Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1874, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. NGB OF SUDICTIPTION (PAYADLK 1N ANVANCR). 13001 Vpaly arts of a yoar at the samo rato. To prevant dolay and mistakos, be sura and sivo Post ©fUco address tn full, inoluding Btate and County, Remittances may bo mado elthor bydratt, oxpross, Post Ofico ordor, or in reglatored lottars, at our risk. TEAMR TO CITY AURSONINEUS, Datly, doliverod, Bunday ozceptod, 2 conte por wook. Datly, aoltvared, Sunday ncludad, 80 conts par waek, Address THY TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cortor Madison and Dearborn-ats., Uhicago, T TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. HOOLRY'S THEATRI:—Randolph streat, betweon Ciork aud LaSalle, John Dilion in threo plass, Aftor- uoon and evening. M'VIOKKR'S THRATRE—Mndison streot, batween D e AT omeng "ol Glara ‘Borriee *CAlixe," Aftornoon and evoning. ACADEMY OF MUSIO—Halstod atrest, botweon Mad- n-and Monroo. Kngagement of Iiskor and Farron. ¥ Obris and Lena," Aftornoot and eveniug. MYERS' OPERA-HOUSE-Monroo streot, botwsen Doarborn and Stato, Arlington, Cotton, and’ Kombiols Binstrola, o A Slibpoty D Minstroley and comi~ calltios, 'Aftornoon and ovoning. LOBR, ATRE—Dosplalncs stroot, batweon Made Lo o WA ARton: Fongagertont ot Aaroloy, Sheridan & Dack's Minsirols, ~ Aftornoon and evening. THE GREAT ADELPHI-Corner of Wabash avenuo and Congross streot. Varloly porformance. Aftornoon snd evoning. SITION _BUILDING—Lake Stiore, atreot, Dubufo’s Lalnting of the Aftornoon an 1 of '+ Prodigal avoning. RKINGSRURY MUSIQ HALL—Clark stroot, hotwcon Randolphand Laks. ¥ donacesonns! Siavo-Cabin Gone BUSINESS NOTICES. NRGLEOTRD COUGUS AND COLDS.—FEW ART awaro o the tmportanco of oheoklng n coigh o i coine mon cold " fn jta first stage: that which In tin boglaning it 3ronolital Troohos, " it nogloats tho luogs, HASKRLL BROTHRIS. tarors, Wo pay turo of all kin grder. A largo Tound at our sto and Doarborn: Uhe Chitagy Tribune, Saturday Morning, February 7, 1874. TRUNK MANUFAC- partioulnr attontion to the manufac- ‘Tribuna Building, cornor of Madizon ‘The Bar of Keokuk memorializoa the Legiu- latuae of Iows to investigate tho conduct of Chiof-Justice Cowles, who is charged with hav- ing bad a pecuniary interest in a lottery, A London dispatch, dated atan early hour this morning, gives a roport that Gladstone, beiug nssuredof & majority in Parlisment againat him, has sent in his resignation to the Quosn, Concerning tho proposed limitation of froo tickets on the Board of Trado, it has been vir- tually decided to make a material reduction, but not to exclude the commercial reporters of tho daily press, nor compel them to take out mem- bership tickets. Creswell's, Postmastors at Washington and Boston have been oxamined by the Sonate Postal Committeo, and give it »e their opinion that their superior's pot schomo for a postal tolo~ graph ig * foasiblo and advisnble,” which is a8 valuable as it is disinterested. It was rumored yesterday ovening that the Chicago warohousemen bad taken steps toward securing an injunclion against the State's At- torney to restrain him from proceeding sgainst them nnder the Warehouso law, pending the motion to be made by Munn & Scott for a new liearing Loforo the Supreme Court. Ropresentative Dawes will propose in his forthcoming speech on retrenchment that, “~-whole system of e % and pensfons be . 32N auagton, These agents receive salaries rising from $5,000 to 18,000 for services which con easily be done by Department tlerks, — Senator Sherman is doing all he can to liber~ alize the Bankrupt law now pending bofore tho Scnate, but doos not earry that body with him. His amendmont making $83,000 the lowest figuro for which bankruptey may be declared hns been xejected, and the srme fate hus befallen his mo- tion to extend tho time for which a person may suspend payment without becommg bankrupt from forty days to ninety. Sccretary Richardson reports, in answor to tho request of the House of Ropresentatives for information, that the result of the 10 per cent reduotion of tariff-dutics in 1872 was o decrease in the rovenue of £8;652,952.64. That Is to say, the taxpayers of the country were relioved of that amount of taxation, and the propofition of the iron and steel men to xepeal the reduction is 82 attompt to incrense taxation for their bouoflt by the same sum, Suit has been brought against the Chicogo & Alton Railroad by the Attorney-Genoral of this Stato for violations of the new Railraad law. This is the first prosocution of the kind under the Jaw. The Attorney-Ganeral recites sevoral cases in which moro than a fair end reasonable compen- eation has been charged by the Company for passongors na well as froight, and demands the logal demnges. He slhiows, for insianco, that it charged half ssmuch for carrying groin from Elkbart Btation to Springfield, 18 miles, as for transportation from Elkhart Station to Ohicago, 170 miles, 8o far o8 heard from, Premier Mackenzio g & mujority of 87 in the newly-elected Dominion Parliament. Returns have boen recefved of the cloctlons in sixteon of tho twenty-one districts of Nova Scotin yesterday, and but one Oppoeition momber has been elected. This excoptionally successful follower of Macdonald is Dr. Tuppoer, und, as he can be shown to have got his scant ma- jority by an exorcige of tho oasy political virtuo by which his chief carrled Kingston, 1t is not Ukoly he will bo allowed to tako hisseat. When all the 208 districts have finished their eleo- tions, Mackenzie expeots to have a working ms- fority of 85, The Chicago produce markets were generally casler yesterday, with more doing. Moss pork wos moderately active, aud 6@100 per brl lowor, closing strong ot §14.45@14.60 cash, and §14.60 @14.02)¢ seller March, Lard was active and 10 @12%0 per 100 1bs lowor, closing flrm at $9,10@ 9.12)4 cash, 80.273(@0.30 soller March, Meuta woro active aud flrm at 53@53¢o for shoulders, "W4c for short 7ibs, 73{o for short olesr, and 93¢ @10}4o for swoet picklod hams, Drossed hogs wore sotive and stoady, closlng at $6.00@6.70 per 100 Ivs, Iighwines were quiet and un- changed, closing at Yo per gallon, Flour was dull )md unchauged, Wheat was more active and 20 lower, cloaing at $1.203{c cash, and $1.225{@ 1.223¢ sellor barch, Comn was dull and 1o lower, olosing &b 503{c cash, aud BT@573¢c for No. 8. Live hogs woro in good domand, and ruled stondy nt $4.76@06.90 for fuforior to oxtra. Cattle woro moro aotlvo, without changs In prices. Bonntor Morrill, of Maine, aleo, is * too hard- workod " to bo ablo to take the Ohairmanship of tho District o Columbin Invostigating Commit- too. Ho is tho fourth Sonator that has declined tho placo. It bogins to look ad it it was known Dbohind tho Bonatorial scenca that thoro was some dono by thnt, Committco. - Bonator Blierman, who b no beon teo busy to do all ho could to provont the invostigation, takes advantage of this Ohnirmanship dead-lock to proposo that the Honato reconsltior its appointment of the Com- milteo, and loave tho mattorto tho Houso of Reprosentatives. His motion will b considered Monday. ‘Wo publish this morning a lottor from Mr, W. ‘W. Everts, Jr., in roply to the chargo of alander made against his father by tho Executive Com- mittes of tho Univorsity. Ho reviows tho argu- monts of the Committeo in rebutting Dr. Everte' chargos, and declares that thoy really dodge tho matter at {ssuo, Additional proof is cited that Dr. Burroughs toolt shim subscriptions, and a mnss of ovidenco is brought to sustain tho alle- gation hat his accounts wero so loosely kept that they had to be *jumped " by tho Board of Trusteos. A portion of tho letter is devoted to apportioning tho morit of tho catablishment of the Univorsity smong others than Dr, Bur- roughs, and Dr, Everts in givon a gonorous sharo of this crodit by his so If thero are any porsons who aro still skepti- cal in regard to tho advantages which Chicago enjoys for building upa diveot foreign trade, they will bo astonished to loarn that the diroct shipmont of grain for tho lnst year, not juclud- iug flour, amounted to more than 1,500,000 bushels, as shown by the books of the British Consul in this city. This amount does not comprehend, of courso, =il the grain shipped to Livorpool from Chicago, but only that whioh was billed through from this point and did not require sny further officlal at- tention, With this showing bofore us at the prosont time, tho future possibititios of Chicago in this direction, when there shall be adequate through-water communication with Liverpool, furnish substance for the most extravagant speculation, Vory gonoral rogret will follow the announce- ment that Mr, Edwin Booth has become a . vol- untary bankrupt. His liabilities aro about $200,- 000, snd his sssets reach one-third of that smount, Tho failure is attributed to the mis- manasgoment of his brother, who has had charge of hiu theatce in New York, and, by introducing trashy plays of the modorn school, wasted the groat popularity which Edwin had brought it. While devoted to the Shakspearesn revival, under the brilliant dircotion of tho greatest of Bhakspearesn delinoators, its dramatic and pocnniary success was very groat, This rosult shows that the popular tasts is higher and puror than maunagors geuerally seem to be- liove, and that tho best drama pays the best. Mr. Edwin Booth is credited with the ability to ‘make nbout $80,000 & year by acting, and it is to bo Lioped that, like Sir Walter Bcott, he may re- triove, by his gonlus and personal oxortions, the digaster which has come upon him from no fault of his own. ) Rafforty's case takes on & mow interost this morning from the fact that he has given to a ro- porter of Tuz Taiwone his version of the kil ing of O'Meara, which we priut elsewhero. This ig the first full statoment he has ever made for tho publia, He claima that be saw the warrant sorved on him, sud took particular note that it was not fllled out with any name. Then, lo esys, the two officers pounced upon him, O'Meara beatiug him with a slung- shot and Scinlan with the butt of s revolver, whilo he himsulf used the end of his revolver in the same way. Ho alleges that the shootingoc- curred after Officer O'Moara commenced striking him with a uvlung-shot, Immedintoy after the shooting, accarding to his version, Officer Bcan- janran out of tho door. Whon Rafferty rushed out he cucountored Scanlan, pushed him againat the beor-barrels in front of the saloon, and made good his escape for the timo being. Thisisthe atory of a man sentenced to be hanged in o little less than threo weeks from now. e While unthinking porsons drew the conclusion from thouniversal destructionof the great Chica~ gofire that it was useless to attempt the erection of fire-proof -buildings, thore were those who saw thorein the urgont nocessity - for renewed offorts in this direction. Mr. Potter Palmer was ono of thelatter, and he bad the roward of his good judgment one evening this weok whena firo broke out in the upper-story of the Mansard roof of is mew hotel. The porter hind heaped soft coal on a grate fire in a room which was afterward locked, Either 8parke or & burning cool igoited the carpet, and tho fire communicatod to the floor and the walls. Tho occupant of the reom being absent, the firat intimation of o fire was the noise of crack- ing walls; but even then fire was not sus- soller Marcl, Oats were dull and 3¢@3{c lower, dloslog ot 41}4e cash, and 42)¢o molor March, Ryo was quiet aud eamior, at 80c for regular, Baclo) vaa dull aud waak, olosing at 81.59@1.60 pected. It iz cetimatod that it was three hours after tho flro caught bofore the door was burst open. Yot it hed made no head- way boyond burning the carpot and woodworl, and cbmring and oracking the walls, Thisis the result of brick arches and iron girders, with comont for floors, and hollow brick aud hard plaster for partitions. In this one instance, thoy may havo saved teu timos the difference in thoir cost over the ordinary floors and partitions throughout the house, The following petition is being widely oircu- lated and sigoed throughout the coubtry by thogo who are opposed to the visionary schemen now bofore Congrosa for inflating the our- renoy : T the Honorable the Senate and House of Represento tices of the United Statea in Conpress ausambled : Your petitioners, merchants, baukars, farmers, and other citizens, respectfully ropresent that they view with alarm tho propositions before Congress for in- croasiug the volume of tho United States notes, They believe that any sdditfonn! fasue of paper money by the Government would be moat injurious to tho intereata of the nation, Tho country is now suffering, and haa been suffor- ing for tho past twelvo yearw, great lows and incone veulence srising from an irredeomablo currency, ‘Vusues of all kinds of merchandlse aud other property are continually tuctusting, owing to the constautly changing prico of gold, and thus 1o certaiu caloulation of prices can wede Ly producer or consumer. Speoulation of all kinde i stimu. latod by su frredeemoble currency, sud {he minds of tuo whole natlon sre deworalized sud rondersd unfit for the purauite of steady industry, Your petitionors beg leave to ropresent most car- nestly thata resumphion of specls payments at tho eatliest practicable timo {8 mperalively roquired by the trus intercsta of the nution, and they most ro- upacttully deprecate the {saue of any more legal-ten- disngroonblo work, and good deal of it, tobo, \lmern shall bo withidrawn agaln s speedily 83 pos. siblo, It 18 & ningular fact that whilo the Republican ‘Gougunmun from tho Westorn Btates aralargely in favor of tha polloy of inflation, the Republican pross, and prosumably thoir conatituouoles, aro almost unanimous in tholr opposition to it. Tho ‘pxcoptions in tho pross of oither party are very raro, Groat good would result from tho gon- ‘oral prosontation of such potitions as this to ‘Congross, which ovidently noads a good donl of 'llght concorning Iho views of the people, par- tloularly in the West, on tho ourrenoy quostion, ‘Lot thoso who cau dono more clroulats coplos O¢ the abovo aud forward them to their rep- Togantativos in Congross, \ THE IRON AND BTEEL MEN. 3 The Tron and Steel men hiave boon 1n sesslon at Philygelphin for aovoral daya for tho spocisl pur- O8O of gotting an inoroass of tho tarift or pro- vonbing any roductlon of ‘tho prosent Eealo of dutioy, Thoey proposs to memorislizo Congrass to Xolonl tho act ‘prssed in 1872 reduoiue tho duties on jmported steol and 1ron 10 por cont. Thoy hnve, ‘however, othor baleful objcots in vio®w. Amongthe resolutions proposod in the Oonvention was ono reolting tho mutual dopend- ence Gf raflronds aud iron-makoers, and dircoting tho ‘Bppoiniment of & committeo to consider whotlipe the iron-makers can do anything to do- velop new rallronds and choapon thocost of their constiytion. Theylad proviously stated that 4ho exponditure for iron is about one-third of the cogt of construction and equipmont of rail- roads, Ayother rosolution was offorod declaring that e goneral policy of subsidizing * national moilrcgds® had boon benoficlsl, and ad- vislng that suob further aid bo oxtonded to ‘o unfinished lines s will insure their'complotion. ''ho mosning of thoso prop- ogitlons cannot be mistakon, Tho wild snd reck- loss systom of railroad construction followed for Bovoral yoars past was tho main cause of the re- cont finaucial panio, 'The country was flooded with railroad bonds and stocks; tho money of citizans was loaned out by banks to spoculative construction companies, and the result was o financial collapso that has affected overy ‘branch of trade and industry in the country, These Credit Mobilior corporations have ab- gorbed the circulating capital of tho country to an enoymous extent, and, now that the public will lond no more money to them, Congross in asked to do so. Tho policy of subsi- dizing * nntional raliroads™ bos boon any- thing but encoursging. The Government has given aiwny for this purposo many millions of acres of publio land and $64,000,000 of natioun] bonds. Foromost among thoso i tho Union Pa~ cific Company, the managors of which placed $27,000,000 in thoir own pookets, where they thought it would dotho most good. The Cen- tral Pacific Company's operations have beon of the snme, sort. Thic Northern Paciflc Railrond and the Texas Pacific Railroad fortunately failed to got any moncy subsidy. They both pass through ‘s desert sud a wildornees, and ono of them in @ region whore the civilized white man will never live. Both concerns aro bankrupt. Both aroowned chieflyin Pennsylvania, and both are largely in debt to the iron-makers, Of courso these iron-makers would rejoico if Congress would vote Jay Cooke £60,000,000 to finish tho Northern Pacifio Railroad, and &8 much moro to Tom Beott to build his road through Texas and Arizona, Instead of granting new subsidios to tho Pa- cific or any other railrond, Congross should be- ginto collect back what has already beon paid. The wholo grant of bonds to these roads was $64,000,000, of which $27,000,000 was to tho Union Pacific and £26,000,000 to the Central Pa- cific. Up to tho 8lst of Jsnuary, 1874, tho to these two Compauies over 18,000,000, of which it had received in transportation £8,500,- 000, leaving $14,600,000 of back interest still duo from the two Companiea. The Central Pacifio Company bas outstanding dobts equal to the value of its roads, and has capital stock to the sum of $100,000,000 divided among its managers, It is now paying dividonds upon this fictitions stock, and rofusos to pay interest on the bonds loaned to it by the Government. Tho Union Paoific Company, notwithstanding the road was built by the money obtained from the Govern- ment, has other bonds outstanding, and has also $30,000,000 capital stock—all water. Ite gross recoipts have mnow reached 1,000,000 & month. Itis the duty of Congress to require these Companies to'pay not only their curront interest, but alsoto commoncs liquidating the arrearagos. The sccrued and unpaid interest duo from these Companies amounts to more than one-fourth the priucipsl. They owe altogether noarly $58,000,000, which is increusing st the rate of $2,600,000 a year. At tho ond of tho thirty years it will equal, if not excoed, tha whole value of the property, and is scoured only by o second mortgage. After the oxpiration of tho {hirty yoars the rond may be takon by the holders of tho frst-mortgage bonds and the Govornment left in the vocative, The iron and steel makors, who for twelve yoors have beon receiving an aunual bounty from tho Amorican people, aro, of conrse, in favor of tho most Jibera! subsidies to tho two other railroads which have been overtaken by bankruptoy, and whose dishonored obligations are scattored all over the country, and largely indorsed by the iron and ateel makers them- solvos, But Congross doos not ropresont Jay Cooke and Tom 8cott; nor does it ropresent tho Union and Contral Pacifio Railroads; it repre- sents the peoplo, whose intorests domand that there be no more subsidies, and that the com- panies to whom such subsidios have alrendy been granted shall bo compollod to pay the fourteon and » lolf million dollars of intercst mow past dus. A DELICATE PROBLEM. Were it not for tho domoustrations of the “Internationsl " in Chicago, New York, Louls- ville, Cincinunti, and other places in this coun- try, the Ameriqin people would senrcely lave giveu a thought to ono of the grostost move- menta of the day,—the uprisiug of the mechsn- ica and Isborors against thoiremployers, and their demand for a fundamental alterstion in the re- lations, if not indeod for the doing away of all distinotion, botween them, The Interuational, fourth catate, or proletariat, call it what you will, feols itaolf strong in the ninetoenth contury, and particalarly in thoso countries where univor- #al, or quasl-universal, suffroge obtalne; and whero, thereforo, numbors aro power, Thoy know thelr numbers, and thus measurs thelr fn- fluence. It Is woll, howevor, that thoe attontion of tho Amorleanpsoplo hus been called to themovemont, It is well that thoro have beon Boolalistio and International moetings in Ohlcago, New Yorl, der uotes, a8 such a proceeding would be understood =4 postponing indesnitely a returti to @ sound fluen- cial condition | sud your petitionars fusthor pray that ‘the grevibacks alrsady lssusd oUS of \ie So-sals and 9hawuau, if they only teach us to bewave lost We warm in our bosom s serpent which msy stiog Lherty aug civiliantion ;40 - dowthy Prebas United Btates had paid for interest on the loans’ ! THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1874, bly no more dolicato question than that of the * Intornational could come beforo the Amori- con poople. Tho liberty of tho press aud of. spoach, tho right of diroussion, and tha right to nsgomblo, Wo must proserve ; and yot wo muse soo to it that this lborty of discusslon, of spooch, and of assembling shiall not ond in a Paris Communo or in tho roign of potrolonm. Mow shall wo effect this ? Shall meotings of a cortain ordor bo prohibited ? 8hall discussion of cortain quostions bo Intordicted? To put an oxtromo csse, ehall it bo mude unlawful at & public mooting of worke ingmon to probibit * tho agitatlon of the question whothor thoy had not botter take forciblo poseossion of tho City Government, or divido the propurty of their employers amoug thomsolves? Whioh is the botter mothod of proceduro—thie, orto wait for some overt act on thoir.part, and then oppose forca by forco? Or shall all discugsion which might probably end in sbreach of thoe peaco bo deemed unlawiul § and all assomblios gotten up to discuss such quos- tions a8 whothor, having no othor means of sup- ‘port, tho Inborers had not better tako possession ©of the public funds for that purpose, bo prohib- itod ? The '* Intornational " i in tho midst of us, and wo do not know how soon we msy be called upou to solve thoso questions, dolicato as thoy are. Wo noed not rogrot, howaever, if the problom is forcod upon ua ; for, after all, it is ouly the question, How shall Liberty boprosory- od from dogenorating into Licenso? How insuro order and not infringe tho principles of Free- dom P—and the soouer tho question iz solved the bettor. Thero are, ovidently, two dongors attending. tho solution of the question,—tho danger of proventing License by snérificing Liborty, or of pormitting Licousoe to auatroy Laberty. And yot great a8 those dangers aro, and diflloult or avoldnnco, avolded they must be; and tho questlon, How tho Ropublic will desl with the Internntional? constitutionally scttled. Wo must not deludo oursclves that tho Intorna~ tioonlists will give us no trouble, ‘Thoy are or- genized in this country, and thoy are not or- ganized hero for no purpose. Thelr objeots aro tho samo hero as overywhore. They msy love -American indepondonce and the Stays and Btripos woll; . they love the Internationnl and tho red flag botter. Tho Constitution of tho United Btates they nccept ; but only provision- ally, as tho best stepping-stone posmble to the principles of Karl Marx, ‘To kuow the ‘renl dosigne and influonce of this organization, and tho desperato cheracter of many Wwho sre members of it, wo need to keop our oyes .on their doings Iabroad. Everyhody remombers the Parls Communo, and knows how doeply the organization has takon root in Fraunco. Germsny is infested with Reds, and we are giad that the majority of them stay there, A writor ina recent numbor of tho Revue des Deux Mondes drawe a graphic doseription of the Gormans who leave from Homburg for this country and other parts of the world, aud of tho laborers snd mechanics of the town: tho formor, solid, hionest, thrifty, taking an adiou of their country, in company with thoir wives and children, as industrious as them- selvos; tho lattor, mon of less inviting apponr- ance, gathered at the Socialistic clubs, wifeless .aud childless, discussing strange thoories of government and of the family, arguing that the relation of husband and wite is but a *historio product,” or, what amounts to tho same, *that the womau who freely gives her love to any man is not & prostitute but the woman of the fu- ture.” In Berlin, these same .men amuse themsolves by broaking wup the moetings of such voters as thoy cannot territy, 80 that- the latter have to deliborate -only with closed doors. - The strange port of it i, that this has bean going on for some time, and tho Government has mnot interfored. Therois scarcaly a quartor of tho globo which the Inter- uationn! has not penotrated. Only last month, in Belgrado, in Servin, tho Parliament, or Schubdsch 'tina, hod o stormy dobate on tha best means of meoting the proletariat and holding them in check. Whatevor way wo turn we find tho enmo thing,—the International ot work, growing bolder i every eountry at each succoss, no matter when, how, or where obtained, THE ERRING-WOMAN'S HOME, Among the various charitable institutions of this ‘city none hoa a noblor miesion or is moro doserving of public sympathy sud encourage- ment thou tho Erring-Woman's Home, The an- nual report of the Secretury, motting forth ite condition, its wants, and tho eharacter of tho work dono ir it, which waa printed in tho iast ia- sue of Tue TRiBUNE, containg a varioty of un- usually interesting facts, especially those which pertain fo its managoment. Considering the numbar of ercing women in thia city, the numher of inmates ia not largo, but this very fact gives the maungement au opportunity to carry out its systom moro thoroughly and effactively. Tho onteast from society who soeks rofuge in the Homo finds itin roality to 8o a home. Hor habit of life is utterly changed. She finds ber- golf in & family entitled to ell its priviloges and expected to porform all of its dutios, Her doily lifeis a fomily lito, She is not o mendlcant or n pensioner, and thore is nothing in her surroundings to remind hor that #ho is an inmate of o charitable inatitution, or that sho is living mpon charity, Bho is con- stantly in an atmosphere which excludes every suggoation of her former assooiationa. Tho day commences with family worehip, snd then each inmate goes to the work for which sho is best adapted, somo to sowing and somo to house- work, Daily instrustion i{s given in the plain English bronclies ond in music, Bunday is de- voted to religious sotvico, and one ovening of each weol to social recroation. Thus by dogroes the whole mode of lifo is chauged, and the friendloss outcnst flnde hereolf & mem- ber of s family, in which sho takos au intorest and which tokes an interost in hor, Although many of theso inmatos are viclous and nearly all of them ignorant, thi family discipline Lns worked woudors, and tho institution ia reported to be in a very flourishing condition, During the prosent year, elghty-threo iumates have boon reccived, thirty of whom were not yot 18 yeurs old, TFourteon bave been re- stored to their frionds; eight honorably dis- charged; ton loft without permission; ton were sont to other inatitutlons; two wore diemissed, snd ono denth ocourred, leaving about forty in- matos in the Home at presont. If but one of this number bad been reatored to a lifo of virtue, this Home would not have been established in vain, ' The quiet, unostontatiods manuer in which this oharity hes boen conducted Is not the least meritorious feature about it. While many other institutions are kept bofore the publio with persiutent blowiug of trumpats, and ro conducted with more or less of self-gratu- 1ailen ahd oundERels tnstituilon Las worked on sllently, tho groat public not only being ign rant who woro tho managors, but hLardly know- ing thore was such au instiiution i the city, All this {s true, and the moro remarkablo bocauso the ovil with whioh {he managers aro grappling. 1a more powerful, moro subtle, and more wide- ppread than any othor. It {8 one whioh has toxed the sbudonts of soclal science, the roform- ora in wooloty, muniolpal authoritios, and tonch- ors of morality and roligion more severely than any other form of vice, and, notwithstanding oll that has boou said and dono and enncted, tho Booisl Evil still remmns as tho most perploxing problom of soctoty. 'I'ho managers of this Homo do not attempt tosolve it. Thelr duty lies apart from this. Thoy do not nttompt to attack tho ovil in it strongholds, Thoy simply offer thoir Homo ag o rofuge for tho outcast, who, undor the ban of socloty, friondless and aslone, finds no placo open to her, oven it she should wish to ily from tho evil courso eho {a pursuing. To aid tho inatitution in the prosccution of thia praise- worthy purpose should bo & pleasant and cordial duty upon the part of our citizens. What the Home noods is set forth in the report to which wo havo alluded, and wo have no doubt that it is only necessary to call the attontion of charitably- disposed persons to tho noeds of tho institution to have them fmmediately supphed. THE GERMAN ELECTIONS. The latest foreign matls bring the complete re- sults of the recont olections, to the German . Reichatag, which are of more than ordinary in- torest, from tho faot that tho Ultramontano question was ono of the principal fasuos iuvolved in tho campaign. In tho last Parllamont, Ble- marck had to contond with only sixty-two Ultra- montavos, but in this Parlisment the number is incroased to 115, who will side with tho priests in their opposition to the Governmont. Among them aro the now Deputios from Alaace, who aro all French, and, of course, all Ultramontauos, In addition to those, tho Opposition 1s strongth- onod by 12 Socialists, 10 Couservatives, 10 Par- ticularists, 16 Polos gud Danes, from Schleswig, aud 10 Radicals, moking in all 172 out of the 897.members of the Parliament, and loaving 225 mombers of the National Liberal party whom Bismarck can count upon as supporters of the Gouernment. The result shows & very material falling-oft in tho Govornmont's majority. It indicates that thie poople do not ontor futo tho strugglo against Ultramontanism with the samd zeal ag thoe Gov- ernment, and that many votors are uttorly care- Iess whicl side wing, In Borlin itself, whero tho Government s prosumoed at lesst to havo an ardont support, only 83,785 votes woro cast outof o total vote of 100,782, The largost gatue of the Opposition wero mado in Prussia and Bavarin, tho former of which is Protestaut and the latter Catholic. In Prussiz, the Ultramon~ tanes increased their representstives from 40 to 00, and in Bavaris, which Los been the seene of ropentod interforonces with the priests, from 18 to 27. With rogard to tha probabla effect of this in- crense, tho correspondont of the London Times 838t ) 5 Flushed with their partinl snccess, the Ultramon. tancs may bo expected to redouble thoir protests in tho Houso, and thelr resistanco outside of it, Juststrong euough to give trouble, but too weak to causo real cm- ‘barrossment, they wiil only sggravate tho angry feel ingsof their adversarics, and probably bring down upon themselvea fresh wncasures ‘of cocreion, which will hardly tend to bridgo ove: the gulf that hiss ro- contly opened between tho two great parties in tho lsnd, The position of tho Ultramontanes in this respect is the moro unfavorable, as eccleslastical mat- ters belonging to the junsdiction of the Stato Parlin® ments are settled by assemblics eloctod on o restricted franchise, and accordingly provided with o much smaller ingredicnt of Ultrsmontanism than by thoman- hood system {8 sdmitted to tho Contral Legislature of the country, One proof of tho truth of this assortion is fur~ nished by tho nrrest and imprisonment of Arch- bishop Ledochowski, which hss taken place ginco the olection. As Bismarck, by the elec- tion, s sure of & majority on the quoation of roising the military budget, there is nothing to doter him from carrying out his opposition to Ultramontanism, and enforcing the authority of the State with & high hand. BUGAR. "The soil of Louisinna is specially adapted to tho culture of the sugar-cane, Labor-is abun- Qont and comparativoly cheap, Tho matkets aro easily nccessiblo. The sugar and molasses pro- duced aro enid o bo the best of thoir kind. Yet, doapite all thoso advantages, the averago aunual shrinkago in tho supply of saccharine swoets, for tho last thirtoon years, has been 14,000 hogs- heads of sugar and 800,000 gallons of molasses. The War, Warmoth, Casoy, Kollogg,—these posts are doubtless responsible for no small part of tho Btate’s industrial rotrogression, but there has been utill auother and a greater causo, The yield of sugar to tho acro Las stendily dimin- ished, not onlyon lands that might reasahably be thought to bo worn out, but on all lands. The trouble is with tho cane. It'is an oxotio plant which noeds to bo occasionally ronowed, Othor- wise, when removed from its tropical home, it gradually dotoriorates aud loges its productive power. Last year an effort was made to bring new cane from Indis and Egypt, whoroe the yield ia nearly four times as large as it is in Louls- funa, The plan was undortakon 8o late in the sonson, Lowayer, that it falled. It is now pro- posed that the Stato shall appropriate $50,000 to sond s competont buyer to Hindostan as enrly ns the 1st of April, The country is ex- pected to furnish o naval vessol to bring back a cnrgo of fresh ana henlthy cano. Why it should gointo the business of froight-currior for Lonis- inns plantors it i not easy fo soe,— peruops as & slight oxpression of its sorrow for bhaviog forced Kollogg upon those planters, Thero iy more reason for Louis- inna's going into the business of cane-buyer, The Btate haa a curious connection with the Citizens" Bouk, in virtue of which tho bank pays the intor- eat ou cortain Blate bonds that are seoured by mortgago on a great numbor of plantations, If these piautations shonld be stocked with fresh cnne, the yiold would probably be quadrupled, and the obligations might bo quickly paid off, The annual diminution of 14,000 hogeheads of sugar and 800,000 gallons of molassos {8 o mat- tor that concorns the whole country. Wo aro argely dopendent on Louisiuna for onr sugar supply., According to tho census of 1870, the to- tol product of cano-sugsr wag B7,048 hogehends, and of ocano-molassos, 0,608,828 gallons, Of these, Louislana produced 80,706 Liogeheads, and 4,085,160 gallons. If tho prosent rate of de- creaso continues, the last ewoot thing in that most unsavory Btato will soon dissppear. Oharlos Bergk, who has for sixteon yonrs on- Joyed tho pusition of Treasurer of IIumboldt County, Iows, has gracofully olosed his long torm of office by absconding from the county about 314,000 short in his cash accounts, This trifle fa supposed to bo the fivat of n worles of pooulations which will be exhumed by diligont wearch oxtendiug over tho wholo aixtoen yoars of Lis oftleis) career, The Humbolds Kosmos (Bopublican) spologixes dor hlitt by femiudiog - e Ita roaders thint “*ho haw but done what is dono by tho majority of T'rensurora—usod publlo mon- oy for private purposes, loping to replue it, and has only boon losa fortunate than the major ity of them." . e iy Prof. Goldwin Smith, in his spoech bofore tho recont Trados-Unlon Congress at Bhofold, England, sald that ho was sorry to say that Americn hated England. Tho London daily preas grioved over tho fact ; the London weekly pros said it didn’t care, Then P, T. Barnum taok up the cudgels to provo that hin country-' mon bave * a prefound and slncoro friondship " for the- English, To which the Pall-Mall Qazclte rotorts that an oxhibition of Americans who profoundly and sincorely love Englung would bo the most profitshle show Mr. Barnum lins ovor mannged. Doth parties to thn disputo aro too extrems, but Goldwin Bmith soems uenreat to tho truth, Wo have fought two wars with England, and have come very near fighting two moro; tho special hato oxcittd by hor con- duct during tho luto war has not bad tme to eubside. We ore very sonsitive to English ridiculo, and that ridiculo is unsparing ; and our common lunguage {8 a tio that binds us only to rivolry In evorything, AMoroover, two nations nevor love cach othier. I'wo nntions are nover friunds, save whon the solf-lntorent of oach dic~ tutes the so-culled friendsbip. How can any cutity, which recognizes oxpedicnoy as its only rule of conduct, be a friend ? Two countrics oitbor dislike cach other or are wholly indifferont to cuch other. Tho lnst stato is tho millonnium for mationn, Notbing moro can bo hoped for, The lion and tho eagle will nover lic down Lo- gothor, uuless ono of thom is on top. el o i ‘Thoe recent docision of the Supreme Court of tho United States in the easo of tho owners of the propertyof the late John Stidel, of ' Louisi- ona, T8, bis helrn, which afirms the docieion of the Bupremo Court of thut State, lu ous of more tHan ordiuary intorest, not only beonuso it affects o lurgo nmount of praperly in tho City of New Orlonns, but also because it defi- nitely. suttles the queation of confisontion, Bir. Slidol], whon ho went to Franco ag the Commis- sioner of tho Confederate States, was possessod of & largo proporty, valued at 275,000, 'This property was soized by the United States and 8old shortly nfter the termination of tho war, Subsequently, and nfter the death of Blidell, tho heirs bronght suit for the recovery of tho properly, contonding that the Government bold only o lifo-intorost, and had no right to pass o bill of attninder disinheritiug tho heirs of o troitor. Tho counsel for the property-ownors, on the othor hiand, took the ground that Slidell wau not a Rebel or offendor against the Unitod States, but an onomy, and, as auch, the confisca- tion of his property forfeited it entirely aud for- over. 'The Bupremo Court of Louisiana declared in favor of tho heirs, aud the United States Bu- prome Court hns now ofirmed that decision, which thereforo ostablishos the point of the platutifs, that tho titlo of tho United States, in contlseation cases, is simply an interost during the lifatitao of the original ownor. —_— Williameon County, Iil., is enjoying tho novel privilege of contemplating the resurrection of a supposed corpus delicti, Annio Topo was living with a family nsmed Bides near Jonesboro, overy member of which was suppased to bo equal to tho commission of murder. Owo night, womon's voicos wero henrd in toud altercation, and two pistol-shota wore fired, followed Ly s piercing slriok, after which Aunic Tope was seon no moroe in the viciuity of Jonesbore. Some months puegod away, during which tho most uncom- plimentary rumors were circulated relative to the connection of the Sides family with her dissppearance, A search was made for tho murdored girl's remains, snd was 8o far succoseful that the body of & womnn was found. in Willizmson County with two bullet- holes in it. Some clothing and trinkets upon it were identified as the property of Aunio Tops, snd o strong case was apparently mado out against the Sidos family, who woro arrested and lodgod in jail. The astonishment of the crowded court-room, at & proliminary investigation, may be imagined when, all the evidonce for the State being in, counsel for tho defense placed upon the witness-stand the girl whose romsins had apparently been discovered some weoks provi- ouuly. Sinco Mies Topo omphutically repudiates tho manglod corpso, the couuty i8 diligoutly sourching for the rightful, name to which it be- Tonged. If any doubt over existed an to the validity of Now Jersuy's claim . to bo considored s apart from the asgocintion of States, it is now settled beyond all question Ly tho barbarous practices of tho uatives of that country. An indignant aboriginal writes to a New York paper to inform its renders that *‘even the finest portor-houso steals, whon done tp that degreo of porfection for which many of our (Jersoy City) restaura- tours are famous, caunot equai that of & rat when proporly cooked ;" and adds that * there aro at prosent restourants in this (Jersey) city which ' maoke the viand s specialty.” ‘Wo shall not bo surprised to loarn uext that tho aatutoness of tho roach or the flippancy of tho house-ily are powerless arguments sgainst their consignmont to the stew-pan of the Jersey cator- or. Jersoy rats must grow to a size proportion- ad to that'of Jeraey moaquitoes, ns the corre- spondont gracofully alludes to tho * porter-houso steak of o rat,” e, Tho Smith sisters and their cows appear not to be the only porsecuted members of the sox in Glastonbury. slasculine barbarity has achioved o mammoth growth in that town. The last instanco of woman's wrongs is furnished from tho school room. A young student of Wesloyan University tencbing there ssw one of his pupils writing o note, ‘and told her to let him seo {t. Bhe declined on tho groind that 1t was not to bo profaned by masculine oyoes, whereupon he forgot all about moral sunsion and the tender topics of tho University, and gavo lier o sovere beating. Tho girl, it is said, is severoly fujured. Tho amateur toachar was run out of town, and threatened with the penal- tios of mob law. If thisis tho way mon actin Glastonbury, it is not surprising that tho woman's-rights contost is carried on with un- usual vigor there. The ecatchword *‘tyrant man’’ appears to possess o significance there which is happily wanting in-tho West. e Last yenr's exhibition of the New York Acnd- omy of Fino Arts had, as ono of its most notice- able foatures, s collootion of water-colors from England. The Government ullowed theso paint- ings to bo imported for oxhibition free. Only thoso that were sold paid duty. This year tho Loudou Commuitteo of the Academy colleoted 60,000 worth of ploturos, It was just about to ship them to Now York, whon word cumo that tho fuvor of lost year would not be shown again; that the ploturos must pay duty whothor sold or pot. The Now York denlors ave snid to bo re- sponeiblo for this refussl, Thoy haye complain- od to the ‘Fronsury Depurtmont that tholr wales were diminished by tho Doparimont’s liberality lost yonr. ‘Ie presout decision ia undoubtedly logal, but it is o question whethor tho dealors would not lave galned moro thau enough in tha end by tho impotus ygiven by such an oxhibition to the popular tasto for syt to counterbalance an {mnmediste trifling loxs. e aee—a Tho St. Louls Republican says: *Tho Chica- go papory aro abusing the Illinois Logislatwro for neglecting tho intorests of Cook County. Flioy hiave an iden that that body Las no other business than to logislato for Cook County and then ndjourn, Lhisisas it used to be, but we aro glad to noto that the impression 18 gaining ground that Chicugo is neither all nor the wmost rospectablo part of the Btate of 1llinols.” The privolpal ides which Chicago hLas with roforence to'the Legislatura is thut it shall adjourn, bo- causo 1t lna no business of any sort to transnot. Meanwhile, it wo miny be allowed tho question, what busiuoss i8 it of tha Kepublican, or auy othor ft. Louls papor, whother the Iilinols Logislaturo adjourna or gits until doomsday, or nover meots sgain? If the 8t, Louis busy-bod- iea would mind thelr owu busluess, it 18 possiblo thoir own aiuirs, legislutive and otherwlse, tught be wore provperous, RAFFERTY. His Full Statement of tho Af- fair, The Preliminary Troubles Wiich Led To It.- He Says the Warrant Was in ¢ Blank. And He Knew the Officers Had No Right to Arrest Him, That O'Meara Knocked Him Down and Beat Him. And that Officer Scanlan Pounded Him with His Revolver. And that Therefore He Shot at O’Meara. Tho readors of Tur TRIBUNE are awaro that Rafforty, the murdorer of Policoman O'Meara, Las refused to smy anything rogarding tho tragody to roporters who wero sent to interview him, His roticenco conld not at first bo ao- counted for, ho always nssorting that ho had no projudicos against any one; but lntely the cause becamo known, Ile claimed that ho had boen misroprogonted by tho pross; that imaginative roporters added nine words to omo he uttored, and honco placed bim in an unfavorable light beforo the public. Two or threo days ago Lo told o friond that, if assured that what be did sny would bo printed as ho said 1t, ho would give Lis sido of the story, and tho truo yersion of tho murder, A TRIBUNE roport- or callod at the County Jail Inst night to loarn it this statomant was true, aud Rafferty said it was. Aftor oxacting o promise that Lit narrae tive should not be garbled, e made the stato- mont which is subjoined ; RAFFERTY'S BTATEMENT. % I was working tho brickyorda for M. O. Walkor whon tho strike ocourred, aud, as I was one of the strilers, I lost my place, ' That was a few duys bofore tho 18t of "Augusé, 1872, About a weok botoro that, though, aftor working nll day, about 7 or 8 o'clock in tho ovening, after sup. per, I weut up to Mrs, O'Brion's [tho saloon ‘where the murder took place], on South Halsted streot, ond took a sent on o beor-keg out. gide, Thero wero four or flve of us sitting there on the sidewalk—frionds of mino— follows who worked with me. My brother Darnoy was ineido the knloon, snd io cnne out prosontly and walled up tho strect towards the Trausit House. THE RIOT. As Lo was going along two Germane—ono of thom keops a saloon threo or four doors from Mrs. O'Brion's—wote coming towards mo, sud when my brother got opposite them, the Gorman who keops the saloon turned on him snd knool- ed him off'tho sidewalk. I was facing towards the north at the time—looking away from them. Tho other follows wore looking south, and they saw tho German siriko Barney, and one of them turned around and hit mo with his elbow, and says: “That follow knocked your brothor off tho gidewall.” I turncd around and gaw Barney gotting up ont of the gutter. Tho Gorman by this time was about opposite where we were. Ha had coma right along without stopping, after hitttng Barney. The fellows sprang up and knocked tho German down, Barney got up on the sidewalk, and ho and the othors went at the German uulaon-keoper. The Gorman that wag along with him—his friend—made a motion o8 if Lie was going to draw a pistol, and I jumped up and said to bim, “Don't you interfore with: thoso boys,” and ho walked becis two or throe paces und_didu't do suything., I then turned around and stoppod tho boys, who wor boating and kicking the German, who was lying on the sidowalk. I saved him from being hurt badly., Ho waa on the sidewnlk with his hands over his hiead to protect it. A crowd had collects d by this time, and I picked the German up and helped him into his saloon, I then walked baclt to O'Brien’s, and_stood on the stoop. Then the othier German pointed mo out toan oflicor ns oua of tho orowd that had boon whipping his friend. % TILE RIOT WARRANT, Threo or four days aftorwards, a fellow namoed Tooney und mysci{—on Saturday mght it wos (tho muss took place on Wednesday night)—a warrant had beon sworn out, and wo Woro are rested for riot. Wostaid in jail over Sunday, and wero lot out on bail Monday. Barnoy went to the station Monday and ann himself up, and hio was lot out ou 8300 bail. The trial was to como off somo day during ‘the week; Idon't kuow what day it was; I think Tuesday or Wedunosday ; and tho other fellow camo down and gave himsolf np too, That was Thomag Crotty. UELD TO DAIL. The trinl came off, avd wo woro held in $300 ‘ail ta suswer at the. Criminal Court. We woro ahoved back into the eells, and wa gont for bail, Goorgo Eager como in and asked mo if I wantod to get out, I told him thore was four of us in, and wo all wanted to got out. ©Woll,” says ho, “T will tako you out for $40.” I asked tho rest if thoy wero satisfled, aud some of them woro aud somo wero mnot. I sid I didn't want to stay there on Sunday for 810, and I says to Eagor, “If you will tako mo out, 1 hnyen't got the money now, but I will gotit for yon." I think it was poy-doy that duy, and T told him that I could go up ‘and como down with tlhe monoy that night or_in the morning. He gaid it didn't make any difforenco if ho gotitin two or throo deys. So o bailed mo and my brother Barnoy out, and we lad just sigued tho bail-bonds when tho purties wo sout aftor bail camo in and sid _our frionds couldn't como down. Dan Donovan came along with them, and weall wont out togother from tho Armory, and walked to the cars, taking udrink onthoway. o wontin thocars up to Halsted stroot, ol got out there, sud wont into & saloon sud had four or five drinks. THE TROUBLE WITIT DONOVAN, We soparated thore, and Donovan and me wont south on Halsted strect as far as Douglag avonuo, stopping and taking o drink in every saloon goiug alang. This was on o Saturdsy night,—the trinl must have talken place on Saturday. Whilo we wore going up, Dun commenced talking about not coming down to tostify for me. Ihad subpenaed him, Isays: * You might as woll have come down {his morning whon I asked you, sud not_put me to the bothior of subpamaing you.” In tho first place I weut to bim ind asked himto come down, a8 ho know I didn't do anything to the German, Ho sgid ho wouldn't go, and I told bim that ho ought to,—that he kuew hLow everything was, and shouid not put me o tho (roublo of having him brought down. He said bo didn't care, and lie wouldw't go anyway. Whon we wore going along that night, ho wanted to apologize to mo, and I told him that I did_not want any apology. Ho apponled to mo, and I stopped um, aud he started to tulklnf about it again. That was about 8 o'clock, I guess, We hud both beon drinking. The last drink we had was in Con Tracoy's. Wo loft there. While _we were gohuz townrd bis boarding-house, Dan wanted to talle about it again, and got pretty sauoy sbout it, and I toid him that I didu't think that he was anything of .o man; that if he wae 8 difforent man bo would have come down, and ho gave me gomo lip, and I turned around aud hit him. Thero was o couplo of follows along with us, and whon I hit Lim thoy caught hold of mo; but when bo atlempted to hit me they lot mo_go, and I gave him a good lcking, but didn't hurt bim muoh, I loft bim with _tho fellows, and went up to my futhor's, but dldn't stay thore moro than a couplo of minutes. 1 thon walked down the stroet, and, after takiug anothor driuk, WENT OVEIL TO TIE WEST 6IDE {o tho house of a German friend of mine, snd slald thoro all night. I got up about G o'clock in the morning—8unday morning—and ho nnd I wont out aud took two or threo drinke; thon I aid I guessed I would go home, I didn’t know whore thoy wore gowg to sirest mo. 1t was so late whon I lind the muss that I didu't think thoy conld get u warrant out that night, T know il the Jusaticos’ oftices wore shut up, and I didu’c think s warrant could ba issned, I kuew ono could not be got on Bunday, Well, I wont into Ttyan's, with whoin I wos protty well acquainted, That is on tho Wost Bide, noar the German's, and I told Ryan thet Thod hind & muss, and bo dlan't bollove tho fellow could get any warrans on Baturday night; '* but to make sureof it," he ys, * I will thorg " [to tho S B s Hinton) i vees g o Blar s o