Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1874, Page 6

TERMS OF THE" TRIBUNE. TERNE OF SUNSORIPTION (PAYANLE IN ADVANGR). Daily, by mait 001 Bundag, 2. - Weekd 15:00 Sonar i} Partaol a yearat tho sme rato, To provent. delay and mistakos, o sura and give Post, Ofceaddrens In full, including State and Connty, Romittances may bo mada elthor by dratt, oxpress, Post Oflca otder, or in registered lottors, nt our tlsk, TENME TO CITY BUDACRINENS, Dally, detivored, Sunday sxcopted, 2 conte per week, Daily, dolivered, Bunday tncluded, 3 conts per wook, Address TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Uhicaga, I, — TO-DAY'S AMUBEMENTS. HOOLEY'S THRATRR—Randoloh stesot, botwesn Olikars Fabai Hnesgomontaf Jhra s Betmerts Dombination, ** Undino.* Aftarnoon and evening, ACADR] F MUSIO—Halsted stroat, hotwoen Mad- Aiand “H -;fl"'l?' A EsSTang % Dick e ormobhol! 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COLDS AND COUGUS.—SUDDEN OIANGES OF wonther are sourcas of pulmonary and bronohial affoc. tions, Take at once ‘' Brown's Bronchial Trochos," lot Slte Gold, cough, or feritation of tho throat ba slight, The Chicags Tribune, Baturday Morning, March 14, 1874, er %0 NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, The demand for space in the Sunday edition of Tre TRIDON 18 80 latgo that wo must again requost advor- thsers to send in thelr favors at ns early an Lour to-day o4 possiblo, in order to insure insertion and proper clasalfication, * b Tho annnal report of the Pennsylvania Rail- rord Company shows an incresso in tho net earninga of 1878 over 1872 of $1,107,857.66, The surplus not profit for the year was $2,188,~ 767.14, and the net earnings §$9,445,708.74, — There was an increase of 94-10 in the aros sown with winter wheat lust fall iu the States of Illinois, Indiana, Tows, Kansas, Missouri, and Obio, according to tho information of tho Na- iional Crop Reporter. In Illinois the incronso is 22 por cent. Iowa shows a decronse of 19’ por cont, to be attributed to tho sovere drought last summer, The condition of the fruit treos is good, and a flne yield is expocted. — To-day was fixod by the Wisconsin Legislature a8 the date of adjournmont, but the members loft Madison two days ago, Laving the good wenee, not common in Legislatures, to know that their worl was done, This year, 349 Jaws woro presed to 308 in 1878; and 18 joint resolutions ndopted to 6 last year. Theso figures give no idea of tho scope and direction of tho leglsla- ton, which time alono will reveal, ———— ‘Woman-suflrage, temperance laws, and free possos were three important questions beforo tho Michigan Legislaturo yestorday. The de- cislon on each was not favorable to the views of reformers. It was decided by tho Senate not to siriko tho word *“ male from the Constitution, The House rofused to submit tho question of regulating tho liquor traffic to tho poople, and rojected a motion to forbid members to take freo posges from railroads during sessions of the Logislature. Racelver Hinckley, of. the Gilman, Clinton & Bpringfield Railroad, roports that during bis firat throe montha of posscssion tho net earn- ings of the road have beon $19,667.78, an in- cronso of $403.31 over last year. Tho expenses docreased $28,076.60. The over-duo pay rolls for Boptomber, October, and November Liave been eettled. A potition has beon presonted to the McLean County Circuit Court for a decres to bave tho road put into the posscssion of tho | Ecott party, in consogquence of tho failure to poy Interest on tho first-mortgage Londs for which they are Trustees, Judge Farwoll Lns given a decision in tho groat real-cstato cnse of King vs, Wildor, dismissing King's bill to get hold of the property on the during the four mon ending with Fob. 28, bo sides 01,538 in Ootobor, and 245,000 during lnst summer, Total for thetwelve months, 1,828,600, Livo hogs woro nctive and firm at £5.00@6.00 for common to cholco, *Cottlo wore active and firmor. Bhoop woro stondy and unchanged, s In a lottor to Earl Granville, Glndatone mnken it cloar that the Liborals cannot look to him for tho loador they noed. 1o is willing to do all ho oan, but want of rest will make it impossiblo for him to bo more than an occasional attondant in the House during tho presont sesslon. He goos 80 far as to ralse tho quostion whethor it would not bo bettor for him, without any moro delay, to take hls placo among tho Indepondont mombors, and lot tho Liborals chooso & younger and freshor loador, If thoy did so,.lis would give him all tho holp in hispower, Tho Liberal party is in a8 bad o condition a3 it well could be, No one of its prominont membors has the qualifications nooded for a good leader, Mr. Bright hins not tho atrongth, ir. Lotve {a too unpopular, Mr. Tostor's concesslons to the Establishod Clurch Marquis of Hartinglon has not weight enough, Mr. Cardwell might do, but he s to bo tranalated to tho Houso of Lords, Undor theso clrcum- stances, the loadorship of the Liberals must be * put Into commission," to uso a Parlismentary pliraso,—i, e, tho party will follow oach of its chiofa along his own espectal lin Sonator Stewart hea been placed at the hond of tho Diatrict of Uolumbia Investigating Com- mittee, in placo of Benator Boutwell, who is too ill to keep his placo. Sonator Btewart has spoken from his scat in tho Monate on the al- loged frauds of Boss Shephera and his Board of Public Works, and what ho has smd bas cor- tainly not bLoen unfavorablo to thom. Buch romnarks as that ko belioved that for the amount of money spent tho Board of Public Works had bad moro dono than such bodios usually accomplish ; ond again, that, owing to the poouliar influences surrounding them, & City Government eannot get work done at the samo ratos as private individuals, do not Indi- cato tho impartiality of a Judge. Bosides all this, Senator Stowart is s proporty-owner in tho District, and the improvements which have done much to entich Lim are said to havo cost him very much less thon ofher taxpoyers. It would bo much bottor, accepting their own pro- testations of innoconce, for the Ring to have tho wvestigation conducted by a severer hand, The vordict of acquittal would count for so much moro, Without doubt, the fervid and resolute sphrit of the great temporance moeting of women in this city yostorday aftornoon betokens the inaug- uration of tho crusado in this city in good ear- nest. The Common Council {s to be tho first point of assault, and tho Sunday liquor contest of last fall is to bo renewed undoer tho most unique ciroumstances. The meocting adopted potition praying in the most urgent manuer that tho ordinance now bofore the Council for the res- toration of liquor-selling on Sunday may not bo adopted, Copies of those petitions are to be circulated by hundreds throughout the city for signatures, Committecs of forty eaoh from the Evangolical churches of this city will meot on Mondsy ovening at the First Mothodist Church, and procced in & body with the poti- tions to the rooms of the Common Coun- cil. This demonstration is far gontlor sud for more formidablo than thst made sumo time g0 by the angry workingmen, Policemen wera of servico then, but next Monday night tho Council can get no help from such guards. The charactor aud high purposcs of thess women will cortainly command respoet, and the isaue of their efforts will bo swaited with intercst, e ‘We publial o lotter from Mr. Jamos Campboll, Inspector of Provisions to the Chicago Board of ‘Teade, which throws a good deal of light on the #our meat controvorsy, * What we want in this city," eays Alr. Campboll, “is & rulo as to what porcentage of sour in a pilo of meat ehall make havo put him out of favor for tho momont, the - efforts were made to rearuitfortho: Tha call waa always for voluntoors, Thero was 1o Rlamour aronnd the nama of any rogular reg- imont, Tho onllated mon on' tho rogular rolls woro seattored hore and thore in amall dotachmonts at hoadquarters or wore dotalled singly as olorks or officors’ sorvants, It I safd, and we bolleve truly, that 1o regular rogimont waa srrayed in ontiro rogi- montal lino’ of battlo during tho Oivil War. ‘Chero wero companies hore, battallons there, but no regimonts, Lot us illustrate, Shoridan’s cavalry woro Miohigan volunteors, With thom, Col. Sherldan won his stars.” Ho was borno, meanwhilo, on tho Army Registor ns a Captaln of tho Tuirteenth Rogular Infantry, with whioh bo nover sorved and was never othorwise idonti- fled. Again, tho Bixteonth Rogimont was con- solidated with the Socond, in 1809, The present Sixteonth Rogimont is made up of the old Eloventh and Forty-fonrth, Is it not absurd to keep on ita colors the battles fought by tho old organization now incorporated in tlo Second ? Every onoe of tho firet oloven regiments now on tho rollaisa compound of twaor threo old onos,— a compound formed in 1869. Tho Fourteenth to tho Nineteonth Rogiments, both inolusive, were formed in tho same way at the same time. The Twenty-socond, Twenty-fourth, and Twonty-fifth aro in ‘tho samo oatogory. Tho Tiwelfth and Thirtoenth are tho only regiments in the rogular army which have prosorved their identity from the boginning of the War. The faots hore given (ol of which can bo verified by the Army Register) show that, evgn if tho rogular army had fought at all in regimental ar- ray during'tho War, tho inscription bf a battlo on tho flag of any particutar rogimont would indi- cato that not it, but its prodecossor in the name, fought in that battte. When wuconsldor tho addi- tonal fact that tho officors and mon wora seattor- ed all over tho country during tho whole War,— tho officors sorving in volunteor commands, or in mustoring and disbursing, or on stals, and iho men dotailed for hendquartors or parrison dutics,—these inscriptions appoar in their proper light. They aro meariy all well-meant flotions, Why'keep up this hollow protense longor? Is not tho law that allows it an *in- sult to the loyal soldiory of tho mation"? It makes somo of them appear to claim honors not duo them, and it compels tho rest to tacitly acknowledge that claim. But’ ovon if those battles had been actually fought by tho men whoso flags boar tho names of the conflicts, it would still bo unadvisable to per- mit the practico longer. Wo quoted yosterday tho list of seventeon battlos which tho Twonty- firat Rogiment, which was formed in 1866, is Bup- posed to have fought batwoon June, 1862, and October, 1864, Of theso soventeon, ton were dofeats, four wore drawn, and threo were victo- rios, Ia this such a glorious record that wo must proserve it forover? Moreover, tho Robellion was suppressoed just about nine years sgo. The victors mado their own torms. The vanquisked porfores accoptod thom. The one thing noedful now isto heal tho wonnds made by the long struggle. To do this, cannot we disponsn with tho petty gratifleation of flaunting tho memori- als of fratricidal strife in tho faces of our ox- onemies and present frionds? Bo Sumnor thought, fitteon montha sgo. And 80, we bo- believe, the country thinks now. Let Congross give the country's thought voico, and lay this resolution on Charles Bamuer' s Brave as itslast and beat recoguition of his worth. — HELPS TO BLACEMAILERS, Our Custom-House spics and blackmail-retain- ors undor tho most iniquitous laws ever enacted by a civilized government—the law for soizure of yoods, books, papors, eto., where the importer is suspecled of somo irregularities in entering his goods—make grievous charges of frands and swindling through irregularities in the process of invoicing and shipping goods to this country, Thore are two sides to this question. If the Govornment can justly claim that its laws shall be kept, it is bound to show that tho lsw which it has mode can be mun- it unmerchantable,” From thia ““ want " we dis- cover two things : 3 1. That some sour can go into & pilo of meat without making it unmorchantable, 2. That the amount of sour that cun go in— whother 5 per cent, or50 per cent, or 75 per cont— i in tho discrotion of tho Inspector. Mr, Oamp- bell naturally wants to know how much sonr can bo left out without disgracing the Inspector and inguring the loss of his place, ¥ ‘We sympathize with Mr. Qampbell, and com- mend his “want " to the Invostigating Commit- we. Along with Mr. Campbell's lottor, on the vlea that Wilder hold it in trust for him, King's claim to the property—now worth half a million =~i8 bosed on some transnction which occurred twenty years, lacking ono day, before tho pres- ont suit wag brought, in 1870, Judge Far- woll says plainly that he ig satisfied the object of sa loog & delay in assert- ing tho oxistence of the trust wag, that hing, ‘Wwho was insolvent, desired to provent his credi- tors from reaching the property. Now that hig debts are outlawed, ho presonts his claims, A court of oquity will not eucourage such prac- tioon, and Judge Farwell theroforo dismisses the bl : Binco the funeral of Prosident Lincoln, Wash- ogton hus witnessod no such grand scene ns tho obsequies of Sebator Summnor yestorday. Tho President, the Chief Justico, and Judges of the Bupremo Court, tho mombors of the Cabi- oot, tho members of Congress, and tho Oblefs of alltho Departments of Government, the diplo- matlo ropresentatives of foreign Governmonts, and sincerer in their grief than all, 25,000 of the pooplo, amoug them many hundreds of the race to whom tho great Senntor's life had beon givon, brought him thelr homage, The proceed- ings, by speoial request, were confined to tho slmplost burial servico, at the conclusion of which tho romains were placed on board the train, to be taken to Boston. They restod last night at the Fifth Avonue Hotol, in New York, and will be to-day In tho Btato Houso in Boston, oo S — The Chicago produco markets wore genorally elow yeaterday, and grain was ensier, Moss pork was quiot and steady, closing at $14.30 cash, and 814.40@14.473¢ seller April. Lard was quiet, and o per 100 1ba highor, closing 2t £8.90@8.95 cash, and £8.973¢@D.00 vollor April. Meats wore quiet and steady at $6.40 for ehoulders; 75(@ 7%o0 for short riba ; 73¢@8o for short clear, and 2@100 for sweot-pickled hams. Dressed hogs ‘woro quiet and unchanged, at 88.00@6.15 per 100 b8, Highwines wero quiot aud steady at 9810 por gallon, Flonr was dull ond steady, Wheat was loay active, and 13go lower, closing at 1,10 cash and $L103{ soller April, Corn was quict, and 5{@J¢o lowor, closing at 0lo oash, nnd 6130 soller April. Oata wore dull and easlor, at 439gu, cagh, and 483¢o soller April. Ryo was quiet and steady at 810 for regular;. Barley was qulet and. 2@80 Ligher, st §1.45@1.46 for No, 8. Qlilosgo packers have eud up 1,090,034 hoge third pago of this paper, we also publish the re- sults of interviews hold yestorday with sevoral denlors. Many of these gentlemen sought to dodge the question, and some of them peromp- torily declined to give their views on the sub- Joct. Othors frankly indorsed tho eXposures of Tus Tmbuse, confirmed the explanation wo bave mado of the abuses, condemned thopresent systom of inspeotion, and exprossed themsolves as confidont that our offorts in the promises will lond to roform of groat benefit to the Chicago trade. Weo have a notion that the silenco of thosoe who rofused to speak s fully as signifi- cant as tho utteranco of those who did spenk, ‘Phe investigation may now go forward with am- ple material to work upon, —— THE HOMAGE DUE TO SUMNER, The most fitting mark of respect to tho great Sonator would be the passago of his famous bat- tle-flag rosolution, word for word as it came from the brain which has now done with earthly thinking, Tho one objection to it would be tho possible injustice to the rogular rogiments, We. showed, in a former artiolo, that it had no refer- onco whatover to the colors of tho voluntoors, If, then, this alloged injustico can be shown not to exist, tho Inat obatacle is removed, Congress con then fittingly pnss tho resolution. Lot its committees appointed to escort the body to Bo- ton carry with thom the formal proof that the nation agrees with Massachusotts in saying that haaty conturo has yieldod to well-weighed praise, 'his will bo justice. This will be highor honor then escorts and paradcs and all’ tho pomp and pageantry of n solemn funoral, Meisachusetts callod tho roscldition “an insult to the loyal soldlory of the uation,” The real insult to that soldlory is in the permission grant- eit to men who nevor saw a battle to flaunt its name {uscribed upon thelr flags befors the men who fought init. It was tho common romark, durlug the War, that tho regular avmy was but tramoworlk of officers and stalfa without enlist- ed men, It was not sought to bave it otherwise. 8o mauny offieers wero detailed to higher rank in tho volunteers, so many wore dotailod on mus- tering or disbursing duty (which was confinod to rogular officers, by general order, becauso: their slgiaturos woro kuown aud could be casily aus thonticated), that thera wero not enough offl« oera loft in the line to sultably commsnd any number of men, For this’ resson no espeoial doratood andcan be obeyed, If it attompts to onforce obedienco,—~and all just Governments should be ablo to enforce just laws,—then it must not let it be known that it is itsclt & viola- tion of law. Tho law-meking and Iaw-enforcing power must justify its own position by being Inw-abiding as well as law-onforcing. It was one of the most croditable thinge said of tho Iate lnst Napoleon, that, while much of a despot, he set tho host examplo'to his subjocts in showing them that ho was n moat faithful keoper of all the lawa of his Empire enacted for the publio, It hos- generally been admitted by all who have had anything to do with enforcing or working under the laws portalning to the importation of gooda into this country from foreign countries, that they oro lawa Liard to be comprohonded and very dit- ficult to obey,—oepecially that part which an im- portor hos to comply with, which haa to b oxe- cuted in & foreign country, and by subjecta of another Government, who do not care to muddls their heads about our peculiar stylo of logisla~ tion. Our laws regulating Consular duties (and the laws pertaining to importation of goods ara pro-cminently laws of Consular jurisdiction) aro laws of our domain cvacted for all orestion, They bring under our jurisdiction the subjects of all other countries who desl with us; wo compal them to obey our laws, whether or not’ thoy had ever set foot on our blesged soll; and if they do not square up to tho mark inall their # oaths,” ¢ affirmations,” or *declarations,” and they commit porjury actually or constructively, sad we canuot get at them (as surcly we cannot), then our law or the officials aro down with a Vengeanco on those who roceivo the goods here: That is, tho crimo follows the goods, and thoy are brought to punishmont by having the gooda confiscatod, and innocent importors suffer for tho orime of othors, v 2 This law of lr_nnom, in the sssumed violation of which thero s somuch {nvolved in the way of Dblaclmail, esplonage, ssizing goods, putting our hoavy flrms under condemuation, and Jayn- ing them (which means not highway robbory, but counting-house robbery), bogius its operation with tho subjects of anothor Govornmont. Tor ina‘ance Her Majesty, tho Queenof England, in o Consul'a offlce under the flag of the United Statos, mokos declaration bofors Lim or = Commlssionor, or by an oath bofora & mag- fatrato of the country,—sud yet it is kuown that it would be prepostorous to conyict tho party of porjury, and the attempt never Jot has been made. The shippor swonra to all the tacts required in the Cousular cortificate to be attachod to the involco, and thisbe not ‘only uwonre t0 onco, but three timos, ss thoso fn- voleos have all to be made in triplicates, Bwoar- ing three timos qver to tho same thing, whion to those very peouliar foreigners hLas about the samo offect Ba tho repetition of tho Judgo while sentenoing the oriminal, ‘that you be kasg tll'you are desd, desd, THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU dead!” * Well Judge, yon bo damned, damnod, damnod” And o this oumulativo swearing dumbfounds almoat any son of Joun Bull, and makes Johony Orapoau shrug his shouldors 80 omphatloally as to causo his head to go down into his stomach, One Fronchman, who mado only a singlo oath, in prosocuting hia olaim for tho wagos of & son killed in our army In the Robolllon, when tho said eath bad boon trans- lated back into English agaln, was made to (Bwear boforo the Consul thatho wes only 18 yoara old, but hnd a son 25 who was the fathor of bia grandfather, Thera osu hardly bo s doubt that ho had his clafim allowed forthwith. The goods importod Liave their invoices verle flod undor two divisiona gooda purchased by an agont for the owner, or manufactured for tho purchaser. All goods that can bo idontified aa manufactored goods, such as railway-iron, shawls, silk goods, prints, woolen cloths, guns, otc,, or whore the goods can bo traced to the manufacturors, require to b vorified in the Con- sular distriot whoro manutacturod. This wasa rogulation worked Into law for thio spoolal bono- fitof the inland Consulates, and made Man- oheator & Consulato second only to Liverpool ; mado-the feo offleo of Leods, which had hardly enough incomo to give bresd to a moderate- sizod family, to bo worth in a singlo yosr moro than was paid as salary to the Prosident bofors the ealary steal. Tho other kind of invoico fs for goods purchased in the open marlkot,and thoy have no fatherhood in manufaoturs, The larger amount of goods imported belong to the manu- factured clage, The oath taken for manufactures daclaresthem to bo tho goods actually manufactured at_ thoir coat, and the price stated that which was sotu- ally paid, and also tho charges theroon, such as {roight to the port of shipment, boxing, cartage, storage, commissivns, cto., and aldo $2.60 for the Connul's fees to tho involce. Tho involce to the purchased goods saya : The actual price for which thoy were purchased, with the oxpanuges as above stated. And both styles of invoico state that it contains a true and faithful account of {ho nctual cost, eto.; also, the actual quantity of tho goods, waros, merchandise, etc. A failure in any one of these partioulars makes tho invoico a prima facie fraud, and subjects the goods to forfeituro, Yot tho invoice may bo made out by some #nob, or boer-muddled pro- pristor, or a party that never sought to know ihat was paid to tho drayman, if saything,— and who might very conaclontiously pay tho half- guines foo to tho Consul as & porquiaite, and would not think of charging. such an itom to & respoctable fim with whom. ho fa dealing, or put it in the invoice, Furthermore, tho certificato ia roquired to bo made by the principal of the firm, or chiof clork, or an authorized agent by power of attorney. Consuls rather ohooso to doal with tho princi« pala. Now the principals in all manufacturing firma are efchor too great numbskulls to know. any- thing sbout their busineas, or too grest men to care for such matters, and are otherwise ongaged in more important mattors,—as serving in Parlin- ment, hunting, or traveling on the Continent. This rulé would requira John Bright to leave his soat in Parlisment for goods sold by his firm at Rochdale, and go before & sevon-by-nine Cousut and gffirm, in Quakor atyle, to the truth of all the nonsense contained in the cortificato to the in- voice, ‘Theso aro understood to be Yankes laws to bo enforced in Hor Mojeaty's jurisdiction, and they are submitted to with tho brosdest grin 28 if they ware quite propor for such a gramp- tious aort of people us thoy ot us down to be, Theae blundots, the jokes, or the indifferonce, and moro commonly the self-important stapldity of these people with whom our great importers daeal, may work any quantity of mischiof, and all the goods, becauso of the inavitable irregular- ity, will be declarod forfoited to Jayne and his' pimpa and spies. And while g0, it is almost impossible for the officiala themselvos to keep the law they aro try- ing to onfarco upon all oroation. It ia bardly possible under tho system which ia countenanced by the Tressury Department to get alogal onth administered in & Consulato, or any formality of an oath, which the majority who make them do not regard as a stupondous joke or sn egrogious imposition. The law says the goods shall bo verified in the Consular distriot whore manufac- tured. There is whore Phelps, Dodge & Co.’ were caught,—not caught in a trap of iniquity of thelr own setting,—but in a trap of ocur own legal stultification abroad, for which thoy paid the blackmail penalty of nearly $300,000. Their transgresslon was on the invoices pertaining to sheot tln, of which they aro large importers. The expmuil of boxes or trans- portation to port of shipment was not in all cagos stated. This should not have boen atated it the tin were purchased in the open market in Livorpool, becauso the actual price paid would have ombraced all the cost of getting it to mar- ket by tho soller. Now, tho officials know that tin wae not manufactured at Liverpool. Tho law raquired the verification of the invoice to be in the Consular district where tho articlo was manufucturod ; this .verification ia the official act of tho Consul. It was a violation of law on the part of the Consul at Livorpool to verify any singlo one of thoso invoices. For there is not g sheet of tin manuyaclured within the limits of that Consular district, and the Consul knew it, and ho ought to have known tho law, and Phelps, Dodge & Co, might not havo known it ; and if their agent had boen an Englishman, it would have boen an everlasting misfortune to him to have known snything of our revenue lawa; and in allow- ing those verifications the Comwenl violated tho law, and on that violation of our awn law by our own officials was & respectablo firm thrown into the horriblo: pit dug for them by Jayne and his confrere — BPEIGHT VS, BHERIDAN, At Iast Commissioner Slieridan has met hig match, Hitherto that gontleman has,as tho public well know, heen quito irropressiblo, The combinod forcos of the Olty Government havo been unabloto kecp him down any length of time, Mayors, Aldermon, Boards of Honlth, Police, and Public Workh havo now and then joinod hnuds to suppross him, but the burly Commissioner Las burst oll tho combinntions which have boon formed againat him, At tho meoting of the Boards of Health and Pollne ou Wednesday, however, Commissioner Sheridsn mot with an antsgonist whom he could not wheedle, crroumvent, or floor, and the antagonist was M1, Bpolgbt. Tho seusion was a socret ono, but enough has leaked out to make it cortan that Mrs, 8poight wont ¢or Commissioner Sherl- dan very much in tho mannor that Bill Nyo went for tho Hoathen Ohiaee, Bhe struok atralght out from tho shoulder every time, and every timo shie atruck sho hit a, fafr, squaro blow. Tho punishmont whioh she adminiatered ‘was 80 contlnuous and severo that Bheridan was soon knooked oub ‘02 wind and qoulda'y eome to SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 187 time, When she retired, the weak, tattorad Come wnlsslonor sank Into a cliair and foobly muttered s ‘' Thank God! It's ovor. NowI am froo fors month,” It was a choorful little indiotmont which Mra. Spoight bronght agalust Shorldan, the counts of which woro substantially ss fol- lows : Jtem. That io wus at the hosd of ths Com~ mune In this city, Jtem. That thoro woroe only thros paying olass- o8 of business in the olty : The mooial avil, tho liquor business, nnd Sheridan's @ e, office- holding), and tho 1ast was tha worst of all. Jtem. That the Polico Commissionorsowed thoir positions to tho votes of tho Commune, the thiovos, tho gamblars, and tho Oyprians, who wore tho backbone of the People's Darty. dlem, That ho azid his minion Hickoy had long been trying to got Lier out of tho city, but that she would resist them ovon in her dying agony. diem. That tho Commissionors had a smooth, mesmeric way of gotting Yound poople, but he couldn't get round her. ltem. That o had sold himaelf to the devil snd tho People’s Party, and thoro was.no health in him, 5 5 An unprojudiced person might call the above list of itoms sufliciont for all practical Purposes, but that Mrs, Spoight's strongth was not ox- Laustod is evident by the fact that, after sho had polishod off Sheridan, sho turned round upon tho unfortunate Klokke, who had ventured a word in edgoways, aud sent him spramling by informivg Lim ho wasa young and ambitious Jow, who ought to bo ashamed of the company he was in. Having sccomplished this feat, tho belligorent Mra. Speight, rufing all hor fosthers, salled out of tho room, loaving Bberidan and KlokLe to bo sponged, ealved, aod sympathized with by their more fortunate asso- ciates, who had escaped her wrath by the discreot stratogy of silonca. There are two gratifying phases in thia pleas- ant littlo drama of Speight vs. Bheridan, Turat, it shows that the head which wears the crown is un- easy, and thot thoro sre thorne in Sheridan's purple. Elovated as }\lu position may be, wide- sprond as his influonce may bo, tyranmeal as his sway may be,onco s month he hss to pay tho ponalty of greatness, for, evory thirty days, Mrs. Bpoight entls in upon him like an svenging Nomesis, Twolvo times a yoar sho comos like tho apparition of a wronged victim, and takos tho concelt out of him, The socond polnt 16, that at last an antidoto has beon discovered for Shoriden, Horoaftor when he gets upon the rampago and grows obstreperous, and rides rough-shod ovor his asaociates in the Board, Iot thom sond for Mrs, Speight. 8he can quict him and mako tho lion roar as gently as tho eucking dove. Weknow something of Mrs, Bpeight. Sho comes to geo us, but she ounly comos once a year, like taxes. Bho comes to8heridan, on tho other hand, like gas-bills and pew-rents ; and, if some arrangoment can be made to eoours her attend- ance whenevor it is necded, the rest of the Board may always hold her in terrorem over tho domincering Commisaioner and kesp him within bounds. Wo have said that Mra, Speight comes to seo us once a year. Itisdue to hor to say that her misslon 14 to wecure decont treatment for the female inmates of tho Bridewell and ths County Jail. Bhe is a good woman, and we think that when she is not eungeged in securing decent treatment for fomales in the Bridewoll fnd the County Jail, she is best employed in polishing off Sheridan, e 1 * FITZ-JOHN FORTER. ‘The efforts to secure & now trial for Gen, Por- teraro gathering strength. The testimony of Loo and Longatreet completely clears him of the charge on which he waa cashiered, unless tho ‘prosecntion hias something now to offer. That testimony could not be taken during tho firat trial, when tho War was atill raging. It i but bare justico to allow its admission now, The Fifth Army Corps, which Porter commanded up to the time of his trin}, has resolved to mske a uniled effort to got justice for thoir old Goneral, which they would bardly do if he were a traitor ora poltroon, A ciroular has beon issued, which we are requented to publish, in order to put it in tho hands of vld members of the corps whose present addresses are unknown to tho Commit- teo. Xtruns as follows : B1a: At the lnst annual rounton of the Army of the Patomac, tho Fifth Corps resolved that an effort should be made to sccure the united action of tho corps in an endoavor to have tho now evidence that was inaceosaible at the time of the trial brought for- ward and a reboaring secured, in tho cage of Gen, Fitz- John Porter, If you are disposed to join in this movement, will yau please send your addross, with that of any ofhers of the old Fifth Corps that you may know, to, yours very respoctfully, DavzL BUTTERPIELD, Lato Col. and Bt. Maj,-Gen., T, 8, A, and Ms}.-Gen, Vol,, Chiairman Committee, No, 304 Firrut AVENUS, N&w Yonx, March 2, 1874, Mr. Josoph Kirkland, No. 78 Washington streat, Chioago, lato Major and A. D. 0. in tho Fifth Corps, would like to hear from any members of tho corps in regard to this matter, 1 .BTATISTICS OF LABOR, Btatigtics havo beon called the sign-posts for statesmen. Thoy guidoe, or should guide, legis- Intion. " Mon has go busied himeelt, from gray antlquity, in makiog laws that ho hes tried nearly every concbivable regulation. If wo had tho rosults of thoso many laws accurately col- Iated, weshould have almost unerring guides for legislation heroafter. And so with all other subjects. Tho statistics of what has boen ehow what ought to be, and often what will be, despite all we can do. The want of sufficlent koowledge has made our logislation and our vhilanthropy ‘in regard to workingmen singu- luly dofective. Thero have been rash laws and rash sohomes without end. Five years ago, Massnchusetts organizod a State Board of Statis- tica of Labor, It consiats of two men, & Chlef auda Deputy, and it costs from $10,000 to $15,000 s yoar, Its flve roports, takon together, aro worth everything olae ever published in Amerloa on the labor quostion. ‘Thoy sre storehouses of faots which can bo found nowhere else, Tho man who has not read thom does not kuow the alphabot of the queation of which they treat, They have attractod general attentlon, hero and abrond. The Board, organized in the face of groat opposition, and bitterly attacked ever since, {s now sn oatablished instltution, Its ‘work le invaluablo and its cost is a bagatello, Ts Massachusotts to stand alono in this worlk ? ‘Woneed suok & Boprd In Illinols, Its reports will be of direct value to every farmer, every meokauie, ovory hand-worker in tho State and the couutry, and of {ndirest valuo to overybody elso who takes tho trouble to read them, The Legislature of Itlinols could leglslate moro intol- ligontly upon any phiase of the labor quoation if 1t hind bofore it the facts that only auoch s Board .cau golloots Tho salarica of tho two mombors and the incldontal exponses will bo & cheap prico to pay for wisdom. Ita reports will not conalst of ulwple rowa of fAgures, They will be full of fauby. " Porkiapa the beat idea of thelr nature can be givon by q g Maseachusotta report for 1878 ¢ The report contajns maiter upon the following sub. Joats, viz, ¢ ‘Wnyoa and Earnings, Cost of Living, Havings and Bavings Danks, Ownorship of Proparty, Co-operation, 3 Education, Poverty, Hours of Labor, ! (Oonclusions aud Recommenuations, ‘This list comprigos most of tho vital questions of tho day. Is $10,000 or 815,000 » yonr too largo a prica to pay tor loarning how to anawor them ? Sooner or later, Tllinols will have hor Board of Btatistica of Lavor, — THE ERIE OANAT, The Now York & Erio Cansl has for over forty years produced a snrplus rovenuo; tha Btato of Now York Lins roceived from the ‘eamn- inga of that canal nearly fortv-six milllons of dollars miore than tho oxponditure for construct- fng aud maintalning tho work, Tho surpius ro- coipta from the canal for the lost tifteon yonrs would have paid for ils enlargoment to donble its present capacity, Tho Btate, howover, has used this surplus rovenuo to meot tho coat of ropairing and oporating a sorios of latoral canala which might all be filled up to tho groat profit of tho Stato, Publio attention hns, how- ever, beon aroused in Now York to the threate oned loss of commorcoe by this polioy, and s bill is ponding beforo tho Leglslature providing for funding tho canal dobt of the Stato, and to re- lievo tho carnings of the Erio and QOawogo Canals from all chargos excopt for thelr own maintonsnce, In 1869-'70, the tolls on grain on tho Erie Oansl, from Buffalo to Albany, wors 6 conts por bushel; and that yoar they were re- ducod, aftor & bittor fight, to 8 conta per bushel, Tho ordinary surplus earnings of the Erie Caual average aver one million dollars a year, at tho prosont rates of toll. It is assumod that if tho funding bill bo passed, the State tolls ean bo re- duced to 1 cont por bushel, and pay all tho cost of oporating tho canal, and even of enlarg- ing somo of its locks and constructing othors that are needod. Tins reduotion of 2 cents por bushol a ‘upon the tolls collected by the Stato, and in no othor way rolatos to the rato of freights. * So long ns the business offerod the. canal excoeds ita - pacity, and there is no room for an increaso either of the number or size of tha boata, thero con bo no matorial reduction of tho rates of ‘freight. The rolie? afforded by the reduction of Stato tolls is noyertholess important, but it is not too soon to meot the threatoned divorsion of the trado from Now York. Tho 8t. Lawrenco and Welland Canals are now undorgoing onlarge- ment, and in & comparatively shorttime willpor- mit tho passngo of the largost olass of lake stoamers and sail vessels, Tho comparative dis- tances from Chicago to Now York and Montroal may be thus stated : 0 from the ¥ @ Olifcago to Buffalo by Inke,. Buffalo to Now York by zatl Chicago fo Now York by Iske and ral, Ghblcago to Buffalo by lok Buftaio by canal to Albsuy, ‘Albany to Now York by rive Chicago to Now York by wate: Ohifeago to Montreal by Water..v..uvesersss s, 200 The average timo from Chicago to Montroal i *8 days; from Chicago to Now York, by lake, mouth'Church cutof the Oongrogational denome ination, tho sesslons of thiy Qounail will possoss oxtraordinary intoreat. Theso quostions go to tho very roots of Congrogationallam, It will in roality be a strugglo . betwoen the Iron-bound Congrogationallam of the Now England sort and the liboral, progressive . Congrogationnlism which refuses to bo bound by antlqunted pro. codonts and traditions, Such a strugglo s thlg, liozded on the ono side by a mon like Heury ‘Ward Boochor, eannot fail to bo of absorbing intorest and mark a momotnble ora in tho hig. tory of Congregationaliam in this country, ———— The Iliborality of thoe Dno do Montponsior holds out to thoe citizons of Boston the Prospect of an esthotle troat to bo kind for littlo moro than tho askig. «Tho Duke offers to lond to tho Musoum of Fino Arts in Boaton a collaction of palntings valued at €500,000 for ono yoear from May 1, 1874, asking only that the Trustoos asaumo tho froight and cost of insurauce, The colloction comprises fifty-five works, many of them by tho best mastors, One Is o Murillo, whoso valuo fa ono-fifth of the wholo collection, and I8 furthor eubancod by the fact that it has only once boon out of Seville, during which timo it was on oxhibition in the Spanlsh Gal lory of King Louls Philippo at the Louvro, Tho Trustees Lnve rondily taken hold of tho mattor, and will socure the palutings at ouce, The offer was originally made to the Royat Academy of London, but the Landsocr Ex- bhibition postponed its accoptance. Doston socured it through a Indy, native of that city, and now wife of tho Duc do Montponsior's Pri; vato Secretary. —_—— NOTES ON THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION, Tho Boston Globe, on the day befora the Now Hampshiro clection, urged Ropublidans to goto the polls snd “save the Stato to thelr party,” and to hope that * much ia atill possiblo [for re- form] within the ranks of tho Ropublican party.” The Ropublicans boing beaten, in an incrongod aggregato voto, the Globe uays : 1t comes not from mere listlcknness regarding publia off it comea from a widespread discontent and tfaction with the present condition of tlanag, s« o Thero fu o loss of faith, not in the principles of tho party, but in maty of tho'men of tlie party who pasumo to be its lenders, , , , This dissatisfaction ia widespread, but Now Hampaliire, as tho firut Stato loengage in the customary political canvas of the car, 18 tho firat to extilbit (s practicyl effects, . . ¢ permeates tho wholo body politic, Tho peosle dev mand roform, and reform they will huvo; if nob through the Ropublioan party, then from some othier source, ~Tho Boston Post doss not call the Republi- can defont in Now Hampahiro a Demooratio vice tory, but rather “ The People's Robuke.” It Bays “The rebuke is emplatic and rml)?nlvocll, and in {4 offeot will bo found tho settloment of tho gruvest fssues over prescuted to the mation, Tho rapid, vigorout march of corruption, the lengtheniog Fedoral Fnu[!, the dangorous formation of rings, the unparalolod an: saults upon commerce, and the contempt for the lu. terost of Jaborlous industry, sl Lave combined to arouse New llumflaldnfmm the letharay af pertisan- hipy and caused lier voiers to demand a chiango which st bocomie universal aud permuucnt, Ok of thy slough of Butlerism or Grantiam, for 1y ars ono and the aume thing, will thua omergo State aiter Bate, re- deomed, independent, and relaved, —T'ho Boston Journal hos no editorial com. ment, but its correspondant at Concord, N, H,, 838 iry-grab matter, and tho recent Simmons af. mang tho causes which havo lost the Repub. many voles §n this eloction, Tho people havi simply embraced this opportunity to vebuks the ftepuite {ioans at the polls. 1 ihe party hecds this losson ns it ought, and reforms abuses and wrongs, It can easily reguin the confidonce of the Empln in tho Granite State, and once more carry the bauner of victory, —The Boston Advertiser, remarking that the Lonorable record of tho Ropublicans fu thef Btate Governmont did not now avail thom, point: to tho National Capital and saya: Now Hampehire marks the inevitable tendency of our politics,—tho waning power of once populr joad: ora, tho unvillingness of largo clasnes of intelligent yoters to own alleginnco to a Jasty which falls to koo canal, and river, 20 doys. The diatance from Chicago to Liverpool, by way of tho lake, Erle Oanal, and Hudson River to Now York, is 4,889 miles, and the timo 83 duys, ‘The distance from Chicago to Liverpool, by way of Montreal, is 4,409 milos, and the time 21 days. It two propellers loave Chicago with grain for Liverpool, one by way of the 5t. Lawrence and Montreal, thors to connect with steamer, and tho other by way of the Erio Oanal to New York and thones by steawmer, the cargo sent by way of Montreal mny, under favorable ciroumstances, reach Liverpool and be sold before the othier lenves New York, The freights from Chicago to Montrenl will, it is claimed, be 12 conts per bushel losa than the rates charged in 1873 for the transportation by lake sod canal from Chi- cago to New York. The improvemonts on the 8t, Lawrence cansla are already in progross, and thoe State of Now Yorls, if it hopes to rotain tlio commoerce now performod by its canal, muat not bo content with tho roduction of the State tolls, but must so enlargo the Erio Canal that It will be open to more boats and cheapor froighta, THE CONGREGATIONAL COUNCIL, The forthcoming Council of mombora of the Oongrogational Ohurch; which is called to settle the controversy on pointa of discipline betwaen Plymouth Cburch (Mr. Boeccher's) and the churches presided over by the Rev. Dra. Btorrs and Buddington, on the 24th inst., promises to develop into & very lively and interesting ooca- ston, Tho Councl! will conslst of 1756 membors, divided au follows: No, of Sepayate Whole clmrczm. ml‘llilk{l. dlbflflllails, 3 L 7 4 . 8 30 8 4 8 . [ 12 [} 28 1t 8 81 New Jorasy., 8 . ® 12 District of Columbia. 1 . 2 Ohdo, ... 2 a [ Michigan, a . 4 1liinof 4 1 9 Wisoon 1 H & issourl 1 i 2 Totala, .19 7 176 The statomont which has been issued to the churches called to talje purt in this Council firat calls attention to the manuor in which Mr, Tilton’s namo was dropped from the rolls, and the subsoquont proteat which was enterod, and then gives a detailed accoint of tho correspond- ence that has passed botwoon the Brooklyn churches and Plymouth Church, and asks for advice. They distinctly doprecato any question a8 to the purity of lifo or Christian character of Mr, Beecher, or as to tho charges made in Octo-~ bor last against Mr, Bowon, afiirming his cirou- lation of injurious soandala against Mr. Beochor, The questions which they wish to havo de- oided concorn the corrospondonco of tho or- dor and usage of tho Congregational churches of tho ocountry with tho notion of the Plymouth Church in tho case roforred to, and fu its subsoquent resolutions and lotters, and thoy aro given in the statoment aa follows: 1, **Was tho action of the Plymouth Church right, according to such order and usago, in tho cage fsaued by it, Oct, 81, taking that action ay presonted in tho publio documonta?” 2, s its poeition of ontire independeiice toward all churohies exterlor to ‘itsclf rightly to be main- tained, whilo its publio Congregational relations with our churches continue?"” Considering the fact that it will be vory diffioult to solve the first question without reviewlng the dotails of the scandal which have given rise to it and that In view of the determined posi- ton which Mr Boscher .and bhis churoh Lave taken on the mecond, it will bo very difloult o enginesr It withous forciog Ply- - ment at Wa its promiscy, the seitled and fnereasng drasatisfaction of the county vath the Adimatration, as it m: uifeats itaolf in its sppointments and in its troatmont of the great questions of the hiour. —Tho Boston Transcript says: The Republicans of New Hamipshire owe thelr de- feat chiefly to the fact that it is n matter of finposst, bility for any party to achieve success with its nomle usl adherents furnfuhing such materlal for the oppo. sitfon 23 recent incidouts at \Vuhinixlnn hiave sup- plied, . , . Theresult{s a political revoluilon, or something very like it, and, 08 such examples nroexe cacddh:ulg catching, “ravolutions nevor goiny back- ward,” the dlsagreeable o naturo should o' immedinloly ror maved by a courso uf nctfon calculated to fully reatora public confldence In the Administration, Tho Repube {lun.l must throw off the rullllcnl vampires, now ed with plunder, and ca“‘nfn them to their ner- fiflz:lu(luully,m order to regain thelr former strong position in the country, —Tho Now York Times chatters leernedly about ‘“local issuos™ in New Hampshiro; bub the Concord (N. H.) Monitor, the recognized Re- publican organ in the State, says: Wa have not the space, nar, indeed, ths inclination, to onter fully into n consiiiaration of the couses whidh havo brought about the present stato of .affalrs, Wo Lelleve, howaver, that thoy have thelr origin in Wash. ington, Vith & full approciation of what we arv about to say, having weiglied our words well, wa chirga tho ropulée wa have suffored totlio shoftcomlugs, unas yoldablo in part there is no doubt, of the Natlonal Government, We were too heavily Landicapped with sianborn contracts, Jayno wnd Bingham blackmeilings, inflation echiemacs, the molety system, and the fuilure of Cougress to meot the wanta af tho mnsses by legis- lation demanded Ly the bard times, Nor is L exag gerution to stato” that tho Bimmons Aght lost us a thousand votes. . . . Onlythsbellef—well ground- ed—that the Domocratio party offered no rolief for this stato of affairs has eaved ua from an overwhelme 1ny defeat, Thin Is the truth ; sad no good purpouo cau bo subserved {n concoaling it, It is especially do~ sirablo that it showld bo underatood at Washington, In sharp contrast with the above, written on tho epot, road the following extracts from the losding oditorial of Grant's leading organ, the Now York Times : Tho formers, who hnve always been the ohlsf sup~ port of the Repub:ican Rmy still pustain it, , , , The faucetions fuvolved {in Now” Hampshire) boiug "chiofly local, and thore belng 1o genoral disaffection in the porty on national {ssues, the Republicans have about Leld tholr own, ~—The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser achoes ; !‘Not a national issue was involved in the Now Hampshire olection, . ~—Tha Now York Fuening Post uaflmu!{ ro- marks that tho result * will ba uo surpriso {0 s, tentive observors of palitical events,” and saya: ‘The ourrent of popular opinfon, which Liss been for some time rising agaiust the pecullar moda of manago glon, gathors, rather than Iovna staongih, L . o It doca not Sppeat to he thaught Washington that the Govornment has any higher dutior then to elt still aud collect the rewards of olfica « + + Rovelations of. mhmlnn&umuut or of {yrsuny, such as we get in the sollections sorvice, both do. meatfo and forelgn, brosk out from timo tc time, which sturtle tho uatlon, Wo read of laws and ‘of proceadings for tho enforcement of laws, which make it doubtful whethor wo ure liviog under 1 {rco government, or under ono of those Eastors eatraples whose 6olo buainess fa to extort monoy out ol the pockets of its suceensful but abjoct and tremblin, victims, Tho lesser agents of tho Government do nof Lanten Lo correct theso abuses, but delight rather in defending them, whilo. ihelr auperiors, if not ingitfern eut to the facts altogether, aro nt laiat very alow in coming to tho rellef of the'community, Not hun. dreds, but thousands, of the warmest friends of the dominsnt party "have been utterly estrangad from it by thoss fonrful perversfons of the pawer of govarn- ment into an instrument of opprossion and torture, —Noono knows oxactly when the bmmk-u? will como, or how ; whother it will bo gradaal ond gontle at tho last, or sudden and violent, But it {s cortainly coming, Tho signs_muliiply, almost from day to day, . , . Enough to know that the peorlo are overywhere in subdued but ominous agitation.—Springfield Republica:., —Tho arrogunt * londers * thus have anothor oxample of tho growing independonce of voters. « o o This i& ho moral ag‘th& New !I;mp%hlm clection, and it bos an applcation se broad as our country, and to both partios.—Philadelphia ':’l"im viotory in Now Hamnpshire is only the prooursor. . .=. The pooplo aro awakening to tha necossity of a '‘ clenning out ” at Wash. ington.—Oleveland Plaindealer, —The importance of this viotory can.hardly bo over-ostimatad. It strikes tho keynote of tha cumpaign of 1874, . . . Tho people know for whouo bonofit the Salary-Steal was enacted, ‘Thoy know into whose pockots the lion's share of tho Onstom-House moleties flow. They re- member whose brothor-in-law was at the bottom of tho Louisiana usurpation, Tliey know who hing used the Jaauou-gu of office to feed his in- satisble greed, Thoy have not forgotten who atoppod out of his way to praiso the thisves of the Washiogton Ring In his annual mossage ta Congresd ‘)or who urged Bimon Cameron's Cen- tonnial p upon the Natlonal Leglalature,— Wica (N, X.) Observer. —New York spends $33,000,000 for drinks at the retail 0dd annnally 8,620 drinking-places, wm:‘l)n o) fi" -3&'." lfi‘a fimfl{dmvuwwunuy l{fim e , c Inducoinents for multiplying events of sa -