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

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. fi“l"! or nw:;nlnmmv‘ g‘AlABLl TN ADVANOR). aily, by m X - Wookdy. 5:8) Sraday Partao tho samo rate. jTo prevont delay and mistakas, bo sure and give Fost 1l conddress in full, including State and Connty. ! Romittancos may be made olthor Ly dratt, oxpross, Posh Qfitos ordor, or in registorad lottors, nt, our rlsk. % TERMA TO CITY RUDSORIBENR, Butty, deltvoced; -Sunday rascoptas, 5 conte por wook. Dally, dolivered, Bunday includod, 50 conts por waok, Add THI TRIBUNE COMPANY, Coruer Madison and Doarborn-ata., Unicago, Iils e TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. : M'VIOKKR'S THRATRE—Mnadison strest, botweo; Dearh itnto, Aubur's onora of + AIASARIGHO, ¥ by the Tlodorkeans Hostoty. Aftbrdon. - AOADRMY OF MUSIO—nlstod straot, betweon Mod. n . M omant of Mrs, Jamos A, Oates' g TR 2 R L PR B Tivoning, + Fortunto,” e i 5 on 70, Houlton” Ajax tho Datianty oto. *Aftoroen nod avsciag. tobiard IIL™ * Aftar- '8, THEATRE Randoloh _stract: Dk or Fadiatoe A Diota e toran e Delasion," and tho fth aot of noon and nvlmll‘lm. - GLOBE THRATRE~Dosplairicastract, batwson Mad. fron and Washington. Kugagemont.of the Jep Brothors ud Oharles Uhrisde's Pantomimo Troupe, ** Humpty Bilupty Abroad. " Afterioon and evoniag: MYRRS' OPERA-HOUBE-Monros atreot, beiwson “Dearborn and Stato, Arlington, Cotton, and’ Kemblo's Minatrols, Minatrolsy and comioalition, ' New burlosque #1 ' Blown Up Alive." Afterucon and evoning, ', 1 e ———— ,.*SOCIETY MEETINGS." i3 ; ! BILOAM COUNOIL, No. 88, R. 9. E, & . A gul b 8il Ot R, 8. & oghias AOmE o floam ool N 86 Ju B i cat Randolph. his oven| n{{ flor work. 1 At lors cordal d A tul {8 d nite lly invitod. By orde: LH, W, W LODGE, No. 433.—Regular Com- A o o ey N 455, e Bullding, Monra A il ttendanco 1s roquostad, s aation wl 1] s, e taken on tie by ISIDRIDGE 0. COLLINS, Socy. CHICAGO COMMANDERY NO. 19, K. T. g0 boroby notiflod to appear ¢ tho Asylum Su: nt, yri at 10 o'glock sharp, for the It Btisnding tho lnnnrlY of our late Bir Knight Daniol Bilor, :&mor Commsnidorios nd siailing Sic Icnigbis o uourtaously. [nvited fo_atond 5 B e e BINOLALE: Hosbalor ombors mori, Dose of ‘OLRVRLAND LODGE, NO. cnibore are horaby notiffed to u g ing Bkt (Auri) ), 8 10 0/olock, shArp, 0 At 'J'nh".'i{e;r'f:a:-'-'l %: loui flr’fi: rotto "Dan Miilor. ot G Datk olothing, Whits, glovo rons. Drios o olothing, while, g , W. B, Gxo, K, Hazutrr, Seoretary, BUSINESS NOTICES. BYMPTOMS OF LIVER COMPLAINT.~A SALLOW aF yollow color of skin, or yollowish hrawn spota on faco ol othor parts of body, dulingas an drowsinoss with fra: “quont bondacho; dizzlnene, hittor or bad tastel 5 mouth, rynosn of throal and internal hoat; palpltation; in many 508 8 dry, tonsing cony I\;wllk sore throat; unstoady appo- g of fond s chokig sonsation n throatal trgsa, Be ‘Eionted of rull fooling aboat stomach and sidee: painin sidcs, back or broast, aud about shonldors; colic, 410 snd sordaoss through biwols, with hont; ‘Goratipa: Eon altornating: with diarroens pilcs, Haculonco, Lot vousuons, coldnoss of extromities; rush of blood o' hoad, with aymptoms of apoplexy, numbnoss of 'limbs, oapc. [ctally at night; cold chills altemating with ot finahios, dney and wrinacy dilloultien: dullngas, Iow spirite, au- ®ociability and gloomy forobodlngs. Only & fow of al ymptoms likely to bo presont at one time, Al who use Br. “lnma‘lA t, ¥xt., or Goldon Medical Dircovery for -Llw‘ar ‘Complaint and’ita complications are loud in its ralso. ; L A CURE OF IVER DISEARE, R. V. Pr Buflal X, Toxas, May 10, 1878, - R, V. PIRN alo, % D ALy o T sons. it o 4o et bed with Obranio Liver Discato, on Yhought ono bottle Sho then wolghed 8 pounds; and is robust and hoarty, all, 5o you sao T am anad- WAL, MIEAZIL, 25 g timo wan confinod 1 liad oo of the ounds, ht bottlos ‘Fucato for yonr Medioinos. ‘The Thicagy Tiibune, Saturday Morning, April ‘4, 1874, NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. . Wo must again rqmind our readers of the difficul~ tica attonding tho preparation and classification of tho st number of advertisomonts inserted in the Bunday Jssuo of Trrz TRIDUNE; and, on that account, requost advertisors to bond in thelr xotices to-day at the Gaillost possible momont, * The nbsenco of some of the-legislators, who Bad not returned from their Fast-Day exorcises &f the day bofore, mado the votes in'the Massa~ chusotts Sonatorlal cleotion yosterdsy lighter than ususl, but thors was no break in tho ranks of tho chief competitors,: There is talk of a union botwoon the anti-Butler mon, now supt porting Dawes vs. Hoar, on some new man like Gov. Washibirn. . —— ,' Iow to travorse long distances in cities in & rensonablo time is & problem that has occupied the:civil ongincors of New York and London for many years, and is beginning to press upon tho citizons of Obicago. In another column an Interosting communication appears on this sub~ Ject, BMr. Morgan discussca the various schomes of rapid transit that have been proposed or tried in Now York and London, and describos £ho bold plan by which Commodore Vanderbli bas undertaken to maset the difficulty. — Yhe Pacific Mail Steamship Company has al- woys beon folerably industrious in the Washing- ton lobby. "It has received valuablo favors in tho way of subsidics, and, according to rumor, faay alwaya paid wall for thom; A Sub-Committeo of the Ways and Moans invostigated its relations with members of Congress at the last sossion, and roported the testimony. under soal to the Corn waa active and firmer, closing at 6230 cagh, and 053 sollor May. Ontsworo quiet ' and }{a bighor, closing at 425¢o cash, and 463{c acller May. Ityo was in gooddomand aud flrmor, at 00@90%g0. Darloy was dull and nominal, at $1.51@1.63 for No. 2. Hogs wero aclivo and stoady, with snlos at $5.00@0.00 for common to oxtra, - Oatilo and sheop wore notive and fym, " Asa'aresult of-tho apponls of the deputation of Bouth Onrolinians, the Judiclary Committeo - of tho Houso has appointod a sub-committen to hoar the condition of tho Btato discusacd by tho roprosontatives of both tho tax-calors and tho tox-payors. 'Tho rocont nddross of tho delcga- tion to -the, Prosident - showed that tho nogro rulers of that Stato lad joined in & march to tho Tronsury that was wroaking amorfo onduring dovastalion than Bhorman's march to the sen. Tho tax-payers hopoe, dosplto tho Prosident’s discouragiug views, to:havo o Congrosslonnl Committoo appointed that will invostigate the plundering to which they. aroe subjected, and whoso report will stimulate Con- gress to intorforo for their protootion. —— " Epanish nows {s a mirror of Bpanish politics, in their inoxtricable corfusion and cortrarioty. ‘Whon our advicos come from Mnadrid, the eagle of victory s always scen perched -upon the standards of the Republicans ; and the Carlists are ‘oqually impartisl in pormitting none but nows favorablo to thelr causo to loave their compe. This morning, for instance, the Carlists toll us that & drondful insurreotion hans broken out ,smong the Republicans . at Bllbao; and the uwumber of officors and men have. desorted from tho Carlists to thoir ranks. L'he Carlists aa- sure us with on easy air that only half thelr troops wore engagad in tho racont actions. Thelr Gon, Bantos, moreovor, hasa little plan, on the ove of excoution, for marching on Madrid and gob- bling up Marshal . Serrano. ‘Cho Oarlists will find it bottor nows, as woll ns bottor strategy, to i toll of these moves only’ aftor thoy have been achioved. In our column of morping an analysis of the provisions of the now_ Wisconsin Railrond law., This attempt to regulate the rallroad corporations by fix- ng tho prices of thoir servico is no moroe popular with tho companies in Wisconsin thenin other Btates, They complain bittorly that tho compulsory rates are much below the figures at which thoy can work with profit. In tho case of tho Milwaukes & Bt Paul Railrond, for inatance, a reduction is made in rates ranging from 16 to 45 per cent. The law abounds in discriminations against the people, for whom it was enacted. If enforced, it issnid itwill destroy the lumber trade of Milwaukeo, The railroads will do their bost to break the law down, but have not decided whother this is to be done by compliance and an appoal to tho Legia- Inturo, or by rebellion and recourse to tho courts, The third .way, making its provisions ns op- prossive as possible to the people, would cause the railronds to become odious- a8 woll as the 1aw, and is not likely to bo ventured on. Evory witnoss bofore the District of Columbin Tavostigating Committeo yostorday added some- thing to the revolations of the improvidence and Ropublicans relate that & large | ond nows we givo this |' dishonesty of the . Ring. Ono showed that the differonce in the cost of work, when it was done for the National Govornmont and thio District, was 80 or 40 por cent. Another witnoss, whose education at Wost Point’ had fitted him to go over the moasuremonta for paving, otc., bas dis- covered that contractors wore paid more than would have boen their due if their pavement had atretchod ncrous the streot from house to houso, ond farther, A former Auditor testifiod that when the prosont Giovornment came into powoer it morensed a number of the contracts that woro thon ponding, and had tho Increase charged back to the administration of Gov. Cooke. Tho sum of $389,000 was takon from the sinking fund in this way, and the school fund was deploted to the groat 1088 of tho toachers and the scandal of the District. Tho appropriation of "$07,000 for tho teachors has boon approved by the Sonato District Committeo,. - - REPEAL THE LAND TAX, We print this morning a specch of tho Hon. Alexauder Starne, delivored in the State Senato, on the subject of reforming tho mode of pro- viding Btate rovenue, and abolishing the tax on property Ly valuation. Tho specch is s clear statomont of facts, and wili well repay a perusal. The firat port of it is addressed to an amend- ment proposod by lim to the State Constitution, The Conslitution as it stands provides two modes of {axation: 1. By a valuation tax on all tho property in the Btato; 2. By speoial tax, in the form of liconses, on gross receipts, ote., and House. Tho Committeo of Ways and Menans | on varlous occupations and corporations. Afr, sunounces its intention’ to reopon tho testimony | Btarne has assumed that theso powors aro to bs and proceod with the investigation, if necessry, | oxorcised in tho ordor in which they aro aftor it has got through with Sanborn & Co. . — Wo follow up this morning a roviow of tho Congrossional candidates in Illinots, dovoting to-day’h article to our three homo Districta, It is the design of these- artioles meroly to gathor tho current gossip of tho political and somi-po~ 1itical circles ot the presont date. 8o far as tho . First, Second, and Third Districts are con- | cerned, o porusal of tho article elsowhere will scaroly fail to convince the reader that the prog- pect for improving the prosent condition of things Congrossional s ot vory good. Nor is it likely to change, if the people leave the matter *{n the hands of the politicians, — Commissioner Douglass' assortion that the very taxes given to Banborn to collect at 50 por cent wero in process of colloction without oxtra chargo by the Internal Rovouuo Bureau, has an Muatration in the ' cage of tho Indian. spolis & Bt. Louis Rallrond. Ono of San- borns agonts, the ‘Mr Qreoy whoso falso proienses wore oxposed the other day by Colleator King, visited Indianapolis snd col- lected the tax due the Goversiment by this road, Tlis tax was on record in' Collector King's offlco, tho railrond hiad admitted its linbility to pay it, and nothing romained to be done but to fix its smount. Colleator King was beforo the .Com- mitteo of Ways and Moans yestorday, and ro- itorated all his previous charges against Groen. The Oiflnngn produce markets were genorally strong ' yesterday, with rather lose doing. Moas stated in the Constitution; that, thercforo, tho tax - by valustion is ‘‘mandatory” and tho tax on spaclal intorosts * pormissory.” Acting on this assumption, he proposed to amend tho Constitution by transposing the ordor of these powers, making that of taxing properly by valuation socond. Ho proposed this amoud- mont, a8 he 8aid, to romove all doubt as to the suthority of tho State. Tho theory that the ono form of tax is man- datory and the other merely pormissivo, 18 o wouk one. If the powerto ** provide such revo- nue as may be needful by levying o tax by valu- ation” i3 mandatory under all circumetances, then it is exclusive, and prohibits tho raising of rovenue by auy othor mode. If, however, it is simply to ‘‘ provide such revenuo ss may bo noedful” in addition to all other incomoe of the Btate, then it presupposes tho oxhaustion of all othior modes of taxation beforo resorting to tha ‘proporty tax to make up tho defloit. Mr, Starno's smendinont failod in the Bonate, and the ques- tion of changing the form of taxation will have tobo detormined by the Leglslaturoe electod thia fall, We invite the attention of those who insist upon subjecting land and Its appurtonances to tho wholo burdoo of 8tato aud loeal taxes to the important fact stated by Mr. Starne, that tho lnsl stage of ondurance hes been reached, and that, if- there be no roform {n the method of raising revenue, *‘ihousands of farmers who Liave their homes in this Stato, which thoy love 8o well, will bo compolled to scok homes elso- pork was active and 250 per brl higher, olosingat 815.00@10.00 cash, and 8106.10@16,15 soller Moy, Lard wae in modorato domand and un- changod, at $9,80@9.83)4 por 100 ths, cash, and 80.46@0.47}4 rollor May, Moats were quiot and firmer, ab 630 for shoulders, $8:20@8.25 for .ehort ribs, 88.45@8,60 for short clear, and 0@ 20340 per Ib for sweet-piokled hams, Highwines rwero quiet and unohanged at 080 per gallon. where for themselves aud familios, homos which, ir not more congenial to thoir tastos, habits, and nagoclations, will at lonst bo moro congenial to thelr pockots,” That thia statoment Is true wo have no doubt, The State and local taxos levied and collooted for 1878 will not Lo less than 825, 000,000. Of this tax, 80 por cent will bo col- leoted from land aud the live stock, This Lkind of proporty will, ~ thorofors,. pay of tho porsonal proporty not found by, the Ae- Aossors Ia noarly ono-third of tha whole proporty ifrtho Btate, and that, of tho porsoual proporty ao- tually found, ono-nlf 'portains to the farme,— a8 much g0 a8 the growing crops, Tho porsonal proporty not porialuing to tho farms and actual- 1y found by tho Asdosgors is valued so much be- low tho averago - that It practically amounts to an oxomption of ono-lalf or three-fourths of it. Mr, Btarno doos uot exaggorato tho incqunli- tlos of tha assossment of tho property-found ; and lio might havo fllustrated the nbsurdity of oll attompts by s State Bonrd of Equalization to 'mako things oven by giving the inatance whore ‘fivo’ millions of *monoys" in Chicago’ woro not assosecd at all, and the $500,000 actuslly roturned had 08 por cont added arbitrarlly to its valuo. Horo was an instanco of ono ‘clnes of porsons taxed 68 por eont above tho par value of their greenbacks, while the othor clags were not taxed at alll This kind of fn- oquality and injustico is insoparable from the systom of {rylng to roach porsonal proporty by valuation. Tho groat bulk of it can nover bo found, and the samo difficulty exists overywhore' olgo. Taxation report that not over 16 per cent of the porsonal proporty In that Btato s ever put on tho tax lials; A systom eo dofaotive, so unjust and partia), ‘and which all exporience has showa to bo incapablo of remedy ; whioh, in its opera-. ;tign, throatens tho expulsion of thousands of farmora from the State, ought not to bo tolerated an Lour Jonger than 18 necossary to put anothor systom in forco, t E i The sources of rovenue at tho sorvice of the Stato aro numorous: 1, By liconsca from va- rious ocotpations. 2. By tax on gross recolpts ot raflronds, expross compnuies, tolograph and insurance componies, horso railways, and B88 companies, - 8. By tax on sales of manufactured articlos. 4. Dy tax on banks and othor like in- atitutions. In Mr, Btarno's speech are somo figures showing the probable rocelpts from somo of theso objects, but Lo falls far short of the ra-- sulta likoly to follow. Tho gross recoipis of rallways in this Stato for tho yedr ending Nov.” 80, 1873, wore put down by the Railroad Com- missionors at $48,000,000; if to thls be added #15,000,000, for horse railways, oxpross compn- nies, insurance, tolograph, and gas compatios, 'wo have a total of $58,000,000. Now lot us cor- ook und extond his: table of probable rovonue undor the new systom : From Iilinols Central Railroad nt 000,000 Tax on hauks, etc,, oto The Btate rovonue - authorized to bo lovied and collected for 1874 fa $1,000,000 for schools and £1,600,000 for gonoral purposca. Hero, tlion, is & surplus revenue of §32,000,000. - All this tax can bo collocted at & very small cost, while Mr. Starno declaros that it coats 20 por cent to col- lect the taxes lovied undor the prosent systom of valuation, A member of the Logislaturo, and for several yonrs a State officer and a rosident of Bpringfleld, ko knows whoreot ho affirms when roforring. to tho onormous cost of collooting taxes, . i THE BUMMERS' TOWN-MEETING. The Convontion of the People's Party to nom- inate officera for the Bowtli Town probably fn- cluded tho most imposing array of statesmon and patriots which has evor assombloed in Chica- go. The delogates to this Convention wero vetoran and weathor-boaten lovers of their country,who havo stood by the Bouth Town from time immemorial, and will continup to s\tnnd by it 60 Jong 04 tho opportunitics to got thoir hands into other people's. pockets are favorable and plundering by ballot {s not. mudo a pénitentiary offongo, Tho cora of the Convontion waa made up of bummers, shystets, snloon-}ecpers, bar-tend- ors, hackmon, gamblers, and general xiff-raff, and this choico- assortmant of patrios was fringed with an edging of spectators from Fifih avenue and Bridgeport, whose ‘patriotism was only oqualed by thoir boistorousness, and whose love of country was -only equaled by: their love of whislky, The Convention was presided ovor by a rospoctable . citizon, but was “run” by Mike McDonald, gambler, who, although not a dolo- gate, doxterously mannged the conclave by vir- tue of Ius suporior statosmanship. Citizen Mo~ Donald, who line long boen known ns an ardent patriot and & dovoted friond of froe govornment, did good service in shutting up those long-winded orators who, having been raised in the South Town for thirty or forty years, proposed to nar- rate thelr biographics, Ho was also of usein tendering his ervices to *put a head on" ob- stroperous delegates and in quieting tho citizens of Bridgeport, who with cheerful rogularity fn- sisted upon commencing o war-danco propara- tory to s raid upon tho patriots within the ring whenover the proceedings woro not marked by that disintorested dovotion to duty and high moral tone which should, | gharaaterizo tho states- mon of tho People's Party. What with statos- mon who withdrow, statesmon who threatoned to bolt, statesmon: who wore not delogatos but had spocchos to ‘make, statcsmon who poraisted in voting thres or four votes at once, Citizen MoDonald had a difi- cult time in mannging his fellow-citizons, but at last the roquisite officors woro nominated, five patriots having been found who were ready to undertako thio high moral duty of going through the pockets of the South Town for such com- pensation ns they-might vote themselves, the balance to be taken in the proud consclousncss ‘of having servod theiy country. Wore it not for the fact that it {s now quito definitely gettled that Town Boords cannot lovy taxes, and that, under no cirenmstanocs, can over §1,600 be voted, this assomblage of bum- mers ond vagrants would bo discouraging to contemplate. It will bo hard upon the patriots who have consented to serve their country to find that thoy -can't vun thoir arms up to the elbowa into the T'ronsury, but it will novertholoss bo a componsation that the patriotism of these bummera will coze out when they find the opportunitica for plunder gono. Citizen McDonald will no longer con- tribute his valuable sorvices to his country, and | tho hack-drivers, and scalpors, and- bar-tondors will ‘seok other flolds of entorprise. As the South 'Pown hag blod frocly under the sdminis- tratfon of these nuisances for sovoral yoars, tho people will probably not put on mourning if it should oventuato that they aro freed from the clutehies of Citizon MoDonald and hig turbulont orow, —— Miss Oraker, a young lady of Baraboo, Wia,, has beon awarded 1,000 demages for having boon kisged by & railroad conductor, Thoaotion of tho Court bas caused "gonoral consternation among conductors, and it fa now stated that thoy can't bo hired’ to go moar a Baraboo gitl, and. Inaist upon taking thelr tickets from ilem with THE CHICAGO DAIY; In Now York,the State Commissloners of balf’ the rocolpts to tako s position” aa gon- ductor. . THE LOUISVILLE LOTTERY. Tho Louisville Lottory has just olosod under dlogracoful olroumstances and surroundings, Al lottorion aro oasontially dishonest, tho differ- once botwoon them. beolog in dogreo only, Itis 10 angwer to say that the objoot of this one waa commondable. The ond osunot justify the means, Tho Btate of Kontucky, fn a moment of wonknoss, authorizod cortain porsons, acting ng Trustooa for the Public Library of Louisville, to draw fivo loitorios, Four of theso liavo beon apawned, and now the fifth and laat of the series le advortised. ‘This last ono proposoes to sell 100,000 tiokots at 860 ticket, or in tho aggro. 8ato 85,000,000, and to distributo ono-half that Bsum ng prizes, or the one that will most foroibly striko & Inrgo body of the publio, s, that tho not profits of tho firat throe of the morios did not oxcood $20,000 to $30,000, and this waa tho result of gambling with threo or four millions of dollars of other bas boon {s not yot made public. Forly-fivo thousnnd tickets wero sold at 8G0 each, or for $2,225,000, That wasthe sum pald by the orodu. lous fools who invested tholr monoy in tho short ontto woaltli. It was attompted to soll throo tompt failed. Tho prizes woro proportionately tribution. In other words, tho Trusteos of tho Public Library at Louisvillo borrowed 2,260,000 aod paid the loan at 60 conts on the dollar. To the ordinary reader, tho prosumption is that tho other 50 conts on tho dollar is held 84 an ondow- mont of the Publio Library. But not o | Judg- 'ing by tho results of tho three previous lottorics, it will be & good thing if tho Library nots 876,000 from the last shufile. . The ** oxponses " of such things aro onormous. hovses. mlways pay lboral wagos,—five timen the amount paid for equal morvicos in honost buainess; Then the solling of tiokets is illegal in' noarly every Btato of the country, and ‘high commissions have to be pald to the wholo- salo aud rotail donlors; the risk of proscoution and the woar and toar of character in tho dis- .roputablo and illegal trade have to bo paid for st oxtravagant ratos. ‘Tho confidence-operator who shovea o bogus cheox on s groenhorn is | willing to lenve an immonse margin for the com- o paratively small amount of good money ho gets out of his victim. Wo supposo that, from firat to laat, the commissions for peddling the tiokets 'reach 26 per cont of the sales. Thon thore is o bill for advertising. Tho lottery do- ponds for succoss upon laving its allur- iug schomes kopt constsntly bofors the publio, snd in every possible locality. Printing and advertising probably consume 10 por cont more of the recolpts. Thon there aro tha salarios and sllowances and ‘expenses of tho high functionarios of evory degrea who are connected with it; and these, with countless 1toms of dotailod expenditure, so draw upon the profits after paying tho prizes that tho unfortu< nato Library in whoso namo the wholo schema of gambling is porpotrated gots only the fragment that is left, Putting the profits of this Inst lot- tery at $100,000, tho Library will got less thau 5 por cent’of the money drawn in its name from the 45,000 people who bought tickets. Of ench §60 paid for aticlot, loss than $8 will pass to the Library. Tho whole thing is s frand. Tho real endowmont i that of the colloge of mauagors, direotors, agents, and ticket-sollors, who divide tho proceeda among themsolvoes as salaries, com- missions, and expensas. It is time that public opinion should be oxer- cisod to arrest tho furthor progross of tis monstrousfraud. Thoro is nothing moro demor- alizing than lottories, Itls the most scductive form of gambling, Thoreis hardlya villageiu the ‘Wost whore one or moro of theso tickets have not been #old. Thoto is not a workshop, nor a mino, nor auy collection of workingmen whoro thero have not beoen tickets sold, cach man clubbing in his §5 or $10, to bo sent to Louis- ville to support the boss gamblora and gentoot loofors who bavo nadvertised- to endow tho Louisvillo Publio Library. In hundreds of cases, boys, snd girls, and widows havo boen coaxed tosend their soauty savings to invest in this hoartless schemo. The laws of moat of tho States oxpressly pro- hibit the sale of lottory tickets, end it is timo that publio opinion vequired that theso lawa bo enforced by the prompt punishment of every person who shall offer & ticket for salo, It is not alone in tho cities that theso tickets aro 8old, but all through the State, in small towns and villages, Tho country has tolorated tho 8alo of tickots in four of thesoe lottories, and, ng Kontucky has not intorfored to abolish them, it becomes the duty of othor States to protect their peoplo from the further proscention of tho fraud within their torritory. THE DISTRIOT OF COLUMBIA INVESTIGA- TION. The Associated Pross dispatches about the investigation into District affairs Lave shown "such a olean record for Shepherd, -Cooko, et al., that it has scomod as if those unworthios would {uevitably got the cont of whitewash they do- manded. Now, howevér, it appoars, first, that the Pross dispatches ave written by a cortain Noyes, who is In the employ of tho Board of Publioc Worlkas, and who uses hia position to sond cozening reports of tho testimony given; and, secondly, that thero has been roguery. Thursday's investigation put several patriots in unplensant predicaments. ‘Tho chack-bookof Bamiiol Btrong, onoof tho contractors, showed that he had paid William A. Cooke, Attornoy of the District, various sums whilo hio was gotting and exccuting -contracts. This courtcous con- tractor has also donnted monoy to Gon. Bab- cack’s enginaor, Col. Samo. By n sorlous colne oidence, Bamo {stho man who, by making ontirely wrong mensuroments, allowed Btrong to chargo for moro work than he ever performed. Btrong could afford to hand him a chock or two in ro- turn for such favors, Gon, Balbcook himesolf mado a similar error in measuremont. . Ho esti- mated tho roadway around Rawlins Bquaro ab twice the real messurement, and so mido tho Gavornment pay the contrzot price twico over, Whon this faot was clicited, Sonator Stew- art lost his tempor. We may remark, en passant, ¢hat the Benator's nomination to tho Committeo of Investigation was opposed on tho ground that ho waa himeolf implicated in the nlloged jobbory. The ocontract olork of tho Board of Public ‘Works mnde some astonishiug rovelations about tho way in whioh contracts have been awarded. Persone favored by the Ring have boon allowed to axmmeq work without signing contracts or glving bonds. Thoy have been pald before tho contracts or bonds .wore porfected, In some SATURDAY, "Tho bost commentary on this lottory businoss, peoplo’s monoy. ' What tho rosult of the fourth, 'million dollars' worth of tickets, but tho ot-’ APRIL 4, 1874, or forty contractn havoboon hurriedly pat inform and signed sinco tho invostigation bogan, Bomo of those hiavo boon signod by Honry D, Odoko an Govoruor of tho Distrlct, within the ‘last fow weoks, nlihough Bhophord bosame QGovernor. mora than four months 'ago. The result of this reckless and apporoutly dishonest way of dolng husiness is nontly summod up in the statemont of o Mr. Todd to tho offoot that ho owns Washe ington proporty assossod at $19,000, on whioh ho pays, this yoar, & tax.of $11,000. GEN, JOENSTON’S HISTORY, Tho now work of tho ox-Confodersto Gon. Joseph E. Johnston; upon the Warof the Re- bolllon, is out, and {a already croating vory gon- oral discussion in tho South. ‘Tho ohargo made Dby tho author, that the failure of the Bonth was dua to o want of sagacity in the managemont of the financos, Lins brought to the front the two Becrotarios of tho Confederate Tronsury, Mossrs,’ Momminger and Tronholm, who mako a dircot issuo with Gon. Johnston. Tho -formeot, fn a communication to the Charloston News, brings out this intoresting fact : " Tho truth Is, that if Gen, Johnston's rerollsotions of - history woro sa vivid nn his knowledgo of miiftary tactics is great, instend of consuring the financial ad- ministration of the Confederato Govornment, o would have discovered no dnstance on record whero a war of, such dimonsions, iu n constantly~docresning territory, hins been sustained for four yoara by ‘more finsncinls expedionts, without tho 51d usuilly dorived from taxes —forin the wholo Confoderate War but ona goneral scalod down, and $1,112,600 was sot apart for diss. Gombling-" ‘war tox wae leylod, und o great portion of that was mevercollooted.- . o vl L Mr. Tronholm conflnes himselt to tlio allega- tion of, Gon. Johnston, that if tho Govorument 'hnd converted the cottou crop into-money, the ‘ Confoderato’ Tronsury svould lave boon richor than the United States Treasury. Mr. Tronholm shows that tho crop available for this scheme wag that of 1860-'01.. This crop nmounted to :0,R40,000 bales, ovory bale of which, Mr. Tron- holm shows, was disposed of bofors. tho now : Govornmont was organized, Mr. Memmingor algo alludos to thio otton’ proposition, ‘and says : Tho Confedorato Government was organized in F ruary, the blockado was instiluted in May, thus loav- ing & poriod of threa months in which 'tho whols cot~ ton crop on hand, ssy 4,000,000 bales, ought; sccording totho military financler, to_ have -boen got into tho linds of tho Confedorate Government, and {o have boon shippod ‘abroad, This would have roquired a floet of 4,000 ships; allowing 1,000 bales to the ship, ‘Whors would thezo vossols have beon procured, in the faco of the notification of tho blockndo ? and was not as much of the colton shivpoed- by privato entorprisa as coutd hiave beon shippod by tho Govornmont ? » Whon 50 shtppod, th proceeds of the salo wers in mast cases 8old to the Governmont in the shapo of bills of ex- change, The superlor advantage of this plan is evincod by the fact that, throughout the year, the Government exchanged its own noles for bills on England at par, with which it paid for all its arms ,ond munitions of war, < It will bo scon that the two Secretarfes protty thoroughly disposo of Gon. Jolnston's financial theorics. Innsmuoh as thoro are soveral of tho : ox-Confederato Genorals who have boen waiting for an opportunity to pounce upon his military thaorios also, Gon. Johnston, botwoen the finan- cial and military authoritios, will be' protty thoroughly disscctod. As.soon ns tho book ronchos the North, it is not impossiblo that somo of our own officors moy also have somothing to eny, in which ovent the Genoral, even if his theorioa ehall bo proved fallacious, will at.loast be the best advertised officer in eithor sexvico, and bis history will havo n largo sale, THE PATHOLOGY OF THE PASBIONS, " Under this caption, ‘the Popular Seclence Afonthly gives o translation of & brillisnt cseny by Fornand - Papillon in the Revus des Deux Afondes. It tonchos, by procopt and exampls, tho disturbing influonce of - the passions on the mind and body. Lovoe gives a nervous intonsity to momory and imagination in rogard to tho Ioved object. Alibert saw acted bofors his oyos the well-known story of & decropit crone's recognizing in tho young and handsome body dug out from an old coal-mine tho lover whohad boen buried alive half o contury beforo, Itis idle to dwelt on tho influence of love on thie im: agination, Evory love-lettor bears witness to it. Melancholy wenrs difforent disguiscs. Whon it fn violent, it ripens from o passion irito o’ dis- onso, and kills. Philosophic sadness ia -the lot, Papillon gays, of every man who * philosophi- cally comtomplatos Dostiny.” It spriugs from tho feeling that the longing'for tho ideal cannot bo gratificd. Goetho oxemplifios it. The 'moro common molancholy, rising from disappoint- meont, loss of money, fruitloss’ ambition, cto., 18 ‘moro active than the philosophor’s sorrow, and often causos doath. Durer's wife bothered - him todeath, Koplor dled of sorrow. Disappoint- mont in love has killed women sod mon. Mel- anoholy is the main cause of suicide. Papillon locatos the instinet of self-preservation, whioh the deeiro to dio must overcome, in a certain part of tho brain, and heuce concludes that mol- ancholy affects that particular portion of the cerobrum. Ontho ofher hand, Dr. Brown-So- quard does not think that sufficiont datn exiats to warrant tho declaration that any emotion is located In o dofinito part of the brain, Angoris o groat man-killor. Auy strong focling, ofton rapeated, exerts o bad influence on health, This intluonce may also be causod, in its ontiroty, by momontary excitement. Two young men quar- reled and drow their swords. Buddenly one of them turned yellow, The othor was geared and dropped his weapon. Tho former had boen soized with o violont attack ‘of jaundico. A priest turned yollow, in like manner, whon a mad dog ran at him, Tho stomach is very cnsily affected by tho foolings. *'In times of opidomic or of civil war, sud in all social conjunctures when any extraordinary peril threntons tho masses, dyspepsin bocomea more froquent and aRsumos & more sorious aspect.”” Tho recent War, then, may bo responsible for the presont provalonce of our national disesso. Passions are contagious, Dad passions are perhaps moro contaglous than the good, M. Prosper Dospino has shown, by collating a very large numbor of Instances, that when an account of & crime with dramatioc surroundings is published and attracts genoral attontion, a ' Flour was loss otive at formar prices. Wheat, | $20,000,000, leaving all tho romaining prop- i waa rather less avtive, and13(@2ohigher,olosing | orty to pay but oue-fourth as much, !tlm at $1.207¢ oash, aud $1.20 eollor May, | Wo have shown in these columna thas the valus a pair of nippors, Tho LaOrosse Demoorat in- | cagos, R - nlnllw_l bob\vyun tho awards timatos that tho Company has offofed & man'| ing sud signing of hocontraot, during which the namod Holbrook, of Bparts, $200 por month and | work has boou dopo and pald for, Somo thirty cortain numbor of crimdes like it will he com- mitted within o cortain timo. No murder can long be poouliar, It {s imitated too soon, M, Despino wished to forbid popular prints to pub- lish nccounts of criminal doeds, This would bo an impossibility, but thoro is no doubt that tho press bng a groat and an unappreciated rosponsi- Dbility inthis mattor. Tho ‘story of acrimo has s wondorful fasolnation 'to gome minds, It fairly bowitchos thom, Tho legal history of tho last fow yoars offors ot loaut one ourious. proof of this, A Onptaln was acoused of gouttling bis vossel. Some gailora sworo that they saw him do#o, Thoir testimony was no- ticod to be almost a vorbal transoript of the do- soription in Roade'’s Foul Play" of the sonttling of tho ship. It was shown that the sailors had rond this book conatantly during the voyage, and had talkod over the possibility of such a deed, ana that thoy could not poseibly have seon the Qaptaln, a8 thoy sworo thoy did, from ‘tha koy- Iiole through which thoy swore thoy looked: Judge and jury acted on the thoory that tho witnossos had boon o excitod by what thoy rond “ihnt thoy had fencied tho wholo noono, and had, thorofore, innocontly sworn: to tho truth of what novor happonod. The Oap- tain was ncquitted and’ ro-omployed, Thore have boon epidemics of passlon. Plutarch tells a atory In polnt of the young women of Milotus, Ono of them hung . hersolf. Othors followed suit. The fronzy was only stopped by expositg tho nnked bodios of sulcldos in the markot-~ place. Bomothing similar onco happoned at Mar- sollles. In 1793, 1,800 repidonts of Vorsgillen committed sulolde. Thoro was & suloldal epl- domle, early In this contury, which deatroyed: numbors ot’yoling persons in England, Franco, and Gormany. Tho gloomy stylo of romanoo thon fashionablo was largely responsiblo for it. About 1805,a Madamo Cornior murdered horchild. Tho Paifs pross published full acoounts of the murder. At onco a numbor of mothors woro soizod with the dosire to Lill thefr babos, and with difficulty rosiated 1t...In 1848, one of 400 ' workwomen in's Patls sliop went into convul- slons. Within two hours, thirty others had had liko altaoks. . On tho ‘fourth day, 115 wero at- ' focted. In 1861, tho Parieh of Montmartro, in Paris, wna tho scene of. a similar opldomio, It broko out among a clasa of young girls who woro proparing for thoir first communion, 'and sffcotod moarly all of thom. - The usunl remody in ’stok 08 " {8 to oxcite o dll!oront:puqainn_. Boorhaave stopped byaterla in'a boarding-school by threatoning to burn the noxt pationt with a red-hot iron, A . Paplilon’s moral fs that all possion should be avolded. Live modoratoly. Eat, drink, and fool littlo. Thus, he esys, & man will loarn *the secrot, not, indoed, of happinoss—which is no- whiore In this worid—but of sorenity and scouri- (t7.” It 1s a gloomy moral. Botter dovontly seok o happiness tiat cannot bo found than dorenely and soourely roat in the bollef that it dooanot exist, - ' - . CREMATIO) Revolutions in thought often take place with the abruptness of revolations in politics. A ' long chinin of antocedent causes growing up un- noticed slowly gather force till, upon the pro- mulgation of some now idos, it is found that tho 80180 0f ‘s community bas boon growing up in unison with it, and the dogre of persussion nnd of positive argument necessary to insure its ac- ceptance hag ofton boen overrated by those who, aftor maturo roflection, prosont thelr idess for approval. Such haa boon tho cago with the pro- posal for the burning of the dead which has ro- cently been advocated by Bir Honry Thompson, Profossor of Olinical Surgory in University Col- logo, London. A carefully-guarded but forciblo argumont has been followed by a roply to tho oriticiems passed upon tho first article, and an, oxposition of the process given, which was at firat omitted from the fear of woighing the sub. Joct too hoavily, Fhoreby an unfavorable racep- tion of this somowhat startling proposition was to bo fearod. The question has alroady reached that point. in England whore immediate action scoms nocessary, Twonty-five years ago, an Act of Parliament caused n soarching invostigation into tho stata of the burial-grounds in London and gomo of tho provincial towns. The most dig- gusting and startling rovelations wore made con- corning their stato, in. consequence of which. in- tramural interment was prohibited, vaunlts wore Hermotically seslod, and burials allowed only in Pplaces far romoved from citios. But tho diffioul- ty was merely banished for a period. It is only & question of time whon Konsal Green and Norwood (cometeries of tho motropolis) will ronoh this samo ,state and thoir condition become dengerous. The urgont necessity of provonting “thé pollution of the soll, wator, and air, by graveyards, is unquestioned, As far back as 1840, Dr. Lyon Playfair estimatod that from tho 52,000 snnual intormonts (now roaching 80,000) of London, 3,500,000 cublo foct of gosos woro omittod; and rogarding the amount of this absorbed by tho earth a grave do- lusion has boon eotertained. .The gasos eyolved bursat leaden -coflins, pormente the surrounding soil, and oscape into sowors passing noar grave- yards, and tho prevalence of cholora in tholr vi- cinity is o fact woll marked, Even the raral distriots wero not exempt. -Tho condition of graveyards wag often abominable and revolting. Rogarding the pragtical operation, the oxp eri~ ments of 8ir Honry Thompson—portormod thus far on the lower animals—aro as follows: Ina powerful revorborating firnzce s oylindrical vos- sol soven faat long by six in diamoter was heated to a temperaturo of 2,000 Fahrenhoit. Into thia polished cylindor, alrendy &t a whito hoat, a body weighing 227 pounds was introduced. During the first fow moments gases wero glven off abundantly, but, by passing through a hoatod chamber of fire-bricks laid lattice-fashion thoy were rapidly oxidized, and neither smoko nor gas oscapad from o chimney of tho ordinary height. Intho courso of an hour the procoss was com- plate, and the ashes—n rofined sublimate withont taste or smoll, in weight about fivo pounds— woro romoved, As an indication of tho process in the human' subjeot, the following 1s suggosted by Bir Honry Thompson: * When donth. ocours: and the nocesssry cortificato hina been given, the bodyis placed in a light wood sholl, thon in a sultablo outside rocoptacle p ro- paratory to romoval for religlous ritos or other- wiso, Aftor a propor timo has elapsed, it is con- voyed to the spot whoro cremation is to bo por~ formed. Thore, nothing noed bo seen by tho ‘lnst attondant than the placing of the shell within o small compartmont, and tho closing o f tho doorupon it. It alides down into the hoatod chamber, and is loft thoro an hour, till the neo~ ospary changes have taken placo. Tho ashes aro then placed ot tho disposalof tho attond- snts.” : ‘Thenocossity of adopting othor means of dis- posing of tha doad than by burial would seem to bo abundantly shown. The practioal solution of tho mechanical difiloultios we may coneider to Do attained, There remain thoe bearings upon the question of tho eathotic sonse to bo dis- oustiod. . ‘Whatever bo the religious faith or conviction of a pooplo; whatever orood may guide thoir lives and animato their hopos of tho future; whether doath seom to thom but a ** transition to tho life olyaian,” or the Btoio dootrine of sne nihilation hold them with & strangs and relent- lees tasolnation, any distinotion botwoon burial as o Christian, and oromation g8 n Pagan, nte s unoalled for and unfounded, Expeoting opposition from the goneral publle, from thoso intorosted in coremonials, and from tho elorgy, Bir Honry Thompson finds that *from perdons in all ranks and stations in lifo, and from tho press, hiaa como & favorable assurance; and oclergymon havo shown how easily the burial sor- vice can be rondered applicablo o oromation, As unaffooting any roligloua convietions and com- patible with roliglous ritos, and aa enabling thom ‘to be’ conduoted {n’ suitsble bwldings with # greater easo and safoty to mournora and attondants ; ns provonting tho possibility of injury to the living; as o precaution agninst socrot polsoning (through preservation of por~ tions of tho viacora In muspectod caxcs); and finally, na rolieving tho mind from that revolting and dronded idon, which wo all ontortain with a shudder—a consignment to tno grave during & tranco or seoming doath—tho procoss of cremas tlon prosouts advantages ovor that of burial : which soom to outitle ft'to o respoctful hiearing, Probably no furthor change in oxisting customs would be advisnble at prosont than nllowing poo- .plo tho soption bolwoen cremation and Lurlal, making both Inwful, —————— : THE BERVANT-GIRL OF THE FERIOD, The viotims of slattornly sorvants will loarn with surpriso that. they sro keoping tholr op- prossors in & stato of bondnge worso, it any- thing, than slavery. A tonder-honrted English- man skotohes, In the Cornnill, this story of a sorvant's gorrows : No followers, 1o friends in the kitchon, no laughing 10 bo ioatd abiove alairs, 10 romping for young girla o whom romping (s an instinot all the samens with Iambs and kittons, no ceanation of work ssva at meal- times, no gelting out for half an hour into tho bright sunshine save on the sly, or after ‘tle very not pleas- ant process of asking loave ; and, abova All, no edu- catlon for the fancy or the intelloct Leyond a dull mage azine for Bunday reading. . . . .When they havo dono thelr worl, ia it not pleasure onough for these young women {n the prime of lifo, and with the firat flush of that desire for expericnce inberent n human uature knocking at thoir hicarts, fosit down alone, or two togothor, in the allent kilchon witha baskelful of sowing for their ovoning's smusement ? - This fs barrowing. Horeattor lot Jano cavort about the houso fo hor heart's content, Imag- ino tho healthful, kitton-liko joy sho would take in romping in thio parlor, aslsted, (porhaps, by a fow of her malo friends. Why should she ask loave to go' out ? Lot hor take “ half an hour in the bright sunshino " whenover sho fools like it. As for hor laugh, slio should bs oncouraged In it An oconsionnl healthy yell from the kitchon would gretly enliven lifo above stairs, ‘The bost instructors should of course bo engaged to cultivato ' the fanoy and the intellect.” Tho mistress might pass hor evonings in road- ing pootr§ to tho dooply-spprecative maid, This. British Don Quixote, who f8 so lost in sdmiration of the charms of his low-born and under-bred Dulcinen, doca not think that **a box of crayons on the Litchen-tablo in the svening would spoil the pastry in the morning,” or that ** & piano below atalcs would sound moro inhar- moniously than o piano above stairs.” Con- eciontions housckospers will horoafter pravide crayons and pianos ad lib. A flute and & violin might aid in the esthotte cultwio of the chamber- mald, and the family collection of photographs and engravings would afford the cook a fino fiold for erayon-coloring. . The trath is that this commiseration of maid- sorvants is a piece’ of sickly sentimontalism. They have, as a rule, good rooms; thoy always have as good food as the family they serve; thoy always have good wages. Thoy gonerally stay at & place a8 long as they wish to do so. Whon they loave, it is usually'for tho sake of getting some better position. Thoy are,to bo suro, liable to bo called upon at almost any moment of tho day, but so aro phyaloisns, by day and night too. Both classes are paid for it, and &o have 0o right to complain, If the servants wanted books, thoy could borrow them. Tho only reason thoy donot borrow is that they have no desire toread: Thero aro disadvantages, of course, in the life, What ocoupation is compounded of ad~ vantagos alone? For the drawbacks, however, the mald, not tho mistress,. is mainly respone siblo. . No uneducated person can fally enjoy or use life. The averago maid would find oxistence equally dull, though her kitchon-walls wero bung - with paintings and hor kitchen-tables coverod with crayons. 8he could appreciato neithor tho ono nor the other.’ A morepractical way of mak- ing hor lifo oasier would be to deviso someo method of securing an exchango of roforences be- twoon mistross and mald. This has been partially accomplished in Liego, Bolgium, by kooping o regiator of' housoholdors at ‘the differont sor- vanta’ agoncies. Thoro are some curlous en- trica: ¢ Mousiour is too familiar. The bresd and butter aro locked up, and the servant must spond hor wages to geta full meal. No prosontq are given. There is a perambulator to wheel, Tho parents always think tho children are in the right. Ono is sent on curions'errands, There is but a thin cotton countorpanc on the servant's bed. One is not allowed to go ont.” Evidently, in Licgo, no man is s hero to his. valet and no woman & horoino to her femme-de- chambre, — Col. McCardle of the Vickaburg Ierald is in imminent dvnger. He has defled the Supreme * Court of Mississippi by ignoring the example of the Chiof-Justico theroof, and is liablo at any moment to bo dealt with for contompt. A Son- ator from Monroe County has called him * s liar, scoundrol, and coward,” and bo has neithormur- derod tho statesman nor given that oxalted per- #on a chanco to murder him. Ho meroly re- plics that, considering what kind of & man the Bonator from Monroe is, he is quite indifferent 08 to auy opinton the Bouator may expross of matters genorally and himself (McCardle) par- ticularly. Anybody who feols an interest in tho mattor is juvited to sntisly himself as to tho respectivo cloims to honcsty and courage of MecCardlo and the other man by compering the record of tha two parties. Tho journalist had botter loave Vicksburg, Mo has violated the traditiona of chivalry, and, becauso he does not travel with an arsennl about him, must noces- sarily bo oll that Lo is ealled, Ho will probably pay for his rashnees in noglecting to kill his ad- vorsary. —_———— A correapondent of tho Now York Times has been cnloulatiug the cost of living and onter- talning in Washington during tho season, and his conclusions point to tho fuct thuta vast amount of monoy is frittered away in keeping , up appearances, whilo nobody’ scems to bo auy thebotter forit. A Cabinet officor's salary is 8,000 & yenr, and his oxpenses, within the nar- rowest linit, $17,000, if he desircs to maintain the social position which his offico demands. Dinuer-giving, visiting, receptions, aud, style demand & handsomo private income in addition to tho salary paid by the country. Tiving, fora family,~—tho more rental of shelter and purchase of food,—Is enormously high, and tho 88,000 barely covers tho houso expenses for four per- gons when thoy happon to be servants of the. poople. These discavories have come too late from tho New York Z¥mes. Had they beon ju- diclously elaborated two years ago, backed by s fow faots, they might linvo served a purpose. Published to-day, thoy resomble the * Happy Thought ” man's coneolation—¢ What I ought to hovo eald, " —_—— Tho solomn fudifference ot 8t. Louls was shaken into ourlouity a fow days since by a dis- cavery, Itia mot ofton that Bt Louls makes o discovery,—about once a year ouly, whon she discovers a new mon who can got out a larger divootory than his prodocossor, Tho presout discovery wea not tho resultof caroful investi- gotlony it was forcod upon Bt Louls, It did not come even through the ordinary channols of obsorvation,—the oyes and ears,—but through tho noso, Above the odors for which that city is noted, tho police authoritics, with a nose for news, sconted & murder, It was inacase of goods which' came from Indianapolts thal thoy discovered, through thoir ofolal nowe, a horrld