Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1873, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TENMH OF BUNRCRIPTION (PAXADLE 1N ADVANCE), xilyy by il 12,00 | Bunday,, S, tl- Wookly.. G.00 | Woakly Parts of o yonr at tho smo rate. ''o prevont dolay and mistakes, bo sure and give Post Dhico address in tull, including Stato and County. Romittances mny hio made olthior by draft, expeoss, Post Ultice order, or in roglstorad lottars, at var risk. - TTAMS TO CITY RUBSONIDENS, Duils, doliverad, Sundny excented, 25 conte per wook, Dally, dellvored, Bunday Inclnded, 30 eants yor wook, Addros THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madison anit Doarborn-xts,, Chioago, Ill 2,00 MENTS. imy'S THEATRI—Randolnh strao, e Basatior S g tha Forsnkon, it Jegular Fiz,” AOADRMY OF MUSIC—Halated atreot, botwoon Mad- o nud Atunree, Kugagoment of tho Lydia hompson roups, ** tobin Hood ¥ batwesn and YA botwaon Mad. GLODE THEATRE-Desplatucs: stronty botwson M arry Lindon. Hon and_ Wnahington, ~ Logagenont o IR R i MYERS' OPKRA-HOUSE--Monroe st Deatbor_nd Siats, Burlesqua of * .Lugea” Minatroley and cowleallties, reot, botwoon 'ho ‘Arrival of SBOOKD PRESBYTERIAN OHURON-Organ Con- port, DR, KANN'S MUSEUM _OF ANATOMY-Olark street, betwson Madison uud Monroo. [ " BUSINESS NOTICES. HEADQUARTERS FOR BOYS' CLOTHING, ©. O, DOLLINS, 184 and 186 Clarkest, CBhe Chicags Tribune, - Fridey Morning, Novembor 28, 1873, Anything the Moxican Government daes showing tho loast regard for frontior rights do- serves honorable montiou, Such a case is their rocent prompt arrost of Gareis, ,tho Mexi- can bandit-chief, who robbed o Toxan storo- Leopor tho other day of $30,000 in cash and o quantity of goods. Garcla is hold at Monteray for extradition to this country, Tho Bank of England, ns was oxpeoted, has reduced ita rato of discount, which-it lowors to € por cont. Thorato has been as high as 9 per cont, and this reduction may bo safely ickon.os an ssguranco that the foreign money azarkoet is rocovering from the disturbed condi- tion whicli followed tho flanncial troubles in this country, Assomblyman McGuirs, of Now York, who ortginally mado in the Legislature the charges againet Ezra Cornell which aro now boing inves- tigated, appears as his proscoutor bofore tho Investigating Commission. This ho doos, ho explaing, not a8 the Legielator McGuire but as a izon MeGuire, Oitizen McGuiro has embodiod bis chargos in an excoedingly ciroumatantia codminute statoment, which the Committeo have taken into consideratior The Hon. Richard Yatea, who died suddonly in St. Louis yostordsy, was born in Kentucky in 1618, Ho removed to Illinols at sn early ago, end was gradusted at Illinola Colloge, after which Lo entered the Bar. IIo was elected sovoral timos to a sont in the Btato Cogiulaturo, and was & Roprosentative of this Stutoin Congress from 16851 to 1855, Ho was War Governor, serviug aa the Chiof Exoutive 1 this State with groat ability from 1861 to 1865, whon he waa eloctod to the Unitod States Senate, whers ho sat till 1871, e ] An order heving been finally issued by Judge Ladwalador, of Ponnsylyauis, putting thoe firm of Jay Caoke & Co, in bankruptoy, ic is proper to " commark that the only difforonco betwoon such a proceeding and tho one praposed by Jay Cooke & Co. thomselves is, that under tho former the vreditora appoint tho Assigneo, whilo undor tho | tatter ho would have been appointed by the Jabtors, In both cases it was contemplated thnd the entwo property shanld be turned over. The rutton of the eomplawing creditors was equiva- lont to o vote of want of confidence in the As- siguee named by Jay Cooke & Co. S ‘Tho Secrotary of tho Interior is an ardent and uiseriminnting advocate of the Indion Poace Pol- aey. In his annual roport ho slindes with ovi- wont pleasuro to the success of the *“humane” trentment. o then gives a plan for tho treat- ment of the Sioux which throws the Pence Policy into rathor broad relief. His wuggestion is that all the tribes surronnding tho Sioux, which are bitterly hostilo to thom, bo fully avmed by the Unitod States Government, which need take 00 heaad in the gamo that cusues, This 1s a very practical suggeation; but its juxtaposition to tho oulogy of tho Ponce Polioy makes it rether atartling, —— Our relations with Spain are shrouded in & diplomacy, tho mysteries and. ilinions of which are impenotrablo, Woighty dispatohos wero .teceived from Madrid yesterday by the ollowing a0 olosoly upon our v, will ronew tho cesnranco of Pprospority which tho latn war seomed to give, and the poo- ple of the United Statos will grow honxtlly woary of a conflict that may bo drngged out soveral years with guerrilln raids and liorriblo masuacron, ‘but without any dectsivo or oven glorious visto- ring, The ndjudication of Jay Cooke & Oo., an boukrupts, fs nmatior which could not hnve boen unoxpected. Thelr cfoditors wore seattored all over tho world, and, as the consont of all waa uccessary to a sottlonont outside of & Daukrupt Court, thore was no rensonable hopo that it could bo secured. Tho plan of wottlomont sub- mitted by Jay Cooke & Co., while entirely fair on the face of It; was so complicatod that largo numbers of tho creditors woero probably mnot oblo to comprohend it. Whon affairs avo 80 widoly wsprond out In all directions as woro thope of Jay Cooke & Oo., nny individual plan of eottloment, oven with tho falvost futontions, opens up opportunitics for froud, oxpenses, and lenkagen which shrowd croditors do not eavo to risk, Tho firm is ladon down with Northern I'ncific bonds, for which thoro is no market at prosent, and it was un- doubtedly hoped that n sottlomoent could bo postponed until there could bo o chango in tho condition of Narthern Pacific,~perhaps, tho Govornment guarautee of ils bonds. As this hope ia utterly dolusive for years to come, it is a8 well for nil concornod that a Bankrupt Cours should convert and distributo tho asscts at what State Dopartment, but uone of the contents aro divalged ; thero was s long conferonce batwoon the President and Secrotary Fish, but nothing turther about it is known, Tho public oro fed with such Delphic morsels from tho Becrotary of State as that the situation fs no worso, but that it ig no botter. It is stated that tho time for Bpain to answer our ultimatum los boon extonded. A more atartling and improbable story {a that Minister Bicklen has eo impaired hia usefulnoss by his disagreoment with Forolgn Ministor Figuoras that he {8 to be rocalled, The Govornmont, it 14 said, bus conductod its nego- tiations for sovoral days without recourso to him, Just as tho Bpanish Government wae said to bave ignorod Admiral Polo, This mtatetnent needs to bo reconolled with Minister Slokles' ox- plicit deninl tho othor day that ho had had auy " disagroement with tho Madrid dignitaries, If Gen, Gront lstons to the ovil promptings of men who favora war with Spain as o means of ealvation for the Topublican patty, kLo may mako tho most sorious mistake of Li lifo, Lo~ litical wara formod a promineut feature of tho Napoleonio Idea, but, on mora thau ono oceasion, they turued out very differently from what thoy wore intended to accomplish. The Moxican war which Nupoloon undertook, and which was purely political, was u severo blow at his dynaety, The war with Gormany was orlginally under- akon o# o political war, 1t was more for tho purposo of gratifsing the traditional hatred of the Fronch toward tho Gormans, glorifying his own tulo, and strongthoning tho loyalty of his people, than a fear of Gormun influenco in Bpain, thet prompted Napoleon to declare war pgainst Prossin, ‘Fhia war was the final disastor that ovorthrew o dynasty which wau alroady in n tottering condition. If & war with Hpain which might ho avolded is under- takon becanse the affairs of the Republican par- ty aro folt to bo In u deeporato condition, i ia much wmore llkely to result in the downfull of the patty which innugurates it than in o prolonyga- tion of hat pasty's power, It is not likely that they will bring now. e ——e. ‘WAR WITH BPAIN. Tho latest advices concerning our complica- tious with Bpain on tho capturo of tho Virginius are apparently warlike, The decision must be made within a fow dnys, and, although this de- cision roats with Congross, it is posaiblo for tho Prosident to put things in such shapo that war will be tho result, although the unbinsed judg- ment of Congress might be opposed toit. In tho moantimo, thero aro two ways in which the dificulty may bo considered, Thoro ia & brond- gaugo viow of tho affalr and a narrow-gauge viow, and the decision in favor of war or poaco will dopond largely on which of thoso views shall Lo adopted. Tho broad-gauge viow of tho Virginius affair I8 to coneider thoe roal merits of tho controvorsy " opart from uny mero technicalitics that might furnish o protoxt for war. What would wo be fighting for ? o avengo tho eapture of o lot of filibustors, and thoir execution under tho Span- ish Iaw, to which thoy made themsolves amonne ble when they wout into the filibustoring bual- ness, Gon. Ryan was tho lendor of the oxpodi- tion, and it turns out that ho had undortaken the job of landing men and arms on Spanish territory, to resist Spanisk authority, for tho sum of $20,000." Ho took the risk of his life for & valuable consideration, and thoreby bocamo & & common spoculator. IIo has violated our neu- trality lnws, and thereby forfeited his claim to protection as an American citizen. Capt. Fry was tho commander of tho filibuatering vessel, fully sivaraof tho charactor of tho oxpedition, 88 he confossed in. the protest propared byhima fow houra bofore Lis death. Fry wns a profes- sional blockade-runner, “Moro than that, ho bad beon guilty of cruelty in his own carcor as an American Tebol which exceoded that of tho Spaniards, if possible. During the clvil war in this country, he was the commander of & Rebel battery mear the mouth of the White River, which, on one oceasion, fired into tho stoams drum of the Union gunboat Mound Clty, Tho oxplosion, besidea scalding a largo numbor of the erow, throw othors into the river, whero thoy liad to struggle for thoir lives, During this struggle, aud whilo two small bonts were picking them up, Fry ordered his mon to the banks with their ritlos to shoot tho poor wretchos in tho water. Bubsequeutly, Fry fell into the hands of Col. Graham N. Fiteh, of Indians, who informed him that his condition as a prisoner-ot-war alona saved him: from being Langed on the noxt tree. Ho cortainly dosorved such treatmont for tha in- ‘| hmman butehery of shooting at drowning men. Hovoral of the Cubnn members of the Virginiua oxpadition no sconer foll into tho hands of the Spanish aunthotities than thoy made the most craven appesls for thelr lives, ovon proposing to baetray tho ecaues in which thoy had enlisted if thoy conld be spared. Those are fair samples of the meon oxecuted by the Bpaniavds, to aveuge " whose denth the Ubited Statos aro called upon to go to war with Spain, Is this tho kind of a causo to go to war in? Can we, in justico to Americans who do not go on filibustering ex- peditions, oudertske & war for such cause,~a war that, at tho bost, muat cost us thousands of precious lives and hundreds of millions of dol- lary? Bhall wo 2dd to the number of our widowa oand orphans, enlargo our ponaion laty, and iu- crenso our tnxes for auch meu as thoso ? Thisis tho broad-gauge view of tho queation, ‘Tho narrow-gauge viow is'to find somo protext, no matter how flimsy, that will justify the United Statos in waging war upon Spain for tlie annoxa~ tlon of Cuba, It would bo mtrange, indoed, if such a protoxt could not bo found in 80 compli~ cated an affair as that of tho Virginius. Itis ponuiblo that the scizuro of this vessel on tho tigh sens and the summary execution of tha crew, without giving the Amerioan reprosents- tives an opportunity for proving the charactor of tho vessel, way & tochnical violation of interna- tional Jaw, whioh, if the Virginiua bad proved to be whiat slie purported Lo bo, would have furnish- od a casus belli, ‘Cho Bpauish suthorities tookthe slak of thfs, Tf the Virginius had proved to bo an Amorican #hip of no hostile intent, and it American citizons lad been put to death who had ocommitted no erime, thon Spain would have had toanswer a righteous domand for vengeanco which would have como {from tho poople of this country aswith ono voleo, Bnt, na the very rovorso of this Iy the caso, shall we avail ourselves of o toohnical protoxt for war while wa have 1o roal wrongs to rodross ? Dofore wo go to war ona technlesl protest, wo iust stop to think whata war with Spaia menu, Xt menns, at tho best, a prolonged,tedious, hrragoing, and murderous conflict. Spanish wars wro alweys loug, exsperating, voxatious, costly, and full of ununaceasary cruelty and vindlotive- nows, ' It is altoguthor likely that, in tho end, tho United Htatos, with 40,000,000 peoplo aud within & hundred jilos of the torritory in dispute, would vanquish Spain, with only 11,000,000 peoplo and 8,000 miles away from the Cuban couut, Iub it Is o great mistako to sup- poue that theeo difforencos In favor of tho Unitod Stades will ousbls us to clowo ont the war inawhort time, A war with Spain will not ond with the cupture nud possossion of Guba, Bpain may for many yonrs, chovaaftor, hurass onr com- mneres ou the sern, threwton onr vonst, and drag ont an expennlve und discouraging conflict, whioh we will not have the powor to ntop sumn- marily. The war, onco begun, will not end till Spanlsh pride fs orushed aud Bpanish ob- slinacy wonrlod out. To hegin with, Spain will iavo the vaniage ground with s superlor navy, with which to uttack a comparativoly dofonsolors coaat, 8,000 miles in oxtont, Forn time New York will bo in grentor dangor than ITnvann, Wo liave nn oxposed const of & whole continont on two oceaus, on which Spain may malo war, with all tho bombardmonts aud lovies which sho so well understands. Spnin did moroe to accomplish tho overthrow of Napoleon Bona- -parte than eithor Russia, or Austris, or Prussla, Hpain no longor gooa to war to conquor, but to barass, maraud, rob, and plunder, which tho charactor of hor pooplo will onable her to keop up for yoars, Of-course we should beat hor in tho end, but what of that? Shall wo jump into such a hornets’ neat on & technicality, or to avongo the death of & fow advonturors making war on thoir own account for pay ? s BQUEAMIBHNESS AT BLOODSHED, "Tho Chicago Journal stales tho srgumonts of thoso opposod to & war with Spain on the oxist® ing stato of facts na follows: Foar of the Spanieh navy; squosmishness it blood- #hiod fu n good cause, whon blood bns hoen flowing liko water in Cuba for years; dread lest tho natfonal tlebt bo dncreased ; n selflsh conviction thet it fa much Hafor and cheapor to allow the Cubans to bo subju~ guted nud mussacrod than to indulgo o geuerous ime pulse and siriko n blow for thelr liboeatlon; o sentl- mental sympathy for {ho pootis Republic of Spaln, which has no exlatenco in reallly; an intense admira- ton for tle thoory of arbitration, with a despotlo Emperor chosen 18 umpiro botweon a hordo of op- prossors anil thefr struggling victims, Tho confusion of idens which runs throngh this attempted sarcasm consiuts in rogarding the ivauguration of & war as about the samo thingas sltting down to » gamo of chess, Tho difforonco botwoon o atato of war and & gamo of choss is that tho former is toicked unloss undertalkon as a lnst remedy for intolorablo wrouge, whilo tho lattor is an innocont amusoment, We claim to bo a Christian nation, and as such to hold mur- dor 1n abhorronco, Waris murder on o large sealo—jusiifiablo and unavoidable, howavor, at times. Wo lave just como out of awarin which a million of our best and bravest woro siain, and it is slmply horrible to hear poople clamoring for more war, bofore thoy Inow what thoy arc going to fight about. Tho Journal wants a war to freo tho Cubans, What Cubans? Does it mear a majority of tho inhab- itants of tho Island of Cuba? Notatall, It moans tho handful of moen, undoubtedly bravo sud potriotio, who ocenpy a portion of tho onstend of the island. Why not confoss, then, that tho objoct of tho war cryis to assist a foreign rovolution, or porhaps to acquire foreign torritory, and in ordor to do thia to com- mit murder on largoscslo? Thials what s sig- nified by the idiotic phraso, **8queamishness at bloadshed in o good causo.” Wo lold to tho bolief that this is a Christian country, and that tho sentiment which upholds and observes an annual Thankegiving doy is 8till potont in tholsnd. Tho religious sontiment of the country, if it bo in reality what it claims to be, will reaist and prevents war with Spain until all other means of securing redresa for any grlovances we may bo shown to bave suffored, including arbitration, shall have boen exhausted, s THE GREAT BOND CONSPIRAQY. Judge Tipton's docision in the Gilman, Clin- ton & Springfield Railroad caso haa lot & numbor of athletic cats out of the bag. A Recsiver hav- ing beon appointed by the Court, the officors of the Company have hastened to defeat the judg- mont by delivering the rond over to Thomag A, Scott a8 trusteo of certsin socond-mortgage bonds. This was dono in clear contompt of the judgment of the Court. Col. Morgan, tho Ro- ceiver appointed by Judgo Tipton, is & man not likoly to be bluffod off, and this latest schome of tho Springfleld Ring to stea! the road will not bo successful. ‘Tho importance of this caso will bo understood when it is known that thero are many other railroads in the State in gubstantially the samo condition; that is, thoy have been stolon by tho managers and sold, mortgaged, or leased, leaving tho counties and towns, who hold 319,000,000 of tho capital stock, without s merap of taugible property. Thus stop by step can bo trnced tho progress of the glant conipiracy of thoe speculators to rob tho poople of this Stato of the moncy to build the ronds, and then to rob them of the roads whon built. Theno progressive stops aro as follows: 1, The cuactment in 1860 of the famous * Grab law,” by which it was proposed that in all coun- tles, towns, eto., thou owing, or which might thereattor contract, debts in aid of railroads, the future increnso of the sssessod valua of taxable property should be oxempt from taxation for Htato purposes ; such taxation to be applied to the principal and intorost of such debt. 2. Undor the frauds and dolusions of this do- coptive bill, the people of a large number of towns and countios wero induced to go through the forms of votiug subseriptions amounting to nonrly 812,000,000, for which they issued munici- pel bonds, mostly at 10 per cent intorest, and exchnuged the same for a corresponding amount of gtack, It {s noedloss to nay that, while the tax to pay the intorest on the bonds has hesn inoxorably levied by tho Btato ofticers, and col- Jected, there Lave boen no dlvidonds reccived on tho stock. 8. After the bonds wore raceived by tho con- upiratos, the noxt stop was to mortgago the ralt- roeds to twico thoir cost and thua extingaish the stocls, 4. The failureand refussl of cortaln towns to pay the intorest on tho bonds, aud tho evidantly growing purposo to test their logality, naosasi- ,tatod tho nozt step, which was to attompt to ox- ocuto thet purt of tho Grab law of 1860 which wau intended to saddle tho whole debt upon the State at large. 'To oi¥eet this, howover, required tho co-oporation of the Auditor's offico, and, in tho upring of 1879, this wes obiained through an order to tho Assessorato Incroaso tho usscasmont for Btatu purposss about 200 por cont, Aftor- wards tho co-operation of tho State Doard of Equalization was socurad, and a goneral levy way mado upon eapital ttock of private corpora- tions in addition to tho tox on their proporty. Tho comspiracy wont further. To mako tho onormous tax lovy loas uhooking, $166,000,000 was deduoted from tho assesued valua of tho proporty in the Btate outslde of Chicago, and un equal amount added to tho tax rolls of thls city, . 6. ‘the next stop wan to linva the Auditor lovy arate of tax in exccss of what would be sufl- clent to produce tho logal rovouuo of the Btate, in ordor to bavo s surplus of u willion ornore to pay {ho intorast o thouo uwindling bonds, 6. Then came tho double explosion; first, the deolsion by tho Buproma Court, that sll the municipal houds {esued to tho Ottawa, Os- wogo & TFox River Valloy Rallwey woro void ab {nitio; and second, Judge 'Mipton's ublo and fenrless oxposure of tho dlshouesty s the mavagemont of the Gilman, Clinton & Hpriugficld Bailrond, 'Lho manogors, who wore trusteos adminloteriug » trust fund for the THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, OVEMBER 98, 1873, stookbhioldors, road and equipment that cost $1,600,- 000, gavo away 2,000,000 of Londs so- curedby first mortgago, §503,000 county bonds, and 81,400,000 of tho capilal stock ; aud then, Lo 8ooure o gocond {ssuc of bouds to tho amount of 91,000,000, gavo a dood of trust of all tho prop- orty to Tom Beott, of Pennsylvanis. Trom all accaunts, it doea not appoar that the managors of this Railroad Company, who havo por- formed thin Credit-Mobilier operation, ever invested over $10,000 of actual cnsh In the entiro business, yot they atfompted to make away with 8600,000 of other poople's proporty. All honor to Judgo Tipton for the prompt and foarlogs mannor in whioh ho intorposod tho ju- diclal power to orush the firat case that has hoon brought to light in this grand conspiracy to faaton upon tho pooplo of this Siate o dobt of noarly twelvo millions of dollars, bearing an av- erage of O per cont interoat, tho consideration for which, in tho shapo of capital stock, has boen dostroyed and sponged out by corrupt lonsos and fraudulent deeds of trust. Wo trust that the farmers of this Stato, whoss farms aro mortgaged for thoss railrond-aid dobty, will appoal to tho courts in evory county, and have thoso lessos and doeds of trust sot aside, and the rights of tho atockholders vindicated. Tho conspiracy may control tho officers of tho Stato and the machinory of the Govornment; it may compol o partisan political majority in tho Logialaturo to hido and cover up all ovidences of complicity in fraud, and to aid and abot tho at- tompt to mako the Btato assume this dobt, but it cannot control the farmers in their individual capacity, The farms of the pooplo of balf n dozon counties are morigsged to pay tho principal and intercat of this $608,000 paid for etock in the Gilman, Qlinton & Bpringfleld Railroad; and whilo the bankers at Springfleld who invested $2,600 to €8,000 in tho road, constituting themsclvos its managors, have bartered it away to Tom Scott, tho peoplo whose money has been taken Lave tho courts to appoal to for redreas, and wo trust they willdo so promptly, and visit their utmost veogonnco on all who havo participated in thoss schiemon of plunder. in componsation for a rall- BHORTAGE ON GRAIN, Ono of the best grounded complaints which country dealors in grain have sgainst Chicago is tho *shortago,”—by which {s moant tho diffor- onco botwoen thoir woighta and the weighs ale lowed by tho proprictors of tha grain warehouses iu this eity, That difforonco is gonorally against the shipper, and ofton amounts to from throa to ten bushels per car-load, or 134 por cont. Ono of tho greatost causes of complalnt, and focitements to Enstorn denlers in grain to avold buying in Chioago, is tho shortago, or losa of wolght; by which we mean tho difforonce bo- tween tho smounts of grain alloged to bo woighed out of tho clovators hore, and those which aro recoived by tho buyer on its mrrival down East. This shortago ofton reaches anoth- er 134 por cent on grain forwarded by rail; and usod to amount to noarly as much on shipments by wator, till o partial roform was forcad, sbout throo yoars ago, by the umtod action of tho ves- #cl-ownors and tho Buffalo Board of Trado. Thia double difticulty has existed for so many yonrs that it has como to ha rogarded ss n nac- esgary ovil, and allowanco is made for it in trad- ing. Tho country buyor tells the farmor that ho cannot give him so much por bushel for his grain as tho Chicago quotation would ssom to warrant, because of the shortage; and, in estimat~ ing tho cost of transporting grain Enstward, it ia customary to addin so much for shortago as woll 48 8o muoh for fnsuranco, Of courso all this comes out of the farmor ultimately, thongh in the roundabout way which makes indirect taxation seom loss onorous, it is actually moro costly than tho diroct form, If thore were no shortage, the difforenca botween Chicsgo and Now York, on ‘tho ono hand, and Chicago and tho conntry graiu-dopot, ‘would be that much less in ench cavo, all other things being equal. In other words, the farmor ‘would receive thal much more for his whoat than Lio docs whilo tho shortago oxists. Thero is, undoubtedly, renson for shortage, to some amount, Grnin {8 necessarily spilled in tho procesuos of loading and unloading, in spito of tho greatest caro; and, if damp, it will shrink onthe jommney by slightly drying., Thero is also the posaibility of carsleaking, owing to poor construction, especially by the jamming of cars together (endwiss) ou tho track, which tonds to spring tho jolute of tho woodwork. Butloss from the latter cause eaunot ocour on shipboard, whore tho shortage was almost as great, till recontly, a8 on the railroad. Tho fact that, by persiatont nctlon, a considerablo portion of thia shortego has boou stopped, in ono directlon, shows that thero is a colorod individual in the fenco, somowhero. Asto where that interoetlng individual s located, somo light may porbaps be gained by stndyiug the following estracts from tho testimony of Ar. Stophen Clary, (page 01 of the printed report to the Committeo on the Hough veatigation): * The inforence I draw was, that tn handling 2,000,000 or 8,000,000 of grain, & man that could not gain a little ought to Lo discharged. Last year, Flint & Thompson woro 14,000 bushels over. Armour, Dole & Co, did not want 1t put that way, oxactly, Alr. Duckingham (pago 00) said ihut they wore over a conafdorable quantity.” This {s underatood to refor to the gain of one yoar only. The samo systom of gaining overplus soewms to have baen pursued overy year sinco 1801, when the North 8ido houses shipped out fully fifty thousand bushols—gained on an nan- nual total of business not muuh more than hatt that of tha prosent time. There is no doubt that the warshousomen goin in this way; they admit it ; tho only point at lscuo belug how much thoy “eavoe” in tho processos of wolghing into and out of the olovetor—ovor and abovo the largo quantitios that aro aunually dostroyod by the omnlpresout rat, This groat ovil can bo romoved, or reduced to a mimmuuw, by pulting a chack on tha welghing of the warohiouso men; nnloss, Indeed, the tosk Lo talen out of tholr hands altogothor, It swould involva no very great amount of oxtra labor to run the cars over scaley, both when full aud whon ompty, outsido the elevators, and take tho differouco as {he sotual woight of tho graln, It wauld thon bepossible o makoesclalmat onoe for thoshortago, inatoadof giving tho warehousomen the advantago of distibuting the' loss al along a line of rallrond, or olaiming that the shortago ariies from bnd wolghing at soma point outside tho juriediction of our Btate Gonrta, Anothor way to ouro tha ovil would bo to ennot o law that all overplus 'of grain in warehousen ahall {nure to the bonedit of tho Btato Tronsusy— on the samo prinoiple that ull Jost and dostroyed National Dauk notes thure to the honefit of tha Natlonal Treasury. Thore would bs very litle ovorplus under such s law, and no difilenlly whatevor In gottiug it out of store. Tho shortago on grain is really n more serlouns matter to the farmor than are somo of the othier nbusoes which it has boon sought to romody by loglolation. It is a loss which falls ontirely upon thom, whilo many of tho ovils of the warohouno syntom that bavo engagod tho attontion of tho producer have princlpnily affectod tho speculn- tlvo clamy of grain-dealors. This shaving of tho loaf as itpaancs hetweon the producor and the consumor, and for no sorvice rondered which is not otherwiso paid for, ia » crying ovil that should bo at ouco abated. Bottor sbolish tho wholo warehouso system, and go back to firat principlos, than to permit and connive at a systom which stands confossod na & thiovish sys- tom, tho only point in dispute being the amount of tho tholt. THE THIRD CONVICTION OF RAFFERTY. The third trial of Rafferty, the murdorer of Ofiicor O'Moarn, is concluded, aud for the third timo Lo bas beon found guilty of murder. All tho provious orrors having been smended, wo presume no uow onos huve been committed, and that the P’rosccuting Atlornoy has finished his work boyond any possibility of having to go over it sgain, Tho verdiot of tho ‘Waukegan jury is n -triumph in the intorosts of theright, and it hag boen obtained under circum- stances which mako it peculinrly gratifyiug, No prisonor over lad o moro skillful do- fonss than Rafferty, or & moroe por- sovering’ or patlent one, and in addition to tho efforts of his counsol, tho vari- rious docisiona of tho Buprome Court, romand- ing his case, have beon tantamount to an appoal to tho jury to convict him of manslaughtor. Wo prosumo that there are fow poople in this city, who have followod tuo case attontively, who will not bosomewhat surprised at tho vordict, and who had not made up thoir minda that this time he would only be convicted of manslaughter. The record of the caso pointed to such a rosult, Rof- forty committed the murdor Aug, b, 1873, and thirty-five days therenfter was brought to trinl aud found guilty, the jury afiixing tho death- poualty. His counsel then appealed to tho Su- promo Court, and a suporscdeas was granted upon tho ground that the Court below Lnd errod in not allowing the change of vonue asked for. This ervor was corrocted, and tho sccond trinl commoncod in Waukegan lnst Fobrunry, aud again ho was found guilty. His counsel wout again to the Suprome Court upon throo im- portant errora: 1. That no remittitur was ob- tainod from tho Bupreme Court romanding tho causo to the Criminal Court of Cook County ; 2. That the ovidence concorning tho itlegality of the warrant which Ofticer Scaulan wes nttompting to serve whon O'Moara was shot had boen oxcluded; 8. That tho evidenco con- corning tho intoxication of Rafferly was ex- cluded, Upon these errors n supersedons was again granted, and oace more the cage came to trial. The romittitur was obtained in propor form. Tho entiro ovidence concerning {he illegality of tho warrant and the intoxication of Rafferty was givon to the jury, and, with ovory advaninge in his favor which hia counsel had clalmed, ho i again deolared guilty of murdor, Tha easo is thoraforo completo, No excoptions were takon, and no arguments, oxcept to the jury, were made during the trial. Every dofect in tho onge was romedied. But one moro effort can bo mado to eavo his lifo, and that of formal nature, Hiscounsel muy move for & new trial upon the ground that the evidence does not warrant the vordiet, and, upon rofuasl to grantit, lio may carry it to the Supreme Court, which will bring tho wholo cage in reviow. Thachance of relief from this quurter, however, is u possi- bility eo shadowy that it is hardly worih dwelling upon. The triumph in tho case is that oven with the dofonse of ono of tho most skillful lawyors of this city, who hins left no resource unemploy- ad to rave biis client’s lito, and with tho ropeated rulings of the Supromo Court in his favor, tho jury hes kept the man’s guilt steadily in view, ro- fusing to be moved thorefrom by legal teche nicalities, by any bias thoy might havo roceived from the Supremo Cowrt decisions to declare him guilty of manslaughtor, instead of murdor, orly any motives ol sympathy, They have done their duty like honest, foarless mon, and tho result is & vardict which will not ouly strike torror into the hearts of other rufttans, who lavo no regard for the sacredness of lifo mo long a8 thero ia a possibility of slippiug through* tho meshes of the law, but will #lso rostoro confidenco to the respectablo: olasses of the community that muder caunot go unpunished, and that tho law ia etill powerful enough to re- sist ond suppress rufianiem, brutality, and murdor. Tho prisoner himeelf has no resson for complaint, Iia crimo was 28 cloar ag tho daylight, Xt waa nover for s moment quoestioned that he doliberately and in the most cold- blooded mnnner shot ouo unoffonding man and tried to shoot another. Tho Bupreme Court hag granted evory favor which Lo has sskod, and surrounded him with a judicial dofense so strong that it crontod a doubt in tho minds of the community whether a jury could bo found strong aud faithful enough to adhers to its owa convictions of right ageinet the influences of theso decialona. Ho bas had the services and the indefatigablo efforis of an able and consci- ontlous laswyor, who has gained tho admiration of the ontiro Bar, and evon of tho comntunity, notwithatunding its ablorrenco of the murder ond the murderer, for the macterly manner in which he has conducted tho case. Tho verdiot was brought in on Thanksgivingmorning. While it did not furnish Rafforty with any special causs for gratitude, poaceablo and law-ahidlug cltizona will glve thanka for tho fearlessnoss and Lonesty of the jury which gave tho vordiot, and for the prospoct that the murderor is at last in o fairway to wmoet his desorts. One by one the fatmous saylugs of groas mon, which havo passed into Listory and becomo tra- ditioun phrases, aro being alsolutely ewept aut of oxistenco by tho historical iconoclast, Tho Jast oue to suffor this cruel fateis tho famous ¥ Millions for defenso, but not a cout for tribute,” ‘When, nearly eighty yenrs ago, Gen. Pluckney, thon Ministor to IFrauce, was appronched Dby the prodecessor of tho Duc do Droglio, aud wes Informed that {ho payment of & cortaln sum might seitlo tho diplo- muifo dispute between the two countrlos, history suys that Gon, Plnckney indignantly ro- pliods *“2rilliona for defonso, but not & cont for tribute,” And now ocomes a responsible citizon of Oharleston, 8, O, and shows by indisputable nuthority that, at n meoting of the Cossrok Club, of which Gon, Pinoknoy wns a membor, tho lattor was asked directly by anothor membor whether ho ovor medo siuch s romark, to which horeplied: * No, gentlomon; my answer was uot a floursh Jike that, but slmply, ‘Not a ponny, uot & ponuy.'” Inlosing the original and rather grandiloquent phrase, however, thore in somo componsation In the fact that wo have in {ta placo & much more oxproselve, foreible, aud common souse Auswer, OAPT, FRY'S8 ANTECEDENTS, The popular enthuslasm for war with Spain, on bobalf of the captured Virginius and her murdered orow, undoubtodly rocelvos o conslder- ablo portion of its stimutus from Indignntion at the eruelty of the Spanish-Cuban authorities, in- dopondont of auy questions touching our logal rights or nafional honor. Capt. Fry's pathotic appoal, writton just bofore his execution, to the Captain-Gonoral, in belislf of tho other mis- guldod membera of tho expedition, his touching roferonco to Lis own wifo and seven chil- dren left destituto in Now Orloans; in short, tho goneral tone of Christian forti- tude and magnanimous which pervaded tina lotter—which has boen widely published throughout the United Btates —has aroused a natural outburst of sympathy for tho unfortunata * oxpeditionairos " and for tholr familien loft bobind in this country.” It 10, doubtless, partly in rosponse to thia populsr fooling that tho most important domands of Mintater Sickles aro mado for **indemnily to the famillos of tho murdored and tho punishment of the murderora.” If tho Virginius was an Amorican vessel on n lawful errand at tho time of ler capture, and if hor crsw woro American citizons in lawful business, thero would be no question about the justico of theso domands, nor about our duty to enforce thom, oven with such convineing argumonts as shot and sholl, if other adequato romedics failod. Dat, a8 it appoars that thoro is danger that hue ‘mano sympathy ia cxagrerating tho logal points in thia cago, it bocomes us to inquiro, Who was Capt. Fry, and what was_his charaotor? Moro light on this subjoct than the public havo yot had, in connection with the recont ovents, will be found in an account published elevon yoars ago—and which wo roprint in another partof this papor—of the capturo of Fort 8. Oharles, on tho White River, during tha Rebollion. Trom that account, written by an eye-wit- ness, Mr, W. L. Fawcoite, now financial editor of thia paper, it appeara that the wounded and helploss men from tha disabled Union gun- boat Mound City, struggling for thoir lives in tho switt current of the river, wora deliberately shot by Captain, or Colouol, Fry's order, a deed of brutality which after oloven yoars flnds ita echo in the reports of the Spanish rifles at San- tingo do Cuba, The circumstance that Fry was » Confedorate soldior has, of courso, not the ro- motest boaring on the case, Every Amorican citizon s eontitled to the protection of his Governmont oven to the full oxtent of its armed powor, whothor ho woro blno or gray in the'War of the Rebellion, but the point in this argument is, that no sympathy should bo wasted on n man who was by naturo & buccanaer, whoso bullets, fired sloven yoars ago in violation of the common usages of warfaro, found their lodgment at last in his own broast. Capt. T'ry is entitled to just as much sympathy 88 Wirz of Andersonvillo, or Forrest of Fort Pillow, would have besn entitled to undor like circumatances. ——— Ons of our religious weoklien publishes the following now ganealogioal table: **The flal bo- gat tho roptlle, and the roptile begat o maraupial animal, and the marsuplsl animal bogat tho in- adrumans, and the inadrumana begat the goril- b, and the gorilla begat tho ape, and tho ape be- got Darwin.” From the religions wockly stand- point, this may bo considored funny, but it will hardly strike thoos who have rospect for candid, conscientioun argumont and ecientiflo knowlodge and roscarch in that light. Abuso and shallow wit will “buttor no parsnips,” A religious weekly which cannot meod Mr. Darwin with his own weapous should maintain a respectful i~ lonce in tha presenco of ita superior, "RELIEF OF LABOR. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : B : Will you pormit mo to offor a few sug- gestions, which, if followed, may tend vory matorinlly to ease tho prosent stagnation, or, morc properly spenking, dospondency, of the labor markot ? "o commonco, I will ask, Why ars so many of our manufacturing ostablishmonts to-day closed, or workiug but a small portion of the usual time? Why aroso many artisans (as fine a8 tho world produces) to bs seon coustantly upon our streots in soarch of manual labor of uny sort that may offer, that will tend toal- Tovlato tho sufforing of hair fomilies P Is it bocauso the many manufacturing estab- -lishmonts have made sulliciont stoclk to supply oven & qurater of the matorial required to come ‘plote the soason’s building, and replonish the dealers’ stocks of building matorial, hardwaroe, boots and shoes, clothing, etc., ota.? ~ Alas, nol In it bocauao dmcugauns Tack that approciation of hiome products 8o essential to tho welfare nf tho employor a well ag thoemploye? I veally beliove it Is so. Is thore a ninglo manufactured articlo roquived inany dopartment of businoss in the Cn?r of Chi- engo that cannot be mauufrctured horo? 1€ you kuow of nous, business-en and thosa in uesd of such articley, why, in tho name of God, don't you put bread in thie mouths of Chicago wwork- mon by procuring manufactured articloa of Chica~ g0 manufucturors ? The balance of building matoria) in ovory line-I «mean that which will be required to finish the #onaon's, building—will au*)ply wuny an artisan’s fomily with sufiiciont provisions, fuel, and cloth- ing to carry thom through the winter, I fearfow business men know of tho present sufforing amoug mochnnics who bave beon perauaded to gomo toour oity with the expectation of continu- iu;x:)ln worlk, ueiness mon and builders, oxtend yonr hands in the way I havo suggested to the machanio, and it will be more gladly weloomod than alms, AsaisTANOE, Ou10aao, Nov, 28, 1873, ———————— CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, To the Edilor of The Chicago Tribune: Bm: 'To hoear & packing-houso man raolto the ways of putting brutes to deatl, iu not a snita- blo recroation for the parlor; but such acconnts are inflicted at times, Quostion—*Is it a fact that thoy put hoga into the Liot water bofora thoy arodead?" Auswor—* That is nover doue eavo whon they want to make s little fun for the han da,—to veo tho hewa flop around, aud some- times bound out.” They did uot wso to_lot Tutchora wot on juries; thoy got o hardenod,— callons, I saw ono man poke a ntoer's eyos out with & stiok so that Lo vould got up to knack it in the head, Whore {s Borgh, that theno things aronot put astopto? Reapen or Tuinuse, s Steambeat=Inspoction, ‘The raport of the Buporvising Inspeotor Gon- oral of the Btemaboat-Inspection Kervico, for tho year ouding June 0, 1573, coutring the fol- lowing siatomonts ¢ #The your 1872 proved a disustroun one tollto and proporty on water. Ono hundred aud nine- ty-two casualtivs wore m{mrlnd o8 Duving oo ourrod to steamn vewsels, by which 306 lives are known to havo boon lost, und, ag nearly ne contd Vo nacortained, rouulting in the lous of proporty to tlio mmonnt of 4,603,149, Property amount- ing to$3,033,628, und 198 livos, wore lost through «casualtios by fire alouo, showing the urgent no. ooauity of wtill groater precautious being taken to guard ugaingt that destructive elemont on stonm vesaols, “Notwitlmtanding the steam marine of the country hna sufferad sovoroly by reavon of easu- altivs, I an pleased to utatd that u vonsiant ine orouss in tho tounage theroo! hus coutinmod, Soventy-two now ateameen, witly [nn ugerogate taunage of 11,000, wore ndded tojthe sovoral in- wpoction districts durlnf the yoar 1872, *‘Amoug; theso wera the [von steamora of the new Amerlcan Bteamship Line, of Philadelphis, solf-forgotfulneas | N Thono stanmors soom to Linva givon an impotws, to commereo whick, it in hopod, may rosult {a tho ostnblishmont of othor linos, aud In tha Dullding of an fnoreasod number of stoamships in thia cowatry which shull travorse the ssas under tho Amotican flag, and thus ald in the rentoration of tho prestige of our commorco on the ocean, ' Duting the yenr onding Juno 80, thero had beon inupacted by tho various locnl Boarda 3,055 sieam vossols of ‘all clnsson, with an n;ufmgnln tounago of 1,018,434, Cortificates of licensos wara also inaued to 8,447 mastors, 1,126 mates, 8,600 pilots, and 6,420 engincors, ‘ During the calondar year 1873, 8,444 steams ors wero luspected, with an aggrogate tonnsgo of 1,018,484, nnd liconwen lanued” to 2,883 naators, 1,087 mates, 8,840 pilots, and 6,460 engincers." BRIDGING THE DETROIT RIVER, Pamphlet by Mr. James I, Joy in Adyocency of the Projoct. From the Datroit Fres Press, Nov, 25, Jamen I, Joy, Prosident of tho Michigan Cen- iral Raitroad, Las addresacd & pamphlot to the Board of Engincers sppointed to investigato and repor ¢ £a to bridging tho Detroit River, in which Lo pron ente his reasons why o bridgo should be built, Mr, Joy eays {lioro is invested in rail- ros ds whoso outletting point is Detroit, and whoso busincss crosses tho river at that point from {ho wort, £05,000,000., Tho amount now invested in tho Groat Western and to goin ia 36,000, 000, making the total 100,000,000, Mlr. Joy saya: “Tlus inveatment hs boen mado os the neceailica of the country hava roquirad, aud gt continio toincreaso astho conntry beoomus populons and oxpands, and nono.can eatimato the limit which it will reach, providod o passago of tho river by monns of o Lridga can Lo effocl- ed.” 1Ie roforn to the damage and loss to whicia tho agricultaral community 1y subjected by rea- gon of the annual stoppage of transportalion facilities, and thinks it is not difiicult to neo that 1t will not tako that of many wintors to amount to all tho valuo of all the nthpIm! afloat upon tho lnkes, ‘Cho business which will pass by rail throuph Dotroit, the pamphlot says, is not to bo. ‘measurod at all by tho pust, whep' it could nob ‘movo comotimos at all, and nover with facility, during tho wintor months, but by tho abllity of tho doublo-track road_botwoen Ghicago and Now England and New York, moviug across tho river by a bridgo, sud_thereforo nob subject to intorruption, upon which road full trains may bo moving, as they are now on the Now York Cone tral, both ways ot the samo timo, and not mors tian twonty minuten apart from cach other. It ia insiatod that the relief given by proporty reaci ing market and sales, by saving of intorout, cost of storage, aud othor chiargos occasioned by de- Iny will be of incalculablo valuo to all tho West.' Another offect of incroased transportation fue cilitios during winter, 1t is thought, would bo to prevont such an accumulation as thoro now is oach winter, and therofore to chenyou froights' Dy wator during tho summor. Mr, Joy says tho higheat estimata of tho valuo of tho shipping, on the lskes ia $50,000,000, while tlhero is 3100,000,000 of Pmpuny intorosted in tho cross- ing of Detroft Iivor at Dotroit, and probably 60,000,800 moro at Tranton, maling a total of 150,000,000, o doos not think te lousser in« torest should outwoigh the larger one. T'he queation noxt discussed i, how the cago will stand if tho iuterests of the public are slone to bo tho crilerion, In order to test this queus tion, Mr. Joy unyn : Lot ua s1pposo such a bridgo as wa think necessary ot tho foot of Second stroot, built across the river with ono, or even two, draws, by meaus of bridges restiug on a pivot pler aud baving opeulngs 160 fect in tha clear on each eldy of tho pivot; aud thore belng four such openings for tho passago of vesscls, aud the Drldge consisting of spans auy 300 foet long, otberwisa thnn at tho draws, and tho brldgs boing s low bridge, #ay from ten to twonty feot above tho water, Lot us comparo the evlls which the inliious of producers in tho Weat will suffer by reasou of uuch a bridge, snd thoso which they now suffer and must coutinue to suffer for tho want of it, + It is claimod that in thin caso there would La 1o porceptiblo inconvenionce to_any or all ves- aols goin}; up atroam, and no increasn of ax- ponse of uavigation.in that direction. Itis furthor claimod that *the only contingeney in which thore could possiblyshe any inconvenicuce would be whon up and down tugs might moot and desire to pnes the same opening at tho same tune with their vossols in tow, In “ndrlmfi{ weath- or thers might poesibly be soms culty in both paesing the same openivg, Thero would ho nono in any othor woathor.” It is held that tuga need nover meot in tho samo opening, but that there would bo ample passage xoom for all. Tho claim that there would be difoulty in golug down with n Hlne of tugs is next talten up. It i seserted that thera would bo uo dificulty whon tha draw wes opon. Itis admitted that, in going down, if a tug approached when o traiu was puufng it could not stop, and that,if so uoar that it could not coutinuo its courno, it might bo com- pu!lud to round to and start downward again. ‘his would bo only the work of & fow miwatos, It iy catimated that the draw would be closed thirty timas n day, ton minutes at o time, at regular stated poriods of tho day, 1o that only flve hours will Do consumed, lonving ninetoou bours for tuggs to paen and repass. It is not thought that thera would bo any diflicwlly or roal snbstautial incouvonienco to uny iutorest moro than there in at_Olicago, and that not ono out of fifty tugy will bo required to round to at ull or slack up on & dircet course. Itis doclarcd that *it ig safe tosay thut if thero wero twenty euch bridzos across tho river botwoon Lakes Huron and Erie the in{ury to tho agricultural community of the gront West, whoso interests aro 2)rinclpllly In- volvad, would not bo linlf or quartor s grent oa the intorruption of railwey passngo by ico for s #ingle month in any ono winter would occasion.” Mr. Joy addst Lt it ve borns in mind, also, that thars s no changs iuthe current of the Datrolf River; thora are uo floods there, The flow of the current 'is gentlo and uniform, and always alike, Thore {8 no river in the world whore from theso causes = bridge would bo so little fnterruption tonavigation, There are no eddiea or side curreuta to take a vessol out of {ts course snd drivoitagainsta plor, Evorything favors the ey and perfectly safo passago of vewsels of all kinds through a draw, This argumont has all been based upon s singla draw with iwo spans, which nro amply suticient for navigation, Dut at Detroit wa propess two—both oqually convenient for nuvigation, auil one near the Detroft sido ; while thy otuer should be {n the thraad of -tha atream, or midehanuel, 'The one near tho Do~ troit sido would, beslica admitting the free passsge of vesacls engagad ju tho long: navigation of tho lakes, adwmit the freo psinge 1ip and down of vossols mov- ing locally In thie port of Detroit, M. Joy goes on to say that durlng last winter traine wore obstructed by ico in the Detroit Rivor for sovornl months, Threo thousand cars wero acoumulnted on tho borders ef the riverand on the side tracks awaiting transportation. Mr. Joy cstimatos that this obastruction cost tho AMichigen Contral and Great Weatern Railwayas 1,000,000, The incidentnl losacs are stated to have boon {mmonso. Mr, Joy showa that in traveling_ the groat mass of tho people of tho Stato of Michigan puss and repass the Dotroit River. With vegard to the tunnel wo bave to sxy that it was ven up becnuae thore wan no reasonabls lope that ib conld ba bailt in zny tolorxLly short period of thu, if, Dy poasibility, it could beat all, The chiof-englnse: r, Chickbrough, detorwined unot to cowmence the 1ain tunnol Ll the small tunnel built for drainsge aud exploration was tiraugh, Thot waa eatimated coat $70,000, and the tiine to complote it six months, The time which kiad bosn spent upon it was near two years, snd the money —oxpended $135,000, Thers remained sbout 1,700 feet with the work, and (Lo utmost per da) been sccomplishod for mome wecks was one foot, and tho work was becoming more and wmore difle cult, Thoro was uo way by which it could bs has~ toned, Mr, Clicabroughh stated (liat it might tako six years to accomplish it, If the work could be carriod ibrough atall, probably the main tunuel could mot have been comploted slort of ten years, Mr, Chese brough's estimate, last made, for {he'cost of the small tunnel was $260,000, inetead of $70,000, the original eatimate, ‘The original esthnate for the main tunncl aa $2,000,000, but, Judgiug from the paat, it would probably cost {hireo or nioro times that, = Nowell bassd estimata can bo made of the work, sbout which thera sre 90 muny contingencies, 8 Luindred feot below the surface, uud undor wuch » river an the Datroit, In coyclosiou, Mr, Joy states that the location at the foot of Bocond sirest fs tho only suitable ono for (he brideo within the city lmits, If not built there, it would have to be at Bolla Ialo, or bolow, noar the Fort, Either®f those loca- tlons would fuvolve groat additiounl cost, and would put the rallway lines to groat inconven- louce, S e Labor of Itoforme«Sciiool Moys Lensed, From the ilton (111 Telegravh, Nov, 14, Tho Trusteas of the Illinols Stato Heforms Sohiool kiavo succeedod in loasing tho labor of from sixty to sovonty-flve of tho boys of that inatitution to Mr, 1, A, Clowment, for the torm of fivo fl"'"‘ to Lo omployed in the manufucturing of shoos, at 25 conts for sovon hours iabor day, A simlior contraot was olosed on Tuesday lagt with Mensra. Clark & Hill, for the labor of tho wame uumber of boys, on tho same torms, for tho samo length of thmo, to be ongugod in tho manutacturing of broshos, This Ly sppoar to somo to be_very enall componsation, but it must bo remomberad thut only sovon hours {8 allottod to labor, tho romaining portion of the timo bolng spont in echool and othor oxorcises, and that a large pors tlon of the boys aro under 12 yoars of sgo, au but fow over 18, Afier fllling thoso coutractiy thero will atill bo & auflicient aumbor of {omates latt to perform tho nooesaary labor on the farny, to tako oare of atock, eto, ' Thore are at this time 17 confined in the tnatitution,