Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 5, 1873, Page 4

TiLE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUN TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. /TCRMB OF AURBCRIPTION :{ru‘mu ™ mvum;). T e 0 A 2l Farts of n yonr at tho samio ralo, copt Parla_with & supply of stago lluos at all commonsurato with the public domand. In Gor- man citios, the drosckes, or cabs, supply the only sntisfactory moans for gotting sbout on whools, T'o prov d tnistakes, ho suro and givo Tost | Tholr chmrgos aro very low, and tho; o Tret N e State and Uouuty, B y g y Memitipuces woy lio wiade t]vllll'm:.lu;(‘lr:l(‘lr. oxprain, Post | arc numorous énongh, undor ordinary Oficw aider, or b Eog O MU monFia, ciroumstances, to accommodate tho poo- ity detivorad, Bundoy oxconted, 35 ) 4 Tl o sy, dolivored, Nundep g b Cornor Mndison aud Doarbor TO.DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. GOMPANY, + Uhtcago, 111 M'VIOKER'S THEATRE-Madison steost, hetween Opora 0d, Doachorn. L por " Fausty" with L og e an Marguerito," A00LEY'S OPERA HQUSE—Randolph -\m:, be- wean Olark and Lasiallo. **Risks," AOADREMY OF MUSIC Biadison and Monroo. ‘' An RE' OPERA-IIQUSF.—Monrne strao BNt o Dorar: b Kitty Binucliard Combination, **Bad Dickoy." GLOBE THEATRE-Dosplalnosatrest, hotwoon Wagh- * fagton and Madison, ltngagoment of Mles tollo, **Luoretia Uoryla." AMPHITHEATRE—Clinton stroot, botweon Randolph 21d Wastington, Vanok, tho Prostidisitataur. ol ey BUSINESS NOTICES. g GOVERNMENT. ARTIFIGIAT . GARDNER, Bixtoouth:a DI e onie ane i Obiiago suthortzod couts por weok. confa nor woak. ouzo, cornor of Con. joralé Opora Compa- — talsted atroot, botwoen Odd Trick." botwaen urlosquo LIMB MANUTAC- . | plo. Tako thoss away, howovor, by monns of astriko, nnd tho Vionncse poople and their guosts muat bo in a forlon plight. BLll, Ger- men municipal govornments, as aruls, have n quick and summary way of briuging rofractory poople to an undoratanding, and it i likely that the cabmen will not long bo permitted to intor- fore with tho auccoss of tho Grand Exposition. Aftor unloading the gooda that have pilod in upon tho exhibition, supprossing the mutiny among the eabmen, and gotting rid of the cor- rupt American Commissioners, the World's Fair at Vionna will have disposed of its full share of annoyancos. THE DIXON CALAMITY, Our dispatches this morning give the partlon- lars of o visitation upon an Xllinols commumty, searcoly fo bo deseribedin thoe phrases oxproasive of human calamities, which will carry a thrill of . sadness whorevor tho appalling tidings aro rond. By tho fall of n bridge ovor s rapidriver, swollen with a epring flood, 200 speotators of tho rito woldiors artiiclal limbs %od | of baptlsm by fmorsion were yostordsy cast into the stroam, with tho timbers aund framo- The Chicage Tribune, Monday Morning, May B, 1873. work of tho atructuro, and from tho frightful wrock only 100 woro takon alivo and uninjured. Moro thon fifty bodles have boen rocovered. Many maimed and soroly injured were with diffi- oulty rosuscitated, and numbora wore carriod lifoless down the current and swopt over tho Tho oarth at San Salvador is still shaking, and buildings which withstood tho shock of the earthquake, among thom tho Government Palace, on March 4, have fallen. Many of tha Inhab- jtants who roturned to thecity, in tho bolief that tho worst was over, havo beon hurt, and somo of thiom havo gono med. Its not yot cortain that ho Governmont will abandon its mad desizn of robuilding the city on tho ssmo slto, ] Alinister Bicklos yostorday formerly pro- gented the Bpanish Govornment with tho con- gratulatory rosolutions passod by the late Con- gross upon tho abolition of slayery in Porto Rico. Ho was recolved with ail that profusion of ceromony in which tho officinl Spaniard de- lights to indulge. In presentivg his congratu- 1ations, Gon, Bickles took occasion to prediet tuat Cuba and Porto Rico will now contributo more than ever to the powor of Spain. s———n Four ocorn telegraphs across tho Atlantio will bo in operation by, Sopt. 1. Theso will include the new Frouch cablo, which the Great Enatorn bogins to lay next month. Tho increnso of rates, which wont into effect on the first of the month, instond of tho reduction which had been prom- ised, is oxcused by tho companics on tho plea 4hat their facilitics woro inadequate to the busi- noss offered, a8 only one line was in working - order, As the companies have racently consali- compatition botweon them is not to bo hoped for, Whethor dated undor ono maragement, they have ono line or four. Extraordinary offorts aro being mado by tho Governmont Printing Offico to have as many a8 possiblo of the public documents that were or- dored by tho last Congross finished bofore the explration of tho franking privilego. - This is tho requost of the honorable membors, most of whom voted for tho abolition of franking, and desire to justify themselves by signalizing its last days with proof of how grossly it can bo sbused. Somo fow momboersof theSonate, more eerupulous than their fellows, are stated to have directed their sharo of tho documents to be sont out as froight and paid for at thelr exponse. ey Thirty thousand Highland pines, or Scotch firs, hnvo boon shipped from Dundee, Scotland, 10 thia country, to be planted in tho arid plains weat of the Mississippi. The Highland pino is very hardy, and of rapid growth, and belioved to bo well suitod to the peoulinr country for Whether or mot It is tho best specios of treo for the plains, it is genorallly conceded by all who have ox- mmined this vast region, which oxcoeds in Its wasto arca all the occuplod land of the Enstern Btates, that foroat planting 8 all that s needed to rostoro the humidity of climate that will turn awvhat the old geographies catled tho Great Amer- which it is destined. ican Dosert into a smiling gardon. Official returna of tho killed and wounded in thio Modoe blunder of the 26thult. show that the fivst accounts wore not oxaggorated. Twonty- pno privates and officers woro wounded, sixteon killed, and eix aro missing. The roport that tho Bioux aro moving sonthward fn thelr war-paint, and with mischiovous intont, are resolved by tho ‘War Departmont iuto a statomont that they ara simply on their way to their annual hunt in tho grounds left open to them by tho trealy. It is conceded, howevor, that thoro is groat danger of collision botween thom and gottlors who have boen pouring into thess regions in groat num- ‘bers of lato years. The Indian Dopariment has for eome timo beon debating the advisability of taking away theso bunting-grounds from tho Sioux sud confining them to their resorvations, in order to protect the white families scatterod through them. 'Cnhe Chicago fira&nc markets wore genorally quict and steadier on Saturday. Moss pork was in moderate domand, and n shadoe bLigher, 817.80@17.85 cash, nnd $18.00@18.12% moller June. Lard was dull and s shade ensior, 88.85@8.90 por 100 1bs cash, and $£0.10@9.12}4 dam, . It would soom lmpossiblo to give tho calamity surroundings moro snddoning than it prasonts, even at this distanco, with only those hasty dis- patchos to boar tho tidings. Thore could scarcely bo piotured » situation of more securlty and morcnity. The bright, peacoful Babbath after- noon, tho Louscholds of town and country in Babbath attiro, In full numbers gathored to wit~ noss o roligious ceromony {n a place of sssured safoty for thoso lookors-on, When Denth meots o railway train in full careor or beckous o steam- ship upon tho rooks, there is some proparation for such fato in those conditions of doclared risk. But tho Dixon sufferors droamed of no |-mruv and woro in the raging flood before the first alarm waa given, T'ho rosder can imagine focbly tho rest,~tho startlod town, the cry of anguish that passed from homo to homo, like that of Egypt, ' whon there was no houso in which thero wae not ono doad." Many in all parta of the land will mourn ther sharo of this visitation, ood many strangors' oyes will il with tears of sympathy, 80 near to every human hoart comes & shook liko this, It is only a weok since from this same town camo Intolligenco that eadtioned our own community, for this greater visitation is almost in gight of tho place whera the unfor- tunate young Arnold lost hia life. THE ACTION OF THE LEGISLATURE, The Loglslaturo practically adjourned ou Sat- urday, thongh it will not formally do a0 until to- morrow. We yostordsy discussed tho goneral improvomont of tho charactor of tho mombors and of the action of the Legielature slnco the roformatory provisions of the Constitution of 1870. Wo print this morning In dotail o list of tho appropriations, and a lst of tho acts passed. Tho sossion lasted 118 days. Tho cost of tho seasion bos boen about §177,000, and, had not the Loglslature weakly providod for another geesion next winter, there would have beon but littlo complaint of tho extravagance. During tho koaslon, 1,034 bills wero Introduced,—435 in tho Bonate, or an averago of 8 to each Sonator, and 539 in tho Houso, or an average of loas than 4 to each Ropresentative. Fortunately, but 119 of these bills passed. The aggregate of the appropriations mado was ©6,851,465, covering o period of two years, Tho action 1n bobalf of tho Btato charitica was lib- eral. Large sppropriations woro made for addi- tional buildings for the various asylums and ‘hospitals, theroby incroasing the moans for ac- commodsting the infortunate. Tho two Insancs Asylums aro to bo comploted, and tho doaf, Qumb, and blind will bave groater and moro comfortable provision. Tho Stato-House will probably be completed in timo for tho meoting of tho Gencral Assombly of 1875. We refer, for {ho details of the appropriations, to the letter of our correspondont. Tho footings are as followa: 1873, 430,665 841,678 8 Ordinary expenses. Buildings. Miscolluneo Behool fund, ‘Total for two yeara,.... Tho Revenue bill provides for tho collection of $8,600,000 in 1873, and 2,600,000 in 1874; total for the two years, £6,000,000, loaving 8 sur- plus of $168,685. The rovenuo from the canal is appropriated to tho construction of & dam on the Iilinois Rivor at Copporas Creck. That from tho Illinois Cen- tral Railroad, with tho balanco in the Treasury nnd the items for interest, eto., in the direct lovy, will bo applied to the extinguishment of tho Blato dobt, and thers is & prospoct that that dobt will be 8o nearly closed out by the meeting of the Qeneral Assembly in Jnnusry, 1875, that a direct levy will be mado to purchase what may romain duo, if any, so that Iilinois may onter tho year of tho Natlonal Jubilce—the centennial sunivorsary of indepondenco—entirely freo of all manner of debt, and with a handsome, fixed, and permanent revenue. It is always o matier of congratulation in this country whon o Btate Loglslature or Qongress ab at g djourns without doing any serious injury to the sollor Juno. Moty woro dull and une | 4 chnuged, 8t 03¢@03¢o for shouldors ; 8@ ]‘:ul)‘llolln:e;est: I:;u chlal{u}tum‘of 1lfl’ll, the 8)o for short ribs; 0@0%a for ehort rat oleoted under the new Constilution, fur- clear; and 10@120 for sweot plcklod hams, Mighwinos wareactive and firmat 87}¢o por gallon Lako froights wero more active and stondy at for corn to Buffalo. Flour was dull and un- changed. Wheat was quict aud ensior, cloaing at 1,283 sollor the month and 1,265¢ seller June, nished sucha markod contrast, in rospoct with its prodecessors, that tho present Logialature Is to be judged by a rather high standard. Whila tho Logislature of 1873 may not bo rankod alongside that of 1871, it novertholosn stands pro-ominontly above ts predecessors olocted undor the old Qon- stitution, and, undor the controlling prohibitory Oa 'jurnru 4 the poreons thue scloctod to ba botween 2L and 00 yonrs of mgo, to have thelr rational facultlos, to bo legally compotont, bo of- fair chinraotor, approved integrity, sound judg- mont, woll informed, and to undorsinnd tho English language. This let of porsons to contlnus for two yoars, if not proviously oxhaustod; whon tho let is eoxbausted, anothor ghall ho mado. Trwonty days beforo tho boginning of any trinl torm thio Clork of tho court shall, in the presonco of tho County Olerk, draw from tholiat of namos at lonst thirty tosorve as jurors for each two wooks that suoh court will probably bo in ses- elon, Graud jurors oro tobo provided byo spocinl drawing by tho Connty Bosrd. Any por- mon who shall sack to bo o juror, orany person who shinll request that another bo placed ona jury, shall bo deomod guilty of contompt, and fined. The fourteenth mection makos the following auffiolont causos for challongo of o petit juror ¢ That ho lacks any of the qualifications slroady namod ; that ho les served ns e juror with- in ono yoor; ihat ho iz party to a suit pending for trial at tho torm. It further provides “That it shall not bo o csuso of chal- lengo that & juror hiaa road in the nowspapors an necount of the commisaion of tho orime with which tho prizoner is charged, if such juror shall stato on onth that he belioves ho can rondor an fmpartial vordict according to tho law and the o¥idenco, and providoed, furthor, that in the trial of nny criminnl causo tho faot that a porson called as & juror Lins formod an opinion or im- progsion, based upon rumer or Upon NeWspapor statomonta (about tho truth of which he has ox- prossod no opinion), shall not diaqualify him to sorve aa o juror in such cause if ho shall, upon oath, atato that ho belioves ho can fairly and im- portinlly rendor o vordict therein in nccordance with the law and tho ovidence, and the Court shall be satisfied of tho truth of such ntate- mont." . It will bo seen, thorofore, that a juror for tho trinl of casos in tho eivil and criminal courts may be challonged for cither of thoe following cousos: 1. That he is not an inhabitaut of the county, and {s exompt from sorving on jurics, 2. That o s not 21, or over 60 years of ago. 8. That ho is not in the posacssion of his natural facultlos, or is infirm ot docrepit. 4. That hois not free from logal oxceptions, or is not of fair charaotor, or of approved integrity, or of sound Jjudgmont, or well informod, or that ho doos nob undorstand tho English langunge. 0. That ho hoas sorved as n juror on the trial of nny cause within one yenr. 6. That ho Is a parlyto o ‘ponding case to boe tried at the torm. THE DEMDBALXZINT(;O)?FEEGT OF PROTEC. An extraordinary Convention waa held recently at Brattleboro, Vormont, and held for an ox- traordinary purpose. Afters long and caroful comparison of lodgors and bank-books, the dele- gatos unanimously resolved that, whon eovery- Lody was dishonest, thore was no profitinit; thorofore, that it was bottor to bo honeat. This was o Convention of iho manufacturers of ma- nilla paper, and the Convention was called in consequenco of tho fact that, in tho zeal of com- potition aud the desiro to underbid one another, the markot was filled with paper, in which tho quires contained but 23,21, 20, and down as low sa 16 shoots, instead of tho lawful 24, The man who put up 22 -sheots in nquire complained vehemently of tho dishon- eaty of thoso who put only 20 sheets in a quiro, and woro theroforo able to undersoll him, while the virtuous gentloman who sold 20 sheots in quire [declared that tho wrath of hoavon should £all on thoso who plunderad tho public by soll- ing 16 shoots 88 & quiro, or 520 instond'of 480 shoets in & ream. Even tho 16-sheet men be- camo aatisfled that some othors might cut undor " them and put up only 12 hoets in a quire, and tho Convention resolved unanimously to be honeat horoafter, and each put up the lawful numboer of sheots in a roam, Tho manufacturers of manilla paper are poeu- liarly protected by the tariff, In the firat placo, thoy aro atlowed to import thoir raw matorial froo of tax, and,thoir manufacture is pro- toctod by o duty of 96 por cent In gold, oqual, with tho Incidence of tho tax, to 46 por cont odironcy. In other words, tho man who wiehes to purchaso manilla papor not made in the United Btates must poy 45 cents tax on every dollar's worth before ho canusoit, Not contonted with this privilege, it appears that thoso manufacturors have been engeged in plundoring tho consumers by eolling them resms of paper short from ono- twelfth to one-third the legal number of sheots. The infant industries, protoctod as thoy aro by a specinl tax upon tho country of 45 per cont, havo advanced in intellectual vigor to that point whoro they managed to swoll this 45 porcont intb 80 por cent by robbing tho packagoes sold by them to tho uneuspecting publie. Tho resolve of tho Brattloboro Convontion was nll right, 8o far a8 it went. It falled, bow- over, in the extont of tho roformation proposed. In addition to it conclusion that tho manufac- turer of papor who would soll Iess than 480 shoots for & ronm was guility of a fraud upon tho public and sn outrago upon the trado, thoy shoutd have further rosolved that Congross had lovied & tax by which the purchasers of manilla paper received ono-third less papor for thoir Corn wasquict and atondy st 1{@3{c doclino, oloa- money than they wero entitled to, and logs than the people of any other civilized country recoived for tho samo monoy, and that, as nouo of the procceds of this conflscation was pald into tho National Tronsury, this robbery of the people, a8 woll as that of solling short reams, should bo stopped by tho repeal of that tax, But the Cons vontion did not do this. The moral sentiment at Brattleboro did not rise high enough to discover auy iniquity other than tho undermining of ono manufacturer by anothor, Tho fraud upon the public was & thing of courso. It was now tho natlonal policy. “Thore worobut twoolasses now known {o the law—tho plucked and the pluckera, 'The ono produced, tho othor onjoyoed; the one wos governed, tho othor governed. Why should the papor-makers mako an ox- oration, and this robbory or plunder cannot bo mado ** honest” by the moro foree of an nct of Congross authorlzing tho act. In tho ono case Oougroess authorized tho paper-makers to oxtort 46 por cont moro money for their paper than it was worth ; tho papor-makors inorenso tholr plunder by solling 820 shoota for 480§ and yot thoro are thoso who contond that tho robbory was honost up to 45 por cont, but folonious bo- yond that poiut. This polloy of robbing ono elass of tho people to ourich anothor has now been in full oporation ton years. It has corrupted publio sontiment. 1t has dopraved the publio morals, It has bogat » sontiment that thero i no moral obliquity in robbing the Govornmont, olther diroctly or by ovnaion of tho laws. Noman or woman return- ing to tho United States from Europo has tho lesst hositation in smuggling whatovor ho or sho can do, ovon if it roquiro a foo to corrupta cus- toms officor to wink at tho fraud. The Ofvil, Borvico has long since passed into proverbial dishonesty. No man convicted of pocu- lation, or embozzloment in the publio scrvice, has boon, of lato yours, allowed to ho punighed In s way tho las roquires. When tho goneral toleration or amnesty for offonses nagainat official honeaty do not reach tho guilty Dbofore_trial or conviction, It is cortaln to do 80 aftor. Tho laws agalnat offiolsl crime havo boon superseded by the rogulations of party; publio intorosts hava none ot the protection that in socured to thoso of party, and quostions of ox- posure, dotootion, conviction, and punishmont of officiala aro no longer detormined upon con- -giderations of publio intorests, or of tho guilt or innacence of tho officor, but aro solved by the answor to tho quostion, Will it hurt tho party ? Tho moral leprosy which has dograded tho Clvll Sorvice, and which hes complotoly bafiled all offorta to oradicato it, ns sprond to privato lifo. Thobanks, and monoyed nstitutions of all kinds, sro now tho victims, So long sa’tho National Governmont, in its Executivo and Con- greasional departments, proteets the Clvil Bervico from all roforms, and repola the prossoutions of public robbora ag personal and political assaults upon tho Government itself, who can be sur~ prised whon Cashiers appropriate tho wholo ea- sota of banks, and treat tho deposits of the public as opportunities to enrich tho daring oporator? d Tho whole demoralization and degradation of public sontiment, and the dostruction of all re- straints upon tho dishonest appropristion of other people's property, has ita legal authoriza- tion in that polioy of tho Goneral Govornment which uses tho coorcive power of the natlon to rob ono class to enrich another, and to take tho carnings of one man’s labor to bostow it, with- out consideration, upon some othor person. THE ADMINISTRATION'S INDIAN POLICY, ‘Wo havo the sssurauco of Mr, Folix F, Brunot, the Ohairman of tho Board of Indian Commis- gfonors, that Proaident Grant will certainly ad- horo to the ““ponco poliey ” toward the Indians which hos beon doveloped ‘as ono of tho dis- tinguishing foatures of his Administration, , Mr. Brunot is probably correct, When President Grant starts out with & “policy,” heia aptto hang on tot, entirely regardloss of its effocts. This has boen equally truoe in the Ban Domingo affair and tho Louisianadifficulty. Intho formor caso, ho adhered to tho schemo of annexation, though palpably contrary to tho popular will, until ho was defeated at overy point. In the lattor caso, ho has nbided by his resolution to sustain o United Bintos Judge, whose conduct has been characterized aa unparalleled for its infamy by the vory mon to whom Gen, Grant looks for his main support, and will probably maintain tho same policy in the face of riot and bloodshed until Congross raversea tho errors. ONDAY, MAY 5, 1873 Ar, Brunot is of tho opinion that thore will be auothor exhibition of this sort of Exooutive firm- noss in thoe general treatment of the Indians on tho same plan as heretofore. Mr. Brunot is thoroughly en rapport with the porsocuted rod men of the Weat, and loud and bittor in his denuncistion of tho ‘‘ruffiana” and 1 desperadoes” who are persecuting them and arousing thoir savago ' passlons. Mr. Brunob professes to speak for himself end the Prosidontr but not for the other mombers of tho Board of Indian Oommissioners. It is probable, howaver, thatMessrs. Goorge H. Stuart, Willlam E, Dndge’ and John V. Farwell will abide by Afr, Brunat's oxprossions. Those gentlemen fiavo just had s prolonged sesalon in New York Qity, in which it i8 likely that tho whole subject was can- vassed with tho officidl conclusion which Mr., Brunot has thus unofficially pro- clalmed. It will appoar to most paoplo, bowover, as a striking comment upon the “ penco polioy” that the Board of Indian Com- missioners was in sossion, distributing ita profit- able contracts for Indian supplies, at tho very timo that tho latest Modoo slaughtor oceurred, in which about ifty Amorican officer and sol- dlors woro maimod and killed. There aro very many woak pofnts in Mr. Brunot's dofenso of tho ** poaco poliey,” ovon if it bo concoded that the purposos of tho gontle- ‘men who ndhore to it aro ontiroly honest. Mr, Brunot insists that it is not the Indians who aro to blame for tho outbresks and massacros of which we hav@® & periodical rocord, but tho roughs, tho “transporters, contractors, teamstors, whisky-tradors, scouts, and army-followors," ‘who dosire to lead the Indians into war that thoy may enjoy tho profits avisiug therefrom. Nr. Brunot fails to montion tho Indian Agonts in this category of tho natural enomiea of the Indian raco. Admitling, howover, that this ~ broad, goneral sfatoment is corroct, it is pertinont to ack, Whoie responaible for the toleranco of such o clase of mon aa Mr. Brunot doscribes ? Tho Administration and the Commiseloners huve the control of the wholo maitor ; thoy have all the funds they ask; thoy appoint tholr own agenta ; they parcel out the reservations ; thoy mako the contracta for tho gupplies ; they rua tho ontiro machine. It thoir polioy attracts and tolorates & class of mon who Incite the worst passions of tho savages and rive thom into war, thon either tho policy itself or those who adminiater it aro responsiblo for whito men whorever Indians abound. It sooms that thoy Dlave nothing clso to do. Nobody proposes io hold the wholo Indian raco reaponsiblo for tho crimos of a fow, but o liold that policy roponsible which undor- takos to support the Indinus as o race of pen- sioners, and doos not proposs to resont or sup- proan tholr dopredations and masancron, Whon we coano to hear of tho outragos such as tho Apaches, Cheyonnos, and Modoes have lately porpotrated 3 when the Modoos canso to botray and murder United Staton Genorals under o flag of truco of their own beariug; and whon othor tribos canso to slanghtor ponceablo United Btates surveyors working undor orders from the Gov~ ernmont; and whon thaIndian Agonts and traders aro a bottor clnes of mon than Mr, Brunot inad- yertantly describes thom to bo,—thon, and not till thon, will the peoplo of this country have wome confldenco in the Quakor guns. Asfarnn the Modoo war is concorned, Mr, Brunot undertskoes to justify tho policy again, Ho says that tho war originated in the attompt todrivo tho Indians from thoir lands which were coveted by whito men, Admitting that this was the origin of the Modoo troublos, which muat bo regarded aa doubtful, it sorves inno- vriso to lessen tho rosponsibility of the Indinn policy, which subsoquently failed to restors tho rights of the Indlans, and mako them submit to Iawful authority. It was tho *‘policy” which ‘was responeible for Gon. Canby's murdor. It was tho “poliey” which enabled the Modoca to on- trench thomselvos in the Lava Beds, It was tho “polley" which prompted the instructions from tho Intorior Dopartmont at Washington that bound Oanby hand and foot, nnd botrayed him Into his doath, It was'tho ‘‘policy" that sug- gosted tho- samo troatmont for all Indians, whothor friendly or hostilo, and mot the Modoca in war-paint on tho samo footing na ovor the pipo of peace, It {8 this policy which Mr. Brunot snnounces that Gen. Grant proposes to main- taln, and which the Indian Commissioners will support in their poriedical moctings for the al- lotmont of contracts. **18 THE CRUEL WAR OVER ¢" Mr, John Bigelow has an article in tho May number of the Galazy, suggested by the friend- 1y oxpression of England's Promier toward tho American pooplo at a dinner In London, which ocourred about one hundred yonrs after the por- acoution of Dr. Franklin by the British Govern- ment, on sccount of his exposure of tha infa- mous; Hutchison letters. Tt was Mr. Bigolow's purpose to draw a striking contrast botwoon tho British sentiment of that early day and the tone of England's first officor of tho presont time, in- cidontally llustrating the tardiness with which Grent Britain haa acknowledged the injustico of Jer conduct to tho Amorican Colonics, In con- cluding his article, and expresaing a doubt as to the sincerity of England's professed friendship, M. Bigolow snys : P Tho injustico of tho British policy toward the Col- ofifes was just as mpparent to Mr, Pitt in 1773 agit 1a to Mr. Gladstono to-dny ; and yet, If tho lato Prooi- dentinl clection had resulted, 08 most of tho portisana of one of the candidates designed it should, in placing the Government of tho United States under tho con- trol of the party which only elght years ago was in open robellion against it, and i & now civil war, one of the most natural consequences of such an event, hind resulted, what assurance have wo that thosympathy and wealth of the ruling cleses in England would not havo been poured out just as lavishly to dismomber our Unlon, prostrate our commorco and our influ- ence, and discredit our fnstitutions, as they wero in 1861705, and in 1778-1337 Mr, Bigolow goes out of his way, in troating a subjoct ontirely foreign to Amorican politics of tho presont day, to make the assortion that civil war would havo beon ono of tho most natural consoquences of the election of Mr., Greeloy,and with tho purpose of dismembering tho Union. Had such o remark boon mado by a demagoguo in a stump-speech during tho campaign, and in- tonded to appeal to the projudices and fours of some jeolated community luboring under tho delusion that the Warof the Rebellion waa atill in progress, it would have been passed over as ono of tho usual abaurd asperities of activo Amor- fcan politics. No one would heve stopped to notico it oxcept with a joer, and to tho most sorious mind it would have illustrated merely the thoughtlessnoss and dogradation of political controversy. The circutnstances undor which the remark has now beon made are entiroly dif- feront. Xtis tho custom of the party newspapers to take grave offenso at the occasional outbreak of fire-oating journalism at the South, which comos from some romoto weekly newspaper published inthe intorior of Arkansas orthe dopths of Mississippl. It passes the rounds, and furnighes o tople for olongated editorial comment, in which tho War is fought all over again &nd tho robellious epirit of tho Bouth picturedin the most startling fashion, It would require a vast collection of thoso specimons of tho untamged fire-oator's poriodical explosion to make up tho eameo amount of vicions absurdity that Mr, John Bigelow baa succeoded in condonsing in n sin- glo phrase, It is difficult to conceive that & man of his standing and information could doliberately make tho assortion, or entor~ tain tho notion, that Mr. Greoley’s election would have lod to o civil war as its most natural congequence. It is equally difficult to treat such an incongruity soriously, If it woro to bo done st all, Mr. Bigolow should bo called upon to toll who would rebel. According to Lis notlon, the party rospousible for tho lato Rebellion would bave attained the supremacy. Thero would havo been no dangor of a rebellion from this quartor. Tho party would searcely robel against itaolf. Who, thon, would havo robolled? e — Republicaniem in Bpnin does not appoar, from some nccounts, to jusiify the hope- fultiesa which the late American Congress dlscorned in the change of government thore. A correspondent of the London Times gives somo oxtracts from a newspaper ro- contly ostablished at Madrid, undor the title Tos Descamisados (“The Bhirtloss"), which aro disguating onough at this distance, but muet ‘o somewhat dangerous in closor contact, ¢ Tho Shirtless” is undoibtedly a Bpanish synonym for tho Frenoh sans culofles, and its mission s at ous disorganization of tho Bpanish poople to mnko tho situation entirely suf generis, It s not impossiblo that tho Cubsna will soon find tholr opportunity. Mr. Calob Cushing's pumphict on the Treaty of Washington doos nol seotn to have mot with & vory cordial rocoption [n England, BMr. Cush- ing will scarcely have tho satiafaction of know- Ing that ho bas mado anybody mad, it the com- monts of tho London Nctos mny bo taken s o samplo of the epirit in whioh it is roceived. This will bo tho unkindest cut of all. Tho News aponks of it good-naturedly as *tho most sur- prising productfon wo have road for yenrs, even In tho domain of flotlon,” and adda: “Weo did not auspoot that thore could anywhero bo found a veteran lawyor, politician, sol- dior, diplomatist, and literary roview- or capable of such Achillos-liko hater ‘Tho book is renlly very Interosting ; indoed, it ie almost absolutely unique, It is .o combination of partisan pamphlet, porsonal Inmpoon, idylic oulogy, naive solf-glorification, polite anccdoto, elogant biography, and completo docislvonoss on every possiblo or concolyablo subject of contro- versy. The oddity of the wholo thing is, that it #hould bo tho worl of o gontloman who Wwag ona of the counsel for the United Btates Govern- ment on an important and grave ocession.” It ia protty evident that Mr. Cushing's gun has miscarriod in England. The “ Olafmant,” or, aa he calls himsolf, Sir Rogor Tichborne, sooms to be o sort of English Georgo Francis Train, who is unhappy-if his namo is not in the nowspapers, and if ho s not mixod up in some kind of sonsation which will mako him natorioty. Haging got out of funds, ho has concolved tho happy oxpediont of replen- ishing his purao by & suit for libel againat Georgo TRoutlodgo, tho woll-known London publishor, tho preliminary procoedings in which took place Yboforo the Court of Queon's Bonch, April 16. Tho ground of the ¢ Olaimant’s” com- plaint is, that whilo ho was In Nowgato awaiting trial upon the chargo of forgory, Routlodge published o book ecalled *The Tichborne Romance,” purporting to have boen writtonbya London barristor, ** reprosonting the applicant from his cradle to tho presont moment in langunge of tho most atrocious doscription.” Ono puesaga to which he took specisl oxceptiona woa the following: * On tho day, it it ehall arrivo, whon ho stands convicted of building his lawsuit on falschood and baseless calumnios, that day will also have srrived, wo aflirm, when no mora dungerous or shameless rascal ever stood to reccive the seotenco of tho law thun- dored in wrath upon his head.” At this distanco from the Tichborno claimant, it strikes us that the judgment of tho London barriater was a vory corroct one, and that tho people of England sro. s much to be pitied with their “Claimant” a8 tho poople of this country with their Traln and his sonsational antics. Maanwhile anothor calamity is sbout to be inflicted upon the world in the trial of the #QOlaimant” for forgery and perjury, which' comos on this week, and which the English pa- pers state will probably last all summer! ———— The samo public sentiment which produced the boor-riot, in Frankfort-on-the-Main seems to bo oxorting itselt in Cinclnnati. The Volksblat has created an excltemont by declaring that the prico of beer i8 too high. Beor Is sold in Cindin- nati—and very good beor, thoy say—at 82 por kog. Itissaid that an oxperianced and artistic drasvor gots 100 glasses of beer out of overy kog, which is sold at five cents o glass, making & profit of €8 on -overy kog that is sold. Tho Volksblatt anys that this is too much,and the Commercial is of the same opinion. It isheld that tbres cents per glass should be tho prico of boer in Cjucinnati. Tho Gorman saloon-keepers have taken offense ot this ottempt to roduco their profits, sand have sought to retalinte by stopping their subscriptions to the Volksblatt. Tho ob- jectof this measure pooms to have falled, for the Volksblait says that, when twenty saloons cut off their papors, a hundred new names were immediatoly added to the subscription list, It accounts for this vory naturally, The patrons of tho becr-galoons, who bad boon sccustomed to ronding their paper while drinking thoir beer, gubscribed for tho paper themselves when thoy no longer found it at tho beer-snloons. The dis- cussion is an interesting one In Cinciunati, where ‘beer holds almost as important a position as in Frankfort; butit is safo to say that the price will not be reduced until after tho Musical Festi- val which occurs noxt wook, —_——————— The progress which has been made in the way of rapid transit is illustratod by tho project for securing the specdior communication botwoen Hobokon and Jorsey City Hoights by means of olovators. This projoct has been undertaken by & company which proposes to build huge steam elevators at the bane of tho Jorsey City Hoights, or Palisades, large enough to carry up cars and toams as woll 08 pnasengers. Each elevator wilf accommodato 100 passongers, and vehicles in proportion, and will carry them up 200 feot in about a minuto and o quarter, depositing them in n condition to pursue their journeys into the. vorious soctions of Hudson County, N. J., where & mass of peoplo reside who do business in Now York. The lifting cars aro constructod entirely of iron, with iron framo-work contering at an iron ring-bolt on tho top of the car, to which ivire cables are attached, Itis eaid that tho safety-checks and tho systom of running tho elovators sre such that accidents aro simply impossiblo. The Com- pany proposo to build largo manufacturing catablishmonts in connoction with thoir elova- tore, and rent thom out for the purposo of util- izing tho surplua stosm power. The flrat of the porios of olovatoras will bo ready boforo July next, according to aunouncomont, and they will facilitato the communication botweon New York and tho Jorsoy suburbs to & wonderful oxtont, — The Dubuque Telegraph tas discovered, in somothing printed in this papor, a disparage- mont of tho Missisaippi River water-courso as a moans to, carry off Western productions. Wo ore told that it ¢ savors of o crimo to eay tothe Creator : You havo not mado that river to flaw in *| tho dircotion you ought to have done,” and the Dubuquo papor, having adminiatored this robuke, furthor statos that tho river, thus placed by tho Crontor for men's ueo, * whon improved as it can bo," Is tho bost road to market. In tho meantimo, whilo tho river is waiting for man to improve it, trado and commorco must sock such athar routea to market as naturo snd art have provided, ————i 5 A bill has passed the Lowor Housp of the Now York Loglslature, and tho general opinion isulso, oxprossod that it will pass tho Uppor, removing the prison now at Bing Sing to Fisher's Island, Thore la groat rojoicing among the proporty- “ back-pny,” hna not been coveyed into the Oounty Tronsiiry, Tho County Boatd, in sossion 1ast yook, took no action upon it, 3 —Tho Bocor and Bostor ralds on tho Natfonal Troneury bolug romombored, it may bo worth whilo to noto'that tho Becors and others have ralded on tho Bostors, and got judgments of court, at Poorln, Ill,, for §47,707.18, —1It {8 gonerally known in Counnccticnt that @Gov. Jowoll menns to *‘go for” Duckingham's gont in tho Bonato, noxt yoar. & Fa ik —Tho Kansas Logislature, Jan. 21, elooted Goorgo W. Martin Btate Printer, by 68 votos to 58 for 8am Prouty, belng first blood and first knocle-down for tho anti-Pomeroy party. It has takon Martin until now to got posscasion of tho gfl!oo; which ho doos by decision of the Supromo ourt, - ~The Grand Jury at DosMoinos, Tows, which did not indict Samuol I, Rankin upon his con- fosslon of Linving stolon £40,000 from tho Agri- culturnl Collogo fund, was composed of oleven Ropublicaus, threo Domocrats, and ona doubte ful; and was, it 18 sald, purposely ¢ putup by tho Ropublican Administration, bocnuso, if this thing onco got into court, somebody bigger than Rankin was likely to get. hurt. Tha rottonnoss ot DosMoines is mnch commonted on throughe out thoe Biate, ~—Tho farmors of Illinols evidently menn busf noss, Thoy want certain judicial decisiona touching tho right of tho “Stato to regulate froight ratos and faros on railronds, an thoy havo set about gotting thom in tho voryshortest and Burost way,—b{ nominating and olecting Judgoes who aro impliedly pledged to give them. This is o rathor ruggod way of meouring so doli~ cato n thing 0a o Judiclal decision from a Bu. Pxomo Court, and thoro i little that can bo said n dofonso of it. But, unwarrantable ag it is, it has the suthority of . vory distinguishod exe smplo: whon tha Republican pnlyg;lcongmn and tho President could not get the docision on tho logal-tendor act which thoy dosired in any other way, thoy *packed”’ the Bupremu Court with _ Judges pledgod to giva it. _Thoea Judges woro scarcely warm inHlipir sonta boforo thoy mado tho avgust tri- bunal royorso ite former decisions on tho ques- tion, and givo tho spocifio ono that tho « paok- ing" party dosired and oxncted. This s not a Domocratio story ; it I8 the statomont of tho transaction as mado by the Cincinnatt Gazells snd many othor influontial Republican papors. Bad examples aro contagious, and the llinois {armors now proposo to imitato tho one wet at ‘Washington,—St. Louis Republican, —Tho poaplo of Ilinois aro abla and willing to pey Buch ratod as will secure reasonable profits to railrond companies for tholr oapital, skill and_onorgy employed. Thoy lava contribe uted freoly to ~oncouragd thoso com- panics to construct the ronds, with tho under- Btanding that thoy wero to bo publio high- ways of vastimportanco to tho prosperity of the country, But they aro not willing that theso companiea should charge suoh rates ns will onablo thom {o sccumulnte millions suddonly, and thon iesue watorod stock to thomsolves, .io ovado tho Inw as to tho por cont of thoir profits, and onabling thom, by charging what thoy rlonsn at particular eonsons and specinl con-~ unctures, to cheapon tho produce of the coun- try, and_dictato at their plensure the pricos of tho staples of tho Wost. Thoy do not want any- thing unreasonablo, anl they do not proposo to submit to anything that is” such.—Wilmington (1) Adgocate. —Tho cost of transportation is oxorbitant, and takes tho lifo-blood out of tho producing Intor- osts of the country. If theso are the blossings that railroads have brought, what are such bless- ings worth 7 But is this a nelcmmnry ovil? Wo think not, Railronds are for tho most part man- agod in tho intorest of rings, who grow enor- mously rich, while stockholders grow poor. “Tako Vanderbilt, for example, Ho ia amun of immenso yvan!Lh—pl‘nbnh'}y:e'lfi,ODU,GDD. How did homakeit? . . . . Tho country isnow con- trollod by theso corporations. 'Tho objeot of tho farmerais to hinvo tho country control the cor- porations ; and this is honnd to bo an overshad« n\vln% issue until n eolution slall ho roached. For this sspiring politicians may aa woll pro- pare.—Cincinnati Gazelle, —Thoro aro unmistakablo signs of a wide- sproad popular discontent with tho prevailing order of things, Notwithstanding tho towerin; mojority by which Gon. Grant waa ro-eleotos Prosident, public sontiment has nowhero sottlod down in & quicscent stato, and accoptod tho sit uation a8 the fittast and beat for the country. The corruptions of the Govornment are asglar ing 08 aver, its usurpations are ns offonsive, and of lato have bocomo more offensive than ever. Tho overwhelming Ropublican majority iu Cons ross, which went in with the now Presidential orm, fails to give o public feeling any assur- ance of safoty, of stabllity, and reform, That mujority is nat a fair index of the popular will, but tho rosult of a waut of coherence in tho divorsified oloments of opposition to the Presi- dont and his party. While, thereforo, they aro installod in authority, thera is nat that popu- laracquicsconco and roposo whick would ingicntu & national mind at enso. On tho contrary, tha Administration mools now at the threshiiold an opposition which {8 destined to grow more co- horent, more determined, and moro implacable from year to year, until tho country is rescued from it hands.—Augusia (Ga.) Constitutionalist. —The corrupt, grasping, ‘matorialistic men who are now controlling tho character of tho Re- }Jubficnu party will remain with thnfiipB.dfl a8 jong 88 1t has nuytmn[i to give, and with thom will goa Frunt many old Democrats, who nat- urally bolong on that gido. Indced, they aro going over sll tho while, and taling their new places, whilo tho best men of tho Republican . arty ore becoming more snd more alarmed aud isgusted with the course of the party, and cast~ ingoff tho bonds which bind them'to it. The now party must begin as a popular movemont. It must bo tho parlyof tho pooplo against tha politicians, the party of lLoncaty and economy againet fraud and oxtrayagance. DBut it must 80 havo some vital principlo as a basis upon which issue can bo joined,—Boston Herald. — Wa firmly beliove that the people havo ro- golved to refuso to re-olect auy person who served in_the [nst Congross, who pilfered iho sum of $56,000 extra salary.—Poltsville (Pa.) Miners' Journal. i — Mr. Burchard’s argument i3 spaecious, but the people will think that the fair thing for him to do ia to tako only the sum which constituted the Congressman's pay whon ho was elocted, and which ho then undorstood to Lo the salary that Do was toreceivo as o public soryaut.—Detroit Tyibune. , —Thero will bo moro claimants for each anonymous return of monoy than there are suthors of Boautiful Suow."—Cincinnati Coms mercial, — Ho far a8 heard from yet, our honored mem- ber of Congroaa [J. Allen ]]aflmr} has not beon found mean enunih to rofuso his share of tho salary storl. O, how wo long to listen to his burniug cloquonce onco moro, duununciug the %almumny of Democrats.—Prairie du Chien ress. —The peoplo are rather enxions to know what James (? tobinson proposes lo do with that ©5,000, which i8 80 clantly ** conecionce money." —Lincoln (Ill.) erald. £ “Tho poopio iave béon more roused and in- censod by thio * salary efoal ” than by auy one of tho miany forma in whick oflicial corruption Las doveloped itsolf, Those who tool tha monoy should make tho most of it—it is tho lasl chanco they will have nt the public erib.—Cairo () Bullelin, ~—QGrangers, what would you think of & man that you havo hired for the Jast two yonrs at 920 per month, and on sottloment he should charge you 840, and having that amount in his'handa would turn on his heel and leave ; would you ba likely to employ him & socond time ?—Giénwood (2.) Journal. s ~The fact that Gov. Carponter, of Towa, had strided the Grangor nag would indicate that ho thought the Grant horee rather an unsafe ono to rido in theso days of corruption and iniquity. His attompt to ritlo both of theso nags ab n timo may prove o dangorous experiment.—Fayulto (Iowu? Union, —The Waterloo Courfer, to ticklo tho gran- ors, proposoa that tho Ropublicans run Didloy . Ihflums, of Allamnkoe, for Licutenant-Gover- nor. ‘Ihis is their tub to tho whaloaflerabusing him for tho nomination for Govornor mado at provieions of tho new Coustitution, has adjourn~ od without having accompllshed anything rudi- cally vicious or corrupt. For this result, tho ownors at 8ing Bing qvor tho prospoots of ro- moval. No opposition has beon mado to tho bill oxcopt by s fow of tho villagars who supply tho ing at 878¢cscller tho month and 40}¢e seller Juno. Oats woro active and 140 higher, olosing easior ception of thoir trade? What was tho tariq Watorloo a fow weeks since,—Dubuque (lotca) but a notorious, confessed Heense for robbory ? Herald, —Tho mora we hear of the conduct of onr {heso abusea, Mr, Brunot and his fellow-Com- missloners may doclde which it is, onco blasphomous and torrible. * Anarchy is our only formuls,” it proclaims, ¢ Our black 7 i t Vi , A1 e at 813 sollor tho month, and33%e sollor Juno. It was o practico of tho Fronch monsrchs, bo- | sr, Brunot atatos that, outof 1,000,000 Indisna | fag is unfurlod! War to tho familyl War | keopors sud guards with small provisions. T T e g A R Ryo was moro aclivoat tho recont decline, at | PO°P of THinls willbo properly grataful. fors tho Rovolution, whenevor thoy got newfa | (which is his ostimato of tho numbor of Indisns | to property ! War sgainst Godl" It do- 5% ke SRl wholo affair s tio disgrace that fs put on tho 6830, DBarloy was quiot and firm ot 72@820 for poor to choico No. 2, Hogs were quiot and stondy nt 24,95@6.90. Cattlo and ehoep woro guiot at unchanged prices vorito, to lovy a now tax and devote tho pro- ceods to hor eupport, That was opon nnd undiy. gulsed plunder of tho pooplo, The levy of any tax for any purpose other than revenue for the lawful expendituros of the CGovernmentis no loss m pobbery bocauso lovied to make cortain trades and ocoupations moro profitable than they would otherwise bo, There s no possiblo moral differenca botwoon mnhln’g aman pay flve bushols of corn extra to Inoreasn the profits on & pair of ehoes, than there I8 in selliug 820 ehoots of paper for aream which ought to contain 480 sheots. In both cnses thoro is $ho taking of s man's poperty without a ousid- country and its institutions by tho oxhibition of greod and raseality,—Pillsburgh (Pa.) Gazelte, . gou —1f Americons nbroad could over puss thom- gom selves off for poaplo of auothor nation, thoy, Arta might bo oxcusable for making tho attempt alyg wau his timo,—Rock Island (LU.) Union, x fnc —This Grant Porluh uffair has no political sig-tobo nificance outside of Louislana. 1t originated ins balr & disroputable squabblo for ofiice. 'Tho nogrocs,a cur who wore lured by their white lorders into tak- bun ing up arms, committed such'crimos aa robbory, toin assaults, and throatoning tho lives of tho whiten,ght { including atteoks upon the womon. When thameat Bhoviff hnd gollocted his posse, ho and they ro-ERs talinted in o savego nnd wanton manner. Ti: nogross wore tho aggrossors. BumL‘v did thoy Yny for tholr barbarous troatment of thoso who had nothing to do with the quarrel, Tho atroci- tics on both sides were great aud jnexyusable.— Providencs (B 1) Journgh B in tho ocountry), 130,000 are solf-supporting, which meana that thoy llve on tho proceeds from tho salo of theirlands and tho intorest on thoir monoy. All tho rest sra supported in part or in wholo by tho Government. Mr. Brunot thinks {hat ¢ these figurcs show the folly and wickoed- neass of Lolding tho Indian race responsible for tho acts of & fow Individuals or of aslugla tribe.” They rather show that, whon tho United Btates Government takos a contraot for supporting all tho Indiang in the country, it has a right to do- mand that tho Indians shall control their #indi- yiduats and sinjle tribos," s0 a4 to provent the froquent reourcence of tho jmassacres of B - claros ps ite guiding principle, *Everything for ovorybody, from power ovegy to womon," and adds, what we can very woll concelvo to bo tho onso, that *a blood-lotting ia cssontial” bo- fore {hia stato of thinga can boroached. Itis Tard to bellovo that any man or sob of mon can desire and sorfously contemplate a condition of things foreshadowed by theso outerios, Tho excosgos of the Parls Commune, however, have groatly widoned the possibllities of human mad- nogs, and tho bistory of nationa has told how contagious iniquity and degradation may bovome | ggpipage, undor the name of liborty, It only needed tho —Gon, Farneworth's apportionment to Win- sddition o8 1iho shisbloss” 40 tho hoterogeno- | nobuga County of €430, out of the Congrassious) THE JURY LAW, Wo print this morning the new Jury law, just peesod by the Loglelaturo, Asitropeals all other laws on tho subject, it Is fmportant to the whole publio, It provides that the County Doard in onch county shall, in Boptember, 1878, make & lisb of ouo-tonth of tho logsl votors of oaoh precinct, and solect thorefrom 100 poraons for each trinl term of tho Circult and other .courta to bo held in said county, the number for .Oook County boing 200 for each term of tho Cirounit and Superior Courts, and 100 for cach torm of the Oriminal Court, to Korve as potlt Judgs Bilvanus Wileox, of Elgin, will not be & candidato for re-olection, June 2, in the new cir- cuit composed of Kane, Du Page, and Kendall Countles. ‘The Republicaus hold s nominating convention at Aurora, May 19, and tho Farmons will also have's candidato if it shall be deemod advisable, ¥ S " . —Tho ‘fonth Diatrlct Demooratio Gonvontion for Cirowit*Jucge, at Quincy, May 1, brokoin twoj the Adams County delogates nominating Judgo Josoph ‘Bibley, of Quinoy, and the Han- cock County dologates V. 1. Manler, of Tho report of tho atrike among tho cabmen at ‘Vionna betokons a veyy sorious drawback to the comfort of that part of tho world, and his wife, Just now on o visit to tho Exhibition. Tho ox- tont of the annoyanco cannot be.conceived by any comparison with American citlos, in which tho atraot-car and omnibun ‘systoma aro so thor- ough. Btsaot-care aro almost unknown in Eue opo, and thore {8 no clty on tho Continont ox-