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Year: 1873

An outcry against monopoly always has its
effect upon unthnkIng people, because vague
notions prevail of what a monopoly really is.
Exclusive privileges to trade in certain dis
trcts or to deal in certain commodities are
monopoles in the Odious sense which we have
made it part of our political creed to exc
crate. Such are the powers granted in former
times to European commercial companies in
the East Indies, and the exclusive rights re-
served by certain Governments of dealing in
salt and tobacco. All such determinations are
contrary to sound public policy, oppressive,
and unjust, and when they apply to articles
in universal daily use they often become in
tolerable hardships.


But we commonly misapply the term monop-
olists to any one who happens to be without q
competitor in his business, whether compe-
tition is ruled out by law or only by the
fundamental principles OF profit and loss. We
call the New-York and New Haven Railroad a
monopoly because it is the only railroad on
which we can ride from this city to Bridge
port or New-H Haven; yet it is not properly a
monopoly, because any one can obtain leave to
build another road right by the side of it if he
chooses to spend his money for such pur-
nose. On the other hand, we never thought
of reproaching Elias Howe as monopolist,
although the law gave him an exclusive priv
ilege of manufacturing sewing machines and
he made an enormous fortune by means of it,.
The Pennsylvania Railroad was a monopoly
in New jersey so long as the law of the State
forbade the construction of any rival road !;
but it ceased TO be one when the General
Railroad act threw open the transit to free
competition


Most of the Western roads which are de-
nounced 80 bitterly as grasping monopolists"
are really subject to unlimited rivalry, and
some of them have been nearly ruined by it.
The consequence is that they are attempting
TO control prices just as tho merchant does
Year: 1873

We have the promise of Democratic Mem
Der of Congress that the Investigation into
alleged corruption in securing the additional
subsidy to tho Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany shall not be allowed to drop. We should
hone it would not. The affair was taken up
late in the last session; and the Ways and
Means Committee were not anxious to press
matters There is abundant reason to believe
that the "strikers" in Congress thought there
was money in the subsidy job, whether there
was or not. If, as reported, there were two
or three Congressman going about with temp
tations to covetous fellow-members, nobody
will bo surprised to find it out.
Year: 1873

In another column of THE TRIBUNE, to-day,
we print "A second letter from correspondent
who is making a careful examination into the
present condition of South Carolina affairs.
How the negro looks and acts as legislator
is told in language vivid enough for the
readers complete view OF the unusual sight
Nobody need be astonished that the coiored
man makes a burlesque of legislation, some
times. Under the circumstances, the wonder
ia that he does 50 well.
Year: 1873

Commissioner Van Mort, greatly to our sur
prise and regret, does not deny the statements
which we reluctantly made public yesterday
relative to his delay in responding to the call
of the Mayor to meet with the Board of APP
portiOnment. 1t appears that he not only de-
layed but finally refused to attend the meet
ing, because he had business at Albany. There
is an impression that Mr.. Van Mort is city
official and not a legislator, and that he can
better perform his duties at the City Hall than
at the Capitol Which duty will he perform
to-day,-that required of him by law or that
demanded of him by the lobbyists of the
RingP
Year: 1873

There seems to be good case for impeach-
ment in Washington. The Board of Public
Works, which is practically the District Gov
crnment, is shown to have transcribed its
powers to an alarming degree. Our Washing
ton dispatches explain how the expenditures
of the Board have been grossly illegal; and
the comparison which is made between the
latest report from that ambitious body and its
previous statements indicates degree of rot
tenness which is suggestive of nothing so
much as the old corrupt Tammany rule in this
CITY. Unless a reformation can be speedily
eAcctcd, the District Government may as well
be dissolved.
Year: 1873

Some of the wOrkmen on strike at the
New-York Gas Works are alternating from
their cause whatever of popular sympathy 1t
might have secured. Two or three violent
attacks have been made on men who would
not take part in the rebellion; and one serious
CAR of assault is reported. 1t looks very
,puel, as if the only" Company affected by the
strike wonld be able to go through without
further serious embarrassment. The work
,osn have need of patience No violence can
telp them.
Year: 1873

Not many new points were brought out yes
tcrday in the Court of Inquiry at Halifax. In
fact there does not seem to be much If any
chance to add to the story of the wreck. ex-
ceut so far as the personal experience of in
di1idual survivors may vary. These adven-
lures are always interesting. and possess
certain dramatic power which attracts alb
s9r5ed attention. But the testimony of Capt.
Williams has covered all the main facts concern
iux the last hours of the life of the Atlantic.
The statements of his subordinates cOrroborate
his own. We shall never know, apparently,
why 10 beacon lights were seen before the
slp went ashore. All the witnesses concur
in the story that none were visible; yet, we
know that the night was not thick. and that
,bc ship ought TO have been in sight of Sam
lro light at least an hour before she struck.
The tale is substantially told. 1t is record
If reckless incompetence.
Year: 1873

Editor San Diego World-I was startled to learn from your paper of the 2d. that a project is on foot to create an inland sea east of us, of such magnitude as to form a body of water sufficiently deep and wide to odestrOy eur commerce on the east to a very great ex- tent. If 8 canal can be built from the Great Desert, why not. a ship canal and rival commercial cities on the eastern shores of that little inland sea that will handle the commerce of Utah and Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, as easy as cat would handle a mouse? With concentration of railroads and capital at the north end of such a body of water, a Chicago would be built up, and we would be only St. Joe. If your publi- cation is a reality, a dense cloud of danger is lowering over us. Every effort in our power should be used to destroy the enterprise.

 PROTECTIONIST,

 Tour correspondent need not be exercised about this matter. The people who have this project in charge doubtless have some ulte- rior object in view. In our Opin- ion, when Amram, who died thousands of years ago, again reigns in Egypt, ship canal will be cut from the Gulf to the Des- ert. Let our correspondent pos sess his soul in patience and await developments. The only ship canal that will ever menace the prosperity of San Diego is one which it is contemplated to cut across Central America, and that will cost so many hundreds off mill lions that it will never be attemp- ted. ]-Worla.
Year: 1873

We feel sure that the people of Viii
mington need no appeal from us to
excit, their sympathies for the plague
stricken sufferers at Memphis. BY
nail and by telegram the intelligence
comes to us that our fellow creatures
are there dead and dying in numbers
that are simply appalling. Those who
remain and are yet not stricken down
need help in caring for those not so
fortunate. In no other shape can
snch efficient help be rendered as III
that of ready money, that Icy the aid
of the telegraph can from the remotest
noints be made available i'll Memphis
in an hours time.


There is no time for delay. Litter
ally is it true that ne gives twice who
now gives quickly. Money is indeed
scarce and times are hard, but when
We remember what all awful scourge
the Yellow Fever is, he who can refnse
to give, and to give cheerfully, and ut
once, to the very fullest extent Of his
means, to the plague-striclen sufferers
at Memphis, is scarcely worthy OF the
name of man. And who better than
the citizens of Wilmington, from their
own experience, know the awful hor-
r0rs of the Yellow Fever.
Year: 1873

\ writer IN the New York Times,
who is highly commended by that pa
per, is very much concerned about the
financial future of the country. He is
in favor of a speedy return to specie
payments and thinks all the ills of the
country flow from Il too free use OF
paper money; and his very inmOst soul
is grieved because other people do not
seem to be of his way of thinking. He
tells us that, g strange as 1t may seem,
there is at this very moment q plot
forming to press upon Congress at its
next session the issue of one htltdle1
millions more Of grceHbachs. under
the plea that we cannot carry on the
business of the country with the pres
ent sum of seven hundred millions.
There is no s,crecy about this scheme;
it is talked Of in more than one infu-
entail quarter What is equally Sc
rious-the press, which Of late has
been almost unanimous i'll its urgent
demand for measures toward resump
ton, has fallen under the spell, and
no more is heard about specie re-
sumption"


We do not take any pleasure IN the
sorrow of the Times correspondent,
but it will, nevertheless, much delight
rs if Congress shall authorize the
issue of a large additional amount of
currency.


If the resumption of specie pay
ments means q reduction of the amount
of the circulating medium III the
country, we are opposed to it for the
present. Tt is q very convenient pro-
gramme for buyers to decrease the
amount Of the circulating medium and
then by shrinkage in values to force
the business to accommodates itself to
the decrease, but it means ruin to the
producers. The debts that are now
pressing upon our farmers and our
merchants were contracted before the
shrinkage, and the result will be if the
shrinkage shall take place, that the
farmer will not be able to pay the
merchant. the merchant Will hot be
able to pay the bank, and general ruin
will pervade the whole producing
country. Especially would it be nm
fair and unjust to force II resumption
Of specie payment just at the time
when the grain of the West and the
cotton of the South is going into mar
ket. It may suit New York and New
England latitudes, but it will not
suit us.


We are glad then to learn that there
is determination to press upon Con
gress the issue of one hundred millions
more of greenbacks and that the talh
about the resumption of specie pay
ment is 10 more heard.
Year: 1873

viii some OF our cotemporarics in
form us whether the awards recently
made by the British American Commits
sion under the Washington Treaty en-
braced any of the cases involving dc
c:sion of the question about the burn
ing OF Columbia ? It has been stated,
we believe, that the claims allowed
amounted in all IL about two millions
of dollars, and it is known that it was
material to the decision OF some of the
cases before the Commission, to ascer-
tain whether General Sherman the Fed
eral or General Hampton the Confed-
crate officer was responsible for the
destruction of the property for which
payment was demanded by British
subjects.


It Will be interesting to know what
conclusion, if any, the Commission
may have arrived at. Ii a decision has
been made against General Sherman,
it Will be a severe reflection upon him
in view of the strong swearing he has
done in his own case, and IL view of
the further fact, that very recently the
Secretary OF War used the weight of
his official position, apparently at least,
to influence the decision.


The silence of the northern papers
and telegraphic dispatches in relation
to The matter, leads us to think that the
question has been decided against
Sherman-jf it has been decided at all


If it had been decided against Gen
eral Hampton, We rather think that the
public would have been duly informed
of the fact.


VIII sombody shat knows, please
tell us how the case stands
Year: 1873

The Executive Committee Of the
Cape Fear Agricultural Association met
last evening 1t the Purcell House. Af-
ter mature deliberation it was unani-
moUsly resolved to postpone the Far
until December I'd, Sd, 4th and 5th
This action was deemed advisable on
account of the financial crisis now dis
turbinG the business of this section.


The Committee have assurances that
at that time many attractions will be
added to the Fair which it would be
impossible at this time to prepare. It
is proposed on the part of the citizens
to donate a handsome purse for the
trial of speed, and a Grand Tourna-
ment, in full knightly armor, to be
followed by Ball at night, as we'll as
a Gift Concert and Shooting Match,
will be among the attractions of tho
occasion.


We hope il due season that all
these matters, now in active prepara-
ton, will be announced as fully con-
summated.
Year: 1873

Soreness of the breast or lungs, or liver
are relieved by placing two or
three thicknesses of flannel wet with
Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil over the
when retiring to bed at night.
Try it One application will help you very
much.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General Of the United States, after a trial
Of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

NEVER SAW THEIR EQUAL.-The editor
wis Coufaat says I'VE do not hesi-
tate To recommend Dr. Prices Cream
Baking Powder and Special Flavorings
We use none other in our family, and
they more than meet our expectations
Knowing these articles to be of rare ex-
cellence, we have no hesitation in urging
every housekeeper in the land to give
them trial feeling satisfied that they will
indorse their claims for purity, strength
and quantity.
Year: 1873

NUTRITION; How PossTBLE-The blood
is simple this-A SOLUTION OF FooD.
Now it is the function of the blood, to
build up afresh continually every portion
of the frame But for this building-up
process, it is not enough that blood be
present, simply There must also, so to
speak, be willingness and readiness, on
the part of muscle or brain, or whatever
else it may be to take up from the blood
the peculiar nourishment it may stand in
need of. "One man, as the saying goes,
may lead the horse to the water, but
twenty men cannot make him drink: We
must make the horse willing we must
coax him. So also we must coax the
worn-out muscle, the worn-out brain, tc
drink-drink of the liie-giving blood
stream that washes, as it were, its very
/ lips. There is nothing that cOaxes the
unwilling horse, in this case, like Dr. Got
/ tlieb Fisch's Bitters


This subject continued next week undel
. Hoo to Enjoy Winter
Year: 1873

OPERA HoUsE.-The famous Ring
gold Rockwell Combination of actors
made its first appearance before q
Wheeling audience at the Opera House
last night and has good reason to be
proud of its reception. A very fash
ionable and satisfactory audience was
assembled and all the good POINTS in
the play. "a Struggle for Life" were
we'll brought out and properly appre-
ciated. Mr.. Stoddsrt in his celebrated
character of "Moneypenny," displayed
unusual merit and wen a very good
verdict from the audience present. Mr..
Ringgold who personated an engineer,
and Mr.. Rockwell, a manufacturer
who was shot too early in the play, met
with good deal OF sympathy and per-
formed their parts well. Miss lone
Burke is deserving Of special mention.
She is an actress OF more than ordina-
~ talent and will doubtless become
quite q favori;e among our theatre
going people.


The present company at the Opera
House is worthy OF a very generous pat
ronage aud we doubt not that during
the holiday season the house will be
we'll filled. Tonight the Struggle for
Life" is to be repeated and we bespeak
for it large audience and a pleased
Year: 1873




Riot


CHICAGO, December 22.-There is
considerable apprehension Of the result
OF the immense gathering Of working.
men oD the east side At Turner Hall last
evening TO demand employment and
bread OF the city, resulting in riots
aud perhaps bloodshed. Not less than
FIVE hundred men were present, and
many being unable to get in. Some o.
the speeches were very incendisry. Cu!s'
ing the sristocrats and men Of proper
ty, and demanding the city TO give work
and when that could not be furnished
it should advance money TO procure
them food. Speeches were made 10
German, French, Swedish, Polish aud
Irish, and resolutions were paced lor
immediate organization OF work ingme I
10 demand relief. A committee Va:
appointed to appear before the Common
Council tonight and submit the ie-
maud, and it was decided to form in a
body and escort the committee to the
City Hall. An immense mob turned
out and it i. not at all unlikely lha. q
riot will follow.
Year: 1873

No present would be SO acceptable to
4 wife, daughter, or lady friend, as a
nice Piano or Organ out Of the splendid
assortment on sale at such very low


prices and such easy terms at Sheib's
Music Store No. 80 Twelfth street,
above Market, under Washington
Hall. Try the experiment, and the
truth OF our assertion will be evident in
the eager satisfaction with which its
advent in the household is hailed For
Christmas, New Years Day or any day,
this is the present Of all to make lady,
Year: 1873

GOOD ORDER From PRESIDENT GRANT


President Grant has issued an order which
VIII cause some commotion among those
federal office holders who have been inter-
meddling with local politics. and who have
imagined that they were gratifying the Presi-
dent and doing good service to the Republi-
can party by getting themselves elected to
Oh'e IN the States to which they belong. 1t is
announced that in the opinion of the President
It Is not consistent with the interests of the
states or OF the United States that person
should hold a federal Office and State or
municipal Office at the same time. and notice is
given that on and after the 4th of March next
any otfl GER in the service of the United States
who fills also State or municipal position will
be regarded as having resigned his former
Year: 1873

Physical n6rmes the of ALL Millions are ALWAYS
sick No man, woman child is uniformly perfect health
Much however of the sickness and suffering which


burden to beings is due to
and neglect mighty andOe to the leading
ease has been provided 1t harmless efficient No
poisonous drug enters into its composition 1t
stmuant tonic and aperen Of which ingredient
table This unexcepOnab preventive and restorative med
cine is not thing under the Hoseters Stomach
Bters will have been before the world quarter
century, and it not too much that thousands
tens of thousands. using who would have been
their had they been
sustained by TINS wholesome stmuan The rapdity with
which minor ailments often become. neglected obstinate
diseases well known This tonic famous for mmed
ate check which gives these breeders deadly disorders
The sensation of aRguOr the sick headache the
the indisposOn to exerOn the the confusion
bran the physical debility which intended premonsh
us OF the approach of serious danger invariably
by few doses of the Bitters The the preparation


genuine specific for dyspepsia bilious complaints maaous
evers rheumatism and chronic debility the world
and in these days OF infamous charlaansm when
artcs that rob the invalid of the last
advertised inVigorant o. is indeed blessing to
kind that Hesteer Stomach Bter everywhere procur
able, and everywhere popular.
Year: 1873

A Practical VIEW The Richmond Eaou;;.
rer, speaking of the condition of Virginia.
thinks the best way to get out of our present
embarrassed condition would be for every
farmer to come to fixed determination to buy
no more tinery for his daughters on credit, to
make his sons support themselves, to hire but
few abOrers on his farm, (no more than are
necessary in connection with the family labor, J
to sell all the land that he cannot conveniently
culuya'e, and to get out of debt as rapidly as
possible" This is exactly what is needed in
some parts of Virginia, at least, as well as in
some parts Of Maryland Farmers may NOT
only get out Of debt in this way, but, persever.
ing In it, will in time get rich. Indeed to be
cut of debt is richness itself.
Year: 1873

The birthday of General Robert f. Lee was
celebrated Monday in the South. At Savannah
the occasion was marked by the first military
parade; since the rebellion, and bv an address
from General Wade Hampton. Business was
generally suspended, and the day 'resembled
the Fourth Of July before the war;
Year: 1873

SURVEY OF THE EXTENSION FROM LANDENBERo TO


OXFORD.


On Wednesday last, the survey of the exten-
SION of the Wilmington Il Western r. R., from
Ltndenberg to Oxford, was begun, and the line
run along the original route from the former
place to point below Schlogels mill, thenca
near the Franklin school house, from which
point it will descend to the valley of the Big Elk,
near the Spring Lawn paper mill. where it
Crosses TO the valley OF the Little Elk. Beyond
this valley the survey has not been made. but on
Monday next the work will be resumed.


This survey. 1t must be explained, ia only the
transit line. The survey for the grades is yet to
be made, and of these we can say but little, but
are assured that the route will not be an expen-
siye one The route is believed to be practiOa-
bic one, and the people along it manifest deep
interest in its location.
Year: 1873

The democrats are solacing themselves
with boasts about what they might have
dome in the election if they had only tried.
look at the record will show that those
cases in which they have tried the most
are those in which they have been beaten
the worst. If we could have got little
fight out of them in this campaign Ding
ley's majority would have been largely in
craa sed.
Year: 1873

special to the New York Times from
Washington dated the 9th says: "The last act
in the historical Alabama claims controversy
as between the government of the United
States and that of Great Britain was performed
to-day, and created very lively interest
among the newspaper people, in marked con-
trast with the dulness which has reigned here
so long. From the documents which record
the transaction it will be seen that nations can
pay their bills with as little machinery and
formality as individuals. The certificate
which was issued in the names of the brokers
OF the British Government was like any other
certificate for gold deposited in the Treasury,
but bore upon its back when finally handed
over series of distinguished Endorsements
which will make it historical document, and
when Cancelled and filed away will cause it to
be as much inquired after by curious visitors
as are the silver dollars captured in the skirts
Of jeff. Davis The presence of Minister
Thornton. Consul General Archibald, Secre-
tary Fish, and Assistant Secretary Davis at
the Treasury Department all at one time, on
this important international occasion, made
picture for history. If only pencil had been
there to portray it! But the most interesting
document is the bond issued to Secretary
Fish under the act of Congress to be by him


held in trust for the claimants of the award
A single bond covers the entire sum. 1t is
beautifully executed by an expert with pen
upon parchment, and when redeemed, as it
| will be under the future action of Congress in
| distributing the award, will become another
curiosity. Tonight Mr.. Davis entertains the
| principal participants in the transfer, as well


as those members of the Cabinet in the city,


at dinner. Every one here looks upon the


notable event the last feature in the greatest
! victory of peace.