Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1875, Page 4

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PDeator than Lite ™ and * 1h i MR'S THRATRE—Madicon street, hotween nenaen ata ate’ Ungagement of ire, Rousby. «* As You Like It," OPERA-HOUSE—Clark | 8 shar tous, ‘Kelly & Leon's Blinstes! wf the Hitchen," Bares lt LEVY'S THERATRE-Randoinh, strest, between cto anaien tlmetrige All,” "an Alaratog Bactlice,” and '* The Swiss Swaine, — socieTyY LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, NO, 2, Te. A. M.—THall, 72 5 si lon this Monday evening, fat 2gicia, aren aetaaats tek dette he forgeoralally tnvited to meat with Hip cease of ene ND ALL-AREYOU SUFFERING FROM Polmentry troubles that so often, torminato, n consniays aT oie SWiluors. Pure Cod Liver Oll and Lina" anfgaud pflenclous remedy. 1iist4 no, quack Jone but. As roxulnsiy. pres A Aronaration, Ort dared only by Ac DeWiLUOW, Chorale Hfsaton, “Sold by all dracgits, VANILLA BEANS V8, TONQUA BEANS—V. y facture of Rzteact Vanilla c ‘Boear only cost frum SM vente to SH cente por pound. “she dow priva of the latter 1s an inducoment to unprincipled 8 ‘antila, bul 7 Mondua hean would mate an excellent handkerchie fone wnro itnotfordiscoloring linen. Ut is wiod for perfuming su fs eee eeeity Ruieart Fantiia ta prepares rom selected Va- nilia Benue, aud is warranted enlircly {roo from ‘Tongua ci ether inarious substances. ‘To teat the truthfalnoss of This statment, Louerkeapers who are desirous of obtsin- ine aicietiy pace vanilit are advised to sabralt « bottle of aNimetta fxtrect Vanilla, with apy otber brand they may fenuing, to drnpqinte who are competent. judges, and can ceiinietne dliference Ia _quality abd sugyest haw to de- ont Tongue ia Vanilla Extract. The Chicaga Tribune. Monday Morning, March 15, 1875. Louisiana is to be congratulated. Col- ‘ector Caser announces through the dis- patches this morning that ho will not bo o candidate for the United States Sonate in tho event of the rejection of Prxcmpacx, The protection plan of lifo insurance is pretty thoroughly discussed in another column of to-dsy’s Tsmuxe by Messrs. Z. Eastan and Gzozaz A. Suurexpr, Jr., who havo joined issue. At the present stage of the game it would be imprudent to attempt to name tho winnor, Our Washington special this morning fully explains the method by which the express eompanics smuggled through Congress the amendment doubling the rate of postage on transient newspapers. Mr, Hannipat, Han. xr, of Maine, was the instrument used in the Senate, and Gon. Ganrteip in tho House. Both gentlemen will undoubtedly bo afforded every opportunity to explain their conduct. ‘The sermons which are published by Tur ‘Tnrmone this morning aro of special interns, embracing tho first one delivered by the Rev. Brooxe Hrnronp, at the Church of tho Mes. sinh, which vindicates his claims as a pulpit. orator, ‘Tho deliverances of President Fowzre on “The Exaltstion of Josus Christ,” and Dr. H. N. Powrns on “ ‘fhe Perfect Priesthood,” will also repay perusal. Reporters of Tue Tamune yesterday made * excursions through those sections of the city where the influences of tho present warn weathor upon the accumulated snow-banks ere generally most apparent. In the North Division, betwoen Clark street and the river, the unpaved and undrained streets were found to be in an almost impassable condi- tion, tho liquid slush in some placcs mensur- ing two fect indepth. The oxtremo south- western portion of the city was, in some cases, found submerged toa depth of five or six inches. Bridgeport, the rogion supposed to bo most in danger from a sudden thaw, had apparently escaped, althongh occasional ponds of water were observed, Our Block Hills nows this morning comes from Cheyenne. Cheyenne evidently ia de- termined not to be outdone by Sioux City in the dissemination of this particular branch of information, The Intter town having been honored with a visit from two returned ininers, has aroused the envy of Cheyenne, and ehe nobly comes to time to-day by secing her rival and going two better. Four miners, loaded with ‘rich pay-dirt,” aro announced to bo en route for Ohoyenne, where they aro expected to-day. ‘hoy of course aro very enthusiastic in their de- scriptions of the immenso richness of tho country from which they have just come,—in fact twice ax enthusiastic as Sioux City’s pil- grims. It will be just as well, however, for persons troubled with the Black Hills fever to await further devolopmeonts before joining any of the expeditions which these ‘returned voluntcers” are so very anxious to lead to tho so-called new El Dorado, As a last resort, the enemies of o reformed tity charter and a responsiblo and economi. tal City Government have raised the hue and wy of mad dog. Having failed in their as- sults upon the proposed new charter itaclf, they now raise the cry of ‘Txsra.” It is published in the papors, talked of on the street, and proclaimed nt public meetings, that ** Hesina" has “ captured” the Citizens! Association, and js at Springfleld laboring to have the new charter passed bocanse it will confer increased powers on tho Mayor, for which office, if the charter be adopted, Hesino fs to be a candidate and sure of an election, for the purpose of robbing the city to pay his debts! The effort is, of course, to array against the new charter whatever personal or political opposition thero may ex. ist against Hrsima, cud that is not incon- stderable, This kind of warfare is not the less potent becauso unjust and unfalr, and false and malicious. ‘lhe new ckarter is not the handiwork of Hesixna; whatever support he may give to it has been givon reluctantly and ata very late period. If Hesixa watts to be Mayor, he can bo elected under the present cherter just as east. ly eas under a uew one. If his motive in seeking tho office is, os is insinuated, that ho may corruptly uso the place for his own pé- cunlsry and personal oggrondizement, then is chances for success in that way will be infinitely greater under the present charter than they can possibly be under the new one. ‘The present charter, with its single Board of Aldermon, controlled by an irresponsible majority, with nn irrosponsiblo Fire and Police Board of Gommission, and an irre. sponsible Bonrd of Public Works, is just the charter under which the whole Government may be mannged and controlled by a combi- nation of corrupt officials with the Mayor at their head. Under tho new charter such o combination will be at least. much more difll- cult. to carry inte affect. But the cry of “mad dog” is gonorally fatal to the unfortu- nato animal thns designated, and if tho peo- ple of this city pormit themselves to bo do- luded into the idea that the adoption of the now charter means tho reign of Hxatno as Mayor of this city, why the charter may be considered ns defeated from tho beginning. To identify Hesrva and tho new charter, and diffuse the idea that he will be Mayor under it, is to put an ond to all hopes of municipal reform, and to remand Chiengo to its present charter, which we suppose may be truthfully described as the worst, wenkest, and moat heterogeneous thing of the kind known in the United States, The Chicago produce markets were gon- erally active and higher Saturday. Mess pork was active, ndvancing 25@30 per bri, closing at $18,90@18.95 cash, and $13.97}@19.00 for April. Lard was in fair request, and 12} per 100 tbs higher, closing firm at $15.62 cash, and $13.65 seller April, Meats were in good demand and firmer nt 7}c for shoulders, 10e for short ribs, and 1030 for short cleats, Dressed hogs were quiet at $7.90@8.35. Highwines were quict, and closed ensy at $1.11 per gallon asked. Flour was in fair demand snd firmer, Wheat was active and excited, averaging about 1c higher, and clos- ing at 89¥c cash, and 90$c for April, Corn was foirly active and §c higher, closing steady at G50 cash, and 71jc for May, Oats were quiet and firm, closing at 52i@5ic cash, and Sijc for April, Rye wes more active ond lower, at 964@97ic. Barley was dull and fully 3c lower, closing at $1.02 for the month, sud 98c@$1.00 for April. Hogs were active and firm. Sales at $6.25@8.25. Thera was a good demand for cattle aud sheep at steady prices, MONEY WITHOUT GOLD, We have already commented on tho resola- tions of the Cleveland Currency Convention which proposo tho organization of a new party upon the basis of a wildcat monctary system, This monetary system upon which this new party is founded simply abolishes gold and silver coin for all uscs as money, and substitutes therefor ‘paper money”; not promises to pay, not certificates of in- debtedness, not any thing redoemable here~ after in substantive value, but paper ‘* money,” This paper thus created is to be the “American money.” Of course it will be non-exportablo; having no future redemp- tion, being fandable in nothing save a bond, which bond in turn is redeemable in tho paper monoy, it will have no value save that which is voluntarily acceded to it. From tho time preceding Annanam and the days of the first Pnanaons, gold and silver have been the universal ‘‘ money” by which exchanges have been made, In all ages and in all climes, the precious motals have been held in special favor, especially’ gold. It is costly ; it is indestructible; it docs not rust or tarnish ; it is of rare beauty, and capable of many uses to which no other metal can ho put. It represents in tho smallest bull: the greatest amount ofvaoluc. Itis the product and earning of hard labor reduced to the smallest sizo nnd of the grentest value, Its wort’: is universal,—nas great in ono part of tho world as in the other,—and recognized by all mankind. Civilization has at various times sought to furnish an artificial equiva- lent or substitute for gold os moncy, But gold represents the value of tho labor em- ployed in producing it, no more and no less, and in no other form has there been found the value of so much labor condensed into such small bulk, and in a sub- stance capnble of so many uses, and of itself clean, pure, beautiful, and incorruptible. ‘Tho nearest that human ingenuity bas come to providing asubstitute formoncy is theissue of a paper promise to pay gold on demand; so long oa this promise is redeemed, the paper promise has served as a substitute in ordinary transactions ; but when the promise has been broken and faith theroby destroyed, the paper evidence of it haa depreciated in just the pro. portion as the fulfillment of the promise has been delayed or rendered uncertain. Ten years ago the United States recovored peace; and yet its postponed promises to pay gold ara worth but 88 cents on the dol- lnr. Tho new party proposes to go a stop further, They dispense with the promise to pay. ‘They isaua no ovidonces of debt. The paper they propose to issue is tobe ‘ money,” in the full sense of the term. Each pieco of paper without any intrinsic valuo in itsolf is to be stamped with figures denoting thenum- ber of “dollars,” ‘This money" is to be paid out to the people by the Government in exchange for servicos, in payment of pen- sions, and for goods and merchandise, It is to remain and continuo in circulation for all time; and, not being a promise nor an evi- dence of debt, there is to be no redemption or payment of it, Ir 1970 nz monex by flat of Congrens, Novortheloss, it is to have no intrinsio value, Ita acceptance at any price must be confined to the United States. It will represent nothing but tho value of the labor employed in printing it. Liko gold, silver, coppor, lead, iron, wheat, corn, potatoes, cotton, and tobacco, it will represent mercly the cost of Inbor,—the results or yield of labor. ‘The value of the labor om- ployed in producing a thousand millions of dollars of paper monoy will not equal tho coxt of producing a single issue of ‘Tne Cur cago ‘I'nipune. Yet the new party which proposes this “monetary system," and pro- poses to have a Presidential candidate in the field in 1876, gravely insist, in the namo of the producers of the United States, to abolish coin property and substitute paper nouentity ag tho ‘ money” of the nation! ‘These people who urge thia chimerical sye- tem cling to their delusion with religious fervor, It ia not a new invention, As long ago og 1843, Epwarp Kyxroaa devised a scheme for substituting papor for gold as actual money. He had devoted twenty years to its study. It was ascheme for the issue of paper money by the Government, which money was to be convertible into bonds bear- ing a low rate of interest. ‘Tho problem he sought to solve was how to furnish the na- tion with monoy having no connection with gold or ullver or tangible value, He pro- posed the ‘ safoty-fund note,” and, after wait- ing for years to'invent how to redeem it, ho at lost full upon the idea of a wildcat bond bearing 2 per cont wildcat interest, Ifo pub- lished his plans in various newspapers, aud also in a book, aud died in 1658, His deugh. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1875. ter collected his manuscripts and edited tho achemo which is now republished under the imposing title of A New Monetary System ; the Only Means of Securing the Respective Rights of Labor and Property, md of Pro- tecting tho Public from Financial Rovul- efons,” The modern pnper-advocntes are blind to the experience and history of all other na- tions. They ore not the less earnest becauso they are the victims of a wretched delusion. It is a matter to be deplored that thero is no way in which thia maninc monetary ayatem might be put in operation, and its re- sults confined to thosowho favor it, If thera were any method by which theirsyatem could bo tested without involving the whole nation in fits rain, these peoplo might be speedily cured of their dolusion forever. If they could try it alono, and enjoy all ita nd- vantages, and have a monopoly of the wreck of credit, honor, wealth, and national exist. ence, it might be of service to posterity, A fow honest, haro-brained theorists, with o dozen or mora political demagogues and knaves, have pushed this insane theory, and aro industriously pushing it forward us the grand panacea for the Inborers of the coun. try, and, while we have no fear that it will overcome the intelligence of any thinking man, it operates for tho time to delay tho general understanding of our financial diff. culties and the general support of proper remedinl measures, The idea of cheap moncy and abundant money is attractive to those who overlook the fact that money is only the prodnet of Inbor, and is worth only the price of the Inbor thnt-prodnced it, The fifty millions of dol- lors or more of gold mined annually in this country and added to the world’s property, costs to produce it full fifty millions of dol- lara of food, clothing, fuel, rent, and trans- portation, time, sweat, anxiety, and other expenditures, The valueof cotton or bread- stuffs is measured by the amouut of the Inbor of production, ‘The Inbor given to produc. tion is the mensnra of ofl values, Instead of expending 100 cents for labor in producing $1 in gold, these erazy people think that Government can create dollars by merely stamping figures on paper, and give to printed slips cost- ing 9 few cents the exchangeable value of a thousind millions of gold. ‘Then the gold and silver mines of the world may be closed, the miners callod home, hard times be abol- ished, each man have his million of dollars in his own housa, all necessity for hard work be avoided, aud all wo willbaye to do is to sit down and ent our money,—or what we can get for it. It is just this abundanco of moncy, with every house overflowing with it, that these wise men ot Cloveland, and such statesmen as Keizryy, Freup, Penpiston, Ben Burien, Caupnety, ond Buomanan pre- dict will bo brought about by the wildcat monotary system of money mado of paper in- stead of gold. COMMUNISTIC TENDENCY OF JURIES, The award of the jury in tho late South Park condemnation caso isa fair sample of the treatment of public corporations in suits at Jaw. Tho rule is that the larger the municipal corporation the less consideration it receives ot the hands of the jury. A close corporation af two or three persons, carrying on some private business, may possibly meet an individual antagonist ot law with some fair prospect far justice. But when it comes to a railroad, or other large and quasi-public corporation, the considera- tion of the jury is very much less. With no municipal or political corporation of any naturo, the individual contestant may almost count with certainty upon a verdict in his bo. half without regard to the merits of his cnse, Daren Wenster is reported to havo sald that the Almighty himsclf cannot foretell what the verdict of a petit jury will be; but ho evidently did not refer to that class of lnw- suita involving proporty interests, in which there is an individual on one side and a pub- Uo corporation on tho other. In such cases, a verdict against the publio corporation isa foregono conclusion. The rule of the avor- ago jury seems to be that a community of tax-payers has no rights which the individual is bound to respect, In the South Park condemnation case, the Commissioners, representing the community of tax-payers, are required to pay at tho as- tonishing rate of $5,760 per acro for a tract of land lying south of Sixty-thind stroot, away off to the east, on the low, swampy lnke shore, a considerable part of which is scarcely abovd tho water-lovel, and which could not for very many years to como be used for any othor purposo than thatof o public park, ‘What adds to the mystery of tho vordict is, that Mr, Fircm offered to sell the Commis- sionera ridge land, just south of the park, for $2,000 per acre, and Mr. Exnan offored land on the railroad track, north of it, for $2,500 per acre, Tho award for the entire tract of 77 acres was $456,492.50; the same tract was bought by one of the beneficiaries of tho present award for $10,000 tho firat ycar of the War, and the purchase at that rato was regarded ag a foolish one. The price awarded was juat five times the lowest valuation put upon it by some of the witnessca before the jory,—which was $800 an acre. It is $1,650 per acre more than the mean of the evidence, and probably 60 por cent more than it could havo been sold for in the most oxciting time of real estate inflation before the panic, Not only was there no allowanco made for the grent shrinkage of values resulting from the panio, but the award ison the basis of the most rapid and steady increase since tho panic, The tax-payors are thus compelled by the Communistic seutiment or actuating un- dorcurrent of feeling of a petit jury to pay noarly half a million dollars for o pleco of property moat of which tho Park Commissioners can only use af an artificial lake alongside of a great natural lake, At the very best, the award is twice as much as it ought to have bean, ac- cording to the opinion of the best and fairost judges, and five timos what tho property would havo brought at this time if the Park bill bad not included it within the limits of tho park property, but left it a mile or so to the east of it, ‘The case is by no means exceptional, Tho tax-payers of Lako Viow wore made to suffer not long since ina similar case, There wasa sand-ridge lying beyond the city limits on the north, which could best be utilized by adding it to the pleasure-grounds of North Chicago. It was condemned and appraised by a petit jury in the for prescribed by Jow, and the award wus, at tho very least, “double the actual yalue of the property, ‘The beneficiaries in thia case, as in most similar casos, were entitled to no more con- sideration than the tax-payers, if to ouch, ‘Tho land belonged to two rich estates, worth millions each, and left behind by mon who had amossed fortunes through the enterprise and industry of the citizens of Chicago, whose laboc rendered thelr lote and lands valuable. There was, therefore, no moro claim to charity or special consideration than there was in the recent South Park case, whero the beneficiaries nre mostly non-resl- dents, In the North Side case, tho Lincoln Park Commirsionera yielded im. mediately to this enonnous imposition upon the tax-payers they represented, and mado no effort to have the exorbitant award set aside. We hopo it will not bo so in the South Park case, but that they will insist on justice and equity to the last extremity, Tt is diMloult to analyze the peculiay Com- munistic tendencies of a jury in deciding bo- tween tho public and o private individual, There is no suspicion in this cnse that the jury havo been tampered with; the character of the defendants, as well as the character of tho jury, is a full warrant against any such charge, ‘Thoy have simply been drawn into the undertow with the fncies that have gono before then in similar cases, aud have pnrtsten of the same mysterious and indefnable disposition to plungo the knifo up to the hilt into tho body corporate evory time it makes its appearance, There seoms to be a wide-spread conviction that there is no wrong in bleeding the public. This conviction extends to jurors as woll as office-holders and contractors, Had the jury in the South Park case been a Board of Arbi- tration, to which the prico of this same prop- erty had been referred to determine its valuo as between one man solling aud another pur- chasing, thero is little room for donbt but the award would have been very difforent. But, simply because the cost of the property was to be divided up among sevoral thousand tax. payers instend of being sustoined by one per- son, its value was multiplicd. It is very.! strange, but such seems to be the common experience, DR. DE KOVEN’S DEFEAT. ° ‘Tho returns thus far received of tho vote of the Standing Committees of the various Dioceses seem to sen! the fato of Dr. De Ko- ven for Bishop, The vote as Inst heard from stands 21 agninst confirmation and 10 for, so that no hopo is loft that ho will be the Bishop of this Dioceso. The cause of this defent it ig not dificult to discover. It moans that tho (aity of tho Church will not accept Ritunlism, either mild or full-blown, and this determina- tion is now expressed forthe third tine in Dr. De Koven’s casc—first in Massachuactts, second in Wisconsin, ond third in Tlinots, There was no question of his personal popu- Inrity, of hia ability as o scholar and theologian, of his intellectual vigor, of his personal purity, or of his executive capacity for tho office, His reputation had extended beyond the confines of his own denomina- tion, and all were ngreed that, so far as tal- ents, piety, and character were concerned, ho would have filled the position with as much eredit and satisfaction as any man in the de- nomination, Why, then, was he rejected? Simply and solely becouso he was reported and believed to be a believer in, and exponent of, Ritualiam in somo degree. For this rer- son the million of people who belong to and attend the Episcopalian form of service have said ali his graces and gifts count for nothing. Hed the question been left to the clergy, the case would have been different, Dr. Dg Koven would hnve been confirmed without muck doubt. Clergymen, like other mortals, aro not unwilling to increaso their power and self-nggrandizement, and they know that Ritualism would have this effoct. 'Thoy know what influence sacred ceremonies have npon the minds of the masses, and that mysterious sights aud sounds appeal to the senses with far more force than logic and ar- gument, however eloquently uttered, appeal to the heart and soul, The acceptance of Ritu. alism might in time involve the Auriculor Confession, which makes the power of tho clergy well nigh absolute over the laity, When the secrets of one man’s heart are in- trusted to the honor of another, he is under his control, body and soul, It is little won- der in those days of mental emancipation and doubt, when tho laity is slipping out of the control of the clergy so for, and ia wandering off into new fields of thonght and action, thnt many of tho clergy should seek, by atl means in their power, to restrain them, and to hold them moro firmly, ond that thoy should be in favor of Rituoliem os one of the surest methods of strengthening themselves and their hold upon the minds of their con- gregntions. Itis evidont enough, from tho action of the Standing Committees, that the vast majority of the male member eof the Episcopal Chnrch have set their faces against Ritualism, and, as Dr. Dz Koven was considered to represent it, they have rejected him. They fear tho en. croachments of Rituoliam. They fear that it may lead to the Confessional, from which Protestants recoil ; to gennflexions; to tran- substantistion; to ‘Saint and Virgin wor- ship”; and go on from ono step to another until tho partition botween their Church and the Church of Rome ia broken down. They do not intend totake any step away from the teachings of the Reformation, and they do not believe that any Protestant perzon who holds such views, or who holds any views in- volving such possibilities, stands squarely upon tho platform of the Episcopal Church, This scomsto be the meaning of the defeat of Dr. Dz Koven, If it be anything else, wo have not beon able to discover it, and onr feelings aro perfectly free of bias or preju- dico, for wo hold Dr. De Koven in high ca- teem as 8 scholar and a Christian. THE OZNTRAL PACIFIC, Jon. 12, 1873, the House of Repre- sentatives reforred to the Pacific Railroad Committee a resolution, introduced by J. K, Lurrnein, of California, for the appointment of a Committee to investigate the affairs of tho Central Pacific, Some potent influence sinothered tho resolution, The Committee never reported on it, This fact is the more striking, because one member of the Com- mitteo, E. D, Sranpxronp, of Kentucky, prepared long since a report in favor of the investigation, ‘The fnilure of the majority to bring the matter before tha Houso prevonted the presentation of this minority report. 'Thia looks like a put-up job, Somebody hax probably been afraid of hurting somebody eluo—or himself, ‘The Comittee consist of twelve men, The Central Pacific was liber- ally represented upon it, Hovanror, of California, Wxi1s, of Missouri, aud Bannom, of Connecticut, were reckoned as the road's attorneys. ‘The carpet-bagger Syruxn, de- prived of his scat on tha last day of the sossion, was another momber, Mr, Stanpgrozp has published hia report since the adjournment of Congress. Hoe urges investigation, on account of tho evi- «lence submitted, which seems to him to give prina-facis proot of the following state of things: The Contral Pacific was built with the pro- cecds of lands granted and bonds loaned to it by the United States, The latter has the right to know that the trustees of its bounty used it bonsatly, They do not sccm to have done so. The rond was finished in 1869, and has earned an averago of 910,000,000 2 year since, Ils ned oarnings in 187% were over 88,000,000, ‘Those earnings, and the subsi- dies given the rond, have beon reccived and disbursed by nine Diroctors, These Direc. tors, or controlling majority of them, formed, at the ontset, a con- cern known as the Contract and Financo Company, which diffored from tho Credit Mobilicr of the Union Pacific only in name. Luann Stanrvorp, 0. P. Huntinaton, Manx Hopxrna, GO, and E. B, Crocken, and others, os Directors of tho Central Pacific, let to thomrelvos, as the Contract and Finance Company, tho contrnets for constructing and equipping the railroad, Of course, the con- tracts were lot nt fraudulent rates, so that the Directors of the Central Pacifle were obliged to hand over to themselves, alias the Contract and Finance Company, all the bonds and money, and all the stock that could not bo sold to outside dupes, and everything else. Tho result of thts disguised robbory of trust- funds by tho trustecs Los been that the stock. holders have got almost nothing, and that the United States has nlrendy had to pay nearly $9,000,U00 interest on the bonds loaned to the rood. Tho resemblance between the Contract and Finance Company and the Credit Mobilicr does not end here. Mr. Sranperonp says: ‘'It is charged that mem- bers of Congress were united in this frandu- lent coinbination, . . and that one man, as 9 member of this Congress, was able, from hia official position, to sell hia stock in the road at 2} times its par value, when other stockholders wero not able to realize 10 per cent on the face of their stock; ond thnt an- other member of Congress, who is also a member of the Contract and Finance Com- pany aforesaid, was able to sell his stock at 7} times its face value.” The Legislature of California asked for tho investigation, and the record we have quoted shows apparent reason for it. It would have boon strange, indeed, if the western half of tho Pacifio Road had been honestly built when tho manrgoment of tho enstern half was rotten with corruption, The way in which Lurrret's resolution was smoth- ered in the-committee-room ia 8 reason for investigation, instesd of ono ogninst it. Somebody wes afraid, and honest men are not easily scared. THE CIVUL-RIGHTS IssUk. In a recont editorial in Tax Cmcago Tarn- Une upon the effects of the Civil-Rights bill tho opinion was expressed that the first con- stitutional test of tha monsure would come from tho North instend of the South, and would probably emanate from Yew York, Boston, or Chicago, This opinion is in a fair way to be vorificd. On Saturday, a col- ored man entered Bunre’s restaurant in this city, took his seat at a table, and ordered his breakfast. The waiter, also colored, instead of serving him, reported to Mr. Bunxe for instructions, which he received briefly but promptly, They were to the effects that it was not consistent with the character of his business to servo tha black gentleman, and that ho must go elsewhere. The lat- ter did s0, and at once went be- fore the United States Commissioner and swore out a warrant against Mr. Bunxe for violation of the Civil-Rights Inw. The issue is thus made fairly and squarely, with- out any nonsense or circumlocution. In o subsequent interview with a Trmune report- er Mr, Bunge briefly stated his reasons and his intentions, He declined to sorve tho col- ored man becnuso if he admitted him ond thus opened the way to others he would ruin his business. He refused to serve him just as he sometimes refused to serve some white men, becouse it would drive away respectable patrons from his house, When questioned with regard to his intentions, he answered in amanner which showed that ho had been reading ex-Senator Canrenten’s specch, and ogreed with him in bolioving that Congress could not dictate to him how he should conduct his business and whom he should feed. Ho was not going about this matter, he said, in any half-way manner, and, thinking it was botter to act in a definite and decided way than to bo beating round the buah, he should employ the ablest connsel in tho city and make a test cnse of it, This is the proper way to settle it, and thosa who know Mr, Bunxe will not need to bo nssured that ho will carry tho case to tho highest court in order to find what his rights ore in the case. Thus it will probably happon that tho Abolition City of Chicago will bring the Gret tost casa before the United States Supreme Court involving the constitution. ality of the Civil-Rights law. Wo desire to call the attention of the Mem- phis Avalanche to this cage as fornishing on iNuatration to the point Tae Curicaco Trr- UNE pressed upon its attention a few days ago. It will observo tho differonca between tho North and the South in the treatment of the purely porsonal or social relations between tho whites and blacks. The political rights of the negro guarantoed by the constitutional amandments are unquostioned. Noone dis- putes them or seelis to interfere with them, ‘The social privileges, however, aro questionod, asin thie instance. Mr. Bunker, however, did not eottlo his rights in tho premises with the knife, the pistol, orthebludgeon. He nsod no violence, He did not even order tho offonder out of, doors, He simply refused to seryo him. The negro, of course, had the right to bring him bofore tho courts, and ijn the courts Mr. Burne will seek to justify himsolf and have the constitution- ality of the law tested, and he will probably employ Senator Canrentzn to dofond him. There was no noise, no yiclonce, no riot, no mob, No political issue will be made ont of it, Mr. Bursg will not run for Alderman, or Mayor, or tho Legislature, or anything olso on account of it, We shall hear no stump wpecches, the popular heart will not bo fired. the presa will not teem with political leadom of afurious partisan character, Mr. Bona will continue keeping his restaurant and catering to the wants of his patrons, provided the outer man is white, until the courts in- struct him differently, Ho has taken his position and we shall hear nothing more of tho case except in the law reports, Wecom- mond this view of the rolations between black and white men as to civil rights to tho Avalanche, the Now Orloans Bulletin, and other ultra negrophobist sheets, Considering he “fact that mombera of tho Engilah Parliament receiv no salary, the sume expended by candidates to secure (or love) a soat sooms bawildering. Itia tho more astonishing that there aro no heavy steala to give them a pretty ploking all round. A Parllamentary ro- tura shows the orpenges at tho last goneral eleo- tions to have beon enormous, Two successful candidates for West York paid £0,072 for their election, thelr oppondnts diabarsing £10,982 with nothlng to abow for it, Two successful candidates for North Durham paid £17,607, and the losers Jost beside their seats £10,603, Jn soventesn districts thirty-two successful candi- | dates paid an aversge of £3,045 for thelr seate, of an aggregate of £110,000, And so on with —= greater or loss dogress of oxponditure. Inaa- much as votes are not (theorstically at least) openly bought and sold aa in the United States, and there ia uo compensation for Parlinmentary services, the quostion naturally arises, Whero doea all this monay go to, and what object toes it subserve ? > THE "BOB-TAIL" CARS, Corporstion-Counsel Vicker hes givon the Common Council an opinion in which he holds that the ordinance roquiring that horae-cara be run in chargo of and undor tho control of somo eotnpetent conductor” does not warrant tho city incompeliiug the South Side Railway Company to provide each car with two mon,—a drivor and ® conductor, Wo prosime Judge Dicky is right on this point, since it becomes a quoation of fact in each purticnlar caso, and not a quea- tion of law, whothor the driver employed by tho Company is or is nots “‘competent conductor.” But Judge Dicxey also tollsthe Common Council that they have tho authority to pasa anothor ordinance, more explicit in its terms, which shall romoyo tho vaguoneas of meaning end re- quire the railway companies to put a man in charge of evory car, whose biteinogs it shell be to protect passongers as well agto collect fares, and whoso time shall pot bo so exclusively oo- cupied witl the driving of tho horses as to in- terfera with his capacity aa a competent con- ductor, ‘Tho Common Council should take this mattor into considoration to-night, and act upon the Corporation Counsol’s suggestion at the earliest practicable moment. The {nterosts of public wafety and common decency demand that every horse-car shall have conductor, sod tho oxaction will bo no liardship upon tho [Railway Company. Such a require ment will not force the City Railway Company, ae they profess, to abandou their present cara and lose the money invested theroiu. Thero in no objection to “ bob-tall” coraor ‘tone-horse” cars in themselves, the objection is that tho passengers at present have no protoction what- ever ngalost drunkards, pickpockets, black- guards, aud scoundrels. Tho "bob-tail” cars cau be remodoled ata slight exponse, sos to givo s conductor atanding-room in tho rear and an entrance for pnazongerson each side of him. Tho Company havo already remodeled somo cars in this mauner for use on Archor avenue, whero thoy found it necessary to havea conductor in order to collect their fares from the roughs. It will not bo necessary for the Company to abandon their present system of having faros deposited ina box, the necossity for which is another reason why the Company object to pro- viding conductors. The conductor may thon carry the change instead of tha driver, and tho box may be romoved from the front to tho rear of thocar. This arrangement will bo more con- yenlont for tho passengera, and the conductor will bo free to exact fares from all the passen- gors, There oro largo numbers riding in these “*bob-talt” cars at present who never pay their fare when the car ia crowded. The additional fares collected will be almost sufficient to pay the additionai cost of tho conductor. It will not be necessary to have moro than ono horeo to a car unleas the cars aball be increased insizo, Thore is, thorefore, no hardship what- ever in exacting that overy car shall have a con- ductor. The only additional coat wilt be the pay of ono man, and oven this will be largely offact by the collection of fares that are now lost. It is a notorions fact that tho City Railway Company hos mada fortunes for a good many mon, and that its profits pay large dividendson » capital atocis that has boon frequently waterad. Tha Company slways mado a great deal of money whon they run two-horso and two-men cars, and when all tho moucy passed through the hands of conductora. Weonly mention those facta to show that thera is no danger of dantsging tho Railway Company by exacting a conductor, when they will still nood bat one horeo, and when fsrea may continue to bo de- posited in tho box, Tho stages are ron at 5 cents fare, Thoy rarely carry moro than twolve or fiftoen passengors, whilo it is a common thing to crowd forty people into a one-horae car. Tho West Sids cars furnish conductors, and their fare on some of their linea fa less than 6 centa; we have not hoard that tho Company has been losing any money. Tho simple fact is, the South Sido Company could furnish conductors, and then declaro larger dividends on tho full amount of thoiratock than tho most profitable banks, No one who ridea in the South Sidecars, and es pocially tho late cara at night, neads to be told that a conductor is absolutoly necessary to pro- tect passengers againat {usnlt, obscenity, drank. enness, rowdyiam, and theft. In addition to all this, the Company hag noright to domand of passengers that they shall act aa conductors without any compensation, The man who is jommed up in the front of tho cer has to handlo all the dirty ecrip that comes forward, whilo he ts struggling with the mags of humanity belind him, and clinging for dear life to tho strap likely to bo suatched from him if holotago. Then ho tites to pull off his glove, and drops the postal scrip in the operation. HWeroensucs a commotion and osearch inthe nasty etraw. If he doesn't find it, and the odda aro againnt him, he fa obliged to mato it good himself, or bo blamed by tho person who passed it up, and suspected of putting it in his pocket, If anybody in the car falls to pay his fore, the driver rlogs the gong in your oars, and eyea you as though you had appropriated tho monoy as it camo along, or he stops tho car al- together and refuses to gountil the unknown do- Iinquent pays his fare through the improvised conditctor, The Company has no right to exact thia disagrooable and annoying service from its patrons, and passongors would doa food thing by combining in @ rofasal to do this kind of work, Meantime it {a tue duty of the Common Council to protect the public from these and sloilar outrages by compelling the employment of a rogular car conductor, PROHIBITION IN NEW WAMPSHIRE, I the Editor of The CAteago Tribune : Curcaco, March 9,~In your editorial on the New Hoinpshire olection, in Tuesday's isano, you state that Tho defection of Prohibitionists from tho Ro- publican party gave the Htato to tha Domocrate Isat year.” Why do you presume that the Prohibitioulsty wore all from: the Republican raula? The undernigned hae lived iu New England for o number of ond has travol oxtensively throughont jo = Eastern = Htatca; woll acquainted with the tomperanco element in that region ; aud ia prepared to atate that the temperance feorlo are about ‘equally divided (2) between thw Republicans and Dem. orate, Thereforo, the De:nocrata would hinve carrod New Hampabiro had thore been no Prohibition ticket in the field, When 6 Probibition ticket fs put to the fleld in that aection, it 19 calculatod that each party will lose ahout an’ equal nuraber of votes. ‘The old story that the temperance votes are ali from the Re- publican party, is getting to bo rather thin, Dewocnat, ‘The sasertion of Democrat," that “ Halt the Prohibition yotea cast in New Hampelure (or any other State) como from the Domocratic party,” ia wide of the truth,—In fact, bosb. Some Democrate nndoubtedly vote Prohibition tickets, butthey aro yory few and farbotween. There aro plenty of “temperance Democrats," but they sro not political Probibitiontats, and procious few of thomevor waste their votes on Prohibl- tion tickets. Last spring 2,100 Prohibition yotes were cast in New Hampshire for Governor, and the remult was, the Democratic candidate received a isjority of 1,490 over his Ropnblican compotitor, This year only about 600 votes were thrown away on the Pro- hibition candidate, and the congoquonce ia, the Democratlo candidate for Governor is beaten; tho 1,600 majority of last yoar ta wiped out, audit was dono by thevotes of the 1,500men whoon that occasion wasted thelr auifrages on the Prohibition candidate, The cause of the Domocratio dofeat this year is ea plain aa thonosoon our corre- wpondens's face, Tho teaperance Reprbilcans this apring voted just asthe temperance Dem- oorate of Now Hawpshire alwaya do,—for their own party ticke! od a victory is the result. ——— ‘The trial of James KE. Larrix, at Bridgeport, Coun., for the murder of Exxey T.voas, wae the ret over had iu that State uuder the new law which lcavee it optional with the prisoner whother bis trial ahell be bad by jury or by the court Hechose the latter meihed. The mur dor was one of the most ahocking in the histo of crime. Lucas hed seduced the alstor of the murdered girl, and subsoquently his riot Being prognant at the time, Ecrey Lucas hal aot out to mect Lim and be marriod. Tuo next day sho was found dead, fnco downwards ing shallow stream, with every mark upon her Pere fon of @ violent atruggle, and of having toeg hold in the water until insensible or doad, The evidence agalnat Larrix was circamatantin, but conclusive, The Court, Lowerer, rondored a verdict of murdor in the second degree, Oy the whole, the paoplo of Connecticut have Not much, rengon to rojoice over any improvement tn (hoi crimainal law, PERSONAL, Ex-Senator Nrz {a recovering, and is Nyx nie doath no Jonger, Josrrn Jerrenson maken hie escond profes. sional trip to England in July, Jennie June's Inet exploit ia her election to tho dignity of President of the Sorosis, Little Donn Prarr TownseNp, sonof “Garg died suddenly in New York last Tuceday, Taraage knowa that ballot-gitls are diesipatey Tie has hoard that they gat on tights avery night, Goo, Jamzs M. Hepator, Supervisor of Ie. torual Ravenue for the Northwest, In at thy Grand Pacific. . Eowanp Eaorestone finda a salary of ¢9, 0) quite an inducemont, and recognizen a call toa Boston church, Mrs, Myna Cranxe Ganyes scares New Orloary moro than the banditti. She doos tt with b, ttle levy of $140,000. Tho first Japanese bornin the United stat {a the infant daughter of Yoamzpa, Japsncy Minister at Washington. Lorra’s brother, Evornz Cnantner, is, 05 cording tothe Herald of that town, bar-tence ina St. Joseph, Mfo., saloon, ‘Tho Rey. Brooke Herford will be tondere}, reception at tha parlors of the Church of tig Moasiah, Wodnosday-ovoniug. Gon. Prron will not object to Mra. Trey belng summoned asa witness for the defers, Ho aches to cross-examine her. The Now York Tridune asaya Begoura's fay docs not purplo with emotion, because he, y woll os Trt.ron, is ag hoarty a8 6 buck. Spunaron is sick. That is a good campuin item for tho antl-tobacconiste. Tnask is diay, ‘That isa botter one for the other sido, A Yorkshire boy boat the Princo Impo:iy) badly in bls knowledge of French, ospociat'y French grammar. Anice kind of Fronch:o iy Napotoon IV. Mise Susan B. Anthony lectures at Cam: te} Hall this ovening, for tho Isst time this seso1, ‘The halt ison the corner of Van Baron stu; and Campnoll avenue. Rosset, tho Italian tragedian, ia doscribed se 4 fat, good-looking, middlo-aged man, with a: is. different voice and a little knock-kneed. But ts is a8 gracoful ag a woman. Dr, Joun P. Newsan bas returned from bi tour around tho world at the nation’s expin:s, to reaumo his labors ss pastor of the Metro. Politan Methodist Church at Washington, Pavemra Warrant Davis has boon rocioring svirit communications, written upon a #3 without pencil, Jox Mackmx docs not taky ‘x that way any longer. Huw sinte ts broken, The English papors, not observing the fun in thom, carefully weed Max AvxLeER’s “huto-01" articlos of thalr unnecoasary verbiage, and pub lish thom fa condensed form as news itor, An Arkansas citcuit-rider bit the nail on tly head when he said that much praying dil o:} count with the Lord anything tlke so heasy a solling four full quarts ofcidor to tho gallou. Judgo Mugpuzr requests » correction of Waukegan item in Saturday's Trinuxe, dice and Mrs. Muneugr—not Judge Muarutz a! Mrs. Judge Wiitiame,—are staying at the War kegan House, Pacis is excited over the oxhibltion of a geaz ine Cyclops, who has but ono eye, and tutia the contce of hisforohend. He ir a native of tho Australisn bask, Hianame is Prezs Wir sox ; hia ago 22, Exz Crozizn, an ancient citizen of Delarss swore thirty-one yoars agoto wear tho bit ti then wore until Henny Otay should sit io Presidentiat chair. The venerable bearer «i crowns his wrinklod brow. It ia dangerous work to bean able ed'toris Berlin, while Vow Srotrnacxn ja Goren Fivo of them were heavily fined. the other dy for publishing au article bis critlcal Exoslexy did not altogether admire, Totho ayorsge Anglo-Saxon, Fronch tr: haa s peoulisr flavor of opora-bouffs abe At will not be surprising to the reader that Mis. Tovssex will not come to the United Btal ft Joes than $1,000 a performance. Marveilles rojoices in J oxo, a feminino outizk outang, tho moat intolligent and womaniile st seen in civilized countrios. In fact, if xis of it bo true, it would, if it should cometotty country, be entitiod to civil-rights. ‘Weston is adjored by the Troy Times tole right on till he has walked down all tho wat nulgances in the country, and then go It alt till he haa walked himself ‘down and ott"# the most distant and most nock-broaking “juz? ing-off" place. Col. Luvz P. Luczzy, private secretary Prosidont Grant, is visiting at Dixon, Ill. th! guostof the Hon, JaursB.Cuanrens, The fl» Gzonog D. Benzauis, Superiotondont of atts Grounds, Washington, ia also there. They *4 Jeavo for Washington to-night. Mise Myntux Muuom has by her retct lectures and writinge dons moro to lift weight of publio opprobrium from the ert Joaquin than ton yours of sack-clotb, a: and abutinenco from the manufactory 4 pootry (?) oo his part would have done. The Now York Herald, learning thats ! ind been found in the palace of the ArchisP of Moxico, hesda the notice of it, “Trest! Trove.” Ine is away, and there ia one chant? several billions that the skull is bis, so ¢ Herald takes this ploasant mothod of pays? compliment to its editor. Ayoung man advertised in thia paper yest day for board at» house where Buscar! oxcluded, It is nuggouted that, if this instoy cua censor apply to tho Matron of the Fo lings’ Home, on Wood atzeot, he may & io some of tho junior mosses within that orly lady's jurisdiction auch restriction of oe yersation as shall compose his offended » ud Bat, if he inelst upon ripor companionslin oS if he be willing to take what the vetersm F-" veyors of bottom-priced board Uberatly dear, nate “a twonty-mioute walk from Bande? atroot bridgo,” he may meet, among the cont 4 tent Jurymen at the Poor-House, gentlems most excellent differences from other basi and may divell there in dulcet commusio? apposite spirits, HOTEL ARRIVALS. as Palmer Housel, M. Uraves, Daitmore; Gale, Kt, Louin; W. M. Ayres, vbilsdelphiss ( Deltsch, New York; 0, af, Bhipmac, McCracken, Philadutphis ; G, Wortbiigton, Butlslo Cinctunatl ; George W, Homan, Jr obras: Heuer, Polladelphis } Tuomas Wo mace lence 5 0 je" 9° Paci lore, Bt, Lowe; ¥. He EF Wh tran, . Gon, Kilpatrick, Now doraay 8 We York; Sir F, B, Debr, Hitts, Jr, Philadelphia; 0, Wheaton, lard, Omaba; Janice Wilvon, lows... Zremons Houm—A. B; burg; 0. N, Brockway, New York; J. tarto? Gustay Hice, Now York; J, H. Wyn Bocor, dey uw XOrk ’