Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1874, Page 4

a % TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TINNA OF BUNBONITTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANOF), tho samo rate. ‘Toprevent dolay and mistakes, bo sure and give Post Off.co addressin fall, inclnding Btato and County. Remittancos may b tmado elther by draft, oxpress, Post Otice ordor, or4n registored lottors, at our risk. TERMS O OITY BUBSORIDENS. By, daliverdd,” Bunday exceptat, 3 conte per wesk. Daily, doliversd, Sunday fncluded, 20 conts por wosk. + Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Chtoago, . “TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MYVIOKKIUS THEATRE-Madisan sireot, botwoon Desrlorm and State. - Kngagoment of the” Sodisrt fumbisatton Company.. 2:3ho dong Btika™ and i A Davgorous oy, HI00LRY’S THRATRE—Randoloh _streat, between Qpark and Il Kagagomont of Lucllo’ Westorn, " liast Lynno," . Al MusI tod street, botwaon Mad. 1o a5 Moms A farbaas adas 4% feo Sonals of the ** Nowshoye' " Jevoning: Domintok Murray in ** Esoaped from Sing. ity -0 GLOBR THEATRE-Deaplainesstreet, betwoen Mad. trou mud ton, Engagemont of Bidwoll & Holon. R WL T P R : 3 -HOUSE-Monros stroot, batweon DInorh s Biates AaAton, Covtaos sl Roebies Miustrela Surloatio of ** Mazopon. Miaatroley sud <om : ADELPHI THEATRE-Corner of Wabash avenne and Congroess atroot, DURY MUSIQ IALL~Olatk stroat, between n{%r;g% L A At et T S foot of A h EXPOSITION BUILDING-Lske 8! nm"l’mfllnl Adams stroct. Dubufo's Painting of tho Hon," Afterncon and evoning, ‘DR. K. '8 'OMIOAL MUSEUM-No. 148 Souih OlaAk siroots Eelogon AR ALt BUSINESS NOTICES. NEGLEOTED COUGHS AND COLDS.~FEW ARE awaroof the liportanco of_oliocklng 3 ‘eatghor ivcom- mon cold ™ in ita ticat staga: that which in the boglaning would yleld to ** Brown's lironohial Troobes,” it nogloot= ©d, ofton works upon tho lungs, Uhe Chicagy Tribune. Thuradsy Morning, Fobruary 12, 1874. Gev. Boveridgze hiag signed the Jury bill, the principal provisions of which are given else- where, and it goes into immediate offeot. Becretary Richardson reports to the Senato, in responge to their inquiry, that it will take four yoars to have silver enough coined by the mints to replace tho fractional ourrenoy. Gov. Kollogg’s schemo for refunding tho Louisiana debt by repudisting one-third of it, Lias encountered = logal obstacle in the applica- tion of o firm of London bankers for an injunc- tion against it from the United Statos District Court of Now Orloans, S -One more ¢hango having boen mude in tho Personnel of the District of Columbis Investi-- goting Committeo, by tho snbstitution of Ropro- aentativo Bass for tho ovorworked Roberts, of, Nerw Yorl, tho Committee hold its first moocting yesterdny, Nothing was done boyond the ap- vointment of a sub-committeo to prepare a plan for tho direction of the investigation. — Ono of the suggestions of the Chesp Trans- portation Convention that met in Naw York the other day is worth the attention of the busincss men of that city. A systom of capncious warc- housed at the terminal points of the railronds landing thoro was recommended ns tho only means of proventing s diversion of the gram trade to other cities. The absence of theso facilition, which are to be found in any Westorn commerclel contre of suy pretensions, ia as inex- plicable a8 tho failure of the city to conetructa decent aystem of dooks, andia just as dunger~ ous to its commercial intereats. A bill has passed tho Btato Sonato and beon sporoved by the Homse Railroad Committeo which, if it bocomes o law, will put an end to tho practice railronds have, of pufting pusson- gera and froight-shippers at a disadvantago by stipulations and limitations printed on tickels and billa of lading. In this iay, they claim to xestrict thoir linbility for baggage, to provent tickets from being used attor date, and refuse to allow a ticket for passsge bebween two places to boused either way, Thobill in queation de- clures that railronds cannot escape thoir common law lability by any such device. —— Inono respect, the platform adopted yester- day by the Counecticut Ropublicaus is liko tuat put forth by the Democrats last weck. Nelthor entiona the word Ropublican or Democrat, and both are conspicuous for the absonce of the tiresome aud unprofitablo orimination and recrimination in which the ordinary platform sbouuds. Thoe Republicans put thomselves smong the opponents of inflation and of land-grants to monopolics, and recommend the ostablishment of & Labor Burecau to gathor atatistics 8o that logislation may be intolligent. Honry B. Harrison {s unmod for Governor, snd Jobn T. Waite for Lieutonant Governor, ‘The Railrond Police Bill was passed yesterdsy by the State Sonate by & vote of 80 to 1, after Lhaving been amended by the elision of the soc- tion punishing railrosd employes for drunken- uexs, Asit stands, this bul is the most un- reasonnble product of the regulating mania that bas yet Loon proposed in the Legislaturo, It limite the timo for the stoppage of train st stations, offers passengers and whippers s ro- ward, in tho ehape, of exemplary damages, for dolaying tralns and shipmonts, makes the con~ slgnes of Teran cattle rosponaible if any of them reach bim in s diseased condition, sud has other provisions of the samo sort, Sm— In attompting to put a stop to unjust disorim- inations by tho railvoads, the State Logislature seoms to havo committed tho same offcnss. A 1memorial was prasented to the House yestorday signed by 160,000,000 worth of Chicogo busi-- ness mon, ssking that the Nallroad law be eo - -smended ds nof to diseriminato in favor of St Louls and othor places, aud sgaingt this clty. Tho signors, who doal in dry “goods, drugs, gro- corios, and othor leading staples, say that they and their customers have been injured by the 1aw. It has mude shipments to the intorior of the Blate more coatly, and has - not chenpencd the transportation of the farmers' produots to tho seaports. Nobody is benofited by it but the porsons for whom it has orouted oftice. ‘The Chicago produco mankots wero less sotive yosterday, with not much change in prices, ex- copt in wheat, Mous porle was in fair demand, snd o shade firmer, closing at $14,16@14,20 cash, aud 914.22)4@14.26 wellor Maroh, Lara wau aotive, and 100 por 100 Ibs lighor, closing 8t §8.873¢ cash, aud 78.95@8.074 seller March, Ments were quiot and steady at 53¢o for shoul- dors, T3go for shovt - ribs, 75o for short clear, and 93¢@108{0 for swest pickled hams, Dressod hogs were in fulr demaind and firmer, oloalng at $0,609.00 pox 100 thas Highwines were quist and firm at 860 per gallon, Flour was dull and unchangod. Wheat wan dull and 1o lower, clos ing nt 81,105{ oash, and €1.205{@1.20)¢ soller March. Corn was loss notive, nud 3fo lower, cloging at 663¢aonsh, and 570 soller March, Oats woro quiet and stoady, olosing at 43%a cash, and 42740 soller Maroh. Ryo was quiot snd firm at 833¢@880 for frosh recolpts. Darloy wos dull aud onaler at $1.64@1.56 for No. 8, oloning wosk. Live hogs wore dull and woak, with . galos at $4.76@06.70 for poor to cholco, The eattlo markot was active nud tondy. Sheop woro quiet, and a shade lower. ovote fificen minutes that would otherwiee bo uttorly wasted—uny some fifteon minutes during which Logan would biavo spoken on the advantagos of Lrown paper 28 5 standurd of woights and moasures—to pasa: ing tho Amnesty bill the House sent to 1t some ‘weoks ago, it would do a very uscful thing. Why mako a lot of insignificant mén' conapiouous by allowing them to play viclim > Semmos would hiave beon forgotton long ago if Congross had not anuually rofused to take off hia'badgo of martyrdom. Now Souator Gordon has intro- ducod & now bill for that purpose. Its passago will roquiro as muchiime as that of the genoral sob. The Sonnte should drop it and pass the latter. . Bouator Morton stated in tho dobate on tho rediutribution of tho currency that ho was in {favor of oqualizing tho ourrency by incroasing 1t by 80,000,000, o would not withdraw the $25,000,000 a8 proposed from Now England, but would distribute an oxtrs supply, aa above, in tho Wost and South. Pradent peoplo will agres with Senator Morrill, who said that ho looked with infinite droad on auy such scheme. Sonator Morton said that even if inflation did cause apec- ulntionhefavoredit bocauso hobelloved In spocu- lation. Speculation had given us 30,000 milos of railrond. Yes ; but ay another mombor showed, fifty-eight of these railroads are unable to pay dividonds. Again, Benator Morton argued that outrency is like food; Ho holds that an abun- danco of curronoy stimnlates like anfabundance of food, forgetting that there may bo bad cur- rency as well as bad food, and that to stimulate business with paper currency is to act like the man who put green speotaclos on his horso and fed him with shavings, and wondored that the cronture died just as ho was getting used to the diet. — A declarabion of purposes and principles was unsnimously adopted by the National Grange yesterday. They mean to co-operate for their muinal advancement in every way,—morally, socinlly, and Industrially, ‘' As thoy energotically put it, they propose to meot together, talk togother, work togother, buy together, eoll togother, sct togetbor,—in short, do sbont ovorything togethor, oxcept vots to- gotbor. Very sensibly, every Patron is loft free to wact with any party that ho thinks will beat carry out hie political ideas, Thoy take pains to disown anything like hos tility to middlomen or to railronds, but thoy will not have a surplus of the former nor submit to any monopoly by the Intter. Thore is & ploa for education of a practical sort in agricultural col- leges. The women of the country and their {rionds bave not failed to notice that women have taken part in the doliberations and the commit- teo work of tho Grango, and the declaration closes with o pledge that has moro promise in it for tho rights of woman than any other thing that hes been sald or domo In her bobalf in America, This will not be considored extrava~ gant whon it is rcmembered that the 'Grange, which thus admits woman into mombership and position, and binds itself to inculeats a propor appreciation of hor sphore and abilities, has a Inrger constituency than sny other non-political orgauization in the count: PUBLIC BLAOKMATLING., The rofusal of tho Secretary of the Trensury to furnish all the documonts in the Butler-Kelsey cas leaves it more or loss involved in obscurity. ‘Enough hes boen developed, however, to show that a systom of blackmailing the mercantile community has been carried on, and coples of contracts have beon submitted which give the form of the authority under which it has beon pursued. 'Tho dotails of operation, however,— tho manner in which tho officials have scoured their moletios, the names of merchants who have been victimized by Kelsoy, Sanborn, snd the roat, and tho amounts received by them and by the Treasury,—are still in mystery, owing to the disiugenuous excuse of the Socretary that the publication would enable the parties delinquent to tako ataps to evado the operation of the laws. The contracts which have been made are four in numbor, and wero executed nuder the author- ity of » bill approved Moy 8, 1872, ond intro- duced by that gontleman of many grievances, Bon Butler, whoso friends have held the con- trocts, and who hins personally appeared bofore tho Ways and Means Committeo to urge them not to toke any action in the way of abolishing the blackmail systom—the system which was ap- plied some time ago to Phalps, Dodge & Co., aud more recontly to Jordan, Marsh & Co. The firat contract was mado by Seorotary Boutwel) with Willilam H, Kelsoy, of Now. York, who claimed that ho know of $100,000 due to the Unitod' Btatea for internal revenue taxes, for his sorvices in collecting which he was to reccive one-hnlf of the gross sum colleoted. The second contract was made in August, 1872, botween Mr. Richardson, then Acting-Secratary of the Treasury, and John D. 8anborn, who knew of $500,000 duo upon liquors, which he was authorized to colleot upon the yame torms, The third contract was made by r. Boutwall with J. Nicholson Elbert, of Phila- delphin, upon the same conditions, to colleot $100,000 due for internal revenuo taxes from cortain corporations. The fourth was mado be- twaon Mr. Richardson aud John Clark, of Phila- dolphia, who discovored that $20,000 was due the Governmont from certaln deceased peraons' estates, which ko wishod to collect for $10,000 compensation, Having obtained this much information from the reluctant Becrotary, there are msoveral reasons why the House shonld make its roquost for complete information in an emphatio and unmistakable manner, The oxcuse that the publicity of these doouments would projudice tho collection of the doliuquent taxes, and cuable tho partles to evade the oporation of tho law, {6 altogether too thin, Tho last contract waa mado fu Beptomber, 1873, six months ago, aud, it the suits have not yet been brought or the money collected, thon it ig very clear that a romarkably elaborate system of blackmailing is going on, or that the party holding the contract I8 not compatent to collect the tax, This {4 ono reason for thorough investigation, ‘I'he second is, that Butlor Introduced tha bill, ‘thst his triends hold tlie contracts, that he has made » personal effort * ¢o hush the mutter up, and that e b8 jusd now pArad. 1THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1874, jog an unusual npumbor of griovances beforo the publle, which is » very conclusive slgn that somothing ia rotton, Tho third reason i, that the dovelopmonts in the case of Pholps, Dodge & Co., and moropartioularly in that of Jor~ dan, Marsh & Co., in which & hired doteotivo was kopt in the employ of the firm for two yoars in ohargoe of tho vory books from whioh he s stiv- ing to prove a system of false involcing, show that » disgracoful detective-systom of black- mailing was carriod on in thoso two caes, which malke it probable that tho samo system hoea beon carried on in othors," Tho lnat ‘and strongost roason of all s, that this whole Lusiness of em« ploying splos, dotectives, aud informors, to watoh business men * on shares,” is flagitious snd infamdus, and should bs torn up, root and brauch. ‘It gives uuprinclpled mon an opportu- nity to proy upon tho commercial com- muoity and blackmall morohants into com- promiges. It turns the Treasury Dopart- mont into a partoership with somo of the worst characters in tho country, and places tham in positions whore they can tamper with books and acoonnts, and manufacture oharges against morchants, or so involve them in suspioion that they can only escape by compromieo, It gives discharged employes an opportunity to wronk ro- vengo, au inl the ‘oase of tho grain-warohousing firm of Woodruff & Robinson, New York, sgainst whom basoloss charges of defrauding tho rovenue wore made. The oxistouce of this syatom ia ar insult to tho whole business com- munity and sdisgrace -to a Governmont which pratends to bo froo and republican. - The House should dematd, therotoro, in the most peremp- tory manner, every dooument connocted with theso contracts, and not only thoroughly inves- tigate this spocisl case, but also abolish the whole system of employing spies and informers to goprowhing around stores and counting-rooms under promise of rotaining half of what they can oxtort. 8. i The iron and stcel men of Ponnsylvaniahad & goneral meeting in Philadelphia recontly to whino ovor their distressed condition, They published various statemonts rolating to the iron business, including an claborate ono on tho cost of produciog plg-iron. This was arranged by years, from 1850 to 1878, inclusive. The tablo gives tho cost of tho iron on the furnace bank per ton of 2,240 pounds, ss followa : Price per Years, Price per|Years, SEBEREREE &apzREs esersss 10.01{1878. The statement includes the cost of the soveral itoma of which thege sums are mede up, snd the progroseive incresso of eaclr. Wo give these at several periods, bofore and after the War : 1860, 1804, $745 39012 349 341 191 193 1.87 285 2,63 1,06 1871, 1873, $12,07 813,30 8,69 .15 2,08 197 Hed 890 Interest, cto. . an 276 This table shows that the advance in the cost of producing a ton of pig-iron since 1850, when 1t waa 814,25, t0 1871, when it waa $20.65, has "been In cost of oro, $06.92; of coal, $4.80; of limeatone, $1.05; contingencles, intorest, oto., $1.12; and of labor, 1,82, In 1850 the labor raceived 16 per cent of the cost of the product ; in 1871, it rocoived 12 per cent, The enormous incroase in tho cost of ore and of- coal indicate that Ponnsylvania is fast losing her supremacy 28 o producer of iron. If hor ores mre getting 80 lean and her coal so costly, thon the manu- facturer of iron should be loft froe to go to other districts where those disadvantages do not oxist, But Pennsylvania insists that Congross shall lay & tax upon the consumers of iron that will enablo her to manufacture tho article at & ‘profit, notwithstanding hor ores aro failing, and Ther coal becoming 80 costly as to render it un- profitable in .tho manufacture of irom. Tho reador will not fail to notice the immenso in- oronge in the cost of limestone in Pennsylvanial Ought not Congress to pratect that articie ‘The bearing of the tariff on the cosh of pro- ducing wron, and its offect upon wages, is wall shown by theso tables. From 1846 to 1858, the duty on imported pig-ivon was 80 per cent; in 1858, it was reduced to 24 per cont, end so con- tinued until 1861, whon it was raised to $6 por ton, and in 1864 it was incroased to §9 per ton. Tho average wages paid por ton of pig-iron from 1850 to 1861 was §2.15; from 1802 to 1804, ioclusive, undor tho duty of 86 per ton, the wages averaged $2.16 per ton; from 1865 to 1871, inclusive, under the duty of $9 per ton, tho wages averaged $8.68 parton. From snother table given, showing the cost of producing bar- iron, wo learn the prices paidby the manufacs turers for the pig-iron, Thus in 1853 the cost of producing pig was $14.38 par ton, and the cost of tho pig to the manufacturer. was §25.25. In 1804, the cost of producing plg was $20.97, and tho cost of the pig to the manutnoturer was $41.40; this was advanced to 368,60 in 1865 ; and since 1805 to 1872 has averaged 846, From 1864 to 1872, inclusivo, the average coat of producing pig-iron was $28.12 per'ton, leaving a profit of 818 per ton, or an inoreage per ton over the period before the high duties of about 30 per ton, Of this increase, Capital took $8 and Labor $1. In 1872, the tariff was rugucud to $7 per ton, end in that year and in 1873 the production of iron was unprocedentodly large. Novertheloss, the iron-producers now claim that they are flat on their backs, Thoy say that large numbor of furnaces are out of blast, and that more aro golug out unloss something is done for them, A more pitoous howl hae not been heard for & long time, If the’ result of twelve years of stift Protootion is a general col- lapso of tho iron {ndustry, would it not be well for Congross to repeal the duties altogothier, sond theso boggars to the poor-honse, and let poople buy fron whero they can got it cheapest ? —— The Golden Age containa an article, by a gon- tleman who claims to have had unusual oppor- funities for obuservation, which reflects very sevoroly upon the Naval Acadomy et Annapolis, ‘The yently cost of this Academy is $550,000, and tho number of graduatos in 1872 was 32, from which it appears that thoy cost tho people §25,~ 000 each, 'Cho writer of the artiole in question thinka that this would not Do an extravagant vrico for n good boy, but, in point of fact, the Acadomy {8 morally rotten, and from 90 to 06 por cont of the gradustes aro moral wrecks, The charges which this writor brings against them are smoking, ohewing, drunken- noss, gambling, oursing, all kinds of dobauch- ery, obucone and disgusting talk at tablo, and suprome contewpt for citizens, In sddition to tils, b allsges that whataver of iewbopdle nation ocours on ships-of-war grows out of tho fact that old seamen of exporlonco don't like to be ordered nbout by boys, who makoup in foroclty of languago what they laok in forco of clinraotor, —— WARREN COUNTY BONDS, In tho United Btatos Clrouit Court yostordny, Judgo Drummond overruled thoe domurrer to the roplications in the Warron County (IIL) bond cases, Theso Bults are of publio intorest, not only on account of the amount involved, butas presonting a now phaso of tho liability of towns and conntios on bouds {ssucd by thom in aid of the building of railroads, 'The arguments wero very ofaborate, ex-Chiof-Justico Lawronce and Mr, Hardlng appooring for tho county and Judge I. G. Wildon and E, B, MoCagg, Euq., for the bondholders. Tho casos involved the logality of $200,000 bouds of tho County of Warren, is- sued in ald of tho Rookford, Rock Island & Bt. Louls Railrond Company. Before their issuo cortain inxpayors filod a bill in ohancory In the Cixouit Court of Warren County to enjoln the Board of Buperviors from issuing tho bonds, alloging that no sufllciont notico of tha clestion at which the bonds wore vated bad been given, and that tho county officlals had acted collusively witli the Ralirond Compnny in issulug the bonds, Upon & hearing, the injunction was dissolved by tho Circuit Court on the 23 day of Junuary, 1871, - 'T'wo dnys aflorwards the bonds were is- sued and rogisterod in the State Auditor's office, and wore subsoquently put npon the market and sold. After the dlssolution of the injunction and igsuo of tho bonds, the complainants ap- pealed the gaso to the Bupromo Court, whoro the docros of tho Circuit Court was reversed, and the bonds wore doolsred to bo unauthorized and vold. Theroupon the complainsuts filed s sec- ond bill, making ag new parties defondant * tho unknown ownera" of tho bonds, and ssking that tho bonds bo declared void, which second bill is atill ponding, ! Tho Portsmouth Savings Bank of Now Hamp- shiro, and Augustus T. Post, of New York, hav- ing purchased tho bonds in opon market, with- out actual notico of the pendenoy of the chancery procecdings in tho'State Court, commonced tho prosent suits in the Unitod States Court for the recovery of unpaid intorest: coupons in July lsst, The county fillod plens set- ting up the adjudiention of tho Supreme Court doclaring tho bonds void, and insisted thot the pendonoy of tho chancery proceedings 'was notice to tho purcheeers of the bonds, To theso plens tho plaintiffs replied that thoy woro bYona fide purchasers of tho bonds for valuo, and that thoy had no actual notice of the pondoncy of the nhnucury guits, uor sny notice that the bonds wore invalid. The county domurred to tho roplications, claiming that the pondency of tho suits was notice. Xt is this demurror which Judgo Drummond this morning overruled, hold- ing that the doctrine of Iz pendens docs not apply to commercial paper, and also in effect roaflirming tho principlo that whonover there is o atatute anthorizing » municipal corporation to igsuo its bonds, and it does issuo them, they caunot bo impenched in the handa of a bona fide purchasor, THE STEERAGE. ‘We have recelved advauco sheols of & roport on the immigration service by United Statea Su- vorvising Burgoon John M. Woodworth, Tho roport is based upon a personal examination of twenty-ono stoamships and nine sailing-vessels, and an inspoction of 8,488 steerage passengora carried thoreon. The days when life in a stoer- sge was life undor areign of terroraro snid to ‘be wholly of the past. *The newer stenm-vos- scls are bolieved to be quite as well, it not bot- tor, ventilated than the average hotel, hospital, or other public building.” A combination of the two systems . of.- ventilation—tho “ propulsion™ and the “ suction "—would make mattors ovon bottor in this respect. Tho passongers them- selves choke up the ends of tho air-tubes, closo the ports, sud willfally disarrange tho machinory n order to sparo thomsolves ‘currents of fresh air. The proposed plan of combination would prevont tho poasibility of such interference. The stearage would then bo thoroughly cleansed of foul air, whethor or no its occupnnts wishod it. Of tho general troatmont of passengo:s, Dr. Woodworth suys: Of tho food and supplies generally, tho modical cars of tho ek, and othor matters golng to make up *tho general treatment of immigrants on board ship,” it a “uzecedingly doubtul if 1 por cent of said immigrants woro aver a0 well treatod—fed, lodged, and carod for— in thelr Hives boforo &5 duriug thoir steorago-voyago on any averugo steamsbip ; whilo on_somo of tho most rocont oneu tho stcerage accommodations ond treat- meat will compare not unfavorably sith tho cabin ao- commodations and comforts of a dozen youra ago, The maln thing noeded is to protect passengers from tho crow. Tho supply of good sosmen iy rapidly decrossing. oo often & vessel is in the Lands of & mob, which, whon off duty, the Cap- tain caunot control. Capt. Williams, of. the Atlantic, tostified that tou good seamen out of forty would be an unusually good crow. A com- mitteo of inquiry into the conduct of British morchant-geamen, appointed at Liverpool in 1870, deolared that men ‘‘often obtain A B rating though they aro incompetent to perform the most ordinary dutice of a sailor. Many mastexs assort that, out of crows of twenty-five, not moro than threo or four know the compass, can steer, hoavo the load, or such liko dutles.” The London Lancet doclares £hat 10 per cont of the men who ship are physically unfit for duty. Tho recontly-appointed ** Royal Commission on Unseaworthy 8hips " says, in its proliminary re- port of Sopt. 23, 1878 ‘Whilo it 15 admitted thiat ship-mastors have of late years improved, tho gencral opinion of ship-ownera is that Dritlsh sailors bavo doteriorsted, They are, it s uald, not ouly druuken and insubordinote, but they aro untrained ond do not kuow thoir business, At Lomo thoy are iu tho honds of crimps, and abroad they desert whonover o prospoct of guin ia prevonted to thom, : It in believed that tho outrages on shipboard oconslonally reported are duo almost entirely to tho charaoter of tho average crew. Til better men cau bo got, ssilors must be rigorously ex- cluded from tho steorage, Tne death-rate shonvs a gratifying decrease, It Lins beon ent down over 50 per oent within five yonrs, Amoug overy thousand passengers on sailiog-vossels and stoamships thoro woro, in 1807, 11,07 and 1.03 deaths reepectively, and, in 1872, only 642 and .45, Caro must bo taken not to confound these statistics of the death-rato per voyage with the annunl rate. A recent ofil- clal roport spenks of & moxtality of 201 in 228,722 _passongors a8 *‘most favarable,” But this rep- ‘resents an annual doath-raze of 85 in tho thou- eund, which is about thrice the rate intho United Btates, It should he loss, bocause the immi- grants are largely * solected lives,” And, in fuct, during the last six mcmths of 1873, the per sunum mortality of atonim-pnssongors was s trifle below our'anumal desith-rato, On sailing- vesuels, this mortality was, Lowever, 44,8 to tho thousand, i ‘Tho Unltod Btates have bitherto done almost nothing to prevent wuffor'lug among tho raw ma- lioro, Englaud and Germany Liave dono muoh. We ‘trled tho clumsy oxpedient of a National Tmmigration Buroau, but it was soon abolishod. Dr. Woodworth advieos agaiuat ita ro-cstablish- mont, Mo eubmits a draft of a bill. It enforces many of the English provisions, but adds somo of its own. Emligrants aund immigrants aro both stylod migrants, It is odd to find & law intro- duoing anew word, but the ides fs & good ono. Waneed a gonoral oxprassion for the twoalasses. Boo. b roquires that migrants ahinll bo furnished daily with wator and cooked food ‘*equnl in quality and quautity to the ration of the United Btates Navy.” Hee. 6 roquires the physlcian to progont tho modionl reports now demauded from tho Coptain, Soo. 10 diroots tho carrylug of portablo fire-oxtinguishors by all vessels. Dr. Woodworth's viewa of tho comforts of immigration scom rathor vose-colored. The Beriptural war-horse never snuffod a battlo} from hnlf the distanco at which an ordinary stecrage can bo smolt, Novertheless, ho makes out n good case. . His report is s ranty among official papers in bolng systematio and scholarly. A 'GENERAL REVIVAL, Thero is groat religious excitemont through- out a lnrge part of tho olvilized world, In Gor- many, Bpain, aud Italy, tho Roman Catholic Church is fighting tho Btate, In each country it cloima to bo fast incroasing its momborship, and wo 8oo no roason to doubs this, for tho im- prisoument of prieats, as well aa tho blood of martyzs, i tho socd of tho faith, Unless porscou- tion dovelops into extormination, it s apt to strengthen any organization which offors oternal bliss as the reward of temporary paln, In Austris, and likewlso in 'Italy and Bpain, Protestantism, froed at last from Ultramon- tono shackles, 18 pushing forward its work to right and lett. In France, tho ourions phenomenon of tho pilgrimnges prosents itwolf. Tons of thousands of paopla have gone in solemu procossion, with prayors and psalms, to the grotto whore OQur Lady of Lourdes ocoasionally apponrs to the faithful, and to tho other enored places, whoto the miracles of 1878 wero wrought. On holidays, the apacial traing for pilgrims blook up ‘tho railways, Tho passongors awam from evory quartér of France. Tha taunts, and some- times tho blows, of tho free-thinking Reds give o not unploasant flavor of martyrdom to the jour- noy, The sacred springa over whick the Virgin hias hovered befora the oyes of ocstatio worship- ers soom &g unfailingas’ the widow's oruse. Bot- tled water from Lourdes has beon sent bver the whole world. It was but & fow days ago that a touch of it cured s siok nun in Indi- ana, Then, too, France must be ardently Cath- olo now, for does not ardent Oatholicism mean hatrod of Prussia? Crossing the Chanmel, wo find that the senior Duke of England, the Duke of Norfolk, headed a rocont pilgrimage to'one of tho Fronch shrines. A number of noblemen and commoners by the hundred followed him. I'wo oxtra stonmers bad to be ohartered to carry tho party across tho Channel, and the railronds ran balf-a-dozen special trains, Nothing but an almost passionate feoling of religion could have carried out that pilgrimage in the face of the ridicule of the pross, Yot that ridicule was actually courted by the issue of conspicuous advortisoments of ** Pilgrimago! Pilgrimago ! Our Lady of Lourdoesa! | Round irip, £2 6s first- closs, 80a Bocond-clase.” In the midland couns ties, tho Established Church has beon gaining largely. Ono of its ministera has boen dubbed the maodern Wesley, on account of the fervor of his rovival sermons, And everywhere the diffor~ ent sccts havo beon working for the control of tho schools with desperate vigor, Deunomina- tional dissatisfaction with the Education act was onoof the causcs of Mr. Gladstone's overthrow. Crossing the ocoan, wo sco, in the multitude of small rovivals now in progross throughout this country and in the prayer-meotinga that aro sup- preseing tho Olio liquor traflio, signs of o deop rolifious feoling., This universal revival is & phenomenon. Throughout Christendom, we find the church-militant in full conflict with its foes. It has led moro united bands, haa met ' less dotermined onemies, at other times in its cause, but wo: doubt whethor it has evor waged sar slong the whols line and with its whole force, rogular, volunteer, and guerrills, with greater ardor, Sme—— The grocers of London are beginning to re- joice, for their most dangerous foe has evinced symptoms of weakness. Tho epirit of cupidity has begun to mauifest itaelt in the Civil-Horvice Bupply Associstion, » co-operative body whioch was formed to bring down prices, and appesr- unces justify tho beliof that ii €3 golng to pieces. 1t has been prosperons for years, and extonded its business rapidly, and it is that very prosperi- ty which threatens it with disintegration. Ite origiu is well known, for the experiment has had on interest for all communitics. A fow clorks In the Civil Service on small salarios found themselves. unavle to make both ends mest, Thoy thereforo combined to purchaso goods at wholosale prices and divide them among the mombers, So successful was the schema from its vory commoncemont that it grow rapidly, and for sevoral years past tho Association has been solling gooda to the value of half a million ster- ling aunually,while forthe ycar that has just ended tho businoss has boen £700,000. Tho goods ar eold at wholosale prices, with a small oddition to poy workiug oxpenees, aud every year there Lins been & profit over these expensos of about 8 per cent. This has bithorto been applied to tho further reduction of prices, but an offort has rocently been made to divert it from this pur- pose to tho pockets of tho shorabiolders, This would Lo all very well if all the mombots of tho Asnoclation owned shares ; but they do not, aud horo iy whore the opposition is, for a very large number of members morely hold tickets en- titling thom to make purchases at the stores of tho Association. It is cloar that, if thera should Lo a division of proflts, the value of shares would bo proportionately incroased; they would bo bought and sold, and, as their mercantilo valuo went up, the stronger would be the prossure put upon the manngers to BQueoze the largest possible dividends out of the business ; the co-oporative charpcter of the Assoclation would boe lost, and the organiza- tion become & meore trading company. The queslion hos already been agitated to a great ox- tont, and tho shareholdors have succoeded so far that a resolution, calling for an slteration of the rules of the Association with a view to pre- vent tho furthor issue of shares, has beon passed on a vivavoce vote, and will probably be con- firmed by ballot. 'The non-sharcholders throat~ en to apply for an injunction to provent the con- summation of thescheme, while a now co-opora- tive associntion s spoken of us probable. Bt. Louis scoms bont upon seouring for itself tho epithet of the naughtiost city in the country, Its capabilitios in tho way of small-pox ciroulars have long boen mattors of common notorloty. A fow months ago, it mado iteolf so obnoxious in thie mattor of prizo-fighting that Goy, Bovor- idgo aud tho Illinoie Sherifts had to go down thero and supproas the practice. Its latost dls- graco i in tho woolsl-avil business. Having regulated tho social evil by loense, the wocial ovll, In turn, now scoms to bo regulating Bt. Louls. . Bomo waoks 8go, tho Grand Jury, while making the rounds of tho oharjtable inatitutions, camo to the Soclal-Evil Hoapital, but were re- fusod admission unless thoy could bring torial of Amorioan citiger/s while on thelr way | written permit from thie Alayos, ' according to tho rules of tho hospital. Upon npplying for a pormit, thoy wero not only refused, but found ont that spoclal orders Lind beon lssucd by Mr, Ovoratolz, ucting during Mayor Brown's nhaonco, that the Grand Juryshould not bo sdmitted. ‘Cueroupon the Grand Jury in thelr roport throw out ineinuntions that somo of tha inmates aro kapt thoro for immoral purposos, and blame both the Mayor aud County Judgo, 'The County Judgo roplics savagoly by showing that the foro- man of tho jury was indleted, whilo Sherifr, for collecting commissions on monoys which nover passed through blg handg, and that othor mombers aro lond-sharks, who have boon ongagod in frauds, The Grand ' Jury's re- pork furthermoro charges the City Olork with taldng 81,600 for mocuring the repeal of a cor- tain ordinauce, whoreupon the City ,Olerk ro- torts, aud makes it warm for the Grand Jury, An impartial pboerver, aflor reading all those chargos and countercharges, will ‘find it vory difffoult to declde whicl 1y tho worat,—the city and county suthorities, the Grand Jury, or the Bocial-Evil Hospital. 'Tho probabilitios aro in 1avor of tho latter na boing tho most respactablo of tho throo. —_— Cincinnati lins a shrawd Coronor who under- stands how to keop books profitably. Tho law allows him ono mill for every word of * neces- sary writing" in his records, In making out his monthly statoment, tho crafty Coroner, undor tho hond * Necesaary Writings," givos & column of figures, but cautiously avolds demaging its oppourance with s period, When the column L boon footod up, the Coroner brings down bis pencit with a_savage thrust, and lol words aro transformed {nto dollars, Out of tho vague array, 16550, with a vingle spock ho ovolves the appreciablo sum $165.60, or $149.06 more than the law allows him, and pookets it without n blush, e e *The principlo of hanging an innocent man to provent hia committiug a crime In tho future is ono.which, wo foar, would not meet with uni- voraal appreciation in the United States. Dis- marck, however, rathor likes it. Ho argues that, ns the French Government suppresses journnls diengrooable to itself, 1t ought to squeloh those dtsagracable to an ally. Honco Gen, Lodmirault has been roquested to suspond the Univers for two months, lest its articles should load to diplomatic complications. This is carrying thio precopt that provention is bettor than curo to & rather oxasperating point of prudence. —_— Tho Milwaukeo Sentine! muat bo Lard up for something to print when it alloges that Mr. J, W. Midgley, an employo of tho Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, whe recently read an argumont bofore o committee of tho Wiscunsin Logislature, 18 * ono of the editors of that emi- nent organ of the Reform party, Tue Omicaao Tripune.” Mr, Midgley was once a reporter In this otlico, Ho wsovered his. connection with, Tun TnInoNE more than five years ago. e A—l‘\lUSER NS, ACADEMY OF MUSIO. It may be that the reader never was in Sing Bing iu bis life, and that he {s unfamiliar with the mode of life ndopted by the residonts of a cortain noted building there. It may bo that the render never emjoyed tho Bociety which -glitters in the lowout.dives of New York. If not, ho hae ovidently missed a very ploasant ox- perienco, judging from the mirrored reproson~ tation of low life in Mr. Dominick Murray’s picco ontitled * Escaped from BingSing.” Ro- memboring the title of the picce through sov- eral acts, the audience begina to wonder why Yorkshire Bill, as tho hero of tho drama is named, should want to escape at all, and leave tho crowd of jolly, witty follows who have, through unfortunnte combina- tions of - circumstances, found themsolvos inmates of that cheerful home. Itis true that tho peopls in tho dive. are just as jolly and clever s thoso in tho Penitentiary; but thero is a porpotual risk of arrest iu the giu-mill, and the ladies thore are ‘ perpetually dunniug every~ body for drinks. Altogother, ~thorofore, . Sing Siug soclety appoars to offer attractions whiol that of the dive cannot successfully compote with, It is probable that Yorkshire Bill sncri- ficed tho advantages of compulsory residenco for the solo purposo of swimming across ilio stage on a mechanical contrivance. If go, he wis at a groat deal of. unnecousary trouble for o very briof display. The. drama which has” boen constructed round this incident is of a droll ‘charnctor. The ruf- fians and burglars in it are models of urbanity and good naturs, rather proud of the conspicuous place they occupy. in. the social economy. Thoy have o partiality for the pistol, and a thorough'enjoyment of liquor and joking, Tho ladies, a8 hinted above, aro distinguished by & persistency in stimulants and an unusual ability for proserviug an appourance of sobrioty under s hoavy load of rum, 'I'ne play is highly sensational and glaringly improvable, but is at tho same timo full of life and lsughter, and has s plot to suit tho main incident, : With all his foults, (and we grieyo to admit that 80 interesting a gontleman shonld have faults) Afr. Yorkshire Bill ddés not mon- opolizo tho ontiro interest of the aud- ience, but contonts himsolf with being the worst character represented. Mr, Murray is o good actor, and to a certain class of people— thoso who love the cayenne pepper varioty—liis plece is vory plensaut. Tho dialoguo is superior to tho incident, for without being romarkably refined, it is keen and light, and keops the au- dluncnlnpnrpeh\nl good humor. The cast in- cludes twanty people; and it would be todions to mention them ail. ' Miss Nellie McHoni espocially commendablo as catching the rollick- ing spirit of tho picco, and Mr. Evorham in o character part {s unusually entertaining, The support is good all through, and if one happons tobein tho right mood, is onjoyable, ‘The acenory is uxtmoxdlnnrdy good, even for tho Acndemys MYERS' OPERA HOUKE. ‘Tho new attractions at this agreesble little houso are drawing woll, and desorve tho success they have mot with, They have strengthened tho company immonsely, and the programme now offerod at this thentre canuot be surpasced at any minstrel house in the couutry, “Whilo tho old fuvorites continue to furnish plenty of omusement, tho mnow ones are romarkablo. Courtwright, the comedian, in Lis act ** My Only Friond, " opona with some wild drollery “which sota tho honso in a roar. 'I'ho rest of (ho ot is of a pathetic character, almost too much ko for & Louso dovoted entirely to laughter, but in his aketch of the poor old slave returned to tho do- serted home of other days, Mr, Courtwright dis- plays dramatio ability” which, js considerably above burnt-cork. ‘Tho scene is vory taking with tho udience, who are loth to let tho old mango. Walters and Morton, the now song-and- danco men, aro, without any question, the best who Lave ever appoeared before & Chicago au- dienca, They are much of o size, ave nlilte in fenture, and so woll disciplined as to movo to- gother Jike Siamaso twins, Thoir stops aro quite now, and their agility deserving of the adjoc- tive applied to thom on the programme,—as- tounding. Desidos theso attaiuments, both bove good volcos, which blend well togethor. ‘Their feata are snmalhlnF in the Trod, Yokes atyle, and thoeir net unusually good, Tho skotches *‘'ho Shooting Party” aud a trayesty of ** Mazeppa,” are wildly extravagant, and highly diverting, The programme could not be improved by any addition; subtraction of the person and trash of Master Goorgo Davaenport, would be highly boneficial. e 18 probably a puwe-nflnrluxi to the gallory, but possesses no merit of any kind, His dinlect is wortbless, nud his songs tiresome, Mr. l\lyum has thegood for- tune to employ a sconio artist of ability, aathe audienco roadily discovers, MISCELLANEOUS, “The Blaok Orook" at tho Globe Thoatre ia running with perfeot smoothnose, and drawing good honses, ~ **Thie Long Strike ™ at MoViek- er's is still playing with uuiform oxcellence on the part of the company, and the houses incroasa in sizo nightly, Lucillo Western nt Hooloy% layod lust night to a good house, in tho thiilling rama ¢ Bast Lyuno.” Tho Adnfpbl wag paokod. last ovoning a# usnal, Dr, Grovor's sucovus €868 uow to bo nssured, THE TENNESSEANS, The Tenncsrouus again drow a full houso esterday ovening, ovory soat in the Muaeke Hall iemp tulion, ‘Plicre i 110 doubt that the nwerac- tion of theso young, uncultured negroes st o vory great, & evoryono who hesis thom urges all his friends to go and do likowlse. ‘Thoir singing bus a sort of magnotism abont it whick ' exerty 8 wondorful influenco, oven in_their rud- ost, mout grotesque songs. Thoy will sing this avening and Baturday nftornoon, and will probu~- bly remain over Sunday. THE UNION MATINEE, i aid of the Nowvboy's 1lome to-morrow after- noon 4t tho Avademy of Music should ol bo forgotten. The programmo is vory interosting. THE WISCONSIN RBISHOPRIC The Episcopalinns of Wiscon- sin Want a Bishop, First Day's Session of the Special Counoil to Ohooss Ono. Dofective Credentials Presented by Many Lay Delegates. Permanent Organization Effected After Considerable Delay. Adjournment 'f'alken Till To-Day, ‘Without a Ballot, Special Dispateh to The Chfeago Tribune, MmwAvkke, Wis,, Fob. 11.—The spocial Dio- cesan Council of tho Protestant Episcopal Church of Wisconsin convenod at 9 o'clock this morning In the Episcopal Cathedral of this oity, Tho odifico was protty well filled by delogatos, cloric and Iny, and by persons unconncotod with tho Council, who were moved to ationd the Conferonco because of their interest in tho progress of the faith, Tho Cathedral was tasto- fully draped in crape and purple. The sur- roundings of tho altar prosonted & picturesquo appearance, tho fair hands of the ladios having docorated them in & manner ontirely worthy of tho occaslon, TRELIMINARY BRRVICES. Full choral servicos inaugurated the rogulsr proceodings, tho ordained dologatos, in full coanonicals, assisting, one and all, in tho im- posing coremonies, which aro not vory dissimilar to thoso of the Romau Church, excepting tha Tnglish Jliturgy and the abscnco of candlos and incenye, & Morning prayor and the Litany were raad by the Bev. E. £, Wright, D.D.; tho Rov. Lucion C. Lianoo, tho Rov. Georgo Wallace, and tho Rov. T. . Haff. Tho anto-commanion gorvico was raad by the Rov. W. Adams, D. D, During the sorvices, the Rov. Dr. Ashley asked tho prayers of tho congropation for the speedy recovery of the Rov, Lyman Phelps, who was unfortunately proveuted from sttonding tho Conueil by bodily intirmitics, TUE SERMON OF TIE DAY, At the closo of tho clioral wervice, the Rav. R, N. Park, of Oshlosli, Wis,, ascended tho sltur sleps, und proceeded to preach tho sermon of the day., Ho took his text from Bt Matthow, Chap. 11, vorses 4 and 6: * Jesus nuswoered and #aid unto them, ¢ Go and show Joln agsin Lhesie things which you do hear and see—the biind re- ceive.their sight, and the lame walk; the lepers are clenused, aud tho doaf hear; the dead nro raised up, and the poor have the Gospel prenched. to thew.'"” Ho spokoe, in substance, as follows : When the Son of God revealod himsolf, it' was aignificant that he went among thie poor and tho lowly, hosling all mauner of nflicted people, —thore posscssed of dovily, those who had the alay, and those who were lepors,—nll of wihom Foreliovod an purified. This charity to ‘the humbloat of man&ind was among the most sig- vifleant of the domonstrations which proved that tho Redcemor was among the people. Ho was heralded by no grest earthly ronown; ho was not _celobratod by grand bursts ot cloquonce. He came for all men and to &o good to ol men. But among the poor snd afllicted was the choson fiold of labor ; and by tho divinity of his powor he proved himself the Son of God. T'ho Buvior had returned to His otornal home, but, although his inocarnato presenco was ro- moved from enrth, she divine essonce of Hia naturo remajned with His Church, and guided hor ‘on ‘her glorious way. Ho was tho bridegrroom,—the Church was His bride. Through her He spoke, through hor Ho reached the hoarts of all generations of mankind, and through her Ho would continue ta tenoh until tho kust day of the world, Tho preacher said that the zenl of THE OUURCH WAS NOT WHAT IT SHOULD BE. Humility, charity, piety, wero among tho thinga that membera of the Chureh belioved in theorat: ically, but they wore too otten ignored in prac- tice. Ohurch-memborship was mado too muck a monopohly of certain privileged clnsy- ©8, while the poor aud lowly, among whom the Savior labored, were kept without thru pale. This was not tho way in which to follow the teachings of Christ,—in whick to propagate the faith that was in them. Tho Church ol this day was, in fact, too much given over to worldly wisdom, ‘'ho Lord hrd snid to the. rida and powerful to give out of thoir wubstanco to the poor, and thoy should mot give in vain, for Gou loved ‘ tho .cheerful giver. Seclf-sacritico on the part of Christians went farther to_prove tho sinc.ority of thoir faith than any number of ‘more professions, The poor,for whom Ohristcamo —on whom His chanty was chiefly bostovred— tho poor, aud humble, ond neglected, and af- flicted of Christ’s people, should bo the protoges of His Church, but, as man had crippled, chioined, and restricted Ler, thoy were outsido of hor care, If that Church desired thio rospoctsof - ‘mankind, she should prove by hor works that sho was working in consonance with the dgo- trines preachod unto man by tho Divino foundor of_ Christianity. In the old duys, ere fashion Lod made bher heart oold, TUE QIURCH WAS TOE ALMONER OF TUE A¥- FLICTED, and shed ber light on the humblo and the proud, tho poverty-stricken and the afilunt, withous digtinction. 'Tho Chureh, if she would be power~ tul, must follow tho procepts of her founder—sne must go among the unfortuuate and ministor uuto thom, Hor Hght muat o shino that mon ehall rocogniza hor by the glory which, by ler good works, sho places before "them, Sie must do, like the Bovior, for ovary sinmer thut which his mis- fortunos or his wants demandod. What o life that would be, for them to imitate, howover feebly and Imperfectly, the glourious lesson taught by the fion of God,—to go around among the childron of misfortuns, and, liko Him, bring balm to the aihicted aud despoiring. 3 Charity was the best oxomplification of faith— higher, puror:, and botter than all the affecte~ tions of fashion, and the Phariscolsm of rank and woaleh, ‘Tho pread hor then further amplified on the differonce luetween primitive Christianity, so fur n8 good worcks were concorued, and the Church of tho preisout day, DBofora overcoming the world—the hard and selfish world—thoe Church should eny brace within horself the incorruptible intogrity and Inoxhaustible churity which tho disclplesof Jesus inherited trom Hiin, THE CHUROL NUAT BUILD hospitals for the poor and tho rich, she must bull‘d Lor aes for the straugor and the outcast; slio mus, make tho cathedral a prand rondez— vous in sthe causo of Heavon,—a place whero tho wholo paligious zeul of the diocoso might bo concont ated, and whore thore would bo broud chority and enlightoned toloration, ‘Che Church should enter more zeelously into missionary worl, p¥reaching not the narrow roligion of the Middlo Ages, but the freer, wider, more God- Liko ero od of a more advauced civilization, Tho Ohurch should no longer wrap herself in a mautla of URUTISH FASTIDIOUBNESS, Sho*must recognize the poor ns well as tho rloh, 8ho must show that eho is not a cowardly orentuiro thut would shrink from tho touch of the disoased and afilioted, but brave aud ready to du1 o all and enduro all, for the sako of God- liko g harity, the noblust essonco of tho dootrines of Qlirlstianity, 8ho uhnuld{:uy attention to tho spirdmal wants of men, without tho slightest l|s.ulhx.‘liou, #0 that sho might cscapo the reproof of indifferenco, or of false pride, which a fastidie ous nolicy would Lo sure to fix upon her. e preacher closad with o boautiful perora« tion, of which Clirlstinn charity was the sube oct. 1 COMMUNION, At the conclusion of the sermon, communion was administered by the Ilov, Drd, De Koven, Cola, and Ashley, nourly all of the congregation partaking of tho Baoramental bread aud wine, CALLED TO' ORDER, The Rev, Dr. Ashley, Ohpirinan of the Btan d- ing Comnnittes of the Didgese, called tho dolo- ratos to order at 12:80 o'olock this afternvou, T'ho Rev, M, B, Averill ofticiatod as Beorotary, Dr, Ashloy read the canon regulating tho ad- misslon of delegates to participation in the busis nesy of the Council, Thore was, he anid, only ono doubtful name on the lst—tho Rov. ‘Thomus Groen. It was waid thut Le wos not in apiritunl charga of any parish, » A delegate in tho body of the hall stated thas