Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1879, Page 4

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TARIY, France—No. 16 Rue de ia Grange-Batellere. 3. Manzxr, Agent. LD£DII.\'. Eng.—American Exchange, 440 Strand. uxxry F. UiLLio, Agent. BAN ERANCISCO. Cal.~Palace Hotel. D. 0.—No, 1310 F street, TADMUSEMRNTS, ‘MoVicker's Thentre. street, between Dearborn and State. *'Green Afternoon ard Ing, i Haverly’s Theatre. Dearborn street, cornerof Monroe. er Majesty's Opera. Afternoan, * moor." Evening, **Traviata." Fngagement of ucls di Lanmer- Hooley’s Thentre. Randolph street, Fatween Clark and LaSalle, Ene gagement of Joseph Murphy, **Shsun Rhue.' After- noon and syenlog. Academy of Musle. Halated street, between Madison and Monros. Va- Hetyenterialnment. Afternoon and evenlog. amlin's Theatre, Clark street, opposits the Court-House. Variety en- tertainment, BATURDAY, JANUARY 25,°1879. Germany, Austria, and Russin are con- certing measures to ward off, if possible, the terrible plaguo which hns swept with such relontless fatality through Oentral Asia. A quarantine system has been virtually agreed upon, and if this shall prove to bo insnfli. cient to meet the nocessitios of the situation, sactonl non-intercourse with the region affect- ed, or likely to become so, will be insisted upon, One of tho most important measures which, should it attain to any fruition, will signalizo the wisdom of the reigning Gove ornment in France, is the pending bill look- ing to o system of compulsory education in thnt country, There appears to bo a decided tendoncy in this direction in the Legielative Chambers now sitting nt Varsailles, and it is probablo thnt the scheme will meot with littls opposition. The Senato Democrats, realizing that thero is little for them to gain in any dis- cussion relativo to the binding force of the Constitutional Amendmonts and the necessity for edditional legislation in that diroction, strenuously oppose the opening up of the dabato on Benator Epuuxpst resolntion, Thoy ré‘{nnht ita consideration - stubbornly , and were abla by a bare majority of one to stave it off for a fow days. ‘There {8 hardly any doubt that the Presi- dent will -sign the Pension bill, although nenrly tho entiro Cabinet rogrot {ls passage at this timo, and stops will be necossary forthwith to provide the millions needed to carry out tho Iaw, The Commissioncr:of Penslons estimates that abont 16,000,000 will bo immediately required, and_nobody seoms to know just how imueh may bo noeded when the new scheme gots jnto full operation, 81, MarTiv, {ho latost prizo product of tho Porren Committes, was yoaterday subjected to a severo cross-oxamination relative to the poluts in his recent aflidavit in which various persong, among them n momber of the Com- mittee, were mado to assume unplensant prominenco o procurors and suppressors of testimony. He seems to have Lorno the ondeal with fortitude, and to have sg far dis- appointed the expactation of demolishing him os to mako it no longer possible to ox. clude his afidavit from the rocord, ¢ Emotional inganity " {4 to bo the dofenso iu the case of Pete Arevens, whoin Juno lnat uudertook with the aid of a rovolver to cor- reot what he conceived to bo improper freedom of deportmont on the part of his child-wite, and succecded so thoroughly as to placo it beyoud her power either to repent or reform, much less to provo herself undee serving of his foul suspiclons. ‘There havo ‘Veen juries before now, and will bo again, no doabt, so ¢ emotionally jnsane ™ as to hang men for just such murders es Prye Stevess committed. ety The reported return of Sitrixe Bo to the United States, owing to the bearcity of gawe and the danger of etarving to death in the Northwest Territory, Lias boen the sub- jectof a Cabinet consultation. Tho prob- lem is, what to do with the 15,000 peo- ple who fight with 8, B. If they roturn they must eat, and if they cat somebody must foot tho bill, There is wo sppropriation for beans and bacon for the crowd of copper-colored flends whose mnoat eminent exploit was the massacre and muti- Intion of Ousten and his command st the Little Big Horn, aud it is safv to presume that there would be a very emphatic objection to creating an unlawful deficiency by furnishing food for this big gang of cut- throats and lorse-thieves, who, as BiTTing Boww impudently observes in his wessago to the Government, quit the war-path only Le- cause they were compelled by starvation to stop fighting and go to huntivg, The extracts from the afdavits of the Lundon importerd relalive to the valustion of kid gloves, given in our dispatches this moruing, leave no room for further argu- wment a8 to that particular instence of fraud and mismansgement in the New York Custom.House, In overy case the verdict of the Xondon men was thot the gloves submitted were of first qual- ity and wosth 52 france. One firm hit the nail on the head when it duclared that if this glove had been golng into the United States ut 42 francs it was a dowuright swindle— which unquestionably it was. A Frouch man- ufacturing firm testify that tho actua! cost of wspufacturing a glove in quality scarcely equal to the Alexandre glove is fruction over 46 francs per dozen. Here there i one case indisputably proven iu which the otficers removed by the Fresident perwitted the practice of Leavy frauds on the ravenus, and it is such prosd s thin that ought to alienate from Mr. Cosx- 1130 the support ho has galned in “favor of rejecting tho pending nomiuations. his frionds and sympathizers can demonstrato that it is n Beuatorial prerogative to keop in- eflicient and corrupt men in offieo, thero should ho no opposition snflicient to defeat confirmation, " Bomo of the papers that call themselves “ bloody-shirters” are bossting that Marr Oanrryren' election to the Senate is & rein- forcoment o the “stalwart Republicans.” This is rather a langhablo claim, seeing that Senator Hows, who is deplaced, was hjmself an ulten stalwart and an implacable ¢t bloody- shirter”; whereas CarpENTER, in his Mil- waukea reception speech, thus declared him. solf on the *'bloody-shirt® issue: the prosperity of the country, !s that the exlating government is now the proper instrumentalily to e in dealing with the affalrs of the Houth." than thia in any exprossion of views in what is called his Southern policy. has thus placed himself on the Haxes plat- form, nnd will e nu *Administration Senn. tor” on’the anti-bayonet policy. Ittums ont, then, that tho * bloody-shirters " have lost a Senator in Wisconsin and the advo- cates of * civil rle” have gained ouo. INTER-STATE EXTRADITION OF CRIM- INALS Btates and foreign countrios in the matter of surrendoring fugitives frém jnstice are in fair way to be settled satisfactorily toail parties, and may soon be expected to be gov- orngd by laws both just and eflicacious, it remaius & faot that as betwoon tho Govern- ments of tho Statos of this Union there is no authoritative law on tho snbject, and the sarrondor reats upon the mere will or caprico of a Governor. whole question of the surrender of fugitivo criminals hos recently mads an elaborate report, which {s perhaps tha ablest as well as tho most compreheusive articlo on this gen- oral subject, That Commission asserts that the extradition of criminals rests upon the common intorest uf all nations that crimes ngainst proporly punishod, and on the lesser and moro selfish interest whick each nation has in having all persons guilty of crime romoved from its borders. They therefore, on the first ground, urge that all Governments should unite fn n measuro for tho gencral benefit. Tho Commission fur- ther ndvises that dtatutes be made for the dolivery of all fugitive criwinala found in England, no matter whether there be any treaty arrangemont for that purpose exist. ing. l!‘i\ British subject commit a erime in a for- oign Stato and bo found in England, ho be delivered up to the othor State to be tried. ‘They ndvise that the surronder sball extend 0 all offeuses against persons and property, including frands, forgerics, and ombezzle- ments, excluding only thoss of a political or local violations of offenses Inws. locnl, They no longer object to the extra- dition of n fugitivo charged with one crime ond his trial for another crimo, provided the latter bo not a local ‘or political offense. It is proboble that the rules set fortl in this re. port will bo generally nccepted by all civil- jzed pations; certainly they will form the grouudwork for the now extraditin troaty propariug between the Uuited Btates and Great Britain, Unleas e 4A ohief duty, and a chief means to incressing in the Routh be d. Bayonel rule un as lonq as ¢ was useful, and cicil President Iayrs has never gone farther CARPENTER Whilo the ralations between tho United A British Commission to inquira into the persons and property sball Lo They even go so far a3 to advise that charaster, police regulations, churoh ordinances, and against military or naval Revenuo laws aro considersd as ‘Whilo this is tho condition of affairs on this subject as botween tho Unitod Btates ns o natlon and othor independont national sov- eroignties, thoro is a woful lack of harmony or reciprocity between the ¢‘sovercign” ‘{3tates of our own Unlon, muuorous controversies of this kind during our history, vorsies hnvo mafnly grown ont of tho institution of in the Southern Btates havo indicted per sons residing in Northern States, or escaping there from Boutbiern Btates, for various offenses against laws existing only in slave. holding States, and Northern QGovernors tinve hoen called upon to surrender the ac- cused to be tried st the South, On tho other Land, nogroes residing at the North have beon scized and carried off to the South as staves, and Northern Grand Jurors have in. Qicted the captors as kidnappery, and have rent requisitions for the surrender of the necusod. similar charactor, the controversy has been mainly botween border Btates, though it has wometines existod betwoen Htales located moro distant. made in any of this class of cases. ‘There have been In times pnst these contro- Slavery. Grand Juries In all theso cases, aud othors of a Of course, no surronder was '['wo cases ara now ponding on this sub. ject,—that 13, pendmg to the extent that the demands for purrender havo been refused, oad that refusal is fiunl unless tho objecting Governors suall change thefe opinions and givo up the alloged crummnals, In one of those cases the Governors of the States of Penusylvauia aud Illiuols are the disputants, 'ho alloyations in this case are s yeors ngo a murder or murders was commit. tod in the minmg districts of Pennsylvanin under circumstances of ntrooity ; that, like all such cnvos, ull knowledge of the: purpe. That some trators was hidden; that during the last few years the Pennsylvania authoritics have been able to penetrate the mysterios of the oath-bound criminal mssociations of that Biate, aud lave drawn to light the evidences of many tuurdons, and Lave been able to convict nud exsouto perhaps ovor a dozon persons of the crimes ; that in this search they discovéred the vvideuce of who committed this almost forgotlen wurder, aud in due time indicted and arrested two wen living in Hlinols, and who bad been living In this State all tho yoars that have followed the crime, The surrender of tlicse wmen, that thoy be taken to Ponosylvania to Lo tried, was demanded, and the Governor of Ilinols Law refused to give them up, Tho other case is oue betweon the Governor of Masiachusetts and tho Gov- oroor of South Carolina, It appears that one of the Biato officers of BSouth Carolina, one KiueroN, ' was accused of wisappropriating public funds, and changed bis® residenca to Masuschu. sotte. In due time Knweron was' indloted, ond an officor was sent to Boston demanding Lis surrender. It is Do doubt true that ofilcial orime was not of such rare occurrence in Bouth Carolina that the outraged virtue of tho peoplo of that Stato should send outside to fiad sowe person to punish, But Krue- TON was & politician, aud the new Btate {iqv. erument of South Caroliva wauted L very much ot howe. Gov. Rice, however, refused to surrender biw, on the plea that the arrest was not boua fide, but for ulterior purposes. Lhiy watter Ls been supposed to be gor- erned by Iaw, United Hiates provides that felony, or other criime, who and bo found in another State, ehail, on denand of the Exeentive anthority of tha State from whenco hefled, be delivered np, to be removed to the Btate baving juriadiction of the erime. ™ been supplemented by o statute of Congross as old ns the Constitation itself. admit of no discretion; the law boing com- plied with, the surrender must bo made. The Supremo Court has afirmed more than onca that, where the requiraments of thelaw have been filled and the demand made, the Governor has no jurisdiction over the case, and has no authority to adjudge of the ments of the oharge, nor of the motives of tho demand, but must surronder the fugitive criminal, tween nations, it rests with the sovereign power within whose territory an accused person is found to surrender him to the Gov. emment of another mation or not. Thus Tweep found safety in Spain, whero thero was no treaty with the United States for the extradition of eriminals, and he was volun- tarily surrondered nnder circumstances which promised him immunity and protection. Had he, Instend of goingto Spain, crossed over into Now Jorscy, nobody ou earth could have compelled his delivery to tho authorities of New York. be to so.manago the politics of New Jorsey that he could have a Governor of his own making. With his money he coald have lived undisturbed {n purchesed safety nnd protection in any of the impecunious States haviog a friendly Governor, and this, too, In defiance of tho Constitution, the statutes, and the judgmont of Courts. rendering fugitives from justice is tho want of authority to compel the Exooutive of tho Stato to do his duty. fusing to surrender a fagitive from justice, a8 in the easo of Governor CoLtox 1n refus- ing to respeot the requisition of the Governor of Pannsylvania, of necessity violates the spirit tion nnd the Iaw, remedy? What is tho Governor of Penn- sylvania going to do obout it? Is hato treat it aa n cause for war, and actaccording- Iy? Tho Governor of Illinois being subject to no penalties for his refusal to exocute the 1aw, simply refuses to do hls duty, and that is tho ond of it. of our States and tho ready meansof os- caping from ono Btate to. anothor, thia ro. fusal to surrender fugitive criminal« is liable to bo nbusod, and be made a menns of of-' ficlal corruptiod. ono Btate can offer au asylum and sanctuary €or oll the criminale of all the other States, oud such n thing is possible, then the Gov- ernor capable of this procoeding will bo ablo to convert the business to his own profit, whilo the United States are secking to estab- lish extradition treaties with all foreign nations, there is no legal authority anywhero to secure the return of any criminal in this’ country who may escape from one State into the territory of another. bill codifying the patent laws just passed by the Scnate can'work a complete reform in hausted in debate and the effort to smend ; now stand. o effected by the Senate bill may be briefly stated. It fixes a limitation upon tho poriod only apply to an infringement on the nso of jury from evidenco taken as to the commer- Tho Coostitution- of the | reform, there is reason {o beliove that the patent system coulfl be iufinitely more im- proved by o statuto fixing n fenlo of royalties, weasiired Dy tho comereinl valud of the nvention or improvement, providing {hat all mannfacturors of anch articles shall be Hiablo to the patentee for such royaity, and rolensing nll purchasers and users of the article from lability, Bueh n system wonld break down the monopaly that will still bo possible under tho terms of the new bLill; would sceuro to the inventer the ensy collec- tion of & proper rewand for his invention, and protect the general public from harassing claims and lnwsuits, ** A person charged in any State with treson, flee from justice This provision of the Constitution hous These laws THE DEHOéRATIO (i{)l!LGREZSIONAL QUAR- ] As wo anticipated would be the cnse, Gon. Braaa's plain and patriotic utterances in protesting ngainst the purpose of the ex+ Confaderntes to nso the Democtatio party s an instrument for the coilection of Rebel claims was promptly taken up in caucus. It is stated that Bnaca was denounced os o traitor to his party and advised to go over to the Republicans, ‘The violent tirade deliv- ered by Ettis, of, Lonisann, in replying to Brago in the House, wns tame and puorile as comparad with the denunciation in which Mirrs, Hooxer, Braczsony, and other firo- eaters ara sald to have indulged in caucns when tho restraint of Republican listonors was taken from them. Thero was a fierce disposition on the part of the Southern Dem- ocrata to foroo the fight nt once, but moro' consarvative counsols prevailed for the time being, and the eaucus would not authorize o renawal of the controversy, Inspite of the cauous gag, however, another outbrenk was imminent in tho House, snd was only provenied by shrawd parliamentsry taotica on tho part of Bpeaker RaNDALL and.thoso Damocrats who wish to avert this family row 08 long as possible, It is corlain that this struggle between the Northern and Soutbern factions of the Democratio party must como sooner or later, and when it shall como the Demooratio party will think that thore Lins boen a dynamite explosion in its housohold. ‘The Democrata of the South have no conception of a party organization of which they aro a part oxcopt one abjeetly submisaive to their dictatfon. That was the oondition of tho Damocratic party before the ‘War, and is the condition which they now ingist upon ag procedent to the solidity of tho Bouth, This dotermination to rule, chiaracteristio enough of Southerners under nny ciroumstances, is intensified by the over- weaning desiro to recoup the Southorn losses incldont to the War at tho expenso of the North. 'This dosire includes s genoral pay- ment for War losses, and n further reim. bursoment in the shapo of subsidies, on tho ground that the South did not receive fta share of the spolls while it wns engaged in rebellion, Tt s the intention of tho ox.Oonfedarates to whip the Northern Demacrats Into acquiesconce in theso sohemes of plundor as a condition of n *8olid South " for tho Democratio party. The ex-Coufederntes will nat suoceed in this bulldozing programme without a strugglo which will shako tho porty to the vory foundations, Domocrats of the North do not cntertain for the Democrats of tho South tho same nffaction, respoot, and holy fear which they folt before the War., Many yenrs havo Intervened, and Northera Democrats hiave achuired a sensa;of independsace ; thoy feel, too, that tho mistortunes of their party snd its long exclusionfrom power have beon duo to the perfidy of their former associntes nt the Son'h, In common with Northern Tepublicans, tho' Northorn Domocrats have a materlal 3nterest In visiting every attempt that shalll be made to ex- haust Northern resources for tho soctionnl benoetit of tho Honth, and to rednco Northern prosperity in order lo make good the damago suffered by the Bouth inawar of its own auggestion, Thia resistancs on the part of the Northorn Democrats will be goneral and stubbiorn, Those politicians of the North who shall yield to ex-Confederato diotation will be repudiated aud dismixsed by thoir Northern constituencies; and, if tho **Solid South " sLall provail in the party and prosti. tute the caucus to its own ends, Demoorats nt the North in large numbers will desert the organization and seek an available protoction in a **Bolld North " under nny party name. In the absence of any treaty or law be- All ho would have to do wonld The defect in our intor-Stals system of The Governor, in ro- and letter of the but whero Conatita- is tho Considering the proximity, When the Governor of Our purposa is to pointout the fact that PATENT LEGISLATION, While it may well be doubted whether tho the patent system, it msy be expectod, in casa 1t shall beoome o law, to afford a large miensure of relief from tho abuscs common to the existing intolerablo condition, The prospect of its passago in tho Houso is sald to be favorablo unlesa too much time be ox- and it will probably be be'ter to nceept the bill a% it 18 than than to prolopg the confu. slon and injuries Incident to tho Inws ns they Some of the fmportant changes sought to during which suits for damage moy ba bronght for infringement. Asa the laws now nre, thero Iano such limitation, but under the new bill suits brought for damages can o patent during tho four years next proceding the commoncement of suit. The Lill chianges the system for mensuring damages sufforod by infmngement or unauthorized use | The Southern politicians are playing n des- of patents, The present statutes | perate game, with small prospect of further and the construction put wupon them | achievemnont than the disruption of tho by the Courts provide that the user of the patent shall account to tho patentse for all the profits accruing therefrom, and thia provision hns worked gross injustice in many instances. ‘The new LI provides, however, that in those cases where a certain foe has been established by a number of transac. tious for the use of the patentad article, then the patenteo shall bo entitled to colloct the sama fee for unauthorized use, gauged by the term of infringoment ; in cases whera 10 feo Las Leen established by practico, a feo is to Lo dotermined by the Court and Demenratio party, THREE FRANCS MORE. A, T, Srewant & Co. continne to winco under the infliction of the Iato kid-glove decision which by inference mnkos them smngglers. For years thoy entered their vast importations of Alexeudre kids at 42 francg por dozen for two-button gloves, with a rise of only three fraues the button for thoso above two-button. Col. Kton- vy, the General Appralser, aftor nn exhaus. tive investigation, found the forelgn valuo of the gloves to be 53 francs per dozen, But, through the tinidity of the Treasury Depart. ment and of Collector Mennirr, o succossful effort was mado with Col. Kercuue to ju. duoe him to concedo away threo francs per dozen of the advauce sustained by conclu. sivo ovidence, Henco tho flual compromise decision fixing the forcign value at 49 instead of 2 francs, Now we aro credibly informed that wot only all other kid-glove importers, but Brewaur & Co. as well, are sctually entering thelr gloves at 49 francs, But, not content to rest under the stigma of tho charge of having been en- gaged in smugghoy for o series of yoory, Srewaur & Co. bave lately made a high. soundivg appeal to the Sunats of the United Btatea to redroas their grievances! They de- clara in this appenl or wemorinl that the Bocretary of the I'ronsury has dictated ap- praisements of fletitiona vuluations, and so perverted the law and npcsed upon them upjust penalties. In short, thoy fear that ¢ confldunce will bo shaken abroud as woll ns at home, in the adminlstration of our rove enne system,” unless tha Secretary of tho Troasury is rostrained in hls mad carcer of usurpation. Aud this all, lot it boborne in wind, werely because the forefgn market value of two-button Aloxaudre kid gloves has been found to bu 40 francs iu. stead of 42 francs, tho rate at which Brzwarr & Co. lave been in tho Ligbit of iavoiciug them, Curloudy enough, almost simultaucously with the promulgation of thliscreed of Brewast & Co., we bavoa uew xay of light on the kid-glove question, 1t secrts, as soou as his declsion wasrendered, that Col. Kercuua sont the gloves in quos- i tion to England, and obtained the opinion as to their valuo of the largest dealers fu that country ; aud they all sgroe that the Alexan- dre glovo is worth in Paris 53 fraucs per dozen, justead of 49 francs. As all roads onco led to Xome, s0 in the kid-glove cou- troversy all evideuce tsnds to establish the fact that tho trae markot vulue of Brewaxr & Co.’s Aloxandre glove is 52 francs, or 10 francs wmore per dozen thay the price ut clal value of tho patented article, with pro. vision that, when the infringement hias been willful, or tho dofense vexatious mud min. Mcious, the Court may assess o further pen. alty for plaintiff's fees nud expenses {u mafu- taining tho action, A stay of proceedings is provided by the new bill in order to enable the person sued to take an sppeal, and tho power of the Courta to issuo injuuctious is more explicitly deflned, Oune provision for fbe buenefit of iuventors is to tha cffuct that & rolssuo of patents may Lo mado, after proper investigation, to cure erroré in specifications that arise from accident, mistake, or inadvertence, and thus render the original patent iuvalid. ‘Plere is also a provisiou for the payment of periodical fees, which is expected to wipo out the mass of usoless patents tlat pre usod only for blackmaillng purposes; a fee of 350 must bo pald the Commissioner of Palents four years from the date of the origival pateut, and $100 niue years from the samu date, snd it is made the duty of the Commissioner to publish avunully & lst of patents that have been forfeiled by rea. son of non-psymant of fees. I'he most fm- portant featuro of the new bill, aud (ke one which s espected to prove mcst valuable, was socured by Senator Wixnoa la the shapo of an amendment. It provides that when sult for iufringement is brought sgainst a person who has bought a patented article for his own use, and not for sale or for wmaking a product to sell, then a verdiot for nomiual damages sball throw the eatire legal costs on the patonteo bringing the sult, sud a verdict not in cxcess of $20 shall cause the patentes to poy his own ocosts. " This section 14 deslgued to shut of the mass of caios in which a patentes forcos tho user of bis patented wrticle quny him for such nse rather than yubmit tp the cost of a lgwsuit, though justice requires that the patentes sbould sua the wmavufscturer and not the iunocent parchaser. ‘While it will be readily adwitted ¢hat all theso awendwents are in the direction of per ety which they, wero formerly fuvoiced. This | boon complied with, ard the Company has dges unt prove KrEwanr & Co. to have been amugeless, bt it wecms to prova that the hava been undervalulng their goods nbout ‘Fhe Government s a loser of rev. onua el tho same as it the goods hind Leen smuggled ta that extent. Of conrre tlo chargs of Brrwant & Co, that tho Bacrolary of the ‘Trensury dictated an exorbitant valuation upon their kid gloves is withont any foundation whatever. If the Collector at New York interfored nt all with the nction of Cleneral-Appraiger Ketcmust, such interferonco was with n view to socur- ing a lower raté than that arrived at from tha testimony, namely, 40 Inatend of 52 froncs, Tne Tnioune Insisted at tho time that such action on the part of the Collector was utterly without justification. The En- glish evidenco shows that Col. Krromus's original deoision was corveot. It will bo his duty now to moke a new advance from 49 to 52 francs, Then Brewant & Co. will be at liberty to memorialize the Unifed Btates Sonata afresh, DANRGEROUS CROWDING OF THEATRES Thongh it is probablo that the newspaper statements inspired by tho mansgement were exaggaraled In regard to the number of peoplo presont at Thursday evening's opar- atic porformance in Havenny's Theatre, it 1a cortain that the crowd was vastly in ex- cess of the proper and safe capacity of the building. The managors ovinced o reckless disregard for human life ns woll a8 n selfish indifference to mortal comfort in jemming tho aisles and lobbies to satisfy their cupid- ily. We beliove the seating capacity of the Luilding does not exceed 2,000, and, ns a mattor of fact, any sale of tickets bsyond the moating eapnelty is an ontrage upou the public. DBut on this occasion probably fitteen hundrod persons choked up the passages on tho lower floor and in the galleries. Tho specalation in - tickets for this particular night, and tho oxcitomant which it produced, probably led to the rush, for on no other mght has thore boen any such frightful cram, and the managers took an unfairadvantage of tho fletitious intorest which bad been thus nwakened, Teoplo who hiad purchased their nents at the high price of €3, and thoso who had pmd tho ticket-sealpers and speculators considerably more, passed, In some cases, fully an hour in struggling to reach their places, loat a lorge pnrt of the performance themselves, nnd intorrupted and marred the enjoyment of nll tho rest of the audionco by being -compolled to elbow and crowd through entiro rows of goats. -All this wounld have ‘Deen bad enough, but the sitnuation was ren- dered worse by tho peril to human life, Had there beon tho slightest alarm of flre, or so much ns acronk inoue of the gallories, n panie wonld have set in immediatoly, for n souso of danger wns uppermost in the minds of ull; insnch enso tho rosult would have been frightful nnd horrible. It is belloved that this theatre, ndapted sinco the fire to theatrionl purposes and forinally known as tho Adelphi, sod designed for a va- riely theatre, wa4 lhursiedly coustructed, and whilo thero is roason fo think fhat the old Tost-Ofice walls are sound, thera s naturally a good doal of ap- prehension o8 to tho strength of tho gal- lories, one of which simply hangs Ly iron rods from the roof and has no supports from beneath. Iad this banging-gallery, which was foarfully packed, given way, the lowor gnlleries would probobly have fallon from the shock, tho gns fixtures would have been demolished and the light extingnished, and perhaps bundreds of lives would have been lost, DBut eveu tho suggestion of an acci- dent would bave been sufficient to bring nbout & horriblo disaster, Tho pnssages ware 80 excessivaly crowded thot any sud- den movement would have prodaced n jam and dend.lock, and the exits indicated through stagoe-doors would have been ns use- less ns the regular cntrauce at front. No ‘one presont on that ovening will find it difm- cult to imagine the horror that would have followed tho wmallest alarm. Thare is no excuse for such. rapneily as occasionsd this dangerous conditfon of things. Had tho managors contented themselves with selling the wmeats at the high pricos asked, they would bava been amply rowarded,. They had no right, moral or legal, to impose upon the publio or to risk thousands of human lives for the sske of n goln beyond this, It was the duty of tho police to interfore for the pravention of this reckloss overcrowding. ‘I'heatres are lcensed institutions, and espocially subject to pollco suporvision so far as publio safety iu con. carncd. Had thoro been a eatastrophe Thurs- dny night, the polico would havo shared with tho management the fearful responsibility for ita occurrenco. The publio hava rights which greody managers must bo forced to respoot it they will not voluntarily defer to proper considerations for public safety, THE BOUIH PACIFI0 RAILWAY, "There is a raliroad Luilt and complated Gon miles tong from 8an Franclsco, in Californin, to Fort Yuma, the junction of the Colorado and Gilp Rivers, Yuwma Is on the river which is the wostern Loundary of the Terrl. tory of Arizona. Tho Company having reached this paint st once began work ox- tending its road castwardly through Arizoun ta the boundary of New Mexico, whers jt will meet and connect with the Atchizon, "Topoks & Banta Fo Rallroad, thus complet. ing a direct SBouthern railroad to the Pacific from Kansas Cily, Mo,, to Ban Francisco, ‘This railvond from the castern termunuy ta Sun Francisco will, when built, bo construct- ed by private enpilal, and witliout any other subsidy than o grant of land for so much of thio routo ua les in Kansan, Upon tho meeting of Congress the friends of the Texas Pacitic subsidy scheme hiad o resolution passed demanding of the Sccre- tory of tho futerior by what authority the Southern Pacifio Railroad Company was con. atructing n railway over and across the publio lands of Arizona, To understand tho point of this interrogatory it should be remembered that Congross, many years ago, gave a grant of laud to ald in Luilding a road through the Territorles to tho Pacitio Ocean. ‘The Texas Paciflo Company now holds this grant, The road now building is ovor uearly the same voute selected Ly the Texas Pacifio, snd along which thoy propose to run thelr road. In additios to the land.grant, that Company aro askiug Congress for an indorsed-bond subaidy of §80,000 per milo. Tha road now building is costing its stockbolders only $12,000 por mile to construct, and it has ncither sutsidy of laud, monoy, unor bonds, and henco the Toxos Pacitio's friouds in Con- gross demauded by what authorily sych road was coustructod, a4 it wes dopriving them of the expeoted plunder, : Tu this question Becretary SBenunz an. swered that there wos @ geuoral act of Cou. gress suthorizing the coustruction of rail. roads over the public lands upon certain conditions of filing maps of the routu sud coertificates of the organization of the cowm. punics. Al the conditious of the law Luve thereforo o logal right of way. Twenty milos of trrek bave heen nlveady leid, and by next July 200 miles will be comrleted, being about hnif-way across Arizonn, In the meantime, under the ramo law, the road fram tho erst is pushing southwest on through New Mexico, and by next July thore will not he s gap of moroe than 5,00 miles to be completed of the eontinnons railrond from Knansaa Oity, Mo., to Ban Francisco, without the lenst subsidy of money or bonds. Tho wpirit of tho vesolution demanding the nathority under which this rond bas beon built or {s building to the Pacific implles thnt it is unconatitutional for private capital to bulld n raflrosd, and that the Toxas Pacifio Company hinVe a patent which entitles them to Luild the Boutbern Pacifio Rosd with n subaidy, end that all other roads through thnt country, especially if built without Every dny the Californin Company s constructing a milo of road with their private capital, and subsidy, must be supproseed. tue Toxas Pacific lobby rogard this as a daily dnmanga to them of $:0,000, as it ropresents that amount of snbsidy bonds which they aro dompnding. against the Government for lost profits to the nmount of the subsidy bonds, or £30,000 o mile, In the smoke and nofse of the SBenatorial contest at Bpringfleld the degres of Influsnco cxerted by the Infer-Ocean over the voles of its While 26 own disciples las been overlooked, of the honest money and resumption menbers whom Tus Trisung helped to elect supported the re-clcction of Sonator OorEsnr, and the rest of the hsrd-money and respimption members whom it also helped to elces went contrary to its advice und voted for Loaas, not one of the ten {nflatlon and antl-reeumption members whom the Jufer-Ucean helped ta elect voted for elther Looax or Ocresny. Every one of its kind of metnbers supporied Arex Camrnern, of Lo Salle. lere I8 the way the ten Inter-Ocean members in the General Assembly voted: TON ALEXANDER CANPBELL (FIATIST), fmith, Filiott, Peters, ¥ay, oss, ) Thompson (WilT) Savage, Trati—10, Nearly all of these members were elected In Republican districts by the votes of eiti- zens whu had previously oteen Republleans. ‘They were readers of tho 1.-0. weekly, and hod become fully fmbucd with the fofla- doctrines of that tlon aud antl-resumption sheet, und rofused to listen to ‘Tire Trio- UNE. persuade to flop. ment of the antl-resumption and flat fatlacles taught by thelr orgon. rousistency as most flagrant and inoxcusable In L sclf in followlng the somersault of his organ. ol Jrsmsficbeibddudindpie A blil has been Introduced {n the Massachu- sctts Leglslature which, the Boston Advertiser thinies, will settle the much-vexed questlon of the double-taxation of mortgages in o satialac- tory way. In all cases the property will be taxed to the owner, unleas tho mortgagee, by agree- ment, {8 to pay oll the taxes, The mortgagor oud mortgagee will Lo required to come to torms as to the taxes beforo the trust-deod fs signed, the one being pernitted to deduct from the next instaliment of interest themortzagee's shure of the tax, uud the other to require from the mortgagor, iu addition to the lutercst duo, thie mortgagor’s sharo of the tax. The Advertizer thinka that this law would have a dircct tenden- cy to reduce the rate of Interest on mortgages, a8 well as to diininish the advantage which'non- realdent or dishonest iortgagecs have at pres- ent n gompeting for mortigugges, 1 There |§ no longer room to doubt that SuAk- srEAni was a stulwart at heart, for bis sympa- thics were strougly with Collector Anrrnon through the whole of his celobrated play about the Customn-Honse. AnTuun lsmade to asy, it will be remembered 5 0O, save me, 1lunEnt, save mel iny vyes are out Evon with the flerca luoks of thoas bloady men, Aud Hupxur, after somo hesitation, repliess #ilence: no mores go closely In with me. Much danger do I uneryo for thea, 1t s & pretiy concelt, we think, that leads the fmmortal bard to apply the name of Hupsenr to Senator Coxiuizo; but'the courtly manuer and grand compassion of the Henator entitle bim to all that the name lwptiea, Ho has, moreover, this advantage over any historical character of that nane: whereas there wero many Hunenzs, there 18 only one CONKLING. J. Cuannes Scmisnen, head of the house of Cranugs Berinyzn's Bous, was only 28 years of aze. lo had been with hils father (o the business from boyhood, and was everywhere recognized as u worthy successor to that entor- prising publisher. 1o had everytuing to make lifo pleasaut and bright Leforo him,~n ealth, po- sition, rereeablo family surroundings, snd the esteem of the community fn which i lived o an unusual degres for ono so youog. **It rarcly happens,” says the Now York Tribune, * that the death of 8 young man inakes so decp an fmpression in thy best arcles of American so- clety, und brings sorrow to so wany hearts,” e ——— e The old Troy & Greenfield Rallroad’s #biil {n cquity " against tho Btate of Massachusctts to recover from It the HoosaeTunnel on paymient of $2,000,000, s derlsively spoken of by those who underatand the weritaof i, The Company was bankrupt whon the Btate, most reluctantly took tho work of completing the tunncl off its hauds,’ ‘Tho tunnel hias cost the Btate, all told, $18,000,- 000. Yet the Company now sets up that, when vompelled to relinquish the work to the State, 1t was pireparcd to earry the thiug through at an expenso of $3,000,000, which it therefors offers magnanimously to 1efund now for work done by the Btate. . 2 e ———re The 8t. Louls Zepuldican, of all papers, un- dortakes to lecture ‘T1ia ‘YUIDUNY for Its course during the recent Senatorinl contest, -aud chorges that 1t Aid not pipe OoLEsnY to Joud enouih proise. Tlio Republican set out to elect Ginovesn Scnator of Mlssourl, who bad beeu s Unlon man during the Rebellion, Tt sounded his praiso fo its highest wotes, fifed und drum- med for blw, sent up rovkets und Roman can- dles, uud fived oif pluyged sovils,—but all in vaio. ‘the ultrs Rebel VEsT was nominated wind elected by a *large majority,” Bince it could not pull down its VEST, tke Repubilcan would do well to wipe off its chin wud thes ceass teaching other people Low to eloct Beua- turs —fv classieal laugusge, to dry up, ————R—— The 8t. Louls ¢.-D. paper which pitched into Louax two years ago most furlously tor bolting the caucus und defeating Judge Lawnuxos, the Repoblican nominee, mado this oxolanatiop of its course towsanls bhLn then and now. #\Whetlier LooAN was right or wrong two years #go wo nelther know nor care, 1o do koow, howover, that ho s right uow.” This don't- care-a+l—u-ativeness elucidation of ita reasons for its change of fyont has at least the merit of brevity. It is only matched iy that respect by Boss TwExD's famous reply to the accusation that lie pud his paly had stolen twenty mililons from the City ot New York,—* Well, sirs, sup- posu it fs trues what age you golng to do about i L0 The late Jawxs 8. RockwrLr, of No. 4 Mon- tague Terrace, Brooklyn, built u besutiful house a au expense of over $75,000, lived 1o ft & short tine, und dicd of malwrial fever. Iovestigation Ly the hicalth otlicers showed that his bousa was the upex of @ sewer syatew, sud acted s 45 €3~ If the California Company is not stopped, the Texas Pacifia fellows will be obliged to bring in n bill of damages When the ten Fiat Ropresentatives were elected, the £,-0. put forth all its fuflucoce to induce them to support Looaw, who was sallinz under the hard-money and resuwption flag, but not ono of {ts ten disclules could it Thoy all followed tha logical deductlous of tho L-0. preaching, and voted for CAMPBELL, Who was a living embodi- ‘I'iey vegard its fn- biug flat and . anti-resumption befors the clection and after the election flopplog over to the hard-mouey party on the Senatorlal ques- tlon, aud not one of them would stultify him- hayat of all the polsonous gases In was, [n short, a vast receptacte of holranoyy noxlous gases, eausing the alckness n‘\,"'l neatly avery momber of the bausehnn), an\ln % death at last of the master of 1t and iy fupgs” grandehild, Thers are now many houses |.,T‘ cago, bullt fu the same Lzantiful ang eXpen, - way, the defcets in whichicould be n.-mu.ilu]‘l“ amall expense and trouble by any archftee 5 understands his bosinoss. Two rules iy m,'-.ha mever to ho neglected are e followings "ot wags let the soll-plpe be carried up thye ., abovo the roofs Always Tet the end of the ¢ onen Into the kifehen fius, or, Letter pi e aflue adjoining it. Those who doubt lhu';h fulness of these preeantions can test practical way by golng on topof a | ventilated {n cold woather, when {3, rases can b seen fesuing from the gg flae. the piney |, thera g ouse gy, ® Totlgy l-pipe oy —— The Indiana Farmer knocks the Lotion of the recent meteor canard, as follows: b A most wonderfal occnrranca the dally pipers of this city fast w;‘rgc.. ",!“0:!:1 h hitherto unheard-of eves| Ath of g pit from the fall of & moteur, T the o son nand il the A hin death were publlshed g house near Newton, In County, " the place at Which Gho swif eyttt fies s anld to have (ailen. - S0 atrong way the o el In the trnth of the strange atory that prg: Cox, tha State Gealogiat, sentn gentieman to g, vilisge, named as belog near tha apot of the grest fence. to learn full partlenlans and procurs T aerohite, Groal wan the dieanst of meavenper or} Frofessor (o learn thot the whole story was s 1ot No nieteor had fallen there or buen heard of exe; o through the repors In the newspapers, i e ————— It s doubtless true, as the Atlanta Conypyp tion temarks, that W, T. Tnosrsox, of Barsp nab, i the nathor of *“ the only purely pustery love-story ever writlen by au American, ] perhaps the only book of American humor witl outlive the present.” Dut who may w7, THOMrs0X be, and what or where 1 his bogyy The Atlantlc, somo months ago, tind an smuylny article on the average quality of Southern ifyy. stare, and the opinlon in which 1t fs helgy home, that onght to throw samo. light on 1ty fame of W. T. THOMPSON, of Bavanoan, S g WiLL1a3t 8, JACKSOK, of Colerado Spregy Hezean Hust's husband, was ono of the gy atortal candidates in Colorado who didn't by much of & show when the distingulshed my. talurglst Hisy got down to hls work., Hiefy an cx-Professor, Aid an immense smou ¢ wire-laying beforo election, aud really by almost a caucus vote when the Lecislature me, Ho {3, however, a very superior man, and oce y fnclined to be glad that ho knew how tolyy wires successfully, : L ——— Ot coursc Matr Canrrnren did not et by seat without tortgaging Senator Cayenoxy, ‘The other 8anator from Wisconsin must trently in his hoots whengver Ro thinks of the coateg that is comiug for him, What a terribleny. take that North American Itssiew article wy! There are plenty of men In Wisconsin, It 4 comes to that, who can beat Senator Caseay in opposition to the Admiulstration andapuy Civit Service. Judgo Hirron has been remarksbly qoit sinco the English kid-glove dealers hayo lag teard from. A few mouths ago, it wiil be 1~ membered, he sald tho dry-moods bouse of Srewant & Co. wonld not be dictated to by tte Government or anybodv else. Now the Goven. ment dictates to BIEWART & Co., and Stemire & Co. submit. The worat of it la that the o dervaluations of kid,gloves by BTEWART& (o are proved, e — Mr. Wnistizn's abusivo pampilet of 3z Rusxiy has come out {n London, und the ocy cffect of it has been to turn public oplke, which was moving sgainst Ruskin, back towse! bim. WiisTeen has proved what Ruskivodly anserted,—that he 1s 0 coxcomb, The pamptl Is & sort of vocturne ln mud. ————— Hexny M, Horr, the now (nvornor of P sylvania, is the only msn ever elected totst offics by a minority of the whole vule an, Beven hundred thousand votes, in all, werecas at this election, nnit Hlox7 recelved 20.000 meee votes than his nearest opponcut, though @6 luss thau all others combined, ——— It begins to look as If Gew. Buenwax kot polng to bo **Despot™ Treumsri I, altersl ‘Ibis will be a cruel dlsuppotntment to the v ponents of the Army bill. skt AR—— Benators Oaresny and Howe must expect b get o zood deal of sympathy from the periss wha hava beaton them, Bympatby lscbesp et =2 Nephew PxrToN was o epy in tho Natoul Domocratle Committee. That Is why they bate bim on & string now. e ————— "The Governdr of Texas remarked fo bis Ligy lature about thirty columns of things e —— MARINE. Outlinn of the Impravomnents Cantempltel on tho Khores of Luke Eris During Coming 8 Bpeelal Dizgate to Ths Tribuns. Crevenann, O., Jaa. 24.—Col. Wilson, & new Eugluecr of this diatrict, having o cls! thie 1ake improvements, has Just got well st hore. To-day he made somo mteresting remit! toa Leader reparter 1 regurd to the fmprr™ ments contemplated during the coming s nall the harbors of his district, Hesidts contraet for 1,000 feet on the Cieveland bt water had niready been let. This wlll cwm* out to the shore arm of the structure. 1‘;4 work will bo pushed forward justas !unfl-f means Wil allow. Soundings bave becn @8t during the past week on the jco to & the depth, and stone have beea W fn untlt the fce got so weak that the workt darod uot continue, As soon as the lco b up and £oos away, & careful survey wiit be st of the presont harbor, and an examfoati & the west pler. ‘That pler will be putla @3 plete repalr, and the piles and other ois™ tious which hava been, it s sald, for s It time fmpediments in the channel, will ter moved. This canniot be dona till the fce £X6 out of the harbor, u At Sandusky the wérk of aredging Wil bt contlnued with two or threo dredger, it and decpenlug the channel, Throuzh the ot bar and fu the bay this will be done under & tract with E. O, & J. 11, Davly, of Toledo & At Tolodo tho work will ba puslied vigors ly. As soon s nayigation epens dredgtog ™! be undertakon io Mauwee Baywith fl\‘-dmli'; A strong effort Will bo mado to cet a dept N at lcast ffteen feat up to Toledo duricg cowning suminer. b At Fatrport thework during the comiog! will probably consist of dredglug the cb: nd repairing the plers. 3 lAl ?:mnlfillu ll?u cust pler will be carrled 200 fect fyrther inta the lake, s carit) At Conpuaut patt of the east pler NaS sway durlug the beavy gele last fall. no appropriation for this harbor, vut . fe v enxnfnltlun will oc made a3 soon a3 Hie rid permit, aud a sneclal report submitied suthorftcs at Wasbington, At Erle, Pa., durlng the coming amouut of dredging will be done, s oy will be mado to obtaln & depthof utleast '-nlf“ feet up to the town. The plers will b !‘L * and ml: proumrllau Sncfi [ ll:‘c"t 5‘.’.‘«'3;” oued where > B i aaroos iehs the piers Wil bo reudh At Vermlilion, Huron, Port Clinton, 2 mouth of the Black River, there ure bol hy, clent funds avaflable st 'present for 237 wore than surveys and examinasiovs e —et— — ROBERT BURNS. Roeciat Dipaled to [is Tritunb o Rockroup, 1ll., Jan. H—Tlng Uu:nlk» oiversary of the Burns Club of thits "“”‘,‘,g i this evenlug at the Holluwd House. T pes & very large compsuy prescut. Au dczfl: Gl per was served, aud apeeches made by "'ul our promineot lawyers and others. llnrm‘ % Scotland were lrvssl:‘ly lr[n:\d ,fl"-'_,"";f,f.“;r‘.'w'fi Tl w] cluded With a Lo, wWhits © et Tllougble mud eagoyable &€ ths sewsou. S sied o ST pecuil Dispateh_to it Mapisod, Wi, Jan, 24— 1be TRl ::f[.;.;u sary oI LLe birthbay of Bobby Butls 10 celebruted Liere to-niglhs by's supvsh sud gpeechies,