Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1874, Page 4

a4 TERMS OF THE TRIE'INE TERME OF BUASOTIITION (I'a *ABLE IN ADYANOE), e o 1] Fartzetn the same rato, To provent dolay and mistakes, bo surs and giva Post Offceaddrese in tall, Inoluding Stato and County. Romittances may ho mado oithor byaratt, oxpress, Post tcs erdor, orin registered lottors, at ourrisk, TEAMS TO CITY BUNBONINENS, Daily, dolvorad, Bunday oxcopted, 26 conte per wook. Daily, dolivered, Bunday inoluded, 50 conta per woek. Addrens TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Mndisan and Dearbol Uhlcago, 1l TO:DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VIOKER'S THEATRE—Madlson atrest, bstweon Degrborn ° Bhate. Hngmpaman ol “Bhuta "Horetn Fiicis 47, ACADEMY OF MUSIC~Halsted stroet; botyrean Mad- ten and Monroo. " Engagomont of Jobn &, Owous. SRt (o] '8 T TRE~] lph st botween Ohorat Tasa A TREATSioh ataeets hetqesn GLOBE THEATRE—Dosplainessirsot, between Mad. Lo WASDIAEon. Engoment of Sharpiors Bhoridan & Mack’s Minstrols, MYRRS' OPERA-HOUSE- Monroo street, hotwaon Deatborn and Stato. Atlington, Cotton, and' Komblo's Mimatrols. "' A Blippory Day. Blinatiolsy and comi- oalities, KANN'S MUSURM OF ANATOMY—Olark atreet, be. won Mndison and Monroo, o vm— Bhe Chicage Tribune. Monday Morning, January 20, 1874, From » statomont given olsowhore, it appears that aince March, 1867, 58,018 petitions in bank- ruptey have beon flled in the United Btatos Courts. The numbor of discharges granted hag taen 98,747, The total oxponse of the proceod- ings Liag boen 34,821,784, — Tho Domocrats in the Committos on Rallroada and Canals are about to submit a minority ro- port in opposition to Mr. McOrary's Railroad bill. Thoy will argue that it {s unconstitutional, on tho ground that Congross has no power to imposo now conditions on & railroad chartored by a Btato Legislaturo, —— Tho Bouthorn Pacific Railroad wants the Gov- ernment to guarantee the intercst on its 5 por cent bonda for thirty yoars. In return for this indorsomont, which is likely to be ns mucha more matter of form as tho guaranteo tho Gov- ernment gave the Union Pacific, the Company Promises tho Troasury a liberal por cont on ita gross enrnings. — At the mosting of the Diroctors of the Mil- waukeo & 8t. Paul Railway, in Now York, on Satur-~ day, it was decided to consolidate tho dobt of tho xond, which smounts to $26,266,000, Leld in dif- feront kinds of bonds, in one mortgage for $85,000,000. Tnis will covor all their indebtod- ness, and give s surplus to be applied to rolay- ing the road with steel rails, and theconstruction of two bridgos across tho Mississippl. Itis osti- mated that the oarnings of tho rond this yoar will be about §1,000,000, Ex-Collector Harpor's return to Springfleld .98 not under promiso of pardon, but under a \afe-conduct from tho United States Court, ‘This allows him to roturn, freo from arroat, to his hiding-place, after ho has given tho tosti- 1mony tho Government wants, Ris counsel atate that through his ovidenco the Government can rocover $200,000 in penalties from the Pokin digtillers, Tho amount of his defaleation was 220,000, and for this they declare his clerk, Bmith, to be responsible, —— Castolar began his administration of the Spanish Republic with the annomncement that, ‘before ho would consider any reforms, homesant to crush out all kinds of resistance to the Govern- ment. It may bofortunate for his fame that ho lost his position before his policy had had a fair trial. Thoseditions and disturbances in Spuin are asac- tive as ovor, andnothing ia more evident than that #he Carlists have not been very much put down, Every day some new ebullition of theirs is ro- ported. The last of their viotories is the capturo of Santander and Portugualite with a large quan- tity of military stores. — A dispatch from Joliet which appeared in Tne TumuNE of yestorday, gave currency to a rumor that notos of the Joliet Iron and Stoel Rolling Mills, amounting to $80,000 or 840,000, bad gone to protest in 8t. Louis. Tho rumor seoms to bo without foundation, and we would not knowingly have given it any additional circulation. We are informed that thore is 1o truth in it whatovor, and, oven in tho shape in which it was sont, it waa traced to no suthentie or trustworthy source. The Joliot Mills, in common with similar insti- tutions throughout the country, have been ine terrupted in thoir work moro or less by the panic, but thoy have ample rosources to moot all their tinbilition, — About 2,600 well-dressod and well-foed work- fogmen assembled ot Turner Hall yesterday aftornoon, to listen to specches from Messrs, Hoffmen, McAuliff, Klings, and others. After tho addresses were delivered the meeting unan- Imously adopted & fiery resolution in rofarenco to tho interference of tho New York police with workingmen's mass-mectings. As tho working- men of other citics might bo involved in the same diflicully with thess “sorvauts of tho ruling clagses,” they wero advised to obey thom only when tho polico acted within the law. If they overatepped that boundary, ns in New York, workingmen are not to obey them, but “todo sll that can bo done ‘to maintain tho liborties accorded by tho Constitution of tho Unitod States," which is a new way of spelling rlot. — ‘The statement of Presidont Grant's views con- cerning the Louisiana case, which comes from Washington, is evidently inspired and suthentio. It contradiote tho roport that ho was in favor of having a now election ordered by Congress. Louisians, ho holds, i in tho Union, oqual to all tho other States, and entitled to protection from illegal or unconstitutional intorforenco by any brauch of the Federal Govorn- ment, including, of courss, tho Executrvo, although the Prosident does not mention that. This is s now wrinkle in Prouldontinl politics, sud niuch batter than the notlon of the Exood- tive a fow months ago. Tho Prosident's charac- torization of tho laat election in the Btato as an organized fraud from the beginning to tho end for the beneflt of those who now hold the Goy- ornment, cannot bo agreeablo to his frionda in tho New Orleans Custom-Houuo or to Sonator, Morton. The special mossnge which (s now in proparation will be simply s statement of the facts of the Fodoral proceodings in Louisiana, ———— Tho Obioago produco markots wore gonerally stronger on Saturday, but with loss tradlng in tho aggrogato, Moss pork was quiet and un. changed, closing at $14,25@14,00 cash, and [ $14.30@14.85 gollor Fobruary, Lard was netivo, ond 100 por 100 Ibe higler, closlng at $9.10@ 0.16 cash, ond 20.17!(@9.20 sollor Fobruary. Monts woro In good domand and 3o highor, at B%¢o for shouldors, 680 for short ribs, 730 for short olear, and 95¢@10}40 for mwoot plolitod hame, Drossed hogs woro mora active and firmor, oloaing nt $6.25@0.80 por 100 Iha, Highwinea woro quiet and unchanged at 053o por gallon. Flour was dull and unchanged. Wheat was ac- Hvoand }¢o higher, closing firm at §1.26 cusli and $1.26%¢ sollor Fobruary, Corn was in fair domand aud igo highor, closing nt 680 cash and 834o sollor Fobruary, Oats wore quiot and 3¢ @1c highor, closing at 42}¢o cash and 437¢c sellor Fobruary. Ryo was quiot and 1o higher, closing atB80o for No. 2 on 2¢ storngo. Iiarley was oxoltod and 6@8o higher, at $1.05@1.75 for No. 2 and 81,40@1.46 for No. 8, Live Logs wero ac- tivoand strong, with sales at $56,16@5.76 for common to oxtra. Cattlo and shoep were quiot and unchangod. Tho prosentation of s gold medal to Mr. Frankland, of Momphis, was an unexpocted and affocting moidont in tho sossion of the Jowish fratornal Ordor of B'nat DB'rith, in this city, yostorday. Mr. Frankland hns won tho title of “Tho Hero of Memphis," by his courageous dovotion to tho victims of the yollow fover in that city. So conapicuous were his bravery and Lumanity, that tho Episcopal Bishop of Vicksburg enid that in o city full of churches, with 10,000 Chiristiaus, it had been loft to a Jow to prove tho truo typo of a good Samaritan. Tho medal was proparod by Dr. Wolf, of Washington, withdut tho knowledgo of his follow-membors, and tho maaner in which it waa adopted by tho Conven- tion aud prosontod to Mr, Frankland is the hap- plost possible illustrition of tho kindly tompor and good-will that animatos this admirable aa- sociation, A full roport of the procoedings of tho Convention, and the brilliant roception in the ovoning, will bo found elsewhero. Adam Black, tho famous Edinburgh pnblisher, diod yestorday, at the ago of 87. The oxtremes of his talents and carcor are well illustrated in the foct that, aftor serving an sppronticeship in Lis fathor's trade of builder, he wont into book- solling, and publishod, among other important works, the Encyclopwdin Britannics, and ap- poared in its last edition as tho contributor of somo of its bost articlos, Ho becamo a Ro- formor and Whig in politics at an early age, and espoused at the firat the caueo of Borough Re- form, which was tho initiation of the larger Parliamentary Reform oftorward achioved by his party. Mr. Black afterwards bocamo tho publisher of the Edinburgh Review. Ho bas twico beon elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and discharged the dutios of the oftice 8o acceptably that his constitucnts subgcribed the monoy to have his portrait paint- ed for the walls of the council-room. Mr. Black is tho proprictor of the copyright of the Waver- loy novels, and all tho works of Sir Walter Scott from 1856 till 1865, Ho was tho representative of Edinburgh in Parlinment as the successor of Lord Mncaulsy, In Parlisment, he was o mom- ber of the Independent body, and advocated sn unsectarian system of education, perfect froo- dom of trado, and absolute toloration in religion, — GEN, LOGAN’S SPEECH, Gon. Logan's spocch in the Sonate on the 10th inst. is pervaded with an error somewhat com- mon ameng long-haired financiors who harangue tho trades' unions, and infest newspaper-ofilces and Congreesional committec-rooms whon the currency question is under discussion—the orror that money has not, or at least need not, have any intriosio value ; that it is not wealth at all, or noed not bo; that it is onlya symbol of wealth; that, thorefore, an inconvertible paper with compulsory circulation, the emission and amount of which are under tho control of Gov- ernment, is a good circulating medium—one by ‘menns of which ahealthy commorco can be carried on, and contracts justly as woll nslogally settled, In characterizing this theory of money na & grievous error, big with mischiof, it is not in- tonded to convey tho impression that at any givon moment an inconvertiblo currency does actually derango commerco or entail disastor, moral, social, or political. We moan only that its fendency is always to doso ; that, unless su- perseded by a currency having a fouadation in naturo, a currency having intrinsls value as its basis, the supply of which may regulate itself, Just a8 the supply of boots, and conts, and other commoditios regulates itself—by the domand for it; o curroncy which shall contract only un- dor tho pressure of commercial necessity, and oxpund with commorclal wants; a currcncy which governmeut cannot tamper with, which shall assort itself aud be its own gunrantee— these misfortunes will sooner or lator overtake the country, certainly, inovitably. Infinite wis- dom and infinite bonesty alono can 8o rog- ulate o paper-currency that sooner or lator it sholl not reduca all commorcial iransactions to gambling speculations. And the oxtont to which itmay give business this odious charactor, is depondent ontirely on the extont to which government is wise, honest, and fonrless. But wise, honest, and fearloss as govornment may be, it can neyor bo omnisciont or omnipotent, and, so long as it isnot, it can nover muke tho supply of an irredesmable paper currency just equal to the demands of tho busi- ness of tho country. The supply of such a cur- roney will be always either too groat or too small, ‘The dangor of its boing too small is intinitesimal, howover—and on this danger wo have littlo to say; for thero nover has been an inconvertiblo currency of whioh there has not boon too much, ‘Were thera just enough, it would bo at par, If there wero too little, gold would flow in to sup- ply tho doflclonsy. Tho oxcoss over what i roally nooded 18 necessary by its dapreciation, How nn inflated curroncy may lead to moral ovil and financial troubles it la not diffieult to underatand, Whon an inconvertible our- rency i8 inflated, tho signs of wonlth— an inconvortible paper money s ot wealth, but only o sign—are multiplied, This multiplication of the signs of wonlth crontes adelusion which soon becomes univereal, that real wealth superabounds, Eaoh onoe has moro money—bolioves, therefore, lie has moro wealth; that thero {s less need of cconomy on big part, that ho may consnme more in ploasure, in drows, tn luxury generally, Honco, fast living, extravaganco, and rooklessunoss ; the wasting of tho 10al wealth of tho country ; unproductive consumplion ; & consumption that outruns pro- duotfon and disturbs the equilibrium botween them; the destructlon of capital on & largoe acale, and its inovitable consequenco, a commorolal arlale, followed by tho dischurgo of laborors, poverty, idlonoss, crime, starvation, Soclalistic and " Internatlonal " domonstrations, tho sproad of pestilent communistle theorlos, atrikes aund look-outs, and tho demoralizing offoots theso demonatrauons and antagoniums bave on both CHICAGO cemployera and omployed, ou politieal partios and legislation, ‘Tho ovor-{sane of curroncy londs almost inovi~ tably to theso disastors. It was o in Bwodon, when, aftor tho doath of Oharlos XIE., it lsaued ita papor curroncy, It was 80 in Eranco nftor the {ssuo of the assignats, It was o nftor tho {ssne of tho notos of Low's Bank, It has boon 80 in our own country, though not to the samo oxtont as in Bwoden and France, It will Lo so in our own country, howevor, to tho same extont o8 olsowhore, sliould anything load to any groat addition to tho volumo of our inconvertible cur- ronoy, The offoct hore montioned doos not jm- modiately follow the cause, Dotwoen the over- issuo and tho almost inovitable orists, the do- struction of tho ronl wealth of tho country must intorveno, But it doos interveno gonerally, and thon nothing can ward off the crash. Spocula- tion hagtons tho catnstropho, concurring with fast living to destroy the wealth of tho country. But, with & orlsia brought sbout directly by a wasle of capital, romotoly by inflation of tho curroncy, the ovil doos not stop. Ignoring the ronl causo of tho crisis, pooplo ascriba it to a lack of curroncy, Honce nory for moro, for a now inflation—for the very causo which remotoly producod tho sufforing tho community {8 smart- ing undor, and whiel, it ylolded to, will iuovita- bly tend to produce anothor. THE FARMERS' MOVEMENT. Tho Nation assumes, inn vory dogmatical way, that tho Farmors' Movement has failed aud como to an ond, and it dovotes soveral columns to » statoment of tho cruses of its fafluro, It snys : Yot, notwithstanding all this, tho Movemiont has failod—failed 5o completely that thore fs ow Hittlo in. tereat in tho subject, No shipper oxpects to ship lis goods any eheaper during (hie conitng yenr for it ; no travelorexpocts to carry hus wifo and family to tho sea-side or thie mountaln at any loss cont for it ; noona who bad s hand I tho passago of tho Tilinol pro-rata law hua the siightest oxpeetation that 1t can over bo enforced ; no railrosd man bolloves that 1t will pro- vent his wateriug hls stock ; no nowspapor oditor any longer In privato converuation—what ho writes In, of course, auotlier matter—professes to find it a norfous subjsct, This i not the provalling opinion in tho Wost, whoro tho Movement originated and hay modo most progross. The mistako ovidently grows out of the fnot that the Nation s viewing tho Farmers' Movomout from o long distanco, and has not the bouofit of intorcourss with its promotors, or acquaintanco with tho country newspapors, which represent tbe farmers and rocord tho stops thoy aro takiug. Every dny's ‘mail which we roceive from tho small towns in the Weat contuins the rocords of tho meotings of county sssociations, at which roports are rend, giving tho detnils of tho year's pro- gross, and of tho increnso of memborship, In almost overy part of the West theso annual county convontions aro now in gession, and the nowepapers aro burdened with roports of their proceedings. In every dustauco thoy show ac- cossions to mombership, Instoad of dyiug out, a8 o soparato organization, thoy aro absolving themselvos more rapidly than over from all allo-~ gisace to the old political parties, and declaring themselves indopendont of them. Itisidloto talk of thefailure of s movement which has gained the political control of the Stntos of Wisconsin and California ; which is dictating torms to tho old parties in Towa nod Kaneas ; which has carried o mnjority of the counties of Illiuois, and bids fair to carry tho State at tho next goneral olection; which is making rapid headway in Minnesota and Michigan, and which haa socured 60 foarless and ablo & leader ns Gov. Booth in the United States Bonato. It is truo that its purposes are not well dofined, but there can be no doubt that among those purposes aro two which will ultimately bo carried into effoct, viz,: public responsibility in railway managoment, and the modification and ultimate overthrow of tho present monstrous protectivo tariff, The recont ripping-up of rotten Railway Boards inthis Stato is one symptom of tho strongth of the move- ment, and, although tho pro‘rala law in Illinois has not worked woll, tho discoutent which caused it to bo onacted and thoe determination of those who supported it havo not beeu without o wholesomooffoct upon railwaymanagers, Tosay that *No railrond man bolieves that it will pre- vent his watering his stock” betrays comploto ignoranco of the situation. Wo vonture to say that no railway company in Illinois would st~ tempt to issuo watored stock to-day any more than it would attempt to issuo firo and brimatono. It thero is any healthior politicnl organization anywhere than that which the farmors hnve originated in the Wost, we do not know what namo it is called by, Tf their purposos aro not well doflned, they share that deflcion- cy with the Ropublican party and the Democratic party. If thoso Lwo moribund con- cerns have anything to do oxcopt to de- clare dividends smong their oflice-holdors, wo do not know what it i, To us, however, the main significance of tho Farmers' Movemont is, that it offera to those who desire roform in publio administration, and who have sought anad failed togecure it in the old dividend-payiug partics, an opportunity to accomplish something for the beneflt of tho country at largo—not for the farmers moraly, but for all who live by thoir industry, as distinguished from thoso who live by politics, speculation, and class-logislation, Wo bellovo that Civil Servico Reform, in which the nation has herotofore oxpressed an jutorest, has more friends in the Farmors' Movement than it has anywhere else. We be- lave thnt everything which can justly clnim the uame of Reform bas to-day ita bost look-oul in that. It is not truo, na the Nalion insinuates, that corrupt and designing politicians and ofico-soek- ora have takon possession of the Movomont, or havo acquired any considerablo atanding or fntlu- ence in it. Thoy will como probably in due time, and in proportion to its strongth nnd probabili- tios of uccoss, but as yot thoy avo few snd powerless in its organizatio BAVINGS-BANK EXAMINATIONS, There is & bill pending in the Logislature pro- viding for the appolntment of a Bank Exawminor, whose duty it ghall bo from time to thno to ox- amine into the accounts and conditions of tho savings banka of the State, The ond nnugl‘n! by this Dill is porbapu proper onough, but itls s question whether tho means proposed by thia il aro tho beat to accomplish it, The ofiico and duties of a Bauk Examinor avo alroady genorally known from thelr oporation in tho National-Dank system. The duty of that ofloor is to investi- gato the business and affairs of tho Nationa! Banks from time to timo, and make his roport to ‘Washington, It thoDepartments thero discover anything wrong, they are supposed to opon acor- rospondance with the bank ofiicors looldug to ita remody., Tho publio are no wiser than bofore, and know nothing of the notusl con- ditlon of the bank until it hng aotually failed, aud tho Comptroller of the Our- rency has taken ohargo of it This syatont, so far a8 putting the oublio on tholr wnard azamat DAILY = =t 2 = DAY, ARY 26, 1874, dangorous tendonolon of a bauk, {a concorned, is & completo failuro, It ia of no boneflt whatovor. Aftora bank has failed it in small comfort to tho publio to know that, somo wooks befare, tho Bunk Lxamiuor lad reported to Washington that the bank would fail at somo timo. Thoso oxamiuations, morcover, aro of two kinda. 1, Thoso mado by n thoroughly compotont aud at tho samo timo consclontious and incorruptible Examinor; 3. Thoso by an incompotont, or cor- rupt, or plinblo Examinor, As tho appointments of thoso Examinors aro a mattorof party patron- ago, thoir fitat duty s to tho party that gavo thom tho place, their noxt to make thomsolvos a8 accoplablo and popular to the banks as possiblo. A consclontions Examinor, in & vory short timo, bocomes a mufsanco to all banks in o condition roquiring vigilanca and firmnoss on tho pard of tho Examinor. His intorferanco bocomos go troublesomo that an im- mediato offort is mado to have him romoved aud somo pordon more accoptablo put in his placo, It iho Examinor bo of tho second clnss,—incom- potent, or pliable, or corrapt,—thon whilo)ho con make the offico oxtromely profitable to Limeolf, the ‘‘oxamination” Lo porforms isof courso wholly worthloss, Thoro is no reason to sup- pose that tho oxaminations by State officers will bo any more thorough or valuablo than those of Unlted Btatos officors, Tho appolntments, of course, will bo political, and State machinery and responslbility is gencrally loss offlclont than Fod- oral, ‘Wo have in this Stato a number of commorcial banks, and saviogs banks, and othor institutions suthorizod to do a banking business, nnd justice domands that somo sort of publicity bo made of thelr transactions, Thosoiustitutionsare multi- plylog in all parts of tho Btate; snvings banks aro becoming moro numorous than public con- venionco or nocessity domands, At presont thoy _aro substantinlly irrosponsiblo to tho public. Fraud and imposition ave enslly practiood, What is wanted is that kind of publicity of tho actual condition of tho affalra of theso inatitutions which no solvent and well-managed bank will shrink from, but which would render it impoa- siblo for bogus concorns to livo under. What tho Logislaturo should do is to oxccuto tho ninth soction, eloventh articla of the Constitution, which rondy : Evory banking amocintion now, or which may Lere- aftor bo, organizod uilor the Jawa of thin Btato, sall mako, and publish & full nnd scourate quartorly stato- mentof itanfairy (which shall bo cortified to under ©oath by ono or moro of its officors) s may bo providod by law, Tho groat diffleulty which oxists in the volun- tary statomonts now made is that thoy frequont- 1y onmit information upon tho very points whicl most affoct tho standing of the bauk. Tho Logislaturo shonld roquiro each of theso Lanks tomake s quarterly sworn statement showing tho following facts : 1. Capital stock pald in, 4, Burplus, If any, 9, Amount duc despositors, 4. Amount of loans securod by real eatato, 5. Amount of call loans, 6, Amount of timo notes discounted, 7. The amount and kind of collaterals held as socuri- ty for loans, 8, Amount of loans to officers and Directors of tho Bank. 9. Amount of cash on hand, 10, Amount invested fn public sccurities, giving tho names and amouuts of cach, Thero may bo other points that will suggest thomsolves to the Legislature, but those we liave given will suffice to exposo tho chief abuses practiced undor the form of savings banks, No bank doing a logitimato business will hositate to mako this atatomont; while tho making of it will of nocessity closoe up all the mero confidence shops, which take monoy on deposit to enable tho officors of tho machines to use the money in their private business. This searching statomont would probably close numerous avings banks in thoState, and the fact that it would have such an offoct is the vory reason why it should be ro- quired, The only resl guarantee dopositors have in oither Btato or Nationnl Banks is the porsonal charpetor of tho men by whon they aro man- aged. If thoir porsonnl chayacter is not sufi- cient to insure an honest administration of the buamess of tho bank, then there is little to pro- tect tho public against loss. But of all protac- tions, that furnished by the average Bauk Ex- aminor is the least valuablo. BUPREME COURTS AT A DISCOUNT, o the Editor of Phe Chicago Tribue : Bin: IsmaRepubliean, s law oblding man, and, 28 8 goneral thing, a great admiror of Gan, Grant, our Presidont, I Lave always been taught to bellove - that tho Supreme Court of & Stato in this Union was tho tribuno of last resort, and that wo, an good citizens, wero Butnd to submit to tho declsions of Buch Courts, oxcept in vuch cases aa may bo carrled to the Suprems Court of tho United Btates, und, oven then, until tho Su~ premo Court of the United Btates kad averruled tho de- clsion of tho Stato Court, T may bo wrong, not balng much of a lawyor ; but, if Tam right, how is ft thut tho decislon of the Supremo Court of Texas has been of o avall; and how i it that Gen, Grant hns advised Gov, Davis of Texas to submit to n Govornor and Leg- fulature which the Supremo Court of Texas has do- clarad unconstitutionally elected? I should bo glad to bnvogour views, Ploase put Iilinols in tho plase of Toxas, aud tho go ahead, Iwill add that I shall Lo glad to aco tho new Governor and Logislaturo hold thelr placos, but fn tho meantime, what becomos of the Bupromo Court ? AN OLD Sumsonmex, ANSWER, Wo do not undertake to anweor for President Grant, but wo presumo that ko was too much ashamed of his intorferouce in Louisiaua to ro- pent tho blundor in 'T'oxas. Our understanding of tho situation in tho latter State is, that, thore Leing no publio opin- ion to sustain the Suprome Court, tho old Gov- ornor and Legislaturo *slid out” as soon as thoir appeal to Washington was nogatived. ‘Thero is nothing in our form of Govornment to prevent Gov. Davis from abdieating, even with # Bupromo Court declslon in Lis favor, THIN-SKINNED STATESMANSHIP, "The sensitivoness of publle mon in Lngland ta caricature is onco more shown by the action of tho Lord Chamborlain with regard to s farco which was rocontly produced st the Vaudevillo Theatro in London, About a yoar ago this faa- tidious consor exorvised his authority with regard toaburlesquo ealled **Flio appy Lond,” in which Messro, Gladatono, Lowe, and Ayrton wore carica- tured, by purumplor!ly forbidding its porform- anco, o has now oxerclsed thut authority again in tho caso of a new farco, called * Ruy Bluy Rightod,” one of tho episodes of which is an amusing duot, whioh introduvos cavicatures of several of the loading mon of tho day, Mr, Gladstone and Mr, Lowe aro thore paraded In n vory ludiorous manner, provocative of conaider- ablo amusomont. The sonsitivoncss of public mon in England {8 amusing, T'he periodical pross of that coun. try abounds with caricatures, and some of tho Journals makoe it a spocialty to produco largo eartoons, both plain and colored, of tho most ludicrous dosoription, setiing forth the vanitios and wenknossos of Lnglish statosmon. 'Ilioso aro allowod evory sort of liconss, but the mo- ment the poor playor uppears upon the stego, made up on tue vory samo modol, the Lord Chamharlsin nounsas unon him savagalv aud supprosaes hisshow, Thodifforonco batweon the English aud American statosman is that whilo tho formor frots and fumes ot being ridiculed, and entroats tho Lord Obnmberlain to suppross tho oxhibition, the lattor goos to thoe theatro and onjoya the roprosontation quile s loarilly ng | any of tho nudlonco, A noted instanco of this indifferonco to cnrloaturc has beon rocontly af- forded by the production of M. Bardows play of ‘“Unclo8sm™ in Paris, in which Amoricans aro made the subjoots of merriment. Tho Amor- ican In Paria throng to soo it nightly, and on- joy it henrtily, and whon the Parls consor pro- posed to withdraw it out of considoration for tho Amorfonns, ho was Inughed ont of it by Amoricans thomsclvos. Tho British lion must uot bo laughed at. Tho thinnoss of his hide doos not correspond with tho sonorousncss of his rour, ——— A correspondont suggosts the mothod by whiols tho Moxican Olxims Commisslon got ahoad of tho Toxas Claims Commission in their com~ putation of the losses of cattle along the bordor. ‘The Toxas chaps assumed that tho progeny of tho stolon cattlo would ba ono-balf cows and ong-halt bulls, whilo the mnthematiclans across tho river assumed that they wonld bo all cows, and made their computations by the following formula: Aman owns a cow, which at the age of two years gives birth to n calf, and doos #o onch yoar thercaftor, The progeny follow tho unme law. Supposing them to bo all cowa; wo bave at the oud of oach yoar tho following as the number of eattlo ; ench torm boing tho sum of tho two pro- ceding torms, l‘;mr No,|Year, 3, X veee 233123, 121,503 The Toxas claims wero on tho basis of about 8 por cont aunual fncronse, while tho Maxican ditto woro noarly 62 per cent. —_——— Ono of tho principal London mediums {s Miss Tlorence Cooke, Bho goes into o trance inside o cabinet, which has a window at one ond. When tho lights azo turned down, & ghost (with o romarkablo rosemblance to Miss Cooke) ap- pears ot the window and talks nonscnse. When “ tho conditiony arc favorable "—oh stercotypod phrago, doar to donlors in shamal—ihe ghost wraps itaelf in o shicoud and promenades bofore tho cabinot. A short timo ago, s distinguished party of boliovers wora ot the seance and tho ghost walked out, Buddonly ono of tlo apecta- tora—au suthor of somoe noto,and a 8piritualist,— sotzed tho shade. Htrange to say, it proved to havo substanco. It struggled, it seratched its asgailant's nose, it fnally seurrted back to the eabinot. By a curious coincidence ths medium lind tho hystorics when tho door was opened. It is & great pity that Spiritualism shonld serve o8 o cover to such charlatans., Its bona-fide phe- nomena aro marvolous. 'flio world would be ben- fited by ;their explanation, But tho tricks and roguorios of professed mediuwms have made even iuvestigation into tho mystory discroditable. Bpiritualism in London bns never rccovered {from the shock it received when Homo was triod for gotting o fortune by telling & credulous old woman that hor husband's spirit bade hor give it to him, and was forced to refund tho gains of his trickery. —_— Pittaburgh got scared in 1863, and throw up & fow enrthworks to provent Gen. Lo, who was Just thon boing routed at Antictam, from saun- toring up through Ponnsylvania and capturing tho City of Duat and Ashes, The ouly intolligi- ble renson for tho mcaro ia that tho citizens thought that where there was so much smoke thoro must bo some fire. Ilowevor, not s Rebol riflo ernckod within some hLundreds of miles. Bo tho Pittsburghers, spared tho prinful necossi- ty of charging the encmy, charged the Govern- mont with the costof the fortifications. The billhas beon rojoctod again and again, but it comes up again this year undor the tender caro, of Senator Scott, If this sort of thing is to succoed. it will bo in order for Chicago to filon littlo bill for tha cost of suppressing the Camp Douglas conspiracyof 1864, Our fright was bot- tor founded,-and the Government, siuce it cs- tablished the prison, was remotoly responsiblo therofor, B — Therowas agony in ihe Chineso quartor of Ban Francisco whon the stesmship China was overduo, For in itd cargo was u choice lot of first-class gods, manufactured oxprossly for the new jous-houso of the headquarters of American beathendom. Tho joss-house was finished, tho fragrant tapera wore rondy to bo burned before the grinning gods,—but the sncrod josses thom- solves still tossed about on Pacitic waves. Final- Iy, as an American tirm, mindful of the Bir- mingham morchant who subscribed liberally to send o missionary to heathenesse, and then mado a fortune by froighling tho ship that esrriod him with rum and idols, offered to manufasture & superior quality of god at low rates, tho China camo. ‘Tho New York World warns the almond- oyed to import now all tho deities thoy need, lost untivo industry should demand protaction, and some cunmng Congressman should ingert in tho rovised tariff : Gods, crude and refined, 100 por cout ad valorom.” —— Tho women who are conducting the prayer- meoting warfare agsinst Ohio whiskv-sollera show tho sagacity of tho Seriptural serpont. A fow men still bid them defiance, nud rofuse to shut thoir doors to oustomers or open them to missionarios, 'Tocouquor thoso laststrongholds of Satan, the teetotulors havo had a **tabornn cle” built, Itisasmall house on wheels, com- fortably warmed aud lighted, This they pitch bofore tho encmy's doorway, and sing and pray within its walls ad /ib. At night, whon thirsty mortals try to skulk stealthily into tho saloon, tho rays of a poworful rofloctor detect them. Thoy aro porsonally appoaled to, aud if they still enter, are mado tho objacts of spocial prayoers, whicly, delivored in forvent tones, ring through aud throngh tho bar-room, The Tabernaclo ro- maing until midnight, and reappears bright and carly noxt morning. No man hias yot boon found who can reaist it for throo days. —_— Tho Troasury Departnont Lns connected with it o Burenu of Engraving and Printing. Tho oflicial roports of tho Buresu show a staff of six oficials, at an aggrogato salary of about 814,000, Thorois a standing appropriation of 1 por oont of tho amount of notes, bonds, oto., issued onch year tomeot the oxponscs of issuo, trausfor, and rodemplion, This sppropriation amounted, last yonr, to a triflo loss than 83, 000,000, Investigation has ghown that tho Bu- roau of Engraviug and Printing, which nominal~ 1y costs 814,000, renlly sponds noarly all this im- wmonso sum of 23,000,000, It does not havo to account for it to Coagrosy, but oxponds it at ity own disereifon, I'he numbor of porsons in the employ of the Burcau, whoso nemos do not ap- poar on the publio records, is said to bo nearly 1,000, QGon. Garflold is trying to find out what thoy do. —— The Montgomery (Ala.) State Journal says: “Tvery duy wo sco large crowds of nogroos around tho basin and on the principal straots, who aro listening to the agonts fvom Arkausns, Toxns, and olsowhore, who aro hiving hands 1o go thera to work in tho cotton and caue flolds, TIv is ostimated that not lews than 2,000 have loft this vounty,” Tho Greonsboro Jleacon says that tho nogroos are loaving that soction of tho Btato also by thousands, ‘This fu tho universal tosthmony fram il parts of tho Stato, The Legira fs not vory ploariug to the carpot-bag politivinne in the Biato, who had musterod them duto tho ranku and who dvnoud upon thewm for votes, Tho opposite faction, howover, arc wall- plonsed that the wards of tho nation uro loaving, a6 it oliminates o vory distracting olomont from Alabama politics, and loaves an opportunity to i1 ofticon with bottor mon. . ety -— The man-gorvant of tho Stinor family, of Now York, who encapod from tho tiro in which ovory- body olso porished, testified on the inquost that ho *'madoe his cseapo through the roof ; ho was naked, and knoclied at a window noxt door and naked n fomalo it ho could come in : sho snld no, end shut down the window.” This fominine not shows o high moral training and a low moral sonse. As it happened, tho mnn got admission abanothor window, but this was only chance, Intonso respeat for the proprioties might havo Lillod him. Perhaps, howover, Lits ropulse wasn sign of tho univoraal fominine love of dross. A mnn with clothos would have boon admittoed In- atantly ; n man without clothes was not thought worth saving, — Tho rallronds of Missouri aro safd to be worth, with thcir rolling stack, equipmont, and all othor property oxcopt ox-Govornmont lands, $24,201,330. Tho Btato has givon thom S16,- 702,004 bonds; countles, towuships, and cities havendded $28,576,000. 8o, tho people of Missour] hovo built the raliroads and havo then kindly givon tho corporations $21,107,674 more to poy thom for thetrouble of ownorship. Thisis more absurd than for England to give princoly rovo- nues to people who “condoscend to boe born." ——— In Boaton tho ropression policy is having its logitimato effect. Socrot dissipation 8 on tho incronge. The very duy of tho famous procla- mation that thero was not an open bar in tho clty, two gontlomen wore guided to thirty soerot bars within one square, Thoy wore all full, and onch of thom wns probably doing threo times tho harm of & public saloon. —_—— ‘Wo can imagine the pain tho Presidons folt when, aftor declaring lis boliof that only citi- zons of a Territory should bo appoiuted to rule it, o could {ind but one man in Utak fit to vervo his country, und was theroforo forcod to melect the other cloven ofiicials from elsowhoro. EMER SIS It 18 not vory long since Gen. Ifownrd gave Sonator Pomoroy o certificato of good oharacter, in which * 01d Bubsidy " waes offectually disguis- edasn “Christion statosmon,” Will the ox- Bunator now roturn the compliment and kindly indorso the * Christian soldior " ? The story that Richardson hos resigned is n canard. 1t would have been a duck of n roport, Lind it boen true, —_— ‘The meoting of tho Farmors at Morris, I, ia to bo held on Thuraday, Jan. 29, instoad of on thio 28th, ns somo papers Live stated, S g = NOTES AND OPINION. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser makes bold to eay: 1t {n almost too good to bo truo that tho fangling Loutsiana politicians aro_about to como 10 torms un unite on some plan for rextoring peace to the dis- tracted Btate, Ilerv wo huve one good result from the firtu and Judicious staud taken by tho Administration {u reforence to the "Cexas politicians who desired the Government to ket sido the verdict of tho ballot-box for thelr bonelt, Thefr robuff s warned tho Loul- ians men that the day of wrath is pesr at hund, and that thoy hud bottor make peaco before belng com- polled to do so, —The Oshikosh Northwestern (loyal)is alarmed at the prospect of **Ilo Next Compnign,"” and s0y8: Tho peaplo aro earneatly watching {helr representa- tives fu Congress, and it behoovos them to loave such # rocord as will bear the closest exumination, —All tho infamy of the salary-grab was not alono in tho ‘increase, covering back-pay; and tho reposl, mercly of the act of March$, 1873, doos not reform tho vicious systom of acoumu- Inted pay for vacant seats, or the equally viclous practico of forward-pay. Thus, pay hos boen accumulated since March 4, 1873, for a Louisiana Seuator, whoso seat (if anow election is ordored) may not be ocoupied before nmext wintor, whon the nmount, at £5,000 per annum, would be some $8,760. Any gratuity to Pinchback, for cooling his beels, would como out of tho contingent fund of the Senato. Also, in the House, pay is accumulating for two West Virginia moembors, and, a8 new olections are likely to bo ordered, the two horeanfter clected will find quite a bandsome plumb on their plates. As in the case of Pinchback, any gratuity voted to the West Virginia claimants would como out of the con- tingont fund of the House, Tho people will have something to say about this wholo salary quostion in their iustruction to mew members uext summer ; and new membors will under- stand very definitely the *¢ contracts” under which thoy serve. ~—There is o general oxpression that tho ac- tion of Congress on thoe salary question has been a8 ungracious as the debate was indecent. And it would seem that members will be vory gon- erally reminded this year that their ¢ contracts " oxpire March 8, 1875. Harper's Weekly unys : 1t ia n very curlous fact to close obsorver in Washe ington that Congross 18 generally profoundly jguurant of the roal tenduncy of public opinfon, The hubit of striot party action coufuses nccuratd apprebousion, ‘The higher staudarda of conduct uro forgotten iu tho deaire to servo and satisfy party oxpectation, and there 18 coustant forgetfulnoss that purty men are also intelli- gent and Lionorable citizens, 'thu 4 salary grab ¥ wag “ghoyed " through Congress by {lireo forces—the de- #ire of monoy, the knoten wiak of the President, and tho bravado of Butler, They were immediste und_ presss ing, while public apinion was remoto nud obscure, ‘Tho ¢ grab ¥ was driven through, and, although ft I8 now ropoaled, tho mischief it has octasfoned cnnnot Lo undono, It has injured tho nationul respect for Qongress, and it Aaa injured the Republican party, —If the members of tho prosont Congress who havo drawn the back puy had returned it into the treasury, and if the salury of the Prosident and Judges of tho Supreme Court had been cut down to tho original tigures, a disposition at lonst to obey thio voice of the people would have been ovinced, In the nbuenco of any provisions of the uaturo suggoested, tho repoaling act is mere- ly a trick unworthy a body of men making any protensions to purity or statesmanship, but quite in accordance with the roputation and con- dict of the mon who passod tha grab originally, ~Illinois State Register. . —QGrant approvas tho Salary bill, This showa him to be the head giabbor of the country. ‘Twico ho has approved o law giving himself'a doublo salary, whon a single “word from him would have prevented it. ut ho wanted tho monoy.—Pillshurgh Posi. . —And now tho Presidont may be presumed to be happy. Ho s ulfuml the ‘now’ salnry-grab Inw which ropeals all iucrenso of ralarios but bis own, Ho does not soom to apprecinte the fact that the infamy of the old measure, which was sproad out ovor o great many porsons, is now, without bolug diminished in quantity, ail con- contrated on 'f’.\lmuulf.—mlwu ukee News, —The Prosident has signod tho bill repoaling the salary-grab, Ilo bms not yek, howover, reached that high pitch of honesty that would impel him to roturn hissharo of the grab to the National Treasury.—Fond du Lao ( Wis.) Com- monuwealth. —Does anybody supposo tho salary-grab can bo butied out oxy gight so long as the greatest grabber of all in allowed and continues to draw from the 'Lrousury his indecont, avaricious gains ? Tho quontion muewers itsolf. Neithor the grab, nor izs history, nor tho demago it doce to the Ropublican party, con be buriod out of sight 8o long ns its most cnns}){uumm, most re- pugnant, aud most shometul feature is kopt alive,— Wilmington (Ill.) Advocate. —Congross will hava to * go ono better ” and repeal Graut's partof_tho steal, bofore the peo- ple will bo uatistied. Whilo tho littlo grabbors, who onnoted tho lnw, uro being hounded down Dby ull parties, it is most unjust that the Chiof Grabber should go freo.—Zavana (1il.) Clarion, —~Cut down tho Prosidont’s salaryl " This ery shonld go up from tho Nopublican tax-payers of this conntry to tho car of Congross, with an carnostuoss that would make that body quake, Cut aown tho Prosidont’s selary! . | . Lot thota bo such u public sentiment created that Gon, Gignt will bo competled to pay back the 876,000 at loast, iuto tho Fransury, or lot Lim bo hiusod and spit npon wherovor he goos.—Earl- wille (111 Transeript, —Tho tompted uro punished, and made to sur- rendor tholr spoils ; but tho tompter who got them futo the kinavory goes seot fron aud keops all his ill-gotton plunder, 8o utands tho case ot presont, but tho peoplo muy yet take monsnres hat will givo it s vory differont nspect,—Faye County (dowa) Demacrat, —Thoro is one thing which the country cannot and will not soon forgut, nud that is the con- spleuous fuct that thore is no legal bar to n resti- tution of tho plundor by the Presidont's own voluntary &b, '+ + o With ona singlo iustanco of nolf-donlnl, ono ainglo act to polnt out as tho unl;gumun of a ligh nnd magnanimous publia uplrit, ho oan auk for o rovision of the publis opinfon in which he in rogarded ne using tho Prosidency a8 if ho had won it in a raflic.— Kansas Cily 1'imes. —*I shall bo dlshonest,” writes tho Washing- ton corrospondent of tho Troy Times, **if I nie tompt to ido tho faot that amoug the Ropubi- Heans in Congross tho Prosident {s at this mo- mont not quite so po{mlm' 88 ho was a yoar ago," This is putting it milaly, —I'wo mombors from Indlana_ votod againat ropoal, ‘Thoso woro Shanks aud Willinms, both Ropubliorns. . . . . Thoy have bothi man- aged to make money ont of their positlons, and will rotire from "Congress In comfortahla circumstances, Tor such men tha people shonld lave no further use.—Logansport (Ind.) Pharos. —Congresarion Burchard voted for tho repenl, thereby oxpacting a re-vlection to that hionorabla body next fall. “Too lat, ** Burch,” the peopla have marked you. They trusted you oneo, but cantiot again.” Bave your money and don't t to buy ]nunmlr into Cougress ngnn.—o,qz County (11l.) Grange. —ho mombers who have flnnllf voted for tha Ru}mnl bill did not do go voluntarily, but by coms pulsion, bolleving that thoy might’ rotriove tholz oss of public honor and sccure thoir re-election, o tido of public opinfon 14 agaiust thom, ‘Lhey have forleited public confidence, and the people cannot and will not trust thow ngamn, « » ‘Thore 1 not o district In tho Unlted Btates that could not furnish ot least & scoro of mon superior in ability to the present incum. bents, upon a salary of $8,000.—Freeport (1M1.) Bullelin, —Abram Comingo fa tho Domocratic Congross« man from tho District adjolning our own. Tsnae C. Parkor in the Ropublican Congrossmnu from our Diutrict, Whon the Halary bl cumo up both shared in the profits, in tho véry face of tho ware faro that was waged ngainst It 3r, Comingo undortook to dofand his course, and in his owy homo ha iy to-day almost despised. Ilolt Coune ty, the Gibraltar of Republicauism in this Dis. trict, by which Mr. Farker was onabled to got ta the Congrossional shiore, openly and boldly do. nounced him Jast fall, aud asked bim to make vacant tho soat Lio bad dishonored, . ., Thesa goutlemen, aftor all ihat has bLoon roforred ta nind transpired, como up agnin on tho very flrst op mrtumh{. oud display the mamo greed that animated thoir broasts at tho bagining of thoir volitical lifo, TFor inatanco, on u rosolution of« fored tho other day to restoro tho franking privi¢ Joge, the voicos of Comingo aud I'arker came up sweetly in its favor.—St. Joseph (Alo.) Gazette, —'I'iiero nover has beon a period in the history of our country whon Congress aud tho Presic dent needed watcbing moro than now, Thera hay ne ¢ beou o time wlien o many plans werq uudor advisomont aud in tho courso of consuue mation for gigautic natioun! axpenditares, upou various plens, which, if ssuctioned by Congresg and Groant, will augment tho taxation of oue citizens fearfully, beyond ail hrecedont, and }lmt}uh beyoud ordinury conception.—Piltsburgh 0st, ~~Fhe Ropublican party has a majority in both branebos of Congress, aud tho l’rc:!idoln unnn. imously. What prevents thom from enacting any reform they wieh ? hoe Republican partyin Cougress, und out of Congross, sro tho Triends and advocatos of monopoly, No amount of uaked, falko ussertions will longer misloud tha Dpeoplo in reforouco to this matter.—Quincy () dlerald, —3r. Burleigh, of this District, is the only Congressmun trom Now England who voted for tho Teatoration of the franking privilego, Wo congratulato Mr. Burloigh on this straightfor- ward, bonest vote. Tho rest of them nro op= posed to the franking priviloge, but will vote for un upproprition of postage-stumps, accomplishe iug the sumo result by indivection. . , . Wi Lave adherod to tho [Ropubliean] party hithorto, Tor lnck of & bettor, hoping to uco il undortiko a real yoform of tho civil servico and take some stops towards giving us o botler curroncy und better revenue faws. If thewss cuds eannot bo accomplisbed through the Repul 1l organizas tion, thon, iv our judgment, the mackinery s no Longor eapublo of tho worvies which tho country ueods, If that Lo treagon, make tho most of it, —Porlland (Me.) ddeertiser, —Lhors are still enough black sheop on tha Republican gido of Congyess to make continued watchfuluers necessary, but future eloctions will weed these out to give place to better mon. Thia is inovitablo, The peoplo have rocsived lossons during tho past year or two which will not Hoon bo forgotton.—Evansuille (Ind.) Journal, ~Let the Admiuistration party not now add cowardico to its other sins by attompting to sbif any portion of tho respousibility for the passag of tho salary bill on o the shouldors of thoir po~ litical opponeuts.—Dubuque Hevald, —Tho "dry bones of partyism never got Ba thorough a Tattling os the grab aud Credit Slo bilier folks have suffored during this soason,— Indianapolis Sentinel. —Thg gentlomen in Congress who aro 80 sone sitive about public opinion, who deprecate the growing Inck of reveronco for Congressmen, ara soriously imistaken as to the cause. They should not condemn tho press. . . . It had made our public men aware that they aro re- sponsiblo, and that if thoy engogo in impropot work ths{cmnohlook to party papers for de- fouso. t bug madoe the just criticism of the press tho greatest check on corruption. The politician can no longer defynewspapor oxposiira with the rotort that it is only the lying story of the opposition press.—Hariford Courant. —Tho one thiug which tho nafaithful, corrupt, poculating, pilfering public scrvant dreads above all others, and has most reason to dread, is the nowepaper. Lhe newspaper means detection, oxposuro, punishment. ~ It did not always mean this, limo was when tho newspaper was tho rich man's very obediont, bumble servant, taking ity uflminuu from his lips, always ready to run on his errands, thankiully gathering up tha crumbs from bis tablo, 1u those bygono days the newspaper's cardinal rulo for the conduct of lifo was to stand by the loadors of the party through thick and thin, reserving all its bard Inuguago for tho other side, But tho times change, and the newsprper chauges with thom, It is almost impossible to exaggerate the 1m- portanco of this revolution in the theory awd practico of journalism that is going on, 8o silent- ly but o swittly, all over the land.—Springfleld I)fepublicau. . —It i not o now thiug to ssy that the press ot this country is sn elemont of power and control in tho Govornment. Thia trite truth wus illug- tratod Wednesduy, in connection with the con- firmation of Mr. Waite. The Sennte delayed nce tion, as much as clse, to loarn what the press would eay; and findivg its voico for confirma- tion, ratitled it by a unanimous vole, Lvents rmqllllleutly oceur that illustrate the correctuess of this romark, Buch influonco carrios with it a corrosponding rosponsibility, aud we think this in sufliciontly appreciated for the pross, ns a rule, to carefully weigh its utterances, and to sock thus to lead public opinion aright,—.Fitls- burgh Gazelto, —_—— THE REVENUE LAW. Taxmake, 1L, Jan, 23, 1974, To the Editor of The Chicago T'ribune: Bin: Bonator Palmor writes as follows : BroNariELD, Jan, 16, 1874, WinLiax ¥, KEADY, Esq.: By virtus of n law passod Inst wintor, tho Town Colleetors havo nntil March 10 1u which to return thoir books, uud, with the consent of the County Collector, twenty daya additfonal, (Seo 1. 46, Soe, 160.) I fear this is ull we ean do, asa farther oxtensfon will jutcrforo with the distribition of the Bchool Fund, paymant of interest, &e, Vory truly yours, A, B, Paryen, Now, I would like to know what interost 18 duo from tho Btate of Illinols bofore January, 1875 ; and, again, nreall tho taxpayors compelled to pay thoir taxes nine mouths before the Stato requires them, to accommodate a fow school- teachors P Many a poor taxpayoer is compelled to sell his Inst cow or & fow pigs to keep the Tax-Collector from solling it for him to pay taxes nino monthy beofors tho State roquires thom, Ifow muoh money is thero now in tho Btato Trossuror's lands? This accumulation of large sums of money in the hauds of City, County, and Stnto Troasurors is vory dangorous polioy, and & seri- ous-inconvonience to the taxpayora. y Tho Btato Legislature should, at this soesion, ropoal the present Reventio law, and adopt the Rovyonno laws of Ohlo or some othor Statawhore such laws work ‘more sutisfactory to the tax- payors, : We havoe too many Assessors, Tax-Colleotors, ote, Ono Assewsor for oach county and one *'ax-Collaotor wonld coat the taxpayers vory much loss, and bo moro satisfuctory, “Ilioro aro swarms of tax-cators in overy county in Iltinoiy under tho presout law, that can and onght to bo compelled to go to work; and our Logisluture oughit at onco to tuko up tho Rovenue fuw and do numolhmr. Tho Logistatures have beou con- trolled by the Bpringfield Rings, who want a Iargo accumulation of . manoy ut the Capital for their own purposes, I oontend that the revenuo of the Btate aud counties is safer iu tho lntds of tho taxpuyers and agaiust the property, than in any Trensuror's hunds, Taxvayes, —In o row which occurred at Clio Station, on tho Flint, Pern & mnn‘flmm Railway, Saturday, a man nomod Patrick Way recolved wouud which aro likely to prove fatal, Il person making tho sssault was arrested by an ofticor from Fling,