Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1874, Page 4

T e et o g e ——— e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMA OF AUNSCRIPTION (FAYADLE NN ADVANOR). 12.001 Bund Rl S15:08| S Parta ot & yoar at the samo rato, Toprovent dolay and mistakos, bo saro and give Post Oftco addrens In full, tncludlug State and Oounty. Romittancea may bo mado olthor by dratt, expross, Post OfEico ordar, or 1n rolstorod lotturs, at our risk, TEUMS TO OITY BUBEONIDERA, Deily, dolivored, Buudny oxcoptod, 25 conte por travk. Daily, deliverod, Bunday inoludod, 80 conta por wack, Addross THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madieon and Dearhorn-ats., Uhloago, 111, T 'y THREATRE-Randolnh - atrot, botwoon Ol ot Faban, AT Grasaalal atro TS, » R HEATRE—Mndleon strost, hotweon **Artlclo 47." ACADEMY OF MUSIO—1lalstod streat, botwoon Mad- , t of John K. Owens, 7 THRATRE=Desplainosstreot, hetwesn Mad. Bl L el Togayomont of BHarblopy Snoruien & Mack's Minstrols, ' OPERA-HOUSKE Monros stroat, hotwoan fié‘lfi,fi&“.m‘n’ Stato. Arlingtar, iblo's Ootton, aud’ Komblo's {nnteols, * A Blippory Day.'’ Biinstroley and comi- salit - X POSIT) BUILDING-~Lako _ Bhoro,, foot of AlorCereae Do nting of tho ‘*Frodigal Son Bhe Chivagy Tibune, Friday Morning, January 30, 1874, Tho House of Ropresontatives at Springfield b reconsiderod, by & voto of 88 to 81, fiabill abolishing solitary punishmont, e The Illinofs Logislaturo having bad tho good sonee to pres & law for compulsory ecducation, othor States aro considoriug tho mattor. A bill to compel tho attendance of childron at sehool wes yestorday iutroduced into the Iowa Senato. — Croawell's echeme for gotting tho savings of the pooplo into the bands of his department hns come to grief in tho House Commitico on Bank- ing, which has reported adversely to the Nation- al Bavings Dopository, which he proposed to run a8 a branch of tho Post-Ofico. Tho hopes of the Canadian Roformors, that they wonld be able to prevent the roturn of Sir John Macdonald to tho next Parliament, have beon disappointed. The Promibr was re-oloctod yestordsy In Kingston by a msjorlty of 4. Elso- whero, in Toronto and Quebee. the Ministorial- duts havo roallzed their oxpeciations of large galns, —— The Houso of Ropresontatives at Bpringfield yosterdny refused to pass the bill repoaling the nefarious Tax-Grab law. ‘After a long debate, 1 which the injustica and tha stupidity of this dopredatory law wore fully oxposed, the Houso votod againet repeal by 77 to 43, This shows a majouity of the whole Houeo to be in favor of Perpotuating tho systomatized robbory which tho Iaw makes possiblo. g s — The Executive Committeo of tho Stato Grango of this Btate has beon in session ot Btorling for w0 days, to clect a Stato Purchusing Agent, ‘The duty of this responsible afficial fs to nego- tate with the manufacturors of articlos and implomonts used by farmers, and report thoir Towest figures to the County Granges for the guidanco of membera in making purchaaes. Tho choice has fallen upon Al Fraw, of Kledo, Copt. Renaud's wife was joslous of her hus- band, and with tbe poculiar logic of her sox accuged him of embezzling the funds of the | Blemphis Howard Asgociation, of which he was Secrotary. An oxaminationof his books showa £hnt Lo iad baudlod $126,000 with n discropancy, and that accidental, of only 225 in his accounts, o lina been honorably roleased from the prison, and is now at liberty to devote himaelf to family. matters, ————— Mr. Scammon yestorduy resigned the Presi- denoy of the Mechanics' National Bank, which was thereupon accepted by Mr. E. B, McCagg. The Executive Committeo of the Clerring-House Asgoclation was informed of tho nction of the Bank by Mr. McCagg, who reported it to bo ina much better condition. Tho Committee, in accordance with this statement, recommended that the bank bo retained in tho Association, and it wau vo doue, Two days’ balloting for United States Senator at Topeka havo thrown Osborn out of tho con- test, but Lavo not mudo tho finnl result any plainer. Liout.-Gov, Stover, on whom it has boen proposed {o concentrate the Reformors' votes, is gaining etendily, baving rison from 7 votos on Wednosdny to 20 yestorday. Senator Hudeon received 23 voles, the .highest oumber east for any candidate, As 71 are necos- Baxy to a ohoico, it will bo aeen that nobody is very near the goal. Beonator Pomeroy is in To- pekn, but s quiot.as o mouse, but enys ho is afraid. that somebody will nominate him as a candidate for Senator. The Executive Commitieo of tho Board of Trusteon of the Univorsity of Chicago publish & statement in relation to tho proforred by the Rov. Dr. Evorts against Dr. Durroughs’ management of the flacal affairs of the University, denying the truth of said chargea in evory particular. They eay that Dr. Burroughs did not have chargo of the sccounts of the Univeralty ; that the ac. counts wero kopt by bookkeopora responsibla to the Bonrd ; that the Board never ““Jumped " any deficit in the accounts ; and that the failure torenlize in cortain subseriptions mado prior to 1857-'8 was not due to any fault or nogligenco on the part of Mr. Burroughs, Thoy ulso ox- press surprise and regrob that such charges should have bean made, after the lapss of so many yoars, without examination of the records of the Board, which would have shown them to bo without any adoquate foundation, ——— The Chicago produce markots were generally dull yeatordey, with a downward tendency In prices in most departments, Moss pork was active, and 10@16c por brl lower, closing at 814.80@14.96 coeh, and $14.73}¢@14.76 spllor March, Lard was quict and easfor, clos- ing at 802i@9.27) cash, and $0.50@9.5334 sollor March. Mleata wore qulet and easior at 534@65¢e for shoulders, 63(o for sliort ribs, 7o for short clear, and 9}¢@103{0 for sweet plokied hama. Dressod hogs woro moderately netive and firm, closing at 80.40@0.50 per 100 lba, Highwines were quiet nud atrong at 070 per gallon, Flour was dull and easier, Wheat was leas notive, and 4o lowor, olosing at $1.23 cash, and #1.20(@1.203( soller March, Corn was quict and stoady at o decline, closing at 68¢ cash, and 590 sellor March, Oats wero dull, and 3o lower, closing flrm at 433¢o cash, and 48340 eellor March, Rye was quiot and essier at 820 for frash vaceints, Barloy was more active chargos. 1HIy CHICAGO DAILY and 1o kighor, closing at $1.51 for No, 8. Livo Liogs were In domand at $4.00@5.70 for poor to wero fairly oxtra, with snlos mostly at $5.25@ B8.60. Cattle active and lowor. Blioop rulod Atoady, i Tho farme ho Bovonth Congrensional Distriot of this Btate met yosterday at Motris, Wo publish, on onr second pago, tho procoed- ings and tho addresa of Prosidont 8nond, which 18 & vory able prosontation of tho needs of the farmora and tho moans which should bo taken to meot thom, Ho doyotes espocial attentlon to the groat toplo of purchasing co-oporation, aud, wiilo disclaiming sny intontlon to do away with middlomen, objects to allowing thion to pocket two-thirds of the profits. o al- #0 advocatos tho cash binels inatoad of tho onor- vating orodit systom, The resolutiona adoptod by the Convention out it looso from all existing partles, and plodgo ita membors to voto for hon- ost and capablo men, rogardloss of party, The Convention is in favor of having railroad ratos. fixed by law, and of having the Ratlrond Gom- missionors retainod in offfce. A proclamation waa adopted dircoted againat tha Plowmnlors' League. That neaocfation ia glven twouty days in which to reconsider its aotion, If ft i ob- ’| durato, the farmora will refugo to havo auything moro to do with its mombers, ——— ‘Tho bill roported to tho Hoviso of Toprosentn- tives yostordny by tho! Bnuldng. Committeo makes some important changes in the ourrency and the banking system, It provides that heroafter the banka ehall dotormino the amount of thelr ro- sorvea by thoir doposits, and not by thoir cirou- Jation and deposits, as horetofore, Evory bank must deposit § per cont of its circulation witl tho Tronsury, to be used for tho redomption of itanotos, Iolders of notes of any bank may have them exohanged for United States notes on application to the Troasury. The bank must then roturn to the Tressury an equal amount of United States notes, in ro- turm for whioh it gots bmck ity old uotos, or now ones if thoy wora too worn foruso, No bank is to be allowed, as formorly, to koop ite rosorvos elaowhoro than in ita own vaults, or to rodeem ita notos oxcept ovor ita own counters, Tho bill limita the Unitod Statos notos to $400,~ 000,000, and, to make thom ag good as gold, pro- vidos that, aftor next July, $2,000,000 of notos, payable in gold in two years, shall bo issued evory montl in exchango for groonbacks, Gold to pay thoso notea is to bo accumulated by honrd- ing in the Troasury all gold that romeins after paying the interest on tho public dobt, and meot- ing any doficit in the revenucs. Sonator Carpenter is g ting ahead of his Party and tho President in the Loulelana cage, In his spoooh yosterdsy ho takes dirsct fssuc with Sonator Morton as to the logality of the Iato olection, and the xight of the present Gov- erumont to the place it clnims. Ho warns his party' that thoy- caunot march through tho noxt Prosidontinl oleotion with this Louisians lond on their backs. Whon Pinchback ‘claims to have been olected, thero was no legal Logislataro in sesslon, and could havo boen no Iogal election. Tho War- moth and the Lynch Roturning Boards, the ro- organization of the State Courts so 2a fo con- trol thio con tested eloo.ion cases, aro all deolared to'lnve boon alike monstrous and illegal. The Scnator makes his most offoctive points in ridi- culing and demolishing Judge Durell, and in' so doing tokes tho ground complote- ly from undor President Grany'a foot, Judge Darell's ordor, directing tho Statd-Houso to bo soized, Sonator Carpenter indignsntly deoleros to be without & parallel in the Judiclal annals of England or this country. Nothing worso was over dono by the despotisima of Turkey or Russia. - Apparontly regardless of tho awkward position in which ho places tho Prosident, who supported Duroll In all Lo did, Senntor Carpon- tor saya that that Judgo had not even a docont protext for his interference, Tho 8peech will be continued to-da; ————— Wo understand that thero is still a disposition on the part of somo of the Directors of the Board of Trade to make a rule requiring the re- porters to take out tickets of membership, Itis not to,be supposed that the memborship feos are what tho Directors desiro, since tho Board has all the money it needs in its corporato, if uot always in ita indlvidual, composition, Aund it it were & mattor of feo alone, we should mot fool gdieposed to urgo ony speclal objection to tho proposition. Dut, as tho monoy cuts no figure In the ‘case, the now ruic could only bo adoptod for the purposo of * dis. cipliniug * the reportors. ThoBoard hag now all tho suthori® in this way which it ought to ox- ercise. I1fd nowspaper reportor fails to con- duct himeolf in a proper mauner, or in any ro- epect abuses the priviloges which are oxtended to him by the Board of Trado, the Board can " take its own remedy in case of a rofusal on tho part of .tho offending journal to furnleh oue that is satiefactory, If the Doard should endeavor to bridle the Ppross by making roporters amenable to their dictation rather than subject to thelr duties na journalists, thio attempt would be a failure, Asido from this, it reporiers were mombers of tho Boarq, thoy would have the same rights to trade as othor members, and would not bo likoly to rosiet the temptation. In euch cage, their roports would cease to have any valuo for the vewspnpors, the Board, or the public. To require that the roportora shall be mombors of the Donrd, then, will boa mistako, whother rogarded as au extension of thoir facilitios or aa s restraint upon their froe- dom. Tha full, faithful, and unbinsed roports of the markets and the aotion ot the Board of Trade are as much in the intorost of {rado and commerco a3 in the interest of Journaliem; and, if tho Directors should talie tho ill-advised €ourse now advocated by some of them, wo are satisfied that tho Board would 8peedily resoind it. — Tho sentimontality which leads #ome people to urge the sbolition of capital punishment is largely due to the horrors of Langing. Ropos ate apt to be too short or tao long, Sheriffs aro apt to tlo knots too loosely, seaffolds are apt to break, In all theso casos on oxacution may bo what tho fricnds of abolition always call it,—a Judicial murdor. Even when the unpleasant work is humanely and carotully done, the quou- tion remains,~may {t not be torturo? Thore aro ugly storles of gasping months, aud;winking oyes, and writhing Umbs. Many physiclans bo. liove that agonized lifo porslsts for an hour or 8o after doath soems sure, And in proof of this thoy cite & fow suthontioated instances in Which eriminals have boon restored to lifo attor boing hung. Docapltation i wot certaln death at once, Tho speotators of tho gulllotine’s work in 1703 used to yell with laugh- terat the horrible grimacos of some of tho heads that rolled at thoir foot, Tho Committoo oOf Gorman physiolans that' invostigated this quostlon a yonr or 8o sinco unnnlmnunly:rgporb ed againat olthor hanging or boheading crimie nals. Thelr recommondations wora divided omong drowning, shoating, and garroting, Tho garrote sends » motal point into the contre of the medulla oblongata, tho cord which contioots brain and body, and which somo philosophors have supposod Lo bo tho sent of ronson. The maohino 18 50id to canso sure and instantancous doaths Any plan that will obvinte tho ronsonablo objoo- tiona to aur prosont systom for ridding socloty of its worat posts {8 worth attontios THE REOENT BURGLARIES, Wa publish this morning a long lst of bur- glnrion committod within tho Inat ton days in the douthenstorn and northern parts of tho city, and theso aro of course to be supplemented by another sorica on the West Bido, Thoso bur- glarlon havo evidently beon committed by n gang of oxport raffians, who are.* going through " the town, Itis nesumod, and we supposo is an unquestionablo fact, that tho polico know ovory ‘Pprofessional burglar and thiof, and that his pros- onco in the city is always known at hendquar- tora, Wby, then, are thore no arreats, and why I8 it that theso nightly visitations aro coniinued without fntorruption 7 Tho plen most commonly urged {s, that nego- Hatlons aro pending for the roturn of the prop- orty, and that'to arrost tho known burglars now. in the clty would bresk off tho negotiations, and provent iho recovory of the valuablos. Wo regard this plea a8 searcoly: loss eriminal than the burglaries themselves. Tho public aro taxed to support & polico catablishmont for the provention of erime, and for the arrest and punishment of orimiunls, and not for tho Ppurpose of compound- ing folonios or negotiating for the roturn of stolen proporty, for a compensation, fo the ownor. DBurglars steal Property not to keop it, but to convert it into cash, They have two menns of doiug thls : 1. By disposing of 1t to tho pawnbrokors. 2. By raturning it for » reward to tho ownore. In tho first caso, tho villaing raroly got moro than 20 por cent of tho value of the proporty; in tho socond, thoy got mors. In the Iattor case they are oxempted from prosecu- ton. Every man who finds his stolon proporty in tho possession of a pawnbrokor can got the Bamo upon paying tho lnttor whatover sum he eaya Lo pald the thief. In tho othor oase, tho property can bo obtained upon payment of a stipulatod sum. And it is to onnble tho persons robled to nogotiate with tho thioves that the polico abstaln from making ar- reats. This system s all wrong. While it onnbles poraous robled to recover their prop- erty upon paying 80 to 50 er cont of its value, it amounts to a liconse and encourage- mont to erimo, Thus tho businoss of burglary isreduced to & system, When these gontry visit a city, they fix a percontage on which they Proposo to do businoss,—that is, the porcontago for which they will roturn the proporty thoy may take, Thus the losor of Jowelry or othor prop- erty can, unless there bo some ‘peculiar ciroum- stances, got it baok at tho rate namod, Thus it 8 wateh wotth 8200 be stolen, the owner, by do- Positing $100 or 875 In the hands of a Pproper Pporson, can havot restorod to him. Usdor this condition of things, of what nse are tho police, eithor to provent crima or to bring oriminals to punishment? A Captain of police was placed under tho ban rocently beosuso ho returnod $2,000 worth of jewalry in person, tho owner al- loging that she Jofttho “reward” with him, Itis not likely that, in such cason, tho offlcars gonor- ally receivo any portion of tho roward, the monoy baing divided botweon the intermodiates and the thiof. This has been tho custom lora for many yoars, and 1t s timo tobreak {tup. If Capt, Hickey wants to re-eatablish a roputation as an efficiont officer, lot him, botwben now and Mon- day morning, lodge & dozen of those burglars in jail, and thus givo notice that burglary ‘on the Porcontago system and on all other systems: {s to bo euppressed in this city, He knowa all thoso burglurs, and can put his hands on the whole gang in twonty-four hours, or compel thom to leave tho city. It looks as if the whole fratornity of gamblers, Pplmps, confidence men, and thieves have got the idos that Chicago had boon made g free city,” in which thoy can practice their business with- out any sorious interferonco, If tho police au- thorities do not want this to bo acoepted as tho legitimato rosult of the lato clection, lot thom take immediate stops to prove tho contrary. JONES, BRIGGS, AND ‘* OCEAN.” The exploded Frauklin Bavings Bank has proved a mino.of unoxpected richness, It first doveloped Jonos, who knew nothing ; and now Briges, who seoms to have known a great deal—far too much for tho consolation of tho dopositora.. It will b romomborad that Jones, durig his oxamination, while lio waa certain of nothing from his own standpoint, was confldent that Briggs could tell all about it, aa Brigga run tho banls, and knew a groat deal. The factsnow begia to ahow that Jonos was r1ght about this, it ho was muddled about everything elao. Briggs appears to have been o medol banker indis way, but, 08 a cuatodian of eavings funds and o guardian of the hard-esrned wages of workingmen and school-teachers, his way is not specially to bo commonded as worthy the Imita~ tion of bank-clorks aspiring to bo Casbiors and Presidonts. Thoro was a Peoullar olement of solllshnoss, and an undte affootion for brothers- in-law and miacellanoons relatives In Brigge as a financior, which are not usually coneiderod as conducive to successful banking, The bill which has boon filed by the Assignoe of tho Franklin Baule makos it apparont that Brigge was Preal- dont, Cnshior, Dircctors, and * oleaner-out " of the bonk, although Jones aud tho Phila- delplia philosophier appeared as figure- heads, Holding all theso offices, Briggs waa Of necossity n buy little beo in the banl, im- proving all the shining hours, Ho dida larger business than Handy Andy, and at losa risk, though very much upon the same Btyle. As the groenbacks came pouring ovor the counter from confiding workingmen and women, he smiled blandly at theso manitestations of tho popular thuritt and frugality, and quictly Inld thom away for future roference, whero the most powerful instrument in his mioroacopical soclety would fuil to discover them, Briggs was always an adept in nomenclature, and his contributions to mioroscoploal scence displayed hia tact in this direction In a very remarkablo manner. This same scientifio fenture he applied to banking with eminont succoss—to his own poocket, On Bept, 20, 1872, ho took $20,000 which was oharged to * Ninth," This did not mean the ainth timo Briggs hud donoe i, nor that ko was & tallor, but it was an Instance of the Briggsian nomenclature, showing that $320,000 had gone into Brigge’ pockot, dropped out of the banlk, utterly disappeared, gone glimmoring, all of which was contained in the littlo word ¢ Ningy » which Jones couldn't undorstand, Another favorito word n Brigge' nomonclaturo was TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 18%4. “ Bundry,” There fs . a charming - indofl- nitoness about fhis word, It _may moan somotliing * or nothing. In thls osso It meant that $15,000 more Lsd gone Into Briggs Pooket, for which “Sundry” was rosponsiblo, Jonoa searched all ono day for Mr. Bundry, but finally gavo it up, consoling himsolf that Briggs know all about it. About s year ago, Briggs took $10,000, and oharged it to "Ogoan.” Thig was o atunnor to Jones, Ho spont sovoral days oxnmintug the lst of dopositors and tho debtors to tho bank, but could not flud that any of the oconns, tho Atlantio or the Taclfio, tho Arctlo or tho Antarotlo, wero dolng Lusiness with tho Franklin Bank. It waas puzzler for poor Jonos, and, aftor studying tho conundrum for somo dnys, ho gave it up, satisflod, however, bocause booauso Brigga know all about it. Thore wero many othor shadowy and mythical nonenitios with whom Briggs dld business, suoh as *“Tellor's CGnah," “Onshier,” *Bonds," “Eady,” ¥ Cash. lor's Account,” ang Paid,” all of which are part and parcel of that olahorate systom of romonolature which Briggs firat developod in the Lens, & journal of microscopy, whon Lo was ongagod in oxaming mosquitocs' wings and flons’ tooth, aod all of which would lave worried Jonos out of this lite into s better world, whoro there aro no Briggaos or bank-books, had ho not beon mustained by the wun- foltoring trust that- Drigga know all about it. Nono of thom, howevor, can compare with “Ocoan.” Tho Oceaniadeop; so 1a Briggs. Tho Ocean awallows up; so doos Briggs. Tho Oconn is insocuro; so is Driggs, Tho Ocoan koops what it gets; so does Briggs. Having chargoed so much to the Ocoan, it is no wonder that at Jast the Franklin Bank wont ovorboard and sunk to the bottom, nover to rise agam, leaving poor Jones on the shore lamenting, like Lord Ullin, a8 the wators wild wont o'or his child, Ty 8 Is it any wondor that Jonos couldn’t undor- stand the books, and that evorything was a muddle to him? Is it any wonder that the sohool-toachers and the working=women aro gearching in vain for thelr deposiis when ‘'Ocean,” and *Ninth,” and *Eddy,” and ““Paid " made such raids upon thefeash-drawor ? Does Jones understand it now? As ho roads tho tempting list of ‘slxty-six lots, whioch tho Assigneo prosonts, now in the hands of Briggs" relativos, i ho lost in admiration - over tho ox- tont of Briggs' knowledge concerning the Franlk- lin Bank, or is ho valnly siriving to comprohond Briggs' kindness of hoart in giving away sll those lots ? Woaro nowin possession of two important facta : firat, what Jonos didn't know concorning tho Fraoklin Bank; and, sccond, what Briggs did know, and in this cago, If in no other, ex- tromos moot. Bofore Jonos ossays any moro experimonts in banking, he should bo made to atated in tho casily-remombored figuros of 777 tlmon $7,000,000. I all thoso objoottons can be ovorruled, two induporablo onea romain, In #ho firat plaoo, thora will soon bs no rivor within 40 milos of Fort 8t, Phillp, Tho Minstesippt is fast cutting itaolf an entiroly now clinnnel, Boo- ondly, the proposed mouth of tho canal is pre- ofaoly whoro the driftwood and alluvium of a number of stroams colleat, Pasange would gon- erally bo imposelble, It cannot bo told, at this distance, whothor or not the Reqlater i8 corroot in the charges wo-havo cited. But if holt of thom are truo, tho Fort 8t, Philip Canal would ba & bottomless plt for tha nation's monoy to bo thrown into, Tho Xeglster oalla publio attontion to o now route, In 1801, & canal was cut from the Town of Algiers, which lios just eoross tho Missleslppi - from Now Orloans, to the Gulf of Moxico, This was usod until & fow yoars sinco. Thon Alglors and Grolna woro allowed to draln tholr sow- 8gointo it. It la now partially filled up. Tho oxponge of changing it into a ship-canal 400 foot wido aud 80 foot deop, and straight ag an ar- fow, a put at loss than §6,000,000. Tha country through which it is cut1s firm, Tho harbor at it mouth i a good one. Thors fa no dangor of the Misslusippl'a ceasing to flow by Algiers, Thoro aro ovidently two sidos to the quostion of the Fort 8t. Philip route, It is the duty of Congress to oxamine them both carefully and to guard against wnating tho monoy that, according to popular rumor, is to do o much good. —— INDIANAPOLIS, BLOOMINGTON & WESTERN . RAILROAD, Wo have bofore us an advertisoment published in a Londou paper containing tho prospeotus of negotiation of $3,500,000 o2 7 por cont first-mort- gogo bonds (gold) of tho Indinnapolis, Bloom- ington & Westorn Dallway, tho bonds convart- iblo at any time into capital stock of the Com-~ pany.at par. Tho prico at which the bouds aro offered is £170 for each bond of 81,000 in gold, This is at the rato of 82,6 per cont. The pros- pectus covers a pngo of tha Daper, and Is signed with all their titular addi- by all tho Direotors, tions. At tho price tho bonds aro put on the market, the interost will oxceed 8 per cont in goldjonthe monoy roceived thorofor, The doserip- tion of the road 18 given in very highly-colored torms, and for the benofitof the countios, towns, and citios that hold stock In tho road we con- donse the glowing review of tho past and futuro Pprospority of the rond, long; tho oxtonsion connooting with' the maln line at Champalgn runy to Kookuk, Tows, 186 milos, with & branoli 1o Deoatur, 35 milen ; total longth of oxtonslon, 217 milos, As & aon- solidatod line, it Iy 420 milns (exolunive of sid- ings). Tho statomont of tho carnings of ‘tho main lino aro thun givon s Hor the W loarn that the main_ lino, from Iudisuapolls to Poorls, in 213 miles yoar ending disgorge his ignorance, Befora Brigga runs any more savings banke, he should bo made to disgorgo his ill-gotten going, It ia sincorely to be hopod in tho interests of Justice to the ewindlod depositors that thay may bo ablo to realize somothing out of the rosl estato in which the accounts .of **Ocean,” and *Eddy,” and ‘Pald,” and * Ninth " have boon planted, If by that timo Jones does mot dlscover how it waa Brigga Imew all about it, his caso is hope- less, 3 — —— “TOWN-BOARDS" IN OHICAGO. Ono of the logalized monstrositios of the- day October, 1871, €687,180 ; yenr 1672, 1,315,482 ; yoar 1873, 81,638,070 ; and tho working exponsen aro put down at not oxeonding 65 por cent of thodo gross recelpts. From thedo ascortained foots, it 18 reprowonted that the gross rocsipts of the entiro line will bo ©8,154,437 por’ annum. Deducting $1,784,939, or 66 per ceat, for working oxpouses, leaves surplus enrnings of £1,419,498, The'sunual intereston “atl tho mortgagea of the Company, including this present one,” is put ' down at $835,000, leaving a net profit for atockholders of §564,498 a yoar. Itis distinotly nde that tho subscribed capital of the Com. which kias oxtondod even to tho avorago Milwau-~ koo opera-goor. Tho papors are flooded with communications upon tho subjeot, many of which aro of & very astonlshing oharacter, Tho country towns_ aro aluo taking aldos,—Wanpun, ‘Waupacos, and Greon Prairie having thua far oxpressod their sentimontaon Misa Cary's tights, Tho charmiug lady who woars thom, mosnwiilo, ia far away from tho strifo which her innocont porformances have ongendered, Tho most ene couraging fonturo of tho affair is, that tharo ara miniators in Milwaukes who are not afraid to g0 1o tho opera. ——— Yang Kay and fonr othior Chinamen aro agnin circulating tho manifesto thoy issuocd last spring in bobalf of tholr conntrymen on thia sido of the Paciflo, The momorial rocltes tho ontrages com- mitted upon the slmond-syod, mentions tho Iaws that diseriminato agatnst thom, and adds 1 “If thoso cusctmonts aro the legitimate off-. 6pring of tho Amoncan oivilization and the Jesus roliglon, you can hurdly wondor if tho Chinose peoplo aro elow to embraco tho ono or to adopt the othor.” It doolaros thnt Obinn wished to mind her own business by horsolf that the Groat Powors picked & protext for war and forcod hor to abandon hor exclusivo policy ; and that thoy then sont swarme of tholr oltizons tolivain Ohinn, and yot tool umbrago at ro- cowving swarms of Colestlals in roturn, The American and English stosmers on tho const of tho Flowery Land aro eald 1o Lave thrown more natives out of employment than tho wholo. number now rosident in Amorica, Finally, tho memorinl suggosts that all treaties batwoon Olina and Aworles be abrogated, and all citizous of ench bo sont” back to their own country. Until this can be done, It “*humply prays " that the saored treaty stipulations under which tho Colostlala sre now hero may be ob- sorvad. Yang Kay showa Yankoo shrowdnoss, ———— For somo montha paat, tho tolograph haa brought almost datly accounta of rovolutions in Moxico agninat the establishod Government, but Las furnishod no clue to tho cousos of the troublo. A rocont lottor to the Alla California by ite Moxican correspondont supplioa this dof- folt in & vory lcloar manner, The prineipal causo of the rovolutionary spirit soema to havo grown out of tho ignorauco of the Indians, and tho oxtraordinary catoom in which the Catholio priosthood ia hold by tho whole Aztecraco, Al- though tho frat not of tho Ropublican Govorn- ment was to emancipato the Indisus, 1t had lttlo Inflionco o pooifying thom, as they bad alwoys - chorished the dromm of & great Aztoo Empiro. Tho pricsts, who wero decidedly hostilo to the reforms instituted- by tho QGoverumont, usod thoir old-time influence with tho Azteca to array them againgt the Goy- orumont, aswuring thom that the time for the eutablishment of the Aztoo Empire was at hand, Honco arouo all tho rocont turbulence, which hns boan quinted by & pronunciamento from one of the londing Bighops, admonighing all good Catholick to oboy tho lawa and submit to the Conatltation, . ———— Dr. J. K. Toiner, of Htillwator, Minn,, died a fow dayn ago from a slogular cause. Somo woeka sinco, two lumbermen of the gt Croix quarrelod and fought. Baforo they wero sepa- Tated, ono of them bit tho other in the thumb. The hand mortified and bud to be amputated. Whilo Dr. Relnor was performing the operation, a drop of polsonous matter lodged in a serateh on bis own hand. Ha became delirious almost :natantly, and died in & fow days, His fate was the result of that intimate relation of body and Istho ** Town Board " n tha ity of Olucsgo. In contomplation of Iaw, Cook County ia supposed to bo under township organization, and, as Chi~ ©ago is part of Cook County, this city is assnmed to be divided into threo towns, Soath, Wost, ana North Ohicago. These “re cortainly. populous villages. Of conrse oach of theso towns has a complote governmontal machino, and its legisla~ tive department consists of one Suporvisor, one Town Olerk, and five Justices of the Poace, any. four of whom constitute & quorum. This body is tho * Town Board. " It moeta and votos taxes, creates dobts, and Las & Trosswry of its own, Theseo officers aro supposed to be elected at.a town meeting held some time in April of each yoay. Tho olection in esch of the towns is hold at one voting place, at which the 250,000 inhab- itants of West Chicago, 'tho 125,000 ‘of South Chicagn, and the 60,000 of Norih Ghitago ara Pprosumed to vote. Tho alections last April were curried on by a mob, and thers was ng pre- tonso or show - of 'ordor, doconcy,” or logality about the proceedings. At theso elootiona a Colleotor of Taxesis chosen in ench :town. He is authorized by tho * Toyn Board toront an office, and employ clorks, and go to an oxpenditure anywhere from $10,000 to §30,000 for the working machinery of his offico. Tast year tho “ Town Board" in the South and Wost - towna fixed tho compensation of the Collectora of thoso towns at $10,000 each, the dutica of tho office lagting about ninoty days. We Buppose we eliould be thankful if the Town Board do not inoreage these salaries this year. They will certainly ropeat the liborality of Iast year. Thoro is no poseiblo ‘use for those township officora in the city. Any momber of the Legia- Iatare who will doviso the moana’ wheroby tho whole nuisance and fraud may be abolished will desorve the thanks of the whole people of Ohi- c8go, Those thres township governments cost the pooplo not loss than 8120,000 & year, for which no eervica is rendered, the monoy being ‘80 much plunder divided among the gang. Is théro no way in which thia shamoful abuso can bo abolished ? — THE FORT ST. PHILIP CANAL, Tho Carrolion (La.) State Register Lo long articlo on the Missispippl ship-canal question, which makes some curious statoments about the proposed 8t. Plulip route. As this Congress will probably vote some monoy to conatruct a canal botweon tho river and the Guif, it isa mattor of univorsal intorest that the bost PoB- siblo place should be choson in which to dig tho ditch, Tho Fort 8t. Philip Canal will bo 7 milea Iong, With tho exception of a third of a mile, the aoil is so marshy whero it is abovo water at all that a cat osunot walk upon 1t. It con- sists of about 25 foot of watery mud that s almost muddy water, and thon an unknown depth of quicksand, Tha upper stratum can, of courso, bo easily dredged, but the earth on the sides will 00zo baok into the canal and Il it up at onco, No banka can be constructed, for the eaturated slimo will not hold up evon the emalloat stono, Onoof the advocates of this route has suggeated that, if it woro conatantly dredgod, vessels conld push their way through i, whilo In timo of war tho withdrawal of tho drodges wonld cauge the instant atoppage of trausit, and eo prevent a naval attack!| 1f the caual-bod should bo built of 8tono, the time neoded s oaloulsted st 200 yoars, 8 monthe, and 22 days, Thia caloulation ig based, however, on the longth of tume 8t. Louis took to bulld hor bridge, Probably no other American oity would work so slowly. Theoosé of conatruction In slone ia “on tho 10th of January. ‘Wo hinvo here a statoment that, including this loan, thero are $12,000,000 of bonds. outstand- Ing, aud that $7,000,000 of capital stock has beon paid in full. This mokes a total of $19,- 000,000, or an excoss of §44,000 per milo for the wholo 420 milos.. Who tho persons aro that 'hold the §7,000,000 of capita! stook that is tully paid 8, porhape, Just ono of tho thinga that the TheIL., B. & W. Railroad is & consolidation of the In- dianapolia, Crawfordsville & Danville, tho Dan- vill, Urbana, Bloomington & Pekin, aud tho Havans, Mason Clty, Lincolu & Tnstern Rail. ways, and the stock Leld in theso and in the consolidated rond by municipalitios, and tho municipal stockholders want to know. amounts, {8 as follows ; Hunictpalities, Urbaus, Obampaign Co, Middiston, Champaign G Banta Auna, DeWitt Co, Creck, Dewltt Co & W, 0 West, McLaan Oo. & W, 10,000 Blue Ridge, Pratt )& 39,600 Tazewell Gounty. , ) BL&P 70,000 Peldn City, Tazawali Co,..D,, Ui, . & P. 44,100 Elm Grove, Tazewell Co. D,y Us) B. & P. 7,000 Mackinaw,' Tuzewsll Co...D., Uiy I & b, 18,000 Fremont, Tazowell Co, &P 2,000 Tekin, Tazowell C B &P, 15,000 Daaville, Vermilion Go B, &P, 000 Total Bunlelpal st06K. .o .vovvev .., SLOTL00 Itie alleged that thero nover was & dollar of cash paid for any part of tho capital took of tho origiual companies oxcopt what was Daid by the towns and counties, Tho stock of thase towna and counties has, however, been overwhelmed by the {saue of 9,000,000 of ndditiouat stook, The towns are sesking information through the courts ; aud probably if the stock, within threo years, ia to pay diyidends of 20 per cent, soma of the eapitaliste in the prosent Diraotory will purchase this stock at par, and enable these towns to take up thelr bonds, some of which havealready matured, — Tho Btrakosch Opera Troupo wasin Milwaukeo 80 uhort a'time that it escaped tho Interviowera, The latter, howover, nat to bo cheated of thoir proy, awooped down npon the ministers, As it may be of some interest to know what tho Mil- waukee ministers think about opora, we presont tho substanco of what was #aid. Tho Rov, Mr, Dudley tiked the opors when thero was no ballot connooted with it, consoquently “ Aida" camo under his ban. The only othor opera to which ho objastod wae *The Ruguenots,” and to this becauso Miss Cary apposred ss Urbanoin tights, This ia unfortunate, &8s tho music was written for the page, and slio must eithor sing {t in potticoats, which would bo ridiculous, or omit it altogothor, which would break up the continuity of tha work, Thoe Rey. Dr, Asbloy, who was tho mexs olorgyman visited, took procisely the samo view of AMiss Cary, aud thought{ho opera would bo much more {utoresting with Miss Qary's costumos ohanged. Miss Cary, theroforo, soema to havo oreated quite & commotion in ministerial olroles, | i9; got 'om of you kin," pauy iz $10,000,000, *of which 87,000,000 is ully paid up.” The whole amount of mortgage bonda for tho complot rondia $12,000,000, of whick 83,600,000 havo ben issued. This- advortisg- ment ia for tho remaining $3,600,000. The Com. pany declare that * within the next three yoars ” the working of tho wholo lino will show this re- sult: Earnings on 420 miles, $6,845,000 ; interost on bonds, ©855,000 ;* workiog expenscs, $8,589,- 250 ; not profit to holdera of the capital stoclr, $2,040,760, or “ over 20 per cont por annum,” The timo_for taking this loan closed in London mind toat baflles svientifio search. It corrobo- rates the belief that tho bite of an ADZry man varies in doadliness with the intensity of his pagsion. This has beon found to be true in the cage of snakes. A cobra, when teased, will kLill & rabbit almost. insantly with singlo ating. When it is allowed to grow good-natured by Playing with it victim, death may bo delayed for balf an hour after the fatal bite ia given. The firat bite of n tigor ia eaid to B0 paralyze the body that subsoquont wounds aro unfelt, The remembranco of this fact will be consolatory to such of our readers 88 may hereafter go to India, 3 i —_— The now English Parliament iwill Pprobably contain five or six advanced Radicals. Auboron Horbort, aud 8ir Ohatles Dilke, and Josoph Covwen, who was chosen from Newcastlo only throo woeks ago, will probably be re-olected. Capt. Maxeohas contestod the Tower Hamleta Iaugh, who has just sailed for England, will run for Northampton. And Odger, the ox-leader of the Ioterndtionnl, who resigned the Presidency of the Counctl-General whon that body approved of the Paris Communo, will almost certainly win aseat. He told the writer of this that Lo wag substantially sure of clection, for, since the rop- rosontation of Southwark has boen _ incronsed, tho same number of votos- that ho received i bis nueuccossful canvass of that borough in '68, if again cast for him, will eloot him, Y —— A man who Lias cnough mothera to bo the son of Brigham Young has boon swindling tho undor- takers of Contral Now York. Whoraver he stop- ped, Lis mother died. Ho Lastons to the un- dertukor, bargains for s funoral, borrows s maohine for froezing a dead body under tho ples that ho foars decomposition, and loaves with tha noxt train, carrylng tho freezor with him. What bo means to do with his sesortment of Bsuch articles is an enigma. Thoy may serve to oatab- lish fiis claim to bo o cool seoundral, but that is sll. Howaver, live mon ara naturally averso to undortakers, #o the viotime will. got little sympathy. —_—— Lord Georgo Manners formed an ¢ industrial partnership " with the laborers on one of his farms, about two yeara ago. The experimont a8 & s0orot oue, but its comploto success hag led Lord Mannors to publish an account of it He won the good will of bia tenantry and made more money than he had before. Half tho prof~ ite abovo 10 per cont aro allotted to the laborers, ‘Thelr shiare forlast yoar was about 8184, Astheir wages during tho same timo had aggregated $8,077, tho “ dividend on Iabor wasatriflo more than 53¢ por cont, ——— The sius of the Syndicate are gradually coming tolight. It soems that tho bankers who com- posed it were allowed, bosides their announced commissions, half of tho indefinite yearly appro~ priation for oxpensos of tho issue, dolivery, re- demption, otc., of Government bonds and notes, As this half must have amounted to nearly 1,500,000, 1t is small wondor that the Syndicato co-oporated so vigorously with Becratary Bout- well in floating the loan. Such & soa of greons baoks would float any loan, —_—— California, baving adopted the Now York codo, flude hersel? unable, under some logal teohnicality, to punish & cortain Oados, who haa two wives and doolinos to part with either, When tho Mormon millennium comos and thoir pot Biblical prophocy of seven women laying Lold on one mau is fulfilled in the way they ex- pact i¢ to bo, woshall have posts nditing odes to Oadoa for his gallant stand In bohalf of man's rights, —_— > A year ago the crodit of Georgin was gone, Gov. Bullock and Henry Olews & Co, had slaughtored it batweon thom, Now the State Lins just negotiated a loan of 81,200,000 at par. The cost of nogotintion was loss than 1 per cent, Georgia Is now ruled by hor own citizens. Tho Btates that ropudiato are ruled by ocarpat-bag- Rers who are kept in power by the graco of Fod- eral power. This syatom may pay politically, but it doos not finanolally, _—_—— Maxoy, tho new Benator from Texns, what- ever his futuro may be, is auro to do tho country oue good turn, His appearance at Washington will involve the disappoaranco of Flanagan, Chnirman of the Education Comuiittos, who has confiued himself to silont monoy-making save when he waved his grabbod greenbacks be. foro sighing Senatora and yelled; * Thar thoy 4 SPRINGFIELD, Proceedings of the Tlinois Lege isloture Yesterday, Repoal of the Tox-Grab Law Rea fused by the Houso, 77 to 43, General Features of the BIll Cone cerning Savings Banks, A Thin Cover for an Act to Permit General Banking, The Bill to Be Submitted to the People for Ratification, —_— How the Farmér-Members are Beguiled by Lobbyists and Politi- cal Hacks, —_— Collector Harper Summoned as a Witness by J udge Blodgett. e THE TAX.GRAB Law., Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, . DEDATE IN TUE HoOUsE, SramarieLp, 1lL., Jan. 20.—This wag be law, morning, Houso bill 000, togothor with the msjority and minority roporta of the Judiclary Committeo theroon, boing tho special order. ‘The majority. roport waa against tho Passage of the repoal Dill, the minority in favor. Bradwel? moved to substitute the minority for the ma. Jority report, when Shumway, who comes from al::ll!fl-n‘ movod to lay the substitute on tho tablo. Horrington, from Kane, raised the point that thero was no such thing as a minority report, and the Chalr sustainod him, > Aloxandor, of Montgomery, rominded the House that his constituents woula sufller-great injury and unjustica by the repenl of tho law beoause thoy Lud votod for railrosds dopending ©on aid from tho Biato, Ray, of Grundy, author of the ropealing bill, thought Aloxandor's 8peoch was s good argu- ment for ropoal, 08 Lo admitted that they ex~ Pooted other people to pay for their railronds. The eame men who were intorestod {n and causod tho grab-law to bo pussod were tho same men who caused tho incrensed assossmont in order to pay their bonds, 3 THE LAW WAS UNJUST.. It waa a twin sistor of the Lanke-Front aot whitft as ropoled tast sosslon, and should bo ropoaled with tho same promptness. Thoy wore both part of the same ring, % Jaguess eald the rapoal of tho law ‘would leava In the lurch countica, cities, and villages which wore induced by the law to go into railroad~ building. They talked of rings, He did not care “how the law was passed. Ho did not know how it wea pessed. Was not the dam_in the Ilincis River st Henry carried by the ssmoe ring at the same timo ? ‘Wero mem= bers from the North willing to ropoal the act 8ppropriatifig the same monoy, and refund itta the Btato? Why'did thoy introduce that excit ing subject, to prolong the session, when the Bupreme Court would Pass on its constitutione ality very soon, A CONSOIENTIOUS GRADDER. Rogors, of McLean, bad a deep focling that he would bo recreant to his duty if ho sat thiere ang gave a silont volo on a subject of vital impor- tance to his constituents. Sam Casoy, the author of tho bill, had, by ita pussago, done miors to opan up and develop Southeastorn Illinols than all tha statesmon who evor lived. Ha longed for mora Sam Caseys. Tho vonerablo Doctor wént off at. 8 tangent” just hore to got in his usual eulogy off Douglas, of whom ho {35 groat admirer. Resume ing Lis Lrain of thought, ho inquired if they wore foing to ropoal tho ouly law which gavo aay res iof to the hard-flated “znd lardworking Chris- tian pooplo of Bouthern Illinols, Roturnin, bomo from Bouthorn Iliinoia to his bhomo i Bloomington, that McLoan County "~ by issued 275,000 in bonds on the strengthof that law, and thereforo bo was sgaiust its reposl, In roply to McPhorran ho stated that the Iaw was passod to introauca Cliristianity into Southorn lfinois, by onablin the pooblo to sond their products o market ang d churchos and school-houses, This an- nouncement, for some cause or another, caused much amusement iu the House. The learnad gontlemau once moro resumed the thread of his discourse, and appealed to Cool Couity mem= bers not to go bock on that Grab law.: Tho Stato hog givon Chicago $9,000,000 to bring ita dirty water down to Peoria and 8t. Louis, and had given ber monoy to build a ca~ ual. He ind no place in Hoaven or earth for m man who wont back on his contract. [Laughtor.] Aa for Grundy, whore tho gontloman who jne troduced the bill camo from, lhu{ had but ona rsilrond, and thoy didn’t pay for that ; they were fltty yours bohind tho times; he would liko to soud misslonaries thera to impart to them some Oliristianity and cwvilization. [Laughter,[ Thoy wero & bard got. (Laughtor] He did nop believo tho Rev Mr, Hammond could reach thelr souls, [Laughtor,] Take the canal away fromx Gruudy and God. save them, [Laughter,] Ho was gorry his voice gave out 8o s0on as he would liko to talk Jongor. [Grent lnughtor]. A DETTER DIBPLAY OF CONSCIENGE. Bhaw, of Oarroll, was astounded at tho gentlo~ mau from MeLoun, Who seomed to have abana donod his favorite doctrine ofno taxation with out represontation. Paople ran wildly into debt under tho oportsion of that law aud hod sssumed an indobtodness of ©18,~ 500,000, Dbearing an annual interast of almost 1,260,000, Forty por cent of the populas tion of (ho State compolled 60 per cent to pay thoir dobtw. It ias legalizod rob=- he?'. No prinoiplo of taxation devised and cara ried out by the despotio maraudors of Europa, equaled the grab-law aystom in atrocity, Tho debt in mmi of the looalitics was a fraud, Lools at some of tho indobtaduess, Beardstown, with 8 population of 2,600, votod for dabt of §10%, 000; Clinton, with the same population,! $100.0005 Warsaw, with 8,600 ° peaplo; Lovejoy, ' Iroquols County,” witly 240 peoplo, {ool o slice of " 310,000. Bo it went through the entira list. The dobta Jore nssuniod yecklossly, becauso tho poopie kuow the remaindor of thie'itate would have to pay s large share of their debta, The R8HC8E~ mont of 1873 was three times that of 1863, and tho inoronsed assossmont foll moro hoaylly on the counties which Lnd no indebtedness thah on thoso which had. Tho gentloman went on to show by statistica the efact of the inorenand ns. #essment and then peid his respocts to the are gumont that {here wero vosted rights wvolved. The law violated the funda- montul principlea of taxation and the old and the new coustitwions, - The trua baais of taxution was uniformity as to the per sons and proporty to bo taxod, The grab-iaw violated the Constitution of 1848 in not bainy uniform, and for the same reason violatod the Conatitution of 1870, Any law which- exomptod any {zcruon of the peoplo from its Jjust share of taxation was unconstitutiona! undor both Can- stitutions, He dilated at leugth on thoinjustica of tho law. In roply to Inquiries, Lo atatod that Cbicago Wwas entitlod to tho 3,000,000 because sha lad carued it by dirgiug the canal, Ho then went on to contond” that ench «;auufi;1 olR;, and villege should pay for their own raliroa . They had the benefit, and should ay for it, LEGALIZED RODDERY, Rico, of Ogle, euld, in an exoitod manner, thay thoy proposed to l)ny according to law, Togors wanted to kuow it Bhaw voted for the School law which took monoy out of MoLoan Ounntiy topay for educating children of othez caunties, ' Bhaw anid that was & horso of auothor color, aud, for that matter, hiy county (Carroll) pai out more money than she got. Tho IO~ poal would not ba an ox-post faocto law, o did not bellove thoro wero any vested rights under tho law, but if thero wore they could nok bo diaturbed by ropeal, He did not olieve in waiting for the Suprome Court, for if the Jawd was unjuat, it should be wiped out |oyway, THE VOTE, The previous guestion bein ordored on ourrlug in the report of tho o ommittos & gajgy