Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 23, 1873, Page 4

' — TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. & TRRND OF SUDACRIETION (PATASLE 1N ADVANOE). X unda O1E00| ey Partaof & yoar at tho samo rato. To provont dolay and misiakcs, bo sura and give Post OfTco address i full, Including State and County. Remittances may bo imade eithor by draft, oxpross, Post Otiioo ordar, or iu regiatored fottors, at aur risk, TENMS TO CITY AUDSCRIDRRS, Dally, delivorod, Bunday oxeopted, 35 coute por wook. Dally, delivorod, Bunday fnoluded, 80 conts yor wook. Addross THE TIIBUNE COMPANY, Cornar Madison and Dostborn-ata., Chieago, Il 'S THRATRE—Wabash avenue, cornor of Con- nfi‘.‘.“.’ffln’. Hpuotacular opora, +* Zoioo," TOOLEY'S THEA! Olark and LaSalle, g K--Madizon stroat, hotwoon Do e, Ko Katls "Eutaam Feoupo. **Capliola," 3 10 — [Malstod streot, belwoon' MRS Tan Sonros, Thoatrs Comiiuo Combination. HITHRATRE-Olinton stroat, botwaon Washing= tom o T o, Gal Waknor's Minstrols. LENT'S OIROUS AND MENAGRRIE—State stroot, corner Twronty-sacond. I—Randolph stroot, betwoon”| aste, BUSINESS NOTICES, LYON" WDER WILL NOT HARM A D OBty e oath Rooh, SopEraaolie, and bugd: AVANA _LOTIERY—WE HOLD 1N araping ot i AL faat o' Q80,00 wrlze, irontas information giv J. B, 'MARTINEZ & O0., oo 1o Walat. o B O Hox 468, Now York. Ti_PATONES, ABK T T 3 1" Rr Pl e gt o Toiiid i B SRR G. Farts, Dormatologist, Biriats Now Yok, S CONSUMPTION_ UAN TE GURED-| E oawoed Tonig, Sohonck's ok Fi: 5%"".':’1';“ Sl modicinor that whi oure Piinotnsy Convamption. ihes” that stop & congh will poca- e el ool b Bh e o blo aud, 33':1&’{? oy Slog tho,AGtion of tho Yory Oreans &ha causod tho cough. and Dysponla aro tho osnsen of two- e e Biaca of Uonammiiolion, Many pareons com piate ot & dall DR A St lings o drovsingas Avacss, tho foo istog heaully o tho stomao, it u L. e e 'u'n‘n“."’-!f?'u'}" Criyinata (0 & disordorod “Bitmona so aflabiod, i Loy take one oF two Hoswy golde, end it b oo sasor bs suidoniy ehsckedy il fnd theatomc e o o e v %oy v:’(‘lg"l‘fll"::a II‘D::(Q&I.’ tho rosult of which 18 oty o '8 PULMONIO SYRUP is an oxpestorsat ShEck & congh sudduniz: i S 4 ERAWRED TONIO dissolvos the food, tion, and croatea a ravenous appotito, 1s aro costivo, skin sailow, ar tho o2Yhen o bowals e castvo, 1k el oM SOANS SVERY DJlAKll PILLS aro xcqulmeéd- only by ¥hoso modictaos ary DEPRIEI FENCK a SON, The Chicago Tetbune, Mondsy Morning, - June 28, 1873. The illness of Emperor William is said to be so morious as to threaton his withdrawal from tho throne, in which case tho Crown Princo will be madoe Regont. By & nolseless crisis tho Spanish Ministry formed last week was dissolved yosterday. Prosident Margall is looking about for a new Oabinot for the coming week. e A Papal Allocution Is to be pronouncod to-day in tho Vatican, and it is belleved in Romo that it will prove to bo an oxcommunication of Victor Tmanuel, whoso pavt In- tho passage of the Re- liglous Corporations bill has earned him the wrath of the Holy Father. Foroat firos aro xaging florcoly in Northorn Michigan, sud foars aro oxpressed that tho torri- blo exporicnces of Octobor, 1871, may bo re- pented. Fives aro also burning in the woods in Coutral Peunsylvanis sud Nurthera Now York, and alrendy many thousand acres of valuablo timber kiave been dostroyed. — Senator Mitcholl, or Senator Hipple, of Oro- gon, hns boen sorely bosot on account of his earlior domestic troubles and his change of name with a chango of climato. Many pooplo will bo inclined to think, howover, that all his other tribulations are insignificant as compared to tho fact that Senator Simon Cameron, of Ponnoylvanis, has como out and openly indoraed Lin, < The American Dopartmont of tho Vienna Exposition is ngain without & head. Chief Com- migsioner Schultz, from whom so much was ex- pected, has euddenly resigned, for somo un- oxplained ronson. Minister Jay recommends the appointment in his place of Mr, I, Garrettson, of Cleveland, Ohio, ono of the Commissioners who waa romoved, at tho same time with Vau Buren and roappointed by Mr. Schultz, Sir Samuel Baker, of whoso safoty assurance was given about o month ago, has beon hoard from by & lettor writton in February and re- coived at Kbartoun, in Egypt, April80.. He soports himeolf and Lhis noblo wife to Loin oxcellent honlth ; the 1,600 soldiora put under his command by the Kbedivo have boon reinforced by soveral hundrod others, and ho will push on immodiately to the Albert Nyanza. > . Moxico has not boon na successful as Prussia in ropressing tho disturbances that would nat- urally follow tho expulsion of tho Jesuits. In Orizabs tho Protestant Bishop Las boon compelled to floo for his life from the infuristed Calliolics, in anothor town ariot bas ocourred, and throughout the country tho Protestaut clergyare in a condition o procarious that the present Ministry is summoned by tho progs to take moas- ures for their proteotion or to retire in favor of ouo that will do Tourleen women wero put undor {ndictment in Rochestor at the same time with Busan B. Anthony for illogal voting, but any of them who bave boen looking forward with ploased anticipation to immolation fn thecourta in the cause of woman's rights aro doomoed to dissppointment. ‘Iho Govorumont, appoarently contont with having sottled tho prin- ciple involved, by the conviction of thoir lender, has declined to prokecnto thom, and thoy have boen ingloriously st free e Btokes' littlo plan of colobrating his victory over the Bupreme Court by getting bail for the sunvmer and going to Burope to have ‘‘a bully timo," has boon vetood by his counsol, They foreseo bettor than thelr indiscroot cllent what tho effect of euch junketting by s mon under indictment for murder, with tho gallows, possibly, before hims would have on publioc opmion,” Tho new teial doca not come on till Octobor, and the intorven- ing mouths Btokes must epond in his Inxurious coll in the Tomba, ———— Tho price of coal and tho rate of wages Lave rigen so greatly in Englaud that some small ehipmonts of Amorican iror” have boen mado to Btaffordshire, and tho London Times thinke that moro of it will be imported. Ithas boen reserved for the Indisnapolis Journal to dis- cover that but for the. Morrlll tariff wo should Lave had no iron to export. The var- us iron mountsine in “the United Biates, to say nothing of- tho numorous and prosporous furnacos oxisting in this country prior to the yoar 1861, would bavo boon.swallowed by an oarthquako, or consumed by tho oxygon of tho atmosphoro, but for the tarifr, “Well, slnco wo have savpd our iron, and commonced oxporting it to England, wo supposo the Tndinnapolis Journal will now ngreo to have tho tarift ro- poalod. Or is it stlll doomed necossary to koop It up, to protect that struggling hundrod- yoar-old infant ? Now York State, it acome, is sctually without s Bonato, or a Constitutional provision for one. The way it happenod was thia: Whon tho work of tho Constitutional Commission was submitted to tho New York Legislaturo the lattor body ro- modeldd it for the purposs ‘of eliminating somo of its most salutary provielons. After having out it up and amended it, the Leglsla- ture procoeded to renumbor the soctions, and did tho job Bo bunglingly ns to makoe the now sootion rolative to tho Assembly tho substi- tuto for tho prosent section relative to tho Honato, thus taking tho lattor body out of tho Constitution sltogothor. IIow tho peoplo will proceod constitutionally to restoro tho Benato, whon there is no provision for a Sonato in tho Constitution, has not yot been polnted qut. The incident furnishos another illustration of the folly of rogerding legislative bodies as infallible. Geon. 0. 0. Howard's administration of tho Howard Univorsity Las given rise to oharges against bim of corruption not loss sorious than his alloged poouniary irrogalaritios in the Fraod- man's Bureau, which tho Secrotary of War has just orderod to bo invostigatod. - Ono of his follow-Trustoos in tho managoment of the Uni- vorsity assorts, ina Iotter to n Washington papor, that Gon. Howard mortgagoed ita property for $100,000 which hodividod botween himeolfand the' othor Trustoss for tholr personal uso. Laat yenr, ho says, the Genoral ran tho Univorsity, 40,000 in debt, roporting tho whilo that it paid its own way. To crown all, ho is charged with having porpotrated a baok eal- any atoal, and to have taken $12,000 back-poy for sorvicos ron'('lorod the University during tho last threo or four years, whilo ho has boon absent in Arizona or sttonding to tho business: of tho Froedmon's Buroau. e The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser annonnces that after tho 1st of July it will discontinno all oxchanges and remit the monoy ‘for & yoar's subscription for all nowspapors which it desirea toracoive. Tho Now York Sun announced a slmilar policy somo timo sigco.” The Kokomo (Tud.) Tribune, a wooldy paper, ssys that, aftor tho 1st of July it will send itsolt to all papers (and. to nono others) that it considors valuablo. If other papers do not con- slder tho XKokomo ' Zribune valuable, thoy oan stop sonding themsolves to it, and no questions asked. It is quite ovident that the now Postal law will have the effact to wholly Dreak up the nowapaper exchango system—ulti~ matoly, if not immediately—and put it upon tho basis of a purcly business tranesction, each newspaper paying for such other newspapora 18 it may doairo to have. This will bo a largo sav- ing in tho sggregate. Tho amount of whito paper that fa apoilod and tossed through tho mails of tho United Statos every year on grounds of potitenoss ia perfectly enormous. The Chicago produce markets wero steadior on .| Baturdsy, with moderato trading. Mass porl ‘was mora activo, and 5@10¢ por brl lower, clos- ing ot §14.85@14.90 cash, and $14.90@14.95 sotlor July. Lard waa dull and “n shado casior, at §3.25@9.80 por 100 1bs cash, or sellor July. Moats woro dull and oasior on middles, ot 6%@ 0340 for shouldors, 83{@83(o 'for shork ribs, 83 @3%o for ehort dloar; and 93¢@11340 for swoot plckled boms. Highwinos wore quiot and stoady at B%o per gallon. Lake freights wore quict and 34o lower at 7o for com to Buffalo. Tlour was dull and rather woask, Wheat was quiot and 1}(@134o lower, closing at §1.19% cash, ond $1.16%¢ seller July, Corn was notive nud primo, cloaing at 800 cash, and 8230 sollor July. Oats woro active and 4c bighor, clasing strong at 20c cash, and 270 scllor July. Ryo wao dull and ensior ot 60c. Barley was quiot and unchanged at 50@530 for poor to good No. 2. The hay trade was aetive at 200 advanco on Triday's pricos,, sales making at an extramo rango of 84.40@4.00. Thoro was a quiet foeling in the cattlo and shoop markets, and valuos wero unchanged. A meoting of somo gort was hold in Now York 8 fewdays since to memorialize Congresa to build a double-track froight railway betwoon Now York and Obicago. Tho question was mooted whothér it would not be best to favor tho granting of a chartor by Congroes for sucha road, to bo built by private capital and oporated on the same torms a8 the proposed Governmont rond, it belng undoratood that & company was propared to undertake the work. For cortain ronsons it was voted that it would bo bettor for tho Govorumont tomake thenocessary appropristion and build the rond, and then bave it operated by privato transportation companies. In point of logical forco, and financial and political wisdom, this was o light jmprovement on the argumonts advanced rocontly by & would-bo steamslip com- pany in San Francisco. They wanted o subsidy from Cougross to runslino of steamshipa bo- twoon' California and Australia, because, it they aid not get it, a nauty English company would put on such a line for nothing ! It appears that *a privato company aro willing to build tho pro- porod road If thoy can got tho privilego to do a0 ; argal, Congross should volo one hundrod millions of dollara for tho purposo forthwitn, Tho groat question of tho day—that of rail- road monopoly—is beginning to leom up In the Houth as woll as tho West. Thia is spocinlly the cano 1 Mississippl, the pooplo and pross of which Btate aro alroady boginning to protest ngainst a rogularly organized systom of opprossion and corruption upon the part of the Now Orleans Tuckeon & Great Northern Railroad Company, In his mossago of 1870, Gov. Alcorn pronounced this Corporation to bo & defaulter, and declared that it Liad brokon faith with tho State In overy inatanco. To savo tho Btate from harm and to punish tho corporation, Lio recommended the Logislature to pass & law enforcing tho forfoit uro of tho charter and tho seizuro of the prop- orty of tho Company. Instond of this, by somo remurkable trick of political prostidigitation,thia very Loglslaturo passod a bill which was elgned by tho fdentical Governor who had publicly ar- ralgnod tho corporation, transforring to it ““alltho stook owned by tho Blato in any and every rail- road compsny, whoso road 8 in whole or in part within this Btate It has slso mucceeded in proouring the passage of alaw authoriziog ita consolidation with jthe Misalesippi Central Road, whioh vastly enlargos s priviloges and glvos it an almost unlimited monopoly for il own, nggrandizoment. By ita auccessful lobbying it hins nluo had a Iaw passed throwing on tho Btato tho loss of the interost on cortain sohool funds which it has nbsorbod, It bins not complotod any of tho oxtenslons or fine provemonts which it promised to do, and in ovory inntaxce whero venality conld ho medo avatlable it has muccoodod In its undortakings. It is at prosont riding rough-shod over the pooplo; but tho poople are gradu- olly ronching o pitch of indignation which promiscs to innugurato speody oud offective ‘monsures for {ho corraction of thia groat ovil. Everywhoro tho ralirond quostion sooma to bo coming to thosurfaco s tho all-important ques- tlon of tho day. In tho South, however, rail- rond monopoly is more keenly folt, as tho Btatos hiave boen already nonrly impovorishod by tho oarpot-bog thioves and othor political sooundrols. A LIFE FOR A LIE, The Archor avenue fracas botwoon John Gard- nor aud W. H, Sldebothnm, which rosulted in tho denth of tho latter, was ono of o class, and it is only distinguished from its kind by its fatal rosult. Both men are ropresented as having boon roputablo and poncoful persons. * Ono was s 'shopkeoper, tho other a sign-hangor Thelr rolations had beon plessant onough. Gardnor wont into Bidobotham's hardware atore Tharsdsy ovoning last to make a purchase, and while thero left, or thought ho loft, s carpen- tors' rule on tho counter. He subsequontly roturned to get it. Bidebotham was not in tho smtoro, nud his olork pormitted Gardner o carry awsy o rulo which ho claimod as his proporty. Whon Bidebotham ro- turned, and waa told of tho circumstance, ho anid tliat tho rulo which had beon taken away did not belong t6 Gardnor, and sont his olork attor it. " Gardnor roturned himsolf, and there ensued awordy altorcation about tho ownorship of the rulo, probably charactorized by tho rough man- nor and languago usual in personal disputes among tho clasa of people te which both mon belonged. At last, Gardner called Sidebotham ‘‘s damnod liar," ond started to. go out of tho atore. Bidebotham, with an impulse that has ‘como_to bo rogarded na propor snd man- ly. whon o man is called & liar, gave & child ho was holding to his wife, started aftor Gardnor, and struck him., A flsticutf fight followed, in which, according to the presout evidencs, no weapons were usod. Gardnor was tho moro poworful man of the two, and the fight was of short duration. Sidobotham was worsted. At firat tho rosults scomed nob to bo sorious on either side; Gardnor went away, and Bidebotham remained at Lis business to ihe usual hour, thon shut up -his storo, and went to bed. It was then that ho began to com- plain of his hond, which was afterwards found to bo fractured. The wound produced doath, and tho Coronor’s juryfound that it waa inflioted by o blow from Gardnor's fist. It Bidobotham hod not died, the row would nover havo boen hoard of outside of the imme- diato nolghborhaod, in which it would have beon rogarded as tho most nattral thing In the world, under the circumstancos, aud forgotton in a fow hours, 'Tho very customary and usaal character of tho fight is attested’ by tho ovidonco of the ‘policoman, who soya that ho passed by shortly after tho knool-down, heard that * there was only a littlo fuss, and therofore paid no more at- tontion to them.” It wad one of, porhaps, twon- ty Aights in Ohicago on the same day, sndof o score that occur overy day in tho yoar. That it rosulted fatally In ihis caso, as similar difficul- tios * result eovery mow and then, makes it o pertinont inquiry whothor the quasi codo of this country, which requires that & man shall fight with his flsts whenever he is called & liar, is not a8 much a relic of barbarism as the code which in somo placos roquires that ho shall fight with Imife or pistol. The only real differ~ enco betwoon them is that tho tatter is more apt |. to result fatally. 'Both aro founded upon tho absurd notion that 4’ man's honor or veracity may bo vindicated by superior skill in tho use of & weapon, or by the groator physical strongth than can bo brought toboarin a fistiouft, Thoro soemod to be no danger of a fight botwoen Bide- botham and Gardnor until tho latter callod - tho former ‘& damned linr," Thon Sidebotham im- mediately gavo his child to its mother, and fol- lowed Gardner out of tho storo to strike him, as it it woro tho first duty to himaolf and family. Ho met his doath in doing so. The practice of “fighting a8 soon =8 the lie is passed is wholly tho outgrowth of custom. In Arkansas tho use of this epithet was formerly, it not now, followed by tho whipping out of bowie-knives and tho slashing opon of bowels, In California it meant that the two parties to tha dispute should fire at sight the noxt time thoy ehould mdot. In Virginia it brought tho partios faco to faco nt monsured distance with piatols in their hands. In Missiseippi it called for shot-guns, and in Kontucky for rifles,—nnd 80 on, Theso practices hava beon largely nbated by civilization. But in the North the opithet of liag is, ns & rule, fol- lowed by a blow, and nine men out of ton will doclaro even now that they aro obliged to strike when thoy aro called lisrs? Is & man's reputation for voracity improved by * putting a head " on anybody who daros to oall it into quos- tion? Doos & fight make him any moro truthful, or any the less s lisr? Ts his wounded honor cured by ontering into a personal conflict, in which he ia likely to havo his faco pummolod and his oyes blacked, *or to bo killed, 08 Sidebotham was? It may bo urgod that thoro 18 an irrosisti- Dblo impulee to hif somebody when yon are ealtod ' damnod liar,” That impulse {s either there- 8ult of a barbarous custom which trics to stigma- tizo a8 o cownrd the man who docs not rush into o fight whon epithots are hurled at him Ly somo- ‘body whom, porhaps, no one would bolieve; orelse it ia the same brutal Impulso which the dog Lias who showa hia teeth whenover zuothor cur tros- passes on what he pronumes to_ bo his domain, In oithor caso It ia uttorly unjustifisble, booauso it may becoutrolled. The rough-and-tumblo fight iy a peculiarly Anglo-Baxon amusemont, and cortain opithots are established,difforing in difforent com- munitios, which pass, by common consent, for | sufllefont provocation to indulge in it. It is, nov- ertheloss, rufanism, in whioh thoro Is not the slightost vindication of Lonor, truth, justico, or deconoy. 'The sooner thls faot is recognized among Amoricaus, the moro docent and or- dorly our large and crowded coamyuities will bocome, Tho Police Magistrates have n duty in this ro- gard which thoy malio a practico of disrogarding, In most casps * alittle fuss," of tho kind that Bidebottom and Garduor had, I8 passed over without any arrcst, aa Officor Michnol Kirch passod over this particular altoreation. But, whan arrests are mado, they aro quickly disposed of by tho Justices as common cagos of * dlg- ordorly,” and are dlemissed with = €5 fine, Tlus practice of tho Police Courts should ba au- = porseded by punishing tho gullty partles ton flght by Imprisonmeont in tho Bridowell, Suchn courso wonld soon tonch tho pugnaclous fools to roatrain thelr ruffianism; Tho prosent onse 1n not tho only one in which death has boen the result of just much an altoreation, Many o fight bogun with fists has ondod with knives or pistola, The danger Is always present, and tho ouly way of countoraoting it is to mako a fistl- onff fight a sorfous affair in tho oyen of the Inw. Tooplo must bo taught that thoy can't indulge in this dangerous smusoment without paying for it, GERMAN IN TH,. PUBLIO ECHOOLS, Wo yostorday published.s lottor from Mr. Ernat Prussing, of the Board of Education, in answor to an articlo in this paper concorning tho onforcod study of German in tho publie sobools, Mr: Prussing states tho demand mado by him and bis colleagnes in the Board of Edu- cation to be that tho study of German inits compulsory fentures ehall bo placed on tho samo footing o8 arithmetio, reading, writing, goography and grammor, in all cases whero & child has boon allowsd to begin it. Tho stndlos in tho publio schools, bo- ginning at fnstruction in tho alphabet oro nrranged by grades numbored from 10 up o 1. As tho obildron progress thoy are advanced from one grade to tho other. Each grade hss its allotted stud- 108, adapted to tho capacity and proficioncy of the pupils. Undor the graded systom & child, howover proflelont in any numbor of his allotted atudios, is rotained in that grado until ho has mastorod them all sufflclently- to ontitle him to promotion. Tho Gorman languago {8 not one of tho nocossary studles. But the Board of Edu- | cationhas suthorizod any child desiring to do so, in cortain grades, to rocoive lossons in Gorman from tonohors appointed for that purposo, 'This study, howover, is optional, snd, if the study of Gorman interfore with tho othor studlos, or if the instruction recoived bo mot considerod an equivalont for the time taken for it, it is op- tional with ‘the parents to discontinuoit. Tho rosult is that many childron begin tho study, try it awhilo, then abandon it. A committoo of tho Board of Education, consisting of Mosars, Hes- ing and Richberg, made a roport on this subject gomo timo ago, in which they lamented the un- fruitful charaotor of the German tultion in the schools. Thoy say: Wo willingly concedo that tho German inatruction o8 pursucd at prosent in our publin schools is not as offoctivo aa it ought o bo; 1t docs not besr thoso fruils that it ought to, if ono conelders tho amount of time thiat {8 spout by tho toackor, This, undor tho prescnt Eyatom, caunot bo- othorwise, and it is for this Toason that o chango is nbsolutely noccasary,’ Tho romody proposed is to plium the study o that ‘it must not be encroschoed upon by other studios ; it must not encronch upon them.” The first thing thoy ask is tobavo a Superintendont of Gorman Education ;. tho noxt pointis to conflno tho instruction to childron in the fourth and higher grades; and, in theso four upper grados, “tho study of German must bo made compuldory ; that is, optionslly compulsory, it ‘Wormay use such a term,—that is, if once bogun, ig cannot bo stoppod, it must be put on an equal footing with all other studles. When the exami- nations for promotions from grade to grado are held, tho pupils must pass an examination in German also,~this oxamination to bo con- ducted by tho Buperintondont of Gorman, and any failuro in this dopartment will bo considered sufliciont ground for not advancing tho pupil into & highor grade.” Thia compulsory study of Gorman is to continue duriug’ tho last ‘four yoars of attendance in the District Schools, and fwo years aftor ontranco into tho High School. : Tho ohildren who are in theso four upper grades of tho achool have, as rogular studics, arithmetio up to algebra;- history, geography, riting, grammar, musle, drawing, and perhaps othors; if any ono of thom, male or fomale, with the consent of tho parents, offers to take Gorman in tho list of studios, Mosars, Hesing, Ribhborg, and Prussing proposo that it shall not be lawful for him or her thercafter to drop it for any causo; that, once begun, tho child must continue tho study of Gorman for four yoars, or loave tho school ; that if at any soml-annual examination for promotion o child in the fourth grado should show a profic- ionoy in all tho English studios justifying a pro- ‘motion, e or she shall not bo promoted, but must romain in that grade, unless ho or sho can exhibit & corresponding profiéloncy in Gor- man, In other words, sny child whose parents thoughtlessly or otherwiso permit him to study Gorman at nll, and find afterward that the child I8 not ablo to go on with it, or that it interforos with his Englieh studios, s roquired to lesvo school. Once begun, the Gor- mnn is mode as obligatory as arithmetio, grammar, history, or geography, and . must Lo studied mnolens volens, This, wo inalat, is & porvorsion of the common school sys- tom from its logitimate purpose, which is to give tho childrop an opportunity to acquire a froo od- ueation in tho English Ianguage, fitting them for tho ordinary business of lifo, The study of Gorman, as woll 88 of Greok, Latin, Fronch, Ttalisn, snd Spanieh, bolongs to s higher grado of oducation than was ever contomplated in the common gchool system of this Btato, and wo think tho majority of tho Board of Education, to whom Mr, Pruseing alludes, showed a propor spprecation of thoir duty to tho publio by voting this proposition down. Tho City of Chicago hns, with groat liboralily, ostablished o froo High Bchool, in which all the childron passing through the public schoots may, - if thoy dosiro it, obtaln a highor education, in cluding & four yours' study of tho Gorman, Fronch, Grook, and Latin lsugusges, or such of thom as they moy choose, This, which is no part of tho common school system, but an addi- tion thoreto provided Ly tho City of Chicago, Is offering as groat facilltios au tho Board of Edu- cation can now oxtend, particularly when there aro probably 20,000 children of schiool age who caunot got inntrution in the publio seools fu any languago for the want of room. Mr, Pruesing goos furthor, and claims this compulsory oducation in German as a mattor of right. Ho says: Well, sir, it i just for thls reason, so forcibly by ‘you advauced, that wo want tlio Gorman language woll taught In our schools to {hoso whoso own languago it 19, and who largely pay for tho support of the publio schools, If thoro oxisted, ou this continent, an American languago, a8, aftor many centurics, tho caso may bo, this question would not comaup, But the Engliali langusgo 18 not moro unwersal than tho Ger- man or any other, although itis the prevafiing lan- guago, and therofore takes tho firat rank in oducational Drau Nevortloloss, that stato of alfairs is subjoct to changes; in‘somo locallties the German population oxcoads tho English; in_otliors, tho Fronch are pro- volling ; fn othiors, {ho Bcaudinaviaus, What, thion, #hiould bo our rulo? It socms to e an easy matter to docido, if wo will adhiere to your viows'as abovo ox- prossod, and mot do iujustioe to oflers, All parents will bo satisfiod that thoir childron ‘acquire a good kuowlodgo of the English, bocause that is genorally 1hie provalling lavguage | and that they, bealdes, learn thelr own langusge, Tue adult Germans toslding In Ohioago are sbovo the school ngoj tho children of thoso Gormana arp Amoricans, to grow upaa Americans, biaving noothor homo or country, Tho Engliah languago s tho languago of hia country ; it jo the National langungo; it s the logal language ; it 1o the only language rocoguizod 1 tho admin fstratlon of {ho govormment; in somo Btatos o knowledge of 1t s casontial to tho right of suftrage. It s tho languago of theso ohildron, and, when tho Btato undortakes to tonoh childron, ita duty bo- glos nnd onds whon it educates thom in tho lan- guago of thoir own country, If thig ia not now tho country of thoso children, to what country do thoy bolong, and to what do they owo allogisnco? Mr. Prussing s equally at fault whon Lo says : * "Or will you say, that the Gorman emigrant and his family must break off all connoctions with Lia refations in tho Ol Cousitry nenoon a8 thioy becomo eltizons of tho Unitad Blatos ; that his children, born hore, aro not entitlod to learn In our schools the Ianguago that 18 spoken by thelr uncles, grand-parents, and counins; -but that tho Englishman alono Lins a right to ask such consideration? Tho obligations of tho Tnitod Statos to those who goek homos in this country do not extond to the education of their descendanta in foroign Ianguogos, to onable thoso dossondants to main- tain correspondonco with their cousins to tho fourth dogreo who may only bo able to road German, Fronch, Italinn, Norwegian, Swodish, Dutel, Bohemian, or Hungarian, The polioy of tho United Btatos is to Amoricanize the incom- ing population, and make them one homogen= cous pooplo, sposking, reading, and think- fog 1n tho national langusgo, sud, while in no wise reprossing tho Iustinctive feoling of affoction for the land of tholr forofathors, bringing thera at loast in tho second goneration to n condition of mind, whero, thoir atrongost bonst will be, *“ X am an American cit~ izon.” Wo havo no dosiro to place any obstaclo in the way of any porson learning German j on tho contrary, we havo froquently, and do now, odvise that ovory person whocan do 8o should acquiro a thorough knowledgojof that tonguo ; ‘but wo object, a8 wo aro certain tho wholo coun- try will objact, to its being incorporated into tho instruction of the public schools, excapt as o voluntary study to bo followed or not,—to bo taken up and droppod,—and without any rofer- enoo to tho right of the children to instruction in their own tongue. — NORTHERN AND S0UTHERN AGRICULTURE. In disoussing tho offoct of tho present tariff upon agrioulturo, values and products of the whole countty in 1860 and 1870 have boen com- pored, without allowanco for the offect of war upon the Southern Statos. The rossons which justify this comparison moy not at first thonght oceur to all rondora, 1t is vory cloar, tho domand from abroad for agricultural products having not rolatively de- oroneed sinco 1860, that, it tho poople of this country continuo to consumo as much per capita of sgricultural products oa they- did boe foro tho war, tho aggregate production must inoronse @8 fael as tho- population, ond failwro in “suy State fo incroase in that ratio the productionof any crop must causo production of that or some equivalent crop in othor Btatos to incronse in o still greater ra- tlo. Othorwise, th supply must fall below tho domand, tho prico must riso, sud if, undor this stimulug, the deficioncy in ono quartor cannot ‘bo compensgated by increaso in somo othor quar- ter, the pormanont incroase of prico must afford to tho farmor ns largo & roturn for tho small aa for the lnrge crop, + Thus, diminished crops of cotton and tobrcco pay 08 much to tho grower, and to,the country in value of exports, as tho Iargor orops of 1860, But if no boundary of climato or eoil limits production, do- ficlonoy in ono quarter must inevitably pro- duce increnso in some other,—domand for con- sumption and oxport growing with population. Henco, comparison of produts of formor froo Statos soparately would bo essontially unjust, and, for fair argumont, worthless. If they have increasod the produotion of any article, it msy bo the roault, not of any genoral prosperity, not of an incrensod ability of the poople to consume, but solely of failure in the production of the samo arziclo in formor slavo Btatos. This has ‘boon the case in the production of corn, which has docrensed 118,000,000 bushols in ‘the . former elave Btaten, and inoreaaed only 41,000,000 bush- ols in tho free Btates, 8o that tho entira supply for coneumption and oxportation is still 77,000,~ 000 bolow tho supply in 1860, As tho prico has not advanced, though population has incroased, it is plain that tho consumption has in some way boon greatly rotarded. Yot a separato exam- ination of tho production of froe States would have givon tho false impression that domand for cdnsumption and production had both Incroased, though eoven thero not na fast as popula~ tion, With all tho facts bofore us, we find that the increnso at the North has not' sufficoo to supply & reduced consump- tion at tho Bouth, snd that ovon in the Northorn . Btates the consumption of this crop per capita must hdve docreased, This illustra- tion cloarly provas tho worthlosenoss of nuy comparigon of products in Northorn States alons, a8 ovidonce of tho offects of tho tariff upon agri- culture, . ‘Yot another roason ia found in the groat mi- gration, ‘during and aftor the war, from tho Southern Btates. - Many thousand of white Unlonists, many moro of the colorod poople, loft tho South whilo tho war wasin progross, and bLavo since added the products of their Inbor to thoso of other Btates. After tho war, in somo quartors n groat migration of Union mon took place, aud in othors n great mi- gration of participants in rebollion; States con- trolled by tho unrcconstructed eclomont lost largoly of Union men, white and black; Statos controlled by military authorlty or colored votera loat largoly of participants in rebellion. Cali- fornia, Orogon, Kanens, and Nebrasks, with othor Btatos, gained tho industry of Losts of Bouthernors, who, now that slavery wag' no longor possiblo, choso to link tholr fortunes with tho enterpriso and moro rapid progreas of Btatos settlod by freo labor. The in- dustry of these migrated workers, white and black, Union and Robol, goos to swell tho production of the former frco Btates considered soparatoly, and yot may add no more to the na- tional woalth than it did bofore their migration. To comparo productions or valuea of Northorn Btates alono would bo to include all this increaso of production as & result of & systom of taxation which had nothing to do with tho migration, One othor reason remaing, Noithor tho wasto of war nor the chango in tho systom of labor has prevonted marvelous incroaso of produc- tion and of value of farms in some of the Btatos most oxposed to injury from thoso causes. It like {ucropso has not followed in all the Bouthorn Btates, tho fact must be traced elthor to political disorders, to a ourtallment of the nggrogato domand, or to an {ncrease in the cost of produatfon, Minsoutl, for oxamplo, waa rav- agod for yoars by contonding nrmicd yet its valuo of farmn lins incroased from $280,000,000 to $302,000,000; ita valuo of ‘farm* implemonts from oight. to fiftoon millions ; its valuo of slaughtorod animals from unine totwenty-throo millions; ita product of whoat from fourto four- teon millions, Not only have all thelosses cansed by war or the chango in tho systom of lnbor boon rocoverod, but the incraaso in valuo and produc- tlon hns boon grontor than most of tho Btatos not gubjected to such lossos can bonst, It n slmflar rovival of Industry hss not followsd Pongo in all tho Southorn Statos, the causo can-| not bo thoso lossos in which Missouri fally sharod. Indood, war doos not deprive Iand of fortility; on the contrary, the farmer roturning from tho fleld finds his land only tho more fortilo for its yosrs of roat. It buildings, atook, and implomonts have beon dontroyed, industry will rostoro thom, and place tho farm in condition to produce moro than evor.~ Henco 1t 1s that the effocta of war havo boen slight in Btatos most subjectod to its ravagos, whilo agri- culturo hassuflorad incomparably more in Btatos soarcaly roached by any Tostllo forco, Tt a truo, politioal csunes, wud ‘espoalally tho, work of thoso who havo intronohod thomsolvos in tho power to rob Bouthorn Btatos by foator- ing ili-focling belweon whites and blacks, have dotte more than all national taxation to re- tard industry in cortain of thoso Btatos. Bat, it agricultaro elsowhoro has beon prosper~ ous, if tha ability of tho people to consume ita products has not docrossed, why hea not any doflefency of production thus oceasioned heon compensatod by greator inoroaso olsewliere ? Tho nogroos boing froo, and having littlo con- coption of economy, consume far more of food, evonif thoy produce less, thau thoy did whon slavos, Tho deficloncy of. tho South in agrioul- tural products, othor than her groat staplos, hag incroased ; the domand for corn and whoat from the North is grontor than it was botoro the warj ‘Why has not that demand boon met by such in croaseat production at tho North as to eauso tho sggregato production to keop pace with popu- Intion ? If, with this grontly-increasod domand to supply Sonthiorn doflefonclos, and with thou- wvands of migrating farmors and laborers from the Bouth compoting for tho possession of land woll logated, tho value of Northorn farms hasnot 80 inoredsed as to compensato for loss at tho Bouth, must it not bo for the roason that tho aggrogate consumption has been chocked, and tho cost of traniportation and tho cost of pro- duotion incroasod ? Yet tho Northorn Btates, soparately consid- ored, havo gained only 9 per cont in product of corn and 4 por cont in tobacco, and have lost 22 por cont in ryo, 44 per cont in buckwheat, and largoly in chooso, Meanwhilo, tho incronse in othor crops has boen groat, and yot not aa groat 28 it was during the preceding decade. If wo tako tho orop of whoat for 1869 alono, it {a truo, wo find an incronse in Northern States of 93 per cent, but this was on extraordinary crop, 83,000,000 bushels larger than that of 1870 or that of 1871, Tho Ilattor shows an incronso einco 1850 of 9,784,098 bushols in all formerly nou-slaveholding Btates and Territorics, or 61 por cont against 70 per cont fn the docado onding in 1859—nnd of this increrso tho greator part Is due to tho do- flolenoy at tho South and the migration of Iabor. Bo the crop of dhts was 26,000,000 largor in 1869 thah in 1871, and shows an incroase of 67 por cont during tho docade in tho product of Northern Btates, Tho largo orop of hay in 1869 was 48 por cont greater than "that of 1850 in Northern Btates, but tho crop of 1871, 5,000,000 ons amallor, in tho Northorn Btates oxcood- ed that of 1859 only 8,255,181 tons, or 19 por cont,—the increnso in tho preceding decade having boon 98 por cont. Those illustrations show:that the separate compariaon of Northern orops, all consideration of increased doficionoy at tho Bouth and incrensed. industry at the Nortn; resulting from migration, boing omitted, would deceivo the inquirer, and, second, that tho comparison of orops for partic- ulnr years is an unrelinble tost of the general prospority of agriculture, Some estimate of tho offeot of migration may be formed by taking the incroaso of - population, which has boen only 113¢ per cont in tho Southern and 283 per cont in the Northorn, or formerly non-slavehold- ing, Btates. Simply to koop pace with thoir own growth in population, the Northorn Statos in agriculturo should have increased 28%¢ por cont, therefore, without allowance for tho sup- ply of doficloncy at the Bouth, Now, tho num- ber of acres in farms at the'North has inoroased only 84,134,097, or 21 per cont—less than the in- croaso of populatiod. The averago valuo of all land {n Northorn farms. (reduced to gold) was $23 por acro in 1860, and $25 in 1870. There -has beon, therefore, oven in the Northorn States soparatoly considored, no such’ increaso in acro- &go or valuo of farms, compared with the in- crengo in population, as to mect tho groatly-in. creased domand arising from deflcioncy in Bouth~ orn production. . Yot, in tho decado proceding, tho incroaso in tho number of acres in Northorn farms had beon 43 por cont—much larger than tho incroase of population. The increass in valuo of farms had boou over 100 per cout, three timos as great as tho inoresso of population. But one conclusion ia posaiblo—that tho rotarded progross of agri~ culture during tho last decado hias beon due, not to causes peculiar to the South, ‘but to s sys- tom of taxation which incrensos the cost of production and diminishes the ability of the people to consumo sgricultural products, and, at the same timo, by promisoof oxtravagant gaine not genorally or permanantly realized, so- duces labor and capital into other omploymonts. Prot.Wise, whoso proposition to cross tho ocean in o balloon has boon already discussed in Tuz ‘TRILUNE, iu n recont futorviow with a reporter, gavo the dotails of the manner in which Lo pro- posos to mako Lis voyage. Prof, Wiso snys that the balloou will be globular in shapo, about 100 foot In dismotor, aud capablo of taking 10,000 pounds of disposable ballaat, He will also have 8 largo wickor-work car, with & roof for protection from the weathor. Hosays: ¢ Thia oar will bo two atories in hoight. Wo shall live on tho upper floor and in tho lower ono shall storo our provis- fons. Undomnoath tho car will bo an opon gal- lory for taking obsorvations of the sun. Bolow thia gallory tho lifo-boat will bo suspended, which will be of motal and dooked over.” In another place, Prof, Wiso saya: ¢ From formor oxporionce on tho Iakoes I judgo that I can tall tho dircotion which tho balleon {s traveling by tho foam on the water. Ican always sco tho water, excopt at such times as clouda intorvene, T con find out the dirootion of the ourrents be- low mo without coming dowa to scck them, by suspending a Hght line of two miles in length from the balloon, having on it, at regular dis- tances, indices which will rogistor the dircotion of tho witid, “Should tho batloon ‘oncounter tha ‘bravo west winda ' on tho ocenn, with tho aid of a drag lino wo could go right along withot tho loss of gna or ballaat.” Tho mout noodful foature in the propnrations of tho Profassor, bowover, doss not scom to bo fortheoming, namely, tho funds. No ono scoma to hava cone fldenco onough In the undortaking lo take nny stock in it, g0 that, in all probability, the Pro. fosror's oxporioncoes fn tho uppor air will bo con« flned to building castles thoro, ——— THE FARMERB' RITUAL, Tho Christian Cynosure, which scoms to bo published for the sake of making war upon Booret goolotios, and which for somo time past ban lost its sleop and appotite over the secret character of tho Granges, {s now happy in hav~ Ing discoverod their Ritual, which it publiskes in full. “That our ronders may havo an idos of the torrible charactor of thomo pnstoral myatorios, Wo prosont tho subatauco of the Rituah' Tho fient dogroo is that of tho Law borer, who, aftor bolng led round the hall throo times, mokes oath that ha ‘will_novor rovenl tho eocrots, of tho Order, sng that howlll conform to, aud .abide by, the cone stitution and rulos of tho subordinate Grange to which ho belongs, also to tho Btate and Natlonad Grango; that ho will never Proposo an impropog Porson for memborship: that ha will rondor aga sistanco o all his brathron, and that he will nop knowingly wrong or dofraud one of them. «The ponalty for a violation of his oath is expulsion from &0 Order. He thon recolyos tho pasa words, signals, and dogroo sign, tho lattor boar’ Ing tho following dangerous intorprofation # A' 8ood Iaboroer placos faith in God.” In the fomala dogreo corresponding to tho Inborre, thoe Maid,tha eamo obligations are imposed. Tho remaining dogroos aro those of tho Oultivator and Bhepe Dordoss, tho Harvostor and Gloancr, and tha Husbandman and Matron, in cach of which dogreos tho candidatos slmply ronew the pledgen mado in the provious dogreos, and promise to bo truo and faithful Patrons of Husbandry, As tho pledges which thoy take do not fn any way confllet with moral, social, roligious, or civk duties, it will bo goon that the Cynosure Lna not shown iteolf to bo s particularly bright siar in making suchis pother over a vory small matter. In Masonry, tho olovation of candidates from degroo to degroo s presumed to involvo - & cBrresponding increase in mystery., Symbols multiply aod the skulls and oross-bones, and Imives, and deggors, ' trowels and compasses, horsge collars and cocked hats, and othor alarme- ing proportics of Masonry, pilo up at a frightfal rate, whilo the sportive goat, whoia vory demure .ot tho outsot, ambles and frisks in & perfectly forocious manner whon ho carrios s Knight Tomplar on his back. Bat hora ono dogres is juat - liko another, oxcoptin namo. Tho Hasbandman and Matron do not meke any moro promises than the Laboror and Maid. Their purposts are the same, they are bound by tho esme oblie gatlons, and punishod with the samo oxaspore ating penalty. As tholr sacrots are substantislly doveloped in tho now Declaration of Independ~ ence, to which the farmers have pledged their lives, fortunes, and saorod honors, and aa thop * o naf conflict with the farmer's moral, soolal, roliglous, or civil duties, it would bo the part of wisdom for the Cynosure.to stop its howling, and lot theso dreadtul Husbaodmen and Matrons 0 on tholr way, and see what will como of it e i Misgouri' hes an intercsting railrond suit on its hands which bas beon brought befors Judge Dillon, of tho United Statos Circuit Court. By various acta of tho Logialnture, bo tweon 1851 and 1804, the BStato of Missouri issued its bonds for §8,500,000 for the benefit off tho Missourl Pacific Railroad, and thero wara other county aud municipal subscriptions ewelling tho subsidy enormously. In tha your 1808, tho rosd hud j moncy, hed =& floating dobt of oveq spont all thig, ' 1,000,000, and owod $500,000 interest on bonda which had been invested in Dresden,—s sum which it wes unable to pay. Bomothing had ta, bo done. Tho Legislaturo was approachiod, ang atlnst passod an act providing that thoe Stata should advertiso and soll tho road undor tho first mortgage it hold, but providing, slso—and hera 18 where tho trick como in—that tho Btato lien should bo discharged on the payment of §5,000,« 000 in cash. Of courso; the money wag paid, and tho State thoreby became the losen to tho oxtont of $3,500,000, to ssy nothing of the losses through municipal subscriptions, It baving como to tho cars.of the. pure chasers that tho presont Stato suthorities pure poso to contast the constitutionality of tho law which thus swindled the Btate, theso purchasers havo appliod for an injunction rostraining tho Btate from selling tho rond undor a llen that was formally rolonsed. Tho statomont is made that tho railroad ring expended £198,648.60 on the Legislature to socure & release of a mortgage for $8,600,000 upon paymont of $5,000,000, and tha wholo transiotion looks like o huge awindle, Tho forthcoming Intor-Stato Exposition, which takios placo in thia city in Hoptomber next, is alroady boginning to attraot univorsal attention throughout the country. The loading papers of all the largo citios, with tho excoption of St. Louis, aro aiding it with well-considered articles, " At tho East, ospocially, tho conservativo poople, while they wonder that Chicago is tiot **doad broke,"” novertheloss oxpross the utmost onthue slasm and admiration over the echemo of ths Exposition. Tho staid old Providenco Journal, in roforring to tha mattor, says : Not colebrated for their plety, the' Chicagoans, meva ertholoas, do whatover tholy hands find to do, with al} thoir might, and thoy undertake thinga which the slower temperamonts of tho Esatern States would never draamof, . . . . Open o criticlom oathis exhibl tion may prove to bo when contraated with those of older countrics aud moro deliberate adjustment, there 14 nodount that it will prove profitablo in more ways than oue, and that it will show that thers fa In our ‘Western country a 1ifo, a vigor, a divoraity of businoss, and, abovo all, promiso for tho future, which wetoo often and too groatly fall to.approciate, Anyhow, wo Lopoand bollove that Ohicsgo will boall the richer, and tho country all tho wisor, for hor graud “Intore State Industrial Exhibition,” J Thero is cortainly the boat of encouragomont in the Landsome manner in which the prinoipal popera of the country troat the Exposition for our citizens to go ahead aud mako it a BucCoss, and to mako it a succoss commensurato with the oxpoctations of peoplo in other citios, No time muet bologt, Tho time Is short. The work fo bo done is grent. Tho labor must bo corresponds ingly prompt, activo, and enorgotio, It has long been n mattor of rumor that the ranks of strolling Italian musicians in our largs cltios nro rocruited by means of kidnapping, and that tho ohildron load tho lives of slaves. The Now York Times has rocontly mado au nvautigas tlon which would soom to confirm this impres. sion, It has gathered testimony to show that boys aud glrle are stolen from tholr homes ig