Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1874, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY NOV. EMBER 11, 1874 —_—_— — —— TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TATEA OF SUBSCRIPTION (PATARLE IX AHVAN;‘R,)- by mall.....$ 12,00 + Kunda, R eckly SIZ00 1 Wod Tarts of & JOAT At tho Rama rate, To prevent dolay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Offic audross in full, inoluding State sud Counly. Rataltancosmay bomado oltberby drat, expross, Post- Otica order, of n rogistered lettors, at our tlak, TERNMS TO CITY BUDSONIDERS, Dally, dclivered, Bunday excopied, 23 cents ur woek, Datly, dolivored, Bundny incjuded, 30 centa por wook, Addres THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Oorner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chtengo, 11, T0.DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. v '8 THRATRE—Madlson atrest, hetwoen D:;‘u‘hllv'vlnkfls Ntate, Engagomont of Wybert Hoove, *Tho Womsn in White." OF MUSIU~Halsted atrnot, batwean Mad- Snfic:rflluk{xum-. Kngagoment of Miss Ella Westfor. " Mizod," Aftorrioon and ovening. V'S THREATRE—Randaloh strest, hetwean O St A Henor Atioracon and evaping. ND_OPKRA-HUUSE~Clark o Toos Jelly & Loonts Minstrais, snd ovoulog. 1) opposite o Aflormoon BUSINESS NOTICES '3 COMPOUND OF TURE COD LIVER T O unirAo 1 this Sompound aves tha 01l and 2le of tho ofl i eniiroly e e i E s A Prmoved, wad o} 1l has long actod as 3 prominont oenatre st ot e, o0 hia foray thia tranbib {8 antira: Liivisted, A host of cortiilcatos might, be given hiore b v oxegflencn hud subobes vt ©* Withor's Cod o modicn ; e B e Chomiat, Hoto, and by Al druggista, e Chivags Tribune, ‘Wadnesday Morning, November 11, 1874. Mr, W. O. Goudy, a Iawyor of high standing, s roplied to tho statoment of ronsons why the Swing case should not be appoalod, which was publishod in Monday's Trinuxx by the Rov, Mr. Noyes. Mr. Goudy is entitled to a rospectful hearing, and, howover we may diffor with his conclusions, we are quite willing to submit thom to the public, Tho rumor that the Baltimoro & Ohlo snd Grand Trunk Railroads bad joined the Saratoga combination is bageloss. We aro glad to make this announcement. Tho extension of the Bal- timore & Ohlo Road to this city Las Lold out & promise of relicf to Western merchants and producers which ought not to bo withdrawa. Tho Company-will find its sdvantago in mafn- talning resolutely tho position which it has taken. ‘The Pomoray bribory-trial will bogin to-day in Buckingbam, Kan, The recollections of Pom- erov, o fur ag tho slleged bribery is concorned, sro uncortain and treachorous, but he does re- member eomething discreditablo to Benator In- galls, and promises to bring it out in his trial Tomoroy hias & nicko in tho templo of Famo as copspicuons as Butler's; what moro does he want? We can't undertakoe to vindicate Pom- eroy if Lo has nothing bettor to offor in his do- fonse thon an accusation of fngalls. ———e It §8 not o bad ss they tried to make it out in Miuncsots, Tho Ropublican State ticket is elacted by 5,600 majority; all the Congressmen, aro Ropublican, sud the Republicans In the Leg- islaturo will have a majority of 27 on joint bal- lot. The choico of & United States Benator, howevor, will be controlled by a few Independ- ents, who may dermand concossions of the Re- publicans. Such also scoms to be the situation in New York, where a Lalf-lozen of Fenton's friouds hold the balauce of power. the Awerican Public Ilealth Association yestor- day on Iufant Mortality in Largo Cities. Ife ndvoeated tho establishment of summer camps fu tho neighborhood of cities for the bonefit of mothers and infants. The sug- gestion s worth discussion. It has somo recommendatious to the favor of crusty bachelors and the untatored youth who bhave not yot learned to lovo tho blessed babies. The first suburb of Chicago to receive and act upon Prof. Hartshorn's suggestion will have a rich ro- ward, Camp Diaper will do for a name to start with. The Cook County Board of Canvassers has com- Pleted tho ofticial count of votes cast in tho First and Socond Congreasional Districts. Caulfleld's majority is reported to ba 486, and Harrison's 7. The result iu the First Distriet is about what was expected, but in the case of the Socond it was hoped, up to tho last moment, that Ward would bo successful, His absence from tho Forty-fourth Congress will scarcaly ba come ponsated for by tho preseuce of Mr. Har- sison, We should haveliked, on some accounts, to have had Mr. Harrison contest tho seat. The action of & Democtatic majority on hia pe- tition would bave boen a special remindor to Ohicago peoplo of the illusive nature of thoae grius which aro not laid up in Hoeaven, but whore thieves break through and steal. Ninoty-two c ois give Ettor, In- depoudens candidato for Buperintendont of Public Instruction, 10,092 msjority. idgway, Ropublican candidato for Stato Treasurer, has 40,230 plurality over Carroll, Domocrat, and 62,631 over Gore, Independent Reformor. The combined vote of Carroll and Gore is 160,805, active and olosod stroug at a alight sdvanco, Balos At $5,76@0.50 for common to chowce, Tho cattle and mhoop markets wero fairly active and unchanged. — With tho approach of wintor, the rolations of capital to labor are again becoming unsottled § and this yoar, It scoms probablo, moro work- met will bo thrown out of employmont than in nuy scason for & 'long timo past. The fron- workors and miners in Westorn Pennsylvania nro poculiarly obstinato and stiff-necked. They kuow, or ought to know, that theiremployers cane niot pay the prosont rate of wages without loss; yot thoy proposo to rouist s reduction. Tho miners in St. Clair County, IIl., have gone to tho farther longth of threatening injury to the por- sons aund propory of their emplogors. In tho Enst, tho dischargo of many laborers han alroady boen ordered, and many more will go when tho cold weather bma fairly sot in, An illustia- tion of tho degroe in which production is Yelag diminished 18 furnished by the resalu- Hon of woolon manufacturors to make 25 per cont lesa than the wusual eupply of fancy American eassfmores during the winter monthe, In this situstion of affaira it becomos thoe workmen to bo modest in tholr expoatations, and the mastors to bo merclful and if, after all, thore shall be & number of destitute nnd do- sorving mon, women, and children compolled to nsk charity, it will becomo the peoplo to attena Mborally sud promptly to tholr necossitios. ‘There is an appeal, put forth in tho language and tone of a domaud by some self-constituted committoos in Now Orlosns, that the troops bo romoved from Louislans, For what purpose should they bo romoved ? Six wWeoks ago thero were no traops in Louislans, and tho Btate was 88 freo from military interforonce aa is Illinois. An armod rebellion suddoenly secized the Govern~ mont of that State, deposed all tho general and local ofiicors, and inatallod a now force In all tho dopartmenta. Troops wero sent to tho Btate and the Govornment restored. Admitting that Kel- logg was uovor Jogally eleoted, aud that his in- stallation in Januory, 1873, was an usurpation, it will not be questioned by any porson that the Prosident could do anything elsa than to routore him and suppress toe insurrection. Upon that point thore i now no difference of opiuion, The fact that there aro troope in Louisians at all at this time {s duo to that rebellion, to the over- throw of tho Stato Governmont by tho armed and organizod mob of Louisiaua, Now that and their majoritv over Ridgway s 20,002. The Oppoeition in Illinois will dounbtless oito these figuren as evidonce of their success in carrying the Btate. To ba sure, 1t only needed a union of tho two elements rep- rosented by the Democratio and Farmors' par- ty in order to tho election of their candidates. ‘Iio oloction of Ettor proves this much, Bat it i not evory man who can, like Etter, stand at the samo timo as the exponent of two opposito sots of principles, Tho Oppotition party will not tlud his like again very soon ; aud, in the mean- timo, we shall look for & divislon of its runks on the curroncy and prolibition questions, The Chicago produce markets woro generally Inactive yostorday, aud most of them were tinged withh woaknoss, Moss pork was actlve, and ad- vancod 5@I00 por brl, but closed weak at $18.00 cuah, and §17.43¢@17.45 sellor the yoar. Lard was activo and 6@100 por 100 lbs highor, closing at $12.875¢@13,00 cosh, and §11.05 mellor the yoar, Moats wero in fair domand and firm, at 61¢@03(c for shoulders, and 9}{@9%¢c for short xtba, und 944@93¢o for short olears, Highwines wero more aotive and ateady, ai 08¢ per gatlon. Y.nke froights were dull and steady, closing at 43{o for wheat to Buffalo. Flour was dull and unchanged. Wheat wad active aod 1@} lower, closing at 84)¢o sellor tho month, and 854go for seller Dacomber, Corn was active, and 1@1ie lower, closing at 725¢c soller tho month, and 71}fc sollor the yesr. Oats were qulot, and o lower, closing at 47}o for tho month, and 468{c scllor the year. Rye wasaotive and }go higher, closlug at 850, Darloy was quliet and oaslor, closing at $1.10)5, On Baturday avening laat thero waa in storo fu this city 1,149~ 777 bu wueat, 510,838 bu corn, 415,683 bu oats, 82,710 ba ryo, and 874,830 bu basloy, Hoga wero the troops are there, thoy had hettor stay there until such timo as the peace of tho State is catablished. According to tuo reports, the Democrate havo eloctod a majority of the Logislature and of tho local officers, and are sub- stantislly in control of the Governmont. The troops will not hurt them, unloss they undestako to take things that don't belong to them. CIVIL-BERVICE REFORM. Tho Forty-fourth Congress will have an ox- collent chance to prove the sincerity of Domo- cratic profossions of roform. The party which will control a majority of tho House for two yoars from tho 4th of next March has pro- claimed in many platforms its belie? in a non- partigan, eficient Civil Sorvice. Will it do any- thing now to put ita thoory in practico? Woe aro awuro that tho difficultica in tho way are many and serious to roform the old Democratio doc- tondmlt that good may somotimes come out of Nazaroth, PROF. PRICE ON COMMERCIAL CRISES, Tha locturo dolivered by Prof. Bopamy Prico on Mouday evoning, upon * Commorelal Crisos,” which was printed in the Inst issuo of Tz Tnin- UNE, {8 not only closoly applicablo to the con- dition of tho timos, but ia also s discourse apon thia branch of political aconomy which will com- mond ktnolf to tho gonerat reador fron the cloar- noss with which his thoorios aro stated. While thero in mothing particularly movel in thoso thoories, atill a novel intorost is givon to them from tho monnor in which thoy are liuked to- gothier and brought to boar upon his topie, from tho happiness of his ilustrations, and from tho absonco of thoso tachnicalitios with which thoorists usually obscuro their atatomonts. Prof, Price's locturo was to all intents and pur- poses a popular talk upon commoroial orises, tho uaturo snd purposcs of capitsl, how nations growr poor and how thoy grow rich, how orises may bo avoided, and the sgoncy of baoksin crenting theno crisos,—the most portinont warn- ing conveyed by the locturer, porhaps, boing the dostruction of capital by unremunerative undor- takings, Although Prof. Price's locturo in of consider- ablo length, its saliont poluta may Le ‘stated quito briofly. The oponing portions wero devot- ed to a resume of tho effects of commercial crisos,~—firat, upon tho bauks and joint stock companies, aud sccond, upon the commorcial and manufacturing onterprives and labor of all kinds; and, as this community bas had a prac- tical 1llustration of these effcots during the past trine of ‘'to the victor bolongs tho sepoils,” The comparativo failure of the many cafnest attempts hitherto mado to reform the Civil Sorvico show that the task is & great one. The chiof troublo has been, howevor, lack of syslem. An occnsional examination merely introduces one more element of uncertainty. Wo submit to the consideration of the country n plan of systomatic reform. It maynot baetho best, but it is good enough to challenge tho production of a better. The Civil Bervico is ofton compared toan army. Muke itone. Lot all ihe Govemment employes bo divided into differont rauks, as tho officors of an army aro. A dozen grades would furnish sufficiont classification. In fact, & less number might do 0, Thoy would be numberod 1, 2, 8, ete, Tho lowest subordinates would form grado No. 1; the nighost, such ss the Chief Clorks of Doparimonts, No. 12. Wiihia cach grade, the employes would rauk, as officers of tho uamo title do, according to the dato of their appointment. Tho tenuro of office would depend entirely upon competenco and good behavior, It might Lo well to introduce o sort of modified court-martial into tho Civil Borvico, sod have an offondor tried by o dotail of hia fellow clerke. This would tend to maintain a healthy espril de corps. The findings of theso courts would bo subjoct to tho approval of the Secretary, Whon- evor & clork diod, resigued, or wag oxpelled, tho vaeanoy croated would bo flled by advancing ovory person below him in rauk one etop for~ ward. In this, the analogy of tho army would Lo strictly followed. At stated intervals, oxam- inntions would be hold. Tho candidates would receive certificates in tho order of their merit. They would be appointed to the vacanoies in tho lowest grade in the samo ordor, This system would provide tho. machinery needed fo make the appointment and promotion of Government employes depond upon personal, instead of political, mexit. At the frst glance, it may seem open to the objection that it would involve o constant shifting of positious and duties. This is vot so. Whon Clerk No. 2,302 of grado No, $ Lecaro No. 2,301 of the samo grade, his duties would not ohunge, Ho wonld contiuue to do the sanio things In the same placo, as an army Col- onol doce when tho death of anothor brings him ono atep noaror tho stars of a Drigadior. Tho only men whoso dutios would ohange would be tho hends of grades below the one in which tho vacancy occurred, Thus, if & mombor of No. 10 resigned, tho chiof of grado No, 11 would Dbocomo the last man fn No. 10, and tho chief of No. 12 the last in No. 11. Each of them would be fitted for his now dutiea by the lang course of training he biad bad o passing through oll the ranks below it, just as a Colonel learns how to discharge the duties of bis rank by secving an apprenticoship sa Lisutenant, Captain, Major, and Lisutonant-Colonel. A littla vigorous discnnsion of dofinite plans for Oivil-Borvice Roform will e of great good Just mow. It s for this renson that we submit theso suggestions, which, if acted upon, would porliaps fully sntisfy tho roquisites of a perfect Civil Service,—apuointmont for porsonal, not po- litloal, morit; rotontion in ofiice during compe- tonco and good behavier; and assured promo- tiou aa tho result of long service, If the Forty- third Congress is unable to flnd time, during the hurriod hours of ity closing session, to mature a measuro of froform, we call upon the Forty- fourth to rodeem tho pledgos ot its party, made at Baltimoro in 1872, to *regard such thorough reforma of tho Civil Sarvice a4 one of tho mogt prossing necewsitios of the hour If it prace tioally hiogds this plodgo, we shall be preparad two voars, it is unnocessary to dwell upon thom. In dofining & monetury crisis, the lecturor thon proceeds to corraot tho popular delusion that it is somo injury which has happenod to the gold or paper monoy of a courtry, by showing that gold and bits or papor aro not wealth so long aa they remain monoy and are not converted into property. The socret of the orfuia lies not i monoy, its incrense or docrease, but in the de- struction of capital. This is not a new theory, but, placed beforo the poople in & popular way, it will undoubtediy ap- poarso to the great mass who have hitherto supposed that & monetary criais was the rosult of 8 puralysis of the monetary norves of tho coun- try, it wo may so oall thom. Its causeslie far- thor back, and, as thig’ point is the key-noto of Prof. Price's position, it needa omphaais. Capi- tal is “the food, the clothing, tho tools, and the raw matotial,” and also the shelter and the labor, involved in tho industrinl lite of man. These constituto capital, and this capital ia replaced by the goods made with it, traders, shipping, railways, and canals being simply the agencios for placing those goods in the right place, and the test of this capltal is that it is re- produced. Bo long ns this capital is kopt intact,—~that is, so long a8 the goods made roplaco wbat has been consumed to make them,—anation’s woalth doos not decay. This polat haviug boen catablished, it is easy to ueo ow nations got richor and pooror. Thoy got richer, nos by saving of mousy, for thore s no more monoy in tho contry, but by the incrense of this capital; that is, by improvomonts, by wenlth-making machivery, and the incroase of faoilitios of prodaction; snd thoy got poorer by consuming moro than thoy make, which dimin- ishios this capital, unloss they apply the romody of consuming leas whon they make less, which i & fandamental law in political cconomy, whose operations have boon clearly manifeated in the financinl history of this country during the past two years. Ouo of the happiest illustrations of the destruction of capitnl was tho lecturor's practioal application of nis facts to the building of railroads, and upon this pomnt we reproduce the lecturer's own words: Did X not tall you the test of oapital is that it is re- produced7 Is an unfnished railway power? If I said to all the workmen in the Stato of Illinols to make hioles In the ground, thers would not be a crisls, prob- ably, becati-e you would say : * Thiey are all gofng, in two or three montlis, (o starve,” and thercfore thero would not be much surprise about the matter with the ihing right before you ; but suppose you persuaded yourself that making holes {n tho prairio was going to ot sou immenscly rich, snd you discover in two or thres months overything was all gone, and thero wss nothing loft but holea in the ground, When that dls- covery ia made, thoro {8 a terrible thing, A small man hios beon putting allLio saves into what ho supposca is g00d securitics—futo this railwsy, and, when tho timo comes, ho finds that the workmen bave caten i, the workinen have druuk it, and he Las no ghare fn it. It s an unfinjsied line, Is not that s deatruction of cap- ital? Wasg not that tho matter with your country last year? Waa not thore a number of clover things called bonds? And wero not those notes bought by tho peo- ‘plo with thoir money ? Although this is but onc instance of the man- ner in which capisal, thAt is, wealth, has beon dostroyed, it is one of the gravest importance to tho American poople. It tells the secret of the rocent panic. w'he monoy whick the peoplo placed in theso bonds was obtained with their products, thoir industry, thoir factory work, and this wealth went into **tho Loles in the ground,” #8 Prof. Prico g0 hapmly torms them, and thero it will stay, because it was consumed by men who had no goods to sell in return, and who have not restored or roplaced the eapital they have dostroyed. Heroe is the secret of crises, for what is truo of railroads is true of every olhor form of the destruction of weanlth, Tho making of unfinishod railways re- produces nothing. Nothing passes to tho bank- er’s books; on tho other hand, the money has boeon passing the other way. The banker Ainds his doposite are diminishing, and the merchant can- not gat accommodations, sud the erisis burats upon the people. Tho cause of the orisia sng- goats the romedy. Tho capital must be built up ngaiu. ‘Thomenns of Iabor must bo increased, Consumption must bolimited. In homely phraso, we must stop eating up to-day what is stored up for two days. The limits of the proaent article will not allow & disoussion of this etatement of tho causs and romedy for crisos. It will, however, aa wa stated at tho ontsot, correct tho popular delusion with raforence to the relations of mouoy to erises, and oloar away the fog which has so long clouded tho popular mind upon this question.: 1f, after secopting tho eause which Prof. Prico has stated 8o olearly, they apply the remedy by industry, oconomy, and rotrenchment, it will not lake long to rocovor from the offects of the erisls which wroatillin operation. For this oclear, conclue, snd practical losson in politieal oconomy, Irof, Prico deserves the hoartiest commondation, The world at large ia not alono in the opinion that Woston, the podestrian, is, not to speak parshly, a disappointment. Anothor and highly important scotion of tho universe, Mr. Jobn B, Judd, has come to tho sume conclusion, By, Judd s a professioual walkor, & groat tralner, and o profoundly scientific porson, Posscssed of & keenly analytical wind, Mr, Judd is not sat. faflod with oxpresuing the opinion that Woston ian traud, Mo goos furthor, Ho enlightous an anxious world se to tho roason why Weston faited to walk 500 miles in six days, It was bo- onuse the dlstance was too groat and tho tima too ahort, As an illustyption of this singular theory, and to couvluco the most skaptical of Ita aceuracy, Mr. Judd proposes to waik 500 milos in aix daya and a Lialf, and sdd to tho natural oxhilaration of tho spactsole by aarrylug an snvil around tho track, What man darcs, Judd daros; who dares more, is loss than Judd, Victory will quallfy lnm for n reaponeiblo position on the Herald, Hig theorlos will prove invaluablo to tho walking oditors of that papor. Bome papers professing to be Republican organs oriticise tho position of Tuz Cnrioaao TRIDUNE on tho tarlff quostion. Tho argument 18 that tho country is demanding moro taxos, and that tho peoplo, Indignant st the failure of Con- greea to add to tho genoral taxation, bave hold tho Republican party responsible, and thrust out of Congrosa mony of its mombora. Ioro is a specimon of tho logies The parly owes ita recont revorses, in part, to too great roticence on ihe subjoct of proteciion to homeo industry, Ita most acvero robukes aud lovsoa hiave oce ourrod in manufacturing sect{ous, af'in Massachusatts, Now Jorses, -and portions of Lounsylvanis, Tho Alles gheny Oounty Diatrict is a striking fnstanca in pont, where two yoars sgo Geu, Negioy was olected to Cone gress by noarly 7,000 mjorily, ete, . This & remarkable coufession. In 1801, Con- gresa began to incroase taxes for tho double purposo of raisiug war rovenuo, and to ** pro- toot” homo industry. Annually from 1861 to 1807 an additional turn of the sorew was applisd, that with increasad taxes the paople should be bonofited. At this timo tho tariffof the Unlted Brates excoods that of sy civilized pation In the world, Compared with the tariffs of other couus trica it is & monatrosity of taxation that Is not attempted by any enlightened Governmout. As this tax i not lovied for revenus but mere- ly to proteot tho manufaoturing districts, wo can only draw the inferouco, that to the oxtont that the late olections were controlled by tho tariff, the poople of the manufuc- turing districts, as well a8 the pooplo of tho ag- rleultural districts, are hoartily sick and tired of tho oxcessive taxation. An average tax of 40 per ceat on everything that we eat, drink, woar, or othorwise consume, {8 likely in the courso of timo Lo reach tle pockets of every citizon, and to awaken him to a consclousness that he is being robbed most ubmercitully. Moasachusotta defeated Butler, whose woolon- mill hag & monopuly of making American bunt- ing. Alloghony and Pittaburg, whose every in- dustry ia proteoted, elected two Demoerats to COongress. Clovoland, too, whoso laborera are protected by general and special logisiation, votod the Domoeratia ticket. Oiucinnati, Dotroit, and St, Louis, whose manufactures are hoavily pro- teoted, voled tho same way, as did aléo the lumber and solt-making districts of Michigan. It tho rocent olections turned upon the question of Protection, how can we cscape tue con- clusion that all theso groat manufacturing centres havo declared in favor of an abolition of protective dutios ? The theory that they olected Free-Tradors to Congross in order to have taxea increased is one of those sbenrdities which aro only consistent with the ignorancoe that inslsts that the Ropublican party, as & party, is pledgod to Protection, aud that the bost way to leasen tho groat and oppressive burden of taxation is to increaso taxation noarer and nearer to the line of gonfacation. THE FULLERITON-AVENUE JOB, The contraotors for the coustruction of the Tullerton-avenue sewor have potitioned the Common Councll for a gratuity of 105,000, The circnmstancos are very plain. Tho Board of Publio Works advertised for bids for the con- struction of the sower connecting Lake Michi- gan with tho north branch of the river. Tho lowest bidders were George F. Norris & Co., to whom waa awarded tho oontract. Theso gone tlemen, aftor a careful survey of the ground, conoluded that thoy had made a very good thing, and that thoir profita would be handsome. Thoy have comploted about one-fourth of tho work, and now present a claim that the obaraoter of the eoil s diffesent from what thoy had sup- posod, and that the difioultios of building tho conduit aro so much greater than was anticl- pated, that thoy caunot complete the job with- out & loss unless tho city shall 8o increase tho ratos por foot that thoir sggregate compensa- tion will bo $165,000 grenter than it will be un- dor tho contract, This petition is prosented under unfortunate circomstances. It is prosented st tho close of tho sos- sion of the Council, when & large number of Aldermen are about to leave the Council to give wsy to snccessors alroady elected. Thore is an snnual rush of dosperato jobs during the time between tho election of a new Council and the goiug out of tha old, This claim, coming at this time, has the appearanco of boing a grab. For thia resson, tho presont Common Council should not act on it at all. Tha shamoful revelations of the voto on the D. AlL Ford contract should be & warning, But there aro otbor reagons why the Common Couucil should not take the acion asked for. Tho law roquiros that all work done for the city shall bo let by contract to tho lowest responsible bidder. When the Board of Pnblic Works thus lota contract, that should bo the end of it. The city does not in any way undorsrito ita contraota and guarantod a profit to the contractors, On the contrary, it compels the contractors to give bonds to execute the work st tho prico named, whether thoy make money ornot. There can bono increase iv the compensation named in the contract without a repeal of the law on that subject. Tha letting of the contract s placed by the charter in tho Bosrd of Public Worke, and the chartor requires of that Board certain action In case tho contractor falls to perform lus du- ties, Thia is by nomeans a new cass, Tho contractors for the Washington-stroot tunnol found thst they wero unablo to execute tho worl at ihe coutract prico, and abaudoned it, ‘Tho work was then relst to those who yere able to do the work. The present contraotors, it thoy are unablo to completo tho work without a loss, have two courdes to follow,~to go on with tho work and sustain tho loss that may ocour, ar auspend work and la¢ tho city rolet the con- traot, and hold them responsible for whatover differenco may hiappon fn tho cost of completing tho sower. This 18 the requirement of the city choreor, and the Common Council cannot do- cently go bebind it, and vote an incroase of componsation to & contractor who voluntanly undorbid all responsible compotitors, The Com- mon Council cortainly cannot with propriety tako any action at all, excopt npon the report of thio Board of Publio Works, aud that Board can- not recommond an increass of compensation to contraotor when the law expressly points out how that Board shall aot in caso = coutracior dofault, To vote additional compensation to a contraot- or ju to destroy the whole coutract systew, It breals up all bonost competition, 1t turns the wholo quention of compensation for work and materinle over to the Counmon Couneil, Itinvitos spurious aud flotitious bids, that the contractor may go to the Council afterwarda to have &0, 60, or 80 per cont sdded to his bid. It is, moroover, not oloar that tho coutractors have such s bad Job of it aftor all. Upon this subject tho Board of Publio Works may throw somo light, and pos- aloly ba able to catabllsh that this I a domand to plundor tho City Troaaury out of $105,000 by the votesof & squad of rotiring Aldermon n tho laat hours of tholr officlal lifo. THE BOARD OF TRADE, The recent indictmont of a prominent mem- bor of the Buard of Trado of this city, by its Directors, opona up s question of moro’ than usual jutorest to tho Board, and to Ohicago, of whoso commercial relations tho Board iy tho londing roprosentative. The mombor in quos- tion {s obinrged with having doliberatoly omitted to fulfill bis contracta whou ho was avowedly ablo to msko the deliverica of grain which ho bud sold ; rofusing to ablide by tho doclefons of thio Committocs of Arbitration and Appeals, af- tor Lo had plodged bimsolf in writing to accopt tholr rullog s final; dofled tha power of the conatitutional suthoritics of the Board to disci- pline bim; and donlod the vatidity of the rules of the Aegociation, Ho hay thua put st doflance tho entiro mombership of the Board on a quos- tion of far greator importsnce than tho more morcautilo standing of an individual oporator. 1t 18 & question which involves the oxistouco of the Doard iteelf, and the immensoe produce buai- ness of Chicago which ia transactod by tho Board of Trado, The anawer to this important question do- pends not 8o much upon the gamblers and sealpors on 'Clhiango as upon thoge who condemn discreditable transactions, but aro usually too - busy to oxpress thelr censure in the only way iu which it can be feli, Tuo matter rests in telr hauds, and thoy should, for once, waken up to 8 gongo of tho situation. Thoy should remem- ber that if tho Moard cannot enforce its own rules, and protect itself from publio disgrace, it will soon cosae to be respacted. Tho respeot of tho busluoss community onco forfeited, the Board must loso the produce busincss of the Northwest; and some othor medium must bo provided for transaoting that commercs in this city, or a large part of tha produce trade will bo lost to Ohicago. THE ROCK 1SLAND & HENNEPIN CARAL. It hoa boon fitfally proposed, from timo to timo during the last few yoars, to dig a canal botweon Honuepin, on the Illinois, and Rock Island, on tho Migslesippl. Waiving for the mo- ment the quostion, * Who ought to dlg it?" wo propose to consider, firgt, whothor it ought to be dug ot sl The route, whioh has boen several times sur- voyed, is substantially that of tho weatorn por- tiou of tho Chicago & Rock Island Railroad. The country {8 nearly lovel, Tho rise from Hon- nepin to the Summit is only 200 feot, which would be divided betweon ninetcen locks. Thero would bo one strotch of 15 miles on tho Green Rivor without o lock. Tho fall from the SBummit to tho Missiasippl is 88 foot. This would require only cight locks, The Summit-out Itsolf wonld Do only 6 miles long, with a depth of rock-oxcava- tion varying from B to 12 fost. Thorein scarcely any rock to bo cut through outside ot tlus ehort stretech. The whole longth of tho canal would bo 64 miles. Thia is exclusivo of o fecdor, 88 miles long, from the Bummit to the Rock River at Dixion, Xtis claimed that the qusn- tity of water taken by this foeder from the river would be so small that the manufacturing industries of the Rock Valloy would not suffer stall. Tho highest estimato of the costof the whole work made by the engincors engaged on tho different survoya ia $4,500,000, This is for a largo canal. Tho Cauadian eanals will be finished within throe yoars. When they are, tha present cost of transporting grain from Ohicago to Montreal will be sensibly lowered. At present the rato per bushel is 113 cents. From Chicago to New York, by the Erio, it {a 16}, Tho real differ- ence in decidedly groater, however, for these figures do not include tho cost of transshipment at either Montroal or Now York. Tley are very much higher at tho Iatter. Tho averaga cost of water-transportation to New York during tbe lnst soven yoars has boen 20 cents per bushol. Tiven at this high rate, tho saving in freights, 28 compared with what railrosd oarriage of the same amount would have cost, is reckoued, for tho threo years, 1865-6-7, at over $40,000,000. It iu fair to calculato that Illinois gained one-tonth of this. Those figures serve to show how essen~ tial to tho Western grain-growor water-ways are, 1t must not bo forgotten, moreover, that this 18 but part of tho gain. Canal competition keeps down railroad rates. Every winter, as soon as the Ero freozes, Eastern freights by rail ad- vanco largoly,~—tho raiironds taking advantage of the closing, It is now proposed to oxtend the great wator- way provided by the St. Lawrenco, tho Erio, aud the Lakes from tho sembonrd to Chicngo west- ward $o the Mississippl by way of tho Iliinols & Micbigan Canal, the Illinols River, and tho Rock Tsland & Hounepln Canal, The cost of the laat link nooded to completo this chain would bo, a8 wo have said, $4,600,000. This 18 just ubout oqusl to the sum which Illinois saved by using the Erio, despite its high charges, in three years! Tho proposed casal wounld tap, ot Rock Island, tho currents of grain which flow down the Missiesippl from the whole Northwest. How great thig flow is may be inferred from the fnot that Iowa, Min- nosota, Wisconsin, and Illinois produced, in 1870, over 100,000,000 bushels of wheat alone. The grain grown in those States could bo floated down the Mississipoi in bargos, and the barges could then be towed directly to Uhicago, This towing might be dono by a locomotive running on » Darrow-gauge raflway along the bank, or tho steam causl-boats now beiug tried on the Erie may prove successful enough to warrant their use hers. If only thirly boats passod through the canal per day, thoy would transport 8,400 tons of grain, It would take forty-two hesvily-loaded railroad trains to carry tho samo amount. Tho saving In cost of transportation would be great. Not only would the goods car- riod on the canal pay low freights, but also thoss truneported by rail. The opening of tho wator- way would compel tho Uhicago & Rock JIeland Railway to reduce its ratea at once. Tho Burlington & Quiuoy and $he Northwests e would quickly be forced to follow suit, A similar zoductlon by all the east-and-wost lines would be only a ques- tion of time. Thus the wholo West, whotlior or not it used the canal, would bo the gainor by it. It is evidont that it would pay, and pay richly, to dig thiu ditch between Rock Island ang Heu- nepin, but Hlinols 1¢ forbiddon by her Cou- atjtution to do it by tho salo of bonds, The outorprise 18 of too groat magnitude, por- havs, for & private corporation to undertake, slthough it would gurely ylcld a handeomo profit, If the General Government is to pursue & policy of Internal improvement, wo kuow of no way in which 4 oau spend 94,600,000 of tho funds sot apart for that pur- poso bottor than in digging tho Rook Island & Honnepin Caual, THE CINOINNATI OREMATION CASE, The murdor of Horman oluling will serve Clnelnnat! for a nine-dnys' sonsation, Schilling wag & walchman in o tannery. 'I'vo mon, ono of whom is prosumably the fathor of a girl whom tho murdorad man hed seducod, attacked him about 10 o'clock Saturday night. Thoy stabbod him with & pitobfork and pounded him insonsl= blo with olubs. Then, apparently maddenod by the tasto of blood, thoy dovelopod Into devils, Some 40 foot from tho stablo in whioh tho strug- glo took placo le & furnace, It was in full blast, Tho wirderora dragged Schilling thither, and Jjammed him through a small irou door into the hot-ir chambor uudor tho boiler, Nino houra afterwards, whon tho furnaco was oponod, a mass of charred flesh was discovered within, Ouo of the notable featurcs of tho murdor fs the conduot of a youth of whom Cinciunatt ia probably not proud. e heard tho scuiflo, and ran to the placo. Schilling, who knew him, shoutad tuat o waa belng killed., Therent this phenomenon walked around tho square, shiouted “Watch!" saw no policoman, eamo back and told the murderers thoy had better atop bufore the police camo, and—wont to bod. The Clucinoati roportors ara oagerly improv- log the chance to do what thoy spparently con- sldor ‘fine writing.,” The Enuguirer mon tells tho readers of that shoot just how tho romainy. smolt, and all sbout tho *hidoous adhosion of half-molten flesh, bolled bratus, and jolfied blood.,” flo marks, with a connoisseur's oye, tho differont effect of the hoat on differont Organs. Thus the llver “was simply roasted” (lucky livor[), while tho kidueys were fairly friod.” After using bis oyes to such effect, the roporter tried touch. Unfortunatoly, muet of the brain had “*boilod away.” Thero wsn ntill, howover, & “small wasted lump” left. This was “crisp and warm.” After fingering the aurface, this ornament of American journalism pusbed his finger into the contre and,wag thus enabled toin- form the Enquirer subsoribers, at their break- {ast-tablos, that the intorior folt about tho con- | sistoncy of banang~fruit” (this will be plensant for banang-oaterd to remember), * and the yel- low fibros seoritod to writho like worms in tho Coroner's hande.” Wo apare the resdor the plensing fancifal description of the probable ag- onics'of tha livo man when pokod into the fira, It ends with o picture of tho two murdorors ** poer- ing iuto tho farnaco until the skull oxploded sud tho steaming body burst | Thia is the firat practical trial of eremation in America sinco tho rovival of discussion on that thowe. Prof, Webster inaugurated tho fashion by burning Dr. Parkman aftor killing him, This ‘was @ quarter of a contury ago. Wo believe that no otbor ocase of cremation has beon reported until now. In both eases, in Doston and Cin- cinuati, the charred romaine of the viotim wero found and identified. Parkman's murderer was hung. Bobilling's sloyers probably will be. The failure to concoal the evidences of erime will milltato againat tho general adoption by mur- derers of this mothod. Thoy will simply Lill us and refrain from baking us afterwards. Aoen- while, unless somobody in some othier ity doos something inorodibly wicked very soon, Oincin- nati can congratulato hersalf on having pro- ducod the moat ghastly crimo and the most loath- some roport of it for the yoar of our Lord 1874, The New York Sun gives a biograpbhy of an inventor who has doue moro for the world thau the world bLas for him. After making balf o {lozon sciontific improvements in mechanics, any ono of which would have made auother man's fortune, Lio bas gradually fallen to the position of teuder of tho atage-door in & Now York theatro, His name fs Froligh, Whon 20 years old ho invented a diving-dross, for which ho got $600,—nbout thoe only reward ho ever ob- taived. Ho wervod his sppromticeslip at the Novelty Iron-Works, snd sftorwards obtaived a position as euginocor of the Jorsoy City Ferry Company at €600 a yoar, For inveuting the rovolving grate for forry-boats, the Superin- iendont gave him a pair of patent-leather boots; for jnventing an anparatus to heat watar by wasto stenm and save 10 per cont in fuel, ho ro- ceived n doublo-barrol shot-gun; whon ho built s model for a Spaniard who wantod s boat of light draught and jmmense carrying capacity to navigato the shallows of the Amazon, and was sbout to sign n contract to conatiuct & flotilla of such veesels, the Spanisrd was mardored in s cigar-storo; when, four yoars later, ho invented a ** combination-gauge " to indicato the sction of the force-pumnp, the temperaturo of tho water in the * hot-well,” ana the donsity of that in the boiler, s Scotchiman stole Lis dis- covery, and patented it in his own name ; when he compounded 5 lubricator for locomotives, the Goneral-SBupply Agent of tho Ere Railroad re- fused to accept it unless ho was paid & bouus of 6,000, And, lustly, after & day had beon ap- pointed by James Fisk, Jr., in Which Freligh was to receive 230,000 in stock and money for tho seoret of tho cowpound, Stokes futorfored aud murdered the only msu who bad oven prom- ised him fair troatmevt. To such & man the Fates have dono thoir worst. Aftor such a serica of disappointments, no woudor that the poor man takes his stand st tho door of a theatrs, satistiod that the shams of the Btage are moro gubstantial thau the gratitudo and honoscy of the world. —_— A Pans lettor holds up & wicked philosopher's fate as & Lideous warning to the people who think for thomuelves. Boveral yoars ago ho wrote s work on moral and mental philosophy which became so popular that it ran through thres or four editions and gained for the author tiie Chair of Mentsl and Moral Plulospuy in the University of Bordosux. Tbo book being out of print, sud & domand beivg mado for a revised adition, tho Profoseor polished up somo of his periods, and the edition was published. 1AL do Cromont bud in tho moautimo 1ecoived the port« folio of the Department of Publio Instruction. Buddonly tho Profossor waa expelied from his ohair, and charged with baving publishod a per- nicious work. Ian vain did he plead that it was tho wame work which had gained him that char. M, do Cromout’s clerlk was inexorablo. A, do Cremont, provious to going away for a season of huuting and fisbing, bad declared that thero Was 1o sp peal, and tho olork could uot help it. The man of ments! and moral philosophy, determiuned at any rato to discover tho pernivious oloment of his supposed harmloss work, succceded in ob- taining an nterview with the Minister of Publio TInstruotion, He learned that ho had erred in placiug his chaptor on morals before that on theology, thus intimating that morals could bo dorived from anything but tho excollent systom of theology accepted by M. de Cremont, He had shown that correot thoology waa the out- growth of correct morals. M.do Cremont was shooked, and ordored him to reverse bis logio and evolvo proper morals from sound theology. What a raligious-nowspaper editor was loat in L. do Cromont | P — The Honolulu (Hawall) Advertizer publishes astory of tho death of tho roal Slr Rogor Lich- borno, which posyosses, besides & weird air of romance, a flavor of probability, An Engilsn sailor named Olaridge, while knooking sbout among the fulands of the Paclflo, was tuken vn board a schoonor which hed not long beforo ploked up a boat containing two men ina fame ished condlilon, Ono of them waa very siok, and, af his own roquest, was put asbaroon Bydney Taland in company with Olaridge. Here ho diod stowly ; but, Lofore his roanon had lutk him, ho caused Clariige to make a pen from the fonthor of o wild fow), and usiug the blood of tho bird for ink, and a ploco of papor in which cheesn had beon wrappod, wrota 8 brisf blography, signing bimeelt Togor Tioh- borue. Ilo told Claridge, who could nok writo, that this wae Lis nome, and directed him ta cause the publication of the paper as onrly as possiblo. o died, leaving Clavidgo alono on tho island, It was two yonrs boforo a vessol took him off. Ko bad & copy of the dooument made, but lost 1130 original in an accidont, Tho affair had ontiroly esoapod his recollectisn when bo happenod to look at & copy of tho Illuatrated ZLondon News, in which wero portralta of the Tichborno famlly, OClaridgo polntod out Sir Rogor as bearing & quoer resemblance to the man be buried on Bydney Island in 1855, Tho story is at any rate as orediblo ne Arthur Orton's, ——————— Lot nursemaids wsil and bar-room topors chooso some otbier hero for their song, Na longer shall tho gismour of royalty ennoblo the' toucking lyric query, ‘*How do you like your *tators done 7" for Hoky-Poky-Winky-Wum hag rotired from the splendor of majesty and s now o longer ¢bre King of the Cannibal Islands. It matters not now whethor his proforence for the tubacclo extends to its proparation, ** baked or Volled, or friod in rum,” Ho ia & King no longer. He m plain Mr, Eacobau. ‘The I'iji Islauds havo been formally trauaforred to the British Gov- owmmont, and the King of tho Cnnuibal Islands ks stopped down and out, On Oct. 21, Bir Her- cules Robinson formally took possession of tha sanoexed territory, and tho dothroned monsarch vassod In his allogianco, five turtles, and a now canog to propitiute Quaon Victoria. An aunexa- tlon ball was given by Gov. Robinson to celo- brato the event, sud 400 marines wore casually dropped nelboro with rounds of annexation ball ta give tona to the coromony and a gentlo hint to cor toin ferocious chiofu in the Interior of the conn- try who wantod their share, It fa sonoylng to think that, in tho midst of theso ceremonles, tha schooner Daphno ehould have arrived with the mewd that Capt. Alfied Clark, of Ban Francisco, commanding the American selioonr Zophyr, had beon captured fn the Now Hobrides, snd thero, proporly dressed and seasousd, was served up with bis crow, and beon eaton by tho natives. It shows tho bent of the heathen's appotite, DBut the coromonies wore not disturbed. Kacobau, at ony rate, couldu't be beld respousible for this amusemont. His hond, relioved of the walght of o crown, lles oasy. Arm-in-arm with old King Cole, that jolly old sonl, ho will atill travorse tho poctic collections of the nuraery, while history will socord bim standing-room among the othor ex-monarche, of whom Isabelta, Don Carlos, Plo Nono, and tho Prince Imporisl aro tho baut Jive ing representatives, But his famo will be more enduriug than theirs, When they are forgotten, aa thoy will be, and #leop in dull, cold marblo, tho vocal gamin and blesr-syod topor will atill troll out the averlasting culinary conundram ad- dressed to tho * King of the Canpibal Islands,” There waa & ourlous jnstance of brotuerly love at the rocent conference of Baptist ministors in New York, The Rev. J. D. Fultou took ocos- sion to say that, while ho was vieiting Mr. Spurgeon, the lattor gentleman had alo and wines upon his table, for which ho robuked him in private, and aftorwards in public by publish- ing his shertcomings, Instead of recoiving on- comiums for hia devotion to principle, the Rov. John Lovo arose and enid that a mau who would accopt anothor's hospitalitios, aud then pablicly prociaim the habitsof his host's daily life, was, to say tho Josst, not s goutloman, To this the Ruv. Dr. Miller replied with s vigorous ** Amen.” Tho Rev. Sponcer Kennard then avose and road o lotter which tho Rov. Fulton had writton toa Cinoinnati paper, aud pronounced its statoments falsechoods and dofamations. Dr. Patton, the aditor of tho Baptist Weekly, capped the climax by publicly proclai=ing tho Rev. Fulton a liar. Thero is,"” eaid be, *a regular stock atory of TFulton's, in which he gives details of hardships eudured in his early frontier life,—~of cold, and hunger, aud log-cabina. Oncs, after hoaring him toll this story to & Bunday-school, his mother uaid to bim, *Ob, Justin, Justin, how could yon toll that atory? You know it is not truel'" At this tho Rev. Fulton reproached tho Rov. Patton for making allusions to his eainted mother, to which the lattor roplied that, i the Rov. Falton had respestod bis sainted mother, ho wouldn't Lave told thoso falas stories for which she re- baked him in tho Madison Ayenue Church within a yoar. Thus tho matter remains at pressnt, oud the Rev, Fulton stands publicly charged with being & liar, Itis sad. Hawaif has had ite first trial for treasonm. Queen Emma hns tried all means at her disposal, from bribory upwards, to obtaln possession of tho throno. But one expediont bad boon loft un- triod and that was decided upon, It was fruit- loss for tho fascinating aspirant, but fatal to the assuming young gentleman to whom it was in- trusted. She put in circulation a petition ad- dressed to the French Commissioner, askiog that a French vessel be summoned to dothrone XKing Kalakua and install her own procious self. The youth who bora this strango devico was de- teatod, tried by jury, aod senteuced to be hanged for tronson, The trial and sentenco woro rogard- ed aa rather a cool joke, and it is probablo that the victim will be pardoned in timo. o o The solid foundations of the now Palaco Hotel at San Francisco have attracted unusual attene tion In that city, where thoy aro a novelty. Somo wag atarted a rumor that tho building was renlly & fortross in disguise, pointing out ite strength of construction and military advantages of position, ‘Why not call 1t the Grand Bolligerout of Ban Franoieco, a4 an offset againat the Grand Paciflo of Chicugo? _————— AMUSEMENTS, ACADEMY OF MUSIO. The star at the Acadomy the present week fa a Indy whose name iy woll known through hor por- formances in the variety business, in which sho bay achieved s roputation in assuming malo parts. Sbo appeared at tho beginning of tho week in a drama eptitled *Mixoed,” written by Frod Maeder, It i maid of a certain wenlthy business man in this city that ha was scized with the one idoa of hia life aftor tho fire. It was to bave a hole in & wall to pass papers through from one room to another, aud, acting upon this idea, ho constructod s banduome five- story building rouud that hole. In the wome way, AMr, Maedor has built o drama round Ells Woener's poocullar olass of character represontations, It s nob a novelty to flnd young suthors engaged upon work of this kind, and more's the pity. Anything loss akin to art dues not oxiet than such a drama. *Mixed” {8 an excoption morely inasmuch a8 it possesses oug or twa bught idows. Ono ls the foundation of & plot upon the marriage of & mun with the daughtor of the por~ son bo has murdered, This is gory but ingou- fous. It original with Lfr, Maoder, he should Lavo full credi¢ for is. Thore are one or two other points of a loss important character, but equally good in thelr way, Apart from thess, tho drama is simply olap-trap, clippings from other pleces, snd vastly silly. Tho pathotio sconea oro ludiorous, aud tho melodramutio situ- ations 8o overdrawn as to bo comical. That js all that can be snid of the drawn. Of Miss Wosnor, thore i4 morn of a com- moudatary cliaracter, In hor peculizr line she 18 oxtromely interesting, Her fignre, manner, and voite aro 60 ousontiully mascutine that it ro- quited o olfort to boliove that she is really of the sox which sho sssumes to bo, Her onsugon In attive are rwld{r offeutod, and thut, too, in wases whoro, to all appearances, a cowplote chango of olothes soonis to bo nocessary, In fouunine drousus, however rich and hendsome, she i awkward and uuuatural, but in puntas loous shows a good masculine fi d wowd pass for a Ind without ditRoulty, i ‘The other parts of the plece are oxtremsly slll{ and impossible, and very trving aliko to tho B:t ml-x:;n:: the audioncs and the self-respacs of 6 p . Hext’ woek My, Gardiner is going heavily tn