Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 23, 1874, Page 4

.4. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 1674, BATEA OF SURSCHIPTION (PATAD 2,00 v, he Suuday, Al 0| ey ADYARCE), 1 93:38 Tartr of 2 ¥ "o prevent dalay and mistakor, be sure and give Post- e sddrens 1o fall, including Btate and County, Ttomiitances may bo mad either by draft, eanrews, Post- Qtica arddor, or In registored lettorts at our risk, TENMB 7O OITY RUDACRINERS, d, Bunday excopled, 25 cents perwook, o vered: Runday Included, 30) conta por woek. THK TRIBUNE COMPANY, Chleago, 1l Dails Dally, Add Uornos Madison aud Dearborn.st TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENT! - KR'S_ THEATRE—Madlson atrest, betwosn ,,2{,!:‘,’."..,\, State, ** Jesnie Deant ND OPERA-HUUS) Rititinn Moo, | Kolly & Loov's Duteh 8. - k. %, onposite Mindieler ~drand 181G~ Halsted streck batween dad- Ay O N evaemont of Mra, ¥ 5, Onanfra. 2 d Mot 5 WA Sio Rigne HOOLEY'S THEATRE~—Randoloh stroot, Detwean Olark and Lasallo, ** Divorce.” Jark atreot t —orth Clark sirect, eorner of 1 CCORMIOR A LL-e N Fhiilipps Compny. —— HOMEQPATHIO NOSPITAL FATR—Nos. 110, 11, and 114 Lake stisot, Whe Chitags Teibune, Monday Morning, Novomber 23, 1874, 1f Srith doos not harey aut of his rotire- wont, nobady will bo eutiows to seo him whou ho does como. Dr. Tifany's examplo fn locturing for the bon- ot of tho Washington Monumenc Fund is worly of imitation. Hlore ts o neat sentiment from Archiblshop Bay- lag . ** Thoro is noboiug on carth more mischiov- ous and daugerous than an old politieian turned out to grase.” That will do for Butler. —— Republicans who vated tho Democratio ticket ab tho Jato oloction will be interested in tho re- port thnt the ox-Rebols down South are proper- ing claims for componention on accountaf prop~ erty destroyod by thio Union srmios. The facts are givon in our Washington dispatch thismorn- ng. o Whicperings of Washburne and Jewell as be- ing tho Administration candidates for President sud Vice-Prosidont in 1876 sro heard in Wash- ington, This is & good timo not to say much bout the Presdontial campnign. Thore is a Republican National Convention yet to bo heard trou, e, The Tepislative, Judicial, and Exccutive Ap- propuiation bill for tho next fiseal year is beiug framed on the basis of o reduction from last yoar's catimates of G to 10 por cent. Thisisn good Republican item to pass around ; and when \nybods says that the Democratic successos did it, just recollect thot a similar reduction was mado last winter. e The gambling establishment which wae visited by tho po‘ics Saturday night was compazstively sespectablo, Mr. Tiehm knows whore to find McDonaid and the othor dangerous men. —Tne TaiuoNe published alist of uotorlous bouses yosterday. The Board of Polieo and thelr Buper- insendent are trifling wilh tho people; and the Euople’s Party is reeponsiblo for their conduct. e A foint resolution has passed tho Bonate of tho Arikansas Legislature and beon reported in tho House providing for an investigation of tho 1menne by which S, W. Dossoy secnrod his elee- tion to tho Uvited States Sonate. Tho Demo- THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNIE: MOND NUVEMBER 23, 1874 cholco. Shaop woro dull and unchanged, at $2.60@4.75 for poor to extra. The tolegraph announces that in tho trial of the election caso of Sir Jahin A, Macdonsld, the ste Canadian Premior, tho Judge declared tho olec- tion vold, but said tiat personal bribery waa not proven. The announcoment is somowhat blind without an explanation, Coutosted elootion cases in Canada are not sottled by the Hlonso of Toprosentatives, a8 with us, but aro brought to rogular trial in tho courts, and their effeot Is not to wont & candidato but to mako an election void. For nstanco, the Farwoll-Le Moyne csse, if in Cansds, would go fnto the courts, Tuoy might declaro Farwell ontitled to bLis seat, or unseat Lim by doclaring tho olection void, in which case a new eloction would bo held; but they would not aoat Mr. Lo Moyno, The pertinonco of the bribery eloment in the Canadian olection is ex- crats in that Stato may a8 woll understand that they are treadiug on dangorousgrounds, Dorzoy is » Sonator, Proccedings to oust him will almost certainly fsil, aod anylhing which savors of porsecution will cost thess Domocrata iu Arkausss morothan they can possibly gain. ©On meny nccounts, tho wisest course to pursue would bo to wipe out old scores evtirely, and lov the Democratic ora in Arkansas date from the adoption of tho new Constitution, Postmastor-General Jewell is dolog good works in bis Dopartment, Temoving incompetents, reduciug exponses, end jucros«ing tho actual 1mail facilitics. Even the Demoorats, and those who protend to be Indepondent, spoak in bigh torms of commendation of his administration. But thoy attompt to break the forco of his ex- ample by arguing that all his reform measures are contrary to the wishos of the Republican party, ond that his confirmation by the Ropub- licon mnjority of the Bouato is doubtful. "Ihia fa not true orfair. If the Republican party i8 to bo held reaponsible far Alt. Jowall, it ought to receive credit for his good conduct. [t may e sound Democratio logic, but it is not sound sonse, to charge the party in power with all casoa of malfeassnce in offico white craditing it with noue of tho reforms accomplished by its sor- vante. Archhishop Bayloy's lotter on the Gladstone pampblet was evidently not written for publica- tion. and we are quite suro thot the person who gava it to tho press, or authorized it to be used. committed a great blunder. It is absolutely valugless aa a coutribution to the controvgray. The only effect it can have I8 to ehow up the Archbishop in en unfavorable light both as rogards acumen snd poiss of mind, We are peither entertained nor edifiod iu roading, in the Archbishop's letter, that he is more disposed to pull Gladstons's uoso than to snewer him politely, And if thoe faots allogod cannot be better mot than by a blank denlal, snd “'an sppeal to the couscienco of eovery Catholic over the faco of the oarth,” thoy can- not be well met, Happily, thore is no reason to Qoubt tho loyslty of Amorlcan Csthalica ta the civil power; 40 much the mora to ho regratted, thion, s the injudicious publication of Arch- bishop Bayley's passionate declamation, The Chicago produce markete wore irregular on Saturdsy, but breadstuffs woro gonorally strong. Mess pork was active and firmer, clog- ing at $10.35 onsh, and $20.05@20.10 sellor Febe ruary, Lard was active and flrmer, closing av $12.90@13.00 por 100 1bs cash, nud $13.22)(@13.25 woller February. MNeats wore less sotive, at 7o for shoulders, 9}¢@u34o for short ribs, snd 03;@ g0 for short clears, Highwlues wore nctive and 3o+ Jower, closug at 8o por gallon, Lake freights wero dull. Flour was quict and un. changod, Whoat was quist and X@3o lover, closing at 892¢o sellor tho mouth, and 805¢o soller Decomber. Corn was more aotive, aud 20 higher, closing at 83¢ cash, and 78%o soller tha year, Oats were sctive and 2@4o highor, closing at h487c seller tho month, and 63}go for the year, Ttye was qulet and firmer at 0lc, Darloy was ac- tive and firmer, closlng at 31,80, Hogw wera in talr demand and s shade easler, st 80.75@7.00 wer 100 Iha for packers' grades, Cattle were ao. tive and frm, a4 $2.50@0.10 for common to plained by the fact that, under the Canadian Inwa, 8ir John Macdonald would have been for- over disqualified from bolding ofice if he had beon proven guilty of this offenss, PROSPERITY IN THE WEST. TIn tho general talk at the East of hard timos and depression of business, accompanied by the closing of mills and tho reduction of working- timo in others, it fa a comfort to turn to the more cheering figures which indicate tho pros- pority of the West. Laat winter, aftor tho panic had atricken the genoral busincss of trausporta- tion, tho rates on grain wora so much lower that notwithstanding the close of navigation the movement of gralu was 8o Loavy during the whole wintor that the surplus of tho Northwost standing over in tho spring was very much ro- ducod, Bo great was this reduction that, at the opening of navigation in tho spring, the or- dinary high rates of fraight on the lakes for moving the winter accumulation did not prevail. The Western producers, thorofors, begun the soason of 1874 with more cash in hand, recoived sl during the winter, thau bad evor boon known' in any provious yoar. - Tho cash value of tho corn receivod in Chica- go during tho twelvo months of 1873 was $14,~ 000,009, Tho cash value of the corn received in Chicago i 1874~not allowing for tho six wooka ybt to cxpiro—is $21,000,000,—an in- crease of cash to tho producers of 50 pcr(cent overlnst yoar. The crop of 1874 was léss in quantity, but tho advance in prices has placed in the bande of the Western vroducers moro than 50 por cont more cash for a less quantity than thoy roceived last year, The additional seven millions of dollars is of itself s handsome and tondy thing to Lave on hand. Assuming thst the whole numbar of hogs to Do packed in the Weat tlis esason—that 18, from Oct. 1, 1874, Lo Fob. 1, 1876~will bo five millions, tho actual sum to bo paid for them in cash will not fall short of $85,000,000. Tho season prom- igea to be a shiorter one than uswal, a8 farmers aro sending their bogs to markot to avoid food- ing thom on high-priced corn. Thia crop also foots up a handsome advance over last year. There has boen perhaps half as much comn shippod from the West which haa passad round Chicago na has baon rocsived here, During tho same period—from the oloss of barvest through tho wintor—thoro will bo porbaps 16,000,000 worth of wheat passing through Chicago, with athor graln, ocats, Tye, olo., worth $10,000,000 more. All this will be paid for iu cash on ship- ment. a2 Wiile'tho manufacturers of cotton and wodl- on goods, protocted as thoy aro by s natiousl bounty ranging from 85 to 70 per cent on all their products, sre dismissing their workmon, running on half time, and pledging cach other to produce one-third or one-fourth loss, tho farmers of the Northwost bave the following ex- Libit of their seles during the fall and winter : I'o this must be sdded : Corn A0l {11 CBICOEO. o veveeevnren Corn moved round Chicago....... Comn yet to be sold. Grand total. .$151,000,000 This §151,000,000 in cash will pass into the honds of the producers, the groator share of it from Chicago. As tho sesson of 1874 oponed with the farmera comparatively full-handed from tho pracoeds of their salos during the wintor of 1873, thoy will this yoar be in oven & much bet- tor condition a8 to the supply of money, It is truo thut the prico of wheat hns boen less than usual, but the advance in all othor graina hns, ia tho aggrogate, more than compeneated for the reduction in wheat. This Jargo sum of cash thus sont to the farms oll over the West has of nocossity stimulated production in othor lines. This monoy s not loarded. 1t e all exponded in oue way or the other for commoditios mot produced on tho farme, It haa kopt the gonoral trado of Chicago and of the West active during thae fall, and will continue to keep 1t eo during the winter. The manufacturars of Chicago, having customers thus prosperous, are themeolvos with their workiogmen madae sharers in the genaerul proa- perity of tho West. In the list of cash products of the farm sold in Chicago we have not iucluded the cattle, which foots up an aggrogate among tho millions, A large part of theso cattle coms from Texas, and for that roason cannot be crodited to the immediato West tributary to Chicago. THE ULTRAMONTANE DEMANDS, Th o condensation of Mr. Gladstoe’s famous pamphlot on *Tho Vatican Dacrees in Their Toariug on Civil Allogiance,” and tho statemonta of Arcbbighop Mnnning upon the future policy of the Catholio world in bis insugural nddross to the Rtoman Catholle Acadomia m London, both of whioh were printed in tho last isaue of Tae TnmuNe, aro worthy of tho care- ful and thoughtful attontion of our readors, Thoy contain au cxpomtion of tho jssucs which are now fuvolved in tho political complications of Europo, and which lio at the vary root of tho controversy whioh threatony to jeopardiza tho penco of Europe, and baa already {nvolved Germany lu a constant wrangle, Thoy wre specially worthy of attention, alyo, because thoy sro epunciated by two men who are the recognizod champlons of Protestantism aud Oatholiclsm in Great Britain. Mr. Gladstone In Lis pamphlet bas broughbt o strong indictment aganst the politicsl pretonsions of the Romen Cburch, If ity dogma of infallibility and ita nasortion of temporal, that is, political, powor, which tnvolve absolute obedience to the Pape not alon in falth, moraly, and church disciplino, but also in civil matters now rogulated by the Htato, aro enforcod, then the Church ia furniah- ed with a formidable urmory of weapous, It will control the liborly of the progs, of conscienco and worship, aud of spoech, Papal judgmenta and docreos cannot bo questioned without s, Tho Btate cannot dofiue tho clvil rights sud proviuce of the Ohurol, The Roman Foutlffs snd Ecumenioal Councila may usurp ths righty of Princos. Tho Church may employ physical lfnrcu to oarry out ita decreos, Power granted to the Eplscopate by tho elvil powor cannot be withdtawn from ft by the civil powor. In the conflict of Iawa, clvil and eccloaiastical, tho civil law cannot prevail. It will control the socular oducation of youtlh. All civil and philosophical knowledgo must bo direoted by eccleaiautical i thority. Martiage, not savramentsily contract~ ‘od,” will have no bindivg forco. No otlior ro- ligion but tho Roman Catholio can Lo ostablish- od by a Btata, The fréo exercise of othor re- ligious in othor Statos called Cathiolie cannot bo laudably allowed. Lastly, the Pope will have no afilistion with progross, scionco, lbor- allsm, and modern civilization, Tho sbove polate aro tho substance of the effecta which the Vatlcan docraes will have it they can aver bs qnforced. Mr, Gladatone goow atill further, and ssserta that the infliction of ponalty in 1ige, iimb, Iiberty, and goods, and right to dopose sov- orolans and relenso subjoots from oivil mlle- glance, with all its revolting consequonces, sre involved algo in these docrecs. Air. Uladstons Bays : 1u torms there iv mo mentlon of them: they aro beyond doubt included, For {t ia notorious that they have been duclaved and decreed, by “*Rume;™ that 18 tosay, by Topes and Popol Councils; snd the con- demnationa of the Syllabus fnclude all thiose who bold that Popes and Papal Counclls (declaced Ecumenical) bave transgrersed tho just limlts of thelr power, or usurped tho right of Princea, What bave been thoir oplufona and decrees about persocntion I need bardly 83y and, indeed, the right to cmploy physicsl force ls oven here undisgulsedly cladied, Against such an assumption of absolute powor, —a power which would dominate not only indi- viduals in body, mind, and soul, but States thom- solves, and atrip the civil power of all authority oxcopt under the revision and subjoct to the whims, capricos, aud projudices of s Papal throno, rosponsible tonoauthority but itaclf,—all Christondom will riso in rovolt. There will be found {n thoe army of opposition not only Kinga, Potontates, and Princos; not only Protostant- ism snd Republicanlsm, but also an elemont of Cuthollclsm itsolf, which inyears gone by has opposod those claims whon thoy hove been s sortad. The question was raised in 1829, ana at that timo tho collective body of the Vicars. Apostolic, who thon governed the Roman Catholics of Great Dritain, utterly repudiated theso claims, declaring that the Chureh had no right, directly or indirectly, to in- torforo with the affairs of civil governmont, while tho Insk Boman Cathohie biorarchy declarod, on oath, tholr belief that it is not an srticle of tho Catholio faith, neither are thoy thereby required to bollove that the Pope ia infallible, Bince those days the world has advanced still farthor, and the champlon of the Pope will find that these proteatations will bo repeated by more volces and with greater emphuals, When tho Vatican summons ita army to the flold it will find but s small and foeblo followiug. Tho Pops and Archbishop Manniog may as woll try to stop the revolutions of the world as to at- tempt to enforos these rusty dogmsa of a past ago when the world was in darkness sad iguo- rauce, JURIEB OF TAX-PAYERS. Now is the proper time for the public officials to propare such euggestions for legislation as thoir experienco may have taught thom to be es- dontial to the conservatiem of public order and privato rights, The sossion of the noxt Logisla- ture may be materially shortonod, and moncy thereby saved to tho poople, it the desirablo mossures bo prosented promptly and in an intel- Iigont sbape for action, Among thoso requisites we would suggoest a statute requiring that pay- ing taxos sball be an easential qualification to jury-service. It noods no argumient to show that mauy of the municipal and private ills that wo aro subjected to aro the direct cutgrowth of & dofeotve jury-system. Bomothing was accom- plishied in the way of reformby the laat jury-law, - providing for a certain rotation systom, which ‘baa crowded out & large proportion of the pro- fessional jurors who formerly swarmod our court-rooms, But ovon this law haa been evaded to Boma extont by tho practics of employing sub- utitutes, whom tax-payors are usually williug to pay in order to escape the vexatious sorvice. The requirement that ovory juror be a tax-payer would accomplish more in tho way of bresking up the businosu of the profossional juryman than any othor provision. As a rule, professional jurymen are not tax-payers, and tax-paycrs have moroe honorable and profilablo things to do thaa seek jury-service, Io & recont sult ageinst the munlcipality, the City-Attorney was obliged to confront s jury made up exclusivoly of bummors and sealawags. ‘fhere was uot o tax-payer in thd' entire panel, and onty two who reprasouted anytuing like tax- able property. One of these was & bar-tender and the other an_express-driver; and evon tho expross-driver did not own the wagon he drove. What wonder, theu, that sharks and speculators should find rich picking in suiis sgaiost the city? But it is not mlouo tho muvicipal corporation whiob is mado to suffer from such juries, Evory suit that is broughe in tho Circuib and Buperior Courts involves the claim to property of more than §200 in value, and the great majority of cases have thousanda of dollars at atake. Theso cases aro medo up generslly from difforancos botween business mon of iutolligenca; and, it thoy were not ablo to agres upon o fair basis of settlomont bistwoen thémuolves, how can it be oxpoctod that a jury of ignorant and irresponsi- blo men, who have nevor Lad auy porsonal expo- sionco in proporty-owning, shall bo ablo todecide ‘betweon thom ? Othor suits consist of attompts, Dy tho id of law technicalitios, to defraud prop- orty-owners ; what sympathy cau thelattor hope to roceive from a jury of propertyloss persons ? Or it the case be ou tho criminal dockes, is it likoly that men who have never eaved s dollar of property will entortsin tho samo jeslous cara to baye thiaves, and robbors, and rufiians punished o8 those who Lave sowething to . protect? All theso considorations are plain argumonts 1n fa- vor of the proposed requiremont that il jurors shall bo tax-payers. The very spirit of Aagus Charts, which is that men shall have & rlght of trial by their * peors,” should buggest this ohange. As it I8 now, taxe payers are compelled to appeal to non-tax-payors when their difforences bring them into tho courts, A very brief and simplo statute would cover the whole ground, and tho law-officers of the oity uhontd proparo it and ask the noxt Legle- ture to pass it. Wa cau scarcoly concelve that it will mest with any opposition, In connection with the present lsw, it would be the moaus of compolling the tax-payers to serve when drawn ona jury: foritwould be no esy matter to ongago othor tsx-payera ad ubstitutes, Young men wanting situations, and possessing » littlo aapital, will do better to go to Jorusalem with it tusn dopasit it with Tim Fuller and other coufidenco mon in & profitable business paying vast dividonds. There s room for them In Jeru. aslom, They wsy combiue pleasiza with profit mmay siudy up points in which they are lameuts ably ignorant, and pookot tho proceeds. Jerusa- lom i» the loast industrial or commerofal of olties. It hes 21,000 inbisbitants, rich deposits of sulplur, bitumen, and rook salt adjacent in bo Dead Bos, labor 4 choap, sad tho posaiblo profits large, The great trouble with Jerusalem 18 tho want of capital and seourity. It bas boon tho thontro of too much bloodshod to offor any advantagoous inducomont o capital. Dut to the riglit partios thore can bo no doubt that, as with Col. Sollers, ** Thera's milliona in it." *' POOR GAS FOR A DAY OR LWO0"1 It will bo interosting to tho public to know that tho gaa will bo shut oft in the North and Bouth Divislons this forenoon from 0 to 12 s, m: In order to' make connections with the now worke, Thore {a anothor part of the announce- ment made by Mr, Burtis, the Secretary of the Company, however, which it strikes us s entire- 1y gratuitona. Mr, Burlis aayas *' Parttes residing south of Twonty-second streot may be troubled for one or two days with poor light, on accountof tho nir ontering the pipe when the connection is mado, which cannot bo avolded.” BSuch an an- nouncemout as this shows gither that Mr. Burtis is 5 vory ignorant man or a man posscssed of & groat deal of assurance, Has Mr. Burtla not yot found out that parties lylog south of Trwenty-second stroet have been troubled alroady for ono or ¢o yoars with poor light, and the poorost kind of light, at sn extortionate prico, when labor and cosl were novor cheapor? Tho poor light which Mr. Burtis autlcipates for A day or two will not surprise any ono living in thio South Divislon, for it cannot bo pooror than’ tho light which has boen furnished bithorto. As no ono south of Twenty-second etrost has beon ablo to sos by Fio gas uatil 11 o'clock nt night, when thera is no occasion to nee, it is not prob- able that Mr. Burlls' poor light and pipes filled with air will make any perceptible differonce. 8o long a8 we can't 8o under any circumatances, tho plpes might as well be fllod with air a8 any- thing else. Xt connot be wpomaible that Mr. Burtis was igoorant of the con- dition of things whon . he wroto his ad- vortigoment, for hia attontion and the atten- tioo of the Gas Company have boen called sev- oral times to the faot that tho gas furnished by thom bas only the foeblest sort of {lluminating- powor, Wao therofore presume that Mr. Burtis was eimply indulging in some gentle {rony in informing the hopoleas and helpless victims of this gas-monopoly that they would have poor light for s day or two. If he was ignorant, he is inexousable, .If he was not, it does not holp the caseavy, Itis bad cnough to have to endure an imposition without having poriodical allusions made toit. 8o bring on your poor light for & dsy or two, Mr. Burtis, The poople will not be surprised at all unless it should turn out to ba poorer than the light they have beon having for your or two, CHEAP TRANSPORTATION. *Western producers bave sbundsut resson to rojolca. On the subjoct of chesp travsportation there begina to be **light all round.” It comes aven from Now York, 1t has at lost dawned upon the visual organs of the businoss men of thas city that their own trade is in dangor from tho systomatic extortiona of thelr railwey mo- nopolists, The report of the Chesp Transpor- tation Committeo, at & meeting of the Associa- tion on Baturday, Nov, 14, published in last woek's TRIBUNE, was decidedly good reading for tho people of tho West, It shows that & fow men, at losst, in New York appreciate the dangers -that throaton thoir trsdo from the macbinations of Vandorbilt and his confoderato monovolists of the Erio snd the Penneylvania Rallways. The failuro of their pligrimage to Baltimore to whoedle or to force the Baltimore & Ohio Railway to joinandto aharo in thelr schomes of cxtortion, may well alarm tho merchants of Now York. It cortalnly ia receivod with the most hopeful eatiafaction by the people of the West. For yearas past Tux Cuicsao Tnisuxe hins oarncstly protosted against these oxtortions. It s told New York repeat- edly that these extortions would 1n tho end ro- coil upon the Lonest dealers in that city; batin her pride and power sho let them pass as old wives' fables, Now that Ler most prom- inent ocitizens have indorsod the facts wo bavo so ofton prosonted, porhaps tho merohants of New York will demand justice to the West, and forco Vanderbilt and his asso- clates to chargo auch rates of freighs and fares ea will give thom a fair percentage on the actual costof their raads. To ghow that the New York Committes un- dorstand the subfect, we quote tha following from their report: . The mauagement of these throe grest highways has mot boen chiuracterized by & disiutereated and publio opirit whick would make thy possession af such power elthier deetrable or safe. From the most reliablo dats cxtant 1t Is evident that the Now York Central & Ludson Rivor Rultroad did not cost itastockand bond- Loldera to excoed $15,000,000, While ita lailities nay excood $117,000,000, The Erio cost ita atock and bond- od its Uabllities now excevd $120,- of the Yeunsylvania Central has not been wo glaringly waterod, but ite labilities are now upwards of $111,000,000, Al enorgies of the wunagers of heso great highways are now bent upon ‘malntatulng ratea of freight st polut whiclh will pay ividends upon thess Dotitious valuos, Most of this iuflation Las been accomplishied by fizing high rates of froight, asccumulating a largo surplus fund, puthng it into improvements, and then lssulng stock to ropro- sont the valua of these fraprovomenta; or, in othor words, first exaoting monoy from the public, aud then forever making the publio pay intorost uponm the awount 80 exactod, Can the morchants aud capitalists of New York suppose these exactions can bo continued foraver? The West haa anpesled in vain to their ‘honeaty sud their patriotiam to atop them. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio Railwsy to tula city will now enabls us to make a direot ap- posal to their pockets. Thoy must make thelr rallway chargea as low a8 tho now line orlosos oty large porcentaga of tha trade of all the Btates and Territories wost of Ohlo. From this righteons judgmont, ontered up agalnst: thom Dby tho publio apiulon of tho country, there is no posaiblo appoal. The Qommittes are not afraid to quote tha ox- ample of iho Haltimoro & Ohio Railway and fling it into the toeth of the Wall-atreot sharke, Thoy say: Contrastod with the policy of the other great hign- ‘ways, the polloy of tha Baltimore & Ohio Railrosd has oen to devole ts surpius earnings to increass tho ca- pacity of and perfocting the rosd, Lut not lssulng stock to yeprosent tuoso lmprovements, and it ia the Intention of its munagers, when tholr road is In » per- fect and completed condition, to reduce atlll further tholr rates of frelght, thus building up and devoloping ot ouly Bultimore, Lut the wholo country; and it is fhio fear of this that Induces mon Like Mossrs, Vander- Dllt, Boott, and Jawelt to Journey down to Daltimore and ondusvor to cosx or drivo Prasident Oarrett, of the Talttmors & Oblo Rallroad, futo & combluation with them, This {8 pistn talk, and New York will sot most wigely by giving due heed to the truths heraln atatod, A petition Ia bowg olrculated for the release from duraucs vile of tho Tichborne Olahmant, Thio sfaters of Arthur Orton bave appozled to the Home Socrotary to reiesis the prisoner for ourtaln reagony, amoog Whesd theas: Thad Aie thur Orton's oarabad beon plorced, while the prisonor's hind notj that Orton had s curved Dbaok, long, bony hands, light biue eyes, low in- stop, small-pox marke, aud & great scar across hiia face,~boautios which the Claimant lacks In vory uncommon dogreo. For thoso reasons tho prisonor should bo roloased. But, aa ho has boen convicted of forgery and perjury, whother Orton or not Orton, the neoesaity for reloasing bim on s potition does not appear. The foglo 8 of that subtle faminino ordor which defles pur- sulb by the grosser masoutine fntellact, COFFIN-MAKERS IN COUNOIL. Tho public will be glad to kuow that the Con- veution of Coffin-Makers ot iho West, which has boon in mession in Cinclunatl during tho past wook, has adfourned, In cobnection with this announcemont, it is stated that the timo of tho Couvention bas been occupled in the discusaton of mattors of common Jjoterest to the trade and social intercourso, To this statemont we take very * grave " objection. Coffins may bo of in- toreat to tho trade, but are tho last things that soolety wanta to hesrgabout. Thin apacios of merchandise ia not talked about in social lnter- ¢courda, Bocloty doos mob want to hire, buy, or sell them, or have snything to do with them, until it la compelled to. Tho dispatchios leave us in donbt as to tho nature of the moasuros passed by tho. coffin makers of the West. We trust, howover, they have dono nothing that will increase funersl ox- penditures, ‘The undertaker alroady is as much dronded 8@ tho tax-collector, If the late de- coayod, prosuming ho was sn economical msn, could aoe tho souvenits the undertaker presouts 10 his frionds, he would doubt whotlier ho could afford to die. 1t oan easily be shown by figures and statistics that it costs & man much more to dio than to be born or to get married, sad the firat operation is by no means a8 satisfactory as tho othor two. Why, then, tax a man 5o heavily for eomething which he does mot wani, which he would not have if he could help himeelf, ageinst which he protests i uis lifs, and which is ontirsly unde< sirable unless he has been s good Chrlatian or hes committod a murder, Holong s wo must die, lot us dis as economically aa posaiblo, and, it coffin-makers must hold conventions, lot them, be held as quiotly aud modestly as possible, It is not pleasant, just as we are making arrangoe- menta to go to sho opora, or to buy & now piece, of proporty, ot to Isy out some long-chorished plan of pleasuro for which wo bavo been work- g year after yesr, to be informed tbat the coffin-malera are in council upon matters of in- tereas to social intercourso. It la hard enough: to be informed every Bunday that we aro frall worms; that our lifs is but a span; that msn that is born of woman has but few days, and tbat theso ars full of troublo. Itis bad enough to bavo the dootors eye you upon tho atreet with a look of soreno satisfas- tion. It la bad enough to have to get your sods~ water and tootbpicks in placos where colored lighta only show the wayto the doctorand the undertaker. Thers arc plenty of rominders of aur lattor end scattered all along through lifo, snd the collin-makers should not be counto- aanced In the sggregato, Any tondoncy of tholrs to hold conventions, especially when they do not inform ua what they have done, should be dis- couraged. Theironly duty sbould be tostudy political economy, with tho view of sscertain- ing by dend reckoning the losst possible gum it will cost to lay s man away undor the daisles. Wo don't want ex- ponsive funorals, Wo don't want suy union of con-mskers, In point of fact, wo don't want soy funcsals st all, There may bo some good souls who reach & degree of salutly pre- oocity in this world sufficiont to enablo them to contemplato. a coffin-maker nt work with the sarenest solf-complaceney ; but theso peopls sre vory scarce, and have no businoss among other poople who have got Bo much to do that they Lave no timo to bo asintly. As a punishment to theso coffin-makers, we truat none of them will have a job for years to come, Wo aro prepared 10 contemplato a dull soagon smong the cofiin- makers with unalloyed satiafaction. BECONDARY SCHOOLS IN GERMANY. Tho Bureau of Educatlon in Washington has dono »good work In dovoting the third of ita # Circulars of Information " to an elucidation of the Gorman system of Becondary Schools, School Suporintendents, teachers, and all who ara {ntereated in American education, will do well to provide thomsalves with copies of thig pamphlet and mako themselves familiar with its contonts. A eystem of education whichis s uni- form and steady development of more than two centuries may woll command tho attention of & couutry where schooling Is largoly a matter af ndividual aud arbitrary prefercnes, and whese thoro are at least s ecore of difforent systems, onch indepondont of all the othors, and mouo posaossing tho aselstanco of anthority. Educs- tion in Germany has enjoyed the advantage of Governmental ‘supervision and direction sloce the time of tho Great Eleotgr, Frederick-Will- iam, In tho middleot the seventoenth contury ; and partionlarly since tho diys of Fredorick the Great, throo gonorations sgo, thero Las boen a barmony of system sud & unity of purpose that find & counterpart only in tho organization of. the German army. The Socondary Schools of Germany acoupy the smidale place botweon tho Elemontary and Uni- versity systems. They aro of two gonorul clase- os—thie Gymoealam and tho Resl School, thede boing again subdivided respoctively into the gymnasia and pro-gymusais, and tha resl schaols of the first aud socond classcs, wnd the higher burgher-achoots, Wo havo not the apace to fol- Jow the ramificationa of these subdivisions. The two main olassos, howaver, diffor ono from the other in about the samo way that the clasaleal sad aclentific courses of our Amoricau collogon differ,— tho Gymoasium corresponding to the former and tho Real Sohicol to tho lattes, Al are under the samo gonoral autliority, esch prov- inoo maintaining & School Board of itsown with tho power of appoiuting teachors, making rules and regulations, selecting toxt-books, eto,, eto, Both the Gymnasium and the Real School have alx oloseos, snd tho full course of each re- quires nino yoars, ano year esoh o the aixth, Bfth, and fourth oclagses, sud two yesrs each {n tho third, socond, and firat classes, Tho conditlona for sdmission are we~ tofially tho same In both, The applicant must bo 0 years of age, read Gorman, writs logibly from diowtion, be versed in the four funda. montal rulos of arithmotio, and bo conversant with tue bistory of the Old and Now Teatament, The sohiolastic year generslly bogins at Esater, and contalns about ten aud & halt wooks of va- oation In all, distributed In sbous fiva differont torma. Admisslon sud promotion take placa only ouco & year. The disciplive iu the same in both, and punotusl attendanco is the striotest o2 all roquicoments, Corporal punwhment la rave, and ls conilusd to the thres lower alsssess; it ey meves bo Admimaiersd wxoepd whon the rootor is informod of it. For thoe othior classon, there 1o & syatom inoluding & roprimand; being “Xept Ja” attor sohool; imprisonmont in tho schiool lock-up for not more thau six hours, em- ployed with writiug exercinen; snotifloation that poronts must withdraw the rofractory schiolar; and fluslly, expulsion. The expouso of attending thero achoola varies from sbout 84.17to $27 & yoar In addition to the coat of tho toxt-booka. Tho teachors dovoto themselves about na fol- lowa : the roctor, mixteon Lours a wook ; bigh- or teacliers, twonty-two 'n twonty-four hoors; olomontary teschors, twenty-oight hours. The ealaries vary from 400 to 8,000 Prussian thalers, 80 that a teachor rarcly recelves mors than $2,000 » yoar, and most of them much smalier sums ; but thore ia a gradunted systom of pon- nlons regulated by tho term of mervico, which induces most persons who entor upon a toach- er's lifo to continuo at it as long a8 thoy work st anything. Thus far, the Gymoasium and Resl Schools aro altko, Tho differance botween them relates to the studios and the numbor of hours devoted tothom. In the Gymuasium,-tho studies aro Religion, Germsn, Latin, Hiatory and Geog- taphy, Mathematics, Natural History, Draw- ing, and Penmanship in.the lowost class, with twenty-olght echool-noura & woek, or nearly flve hours a-dsy; in the fifth class thero are the samo studles, with the addition of Fronch; in the fourth class, Natural History and Ponman- ship are dropped, and Groek is added; in the third class, Drawing is droppod, and Natural History restored; in the socond and first clasuos, Physics ia added to tho other studies, In all yoars oxcept the firat tho achool bours aro flvo each day. Tho studies in the Real School ars the samo as {n tho Gymnasinm, oxcept that Groek and Physics are not taken at all, and English 15 substituted. The groatost differonce, howover. is in tho number of hours dovoted to the difforent studies. In Latin, for inatauce, tou hours » week aro devoted to the Gymnasium every year iu tho course, whilo, in tho Roal School, only sight houra are givon in the sixth class, six in the Aifth and fourth classes, five in the third, fourth in tha socond, sud threo inthe first, In the Gymnasium, Natural His- tory ia studied in only thros of tho claseca; in tho Real School, the Natural Scionces, whioh are substitutod for it, aro studied throughout tho ontire courso. * Drawing is studied in only throo ¢lnsaea in tho Gymnosium, whoreas it is rotalned foall six of the Rosl School. These instances will nerve toilluatrate tho essontial differcnces bo- tween the two classes of Secondary Schools. The lack of apace procludes any offort to indicato the subdivision of the various studies, but they sre very thorough and comprohensive. Tho passing of snoral and writtou oxamination after. the ocomplotion of the course in eithor the Gymna- gium or Real Bchool is neceseary to regular matriculation in & Gerwan Univorsity. Bome ides of the immensiiy of the system of Sooondary Schicols may 'bo gathered from the fact that they numbar 1,045 io the Gorman prov~ incos baving a popuiation of 41,058,198, Of thoso, 564 are classical and 481 non-classical. The number of Professors emploged 16 11,707, and 100,204 studenta are given iostruction. The librasies connected with thoso Secondary Schoola contain 1,926,898 volumes. There is ouo Bec- ondary School to every 89,200 inhabitants, and oue person in every 299 of the population ro- celves a Secondary education, or s education superior, a8 a rule, to that recoivedin tho sver- aga American college, ‘Tho bonefit of such & aystem to tho Empire of Germany needs no slaboration. P ] Tho husband ia the bost judge of the wifc's valuo by all odds. If, thoreforo, o kots it at the prico of a hotel bill for one and two rail- road fares, wilh slceping saccommodation and refreshment monoy, for tho s~ tance betweon Dotroit and St Louls, it msy be inforred that 8100 ia & lorge eum aa an oquivalont of that man's happiness. Heis designsted by the Detroit Free Pressa prominent mercbant of St, Louis,” while a particulsr friend named Brock divides that honor with him. The latter arrived in Windsor s fore- night ago, well-dressed and expectant. - Two or threo days later a lady, prosiaiming herself hia wifo, joined bim, and for & weok or 8o they wero vory happy togothor. At tho oxpiration of that time tho *prominent merchant® sppoared on the scone armed with the traditional piatol. He olarged Mr, Brook with having seduced his wife and broken up his home. Mr. Brock moditative~ 1y roplied that that was trne, but was of no con- goquence, 80 far as he could sec. The *promi- neut morchsnt™ beggred to differ, and asked s third person if ho was not much abused. The reforos aaid ho had ovidently been damaged, and, caloulsting the days of hia wife's absonca, esti- mated tho smonnt of injury rocelved at $300, Mr. Brook wished to compromise for the hotel Dlil, car-faro, and victual account bofore named, which tho * prominent morchant of 8t. Louls ” gladly socepted, and returned homo with his ran- away wife io high spirita. If tbia is tho sort of bargaining thst provails among *prominont merchsuts " of St, Louls, it ia not to be wondered at that tho logitimate business of therr city lan- guishes. Hore is & quostion in ethics which somobody will pleaso arise snd snswor. Ouspt. Caulfeld was appointed tigor-slayor, to the: Madraa Go erumont. Ho happened td bo staying with a clorgyman in Coimbatoiro, at tho foot of tho Noilgberry fills, at 8 time whon & man-eatiag tigor was ravaging the neighborhood and reduce Ing the population of tho Presidency by two dai- ly. At the hoad of o large body of huntors, the tiger-slayer startod out in pursult of the dread- ed monster, Coming toa villago moar sunsot, they eas @ strangs picture. The women and childron of the village wero wailing and clamor~ ing, while in tho shadow of the jungle an enor~ mous tigress could bo dimly discorned do- vourlog & poor herdsman whom she bLad just slain, As tho hantors spproached her tho animal flod Into the jungle, leaving thom uncertain whotber to purauo hor in tho darkness. Capt. Caulfield docided not to dogo. Ho prafer- rod & aurer and safor way of dispatching the au- imal, Saturating the mangled body of the dead herdsman with poison, the party rotreated, aud noxt morniug found tho tigross dead end the herdsmou vanished. The clorgyman roproved tho tigor-slayer for using s hunisn body 88 bait for sn animal, and many will agreo with him. The poor nativea thanked him vociforously for aaving their lives, oven at the expenso of their dend companion's integrily of corpus. By re- versing tho situationa of clorgymau and nativos, 1t I baroly pousiblo that the formor would Lave beou loss Bqueawmish as to tho maoner ‘of his presorvation thau the poor wrotches of darker bue. It ia & matler of taste, howevar. g iy Imagine tho sensation ot Mrs. John Witeon, of No. 145 Bleeckor streot, Now York, Ifor hus- baud, to whom ehe was davotedly attzohiod and who loved her &0 ardoutly as to bo cousumed by & chranio joalousy of hor, returned bome ono night, sud, producing a rovolvor, told hor he had mudo np his mind to ahoot ber. Lsstily rasliz- ing the fact that thoro was no clianco for escape, tho brave littlo woman closed her oyos sud awallod bior doath, **I was cortain,” pays sho, T waa golng ta ba kitlod, rad ob, how I dreaded the shat,” It came, Lut sho folt no pain. A wocond and a third sollowed, uutil five shots had beou fired, Bhe did not kuow but that tho firsb Liad killed her aud the other four weore per- forating hor lnanimato corpso, Everything boing quist atter » itlls, slie oponsd Ler syes W fud — borself silll living, and her atupld husband with » bullet in oach Lapd, and anothor u bis stomach, whils two others hod lodged fu the wall. Tho calm resigoation of the woman bad avorted tho dangoer to horaolf apd turned the bostile weapon upon her would-bo murdoror, Ho wag conveyed to a hospital, sad will probably rocover, to respect for lifo tho sliont conraye which saved him from s murdor most foul and most unuaturale Tho Now York Evening P’ost has beon follow- {ng up an Invostigation into the ultimato ond of tho mafl-bage. 1t appoars that tho Now York Post-Oflice makea a monthly roquisition of 5,000 ‘bags o supply tho placo of those that have dis- apposred, Aa tha contract prico of the canves- baga ta 57 conts, this amounts to & monthly lors Dy carelessnosa or dishonosty of $2,860, no amall figure, considoring the charactor of the matorsal and tho absoluto want of & fair means of ac counting for them, But tho autbority wo hava quoted hss ascortained whore some of them wont. It sooms that Congrossmon mre jnthe habit of filling these bags with public documonts sud mailing tbom from Washington to thelr homes, wnars they aro left, through careloasnoss or ignoranco, Thors is & reagon why Congress. meu should not return these sscks. Tho ouly person montioned in Saripture who *‘kept tho bag " was Judss, and, as tho sacred narrative candldly puta tt, *Judss was & thiof.” k. Jo Whatevor may bo the eccontricity of tho young Ring of Bavaria, nobody can charge bim with interferonco n othor people’s business, Ho la siriotly neutral with rogard to his neighbors, and even carcless of tho doinge of his own rolatlons #o long 88 they do not bother him for monoy. An absurd rumor galued ground that tbo jolly young King had opposod tus mothor's convorsion to tho Catholic faith, It -1s mow cloarly shown that tho old lady changed hor faith in thiogs spiritusl with bis “ontiro cone currence aud approval,” which shows tho ox- tremo docility of tho lady and tho amisbility and flial rospoct of the son. It Is ovon propablo that sho might have ombracod Mormonism without his making a fuss about tuo mattor. It ia none of his business whothor tho royal damo worships Jobn the Baptist or Josoph Smith ‘That is being = Kingof tho most approved pattern, ana s man of senso sccording to modern notlona, B — NOTES AND OPINION. ‘The Madison State Journal gives the vote ot Wiscousiu, by Congressional districts (thore b ing no goneral tickot in tho election this yoar), 88 follows: tal.se., 93,024 Tho total voto (186,435) is 5,039 less than for Prosidopt, in 1873, and 48,014 greator than for Govornor, last yoar. —A Unitod States Scnatorship depends on the political status of the Florids Legislaturo, and tho political status apparently deponds on tha attitude to bo taken by three or four membora olact, who are now claimed by both sidea. They wore olocted as Indepondenta. —Thero is to be & Stato Convention of Taze Payars, at Jackson, Biss., Jan, 4, on tho ovo of the assembling of tho Misslasippf Loegulature, Tho oallsots forth that tho signers thoreto— Desiro x firm, pationt, well organized, distinct, and fatr movement, in which all can participats, and whick shall in its incoption and consummation carry s morul power that canuot be ignored. One of the loading colored members of the Miesissippl Logislaturo has promulgated to hin coastituents tbe plan of a rovised rovenue law warraoted to save $400,000 a year. ~The Topoka Record, of Nov. 18, classificx the Logislature eloct of Kanssa as followss BSonato—21 Ropublicans, 18 Opposition. House —70 Republicans, 86 Opposition. The Senate holds for two yoars; the House, for ono. —'Tho Topoks Commumwealth gives the Yotea tor Congrossmon, in Kansas, as follows s Orvont Reputhican. 1. Tl 19,706 Parrott, 1w 2, Cobl 4,240 Good! 953 S, Brom 4,415 Huds . 9680 Tho Lansing Slale Republican gives the vote of Michigan, excopt four small counties, a1 follows : Gorernor, 1874, Bagloy, Re 111,33 Bagloy, Hep Ghamberluin, Demn.103,710 Blair, Lib Carpontar, Pio..... 8947 Ferry, Dol Finh, Prohib, 1 1 —The vato for Jongreas, iutha only Keatuclty ietriot (the Ninth) that did not elect a Dewo~ erat, gives Jonn D. White (Ropublican), 8,774 ; Harrisor Cockrill (Democrat), 8,818, Tho Cou- gresaman eloct is only 26 yeara of age, a gradunty of tho Law School at Aon Arbor, Mich., aud s Louisville Commercial says : e comes from good (Kentucky] stock, 1tis grande father, Judge John White, ervud for ten years fu ti:y Nationsl Houso of Koprosentatives, aud was fud Speaker_during_the Twonty-fourth 'Congress, ILd Suthor, Doherty White, bas frequeatly soprisented big county In the Stata Legialature, aud 1s an sctlve aud outecprivlog man of buslnoss, well kuown s thio pro- ‘prictor of the Mancheater Balt Works., —Tne@Danville News (Indopendent) having boen accused of contributing to tho dofeat of the Opposition candidate for Congross in tha Fourteauth Itlinois District, esys, with blust plainness of spoech : i Tlis vote n th City of Danvillo {s shuply wint did 1ho business, and, as it is, tha Neica considorn 1t fur- tunate that {t did, Wa don't want another Congresy 80 much one way s wa have had for soveral yeurs pust. Every additfonpl Congresswan now elected by thy” Up- ‘Posttion will be a disudvantago 1o the couiitry, I8 would huve been bettar if tweaty-five of thuie juit alected by Domoorats bad been saved to the Kepuilic- aus, Just enough fora fair working mojority s ull thf was nosded, and, with a fair rocord on thie part of Ttopublicans for the iest two years, providod tlicro 18 not o totsl dismemberment of urtles 4 probebly ns awuch sa the Opposition can rotsln after the next ulug- ton, —Thero is s groat duty davolving on every Re- publicnn Congressman who will soon go to thy Copital, If ho Lias boon right leb nim stay right, aud it bo has boen wrong lob bim get right. ~lu- deod it must oot bo forgotten that the works of the presont Congress will aid us, a8 nothing vlzo cap, in maintsining the popuiar majonty of tho arty, and thus_ouablo s to BWecp tho country 1676, —Bellevill (JIL.) Advocate. —Tho * forward psy” of Congressmon was nov ropealod at the st eosaion of Congroen, when tho sslaries of mombers wera reducad to the old figuro of 95,000 & year, sud mombois 4o cousequotly allowad to droy thoic pay_montbly from tho beginnivg of thelrterm. Lhe injuatico of this is seon Iu the fact that membors of the new Congress can begiu drawing poy from ths 4th of March next, although they aro not likoly to do any sorvico until the Decombor followiar, . Che law should be ropealed at ouce, ard 4 mcfi‘) Imudm!ldzi ulu7z for spective sorvicea,—Rock lsland, ) Union. B BT, T e will commence on tho 4th of March, but o seruice will ‘o vendered for nino mouths, until the sst Mon- day iu Dacombor, The wicked Congressuicn who Lave boou votod out, took pay for theso niuo months, amountiog to $8,760 ench, and all thu whilo tliey were at homo attendiug to thoir busi= noss. Alr. Bagby will of courso stay at home anil Tun his Jaw practice ali theso months, aud mako all tho money Lie cav, but will he also pockot tLy 84,750 of the {:unnlu'u ‘monoy for doivg nothivg 2 And will not the Heview put the figurcs to b i€ hodoes? Noarly $417 & month, $14 8 doy ¢ thoreabouts, lun't it, neighbor ?—Aonmouth (Jt) Aflas, —The back-sslary grab hos made mora capital tar tho Damacmuyntuuu auy othor pioco of bad logislation. The Ropublicans were respousiblo for at, buving both Congress to pusa it aud tbe Prosidont to sign it. The fact that & larger pLo= portion of Demoorats than of Repuolicars Voted for the stoal would not curo tho siu i the oyea of the puoflu, nor would its ropeal under compulsion, Thoy have smitten down almort avory man they could roash who solled hiw l\;};?;l- ?uhhn‘c:u lmpropor guin.—Lansinyg ich.) Lepublican. (—J.'u)u [iapublicava attribute tholr dotent 10 salary-grabbors ss snuch as auy othar auo cavee Will "tae Dunooratic party follow in tho jout= stops of tho defoated pasty by giving supporl 1o alary-grabbora? Boforo they do, thoy mitt think twico, If thoy exalt that kiud of poti~ ticiany, they will Oud thoir victory but sl i~ Tived, The poople domand that tho wolary-giub= Dors must bo coudotuned, and unless tho Dowo= oratio party mawtui a consistent course fu thi Togard thoy miuss oxpect thoy will bo ropudiste at thie poils when tho apporlunity e sltuded.— New Albany (dnd.) Ledgers ;tll\'mburu paid for