Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1874, Page 4

M TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 1876, BATS OF SURGCRIPTION (PATADTR I ADYANOE), Ponut, vont delay and miistakes, bo suro and glve Post. Oflice address n full, includlug Stata and County, Remtitanconruay honade eithar by draft, express, Post. Gttice ordor, or in regitored lottors, at onr £l TEMMB TO CITY BUNECAI Daily, dolivorel, &nndoy cxeapled, Daily, dollvered, Sunday includod, Addres TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. JADEMY OT MUSIC. P A Moo Ha "* Asticle 42, edtenol, hntweon Mad. o i BT o ND OPERA-HOUSK-Clark f’lggnfim House, Kolly & Loun's ‘atit Fauat, Atreot, opposite Minatrata, " Ly MUSRUM—Monroo sireot, betweaon Dear. oy Waiting for tho Vordict." Aftow born and Stato, moon and evening. HOOLEY'S THEATR! Olark aud LaSalle, ' Lo '8 _THURATRE-Madieon strest, bntwean nl‘f.'fl&‘_i‘b“sm& Lingagomont of Kdwin Liooth, * Brutus, okt stret, botweon "D STREET OPERA-NOUSK-Gorner Tal. P N e o 8 —Aadison atrent, botwoon Olark and AT R AR Madsgn trgrty bt SOGIETY MEETINGS. REGULAR" COMMUNIOATION OF TI0S.. J. ¥ 1l ing, Dor, 31, at 7% 523‘:(1":7‘15'12“-‘5:1‘«}-.“{"? o :712\;&3?1:0‘2-“. *Siditors ars e, o h Y HONE, Sooretary, INOIS_ST. ANDREW'S SOOIETY AND OHI. A AT ERON T CLUB—Nutioo—[1i0 membors nf ilizee Boolutice ara cordiaily fnvited to visit. tholr Prostds {ug Oflcor at his rosidence, No. 3 ‘Twenty-fifchust., on Nav Yoar's Day, The St.” Androw's Soalors’s muli’ will ba on tho table, a1 usual. - 4 TRORERT HERVEY, Prasident ab.bmxdmw Socloty aud Chlof Chlcago Calo- donian Olul i INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS, . Buburban, and Country Tenl c’:’.{., Hoarding and Lodging, Harses o Timo-Tabla, ot et Madical Cards, e e e The Chicags Toibume, Thursdey Morning, Decomber 31, 1874, TIE TRIBUNE'S ANNUAL REVIEW, TR TRIDUNE of to-morrow il contatu tho most com- ploteand oxhiaustivo Annual Roview of the Trade nnd Commorce of Chicazo ever yot published. Our articlo will givo a full, yet conciso, sccount of {ho moverment »f produco throngh the city, the eourse of the makts, Yhe statlatics of businces in each of tho principal do- pertmenta of our wholesalo trado, and an cxhaustivo synopsis of Lho manvfacturing industries of Chicago, fortho year now closing, Tho record is one of great interest to evory business man in thocommunity ; ond wo doubt not that ts facts and figures will astonish many even of thoss whoso faith in Chicago Is the srongest, Extra copies, in wrappers, for mailing, can bo pro- yured at the counting-room on tho day of publication, Bomo of tho gentlemen who aro trying to thow how the Hon, * Birs" Krxa did no cor- rupt act will pleaso inform us whero Wrmrrax is, and what he is doing all this timo, It is yuite time that ha should rise to explain him. telf, e The Ring of Eight in the County Board 1id some lusty worl yesterdny afternoon, Anybody who ig interested in such matters 2nn see just what policy was dictated from +hoRing by examining the votes, which stand fens 8, nnys 7, in tho report of yesterdny’s proceedings. Tho test votes wero remark- bly froquent, e e—— Ar, Poote, the Public Libravian, might Inbermit his literary labors long enough to Bear and act upon the clamor of the peoplo for whose bonefit o was employed. Com- munieations are appecring in our colnmns, at She rate of two or three o day, complaining that the service at the Libravy is utterly innde- quate, and that it is not properly bestowed. Mr. Poore hins at lenst the power to uge well All the forco o has at command. It must bo said, Lowever, that tho chief fault is the Common Couneil’s, which hag, with mis- placed zeal, seen it to ‘iminish the munic. ipal taxlovy at’ tho oxpenso of the Public Library. ——— "The Washington correspondent of the Cin. Xinnati Gazette explaing why the Republicans >t the Houso refiised to voto for tho safe- burglary investigation. e says thero wers ‘wo reasons for the refusal: (1) Bocauso tho resolution cemo from a Democratic toures; (2) becauso tho Republicans wero iguorant of the villainy covered np in tho safe-burglary affair, In other words, Ropub- iean ignorance and “Republiean prejudico prevented tho investigation, These aro ren. ‘ons, indeed, not excuses, Tho investigation ihonld go on, ——— Tho Coronerin New Orleans who prose. tutod Wanworu for murder did not accom- plish anything exoept chieap and ephemeral notorlety for himself, and ridiculo at last, The Judgo before whom the prisoner was brought yesterday dismissed tho coso at onco, ind discharged ‘the prigoner, Even Now Drleans chivalry did not earry political con- sidorations into its judgment of Wanmors After it was shown by overwhelming evidenco that Lo seted only'in self-defense, It wns not ghown, but might bhave been, that Wanstora rid the world of n rufian ond bully who eould easlly bo spared, e e Tho supplementary roport of tho Chief of Drdnance to the Secrotary of War, which wo print this morning, is not the dry reading which it appears to bo at n first glanco, 'The Chief explaing his wanta very succinetly and dmivably, Tirst of all Lo wants $250,000 with which to convert tho smooth-bore $On8 mow uwsed in the fortifien. tions into rifles, by lining them with wrought iron or steel ; next ho wants $2:0,- 000 more for proving, and exporimental ground, and expeviments, ‘These experi. ments, the Chief says, are “n very expensivo ‘business,” ench round from a 12.inch riflo costing $100. Yos, porhaps this is too ox. Pensivo business for tho country to undertake now. Itwill bo timo to oppropriate half a million dollars fo ordnance pmoses when - the dishonered obligations of the United States aro rodeom The Chicago produce markets wero genor- ally firm yesterday, though with not much business doing, Mess pork wns moderately active, and £ 1-20 per brl higher, closing at $18.80 cnsh, and 619,10 sollor TFobruary, Lard was loss notive, and 56@100 per 100 Ius higher, closing at ®18.10 cash, and $13.80 sellor Fabrumy, Meats were quictandstendy, &t 63-8@0 1-20 for shouldors, 9 8.8@9 1-20 for short ribs, and 9 7-80 for short cloars, High- wines were {factivo and onslor, ot §0 1.8@Y50 pergallon, Flourwaa dull and unchanged. Whoat was modoratoly active, and 1-4@1-20 bighor, oloaing at 1o cash, aud 93 1.80 gellor b + Uorn waa fn botter demnnd and firmex on new, closing at G6o ensh, and 711-2%¢ for May. OId corn way irregular, closing ot 81 1.2@81 U-lo, Onts wero modoratoly active and steadior, closing nt i 1-80 oash, and 53 3-8¢” for Tobruary, Rye wna quict and firm at 98@09e, - Barloy wns more active and firmer, olosing at S1,24 for Janunry, and 31.25 1-2 for Februnry, THogs wora quiot nt ‘Tuosdny’s pricos, Snlesnt $6.00@7.80, Cnt. tlo wero in good demand at full prices, Sheop were firm and stond, e —— Gov. Bevenioan hos ealled an clection for Baturdny, Jan, 24, to fill the vaenney in Congross caused by tho death of Joux B. Rice. 'Wo beliove ho has noted unadvisedly, Mr. Rror's sueecssor will not serve more than aix weeks, In that timo ho can senreoly got tho run of legislation alrendy matured Dy tho Honse, oven if ho should bappen to bo fa- miliar with its usngos, and tho introduction of any now bills by Lim, so noar the end of tho sension, would be idle, If the new mom- ber is o Republican, he will ndd ono to n mn- jority alrendy too large; if hoisn Democerat, lio will be one of o hopeless and wenk minority, Theso roasons alone ought to Lve decided tho Governor against calling the election, ‘Thero is ona renson siill weightier, which ought to hnvo provailed swith him When all others failed. That i4, of courso, the expense of the olection, Pho Countios of Coolk nnd DuPago will bo nssessed fome- thing like $6,000 to defray tho clection ex- penses ; and the National Government will linve to pay the now membor about 31,200 for his month's servico, Thus tho country will havo the privilego of contributing about 97,200 for tho privilege of sonding—any DanNer Osvrstsuo—on o Plensure-trip to ‘Washington, Another discovery of great importanco wag mnde in the Pacific Mail investigation yester- day. It wes shown that (ho 8275,000, which was pnid to the mysterious stranger who accompenicd the Hon, “Bize " Kiva in dig visit to tho American Exchange Bnnk, passed iuto the hands of J, G. Scuvaaxen, mnember of Congress from the Sccond District of Now York. This moncy twas part of Inw¥'s corruption fund, It hnd been tenced,- beforo yestordny, to tho Brooklyn Trust Company, and yesterday tho ncconntant of that Company testified that the only record of rio Iarge an amount on his books for the 80tk of May wos in the way of threo drafts for £500,000 cach, and a Dalanco of $125,000 to the credit of Scnusmaren, Theso oredits malo up tha missing $275,000. Scnu- MARER i8 0 Democrntio momber of the pres- ent Congress, and is ro-clacted to tho Forty- fourth Congress, Thusa part of the corrup- tion fund is traced to n legislator, but not, as tho promotors of this investigntion believed would bo ihe cnse, to.n member of the Republican party, The Committeo will, of course, press on, and seareh out tho bribe- takers, whoever may bo hurt Dby their convic- tion snd punishmont. It will doubtless ap- pear, beforo tho investigation is cnded, that noither Sonuaken's services or Krsa's wero valued ot snything liko tho amounts of moncy they recoived, aud that they wero merely disbursing sgants appointed by Inwy- ] ST, LOUIS AND SUBSIDIES. Tho St. Louis papers, Domocratio and Re- publican, all favor the voto by Congress of o bond and interest subsidy to Toxt Scorr, to build a railway through Texas, Now Mexico, and Arizonn to San Diego, in Southern Cali- fornin, and thence up tho Pacific Const to San Francisco. Tho subsidy demanded is, that Congress shall guaranteo tho payment of the interest, in gold, for forty years, upon about &150,000,000 of Toxr Scbrr's bonds, "This enormous robbery, entailing a cash out- Iny of sovernl hundred millions of dollars, is of coursa but o part of the moro general By8- tem which includes a like subsidy to the Northern Pacific Railrond Company, and to other equally speculating swindles. Tho St Louis papers profess a willingness to voto any number of hundreds of millions of dol- lars of subsidy to ony gang of desperato ad- venturers who may aslk for it, provided Con. gress will give this subsidy to Tox Scorr's railway,~~the apology for this strange lib. erality being that, in some mysterions man. ner, the completion of that railway, it is sup- posed, will benefit 8t. Lonis. Tho [Republican and Glolie nvo vehement in their denunciation of Tz Curroado Trrmoys for opposing theso subsidics, and charge that we stood by without o protest when Congress, n dozen years ngo, subsidized tho Union Pa- cifie Railway, whick they allego was built by Congress divect from Chiengo to the Pacifie Const. This is very ridiculous. Whengthe War had established tho imperative necessity for on overlend communieation botweenthe Atlan- tic and Pacific Consts, Congress, Ly tho unani- mous consent of the whole country, voted a Inndandbond subsidy for such a railway, Con. gress ab tho samo timo left the question of the cnstern terminus an open ono, That texminus was fixed at Omali, on the Missouri Rivor, and {hen Congress subsidized onother road from Kansns City, Mo.—650 milos—to Denver, By this mrangement the onstorn terminus of the Union Pacific was locatod on the Missouri River, with divect ond establish. ed water communication with St Louis ; {ho Kaonsns Pacifio at tho samo time was pub in diroct rail communiention with St, Louis, St, Louis, therefore, £o fax ns tho action of Con- gress in the construction of those two ronds, was the beneficiary, and, had it not been for the cnergy of the peoplo of Chicago, aud the irrosistible laws of trade, would have been tho'substantial enstorn terminus of the main road ond also of the Denver route, But Dbefore St. Louis had the opportunity thus to grasp tho trado nnd travel with tho Paoifie Const over both routes, Chicago bad pushed forward 500 milos to Omaha, and has now no less than four sevoral railrond routes con. nceting thorewith, In like mannor it lns pushed forwmd ity vonds to Kansns City, where, meeting the roid from Denver, it thug intercepts the whole trado with the Pacifle Sntos, which othorwise would Lave, under the legislation of Congress, gono to St, Louis. Whatover bencfits Chicago has derived from tho logislation of Congress subsidizing the rnilronds Lo the Pacitio is duo not to nny intention on the part of Congrass, but to the busiuess encrgy and enterpriso of our people, to tho great confidonco that capital ling in ony enterpriso relating to Chieago, and to tho desiro of {lia peoplo of the Pacifie Const, tho ‘Perritorion, and - Westorn Missouri, nnd Knnsna, to bo in diveet communieation with this city, Wo have plucked from 5t, Louis most of tho commerce which the logislation of Congress would have plnoed in Lor lap, Chicago, whilo it did not oppose the con- atruction of tho first rallrond to ths Pacifle by Govornmont aid in timo of war, whon such rond was a national necessity, did uot {hen orsince advoeato {he swindling and frauds, tho Credit Mobiliors nnd othor robbierles gon. nooted with tho building of the Union and Cantral Tacifio Roilroads; wo nover ndvo. cated tho swrondor of tho flrat mortgnge {or a wecond mortgage, tor thae varlous othor changes which Lave impnired if not destroyed tho security of the Governmen 0 TIeCos- sity of somo rond was evident. The Indinns and the Mormons, both hostile, stood botween thopoople of thbStateson the twoconsts. Tho ouly means of communiention wns by n cir- cuitous sea-routo subject to the lazards of war, "ho railrond iteelf fanot a noxthorn but o central route, St Louls s by the Knnsns Lranol nenter to San Franclsco thau s Chi- cago. Tho genoral routo of tho rond is on tho latitudo of St. Louis, and if, dospite theso advantages of St, TLouls, the trade of tho cotnlry traversed by it soeks Qhicngo, that is o preforence of trade, and not ono intended or designed in tho location of tho road. IE the Southorn Pneific oiita, which St. Louis wants subsidized nt tho cost of several hundred millions of dollars from tho general publio, is 5o full of promise, why is it that St. Louiy and the capitalists of tho country do not invest in it, and, by comploting it, Tenp tho mngnificont harvost which it is claimed it will yield? When did private capital ever refuso to invest in what was cortain to yicld cent per cent ? In his argument beforo tho Committee of Congress, Mr. Scorr urged the grauting of this subsidy as n positive necessity, no pri- vatu eapital being willing to embmk in it, notwithstanding that ho gives assurance that its complotion will placo nn immense produc- tive (?) region in direct communication with Chieago. Ilis mrgumont is, thnt tho trade with Southorn California, New Mexico, Toxns, Avizonn, and tho Mexicnn States on thoe Pan. cifio will flow enstwardly to Vicksburg and Now Orlerns, and northwardly to St. Louis and Chieago, To mnks good this grand scheme ho gives ns the miloago covered by Tis subsidy bill as follows:» Toxns & Iacific 1 Atlantlo & Paclfly, Vicknburg connect 105 Shrovopost & Now Oriéans 25 h 2 2,680 Thisis to San Diego only, The bill aluo provides for a rond from San Diogo to San Francisco, a distanco of more than 400 miles, making an aggrognte of 3,080 miles. The Government is nsked to gunranteo tho intor- - est on tho bonds of the Railrond Company at 860,000 o mile for forty years at & por cent per annum, This proposition, reduced to figures, gives these results: 3,080 miles, at §50,000, cquals $154,000,000 principal of the bonds, The interest on this sum, at per cont per annum, is $7,700,000 per annum, which for forty years amounts to §1108,000,000, At the end of forty yenrs the United States will have paid out in gold for interest £U08,- 000,000, or nearly $100,000 a mile of the road. It will thon have a first mortgage to securo the pnyment of this intorest and the $154,000,000 principal of the bonds, As no rational person would tako the rond ab a quay- ter of ils then mortgnged cost, $402,- 000,000, the Government will be - obliged to take it. As o financial experimeont, the job is a most iniquitous one. Botter for the Governmont to give 100,000,000 cash di. reet than to bind itself up in this never-ending oxpenditure, from which extrication horeafter is utterly hopeless. As o matter of economf, it would be cheaper for Congress to subsidizo tho City of St. Louis to the extent, say, of a hundred millions of dollars, and be dono With it, than to embark in this partnership with Tox Scorr in the manufacture and sale of bonds, of which the Government is to pay tho intorest and hold ths road as security for the principal, "Thin is the grand scheme of robbery and spolintion which the pross of St. Louis is urging upon Congress. A moro villninons and gigantic fraid was nover proposod in Congress, nor supported from nny motive by any newspnper claiming to bo ordinarily re- speotable and honest, INDIRECT TAXATION, "The good tho tavif¥ does to the favored fow is concontrated and felt. Tho evil it doos to tho mulcted many is folt, but not epprociated. A man who suffars from the duty does so without, in many cases, kuowing wly, e buys n suit of domestic-made clothes for £65 and grambles at the tailor for the pricewhen he should inveigh ngainst tho tarif, If his bill were mado out in this way : Cost of quit, plus profits........, Bounty to protected manutaciirer. ho would at onco appreciate the tax ho was poying. Ho would begin to doubt the wisdom of allowing ono of his fellow-citi- zons, becauso tho latter monufactured cloth, to collect $25 extra of him whenover ho Longht coat, vest, aud pantaloons, If all his tailor and storo bills wero mado out in this way, ho would speedily bocome the vooifer- ous opponent of what is cnllod “ Protec. tion." But becanso tho tax is collected fn. direetly aud semi-secrotly from the many, while it stronms stendily iuto the pockots of the fow, the zenl shown in defending ¢ Pro- tection " is ton-fold that displayed in nttack. ingit. If the conditions wero roversed, tho practico of putting o promium on soareity would cense. As it is, o touching confience that truth is suro to pre- vail withont any outside aid is shown, whilo exror has many backers, Ponnsylvania capital supports a number of so-callod work- ingmun papoers, in and out of that Stato. ‘Theso sheots preach *Protootion” and irro. deemablo shinplasters, twin-rolica of igno- rance, untiringly. In editorials, in extracts, inmAchine-made verso and story, they ham. mer projudice into tho hends of voters, Ono of thém prints n pathotic tale, purporting to bo told by a ship-carpenter. o comes tothe yord and finds it closod. The foreman Bnys that the tarif hag been lowered, and that work has therefore ceased. The carpenter starves slowly through sovoral columns, At the last moment, when wife and children aro drinking tea mado out of shavings and hot water, whilo tho husband and father turms away to hide his tears, tho foroman runs in, erying: “Iaven't you henvd the nows? Tho taviff*has been raised, Come to work, and you'll got 34 a day, and 50 cents moro when. evor tho tarllf is put o pog higher” The story closeswith a grand tablonu of thoe happy family ropenting in unison some pathotio fallroy to tho offoct that high tariffs make high wngos, The verse of tho Protectionist muse is in this stylo ; Tratoction glves us work, Tt mukes our wagos high § Trew Trudo, it mounn grin ‘want, Low wages, misory, - " Buch twaddle, put beforo uneduonted mindy, tolls, Insuch ways, snbsidies for speoial clasios nro preached with untiving encrgy to thousands of journoymen who henr little or nothing af the othor sido, It is not surpris. ing, thon, that thoy, who suffer moro, por- Linps, than any other class from tho taxation cffects of a high tari, aro its oarnest sup- portern, In England, organizod onergy emrried froe. dom of production, just as it horo dofonts it The Froe-Trade Longuo oovered tho surfaoo of Gront Dritain vith traots, and put @ lso. THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE turer into overy tow; e work wns long nnd at firstapparently liopeless, 'I'he London Zimes thunderod ngainst the theory, Bud- denly, it took up the sudgels in its defonse and the day wos won, "ol way finally un- fettored, unhaudieapped, and triumphant, British trado was freod from ils fotters, Tn. glish progperity has searcoly, becucheelked for an instant sinco, and tho nation now rolls in wealth, and thousands of English avtisans who come to Amarica to onjoy * Protoction,” aftertrying it for n time aro roturning home sick and disgusted therowit) " —— FRAUDS ON THE COUNTY, An oxposnro of fraud in the system of fur. nishing county supplics, which hns been for a long timo promisod by cortain members of tho County Board, was made Yyesterdny, Tho Special Committes appointed nb tho first meeting of the new Ronrd to investigato the whola subjoct ubmitted its report. Thoe substanco of the report is that the county i boing defrauded aunually of largo sums of money ; that tho contractors aroe in many in- stances dishonost ; that the ngonts of the county are earcless and corrupt ; that thore Are no meaws of nscertaining what quantity of tho supplies pnid for aroe recoived at tho county institutions; that the rystem of out-door rolief lies been nbused, both by the poupers and the contractors, 'he Commit- too givo somo specific cnses of fraud which aro quite sufficient to establish the genexal allegations. They show by comparative ta- bles that the dry goods furnished to the County Poor-Houso by tho contractor could lnve boen bought from Frewp & Lermen for §5,000 less than was poid; ond that tho direrepancy be- tWeen the valne of goods pnid fof and thoso netunlly reccived at the Poor-House is 5,000 more. 'Thero is nt lenst presumptive avidence of the same kind and degreo of rob. bery at tho other county institutions, whero Do necount at all was kept of goods received, ‘T'he abuses in tho outdoor system of rolief aro ‘even more monstrous, Tho poor have beon allowed to take orders for pork or Lominy, and to reccive from tho contractors & protended equivalent in sugar or tea. Thus o double .swindle is perpetrated, fivst by compelling tho county to furnish luxuries, and next by allowing the substitution of less than their cquivalents for the articles order- el The conl-contract scoms to have beon moro liberally construed than tho others, It was obtained, in the first instance, by means of a straw-bid, and the contrao. tor Tms been placed on his honor throughout, nobody attompting to check the woights of the balf-tons furnished by him on the order of the County Agent, ‘Wo think the chargo of fraud is protty well sustlined. Tho remedy. suggested by the Committeo is good, and porhaps adequate, It is the appointment of a County Pur. chasing Agent ond of a Turchasing Committeo in tho County Board, who shall fogether control all purchnses made by tho county, Very wise and necessary, too, scems to us tho recommendation thata chango should bo mado in the Purchnsing Committeo overy month, in order to provent too intimate an acquaintanco arising botween members of the Borrd and contractors, Mr. Houpry, and the other mambers of the Spocinl Committes who have inado this in. vestigation, deservo the thauks of the com. munity, Their work has been patient and thorough. It has beon carried on fonrlessly and lonoestly, though threats have not been wanting to frighten, or monoy to bribe, the members of the Committeo. 2 ..... e e ae— THE END OF TFISR, J The inventory which has just been talen of the Fisx estato, showing that of tho millions he was supposed to own when ho died not one cent remains, is the closing chaptor of his worthless life. No ono can read it with. out recognizing tho porfect fituess of tho do- nouement. Resnlts have followed causes ns logically os if they were mathematienl prob. lews, and the end is reschied. Tho cartain falls upon a tragedy in which all tho unities have been preserved, in which avenging fate has executed its decroes with exact impartinl- ity, in which the whirligig of timo hasbrought the right uppermost, and shown the empti- ness, the wretchedness, the hollow deceit of tho wholo Frsx bubble, In alltheso respeets, nothing could be moro completo or satisfac. tory. It leaves the story of Frsn's lifo Bym- motrical, logical, and harmonious ; it vindi- cntes the mornlitios; it points the moral so cloarly that no one can holp reading and un- derstanding it, Jixt Fisk was o man destituto of moral principle, of commoreial reatitudo, of manly purpose. Ho gave himself up to every pos- sible form of dissipation and lust, and, in his greed for money, he had no other end in view than the gratifieation of theso sensunl dolights. For the virtues of honesty, oconomy, sobriety, chastity, and trath, ho had about asmuchrespect ns Merasrormurs, and, like Mepmisropaires, he bonstod of what was bad and sacered at what was good. His lifo represented in ono person all that is bad in general humanity, Men of this stamp never obtain mency by logitimate menns, as they "nover uso moncy for legltimato pur- Pposes, and I'1sk was a prominent instanco of the truthof thisassortion., Tho pretensa orpal- liatior, which some of his admirers urgo, that howas charitably inclined, goes fornothing, be- cause in tho first place his charity was used for self-advertisoment, and, in the second place, he was charitable with money which was not rightfully his own. o obtained his money Dy an organized system of plundey, the de. taily of which were shrp practice, swindling, overreaching, corruption, browbcnuug, of- flajal blaokmail, perseention, and fraud. Ho swindled upon too large & seale to bo are rested. Ho stolo upon too loxgo a sealo to bo called o thief, Ho conld both swindle and stoal with impunity, because Judges and ju- ries wore his salavied croatures, Thoso opern- tions he conditcted upon such a gigantio sealo and with suoh brilliant assurance, that wenle and short-sighted people wers dnzzled ond fancied him a Oxesvs whoso wealth was countod by millions, But mon of this stamp, who ncowmnulnto monoy in thiy way, never koep it. Thoy mny bleed socioty, but thero oro parasites who bleed them worse, They may build gorgoous opera-houses, but, an opern-houso which ia-a soraglio costs fortunes to run it, Mistresses of the MiNsrierp stylo aro flckle, nud their affctions ave com. merclal, Thoy live by blackmail, nnd their vietima aro continually bled, Buch men must have troops of confodorates and tools topay, ‘Thoy must ¥also up hosts of enomics to bo silenced, Thoy must oy couslant drafts for bribory and corruption, and the longor thoy continue tho more thoy must ay, for onco in thero is no way out, In the cowrso of such o lifo of riotous living as this, tho vietim must at Inst meot with his Nomoss, ond Fisg met his in Browes, Tho bullot rolioved Brokes from Lis Pporsooutor, aud rolloved moolety of g post, sad murdor logically torminated Fax's There was no violation o tho unitics of the drama in, this respect, but tho donono- ment was not wholly complete, Fisk wns swept away, and now the invontory shows that ol the matorinl rosults of his bad life aro awept away also. ITin riolons lifo consumed hin and hin property nt the snme time, Noth- ing i left, and the catnstroplio is completo, I'ho lawyers who expecled to gorgodiliem- welves at tho fenst find nothing but ? ®nce. "'ho wretched mistress has obtnined Iy " ndg- meonts, and eon preservo them for e l‘j'nirn, for all thnt ho lind way squandered Ypoy, or and heor like when he was alive, won Lho moral of auch n drama Oyt Yo 1o sutliciently plain, And it ought, tg gynes ‘with specinl fores to that largo clnss of ysonle/Drine cipled young mon who aro duzlea by{such men ns Fisk, and whos idea ¢f 1ifo copsists in making money by eunning gq chicinery and spending it in’ lust nnd dissipation, Tho fnto of Fisk should shiow them tho inovitable rosult of wuch a false thaory of lifo, and that it can only ond in xuin. It should tench themn that renl success oan bo nchieved only by con- stant industry, allied to the old-fashioned vir- tno of honesty in business and rectitude in life, and that snccess achioved in any other Wway can never bopermanent, THAT BILL OF PARTICULARS, After all tho fuss and fenthers that lave boon displayed abiout the absurd bill of par. ticulnrs which Mr, Dexenns counsel demand. ed that 3r, Tirroy should file, wo aro not to havo it, First, thero was n decision that the Court; had authority to grent it, which, boing nppenled, wns maintained, Then the Court Below made nn order that it should bo forth- coming, Mr. TrLToN’s counsel toolk anappeal from this decision of Judgo McCur's to the General Term of the City Court, wheroitwas roversed. Mr, Breonen bas o stifl further right of appenl, but wo can searcely imagino that, after his recent avtiole in tho Christian Union, he will permit hig Inwyers to avail themselves of the privilege. But, it they do, it is not at all likely that the Court of Appenls will enforce so absurd o proceduro ; nad, in the end, Mr. Deeouee will Lave to meet Mr, TrLToN's caso as tho latter has stated it, This isas it should bo. Lot us have no moro of tho law's delny in this case. Tho whole caso turns upon n question of fact to o submitted to a jury. Lot Mr. Tizox in- troduce all the ovidenco ho has to establish his chnrge, and Mr. Berenir introduce all the cvidenco ho hias to rebut it. Wo seo no ren. son why any testimony should be excluded by limitation, which would otherwiso be com- peient. Both perties to tho, controversy profess to desiro o speedy - trial on the merits, If Mr. Beconsm s sincore in this profession, ho will permit no more efforts on his bebalf to clog the way to an early trial by an appeal against a de- cision which must commend itself both to common sense and common justico, If the Brecuzn fnotion, rost content with the de- cision which-now refuses to demand a bill of particulars, there will be an opportunity to test tho sincerity of Mr. Trurox's professions, It will thon bo his duty to call tho case at tho earliest possiblo moment ; and, .if he fails to do this, ho will subject himself to the samo ndversa criticism which Mr, Brrcnen has recoived for his offorts nt delay. Tho simplo fact is that the publio has the right to demand a prompt disposal of this Brecner seandal. It hag long enough dis- graced our current literature, and longenough impregnated the socinl atmosphero with its migsmatic exhalations, It should be sottled onco for all whether Beecnen is innacont or guilty, If innacent, it is outmgoous that he should rest so long under the imputation of guilt; if guilty, it is time we censed to regard lim with respeet and permit him to befoul morality in his prosent high position. Weo know of but one way in which s definito sot- tlement can bo made, aud that is by a trial on the merits, If Mr. Brecmen had secured the Dbill of particnlars for which ho askod, and beon nequitted on a trial under that condition, ho A0 would not have been acquitted before the public. Tho case is thi Mr, Trcron charges adultery, and claims that ho ean prove it by -documentary ovidence, nnd by testimony that both Mr, Brrcuen and Mrs, Tiuroy made confessions of tho fact at vari. ous times and to various persons, Now, he should bo pormitted to introduoe his ovi- dence, It will then remain for Mr. Brromen to exphin away tho documentary evidenco and to impenel the witnosses, Thig is the whole case in 6 nutshell. Lot us have it and bo dono with it, No further bills of paxtiou lars, or other limitations or techniealities, aro necessary or desirable, s ——— POSTAL ARRANGEMERTS, Postmaster-Genoral JuweLy is stopping up the littlo lerks in his Dopartmont, and saving 8 good deal of monoy thorcby. Hithorto Koy Weat ins been supplied with postal mat. ter by four different routes, which have cost $148,978 a year. Horeaftor if will got two mails per weel, which is as much as any ren- sonnblo native on the sand-bank can wigh, and will cost the country only 850,000 year. This saving of $100,000 is o plensant New Yonr's gift to the tax-payers, They wilt thank Mr. Jowers for it. Now lot the good work go on, Tho mail facilities of somo re. moto portions of the country ave altogother too great for the vory trifling business to be porformed. They should bo cut down to somo roasonnble dimensions. Peopls who bury themselves in tho wildorness can better afford to got their infrequent letters only oneo a weok {han thae country can afford to subsidizo halfen- dozen n stago lines in ordoer to send an empty mail-bag to them every day. If Mr, Jewern is let alone, wo hiave hopes that ho will make his Department pay its own oxpensos beforo his term of oflico oxpires, whoreas he finds now n deficionoy of eight millions, Ho is managing Lis publio ag he would his privato nffnirs, It iz inovitablo that his honesty and economy should excite the jobbors, straw-bidders, and fraudulent contractors, who have hithorte lived by plundering the people through the modium of the postal-service, to a fronzy of rage, but we doubt not thpt tho Prosidont will stand by this faithfal sorvant of the publio, Another important roform introduoed by Mr, Jewein concerns our postal relatlons with Cmnade, As soon gs tho necessary areangomonts oan bo mado, the two countrics, R0 far as the mails ara concerned, will bo proctically united, Aftor Fob, 1, lotters mailed in eithor for the other will bo chavged only domestio rates, A thrao-cont stamp will take & lottor from San Trancisco to Quebeo,or from Chiongo to Heli. fax, Enchcountry will rotain the poitageitre. colves from mnil-matter sont to the othor, whother tho amount is large or sunll, (. nelthor will ohargo the other anything for transporting and delivering the iutornational mails, Arrangoments aro to bo made for an intornational monoy-order exohange on the samo plan, If this ngraomont nbout lettors 18 all right,—and evory onw will focognizg it ns a mutnal beneflt,—why should wo not hnve & little moro reciprocity in trade and commerco? If the Penusylvania manu- facturer ean now compoto with n rival loeated Balf n milo sonth of the Caundinn frontier, why should o shrink from n fair strugglo with auother whose manufactory is n milo fartherg north? Connda is an Amerienn State, sepnraled in part by an imaginary line and a slightly different Government from othor Amoriean States, but copied closely after thom, Tho people of all the Statoes are tho rame fn race, nnd religion, and thought, nnd liternture, and foeling, Mittunl inter. course should bo promoted in overy possible way., It is absurd to declino a roclprocity of trado with a community which geograph. ically nndsocially, whatovor it may bo palitie- nlly, is ono of the galuxy of American States, Pennsylvania might as well ask to ho “ pro. tected" from Nqw York and Ohio 03 ngainst Caundn, Ono of the conditions of full reci- procity is our freo uso of tho enlarged Cang- dinn canels and the St. Lawrence Rivor, Tho Went needs this, and menns o havo it. Wao gladly hail anything whicl promises & moro perfeet union of tho kindred communities nlong tho Lakes nnd the St, Lawrence. Rece iprocity in postal affairs, by bringing us nenrer togother and making us better ne- quainted, will bo a step towards rociprocity in overything, CHICAGO SOHOOL RER T'he Bonrd of Education, at ity meeting on Tuesday evening, lind befors them n propo- sition asking the Common Council to anthor- izo the employment of an attorney to prose- outo and collect all sums due and unpaid for rent of the renl estato bolonging to the School Tund. This resolution was for soma renson voted down, and o committeo of the Bonrd was diroeted to inguire and report the cost of procuring the legal services of such oan attorney, and report the namo of o person for that duty, Ordinarily, the business should ho per- formed by the Law Department of the city, but that offico seems {0 havo moro business than it ean properly attend to, and the matter of the school rents bins Leen totally neglected for more than a year past. In 1870 thero Wns & reassessment of the school property, and there was a pretty general refusal to pny the rent according to the incrensed rates, which were alleged by most of the tenants to @ too high. Suits wero brought, but in- junctions were gued out of the courty restraining their collection, and setting up varions plens, such as want of notice, unfair- niess, oxcessive appraisement, and irregulari- ties of various kinds, Delay followed these suits and ‘injunctions, and in the height of the controversy cama tho fire, burning down all the buildings and improvements on the leased grounds, and it was n year or moro before tho tenants were ablo to rebuild. The city wns embarrassed by the loss of its ree- ords and the destruction of some, of its proofs, and, fimally, in the foro part of 1878, terms of compromise were agreed upon, the city making fair and liberal concessions in consideration of the time lost by the fire and to avoid protracted itigation, A large ma- Jority of tho tenants camo forward in the summer of 1873 and settled the dispute with the city upon the proposed terms, and have been paying their ronts over since, During the last year, howover, nothing seoms to have been done in the way of forcing tho dolin- quents to pry either current rent or back rents, until, ab lnst, the aggregato amount of due and unpnid ronts renches £200,8421 'Tho Mayor in his Inte messago called attontion to this matter, and furnished o list of the delin. quent tennuts, Omitting those whose in. dobtodness is loss than $1,000, wo reproduco this liat as follows: N +.$ 1,261.00 11, 0 Wiz, Firdii & Poran 1leNur Brisuwonrs, + 4,100, Grones Booxen, , . 029,66 An exomination of this list will show that theso ddlinquents aro montly, if not all, mon of means, who avo deriving largo rents and profits from this school property, on which they rofuso to pay the proportionata pittanco due to tho'School Fund, Possibly there may be found mmong them some of tho active members of the Citizons’ Assoointion, who aro demnnding immenso expenditures by the city for firo and water and a magnificont ond costly City Government to be supported by taxes pnid Ly othor people. Theso persons havo loss cxeuso than ean bo ordinmily pleaded for the non-payment of doebt, The lend is asseased, under the com- promine, st not over GO per cont of its cnsh valuo, Tho annual rent is computed at ¢ per cent of thig valuntion, and tlie ground is ox- empt from taxes. Computing tho taxes ns oqual fo 2, per cent of tho assessed velue of the land, theso tonants aro asked only to pay n routal aqual to + per cont, or ono-half the actual valuo of the ground held by them, They refuso to pay this, and wo are confident that publio epinion will hold the City Government erlminally ro- sponsiblo if it longer delay tho Pprosecution of those “‘dend-beats " who have squatted on tho publie property, drawing large profits thero- from, and rofusing to pay thoe small annual ohargo asked of them, Theso gchool lands and lots have to bo ro. assessed noxt April. In the meentime, the Law regulating tho lonsehold interests of such lands should bo so amendod as to furnish the public authorities with summary power to colleet the routs and to procure a forfeituro of lenses when the tonant fails to comply with Lis contracts, For tho presont, however, let the city prosceuto theso delinguents to judg ment and oxecution in the most vigorous monoer, Tho Torro Hante Journal publiskies a letter from 3r. D. W, Voonners on tho Senatorial fight in Indiana, The opistlo iulnbeled ¢ pri- vate," but wag evidently intended for publi. cation. The “Tall Sycamoro of tho Wa. bash " alias tha * Gurrency Wild-Oatter,” snys that ho shall abuso nobody, end that his can- didacy for tho Senato s opposed only Ly “tho hard-money rings,” otc., ote, ITo ans nounces hig belief in the ¢ doliberately.de. olared principles of tho Demacratic party of Indians intho lato canvnss,” to.wit: infla- tion, fluctuation, dopracintion, onding in ro- pudiation, Ho points with pride” to the fect that on Feb, 10, 1872, ho introduced into the Houso o Dill to pay the public debt in “groonbacks,” or, in other words, to brok foith with tho men whose loans onabled the Government to put down t3 inawrectlon of My, Voonuzes' Southern allios, Tho **Sycamore” wislios toho diatinetly understoodas the wild-cat, greenbackenndidate for tho Bounte, If lio gains tho covoted hiouor, it will only be a proof like that given by the Sonato voto on Bnzranay's apoole-pay- mont bill, that the Demooratie party is com. 5 qlnrming after all, Lioart, sounding tho liewgng, to say that Mr, Voonnersenlls tho Gold bi ot 1809, which did s0 much for Amerienn cr¥dit at homo and abrond, nn “infanous seliemo of robbory ”! And evory repudintion dead-bent and thiof says mmen, Tha cloetion of this repudintor ay Benator will bring its compen- sating good by disgusting tho 10,000 Itepub. licans of Indinun who voteq the Demo- cratio ticket Inst fall, and nending them bacl to their own party in time to restoro thnt Stato at tho next clection to the Topublican side, - BOUTHERN BLUSTER, 9 Tho Atlanta (Cin.) Neics, in commonting upon the Louisinun imbroglio, displays s spirit of vengeanco which at the first sight ig simply appalling, and makes one's blood run cold, Suys tho Newes » E What wonder fa1t, If tho peopln of Tontelann, made doned to doaporation, are turning with dnrk brows oand rosaluto Lioarts (o thelr weapons s their rolo sale alon 2 What wonder, then, if the probabiiity of sn. other bloody uprislug in Now Orleans is fast becom. dbgn certninty, nud it mon wait with bated brasth to biear of anothor grand appeal to arms in the Crescent Oity 2 Had It been parpotrated hero 1n Georgla, we would Bavo eatled upon tho peaplo of thls Stato to rigo fy thete majorly and consfyn the wrotches who had dared to trample on thele rights to inglorlous graves, The way, howaver, in which the peoplo of Georgin vise in their majosty is not very After firing the Southern and benting the tota-tom in this foroeious mauner, the writos closes his blast with the following faini squenk : Sinco tho foregoiny wns wrilten, forued by dor. Mekntuy that an uprisiug s no meditatad, A Fedoral fleet sita ut anchor beforo the City of Now Otleaus, ready, with a fow alots, 1o cut the loveon and Inudato tho town, Doubtlens, boesuss of tho women and children, the men of Sow Orlenns will postpono tholr Just vengeanco and awalt o ftting opportunity, Lhis very remarkabla letting down, in view of tho possibility of n cooling off by a sud- den Mississippi donche, reminds one vory foreibly of that instance of French bravery whero Wo havo been fnv [ Tho King of France, with twice ten thangand men, Alarehed up thoill, aud then marchod down aafh, We aro inclined to the opinion that a douclio of soma sort would have a beneficial effect in cooling off tho hot blood of the Lonisiaun Delligerents, As the noxt thing, Gea. Snempan has been ordered to Now Orleans. Ho is & man of action, whoso rems edies aro very positive, prompt, cflieacious, and very cooling. Tor reducing fover and bringing pationts to their right minds, Dr, SurnmoaN is just the man, Ioe hag nd o largo and successful experience in this lino, aund, if the people of New Orlenns are in. clined to commence the Now Year by gotting upon the rampnge, thero is no ono better qualified for cooling them off. Although o somewlat sovere practitioner, ho is withal a very courteous gontleman, and, in both ro. spects, wo have no hesitation in recommend. ing'him to tho peoplo of Lonisiann as ono who can be relied upon in an cmergenay. e ey A NEW PHASE OF THE INDIAN QUEETION, Lo, the poor Indinn, is somewhat poorer than ho wes o fow months ago, for he has lost his pony., Tho annual eampaign has thig year been directed ngainst the four-legged moro than the two-legged brutes of the West, “The troops hinve shot ponies by the hundred and thousand, This is a wise policy, The redskin is always ready to give his Lingdom for a horso, for ho ean win it back again with such help. Unmounted, he is a miscrable tramper, unablo to roam in search of plunder and sealps, and linble to bo eaught by Gov. ernment infantry if ho pushes his depreda~ tions too far. Mounted, ho is ready for the forage. Hoishereto-day and goneto-morror. Iis path is marked with the hoofs of Lig horso and the bodies of his viotims. He can laugh af pursuit, Tho argument for allow- ing the Indinns to keep their poniez hes al- ways been that thoy needed (hem in order fo kill tho buffalo, This iz not so, Tho buffalocs go to tho north at the appronch of summer and to the south when winter beging to malko itsolf felt, 'Thoy can bo intercopted by dismonnted men ot any point of their maroh, cither in spring or autumn, and can bo killed in sufficient numbers, during tho weeks consumed in the slow movements of the innumerabld herds, to supply every wild Indian on the plains with food for the timo thoy depend on such food, Tho Ppossession. of ponies merely nllows tho Beyages to chaso them for days and slaughter thousands for mere sport. That this is good fun for the Indinns is notsufMicierit renson for allowing them to pursue, through tho rest of the warm months, tho plensing pastimo of making raids on the sottloments and seIp. ing the pioneers. It is in tho spring thue o young brave's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of scalps, Why? Decause then the grass will giva his pony subsistenee, Tho storeo. typed telegram for March or April is: % T%o grass is boginning to show itself and sn Indian outbreak is expected soon.” Wa cie not unhorso the wards of the uation, whom, tho East styles “our red heathen” and the West ‘‘tho red dovils,” too quickly, The operations of this yenr have heen mainly confined {o tho southern part of the Indian country, The Cheyennes, Coman- ches, and Kiowas have Loen vigorously pun. ished whonever they woro caught off theiw resorvations, The destruction of t):aie horses has grently tamed them. Indian Conie missioner Sxrmir urges, in his annual report, that theso tribes should bo compelled, in their prosont disabled condition, to gather on o roservation in the Indian Territory and ex. chango their remaining ponies for eattlo, ‘This would draw the fangs of the rattlesnake, 1o could nolonger strikohigproy, Mr, Saur would apply this policy by degroes to all the wild tribes, +Ho urges, movcover, that the Indians should bo brought under tho control of Fedoral Iaw; #0 that thoir individ- ual crimes ngoinst cach other mny beproperly punished. Their only law mow is lawless- ness, o would ultimately give them citi- zouship, On tho other Land, Gen. T. A, ‘Wavkur, whose opinions on the Indinn quesa tion havo deserved weight, maintains that tribal governmont is the only one for which tho Indians avo fit, and that an attompt to give them anything else will rosult in failure. Nevertholoss, wo think, with due deferencoe to the ex-Commissioner, that the present Commissioncr hias proved 'Lis point. ~ Ho is cortainly right in his schemeo for unhorsing the pests of our frontie: ‘Tho best oxplanation the Milwaukco Senti- 76l ia ablo to mako of Mr, Krxa's conucetion with the Pacifio Mail swindlo is ns fallows: An offort fa belug made by somo newspapers to con~ nect the Jon, W, 8, King, of Minnesots, with corrupt Dpractices fn conmection with tho Paciio Mall, This oftort bas sluiply mo foundstion whatever in fruth, Thio fucts aro thiodo : Thero waa u bill pending {n Cone gresa to givoan dncreased mubaldy to the Pacifi Mall Ktoamellp Cbmpany, A, Xing, who was only Poste maator, and not o member of tho House, hud conf- doucu that tho bill would pass, Ho went to New York ond communieated this usnranco to parcios thors, A pool was organtzod, sud a largo amount of tho atock was bought, Upon thejpassago of tha bIil a conuldor able advanco waa realized, und §t was his shave of this mittod to tho sbiuplaster polloy, It suflices 1 &pcgulation thnt was judd fo him in tho manner delall €4 Litove rw Wuya and Bleaw Comtmitted, Ths