Moo Bich tho i ‘effocta of bad dyca and washos, Produces fu- mediately o superb blaok or natural brown, and leaves tae air clean, soft, and beautiful. The gonulno, signed W. A. Batenolor.' Sold Ly all druggats, OIARLES BATCHULOM, Proprlotor, N. Y. BOHAAOK, BTEVENSUN & RIID, Agonts, The Chicags Teibune, Saturdsy Morning, Soptombor 20, 1873, Interusl revonue roceipts since the beginning of the prosent yoar excaed those for the same period last year by about §1,000,000. ——ee Tho Railroad Committco of the Board of Equalization sro said to have determiued to nsnoss tho railrosd property of the Btato st 150,000,000, Alate Deputy-Collector under Colloctor Harper, . U. Parsons, of ‘Tazewell County, has follow- ed the examplo of his euperior and embozzled the funds of tho people. The amount of his peculation is $4,000. A warrant has boen issued for his srrost. In consequenco of the proposed increase by tho Board of Equalization of the assossment of Cook County lands by 110 por cont, and the in- cronso on other town and city lot assessments, & Iarge surplus rovenue will be created, which will bo corrected by its distribution among the other portions of the State. The Iilinois Stato Fair closed at Peoria yester- day. Tho oxhibition of this yoar has boen a re- markably successful one, Tho woather, which is always of the firet importance to & fair, has been propitions, and the attondance bas, in con- soquenco, beon very large, and tho receipts pro- portionately good. Over $7,000 was takoen in day beforo yesterday, and tho aggrogate numbor of persons who have visited the grounds exceeds 50,000. P Promior Macdonald and his associates, in their testimony before the Royal Commission, have acknowledged tho receipt of mno less than ©150,000 from Bir Hugh Allan for clection pur- poses. Bir John Macdonald was given $45,000 for the clection in Ontario, for part of which he ma® poreonsl solicitation. The Hon. H. L. Lais.vin received 835,000, and $66,000 was dis- tribuzod in Montresl, It was aftor these sums wore contributed by Allan to the Govornment that he was mado Presidont of the Canada Pacific Railway. President Grant returnod to Washington yes- torday, dotermioed to stop tho panio. In ac- cordance with his instructions, Beoratary Riche ardson st midnight ordered tho Bub-Treasuror at Now York to buy ten million dollars® worth of bonds., Concorning tho impolioy, not to say immorality, of anysuch interferenco by the Gov-~ ernment, wo have expressed our opinion fully elsowhere. Concorning its success, Socretary Richardeon does not seem sanguine. He ro- marked in Washington yosterday thot his last proposal to buy bslf a million of bonds hed call- ed out offers for only $55,000, and he appeared to have littlo faith in any such attempt to reliove tho markot. Adefenso of tho increase of rates by tho Chi- cago & Northwestern Railroad in Wisconsin hisa been made by its General Manager. He eaya thet slong tho old line thoro has been no change, and that the incroase along the newly- oponod track, ronging from 1 to § conts per 100 pounds, is noeded to roimburge the Company for its outlny, He represents tho difficulties of its construction to have been greater than those ou any other line in the Misslesippi Valley. Ho glso claims credit for the Company on the ground that sinco 1870 thoy havo spent nearly nine million dollars in Wisconsin on vew lines without making any oaddition to their capital stock. Judge Curtis, of Boston, follows Mr, Evarta in the Credit Mobilier case with an argument ngaiust the constirutionality of the actof Con- gross undor which the suits are brought, Iis points are, that Congress had uo right to dole- gnto to Attorncy-Goneral Williams, an Excou- tive officer, tho solection of tho cowrt in which the swt should be brought’; aud further, that Congress had violated that provision of tho Constitution which stip. nlates that no man ehall be doprived of life, Hberty, and property without due process of law, By this act it imposes such additional burdena on the defendants in moeting tho charges against thom as to warrant the plea that thoy were de- prived of their property without due process of law. Tho line of reply by the Government odun~ ol ia not indicatod in the dispatches. The argn- mont on the motion to dismisa the suits on thin plos of unconstitutionality closed youterday, but po decision has yot been made by tho Court. Nineteen failures occurred in NewYork yos- terday, and ono or two in Philadelphis, all of thom being due to railway negotiations. Thers aro no signs yet of & gonoral panfo, There hoa boon no run on any of the asvings banks o Now York, whioh are always tho first to’ foel popular distrust, No bank and no trust company has eusponded paymont, and the rallroad compauios appoar rm. Flek & Hatob, of New York, who aro among tho bank- rupt,oxp} "th’n{ thiofr #all 19 not d\ilé to spoou- - Intlon-or* losada;- buit \sfiply: to ‘ttio" haavy ad- vances .they. v mhdo' to tho’ Chosapoake & | Ohlo Ttailrond, nnd the imposaibility ot obtalning funds, in thoproont’tight condition of tho monoy market and thodistrust of railroads; to most their othor éugngdmonts.. In Obleagd, the financinl efoot of tho crawh of Jay Cooke & Co, has boon almost inapprociabla, as will bo sooit by a rofor- onco to our monolary columns, and thero have boon no failuros hore which can bo connootod with b i 'Tho Chicago produco markals were genorally waal yostorday, in consoquence of the Now York foilnres. Mess pork was quiot and 15@200 por brl lower, at $15.00@16.00 cash, and 315.60@ 16.6234 sellor Octobor, Lard was quiot and a shade oqalui, at $8.00@8.10 por 100 Ibs for win- tor, and £8.00 for summor rondored. Moata woro quict and 3o lowor, at 73§@75¢o for shouldors, 8}¢@83o for short ribs, B3{c for short oloar, and 0@110 for swest ploklod hams. Highwinea wore quict -snd steady at 930 por gollon. Lake freights wore moro active and unchanged at 12340 for corn, and 183 @18340 for wheat;to'Buifalo, and 226 for whont to Kingston. Flour was dull at unchanged prices. Whoat was active and 20 lower, closlng at $1.099{ oash or seller Octobor. Corn waa loss active, and 3$@3{0 lowor, closing at 413o cash, and 4230 scller October. Oats wero dull and: Xi@%o lower, closing flrm st 293¢0 cash, and 8030 sellor Octobor, Rye was dull and 1o lower, at 6734c. Barloy was quiet, and doolined 7@10c, but closed firmor at $1.88 for No. 2 and $1.12 for No. 8. Hogs wore activo and firm at 84.80@ 5.00. Cattlo wore aotive but waak, with sales at $2.00@6.10. Bhoop ruled quiot and stoady. BLACK FRIDAY AND IT8 PROPOSED REM- 5 EDY. I i The stock panic which aset in on the an- nouncoment of the failure of Jay Cooke & Co. broke out with renowed violencs yesterday. Tho Now York banks began to throw overboard the collatorals upon which the margins had beon ex- hausted by tho provious day's decline, and the ropult was anotbor Black Friday. Fiftaon fail- ures wero reported bofore mnoon, including the woll-knoswn house of Fisk & Hatoh, the financial sgents of tho Contral Pacifio Railroad of Oali- fornis, sud Randolph & Co., the agonts of the Ponnsylvania Railroad. A soene of wild excite- mont ensued, and somo stocks went down far below thelr intrinsic value, Btraightway the bursted and bursting spocu- Intors began to call upon Heroules and Jupiter, and othor unseon powers, to come to their ro- lof. The air was filled with rumors of what tho Beoretary of the Tressury ought to do about it. In point of fact, the Beoretary of the Treasury bas nothing to do with it, one way or tho other. Tho gamblors and brokers of Wall stroot have beon having & gay timo with stocks, bonds, and gold. Tho banks have loaned thom the money to bot with. Now that the bubblo hag burat, the banks have thrown the coliatorals ovorbonrd to save thomselves. "That is all there is of tho failure of Jay Cooke & Co, sud the smaller {ry. What rosson doos this furnish for tho interforence of the Govern- mont to bolster up the tribe of speculators ? Why should the Governmont undertske to lend the public taxes to & hundred lame ducks in Wall stroot to make their margins good, any moro than it should lend money to a Western farmer or merchiant to onable him to bridge over the loss resulting from o fall in the price of corn or dry goods ? A fow woolis go, thoe prico of corn in Chicago foll 10 conts a bushel. Tho stock in the country affected by that fall was mauy millions of bushela. It was an' enormous loss sustained in an ordinaryand logitimato business. By what right would the Becrotary of the Treas- ury havo intorposed to lond the national monoy to the losars to ennbla them to wait until tho prico should again advance ? Buch things hap- pon, or aro likely to happen, evoryday, o long as spoculation oxists, thero must bo a day of sottlomont, and somebody has to loso, To use tho money in the National Treasury ~—taken from the peoplo by taxation—to make good the losses of thebulls or boars of Wall stroot, or even tho lossos of logitimato business, implies anentiro misunderstanding of thologitimatefunc- tions and purposos of Government. The Govern~ ment can have no legitimato Intorest or concorn in tho bad spoculations of stock-gamblers or the busincss misfortuncs of private citizons, Who evor thought of asking the Bccretary of tho Troasury to make good tho losscs of & short crop by lending the public monoy to the farm- ora? In that case, thoro would be atleast tho apology that the persons aided were omployed in useful industry ; but to takethis monoy from the Treasury and place it in New York to roliove tha speculators and losors in ** Western Union,” and 4 Erle,” and * Northwoatorn,” la not merely to violate law and decency, but to encourage the very practices which have brought sbout the prosont collapso, The fact that theso brokon spocula- tors actually appeal to the Prosident and his Sco- rotary to place tho Tronsuryat their sorvice, shows how rapidly all confidence in the moral tone of the Governmont Is woakening., Nevor until within a very fow yoars has it over beon intimated that the Becretary of the Trensury could ueo the public money to promote or dofent tho onds of bulls and boars in tho atock market. For tho Government to lond Vanderbilt or Gould forty millions of dollars directly, to ena- ble him to fight tho opposiug party in Western Union, would be deonounced ss an unheard-of outrago ; yot that is preciscly what itis now proposed todo, Certnin persons hiave beon bull« ing Northern Pacific bonds, which have dropped out of sight, inn commaereial soneo ; tho banks are collecting their loans by the enforced salo of tho declining collatorals, Instead of thore being one Vandorbilt and ono Drow, thero are hnlfa bundred of Drews and Vanderbilts, and they are all just now clamoring that the Secrotary of the Treasury shall placo §40,000,000 in tho New York banks, eo that tho bauks may not bo compoelled to sell them out, ‘Tho pretense that these ipeolvent brokera and spoculators aro the ‘‘country,” and that to save them is to save the “ country " from finan- cial ruin, {8 an impudent le. If thoy go down, tho loss I8 confined to themselves and their dupos, and it Is bottor (hat it should bo thuy limited, even if the loss bo ropeatod ovory weook for ® year, than that the National Tronsury shall become nmero branch of the Btock Board of Now York, and tho Bocretary of tho Troasury a more discount olerk for any spec- ulator who sooks to push a fanoy stock or.nond upon the market, The conntry cannot fail, even it every broker in Now York and every desler in stocks and bouds should go down, Tho country would experionce & deolded relief it speculation in such socuritios were arrosted and all things ‘brought to their actual cash valuo. At all ovents, tho Govornment lubut the dopository of the pub- lio revenue, and oan only apply It to the specitlo objoota for which it wae ralsed. Al apponls for Treasury aid should bo met by & prompt rotusal, and'nan oxpross declaration that i’ no event will the Govornment moddlo with tho business of tle stroot.’ : JAY CODKE AND THE FREEDMEN'S BANKS, Tho Bavkors' Almnnao for 1878 gives {n its list of bauks ond bankora of tho United Btates at the closo of 1873 the nnmo of tho New York correspondont of oach banking institution, Con- Aplonous nmong thoso inatitutions of which Jay Cooke & Co. woro the Now York corrospondents aro tho Froodmon's Saving and Trust Compa- nios organized all through the iato elaveholding Btatos, dono business almost oxclusively with Jay Cooke & Co, In tho list wo find tho following : . Froedmen's Baving and Trust Bank of tho Dis. triot of Columbia, Samo banks at Huntsvillo, Mobilo, und. Montgomery, Alsbama. Froed- men's 8, & T, Bank, Little Rock, Arkansas, Tho Frocdmon's 8. & T. Banks at Atlanta, Au- guats, Macon, and Savannsh, Georgin. Tho Froodmen's 8. & T. Banks at Lexington and Loulsvillo, Kentucky. Tho!F. B. & T. Bank at Now Orlenns, Loulsiana. Tho F. 8. & T. Bank at Baltimore, Maryland. ThoF. 8. & T. Banka at Columbus, Natchoz, and Vicksburg, Missiesippl. The F. 8, & T. Baak at 8t. Louls, Mo, The F. 8. & T.Bank ot Philadolphia. The I, B. & T: Banks nt Boaufort and Charloston, South Caro- lina. Tuo ¥. B. & T. Banksat Obattanoogs, Momphis, and Nashville, Tonnossco, Tho T. 8, & T. Baoks at Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia ; and at Martinsburg, Wost Virginia. In all, twonty-six of the eavinga banks estab- lished among tho freodmen. This Hat was up to tho oloso of 1872, and sinco then some of tho Institutions may have changed their correspond- onts, but tho probability is that the froedmen are out of pocket considorably by tho failure of Jay Cooke & Co. NORTHERN PACIFIC, ‘What is to becomo of the Northern Pacific Ralirond ? The queation inevitably rises upon the susponsion of Jay Cooke & Co, The con- struction of tho Northorn Pacific may ba sald to have beon oxclusively in tho hands of this firm. Tho only partners Jay Cooke & Co. had in tho enterprise woro the bondholders, Jay Cooke & Qo. having failed, there is but ono way in which the road can bo completed, snd that s for tho bondholders to tako what there is of it and as- sumo {ts construction to Puget Sound. Thero {s nobody elso to do it. The stock of tho road is morely nominal. But $200,000 has boon paid in on atock subscriptions, and Jay Cooke con- trolled that. Tho Government never advanced any money and has no interestin the road. There bave been no municipal subsidles, for thero are no municipalitios on the line of tho rond to subseribo them. There wasa * Crodit Mobilier” ringin it, of course, making profits out of the constraction, but that will go to pot along with Jay Cooke & Co. Anothor such ring cannot be formed, for it would be impossible for them to disposc of the bonds. The prosont ‘bondholdoers, whoover thoy are, own what thore isof tho Northorn Pnoific, which consiats of about 600 miles of poorly-constructed road run- ning through a wilderness, and s land-grant oqual to the proportion of railroad already com- ploted, and not exceeding 15,000,000 of unsnla- blo acros located in a bleak and dosolate strotch of country. The situntion {8 anything but cheering, If tho bondholdera lot the enterprise como to a stand-still, their proporty is absolutoly valucless. That portion of the main line already completed will not pay oporating exponsos, oven concoding that tho branch roads that havo beon bought by tho Northorn Pacifio may be oporated at & profit. It tho road as it stands cannot esrn enough to pay oxpenses, of course the intorost on tho bonda will not bo paid. It has boen paid here- tofore only by the salo of new bonds. This ro~ sourco has boon cut off, or blessra, Jay Cooke & Co. would not have suspended. If tho intorost on the bonds is not to be paid, thon the bonds oro absolutoly worthless so long as the road is in its presont condition, What is tho prospeot that the bondbolders will completo the road? It could only be dono at all by a concon- tration of intercsts, aud tho bonds have boen scattorod about as woro never rafiroad bonds bo- fore, Itisimpossiblo as yot to ssy whero they linve boen placed or what amount has been sold. The {mpression is that somowhoro botween twonty and thirty millions have boen disposed of, but thia is an impression which comes from JIsy Cooke & Co., who aro the only persona who know anything about it. Tho 000 miles of road which have been completed would represont, at o cost of $26,000 a mile, $15,000,000. The inter- cst pald out of the sale of bonds, thediscounts on tho larger sales, the commissions paid to brokers, tho fraudulent profits made by construction companies, and the various leakages incident to such flash entorpriges, will probably account for $10,000,000 moro, making an sggrogato of $25,- 000,000 of bonds issued, Thoro will bo noarly $2,000,000 o year interest to pay and nothing to pay it with. Whon this shall be demonstrated, there isno doubt that Northern Pacific bonds can be bought at a8 low flgures as the bogus Btate bonds of the Bouth. Thero will bo no buyers, however, unlesa s syndicato can bo formed for the completion of thoroad. Thore are about 1,200 miles of road yot tobo built, It will require, at & low estimate, §30,000 a mile 1o build and equip the road, or £36,000,000 more. The parties who undertake it must have tho monoy bofore thoy bogin. They can expect little or mno onid from the salo of more bonds to tho publio. The only im- mediato return for nn investmont of §96,000,~ 000 more would bo the title to the Congrossioual grant, which consists of 47,000,000 acres of more or 1088 barren and uneslablo land. Thoy could Dot count upon tho rond paying oxpenses ovon whon completed. They could .not count upon the snlo of their landa until the exigoncles of mankind domand thoir occupanoy, and this i far away In tho dim distance, The prospect for $he complotion of the road ia, therofore, vory ro- mote. Somothiug might be mado by selling the oast ond of the road to tho Canadisns, Dut be- yond this and the prospective value of the lands for sottloment and occupancy thoy have no ap- parent recourse, What thoso itoms may amount to timo only can tell, i Thoroe is no oceaalon to draw a moral from the present woful condition of Northorn Pacifio. It 18 ono of & class of bubbloa that can never bore- peated in this country, The dilapidated ruin it presonts, oven befora it is comploted, datos baok to the time of tho Congressioual land-grant, Whon ~ Congress doliborately gave * away 17,000,000 wores, or 74,423 squarc miles, of the “public domain for bullding -a roilroad through a wildorness, it porpotrat- od an enormous outrage upon tho people, which could nover como to good. Hero was an em- plro, largor o area than the two States of Indi- This clnes of institutions scom to havo | ann and Iliinota sombinod, placed in tho hands of o corporation at n Umo when corporations were nvo}-rldlng tho country, and plling up misory upon ‘the " poople. Thoro ‘sro just two classen dosorving ‘ of 'pily .dn conneo- tion with this Norlhorn Pacifio collapuo. One clasiy _connials of tho small- capitaliata, farmors, morchants, widows, helra-at-lnw, and othors who have fuvested thoir saviugs in theso bondy at tho instigntion of tho financlal ngonts distributod aliout tho country, Tho otlier class conslets of thoso unfortunnics who have cmi- grated to tho lino of the Northorn Paclflc Road b the prompting of omigration ngents gcattored about In Lurope, painting in rosoate colors aa dosolato o wasto and as blosk & climato ss oan bo found undor tho ésnopy of Hoaven, Wo print cleswhero o lottor from o gontloman who Lias rocontly visitod this territory, in which ho convoys somo notion of the suffering to which these Impoverished and helpless peoplo will be oxposod the coming winter. The majority of thom aro depondont in one way or snothor upon the Northorn Paciflo for their sustenanco. Tho Northorn Pacifio s lready indebted to thom, and & susponsion of oporations will throw them upon the charity of tho world, if tho next wintor shiall approach in soverity tho last. Aside from thoso excoptions, and the conso- quent sufforing, the practical sbandonmont of the Northern Pacifio Rallroad calls for mo par- tioular rogrot, Wo have slready enough land- grant railronds running through romoto, sterile, and unproductive territory. We have cor- porations onough that control vast domaing of public land, If tho Northern Pacific lands sball revert to the Governmont, it will ba tho bost solution that ¢an bo made of the present complioation. There fs no danger that thoy will over sgain bo granted away, and the nondescript rolica of & trans-continental railway, boginning in o swamp and onding in o forest, will bo a monumont to tho speculative msania of the present genoration and a warning for the future. . RAILROAD SLAUGHTERS, The recklossnces and carelossncsa of railroad omployes are very clearly exomplified in two sc- cidents which took place a few daya ago on the Groat Wostern and tho Baratoga & Albany Ronds, In oach instance, & misplaced switch was tho ac- casion of disastor, On the Osnads road, tho wostern-bound traln switched in at Btony Oreck, to allow the Datroit oxpross train, which has the right of way, to pass. Thore ia no rogular switch-tendor at that point, the duty of manipu~ lating the switoh devolving upon the brakeman of tho wostern-bound tramn, who loft it wide opon, thus cutting off tho main track., The Dotroit expresa camo thundering slong, and of courso ran into tho ditch. Both the engineor and tho firoman noticed the misplaced switch, and chocked tho spoed of tho train ns much ae possible. Instoad of jump- ing from the engine, as thoy might have dono and thereby havo saved thoir lives, thoy stood at their post and both wore killed. Fortunately, although most of the train was wrecked and the cars took flre, nono of the passougers weoro killed. The accident in New Yorlk, on the Sara- toga & Albany Railrond, was of asimilar naturo. Tho train was nearing Albany when the recidont happoned, and its speed had been somowhat elackened, which may nccount for the fact that the loss of lifo was not gronter. The train had reached a point whero the double tracks convergo into ono, and at this polnt was a switch. The place was slways considerod a dangerous one, and extra precoutions were usuaily taken by the omployea of the train. The position and duty of tho awitchman, thoreforo, wore very responsiblo, and required s caroful, tomperato, and trust- worthy man, Tho ongineor was, as usual, watchful when ho approsched the placo, The indox indicated that all was right, and ho saw the switchman with his lantern in his hand. Novertholoss, lio had an instinctive focling that something was wrong, and whistled down brakes, Ho had hardly donoe 8o bofore ho saw by tho glaro of the headlight that tho ralls terminated abruptly, and that the switch was misplaced. It woa toolate. The ongine, tondor, and baggago ear wont over the ombankment, but, asif by miracle, tho pas- songer cars remained on tho track, The fireman was killod snd thres of tho passongers wero badly injured. The ongineer went over with the ongine, but escaped with hislifo, Aftorthe acoident, it was shown that tho switchman was highly intoxicated at the timo, and didn't know what ho was doing, Horo are two disastors,—tho ono caused by tho grossost carclossnoss and noglect of duty, the other by intoxication. Both occurred at very important and dangerous locations, whore en- tirely trustworthy mon shonld have boon placed. Tho results have shown, howevor, that untrust- worthy men were omployed in each case. The Canada brakoman and the Now York switchman aro undor arrost, which vory matorially increascs tho number of railrond murderers now awalting trial. An ongincer and conductor in Tllinols, an enginoor and conductor in Ohlo, an engincor in Michigan, two brakemon in Canada, and a switchman in Now York, comploto the ligt, If all roports aro true, there aresomo partios conncoted with tho Ironeides, which sunk the othor day off Grand Haven, who should bo added to the list, Thera Is &n oxcellont opportunity, therofors, to decide sho question now whother thore is any penalty for railroad murder, and whether raiiroad cor- porations are responsiblo for tho criminal sacrl- fice of human life. Thero is no donbt about responsibility for the loss of freight. A rail- road corporation which loses a passonger's trunk through its own carelossness has to make the loss good to tho owner, It ought not to be too grest an assumption to olaim that o passenger’s life is as valuablo ag his trunk, and that, if thoy are expeoted aud compellod to use every procaution to take caro of tho trunk, thoy must also bo expectod and compelled to uee every precaution to take oaro of lifo. If these men who are now undor arrest aro roleased without punishment, there is no safoty for the traveliug public. Evory enginoor, conductor, brakeman, and switchman will intor- prot such a roleato a3 a guaranteo that they can continue tholr rooklossnoss and carelessnoss with porfeot {mpunity, and disastors will con- tinue to happon. If, on the othor hand, theso men are punishod, rallroad omployes will exor« olse caution aud vigilanco, and will 80 porform tholr dutles that, it o disnstor happens, it will bo from oauses boyond their gontrol. Tho employos of the roada are “not tho only responsiblo parties. The corpora- tions thomsolves are rosponsible to a large oxtent for the charactor of thelr employes. . In the caso of tho New York dlsaster, the Albany & Baratoga corporation must bear a sharo of tho roaponaibility for the wreoking of the traln and tho doath of tho fireman, from the fack that they RIBUNE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1873. ‘choso to lrdep a drunkon switohman in thelr nm-' ploy. As wo havo enid, there is now an oppore tunity to faston tho responsivility and onforco n' pounlty, If thoro is any Inw by whioh such par- tiea can bo pumshed, lot it boenforced, Ifthoro ‘lano law, it is timo that fact was known, and that tho Btato Legislaturcs provided a lnw. Tho question of proteoting human life 1 quite es “important - ag tho question of rogulating tho pricen of froight and tho carringo of corn and whont, It is possiblo thnt wo aro appronclung tho realization of this fact. It in cortain that somo of ‘tho railroad murdorors are to bo tried. It Is possiblo thnt 8ome of thom maoy bo punished. It is possiblo that rallrond corporations may yot discover that tho question of how fow paoplo thoy can kill por mile js much moro important than how many dollars they can carn por mile. And whon all thoso possibilitios bocomo realitios, it will bo a bappy day for tho communty at largo. — RUSBIAN PROGEESS. Rocont intolligent obsorvors of ovents in Rus- sla roport a gradual but silont rovolution, which is transforming that country from the most despotio in Europo to ono of tho most liboral and progressive. Tho change commencod with tho abolition of serfdom by the present Emperor, which waa followed by tho adoption of trial by Jury, and a complote roform of tho judicial codo, It was but a short time sgo that tho Russian Govornmont indorsed the actions of its officials, however oruel, or illogal, or ovon mouatrous they might be, npon the ground that they could do no wrong. The people Lad no appeal from in- justico. The only roply was tho knout or oxpatriation, or, it thoy escaped thoso, thoir lability to still further sufforing was in- croasod, A recont trial at Charkow, an impor- tant city of 50,000 peoplo, shows tho groat chango which hag takon placo in thia respect. During tho celebration of the annivorsary of thoe rosurrcction of the Bavior, which is made sn occasion of groat rejolcing, the people of Charkow, according to their custom, wero congratulating and embracing each othor in tho market-place. During tho festivity, n quarrol aroso betweon two workmen, which soon lod to o general scuflle. The polico wero called out to quell tho riot, whercupon the contonding parties unitod their forces and drove off the po- lico. Onoof the Commissloners of Police, ox- | asperated by tho conduct of the crowd, ordered out tha town firc-ongines and threw cold water upon the rnoters, Finding this of no avail,helot looso upon the great crowd of mon, womon and children, a herd of wild, ungovernable horaes, which had beon previously whipped into fury by tho police. ‘Tho rosult was that a largo number of the poople wore trampled to death. Timo was, and that only recontly, when this offi- cial would havo boen sustained in his netion, and the peoplo would have obtsinod no repara-~ tion or sympathy. The Govornment, how- over, upon being informed of the facts, took immedinto action and discharged him from his position, and disquali- fied him from holding any position in the future. Tu addition to this, it prosecuted him in the Assizo Court for cruclty and abuso of his au- thority, but the jury acquitted him upon the ground that ho lad beon already sufliciently punished in tho loss of his position. Buch prompt and encrgetio action as thia showa great progress in that country, and in addition sots an oxamplo to other governmonts in tho matter of shiolding public officials who sro proven guilty of corruption and abuso of authority. The punighment of the ofiicial was light, but the romarkablo fact was that Le was punished at all, and by tho Government of Russia, The Enarl of Hardwicko (tho Right Hon. Charles Philip Yorko, Admiral R. N, P. G, D. 0. L., F. . 8.), whoso death was announced on Thuraday morning, was born April 2, 1799, Io entored’ the navy ot & vory oarly age, saw much active morvico, and served ns a midshipman at tho attack on Algiers by Lord Exmouth, He eatin tho House of Commons for Ryegate in 1881-2, and roprosontod Cambridgeshiro 1 tho Coneorvativo intorest, until he succooded na fourth Earl. In 1843, ho was & Captain in the navy, and, on the rovolt of Gonoa againat Victor Emanuol, ho handed over tho town to tho logitimate Govornment. Ho subsoquently became Admiral, Lord Lioutenant of Cambridgeshiro, and Lord in Waiting to tho Queen. During Lord Derby's first administra- tion, in 1852, ho was Postmaster-Goneral, andin tho second administration hoeld the post of Lord Privy-Genoral, His fathor was Bir Josoph Yorko. A dispatch from Havre announces tho death of Fernando Munoz, Duke do Rianzeres, hus- band of Marla Obristina, Quoon Dowager of Spain, o was born st Tarancom, in 1810, in vory humble lifo, and, as Fritz nttracted the notice of tho Grand Duchess, @o ho nttracted tho notico of tho Queon Dowager, and thoy wero secretly marned in 1893, In 1844, tho marringe wes publicly rati- fled, and ho waa croated Duko of Rianzeros, a grandes of the firat class, and n Knight of the Golden Flooco, In 1847, ho receivod tho Grand Cross of the Legion of ITonor from Louis Phil- ippo, and was made by him Duc do Montfort. o novor took any part in political aftairs, and throughout his life attracted no further atton- tlon than as the husband of his wifo. Coneiderable oxciloment Las been caused in Gormany rocently by tho oporations of an Amorican, represonting himsolf to be an officer on Gon, Grant's staff, Ho visited nearly all tho potty Dukes and Princes in Gormany, armed with forged crodontinls, and colleoted largo snms, which he announced woro to help build a gigantio monument in memory of tho soldiors killed during our Civil War, Ono day, howover, ho arrived in the Duchy of Anhalt and solicited an audience with Duke Loopold, who happoned to have an American Becrotary, Mr, Bosolin, The Iattor suspocted the solicitor, and held him until bo had telographod to Mr. Bancroft, who at onco pronounced him to be a swindler, He was then placed under arrest. He turns out to be an Irishman, named Boatty, who has long Hved 1u the Westorn States, It is not probable that the United Btates will trouble itself about bim, however, Tho littlo Dukes and Duchesses whom ho has fleeced can do what they ploaso with him. " A curious trousaction was recontly consum- matod in Charloston, 8, O, Thoe Baptists of that city owned a fine church edifice worth £60,000, but, bolng hard up, offered it to tho Mothodiats for $20,000, Tho Methodists eagerly grabbed at tho opportunity. Bubsequently tho Baptists roponted of their hasty offer, gnd wantod to withdraw It, but the Methodists ro- fused, throatonod damages, and compolled a trausfor of the proporty. Thoroupon the Baptists got fudigusnt, and ibolr orgenm, the Ohgireh Union, having quoted thoe dotails, addsft * Tu rogard to all whioh wo havo slmply $o sy, that to purchago for $20,000 what was worth #$00,000 was unfair; to foreo the bargaln whon the losors wishiod to recodo was' unkind; and to grab in this way from ono denomination for an- othor waa unchristian. Tho Mothodists, how- ovor, looked at it in o difforont light, Bishop Tavon,describing the transaction, says: * Dldn't tho heppy band shout for joy? Thoy had praged and fastod and wopt; now thoy rofoicod and feasted and wept." Wo fanoy that the pub- lio sympathy will go with tho Baptist childron of light, who wero ocuchred by the Mothodiat childron of this world, in » game which thoy (tho Baptists) did not understand. Tho loaven of this world was too much for them, and sl tho roliglous consolation which thoy mny have on hand will bardly avail to smooth ovor or mitigato the sharp bar- gain which was driven by tho happy band who rojoiced and feastod and wopt. But would it not bo more bacoming for tho happy band to dry up thoir toars of joy? ‘)h 18 not a vary pleasant spectacle. It might bo very croditabloonsa Board of Trado, or betweon horso-jookies, but 88 botwoen tworoligious denbminations it has a vory worldly flavor, An Englishman wnites to tho New York Trib- ung, stating that ho has at last discovered tho secrot of tho Yankes nasal twang, Ho haa found that tho people of the ‘Countios of Nor- folk, Buffolk, Essox, and Middlesox, in England, have & nasal twang, and that #tho ancestors of the poople who live in tho countios of tho sama namo ns the nbove in New England' came from theso countios, and- brought thoir twang with thom, and their descondantsihave -become 80 improssed with tho accentuation and' tono that thoy can’t got xid of it, Tho ‘theory is a vory plausible ono. Having gettled tho Now England twang, tho Now York ZTriltune's Eglishman now ought to investigato, the Westorn and Southern twangs, and find out whene they camo from, The Beerotary of the Interiorand the Commis- sioner of Indian Affaira recently visited tho Biseoton Agency, in Dakots, to sottle a mis- understanding among tho Indisns with.reforence to their money-grant, Bovoraltof tho Indians mado brief spocches, and nmonglthnm Waanict- yapa, or Bweet Corn, whoso)addrass was g0 per~ tinont that we give it ontirn. : 8weet Corn said: Whon a man buys anything{he polnts, ont what he wants, Wo did not suppose we wero trading lsnd for chopping wood. Wo wero toll that we would be pald for our land, The Great Father can do- saything ho chooses, o can blast rock or amelt fron; he can chango thls treaty, If ho cannot, it s the firet thing I ever heard of that'he could mot do, That Indian ovidontly had & reslizing sense of tho situation, and hsd pltilosophically ro- signed himself to it. — e NOTES AND OPINION. The Democrats bave eleoted majorities im both brauches of the Colorado ‘Werritorial Legis~ lature. —eforring to complainta that the farmors ‘wero ignored in the make-up of tho Wiscousin Ropublican ticket, tho Monroo Sentinel, which loyally supports anything wearing the pnrty 1abol, roplios in this stunning manner: . We hind supposed from the reporta of tho opposition press that tho furmors wore all in the new movement, 214 wore not roprosantad (4 in tho, Hepublican Oon: ventlon, That being the caso (7) we are at n lows to Xknow (?) why the furmers nsked for unstling at tho hisuds of the * Liadical Stato Gonvention (" —Ropublicans in Illinois, Jows, Wiscon 8in, aud Minnosota aro urgod to maiatain ‘“tho party " beeauso of its aliliated connections. Iny, Now York ‘“tho porty” is just mow having canvass within itself for delogates to the Btato Convention at Utics, Sopt. 24, and the subjeot Lias called out double-lendod editoriais of warn- ing from the Buffalo Commercial-Adertiser. ‘The T'roy Times says of dologatos chosen in its part of tho Btato, that their election— will not tend to remove tho impresslon that tho cannl riugy hovo designs upon the Conyention this ysar, Bball the Repuviiean Couvention fall into'the Lauds ofthesomen I it to bo contractors’ meeting or & convention of tho Republican party, representing the peoplo of tho Stuto uud tucir {uteresta? Zhe jolkbers aniean st shall be the firat, Woell, **stick to tho glorious old party anil re- form it.” —Trust the atrongth of thoe grand old party to tight your wrongs. Como slong and lot ua weed your garden and cast all tho noxions ubbish out. The farmors of Iown can, with the aid of thousands of lLonest Republicans in other em- ployments and pursuits, accomplish all they dostiro, aud quickly too.—Jowa Falls (lowa) Sentinel. ~I1f tho Ropublican partyis in reslity as it now protonds, hostile to the “ovile of mom\poly. it it is, indeed, tho nuli-mnuoguly party, \why, wo domand, in tho name of all that is consintent, did it not exert ity own large power to stay the progross of tho dauger? . .. Who i8 ro- sponsible for this slurming otato of thimgs? ‘Who hns fostered, encouraged, and promot- od tho growth of that power which now lords it over tho peoplo with such despoticeway? What party has had absolute domivion m tho mation, whilo menopoly Les beou building firm rud brond the foundations of its supreauucy ? Madi- son ( Wis.) Democrat. —There aro mnny men in thls county—good Ropublicans—ho havo boon almost wiling to trustthe “Anti-Monopoly " combination machino or anything or anybody elso, offering them ro- liof from existing ovils. They put this need above any other duty of the Republicau party or any party, aud thoy have been pased to dis- trust tho Republicau party, lest it should put party Lofore tho duty of gatting these reforms,— Leokul: &lowa Gale City, Instend of listening io tho pititul appoal of the Gate Cily wo think thoso ** good ™ but ** dis- trusting " Republicans will rowmembor and act upon tho good old Bpanish maxim: *If you chioat mo once, tho fuult 18 yours ; but, if you cheat me & second timo, the fault will bo mine,” —Keokuk Constitulion. —'T'hese aro remarkable timos in the history of dofalcations, Almost overy day we lavo tolo- graphio aunouncomoent of bauk defaleations, official embezzlements, and ofilelal jobbery. « « « The Auti-Monopoly movement is sooking suoch a chaugo in publio seutiment as to raiso up tho spivil of our fathows, ' All men, whethor publio oflicinly, privato bankors, ln‘olemnnulu, or in- dustrials, are to be brought to a common lovel, and neithor laws nor procedsuts are to bo preju- dicial, ‘Ihis is tho way to Lave purity in oflice and purity in business,—Des Moines (la.) Leader, B —As to politionl assessments laying the foun- dation of Hurpor's dofaleation, that is sheor non- souso, It is possible that Mr, Harper, in his ambition to take a promiucut place in the party in Lis Btate, mndo an ostentatious display of his zeal, aud stole the monoy to do it with. "In this rospoct ho was liko Postmastor Filloy, of Bt. Lounis, who mado s similar display of his zoal, . . . ‘Tho Ropublican party {8 no more rouponsible for thoir siug than it is for the petty pliforing of Gordou-Gordon, or the blackmailing operations of Boau Mickmou.—AMinncapolis fl‘;-muue. —1In rogard to snothoer rosolution, whioh cen- gnros o Republican Administration, a Republican Sonato, a Republican Houso of Represoutatives by n fall mejority [for the salay-grab], I have only to eny thut I have no objection to'that, be- caugo I cun stond it as lun¥ a8 tho llupnbficnn party ean—Uen. Buller in the Massachusells Convention., —'hia Ropublican perty denounces the ¢ sal- ary-grab " whonever aud ~whoravor it has an op- poriinity to expross itsolf. This shows that ho Republican party oannot bo led into the fu- dorsement of a wrong even by its Jeaders.— Mineral Point (Wis.) T'ribune, —Tho Rochestor Democrat [Republican] comes down before tho firo hold in reserve for it on tho bavk-pay quostion, It ndmits that tho Sllur{’ bill, ““fore aud aft,” was a distinetively Ropublican monsuro, Its opening sontenco st ¥ Perhaps no measure evor pasded by the Sepube lican party hns so sullied 1ty fair Tamo as that inoronsing tho snlaries of members of Congrosa t spying."'— ftochester (N, Y.) Union. —Tho country .had hopod for better things from Presidont” Gront and his Administration. 1t would seem from the oxporionce in Massachu~ ottn, that it is the alm of tho Adwinistration to attompt to popularizo that infamous steal cordial Administration indorsomont, s t.” H Many times have wo thanked E, B, Washburne for puehing Grant nhead in tho army; and na many times havo wo thought he blundored whon Lio put hin on the Presidantial track, A great Gonoral, but not a gront Piosidont, The bitter comay with ‘tho ewoot.—Tond dit Lao ( Wis.) Commonweallh. —Alox, R. 8hephord, undor whouo administras tion the Board of Publioc Worka al Waanington, D. 0., mado a mountain out of the poople's mill- lona, last year, hns beon appoluted Governor of the District by Prosidont Grant. If this gontle- man {u half a8 successful in wasting the poople’s monoy in his now position as ha was i tho old wa will not only have s baukrupt Torritorin] Governmont, but n soriously eripplod Gonornl Govornment a8 indorser.—Ltansville (Ind.) Journal. ~—It is 80ld tho Prosidont will In his next an- nual mossage recommond the assumption of thig debt by Congress o o moaus of rollof totho poo- plo of Washington, No mattor if ho does. ‘The mombor of Congrorn who votes for it will find I8 88 hard to explain a8 o vote for bnok-pay.—In- dianu{mm Journal, tho party which has horetoforo reprosont- ed Ropublioan principles to the umm!? 16 Lo ba~ como the roprosontative of o polioy osndlng, corrupting, and selflsh ; if the tost of fealty ia to ba non-reeistance to tho conspiracies of badmen ; it tho immonss forces of tho publio atronsge aro to bo porverted = sys- matically, and without robuke, to the support of ambitious olaimavis; if tho falr exproaston of the sentimont of Ropuvlicann ia ta bo proventod by intimidation ; if its oauousos aro to bo controlled by gangs of hired enomios, and if its_convontions invito the prosonce of brawling candidatos, advocating tholr own cause without modesty, and reviling whoover dissont from their ostimation of thomselves withont re« spoot for truth or docorum, it neod have no ox- nactation of boing long rocognized as a party of Ropublicanism.—Boston Advertiser, ~Tho Oloveland Leader, one of tho leadin Ropublican papers of Northern Ohio, is move: bg recout ovents in Maesnchuactts to doclarg that tho Ropublican party * cannot longer afford to carry the dend woight of the gang that ia lad by Cameron and Butlor.”—Detroit Z'ribune. —Will those Ropublican newspapors of Mag« anchusotts that have found their natural voices during the Iast fow weeks, stand fast in the glorious liberty wherewith tho spirit of indepond- ont journnlism has mndo thom free? Or will they tako tright at their own audacity, and vol- untarily return, runaway-slave fashion, to the gnly consora and task-masters P—Springfleld Republican. —\Why does Govornmont take such tender cara of the manufacturer, by protectivo tariffs, and loavo tho farmor to take care of himsolf 7—Fond du Lac ( Wis.) Commonwealth, ~—How many years aroe roquired to convinee our Western farmora that they aro being robbed, day by dsy, Dby our infamous protootive tariff? . .. . And for what? To_ pay off tho national debt? Not m{. Don't fool yourselves, Tho monoy I8 belog drained from mortgaged Wostern farms, and monopolized by a fow alroady over-weaithy ontlomen 1n Massacitusotts and Pounsylvanin, 'hat i whore it goss, Hore i ono of many liv- ing issucs that neods such aftontion as the Democratio and Republican partios bave wholly failed to give it. Monopoly, snd greed for dollars and conts, hnve hecome the bano of our political systom, and should bo rebuked, and strangled. Who will unite in doing it?— “ Occidental” in Madison ( Wis.) Democrat. —Yvory laboring man, every mechanic, every man who s obliged to earn Lis living, must sce that the Anti-Monopoly purty is tho party for him, Itis the party that asks that tho rights of tho Inborer Lo respcoted; that domands that equal burdens and equal privileges for all bo the rulo, sud not especiul favors for capital at tho exponse of labor. The priuciplo ie right, wo are on the right track, aud will succoed in tho end.—DBoone ilolm) Democrat. —The recent advance in ratos for the transpars tation of grain on_the Wicconuin ronds bas proe duced & burst of iudignant romonstrance, . . « In tho contest which railrond corporatious scem roeklessly disposed to iuvite with the public, they must inevitubly go to the wall in the on and what sooms remarkabla is, that railway mun agersghould oxhibit suck dostitution of sanso as to puslf {hoir exactiona to & point that scems cortain Yo provoke damaging retalistion from their victtms,—Milwaukee Sentinel. —By this ono act of wanton and reckless ra- pacity thosogailroad companies havesuccoodod at once {n arouging and uniting tho peoplo of the Northwest in solid and invincible battle srray against thom ; in fAlling thoir hands with deadly wonpons aud their hearts with fury ; and in an- nihilating ot & singlo blow all the do- fenses in which thoy have entronch- ed themsolves, Thoy themsolves have sounded the tocsin of war, and from thia timo forward, war it ig, war to tho doath—a war which will nof couso till this insolont power which arrogatos ta iteelf the despotic proogative of taxing the poo~ plt at its will, and exercises it with tho romorae. Ieus rapnceily of an orientnl tyraut, shall bo over: thrown,—St. Paul (Minn.) Press. E —TFarmers in_the LaCrosse Valloy hailed the complation of tho Chicago & Northwostern Rail- road a8 n moans of reducing freiwhts on grain, but their hopes wero vain, for the Northwestorn Iing joined in tho recent advauco, and grain going over that lino han to pay tho Inereaso. . . . ‘'ho farmors have raiseda largo awonnt of grain, which must find o market over theso ronds, an in consequence thoroof o further burden must Do put on them. aud au oxtra 214 cents por bushel wrung from tho tillers of the soil.—LaCrosse (Wis.) Republican. —Itis only necessary, lowover, to point to thoscores of our most wealthy citizens, whoso millions bave been pited up within a vory fow years from tho profits of this **losing business " tostamp the falsity of tho assertion thattho froight of tho country is_carried ovor our rails ronds nt less than eost.— Winona (Afinn.) Repub- lican, —Trwo groat corporations, whoso train bands A1l tho lofi)y of tho Logielaturs at ench session, and whoso paid attorneys are in constant attend- ance upon committees in dofeuse of their extor- tions, who, by rofraining from nufi_comppufion, theroby virtually “ pooling " thelr carnings, in diroct violation of tho Railway law of this Stato, constitnting ‘in fact all thoro is of a railway gyatem in ?Viscom;iu, requiro the services, on tho part of tho pooplo, of Toard of Control of Railways, who shall be cqually vigilant in pro- tocting tho people's interout,—Green Bay (1is.) Gazelte, —It may be necessary for Giov. Washburn to call a special session of the Logisiature to pass & Inw constituting a Board of Commissioners to inguire into the facts and causes that bae rompted the greedy monopoliss in thus fleecing {ho people out of the hard-earned mouey, com: pnllmfi additional freights becauso their cropz gro a little botter this year thau formerly. . . « .+ Whooevor reprosonts Greon County thia winter in the Legislaturo, should have no unde- fined views rogarding his position on railroad managemont.—onroe (Wis.) Sentinel. —— Lesolved, Thut wo loarn with indiguation and alarm of tho rocout advanco of charges for froights over our leading railwaya in Wisconsin, und horeby enter our xuleum.!)mtnn Agningt thie oxaotion, and plodgo our united eiforts to ro- gist in all lawful ways every such oucronchment of monopolies.—Farmers of Dane County, Wis, —It is not unnatural tint the hard times which havoe provailed for many months should produco discontent and restlessucss, and turn tho eye of many {0 othor States; but moving away i6 no remedy for tho evil, ‘The bard timea - are ovorywhere. Lo ol out a farm now at the low prices that prevail, and remove to anotber Btate, would be to our thinkiug a vory unwise proceeding.~2Muscating ({owa) Journal, —— THE REPUBLIC AND MERCHANTS’ INSURANCE COMPANIES. To the Fditor of The Chicago Tribune: Bin: The report of tho Assigneo of the Ropube o Tnsurance Company, as noticed in your paper this morning, sbows that ho has on hand in cash over one hundred and twenty thuusand dol- lars. Now, Mr, Editor, I want, an a creditor, ta know why this large sum of monoy is mot divided. Hasn't the Assignee and his frieude yot made enough out of the funds in the way of interest and in ofher ways? Sinco the 1st of August the roport shows that tho tota) receipty of the Assiguoe have boon 815,100, and tho dis- bursements §6,532,—ehowing oxpooucs at the rate of $75,000 por year, Tho Assiguce of the Morchante' has slso $60,000 on haud. DPray, why are not thoso, and all other funda in tho hands of Asslgnood, die vidod ? A ParieNt Cngprron, Cuoago, Sept, 19, 1873, g kit A A CHICAGOAN KILLED AT PITTSFIELD, MASS. PITTOrIRLD, Mans,, Sopt, 17, 1815, To the Editor of The Chicugo Tribune ¢ Bip: A man 45 0r 60 yoars of age (I should Judgo au Irishman), calling himsolf Isanc Feeloy, has boon Hying in this town some two montha, Ho was killed on tho rallrosd last night. e hiad roported that his howe was in Chiloago, and that ho had a wifo living thore. I shall rotain tho body for two daya in the tomb, and, if nod called for then, shall giveila decont burial Roapoottully yours, H, M. Prmsoy, Coroner of Berkshire Qounty, Mass,