Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1874, Page 4

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The Byndicate js not doing very woll with its last lonn. It i stated that at lenst $2325,000,000 of the bonde are stilt unsold. Tho Tice motor casos which have givon rigo to 80 much complicated Jitigation hiave boen sottiod by & compromise. Thesuits are to be dismissed, and Farrell, who recovored from Colloctor Emery the monoy which bnd boen deposited with bim by tho Peoria distillors, agrees to pay over $18,- 400 of it. QGen, Howard's cago was beforo the House yeaterday, which roquested the President to ap~ point a Court of Inquiry of five officors of tho army to investigate all tho chargos againat him, It roquired considerable discussion to sottle whother Lo should be sllowed tho right of challenge, o priviloge which was finally givon him. Mr. Coburn, who submitted the joint rosolution for the Court of Inquiry, said that it hiad beon shown to Gou. Howard. The General anid it suited him exactly. payments i now undor considoration by tho Committeo of Ways and Moeaus. It proposes that untaxable intorest-hearing bonds, payable {n gold, be jesued in oxchange for greonbacls, The logal tenders thus received may be used to pey the debt or meot tho expenses of the Gov- eramont, Tho Secretary of tho Treasury is au- thorized to increaso tho legal-tendor cireulation to £400,000,000. Mr, Dawes’ bill also inaugu- ratos Ireo banking. Smer—— Meayor Bowman aud City-Atternay Hite, of East 8t. Louis, who were called to account by Unitod Btatos Judge Treat for contompt of court, in thab thoy bad applied to the Civemt Court of 8t. Olair Couuty for an injunction to nullify one which bad been issued by him, lisve reponted. They] have appoarod befora Judge Troat, and promised to withdraw from their contemptuous proceedings in the Stste Court. By this action they lhave saved themsolves from some disagroenblo ponalty, and have avortod anydanger of a conflict between the two Courts. All tho Legislaturos in eossion, National as well ag Stato, have railrond laws under discos- sion in one shaps or another. 'C'wo such bills wero yesterdny jutroduced in the Tows Legisla- turo. Intho Ohio House of Ropresentatives o bill was offorad subjecting railronds to forfeits for extortion. Any person who has been over- charged for passage or freight may mulct tho company for double the overcharge, but the company ia never jto forfeit less than £100. In addition, tho Stato may sue for a forfeit ranging from $£100 to $1,000. Ohief-Justice Cole, of Towa, denies the chargo that ho was engaged o yoar ago with his nophew inalottery schome. Ho was n witnoss yestegs duy in tho caso of Pouney vs. Baltbis, in the Cir« cuit Court at DesMoines, in which tho alleged Qigclosuro was first made, snd declared that ko had notlung to do with the Iottery. It was trt that he had conveyed to his nephow s large amount of laud which had Doon used in the schemo, but he did 8o withont knowing tho use that would bo mado of it. His accusors are not eatisfled, and bogin to talk of an impeachmont. The Reform osucus st Topoks night bofore last failed to sclect any ono of tho bowildering aray of Benatorial candidateson whom toconeen- trato their votos, But one bullot was taken yos- terday, and noclection resulted, Btover is gain- ing steadily; yesterday he recoived 20 votes. Plumb comes next, with 25, The Infest diepatches state that tho Legislaturo met again last night but took no ballot, and 1n- timato that no choico may be made for sovera daye. When eclections were bought there were 0o such delays. The Kansag logislators ought vither o acoustom themeclves to an uncommor- sisl oxercigo of thoir functions, or to find some purchaser who can lead them again to the sham- olea, Tho members of tho Order of B'nai B'rith anvo fluished the business which brought thom to this city, and adjourned after a pix duys' ses- aion, Their procoedings yostordsy disposod of tho question of the ritusl; tho now Constilu- tion was comploted and adopted; the Centennial Committee appointed ; and of- ficors and permsuont committoes oloct- ed for the next five yoars, A convon- tion hins soldom been held in this city whore qualitios of hend snd heart wora shawn oqual to thoso of theso worthy Ieraclitos. From the st to tho last, thoir delibarations have beon in admirablo taste, and it will be the judgmont of a1l who have watched thom that they have elo- vated their raco a8 woll a8 their Order by their conduet. Tho Chicago produce markets wore genorally dull yosterday, with littlo chunge iu prices out- #{de of adeolino in provisions and » further ad- vance In barley., Mews pork was quiot and stody, closing at 1480 cash, and $14.734@ 14,76 seller March. Lard was moderatoly active and easlor, olosing at 0.223$@0.257 cash, and 99.45@0.00 weller Aaroh. Meats were moder- ntoly nctivo and ensier at 53¢c for shoulders, A7.70 for short ribs, £7.86 for short clenr, and 94@103{c for swoot pickled hnms, Dressod hogs woro moderately active and firmer, closing ut 86.60@0.65 por 100 lbe, IMighwinea woro ac- tive aud strong at @7 por gallon, Flour was dull and onsfer. Wheat was dull and stondy, olosing at $1.23 cash, and $1.26}4 sollor March, Corn was quiot and a shindo firmor, olosing at B8 cash, and G9%de wellor March, Oats woro quiot and stoady, closing at 42:¢0 cagh, wnd48)gs sellor March, Ilye was nctive and ensior at B0o for rogular, DBarley was oxcited and o bigher, closiug at 8175 tor No. 2, aud 8155 for No. 8. Livo hogs wero in good demand and olosed firm- or, at $0,60@5.75 for common to extra, Cattlo woro quiot and stoady. Shoop wore scarco and firmer. Bcuntor Carponter has propared s bill to bo submittod to the Bonate next Mouday, ordering s now olection in Loulsinng, on the ground that Kollogg, and his nssociates in the Btato ofticos, and tho Logislaturo that protended to hinvo oleoted Pinchback, woro nover logal- Iy olected, In concluding his spoech jesterdny ho nrgued that it was Durell, not tho Lresident, who was to blamo for the Fedoral iutorforence in tho Btato, 'I'bo Presidont wan bound, be sdys, to seo that Judge Duroll’s ordor wns enforced, and yot hie geos on to arguo aftorwards that the proclamation which tiie President issued wag without authority, bocauso {he disturbancos woro domeatie, It was & nuility, hio says, The Senator's views on the rolative suthority of tho President and Congress have nn unusual sound. Congroas, not the Prosident, ho bolds, is to de- termine tho logality of Btato Governments, TEven when the Prosident may lawfully inter- fero to ropress inswirection, ho is good only for tho cwmergency. Ho is to restore order pimply. It doos not mattor whother ho gots up the wrong Government or the right ono. Congross will eeitle that sfter he Los restorod quiot in whick Congress may worl. In othor words, ho says, the Prosident in such a caso is but the agont of Congress. Senator Morton’s viows, af courso, are diamotrically the opposite. *T'bo partis] disclosuros at Washington of tho means omployed by the District Ring, with con- fedorates in Cougrees, to plundor tho whole country, sro painful, though they are but in Keeping with the goneral courso of corruption. The only member of Congress implicatad; so far, by the correspondence published, is Mr. Brarkwoathor, of Connccticut, who appealed to ono of the Ring for money to help him to be re-clected, saying : **Could my friouds aid mo without giving publicity to it, it would placo mo under renewed obligations to you” Btark- weathor was re-elected, and at tho noxt sossion wos mado Chairman of the Committeo on the District of Columbis, and & few months lator conducted an **investigation” luto tho abuses of the District Government, roporting every- thing to be ali right. On this Commitieo was Mr. Eldredge, of Wisconsin, who, in the lottors published, is Bpokon of as *“‘a splondid fellow,” and who, in oune of his own lotters, asks tho Ring to pay certain notes of bis, Tho memo- risl in which grave charges aro madoand in- vestigation asked for has not yot boon progonted in tho House, aud the country expects Messrs. Starkweather and Eldredge to take stops to have that investigntion made thorough. It scoms that ono of tho principals in the Ring died, and Lis papors furnish the private and confidontial correspondenco botween the members of tho Ring snd their confederatos in Congross. THE GAGE INDICTHMERTS, We print this morning in dnatail, and st un. uaual length, the sdgumonts mado yestorday bo- foro Judge Rogors on the motion to quash the indictments found against Mr. Gage by the late Grand Jury. Messrs. Dexter and Swett appear- ed for Mr. Gage, and Btate’s Attornoy Roed for the people, Ono indictment, it will bo romom- bered, was found under the Stato Inw of 1833, for fuiling to turn over the city mouoys, and the other for perjury, on the ground that Mr. Gage had sworn that ho had a certain amount of mouey “ on hand " which he was un- ablo to turn over upon tho demand of his succes- gor. Mr. Dextor occupicd bimself mainly with tho first, and Mr, Swott with the second, indict- ment. The arguments are muterially the gamo as those outlined in Tue TRibuNe some two weeks ago, but amplified and illustrated by the citation of laws and decisiona pertinent therato. The points mado by Mr. Dexter are, iu brief, as follows: That the indictmonts fail to charge any criminal intent, and thatitie the funda- mental principle of the criminal code of this and other States, that the union und co-oporation of the act and the intention uro essential to consti- tuto tho crimo; that the State law of 1833, under which Mr. Gage was indicted, doos not in itself apply to his ecase, sinco it euumerates Btate officors and funds, and omits all mention of city oflicials, and, sinco thero was no such officer as City Trensuror when tho law wss enacted, thot the clty moneys aro not & * fund;created bylaw;"” audalso that this Jaw was repenled by tho law of 1863, which apocifically dofinos tho accountability of tho City Troasurer. Mr, Doxtor argues that AMr, Gago's case must bo governed by the City Chartor, which explicitly prohibits the wnlawful use of tho city monoy, and holds the fact that Lo was not ivdicted under that law to bs on evidenco that the Grand Jury did not find that he had mado unlawful use of the monoy, Ho nlso discovors a furthor con- firmation of this in tho city documenta which ho cites, showing that the Common Counell recog- nized tho louniug of the monoy; Lhat the Comp- trollor reported it along with the amount of in- terest recoived, and the Mayor and Financo Committes commonded it. Mr. Dexter in- timatos that tho practioo was pornicious, but that Mr. Gago followed it undor the direction aud oapproval of the City Government, If Mn Gago could not be indicted uuder this law then ho conld ot be indicted under a law made thivty yoars bofore, which was not intonded to includo city ofiicials, That tho State law does not cover Mr, Gage's caso i furthor shown, according to Mr. Dextor’s argument, by the re- cont introduction of a bill in the Legistaturo to, makoe it do #o, The points made by Mr. Swotd in the perjury indictment ore, briefly, that the afilduvit madoe by Mr. Gago was illogal, in thut the printed form to which he sabsoribed was not that roquired by the amended law ; that the porson who lad administercd the oath had, theroforo, no authority to administer it; that there can Lo no constructive porjury, and that liouce thoindictment will not hold, Coneorn~ ing the allegation that Mr, Quge swora he had cortaln funds * on hand," which he did nat have, Mr. Bwott argues that this part of the onth dooa not rofer ta the loous in quo, but means the funds chargeablo to the Trensury, Tho monthly statemonts show tho amount due the city from {he Trossurcr, and it thowo statomonta aro mot falslflod, aud tho Wreasurer has not unlawfully parted with such balanco, ho does not commit perjury in swoaring that such an swount In ' on band.” Mr. Roed’s raply to theso arguments was briof by comparigon, Concerning tho intent, he holds that, it the indictmont bo according to the stat- uto, it i not cesontial thet the intont bo obarged. Ho nlso sots wup that thoe Iaw of 1838 wis ro-onactod in 1869, aftor Mr. Gogo was olootad Trensurer, in & “statuto which ho quotos, and farthor, that the origiual law in- oluded Mr, Gago's caee fu the words “* who now or horeafter may bo," and *‘or any othor fund established by law for public purposes.” He nsgorts thnt tho Grand Jury gave an impartinl oxamiuation to Mr, Gaga's eass, with a view to on understanding of both aldos of it. Coneorn- ing tho indietmont for porjury, ho claims that “on hand " means nctual possossion of the funds in & condition .to o turued ovor on demand 3 and that, in swesring ibat ho bad o cortain ammount *‘on hand " which he could not turn over, Mr. Gago commiited porjury. The Caurt has takon the matter under advige- mout, and will probably render & docision somo day mnoxt weok, If tho iudictmonts shall bo quashed, thoro will be au ond of tho criminal proscoution, unless Mr. Gage is indicted by, anothor Grand Jury within eightoon months from thie time af tlo dofalcation, If thoy aro sus- tained, ho must go to trial beforo a jury on the charges mado theroin, This roemains for the Court to declde with tho law and decisions bo- foro it. Benator Carponter ssoms to bo growing boldor in lue treatmont of the Louisiana outroge. One yeoar ago Lo held that, although the order of Judgo Durell, issued at 11 o'clock at night whilo his Court was not In session, directing tho United Biatos Marehnl to seize the State-Houso, waa il- Jogal from every polnt of viow, still it was tho [+ duty of tho President to onforce it by the em- ploymont of troopa if nccessary. This position tuvolved tho absuxdity of justifying tho Prosi- dent in violaiing an express clauso of tho Con- atitution in order to ouforee a wholly illegal and void order of a Judge of tho United States Dis- triot Court, The Constitution prescribos that tho United States Governmont may interpose to suppress domestio insurroction in a State on tho application of the Logislature of such Stato, or of the Exccutive when tho Legislatura can- not be convened. No excoption is made in fa- vorof Judgos of the United States District Courts, Tho Constitution docs not say that the Dresidont may send troops into o Blate to com- mit violence against tho constituted authiorities thoroof, whonover o Judge-orders it to ba dono. 1t doos not say that tho United States Govern- ment may protect a Stato against domestic vio- lonco on tho application of the Logislature, or of ho Exceutive whon the Logislature eannot be convened, or of a Judge of tho United Statos District Court. Thero is o legal and well-do- fined process of cnforcing ol valid dacracs of the Courts, both State and Fedoral, oven to tho oxtont of omploying troops to that end, That procoess was not followed in the case of Durell's interference. No transcript of tho record had been recoived at Washington. In point of fact, thoro was no decrao to execute. Tho order to Gen. TEwmory was based on o tolegraph dispatch from Marshal Packard and Collector Cagoy. The de- croe, a8 lng since been shown, was void ab {nitio. It was isauod out of court hours and out of the court-room. It did not have ihe sesl of tho Court or tho signaturo of tho Clork; the caso had not been heard at all; and moreover the Cowrt had no jurisdiotion of the subject- matter. ~- Yot upon this showing Mr. Qarpenter had the wenknoss to admit that the Prosident was ‘bound, upon a telographic ropresentstion of tho facts, to. overturn o State Government by forco of arma because Judge Durell had vo decided! Tho Wisconsin Sonator ssems to have ftsken & step in advance, assistod thereto, probmbly, by ihe Iate politienl rovolution in his own State, In his spoech on Thuredsy we find no apologies for the President’s unlawful and tyrannical in- terference, but a vigorous denuncistion of the wholo catalogue of crimes and usurpations in Louisisns, aud a plain statement that thoy can- not bo succosstully carried by the Republican party through n Presidentinl election,~which statoment, 8o far as Wisconsin is concorned, is undoubtedly truo. DBut, notwithetanding tho brillinney of his oratory, Senator Cerpenter's speochos do not carry with them a moral woight oqual to their argumontativo strongth. His Inst shots generally glance off and bury themsolves in asand-bank or a mud-puddle. He deserves commeudation for Lis zesl in bebalf of Louis. ians, and of tho principles ropresented in her case, but wo do not anticipate any remarkable practical results to flow from his offorts. — THE TAX-GRAB VOTE IN THE LEGISLATURE 'I'he House of Representatives at Smingfield hes rejected the bill to reponl tho Tax-Grab law of 1860, Tho voto agaiust ropoal was 77,—a ma~ jorityof 1 of tho whole House. The vate for rapoal was 43, with 83 absentoes, 8 of thom from Coolk County. Wo think some of tho members who voted againat this bill will, upon reflection, find that thoy hiave made a mistake. Mr, Alex- wader, who represonts Crawford, Lawrence, and Olark Counties, will find that he voted to per- potuato an annual tax on Crawford of $3,817, and on Lawronce of 35,133, to pay the railroad dobt of Bangamon County, Mr. Dlakely, who reprosents Cumborland, Bholby, and Eflngham, will discover that ho haa voted to porpotuate an annual tax of $3,378 on Cumborlund, and an extra tax of £3,000 on Shel- Dby, sud $4,000 on Efingham, in excoss of their drawbacka, Mosgrs. Casioy and MeGeo will find that they have voted to perpotuate jan annual tax of §1,493 on Massao, 81,036 on Pope, and $1,384 on Hardin CQounty, and mcreased tho tax in Johmson and Pulaski to pay tho local dabt of Bloommgton, Mr. Crosby voted to levy s perpetual tax of §0,870 on Marion County to pay tho local debt of Quinoy, and to collect from Fayette County a hiosvy oxtra tax, above tho drawbsck, to pay tho looal dobt of Vandalia, Mossrs, Doment and Marsh in like manner vated au anvual tax of nearly 20,000 on Leo aud Ogle Counties, over all drawbaoke, to pay thoe local dobts of Dauville. Mr, Hollonbaok voted to continue an annual tax of $7,201 on Kondall, $12,564 on DoKulb, and #17,160 ou Grundy County, to puy the local debis of Deoria. Moears, MoAdam and Virdon voted to perpetu- atoan aonual tax of §7,04 on Jorsey jund $13,~ 101 on Mucoupiu County to pay tho local debt of Qasa County. . Mr. Rankin in liko manner voted fo wake Hen- dorsou Qounty pay 5,727 a year to lguidato the local debt of Hancook County, v, Boule voted to make LsSalle Countv pav ‘2 178 annually, to bo applied on the local | specchos against onfranchising tho negroos and upbt of Caito, in favor of paying tho bondd In groenbacks havo Ar. Warnor gavo his voto to tax Rock Island and Honry Countles rome $20,000 a yonr, above all drawbacks, to pay {ho looal dobis of Deca- .tur, It {a possiblo that, after the tax-gathoror has colloctod theso taxes this yesr, tho pooplo of those conntlus may sond othier roprosentatives, fnstruotod to vota In tho intorost of thoir con- stituouts, nnd not in that of tho Loldors of swindling rafiroad-nid bonds, Tho votos of theso thirteon roprosontatives havp continued for anothor yonr au aggregate tax of $1,000,000, thrao-fourtha of which Iy to bo paid by poople who are in nowiso linbla for the debt for which this tax 18 lovied. Wo commend this subjoet and tho voto in the Logisiature to the considera- tion of those who lnvo to foot tho bills with- out gotting the procacds, THE BYATE FUNDS, Bomo member of the Legislaturo proposed, aud tho House ordered, o commitics to count the money in thoe Btate Trensury at Springfietd; the Trensurer at the timo was abaout, aud the Committoo considorately waited until lo got baek from New York, Thoy thon examined his baoks, aud made report that all tho monoy was on hand, excopt tho sum of §850,000, which wae on doposit i Now York, Why thio money of tho Btato should bo on deposit in New York, and whara in New York it wad doposited, woro mat- tera not counsidored of sufliciont fmportance by tho Committec to inquire into. We have no doubt: that the State Trensurer can promptly account for alt tho public monoy inhis honds, But, noveriholess, exporionce hag shown that the custody of public money ia surrounded with difiicultios and dengors. Under tho old Oonstitution, the Btato Treasurer was paid & ealary of * £1,200 a yoar, and no more,” and out of this for many years paid his own clork-bire. Wo suppose we are not making & vile inginuation when wo say that the offico was, even uuder thoso circumstances, a profitable ono. Somo yoars ngo & panio took place, aud thore was trouble in tho Stato Treasury. Tuo money of the Btate was ‘‘on doposit® in banks in 8t, Louis, Springfield, and with pri~ vato individuals. The banks suspended. The troublo was so serious thut the Treasurer ro- signed, and his securitios put s man in his place, and eventually the loss was mado good and cov- orod up. ¢ There i a story that whon tho Btate, in 1871, voted the immediate paymont of a sum of monoy out of the State Troasury to Chicago, a Inrge amount was on doposit in the Ocoon Bunk, ot New York. What it was doing thore orby whom doposited we do not know, but banking cirolos fu Springfield woro much agitatod, par- ticularly as tho Oconn Bank got into troublo just about that time. Wo do not understand that tho Btato Prossurer bad any monoy in the Ocean Bank, but that parties in Springfield had. This is the story current at the time, and which we only cite as one of the possible dan- gers in haying the public money depasited any- whore but in the vaults of the State Treasury. Tho State now pays the Treasurer a good sal- ary, and that is o]l the profit which the office ought to afford. We undorstand that the pres- eut Btate Trensuror adherea to this rule, of mak- ing no profit out of the oflico ssve his salary, and hencs the grenter proprioty of his keeping tho money in his own vaults at Springfield than in any bauk in New York or elsewhore. Tho ‘money now on doposit in New York ought to be brought home. FARMER MORTON. Sonator Morton's apu&a{x on the transportation question disproves tho adage that * language is thought made visiblo." It shows thatlanguage wmay be thought mede invisible, His argument i8 both positive and negative. The positive part takes for its text tho conatitutional clause : Congress sball havo power to regulate commerce with forelgn natious, and among tho soveral States, und with the Indian tribes, By referring to various decisions of tho Su- premo Court, and to other authorities, the Ben- ator essays to prove that commerce comprehonds passengors 08 well as meorchandise, and the means of trafloas woll as traflicitsolf: that # commnierco among the soveral States " i8 com- ‘merce that concorns moro States than ono ; snd that tho samo rensoning thot dofends Congros- sional supervision of navigation will defend such supervision of railronds. No clauso of tho Constitution gives Congross, in so many words, tho control of rivers and lakes, ‘That control was at onco assumed, becauso in 1789 tho States were all on the seaboard aud their commerco was slmost exclusively trafiic by sea. Now that their commoreo has become largely traffio by rail, con- trol of this can e agsumed. The supervision should not bo orbitrary, and should conflict with Btato laws and chartors as litlo 88 powsiblo; but In ciea of meed, law and charter can bo overridden, A company that nccopts & Stato chartor must do 0 undor the impliod condition that it is subor- dinate to future Congressionnl enactments. Exclusive regulsation of inter-Stato commerco by the individual Stutes would load to conflicts be- twoon them, as it did bofore 1789 ; would result ju the purchase of Legislatures by wenlthy cor- porations ; and would fail in efficioncy. It is, therefore, both luwlul and expedient for Cou- gress to regulate transportation by rail. How far does tho power of regulation extend? The navigation 1aws prove by analogy that Congress can pass laws to sccuro wafoty to passengers, rogularity of trains, speedy counections, enroful iuspection of rolling-stock and road-bed, oto. Ho far, Beuator Morton argues aflirmatively, Hiy nogativo argument bogina with the cau- tious statemont ; Whetlior Congress possesos tho power to regulate the prico of frelghts and passengor farcs upou raliroads engaged fu commerco aIoDg o Blates, I8 & question upou which allcan form opinions 88 woll a8 myaolf frow tho goneral principles tnvolved. Tho Bonator's humility doubtloss provents his boldly expressing the opinfon he professos to find it so easy to form. Hodooes, indeed, declaro that railroad companles sro common carriers; sud that railways aro public highways, and he doos soy ¢ 1t fa & familiar prinesplo of tho law that common catricrs ara roquired to carry for all porsons and for reaonabla rates, Tathero s doubt that tho Btate fu 1hie ono ease, or Copgress in the other, may determine 'what aro rcasonable rates 7 "'l gist of tho whole question s this; Is it the provinceof tho Legislative orof the Judicial Depurtment to decide what aro ** rensonable’ rates? 'This tho Benator Lins avelded avewering. Qf course lowas not bound to decide a atill- mooted point,—a point that now puzzlesso many people. But ho was bound not to pretend, with & flourlsh of trumpots, that he was about to do- oldo the whole mattor, aud thon expross his viows on the most important part of it in words that,will bear two or three difforent construc- tions, It iacvidont that Mr, Morton is nov quite suro of the drift of publio opinion. Ho naturally trlon {0 awim with the qurredt, His over-bagiv taught him tho expodiency of sitting on tho fonco as long ns possible, In this spocch, whilo he bidg for agricultural support, he discroctly lonves himaoll at liberty to jump in any direo, thon, £ MON’S DELUBIONS. ‘Mr, Bcammon's nowspaper atfributes the un- fortunatoe condition of Mr. Scammon's banks to the malignant aud reiteratod stincks of Tuz TrisuNe on ‘thoso saudy institutions, Tux ‘Tnipune thinks that there is a moro rational ox- plavation nltogothor, viz.: that Mr. Sgammon lios borrowed tho funds of his quadrilateral banking institution till thoro is littlo or nothing left to do businoes on, Mr. Scnmmon's nowspapoer alleges that Tue Truxs attncked bis banks during the panie. This in a fluanclal and commorocial allegory founded on fletion, Tug Tmbune treatod Mr. Beammon's banks with the utmost forbearance durlng tho panio, supprossing mauy facts con- corning tho 3ariuo Company and its President that possossed oxeooding public intorest, It did this not only from a dosiro to alleviato the gon- oral offects of the panie, but aleo from n purpoto to glvo Mr. Bcammon no grounds for eaying that his misfortunes wero duo to Tug Trmuse, Knowing that he was a mon- omonisc on this subject, wo lot him' soveroly nlove, IHo reoms to fancy that Tue TRinUNE cnused Rim to run in debt for a dozon or more unronted buildivgs, and to squandor o very large sum of money on & nowspaper, Mr. Scammon's investments havo boon made by himself, we be- liove. At all events, he has not; consultod us with rogard to them, nor have wo glven him any advico in that benalf, If his fnvestmonts huve been unfortunato, as tho tonor of his article would geem to imply, hio had botter Yook into his own newspaper rather than ours to find the rea- son why. Bomo oighteon mionths ago, Mr, Scammon's newspapor Baid that U'm: Tniuse was * fast’ lwrrying to bavkruptey,” and by implication as- sured tho pblic that the impendivg crisis was duo to tho ostablishment of the Inter-Ocean, Now it snys that Mr. Scammon’s finsucial pre- dicamont is duo to Tur TnisuNe, The diffor- enco botweon tho two statemonts is apparont to the naked oye, and it only remains to add that both of them are false, ain, aud the Radicals aro publishivg far and wida tho amouuts raiged by taxation and voted away to mombors of the Royal family. Tho following from tho annual civil Hst is conspicu-~ onsly paaded : Princess Royal (Crown Princess of Prussia), ...£118,000 Princo of Wales,. 400,000 Princcss of Wales Prineo Alfred,. Princo Arthur. Princeas Allco (of I ? Priucess Helons (of Schicswig, &c,! Princess Louise (of Lorno). Princess Mary (of Teck).. veres 130 Princess Auguata (of Mecklenburg-Sireiitz)... 90,000 Tho Duchicss of Cambridge. « 90,000 The Duke of Cambridge.. aeees 276,000 In this conutry wo pay roy: in another form, and, uniortunately, to a much groater smount. From a speech made in Congress by r. Burehard, of Illinois, & member of tho Com- mitteo of Ways and Means, wo find we reise by taxation from thoe people, snd pay out in boun- tics, somothing like tho followiug sums, sn- nually, to the ownors of the capital omployed in tho following ocoupations : Making woolen goods, Making cotton gooda Making paper. Muking iron ai In view of theso ns nties granted by law to priviloged clnsses- in this conntry, tho outery of the Britishors secems fo indionte n parsimonious spirit. Capital in America ismoro highly appraciated than pedigree in England. e e i Tho Hon, Charles E, Do Long is consoled for his suddon recall from Jupan. Through the kindness of his father-in-law's ghost, Le las made mora money than his succossor ag Minister did when ho drew bis back-pay. Br. and Mrs. Do Long wero atn seance at the Grand Hotel in Ban Francisco when the ancestral shado sent them o message to tho effect that Lo, whenin tho body, had invested 8650 in land through s cor- tain Madden ; that Maddon had not accounted tolig executors for the investment ; and that bo should bo made to sottlo at onco. Noither Br. nor Mra, Do Long had any knowledgo of this transaction. ‘Chenext day the ex-Miniater enlled upon Madden aud asked him if Lo hed not somo unsottled business with tho cstate of Mr. So-and-ko. Madden at once said ho had, Tho result of the mattor was that Mrs. Do Long recoived s deed for 625 acros of land, for which sl Las already rofused $18,000. Ivmay bo that the medium knew of tho old transaction, although this would bo strange, sinco nouo of those mearly interosted in it had heard of it, The facts, which wo take from the San Franeigco Chronicle, are cortainly remarka- ble. Few persons would declino to be tricked by n modium when the trickery geve thom s amall fortune. — From Jan. 1, 1870, to Jan.1, 1874, 560 mon and 9,006 womon wore committed to tho workhouso on Blackwoll's Tsland on the ground of habitusl drunkenness, This vico, judged by theso fgures, is, thoen, Bix- teon times a8 common among womien 48 among men. Of the maseuline offendors, ono was ar- rostod 100 times during the four yonrs bofore hig final commitment; of the fominine, lfwenty- nine woro arrostod 100 times bofore thoir final commitment, Nono of the atorics thnt con- stantly float through the press about intoxica- tion smong womon lave avon foroshadowed what scems to be the real state of tho ense. Tho gontlor sox is the supposed gront opponent of the liquor traflo. It is dovoutly to be hopod that it may leed the maxim: * Physician, heal thyeelf,” and devise some means of counter- scting this frightful curso, The Commissionors of Churitics and Correction can suggest nothiug botter than longer torms of imprisonment. And yot thoy declare that the presont short terms brutalize tho prisoners and mako their reclama- tion imposeiblo! Wao have hosrd of curing s pationt by sdministoring a Lair of the dog that bit him, but nevor boforo of giving him, if the hair does him harm, tho whale dog. — e Tor a wonder, the women who sare fighting » whisky war in Frodonia, N, ¥,, are alive to the fact thue men must bo kopt sway from saloons by suporior sttractions olsewhers, and that churabi-gervices do not furnish such attractions to the average mun. They havo openod a read- ing-room and restaurant, whoro cheap food is sold aud whero the lendivg papers and peviodi- cals can bo read without clarge. Lot thom add o billiard-room aud thev may carry the day. It the fascmating gama can bo played only by tho sido of a bar, tho bar is sure to got custom, A billiard-table js somewhat hoavior than the pro- vorbial ounco of provention, but it can bo used to prevent driuking as ensily as to promota it. — Tho snake which tho Domocratio party warmea into life in itsbosom now atings it. Thocauous- system iy fast oxtingulshing tho lingering spurke of lite, ‘Fho Domgerutio M. O.'s mot fu caticus at tho begiuning of tho sossion, snd nominated Fornando Wood for Bpesker. Now they have mot again in caucus, and havo favored the {ssno of a frosh lot of Government shiuplasters, A few moro snch caucusos, and wo shall bave the ond, —— A Ohicago morchout nforms uy that ho offor- ed his employes, about & year aga, & sliare In his profits on tho “iudustrisl partuership” plan, and that the offer was fatly refused, No renson was givon, The oause was probnbly the deop-sonted fjenlousy which every Inboror geoms to make it n point of houor to feel towards the man who pays him wagos, In this oade, this jenlousy has prevented tho mon from groatly bonofiting themsolves and from holping (if tho exporimont lind boon a succoss) to botter tho condition of thousands of thelr fellows. Noither God nor man csn belp thoso who will not holp thomsolves. — Mr, Iiram B, Cofllu, of Massnchuaottn, lilkos to know when poople ars apt to bo put into coffius. 1o hina boen ongagod for soveral years In tho cheerful pursuit of colleoting doath- slatistics, and ho finds that o “ gontloman * livos, on an averago, 08 yoars, o Judgo 00, n carpontor 49, & pninter 43, and a factory-oporativo 3. 'The “importance of bolng a gontloman 1a thus wirikingly illustratod. 14 ia fortunato that, whils wo connot all be Judges, snd 8o oscapo doath for 05 years, wo can with much less troublo shun ity darts for throo yenra longor, ——— Thoro fs sn fntoroating trisl in progress b Kalamnzoo, Mich. Tho Hon. Charles 12, Stuart, of that city, how sued tho Bonrd of Education, in ordor ta provaut its collecting a tax for the aup- pork of the High School. His plon fs, that schools fn which languages othor than English aro taught asunot o logally maintained by city or Stato. 'This will probably bo a tost onge, If tho courta of Dual appen sustain Mr, Btuart, wo may oxpect to soo irate taxpayors trsing to onjoin our Board of Eduention from paying for Instruction in German in the publie schools, and fu that and other Iangungos in tho High Bchool. e Digearded lovers who wish to shoot their ex- flancees and thon run away and loave them to dio alone, should persnade their victims to go to Maryland. Thoero audiences weep over tho murderer, and juries bring in verdicts of ““not guilty gonerally," L —————— , NOTES AND OPINION. Tho timo bns paseed when the Republican Eu'.y can ovorcomo all obutncles by tho more ertin of its tremondous woight, or” when it can trust to its J“m achiovomonts to take the placo of presont deeds, It must show its abllity to grapplo with the issuos of the present, . . , Tho timo has -gone by when nuy party can be drageoned into the support of profossionnt oftice-ucolcors, politieal trickaters, dissipatod dronos, shystors, or scallawags, 1f hore and thoro some such have herotoforo matnged to satenl nominations and worm their wayinto oflico, lot it bo sono moro. Wa ropeat, ail truo roform begius at tho fountain hoad.—Indianapolis Journal, —Tho honest citizon who has beon hood- THE GRANGERS. Preparations for ths Forthcoming National Convention.at i 8t Louis, An Interview with the Master of the National Grange. 8r. Louts, Jan, 80.—The sovonth annual con- vontion of the Natfonal Grange of the Patrous of Husbandry convencs hero noxt . Wedneadny. Dudloy W. Adoms, Presidont of the National Gr ango, bns alrondy arrived horo, and tho coms mittoo appointed by the last Convention to ra- viso the ritnal, composed of 0. II. Kollay, Gon- oral Sacrotary; 1. A. Thompson, Minuesota s J. R, Thompson, Washington; the Rev. A, B. Grosh, Washington ; Gon, Wilson, Towa ; and D. ., I oberteon, 8t, Paul, wero oxpectod hore yos~ tord ny, but they failed to arrlve, The principal buglucea'ot the Convention will bo a revision of thoritual, and perfocting the organization of tho Grango, President Adams statos thero aro botweon 11,000 and 12,000 Granges in the coun- try, with noarly 1,000,000 mombors. Tho sou- slons of thie Convention will probably bo private. Axn Interviow with the Master of the Nutonul Grange. From the at, Louis Nepublican, Jan, 90, Mr. Dudloy W. Adams, Master of tho National Grango, who, since his arrival here, has boon somowhat inaccaessible to tho roporters, recolved calls yesterday. Our reportor, desiring to obtain some moro oxplioit information rogarding the objects of tho appronching Natlonsl Convention, to ns- eomblo hero on tho Gth of February, called on Mr. Adams, and waas cordially received. Mr. Adams s o middle-nged man, with & plessank physique, light, sandy hair, and a flowing, well- trimmod beard of tho samo color. Thero waro prosont in tho room Mra. Adams, tho wifo of Ar. Adwms, an_oxcaodingly plossant lady, and Nr. Allon, the Master of the State Grange of Missouri, Mr, Adsms, in pnswer to our inquiries, eaid he did not kuow as ho had any information of par ticulpr Interest to impart besides that which way gonerally known to nowspaper renders. Mo cawmo lioro ratlier in advance, expecting to mock the Committoo sppointad 'at tho last aunusl Convontion hold in Washington to revise tho ritunl. Snid Committoo wore to havo met in 8t, Louis on-Wednosday for that purpose, but had not yet arrived. winked {uto voting for knayes undor tho dolusion that thoy ropresonted his ‘*principles™ has awakoned to o knowledge of the fact that the principles of roguos are morchandise in the markot. The doctrine of Accountability is tak- iug hold of the public mind, Our Congressmen comprobend but dimly the awnkening sonso of thoir constituents.— Utica (N. X.) Observer. —The femily governmont of the White Louge is faut bronking up by the disaffoction of its membors, osch of whom is n depcsitary of suamoful socrats, hitherto withheld, but now in dengorof oxpoguro. . . . Thesinsof Grant'a Admipistration are roturning togothor upon him, claiming cither rocognition or vengeaico, and oven the f\lllk:ious distribution of oflices seoms to havo lost its_carly puwer of placating 20d siloncing thoso children of & corrupt policy. —Boston Post. —Senator Logan, of llinois, {s reported s hov- ing declared that ‘* unless the oivil servico rules aro abandoncd the RNepublican purty will go down at tho noxtelection.” It is rathor a start~ ling adminstou to come from an iutelligent party leader like Logan, that public plunder is tho cohasive pover of the Republican party, and that rotrenchmont and roform will ruiu it. Such, however, is tho moaning of his utterance s reparted, if it means anythivg, It this is the {gsuo to be raised, botween tho mainteuanco of the Republican party and the preservation ot tha life aud Louor of the nation, through roform of tho gigantio abuses pow prevalent, then we eny by nll moans lot tho party slide. Tho clec- tions’of Inst fall elowed thiat tho pooplo had a vory strong disposition to do so,—8an Francisco Chronicle. ~—The poople have decided to nssume inde- pendont action by tho organization of a new party, and tho old party loadors canuot proveut thom. Boforo the adjournmont of tho [Kausas] Legielature this reform element will effect a State orgouization thatwill put it in proper shape to offect good for tho people, The olection next fall will b en important ono, for the reason that 8 full sot of Stats oflicers and three mombers of Congrees aro to be elected.~—Lawrence (Kan.) Standard. ! —TLo poople are coming to a realizing reng 5ot tho condition of public affairs, and W'l npong- er listen to theso thgond-bare ploas mude Ry tho politicinna of the ofl party, They will take s step forward, and afiiliato with the new party now in process of formation, nor can tho united offorts of the dritl-mastors of thé old political artics provail on thom to take a single step ackward. Thoy will never go back to the old political particn, The issnos are cast for & new party, and ke who faltors in tho start will po lett in the raco.~—Genceseo (1il.) News., —~\Wa aro no alarmist, but wo do not think wo are epoaking without the limits; of possibility when we #ay that theso clements of uurest amongst cortain classos must Lo neutralized or denger is whond, und nak very remote oithore— Belleville (11L,) Advocate, ~\What is tho roason that political discussions dwindlo down into bosh aud blackguardism ? When an clection comes the citizous aro called upon to oxerciso the highest and most solomn duty thoy, as cilizens, are evor called upon to digchargo, Why should thoy not discuss polit- ical quostions soberly and calmly 7 Do tho par- tisan domagogues govern the mode of discus- sion ? Do thoy work upon tho voters €0 as to ox- aaporate thom, aud then got them to act tho fool ou cloction day? ‘The very manner of political discussions impregsos the observer with the ides thut their object is to blind tho eyos of tho voters.—Aalamazoo (Mich.) Gazetle. ~Theroe is too much serambling for ofiice—for tho emoluments of oflice, which are three times what o man can mako by staying on his farm, Wo asls ovory roader of this articloto look around Lis own county, and examino the history of the ofiice-holdora for the past twouty yonra. Trom notling they have becomo tho wealthiast in the country. " Thoro aro oxceptions, but it has gen- orally happenod in such oxcoptions from im- providence or extravagauce. Thero is too much differenco betwoon the laboror and tho offico- holder. All geo it, and all foel it. Taxes aro burdengome, oppressive, and intolerable, sud the Judgment-duy is coming to those who sre now imposing them,—DesMoines (Ia.) Register, —As # rule, we legisiate too much and too hastily, Evory now logislator sesms impregna- tud with tho idoa that it fs incumbent upon bim to originato some aw act. The lenst he can do for his very reputation’s unke ts to_invent some improvement of an old act. "fhis ho deems ro- quigito to tho formation of a rocord upon whioh to bugo his claim to a re-election. "And who that ovor sorvad u slugle torm does not aspire to ssecondone? , . . Tho instability of legis- Jation in this country s an unmixed ovil, Phat aspocially rolating to commoreial aud financial affnirs sbould fluctuato as littlo ns possible, Dis- astors rosulting from tho reckiossnesy or iudi- erctions of indivldunls aro rarely proper subjocts for logislation, but are ovils of that charactor which moy bo best loft to curo thomselves.— ]Va&llfrlfll_flln (2. 0.) National Republican. —Nothing delays logiglation” and prolongs Congressionnl sessions so much as the ilood of spoeoh-moking, Every member feols bound gn get at lorst ono speach in during tha sasslon, in order to shaw hiu constitnonts that ho is dolng somothing, . . . A New linglaud mun, with proverbial Yankeo shrowdnoss, hos bit upon o sehemo which, if carrled out, will at onco make it phrink into ' _comparatively moderate stroaw, Mo proponcs to divide up Lhe cost of printing tho Oongressional Record emong att tho Congres- sional districts, nud credit cuch,momber with his propartion, and then charge him with the actual space used in tho tiecord with his romarks. in cRso n mombor excoads the space allowed, he is ta be charged with such excoss, and the amount deduotod “from his salary; and, whore ho doos not wso the amount, the ditforonco to boe placed to his credit as so much money, the sumo us undvawn stationery, No ono who hus watebied tho courso of the averngo Congrous- man on tho Salary bill, or has noted the watoh- fulnogs with which thoy keop at least ono oye sharply open to their own nterests whilo wateh- ing thoso of their constituents, will doubt that moro #ponking for buncomba will be groutly do- croasod, if not entiroly done away with, if” this plan is adupted, Untortunately, 18 is not likely u') 1’nont with favor,—ZLouisville” (Ky.) Commner- cial, —What Oongross ought now to do {s to direct the withdrawal of all tho rosorve thut lias boen issuad, aud to {unist that uot another doliar shell bo put forth, Let s huve no l)erniulouu triumph of inflation under the plos of fogalizing the idsue |lw'nd); u;hnds and setthug the whole w;gbnrvu w Nl Atk 0f tho pormanont ourreuocy.,—diban; g 3 Bvening Joiruat Y W Tho Committes consistod of T, A, Thompson, of Minnesota, tho Chairman; J. R, Thompson, of Washington ; 0. 1L, Kolloy (whio is also Socro- tary of tho Canvnnklon?; the Roy. Mr. Groul, of, Washington 5 Gon. Wilson, of Des Moines, In.; D. H. Robortson, of 8t. Paul, to whom was also added Mr. Adams, tho Mastar of the Nationnl Grango. ( Tt id oxpocted that the Chairman of the Com-, mitteo will como with the now ritual drewn up Dy him, sinca tho last convention, which will bo submittod to tho Committeo for their considera~ tion. ‘hoir meotings will, of course, ba held in rrivntc, a8 the businosa is devoid of spocial pub~ o intorest. The Convontion or Natiounl Grange whick ia to meot hora ou tho 14th prox, will bo the sove enth annual meoting. in the works of the Order, it i8 denominated Sixth degree Florn (charity), composed of Masters of State Grangoa and their wives who havo talken the degroo of Pomons, Past Musters of State Graugea and their wives, who bave taken waid degrees of Pomona, aro honorary mombers and eligiblo ta offieo, but not entitled to vote. 1t s expocted thore will be thirty-five dole« gates prosont, who aro_voting_monbors, com- poscd of thio Masters of Btato Grangos and Tor- rvitories, Thoro are Granges establishod in thirty-two States aund two Territories, Thero ig also in oporarion & Provincial Grunge orgavized in Quebeo. Arrangoments havo been made for Lolding the Convention: fu the Ladies’ Ordinary, at the Bouthern, and should there bo public meotings, they will probably be beld in tho ‘Templa, Dlr, Adams says Lhoro is o greal deal of buai- noss to transact, but be cannot toll what it will be. Vory {)mbnbly the future policy of the Granges will bo laid down and sdapted to their growing strength, Tue organizetion, ho eaid, waa growing fastor than it ripons. - The Constitution is subject {o smopdment, and the whole matter will bo in the hands of the Convention. /- ~31E7 Kdnms, in answer to our inquiry, gave his ostimate of the present strength of the Grong- org, Mrs, Adams romarked, ** Ploase, don’t call them ¢ Grangers,’ but * Patrons of Husbandry.’ " Ho snid thero aro botwesn 11,000 and 15,000 organjzations, and not far from 1,000,000 mem- berg. The organization originated in Washing- ton, 1t has flourished more prosperously in Towas than any othor State. Nowton Grange was put in oporation in 1808, at Nowton Iowa, but it dido't livo. 1t was not until Decomber, 1859, that o, 3Ir. Adame, organized Grange No. 2. Then during the next July he went over into Winne- sheik County and organized No. 4. Dy the Jan- uary following thero were organizod and in full Dlnst ten Granges, ‘I'he mnoxt year the numbor was rus up to 100, and thoy thought they had dono a big thing. The Grangors ifrst showed their vitality in 1871. Iowa now una moro thau all tho other States put togother. I, #nid Mr, Adams, tooksome pride init whou I wag olactod Mastor, I thought it a young bantling, Iwas electod Master und orgunized the worlk, Last winter I was olected Mastor of tho Nationul Grango. Ihold that position threo yours, the Masters of Stato Granges two yonrs, and of sube ordiuate Grangos one year. Wiheu eloctod §hfan- ter of the National Grange I of courso resigned that of the State Grange of fowa. ¥ Ar. Allen, Mastor of the Btato Grango of Mis- souri, informed Mr, Adams thot there wero bo- tween 1,400 and 1,600 Granges in Missouri, with 8 membership of at least 60,000. About eightoen months ago theroe were but' two Granges, sud twelve months ago thero wero only ninotcon. Alloged Malfeasnnce of un Officer of the Wisconsin Grange, Speetal Dispateh to_The Chicayo Tribiine, Osuxosu, Wis., Jon, 30.—A sorious difleulty has arisen in the ranks of tho oflicers of tha Stato Grango, At tho racont mooting of tha Stato Grange at Janesvillo, & movomont wa mads by bis snemios to defeat James Drainerd for Socrotary, which was succossful, 1L, E, Hux~ oy, of Neoush, Laving boen clocted. Brainerd isnaw acoused of selling stationory at o per- centago of profit for himealf sud bla printor, aud the Grangors in this vicinity aro grently ine consod on tho subjoct. Bralnerd Las just issued acard to Patrons denying all the chatges, and sceusing the printors of the Oahkosh Times ot abusing him.” The chiargen aro to be investigated Dy tho Stato Grango. Granges in Colorndo. spectal Duspateh to The Chicano Tribune, Dexven, Col,, Jan, 80.—~The orritorlal Grauge of Colorado, which ins just been formed hore, will reasscmblo at Boulder, on the 24th of noxt month, Soveral subordinate Granges are to bo formed next woek, and by the ond of Tobruary it is thonght that thero will be fully fitty Grangos in working order throughout tho Torritory, The Kentucky Grangors, CiyonNat, O., Jan, 80.—A Gazello Frankfort, Ky, special reports s largo meeting of Grangerd ond laboringmen in that city to-night, addrossod :_?‘ tho Ifon, J, O, 8. Blackburn, “and that tho raugers’ influenco will bo felt in the county primary eloctions to-morrow. —_— Expensive Luxurtos. From the Bugalo Commereial Advertiser, It is gratifying to geo that tha sontimont in fayor of abaudoning the uscless latoral cauals is gaiulu(; ground thronghout the Stato, as their condition is better uudorstoos, From many of tho commonty ninde iu regard to these cauals it is ovident that tho Impression largely provailed tuot all of the chennols wero alike lm}n-nmnbln a9 fiuancial {nvestments, Now that it {s bets tor known, howover, that tho Erlo Canal, bos sidos relmbursing tho Biato for its cone struetion, has paid duto the Treaswy ovor 860,000,000 in eurplus tolls, ayury- body sees tho folly of allowinz it to fall into disuse, But tho financlal oxbibits of tha latorals, which have beon freoly cireulatod ros contly, oarry conviction of the usolosunoss of thoso chavuels, Tha earnings and expenditurey of throo Jatorals In 1878 wero s follows: Canals, Tolls, Payments, Ohenaugo, ves $4,001.52 $103,695.11 Bluck Blver,. 10,085,859 3,48 Genease Vatlsy 20,3139 358 Totsle, 04,10 $574,604.54 o $42,804, 1t is hardly nossibly that the Logislaturo cay ueed batter evidence of tho wisdom of the nbans dau:nnnt pg(x‘%.o otlow lnniqwl)ll tho moplu cony sont to pay ayearto koop hoso thweq oiannels opon?’