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

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMS OF BUDRCRITTION (PAYANLY: IN ADVANOR), o Ot T R 85:00 Parts of a yoar at tho samo rate, To provout dolay and mistakos, bo sure and give Post Of'conddress i fall, inoluding Btato and County. Ttomittances may bo mado oithor bydraft, oxpross, Post Ofice order, or in raglatored lotters, at our riek. . TENME TO CITY SUDSCHIDENS. Dally, deliverad, Bundsy excoptod, 2 conte per weok. Daily, dolivered, Bunday iIncluded, 20 nonta per wosk. Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-ats,, Uhioago, il 'S, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMI HOOLRY'S THEATRE—Randolgh stroet, betweon Olark and LaSallo, Engsgomentof Jerrett & Palmer's Qombination, ¢ Undino, ACADEMY OF MUBIO~Halstod atroet, botween Mad- fson and Afonros, Kngagomont of Kate Fisher. *The Frenoh Spy " and ** Mazeppa," AM'VIOKKR'S THEATRE—Madlson streot, botwoon Doarborn and Stato, Rugagemont of Edwin Dooth, ** Macboth, " ADRLPHI THEATRE—Comor of Wabash avenuo and Congress stroot, Varioly entertalnment, **The Sovon Blators," MYRRS' OPERA-HOUSK-Monroa stroot, bstwoon Dearborn and State, Arlington, Cottan, and Kemble's Minstrols, Minstrolsy and comlcalities, ! Barnum's Elophant."” KINGSBURY MUSIO HALL—Olark streot. botwoen Randolph and Lake. Lecturo by Praf, . A, Prootor. Bubjoct: ** The Bun and His Family of Flansta,' DR, KAUN'S ANATOMIOAL MUSEUM-No. 148 Bouth Olark stroot, Seciencoand Art. BUSINESS NOTICES. 70 ONE AND ALL_ARE YOU SUITERING from a congh, cold, nsthms, bronohitis, or any of tho ‘warlous pulinonary troubles that so_ofton terminate in consumption? Ifso, use ** WILBOR'S Pure Cod Liver Ullllll:d mc.“ll llll’fl l“m} Bmcnnllflull, rumndyi] 'f"‘l‘l.?“tno 15k aroarktion, bt 1a Fogalary Dressubol 4 Thodioal Taculty. " Mfanufsomifod by Ac Be WILBOLL Uhowist, Boston, Sold by all druggista. Ohe Chitany Tribune, Friday Morning, March 13, 1874, Woman suffrago was before tho Towa Sonato and the Rhode Island Houso of Represontatives yeaterday, each of which bodies agroed to loave it to the people to bo adopted or rejoctod. Btate's-Attorney Reod has beon requested by tho Board of Railrond and Warchouse Commis- sionors to prosocute all the warchousemen of this city who have failed to take ont licenscs, as required by law, aud has roplied that ho would do 80 at onco. ( In tho Stato Senato yestorday, the bill to es- tablish the Chancellorship which is to bo given to Dr. Burroughs, in the University of Ohicago, ‘was passod, without the emorgency clause, by o vote of 27to 9. A similar provision has heen stricken out of tho Colloge bill by the House. Bome of the pioneer sottlors of Michigan met at Lansing on Wedneudny to form a Stato Asso- cintion, Ono of thoso present stated that ho Liad beon o rosident of the Stato for sixty-threo yenrs. A committoo was appointed to draft tho articles of association, and will meet at Lansing on the 22d of April. l In thoLower House of the Now Hampshiro Leg- islaturo the Domocrats have a mgjority of five, which i8 likely {o bo incrensed by the roturns from eight towns which last year wors carried by thot party. In four of tho Bonatorial districts no choico was achioved, and tho other eight are divided equally botween the Republicans and Domocrats, — Delogatos to attend the coming Convention at - Rock Island, to consider tho ways and means Tor the construction of tho canal to conuect tho Upper 1llinois and the Mississippi, were solocted by tho annual mooting of the Rock Island County Farmors yestorday., An address was dolivored before the Association showing tho great devel- spment that this cheap transportatlon route would give tho intoreats of Western farmers. I The prosecution in tho McCartly trial closed s caso yosterday, and Mr., McCarthy was given till March 81 by the Council to preparo his do- fengo. What line he will take may be conjec- tured from bis cxclamation that it would bo im- possible to cloar himself unless ho could show that somo of his Deacons were tho worst villaing ouearth, A motion was made by the prosscu- tion to have the defonse beard in scoret session, but no decision was had on it. — According to United Statos District-Attorney Blis, of Now York, tho Chamber of Commerco of that city does not kuow what it is talking sbout when it aesnils Custom-House abusos, snd tho clamor sgainst the moiety system is maiuly the work of mon who want to escapo tho consequences of their own frauds. He s0ya $hat the Chamber of Commerco have misropro- sonted both tho law and the practice in regard to the soizure of books nnd papors, but admits that it might bo fairer to morchauts to amond tholaw so that all their books might not bo takon at once. Phelps, Dodge & Co,, it ho may bo balieved, wors never throatenod with the forfeiture of the entire invoico somo items of which were in question, Mr. Bliss seoks to escape from some of tho oharges against him In connection with tho Butler-Jayne outragos, by interposing the rathor worn-ous screon of ““the party, " —————— Tho Board of Railrond and Warohouse Com- missioners dofond tho Nailroad law from the as- soults of the memorial of the Ohicago Bonrd of Trade to the Legialaturo, and yot admit that it might bo bettored. The memorialists took the ground that the law lad failed to rolisve tho peoplo of unjust orjoppressive charges, but the Commissioners reply that it has not had a fair chanco, The rallronds, although thoy have abandoned the practica of diserimination, in- dulgo in oxtortionnto charges without tho losst rogard to tho probibition of the Iaw, The momorialists proposo that competition bo re- etorod a8 o rogulator of charges; the Commis- sionors think it is moro important to ostablish reagonablo ratea all along tho lnes of trans- portation than to benefit & fow polnts, compara- tivoly, by renewing competition. Thoy agrec with tho momorialista enough to eay that thoy wish o law could bo propared that would proveut diseriminations, or excomsivo rates, and yob would leavo compotition at work, ——ee Tho Chlcago produce markots wera only mod- erately active yoslerdsy, at noarly the samo rango of prices ns on Wodnesday, Mess pork Was quiet aud 5@100 per brl lowar, closing at $14.25@14.30 cash, and §14.35@14.87)¢ soller April. Lard waa quiet and 2}¢c per 100 Ihe lower, closing at $3.82)6@8.85 cash, and £8.90 @9.00 gollor April, Meats wero quict and stoady ¢ BJqo for sl:oulders ; T54@T¥0 for short ribs ; ‘I8 for short clesr, aud 02{@10%0 for mwoot- plokded homs. Drogsed Loge woro quict and stondy at 80.00@0.10 per 100 lbs, ITighwines wero loss notivo nnd wnchangod, at 03)go por gollon, Flour was quist and flrm, Whoat wae Tons netive and unchanged, closing at $1,20 canl, nnd 8121 sollor April. Corn was qulet and o bighor, closiug nt 02i¢a oash, aud 03%@02%{c seller April. Oats woro quict and unchenged, closing at 43)¢o cash, and 440 sollor April. Ryo was quiot and firm, ot 80@306}¢o for fresh ro- colpts, Barloy was quiot and firmor, closing at S1.66 for No. 2, and $1.43 for No, 8. Live hogs wore In activo domand and ruted firm, Salos at 84.76@0.25, Cattlo and sheop wero actlve nnd strong, with salos at $3.00@0.25 for tho formor, and $4.50@7.00 for tho latior. S — The third locturo of Prof, Prootor's sorles on Astronomy will bo deliverod at Kingsbury Musio Hall this evening—subjoct, * Tho Sun aund Ilis Family of Planots,” and thoe last will bo deliv- ored on Saturday afternoon, on * The Wondors of Astronomy.” Wo venture to suggest to tho distinguished léoturor that his mothod of delivery s too rapid for the comfort of his audionco. Vory fow persons can follow s spenkor discoursing on such & themo st oven tho ordinary pace of looturors, while Mr. F'roo- tor's pace is fastor than tho ordinary. Tho ef- fort to understand tho motions of comots, and motoors, and planots i8 hard enough for tho averago lecturo-goor when ho has plenty of timoe to tako them in. The effort to underatand them at Mr. Proctor’s rate of elocution, oven with his lucld and unprofossional style, gives one, at the ond 6f two hours, tho feellng of having done & hiard day's work. — Ex-Prosident Fillmore was buried yosterday, and to-day tho funeral of Senator Sumner will be beld in thoBonate Chambor. Hie pall-boarers will bo Bonators Anthony, Schurz, Bargont, McCroery, Oglosby, and Btockton. Committeos have been appointed by both Houses of Congrass, by the Mossachusetts Logislature, and the Bos- ton Common Council, to pay every mark of ro- spect to his momory that affection and rever- cnco can suggest. In formally communicating tho griovous intolligonce of the denth of Magsachusette’ sonior Senator to the Log- islnturo, Gov, Washburn congratulated its mombers on their good fortune in hay- ing passed the rosolutions vindloating him from their iil-judged consure in timo to hoal the wound thoy hnd made. It is snnounced that tho romaina will not stop on thir way from Washington to Boston, but Mayor Havemeyor, of Now York, requests that the poople of that city may bo allowed to look upon tho groat dond.” A memorial mass-moeting will bo held at Tanouil Hall to-morrow, —e Princo Bismarck is on the sick list, and his illness is serious ovough toalarm his physiciana, Although only 60 years of sge, too much hard worls, and, if rocent stories may bo belloved, rather Imprudent habits of Jiving, have seriously impaired bis health. Bix yomrs ago, just after lio bind successfully organized the North-German Confoderation, ho was competled by ill-health to rotire from public dutics, aud, since, thers Lus been more than one rumor of s collipse of his powors. Probably more than that of any other man, thd doath of DBismarck would agitate Europo. His virtual tass, of lato, to say- nothing of tho fight with Rome, has been to hold his Europenn’ nolghbors in & sort of taolt Holy Allianca to pro- vent Franco from disturbing the poaco of Eu- rope, France hus sworn vengeance, which she can hardly hopo for an opportunity of wreaking while Bismarck staunds, Aftor all, he cannot out~ livo the ffty yoars that Von Moltke prodicts France i8 cortain to spend in unwinking watchfulness for o chance to avengo the loss of Alsaco-Lor- raine, and his death now would only accelerate what is sure to como. Tho Board of Health and the Polico Commis- sioners of this city have established a regular weekly mooting to have a free talk about the Bocinl Evil. This proceeding bas had the effect of provoking calls for othor meetings at which a uumber of ladies propose to combat tho argu- monts made a¢ tho Health and Police meotings, It furnishes, aleo, to the Chicago Times & pre- text for advertising all tho disreputablo houses of the city, and the opinions of tho various in- mates, The offect of this agitation is to keop the subjoct, in all its fllthy details, thrust before the public, who take but little interest in it, and who have o settled conviction that legislation of the kind proposed will sccomplish much harm and no good. The propor thing for the Polico and Hoalth Boarde to do is to drop tha subject, and thereby indefinitely ndjourn tho othor Bocial Evil mestings, We havo deemod it important to notify the community of what was going on at these meetings, in order' to bring publio senti- mont to boar against the proposed licensing sys- tem. We shall roport no more of these moet- ings, but slall protest, 2s occasion may require, againat tho importation of the Parisian customs, which aro supposed by some to be o favorable to the publio hiealth, — Tho act of Congress governing elections to the Unitod Stales Bonato will require the Massachu- setta Legisluture to go into an election of Sum- nor's suceessor on Tuosday, March 24, being tho second Tuesday after tho vacuncy ocourred. Thid nocessity precipitates a contest which will attract national attontion. The issues so sharply dofined botweon Ben Butlor and cortain of his colloaguoy, in the appolntment of Simmouns, will now apposr to have that brond significance which Adminietration organs have steadily donfed; nnd ‘“the fight,” which was to bave bocn postponed to the party prima- rios, in early autumn, must bogin now, For, confessedly, Bon Butler caunot lot this Benato- rinl oloction go by default, and, if ho cannot control it, bis possession of patronage, and the hopes hinged thercon, are oqually vain, The Legislature (elected last November) is Repub- lican by 25 to 16 in the Senato and 165 to 86 in the House, This is the Leglslature which—~not without roaistanco—oxpunged tho consure on Sumner imposod by the Logislature of 1872, in which were only 60 Domoorats, il told, Tho Opposition votes, thie yoar, include a number of iudepondent Ropublicans, and the total Op- position (100 out of 280) is the largost kuown in Maesachusotts eince the Ropublicans camo into. possossion. As, however, tho lines will bo drawn betweon Butler and anti-tutler, no olassification will bo possible until the votea aro countod, Wo wshall pros- ontly begin to hava the gossip of Boston on this subjeot, pending which it may gratify curlosity to name Judgoe Thomas Russell (late Collector of Boston and prospoctive Minister to Vene- zuols), a8 Butler’s man, and Moary L, Plorse or John E. Banford as tho man of the anti-Butler, 3r, Ploreo is tho late Mayor and now Congreus- man of Boston, and Mr. 8anford {s- the Speakor in tho Logislature, Thero will be talk of Dawes and the Hoars, of courso, but it can Lardly come o more thun talk, Tho demaud for * mew mon" is ng ovidont now in Masseohusotts ag in llinota, THE SUMNER BATTLE-FLAG RESOLUTION, Whon the Sonate of the United Btates first mot. aftor tho Inst Proaidential eloction, Charles Sum- nor Iaid boforo it the followlng resolution : WrnzniAs, Natlonal unity sud good-will smong fol- low-citizens can bo assured only through the“obiivion of prat difforoncos, and 1t In coutrary to the ‘uaage of civilized nationa to porpotunte tho memory of civil war; therefore, i De it encteted, (e, That tho names of battles with fellow-cltizonn shall not bo continved 1n {lo Army Tieg- tator o placed on the rogtmantal colors of te Unitod Btates, Thon thore was s row. Senator SBumnor was acoused of disloyalty and a soloct assortmont of othor orimes. Tho average party orgon in- formod ita rondors that the Senator was eraftily plotting to dostroy the flags of all the volunteor rogimonts of tho country, Thoir colors woro to Lo torn down from public hall and Btate-House and dofaced, lost tho foolings of “ Robola® should bo hurt. The Army Rogistor was to bo ‘“mutilated.” So the complaiuts ran, Tho Massachusotts Logislature, yielding woalkly to o mistaken olamor, dlsgraced itself by trying to disgraco thoir grontost man, . It eolemnly ro- olved that tho passago of such a rosolution would bo * an insult to the loyal soldlery of the nation,” and that logislation of tho sort conteme plated by Mr. Sumner * moots with the unquali- fled disapproval of tho poople of the Common- woalth.” This was o stab at tho Sonator in tha houso of bis frionds, It doubtless wounded is sonsitivo nature deoply, though he was too proud to confess the hurt. Somo of his friends hiavo thought that this blow from Maseachusetts waa not less painful in its effcets upon him than tho blow from Proston Brooks which first shat- tored his constitution., Bo this aa it may, itis well to know that tho groat Benator lived long enough to seo Masenchusetts apologizo for her bhesty and ill-judged wrath, Aud nowlet us sce whatall tho fuss waa about. Did Mr. SBumnor really intend to doface tho Dattlo-flags that had swept through every South- orn Btato? Not at all. In the firat place, his resolution, if adopted, would have made no changes whatever in tho colors of tho volun- teord. In tho eecond, it would have madono changes whatever in the oxieting colors of tho regular army. It simply provided that the namea of lattles fought during the Civil War should not bo thereaftor placod on tho colors, or, in othor words, that new flags Issucd to tako the placo of worn-out onos should not be inscribed, and, furthermore, that the Army Registor, which is & Govornment publicalion containing, among othor things, lists of the ofticors of tho regular army, should cm‘au to publish undor tho name of each rogi- mont a list of tho Lattlea it fought during the War. How absurd tho presont practico is, can best bo scon by an example. Wo find, on page 184 of tho Register for 1878, tho schedule of the Twenty-first Rogimont of Infantry,—an average specimon. Four lines of print at the top of tho page shows that the nuclous of this regiment was the sccond battalion of the Twolfth Infan- try, which was organized in 1861, was changoed into the Twenty-firat Rogimont by act of July 28, 1866, and had tho Thirty-second added to it by the act of March 8, 1809, Next comos the following list of battles : Gaines’ BMill, Va,, 27th June, 18023 Malvern Hill, Va, lst July, 1802; Cedor Mountain, Va,, Oth Aug- ust, 1802; Bull Run, Va., 80th August, 1802; Autice tam, M., 17th Septomber, 1862; Huicker's @Gap, Va,, 34 aud 4th November, 1802 ; Fredoricksburg, 13th Decerber, 1862; Chancellorsville, Vi 4, and 4th May, 1003; Gettysburgh, July, 1863; Widerness, Vs, 6th May 4 ; Laurel ll, Ve, 8th and 18th May, 184} Spottaylvanin Court-Rouse, Va, 14th May, 1804; North Anns River, Va., 24tk May, 1664 ; Dothesda Church, Va,, Ist ond 8d Junc, 1864 Petersburg, Va,, 16th and 2lst June, and 30tk July, 18% ; Weldon Rallroad, Va., 10th and 21t August, 1864 ; Clispol House, Vs, 1st Octo- ber, 1804, i Tho prosont Twenty-first Rogiment, as such, nover pirticipatod in ono of those battles. They wero all between Juno 27, 1862, and Oct. 1, 1804, and the regiment waa not born till atter July 28, 1866. Nordidthe great majority of tho mon now in tho rogiment figure in any of those fights, Their namos revive no memories in them. Thoy may have au esprit de corps that binds thom to their regiment, but what do they caro for tho *second battalion of the Twelfth Infantry,” which fought the battles which the Twenty-firat Regiment now inseribes on its flags ? Aun approximate indication of the changes in tho file of the regiment is given by tho changes in tho ofiicora. Thero aro thirty-three of tho lattor. Twenty-three of them got their first commission from ono to eight yeara aftor the last battle in tho list was fought, and some of them had not evon entered West Point when the War ended. Tive others, the Colonel, Lisutennnt-Colonel, Major, and two Captaius, never bolonged to the original stock of thoregimont,—tho second bat- talion of the Twelfth Infantry,—and wero trans- forred to tho Twenty-firat in 'G9 and '70. The romaining five belonged to the original battalion, Tho names of battles on the Army Register and on the army flags, then, do not, as a rule, repre- sent combats in which men marching under -them wore engaged. Thore is sometbing fiuo, 10 doubt, in keeping tho record of a rogiment's achievements through long years, though its composition changoe continually. But when, as in this caso, the rogiment did not oxiat when tho battles inseribed ou its bavners were fought, such ingcriptions aro a ludicrous mockery. If it is not ncedful that a military organization should be at a fight in order to place the name of the battlo upon its flag, what is to hinder a militia company with a big-enough banner from posting upon it all the battles fought in America from Washington down? Now that the great man {g dead, are not the little men who shrieked at him for proposing this battlo-flag resclution littlo ashamed of their folly ? MR. BUMNER'S FIRST ELECTION, ‘When Clinrles Sumnor was olected a Senator, in 1851, George 8. Boutwell was Governor of Maesachusotta; Honry Wilson, President of the Massachusotts Scuate, and Nathaniel P, Banks, Jr., Bpeakor of the Houso in the Massachu- sotts Legislatnro, Sumner and Wilson repre- sented 27,803 Freo Boil votos, aud Boutwoll and Bauks reprosonted 80,308 Domacratio votes, in “coslition,” againt 67,804 Whigs. Tho “coali- tion" shiocked the established order in Massa« chugetts in moro ways than ono, It was & raid by young aud aggrossive men, of whom tho vur- rout inquiry was, * Who aro thoy?" It was s triok in politica so shrewd that subsoquently, by common consout, tho way to its ropeti- tlon was barred by oonstitutional smend- ment, introducing the plurality systom In all oleotions with & fxed numbor of soats in tho Legislatura, To oxplain how it was doues The ** Coalitionists " voted Boparato party-tickots for Governor, and united on candi- dates for tho Logiulaturo, electing, in tho House, 410 mombera agalnse 174 Whigs, ‘The mejority in tho Houso filled tlo vacancies in tho Benate, whioh was made to conslst of 27 Coalitfonists sud 18 Whige: Thou the dwo bodles, In conours T TIUDUNET IRIDAY, MARCH 13,1874, tonco, eleoted tho Gavornor and other Stato offi- cors, It waa comparativoly oasy to oarry out that part of tho programme which involved Boutwoll'a oloctlon 3 Governor, and it was also ossy to olcot antoul (Domoorat) to tho nnoxpired slx woolts of tho Honatorial torm; but to oloct Bumnor, an Abolitionlst, to the full Benatorlal torm, thoro was tho rub. Tho contost waa protractod at tho Btato House from January into May, o latgo numbor of Domoorats acattor- iug their votus, fonring to go on tho rocord ag voting for au Abolitionist, but foaring moze that by absenting themsolves o Whig (Robort O, Win- turop) should bo chosen, In that Leglslaturo wore, wo boliovo, Bon Butler aud Onlob Oushing, Domocrate, not opouly voting for Sumnor; snd Samuol Hooper and Honry L. Daswos, Whigs, votlng for Winthrop, Finally tho Logislaturo framed, what wag famously known in Massachu- sotts for some yonrs (until abolished), the **Boalod-Ballot act” for all oclootiona; and, on tho first count of votos undor the “sealed ballot,” Charles Bumnor was found to Lo chosen, Whon, subsequontly, Calob Oushing was 1u Plorce’s Cabinet, and Bon Butlor was tho Democratio candidate (againat Banks, Ropublican,) for Govornor of Mussachusotts, and when Demoocrats had pate ronago and o Southern constituency, rosponsi- bility for Charlos Sumsor in the Sonato waa roadlly shirked by an appesl to tho racord of viva voco votes, and the secrats of tho * eoaled ballot * wore avor soalad, 'Cho coalition was in power two yoars, but could not survive the Pres- idontial clection of 1852 ; and with tho ascond- onoy of the Domootats in tha natlon, and the ro- agcondonoy of tho Whigs in' Massachusotts, it looked gloomy enough for the young men who bad so bravely seizod o Stato in defiance of hereditary rulos and tradition. Who, -then, could lave predicted that thoso young mou of 1851—Sumner, Boutwell, Bauks, Wilson, and Burliogamo—wore so largoly to fill the pages of hislory sinco written ? TAINTED MEATS, ‘The fow gontlomen of the provision trade who were 80 furions tho othor day st the intimation thet sour moats had been shipped from this city in placo of good moats, have, by thelr rashness, ovoked an inquiry far moro extensive than they oxpected. Our corrospondents at Bsltimoro and Rhiladelphia have shown what the trade at thoso placon have to say on the subject. Tho diffieul~ tios attonding this business aro well stated by Mr. Burrows, of Philadelphin, Ho statos that the inspection in Chicago is mo faulty as to amount to frand, Anothor resson given ir that in Chicago there was an offort made to do busi- noss boyond the facilitios ; that is, somoe packera kitled more than thoy could proporly ouro; and Mr, Burrows probably bit tho nail on the head when Lo ssid that some of them, finding sour meats on theirhands, *lacked the moral courago to face the loss at once, and tried to put iv on others." Howover this may be, we have the solomn as- surance of all the gontlemen who have beoen so demonstrative on this subject, that they stand ready to pay 100 cents on the dollar of all losses or damago on any meats sold by them, whero tho fault was theirs, Tho provision ‘merchants of Baltimore, Philadelphia, Now York, Boston, Montroal, and elsewhore, who havo bonght any moat in Ohicago this yoar, as sound nad well cared which haa proved to bo bad, have only to forward their claims with the proof, and have tho loss mado good. This waa the ubanimous decloration of the soveral gentlemon who stormed Tax Tniouse offico tho othor day to find out tho memo of the guilty party who roprosonted that gour meats were around. For the credit of the packing busincsa and the city gonerally, wo aro glad to bo able to ropeat this emphatio declaration of responsibility and anxioty on the part of the Ohicago packers and brokers, that if ull sufferers by sour meats pur- chosed of them will send in thoir claims, they will bo paid promptly st 100 conts on the dollar. This is the proper way todo businces, and to silonco complaints, and to remove tho imputa- tion that tho provision men of Chicago have not the moral courago to face & loss, but seok to put it on othera. — FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMER. In the multiplicity of notions dovised in the interosts of philanthropy by the busy social ro- formors of Boston, thore is now and then one which appeals to tho lovars of humanity, both in the excollenco of its purpose and tho practioal msnner in which it socks to accomplish that pure poso, To tlie class belongs *“The Business Womsn's Mutua! Bonefit Association,” which Las been recontly organized in that city, by Mra, ‘“Alice Dutton" Ballou, for the benefit of women who support themselves by their own 1n- dustry. Tho objoot of the Association is three- fold: Firat, to provide & fund from which mom- bers may be supported in caso of sicknoss; second, to provide s fund from which membors in caso of extremo need can obtain small loans, without interost, the loatis to bo returned by in- stallments in such sums and at such times ns shall boagreed mpon; ana, third, to provide respoctable burial to decensed mombors. To accomplish theso purposes, tho organiza~ tion is composod of Honorary and Bonofl- clary members. Tho former aro thoso who wish to help tho cause on the ground of its morits and out of charity to the sex, and ‘who do not ncod to sharo in its benofits. Tho lattor aro those for whom the ocioty was formed and who share in its bonefits, The yearly as- sossment of these members Is but 83, aftor pay- ing a fao of $2 for a cortificate of membership, and the only conditions imposed upon them are that thoy shall be 1n good hoalth whon they join and betweon the ages of 15and 40 years, For this small small sum, which fa less than ono cent for each working day, tho following bene- fits are proposed: 1. To pay mombers who aro slok the sum of €6 por week for evory week of sicknoss, oxcopting always tho first weeck, aud - providing the illness does not exceed six cousccutive weoks, 2. To appropristo $50 for tho burlal expenscs of each decoased mombor, 8. To loan, without intorest, to membora in ab- solute nood, duly shown, such small sums of money as tho case may require, Theso are, in substance, the purposes of this admirable organization, which, as Mrs. Ballou says in Lier circular, * not only prevents suffer- fng from want in time of illuoss, but renders it imposuiblo for any woman loreafter to assert truthfully that sho was diivon to doatruction for tho lack of a fow dollars.,” * Indeed,” sho con- tiuues, “if this Association bo faithfully- sus. tained, each woman who becomes & member of itis placed beyond the reach of hopeless dose poration.” Organizations of this kind have baen common among won for years, but, horetoforo, womon have been lelpless in this regard, al- though their necessitios are infinitely moro pressiug, It is one of the pocullar hardships of the working woman that, with the small and un- fale wages sho rocelves,’ she' cannod lay .60 to 60, and go on to 80, up money enough to support hersolf in caso of sickuess, or any othor oxtraor- dinnry omorgonoy, Her enrront oxpenses, oven with economy, consume her earnings, and sho muat constantly look forward to a time when sho will bocomo dopendent upon charity. In cortain clagsos of busiess whora women aro working for thomsolves, it is possiblo for them to savo somothing; but theso cnses aro the oxcoptions, Tho vastmajority of women are worldng for mag- cullno employors at wagos which are only sufll- clent to hoard and olotho them in an economical manner. An organization of tho kind proposed substitutos s comfortable indopendence for this possible depandonco. Wo thorefore submit those facts to tho chari- tablo women of thia city as a besis for action, It is & woman's work for womon of tho most practical kind, - Its organization is very simplo, Tho officera aran Prosident, two Viee-Presidonts, Bocrotary, Trongurer, and an Adyisory Commit- too of four, all 1adics, Tho following extract {from tho olrcular oxplains othor dotaila: Tho Assoolstion {s protectod by & codo of by-laws which provide that tho officers aud the wholo Bosrd of Dirootora of the Association ahall bo annually elect~ od by the members thereof, At the firat sunusl meot- ing it 18 propasad to eloot threo Iadics of integrity, po- sition, and reaponsibility as Trustces, In the hands of these Trustees i to be placed all fees derived from cor« tificates of beneflclary members, which fees arg, until $4,000 have sccumulated, to bo invested to aceruo in- toreat, Thus s fund will bo creatod to moot oxigencies arlslog from that increased death-rato which lapsing yeara must bring, All other monoys aro takon charge of by tho Troasurer, aud used, by order of the Board, 888 working fund, : Buch an Association as this, organized as above, and conducted by publie-spirited, enoer- gotlo, rospousible ladics, will accomplish more good in Chiosgo than talking, preaching, and resolving to tho end of time, Weo thorefore ap- pesal to tho obaritable ladios of this oity to in- augurate o similar Asacolation, and thus confor s direot practical bonefit upon their working sistors, Who will bo tho the first ono to move ? RELIGIOUS BOND-SELLING. Wo did not happen to see the Advance last weok, and accordingly omittod to notice its con- fession on tho subject of Northern Pacifio bonds. Wo find it copled into tho Christian Ad- vocate. The four religious newspapers—tho In- terior, Advocale, Sunday Times, and Advance— stand by onch other handsomely. The con- fession is put in the form of * You're another,” and there is just where tho Advance is wrong, It says: ) T11z TRmUKE chargen the Advance, amongthe othor roliglous papors, with palmivg off the *ewindling bonds * of thio Northorn Pacific Rallrosd on all invest- ors whom it could reach with ita infucnce, To this wo anawer, that tho Advance fully belioved every word 1t over utterod sbout tho Northern Pacifia Railroud, 1t still bolioves that Jay Cooke,” whom Tue TRIBUNE Lioa phamefully sluudered-us it seema to sland ready, for partisan purposes, to elander overy, man who has Deen prominently aswociated with tho leading schiove- ments of tho prescnt Administration—is an honest mun, guilty only of doing what honest men do every day, of trying to carry too heavy » load, It happens to know, morcover, thut not only Ald Tag TarnoNe at differont times give this great cnterprise its editorial support, but that it took vay for 8o doing, publishing, a4 roading matter, articles in favor of the road sud its bonds tohich were pard for at somucha linel Nor docs It make the matter auy botter that it occasionally nsaniled tho enterprise, only to apiko it blackmalling guna when tho Company would * coma down” with freah advertising. Wo montion thoso facts simply to show the insincerily, and even fmpudonce, of tho chargea which Tux TRIDUNE makes ngeinst tho ro- liglous weeklica, Conceding the superior sources of information posscesed by tho Advance as to all matters con- nected with Northorn Pacifio bond-eelling, we aro compelled to say that all and singular of its statements in tho foregoing paragraph regarding Tae Omoaao TRIDUNE are unmitigated les, We never editorially .indorsed ‘Northern Pacific bonds or recommended anybody to buy them. Consequently we nover took any pay for msuch indorsement, and wo nover desired, or asked, or suggosted that ono lino of advertising of that enterprise should be givento us, We wero vast- lyand porsistently borod and snnoyed by Jay Cooke's agents, one of whom was conneoted with tho Advance (though we do not recollect that he porsonslly peatered us on this subject), to publish matter favorablo to bond-selling which we invariably ro- fused to do, though we did publish without chargoe somo articles dosoriptive of the country and the entorpriso, at their solicitation, If any- body, either in or out of tho Advance ofiice, ro- turned in lus accounts.to Jay Cooke, or to the Northern Pucific Company, any charges for these articles, ha swindled his employers. Once, and onco only, a paragraph which might bo con- strued as an oditorial indorsoment of the bonds got into our financial columus by mistake, It was abundaotly correoted the noxt dayin tho samo column, with an amplo caution to the public secting forth the procarious character of such 1nvestments. * 8o tho Advance * fully believed every word it uttorod about the Northern Pacifio Railrond ! Waare giad to hear it, Wo suppose that the widows, and deacoms, and clorgymen, who bought the bonds, ‘¢ fully believed every word it uttered sbout tho Northern Pacific Railroad.” ‘We prosumo thoy bolioved every word which the edltor uttered in the bogging circnlar which he sont out after tho firo, roprosenting that the Advance had met with hoavy pecuniary lossos, and nasking that donations or collections bo taken up for it in the Congrogational churches. ‘Wo will do the business managemont of tho Ad- vance the justico to say that when that end of the concern found out what had been done by the other ond, they roturned the monoy to the donors so far as thoy ocould ascertain their whoreabouts. . : THE GOLDEN DECADE, Youth has found a champion, Dr, George 3. Beard, of Now Yorlk City, bas becoma its knight- errant. Forsome years he has boon roaming through history, culling examples of young mon who wore groat and old men who were not. Now, panoplied in statistios, ho enters tho lists, plucks his porsonified enemy, Old Age, by the benrd, and trios to thruat bim out of place and powor. Hecalls the yearabotweon 80 and 40 the golden decade, ~ Tho avorago groat man then doos his best work, The second decade is from 40 to 50, the third from 20 to 80, the fourth from Boventy per cont of the work of life {8 done, he assorts, by men undor 46, Buch hustling of old mon ssldo sooms strange. Wo naturally revero them, We are taught to rovere thom. Wo guard our highest offices by limitations of age, 8o that rash youth may not seizo upon thom. Bomo words of gov- ornment—** gonnte” for examplo—show by thelr derivation how tho idess of government and age are bound up in our minds, Have we boon wrong inall this? Ought an ex-young man to pasa into the denso darkness into whioch ox- Preaidents disappoar ? Dr, Beard supports hia theory plausibly, and oven iugeniously. Like Galton in his * fTored- tary Gonlus," ho takos common ropute as a falr teat of groatnoss, Vox populi ia to him voz Def, although the average man is in hils cyes a fool, ronown, ehows that tho groat majorily were youug, aud clalms to have proved hia theory! Among thoe old mon montionod are Dryden, Bry- ant, Titlan, Michel Angolo, Tuskin, Dickens, Weondoll Phillips, Emorson, Grooley, and Agna« slz. The lnat six are declared to have dona thelr best work boforo they wora 45, Ruskin {s now o common scold, who loves the modimval and somotimos makos bjs roaders wish that the me- dimval punishmont for scolde—the ducking- stool—woro still In uso. Dickons was almost usod up at 40, In this, Forstor's * Lifo of Dick- ons " corroboratos Dr, Board. Aftor that ago, tho novelist's imagination grow jaded and was in conatant neod of tho spur. Wondoll Phillips **has now for six years been very poreeptibly on the decline,” Right! . “Emerdon roached his zonith bolweon 40 and 46, and sinco that period oloao observera have seona positive decline of his groat powors, whioh, during tho last five yoars, Lis boen almost painfal,”! This will bo a swaet sontenco for Swinburne to read. Buch a blow at-tho man whom he lsmpoons as & “hoary Bodomite " will delight his soul. Grooloy died of brain-softoning, Agaesiz's intomperate opposi- tion to tho Evolution thoory was tho rosult of tho "oxausted condition of his brain.” On tho other hand, most of the groat thoologians wore young. Bo werc most of the men who fought with powdor and bullets instead of prayor and beads. Naupoleon roached his primo at 88, Nolson was Roar-Admiral at 89, Von Moltke, howovor, won his greateat fame botween 66 and 70. Inothor pursuits, youth has riponed even moro rapldly., Schelling was famous at 24, Disraoli at 21, Turnor at 15, Handel at 10. Bichat died groat at 82. Colt invested his plstol at 21, and Whitnoy his cotton-gin at 27. In statesmanship, young and middle-aged mon are tho rulo, / A statesman of over 50 years gonor- ally lives on his reputation, Tho men of tho Revolution were mostly young, dospits the plotures of them paintod sinco, Tho powdeted periwigs make tho eigners of tho Dectaration of Indopondence seem like gray antiques, Their avorage age waa boen 40 and 46, Many wero be- twoon 25 aud 86, Thoe list might bo longer, but theso examplos will suffics to show tho drift of the argument, At first sight it is not such a bad argument. Thq reader muy be half inclined to think that roveronce for agos save, of courso n sort of tendor pity such as one feols for {mbeolity, is a vory mistaken emotion. He sympathizes with tho juvenile mockors who eried, ** Go up, thou bald-head," at Elisha, and considers tho proph- et's banding over forty-two of the infants to tho embraces of two she-boars as o positive proof that the vouerable man had passed his prime. Reflection would show him, however, that Dr Board bes been rash, 08 youth {8 wont to be. He bos also boon blind, His wholo argument fs based on tho fallacy that thero sre equal num- bors of old and young men in the world, If, at suy given instant, there are twice a8 many men betweon 80 aud 40 a8 betweon 60 and 60, thore should bo twico as many famous men in the firat cloes 88 in tho second, or olso the Intter bhavo tho statistical superiority, Our Now York Iconoclast has failed to see this very plain appli- cation of the prineiple of proportion, BISMARCK AND LA MARMORBA, In his letter to the Opinione of Rome, dated Jan. 26, La Marmors says that Govone, on whose authority ho accused Bismarck of having ex- prossed a willingnoss to codo the Rhine country to France, might indeed have put an interpreta- tion on Bismarck's words which the Ministor did not intond. ‘Thisis all tha more probable as Govono waa & maa of undoubtod veracity, not skilled in tho axts of diplomacy, snd a8 both he and Bismarck wero spoaking in a languago which was not their own. La Marmora saya that, had Bismarole contented himsélf with a de- nial of the naccusation, he would bhave no fault to find. The only explanation of the affair would then bo that Govone had misunder- stood him. But the resl question botwoon Bismarck and Ls Marmora does not turn on Govone's * voracity, Bismarck, through the Gorman press, hns virtually accused the Italian Goneral of suppressing the truth, inasmuch as ho has charged him with mutilating Count Usedom’s note relating to Biemarck's con- nection with the Hungarian rovolution in such o manner as to make it convey a veory different impression from what it would have made if published whole, This, it will ba seon, is n charge directly against LalMarmora. La Mar- mora hos answorad 16 by publishing the Count’s uoto in full, ond showing that the parts omitted were loft out in deference to par- ties mentioned espocially to Count Esacky. To the charge of having published State papers, tho Italisn answers that the documents made public by him are not Siato papors, but private and confidential communications,—honco not to be found among those of tho Minister of For- eign Affairs. Aftor a perusal of tho letter of Count Usedom, we cannot 8eé how La Marmora can bo accused of a design to mislead. This {s about the condition of the controveray at the present time, There is no doubt that it has beon an unfortunste one all around, The Italion Government, it is said, has, with great difiiculty, provented the publication of a second volume of Lo Marmora's work : “A Little Moro Light on the Political and Ahlitary Evouts of 1866.” Thero is no doubt eithor that Bismarck has been injured by the controversy. When Horr Von Malinckrodt, the Ultramontano leader, ‘mado the charge in quostion against Bismarck, b expected to injure him with the Gormaus. Ho did not succeed in this to any extent, but ho did injure him abroad, The Roman correspond- ents of the Gorman proes reprosent the fecling of Italy against Germany as one of intonse ani- moeity., They go oven so far as to eay that, if & war were to be deolared to-morrow - betwoen France and Gormany, Italy would break its alliance with tho Empire, On the whols, the Ultramontanes have made moro capital out of La Marmora than thoy had expected. At first, part of tho Italian poople wore indifferont to the con< trovorsy, When tho question of voracity came up, they became almoat & unit against Dismarck, The oxtrome Loft alono aro now opposed to Lo Marmors, butthis is on grounds of home policy, It ia wonderful Low tho Italian view of Blemarck has changed in o short time. Thoy now discover that ho is attempting to play Lonis XIV. and Napoleon, and have much to suy about his suppreasion of the Univers, his prosecution of French Bishops, his attempt to bridle tho Bolgion press, cto,, eto. The upshot of the whole, so far as Bismarck and La Marmora are concernod, seoms to bo that La Marmora did not mlsropreaent Dismarck, aud that Dismarck did not make the promise alloged. There is reslly nothing 8o far to conviot cither one or the other, g —— Another carpat-bag knave seems to haye some to griof in Plorida; this timo, H, 8. Harmon, for- meor County Clerk and Auditor of Alachua Connty. The Judge of the Connty Uourt has but just been removed for corrupt practices, and xow B0 he numos » number ¢f men who have won | gomes the late Olork, who hiss beea nirestsd Zor raining tho donominations of county aorip, and altoring tho minutes of the County Board ‘ta corrospond with the ralsed #sorip. The prisonnr sdmittod that thoro wora grosn frauds and for- gotlen in thia serlp, but contended ho was nol tho gullty party. Asitis cortaln, howaver, that tho [rauds woro parpotrated, and that tho scrig and records wara In his posscsslon, his statoe mont is not matiafactory to the County Board, and thioy will sift tho mattar o tho bottam, Bavaunsh (Ga,) News advises him to oswn up, ag in the long dend-loval of carpet-bag knavory in Florids, his casn don't amouut to much, and in roality 18 quito commonplaco, Ono of tho moat dotormined oppononta of the womau's tomperance orusade in Ohio is not A ealoon-kooper, but s clorgyman, the Rav, 0, A, Horman, of OClnclonati. Last Babbath ha proachod & gormon againat tho movemont to a vory larga congregation, dofending his position from tho Bible, and citing Joseph, Uonjamin, David, Paul, Timothy, Jesus Chriat and Hig disciples aa suthority for the use of wino, In closing his* sormon, the Rov. Horman took the following moral viow of the situation: If our mon would start n{ sud milinory storon, and st . SUOLE ki Stee ot thom, tho consequenco would bo that our wives would bo more economical, that they would be botter housce wivea; futhiorn would Lo happy in thelr family circle, and half of the aloons wonid Lo eompolled to oloso their doors for want of patronnge, Horo would be the right flold of action for Dio Lowls and thoss fanatic prescliors, Bat this would notdo, The dry goods merchanta coutribute enough monoy to ald in tho crusade In order that the men cannot spend s cont for drink, but that the wife may spend the last cent for dress, —— ‘The London Times makes an analysls of tho recont Parliamontary olections, which containg 8omo faols of goneral interest. Tho lato Dis- solution brought about 212 permanont changos in the Houso of Commons,—148 in Ene gland, 25 in Scotland, and 89 in Ircland., No less than slx mombers of tho Government lost thoir seats,—Chichoator Fortescue, Lord O. Fitze gorald, Lord Enfleld, Mr, Ayrton, Mr. Hibbert, aud the Lord Advocate, 8ir G. Youang; while, on tho othor hand, Sir J, Pakington was tho only member of tha front Opposition Bench who lost hissont, The bitterness of. tho contost was shown in the rarity of uncontosted oloctions. In 1865, 303 mombers woro returned without oppo- sition 1868, when many small boroughes had beon dinfrauchised, the numbor was 211 ; while in 1874 theio were only 187 membera in all who obtalned seats without o contost, The new Par- liamout will bo composed of 299 Liberals and 363 Qoneorvatives, sbowing a Consorvative majority of 64, —— NOTES AND OPINION. Tho farmers of Kendall County, Ill., have unsuimously rogolved, in thelr Farmers' Club (tho Grango is not politieal), to bo in tho fleld with candidatos, at tho spring oloctions, 'The Yorkvillo News suys of the meeting : LEvery ono recognized the fact thatn hard strugglo would enaue nex: fall, and again In the State and Naw tonal campalgne of 1476, Tt wus. comcaing tht the pooplo wero at last arrayed agwmst monopolists and corrupt ring, and thet tho battle would buve to bo fought out, " This bofug tho cnse, the wisdom of keeps ing up local organtzatious and winning local victarits was 00 manifest to bo disputed. —Much of tho same spirit is apparent in the countios which aro to olect SBuporvisord, and it is very forcibly exhibited in relation to the ¢ town motings” which are to bo hold early in April, and which aro reslly clections for oficors wha oxpend taxes ot loast threo times groater than the entlre Stato revonue. It would bo of the glentont interest to tho people all over tha tato, 1f tho Legislature would pass, with the umorfonuy clause, the bill now peuding, requir- Ing sil municipnl Boarda o pubtish {n full an ac- count of their receipts and expenditures for tho past year, and if possible, this should be done nafore tho spring olections are held,.~—Ilinois State Regisler, —Hoon it will bo necesasrv to cast about and seo whom the poople will send to Washington and Springflold as their ropresentatives. To do this well, it will behoove the poople to com- mence early, to more completely organize. . . . Lot thoro bo work done. Let facts bo presented to tho poople, and action taken. Tho poople of Mercer County have said, %y an omphatic vote, that thoy do not raipnl old party issuos perti= nent. New Issues havo arisen, and demand in- veetigation and sction, Let the Central Com= mitteo tako action, and much can be accome plished,—Aledo énl.) Banner. —As far as old party plaiforms are concorned, Lhug amount to nothing,—for, in addition to thelx ambiguity, the oflicera olectod nover POy any re- pard to carrying them out,—thoy aro mere traj with which to catch votes, and if you don't like one canstruction you can give it another, From the tone of tho “various resolutions passed at mass mootings, Farmors' Clubs, and Anti-Mo- napoly Convenfions throughout the couutry, we are satisfled tho Iowa State platform ox- pressos the wislios of the people, and will ba fl'flfled in the National platform of tho Ani ouopoly party, and wo for ono will bo glad of it.—AMacomd (1.} Granger. —The thinking portion of the industrial olasses are becoming awake to the fact that, in the not romote future, if thora is not scop pus to the presont rato of progross toward tho come plete roign of monoy, there will bo only serfdom and vassalhood for the mass of the people. e+« Tho remedy must be sweoping, " . . "hore muat be o comprehonsive Ilnl‘:y of all the industrial population of the country.—Rockford (1) Anti-Monopolist. —Mr, Dawes got into New Hampshire with the following telegram : “ Retrenchment and zeform by aud through the Ropublican party,” Wo have ofton said that Dawes was propariug to make speeches in Now England defonding the Republican party. Now beis fulfilling tho pro~ diction. If thore is no roform until the Ropube lican party makes it, thore will be none forever, ‘Tho reforms that the Republican party have in- augurated have been in tho ahsfiu of stealing tho publio money and robbing the tressury,~— Quincy (IIL) Herald, —The currency quoation continuos to engroes 8 large share of tlo altontion of Congross. Wo hopo- the intlation schemo may bo effoctually Lilled. Wo boliove an issue of more irredooma- blo money a8 logal-tondor is_moking a foroed loan upon the Toaglo of the United Btates, and is only oxcusablo by tho necessity of & groat war; and that such issue in timo of peaca would be & great calamity, and sorva to put us further from specie paymonts and real prosporie ty.— Greenville (Ill.) Advocate, —We are not for free postaga for anything— wo wantno epocial loglelation’ in bebulf of any class. , . . From this system of protection for ono thing or another, camo all our prosent troubles,— Watscka (Ill.) Times, ~—Tho individual who “will not willingly pay 5 cents & quarter for tho delivery of his favorito journal is usually too penurious to take a papor nt any price. The press of the country demand- ed tho abolition of the franking privilege, and lot us stick to t.—DeXailb County (Iil.) News. ~—8, M. Smith, of Kowanee, in this Congros- sfonal District, is Becretury of the Illivols State Farmers' Assoclation, aud one of the lending men in tho now fomous Farmers' Movoment, Some of tho Grant papors have nssorted that ha desired to be tho farmers' candidato for Gover~ nor; others declared that he was working for the ,mmtiau of Congrossman in plece of Hawley. ‘Po the mind of & Grant editor. it is porfectly oloar that ovory man wants an cflico as a roward fox his orvices 1u bobalf of any cause or parcy.~— Rock Island (1) Argus, 2 —Alr, 8mith is'not, and will not be, a candi~ date for any oftice. His frionds aud his ono- mics may&top all talk in that dircction, Mr. Bmith is "thoroughly in earnest in the work In which ho i vngaged. His ambition and effort Ia to restore to flmt gront olass of which ho is ono, tha rights and jutercsts they havo beon un- inntl doprived of, And we say that wo know hat hio is working with a singloncss of heart, and purity of purposs that roffects tho highest credit on{\im, and hois wise in not boing sul- Hed with oflico or ofiicial associations, Thero is u clags of small politicians, of both tho old and offeto patties, that are bolaboriug thelr brain industriously'to dovise unpleasaut things to say of Mossra, Bmith, Flagg, Golder, and other prominont friends of the farmora In the State. Thoy oan do thoso gontlemen no groator favor than to nbuso thom. When this Is done the peoplo know thelr onomios are hurt and thels trionds aro truo,—Ohicago Industrial Age, — BILLIARDS. BouroN, Mass, March 12.~In the seventh gamo of tho billiard tournament, Dal hnutluan g of the nior 88 poiuta, This makes the stan playeis as follows 2 1 0. Dion va. Gamlen, & V8. Daly, this epening tw § Dolute,