Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1878, Page 5

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WELEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 25, v the Distress of Among the Work- ing People. Severity How the Agricultural Laborers Man- age to Eke Out a Miserable Existence. Fearful State of Immorality, Owing to the Manner in Which They Are Forced to Lives Tho Land Laws Largely the Oauss of the Trouble—Prospective Agitation o for Their Modifioation. Epectal Corvesponttence of The Tribune, LovpoN, Dee. 7.—As winter advances, the British labor market liccomes more troubled, and the distress among the working people as- sumes n soverity unknown in years. The staple toples of conversation are reduction in wazess stiikes, lock-outs, and suspensions,—not In ono distriet, but throughout the country, The dis- tress at ahefiicld ta almost unparalieled. Thou- sands are, it (s zail, Nving tu houses stripped of furniture, withont fire, and are dupendent upon the gencrosity of thele nelghhora, 8o it 18 In Biemingham, Lecds, Manchester, and other manufacturing centres, and the suffering is so unusually bud that it Is oxpected cxtraordinary measures Jooking to rellef will be Iminediately taken by Pacliansent. Atmnong tho contests now golog on fa that be- tween the sgricultura) Jaborers of Kentand Sussex and thelr emplogera, Your correspond- ent visited a Aumber of the villages lo theao counties thie past week, and, from personal ob- seryation and mquiry, will endeavor to give you an fusight Into the merits of the struggie. Somo 8,000 men, women, snd clifldron are affeeted by the luck-out, and fu many cases EXTREME DESTITUTION EXISTS Tho proposition of the tenant-farmer and land- lord [s ta reduco the Inborers’ wuges from 28 i per day (03 conta) to 2e. This 2s per day does not mean 123 per week, but 23 per day when they can worle. 1 will put one wet day a weels as a moderate oatfniate, aud the weokly wames are reduced to 10a. In sume tnses, however, this sum 1s suoplemented by extras during cer- tafu portions of the year, making up a folr av- erage throughout the twelve months of 13, Generally speaking, the Euvglish scriculiitral laborer has o Iarge famglys bus Iwill say that four childien are thoe outcome of every mar- riage,~slx or ¢ght would be nearer the mark. Of Course, when thess children graw up, they can go {nto the flelds o certuln portion of ths day, and add to the family revenue; but, ewing to the Compulsory LEducation bill, they eannot render much substantinl assistance untll they ara 1B or 14 years of age. In former thnesit was entirely_ different, The agriculturist’s wages were nlways small} but, s soon 0 his children could walk sround, they began to earn thele Uylng. Thereforo you wiil see that the head of the family, from boginning to cud, must liwvo an fncessant strugele. 1lcand bis progeny dou not ilvep— o TUEY MERELT EXIST. Pocts haye suog and moralists sentimentally tegeanted upon tho British puasant; but strip him of bis rumance, and Jook at hm teathfully and soberly, aud he presents o melanchioly apec- tacle, 1l¢ 18 merelva Least of burden. 1is condition fs little better thau that of o serf, If fndeed It 16 as govd, He grovels o poverty amd wretchedness,—oftea with an fusulliclency of fuod. And searcely §8 he able to dream of any more clevated state of existence, for tho soclal forems by whicl lig Is beset ulmost eatirely pre- clude him_from breaking through the honds which hold nim. 1o b p dmdfiu; his lite 18 o 1ife of drudgery; and, from his cradle to his grave, it would be diflicult to sve where his ex- {stence could bo tllumited by o ray of nrm&;emy or hope. At tha lowest rune of the ladder of Jabor, ho is forved to remain In his thradidom, poth Intellectunl and socal, which the custom of nges has inposcd upon b8 class, At 2 meeting of farmers, the other week, ono of them said that In the' Counties of Suffolk, Bussex, Kent, and Nor{ulk, tho wages the year n i Avllzm‘t:u)'l'l.'ls.t Sarait. Wi Lot ns sey that thisis a fair statement. Tako o fnmily uu{upmml of the Jaborer himself, his wife, and lour childrom—slx poople. Tho cheapost cottage he caty get costs 23 3d per woek, Allow Ud for fuel; G for clothing: school-fe for thres children, 2d cach, which thev ure com- elied to peys 84 for boote: and the family are o1t with 9s per week to buy food, which glves five cents s dey o cach. “Britlah paupers arc atlowed 10 cent? a day to cach. Butcher-nicat 1s far dearer than In tho Btates, Mutton is 25 conts per pound, and_beef Is about 23 cents. Butter, tea, sugar, coflug, uro quite os high as In America. Fruit s more expensive; «o I8 flours and the common qualitics of clothing are not to bo bought for less tnoney than st home, At- toctied to the cottages avé littlo plots of ground, —tlhiat connected with the dwelling rented for 2 84 Leing about ffteen feet square,—upon which a small supoly of garden-stufl can e cuitivated, Externally thero 1s generally tho supearancy of clenulluess, which {s apt-to lend one to the bellef that comlort and plentydwells withln; but you have merely to euter to be un- deceiyed. UOW DO THEY LIVE AT ALL 1 one would unturally ask, I put the question to o resident of Kent the other day, and he pave mu o fesv polnts. qlrmuh upon lnyestigation were 1ully corroburated. -)\Vrll, alr,'? anld bie, ** they have a hard strug- gle to make ends meet.”? . # Put what du thoy live on" 1 asked. © Not tea or collee, poacied eyes or brofled steaks, 1 can tell you. - Upon the tables of the reasgnoblv proaperous g«m will see butcber- meat once 8 week,—on Bundoy,~raiely tiwlce a week. ! * Aud even then it must be in small quant!- " ‘cs; o man will go to the villaze-hutcher on Baturday, and buy perhaps 18 Gd worth. ‘I'hat §s avout os fur s hecan go, Soup Is made with it on Bunday,” # What do they renerally eat 1" *The ordinary fare consists of bread and cheese, sometimes porridge, bolled vegetubles, aud beer, which can bs bought fur a peuny o 3lass throughont these counties,’ I had noticed lots uf gatw onmy iuumey. snd 1 naked this pentleman i hunger did not often tempt the laburer to its uppropriation. "glnny," he contiaued, *“supjlunent thelr larder by poaching; but, owiug the severlty of the (ame laws, BUCH A THING IS VERY RISKY, 1t fs a common thing amony tha boldest to o) uppear from the villages altor dark, snd tu upsome hours atter with a rabbit, a hare, a partridge, or thelr smock-pockets heavily lined with potatoes, uunluax or other vegetablos, stolen from the farmers' flelds,? 4 [u fs pretty hard for & half-starved man with a family to sce abundance aronnd bim, and yot niot be able to lay bis hands upon iti" I vea- tured. “Yes," sald my Informant, “It {s hard. Tho starving provess las gone qu wo long that already it Is producing remarkable results. For instance, we can no longer et soldicrs (rom the ogricoltural counties fu England, becauso the rm‘-lquu ot the peoplu has so deterlorated that [t t {3 not even equal n musclo to that of lads in owns, frow whom we take our recrults,” “I have heard s deal sbout the intel- lectust and mora) deirradation of the Evglish Jaborer,” 1 went on. 4What can you say upon the. apb jocti” D) AThe low intelligence of the present gencra- tion Is nut to ba wondered at, but the next eencration, owlng to the Compulsory Education bill, will Le far different; and I think, as soon 23 educotion amoug agriculturiste becomes she rule, we shall have o succession of agita- tona which will COMPLETELY LPSRT OUR OLD LAND 1AW, As to morality, It s low cuough in some dls- tricts, 1t Is vot an uncommon vico fo villages, whero slecpiug nccommodatiun s so deticieat, tat wholo fanilics, of oll ages and botk sexes, buddle together in one room. Bowe two or thiree years alzo, 8 case was reported rexpecting 8 young womsn who bad three childron, the pawrnity of whom was uncertaln, us she had slways lain withh her fatber and brothor. Not long suu, 80 tuquest wae held st Stugursey, Bridgewater, ubon a0 old {arm-laborer w! daugliter bad boene Ll tour children, 'l'hu{ latu upon fern and scaweed covered with watting,—tlhe children running about naked fn sumwer, and rovered with s old sack tu wio- ter, ‘This, ol course, Is pot general, but it is tut unconimon; and you can scarcely espect o much higher worslity v sotue places, where fariner sud farmers' sous treat the daushters of the furni-laborers pretty much 98 wuny o disao- e slave-owner used to treat uls fumalo Hor fa, T nd it ful Horribic us this statement ‘1‘) corrohoruted vy the Mr. Fry, who declared, G wecling ol bue Weatern Assotiatiou of Dantiste, in 1970, that ha found in moral E wiam heathenism of (he worst description, 1l descriied 4 villars near Tannton wiere on n miserablo bed 1y a poor ofd sick woman, with 1 baz hung over ler head to keep the drop,ings of the roof from falling upon e, in tho same place was her daughter, with BEVERAL ILLRGITIMATE CHILDREN BY NER OWN THOTIER. ** In n tour of mine among ngricnitural laborera, # found frequent almilar cason. The Yaud- owners," he went on, * had reduced the peoule 1o this stote by their rapacity and greed; and the State Church clerry have complacently walched the progress of Inecst and squalkiity without remonstrating with the men who nre causing it A relerunce to tho Blue Books pre- parea some time ago upon the employment of women and chiidren shows conclusively that the urch-of: Englund clergy posseas a full knowl- edgo of this moral rottenncss, becauss her Majests’s Co:nmissioners chielly relicd upon the Information of the clergy. who even went around with theae genticmen, and showed o thorough sceualntance with the awlul state of their varishee. ‘Ilie Ititssfan peasant has generally been look- o upot as only one wrade above the Chinese; but an inclined to think his tot Is A MOHB R¥VIADLE ONB than that of his English brother, The London Giobe lately reprinted some interesting statistics, published ut Bt Petersbury, showlng toe price of labor In Tussia this summer, At Sembiesk, the pay ot 's peasant has béen from Tdtalen day by limaclf, or from 18 4d to 28 04 with his horse, ‘The services of his wife and daughter have been estimated nt from B3¢d to7d, In Viatka, where the famine has raged, It Itns been possibie to obinin & wman ond his benst ot 18 3d o dag, and lmself for 7d, whilo 336 has been the averaze wages for his wife, In South Rus- aln, Inbor las been dearer. The peasants of Ekaterlnosiay have demamded 1884 to 1364 o day withont tho use of their horse, and ot (cdeasa 25, This seems o wretched remunera- tion for physteal Jabor, but liviug i Russia te oxceedinuly cheap, which is not the coso I B gland; and, in most Instances, there are sundry concesslons, In the ahape uf cheap paaturage und the rlizht to cather fuol n tho forests, whicn make up in a mensure the deficieney. KO HUCIL CONCESSIONS are granted the Britlah peasnnt, Then the Rus- slan moujik fs not, like tho English la'wrer, de- pendent on the farmer tor bread. Fvery moujlk fn the Empire owne from five to flfty acres of grouwd; he {s Invarlably the posscssor of severnl cows umd lorsess aml altoguther, gnya the (Flobe truthiully, his bosition compares fuvarably with that of many needy farmers in England. Excopt In certaln out-of-the-way provinees, e Viatka, he has always sufllcient ryo in Iis barns to “keep tho wolf frum thy door,” and thls, with huckwhent and millet, forms the staple of his food. Luxurios in the ahape of chichions may bo hal b 1he villagea in Central Russla—Tumbofl, ‘Touln, ete.—at 3¢ cacht Jiero they cost 1s O, Thero egwa can be hottight for 6d o pndred 3 hero the Inhorer wiil pay 28 n dozen. There the moufik will consider watermelona dear it they coat him more than a Tartitligr, wind & aheop can be olien had for a shilllug; here tho laborer searcely koows what A waterinelon s, and, 1f he ever thought uf bus- ing a sheep, it would cost hio £3 or L4, 1f the Rtussfan's cows die, he can replace them at 1na aplece, “and ho can purchiase tho best hiorse 1n the market for £1. 11 the wildost tlreama of the Englleh labarer ever went ao tar as the possession of o cow or a horse, e would requlra to havu In his pocket ot least £20 for tho formerand as much for the latter. The Rus- rlau Iaborer's living s not Inxurious. but he has px«:nra( foud, vourse thougn it be; while tha Enellsh moullk i many casvs cruwls through uxistonce IN A SEMI-ETARVED CONDITION, But the farm-laborers are uot the only suffer- ers In tho present case. The tenant-farmers hsve mtich (o complain of, The bresent dili- enlty lizs struck nt quarters never before affect- ed, and tho farmer suys rents must be lowercd or wages must fall. tle says ho canuot pay the preseit rentsls, arraniged when wheat was s A quarler, now that it has fullen to 3is. The baker says he cannot rell bread cheap beeause ho gave such high prices durine the late war, wid bie must nowinake it up. Then the laborer couies to- the ground hetween the two stoola; and the poor farmer is not better off, be I8 ¢allgd npon lanlr hinold rent.. Everytl clao riscs and falls with commercial tides, but the prica of land neyver do Land In Kont, on un uverage, is worth £100 pee avre, taklug the fertlle and the bacren, Toaw Amierican there is nu reason for the funcy prices; but 80 curiously hins becn mixud up the Rosscs- slon of land with the possession of polltical pawer and soctal preatige that it bas obtalued a fabulous value through * genteel™ people who canutot affurd to bug, but who hove to get into country wclclyh(y pecoming guntlemen-furiners; and thus the real farmer bua to pay AN ANTIFICAL BATE OF RENTAL, which he can only do by serewlng down his laborers' wages, During the lagt year or two, his chlef diflicultics have buen the enorious auantity of cheap corn and the largo quantitics uf beef coming Into tho country. Of course, on thaother liapd, bio hins lnd the benellt of the fmports of cheap focding stulfs and fortiliaing agencles. Another drawback to the farmer Is tha fact that Lo s tled down by unclent cove- nant as to the wav In_which he shall cultivate hisJaud, Ha ianot allowed to muake the niost of avervtlfog, Ila tmuet sow, for cxample, wheut this yeur, burley thoe next, rye the year after, aud-ao-farth, Althougzh his “fiells may be overrun with rabbits, and his cropa are being destroved under bis nose, ho daru oot, with faw exceptions, 1o a kun. He cangot setl his straw, or hay, or roots, but muat feed it ull bimselt and return it to the soll. These are A PEW OF TIHE FAIMERS' GRIEVANCES, Bome of tho tanauts of the Duke of Now- castle, I sce, have refused to renew their hold- 1ngs, and the Duko will thus be driven to farm his own Jand, or let ft at lower rents than ho hns hitherto done. The Duke—who, by the way, was not Jong ngo o bankrupt, and was snld oIl for the buneflt of his creditors—must liye liko w ‘Duke. He mnust havo all the luxurfes of life, and, as ho has the advantage of belng the ten- ant of au entufled estate, hie is able to do so, provided he can et mlmluum rentals from his tenants, 1o by one of thuse who propose 1o furtner reduce the laborer, In Kent and Sus- avx, among the large proprictors who luve de- seenited to redure the wapes of the laborers 0d a day, are Lurd Darnley, with _an annual rent- roll of_£G3,000: Sir Wiillam Hort Dyke, who draws from hls reuts £12,000anuuallyyand Lord Sundes, with on estate netting him $20,000 every twelve months, You understand that the purchase of land ta ALMOST AN IMIOSSIRILITY in England, ‘The present troubls has renewed the discussion of tho laws of primogen(turs and ental), and 1t {s not unlikely that befors long another attemnt may be made n Parllament to upset the statutespon the subject, and sub- atituto others which will bo tho nieans of divid- Inzz up tns little fstancl, now owned, one wight way, by @ very amal) federation of landlards. i, —————— THE PRIZE STEERS TESTED, To ths Eiditor of The Tribune, . Cuicago, Dee, 24,~1 was very much gratified In examining some of the prize cattle fn the butchers® shops at the Transit House. Jobn B, Eheraman, Esq., tho eflelont manager of the Unjon Btock-Yords, purchased severatof them. The large ox, a grade Bhort-llorn, was very fat and of goud qualily for su heavy an animal ; atill, I could not pronounce him frst-class aual- fty,—there was too much fat fu proportion to lean, notwithstanding the lcan was well mar- bled. The first-prize steer, 47 weeks old, i tho Short-Horu class, was a full-bloog, bred by Mr, HBenjamin Van Meter, of Wincnester, Ky, Isaw thls steer when fu Kentucky Just Juve.. He was then fully ripe, sid thut wus the time le ghowed ~to bhe best advantage. When an animal ls once fed to ripeness, no matter how you subsequontly feed, the quality of the test declines, the coat looks dull, nnd tho louger it is kent beyond this potut, the more 1t depruciates fn value to grazer, butcher, and consumer, wore vspecially the former, ‘I'lifs white steer was worth 3 cents per pound more when Isaw him io his pasture in June than when ba wan [n the show ring, consequently It was wuch to Lis disadvantage. ‘This decline could be pisinly scen both in the live and dead anlingl by any practival insn who understood the ypportunt art of haudling; without such kuowledue, o man ouglt to go futo the riog #8 o judge., A grude Short-Hor years ald which took tirst prize u bi fal potlce, Ha was shown by M & Mamnitton, nf Ken- tucky. 'This stcer wes ripe, aud, in the irmpess of b riponess, showed tu udvanti casut louked through them in thelr stalls, this s'eer struck mo as tho best in tho Short- Horn, or of that class of wrod. Wheu tho *cavaleade ” come round fu the evenlug of the 1ast dav, the prize steerscame together; all had the privilego of bandling tham. Mr. Glilett's steer, that took tiret vrise iu all classes, und tho Kentucky steer came along, sde by side, and the order was frwu by tbe Buverintondent to balt (orlmrrc lun. I'took the advantage of this *utl vrivilege, and exumined ‘cach steer fu all {ts. voiute thoroughiv; I prounounced tho Kentucky stcor tho best, riogness, Grwuess of tough, even cgre stralght top aud bottom MNucs made his syw- wetry mors comolete, thus* givine him tne advantagoe in quality. The steerof thu same age shown by Mr. Ulllett wus coarser, u litele sisck in hits crups, consequently tuo much pauuen; biv hide wes lhlck.lufse.ln wellow,— u wood Indteurion of guatity lu upripeuuse, stiit shownz Lo disudvantaye avalyst one (ully rive. This steer will bedr auvtber yen'e lvuddus. He aleo fa mate cross of Hereford n him, and I he Is shown neralt next year, in a ripe state, and le ay Ruccersfitl ns o “wis this, Le may be fae morn worthy of the honor hestowed upon him, Al he was purchased by Mr. dohn B, Sierman, and | 13 naw I his stable with ten more good ones, he - 38 1n a falr war of having full justics done Mm. -Mr. Sherman 13 too well known to need anv or- ther comtnent, 1 had the pleasurs: of scelng ihis steer cut upin the slaugbter-house that supplics the Transit House with the superior ronst and cora-beef which furnishes that tabie. This steer nushit to have taken the first jirizo in 0l classed, i1 it was (o be conflned to the Short- Horp und grades of that breed, The block and the knife proves the Kentucky fteer n very su- nerfor une; a better quality animal waa never et upon & block, the fat and lean so heauti- fully marbled, the outside fat as firm and sol) 23 a macker Nover cid o steer of any kind cut better. Mr. Witliam Kendricks, who killed him, safd that he never took the hide off o bet- ter one, ‘Thls, thougn thick, was ns incllow as a glove, and left tho carcass gs even as n marble slab. Wi, 1, LaTian, THE RAILROADS. THE INDIANAPOLIS POOL. ‘Tha morchants and shipners of Indianspolis ars not at all satisfied with the workings of the Enst-hound pool from that efry, ctalming that the arrapgenient discrlininates against them, Atameeting held ot Indlanapolis last Batur- day the Conunlttee of the Hosrd af Tradeap- pointed st a previous mecting to investizate this matter made the following report, which was unanfmously adopted: 1. That the facts nrésentod by o former Commite tee were in part dlxputed, und, sea whole, ianored antll thalr trath becanin @ matior of commion noto. riety all over the conntry, . 2. That tno facte the Cammittee gave, npon a promisy of speody rectificating in our frefent rates, reemed to un to be uned as alover to se-establish rates at other polnts, fnstead of betng used to av Indianapolie a epecdy justice, i\, That the ratiroads continned thefr disctim- Inating rates azainet us until at thele mecting In hieago, when diMcultion in the way of estabilslie ing the paol there were aought to be removod by reduring the rates hero for the lengthy period ot two dive, vlving publis notien of the fact the morning of the day they went into effect. 4. ‘That ana week {s givon the Chicago rafirozds to report contracta incansistont with rates cslab- Hohed by the poal. 5, 'Mhat tha exiatonco of auch contracts Is prima facle evidenco of the Inability of the pool to eu. :nm\lfl'll rales based upen the principie of justice 0 all. 0. That any onc or more shippers having In force suclt i contract have an sdvantage over oth- ere, which, the Fool Commissoners say, has in the past worked preat and tnjust dircriminations, 7. That thls Doard novér hias, even by Intlmn- tion, npproved af, encoursged, or countenanced any personul discrinination for or aualast any one slipper here or elsowwhore, but has had In fis re- quents and domanda an cye single to the rights and mntererts of lndllllnrulll na 0 shinping point, now tho xecand in magnitndedn the Wist, And womost emphatically atate thas the interests of this body aro entiraly tn favae of onuality amope =hippors, We are upposod 10 favoritism tuward the few and ngalnat the many, elthor In the way of eut rates, rebates, wndorbiting, ar furnlshing taes more promptly tu one than to another, as auch action on the part of rntlrouds I8 againet public poliey and In diroct violation of thelr charters and their dutics ns commaon carrlers, We further de- clare that tne Board of Teade by Its formation s [or the purposeof protecting smail ahippers ogual- y with lurge ues, small denlers sa woll us heavy omua, and tho Boards of Trade owe much af their vitality to Wil principle. Laceo dealers, heavy shlppers, and weaitty Arms command the abillty and the means to attain aingly what Boards of Trade are osiaullshed for. B, That the artjul tntimations or innuendnces ot the resolutiun reifecting on this body [n this par. ticular werc uncalled for jmpntations upon our motlves, and not foundod npon our nction ve that of onr Committee, D, That the Pool Commlissloners are Informed that on the 10th, whon tha reduced rate was nade, 1anting t's0 dayn, baxed on U1 per cant bf existing Chicaro rates, that city shippod pork product (o Philadelpnis at 23 cents, our reduced rate belng 254 cents, 10, That a committee ahiould be formed by this body tocolicet facts concerning freight rates, 180 part theu to the Pool Comsiasioners, and demand, Whenever discriminntions ogalnat us are Macover- ad, tha fuldliment of thelr promiscs. And also to have in ¥iew tho presentation of Information to tho Lezielature should it bo neceasary to appeut to tust body for protection, INDIANAPOLIR. Bpeclal Dirvatch to The Tvibune, INDIANATOLIS, Ind,, Dec, 84.—In tho United Btates Court, this morning, an order was made in tho casc of tho 8t. Louls, Alton & Terre Haute Company vs. The Indlanapolls & St. Louis Rallroad Company et sl to this effect: ‘That oll moucys paid {ato court by the Indlan- apolls & Bt. Louls Rallroad Company, under the order of Nov. 30 last, shall be applied, frse, to the payment of Interest on the firat-mortgage Londs of the 8t. Louls, Altun & Terre Haute Road not otherwise providea forj second, to the sinking fund provided for o the sald firat-mortgoge vonds: third, to tho pay- ment of interest o the second preferred and {n- come-bonds of tho sald 8t Louls, Alton & ‘Terro Naute Rellroad (7mnbun£ fourth, to the Enymcnt ol the intereit o° §300, Auqnlpmoub onds jasued by that Conpany, The money pakd fito court §8 to be uepvettud fa tho Thind atlonol Bavk of Now York. Under the new arganization of the ludlanapolls, Bloomiugton & Western Itoad, it I thought thas G, 15, “‘fainter Wil be mude 8peclal Msoager of the road, and that Chauncey Kelsoy, now Audiior, will be made Suvcrivtendent. = MILWAUKKE, Bpecial Dispatch 10 The Tribuna, Muwavkee, Dee. 2L.—The Northwestern Raliwsy mauagers had another weetiog this morning, and succeeded In oranging a winter tarilt which will not bu promulgated tili the slgznaturcs of oll the contracting parties arc ob- tafned to tho agreement. A final meeting will Lo held st Chicago on Friday, when #t is ex- pected an announcemont of rates will be made. Bpecial Dispalen S0 The Tridune, Mitwaoxgs, Wis., Dec, 24,—Tho managers of the Chleagu, Milwaukee & 8t. Paul, Clucago & Northwestern, West Wisconeln, and Minue- apolis & 8t, Louls Rallroads, held meetiugs hero yesterday and to-day for the burpose of moking the customary revisionof frelzht tarlffs for the” winter monthe, Entire larmony pre- valled, oud a tarlit was agrocd upon which wiil go into eifect as svon as the ugreement ls slgoed by all tho contracting partles, CINCINNATI'S LLEPIIANT. Hooctad Dispaich 10 The Trivune, CINCINNATI, O, Dec, 24.—~The Buvreme Canrt of Ohio to-day aflirmud the declslon ot the Bupertor Court of Cluclnnatl declaring tho 810,000,000 Southern Rallroad act constitn- tional, This Is a very important declson for the City of Cinclonatl and for the hoiders of Southern Rallrosd bonds. It effectually de- feats tho plans of the repudiationlets and obstructionlats, and insures the early comple- tion of tho ,road, which has already cost the peobly $16,000,000, and ends ju the woods of Houthern Routucky. ‘The uncompleted sectfon 1s under the contruct ot Jlustun & Co., who urv under heayy bonds to finish o n ono yeat from_ tho date of tho declsion of the upreme Court. )’Gggerl)‘-uvnen of Clucinnatl arc now paving §5,000 per day interest on tho bunds which they have lasucd to build the road, snd they are anxious ta witness tho complotion of the entervriso. g DETROIL, Boecial Dissaich jo Ths Tribune. DxtroIT, Mich,, Dee. 24,—~The Hon., James P, Joy has resigned the Presidency of the De- troit, Lanstug & Northern Rallway, and Alfred Hurdy, of Boston, bas been clected as his successor, Buperintendent J, B, Mulllkin wiil be appoluted Uenoral . Manager of the road, which Is one of tho best conducted and most successtul 1o Michigs # A NATIONAL RAILIIOAD BUREAU, To the Editor of The Frivums, BrainarizLy, U, Dec. ¥3,~Tho vecessity of & Natlous! Rallroad Buresu l¢ dally Lecomiug wore apparent. The desperate efforts which " bave been made durlog nany mouths past by the gallroads to regulate themaelves have beeu slgoal fallures. Agrecments bave been made valy o bebroken. Contracts have been formed ouly to bo violated. Fools have beeu establishe ed only tu be dizeolved, Cominlestoners have been appolnted with uo authority to epforce thele commands, Commitiecs have been sclectod with advisory powors only, and thelr advice bas been rejected and deapised. Con- veutloug bave becu held, bave passed bravo res- qlutivus, aud adfourued; thelr resulutious have been disregarded, and thelr plans have bocomu porfect abortions, Combinativns have been wado under obligation of most solemn prom- {xes, but evon the strung cohiesive power of public plutder hiss boew uuabls b cement, thein togather permateatly, 0ok at the conveution of rallroad mansgers whivh assomblet last veek inyourcity, Lo veraave dwluded & wore Uriblaus woray of erade Rhort-Homn: T ahould ng. nre- | ralirosd tolent than any convention that ever met, Jt represented perbaps mnure extenslee 1aflroad Intereats than any convention that had ever tomne toretier fn this or ang othiereonutr., Tt assetnbled apuarently with a firm determing- tion to remuve existing” diffietdties, to establish unifornr rates of [relght, to do cqual and exact Justice among theinselves, to adopt anme requiations by which all should be zoverncd, ant to reduce their cheotlc elements intu some vrider and systen, But /110 they accomplish this resnlt! Read ¥our awn comiments upon the proceedings of his distingulished Convention: In spite of tue action token at previons meetings, urostding for the malnsenance of ratee anl il eeiablishiment of puois from & humber Westecn “nointe, fhie rales hove heen fear- fully cut during the Inst two weeke, The fact i3 that none’ helleve that the tates ean e maintained in the fatore any better than they have bres in the past, no matter what action the Convontlon takos, Even Ila pool from thiseity 18 perfected, and sleps are takca 10 estanlish the old 8 helievedt that the ayrecments will only Lo malitained for a fetr weoke, and then the old dificoltica will recur aain. i tionar Fink esplained tho object of the ention to tio the_appointment of A joint cain- mittee from both Eastern aund Western routel whote duty It should be to carry out the L Lound pool and necura and enforca tuc tuainten- ance of ratce, Said Committee wan formed, estao- lishea rules sor ita nwn action, whicn wers adopt. ed by the Convention. 1t alao framed resolntiyna concerning ta~ estadiisliment ol rates nnd the fornagton of poole, which were alao unanimourly adopted Ly (he Conventyon. But the lines leading Fast frum Peorin held o geparate meeting, at which a louy dlsenssion censued, and, when [t beenme apparent that har- mony coull not be wecured, 8 resolution was adapted to suhmit the whols matter v the “iligh Joints " for arbitratton. The Chicago pools leading Fast aleo hield a separate merting, and, after (iscunsion, It was finallv pronosed 1o submit the matter 1o arb- tratlon: but & diMeulty was experlenced In de- uiding upon gn arbitrator, and the meeting ad- journed without having accomplislied ansthing. The Mnes Jeading East from MilwauKee alvo met tn agjust thelr ditliculties, but they fnally left the watter jn_statu quo. The Terre Haute ronde, which declded somo time veo to pool, nlso ficld a wiceting, but falled tovome toany agreement, Whercupon you remark: Tho Conventlon sdjourncd in the eveningatno die, and most of the rallrvad manngers departed foe their respective homes not over well sutiafied with taeresulis of the meeting, Everything re. naing in ahiout the samo ehrotic condition as be- fore, and tho union of the fisst wnd eccond joints fntaa Ligh foint {s the unly declelve thiug accom- plished, Now, what s the ph!lomph{ of this whale matterd It [s stply this: ‘The saflroats are utterly fncapable of controlling and governing themselves. Thoy perceive tho necessity of co- operatlon, and of some systematic combinution by which thelr conflicting interesta may he made to harmonize, but they are destituto of the power by which 1o enforee their vwn reania- tions. ‘They are Inn condition somewhat simt- lar to that of our Btates under the ald Articles ol Confederatlon. ‘They will continue us long as It Is thelr imterest to do su. But, when enprice or lack of judgment or a suppused bene- fit demanda A dissolution of the cumhination, the combination will bedissolved. There {s no sunerlur fures to coinpel themn o recognize thelr ohliations, or to_protect the peopls awainst their exuctions. ‘They may sel¢ct Cotnmissioner Fink to decide upon thclr clatins, bt what power has he to enforce his decislons! They may refer their conficting demands 1o the *HighJoint ™ to arbitrate, but how can the “ Itirh Jaint ”” exercise any anthority over these turbulent raflroad barons, and compel them 10 submit to its jdgment 1 ‘The fart 18, the voluntary principlo s not any more suitable to restrain raliroads In their ag- cressions upon the rights of the public or fu their quarrels among themselves than it Is in rostraining thieves from plundering banks and criminals of vvery sort from trespassing upon the rizhits of {ud(viduals. 4 ‘The strong, vizorous excrelse of law admings- tered by sume paramount puthority {8 o8 necos- sary Iu the onc case 08 in the othér. That on- tharity must be adminiatered by a Government whose territorial limits ars as extensive as the raliroad syetem ttseif, ‘The bold, defiant, nnda- cfaus attitude of vallraad dictaters with wtlilans of motey at their command van only be met by a power as resulute, us vigorous, and as wealthy o8 themsclves, 'Ihis recent miecting of rallroad 8tate Com- mingloners at Coluinbus, O., {5 a tacit admis- sfon that the rallroad system (s oo extensive for Btatu control. They met together for the l;urpose of. vonsldering “what measurcs should e adopted In order 1o accomnplish the objec for which they were appoluted. s What they may hereatter recommend ‘through their ap- pointed committee, wo cannot say, but thelr consultation must contetnplute Congresslonal interterence if thoy incan business. They must admit that the ruilrond system has become too and cXtenslve 1o be controlled by Stare we g and the Jogic of thelr deliberations musy look to the establishment of a National Hallroad Bureuu, JERHY JuNks. ITEMS, 'The 1Miuols Central Rallroad bas slready sold {forty tickets to partics who will take part in the Mexiean commercfal excursion from this clty. ‘Tun of theso were sold yeaterday, Some ten or filteen wmore have signifled thelr lotention to partielpate In tho excursion. Among those that have purchased tlckots are scveral ladies, Commissioner Atbert Fiuk w11 be 1o this city again Fridsy to nsslet the roads leading East Irom this city In completing their East-bound pool. Tho roads havo not yus agreed upon per- centages, atd the prabalilities now are that tho matter will bo referred to Commlssioner Fink for arbitration, E. Ellery, Recelver of tho Chicago & Paducal Ratlroad, yestorday filed with tho Clerk of the Cireuit Court of the Unlted Btates his report for the months of Scvtember, October, and Novem- ber, with the followiug showing: Balance last report, §1,733; recsipts, 858,725 dlsbursuments, $74,743; Lalanco on hand, §16,7] Mr, lugh Riddle, Prestdent of the Chleago, Ruck Island & Pacliie Ruitroad, states that the plece of land I{(m: botween Bhurmun street and the river and Polk and Tuylor streets, fuu pur- chased by bis Compauy for 875,000, witl be used for {nnl-mom. ‘The rlver trout may bo rented for Lunlness purposca. ‘There 18 o probablit, that frelght-hoases will be bullt an the ptu]wfl{ at some future time. The Company bad no articular use fur it at prevent, but, ft belng [ tho warlsct, and tiot wikhing to lot It fall tnta other hands, the Company thought best to purchaso it, as the price patd for it Is considered very low. —— Htronsberg, Koo York Toaee, A cablu dlspateh stated th othier day that tho. famous Dr, Strousber had offered his creditors thrue cents on the doliar, aud that §u was Mkely tu be aceepted. Many ol our readers will not bave forgotteu thu career of this most extraor- dinary man. Born in 1924, &8 Prussion Juw, be went to London du 1843, and in his boyhood joined the Church of Engtand. While u mere youtts be dabbled 10 London journatiam, and ay 3 camo Lo tho Unlsed States, whero b gave le sous ju Geputao, 18 mizht have been supoosed that tils countey would haye proved especially adapted to hli pecalfar genl but ft wos far dess so than Afteon years luter, and Htrous- berg, hoving realizud funds Ly buylug some damaged goods and selling them st a heavy profit, returncd to London, where he tovested its money 1o g4 newapaper, and then went to Berlin as agent for au jusurauce company. A chanco acqualntunco with soine Bugllsh capltal- ists led to his becoming a contrsetor. * Jo went from ono work to snother, und withiu a few yearu was eploylng uver 100,000 wen, had purs chused nearly wo'eutire couuty ln_ Poland, bad an immenge mansten in_Lundon, and nu- other (uow tho British Ewmbassy) in Ber- lin, pot surpassed by auny o the Capl- tal. His munilceuce was on a corresponding sale. When the tumioe broke out fu East Prus- . hie seut whole trolus full of provisions to his suflfering leligyv-countrymen, and during one winter caused 10,000 portions of soup to be scrved out dally fu Berlin, There fsno saytng bow watters micht bave prospered with hlin but for the breaking out of the Frunco-Germau war, which fuund him up to bis ears lo enter- prlses ot vuce fuiperiled by that event. Hud'bo declured a fallure thed o would have mersly Leen decmned 3 vietdm of tate, aud nlght have soun walde & prosperous fresh stast; but be daltied, lu the bove of complot- fug bls Bohewlau frou-work from which 1t s theurbt bis profite really promised fo be colussal, ‘I'bo final collapse cumy ta 8t, Peersburz, He bad borrowed money from the Bank of Moscow, aud when upable to pay was prosecutell ou & charge, not activhablo Ju wmost countrivs, of borrowing wmouey from @ joiut stock back on security sub- sequently deemed nadequate by the publie proaceutar, and subjected (o 4 Jong detention, and subscquently—uo vers great mibtortune, one would suppose—banfshed rom Jussio. Biuce tuen the Doctur haa been wanagiog bls whilom property in tao jaterc.ts of creditors, to whom he, and his wife also, surrcadesed every- thlug. He s vow 35, sod sy pick up ageln, but thues srv agalust blu, “Fhero i o ques- tlon that bis (aleats sud acquirements lift him larout vt the crowd of yulzar adveuturers. What ho has Jacked {s moderation, ——— Anotler Fpouse fur King Altous Ayt Letter do Balbnsure Gzt 16 Is rumored that Don Froncisca o'Asslsh, the bhusbaul of Queen Lsabells, has yufited Tarts 1o pruceed te dadrid, bis W tazlon betng o 1878, negotlate the preliminsries of 8 marrlage he- tween King Alfonso and his coustn. the Prio- cess Chirlstine of Montpensier, the clder sister of the late Quren Mercedes and the younzer | sister of the Comterse de Parls. She (s vory different In anpearance from the youni King's dimpled. girtiety bride, being tall, thin, and snxular, with a poluted nose of portentouns dimenston. But ehe s very graceful and elegant In carrlage and aildrese, and 14 said to be pccomplisted and fntelllgent, with far more force of character than was possessed by pour, pretty littla Mer- cedes. T oom told that the Spaniards are ex- trewely anxious that their King siould marry o lads of Intellect and cnlture. ’icy woulid el have preferred an sfltance with the Princess Heatrice, all of Quean Victoria’s dauzhtors b ing temarkable for thele Intchigence and ae- tomplishments; but that, of course. ia out of the question, thn Rayal narriage Isws of En- gland forbllding uny member of tha Royal Tamily to marry & Cotholfr, under Dcnfll‘l.’y ol farleiting for themaelves and thelr descendants all claima to the Enzli-l tarone, . AMUSEMENTS. BUSYBODIER, Apectal Dispateh to The Trivune. Nrw Yonk, Dec. 24.—Kate Claxton ia lo trouble ayain. In one part of her play she has A -montas-old child In her arms. The Soclety for the Preventiou of Crueity to Children yos- terday order=d the chiid removed, and hinted that it was harshiy used and drugeed, to kes: it unfet. Claxton dentes the druvaglng and rough usage, and says: **ilis parcuts arn poor, and the chiild’s salary (10 & week) {s nodouht n great belp to them, *‘Fhe child 18 very healthy, and a great pet with all of us.” . MISS MAUD GIRANGTER, Special Dispateh 1o ihe Tribune, Nzw York, Dee. 26—Tho Sun gays Miss Maud Granger, leading lady at the Standard Theatre, Is nuite ill, aod her vlace Is filled by snother. Bhe haid had a tooth extracted, and was unconscious for several hours, from the effects of langhing-zas which slie took, ft was rmored that she was proatrated by a stroke of paralysis. LIFE I Iinrd Times at tho Capltal—Decadence of Buoblery~Unsuccessful Real-Estatu Kpecu- Iatlons=The Diplomatio Corps=Atitericun Wives for Forelgn Minlsters — Iruther Jonathan Proposes to 8 Jolin Jutle Reciprocity with the Sandwicht Ixlandse Guod-By, Torkeys leitalnie, Conkiing, and UGrant=>nsonic—Christmits Chrer—Thent- ricaln, Kneetal Careespondence af The Tribine. Wasiniworon, D. C. Dee. #.—~The annual *eason of merriment and Justivity is here ugatn, hut tomany in this Capltal it 4= not u merey Chrietmus. Huudreds of poor clerks, as they parchase thelr frugal gifts for Juved ones at Lo, ara haunted with the upprehenslon that another year mav tind them rotated out of thelr places. Our military arlstocracy, which bas for 80 muny years exercised Imperial sway fo soclal life, sees the haudwriting on the wall {n the Durnstde Bill for razeclog and reconstructing the army, sod they foar that hefarc another Christmas-tide they will have Leen placed on the retired lst, and deprived of their rations, quarters, fuel, and other *emoluments,” as tiey call “plekings and stealings.” But the most disconsolate are the familics of the Bnoddy and Veneer persuasion, who were i suich hizh feather here under the reign of Boss Shepherd, and whose ranity led them to arrogantly style themselves TNE REFUDLICAN COURT. Ostich-like, these wlltterlug moths foreet that all the warla suew that oue establishment owed its existence to the contructs of s owner inarmy shoes; that anotlier was tho result of lucky speculatious in petroleum; and that the Alaske fur contract wrovides the supolles for another. When a Weat-End would-be exclusive would not admit an fudustrious litile writer far tha pressto her rocoptions, it was reealled that hier fathor used to keep n popular tavern and mix drinks bebind his bar. Neitber could it be banished from the memordes of old stazers that the paternal parent of our millionaire banker was a worthy shoemaker of tho Hibernjau per- suaslon, whuse motto was MZAWRES, KOT MEN. But uearly everyona of these highflyers has been brought to fuancial grief, and inany o family which used to keep its French cook aud butler now lives on the humbles®fare, vooked by its mald-of-all-work., They alinost all would ncrease thelr fortunes by specntating In Wash- Ington real estate, aud that has gradually depres cluted until fv {8 ovly worth @ small fraction of what It was sold for five years since. Who wonders, Lhen, that Washingtun soclety has the dumps, and that its **leaders’ are Joleful, now that the chimes of tbo coming Christnas break upon the car througzh the clear, crlwp wintry afr. They are disappointed! Thelr vag- fties have tumbled down like rows of bricks, aud they liv buneath thewn like the Titan upon whose lieaving Lreast the gods of tireck my- thology placed the weight of Ktna and the land of sletly. THE PALL IN REAL BATATH has borne hoavily on mnauy who were not In Wgoctety,” Even the bnperfous Roscou Cunk- Nog bas been a sullerer Lo the tune uf §24,000, being the amount of a third mortgaze on @ piece of property which did not bring enoneh to afy the fivst und sccond morlages. Another victtn {s Mrs, Derby, the widaw of that wit- ticat of army oflicora who wrate over the siznu- ture of “Julin Pharnix.” “8he was persunded to fuvest her entire fortuue, some F60,000, under tho direetion of & reul-vstate agent, au he has lost every dhne of It vihg ber and ber children ponniless. The only HUCCHISPUL LAND-APECULATONR e 18 the Beerotary of the ‘Irensury, who has cov- ored a syuare of ground just porth of the Cape Itol with chieaply-built rows of houscs, which have been readily suld to Government clecks and others, Jludses which coast from 315,000 tou 820,000 can pow be boaght for half of those prices, and as for hotel property, why, with o few exceptions, it s o drug on the market, The old §5-a<tay prices can no longer be obtalned, and those wha will go up ou the elevator ¢ the npper atory of the Ebbit Houuss are now only chariged §3.50 per dav, TUE CAMITUL-HILL PHOPLE have been\he greatest sutferers by the decline in real estate, and they huve organized In the Lope of obtaining a better supply of water, and thy Congresslonat Litwary, A cotmnditee at 100 has beeu chosen to #pudie-up Congreas fur an approprigtion, and s wone them arethose chapn- tme ladles, Mrs. Mary Cremmer, Mes, Briege, and Mrs. Lamder, ls ot this a recognition of woman's rights ¢ - TUR DIPLOMATIC CORPA is unusually quict this winter. Sir Edward ‘Fhoruton and tbe other Hrluishers are w crupe uu thelr bats for the Princess Alvce, und rabably Isment her death atl te more because ¢ will keep Lier sisteraud buaband—tho Lorave, of Canada, dou know~Irom coming down whou our Vanity Fair gets futo full Llast after the holldays. ~Lady Thurtiton has returued from Eugland with lier Lwo sdaugnters, wha are tall, atul slonder, and white-halred like their mamma, but are nice. sonsiblo isls for al) that, takiug & constltutional walk of fouror five milcs s day with case. Among the attachus of tho British Legution Is Jtear-Admiral Jooes, a fussy little fellow with & huge wife, who hes bevo made miserable dunug the year drawing to a closo by the Russfan purchaso of war ateaincrs at Cnes- ter. I was his duty to report on these vessels and their armuwend, but ueither the Anicrican builders or the Russian owners haukered after his prescnce, and e narrowly escaved belog kicked out ot the shipyards two or three times, AMERICAN WIVES graco the Legations of France, italy, Denmark, and gome of the other Puwers. “The wife of Yune Wiog, the Asstatant Chluess Plenipo- teutlary, was & Miss Bartlett, of Comnecticut, and het brother, D. W. Bartleft, the journaltit, 18 regularly commmissloned s o 8evrelary of the Chiucse Legatlon, OUR HELATIONS WITIH JOUN BULL have not becn wver deligutful since wo bad to ruy the enormous sum dewanded fur the privi- ege of catchiug & Jew codfish In his colonial waters. After the Bulidays, tho Senato will take the subjectup, arcsolution baving been uffvred prior to the holidays in executive scaslon proviting for wbrogutiug the dalierics and Iree trade (n el clauses of e Treaty of Washiugton. Moro than this, tho rvsolution will sarcastically sug- &eeb t0 the President that, as the Cuvadlans thiuk thut they are Josers by the trealy, they will duubticss bo glad to sbrogata - the tiaberics ond tree trade Ju Hsh clauses at the earliest s sible day, Now, tulsis exactiy what the Cnna- dians do not want, a3 thev send the yroaucis ol their uwa lsherica to Hoston, whery they are sdmitted free of customs dutics. To restore the old dutics woulid be a scvere blow. ANOTURK THEATY IN DANURA 15 the reciprocity trosty betwees tuy Uuited States aud the 3audwich blands, under whlca <30l Ldia 4z e us hiud it it ———— ] the United States free of duties, to the fnjury of those fn Lotistana who talss the swoctening, The present Minfater from the Randwicl Isl- anls is Mr, Etisha 11 Allen, whowas bora sl ratsed In Maine, and who was at one Hmea Vep- rerentative in Congress from that State, ile te a davper lttle gentieman, who is equally well toxted on the lnteresis of this eountey al of the klanda which he represents, and he will work hard to prevent the abrogation of the rec- Trucity troaty, TIE MEXICAN MINISTRR, Senor Don Mannel de Zamacona, s really the most inlusirious and tndelatigable of tha diplo- mats, aud he worky hand to maintaln cordial re- Iutlons with -the United States. This ts the more difticull. hecause the ogents hera of the Souts ' In Mexico wage et war agafost the existing Goserntent there, and omit no oupor- tunlty to tuc:inafew hard wonls whenever li)u(mrlmllt'-' uifers, It s rumored that we must use TIE TURKISIE L.EGATIOY, ' for the Bublime Porte is terribly hart up, and reatly fts Logation here is uf nu possinle use, 10 they nust o, we ahall all miss everybods's tit- te frlend, Rustem Effencl, who sueaks a delice ous poi:glat mixture of ‘Turklsh, Englian, Froncu, Arable, Italian, and Lingua Francia. e 14 a gental guatleman, and bis commonts on soclety hicre, a8 combared with that at Constan- tinuole, should be takea down in short-hand and vrinted, CONGRESE 1148 DEPARTED,® with f1s teains of offieinis amt jobhiyiata, after 3 brief bz industrious seseddon. ‘The only note- worthy feature In the Henate was the bt of Iaine, of Malug, with same hatf 4 dozen of the leadinz Southerners on hls Investigating reso- lution. Biang Is an oratur,—s natarsl talker, —apueeh I8 to hlm uv labor, but a aclight. Jie lus a commanding form, au tutellzent counte- sianee, unconseious gestures that say more than worde, and a maznatle volee.. No inan under- stands hetter stirring-uy the 8outhern Senators, und he cin plav npon their pxfiunu and pur- troses as u upusiclan touches The stoie of an arzan ve the kay's of o pianoforte, ol tinds that the ohler senators display a little jealonsy of him, and evidently are ot set ready to 1aliow Nits lead, but this dun’t appear to treible him sny, fils rival in the Sevate and for the Prestdency ls thae haughty and brillisnt New Yorker, NOSCOE CONKLING, who Is equally skilled iu tho arts of parla- mentary e, and who Is fnspired by un ambitlon more powerful than his oratorical facaltivs, Defented nt Cinelunstd, aud deprived of his most powwertat friends h{ the Adminletration, Conk- Mz has neverthcless secured his re-electlon, ang he haa the lepublican leaders of the Em- pira #tate bound to, him with hooks of stecl. Whatever he mav do mects with their approvai, —hix publte uctions accord with the natural de- ®lrez of thelr hearts like the strinis of u well- tuned harp,—snd he neither outrages Ahelr setitinents or contradlets thelr conceptions, But Conklige and Blalne are rivals of many yeurs' standing, nor will cither ever cunsent to the nominatton of the other as the Republican candidate for the Presidency. This will not, however, prevent thelr workne cordially, in duuble lisrness, for THL KEMORATION OF GRANT to the Exccutive chair. Indeed there is a gen- erally expresacd dosire here to have our (ireat Captain again at the helm of the Ship of State, e nas an undyinz will to control the minds of wmen,—a univecsal oud pevetrating sympathe to tonnect his emotlons with thelrs, nod that undving pluck whieh upholds all around him with undging courage. But It is as yet too soon Il’: n;)cx te much on the next Prestdential elention., MASONIC MATTERS, The commandcries of Knizhts Templar hero are contemplating with pleasure thelr pilgrim- age to Chicago in 1830, to attend the Triennial Conclave. The large number of rolllers of the sucent War In the Deparuinents, who have millary tistes, who bave no evening occupa- tion, aiid who scek eompanionship, hiss enabled the counmsnderies 1o recruit their raoks with exeejlent material, and they wiill make a moat creditable apoearance in your city. (ien. Albert Plke, the Grand Inspector tien- eral, and Dr. Mackey, the Graad Secretary of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Beottish Rlte, are now residents of this eity. The Rite hos n tll for its working bodles, and s suite of rooms for ita Grand Orlent, Hited up with a gradual- 1y Incrensing lhrary, sud portraits of those who have recelved the thirty-third degree, NO EVENING PALTIES bave thus far heen given here this winter, but the Cabinet officers, Judies, and other uotables Jave peen dinine and wintngz esch otner, and excellent dinners they were. When tho auclent Israelites were fed on qualls at one tine during thelr travels, it was considered remarkuble, but our markets are fliled with eyery varlety of game-birds, from the stately swan to the Juley . red-bird and the coothsome prairie-hen, while tho ornithology of the poultry-yard Is well represented br'every galli- nuccous variety, from 8:20 turkevs fo tougl old hens, Thea we have ventson from the mount- utus, fish from oll alouz the coast, Bouth-Down muttan trom the Valley of Virginis, 8hort-Horn cattle from the pluc-rrass relons of Kentucky, otd a profusion of vezetables und fruft from everswhere, Verily, Washington s & famous place tor Chirlstinas cheer. THEATRICALS never fourlsh famously here. Mr. Ford, the Baltimore manager, owns botn theatres, and sends over such scenery and perforiners as arg necessary to suppLort o succession of stars, Next week we are to have Raty Mahew in lret Hurte'n #3M'les'" ot the Nattonal and sligmpty Dumpty™ at the Opera-tlouse, Murdoch’is to lectitre the night after Cirletmas at Lincotn [Hall, and with the new vear Stra- Kkoscti s to bring us Kelloee and Litta fn opera. Mra, Gen. Lander, whu 1arely appears on the stana now, {4 superintendlug the rehearsals lor two amateur performances for a charitable ob- Ject, aml durlog Chirtstinas-week there will bo a ntnber of private musquorades, RacosTEUR. P LOUISIANA OUTRAGES. Who the Bulldozers snd Carpet-Bugge: Aro<Esperiences of a Kefugeo Wous Ciacinnuti Gaserte, Dec, 23 Aweekortwo age a bricht aud Intelligent voung mulatto woiman, whe bud been sepaeated from her litsband - by the October out In Tensas Parish, La., reached Clnclunatt and Tound refuge among triends. Mer chiidren, whom slio brought with her, ore also bright for hete age, and all unite instorles of the outrages in a simple, nnvarnished manner which bear the Impress of truth. ‘Thelr storics, besides, are abunaantly verified by lotters roceived from “Yunsas since the outrages were committed, ‘fensas Parlsh 18 in the northern part of Loulatang, and its lands are duvoted alimost cutlrely to cotton ralslng. 1t had & populative In 1970 of 14,893 persons, of whom only 1,150 aro white, aud_ the remaluder, 11,018, are colored. A good number of the colored people own apd operate small farms, others operate plantations on shures with thie white uwners, bt probably the larger number are etiploved on the large plautations us Ueld bands. Probably a pomt mujority of the colored population can read aud write, Many own horses and other stoc and, With the excoption of thivse whu work shares, and wh not a8 expert with ligures us she land-owncrs at sattling thoe, have” been pettine alome well, acquiring o little means and edueating their clitliren, Thy coiored people, as nlght be suvposed, are ail Republleans, und, of course, 1he parish is Reoublicun by & vote of about eight to oue. In addition to tiia colored Jepunlican vote 1 wn lmpartaut white Republlean vote, eomposed of some of thy oldest, wealthieal, sud most re- spectable planters In Loulslana. Our Intormant kuew of no Renublicancarpet-haggers in Tensas. W Are there uo carpet-baggers tn Tensas ! our reporter queried, * Yus, but they're all Democrats, Thev're moitly clothing aud notiou dealers from sround hore, and they're the worat and mesncat bults dozers {u the whole varish,” Ho that wlicus and strangers probably do sowetimes uterfere fu watlers fn which they bayo no vital concera. Among the promineut Republicans of the parish our {nformant samed Mr. James Dou- Jass, an old-time alaveholider ol considerable wealth, who bas rematned s warm and true Iniend of the colored wen, and Rivey them pro- tectlon pualnst many forms of outruge. Ur. Weatlierby and mnnJ olhiers were uanicd, all of whom were slaveliolders beforo the War, aud in scveeal fustances bave tried to retuiu their old slaves under lberal treasment on thelr planta- tions. The majority o the bulldezers, on the othier haud, sre described us o the shiftless clans of poor whites, led by a few of the wealth- ler young men of poltiical aspirations, The Uctober autrages followed closely ubon 1l upeuing ol the iast Congressional caipaivo. Alfred Farlax, u mulutte of Juteiligenee wnd considerable wealtl, und o Bapust preacoer by profussion, was the lteoublican candiduwe for Uon- seess Ly the Fifth Congeesslonal Districiat Lou- staus. Eurly in October e mde a stronsspeech, which coeuted 2one enthustasin g aonge both white and cotored Republicuny. ‘The Democrats o1 tho purish scat for Cape. Peck, a leading rul- Hau of Frauklia Parish, wha had been tholeader in most of the outrares fu the surrounding par- tshics, Yook, with a pumber of wien, started fur Waterpruof, fu say, where, oblaiving other men, he proceeded by a uichi march to the resi- dense of the Kev. Me, Pairlox. Wared, how- ever, the dav belore of the deliberate burpoie o ntedes Wil or drive bl vut of the parish, Faire fax wrmned hinteel?, and culld in 4wo or three deteranued uoidehuis W ueicnd bim wialuob tae threatened assault, Absut. 2 o'clock on Bundar morning. Oct. 18, Perk, with a rang of abo fiftren men, reachied and surrounded Fa'rfat's honee, snd commanded him to come ont. * Ho remained {gslde, andan aseauit was made on his duors end windows. From somo of the windows his friends fired snnts, which brought down three or four of the a saflants, while Falrfax and N3 =on stood in the ballwar, prepsrol to reeeive the assallants there. Peek soun sus- cecded In battering the door Iny and was shot fu the hall, prohably by the ybuneer Fairfux. During the confusfon following the temporary suueess of the waitant defense, the oqunnnis of the house managed to escaps shrough the back door into the helds and wouds. The bulldozers withdrew for the nizht, and sent word o Judee Cordell,.cf St Joseuh, for assistance, It came fna day or two with the Judge at tho head of ahout” fifty armed who rode avottt the conutry shooidng down eni- ared men, vomen. and chitdren while at work in the cotton-flelds, un the road, or at ther hames. The numbrer Billed at this thne ly esti- mated at thivtye-tive. Yot the .1udm“, in his report of the affals to (; Nlcholss, stated that with a posse of three m-n e went down to the neighborhood of Fairfax's and succecded (n pre- serving order! The colored people became aroused for thalr salety, nad assembled to the wwmber of 250, the majurity armed, to defend thamsclves, A truce of aday or two followed, i whith Y2or- dcit's party sectiren a few of the deading color- ed men and forced them 10 sign a vall 1o their bretren for peavs and the Iaying down of arms. Gordelf meanwhile had sent for refnforeemsnts, and hetweon (0 and 400 arrived abour the thne the colured men Lwd reachad tholr homes aud resumed work. A hargy numnber of the arms of the colored men were stulen in thelr houses while the colored men were ot work. The gro- cers were threatened on patn of death (o sell no mare ammunitian ta eolored mon, and the des- perudoes proceed on a third k., Ihe e lnforeements swere from other parlahes fu the State, sud trow Arkanzas and Misstssippt. Muny were armed with elght and sixteen shoot- ingvarbines, and they dragized with thcm besides @ snmall canngy, taken frou the steamer Hobert Lee ot linfin's Lake. In pure wantonness they shot down aud killed Hve colored tnen at the lake who hsd no knuwledee whatever of the troubles. The mounted and armed men rods with novser of rope slune arvand thele walats to hahg volored men when that suited their con- venlence, ‘Lhe hummers followed on foot for plunder, The leading colored men mounted e horges and burried away.© The p@r and timid were fruthtened fote the woods. The poor women aml children, compelled to sup- vort themselves {n the fickds during the absence of thelr natural prutcctors, were lefs at the mercy of the outinws. Wherever the bummers and scalawazs found horses o arms on tue preaises of the thrifty colored mien they sclzed them. Thelr ranks cansequently became stronger while the terror- {zed calured pouple became weaker, The samn course of ahuoting down was pursued. Oue col- ored man, who fgnored a command to doff his hat to tue motly crowd, was instantly shot. A Wttlo girl in the cotton-tieide, who was 5o par- alvzed with Tear that she could eive no informa. Hon, was brutally killed, and grown-up woinen, espeelally the ol der, were trested stmilarly, An vath to abjure the Kepublican party fore ever, and to vote only the Democratic tlcket, wat ndministered 10 ‘the few remnining men. Thote whovould write, and were not shot or hung for refusing it, signed; those who coulid not write wers [oreed to sten X, with ona hand of the butldozer on the pen, while he supporied the book ol signatures with the vther, In u sluprle weed sumethtag over 100 wern killed. Those renmlniug were only the weak and ignorant wien, and the women and chitdren who could not escape. The men escaped by riding by nizht to Vicksbirg, a distance of sixt: miles, crossine the river to Viekesburg, an makme thelr way northward, The eotton-flelds were left nnpicked, the corn was left standing, and the onty trace remalnine of the horrar waa the wast= of Jund and pruperty, sud the success of the Lemocratic tickot, About the 25th of last manth a formal show- ing of au tnvestization was ungertaken by Gov. Nicholls, The “investization™ was vursued by the Governor swong the bnlldozers them- selyes, over thodriuks, und the result was all that might have been expected. We have at hand lon lists of namcs of the bulidozers, including the Culiens, the Ruths, the Sachises, the Levys, and others, which cau be shown, if necessary. But the llst is too laree, and_{s probably better il\'nmrn at Haton Rouge or New Orleans than iere. ' ————— ) ADULTERATED SUGAR. 2w Yonk, Dec. 24,—President Chandler submitted to-day to the Board ot Healtha re- port on the alleged adulteratfon of sugars, in which hie states that In tivo ounces of sellow nud voffea sugars ho had found as . much as plobuls ul metal, Althoueh he does not say the quan- ity of adulterstive compounds Is large enouch to'he Injurious, he declares the adulteration tue neeessary, and - stamps it as {raoads upon the public at large, HYMEREAL, Sweelal Dispater to The Tribune, Dscaton, 1k, Dec. 2f.—James F, faunders, Cashier of the Wabash Raflway at St. Louls, was married here this evening to Miss Alphena Waygne, a very beautiful young lady, well known in soclety eircles, Tncrmeuu were wany and costly. The couple will reside In 8t Louls, leaviug for that place te-wmorrows pig sl bt The Mallete Syngem. Ricuyonn, Va, Déec. 2L—Thers have been wmany statements in rezard to the Moifett sys- tew of taxation aml fte resuit fu Virginia, bus the followiug, publishd tuls day, {s the only thing bearing the olllelal stamp, and even this, n soine siight purtieniars, {s based upon estl- mates made by the Auditors ™ Licensv, speciic tax, ST BN .';«HJ. 105,00 Net reant 2, oah. 14 Rataed by old 440,000, 00 Teua product of Moffatt register BB ras e srencon sunenssesns: 8 B0 000.1 Thiv by no meats comea up 1o publlc exgecta- tion. But candor requires that it should be sald that the law has been pourly enforeed, snd tha it {s puscoptible of many iniprovements. Alsu, that the expenses of the second year will not be as zreal ns those of this year, A strong move- ment has been organized to secure thd repeal of the Motlet law, The dealors are willing to have their Heense taxes dncreased until they Wil ralse 28 much usthe Motlets system vow does. At present the dealers onty pay half the license tax they did betore the MofTets system was pul in operation, On the other hand, Dr. Mollstt, who 13 2 leader muone the readjusters, is strivine to bave the law amended and fmproved, and hus bad made a much better roglater, aud withal Nopes to put the system on w reully profituble Dastas that lay 8 ho can carey the wajority with biw, which fs & Hesle doubeful. e et At Canidy i, but be sure to use Euzodont picht order to carry off 128 Injurlons e (M the All candy-vaters shauld carry perm AF they wish (0 kecn tholr teath sound. Agzrepste.., Rabates of lcen: "CLOAKS AND DOLMANS, Tremondous Sacriice! Splendid Cloaks! Elegmlt_flolmans ! ‘The purchase at a saorifloo of 3.000 L. dies’ Fashionable Closks and Dolwans from a New York Luctury enaoles us td atfer wduccments ol ar oxtraordinary character $ H.00 Cloth Cloaks lor $3.00, $15.00 Cioth Cioaks tor $4.50. 318,00 Cioth Cloais for 28.00, 345,00 Cloth Dolmans for $10.00. Bpiondid Dolmaus, $15.00, Splendid Dolmans, $18.00. Hplendid Dolinans, £30,00, Elezaut Cloth Basques, $7.00, Elozaut Cloth Saoques, SD.0U. Filegant Cloth Bacques, $13.00. Fur.lined Ciroulara, $80.00, Rich Sealskin Bacques, $00 to $150. ©. 0, D.~O0o0ds sout G, O. D, with prire ilego of examination beforo payment. R.T.MARTIN 205 and 267 STATE-ST, ® Mansmolls Barguin Fstablishient. PLHOTONS LN, il d i, Proposals for Dredging nt Rock Istund Raplds, IxEMS OFreE. s 11 < [V Yot 1 ATE SKALED 1 €d 0¥ tile Bnuersicued el for divazing bryLea pack T slisvat v e