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

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N s, No. 2 A, T and A, M.Tiall, nf,’."'gf'i‘mfi’.ifi'n?‘."’."g,"w"n? communioation tiite (Eiday) groning, ‘at £ aieluck fur wark on tho Third Degean, ‘invitad to nttond.. 1V Biemies wnd Visitors oordaliy v iR, Reaty, “Bust SS NOTICES. THYE BEST COS- Rulletin, o byall druggl INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. _City, Saburben, and Conntry Reat Er. It ‘\?"nhflx.c;r.; ot Wasts, Lost aud Ot L P A L atiroad Timo Tablo and Legsl No- foeey i SVENTH PAGE—Amuscuents, Oconn Btosmahip The Chicago Teibune, Docomber 11, 1874. Triday Morning, 1If Mn. Dawrs' courso in Congress duving the present session coutinues as it has bogun, 1ie will soon bo restored to favor in Massa- chusetts, He gave Burzzra delightful rub yesterdny. Gov. Karrya, ono of Kanaxiva's suito, has o fine eyo for tho beautiful. When Lo ap- proached Chicago yesterdny ho said: ‘‘ Now, that is something like n city. Lovel, liko Honolulu; not up hill and down dalo like Ban Franeisco.” confirmation, notwithstanding the refusal of the Sennto to vote on his namo yesterdny. A singlo objection was cnough to send the question over. Republican Senators who do not favor Mr. JeweLy's confirmation are the best friends the Democratic party las, A dongerous combination, indeed, is that which oiir Washington dispatches report this morning. When the ndvoentes of the South- emn Pacific Rnilrond grab join forces with the lobby which is working to secure tho refund- ing of tho cotton tax, there will be abundnnt opportunity for Congressmen to exercise their virtue, The reporters did put Karaxava throughhis paces botween Omaba and Chicago, When ho reached Chicngo he was in o desperate freme of mind, and unable to leave his stato- room, Lunte improvements in journalism would make matters uncomfortable even for on Turopenn potentate; and the reporters hold a gray barbarian lower than o Christian child. e Ex-Gov, ParyEr appenrs this morning as the prineipal in a disgraceful affray at Carlin- ville, Il. One of the unsolved mysteries is how o man of great weight and balanco of mind can allow himself to be provoked into a bout at fisticufls with & person whom he de- spises. Oue may properly whip a brother un- der strong provocation, but never an enemy oxcept in self-defense, Tho observations of the transit of Venus at Nagnsaki, Japnn, and Tobart Town, Tas- mnnin, were only partinlly successful; but it is believed that the results at other points are all that can be desired. The American party at Hobart Town was peculimly unfortunate, having bad weather during most of the time of trausit. America will rejoice hemtily at the success of any other nation, for it is not scientific to Lo consumed by envy or jenlousy. Suit lns been Dbrought against the Trie Railway Company ta prevent the payment of President Jewerr's salary. The complaint glleges that Mr., JEwerr las made o contract for a salary of 40,000 per year for fen years; and that such excessivo compensation is contrary to law and public morals. Mr, JEwWETT mani- Festly is not a reform President, nor a great Improvement upon President Watson. 'The troublo with President Wazsoy, indeed, ap- Pponss to have been hisincorruptible integrity. The Inte dispute among tho managers of tho Pacific Mail Company may have results which nono of them foresaw. Tho National Touso of Representntives has determined to investigate the transactions of the Compnny's agent in Washington, in connection with the subsidy bill passed by the Forty-second Con- gress ; and voluntary revelations may be ex- pected from the former nnuagers in their present framo of mind which uo legal pro- cess could extort, Haronm and Saae may be angry enough to tell the truth, which is pre- suming, of courso, that they avo in o terrible rTage. —— The Saratoga combination is wo far from being broken, as & morning paper announced yesterday, that it has just commenced Hostile operations upon its only adversary, the Balti- more & Ohio Company. The Grand Trunk Company lins been bought or eajoled or terri- fled into joining the ring; and its union s thus perfected. The firat stop in the eampaign upon the Beltimare ‘& Ohio is n gonoral yeduction of § conts per owt upon fourth-clnss freights, embracing flour, gruin, and bulk-menats, The Western public will understand, wo hopo, that any relief obtained from this railrond compotition will Lo only temporary, unless the Saratoga combination is finally broken, The Chieago produce markets wero steadior yesterdny, with more strenglh in the lending dopartments, Mess pork was active, and ~losed 85@400 por brl higher, at $19,60 cash, nd §20,35 scller February, Lord was mod- oratoly active, and 80@350 per 100 ths higher, olosing at $18.15@18.20 cnsh, and $18,55 gollor Fobruary, Meats wero quiet and firmer, at 6 8-80 for shoulduy, 9 1-2@Y 6-8¢ for short rlbs, and 9 3-4o for short clears, Highwines woro in better domand and steady, at 970 per gollon. Dressod hogs were tmore notive, olosing ‘nt 7.76@8.25 por 100 Ibe. Flour was quiot and unchanged. Wheat was more nctive and firmor, closing tamo nt 8D B.do cnsh, and 00 1-2 soller January. Corn was neglocted and onsfor, closing at 74 1.dc for old, 66 1-20 for now, and 72 3-4c sollor May. Onts woro dull aud unohanged, closing nt 5% 1.20, Iiyo was quict and easior, ab Po. Barloy was in bottor demand, and sironger, closing at $1.26 1-2@1.27 cash, and $1.28 for Janupey, 1Mogs wero active and olosed flrm and 1%o higher. Cnttlo and shoop wero in fair demand and firm, The Springflold (Ill.) Register wastes a col- umn of its spnco in an ondenvor to eriticino the purposo of Tax TripuNe in discussingtho Domosratio dootrine that the United Stntes arenot nnation but a confederncy,—a mero ngent, with limited powers, of the sovercign Stater, While the Democratic papors of tho country that have Demooratic constituencies avo all proclaiming their faith in the dootrine of Stato Rights, nud denying the nationnlity of tho Unifed Stntes, tho Fegiter is carveful to avoid expressing any judgmentof its own. If it proposes to be n Demoeratie paper, lot it so avow itsclf on this fundamental issuo, and then we ean nndevstand with whom we havoe to deal. The General Superintendent of Govern- ment Railways in Canade has unenrthed cor- tain frauds in the supply-system of the Inter- Colonial Railwny, and has made o full exposo of them to the Ministor of Public Works. The firm furnishing a cexrtain line of supplies hos been discovered pnlming off false invoices ou tho Government, and charging prices grosaly in oscoss of the market rates, ‘The most surprising feature of the whole affair is that, though these frauds ex- tend over fourteen months, and amount to only about §28,000 or 80,000, the Govern- ment is inclined to make o tremendous row about it! They have evidently not beon ne- customed to Credit-Mobilier operatious in Canada. With tho same time and opportu- nity in a railroad scheme in this country, the s would bo more likely to be 28,000,000 than §28,000. Canade mny be congratu- lated, howoever, on the fact that she has com. menced her exposurcs and reforms whilo the frauds aro comparatively inexponsive, Avery full roport of themeeting of pig-iron maunfacturors af Philadelphia yesterdny is given this morning in our special dispatches, The issue of the meoting was n resolution to submit nn agreement to the mauufgeturers in the East binding them to reduce production onc-half. It is expected that all the persons interested will readily sign such an agreo- ment. When {his vory proper conclusion lind been reached, the meeting was still not coutont, but lingered lovingly on the seene, and esercised the innlicnable American privilego of passing resolutions, One reso- lution declared that the only way to resume specie-paymonts was to * get tho business of tho country in such a condition” by the regulation of the tarif on imports 08 to keep tho “Dalance of trado” in our favor.. Another resolution ap- proved Mr. Keneey's bond folly; and still anothor opposed the reciprocity treaty with Canadn, Tho tariff resolution was justified, wa suppose, by tho same phi- losophy which teaches n drunkard to take *‘a hair of the dog that bit him.” This philoso- phy was long since antiquated. There is n proposition that the United States Government shall acquiro title to a strip of territory running along the Mexican slde of tho Rio Grande River, with referenco to checking the raids on the frontier that have been so harassing and costly to American citizens, Cortaiuly, tho raids of the past which have been tolerated by the Iexican Government constitute a good claim for in. Qommity, and, if the Iand ean be obtained {from Mexico by treaty, it would be a valuable nequisition in the way of proventing raids in tho future, It may occur to the shrewd- minded that the Mexican raidors could raid upon the now territory as well as they donow ; but they would not have the advantages of stenlthy advance and o seeure retveat af- forded by the Rio Grande. We élo mnot think, however, that the acquisition would be sufficiently valuablo to wmwant the expendi- ture of any great amonnt of money, cither in purchase or by way of keoping it guarded. Mexico must furnish us with some guaranteo for the future, and if she sces fit to doitin this way, the plan would appear to be satis- factory. Mz, Kexzey's 8.65 bond bill still blocks the wny in the National Houso of Ropresenta- tives, Wo nre sorry to sny that it has now overy prospeet of passing. That this is the opinion of Myr. Dawes and Mr, Garrrenp and other opponents of the bill is evident from the tactics which they have ndopied, which are of the complex and delicate nature employed by prrlinmentavians to gain time, and defent by strategem what can be defented in no oth- erway. "The bill occupiedall the time of the THouse yesterdny. Mr, Dawes made a speech which is very imperfecily reported by the Associated Press, but which appears to lave been very creditable to him, He said that the Republican party had just three months in which to eave or destroy its oxist- ence; that it was the duty ond privilego of the party now to inswre a rostorn- tion of good curroncy; and that, this priviloge and duty negleeted, the party will be doomed to defeat, 'Tho controversy in the House will be watehed with nnxioty by all who have tho best and highest interests of the Repub- lican party at heart, among whom are we, though not considering tho situation so poril- ous as Mr, Dawss doos, The party, in no event, will perish, How the Jowa Diocesan Convention ever came to thinle that Dr. Porren would accopt an olection to tho Bisnopric of that State isn mystorions and awful problem, The lettor from Dr, Porren, given in onr dispriches this morning, scems to sny very distinetly that ho Qi not entortain the proposition which liad been semi-oflicinlly mado to him, Yetitis {rue that his telegram declining the offico was surprite to the Convention 8o overwhelm- ing ny nimost to tako nway its heart, How- ovar, tha dologates recovered in some mens- ure from the shock, and olected Dn, W. R. Hunrmvaton, of Worcester, Mags,, to the va- eoncy. And, nsif to placo his scceplauce boyond perndventuro, tho Couvention ad- journed sine die, without walting to hear from him, Dy, Huxrivaroey is sound in doctring, being an old-fashioned ohwrchmnn of the Bishop Honanr type, Hoisnot sommeh of a man physfenlly as somo of tho dolegates desired 3 but his montal and moral qualificns tions for tho Bishoprie nro appnrently boyond covil, o has some reputntion {n Ohuvels oiroles ns an author, having written o valu. ablo work on ‘¢ Church Unity " and vavious pumphleta, The pmullimntlnu ‘vl;f;:lx hn;-h;nn tssuod by the members of * ‘The Knights' Brothorhicod THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1874, —_— e aud Monumontnl Associntion,” an organiza- tion of colored men in Memphis, s a cheor- ing and hopeful sign of renl progress upon the part of tho blacks in the South, and murks o now departure from *the color line.” Tholr proclamntion recites tlint in view of tho constant decoptions and frauda which have been practiced upon them by designing mon with tho view to their personal aggran- dizemonts, thoy “nront lnst convinced that they wera tho flotions of politieal incen. dinries, who hnvo sncrificed us andled us into our presont trouble, and wo now pledge oursolves, s ropresontatives of our sociotics, honcoforth to sover all afinity and past roln- tions with all mun whoso only value resulted in plunder and strife.” By this action they voluntarily cut themsolves looso from thoir old afiinitios, and hoeroafter will dovoto them. selves to cultivating pence and harmony bo- twoon the two races. In taking this inde. pendont position, the colored mon not only shake off n 5ot of leoches who have drained them of their property and used them ss po- litical tools, but they nlso take tho first in- tolligent step in the diveotionof freedom and progress. Lheir proclamation of emancipn. tion from carpet-bnggers nud domagogues ought to be accepled: by the whites in the spirit in which it is mado. It is n manly and patriotic offer, and in keoping with the spirit of the Prosident’s pithy declaration that the South must no longor fight "its political con- tests on the color line. It substitutes prin- ciples for projudices, It providos a common bnsis for tho establishment of parties, and presonts live issues for considoration. If the whites accept it, penco and ordor are possiblo in the South. If it is not accopted, and tho nogroes are compelled to keep on the color ling, peace nnd ordor are not possible in the South, and Excoutive interference must bo mnde to preserve the South from anarchy. The proclamntion is a mauly one, and do- serves a manly recognition. On Wednesday thoro was introduced into the Senate and IHounse of Representatives at Washington a bill which may bo appropri- ntely styled o bill for the reliof of Col, Tonr Scorr nud his nssociate speenlators. This bill has been in print for several months, and copies have beon sent * confidentinlly ” to every Congressman, and overy person sup- posed to oxercise any ** influence ” with Con- gressimen, that both Houses of Congress upon meeting might be propared to act upon it promptly and favorably. 'This bill re- cites ; That the Texas & Pacifie Railway Com- pany lins o grant of land to construct & rail- way from Marshall, in Texns, along the thirty-second parallel to San Diego, in Cali- fornin, and lias constructed thereof 820 miles, the western point reached being Fort Worth, in Texns ; and that the Atlantic & Pacific Railway Compnny has a grant of land to con- struct a milway from Springileld, in Missouri, nlong the thirty-fifth parallel to the Pacific, and has constructed thereof 123 miles, reach- ing to Vinita, in tho Indian Territory. The bill then provides : That the Texas & Pacific Railway shall di- reet its line northwardly, and the Atlantic & Pacific Railway shall direct its line to the south, until the two lines shall unite on the 1024 degroe of longitudo, and thenco thero shall bo but one line to San Diego, with an extension to San Francisco. 'he distances of the two roads from their present wostern termini to the point of junction iy probably about 800 miles, and thence to San Diego and San Francisco is about 2,000 miles, making nn aggregate of 2,800 miles to be constructed. The bill provides that, upon the completion of each 20 miles of this railway, the Sceretary of tho 'I'rensury shall indorse, in the name of the United States upon bonds issued by these Companics, a guurantee of interest ot the rate of § per centum per annum in gold coin, pay- able in April and October of each year, and this guarantoe shall be on the faith of a first 1mortgage by theso Companies of thernilronds, -—the bonds so guaranteed to be at the rate of £40,000 per mile. Estimating the length of the consolidated roads at 2,800 miles, the amount of bonds to be guaranteed is just 111,000,000, the annual interest on which will smount to $5,660,000, and, s the bonds are to run forty years, the United States will have paid as interest on them the snug sum of $220,000,000, This is the sum and substance ‘of the bill introduced simnltancously in both Ilouses of Congress, and in support of which Senntors and members of Congress bhave been indus- triously canvassed and electioncered with during the past summer, As two-thirds of the present members of the House of Repre- sentatives have not been re-clected, it is ox- pected that having no further political hopes, for a time at lonst, a Inxgo portion of these will vote for this ouormnous and most bare- foced raid upon the National Treasury and credit. Theso two Compnnies have already grauts of land equal, for the whole length of the proposed consolidated roads, to 25,000,000 acres of land, which exceeds the area of Ohio or Kentucky, These Railroad Companios have also con- troctad with a * construction company,”—a Crodit-Mobilier orgrnization,—to build theso useless ronds, The Companies, Alr. Scorr being Presidont of both and also of the Construction Company, are already hoavily in debt for the portions of the useless ronda alrandy built ; for tho rosiduo they propose to hold all the lands nnd all the enrnings of the rond Auring forty years, and then turn ovor the road to the Governmont for the £220,000,000 of interost paid by it. Itis o proposition to sell the road to the Govern- ment for $220,000,000, the road to be de- lvered forty years hence, This scheme, it must bo rememboroed, is but one branch of the whole job. The other branch is the Northern Pacific Railroad, which stands in need of a similar subsidy of & couple of hwadred millions of dollars, The country has had experienco in this businoss of "railrond subsidy. Bixty-four millions of dollars of national bonds were issned to the Union and Contral Pacific Com- panies on n fivab mortgago; subsequently faeile aud convonient Congycss changed that into asecondinortgage, andnow the Compnnios owe twenty millions of doliars unpnid inter- ost, making an aggrogato of 54,000,000 of dobt secured by o second mortgage! How long will it he bofore Scorr’s first mortgnge will aléo become a second mortgage? 1t is useless, howaevor, to discuss the mat. terin detail, Tho wholo proposition is n sbrmeless and gigantio swindlo on the Amerl- can peoplo,—the nssumption of tho interost on ndebt of ovorone hundred millions of dollars for forty yoars,—and if this Congress Do so corrupt and regavdless of the pnbli interest ns to assumo the fmarus(:, nnother will have no hositation in assuming the prin. cipal, ‘This Dbill shonld roceive no coun. tonanoe, ‘Tho Republican party is responsi. blo for tho legislntion of this Congress, and it cannot, as it ought not, survive tho passago of thoso Dbills of robbory, whoso passage alono will bo sccopted by the conntry as con- clusive ovidence of the bribery and corrup- tion of those who vote for thom. A DESERVING BTATE CHARITY. Ono of tho most desorving objects of Btate nid which can ongngo tho attention of tho forthcoming scasion of tho Legislature is the Institution for Feeble-Minded Childron nt Jacksonville. Its purposes nre so humano, and its sphoro of operations so important, and in fact indispensable, that no obstacle shonld bo allowad to stand in the way of the completo fulliliment of its mission, Thero is no Btato charity more deserving than this, and yot it is not only unable to make pro- vision for tho domauds which continunlly erowd upon it, but it is restricted oven in its attempls to emry out its purposes within circumscribed limits, It is almost nunceessry to say a word in indorsemont of tho work dono by this in stitution. It occupies n fleld poculinrly ity own. Tho work dono there ennnot be dona clsowhore, Tt is next to impossiblo that a foeble-minded child can bo edncnted at home, Such an edueation necossitates a,_fpecial systom of training whicli the parent hns noither tho skill nor the time to givo. It is an odueation which demands the most eare- ful watchfulness and unwenriod patience, dolicate skill and constant application, No parent 8 #o situnted that ho can do this. The only alternative isto find n teacher competent for the task, and this is a matter of extremo difliculty. Whon found, the ox- ponse of such a tencher is necessarily vory large, and even then the child eannot be troated 83 successfully ns in an institution sot apart for tho purpose. Tho objects of thig institution, therefore, aro not only charitable mnd humane, but they are imperatively de- manded, and supply a want which cannot bo supplied in any other manner. The State alone can successfully establish an institution competont to do this grent work, This being the cnso, it is of the highest im- portanca that this work should be done well, and that tho resources of the institution shonld be suflicient to meot- all the demands mado upon it. The number of idlots is as Inrge ns that of the insano. Out of ninety- seven applications from Cook County, tho presont institution can only accommodate fourteon, nnd theso by crowding the ca- pacity to the utmost. As regards tho pro- visions for taking eare of the unfortunate, the following extract from the report of the Com- mittee on Idiooy, made to the Illinois Stato Modical Socioty last May, is pertinent and suggestive ; Tho State institution has now been in oporation elght yeara. Tho applications for sdmission havo al- ready been ovorsix hundred, sinco its opening, Tho necommodations aro very poor, and, though designed for about elghty pupils, ono hundred are now inmates, The bufldings aro cheap, pino structures, liable, In engo of firgy to burn rapldly; ana tho lives of its in- mates aro sadly exposed to the dangers of fire, An institution with sccommodations commensurato with tlio presont domondu of tho Stato should bo built for ot Toaat 300 pupfls. Until such buildings are furoish- «d, but little can bo done towurds answering favorably tho froquont requcsta for phsslciana for the ndmisslon of thu children of their patrons, ‘I'his oxtract shows very conelusively that tho institution ig eramped in its resources and unable 1o carry out the purposes for which it wasestablished. ThoState Medical Associationt lieg alrendy rocognized the importancs of the work, and will piesent n memorinl to the General Assembly recommending appropria- tions for the erection of proper Luildings aud accommodations, which wo trust will re. ceive carcful nttention and prompt action. The people of this State will never com- plain of taxation whon it is devoted to suck o charitable purposo os this, Tho suceess which has been alrerdy eecomplished, in the face of so wauy obstacles, is an ad- ditional renson why the munagers of the in- stitution ghould bo allowed an opportunity to extend its blessings ns widely s possible. It is n reproach to the Stato that its idiots and feoblo-minded children should bo consigued to joils and almshouscs, where thoy ean re- ceiva neither the proper care nor education for want of n commodious asylun, CENTRALIZING THE SUPRELE COURT, It has been urged that the centralization of the Supreme Court at Springticld would work & great relief to the Bonch, the Bar, and the public. ‘Whilo it would undoubtedly be better in many respects were tho Supreme Court held at one place, and that place the Capital of the State, it is very questionable whether the proposed change could bo ear- ried through the Logislature. Agninst such a movement local intercsts would be at once arrayed. A large part of the southern por. tion of the Stato would undoubtedly oppose it. LaSalle County would certainly protest against it, And while as between Ottawa and Chicngo a lnrge mojority of the Barin the northern portion of the State would un- doubtedly favor Chicago as tho place for holding the Supreme Cowrt, it iz very problematical whether, asbetween Ottaws and Springfield, their preferencos would not bo in favorof Ottawa. But, howover this may be, so far et least ns tho public are concerned, they have no special interest in the place whero the Court is held, provided that, wherover it may Dbo hold, business msy be mora rapidly dis. patched, nnd the endless delays of which they now complain prevented. It is urged ns one reason for having the Court held at Springiield for the entire State, thaet causes wonld thereby soouer rench the Court. As the practico now stands, there is but ono term per year in ench Grand Division, and every causo appealed must be taken to the torm held in tho division where the causo was tried, Heonco, upon a judgment rondored in this district during the month of Scptem- bor, the ontive yoar would clapse before thero would be any term of Court in session at which the appeal could. bo honrd, This is covtninly n most sevious objoction to tho presont system, and, if rolief could be had in no othor way than by holding ol the torms at Springtield or somo one placo, tho change should cortainly be mndo. But this difioulty ean be overcome without chang- ing tha places for holding the Court. The Logislaturo might provide that every appeal takon or writ of error sued out should bo takon to and bo mndo roturnabla at tha noxt tevrm of tho Court, no matter whothoer it was hiold at Mount Vernon, Springfield, or Ottawa, Such a proposition wonld wmeot the active support of nll tho southern, contral, and o Inrgo portion of the northern part of tho Stnte, Tho Olerks ot Mount Vornon and Springfleld would both bo interested in lnv- ing such ohangomade, beeauso it would great. ly increnso tho nmmber of causos in their divisions, and, as & consoquonce, &woll thoir feos, Thore would, therefors, in no caso be o dolny of over four months in gotting an appeul beforo the Court, A contralization of tho Court would cortainly bo loss oxpensive, The librarles would be consoldated, and the Bar from every portion of the Slato Leing attracted to thut one point would probably, on the whole, presont their causos in bottor shapo than thoy now do. Doubtloss, too, there would bo mave oral ar- . guments, But oral arguments ars of but littlo uso when the causo is held under ad- visement for from six months lo a year after tho argument is made, Whon the numboer of cases and the bulk of tho records nro ro- duced to thoe extont and in the manner wo linve alrendy pointed out, oral avguments will bo of somo uso, for thon the Court will bo ablo to oxamine and dacide tho caso when it nnd the nrguments are fresh in thoir minds, A chango of pleco will not rench the renl, substantinl @ifloultion, Tho causes would be just ns numerous, the ree- ords just as absurdly voluminous, the nb- alrnets just ng unnocessarily prolix, the duty of the Court to write opinions on all cases and to act as jurora in a portion of them, just as binding with tho Court held at Springfield asnb nny other place, Theso aro ovils which change of climnte or location eannot curo, aud without somo other remedy thoy would bo just as sorious wero the Court constantly in gession in the New Jerusalom, and that Now Jerusalem divectly in front of every mon's door. J And, after all, this is & question in which the goneral public are more deeply interosted than the lawyers, At the final end, theclient s to foot the bills and bear all the burdens of theso frightful delays. The Bar undoubt- edly understand how serious these difficulties aro moro clomtly than the public generally ; and it is to bo said in their vor that the suggestions of reform which iy havo from time to timo mado havo in view tho interests of the litigant rather than their own, There are wany minor reforms which ought to be mado, and which the Court iteelf could bring about by rules. Every appellant or plaintiff in orror should bo required to preface his points or argu- mont by a brief statement of the facts in the cnso with references to the pnge of the record whero tho facts would be found. The length of this statement should be limited. This practice provails in New York, and also in the Supreme Court at Washington, and its adoption lere would disponse with that tedions nuisanco called an abstract of the record. Reduced to its proper proportions, the entiro record should bo printed, pnged, and foliod, so thnt each member of the Court would have a copy. Thero is no moro favora- Dblo timo for inaugurating these reforms than tho present, The present Supremo Court of tho State is a very able Bonch, and com pares with any appellato tribunal in the Union. Our roports are steadily gaming reputation abroad, and with the changes in the workings of our judicial systom which we have recom- mended would be mnda still more valuablo. Givoe tho Judges of our Supremo Court a fair chance, and they will not only do themselves justice but reflect eredit upon our State, Bills covoring the grounds which we have discussed should be pressed and ncted upon during the coming sossion. The only danger is, that ‘“what is everybody’s business is no- body's business”; but if no one elso moves in the mntter the Supremo Court itself should do so, and recommend these needed re- forms to the nttention of the Legislature, D02 The arrest and incarceration of Father Tonuay, the young Catholio priest who ab- sconded some doys since with the proceeds of a DBridgeport fair, bring up the whole subject of church fairs, into which this par- ticulnr cnso resolves itself. Thero will proba- bly Lo a mutual disgust at the announcement that Catholics aud Protestants meot on common ground lero; but such is tho cese. 1t is no reflection on the cause of religion itself to say that these institutions ure pious frauds. They are concoived in a mistaken zeel, and the few hundreds or thousands of dollars realized for the benefit of church organizations fall far short of com- ponsating for the concowmitant evils, The circumslance that one pricst hasbeen tempt- ed to appropriato the funds of one fair is not nearly so bad as that hundreds of fnirg have misled hundreds of men and women into pernicious practices first acquired under tho sanction of the church. At thig very fuir, for instance, Father Fornan received 5600 as the proceeds of a bar! It requires an acute religious perception to distinguish any differenco betweon stepping up to a bar and toking a drink under the nuspices of a church and doing the spme thing at n public saloon. It is protty certain thut o young man who is persuadeq to do the former will not hesitate to do the latter. When churches claim the privilego of a trafflo for tho benefit of re- ligion wlich they profess to condemn in secu- Iar mnttors, the tendency is to bring the cause of religion into contempt. If the Protestant churches clnim that they do not set up sa- loous in their fairs, wo answer that they do things which are just ns bad or worso, Tho most profitable fenture of nearly every church fair, Catholic and Protestant, is the 1ifle or lottory, which i8 in direct violation of law. Priests and prelates, ministers and deacous, aliko give their sanction o a practice caleu- lated to develop a fondness for gambling among a class of young people who might otherwiso never bo tempted. Here wo havo drinking and gambling, confessedly the most dangerous and prolific vices of the time, di- rectly encournged and fostered by the churches undor tho plen of advancing the cause of roligion. If the cause of religion cennot bo advanced without resorting tosuch menns, it is better that the causo of religion should come to n stand-still, Tho factis, that religion is injured and disgraced by such practices, and pioty is out- raged by the {frauds porpetrated in ity name. Another common practico at fairs was brought out in the preliminary evidonce of the Fonmax cnso,—thnt of pulting up watches, or silver-sets, or eanes, to be voted for at a fixed prico per ballot, and donated to the “most popular” minister, or the most popular politician, or the most popular per- son, or, generally, the most arant dema- goguo, Here is o chureh indorsoment of ono of tho most pernicious political practices of tho day,— the buying of votes. In the Bridgoport fair, it soems that monoy was talion out of tho genoral chureh fund and vested in votos for its favorito candidato. Thus it seems that tho church not only in- dorses tho practico of candidates buying votes for themselven, but of the church jtself using the publio funds to ossist in thoe clec- tion of moen to whom it is favorable. If thero are nny other vicious persounl or politi- onl habits which church faivs indorse and foster, wo forbear to mention them. The ontnlogue is long cuough au it is, Of & kin with the church fairs aro the ohurch and ohrrity dinuers that arogiven reg- ularly for threo months in overy yonr, Loy nlso come under tha general denomination of ¢ pious frauds." Lo begin with, the restnor. atours, tho grocors, tho butehors, and supply- dealern gonorally, avo nsked to pputribute, nud threatened with a cossation nf the patronage of tho congregation it {hoy foil to do so, Thon tho church dinners aro organized, and wake & 1aid upon oMl tho businesa men to in. duce them to ent the pious lunches instend of going to to the restaurant they have been in tho habit of patronizing. In this way they ruin tho restaurant business and thercby de- prive the very grooers, butcliors, and supply- denlers (upon whom thoy have already levied) of their rogulnr custom, 'I'he billeting of an army in an enemy's country was nover moro cxacting aud ruthless. 'I'ho mothers of the liouschold are thon ealled upon to do drudg- eory which they wonld resont ot home, and the dnughtors aro thrown na protty waitor-girls” into a fomilinr companionship with mon whom they would not roceive in their own parlors, Mnny a husband and father has pro- tested, nocrelly or openly, ngainst o system ‘which males s drudge of his wife or n flivt of his dnughter, only that his own comfort may bo neglected at home. Mnny n womnn has found n siok bed by the overwork or unaceus. tomed exposure inowrred in these church or charity dinners, And, after all is done, the result is found to bo a comparatively unpro. ductive investment of mnterial, time, and money. 'I'here is not one man in {en wlo now contributes in money or kind to church fairs or church dinners who would not gladly bear bis fair proportion of a subscription to a worthy purpose if he could have tho as. Auranco that the whole system would be aban- doned. Religion, certainly, caunot hope to gnin the confidence of non-professors so long a3 it is mnde tho cover for practices that aro pernicious in themselves and avon prohibited by law, WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN ENGLAND, Joux Bmonr los a brother. His namo is Jacos, and he folléws Jomx with n closeness that males the Scriptural phraso ebout stick- ing closer than a brother utterly inapplicablo inhis cato, 'The thing is an impossibility. On ono point, however, Jacon out-Herods Jonn. Mois & fanatie, instend of a friond, on the question of womsn suffrage. His pnnacea for all moral, social, and political ills is to be found in o procession of women to the polls, The womon may be stupid, or vile, or venal, but dropping a ballot into a box is to transform them, eccording to J. B. tho loss, into n band of rodinnt angels living in o heavenly world. J. B. tho greater docs not go to such longths. Ho believes in woman suffrage, but he does not considor it the one thing needful, —tho political poarl of great price. Jacon Brienr foiled to bo returned to Parliament nt the Inst goneral election. We do not know whether bis advocacy of his hobby defeated him, as Gen. Burzen thinks it did him, There mny bave been in tho English case, as thers certainly wore in the American, much graver rensons for the dofeat, but at any rate the lender of thoe Woman-Suffrage wing of the Dritish Paliament lost his seat. Iis zeal ouly glows tho brighter, Ho can, and docs, give all his timo now to lis manin, e rides” his somewhat jnded hobby through all tho papors which will give lim space, and bo parades it on all the platforms on which philanthropists and reformers ond other persons unduly anxious about the world's welfare are wont to gathor. His Inst public appearance was as President of the annual mecting of the National Society for Woman's Suffrage nt Manchester, on the 13(h ult. The reports presented thero and M., Brionr's comments upon them seom to show that *petticoatism” is making hendway in England. In the last Parlinment, 328 mem- bers of the Houso opposed woman suffrago and 227 favored it, In the present Parlin- ment, 234 Commoners favor the measure, 230 opposo it, 50 declare themselves neutral, and 140 have not mado their views known. The fifty mny be set down ag enmp-followers, They will join whichever army sceures the majority of the 140 men of unknown belicf, Thesoe men, thon, will be the battle-field, They nre to be vigorously attacked by the suliragists, and this will doubtless stimulate the other party to efforts at proselytism. Their friends can- not but grieve over their doom. A man who ig forced Ly his position to listen to every erfthusinst who calls upon him must ever bo an object of pity, When most of the en- thusinsts ave women, with a chronic ability to talkk and a chronic inability to porceive when a man is busy and bored, the needed pity is beyond bounds. A state of things in which only talk is required to enrry the Chicago does the Inrgest amount of busines:: mmong all the new ports of entry. Thoevalut of tho merchandiso transported without ap: praisement from tho ports of firat arrival & Chicago during the yoar cuding Juno 80, 1873, wns £8,160,766, Tho duties for tho year ending Juno #0, 1874, amounted to 1,312,000 on the goods thus transported to Ohiengo. Thera ava senrcely nny freo goods imported at the port of Chicago, and tho dutics averaga about 40 por cent of the valuo of tho goods, Estimnted on this bnsis, tho direot importation of Chieago for the past two yenrs would bo : Yenr onding June 30, 1874, ., Yoar onding Juno 30, 1673, 3,385, o ‘This incronso, it must bo remembored, has beon mado in tho faco of tho hurd timos, which have nffeoted imports more than any other branch of commerco. Yot Ghicago Lina paid over $60,000 more in dutics on her di- rect jmportations this yonr than sho did lnab yoar. New York's grievance is found in the foct that, out of loss than $10,000,000 of merchandiso imported by the interior ports of entry, and transported in bond to the flnnl destinntion, over 7,500,000 have been brought through New York as a port of firat arrival, showing that, if the new ports of ontry had not been created, Now York would Tiave added about this mmount to her importe ing business and onjoyed the profits thereon, This simplo fact will sufliciently explain the opposition of Naw York to the present sys- tem, and it is not unlikely that Boston and Philadelphin will join in it for the same rea- son, 8o far es the management of tho customs’ business in Chicago is concerned, wo have tho best ronsous for believing that it has beon Lonest, careful, and vigilant, The fact that our direct importations sro ineroasing onor. mously, evon in the haraest times, is a prood that ourown merchants ara well satisfied, and that the peoplo of tho West generally find it to their advantage. A corresponding increasq in the same timo in the duties is 8 proof thal there i3 nothing lost to tho General Govern. ment, When theso interior ports of entry wore first oroated, the adverse influence of the Enstorn merchnuts secured the adoption of provisions intended to render the law in operative, The transportation in bond has Dbeen hampered with all sorts of rostrictions, londed down with bonds, and burdened with more documents and vouchers than the entire Quartermaster’s De. pertment of the army. Quadruple entries triplicate invoices, duplicate bonds, Londi for importers and bonds for emriers, bonds of “at least double the invoice value of thy merchandise, with the dutics added,” permits for delivery, dircctions to Surveyor, returns of lading officers, carriers' special manifesis, inspectors’ certificates, reporis of conductors and sagents, transfors, accounts, and othor forms and documents innumorable wero fast. ened on the new system, In spite of all these drawbacks, the systemn hns been found to work to the advantage of all parties inter. ested (including tho Government in its col- lection of jts duties), and any effort to break it down nfter its success has been established will certainly prove abortive, Tho statemont is mado that a potition in oir. caluting among the bondholdors of the Northern Pacifio Railrond to sacure the pasyngoe of au ach of Congross which shall havo the followlug pro- visions : ; 1. Wuenever any bil, noto, bond, or coupon payalilo to bourer, {eeued by uny corporation organized under tho laws of tho United Btates, oxcept National Bunks, becomes due and rewmaing unpald aster demand wads on Buch corporation, the bolder of such Lill, note, o coupon may sue for and recover the smoutit oriny portion of tho amount of such dobt from any sube seriber to the stock or atockholder of tho corparation ‘ioue aliuroy remain wupold to tho par vlto thoreof, and to tho oxtent of the balance of subscription so ro- maining unpaid, 4, Such suit may be tustituted fn suy Oireuit Gour of fhio Unitud Btates subject to tho provisions of the acts of Coneress In Tuapoct to tho residence und citlzou. ship of yactlos toaults, Y. This act shall take offect from the datn of its pas~ aage. Ws ave inclined to the belief that such s law would be valuable without spacial referonco ta the Northera Pacifio. Tho provision thnt overy man can bo made to pay up tho full amount of stock which ho subscribos now obtains {n nearly all the States with reforonce to corporations ore ganized under 8tato lnws, The roquirement is caleulated to diminish the number of bogus cor~ porations, and the esmo principlo of justica which dictatos it a & State law should suggast it a8 & Unitod States law for tho control of corpo- doy naturally excites the liveliest hopes among political women, It is duo to those of England to say, however, that they have hitherto not only talked, but worked. Their record is amost honorable one, They are now, as may bo imagined, jubilant over the prospects of their pet cause. Disrastr is slightly with them., GrapstoN is mot strongly ageinst them. Miss Farrnrurr, re- viewing theso facts, exclaims, in Women and Work for the 21st ult.: “The question of woman suffrage is, in principle, practically gnined; it connot bo long beforoe that princi- plo will be established by the formal act of the Logislature.” BHIPMENTS IN BOND TO THE WEST, Now York has suddenly awakened to a ronlization of her declining commorco, and soeks au explanation in the wrong channel, Unmindful of the accumulation of griov- ances in the cxorbitant ennal-tolls, railway combinations for increasing freights, the out- rageous extortion and slow appliances for handling merchandise, custom.houso nbuses, and many other frauds or noglects that the Now Yorl people have perpetrated or toler- ated, they have sought the secrot of their loss of trado in the priviloge of importing in boud by the merchants of interior citics. From our Washington dispstohes and private sources of information, wo have reason to beliove that tho complasints in regard to the undervaluntion of dutinble goods imported by the interior citics ave merely preliminary to an effort on the part of Enstorn ‘importers to bave the law of July 14, 1870, re- penled. This act mado poris of ou- try of the Cities of Chiengo, Oinci unti, Detroit, Oleveland, Louisville, Mil. waukos, Pittsburg, Momphis, and Lvansville, and provided that goods might bo imported direot in bond, appraised at tho point of finnl destination, duties collected, eto., oto, By reason of this nct, diveot importation in- crensed very largely in most of tho prospor- ous cities of the West, and to this oxtent the fmportors of Now York, Boston, and Phils- dolphia lost their profits ns middlemen, ho merohants of the Northwest have very gener- ally dlscovered that they can buyto better advantago from tho direct importers of Ohi. eago thau from thoso of New York, awing to tho saving of transportation and corfnin chiarges incldont to tho system of importing as condueted in Now York. It is with tho purpose of regalning tho business lost in this way, and foreing tho merchants of Ohicago, Bt. Louis, Cinofunnti, and othor Westorn cities to rosume their purohnses in Now Yok, that tho complaints have beon enterod of o disorimination in valuation, It in natural that theso complaints should bo mafuly direoted against Chioago, since rations created by tho Goneral Governmont, 8o far oy Northern Pacific is concorned, it fs prob- able that the bond-holders, ss & clags, aro tha 1most innocent parties in tho transaction; and, if thero is any way iu which they can got theirin- terost logitimately, it ought to be openod up ta thom, Tho United States Govornmont has liko« wiso an indircct intereat in having the obligse tiona of this corporation met, end the proposed plan ought to bo productive of some monoy. The Rav. W. H. M1Lsuny, so widely known 2t “Tho Blind Prencher," has outerod tho lestura flold for tho presout soason, and s now roady for engagementy. Mr. Miruuny haa beon bofors tho publio 50 many yoars, and bLas oharnod 8¢ many thousands of people, both in the pulpil and on tho lectura stugo, with bis rare eloquence, that ho doos not need any recommondation front us, Hislist of subjects, which isa very varied and extonsivo, one embracos tho following : Pate rick Henry, the Demosthones of Virginia; John Randolph, of Roanoko, *Dard, Sago, and Trib. une;" Richurd Briusloy Sheridan, the Orator and Wit; Rouding—An evening with tho Poots) Jobu Milton ; Anron Burr; Sargont Smith I'reus tiss, Amorica’s Most Lloquont Orator; What® Blind Man Saw in England ; Tho Roast Beef aud Plum Pudding of Merrio Old England ; What n Blind Man Saw in Paris; What o Blind Man S"’f‘ in Californin. Hia circular informs the publia that applications for tho West can be made o Penoy W, Minuny, Jacknonvillo, 1l ——————— The compromso of tho Procror-MooLTod suit, by wiich it s romoved boroufter from pub- lio vlew, wau in all respects & wiso conclusion ou the part of,both partios, It in very ovident that Mr. Movrrox bad no onso at all. Tuo ouly witness ho conid havocalled woa Dir. Buroues, whoeo testimony, for, obvious ressons, would not have elped him, Miss Procron has obtainoed amplo roparation in seouring public apology from Movkrox, which sufilarently vindieates hot charactor, and the peymont of costs, which ro- lieves hor of all oxpenses, ‘Fhe publio will aloa congratutato itslf that it hos osoaped tha tod- ouu columns of Htuft whioh would Lavo resulted from this cano It it had beon brought to trial. It g alroady beon surfoised with tho DEsCiER- T1roN seandul, and, as it may yot haveto ondurd more of it, it will cougratuluto itself that it hot at lonst orenpod the ProoTon-MoULToN chaptora of tho disgracoful Listory, e et In o parsgraph published yestorday morning on thu‘;lucgul}ul ‘1‘):. Texny 0. Porres to tha Dishoprio of owa wo iundvertently sald that tho Porrem brothers wero sons of Bishop Porren, of New York, and noplows to tho Iate Bishop Porren, of Ponusyivania, This is nob truo, Theyaro sonsof tha Ponnsylvania Blsko, and nophows of the Now York Bishop, b st/ texisotens) THE TOBACCO INTEREST. CromnNATI, Oy Deo, 10,—Av u Convontlon of tho Weatera Tobacso Cuttora’ Asaoclution, rapre= acntiug tho Middlo and Wostorn Btates, hold Lore to-day, o reaclution was adoptod opposing tho pascago of the bill now ponding iu Copgrees to pormit the salo of untazed loal-tobucco to CONBULIOKE.