Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1874, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1874. ——e e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TERNS OF SUBSCRIPTION (PATADLE I¥ ADVANCE). Daily, by Tn-Wee Tasts ot a sesr at the sume rato. Torrevent delay and mistakes, be sure and givo Post Of ce address in full, inclnding State and County. Remittances may be made either by draft, express, Post Offce auder, orn registerod lettocs, at vur risk. TEDMS TO CITY SUBSCLIDERS. Dafls, delivered, Stnday excepted. 25 cente per week. Dadly, celivered, Sunday included, %0 caata per wook. Adérets TOE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Medison and Dearbora-sts.. Uhisago, Ill. " TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. THEATRE—Msdison_sireet, hotwoen AMVICKER'S and Stato. Engagoment of Tomuaso Salvinl. Dearborn and Stal Samsoa." ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Hals'cd street, btwoen Mad- fson and Monros. Eugagement of E. A. Sothem. **Darid Garrick.” HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randoloh streot, botweon { LaSalle. Eogsgemoat of Miss Augusia Lar- TRE—Desplaiues stract, between Mad- g . Kagupimous of Miss Allco **¥he oy Dojectire.” MYERS' OPERA-HOUSE Monroo street, betwern rborti ang S ate. Arlington, Cotton, aud’ Kcmblo's nstrels. ** SimploShmon.” Alinswrely snd coni.call- DR. KARN'S MUSEUM OF ANATOMY-Clark atrect, betweoa Madison aad Monroo. : Tlhe Chirags Ceibune, Toesday Morninz, January 6, 1874. Heury Clews & Co., whoso failure waa one of the earliext sod Jargest in tlo panic last summer, annonnce that they are resdy to pay all their obligations in fall. In their circulsr stating this thoy attribuze their recovery largely to tho forbearance of their crelitors. City Trezsurer O'Hars mads a personzl de- mund yesterdsy on ex-Treasurer Gage for the amount of the deficit in his accounts. The mat- ter is exrected to be opeof the first to come before the Grand Jury, which will begin its ses- tion s sodn as the vanel of jurors is complete. Gov. Taslor and the othor State officers elect of Wisconein were installed yesterday, st. Nadi- son, with the usual coremonies. The Ropubli- cans find themselves Gispeasessed of the Gaber- aatorial Chair for the first time since 1855, and of the entire Stato Government for thie first time since 1859. The first businees done by tne Lower House of the Ohio Legislature, which met yesterday, ¥as to refer n resolution asking for the ropeal of the salary-grab to o Special Committee, with instructious to amend it 80 as to censure Presi- Jent Grant for signing the bill. The Comraittee ¥ere ordered ro report to-day. Richland County, Okio, is the Iatest victim of the emotional dishonesty 80 fashionable among rustodians of public moneys. Its Tressurer bas fled, leaving his accounts more than s bun- dred thonsand dollars short, Like all the others, Mr. Rowland was honest, and got into trouble snly by obiiging his friends with losas of money which &id pot belong to him. His bondsmen wreable to hold the county good sgainst the toss, —ee Gen. Pavia's coup detat can Lardly fail to sdd _J the complexity of Spanish politics, especially for distant ohservers, but it has produczd no turbulent ontbreaks at Madrid or in the Prov- inces. Thenew Government is recoguized by the forces besieging Carcagens, and at the Capi- 1al it is accepted without any visible hesitation, perbaps as much becansa Pavia's troops are in full possession of the city aod the national militia is disarmed, 28 for any better reasons. " wo Legislatures aze in scesion in Lonuisians, representing the Eellogg and the McEnery Gov- ernments. The latter 22dy has 20 quorum, and foea not propose to do anything more than pre- pare an nddress to Congress. Gov. Kellogg's messsge to his Legislature+is devoted largely to the Snances of the Staze, and tho statement of & plan for restoring its credit by funding its debt 1t 60 cents on tho dullar. Some work for the unemployed of this city will be farnished by the actios of the Common Council last evening. They directed the Board of Public Works to take tho necossary stepa for the remorval of the Court-House. debris, and an- thorized the excavation of the South Branch of the Chicago River at Twenty-second street, and \hie placing of tho material excavated in those streets which need it for the protection of their 1ewers. The Secretary of the Senate, yesterday, meade the report called for by that body iu relation to the compensation of Senators from the founda- lion of the Government. Itgivesall tho laws shaoging the rate of their pay.and shows that All of them were retroactive, though mome of them were for so long & period as the last, which %8s excited so much indignation. This last back- 287 1aw is the first under shich any Senator bas seen known to return say of the increased salary. The uncmployed worimgmen of New York made an ottempt yesterday to et the ear of the municipal suthorities, but were not treated as deferentially as their brethren of Chicago. The grievance of the New York malcontents is that the public work is doue by contract, and not by ‘dzy’s work. About a thousand of them held 2 mass-meeting, sod marcoed with s Committeo of TFive at their head to the City Hall, to interviow the Mayor and the heads of Departments, but 0 one of the city authorities was found to give them audienco. The Committee appoiuted to revise the kaws of this State nave prepared &3 Dbilla msk- ng important changes in the statate law of Iili- 10is. The criminal law, the liquor law, and the xintiog and binding laws are named amang ‘hose in which important changes have been nade. The members of the Committee are re- sorted to be very sanguine that their work will se accepted by the Lepisiature. They commend 1 by the boast that theyhave done s much in jeven momiks as the reviers of the Uuited 3States-Ststutes did in seven years, bat rapidity f exccution is not the highes: merit of so de- liberateand careful work as revigiou ought tobe. The Chicago preduca markets were generally strouger yesterday, with mederate sctivity in the aggregate. Meesrork was quiet, wd 10@ 2.e per brl higher, closing at $14.40@14.4b cash, md $£14.95@15.00 sclier February. Lard vas rctive, and 5@10c per 100 Ius bigher, closing o $8.60@3.65 caxh, and $8.85@8.90 seller February \fests were quiet and strong at 5}@b36e tor shoulders, TH@73c for short ribs, Thge for slioet clear, 2ud 9@10c for sweet pickled Lams. Dressed hoga were quist and firmer, closing at £6.30@6.95 per 100 tbs. Highwines were active and 1c stronger, closing at 94c per gallon. Flour was quict oud strong. Wheat was active and 93¢c higher, closing at £1.223 cash, and 81.255 seller Febrnary. Corn was in good demand and {c higher, closing at 5i}¢c cash, and 55c seller February. Oa:s were more active and I{c higher, closing at 89¢ cash, and 40@103c seller February. Rye was quiet and firm at 77c. DBar- ley was in better demcnd =nd higher, closing at £1.42 for No. 2, and €1.20 for No. 3, both * regu- 1af.” Lave hogs were active and sirong st $4.90 @5.50. Cattle and sheep were in gooa demaund and unchanged. The debate on the Salary bill in the Senate yesterday turned on the amendment offered by Senator Pratt, who proposes that all tho members of tLe present Congress shall bo pud at the zate of £6,000 & year, and shall be made to reimburse {he Tressury for the additional pay they bave dravn eince arch 4, 1873, The amendment was opposed by Sepzlors Logan, Monill, and Stewart, and sdvo:ated Ly Senators Thurman and Edmunds, who declared themselvea in favor of auy measure thet would help repair the wrong that had booo dope. An attempt will be wade to bring the bill to vata to-day. The attempt which was mado unsuccessfally in the last Congress to have a Government Com- ‘mission appointed to Investigate what is called, for conventence sake, the labor question, was renowed yestorday by Mr. Hoar, of Massachu- setts. He moved that a commission of threo be sppointed to report on the genoral condition of the laboring classes, the division of the products of labor between them and capitalists, and how these are affected by the commeruial, financial, and currency lawa of the country. Very much the same ground {3 covered by the Bureauof Statistics of Massachusotts, and Mr. Hoar prob- ably drow the hint for bis bill from its opera- tions. The alleged decease of the Jeffersonian Dem- ocratic-Republican priuciple was very vigorously contradicted in the House of Representatives yesterday, by Alexander H. Stepliens, in hia speech in opposition to the Supplementary Civil Rights bill, and he assured the country that this vital principle would continue to Live a8 long as thunder and lightning, aud several other natural phenomons which ho named, continued to ap- pear. Mr. Stephens delivered a long written speceh in opposition to the Lill, which be disfa- vored, not {rom prejudico against any class or 18c0, but because it was beyond the constitu- tional powers of Congress, and because such law would prove inexpedient, oven if the Coa- stitation gave Congress the power o pass it. e e The nomination of Attorney-Genernl Williams 28 Chief-Justice, it is positively stated, will bo withdrawn to-day by the President. President Grant visited the Capitol yesterday on the novel crrand of pressing the nomination for con- firmation, just s he lobbied for the San Domingo scheme, but tho surprising result s reported that his eyes wero opened by the Scnstors whom he summoned to consultation to the mistake he had made, and he left them with the assurance given above. The nomination of Caleb Cushing ns Minister to Spain was up before the Senate yesterday, but action on it was deferred, apparently in the be- Lef that Mr. Cashing was the President’s next choice for Chief-Justice, aud that s name would be submitied in place of thatof the ob- roxious Attorney-General. President Burroughs, of the Chicago Uni- versity, has tendered his resignation to the Bosrd of Tiustoes, sud its acceptance will probably follow. The reasons which impel Dr. Burronghs to sever a connection which has ex- icted for sixteen years are stated in his letter, which is given eleewhero. They aro in brief tiat ho feelshe oughtno longerto carry the double burden of presiding over tho educational affairs of the University end at the same timo Isboring to put its inances in & solvent condi- tion. The Committes to which the resignation was referred propose that it bo sccepted, and that thereupon Dr. Burroughs be made Chan- collor of the Uaiversity, so that he may givo his undivided energies to congenial duties. An endowment of half a million is nceded at once, the Committeo state, to euable tho insti- tution to doits work worthily and successfully, and a meeting of the Trusices is to be held iua few days to consider the means for raising this sum., The Board of Trade of this eity held itsan- anal mesting yesterday for the election of offi- cers. No election was reached for President. Mr. How received 839 votss, but 409 aro needed fora clicice. Tae other officers were chosen as announced elsewhere. The retiring President Calver presented ths uenal report of the Board of Directors. The prosent system of Btate inspection of grain by & Doard of three persous, with their headquarters 160 miles distant, is pronounced unsatisfactory, aod measures are recommended to place the in- spection of grain on the same basia us that of tho other produce 8old on "Changs. The Board also request the Railroad Commissioaors of the State to enforce a law now silent on the statute- books compelling railroads to guarantee tha do- livery of the same quantity of grain that they roceive. Thay favor the construction of & through freight steel railway to the East, but oppose any subsidiea or graats from Congress in its bebalf. THE SENATE, TEE PRESIDERT, AND THE CHIEF-JUSTICE. That President Graut bas never, from the firat, unde:stood the constitutional object of his appointing power as lawyers and statesmen un- derstand it, has lonz baen apparent even to his most partial fricnds. It forms the very reason why he bes any most partial friends. They have been favored by appolutments made on the theory that the appointing power is part of the President’s perquisites,—a personal emolument a3 purely his own as his salary or bis horses. By no act has Piesident Grant admitted that cither the Scnate, the Republican party, or the American people have any business to inter- meddle with the motives which govern the in- flaences which obtain, or the faults that dis- grace, his appointments. Bt while the Presi- dent's contempt for the ancient theory, that the appointing power is a sacred Lrust, has been tol- erated by the Senate, when it only introduced into the servico incompetent Collectors, or other administrative officers whose function it wes to obey, it is hard even for Morton, Carpenter, Conkling, end Cameron. and we imagize it must be & grief even to the Department clorks to seo the Chief-Justiceship of the Supreme Court made abauble, with which the President rewards an incompetent favorite. Lawyers have yet to hear 0t the celebrated cause in which Mr. Will- isme was ever engaged at the Bar. Judges know nothing of his learning on the Bench. As Attorney-General ho has been & laughing-stock even to his associate Cabinot membors, most of whom, in an intellectual sense, mnst carry an umbrells to cast any shadow whatever. As o successor of Marshall, Taney, or Chase, Mr. Williams would euter the Suprome Court to pre- side under suficiently discouraging circum- stances. He would bo called npon to pronounce tho viows of & Court with whose previous do- cigious peither his early practice in aa Towa village, nor his rustic expericnca in the frontier courts of Oregon, nor his presenco at Cabinet dinnecs, nor even the charms of his wife would render him familiar. Ho wonld be expected to solvo legal enigmas of cases which an O'Conor, or Lvarts, or Drummond had argued with the accumulated resources of s long life of industry and learning, in & manner to harmonize with tho magnificent structure of American jurisprudence, of which very able jurists bave laid the foundations. or course, the probability of his doing a!l this is a3 slight a5 was' tho chance that Caligula's horse, when made Consul, would restore the indepeud- ence of the Romau Senate. The most that can be said for Williams is, that a wonse appointment might possibly have beeo made. TlLe question for our Washington Senators to solve is mot concerning Williams® fitoess, but their own. We Lold them to no very high stana- ard of independence. We expect them to Crook the pregnant hinges of the knes Where thrift may follow fawning. It thero is anything to e gaiged by them, or by the Republican party, by making a bsuble of the Chief-Justiceship, we would not expeet it to be withold, Bat if, as we believe, the Republican party bas more to loso than to win by Williams’ confirmation, would not this be & fitting time in which to remind the President that Senators Lnve spinal columns which may bo put to other uses than prostration ? The Supreme Court sbhors this nomination. The Bar laugh at it. Politiciacs, ordinarily cor- rupt, and even tough old political backs who cannot recall the time when they knew how an hopest word sounded, are querulously and feobly protesting sxainst it. The question, therefore, is ‘not 80 much whother we are to bave 8 Cief- Justice as whetber we are to have s Secate. If. after tho well-known exprestion of opnions by tho Repullican leaders in the Sepat they con- firm this nomination, they had better go homo and report to tho people that when Grant is desd the Senate wilt be revived. Meanshule thera i3 nons, A WASTEFUL POLICY. The year 1873, with i's panic and itg long list of business failures and unemployed workmen, is now numbered with the past. There is ample reason Lo believe that with the dawn of the New Year we sball see better times—that businoss will resume its wonted course, that manufac- tuces will be resumed, snd that all classes, admonished by the disasters whichso lately swept over tho country, will put their affairs in shape to avoid znother Soptember visitaticn of the financial simoom. How shall this bo done ? There is only one way given under Heaven among men by which tho ravages of a com- mercial crisis can be ropaired, and that is by economy. Cspital has been destroyed ; it must Lo replaced ; and, as capital is the result of savings, savings alone will make good what was apparently sw(pt away by the panic, but was really swept away & long time beforo. The economy which the whole people may practice coneists of the sum of the economies of individuals, and this can beregalated by no rule. Each person will be & law unto himeelf, but there are some savings of really.gigantic impor- tance and mognitude which can bo effected by tho force of public opinion. Dauring the past ten yoars, and even longer, there has been, as it were, a general conspiracy to settlo up and bring under caltivation the whole unoccupied domain of the United States within the life-time of the present generation. Land-grants hsva becn voted, patriotic appead maode, bombastic and lying circalars scattered over Europe, money spent in coaxing and promoting emigration, State agencies established—and all for what pur~ pose? To establish competition in grain-grow- ing in the Western States and Territories! This ia what ails the farmers more than anything olso. The ‘old proverb which assigns a Llessing to him who makes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before, is incomplete unless it bo added that the two blades will sell for no more than tlo one,—unless there bo two busers in the market where there was formerly only oue. If therebe any vocation or calling not specially in need of competition in the Westera States and Territorles, orin the United States generally. itis that of farming. Yet the best efforts of the nation, and of the several States, have been direzted to promoting such competi- tion; whils laws have been passed with the sanction and approval of the farmers themselves toprovent and restrict competition in the sale of protty much everytbing they-have to buy. Public lands have beon voted away with vpend- thrift haste, and capitalists, in order to possess tho lands, have invested thelr own money and borrowed lavishly from others, in order to put tho new settlers on =28 favorable & footing as tho older occupants of the agricultural districts, who have gained what advantages thoy possess by severe and un- remitting toil, and who are deprived of them to & large extent by this artificial competition. But this isnot all. Ralway constraction in sdvaace of population is the most exhausting expenditure, next to war, in the whole category of woste and profigacy. It is eaid tnat 115 railways, great sud small, have gone to protest on their bonded indebteducss sincoe the Sep- tember panic st in. For all present purposes, the capital Invested in these railways might a8 well bave been suok in the ses. The withdrawal of this capital from lhz‘chluncla of ordinary business contributed migltily to the September panicand the subsequent Lard times, and itis here that we may practice our wisest and greatest economy in the next decade. Thero 18 more wild land provided with railway facihities than can be advantageously cultivated during tho next ten, if not tho mext twenty, yeais. Every scheme 'that comes before Congress, or upon the money market, to continue this perni- cious policy, or to Lelp out broken railway and land compauies, ehould be visited with the male- dictions of the press and the people, and, mostof all, of the farming community, who are the chief suTerers by it. Manifestly the best thing for Bignor Castelar todois tocome over to the United States and take up his permanent abods hera. He is about the only man, so far as we can learn, in alt Spain +ho has & fair appreciation of Repablican prin- ciples, and, therefare, there is no hope for him where hois. Castelarisaman of great sbility, wide Jearning, brilliant oratory, and ungaestion- «od devotion to justies and fresdom, Tharels a large demand for just such men in this country At tho present time, snd by the time ho could ec- quire citizenship and accustom himself to the ways of the New World, the people would be in & mood to appreciate him. There is little uso in & man's throwing awsy o life, that might bo 80 useful elsewhere, upon & people who can- pot understand his high aims and noble pur- poses. Ho can do the csuse of Republicanism great sorvics in this conntry, where it needs the support and counsels of such 2s he, while he can do nothing for it among s people who do not comprobend it or want it. Castelar sud the United States would be mutaally benefited by the change, and Spain would never learn'to know what she had lost. GEN. HOWARD'S CASE. Gen. Howard's case, now before Copgress on charges preferred by the Secrotary of War, has alreadyboen under the considaration of Congross. In 1870, Mr. Fornando Wood submitted to tho Honse of Representativos fifteen specific charges nguinst Gea. Howard, which were ro- ferted to & Committee coasisting of eight Re- publicans and two Democrats, Three of the Republican members of the Committee had pre- viously been sagonts of the Freolmen's DBurean. At that time, and under euch ciccumstances, it was not eurprising that Geu. Howard sbould have been exonerated by the majority report of the Committee, which wis o sweeping and fulsoms in its acquittal that it was expocted to silence all the suspicions which Lud Leen raised against him, and to straugle all oher offort at iuvestigation. The minonty report, however, preseuted his case more minutely, aud, 1 spite of the technical evesioms of which Gen. Howard availed him- self, made out a case which was much more analytic than the goneral whitewasiing of the majonty report. B Gen. Howard was appointed Commissiozer of tho Freodmen's Butesa in 1865, shortly after its creation. The Bureau of Refugees, Froedmen, and Abandoned Lands was estabiishod under tho supervision of the War Department, to last dur~ ing the War and one year after, and it was to have control of all subjects relating to refugees and freedmen from the Rebel States, sud tho management of abardoned lands in the same territory. Subsoquextt acts of Cogress en- larged tho jurisdiction of this Buresu, snd ploced largo sums of moucy at the dis- posal of the Commissioner for settling up claims sud paying expeases connected with ref- ugeos and freedmen that were mot otherwise provided for. In 1856 and 1867, the large sum of $10,750,550 was appropriated for theso pur- posos, in nddition to the lands and otber prop- erty acquired Irom confiscated aud abzndoned estates at tho South, which have been estimated to be equal to the amount of the appropriations. The chaiges made by Mr. Wood wore, in sub- stance, that Gen. Howard hiad nsed $500,000 of public money Lo buy tse Iund snd erect tho buldings for the Howard University with- out suthority of law; that part of this land was disposed of improperly to mem- bors of his own family and staff; thav bonds of the First iCongregational Church were faken in payment for some por- tions of tho land, which were nccounted for as cash; that Howard was intercsted in the sule of poor building material used in tho erection of the University; that he bad slso given his con- sont that Governmest lumber shou!d be used; that ho bad advanced money on bouds of the Young Men's Christian Association which wete rockoned as cash in his sccounts; that he and his brother had s personal iuterest in a farm bonght with public money and sol to freedmen at oxorbitant prices; and, generally, that ho had turned the management of the Freedmen's Bureau to his our personal and political profit. Theso charges were referred, aud. alter investiza- tion, the majority of the Committee proncunced them * utterly groundless and causeless.” ‘The ‘minority, bofore entering specifically upon ex- amination of the evidence, reported tuat they had been denied the privilege of subpeending witnesses whom they knew to b in posseesion of ‘materisl facts, and that, slthough Gen. Howard'a private bank-books were in the Committee-room, he protosted againet exsmination of them, and the majority of the Committoe sustained him in this position. These circumstances make it evi- dent that there was » disposition to screen Gen. Howard from a thorough examination into his sdministration of the Bureau, since one of the main charges was that he had secured loans from the bsais on the doposit of Government securities. It would be tedious and usoless to follow the minoiity roport further, after noting tho obstacles thrown in the way of obtaining material evidence. Hero is one extract from it, ‘however, whick 18 of interest : In the cousse of the examination it came out that he was in the incumbency of the following nsmed posi- tions, viz.: Major-General United States Army; Commissioner Buresu of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandonod Lands; President of Howard University ; Director of Building Block Company ; Treasurer and Trustee of Barry Farm Fund: Presddent of Young Men' Christisn Association; Treasuter First Con- gregational Church Ballding Fund, and Vico-President of Freedmen's Szvings Dauk. 1t will be eeeu that the chargea which led to the first Congressional investigation of Gen. Howard's administration of the Freedmen's Buareau are very differont from the case pre- gented to Congress by the Secretary of War, which is based on the roports of Assistant Adju- tant-General Vincent and Inspector-Goneral Shriver. The charge now is, plainly, that Gen. Howard is a defeulter in the sum of $278,573. In the clositg up of his sccounts that sumis unaccounted for, The reports reforred to charge that large sums of monoy have been expended without suthority, snd that funds bave been’ misappropriated to uses for which they were not designed. Gen. Howard is charged with the persistent refusal to farnish vouchers for certain expenditares, and some of the vouchers which had been filed in tho War Department have since disappeared. The mout suspicions feature of the case, as it is now pre- sented, is that colored soldiers and sailors and their families are still waiting for the settlement of claims which it was supposed had been paid off inthe general settlement of the Bareau's affaire. The case now brought against Gen. Howard is inno sénse political, as the first case was con- straed tobe. It is to be hoped, therefore, that Congress willnot repeat the farce it went through with at the former investigation. The present case is one that unqueationably belongs to army jurisdiction. The Freedmen’s Bureau was made, by the act of Congress which created it, a part of the War Department. It qzfllt exclusively with matters appertaining to or growing out of the War of the Rebellion. Gen. Howard held & com- mission in the army while acting a3 Commission- erof this Bureaw. The very objections which Gen. Howard urges against a court-martisl are reasons why he shonld be tried before sucha tribunal. 1f the Becretary of War and Asslstant Adjutant-Gen. Vincent bave prejudices against him and are urging bis prosecution on this ac- count. the facts could be more fuliy and explicitly bronght out before & conrt-martial than in a0y other way. Congress can best satisfy tho de- mands of justico by turning Gen. Howard's case over to the regular mihtary court. A MORE CONSOLIDATION. Tho scheme for consolidating the Chicago & Nortlswestern ana the Milwankee & St. Paul Railway Companies is sgain revived. The ob- jections which defeated this messure s year ago have, it is said by the New York Times, been romoved. ‘The new Company (if the consolida- tion is sffected) is to be celled the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St.Paul Raitroad Compsny. Thecon- solidation of course involves the increaae of the capital utock, which in this case is eaid to bo £5,000,000. Adding the property of the two Companics togother, while it doos not increase the azgregate property, is ‘used as & pretext for making o stock dividend. While this pro- ceeding is threatened at our own doors, somo- thing of even grester moment has jnst takon place in Pennsylvanis, where sev- eral mining sud transportition companies which connect tho authracito coal-fiolda of that State and tho markets have been consolidated. The companes thus uniting are the Wilkesbarre ‘Coal and Iron Company, the Honeybrooke Coal | Company, the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, ond tVie Lehigh Coal and Navigation Compsany. Thu sggregate presont capital of these Compaaias excaeds probably $40,000,000, and how much they will add to this, on the occa- sion of the uvion, has not yet been made public. With the excepticn of the Reading Railroad to Philadelphis, tirese Companies coutrol all the present routes from the coal-mines to New York. These consolidations have o different azpect from what they bad o few years ago. Then these corporations wero arrogaat and self-suf- ficient ; thoy bought and coatrolled State Gov- eraments at pleasuro; they igsued watered stock st thewr own will; $hey were absolate, and put the public and public opinion st defiance. Then, coonsolidation was the strengthen=d of corporations already exercising monopolies with supreme comtompt for public interests. ut mattera bhave changed within the last year. Monopolies are no longer the masters of the people. Tha peoplo have taken tho clhoico of State Governments into thewr own bands, apd they have epplied their prorogafives to the regulation, con- trol, and discipline of thess corporations. Consolidations at this timalook like attempts to ovade s day of reckoming. Such expedisnts will bo of no avail, because the judgment has already been written that all corporations of 2 quasi chiaracter are nubject to public control, and that they will not be permitted to levy ex- tortionat rates for the service they perform, nor claim dividends and profits upon capital not actaally invested. That this fudgment will be carried ont to the lattor in duo time there can bo 10 question, and hence consolidations of com- panies, doubling up of railways and concentra- tion of management, will not avail. The hand of reform will reach them all the aconer. COST OF COLLECTION. . The oxposures of the petty abusea practicad on tho Treasury of tho United States are becoming more and more numerons. The contingent fand of the Treasury Department—that is, the money placed st tho discretionary disposal of the officers—has increased during the leat ten years from $94,900 to $227,500 for the present year. The gas bill of that Department alone amounta to 18,000, which it is charged includes fhe privato gas bills of & number of burean officers | sad chief clerks. Tho Boston Post publishes | the statement that, in addition to the many | horses and carrisges employed by the varions Departments, the charge last year for horse-car tickets was £42,000. Tuis was equal to 860,000 singla rides, or 2,800 rides every day in the year, including Sundays and holdays. Who gots these tickets is just now one of the mysteries of Washington City. We yosterday published a statement showing tho fees aud salaries paid to the persons employad in collecting the customs revenue 1n sixty-two dwstricts. In those dis- tricts the aggregate rovenuo collocted was $724,651, and the fees and salaries of the officers, excludizg all other expensos, amounted to £384,497. We have now a statemeat of the cost of collecting the iuternsl revenue ia the various States for the year 1872-'73, and soms of the exbibits are surprising: Cost per centi Cost per cent | of callection. 'States, of collection. 197-10 New Esmpehire That will scem to be & pretty high price for the collection of revenue, and whatever may be s3id aa to the difficaltier in the Southern States, can hardly palliato the enormous cost 1n Maine, Rhole Isla=d, and Vermont. Tbe fact is these oflices are made profitable to the office-halders, without any referonce to the public interests but as party patronage. The cost of collecting the whole interaal revenue 18 in excess of 4 per cent. ‘The wholo amount of tax collected last year was $105.000,000, of which more taan half was collected in the following States : Rerenue, Cost. Percent | Ihinofs. ... 816,607,333 6 1740 New York., 19,285,630 3 24 21-m $57,843,200 81,302,060 24-10 To collect the remaining $47,855,240 cost ©2,085,430, or sn gverage of G.4-10 per cent. This includes Pennsylvenia, Masszchusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Indiaoa, Tows, Michi- gan, Wiaconsin, Kentucky, Maryland, and other settled States, where there is no spacial reason why the cost of collecting this revenue should be more thaa it is in Tilinois. The Hlinois journals are rapidly joining in the | demand that the Legialaturo shall adjoura im- mediately, and withont entering upon the buai- ness which it is proposed to bring befare it. The Mount Vernon Free Press holds that there is not only no neceasity for further legislation at this time, but that it is ecandalous that the Legislature should deliberately spend $300,000 of the peaple's money at a time when people nre crying for bread and the industry of the country is peralyzed. Tho Free Press says further: If the .nembers of the Ilinois General Assembly have paid any attention at all to the current of eventa daring tho past year, they must have observed tuo rapld growth of a sentiment directly opposed to, and which upon all suitable occasions bas severely con- demned, just such uncalled-for, unneceseary, mrea- sonable expenditares of public money as s proposed Dy this adjourned session. 1t is the union of the peo- Pl to resist such outrages s this that has wiped out the odious name of party from deliberations for the public good. It is the union of the peaple to reform Just such abuses that is now sweeping recreant publio servanta from office everywhers, and confounding the once proud party leadars, This i3 tle kiod of talks wrich salary-grabbers, | peliteal pazjics, whether in Congress or the Legislatures, msy expect to hear from all sides for the future, notil tLe consummation of the popular demands isreached. Men in politica who would escape should take wasniug and stand from under. PRAYER V§. WAISKY. It is nct difficult now to believe that by faith men have moved mountains, or that Joshus ac- complished tho paradoxical feat of making the sun stand still. Neither of these operations are any more rémarkable or difficult than the recent performance of thewomea of Washington, Obio. ‘This flourishing little town of 3,000 people has been cursed with the evils_of intemperance for years. For about zm{ years, & town ordinance regulated the traffic, but the new Board of Councilmen rescinded the ordinance and whisky circalated frecly. ‘The old saloons itcreased their business and new ones sprang up like mushrooms. Even the drug- stores commencad selling spirits for other thau medicinal purposes. Tho streets were tull of drunken men, and society was fast bocoming de- moralized. As Christmas approached, the ladies doter- mined, if possible, to sccure peacs in Washing- ton and good-will to all its citizens, by moral sunsion with the demun in its strongholds. They me in the Presbyterisn Charch, and saug, and prayed, and talked tegether, and the result of the meeting was crystallized in s petition to the whisky-eellers, entreating them to stop the business, and thus save their fathers and sons. Commuttees were formed to visit the saloons, end the next morning 100 women set out upon thoir errand. First they visited the drug-stores, and induced the proprictors to sign the pledgo and never more sell liquor excopt upon a physi- cian's certificate, and nevor more to keep the sirup of corn and rye in & black bottle under the sodn-fonutain. They thon visited the enloons daily and besieged them with sacred songs, us Luther used to sing when ho had bLis daily bouts with the devil. Then they wreatled in prayer with the foul flends lucking in hogs- heads, barrels, demijohns, decanters, snd bot- tles, and finelly appealed to tho liquor-dealer to stop his pernicious busincss. They never tired in their good work. They saog, and prayed, and reasoned from tho rising of the sun to the going down thercof, and from early can- dle-light to tho bour when church-yards yawn. They Lept-it up day after day. At last the leaven which was. in the foul lump began to work. The saloon-keepers tired of the Tever- ceasihg prayer and endless song. One by one they began to yield. Ctstomers fell off. Busi- ness dragged. It was s Lard time, also, for the fionds larking on the ehelves behind tho bar, They rosisted for & time, but at last, s Mephistophiles + found bimself gradually growing powerless undor the sign of the cross which the students beld before him, they relaxed their hold on the peo- ple of Washington and were exorcised. At last the saloons surrendered and the keepers rolled their barrels into the streets, knocked in the heads, and the foul spirits rushed down the gut- ters aa in ancient time the devil-possessed swine rushed down a steep place into the ses. The women, however, were not alone in their good work. Inold times the women helped the men buckle on their armor, and when tho latter went to the battle they remained at home aund prayed. And Charles Eingsley sings: *For men must work and women must weep.” Dut in this instance tho mon helped tho women buckle on their armor, and when they went to battle tho men gathered together in the sanctuary and prayed for the Joans who wero marching under their white banners to an un- certain struggle, with the war-cry of Coronation and Mesr, and bearing the sword of the Spirit. Man's prayer and woman's prayer, masculino peslm and feminme hymn, mothers and wives in the advance and fathers and husbands in tho re- serve, ot last won the victory, snd Washington was redeamed, and to-day rejoicea in pure, cold water and dignified, upright men. It was & glorious day for Washington; bus Washington is s quiet country village, where thers was more prayer tlan whisky. and where the odds against whisky were fearfal. There wero one hundred womea and a8 many more men, with no end of spiritual ammunition, against thirtesn saloon- keepers. NOTES AND OPINION. The vote of Iowa, for Governor, is now for the first time (and nnofficially) stated to be: Carpenter, 105,143 ; Vale, 82,593. Gov. Carpen- ter sppears to have run about 1,200 votes behind his ticket. —1It is gravely announced in North Carolina that, if Wifliams is not confirmed, the Presi- dent's next choice is 8. F. Phillips. Now, who is Phillips ? —The Burlington Hawk-Eye, in noticing the call for a State Couvention at Des Moines, Feb. 25, * to orgrmize the peoplg for the campaign of 1874, soys s As Republicans we sre glad the Opposition have ‘made this earlly movement for pext year's cam 1t will Lielp to impress on the minds of our represeut- atives at Wi n and DesMoines that they canvot longer trifie with impunity with public sentiment. Ths people esro more for principles than for party. Thoy were mever more wide awake to what 1% occurring around them at this present moment. A muititude of voters who buve stood by aud Leen a part of the Republican party {rom the day of its birth un- t4l now, have resched the conclusion that if that party 1s to be run Ly such men as Bzn Butler and Matt Car- panter, thaeooner it goes down the better. —The Republican party uow locks to its rep~ resentatiwes in Congreas to carry out ita de- 'mands of economy and reform. . . . Never in the legislative Wuatory of this country were Congresstnen, divectly or implied, more strong- 1y pledged by the manifest will or demands of tho peopbe, than are the membors of the Forty- third Congress. Never were men moro closely watched than these will be, nor e ver will men be brought up to a strictor parsonal responsibility for logislative ,deeds in the flesh and spirit.— Davenport Gazelte. —TPolitics must not be made s vehicle for money-mpking. Dut the salaries 80 low that the office will seek the man, and not the man the office. Tintil this is done, corruption will be rife. —Burlington Gazetle. —During tho last campaign, when it became necessary to put on a righteous garb to save the party fram utter ruin, tho Congressmen from thit State (Tows) =1l and each of them denounced ! the incre:ased pay 26 unfair and without reason. Yet all ¢nd each” of these gentlemen accepted their mnthly checks without rebate or return of any pontion thereof. In.Congress, whilo us- tainingmeasures for repeal, af least one pay- day trauspired, and not a single member is re- ported a having refused to sccept all and en- tire the mmount of the installment under the steal bill.—DesMoines Leader. ‘—It is time theso Patrons of Drigandry who ench day, and week, and month, add to the bur- dens of the citizen still mmore of taxation and distress, ishould be denounced as publio robberu. Itistime thexe gigantic mopopolists in the manufactiare of debte should be hampered and fettered. It is time for sane citizenseverywhere to cut loarie from the rottan and stinking parti- sanism wlich upholds the National Administra- tion by iauxling imbecility as meatal power, and indorsing thieving and rascality a8 diplomacy and patriotism.—Omaha Herald. —Let Cemgress remember that an election will be beld du:ring the year 1874, aud that each and every Cong:ressional servant of the people will be held to s atrict account. . . . Let Con- gressmen ruark well their action, for the eyes of #a earnest, watchful people are upon them; tboir work. this winter will undergo a most 0; g 8 crutiny.—Pekin (1) Times. 0 poople are fast losing confidence in and not withous juss eauss, Demderats wore a5_responsible as Renabli in tke salsry-grab Lusiess . . . The e has gone by wien the people can osrect reforn from tl:o misrepresentativ:s whose wordy re- tentions and clamor 18 22 1nsulc to duty.—Siauw neetown (1) Gazelte. —A lisiener to the dscussions in Congress oy the salary-grab, as they were carried on fron day to day on the floor of the Housn, says thai the uneacisfactory nasure of the explanationy given, the failure of the argumenta and appe: and the moro then doubtful position in whick tho ** Lonorable gentlemen" were lef*, aftar all their trantic cfforts to set themselves right be. fore the country, remind_one of the moumnfa] foundering of a Mississippi_ateamboat, a3 ds senibed in postry by en eye-witness: She Love and sot, and sot and Love, And high her rudder flung ; Azd every time ste hovs and '10t, A wusser leuk she sprung ! . And all the more she squirmed and tarned, To lower still shc 5 1 Tiii Ain:lly the cused thing Just sunk and weni to pot ! —Baltimore Americun. —The danger is, that the deliberation of thes gentlemen, over a question 80 pervouai to them selves, instead of resulting 1na ropeal of the laty odious salary bill, shall eud in fixing posifimely for the last. time toe salary of members of Con. Zreas at $10,000 & year. ‘[his will be done if tha country and the pressabate one joi the whola. .| some wdiguation that has prevailed through the laxt season, or swifer their eyes to be blnded by the parhamentary dust such shuilers as Butler can contrive to kick up.—** G. £. 7," in Boston Adcertiser. —Nover has the power of journalism teen wielded with such good effect. ~ It has broken down party walls ana upturned deep-rooted prejudices; it has driven into obscurity mer who thought themselves strong in ucdeserved strengih, aad compolled the **leaders” to obay the popular will; it bas exposed long-hidden crimes and corrmption, deiccted and dofeated schemes sguinst tue public eafety, and in nume berlexs cases has frustrated the desigus of dan- gerous men, aud accomplished measures of re- Torm agaiust the opposition of thosa who had been accustomed to regard themsalves as in- viucible. Iu a word, the indepeudsut news- papersuf the couutry have shown themselves tha true champions of the people, and the people have recoguized them as such.—Germaniowa (#a.) Clronicle. —It is something hopefal, therefore, thal Ame:ican journalisnr is tiws bappily conducted that thus ic strives to the utmost to roveal all iuiquities, to battle all wrongs, to correct all abuses, to aid all geauine reforms. Perfect? No! 1t is tar from perrect; buc it is un tha \With increasing prosperity is independence alsa increases, With the greater enterptise it bLas insugurated it bas Leen infused wiih larger houesty. With lugher talents has come truer und more vigorous discussion of exigent topics. It aspires toward purcr morals, aud trmer po- litical standards, and 1ts utmost aspirations will et be realizod.—Rochester Democrat and Chron- cle. —Tho success of the Independents in Califer- nia seals tho doom of the Republican party in that State_snd on the Pacific cosat ; aod similar trinmphs in tae West have rendered its dissola- tion complete. The people have nsen in rebel- lion against Adminisiration dictators. . . . is impossible to defest the Admistration within the Kepublican party in tius or any other State. Butit is entirely possiblo to do it outside of party lines.—Albany Arqus. —In reading the remarks and criticiam on Gen. Grant’s appointments aud condemnation of hig Cabinet uad of Congress in the leading Kepub- lican jouruals, one 1s led to ssk what isthe mac- ter? Quite & largo number of the most in- fluential papers talk now just as the Now York Tribune, Springfield Republica Cmucaco Trrsuse and Cinciunati Commercil did previous to the Cincinnati Conyoution. In fact, many of the strongest Administration pse pers can now be called ** Liberat Republican™ az Indepoudent. Daoring the Presidential campaign they defended Geo. Grant and _his Admunistrs- tion from the aitacks of the * Liberals,” and de- clared that tae accusations made by the Tribun aud suppotted by Schurz, Trumbull, and Fenton were false; but now they reassert tbese same charges, with many additional accusations of bad faith, reckless management, incompeiency, and even dishonesty in the admmistration of out patiousl aTawrs. It looks very much ss thongh there wuwid be a large additicu to the sumber of Iudegfufl-:t.t Republicau journals.—Schened! (V. Xo) Ecening Star. WILLIAMS. : Private Bills Paid with Public Money —Ihe Vouchers—How toe Familys Servants Draw their floney. Fashington (Jan. 2) Dispatch to the New York Sum The Senate Judiciary Comsiitzeo Liaa been Tookung still further into the disbursements ol the contingent fund of the Department of Jus- tice. They have found thero some very intem " esting facts, a8 the following will show : ‘WASHINGTOS, Jan. 27, 1572.—United Statcs Departe ment of Justice to Andrew J. Josce & Co., Dr.~Tt one landsulet, No. 94, §1,000. Recctved payment. Axpnew J. Jorce & Co. BarTIMORE, July 29, 1872.—Uniced States Departe ment of Justice bought of Coblens & Eantman aut pair of bay horses, STl Received payment. CopLENS & EAUFMAX. WaszrvaTos, July, 1872.—~United States Departmert of Justice to Audrew J. Joyee & Cor, Dr.—Ons pat stitched polo-straps and go.d” slip-buck:e, §3; new sl Hining in kudsuiet, $35 aluting aud varnishisg landsulet, $42.50: various otliec items, same naturs $120.83; fotal, $20L13. In November thero was another bill of repain for Jandaulet, and sgawn in December, making in all over §500 more. The landanlet scems tc have been repaired from January, 1472, to Do- cember last, abont $1,100 worth. ‘Some oiher carious things were also discover- ed, a8 for instance the following voucher: WASIING: Oct. 23, 1872 Department of Judtice to B. . Leed & Sona, Wholeslt and Itetail Dreaters in Choics Groceries, Teas, @i Japanese Goods, Noa. 12 and 14 F sirect, bebiira “Tuce fth and Tlarteenth atreets, N, IF.: One sidewa X glass and one base table with whits MArblo 1op. sz so--e o Recelved payment, B.W. Bezp & Soxr. Here is the richest item. Gecrge Wilkenson is carried on the rolls of the Departmew: of Justice as a temporary clerk at $340 per anum, or $70 s month. His duties ate wholly private. In short. ho is the privaio servant of George E. Wiiliams. Charles W. Les is borne on the rofls of the same Department 83 a messenger at $720 8 year, or €60 a mouth. Hois also a honsehold servast of 3r. Williams, Their salaries are paid out of the contingent fund of the Department of Jus- tice, but they do not perforin suy serviceins public capacity. Attorney-General Willicms ant Barte ford—Crank Views of an Adicis- tration Journal. From the Hartford Post (4dm. Rep.). The public is_settling down to the belief that Mr. Walliams will not be coutirmed Chief-Justics of the Supreme Court, or at lesst that he ought not tobe. Itis true there are some partisand who profess to believe that he ias man of very respectable attainmeuts, but the ‘opision is not based an Lis record at the Bar sud upon the Bench. He acquittedhimself fairlyinthe Senate and npon the stamp, but those who have met bim before the Supremo Coust are not entbusiastic for bis confirmation. He came unexpectsdly i Hariford to argue the Credit-Mobilier sutin our court-room. The occasion was one whith warranted a journey from Washington by the first law officer of the Government. The caust had obtained grest notoriety, and 3 an¢ unusual act of Cougress had been passed to £e: the question before the courts. A large s of ‘money was involved, as well a8 principles of B0 littlo moment. For the respondents aa U3 usual array of couueel appeared, inclodisg some of the foremost lawyers of the matich Eversthing about the cass waa calculsted fi induce the Attorney-Geueral to sppear person, and to put him upon his meitle. B was ceriain to be widely reported, and s victos over the emivent gentleman be was to wnlc_L with was sura to redound to his lasting credi Hig **argument ” was » failcre so wretched fléfl be painful to those who listencd to him. Ho seemed not only poorly prepared for the rfi task he had undertaien, but to lack the me! ability to grasp the reel pith and marzow of the case. Tho Government could nmot hsve ba‘: worse leflfid’;f \iat had resolved in adrance make & sham t. Tho Prosident in noted for s sturdy adber 3 ence to bis friends, and we bave had occasios ¥ commend him for the courage of bis opiniorsi bat in tLis case he has unquestionsbly nudldn mistake, and the most seemly thing be ca2 7 under the circumatances is to withdraW 4 nomination and cend in a stropger name. 1’;: are half & dozen men in the country, the & tion of either of whom would at once be Wg nized as fit and proper. For the credit of ‘Administration, to say notking of tho inters!? of tho country, tho President caunot a0 make & mistake 10 ap appointment which @ 1ast, for good ar evil, for quarter of & c2BiEY — - A SHREWD YOUTH. . Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Dunequs, 1o, Jau. 5-h lady named 4o Seymour lost 32,000 worth of bonds o dsy, Jan, 2, which wers foucd by 8 WJ-' as:3 throngh the talegrmoh this eve! nach she will gite {6 get polssasion bt track, and will resch’ the proper goal | i E i : i ] i ki S s T i T TS