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, 1872-10-17

Up to 1871, no less than ono hundred and
seventy-one millions Of dollars we're spent by
the.United States upon the Indians, not includ-
ing the cost Of Indian 8ars, and the maintcn-
ance Of the Indian Bureau. As the tribes grow
smaller, the expenditure grows larger. Twenty
years ago We spent On them two millions Of
dollars; now TIE average eeven millions
annually. It is curious fact, in face Of these
enormous bounties, that our red brother is in
variab1y referred to as the "poor INDIAN" but
the explanation is easily found in the opu1ence
Of the Indian Agent. When General Walker
was placed at the head Of the Indian
Bureau, en- Immediate improvement WAS
visible in its conduct; but he is about to
retire, in order to accept Professors chair in
the Scientific School at Yale. His departure
leaves unoccupied ono Of tia richest places in
the Government for stealinga. Already the old
Indian Ring are training one of the most offen-
siVe Of the party strikers for the position. Har-
Ian and Cameron support him, which is sufficient
reason why no one else should do 80. It is by
making suitable appointments in cases like
these that real Civil Service Reform is to be &c.
erred
, 1872-10-17

The Railroad Committee OF the Common
Council yesterday agreed upon report RECON-
cago Burlington e. Quincy Railroad at Michigan
and Wabash avenues, and at State and Clark
streets. The viaducts are to be in the clear SIX
feet above the grade Of those streets, and the
tracks are to be depressed as to allow the cars
report adversely on all the propositions for in
creased horse-railroads, leaving the Transports
ton to the free competition Of omnibus lines.
, 1872-10-17

Just after the Utah bar was reinf orced by two
feminine lawyers, the legal profession in Maine
was recruited with one OF the Same sort. Miss
Clara Hapgood Nash is said to be the first wom-
an permitted to practice law in New England
rather strange fact: in viow Of the constant
agitation in Massachusetts for wider opportu-
mites for wonann's work. Notwithstanding the
acore or SO Of petticoated-attorneys in the coun-
try: no woman, with the exception of o lady in
this city, has yet gained any legal distinction.
This is, however, no argument against their
ability to do SO, because they have only recently
been allowed to Try for such diatipc-'
ton. a reputation, liko Rome, is not
built in a day. Moreover, there will
be reluctance, for some time, to entrust these
fresh young sprigs Of the law with tho manage
agement of important cases. They must first
grow old, must parade tlcir Wrinklod faces and
gray hairs instead Of concca1ing them, end then
they may command from suitors at law that
Difference which now only suitors for love will
, 1872-10-17

In tho November number of the Atlantic, Pro-
fessor John Fiske will have o paper on 'Thc
P1imeval Ghost World" It will be in tho vein
Of the series he published in the same magazine
last year, in which he traced back 80 many
myths to their origin in the unending change on
the earths surface from light to darkness and
back again. In the coming essay he gives q
curious explanation Of the superstition so COM
mon Especially in Eng1anD that it is un1ucky
to kill robin. Long ago, it was believed that
tho death Of robin BODIED sono calamity.
Still earlier, the calamity was specified; it
was death. Going back few genera-
tions more. we fad that this death was
always caused by lightning. Then We come to
the age that reverenced the robin as the bird Of
Thor, God Of lightning. Finally, at the time
when the mind, in it's infancy, porsoniied every
force,-espccial1y q destructive one,-we learn
that the lightning itself is rod bird that drops
from it's beali worm that shatters even the
rocEs on which it chances to fall. So it seems
TINT the English peasant-woman, warning her
child not to kill a robin, is but giving the nine
teenth century version of q hcathon myth, born,
perhaps, ages before Christ was.
, 1872-10-17

Of stone we're brought to Salisbury Plain. Il
was apparently an engineering feat far beyond
the skill OF tho ancient Britons. It is, there
fore, conjectured that the monoiths are relics Of
the glacial period, brought, imbedded In ice, from
the Far North, and left On dry earth when the
lce-sea melted away. Concerning their regu-
larity Of arrangement, the antiquarians-
some Of them-say that the men who introduced
the Druidica1 religion into Britain carried it
thither from Egypt; that, in the Nilo-land,
monoliths- like Cleopatra's Needle and the obe-
lisk Of Luxor-wero connected with it; and
that tho co1onists, finding the huge stones scat
tered on Salisbury Plain, took it as sign from
their gods that thoy should raise monolthic tenn
pies in their new land, and go formed the two
great circles that still remain.
, 1872-10-17

Chambers journal has secured the services Of
the young man who writes articles On America
to order for the English press. In an article en-
titled "What Can Women Do :" he shows what
he can do in the way OF making mistakes. The
gem Of his esaay is the following sentence:
In the year {1s701 Chief Justice Howe ut Chi
cago, when asked concerning the fitness Of certain
ladies' VIE had been members Of juries in that STAT,
custom, he must say that the jurywo,nen had acqui-
ted themselves with dignity; deco1um, and intani-
gence,
This statement is correct, with the following
exceptions Chicago is not State; there have
been no jurywomen in it; Chief Justice Howe
was never asked how he liked iurywomen, and
never said how he liked thom and there Is no
such person as Chief Justice Howe,
, 1872-10-17

Mr. ". L. Dodge, of Now York, an eminent
merchant Of that city, in his address opening the
session Of the National Board Of Trade, referred
to tho necessity for increased transportation
facilities between tho West and the East, and
said that something must be done, and at once,
upon this subject. We hare repeatedly pointed
out the fact that the means Of transportation Of
grain we're becoming so inadequate to the de-
mand, that the production of grain itself would
ere long prove q loss instead Of profit to the
farmer. The cost of transportation and it's
effect upon the producer may be seen by the fol-
lowing scale of present prices Of bushel Of
corn at tho various points named: Liverpool,
9214c, currency; Now York, 65c; Chicago, 32c;
railroad station $50 miles wcst Of Chicago, 15c.
Tho difference between the 9211 cents at Liver
pool and tho Is cents at the railroad station $50
miles west of Chicago, is the charge for trans
portation, insurance, commission, &c. Without
discussing how tho cost Of transportation is
divided between producer md consumer, We OBJ
eerve that fall OF l, or even 5, cents in the
price at Liverpool is generally followed by like
reduction at New York, Chicago, and at tho
place Of shipment The producer in Iowa gen
orally has to take for his corn the price in Liver
pool, less the entire cost of moving 1T. Corn is
now offered $50 or 200 miles vest Of Chicago, de-
Hvered ut tho railroad station, at Is cents, and
oats 1T 8 to cents per buslel. But from even
this miserable p!ttance there is to be
deducted the cost Of moving it from
tho con-crib on tho farm to the rail-
road station. Assuming that this distance will
average Is miles, it will cost tho farmer tho
value of the time aud labor Of one man and
q two-horse team an entire day to deliver q load
of 80 bushels at the station. At Is cents per
bushel, his entire receipts for the corn, and the
use of his wagon, team, and laborer for the day
will be but 81. NOT equal to the price he has
to Fay for set Of shoes for one Of his horses.
Raising corn and oats at this price can hardly
be said to be profitable; particularly when the
cost Of every imported article for which the
farmer wishes to exchange his corn bears Gu
average tax Of 40 per cent. His sentire 80 bush-
ols Of corn. NTH the time end labor Of hjrpeelf,
, 1872-10-17

Last Sunday, at very nearly tie same moment
that the Rev. 11r. Ritchio, Of Cincinnati, began
one Of the old-fashioned sermons against the
opening Of Libraries and Art Galleries on Sun
day, the Free Reading-Room of the Cooper Insti-
tute, in New York, was thrown open to tho pub
lie. When Henry Ward Beecher, LAST April, at
the invitation Of several hundred members Of
his eloquent plea for some other Sunday resorts
for the thousands Of strangers and homeless
young men Of Now York than the grog-shop md
the street, Mr. Hewitt, Chairman Of the Cooper
Union, arose, and, amidst the cheers Of the vast
audience, promised, in behalf of the Trustees,
that their reading-room would be opened
as s0op aa proper alterations could be
, 1872-10-17

The NORTH German Gazette defines the posi-
ton Of Germany toward England and France
The definition cannot be particularly consolatory
to either. Tho Gazette says that it is sort Of
superstition in its country that England is Prus-
sia's friend, and that the people therefore bear
with perfect serenity the bitter attacks Of the
British press On the treatment OF Alsace-Lor-
raine. As for France, TIE arc assured that Ger
many does not hate her. For the French papers
which declare that she does,. Germany feels sfa
quiet contempt not without an admi1ture OF
sincere comniseration." 1t is easy to imagine
the fury OF French author who dattere himself
TINT his hated foes are writhiug under his at
tacks when he hears that they feel only
scornfu1 pity for him. We may be pardoned,
however, for thinking, in Yiew Of the arrest ot
, 1872-10-17

4 generation ago, it was supposed to be the
duty of a banA-casaier to guard the funds put
in his care. Painful experience has since con-
vinced bank-directors and bauk-dopoaitors thai
this supposition Is no longer true. When it is
inconvenient for {. burglar to hew his way
through brick and stone and iron, he breaEs into
the Cashiers house, wakes him up, sweare IN
cath or two, fourishos revolver, and then takes
the badly-scared official to the bank and stands
by while he unlocks the safe and SO enables the
thief to take what he will. Two-thirds of the
heavy bank robberies OF tile last few wears have
been accomplished in this way. OF course, this
greatly eimplifes the matter. The Cashier hes
an unpleasant shock, a.d may haro long walk
ut night it he has tlloughtlessly put his horne at
distance from tho bank. However, in consid-
GRAFTON Of the trouble ho savcs tho. robbers, he
should bo perfectly willing to put himCclf out to
this extent,-and he seems to be.
, 1872-10-17

and the wagon and two horBes for one day; will
not pay the tax on two pair of blankets, nor pay
the tux on an overcoat, OF on ten do1lars' worth
OF any woollen goods needed for bis family.
The first remedy for this is such sn increase
in the means OF transportation that the cost Of
moving tie grain shal1 be reduced. Time was
when the Erie Canal could move all the bread-
stutfs Of the West. OF late years, the railroads
have been employed aleo; but, while the canal
vas opcn, the rates of transportation were regu-
latcd by those on tho canal But the continued
neglect Of the State Of New York to increase the
width and depth Of that canal has 80 limited it's
means that the number Of boats capable Of being
used thereon has become so few, in proportion
to tho demand, that the rates Of freight Gnclud-
ing the consideration Of time) have advanced to
nearly the standard Of railroad traffic; and the
railroads, no longer considering the canal as q
competitor, have advanced their rates to the
point whore it now requires one bushel of
corn at Chicago to pay the freight on another
from Chicago to New York. The great body Of
consumers derive no advantage from the small
price paid to the producer of grain the price Of
breadstufs to the Eastern consumer is as big
as when the producer got twice a. much as he
now receives. Tho foreign purchaser pays 92H
cents per bushel in Liverpool, Is cents Of which
represents the value Of corn, and Tx cents
represents the cost Of moving the corn from
Iowa to Liverpool. The means of getting OUT
surplus grain from Chicago to Buffalo are ample;
but across the State of New York there is nov
no more proportionate outlet to the great bulk
Of it than there was when Clinton begun his
canal. Then corn vas hnuled to market by
wagon, costing for transportation one or two
bushels to pay tho freight On one bushel now
the cost Of transportation is in many cases eyen
greater than that.
The time has now come when the production
Of grain on the present scale must be abandoned,
or there must be canal equal to the wants Of
steam navigation from the lakes to the Hudson,
OF from Lake Eric to the st. Lawrence below
the rapids. We must hnve through steam na7i-
CATION to New York or to Montreal, or re must
stop raising breadstuffs beyond what is needed
for neighborhood consumption. Nothing Is
gained by ral11ng at the rallroads ann VesBel-
owners. Grant that they are e1tortioners, The
fact is, there is more stuff to be moved than the
canal and the railroads can carry. Preach till
the crack Of doom,-thoy will charge al they can
get. We must have new outlet, and, in our
Judgment, the st. Lawrence only can furnish it,
Let the National Board Of Trade canvass this
question thoroughly. Can they devise the
means whereby the surplus grain Of the country
can be carried to market at cost that will leave
somo compensation to the producer7 Failing
such Q remedy, the raising Of such surplus will
cease.
, 1872-10-17

In 1857, the revenue collected at the port Of
Gloucester, Massachusetts, was SIS, ,461.6l. To
get this amount, twelve men were employed, at
whole imports of Gloucester fell below the rcve-
nue. collected there in 1857. The precise sum
xas s54 1888. Nevertheless, nineteen men were
employed, at an aggregate salary Of SIG, ,s1o.15.
The revenue must be about one-tfth Of What it
WAS in 1857. Yet the force Of men vas increased
over one-half, and the cost Of collection has
more than doubled. Is this econony2
, 1872-10-17

By reference to the advertising columns, 1t viii b
Eeen shat t;.o Continental Insurance Company, Of
New York, present to the public capital Of 0G0 600;
with surplus Of s1,o50,ooo; total assets,
s2,250,oo0, after having paid H,5ooooo IN
lo,fes in orr great fire, This is truly a splendid
ecord, and it will 10 remembered that this Company
was among the first to declare its so1Yency and
temporary Office for business. Their agents.
Messrs. O. " Barrett + Co., have always occupied
leading position in tho insurance business eld besides
the Continental they represent several other leading
insurance companies.
, 1872-10-17


The now Wilson UnderFeed Sewing Machine fs per-
feet 1ock-stch machine, making seam alika On both
sides, and is adared to every grade and variety Of
family sewing, It docs to perfection embroidery,
hemmng, cording. braiding 1ne aud coa1ac sewing Of
all knds, with 1esn machinery End complications thnn
any otc2 machine in use and is sold ct tYgchre the
call and sec It. salesroom at No. s7a West Madison
sEees Chicago, md in all other cities in the United
States. This Company wants agents in country toWRs,
, 1872-10-17

The election in South Carolina, yesterday, be-
tween the two Grant tickets for Governor end
State officers, resulted In the election Of Moses,
hauled down the American flag upon the EUR
render Of Fort Sumter. The opposition ran
candidates for Congress in only two districts,
and it is thought that Governor B. F. Perry
has been elected
, 1872-10-17

An editorial paragraph in TIE TRIBUNE Of yes
terday stated that 10 lives were lost by the Lac Ia
Belle disaster. This statement was erroneous
later intelligence than that on which the paza-
graph was founded (aud which later intelligence
appeared in the same issue) stating that three
persons are known to have periehed: 2. Fl. Lip
pincott and L. Wyener, Of Milwaukee, and It.
Smith of WatertoWn, Wis.
, 1872-10-17

The will Of the late Governor Seward was read
yesterday; by it he leaves the family mansion to
two of his cons, and the rest Of the estate in
equa parts to his three sons and his adopted
daughter, Miss Olive Rialey Seward. This lady
was the companion and friend Of Miss Seward,
and has been a member Of the family ever since
that lady's death. She accompanied the ex-
Secretary in his journey around the world.
, 1872-10-17

The champion poisoner lives in Auckland,
New Zealand. She is named Mary Ann Cotton,
and is under arrest for long career Of system
ATTIC poisoning, including Is children, three hus-
bands. and one boarder. She stands at the head
of the profession
, 1872-10-17

The facts concerning the frauds in the cleo
tion at Philadelphia, are already becoming pub
io The Judges Of one ward repudiate the
official returns, and the known frauds in the city
already aggregate $1,000 votes.
, 1872-10-17

appropriate, particularly in q Republican Gov
ernment, as that which represents the whole
people. It is true that this reduces the impoE-
lance and the functions Of representative Min
istera, but that, if sacrifice Of personal conse-
quence, is q sacrifice in the interest Of the
7rbnTa 1aticn
, 1872-10-17

Judge Gary, yesterday, overruled the motion
for . new trial in the Blake divorce case, and,
assuming that substantial justice has been
done, the public have reason to be thankful
that the case is not to be tried again. Blake
has appealed to the Supreme Court.
, 1872-10-17

made. Tho Mercantile Library Rcading-Room
was opened the very next Sunday, and Las been
open ever since, with the happiest results.
Notwithstanding the brilliant weather which at
tracted thousands to Central Park, the favorite
Sunday-resort for New Yorkers, over four
hundred persons visited the Cooper Institute
Reading -Room,-an attendance equal to
that Of other days, considering tho
numbers Of hours it was open.
The Public Library Of Cincinnati has been
open on Sundays for 8 year and half, and the
testimony of Mr. Poole, in his Fifth Annual Re-
port, just published, will do more to encourage
doubling Trustees and Directors Of other L.
braries to initiate the experiment than Mr.
Ritchio's intolerant arguments can undo. He
says:
In 1871, the average daily attendance Sunday roEe
from a13 for tho first eight months to 597 in Dcccnber
The Issues since juno e. tho date Of tho annual re-
port havo been $780, against 1892 during the sc1no
period Of 1871 or increase Of 66 per cent. Those
who fear that the Sunday library will draw off attend
auce from church, will be encouraged to learn
that the Cincinnati Library is much moro
frequented in tho afternoon and evening than in the
morning. On the other hand" says Mr. Poole, it
is noticeable fact that many Of TINT cass Of young
men who have strolled about the streets Sunday,
and spent the day in less profitable manner, are
habitua1y frcqucntng the roome and spending po1-
ton Of the day in reading, Tho department Of read
roon1s have been as still and orderly secular
days. While some renders have called for religious
books the other classes Of reading sought for have In
the main. been instructive and proftabie.''
, 1872-10-17

HOW THE PACIFIC RAILROAD WAS BUILT.
Moses Bates, Eeq., Of Boston, has addressed
letter to the Springfield (Afaes.) Republican, in
which he exposes some Of the features of the
enormous swindle which has been rerpetrated
upon the people Of the United States, in con-
nection with the Pacific Railroad. One Of these
flagrant violations Of good faith, which the
Credit Mobilicr Was concerned in, occurred, ac-
cording to Mr. Bates, in the location and con-
struction Of the road. When the charters were
granted to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific,
tho surveys had beon made and the length Of
each Of the roads was shown by the following
figures
Ucion pncic Omaha to Ogden 955 705100o miles
Central p2citc Ogden to s=n Fran
23o-looo miles
Total, Omaha to San francisco. 1,cs7 miles
The time tables, as thoy are nov printed,
mako the distances Us follows:
omaha to <9 <ogden 1922 miles
Total .......................1,91 1918 miles
Passengers arc now obliged, therefore, to pay
for IN excess Of two hundred and hfty-six miles
OF meandering, which has taken from the people
Of tho United States somo twenty millions Of
do11ars in nnblic lands end Government bonds.
in addition to the subsidies secured in 1862 and
1874. In giving the roads this circuitous direc
tion the cornoretions of courao sccured those
lands which vero the most tya1uable.-tho amend
ed charter Of 1864 giving them, for eeeh mile Of
road ton a,ternato acctions of land extend;nr
twenty miles buck On each side, with Govern
mcut bonds bearing per cent interest. at the
rate Of SIG. 900 per mile, the amount to be
doubled end trebled over the Rocky Mountains
and Sierra Ne7adas. With regard to the coz
struction Of the road, Mr. Bates says:
For each mile SO added to their line Of road they &C.
cured Of their own and the Government bonds
tbna a., ovsr I'm VorSr n1o"ntsrs s,,1o n +ha
opinion Of every railroad export who has examined the
road it wss built IN the cheapest and poorest manner
n-;oa e,n1atsa ~ "" contracts n-oa tho
performance Of which they were enabled to the
subsidies from the Government.
AuotneS e"4nul0' IL oouAoc'1ou WALL bno Ieu-
, 1872-10-17
Gbe Gb11e9o drlt1aar1e.
Thursday Morning, October II, 1879.

Yesterday the registration Of voters closed, and
seemingly but small number Of voters en-
rolled themselves. The registry will be open
for additional names on Tuesday, Oct. %, and re-
xoain open one day only.
, 1872-10-17

One Of the most curious phenomena OF the
day is the sudden revival Of pilgrimage in
Franco. Two shrines, Lomdes and LaSalette,
which have for some time attracted few score
of pilgrims each year, nov draw their thousands.
Special trains are run On the railways to accom-
modate the throngs. The Reds Of the great
cities hoot at and attack them, but the semi
persecution only inaumos their zeal. At these
two Vi1lages,-the one in the Jena, the other
in the Pyrenees,- tho pilgrims are forced to
camp by thousands in the open air. They
spend their time in praying, singing, list
ening to impasaioned sermons. Miracles are
wrought. Baptism in the springs near
ct hand, the touch OF tho sacramental bread
blessed before the shrine, these cure paralysis,
consumption, everything. The almost immedi-
ate death Of sick girl who was plunged into
tho spring at Lonodcs does not avail to hinder
belief in it's healing powers. The girl was
wicked it was Gods vengeance. So the pill
grims say, and recount the marvellous cures that
they have seen. These cures are not to be
doubted. Religious exultatioa is no mean ele-
ment in the treatment OF certain diseases. The
little churches are foBtooned with crutches,
bandages, and waxen legs and arms,-memen--
toes OF vanished sickness.
, 1872-10-17

GLOBE THEATRE -Desp1atnes street, betwee1
Madison and Washington. Wood and Sinn managers M
Tarcty entertainment with the Mathev9 family ArthE
Gregory, William Carleton c. A. Gardner, Mies Glmer
and Costa's Ballet Troupe.
, 1872-10-17

The sale Of brouzes and ststuary, advertised by Eli
gon Foster, to take place ut No. 1888 Twenty
street, this Taursiay) evening, is postponed until
further notice. as tho bulk Of the goods have not yot
arrived.
, 1872-10-17

MICHIGAN AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH-Pzo
fessor James E. Murdoch: Readings from Shakespeare,
Dickens, and modetn poets.