Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1874, Page 4

a4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF SUDACRIPTION (PJTANLR TN ADVANOE), S12.00 | Bundar 0 Ul)ul ‘Weokly. at the snmo rnte. i1y rovent deiay aud miistakes, be suro and zivo Post Gfl.co niltiresa in tull, hm\uflhui'sh(l mudt Counts, Itentiatices mny 5o watlo aliher by dearty oxnross, Post ORico ader, orIn registered 10110 K, AL IITTINR, THIME O CITY RUPKCRIBEIIA. L. deieered,"unday evcenion "3 cvate por wock: 4l qolivared, Bungav neinded, 7 eants uiar Wuak, Agdiers THR TRIBUNT COMPANY. ‘Carner Madieon and Denrbornesta,. thicaeo, 1t TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF BUSIC—Ialstad stroat, hetwoen Mad- won and Movroo. Ingagemont of Pals Combins: tlon, **'Tha Black Oroak.” M'VICKKR'S THEATRE-Mailison street, hetwoen Dearborn and State, fingsgement ot Josoph Jaforson. * Rip Van Winklo.” 5 GRAND OPERA-HOUSE-Clark Bnorman Houso, Kolly & Loon's Mins! HOOLLY'S THEATRE—Randalnh strest, betwoon Clark sud LaSsllo, ''Lod Astray,” ot, apposito FXPOSITION BUILDING—Lakeshore, foot of Ada.as straet, "SOCIETY MEETINGS. , No, 3it, A. T A, M.—Mom- OLEVELAND LR e 34, thite Hiall o by nc y \\'io'fi&'fll."“,fis.,hn et Hopt: 6 a¢viuleluok af i Iata’ e e ek, 623 Weat Adnmaat. - Onilorml clothing st o word: Porordge 1 "o vy 3y, Gso. K. Hazurr, Bod'y N, STR_KNIGHTS CHIOAGO COM-, 2RO, S0t oY G ere horeby nottit 0 nascmblo at your A“-yhlm. surnar, ol Ranioipt and Hink e ning, at 9' 3 o ot o":’m‘n‘éuo“u:; ek, Trano Holtien. Ly order uf the Eminoys oy SOLATR, Recordor. ATTENTION, SIR KNIGHTS.—Stated Conclave of Adallo. Qommandory No. I, I, T., this (Facadap) ovon: eTasks 5 o Atyltim, for. busincen and wor I, T o i Miing ttr Kaights couctoausly favitod, Byordorof the iy §; 7. 100KR, Racardoe, TBUSINESS Tic N ORNE] CLARK AND 1 e st S ek 1l dot of ion ftiven or monoy refunds The Chicags Tribune, Tuesday Morning, Scptomber 15, 1874. Gov. Dix bas rofused to remove Mayor Have- meyer on the grouud that ho is not a thief, and, therafore, is areasonably good Mayor for Now York. Returns from: the Maine election sre still vory Jucomplote, Thay indicato, vo fur, that tho voto polied Is vory much heavier than last year, sud tha Ropublican mejority something less. ——ne Tho Pescs Conforence at Druasols was by all accounts a dead failure. The Emporor of Rus- sia, who was rosponaible for 'tho movement, is tho only person who acems tobomuch displessed or surprised at the rosuit. ] An sttompt to assassinate tho President of Poru, tho othor day, barely failed of success. Sovoral abots woro fired, none of thom taking effcet, Tho nowscaused some eitcitement in tho markot for Pornvian bark and gusno. juin e Tho politicians of Europo are likely to be soon voxed again by tho delightfully-c>mplox and far- rosching Schlcawig-Holstein quarrel. ALl of them who are boru to diplomagy may rejoice $hat their genius i¥in no danger of' starving until thia matter Is finally Inid to rest. "Tho Buprome Court of filuois has granted & sopersedeas in tho caso of Dr. ‘Earll, now serv- ing o term in tho Ponitentiary for procuring an sbortion, but has rofused to admit him to bail. Tho presont gain to Earll iy thorefore wob sub~ stantial, though tho Court was obliged to assume tlat there sre reasonable doubts of us guilt. m— Tho Common Council bas mzdo tbe now fire orainance o special order for noxt Monday. For $his sction, dilatory as it Is, the propetty-holders of Chicsgo will daubtless be excucdingly grate- fu), The Council has ouly to sdlvonce rapidly to tho ond, when onco it hes made tho begiu- ning, in order to rognin & considerablo part of . tho cateem which it hins lost, snd which it can so il spave, Tho Chicago Baso Dall Club, nfter boing do- festod by all ita woak opponents, has won a vie- tory frow the Boston Club by & scoro of 1020 0. The nows will read woll in Europe. Tho English oditors, with unerring sccuracy, will pitch upon tho truth at onco, and fnstruct thoir renders that 3t {8 not safo to cail anything the bost of its kind antil Chicago has been heard from, But wo are not ready to build monumenta for that balt clup boforo its death, e The cost of transportation from Chicago to the East aud thenco to Liverpool cannat at this timo bo called oxcessive. Yesterday tho rates on whoat by lake and canal to New York iwero, per busbol: Luko, 85¢o; canal, 10c; total to Now York, 193¢e. ToLiverpool: 91c, gold; making in a1l from Chicago to Livorpool 2330 por bushel. By way of Montreul the rates wora: Chicago to Montreal, 140 ; stosmer to Liverpoal, 10¢; in all, 240 per bu. There is nothing like being outside of & politi- cnl contost to know what is going on insido. While Judgo Polend was in Congress ho could seo no reagon why he ehould not always stay thero, and why every ono should not be re-cloct- ed. Now that bis own party has laft him out in the cold, his eyes are wide opom, and he suddenly exclaims : * I know that the goneral disposition of the timo was for change, and that thore was o popular feoling through the couutry for change and now departurea.” Tho * Thiof-Dotectivo Bocloty " of Des Molnos, Tz., haa arrestod two mon and hubg ono of them till he was dead. Tho other wna hung at intervals, “tomako him confess,” untll ho gatiofled tho gang that ho was innocont. Tho formers in & Mioncsota county have formed & vigilanco committes to hang lhorse-thioves. Buch occarrencos at the SBouth would bo good for innumerable head-linos and yards of editori- als in the nowspapers. As they happoned at the North there will doubtlces bo no immediato call for the sending of Federal wroops to Iowa or Minnosota, To-day tho Episcopal nvontion of Ilinola will be hold in this oity. The most fmporiant business to be transactod by it is the cholco of » succossor to Bishop Whitehouso, It1s woll understood that the laity and clorgy of tho dio- 080 are not of ono mind as to tho merils of oor- tatn candidates, and that there will bo abundant’ opportunity for acrimonious dlsoussion; but wa elull be disappolnted if tho represontatives of tho Olinrch in Ilinois do not put thoir brothren In Wisconsin to shame by conducting thelr de- liberstions docontly and in & spirit of concilia- tion, The Chicago produce markots wore unsettled Yesterday, but tho majority tended upward, Mees pork wau in good demand, and 750@$1.00 per brl Ligher, closing at 24,00 cash, and €18,26 B14.75@15.00 por 100 Ibs canh, and ©11,023¢ sollor tho year, Maats wore in good demand and strong at D3¢@Digo for lionldors, 193¢(@18}¢u for sliore middles, and 124@190 for Bwoot-pickled hama, 1lighwluoa waro in fair domoud and stoady, at #1.01 por gallon. Lalko frolghta woro more no- tivo and steady at 83@334o for corn to Buffato, Flour was quiot snd unchanged, Whoat was qulte setivo aud 1}{o higher, closing at Y8e cnsly, U736@0734 sollor tho mowth, oud 9540 for Octobor. Corn wag tamo and 4o lowor, closiug strong at 770 casly, 700 seller tho month, and 74){o for Qotobor, Onts wora notive and 34@Y{0 higher, olosing nt 48c oash, 473{c tor the month, aud 453¢0 for Qotobor., Ryo was quicv and sfordy at 820, Darley was in bottor domand and 1@20 highor, closing at 060 sollor tha month Tlogs woro in activo domand, and #old at 10@250 advanco. Caitlo and sheop woro firm. An election to il & vacaucy in the Fronch As- sombly was held in tho Department of Muiuo and Loirs on Bunday lust. It resulted in no choleo, who Ropublicsn candidate recoived 45,000 votes, the ono supporting the Boptonnato 26,000, and the Bonsparbtst 25,000, Tho faot thiat 25,000 peoplo in tho Dopartmont of Malne and Loiro bavo torgotton who was rospansible for Sodan constitutes, of courso, tho signifissnce of theso roturns. Wo loarn from thiom that the Fronioh poople are inclining moro and moro to tho comfortablo concluslon that the **besstly™ Prus elans aro alono desorving of punlshment for tho war, Marshel MacMahon {8 now muking a sccond tour iIn tho French provinces for tho purposo of ronsguring tho pooplo of tho pormanency of tho Seplonnato and tho consequent safoty of tho vation, o docs not establish a satistactory case, For, whilo it may ba true that the Gov- ornmont is sottled for some years, thero is abso- lutely no tolling what may come when its term hasoxpired. Bosides, tho Marshal does not uso to good advantage tho argumonts whick aro at hand to Justify tho laissez faira policy, Mo is more & woldior than a politician, and moro a * worker " in politics than & sposker. The like- ness botween him and an Americsn soldier wha Las gone into politics is very remarkable. The Marshal and tho Goneral are mo orators ; aud tlo popular judgmont, that they do not apenk becauso thoy cavnot, aud that they cannot be- cause they aro wot accustomod to rapid and ac- curats thioking, may not be far wrong. THE LOUISIANA REVOLUTION. Tho people of Now Orleans aro iu open revolt againat tho State and municipa) authorities, Tho soeucs deseribed in our dispatches this morniug are of an uppalling nature. The speck of war las broadened out into a black and lowering cloud that hangs over the wholo State of Louisi- aun aud threatens dire disnster. It is no longer the protest of a mass-mocting which tho author- ities havo to encouutor. It is not tho utterly lawloss and irrespousible lkilling of mnegroes that may bo stopped and punighed. It iy mot the temporary fury of a mob that may bo quelled by a posse of polico. Now Orleaus is tho scone of & new rovolution. The peoplo are armed and seem to bo organized. Thoy sro backed by what they hold to bo tho Bonuiue and ounly Btate Govormmont, They aro gatboriug a8 militie, and act under the orders of Ponn, who was elected Lioutonant-Governor with McEnory, and who, in the Iatter’s absence, issucs his proclamatious and com- mands 8s Govornor of Louisinua, When Iarge bodics of men come togothor in this way, tho result is apt to bo somothing moro than a common streot-riot. Noither pres- cont Buccesa nor tomporary dofoat cau be regard- ed as final in auch case. Thero is revolution 1 Louisizun, and Now Orleany leads the van, The utory of Louisiana's woes is loug and sor- rowful, It Lhas been told over and over sgain, Tt has stopped tho sffaira of Congress, bas made mogistrates hesitato and Gonerals tromble, On the oue sido there hny been a con~ stant outery against opprossion; on tho othor ronewed vigilauce in forcing back tlo spirit that robelled against it. Tho clection of Kellogg wau the crowning sorrow of Louisiana’s palitical woe, and novor sluce that ovent have the people boen recoucilod to the situution, They have beon ripo for rovolution these two yoars, At no time, however, has rovolt appeaed so for- midable a8 now. The immediate provocation of yestordsy’s outbroak was the soizun) of arms consigned to privato frms in New Orloans. Threo oitizens wera arrestod on tho chan ‘e of hav-~ ing in their possession stands of arms 1 nd quan- tities of ammunitlon to be usod in agsi iing the secrot organization known as tho Whitt Leaguo and ngainst the Motropolitan Polico. Bubse- quently Gon, Badger, tho Chiot of Polite, Mr. Curtis, the Clerk, and Judgo MeArthu: woro brought boforo Justico Houston. They woro committod to jsil for contempt in refusing tode- livor over tho arma that had boen seized, but they wore Immediatoly pardoned by Gov. Kellogg. The ecarch and seizures were ¢on- tinued throughout last week, and Sunday's papers coutained call, signod by fifty morchants, for o mass-weotiog at Clay's statuo on Canal streot, to protest against thae seizures and other outragos, 1Chis call had a rosponse in tho gathering of au immonse throug of poople, Ailling the streots for goveral blocks around. The meoting passed a rosolution eallivg upon Kollogg to resign, and o committes was appointed to waltupon him for his auswor. .Ho decliued Lo rocelva any communi- cation on tha ground that it came from an armed and -lawless mob. Whon his anawer was rocoived, the word wens forth to disporse for ayms. Mon wont to their housos only to return with rifles, shot-guns, sud small arms, and to procoad agalust tho existing Governmont. Tho Muyor's oftico was invaded, and tho Mayor had to give way, Poun, as Acting Covornor, issued o proclamation calting upon all cltizens betwoon the sgos of 18 aud 40 to join the militia, Ho sob forth that this was not war up- on the nogroes, who should bo permitted to pursue thoir avocations iu peace, but sgainst tho thioves, plundorers, snd spollors who haa oppreased tho peoplo for two years. Thon catao an order from thosamo sourca conforring tho chiof command upon Gen, Fred N. Ogdon. Tho flrat conflict botwoon tho cltizova and tho Met- ropolitan Polico ocourrod on tho levoo. Gat- 1ling guus and Winchestor rifles on ono side and tha motley arms of a mob on the other were sufliclont to make @ list of dead and wounded varlously estimated as high as fifty, Tho Motro politans arae aald to huve sufferod moat severoly, which was partly owing, perbaps, to tho desor- tion of tho negro portion of the forco ; and Gen, Dadgor, thoir Chiof, wasbadly woundod. TRopore has it tuat Marsbal Packard aud Attornoy-Gon- oral Dibbla wera killed or wounded, but this is not conflrmed, United Btatos troopswore at tho Custom-Touse, but took no port in tho fight. Teiuforcemonta wore oxpeoted, At lsatrcoounts the oltizons wore throwiug up barrioudes in tho utracty, and the rovolt thraatoned to assumo Boller the yoar. Lard was qulet and strongoer st somo of the flerconcay und wilduess of & rovo. lution in Parls, which Now Orleans rosemblos in mauy of its charactorlatica, As o doflance of rocognized acthority and an opon rovolt againat tho oxisting Government, tho Now Orlonns rovolutionists must bo put down by tho strong arm of tho Governmont. Thore can Lo no question about this. Thoro should bo no delay fn bringing tho rovolt toa suddon end. DBut ft will bo woll to keop In miud that the rovolt wea among the businoss mob and a clngs of citizons who have nothing to goln in a sonyeloss and usoloss conflict with tho Govornment, It will bo propor to ask, whon tha mob shull havo boon driven off and order shall lave boon restored, whothor it 18 not timo that somothing should bo done for a Blato which aven Bonator Carpentor sald, s yoar ago, has beon “trodden boneath the foot of a Fedoral Judge." THE JOBBING TRADE OF NEW YORK AND CHICACO, Thrae or four woeks ago the Now York Bulle- tin statod, smong othor reasons, why tho jobbing trado thero waa falling bolow tho oxpectations of morchauts, that 1t was steadily sottling in the futorlor, and for the Northwest * notably at Chioago.” Thon the Graphic had & vory sug- geutive cartoon, in which Fathor Kulokerbocker was roprosonted aa srioring whilo his childron wero steallug away hig trade. On these adwmia- slons of woll-known facts Tue Tutnuxe had something to aay, oud gava sundry ‘rossona to illugtrato thoir truth, Among others wo mon.?| tloned the opprosaive tolls on the Erle Caaal; the pormancut tax on the business of Now Yok to pay tho intorest on tho im- monso debt caused by the stupendous frauds of Twoed and his associntes tho stoalings of the Custom-Houus gaug,—all of which and moro arc but spocimous of tho ex~ nactions mado upon tho business of that city. As ovidenco that these thinga are woll undor- atood in the Metropolis of Aworics, we now have boforo us au olaborato two-columa article in the Now York Express to prove that the importing trado of Now York oxccods $100,000,000, aud that it hos Ineressed immensely in tho last twenty-tiva yoars, This nobody doubts, To givo tho oxact figures of tho Lrpress, tha dry goods imported at Now York in 1849 amount- od to $44,436,571, and in 1873 to $114,160,465,— that is, noarly threo times a8 many goods woro imported last yoar as in 1849, While Now York ey made euch croditablo progross, the jobbiug trade of Chicago hau inereased from nothing as Inte astwenty yenrs szt Lo its presont vory consid- erable proportions. Wo have no meaus of de- terwiniug the figures of tho jobbing and the rotail trado ; but our boat-iuformod werchauts cstimate tho eutire diy-goods business of the cily aLFORTY TO FONTY-FIVE MILLIONS OF DOB- rang, Tudeod, they kuow it, for the sales of threa or four houses alone will nearly resch thosa figurcs. It ie thereforg certaiu that Chi- cago sells s many dry goods ss New York imported twenty-five yoars ago, T'he Zrpress mukos much of tho fact that the loading Chicago bouses have buyers coustantly in Now York, Cortainly; but thoy ara thore to | buy domestic goods, which thoy got from the commission honses st the same prices and pre- cigoly on tho same terme ay the Now York mer- chants, Al menufacturers in New Eugland and olsowhoro in this country send thoir goods to Now York commission houses, und honce buyers from all tho country cougrogata thore, but Now York joblora get no bottor terms than Chicago Jobbers, Tu addition to this, our loading houses have thoir agouts in Eugland, Franco, and elsowhoro, alongsido thoso of Mesurs. Htow- art, Cladlin, sod othor Now York merchants, who buy from first hands at procisoly the same figures as tho Now Yorkers. Our ordoers aro givon, and somo of thom paid for; montus aliead, s are those of tho Now York morchants. Goods orderod for our fall trade were paid for inJuly. They como to our Custom-Ifouso direcs, and aro placed in boud precisely as they aro in New York, our morchants withdrawing thom as they aro required to be put o the market. Tho difference in the Custom-House exactiovs in the two cities, it i safo to say, will nearly pay the {roight on goods from tho eesboard. Add for chioapor rents aud cheaper .modes of conducting business, aud it i8 ensy to see why Chicago is now, and must continuo to be, as choap & market for dry goods as Now Yorl, As an instanco; the cartage in New. York onan invaica of goods on conaignment ta this eity, but intended for Rockford, wus $20; it was awitch- od hero aud passed on to its destination for 32. Arrangoments are making in Baltimore to pass gooda directly from tho hold of stosmers to the cars, eud, 28 600 a8 tho railroad 1 complotod to that city, Now York will mies her calugo and many other mmilar exactions, Sowe of our morcbauts are now ordering thoir goods by Phil- adalphia to avoid *“tha tolla ” lovied by the New Yorl barpics. 0f course our morchants are not doing a tithe of therotail trade in dry goods that leading housos in New York are, but they claim to be willing to compsre tigurea in the jobbing line with tho beat of thom. What is truo of dry goods will gradually becomo true also of many other departmonts of business. Tho law by which forelgn goods conld be imported in bond diract to the intarlor citics, placing thow in this respect on & par with those on tho sesboard, hag boon in aporation ouly thres or four years. With unimportant oxceptions, fiftoon years at moat will cover tho entiro history of the jobbiug trade in Obicago, What has beon accomplished is on- couraging in the highest degros, and the time ia uot distsat when no merchaut In the outira Northwoat will go cast of Ohicago to purchaso his goods. Indeed it may bo doubted whother thoy can now do it with profit, THE BURNRT DISTRIOT. Btrangers o tho city, attending the Exposi- tion, will find a larger and more characteristio Exposition by visiting tho burnt district on Biato streot, botween Iarmon court aud Van Buron street. On thla strip of tetritory, half a wilo in longth, aud on many of the parallol stroots woat of 1, thoy will flud roproduced up- on a emallor scalo, a8 tho avoa is moro liwited, tho wonderful scones of onterprise, dotermina~ tion, and industry which charactorized the South Divislon immodiately aftor the groat firo of 1871, ‘Thoro is scarcely a lot upon Stato stroot on which the laborers aro not at work, A few buildiugs sro alroady up to their proposed alti- tude, Somo hinve roached thoir firat story, In soma places tho foundations havo just been Iald; in othovs, excavations aro bLolog wade, Tho distrlet ewsrms with laborors hko & Dive, Tho stroot fe crowded with teams taking away dirt and debrls, aud ro- turning with lumber, stone, and brioks, wo that pedostrians and stroot-cara make but slow prog- ress, Liverywloro may be heard tho sound of the trowel, hawmor, and saw from morning to night, Owoors, contractors, and laborors allko soom {0 have combiuod in & glgantio endosvor 1o g thelr bulldings up and alosed ka before the anow flioa and outdoor Iabor becomen im- practicablo. Prosent indieationa show not only thnt thia wiil bo sccomplishod, but that many of the buildiuga will bo finished and rosdy for occupancy bofore cold weather seta in, while by noxt spring the wholo length of Stato atroet will Lo ocoupied’ up to IHarmon court, From tho river to tho lattor avouus, thoroforoe, Btate stroot will bo mora mecure from firo than ever beforo. Tho remaining portion south to Twanty-socond stroot is resorved for tho noxt groat firo, which muat nevitably como, soonor or later, and 88 this part of Biste streot s a compnct and donso mass of wooden sholle, back- ing upon . alinys fllled with barns, shan- tios, littor, and ail sorts of combustiblo stuff, it only noods tho same conditions which precoded tho last two grost firos to wipe ont this plle of kludling-wood also. On Third and Fourth avenucs and Olark etroet, and upon all the cross-stroots runniug enst and wont, slthough tho notivity is not aa great aa on Hlato utroot, still numorous buildings of & large aud hand- somo character aro in procoss of construction to supply tho place of the hulks aud vilo dens which formorly atood thero, On Wabash avonue mattais aro at a stapd-gtill, and probably will romain Bo for some timo to come, although hero ana thero some hopotul owner will lmprove his property with o handsomo building and wait for the good timo coming whon it will pay interest on the fnveatment, Itia too far north for rosi- donces aud too far south for business just at present, and fow will caro to build residences whod in four or fivo yoars at tho utmost busi- noss will ovortako them, or to bulld largo stores and wait four or five years for their occupancy. Tho buildings which aro boing orected aro not fargo or showy, but thoy are subatantial, strong, securo, and sufficiently commodious for buaincss purposes. Al of thom are of brick, mostly with stouo trimmings, and some of thom with the ontiro froutage of stono, and, asicomparod with tho vosightly wooden shells before the fire, of oll sizes and shapes, tho stroot will look, whon fluished, both uniform sud handsome, and will presont & very effeclive obstaclo sgainst tho progreas of another conflagration. Btato atreok titon, 88 far as Harmon vourt at loast, will woar thio aspoct of a metropolitan business stroet in- slond of & rustic tharoughfare fillod with pawn- broltors’ shops, saloons, choap eating-housos, low divos, aud swall slop-shops wallowlng in dirt. Tho improvement, u fact, will bo 5o marvelous that it will not be long betore tho public will recognize in tho conflagration of July laat & de- cided biessing. This wonderful industry and the magical maouer in which tho new buildings are spring- ingupon evory hand from tho ashes of tho firo ara o suflicient auswer to tho carpers at home and abroad who bave been uttering dole- ful jercmiads about the decadenco of Chleago sinco the fiie, and prophesying that tho city would oot rocover from its effects for yoara, It hos not damaged, but on the otber haud has improved, the city. It hss not rotarded its growth or bsiness, but on the other hand hng accelerated thom, and m addition has furnished, and will contivue to furnish, omployment to hundreds of workmen during tho winter, who might otherwise have beon obliged to remain idle, a8 thoy are now doing in the other largo citios. The only drawback to the general ad- ‘vancamont is furnishod by tho action of the city authoritios thomselves, whoso dilatoriness and inexplicablo sluggishnoss in mattars of tho ut- most importance to tho prosperity of the city occasion constant anxiety, Thoy are the only dead woights which hang upon tho enterpriss and energy of our peopie. EQUALIZING TAXES, Tho law of this Stato has provided in It« ms- chinory of government a tribuual cafled the Btate Board of Equslization, and has clothed this Board with spocial functions and arbitrary powera, Tuo judgmonts of thie Board have boon declared to bo judicin), aad the Supreme Courb has pronounced thom final and irreversible, ox~ copt upon proof of fraud. The special objact of this Board was to aqualizo tho sssessed valustion of property, resl and personal, 8o that each person and corporation in thiy Btato ghould pay an honest share of taxation, proportioned to the actual valuo of his, her, or its property. Wohave ofton had occasion to refer to the Revenue law of this Btato ; It is oo of tho curiosities of leg- 1slntive litoraturo, and as a monstrosity has per- hops no parallel. The Btate of Illinols, from 1837 to 1848, bad o largo publio debt, upon which the Stato for soveral yoars omitted to pay intorest. 1n 1848 the peopls voluntarily pluced in their Constitution tho 2-mill tax to be applied to tho paymentof that dobt and intorest. Tn 1870 the Stato was praotically out of debt, tho outstanding bonds, nob yct duo, boing bal- suced by the funds sctually in tho Troasury, aud annually aceruing without the nocossity of taxa- tion, A now Constitution waa adopted, prohibit- ing noy further debt, and tho 2-mill tsx, belugno longer required, was ropesled. During all those years of poverty and struggle, the State had a rovenuo system which, whilo by nomosns pertact, accomplished ita end. Tho gonoral rule under that law was to asacss the property, at flrst ab ona-linlf, and, s the Blate grew in woalth, at & roduced proportion of tho actual value, and on this aesessmont to lovy such arate of tax as would produco the required rovemme. For a numbor of years tho ousessod valuatipn of all tho proporty iu tho Stato ranged from 470,000, 000 to ©600,000,000, This was pernaps about one-third tbo actual valuo of tho property as- eousod ; there belog personal proporty to the value, porliapg, of §400,000,000 or moro (cask) never found by “tho Assesgors. It made no differonco to tho tax-payor whethor Lo was taxed 8 mills on the dollar of & onc-third valuation, or 1 mill on the dollar of o cash valuation, Tho rosult was the samo, In 1809 was poesed tho intamous law authorizing & diversion of the tax lovied for State purposes in cortain counties to pay local railvond-uld dobta, third valuatlon, no revenuo was produced for this tax atoal, 80, in 1873, thoro was got up the tax codo, calied tho Revonuo law. The Biate waa then out of debt, sud Lad no noed of rove- nua oxcept for oxpentos of tho Biato Govern- mont; novertholoas, thero was ennatod & code whiob, wherovor read or soen by mon, has been pronounced s marvelous abomination, aud s dis- graco to the intolligouco of the ago. The Btato Board consiats of & member olected {n osoh Congrevsionul Distilot, Tho primary voluatlons of taxable proporty are made by tho looal Assoseors, aud those aro forwarded to Springflold, whore tho Btate Doard un- dortukes to ‘*‘equalize” them, Tuo pro- cces is o remarkablo onop the countlos olassifod by Congrosslonal Distriots. Horses in ono distriot are rated at ono price, and in sne other diatrlot at anotlor prico; and tho aggro- gate by countlos Ia thua brought up to tho stund- ard valuo fized for the respootive disirlote, Lands are squalized in the same way, The pro- Undor the systom of ono- | ooedinga of this Board are exceedingly ourlous g but, when tho proccedings of ono yoar aro com- porad with those of anotbor, tho reaults are astontaling. As rosult of the ncb of 1873, the aggrogato asseasmont of renl and porsonal prop- erty, which fn 1872 waa about 8500,000,000, was inoroasod to bont $1,200,000,000 in 1878, Tho asgosamont of 1872 was **oqualizod” by tho Board, tho sggregate being oquitably appor- tionod among the sevoral countios. Tho sexoss- mont of 1878 was 240 por cont groator than that of 1872 Novertholoss the Btato Board, in 1873, “oqualizod” thin incrosas ovortho * oqualizod " valuation ot 1872 by thoe following ingonious sp- portionmont ¢ One county was advanced less than, Boven countios ovor 160 and under Fonrioon countios over 176 and uudor. Hilghtcon countios ovor 200 and unde Thirteon counties over 235 aud unde Thirteon countios over 340 aud undor Eigbtoen countles ov.r 250 and undo: Four countlea aver 174 and under, Wili County., Kendall County, Qook County. The beauty and symmeiry < this operation will b apparent whon it is rom,bered that both equalizations were mado by tho same Board. In 1873, tha total nsscssmont waa 240 per cont groster than the * oqualized* valuation of 1873, and, {ustoad of apportioning or **oqualiziog” tho inoresso, thoy made the apportion- ment wo havo ststod. Doth valuations were “oqualized.” Thoy woro not original valuations, but in each caso an aggregato valua- tfon apportioned among tho countics. Onoortho othor was wrong ; both wore judicial, final, and without appeal, ‘Al this tomfoolery ia for ihe purposo of fixing a valuation to raise ©2,500,000 of rovonuo, all told, from 2,600,000 peoplo, or ono dollar por bhead, Tho operationa of thls Board are in many cases opprossivo and unjust. Thus, in & county somo proporty way be ssgessod by tho Augessorat oue-fifth, moro at ono-fourth, one-third, ono-balf, five-sixths, three-fourths, and another at ite full value. Tho Stato Board, in * cqualizing,” deals ouly with countles, and, ss in this county, a yearago, it added 123 por cent to tho assossed valuo of all the land, any Isnd In Cook County returued by tho Asscssorat 50 por cont of ita real valuo was taxed on 11 per cent above its cash value ; any land returned at its true valuo paid taxes on $2.22 for every $1 of cash value of tho land, All porsonsl property ‘was incroased 08 por cont, and thus grocuback dollars wore taxed at tho rato of $1.63 each, ‘We baveno doubt thnt tho sssessmont in this county Is & brosd farce,~—noccessarily so, Much of tho proporty here is assossed at & valuation rangiug from 10 to 80 per cont of 1ts real valuo ; one hundred millions of dollars’ worth (cash valuc) of personal property is not assessed at allj but the romedy for this is not in treating tho wholo people of this county sa s single in- alvidual, and sdding srbitraity and blindly to tho assessmont of all the property in the county, making tho honest people pay for tho ignorauco, stupidity, and pegligonco of tho As- soesors, To make an honest and equitablo as- sessment in this county would requirc a Board of Assgssors eitttog coutinuously for throo years., The machinery of tho Rovenuo law is wholly inappropriate and uttesly deflojout. Tho work of tho State Board is all guess-work, and uimed at Chicago. The wholo systom of State taxation is rotton and defectivo, and should be abolished as bolind thengo, and 88 s reproach to the civilization of an intolligent peoplo. THE WOMAN'S CONGRESS, The previous sessions of this body have al- ways boen hotd in tho Esst. Its coming to Ohi- cago {9 & venture. Weo do not doubt that its managers will find hero sudiences as large and intorest as keon as thoy have bccome acous- tomod to in the Xast. The Congress is not convened by the woman-suffragists. It aims to roprosent all women. Its published programme doos not ioclude any discuesion of feminine fit- 1088 fur the fruuchise, lthough tho Bubject will doubtlesa bo touched upon incidentally. The list of topics 18, 88 usual, mixed. Some wub- jocts, s, for instanco, ** What now elomont can women bring into tho field of finunce?” are so wide s to bo worthloss. Others, e. g., **Tho part of women in tho financial good or ill of tho country,” * How can women best oppose intom- porsnco?” and “Woman's part in journalism,” aro scarcoly distinctive enough to domand dis- cusslon at such a gathoring. Woman's part ‘in Journslism is like_that of man, and may thare- foro be summed up in saying: **Btudy, obsorve, and write.” Thers are no distinctively fomi- nino and no distinetively masculino features of the profession, uvless fashion-notes belong to thie one sox snd prize-fights ta the ather. Bo, too, women and men have liko dutios in fiuanco and in tomperance,—tho study, and the preaching, and practice of the truth. Tho folly of the * Orusado™ ia B0 gonerally rocognized now that attacking it would bo knocking down & woman of straw. Buoch thomes would do well onough if the Congross had wooks of work bo- foro it, but its threo-days' sesslon should bo de- voted tomoro practical topica, A subjoctliko that of “Fallen Womon" cannot be advantageously diecussed in & miscollancous gathering. What security can the public bave that some blatant Woodhullite will not selze the oppor- tunity to preach hor polluting gospol? Tho gocial evil should bo studied in the closet or the lospital, not on the housc-top. It is to bo hoped that some arrabgement can bo made by which the dlscussion of this theme may tako place with closed doors and undor the entiro control of pure womon, ‘ Here adverso criticiom muat ond. Nearly al tho other subjects, aud espectally those under the heads of * Education™ and *Truo Standards of Use and Bosuty,” aro thoroughly timely and valuable, W trust that some of tho speakers on #Dross Roform™ will bring with them the modols and drawings that have proved: such offoctiva argumonts in tho East. This mine of illustration can be worked to groat advantage in tho discussion of several of the themes on the programmo, Everything promisos the success of the Con- gross, Tho toples of discussion, with tho few oxceptions wo have noted, have boen admirably ohosen, They will be landled by some of tho foromost wowen in America. Tho placo of meeting, tho First Mothodist Ohurch, is conven- lont and contral. The resident committoo has douo its work faithfully and well, Chicsgo, as the metropolis of a Btato whioh has frecd woman fyom &ll tho shacklos of tho old common law, will give tho Woman's Congross of 1874 a hoarty welcomo aund an fmpartial hearing, —— The Atlanta (Ga.) Heraid polnts out the faot thnt tho principal wasits of the poople of that Btnto are choap msnure, chesp fuol, and cheap iron; wnd this notwithetandiog the fact that thore are immonse limo-stona quarries on the lino of tho Westorn & Atlantio Railroad, that thero rre atrata of conl on Lookout Mountaln 0 foet thick, and that they have more iron-ore thap Poansylvania, All thess greatgndustsios romaln undeveloped, however, and the peonls ‘THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1874. - =2 ————————————— R e T ee————————— ] meanwhilo are suffering becanso they cannob afford to pay for thoss threo artlcles of primo lmportanco. As the romedy for this, tho Herald suggests that iho Siato shall pur- choso thewe Hme, coal, sud irou lauds, and work thom with convit labor, Thinwould afford an ox- collont fleld for labor, it tho authoritios would arrost all tho corrupt aud thioving politicians in that Slate and ot thom at work., Thare ato onough of thom to dovelop tho comploto re- sourcos of tho Btato in theso varlous dirootions. e ———— THIRD-TERM RUBBISH, The Washingtou National Republican, tho rocognized organ of tho Whito House, has for months boon ngoring tho public pulsa to ascor- tatn tho fooling of tho country on tho third-torm quostion, and the Now York Tribune lna ropro- ducod geveral columna of oditorials copled from that journnl. OnJune 8 it romarked that tho Prosidentisl possibilitios and probabilities of 1876 woro very gonorally subjeots of dixoussion in the country, and concludod with tho romark that, if the compaign of 1870 woro to be fought during tho progent yesr, no candidato upon any platform could beat Gem. Grant; that by the timo of tho olection ho would bo stronger than ho fa now; thot it was * adinitted on ali eides ho could bo re-elocted for & thiird torm almost witli- out opposition, aud in apito of tho traditions of our politics.” On tho 24th of the szme month tho Washing- ton organ romarkod that wo huve novor bad any exporienco of the offect of ro-g.\octing & Proai- dont for & third term; and that tLioro bad boen poriods in our bistory whes, cowid wo have olocted & Promident for a third or forarth term, it would havo boou bettor for the country. ‘‘Ilad Washington’s, Monroo's, or John Quiticy Adams' terma of sorvico,” it continues, ** beon ,prolonged t0 tureo or four torms, wo should probubly have encaped follies nnd calamitios which inflicted gront Injurics on the people, and sari vusly re- tardod the growth of the country,” Tollowing this is an argumont in favar* of the ro-elegibility of & Prosidont for & third', torm, and, of course, for a tenth. On July 14 an arti- clo appeared in tho ssmo paper supporting the constitutionality of a third torm. Nutmr~ ous othor articles huve apposred in the mum o paper on the samo subject, all looking in the samo dircction, The astute politicisus of the Iopublican party atl understand what theso arti- cles mean and how they aro inspirod. Thoso politiciaris are extremely norvous on tho sub- Ject, aud are dotermined to provent Grant's nomination by their party at all hazards, since thoy beliove ho would bo badly beaten at the polls, It may bo considered a cortainty, howover, that Gou. Grant {s acaudidate. It will bo well for tho pooplo to racoguize that fact, aud to inquire whether thoy are propared ta sco the cnd of our present form of governmeut, for thas iy what Gon, Grout's ro-olection in 1876 moans, If clected o third time, why uot s fourth and a fifth? If he may be Prosident for twolve con- sccutive years, why not for thirty-six or forty- cight? Why not for lifo? Andif for lifo, why not call him Dictator or Emporor instead of Presidont? A gouoration ago_an Amorican Empire or an American Kingdom would have seomed s reasonablo 28 a third torm. Gen. Grant ralics on the support of tho Sonth by his promisod voto of the Civil-Rights bill, snd of tho Fast by his position on the currency question, but ae to tho lattor he fwill flud himself grievously mistaken. The people of the East know that a Presidont can bo found and elected whoeo opposition to inflatlon will be quite as cortain and more intelligent than Gon. Grant's, Morcovor, it {s st the East, more than anywhero olse, that the traditions of tho Republio, and espocially tho anti-thind-term tra~ dicion, are strongest. The whole project of & third torm is s hare-brained delusion. It bas no roal bottom snywhoro tn the Northorn Btates. There is no objection, however, to the continu- ued sormonizing of the Washington National Republican on that toxt. This 1a tho dull season for newspapors at the Ospital, and perbiaps thoy might 88 well discuss the third term as the Dis- trict safo-burgla The recent Convention at Painesville, 0., waa not unlike almost every such gathoring eonduot- od in the interost of purely feminine reformers with purely fominine objects in viow. Ita titlo was high-sounding—tho First Anuual Convention of tho National' Dress-Reform Loaguo; its dis- cusslon & mixture of wisdom and folly; its logi faulty; aud its practical results, eo far as can bo foroscen at present, nothing. Many cf the dologates csma drossed in tunica and trousers; thoy shoutod for roform in dress, but the reform which they could soo was trousers. They announced with unanswerable force that any modo ** of dresd which obstructed tho fullost oxercise of any portion of the human systom fanot only a wrong' done to oursolved, buta moral uin against humsnity ;" chargedthat “tho dexen bolug formed upon tho samo anatomical principles,” what was good for man was good for woman also; aud, without inquiring whether mnsculino pataloons wore tho triumph of physio- logioal fitucss for anybody, doctared incontinont« 1y for trousers. Thoir promises aro undenisbly correct; thoir concluslons jumped st without rossoning. On sccond thoughts, the Couven. tion must huve felt mortified at its announce- mont. Why the modorn irouser should havo ‘boon wolocted as the portection of elogance and utility passos all understanding. Buroly notbing {a wo indepondontly unintorcsting as s pair of pants. If tho nggregated faste of tho Dress-~ Roform League can covolve nothiug nearor to tho ideal porfoction of euso aud bosuty, tho great majority of sonsible women will profer toserve tho tyrant Fashion rsther than enduro the mortutication of appoaring like Ill-formed men fu man's attire, Thoro iy no denying the physiological imperfections of woman's present attiro, but tho deolaration in favor of trousors docs not prosent any improvemont. Tho most graceful garment & womsn woars i a simplo morning wrapper. It is also tho caslest and most natural, Itisonly when woman page hor de- voiry at the shrino of Fashion that she abandons it for tho shaokloa of which ghe complains o bitterly. But a womsn in trousers s an loferlor baing—inferior in stature, inforior in beauty of outline, snd inferlor in movomont, Her artitlclal suporlority In appenranco is the work of ages; ta put hor into pataloons would be to go back to firet principlea. — ‘Thoee who auppose that tho Dritish Angocia~ tion is ant-roliglous aro mistaken, Though Prof, Tyndall read & hoterodox papor bofore it of atortling cadical tendonoy, the Asyoointion iy still sousitive on religious mattora. Any disro- apect to the pravalling cracd must bo avoldad. Yor instancos Col, Lano Fox, In soforring to & wot of quotions to be asked of intolligent trav- olera as to tho religlons of $ho poople among whom they travoled, made use of an {llastration, saying that “If tho inhabitants of Belfast, to whom the eftcats af roliglous disoussion wore not unknown, would ouly ples ture to themeolves tho representatives of tho differout denomiustions gathored to- gother in thelr town,—osch believing that all tho ofliors were going toa hot placs,—the bare contemplation ot suck kottlo of fish might wervo aa o caution to those who Atrovo to multl- ply religious controversios,” Wheroupon the whothor the phrase “kottlo of fah™ applied to roliglous minlators, Tbo Assocation becamo flory in dlscussing tho mattor. At loat Bir John Lubbock, with kaen satir, remasked that tho obe Jootionablo figuro of spacch could only apply to tho roligioun difforonces of savages, This white ed tho {mputation of intolorancs to the abaont pagan, aud peaco wau rautorad, thore bolag but ono_noknowladgod hieathon, Tyndall, fn tho houso., Ifo did not riso to defond himsolt, Tho conacquoncoa of tha lll-fated romark of Col, Fox mulk oly Efilng}d Jtl.\ln iltustration he intonded to malke, while Bir-Joht Lubbook' mado it plaluer yet. RURE Lo vy ——— To tho public at largo, a auit brought by a theatrical managor againet a mombor of his company for bronoh of contract may not o8 toss muoh intrlvslo interost. It may, by londing tho goneral roader Lobind tho sconck, apposl to bis cusloslty by portisliy satintsing it but no more. To the theatrical profoesion, involving vast capital and the intorests of men and women atanding continually bofore tho public, tho ro. cent suit brought by Mr. Daly ngainst Miss Fane ny Morant, o mombor of hia company, will bava o groater importunco. Tho sult was originally brought to resirain her, by injuuction, from plaving at any rival theatro In the City of Now York during tho lifo of a contract batween tho two puctios. Divested of logal technicalities, Miss Morant's caso way thisr Mr. Daly sgreed to cnat hor for & certatn Uuo of porte, paying ber a salary of £130 a weok, sho agrecing to play only at the Fifth Avenuo Thestre, Digsatisfied with tha parts asslgued her, and claiming that Mr. Daly wag I arroars with lor salary for tho pass sone Bon, sha made a Umited engagoment with Mossrs, Shook & Palmer, of the Union Bquers Then~ tro, It was furthor undoratood by the contract that, In cago of an injunction boing apptied for, Mr. Daly was to pay hor omo-fomsth of tha amount of har salary. Thiodofonso einitiod that 3ir. Daly hod mado o fraudulent contract; that bis purposo was not to lot hor plsy at his own theafrs, bat rather to provent hor appearanco in opposition to his entertalunienta, Tha dooision of Judgo Freedman is adverso to the dofoudant. It bolds both parties rigidly to thoir agroement, and malntaine that Aliss Moraut's remedy sgainst forced {nacuvity lay in hier own power In making a contract, as plao did the matter of doliuguont salary. It granta the injunction ssked for, but orders the payment of ono-fourth of hor, Aalary from the data of tho application, Managors aro avorse to suits of +his dogeription, inssmuch a9 their tendency i to advortiso tho actor st tho expenso of the plaintiff. As o rule, theatrical coutracts avo vory one-eided sffairs. Thore ia & tendoney to wither oxtrome,—to tho decided advantaga of onio of tho parties, Whoro a mouager hos all the suMthority in the premisca for deciding come pouenuy, the actor is st the mercy of arbitrary opizxion, and, 58 in the caso of Miss Moy, i likely to be prevented from appesring in publio at all. T\ is of course professional death, und any oxp tdient for roviving popular intorest ia welcomod's It I8 & dilicult matter to aajust, Tho only "onsolation that artists haveis that managers ar® gowetimoes 28 unfauly treated as thoy are, —_— Fashionabl Fronch soclotyia appalled at o tragedy whiey occurred quite recoutly. AL “Valontin, who I\ been the fashiouable tailor o} Puris and hued niado & fortuna, retired with his wife to Alundres o Jive. Theirson had won un-~ usuat honors at tin3, Cavalry School at Saumur, and tho day of the Wragedy brd roturned home with s frioud to recot vo the parontal congratuln- tious, Tho domestic Nfo of tho Valenting was rondored miserablo by te continual jealousy of the lady, which, as it wwe without cause, wag loss ondurable. On the coxasion of the roturn of young Valentin, his fathor was witnossing & gamo of billiards between thv 1ads, when biu wifa colled him up-stairs, WL = joke aboub prompt obedionco to superior orNicors, M. Valentia left the room. A few nffoutes aftermards six pistol shots wero heard, and on ¢\xamination the young dragoon found both his pac-outs dead. I was avidont that another attnck of joalousy had seized Mad, Valentine, that hor hualand hiad bo- coma onraged st the snmoyance on @110k 8 Joy- ous occasion, and hnd shot hts wifo an ¢ limselt to end it forovor. Tho ashes of & Ivtier wore British Assoctstlon wan grostly disturbed by the uprisiug of soveral highly-respoctablo clorgymon who luquired with yohomout protostations found in the room, having probsbly boeu burned by ono of the partios boforo tho quarral com- moncod, a8 the sbota wero fired in too rapia’ suc- cosston to justify the beliof thuat the hurbund had destroyed it after killing his wife. A mo.ia for aympathy naver wrought & mora dismal t1ag* ody than this constitutional feslousy. s i, The Journal de Florence, & clerical journal e high authority, has contributed a curious picea of information concerning tho diplomatio his- tory of this country about tho time of the closo of the War of tho Rebellion. Ths editor of thaé panor asserts that Prosident Lincoln sent an on~ voy to tho Popoto solicit tha appolntmont of American Oardinals, Cardinal Antonelli ro- coived the oavoy very graciously, but opposed sovoral diffieulties to the proposal, such as tra- ditionnl usage, tho great distanco, and tho fact that the Cardinale’ College waa in reality o por- manent Council of tho Soveraign Pontiff. The envoy snewered those objections seriatim, but did not socccod in convincing Anto- nolli. After tho intarview tho envoy was prosonted to tho Popo and was rocoived very courtaously. The Jowrnal do Florenco anya that the Pope replied to the onvoy's pro- possl in simost those very words: **Ishould bo very happy to creats somo Amorican Cardie nalae. Whon I romember that I am the firet man in the chair of St. Potor who has visited Amori- oa,Isay that God may porbaps permib moto grant the wish of Prosident Lincoln. That wish is also mine,” Tho Journal also adds that no- gatiations wore fmmodiately opened, but wera dolayod by tho difiiculty of sgrosiug upon tho proper persons, and finally woro broken off at tho timo of tho sssassinstion of Lincoln. It this story be truo, it 1 cortainly very romarknble that it has not soen light bofore. 'Who was the ouvoy? —_——— Tho Oskaloosn (Ia.) Standard has unearthod o small Credit Mobilier in that State i connec- tion with tho building of the Iowa Central Road, which gives it an opportunity of puitlug sowo lending questions to Mr. M. E. Cutts, tho pros- ont candidato of the Republican party for At< torney-Gonerei. It wants to know how ho now owus the undivided balf of 250,000 of atock, whon ho subsaribed for 8800 of atovk which was paid for in Attorney's foos, while other citizons of Towa who subacribed for stock ouly got one ehare for evory $100 paid in cask, It wanis to know how ho gobt mto the Coustruction Com- pray that built the rosd upon tho Credit-AMobil- ser plan, sud how much money he mado on bis tio-contract ; how muoh stock he got fn the Hawkoyo Tolograph Company as part of tho plundor ; and what bo haa dono with 881,000 of subsoription-notes mado by the poonls of Me- haska County. These are only s fow of the quostions which tho importunate Standard avks of Mr, Outts ; and, if tbat gentlomau auswors them all, it is eafo to aay, at loast, that o will have no time to run for Attorucy-Coneral. Ab tho #amd timo, it may throw some light upon tho fack that the bondhoidora aro pot pafd their in. toroat, and that the stock is now nearly worthe 1688, and the Compauy's tressury is ewpty. A proposition rocontly mado to romovo the re- mainsof Androw Jaockeon to the Capitol grounda at Nashvillo has brought out s lotter from tho qistingulehod dosd which seoma quito appropris ato, Intho year 1830 Commodoro J, D, Lllioté broughit from Romo & earcaphiagus, the tomb ot the Emperor Aloxandoer Sovorus, which he pro- sonted to tho Natiounal Instituto aa a worthy yosting-plsce for the romaius of Gou. Jackeou. In March, 1846, the Goneral rogo from a slck bed to raply tuat Lo could not consent to bo lald in & ropository propared for an Emperor or a King Lis Republican foellngs and prinoiples forbado it, the simplicity of our government forbads it “eug vistue,”" ho emd, *cannot exist whon pomp aud parado are the ruling passion.” The last plirass now rods Like a proplwcys