Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1873, Page 4

1 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMA OF BUNSCIIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANCE), : (812001 Sand Dttt SO0 Soaies Puriaot & yenrat tho sam rato, Tu provont delay aud mistalios, bo suro and givo Poat 0f coaddros in full, including State and Counts. Remittances may be mada olther by draft, oxproas, Post Offica oidor, o tn rogistared lotfors, at our tisks TRINMA TO UITY BUDRORIBENS, Tally, delivored, Sunday oxcoptad, 2 conte por wack, Datly, delivored, Sunday incladed, conta por wooks Add PHIE TRUBUNT GOMPANY, Cornor Madison auid Dearbornena.e Unicago, 1il. TE)-DAV 'S AMUSEMENTS, RMY OF MUSIO-1Talstod streot, bet: Mad. i éllr Amorican Cousln,” QONTY'S_ THEATRE—Randoloh _steoat, oty oo e AT e Gonaea Broserieto iourecn and ovening, M'VICKER'S THEATRE~Madison stroot, hotweon Duarborn and " Stato, Kugayomont of Lottd. = 2y, or Polnt Lynde Light." ' Afioroonand evoning, md Hackus Ban Franolsod SHnsrele. = MYERS' OPERA-HOUSE Monroo stroot, between Deatborn ang Stato. Atlington, Ootton, aud’ Komble's Minstrola, " Blmple Slmon." " Minstroliy and comicall- o8, B HALSTED STREET OPERA-HOUSE-Oorner, Hal- atod snd ilarrlson atroote. Alacitvor's ** Now Iiibor- nicon,” DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM OF ANATOMY-Olark stroot, botweo: and Monroo. BUSINESS NOTICES. TERS FOR BOYS' CLOTHING. 0. O, UHELAIR Hfi:‘:nu 188 Clark-st, Lol e Kok T AY DEPRND DPON IT. TRYING A:d(ae;l;flcnlfid):\md 18 tho toothing poriod, but rellef fa af- fordrd by tho thmoly usa of BMrs, Winslow's Scothing: Hyrup. DR, SONRNOK'S STANDARD REMEDIRS,—Tho giandant somcdics for oll disetasy of the lungs’ aro Sehencles bulmonle Syrup, Schonak'a Sca Waad fonlo, and Schonck's Maadrako Pills, and, i taken boforo tho lungs aro destroyed, a spoody ¢aro s offocted. T thoso threo modicines Dr. J, M, Sohouck, of Phila: dolphls, owes bis unrivalod success in tho treatment of pulinonary disonsos, “Yho Puiinonie Syrup tipons tno morbld mattor In tho Lungs; natuo tirows1 of by an easy oryestoration, fory whivn iho pulegia OF mattor 18 Tipo, a ‘slight cough wi fhrow it ol 1o Datient has sost andl ho lings begin o oal ‘To euable tho Palmonlo Syrup to do this, Sclienok’s Mandrake Pliis and Schouck’s Hoa Wond Toridg miust. be #rooly usod to oloanzo tho stomach and Ifvor, Schonck's Mandrako Pills act on te liver, romovinz all obstruo- tlong, rolax tho gall biadder, tho bilo starts frooly, and tuo liver is sonn rolloved. Sclionols Sos Woed! Tanto 1n a gontlo stimulant and alternativo; tho alkall of tho s0a woud, of which it 13 co; Dored, mixs whth tho foad and provehls suuring. 1t aista tho digestion by toning i y condltion, 80 that tho food and the Palmonio Syrap will nako good blood; tien tho lungs heal and tho patlont will surely got woll, if care is takon to provent fresh ol ‘Al mhowish toconeolt Dr. Sehonak, oither persnally orby letter, can o ro, 1roo of Ghiarge, at. bis principal sffice, cornor Sixth and Arch streota, Philadolphla, dora Sherough axirmiiation ih Lis sesplrinoier, Dr. ook charios 8b. ‘Schonck's meuicizies aro sold by all druggiata through- ot Tho country. The Chicage Tribune, Wednosday Morning, December 24, 1873, Prosidont Graut is raported as saying that he Lins no intention of withdrawing the nomination of Attorney-Genoral Williame as Chief-Justice of the United States. — The tranefer steamor counneoting Cairo snd the Kentuclky shore made its first trip yesterday. This s the last link in tho Missiesippt Contral Rallrond, which makes a through all-rail routo .rom Chicago to Now Orleans, —————— The doath of Prof., Agassiz has indircctly brought another calamity upon the famity. Mra. Aloxender Agassiz, his daughter-in-law, has met her death from oxhaustion produced by faithful watching at the death-bed of the elder Agassiz. — . The charges agamst Mr. Hinckley, Recolver of tho Gilman, Clinton & Springfield Railroad, havo not been brought forward. 1t is now stated that thoy conaist efmply of a dinsatistaction of & couplo of engincers at the wages they receive, R — The Spiritualists of thia city, or a poriion of them, hnve fonud that the treatment of Victorin Woodhull by the Aun Arbos students was * un- congtitutional,” and they have, therefors, re- solved to sustain frecdom of speoch at all haz- wrds, Mr. Alexander H. Stopbens dofined his posi- lon on the Civil Rights’ question in an'inter- view hold yesterdny with some represontative rolored mon, He says that he is in favor of giv- ing the negrocs all their rights under the Con- atitution, but insists that it is thoe province of tho several States, and not of the General Gov- ornmont, to enforco theso righta, Cuban advicos report that the projudice against Awericans iu tho larger cities of theialand is so grent a8 to make it dangerous for Amorican reai- 1onts to go out unprotocted. This is probably sxaggerated, but Cuba is » dangorons country at the best in its present condition, and tho Ameri- n rosidents thore probably have a tull share of tho jeopardy incident to s residence ou the island. ——e Ar. Witthaus, & paesenger on the Ville du Havyre, hos published a second lotter, in which ho throws the entire blame for tho collision on tho ofticer in charge of the dock at tho time. Ho also says thot the ofticers and crew acted in tho most cowardly mannor after the disaster, and that overy roseued passengoer was taken out of the water, whiloe many of tho officers and orew did not even got their feot wet. Tho evi- denco of tho crew of the Looh Earn confirms tho latter statoment. ———— The statement is now made that Booretary Richardson has 80 far receded from his position in favor of incrensed taxation as to approve of the proposed abolition of the sinking fund for ouo yorr at lerat. If the Departmonts carofully zoviso thoir sevoral estimates, and cut down their expenuitures in conformity with the times (and the Secretary of War has announced his detormination to do this), Congress will find, upon roasscmbling, that oven tho appearance of 2 necessity for additional taxation hes vanished. By that time, too, Secretary Richardson will probably have realizod the full force of public ventiment against his proposition, and will be propared to abandon it sltogether. Thoro woe a mesting yesterday of the stock- holders in the Inter-Stato Expoeition, at which It was proposed to' submit the resolutions in favor of onlarging the building, increasing the enpital stock, and dovotlng residuary oarnings, aftor poying for the stock and 12 por cent there- on, to the founding of public institutlons of & quasi educationnl oharacter, But it was found that » sufiiciont smount of stock was not rdre- sentod to proceod with the consideration of tho miatter. Bevoral gentlomen demauded a full statement of the roceipte aud exponditurcs of the Company thus far; but, as the ofiicera were uot teady with the report, thoy were instructed 0 muke such a showing before tho mext mouth- 1y meetlng, Tho Chicago produce mavkets wero irrogular yestordny, provisions belng active and weals, whilo graln was in loss demand, but stoady. lesa pork sold to s liboral extent, but was 30a lower, closing at 814,00 cash, und $14.45 weller February, Lard was dull and 160 por 100 lbs lower, closing at £8,16@8.20 oash, aud §8.009 8.025¢ soller Fobranry. Montn wore quiot and & shado onalor, at 6o for shoulders, 636@73¢o for short ribs, 74@754o for short cloar, all boxai, mxl ot 82¢@03¢o for aweot plekled hams, igh- wines woro quiot nud unchnnged, at 0 per gollon, Dressed hogs wore in good domand and steady, olosing at $6.8566.90 por 100 Iba, Flour was quict and stoady, at $6.00@6.76 for good spring oxtras, Whoat was sctivo aud a shado onslor, closing at 1.139¢ cash, aud $1.1434 soll- or January, Corn was qulet and o ehade onslar, closiug at 633{c cash, amd 5840 eoller Jnnuary, Oats wero dull and 970 lower, closing at 380 cash, and 883¢c soller January, Ityo was moro nctive and 1o highor, at 70@770. Barloy was quiot and firm, at 1,40 for No. 2, and 81,08 for No. 8. On Baturday ovoning last thore was in store in this city 1,049,678 L whoat, 1,026,226 bu corn, 812, 084 bu oats, 03,747 bu ryo, and 428,704 bu barley. Livo hogs woro activo at 34.60@5,26. Tho enttlo trado was quiet, with sales at 32.00@6.70. Sheep wero firmor. ‘Thero i8 a gonoral impression that the roport printed in & moming paper that bankruptoy procoodings will be commonced within a day or two against David A, Gagois of the character of tho scneation concorniug Mr, Gage's flight. It is announced this morning that tho eity *will probubly take tho property which Mr. Gage offers to turn ovor, and at tho aamo time bring sult ngainat his bondsmon to_cover any defleit hat may remain after this property shall have been converted into monoy. It is only strange that tho city officlals have hesitated so long in signifying their willingness to tako all they enn got in indemnification for the Treasury defleit, and suo ofterwards for what they cannot get witbout resort to law, Bomo woeks ago, a grand schome was set on foot in Colorado for urigating thoe waste placesof that Zion by means of an immense Congressional Iand-grant. Butitappears that the Colorado farm- ers’ clubs don't take kindlyzoit; and, by way of putting the thing in its truo light, one of thom suggests in tho columns of tho Grooloy Tribune o plan of irrigation to which tho farm- ora would havo no objection. This plan proposes that, before tho Government {s asked to con~ tributo one-balf of its arid lands, tho railrond companios and land-spoculators shall bo required to contributo ono-half of thoira, The Grocloy. Tribuneobjects to the schome on anothor ground, —that it proposes to turn the Platto Rivor out of its courso, and send It along ths Kansas Pa- cific Railway, The Zyibune thinks that tho mouth of tho river is in the right place now, and that an offort ¢2 causo it to empty at Kansas City would bo attended with obataclos. Judge Hagor, of San Francisco, haos finally boon electod to tho short term in the United States Bennto from California. He takes Mr. Casgorly's unospired term, which runs till March 4,1876. Itisnot till then that' Mr. Booth en- tors upon the full term to which Lo was rocent- ly olccted. Judge Hager, who has boen a Dem- ocrat 1 the past, is now claimed sa an Anti- Monopoly man. He is s Jersoyman by birth, and i described as s man of fair sbility and good culture. Ho now oconpies the place of ono of tho throe District Judges of the Btate Courts, and formerly served sevorsl torms im tho Stato Sonato. During his last term Hager voted to sustainHaight's veto of tho Boutbern Pa- cifiebill, and is thoroughly opposed to the subsidy business, according to his present status, though it 1s hinted that his record has not always bean 80 clear on this subject, As converts are apt to be among the most zealous, it is only fair to ex- pect that Judge Hager will propare the way for Gov. Booth's good work, charga against tho Depariments at Washington, of using their contingont funds for tho porsonal benoflt of the chiofs, The statement is made that the Govoromont is sustaining a huge lvory stablo for the accommodation of tho Cabwnet officors and thelr families. The Post-Offico Department, Dopartment of Justice, tho Troas- ury, War and other Departments, are said to have soveral carriages and horses each, paid for out of Government funds and sustainod at Govern- ment cost. The practico is snid’ to have com- menced about two years ago, whon the Postmae- tor-Goneral purchased s horse and wagon to carry the mails, then a trotter for the rapid de- livery of notices, and soon after found himself riding to and from his office in a Govern- ment equipuge. Facilis ascensus, etc, It did not take long for the other Dopartments to follow so enticing an example, and in this way the stablo has grown to enor- mous proportions. Tho Cabinet officers, ac- cordiug to this statoment, have partly antici- pated President, Grant's recommendation that the Government shall provide permanent estab- lishments for them. 'The Clvil-Servico Commis- aion, which is shortly to convene agein to tinker at the rules, will find hottor matorial'to work on in this mattor. \ We print this morning the reeults of the con- forence betweon the Workingmon's Committeo and tho Bpacial Committee of the Common Coun- ol Tho discuseion was of & genoral and rather loose charactor, and no definite plan of opora- tions was determined upon. Mayor Colvin, who was present, suggestod that a grocery store should be establlshed, with Aldermen to run it, but his proposition failed to receive approval from any quarter, One of the Aldermen, with an unconquersable political Intinct, wanted to know whether the workingmen in this movement were with tho People'’s Party or sgainst it, The sontimont of the unemployed workingmen esems to bo in favor (1) of o moro direst distribution of relief by means of districts, with represonta- tivo workingmen in oharge of thobureaus; and (2) of beginning at once the work of clearing the debris from the old Court-House, A sub-com- mittee, consisting of throo Aldermen and three of tho Workingmon's roprosontatives, was ap- pointed to confer with thoe officers of the Relief and Aid Society to-dny, and roport tho resuits. The sentiment of tho Aldermen on the questipn of clearing away tho Court-House dedivis seemed to bedivided. A prospect of work was suggosted in the promised resumption of manufacturing eatablishments, and in taking out ice as soon ag cold weathor comos. g 'Victor Honri do Roolofort-Lucsy, botter known 28 plain Henr1 Rocbefort, whose death is reported at Nouvelle Caledonlo, was horu in Parls, Jan, 80, 1880, now nearly forty- four years sgo. He was the son of s Marquis, and himsell s Count, strange as this sounds in connoction with his lator career, His fathor was o Legitimist, but hils mother was n Republican, and the latter ovidently oxerted an influonce over his younger days which lnated throughout lifo, Ho hind a chackered careor from the vory outset, and it was with difoulty thet ho oarued a livelihood in his Dohemisn ramblings, He found Lis cloment 8t lnab in nowa- papor work, and fest sttracted ' atton- ton an n contributor to Oharivari, Iis nowspapor sucoces was so dlatiagulshed that, in 1808, be drow o salary of 060,000 yonr from the. Figaro. During his onrly nowspapor lfo, le publishod govoral books, inoluding dramas ~ and oriticlams. Ho founded tho colobsated series of wookly pamphlets known a8 La Lanterne, Juno 1, 1808, and began ab once his.bitter attacks on tho Emporor and bin houschold. Prosocution sont him to Brussels, whore La Lanterne appeared rogularly, and from thore found ita way to Parls, Mesuwlilo, Rochotort was as irritable undor critiolsm as thoso whom Lo lampoonod. He foughit four duols, one of them being with Prince. Achillo Murat, and anothor with Paul do Cassng- nac. Ho waa at once a bully and & domngogua in spito of his protended dovotion to TRopublican- ism and his Drilliant talonts, A lbor- Uno he was,. ns, a mattor of coursg, o8 aro all Parislan lons, of whom Lo was for many yoars the chiof, Mo attained sent In tho Assombly after his return from DBolgium, and thon ronewed his attacks on tho Emporor, #s also in Nl mow journal, tho Marscillaise, which ho startod about tho samo time. Ho.wna finnlly arrestod at;a public mosting and con- sigued tothe prison at Sto.-Polagie, where ho ro- maiued until tho mob carrled him away on tholr shoulders when the Ropublic was proolaimed, Ho waa given a prominont placo in tho Gov- ornment, but mado himsolf obnoxious undor o |, Ropublic ns ho had done undor the Empire, fTo joined the Commune, and there found his real affinity. Ho lLold » commanding position among the Communards, and published tholr organ, tho (Mot dOr- dre, which was vile enough even to soit tho tastea ho catored to. Ho was subsequontly arrested and brought to teial at Vorsailles, Sopt. 20, 1871, for his com- plicity in tho Communo, convicted and sontenced to ‘' meclusion™ for lifa in o fortross. Afterward, tho sontonce was changoed to banishment to the pensl colony of France, where his death i8 roportod. His life was re vlote with romantio events, which, preporly dressed, would rond like » Dumas novel. He at lonst Goservos tho crodit of heving been maiuly instrumental in undermining the Napoloonio Idon, which had taken so strong o hold upon the French poople, aud he has suffered enough for all the crimes ho committed against soctoty, THE CITY FINANCES, The Common Council ou the 30tk of Juno last passed an ordinance making appropriations for tho year ending March 31, 1874, An effort was mado by the Mayor to have theso appropriations reduced, but tho Council was * courageous,” aud 1nsisted upon fixing tho amonnt at $6,100,- 000. At the dateof this ordinanco, three montha of tho flscal year had already expired, and tho expendituro had been going on. During the six months that havo elapsed, the expenditure has been in accordanco with the appropriation then made, 80 that during nino months of the year the city s been living, g0 to speak, at tho rate of $6,100,000 o year, That is tho amount voted to be spont, and it is nearly all expended al- roady. , To raise this amount of money, with the de- ductions and losses, required a levy of 20 mills of tax on a total asscasment of $811,634,715, not including $850,000 to be raised from liconses and other miscellaneous objects. Now, the Common Council on Monday lust, six months aftor tho appropriation had been mado, fixed the rato of tax at 18 mills, which will yield #5,609,- 512, This will leavo & deficloncy of $600,000, which will go over to next year as a floating dobt, boaring intereat at 10 per cent, unleas tho Marorand tho soveral Boards cut down tholr oxponditures, Tho condition of the city finan- ces, alroady doplorablo, owes much of its con- tusion to the culpablo woalknoss and corruption of the Common Conucil. The taxes of each yeor are always anticipated. Beforo tho taxes are collscted, the appropristions Lave slready been expended. The taxes of 1871 wero short of the amount appropriated by 2,000,000, andit ‘wag only by'the use of the Cenal-Redsmption Fund thet the oity was dragged through. A largo doficit wns thrown upon 1872, The tax for 1872 was not collected until Boptomber and Octo- ber, 1673, and did not equal the appropriations and actual oxpendituros made in 1872, The result is now an aggregato dofleit in tho shape of o floating debt of moro than & million snd a quarter of dollars. No provision for this flont~ ing debt {a included in the lovy of 1878, and the city will bogin the flacsl yoar in March, 1874, with a floating debtof a million and & half of dollars, and a doficit of §600,000 iv the taxe levy for 1873, unlees the expenditures aro re- duced below the appropriations. In June, 1874, the Common Council will make the appropria- tions for the ensuing yesr; the means to pay thoso sppropriationy will bo tho proceeds of tho tax for 1873, - As thore will be an aggrogate floating debt, for which no rovenue is provided, at tho boginning of tho fiscal yoar, of nearly two millions of dotlars, the Common Council next year, in ordor to bring order out of chnos, should reduce its appropristions to tho mot rovenuo applicable aftor paying tho floating debt, or to about 3,600,000, If it;:liko its pro- decessors, appropriates from six to sevon millious, and lovies taxes for & much loss sum, then there will bo another large doflelency noxt ‘year, and in & year or two moro, instoad of being ono year behind, the city will have exponded two yours' rovenuo in advance of the annual oolloction of taxes. Al can now soo the folly of the Common Couuncil last Juue in making enormous appropri- ations in cxcess of the probable revenue to bo collooted. 'Wo aro ruuning the Government in 1873-4 upon the taxes lavied in 1872. For tho year 1874-5 wa shall have only the tax of 1878, As the Council persiats in making the outlay of the clty from six hundred thousand to a million of dollars a year greater than tho annual income from which that ontlay is to bo paid, it is only question of timo when the city will be ablo to pay its exponees at all. This business must be stopped. To meet tho probable oxponses of the year 1874-5, including the accumulated floatiug dabt, will requive a lovy of 83¢ por cont. The ouly way to obviato this will be to cut down next year's appropriations, 80 that the lovy of 1878 will cover thom as woll a8 pay tho floating dobt, It is uscloss to expect that the Common Council will do snything of the kind ; but the failuro to do go will only plunge the city more dooply into dobt and its afifairs.into greater con- fusion, We trust that tho Comptrollor and the Mayor will have the nerve to do what the emor- genoy demands, aud putan end to appropria- tiony fn oxcoua of tho ravenue from whioh thoy aro to bo pald, Tho tax-levy for 1873 is as followa: 276-100 mallls fok contingent and othar exe DOUSSILeesensniassstnneesse sosrsssneniensd B0 0,048 8-100 mill general alnking fund. 4300 mill Sinking and. echiool) 1,00-100 mills for 1} fllllun tho :ll&' - 01100 milt for Intorest on bonded 2,6-100 mills for polico exponscs. .2-100 milla fon Schoola, ., .. G 1,47-100 mills fq rmanont improvemeuls.., 1.1-100 mills fo| mllhmml\l rTopairing atreota L.41-100 milix £o¥ interost on sowvorngo debt, 1,28-100 mills for water extension: 2,24-100 milis for soworago tax. 10-100 mills for publio {{brary. Inclided i tho fractions, Thiy sum, with, sy, 400,000 from licanses, and tho monoy in tho Troasury, constitutes all the funds availablo for tho payment of tho pres- ont floating debt, the oxpenses of tho Govern! mont until March 81, and the expenditures of tho yonr 1874-5. : THE LAST OF THE VIRGINIUS MUDDLE, Tho doclsion of Attorney-Gonoral Willinma, ,|, thnt tho Virgintus was not ontitled to an Amorl- can closrance or an Amorican flag, cloars up tho Cuban muddlo, and ralieves the Government ot tho uncomtortablo elopbant which it hay had upon its hands so long, Undor tlio statutos and deolslon of the Courts, it was imposaible to ar- rivoat any othor conclusion. TRe statutes of the United Blates provido that ships built with- in the United Htatos, and bolonging wholly to s citizen or citizons thercof, or mnot built within tho United Blates, but on the 10th dsy of May, 1789, bolonging and thencoforth continuing to bolong to & citizen or, citizons thoreof, may bo rogislored as ships of tho United Btates, Mo ship, howover, is enti- tled to rogistry if owned by s citizon who usually resides ina foreign country, or ean enjoy tho rights and priviloges appertaining to Ameri~ can vossols any longer than it s oxclusively ownod and commanded by a citizen of the Unitod Statcs, In addition to theso provisions of the statutes, tho Fodoral Courts havo oatab- lishied two important facts which have a boaring upon this case: Tirat, that the residenco of tho owner deformines tho foreign or do- mostio character of o vossol, and that if it is navigated by chartorers who havo ox- clusive control of it, they haust bo regarded as tho ownors, Bocond, thet although it is not un- lawful for Amerlean citizens to bo part ownors of a forsign vessel, thie yessol does not thereby becomo entitled to American privilogos, Tho burdoen of the proof cited by Attorney- Goueral Willinms, coupled with the provisions of the law, makes out n clear caso sgainat our hasty folly, and sustaine tho position of the Spaniards in demanding the Virginius back. Thoe~ dopositions show conclusivoly that the Virginius at the timo of its regis- try was owned by Cubans, who furnished tho necessary funds for ite purchaso, and that Pattorson appeared as the nominal ownor, bo- causo forciguers could pot obtain a rogister; furthermore, that Pattorson's osth was falge, and therefore that tho registry obtaided in his name was 8 fraud upon the navigation laws of the United States, Thore is anothor link in this chmn of testimony of a moral rather than & logal character, but which novertheless is very conclusive. From the day that tho Virginius was captured to tho present, neithor while it was in Spanish or Amorivan possession, has a clalmant of the vessel put in an appearance or made any domand for it. Does any one supposo that it Mr. Pattorsou, or any other American citizon, had owned the voseol, and that it had been law; fully registored and wns eontitled to carry the American flug, ho would not have put in hie claim at onco? The fraudulont registry hav~ ing boen cstablished, of ‘courso works the for- feituro of tho vessel, and any proceedings in 3 prize court aro thereby rondered suporfluous. Xt will savo time, trouble, and.expense, therc- fore, to hand the Virginius back to Spainat once, 88 wo Lhave no business with it, and in foct may incur future exponse in holding on to property that docs not bolong to us, The additional opinion which tho Attornoy-Goneral volunteors, that, even- under these circumstances, tho Virginius was exempt from intorforence ou tho high seas by nnothor power, 18 gratuitous, becauso it is not gormane o tho case in question, and, in thus supplemont- Ing his decision, the Attoruey-Genernl travels out of the racord. Tho only question at issuo is tho registry of the \Tir[;inims..l It it is an Amaricon vessel, we had the right to demand it of BSpain, It it is not an Amorican veesel, then it is forfeit, and inter- feronce with it on the ' high seas by Spain, or any other Power, i8 nono of our business. We should have just as much right to complain of Great Dritain for capturing an African slave-trador or a Chinese coolie-junk, These facts having been established beyond any shadow of a doubt, thero are two questions which are inovitgble aud ought to ba setiled. First, who gave this vessel its clesrance from Now York and allowed it to sail une dor the American flag, and why, on two subscquent occasions, in Central and South American ports, was ite rogistry pro- nounced corroct by Consular representatives, whon by common caution and vigilance those authorities might bave dotermined its real char- scter, and not ouly havb saved this Governmont all this troublo, expense, and mortification, but Lirvo aléo saved the lives of tho unfortunate men who havo fallon viclims to Spanish eruclty? ‘Tt i8 too grave a breach of trust to bo sllowed.to pass unnoticed. It has not only involved the Governmont In great trouble and precipitated it to the vory vorge of & cousoless wat, but it has cost tho Govornment millions upon millions of useloss oxpenditure at a pecu- llarly unfortunate time, and added that much to the public indebtedness. Second, whon it is ofticially detormined that there is to be no war, and the Becrotary of the Navy has-long beon cognizant of the fact, why I ho allowed to go on tinkering vesscls, enlisting seamen, acoumulat- Ing floots at Koy West, and enlarging the publio oxpenso by millions ? Ilnve wo not Lisd cnough of this wrotchad business, in which we have only toblame our own folly and insanity, without throwing away money to gratify o whim of tho Becrotary of tho Navy and increasing tho taxas tion of the already overburdenod peoplo ? Last- 1y, iuview of the national mortification snd the drain upon the National Treasury, the Virginlus affair ought to have a vory salutary moralto the hot-heuds who demanded war so furiously and wero rondy to fight for property which never bo- louged to ug, b RATS IN THE COMMON GRANARY, There have boen tho enormous number of 500 and more bills introduced iuto the Forty-third Congroga, Almost every man hag introduced something, sud forthwith forgot all aboutit, proconded to quarrol with his colleagues on tho salary-grab, and then coucluded to tako threo waooks' hollday with his £6,000 forward-pay. To bogin with: Hero fs Mr, Iurlbut, who wanta widpwa of tho voterans of 1812, who mar- rlod agaim, to got all tho legal bonofts of those who did not., Nir, Moroy, who wante & Leves Companyin-. HE CH‘[CAGO DAILY TRIBU.NE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEI-I. 24, 1873, corporated, with ©10,000,000 capital, to bo pald outright by the Tronsury, and to guarantoo tho Company's bonds {h caso of doflciency. This bill has the morit of frankness, Mr. Wolfo starts in for a 8200,000 Post-Offica for Naw Albany, Indinne, buslnoss boing dull thore aud cornor-lots fu want of » purchinaor, Nr. Giddings wants Jlod Itish Bar, wherover thiat may bo,—gald to bo somewhere around Gal« voaton,—Improved to tho snm of &76,000. Who would not bo & Bar and havo Giddings for a friond! Mr, Jaspor Ward wants all mining claimants to fllo an applieation with the Land Roglater, and, three months thoreaftor, pay ton dollars an nero and got the property. IIow can Congross intel- ligontly act on theso dintant and technical propo- sitions ? 3t Mr., Purman wants tho modest sum of $800,000 appropristed to ropair tho dry dock at Ponsnco- In, and construct Aix marino railways, [0f course Parman is from Florida. Mo is usoful to point tho moral that thus far in the bill-fila nobody hog broaokoed a proposition to save the Tronsury anything. " And horo is Packard, of Indiane, Colfax's succossor, who has gomohow got to bo chiof of the Commitioo on Beerotgry Fish's oxpondi- tures. Paokard wants a tolograph cablestrotched from the Amorican to the Asiatic consts, one or moro stoam-voseels and many souudings. If there aro to bo any soundings in brass, pr tink. lings in cymbals, appgopriate Packard | Mr, Buckner proposos that, whereas Eugono Loitensdorfer, in 1846, did, single-handed and alone, make tho formidable Pucblo Indinns keop tho penco, go into their mole-hills and pull up tho laddors, thoroby proventing s ruinous war, foarful snerifico, and much combustion, bo it re- solved, accordingly, said Buckner, that woap- proprinto the sum of $100,000 to [ugono Loitons- dorfor. How much, then, shall we give the Pucblos for keeping the peace ? And wo have Comingo, of Missouri, with a Railroad bill very pimplo and mystorious in phrascology, forbidding any law of Stato or Territory to fmpodo or delay the great Kansas City & Momphis Company, becauso, says Co- mingo, in effect, it is poramount, vital, and lovely. Ho proposce, boforo the rond ia bullt; to hiavo it daclared = military and “post road, so that no Btate, wo prosume, can correct it. * Mr. Orth, now tho'atalwart head of the Com- mitteo on Foreign Affairs, wants Nicliolas ‘Whiteball's patont for a cultivator extended fourteen years moro,—in all, thirty-four yosra, Nointerest is so inordinately protected as in~ vontions, It might bo well for tho clauso pro- viding for the oxtonsion of patonts to bo wholly ropealed. John B. Olarke wants $500,000 approprinted to the improvement of the Missouri River. Ho is rich enough to pay it himself, Mr. Stanard wants o private soldier paid 88a month for nine yoars, tho soldier having neglest~ ed to apply for o pension until 1861, when ho discovered that Lo hed been wronged by that amount. Mr. Kondall, & breozy new member, starts in whologomely with a bill to pay $22,064 to some constituent whose ground was made into & mili- tary rescrvation two yoard ago. Can sny ground in Nevada be worth that amount ? Did tho o8; tablishmont of tho reservation save the scalp or provide s market for the claimant ? Mr, Elklns; of New México, wents o new land- district created in Now Mexico, which will i volvo a new sot of officers. Who would be Unélo BSam? He is liko tho elder Chuzzlowit with all his selfieh brood begging around him, Armstrong, of Dakota, the Territory which perv mita its Sccretary to be murderad, and thon lets the murderor out on bail, wants' to regulate jus— tica out thero, so that tho Judgu'a can accommo- date themselves to the situstion, and not go into districts whero thoy may be shot unuocessarily. Mr, Dunnell wants & man named |8avago to bo votod a quarter-section of land, under the act to oncoursgo tho growth of timber on Weatern prairies. Is Savage to bo plauted and ‘grow wild? Is ho o vogotablo or & military kernel? , * Mr. Hailoy, a sprightly Delegate, noxt appears, with a request for 980,000 to lay out a wagon- . road in Idaho, Tho smallor the population the inore ronds. McFaddon, of Washington, wants $40,000 to improve a corner lot at Port Townsond witha Custom-Hopse, Delegate McCormick wants tho right and title of tho United Statos in the Oity of Tucson to be granted to the corporation, and by them to be given to the citizons as they like. The whole population of Arizona is less than 10,000, The sizo of Tucson {s not known, Mr. Poge, of California, brings in s suspicious bill allowing individuals to toke up timber-lands In Californis and Oregon to the amount of G40 acres por individual at $2.60 8 head. 3lr. McFoddon, Dolegate, wants $12,000 to survey the interosting rivers spelled as follows ; Slagot, Suobomisl, and Choballas, Mr. Heroford wauts §8,600 for a Lodge of 0dd Tellows at Charlestown, W. Va,, who lost thoir rogalia. i McFadden, aforcsaid, wants $40,000 moro for anothor wagon-road in Washington. Elkins, of New Mexico, whom wo have seon wantivg anothor Jand district, now wants the TFort Sumnor Rosorvation vacated for the benofit of cortain six-monthe’ squatters., Ben Butler wante Massuchusetts reimbursed for tho sea-const dofenses thrown up inthe Es- sox District during the Olvil War, Alr, Joa Ghaffoe files a bill for $20,000 to pay tho Logislature of Colorado compensation and mileago. : Armstrong,” of Dakota, aforosaid, wants §0,000 to repair & bridgo over the Bl Bloux River, . Den Butler bringa in a bill prolibiting the Unitod Statos Courts from plucking onees out of tho hands of tho Btate Courta, Boardman Bmith, of Now York, wants to give the Court of Olaima jurisdiction over war dam- 2gos,—n most dangerons mepsure, Then comoa Gon. Gartleld with his §4,000,000 approprlation for thid Navy,—tho only roal busi- noss of the session. Small, of New Hampshiro, comes in on the large, to give suthority to frank mail matter to all Becrotarios, hoads of Burcaus, Cougrems- moh, Postmasters, sud o forth, Everybody horo Is itehing to have the right to dead-head poruonal proporty and self-glorification through the mails, Mr. Walls, of Florids, wans to give the United Btatos Qourt-House at 8t. Augustine to the Btate Logislature for s Normal School, My, Burchard wants to divide Illipois into throe judicial distriojs, with four terma of Court, bold respootively at Chloago, Spring- flold, Oairo, Frooport, and Pooria, i Mr, Waddoll wauts the Wilmington, N, O, Court-House to coat no moro thau $100,000, Mr, Bawyor wanta the canal botween Lake Michigan and Green sud Sturgoon Days to bo finished no sooner than 1876, with the propor guaranteo for proorastination, Mr. Page, of California, wanta pre-omptora to bo allowed to awonr boforo any officer with the srmo forco and offoct a8 bofore a Land-Heglstor and Land-Racelyer. Buch aro a numbor of bills taken At random from tho filo. It is ‘tolerably plain that tho wholo business of & modern Congross is to make oxponses {n tho intoreat of o conatituenoy, and ngsoss thom upon the CGoneral Troasury. No wondor that our annual exponses outrun our o« colpts, whon ovory pioco of gdography lias do- signa upon tho whole, POLITIOAL, RUMBLINGS. Two important political ovents have oceurred rocontly, which, whon considered togothor, as they should be, sto of grent aignificanco. ' The oloction of Gov. Booth, of Californis, to the Unitod States Sonato, and the publio withdrawal of the membors of the Docatur Convention in this Btato from all existing party organizations, aro fruit of the samo troo, They are tho result of tho Indopondont movomont in politics which may be soon ovorywhege, but which the farmors havo ospoused witlr such hoartinoss as to make it almost eure of success in the sagricultural Btatos. This now political otivity has been at work only a fow months, but has permancnily destroyed the nscandancy of old party organiza- tlon In moro than one Stato, and propared the way for its own supremacy in a majority of all tho Biatos, Tho fall eloctions brought a revelationto the Indopendent voters og woll 28 to'the old trading politicians, Tho 1attor were 8o acoustomed to their casy majori- tios, liko the rogular Ropublican majority in, Wisconsin, of 10,000 to 20,000, that thoy folt so- curo, Tho former had so long succumbed to ma- Joritiosliko tho 60,000 Republican surplus in Iows, that thoy wore almost hopoless. Thoevent aston- ishod both. Onelection day, thoRopublican party of Wisconsin wassoutterly overthrown by thonow movement that it romaing stunned to this bour, In Yows, the Logislaturo was carried by tho Farmors, who found that the formidablo 60,000, tobo conquored noedod only fo be aitacked, county by county. Had tho Afti-Monopohsts known themsolves betoro the election as they did afterward, thoy would probably hove carried the State. Thoy had no 8tato Committeo, spent no monoy in canvafsing tho State ticket, mor in printing ballots. The Farmors' ballots wore printed and distributed by cdunty associations. It ia caleulated that, through the mistakosmado in this unorgapized printing and circulation of tickots, not loas than 20,000. votos wero loat by the Farmora, Thoy would have carried tho Stato had thoy been mprshalod as their opponents wore. Tho facts of the Minnesota election are the same. Tho Farmers did not know tho secrot of thoir own strength, and allowed themsolvos to be captuted like & blind Samson. Thoy elect~ ed thoir Btato Tronsurer, and wero, within a couplo of hundred votes of electing thoir Secre- tary of Btate, Only ignorance of their own povor lost thom tho State. Tho strongth dovel- oped by the Indepondent movement in this State was not loss marked in tho last eloction. The Farmors took the field in sixty-six counties and cast a voto of 04,188, At this rato, if thoy had made & contest in all the 102 connties of Iilinois, "they would have had a clear majority, over all others, of 22,000. Hithorto, in Oalifornia, it was alivays_tho Contral Pacific Railroad that was in power, no matter whether the Republican or Domacratic party nominally carried the day. But when the present Legislature had beon elected, & new power was found to bo in posses- sion of tho State, Independont voters had re- sumed control of their own affairs 1n California, a8 thoy aro doing in Iows, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Kansas, The election of Senator Booth is, Perbaps, the greatest victory the new party hes achioved. ¢ ' The results to which wo have alluded show that the futuro is in the Farmers’ hands. If they continua where they loft off last time, they will carry Hlinois, Towa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebras- ka, Indinua, Dichigan, and Wisconsin at tho next oloction, What .has been alroady sccomplished in a few months shows that theao anticipations ,are not oxtravagant, As for the Democratic party, all it has ta do s to crawloutof thoway. The Farmera moan to form uo partnerships with the dead. Like the early Republican party, which wisoly refused allianco with either Whiga or Democrats, they have marked out & course of their own, and will fol- lowit. All thatis needed for success is faith- fulnges to themselves and to the uttorances of the Docatur Convention. THE CADAVER BUBINESS! Tho rocent arrest of threo persons in Wash- ington for body-snatching has developed some very curious revolations, which lot in s flood of light on this ghostly and ghastly business. Qub of theso body-snatohers, Goorge A, Christian—a very incongruous namo by the way—kept a diary 10 which are soma very intoresting entrios, show- ing that, notwithstanding the droadful naturo of his byginoess, ho took to it us kindly as if he bad been dealing in kid gloves or attar of roses. Ho not only bad no compunctiona of cousclence, no fears of wandering ghosts or apparitiona of headloss desd to disturb his slumbers, but he even had romantio ideas in the yawning church-yards Whilé plundering graves; could stop to enjoy the bonuties of Na- ture whilo doing up in & neat package the body of the Inte doparted; and was & sincere mourner at funorals, which be regularly attondod, for tho purposs of examining tho cadaver »“d sosing it it was suitable for his purposes. Ono of these entrles roads as followa: Bopt. 2.—Dr, — aud 1 went out prospaéting this evenlng, and succeoded In gotting (characters in cl~ phor, Wferring ovidontly ' to the body of Deau Hick- man), Ttwaas lovoly moonlight night, and every thing went off smoothly, It was oruel enough to disturb the remafus of poor Beau Hickman, who had trouble cnough in bis life, aud, forthe firat time, had found a apot whoro it was unuecessary for him to takoe thouglt of tho to-morrow, but to ingulgu at the same time in maudlin refieotion upon the Igvely moonlight was sample of pure and * cussed” impudence which mekes all' Benu Hickman's offorta w that dircction mppoar very modest. Again, wo road in the diary of thia cheerful and buoyant grave-robbor as follows : Oct, 90,~Attended & funeralat tho Congressignal Counatery this afternoon and brought tho subject in to —— Collego to-night. Called o sco AL to~isy and found ber dolng well, Having obtained an official cadaver, it was ovidently 8 memorablo occagion for Christian, and so he celobratod it by going to see M., and, although bo does not glve us any datails of the vislt, wo are'fod to infer that 1% must have been & plonsant affair, as M, was doing well, which g not surprising, a8 business was vory brisk with him, o Liad succeoded in getting a body every night for a fortanlght provious, and, as they stood him in 815 per capu, M. ought to have felt wel) over tho prossoots. *Thero were somo dark days, however, in 88 happy life of this auany~ minded body-snateher, and thorols s flno feels ing ot molanclioly In Lis allusions to thom, as wit nowa tho following: K . . Bopt, 20.—~Went out {o the Asylum this oftornoon, ‘and stayed until after dark with Dr, Schlimor, Thora wan a cadavor on hand, but we couldd not got it, Nov, ,~Dr, Schlimer and T drove out to Harmony Gomotory thin aftornoon, Eaw somo subjects in the vault und went after thom to-night, but could not got intg,the placo an it was locked, linzen wont witlus, Nov, 0—Sunday,—Dr. Schlimer wont out riding thia afternoon, hoping o #00 a funeral, but wore not so fortuuato 8a to moet ono, T waitod two hours near Ebonezer Church, but afd not find auything. Tho eruol disappointmont, a8 Oliristian waited hour after hiour und no funeral camo along to gladdon his visjon with s fiftcon-dollar prose pect, must have beon very hn'rd; and, if it wag hard for him, how much barder it must have hoon for-M.! Wolisve no racord that she waa doing well on theso cloudy days. This romsntic grave-plunderer mot only dise closes to us Lis own opotatious, meditations, and foolings, but somo léiters found In his posses slon rovenl the dotails of thg business in & coms morclal sonse, liko tho following: AN Anzon, Mich,, Dec, 4, 1873, Dr. 8. E, French, No. 303 Eaat Capitol strect, FWahe tnglon, D, C.: Dean 8m: Hoxos hava come, or rather barrels, Do not sona barraln ; thoy alays get the heads knocke ed In, and oxcito susplelon if thoy do mot, as tho sube Joctn shiako about so. The beat way to puck is in & tight box, threo feat by two, or noar that dimenalon, thie ubject having legs and‘thighs flexed, and head restiug on cheat. Hawdust packed about prevont odor and thie subject from shaking about in the boz. Twa can ba put i1 » singlo box littlo Iargor than the ono X doscribo, You may koep on Aending unttl I am done ‘work at $25 cach for good ones, Wo scll for $40 to the students, all Injocted, and I have to get miy pay for keeping the room aud all incldental oxpeusss, Thg oxpress averages sbout §7 a subjoct, 50 you mee thy price you montion could not bo afforded, ~ Your money will bo sent promptly on tho recoipt of goods, and you ‘may send mo juet a4 fast as you can between now and Jau, 1, In basto, Yours truly, * Q. E. Forarvomr, ‘This lotter from tho Aun Arbor dostor 1s cal~ culated to impress poor humanity with « very cheap idea of itsolf, Of what possible concorn is it for one to “nspire to'dignity and to plums himself upon laniug thq,nobleat work in tho croe tlon, whon ho reflccts that aftor ho has shuflod off this mortal coil ho may bo packed away th a box, doubled up like o trussed fowl, nud sout— ifheis "o good ouo"—per oxpress to Ang Arbor, . 0. D.,.a8 * goods,”,to bo retsiledout ta studonts ats handsomo profit ? Thia classification among the ataple articles of commaorco, and thia fixing of posthumdus commorcial valuos upon one by = ring of medical ghouls, is o litile worso'than Clristisn's graveyard moditations upon the bosuties of Nature, Considering tha fact that if wo didn't have the doctdrs wa shonldn’t bb 8o likely to dio, thoy ouglt at loast troat us witli some respect after wo are gone, nud not class us a8 “ goods.” Looking at the subject from a serious point of view, Bo long as thore are doctors, sud professors, and colleges to buy cadavers, why shouldn't thore be Chrige tinn to farnish them? And if the Christiang aro to bo punished for stenling thom, why slfouldn't tho doctors, and professore, xnd cols loges bo punished for buying tho stolen *fgooda"? e ———— NOTES AND OPINION: “The toxt on which the Indepandents rallied to 2 fyiumphnnt voto in the California Leginlature is thus stated in the San Francisco Alta . . They assume that there can be nomotive for adhering tothe old parties, snd tho eatsblishod pacly usages, or for voting agsinit ootk ssvo vorrupion. ~ The Alta is & reliable Administration (Grant) ‘organ, and sffects tobolievo that : ““The Ropub- lican and Democratic parties will continue to contest tho field of politica long after this Dolly Varden [Independent] movement hBs boon fore gotten,” —A Chicago spectator of Cangresaional scencs writes in o private lotter : The adjournment to-dsy has sent the members bowo in o hurry, Iam dlsgusted-will thom_totalls, 1 an u salary-grab man,, Ibeliovo the chauge wau for tho better, aud u measurd which, carried out i ita spis~ t, would have boun retrenchment in many importaut poluts, und uot 00 much for compensation, Bnt thia Bpectacle of slicor jabbering terror I bavo boen wite nessing far the puat three weoks, this hurried und dise gracetul unloading of part of ho swig, bas O lmrmed the imbecifes who are reapousible torit, . o Now they are in tho widdle of the ditch, out of reach of anyboy’s holp, 5 —The Pitteburgh Commercial (Administras tion&; ufizgnkms of tho orgunization of tho farm- ery lingis a8 o soparate political party, says that ‘¢ Similar organizations will follow in all the Westorn States.” ‘T'hogume paper romarks that tho debato in Congress on the Salury bill *has boen fatal to seversl gentlomen,” The Jommer- cialis cautious, but it tells tho truth. —The Pittsburgh Post, epeaking of Congroe= sional debates ong the grab, enys: *The more tho steal is atirred, tho foulor becomes tho atench,” —Tho Brownsville (Neb.) Democrat says of tho proposed concession of Cougross to tho pope ular clamor (86,000 aud incidontals) : This will of courso include whisky by the barrel, under the liead of * tea,” pockot-kuivos by tho grons, stationery by the cart-load, and u “ suitallo sosldenca for Benuions in thiv clty,” touso tho econotale lan~ guago of the President’s ‘messago s und the jast state of this people will be worse than tho firet, The only way to rid the country of such political ineubus s to rub out this Congress and begin anew, —Tho Now York ZTimes rises in dignified wrath to say : As wo beliove that we can Al our columns fo groator adyuntago than by publishing a wass of scurrility snd profunity, o omlt, #o-day, tue larger part of tho re- port of tlie proceodings i tho Houso of Representas tivea yestorday, . . . The discussion whieh has tsken place on tho salary Bill, thus far, hus beon thor- oughly disgraceful to a Lody of mei presumed to tcsd uverage intelligonco, The tont of yesterduy’s # d6bute ” was worlhy of & sot of rowdles of tho Fonrth Ward, We decline to deflls our columns with auy part of it, ‘The ‘‘dobate” which tho Times rofuses to print was that which came off last Thureday, botwoen cortain eminont Ropublicans in the Houso, someof whom wero not, wo presume, presont in the caucus which *‘unanimously re~ solved to ropeal tho Balary act.” The Toledo Blade (Mr. Nasby's own paper), remarking on tho sumé **debato,” says: “One of tho presuniod benofita of tho war was the abolitfon of *pluutation inaunera” in Congress, but the disgraceful wcoucs of last Thursday would indicate thut they L been replaced by brothel mauners, if not worso, “There wag tho oue reeewing quality about thio Bouthoruers, that, though frequautly bulifes and biackguards, they wers 1ot ususlly cowards, and would ght. , . '. Our Wilsous, Haled, and Ditlers soem to lack thia saving quality of personal coursga as much u8 thoy do & seuse of public decenoy. Tho Toledo Ziade also sayé of tho Cone gressional salary compromise ¢ ‘Whiat fu tha will of tho people in this vase {8 by no means doubtful, Now, if a portion or all of the mem- Lers of Cougreas Liave #u opposiuy w‘ulfiolud Propose (0 make o * Compronuss, would 1t not bo Drapor, b foro undertaking to put'the sawe luto eflect, to con. sult tho otlier parly in iasue aud uea whtt thoy think o oo The ericau peopls have not been edu cated to expect thelr will aud infervsts {0 be pltted iz Congrees against the will and interests of elther thy minority or majority of thy men employed thare 44 o0k after thoir welfure, ¥ ~—Andy Felt has boon, in timo past, a poweox that was felf in the Ropublioan purty of Iowa. Now ho eays, in his own nowspapor : ‘When fealty to party by the prows roquires sacrifice of munhood énd priuciplo, thore {4 something easgn- tinlly rotton in both pross and party, When moro parj congiderations cunt muzzlo thy press upow wstiors o siich grave publio Inpurt ue the sulary-geab, Treasury defulcations, und unblushing dofiauce of publie do gatioy by thip Teeuldent pro tom, of (Lo Banaty of thie United States, theu tho Nashua Poat wants nono, and will huye none, of that description of party foally. —The question now arises, Will the paoplo submit, or will they compel the Ropublican purty to submit? Tu the light of the recont eleotion, it will not bo difioult to answar this question, Tho poople aro determined that no party shell retain powor any looger thau it shows & proper respect for the wistios and 1L iere ests of tho poople, They have spoien in doa- uvivo tones on the act incressing walarigs, The Republican pnry Las arrayod iteelf, on thab measure, In divoot z:rpnuu on to tho poople. ‘The linos ara well dotined, and thare can be no doubt but that tho Republioan party will bave to go down in thn,noulnt.—.}efl‘vraon (Wie) Bawner. - i ~—The poople are in earncat, They mean jus what m? npy. They will have just what thoy domand; Lf not through the aation of this Coue I3