Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO year at tho same rate, Wanrrp—Une activa agont in each town and villsee, ‘peclal arrangements made with such, Rpoctmen coplea aan? free. To present olay and mistakes, be rare and et Dffico addrevs in full, including State and County, Remittancoamay be ruade oltherby draft, express, Post- Otis order, or {a recistered letters, at our risk, ‘TERMS TO CITT sUURCHINERS, Daily, detiverod, Sunday excepted, 25 conts per week. Dail, delivered, Bunday included, 30 cants por week. ddrens THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corer Madison and Dearboi Chicago, 1, ark atrea! alte i louse. INSTR ats DEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted streot, batweon Mads ogre g (he Engagement of Jobn T. Maymond. "Col. Mulberry Solera.” MPVIOKKER'S THEATRE—Madizon strest. hatweon penrhnnn and Btater Engagomont of Alrs, Rousby. “Twist Ax and Crown.” , OLEY'S THEATRE—Mandolnh street, botween mince and kadallor Logo tleuvoon the Beldgs.® i ATRE—Dearborn strect, enrnor Mon- we tity antertalaniont, ‘The Psor of New York." 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Friday Morning, Maroh 12, 1875. A review of tho hog-packing and provision interests in Chicago during tho past four months will be found elsewhero,* yesterday, and, being necompaniod by a re- ‘inforeement of 1,000 Spanish troops, was well received, It now appears certain that there will bo no Spanish treaty agreed upon at this session of the Senate, as the draft prepared by Min- ister Cusmine isnot acceptable to the ALroxso Government. Our Washington correspondent states that President Graxr has sent strict orders for the employment of such military force as may be necossary to check the Black Hills expedition now organizing at Yankton and Sioux City. A courier direct from the Cheyenne Agency has given a Tamune correspondont a detailed account of the horrible massncra of the Gzn- watne family at Smoky Hill, Kansas, in Sep- tember Inst, and tho terrible story is printed in another column. A rocitol of fiendish cruelty to a child by hor stop-father comes from Danville, DL, tho sceno of tho recent filthy breach-of-promise suit. It will bo dificult for Danville to keep up this ratio of progression, os the Jast hor- ror almost surpasses belicf. There is n renowal of rumor of Gen. Scuznex's retirement from the English mis- sion. Hoe is anid to bo weary of public life, and to long for the peace and comfort which only come with four of a kind and a relerso {rom official cares, murder of the old man Wroxn has reaultod in a well-dofinad suspicion against ono Surzz- van, a disroputablo character who sustained intimate relations with the woman Cranprx., who is now belioved to have had o hand in the bloody work. At tho usual rate for ocean eablo dispatch- es, it costs $8 to toll what ovorybody has Anown for tho past two or three years—that Lady Monpaunt has been guilty of adultory. ‘ho Princo of Wales is among tho seleot fow to whom tho announcement will come as a freoh piece of nows. ‘The President yestardoy issued an order to the hends of tho several departments in. structing thoso oflicers to recognize the pres- ent Government of Arknusas a3 being valid and in unobstracted operation. President Graxr thus promptly adopts tho courao so often hinted at in his messages, calling upon Congress for authority toact in these matters, ‘Tho force of apractical illustration of the evils of intemperance may bo pleaded in ex- planation of the Rey, Mr, Davipson’s night in a police station at Erie, Pa. Ho was State Lecturer for the Pennsylvania Grand Lodgo of Good Templars, ond the chargo was, “drank ond disorderly.” It is the second time that he‘ hes emphasized his lectures in the same way. ——__ Briana Youna in tho Salt Lako Poniton- tiary, and forced to disgorge $3,000 to pay Axx Exiza's Jawyors, besides $25 as a fino, was tho spoctaclo which tho Lattor-Day Saints were yesterday called upon to contem- plato, The Prophet went to jail like any common man, and surrendered the Iegal-ten- der with n rueful countenance, and there was ueither an earthquake nor a slaughter of Gentiles in consequence. It appears to have dawned upon the Mormon intellect that there issuch a thing as a United States Govern. ment, ‘The Chicago Gas Companica aro not with. out warm ond peralatent supporters among the “Reformers” in the Dlinols Logislatura, and tho stereotyped argument of ‘black~ mail” is potent in that delectable body, the House, in opposition to tho Sonata bill to empower the Common Council to regulate tho quality and price of gas fur- nished to citizens, and naming $3 per 1,000 subio feot as the highest contract price which -may be paid by tho city. Can it be that a moiety of tho Wost Side Gos Cozopany's enormous English loan has found its Way to the State Capital? The Chicago produce markets were frrog- olar yesterday, with Joss doing. Bfcsy pork was in moderate demand and 100 per brl high. tr, cloaing at $18.60 cash, and $18.70 for April. Lard was legs active and 60 higher, slosing at $19.423@13.45 per 100 Ibs cash, and $18,50@18.52} for April. Meats wero quiet ond jo higher, at ¢}@7o for shoulders, 100 for short'ribs, and 10jo for short clears. Dressed hoge were in good demayd and firm, losing a6 $7.05@8.20 per 100 tha, Highwinos wero active and ndvauced 1c, closing at $1.11 por gallon. Flour was atict and strong. Whent was lesa active and wenk, closing $¢ lower, at 8740 onsh, and 883¢ for April, Corn wan weak at Jo advance, closing at G10 cash, and 7ijo for May, Oats wero quict and n shade firmer, closing at &2}o for March, and 53Jo for April, Ryo was quiet and firm, at O74c, Barley was dull apd onsicr, closing at $1.05 for March, and $1.02} for April, Hogs wera active and stronger ; light weights 10c higher. Cattle and sheep were fairly active and easier, a The Communist - Committee yesterday waited upon Mr. If, W. Krxo, President of tho Reliof and Aid Society, with n view tonn immediate overhauling of tho books and nc- counts of tha Society. They wero politely but firmly informed that tho Booioty would recognize tho Common Council Committee, and no other, whereupon the Communist delegation retired, ‘Chis affords material for ® fow inflammatory speeches at the mass- meoting next Sunday, but beyond this thera 4s no reason fo apprehend another demon- stration, Tho temper of tho Inw-nbiding citizons of Chicago at this timo is not such as to tolerate anything more serious than words from tho Communistie rabble, and this tact is quite thoroughly understood, ‘Tho illness of Juiga Fonnenton yesterday left the woightof ihe cross-oxamination upon Mr. Beacn, who is described as moro acrimo- nious and less satirical than his brilliant **brother-in-law.” Ho seems, ‘however, to hava filled the gap efficiently. T'rom the ofMlcious school-ma'nm he contrived to extract the admission that sho hnd taken tho benefit of n conference with Sneanmay, Mrs. Tinton, Ovrxorox, ete, before reap- Pearing on the witness-stand ; and also that sho know nothing about Truron’s religious views except what sho gloanod fram his pub- lications, and sha had forgotten what they were, Mr. Cownrr, a Lowell Inw- yer, was a new and interesting wit- nest in the recently-reversed caso of “Beecnen vs, Trerox,” and to prove tho innocence of H. W. B, and tho guilt of T. 'T. "ho narrated with much particularity conversation with Mrs. Woopnvurn, upon whom, he was kind enough to mention, ‘Titroy cast “ nmorous glances,” and towards whom ho employed a ‘tender tone.” Mr. Bexcu's badgering was successful in showing that these wero matters of opinion and not of fact, but, in other respects, he did not accomplish much in tho way of weakening Mr. Cowzrv's testimony, which, in so far as it contradicts Truron's evidence and so tends to break down his credibility, and at the same timo helps to sustain the theory of a conspiracy, may be sct down as valuable to Mx, Bexonen’s casi THE COURT-HOUSE JOB. Every discussion of the building of tho new Court-Houso which comes up in the County Board dovclops the original scheme of having an Irish and o German architect, and of allowing 4 per cent commission on the entire cost of the work as the architects’ compensation, Until theso two points are conceded, there seems to be no chanco for reaching any definite time for beginning the work, All other dotails, it is belioved, would be quickly disposed of if theso two points were admitted as tho basis of operations. Tho appointment of Messrs, Eaan and Kans ag architects, with on allowance of 4 por cent on tho ontire cost of the building as tho commissions to be divided, would sce tho Court-House started immediately after the froat ia out of tho ground; without this agreoment, everything is in doubt and uncertainty, So long as this essential condi- tion postpones tho undertaking of the work, wo shall not object to its discussion; but wa cannot help feeling that, one of theso fine days, the Ring may compnss their design, and that Egan ond Kanze, with thoir 4 per cent, will becomo n stern reality from which the tax-payers canuot escapes. Why should it bo impossible to build ao Conrt-House in Chicago without an Irish architect and a German architect? After all, Chicago is located in the United States of Anmerica, and is not 9 constituent part of the Emorald Talo, nor under the sweeping juris- diction of Biaaancr. It must also bo ad- mitted thet there aro Americans who havo stadied nrchitocture. It may likewise bo snggested, in the meckest man- ner, aud with becoming difidenco, that throe-fourths of the taxes in Chicago aro paid by those whoso misfortune it is to havo been born in America, We mean no offouso to the powerful Hibernico-Gormanic, or Ger- manico-Hibernian, alliance which rules us, Wo submit with becoming humility. We do not ask any considerntion for au American on tho ground of his nationality. Wo simply ask that an American shall not be excluded ‘because of the accident of his birth, Wo do not need two or three architeots for n Court- Honso; such a combination will lead to infl- nito complicatiéns, Now, if tho foreign Know-Nothing party cannot agree upon avy eno Irishman or any ono German, thoy might in an extreme caso of this kind com- promiso on au Amorican architect, pro. vided,; of course, that an American architect can bo found with anything like tho genius of Eoan or tho power of Kauta, Such an appointment would not, of course, be rogarded o# a procodent;, it would shuoply be an exception in which an Amorican might bo sdinitted under protest as asort of compromise between Irish and Ger- man, and in order to avoid the monstrous ob- jection of having several architects, ‘There is anothor circumstance which leads ‘us to hope that this suggestion of au Ameri. ean inay not be regarded as an attack on tho rights and privileges of our foreign rulers, ‘We have an idea that a first-class American architeot may be secured for $8,000 to $10,- 000 a year to suporintend the building of tho Court-Houso, If the work Jasts four years, this will be a cost of $32,000 to $40,000, or 1 per cout on tho $3,000,- 000 to $1,000,000 which the Court-Houso is forvordained to cost, Now, of course, dis- tinguished foreign architects like Messrs, Kanza and Ecaw would not debaso themselves by accepting work ut so mnall a compensa. tion, Thoir names ure never mentioned un. loss accompanied by tho standard 4 por cent, which, at a cost of 84,000,000 for the Court. Houso, would givo them $160,000; and wo dare not estimate it at lous with a4 por cont commission, because the more it is mado to coat tho larger the commission will be, All economy would reduce commissions, and take broad and butter out of the hungry mouths of the architects, and hunger is womothing not in favor of increasod abstinence or starvation, ‘Thus it will be ceen that, besides avoiding the confuaion likely to arise from having sev. eral architects, froin $60,000 to $120,000 may bo saved to the tax-payers of Cook County, ‘Thia would afford a tolerably good reason for rosorting to the otherwiso inexcusable selec tion of an American for any public work, * Can it bo that private interest on tho part of county and city offleinla joing with the elnims of the foreign Know-Nothing combi nation to insist upon Messrs. Kants and Eoan with their 4 percent? Can it be that Messrs, Hants and Eaan aro expected to divide up their $160,000 commissions with tho gentlomen who vote them their positions? Can there bo any understanding that they willapprove tho contracts whigh have tho support of the County Commissionors and Aldermen who have clung to them so stend- fastly ? Is there also to bo asystom of divi- denis on all contracts awarded? Woe cannot think that tho virtuous and patriotic combination of Irish and. Gormans to put down tho corrupt Americans would enter into any such infamous compact, But this adhesion to these two particular representatives has been so strong that suspicions of this nature Lave undoubt- edly been ercated, Thoy might bo silenced by choosing an American architect, if it were not for the strong political antipathy which exists against men who happen to bo born in this country. Wo aro convinced thot if this antipathy conld be sot aside for this occasion only, the interests of Cook County tax-payers, both native aud European born, could bo better served than by retaining Messrs, Kanis and Eqan and their { per cont nltimatum, THE BACK-TAXES LAW, Among the imany bills and parts of bills prepared and introduced in tho Logislaturo for tho rolief of this city and other cities thero wasone which provided remedial proceas for the collection of taxes pnymont of which had been enjoined or otherwise defented until aftor tho regular salo, and for the subsequent collection of which there was no legal author. ity. It las become a practico, not only in Inrgo cities but in all parts of the State, for persons to object to judgment for taxes, and, upon the overruling of the objections by the lower Court, to appeal to tho Supreme Court, During the delay, sometimos extonding to one or two years before tho decision of the nap- peal by tho Supremo Court, tho original au- thority of the Collector to sell tho property for such delingent tax is exhausted. ‘Thora has beon no Jaw heretofore by which this delinquent tax can be renssessed and collected, and in tho aggregate the amount of revenue thus lost is very grent. When a city like Chicago is limited by law to a rate of tax equal to the appropriations pro- viously made, the defent or loss of one hundred thousand to four hundred thousand dollars of the revenue a year is au ombarrass- mont whieh, in the course of a fow years, becomes serious, Such an o:mbnyrassment, and for tho samo canse, alilicta all the munic- ipalities of this State. In this city, tho floating debt caused by theso successive an- nual deficiencies amounts to several millions of dollars, a lnrgo part of which bears inter- est, Thero wasn provision in one of theso bills authorizing the cities to collect theso back taxa by suits in assumpsit, and, though it was discussed in tho Senato, it looks very much as if the tax-fighters had succeeded in killing it. We suggest to the Senators and Ropresentatives of this county that they hunt up that bill. It is too important to bo ovar- looked. Unless some such bill pass this session the City of Chicago will los at least threo mill- ions of back taxes, and other munivipalitics in tho Stato will loso proportionately. Of the State taxes lovied for 1878, there wore over 300,000 of revenue lost to the Stato by Jogal intorposition, gonorally for purposo of delay. ‘Tho same practice has beon going on for years, but too less extent, ond taxes not collectod in due conrso aro Jost forover. ‘Tho Logislature cannot afford to adjourn without making some provision whoroby ot least four. or five millions of back taxos whoso legality has beon affirmed by the Courts may bo collected. ‘To adjourn without passing such o Inw is to givo to the wealthy persona and corporations who owe these taxes that enormous bounty, and to compel tho lovy of that amount of tax upon tho prop- erty of tho willing tax-payers to pny off tho dobts thus incurred. Taxntion must be equal to be just. To lovyatax, and then pormit one part of tho community to escapa pay- ment and compel the other to pay their own tax and then to pay an extra tax to make good tho deficioncy, is extortion and robbery. ‘This large amount of moncy ix legally due to the cities and other municipalitics; it is as much a default on the part of those who owa it as it would bo if they had appropriated thot much of the pnblic revenues to their own purposes, ‘This sum of back taxes is repro- sented by a corresponding sum of debts duo by tho municipalities bocanse of the deficion- ey in their revenues, What is asked of the Logislaturo is authority to reassous or other- wiso tax tho delinquent proporty for thoso beok taxes, When collected, they can bo used to dischargo tho debts croated by their non-payment, Will the Cook County mom- bers seo to it that this bill is not smothered or stolen, suppressed or defentod ? THE PRESIDENT ON THE BOUNTY BILL, ‘Tho following Associated Press dispatch ap- pears to bo the authentic account of the final disposition of tho Bounty bill, upon which soveral demagogues thought to ride to tho White THouso in 1876; Tho Prosident did not, as has been atatoi, voto tho bill for the equalization of bounties ox- cept in withholding his signature, He bad, howover, prepared the draft of a message in pencil, but it was thrown aside without boing coplod for tranamivaion to the House, whero the Dill originated, ‘Tho draft is aa follows; House bill No, — fs hereby returned without my ap- proval for reasons; Firat—That at appropriates from the Treasury a Targe sum of money st a tne when the revenue is in- suillctont for the current wauta, Secunii—1 do not believe that any congiderable por- tion of the ex-soldlere who, {t ts supposed, will be bon= efletaries of thls appropriation are applicanty for tf Dut rather it would be = mougure for the relief of clatm-ayents or iniddle-man who intervene, or wounl {ute Be, $0 collect or discount the bounties granted ‘This wos all that the Prosident had time to writo before the expiration of thu acasion, Had thore been on hour longer, he would probably havo continued his veto message something as follows: ‘* Third—Bocauso tho bill tails to provide for excluding those who have already received enormous Stato and local bounties, and thore. fore is not an ‘ equalization ' bounty bill, as it profosses to be, “ Fourth—Because it admits to the benofit of tho new bounty the thousands of men who served in the Homo-Guards of the border States, who never stood undor flre, and whoso sorvicos wore rendored in protection of their own interests; and in many casos were just as valuable to the Rebel as to the Union cause, ‘* Fiyth—-Bocauso it proposes to pay wagon. ore, tenmstery, artificers, musicians, soamen and all attaches of the Quartermaster’s, Com-, tnissary’s, and transportation service as much bounty as the soldiers who took up arms in the defense of their country and faced death on the flold of battle, “ Sixth—Bacause it includes thousands of Indians who have already beon sufticiontly compensated for their guerrilla warfare on Rebel Indians; and a host of ex-slaves who wore richly componasted in obtaining thelr and who havo no ate cluima on the tax-payers for boun. ““Serenth—Beenuso tho bill, in the abape in which it comes to me, hina been perverted, by domagoguea socking votes, from a measure of roal merit to an omnibus bill for the reckless distribution of ono or two hundred millionsof publio funds among certain classes of people who nro‘in no way entitled to the charity of tho Government.” This is probably the purport of what Presi. dont Gnanr would linvo added to his proposed voto messago, if he fad had timo to finish it and return tho Dill to the reckless demagogues who pnsseil it. If ho had returned such na veto messngo, ho would havo beon supported by tho facts in tho caso nnd by tho sen. fiment of the great mnfority of the People of the United States, without rogant to party or, section of coun- try. By pocketing this bill, the President for tho second time saved the county from the offects of ovil legislation by tho late (Forty-thind) Congress. ‘Tho firtt time was when he yetoed tho Inflation bill passed by domngogues nt tho first session of that Con- Gress; and itis notablu that his influence in this easa was sufficiont to securo an ontire ro- action ig the samo body, aud the subsequent passage ‘(at tho last session) of a bill fixing a date for the resumption of specio payments, By pocketing tho falsely-called Bounty Equal- ization bill, ho has saved the tax-payers an exponditura of not less $150,000,000, and probably much moro, at atime whon tho Treasury is already depleted and the people taxed to the point of human endurance. ‘The claim-agents aud sharks who wore getting ready to buy up tho claims at enormous shaves aro the people who wero most ag- grieved at the action of tho President, When- over Congress quits playing ‘ yote-catcher,” and passes a proper bill to equalize tho bounties of those who performed roal servico in the War, tho people will cheerfully pay the necessary tnxes to raisv the money, but they will not ondure such a bill as that tho Presi- dont put his foot on. THE BLACK HILLB, It is now apparont that as soon c1 spring fairly opens and the weather becomes fayorn- ble, there will bo 9 rush of poople, ouly to be mensured by thousands, in quest of the gold stated upon very “indefinite and iundo- quate information to abound in tho Black Hills region, Strangers aro already pouring into Sioux City in crowds to join tho first ox- pedition, which is announced to leave on tho Sth of April Railroad inen, steamboat men, oxpressmen, liackmen," draymen, whisky- sellers, outfit-traders, in fact every ono who dns anything to sell, including the entire population of Sionx City and Yankton, sro on the gui tice to reapa rich harvest from tho headlong folly of the crowd, whose expecta. tlons will bo glowingly excited by the storics thatwill bo putin circulation by shrewd traders aud speculators eager to disposo of their wares, In probably less than a month from this timo we may expect to sea tho excite: ment at fover Wat, nnd nothing will be able to restrain tho multitudo from their frenzied and hondlong haste to get gold. It is well, therefore, to look at this matter calmly and dispassionately now, befor it is too late, He is not n judicious man who em. barks in an andertaking without calenlating all the chances and accumulating all the available facts pro and con relative to his pro- posed entorprise, The rulo applics with still amore force to this gold-expedition, beenusa if it fails it will entail not only financial Joss, but great individual misery and sufforing., In tho first place, this crowd is rushing to the Black Hills without any authoritative oroven trustworthy testimony that thore is gold in paying quantities in the Black Hills, ‘The original roports started in a wild sort of way, and wero shown to be doubtful by sub. sequent investigation, Scientific men and mining experts have also reported unfavor- ably after investigation of thoso reports, As ogninst this information, the stories of two unknown men, who purport to have ro- turned from there, aro accepted as trye. It may be that thoy are truo; but, inasmuch as tho bulk of tho testimony is of a difforont character, their stories should bo reccived with very liberal grains of allowance, Evory prudont man who desires to go to the Black Hills can afford to wait and seo. The multitude ia rushing on, howover, ns if im. pressed with the idea that only those who get there first will bo successful in finding gold. This is not characteristic, however, of gokl-finds. If there is yold in the Black Hills worth seeking, thero will bo gold there for years to come, ‘Thero is no danger that tho Gonpon expedition, or any othor expo- dition, will oxhnust it immedintely; and it is also to ba considered that those who go with the first expedition will bo fleaced by tho traders and speculators worse thap thoso who wait and go after the first rush is over, ‘There aro othor risks to bo taken into ac- count, or which should bo taken into nc. count, by those afllicted with tho Black Hills mania, ‘Tho occupation of this territory by the whites will be in violation of tho agreement which the Government has mudo with the Indians, and, recogniz- ing this compact, tho President has already indicated that ho will enforce tho con- tract with the Indions to tho wtrict lotter of the law. The miners must therefore come in conflict both with tho United States troops and with the Indiana. Itis almost supor- fluous to announce that Gen, Gran will rigid. ly enforce the law, if ho las to uso the entire military force of tho Governmont, and that the Indian is unrolenting‘in his hate and cruelty, Thoso who go there will go in de- fianco of law, and thoreforo as outlaws, They mist also expect to bo victimized by annn- sorupulons gang of speculators aud sharpers who will look upon this swarming pil. grimage o8 a perfect godsend, Al thoso ongaged in tho carrying trade, freight solicitors, ticket poddlers, outfit sellers, whisky dealers, provision men, and a horde of gamblors, blacklogs, and roughs, will faaten upon theso gold-huntors Wko leeches aud not let go until thoy havo drained them dry, It must be romembered also that the cities of Yankton and Sioux City, whence all the glowing storica omanato, gee in this rush tholr first opportunity for grand speculation, and that they will make millions of money out of it, The eager speculators who throng these frontior cities will leave no means un. employed to increase the number of the on- rushing multitude, and will circulate all sorta of encouraging reports caloulated to Incite oupidity and hasten to get to the Black Hills, knowing that thoy will reap a rich harvest from tho victims, ‘The recollections of tho loss, misery, and suffering which resulted from the rush to Pike's Peak, some eighteen or twenty years ayo, oyght to rostrain people from acting with injudiclous haste, They should prove suggestive warnings to those atHicted with this monia to walt to investigate, to go wlowly, and not to take a rash step which may involve thom and their famiticain pororty and misery for yours afterwards, ‘The amount of testimony thus far developed, relative to gold in tho Black Hills, suggests that those who go,thero will bo disappointed; thnt they will lose thoir hard-carned money ; thatthoy will suffor from exposure and privations; tint thoy must bo brought into coniliot with the troops, with Indians, and with sharpers and dexperadoca who nro always found on tho fronticr; and that before autumn comes they will bo crawling back lnugry, penniless, and in raga, and perhaps objcets of public chari- ty. ‘Cwonty years ogo ‘nm Cricago Tnimuye warned the crazy crowds that flocked to Pike's Penk of bitter disappointment in store for them, and its warnings proved trie. It now warns thoso who have a manin to go to tho Black Hills to wait, ‘All that glittors is not gold,” AN OLD HODBY. Mr. Wesxpety Pritutrs has perhaps earned tho right to bo heard by the nation for which he did so much before the decay of his pow- era, no matter how extravagant his theories of the moment may be. Itisa pity, nover- tholoss, to soo his raro gifts of exprossion da. gradod to the service of ernde, false theories, His latest public appearance was at the mect- ing of tho Socinl Science Associntion, in Roston, where he delivered an address, benu- tiful in phraseology and bad in substanco, on finance, His plan consists of threo parts: Tho National Banks aro to bo deprived of their rightof.issue; tho nation is to print off alltho “money” it necds; and the rate of interest is to bo reduced by statute, ‘Tho third part of tho scheme is tho logiti- mato consequence of the second. If the printing presses run Jong enough and the supply of green paper holds out, the rate of interest may as well bo Oper cent as any other, becauss nobody will have tho stuff that is called ‘* money” as a gift. Tho cost of manufacturing a Dill for 81,000 is about 1 mill,—n tenth of ncont, If the bill is nover to bo redeemed in gold or auy other valuable thing, ns Mx, Puruirs Proposes, its valuo will depend, like that of every other thing which is not a promise, on tha cost of pro- ducing it, ‘The man with a copper cont in his pocket would then be worth $10,000, but we fail to seo why ho would bo ony botter off than he is now, For his cont will buy as much now as his ten thousaud ‘ dollars” would then, In order to guardtagainst any danger of uot having his now-fangled currency cheap enough, Mr. Prutzrps wants the Gov- ernment to “ advance it,” that is loan it, to anybody whe has n bond or somo land to pledgo against it, Pawnbroking, it seems, is to bo one of the departments of Govern- ment, The Hon, Tworonoxe will take his sent in the Cabinet os Secretary of tho Pawn. shop and hang out the threo balls over tho entrance to his office, Uncle Sam will then be an uncle in n now sense, Mr. Psnuzars’ “ monoy" is to have nothing to do with gold or any other valuable thing— except, indced, that it is perhaps to be con. vertible into a bond of liko character, which will be redeomed 100 years hence. Stil, this sort of redemption does not find favor in its proposer's oyes. He would prefer to havo his curroncy printed in this atylo : Only this and nothing more. Congrosa is to enact an Eleventh Commandment address. ed to these pieces of paper: “Thou shalt bo worth a gold dollar,"—nnd the papor is to oboy tho fint of Congress Almighty 1 ANOTHER VICTIM OF HYDROPHODIA, We cannot refrain from once moro sending our respects to Puaren; Prater of Hardin; Pusren, tho lender of Egyptian Bourbonisin in tho House. Itia said to bo characteristic of tho Bourbon that he nover Jearns any- thing. Thatis Praren all over, It dofines Puaten’s peculiar kind of Bourbonism, Had Prarzn known Wensren and Worcester, and been an ontacrat, he would havo hangod tho ¢—o ond drawn and quartered the other, The dictionary is the despair of Prvren’s exis. tence, It supplios irraverent scribes with op- ithets which thoy hurl ot him, and, inasmuch a3 ho knows no moro of the nature of theso cpithets than o man does of tho goologicnl formation of the stone that hits him, they pain Praren’s sen- sitive soul. ‘hoy insult him, ond through him his constituency, who know moro about corn-planters nnd sub-soil plows than thoy do nbout lexicons, A day or two since Praten, in ono of those momonts of potu- Innco which are common to all goniusos, allowed his cinotions to got tho better of his philosophy, and he hurled n glass of water at n Houso page, ‘heroupon a reporter for the State Journal, in commonting upon Praten's aqueous opérntion,.robuked him for this unscomly conduct, so unbecoming an Egyptian legislator and a Bourbon gentlo- man, and intimated that the sight of water had givon Puaren the hydrophoblo, Then Prated did get mad. Hia whole soul was aroused, not because ho had been accused of gotting mad, or because somo doubt bad been ex- pressed of his partiality for water, but be. cause he had beon called ‘ hydrophobia.” ‘Tho Billingsgato fishwifo went into an ecstacy of rogo whon Damien O’Connenn called her “a personal pronoun.” All that tho Billingsgate virago attached to ‘ per. sonal pronoun ” Praren attached to “ hydro. Phobia.” As the clown.whirls into tha saws dust ring in a auccossion of somersaults and announces to tho ring-instor, ‘ Hore I am, Mr, Merryman,” so Paatzn whirled into the Honso aud announced himself, and put an end to oll other business by the in- troduction of himself and his big word, Nothing would satisfy him but tho oxpalsion of tho roportor who had culled him a “ hydro. phobia.” Prater bad endured many insults and falsa reports, “but worse than the worst thing that files in’ tho air, worse than tho worut thing that swims in tho water, worse than tho worst thing that crawls on tho ground, was tho word hydrophobla”; in other words, if Prater had been acquatntod with words such as abound in dictionaries, he would have sald, worse than a turkey-buz. zard, worso than an alligator, worse than a boa-constrictor, is hydrophobla, As an ab. stract fact, Puaren is right, Mout people would find littl room for choice betweengthese four avile. But what principally aflicted Puaren was the fact that ho did not know what this dire and por. tentous word meant, aud so he attributed to it @ moaning wors6 than all the worst things combined. It was not until Praren began to discbver that he was not called “a hydro- phobia,” and that this term is not a reproach, that he subsided and allowed the business of tho House to goon, Meanwhilo, for tho pro- tection of Puarer against any more uesquipe- dalian words, we suggest to Puaren's fellow. Bourbons that they unite in the presentation of an unabridged Wasareu’s Dictionary to him ns n testimonial, It may hnppon that ‘Tie Crtoaco Tnipuxe will sometime bo obliged to refer to Puatsn naan Anachroninm, or a ayllabub, ,or oven o polypragmatical aeephalons, and wo have no desire to tako any ambiguous or snbtorrancan advantage of Prater, Wo liko Prater. Io is o ray of Runshine in that dismal Honso,—a pleasant contrast to ita constant Jumblo and wrangle, Wo would not offend him with anything in polysyllabten, lost they might excita a suspi- elon of amphibology or arriere penace in his in his mind, OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS, Nonrly every post-oflico in England has a savings bank connected with it, ‘The Gov- ernment guarantees the anfoty of the doposits and tho payment of tho iuterost upon thon, A person wishing to maken doposit muat present o written statoment of his namo, ad- dresa, and occupation, and sign a declaration that ho has no interest, except as n trusteo, in any deposits in any othor savings bank, whethor s national or an individual concern, Deposits must not bo less than ono shilling (25 conts) and must consist of avon shillings, No one enn doposit moro than £30in any year, or moro than £160 inall, Interost of 2} por cont is paid on all sums of s ponnd, and is compounded at the close of cach calondar year. Whon tho accumulated interost on any deposlt of £150 makes the whole amount to tho credit of an individual £200, intorest ceases, but begine again os soon na any part of the sim ia withdrawn. Dopositors receive re- coipts directly from tho General Office at London, Once a yenr, on tho anniversary of the day when tho first deposit was made, tho book given onch depositor must be forwarded to this offlco to be posted up. . Thero is no charga for postago on these books orany letters which the depositors may need to send to the authoritios in relation to their accounts. De- posits are repayable on demand, and can bo transferred to or froin ordinary savings banks by cortificates. The officers of the service are forbidden to reveal the namo of any de- positor or the amount standing to his credit, Minors and married women can open ac. counts in thoir own names, These oro the chief features of the plan. It is evidently framed for tho benefit of the poor, in order not to interfere too much with the ordinary savings banks. Ithns workod yory well, The deposits amount to soma twenty or moro millions of pounds, ‘The most gratifying result has been tho encour. agement of economy aud thrift among tho working classos, The money has been used to buy up consols on Government account, The tnargin botweon the interest paid on tha two securities las defrayed the cost of man- agement. At present, the funds on hand aro to bo loaned to municipalities, nt 3} per cont, to bo used iu improving the dwollings of tho poor. It was from this fund tho Government obtained the money with which it purchased tho franchise and wires of the telegraph companies nnd established the existing postal telegraph system, which in its cheaponing and extending telegraphy ns provon n national blessing to the people of Great Britain and Troland, It may possibly bo ndvisablo at some time in the future to organize post-oflico savings banks in this country, Mr, Creswenn, Into Postmaster Gonoral, was ardent in his sup. port of the schemo, , A DEFECTIVE WISCONSIN LAW. We havo already shown thot the amend. ments to the Wisconsin Railroad law afford no adequate roliof. It now transpires that they also Inck consistency. It was genorally admitted the Porrrn law would ruin tho wenker companics, An offort was thereforo mado to cxempt them from its operations, ‘The Governor favored such preferonce, An act was passed reclassifying the roveral roads, by which tho lines operated by tho Chicago & Northwostern and the Milwaukeo & St. Paul Railway Companies (except the Madison «& Portngo line) wero placed in Class A, while tho weak companies wore transferred to Class ©, Tho rates of froight ostablished by the Porren Jaw apply only to roads in Class A and B, This evidenco of tondor treatment it was thought would encourage the construction of new railroads and foster those struggling for existence, Brut, in the subsequent hasto, theso kindly intentions were frustrated by tho passage of the act amendatory to the Porrrn law known ns tho Quramy bill. This act apecifically recites that tho rates thereinafter named shall apply to all roads ombraced in Closa A and Class B of the Porren law. Tho firat aot was approved March 8, Tho Qury- DY act was a subsequent mensure, ‘The con- flict between tho two was not obsorved until ‘8 fow days since, when the Attorney-Gencral pointed out the confusion. Ilis impression is that an oxtra session will be necessary to apply the remedy, To is also roported to have expressed doubtn as to tho validity of tho legislation oxempting certain roads from payment of 4 por cont tax on their gross earnings, as required of all other compantos. ‘The authority for this opinion, doubtloss, is based on See, 21, Art. IV., amendment to tho Stato Constitution, which prohibits tho Log. islaturo from enacting any special Inw “granting corporate powors or privileges, except to cities.” Notwithstanding tho gencrofs motives of tho Logislaturo in desiring to oxempt the woakor roads from tho operation of the Por- ten law, it is not apparent how they would bo particularly benefited. Yor it is a com. mereial law that common carricrs must do competitive business at equal rates or forego it. And, under the law of 1874, prohibiting all railroad companies from discrimineting against any person or shipper, tho exempted companies would hardly be in position to lower their rates at competitive points to the Porter law rates aud make up for tho lossby ralsing thom when they had a monopoly, , An oxtra sossion, however, would not bo without advantage. Upon reflcotion, it must bo evident to the members that the railroad queation is to important to bo hastily dis. posed of, and the more they invostigate the subject and comprehend its far-reaching fn. fluences, tho moro likely will they bo to realize that intelligence and deliberation are requisite to insuse boneficent legislation, ‘The question at issuo affects the whole peo. plo, and should bo treated without:regard to party consideration. A fow groonback men mot in Cleveland yesterday and proccoded to form a party, Tho object of the party, a3 stated in the call, is to abolish National Banks and secure the issue of a currency directly to the people, sald currency to be based upon tho National resources, ond be alegal tender in the payment of all debts public and private. Nothing is said as to tho Hunit of this now currency other than that it shall be fixed according to somebody's idons of tho extent of the National resources, Tho Ketxx 8-05 bond is to form o part of this great financial schemo, acting as a sort of bal. ance-wheel or governor to the ponderous whole, Much is sald about abuses in tariff 4 and taxation, but thna far no vital rom: has beon hinted at. Tho nffair tg an ont. growth of tho Workingmon’s movemont, ang is piloted by the prominont lights of thes organiZation, It isn notable thing that tho Tudges of England, with one or two exceptions, unitg in sustaining flogging as a Punishment foy offenses to which it is now applied, and many of them favor its oxtonston to enses of vig, lont assault, ‘Thero ia certainly moro fitness in its application to tho Inst-named offenses than for petty lnrcony. It fa Poor satisfag, tion, innitequato punishment, and no deter. rent whatevor to imposo an. insignificant fina on a brate who hns first insulted and thon mocked down and beaten 9 woman, or a man physically weaker. than himeolf, ‘The Aggravated ensog of assault which ocur overy day in English ang Amoricnn citios fully account for the recom. mendation that flogging bo substituted for fino ng a punishment, which has been mady by such men as Chief-Justico Cocxnuny and Justices Buacxnuny, Mexron, and Lesy, There is no othor punishment thnt woul) fully moot tho cago of the ruflan who insult. ed and struck lady ina Btate atreot lorag. car a fow nights since, with no conductor or employe of the company to dofoud her, At all evonts, it will bo interesting to note the influence of flogging on this class of offenseg if it shall bo applied in England, of Iast Sundsy dovoted soveral columns to s rehash of tala scandals, most of which it had Proviously rq. tracted under tho coercive procces of indictments for libel, and in its rebash it roforrod to thie Das ver, and haa since, editorially, reposted {he alles gation, og follows: Another reanon {a fonnd in the elreumst: the expore impilented Tits Tanvsn, to the extent tt homo worn toatimouy therein adducod 1a to the ene that Tit farounE hud been + fixed” to support te Marritewa hospital lot awindto ; and noon after It w.4 claimed es haviug been “tized ” ft did taki favor of tuo swindio, ‘0 ground Iq Tho oflitoriat management of Tax Tatouyg having been changed slnco 1879, aud the thea editor being now out of tho country, we hava had tho filles of the paper carofully oxamined, and te following isthe record in relation to the hee pital lot: August 9, 1874: Tnan intorviow, Prntotar stated to a roporter of Tus Tninoxe that Marritews told him he had flxed “Tue Triny:g man” with $1,000, ‘Chly ststemout Marranss prompt} domed toa Taroune raporter, saying that Penroxat bad told him ho wanted 22,00) of him QMfarruewe) to fix Yue Thinvse nod fimes ; ond that Pentonar had said to bim that he expected to work tho Times through Wirair, ouo of ita editors, and that ho, Penrozar, kney no poraon in Tue Tuiavxs. Thia was ayer after the purchase of the Marrmewalot had beea denounced in ‘nz Tutnuxe, and its purchae reconsidorod by the Loard of Commissionors, August 18, 1873: The Board of County Con misslouers solected tho Marruzws lot for a County ILospital. August 23, 1873: Tox Cutcaco Trrnuse oi torially expoacd tho unfituoss of the Marraens lot for tho purposoof a hospital, and condonoed the action of tho Board quite soveroly, Auguut 26, 1873: The County Commissions reconsidered thoir action solecting tho fir TuEWa lot, August 27, 1873: An cditorlal paragraph {3 Tue Tnmune oxpressed gratification at the prompt action of tho County Board in recousi& ering their provious sslection, Prior to this time there had beon no mon'i:a of tho lot in either the cditorial or real e:tue columns of Tux Tamuxe, Tho only reference to {t was in tho way of letters written by vastout Persons advocating that and sevora!l other com Poting sites, and urging the nocossity of «082 County Hospital ; and uono of those Letters were indorsed, so far ag thoy related to any paitizulat site, by Tan Trmusr. ‘This 18 tho record of Tie Tatovye on this quets Hon, and thia ia what tho Times calln “sxom testimony,” and upon this it bases tho allogatioa that Tau Trinvxe advocated tho purchaso of the lot after it had beon “fixed”! ‘Tho anscrtioa that Toe “ Trimone did tako ground in favor ot the Marrizwa swindle” is destituto of overt sclntilla of truth. On the contrary, it wae Tox Tamone which defeated the consummation of the purchase of thas lot, or rathor soversl lots, for Tuk Tninuxe oxposed tho fott that the Ground proposed to bo sold was interaoctod sod cut up into plecos by streets which ran through it, and which would havo to bo vacated tefcie the ground could be used for hospital purpses. What docs tho Times oxpoct to accompllyh ly uttoring such unmitigated fatschoods ? To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Muuxcaos, Mich,, Marcli 9,—Ploasy answer throu) the columa of your valuable paper the following sur tion t If thn fudge of lection, or ‘uy of ils tts uumber tho tickbta when dapotited in the haletio and mark the name and nuiober of the voter an it book of electiou, and If tt ts tho general lave it Ii nois, or in the City of Chicago, and oli, sos truly, ‘Alax fone, Axswen: Tuo gonoral olection taw of Ilinois provides that all ballots at all oloctions in ths Stato shall bo iudorsod with a number core sponding to tho number of tho voter on tho list of porsons voting. In one of tho courts of this county it has boon hold that this marking of the ballot ia unconstitutional, becauso it violatea the accrocy of tho ballot, but the quostion ba3 act yet been determined by the Suprema Court of Mlinols, In other States a similar law has besa + hold to ba constitutional by their Suproma Cuurte. —_———-—____- All tho timid women and tho epiceno ear of Philadelphia have been ina great tutor Istely on account of cortain mystorious chatk-tarki which bave appeared at rogular intorve!sca mauy of the front doors in tho respectable quit tors of tha city. Now tholr foara havo been ie placed by s wrath, ip comparison with whicb that of tho switt-footed Acutsixs was a childleh peh by tho -rovolation that tho cabalistic agus were put on by tho newspaper carriers in the way of businesa, The hleroglyphics, whon deciphered, would probably road, ‘Come down,” or * Pa:t iu your chocks;" and they woro not, in rerlif, peremptory ordors from the Princo of Darxve:s but hitiinations to delinquent aubscribors to alt? around to tho office and attend to their smalls counts, ——_——-_____. One of the youth of Des Moines wont & fer nights ago to see tho cau-can; sud ho wasnt uhockod or demoralized to any appreciable et tont, In order to prova it, he wrote a letter !? tho Leader, and carried along hia argumontia thig train: “ By the exarciso of a littl imarius- on on the part of the boholdor, he could imss- ine itmself transported back to tho palmy dayé of Groece, and iidden behind the bushes patios apon the Groolan matdons ay thoy danced #0 frolickod in womia glen of that favored !and, '0 tusio a8 voluptuous as that which came ine the lyre of Onvueus.” You. Aud a peraoa at Vory poatical temperament can imagine bios peoplng through a knot-holo at the Lady rete asenuily 2g crouching behind bushos and loot ing at Grecian mafdens, eS Very far from complimontary aro the coc Monts of tho Callfornia press aud people oo He Inte management of the Packio Mail Stoamllp Company, Tho tranafor of its offects to the ie cifo Nallroad Companies has naturally Tot expressions of opinion from all quarters of . Stato; and, 60 faras we havo beon able tod cover, thare ig not ono word commendatory ° tho old management. Tho San Franciaco Chrow tele saya: “The Company cannot be io bite hands than those which have manipulated be the Inst three years.” Wedepond op Mr be Govwn to open up the posalullities ina Woy guiloloss Californians never dreamed of. ee ees Since the defeat of tho bill for the eqasllss, tlon of bountiew, cortain Democratic papers - i beon attempting to make # Little capital out o P} for thelr party, ‘Thais plan is to reise the orf