Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1874, Page 4

- ———veroro TTUWALY, MARCH 6, 1874 e ——— TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TENMA OF AUNRCRIPTION (PAYADLY IN ADVANCE). i, by anak., ‘eokly Yarta ot o yearnt tho samo rato, "o prosont delay and mistakos, bo sure and glvo Post Of conddreun n full, including Stato and County. Remittancos nuny o wado oithor by draft, spross, Post Otiico ovdor, ar i rogistord lottore, at unr riske TENNA TO CITY FUDRCRINENS, Dails, delivesod, Sunday oxeantod. 3 oonte par woalt, Ldly, acliverad, Sundny Included, D0 conts por wagk. Addioss TIK TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madisnn aud Deathorn-sts.. Chloago, AMUSEMENTS. To: ndison_strent, batwoon Il s meut of Mdwin Booth, Dearhal und Btato, livg 10~ alstad atroot, hotwaon Mad. ADIMY OF M AOA DAY O psngannt o tho ‘Hifly Avamio vorsas faon aud Monroo, "Thoatro Company, SV'S TUIRATRU—Randalnts _atront, botwoen O CA Thsaiter T HaTAol Worrini by Tlion, © e Widow's Viotim," ** Bobisil ang Waglall,” GLORE THEATRE-Denplatueastreot, botweon Mad. ot Nnahitigton, fngngemont of Joroph K. Eumot, 4 Fritz, Our Cousin Qorman," DRELPHT TURATRI-Cornor of Wabash avonuo el Chimrenn ptroot. VAFioly oatorAtameat, +Ftia a. din flox Triok."" ] 1% Monroo atreot, Dotweon T eons Saian: M, Kol MYERS' OPERA Dearbor aud Stata, Minutcels, Atinstsol Pslnco of ThIdgoport, aud comioalitios, RNUT BAPTIST CHUROH-Teo. O Ny Vhot. Nehow hepyards SubJOoE: W uGinas Cariylon DR, KAHN'S ANATOMIOAT, MUSRUM~No. 148 Soutl Clark streot. _Nolonce and Art, BUSINESS NOTICES. 1'TO CONSUMPTIVES=MANY HAVE BE] 2o pivo, tieir fostimony In fevorof the s of Pure Cod Livor Oit nud Linio, Kzxporlanco hat nitizhle raniody fur Consumpiion, Asthn thorda, aud nii diseasos of tho hroat and Lu; facturad only by A, B. WILBOR, Chomist Bald by drugaista goiicrally, — The Chicagy Tibune, March 6, 1874. TAPPY Wiiboe's roved 1t Dipti= Boston. to bo Fridey Morning, Congresn hins beon potitioned by tho Iows Logielaturo to inflate tho currency. Tho Tows Souate has passod to & third rend- ing tho bill prohibiting tho sale of wino and beor, Dnez wes yeslorday Judgo Pratt, of Brooklyo, who has donied & mo- tion of arrcst mnde by anothor complatuants claiming 2200,000 damages for false imprison- ment in San Domiuge, in 1870, By o majority of 1, the Soi yestorday nc- conted Sonator layard's amendmont to the Liquor bil), providing that tho Commission it will ogtablish shall not bo wholly composed of prohibitionists or the advocates of totat absti- nence, e The seare of tho Wisconsin Senato iu adjourn- ing to dodge Gov. Taylor's expected voto of tho St. Croix Land-Grant bill was ludicrously unnec- essary, Gov. Taylor Jast ovening signed the Dbill, and the Senate is once moro at liberty to at- tend toita business in tho digmfied way usual to State Legislaturcs. st s Tho Rov. Dr. Hatfleld, of Cincinnati, who onco had a pnstorate bero, led tho nvondsy prayer-meoting yeatorday. An unusual number of business men and prominent citizens were in attendance, attracted by his prosouce. The subject of Mr. Hatfleld's romarks was tho ne- cessity and yalue of prayer. Tho Young Mon's Clristian Associstion, in concert with o numbor of the clergymon of this city, havo issuod o card requesting tho churches of Chicago to st apurt next Wednosday ovening for o sorvica of prayarful covsideration of the recont wonderful ravival of interest in the cause of tomporance. Gatliorue Hatdy and hiv clorks in tho British War-Oflice, who have been sitting up nights aud waiting for news from Sir Garnet Wolse- loy, havo recuived tho cheering intolligence that tho oxpedition is eafo, aud has added to its trophics tho King of {ko Ashanteos, who hug surrendered and iu now a prisoner of war. Senator Cameron and his Centennial wore snubbed yestorday by the Senato, Mo notified Lis aegociates tho day beforo that he would give them ono day to come to & vote, When the sub- Ject camo up tho Sonato listoned to specches from Seuators Stockton and Bavard in favor of an international eshibition, and then went into excentive session, although Ifr, Cameron ro- uowed Lis appeal for a conciusion of the mattor. Tho counsel for the Mucoupin County bond- lolders aro defatigable, Thoy appeared bo- foro the United States Diatrict Court at Spring- field yestorduy, and askod that tho money latoly puid by the Supervisors of tho county to purge thomselves of contompt should ba applicd upon the judogent against tho county. Thoy tlkie tho ground thnt, astho money wich which the Supervisors cleared themsalves was county monay, it should bo used in this way. The Court reserved its decision. Boss Shephard chargod in his Iate communi- cation to the District of Columbia Investigating Committes thut ho could not pay the school- toschers of the District beesuse the grave hargos mado agaiuat tho District Governmont bad impaired its crodit’ aud rendored it unable io get the monoy, Mr, Corcoran, the Washing- ton bauker, who was one of the leaders in malk- [ng theso charges, how offers to advance moncy amough to pay tho teachors for the month of Beptombor, Anothor attempt was mado yestorday to rovive the franling nbuso in the intarost of tho statos- mien who get renominations by distributing Pat- ent-Ofiice Reports aud garden-secds among thoir oconstitucuts, DIr. Shanie’ motion to reconeidor tho voto by which the reatoration was defeatod Tast week was ngreed to by 123 (0108, and tho bill was thou reconsidered, Thiy was tho ond of Mr. Bhanks® wuccosges. Ilis motlon to sub- stituto Gon, Butlor's Franking bill was lost by 183 to 45, and tho reconsidered bill was then dafeated ngain Ly 111 ta 120, It was lost on the voto Inst wealt by n madority of two, e Tho Chieago produce markets were gonorally stronger, with moro business doing. Afess pork was in good demand, sud 20@25 por brl higher, closiug at 314,00@14.60 cach, nnd $14,60@14.70 ecller April, Lard was active, and 250 por 100 thw highor, closing at $8.85@8.87)4 cash, and £8.95 sollor April. Meats woro quiet and 3go per Ib bighor, 53¢e for shoulders, 734c for short Tibs, 7o for shiort clear, and 0}(@10)0 for swent-pickled Lams, Dressed hogs were dull aud enslor, 86.00@0,12} per 100 Iba, Iigh- winos wero notive and eusior, at 920 por gallon. Plour was dull and unohanged. Wheat was aotive and flrmor, olosing ‘at $1.10% oash, and $1,905¢ sellor April. Corn was sotlve and 3o nighor, olosing at 974 cash, aud 603¢o mollor April. Onta woro auiot and J{@}4o highor, ot 170 cnsh, and 4315@435¢o soller Avril. Ryo was quict and firm ut 86@Y6!do for cmront ro- coipts, Barley wan dull and irregular, at §1,92@ 1.95 for No. 8. Live hogu were iu bottor do- mand, nod firm at 84.00@6.85 for Inferior to choleo, Cattlo wore dull and lower. Bhoop do- clined 16@206¢c, but woro fairly sctivo at tho ro- duction, | ¥ I'to condo of wuman {s ma! ng'lmadn‘ny in ovory direction, Tho promiuent and oficient part whioch women aro taking in the Orange- movemont, and in the moro transitory but not less notivo prayor crusndo, hmy pgivon it n vast esocial npulso, 'Tho decieion of the Massacht- notts Buprome Court fn favor of woman'a right tositon tho Behool Doard lns givoen it 8 logal sanction, and tho Lowor Iousos of tho Leglsta- tures of Towa and Michigan have both recom- mondod that tho Stato Constitutions bo amended to givu women tho right of suflrage. Tt ia fortunate that Diaracli approciaton tho importatico of prompt doaliug with tho Indisu famino, Thero ean bo no doubt that tho gront erlamity which tho English pross lave with singular unanimity boon pressing npon tho at- tention of tho impassive English poovlo and Govornmont {s at hand. Tho dispalchos al- rondy bogin to toll of doaths by starvation, and tho number of applicants for reliof has doubled within o weok, T'ho Indian famino is acknowl- edged to be tho greatost problem before the now Cabiuot. r. Garfield made au {mportant spoech yester- day on the doficit with which Mr. Dawos startled the country in his spcoch some time ago. Ho #aid Mr. Dawes' confessed mistake of $29,000,000 in calculating the exponses of the curront year hnd taken tho bottom out of his atartling statemonts, Tostesd of boing incronsed to £319,000,000 from $290,000,000, the oxpenees for tho yoar would bo roduced to $370,000,000 if tho House continued to stand by tho Appropriation Committeo fn ita rotrench- ments, Iobelioves that the revival of publie prosperity will enable the Government to go to tho ond of noxt year with its presont sourcos of rovenuo ; but, if such should not bo tho caap, ho inin favor of restoring somo of tho taxos tho abolition of whick has reduced tho revenue, The Committeo of Ways and Meana listoned yostorday to tho story of the dopredations of Special Agont Jayno on the firm of Phelps, Dodgo & Co., as told by onoof thoe patnors, In tho accounts of fivo years® business, amount- ing to 840,000,000, the clerk, bired by Jayne to play tho epy, found au error, snd that a tech- nical one, of 81,600, For this & forfoituro of $1,700,000 wos imposod, and » ponalty of $276,~ 000 actually oxacted and paid. Mr, Dodge ox- plained to the Committee how the informora sud Spocial Agent Jayne went to work to got tho merchants in their power, and his nccount crented much excitemont and indignation in the Comumitteo and among the spectators. Another wmomorial sgainst tho syatem of molotica has beeu presonted to the Committes by the Board of Trade of Philadelphia. TFor two months the Commissioner of Customs in the Treasury Dopartmeunt has beon preparing o list of morchants who have defanlted in the payment of dutics. This compilation covers the name of every dolinquent in the country. 1t givea tho proportious in which the duties ro- covored wore distributed among Custom-House oflicors, informors; Special Ageuts, nad tho Govornment, and is meant to bo an answer to the charges that but a fraction of these dutics roach tho Treasury. Inour New York dispatches some of the figures of this record are given. In New Youk, for inatance, forfeiturcs of £8,95,- £45,08 were talien in ton years from morchants who attempted to evade the payment of $195,~ 923.93. Of this, the informera got $519,092.66, and the Treasury 1,606,350.83. In Chicago, dulien wero ovaded to the amount of §1,647.83, and tho merchauts wero fined $33,042.43, ‘Tho Trcasury got less than balf of this,—§14,692.46,— and the rost wont to tho intormers aud Govern- ment officers as moioties and spoila. The Senato of the Btato of Iowa has beforo it no less then oight bills having for their object tho esteblishment of maximum rates of charges for (o, trausportation of freight and passengors on tho difforent railroads of that State. A sub- slitule for theso las recontly boen introduced which claegifics all railrond corporations accord- ing to tho gross nmount of their reepoctive an- nual earpings per mile. Tho classes sro threo: A, whero tho carnings are 4,000; B, whero thoy are 83,000 and losa than §4,000; 0, includes all roads whose earnings aro losd than £3,000 por milo & year. Theso ronds aro suthorized to charge for passovgors according to their ctnsses, thus : Class A, Sconts por milo; Class B, 3} conts; and Class O, 4 conts por mile. Tho bill then prescribes specific noun- diseriminating ratea for tho tranaportation of all kinds and classes of goods, wares, merrhandiso, and products on railronds belonging to each of the sevaral classes. Tho bill contaius tho soveral provisions nceessary to punish violations of the law, and to furnish adequate romodies to per- sons injured by suits in thoe civil courts. 0Of tha locat clactions in New York, March 8, tho telegraph reportod to us only the followlug: The town electlons in Erlo Couuty, N, ¥,, on Tues. day, resulled in & genorab defeat of the Ropubliesn candidatos, mainly on local feues, ‘What theso “local insues' wore, 5o fatel to Topublican caudidates, the DBuffalo papers do not explain; but *local issues ” or * general apathy * eppoars ta bave done o smashing busi- negs, ou Tucsdsy, olsowhere than in Erle County. Thoro is su opposition victory in Auburn, M. Y,, by 400 majority, agalost Grant's 8655 auother, of 861 majority, in Elmira, whero Grant had 1615 etill sunother, of “‘about G00 majority," in Newburgh, where Grant’s major- ity was 488; and in Rochestor tho Ro- publican Mayor wins by 460 (Grant had 1,778), but the opposition carry tho City and County Boards, Ou tho uame day *‘localissues” (wo suppove) elocted an entire opposition Olty Govornment in Burlington, V., against a)l preco- dont; snd gave tho oppositlon some unexpeoted municlpal succosses down in Mulne. * Local is- sues," t0o, have eatried & gaod many electlons, this weak, Jn Towa, invariably againgt tho Repub- loans, Tho gontlemon who consider themslves “tha party," st Washiugton, should beware of theso local issuos, instead of giving us more of them—such as Slmmons, ournal advortiaes a patent which i commonds to all tho Grangers of tho country, Its primary purpose {s to prevont tho broaliiug up of tho Demooratio and Republican parties, and to provont sny now party thrusting iteolf forward in tho intorest of voform. The patent is, that, In the elections of 1874, for Con- grosamon, Btale officers, and members of the State Loglslatures, the Grangers shnll divide Republican Grangers shall act with tho Republi- can party, aud support only Republiesns for ofice, and that tho Domocratic Grangery shall In tho samo way support only Domocrats for office. In this way, wo aro told, the Grangors will oxerciso a wholosomo control over both partles, will not provoko tho antagonism of olther porty, snd tho condition of tho polities of iho country will not bo so soriously disturbod as will bo tho caso It the Republican and Democrat- fo Grangers sball unite and eloct now mon, plodged to roform and othor untried oxpori monts, The best anewor {o this hardly-ingo- nfous plan {8 that given by tho farmers of this Btato, who have nlready calied conventions in tbree Congressional Distriots o nominate Re- formors for Congress. That iw tho only plan which the farmors of the Wost gencrally have regolved to ndopt, not only with respeet to Congressmon Lut ta all other offcars, aud, it tho Domocratio and Republican partios think propor to opposo them, lot them do it, And now Louisville puts in a claim in the way of o porsonnl diffionlty. Rosidonts of Bpring- flold and Chicago oud varlous other citios will remomber the Rov. Gilbert H, Roberteon, whose sing acoured his oxpulsion from Lis Church n yoar or two sinco. When his guilt bocanio pb- lig, his frienda foll away from Lim, Ho went to Mr. Watterson, editor of tho Loulsvillo Conrier~ Journal, throw himeolf on tho laiter's sympathy, and obtained employment as & writer on tho Courer-Journal. Ho aflorwards becamo oditor of tho Louisville Commereial, andat onconbused his position and amused himsolf by dolug what Mr. W. styles **squirting pollots of mud at me."” Finally, Robortson pubiished an olaborato nssault upon the man who bad befriouded bim in hisnood. Ho rocoived no roply, Whon ho tried to got bock into tho Church aud failed, the Courier-Journal commonted on the fact a8 s pleco of nowa. This, with two other incidental roteronces, includes everything the paper Lins enid of tho Rov. Robortson, Tho latter has ro- contly been collecting cortiflcatos of character from varlous citizens. Intrenched bohind these, hio has kopt up o stoady fire of falschood upon Mr, Watterson, This gentloman’s patienco bay at length beon oxhausted, He sots forth that ho has consclontious scruplos againet duel- Ing, but adde, with grim plessantry, that while it may be truo that he cannot hit a barn- door- at ten paces, ho thinke bo ‘‘might do somothing more creditablo and of- fectivo in onse it beesme mnecessary to shorton tho range." Ho would spparently prefor » rango equal to the broadth of his offico, for ho clouos bia signod editorinl by saylng that Lobolds himaelf responeible for anything and evorything that appesrs in the Courier-Journal, and that he can bo found in his room at any time by any nggrieved porsons. THE MAN AT THE CRIB. Amid all tho wrangling and jongling thot Is going on in this wicked world, thero is one mau who has no part nor lot in it. However fiercoly contosts way rage in the nowspapers, in tho chureh, in politics, or in society, there {s ono man whose serenity is nevor disturbod by them. Every man in Chicago muy bo divorced, overy chureh ront in twain, overy political organiza- tlon dissevered, and overy religious newspapor g0 to paddling vegetino and brass jowolry; mur- dorers msy elay, fires may consumo, offi- cials sy swonl, bollers moy explode, horses run away, thero i8 one man who Lnows nothing about it, snd cares nothing about it, for none of the cares that in- fost the day or lurk in the night can affoct him, Thia man 18 the Man at tue Crib. Whatever may happen to the rost of tho world, Tho Man pursuos tho even tenor of his way, which 18 sbout 7070, with an uurudled brow, never hay to look out for omnibuees and coal-carts at stroot-crossings, or carry an umbrolia becauss- some other man is ““chawing torbaker." Tho Aan bas numorous advantages for which hoshould be extremoly grateful. Tho firet of these Is his immunity from disturbance of any lwd, o is freo to purauo s meditations without fear of interruption. In the mild spring mornings, he can sit in bis own door and fish for porcb, In the summor ovenings, ho can take a stroll of seventy feet along his lake shoro aud not be aunoyed by other strollors. In win- tor, o has nothing to do but to st in the houso and keep himeelf warm, aud no sounds but those of wind and wave disturb lum, His opportu- nitios for meditation aro thus unlimited. Nothing runs athwart his roverios more disturbing than tho clouds whichfloat above and the waves which wash bolow, tho gloam of a swiftly-paseing _sail, or tho cry of the gull flying by, all of which sro aids to meditation. Another advan- tago Is that tho dangers which lio in wait for the ro8t of tho world do nob threaten him. No burglar, howover skillful or cunning ho may be, can reach Tho Man. Ho may leave all his doors and windows opon at night, and nothing but the winds of Hoaven can enter, The tax-gatherer scarches for him in vain. Life-lnsur- anco agents, book peddlors, ragmen, ap- ple women, haud - organ grindors, im. age vondors, Dbill cotlectors, beggars, old- clothes mon,~none of the numerous guilds of peripatotio nuisance ever darken his doors, Ho can't go to churel, therefore he is not obligod to pay pow-routs, 1ead the religious newspapers and have bis soul annoyod with naughty adver~ tisoments, go to parlor concorts and strawborry fteativals, or onduro tho jar of creods and warring of sects. o has no ourrious neighbors to look in at his windows, watch his going-ing and coming-outs, sscertain from the butchor- boy whiat Lo loft for dinuer, take inventorios of his porsonal offects, or toll tales about his lato hours, acandalizo his wifo's reiment, aud: dopro- cisto his childron because thoy are noisy and olimb fencos ; neither is ho disturbed by the rooster next door or his neighbor's seraglio of cats. Mis days glide by like a dream, and his nights-aro silent and solemn, Tho stars alono look down upon him with blinking eyos, and tho waves Jull him tosleep with their rhythmio mono- tones, Couutry cousing can't vieit him and walo him up early in the morning. Tho crusad- ing wowen oan't get at him across tha two miles of thelr favorito boverage, 80 lio may enjoy Lis boor in ponco. No one can build noxt him and out oft his view. Ho ls not obliged to go to loctures and amateur concerta, can chango hls shirt whien heo royally pleases, don’t have to pay car-fares or shovel snow off his stops,can throw his slops out of the window, can be gome all night without coming home drunl, don’t ave to carry & night-key, novor is late to cburch, and his wife don't have to go uhopping, or have mow bonnets, or attond sociables, or sit up nights sewing, or recoive calla all tho sftornoon, All this smphibloua feliolty veaches its climax in the faot that tho Post and Mails {ntor- viewora can't get at him, @so that the outsido world can mover kiow whothor according to their anciont party faith; thatthe ! ho payn hie bills promptly or whother s grandfathor once kopt a lowtonad grocory, or whether ho {8 for or ngninst tho inflation of tho ourronoy. In faot, o is boyond tho reach of curlosity, gosulp, speculation, and slandor. It only noodn o fow fig-traes growiug on hio Orib, and a sen-serpont near by, to realizo the primitive delights of Eden. Happy AMan of tho Crib! Who does not onvy his serenity, his happiness, and bii ponco 2 Evon Naturo horsolf grows joslous of so much individual onjoymont, and has now svenged hersolf by sending a wave aver his iustitution which has interferod with his housckeopiug arrangoments ,somewhat, but even a wavo of {his sort now and then is proferablo to tho turbid torrent of troublo which 14 daily deluging ihis wicked wortd, owing to tho perversity of tho religlous nowapapers, THE WOLIEN OF RHODE IBLAND, The Logislaturo of Riodo Telaud is conaldor- ing tho proprioty of submitting to the popular voto the followiug constitutional amondmant : Men and womon politfeally aud legally siall bo enti- Aled to cqual rights nud privileges, aud shiall be subject to equal duties and Habllitfes, Thoro i n possibility of the adoption of tho mensuro. It will bo noticed that lts provisions aro sweoping, Not only is woman to have equal rights and privileges with mav, but sho is to be subjeot to equal dutios and liabilitios. Is sho to sorve in tho militia? Xf euch n vaguo nmend- ment i adopted, tho Courts will Lo busy for yoara in sottling tho questions that will ariso undor the many lawa which now put & wifo under tho control of bor husband, imposo disabili- tios mpon women in regard to inhoritance, administration, eta, eto. The precise way in which the amendmont would affe ot each ox- isting law on these subjects would have tobe decidod in tho courts. Tho Rhode Island ro- formers would do botter if thoy sbould Umit thoir efforts to tho passage of o resolution sim- ply abolishing sex as 8 requisite of enfranchise- ment, Other Iawa which arealleged to do womon wrong would bo repealed speodily enough, if women voted, It this idon of woman suffrago is to bo toated angwhoro now, Rhode Istand is & very good place to try it in. In Wyoming and Utah, female suffiago has cortalnly mot purified politics. The frauds wundor it have been shock- ing. Frontier licenso in the one Territory, and tho away of the Mormon Church in the othor, liavo boon pleaded in palliation of this fact. In Rhode Island, however, tho measure will stand on its own morits. Education is gonoral. Tho agitation In Massachusetts has practically taught Now England women how to use political power, Moroover, the littlo State is so thoroughly in the Dands of monopolios now that no sudden chango of policy need be fearod. On tho other hand, tho womon outnumber tho mon, If thoy once got the ballot, thon, it can novor be tuken away from them, though the oxporiment of thoir voting should bo & disastrous failure, Taking tho census of 1870 for s basiz, wo find that the malo vote would be about 44,000 and tho tomalo about 62,000. Some 4,600 malo voters aro, aud somo 8,350 fomalo votors would be, illitorate. How much of sn educational influ- enco the franchiso would have on theso unlettor- ed thousands, only tho experiment can show. If Bhodo Island should sdopt the proposed amondment, sho would certainly be prominent amoug tho Btates, but it might bo only as an awful warning, Hor politics during the noxt few yoars would settlo soveral important prace tical quostions. Will tho average woman vote, ifnhocan? Will sho voto under the influenco of raason or eaprico 7 Will she ask the Stato to plty papa continually 2 Will sho advocate ab- swd sumptuary laws ag wildly as sho doos now ? Will sho in any way purify politica? Ouly ex- petienco con givo us tho answer. It would bo odé if the firat Colony to ignore tho distinctions of uects should be tho firat Btato to ignore thoso of sex. THE NEW YORK COMMUNE, ‘The repoits of M, Louis do Plaiuval, a Fronch dotectivo in the omploy of the Now York polico suthorities during tho time of the workingmen's agitation thers, bavo justboon magde public. To read theso roports, one might believe himself in Paris at tho thno of the Commuue, or that the Paris Communo had beon tranglated to Now York. Itmight puzzlo an American citizon to digcover what a "' Fronch rovolutionary and Com- munistic Circle" hns to do m New York, or what revolution it contemplates, yot such is tho namo of tho organization—an organization not gotton up, romember, to revolutionize France, but to act xight hore, Tho loading spirit among tho Froneh Communists in Now York is & Bir. May, o man who aequired some oxperience in that line during tho Paris Commune, aud who came to thls country, according to M. do Plainval's sccount, with a goodly supply of diamonds stolen during the Iato roign of torror thero; A groat uumbor of the Fronch Commun- ists in Now York were sotivo participants in the Paris Comumnune, and would desire no bottor pustimo than to rovive its horrors hore. 1L do Plainval attendod oue of thoir mootings provious ! to tho attompted displey in Tomking' square, and heard tho specches mado on the occasion. Theso haranguos wore worthy of tho times of tho first Frouch Rovolution. Ono speaker ro- windod tho mombors of the Oircle that thoy must do their duly * evon at tho cost of blood,” Another rocommonded, a4 the best way of mak- ing this world s Utopls, to marchto tho City Hall, “take tho Mayor by the nack and throw bim out of the window.” An euterprising and enthusiaatic individual,tho propriotor of a drum, offored hig sorvicos ko summon the soidiers of liborty to action, 1is sorvicos woro accopted, and ho did noxt morning beat his drum about tho atreats of Now York to call the Commuuo to srma} In adjourning, tho mombers, in true Fronch stylo, did not forgat to cryout—* The Commuuo or death!". Tho dotective commia- sionod to watch thoso movoments roports that he is satisfied the men would follow their leadors and oboy their commands to auy extont. At unother mooting, somebody hard-pushed for & little monoy, doubtless, proposod that thoso buildings iu which money was stored should bo burned down. This was aftor tho interferonce of the polico with the ompkina' square dom- onstration, TheCommuunists, both Gorman and French, wore dotormined that tho noxt timo the polico Interfored, thoy should bo opposed by forco, The Germeus came armod with ritles and bayonots; and on ono ocoa- gion, whilo tho Franchmon wore iu ono story of a. building talking, the Germana were up-stairs drilling, ‘Phey were dotormmed that shore shiould bo no second defent, aud that In tho fu. ture tho police should be met with * blow for blow and blood for blood.” A military organi- zatlon waa declded upon, finally, to cousist of companies of 400 mon commanded by Oaptains, four suclt companios to form & loglou, Buch ia tho plan that Lias been transforred to our coun- try from Europe duting tho lnat deosde, (om- pared with our population, tholz numbar (s small, Thelr power for mischlef, howevor, is not to bo monanred by thelr numbors, but by thelr despor- ation, Waro it thoir plan of operations to meot tho organizod polico of the country man to mn, thoro would bo-loss foar from thom then thero is, But thoy aro not soldiors, They aro crimi- nals,—incondinries. 1t i well that thoy aro un- dor tho survelllanco ot tha palice, —— THE ELEVATOR QUESTION IN TOWA. Boveral years ngo, Donn Rtichmond, of New York, and othiors entered into a contract with the Dubnque & BSloux Oity Itailrond Company, by which they were to build an otevator at Dubnque, through which all graln possing . over that road wna to pass, ot o speclflod rato forhandling, Tho pleu was to recolvo the gratu In'bulk, teke it into tho elovator, put it in Dags, and havo it shippod down tho rivor. Defore thoe clovator was com- ploted, tho Iilinofs Contral Rallirond Company lensod tho Dubuque & Sioux City Ttailroad, and sinco thon oll grain cominig from tho Wesb Las, without stopping at Dubuquo, beon carrled di- ract to Ohleago, or to such othor ustorn point as it may have boen consignod to. Upon the complotion of tho clavator, thio propriotors aunouncod their readiness to reccive grain ; aud on ovory businoss day since thon thoy have kopt tho eatablishmont opon, and ave kepta forco of mon in readinoss with fircs lightod sud machine- rym order to take the grain into warohouso, Naovor, however, bas o bushel of grain ontored tho warchouso. Finally, s suit was ontored agoluat tho Railroad Company undor the contract, in which $0600,000 was claimod for tho business which tho elovator might have done, but never ‘did. Tho elovator was, perbaps, worth half the amouns of damages clsimed. Tho trinl has just finished, and the jury hos given a verdiot for $204,760.81, Othor cnsos egoinst the Contral Company havo boen previously tried, and all wero decided against tho Compauny, Tlese cascs oro pouding on appeal in tho Uuited Statos Supremo Court. The jury in this caso cut down the phintill's claim moro than half, and the totat of thoir ver- dict waa a8 stated, and mado up of tho following specinl findings: 1. Lo of profita of handling, recolving, and discharging grain, $209,909.20. 2, Loss of storago, §26,249.90, 8. Loss of profits on handling sacks, $2,000.62. 4. Loss of profits of eacking tho graim, £2,640.48. 6. Loss of’ profita on cleaning grain, $8,772.12, 6. Loss of profits on value of clovator and buildings, 50,000, A motion for a mow trial has been mado, and tho caee, lke tho othors, will bo takon to tho Bupremo Court. If this and tho othor findinga sgainat tho Railrosd Company be sustained, tho shortest and chespest thing for tho Company is to buy (he elovator and pull it down. TLLEGAL WARRANTS, Tho {nvestigation Lefore the Doard of Polico Commissioners rovenls tho fact that it has beon tho practice of tho Polico Mapistrates of Chi- cago to leave st the various stotions warrants Quly slgoed, but otherwise In blank, It also ap- pears that tho practico had boen for the Bor- goants to Al up thoso warrants and delivor thom to tho patrolmen to oxocuto. It wasa warrant thus signed on which Officor Beanlon arrested Tafferty, and, had Rafferty shot Scanlon instead of O'Meara, the crime would have beon merely manelaughtor. This practico, wo supposo, has been abandoned. It i8 o serious ques- tion for patrolmen to attempt the ar- rest of sauy ruffien. The whole fra- tornity of thioves and roughs hove boon fully informed that any defect in, tho warrant of arrest will reduco tho crime of killiog the ofiicer from murder to manslaughter, snd, so loosely bas this business of issuing wsrrants becn conducted in Chicago, that in, pine cases out of ten thoy might have taken tho risk with anfoty. As'a goneral thing, there is but little attontion given at the Polico Courts to the proper form of tho warrants issued, and this practice should be promptly corractod. Tho Clork or tho Magistrata ubould romembor that tho oflicor who is to oxe- cuto tho warrant has no discrotion but to obey Lis orders, apd that, should he be murdered, tho assassin may escapo the penaltios of the crimo of murder through an informality of the warrsut. Justice to the policorson demands tlat the making-out of tho warraut should bo committed to competent hands, and nover issued without caroful oxamination, SOME WCRRING-WOMEN, Tho ladios of Atlantic, Iowa, havo ot a good oxample to the crusading womon in the mattor of breaking up tho whisky businces. Evidontly belioving that thero ia as much officacy in worlk a8 in prayer, they took ndvantage of tho annual city election on Monday last, stormod the polls, and successfully carried thom. The modus operandi was very simple. In the first place, Quring tho campaign, they demanded officorn who would not grant salovu-ironses; and, to clinch tho mattor, thoy Lield n caucus and put & true-blue, cold-water ticket in nomination. ‘Then thoy got up & pledgo for tho signaturc of votors who would agree to abide by and support tho nominations, They circulatod this freely and got suliclont sigasturcs for a nuclous to tho good work, Having done this, they propared themsclves for tho fight. Tromptly at 7 o'clock on Monday morning they were on tho ground, and thoy stayed thore until tho polls closod at night. They hired tho vil- lago bravs band, and it discoursod most oxcellent temperanco muslo, none of tho players taking & horn duting tho day. The only Land-organ ln the village was also eubsidized, and ground its mournful musical modioum steadily from a bar- rol which had novor boen teinted with lquor, Tho buildings of the town woro docorated with flags snd banners, The ladies peddled tho tlokots, and, when tho voting lagged, thoy talked and sang. Thus the day wors on, and when tho polla closed tho tired women took earrisges wod went home, Tho rosult of their worl was that thoir ticket was olected outire by fiity wajority. Thus, by one doy's good honest work, tbey routed their enomy, and will not bo sunoyod with him for a yoar louger ab least. The victory is a suggostiva ouno to those who ave engaged in tho temperance businces whoraver & municipal oleotion is pending. Thero i no more offoctive way to dispose of whisky than to voto it down, It is Lottor than closing up soloons and pourlug whisky into the streets, bocauso now onea may open sgain. Tt is bettor than gotting drunkards to sign plodges, bo- couso thoy may bresk thom, Tho ladies of At- Iantto have gono to the fountain-hoad and sealed wup. Tho victory they have wou {a & logitimate - ono. A new word s wanted. We have too many that mean nothing, and now demand one that shall bo full of significanco, The Amorican Inngungo Liaa the reputation of oxtrome felioity in the coining of new worde to meot now ovqnts, WIIt My, Richard Grant Whito please riso and announce & word to exprosa briofly and oasily tha aot of belog xobbed with a view to covoring a dofaleation? Wlion lio or somo othior equally- roliable philologist shall have provided tho Iangungo with n most necousary synomyin for this phraso, wo will apply it to Mr. John Butlor, Tort Beott, Mo, o was tho ngont of tho Grang- erain tho noighborhood of hat town, nnd, aftor belng intrustod with the mnnagemont of somo coal flelds thorenbouts, marriod a wifo, to whom hoprosonteddlamondsenough tosaltevory square mile of Arizonn. A few wooks aftortards ho was oruolly waylald by many mon in buckram, who plundered him of $2,800, the oxnct sum which oonld not bo accounted for in his hooka. As Mr. Ditler's cnso fa but ono i a thousand, s con- donred account of hia procaedings Is domandedin ono word, What is it ? . PENITENTIARY LADOR. The owners of tho Chicngo shoo-factorien .gavo na ono renson for reducing {ho wagos of thelr workmon that thoy found themsolves un- ablo to competo in the market with tho contraot- orw for tha Ponitentiary labor. Tho excuso was doubtless woll-grounded. The artisans in the noighborhood of every TPonitontiary suffer through the competition of tuo roguos confinod thero. Tho dilomma has two horns, If the prisoners work, thoy ofton drivo honest men out of work, and o lond some of them to orimo; 1t they do nob work, thore is & frighttal wasto of ‘money, and a prison becomes, for some peoplo, amoro than ordivarily comfortable almshouso, sud, for otliers, & moro way-station on tho rond to the lunatio asylum. It would bo pos- _sible, however, to matorislly modify the firat part of tho problem by changing tho prosont system of lotting Ponitentiory Ilebor, Tho usual way of making contracts now is to caleu- luto tho coat of malotaining o prisoner, and then to lot bis labor to the person who will fced and clothio him and pay tho largest bonus bosides. Occaslonally tho prisoncrs are divided imto classes, and tho labor of the different classes is lat at different rates. The trouble with theso arrangomeonts 18 that the contractor can make a profit, not only on what ho pays, over and above mointenance, but on tho food ho furnishes in part payment. This double proflt enables him to undorsoll the goods that Lonesty makes, even wheon his original bid was & fair one, and the lot- ting has boon froo from jobbory or politics. Instead of this system,.it might bo bottorto dlylde the prisonors into the two classos of skiliod and unskillod, and to then let thelr labor for cash at tho market-piico for such labor, or 88 noar it a8 possible, The State would then pay for food, and the profit on it, if thore hed Dbeon any botoro, would thencoforth inure to the Btate instead of to tho coutractor. Uudor such » aystom, mechanics {would sufter no more from competition with jail-birde then they would it the birds wers froo sud busy at honost toil, Further protoction thau this is impossiblo. THE FAMINE IN INDIA, Tho sight of & man dylng of starvation would bo a terriblo shock, Ifoaring of such a death in oue’s awn strect or cily, or oven country, affects us sirongly, Dut whon o distant nntion is men- aced by famine, oven whon tho victims of want aro counted by tho thoussnd, wo are but littto movod, We sont somothing to Persia to holp hor through her death-strugglo of two years ago, but the subscriptions werw small and the donors woro fov. Now that the Indian famine is at ita Leight, wo are doing nothivg. Nob many poople Liere know thore is a famine. Bearcoly anybody Imows its extent. According to Lord Northbrooko, Viceroy of Indis, “thirty millions of peoplo azo in deep dis- trass, and six millions of pooplo are thrown upon our hands to save or lot porlsh.” Of course, tha famino’ Lias boen forescon, aud for months tho Govornment has been busy. with measures of roliof. It is confldontly assorted that suflloient food is on lhand. The great troublo is lack of carriage. Btill, money can do much, and England stands ready to pour out monoy with desporate lavishnoss. Private subscriptions aro. Doing called for, in Iingtand and Hindostan, to supploment Governmont grants. Queen Victorin unwisely headod the London subscription with £1,000. No nativa will henceforth daro to give moro, lost ho should insult his sovoreign. Ata mooting held in Caloutts on the 4th inst., stn- tisties of tho famine at that timo wero read. In tho Proviuca of ‘lithaot, one million people cut of the four million population will have to bo en- tirely supported for several months, Altogother, tho Patns Division will have one and a half million recipients of reliof. In othér quar- tors tho outlook is as gloomy. In many places the people havo alroadybut one meal o doy. “hoy aro anxious, bub wonderiully pationt,” Even tho higher clesses aro forced to ask Gov- ormmont gid. Everything mithin mortnl powor is being done to carry that aid whorever it is neodod. If Lord Northbrooke's plans succoed, o will have tho proud. consclousness that he hos saved moro lives than tha mightiest conqueror ' Ohartatans and Critics, Ayoung American, S: W. Mealy, has written 4o tho Now York World s loug lotter, in which he devouycos six American artists rosiding in TFlorence and Romo as frauds upon the public, ‘Tho six aro I, H. Park, Larkin G. Mead, Jr., T. R. Gould, W. G. Turuer, P. F. Connolly, and Miss Hosmer. All of them aro churged with hiring Italians to modol for thom, Ihnois e especially intoreatod In this matcor, bocauso Mead {8 now at work on the monument that is to covor tho grave of Lincoln at Springfleld. Mr. Hoaly deolaros that this Lns been in groat part dosigned by » Signor Passaglia, Of tho truth of this particular charge wo know nothing, but we do know that thora are two sides to the question in somo of tho othor cases. Tho ight which has now been transforrod to the columus of tho ¥World began tast epring in Floreuce. As Mr, Healy has mado his vorsion of tho case public, wo sholl cito that of tuo impli- catod artists,’ Thoy say—or thoy said thon— that this young Amorican eame to Florencs and specdily made himsolf tho langhing-stock of Amorican goclety thore by his mistakon and pompous critlcism of works of art. Mo was ap- parontly o man of littlo education, at least in eathiotio mattors, but hio soon picked up A atook of tochuical torms by conatantly lounging around tho studlos, Ho was on friendly torms with all tho soulptors until o wrote to an American gen- tlomun who had ordored somathing from Mr. I, H, Park, and acoused tho lattor of trying to palm off his employos' works as bhis own. This lettorwas forwarded to thoeculptor. Hisdefonso was poculiar and, to the Amerloans thou resid- ingin Floronce, modoratoly satisfactory. The ordar.that had beon given him wag confirmod. Lvory one knows that sculptors raroly touch chisol to marblo themaclves, They malke the modal, and their workmen manufacture the coploa thorofrom, Mr. W. W. Btory is almost tho only sculptor who porsonally finishes his worls, Whon thoy are nominally done, he goos over them, chisol in hand, touching aud retouch- ing, until he i satisfiod, *Inovor know what chunges I aall mako,” o reooutly eald, ' but I feel thom," Mr, Park olaimed that his hirlog Ttallans to modol minor detaile of drapery, eto., wnder his divoct supervision and subjoct to bls oritiolsn wag porfectly propor, be- causs {t Wwas on & par with tio mochanosl work of copylug, aud that, morcover, overy soulptor fu Flovenco did tho samo thing, This lnst assortion hn proved by an aMdavit from bla assitant, Mazzoll, and Ly an neknowledg- mont of thapractioo mignod by & numbor of ar- tisty, 'Lho mgnaturos wore glvon undor thocon- dition, oxpross or {mplied, that the papor boar- Ing thom honld not bo made publie. When the Mazzoli aflidavit wan published, tho mon impli= catod by it at onco dlscharged him. Ho aftor wards oponod o atudio of his own. Mr, Hoaly spoaks of throe * eminont sculptors' {n Flora enco who havo * Always jmproved every possible oceasion “to vohomently donounce tho corrupt practices_complained of,” 'I'ioso mon aro Ball, Hart, and tho lato Iiram Powers. It hes boon oponly chargod, that tho two formor slgn. od tho noknowledgmont montioned above, How this may bo wo know mot, but we do kmow, froma gentloman who amw tho original, that Iiram Powers’ signature was afllx- ed lo it Binco this is 8o, ono of two inforonces must bo drawn. Eithor it is allowabla ta amploy modelors for minor dotails, or olss Powora hime self was a charlatan, Tho publie, in tho absonco of any furthor information, will probably boliove tho first altornative. Nr, Hosly professes to oxposo tho alloged frauds in obedience to an earnest lovo of truth and fair -play, Such a sontiment should have led him tosubmit his lotter to the persons it agsalls, in order thnt their replics might bo pube lished with it. An it fs, he has managed to post tho pix senlptors au firat-class frauds some soven wocks bofore thay ean possibly try to juatity thomeelves, Tlus is sharp practico, not fair ploy. —_— Among tho itoms of contingont expensos of tho Tronsury Dopartmont sont in by tho Secretary £o tho Bpealkor of tho Houso s tho following : 1672, Suly §0~Great Falls Teo Company—115,075 pounds sk 26 couts per cwt, Aug. 31~Great Fulla Xeo Company—116,880 pounds at 20 centa per cwt, Oct. &—Great Falls Teo Company— 87,360 pounds at 26 ceuta perowt, Oct, 31—Great Falls Xeo Company~ 80,420 pounds at 20 cents per owt, Nov, 20~Great Falls Ieo Company— 08,030 pounds st 20 conts por ewt, Dec, 31—Great Falls Ieo Compnny— 60,476 pounds af 20 cents perewt, Fob, 3-~Great Falls Ieo Company— 08,000 pounds af oy % sentn peront, r, 8—Great Falls Ico Company— 03,670 pounds B0 coua rorowt T Lot poun e AMar, 81—-Great Fully Ico Compauy~— 6,516 pounds at 20 conts por ot April 23—Great Falls Ieo Compauy— 73,305 pounda ab 65 conls per ewt, By 31—~Great Falls Tee Company—~ 73,504 pounds at G5 conts per ewt. Juno 30—Great Fulls 1eo Company—~ 40,680 pounds at 55 conts oz cwt, ‘Without stopping to consider the handsome charactor of the contract which tho Groat Falls Ico Company hins with tho Treasury Dopartment, we praceed to an sunlysia of the above table, that our rendors may discovor what it costs and bow much it takes to keop tha patriots in that Dopartment cool. The tolsl smount of ico coin- sumod by the Sccretary and bis clerks duriug the yonr is 975,924 pounds,or about 488 tons, cost- ing §3,244.3). Omitting Bundays, 8,000 pounds,’ or a ton and o half a doy, the year round, 'This gives to oach employo, G00 in all, five pounds por dsy, winter and summer, to keop him cool, ‘Cho refrigerators appear to have boen in constant use, tho employes apparontly suffering almost a8 much from heat {n Decomber, Japuary, and February s in the summer months, Thosa figures and facts aro sufiicient to oxe plain & groat many mystories connected with tho Tressury Dopartment. Wa can now sufliciently account for tho coolness with which the Secrotary of the Treasury ine cludes in tho contingent oxpenses o charge of 847 for the miloage of an employe to New Yorl, whon tho faro for tho round trip is $12; o chargo of $37 for soventy gold and thirty-cight silver flsh to W. H, Colom, another employe ; & chargo of &50 for thirty sponges ; s chargo of 66 for combe, chamois, aud sapolio for tho toilet ; and a charge of $9,588 for horso-flash for the Seorotary and his clerkal pia Sl S Among the burglers who recontly broke jail at Nowcastle, Dol,, wos & man named Frank Cartor, alias MoDonald, a dongerous dusporadu, On the day following tho liberation of thas cap« tives, o passenger on a stroot-cor in Philadel. phia hoppened to look outv of the window. Among tho pedestrians hurrying by ho rocogniz cd s man whom he had' scon tried for tho ‘attempted busglary of the Wilmington Bank, and, acting on tho impulso of the moment, jumped from the car and fol- lowod tho suepccted porson to s low saloon, whare he left him in order to procure tha assistance of on officer. A constablo was found who followed the stranger's diractions and slip- pod s pair of handcuffa on tho wrists of the man supposed to bo ** Big Frank.” The burglar coolly deuied his idontity st first. But when the gentloman who bad scen him from tha stroet-car remarked that he was cortain the prise onor was tho man ho bad secen sontonced ab Wilmington, tho burglsr confossed the truth. Tha ronder will agreo with tho recaptured bure glor that it is an arrest ‘that might not occur again in a thousand ycars, a8 the gontleman who idontifiod him was in Wilmington at thoe time of tho trial by the merost accidont, and turned Iua hend to look out of the car-window in obedionco to an impulse ho ¢ould not account for, sl s The first volume of the book of travels pnb- lished by tho Grand Duke Alexis furnished the presu of tins country with numerous plaasant paragraphs, which showed an unusual keonness of perception on the part of tho author, as well &8 a liberality of opinion astonishing in ona of #0 littlo oxperionco. The second volume of this work is now out, and & fow oxtracts aro sent over by correspondents, Among those is one which colucides with the flattoring observations of Csvon Kingeley. Amoricans, ho says, aro born orators, and their fluency of specch has oftens time excited his utmost surprise. Tho greator part of this volumo is taken up with & general criticism of Amerjoan institutions and popular manuers, which aro calculatod to tickle the vanity of tho mnation and compensate somewhat for the bard kuooks dealt in Dickens' *‘Amorican Notes.” Tho military men will find particular plessurs in tho book, # Nothing could bo more touching and thrilling,” mays this shrowd young man, *‘than the modest accounts which these true horoed gave of oxe ploits which the ancienta would have immortals izod in tablots of bronze,”" It is worth whilo importing s Duko or two oceaslonally, if ouly to obtain such novel views of modesty. It is cloar that Alexis novor lieard an ox-Quartermester ot Volunteor Commiagnry on tho stump. If he had he would have modified his viows somawhat, —_—— Mr, Ruskin romarked, notlong ago, that the sristooracy of Groat Britain had for generations boen ruared in the bolief that for themsolver lite was @ porennial picnie, in which they word to do nothing but enjoy thomselves and be walted upon by thoir social Inferiora. The Pal Mall Budget ralses its voico in warning that & suddon chango is coming in this respoct. Paue per emigration was never thought of by the woalthy classes; the voluntary oxila into which poverty and storvation drove the thousands of worlmon was unhoodod by them, Now, says the Budgel, tho organized plan of emigration, whick in the only hopo for tho alleviation of the suf. forings of tho middle class, the hone and sinow of Englsh sooioty, is reducing the population porcoptibly, * ‘fhe population of thia country,® ways tho Budget, ** will bo reduced to what is vulgars 1y callod ‘thie upper ton thousand,’ and theso will have to lead a vory different life from that they binve boou accustomod to." They can afford ta 1080 no time, it poiuta out, in realizing that thelr plenio has como to an sbrupt conclusion, because tholr sorvants have beon obliged to go in searoh of food; that the fun is over, and thoy must Dbegin to face tho serlous dutios of life, unaccus. tomed to it as they aro, and unfitted for it as they must be by generations of indolence and sloth. —_— ‘Whilo cortain politioians were clamoring for war with Bpain aud breathing throats against he oxocutionors of Capt, Try, tho good peopla of Bt, Louls started a vollestion for the rellof of hiu widow aud family. Tho (lobe of that ally