Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1875, Page 8

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1875,--SIXTEEN PAGES. mony is, that both Mr. Brecuen and Mrz, Truton repeatedly spoke to her of their intense love for each other, and that both confessed their great ‘‘sin” to her, and consulted with her as to the consequences, as well as to the proper course they should If this be true, it is the end of the case, and thereis only oneconclusion. = Thus for there is nothing to show that it is not trae, On the other hand, the probabili- ties are such as to secure public credence for her testimony, unless the defense can explain itaway. Mrs. Mounron is a Indy of high position nd unspotted character. Her always been good, and no suspicion is now thrown upon it. AU the actors im this social drama trusted in her, and Mr. Beeoner himself had s0 much eonfidence in her that he could say : “Yon are the best friond that I have in this world. You are dearer to methon any sister have, for you, knowing all the trath, and Inow- ing that I am guilty, still stand by me, while they believe I am innocent.” In all the time this awful scandal has been before the nation no part of it has involved her, or placed her in any position of distrust or duplicity, She has modestly kept herself secluded, while almost every one else has sedulously sought public notoriety in connection with the case, either directly or indirectly. husband has also her, and even in his statement makes no al- lusion to her by name. be aware of what had been going on until she was informed of it long after its occurrence. She did not even know that her husband was enraged at Mr. Brecnen until Mr. Brecwer informed her of it and besought her media- tion. She sought none of the parties in this case. They sought her. She did not ask for their confessions. They made them to her on their own motion. She went to see Mrs, Woonuutt, but it was'at the urgent request of her husband, in pursuance of his plans to keep that adventuress from making the dread secret public. Until she went upon the witness-stand, the public had no ides that Mrs. Movuron was cognizant of all the facts of this terrible case, and that she had been informed of them by the principal parties themselves. Unless, therefore, the defense can show that she has told s cold-blooded falsehood, or made o dreadful mistake, or that she is laboring under some strange hal- lucination, and has imagined or invented this story, which hangs together so closely and tenaciously that the most rigid crose- examination cannot finda weak spot in it, the case is virtually concluded. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. experience and an education of no ordinary character, and an amount of vigilance, skill, and labor possessed by very few persons. It has been propesed to sweep all this red tape and expensive detail out of existence ; to have the City Council certify annualiy the amount of money needed for the several city purposes; and to have the Countr Clerk make out in one book, in distinct eorumns, against each lot, the tax thereon for State purposes, county purposes, town purposes, park pur- poses, city purposes, and for special assess- ments, with a total at the end of the page, thus exhibiting in one line, and at a glance, the total tax charged against each piece of property. The list thus made out by the Clerk will be placed in the hands of the Col- lector, and the whole tax will be payable at the same time, to the same officer; anda tax- receipt will in fact be what it purports to be, —evidence of full satisfaction for oi taxes RLTES OF SUBSCRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). Prepaid at this Paris of year ct the same rate, ‘To preven: delay and mistskez, be sure and give Post- Gdrets in full, including Stats and County. Realitancesmay bemade either by draft, express, Post- Gfice order, or in registered Ietters, at ocr risk. TERMS TO CITY sUDECRIBErs. Dafty, delivered, Sancay cxccpted, 25 conta per week Sunday tncinded. 30 cents per week THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Denrborn-sts., Chicago, IL. TO-WO«ROW'S AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street. botweeo Mi ‘and Munroe. Engagement of Frank Chantri M'VICKKR'S THRATRE—Madii street, betwoon Dearborn and State, Hingagement of Chariot Cusbman. ADELPHI THEATNE—Dearborn streot, corner Mon- oedhen™ wee. Variety cntertainment. GRAND OPZEA-ROUSE—Clark stres ve Wale Leow Mista If this consolidation of the city and State machinery for the assessment and collection of taxes be accomplished, there will be a re- duction of one-half thetar-lists now required, MOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolnh strost, botwoen Glark and LaSalle. ‘‘Dora™ and “* CHICAGO MUSKUM—Monroe street, between Dear- born and State. “! Hors 2 and s saving of cash outlay of over $100,000. But the consolidation would accomplish more than this: it would lead to the prompter pay- ment of taxes; it would lead to the abulition SOCIETY MEETINGS. A. P. A.—The Ber- dodge will take place at Franklin-sts., on WALD MARTIN, Reo. Sec. TENTION SIR ENIGHTS !—Specia for work on KH. C. ‘Order. hf Seomaly tari ‘WASHINGTOR LODGE, No. enth Annual Ball of the above i, corner Van Bufen of the useless offices of Town Collectors in the city, and, the assessment and collection of taxes being simplified, the number of books and duplicate lists would be still farther re- She does not seem to yf tha K. C. 0:4 WILLIAMS, Recorder. | "St against this wholesome reform, against ORUSADER LODGE, No, 11, K. of P.M this reduction of expenses, and this simplifi- pposetied ranklin-sla,, Friday eveaivg, Keb. 26, at 73, acineas of tmpurtan: cation of tax-collection, the whole army of city officials are arrayed, and now have their representatives at Springfield demanding that RELP, K. of B. and 8. the duplicate system be maintained, and thus it is that large cities are plundered and robbed in the interests of officials. THE LINCOLN MONUMENT. A suit has been begun in Florence, Italy, which bids fair to settle the vexed question of the trath of Lanzm G. Mran’s claim to be the sculptor of the Lincoln Monument so recently erected at Springfield. The plain- tiff isa naturalized American citizen, Tom- ataso Gacrunpr, a former agent of Mean, who now sues him, according to the report given by the Florentine press, for money paid by him (Gagliardi) to the Italians who, he alleges, designed, modeled, and executed the Lincoln Monument for which Mzin now claims credit. The plaintiff tells the following story: He was engaged by Mzan to hire Ital- ians to draw the designs for the Monument. He did so. Two men—Passacum and Borvo— “Tn the two designs for the monument of Lincoln, he (Mzap) didnoteven sharpen the pencil.” These designs received the prize of $1,000, and Mzan, as their nominal author, was chosen to erecute them. He paid Passactza and Borpo $30 apiece, and so cleared $940 on this first step in the speculation. These two subordinates sculptured the monument, working on it for day-wages, and it was finally sent to Spring- field, and dedicated there with pomp and ceremony,—as the work of Lannuy G. Mrap! It must be remembered that this is a wholly exparte statement, made by a man who thinks, or pretends to think, that Mzap bas cheated him. Still, Gaarmpr has been as- sociated with Mzap for some years. He crossed the ecean four times within three months in Mmran’s service, and it was he who brought here the designs of the monu- ment. He has certainly opportanity to know whereof he speaks, He submits, in support of his statements, letters and receipts from Mxav which are said to be damaging evidence, although their contents are not given. The accused sculptor will have to reply to Gactasnnr's suit, His fail- ure to do so would be a confession of, the charges, and would be so regarded. He can- not afford to be silent any longer. We trust he msy prove his innocence. If he has palmed off the work of others as his own, he has insulted the memery of Lrrcorm and the United States. It isan art-fraud almost without parallel. We must regret, in the in- tevests of fair play, that most of the informa- tion at present accessible to the American press on the subject of the alleged fraud comes from Mr. Srapren W. Hraty, a bitter- ly-prejudiced, manifestly-incompetent per- sen, who buries his few alleged facta in eol- ‘umns on columns of useless words. Still, the alleged facts are there, and Mr. Mean had better answer them forthwith. The people of Illinois would like to know whether or not they have been duped into honoring a charla- tan. —_—_—__ BUSIKESS NOTICES. WE MEAN ALL WE Sal intaction oF m08, Sialf the asual rate, MECHLBNGY, 73C The Chicago Cribure. Bunday Morning, February 21, 1875. THE DUPLICATE TAX SYSTEM. As an illustration of the manner in which the business of assessment and tax-collection in this city and county is conducted, we in- vite the attention of the public to an enor- mous abuse, The tar-list of Cook County includes all the lands and lots in the city and county ; each piece uf land and each lot, and subdivision of both, is set forth separately, and described particularly, with the owner's Same, when known, In addition is the as- segsment of personal property, stocks, cred- its, ships, vessels, horses, mules, carriages, stocks of merchandise, &., &. The city list isthe eame in all things except that it is confined to these descriptions of property within the city. But the city list contains, in addition, separate enumerations of much of the real estate for street improvements; water tax, of more for lamp posts, more for fewerage connections, and for all the varie- ties of special assessment. The combined Gity list is therefore generally as long se that of the city and county list. How many per- gons are there who know how many times these lists have to be copied every year in the erdinary routine of collecting the taxes? Let us try and enumerate them,—first for THE HERO OF IZALY. ‘We have all of us known one or two char- acters whose simplicity and goodness have conquered an unalloyed admiration : not that they were perfect ; not that they did not havo flaws that would have been condemned in others; but because there, was a frankness, or a benevolence, or a hopefalness, or some other wholly admirable quality that absorbed all imperfections and smoothed over all de- fects. Perhaps it was a face alone which, ino passing glance, impressed us with a confidence inthe perfect goodness of the possessor. Per- haps it was the momentary surroundings that produced a sweet serenity nover afterwards disturbed. Is may have been personal friendship, maternal love, religious devo- tion, or any other pure, absorbing characteristic single impress of unadulterated sweet- ness of character. This oxquisite sen- timent of admiration that individuals all too rarely have occasion to feel is akin to the enthusiasm with which the whole people of Italy greet Ganmarpr whenever ciroum- stance brings him out of his retreat on the Island of Caprera, We can only liken the reception he found in Rome a few weeks ago to this exceptional personal fecling we accord an acquaintance or It is an unreasoning, though not an It does not rest ‘wagons, pianos, of more for that left the 1. The Assessors copy into their books for bad a good 1876 the list of 1874. 2. They return a list of all the property, ‘with such additions as they make, to the 8 County Clerk farnishes fists to each ‘Sewn Collector, which they return to the County Treasurer. 4 The County Treasurer or Collector re- ‘tams 1 lst to the County Clerk, showing collections and delinquents. 5. County Collector makes another list for unreasonable, devotion. upon any analytical estimate of his services to the State. It is not because he is without fault or weakness, but because the fault lies with the intellect, and not with the heart, which they know is always in the right place. Ganzatpr is loved by the Italian people. They revere the memory of Cavour, respect the strong character of Vicron Emanvxt, their King, but they regard Ganmazpz with that pure affection which we cannot describe, but have tried to liken to a sentiment that has been felt in almost every individual ex- Painter. 6. ‘The County Clerk makes a list for ap- plication to the County Court for judgment. 7. The Court gives judgment on the ap- Pieation, and s new list is prepared and em- bodied in the judgment, 8. ‘The County Collector makes return lists of the property sold for taxes, etc. 9 The Clerk certifies to the State Auditor a list of property forfeited to the State. In addition, separate lists, through all these proceedings, are mate of the property wubject to past taxes. So much for the county. Now for the city: 1. ‘The Asscesor copies the previous year's aasesement books. & Mokes returns thereof, with additions, eorrections, ete, & Yax Commissioner revises theses books, and furnishes Collector with list for colleo- Ganrsaxpr was called to Rome from his re- tirement by a majority of votes given him in that city for the position of Deputy in tho Italian Parliament. The vote was not a gauge of his popularity, but rather this pop- ularity was sufficient to overcome the delib- erate judgment which would otherwise have voted him unfit for legislative functions, But when he reached Rome, all deliberation was at an end, and there was that absorbing enthusingm at his preeence which flashed like an electric spark from peasant to King. The people made no effort to restrain it. They came in from all the country round to see him, clambered up at the sides and on top of his carriage to catch a glimpse of the hero's face. The infection did not escape Parlia- and his political oppo- nents as well as his political friends in tho applause which greeted his presence in the Chamber. Such personal attachment was probably never manifested toward any man by a great mass of people, unless it was toward Lamantine during the brief hold he had on the popular heart of France during the Revolution of 1848. Itis & sweeter reward than crown and sceptre, wealth and power. In overything that is generally understood as the consummation of a successful career, Ganrmaxor has failed. In statesmanship he isa very child; his military successes have not resulted from any of the qualities of a great General ; in private life he has remained. poor. Practical in nothing, he is enthusias- tio and heroic in everything. He was the Pioneer of Italian Republicanism. He came forward, no matter how often he was put down, aaa promise and a hope. He dared what other men dared not, He never stopped to ealculnte chancesor results; henever felt a “manifest destiny ” on which to rely; he did not thirst for power; he had no dread of consequences. He loved liberty with the same fervor that he hated the Roman Church. He never compromised with either, unless taking the oath of allegianca the other day, when he went to his seat in Parliament, may be so regarded by religious and political fa- natics, Ho incited Italy against France and Austria at a time when revolt was madness, and he led the Italian people in a dozen for Jorn hopes in assaulting impregnable out- works of despotism. His defense of Romo against the besiegers can only be Ji! some of the heroic defenses of Oxaxitss XIL. of Sweden, after fortune abandoned Lim; only the latter fought the fight of a simyle- minded despot, and Gaxmaxnr fought tho Sight of a ximpleminded Repoblicah. He | Canal in connection with that sohame, ‘The S2RS, MOULTON’S TESTIMONY. Another week—and the most eventful one of the trial—has closed upon the Bezcuen case, and, with its close, the clouds settle down more darkly and heavily thanever about the great preacher, to the sorrow of the nation. During the week the counsel for Mr. Tron have produced three witnesses, whose testi. mony linked together formsa chain of evi- dence which is as yet unbroken, and which makes a climax of startling and almost dra- matic effect, The testimony of Mr. Ricu- axps, brother of Mrs. Txuron, considered per #3 was of little account. He had suddenly interrupted a tete-c-tele between Mr. Breon- xg‘and Mrs. Tmzox, and occasioned Mrs. Turon to retire with a flushed face,—all of which might have happened in an innocent manner,—but, taken in connection with pre- vious testimony, and especially in connection with the testimony of the two principal wit- nesses of the week, it is significant. Mr. Bucuanvs only saw an act or motion which, under the circumstances, aroused an unpless- ant suspicion in his mind. The widow Canr, wot-nurse, however, What she saw did not produce a suspicion, but a very vivid impression. Unless sho testified to a falsehood, she saw Mrs. Trzrox sitting upon Mr. Brrcuxs’s Imee, his hand resting upon her shoulder, and she hed pre vionsly seen him upon several occasions going into Mrs. Tuon’s bed-room and re- maining there considerable time. And now comes Mrs, Movzrom and makes the ¢vi- dence of these two witnesses entirely con- sistent and probable, unless she has wickedly perjured herself and testified falsely, or oom- mitted some dreadful mistake growing out of temporary hallucination, Of this, however, there is no sign. Under cross-examination by one of the most skillful and astute lawyera in the United States, her tas- timony was unshaken. Not a thread dropped out of her story. no weak spots in 4 Tax Collector reports list to County 5, 6, 7, and 8 follow as in county with additions of othor lista for esch special Hore, then, is a duplicate machinery by swhich the list of taxable property in this ity and oounty is copied annually from twelve to sixteen times, or supposed to be #0 copied. We understand that the tax-lista for this city and county for the tax of 1873 num- ber twenty-five immense volumes, each vol- ‘ume being ag much as one person of ordina. zy strength can lift’ These volumes are ofScial records, and must be preserved, and ‘tn a fow years, under the present system, at ‘he ordinary rate of increase, will require a weparate building in which to preserve them. ‘The oost of making each of these liste, wo ‘ere informed, will average $5,000 to $10,000. In their copying, of course, errors are made, and theese errors are perpetuated from year to year, until in time the tax-lists will bein a testified to a fact. Is there no way to dispense with this in ffiated system af bookkeeping and vast ex- An owner of a lot worth $2,000, in this ) bat now to psy tothe County Collector end bis park tox; thess are all payable at one efics, and at ons time. In ease the property be scid for taxes, he can redeem the same at one ofice, But when he undertakes to pay his city tax, he is furnished with o bill there- for; it then becomes hisduty, in order te pro- test himself, to examine from forty to ahbundred special and separate warrants to discover if his lot be taxed for lamp-posts, water-ratoe, eswerngs connections, sidewalks, or street improvamenta, or any other work for which special taxes are levied. Unless he it, no Ispses of no contradiction of dates or events, Hertestimony includes all that had gons before, so for as the charge of direct gailt is concerned, and makes it credible; and it explodes the thoories, built up by the defense, of blockmail and conspiracy, and of the constraction of a minor offenss by Berongr into something criminal, owing to the peculiar sentimental misanthropy which is said to be an element of his nature. AD this upon the sssumption that her toati. mony is trad, ‘Zhe substance of that texti- do this, his property, being assessed for any of theso purposes, may be sold. It will not sven do if be have already paid the cost of a special improvement, and have the receipt therefor; he must ses that, opon the tar- ‘warrant for that improvement, he has been property credited with his payment; othor- wise, though ba owe nothing, his property tuay be sold for the tax he has already paid. ‘Ie payment of toxsa in this city requires an would never have brought Italy to the peace- ful condition of » united people under a con- atitutional monarchy, but it was he who cre- ated Italian patriotism, and laid out the paths which cooler-brained men, like Cavouz, followed to a constitutional destiny. Ganr- patpr has always been content with leading to great events; he has scrupulously fore- gone the honors of this fins! achievement. He has never sought public place. He promptly refused the handsome subscription which the people recently made him, though his services and his poverty would have war- ranted his acceptance thereof. When the crowds gathered about him in Rome he told them simply that he was pleased to sce them, and then asked them to go home and to be “orderly and good.” The good of the peo- ple is what he has always aimed at, and he has believed it to be synonymous with liberty. He starts the lead and leaves to others the practical working of it, With all his fail- ures, his mistaken zeal, and his speculative politics, there is something so grand in his simple-minded, heroic, and self-sacrificing de- yotion to Freedom that there is nothing to wonder at in the universal affection the Italian people feel for him. HAZEN ON THE WAR-PATH. Attacking the Northern Pacific at present is something like butchering a dead man. Still, it is well to guard against any danger of resurrection. Gen. Hazen probably thought this when he supplemented his striking arti- cle in the last Worth American with a pam- phlet on “Our Barren Lands,” a review of which we find in the last Nation. His es- pecial object is to refute Gen. Custen’s at- tempted refutation of his previous stato- ments. He seems to do so pretty effect- ually. He brings forward the proofs, already so familiar to our readers, that the region between the 100th meridian and the Sierra Nevada range, and from our northern bound- ary to Mexico, is emphatically a ‘barren land.” Drought and grasshoppers rav- age it, Save under the most exceptional circumstances, crops can be produced only by constant irrigation, and tho necessary amount of water exists only in a few cases. ‘The valley of the Upper Missouri, so lavishly bespattered with praise in the swindling Northern Pacific advertisements, was truth- fully doscribed by Lewis and Cxansy, the men sent by Jerrmson in 180! to explore the Pacific slope; and the description holds good to-day. The valley proper is narrow. Its soil is good, but the scant supply of rains, and water, and timber or fuel, say Lewzs and Cuanxx, “ oppose powerful obstaclesto settle ment.” ‘This testimony is corroborated by that of numerous other witnesses, which Gen. Hazen quotes. He incidental- ly shows Custer’s Iack of trustworthi- ness by comparing his report of the Black Hills country with that of other members of the gold-hunting party. Custesr describes the Upper Missouri on the strength of two years’ observation, at a time when the rnin-fall was exceptionally large. Hazen speaks from an experience of twenty- five years. The widows, orphans, and trustees, who invested in Northern Pacific bonds, because the Independent and other “ religious "papers told them to do s0, will be interested in the passage in which Gen. Hazen pays his respects to Henzx C. Bow- EN. “The stories of the ‘ Tropical Belt, the ‘Continental Wheat Garden,’” etc., are the ‘‘ puerile inventions of the late wit- ness, literary stockholder, and literary agent of the Northern Pacific, aided by other writ- ers of the country, both employed and vol- unteer, and continued and animated through the instrumentality of that grest moral power, the Independent, for which services that lead- ing Christian newspaper of the world was given a previously unheard-of compensation.” It is but justice to Mr. Bows to say that, in return for his ‘* previously unheard-of com- tion,” he obtained for the corporation which bought his paper a previously unheard- of success in duping the pious poor. STEAM-POWRE ON CANALS. In 1871, the State of New York offered a prize to the inventor of the best method of propelling canal-boats by steam. There were several competitors. Each of them was re- quired to construct s boat and eqnip it on his patent. During 1873, competitive trials were held under the superintendonce of a Commission of Engincers, This Commission reported in favor of the bont ‘ William Bax- ter,” invented and constructed by a practical engineer of that name. The Legislature ac- cordingly voted $35,000 to Baxrenr, on con- dition that ho should put seven of his boats on the Erie Canal before the close of naviga- tion in 1874, It also granted smaller sums to two other men on similar conditions, The in- ventions of the latter have not amounted to much, but Baxrrn’s boats have beon a great success, Eleven of them were plying on the Erie Canal before the close of navigation last fall. One of the other prize-getters has built his boats on the Baxter plan, thus admitting its superiority. During 1874, the average round trip from Buffalo to New York and back was, by the ordinary boats, thirty-three days, and by the Baxrzr boats fifteen to sixteen days, or Tess than half-time. The cost of the round trip by the lattcr was only $230.50. Only 12 tons of coal were used! This amount is so astonishingly small that en- gineers have doubted the accuracy of the calculation ; but its trnth is proved by the books of the Baxter Company. Mr. 8. H, Sweet, State Engineer and Sur- veyor of New York, from whose re- port to the Legislature we have token the preceding facts, says that the Baxter boats probably cannot be improved upon. ‘They make as good speed as can be safely and cheaply made, and their present cost of con- struction and management cannot be mato- rially reduced. Mr. Sweer thinks itis im- practicable to run trains of bonts, because the loss of time, not only at the locks, but be- tween them, would more than offset the sav- ing in wages, fuel, and machinery, It is the opinion of other good engineers, however, that a steam canal-boat can tow one or two barges without any material loss of time. Be this as it may, the success of the Baxter boot system is beyond ques- tion, ‘Ultimate and eomplete snocess,” ssys Engineer Sweet, “now depends upon capital alone.” The use of steam on canalg is not a new idea, but the many failures in its application make capital shy. This feeling will disappear with the contin- ued success of Baxten’s boats. There can be no doubt that ere long steam will monopolize the canals, and the tow-path will be untrod- den, The Dlinois & Michigan Canal offers 4 fine field for the now invention. We hope to 800 it tried thercon soon. ‘wo other applications of steam-power to canal fowage have been suggested. One is the substitution for horses of heavy loco- motives, running on a narrow-guage railway. This has been especially urged by the friends of the Hennepin though other is the use of an endless chein, Ioid along the bottom of the canal and running over grooved wheels on the deck of a tug- boat. Steam power makes these wheels turn, so that the tug, drawing a line of barges, follows the cable along the canal. It is like 8 locomotive, except that the track passes over the wheel instead of the wheel over the track, Thera may be something in both of these schemes, although the latter seems cumbrous, but there certainly is something in Winrar Baxrer’s plan. Its value has been proved; that of the others is problematical. THE GAMBLERS AND THE COURTS. Judge W214. has achieved a partial suc cess in his recent test of strength between the law and the gamblers, which only needs to be followed up by himself and the other Judges who succeed in turn to the charge of the Criminal Court in order to bring tho gambling fraternity in Chicago to grief. The new rule in the Criminal Court which permits each Judge to preside there three months, in- stead of ono month as formerly, is likely to assist in the good work. Judge Winns has still another month in the Criminal Court after the present one, and by that time he will have waged the crusade so for that his successor, itis to be hoped, will take it up where he shall leaveit, and proceed in the same direction. Constant ‘‘ worri- ment ” will weaken the organized strength of the blacklegs and terrify the natural allies they find in the policemen, the saloon- keopers, the owners of the buildings rented to them, the unscrupulous Justices and Con- stables, the political bummers who count upon their assistance to practice frauds at elections, and the vicious and dangerous classes generally who flock to their support with false oaths, alibis, certificates of char- acter, etc. We believe that Judge Wuaaaxs has demonstrated that the Courts, with the vigilant co-operation of the State’s Attorney and the Grand Jury, can supply the willfal deficiencies of the Police Commissioners and police officers, and bring low the insolent bra- vado and shameless publicity that gambling has assumed in this city under the rule of the so-called People’s party. We fancy thet Judge Wiur1a1s will not be badgered at any future trial by certificates of discharge from Justices, obtained with direct view to defenting the application of the State law in a higher Court. ‘The Justices must all be familiar with the fact by this time that this is a disreputable and dangerous business for them to go into, and that they will do it, not only at the peril of popular indignation, but at the more direct danger of a judicial investigatioa, We think, too, that it will be generally understood to be a dangerous pro- ceeding to testify to one thing beforea Grand Jury and to the opposite before the Court when tho indictment is tried. The hackman who has been held for perjury should be prosecuted vigilantly ; his conviction on this charge will do more to drive off the alliance of the class to which he belongs, and which the gamblers find so useful for swearing pur- poses, than any other incident of the trial. Mirz MaDowatp, too, seems to hove been caught in the toils with which Judgo Wiu1- zams has surrounded his case, This Mo- Donaty is notoriously the chief of the disreputable and vicious classes in this city, end has openly defied the authorities, who, as he believes, are unable to penetrate the barriers he has so 1 fously built up about him. He is a well-i.own gambler; has been guilty of various assaults with deadly weap- ons; once lay in jail several months on the charge of inducing a young man to rob his employers ; has been indicted over and over again; and is the head and front of the ring of gamblers, roughs, and thieves who infest the city. Judge Wi11aus caught him in a trap, however, and there is a pretty «: case of perjury against him, and the Juc. promptly bound him over to answer thir charge. If Mme MoDoxaxp can be sent to the Penitentiary for perjury, it is perhaps a better and quicker way of disposing of him than by the tedious prosecution for gam- Judge Wini1ams, in this whole matter, has set 8 worthy example, which every one of the Judges ambitious for popalar respoct- and gratitude should be eager to follow. In deal- ing with the blacklegs, the Judges and public officials have to do with a class of persons who are entitled to no sympathy from them or the public. In their cases the law may bo stretched for the public good without invelv- ing any evil consequences. Whether they are convicted for gambling, punished for per- jury, worn out with incessant prosecation, or driven out of the city by public indignation, itis all the same. We are in favor of any process which will rid the city of «the social pest made up from gamblers and their nat- ural associates, adhorents, and dependents. AN INDIAN PRINCE ON TRIAL. The case of Warren Hastinos, nearly a century ago, furnished the occasion for some of the finest contributions te English litera- ture, in the form of the addresses by the managers of the impeachment of that officor. ‘Phat oase opened up to the world a knowl- edge of affairs in India that oventually led to an entire revolution in the Government of that country by Great Britain. The trial also immortalized many of the great orators who participated in it. Great Britain has just now engaged im the criminal trial of one of the native. rulers in India, and the case has received especial interest from the fact that the accused officer has sent to En- gland for one of the most distinguished law- yers to defend him ; and thus the trial promi- sea to be more than 4 mere local affair. The accused official is Gaikwar of Baroda, At each of these local Governments Great Brit- ain has a Resident Commissioner, and the late Guansrose Government removed this Resident, and thensuspended the functions of thenativesovereign. The eventaleading upto this affair are thus explained: In 1862, it was discovered that the custom of “ Khut- put” was general in the country. Now, this custom, perfectly familiar to Americans, it may not be recognized under its Oriental name, means nothing lesa than official corruption. It con- sists in obtaining favorable decisions from officials by the agency of money spent freely at headquarters. There was no direct bribery, but there was a free employment of what, in this country, is known as a “lobby.” All suitors, place-hunters, convicted criminals, unsuccessfal litigants, and all others standing in need of official favor, had been educated up to the idea that by sending large sums to Bombay they could have favorable decisions, and have their enemies punished. Baroda was found to have the highest eminence in this kind of business, Khutput was prompt- ly broken up, and the native State of Baroda was put under the Foreign Department of the Government ef Indio, In 1859, under an im- prossion that the reasons for the change no longer existed, Banopa was restored to the Preadency @f Bombay. Soon after this, Murugan Rao, who is now 43 years his brother, the reigning Prince, and re- mained in prison until 1870, when he suc- ceaded to the throne. Since then he has reveled in all the iniquities of Oriental irre- sponsibility. Remonstrances and warnings were of no avail. He obtained revenue by all means, without regard to justice. Tor- ture, slavery, and ill-treatment of women were common. He appointed ignorant, op- pressive, and incapable officers. He made himself a despot, and used the British troops to enforce his authority. At last his conduct was officially investigated, and the charge of mal-administration was fally sustained by evi- dence ; but the Indian Government contented itself with giving the Prince of Baroda eighteen months within which to amend and reform his ways.- This teru: of prooanon began in July, 1874. Between that and Jan- uary, 1875, an attempt was made to take the life of Col. Puayne, a British officer, by poison. The Gaikwar is accused of com- plicity in this crime. The British Govern- ment, which overlooked the collection of rev- enue by the use of cannon, the violent dis- honor of women, and the hanging up of un- fortunate creditors by their heels in the sun, instantly took action on the suspicion that the Gaikwor had attempted the life of a’ British official. The Prince was arrested and taken to Bombay, and a special tribunal has been appointed to try him. The Gaikwar at once dispatched an invitation to London to the celebrated Sergt. Barzanrrxz, with 2 retaming fee of 5,000 guineas, with a guar- antee of all his expenses, and of an addi- tional fee of 5,000 guineas. The English barrister, with his $25,000 in hand and the $25,000 more in futuro, has sailed from England for Bombay, where he will defend the Gaikwar of Baroda upon this criminal charge, and, if successful, will add to his alrendy great fame as a lawyer and as an advocate, The war between the Baltimore & Ohio Road and the Pennsylvania Company re- mains without material change, both parties being obstinate. The remark of the Mester of ‘Transportation of the first-named road, that ‘The longest pole knocks the persim- mons,” sums up the situation and shows that the struggle will be one of financialendar- ance. The Baltimore & Ohio on the 18th sent out a schedule of freight rates to all prominent Western points which are more than 50 per cent lower than the jomt Jan- uary schedule. Of course, there must be an end to all this cutting under. The two roads cannot goon losing money at this rate. It is probable that they havo already lost moro than they can replace in a, long time to come. Shippers and passengers may derive some temporary benefit from this rninous competition, but in the end it can only boa disadvantage to business, These spasmodic changes of freight rates can only result in equally spasmedic changes im stocks and prices, and will prove disastrous. As the two roads must eventually agree upon some com- promise, it will be better for them and for the whole business public to settle as soon as possible upon some stendy tariff. The com- petition as now conducted is an exhausting one, and damaging to general business. ‘The Chicago Times, having last week de- stroyed one of our theatres, burned sixty or seventy people alive, and brought terror into hundreds of households, all with a malicious hoax, this week undertakes to dispossess the citizens of Peoria with 2 trumped-up old claim, professing to come down from a French grant! Ithas come across a couple of ad- -venturers who are represented ns having the title to this mythical claim, and it tries to startle the Peoria property-holders into some such scare esa large number of people felt shout the “supposititious burning” of the *‘supposititious theatre.” Itis almostneedless to say that there is sboutas much founda- tion for one as for the other of these bogus sensations, and entirely needless to add that the people have ceased to be either frightened or concerned about anything which appears in that mendacious sheet. ‘Tho applause that followed Trnpatx’s striking sentence, “I discern in that mattor which we, in our ignorance, notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potoncy of every form and quality of lite,” when it was spoken at Belfast, was soon drowned in a chorus of reproaches, curses, and opposing argu- ments from theological thinkers of varying degroes of orthodoxy throughout the world. The scientist had thrown down the gauntlet. The thoologiana caught it up. Catholics and Protestants thundered at Trxpaxy. Dr. McCosu, of course, seized the opportunity to write two or three now books, and his tomes wore few among many. The Professor hna replied ta his critica, The seventh edition of his Belfast address has 5 preface in which Tynpat, explains, defends, and aseerts his position. Ho handles his aasal- ants in mass and in detail. The tone of the attacke has been, he stys, bad. Religion has not taught ite advocates courtesy. They have heaped abuse upon him. Their arguments scem to bear the impress, rath- er of the individuality of each writer than of the religion common to them all, Whence, he con- cludes, “the common religion professed and defended bv these different people is usually tho accidental conduit through which they pour their own tempers, lofty or low, courteons or valgar, mild or ferocious, holy er unholy, as the case may be.” Some of the hardest knocka are given in de- tail. A Professor of Cambridge declared, early in the controversy, that TrsDALL was tooignorant of mathematics to discuss the origin of life. Trxpart, submits s parchment signed by tho Professor twenty-two years ago, which certifies that he was ‘‘well versod in pure mathematics” then. He certainly has not lost knowledge since. In reply to s Catholic oritic, who elsims that ‘TxypaLu has tried to hide hia views, and so escape condemnation, the latter asya that be is not afraid of any charge of be- Hef or disbelief. He quotes from the Pope's Encyclical Letter of December, 1864, a description af the Virgin Many, “who site as a Queen on the right baod of her only bezotten Son, in s golden vestment, clothed around with various adornments,” and adds, for the sake of relieving the critic from further anxiety about his concealment of his faith: “In regard to thia, a8 to other less pictorially anthromorphie and sartorial conceptions of the Supreme, I stand in the attitude of disbelief.” The Protestant Bishop of Manchester is the next victim. Ha, it seems, when a verbatim re- portof the Belfast address waa within his reach, accused TyNDALu of saying what he did not say, The pretended quotation by the Bishop was ‘‘a vain imagination of his own.” Catholiciam fares badly at the hands of this hard hitter. Monsignor Carmi has declarod that the Church favors science, and has the right to determine what true seienco is, In reply, Trrparx quotes, among other things, tho decree of Pius V., in 1616, which con- demned the doctrine that the earth movod round the sun, and aeserted, as a fact of religion, that tits speck which in our world was ths centre of tie unlverse of tebich it saaly fens 06 iasig. of age, attempted the life of nificant part! Tyspary, declares that it “re. quires extraordinary bravery of mind, or s reli. auce upon public ignorance almost extraordinary, to make the claims made by Mousignor Q rey, for his Church.” ‘The most valuable part of this preface is the restatement of the writer’sa creed. He denies that he “‘made an unjustifiable raid into the domain of theology,” by speculating on the origin of life. Theology has no title-doeds to this srea of study. It cannot bar the investi- gations of science. Genesis proves nothing in this matter. ‘*To the grasp of geology, which it resisted for atime, it at length yielded like potter's clay.” “It is = poem, nota scientific treative.” Science has 23 yet found “no in- trasion of purely creative power into any series of phenomena.” ‘“ Wherefore,” says Trrpatr, “Treaifirm here, not arrogantly or defiantly, but without a shade of indistincrness, the poai- tion laid down in Belfast.” THE TRIBUNE AND ITS READERS, Readers of Tae Tarvse will bear us out in the statement thatit bas not been our habit to inflict upon the public any weet:ly or periodical exhibit of the business of this journal. It has been s good many yeara since we have had any reason to complain, and we have always been of the opinion that it was meroly a display of bad taste to boast of a success in the details of which the general public ean have no interest, There are certain pursuits of a quasi public na- ture which are required by law to make publia statements of their financial condition, such as National Banks, insurance companies, ete.; the public has an interest io these, because it is solicited to deposit moneys or take other financial risks therein. There are other pursuits ip the general lise of commercial traffic, whose enccess depends upon the sale of certain wares, which fin? it profitable to make public lists thereof and otherwise inform the people of their epocial ad- vantages of trade. But we conceive it to be the province of the success{ai newspaper to advar- tige the business of othors, add not its own. ‘Tus Trrpoune has been too extensively engaged in the former to indulge the vanity of the latter: The newspaper should speak for itself, and the public generally knows how to estimate its real value. The practice of forcing upon its readers a daily or weokly statement of its pritate affairs is very like #. host who hag given a dinner-party retailing to hia gueste tho cost of the soup-bone, and the roast-beef, and the entremets, and the salad, and the padding, and the other edibles and driakables ho sets be- fore them. As auch a host would coon come ta be regarded as a sort of licensed victualler, ea the newspaper which follows the same couree may be justly styled a journalistic scavenger. ‘We do not now advert to the relations between ‘Toe Trrsune and its readers for the purpose cf exhibiting any of the details of Taz Tamuxz's business, but simply to state, in a general way, that there has not been a time for years when it was moro satisfactory to ita owners; that it is oqually so to readers and patrons we have no indication to the contrary, aud fail to find any excuse for going beyond these two partica in interest for the purpose of making a detailed statement of its affairs. But the contrast bo twoen the steady progress of Txe Tamoxz og the one hand,eand the universal cry of hard times on tho other, during the winter months, induces us to draw attention to it as an import- aot business sign which points to a more genere) prosperity. Since the 9h of November, whea the present management succecded to the con 1 of the paper, the circulation of Te Taroxa increased in an aggregate of soveral thou- sand. This increase hes been uniform in degrea and of a permanent character, aud in no instance the ephemeral accretion of s rabble attracted by some piece of exceptionally nasty scandal, or drawn together like a passing streat-crowd by a momentary sensation. On -Sunday, Nov. 8 the circulation of Tux Tamune was something more than 33,000; to-day we print over 38,500 copies. This growth has been natural and iealthfal, made up of the camo substantial ele- ments which have always composed Tas Tam- une'acirenlation. We regerd it, therefore, as = fair indication of the Ateady and constant growte of Chicago and its tributaries. OBITUARY, RVERETI CHAMBERLIN. A brief dispatch in yesterday's Trrsuze an- nounced the death of Eveserr Cuwerxiy, at Jacksonville, Fis., on the 19th inst., of bronchial consumption, in his 36th year. Hiadeath was not unexpected, for he has been an invalid for nearly two years, but the announcement will be none the less painfal to bis numerous friends in this city, where his best years were spont, and where his reputation a3 8 journalist, which wag more than local, was made. Mr. Cuamneguiy was born in Newbury, Vt., in 1899, and, after receiving an academy education in his native town, removed to Wisconsin, being then in his 18th yoar. The War found him en- gagedinschool-teaching, which he quitto join "he ranks. Soon afterwards, he was commissionsd to» Captaincy in the Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Regiment, and served two years. Ho left the service in 1864, and then began life as a journal- ist, commencing on the Milwaukeo Sentinel. In 1868, he came to Chicago and associated himeeif with the Evening Post, in which he gained a wid reputation by the pungoncy of his paragraph- writing and the excollence of his critical judg- ment, especially in music. He was al- ways fond of change, and he soon left the Post and accepted s posi- tion upon the Republican as an editorial writer. His restlessness again mado itself ap- parent, for, in s very short time, he cameto TH Taisvye, upon which he held various positions daring the years 1870, 1871, and 1872, Fromm ‘Tux Tumpuse he went to the Times, where bo held s position as seaistant editor until bis health became go delicate that he was obliged to abandon offico work. Acting upon medical ad- vice, ho went to Southern California, where he spent the winter of 1873-74, and from which point he corresponded with the Times. The © trip, however, did not benefit his hoalth, and last summor he returned. After spending a few months in Minnesota and Wisconsin, he came to Chicago, aud a few weeks ago left for Florida, after having made arrangements to correspond with Tuz Taincne. One lotter had been received and published, and then came the aad news that his busy pen would forever remain idle. Although be had wasted axay to a shadow of his former self when he left Chicago, and his voica had changed to painfal whizper, be wat full of hope, and had lost nous of his native ha- mor. In addition to his newspaper work. Mr, Caam- BERLIN bad written many magazine articles in his peowiarly sparkling, humorons manner, io addi- tion tocontributions on musical subjects, in which dopartment he was an excellent critic. Some of his musical contributions to the Song Messen- ger were unique in their oddity. In connection with Mr. Corzenr, he prepared and published 9 description of the fire of 1871, under the titls, “Chicago and the Grost Conflagration”; #ls0, “« Tho Straggle of 1872,” » political handbook ; and “Chicago and Her Suburbs,” a valaable :ook of referenco es to the progress of the city and its surrounding towns, ‘Mr. Onaxmrncin was a writer of great promise, his happiest efforts being in light, graceful, and humorous writing. He was a tireless worker, although somewhat impatient under tha demands of routine offiee labor. His humor was slwars pure and graceful, his powers of repartee bright and quick, and hia resources of information sx- tensive. Personally, he wasa favorite in tho Journalistic profession, and in every office with which he was attached be left behind him many warm friends. He leaves a widow and threo young children. His remains will be taken to Milwaukee, where they will be buried in Forest Home Cemetery. GEORGE ¥. HOLLAND. The Hon. Gzorcz H. Hortann, State Treasur- er of Mississippi, diod at Jackson in that State, on the 1¢th rast, The decossed was born in Als- bara in 1819, and removed te Mississipgl La 1533. ’