Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1874, Page 4

- e PO, THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1874. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TEIMS OF SUBBCRIPTION (PATANLR IN ADVANCR). Dl 1 ST2.00 | Sunday. 2.0 2 5001 Sny o it mall... Tl Waonkly, Parts ot & yonr at tho samo rate. ‘Fo provent dolny aud mistakos, be sute and givo Post Ofiicoaddross in full, Including State and County, Romittancos may bo mado either ‘bydraft, expross, Post Otlico ordor, or in registered lsttors, at our risk. TRRMA TO OITY AUBSGNNENS Daily, delivorod, Hunday excoptod, 26 conte per woek. Dally, aelivored, Bundny Included, 10 aonts por wook. Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madigon and Doarborn.sts., Ulleago, I, HQOLEV'S (LIEATRI tandulnly sircet, hepmoon Olack and LaSalle, ' ** Who Kiitnd Cock-Ttobin 1" ** Too Muel for Good Nature, " **Tlio 1orso-Ora," M'VIOKER'S TITRATRE-Madison strest, hetween Degeborn R0 Shatb agapemonsof Bitia Worri oAlLo AUADTMY O1 MUSIG—Inlstod strgot, botwoon Mnd- Ison and Monroo, — Kngagemont of Bakor and Farron. *" Chris and Lonn." MYERS' OPERA-HOUSE Monroo street, botweon Dearbornand Stato.” Arlinglon, Cotton, and’ Kombio's Btnstrals,” % ASiljpery Day." Silaateoley and coul- salition, GLOBE THRATRE—Desplatucastrest, botweon Mnd. 4a0n and Washington, Kngagemont of Sharpley, Shoridan & Mack's Minstrols, T} GQREAT ADELPHI—Cornor of Wahash avonus snd Congross stroot, Variaty porformanco. EXPOSITION BUILDING-Tako Shcro, Adnme atreot. Dubufo's Paintiug of tho Sow,”” Alternoon aul ovoning, foat of b prodigal botwoen KINGSBURY MUSIO HALL—Clark stroet, ¥ ¥ Blavo-Cabin Con: Randoiph aud” Laka, ** Tonnossosus' Slav vort, " MICHIGAN AVENUE BAPTIST ONUROH—Leo. uro at 3.p, m, h{ Prof. Nathan Shoppard. Bubjeot: “Boorgo MacDanald's Wrltingo: “BUSINESS N HASKELL BROTHERS. TRUNK MANUFAC- turera, W pey purifoular attontion to the manufno- turo of all kinds of sumplo-trunks and samplo.casos to ordur, A Inrgo and wall-soleated atook of oods_can ho found at our wtore, Tribuno Bullding, cornor of Madison nud Dearboru-ts, The Chicagy Teibune, Fridey Morning, February 6, 1874. ‘Tho Patrons of Hukbandry of Towa have been requested by tho Senate of that Stato to putinto thie shape of a bill tho regulations to which they would like to have tho railronds submitted, The House of Ropresontatives found itself un- able yestorday to determing whothor work ontho national nrmories should bo iucroased or dimin- isbed, although its vast aud varied talout was concontrated on tho quostion the wholo day. + Tho membors of the Roy. Florence McCarthy's congregation met lust ovening, and resolved not to disgraco thomselvoa byallowing Mr. MoCarthy to disgraco himso!f ngain in their church, and therofore ordered that mo services bo held thereln, nest Sunday. — Chicago, New York, and Boston have had their troublos with unemployed workmen, but in Vioonn the problem is much more sorious. Thity thousand men out of employment in that city have petitioned the Governmont for reliof. Thirty thousand able-bodied and bungry paupors in ono city caunot be & plessant prospect for Francia Josopls. P When the Bankrupt lnw came beforo the Sen~ ate yesterday, Mr. Shorman moved that tho po- riod during which the paymont of obligations might bo suspended without incurring bank- tuptey be extonded from forty to ninety days, The burden of tho debate scemed to bo againet tho nmeudmont, but no voto was reached. Mr. Sherman’s amendment, to fix the lowest vwount on which bankruptey might bo declared 1t 83,000, was dofeated. e — Oficinl returns of the killed aud wounded in ‘he English elections yesterday are not com- olete, but indicato o heavy loss of life on both suo Liberal and Cotiservativo sides, The loss W the engagement ot Wittenham is not known. Several on both sides wero fatally wounded. Thero was fighting all along tho lingin the pottories of Staffordshiro. A skir- wish at Ifandy resulted in one killed and many wounded. At the battle af Askeaton, in Limer- ick, three woro killed—wounded not counted, —— It tho latest uttorances of the Washington Ring might be believed, nouo will be more de- for short ribg, 757c for short clonr, and 9¢@103g0 for swook pickled hams. Drossed hoga woro active and firmor, olosing at 80.60@6.70 per 100 Ibs, Highwines woro quict and 1o lower, cloaing ab 00c por gallon, TFlour was dull and un- ohangoed. Wheat was dull sud 1o lower, closing ot $1.234¢ casl, aud $1.245¢ sollor March, Corn was dull and 3o lowor, closing st 6730 cashy, and 68Y@6% moller March., Oats woro dull and 26@3o lower, olosing at 420 cash, and 430 soller March, Ryo was quiot and firmor. Barloy was dull aud frrogularly wosk, Livo hogs wore loss activo and onsior, closing wonk at $5.00@ 6.90. Cattle wore dull and hoavy, with salos at £2.050@06.60. Bheep woro active at a shado lowor pricos. Mr, Corcoran, the Washington bauker, signed tho memorial to Congress for an fuvestigation of “ Boss " Bliopherd & Co.'s public improvo- monts, and has reinforced tho momorial by a lottor which is published in another column. Ho roviowa tho misconduot of tho District Ring in negotiating loans, dograding tho financial crodit of the District, lovying excossivo sesos- ments, and awindling the taxpayers by ooret and corrupt coatracts and other maladminis- trations. In somo cases ho points out that the assossmont ou land for improvements oxceods its valuo, ond in most tho nsscssment is figured ot twico tho ronl cost of tho work. Ho doubts, ho says, *whother innny othor community on the face of this brond enrth the government of millions of money is intrusted to any one man, or got of men, who, in their own way, and with- out restraint or check, contract indobtednoss and give out work to bo dono without compoti- tion and to whom thoy pleaso, at their own pricos, and paying therofor in whatever form thoy chooso, certificatos, bonds, or cash.” —e Bouator Carpontor has prosonted his bill for a now olection in Louisiaua, The ncod for this step in stated to consist in tho fact that the State Lias no logal Governmont or Loglalature, and by its Conatitution nono can be chosen till 1876, Monnwhile tho people of tho State arein daily dnnger of being oppressed, and belug mvolved in vexatious litigation by tha sots of this illegal Logiglature, and tho neoplo of the United States lavo to bear the cost of keoping tho peace. Presidont Grant is lot down essy by the statoment that his proolamation was issued on the repregontstion of those who nro mow found to have {alsoly protonded to bo State ofiicors, A now oloction is ordered to bo held May 26 noxt, under the suporvision of some one to bo uppointed by the President, and who may be an ofticor of the army not bolow the grade of Msjor-Genoral. Under his direction the voters of tho Stato aro to bo rogistored. The Prosident may use all forco nocessary to carry out the provisions of tho act, and nny intor- forenco of the Stato aathorities is to be disro- gurded a8 void, — Gov. Wood, of Utab, in votoing the momorial of the Loglslature for a Congressiona! investi- gation of tho affairs of the Torritory, prosents & formidablo indictment against the ‘orritorial #amo number can be mustorod in 1876, it will thon bo in a Atill moro hopoless minority. Tho wholo vola of the country waa not polled in 1673, and In 1876 tho aggrogete voto of tho sovoral Btatos will not Lo loss than 8,600,000. The army of 8,000,000 will bo of no avail in o strugglo where numbers deoldo the result. Sinco 1808, tho Domooratio pacty las not grown strongor, It has rocoivod no rooruits, Thoso born in the party lhave by no means oqualed thoso who have gono out of it, Most of tho Democrats who got to Congress from pockot- distriots liavo beon in longue with tho TRopubli- can party for hiro and ealary. No schemo of corruption or robbery has beon practiced by tho Republicans without giving thom a share. ‘Thoy are, on tho call of tho yens and nays, quite a8 suro to vote for a job or & grab aa the Ropub- lieans, and it 18 & roady anewor of tho Republi- can malory-grabbors that tho moasuro rocolved moro votes from Domocratic mem- bers than from Ropublicans. In order to olinch that fact, and make it & perpotual stigma upon the Domocratic party, theso samo mombors fn cauous selected Fornan- doWood ag their caudidato for Spoaker. In fact, the Domocratio party in"Congross has boen for yonrs the unfailing and unscrupulous aux- Legislature and Courts, The Iaws of the United Statos aro violated with Impunity in Utah every duy ; life, liborty, and property are at tho meroy of the lawless ; the Probate Courts have usurped the jurisdiction of the District Courts, and have pub liborty and property in the power of Juries whoso verdicts wore worthless ; polygumy is ovorywhero practiced, and allowed in the face of tho law of Congress of 1862; murderers aro loft untroubled by any attompt to bring them to Justico ; the right of suffrage has beon conferrod upon alions and minors in violation of the Con- stitution of the United Btates, and the Logisla- ture has usurped the fight of the Federal Goy- erumont t% appoint the Territorinl officora. Theso nbusoes are charged upon the Territorial Logislature. They have boon repeatedly sum- moued, Gov., Waod says, to reform them, If they persist in their rofussl to do eo, anarchy must ensue unless Congross interfere. ‘YESTERDAY'S RAILROAD DISASTER, ‘Wo givo this morning tho particulars of a seri- ous ralway disastor which occurred on the Northwestorn Railroad about a quarter aftor 4 o'clock yeaterdsy morning, noar Kishwaulkeo Jighted than they that the Senate hns adopted the House joint resolution for an iuvestigation of their administration, Like tho Credit-Mobil- ier innocents, aund the Now York Tammany Ring, tuey may indulge the bppo of controlling an investigation thoy could not prevent. Liko thom, thoy will, itis tobe prayed, find their topes and thelr reputations blasted by the sveut, — The tow-boat monopoly of New Orleans will ba efectually dostroyed if the bill which has passed tho Senato becomes o law. It gives the Becre- tary of War full control of the channel at the mouth of the Mississippi which the Govern- mont Is dredging, and makes his rogulations su- preme. Any one who interferos with the work, by obstructing the channel, for instance, with sunkon boats, as the Tow-Boat Company lave doue, may bo punished by & fine of #6500 and pix ‘mouths’ imprisonmont. An investigation nns been bn—gun in Sacra- mento into tho charges of corruption which bave been made concerning Bonator Booth's bridge, and not far from Woodstock, Ill. The Groen Bay Exprees coming toward Chicago en- countered n broken rail, and, though tho ongine and mail-cor pasged it, tho other conches wero thrown from tho track snd overturned. Fortu- nately, noone was Lilled, though soveral per- sons aro said to bo govercly injured, and noerly all on the train wore moro or less stunned and ‘bruised. The bagpage-car caught fire from the stove in turning over, and tho wind carriod the 1lames to tho conches in the roar, four of which wore burned, Fortunately the passengers haa mado au oxit beforo tho ears wero fairly ignited, and tho disaster is chiofly shocking in con- templation of tho nurrowness of their cscape from being burned to death, If wo admit that any railroad accidonts are unavoidable, this one, porhaps, belongs in that eatogory, The ‘brokon rail, it ie prosumed, was ocessioned by the atmospheric influences,—though tho road hos been recontly ro-ironed,—which suggents tho inaniry whether experiments have failed to provide a rail that will resist such influences. The fire wna caused by the overturning of the stovo intho baggage-car, whichsuggests another election. Bo far the testimony does not mulke | 140iry, whothor human ingonuity Is unavalling Suta.caso. Onowitnoss deposed that & member | 0 tho offort to Lieat cars without exposing them of tho Legislature had told him ho Liad been | 0 the cortainty of destruction in caso thoy are offered §2,000 to volo for Booth, Another Asgemblymon, of whom a similar statemont and boon mado, denled its truth, It was shown that Booth bad refused to seck voles by any gifls or evon promises. The investigation is aot finished, Thero 8 no way of finding out low havd- worked these Congrossmen are till you ‘proposo to put thom on tho Diatrict of Columbla Inves- tigating Committeo. Ivery day somo mem- bars ask to be excused from gorving on the Committes on the ploa of *toomuch to do."” Ropresentatives Hale and Clymor and Sone ator Frolinghuyson find thomealves bur- dened elready with so laborious dutfes that thoy really couldn't do any more, They aro al- ready on two committoes, or thoy are on four sommitteos, liko tho slaving Frelinghuysen, or they wore on an invostiguting committes lust year, Theso oxcuses are ull wo oxcollont that it Is impossiblo to suspoct that tho rosl motive iy an unwillinguoss to bury some of their follow- momberes alive, The Chicago produce maurknts woro generally weak yestorday, and grain wars dull, Mess pork was modaratoly uctive,and 14@200 por brl lower, closing at $14.40@14.45 cagh, and $14.60@14,65 voller March, Lard wes activo, uud 10@12)40 por 100 tvs lovwer, closing at 49,10 cash, and §9,20 soller Maroh, Meats waro quiet and 3o per b lower, closing a2 634@ g0 for shoulders, Tigo overturned, If we admit that theso things are beyond the reach of man's inventive fooulty, thon wo must admit that tho dissstor on the Northwestern Road was unavoidable, If not, then the narrow eseape from the most Lorrible of all donths that mora than half a hundred people aado yestorday morning is anothor appeal to tho inventors und to the railroad men to furnish wnfoguards against the frequent recurrenco of dieasters from theso cansos, G0V, HENDRICKS AT SPRINGFIELD, ‘The mombers of the Tilinois Logislatura who ouce belonged to tho Domocratio party have beon holding a sort of protracted meeting to consider whether thoro ia any such party left or mot. The provailing improssion hos been thnt thore {8 no such thing in existonce hero, At this crltieal Juncturo, Gov, endricks, of Indiana, Tememboring that there was such a thing ay tho Calumot dam, made a pllgrimage to Springfield, ‘Wo are probably not mistakon in asguming that tho Governor lind & call thither to oppose tho ox- poctad declaration that thero was no further use for the Demooratio purty io tiue State, Gov. Hendiloks attonded the coucus, and, althongh very reserved, said that the throe mitlion Domo- orats in tho country wero too stroug to disband, and ha looked forwird to tho timo whon thoy could ovorthrow tho Rtopublicans, ) “This parablo of the thrco million Democrats has dono duty before. Even Reauming that tliord was that numbor in 1845, and that the iliary of tho worst and mont dishonest faction of the Ropublican party. Thero are same intelligont and able Domocrats in Cougross, but thoy aro 8o fow that thoy only servo to moko the gonoral clossification more conspiouous. Undeor theso eircumstancoes, how are tho threo million Domocrats of 1868, doplot- ed by doath, and desortion, and purchaso, to be- oomo a majority of the largely-incronsed voto of 18767 Doos Mr. Hondricks imagine that the farmers and other Roformors will enroll themeolvos in a party of which Fernando Wood is tho ohoson londer, and Eldredgo the chiof buglor? Tno party of Reform intends, among other things, to punish tho salary-grab. Can thoy do this by joining a party that gave moro votes for it than even the Republicans ? Every intolligent man kuows that the Democrat- 1o party, sinco the War, has served no purposo but to mako the Ropublican party respoctablo by comparigon. Every intelligent man knows that, it that party would dieband and censo ta oxist, tho elemonts of opposition to the corruptions of the Republican party would very spoedily bo in the majority, The Domocratis party is nothing but an obatruction and astumbling-block, and it is to bo rogrotted that Mr. Hondrioks, whoso personal record ia ungullied, should oppose tho now irro. sistible movemont to throw it out of the rond. Wo vonture to predict that, whatover ho or tho membors of the Legisiaturo may do, thero will be no Democratio party in the flold of Illinois politica next fall ? ——e ¢ BALANCE-OF-TRADE” NONSENSE. “he most incurablo dolusion of tiw Protection- ints is tho aamumption that, whenover a country imports more thaa it exports, it creates a * bal- ance of trade " aganet itself, which is & dead loes ; aud that the remody for this loss 38 to be founda in moasures for prohibiting importation. Tho argument is that it tho United Stiatos ex- port $400,000,000 worth of products and im- port $600,000,000, thoy aro $200,000,000 out of pockot by the operation, Thero have buen vol- umes writton to prove and maintain. this ab- surdity, aud there are thousands of /ntelligent people who honostly believe it. Wo havo scen thoe statoment mado by tho highest ofiicial au- thority in tho United States’that tkw amount paid for froights to vessols owned by iloreigners is that much monoy thrown into the sea. On a por with this statoment was the gen-oral result reached ot & mooting leld in i3t. Louis st weok to consider tho expodioncy of estab- lishing cattle-yards on tho Missouri sisle of the river. The conclusion ronched was tho 4 the hord- ing and feoding of cattle on the Iliicis sido of the river represented so much money loat by tho peoplo of Missouri and gained by the foreigners living in Illinows. It was claimed thett St, Louls could nover prosper so long.as the *“balauce of trado” was in favor of East St. Louiew. It is true that, ay general thing, wo import more from foreign Btates than wo expor, but it docs not follow that wa are poorer to tho oxtent of the differenco, or to any extent, by tho opera- tion. Tho moro foreign goods we can get for tho articlos wo export, the greator is our gaini by tho oxchange. If for 2100 worth of wheat wo can got foroign goods worth $125, tha * bolanco of trado” is 920 against us, but wo make 25 by the oporation, The balance of trade, 08 & goneral rulo, meas- uros the profit accruing to tho country against which the balauce scemingly stands. The: goods we import are worth to us what thoy cost vs de- liverod at our door ; othorwise we would mot im- port them, If we receive foreign goods worth $500,000,000, and send out in exchaugo goods that are worth only 400,000,000, wo meuke by tho exchavge the differenco in tho two values, notwithstanding thore is u seeiming * balunce of trado™ of 100,000,000 againstrus. The oxtont of this balanco of trado shows our profit in the exchange. The country is ‘mdeed unfortunato which exports, for instancis, £500,000,000, and recoives in return $250,000,000. Tho great com- mereinl prosperity of England is due to the fact that thero is & largo ““balance of trade " ngainst hor, Here aro tho facts whowing, by periods, 1 tho growth of her commerco and the iuvariable “bolance of trade " againat her : 1855—Imports into United Xingdom, ....§ 717,714,250 1855—Exports from the United King- testeverearens 689,450,600 dom e Balance of trade “agafust” England.3 191,357,100 1800—Imports into Tnited muug:nn 100§ 1,052,054, 465 t ng- 1800—Exports from the Unit domeeesanes 1870—Importa into United Ringdom...,.§ |,510,287,465 1870—Exporta from {ho United Kinge Teeer 1,220,402,885 Balancoof trade “ngoinat England.§ 205,680,580 1872—Imports into United Kingdom, 175,458,120 I872—Exporis from tho Uuited o é \ST2,04,170 200,623,050 0. uassnenessane Balanco of trade “againsl” England.$ Assuming that the *‘balance of t mdo" was a loss’ to hr, in twonty yoars tho wholo lons would have amounted to nonrly $5,0 #),000,000, ormore than her present national d sat, It is ‘becouso of tho stoady profit resulting ficom this falvoly-termod balance of trade that: jsho has beon able year nfter your to roduce hor- ty xation, Tor policy is to enrich hersolf by gettir ig back aunually the largest percentsge «)f 1'oroign goods im exohange for hor own produmts; while our polbdy 14 to got as littlo in roturn for' what wn export as passible. The wholo encrgiles of our Governmont are direoted to re prossingf fm- portstion, To tho extont that this pedioy is succosaful, tho Govornmont deprivow ua of the profits of foreign trado, But in Great IiriValn tho oppeate polioy prevalls, sud vse wealth: thus gainod rondora her tho groat capitalist nation of the world. THE OHI0O WHISKY-RAIDS. The fomalo orusadors agalnst whisky in Oblo havo run ngalust & large-sizod stump, In one Instanco, at lonst, thelr prayors have boon sup- prossed, thoir psalmy have boen stopped, nnd the nncouth vohiclo used by them ns n fortross and coigne of vantago from which to nseall tho ‘beor-ghops aud drug-stores hns hoon ordored to move on, aud has hiad to go, with its aggressive cargo of fomalo roformers, This ovent has hap- poned in Hillsboro, Tho gontlemnu who ob- Jocted to belng prayed out of business and sung Into bankruptoy {s one Dr. Duuno, propriotor of tho villago drug-storo. Dr. Duuno, unwilling to Lo dono for in this mauner, aud fancy- ing thot Do had momo rights which oven a fomalo roformor was bound o respect, applied to tho law for protection, and tho Inw, boing no respector of porsons, atopped in botweon the Doctor aud the fomalo army on- goged in its “work of lovo,” and ordered tho Iattor to tako up its cart and walk. More than this, Dr. Dunne has brought suit for trespass sud dofamation of character. Tlio Dootor is ovidontly on tho war-path, dotermined that the women shall not have all the fun. This brings up the squaro fssuo whothor lovely woman hns tho right to obstruct o pharmacy with prayer and song, so that business cannot bo conducted ; and then, bocauso the drugglet will not sur- rendor,makohis namoand that of his family odious by prayorful objurgations and melodious slan- dor. Dr. Dunno having sot thio examplo, thoro will bo plonty to follow it, which will compel thoso rural Jonns of Areto mako s chango of baso. The wrath which thoy have been hurling against drug-stores, and liquor-ehops, and boer-gardens must uow be dirceted at tho courts. Whisky and quinine will get & respite, and tho perambu- Inting monagoerio must take up its lino of march for tho residences of the lawyers and judges, and pray and sing for favorable decisions. If these aggrossivo roformers had not carriod tholr purposes to thelimitsof a destructive fanaticism, which made them blind to tho fact that thoro are certain inalienable rights guaranteod by law, thoy would lavo forcsoon this rook in their path, and known that, eooner or Iater, they would be brought up with & round turn for in- ‘vasion of privato rights, No person, not even a praying ond singing woman, las tho right to intorforo with or obstruct o legitimato business, to bring edium upon a porson’s good mame, or to disturb his peace. These are universnlly recognizod aud inalionablo rights, and the very groundworl upon which socloty rests. Withouf such guaranty, 1o one i secure in person or proporty. If thoso womeon have a right to ob- struct a druggist’s business with singing and prayiog, and to bring his name into disropute because be does not deem it propor to conform to their idens of what is right, then thoy have tho right to bloockade stores whers tobacco is sold, if thoy deem smoking to be wrong; o besiego and break up a ball, on the ground that dencing is wrong ; to enter private premises and stop o social game of whist, assuming that cards arean invention of the devil. Thore is no lmit, in fact, to tho aggrossion upon private rights which would be posaible in such a contingency. Judge Safford, of Hillsboro, 1n his interview with tho correspondent of the Ciucluuatt Commercial, stated the plain facts in tho case when ho said that theso women had no moro xight to pray in front of & man's house than they had to filo & saw or grind a hand-organ, and that it Dr. Dunne objectod to the use of his name, which was his own property, in such amanuer as to bring odium upon himself or his family, then any Court would grant on injunction against it. There is no clearer principle in law. Even the street-preacher who becemes noisy and dis- turbs tho public peace ia obliged to quit his horangue, The beer-saloon which becomes so noisy 08 to disturba church, or even private citizens, is shut up by the law. Tho noisy ray- olor upon tho strecis snd the organ-grinder on tho corner, if thoy disturb any ono’s quiet, sre incontivently cupprossed. In this temperance crusado, tho caso is atill more nggravated. Thoso fanatical womon are not disturbing public poaco, but they are intorfering with businesa rocoguized by the law, sud are clearly amenable to the law, ‘We havo no disposition to depracato the canse in which thoy are engaged, nox to deny that in- temperance i & crowning evil, The error which they have committed lios in the manner of their opposition and the crazy excosses of their oporas tions, into which they havo been urged by men who ought to know better, and who, without the courago to assnil the evil in poreon, seck todo it by placing the women in the front, whoso sex guaranteos thom from violence, The iattor hnvo boen treated with univoersal courtesy and urbani- ty by those whose rights were thus summarily invaded, but ot last forbonrance has coased to be a virtue, and the victims aro calling upon tho law to protect them, which the law is bound to do. THE GERMAN RELIGIOUS CONFLICT, Thoe imprigonment of Archbishop Ledochowslki by the German Government, in accordanco with the sentenco of a German Court, a8 announced in the eable dispatchos, tolls us how violont is the conflict betwween the new Empire and tho otd Church. Until reminded of it by somo such act, wo avo apt to think of it as little more than a hermless skirmish of words betwoen pricsts and princes, Still the bottlo 8 an earnest ono; much more so than we on this side of the Atlan- tic con renlize. Wolive the modorn hfo, The fresh blood of the world courses through our young institutions, The New lives {u our bills of right, in our National and Stato Constl~ tutions. It is incorporated in our pross, in our literature, in our laws.. Wo are tied to the middlo ages by no traditions, by no prineiple, by no prejudice. We are as vonturs- some in the domaiu of politics, of morals, of law, and of religion, as of commorce. We toko our chances wherever tho probability of Improve- mont is great, give up tho old and abide by the consoquences, There aro, it 18 true, minor forces at work all ovor tho country in an oppo- sito diroction to this, but modorn {deas are hero in the ascendency. Older forms or creeds, though respected and protected, have here no preseriptivo rights, It 8 not so in Europe. “'here the old combats with tho new, the middle sgo with modorn thought, the unchangeablo Ohurch with the changeable and progrossivo Btate, That Church, which has done so much for olvilization, which struggled with the Van- dul aud {ho Goth, now combata the modern State, which would disrogard what it claims to bo itu inallonable rights with as muoh vigor ns it onco did the barbariaue who ovorran the Ro- man Empire. This contliot betweon the modorn Stote and the Church is raging all over Europo, —exoept Franco,~In Italy, in Bpnin, in Austrla, in Bwitzerland, In the Qerman Empire, Gormany lnw refused to accopt Count Cavanr'a celebrated polioy,—*tha froe Church in the frao Btato,"—aud claima the right to log- islato for tho Church s it doos—nnd nlmost to tho oxtont that it doos—tor ils srmy. Gormnny ling 14,000,000 people who acknowledgo epiritual allogianco to the Catholle Church,—n littlo moro than ono-third of hor wholo population, Whoth- er or not Bismarck haa nctod tho part of a wiso stntesman in going to tho lougth he hns in bis interforenco with tho Church, tho future will docido; but whother ho hus or not, ho lina gone 1oo far to withdraw from tho contest now. The battle lins dovelopod itself to such an extent tat compromiso {8 impossible, and rotreat or truce wonld Lo defeat. ‘I'he future conrso of this politico-cculesinati- enl question has boon alrendy progmosticated. ‘What Gormany hina done points to what she will do, The futuro can only bo the continuation of the pnat, Tho Catholic Bishops of Gormany will not sccopt tho conditions on which nlone the Governmont will permit thom to hold their soats, Ono of the most influentinl papers of the Empire bogan the now year by prophesy- ing that bofore long ovory Bishop in Prussis, at lonst, and probably in othor parts of Germany, will have been deposed by tho Importal Govern- ment ; that the Government will find it difficcit to obtain any ono to fill tho vacant places on the torms it ineists upon ; that tho romoval will not ond with tho Bishops; that it will extond to the pastors of churches, to ordinary priests, The servicos of the Church will cense hore and thiere, and of course the churches romain praotically olosed. Bhould this condition of affairs con- tinuo, candidates for orders, says our authority, will bocomo raror ; tho action of tho Church bo folt loss and loss, This, it is granted, cannot lnst always: but it is only a question which uhall yiold first—the Church or the Imperial Govern- meont. Wo need only odd that the paper from which wo tako this forecast of tho futuro is friondly to and supports the Governmont of the Empire. Gormany expeots that Switzerland and Ttaly, at lenst, will follow its policy towards tho Church. Of Austria it has somo doubt. Looking across tho border, however, the Empire 8008 a causo of disquiot—Franco moving in an opposite dircction, French honor smarting under tho shamo of rocent dofoat, Fronch Catholicism roinforeing French patriotism. France now has & doublo grudgo against Germany; for Franco has always beon the great champion of tho Churoh, and is a8 much soto-day, if not more so, than over bofore, Bismarck's policy towards it is not calculntod to mako tho great body of the Fronch people love Germany any tho better, «nd tho future conflict botweon Goermauy and Franco, which is only & question of {ime, will find Fronch arms nerved a8 well by the memory of Sedan as by that of the Gormans' trcatment of Mothor Church. In tho Franco-Prusotan war, tho Cath- olio troops of tho Cathiolic Kingdom of Bavaria fought desperately and bravely against Catholio France, Tho late clectionsin the Kingdom show an Ultramontane gain ; and it may bo a serious quostion for tho Empire whother its courso towards the Church may not alionate the hearts of the groater portion of the Bavarian peoplo. 1t would soom that Gormany foars such o con- tingency mot only for the Bavarians, but for mnny othors of hor paople as well. Whether slio would over have begun the strife now going on; whotlior she would have thought it politic to begin it had she foroseen its development and its consequences, we may be permitted to doubt. But having bogun it, having carried it thus far, sho discovors that sho haa moro to loso now by retiacing her steps or standiug still than by advancing, The one would be certain, tho othor is only possible, dofeat. THE ASHANTEE WAR, Tho foreign dispatches, for several wecks past have been burdened wita accounts of the prog- ross of the English war against tho Ashantees, but have not, up to this dato, indicated what the fuss is all about. The current numbor of Fra- ser's Magazine, howover, supplies tho deficiency. 1t appenrs that the English and tho Dutch swap- pod somo property in Africa which neither of thom owned, and which ought to consign both netions to the penitentiary. The Fantees hap- pened to bo on the torritory which the Dutch goveto the English, and, being thero, they woro ewapped for snother st of mno- groos along with tho lnd In the swapping process, Atjiompos, King of tho TFantees, lost his Fotish stool, without which his temporal and spiritual pawer was null and void. Ho didu't object to being swapped for Ton- yauzombe, or whoever is King of tho Dutch ne- groos, but ho did object to tho loss of his stool, and so he commoncod & secarch for it. While searching for it he got into tho torritory of the Ashantocs, and they nt once drove bim out aud invaded his territory, whercupon the English interfered, and are now punishing the Ashan- teos. Having got by bartor ono ploce of prop- orty which docs not belong to thom, they now propoae to got another by axms. The injustico of the whole procosding 18 apparent at a glance, 1t ought to be submitted to arbitration at once : Firat, whothor the English shall not provide tho King of the ¥antoes with a first-class Fotish stool; and second, whether tho stolon torritory sball not be given beck to its proper ownera. It is protty small business for & grown-up nation thie stealing from African fledglings ; aud, it there are two othor tribes of Iottentots in SHouthern Africa capable of arbitrating, tho job should be Intrusted to them,—flrst, to sscortain the value of tho atolon property, sud socond, to {ix the punishment for stealing from & darkey. ENGLISH ELECTION RIOTS, For somo years,—in fact, sinco the lnst Par- linmoutary olection,—tho English press has held up our riotous political proceedings as an awful warning to the frionds of univorsal suffrage. It is unfortunato that Buglish oxample should no boar out English precept. Tho Parlismentarygp elections now in progross have beon scenes of tumult such os wo ravely Lioar of on this sido of the water. They hiave quito eclipsed tho eloc- tion riots of ' Middlemarch,” Thoball opencd. on Monday night with o freo fight at Shoffield. Tho polico were obliged to protect & Liberal meeting. On Tuesdsy men's pussions had grown warmer. 'Phere wore rlots at Bury, Lan- castor, Tralos, Groouwich, Lincoln, Wolver- laopton, Dudloy, and Nottingham. At Dudloy, the authorities wore uuable to stop the fight, and. hod to tolograph to Bhefllold for assistanco. At Nottingham thero was * much fighting.” At Wolverhampton, n Liboral mooting was kicked out of doors snd thrown out of windows, and tho niall was gutted. At Groonwich, aud, in fact, overywhere, windows wero smashod with equal zoat by both parties, At Lincoln, the mob took possosslon of the strcots, emashed all tho windows, attacked the polls, and set five to o hotel. It was disporssd only by & bayonet charge, On Weduesday tho volco of tho popu- Iaco waa still for war, While Disracli was show ing the Nowport Conservatives how unpopulax Mr. Lowe s, the Newport Liberals showered stones throngh the windows of tho il whoro he wag talking, and flually trled to cjoct tho au- dlonco vf ol armis, A froe fight onsued.” In fact, tho fighting has beon freo overywhero, A man conld pgot his Al of it for nothing, At Binloybridgo, thera wero ¢ mo- rlous riots,” At Dudloy, the row of Tuesdsy wns rosumed. Boforo. soldiery could be got from Birmingham, an “ importod mob of Trishmen " hnd hammored the miners of Dudley to thofr hearts’ contont. Ifouses woro ran- wsnckod, proporty was destroyed, mob-law was triumphant, ‘Theso, bo 1t romombored, are only tho riots which wore thought of sufliciont Importanca to ho tolographod across the Atlautie, Wo must walt for tho mails to got tho inewitablo dotails of tho losa Important condidatos who have barely eseapod with thoir lves from moba inspired by thoir opponents, of the minor meotings that hiave been broken up, of . the ton thousand petty aquabbles from Land's End to John o' Groats. The facts of the cuso soem to bo that 8 general clootion in England is as dan- gorous ns an ordinary battlo, and that thers aro ten riots at the voting-placos to one in this country. In England, again, o mob gonorally ‘usies * tlat and bludgoon, winle in Amoriea it uses pistol and knife, A piatol-shot 18 heord farther than o bludgeon-stroko, though it may not bo a8 fatal. A eandid comparison be- twoen the Lwo clections will ehow s large balanco of lawlossnoss agaiust Great Britain. And the argumout dorived from such & compsrison will not bo against univorsal suffrage, but for it; for it shows that men intorosted in politics will manifest tholr intorest in somo way or other, It thoy cannot throw a vote, thoy will throw a roclk, and if thoy cannot use the suifrage, thoy will use o shillolsh instead. The Revue de Quinzaine, published in the City of Moxico, gives, iu ity issue of Jan. 15, somo dotails of the Congressional dobato which re- sulted in tho eancoling of ihe contracts mado with two American companies for building rail- ronds through Mexico. Senor Ramon Guzman urged tho cancellation on account of the * danger there would bo in confiding an enterprise as im- portant aa the projected railways to American contractors and capitalists.” Mo saw in such concessions * o pormanent menace againet the independenco of Moxico.” Senor Guzman has ovidently hoard of Crodit Mobilior, and knows that an American railrond is apt to try to own the Stato that gives it being. A Moxican com- pany has gecured tho contract, but, according to the Revue, it will probably not bo able tolay o rail. iy Sovoral gontlomen of prominance in this city are considering the expediency of starting a Iargo co-operative store on the plan which bas proved so successful in Londou. If the projoct is carried out, o large contral storo, deal- ing in groceries, dry goods, drugs, otc., will bo opened, and arrangements will Lo mado with a number of prominent firms, which will sell to mombers of the prospeclive associntion for cash ot o discount of from 10to 20 per cont., Tho shares will be 85 cach, but the privilego of buy- ing st tho low rates at which all goods will bo sold can bo obtnined by on annual payment of $1. 'L'ho scheme, if vigorously pushed and hon-~ estly managed, will succeods —_— Dorcas Acreg, of Turner, Mo, = tailoroes by trade, saved enmough monoy to buy a few acros and to build & small house thercon, Thon she warriod Lazarog Lucas. Lazaus died, leaving no child and no will. Then there was a lively rosurrection smong the rolatives of Lazarus, His brothers claimed the houso, When tho wrathfal Dorcas found that she had a legal right only to the use of ono-third of the home she had paid for with her own scanty saviogs, sho burned up the whole thing. Tho revenge was sweet, but the consoquent two yoars' imprisonment was the roverso, Woman's wroungs aro sometimes roal, e e ‘The statoment of Mr, Whoelor in the Houso holng ealled or Lold, by nolghborhioods, by pro- cincts, by townshipy, by counties, and by Con- grossional Districts ; and, whothor in Domocratic rogions along the Wabash, or In Ropublican atrongholds along Rook River, tho manifeat tonms por of tho common poople {8 all tho same. In the Nineteenth (Sam Marshall's) Congroslonal Distriot, alwayu hoavily Domooratie, tho eall tor n District Convention saya: Tolitically, wo hinvo beon voted inutead of voting, Wo liave bon voling for men for leginlatora for 1o othier ronson than that onr erly nominated thom § and thus wo hove elected dealgning e, who have #old the boat intercats of tho peoplo to o smull minrd. ty of monoyed aristocrncy, incorporated monopolles, rallrond companlos, private rings, Oredit Moblites wwindles, nud back Pay grab stonls, "To this cud the wholo machinory of the Government has been con.. verted into tho Apcaniativo intercst of {ho few, while lhnwnnlxg;:‘{" ) &rsn majorlty uluyluul wight of, « o+ Yurmora, tho work ia yours, work or it will uot bo dono, " B ‘Tho call of & Convontion in tho Fifth (Burch., ard's) District, alwaya heavily Ropublican, is no. comprnied with these romarks in the Froeport Bulletin : Tlo men that aro now in power, holdi faithless left hand the reins of “the mvu‘m’:‘?mml:‘n:x with muscular right hond oro deploting ite Creas urles, must bo displnced—peaceably if it can be, fore. {biy 1€ it must, Noxt Novembor tlio docapiintion will commience, The guillotiue will Lo drawn by tho stal wartarm of the Loncst yoomsury of the nation, aud woo be it unto overy fuillilusa pubiic servant, ~—Just how much the salary-gfib waa “ro- poaled,” lot tha exporienco of two Woust Virginia Congrossmen show, Theso two were seated in the House, Jan, 27, sovon daya aftor Presidont Grant had signed tho eo-called *ropoal,” and thotr pay-sccount was mude up from March 3, 1873, to Jan, 20, 1874, at the rato of $7,600, and for the next ensuing soven duys nt tho rato of 86,000,—giving cach man a handsome capital to start with. Mombers of the Forty-third Cou- gross will find, if thoy go Leforo their constitu~ ents, noxt summor, that, whon the peoplo said “‘repenl,” thoy moant *ropoal;” aud that this thing haen't blown over yot. —Samuel McNutt, of Musentine, long timo in tho Towa Logislaturo, proposes to mulke & per- wsonally independent raco for Congross, starting now. —Tonnesseo Lins county olections in August, and o goneral eloction for Governor, Lepintue turo, Congrossmon, ote., in Novembor., Tho Noshville Union thinks this arrangemont po- culiorly favorable for effective action by tho farmers, who are baocoming a power in thaf Btato. —Gov. Hartrauft has signod the Pennsylvanin cloction law, mado neccssary becanse the new Constitution wiped out all existing eloction laws; and the now law s such a one as, while it gives tho vote and roturn manipulators somo nd- vantages, loaves it still possible to dofent thom —if tho majority is big enongh, —Tho Littlo Rock Gazelte, Jan, 30, makes thia statoment of Arkansas affairs, ruled, as in Louleisus, by men not elected by tha pooplo: ‘When it is romembered that swithin the Inst eight months over $40,000 in Frensurar's certificates hiyo bean fsnued Lo pry for tho simplo tem of inexiug tho Journals of tho Legialuturo ; that the Auditor's oRico liau cost over $28,000¢ that’tho appropriation of tho lust Leglslaturo for clerk and hire and coutingent ox- penscs for tho Stato Land Oflice for two years hns alroady beon expended; that the Stato Printers bave drawn from various funds, aud for divers purposes, but littlo, if any, loss than $200,000 during tho st year, and 80 on, ad {nfinitum, it fs impossible to state tho wmount of fhe floating indobtedness of tho State,— in other words, how much Btate serip is out, Itls 8afe to say, howover, that $2,000,000 are floating, —Tho two-dnys’ specch of Sonator Carpenter is the logical culmination of the fraud and cor- ruption that have boen practiced by the Admin- istration party in Louisians, . . ". Soseyero ‘an arralgumont of his own party by one of its favorite lenders could have been oxtorted only Dy o necossity which it was impossiblo longor to withstand, . . . Well mny tho President do~ ploro the fact that ho has to “Lear the burden alono”; it is one from which hoe will not soon be roleased by & judging people. 'That it is con- feusod to bo n burden is hopoful, for it proves thnt justice doos not sloop. But, unhappily, tho pooplo of Louisinna aro not relieved from’ thoir state of opprossion. Prostrate in ther industry, rovbed in tho namo of taxation, condemned to poverty snd perhaps exilo by a Loartless dynasty that hag its hond in Washington, defrauded of tho fair oxpreesion of their ouce govercign will, it thoir lamentablo caso fails to move Congresa to ordor the hands of the Executive off of their liburtf, it will demoustrato that both ehare oqually in a plot whose succossis tho knell of our common ropublican freedom.—Zoston Post. —aA now olection is not the yemedy. The rom- edy is simple: Iiulln;:g i sustained by the au- thority of tho United States. Let Congross do- clare, in accordance with the report of ils own committee, that his Government 1s a usurpation, aud that MoEnery is the legal Govoruer. Lok of Roprosontatives duriug the debate on tho reduction of thio army, that tho aunual doplotion by death, desertion, and oxpiration of enliat- ment is 10,400 men, may well have struck tho Houso with asatonishment. Thero is a fact, however, much more astonisbing than this, nemoly : that wo have virtually (a8 shown by theao figuros) no army at all, but in reality enly 2,204 commissioned officers, aud, recruiting on tho porpatusl-motion system, the taxpeyers of thia country aro called upon to pay this year $84,881,618 for military purposes | i 8 i A correspoundent in yesterday's issuo suggested the uso of cleotricity instend of hauging as & means of capital puuishment, and gavo figures of tho compurative velocity of pain and oleotric- ity to show that such a death would be painless. The point is well taken. Prof. Tyndall hns proved, in ouo of his shortor esssys, that death Dby lightuing is too quick to bo folt. If tho plan wero adopted, o doomed man might bo oxccuted in his own cell, Thue all the horrible publicity of the prosont practice would be done away with, Hlaidi kst by Goldwin Bmith said, in his sddress to the Trades-Unions of Evgland, that Cornoll Uni- versity, in which ho i still & Professor, is o par- tial foiluve. 'The rosson he gives 18, that hard manual Jabor cannot bo successfully combined with hord mental Jabor. Both draw from tho same fund of nervous onmergy. Mr. Smith has discouraged fourtcon young Englishmen from going to the Univorsity, beeause ho bolioves tho intoltectun! market in tho New World is over- stocked. Ho may draw this inference from his own partial failuro on this sido of the water, but thero is still ** plonty of room highor up.” The Now York agonts of the Contral Pacifio Railroad Company continue to advertise semi- annual dividonds of 8 per cont, in gold, on tho stock of that Company. Ou Sept. 80, 1873, the Company owed the United States $7,193,615.28 for intorost paid by the country on the guaren- teod bonds. This debt has mot been reduced. How, theu, can dividends be honestly paid on $54,000,000 of stock ? g e Gen, Fitz-John Porter is said to possess a lot- ter from Gen, ‘Thomas, writton shortly before the latter's death, which warmly indorses his ap- plication for a now trisl, This is pralse from Bir Hubert, Itcan do no funocont person harm to rcopen Gen, Parter's caso, now that the pas- alons of tho War are subsidiug. 1Iis application is a atrong one. ———— dulin E, Smith protests ngainst being mercly Abby Bmith's sistor. Sho says ube wroto for the papers bofore Abby did, and hints that she s o good desl more of & woman than her vigorous younger sister, It is ead to sco that tho green- oyed monstor has reut asunder the anti-tax household, e ) Judge Warden, the would-be biographor of Chase, has published a envd, in which ho snys that nis work will * contain no word to which any one's truo dellenoy can abjeot.” It so, it will difor matorially from tho skotch of it alroady put forth by himself or Lis frionds, ——. A Tax-Payors' Conventlon s to assomblo in South Carolina. It hopes to restore to tho State the prospority of which tho annual Tax-Steslers’ Covvontion, botter known as the Legislature, by robbed it. NP — NOTES AND OPINION. ‘The local press of Illinols comes to us, weok nftor week, filled with tho notos of busy prepara- tion, under the Farmers' Movement, for active work in politics next summor, and & harvost of votea ia November, Zverywlers mestings are the President give Mr. Kellogg tho semo_souud advico Lo submit to the voice of tho people that be lately gave Goy, Davis, of Loxes, ot him furthor give Goy. McEuery to understand that the Progident will respond as promotly to hig roquisition for troops to suppross riot as ho did Lo‘l\'ullogg'u roquisition whea the latter was ree- ognized a8 Governor, and thevo will bo penco forthwith. Wo do not imagine thore would be s shovw of rosistance,—Boston Advertiser, ~—Tho long and tho short of it is that the avor~ age Cougrossmmn hos come to study every aues- tion presented for his consideration as” to ita bearings npon lin Exivnta fortuncs—his contin- uance in oflico, rather than its effect upon tho gonoral wolfaro of the country. Tho Hcoretary of tho Treasury is at his wit's ond, but Congress does not mooet tho case boldly and honestly, bo- cause the truo course demanded by the oXigeney of tho times might prove unyopular. With our oxpenditures in oxcess of tho rovonue, thera ought to bo a rigid recall of every appropriation not noeded for the general good—an inaugura- tion of utrict cconomy in every dopartment of the publio service.—Hartford LPost, —If this is the way [election returns] Canadn cople trost corruptionists, ovon when detected Butom the crime is consummated, Low will the Aworicau peoplo troat the Crodit Mobiliers who are proved to have plundered the Government and peoplo to the smount of over £40,000,0007 ‘I'ho answer is to bo given nest fall,—and also in rogard to the salary-grabbers who lhove thou- snuds of dollars of tho grab in thoir pockots? Tho vory men who havo just voted to repeal tho stea] Lill, with fow oxcopitons, Lnve oightmonihs’ stonl, or more than $2,000 ench, in iLeir pockets to-day I—Porlland (Me.) Argus, ; —1his is 1o timo for proposing new railrond subsidies, nevortholess weo presume the [Tom Scott] scliome will Lo pushed. Nine-tenths of tha poople undoubtedly will agree, as do wo, with tho Detroit Post, anying: * In view of tho experiouce of tho country with the Uniou and Contra! Pacitic Railrond bonds, upon which tho Government has already paid 'over 916,000,000 of interost, for which it has recoived nothing from tho ronds, and the prospect is that tho Governmont will have to pay 860,000,000 princi- palof tho bonds, any Congressiion’ who votos for any more guarantoes of railrond bonds, either principal or futorest, will be derolict of his duty to such o degreo that the people should nover again trust Lim in oftice. If thore is uny ane demand whick tho poople should insist ov, it in : No more railroad subsidies, in any dogree, form, or amount whatover."—Grand Rapids (Mich,) Lemoorat. —One thing had botter be kept in mind: Tha sum which Congress lons or guarantees (Lo tha Philadelphin Contonnial} might as well bo put down at onco as a permanent ierease, by just s much, of the national debt, "Thoro is nouse in having any nongonse about this business, or in Lbwving anybody try to doceive everybody about it, \\rbn know how this sort of thiug wocs, by long and costly experience,—Cincinnati Com~ mercial. ~—Cougress will not do wisely to iguoro the eall for au nvestigation of the olivinl couduct of tho ontlomon who are mowmbers of tho Board uf f‘lxbliu Works of thae Distrivt of Columbis. No doubt invostigations are unploneant, and thoy aro tho more unploasnnt tho moro likelihood there is that mon in places of hounor may bo fouud to bo undeserving of confldonce. . . . 1t 18 timely now to caution Republican officinla onee moro that it is tho corruption rovealod, and waiting to_bo rovosled, that is doing damngo tho Republican party. And, furthor- hug tausht more, o momrnful oxperience tho country that their assurancos of tho neediossnoss of probing their conduct to ita motiven are utterly untrustworthy, . . To Do insonsiblo to this condition of the publio mind arguoa a fatal indifforenco to tho sources of its strongth and powor. ‘I'ho dopth and ine tensity of tho popular conviction that roform {a imperative can hardly bo oxaggoratod, nor has it yot devaloped all its ~ powor.—Loston Advertiser. —A prossing nocossity now forces mon from their old aftiliations and into now linos of polit+ feu! action, It is no longer an honor to boast of bolonging to either of tho old partios whoso s~ sues aro dead.—AMound City (Jlan.) Sentinel, ~—The burdens fmposed and tho outrages coms mitted by tho * leadors " of tho Republican pare ty ery aloud to Iloaven for rodress, Iuman uro can enduro no moroe repetitions of past seenaa of political whoredom, snd a change must como, 1% vl:luromt‘:u for zho:{y in power thnot”iv; gome qulckly nifloently,—Junction (&an) Tribuna, an,