Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1874, Page 4

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Atlington, Dotton, apd Kombio's D An atveiny ‘ahd omloalitior: " ALve Wel that Hnds Woll, RE—Comor of Wabash avenu P A A R A Divis, KeR Eind, Togrents, ota. SOCIETY MEETINGS. DGE, No. 508, A, F. and A, M.~Regular A T T cdg] Aronin i ol LA, to’manmal:. oo Mason's Hall, tor work on zlh:l;i;‘hlllr.d A e o . egros, Tho fraternity oo Iny) n‘l}I{"’ B . H, OR. BUSINESS NOTICES, ERUPTIONS, ROUGH SKIN. e, T o e e GSRGE Of B 's 000! 3 eaname amotih clons sOTE, 2ud Yoty Nags Leink kin becomot illuminatod with tho glow of perfeot hoalth from within, e aaury stands forthdo. ail lta_glorg.. Nouhing Gvor ontod 10 {ho publio se a bosutir of ‘the comulozlon Bror gave muoh -fllnlngnfiu for this purnoto as this Dis: ' all modioinos B th f thio blood are necessari. Iy somowhi av rood the remady employ= ., Whilo ono 0 throo battlos cloar tho skin o, piinplcs, Blgtchos,eruptions,soliow aots, eomodonos, of /g a dozon ‘may possfbly bo roquired to cure somo casos whore tho aystom §8 rotten with sorofulous or virulont ‘TBlood potsons. Tho ouroofall those dineases, howaver, from tho comimon pImplo to the warst sorofula is, with tlio uso of this niost potant agont, only s mattor of time. Hold by all sta, COVERED WITH ERUPTIONS, CURED, v. P _BUX[’A\‘?ER)A’CIQ Columbla Co., N. ¥, . R, V. Prencr, Duifato, N, s ¥ PTAR Soars of ade, and havo beon adlloted with 8alt Rieum in tho worst Rreat man it e fors Lt b et ity S omo of your baoks, o0 oxaatly. "1 honeht seur Goldor L ry and took fwo bottios and & lialf, and w Shutrolyourad, Trom myshovlders o sy badds” T aruntions, also e ianaTIotod it Rhcummatim, o s L waiked i graatafficolfy wnd that i onifely irod,” My dod Tom N Wi intold gratitudo, W. SvILETAMS. The Chitage Tiibune, Tuosdsy Morning, April 28, 1874, Tho tomporance crusado has reachod England, making a first appesranco at Manchester, It is not likely that the movement will accomplish much. Drinking of beer and strong liquors is %0 univeranls practice in that country that it would bo aa easy to transform tho nation into vegotarinns as to make it tomperate In the use of atimulant The inflationists havo detormined not to issue thelr address for tho presont., Thoy will attempt to take & voto on tho passagoe of tho Senate Cur- rency bill without debate, and will then appeal to tho country or not a8 may seom expodiont. and 81.28 for Minnecsots. Corn was modorately notivo, aud 3¢o highor, closing at 643¢o cash, aud 0G0 sallor May. Oats woro standy, closing at 400 onsb, and 403@40%o soller May. Ryo was wenk, olosing at 0o, DBarloy was dull and un- changed at $1.66@1.68 for No. 3, and $1,85@ @160 lower for poor to fair grades, Balos at 64.60@6.85. Ontllo modoratoly sctive and stondy. Bhoop qulot and nnchanged, THE CURRENOY COMPROMISE, The riowa from Washington fsto tho offect that, to 4 save tho Ropublican patty,” the maua- gors in Congress are concooling s schome by which all rostrictions on tho smouns of National Bank ofrculation aro to bo abolishoed, thoroby authoriziog any person anywhoro to organizo abankand to fesuonotes, This privilogo of froo banking is to bo offsct by the withdrawal of porcentago of tho groenbaoks in proportion to tho amount of incresso in tho bank currenoy, Thus if fifty millions moro} of book-notos be fg~ suod, 20 or 50 per cont of that sum in groen backs eball be withdrawn, This compromise will hardly eave tho party. In tho first place, the prospeot of any serions increase inm the smount of Natlooal Bank circulation {8 not brilliant ono, and in the noxt place, the pooplo who aro clamoring for inflation do not want an inorenso of National Bank notes, but they do want an inorease of legal-tondora, Tt appoars that one of Mr. Logan's principal griovances at Washington is conceraiug sn in- ability of somo National Bank in which ho is con- corned to get moro ourroncy. But tho inflation- ists of Illinols haveno interest in Mr. Logoun's National Bank, nor in any other National Bank ; on the contrary, they domand that those banks shall bo abolished, aud tholr bonds takenup by an {8sue of greonbacks,—these greonbacks to be logal-tenders, and the moro doprociated thoy may bocome tho bottor, Thoso of Mr. Logan's constituents who insist upon more currency, and cheapor money, not only expoct that it will be doprociated, but thoy dosire to have it so; tho moro tho bettor. If they ean pay their dobts at 60 conts on the dollar, very well, but if they can do it at 60 conts on the dol- lar, 0 much tho better. Bank notes are not a legal-tender; they willnot pay dobta against tho will of the creditor, and thelr issue in whatever amount will nobbo any advantage to thoso who want cheap monoy to pay off their obligations, The programme of inflation is not conflned to & mero increnso of currency. 1f tho whole volume of greenbacks were taken up, there would bo an iucroaso of bank-notes to an amounnt actunlly needed to meet tho curront business of thoe country. But this is not all that fs demanded. The great body of these inflationists look to something boyond. ‘They do not entertain n thought of a currency that is not legal-tendor, and they look to this logal-tendor being iseuod in such quantity that s dopreciation will follow ns o nocessity. Groonbacks, with gold ot 113, are worth over 8) cents on tho dollar; to retire any‘portion of them would be to advance their value nearer to par. Theso pooplo resent any It is possiblo thot the turbulent spints may sgreo to wait for tho decision of the country until noxt fall, whon tho Lower House of the noxt Congress will bo chosen, There will bo mome plain talk about that time. Both Houses of Congress gave nearlyall of yesterday to tho hearing of eulogies on tha lato Charles Bumnor. Mr. Lamar, of Miselssippl, mado the spoech of the day. Ho reviowed tho oarger of the dend Benator i the highest terms of praiso, and closed with an carnest appesl for tho drawing togothor in brotherly loveof the North and the Bouth. Buch an address from s ‘person of Mr, Lamar's sutecedents was wholly unexpected; it is among the fow gracious ref- erences to the old order of things that have come from former supporters of the Confederacy. —— The bloated capitalists who persuaded tho Prosident to veto the Benate Currency bill aro not to have things entirely their own way, If the infistioniats in Congross can help it. It is pro- posed by that sido of the Housoe to rovive the taxon incomes over £6,000. While offectivo to advocate this mensuro as the most productive snd least objectionablo way to increase tho rove- nuos of the Government, tho inflationists really support it becsnse the tax will be a burden upon rich mon alone, There is no consideration of public policy or common justice involved in- the matter, The Duchess of Edinburgh, formerly tho Prin- o0s8 Marie Aloxandrowna, bas already lived throe lives,—before marriage, during marriago, ond after marriage, With the firat two mannors of living the Princess has no quarrel, but aftor marriago sho finds not to be so delightfula sonson a8 sho had expocted. The grandour of Lber reception In England has faded quite away, and shie ia now recognized only as a Princoss in England, o vory difforent personsge from n Princess in Russin, She doesn't like tho change, Marlo Alexandrowna i not the only woman who has beon differently rogarded before marriage, during marriage, and after merriage. ———e Ar. A, G. Fay has appearod boforo the Waya and Moans Committee, and given his testimony in the Snnborn caso. Ha was, it*will bo remom- bered, one of the European agenty of Sanborn, bia partioularline of business boing the * work- Ing up” of cases of unaervaluation, notual or constructlvo, sgainst American import- tre, Foy Wwas 08 uncommunicative ap an oystor. Mo know nothing about the private celations of Sanborn to the Trensury Depart- went, nor of the means by which his own ap- pointment a8 a Bpecial Agont in Europe was procured. His objoct in going nbrond was to educate his children, and he consonted to act as a Treasury spy in foroign markets morely to accommodate Sanborn. Mr. Fay is a8 provoking a witness as the Committos has yothad to deal with, His knowledge of im- portant facts in tho Banborn caso is ovidently far-renching, but ho will rovenl nothing, An opinion fo this offact was oxpressed by a member of the Committee yuintordny, upon which Fay solemnly aid **I swear it," moaning that he had told the truth, The Ohioago produce markets wore generally slow yesterday, with fow important clanges in prices. Mess pork was dull, and 234@5o0 por Lrl lower, oloslng at ©106.26 cash, |,n!l 810.45@ 10.473¢ eollor Juno, Lardwas modorately active and a shade enelor, olosing &t $0.073@9.70 per 100 1bs oash, and §8.82}(@0.85 sellor Juno, Meats wore qulet and unchanged at B}@6o forshoulders, 83¢c for short ribs, 83¢@0a for ahort clear, and 10@11o for swoot-plolded hams, High- winos wero qulot and atrong, at 950 per gallon, Lake froights wero quict and stoady at 4}go for whest to Buffalo, Flour was dull snd un- ohgnged. YWhoat was quict and 3o lowar, cloalng 84 91,24)(@1,343¢ ously, and 01,25} nellor Msy, advanco in tho valuo of greenbacke as an in- Jury, and openly declaro that it is compolling them to puy dobts at a higher rato than thoy contracted to do, Thoy want the value of the greenback to recodo, 8o that & dollar, though worth in fach but 50 conts, will pay off & dollar of indebtodness. We have before us at this moment an organ of these inflationists which demands that the Banking law bo repenlod ; that the banke be closod up, and that the intorest now pald on tho bonds to seccure the bank ciroulation be saved by tho issue of n groen- buck for ecnch outstanding bank-nots, sud tho purchaso therowith of tho bonds. This of course is ropudiation, but novortholess that is tho end sought, and that is the inevitablo result that must follow any increase In the issue of logal-tender notes. To talk to those peoplo of an increage of National Bank notes accompanied by & corresponding decroase of legal-tender Trensury notes is all nonsense, As the bank-notes are redeemable in legal-tondors, ony incresse in tho valuo of the latter would also attach to tho bank-note. The resutt of such & ** compromise” 18 is proposed at Wash- ington would bo to enbance the value of both groenbackes and bank-notes to the extent tuat tho legal-tenders were retired; this would put matters in motion towards specie values and specio payments, whioh is the very thing which the simon-pure inflationsts do not want, and agninst which they moat earnestly protest, Without disoussing at this time the merits of the proposed compromise, we call sttention to tho fact that it is a swindloupon the *Chonp- Money " party, and that tho inflationists in Con- groea who voto for it are eelling out their friends; that instead of giving tho people an abundanco of greenbacks ' menled with the best Dblood,” snd legal-tenders in paymont of debts, they ere incressing tho numbor of National |. Banks, and forcing upon the poople National Bank notes which aro not a logal-tender, and which, under tho operation of the retiroment of the Trensury notes, wilt advance towards par in coin, — ‘WHY SPECIE I8 THE BEST CURRENCY, Money is the messure of valuos. It is the common denominatorto which all other commod- dities are roduced. The modium of exchange, oxcept in rude communities which barter instoad of buy, is monoy. Biuce this thing onters into overy bargain and measures the value of overything offered for salo, it is of tho greatest importance thatits own value should bo fixed. Nobody would buy cloth by the yard if tho yard- stick wore thirty inches long to-day aud forty to- morrow. Nobody would buy land by tho foot, if the surveyor's chain contracted and lengthoned from timo to time, Itis tho firat requisito of a standard that it sball atand, not tottor and £all. Gold and silvor eatiefy this noed. Their vaiue bag known but two fluctuations of any fmpor- tance, Those were whon tho Bouth American and Moxican mines firat foll into European hands, and whon thoso of Californin and Australia wero discovered, ‘Tho labor and exponeo involved in tranaferring tho preofous wetals from the oro to the coin {s 8o grent that tho frosh mupply of oach yoar cannot caslly bo made to greatly ox- ocoed the avorago, A shrinkago of yaluesby n glut of the mavket is not, therofore, to bo foared. Thus gold and ailver fulflll the firat requisito of money—a fixed atandard—admirably. Monoy should be of much intrinsic valuo, The procious melals satisfy this nood. A paper dollar {s valuable, not for what it i (groon paper and blaok fuk oost but lttlo), but for what it ropresonts, If its ropresontation is belioved to Lo faleo, it depreclates ns a matter of courso, It ia a ohook on the bank or tho country that lssues it. Ita value depends, then, on thoability sud willingnoss of bank or country to rodeom if. This abillty and this willingnesa may chango from dey to day, That which dopends upon thiem, to wita the note'd valuo, will thex change 1.88 for No, 8. Hoga woro falily active, aud 10° THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU likowiso, A gold dollar, on the other hand, is valuable for itsolf, It ropromontaitself, No olo- mont of anybody's wishes or powers entors into ita worth, Tho proclous motals contaln much valuo in small spaco and aro casily divisiblo, Apgain, long usago has made gold and ellver the world's ourrency, Thoy aro rocolved evory= whoro, Two important advantages rosult from this, Commoraa hisa grown to anch proportions thnt it s nlmost se inconvonlent to businces mon to kave 8 clroulating medlum that docs not paes in forolgn countrios as it used to bo in Tll- mnols and olsowhors to havo a ourronoy of Lonk- notos that wore at par at homo, at 10 per cont discount in tho next county, and at 50 per cont discount in tho noxt State. Again,n oountry which usos the world's curroncy can draw upon tho world for monoy in timo of noed. Whon thero is o panio, that is, whon monoy commands bigh prices, it flows to tho panic-atrickon morket from all sldes. This deprosscs tho oxorbitant value of the commod- ity to tho notural lovel. If too much monoy has ontored the country, ita prico talls below that lovel. Then it can bo usod more profitably in other places, and it goos thither, Buch a panie-quicting ebb aud flow is only pos- sible whon the curroncy of the country s that of tho world. Wuen itis not, tho irredesmablo papor koops gold out of ciroulation, and so makes it impoasible to draw on tho speolo ro- serves of tho world, It thus prolongs the panio that it bas probably, by promoting reokloas spac- ulation, onginally causad. Those aro somo of the ronsons why speolo is tho bost curronoy. It may servo, of courso, as tho mubstructuro of n groat mass of cradits, They avo good in their way, but good only g0 far o8 thoy are founded on specio. The lattor is the rook without which the louse must surely fall —_— TINANCIAL MISHANAGEMENT, The Now York Zerald calls attention to tho flnancial mauagemont of tho affairs of the United Statos and that of Groat Britain, Tho British Govornmont, for the year 18745, estimated its oxpenditurca at £75,000,000, or $303,000,000, The English Govornment, however, inoludo in this a surplus rovonue to apply on tho publio debt, The actual expenditure will bo about £78,000,000. Taking, however, tho whole of tho estimate, and comparing it with that of the Sec~ retary of the Tressury, wo find that the Ameri- can Scerotary nsked for $319,000,000 to meot ox- ponditurcs, or only $44,000,000 loss than that of Gront Dritain, There has beon somo idlo talk in Congress about reducing oxpond- itures, but tho approprations including tuture doficlency bills will probably equal the Bocrotary's cstimate. Tho British charge for intorest on the publio dobt is 129,000,000 that of the Unitod Btates, 808,000,000, Deduct- ing these suma from tho aanual exponditure for 1874-5, wo have tho United Blates oxpending for ordinary affairs $221,000,000, and Groat Britain £204,000,000. Leaving out tho interest on tho national debt, Groat Britain expends but 818, 000,000 o yoar moro than tho United States. She has an army about four times ns groat na that of the United States, and & navy which is the finest in tho world, while wo havo but s skeloton cs- tablishment. 8he maintains governmonts in the varlous quarters of the globo; supports an im- menso and costly royal establishment, and has s civil pension list which {s unknown to our sys- tem, The taxation of England is simplo. She produces one-third of her rovonus from a tariff on &' fow articles, another third from the tax on domestic spirits, and the balanco from stamps and othor diraot taxes.. Wo havo an immongo and very costly revenue systom, and oxtraordinary rates of taxation, and produce less rovenue. Tho marked differenco botween tho two systome is that taxation In Great Dritain Is to produce revenue, while taxation in the United States is to provont rovonue and restrict produc- tion. But the roader will readily understand that thoro must be some radical defoct or mus- mansgemont somewhero when the ordinary annual expendituros of the Government of the United States, without an army or navy, equals that of tho Govornment of Great Britain, FRENCH 800IAL STATISTICS, There is some truth it cannot be doubted in Malthus' theory of population ; still, it is eafe to say that neither Alalthus nor sny other writor or statisticlan has yot formulated tho law of tho iucrease of the human family with any groat dogree of exaotness, Much as has bLeen done in this bramch of socisl sclence, -muoh romaingdto bo done. Malthus contended that population always and everywhero tends to outrun the meosns of subsistonce; and, impliealy, that evory Incroaso in the wealth of a nation is followed by o more than proportionate incronso in the population. It has been urged, even by him and his disciples, that there is but listlo prosent hopo of improving the condition of tho great moss of mankind, for the resson that they will insist on ** peopling up" to, and even beyond, the actual supply of food. This is truo, t00, under cortain conditions.” Unqualified Mal- thusianismis, howover, fast losing ground among students of the faots of population. Itis be- coming daily more apparont that population is not a question simply of food and animal instinat, Itis a problem with & great many, of what mathematicians eall unknown and variable quan- titios in it, and i8 nffectod largoly by a people's oducatlon, by tho ideas current among them, by thelr standard of comfort, by climate, by thelr stago of morality, eto,, eto. So far is it from truo that an incrense in nationnl woalth implies an increase in population, that it would seom the former may increase while the latter diminishes. It will not be questioned, we think, that the wealth of France has beon continually increasing. Btatletica show, on the othor hand, that its population has beon decressing. Loav- ing Aleaco and Lorraine ontiroly out of the quos- tion, France has lost duriug the past five yenrs, furound numbers, 367,000 of her population; sud not by omigration, for the Frouch are proverblally stay-at-home bodies, Were it not for an accession of some 60,000 inhabitants of the two provinces taken hy Germany, tho loss would be 427,000, The following figuros show the population of France at various epochs from 18212 Inhaditants, Deduoting, as wo must, the population of Nice and Bavoy, wo have the population for: 1801 At the rato at whioch its population was ine oroaging from 1821-1801 the population of Franco would have doubled in 148 yoara; at that from 18011807, in 183 yoars, and nt tho rato of 1869, In 830 yenra! Buoh ia the law of the daorease of population in France,~s law obsexvabla at presont in no other country iu the world, nay, the opposito of what is to bo dis- coverod ovorywhora olse, Contrast thls, for Instance, with tho statiatlos of tho population of tho Dritlsh Islands, where, eplto of the vory large Irish, Wolsh, BSootoh, and English emigration, the population Toso from 320,820,000 in 1861, to 81,515,000 in 1871, Thus, ¢ tne rate of incremso of its population in 1809, Franco can hope to doublo it only aftor 830 yonrs, Austrin will at ita rate double’tn 100 yoara ; Bwedon and Norway in fitty- five years, and Gormany in fifty-soven yoars. At ita present rato of dooreaso, it is caloulated that in 250 yoars Franco will liave only one-halt its presont population, and ono gontloman figures out’ tho discouraging rosult that in sixty yoars sho will Lavo only 18,000,000 peoplo—unloss ho monds hor ways, That soma such catasiropho will overtake the nation is vory cortaln, unloss her marriage statistics change very romarkably sud very soon. In 1801, thero wore, in Franco, 82 marriagos to every 10,000 inhabitants; in 1870, only 60! Tho fol- lowing figures shiow tho numbor of marriages in Franco from 1861 to 1870+ Tho number of children to s ‘marriago averaged from Turn where we will, we find the samo thing in TFranco—dacronse of population! If tho diminution of population were at- tendod by tho moral improvement and so- cinl amolioration of tho peoplo, it might be considered o gain. Buch is not the case, lowoyer. Culpable Iuxury, the natural love of enso, oxtrayaganco gonerally, these ara tho causos why there are yearly fowor Fronch- men in the world. The evil has sproad not only to tho middlo olasses, but oven to the peasantry, Tho poasant familios of Franco do not want largo familics ; their existonco would ontail tho too minute division of the little land thoy own, after tholr decenso, asit is divided up among their children. Tho population of tho country is rocruited for tho most part from tho olasses that livo from hand to mouth, Tho wenlth that ought to go to tho rearing and oducating of childron is spent in dress, in wino, in foasting, ot tho theatro and the opora. * Tho statiatica relating to the popu- Iation of France teach a few good lessons,—les- sona which Amarlea would do woll to ponder, THE INSULT TO BUMNER. It was announced, we kunow not by whose au- thority, that oue of tho oulogies on Sumner was to be deliverod by Gon. Butlor, The oustom of embalming the memorics of dead Congressmen in laudatory spocches by those who bave been thoir colloagues is as old as the Ropublie. It is & most praigeworthy idea, though the necessarily strict ndhoronco to tho maxim, *Notbing but good of tho doad,” sometimes involves great diffioulty for the living. Congressional ingenuity has proved equal to tho task, however, and hag a8 yot produced no parallol to tho funoral ora- tion pronounced by the Arkansas gambler aver tho body of his friend: * Gentlomen, my partnor nover Lilled o mon unloss ke thought ho bad & ronson forit, nud when ho stacked tho cards it wasdonoin tho prettiost way you ever sec; Il shoot the man that says ho hasn't gone to honven.” There was no need, in tho caso of Sen- ator Bumner, that Congress should go into Com- mitteo of tho Whole on whitewashing. Hia faults woro but foiblos. When the careor of an Oakes Ames is to bo condoned, it is fitting that Butlor should do tho job. Ho is ingenious, and ingenuity ia tho quality needed. Byt when the life of Charles Sumner ia to be reviewed, -this knack of slurring over the truth is not needed. Now this is ths solo distinctivo quelification the ‘“Esgex County statesman” possesses, Ho can defond o bad couso bottor, perbaps, than ooy other Congressman. Many othors can defend & good cause better. He s smart, but so aro others, He becamo an Abolitionist when it pnid to bo one, but others wore in the Abolition ranks long before that timo. Hecomos from Massnchusetts, but so do others, aud the others number smong them some of Mr. Sumner's most trusted frionds, while Butlor was his enemy. Ho fought in the War that resulted in the triumph of Bumner's beliofs, but eo did othors—with much greater succoss, Tho two men's principles woro radically diffor- ent. They represented utterly opposed schools of thought. The ono aimed at statesmanship, tho other at domagogy. Butlor's eulogy on Sum- ner would be a mockery. Fortunately the dead man’s memory was spared this insult, THROCEMORTON'S GHOST. Theo trial of Miss Eliza Godwin, who was re- contly brought before the courts in Loulsville upon n wnt de lunatico inguirendo, and die- charged, developed a train of circumstances ‘which not only outdo the crentions of the novel- ist and romancer, but can only find thelr parallol in the gloomy and grim Nomests of Grocion mythology. Miss Eliza Godwin Is o member of & respoctable family, s well-oducated ond cultivated lady, who, when & mere sobool-girl, ‘twenty-four yesrsago, made tho nequaintance of Muj. John Throckmor- ton, an accomplished and fascinating man of the world, then twonty years her senjor, His influenco upon her amountod to an infatuation which she could not control. She was confiding and inoxperienced, like most school-girls of idoalistic tondencios, and sho vory soon ocugaged herself in marrisgo to him. When be had socured this advantage, bio ruined aud then abandoned Lier, but tho shadow of tho darkness into which she fell enveloped Lim also, aud it Las nover loft bim or her, and naver will, although Lo is growing gray with yours and passing tho yoars of passion, and she is a faded, woary woman, out of whose lite hopo Ll dinapponred, sud for whom remains only the pussive obedience to fate, When slho found herself abandomed she did not throw horsolf futo tho alums, Sho did not broak under the calamity which wrecks so many lives, Bhe dld not hurry horeelf out of tho world, Tho disastor rovealod Lor to horself, and all the alm- loss and restloss oloments of hor lifo crystalized Into ono settled purpose, which, for over twonty yoars, Ling absorbed every othar purposo, hope, thought, and euergy of her bolng, Sho calmly and firmly camo to hor resolve after long medl. tation, Bho could not marry any othor man, for that would be an irroparable Injury, Shehad no dosire to injure her betrayor, as she stated during the trial, *'Buo loft bio hexlih and his E: TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1R, lito fn tho hands of God.” Bho did not stop to Wolgh sny effoct hor purposo might have upon hor rolatives or socloly at large. In the mcope of lhor purposo there were but two bolngs in tho world—her botrayer and horselt, Yor two long yonrs sho sought by evory means in her powor to win him baok to her ; but when sho found this was fruit- loas, whon she found that ho had forevor aban- donod hor, and that no influonce of hora could over roach him, thon she dotormined that, a8 ho bad wrocked hor lifo, sho would wrock his 3 that a8 ho, undor promiso of marrisgo, bad clouded her whole lifo with unhappiness, o should holp hor boar it, by sufforing in kind, and that tho momory of tho ruin ko had mado should ever be fresh and cunstant, She has thus far ful fillod kor purpose. For twonty years sho hag boen lils waking and aloeping thought; and no offort of his has boon powerful onough, no strategy ounning enough, to shake off tho silent, rolontloss spoctro which has followed him with reproschful eye and iron purposo, a8 oalm, and rigid, and sllont as though sl woro the vory embodimont of Fate, Wherover ho wont in the Olty of Loulsville, sho was a few paces bobind him, DId ho go to callupona friend, ho know she would be upon the oppo- alto side of tho strcct whon ho come out. He went to New Orleans, and whon he arrived thore sho was thoro also. He went to New York, but in tho thousands of strange , faces which passed bim in tho busy stroots, thore was ono familiar faco always near him. His own sladow did mot follow him moro surcly or persistontly than she follow- od him. It wasall tho samo in summor or win- tor, in epring or fall, fn storm or shine, by day or by night. Thus tho years wont on. She never molested bim. 8ho nover porsonally in- torforod with his business or his enjoyments. Bhio nover spoke to him unless ho spoko to her, and then the burden of Lor communieation was only thnt it was her fato to follow him through lifo, and his fate to be followed. In all thoso yoars Alnj. Throckmorton has grown ‘gray in tho shadow, and Throokmor- ton's ghost hns grown faded and palo and woary with her roscless wandoring., At lasl ho could ondura hor calmness, her silenco, and hor con- stant prosonce no longer, and ho brought hor bo- foro the courts upon the writ to which we have alluded and sought to establish tho fact that sho was insano, her insanity taking the form of o monomnnia, But this was her opportunity na woll as his. It wus the opportunity sho had long wished, and for the first timo she had the chance to tell her story before a public tribuual, There woro doctors and experts in attondanco, who narrowly watched heras sho narrated this twonty yoars' story, but they found no traces of insanity in it, There was but ono expert who deomed her o monomnniao, and ho has been conncoted with an insane asylum for thirty yoars, and acknowl- odgod that ho expected a liboral fao for his opinion. Ho had concluded, on general princi- ples, that Miss Godwin was insano bocause she wag differont from other women, and other women similarly eituated would bave grioved until they died, or recklossly gone to the bad,— a ruliog which would consign s grost many vory #ano people, who happen, to be inflexible in pur- pose, to the insano asylum. The jury did mot accept tho opinion of the oxport, but acquitted her and loft her freo to do as sho plonsed. Dur- ing the trinl she did not follow Thracke morton, and there will bo somo curiosity o8 to her futurs oowrse, This opisode may divest her from her purpose, sinco she has bad the opportunity to tell hor storyin tho most public manner and to vindicate her courso, Whether sho abandons or continues to follow lim, metters littlo now. In all theeo twouty yours hor viotim haa had opportunity to make smends for the great wrong which he inflicted upon /s victim, and thoro are very fow peopls who will not look upon it ns an instanco of poetical retribution in a case in which the law affords no sdequate remedy and social forms aro more lisble to favor tho stronger than the wonker party. Tho Nomesian idea is completely exemplified. Ho ruined her life, Bhe ruined his. Ho dostroyed bLor happiness, Bhe do- stroyed his. ‘The two are even. Beience has takon an unoxpected turn,—broken out in & now place, a3 1t wore. Just as tho wholo country way looking up from & perusal of Dr, Brown-Sequard’s loctures on the norves, wondor- ing what condition of Lappinoss or misory they could think themsolves into, out comes Prof. Tairman Rogers, of Philadelphia, with a now machine, Philadelphia has o tromendous job on hand, and we naturally lool for something great a8 o consequence of any effort on hor part. Evon undor these circumstances, the world was hardly preparod for the great acientific dis- covery of Prof. Fairmun Rogers, of Philadel- pbin, It is nothing less than on automaton which can play tho oxhilarating game of tit-tat- too, Here 18 a practical result of scientifio in- veatigation which muet silence the most in- veterato champion of blind faith, It is porfect- 1y harmless In its movements, and infringes on no denominationsl domain. No nursery in the country should be without one; no primary- school but should be furnished with a specimen o8 early ss possible. Juvenilo calisihenics should bo roformed, and tit-tal-too immediatoly relegated to o machine which will moke no mistakes, and can play sll day long without getting ‘tired, or wasting time. Compared with ‘Philadelphia's latost ef- fori, Doston and Brown-Soquard sink in- to oblivion. Beionce has taken mighty strides mince Huxley lectured on protoplasm, and even Prof. Gibbs' puper on metamerism in inoyganio chemistry, read boforo the Academy of Bolonces at its presont sossion in Washington, pales into ineignificance before thia great modern dis- covery of Prof. Rogers, of Philadelphia. —— Mr. Alvord, o member of the New York As- sombly, has introduced o bil] in that body which iu slmply appalling. It provides that every person criticised in & newapaper may de- maud a column of spaco fora roply, As this ap- pllos to avory dopartment of critioism, literary, dramatio, musicnl, political, otc., ona can faintly 1magino the crowds of the criticised flocking to thonewspaperoffices,and the hundreds of columns - of indignont responsos which must appear daily in order to sntisfy the demands of the bill and tho grievances of the criticised, Theroe i noth- {ng out of the way in the general idea of tho bill. It might subserve & vory useful purpose to glve the criticised an opportunity to reply to criticlem, if the criticised could confino thom- selves to a roasonable space ; but, inasmuch ag ovory {ssuc of & motropolitan daily contslns critiolsme upon an average of fifty poople, and, o8 every one of these fifty poople, if thoy had a column each at thoir dieposal, would roply to that extont, tho results would be dluwromsing to tho general reador, and end in the suppression of criticiem entlrely, 88 & moans of sblf-defenso, inasmuch s there nover yet was o peraon criti« olsed who did not belleve himsolf right and the oritlo wrong, —_— Dull, indeed, would Now York be but for that bright partioular, {f temporarily clouded, star, Willlam M. T'wood, He supplies & perpotuul cur- ront of nows for tho Now York press. It was onco fondly hoped that his suit of many stripos would bo tho laet in which ho would be involved. Wulle be mmokes his zegalias in the prinasly | luxury of tho Wardon's room, his son and conn- #ol aro boforo the Bupremo Court, Joln Gra- bam loads the forlorn hope in an applica- tlon for » mnndamus sgainst Judge Noah Davis to compol him to sottlo, sign, and scal tho monster bill of oxeoptions prepared by thom. ‘Tho grounds of .tho application aro purely tachnioal, and rolate to tha ohallongo of jurors. ‘The publlo interost fn tho fallen Twood was manifostod by tho sizo of the orowd assombled In the court-room. ' The papors woro submitted to tho Court aftor long and droary spooches by tho fivo lawyors who fight tho battles of tho follon “Toss," aud & deolsion, will shortly bo rendorad, o —_— Ono of the loading fashion pertodicats Informs us that & Bwiss muslin ** first comsmunion " dross conslats of o akirt ond blouso, The okitt is trimmed with gathored rufilos furnished with narrow tuoks ou the undor edge. Tho bolt and #nsh aro of whito gros-grain ribbon furnished with fringo kuotted in, and with white poarl buckles. ‘Tho cap fs of sllk tulle, Tho samo purse-provoking authority ndds that a black slik confirmation robo consists of “a akirt, over- ekirt, blouse-walst, and mantolot, On thounder odge of the skirt is sct a gathored flounce of tho material twonty-two Inchos and a half wide. The seam mado by solting on this flounce 18 covered with a puff five inohes snd » quartor wide, gathorod 8o that a heading an inch and throe-quarters wide is formed at tho fop, Upon the flounce is sewed s silk pult sevon and threo-quartor inches wido, and gathored an inch and & balf and two and throo- quartor {nchos from tho upper odge. The puff is to bo bordered on tho under odge with a gathered rufilo thros aud throo-quarter inches wide, Tho trimming for the ovor-skirt, walst, and mantelot consists of folds edged with aulln‘ cording, rufiics of: silk, and bows of satin.’ Having thus doflnitoly ostablished fashlons for communion and confirmation, to which those of funorals may bo added, thoro does not scem to e much loft to rendor the happincss of lovaly ‘woman porfoct unless it is the catablishment of somo gracoful fashion for a wrapper for tho Resurrection morning. This done, the sum of fomale happiness ought to be complote. i Colorado has & sonantion, e is an English- man, brother to a Baronot, and charged with the crime of murder, Alrendy he las causod a vast amount of correspondence between tho English and Amorican Governmonts, and may yet give moro. His nameis Theodore Pryce, and hia viotim was another Englishman of good family, named Noave. Pryco is describod asa wild and dissipatod young man, and has loft s orimina rocord in other countrios sufficient to consign a ‘mero pleboian to imprisonmont for life, Itsecms that his frionds and rolations in England, judg- ing porhiaps from the immunity he has hithorto enjoyed from punishmont, fear tuat ho will nbt have o fair trial. They have theroforo dispatcbed » noted London barrister to Uolorado to conduct the dofonse, and the rod-tape of two Governments has boen nnwound until Col. Alle- man, United States District Attorney for Col- orado, has recoived instractions from the Gov- ernment to soa that Pryco s impartially treated. All this is dona in bohal? of & fellow who ought to be doing an honest day's work beneath tho stripes, if not the stars, of an American poniten- tiary, THE VETO. Further Comments by the Press. The Republican party givos Grant $50,000 & year, and ho probably thought that to incresse tho circulation would only docreass the real value of his potty salary, whioh, of course, he couldn't endure.— Watscka (Iil.) Times. —As the Prosidont Lias uot allowed himself to bo the agont of the coutraction policy in the ourroncy, thus greatly inoroasing the powor of money, lot hia salary be placed back to its former amount.—Bloominglon (Iil.) Leader. —If the Presidont hns not driven a wedge into tho huart of the Republicin party which will eplit it in twain, woshall bo disappointed.—ZLaw- rence (Kan,) Tribune. —Wo think the Prosident has made a mistako, and o serious ono.—Kansas City Journat. We approve neither of his arguments or his {chison (Kan.) Ohampion, —There is no use trying to conces! it, we are retty badly domoralized on this question. . . . Wo think Gon. Graut has made a fearful mis- take.—ZLeavenworth (Kan.) Commercial. —As & purty measure it is one of tho worst miatales the Prosidont evor made.—Rock Coun- ty (Wis.,) Recorder. —The line of argument used by the Prosident llg strong, throughout.—La Crosse ( Wis.) Repub- ican, —\We believo that the members of Congress overestimate the anxtety of the people on finan- cial questious. Tho pooplo are satisfiod with the present currency. . . . Theveto of the Pres- ident does uot trouble the mass of the people anywhere, alihough it is o _disappointmont to many politicians,—0shkosh ( Wis.) Northweslern. —TFhe Piesident’s action will commend itself to all thinking minds as just and proper. . . . Had the bill been signod a vigorous agitation for ity ragmll would jmmediately have been begun. —Nebraska Cily Press, —Had tho Prosidont sigmed the Curronoy bill, the question would have been settled for & time, By the veto the question {s remanded to the peo- plo. ‘The ultimato of that will be that the cur- rency will be expanded to a greater degreo than has yet beon_proposed, and, what is moro im- ortau, it will consist ontirely of grecubacks. Whon tho discussion is closed there will not be & National Dank i existonce. The victory wou by tho contractiouists ou this occasion is precisel such o victory as the Coufederates won at Bull Run, and the final results will be to them tho same as to the Confederatos,—lilwaukee News, —Had this moasure boen approved, thon we would havo bad tho Mortons, and Logaus, and Congross committed to the policy of carrymg the Republican nr%{ past tho Presidential olec- tion of 1876 ou l‘zm ood of & constuutly iuflating currency. For *‘tho party " couldn't have af- fordod to bave hnd the crash come before the election, And go Mr. Morton's *extraordinary ewmergencies,” demanding new igsues of curren- oy, would bava ocourred with cach Congress. And the next three years would have beon de- voted to wild, reckloss, and perilous speoulation, and then would have come the deluge. Freed- men's Bureau bills, Reconstruction bills, nnd tha like, wore of trivial importauce in compari- son with the Curronoy bill. By vetoing it, Grant hos prevented patiounl discredit and ultimato ro- pudiation and bankruptoy.—AKeokuk Gate Cily. —The President’s veto has killed Morton, Lo- 5nn, and Batlor too dead to bo skiuned, and p ungerously wounded two-thirds of ail the' Ro- ubtican Sonators and Ropresontutives at one single shot, Not only 8o, but it has thrown dust in the eyos of some few Democraty, who wore alrendy blinded by inflation,.—Rockport (Ind.) Demacrat, —Thero is no oxcuse for Democracy. If thoy wero not devoid of common sonke as they are of sterling priuciplo, they would seo that thoy can- not_dislodge thoir opponenty without stauding shoulder to shoulder in the determiunation that thio country shall huve good monoy and not bud. —Wilminglon (Jil.) Adtocate. —Why don't the” inflation papora quato from tho Pliludelphia platform, by way of varioty, Thoy are drawing too houvily on the Prosident’s mesBnge pertaining to finaucial mattors provious to the veto, 'Cho Presidentis trying to keep covonang with the poople who put their trust in that platform, and Lim In the Executive chair,— Terre Haule(Ind.) Gazelte. —\What forco of cohosion can romain in s party of which uu organ as_woll informed and olesr-minded as the Lorro Houta Firpress oan say, *Now the tine hus come for the Ropubli- can party to break with tho Prosident,” whon that *brenk" meuns & broak with the bulk of tha party in the East, aud o very nfluential asc- tjon of it ovorywhere?—Indianapolis News, —'I'ho Ropublican party, as represented by Congress, can loso nothing in an issus of that doscription (inflation]. Tho intorosts aud sym- athlos of the peopls uro with it, wnd Enatern rosidentinl aspitants undoratand this, Speakor Blaine is alrendy making most vigorous efforta topatch up & compromise and bridgo over thig flnanciel troublo, What the West demanda is, that Ler ropresentativos yleld not an inch in this contest.—Toledo Hlade. —Tho gentlomon in Cougress who fanoy that “mf are doing & popular thing by advocating in- fiatlon will find that they buve mado an egrogiony miatake whon they roturn to their constituonts, —Alilwaukes Wisconsin, —All houor to tho groat soldior Proaidont, This victory is no less, fu it moral effects, than his gront trumpha in tho touted tleld.— Cherokeo (Za.) Times, —Not beiug #o far_along in financo as Bonator Logau, who devotod two whi ‘weoks (o the Btudy of tho question, we fail $0 sos just how the fssuo of any more frradsomablo ourr bonefit tho Loldors of that alroady in ch::l:xc];tl::‘.‘ or add ono dollar to that alrondy in the puor mon's pooket. . . . Wo congratulnte M Grant on having dona ono thing in dirget oppo- sitiou to tha viowa of his **boltlc-holdors, ' Rossuille (Ill.) Observer, —It ia cortaln the atock gamblors and gold femblory, tho salary grabbars aud tha lnnd grab- ors, nll’ supportod Inflation, aud desire the country to bo overwhelmed with irradesmable spor, Tho whole question is now, ns wo bo- iove, practically out of Congross and romitted to tho paoplo, * It will b diucussod and docidod this fallin tho Congrossional cloctions, and_wo }ulsvo no foor of tho rosult.—Ilinols Slale Rege ster, —Tho Prosidont's action falrly turna tho nae tion around; sinco Boutwell csme into tho Tronsury, it has boen drifting toward domorali- zation and ruin on tho uurmm:(y question, aud tho Prosidont has stood by aud permitted it ; but now, having to confront a sharp issuo on the subject, ho unoxpoectedly takes hus stand on the right sido, and restores tho country to tho po- nlflon and polioy thatworo dominant undor John- son and McCullooh. Tlo,business of the coun- £y fools tho change ot tho holm at onco, aud faith is ronowed ; good propetty is held firmor, ond poor wonkons; interest, whioh has grown high during tho weok boforo, falls, and tho whola autlook for the future is more hopofut. T'ho political offeots of tho veto aro noarcoly loss imnortant; the business mon of Now York nnd Doston wero actively preparing to make open rovolt ngainet tho Adwinistration for its appac- ontly hopoless wenkness on this quention, and the curronoy isauo promisod to become at' onco the solvent,of parties aud tho foundation of now combinntions; but now thero fs a ochanga— frionds on tho ove of desertion oro bronght baclk to the Administration, and tho roconstrno- tion of partion must bogin in o difforant quare tor, or awaita new aceaaton.—Springfleld (Mass.) Republican, . —The lnboring classos ave deoply concernod in this veto, The demsgogues who protond to counsel and lond thom may talk differontly, hut Dollevo thera not. Brush them ssldo. Of what uso {s doublo pay to men who aro compollad to pay in papor threo pricos ? Henlthy snd not rockloss trade s what inurcs to tho benefit of the workingmen, and how can wo have atoady and constant employment whon the volumo of a dopraciatod curronoy is conatantly shifting ? T olble. Agaln wo most hourtily praise the Presidont for making n roal effort to give the poople tho gonulno dollar without the lonat abatomont, aud for throwing demoralization inte the ranks of thoso quack law-makers to whom, during the summer recess, wo commond the study of Hamilton, Qallatin, snd Wobstor on fnanco,—New York Witness. —Tifty yoara from now,or 6von ten yoars from now—the veto of the Qurronoy bill will loom up in far grander proportions than it doos now, for thon tho sophiatrios of tho Mortous, Togans, Teorrye, Butlers, and othor **blind loaders of the blind," will be scsn to have baon rldiculaunlly ab- sard, . . . The truth will provail. It will not take many months of florce disouesions in Congtess and in tho press to cnlighten evory day-laborer nud every mun who works for a safary, thetit is for his interest to havo the popor dollar of the country worth . 100 conts in gold, and that his worst ono- my is the “statesman” who would coue flscate part of his wages, in order to timulate speculation and sow the wind for n harvest of whirlwinds, Xt will not take long to convince tho Wostern farmors thatn dishonorod papor ourrency is an unmitigated disastor to them, It will not bo dificult to conviuce the intolligent magses that 1ying is unworthy of w groat nation, and dieastrous iu the ond, 1t will not bo Lard ta array agaiust the sophiatrles of repudintion the consceiences of & pooplewho finally welcomed tho most horrible of “wars rather than bocome nee complices in a great wrong.—New York Aafl. -—President Grant has done & noble act 1n a noble way. It is plensant to feel again o thrill of glad emotion at an{ of lus acts,. Itis on- couraging to soe that he gives no evasive or trimming reasons for this ono, but puts it squarely on tho broad and firm ground that the thoory of inflating tho curroncy is & doparture from the true principles of finance, national in- torost, national obligations to creditors, Coue gressiounl rovolutions, aud party plodges, as woll a8 of his own personal views and prom- iscd. . . . This boing g0, it is his next duty to enforce the daclaration on evory branch of his administration, Twantg-rnur hours ought not now to elupse without Insinviting to his Cabi- not 8 new Scorotary of the Treasury whoso vory name shall inspire the country with confl- donce. There is one man in the United Stateswho ia pro-eminontly fitted for tho office by every test of honosty and capacity; & mon to whom, noxt to tho Prosident bimself, we owo our éscipo from this shame and dishonor whioh Congress would have inflicted on ua, If Prosident Grant would to-day call Gov. John A. Dix to the placo of Mr. William A. Richnrdson, wo are mistaken in our estimate of Wov. Dix's sense of publio duty if he would not obey tho call. Tho Prosi~ dont then hnvlug dono his duty, what would remain 88 tho duty of Coogress? _ Clearly, first to pnss an act to reliove tho Bxecutive Dopartment from any penalty for hoving dur- ing the [mst twenty months” assumed and ox- orcised tho power to issue and retiro at will $14,000,000 of logal-tondor notes; snd, in the same connection, to mako well-guarded provisiona for any requisito exchango of tha fractional currency for United Blates notos, ac- cording to ita tonor. The next important top of Congress should be immediately to declaro tunt the maximum limit of the legal-tondor L‘il;- pance Committeo of the Senato have reported, Provision should bs madoe for funding into short bouds the amount now outstanding Fu excess of 850,000,005 and let it be sottled once for all that thero is mo power in any branch of tho Government to onlarge that amount, The prostrate trade and industrios of the country would then' rovive, for thon thero would boa sute foundation on which business caloulations could rost, which thero has not Leon sinco the * legal-tender resorve " claim was firss put for- ward, Evor since that time—twonty months ago—the Governmont has given us nothing but & quagmire to build busness stracturss on, If tha ravenues of tho Troasury are nob suiliciant to meat tho expeuses of the Government until business revives, let the nation do what an individual in good crodit would do—po into the market and make a_short loan. Finally, Con- gross should fix o day for the resumption of specio payments, 8o far in tho futuro that Yho dobtor and creditor interests can respactizaly adapt thomsclvos to it.—New York Evening ost. THE CONTEMPLATED CONTINENTAL RAIL- MusoaTINg, Tn,, April 23, 1874, T the Edilor of The Chicgqo I'ribune : Bin: Thero was o moeting held last night at the Mayor's office, to tako into considoration the propriety of memorializing our dolegation in Congross to uso thoir influonce in promoting tha building of the contemplated Contiuontal Riail- rord, ns the best and most available menns of relieviog tho agricultural interests from the opprossion of tho preseut railrond monopoly. The moeting was prosided over by - ex-Mayor Amento, and thore a good doal of intorcat manifostod on tho aubject. As Muscatine s the river-torminus of tho Muscatine Westorn Railroad lino, and ns that rond poseosses 8o many evident advantagos, both in casy grados and direotness of cowrso, by means of whioh the distance across the State can bo matorially losaened, and part of tho road bo. ing alrendy Luils, and the right of way secured, it must be apparent to the mast casual observer that it is the most availsble route for sucha project. Consequontly, tho citizons of thia place are dooply interested in it, and tho farmors throughout the Stato aro equally intorosted. But, in our eagerness after so evidont an ad- vantago, we should not loso sight of principle, Bevoral ¢ tho specches wero very much oppased to Congross granting aubsidies in genoral: yot, in chis partioular oase, th couid sot thiwe soruplos. aaido. - And e, 1) mo abserve, is a ;iccd opportunity for establish- . ing a new theory in respoct to railrond-chartory, A railroad built'on the l|)hm of the Continontal should ba thrown open for general use, on the samo principle a8 tho turapike-road. No one company should monopolizo tho running of ity but any company or iudividual should hdvo the use of it, by paying o fair toll, and submitting to the nocoseury rulos and yogulations of the compauy owning the rond. Inthore no meant of nucartaining the nmctual cost of Tunnng 1 froight-train por milo, in this country? Isaws statoment on the subjoct with regard’ to English rallroady, where it was put down as low a4 0234 cents, T'o undorstand the truo cost of fvoight. age, it Is abuolutely nocessary to have tho rune ning exponses raported, I don't think there it & topic of information that would bo morg acoeptable to your readers than some gonoral faots in rospect to thin point; and, ag YOu nro sa well situated to obtain all suoh facts aod disson inote them brondcast over the land, you would confer an immense of good to your roaders by #o doing, BaxvEL LINNET, o SN e ~—The Rock County Cirenit Conrt, for thy #pring term, Judge H, 8, Conger presi, monced {n Janoavillo, Wis,, yfmf:uy.m" i