Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1873, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TH URSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1873. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERME OF SUDSCHIPTION (PAYABLY. TN ADVANCK), Rty xRt Parta ol wyearat the sawmo rato, To provent dolay and mistakes, bo muro and give Post O coaddress In full, including Stato and County. Remittauces may be made oithor by draft, oxpross, Post Ofica order, or in rogistorod lotterr, At onr risk. THAMA TO CITY AUNICIIDERE, L'sily, doliverod, Sunday oxeeptod, 35 conts por wook. Daily, avliverod, Sunday tncludod, 50 oonts per wook, Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Coruor Madison aud Dearborn. Ubloago, Il TO'DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUS! Yon sud Monras, i * Our Amorican Cousln, Talatod straot, botwean Mad. agemont of Tl A, Nothoru, Aftornoon and ovenlvg, HOOLEY'S THEATRE-Randoloh stract, botwoon Clark_and . AT rd nn‘x‘lxavaulncx.ns.“n Tho Genava Cross," “Aftornoon botwoen AVIORER'S TflfiATRE—I\IMlmn stroot, e, 2, Toarborn and * Btate, Engagonont of Lot or Polnt Lyudo Light." "Aftornoon and ovoning. QLOBR THEATRE~Deaplaluon stroot Isou and Washington, Kogagemo: nud Bavkus' Ban Franchos Minsf oveuing. “ botweon Mad. ol Birch, Wambold, Is, Aftrnoon aud MYERS' OPLRA-HOUSE: Monroo atroat, hetwaon Dearborn ang Stato. Arlington, Cotton, and' Kemblo's Minatrols, ** SimploSiumon,” Minstroley and comicall- tos, " Aftornoon and evening. HALSTED STREET OPERA-HOUSE-Gorner Hal tod and Harrison streots, ~Mncitroy's * Now Hibor- nicon.” Afiornoon and evoning. DR, KATIN'S MUSEUM OF ANATOMY~Olark stroot, botweon Madisows and Monruo. The Chicage Tibune, Thursday Morning, Docember 25, 1873. A part of the company of young Jspaneso who heve been studying at Aun Arbor have bLeen summoned home, It scems probable that tho Hpancial embarrassment of tho Mikado's Gov- ernment may rendor necossary still furthor cur- tailment of the liberal sppropristions for edu- cational purposes, Tho Govornment Dircctors of the Union Pa- cific Raflroad roport that tho Company are soll- ing lands at S4.L0 an acro, subject to the subscquant perfection of titlo thereto by the Governmen, notwithstanding tho prohibition of 8alo on account of the non-payment of interest on the subsidy bonds. If this statoment is corroct, tho purchasors buy at the risk of never roceiviug a good title, and probably under a migapprohension of the real stato of affairs. Tho Mayor, having applied to the ofticers of the Retief and Aid Bocioty for a temporary loan to thocity of $200,000 or £300,000, has been in- formed that the Relief funds cannot bo used in this way. His attontion has been dirccted to the $200,000 which the railroads paid somo years ago on aceount of tho Lake Front purchase, and which the city has herotofora rofused to accopt. On tho bagis of that purchase, $600,000 moro is duo the city. It scems likoly that tho question concerning the aceoptanco of the railrond monoy will now be revived, and that the prosent city offifals will incline to the torms of (he rail- roads, —— The Corporation Counsel yesterday com- moneed suit for the city sgatnst David A, Gage's bondsmon, laying the damages at 1,000,000, which {8 the amount of My, Gage's bond. In the moantime, it is announcoed that Mr., Gage's proposition to turn ovor his property will be ac- cepted, aod o legal doscription of tho property 18 now boing made, The property will bo placod In the hands of o Trustee, to be converted into monoy, and applied in liquidation of the dofal- cation. The suit against the bondsmen will bo pressed only with the purpose of covering any Qeflciency that may remain over and abovo what ehall bo realized from Mr. Gago's property. ‘The Grangers are maoking themselves heard from far and near, Last week they woro in ses- sion in Illinois and Iowa; this weolk, in Now England and the Southwest. Tho Grangers of Northwostern Missourl, Enstern Kansas, and Southern Nebraska wore in council in 8t. Joseph, Mo, yesterday, and adopted the platform of the Xlinois Farmera' Association, They also added two resolations, setting forth dotermined oppo- sition to special legislation, and demanding o uuiform currency, on the grounad that they wore now obliged to sell their grain on a gold basis and to buy their supplios on the basis of deproci- ated paper money, At the same time, twenty Qranges of New Hampshire came together and tormed a Btate association. ————s The testimony of all the passengers of the Ville du Havre who have spoken on tho subject has been to tho offect that the officers and crow of the stesmer, after the collision, looked mainly to their own enfety, showing au uttor disregord Tor tho welfaro of the prssongers. Oficers of the Transstlantic Company in Paxis, to which lino tho ill-fatod vosscl belongod, state fn their report that, so far as their investigstion has gone, the conduct of the ship’s company s shown to lhave been most commendable ; that they did overything in their power to save life, aud that all the officers and crew remaiued upon tho stoamor till she went down, They also lay the wuolo blame of tho collision upon the offi- ters of the Loch Eam, Wo print this moyning an elaborate descrip- tion of the Socialist movement, vanously known ondor the namos of the * Internationals,” the “ Communists,” the “ Bocialists,” ete., showing tho character, plan, and objects of the organiza- tion in genoral, and the progress it ko made in Chicago. Tho article will Lo found of spacial intorest at this time in connection with the domonatration and speechos that lave beon made within the past fow days. Though many of the purpeses theroin sot forth must appor to be exaggeratad ta the conservative rendor,—auch us tho abolition of all private ownorsbip and the veating of alt realty in the State,—tho state- ments havo beea taken from gonuine documents sirculated among the Internationals in differ- ent foreign Janguages (wo have econ none in English), and must bo aceepted as the senti- ments of a cortain class of our people, be that clngs more or less numeraus. After tho fright- ful oxpoifonces civilization hus euncountered from theso sssocistions in Franco and Spain, wo cannot shut our eyes and refuso to boliovo that their sontiments find @ counterpart in this country, The Chieago produco markets woro less activo gestorday, in the aggregate, provisions bLolug wonls, and grain highor, Meas pork wus active, and 1o por brl lowor, closing at S15.80 cash, and $14,25@14.80 wollor Fobsuary. Tard was dull, and 13}¢u por 100 1bs lower, closing at 98,00 @8.05 caab, nod B8.45@8.60 seller Fobrusry, Moats wore quiot and essler, ny 50 for shoul- dore, 03 @To for shors ribs, T3 @T73¢o for short cloar, all boxed, and at B!@0}0 for swoot plekled lLawms. Iighwines wore inactive and nominnlly ocasior, at 04}@05 por gallon, Drossod hogs wove in good démand and steady, closing nt $6.85@5.00 por 100 s, Flour was quiot and steady, ot R6.50@6.76 for good epring oxtras, Whent wns moderatoly notive, and 14@%e highor, closing et $1.143¢0 cash, aud 8L.15)¢ sollor January, Corn was quict and o higher, clostug at 6330 cash, and G3){@53360 sollor January, Oats wore quict and X@Iu bigher, closing tamoe at 880 cnsh, and 8840 soller January. Ryo was quict aud 1o highor, nb 77@78c, DBarloy was qulot and easlor, olosing at $1,89 for No. 2, aud $1.03@1.00 for good No. 8, Livo hoga woro quict and lowor, closin« at $4.60@5.00 for poor to extra. The cattlo marlet was notivo nnd stronger. Bheop wore un- changed. Tho trinl of ox-Mayor Hall in New York has resuliod in his acquittal. The iudiclmont was for willful negloot of duty as o mombor of the Board of Audit, Afr. Tromain, in summing up for the prosocution, admitted that nono of tho gtolon monoys wont inlo Mr. Hall's pockets, but domanded » conviction on the chargo ns stated. Judgo Daniols chnrzed tho jury that, It thoy found tho ovidance showad that thoe nogloct had been willful, iy was ofl that was neocssary to constituto o misdomesnor, ond that tho claim that tho Mayor's dutfos were too arduous could not bo admitted as an excuso for nogleot of this kind, Ho charged, on the other hand, that thero had beon no evidence of a conspiracy botwoeon Mayor Hall and tho mombers of tho Twoed Ring, Aftor o deliboration of sov- oral hours, the jury roturned a verdict of “ Not guilty," which was received with great applause, It has never boen generally belloved in Now York that Mr. Hall shared tho profits of the cor- supt transnctions carriod on under his adminis- tration, nor even that Lo was aware of their character and purpose. This improssion prob- obly exorcised large influence over the verdict, and nccounta for its jubllant recoption in court. Wo lonrn thot the counsel for the Republic Lifo Insurance Company applied, on Monday last, to Judge MecAllistor for an injunction to stoy the collection of taxes on tho corporate stock of snld Company. assessod to tho corpora- tlon. ‘This was tho cage in which Judgo Farwell overruled tho application for an injunction some doys since, A copy of his opinion was published in Tye TRinUNE at tho time. Tho counsel for the Company having submitted to Judge MeAl- lister o copy of tho record, with tho printed brief of the Attoyrnoy-General and their own briofy, tho Judgo made an order allowing an in- juuction, At tho same timo, counsel prosonted original billa in behalf of other compavics, and Judge McAllister allowead injunctions on them. Theso bills prosent some facts which did not oxiat in the caso of the Republic Life Insurance Company, and which ospecially bring bofore the Court the action of the Bomrd of Equalization undor its famous rule. In tho case Of tho Ju- surance Company, thoe facts wore not such as to fairly present the operation of that rule, and thiat Company could only nssail tho validity of tho law. At tho same time, snd in tho samo enses, Judge MeAllister grauted an injunction staying the collection of 80 much of the general tax as was levied by the Auditor under tho so- colled Grab-law, We understand one of the last-mentioned casea is to go to the Bupreme Ceurt during its Springfield term by agreement of partics, Chicago has had a meeting liko tho one hold in New York on the 11th and the one which took placo in Cincinnati a few dayslater. Theso threo meatings, whother gotten up by the *Interns tional ™ or not, had certainly a vory International eppearance, In New York, Germans and French harmonized with the Eunglish-speaking portion of the meotings, and Fronch and Gorman speak- ers advecated French and German political and social heresics beforo Frouch and Germsn Learers, In Obicago, the English-spoaking persons who joined tho petitionors of the 22d weroin the minority. The fraterniza- tion of immigrants of differont nationalitios in Ameries is not often observed. Gormans, Tronch, Enghsh, Scotch, Bobemians, Poles, Swedes, live for thomeelves, and lkeop their own quarlers, It over thoy unite, it is not love for onme another that brings thom togother, but opposition to some common enemy, to the atteinment of somothing which all want, but which' divided they are powerless to-obtain, Their unjon is generally prophetic of mischiof, for tho coalition of foroign nationalitios must be for o foreign, a non-American, object. It is scarcoly concoivablo that thoy should cozlesca for any other. DBut ir this fusion of conflicting clements is prophetic of ovil, tho prosence uf women on the platform, as in Now York, is no less so. Women of tho lower ranks never appearat hoated political or social meetings unless there is mischiof brow- ing. Thoy take part in such meotings only dur- ing Frouch revolutions or Paris Communes; and when thoy are pumorous and active the reign of potroloum is not very far distant, This romark applics to European politics more than to our own, and e meko it, not that wo foar a rovolution, social upheaving, or tho establish- ment of & Chicago Commuue, but because wo wonld call attention to the matorial with which wo may have to deal, The couglomoeration of nationalities is inkoep- ing with the principles aud the moasures of tho mon : * Govorument employmont the remedy forstrikes,” *We desiro a suspension of rent for throo montlie.” At tho maoting at Coopor' Tnatitute, New York, Joln Jacob Astor, Vunder- bilt, Stewart, ote., wero politely invited to sharo their wealth with tho peoplo out of work., The mon thero ngsomblod would faiu resolve them- selves into n partnership with the capitalists of Now York, whother the Intter cared for the ar- rangemont or not, aud, until euch timo u8 the to cnll on the City ‘Tronsurer for tho exponses of’ long as thoy are caly dobating whother thoy had not bottor do oo, thoy are Iaw-abiding Amorican citizons It may bo asked whother it 1s not possible to roaeon with theso pooplo, and show them tho orror of Hiole ways. It wonld scom not. Thoy aro not, for the moat part, political cconomists, and hove littls rospoot for tho dootrinos of 8mith, Ricardo, Malthus, or Mill when, in con- flict with their own. Those of thom who have avy understanding of economical principlos, liko Korl Marx, tho hond of tho Intornational, do not nocopt onr political coonomy any more than o Molismmedan acoopts Ohristianity, if, indoed, aa much, 'Tho Intornationnl has s political cconomy of {ts own, and Marx.1a its great ox- pounder,—a man who, whatever his vagaries, canncet bo acousod of ignoranco of what other mon liave written on a subject in which hois himself an adopt, For over thirty yonts ho has busiod himsolf with oconomic questions, ad {8 acknowlodged by tho leading oconomists of Europe to bo ono of the bost informed writors on tho subject. Those most dinmotrically opposod'to Lim do not ques- tlon his abliity or erudition, Only, tho other day lio gnve to tho world & now odition of Lis Das Xapital,~n oritiquo of tho roigning political economy of the schools. The work ig writton in German, but translations of it havo appoared alrondy in Russian and Fronch. Fell Marx that his views—snd his views aro nob unlike thoss of tho mon who met at Coopor In- stituto—are in conflict with tho woll-settled prin- ciples of political occonomy, and ho answers that tho principles of ourront cconomis scienco aro nithor immutablo nornecossary, and that thoy lnvonot thoir rootsin human nature, Tholawsof our political economy, o would say, are tho lawa of tho prosont “capitalist” ayatem ; but this sys- tem is no moro pormanent or natural than the foudal systom which has disappeared ; nor is tho rolation of landlord and tonant, of capitalist and Inboror, than that of lord and vassal, or mastor and slave. Tho presont economical sud soolal systom s, nccording to Lim, only o transitory historical phonomenon; eapital fs not wealth or o commodity, but only a rolation ostablished by means of wealth botween two porsons; tho capital of tho employer is not the result of sav~ ing, but tho result of keeping from the laborer part of his remuneration. The profit of capital only enhauces the valuo of commoditios, and i tnoreforo unjustifinble, Such is the political economy taught by men of real ability ltke MMarx to tho Iaboring classes, and such, too, aro the principles that are leaven- ing them in Europo—~from Biberia to the Med- itorranoan—lenvening tho ranks of the proles, tariat whose mission it is, according to Marx, to do away with the existing order of things en- tirely, and giveo mankind a now carth and a new stato of things upon 1t, The subdivision of land in this country, and the relutively largo number of persons intorest- edin the dofenso of tho rights of property, will probably shiold us from the dangers of Interna- tionalism for a cuntury‘or more to come, but meanwhile tho largo cities aro exposed to those dangors and must prepare to meet thom, MR, HOFFMAN'S REMEDY, Tho debate on Tuocaday, bolween the Mayor and Common Council and tho Committes rop- ragonting the unemployed workingmon, was not atall encouraging. The Mayor and Aldermon very candidly and trathfully ropresouted the in- ability of tho city to give omployment to any porson, This did nob seom to satisfy tho ropro- sontabives of tho Monday night procossion,— Mossrs, Meduliffo, Hoffman, and Stohl. Theso goutlomen declined at firat to lieton to sug- gostions that rolief for the dostituto should bo obtained from the Reliof and Aid Society. AMr. Hoffmau, however, modified hia opposition so far ag to proposo that that Socioty be compelled to pay over its funds to the city, and that tho money bo distributed by the Aldermen to tho men out of employment, The Mayor, too, was weak enough to express tho opinion that the Aldermen wore tho best persons to distribute the Reliof money. Itis to be hoped that, whatover plan of reliof may bo adopted, the Aldermen will not be selected ns ngonts for distribution, Their very position disquulifies thom for any such businese. They, of all ofkers, should bo oxcluded from participation 1 the distribution of the public charity. As a class, thoy are unfitted by biabit, sssocistion, and official pogition for an honost, faithful, and equitable administration of any such responsiblo duty, Somo of those Al dermen represent as many as 40,000 porsons. Of these, n small fraction, perhaps, stand in need of tomporary relief, though the number of poor poraons, and of those to whom relief would bo acceptable, may bo twonty times the number of those nctunlly suffering, These poople look upon tho Aldorman as their sorvant, and lio focls himeolf to bo suck, Howcan ho put thom at doflance, aud rofuso to furnish other poople’s monoy to those of his constituonts who may do- mand of him? And how long would the monoy ot ? The destitution and suffering is mainly con- fined to o fow districts, Compotent and trust- worthy persous rosiding in those neighborhools can be found, who will divide these districts into smaller divisions, and each porsonally visit and malke himsolf acquaiuted with oll casos of actu- ] distross, and at the samo timo constitute him- golf ap employmont agent, In this way there will be no failuro in reaching overy cnse do- mandiog rellof, nono will bo overlooked, impos- tors will bo turnod asido, aud mendicanoy as a trado will not bo cucournged. The means of ro- liof In tho handsof the Socloty will not bo wastod, and all exponditures will go to proper objecta. The publio will probably rate AMr. Hoffman na & domagoguo and a tircbrand, partioularly as ho know fall woll that the demand preseuted by bim to tho Counoll on Monday night was an im- Counel to grant it, and that it was at vaviance partuership papers aro drawn up, thoy pmpnao.;, possiblo ono ; that it was not in the power of the thomuolves and their familics. 1t is scarcely necessary to remark that the principles and demands of these men aro wild aud subvorsive of socioty iteelf. It may bo that they will soo tholr folly and troubla the with tho theory of our government and laws. To tho extont that lio was respousiblo for such & domand, ho wns guilty of deceiving tho really Lonest peoplo who adopted his counsel. While wo do not underrate the oxtont of destitution public no more, aud it may bo that they will "]’ resulting from the discharge of 8o many work- uot. Thoy bave aright to assemble, Thoy huve aright, under our laws, tosay that they will, and advocato any theory of a social systom, no matter how propostorons, In meoting and dis- cuseing whother it i lawful or not to divide Chi- cago up among the membors of tholr socloties, thoy violate no laws of tho land, and thero is, strictly spoaking, nothlug to say agninst tho diseussion so long as i i logal, Not till they attenipt to oust otbers of (hoir possossions esu the law fntorfora, Not till they enter Your dry oads store and holp their wives or duughtors to u dress, or into your grocory to supply thele pantrios, or your counting-liouse to roplonish thois pooket-books, Qo they viclate the law, 8o ing people, it should bo romembered that to o largo oxtont it is tomporary ; that, of tho many ostablishmonts which closed somo months ago, goveral have already resumed, and that in a short time sll will bo in full oporation ngain. What in noeded is roliof for the destituto until such timo ag worl i rosumed ; some fuel, olothing,and food to eunblo tho destitute to bridgo over tho thoe untll thoy again find employment. To do this boweficont work tho agency and the moana ave at haud, and that man {8 the truo friend of the poor who will seo to it that the monoy avalla- Dble 14 expended in the most judiolous sud eco- nomical manney, - Thelr worst enemy is tho one who would adopt s policy that would resal$ in squandoring it all promiscuousty in a fortnight. A fow words fn nddition aro requirod In viow of tho very lond talle indulged in by Mr. Hoff- mnu and others youtorday, aflor tho Mayor and the Council Committeo had thoir intorviow with tho Dirotors of the Roliof and Ald Bocloty, If wo aro to have violonco, it is timo for evorybody to got rendy for it. * Chicago haos hiad a groat fire and & financial panic, and has gono through both. Bho can probably deal with a mob, if it comos to that, Itistho duty of tho Mayor to take timoly procautions to supprosa oll tho disordorly acty threatoned by Mr, Holfman, and to punish tho frat ovort act with all tho force ho can com- mand, If Mr. Hoffmon's remody is bloodshed, the sooner wo all know it tho bottor, ' BUHEMES FOR NEW PUBLIC BUILDINGS, While thore isno quostion thata vory large number of workmen are at present without em- ployment, and that they and thelr famities aro onduring much privation, the Common Couneil and tho Board of County Commissioners should ho ou their guard agalnst thoso etler persons who proposo to uso this dostitution s o lover to forco the two governments {ntoa acheme of pab- lie works to which no honest msu can give his approval. ‘Thie finanola! condition of the city is woll un- doratood. It fa ot lonst £1,200,000 in nrrear on ita curront expouditures, Itis largoly in dobt to tho Walor Fund, ond nlso to what Is Lknown 88 tho Building Fund. Its first duty is to poy this floating debt and rostoro this bor- rowed money. Inavecont articlo wo noticed tho romarkable procesding of the Common Couneil in lovying a tax £ 18 mills to meot ap- propriations which requ™~ed all the rovenuo that stax of 20 mills +ould produce, without ro- ducing exponditures to corrospond. At tho end” of tho yoar thoro will bo anothor large de- ficlency, The oity tax-lovy for this yoar will call for $5,600,000 ; tho county, town, and Btate taxos to $2,000,000 moro. This does not in- clude the water tax, nor tho tnxes for spocial purposos. Tho proceeds of theso taxes will not Do availablo until noxt summer and fall, and, when collected, will have to bo applied to spo- cifio purposes which do not include the rebuild- ing of tho Court-Ilouso. The Conumon Council have hutherto voted to postpone any action in the mattor of building tho Court-Iouso, and & week ago tho County Commissionors voted to postpone the subjoct for one yesr. Theso proceedings have been emi- nently disgusting and disappointing to the large army of contractors, sub-contractors, bossos, suporintendents, and sub-superintendents, build- ing committoes, and others who are impationt for the handling of the millions of dollars in- volved in that job. “'I'he action of the County Commissioners was ospecially disagrocablo, bo- causo that Board have authority to issue bonds, and creato o debt if they can find any lenders. Thore can be no_doubt of the sincority and truth of the suffering workmon in their appeal to the city for employment ; but how far they liavo been used as tools by thoe heartless mon who desiro to force the city into large oxpendi- tures for public buildings can ouly bo conjec- tured. It is possibl® that their demonstration wag spontancous, and that it was not suggestod by others, But the Chairman of the Building Committeo of tho Common Council, who has just finished building the now Couniy Jail and Criminal Court-Houso, submitted resolutions re- questing the County Commissionors, in sub- stanco, to exorcise their power in the way of giving employment by the eroction of now pub- lic buildings, Conspicuous, algo, among tho workingmen's advocatcs—conspicuous in de- manding employment on public works—was Mr, F. A. Hoffman, Jr,, who, if we mistake not, 18 tho counscl of the successful architect whoso plan for anew Court-House has been adopted. Now, wo may bo mistaken in nssuming that there is any connection botween all theso thiugs. Certainly tho workmen wore not aware that thoy and their privations wore used for any such pur- pose.* Our object is to point' out to the Mayor and Common Council and the County Commissioners tho possiblo connoction betwen the recont demonstration and the desire to hiave the city engage in large expenditurcs. Thore i8 peculiar folly in the idea that to erect publio buildings would give immediate retief to tho thousands of porsons who aro out of em« ployment. Therois no special hardship expe- rienced by the carpontors and masons, painters, plasiorers, plumbers, glaziors, and those who alone conld flud employment in building, Among thoso out of omployment may bo mentioned tai- lors, shosmakors, sallors, bakers, basket-makers, bell-founders, blacksmiths, book-binders, cab- inet-makers, carpet-bag and trunk-makers, car- builders, carriage and wagon-makers, cigar- makers, clorks and bookkeepors, clock and watch-makers, coopors, curriors ond tanners, engravers, file and saw-makers, fur-workers, gildors, glass-makers, glove aud glue-makers, harnoss and saddlo-makors, hatters, machinists, lumbermen, millors, musical-instrument-mak- org, pianoforte-makers, pump-makers, railroad- builders, sail and awning-makers, boiler and en- gino-makers, and operators and workere, male and femalo, in linen, cotton, woolon, nud silk goods, millinery, dressmeking, snd fanecy-work of all kinds, Thoe unemployed of all theso oc- cupations constituto tho great majority of those tomporarily doprived of tha wages by which thoy have supported tholr families. In what way can these people can be benofited by lotting con- tracts to robuild the Oourt-Houso? Bewer-build- ing is & speeial art, roquiring particular akill, The men who follow that businoss expect to bo out of work at this sonson, and aro paid accord- ingly. o undortako to build sowers would af- ford no raliot to any class snve tho sewer-build- ors, who aro not in want. To let contracts for bullding the Court-House would afford no relio? oven to tho skilled Isbor that alone could bo om- ployed. Tho scheme, therotore, to have tho clty ombark in & wild onterprise of building public oftlces is wholly impracticable in tho way of nf- fording omployment to the classes who have made this speclal demand upon the eity suthori- tlos, ond their leadors must bo well awaro of tho fact., THE OHENEY OABE, ¥ TFrom presont prospects, it appoars ag it Bish- op Clhoney might pass tho remajuders of hia doys o8 o litigant, and, liko little Mies Flite, bo gathered to hig-fathers with tho suit suill pend- g, but the jurlsdiction somewhat disturboed, Alboit he has graduated from a Roeotorate to s Bishoprio, and dounod cocleaastical vestments, tho tormenting aggravations of the law follow Lim, and ovon iucrosse jn dimensions and wor- risomouness, which ho may strive in vain to wave away with his new oroslor, Likoe Banquo's ghost, thoy will not down. It fs now nearly four yoars slnco the frat aflidavit was fired off at him by the othor Bishop, and, during that time, ho has buon exposed to & morciloss shower of logal migellos, Mo has beou hunted from court to court without ceremony, Doolarations, original bills, smonded bills, supplemontal bille, demuse rors, robnttors, and murrobutiors, injunctions and onjoindors huve boen honped upon him, until tho unfortunnto dofondant waa fairly buried out of sight, ovor and over sgain; but ho wouldn't stay buried, The olastio sud recal- cltrant Roctor camo up frosh and smiling in onch instance, and shoolk oft' tho rubbish plled upon as caslly and natural aa s epaniel shakon tho wator from his hair. The Bishop thundered at him, but he dido't Jonar the thunder, snd wont on Lis way without oven oponing Lis umbrolla to protect himself from tho storm, Then tho Blshop degraded him, but ho didu't degrade worth o cont; on the othier hand, the congroga- tlon soomod to think moro of him degradod than thoy did before Lo undorwent the operation, Then tho Blshop sought to cject him from tho church property, rightly arguing that a Rector withiout o loctorn would have to put up tho simt- tora nod stop businoss ; but the Rector held on 80 tightly whuo tho Bishop tugged, that it bo- came evidont that, unloss the horns of tho aliar onmo off, hio wos bound to stsy. Thus, for four yonrs, tho Reotor has Loon led s livoly ounso. Ho cannot complain of duliness in bis pastorato, whatever may bo the condition of othor Rectors who tond their shoop in more guict pasturos, grazing by tho side of ‘poaceful wator-courses, and never tompted to jump over tho fonces jnto tho forbidden ficlds boyond. Stripping the carv ¢t all ita distracting vor- bingo and clonring away tho litter which tho in- dustrious lawyers have pilod up sbout it, wo prosume this four years' conflict has been car- ried on simply to oust Bishop Chenoy out of the clurch, avd that tho suits which have beon in- stituted against him have had no other object in view. What his oppononts havo falled to do, hio baa gono very quietly and done himgolf, Ho has voluntarily placed himself outside tho palo of tho jurisdiction of Blshop Whitehouse, or any other Bishop, and his flock bas followed him. Now, to tho ohildren of tho world It would soom a8 §f it woro timo ho should bo lot alone, 5o long 28 ho docs not poach on tho Episcopalisn man- ors. But now come the othor Bishop and his lawyers, filing an amondod supplemontal bill de- claring that he has withdrawn from tho Church ; that “ Dr, Georgo D. Cummins, on the 14th of Docembor, in the church edifico of the snid par- ish of Christ Church, was guilty of porforming Ao sacrilegious mockery of o protended conse- cration of tho enid Chiarlos Edward Chonoy, as a protended Bishop or chiof officer”—(to which chargo Bishop Cumming might well reply in 'tho languago of Mr. Tweod: What are you going to do about it?) ; and that Charles Edward Chonoy has sot up an opposilion roligion across tho way. With rogard to the latter clarge, we presume Bishop Chenoy or any other man has tho right to sot up any roligion which does not interforo with public deconcy, under tho guaran- toes of republican form of governmont. Tho original Dbill which was filed sot forth that Mr. Cheney was turned out of the Churel, and 10 como in now with another bill setting forth that ho has turnod himeclf out, and to prosa this a8 a charge against him, begine to savor of por- secution, It is tho Popo sud Bishop Roinkons, Bismarck and the Archbishop Ledochowsky, over again, ovly on tho necosgarily emall scalo in- duced by limitations of power., Bishop Cloney is no longer in tho case. There is no action agninst him ns a member of tho Episconal Church, for the roason that he hos sovered tho fow remaining thin thronds which held him to it, and bas joined the Reform- od Episcopal Church, or, in the words of the supplomental ameuded bill, hos set up & new opposition religion. The only thing which re- mains for Bishop Whitehouso to fight about is tho not very handsome stone building, corner of Michigan avenuo and Ywenty-fourth stroet, with the accompanying furniture and mortgages. Perhaps In order to sottlo tho strife it might bo well for tho congrogation to hand over tho concorn a8 o Christmas present to that person or peorsons who aro legally quulified to bo the par- ties of the sccond part on o title-deed, Any- thing for poace. It {an’t giving other litigants o fair show, and the public is getting sick of it &lso, ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE. Tho history of the construction of the St. Joseph & Donver City Railroad, which ig con-~ tainod in & roport recently mado by Mr. William Bond, tho newly-elected President, to the stock- holders, dovelops & caso of coufldenco which has rarely beon oxcelled, and cught to convey & very useful moral to those people who are alwnys eagor to invest in railrond bonds. Tho rond runs from St. Josoph, Mo., 237 miles west- ward to Hastings, Neb. It was started by five citizens of Bt. Josoph, who, after organizing tho corporation with a capital of §5,000,000, took in the Northern Kunsag, with & land-grant, valued; at from $1,000,000 to 1,260,000, and incrensed the capital to £10,000,000, Tho mext thing was to build the road. To put up $10,000,000 was too weighty an of- fort for flve mon in 8t, Josoph, but thoy tricd hard, and succceded in raising $1,400, and then looked to the. surronnding country, a8 usual, to holp them out. 8t. Joseph subscribed 8500,000, payable in city bonds Douiphan County, 3200,000; Brown County, $100,000 ; Nomaha County, $125,000 ; and Mar- shall County $100,000. In addition to the land- grant agsignod by tho Northors Kansas Road, thoy procured 126,000 sores from tho Stats of Kansns, which were sold for about $104,000, Having now some funds on haund, thoy com- menced bullding the youd, and had progrossed 80 miles when thoy found themselves out of funde and gotting into dobt. To surmount this obstacle, thoy went!§ to Now York and mado o bargain with Mossrs, Tannor & Co. to soll bonds for them, which woro socured by two mortgages, of whioh the Farmers’ Loau & Trust Company bocame Trustoe, In the prospectus issued by Tanuer & Co. the land-grant was ot down at 1,600,000 ncres, worth $¢ por aore, or $6,000,000,—in reality worth $1,250,000, With ouch an inducement ag this, which was widely sdvertised, purchasors flooked into the market, and tho bonds wero soon taken up, roalizing to the rond 84,006,000, Tho road meanwhile cost 0,250,000, 'Tho total loss in running it sinco the commoncemont has boon $169,000, and the coupons duo in Tebruary and August last, amounting to 850,000 in gold, romain unpald. Tho managors at first proposed to apply thoe hair-of-the-dog romedy, and pro- vido for the dofaults and the flosting debt by tho issue of now mortgages, but this was de- fouted by Mr. Dond and hLis assoclates, whose polioy it i to forecloso tho mortgages and reor- gonize the road in favorof the existing croditors, Tho history of this road I8 but a ropotition of the history of mauy ‘othor roads, and yot it {s s remarkablo instance of tho maunor {n which anunknown llrm ean manipulato baseless soouri- tlos for & rallrond, and bow casily conflding investors can bo gulleds Ib ought to teach a vory usaful lossons NOTES AND OPINION. ‘Whilo the fight for tho Oalitornia Benatorship waa fn progross, tho San Franclsco Alla (Doc. 18) held this langnago s Bupport of Booth s hoatility to the Topublican porty, Tinorgons ond friends hnvo dono their mon to injuro tho party, and they oxpresa thohopo thnt they will nreomrllnh ita overthrow. . . . Hooth 1ot merely o hollor ; o plota for the ‘fmmadinio aud finsl ovorihirow of tbo Republican parly, Lvery man wihio votes for fifm shares bin purnoau, ond _bocomea rosponuiblo for Lis post conduct, Dolly Vardonlsm is mora _dangarons to tho dominant parly than Demoaceacy, . , o Thoy clalm & rolation- ab'p with tho Indepondent movoments which lave serloualy wealioned tho Republican party In Towa, Wisconsin, Iilinois, Ohlo, and Kansas. 0y ihink they Lave founded n ‘permanont party, and tho only purpiose of auch an_organization is to overtlirow all other parties, They clalin farthor, that it s, or #oon will bo, national In its charactor, and that §t will carry the noxt Presidential clection, ‘Thin boing the viow of the caso by President Graut's leading nowspapor-organ on the Pacifio Blopo, wo remark that the Illinots Stale Journal, the Wisconsin State Journal, the Indinnapolis Journal, and othor of Prosidont Grani's nows- papor-organs horeabouts, appear to bo highly dolightod with Booth's clection. The Indisnap- olis papor calls it, indeed “n complato and de- clsive victory;” and ssys It placos Dooth among the rising man of tho nation,” Dut good Drothor Harlan's Washington Chrondele, noarar to headrquartors, and prosumahbly nonror to the truth, don't lot off any cnthusiasm of this sort. It only anys : It wan thought by many of tho Californiann in this city that such waa the sufmonity exfating hetweon the Btralght-out Ropublicans sud tho Indspendenta that, rather than sve Booll muccond, na o Jiak oo tho or- anizer unid leador of $hin parly, which, it in assrted, 08 enused unneceasarlly a defoction in tho Ropubli- can ranks, tho “Hirallit-outs” would volo for the nomiuco of ho Demoeratio eaucun, ~The Quiney Zerald (old * Dick " Richardaon) wants to know : Frionas aud follow-cllizens of the Republican per- auaslon, wliat lina hecomo of the 144 Republican mem- bera of Qungress who unspimons) ruulvud in caucun to ropoal the Balary-Grab law? Llava thoy atrayed or Leon atolen from Gongrons 7 —1It in o gront deal for the Dotrolt Poat (Zach Ohandler's organ) to say, oven sugar-coated with qualifying apologies : ‘Wao think it an undenfablo truth that the fact that Congroua i In sension thin winter, Just after a financll panic, {8 unavoidably an {ufury snd o Binderanco to the. spoedy recovery of the business aud industry of tho country fsom {helr proziration, The remari applios to this Congross; a salary- grab, Credit-Mobilior Congress ; n Congress that scorns tho pooplo, defies tho popular will, and puts selfish interent above the common welfare, It is suflicienily humiliating while it loats, but thn spactaclo will not soon be ropeated. —Tho back and forward salary-gral hias been handled in a manner to disgust the country, and picken tho rcnpln. . . . In tho moantimo, o bankrupt Treasury s Joft to tho -fato brought upon it by incompotoney and corruption, How long ?—Albany Argus. —The country i8_thoronghly disgusted with tho action of tho Houso on this sulary busi- ness. . . . How cun the Republican party, now, avold tlio responsibllity for this * fooling ™ \\'li(}h tho wishes of the poople ?— Cleveland Her- ald —Tho bill which bas pnssed tho House does not please us, and it is precisoly tho kind of bill wo fenred would pass. It is n compromise meas- ure, the very kind we declared wonld fuil to meet the domands of the people.~Datenport Gazelle, —If tho Presidont or any member of Congross imnfilucs that the pooplo will forget the iniquity of tho ealary-steal, thoy will find themselves grestly mistaken, How foolish it is, then, for suy set of men, in or out of Cougress, to opposs their voices nguinst such tromoudous odds.—Jol~ det (Ill.) Signal. —If Congress can't see tho steal in that light, the pooPIn who malto and unmake Congressinen can.—Terre Haute Gazetle. —The sction of the Houso of Ropresentatives at Waahington on tho salary quention bos caused moro talk and more condemnation than the original bill increasing their pay,—Des Moines Corvespondent of Dubuque Herald. —It is alrendy domonstrated that thera is no hopo of relief from the presont Congress, and, if tuoe peoplo return anothor body as corrupt, they deservo to be robbed.—Darlinglon (Wis,) Democrat. —And stiil the rbinoceros-hided salary-grab- bers don't geo sny usoin tho newspapers au people’s making so muck noiso sbout the i cronge of theiranuual thousands, while values havo boen and are depreciating, and while othors' salarios, wages, and romunerations are being lowered.—Matloon (1ll,) Journal, —Congressmen hive wasted thousands of dol- | lara of the people’s monoy discugaing the amount of anlary thoy ought to receive, and, by their Qewaling, quibbling, unmanly proceedings, have given tho best possible avidenca thateven 85,000 por yoar is moro than most of them are worth, Worgo thonallis tho fact which Senntor Chandler statey, that tho sessiou has already driveu up tho price of gold sud disarranged business.— Rock Island (1ll.) Union. ¥ —Tor all practienl purposes it would hnve been ‘Dotter if Congress had adjourned uniil tho 5th of January as soon as tho Prosident's moessago had been read, instoad of romamining in gegsion noarly threo weoks. Its time so far has beon for tho most part frit- torod awey with the accomplishment of noth- ing, aud the dlscussions which huvo taken place on finaucial subjects have only served to further muddle the idens of Congrossmon, which wore, a8 & rule, erude and confused beforohand, —Detroit Free Press. —Tho iwo _weoks' adjournment of both Tousoes, from Dec. 19 to Jan, §, isan offenso against docency so gross as to revivealt the other shortcomings of our public servants at Washiogton. It was bad enougl to waste noarly amonth inuscless and vulgar recrimination’ Lut tobronk off beforo oue ninfiln thing was done to reliove the people from the intolorable distress under which they labor, is one of those outrages that ought to bo remembered, as ought all who had a hand in it.—Philadelphia Press. —Tho Houso, undor the leadership which it has cliosen, has onco more disgraced itsalf, and that is & very sorious pioco of mischiof. For it ia wuot ta bo disguised that tho gravo dissatisfaction in tho Ropub- lican” raoks will be exasperated by a fow more such porformances as this to the pitch of deliberate and effective rovolt, A party which ermits & man lile Butler to impoae himself upon it as o londer can no more control the United States thau it can control Magsachusetts.—Port- land S;Ve.) Advertiser. ~—Shall our Congressmen liston to the song of Well streot, or must they have thelr ears waxed by tho peopla till they ato properly doaf to the yoice of monopoly ? It is for them to answer in the noxt twonty days, or stand smonablo to & thorough maziy‘l[q by the peoyln, to the oxtont of both head and ears.—Richmond (Va.) Slale Journal, —James Russoll Lowell, in his * The Courtin,” bas drawn by anticipation an excollent portrait g! the averago salary-grab Congressman of the ay & o stood a 6pell on oue foot fust, Then stood a spell on t'olher; An’ on which one ke felt tho wust He couldn't b’ told ye, nuther, —Do what you may, the principles involved in this salary business will bo among tho issues on which the country will pass judginent, Your at- tempta to whistlo thom down the wind will not aval. That part of the Republican party which aasists or countonances such v.uemwa will bo dofented, Neithor Prosidents nor Cabinats, nor proatige nor patronagoe, nor tha cent of doma- goguos cau eavo it. Tho moment it is cloar that corrupt and corrupting influonces have prooured control of tho Republican party, and cannot bo shalen off, thore will bo a now birth iu politios. The forwavdness of proparation among tho pooplo for such a contingency is much groater ”lull is commonly supposed.—Boston Adver- ser, . ~—8Significant figures: Tho administration of tho Goneral Goyermment costs $4.60 por hoad of Eopulnflou, against 1.90 per head in’ 1860, No tato Govermmont begine to cost so much por capita, extruvagant Pennsylvanis and New York only cominz up to $1,20 and 81,76 per hend. T'ho snnual cost of tho Genoral Govornmont (in~ cluding tho interost of the national dobt, omitted above) luflror cont of tho national valuation, againat one-finlf of 1 por cont {n 1840.—Spring- Jfield Republican. ——— Profosslonal Incomes of Now York Lawyors, T'roy Times’ New York Correspondence. Among thoso who ranr & hundsomo harvest out or tho recont pauio tho legal fratornity stands pro-criuent. An immense incraasa of litigetion has beou its inevitublo rosult, Evory merchant, bankor, or broker who was in troublo waa obligod to rotain s lswyor, and fn many in- stanoos mare thau ono, For {nstanco, tho Grin- nell bankruptey case, whon §t first appearcd bo- foro Judge Dlatchford, brought six well-paid lawyers into court. ‘Lho facs roquired by theso moin on Auch an ocoasjon would 1ot bo lass than 10,000, und the cost of tho entire Grinnell suit will probably equal five times that sum. This may scom liko u largo ostimato, but it is to bo romiembored thot the securitios which this houso held were $12,000,000, sud the amount at stako alwaya Laa & bearing on tha logal charges, ~Our boah lawryars value their Hmo ot from $40 to 950 ¢ 'snch a feo, .should win tha caso, } e e e e e e et et or hour, If, howaver, the ¢ se s ono whero £500,000 s nt ntako, thon, inatea4 of & moro euf), you will bo expected Lo advanco a of 600, or pe*haps #1,000. This provonta any ono from securing tho sorvicos uY tho lawyer thug rotainod. If a lawyor, ovon aftor rocely) rotatuing foo ng ho will oxpoot from $10,000 to $16,000 additional. Our gront Inwyers domand pny commensurate with thalr roputation, and henco same of them can boast a practico worth 60,000 por year, Q'Conor, provious to his rotiromont, mado annu- ally, it Is 8nid, nonrly four times that sum, In- doad, ho was probably paid $200,000 for his nor- vices in tho Jumel easo., o fn now worth moroe than 81,000,000, alt of which Lo hag mado by his own geuius and induatry., ———— CHRISTMAS ANNOUNCEMENTS, CIUROI SENVICES. Church worvices for to-day aro sunounced as follows : 8t. Jomea Church, cornor of Huron and *Cags streots, Communlon sorvico at 9:30 5. m, 3 marning sorvice, with sermon by the Rector, the Rov. Arthur Brooks, ot 10:45 o, m. Sests will bo rented immedintely after morning service, L'rinity Chapel, corver of Twonty-sixth streat and Michigan avonue, Christmas sorvico and adminlatration of tho Holy Commanion at 10:45 & m, Thore will bo a short address by the Rec- tor, the Rov. E. Bullivan, Christ Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twonty-fourth atreot. Tho eustomary Christnna servicos, with uddress by Dishop ~Cloncy, at 10:45 o, m. Cliurch of the Atonement, and Washington streets, Christmos services, commencing &t 11 8. m, Tho Rov. Fravcia Manutlald, Roctor. The Bunday-school colobra~ tion will ocour at 644 p. m, Fridny oventng, Calvary Chureli, Warron avouue,near Western avenuo. Christmas services at 10:45 a. m, The Rov. J. T, Walker, Rector, + All Baints' Church, corner of Carpenter and TFourth streots. Christmns sorvices ab 10:80 a, m, Sormon on tho * Nativity™ by the Rector, tho Itoy. Henry G Porry. In the ovening the Bunday-gchool Christmas-tree. . Church of tho Ascousion, No. 310 North Wells streot. Christmas services nt 10:30 a. m, Froo Mothodiat Church, North Morgan atroct, uear Lako streot. Chrigtmns oxercises at 2 o'olock p. m. Tho sorvices at St, Mary’s Church fo-day will boof an unusually imposing and intereating character, Tho Biaters of Morcy, ausisted by prominent Indios of. the congregation, hnve spared mnoither taste, labor, nor exponso in the decorations, which are oxtromely beautiful, The garvices to-day araas follows: Yirst mass—n solemn hiih mags—nt 4 8. m. ; socond muss, at G n. m. ; third mass, at 7 0. m. ; fourth mass, at 8 olclock ; fifth mass, at 9§ o'clocic; tho laat at ‘10:80 o'clock—n Pontifical High Mass, The Rev. Fathor Lawlor, of tho Jesuit Church, will preach at_this mass, and at its conclusion tho &t.z}lnv. Bishop Foloy will givo tho Pupal bone- ction. ‘fho next sociablo of the Free Religlous Bociety of Chicago will ba held this evening at 8o'dlock at tho Lall, cornor of Ravndolph aud Jofforson stroots. aud will consist of music, pleasant intercourse, and refreshments. Ad- mission freo, corner of Roboy AMUSESIENTS, Extra matinee performances will bo given fo tha afternoon at all the pluces of nmusoment,’ and the evening performances as usual. At McVicker's, in the afterncon, Lotta In 1‘ Z,'I‘D;""lu tho evoning, Lotta in the ' Littlo De- ecliva, At the Academy of Music, aftarnoon and oyen. Ing, Sothern as Dundreary in **Our American Cousin,” At Hooley's, afterncon snd evening, * The Gonevn Cross." At Myors' Opera-Fouse, aftorncon and evons ing, Adlington, Cotton & Komblo's Minutrels. At the Globo Thoatre, alternoon and evening, the Ban Francisco Miustrels, At the Halsted Straet Opora-Iouse, MacEvoy's Hibernicon, MIBOELLAKEOUS, Goneral MoArthur nuuouncer that the Post« Ofice and stations wil cloge forthe day at 108, m, ‘The afternoon majls witl clogo at noon’; the ovens Ing mails o8 usual. Thore will be two deliverioa by carriors in (he business district, and one oute de, a The city and county offices will bo closed to- ny. ‘ e MISCELLANEOUS. The Capitol building 2t Bt. Paul has bosn re« pu(n‘:)%n sud renovated et an oxpenss of abouf $18,000. —1the Iowa Legislature will conveno at Des Maines on Monday, Jan. 12. Tho pay of each member is $550 for tho session, with mileago. —Among tho coriositios at Fort Yums, Avizo na, is a gigantic * prairie-schooner,” of 20.000 pounds capacity. It is drawn by fourtecnmaules, tho smallest of which ia 15 bands high, snd welgha 1,350 pounds. —Somebody has put upon the market a prep- pration for coloring the gums a delicate and beautiful pink. It is intonded for ladics only, 8oys hl'l"i: Iabol—a bit of superfluons information, wo think. —Anu wfant recently found on Fathor Hughes' door step at Morrieanis, N. Y., was carried toa fair o1 St. Mory's Church and rafiled at 10 conts schanco, The ladv who won it kissed it ou- thusinatically, and doparted in high gloa to aurs prise hor husband, — Tho case_of Weir va. Crane, from Jonet COounty, recently docided by the Iowa Suprema Court, possessod two peculiarities: First, it de- cided the constitutionality of the Jows Stock Iaw (in the afiirmative) ; second, it was the final decigion of o case that originally lnvolved the princely sum of jifly cents, — Our lighthouse system is more extonsiva than any in the world, the lights and beacony oxtonding more than 10,000 miles along coast and shoro. We bave 521 lighthouses, 35 power- ful signols operated by engines driven by stenm or hot air, 854 day or uulighted beacons, and 9,898 buoys. i —A_lotter (dated Paria, Dec. b) from Clarles B. Waite, oue of tbe survivors of the Villeda Havre disaster, says: *'Wlerover any of ua wont in London tho shoj knol;:nra wished to give us overything we wanted to buy; but of course wo could not accopt. We bad a calm night on the Chaunel, but foggy, which mado_tho lndies vory nervous, a8 wo lind just missed & sailing- vossol, frightening us all very much.” —Honry C. Bates, lnat -October, filed with the Recorder of Floyd County, Iows, & deod convoy- ing to bim 320 acres of Jand from ono L. A. Cot- tle, of Olio. A fuw days afterward, Dotes sold tho land for 32,400 cush, to two brothers named Jolinkon, of Osage. And now it turus out that tho dood was w forgory, aud that Dates nover owned the land. And Bates is missing. —The Dubuque Jerald says that a gontioman of that city latoly orderedacuttor from Portland, Maino, which arrived in duo timo, The fraight on the cutter from Portland to Chicego wad $2,10; from Chicugo to Dubnquo it was $5.35. The distance from Portlnud to Chlenf’n is 1,100 milos ; tho distance from Chicago to Dubuquo is milos, . —1'ho * Mates” in the United States Navy, who are obliged to pay for their own moss, pur- cliase uniforms, and keop up their position as Dbocomes American ofticers, out of & sulary of $700 & yoar, havo pnzmonofl Congroas for an in- creaso to 1,000 Gontlomon, it can't Lo done, Thero are 6 lot of fellows in Washiugton, now famishing on $6,000 a year sud traveling ox- ponses, who aro ahead of you. We must ro- tronclh.—Pillsburgh Commercial, —Tho Rev. E. I, Halosnya: A manma sond from Land’s End, In England, to Kirkwal f in Scotland, the longest distance in Gren Dritain, from o witdornoss to the edge of the icobergs, over a distauce of 70?’an1an, & tolo~ graphic messngo at 1 cont a word,' " ~The Cinoinnatl Gazelle iu.:nugna!y remarks that whatover the Qhio Constitutional Convon~ tion may do to the Conatitution, 1t ought not to corrupt tho American tongo by guch compoundy a8 © Brigadiers-Gonoral,” “3ajors-Genoral, #Drums-AMajor,” * Vicos-President,” eto,, for it would bo ditileult nlz onforco buch jargon amoug an intolligont peoplo. e IAsd ie profithig by tho Jargo incronge fn tho pricoof cosl in England, Tho lsiand la known to contaln mauy rich coal fields, which have been hithorto worked on a vory small scale. Capitalists are now boginning to look to those as profitablo fnvestmonts, and prepurations are Leing mada to work tho cosl on & largo sealo, ol Henry Yatos, formerly Scorelary of the Great Iastorn szm\mshl? Company, has boon sontoucod ab tho Central Crimnal Gourt, Lon- don, to ton years' poual servitudo, for having forged dividond warrants, aud thereby defraude tho Company of moro than £40,000. —Ludgato Hill, Londou, {s now paved with wood, The streots havo boon laid with blooks of fir, each about the size of a brick, which aro Fl-ce on gravel and beaton togethor. Molted ar is thon poured into tho intorsticos, and tho whola ia covored with fiuo sand. ~—David M, Hall, huu‘fint Boimont, Nav,, the 3881, ultimo, whon' on the sosffald, " askod for throo ohoors, & oigar, & minister, and s copy of tho Now York Day-Book. His modoest roquests wero complied with, excopting the first. ~The graln floet wlumrmw Milwaukoo has a carrying capacity of 1,000,600 bushiols, When vigation opena iu tho spring thoto vossols will :;\kfiu an hlx:pronlon on‘:’ tho stook of gealn store when thoy take ous thoix cargoes.