Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1874, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TERNG OF RURSOTITTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANOR). Bl S 1500) Partaal a yearat tho same rato. 'Ta provent dolay aud mistakes, be sure and givo Post Ot coaddross in full, inoluding Btate and County, Remittanoos may bo made olthor by dratt, oxpross, Post Ofice order, orin r:glntorad lotters, at our risk, TERMB TO OITY AUNBONIDRRA. Taily, doliverod, Bundsy escoptod, 23 conte por wooke Dally, dolivored, Sunday included, 20 conts por weok, Addroes TIE TRIBUNIC COMPANY, Carner Madiaon and Deacbornesta,, Ubtosgo, Tl TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. 1I0OLRY'S. THEATRE—Randolnh strast, botween Olrkand Labistior "+ Tho Oronand Houto, % '8 THEATRE-—Madlson siront, botioen *Alixe." T MUSIO-Halstod atenat,botwoen Mad- AN tox o0, Hingagomant of BAKor A4 Farron. POutiaand Tonm. ) MYRRS' OPRRA-IOUBI:- Manron stroat, bLotwoen . ton, Oatton, and’ Kenblo's B’!fi:"’m o S ipary Dis. Misivolsy nnd Gomi Eal TRE—Dosplaincastrost, botwnon Mad- I Wtk ston: Fosegomont of Sharplor, Bhoridan & lack's Minstrols, _ DFLPHI--Oornor of We Aventta an BoTie "sihoor. " Varioty pottotmanco, Adtorton and evoning. 3 DING—Lako Slore, foot of A O O Dahaturs, ajatiag of the "' Feoulgal Bon,™ Afternoon and oroning HURCH--Corner Mooroe and T by s . Wil A. Dartiote Bubjoot: * Making Love," KAHN'S MUSTUA OF ANATOMY—Olnrk stroot be™ twoen Madison and Monvo e BUSINESS NOTICES. - A OOUGH, COLD, OR SORIE THROAT REQUIRES rmmediato altention, and stiould bo chocked. Piioved o cantinuo, Irritation of tho lungs, a parmanont throat affcotion, of an_ inourabla lung discaso, ia ofton Lo ro- suit. ** Brown's Bronchlal Trochos,” inving a diret in- luanco on tho parts, tive inunediate rolfef, For Dron- cl 'Asthma, Catazrl, Consumptivo, and Throat Dis- «ssos, Troolios are usod always with good success, . The Chitagy Teibuue, Thursday Morning, February 5, 1874. ‘By the malice of tho discharged fireman who set fire to the machine-ahopa of tho Memphis & TLonisvillo Railroad, night boforo last, $110,000 worth of the property of tho road has been de- stroyod, and 200 of his former fellow-workmen havo beon thrown out of omploymont. Victor Emantiel 18 not Jikely to find it ensy to enforee his proclamation demanding the return to Italy of tho ohbildron held in slavery by padrones in-this country, Tho trafllo can be effectually supprossed only by the authorities of tho Unitod States, and a step in this direction ‘has boen taken by the Logislature of Now York, which ia coneidering a bill to mako it a eriminal offense to troat tho little Itnliane as chinttels. S —— By tho abolitlon of the franking privilege, the Post-Ofilco Department saves over $200,000 a year in its payments to ono rallrond alone,— the Baltimora & Ohio. In view of this fact, tho peoplo can decide whether o nation that cannot’ pay its curront oxpenses withont issuing o fresh 1ot of irredeemable shinplasters, can afford to havo franking restored as o Congressional por- quisite. Wo know of no surer way for a fow Congreasmen to commit political hori-kari than to introduce and urge such a bill, If thoy hon- estly think thoy ought to do o, lot thom go shead,—and let their frionds, if they have tears, ‘propare to shed them now. Whon Sir John A. Macdonald, tho ox-Premicr, waa declared ro-elected to the Dominion Parlia- ment by tho moagre majority of 46, it was safo enough to suspect that his tactics in the contest bad heen similar to thoso in tho Pacifio Railrond matter. The final count reduces Lis majority to B8, and a8 more than that number of illegnl votes are known to have been cast by his party, his soat is to be contested. Bir John is the worst and only (prominent momber of tho Opposition returncd to Parlinment. If he resigns, a8 it Is hoped he will do, or if he is ojected, as is very likely, only the tail of tho party will be left in existence, The National Grange bogan its session at St. Lonia yosterdsy. Tho BSocrelary roported that 8,000 subordinate Granges had been formed during the yoar. Tho Troasurer reported £60,000 to be on hand, In tho report of the Executive Committos, co-operation is wurmly indorsed, and tho members of the Order declared to have saved,$8,000,0001ast yoar by co-operative stores, sgemcios, and grain- elevators, Anything liko waging war on the railronds of the country is discountonanced, ag their intorests are one with thoss of the farm- e, Benator Oglesby's motion, to strilio out of the Bankrupt law the olause maling a bankrupt of any ono who “has stopped or sueponded, and not resumod payment of his commercial paper within o perlod of forty days," has been lost by a vote of 84 to 18, Mr. Thurman stated that the Judicinry Committoe, which prepared tho bill, hod received no complaints of its bolng too barsh, Tho allowanco of forty days was much more lonient thai the old law, which gave but fourtcen days. As it now stood, the bill was the most liboral in Christendom. The Towa House Committee on Federal Rolations hag roported in favor of repealing the wholo Bankrupt law, Gan, Harnoy, who was ono of the most noted Indian figiiters of his day, tolis the House Com- mittee on Mjiitary Affairs that tho way to put an end to the Indlsn troubles is to treat the In- dians foirly. In his experienco he recalled only two'instancos in whioh tho savages had violated their troaty obligations, and these he con- pidored excusable. Instead of making war on the Indians, he would direct hostilities ngainst Indian Agents and tho whisky-denlera, The Iattor conld be suppressed by being hanged sherover found, e agroes with Gon. Bhorman a8 to the advisability of " putting the Indiana in charge of tho War Dopartmont, The Seccrotary of the Interior has proposed to Congross some very sovero logislation to put n stop to rumeell Ing among the Indians. The Chicago produce mprkots wore geuerally easier yesterday, with loss trading than the av- erage. Mess pork was quiet snd 160 per brl lower, closing at §14.60 cash, and $14.75@14.80 sollor Magoh, Lard was active, and 15@200 per 100 tba lower, olosing at $9.1334@9.16 cash, snd £0.80 soller Meroh. Ments woro quiet aud easi- er, closing at 53ge for shouldors, T%@7%o for ghort 1ibs, 7360 for ahort olear, and 0){@105{0 for ewoet pioklod hame. Drossod hoga wero 2ee8 nctive and ocasier, closing st §0.60@0.60 qpor 100 lbs, Highwines wore quiet-and steady at Blo por gallon, Floyr was dull sud un- obanged, Wheat was loss aptive, and 5{o lowor, closing st $1.93) cash, and $1.35% seller Maroh, Corn as qulot and steady, clquing ab #8360 ocash, and 593¢@b93¢0 meller March. Osts wore dull and }@}go lower, closing at #3340 oasb, nud 48360 mellor Afarch. "Rye was THE-CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY -5, 1874, b e e e e ettt e oo e i | quistand unchanged, Barloy wds dall and oasfor, Live hoga wore activo'and 15o higlior, sales mak- ing at $6,00@0.16 for good to fanoy. OCattle were lower. 8hoop ruled stoady. Roturna roccivod from tho Parliamontary riota in England yestorday show tho olection of nine- tosn Conservatives and ton Liborals, Disracli's romark in bis addross at Nowport, menant to be o oritieinm of Mr., Lowo, {8 in truth an almost {ucrodiblo satiro. Mr, Lowo, ho' eald, wan 80 unpopular that his appearance on any hust- ings would ondangor his lfo. While Mr. Disrnol was showing that unpopularity 18 a capital offonse in England, the windows of tho hall in whioh he spoke were appropriately polted with stones by tho Liberal mob outsido, who finally broke in, and ongaged in a froo fight with tho Consorvatives Mr. Disrncll had just beon instructing, What bocame of Disracli is not stated, but ho doubtloss becamo convinced that ho was too unpopular to stay at that huat- inga. ———s Thore are signs of improviug politieal hoalth in tho indiguation with which mombora of Con- gross mako or ropel the charge of being tho roprosentatives of corporations, The dobate on tho Army Appropriation bill yestordsy was on- livoned by a passage of thia desoription, when Mr. Holman hotly chnrged Mr. George I, Honr with being the agent in Congress of the Ilinols Contral Rafiroad, snd Mr. Hoar, ho addoed, waa not the only attornoy of corpora- tiona on that floor. Mr, Hoar ropelled tho saccusation with equal heat, and it may bo theroforo bolioved unjust; but any one. who can rocall the connivanco and euffaranco of not very distant daye will fool encouragod by tho apponrance of this new roproach in tho mouths of Congrossmen. Tho matter in dobnto was whothor land-grant railronds should be paid for tho trapsportation of army officors on duty. It was docided that no such payments should be ‘mado whon it had boon mado a condition of tho gront that tho rond should bo freo to tho uso of the Government. Thero is a bill* before tho Logislaturo, re- ported by the Rovenuo Committes in March lagt, to provide for an annual compilation in the Au- ditor’s offico of n statemont showing the amount of nll taxes asacssed for every purpose by every county, city, town, village, and school-district in the State; the amount of all outatanding debts duo byoaoch municipal body ; the amount of annual intorest thoroon ; tho amonnt of taxes col- lected ; tho cost and oxponsos of colleotion ; alao, o oclagsificd statomont of all tho proporty oxompted Dby gonoral and speoial laws from taxntion, Tho machinery for tho collection of this information is complete. It will cost but o fow dollnra for each county and city to causo tho necessary blanks to bo filled and forwarded to the Auditor's office. Wo aro in- formed that iho cost of compiling this tablo, 80 important in its information, will bo very insignificant, and will not oven require tho om- ployment of an additional clork in the Auditor's office. Much of this information now reaches the Auditor’s oflice, but, being incompleto, has uo value. Tho Legislature should take this bill up and pass it ; its annual or biennial publica- tion would bo of great valuo to the Slate. Protectionist ‘argumonts, Hko the pork in Aurora, Ind,, look well, but close inspection always botraya tho prosence of a sort of logical trichinn spiralis. The Scorotary of tho Ponn- sylvanis Iron and Steol Assoclation arguos that tho 10 por cent roduction of duties in 1872 was & Free-Trado victory. In other words, it inun- dated the country with choap foreign goods to the destruction of American, ote., oto, In the noxt sentonce he says it cortainly did not roduce tho prico of steel’ goods, prico of these goods for the last two years. This makos it look like a Protectionist victory. The sole object in lifo of the Ponnsylvanian Protectionist js to male foregn iron and steel denr, 8o that his goods may be sold dear. If this is done by 10 per cent reductions, why should ho complain? Tho Beeretary looks for the most unfortunate consoquonces to follow the codification of tho Rovenus laws, now in consideration by Congress. Ropresentatives of all tho principal Iron snd Btool Associations ‘moet in mass convention to-dny at Philadelphis, to take measurea to provent the simplification of theso laws, which are the most complicated, 88 thoy aro the most burdensome, on the statuto boolks. imported iron and ag {8 shown by the high ——— JUDGE BREESE'S DECISION, Judgo Broese's deoision in tho warchouso case, it appears to us, in an invasion of- tho rights of property. It happons that tho warohousemen hove 80 behaved themeelves that thoy have no frionds. It happons algo that tho rnilroad and ‘warchouso combination are an undisputed mo- nopoly which nearly everybody would like to seo broken up, or, failing in that, subjected to log- islntive control ag to their chargos for storage. That they are subject to logielative control as to the weighing of grain, tho issuing and can- collation of receipts, and all othermattorscoming under the general police powers of tho Btato, in undoubted, But Wo cannot understand how” the Leghlature can fix their rates of storage unlose it lhas poweor also to compel them to receive grain in store, Buppose & warchouseman says lio won't takd any mors grain in storo at the rate fixed by tho Legislature—by what logal procoss cau he bo compoliod to doso 7 Bupposing the party desir- sing'to storo grain offers more than tho logal rate—by what legal process ia Lio to bo restrained {from paying it ? It happeus that tho ratos of storage fixed by tlio warehousemen thomselves aro substantially tho same a8 those fixed inthe law. o presumo that thoy would not object to the law on the gcoro of inadoquato componsation for storago, wore it not for tho fact that, concoding the right of tho Legislaturo (that is, of the majority of poople) to fix ono rato of compensation, carrios with.it the right to fix any rate, down to zoro. Our objection to it is, that, conceding tho right of tho Legislaturo to fix the rate of compensa- tion for warehousing grain, carrios with it the right to fix all charges and compensation for privato sorvices whatsoevor. Itis only necessary to call a thing & monopoly in order to acquire tho right to fix the scale of prices it shall bo allowed to receive, DBear in mind that those warohousomen lold no churtors from the State, ‘They aro private firms, and ontltled in law to tho same troatmont that is accorded, for inatanco, to the steol-heators in tho North Ohi- cago Rolling-Milla, Tho latter, probably, con- stituto a8 tight & monopoly as can be found anywhoro, It is only & short timo since thoy arbitzasjly closod the works and throw out of employment gavoral hundred workmen, of in- forior grades, “bocanse thoy had a monopoly of $ho skill roquisite for steol-heating. The roagon- ing emploged by Jndgo Brooso in tho waroliouso onse would nuthorizo the Logielaturo to fix & maximum rate of wuges for stecl-hoators, though it could not compel thom to work at all it thoy did not want to, Thero aro very faw omployments which are not callod monopolies by momobody firet or lsat, and, whon tho definition of n monopoly becomes lodged in the General Assombly, nnd honce in tho oatious, with tho cousoquont power to limit ita rato of compensation, all privato rights will bo at tho moroy of & eapriclous and ovor-chang- ing mojority. Tho oxistonco of this power to rogulata the compensation of individuale is sunposed to find its snnlogy In tho usiry laws,—lawa rogulating the rato of interost. * Tho ude of monoy,” eays Judgo Brooso, **is a mnttor of tho greatost pnb- 1to conoorn, and that it may bo, regulated by law haa novor boon authoritatively denled.” This ‘monns, of course, tho londing of monsy. Tho #uso" of monoy has nover 'boon rogulated by law, and that is tho reason why thoso rolics of suporatition and barbariem, tho usury laws, hinve nover beon productive of any othor harm than that of proventing needy borrowors from got- ting monoy at all in times whon 1t is worth more than tho lognl rato. A man who has monoy can wuse it in o thonsand, ways bosido londing it. When it is worth more than tho logol rato, ho will alwaya find n way to gel moro. The Logislature oan undoubtedly paes a law, a8 Judgo Brooso says, fixing tho rato of intorest at4 per cont, but it caunot enable anybody to borrow ot thot rate. An argument based upon those old and oxploded rolics of tho Lovitical law, which, slthough oxisting on our statute-book, aro of no avail to anybody whon money is worth more than 10 por cont—of no avail excopt when they aro not neoded—is rather far-fotched. Thoe trouble with the warchouses, and the warchouso business, is not found in the rates charged for storago, but in tho mothods of handling grain, The prices charged by the ware- housomon are not essentinlly different from those fixed by the law. Thoy cannot cliarge more, becnuse the competition of rival citios will not pormit, But they oan, under present copditions, perpetrato frauds like thoso oxposed in tho recont investigation mado by tlio Board of Trado.. It is entiroly compotent for tho Legislature to romedy theso .abuses. Nor will any legislation on the subjeot 6f maxi- mum charges, howevor strictly enforced, avail to protect the producers and shippers of grain until the door is shut against those sbusecs. Wo have nover boon able to seo the wisdom of that part, of the Warchouso law which requires ware- housomon to take out o liconso. All tho ob- jects sought to bo accomplished by the licenso can bo accomplishod as well without it, whilo the roquiremont itsolf is a cloar invasion of pri- vato rights, It creatos maususl penaities, and unusual modes of enforcing them. Any man, hiowovor honost and howover rensonable in his charges, would be bound to resist it to the extont of his ability; and thus tho real point in the controversy bocomes ob- meured, the warchousomen aund the publio aro got by tho eats on an abstraction, and tho battle is fought on s side-iasue. Who cares whether Munn & Scott take out o licenso or not, provided they deliver the same smount and quality of grain tbat they roceive,and provided their recoipts are duly registered and canceled ? That is all there fsof it, rm—————re— SENATOR BHEEMAN'S BILL, Tho bill introduced in the Senate -on. Tuosduy last by Bonator Shermuu doserves commonda- tion, a8 having for ita ultimate object the rosto- ration of a specio standard. The Dill provides that on tho 18t day of January, 1875, the Becre- tary of tho T'rensury shall pay on demand at the Bub-Treasury in Now York City to any holder of United Statos notes prosonting thom in sums of $1,000, or any multiplo of that sum, in exchange therefor an cqual amount of gold coin, or in lieu thereof an equal amount of bonds redeom- ablo n coin aftor ten years, snd boaring § por cent intereat. The notes so recoived in exchango for coin or bonds may be reissued cither to pur- chase the publio debt or to moet tho current pay- monts for tho publio service. Tho eecond soc- tion establishcs freo banking. The effect of twis law, it passed, will bo to ad- vancoe tho valuo of greenbacks to par with that of & b por cent gold-interostbond. These bonds aro now worth par m gold. The value of tho groonbaols, therefore, boing advanced to that of spocio, and a8 tho National Bank notes are ro- doomablo in greenbacks, the valuo of the whole £7650,000,000 of curroncy will bo soon brought to per in specio, It will at onoe tost the question whother there i8 more currency in tho country than tho business demands, If there bo moro enrrenoy than is needed, it will go into tho Trensury in oxchango for 6 per cont bonds; this currency will then bo at the service of tho Gov- ornment in redeeming or purchasing the 6 per cent dobt of the country, Tho bill as it mow stands pormits this monoy to bo paid out again for that purpose or to meet ourront oxpenses, and thisis open to tho objection that there may be s largo surplus in the Treasury always on hand iuviting extravagont ex- ponditures. If tho monoy thus roceived were held exclusivoly for the redemption of othior dobt, thon thore would be no dauger of inozonsing tho bonded dobt, as will o the caso it it 1a or may bo used for general purposes, For ench dollar of now bonds issued there ought to bo & corresponding reduction in the amount of tho ather bonds, olse we muy go on and fund tho $400,000,000 of greenbacks over and over two or threo times. Tho interest-bearing debt ought nevor to bo increased, and, by making greonbacks equal in valuo to tho gold bonds of the country, all occasion for the incroase of that debt will bo romoved. Bo long as the Govern- ‘mont notes moy bo converted into gold or gold ‘bonds, the demaud for thoir rodemption will coage, and tho groat problom how to get gold enough to resume specio payments will disap pear also, Tho presont promium on gold will bo sponged out, and the Gold-Room will clogo its doors, to be opencd no more, ‘I'ho bill nuthorizes free banking after July 1, 1874. This mensure removes all complaint as to the unoqual distribution of currenoy, It author- izea any porsons having tho roquisite capital to organizo o bank aud locate it where they ploaso, Localities now babbling for a rediatribution of the banking priviloge can thon avail themsolves of that privilege to an unlimited oxtont. It is not likoly, however, that thore will bo any groat Incronso of the bank-noto oiroulation, even it it bo mado frea, Tho rodemption of notesin speclo or in logal-tonder at par with apecio will provent any redundency of bank notos, whilo it will, at the same timo, guarantoo that thore shall always bo enough, Tho grent polnt in this bill {8 that it is the qr-’s stop by the Government to bring the busi- ness of tho natlon back to tho basls of real values, Tor twalve years we have boen trading with false wolghts and measuros, Almost a }onqmlpn of our pooplo havo grown upignorant that thore is any fixod standard of values, and educated, so far 8s thoy aro educated at all, to rognrd trade and Indusiry as largely gsmos of chanco, Wo hail Mr. Bherman's bill as tho firat ‘movement coming from an authoritative sonrco to restore n puro atmospliore to tho businoss- iraining of tho peoplo. ] RAILROADS AND DEMAGOGUES. Tiallronds need rostraint, but nob oxtormina- tion, Unfortunntoly it pnys, or is supposed to pay, o domagogue to distinguish bimsolt as o blatant upholdor of tho maxim that thoy havo o rights that whito mon aro bound to rospect. No doubt, somo mombera of tho Iilinols Logis- Inturo are honest in thoir offorts to hampor tho ronds in a dozen necdless and harmful methods, but the gonoral tone of the Sonato debates on the Nailrond Pollce bill emnoks strongly of dom- 8gogy. The House limited the time of atoppage at stations to fivo minutos, This tho Sounte Lns graolously exionded to fiftoon. Tha provision domanda an 1mpossibility in oftber ovont, Nor body st Bpringflold can toll how long n train may havo to stop ot Rockford. Bupposo thoro ought to bo a dolay of an hour, in ordor to avold s disnstrons coilision. If tho train forges ahend, at the ond of fiftoon minutes, and crashes into another, heavy dam- ngos can be recovered, s the company to bo muloted also if it oscapes wrecking its cars by broaking a foolish law ? ‘The offort to atrikoout Boo, 28—which makes the companica liable for three timos tho amount of damages (and so malkes it the intereat of passongors and shippors to causo dolay, ete.), which allows attornoy- foos, and’ which subjecta the roads to an addi- tional fino of from $36 to $1,000—failod. Tuo railronds aro aleo made linble in damnges for bringing Toxns or Chorokeo cattle into tho Btato. This is an apparent attempt.to obligo them to keop o college of vetorinary surgeons on hand at tho border, who ean carefully examine overy onimal and give it abill of health. The noxt stop should be to make the companics lia- blo for bringing in cattle which have unhealthy relatives. This would bo quite as just. The consignor of siok cattlo ia the guilty party. Tho railrond, 88 a common carrior, is bound to carry for anybody. If it docs not, the aggrioved party can recovor thrico the damago ho has sus- tained. Tho law conflicts with itself. The Benato adjournod Tuesdsy without deoiding whether & man who ships goods from Ohicago to Californis can rocover thrice their valuo {rom an Ilinois railroad if thoy aro lost or de- stroyed in Utah or some other foreign torritory. Tho provision is too absurd on its face to noed a word of refutation among candld mon, but it 18 no worso than others alroady adopted. The trouble with thoso and other similar regu- Iationa is that thoy are dictatod, not by justice, but by greediness for popular applause, They will dofeat their own aim. The peondulum of railway logislation has alrendy swung far enough inthe way of ropression. Unless falr-minded men can soizo it and faston it at somo rossonable point, tho reaction will send it as far tho other way. Mombers of the Legielature who aro ac- tuated neithor by angor or demsgogism should check this polioy while yot there is time, Espo- cinlly should they bear tn mind that legislation of thoe kind now pending seoms to irritate with- out producing any boneficial results. THE POWER TO REVOKE LIOENBES, - 'We publish - elgewhers an -opinion of the Su- promo Court in thoe oase of tho Oity of Chicago againat Bolnmg!_mw. Tho caso is one of consld- erablo intorost, innsmuch as it involves tho quoes- bion of tho right of the MMayor to revoke liconsos granted to saloon-keepers. The facts in tho case aro theao : Schwuchow kept o saloon on the cornor of- Madison and Union strects, by virtuo of s licenso from tho city, for which he paid $62. In June, 1873, tho Mayor revoked his liconge for continued violations! of tho Bundsy ordinance. Ho continued to sell hiquor subse- quont to the rov'oc:fion, ond was arrested, and finod in tho Polico 'Court. The caso was taken to the Oriminal Court, and & jury waived. The result of tho second trial was tho samo as tho firat, and Schwuchow was fined $100. An appoal was then taken to tho Supreme Court. Tho language of the opinion is torse, and cov- ors overy point, sustaining the action of the Mayor, The Court holds that tho charter does not proseribe that tho only moans possessed by tho oity for onforaing its ‘ordinances is by fino. Tho Leglslaturo, it mointains, conforred upon tho city the power to _suppress ssloons and gro- cories where, liquor is sold, or to regulate, li~ oonse, and restrain them. Hence it is o matter purely discrotionary whethor or not the city should prohibit the sale of liquor altogother, or license and regulate the trafiic. Unlesas the Com- mon Council choose to do so, thora is no power short of logislative ennctment that can grant an- thority to seoll! liquor. Tlo power is thero- foro ample undor this grant to imposo a condition that when & licenso is granted it shall be liablo to rovoeation on the violation of .ordinances regulating tho trafe, Appellunt re- cofved tho liconso on tho condition that it might bo revoked if ho should soll liquor on Bunday, and ho theroby assented to the forms and condi- tions. The charter authorized this condition, and he violated it. The license, thoreforo, was properly revoked, and ho was rightfully con- victed for selling liquor after the rovocation, ms-| his power to do so ceased. Tho Court denios the oxistonco of any vestéd right to tho priviloges conferred by & liguor license. The control of tho eale of liquor, it holds, is a police rogulation, and no ono can obtain'siich & vosted right in it 88 that it may not be resumed iyhen the intorost of eocioty requires it. [ — THE INDIAN BOARD. The Bonrd of Indian Commissionora has snb- mitted its fifth aunual roport to tho Prosident, touching the condition of the Indian tribes and their progross during the year, oud, as might be expootod, evorything is reported as lovely, Tho Commissioners barely ailude to such un- plonsant ovonts as the Modoo war, the raids of tho Apachoes and Bloux, aud the now caroer of murder and pillago upon which Satanta and Big Trop bave eutorod siuce their roloago; but thoy find ocossion to romark that thoro kave beon a largor numbor of Indians murdared during the yoar by whites tban in ether of the soveral yoars proceding. They have nolbing to say of the corruplions of tho Indian Ring or tho spooulations of Indian Agents, * The threo principal points of the roport aro, firat, that education and roliglon aro grow- ing rapidly smong ** the wards of the Govern- mont ;" second, that) ¢ the passage of any law for tho organization of a Torritorial Govern- mont, not aocopiable to tho eclvilized tribes (which have long giuce ably demonstrated thelr capaclty for solf-government), and which would indiractly open their country for tho ingross of the whites, would, in the opinion of the Board, bo an_ iufraction of our obligations;” and third, that the Purchasing and Disbursing Qommittees have performed; thelr, work, and that the systom is an oxcollent one, The rest of the report is dovoted to a fulsome’ indorsmont of tho Presidont’s Indlan polioy. Thore {is nothing fu thls roport which can affoct the movemont now in progrosa in Washington to transtor tho' care of tho Indiana from, those 'good peoplo nnd the In- torlor Dopartment gonorally to the War Dopart- mont. Thoe army ofllcora rarely find any dif- oulty in supprossing Indian troublos, and tho Indians havo a wholesomo rospeet for thom, In addition to this, thoy have always provod thom- solvos more lionorablo and honost in thoir deal- ings with tho Indiana than tho good poople, It tho Indlan business s trausforred to tho War Dopartmont, wo may expoot to sea tho prosnn'f. foul nests of Iudian traders and Agents cloned out. For thia renson, if for no othor, tho good pooplo shiould Lo allowed a rospite. They have boon burdenod with tho dusky sons of tho forest too long alroady, As tho only uso for tho army at prosont is in the Indlan country, and na it ison tho ground, it will bo chenpor and moro conveniont to employ tho officors to rogulnto tho offalrs of Lo. Gons, Bherman, Bhoridan, and Crook have nover had any diMeulty in sottling with “the wards," and thelr stylo of sottlemont has always been prompt, thorougl, and setiafactor; DUBUFE’S “PRODIGAL SON.” Nover has thoro beon a grander, more beanti- ful, or more exprossive historical work broughg tothis country than tho ‘‘Prodigal Son," by Edouard Dubufe, now on exhibition at tho Ex- position Building, in this city ; nevor has thero beon s more powerful sormon prerched than tho silent but ologuont story told in color by this artist; never has thero beon such an epportu- nity bofora for the artist to study and for the connolsseur to admire, Thie is high praiso, but no moro than the groab work warrants. Tt is ono'of thoso mastor- plecos which has s migsion higher than mero financial considerations. Its artistio influcnce is clovating and ennobling., It cstablishes n Lighor standard for art wherever it is exhibited, It dwarfa sll sonsational and moretricious and “bad art, and thus paves tho way for higher and botter things. For suoh rensons as these, Mr. Dorby is ontitled to the gratitude of all lovers of art in thia oity for bringing it here, Tho picturo is ono which should have rapeated inspection. It i3 on too largo a scalo, and is too comprobensive in dotail, and too prolific in sug- gostions to bo oxhaustoed at ono sitting, 'I'his group or that group mey impross itself at onco and fix iteolf in the momory, but tho tenderness, delicaoy, and rofinement of sontiment, tho artis- tlo trath and intelligonco, the mnstarly grasp of tho tochnique of art in drawing, grouping, and color, and tho incidents and accessorlos of the .work a8 o wholo cannot bo appraciated at once, It 1s equally impossible, whero overy figure is o study by itsolf, to oxhnust this ploture in tho limits of a nowspaper article. We can only hopo, theroforo, to glance at tho genernl out- linos, leaving the ronder to stiudy aud admire tho details at leisuro, Tho main picture, with its two companions, tella tho whole atory of tho Prodigal Son, and, a8 o description of the throo has already boon printed in detail in tho columns of Tne TRIMUNE, it Is only nocossary to glance briofly at the soene, without some allusions to which any comment would bo desultory snd unconnected, The Prodigal Son is the central point of the picturo, to which svery other detail is roferred, and from which the general tone of the picture 18 graded in admirable complomont of color. At his right is o fair woman in puro white drapory, ad- mirably rolioved against the scarlet of his cos- tume, loving him for what is good in him, and pleading with him to save him from debauchery. At his left is the partially-rcoumbent figure of another Dbesutiful .wuwuy,. MPO With voluptuous passion, and toying with his fingors which rost mpon lor shoulders. In the foro- ground of tho picturo aro throo dancing girls, exquisitely posed, seccompanied by & group of musicions in tho background, ono of whom, playing tho viol, is an admirablo study, and mod- eled with antique severity. Immediately in front of tho Prodigal Bon is another gronp, which symbolizes poetry, and is in striking con- troat with tho fostive and oven bacchanalian fontures of thé picturo. Back of the Prodigal Son is o wild revel ; a banauet-tablo set in o hall hung with garlands; & soldier with his band upon his word, roady and engor for a quarrel ; & drunkard leaning over the tablo; = lascivious pair embracing and kissing; and, in curious contrast with this sceno of debauchery, a pair of white doves billing and cooing overhead. Atthe lower right-hand corner is a group of gamblers throwing dice, in whose faces is vividly dopicted tho miscrable passions of gambling. Tho atti- tudo of the dico-thrower in this group, the fore- shortening of the one who haa lost, and the face of the wowmsau, are among tho miost striking features of the picture in point of drawing aud modeling, and coolness of color. The two pancl pictures, whioh are in plain black and whito, complete the story. In tho oue, the Prodigal has wasted his substanco and becomo tho swine- herd. Inrags, andin uttor musery and despair, bo sits upon o rock with the swine food- ing 8t Lis feot, and gbove him, in the cold, gray atmosphere, a flock of vultures hovering around their expectant proy, In tho other, the ponitent is at the door of the paternal roof in the arms of bis fathor, whoso vener- ablo face is upturned towards heaven in thank- fulness, while the mother, who remarkably re- somblcs one of Ary Scheffor’s Maries, stands in the background, This is the story of riot, ruin, and repontance, whose silont eloquence is more powerful than any pulpit sermon or printed " book. The plcture rendily dividos itself into groups, auy one of which isa comploto picture by itsolf: 1, The Prodigal Son and the two fomale types of Good and Evil, tho ono apponling to him with all the power of innocence and purity, the other with all tho seduc- tivo porsuasion of passionate abandon and lustful besuty, 2. The danciog-girls, who aro models of the grace and symmotry of tho porfect fomalo form. 8. The musicians, intent upon their tuncful work. 4. The group about tho laureled tronbadour, listoning to the reading of hislay. bB. The rovolors at the banquet-table in the veory hoight of the debauch. 6, The threo gamblers In thoe shadow of thorevel. 7. The Prodigal touding tho swive., 8. The roturn and tho roconciliation. Tho froodom, graco, and dis- tinctnoss of theso groups, combined with their rolations ench to tho other and all to the central point in tho pioturo, and considered with referonce to the oxtromo diffienlty of grouping 80 muny figures upon so large o canvas, aro mot tho loast remarkablo fosturos of the work, Thanccessories ara inkeoping with tho fig- ures of thosegroups, Thocool marblo pavement, with a perapective so acourntely drawn that tho carpot soems to lio flat npon it ; tho gracofully- modelod vases and olosely-copled fruits and flowera ; the architeotral drawing and its cool, rofreshing grays ; the baleony and’ sweop of stops ot tho left; the disjant landacapg; tho blue eky and tho depth and vividnoess of aimos- pherio effect, which give an ’linost storaoscoplo offeot to tho figures and columns, ars in harmony with the living part of tho picturo, and help tell the slory. A porfection of onsomble s thus attalned which iy not often seon in such large works, as it {a rare that artiats excol suficlently in figure-paluting, architootural drawing, and geure work to Lkeup tho harmony of a large painting unbrokon, In the featnre of golor the artist las gained gront offaot by an anachronlam. Ile has chosen thio costumos of thoe sixteonth pentury, and thus glven no heed to any realistio neceesitjos, This bold stop hins given him » wider scope in the troatment of his subject than Lo could other- wigo have had, It has glven him a cholco from the most graceful and brilllant costuming the wotld hos over known, and likowiso an oppor- tunity for dlsplay of color in all its gradations whioh fa ossontial to the succoss of snch a work. No oxouso {a neodod, howover, for tho anachiron- 1am, - Tho old mastors of painting orowded thelir ploturea with incongruitics, not only of costume, but nlso of objoots, aven filling their Beriptural works with objeots and ovents whicl were centu- rlos aldor. Tho atrongost reason of all, howaver, Is, that tho parable of tho Prodigal in n story of all tlimo, and holongs to all the conturios, Xt Is as truo to-day as it was whon it wns firat told, It will happen conturios honce ns 1t happens to- day, Having such an opportunity for color, tho artiet has fmproved it to tho utmost. As tho scono, although vory dramatio, fs mover onr- ried to tho bordora of tho monmational, #0 tho tono of this ploturs, although warm, and brilllant, and rlch, nevor becomes gaudy or ovor- holghtonod. Tho Prodigal, nlthough drossed in scarlot, aud tho vory centre of tho concontrated luminosity, is relieved botweon the pure whito of tho one figuro and tho grateful groen of tho othor, on oithor hand. His figure roprosonts the maximum of color in tho ploture, Lavish and tompting as are tho opportunitica for color in tho other figurcs, thoy aro all subordinated in porfect gradation to this coniral point, This artistlo handllng of color is still furthor manifestod o its contrasts, In the soft lights which play upon tho figuros, and in the roalistio mingling of light and shade, Tho flesh tints also aro vory re- marknblo, eapeciatly in the soml-nude figures of tho dancing-girla and in tho varying of com- ploxions, Tho slightty-flushed faco of the Prodigal, tho dolicate and poarly whito of tho woman at his right, the whito and pink flushos of tho voluptuous oreature at his loft, which al- most seom to como and go, tho pallor of tho drunkard,. the dark, almost livid, flosh of the losing gamblor, the delicato varintions in tho faces of the pootical group, varying from pure whito to a rich brown, aro instances of this fine handling of flesh color. Tho sontimont of the pidture is at once dra- matio aud pootical, but, ns wo have said, it is dramatio without boing sonsational, and it 18 poetical without orossing the borders of M- conso. Although the mostof the main picture is & ropresentation of *f riotous living,"—of ravel- ing, wantoanocss, drinking, gambling, nnd all unballowed plessures, thoro i no grossness in the ploture, and nothing to offond the eyo. The figures are refined, tho passions ars re- strainod within dolicate limits, and tho action, although powerful, i not repulsive, except, porhaps, in tho cage of the gambling group, whoro the passion of play ia wrought up to its maximum of intensity, and whoro dospair, rago, and fiondish gloo find a fitling ombodi- mont in tho throo figures, Tho two panel pioturcs aro painted in simple Dlack and white, and to many will prove - the strongost fentures of the work. Although dos- titute of color, thoy are drawn with consummate ekill and oxpression, and with such truth and govority of outline, that they- take theirplaco by tho sido of the rich warm contro-pieco, with its brilliant draperiea and shifting colors without any perceptiblo loss of effect themsolves. On tha other hand, thoy serve an admirable purpose in toning down ita warmth. The opportunity to sec such a grand historleal worl as this should not be suffered to pass un- improved. It may nover ocour ngain, as such groat pictures hardly come to this country more than onco fn & life-time. It is impossible that any one can visit it without being dooply im- pressed by it, Thore is no nced to urge the artist or tho eultivated lover of art to seoit, Thoy will go thero over and over again. Dut the whole people should seo it. It is a plcture which appenls at onco to all, and its appoal lies not only in tho intorest of s high and noble cul- ture, but also in the interest of & high and noble morality. i g An important sutt touching the liberty of the press to donounce quack medicines hns just boen mado in Now York., The suit was brought Ly David Rickards againsh the American -Agri- culturist, to rocovor 335,000, that paper having denounced his medicines as ““nonsensical quaciks ory,” nnd himeelf a8 an *‘impostor.”” Tho do- fendant sot up tho ploa of justification, and al- logod that the publication was made * withagood motlve, and for justifiable ends.” During the trial, tha plantiff boing neked to testify as to tho ingrodionts of his modicine, refused to do so, whereupon tho motion of the dofondant's coun- sel to strike out the complaint and dismiss the suit was granted by the Judgo in Chambors. The Gonoral Term has now confirmed tho decision, and, in addition theroto, gave tho plaintift tho benoflt of the following portinent scoring: Indeod, 1t 18 impossible toread the vulgar, and in many rospects shameful, assortions and instructions that accompany tho compounds of plaintif withont being struck with tho viloness of his impostures, That ho can bring an action for Hbel for injury alleged f0 be done to hia trado in his medicines, by denounciny thiem a8 arrant quackery, and ot tho samo tima proteo himself ngainst exposuro by claiming them to be valuablo socroie, fs a_proposition that eannot bo main~ tained, In the lwdablo oxposuro of such ©hume buga”'na tho pretended medicines of plaintiff aud othiors, tho defendants take upon themuelves groat risks, and subject themsolves to the anmoyanco of suite’ but T think they aro not cxposed 19 any dangor, that courts will interyoso sny shiold for tho protection of his gnilty fraud aud decoption of tho pubilo, If the plaintiir dfil not chuose to try tho question of tho true character of bis # golden romedies,” hio' should have Iopt out of & court of Justice, —_— Wo recontly roviewed at somo length tho ad- mirable lettor from Mr. Willlam Welsh, of Phil- adolphia, in which that gentleman, so well known for his offorts in bebnlf of tho Indians, oxposod tho osreer of Indinn Commissionor Bmith, Bmith is, or was, a minister. BSo another minis- ter, the Nov. Goorge Whipple, prints a certificate of good charactor for Smith, and consures Mr. ‘Wolsh for attacking such & groat and good man. BIr, Whipple does not seem to know that since thoe TRov, Messrs, Harlan and Newman went into tho business of supplying litno- graphed cortificatos of character to Senatorial rogues, a cloricel. indorsomont of poli- ticians Dbns declined somewltat in value, Mr. Welsh replios to the conauro of the Rev. Mr. Whipple by avowing his ability and readiness to prove, bofore any fairly-appointed Commission, all his charges, Ho ndda that one of Smith's own witnosses Loforo the packed Commission has ro- contly forwarded him an affidavit, sotting forth thetho paid Smith's intimate friend and co-workor $1,200 for the information of tho lowest bid that would securo the pine-timber contract. Mr. Whipple may seo in this additional reason for censuring Mr. Wolsh, but the poople will transfer that censure to Indian Commissionor Bmith. They will domand that s man who is prima face guilty shall bo forced to prove his innocence, however desirous he may be to shirk that perhaps imposeible tasl, ——— Tho civil interment of Viotor Hugo's son, and tha anti-clorical domonstration made by the mournors, have stirred the olerical party of Taris to meet tho omergoncy, and ‘“go that affair ono bottor,” Tho derth of Frere Philippe, Buperior of u poworful but not yory well-known vongregation called * Frercs Ignorantins,” fur~ nished an opportunity for a funeral pageant, which was gladly solzed to offact thoe siuistor in- fluonco of tho pagan coromonios, Froro Philippe was not an ospecially romarkable man, but at his death oiroumstancos mado him one, As many as 10,000 people attended his funeral, Among theso wero tho Archbishop of Paris, the Archbishap of Royon, the Bishop of Nimos, and M, Buffet, Prosidont of tho Assombly, Every- thing wos done to firo the clerleal hoart, but the maju objept of the ppgeant was no} scoom- plished, Tho smount of popular interest in tho fuynoral wag smal), and the cortoge was made up malnly of roligious ordors, aud boys and girls belongiug to roligious gohiools, The people eva dontly did not know what it all moant, and didu't care to know, —_— Accidenta will happon, even among tha hest- rogulatod epirityal mediuma, A writer in a rpcont pumber of thg Fortnightly Review nar- ratos sn ancedqte whioh ocgurred in gn intervijew with Dr. Blado, the celpbyatod medium, Haying writton on aslip of papor the name of Di Vernon, that flolitious personage not only answered his summons through Dr, Blade, but communieated to him the firnll!ylng Intelligonco thnt sho waa doing woll in tho spirit-world. Dr, Foater, an- othor colebrated dealor in ghostly postal-cards Lins fallon a violim to o cruol hoax, At a soloct, ofrclo in -Ban Francisco, ono of tho skoptics handed bim n slip of paper upon which o caroloss stovedoro hind writton hia own namo, with. the additlonal information that he had “baoh twoyonrsinthe spirit-world." Onracelptot this, Dr. Fostor nccommodatingly wrolo n spirite roply to tho stovedoro: “I nm withyou, I havo boon in the spirit-world two yonrs,—J. M. Withoo," As Mr. Witheo doos not remomber haviog passed any such timo among tho ehados, it I8 to bo supposed that n monn advantago was taken of tho medium's simplo and confiding dls. position. — About as dlstressing & modoe of suicide as can bo imaginod {8 to start & motropolitan datly pa- poron small eapital, with the purpose of ruin- ing an established journal, If continued for m fow months it is moro doadly than opium, for Its dronms nro wilder and their roalization more distant, Tho lntost viotim of suicidal rashnosa was Mr., Morfor Evans, at ono timo oity editor of tho London Times, and afterwards "connocted with tho Standard. A man of oconsiders ablo sngacity and wunueual industry, Lo bad smasiod & emall fortune of £20,000. In oconsoquonco of A quarrel with tho chlef oditor of the Slandard, Mr. Evans decidod upon ruining that staunch old Tory organ, and started ono for himsolf, naming it significantly tho Hour. It proved tobe an ovil hour for him, for, after swallowing up his littlo competency in o fow issues, it hurled him into tho Bankruptoy Court, from which he omorged to dio. This {s a saddor caso of dis- appolntment than that of tho New York actress who died of n broken henrt because she could not riso iu hor profession, Tho New York Legislature is considering two congtitutional smondmonts in rogard to the cnnals of that Btato. Tho first ia a provision for funding tho canal dobt and for fixing low tolls as tho mottled policy of tho State, Tho second pros vides for tho snloor leass of the unprofitable Iatoral canals, Tho lattor measure would fren tho Erio from the nococssity of paying tho ex- ponscs of a lot of stagnant ditehos, and would, thoroforo, mako the low tolls, which the first amendmont catablishes, suficient to yield n fair profit to the Stato, .The New York T'imes, in an editorial advooating both amendments, eays: **Thore is nothing of such vital importance, not only to tho city but to the Stato, as to rotain the trade of tho West, and it can Lo kept only by making trapsportation through our canals as oheap as possible.” Wo commond thia healthy appreciation of tho situation to the Nation, It 18 largely duo to that Farmors' Movement which the Nation buried a weok or o ago, sl il Sneldbsio) Wo are sorry for Scrupggs. Scruggs, who is United States Minister to Colombin, has been ““maitreated by a small boy " because the Min- isterinl hat was not doffed to n passing proces sion of priests. It is easy to imagine the scone, Horo is Beruggs, staring open-mouthed, his haunda thrust into his pockets instead of grasping his hat-brim, whilo & lihe of black-robed men with o tinkling bell and o candls or two go by. And hero is & small boy, who, lnspired with holy wrath, rushes nt Beruggs, and boots the United Btates of America in the poraon of its reprosente ative. Thatignoranco of the langunge which ia apt to distinguish the Amorican diplomnt wounld doubtless prevont Scruggs from oxplaining, even if tho agilo youth should give him timo enough. The populace applauds, and, erc his Ministorial dignity bas racovored from the shook, tho small boy is throwing stones at the unbeliover from a safo distanco, Luckless Scruggs!- f—————— We published, last Blonday, some revolting dotanila of tho treatment of the insane in Penn- gylvanis asyluma, This is an old horror that ovght to bo always now. Probably in nine out of ten mad-honses in this country, the patients aro systematically abused, if not by tho heads of the establishment, ot least by tho birclings, A pereon in such restraint is in some ways worso off than o slave nsed to be. 1t is the intereat of the masters to keep him sick; thoy have a pracs tically absolute powor over him; and his com« plaints, whon addressed to them, only sorve to aggravato his treatment. When addressed to olhers, tha complaints are troated na fresh proofs of inganity. Wo nceda thorough reorganization of the mothod of caring for lunatics, As it is, ;t:’e average asylum might woll write over its ™ Lasclato ognt sporanzs, vol eh entrato, —— Most people will bo surprised to hear that thoro i a Judge Warden in oxistence, who was employed by Chiof-Justico Ohase, 88 ho says, to compile from Mr.' Chage's private papers his biograpby, Sinco the death of the Ohief-Jus- tico, bis daughter has boen trying to racover hia papers from Judge Warden. She wishes somo- body else to write tho biography. It is natural that this should hurt Mr. Warden's fgolings, but it is & knavish act to rotort, a8 he dCus, that ho will finish tho book, and will show in it that the relations betwaen the Ohiof-TJustico and his children wero disoroditable to thom; that they woro snobbigh ; and that Mr. Chase loved his second wife, thoir mother, much- less than he did bis firgt. If Judge Warden porsists in such & rosolve, his book will be, like Judge Dog- borry's docket, & place. whore he writes himself down an ass. —_— It is not o Mammoth Cave this time, buta colleclion of bones and pipe-heads, that tolls of prehigtoric man, A Virginia paper tells the story "that some workmen, while enguged in maoking oxcavations on a river bank, abouta mile from Weldon, discovered a vast heap of skelotons, packed closely together. The skulls, it ia soid, wore noarly an inch in thickuess. This fact suggests tho thought that the workmen had come ncross & Congressional cometery, At nny rato, the moro supposition that the original owners of these solid cranin wero eight or nine foot high scarcely warrants the deduction that the bonos are rolics of *a lost and forgotten raco,” ag tho Virginia paper boldly announces, —_— The ship-carpentars and calkers of Philadel- phia have dono & wise thing, Instead of lying 1dlo duriug thoir strike, they havo formed a com- pany, and have advertised for contracts, They guarantee firat-olaga work at a cost of $4 por man perday, and promiso tomako no profiton thomas terinls orployed. This would eavo to ship-own« ory’ two profits,—what tho coutraclor makes on his material and what ho malods on his mon. The groat diffioulty will be for the mon to find the nocesaary security for their fulfiliment of a contract. Philadclphia philantbropists msy, perhaps, ald thom in this way. Risking money in going nocurity will do o thousand times mora good than giving it away in charity, ——— Wantod—Flata. Now that the domand for otores has boon glutted, it is to be hoped thag people who wish to make monoy by changing what they havo already into brick aud mortar, will bogin to build flats. Thoro have beou o dozen such schemos sinco the fire, but they have all misoarried, What quantitios of persons want is o fino building in the bost residence quarter of the city, divided into emall and larga flnta, well finishod, heatod with steam, and pro- vided with’ ‘Glovators. Buch structyres pay in Now Yorl, Architects gay thoy will pay hore botter thau storo or residonce property. Thoy aro conatently sought for by young married couples, aud tho supply of such couploa is ingg- Lanstible, Phe demnnd far fats, then, will bp ungenslg, —— In & paragraph publiehod last wock, commante {og upon tho abudo practiced in thia oity undor tho ‘““Town Board” syatom of fixing tho come pensation of town ofilcors, wo stated (hat lnst yoar tho Town Colloctors had been patd 810,000 onoh, “Thia wna ay errar, Tho sum allowgd Wag $2,100 to eaoh Collogtor, This fapt, however, sooma (0 show tho crlminality of tho proposed allowanco of $10,000 to oach Colloctor this FOAT,