Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1874, Page 4

» e e e e e e THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1874, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, . TERME OF SUDS ll'"";fl! ;!'A“AHLH IN ADVANOR). 2.4 Bunia) S15:081 Weay TPartaol a yonr at tho same rato. To provent dolay and mistakes, bo sure and give Post Of'eo address in (ull, including State and County, Romittances may bo made ofthor by dzatt, oxpross, Post Oftios order, or in registerod lotters, at our risk, TERMR TO CITY AURRORIDERS. aily, dolivered, Bunday escopted, 25 conte por waek. Dally, delivored, Sunday Included, 50 conts por wook. Addresa THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Coruer Madteon and Deatbiorn. « Unloago, Ill e —— TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ADEMY OF MUBIC—Halsted atroot, botwoon Mad: T Alonsog, Engagomont of, Mrs, James A, Oates® Oombluation. * Grand Duchoss.” ADELPHI. THEATRE-Comor of Wabash avonuo ‘i Qongrosss traot, Grand olio entorlalnment, Zogrino, Moulton, Ajaxtho Dotiant, oto. RY'S THEATRF—Randoloh O A e atihe 8 roat, betweon 4 hroams of Dolusion, nd tho fitth act of ** Jifol LY GLOBR THEATRE—Dosplainos straot, hotwoon Mad. 2 Washingtan, Kngagemont of the Jog lirotliors fl'fi?flfi‘.flf ‘Clirisda’s Pantoiniino Troupo, ** Humply um) rond,” MYERS' Ol‘_m’lA-llOUSP.—glnpmu stroat, hotween Dearborn and Stato. Arlington, Cotton, and’ Komblo's Migycole. Mingteoley and comicalitios. Now burlosquo of ** Blown Up Aliro, > “BUSINESS NOTIGES. JONBUMPTIVE WILBORSCOMPOUND o e it Tthats pasMassing. (he vory nauseating flavor of tho articla os horetoforn used, is onie 7S piongiato of limo with & hesiing proverty, i xondor Lo il doubly ooRRiONR: t iR who - ' exhilitd to thi 3 e osao thdi. Bold by Ar 1. WILBOL, Chornist, .@ljx Chitags Tiibune, Fridsy Morning, April 3, 1874, Tho Union Park Baptist Clurcl, lagt ovaning, by au ovorwholming voto, followed tho recom- ‘mondations of the Council, and dissolved its pas- toral relation with the Rov, Florence McCarthy. An annual meoting waa held yesterday of the members of the Third Prosbyterian Church of this clty. It wne regolved that the interests of {ho congregation callod for o lnrger church Duilding, and committeos were appointed to col~ doct subscriptions for and take Gther necessary stops to carry out tho project. Postal tolegraphy was boforo the Senate yos- torday in bill which differs in no essential par- ticulars from the Hubbard bill of Inst session. Tts titlo is a bill to proyide for the transmission of correspondonco by tolograph, It might with ‘moro necuraoy bo doflued a8 & bill to do with the wastofal and Inefliclont machinory of the Gov- ‘ernment private business that can be done much botter by privato entorprise. » Senstor Thurmon’s smendment to tha Cur- reney bill to appreciato the value of groenbacks by making thom logal-tender, in part for custom dues, has boen rejocted by tho Sonate. Mis proposition was that they bo accepted for one-twentioth for the next fiscal year, for one-tenth for tho noxt fiacal yeoar, and 80 on in increasing proportion. It was voted down on the gronud tbat, appertaining to tho revenue, it ehould originato in the House. The Commitieo appointed by the stockholders of tho JolietXron ond Btoel Warks were in Joliet yesterday to meot the represontatives of tho croditora, Tho conforence was » soerot one. ‘The City of Joliet, which voted $75,000 to aid the oreotion of tho mills, and its .businbss men who Lold tho Company'a paper for $100,000, aro not unnaturally depressed by this suspension, and eager for somo arrangemont for resumption, and the ro-employment of the hundreds of work- ingmon now necessarily idle. Gov. Beveridgo hos votoed tho Keloo Gas bill, to give the Common Council of Chicago power to rogulate the price and quality of the gas fur- nished the city. Tho veto does not touch the question of the right of the Common Council, a8 tho Logialaturo of the city, to oxor- cigo any such regulation, undar the warehouse decision. His main objection is that the Stato Logislature has no power in the way attompted by thia bill to chnnge tho charters of any mupici- pality, Petitions for Govornment aid bave been pre- gonted to the Bonate by tho survivors of the Polaris crow and the widow of Capt, Hall. Tho former roinforco their appeal by o rqcital of thelr trinls and exposure for 196 dsys on tho ico-floes. Capt. Hall promised them each o liboral roward, and, as.ho died in the sor- vico of acionco and tho country, they think tho Government ought to exceuto his pledge. They hold up for imitation tho gonorosity of the Gorman Government in givivg tho members of its Polor oxpodition 81,000 spicco. Benator Shorman, in prosonting Mrs, Capt, Hall's memo- risl, declared it one of tho most moritoricus . that has over becn braught bofore the Senate. Woilnosdny was Fast Doy in Massachusetts and thore was no vota for United States Ben- ator. A momontary pusssge-at-arma in_ tho Natiooal Houso of Representatives, botwoen Mr. Dawes and tho brother of his prineipal com- potitor, betrayed some of the fecling engondored by the contast. Mr. Dawes, in replying lo the charge of Mr, Wilson, of Indipna, that Now England did not want the eurrency question sot- tlod In nccordanco with tha equal righta of all, defonded Lis section, and oxplained thnt it wag in favor of freo bauking, properly guard- ed, Mr. Goorge TF. Honr, thinking, op- porently, that Dawes had laid himeelf open to n.crushing attack, rosoto ssy that ho was Borry to Lear Mr, Dawes apologiza for or flinch from any attitude Now England took on the floor of Congress. Mr. Dawes replied in & fov manly and dignified words, bub showed congiderable feelng, and evinced Lis apprecintion of the situation by concluding with the retort that e was not watohiug his col- lengues to soo it he could not claim to stand up for New England bottor than they. Tho Chicago produce markots wore gonorally strong yestorday, with leas doing, oxcopt in pro- visions nnd corn, Dess pork was sctivo, and 10@1060 per bri higher, closing at $16,65@156.70 caely, and 815.87}4@16,90 soller May. Lmd wag more active and 100 por 100 Ibs higher, closing at §0.823(@9.05 cosh, and §0.45@9.473¢ sollor May. Meats were quict aud unchanged st 5540 for shouldors, §8.16@8.1734 for short ribs, R8.45 @8.50 for short cloar, and 93{@10340 per Ib for ewoot plokled hams, Highwines were quiot and unchanged at 93¢ por gallon, Flour wag less' activo at former prices. Wheat was active and 3o highor, olosing at 81,30} oash, and B1.245¢ soller May, Corn was activo and advancod 13¢c, closing at 6230 cash, and 0550 soller May,. Oate woro in good demand and s shado firmor, olosing at 42370 cash, and 402¢o sollor May. Ryo was quiet and easler at 90c, Barloy wag dullt oud unchanged at $1,60 for No, 2, Livo hogs: wore nctive at 100 decline, oloslng easy at 85,00 @0.00 for cotamion $0 cholos, Catile aud sheep, rulod quict and atondy, tho formor solling at £3.60@0.00, and tho lattor at 86.60@7.76. Tho Lnke-Front question Iina ronched n now phngo, A fow doys sinco tho Ohlongo, Burling- ton & Quinoy and the Michigan Contral Raflways withdrow thelr portion of tho $200,000 whioh was pald to Comptroller Kimball fivo yoars ngo a8 tho firat installmont of $800,000 to bo pald for the throo blocks of ground lying onst of Aich- igan avouuo and north of Monroo streot, As tho city rofuscd to recoivo tho monoy from Mr. Kim- ball, or to rocognizo hia nceoptanco of it asa peyment to tho city, Lo doposited it in tho First National Bank, The portion belonging to these ronds was $183,333, and was paid baok to thom in tho eame paoknges that woro handed to Mr. Kimball, The romaindor, belonging to tho Illinols Contral Railway, has not yot boon with- drawn, — Ono of tho strongest arguments which has boen used by tho Board of Health of Bt. Louis in favor of liconsing tho socfal ovil in that it has reduced tho dlasnses poouliny to that,ovil noarly 50 por cent in that city. To prove thia assortion, they have proparad statistics from tho hospitals under their control. The power to coutrol o hospital, and to segulate ite rocords sud rules for thio admission of patients, rondors it possible to have any kind of figures doaired ; but thore 18 a Marine Hospital in 8t. Louis, not undor their contral, which tells s differont story. Dr. Edmund Androwa, of this city, has furnished us with somo figures showing tho porcontage of such digoasos, in the whole numbor of diseasos of all kinds, among the patlonts admitted to tho $t. Louia Marlno Hoapital, and side by side with thom wo appond the figures of Chicago for com- parison, 'Tho tablo ia as followa : 4 © St. Louts, chrmn& Ler cent, Per cen EIght months of tho sear precading JCODBC ¢ o0 anoreesrseasss seanseoe BT b Correspouding period aticrilconso, 3% 12 1872, e ) 16 1873, 2n u Thege fignroa in themsolves are a sufiiciont answer to the arguments of the advocntes of tho liconse systom. It will bo furthormore soon thot,.while in 8t. Louis, with tho liconso, tho percontngo has not beon reduced, in Chicago, without o licenss, the percontage is steadlly decrensing. An important vots in tho Senate, and & lively talk in tho Houae, wore the contributions of Con- grees to the currency quostion yosterdsy. Tho Sonato doclded, by 93 to 19, to authorizo the addition of $46,000,000 to tho National Bank noto currency. This is undorstood to be s compromise, many Sonators, liko Mr. Thurman, voting for it 08 & proposition midway botwoon inflation and froe banking., It will increase iho currency much less than would bo done, in their opinion, by freo banking. This additional clrculation is to bo distributod to banks that malko the application for it in accordance with tho provisions of tho National Bauking nct, It may not bo sl taken up, and the ovent will bo of interest for its light on tho question whether freo banking means in- fiation, Tho debate in the House on froo bank- ing was @ scctional one botween tho Now Eogland and Westorn Reprosentatives, snd will bo duly seized upon by tho Now York Herald to mognify the symptoms of tho ap- proaching eivil war, which it prophecies as the result of inflation by a Wostern and Southorn majority, During tho dobato, Gan, Butlor un- ‘bosomed his financial views, They are as intol- ligont and trustworiby o8 might bo oxpected’ from ono of the original ndvocates of ropudia- tion. Ho does not want tho'country flooded with the irredecmable monoy of corporations whilo tho monoy of tho people is taken away. This greonback monoy of tho poople is tho only basis the *‘monoyof corporations » hds, which is a now viow of tho dinancial situation, Gon. Butlor reaches his highess when ho proposes to put all tho nation hag, its property, its weslth, its pow- or, baliind the groonbacks s o plodge for tholr redomption. Ho wnys nothing about its blood, or the blood-sealed greenback, ’ ————— Two witnesses were boforc the District of Columbia Investignting Committeo yesterday hat did more than all thoir predecessors to bring. to light the frauds which hithorto have eluded search. In the checl-book of ono of theao, & Ring contractor, there was tound indisputable ovidenco that lio had beon paying money to the attorney of tho District Govorpment whose duty it was to- supervise and conetiuo his coutracts, and to the ongincer whoso duty it was to measure his work. Sowme of the stubs of his chock-book Dbad been torn ont,—asuspicious circumstance, for good business mon are serupulously corelul to save oll such momorande. The Contract Olork of the Governmont was also beforo tho Committoe, and, howover thoroughly ho may hovo boon drilled by his employars, ho could not stand up before the sharp firo of tho cross- examination. of lawyers like Judge Wil- sop. and Mr. Thurman, His tostimony rovealed unbeard-of irrogularitics in the denlings of the Government with its contractors. Accepting contracts that wera unsigoed, and falling to call upon ocontractors to rendor the Londsa required by law, wero some of its ensy ways of dolng businoss. Contracts were froquently not perfected for two yoars after they wero given out; thirty or forty were hurriedly comploted after the investigation began. Most oxtraordinary of all, tho wituess said that, sinco the investigation Legan, he bad obtained Honry D, Cooke's ofticial signature to contracts as ‘““Govornor of tho Distriot,” although ho long sinco ceased to hold that position, THE EXTINOTION OF COMMEROE, The oggrogete value of our oxports and. imports in 1872-3 oxcecded $1,200,000,000, and, under our peculior pavigation lnws,. moro than threo-fourths of this trade was cmried in voescls owned in foroign countrios and boaring foroign flags. Our earrying trado is thus gradu~ ally, but rapidly, pessing into tho hands of foraigners ; und now we aro threatoned with a liko expulsion of Awmerican citizons from the importing business, Iu the caeo of Lord & Waylor, of Now York, ‘whoso books and papers were seizod uuder the iuformors’ lnw by a Custom-House offlcer, the {lrm paid $16,600, sud the prosccution wes dis- missed, Mr. Lord has explained to tho Con- gressional Committeo how the law renders im- portation by an American citizen atmost impos- sible, and gives his own case a8 an illustration. Tho law roquiles goods to be involaed at the market value in the place and at tho time of ex- port. When an Amoricon importor purobases merchandise on o credit of alxty dayaor four months the Troasury officlals insist that he shall {ncludo in the market valuo of the morchandiso tho Intorest on the prico 88 part of tho dutisble valuo of the goods, If goods aro purchased in Bromon for 1,000 thalers, snd tho purchaser gives his ac- coptanco for 1,050 thalers, payable st the end of alx ‘months, tho Trensary Dopariment inslste that tho involco shall show tho net result of tho transaction, In thely ondo st wos institutod for o very largo sum, basod upon the difforenco botwoon the Involcod valuo of thoir merchan- digo and thelr romitbancos. The failuro to in- oludo tho intorest in tho market prico of their goods under tho law subjestod tho wholo im- portation to conflscation. Thus, if $100,000 of goody wore imported, and $150 intorest theroon woro omitted from the invoico, Lord & Taylor would bo lisble to a pbualty oqual to -tho wholo valuo of tho importation, Mr. Lord stated that, though the tntnl‘dnnun olleged to be duo from his firm to tho Government, nocording to tho oxtromo rulings ‘of tho Troasury, did not amount to over 81,000, thoy wero compolled to pay $15,600 to oscapa litigation whoro soveral hundred thoasands wero domandod. Mr, Lord then, in explanation of tho offect of theao laws, sald that 'T tho alloged offonso of tho {lrm was of froquont ocourronce, but other large houses had cecapod bocauso their bopks wore kept in Buropo end could not bo seized. Warned by their oxporienco, Lord & Taylor would henco- forth havo thelr baoke kopt in England unlosa tha tarifl-systom wag radically changod. 'The op- oration of tho presont law was rapidly driving Ameriean mevchants ont of tho market.” Tho importation of goods iz passing ioto tho hands of merchunts on-tho other aide, who morely keop an ngonoy in this country to sell the goods, Inthisway alone can importers prolect themselves from the spy systom, and from the complicated maobinery of the laws which ron- dors a striot complinnee with tho statutes an im- poratbility. District-Attornoy Bliss, who. has beon aiding Jayno in bis blackmailing businoss, doclared that in no one csse that had fallon under his oye, whore tho morchants were toch- nfcaly lable in large amounts, could ho have succossfully maointained s criminal proseention, and tho renson was, that there was nothingcrim- inal in tho procooding. Yot Congress sud the Treasury Dopartmont insist that lawa whioh have driven tho American flag from tho vessels doing our awn carrying business, and which now ron- dor it Imposotble for an American merchant to import goods without a violation of somo pro- vision, must bo maintained for the benofit of homo {ndustry! TOWN BOARDS AGAIN. ‘We print this morning tho viows of Mr. Jamos P. Toot, ex-County Attorney, who bas had long official .and porsonal exporipnce in township govornmont; nnd, sccording to his judgment, the Iato act of tho Legislaturo has loft tho so- called Town Bonrds of Olficago in & singular muddle, The Rountce sct provided that, in towns lying wholly within tho limite of a city, no taxes shall bo lovied by tho town meoting, and that all sums roquired for town oxpeneos shall bo sscortafned by tho County Board, and upon thelr order bo axtended by the County Olerk. Thia law Mr. Root conslders unconstitational, becanso it delogatos tho powor to tax the poople of ono municipality to the govornment of anothor municipality, and one not chosen by the pooplo who are to bo taxed. Al taxes lovied by auy corporate body must ba uniform within its jurisdiction; but, undor this law, tho County Doard would have to lovy ratea difforont in all tho towns, and difforent from tho rato of county taxos.. Thoroforo, the Rountres aot proposcs thnt which is oxpressly prolibited by the State Constitution. It has been affirmed by the Supreme Court, in varlous cases, that no one but the corporato su- thority of tho municipality can levy taxesto bo paid by the people of thot municipality, This was omphaticslly laid down in the Lincoln Park caso, The dificulties of thiscasodo not, however, ond here. In the charter of tho City of Chi- eago of 1863 it was declared that no tax should bo collected by tho town authoritics in Wost Chi~ engo, North Ohicago, or South Chicago, for town purposes, oxceoding $1,000 & year. Subso- quontly this was smonded by increas- ivg the sum to $1,500 a year. The Roun- treo act, In oxpross terms, ro-onects these provi- sions of tho city chartor, and makes them part of tho gencral Township law of tho State. So that, by whomeaovor tho tax is Jevied in cither of thieso towns, the tax for town expensos cannot excoed $1,600 a yoar in each town. On tho question who is to lovy tho tax, Nr TRoot finds no authority lefs in any pereon. Tho County Board cannot do 50, for tho ressonsgiv- en. The Town Boned cannot do so. Tho pao- ple, st the town meeting, cannot vote the tax, because tho law giving them the powor is ex- preesly ropoalad. ‘The result veached, thorofore, is that, in tho multiplicity of repoaling nnd amondatory acts, all that is loft respocting tho threo towns in the City of Chicago is tho limita- tion that the tax for town purposed shall not oxcoed 81,600 5 yoar in ocach town; but the wholo suthority and machinory to lovy this tax s boen abolished. By tho statute the County Bouard has tho suthority; but, asthisstatuteis in direct opposition to tho provislous of tho Consti- tution, any levy mado under it will bo illogal and void. Bo, for 1874, and until tha Legislature cau apply remedial logisiation, . there is no power vosted anywhoro to lovy auy tax: for town pur- posos in eithor of tho throo towns of this city. Apparcntly ignorant of thia now condition of things, the bummers of the South Town met in convention yesterday, and thero was o scramblo for the offices. Tho prestimt Town Board and oflicesa wore thrown over {6 mnke room for othors, whom tho oxorbitant salaries had mado groedy. Fortunately, the grab can nover bo re- poated. The Ropublicans hold a convention next Saturday, to nominate o tioket for the Bouth Town, and it is to be hoped with s higher purpose than that which prompted the men of yesterday. OGLE COUNTY ANWD THE GRAB-LAW, Mr, Isanc Rice, Represontative fu the Logisla- ture from Oglo County, thought proper to voto againet the ropual of the Nallrond-Grab law of 1869, and one of tho Granges in that county, in a regolutlon, donlared that such vote merited tho consuro and conderanation of &ll honost mon. MIr. Blco mado s roply to this resolution, and hus boon answered by Mr, John M, King, Bastor of Whito Itook Graugo, in a most offoctual man- nor. Wo propose to show that Mr, Rleo's voto pad thio diroct tendenoy to perpetuato a robbery of tho people wf Oglo County that will amount to a vory large eum before it {8 finftsbed, Throo towns In that county owo rallrond-sld debts in tho following suma: E Bonds, The assossmentin Ogle County in 1888 and in 1878 was au follows: b 1808, 1873, Nashus, Oregon, atid Pine Rock.§ 510,000 § 1,077,7 Othor t0WRYseveves ceer BUSI00 151 Totals,,. 84,070,160 $14,803,443 Under the opcration of tho Rallrpad law of 1809, tha iax for Blate revenuo in those thves tovns, on the exjoses of valuation over 1808, In« stond of going into tho Btate Tressury, ia sp- plied to tho psymont of thelr rarond indobted- ness, To mako up tho deflolenoy in tho Stato rovouno enused by tho oporation of this law in Oglo and othor countios an extra tox of 0-10 mill has boen lovied on all the proporty in tho Btato, Tho account of Oglo County with this grab-lnw will stand ns follows : Valuation of threo { B Valiation o¢ same in 88T Jncronso... . Theso throe towns get from tho o robate of 83,162 to apply on tho payment of {ho principnl and intorest of thelr railrond dabt. But tho othor towns in tho county, holdiug $18,187,088 of taxablo proporty, have to pay an oxtra tax of 9-100f s mill to make good the gon- oral doficlt in tho Btate rovenuo. This tax smounts to the neat littlo sum of 811,808, Mr. Rico voted to porpofunto this tax for ton yoars upon tho peoplo of Oglo County. The soveral towns of Oglo which bave, no railroad-ald dobts, aro taxbd, in ndditlon to tholr regular tax for Btate purposes, £8,152 a yoar to poy the ratlrond dobt of Nashu, Orogon, and Pino Rook; and sleo taxed §7,710 to poy tho railrond dobt of Awmboy aud other towns fu Loo Qounty. MMr. Rico, the intelligent rToprosontative of Oglo County, doolares that ho folt in honor bound to opposs tho ropeal of the Iaw which plundored the people of Oglo out of £8,152 o yonr to pay tho local debts of tho Town of Oreggon, and of §7,716 o yeor to pay the local debtsof the City of Quincy, or Vandalis, of Bpringfleld. T ten years the fowns of Oglo County which owe no rallrond dobts will bave to contribute, in the way of an oxtra tax lovied for {that purpose, as follows: T(": &lllyillw rallroad debt of Oregon, ‘Naahua, Pino Rocl $31,520 T?l}' Tallroa tos. 7,160 Total in ten yeara, o $108,680 Nor I8 this all that they will have to pay. Tho county taxes on tho samo incronse of proporty in those throo towns, as wolt na tho proporty of tho railroads, ie withheld from tho County Treas- tiry, and all go to Springfield to pay tho holdors of tuo bonda of Orogon, Nashus, aad Pino Rock. We do not know the rate ot lavy for county pur- poses in Oglo County ; but, estimating that the tax on this proporty will oqual §5,000 & year,— whicl has to be made good to the County Troag« ury by additional tax on tho proporty of the ather towns,—wo hiave $50,000 moro contributed by Ogle Qounty in ten yonrs to pay the railrond dobts of othor communitios. There aro other countics that arc oven worso victimizod than Oglo. Thus, ono town in Will County owes $10,000 dobt, and tho wholo county poys annuslly an oxtrs tax of over $22,000 to pay other pooplo's raliroad dobts, Winuobago County has ono town that owes 16,000, and tho county paye an increase tax annually of 811,000, Knox County hoa ona town which owos 880,000, atid the county has to pay an oxtra tax of $20,000 sonually. Then there are moro than thirty countion in which there is nono of this debt, and they have to contributo to mako up the $1,000,- 000 of oxtra tax lovied to mako good the do- fleicnoy in the Btate rovenuo takon to pay theso purely local dobts. THE PALMETTO STATE. The Committes sppointed by the Tax-Payors’ Convention of South Oarolina has presented it- golf ond its momorial ' in Washington. The strangth of the former lica in ite list of names ; of tho latter, in this liat of Btato oxponsca 1605-00, Halaries. 10,4163 Tublio p 17,440,608 Legialative oxponses, 51,397,00 Tublio asylun, 23,607.00 Contingent fund, 032,09 Sundriea, . 83,412,581 $200,608,69 $1,850,210,73 Doflolenctes 540,828.00 $200,008.69 $1,806,644,73 Other molancholy facts avo givon. Rénta are lowor than taxes. Housos ave lob for tho taxes. Over 1,200 good farms have boen sold for non- ‘poymont of taxes, “The auctioncer’s hommor i the only ane that is heard in the land.” The Stata is wholly in the power of the 90,000 negro voters. Thera are threo of thein to every two whito mon, Searcaly auy of tho negro mombors of tho Logislature read, writo, or pny taxes. Tho honost oneg, if any such there bo, are in a hope- to8s minority. Steal attor stoalis voted throngh. ‘OMcial after offieial gote rich on & scanty salory. Tho taxes grow heavier. Property loses: valuo yearly. ‘Fho State is bankrupt, Kopudiation is but & question of time. i ‘When the dolegation laid theso facta beforo Grant, that statesman mado a epecch of tho usuol Jongth, in which hoeaid ko wos sorry for thom, but he knew no way in which the Goneral Government could intorfere with a Btato. No- body was impolits enough to mention Lousizna, In Congress the momorial has been roferred to committecs. Tho dologation suggost an impos- sible romedy. They wish Oongress, which as- sumed the power of modeling the United Btates Qonatitution, under the Roconstruction acts, to now proceed to amend it by introducing pro- visions for cumulative voting and for s proporty or educational qualification of the suffrnge. South Carolina must emerge from hor degradstion in a much slowor and more tollsomo way than morely gotting Congress to pasa o law., She must encourage immigration, and sho must oducate hor peaplo, Bho will thus finally got o majority of honest voters, Sucoess- ful stops have been taken to promote .immigra- tion, As for oducation, the Stato appropriates good deal of money, but most of it is atolen, All of it was o yoar or two since THE RRODE ISLAND ELECTION, The general roults of tho clection in hodo Teland on Wednesday are such ag wore generally anticipated, As far as the Stato officors are con- corned, there was no contest excopt upon Licu- tonnnt-Governor. Thero are two ' points, how- eveor, mvolved in the cleotion which aro of in- toroat, Tho first of theso i tho Senntorial quos- tion, which must bo sottled in June, and tho sec- ond is tho strougth of tho Prohibiton vote in the Brato, The roturns do not solye the doubt on the only contested wvoint in the canvass, nemely: Who shal bo United States Somator? It §s nov a sufliclent anawer to say that the Logislature is Republloan, for that was concedod beforehand. — Tho Mossa- chusetts Loglelaturo is Ropublioan,~202 to 78— and would rally o straight vote for any one of & scora of names, if antl-slavery was now tho issue, But is Darnaldo, representing Grantism, or Jenckes, roproacnting Oivil-Servico Roform, or Dixon, ropresonting roform in the party, or Bheffleld, roprasoriting & now doparture alto- gothor, to bo eleated Unitod States Banator? ‘That Is the question involved in tho returns, which tho returng do not sottle, Bpraguo, who haw hitbarto contrelled tho Stato, hias hopelessly gono by the board; and, for the flrst time in meny yoars, will mnot flgure in tho fight, The contest will thorefors be in- & Ivos Manufaoturing Company's party, the londors boing this Gompany on the ono sido, and tho Providoucs Journal and Bonator Antho- ny on the othor, nd, a8 tho Domoorats aro vir- tually shorn of powor, thero ia every prospoot of o bittor fight, T'lioro aro two sossions of tho Logislature, ono in Janunry, at Providonco, which nccomplishos the heavy work of tho yoar, and tho short seeaton in May, at Nowport, which 8lmply organizes the State Governmont and sots tho mnchine in motion, This sceston nover lnsts longor than & dey or two, but this yoar thore {8 o vory falr prospook that the dissonsions over candidates may pro- long it far into tho summor. Burnside, by vir- tueof the wonlth snd influonce of Brown nnd Ivos, and his srmy assoclations, will makes strong fight, but as therofa s very gonoral bo- liof among the loading and influential pooplb of Thodo Tuland that ho has not tho ability to fill tho place, snd a8 Rhodo Island, although littlo, is vory proud, itis by no moona corlain that Burnsido will gt the place, The second poiut of intorest in this elootion s tho romerkable gain and strongth of tho Prohibition vote, which was consolidatod upon Licutonant-Governor. Taat yoor, Van Zandt, Ropublican, recoived 6,482 votes ; Ballou, Probibition, 8,033 ; sud Walcs, Domocrat, 2,920, At this olection, thero was no Domocratio candidato, and the rosult was: Van Zoudt, 7,019, and Saylos, Prohibitien, 6,612,—a galn of 2,670 votes In ono year, This increased strongth in tho Prohibition movement is notica~ ablo in othor Now England Btates. In Maine, Vormont, and Massnchusotts, tho iseue hns not boen Bquarcly made ot tho polls. In Now Hampehiro, Probibition candidatos have fgured in four clections. In 1871, Prohibition raceived 814 votes ; in 1872, 478 ; in 1878, 1,059 ; and this yoar, 3,185, In Connocticat, Probibition camo up for the first timo in 1872, nnd roceived 1,640 votos, and in 1878 it had 2,641 votos.” Thoso figures show that Prohibition is fast growing to bo a formidable power in New England. Both tho old parties have boen striving to sccuro its voto in the forthcoming Conncctiont alection, but both have beon disappoluted. Xt will bo cnst solldly for Prolubition candidates, auvd thero is vory lttlo doubt that it will show & consider- ablo increaso of sirongth, though not ns great as in Rhiode Island, since in tho lattor Stato, thero being no Domocratio ticket, i 18 not unlikely that the Démoacrats voted for the Temporanco candidate, a8 being tho enly opposition ticket in the fleld. . THE NEXT CRUBADE, Tho old original crudades wore mascnline. ‘The conquerors of Jeruealom wore men. Rich- ards, not Rachels, led tho murdorous mobs that formed the “army of tho Lord” in tho twelfth contury. Tho whirligig of Timo has brought around one of its rovenges. Tho army of the Lord nowndays ia composed of women,—in tho church and in the saloon. Its erusade is wholly in fominino hands. Tho self-denying man who proffered his services in starting it at $50 por start was long .eince losb sight of. Lovaly woman has becomo the tyrant sox. Sho hos tried to dotlrono King Alcohol. Not only have ‘poisonous whisky and brandy been attacked, but okos the healthful compounds which Swinburne would describo aa ‘Tho beer that Is bleat by bibbers, The wino that is worshipod and wooed, 1t is timo for the whirligig to rovolvo ogain. Woman has monopolized the prayor-business long onough. “The splrit of ths ago—Matthow Arnold's Leib Geist—is opposed to monopolies. Wonced compotition, It istime for mon to start a now crusado of thoir own. Woman has sttacked mau’s beseiting slo. Lot him at- tack hors, It is shopping. Probably a8 much monmey is wasted in this mefa rious pursuit 08 in drinking, There is o for greator wasto of time, Tho result upon the otlier sox ig also 8 painful one. “ Honost John Vane" is not the only man who has boen led astray by the necessity of satisfging his wito's longing to follow tho fashions and follies of tho doy. Tho feminine lie of attack can scarcoly bo improved npon. It should be strictly fol- lowed, Dry-goods shops will be found much mote conveniont to pray in than those who deal in wot goods., If any womnn entors tho store while dovotiors are going on sho should, of courso, ba singled out by npame and proyed for with egpecinl forvor, If sho is 80 hardened thatsho disregards tho invocation, and notually purchoscs something, it would bo well to publish her name in tho daily papors and get it into tho Associated Press dispatchos. “ 'I'abernactes ¥ might bo built and rolled to the door of overy lorgo dry-goodsstore. From thom s constant watoh could be kept. The name of overy woman who tried to entor couldbo shouted out by the guarda and ontercd on tho black-list. ‘Whenovor a store-keepor surrondored, his stook would be solemnly torn into strips and scatiered to the four winds. Plodges might bo oirculated binding the unfortunato eigners to forover ab- stain from shopping. Tho lagt stop would bo to pass a law which should either ontirely prohibit dry-goods stores, or clso mako thom responsible for all tho dlrect or indiroct damages thoy cause, THE BENGAL FAMINE, A letter in the London Times, dated Calonttn, Tob. 0, containg flmletnnt intolligence which hos come t0 hand concorniug the ravages of the fomine in cortsin districts of Bougel. At o meoting of reliof holdin Caloutts, Feb, 6, reports woro road which go to show that the landloss clngsos evorywhero thronghout tho vast aroa of Dongal must euffer, owing to the dryness of the sonson ond tho waub of raln to brlug forward the orops. Inthe famine Qistricts tho distress is torrible, In Tirhoot alono the civil officers have 1,000,000 of people on their hands, In Chum- forum, 400,000 in Barun, 100,000; and iu Patns 1,600,000 porsons hove lost thoir harvosts, snd aro depondent upon tho Government for food. In somo sootions rain has fallon, but it has in- jured and sometimes ruined thograln, which was golng forward In open wagous for the rolief. of the sufforing ; while in othor sections tho rain- fall has boen 8o continuous that it has made the ronds impasgable, thus proventing tho authori- ties from golting provisions to thostarving, Anothior dissstor also throatons tho sufierors. The very food whichia scat to thom is producing dondly dleesse, It io stated that much of the rito which is sont forward is bLalf unhusked, in mat wrappings, and vory dirty and wot. In this condition it hents, sprouts, and ‘becomes woevllly, and is alroady causlng, among its atarving eators, tho idontloal disoaso whioh glow its thoussnds in Orisss, under similar eir- oumetancos, In this dark ploture of disoaso and donth thero only seems to be one ray of cousola~ tlon. Ithas given tho English companies an ‘abuudance of labor at very low figures, and they are consequently pushing thelr raliroads in every direction with renowod energy, and will soon have their systems of transportation in such complote order that In any time of future scace alde the Bopublioan pasty,or mather the Drown | ritythe Goveroment can paur in pravialons withs out dolay to any part of Bongal or Mindoatan proper, Civilization will progress with the rail- ronds, and whon onco tho conntry is aponod up to travol and tho prosont almost Inaccossiblo dis- tricts aro brought within ensy distanco from tho sosports and groat businoss contros, tho eras of famino in India, which now rocur with such regularity, will bo at an end. John Johneon, of Cincinnati, was killed by an accldont at tho Gibson Houso rocontly, leaving property valued at 825,000, whioh has boon ne- cumulstod by bis own industry. Johnson had Jno hiowra to olaim his wonlth, and nobody Juow what todo with it, Tho administrator of tho estato appenled to the Probato Court to fix tho amount to bo expended for a monument over his grave. Some of fua noxt of kinwero willing to put the wholo 825,000 into & block of marble, others thought 85,000 sufliclent, and the Court finally fixod tho nmonnt at £10,000, It does not appoar that Mr, Johnson in his lifo ever desired s marblo statuc, or high gspiring pyra- mid" wor s it at ol oortain that any person living, including the noxt of kin, cares whothor the monumont is eracted or not. It is o mattor of intorest to no living soul, apparontly, cxcept the dealer in hondstones. Buroly it can bo of no consolation to the Into Mr. Johuson, if he is in a condition to require it, to know that his remaing are to bo orushed boneath & mags of atono. In this view of tho cnso, it sooms ag though $10,000 woro about to bo literally wastod by tho oporation. ‘There sro thousands of charitablo inatitutions in this country, tho maintensnco of any one of which would be *‘a monument more durablo tban brass,” and insuch an ono the $10,000 could moro fudiciously be invested than in per- ishablo stono, The latest dofaulter is Mr. H. O, Bonnetd, ot Son Frauclsco, Pousion Agont; smount not nomed, It wie onsy work for Mr., Bonnett. Penslonora would como to him gaarterly, obtain o check, progont it at the United Btatos SBub- Troasury, and recoive thoir money. Thore wna no lst of ponsioners at tho Bub-Tronsury, and all Mr. Bennott's checks wore duly cashod on faith, Thus Mr. Bonuott had a grand opportunity (which he mado uso of) to invent ponsionors and draw money on tholr account for bis own personal oxpenses. On ono oceaston, in’ 1872, hio chacked out $1,000 at ono timo, assur- ing tho Cneliier that i was * all right,—bust- ness ; you pay it.” It is a triflo singular that this sort of thing wont on until a fow weels ago, whon Ar. Bounott burriedly dopsrted for Europo, His boolks wore oxamined, and certain irrogulorities existing in thom wore brought to light. Nobody on the Pacific Const apponrs to know who 3ir. Bennott's boudemen aro, but all rest sorono in tho consolation that probably some ono in Washington doos. The mothod of bookkeoping practiced in tho Sub-Tronsury at Snan Francisco will 'readily commend itsclf to ovory thinking porson for ite simplicity. ,No largo businous-houso should bo without it. Xt is tho apotheosia of the crodit systom. Tho ladics of Manistoo, Mich., have displayed more wisdom than thelr sistors of Ohio. 'Lhoy havo entored into o compotition with the Devil for the souls of mon, seizing his own weapons of comfort—social attraotion apd amusemont— tofight him with, Howover, thoir weapons are of a batter tompor than his, and thoy must win. They have opened a freo ronding-room for tho 2,000 homeloss workingmen of tho city. Iun- dreds havo already ovailed thomsolves of the en- Joyment it affords. Moanwhilo thay have col- locted o sum of monoy for the construction of & largo building containing o tomporanco-hall, & reading-room, & coleo-room, and, above all, & ‘smoling-room. This last will probably bring down ‘upon them tho wrath of their Ohio sistors, but as it will accomplish tho object of keeping mon aut of saloous, thoy probably do not care about the re- ‘monstrancea of othors, Temporato habits will bo found to bo not only respectable, but elovat- ing and comfortable, It s a pity that such acts of wisdom hovo been sporadic durlng the oxcito- mont. , Had practico taken tho place of prayer a little more gonerally, tho movement would have possonsed real and lasting popularity, and ac- complishod roal and lasting good. It is not too late, howover, to commenco now. The Lohigh & Wilkesbarre Coal and Iron Company axa bofora tho world s consumors s woll 38 producers. The Empire Miue, near Wilkesbarre, is the sconc of an oxtensive con- sumption of fuel, and is likely to romain so for maony months to come. At a dopth of poarly 800 foot below tha surface, sn oroa of 1,200 squars yards of firo ia consuming untold tons of coal, and throatening to continue the consumption of this valuable eubstanco almostad dnfiniium. Tho Company employs 628 men, who aro duily ongaged in fighting tho fire, and have beon prosocuting this apparently hopeless undortal- ing slnco Jgnuary, sta daily ‘odat to the Com- pany in wages alono of §1,920. Work on tho mine has beon stopped, and the loss on this ac- count is cstimated ot $4,752 daily. Add to this that tho mass of burning conl ropresonts & valuo of mitlions of dollars, and somo ides of tho coat of tho luxury of a burning cosl-mino msy be formed. At tho same time it is & guaran- teo to the world that Wilkesbarro conl will burn, and 18 theroforo vostly superior to some of the trosh sold to unsuspocting purchasors in this city of slnte and sandstone, under the delusive titlo of Pennsylvania conl. A glorlous victory bas been won ot Doublo Mountaing Ford, Texas, by o scout of fifty men uuder Capt. Leo and Liout. Turner, Unitod States Army. Sixtoon Indian braves have boen kLilled, and ono young squaw, about 18 yosrs of sgo, shot off hor horso. Such an unususl schicve- ment deserved commemoration, indeed, and no ono will bo surprised to learn that the bravesand tho young squaw were scriped, or that tho bloody scalp of the girl is ** among the trophica on ex- Libition" a¢ & dry-goods storo. Ladios will loarn with u quiver of envy that *tho halr is coal- Dbluek, almost & foot long, und trimmed gquaro at thio onds,” whilo civilization will stand in muto ‘wondor ot tho bravery and good tasto which per- mitted the mutilation of & woman's body, and the oxhibition of hor acalp as & *‘trophy.” —_— A movemont ia on foot to raise a momorial of o charactoristic deseription to the late Louis Agassiz, in bis capacity of tencher, by placing upon & strong aud euduring basis the wark to which ho devoted his life—the Aluseum of Com- parativa Zoology. To accomplish this, it is pro- posod that the teachers and pupila of the wholo country tako part in this momoriul, and that, on tho birthday of tho great asvan, May 28, thoy contribute something, no matter how small, to the Teachers’ sud Pupils' Momorial Fund, Tho suggestion possoguos more morit than most ap- poats to the public, and tho eudowmant of tho musoum by this means would be excoedingly appropriate. —_— Tho Commontwenith of Missourl has Lad its wookly tragedy sgain, and, as usual, in & highly revoltiug form, Hiram Aldridgo, of Ozark Mills, aged 10, was slain by his niece, Mra, Sarah T. Watson, agod 17, and a matron of two yonrs' standing, Bho cvidontly attacked him from bo- hind with a hatohet and donlt him 50 powerful blow that the broed blado wasburiod fn his hoad. Mra. Watson aunounces that * slio is not ono of tho acary kiud,” and is quite composed. There 18 no roasion why sho hould bo. Missourl mur- dorors are in no duuger. This narrative has no moral, oxcopt in the way of chooking off Mis. soura's punotuality. ¢ —_— Property-owners in the Town of Anson, Chip- powa County, Wis,, bavo set a wise example to other towus, by arresting their ‘Town Bosrd on & ohargo of conspiracy to dofraud tax-payers, Tho fucts upon which this serlous charge is made are not unlike thoso of which wo hoear daily, and can eposk from exparienco, At a meeting held last Tobruary, the Board made a contract with a man namod Halpin to bulld & rosd four miles long at 88,50 a xod, whote ho road was roquired, and wheore it could hava boon built for 76 conta a rod. A gimilar contract was mndo with tho son of ono of tho momboru of tho Bonrd. Tnoy Lave also . madoan illoga! fsmuo of town bonds to the amount of §20,000, if the epecificntions aro cor- reot. Thie sort of thing 18 quite- provalent in small towns, and tho prompt punishment of hlf n dozon Town Boards may ho of sorvico in warn- ing othora to avold it. — . A committeo of citizons of Boston have do- "clded that'tho momorial of Mr. Sumnor shall conslst of a statuo or monumontal struoture in~ cluding o statuo. A strong movomont 8 now on foot to induco tho committos to include in thole phn a momorial art-school. In view of the numerous marble caricatures of publioc mon al- ready oxisting in this conntry, and the imminent dangor that anothor may bo added to the num- ber, tho art-school proposition s in ovory way proferable, both os & rominder of his memory and o gracoful and ot tho samo timo usofui tribute to Mr. Somuer 08 & connoissour and promoter of art. Such » building, of gracoful and elegant proportions, handsomoly endowed and furnishing opportunitics for tho study and promotion of the artewhich Mr. Sumuer loved so woll, would bo a more fitting tribute to his mem- ory than the moet cunning work of any eculptor, eapeainlly when thore is danger that the work may nok be cunping in any rospeot. t Bl et i The Jackson (0.) Standard has discovered the woy in which to suppross intomporanco, It says: *“Until the sourco of all intoxication, tobmeco, bo dried up, the women might ns woll ottompt to dam up Nisgara with snw-dust, or bail out tho Atlantic with a siove; as to attempt to stop intoxtcation.” This is an opinion ps 8 ou opinfon. But, if tobacco is the source of all intoxication, it is a littlo myaterious how Noah, who neithor smoked nor chawed, succeedod in getting more disastrously drunk than any othor human boing on record. As tobacco was noevor Lioard of in Europo or Asia notil the fifteonth century, it ia algo a littlo curious how millions of pooplo in those countries, aftor Noal's timo, succeoded in gotting drunk., Tho Standard will have to try agatn, ” e L + ANOTHER ST. LOUIS DIRECTORY. 8t. Louis hes snothor Dircctory. Thoro is nothing particularly novel in the announcement, a8 Directorics aro among the principal produc- tfoos of that city, and thoe crop this yesr shows no falling off over proceding yoars, Ordinarily, ono recoives. tho nows that Bt. Louis has another Directory with the eame concorn thal one henrs 1his nefghibor's ont has had kittons, As wo undor- stand it, this Direotory is not the Directory, but one of tho poriodical, monthly produo« tiops which v bas beon found mee- ossary to publish twolve timos a . year in order to accommodate tho unprocedented inoronso of population in that profifle city, whero children aro born o fast that soothing-sirups and rubbor rings bave bean rushed up to fabue lous prices, aud into which tha tide of emigration tunato MoLaughline, Schnoiders, and Petersona sore obliged to sleop intho outskirts, packed awny likosardines in & box. In tho course of a fow weoks, or a8 soon 68 & fow hundred thousand ‘moro have boon added to the population, the Di- rectories will bo iusued weekly, in order to keep paco with this mathematicnl marvel of nineteonthe contury atatistics, ‘Whatgver i8 written abouta St. Louls Direo~ fory haa to bo written without delsy or snothor Directory succeeds it, which upsote sll the flg- ures of its predecessor. Wo have thereforo goized upon the very first facts which have come to hand concerning the latest Dircctory, and pro- sume that theso facts will got to our readers bo~ foro the next Direotory comes out and ronders thom nseless. The gentloman who manufac: tured tho Dircctory, by'that peculiar manipula~ tion of names and numbers which has hitherto obtained in the proparation of St. Louis Diroc- tories, found that ho Lad 111,430 names on hand. As in former times, ho multiplied this by - the ratio of 4}¢ and found himsolf with o popu- lation of 501,417, or an incresse of 100,000 or sosince thelnst Directory was issucdn fow months ago. The Directory man was conso- quontly in dilomma. Ho. kuew _ thek theso figures wouldn't do. Such a stato- ment a8 this wouldn't wash oven in Carbondale or Cairo, or any -of the towns in Sonthern Ilinols which are competing with £t. Louls. Foncohe must reduco his population. If be did this by .climinating thirty or forly thousand Smithe and Browns from tho proof- shoots, it would reduce the sizo of theDireotory, and no Dircetory man in St. Louis is half a man .| who can't seo tho lnst Directory and go a dozon botter. Bo ho reduced tho ratlo to 43¢, and got tho population down to 478,560, which, atlnst accounts, lho was going to adhere ‘o a8 enfe enough to venture in Carbondale and Cairo. Having dome this, ho rushes for tho Almanach de Gotha, tokes ten cities ont of it, and writes down Bt. Louis as the oloventh, Of course he might havo talen twonty moro, and thon St. Louis would have boen tho thirty- firat city in tho world; or he might havo omitted nino of thom, and made 8t. Louis the seooud. Thero is ouly one paper in 8t, Louis which did not take this dose, close its oyes, and ewallow 1t without winking. That paper ia the Republican. 1t tried to awallow it, but the doso stuck i jts throat, as follows: “*These flgures appear onor- mous, and in truth they are,—#o large that wa aro not ontirely propared to accopt Mr, Gould’s bases of caloulation; he may have mistakon his own diligonce in listing hitherto- ovorlooked names for proofs ol growth in population,” sud then adds the Republican, with charmivg simplicity, it would not be strango if we' shall bo s much surprised at the noxt oflicial consus as we wore ot tho lsst.” This fravk admidsion shows that " whilo gll tho reat of the country has got through Deing surprised at anything in & 8t, Louia Dircc- tory, the people of St. Louis have not, but overy time a Diroctory comes out, they rob togother and resolva to bo surprised, and Wwe prosnumo thoy are surprised, even if people outside of St Louis sre mot. When, bowevor, wo aro gravely told in the Dircctory that “no oty in the world is incrensing with the rapidity of B8t. Louis, and the cauacs which have induced this romarkable inerease izt the Inst dacade hiave Just begun to oporate,” snd that *‘tho same onuses will produce the same rosults in the noxt docado—results that will as- tonish tho most sanguine,” thon wo foar for {ho future of 8t. Louis. If sho continues to 1u~ crense durlng the next ton years as eho hnd from tho lest Directory to this ono, she vill havo, in 1884, a groat many millions of poopio, probably more than all the large olties in the World combined, and far exceoding tho soanty population of the rest of tho Unitod States, The concantration of so many miliions of people inte such & little spaco as Bt. Louls covers must iu- avitably couse slckness and largo faminos, and aome means will have to be used to keop down tho population, oithor by killing the Dirsctory- makerd or eacrificing a milllon or two occasion- ally, aftor the mannr of tho King of Daliomoy, "The destiny of 8t. Louia ja not nn enviable ono. There was & frog onco who undertook the sama feat Bt. Louis {6 trytug to porformn, It ia related that the frog burat loug bofore he began evar.to npproximate to the sizo of the ox. ——— ORID LEGISLATURE, Corvrpus, O., April 2.—In the House, & bl assed to movléu that the propoaition to tevy axos for orcoting township houses shall firat ba submitted to a vote of the poople, 'I'he House Dill to authorize Connty Cowmixsioners to repair improved roads was passed. 1n tho Bonato the following billa passed ;: House billto amond the act regulaiiug the mode of administering agsiguments in truat for the beuo~ 11t of croditors to ohoose an Asslgnoe ; Senato bill to authorize mining companies to take stook in ralroad companios, aud bulld slde-tsacks to their road, ) Bills were introduced to repeal tho law grant« ing funds $o agrioultural socioties, and providing that monoys g0 seb apart by the axistl aiwilbo AT DHALon 1o 110 basadt ot soiem pours o Aittly nad uncossingly that tho unfor- —~