Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1874, Page 4

4 : THE CHICAGO DAILY TRI FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1874, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE FRNMS OF BUBACIITTION (PAYTAILE IN ADVANOR). Riatpn S 100 Svadey i “Parts of nyearat the samo rato, To provont delay and mistakes, bo sura and givo Post Off.co address in full, inoluding State and County, Remittances may bo mada oithor by dratt, oxpross, Post Office order, or in registored lottors, at our risk. TERMS TO OITY BUBACRIDENS, Daily, delivered, Bunday oxceptea, 26 cante per weok. Datly, delivered, Sunday Included, 30 conts por wook. Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Carner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Uhloago, Itl. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. AOADEMY OF MUSIO—Halstod stroot, batwadn Mad. lson and Monroo, Kogagoment of Olivor Doud Byron. ** Bon MoUullough," [ HOOLI TRR—Randolph _stroat, botwoon ol aa Lagallo, Kagsgoment oi Luoile’ Wostora. +Oitvar Twista ¥ '8 THEATRE—Madison streot, batween Do eI AT Saine Hagmaunient of i Stodiart Combination Company. ' Tho Hooret Marriage " and ** Amerioans in Paris." 2 ' OPERA-HOUSE-Monroo atroat, botwoon DA ang Biates ARt Gotan aod! R bie Minstrols. Burlesquoof ¢ Mazoppa.” 'Minstroley and comicalitios, ADR] i EATRE-Cr f Wabash_avenus sl Cnrons strosts Varioty ontortatnment, WER s RATRE—Dosplatuos stroot, botwoen Mad- L g Warboaton Togepemant of Bidoll & SoDon: ough's Troupe. ++ Tho Binok Croak.” MIOHIGAN AVENUR BAPTIST ORUROH-Lec- tore at 8p. m. by Prof, Nathan Sheppard. Bubject: “*Shalkio"Gontaar Novols. GROW'S OPERA-HOUSE—No, 517 Wo l'.mnrl'. Leoturo by Gorald Massoy, Subject: sposre.’ RXPOSITION BUILDING-Lake Bhoro, Adams streot, Dubufo's Painling of tho Bon,” " Afternoon and ovoning, Bhe Chicagy Tibune, Friday Morning, February 20, 1874. 1 f 't Pradigal Abbio Bmith and hor sisters, of Glastonbury, Oonn,, have their dieciples in several women of Worceator 'who refuse to pay taxes becauso they have not tho right of suffrage. Thelr proporty Is to bo sold to-day. An examination of Chiof Grain-Inspector Har- por's books and official conduct is now being mndo in this city by the Board of Railway and ‘Warehouso Commisioners. Thoy have nob yot made public any of the results, All the schaol-children and teachers of the country aro invitod to contributo to tho fund to give tho Geologieal Museum at Cambridge a porpotual ondowment in honor of Agassiz. Mo~ morisl sorvicos are to be held on his birthday, May 28, at which time contributions may be offered, Bofore any confirmation has baen had of tho story of the oxpulsion of Capt.-Gen, Jovellar from Havans, anothor startling rumor comes that Unitod States Consul-General Hall ins been driven out of the city by the Spanish mob. Ho is reported to have taken refuge on a British man-of-war, Nine of the largest shoo-manufacborios of the oity have been closed by the strike of tho Cris- pins. Tho strike does not seem to ho caused by any dispute about wages, but by the demand of the masters that tho workmen should agree not to oxtend ald to any of their follows on strike, whom they are bound by the principles of the Union to sssist m———— The State Senate has passed the resolution di- rocting the Governor to appoint Commissioners for a Southern Ponitontiary. This Penitentiary I8 to be arected out of an appropriation of §150,~ 000 made in 1867, but there is somo question whother this hns not lapsed, and it is said that Gov. Beveridgo will not appoint the Commis- sioners unless the appropriation is rencwed by the Legislature, A motion to roconsider the vote has been made, and its passago is consid- erod likely. ‘The Supremo Court of New Mexico has decided that tho Puoblo Indians of that Territory are citizons of the United States. This decision is based on the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, but there aro members of Congress,—among thom Shauks, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and Rainay, the colored Represontative from South Carolina,—who hold that all the In- dizna of tho country are citizens, under the late constitutional amendments, and that the way to gottle the Indinn question is to give the In- dians the eame rights nnd hold them to the samo responsibilitios as the whitos and the ne- grocE. ‘Che Missouri State Grahge is now in sossion at Boonoville. It ropresents 732 subordinate QGranges, with an aggrogate memborship of sbout 86,000, The fecling of the membors is said to be very strong against those manufactur- ers of agricultural implements who rofuseto sell direct to tho farmors. A list of these catablish- ments has been published for the guidance of the farmers, who will use none of thoir articles. At the first annual session of the Tennessco State Grango st Gallatin yestorday, 500 subor- dinate Granges were ropresonted. The Grang- era are discussing the feasibility of eatablishing & plow and cotton manufactory at Nashville. ‘The petition of the 200 leading commorcial and financial houses of this city, whoso names wore giveu in last Bundny's TrmUNE; that Congress would not inflato the currency, was presonted yestorday to the Bonate by Mr, Bherman, Sona- tor Logan, advacate and exemplar of inflation, intollectual and financial, wag on hand, and re- warked with severity that he had heard of ** that memorial.” At the proper time, he said, Lo would presont 8 counter-momorial showing what woy tho real sentiment of the city. Thisof courso heralds the papor propared by Francis A, Hoffman, Jr,, of this city, 8 well-known financial suthority, who wanted to divide the funds of tho Rellef and Ald Rocioty among the Communisty of the eity, inchading himsolf. The Chicago produco markets woro gonorally weak yosterdny, with loss doing in the aggre- gate. Mess pork was dull, and 5@100 per brl lower, cloairig at 814.12)4@14.16 cash, and 314,90 @14,32%¢ soller April, Lord was dull and Go lower, closing at §8,80@8,82)4 por 100 1bx cash, and £8.95¢28.0734 soller April. Ments wora woal nd 3o lower, at 6)o for shoulders, 73¢o for short ribs, 73¢@T3{o for short clear, and 0}{@110 tor sweet-pickled hams, Drossed hogs woro dull and easier, closing at 80.12)@6.16 por 100 Ibs, Highwinos were quist aud unchanged at 9% per gallon, Flour was dull. Whent was activo, and 5o lower, olosing ot $1,1634 cash, and 81.175¢ woller March, Corn was active, aud averaged & shade higher, closing at 563¢o cash, and 67Xo voller March, Oats wore quiot uud Jfo hlghor, closing at 420 cash, and 48c soller April, Ryo was quiot and firm at 82)¢o for rogular. Barloy was dull and essior, olosing at 81,75 for Ho, 2, and 91.60@1.01L for No. 8, Live hogs weore {n good domand at etoady prices, with aales of conumon to olioicont $6.00@06.80, qulet and ensier, Iha lowor, Cattlo woro Bhoop wore 26@I6e por 100 Bonator Cameron's amondmont to the Rodls- tribution Liil; that tho clauso of tho Natlonal Banking act restrioting the lssue of notos bo ro- pealod, was yostorday rojoctod by thio Sonato by s voto of 82 to 20, A substituto for Mr Morrimon’s amendment Incrosslog tho Na- tional Bank ofreulation to £400,000,000 was thon offored by Mr. Coopor and adopted, apparently to overybody's surprise, It provides for the convorsion of greenbascks into coin or bouds boaring 6 por cont interost in gold. Pendinga motlon to reconsidor this vote, Sonator Conk- ling urged the recommittal of tho wholo ques-~ tion to the Finance Committee, Senntor Ogles- by then took hold, and when he got through the Sonato was glad to adjourn, — e Tho Rov. Mr. Hammond, tho rovivallst, hns boon telling tho story of David Mattoon, the Rochestor gambler, whom he converted, and who aftorwards becamo Mayor of Omwego nud momber of the Now York Legislature. Tho Troy Whig takoes up tho story whoro Mr. Ham- mond leaves it, and shows that, after Mattoon got into the Loegislature, hosold his vote for $20,000 cash to tho Now York Central poopls, and for $20,000 cash to tho E£tie pooplo, and when the day of voting came ho wasn't to be found, During the sossion, ho was mainly oc- cupled in initiating mombers futo tho mystories of draw-poter. Mr, Hammond's convert was an oxpensive ono, as ho cost tho Legislaturo, nccording to the Troy Whig, about $100,000. In this wicked world, it isn't safo to trust evon ono of Mr. Hammond's converts any length of time. Debato on tho rostoration of tho franking privilego took up the time of the Houso of Ropresontativos yostorday. An amendment wns proposed, but not accopted, for tho introduction of tho English plan of solling publio documoents st cost to poople who wanted them, Onoof tho arguments used sgainst the bill was that Ropublican Congressmen wero bound in‘honor to fulfill the pledgo of tho partyin its plat- form of 1872, to ropeal tho franking sbuse and keop it ropoaled. Mr. Kasson stated that tho offect of tho repeal lnst July had alrendy become visible in o diminution of 30 or 50 por tont in the cost of mall contracts west of tho Mississippi and north of Kentucky and Ten- nessoe. Dr. Garfiold callod attention to thofact that the only way to abolish the printing abuse, which cost $2,000,000 & year, was to abolish the franking abuso. A numbor of members who will vote against the franking privilege are in favor of allowing weekly newspapers to be eir culated froo within the county where they are published. The Now York Herald of last Monday points with excusablo satiefaction to tho fact that its provious Sunday issue contained fifty-four col- umns of advertisiog, which was an incrense of ton columns over that of tho Bunday bofure, ‘Tho Bunday issue of Tur Culcaco TRIBUNE of the szmo dato contained thirty-oight columus of advertising, equal in amount of space to forly- four columus of the Herald. New York and its suburbs contain at least four times as many pooplo a8 Chicago and its suburbs, while there are only ten columns, or about ong-fifty, moro advertising in the New York Herald than in Tus Cutcaco Tnivuse, The Jeraldsays: *“Wo auticipate that a quadruplo sheet of tho Herald will bocome & necossity with us during the com- ing ecason of spring.” A quadruple sheet of Tug Trinuse has boen a nocossity every Sunday during tho wintor, The corresponding Sunday issuo of I'nx T'RIDUNE ono year ago, in what was regarded as good times, contained fivo columns leas ndvertising than Inst Sunday’s iesue, The Ikrald points to its mnss of advertisivg asan indieation of the roturn of prosperous times in Now York. On this basis, tho advertising of T'ne TriouNe furnishos conclusive evidence that prosporous times have nirendy returned to Chi- cago, Senator Logan to tho contrary notwith- standing. SENATOR LOGAN'’S LOYAL MONEY~MAR- RET, Senator Logan has mado a discovery. Itis of about equal value with the speech on finance for which he demanded attontion on the ground that he had studied the subject during the spare hours of two whole weeks. Ho hns discovered that Tue Ciurioaco TrinoNe and tho Cincinnati Commercial, end all other papers which say that the monoy-markets are easy and the country is not going into bankruptey for want of & fow more shinplasters, aro doliborato linrs., He hag found out that the money-market of tho strect is truly loyal,—to wit, oxtremely tight,—whilo the money-mnrket of the oditorial sanctum is digloyal and ensy. Conacious that such state- ments, resting only upon his own word, would not command instant and implicit beliof, he got Forry, of Michigan, to prove them by roading o lotter from & Missourl speculator stating that no bank would lend him £6,000, and whois therofore convinced that money is tight. After such convincing proof, Sonator Logan folt that no argnment was necossary, and therefore usednone. Aftor o few momontsof beating upon his desk, pounding upon tho floor, waviug his fists high in air, he finally reguined the tom- por be had lost over the mounetary reports of Tue TrisuNe aud Commercial, and sat down, not, howover, bofore he had assured Senator Schurz (the roador of the mondacious roports) that he (Schurz) could not *show such articles in the Inter-Ocean," aund could not * produce from the Infer-Ocean sy articlo declaring that money was plontiful in the Wost." It i8 but too evident that MNr, Logan bas not read the Inter-Ocean. No blamo at- tachos to him for tho omission, of course, but it is wich unfoigned regrot that wo confldo to the Senator that the Inler-Uccan hos joiued the lougue of disloyal and reckiess journals which willfully and maliciously desoribe the monoy-~ mnrket as emsy. T'ho Senalor has vonfounded tho papor and its late propriotor, Mr, Scammon hos created more flnaucial styingency amoug depositors thau any olhier man in Chicago. Novertheless, his nowspapor insists upon saying that monoy is abundant. Tt Mr, Logan will con- sult tho flleof tho Infer-Occan, ho will flud that the mendaclous shoot says, in its iesue of Wednosday, Feb. 10: ¢Tho demand for monoey i only 1noderately active, aund the supply of loanablo fundequitolarge. . . . Monoy ¢ deocidedly ensior, aund parties can obtnin nccommodations readily at tho logul ratoof intorest.” On Thursday, it boldly do- claros : “ Money 8 easy in all quurters, and bankers aro ready aud williug to accept good short-date papor at regular ratew. . . . Money s ousyin all sections of tho country. + + o DBorrowers are readily accommodated to the oxtent of their requosts,” Ou Fridey, it oontinues ¢ ¢ The monoy market contioues in an ‘oasy and ocomfortable conditloms . o+ All clossos of morehants rondtly obtaln accom- modntions aud baukers aro disposod to accopk more long-data papor.” On Baturday, this broken roed, on which the Senator loaus, shamolossly continuos: ** Monoy continues quite easy for alt partios who ean prosent good paper. . . . Ou tho stroot thoro is Ltuo doing,—monoy offored quito frooly at the logal rato of intocout.” If Mr. Logan turns for com- fort to tho ovor-loyal ovening papor that was finod $300 by tho Bupreme Conrt, - Lo will discovor the same glaring misstatomonts, It says, in ita Issus of Wednesday ¢ ** 'flio banks and brokora report the supply of wmonoy In ox- cost of tho roguirements nnd the market ensy. All tho good paper fu readily takon, . . . Dust- nosy is hoalthy and improving.” o 18 sud, vory #ad. Tho only way wa know of to keop papers from tolllng the truth about the monoy- markets is to make tho rocipionts of Governmont advortisiug promiso to bo loyal horoaftor, not only in their oditorial, but in their commorcial and fluancial, columns. Thon tho truly-loyal Journals would roport that money was tight or othorwise, according as somo vooiferous Cou- grossman wauted to print off a fresh lot of groonbacks ornot. Meanwhile, we advise Son- ator Logan to keop Lts tempor, oven whon the factn do grind his argument into something still noarer nothingness than it was originally, THE PELICAN STATE, Now Orleans, with its masquerades, proces- slons, tinsel, and glittor of Mardi Gras, foreibly rominds ono of tho Harloquin at the footlights, who amused tho poople with his capors whilo his wifelay dyiugat home. A pamphlet, ro- contly issued in Now Orleana by Oliarles Gaysrro, of that city, gives o statomont of tho financlal condition of Louisiona which will atriko the gonoral rondor with surprise. Hopeloss og the financial embarrassments of the State have long beon known to bo, tho full extont and comploto- ness of the ruin Lavo mot boen known uu- til now. Alx. Gayarro first shows that the public debt of the State asmounts to #00,000,000 in round numbers, which is divided up s follows: Debt of the City of Now Orloaus, $256,000,000; dobt of tho Bate, a8 daclared by tho Supremo Court, $30,000,000; debt of therural parishes, 85,000,000, Tho in- dividunl indebtoduess, in which is Included what the peoplo of Louisiana owo private credi- tors in the United States and Burope, smounts to about $40,000,000, which, of courso, is to bo doducted from the meaus of paying tho publio indobtedness, ‘Tho other linbilitios of tho Stato aro 913,728,000 of current taxes, and $12,000,000 of back taxes, making a total indebtedness of $124,728,000. Assuming that the number of re~ spousiblo taxpayers is 100,000 out of tho wholo population of 780,000, which is & largo estimato, ag more thau one-half the population consists of blacks, tho respoasibility of each one of them for this indobtodness is §1,247, M. Goyarro noxt considors tho ability of the Stato to meot this enormous indebtodnesy, - The value of the sugar orop ihis year will bo nbout $13,000,000, which will not moot tho andvencos made on the crop. The cotton crop will bo about 350,000 bales, which at ruling prices caunot bring mors than §22,000,000, and with regard to this crop Mr, Gayarre ssys: 1 venturoe tonssert that two-thirds at least of the cotton farmers will nood advauces, without which the next crop could not bo made.” Tho rioa crop is estimated at £500,000 and other products at $4,600,000, making a total of £40,000,000 as tho rosult of productive labor in Louisiana, 0f which nothing remains to bo cmried to tho sccount of accumulated copital,—the whole being required to sup- port the inhabitanta. As to the condition of the people, Mr. Goyarre afirms that tho 141,000 la- borers of the Stato who produce this $10,000,- 000, averaging $200 per bead, out of which they must support thoir familics and pay their private dobts and thoir share of the public linbilitics, are in reality slaves of distant capital, owning nothing thomselves. The ur- ban population, especislly of New Orlonns, the peoplo who, tho othor day, were parsding the ntreots with all the pomp and show of Mardi Gras, according to Mr, Gayarre, have not been able to meet their curront oxpenses, With New Orleans insuch a condition that tiwo-thirds of ita rovonuno would not Le accopted ns a gift on condition of paying tho taxes; with an indebted- noss of $124,728,000 hanging over the poople ; with entiro assots of only $160,000,000 reptosent- ing the market-velue of all the property in the State, it is little wonder AMr. Gayarre says * it almost uosottles the brain to think of suoh things," Tho sum and substance of these statistics in that Louleiana {s bankrupl, As Mr. Gayarre snys ‘What are the bonda of the State and her cortificates of fudebtedness worth, if half of this oxhibit ia truo 7 ‘Who would give for them 10 cents on the dollar? A general improssion prevails thnt nany wero fraudu- lontly issued, It true, totho spoculating hoiders of thosa obligitions who got them for a song may Lo properly appied the legul dictum, * caveat emplor," Why should we continus to die by fnchies in our efforts to pay Interest on those bonds of moro than doubtful orlyin, when the oficera of tho Stato, wilhout whoso arduous labors tho Stato could not protong her sickly lifoand provide ways and mesus to extinguish her honoet dobta, are paid in warrauts, which, to havo Lread, they aro obliged to pledge, at a vuluation of 25 cents on the dollar, and ot o rate of intercstof 6 per cent s month ? A man who, knowing himaelf to bo fn- rolvent, conceals his sftuation from thie public for the purposo of issulug moro irredeemablo obligntions, s a swindler throughout all clvilized natiors, Under whut construction of tho common luw of cthica can o Btate claim tho benetit of clorgy when acting felonlously 7 Add to this tho political oppressions, tho usurpations and corruptions of office-holdors, and the picturo of wmisory is complote, Afr, Gay- arro solemuly warns the people of the Biate that the only way of oscapo is to come to a gon- ornl and Lonost liquidation forthwith, and bogin do noto o earcor of pationt labor avd untram- meled industey, DBut to effect this thero must cono political a8 woll as floancial rolief. Forat tho present time thero fs no Government in Louisiuna with wlneh the capitalists ot other $Statos can hold any rolutions whutsoover, as thoy know that the poople will repudiate, upon the firat oppertunily, anything that the Kellogg usurpation mey do. A story comes from Pittsburgh which reads llkean oxtravagance of Ouiontal literaturo, It troats of o young mau residing in that eity who vocamo suddonly onamored of one of those hirsute young ladies who obfain positions in all rogpoctablo cirouses or musoums ay fivat or soe- ond Cireassinu Girl, ‘I'he lever wasa young man of conslderablo proporty, and pressed his suit upon the shock-hoaded ocoject of bis aftections with oxemplary energy, nxprnuaiygu desire to marry hor forthwith, Tho lady declining to leave hor profession, her lover daeded her all his prop- orty, and ronowed his walt, Sho declined to oo him, whorenpon e booume insano, and was ro- movod to Dixmont Inganoe Asylum in frons, The probablo, though not tho romantie, slde of the story Is thas he was originally insane, and that his finel cutbroak wee merely a furthor dovolops .and Bonale, with what offoct romains to bo secn, ment of tho malady, Tho sight of so much nnt- ural hair all at onco in this dogenorate doy would nuturally have n strong effect upon an nn- balancod m ne. " \TilE NEW JALARY-GRAB, Lho palna of Congressmon still itch for the forbldden fruit. Unable to play at salary-grab- bing direcily, thoy nro casting about for o way to indiroctly ralso thoir pny. They think they have found such n way in the rostoralion of tho frauking privilogo, A bill to restore it is now ponding in tho House, It provides for the froo ditribution of publio documonts printed by au-~ thority of Congresy, nnd of sceds suppliod by tho Agrioultural Dopartmont, and adds o bribo to the press by promising froo circulation of weckly papers within the county where pube lished, and freo exobnngo betweon publisliers, ‘Wo truat thot the press is not to bo bribed. Peoplo who want public documents ocan pay for thoir tranwmission, or, by waitlng n fowa.mouths, can buy thom dirt-cheap at tho nonrest sccond-hand book-store, Tho seed-furnishing businoss, regarded in any other light thou ag a maching for apondlug money, has boon a costly failure, In thnt light it hns boen & contly success, If it Is to go on, it shounld at lonst bo taxed its postage. But tho chiof evil of tho Lill s thio fact thet it is tho firat stop towards a full restoration of tho old abuse, r. Hale, of Now York, hus already tried to dubstituto for it s bill for a full restoration. The constituonts of Hale, of Now York, should let Lim know what thoy think about the matter. Tho argument for the prosont bill has boon of tho most puerilo charactor. The Houso has been told that it ought to passit,becausoifitdidn't the publio docy- monts readv for distribution, on which the post~ ago would bo $129,000, would be sont by oxpreas. Why shouldu't they be. And, again, the Houso has lenrnod that tho various Exeoutive Dopart- ments havo spocial stamps issued to thom which aro used by many persons who have no right to do 8o, and that thorefore Congress might as well tako its sharo of the **swag” whon other poople tako theirs, And, onco moro, tho "Houso has been gravely informed that tho abolition of the franking priviloge has savednothing, becausethe Post-Offico costs moro now than it did bofore. The question is: Would not it cost still moro if it wero snddled with the franking abuse? To this tho answor must be yes, for the saving in one month on one railroad (the Baltimoro & Obio) hins beon offleially roported at over $200,~ 000. Franking is a fraud. Press and people will robuke this attempt at & now salary-grab. THE BANBORN RASCALITY, Tho information which the Houso of Repre- seutatives is vainly seeking to obtain from the Beeretary of the Treasury, rolative to tho San- born blackmaillug contracts, is beginning to re- veal {tself in tho public prints, The Hartford Courant calls attention to two operations undor the Sanborn contracts which should be carofully laid awny by tho Iouso for future reforouca. 'Tho substanco of theso operations is as follows : On the 20th of August last, throo dotectives under the Sanborn contracts arrived at Hariford, armod with credentials which wero satisfactory to the Collector, and commenced their work. Thoy first ealled atthestoroof George W. Williams & Co., manufacturors of Jamaica ginger, and mado a claim of $5,000 for unpaid taxes, al- leging that tho ginger was a patent mediciuo ond should have been stamped. Tho firm roplied that thoy had obtained an opinion from the Collector ‘of tho District when iho ar- ticls was first put upon tho market, and he had docidoed that no stamp wae necessary. Tho de- toctives inslstod, however, after showing their crodentials, that thoy had come from Washing- ton with instructions to sottle tho business, and, in ordor to effoct o sottlement, they would take off one-half, provided the money was paid im- modiately. Aftor consulting the Collector, and finding that Souborn’s deputies were acting by authority, the firm paid the money and got a re- ceipt, as received ‘from John D. Sanborn," from Sceretary Richardson, 1u the regular form, Subeequently learning that tho whole proceeding was irrogular, tho firm made = statement of facta at Washington by counsel, and are now in & fair way to recover their money. The next operation of theso legalized confi- donco-mon and blackmailers under the Sanborn contracts was the prosontation of a claim for $15,000 to Messrs, 0. H, Dexter & BSons, of ‘Windsor Locks, Conn,, manufacturors of * Star Paper," which they alleged should have becn stamped a8 & patont medicine, As in tho othor cago, thoy offored to compromise for 7,600 if the money was ' paid immodistely. The firm, howover, through their attorneys, managed to put off tho dotectivea until they obtained an opinion from Commissioner Douglass that tho “ Star Paper " wau not subject to tax. Tho infamous charactor of the contracta and of the law which enabled this man Banborn and bis unprincipled depution to blackmail busmnoess- menin this manner is cloarly enough shown by the two cases montloned above, oven if there should never bo anothior fact doveloped. 'The existenco of this law on the statuto-books is o disgrace to the Government and an insult to the wholo busi- ness commuully, and Qongress caunot afford to delny ita repenl If it has any regard for its own reputation, and does not wish to be considered a8 tho indorser of biackmalles THE BOSTON COLLECTORSHIP. Masanchueotts is oxcitod over the nomination of one W. A, Bimmons, a blower and striker of Don Butler, to tho offico of Collector of,tho Port. of Boaton. Blmmons had proviously been Bu- pervisor of Iutornal Rovenuo for Neow England. Ho .is a young mun who oxerciacs a controlling influence among the “boys,” and is potent at primary meotings, For two or three yoars But- ler lus been n candidate for Govornor of Massn- chusotta, It huy past of the Btato holds bim i moro abhorrence thau another, it is the ariato- eratio quarter of Boston. Last yoar tho contost over tho olection of delegatos was long and bit- ter, but, despite tho hostility of tho bettor class of Ropublicans, tho City of Boston sont Butler delogntos to tho Stato Convontion. This result was attributed at tho timo to tho active interfer- onco of Bimmous, who was ablo to elact Butlor delogaton by the freo use of money, patronage, ond political terrorism. Bimmons was aided Dby tho United Btutes Marshal, snd togethor they sont up the majority of tho Butlor dologates. From some as yob un- known eource It was suggouted at Washington that Judge Russoll did not givo satisfaction as Collector, and that porhaps o misslon to South Amorica would juduce his resignation, Russell was invited to Washingion, resigned the Col- lootorship, and Simmons was instantly nominatod to the Sounto, Then the hand of Butler was visiblo in tho promotlon of his henchman, All the Masssohusatts dotogation fu Gongress oxcopt Butler and Iooper protost against Slmmons, and liavo Iald thowr protest bLoforo tho Presidont Tho Boston Advertiser, after denouncing Bline ‘mons 08 & ward-bummor, trained in a bad sohool, declares that much of the corruption that has worked its way into the politics of hMasachusotts **f5 owing to tho nctive, porsonal offortn of Mre Bimmons," o i3 ropresented an tho controlling leador of that claus of the population who, hav- ing noopinions of tholr own, aro roady to train undor the flag of nuy lender who * pays woll.” Tho samo papor reealts the fact that tho conduct of Stmmons Inst yenr in bohnlf of Butlor wan 8o outrageous a8 to call fiom the Republican Btato Convention the following resolution ¢ Levolved, That whilo we recoguize the full right of overy cltizon to expreas aud act upou his convictions upon all gueatfous of publlo intereat, no person hold fug Federal ofties lias tho right to seclt to influence tho netlon of his aubordiuates by exeiting thoir fonrs of losa uf placo 1f tholr opinfons or actions ahull differ from hia own ; aud wo cull upon the Presidont forth- with to ¥omovo overy publio oilicor who bas thus fm.- properly fnterfored with the Indepondenco of the Ito- publicans of DMussachusotts in tho manugemont of thetr local concorns, wherover tho fact s provod to hia satisfoation, The Advertiser thinks that this rebuke should hinve prompted the Administration at Washing- ton to dismies Bimmous from the offico ho then hoid, and that such an nct was the ¢ least mark of respoct which tho President had it in his power to pay toa State to which he owes o much,” It calls upon the Ropublicans of tha Btate to sond thelr remonsirancos to Washiug- ton, and ** if their baro words of last summor mennt nnythl\zg. it was thet this sort of thing must come {0 an end.” Now tho question is, Who in to givo way ? Wil tho Benato roject Presi- dentisl nomination on tho ground that the nom- ince is o friond of Butler? or will tho President withdraw the nomination beeauso it is distasteful to the *“rospectable” gontlomen who reprosent Massachusetts in Congress ? Isnot this another illustration of the uttor degradation into which appointments in the Civil Sorvico have fallen? FREE DANKING, Freo banking does not nocossarily involve our- ronoy inilation. If overybody who ean doposit $100,000ju bonds at Washiugton is allowoed to issuo $90,000 in National Gank notes, this will nat dopreciate tho curroncy. A papor curroncy is worth procisoly as huch s tho monoy in which it is redoomnble. The National Bank currency is redoemablo in greonbacks, It is worth, then, jues what groonbacks are, Now if no moro legal tenders aro sot afloat, their value will romnin jusg about what it is now. But it their valuo is unchangod, tho National Bank notes redeomable m thom will also have an unchnnged valuer Bo long, theroforo, ss the ourroncy is incronsed by the issuo of Nation- ol Bonk notos, and not of greenbacks, thero can bo no depreciation, and, consequently, no inflation,—for inflation, as tho term is used uowadays, signifies an incroase in tho volumo of the currenoy thnt causes depreciation, or, as ita friends put it, * makes monoy cheaper.” Ireo baoking would work in this way: If the banks sot afloat moro currency than the country could uso, its value would bogin to sink bolow that of greonbacks. As soon a8 this happened, tho banks would bo called upon to redeom in groon- backs until the superfluous part of their issuc was again in their vaults, Iu this way deprocla- tion below tho greenback standard would be avoided, and the volume of currency would rogu- Into itself, This is substantislly the English plan, Tho greonbacks correspond to the Bank of England notes, nnd the Nationnl DBank notes to thoso of the Evglish country banks, Our roaders will find in the first volumo of Tooke's ** History of Prices copious extracts from the testimony of English country bankers on tho working of the system thore, undor o suspension of specio paymonts. This testimony shows that tho amount of currency they could keep afloat varied regularly with tho season of the year, Duriug tho spring aud fall trade, they discountod freoly, but soon after,jthoir notes were presonted for rodemption, until the surplus issuo was again stored away in their vaults, When the Bauk of England contracted iteissues, theira incroased ; whon it incrensed its iesucs, thoirs contracted. In other words, the currency issued by bauks, which could legally ofrcu- late avy amount whatover, contracted and expanded I procive propordon to the noods of the country. It was thorough- ly eclastio. Free banking would indirectly aid the resumption of specio paymonts in twoways, It would make it possible to con- tract the greenbaok currency without paraiyzing business, becauso as the groonbacks wore withe drawn frosh bank notes would be iesuad to take their place. And, again, it would help contrac- tion bocause tho now bauks formed under it would have to keop their reserves in logal ton- dors, and thus & good doal of the greonback cur- ronoy would bo withdrawn from circulation. The Cougressmen who aro opposing tho bills for freo banking on anti-inflation grounds are mak- ing & groat mistake. The measure {s not o com- promise with the other side, 1t is a straightfor- wasd stop towards spocio paymonts, SIMPLIFYING THE TARIFF, The importers, dealers, and workers of tin- platos in Now York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chi~ cago, Cincinnati, 8t. Louls, and Troy huve mo- morialized Congress for tho chaugo of tho oxist- ing ad valorem duly to o specific duty of ono cent por pound. Tho reasous given for this change scem to show the wonderfully-compli- cated machinory of the prosont tanlft lnw, Tin- plate was first taxed in1842, atthe rate of 234 por cont ad valorem. 1u 1846 the duty was raised to 16 por cent, and in 1867 reduced to 8 per cont, In 1802 it was raisod to 25 por cont, and in 1872 reduced to 16 por cont, There is no special ob- Jection to tho duty, as it is nearly all revenue, The memorialists do not ask s reduction, but simply & modification of tho modo of taxing it. Tho importation in 1872 and 1873 was to tha valuo of §27,800,078, which, at an ad valorem rato of 16 per eent, would produce $4,005,702 rove- nue, The notual weight of the plates imported durfog tho sasmo timo was 428,741,014 pounds, and, had the duty been one cont por pound, tho revonue would have boon $4,237,410, or $141,~ 648 (or mbout 70,000 & year) moro then it actunlly was, The incronsed tax would, lowever, bo a chesp escape from the porplexities of the prosont systom. Tho law roquiros that tha ad valorem duty shall bo computed at the current ¥atos at the placo and timo of shipment, sdding to these ratos the cost of transportation to the place of shipmont, cartago, boxes, brokerage, and commisuion, I, Dby any accidont, uny ono of those items be omit~ tod from the invoice, though its omission would involve merely the difforcnce of s fow conts in tho gross valuation, the wholo involcs is forfoit- od, aud tho fmporter is subjeot to a ponalty twico thovalue of {he goods. Nor is this all of tho ombarrassment. Tin-plates aro uot madoe in England in advanco of orders or contraots. If an fmporter in Onieago or Now York contraocts in Walos in January for tiu-platos, to be delivered in Maroh at 80 shillings o box, he has to involce his goods at 80 shilllugs, though the market valuo at tho timo of shipmont may have fallen "He wus novortheloss to 25 shillings o box. If, n‘n the othor hand, the warkot prico at tho timo of shipmont hns ad- vanced to B85 shillings, tho pla‘es hovo to bo in- voleod ot that rato, though tho goods were sotus ally bought and paid for at 80 shillings por box. Whon theso goods reneh the United Statos thoy havo to bo inapectod, and thoro Is an oxamiuation of the Inglish matkot roports, and an appraisomont and reappralsemont, aud & volunio of onths hava to be taken, and an agent, or broker employed to get them through tho Cuntom-Houno, 'Iho amount of duty to bo pald onn given weight of plalo varles with every cargo. By achango of the duty from ad valorem to spociflo, all this complientod detail would bo avoldod, und the wholo process at the Custom- Hougo would bo reduced to tho moro woighing of tho tin-plates. Thore would be no room for falso involoes, no need of fales mwonring, snd the Governmont would get ita lawful revenue at all times, Itwas through the aforosald complox and involved syetom of computing duties that Pholps, Dodge & Co. wero blackmailed to tho tuno of $271,000 by the villains of tho New York Custom-Houso, ; The complications of tho tariff aro illustrated by this caso, but they are also shown n' the ratos of duty on cotton goods, Tho scale of dutios fs 8 curlosity, Horo it Is: 1. Cotton tssues (exclusivo of joans, donime, drille ings) welghing ovor & ounces to tho squate yard, ond not over 100 threads o the fuch, Including warp and Diling—colored, G conts per squary yard, sud 10 per cont ad valorem, 3. 8amo, walghing lcss than 5 onucos to the squars yard, with over 100, and not over 140, thresds to the squoro incl, 634 centa por squaro yard, and 20 por cent ad valorem, 3. famons last, with over 140, and not over 200, threads to tho square fuch, 6% conts porsquaro yard, aud 20 per cont ad valorem, 4. Bamo, with ovor 200 threads por squaro inch, samo duly aq No, 3, The Custom:llouso oflicor who eppraises cot ton goods has to boan export in dynamics, microscopy, monsuration, and tho market value of tho partionlar goods at the placo of ship- ment. Herols the compound tax, tho spocific and tho ad valorem, fixed in 1864, tou yoars ago, when cotton was 80 cents per pound, and re- tained to this dato, though tho War has boen over niue yours, aud cotton iaselling for 16 conts por pound in Now York. e — . HOCIALISM AND SUFFRAGE IN GERMANY, ‘Lho election of n number of Kocialists to tho Imperinl Parlisment is eausing woma litclo un~ onainess and much discussion in QGormauy, cipe- claly at Borlin, where Socialism has dovglopod unlooked-for forco. ‘Ihe strength of tho “So- clal Democrats,” as thoy are callod, is not to bo monsured by the number of candidates thoy bave olected, but by the number of votes they cust ab tho rocent cloctions. Whero defeated, thoy novertholess polled, in & great many in- stauces, an alarmingly large voto; nud this fact, moro than their ropresontation in the Reichstag by a dozoen mombors, it is thot awalens tho fears of the Conservatives, And well it may oxcite approhonsion, for overy such vote is & declaration of war against tho oxisuing political, vocial, and moral organization of tho world ; n sorving of notice on the loyal subjects of His Imperial Majesty that the voter claims a certain right, titlo, aud interest in all bis goods oud chattels, whether real or personal, Georman statesmen naturally inquire what they are going to do aboutall this, 'Three rome- dies have beon already recommonded,—roustric- tion of tho right of suffrage, intordiction of Bocialistio doctrines, and the enforcement of the exorciso of the”right to vote, as a duty which tho Btate may exaot from the individ- ual. To’ restrict tho suffrage would bo an spandonment of tho liberal principles in- troduced nto tho now German Coustitution, and would not bo aceoptablo to the large body of the German people. We are glad to notjce that, as a rulo, this way of curing the growing qvil is not favored. The noxt remedy—that in the interest of civilization tho aootrines of tha “Bocisl Domoorats” should bo prohibited, and that it should be made ponal to ndvocato thom—ig, if anything, worso than tho ovil. It would bo impossible to apply it, and bosides it would form a very bad prece- dont. Itmay bo vory true that a principlo is advorso to true civilization, aud yet bo very dan- gorous in tho intorests of civilization to inter- diet its discussion. The third romedyis tho ‘most rational ouo proposed. It would check the succoss of the **Social Domocrats,” at least for o long time. Thoir wsuccess is duo, firat, to thoir bottor organization, and then to the apathy of the Uonsorvatives. In Borlin, their grost stronghold, it appesrs that of 130,000 qualified votors only 43,000 exorcised the right at tho reoent oloctions, thus leaving 87,000, fully two-thirds of the whols, who did not vote at all. Of thioso 87,000, there is, perhaps, scarcoly one Bociallst; for the turbulont portions of any community are never backward in coming to the polla, 'The beat mathod, then, of defoating the “Bocial Democrats™ s to compel theso 87,000 to vote, But it is asked: Would not such compulsion be a violation of ine dividual liberty? If an infringement of ndividual liberty under any circumsiances, it may bo questioned whothor it would not bo warranted under the conditions in point. IXf an ovil, it iy the least of two, botween which tho Gorman peoplo are called to choose. Tho duty of votingis the corrolativo of tho right of suffrago. it suffrago bo o right which tho individun! moy claim from organized socloty, thon, onco grauted him, it {sa duty which ho owes to the nation—a politlcal as woll a8 moral duty, This is the ground on which it 18 sought to justify the onforcement of voting Dy all qualitied votors, Organization aud agitn- tion might produce the sameo offoct os enforcod voting; but Couservatives aro gencrally essy- going poople, and, sy & matter of faol, aro nover g8 offeotive in a politiesl ocam- paign as their numberg would warrant, Universal suffrugo fs based on the right of tho majority to govern. It supposes that all yoto ; and, unless all do vote, it might happen that tho minority, not the majority, would rulo, ‘Phe question of requirmg all qualified votors to voto is now fairly bofore the Gorman people, and Its course will bo watched by’ tho pooplo of this country with interost. A rocont docision in the Bupreme Court of North Curolina shows that thoro is a prospect for olvilization in that Btate, after all, 'I'he caso was that of Richurd Oliver, charged with whip- ping bis wifo, It appeared from the ovidenco that hio came home druunk, and, things not suit- ingg bim, ho bro'to up the dishes and some of tho furniture, turew tho cofMoe-pot out of the win- dow, and then went out and cut two awitches, with which ho g0 soverely beat his wifo that she waa not ablo to work for & weok afterwards, lle was afterwards arrestod, and defondod himsolf by pleading an old Iaw of tho Btate, that a husbahd lad o right to whip lus wife, provided he usod & switch no farger than hls thuwb, couvioted, aud theu appoaled against the judgmont to the Bupromo Court, whioh laid down tho faot that tho courts bavo advauced from that atyle of e e barbarism until thoy havo roached tho position that tho huebaud bas no right to chastiso tho wifo'at all, Thinis woll a8 far ns it goos, but finmediately aftor tho Court decloros that, fn ordor to prosorve the sanctily of tho domestls circlo, the Courts will not listen to trivial com- plaints, in cases whoro no pormanent injury ins beon inflioted | It is ovidont from this thatVhe North Oarollua Courta will not entirely emerga from barbarism until thoy have advancod to that point where a drunkon wife-whippor of this do« soription con rocolve a punishment commone surato with his brutality, Mr. Btoole, Delogate in Congross from Wyo- ming Territory, who {8 suppused to understand the condition of Indian.affairs in the Territory Lo roprosonts, claima that tho Sioux can, in aaso of o genoral uprising, put'4,000 men in the fleld, woll mouuted and armed, who will bo broken up into small bands and ravage thaontire Territory, whicl is altogothor at thelr meroy. Compared with the Modoo war, the coming strugglo will bo todious and exponsive, as 1t will roquire, in Mr, Stooclo's opinlon, a forco of 10,000 cavalry to offectunlly whip them. That tho war s in- ovitablo peoms to bo pretty gonernlly undorstood in military circlos. Gon, Shori- dan has recolved orders .to colloct tho most officiont force possible, and march to the Rod Cloud Agonoy, striking overy baud of Ine diaua that opposos, mid holding every Indian who has marauded south,of the North Platte ro- sponsible for the murder of Licut. Robtuson. Gon. Blhorman, in his dispatch to Gen. Blioridon, rogards the vrosent ‘“a very favorablo opportunity to give the Sioux a losson long merited,"” aud hopes that they will nover again bave an Agency away from tho Missouri Rivor. The proscut * fuvorable opportunity for giving tho Bloux o lesson " apponrs to Liave beon ohosen by tho ngonts of the Intorior Dopartment a8 equally favorable for giving the Govornment a losson, for Col."John I, Smith, commanding at Fort Laramio, tolographs to headquartery that they have beon furnishing tho Sioux with arms and ammunition, and that he has dispatohed s compnuy to intorcopt the train and bring it back, The Indians on the war-path aro the same who visited Washington with Red Cloud two yoars ago, aud the murders perpetratod by them woro committed 200 milas from their reservation. Tho rogion tureatened by them oxtonds along the line _of railrond from the forks of the Platto to the Black Hills in Wyoming, a distanco of about 160 miles, and tho total strongth of tho local military foree is 1,016 cavalry and 679 in- fantry for garrison aud campaign. Only the promptest and most cuergotic mensures will pro- vont a protracted war, spreading over o vaat ter~ ritory, and costing an immonso sum of money, A e s Lozvenworth is somewhat in need of o Roform Schiool, ns avy diligont roader of tho newspapors of that city will candidly admit, The announcos mont, thoroforo, that among tho bonefits nceru- iug to civilization sud morality from a gigantic loteery would be tho uppropriation of $50,000 to- ward tho orcotion of ;80 nocessary a building might have reconciled the peopto of ILeaven- worth to the gambling cliaractor of the procoeds ing. But it doos not seom to have done o, The Argus.is torribly indignant over the entor- prisd, and abuses the projector in protty sharp terms, not on the broad, undeniablo principle that Jotteriosaro snares and delusions, but for tho narrow aud solflah rensons that the purpose of this particular one i to put afew dollars into the pocket of itu projector without the troublesome prolimiuary of earningit; that his wholo assote aro but $30,000, and his prizes $160,000; nnd that tho rival newspapers got $1,000 cach for saying nothing ebout it, whereas the Argus gob nothing, Leavenworth's need of a Roform School is mado tolerably apparont by the offorts made to obtuin it. ————— Tho application of military discipline 1o soclal amusements is apt to bo attended with trifling inconvonioncos, A graud ball was recontly givon ub tho Elyseo, in Paris, which was managed by o sort of court-martial. The police regu- lations wore vory sevore, aud the carringes wero hiours in sctting down tho guests, and hundrods of ladies, tired of waiting, ran in satin shoos and baro shoulders through the half- frozen slush to the marquesat tho entranco. Hore thoy wore dotsined for hours syhilo the tickots wero scrutinized Ly the police. Only ten porsons porminute were allowed to pass, whilo the arrivals wore at the rato of sixty. Ro- troat from the marguso to the carriages was al- most impossible, for it took hours to got back again, The straugoe union of exclusiveness with military discipline was extremoly ridioulous to Froncbmon, who compare the clumsiness of tho srrangomonts with the perfect mechanism of tho ZEmpiro. Thero is evidentlyneed of Dio Lewls at Wavor- ly, Mo. -Whilo ho is directing his fomale legions in Ohio, tho thirsty people of that town ara striving with a1l their might and main to recovar 800 barrols of whisky which were sunk in tho Miesouri River fittcon yoars ago, Every timo that tho rivor falls, the people go at tho work with an enthusiasm which shows that they ure bound to have that whisky if it takes a contury to got it. ore is & chanco for Dio Lowis which ho should improve, Lot him take his logions aown thero and pray either that the rivor may novor fall again, or that, if they find the whisky, time and tide may have so watered iv that it will bo harmless ; for if Waverlyebonld meko a raiso of it, Waverly will get so drunk on this fiftoon-year-old whisky that it will take more than fifteon yoars to gt over it. e The independont nowspapors in Oregon and Oalifornia aro making rapid progress in ciroutne tion and influence since thoy have refused to oboy tho dictates of tho Railrosd Ring. The Sulem Slalesman snys that indopondent journale ism is paying baudsomoly., The Maryaville Ap- peal, which was formerly a railrond organ, snd which lost the Governmert advortising when it advoeated the olection of Gov. Booth to tho United States Senate, says that its subsoription list is rapidly incroasing. ‘The Bacramento Union, which was excluded from the cars of the Contral Pacific Railway Company, has become tho strongest paper on the Pucitic Coast. The Oregonian, the sulo of which has boen forbidden ou tho ears of the Orogou & Californin Railway, says it has roason to be thaukful for the pro- hibition. In fact, sl of thogo aud othier journaly on tho Pacitic Coast aro not only rojoiciug at their emancipation from the thraldom of rings, but aro dolighted and surprised to find that it pays. —_— The Young Mon's Ohristian Association of Baltimore found itsolf sorely tompted the othor day. A notorious gambler made & donation to tho Association, and & specinl meoting was hold to considor the morality of accopting it. Tho donor's name unforfunately happenod to bo Sinn, and this may have cuused moro, than or- dinary misgivings on tho purt of tho body whoso purpose wus to overcomo sin, Tho question way argucd with corwidayable ingenuity. Ono member thought that by accepting tho mouey the gomblor would bo brought nearor to Christ; anothor maintained that, though for« bidden by .tho locad autboritios, gumbling was not condemned by the DBible; whilo a third maintained that tho tempting offer camo “no- companie:d by the tears of women who wero worso than widows, and of children who wero worse than orphuns,” This view of tho matter provailod, nud the Asaocintion ordered the Soo- rotary to return tho money to the gambler, Benntor Curpenter has intraduced a bill to sz thorizo tho Kecrotary of the Interior to supply a cortain ballot-box to bo used throughout tho country in Prosidontisl and Congrossional eloc- tions, Theo price por box fato bo $16, "This will Involve an oxponditure, in’ Illinois alone, of 064,000, This socrus like & job, If it is not ono now, it is modorately sure to be ono by the time it gots through Oolurbus Delono's hands, e —— 3 Mr, A, P, Pugh, Biato's Attorney of Jaokson County, 1, finds himself ina vory dieagrees- blo dilomma, Gov. Boveridge. has written te