Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1873, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1873, e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TENMA OV l‘)l’l!fllfll'flfl)x (PATADLE IN ADVANCE). N I 2,001 Suudn Facntt e S UGG | el Parls ot a year at tho sanio rto. ‘To provout dolss and mistaxos, bo sura and givo Fost 0 coaddresa in fa!l, fnoluding Btato and Countys Rewittarcos may bo mado either by dratt, expross, Post Cflicaorder, orin regiatored lotfors, at our risk. TENMS TO CITY AUNACRIDERS, Pally, dolirorod, Sundny excepted, 25 conte por woak, Daily, aollverod, Sunday ineluded oants por wook. Address THT TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madison aud Denrborn-ata., Gliosgo, Il To AWUSEMENTS, GLOWE TIRATRE—Desplatnesstroot, batwaen Mad. fson aud Washington, Lugagemont. of ', O King, ¥ Notre Damo.” Aftornoun and ovoning. ACADEMY OF MUSIC~IInlstod atroot, hatwwaon Mad. taon and Mouroo, aiemont of tho Liia Thompson Burloaquo Troupo, ** Moptiito," Afternoun and ovoulug. Randoluh stroat, hotweon oveh Knglish Opora-Truupo. TOOLRY'S THRATRI 1o, 8tro mian Girk' Evontug, ** Mark k and LaS Qhenon, Thn fiobe tana.” APVICKER'S_THIEATRE—Madison stroot. bolvaon Do et Eenomnt. of Latth. Fio Littlo Dalootiv. Aftornuou g ovening. MYERS' OPERA-JOUSE Mongoe stroet, botwoon 3 Siatas Butesquo of o+ Time. Works Wun- P o and " vommioalition. ~ Aftoenoon aud evouing, BUSINES! ARTERS FOR BOYS' CLOTIIING. O. O, oBIEA RV S e G- ake “aor RENOT FOUND WANTIRG IN GRATI- R A o (o norvlevs bouca thc Dlssiss oy tinvo promounvad apoo tha o of M, Wik, g fun inmrializid A Taclt by tho discovery uf ot outhiug Nyrup e onildnen teotiung, The Chicags Tribune, Baturday Morning, December 13, 1873. ‘Tho report that the House Committeo on Ca- pale and Railronds had decided to roport favora- bly on Mr. Farwell's bill for ehartaring n uow ais-line railtoad from New York to Cicago, fs now pronounced to inve been promature. Tho Massschusetts Dontal Socioty hins pnssed a resolution to tho offect that tho uso of chloroform is not advisablo in dental operations. This is unquestionably the result of tho investi- gation iuto the rocent deatls in Boston from the administration of mixed chloroform und ether. by Judge Blodgett, who excludes botel-keepors from that provision which makes it an act of bankruptey for bankers, merchents, manufac. turers, and traders to e fu default for fourteen dnys, The hotel-keepers are held to bo outside this Nt An ontering-wedgo for tho re-cstablishment of the franking privilego 18 sought by tho introdue- tion of a bill into tho House, providing for the freo transmission through the maits of public <documonts sud nowspapors, Though the bill is accompanied by certain restrictions, its adoption would propsre the way for a retura to the old practices, Thore will be general gratification at the an- nouncemont that Marshul Dazaiue's dealh-son- tonce has been commuted to banishment for twonty years. 1lo is etill to suffer degradation from bLis rauk, but is to be spared tho pevsonal humihation of all ceremony, His lifo 1s saved, ‘but it is rendered o bisuk for the future, and it would not be suiprising if be should avall him- self of tho common resort in such cases of Frenchmen tud Japuneso—sulcide. Petitions for tho repeat of the Bankrupt law Liavo been prosented from twonty-seven dilferent States, nad the Judiciry Committee of the Houso have gone 8o farus to instruct Mr. Lyman Tremain, of New Yoik, to report a bill. If Mr. Tromain shall succeed in framing a bill that will suit all the potitionors for twenty-soven diffor- ont States, bis succoss as o Congrossman will lave Leen assured, He probably understunds that ho is on dangerous ground. Meclay, the employe in {ho Criminal Clerl’s oflice, convicted of isauing o fraudulont cerlifi- cate of naturalization just boforo tho late elec- tion, has Leensentenced to Elyoe years' imprison- ment in tho Pouitentiary. Though the peculiar civoumstances of tho case entitlo the prisoner to ‘more commisoration thau tho vua of criminals, the soutence has an unquestioned value to the commuuity iu tho way of roprersing the loose construction of ofiicial responsibility, altogethor too common at eleetion-timo, The Milwaukee News calls the attention of all those Ropublican papors that made un outery ngamat the actiou of the Domoctativ caucus that nominated Fernando Wood, salary-grabvor, for Speaker, to the fact that Matt Curpouter, salary~ grabbor, bas beou olectod by the Ropublicaus President pro lem.of the Scoate, The News thinks that tho dogradation in the one case is offsot by that in the other, and that it will not o for a party that clects Carpontor to the olfice of acting Vice-Prosident to complain of a com- plimentasy vota for Fernaudo Wood. Honors aro ensy aguin 1 The bill for the extra naval appropriation of * §4,000,000 passed the flouse yestorduy, aftor an intorchiange of tho usual dally courtesios bo- tweon members. Mr, Cox, of Now Youl, sud Mr. Hawloy, of Connceticut, put on thoir war-paiut for tho oceasion; and, after all wos sald and doue, it was found that thay bad exbausted their hot blood over an unsuspectod play on wordy. The quostion, which seviously threatoned mutual aunibilation for a time, turned out to bo whether Mr. Cox bad soid coward, cow-herd, or cowered. When it was discovered that he bLad used the latter word, peace was rastored., Theroupon an extra appropriation was voted for the navy, e Tho Administration solution of the ealary guustion has been adopted, and the ropesl bill hiss boen recommitted to tho Bpecinl Committos, with instructions to report a bill fixing the aver- ngo of the pauy and allowances for membors of tho Torty-fust Congress as (ke com- pensation for mombors of the presont Gongress, It s thought that thls will mako the salarios about $0,000, aside from an allowance for aotual traveling expenses, To this will bo added a renawal of the frauking piivilege, ace cording to tho present iudioations. At this point It {a propor to inquiro whethor the peoplo pay Cougressmen £0,000 or 87,600 a year for connuming an eutlre wack In au undiguified diu- ouaylon over thelr own nalutlos. Tho Chicago produce markets woro gonerally highor yestarday, though frregular, with o large volumo of transactlons, chiolly wspeoulative, Mosn pork was active, and advanced 200 per brl, closing at ©14,00@14.05 cash, and §18.12)¢ sollor Fobruary, Lurd waa sotive, snd 200 per 100 Iba Ligher, clommg at §8.20@8.26 cash, and $46.00 sellor kebruary, Moats woro more aotive sud 1¢o Nighor, at 63ge for shoulders, 6}{@03go for short ribs, 7o for short clont, all boxed, and 814 @go for swoot plekled bams, Highwines wore quict and }4o highor, clesing at 0% per gallon. Drossed hoga wore moro active and firmor, closing at 26.60@5.80 por 100 bs, Flour wos quiot und strong, at &6.60@6.76 for good spring oxtrag. Whont wnm moro active, and weak, closing at 81,13 cnuh, and #1.16%¢ soller Januoty, Corn was netivo and wenlk, closlng ot 5230 ennh, and 533¢o sollor January, Oatw woro more active, and firmer, olosing at 3934e cash, and 893{c sellor Jauuarv. Ryo wns quict nud cnsy, closing nt 79, Burloy was dull nnd wonls, closing nt $1.40 for No, 2, and 81.00@1.0¢ for No. 8. Live hogs wore active and 100 higher, olostug firm ot $4.70@5.05, Cattlo wero quict nod easy. Tho flnancial statoment of tho Pruesian Gov- ornmont for 1872, which lng rocently boen pub- Hehed, shows o very ceonomieal administeation of tho public funds. This surplus of incomo ovor eoxpenditure for tho yonr mmounted to 29,000,000 thalors, whilo the public dobt was ro- ducad 80,000,000 thalers during the samo timo. ‘Tho French indemuity money, of whilch Prussin received the largest pari, suficlontly acoouats for tho roduction of tho public debt; but the Landsome surplus ovor exponses shows & thrifti- ness and economy which undoubtedly lioat the bottom of Prusain's powor, and which will cou- tiune to give that countiry a predominance in Europo 80 long s theso virtues sre practiced. This saving is all tho more semnrkable when the onormous military expenses of tho country are consldered. 'The dmerican Register eayr that it s stated, on roliablo authority, that tho Government bolds in gold 440,000,000 thalows, and abont 700,000,000 thalers in bills on Londou, With this plethiorn of money on liand, Prussin can woll afford to dictato in Europo. There has beew o disposition, and not without roasou, to criticiso Mr. Blaine for appointing Fornando Wood a8 tho Democratic ropresontn- tive on the Committoo on Ways rud Means. Bir. Wood ia the leador of tho Democratic salary- grabbors, and v, nsido from this, o man whoso reputation does not ontitlo bim to n position on the most important cnmmll'eu in tho Houso, The Administration press justify the appoiut- mout on the ground of parlinmoniary ussgo. Tho Albauy Evening Journal says : ** They [tho Democyats) declared bim their chioieo, and par- linmentary practice settled tho rest.” Tho only way in whicl tho Democrats cen bo said to have deelatod him their choice was by mnking him thoir caudidate for Speaker. o received 77 out of 94 Democratic votes, Two years ogo, Mr, DMorgan, of Ohio, received 103 Democratic votes for tho BSpeakorship, and Mr., Blaine did mot place Mr. Aorgan on tho Committeo on Ways and Means. If, theraforo, Mr. Wood was not a fit man for the place, thore wns & precedont, sot by Ar. Blaino himeelf, for rofusing to nppoint him, and the auswer made by thie Administration prees fails to justify tho Spealker's action, It is roported that there will bo s dofleit of $12,000,000 in tho rovenue receipts bofors the uow yoar bogins, There is probably & good deal of truthh in this, since tho Becrotary of the ‘T'roasury hias addressed a letter to the Commit- too on Ways and Mosos, calling for ad- ditional taxation as the only moans for roviving the decllning rovenues, Ho recom- mends (1) tho restoration of the duty on ten and cotfee, which would probably add $20,000,~ 000 & year ; (2) 10 cents moro & gallon on dis- tlled spirits, which ought to produce $7,000,000; (8) 4 coms mors a pound on tobacco, which would make $4,000,000; and (4) & new tax on the groes recoipts of railroads, stermboats, in- surance and telegraphcompanios. Theso itoms, the Becretnry believes, would swell the revenues £42,150,000 o year ; and, if still moro bo needed, Lo recommends the restoration of the tax on legal iustrumonts, doods, mortgogas, ote. What- ever the result muy be, it will not fail to strike tho people that the first remedy for & decline in ravenues that suggests itgolf to the official brain is tho incronso of taxes instead of gromter re- trenclinent in the expenditures, The Sccretary af the Treasurer calls for uoarly £40,000,000, while Congress haggles over the reduction of its own pay iu apito ot the unmistakable sontimont of the pubtic mind. " Wo print this morniug a roport sent to the ouso by the Seerotary of War on tho afloged dotaleations in the Buroau of Hofugoes nud Frocdmen undor tho administration of Gen, O. 0. Howard, ‘The reason he gives for commit- ting the water into the hands of Congress is that tho dolay iv wettling up tho aflnirs of tho Bureau had barred o trisl by court-martinl under the stutute of limitations, The complaints are that claimants ia this Departmont have not ro- ceived thelr bounties, arrencs of pay, ote. Thoro i8 also one ot of brregular accounts amounting to £121,000 for which no vouchers are forth- coming. Thore are other unexplained deficlon- cies aud lrregulavitios, such as vouchors lssuoed subsequently to the actual paymeut of funds, which bring the totul accountability of Goun, Howasd up to §278,503,06. ‘Tho Becratury no- tities Congross that the Department of Jus- tico has beon furnishod with cases of apparent malfengance, with o roquest that oitlior criminul »uit or civil wuif, or both, bo bronght agawst Auah of the ofiicers of tho lato Bureau as may Lo linble, Under tho stimulant of the Secretary’s report, & motion was made 1 the ITouse to in- struet tho Military Committea to provide for the trial by court-martial of tho army officors impll- cated. This was dofeated by a strict party voto, and tho matter was reforred without {nstruc- tions, Tho snlary-grabbera at Washington insist that their pay is not too much, Lecauso they will lave to pay an nverago of £1,000 each & your for postage. This suggestion 1a a fraudulent one, There are 874 members of Cougress, To aesume that thoso cach pay $1,000 a year for postugoe. is to assumo that oach of them nses 88,803 lotter-posingo stampa each sossion. What have they to pay postage ou? All letters ro- colved by them are prepaid, Al logitimato business of their constituonts bofore tho De- purtments, being on offielal matters roquiring an answor, will obtain such answer postuge-paid from the Dophrtment, Any poison in the United Btatos wanting a public documont will, of courso, roadily pay tho poatage thoreon; any potson wanting euch doouments na the Government sollt atb cost will ordor auch doou- ments from the Publio Printor, and include the postage in the account, If Mr. Averlll, of Min- nosots, who ia hoavy on the poatage item, maloa n specoh and wishes to sond It home sean advertisoment of himself for re-clostion, why should he not pay the postago on the dosument, which is purely & personsl muitor? ‘lnt mom- bors of Congross shonld Lave a large corro- gpondence with their party frionda athomo, cone corniug ofiies distribution and party caucusing, i natural, but why should tho poople be taxed ta pay the poatago on such lottors any more than on tho lotters of a morchant? ‘Tloro was 10 ro- form moro needed than that of abolishing the frauking privilego, and compelling all porsons desiring correspondence with members of Con- gress upon personal matters to pay their own posiago. Ono of tho itoms for whioh thoy went stamps is to pay the postage on gardon and flower seeds, Theso seods aro distributod froo of cost, and thore {a no person who wants them at oll who will not cheerfully poy tho postago on thom, This domand of $1,000 & yoar for postago i nu fmpudont fraud, The Stato Grange of 1llinols, which has boon in soysion at Bloomington for eoveral days, ad- Journed yosterdny, aftor adopting a sories of rogolutions which may bo construed ns a doclara- tion of princlples, They oxpress tho boliof that tho educational influenco of tho Grange s ity moat valuablo feature by inculeating iu tho minds of members tho rights and dutlen of citizonship, Thoy bLnve o cordial sym- pathy with tho TFurmors’ Associstion of tho Stato so far as tho differcuces iu organi- zntion and purposs admits, which presumably menns that the Grangors, s mombors of tho Faymers' Assoclation, and as citizons, will make o political Hight for thelr rights, but not ns Grangers, Tho resolution concerning bouking and curroncy domnnds, in n genoral way, an oqual distribution, and condemus tho concentrae tion of mouoy for speculative purposes, The salary-gisb is condemned, and tho action ot tho lllinols 1louso of Represontatives con- corning it is approved. Tho Legislature is ro~ quested not to meddle with the Tomporance law, The Grangors claim it 08 a compliment that the farmors should have boon accused of having precipitated the financinl panic; construing it to menn that thoy have exposed tho frauds of rail- ronds and other {inanclal enterprives. The right of Congroas to regulato intor-State commorco is afirmed, and Congress is called upon to oxorclso that right, Regarding trausporta- tion fuoilitics,the Grange holds that tho Goneral Government should opon all the natural wator- chavuels at its own oxponse, but that railroads should bo built with privato eapital undor ro- strictive charters; and a Governmont froight railroad is recommended only as o last resort, after all other moans Linve boen exhizcustod. Tho Dartmouth Collego decision is directly attacked by the declaration that it s mn inhorent right of the peoplo which canmot bo alionatod to regulato chartored mouopolics. ‘The prosont Crvil Service of tho conntry s con- demned in stroug language, as dangorons to the integrity and perpetuity of republican iustitu- tions,-—a school of political corruption and a conetant temptation to dishonesty,—and a moro adequato remedy than any yet devised is de~ manded, THE SALARY-GRAB IN CONGRESS. Thorn is an ovident purpose on the part of the members of Congress who took and dosire to Loop tho $5,000 buck-pay voted thomselvos at tho lnst sossion, to langh down the proposition to ropeal tho act. dr. Negtey, of Pittaburgh, lends in the effort to ridioule the papular indig- nation, and styles the proposition to repeal the Grab law low demagogery, A gentloman named Craasland, who lives somewhere in Kentucky, lins also mado himself conspicuous a8 a buXoon on that subject. A Paducah paper racently ex- pressed tho ovinion that Crossland ought not to Lo asked to give back tho money, because ho had served hia country in the Confedorato army four yonrs without any pay, and this littlo itom of §5,000 extra salary would in part sottlo tho un- requited sorvice. Thomob of Democrats nnd Republicans in the Iouse who have pocketed this stolen monay, and who rofuse to puy it bacl, lough consumodly at evory word that Negloey or Crosslaud utters, And so the low comedy moos on. Everyman who spoaks for the repos] of tho Grab law is to be laughed down and pronounced o demagogue. ‘Tho trouble1s that the Repub- lican party finds itsolf in & quandary. It took advantage of the close of the gession, and aftor the Presidontial cloction, to incroane tho salaries of pearly every executive, judicinl, and legis- Iative ofticer connected with the Governmont at Washington, In order to avold responsibility, it bargained for the votes of & large portion of tho Democratic members, especinlly thosa who linve beon recognized for yoara 88 willing to soll out anything for pay. With tho 8id of theso, tho Republican party voted 26,000 oxtra o oach member of the last Congress, and as much moro to all tho mombers of tho new Congross; it doubled the salary of the President, nnd increased that of tho Vico-Prosident and Cabinet officers, meking the incroase bogln on DMarch 4, 1873. Each momber of tho prosont Congross has alroady boon paid 95,625 tu advance. 'Tho universal popular pro- tost agninst this proceeding has takon such form that tho party must do somothing, but exactly what it cannot well determine, The President has uccoptod the double pay voted to him, and the parly has not the courage to voto that he sholl roturn it. Unfortunately, th question of this ropeal hias to be decided by tho mon who have participatod in tho increasod pay. Thosoe who did not got the 5,000 oxtra back-pay have druwn the $5,025 forward-pay, sud a lurgo num- Lor have drawn both, To thess men this voto implios the necessity of returning either ono or the other, aud to muny it implics the roturn of both, ‘Tho sverago patriotism that prevatls in Longress does not seem equal to tho task. In tho midst of this controversy thero rises in the houso the ghost of Alexaudor Stephous, "Thirty years ago, bo was & member of the Whig party, aud was o chumpion of that organization that favored a Patoroal Governmont, in which tho ruling class should take patrlarchal care of tho rulod. That party was eminontly arlstocrat fo. It wantod o magnificont Uovernment, in which Congross was to be composed of grent mon ; and the Government was to bo o princoly ono, snd all supported by taxes upon the people who wore so fortunate as to be governed so landeomely, In timo, the oxigenclos of slavory forcod M, Stephons and Mr, Toombs into the Domocratio party, and thonco in time into the Confodorate Governmount; and tho first thno thot bis volco was heard aftor his long absence was in tolling Congrean that in years gone by he bind advooated the most sublime ealarles con- colvable, and that he was now in favor of the snie thing. Avound this relic of the past there gatherod overy man who had pockoted back-and- forward-pay and did uot wish to surrendor it. They looked wpou tho Coufedorate Vico-Prosl- dent as an advocato from some othor world como to defond and justify a great and soandal- oun apoliation of tho L'reasury, Congross will have to meot this quoation on the direct fsgue of the reponl of that act und tho surronder of the mouey ; nor cautho * party " avold the jssue that this repoal must fnclude the double pay of the Proaldent, Tho Proaldent Las intimatod thnt ho would havovotood Lho inorense of hLiu salary had ho been ablo to do so without votolng an appropriation bill. Iiis friends in Congrasa cannob now refuse to include hiy enso in tho 1oponl of all tho Incrensed sulatles, Tho quostion In not likely to bo sottled very early in tho session, ‘Thoro will bo all mannerof ovasiony and oxpodients to encepo dolng what tho peoplo domand shall bo done. It is, howavor, immatorinl what Congross may or may not do. Tho people have the remedy in their own hands, and they proposo to apply it vigorously ; thoy will show to thowo who have taken and lept the back-poy of the last sonefon, and to thoso who keop tho forward-pay of this session, that thoy can punish such aots at tho polls. Buffoonery may trlumph in Congross, biat it will avail nothing bofora nn outraged and insultod peoplo. T'ho salary busl- nosa will bo sottlod at tho ballol-box in 1874, s —— Y PERTEET'S CONFESSION AND RESPITE. ‘Tho Intolligenco wihich renchied this clty yes- torduy, that tho Governor hiad grantod o wook's respito to Perteot, the wifo-murdoror, who was to have boon hanged yosterday at Joliot, created a goneral fooling of surpyise, tho more so as former dlspntchos conveyed no roason for this unoxpocted uction of the Eseoutive. Lanter nows, howovor, dikclosod that Pertcot hnd mado o confesslon to tho Governor, and asked for a woel's timo to prepare himsclf for b doom,—n roquest which the Govornor granted. Tho wrotchad man, {horeforo, s o ook longor in which to make bis penoe with the world aid his God, and it is to bo hoped that the timo will ba spont so profilubly by him that e will be in & sultable frame of mind at tho end. TIu viow of the confesslon which ho lins made, the letter written by his counsel, Judze Knowl- ton, to him, and which was published in Tns TumuNE of yostorday, is ceitainly avery romark- able documont to be wiitlon in such & solemn cuisis, Portoot, in bis dispatch to the Govornor, published elsowhare, asks tor a week’s time, be- causo he is not yot ready to dle, acknowledges that ho I o guilty simuer, und coufosses hin crime, Judgo Kuowlton snys in bis letler: Bliould you be requentod by uny one, no mattor whe, to make sy confessioun, I hope you wili bo fitm fu Tefusing to do uo, s it conld do you uo good In this lifo or world, or uuy othier, Iusist upon your funo- ceucoas you havo heretofore dous and suld, under (ho solemulty of an oatls, Iaving urged him to make no confession, Judge Kuowiton thon atiempts to ocaso sny qualms of consciotice the wretched mun may have by o theological disquisition, caleulated only to bewildor aud beclond Porteot's mind s to his futuro state. o says: After death, our soula are consclous, or thoy aro not. I not, thoelecp fa cternal, aud wo aro out of trouble, I they are, we re relieved of tho clog of tho bods, ita paina ate ot case, and we are what fs termed loppy. 1t s not posalbla that an_all-wise, poworful, ‘merciful God would ullow a disoiubodied spirit to be miserablo n oxlstence. I hiavo feon tho time when I i not think I could live onother momont, and was tlzon loss uuxlous thun I have often beon at,other tdines, In othor words, his counsel raises o doubt as to tho futuro state in the mind of Perteot, and then urges Lim to dio with what is perbaps tan- tamouut to & lie upon his lips. The suggestion appears to be that either thore is no hereaftor, and henco it makes no differenco whether Por- teot died uttering the truth or untrush, or thero is an hereafter, in which overy one is happy, and, consequently, an untruth would not affect him. Wo may allow & groat deal for Judge Kuowlton's desire, in o professional point of view, to shield Perteot a8 far as Iay in his power, and we way also allow something for his anxiety with regard to his publication of tho trial with * comments and arguments,” and also for “the deop dis- rrace and oblivion " in which Lo proposes to bury tho opinfon of Judge Craig; but, ovon making theso allowances, the advico which Lo gives is open to grave objections, ‘The impulse of human nature and the paugs of conscionce, howover, have been- stronger thau the lawyer's advice ; aud the coufession will bring to the doomed mau more of peaco sud comfort than a volume of such assurancos aud recommendations us Judgo Knowiton convoyed to him. IFf, as the lattor suys, thera may be no horeafter, the confassion cannot harm him, and it leaves bim tho record of telling the truthin lis lost hours, If thoro i sn horealter, in which momory reachies back to tho doeds done in the body, thon ho will liavo the consolation of vemombering thut ko did not die with a false~ hood in his moutl. His life Lng boen, st best, u worthless oue, and was marked by one of tho most unprovoked murders on rocord. Io bas rid bimsolf of the horrible burden, and cased his couscienco by coufossion, T'he woel which romaing to him in this world is but a short time in comparison with the ctornity to which lhe in 0 near ; but let us hope that, oven iu this short time, Lo may proparo himself to eator into it, not trustiug to his couusel's dubious specula- tions on eternity, but relying upon the mascy and forgivouess of Almighly God. THE CANADIAN CANALS, ‘The merits of the St. Lawiouco route, from the great lukes to the ports of the Atlantic, over thot of the Erio Canal, a8 & means of cheap transportation between tho East and tho West, is the subject of nu able communication from the Hon. John Young, of Moutreal, to the Now York Zimes. Mr. Youug has long been uctive in tho promotion of schemes for tho improvo- mont of the Cauadinu waterways connecting tho Weat with the sos and the Hudson River, and Lis oxperionce a8 President of tho Montreal Bourd of 1ade and momber of the Dominion Purlinmont Les boon suchk ua to qualify Lim to spoak with authority on this important question, L'he Erle and Cunedisn canuls wero bold under- takings whon originally constructed, but within wwonty-ive yours It was found necessary to double thoir eapacity, aud so extraordinary has Loon the growth of the couutry of which thoy aro tho outlots that thoy are again found in- sufiofout. Every yoar is wcrensiug tho dlspro- portion betwoon thelr capneity and the tonnago to be woved over them. 'Ihoy aro inade- quate to the proscut commorco betwoon tho lakes and thd Atlantio, and thefr inferl- ority will grow more aud more marked as tho vast interlor trade swolls its aunual vol- umo, Every interost in the Weat, and, indi- 1eotly, in the East and abroad, is suffeting from tho stagnation which results from the nsuficion- oy of theso outlets. Transportation iu Ligh boe causo it is scanty, end 1t must be made choapor by being mudo sufliciont, Thora is but one way {u whioh this can bo douo, and that is by eu-~ larging the oapaolty of the watorways betwoen tho Enat and tho Wost. Tho railroads havo thelr own work to do, and canuot rolievo the canals pormaueutly or profitably, Tho solution of this vital and prosuing problem {8 to bo found in the applcation of the familiar axiom of water trans- portation, that tha cost varles luvorsoly as the size of the vessel employed, When the Eno Caual, between Duffalo and Troy, wad onlarged, in 1847, #o e to incroaso Its capnolty from boata of 78 tous to boats of 210 tons, the cost of froight foll moro than 50 por cont. All tho exporlonce of the Canal Commissionors of Now York aud tho Cnnadian Goverument s to tho effoct that to enlargo & canpl—i. e, to admit larger vessols—is to cheapen frolght. This, thou, I8 ovidently tho mosun by which cheap txanaportation, which s withous doubt tho most urgont nood of the Woet, is to bo obtained. The watorways to tho sea-const must bo onlarged. Tho question romalus, which watorways shall bo Improved, thoso which give outlot by the St. Lawronco to Montreal sud to Now York by the Champlain Canzl, or thoso which travorso tho Stato of Now York, Con- corning this poini, My, Young quotes from s xo- port mado to him in 1859, while Chairman of the Hnrbor Commissionora of Moutreal, by n.Com- mission of throo able eivil euginoors of tho United States, constating of tho 1fon, Willimn MeAlpine, of Now Yorl, James P, Kirkwood, of Brookiyn. N. Y., and the lato Capt. John Childo, of Spring- field, Mass. Inu tholr report, nssuming that the Walland Canal had been onlarged to ndmit ves- gols of 1,000 tons, nud that the St. Lawronco and Lake Champlain wero connocted by a cannl of tho #amo capacity, they sald that this routo was undoubtodly cheapor and thorcfore bottor than that by tho Erio Cannl, Froight sent by the way of Buftalo or Oswego must bo transshipped from lako vossels to cannl boats, and to this oxpouse must bo added the oxtre cost of canal transport and lioavy tolls, Dy the St. Lawronco routo, 08 improved, no transshipmont is required, sud tho ocout of trangport is much fess. A further ad- vantage of the improved St. Lawrencoe and Ohamplain route, {he Commission report, would be the more oconomic use of vessols of the Inegest cluss, which could go fromany of the lakes directly to New York without breaking bulks, and with much loss canal navigation. T'hose conelusions, it will bo remembered, aro based on the hypothesis that tho canal-conuec- tions of the St. Lawronce routo had nll boen on- lnrged. As o mattor of fact, this is not yot the case. The Wolland and Lachino Cannly, in Canada, wero opened in 1824, with looks of 100 foot iu length by 20 and 22 foot in width, with 434 feet of wateron ihe sills, Tho Lachine and othor Bt. Lawrenco cnuala wore enlarged in 1819 with locks of 200 foot long by 45 feot wido; the Wolland Canal wan left with somo locks of only 26 feot wide, and it is this notloy system of locks which now oxists. To open & routo which shall havo tho advantnges claimed by the Commission over the Erio Caun), the Canndinu Covernmont must adapt tho Wolland Caual to propollers of 1,000 tons (this work is now going ou), and must en- large the 8t. Lowrenco canals, aud the Crughe nawuga Canal between the Bt. Lawrenco and Lake Champlain on the samo sealo. The enlnrgement of the Welland Capal alono will do much to cheapen transportation. Vos- sols of 1,000 tons will bo ablo to pass from any point on the nppor lakes through the csnal to Onwogo, whonce the distanco by caual to New Yorlk i but 209 miles against 362 from Buffalo, Undor oxisting conditions, Oswego is rapidly gaining on Buffalo a3 o lake port, notwitbotand- ing the fact that, owing to tho limited capacity of the Welland Canal, no vessels of more than 400 tous can reach its harbor, Vessels of 1,000 tons roach Buffulo, but the saving of 163 miles in the transportation over the Erie Canal mnkes it more profitable touse the smaller vossels and go through the Wolland Canal to Oswogo. Tho question whether the cauals from Buffalo to Troy and from Oswego to Troy can be adapted to vessels of 1,000 tons burden, drawing 12 feot of water, io one on which Mr. Youug ex- presses no opinion. COLLEGIATE PROGRESS. Tho National Burenu of Education has just {ssned its sunual report for 1872, which containa much interesting mattor concerning tho collogi- ato institutions of tho country swhich has never bofore been collected in ono volume, Sinco the report of 1871, specinl attention hins beon paid to this subjoct, and o list of the names of the colloges aund their locations, the number of teachers and graduntes, and the amount of pro- ductive funds nud other general atatistics have boen gathered for the firet timo, From these, it appears that thero are now 203 of theso insti- tutions in tho Unitod States. Tho total number of degrees conferrod by thom was 4,498, not in- cluding 876 houorary. Out of this number, 193 ladies roceived deproes. The question of sox uocessituted s chuugo in tho nomenclature of tho dogrees, and tho ladies’ parchments there- forco boar the titles of * Mistresses,” *' Maids,” and ‘‘Bistors of Art" and *Mistrosees of Litorature,” instoad of * Masters” and Bachelors,” The West Las shown the most liborality in opening ite colleges to both ecxes, the roport showiz.g that Illinols has 13 colloges in which women have the same educational privi- loges as men; Wiscomsn, 4 ; Town, 8; Missouri, 4; Olio, 10; and Indiana, 9; whilo the great States of New York and Peonsylvania have but 7 oach. Notwithstanding the coustont drain upon the popular pockot for benefactions to acadomics, seminaries, and gonoval charities, the colloges havo been handsomely romembored. During the year, Trinity Collego rcceived $65,- 000; the Weslayan University, $7,750; Yule Collego, ©196,284; Amherst, $82,100; Harvard Univorsity, $153,075; Mount Holyoke, &8,600; Tuft's College, §86,000; Willlawns Collego, §18,~ 635; Cormoll Univevslty, $185,000; Ingham Univoruity, $8,600; Madison University, S80,- 000; St. Lawrence University, $15,060; Union Collego, §19,500; Vussar College, £6,0003 Wolls Collego, $100,000; Collego of New Jorxoy, $386,- 000; and Rutgor's Collogo, ©78,607; in all 94,403,000, whioh hs como from the genorous ambition of tho peoplo to enlnrgo tho facilities of education, Tho Eastorn and Wostern Btates, a8 might natueally bo expeeted, consldering the gorious drawbacks to oducational progroes which the South racoived during tho War, ara far in advanco of tho Southern Btates in tho on- largemont and improvemont of collogo build- wgs, a8 well a8 In the establishmont of professorslups and tho general incronso of tacilities. OF tho naw colloges, whose eatab- lishment has bLoon determined npon or strangly urged, tho following list Is furanished: The Hamline Univowsity, Towa; Central Collego, Richmond, Ky.; Daptiat College, Enst Tennos- soo; Knoxvillo University, Tennessco; Welles- loy Colloge, Nocdham, Mnss,; Smith Collego, Northampton, Mass, ; Clark Univorsity, Goorgi; Rocky Mountain University, Colorado; Bouth- wostorn Univorsity, Olarkaville, 'L'enn.; Now Oxloans Unlversity, Lomslang; Indlana Baptist Uuniversity, aud Brown's Univorsity, Flovida, The geucral tenor of the roport ia very en-~ couragiug to tho cause of education, and showa # healthy growth in overy dopartment. NOTES AND OPINION, Tho total voto of Boston (including sanexed suburbs), at the munlotpal clection Deo, 9, wan 10,787 nnd of Chicago, at the municipal eloo~ -tiekot, ‘Tho siraight Domoeratie vote (on Comp- trollor) wan 438,027 ; and the stinight Ropublican |* . confess to boing lenorant of where it tion, Nov. 4, 47,311, ho vote of Boston for Govornor, Nov. 4, wag 16,820, —Tho ofticinl vote of New York was flually de- clarad, Dec. 8, and it would appoor that tho Lib- eraly, who voted un ecloctie ticket and clocted ovory man thoreon, wietded the halance of pow= er with tholr 9,000 voles, whilo the "Lomnporanco peoplo throw away 8,208 votes on n stialght voto (on Heorotnry of State) was 531,118, —Mombers of Congross who roquira $7,500 to Toop thoir famities in Washington, hnva fonced off tho moat cliglble portions of tho Cougras- slounl gallory for the oxclusive uso of the fami- les nforesnid. And 6 is urged that the salury must not be out down, lest Congreas becoma **imporious and aristooratio,” ~—Tho Pittsburgls Commercial ia ediled by the Chaivman of the Republican State Contral Com- mitteo lu Ponnsylvania, It would bo mgracious iu Ropublican mombors of Congress to call him & “demngogue " or hls press o *Llatant organ,” Let them read and consider, than, what the Pittsburgh Commercial says In » promivont cdi~ torinl paragraph ¢ Memorandum for Congressonnl baclepaystera: A goutle breezo trayels ten milles an hoir, o toruudo 100 miles un hour, But the veloeity of o' groit ycoplo's wuthered Sndignation toward fhoso publie dervants who betray the 1opular conddence, negloct expressed wiubes, uud et it ninght profonud morul convictions, outruns thy nwiftest Jiurrlenue that_sweeps, und fn o thousnd times moro frresiatible. Lot thoso who pro~ fuen to thiuk tho demnud for (ho repcal of (ho satary UL vl * end fn soke,” reflect well upon 1t, —The Clinton (11.) Public. iutensely loyal to Grant, oxpressos the lLupe that © Members of Congross will promptly placo themselves right Deforo the pooplo by disgorging the big steal,” Aud if they should not ? —I'ho Washington (D. C.) National Republican romarks that *Rotation in oflice is now tho ery among the new wembers of Congrosy,” and that ¢ Alroady many femule and nomo malo clorks Love beon notified that their wervives will end Dee, 81, The Republican nays: Motbers of Conggress do not seen Lo remember that these postlons—femulu elerkshipr—were thest ereated for (he bunec of the widows aud dauglitoss of fulthful ‘Goverument vmployes who had beou left ln destitu- tlon, It wus never utended that women should Lo finported into the Distriet (o oceupy thess positlons, or thnt tho number vt them ghiould be so fncrensed 18 {0 hecomo nizea in o lottery oud makoon unsecmly and unferinine soramble for thelr pussession, . , o Whilg thuro is nothing iu the dutles atti thut Jn jucompatiblo with tho Lest character in tho worid for purity, chastity, and tho fullest develop- Iont of kruo wonianood, it musl Lo coufesred tiit thie surroundings ure uot qnito those which most of us would prefer o tavo placed about our own wives nnd duughters, . . . 12 o & mntter of grave doubl whether any trio frlond of o young lady, iving at s distnee, would udvise ber Lo compele for u prize in this lottery, —It will bo of no usa for any member of Con- gross to appeal hereaftor to bis * personal rec- ord " on the salary question, unless Congross mnkes a record for itself that tho people will ac- copt. The Washington correspondont of tho Dufialo Commercial Adverliser shows how this * porsonul record " businees is being overdone, to-wit: "Thero ja n much greater rush lo prosont bills for the repeal of the fncreased salury Jaw thau there witl by to s them ufter thoy buve béon printed, Greal Lasto Hhown on the part of several mewmbers to Lecome tho fathior of » bill louking to tho repeal of that seem- ingly obmoxious messure; Lut murk me, when the wnch comes, the luw will not be disturbed, Thoss who presont bills will eertainly bavo tho credit of belug op- posed (0 the measure, uud iay muky some caplul with thulr constituents by 11da cuger demonntrution of hos= {lity, but 1t Is thin ind cheap, aud will bear no fruits in tho future. —A protenso 18 made in both Mouses of Cou- gress of u purposo to repeul the Sulary bill . . . The thing todo, tho only thing to do, nud the thing the poople domaud to be done, is s swoeping repeal of tho outiro Salary ull, und & boginung anew to adjust tho compousn- tion of all involved upon & fair aud equitable basis, Auything short of unqualified repeal will be no better than no repesl at all.—Roches- ter (N, Y.) Union. —Tho debate iu the House of Reprosentatives upon tho ill to repenl tho salary-grab law s yich, Did you over soe men go ull round a question and not touch it? If you mnover have been withess to thav feat read tho debate of Tuesdny, and you will seoit. . . . Thero is no occasion for cominution or reerimination. ‘I'he principlo involved is perfoctly appreciated Dby the people, and they cannot bo argued into any diflercut bolief then that the law wos wrong. They demand its repeul, and the only things that shoutd commuud attontion, or that should ex- cite dobate, uro tho foatures of tho Salary luw as it sinll stand sfter tho ropeul. — Cleveland Lerald. ~—'I'ho people demand a ropeal, and the condi- tion of tho Tronsury domands it; thou ropoal it und quit talking sbout it.—Moomington (ZIL) Pantagraph. —Now then, we want to e the Republican members do their duty in Congress, and provide snfogunids_ngaiust o repstition of saliry and other scandais, Tho eyes of the uation aro di- reeted towards their publio servants.—ZDureau County (Ill.) Republicen, ~—Tulleng” will pot suflce—too many peoplo hunger for breed, to allow windy hurungues from 7,500 Congrossmon,—Danville (111.) News. —Wo hiopo theo expressions by Congressmon of contempt for ** popular clunor” will be re- mewmbered by the “ populur " voters, when these sorvants of the people wgzuin ask their suilrages. —ddrian (Mich.) Press. —1\Wo cull upon our readers to wateh the action of Congress on tlus subyeet. The 1ueh of bills providing for & repenl léuds 1o the suspicion that nothing 18 intended to ba dono, It iy & Ropubli- can menenre, aud thas party must now chow its buud, ‘Lhe salury of Grans mnst also bo pruncd £600 o week to ciunlizo incomer. No oarthly reason exiuted for i1ts fuerease. 1t wa simply o pu.tof the omgmul trade. Wo veuture tho Jropheoy thak the act will ot bo repealed, and that the magjority huve no such purpose.—St Paul (Minn.) Pioncer, i —'Llus verual demonstration amounts to noth- ing moro than & buildiug of buclk stairs by which {oyot out of the uncomfortudly conspicuous coudition that Congress too eagerly climbed nto, And whntever the Demoeratic mewmbers way bave to say, thoy cannot faithtully rupro- sout their pu unless thoy virtuslly ropout thoso expreasions of omphalic condemuation with which every ocrutic nssembluge, save tho cancus at Wi nglon alone, hus greoted ono of the moae flugrant experimonts of slmsmo- lessnes in modorn legislation,.—Boston Post. ~I'io corruptionists kuow that ilie peoplo are resolved upon retiving them, und tho last op- portunity troyare everlikely toheve to pet their hands into the publio pursa muzt bo - weoved to the utmost extent. **Now or never," {8 tho watchword.—Charleston (1ll.) Courier. —=The Democrats in Congiess nve for back- pay. 'ho Ropullicans in Congross jndorso rud promote tho Credit-Mobilier jubbers. Buth these partics aro rolion 1o thy coro.—Juncas ) Jemoeral. tis dovotivn to * party " by men of worth and stending—voting who iicket without a ques- tion us to tho fituess of the mun—has given bold- uesy to the unreruputous londers, nud hiny ns- sured them beforehiand of the support ot thciv parly, no matter what they did, aud has euabled thout to ive through wany an sct which would linve conrigned them to wfamy or oblivion but for the strougth of party ties, Which bound bot- for men to suntain them for tho pmty's suke uiad tha 1t 18 thut honest men in the Ropubl party bocome morally responsible for tho iu- famons uctw of udventurors, who, by trickety, tho frop use ©f money, and other dishonorable practices, have gaincd positions which cunblo them to onrich thomnalves nb tho oxpeuso of the pooplo,—Kewanca (1IL.) Independent, —I1 thero is any othor Goverumiout on onrth that does 60 mueh as this for tho rich, and, to do it, o burdens nll the rest of the Pnuph-. wo 4. Henco we, in bohalf ot thae people, hold up to their con- tomplation day by day this unjust Govornment discrimination ayaiust thew, und wo do it to axeita thoe poopla to bacows Votter informed of thoir griovancen—ot tho causo of their pocuniary distross, wnd of the menns to have thena griev- auces removed und rodrossod.—Dubugu Tele- grapl. —If thoro is iu Congross a single man af olthor party who renlly desiven to secire u unbatantinl rotorin und bring about & roduction of expeunos to the people, loe bim insugurato nivasures to stopthe outingeous printing swindle, By ap ox- inting Inw u hordo of impecunlous nowspapor- publishors, runmng insignsficant shoots which nobody vouds, are paid frum $500 to §1,000 each sosslon of Congress to publish the Juws prused by that body, . . . Moreover, tho reckloss printiug of ull manner of Govermment roports, many of thom rogquiring ux&)ull vo outs and draw= ings, ought to be ubollshod, 'To print thousanda of coples for no otuor purposo than for Cou gressmon to uso them iu cowrting fovor with their constituocts, is an outrage, » fraud, aud & bribery,—ftock Island (1il.) Union, —'liat thero is voed of ‘cconomy fn this vo- #pact in ovidont from tha report of the Congres- slonnl Printor. Duiing the yoar onded tho 80th ot Congresn, yoachad {ho onormous figiro of 403,197,218, oxolusive of the printing ordorod by tho oxecutivo and judiclal deartmonts, The totnl eort of this Dopartmant fur tho year was £1,011,686, an rmount which might vo cut down ono-third withont injury to_anybody, woro o Jopor nystom of distribution substitulcd for tho s of sauion siuco tho franking privilego wa nbolislied, We wonld onco more repeat the auggestion of n systom which would moet all dificuition, It is that documents bo furninbed diroct from tho oflleors of tho Iouss and Souale, or from tho Congressional Printor, to all who earo onough for them to forward tho nceoksury postago,—Hoxton Adeerl —Mt, Geraldl Massay will tecturoiuthia clty to- night, [hs discourso hos tha novel nnd inter~ ropativo tile, *Why Does Not God Kill the Dovil ' 1t wo wote compolied to anaver that conundram at a vonture, wo shoutd #ny, Legauso it {9 not oxpediont to leava tho Chicato Times without an oditor nb present.—St. Louis Globe, — PERBONALS. TUE CITY, Dr. Kittrodgo will prench this evening at the Westorn Avonue Baptlst Chureh, I'ho Mayor of Auvora was emong tho visitors at Mayor Colvin's oflico yostarday. Ald, Foloy and ffeGrath wore roportod to lave boon In consuitation yesterday in ouo of tho cditorinl yoomas in tho Z%imes bailding. Whothor the subjcct of the public printing was undor discusslon {8 nat known, Tolico Commiusioner Wright relurnod from Washington yestorday morning, whithor he had baon for tho purpose of comploting bis arruuge monts for entoring into o streot-swooping con- tract with the suthorition of that city, Ho called on Mayor Colvin early in the forenoon, and, it in undoratood, notified him that his resigustion would bo ready whenever demanded. 'The Duyor's ropty has not boon made public, but it fu certaln that Col. Wright s still o Polica Com- miusionor, Mr. R, A, Spraguo, publisher of tho Northe soestern Manufacturers’ Journal, of Detroit, has boon hove for several dugs muking avrange- ments for the transfor of “the publlhing-ohce of that papor to this city. 1o hoy taken su uf= fice it No, 51 West, Washinglon stract, and will liereaftor publish the Jowrnal st Chicago and Dotrott. _ Mr. Sumucl {arris, formerly of Washe ington, D. C., is tho Chicago business-muvnger. A, C. Botkin, who has leen connceted with tho Chicago %imes for severnl yoars, first ns city, aud uftorwurdy as manngmy, eoltor, and who in both eapecitics mao nn oxcellent record for humuell, lonves thut yupor nt tho cioso of the nionth to tuko the full chinrgo of the Milwankco Sentinel, ''hedoparture of this ablo journalist and courteous groutloman will be regrettod, not meraly by bis invwedinte associntes, but by ul the uewspaper mon of Chicugo, HOTET, ARRIVALS, Grand Pacific—tudge Stantoy Mathews, Cin~ cinnuti; Juego 1L W. Blodgett, Waukogan ; Mies Florenco Leos, Euglund 3 Francis 1. Gil- lott, U, 8. N.; L. Roseuplanter. Uermauy ; Jo E. Nichols, Boston ; J. I, Whiteley, Baltimoro, « « « « Palmer House—Jumes Yisk, Now Yor. Jolm P, Manny, Rockford; C. 8. Hulb Northileld, Miun, ; Wulier Curtis, New Yo Chagles J.' Walker, Boston ; C. i, L'rescott, Kane sas City ; TL R, Sinitl, Columbug. . .+ o . Shers man Ilouse—doha McCloskoy, Dittuburgh ; Goorgo W, BEborhurt, Madwon ; Harry Taylor, Indisnapolin; H. P, nfl{lt\y, Thiladelphia ; Jelm M. McDouald, Hioux Ciy; Qeorgo L. Joucs, Alilwaukeo 3 1L, A, Jtichurds, Providence, “I'so mombere of tho Jonrd of flealth hiavo pe- titioned tho Mayor to parmib them 10 yewove their offices to some more convenivnt locality, Thuy complain of waxt of air, lignt, sud spuce, 1N OENERAL. Henry H, Wells, Jr. (forier]; Doy resigned a8 United States in Virginia, “ITbe Ropublican ring politicians in Pennsylva- nie bave arranged that B, B, Strang ghall bo Bpeukor of tho Sevate, aud H, LI McCormick Speakoer of the Houso, Clerks are nlso dosig= uuted and gunounced. fhere is nothing now but for the Logislatura to go through thio mo- tiony. Mr. Riclinrd Somera, formerly one of the pro- prictors of the Lichmona oixe, manager of tho West Sido Sherman House, nad the repre- gentative of tho Tirst Wurd in tho Comuon Council, was the wanegivg man of the Grund Union Hotol, corner of Forty-fiest street and Park avonue, Now York, tho lesseo of which has Just failed for 2220,000. Fho creditors huvo sup- planted 3Mr, Somers. Bupervising Architeet Mullott’s **palace” in Washington is a plin old Washingtou munwion, tastetully reconstructed by M, Mullott, und hag a charming home o tmosphiere about it. It sots upon o torraco fitteon feot above tho lovel of Yeunsylvania aveuue, ob the corver of Twenty. fiftn stroet, Tho originsl owner got frightoncd at prospective taxes, and sold it 1o Mr. Mullott for about half its valuo, The present owner cue Jovs liis bargain, and & fine view of the Potomee, Artington, and Geoigozown leighls, —_—— CITY AND COUNTY OFFICES, of Michigan), istrict Auornoy Tho County Clerk is engaged in drawing from tlio poll-books list of persons to serve as Grand and Potit jurors in tho various cowrts. ? Pho booke containing thoe State, county, and town tax-lists for 1873 avo nearly complelod, aud will bo hauded over 1o {110 Collectors Mondsy. Siuce avsuming tho dutles of Mayor, Mr. Cole vin bes pardoucd eight persvns out of the House of Correction, ‘Lhey wero all offendors for tho first time, and had beon tined in small amounts, City-Attommey Jamicson clamors for a new offico. Mo calln hix presont ono o don, and bo- liovos ho will o unable to give oxproesion to an intelligent opinin ¥o loug 28 he romnine in it, Owing to_the bad conditiun of the ronds lond- ing to tho Houso of Correction, the Mayor and an Aldermanic doputation will not visit that in- wtithtion to-day, us proviously ageeed. 1€ udry day should come next wees, thoy will gu, Tt is not nn easy matter to discover whethe: Supesintondone Washburn Lina resigned o not ‘o Muyor replies in riddles whouever spolen ko ou tho subject, Luc it s bolioved, nevertholess thot he hiw the vesignation in hiy possession 1fis object iu lieoping it wecrot is understood by no oue but himselt, Mr. Washburn weut tc Joliot yestordny morning, aud Sorgt. Saw Bl lind charge of the Dapurtmont., ome of the photograph-luttory peoplo callet on the ilayor yosterday aud endeavored to shiow that their businoss was legitimate, and not i variance with the oidinances of the city, 8d elnimed. Mr. Colvin bud a (alk with his law ofticers on the subject, but no dolinite conclusion was reached, Phé lottery men were nceordingly ont away with an admonition to kop under covor nntil the law could bo thoroughly ox= uwmined. e following 14 2 list of the names of the porsons whum the Connty Court 1veoguizes 8 tho logul Town Conutables i Chicago ;. Sonth, Towon—Vailip Koellor, Maurico Crean, P. G, Folay, Jeso 1. Glewson, Jonn 11, Moorg; Tlomy Lost, D, J. Couelly, Willinm I, Domp- oy, #nd Juhin Tuniion, e IWest Town--daihow Fleming, Patrick Mur- phy, d. D. Seaulsn, Williaw O'Brien, Daniol U'Brien, 5. E. Rockwell, David Welsh, Jr., Joun 8, Bhoomaior, John Lunghlin, 1lonry Bohe, John O, Kiyne, Thoodore Worth, Juhy Cusey, 'Red= moud Blioridan, Jumes Stanton, and Josoph Kinney. “Norlls Town—Jotin 'Thorn, Thoman MedMahon, Leo Bagnes, N. Diies, Lewin Darleln, lLouit Mautes, Charlos Lindgren, aud Patnck Keegan, EVAN.TOM. Somo time ago, tho Villago Trustees of Evans. ton passed u cosolution suthorizing tho Cow- mitteo ou Water-Works, Trustees Qilbort, Powers, and Gugo, to closo o contract for tho works, undor cortuin restrictions, with those biddors with whom It soomed most advisablo to muke tho contract, Since that timo, this Qome mitteo Linve hud the subjoet unon their minds, and under considerstion, but thoy bavo re- lisved theumalves of this' burdou by wignng 8 gontruct with the proprictors of ~tho 1olly Works, who have sgroed to tnke the job, snd have every thlu&: In working ovder by June. Thiy news will o gladly raceived by o majority of tho Evanslonians, for the firos that havers. cently occurred thero have convinced thom of thoe J}muum ncconnity whicl oxists for the spoody cumpletion of thia groat luiprovamont. ——— AMUSEMENTS. - THE OPLRA, Tho opoera of * Tigolotto ™ was ropeated 1ast evening with the same oast as on tho flrat yoproe sontation, und tho socond woek of the season Beptombor over 2,600,000 pounds of priuting Fupor wero used In tho Governmont ofiice, cont~ ng moro thau £380,000, The number of pages printed under authority of Iaw, or by dircotion olosas Lo-Qay with two porformaneos—* Tho To. howian Girl ™ this afternoon, with Miss Kullnl& an Arling, and * Maritann " thia ovening, wi Mru, Yan Zandt as Marilang.