Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1874, Page 4

CHICAGO DAILY TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TENME OF RUBRCRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANOR). Datly, by roal X Tri- Woekiva . Parta of & yoarat the same rato, Yo provont dolay and mistakos, ba sure and give Post Office address n full, including Btato and County. - Romittances may bo made ofthor bydraft, oxpross, Post Ofice ordor, or in rezisterod Iottors, nt ourrisk, TERMB TO OFTY AUDAORIDENA, Daily, doltverad, Bunday oxcoplea, 25 osnte per wook: Datly, deliverod, Bunday fncludod, 80 cents por wook. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madison and Uearborn-sta., Uhlcago, lll._ TO'DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. i ¥ ATRE—Madison strest, betwesn Donrboe kol Bt Tngaaamantof oo SureLoson Opora-Troups, ! Lucls di Lamniermoor." ACADEMY OF MUSIO—aluted strost, batwoon Mad- tson and Mogras. =~ Kogagoment of ' aluglon, 4* Day ‘Atter Hoatinarn v 3re R Condnaiit “Hvont tima * a0t ** Bolon Bhingle," LY'8 TI O Taballor Honor," Afternoa: W streat. batweon d ovon! n 7 Dasplainos stroot, botwoon Mad. 18 WaaHagton Toomamoment ol Bharpler, Shonden & Maok's Miustrels, Afternoon and ovening. MYERS' OPERA-IOUSE-Monroo stroet, botwoon 3 td Catton, and’ Komble's mfi:‘f&'fi.‘"fi R 8pers Dir Fimtealy snd 5o calition, The Chicags Teibune, ‘Wednesdsy Morning, January 21, 1874. Thore was 8 long discussion in tho Wisconsin Logislature yestorday on a motion to sppoint n foint committos to invostigate the oarnings of the railroads of tho Biato, and thelr relations to the Btato, in the matier of thoir increnso of tax- os and tho like. No action was taken. Nino workingmen wore killed and many othors seriously injured by an explosion in & mill at Bonuington, Vt., yosterdny, The explogion was causod by the accidental igmtion of gasoline, whichk had eacaped from & pipo that loaked, probably for the want of & littlo attention or some trifling ropairs, Thero were no rosolutions or debate on the carrency question in the House of Rnpresonta- tives yestordasy, Mossrs. Dawos and Butler hav- ing fortunsately got into one of their endless por- sonal altorcations, which so .consumed the time that nothing was done boyond tho passage of a new parlismentary rule. The OCommittee of Ways and. Aleans proposo that the limit of the greonback currency bo fixed at $400,000,000. Thoy declino to oxpress any opinion as to tha logality of the reiesuc of tho 44,000,000 of reserves. They !en‘n that ab- siract question to the Houso, but the practical effect of the first proposition will bo to prevent tho return to tho Troasury of tho $27,000,000 of thoso reserves that have been relssucd. ‘The ombarraesing dead-lock in thoe Iowa Log- telature continues. Ench side shows an inge- nious anxiety to end it, if it can be done to its own profit. The Republicans proposed yesterday tLat they would take tho Spoakership and give tho Anti-Monopolists the other offices, The Anti-Monopolists, not to be outdone, offered to take the Speakership and give the Ropublicans the other officers, Neithor offer has been ac- copted. The war which Sir Bartlo Froro and the Indian Govornment have daclarod against the Bongal famine will have to bo pushed vigorously. Lator roports indicate that tho distress and scarcity are increasing, and prepsring a rich harvest for the Hindoo speculators whoso sharp eyea arc already fastonea on this fleld for gain. All the other parts of India will prob- ably have to be taxed for tho rolief of tho Bengalese, and the English Govornment will algo bavo tosend them large quantities of pro- visions, a it did in the case of the Irish famine of 1847, demand at unchanged prio Whoat was 130 lower, with less domand, but closed firm at 81.213{ oash, and $1.8%¢ sollor Fobruaty. Corn was active and closed 1o highor, at 573¢o cash, and 68}¢c sollor Fobruary. Onta woro quiot and firm, olosing at 413(@419¢c.cnsh, and 420 sollor Febiuaty, Ryo was quiot and firmor at 770 for rogular, Barloy was quiot sud atrongor on No. 8, at 81.26@1.28, On Baturdny ovoning last thero waa in store in thiscity 1,008,080 bu wheat ; 1,020,600 bu corn; 550,085 bu onts; 65,870 bu ryo; oud 870,279 bu barloy. Live hogs were activoand higher, olosing firm at §4.90@5.00. Tho cattlo market was quiot and casior, with enlos at 3.30@6.95 for poor to oxtrn, Sheop woro aotivo and,10@16c highor,—selling at $3.60 @5.36, . 9 Abill for the compulsory education of the children of this State was passed by the House of Reprosontatives at Springfleld yesterday. According to ita provisions children between the age of 9 and 14 muat bo sent to school for throo months of the year, and six weeka of this schooling must be continuous, Poverty cannot bo pleaded 08 an excuso for failure to comply with the law, as all the books necessary will bo supplied by the Stato, and clothes will be given to destituto children, Paronts or guardians who neglect to oboy tho law will subject themsolvos to prosecution and to flnes for thirteon weocks, rising from $1 to 95 for each week of such neg- \ect, Beuators Browulow, of Tenuessee, and Gor- don, of Goorgia, spoke on the currency question yestorday, and argued that the South noeded moro currency. Senator Brownlow thinks an immediato roburn to spogie payments would be destructivo, Senator Gordon reprosenta tho South to be poorer to-day than when Loo sur- rendered, What it wonts is cheap money. Ho believes there was moro prospenty in the Sonth wheon it took sixty dollars of Confedorate cur- . rency to buy ono gold dollar thau thero is now. 1f Congress would make more money, and make it floxible, there would, ho szys, be instant relief throughout tho country, Senator Gordon talks moro wisely than ho meant when ho holds up tho Confederate ourrency for the admiration of tho inflationista. They aro on the same road, e — Probably no one over looked at the Biameso twing without » painful epeculation as to Low they would die. That event occurred last Sat- urday morning, at Mount Viry, North Carolina, aud was horrible, a8 might have been antici- pated. Chang had been unwoll for several months, and died Baturday morning afbor a sud- don illness of o few hours. Eng followsd him atter two hours, moat of which was spent in an agony of raving, Thoso two brothers bolongedto tho famlly of monstera which are termed in medicel works autositaires, Thoy wero unlted by s moderate-slzod connecting processin the contra of whioh was a singla umbilious. They wero born fu 1811, .sud Loth leave wives and children. Their long lifo has beon a physiologi- cal anomaly, 08 membors of the peculiar group to which they belong almost invarfably dle at Dbirth, — Tho Chieago produco markats wore moderate- ly sctive yeatorday, and irregular in prices, Ilews pork was in good demand, and 5@100 per brl higher, olosing at $14.25@14.80 cash, anq $14.80@14.85 sollor Fobruary, Lard waaquite netive, and advanced 100 per 100 ths, closing at $0.06@0.10 cash, and £9.16 scller February, Deats wero active and firmer, at 53¢o for shoul- ders, 63¢@0igo for ehort ribs, 73{c for short clear, and 0}4@100 for sweet pickled hams, Dressed hoge wore dull and_6@100 per 100 Iba Jowor, at $5.20@5.80, Highwinos wore quigt 3949 steady at 960 per gallon, Flour way in light Ex-Prosidont Thiers is aa stout a Ropublican a8'over. Inroply to the epooch of Ministor ‘Wasbburno, prosonting him with a gold medal from the Fronch rosidents of Thiladolphis, ho declared that the Ropublio was tho only Gov- ornmont possiblo for TFrance, Tho samo idea is gaining ground among the pro- vineial Fronch, as is shown by tho unox- pooted rosult of the recont eloctions, Mac)Mahon' and hia Cabinot have a dlfforerit ‘polioy. After s bittor contost thoy carrlod thelr bill, giving thomselvos tho powor of appointing the Mayors of all tho citioa of tho Dopartments through tho Assembly yesterday, by a majority of forty- throo. This measuro bas oxolted n groat denl of Indignation in the Provincos, and tho persistonco of the Govornmont car hardly increaso its strength or popularity. Mr. McOrary's bill for tho appointment of a Govornment Board of Railroad Commissioners, and for the prohibition of unroasonablo charges by intor-Stato rallroads, has boon reportod favorably by the Houso Committeo on Railroads and Cauals, Tho Committes mako n long argu- mont to catablish tho constitutionnlity and oxpodiency of such logislation, Congreas s distinotly,. granted power to rogulato commorce botweon ‘tho Btates, and that, tho Committeo arguo, with a great deal of ohiop logic, covers tho ground. Congross bas the same power ovor intor-Stato railway trafllo that individunl Btatos bayo over thelr in- toroal traflio. The rogulation of inter-Stato railroads by tho sovoral Biates is impossiblo, There must bo a natlonsl rogulation or none. The quostion, as thoy put it, is, whother thoso corporations shall bo controllod by the Fodoral Govornment or left unbridlod. SENATOR WRIGHT'S NEW . FABHIONED GREENBACK, In order to got rid of the disagreeable and re- proachful falsehood iusoribed on tho groouback currenoy, conveying tho promiso of the United Btates to pay ono dollnr to the holder of overy note of that denomination, Senator Wright, of Towa, proposes that the greenbacks shall hero-' after be printed'in this fashion : THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ONE DOLLAR, If tho exieting groonback, with its unfulfilled and protosted promise to pay, is a lie, 88 it unquestionably is, Soualor Wright's groen- back would bo a “whopper.” Hls proposed bit of paper declaros itself to bo eithor tho United States of Amorica or to bo one dollar. Now, the United Btates of America consist of 87 Btates and 8 Territories, and a dollar consists of 412} graina of silver, or 25 8-10 graius of gold. Scnator Wright's plece of stamped paper is not and cannot bo made o dollar any more than it can be ‘made the United Btates of America. It is possi- ble—physically possiblo—for the Governmont to compol creditors to take it in llou of a dollar duo to them; but such exercise of poweor will not make it a dollar, or anything olm but tho evidence of fraud, tyranny, and injustice. Tako away from the eoxisting greenbacks the promiso of the Governmont to rodesm them in real dollars, and ono cloment of their valus do- parts from: thom, Inacribs upon them tho lio which Benator Wright proposes,*and they will deprociato still farther. Tho proper inscription to put upon them is this: * The United Statos of America undertakes to eompel all creditors to rocoivo this serap of papor as tho oquivalent of 412}¢ grains of silver. How much silver or other proporty shall bo given for it by any per- son, not a creditor, in tho ordinary course of trade, the United States of Amorica doos not un- dortake to say.,” This would' express the real facts, and would entitlo the sorapof paper afore- snid to & cortain degroo of respect ag declaring the truth, whoreas Senator Wright's proposed logend would bo a cnso of unmitigated false pre- tenses and attemptod swindling, It the consoquencos were not 8o injurious and far-reaching, it would be an interesting ond valuablo experiment to Jot tho Wrights, Mor- tons, and Logans havo their way with the cur- rency, aud seo whero thoy would bring up, It is a woll-kuown historioal and sciontiflo fact thab all additions to the volumo of an irredeomablo currency take the form of increasod prices of commoditios, 80 that tho scarcity of money re- mains tho sime as before—moro of it boing ro- quirad to transact tho sams amount of business, Finding that tho addition of $100,000,000 did not make money any plentier (a8 it would not), they would naturslly conclude that thero was not enough, and propecd to isaue another £100,000, 000, Logleally, thoro is no reason why thoy shiould evor atop short of that greenback paradiso in which everybody shall have all tho monoy ho wants, whothor it is worth anything ornot, Will Mr. Wright, or Mr., Morton, or Gon. Logan, toll us whother thero ia any place short of zero at which thoy think it would be degirable to stop the depreclation of the currency ? Or do thoy fancy that tho succossive incromonts wonld not cause deprociation? It is possible that those hon- orable gontlomen are muking spoeches fu order to persundo the simpletons who aro domanding & froshk issue of deprociated shinplastors that thoy (Wright, Morton, and Logan) aro as groat foola as anybody, and therefors entitled to tho votes of that olags, It is charitable to placo this construction upon their uttorancos, for ir they woro asked to put thoir idess in the form of an act of Congross, eud bo wolely and exolusively’ reaponaible for its consoquences, thoy wonld uof dare to do it. i If.you wish to murder anybody in Lmlln!uy’n it is wise to belong to tho party In powor and solect your viotim from tho other side, Then you can oxcape punishmont as casy as Yoasoy. Vensoy is n murdoror of 8t. Martin's Parlsli (so the Now Orloana papors 6ny) who got tho Parish Judge nud somo othor ofliciala to belp; him butchier Lfa pnomy, The looal papery publishod tho murder, thoy sont for o friend who ‘was Judge noar by, Ifotried and ncquitted tho St Mariin's Judge and rolired. Thon tho Intter triod and acquitted Lis follow-criminals. So tho nw i gatisflod, tho murdorers aro froo, and tho viotim 15 dond, GOVERNMENT RATLROAD COMMIGSIONERS, Tho bill offorad by Mr. McCrary, of Iown, na woll a8 ono or two similar bills introduced sub- doquontly and now pouding in Congross, providing for tho appointment of & Gov- ornmont Ruilrond Commisslon, cannot ane swor any usoful purposo, 'ho MoCrary bill pro- vides for tho appointment by tho President of o Commission, consisting of ono from ench judi- olnl ciroult of tho United States, nino In atl, the mombors of which shall not bo intorestod in rail- full accounts of tho affalr, and said that Yensey hiad anpounced hls intontlon the day bofore. As all the parisl oflcory wero put yudor ardost for i i i ronds, and shall have s salary of ©4,000 onch, Apart from tho fact thiat this movomont in Qongrosa shows that,tho farmers have mado thoir {nfluonce folt in Washington, and that thoro fa a vory genoral desiro to hush thom up, no importance attaches to thoso bills sufficiont to warrant thoir pnssngo. On tho other liand, it passod, they could not fail to operato’ inju- riously. Al that can bo accomplished by such & Commission which is of any bructicnl bonefit can o accomplished by ° the Btato Commissions, Tho principal value of any Commisgion of this sort con- sists in its abllity to colloct facts concorning tho working of railrond syatoms, and publish thom for goneral information, and to actasa court of arbitration botwoon the ‘passonger-or shippor and tho rallrond company, and settle matters in disputo without a tedious nnd oxpon- slve course of litigation. This work tho Btato. Commissions are doing admirably, Thoy not only furnfoli an annual roport which fs a vory valusblo compendium of yailrond sclonco, Lut they aro constunily giviug to ‘tho pub- lio” facts concorning tho running oxpensos and genoral business of railroads which is graduaily acquainting tho people with dotnils hitherto un- known, aud creating thoreby a public sontimont bagod upon facts which will ultimately compel tho railronds to do what thoy ought to do, The peoplo aroe rapidly discovoring what is a ronson- ablo ratio of roceipts to oxpondituros and what Is & fair charge for froights. This knowlodge is constanlly growing., Railroads in ovory direction aro boing brought up with a round turn, aud whoro thoy have unjustly discrimi- nated, or whors thoy have beon managed in the intoronts of rings againat tho intorests of tho slockholders and the publie, thoir affairs have baen thorotghly ventilated, and thoy havo beon placed in tho hands of Recoivera, In these rospocts tho proposed office of Gov- ernmont Commissionor would be a mera sinecuro, aud the oflice, in all probability, would'be filled with men appointod by renson of politienl sor- wvieon or through the oporation of simony, and, consequently, by mon unfittod for the place, If, in addition to the'foregoing dutios, tho Qovern- mont Commisaioners shall be allowed to fix rates of troight nccording to tho usago in somo of the Btatos, the proposition bocomos still more dan- gorous. Tho catablishmont of such rates on the prorata principlo would lay an embargo upon tho West, and cut it off from business with tho .ecaboard ns effectually as if tho Gov- ornment should construct a Chineso wall from Lake Erio to tho Guif of Mexico. Tha Bpringtield (Mass,) Republican woll pays : Weo can think of nothing approaching it in absurd- ity unloss it would bo n proposition to tinker tho prospority of tho soversl Statos by author- izing onch ono to erect Custom-Houseson ita borders, and exact whatever toll is liked on ite imports and exports with its sister Btates.” Tho iden that nine mon can rogulate tho froight charges upon 71,000 miles of railroad, and en- foreo obedionco to thair rulos, fs absurd upon the faco of it. Thero is nothing elso which they could do which is not done by tho State Commis- sionors far botter thon they can do it. The facts which thoy sre constantly digging up are oducnting the people to a correct underatanding of the working of railronds, aud - the Gonoral Government will do well to let tho State Commissioners aud the people work out thoir own malvation. i e ——— COAL STRIKES AND THEIR CURE, |/ The almanacs of the last fow yoars wouldkave beon safe in adding to their prophecies for tho winter months, ** About this time look out for o Btriko in tho Ponnsylvania conl rogion,” Thoso strikes roburn as regularly as somo opidemica aro said to do, aud parnlyze business ss effoc- tually. Our dispotches of yestorday’ mention 82,000 miners out of work in throo districts alone, The lawlossness of the 8trikora is proba- bly exaggorated, but it is cortain that crime is increasing along with idlencss, It is almost in- crodiblo that such o stato of thinga has boon al- lowod to recur, yoar after yoar; for so long. Ita canses vary, Sometimos it is tho mon's unwil- Jingnoss to work ot fair wagos that loads to it somotimes it is tho compandios’ resolve to forca down wages il tho mon‘must strike, in order to_stop production and sond up pricos. This soems to be tho troiblo this year. This is short~ sightodnoss. If thorp raally is over-production, 1t would bo far bottor to discliergo part of tho mon pormanently than all of thom temporarily, Thisis tho probiom to bo solved: How shall tho men get akmfiy work at fair wages and the companics got rbasonnblo roturns on tho capital thoy hiave investod ? And hero I8 its possiblo solution: Tt tho companios find what their avorago rato of proft lias been, .Then let thom promise their om- ployes to divide among thom, in proportion to the wagos oarnod by each man, half of ull profits abovo a somowlat bighor rate. That is, if their | average profit has boen 8 por cont, lot them fix tho standard hereaftor at 10. ‘Then, if thoy should clear 13 next year, lot them divido 1 per cont among thelr mon. And if ono man has onrned $800 and anothor 400 durlng tho yonr, lot the {flvat receive twico as much of this bonus on labor as tho soc- ond. Ty this plan, the companios conld not Igso anything, For tho men would got uo part of tho profits till tho maaters had recolved tholr hvorage profit and somothing more, and then jthey would get but half of tho final romaindor, "oy would fiud it to tholr Interost to make the company got as much conl and soll as much coal a8 possible, Tor, s soon as the profits roacked a fixed figure, half of the romaindor would be- loug tothom. A minerwonld work for his wages and for asharein tho profits,~and the large- neas of that share would depond upon his and his comrades doing faithful work, The plan would make every man an overseor ot all pround him. Bleckness and waste would Lo torbiddon:by public opinion, 8o would utrikos, Fora day's idleness, by losson- ing tho company's profits for tho yoar, would lesson tho mon's share u thoso profits, So tho companion, by glving away loss than half the monoy tho arrangement gave thom, could seoura immunity from stikes, from inefclont work SDAY JANUARY 1874 nnd from waste; could largoly diminish the cost of managomont, einco the mon wonld manago onch other; and could got. tho. hoarty good-will of thelr omployes,—n good-will that wonld make tho arbitration of wagos, Liours of labor, eto., onky, ) - The plan hore dosoribod 18 in snccossful practico in ono of tho very Ilargost’ oonl companios of England. It was adopted thoro in 1860, aud has worked perfootly through cight years' trial, Al iho rosulta which wo have snid would come in Ponnsylvania havecomolin Yorkshire, In our laat Bunday's feauo thero wasa skotoh of tio caroor of tho Briggs Drothors’ firm, Tt showed hiow tholr men wore ovor strlking, always at dnggers drawn, with thoir. employers 3 how thelr battle-ory was “All coal-owners is dovils, but Briggais the orinco of dovils"; how the firm’s profits woro smal) and Deocarious; how they trlod this plad § how ench and ovory ono of the supposod results in Amorion have boon tho practical reaults in Tn- gland. Tho Briggs Brothers issued atook, in- deed, to somo of thoir omployos and pormitted thom to pay for it in inatallinonts, and this stool sharod In tho first division of profita; but, as tho firm hold two-thirds of the stock, equal in valuo to 1ta wholo capital, tho entire control was vostod init, This was an additional spur to. caroful work among the minors who wore sharcholdors, buttho majority of thom, whohadno stock, found suficlont stimulus in tho promised share of tho profits, Tho average galn of the firm had been O por’ cont. . It, fixod " its atandard thereaftorat’ 10 por cont. Tho firat year undor the new plan it cloared 10 por cont and $8,600 bosldes, nd distribittod €8,600 to ita omployes; the. fourth year its share of tho extra profit was $17,000; and it now clesrd from 15 to 17 per cont an- nually. THE LAKE-FRONT. A bill bas boon proposed in tho Logislaturo baving for its supposod object the granting ol authority to tho City of Chicago to ol a por- tion of the lake-front to tho railroads for depot purposes. The offect of the bill extonds much further. Itis a goneral grant to tho Common Council of any city to goll any park, or’ ground, lands, or lots bolouging to tho ety upon the yoto of throo-fourths of tho mombers of tho Common Council, - 8o far as thia bill is intondod to authorizo this clty to dood its interest in tho three blocks o. land {n the north part of Lako Park to tho raile road companies for depot ‘purposes, it is unnecea- #nry, sinco the companios only nsk- & quit-claim deed. 8o far as it is o gonoral authority to the Common Council to eoll public property, dovoted to publio purposes, it is extremely vicious and dangorous logislation. Tho publio, not only of this city, but of the other citics .in the Btato which have parks or ox- poct to bave them, are unquostionably opposed to oxtending the power of tho local suthoritios to ualll any public ground at their own will or pleasure. Buch s power, granted to tho Common Couneil of every aty in the Stato, would bo a general invitation to corrup- tion. The Council would always havo some- thing to seil, and bo on the lookout for buyers. Tho bill opons the door for unlimited Jjobbory, and furnishes temptations {o Aldermon which should novor be thrown in thelr way. Undor this bill, the Common Council of Ohicago may at any timo scll Union Park, Lako Park, Jeffor- son Park, Lincoln Park, or any othor public property. ' The city does not want to goll any part of Lake Park south of the Exposition building ; and would uot sell any north of it, but for tho fact that businoss has usurped tho ad- jacont territory, and tho flre has groatly depre- ciatod its valuo. South of the Exposition build- ing we can have, ns Mr. Cleveland, the woll- Iknown landscape architect, has shown, the finest esplanade in tho country. This part of tho ground can bo fitted up at very littlo costas a public park, and remain so for a genoration at least. It ought not to be sold or exposod to the hazard of = sale. e ——— " A POST-OFFICE SQUABBLE. A singular Post-Ofiice scandal has beon dovel- oped ot Kondallville, Ind., which has caused groat excitemont throughout the entire country. About two years ngo, the Govornment sllowed tho Postmasters to maintain, in addition to tho two dnily mails, a night mail, upon condition that tho Post-Offico Dopartment should not be aubject to any expensa for delivoring it, Prior to the timo that tho presont Postmaster, 0.0, Myers, took the office, cortain of the leading firms bad contributed rogularly to the carrior’s fuud, but, being opposed to his sppointment, they diecontinuod their contribations, aud left him to keep up the dolivery of the mail or discontinue it ot his poril. Thoreupon tho Postmastor used the columns of the Kondallville poper to abuso tho morchants, This only widened the breach betweon them, and the lattor hold out more ' obstinatoly than ever, and tho pooplo began to tako sidos,—this ultimatoly resulting in & broach of tho Ropubli- can party. At last another plan wae devisod which sooms to haye brought about & orisis, T'wo of the firms which woro the most prominent in their opposition were selected, and their lotters coming through the night mails wore withheld until tho arrival of the day mails, when thoy woro placed in' the boxes aftor a dotention of nine or ten hours, tho penalty for which is a fine not exceeding $500, and imprisonment not ex- cooding six months, and perpetual disqualifica~ tion from holding offico again. Complaints wero made to the Poat-Oflce Dopariment, but no answer was received. The complaint was hand- ecd over, however, to two spocial Mall Agonts, who in a short time accumulated sufliclent ovidenco to convict the guilty partios. They then visited tho Posimastor, and he de- clared there weore no grouuds for such com- plaints, in which gencral denial ho waa joined by his wife. After considorablo convorsation, the Mall Agent informed him that he was in posaos- sion of incontrovertiblo proof that the lottors were withhold, Theie was an oloquent ailence for & timo, which was flnally broken by Mrs. Myers, who ackuowlodged the dotontion of tho lotters, and assumed tho responaibility of it, alloging ag tho ronson of such oonduct that thoro waa a difii. oulty betwoen hor family and the familie of those who hind beon tho victims. Myers, rather than doliver himeolf into custody, rosigued i offico, and placed tho rosignation in the bands of tho Malt Agont, who left with it for Washinglon, aftor he had glven Mra, Myers a locture upon the advisability of her refraluing from the dis- charges of postal duties horoaftor, Myora atill bholds tho Post-Office, ponding tho action of the suthoritios at \Washington, Meanwhilo the malls and tolograph aro kept busy with lettors and dispatclios from the frionds and enemics of Myors and the moddlosomo Mra, Myers, sud the wholo county is up {n arms, Tho moral of the wholo affalr §s In the possible danger to males when fomalos get thoir rights aud ocoupy tho offics. Tho disturbing influonces of lovely woman has boon shown sovoral times of late in tho higher political eircles of Washington. Now, that it haa commoncod to bremk out in the conntry Post-OfMces, whore will it stop ? BUNDAY MUSIO IN NEW YORK, The Gormana of Now York Clty, and the Young Mon's Ohrlstiai Associntion, nlso of that city, naro at loggorhends on the Sunday question. The lattor domandod, on Baturday Inst, that tho lnw prohibiting danoing, oporatie and thoatrical en- tortainmonts, and ungodly singing should bo striotly nnrnrcixd, and gont ngonis round to tho various German placos of amusoment to soo that tho law was carried out. Tho thontres, and oporag, nnd dancos woro very generally sup- pressed by the Gormans thomsolves, and con- corts woro substitutod in thelr stoads, This throw tho burden of deolding tho differenco bo- twoon sacred and profane music upon thoe agonts ot tho Young Mon's Christinn Assoolation. ‘What the result was has not yot boon atated, but it thoso agents wore able to distinguish betwoon macrod and profano musio, they must have boen blessed with unusual discrimination and musical intelligonce, Boston, whiche & lugbly moral city and tho homo of Puritan idoas, hus endured performances of tho Aimeo Opera-Bouffe Troupo, under tho: de- nomination of sncred concorts, without a mur- mur, Gilmore's Band has played Btrauss and Gungl on Boston Common on Sunday evenings, in tho slindow of Lalf-a-dozon churchos, .and 1t hae boen nccopted a8 sacred mugic. In many oratorios and masscs thoro Is music which might bo callod profano, In msny oporas and seoular compositions thore aro prayers, ‘snd litanios, ond roguioms which are certainly sacred. \Who i to decido ? Who can run the whole gamut of oratorios, operss, symphonios, masses, over- tures, sud detachod songs, and say at once this, is eacred and this {8 mnot? ‘The agents of the Obristian Association would probably decide that all musio which was not a psalm or hymn ia profane, but this ia manifostly absurd, bocause o largo proportion of thoso penlms and hymiis aro sot to musio stolon from the most worldly sourcos; and, farther than this, to soma poople all music is sacred. 1t is ot impossiblo that this pushing of tho Bunday question to a fanatical oxtremo will re- sult in the total repeslof the Sunday laws by tho Gonernl Assombly. Tho Gormaus are de- tormined to test tho matter in tho courts and try tho constitutionality of the'law. Tho Constitu~ tion of Now York provides as folivws : Tho freo exorcise and enjoyment of rellgious profes- slon anil worship without discrimination or profor- enco shall forover bo allowed in thia Stato to all man~ kind, and no porson shall be rendered fncompetent to ‘boa witness on nccount of Lis opinions on matters of roliglous belief ; but the Huorty of conseienca heroby secured slill not bo 8o construed ns to oxeuse acts of Heentlousness, or justify practices Inconsistent with tho poace or safaty of this Stato, This law places but on restriction upon lib- orty of consciouce, and that is, ** Actu of licon- tiousness or practices inconaistont with the ponce and safety of the State.” It will not bo very dificult for the Germans to show that thoir musfo doos not come undor cithor of theso doflnitions. Gon, Nonl Do, the apostie of tomperance, as he delights to call himeolf, hag mot with n vory unfortunato reception in England, whoro ho is at prosont ongaged in lecturing upon his favorito bobby. Tho scene of his misfortunas was at Guilford, whoro ho had arranged to preach n tompotance sormon. At tho outset he made o vigorous and wholesale onalaught upon the Bo- glish laws, to tho oporation of which ho attrib- uted an mmount of intomperauce that was un- paralleled in the world, As one rosult of them, bo pointed his audienco to eight murderers in ibo jail, and then coolly informed them thnt wife-beating and murder waro considored abroad to bo English institutions. The amour propre of hia audience was wounded at once, and they were not slow in showing it. Tho cries of ‘*Shame, - shame,” wero nlmost unani- mous, while a prominent citizen of the placo aroso and oddressed the meot- ing, emphetically denying his statoments. Ouo of Dow’s frionds eventually proposed a voto of thanks, which was met with derision, and tho meeting finally broke up in disorder, * Nenl Dow has been engaged in the temporanco business long cnough to have gainod wisdom, if Lo bad the capacity of acquiring any, His ox- poriment with tho Maine law ought to have con- vinced bim of tho futility of ‘compulsory mous- ures to eradicato tho ovils of intomporance. That it is useless to attempt to compel & man to stop driukivg bns already beon shown by tho working of the Maino law’ which Mr. Dow of- fored ad an infalliblo panacos, Tho next mothod of appoal to men isby argument, and if argu- mont faila it is worso than uscless to attempt to effect anything by abuse. It doos more harm than good in ovory instance, and places an of- fectual obstacle in the way of the reform sought to bo accomplished. Like many othor reformors who Liave becomo fanatical upon a certain sub- joct, Mr. Nonl Dow is injuring the vory causohe is soeking to lielp, by injudicious conduct and abusive spoach. —_— The Chineso account of tho racent intorview botweon the Emperor and the foreign envoys is fuuny. Tho envoys had demanded that the Em- peror shonld descend from his throne, aud him- self recoive their lottors of crodence, but * the Grand Becretary, Wen-hsiang, smashod his toa- cup into fragments, and stornly opposed tho idea,” It was finally agreed that oach en- voy should rend his credontials, Whou tho audiouco openod, the British Ambassador was the firat to begin. Overcomo with the Empo- ror's colestinliaplendors, ks trombled 8o violontly that he could noither, finish; his manuscript nor answer tho Emperor's gracious questions, fo tried to hand in his credentisls, but * foll down on the ground timo aftor time.” When Princo Kung helped him away, ho “sat down on the floor, perspiring and panting.” Nouse of the en- voys dared to stay to tho banquet propared for them, and they have all sinco confessed that though they wero but o fow pacos from tho throne thoy wero #o dazzlad by the glories of the Emporor that thoy “did not got o sight of tho celestial visago " | Tho Bhakers have {aken advantageof the crieia to put forth the following romarkablo advertigo- ment : ‘Wanted—Men, women, and children can find o com. fortablo liomo for lifo, where want never comes, with tho Bhiakers, by embraciug the iruo faith aud iving live, ' Partioutura can b learnod by writing 13 Mo Stiukors, Mount Lebanon, 3, g2 * % Within four days aftor its publication they recoived 135 lottors in answor, Two-thirds of thom csme from youug men, Rach applicant line recoived o elrcular with the rules of tho So- cioty. An influx of converts is expected, Ad- vertislug for now bolievors is an odd ides, but the Bhakors are slirewd, A good rdany wretchod poeople will think, at such a time, that a * com. " fortablo home for life whoro want novor comes " is cheaply bought by subscribing to a not- ropulsivo creed, aad trying to lead an upright, it lumdruw, lite. —_— A rosldont of Newark claims to Lave utilized olootiloity nsa motive powor. His invontion cau be roughly describod aa n brass whoel that rotates within o motallio circle. Boft iron baors, connectod with tlut coils of wiro, atud tho outer edgo of tho whecl and the fmmor cdgo of tho framoworlk, When & battery is appliod, thoe bars bocoiuo magnets, Thoy are so aranged that thoir notion and reaction canses the wheol to rotate.” The inventor hns threo mnchines in oporation and is Liaviug the fourth built, This last is to bo of forly-lorse power. It la expooted to consumo 160 ouncos of zino por day, The diffficulty with oll such machines hitherto has boen the cost and ceare Involvod in running thom, This ono ie olaimoil to be both slmplo and chonp, pie b Thore i1 n phenomonon at Newport, Kontuoky, It 8 n atrilco tlnt fs nt lonst ton timoa slllior than “tho avorngo. 'Tho Bwift Iron Works of that oity uaunlly employ 700 mon. Of thoss, 500 ure now on a strilte. Bocauwo thelr wages were out down ? No. Decauso thoy wore obliged to work toolong? No; Lut bouauso thoir six *bosses,” who have boon gatting $20 to 840 o dny (thoy wore paid by tho ton), svo to recelvo horenftor only tho rates givon in all othor oltios, For the salto of forcing tho mastors to givo wix ovorseera oxtortionate wages, 500 men refuso to work. Thelr days, which might yield many ot them 85 apleco, aro spont in loafing around soup-honses and throat- oning their 200 follows who will not strike. ‘Thoro hava nlroady boen somo bad casos of tor- rorism. Moanwhilo thelr wivea and children bog and atarve. Buch an oxamplo of stupondous folly it would bo hard to match, : —_— A romarkabla case of tonaelty in offica-holding is furnishod in tho Btato of Florids, In that Btato the Governor lua tho power to remove any porson holding tho offico of Bhorlf, Tho porson who holds tho ofice of Bheriff of Wakulla County is also Poatmnstor at Uraw- fordsville. The peoplo of that county havo long potitioned for his removal from both offlces, but the potitions wero rejeoted, A short timo ago the Postmaster was convicted of robbing tho malls, and sentonced to ton yonrs in tho Ponitentiary. Tho Governor still rofusos to removo him from tho offico of Shoriff, and while ho romaine in tho Penitontiary ho will mn the Shorift's ofiico by doputy. IHo might bo allowed to run tho Post-Ofice in tho snmo woy. —_— Tho nomination of Gou. Vau Buren as Consal at a Japanese port 18 an insult to him and to the country, The Administration romoved him from his post in Vienna on tho ground of gross mal- fonsance in offico, If hois guilty, ho {s unfit to gorvo tho country anywhore, If ho is innocent, tho faot should be proclaimed, and not loft to bo inforred from his boing honorably oxiled. The Vionna imbroglio isa remarkably it subjecs for disgoction, Either Gon. Van Buron or Ministor Jay is responsiblo for making the Amorican name a byword throughout Europs, Thoy can~ not both bo right ; and the 8pectacle of both of tuem in our diplomatio sorvico would be'n dis- grace. —_—— Mrs. Virginia L. Minor, of St. Louls, whosg claim to voto on tho ground of hor citizenship has boon ovorruled in the inforior courts, has eppenled to the United Statos Supremo Court, Hor cago ia on tho docket, and will be reached within a yonr. Mrs. Minor is confident of the zosult, for the Court hag rocontly said: “ The nogro, baving by the Fourtoonth Amendment Dboon declared citizen of tha United Btates, ‘is thus mado s voter in every Stato in tho Union,” Coufldence, like pride, i apt to como bofore [y fall. Mrs, Minor's rojoicings over the deolsion —it sho indulges in any—will probably be pitehied in a decidedly minor koy. —_— The funeral of Viclor Hugo's son, Francois Victor, showed & curious compound of real and sham gorrow. Tho great crowd thet fistened to Louis Blanc's spocch at tho tomb applauded political hits vigorously, but almost hissed when the orntor doclared that tho dend man was not an atheist, o wasono of the editors of the Rappel, and the Rappel's report of the oration omitted this passago. It svould Injure ita sale to confoss to having hnad & non-atheistic editor, At the clogo of the speoch, Victor Hugo, weop- ing, throw himsclf into Louis Blanc's arms; whoreat the crowd gaye a final salvo of applauso and went Lome, —_— Tho London Daily Telegraph, not entisfled with giving its roadors the nowa of the day, is publishing autediluvian bulletins., Ar, Georgo Smith, the archmologist whom it sont to Asin Minor, bes unearthed tablels that skoteh the roigns of ten Assyrinn dynastios through 433,000 yoars, As tho last King of the lnst dynasty was dead some time bofore the deluge, thore is no knowing, as yot, whon the 432,000 yosrs bogan, Mr. Smith goos back to Asin Minor atonce in order to fiud out, This timo. lLe is to ropresent the DBritish Museum and not the Telegraph, —_—— A momboer of the Now Yorlk Assombly waa spesking in the Republican caucus about the importance of finishing the session ns quickly ag possiblo. I got $3 a duy Liore,” snid hio, " and Lenn got 8300 at home.” A voice sang out in roply : ** You can make $300 hors, if you go to work tho right way."” Whoreat the caucuy laugh- ed mightily. Somo of the Now York papers scem to think this an exquisito witticism, —_— A your ago tho Administration cry in Now York was that of Cieoro: ** O lempora, O mores 1"~ *0 times, O customa!” The managers of tho customs are still faithtul, but tho mauagers of the Times, alas! nro ng ——— NOTES AND OPINION. Tho vote of Toxas : Governor, 1873, Coke, Dom,. President, 1812, - 85,694 (Greeley Duvis, Rop. « 42,603|Grant , 28,212 Total, + 42,88 Majority . 19,029 —Tho impondivg " imbroglio in Misaissippl shiould come to & lend to-day, whon Ameg' Legislaturo moots. ' There wore rumors in Jack. son, some dnys ngo, that Gov. Powera would back down without much pushing. —The New Orleans Picayune is becoming sauguine of a golution of the troublos in Lou~ isiaua by means of & now eloction. Tho Now Orlenus Kepublican (Oustom-House) écoffs at tho idea. —The Maryland Legislature will to-day elect Gov. Willinm Vinckney Whyte Unitod States Beuator (vice Humilton) for the term boginning in 1875, tho twenty Republicans in the Legisla- turo voting for Washington Booth ; Mr. Cres- well, the Postmaster-General, being now, since thoe election, *‘ altogother unwilling to Lave my [his] name mentioned in connection with that place.” —Tho Riohmond Enguirer says of the elac- tion of Withers by the Virginia Logislature : Hla election is a algnificant triumpl of tho progres- siva poltey of the Consorvative party and a stuubig Dlow to tle recaloltrant malcoutents who would, if tley could, go back 1o the tenets of tinoa that havo loug ngo pusued luto the pnst. Withors fs a Topredent~ 8tive wau fn tho new era {n Virginta politics, =~ . And this is tho Dotroit Post's (Zach, Chan- dlor's) view of it; Alr, Withers, tho new, Senator elect from Virgioia, Liag two claiins upon the Domocrats of (lst Stato, I thie frat placo, i was a Rebol soldior, whick of courso, the Becession Demacrata like, Secoud, bo s he fathe ar of fourteen children, of whom cleven aro living, ‘Tlus bio haa douo Lis Lest to prevent the colored people from Increasing fuster thau tho white popuintion, With theso two excoptions, wo do not know of any ous why he should bu slected United Stutes Seuue tor from Virginta, —Ouly a weck ago ull tho loyal-to-Grant nows- papors wera whito with rage at the dastardly suggestion that the nogro Llliott did uot com- poso the speech Lo dullvered in Congross; yot the Oalikosh Northwestern (loyal Postmaster) HRYS: ‘As a specimon of good composition, the first mes- engo of tov, Taylor tnuy be considered o suecoss, Yot nobody scqualuted with the antecedents nnd the 1f crary ubility aud education of tho Governor will fmag. {uo for a momont that Lie 14 ke autlior of & single Tine of tho production, —Before Grant was hoard from on the gub- jeot, Gov. Davis, of Toxas, was, to all loyal uowspapers, & hero in the imminent deadly broach, Now, tho Rochester Chronicle (loyal) says: “Gov. Davis secws to bo making a fool of himsolf.” It appome that thls Goy, Davis speciflcally rocomuendod to tho lnut Legiulature that vory change in the Toxaa Elcction law whicl, he now olaims, vitiates the whole eloc- tion, viz. ¢ I further Tecommend that the Eloction law e l amended (o pariul opoilng of vction-polls within oach of tho Justioo precinot, snd reduce tho number of duya of eloction from four to ouo,—Gov. Duviw’ Mewsuge, Jan, 10, 1873, ~—Thero iy & Yory generalimprossion that Goy, Davis, of ,Il;nl‘s‘i" lnu1 tt::k:n unten:b!(ris P e heonslatent, aftor his dofeat, to como {n with & ploa agninat ‘the constiiutionsiiiw o‘rumlmt'l undor ]\vh{lnl h l:mh"nlfl‘m““m“y nm:rhl 8 ra-oloction, and which ho himaolf a) L~ Tilinols State Jaumlal. o SN —Wo supposo few poo Cushivg mgun' Davis, “which turned up in an ovil hour to rum tho prospects of ls author, without thoir mind intuitlvoly furniug to tho lote tor qulto 8 colobrated writton by tho distine guished Towan, Gen, Jones, to Joif Davis about tho samo timo. And yot Cushing Iy mado to suffer, while the Gonoral iy now n'rfimllng mome bor of the Republican party of Iown.—Davene port Democrat. —1Tho Dubuquo Ilerald says that Carpentor'a mossago trying to flatter tho digcontonted withy £ho remark that thoy are not so badly off, fluans olallg. 1 Boma poople woro in 1857, rominds it of tho kind of Oliristinn ronipnation which an old Indy oxhibitod whon questionod ag to ths condie tion of her consumptive dnughter: ‘'Blic’'s & groat deal worao, thanks be to gm.ll" ~—Tho Ropublican papors of the Btate had » 0od doal to soy of ‘the dofaloation of !Bryan, Couuty. grounfl. lo read tho lottor of the Domooratic Tronsurer of Jaokson ut not ono of thom has a word to 8ty of the dofloioncy of twmtl/-lhm Ropubliean County Tronsurors, ag ropor! od by the Elnlu Auditor,— Dub}up:c ll%rald. " Lot us have oconomy in publio oxpenditures, It wo bad fowor officors, aud mwcy incompos tonta In oflico, wo might Lolfia for Bomo rolief y but, s it is, the army of oflicials must be pro< vided for whother tnxes aro bigh orlow, 'Thera aro too many looches fastenod on tho publid Troasury, and, until thoy aro driven off, this cry of *moro, more,” will bo kont up a8 long ag Congross 1 in gesslon. This Is & mattor of s rious conslderation for both Domoarats and Rq publicans, as tho monoy that is boing squane dorod is thoir monoy, aud thoy have a ri, ‘Efi to know whoro it goos’to, and who it {a thet g wasting it in such an oxlrnva ant manner.—Loa gamfilorl (Ind.) Democratic Pharos. —There is evidently provailing all over the nonntryavoxg looso sonso of ofticlal responsie bility. * Tho. highost aim of moat public officora is to' be popular, and for the time boiug to win applauso from those who secured for ¢ lom 'the oflicos which they hold. Ar;ybhlug liko aspira= tion for the_ thorough performanco of duty nc« cording to a high atandard la'vory raroly to ba mot with among the gront mnss of the ha{dam of. ordinary public offices. The whols syatom, as it now oxlats, invitos carolosancss,—Providence (B, 1.) Journat, ~—Wo must accopt tho fact that party names are 8 huinbug, and that prosent political organizae tlona are hield togother by the cohesivo power of lunder, Tor avory Amos or Patterson in the Ropublican party thero is a Wood or n Beck in the Domooratic l:lrty. Whilo the Republicans haye their Boss She; hord, and their Gen. How- ard, eto,, ote., in Vuluufitun tho Democrata Liavo thoir Bosa Tweed in Now York snd their McCuo in Brooklyn, Wore those tho only cases of poculation we might overlook thom, but every singlo Issuo of tho Emzs rovenls some new dos falcation,—Samucl Sinnett in Des Moines Leader, —Our railroags, telegraplis, and public Journals have had {helr logitimate effects upon tho farmors, who have beeu stimulated &8 t) 0y novor woro boforo, and tho reanlt o & rovolution among that class of moen. Hithorto, they have been the victims of all manner of monopolies, whils thoy havo lionestly trudged along in theiy old-fashionod way, never attompting to usa the power within their reach for solf-protection, os for nggressive moyoments, Rocentlyn groat ohnngo hos taken place. The farmers have ore ganized oll over the country,and thoso wha bave lived in combinntious, and transacted all thelr buslness upon scales proseribed by come binations, wonder what the farmers can menn, and what torrible thing will grow out of the Granges,—Z'oledo Blade, —Tho xailrondls aro asserting their claims to tho right of eminont domain in more ways than one. Not only do they take possession of the roni property of the people for tracks and depots, and of o considerablo part of their perflonnl property as toll for transporting tho rost, but thoy form combinations to ateal the products of poor invoutora"braing. . . . Tothis end an organization known as the Western Railroad Age sovintion was some yoars since formoed. . . . An assaclation like thia would not bo possible i manogors of railronds did not realize that in ;‘;‘“" cases thoy are logal outlawa.—St. Paul 'ress. PERSONAL PROPERTY. Correspondence Between the Auditor and County Clerk Recelative to the Incrensed Valuntion of ‘That Class of Property. ‘The following is a correspondence which hag rocently taken place botwoon Gen. Lieb, the County Olork, and Charles E. Lippincott, Aue ditor of Btate, and which oxplaing itself sufie clontly: Cittoaao, TiL, Jan, 10, 1874 Charles E, Idppincott, Auditor of State: 8in: “Thoro are s Cook Couuty, sspoclally thie year, & great many tax-payers who havo small busis flesn plack, and homes, and who own 3 small smouat of persousl praperty, ad who roturned itto the Town Avscesors ot ite resl cash valuo, Thoy mow ok by what authority tho Stato Board rafsed tho yaitas tion of thelr porsonal proporty by 04 por cent § on which valuation tho tazes Lavo boen oxtended for 1873, Theso mon aro now compelled to P taxes on somothing thoy nevor owned snd never hnd i tiets possesalon ; and thoy do not undorstand . the propricty ' of belug obliged to pay theds taxes to tho Collectora, Shull & tax-payer mow pa tho tax on this additional valuation of 63 par cent, ana noxt yoar reduce thavalue of Lils property 68 por cent in order to make it good ? In it tho duty of the Col- Isctor to collect such o tax by distross, Whon ho kaowe that heso tnxes ure unjust? Undor thb circumatancon must tho tax-puyers apponl to tho higher court and Incur tho expense of this procecding? Thoss who ree port corroctly thoir valuntion should mot be overe Dburdened Dby taxation, Buch cases come befors 10e every duy, and I should be vory glud fo raceiv an fimodlito answer to these inquirioe: 1znatanK Lizs, County Olork, Hermann Lieb, Clerk of Cook County : 811 In reply to your letter of tho 16th inst,, I have to atate that tho law regulating the assessment of props erty in this Stato ruquirca that all proporty shall bo assossed ot its real cash valuo. In any case, thob hoa not been dome, OF If any other irrogularity exists in the nssessment tho ouly way to remoedy it, fa for auy person whoso proporty Las been avscasod too high, or whoso noighe Dor’s proporty hias boen assessed t00 low, to apply to the County Doard on the second Monday in July, i order {but {ho Doard, under ia power ¢oequalizo assesements, may rectify it, If thia ls_neglected, tho Rovenue law provides no remedy. To the question whethor the Stato Board of Equallzation bas authority fo rulso tho valuation of proporty, I can_only sumwor thut {he -~ State Boord {8 obliged fotako it for granted that the County Board,us & Board of Equallzation of Taxes, hng corrected all irregularities, and that tho State banl'd then has to make tho equalization botweon tho differout countles, aud to ralwo or lowor the valuotion ne it niay geem necessary, In equalizing the sseessment for 1873, the State Board found it nocessary to raise the valugs ton of personal property in Cook Gounty Dy 63 ver cent, aud 10 equallze it up to tho value of similaz proporty fu other countics, If any ouo bas reported s porsonal property at its actual cnsh valuo, and ta now obliged to pay on an fucreased valuation of 08 per cont, it 18 duo to his_own negloct, and to the fault of thie Qounty Board, which fallod to squalizo tho- taxes ou porsonal proporty fu_the menuor prescribed by law. Respectfully, ~ QianLes E, LirpiNoors,, BrRINGEICLD, Jun. 17, 1874, Auditorof Btate, oot The Brunswick Hall Opening, Tho opcuing of the now and magnificent billiara palaco, the Brunswick Hall,—s description of which appeated i Bunday’s TRibuNE,—occurred yestorday, and was & moat brilliant affair, The afternoon was sct apart for the ladies, who {n largo mumbers availod themselves of Mr., Brunswick’s pollto invitation and bis elaborato proparations In their belinl, * In spito of the storm, bundreds of fair ones visited tho hall dure Ing tho atlernoon, and they did not coaso dropping ia until Iato in the evoning, 60 that tho Indics’ gallery was at ull times well occuplod, In the eveningiiho rogulne billlard opening took placo, tho great hail bolng come plotuly flid with dovotces of the ' gentleran’s game.” Tho room lighta up splendidly, showing to oven botter advantago thou fu the daytime, Prompily at12 oelock ho hall was closed, though tho playors were not Lalt through, Mr, Brungwick thus Inaugiirate ing &’ moat oxcollent practico, Under sucli manoges ‘mout, tho tono and chisractor of the eatabliskwent will bo in'keeping with its muguificonce, e o The First Natfonal of Central Oity. T¢ will bo soen by reforenco to our advortising cols umns tlat the Central Oity, Col., banking fina of Thatcher, Standloy & Co,, havo been succeaied by tho Tirst Natlonal Bank of that place, Mr, Tliatchier become ing Presidont of tho now institution, ‘The position of Vice-Presidon fa tnkon by Otto Baver, aud that of Oashiler by Mr, Frauk O, Young. — Mr. Thoichor hag had eloven and Me, Younghas bad elght years’ expen rouce in bauking i _Central Oity, and the Vico-Praia deut aud Diractors of e bsuk are meu of woulth and standing in that city, ‘Tho bunk will bo glad to trang- act sucli Ohicago business 58 way bo outrusted to ite care, ——————— Ohiongo, Burlington & Quinoy Railrond. GeNEnAL PABSENGER AGENT'S OFFioR, Jan, 20, 1674, —Until furthor notice, all through tralns on the Ohis cago, Burlington & Quincy Rallroad will start from TIndisun avenuo Stution, Bussea will call for passen- yors and baggugo at tho usual hours, This arrango. ment witl be uul{ for twa or throo days, Tickets and aleaping-cur bertha cau bo hud at 69 Olark atreet ana at Iudiuua Avenue Station, ~ Local tralne will loavo ag Leretofore from the foot of Lake stroet, stoppiug at ITudiana avenuo and Oanal streot Stations, D. W, Hrronooox, Goneral Pavsougor Aget, Notice, Wo sell the unrivallod Cornell Watches, stom an{ key wiuding, warranted, Call and examine them af Peagock & Oo,'v, opposite Field & Leiter's,