Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1874, Page 4

i = —Tmmxmmmm,—-FEBRUARY 13, 1874. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TERMS OF RUBSCMIPTION (PAYATLE IN ADVANCE). WB12.00| Sunday, 2,50 u.80| Weekls' 2,00 To provont delay and mistakes, bio sure-and givo Post ©Offico address In full, including Btato and County. Romittancos may be mado oithor bydratt, oxpross, Post Oftice ordor, or tn registered lottors, at ourrisks TERMA TO CITY HUUACIINERS, Daily, delverod, Bunday exceptod. 25 cente por weak. Luily, doltvered, Bunday Included, 20 conte per wooke Addross THI TRIBUNE COMPANY, Qornor Madison and Dearborn. Uhteago, 1l e ‘TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. 2 '8 THEATRE—Madiron streat, bolween Combinatlon Company, '* 'The Loug Btriko™ snd **A Daugerous Joy." HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Rendoloh streot, hotwaen Y i Ningagoment_of' Lunoiio' Westorn: G AOADEMY OF MUSIC—Halstod straot, botwoon Made . 1 id Monrae, oon: Matingo for thio bonallt of e Nowsbose: fome - Jiyeniok: Dowintok Murrsy in *Bacaped trom S1og S al THE, Dosplatncastraat, batwoen Mad- Moy Rfifiv‘.h‘x’ufi%fin emont o Bldwoll & DoDane Wighva Troupe. - 1+ Tho Black Crook.'™ MYURS' OPERA.HOUSK-Monroo strost, hotweon 9 Bratt, Alingion, Coltgn, and Kemblo's B rher A leaqao of +* Mazeppa. * Miaatreley aud Samiontities. DELPHI THEATRE-Comor of Wabash avonue and Congrass atroot. 10 ILDING-Take Shore, A O Titars. baatiog of th Hon,"" Aftortioon and avoniog. INITY M. E. OHURCH--Indiana avonuo, near Do oniy foneth btcodt. o Tonnessaanis CORGOTt. foot of Piodigal BUSINESS NOTICES. NZGLECTED COUGHS AND COLDS.-—I'EW"A!IE sware of tho tmportanco of cligcking & coughor corm: mou cold ¥ in 18 first ataga: that whioh iu tifo boglaning would yiold to ** Hrawn's Bronghial Trachos,” if noglaet= ad, ufton works upon $hio lungs. The Chitagy @ Friday Morning, February 13, 1874, bume. Sonator Alcorn has been requestod by the Lower House of the Missiesippl Logislature, by & vote of 53 to 84, to resign, Tho Fortification bill s boon passed’ by the Housa of Represontatives, aund, like the Army Appropriation bill which preceded it, was largely roduced in amount. —ee TIn presonting & petition from the Legislature of his Stato for thie passago of the Civil Rights bill, Sonstor Pattorson, of South Carolina, stated that it was passed unanimously, the Democrats ae well as the Rnpub!leaué racording thomsolves in its favor, — Ifall jnvestigations wers as groundless as that into the clection of Senator Booth, of Cali- fornia, sooms to bo, it would not have boon half g0 hard to got Congressmen to scrve on the Dis- trict of Columbis Investigating Committoo: Senator Booth's canvass has beon under 1nspec- tion for a woek, and no bribery or corrupting practices of any sort have yat boen provedagainst him. How ranidly tho organization of the Farmers is proceeding may bo learned from the Jauusry circular ol the National Grange. ince the mid- dlo of Decembor thore was an increase of 1,660 Grauges, aud tho wholo number is now over 11,000, The lergest increaso took place +ho former slave States, whore G656 now fornjed, agawnst 469 in tho West- wional membership of the &1780,000. over, aund Sir Garnet v home from the Gold of Tngland's has élo ir Modoo war, that the wdliest weapons direct . Jack and Bhacknasty fleld ; but it diffors in 't was not noarly so will bave to pay, in ‘go part of what it m. ‘tely to lose any- 2.+ of the Illi- ocintion gets In tho resolu- meoting of nicipal lead- who are o graco,” e applica- *ion closes 7 to como ve boen T—to ly that ‘ sy 2n Lo or 3 14@13¢o0 ftor short cloar, and 0}4@103¢0 for #weet plokled hams. Dressed hoge were dull awd 26@00a por 100 Ihs lowaer, clostag ot R0.26@ 6,30, Tlour was quiot sud unchiangod. Whont was mote aotive and 1o lowor, closing at $1.193¢ cash, aud $1,209¢ aeltor March, Corn waa loss notivo, and }¢o higher, closlug at 670 cash and 57840 roller March, , Oats were quiot and stondy, oloeing nt 423¢o cash, aud 48¢ sellor Marck. Ryo woa quiet sud unchanged. Barley waa dull and onslor, but was too irrogular to bo quotod closoly, Live hoga wero dull, and for the poorer worts the market wea lower. Bales at $4.26@ 576, Cattlo wore dull, and closed weak aud 10 @160 lower. Bheop wero active and unchangod. B Mr. Dawos gave tho Congrossmon who pro- poso to abolish the Matoh tax sud tho Dank- Cheok tax, ‘whioh yleld over 86,000,000 o yosr, somothing to think about yes- tarday in his spesch on the National Financos. Adding to tho money on band in the Tronsury all tho income that could bo countod on, and caleulating tho oxpenses that woro inovitable, ho ciphored tho Govornment into bankruptoy with o doflolt at the end of the yoar of §62,006,440. But thia doficit Lo eaid would be covered by un- oxpended pormanent sppropriations, to tho amount of $72,300,034, which was slmost cortain to be available. Tho twenty millions surplus obtained, however, Lo showod would be reduced by doficloncos and other causcs to ten millions, Tho monthly expenses of the Gaverument wore 1more than that, aud no Secretary of tho Trens- ury would attompt to run hie departmont in such shallow water, The moral of the spooch was, don't vote swsy tho 5,000,000 that the Trensury gets from tho taxes on matchos and bank-shiecks. — CONGRESS AND THE RAILROADS. Tho Houso of Ropresontatives on Mondsy passed o resolution doclaring that tho Constitu- tion confors upon Congress tho power to regu- lato commorco between the States, and that this power included the right to proscribo rates of tolls for tho transportation of passengers and frolghts passing from ono Btato to anothor. ‘Thia rosolution was adopted by a voto of 170 to 64, Fortunately or unfortunatoly, resolutions of this kind in Congress amount to very little s in- dications of theintonded sction even of the House that adopts thom. The same House, in March ayoar 8go, six timos voted down the Back-Pay bill, the mombers intonding all the timo to pass it, ond this they ovontually did. Mombers who voted against the repest of the salary-grab may endeavor to concilisto public sentiment by voting for such a resolution a8 this, but they aro sadly mistaken if they supposoe it will bo of any avail 88 an offsot at tho next election. The principle involved in the resolution, how- aver, i8 fraugat with evils and davgors of grent magnitude. There are but two modes by which Congress can oxerolsa control over the freight charges of railronds. These nre, firet, to con- struot now railronds or purchase the existing rallroads, and administer them as part of tho business of the Government; and, socondly, to poes laws ostablishing maximum rates to be charged for tho transportation of passcngors ond freight. The House has declared that Con- gress has the power to do the latter undor the suthority to * rogulnto " commarce. It has been dotermined by the Supreme Court repeatodly that the power to regulato commerco be- tweon tho States and with foroign coun- tries is vested exclusively in the Gon- oral Governmont and csnnot be oxercised by tho Btates. But it hos never boen doter- mined by that Court that the power to *‘ regu- late " included the authority to proseribo tho prices at which commoditios ahould bo »uId ur transported. Congress has repeatedly oxolcised the power to regulate the comtiorce with foreign nations and betweon tho Btales, aud thoro is quite a code of. laws governing the management of vessols engaged in tho intérual and foreign commerce, aad intended to provent accidents, loss of life and proporty, and for .ecuring the hoalth and comfort of passongers. This is strictly legitimate and warranted by the power to “ regulato,” Does that power oxtond to tho fixing of tho rates to be charged on steamboats and gail-vessola on the lakes and rivers, and on sen-going vossels for the transportation of pas- gongors or freight ? Is that a regulation ? If this power to regulato includes tho right to prescribe maximum rates for transportation, and it should be oxercised by Congross, it is, accord- Ing to Mr. Morton, to bo applied oxclusively to inter-Stute travel or freights. How is Congrees to apply this regulating process excopt by os- tablishing uniform rateaper mile ? Bball thisrate begauged by what wouldbe fair for long diatances, or by what would bo fair for short distances? Shall 100 miles, or 1,000 miles, bo the standard in computing & fair and ressonable rate? In citlior cass, thore will bo oppression and injury to localities. The complnint of excossive tolls on railroads hag nevor been gaiust the rates for long distances; the complaint is confined to local rates. At this time, the rates on all classes of freight from Chicago to the Atlantic by rail are very low, and are at nll times relatively low as compared with local rotes, Any rate which would ouable & railroad to carry catlle from Al- * .y to Boston would be prohibitory if applied o the entive distasuco from Kausas Clty to ton. The most serious objection to the assumption ., 78 by Congress lies in tho faot that ill compol the railway companics to go-to hington, to maintain o lobby there, and to 4 money for purposes of corruption. They w0k upon (his specles of logislation a8 o er of lifo and denth, aud will leavo no stone wed, no appliance untried, to shape such tion to their own onds, Loealitios and in- sunfavorably affected will do the samo Congress will become either a gigautio xden or an auction shop—the latlor oly. ‘'ho misorios of a protective tarift nitiplied s thousand-fold, forevery rail- tructed upon oquitablo principles tho benoflt of certain States, local *_%''u, ot the oxpenso of all oth- tabal of confused tongues that such 1 produce, any Congressmau can or selling bis voto to the highest lor for cash, A more fruitful ord and corruption could not be Evil Ono bimsolf, his hag sesumed o new phose in ~~oman namod Christine Iaak, divorce from & worthloss bus- bited her disguat for the wholo of that city by disponsing with wd deawing up o complaint 0%, Mor indopondence ‘arded by & decros, aud + wntisfnotion of keeping nld have been obliged to tmin If this sort of thing beoomoy *2, the Goodrioh etamp of di- * more elfactuslly stawped out than by any number of petitions from tho Bar, 2 THE GRANGE-MILLENNIUM, The Declaration of Purposes promulgated by tho National Grango at Bt. Louls is cortainly tho moat alluring docimont which bas yat beon pro- ducod in the great crusado against monopoly and corruptlon, . or any othior crusado since tho time of tho Baracons, It its porsoveranco and cour- ago oro oqual to ita fortility of purpose we may look for auch & rooting up of ovils of all sorts as tho world haa nover seon bofore, for the Grange ling et ita faco not only againat thoe gront public evils which lie upon tho surface of secoloty, but also against tho contrarictics and pervessitios, the crooks and twiats, 62 the no'ural mau, with which religion has beon struggling since tho crontion of the world, and mostly struggling in vain. Jf tho Patrons of Husbandry accomplish one-bialf thoy have sob down on paper, thoy will nccomplish more than the Obristisn Church has been able to do in all the agos it has been in existonco. They will preoipitato tho Millonulum upon us bofora tho world is ready for it. Wo can bardly hope to reproduco in & singlo articlo ll that the Grange {s going to do, or to draw the glowing pioturo in all its brightnoss of color and glory of appoaranco, but we may indicato tho genoral outlinos of that condition of tho world which prophots have foratold, which poets have sung, and over which dreamers and romancora bave rhapsodized, Tirst, tho Patrona of Hus- baudry are going to lahor for the good of all monkind, Becond, they propose to advance their cause by developing n higher and better manhood and womanhood, enhancing thoe com- forts and attractions of homo, and fostoring mutual understanding. Third, the Grango pro- poses to scours obodienco to the laws, Fourth, to advanco their matorial intoroats by rerlu&ng porsonal expenses, buying less and producing more, systematizing work and caleulating all the probabilitios ocorrectly, and doing awsy with crodits, mortgages, fashion, and overything olse which tonds to prodigality aud bankruptey. Fifth, thoy sro going to avoid litigation, scours gonoral brothor- hood, make order porpotual, and abolish solfish ambition. Bixth, thoy propose to do away with middlemen, excessive salaries, high rates of in- torost, exorbitant profits in trade, and open all tho natural channels of the country for purposes of {ransportation. Soventh, they will advance the causo of education, Eighth, thoy are going to put down bribery, corruption, and political trickery, protcot the weak and restrain tho strong. Ninth, they propose to reliove suffor- ing by means of charity, Tenth, and lnst, woman is to be elovated to hor proper sphere. ‘T'his is the programmo, and our ronders will agroo with us thatit is a groat and glorious ono. Thero {8 no reform which has ever engaged or evor will engago the attention of the philsnthro- plst thnt s not included in it. Mot philan- throplsts, howover, have been sasisfied with ad- vocating one roform, and have spent their lives and substance in trying to sccure it. Tho Patrons, on tho other hand, have got thomsolves against all the evils which at present exist in tho world. We foar that they have not sufficiontly calculated tho strength of tho enemy, but have been actusted by the glow- iog visions, tho rash, headlong, and reckless precipitancy of youth, which has so often armed itsolf and sot forth to conquer the world, only to find itsolf vanquished by some unexpected dragon at the very outsot of its carcor. Wo foar thint tho Patrons of Husbandry, noble as their purpose aud desirable as its consummation may o, have made no allowances far the *perversity and ugliness of human nature, and for the size uud perainacity of its enomy. We hopo they will succoed and introduce the Millonnium ; but, as thia operation would roquire all the treasures of corth and sevoral mons ol-fi‘mo, wo fear that the Grange may go out of oxistonce before it accom- plishies any one of the legion of reforms which it hmne promulgatod so rosily and rosolutoly. The action of the Grange in adopting ite me- morial to the cotton States, urging them to raise ‘more oorn, which is tho firat practical step it has token in carrying out its programme, only serves to confirm us inthe impression that this ex- tonsive crusndo against the evils of the world is ono of zeal without knowlodge. In the cotton Btatos, only one stalk of corn will grow in a bill, and only fifteon bushals can be got from an acre. Inthe corn-growing Btates of tho Northwest, sixty bushels can be socured from tho same ares, and with tho same amount of lavor, The cotton BStates are tho largest custom- ers of the corn-growing Bintes, Tho ef- ficienoy of Ilabor at the Bouth engaged in the produotion of cotton is relatively as great ag that of Northern lebor in the production of corn; and, viceversa, tho ineficiency of labor at the South in corn-growing is about the same ns tbat of the North in cotton-growing. To adviso the planters under such circumstences to raiso moro corn i to impair and lessen tho efliciency of labor in the Bouth, and to devote o still larger shara of Northorn corn to tho purposes of fuel. If tho Bouthern farmers go into tho grain business, and thus add to the surplus already existing, how soon will the Northern farmers do away with the systom of credits and mortgagos of Which they complain? This o bad scart for the Patrons of Huibandry in their crusade against a world full of ovils, Tho demago likely to result from tho memorial to the cotton-plant- ers will bo smull, howaver, because thoy will not follow the advico given by the National Grzuge, EROPOSED WAREHOQUSE CHANGES, We print in another part of this morning's paper a new Warehouse bill, prepared by Mr. Williameon, and introduced into tho Btate Son- atoday boforo yesterday. It proposes to trans- for to the Rtegistrar tho powors now vested in tho Board of Rallrond and Warchouse Commis- sioners for the control aud regulation of warehousos of Olass A, and provides that tho Rogidtrar sball be appointed Dby the Govermor. It s roquired thet the Rogistrar shall be a porson acquainted with the business of warchousing, and the {ssu- ing and canceliug of recoipts, but not intorested directly or indirectly, in any warehouse. His salary is fixed at £4,000 a year, and he {s allowed such assistants, offico, books, ete,, as may be nocossary to tho dlscharge of his duties. The main purpose of the bill scems to bo the contral- ization of tho controlling power in one person, who shall bo on the epot, ag it requires tho ap- pointmont of a Registrar for every olly which containg warchousos of Olnss A,—that is, publio warohouses where grain {8 mixed, in clties of not lees thau 100,000 population. Thoe requiremonts of the proposed law are more rigid, aud tho penalties more sovere, than under the law of 1871, Iuis provided that the TReglstrar shall keep o stamp with which toattost tho rogistration of roceipts with a number cor- responding to that of his comsesutive record, and the use of & similar atenip -by- other porsons for the same purooie s mada foye atances, | the Comgany bas gory, punishablo with tho penalties provided by law for that orime. Tho Ohiof Inspootor of Graln is roquired to furnial tho Reglstrar with all information ho tay ncod to vorify tho ro- coipts prosentod to him., All warohousomen must furnish him ovory morning with & state- mont of tho amount of grain recoived the pre- coding day, and of tho receipts issuod therefor, aleo of tho dolivory of grain the precoding day, and tho recolpts cancolod ngainst such dolivery. The caucolod recoipts aro to be dolivered to tho Tegistrar, who ia requirad to make = record of thom, and to keep them in Lis possossion, Evory Tuesday morning tho warchousomon must make a statemont in dotall, and under oath, of the nmount of grain actually instoro at tho cloko of business on the preceding Saturdny; aud tho attoating of u false statement 18 mado porjury, punishinblo aa tho law providoes In othor cages of porjury, Any rofusal on tho part of & ware- houseman to comply subjects him to o fine of #5600, and coutinued neglect for ten days to imprisanment in tho Ponitontiory for one yenr in addition to tho fine. The failuro to meot tho rogistored recoipls, or tho Roglstrar's belief that false statemonts bave boon rendored, makos it his duty to apply to tho Circuit Court, whiol, at ity disorelion on roviewing tho faols, may ap- point a Recoiver to wind up tho business. In caso of shortage, the grain {8 divided pro rata among thoe holdors of recoipts, who havo a good caugo for action in damages against tho de- faulting warchousemsn without relopsing him from the other ponnltics provided. The delivery of & differont grade of grain from thst domanded by the recolpt, or tho dolivory of grain on tho surrender of recoipts from other warchousos, is punished with a fine of 5,000 and imprisonmont in the Penitontiary for fivo yonrs, The proposed law also aubjeots railroads to o flue for delivering graln to a warchouso after notification by the Rogistrar that such warchouso is irregular. Tho lnw requires the State’s-Attornoy to prosccuto under the dircction of tho Registrar. A plan hns been agreed upon by the Com- ‘missioners and Chief Tnspector under tho pros- ont law, a8 will bo scen from corrospondoncoe which wo algo print this morning, for protecting the public from betrayal after the grain has boon inspeoted in cars. An Assistant Iuspector is to bo atationed at ench clevator of Class A, whoso duty it will bo to sea that tho grain goes into the elavator aftor inspeotion. Such checks bave boen adopted 68 will provent, it is belleved, tho irregularitios that Lave horotofore occurred by the fnspection of grain in cars and boats, AN EXPENSIVE TOW-PATH. There Is a corporation’ croated by tho Logis- lature of Georgia authorized to take possession of tho Tennesgee River and connoct its wators with o canal that is to ascend and cross tho mountaine of Goorgis, and theneo, by locking and damming throo or four rivers, secure navi- gation to the coast at or near Savanueh. This schomo includes the digging out, locking, and damming of tho Tennessce River to its moutl. It algo ombraces & branch of the canal from somo point in the northwest part of Georgia to Mobile. This *great water-route,” from Pa- ducaly, on the Ohio, to Snvannal and Mobile, is about 1,800 milcs long, following tho tortuous course of the rivers, and, when completed, would doliver o caualboat of corn ot Savanuah or Mo; bilo in about six weeks from tho timo it loft Du- buque. "Of course, thera can bp no objection to the Georgia Company going shead and con- structing tho eanal, but it has met o slight difd- culty. It hasuot one dollar of capital, and no- body {5 simple enough to take a sharo of the stock and poy fob'it. Uider ‘those circum- concluded to issuo first-morlgizo bonds on tho proporty ‘Dereafter to bo created. Thoso bonds, howover, cannot be sold for a penny on the dollar. 8o they have applied to Congress, and on Tuesday Iast Senator Gordon, of Georgls, introducod tho ‘modost littlo bill, dircoting tho Becretary of the Trensury to issue to the Atlantic & Great West- orn Canal Company nationsal currency in tho sum of 280,000 o milo to aid in the conatruction of the canal; the United Stetes to tako as col- latoral seourity the first-mortgago bonds of the Company. We have not boforo us the figures showing the exact Jongth of the proposed diteh, but as the canal would bo useless without the improvement of the Tonnessco River and tho branch to Mobile, wo may assume that the dis- tancs to be constructed and fitted for navigation will not bo less than 600 miles. This at 380,000 por mile would only amount to $48,000,000, or $21,000,000 less than waoe loaned to tho Union Pacifie Railroad. Tho State of Virginia has a schemo of tho samo kind. Bho hus o narrow and shallow ditol, bogun in the dsys of Washington, which was intonded to connect the Atlautio with the Ohio Rivor. 'This lost-nontury canal was, of course, nover completed, and its westorn ond is lost gomewhere in the mountains. Virginia now proposes to glvo this caoal to the Gemoral Government on the simple condition that it lock and dam the Kanawha River, and connect it by s new canal and & teu-mile tunnel with tho ©0ld one an the castern sido of the mountains. ‘The now work, according to tho estimato, will cost $47,000,000, This is for = canal 100 feot wide and 7 feot doep. But the 3ld canal, 287 miles long, is only 50 faot wido at tho water-line and b foet deop. All this would have to bore- constructed ata cost of 40,000,000, There is an outstanding debt of abous §16,000,000, making in all for this work only $100,000,000. Then comes the Obio River, Thoe opening of a “great wator-routo" to the Obio River assumes o good stage of waler in that river, which, unfortunately, is not always o fact. Tho Commission appointéd to discover why that river is so shallow has vecontly roported, with due gravity, that it s on account of a want of wator ; and fioy recommend that Congress shalt purchase some ono of tho groat valloys in Poun- sylvanis, sud, by domming 1t, conslruct an jmmonso tank or reservoir to catch wator whenit raine, and tosupply the Obio River whoen it runs dry. Tho cost of this meotion of thoe groat wator-route—ihat {s, putting the Ohio Rivor into navigabloe order, and supplying it with wator—will bo about $75,000,000 more, Horo, then, thore are two groat wator-routos, each ono ot which, when comploted, will furnish the farmers of the West with tho mesus of reaching the Atlantic from Fowa; in possibly six, but cor~ talnly in elght, woeks from thio day of starting. Tn these daye of aotive indusiry, the roturnto horses and mules a4 & motive powor for hauliity whoat and corn 1,500 to 2,000 miles to market ia one of the probloma that do no strike the human mind favorably or forcibly. It tho Government s to loud greonbaoks on collateral of the bonds of tho Atlantic & Great ‘Wostern Canal Company of Goorgin, lot us have the loaning business maide general, and all other companies of whatever kind, aud all individuals and munioipal governmonts, sdmitted to tho kame priviloge, Gresnbacks eostnothing beyond | melee, adjourned. tho exponss of printing thom; why not issuo thom, thorofore, without iutorest, to snybody who wants them, and in time money will bo so plontiful that, as was tho caso in Iohmond In 1804-5, & man will tale his money to mnrket in a Mskot, and bring homo his purchases in his vost-pocket;? RELIGIOUS POLITICH. Tho Council for the election of a Bishop of Wiaconsin convoned in the Onthedral ab Mil- woukeo on Wednesday. 'Cho church was hung with crape and purplo; tho servicos began with prayer, and praiso, and preaching; but, despit theso soothing influonces, tho dolegates so con- ducted thomaolvos that, if wo had not boon ad- vised that tho wholo affair was. a Tligh-Ohuroh one, wo should havo called somo of the procoed- ings decidedly “low,"” The morning sossion broke up with the shouting-down of & venerable clergyman who appealod to the Councll to hear lim *‘as a matter of courtoay.” In the aftor- noon, a motion to admit cortaln lsy dologatos “rajwed a torriblo wuproar.” Tho vic- tim of the morning sosslon was again “lowled” down, The ovening meoting oponed with ceremonies solemn enough to quict ordinary mon, but in this onse thoy proved powerloss. For a fow minutes mombers contonted thomsolves with sssniling Bishop Cummins, but flring soon opened along the wholo line. Tho nomination of Dr. Hoffman oponed upa fino fleld for skirmishing. Tho Tov. Mr. Bpauldivg had heard Llis nermons called * Hoffmau's Anodyne.” Tho reverend joker was at once discomtitod by au apparontly gongoless montion of * Spaulding's Glue.” The Rov. M. Vermiliye ** wantod information,” Tho Tov. Dr. Bylisloy tried to give him soms, when tho Rev. V. remarked, in s swoet and Clristian way, that when tho Rev, B. had boen longer in the diocoso o would learn that it was not the custom for ono gentleman to interrupt another. The Rov. Mr. Bpaulding, hiaving by this timo thought of somemore funny things to say, helped the Council select s propor person for Biahop by tolling them that marringes wore usually un- boppy; that their wives wished they had not marriod them, oto., cto. After rocovering from Iaughter, the Council plunged into sn ** orator- ical tumult,” during which the pugnacious Vermillyo sold that six Doctors of Divinity had lied. Tho Rev. Br. Magofiia eaid such lan- guago was outrageous, and asked the roporters to noticoit. They all did so. A lotter was read from a Rev. Mr. Parker to suggost that Dr. Hoffman was hopelessly hoarge. The Rov. Mr. Eagar enid the Rov. Mr. Parker lied, and some- body oleo rotorted by saying that the Rev. Mr. Eagar did not know how to epell. Tho Chair~ man then suggested that the * brothren™ wero gotting “somewhat undignified.” Tho Counetl, unablo to see any other way of stopping the NEW YORK TAX-DELINQUENCIES, Tax troubles are uot coufined to Iilinols, If it bio any consolation for one person in migory to know that there is another person still more miserablo than himself, then Illinois may con- solo 1tself that New York isa groat deal worse off, Tho Aseembly of that Btate having ro- cently ealled upon the Comptroller to furnish ihe names of the goveral County Troasurers in arrears on account of State taxes, and the amounts duo at tho closo of the last flscal year, Le los sent in his-roport, showing that 47 counties aro in arrears, and that tho balances duo on account of the State tax on Jau. 27, 1874, amounted to $5,961,491, of which $4,039,388 stands against Now -York County alone. Theso deficits bave arlson partly from defaleations, partly from the refusal of Buporvisors to au- thorize tax levies, and partly from tho refussl of sundry Btato Treasurers to pay over the dofi- cfoucy tax authorized by the Legislature of 1872, As the remedy for such delinquencics, the Comptroller recommends the same policy which hag been Bo often urged in Tue TRIDUNE with roference to our own Stato taxes, nnmely, that provision be made by law roquiring < the coun- tics of tho Btato to asscss anc lovy tho Gtoto taxes which they aro severally re- quired to pay within the samo calondar year in which they aro authorized to be levied ; giving the Comptrollor power to en- force tho law, if any county shall neglect or ro- fuso to comply with it, and compel the payment of the tax into the Trensury. Tho adoption of such a policy as this is the only plan by which appropriations can be kopt from overrunning tho tox. Its necossity in this Stato hua been often shown. Its necessity in Now York is shown by tho fact that, of thisimmense amount in arroars, nently four-fifths iz on account of & tax lovied to malke good the deficioncy botween the tax of one year and the appropriation of the noxt, whioh the County Treasurors refuso to pay over. THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS. Mrs, Somervillo tolls us, in her entertaining diary, that her education in tho mathomatics was wholly a furtive ono, Her father,—good-natured soul,—when he found hor studying Euclid, cried out n his distross: *“Mary will soon bo in o strait-jackot!” Hor Beotehi-Presbytorian mothoer gave strict ordors to the servants to take away the candles, so0 that sbo should not road algobra after going to bed, Theso idens of tho tendoncy of high education to make women inssne, and of the advisability of keeping girls in mentnl dork- ness, survive to-dsy in practice, however thoy may bo repudiated in thoory. Half the braius thot might be geappling with life's problems aro frittorod away. We lave no wish to disparage woman’s work in hor own home. Nothing could be nobler; but should it bo the end ? 1Will & woman bo any tho less a helpmeot to her husband bocause she oan talk intelligently on tho topics in which he hag & living intorost ?—or any tho less a guardian to hor sons bacause tho Dooks thoy study at 16 aro not sealed mystories tolier ? What weary, sickening, uaeless years 5 young woman lives through between her graduation from sohool and hor marrisgo. She gots from them o fluency of sposch that suffices for & soclal circle where dopth of thought would Lo out of place, s remembrance of varlous operas and plays, & power-to dance for an unlimited longth of time, and an incapaclty to study any- thing sorlously, The fault résts with sooioty as e whole. A woman who wishes to study finds, in the first place, that almost all tho greut schools are shub toher, Ifsho goos to tho twa or threo that lot Lier alip in at a side-door, sho finds fow compan- ions of Lior own 8ox, and she'is, as & rule, sub- Jeot to regulations that scemto be framed on the hypothesis that sho has gone there to sln in- stend of to study. She must, in too many cascs, disregard tho wishes of hor parents and kindred, and sho must submit to be dubbed queer, eccen- trig, vislonary, stroug-minded, s blue-stacking, oto. Bho must very ofton earn emough money borsolf to dofrey ber tuition, Ier futhor, who educatos his boys at the beat echools, 18 not willing to undergo w like expenss for his daugli-: — * tor, becaugo it will not * pay.” Eduention is to bis sonsn capital that will yield intorest, but thero {sbut slight prospact of lis daughter's earning anything by hor wits, Why sharven them, then? In this, mon bub ropent their ancestors’ folly of making all educational endow- monts fnuro to tho rolo bonofit of tho malo eox. The romedy must bo found {n throwing open all pursuits to womon for which they are physleally qualified. Thon fominine education will psy and patornal purae-steinga will opon. Mon may be most to blamo for this thrusting of women nto outor darkunoss, but the wrong must bo first attncked by womon thomsolves, Thoy must do- mand thorongh education bofore thoy can expeot to soo It supplicd. A girl is now sedulously taught that hor aim in lifo should be to got mar- ried, and that hor chances of marriago will bo incrensed if sho Lins *‘accomplishments.” It is but natural that sho should sacrifico evorything eluo to gatn thoso advantages in the matrimonial market, and thot, having gained them, sho should think that what hor parents and hor teachors are ploased to call hor education was finishod. Whoen women give their daughtors higher aimg in life, when they malke moro solid acquiremonta socially rospectuble, and when they domand facllities for achieving the same, mon will bo foread to give thom what thoy want. The glst of tho matter Is this: A young woman ought to devoto horsclf, ns & young man doos, to ono special ocoupation,—a trade, business, art, profession, or scionce. Every facility ghonld be offored Ler for doing 8o, Hor oppor- tunitics to pursuo or to study her spocislty might pot equal his, although at flrst her chionces to study would vory prubably surpaes his. But at any rate shomight amass, in the sparo hours of hor life, & stock of knowledgo that, if roverses met her, would bo & capital on which she could draw interest ; and, if hor fato werae & happier ono, would at least put heron an equality with the men sho mot, and might result in solid aid to the army of thinkors who are doing tho world’s best worlk, and who have now g0 few womon umong them, ULAR POISONS, ‘The ton-manufacturers of Chiun refuse to bo longer responsiblo for tho adultoration of thoir goods, Thoy say that for yoars thoy have only carried out the preciso inatructions recoived from Eungland, English merchants keop exports in the factorios to decido on the right proportion of the gonuino loaf to the foreign loaves, “lle tea,” sand, iron, and coloring mattor thatmale up o largo part of tho oup thot cheers but not inebri- atos. An English scientifioroview, Food, Waler, Air, assorts that any grocor can tell whethor or not the tea ho sells is adulterated. In too many cases, however, when ho takes the troublo to find out, it is that he may know how much more adultoration the goods—and his cuslomors— will stand, When we imagine that we sro inhaling the aroma of the Chinese herb, wo are often smell- ing various ingredionts used only to produce this pleagant odor, When we admiro tho color of tho decoction, wo are probably admiring & tint imparted Ly turmeric, Prussian blue, and “g whito minersl powder.” The sodden mass at the bottom of tho toa-pot may contain over 40 por cont of what is known as ** lio tea,” which is apt to have ‘‘earthy matter in the folded leaves.” ‘When Englishmon buy mills, the part of it that ia milk is perhaps drawn from cows that live on gorbage, and the part that is water may be drawn from & voservowr into which sow- ago flltors. - Beof s sometimos horseflesh. Mustard is s compound of flour, turmeric, ond capeioum. According to Food, Waler, Air, gonuine mustard could scarcely bo bought a few years ago, Bread is whitened with alum. Peo- ple would not buy it it were pure, and, conse- quently, yollowish, Beor is too apt to bo dosed with sulphate of iron, Such a catalogue doos not creato enthusiasm for the traditional British lunch of beef, broad, sud beer. Shall we fenst upon horse, alum, and sulphate of iron? And yot, if not, what shall wo cat? Cheeso containg red lead ; rag-pulp figures ag butter ; straw-pulp, masquerades a8 jam, Old combs ara said to re- appear in calf's-foot jelly. The author of a ro- cont work on Adulterations of Food assorts that mushroom.kotchup isadulterated by * the juico expressod from tho livers of docessed horses,” A fow more such oxpustres and the time when poople could eat, drink, and bo morry ” will be of tho pas., — e A bill has been introduced into tho New York Logislature, entitled “An act to provide tho City and County of Now York with rapid transit for passongers, freight, and postalservico.” Tho main featuros of tho bill are the appointment of & Commission and the offer of a prizo of 850,000 ta boe paid by tho Commissionors to the owner of the plan which will, in their judgment, most noarly meot tho roquirements of the case. The Commisionors ara to be five, in number, and lhold offce for a term of five years. They are to bo appointed, two by the Governor, one by tho Mayor of Now York, and two by tho Judges of tho Supremo Court of the First Judicial District, and aro vosted with eolo and exclusive control ovor tho construotion of the road, to determine the route, to ocoupy apy street-railrond track in the oity, and open books for the subscription of stock, as waoll as to determine the amount of capital stock required and tho torms of payment, If thostocl is ol talen, the Commission ceases to oxist at tho oxpiration of tho torms of the first Com- migeioners, and o Board of Diroctors is to suc- caed, the city rosorving for itsolf 10 por cent of the not profits of tho yoad, If, however, all the dtock is not taken, and the Commissioners be- lieve it will not bo taken, thoy are to call & moot- ing of tho Govornor, tho Mayor of Now York, tho Judges of the Supremo Court, the President of the Board of Aldermen, tio Commssioner of Publio Works, and the City Comptrollor, who shall decido, by o two-thirds vote, what nmouut of the oxpense shall be borne by the oity. The bill further provides thut tho rond uhball bo completed botweon the Battery or City Hall Park aud Forty-second streot in ous yesr, and to the Harlom Rivor in two yours, aftor tho stook ghall have been paid up or the city shall havo decidod to tale hold of the schowe. 'Tho offer of a promium will tend to keep tho subject ‘before tho poople in other citios whera the need for rapid transit is notso pressing as in Now Yo, and, by stimulating compotition, bring us nearet to the solution of this important prob- lem. ————— ‘Phe fifth sonusl report of tho statistics of Minnesots, juet published, s & gratifying ex- bibit of induatrial progress in that State. Tho agricultural rotorns for 1873 show an increaso in the avoragos of all crops, oxcept barloy, rye, buokwhent, and sorghum. The apple crop wus small hore a8 slsowbhore, and tho loss of stook by oxposuro duriug tho severs winter of 1872-'¢ was nocossarily very large, The numbor of farms in tho Btate at tho olose of 1870 was 40,600, sud & guin of 11,870 is roported during tho past throe yoars. S The Catholic Churoh orisls in Gormany causes no small oxcltoment in Englaud. A largely- ‘attonded mooting in St. Jamen' Hall, London, held to glve an oxprossion of popular sympathy for tho Olurch- party, was addrossod by Arch- Dbishop Msnning, who flatly contradicted tho augertions of the Emporor in his celobrated soply to the Poye's loiter, thas the Oathiollos g, Germany were consplring agnmat the Gov ment, 1lo ntso nttacked tha statemont that Church was fn no way affected by the opera of the new laws, 1o inlimates that, rat thon allow the Btalo to govern him In ecelc astical mattors, ho would, God giving h grace, Iny down his lifo. Lord Rusacll, who w invited to prosido at this mooting, emphatical deolined, on the ground that his fullest syn. pathy was with tho German Emporor In the noble strugglo for liborty in which Lo was ene goged. — The taxpayors of Utica, N. Y., at aspecial elec. tion hold recently, voted to bond tho floating debt of tho city, amounting to 24,000, wherc- upon the prosa of that city is in a flutter of joy ovor Lho paymont of the dobt. Thero s s flna touch of Micawborism in this mannor of extin- guishing dobt. Nothung o dolighted that gontlo-henrted Individual, who was always wait- ing for somothing to turn up, as paying ono of lis I, O, U.'s by lssuing another. — NOTES AND OPINION. Tho loglslative correspondont of the Danvillo (A1).) Netws writos from Bpringfield: The membera of {he two old parties seem to ho spending ns much timo in cauous, seokiug after their political principles, as thoy do legislating, Tho Ko publicana meot often, and veom to bo fn tho grontest quandary o to what courso to pursuc to win tho next gamo. Tho Domacraty meet, und are equally at u losa 10 dotermiuo whethor tho parly fu dond or alive, If I wora ntlowed to uxpress an opinfon, Iwonld suggost the striking aimilarity botweon tho two parties aud tho Inte lnmeutod Blameso Twins, Thoy sro botl con- uected by tho Ngament of corrupt practices, bub ag croes and crablbed to each other ss Chang and Eng, ‘Tho doath of one would result ntho deiniso of tho other, Lot us hopo that Ohang will soon dic, that Eng wmay foliow, —Iu tho Domocratio caucus [at Bpringfold; tho order of tho day has boon to uu{x‘xidsr thg question of * to bo or not to bo” of the party; in tho Rtopublican csucus tho consultation was upon tho probablo offect of proposed logislntion, not in view of the common intorests, but as re- fimdn tho wolfure ‘of the party, Areany so liud as to be unablo to discover tho utlor uso- lessnces of theso old party-organizations ?— Iitinois @ranger, —Doth partios in our Legislature have turned their attention to patching up old party breachos or the formation of now political organizations. ‘This authority was not delegated fo our Inw=~ makers by their constituents.—Joliet Siqual. —Itfa to be regrotted that Gov. Hondricks should haye attempted [in tho Springtield cau- cus] to nid the Bourbon slement in kooping up an organization which is poworless for good and i1 only used to keop tho Orodit-Mobilior, Land- Bubsidy, tarill, corrapt Republican party in power.— Rock Tsland Argus. —The **800,000,000 Domacratic voters® will nover follow the old bannor in suotlter Prealden= tinl campnign, oven if Thomas A. Hendricks does head the ticket.—Afadison Democrat. —1T'ho menncat kind of appeats are those ad- dressed to partivan projudices, instend of tho in- talligenco or good sonse of & poople.—Rockford Journal, —The next election {Novembor, 1874,] will bo the most important over hold in tlus country, v« + o+ Tho pooplo have come to the conclu~ sion that thoy lLave been robbod by railrond companics long enough, that National Bauly are ap oxpensivo luxury, and that a high taritf only robu tho masses for the beneflt of the fov; ond that sl theee of theso monopolies should ba dispensed with, or regulated a8 soon as poasiblo. This fecling among tho magses of the poople is woll understood by the capitalists, and all three of {hese interesta will combino to bout the peopla at the polls noxt fall.—Ford Counly Journal. —Again I would urgothe great nccoussity of ‘prompt sction for tho purpose of uniting tho ag- ricultural and laboring olomonts of tho nation. ‘Have no piace for lawyers nor fuglemen; have no time to hear soft words and fino speeches; hiavo no time to histen to the oft-repeated sny- ing: *How much I do love the denr people.”~ “¥, P." in Waunkeqan Patriot. —Tho worst of all cormoranta and vultures that prey upon us are those that control the monoy of tho country; patent laws, protective tarift, spocial logislution, are powerful agents to assigt somo of those clagses; aud National Banks are deemed neccessary to distill the credit of the Governmont before its pledgos can bo placedin the hauds of the farmors. And what liave wo been doing whila this net has been wovon around us, baving confidenco in thoge kid-gloved gonts that mako the tour of the oun- try on the eve of au olection?—JD, P. Pierce to Gi'angmw in MeDonough County. —Tho {nflationiets in Congresa scom to think that not only is it the business of tho United States to coin monoy, but also to manufacturo it toorder in any quantity st any timo.—Aledo ZBanner. < —Qur [[llinois] Legielature is still In Inbor. ‘Whother this mountsin in labor will bring forth anything mora than & mouse remains Lo bo scen. It scems somewhat difticult to kgl‘:lp o working quoram together.—AfcLeansboro Times. —About the only timo the House [st Spring- fiold] bas & quorumn_js when it wants to voto x}c;wu a motion to adjourn.—Harrisburg Chron~ icle. —It is reported that tho railroads have re~ turned to their old plau of distributing * posses "’ among tho members of the Illinois Legislature. Wo hopa it ia not 50, and, if true, wa hopo that the members will promptly return all such ¥ favors " recoived by thom, ~ Without entering into the question of right or wrong involved in the matter, thore is no doubtin rognrd to the wish of tho poople in tha promisos, It is, that no passes be accepted.—Belvidere Northwesters, —The House of Ropresentatives at Springfiold have refused to ropenl the Railroad-Grab law of 1869, by o vote of 77 to 43. Soule of LaSullo, Toled against repeal. Hart and Armstrong dic not vote. Thero is uo hopo now but for the tax- puyers to refuse to pay taxes, and appeal to tho Supreme Court, whore the law must be declared * unconstitutional, The railroads are represented in tho lobby by the sharpest men in tho State, who have plenty of money to distribute. 'The above vote is doublloss the result of its free use,—Earlville I'ranseript, —Our Representatives in the Legislature, Mosers, 8. 8, Mann, Carpenter, and forrington, on the recent voto on the repoal of the infamoud Railway-Grab _bill,’ voted nquare sgeinst tho iniquity, sud, it they did not succeed in offecting jts mbolition, we aro gratifled that, as repre- sontatives of old Kane, thoy ot least showed that our people aro alive to the necossity of fighting grabs and grabbers. Tho time will como, tc0, whon the poople will boat tho grabbers, au ot prosont wo can only return thanks o Messrs. Mouu, Carponter, and Herrington for showing their consistout determination to oppose thoso infamios of legislation by which Illinois 18 being robbed.—Elgin Gazelte. —It appoars thal the war of railroad corpora- tions agaiust tho taxntion of their capital stock i assuning largo proportions, and there is a prospect thiat al the railroad corporations of tho Btate will combino in fighting a test case their common interest. It would not be sur- rising if & conflict of authority should arisobe- tweon tho State aud Federal Courts iu this caso, eimilar to thes which ni;llnlud tno Stato of Town a few years ago. Inilroad monopoly has ex- fonted o the Todoral courts, and i likely to monopolize the entire dopartment of justice during the noxt twelve months.—Peoria Demo- eral. —_— DETROIT HOMEOPATHIC COLLEGE. spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Dernorr, Mich,, TFeb. 12~Tho Detroit Homeopathio College hield its annual commenco- ment oxorelses this aftornoon. The graduating class numbers twenty, with Dr. J. W, Moliore, of Kalamazoo, Valedictorion. ~ Following are the namos of the ;irnduntu: Jumoy Allon aud Anstin Mitchell, of Wisconsin; Edgar A. Bagloy, Theodoro M. Benedict, David Foito, Goorge B, Gregory, John L. Thatcher, Jumes W. Moliere, Clas, "E. Ross, Jullus J. O. Lutz, Byron Donfendorf, Wesloy J. Mitls, and Potor Sonns, of Michigan ; Jeromo E, Gross, of Massachusetts ; Idmund Ames, of Ponnsyl- vanin ; Chus, H, Colgrovo, of Connectiout ; Tosco' C. Plnitham, of Now York; Goorge W. Powell, Josoph . Nunn, William H, Stobor, and Goorge 8, Caclin, of Oblo; Johu T, Wager, of Cauada Richard M. Kuox, of Indiaua, Hon- ounary degrees of Dootor of Modicine wers con- forred on tho following: W. 8. COlimo, Frank- lin B, Quick, Wm. T'. Doane, of Michigen ; Jas. H, Frost, of Ponnsylvania. ———— CANADIAN ITEMS. y Speciat Dispateh to_The Chicago Tribune, OTTAWA, Ont,, Feb, 12.—It is understood that the Dominion Parliamont will meet about the 18th of March, The fourth sunusl meeting of tho Dominion Board of Yrade will bo held hore on Thursday next. The Nova Scotls local Logislature meets on tho 13th of Mareh, TonoNyo, Fob, 13.—A Bt. Johu (New Found- land) speoial to the Globe ways the majority of the new Govornmont ia only one, that boing ‘the Bpoakor's vote. ‘The rovenue of the {sland the past year was ©801,000, _— -—~Mombera of the New York Blook-Exohangy hiava opened a subscription list for the satablist~ fle'umx fres noup-Ludues i the Jower paxt b4 s sk