Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1874, Page 4

S ¥ V) PP e e et e e e e et e . TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TKNMB OF FUDECRIPTION (PATADLE IN ADVANOE). Daily, b S12,00| Sunday, 8. AR ock 5001 Wookly 3:60 Parts ol & yenr at the sano rato, To provont dolay and mistakes, ba sure.and glve Post ©Office nddrons In fall, {ncluding Btata nnd County. Remittances may bo mado elther by dratt, express, Post ©Offics otdor, or tn reglstorod lottors, at our risks TERMS TO CITY SUNSCRIDENS, * Laly, dolivored, Bunay oxcoptad, S conte per woek, Dolly, aclivored, Sunday includod, 30 conta por wooks Addros THE TRIBUNI COMPANY, Cortior Mn Uhtosgo, THl. TODAY'S AMUSE Se AUADflth or MUG)EI alstod llmnl,bn!wcg:&!:g-‘ " K—Randolph stroot, between gon. ‘' Guy Mauuering.” . TATRI—Dosplatueostraot, botmeon Mad. T A s ntiomont. "of Miss. Atloo Harrisou, **Tho Loy Dofoctiva.’ MYERS' OPRRA-HOUSE - Monroo strost, botwoen St Avliogtos, Ootton, and Kemblo's Dirarbors ot Siuiostwontr Minstrolsy aud coralaaii- ties, The Chicags Teibume, Thursday Morning, January 8, 1874, Resolutions havo beou introduced in both Tousoa of the California Legislaturo roquesting Uongress to put o stop to Chineso Smmlgml!om — An incronsa of froight rates from Chicago to tho East has boen decided upon by & conferonce of raflroad men at Now York. Thisraiso follows tho close of wator navigation and tho consequent interruption of the compotition which forced tho ropda to lower tholr chiarges lost Juue, Judgo Treat listened ot Springfleld yeatorday to tho motion for tho appointment of & Roceliver for tho Springticld, Illinols & Southeastern Rall- road, but did not give his decision. Tho appoint- ment of nRecoiveris nsked for by parties who havo & controlling intevest, in order to prevent the collection of o judgment for interest by one of the minor stockholders, . s Thoreport which Socrotary of State Harlow bas submitted to Gov. Boveridge gives the cost of the public printing from Nov. 4, 1872, to Nov. 81, 1873, ns $89,003.40, In accordanco with tho instructions of tho Goueral Assombly, Lo hos distributod 4,488 copiea of tho Btato laws among tho members of tho Assembly and the ofticors of the State courts. Five hundred copies onch have beon printed of the journals of tho lnst gessions of tho two Houses. —eeee K. A arioaen and +avid Gax porlt wanin falrdemand, andolosod 10¢ por brl low- ory ut $24,05@14.70 cash, and B15.00@16,05 seller Tobruary, Lard was quito active, and 100 por 100 1bs highor, at $8.00@0.00 casl, and $0.10@ 0.12}¢ sollor Fobruary. Meats wore quict and firmer, n¢ 53¢o for shoulders, 75@744o0 forshort swoot plckled hams, Dressod hogs wore in good demand and 106 highor for choico, at £0.60 @0.00 per 100 1ba, Highwines wore less active and lohigher, at 05c per gallon. TFlour was strong and quiot, Whoat was loss active, and onalor, closing firm at $1.225¢ cash, and 81.24%¢ soller Fobruary, Corn was dull and rather woak, olosfog at 553¢c cash, and 663do reller Fob- ruary. .Oata wore quiot and acnsfor, closing at 89340 cosly, and 403¢o soller Fobruary, Rye was quiot and strongor, closing nt70c. Barloy was quiot and highar, at $1.43%@1.43 for No. 2, and $1.22@1.224¢ for good No. 8. Live hoga wore | nctive ok $4.76@6.06 for poor to exira. Tho cattlo and sheop markets woro woal and lower. THE GAS EXTORTION. 5 Ono of the most outrageous and inoxousable burdons imposed upon the suffering people of this community, at present, s that of tho " Chi- ©ago Gas-Light Company ; and that it is borne without public demonstrations of indignation ia only & proof of tho patience and forbearance of the public. Itis no mew burdon. Ever sinco tho fire this corpulent and overgrown monopoly has toxed the publio exorbitant rates for an in- forior article, and tho imposition is conatantly incronsing. .The bills grow larger, whilo tho quality of light furnished grows poorer almost daily. Thero is probably no other dopartment of business 1n this oity in the conduct of which such an oxaction would be’ endured for auy longth of time. Rival institutions would spring up like mushrooms and furnish people with an equivalent for their monoy ; and that auch has not boon the case in this instance only shows, 88 wo havo said, that pooplo aro vory forbearing and long-suffering. During the great fire tho Gas Company loat its works on the South Bide, but, fortunately it had works on the North Bide, which were not do- stroyed, and into which it moved for temporary occupanoy. It was prosumed, and indoed ox- pected, that a corporation aa Inrgo, and wonlthy, and onergetic, and necessary to the community 08 this, would occupy these insufiiciont North Side worlks only so long as it would take to eroct now works on the Sonth Side which should bo of sufficient capacity to mect tha wants of the Bouth Division. Meanwhilo, ail other corpora- tions, even charitable and church sociotios, and judividual property-owners, whother thoy had monoey or not, went to work onergetically to fill The salary-grab “resolution which was left with the unfimelied work of the last session of tho Legislature was tskon up yosterdsy and passed by both Houses, with mitigating amond- ments, Tho original resolution condemued tho senators and Ropreseutatives of this State who wore concerned in tho steal. As adopted, tho resolution disapproves the grab in general torms, instructs the ropresentatives of this State to vote for its ropeal, and advocates au asmendmont to tho Constitution prohibiting any futuro rep- etition of the performance, Ex-Troasurer David A. Gage was indicted unanimously by the Grand Jwy yestordsy, for the felonies of perjury and embezzlement of the publio funds. The punishment for the first of theso offenscs rauges from ona to fourtcen years' imprisonment in the Penitentinry; for tho other it is from six months to ten years' impris- onment, nnd ¢ fine eqmal to tho nmount emboz- zled. A warrant for Mr. Gage's arrest will prob~ ably be issued to-day, but his arrest will b only temporary and formal, a8 his counsel are under- stood to havemade all tho arrangoments neces- wary forany batl that is likely Lo bo exacted, The military record of Ropresentative Hurl- but, of this Btate, is ngain brought to public notico by the testimony given ina case bofore the Court of Claims. Provost Marshal Harry Robingon, who was on Hurlbut's staff in 1865, when he was in command of the Department of the Gulf, deposes that the General accepted tho sum of $8,000 as consideration for the relense of & quantity of cotton which had been seized. After the money was paid, the interference of n Govornment Commission provented tha relense of the cotton. Tha Genoral, however, neglectod to return the monoy, and his part in the matter becomes public through o suit to recover it from the Government. The usual report of the proccedings of Con- grees fails to appear in our columus this morn- ing, owing to a eovere slorm in the Lnst, which has prostrated the wires. A brief dispatch sent by the way of Nashville gives the iuformation that no vote hns been reached in tho House on the Supple- mentary Civil Rights bill; that the Salary Repoal bill is still beforo the Senate; tad thet Williams' confirmation is still unsottled. New York nows is very scauty for the same TOREON § in fuct, tolegruphic communication with the Fast, boyond Cincinnati and Teledo, is virtually suspended. In some places, stretches of fifty miles of wiro are down, An lee-flos would not bo ordinarily chosen for lako navigation in proferonce to a sail-boat, but A rocent oceurrenco near East Baginaw shows that it may be very mmck safer. Two young men who went out fishing the last day of the year wore carried away on an ice-cake, and, after everal daya' absonce, were given up nslost, A party of six men started out last Monday in search of thom, On Tuesday, tho two lost fishe ermen camo to shore, worn out with six days’ fasting and snfterlug, but alivo. On Woduosday the boat in which their would-be roscuers had deperted was found bottom-up noar the shoro, sud thero is no doubt that the alx men have beon drowned, 1t the caleulations made in ourSpringfisla dls- patohes aro correct, there is little prospact of tho Topeal of tho inlquitous grab-law of this Stato by the presont Legislature, More than 26 votes against ropeal in the Ronate and 77 in tho Tlouso would pravent it, and an enumeration of the ropresentatives of the counties which havo tho bonds show that 84 Renators ond 104 Representatives aro opposed to it, The Biate Auditor will present to-day the roport called for by tho Governor rghcwlug the opora- tions of tho prablaw. It gives tho amount of tho bonda issued, and their apportionmont mmong the countios and townships of tho State, Bonds havo boeu peid and cancoled to tho amount of $108,000, leaving outstanding bonds to the nmount of $18,601,058, Of this amount 45 countles hnve £6,380,004 ; 212 townships have 0,603,147.68 ; while 17 cities linve but 91,040, 500,27, Tho average rate of intoreat 8.500, ——eeram The Chicago produce mnuhh;are generally ansloryouterday, miullnwuln_l wotlvo, Mons up the gaps and improvo their proporty, so that tho business interests of tho city should not suffor; and thoy did thew work g0 well that the facilities for business are now botter than they were before. Over two years have elapsod, and, while every other clement of metropolitan no- cessity lias been replaced, the Chicago Gas Com- pany hing nover takon a step towards restoring its works, notwithstanding its abundant means, its immonse business, and the indispensable character of tho articlo which it furnishes. Its business is compact, constant, and immensely profitable, Moro than this, 1t is the only busi- ness in the city which is strictly cash, Every citizon must pay his bills promptly, or his gas is shut off, and ho is loft in darkness; or ho must leavo security for paymont, upon which lo can draw savings-bank interest, The Gas Company deals in an article which overy one must have, and pay cash for, and yotit is so miserly and niggard that it continues to occupy the North Bide worke, forcing gas from Hawthorn avenuo to Hyde Park, without sufticiont pressure, aund, when remonstrated with, has the tomerity to nmesert that it cavnot afford to put on sufiicient pressuro, ns the city will not pay for the oxtra gas which would thereby boe supplicd to the strect-burners! This, 08 overy one knows, is a mere makeshift, Tho real reagon is that it {8 an avavicious, grasp- ing, tyranuical Taonopoly, which will continue to furnish poor lightto the people of this city just 8o long as thoy consent to bo bled by it ; and it will remain in ifs prosont quarters and refuse to build upon o sufficient scale until the peoplo force it out, The business which this Company is engaged in is just as disroputable as that of the Chenp Jack's store, whoro you pay tho price of o gold watch for o brass ono, They agree to furnieh a first-rate article for a first-class price, and instend of that furnish an inferior urticlo for o first-clash price. The gns which is used in almoat every part of the Sonth Division does not furnish light onongh for any practical purpose, and s congequently ruinous to people’s cyes. It will be no botter so long as people submit to it. It istime the public authorities took tho matter in hand, aud that the clitizens who are thus imposed upon should take such sction as shall compel this Company to erect new worke on the South 8ide, aund to furnish their custom- ora an equivalent for their money. A DOWR-EAST JOXKE, Some two years ago Gon. J. R. Hawloy, editor of the Hartford Courant, received the caucus nomination of the Councclicut Republicans for the oftico of Unitod Btates Bonator in place of Mr. Ferry, whoso term was about expiring. Mr. Terry ind o fow frienda in the Legisinture who wore not averso to bolting the nomination of Hawloy, and, whon this fact was discoverod, the Domocratic membors of the Legislature, by o concerted movement, throw their entiro voto for Ferry and eleetod him. It was supposed, at tho time, that Mr, Ferry had given some sort of plodge to the Democrats, but this was soon dis- praved by & lettor from Forry himself, 8o the mystery of hia ro-clection in spito of the Re- publican party caucus remained unsotved, It bins now tranepired that Gov. Englsh was t the bottom of tho transaction so far as the Domocrats woro concerned, and that he took thia mothod of punishing Hawley for & bad joke porpetrated upon himself in tho preceding Gubernatorinl campaign, In April, 1861, English was the Demooratio and Jewell the Ropublicon cnudidato for Governor. Tho campaign was an oxcited ono. Richard O'Gorman, of New York, was sunounced to sposk at the Demoaoratic meot- iug at New Huven on the Saturday night bofore tho clection, but, being called away-to Albany, tolographed to Euglieh that he could not go. English at once telographed to O'Gorman, st Albauy, care of Tweed: Do not disappoint us; nothing could be more disastrous, J. B, English,” Qov, Jewell obtained In somo way & ocopy of this dispateh, aud, omit- tng tho neme of O'Gorman, he carried it xibe, 75¢o for short clear, and 94@103¢e for’ to the ofiico of the Courant, aund, giving Ausurances of jts gonuineness, cangod it to bo publishod ag g dispateh from English to Twoed, with tho Intimation that I'weod hed agrood to soud & large body of roughs iuto Conueotlout to oprry tho olection. Thig was followed up by s | coustant stream of dlspatshes on the day of olection, from points on th nnuouncing that * Reddy, tho ) gong of Tammany roughs” ha ho Btate to molze tho polls, best o lican votors, and cloct English, Thoso « spatches wore bullotined at overy votlng-place in the Btate, ond, taken in conneotion with the pub- lished dispatch from Bnglish to Twood, proved most dissstrous to English, who wad conse- quently boatou by Jowell. That Reddy tho Diacksmith and his companions did onier tho Btato on the Bunday before tho election, withn gang, was a fact, but It 1as now turned out that T'om Murphy, of New York, had hired them to mako the trip through tho State on Bunday, and that Cov. Jowell and tho. Ropublican Btata Committoe paid ‘the bill, To this day that # Domocratio raid” {s romembored fn Convecti- cut with indignation, and now it is st last proved ihat it was an elootion trick, and a sequel to tho forged dispatch from English to Twood, + English naturally folt outraged at what ho deemed tho disroputable conduat of Gon, Hnwloy, snd, meking that tho ground of por- sonal complaint, united the Domocrata in favor of Forry. Jowoll, who was present, and knew that by oxplaining the facts he could:reliove Haw- loy ana probably socure his clection, kopt & pro- found silence, Gov. Jowell is now Ministor to Russin, but is, navertheless, & candidate for the TUnitod States Sonate, nnd it is understood that this rovelation ‘of his fraud upon English and hia bad faith to Hawloy will send tho joko back to his own doorsto] BENATOR LOGAN AND THE GRAB-LAW. Senator Logan has taken the high ground that the incrense of salary voted for by him last year, under which hie rocolved £6,000 back-pay, and oxpoots $2,600 oxtra pay for the prosont and future years, was right, and ho intonds to stand by it to tho Iast, Scnator Curpenter an- nounced that, while haapproved the ncrense, ho would voto for its ropeal, because he bolieved the poople of Wisconsin demanded repeal. Bub Senator Logan admits no such rule as binding on him, Te voted himaelf $5,000 * baok-pay" and £10,000 incroase of pay for tho romainder of his torm, and ho does not intend to give back a dollar of the past, nor surronder nny of tho fu- ture, if ho can provont the ropoal of tho law. He proposos, therofore, to stand by the Salary- Grab law of last year, Gen. Logan has unques- tionably considered this mattor, and honestly belioves that the monoy he has received and ia now receiving is not too great for the gorvices rendered, and, therofore, Lo has no compunctions of conseienco. Novortholeas, ours is, theoretically at least, a reprosentative Government. Gen, Logan represonts the people of this State, and there can be no doubt as to their opinion on this ‘subject. The fact that Congross had the power to pass the nct is not sufficiont ; the right of tho people to demand Its repeal remains the samo. That they have demanded that rapeal will not bo denfed ; and a Senator or Ropresentative who refusos to voto for that ropeal chooses to place himself in antagonism with tho peoplo he ivas elected to reprosent, It is unfortunate for the Congress- mon who place thomsolves in this position that theo controversy is upon a purely personal mattor, —the amount of wages to which they are entitled. They bavo tho advantage of being the law- makery, and can voto themselves just what they pleaso ; but the powor remaina with the people to chango their reprosentatives at tho regularly recurring periods, Wo do not think it makes much differenco au regards individual members what tho present; Congress may do concerning tho Salary-Grab law. The record of & large portion of the mombers who voted for it was written on the passsgoe of the not, The record of all tho new membora of the Houso has been writton in their recont dis- graceful proceedings, where tho ropoal of the law was jooringly voted down, and a migetablo compromiso adopted, The new Senators have now to make their record, and then tho question will bo sotiled by the peoplo at the polls. We think it safo to assume that no man who voted for or touched tho grab, or who has rofusoed to voto for tho rapoal of all tho inerease of snlaries made by the act of 1873, will be hoard of any moro in Congress after the poople have hind a chanco to select his successor, CONGRESSMAN ELLIOTT'S SPEECH, ‘Timos have changed, indeed. Tho speech de- livered Tuesaday in the House of Ropresontatives by Mr. Elliott, s colored Congressman from South Carolina, is the most couepicuous ovi- donce of it that wo havelnd in all these years since tho close of the War. It isan elo- quont monument to tho human progress that has Dbeen wrought in discord, peril, and civil war. It is the brilliant product of a flery furnace, out ot which renson, justice, civilization, and hu- manity have come forth in & symmetrical form, which may now command admiration on alisides. It hus consed to be o novelty that the colored mon should it in Jogislative halls, The negro raco has boen largely represented in tho Logisla- tures of the Bouthern Btates, but generally to its own disgraco. Colored mon have had places in both Houses of Congress. Wo liave grown accustomed to all this, andbhave variously regarded it with mirth or sbame, as it has furnished occasion, But Mr. Elliott hee domounstrated tho real force of tho new order of things, e has proved to the world that our progress has not boon in vain, Ho has shown that the colored people aroe capable of botter and highor sccomplishments than they have hereto- fore attained amoug us, He hes furnished an animate and sposking refutation to the offete andnow almoat oxtinct ideas upon which the pooplo of the Houth foolishly nnd recklessly sought to found o nation, If Mr, Elliott should never again spenk in Congress, and if a scoro of years shall paes without producing auother dis play of the roal capabilitios of tho colored race, his speech will go on record as a standard and losting justification of tho now lifo which the American nation has given his people. BMon who have outlived thoir prejudicos, or grown to manhood since those prejudices woro recognized or respected, must have road Elliott's speech with somethiug like bitternoss, if they recalled that the race of human boings to which ho belongs was but a fow years ago onslaved by law, and bought aud sold like bensts of burdon, Mr, Stephions, of Georgia, and My, Harsls, of Marylaud, ought now to be convinced that thoy hiavo outlived their day of usefulness, after tho seathing and blistoring castigation whioh Elliott lins fixed upon them with a diguity, eleganco, and conviction of duty that would have become Ldwnrd Everett. Theso mon—S8tephens snd Harris—aro tho rolics of & dny which, though actually not remoto, wooms as distant sa tho Middle. Ages, and ae dark saud barbarous, A negro—black of skin, low of forohead, thick of lips, and flat of nose—has spoken as thoy know not how to apoak, and bas shown himselt pos- s0sied of an order of intelligence aud a ¢on- PR I IO YN ¥} 'Y anbvtialed wy Sl a et e e e et e solousncss of porronnl suporiority which en- ablod him to bo magnanimous aud charliable townrd thom, Though he was in tho position of dofonding his raco, aud bogging for tho guarantee of rights and priviloges to which their now station ontitles them, hio roso superior to tho men who professed to bo bettor than lo, and forcod rospect and admiration from mon who would not give them spontancously. Tho state- mont is confidontly made by Tiue 'RInUNE cor- rospondent that there aro not twenty men in all Congrosa who can bo compared with Elliott for oloquenco. Yet, notwithistanding his oratorical powors, ho has had tho judgmont to keop quict until he found an opportunity to speak for his own people, whom he peculiarly and nlmost ex- clustvoly roprosents. Thero aro fair-skinnod mou in Congross who might loarn somothing from this blsel: man, 1f Elliott's brilliant success furnishes a nota- blo inatanco of tho progress of clvilization in this country for'the white race to poundor on, it has a still’ moro important lesson for the colored race. It should fench them that the now regimo, which abolishes all distinotion on account of color or race, will only olevate them in Position aud influcuce g -they help thom- golvos. Mr, Elllott is’ not. ‘s’ rémarkablo man bocatiro, boing colored, ho has found his way to Congress; ho is' remarkeblo beceuso, in spita of all tho prejudicos against his color, and the obstacles hobing had to cncountor on all gides, ho has forced his woay through to merit and dignity. Buch rosults are attained only by Inbor, patiouco, and stondfastnoss, They.are not renched 8t a jump, - They do mnot come aa o motter of courso when men -go to the Legielature or to Congress, Thoy are not achioved by the passage of any Civil Rights bills. They must bo tollod for carnestly and devotedly. . The colored race are ontitled to all tho privilegos of freo citizonship. Thoy already have tho political rights, which will be valuablo to them only in proportion to tho dis- crotion with which thoy are used. Thoy will algo socuro overy statutory guarantce of equal social xights ; but no statute that can be dovised will do more than opon the way for thom. Tho rest will dopend upon thomselves. Such ia tho lesson that Mr. Elliott's success teaches mora forcibly than any othor incident we récall, and it is a leeson which the colored race noed just as much as Mossrs. Stephons and Harrls, and the peoplo they represont, necdad the other lesson that Elliott has taught them, THE COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGES OF LAW- REFORM. The administration of justice has been modornized, codificd, and simplified in England aud in somo of our sister Statea, groatly to the advantage, as we beliove, of suitors, lawyors, and tho courts, and in & way to promoto the gonoral business interests of the commuvitics In which these improvements havo been made., Tho par- ticulara in which the changes have been made aro chiofly in— 1. The process by which actions are begun. 2. The forms of actions. 8. Tho plendings, or written statements of the causo of action and of the dofense. 4. The proper legislativo means of bringing litigation to n speedy result. 5. Tho final process awarded for carrying out tho judgment of the Court. 6. Tho proper mode of taxing the cost of litigation on the wrongdoor. Firat, ns to tho procese. All the inconven- iences, absurdities, and obstructions to buainess and exchanges which result from clinging, 28 we do in Illinols, to tho ancient English thaory of process would not be apperent without oxplana- tion, even to lawyers who have practiced exclu- sively under the antiquated system, and still leas to merchants and businoss men, whoso intorests aro prejudiced often without suspicion on their part that the injury|is ncedloss. Tho anclont theory of civil process 18 the samo as still pro- vails in criminal process, viz.: that tho defendant must bo actunlly breuglit by authority of law, and by an oftieer of law, ioto court, in some way, beforo judgment could bo lawfully rendored againet bim. Theroforo, formerly the defendant was not merely notified of a suit bogun, either by arreat or summons, but subsequent proceed- ing, ending in outlawry, wero taken aguinst him, a8 mesns to induce him to asppear physically, or by ottornoy, in court. On this theory, of courso, the sum- mons must noeds issue from the Court, under its goal, and must be served by its officer, and mado roturnablo at some term of the court when a Judge would be in attendauce. But whon, by later modifications in the practice, the summons becamo o more notico of an netion being begun, and the defendant could appear or not, 28 he cliose, on simplo penalty of having nis defanlt taken if ho failed to appoar, the sum- mons had no other use thau as & mero notice to pload ; aud tho duty of tho Court in issuing it “originnl yrit,” which from the tenth to the fitteonth contury was a judicial one, involving an inquiry by tho Court, or its clerks, into the natura of the suit, bocamo a purely ministorial, formal, and essentially usoless one. The ob- jection to it, practically, is o doublo one: Firat, to the inconvenionco and dolay of boing obliged to obtain through a Clerk of Court tho issusnce, and through the Sheriff the servico, of & mere “notico” which DLna Jost all the qualities of a writ, which com- mands nothicg and requires nothing, and which any attornoy is compotont to draw up, and any oflico-boy to serve. During this delay, especial- lyin towns remote from tho county-scat, tho dobtor may often cseape sorvice altogether Secondly, the making this “notico to pload " re- turnablo at a torm of court, whon & Judge will be proxent, is noedloes, a8 in non-contested cases thora ia no quostion for the Judge to decido, aud in contosted easey o serics of pleadings and coun- torpleas in writing must bo filed by the respec- tive partles boforo thero is any issuo requiring o Judge to hear, If it were a mnotico to plead within ten or twenty days after its service, these pleadings would then follow each other immodiately upon the bringing of tho suit, and, by the oponing of a torn, the cause, instoad of ‘being merely begun, would be at jusue and ready for trial, But, in counties whore only one or two tormsnre hold eachyear, the effeat of requiring this * notice * or summons to bereturnablaatthe term of tho conrt iu to rediico tho period within which any steps can bo taken -in law to one or two months of the yoar, leaving the romainder of the year practieally without auy law for tho collection of dobt., Ifa Now York or Chicago merchant wishes to guo his customer in Wauke- gan, Liake County, whore two termns & yoar are held, one & Ohancery torm, without a jury, in March, asd ono & law or “‘jury” term, in November, ho must make lis so- calied “pumraons™ or motice to . plead returnablo & yoar heunce, or, if ho makes it roturnable at tho earlier term, it~ doos him no good, ag, it tho account i disputed, that torm will nob txy §t. I the same New York or Ohlongo merchant dosires, liowever, to mio & wimilar account In any part of tha tato of Now York, ho doen #o by n notica to plond, maturing in twonty days, at tho ond of which timo, if thoro i no dofonso to his claim, he entors judgmont bofore the Olerk on proper proofs or by dofauit. Tho effect of the dobt boing collectable in ono Btato and uncollectable in the other is to lesseu tho freedom of piviug credit to customers in linole and Incronso it in Now York rolatively, and aldo to causo merchants in Iliinols to com- promide or glvo away thoir accounts rather than to rosort to Iaw for thair colloction,—thus injur- Ing at onco the debtor class, or those who need tho ueo of others’ capital, and also injuring tho Dor by rondering tho sorvicos of lawyors inofii- clont a8 an ald to commoroo and collection, 1In adjusting titlos to real cstato thoso dolays in tho means of Bottling logal questions oporato 23 o shacklo on tradoe in land, and often provent exchanges bolng made at all which could, with Lottor legal facilitios, hnve boon made, with proflt to- botl parties, Wo bavo drifted into this diffoulty, and not as o mattor of Biata pol- foy. For, if the pooplo of Illinois belleved every dobtor sued ought to bo sued on asix or cight ‘montha' summons, they have wholly failed to securo this indulgenep equally to all debtors. Tor, if tho dobt happons to mature ton days beforo the firat day of court, the debtor may bo Jorkod into court on a ten-day summons, whora- 28, had {t matured o day later, ho would have had six or ton monthe jnstend, Therenl reason why this systom is maintalnedis, Leeanso the Shorifts doputios and clorks through- out the Btato wrongly aupposo it to bo a great sourco of proflt to thom to require litiganta to pay them for neodloes services. They do not reflect that the tondenoy of the systom to dlacunr;g'n all morehiants and business mon from rosorting to tho courts for rodress in & country whero time is money and delay is worse thnu compromiso lesgons their business far more than the equiva- lont of tho noodicss services they aro enabled by thie systom to ronder. In New York, Towa, and, we believe, in most of tho other codo States, viz,: Ollo, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconein, California, and Minnesota, the protonso of making tho summons, or “‘notice toplead™ a “writ” returnablo in court nt a torm is droppod, and the suit is begun by & no- tice returnable in ten or twenty daya, slgned by tho attornoy and sorved by anybody. ‘Chis facil- itates collections and benefits lawyors and com- moerco alike. Tho subject of Forms of Action is quite as important to merchants and business mon, and iuvolves an obstriction to the busincss of tho country of no small momont; but it demands & soparato discussion, L THE OSAGE LANDS IN KANSAS, The recent decislon of Judge Goddon, at To- peka, Kan., in one of the Ossgo Landa cnses, in favor of the sottlors, invests this question with ronewad interest. As thoro aro many who do not understand the question, although it has boen in digpute a long time, and hea bad a very decidod influence in affecting Kausas politics, thoe occasion is o timely ono for a brief history of it. In 1863, Congress granted tho State tho al- ternato soctions of a strip of country twenty miles wide, to md in the construction of the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad, tho grant to take place when tho road was defi- nitely Iocated. At the samo time, an act was pagsed authorizing the President to troat with the Osnge Indinus and oxtinguish their title to & resorvation in the south- orn part of the Stats, through which the road would pansa, Tho treaty was proclaimed in January, 1867, the Indians coding to the Gov- ernment s strip of lund 30 miles wide, ou the eustern side of thoir reservation, for £300,000. By tho terms of the trosty thoso lands were not to bo open to tottlement by pre-emption or hotestead ontry, but were to'bo sold for casl, one gection of tho treaty, however, allowing ace tual sottlors on the lands, at the time the treaty was mado, to pre-empt o quarter section at 31,25 per acra, of which privilego 143 sottlers availod thomsolver, When the railrond located its lino in 1867, the Land Commissioner ruled that the Compauy could not take tho alternate soctions but that all must bo sold. Secretary Browning roversed this decigion, and in January, 1868, thet Government formally withdrew the lands from ealo, and tho rallrond theroupon mortgaged thom. In April, 1869, Congress, by = joint: resolution, provided that settlers could purchago them for iwo years at $1.25 por acro, and settlora flocked in and purchosoed the railroad lands. This con- tinued uutil tho caso again went up to the Scc- retary of tho Intorior, who decided that the rail- road ad tho right to tho alternate sections, and that thoy could not be sold to sottlers. Soveral of the entrios were cancolled, tho Government refunding the money, but thore are 320,000 acrea still in dispute, represonted by over 6,000 sot- tlers, who have determined 'to fight it out to tho bitterend with tho raflroad,—tho settlers claiming that when the original grant was made, in 1863, the Osnge Indisns still had posscssion of the title, and, a8 they did not cede thoir lands and give up the titlo until 1867, tha railroad has no right to them, This question is now the promi- nont feature in the anti-monopoly campaigns in Kensas; and has been tho principal agenoy in breaking up the Ropublican party in that State. mousing around the Sonuto Chamber has Gis- covered that tho “ contingont * expenses of that body, after paying Sonators, clerks, doorkeopers, messongers, Capitol police, all employes, all fuel and othier ordinary expenses, amount to 71,140, Of this sum, 0,000 are invested in horses and wagons; 95,000 are paid out for tho stationery used by the oficers and committees; $12,000 are roquired to koeop the furniture in order, and %0 on, DBut, after all the itoma aro figured out, the sum of 240,000 way spent for ‘*‘miscellancous” things during the four monthe' gossion of last yonr, The item of per- soual stationery f8 rather intorcsling. There wore 445,600 ouvelopes alone, or 6,014 for esch Benntor; 14,780 quires of paper, or 200 quires for each Bountor; 270 pooket-knives and 156 pairs of scissors, which I8 an average of moro than two of each for every Senator ; 383 stecl pons aploce; o few thousand load-pencils to go oround, besides u variety of visiting-curd plates, vieiting eavds, pocket-books, inkstands, and gold tooth-picks, When the Senato talks about mhunahm:nt. it shiould know where to bogin, A um-lngul broach-of-promlse cuse was recently deolded in Livorpool, ‘The plaintiff was Agucs Nutiall, the &aughter of u ship-owner, and tho defendant Goorgo H, Wildes, s military officer, and a gentloman of considerable mauns sud re- spoctubillty, who had been divorced, his wife Nuving loft him for the soclety of amore favored lover, ‘The engagoment waa made in tho Iy tor part of Mny last, snd the wedding. day fized for the 4lth of Ootob Evorything progrosend satisfaotorily until the 84 of Octohor, when Jias Nuttail recolved n lot- tor from hor afflanced, stating that ho had mot his wifo eftor & sopsration of two yontsand & half, and, findiug that sho still loved Nim, and tunt poople had lied about hor, ho had marrled hor agalu, Miss Nuttall thoroupon hrought suit for bronoh of promieo, and, after a long and tedi- ous trin), the jury awardod hor 816,000 damagos. Asthe defondant liud scted honorably In each instance, and could not resist marrying his wifo tho second time, when ho found he hind beon de: coived, tho penalty rooma n wevora one, 'Thy Jury, howover, evidently had some comminera- tion for the girl who had missed an lncoms amounting to $26,000 por aunum, Bomo days ago, it will bo remembered, & cora- mittea of tho Fammany Hall Domocracy wi- droseod a communication to Recorder Hackatt, of tho Now York Criminal Coust, aaking lun to appoint some porsony to subordinate positions in bis conrt upon tho recommendation of tha Pammavy Society, Recorder Mackett took of- fengo ot tho proposition, conatruing it to bo a de- mand that Tammony should have ropreenta- tives in tho Criminal Court for politieal purposes, Ho pubiished » raply, in which ho auimadverted soverely upon tho. practico of pormitting s court to bo prostituted to such base de- signs, and rofused to accede to the Tammany request. Dr. Foodoro Mierson, the Secrotury of tho Committes, has now published a ro- Jjoludor to Recorder Hackett, in which Lo charges that thoro are alroady officers of the court who wero recommonded by thoe Apollo Hall Domoeracy ; alao, n protego of ex-Senntor Harry Genot, now a fugltivo ‘ from justico, and anothor officer who formerly kept a rosort for thioves. Dr. Miorson’s letter scoms to bo a confeaeion that it was this supposed composi- tion of the Criminal Court's personnel which in- duéed him and his Tammany frionds to bollave that their recommondation would moct with favor, which is cortainly s bad confossion to make, ' Tammany has not boon helped by Dr. Mierson's rejoiuder, aud the position of Recorder Hackott in the controversy is & good one, the Tammany charges to tho contrary notwith- standing. —— A London architect is roported as having in- |, vented s noaror approach to fire-proof mntorial for houses than has over yet been known. Ho hnas combined ecarthen-ware and coment conerote with iron, steel, and metal wire, s0 as It is claimed that walls, floors, partitions, and roofs can bo built of this material 8o as to be at oncoe Some sixty houses aro said to have boon built after bis design in London, The walls, partitions, and roof aro built of sheot-iron or stoel made in an octsgonal shape, and arranged like & honeycomb cell. In the spaces loft in tho iuterior are placod, by sections, pipes of lollow earthon-ware, and the lron is bolted through those pipos. In the partitions metal wiro Is strotchod across those cells, on which to put the coment or plaster, thus taking the place to resist tho hottest of furnaco-heat. light, durable, and fire-proof, of Jaths. 1t is claimod that this combination will not only rosist fire, but that it is cheap and du- rable. The hollow spaces inside the walls can also bo used for vontilating and heating pur- poses. The floors consist of metal uprights and girders oncased in concreto, The ‘‘vindicating” pracess has had another Tho Republican caucus of the Unitod States Sonate nominated Senator Crr- ponter for Prosidont of that body as & *‘vindi~ cation” of the Benator from the charges that Lave been made against him. The Democratic cuucus of the House of Reprosentatives nomi- nated Foranndo Wood for Spoaker'to * vindi- cate" him from the cliarge of voting for the The Republican papers of New York have been for somo timo charging dr. James W. Husted with a heavy respousibility for much of the corrupt action of the Legislaturo, and the New York Times appealed even to Husted himaelf to sparo tha party tho burdon of carrying him any long- er. Inthe caucus of tho Republican members Alr, Husted was nominated for Bpeaker, in order to vindicate him from the charges so freoly illustration. Selary-Arab 1w, and from other charges. mado ageinst him. he, too, might bo vindicated. vindicated ! The Rankin defalcation in Xowa was rendered possiblo by thie looso and irregular uso of funds belonging to State institutions, but left in the After an investi~ gation by tho Legislature of the misappropris- tionof funds in this way, a bill was paesed was intended to prevent a repotition of tho abuses. Just what this bill was cannot now be rocalled by the Iowa papers, bocauso, after passing both Houses, it ‘was never seon nor heard of again. The Secre- tary of Stato roports that he can find no ovidence of its enrollment orits presoutation to the Gov- ernor for his signature. The inferenco is that tho bill has been stolen, and stolon with o pur- pose, and there is n demand on tho part of the Towa press that the matter shall be investigated. The casa illustratos the dosperate risks which haunds of the State Treasuror. by both Housed which men take nowadays for political purposoy. A dissolution of the Canadian Parliamont is prodicted by the Quebec Chronicle, which, if it occurs, will be followed by a genoral clection, in whioh the Canada Pacific scandal will bo can- vassed all over ogain. The political coudition of Canada is not unlike that of the United States ns regavds the old partios. There are suggestions of now parties on all sides, and, though thoy have not yot assumed a formidable aspact, thoy will gain in strength a8 tho peoplo gradually open their eyes to tho dangors to which they are exposod when corruption Lus once set in. If the peoplo of Oanada will heed the warnings thoy may find in the political condt- tion of the United States, they will not defer, as wo havo, the task of taling reform directly into thoir own hands. e NOTES AND OPINION, Opinion of tho London Times on & spasm of virtue in our Congress : 1t yequired some cor] the Houss of Represen od economy. Dy rolinguishig that Rnmuivon bat Year. ready 10 give up what they buvetakon, the, others fucrevse fu tha cost of Hviy 1y 10Ty wre not Ready (o upply to thewselven, rulo ~'wo opinions of the firat thing -the Ohlo Legisluture did s "The Arst thing the Olito Leglslaturo did anterday Kitor pessmibliug, wan to pasa ¥ resolution wking Gone Tho Republicaus of New ‘Hampshire should now nominate ox-Seuator J. W. Pattorson for Governor, in order to vindicate him; audox-Sonator Pomeroy might claim the nomination for President in 1876, in order that Let everybody bo orato sudaclty on tho part of atives to ‘,“}} |upun lflml Becre K 7 sury to meet the deticlency by incveus. e o ity 1o roply by uiting thons ¢ mplo to tho atber employes of o nation R doubls Doy which they. votod Whi f pernotrtors Gt Yt ik eal " towao the Transatlantly phrasy—sro Lack-pay ptea o 10 f(lllfl\\"flllfllf “lm,"lul!‘ ]l{“l“l:f!{l lllfil}(l in 1“1:‘ f' their reluotance to do thi hat- from tho o o cooh tlioy tind thelr doubled M wanee no more serviceablo thun tuew old salary, Sl s oo sk with \hut conolency they DFODONS 1o iy permunient services of (o conutry & grees to immediatoly repeal the Salary-law, Thowe Leglnlators nvo tresh front tho peoplo, It 15 o Pity Cona gresemien weren't aa novw: in Washington an theso other mou nro in Columbus,—2ea Moines Reqinter, Tt soema tho Domocrata i (o Ohio 1ours of Repro- sentatives conld not sleop & Finglo night after coning fogother without manifesting Rielr epltn toward Presi- dent Geant, by proposing to “cansura® him for slgn- Ing o ill which wan voted for Ly n majority of tho Demouratle members of Gongrons, iucluding 1ho pree- cnt Democratio leader i tho House, whotn Wy party rupported for Hpeaker, Boautiful consistency l—-}’ak&u Comineretal, g —Opportunily of Intercourse with their cou- stituonts must have persuaded every Intelligont, honest Congreasman that the press hns not ntated tho enso unfalrly, in roprosonting that the prople ara far from boing satisflod with tho way n whieh the Forty-third Gongress commonced ftawark, . . . Asido from tho interost whicl: tha eountry must foel {n tho provalence of wis- i, honnty, and patriotism in tho halls of tho Hutlnal Leglulature, the future of the Republi- rau purty dupends, to no emall extent, upon the wiy I which tho prosent Congross doos its work,~—Huffulo Qommercial Adterliscr, ) —It may be propor to romind Congressmen that, unlexs thay do addross themeolves onraost~ 1y wud faithfully to thelr worlk, thoy may bid o long farawell to Congrossional halls when, thelr present termnsg axplre, for thoy will not bo ro- turnod, ''he people domand honosty, economy, and a khort eewsion,—Milwaulkee Wisconsin. —'T'hero havo heen o, fow Congrossmon onufim in velling cwietuhipa, Butb wo hnvo reason to be. liove that more hinve Hold pont-oflices and other minor offices in their districts. Somoe of thom, wa ara convineed, have been in the pay of grnni reailrond corporations. Homo of thoso whe yielded to the curront temptation were exposed —probably those lesst guilty ; but others né doubt pursuo their quict way **on the malo.” Wa do notatall mean tosaythat Congressmenyare siunors above all othor men ; not nt ail. But {he * on the make " Infection has sproad to them. Tt was this iufoction that caused the bnck-jay grab. That wos not an isolated attacl ; it was on}y a monifostation of o national discasor— —liartford Courant—Joseph R. Hawley, M. (. ~—\Wiiy ds alithis? Becausoof oxtravagauce— nothing else, whon wo look down to tho root the matter. Tho peoplo, the towns and citie), tho Stato and National Governments, lLevo all beon living boyond thelr mauns, or sponding more movey than they could afford. Ilencd cama tho Jay Cooko failure, which atarted tid row of falling brick, the snlary-grab, tho fungug growth of oficial carringos in’ Waslington, the provalence ot dofalcations overywhere, and all the othor signy, small and greal, of a goneral loosoning of the old ties of frugality and honest living.. The romady s porfectly obvious—* fair but bard,” as the boys’ phrase i8. _Wo must re-! tura the woy from which wo have departed, . . Wo truat thut Congross will act n this spirit, bo- | ginning with an application to its own salarics, ! and that our municipal governmeonts will cone tinue the oxample, which, indeed, can ouly tri- * umph by having its source and goal- in the body of tho poople.—Boston Journal, —Tho salary-grab must be distinctly ropenled ‘without uufi ‘parsimonious unemgb {o retain o portion of thospoils; Mr, Mullett’s florid fancy for granito must bo restrained; and tho knife must bo appliod to the lavish nFmo riations so Inconsistent with tho economy in domesttc ox- }leuaas now universally practiced by tax-payera. t 18 quito possible that tho roturning Congross- men bring with thom, from their holiday inter- courso with constituonts, somo now knowledge of the depth of pnfimlnr foeling on theso sub- Lecw; aud tho bold man who carries this en- ightenment to the Whito Houso may do tho President o sorvice in time. For already the pacty is utng};nring under the weight of oblaquy assumed by its leaders, tho spriug eoloctions are conceded to the opposition, aud the necessity of roform has bacomo unpleagantly alarming, With corruption aud extravagancoe so notorionsly ex- posed in avery dopartment of Government, it in improbablo that any courso of conduct will rein- stato tho Ropublican party and Adminiatration in Yumio confidenco; but tbe demand is none tho - less fmporative that Comi‘resu #ball from this day bogin tho correotion of tho ovils it has aided anct counmitted.—Zoston Losl, —The Republican Senators cannot afford to ) | make many more mistakes in order to vindicate bad men who insiat on party indorscment, DBot- tor kick them out of tho party, and rotain thousands of pure, good men, who will never ueed cortificates of charactor.—DesAoines Stale Journal. —The early and decidéd action of the Anti. Mounopoly State Central Committoe in calling a State Convention at DesDloines, on the 25th of Fobruary, will, wo olieve, awalien & vory geu- oral and ‘setive response. The Conventlon ig callod **to organize the poople for the campaij of 1874, and to consolidato all tho clomonts favor of reform u tho Stato and National Gov- ernmonts.” Itis not proposed to nominato a State ticket, but to orgavize and get roady next summer to sweop curruflt Radicalisin from pow= or. Iowa next fall will have nino Congrossmon to oloct, and it is important thut an oarly start bo taken. Ior tho fact is that the MeCrarys, and Kasgons, and Donnang, and Cottons will for the most part be invited to stay at homoe,.—Dubugua Herald. o i —¢ Anti-Grab " can scarcoly bo considercd a pretly name for tho now party, but it isa strongly oxpressivo one, and may yet become a torrible watchiord to the demugogues who bave 80 loug hithorto ruled by means of ono or the athor of the great partios_which now scem ta have lived their day., The most wonderful fouture of the stupendous reform movemont whicl: swept over the country last fall was, that it sprang forth from the pooplo, without plan or organization, as the expression of an intensa popular feeling ageinst the abuses and porrup. tions of power, Bceing this, the old political wiro-pullors said to oach othor, *This is but ephomeral ; we must merely bow until the storm is over,'then reaction will loavo the peo- plo weaker and us stronger then befere,” Thoy acted upon this beliof when they insulted tha nation by a half-way patehing and trimming of tho infsmous salary-grab. . . . The Inde- pondent roform movement but scotched the sorpent of ofticial corraption, which the Auti- Grab Leaguo, or gomo other organization like it, bas yot to kill.—San I'rancisco Chronicle. —If faithful to tho trust roposed in it,—aud wo boliove it will be,—tho Reform party of Wis- consin will continua to receive tho people's con- fidenco, If dorelict in duty, it deserves potitical death, ~ As & new and indopendont organization, it must ignore the proffered lendership of old political hucls. . . . With the selection or good mon to 1lll its positions of honor and trust, eod a closo observanco of its pledges made to the people, the new State Administration will bring credit upon itself, and place the Reform party of Wiscousin upon = sure aud permanent toundntion,—Oshkosh Times, ¥ —Tho strongth of tho Republican party lies now wholly iu the good it hag done, aud not in the good it is now doing. It has wielded moro influonco over tho minds of the masses of the peopla for the lnst cight years, by crying, wolf, wolf, tho Confederate wolf, thun through any privalo virtue in itaclf. It mattera not how good a Ropublican a man may have been, ho is a vil- Jnin whenever Lo ceases to be lod or driven by tho aristocrats of tho day. . . . Nov ome of . the four publishors of tho Danville News ever voted o Demacratic ticket, certainly not in many yoars ; not one of them voted tho Liberal ticket in 1872, and uot ono of them will ovor nyain vote the Ropublican ticket unloss it offors gomething Dattor than it hos offerod for & year past.—Dan- vitle (1) News. < ‘ ‘Piro Urant orgons are snooring at the Farm- ers’ Movemont aud their platform, but thoy will flnd ont, bofora tho closo of tho prosount yoar, that it i8 o movoment that will swoeop tho Credic Mobilierites and salary-grabbers, monopolists and corruptionists from poiwer, and pluce Lonest mon in their places. The farmors aud working- ‘mon are bogiuning to apprecista the jmmense power they possosa, and aro uniting to doliver themselves from oppressions that have beon {fastoned upon them by the ruling party.—dJoliet (IIl.?lSlgunI. . —Thero was uever o time in tho hiatory of our conntry whon the Inboring classes wore as har— monionaly unitod a3 aé present, and it you only bear in mind the points upon which thoy have beon brought 8o closely togethoy, the circums atances which brought it about, and the reforms to bo offected by united politieal action, who can doubt tho rasult ?—Magomb (IIL.) Granger. —A yumor is afloat horo [Washington] that before tho lapso of mavy duys » Republican mombor of tho Houeo will submit to that body & somowlist bold and startliug proposition for the rolief of tho Southorn States from thoir pre’s‘en: disheartening finaucisl ombarrassmonts, This proponition, it is said, will Le to ndvanco to the Southoyn Htates soveral hundred millions of casly, or its equivalent, and partly in considora- tion ot tho hoavy losses suffored by tho South- orn Btatos in tho lovs of their ulave property. 0f courxe thero I8 10 hopo of the success of any Stols wehomo tiis sido of tho Prosidential elog- tion of 1870 but suppose you huyo sa ambi- tious Xtepublican or two intent upou a now de parturo for 1876, vou will percelve that, in gain=- ing tho mood-will of the South, through the proposition suggosted, tho Republican loading oft in this movement will secure some capital to build wpon, It seoms to be underatood hore that s powerful bolt from the Administration party 18 bound fo bo mude for the campaign of 1470, snd so il some laading Ropublican during this uession of Ouugrouu shall load off in some movemugt ‘n{ t‘lm“ outhorn voto no: ;:: élo:;: in the Administration programme you b surprised.—Sproial {o the New fm mtnli