Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 13, 1874, Page 2

REDUCTION OF THE ARM Arguments Against the Pro- posed Measure. Figures in ‘Oppiosition to Those Present- ed In Congress. ¥ho Domands of the Frontier for Mili- “.‘tary Protection, 20 the Fditor of The Chicago Tribune: * 1 Bin: Tho followlng is out from tho rog\)hr . proocodings of the Lower Hougo of Congross on the 38th day of May: "Tho House lhon took up tho Bl for the gradunl re- ! of thoarmy, B B oburn sxplitned and advocated i, and o dls- vowed, on tha part of the Committeo on Military Af~ Baira, atiy fooling of Loatility 1o thio atiny but his own. 1a {udgment was, tht the reduction provided for in e pending bill wos not ufliciont, Ifo thought tho ‘coufd got aloug with an army -of 30,000 ua well s wit 30,000, the main work of the army belng to take care of tho'Indinn frontior, Ife eatiunted thosaving to the Govornment by the pasango of tho bill at about $7,000,- Bfli. am’ astonlehed tbat Mr. Coburn should openly, on tha floor of . Uongress, announco that hoontertained foolings of Lostility to our httlo army; and I am totslly at a losa to underatend on what grounds thesa foelings aro bnsed, .What has tho army or its officora dono to call .down upon itai hoad he wrath of tho Houso Obisirman of Military Affairs ? Ilhupn Gl::l v:‘lm: A Wiwy and, it ho roplly dons e the atmy (nh do many athore), ho will at an carly doy reliova his many army frionds ‘from the painful feolings the nbovo paragraph * ' the Congresslonn} nows oroated. ; Butitisnot at Mr, Coburn'’s feclinga I am so ' ynuoh netonished, ot as his figures. Ho soys the roduction of seven regiments In tho army will savo tho QGovornment per snnum ‘*sbout 47,000,000, I do not know on what information thie Honorable gentleman bases hia estimato, but ho cortainly Is in error. I lave caused to be propared a full table of the cost of maintalning a rogiment of infantry for a year, Hereitfs: GOST OF A BEGIMENT OF INFANTRY ¥OR ONE YEAR, Btrenpth, 4 G x ' Gommisstonod officora : Enlisted men, Ten Captatns, ot $1,600 cach Adjutout snd Quartormaster, at Four i 1,080.00 mo Chitef Musictar PSRN 5 TX ) 0 Firet Seroants, f $a53'¢ach,, 92,520.00 forty Sergeants, at '$204 ouch, ..., 160,00 ‘urty Corporaln, at §180 each,.... 7,200.00 Four hundred and twenty.f ‘vates, 6t $160,0ac 66,300.00 e —— 814978000 Forago, For bedding for 520 men, 87 & {tons of atraw, at §5 por ton. ..., 187.00 i For fleld nnd stal,.grain and hay for U iorses, ot $50 per month... 600.00 . Ve 100 Fue From Sopt, 1 to April 50, 1,93 cords of wood, at $0,60 por cord, §11,003,50 From May 1to Aug, 31, J05 cords of wood, at §0.50 per cord ».. 1¢,801,00 For 020 mon, t§5 per secnth cach 89741000 i ror 820 mon, at $0 por month cach, 37,410, e 2 7,440.00 Clothtng, g For 520 men, at $61.16 sverage, per v y e 08,00 Jear,. taaseeaae = 81,708.00 e Repaire, Quartors and barracks...: $ 9,600,00 s 2,800.00 Wear and teat duriog g $1,0000 . and tear during F6aT, « . X . Skl T 100000 Total.. Vevreia $TI1,100.00 Add contingenth ‘Bkin Ropairs, stationory, &e.. Wear and tear of Transportation, 10,000 Oourte martia 1,600 fleage of o 1,500 urgeon for me: 2,500 Asstatant surgoon. 1,800 Bxponsos of Loapitsl G Totalssrsanesacesss Ada 10 per cent (ncreaso seryic 5 and additionsl pay for enlistod. mjen'n sorvices' 14,278 ‘Total,ueivayeres Expenso of roglment, 3 Grand total.... ; & 271,002, 1, then, tho whole cost of malntaining a yogi- mont of. Infantry for one yaoar is $271,332, tho cost of maintaining five for the same would ‘be $1,550,600, It costa about 83 por cont more por anuom to keep up regiments of cavalry and ar~ tillory than it does to. maintain,.infantry,—tho ndditional oxponse bsing on acconnt of horses and oquipments, auch s harnosses for battorios, srddlos for troopers, d&o. If, then, weadd & third to tho above_estimate, wo have: for a reg- iment of cavalry, $346,801; and for a regimeut of artillery, $816,851. TIE ACOOUNT WOULD THER. BTAND ! Baved the United- Btatss by Coburn's bill, tho cust of musintaining five regimenta o Iufuntry... DitLo ouw regiment of cavairy, Ditto ona rogiaent of urtillery...e. Total saved o o82, 21 T should now like to see Mr, Coburn’s_figures, aud his authorlty for saying that "tho bill jusl gamud by tho Houee of Reproscntatives, by re- ucing tho army five rogimonts of ‘infantry, ona of cavalry, and oo of srtillery, will “save,the zmmuy annuslly *sbout §7,000,000.” Thore aro ome ataff ofticors reduced by the bill, but the paving of thoir salnrios cannot rajsa the amount to- tho figura of £8,000,000 as & wholo rasult of tho srmy-reduction. I'am not arguing against a roduction of the army. It it {s too Jurge, cut it down ; but do not havo it dono under & misap- prehension of facta, If It haa to be reduced, I think Mr, Coburn's bill is as fair a one as could o made. Tho army ought to ‘foel grateful to Jongress for making tho roduction o grad- ual ono, and not thrustin out of gommieslon old, rmy-hundml ofticers, as was Iping lone by the son bill of 1870.’ Promotion 4 now 80 slow that, with tho oxuoifl.lon‘ol » fow ofticers who aro at tho top of the lists, no ono expects it, or cnres roally for the stoppage of promotion. All are anxiously WAITING FOR THR NEXT WAR, end, judging by tho growth, of Communistic foeling, tho frequensy of labor-strikes, tho Grangor troublos with corporations, and the in- erensing hatred of the poor flF"“Q‘r tha rich in the Umted Siates, thoy will not bave long to wait. L think tho roldiors are tolerably united. Thoy 1ift tholr hoarta nbove the petty voxations oud trinly of Coburn's bill,” and steadfastly pray o tilo noxt war, . Thon, thoy say, shall haie bristle on ond, aud grent dongmasmuu fall down, and, with oyes bulging out with terror, even ag thoy did after tho first Bull Rlln’ say, “Good sgoldior, savo us or we porish,'" Uhen shall overybody be promoted to shining Drigadiors, and gather rqund the big White House'nnd sing: 8o are coming, Father Ulysses, throe hundrod thous sand sirong ;" ind every pols will be found sufficiently long to bring down & good-sized persimon. But really, Mr. Iditor, do you think our lttle army neods reducing 7 Tt is” onl 40,000 strong, »ud we Lave a population of 40,000,000, It is A GO0 LITTLW AMMY, . well-oMecored, well-drilled, aund ' punctilious about prosorving ordoer and protectiug tho rights of Lhe citizen, Is it nogossary, for tho sako, of! Baving oven{£3,000,000 por aunum, that our uottlo~ moutk on the border should ba rotarded, people |- sonlped by suvagos, and ontorprive, and disoov- erles n the Wast stopped ? I havo tried biard to have faith to ‘boliove it all right to think that everything was IYvnlv and tho goose in a proper- 1y clovated pomtlon; but, upon my word, I can- Dot soe [tithrough tho gig amps of the Washing= tou gentlooion, und I don't nat thinlk it necessary tosave oven 3,000,000 at tho expeuso of olyiliza« ton, tho losy of humdn ifo, aud the burning or our border villagos, us 1 foar would bo tho caso 1t wo were to further weskon our alresdy too swall frontier guard. B, Another View, 2 the Kiitor of T'he Chisago T'ribune: Bt The urmy is ouce more under manipula- tion, und lis reduction by & closo vote hiny boou doclded in tho aflirmative by tho ¥ouss, This bill will, no doubt, in & fow days, bo brought up iu tho Henate, Dut the question fa, Will this doclmating, or, a8 finely expressed by Nast in his curtoon, HKELETONIZING of the army, be passed by the more experienced mon of Covgrosy? 1t Is to e hopod that, with 486 1gfit ol f60ont Svonts, and ntédemint ) o ades Iljn of tho bill and itx' Yonrthgs, they Picelvd nonccodally ror hpplying !hg “knifo ta'the aring, which {8’ now. bérely ndaqiate, for thd offiofont porformanco of tho many dutiea saignad 1t, on our extenslvo frontiors and olso- vhoro, Tho prosont clickings of the telograph sra indieative of nlschiof, and come aa An omen {or tho guidance of our legislators. 'The follow- Ing itoms will oxplain themmoluos, and are do- sorving of tho most serlous considerations * Gen. Whipple, Wshtngton, D, €.+ Gen, Terry notiflo that hostilo Sioux ontored the Bo- homisu suftioment nenr tho Poncn Ayendy, in the Niabrara Valloy; yeatorday, and aro kiling ond deiving off thostack, ~Additional troops -Lave Leon sont'from Fort Randall to tho rotlof of the ottlors, are abandonfug ol homes, and comlng n {0 the small Infuutry detachinont now stationed there, 1Io also telo—- grApLa thot 400 Sioux wneriara Lavo loft o Cuioyeno gency to attack tho Iteen, . Word hna boon sent to den, Cuetet to Iny clope for tliom, aud drivo thom Dback, aud, it nocoasary, attack them. P, M, Sitznipax, Livitenaut-Genersl, Additional reports from SUl_ray that the Comnnches snd Kiowan are off tholr rnervations, aud arovery warliko In (holr acttane, Trowbla is . fasred, oxpcbially among tho border sottigmonts of To : Tu addition to the above, reporta aro resching 11 aimost daily of an. alatming cbaractor, | and which, whon we lenst oxpeot it, nny culminnte DISASTIOUSLY TO TIIE WHOLE COUNTRY, Whatover rotards tho settlomont and growth of cur Bordor Btales in the Weat must be doplored by all who hinvo n propor approviation of . their’ country’s welfare, booause, in the States already organized thore, and thoda yet to bo organizod, lis tho gorms of incaloulable nationnl woalth. Road the roporis of our great sclontists aud 'ex- plorers, and in them all will percoivo tho para- mount hecossity of our Jittle army, and the great goad it 18 doing and can do as the guardians of the Gront West and the national weltare. Any- body who has had any experionce on the borders WO Bitomen blaiew,1¥ 103 41U PIBOBULY Ub pravmimsley of the bine-coats that mado the country possiblo for Bottlomont, g i In o racons lottor by Gon..Custor to Gan, Ter- ry, commanding the Department of Dakotd, ho' oxprosses -gravo douut, owing to the fow mon undor his command, of belog nblo to cope with tho Indians in tho Northwaat, who seom bont on misobief; and what botter argumont cohld bo used to show tho insdoquacy of our army than Custor's worde to Qen, Torry. He anys:” To ropol the. formidable war-partics of Indiong ab= | sont from their resorvations, and now known to bo warring sgainst the peoplo of. this frontier, it an 11} 1 .| has boon necossary to strip thoe forts along this line of thoir garrivone, in order to concontrato againat tho Indinne. So mueh thot ofiicors contomplate * SENDING TUEIR PAMILIES TO THEIR HOMES in tho Statos, feeling unwilling to leave them at | theso exposed poiuts with 8o hietlo protection.” Gon, Stavley, whose roputatidn a8 a soldior-is well known, and who has had considerable ox- eriouco with thoe Indians, writes to Custor rela- ivo to the war-party of 400 Cheyenne Indians loaving the Choyenne Agonoy to fight the Reo Indiaug, and says: ‘‘Ihavoinduced the Chiofs to follow tho par-party and try. to turn them' back. They- oxpoot reinforcements at Grond River, and eay thoy will bo tho strongest war- party that ever startod for tho Rees. I'could not learn that thog intend to attnck your Reo scouts, but this has beon their gamo for the last £\vo yoars.” ¥ This last obsorvation the writor hereof oan vouoh for, bacause, when the advance-guard of tho great Yollowstono Bxpodition b started ont, or wero nbout slarting, from Fort A, Lincolu, about this timo last ifilr these samo Choyonno Indians, or their m!‘mm, made Bomo very wicked attacks on tho Reo scouts, and might havo done considorable mischief if it had not been for the Mmog arrival of *0" Company, Eighth Infantry (Capt. Corless), at tha sight of .whom tho Indinus fled over the bills. 2 ‘Tho General furthor states, in his lettor to Cus ter, that, “Jf the intontion of this largo {lnriy i8 to avold you and strike the Reo villages, advigo you to keop scouts well out toward Heatt Butto, and try to dotoot and frustrate tholr’ dosign, As'to how o deal with them if you meot them, I leavo to your good judgment. Thoy aro not likely to bo smonabla to Soft worda, and you had bottor uso powder and Jond at onco,” Gon. Btanley, in conflding in Gon, Custor's diseretion, showa T8 OWN GOOD JUDGMENT, beosuso, if thero is any man in this country who thoroughly understands ‘the Indian, sud can properly castigato him' for. wrongs committed, that mon is Custer, who is an admirable cavalry- oflicor. - Not only his good sonse and judgmont, g8 intimatod by Gon, Btanley, but his~ dosh an: bravery, whicli ara woll -known, malke him just rhat o succossful londer of cavalry shiould ba, Gen. Custor bollsvos that the nlloged protoxt of tho Choyennoe incursion, viz: **to attack the Ttees, is simply & subtorfugte, na thoy- invariably {uu thia as tholr purpoke whenover thoy loave helr roservation; when it is well known thatnot only the Rees become subjucts of thoir attacks, ‘but every whito man on those frontiers {s an ob- joct of their hostility”; and in bis lettor to Uen. Terry, ho atatos that **Tho Indians are no longer controllud by their Agonts," “This shows very oloarly that the Indian Burcanand affairs: suionld b transferred Lo tho Department of War. . 8o much for the penco policy and Govornmont Is this tho case presonts, supposod to bo suMciont to keop tho-| ndian quict..» The above-cited reports also re- buke in a vory signiticant niannor s THE CRIMINAL POLIOY that sugpests skoletoniziug our small army, A goneral. Indias} war'would do niuoh toward dis- abueing the publismind of suckh & suicidal courso, aud showing what insuflicint protoction i ox- ercigod at prosent by the Govornmont over the ' frontier-sattlerd, The entire army would be in- -adoguate to-tho task of guarding snoh au im- menso _oxtent of ‘territery” againet n wily,iune- scm;:ulmm foo, nrmed and trainedat the Govorn- mont expense, - . MR, NEGMITI'S REWATRS, : in (he debate of ‘tho 28th of May, will bear rope- tition: * Ho protosted ageinst tlio proposed re- duction, {wbehalft of tho froutior settloments, to which military protection was an absolute nocossity ; audhequotoed Gen, Bhorman’s expres- ston,-that he would rather sco nll the firet t wenty nges of the Army Register torn‘out, and all the ighot officora abolished, than: 800 one infantry, regimont disbanded. But, 1f these constant at- tompts to interforo with' the organization were to be kept'up, no officer of -spirit ‘and oulture would -desiro -to -remain ‘in the. army, and - Oongress had - beitor ~ abplish it ab onco, and lat the Indians - take pastossion of tho froutlers. = Roferring to recont eulogics’ of tho Tudlang by cortain membora nf Congroas, L ridiculed thent; and charactorizod tho Indians na a cowardly, deprodating, breech-olout-wearing Bot of thieves and scoundrols, o scouted tho idea of controlling the Iudians by moans. of the Perco Commissioners, who were, perhaps, Chris- tien, God-loving, God-foaring men, * He did not deny that ; but these qualifications wore not such as to onablo thom to control tho Indiank, A man should have some practical adaptation to the E’uxraan ta which he ia put, They were told in Hor pture that Nebuchadnezzar nte grass; but 0 had novor hoard that Lo had becoire fit for, boet, or that ho would havo mede a_good mitch cow, ser 4 i Our settlers of to-dny’ are sproad over ‘s gl:onmr extent of, and moro gangorous, frontior fhen ab any previous poriod of the uounlf}y., The massnors of the gettlors in Minnesota doss not date po far back that it s out of memary, That ;ppnlllnn and bloody catastrophe should in ilsolf [ I g L e . 4 3 } " A WANNING FOL ALY TINE, Onr frontiers of to-day aro uot much better pro« tectod than thay wera in - thoso duys, taking mto cons{;iudrmun tho grent extent of lerritory to be guarded. 3 The rogiments stationod down South, and in somo of tho othor Htatos, are ofton instancod to show that onr prosont army is tao large, but theso rogiments have alroady portormod oxcol- lent service during® Ku-Klux excitomonts, and have doné aud sra doing good sorvice by their I;xenancn and aid in essisting the Collootors of utornal Rovenuo in collocting taxes and ovor- hanling itliclt distillories. The troops have fro- quently beon callod to porform this duty eyen where ‘it was mpparent that peaco, good order, and tho laws wera in full opornlion, This was the case in tho City of Brookiyn in tho yoars' 1809-'70, {n =~ which " city as many 8s 1,200 regular iroons wors concontrated to ausist und Protect tho Interuul Roveuue glnculru in the demolition of numorous illieit dis- arios, . - Iu the recent turbulont and annrchieal state of affairs {o Arknneas, tho rogulars bolinved with reat good sonse, Lecauss, after bolug fired at Ey the mob, they did uot toturn the five, and were praiseworthily handled by their oflicors, In the debata on thio nrmy bill Moy 29, Mr, Hayw- ley, in reforring to theso disturbancos, paid o Iugh' compliment to Capt. Jtoso - and hid com- pany, and eald thnt **It would Lo betler for tho Governmont to pay the whole oxpenses of the army for ono year rather than not have had tha little dotachment at Litilo Rock. Tho comwmotion and disgrace that would otherwige liave arlsen wonld Lave Leen held up s a National res proach," Whenover the regular troops have bsen Lrought In gontact with the peoplo thoy Lave invayiably uoted in a unuulllnw? wmauner, aud binvo oleurly shown themselves fn full rapport with thowm ; that is, ag far un their duty would permit, Our littlo army muy slwaye bo rolied on todo what thelr duty sud tho Government demand, Whatevor oxpouse tho army Las been to tho vountry 1TAS DEEN AMPLY REPAID by tho vigorous sud fmthitul perfyrmange of ite pruning- |y .| Army have boen statlonad in. the States, . P’ “ons to tha \Vm‘, with the oxcoption of a Yow; ar- siatence amounta to about §8,000,000 for rogular. 3 7 R = tr x{ifi(ou, and in acting Ab the ot tor whilch tio had onrrlod about witis o the'lis Hll{ ploncers of our cauntry in_clviliging || Dumbor'ot, ydapsl Mr. L. novor was ywhit \vmllll; tho'GFeat West, and in prdtedtiog them {from /) bo odllod an dbbso man; ho Is stout & foot/ 0} tholr lly and trancliorolss foos,—(oapors nobla| inolies in holght, woll pit i, and Lin welght wan 2ed men:” Nosmith's view of-the Indist is - nok | 218 pounda. - Aftor fifiy days’ oxperimont, Bolng far wrong, though s good/Indian may bo found | wolghod almoat overy day, lo has reducoed his onae In a while. ~ If you wish to loarn the Indian | weight to 103 pounds,” the reduction amonuting | character, aponk _to "thoso men who have_beon | to 26 pounds. At our_request, .Mr. Ludington among thom, and"thon you wiil kiiow Loy for (L4 furnishod us & atafomont of tho diet usod by, Neamlth s wrong. = P A m. i) It waaonly ditrlng -and ‘sinbe the Iato Givil o War that-any.of-tho regimonts. of tho rugulnlr rovi- MR’ LUDINGTON'A RTATEMENT, 1 1invo practiced tho * Banting ¥ system ‘of Tlving for tho pat ifty duys, and tho result Ia 25 pounda de~ ereano In welght, or an nverago lons of half-u-nbund nily, During that imo my honlth has conatantly {m- proved, I wel fi'""" April 17,218 pounds, end to-doy Ty | el s 103 peanda, .. & 10y | rtig rogimon 1 simple, plain, and liormloss, ind ro- auires but llitle solf-denta], ag followa : - | , For Brenkfast—Any kind of youltry or ment, excopt - ~ - [\sork; drytost or.cold, brond (say thiroo sitces); foa i1 ' |'or colfea without milk or augars’ ony kind of 1 ofafora s o butter. " .. r Dinner—Any kind of meat; excopt 1 Xind of Yegotablo, oxcept potetoes ; no pastr: allowed.’ : tillofy companlos in' the harbors, thioy woro,stu~ tionad th the oxtreme wilds of ‘our solintr: compnuy hiore hnd a, company thoro,—until extondod albng otir wholo frontter, .. [ " i tAa rogards the’ oxponsed of our army, Tjwill, || oto ., * e (R 2 GEN, BHEDMAN, A - who, in conversntion respoutlufi tho oxpefinda of | %] tho nrmy, romarked that *‘Tho catimatos and appropriationa placod thiat branch of tho sorvice | out, {Adturo 7 int! poln a8 our corrogpondant! pol o fhere, p bns’ provided a mtich méro fos . ‘\‘prohv?u-ln arrangomont for! this! deatructlor of asshoppers on onr-foitilo hud nmu(mglm Tian auy which can be artifielslly contrivedi—All ihat the eettlora have to do-is to protect the dry sutumnnl grasa from pralrio fires in all, tlll_tha grasshoppor. oggs .are hatchod N et Py brinfl 'qmoup atfeviatlon of/ jbroy M:k 4, by its perniclods ) A o thnan ot o naonds wiiloh 1 -of tho regolatidns, thore dre .two or| ttiree son=|* | siblo propositions. On flnances thiey have com- .man more than a blundor ; thoy proposo n aritmo, The proposition to pay tho 530 bondain | high, _graonboaks,which are.atill furthor to_bo_dopro-_|.the | ‘\nlfi:‘l m“'mfll\nl 0) g th.’[shnllo' ught of roturning to | outin the oarly spring, and fhon sot it on firo e o riiabia scoonbaalis, | ancl dovoto o whiola yast progony to- tho fuin 1is ropuidiat ihnt 18, thoft,—and on® seale so | in o asoriflolal holocaust witono inconso would bo ntic, B0 Mont; and K6 cowstdly; s to mako’| awaator, to theuttondiug- pricsta at loast, than Eq'afil':ummn Bonnes: Twond_and. Shophord, and | myrh aud frankincenso.- 1toro Is a ohmiico o ox- tho jerowd of ‘ofticial epooulntors whom | tho | porimont in oromation on s grand acalo_snd Iu a Convention' *-condomn, “fino ora | of | dircotion which would cortainly not offend! the economy and honosty _might matutaliy | sonsibllitios of thoso who ofticiated at the ob- ho expectod to bo innugurated. by tho candidates | soquics. Dut it i doubtful it tho prairic-grass of n party whosa cardinal dootrino is the viola~ |"conld'hé ksved 'for thiy fumoronl® puitposcy for - tion of o Bolemn. contract and the porpatration of | efther by somo of the froquent acoidents of care- a.gigantio stoal, juat-boosueo they had tho pow- | lessnoss or'by tho reckloasTolly of tlia foiv idiot or, 'Tho proposition to set Governmont mlfin to | that are foundin every community, tho dry fall grinding _out(paper which slinll bo declared | graus would be'protty 8ura to cateh firo aud then oqual with gold,” wlill sot sonsiblo pooplo | away it gocs in'a torrent of flamo that it is hard to_wondoripg why :thoy didn't proposs that:["to stop or quouclsy’ g in a vory false llght boforo tho paople.” Under; | — 10! breakfa tho oad of mil{ary ostublishmant, tho entimatos | ' o harner ~umilar to brosklest i, oxcont. Thtno for tho 'cumms ear woro uamed .at’ nonrly | wines or clarots, . ( §35,000,000; an: t{m'lmprunlnu mmughou:;tho m\\‘vé:h c: nllmdy- S;E'rmhmdn:;& n:‘«llr l:'lxfl‘:fl’l;l::. Ghuntry tn tiak b gonts thnt hmount ot | Mhsautifuly cans with vory ilo Inconvoniancos snd the st I Cobran il B onatey bu UMe sl docial” Tey Lo romedy, ” Loapogtfully, it §30,000,000 was an onormous sum for the sup- p ortof an ormy of but 30,000 mon, which wowld | - 2% ,{‘Fdh'“”“ also l"'“rfl? "B."h‘?f thl‘.! od Bo'ovor 81,000'% moan. Tho Glenéral said sumg. | OTSE Lingey oxcopt at mo timos; that o ba tho truth of the matler was, thint the. cost of | f9thiFet fo bo quonched Ly long potations ; that th sy was 615,800,000 for_pay, milongo, and | LA aDPolite at monl time was aivvays goody hia ordinary oxponses of 'tlio Gonoral 'and atal, Sig- | 1oad vas oloar and Lis mind compotody aud Lo nn.ltanrpé:," 'orps h_v.;l E‘ughfmnrn,l Ordgau:ofl)o- :::‘;}gg&"l,l "hmfi‘flh"“.‘:fl.’“ erin 0 {‘[?l[ur(;? o lw:l‘:t?‘-fiwm:(o L:amg’ m:llu [;m:l: * Thrdughout the experiment Mr. L, 'has smok- R i ed the allowance of cigara—thrco or four a day Lhe gt —t0 shich Lo has huun“mmultomnd for ynnré, B0 that his oxporimont did not include the effeots of the uso or disuso of tobacco. Mo still fol- lo\v!lll!s IHD& llm:l thinks he will gat down to 182 puiss 8 GUILK LU CUIUIRIY Wilo WBT, i 18 frionda will swait with intorost his roport on s roturn, ., B b ecoutr, one band, and miscellaneous, ‘suppllos, 500,000 for incldentals, 1,300,000 i for horsos for cavalry ‘nn?_ tllar: , 85600,000 TRErn ol AP0, o, SO0 o1ofRE ing and oquy page, 1, 00,000 for tho Medical Dopartmont, g 25,000 and $200,000 for, proucrva~ tion of clothing sud contingencios,—making for ST e ed—— THE INDIANA CONVENTION. *0ld Prob” should ki t, monthly in ad. = vxmlen, .m mou:l“:umtl:::-h‘:flmlh. contnfnlug an [ GERMANY’S (CHURCH-WARFARE, i Ty sesortment of wonthor suiting ovorybody, snd 3 2 Sl Tho Now Law to Mo ¥ssued Placing | thon, --domaud -, of: Congress to-puss & law doclaring - that ' that ‘slsll be tig woathor. | ©yy o gatholic Ohurch undor the Come trok of tho Governmont, Threo slxly-five intorest-bonring bonds - are vary beautiful things, doubtlesay but, if money is worth moéro then that rato of intores! will bo foolish enough to buy them, and it would bo tho worst tyranny to conipel thom. If mon- oy Is worth less _than 8.05, Governmont would aok very unwisoly to pay that mato, Chonp monoy {8 & fino thing, doubtloss, when you want to borrow, and not #o filne when you want to lond. Chieap corn is & gaod corn to buy, and bad stuff to goll. _ 8o of xwhoeat;irye, barloy, horsos, grain, labor, ete. But, whon wo hoar n man aeking for choap money and a low rate of interest for tho tuturo, and in the same breath howling llort. Enpndlnunn of 'hla Dp;eu:n (}(ubgn, i ¥ of 00D Ty oL A SOOI o toihs ‘Thae L6~ pondonts have made the worst posaiblo platform on flunncos. Notthor Democracy nor Republican- ism can do worse, - Thoy may "do much bottor. As for this Indepogdont porty, it {s still-bprn, It being oxpeotod that, undor tho now Gorman ‘1aw for tho bianishmont of roousant occlosinstios, tho greator partof tho-Roman Cathollo Bisliopy will boshortly compellod to loave tho country, aud ‘thot the- diocosan ohaptors will rofuse to oloct now Bishops durlug the lifo of tho formor 1oumbonts, & luw haa just boou onuoted by tho Btato Parliamont of -Prussin to' provide forithe administration of vacant dlocoses in- the King- dom.. Thia law, which tokes the diregtion ofitho Churdh out of tho hands of tho clorgy, yosting | 4t exotusively 1 the Government aud porishes, ‘mnay be rogardod aé a fionl blow denlt to thoilPa- BI'0RUBE, “LOU Jaw, whiok will bo piuwulgaieu a fow days, runs a8 follows: Vi Wo, William, by the’ grace 'of God King of ‘Pruasia, oto., witl tho consont of tho two Ionses of Parliamont, cnuct what follows : N0 on | Bertim (May 23) Correspondence of the’ London Times, | Academy, canstruction of hospitals, nationsl ‘artillory,—tho lattor to be intrusted with the | ull - were upon *the the above {toma about 818,000,000, In' sddition to this, 85,000,000 {5 sddod 'for the Military couneterlos, ' médical musoum, Eogineer and rdnenca Departmonts, and armamont of for- tifloatione,- " Tho Genoral remarked, as socn: abovo, that’ 'tho army tunapufluk'len costy | ©4,000,000 annually, sud s large share of this ‘wont for the movemont of troops from one point to anothor, nocossitntod by tho inadequacy of the military force. e was in favor of pruning. ont of tho army all non-combatant members, an inorcasing ita offective foroe to 80,000 mon, tho incronso to, be. entirely composod of tho lonst- oxpionsive " .part: of ~ tho = army—tho * vato . soldlors in ‘tho infantry . and sifety aud keepiug of military property on the Attoatts, Pasitle, sod Gult and Lake cosste, Ho opposed the addition of _any moro oilicors, as thoso now in the service would agswor ovory purposo; and, furthermore, he ‘dddod that tho coat of n‘comrnny of 76 men In tho ogeregato would bé but fittlo moro than for 60. 'The ro- duced force of the army kept tho troops gone stantly in motions and trausportation, for'in- stanca to the Paciilo Coast, bo sald, cost mora thon a yenr's pay of a soldior.” . £ The above romarks are, characterietic of General, and, coming from .him, are supportod by an exporience and conscientious kuowledge of what is neoded, that oannot well bo dpubw.l.l'i' o R N L | THE CONTEST BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA FOR THE $14,000 BULL. T the Rditor of The Chicado Tribunes - + ° | . Hig: Sinco the $14,000 bull has been roturned to the herd of tho original propriotor, I notico that difforont newspopors are oxpreseing their opinions as to tho gennineness of what scoms to them tha very bigh bids that were mado for him. 1 will sposk for myaclt, snd the other bidders can do as thoy please, ' With so many hoifers an I hod by the 156 | $hs Duko of ‘Alrdrie out of cows very rich in Duchcess blood (the demand for which at privato sale docs not.reserve me énoigh to moke a public sale of luterent), I concluded that it would pay me to bid as high as $10,000 for the bull. B this was one of thom. But, just boforo the salo ray, of Wisconsin, had beon sold to po to En- ghlld.‘ and ‘' that Euglish bidders for Mr. Kiag's annm Thin, I foared, would leave my 15th ingly had a consultation with Nortlrwostorn braoders, who folt that 1t would bo a calamuty to let such & bull go out of the' country, and I of- ferod to P 810,000 for threo-fourths or ono- halt of the buil, or any fractional portion above one-half, providing stockholdoers could be found to -mako up what thoe -bull ‘wowld bring over | ehca that this was not dono. The platform pro- '| 'sonted’ covare:itoo much: ground, and doocan't th Duke the only one in tha-| talled analysis of this singular production Nortbmoat, and lio was ‘gotting ‘old, I nccorde | ia nob if What Leading Indepondont Papers Say of Its Actton, From the Indianapolis Sentinel, June 11, On the wholo, party making lan't encouraglog worlt. The Senlinel 'bas boon hopefully futor- eated In tho growing eifort of the peoplo to tear thomselves outside of the bonds of partios, and hns, in senson and out of season, labored with the 'stiff-nocked and obstinate. It has given con stant encouragomont to the Eurposn of a Btato Convention, and,upheld tha hands of tho work-~ ers. Whon tho Convoution mot, the Sentinel hopod. Tho best of thase hopes Liave boon but imperfeotly reallzed. It ia not,so much the fault of tho delogates a8 "tho rosult of ciroumstances, which’ must impedo indopendort efforts until the peoplo aro' moro accustomed to Bpomk- ibg aud ncting for thomeolyes. Tho handling of o-vast body of dlverso and conflioting oloments s not an \mr.lerlnkluF which novices can bo ox- poctodto grapplo.vith in a doy. - Gathirad to- Enthurwll out ‘provious ncl}uuln!!mcn or ‘much nowledgo of’ onch othar,” thé mombers of tho Conyontion huvo presontod an imporfoct and in- .adoquate work, . Thero waa eyory intontlon to ‘roapond, in the fullost sonse, to tho domands of tho pooplo; and it ia the misfortune of inoxpork cover it woll.” Tho resolution on tho curronoy ig .an nffront to. iho . intolligonco of ' 7 clvilized community, and sonuds not unlliéc un oxtraot from tho doings of the Communo. From the phrasoology, it mny bo_prosumed that . it was boiled down by Messrs. Buchanan and Olloman from tho extraordinary jumblo which figured in the * Indiana Plan® last wintor, and which oven: Congress, {n its most insane mo- ments, rejocted. . 1t is bardly- possiblo to con- colve 8nno men giving expression to theorics and sentimonts which are'not only opposed to all tho Inws of ronson in_ finance, but m"f incendinry aodibase. The solid, zood senso:of the Stato, however, who are called upon te support wliat ia i-good in : tha platform, . will _rouder gibberin, fustian & doad -lot- tor. ‘Mon elocted to the Logislaturo plodged to, the particular reforms domended will do moro to restors & confidenco and judgmont on the cur- TODOY ‘(‘meutlun thao & dozon Uongrosstonal bills, framed by goutlemon altogethoer unfamiliar with Thero wero'| oondensed HIDH{IIQ and oxplicit phrescolo; but fow bulls that would improve my hord, and | T'he essay on eapi ) out of all approaoh to sanity as .tho_ourrency commenced, T hoard that the Duke of Mr, Mur- | paragraph, looks like an old friend. a5, 1l and labor, ‘a8 grotosquely It there is not o mistako, tho samo sonscless drivel sorved aa “principles” at- sovoral *‘mass” maet- lugs ‘in _thls oity Iast winter, DBut do- i veoded., It will surpriso and +inystify the Lonest, expootant tax-payers, who had hopod from go sedate and grave a body of mon o' busingss-like declaration of purposo, and o fow briof sentoncos indieating tho mothods of accomplishing the desired rosults, The resolution lacks directuoss aud forca, Much, probably, that appears in tho platform £10,000; ¥ to koep the bull, and ‘thoy to usc up | must be ascribed. to haste in proparation, their advancos at the rate of 8100 for ench calf, Under thig’ arrangement, I could not go aboyo 214,000, L & Having:lost thia bull, T did the noxt best thing. 1 bought his son, his oxaot image I slmost overy | Tho This supposition will" alone sccount for tho loosoness of many of the resolutions bunrinp} on important points, However, tho work o the Convention will be judged variously. peoplo at largo ‘havo * pro- rospent, out of otie of Mr, Kiung's yory best cows-| nounee upon the reacls, and, if it seoms good in who bad three full Duke orosses in her pedigroo. This made tho young bull a very small fyaction short of a full Duke. " After this F In the snlo of hus sire, and mudo no claim for. urchase, Ilost All further interost | There 18 not much uso in lamentin, thoir sight, thoy will 'pass by tho' orrora of tho platform to'tho eandidates themaslves who may embody the gonumo sentiment. of Reform. unwige tatk in tho platform, The men soleoted to go before lim under my bid, ‘ And, 0 long a8 I havo the | tho peoplo for tho various ofliccs are, in_mauy. young bull, with all bis marits, I have no feoling 84 to who secnrod -hia slre, provided he romaing Iu this country, * ' L e ¢ My bid of §10,000 for tho bull waa s doltberate one;-‘aftor p montl's rotlection.' - The bt of §18,000 was mado undor the circumstances; and, if-T'had s dittle’ moro -time, T am - confident-t could huye formod a combination that would Lave warradtad me in bidding above $16,000. %y f OiN WENTWORTIL, . Tho Rockiord KLibol. L Trom the Minneapolis (Mitin,) T'ribune. ' . Tho ' champlon libelor, lur, and, scandal- monger of the United States—tihe Chicago Témes —ia caught 1 o trap of its own woteing, . 1t pub- lishod a fortuight ago, in its fiithy typs, an in- famous tumor imphcating Liout.-Goy. Early's doughter aud one Crawford,’, making Its allepa- tions somowhat dofinito, Itinade n gront sonsa- tion tbroughout Ilinola; and ‘the moxt duy Crawford and Enrly bogan suits “ogainst tha Times, claimiog each 850,000. The atory provoed ot only, without foundation, but, thera was sothing of lutimnoy in the rolations oxisting be- twoon tho partios on which jenlous suspicion could reat it. 2 % L A week' ‘aftoryards the Times published an elaborate retraction, exposing tho wholo story us 8 vicious fabricatlon from boginning to ond, aud deolaring that the lotters on which it had basod its confidenca wora forgorles. ow thid oxcusos tho Times ln any dogree, it I3 dificuls to imagine. Tho utory was one which no decont newspaper woitld admit ta its columns, evon if the editor knowit to po truo. Thousands, in sll parts of tho Wost, will rejoico that this common dofsmor aud berator has been ceught at lust, and will hope to uoe the propriotor convicted of libel and :gglpauml to pay over the full amount of dam- 5. . From the Winana (Jinn.) Republfean, Tho infunious Jetter from Hockford, NI, corning Mr, Crawlord and a daughter of Qav. Tiarly, of that placo, which wns publishod 1 tho Clieago Timcs of bfay 27, tho result of which was u ltbol suit ngainst the Z%mes, with | damagos lixed at 810,000, now turns out tohave boou a complote fargery, 1t was sent to tho Times with tho forged [ndorsoment of four of the most rospoctuble und influontial citizous of Tockford, vouohing for the truthi of the vilo story, and the ZTimes has offered & roward of 1,000 for the discovery of tho au- thor, of the conspiraoy. Wu Lopo that tho rayoal will bo ferrotod out and pmpurli; punish- ed ; but this would not wholly roliove tha Times from binmo. Tha lotter {tsolf was o vilo that it uaver should hava beon yriuted 1 avy papor clalmng to be respoctable. Tho Timesis an oid sinner in rogard to tha practico of publishing seugational artiolos of a scandalous and indocent clwraoctor, and it was shrowdly seloctod by the uuknown slanderer as the J\n[mr most likely to glvo currenoy to Lis crucl and cowardly hoax, From the Springfletd (111) Journal. A am‘rmuwmlcmt7 of “the Ohicago Zinies dolo- gatod to visit Rookford and fnvostigate tho facts counectod with the slanderona attuck whioh it l)}ubllnlwd o fow duys ugo upon Reprosontative rawford and Miss Early, gives the latter o firat- claus cortiticato of good moral character, , . Ia it not romackable (hat the Témesshould have lent jluelf to the work of traducing & lady of such irrepronobablo . purity of oharactor ? I thoro any puunistimont too severe for such boast- linews ? “18 anybedy safo 8o long as a journal oxisty with such proollvity for elander that it is rendy to ausail tho purcst and the best, and then #eeks to aoudono-jta orime by humble confos- nlun(il tho libol ? Out upon suok confossed yilo- ness aon- Liout.- —_——— Ludington’s Lxpertmont—¥at People Nova Not 150 Divcouraged,. From the Mtluaukce News, June 9. Many of the friouds of Mr, James Ludington, tho waalthy oapitalist of thlu oily, are swaro that Lo hina beon dioting for some thuo for the pur- poa of dimiuivhing tho amount of adiposs mate mh})umfi, excollent. Tho first mau, Mr, Whito, will probably pe dropped by tha State Commit~ too whon somo disagraenble facta -in his caroer are brought to tho attention of theState. A Ra- form movemont cannat afford to support & man ®gainst whom thoro is even the sbadow.of a “stain, - Thoro is s snadow on the rocord of Mr, White, and tho onsiost way to convince the poo- plo of 'tho carnestness of thoso ongaged in tho work i8.to romove his name from the ticket, aud substitute that of somo man fm-nmhmnt aliko for ability and honesty. Mr. I, O, Johnson, of Now Albany, would bo such & man, and was vory favorably mentioned for tho pleca by tho dole- gatos. Agalnst the othior gentlomon selected no ono can raiso & breath ‘of suepleion, They ara fionnxully spoken of as citizons of couspicuous onosty and capacity, and boyond that thore nced bo no guestion, ¥ From the Terrs Haute (Tnd.) Gazelte, - The Iudaycndnnt movoment Liad its origin in ‘s disoonteul The timos are hard; the products of labor are unovouly distributed ; sowo man, toil they ovor 80 bard, grow daily poorer, whila othels oasily grow rich; corruption abounda: thesa things and moro have boen the causo of the wide. sprend dissatisfaction at prosont - porvading T Hhis teighsteisl clagses, aud no moro to bo denied - than tho existence of the solar sys- tom, Prosent partios bhave. utterly fuiled, 80 far, to .afford .auy roliof. Impressed with that boliof, and in tho hope that s new or- ganization might accomplish a much-nooded ro- form, which tho old oncs had fuiled to nccom- ligh, the popuiar eyo turned to this movemont For reliof, any porsons. went to Indianapohs to participate in tho deliborations of the Con- vention ; but, vastly more, from thoir homos all ovor the Stato, watchod it Hmuamlmgu with engor, anxious oyos, ‘williug aund ready to lond i their orrnost and-hearty support in tho’ ovent of & happy tormination:of its labors, Thousnnds of porsons, all ovor tho ‘Blate, whon they hoar of what was was doup, will be bitterly dis- appointed. The Conventlon was a mikerabla fatlure, For this rosult we do not think its originatois aro responsible. Many anothor ohild of honost and good purentage has beon a disgraco to tho authors of its being, This in auothor oaso of that kind. To thoeo who par- tiolpatod fu the movement with tho honost - tont of accomplishing soma good, there remning now only the course pursued by that oldor Liu- tus, who, a4 judge, condemnod to death his own son, conviotod of a capital orimo. Mallors to- .dlay aro uo worso thuu’ thoy wore last woolk, Disuatinfootion exists tho same as betaro; there in null the sawe need of reform; corruption yot runs riot aud is bud. Tucso wore the germinal oodn of thid movoment, which las come to noughit, They will spring to lifo again, Boma time thoy will tako root 1 tho popular miud and conacionee and grow, - Naturo s prolifle, Nub every seed qmw», but some attain to lusty and to vigorons lifo, With the Yornonnnl of havono fault o find in tho matter of Lonesty and sinconity. Thoro were men there whosa very prosonce in a conveution of that kindshows tho dopth of the misery into whivh tho country Las been plunged, They told & stitring tale of the disordors of. tho tinies, when, in rudo elo quenco, thn{lnpokn of tho hardships thoy were onduring, 1ut thon their strongth fallod, Thoy Mwore disorderly, wuruly, and unbusinoss-lilio, Lhin, howovor, was a numh wmatterin comparison with tho muin mothiod of roform thoy adopted with an enthuslasm which showed thay wera uttor~ 1y unconscious that thoy wera plying thomselves with tho samo fatal” doso wauuo poisonons draughts In the past have drivon thom to tho tha Couvention, wo with tho -preaout order of things. Tho good mon smong the candidawde, if thoy are Ly " Orabe 1.' It s Cathollo Beo falls vacant; thokio'rights 0 sdministration of church” property sball bo' 0x- “;f“dm of thelr famo, will, mako hasto £o got | 104 cralseiasical functiona of o Bishop ot relating. off., Tho bad onos, if .thero . arc any, had better stick. Thoy will bo in their clement. It now to bido their time, and, if the_partisan piatforma ‘aro ‘not’ satisfaotoryon’ thoparariount laaue; soloct tho bost, or, porhaps, carry the quostivn into Congrosslonal *diatrlota, -and .put forward candidates, This tno futare must detormino, TUE GERMANS- AND TIE .SPRING- """ FIELD CONYVENTION. A Stifk Broozo Mowing the Other Wny. Tranalated from tis Hlinofs Staata, Zeitung (editorian), ute, only romains for tho friends of a sound currency |:nize sorcieod Ip nccordanca with the provisions of this stut- ‘onding tho tavealturo of » now Bishop, rocog- by tha Btate, ;. it 9, Whoover msy fool iimaelf called upon {oexorclse ‘Eplacopal rights or futictions of-thio kiud referred to {n Oisuso 1, ahall ba obiliged to give written nolico of: Lis intention to the Governor-Gerioral of tho provinco in- which tho vacant Beo is situato, In this notico bo shall boubiiged fo, mention tho oxtont of tlio righta to be exerclsed by b ‘e commissioned by his Church, aud thap ho 'pos- wesaes_ thoualitics spoot 1873, 08 indiapensablo for tho holdiug of any occleisite: tleal oflice, readiness to sweur foult *10 tho low of tho land. ;and 1o s also to prove that he hus dod in tho low of Moy 11, ‘Ho will Likewtxo bo exro:ted to declaro bis to the King and obedience Within ten days_from tho dolivery of fhls éom- * The ;protoedingd of ‘tho 80-oallod s ¥armer: mu! ion the Governor-Gonaral shall Lo ‘outitled to 0 F vog- | Drotest against the oxercisoof tho eplacopal rights und G e mmeiory o s maca::| Mncions sl Tz b bou oy tho bonsted Parlismentary oducntion of tho Amori- can pooplo. No Polish Btarost could have used granter violone to forco o hordo of Gallocian-, peasants to ary *Yos8™ to all which he ordered |; than the Chairman of ‘this Farmera’. Convention did to his “Indopondont™ farmers. In 'the “Munich Flefgenden ‘Blactlern is a piotire of a-| Prussisn Lisutonant, who, with angry gostioula- | tion, soroams - oub to.a soldier standivg stralght and ailont boforo him, * You infornal szoundrol, if you want to. talk, hold xlour ‘tougue |” In: “jubt tho ‘samo fashion did~ tho pro- eiding” officor’ - of 'tho ' Farmora* - Convon- tion call and pound to silonco - evory. one ‘who vontured to offer a proposition looking to- ward improvemont, or who wished to.make. n romark on any of tho resolutions prosontod by the Committoe. His conduot wns-pracisely like that of’ the Aayor® in a.woll-known' Gorman- slory, wha cells aut to tho . poasanta-who protest against tho clorgyman who is forced upon them, **Oxon thnt you are, I will liston to your ontran- “tios: " You'shall and must take this gontleman for your pastor, Now I'askyou: Will you or filil younot?" Tho' peasauts langhod and said 7 T O W And in this fashion a platform waa adopted by Aheso *‘honest” farmors which .indorsed tho moat unbondod paper-curroncy ewindlo. Ever man who dsrod to esy a word in favor of national houor and honosty: was put down, War was do- clured on a pratectivo tarifft ‘for homo labor, and'|- also on the principle which lios ‘at'tho. basis of Froo Trade, tor thoy refocted ' the proposition to 1ot public ' contracts -to tho lowaest bidder. . On the railrond queation the Convention declared itsolf for tho most unhmitod power of the Stato. over tho manngement of. railronds, -sud the fixing of passongor and froight tatlffs. Tho remaindor of the platform consists of gonor- alitiea in rogard to economy and ' honor (declarations about houor side by side with an indorsement of o fragdulont national bankrupt- oyl), io rogard to improvements of navigable waters (without adding whother at the oxpenso of the Fodoral or Btate Government), and a ro- vision of tho Patent lawa (without glvlug sny in- dication of the mannor in which thoy are to be Improved). . S ek - u rogard to the quostion of porsoual -liborty (tempesance laws), the sentimout of tho Con- vontion was uncouditional in favor of enforcod temporanco,—go much 8o that & porson must’ Lave hud & brazen brow to havo' vontured to" take tho opposite side. Evory reforonce to the demands of the Germans in regard to this point .was met by, tho cold-water farmers with that ma- licions aud contemptuous gcorn which the rongh- or American diaplays niflnsl evorything which he cau dispose of with-the word *Duteh.” | - For papor-monoy, agamst tho protoction of Thomo judustry, sud ' for tomperance and Bundny lnwsl—this is the briof summary of the wholo Farmers' platform. : Wo certainly nced not isay to our roaders that wo spit on such & patform, No man who is capable of reasoning will betiove that auy person—oven it he gworo it with a hun- dred onths—who nssorts the Gormans’ will ac~ copt such & monstrosily of a platform aols from Lonest. convietion and” upou rensonablo cause, Tor bo would attribute to the Gormans nothing loss than tho nilowing thomaolves to bo struok in, the face, the declaring all their honest and in- eero convictions o lio’ and & ewindle, and ‘the placing themeelves meckly under tho slave-whip of fauatical wator-muekers! , - AT In our opinion, the practical !lfinlfiuflncn ot tho F'armers' Convention is, .that tho new party ,will draw its main support’ frowm the Ropublican jnrty, and thereby so weakon it that a roasona- lo opposition purty, coinciding with the Just views and domands of tho liboral-minded Gor- niung, can obtain . plurality vote in tho Stato, Thto Damoeratio party organization. should_con- sidor itselt called upon to take- the initiative in the'organization of such o patty. - Lot tho Dom- ocratig Stato Contral Committes isano a call for & meoting of ‘all those infleflpundunl nnd honost- minded citizons of. the Btato who aro siok of corrupt Republivan rulo,—who wish {o see the honor, the good name, and the wolfars of the nation proserved by the spcediest and diroctest rowurn to specie-payment,‘ aud who rogard with disgust the unworthy rostralnta upon. tgmdo and cougcionco Imposed by temporauce laws of all kinds. If, in tho call for the Couvontion, its aims and objeats are those alortly and distinotly | 8ot forth, 80 that all disputes and quibbles may |- bo avolded, such a convention can and will oro- ato and organizon party 8o glotious and power- Cul that §t will bo cortaln of victory over the Ro- publica patty, weakoued hi the dofeciion of & grort nuuber of farmers, The Domocratio State Comumittoe nood not foar potty jealousios on the -part of thogo indepeudent voters who have out 0oso from ihe Itepubliean” party,—assuming alwaysthat the Committeo kespa itself free from: all ambiguity and from attompts to carry water on both shoulders concorning these most im- portuut issues, ¥ Another German View, L'roms the Chicago Frele-Presse, . . Most of tho readers of the Freie-Presso,will, With us, soo in this platform a signifioant ‘stop taward improvement, evon if - the leading {ssncs are in part not touchod on, In part not- troatad with the oloarncas aud dacis{venoss cgstomary in Gormany, The inoliaation to ** compromises™ ia vory highly dovelopod in our Anglo-American cousln, aud honco it is that ho himuolf gives to ths compromise s . dark. and smbiguons # | phraseology ss possible, 1 the hope of gainjn 20, Tlo terny op " aud # Eplscopal ” usod in votes thoreby, This unpleassant h\dnfln‘ilonlek‘i‘; thia law Hkowlio apply to Archbishops” und Priuce daes not anit un; but, 8o long au nothing botter | Dishons, tiolr soos, bouvds, dioceson, slo, Tho upisco- can bo offerod us, we muat doolure tho fintrorm g "“3{::‘;‘{%‘,‘;;5:&?&%’:2 S ne o iuclud of tho Furmors" Convention ' tho bout in 1o | aslsopery o 0a: A market." ¥ i ——a A Grasshoppor Cremation. From the §t. Paut (inn.) Press, v Our Brown County correspondont, §, Wis- niowskl, furnlshos us some intoresting and valu- ablo Information as to the methods resorted to in Baatern Euvope for the destruotion of grass- boppore, and- somo the best moans of ridding our own fronclers of thoso pests,” Tho mode’ adopted In’ Eastorn Europo is & very Aimple one, sud wo see 10 ron~ son why it should not be equally eflicacious hero, shailaw tronchos und tolda covered with litter, whicly, l.veln(’z 4ot on flre, the posts are consnmad voro of thelr prosont wlsfortunos, _‘hera aro procodouts for this iu history, Bhipwreoked oailors, famisbing for wator, bave Leen known, in tholr dolirium, to drink of tha salt son's brino, and dio borrible doaths. Btarving mon, if unro- strained, will, whou opportunity prosonts [tsolf, Rorge. themsolvea with food,-10 Nuturo's doe struction. But espocially men drunk with whisky will olamor fur moso strong deink, andseo lu tho bly tho million. o vouchos for tha fact thal tho grasshoppora aro easily driven iuto the firo, and if all tho sottlers in “the grasshopper-byre | mpcting {a to appoint a ropresontativo, Who toat is tot rajeod by Trovinca; or if, proteat having been ralsed, it fn ovor. Tuled by fho Eccloslastical Court, tho appointmont of ' tlie tnoumbont shall be valid: of thiu law will lm&fiml-plfly to the cuso, tranafor of tho occloslnutical power from tho Bishops to the.congregations—n ulllnFn which lays tho ax to.tho root of tho biorar tom, lund from tho {nfalliblo Popo carrios us bick at s loaj rognant muggeations as to | Apostolicnl times, . It may be doubted, indced, i whothor the momontous right conforred will bo oxorctsed by thie “parishes in the {mmodiate fu- ture. Orthodox Catholics -sida with tho priosts, snd will be In no hurry to eloot pastors, whilo 1t g todrivo the young Lrood of hoppers iuto | snoh & procoduto i dondunced as kosotical by tho gnl f Popo; unorthadox Catholics, on' the othor hand, sro too {ndifforant to care at all.about ihe existe ence of priests, In the courso of time, huwever, it 18 oxpocted both partioa will flud it advisable to'profit by the priviloges newly vested in thom, Governor-Geners! sholl bo entitlod to refer the'caso t0 the decision of tho Ecclealasticat Gourt within' ten nys, in accordance with Clauso 16 of tho law of May 11, 1h73, iIn tho event of no” protost boing lodgod, or of protest having boon lodged but rejocted by 'tha Eccluisatlosl Court, the porson slaiuing eplicoral irights wil be summoned to take ‘tho onth reforrod in Olango. 3,un -the prosence of tho Attornoy-Genoral ‘or & commisaary appolnted by him, 4. Whoover presumea to oxerciso eplacopal rights or tiiijetions of th¢ kind montioned in Clauso 1, previous to taking the oath mentionod.in Olauso 3, fours fm- prisonuont from six mouths to two yoars, Tho samo punishment ¢hall’ by ntlicted ori & subutitute of Vicar, of » Bishop if, sftor the Beo bocomes yacant, b cona tinuca to oxorcias opiacopal rights or functions withe out huving proviously socured suthority to do so in accordanco with Olautes 2 and 9, Eccleslastical scts porformed by such porson shall bavo no validity in the ayo of the law, i 5. Bhould any mervants of tho Ohurch perform eccicaisatical. futigtions by order of n Lishop not rec- ognized by tho -Btate, or doposed by.tho Ecclesiatical Court, or by ordur of » porsan arrogatiag 10 himsolt eplacopal righls or funcilons contrury to tho provia« fons of Llio law, or Uy ordor of o subatitute appointod by such persons, they shall fnour & penslty not gx- caoding 100 thulera, oF Imprisonsnont Lot oxcoeding ona year, If anysorvants of the Cliurch excrciso episco- ol rights or functions by ordor of persons disquulified to couimission thom, thuy sball bo punished with im- Prisonmunt from'elx months to two yeors, © ., . 6, Upon un Episcopal Seo falling vacant in conse. uence of " a soutenco of tho Eoolcsiustical Court, tho ptor of tho digceso hall be forthwith called ypon by the Govornor-Genoral of tho province to elocts’ YVicor, Unless the Goyernor-Goneral be informed within ten days of s~ Vicar having - bean olootod, or unions tho Vicar.eloctod takes his oath of alleginnce ithin s fortnight aftor the expiry of tigfrst ton days, tho Mintater of Eccloaiastical Atfairs shall appoint o Commisary ta take chorgo of the property, roal and othiorwiso, belonglng to or administered by tho Spe, Shiould anly coerclvo meastrea bo required to causs te sald proparty to be handed over to thu Comiuisslon, such moasures shall be taken by tho Guvernor-Gens 7. 'Tho provislons of Olause 6will bo likowise applfed 18 & Vicar of s dloceso should reslgn after tha dopos- tion of a Bishop pravious to the fnvealliuro of a now Distiop rocogtuizod by tho St or It au Eplscopal BooLuving fallen vacsnt in sny otherwise, Episcopul righta: and functions ‘aro oxercised by persons not -| qualificd undor Olausca 2 and 3, o 8. Tho provisions of Olsuso@ respecting the appoint™ mont of a Commissary ond tho sequestoring of the ‘property will also conie into foroe if a 840 u not within 3 yoar of s falllg .vacant flled by & Bishop rocog- z6d by tho. Stato, Tho Minlster of Ecclatuatical “Alfndrs will ba entitied to prulong the torm mentionod in e preoading passsge, . . All rights ordinarily oxercisod by tho Bishop in duministering property are transforred to tho Commls- Ty, tho ooat of such sdministration being dofrayed out of tho Ohureh fund; rights and obligations connocted with the property of the dioceso are~to do- volvo upon tho Cotumissary, He Isto superintond the administration of tho wholo proporty of tho diocaso, both local and otherwise, na well ns of any_property dostined for occlesiastical purposos, Tho Coimmiasnry shiall roquiro 1o spacisl powors In desling with third ‘persons, hia writ of ofico holding good in ali ke cases, 10, Thie Commissary’s office comeato an oud directly tho admintatration s handed aver to's Viear sppointed {n accordsnce with fhio provisions of thls liw, or & Bishop ls nstallsd or rocognized by tho 8tato, Tho Commissary 15 responsiblo ouly to tho' Governor~Gune eral of tho proviace, His accounts aro to be cone trollod by tho Supromo. Cliamber of Accounts, in ace cordunco writh the-law of March a7, 1872, Cluuso 10, Paragraph. 11, To nono olsa ahall ha bo obligod ta ronder awacconnt of hls adminfutration, or be beld zosponaiblo- + * 11, The Governor-General of tha Province shll pub- Hely announce tho appointmont of & Vicar or a Come. milsnry, glviog tho dato of bis tistallment 1o adlce, o shall Likowige aunounco the day of the expiring of bia oftica. All guch anuouncaments to be mads in the Borlin_Gficial Gazette, 18 well 23 In_ thie journals of the diocoss sot apart for the publication; of. officlal adveriisemonts, - 4 9: 12, Glauses 610 11, shinll bo applied; though ths Dio- Conimissary to_taka coss._chuptor sppoint & Bp: chargs of Ohurch proporty. during the vacaucy of tha opal 8o, ‘or though thie Chaptor itaolf undertako administration. ‘he ke shall bo tho caso thougn » spocisl Episcopal Yioard'be in existenco for tho ade minlstration of.church proporty,. 14, During tho time that the' dloccssn_property i bolng_administored by's Governniont Commissary, in accordance with Qlauacs 8 and 8, the patrons of Itvinga - entitled to nominate condidutes’ will bo authorizod Al up vacaucles or sppoint Vicars, 14, 1f tho patrons. chooso o avall themsclves of tho ignt_conferred upon them by tho preceding clanso, thio provisions of the law of May 11, 1873, coiue fute Py, Ly dlaregarding thess proviions, tho patrons, ustsl] clorgymon without notifying thoir fiames to tho authoritios, they will fncur tie. ponalfy denounced aguiust tho'eccleataatical authoritica for tholike offensa in Clauso 22 of wald luw, o e R 16, 1f, wibin two months from ‘s living fallin vacant, 'the patron does 1ot nowminato s Vicor, or within'a yout from the suid term he does not All up ho living, bia' sight pusses on {0 tho congeegation, Bimilacly, 'the aaid right 1a to be oxercived by the congrogaion in the oasa of sl ivingemot baviog & 10, Th the event of the congregation belng entitlad to oxorciss tho suld rights, tho Burgomaster of tha town o the Landruth of tho county, at {he potition of at lonst ton male membery of tho’ gongregation of indopeudent means, ghall bo obliged to sumuion a meatiug of all malo membors of the cougrogation of indopcudent means, to determiue the appolutimnont of & Viear or inoumbont, The votes of the musting &r0 to bo pasuod by wmsjority, the rules of procodure Delug Issnod by tho Govornor-Gouaral of tho province, 11, In tio avout of a valld pcclion skiag pleco, the o fn. atal tho new fucumbont in Lis oftico, ' Tho action and Toaponalbility of tho guld reprosontative aro regulatod by Olause 14. 18, 1f, In tho cavos apecifiod n Olauisos 13 to 17, pro- ho Govornor-Gonoral of ' {lio to 19, Bliould -an opiaco) 1 mco hsve fallon vacant previous to {his Iaw com! futa force, tho provisions to it. ‘a1, T Minluter of Ecclosiaatical Alfalra {s chargod with seuing this law ozectitod, What makes the above law o important {s the hieol Bys- to tho independent commuuitics of thinkers will have an intorost, spiritnal and othoriwige, in tho eleotion of tho working clorgy, The activo participation of both socticna will Prubnbly be much quickened by the intontion of ho Govornmont to pmflosu tho teanufor of the diooosan property to tho covgrogatlons diroctly thoy can bo trusted with the rosponsibility, 1f Qovornment commlssaries- are to bo appointed for the prosont to tuko charge of .the funds of tho Church, the .only molive is to provent zeal. ony congrogations from turning tholr monoy in. to B, Tator's ponco, In tho moantime coorcion 1s to bo mndo 4 lonfont s possiblo, Of tho puu- ishments onnoted in tho above Iaw nonb will ba lurnnl\yjulllotud, it bewng intended to make the fullest uso of tho now German etatuto, which rnmlts of eoolosinstioal offeuders bolng bane shod the country dircotly mentonce has beon Ernnnuncnd againgt thom. In the othor Gorman tatos uo apocial laws like thoe above will be ro. uired, < tllo* Papaoy mot objocting in Bavaria, ‘urtomborg, efo., to tho nominal supervision so atoutly ongosml in Prussia, It is ovly this Protostant State, whioch hay unlted Gormany and mado the powor of tho wholo natlon subserviont to what aro called Luthoran purposcs, that the Vatlean opposcs. NEBRASKA, Otticinl Oonsus Moturns for 1874, Wo take ploasuro in laying bofora tha publio thio ofllolal consus returns of Nebraske for 1874, Adama Count; 3,004 Kearney. 1,367\ Keith, 708 Kuox.. 8,800! Lancas 2,104 Lincol 4,041 Sudinoy 10,407, Merrick. 817 Nomah: 044/ York. Tho consus will most offootunlly diap tha specuiations. about contingout ~ Congrossmon, Our total populationas por consus is 332,309, Seven oouiities,—Dawaon,- Pholps, Olinso, dy, Hitoheock, Kountz, and }Io‘h,—lmva not re- portod. Esttmating thelr population at 3,500, tho total population of Nubmu'{l could not e goad 226,600, Now, 1f wo ndd 35,000 to thus figure for tho 1mmigration of tho prosent spring and summor, wo roach grand total of 260,000, The basis of Qongrosaional roprosontation is & fraoe tion over 184,000 InkLabitsnta for each Congrosa- men, It would, thorefore, take & population of at least 260,000 in order to entitle Nugn.skn to second mombor. Whilo wo - shall doubtless roach those figures in 1875, it would bo very diffioult to induce Congress to glvo Nobraska an additional roprosontative in the Forty-fourth Congross, - And now lot us oxamine somo of tho poculiar fonturos of tho consus: Douglas_atiil romains tho Tonding conty in tho Btate, but ber popular tion 18 now only'ono-touth of the entire popula- tion of tho stato, ‘while: in 1870 aho contained ono-gixth. “Douglas and the five rivor countioa bolow Douglas, namely : -Harpy; Oass, Otoo, Ne- maha, and Richardson, contatn 71,818 fubabite auts, Or just ono-third of the eutire Stato popu- Intion, whilo all thoe rivor conutios from Kansaz fo tho Dakota line contaln s population of 89,734 Tho adjolning tior, namoly: Wayne, Oumg, Dodge, Baunders, Landaster, Johason, and Paw- noo, contain 43,665 inhabitants, or noarly one. Qtth of tho Btato poputation. Thosa countics combined with tho rivor ‘countios contain 183, 286 inhabitants, or over five-eightha of the totnl Btato population, o 4 Tho contral tier of cquntios—Gago, Ballne, Beward, Butlor, Colfax, Platte, Antelupo, Stan! ton, and Plorco—contain 84,041 inhabitants, o1 somothing over one-seventh of tho population, All the other couutics wost of this-tier contaln 54,161-poople; or somothini leas than ono-fourth of the population, _Ths contral tior aud tha en- tiro wost combined, muster 89,001, or 678 inhab- itants loas than tho twolve rivor countios. Now lot us.look at the old division north aud south of tuo Platte, and wa find that the countiea north of tho Platte contain 81,724 inhabltaats, or bui very litte moro thun one-third, which would soom to indicatd that immigration in tho past throe yoars hdd' boon direoted mainly to the country Bouth’ of ‘tho” Platta. Whathot tho South can maintain this unequal propouderauce romaina, , bowover, to be'saon. . Tio . division of .the State into North ‘and South .Platte.is raptdly bein, oplitergted by, railroads..and bridgos. ‘I”ho ol satagonsm batweon these seotions is gradually being supplanted by s sectional division . East aud Weat, ¢ BB —_————— Thé Wyoming Soda-Lalos. From tha Lurainie {Wyo. Tor) Independent, Yeaterday, in company with Ar. Onarles Pon- toz, N. K. Boawell,-sud M, ‘0, Brown, wo visitd tho, soda-laites _tuat-lio, between Laramio nud Bucop Mountain, aud, notwithstanding the re- porta that wero in circilation poncornimg tho ex- tont of the darosu. its immonsity was surprising to tho anulvist and, yo editor. Tho nrea of one lnko wad ovor aixty aores. Tho material whicl cgovers it rosembles ico in appoarance and solid- Ity. Thoro Laving boen s fall of rain tho night previous, au inch or moro of .wator lay upou the incrusted lake, and this was so highly improg- nated with soda as to bo demngiug to louther, and making a whito spot. wherovera drop of 1f toucked the clothing.” Holes bave boon,dug 4 faet into thls soda without roaching bottom, and it would cortaluly bo safe to estimato dta nverago dcs;th at 8. foot. Wa.it oxtonds over an afea of 100 acres, the smoupt of sulpbate soda may be easilly computed., But, as this is derived from a countantly flowing spring, it Is fair’ to presame that tho quautity is sitnply inexhaustible, Mr. Pontez thought that a futnace could be eraoted on the premiscs at o modorato expondi- ture, which would convert the crude sulphate of sads into & morchantable carbonsce at $10 pe ton, and this could be delivored -in Chicago at 815, which would léavo a’ handsonie margin of $20 on each ton for a staple article of commerco, tho demand for which 'is 80 great that its value would not be affested by. this discovery. About all of our soda comes from England, where it {a_manufacturod trom ealt, befui first convertad into a sulphate of soda by the use of sulphuric acid; After-‘all tho processes aro comploted, 1t- s then shipped to Amor- fes, whors o duty hag to be pald, and & profit to the Importor, nud .it is sold In New York at $46 per ton. Mr. Pontez lna racolvod numorous lattors donoorning -{he sods Inkea of Wyoming, and on-hie roturn to Omal hio will firsl muko an oxaot andlysls of the sods, and thow publigh' an account ‘of the” same in somo saientifio journdl for publie information. . These lakes Woro acoldontally discovered by Jolin Lo Fovro, thraa yoars ago, when ont with & dened rogions of this Btate und Iowa wero to set | If orthodox poople are ouco made to reallze that thomuolves vigorously to wark in this way'it | tha Pope hea lost Lis power in this country, thoy woutd soom practicablo torid themselyon of thase [ will, it is 'anticipated, submit to the inevitablo, unwelcomo viaitars in the mauner stated, vided thoy ahall not havo alroad; programme._for & general 8¢, pro- flown before o tholomew of fuul a8 thoy bave done in Russis, whoso Cattio- io Cburch was absolutoly sovored from Rome twelve yoars agoj whilo the moment this portion loousts ovuld bo curried Into effect. Dut, fn | of the commuunicy seow thiuga as thoy aro, freas Enrly of surveyors, but it-was more than a yeat oforo ho nacertained thoir- value, whon ho cuusod o survey to be mado, and ereoted a'anbin on therige;of ground that is nearly surrounded by the sories of lakos, e The Population of Gront Britain. Tha regiatration systom in England fe 0 per- fect that the aunual eatimates of population by the Nogiatrar-General ara very nearly as accurato ad the absolute onumoration of the census, 1'ho ‘variation observed in 1871 was yory slight, either in respoot of aggrogete populuiiau or ‘of the population of spevifled Lowna sud districts, The ‘eatimnto for thoe prosont year, 1874, is thovofore worthy of being rocorded. It 18 su‘lpnsad that .tho population of England and Wales Is 23,418,609 —an Inoroase of 938,343 sinco the ceusus of 1871 ; of Beotland, 8,462,016—an iucreaso of 102,894 ; of Treland, D,300018—n_docroasn of 110,431, The total for tho Unitod Kingdom, exclnding tha Islo of Man and tho Ohanuol fslands, which sra not ostlmatad, is 92,413,010, boing an Increnso of 928,819 In throo yoary; ‘The cstimates for tho roat towns aro 8180 intoresting, as showing Low argoly tho incroase bah boon lMmited to tho striotly urban Im}lulutlnu. Wo compara the population of all tawns, now numbering moro thian 100,000 inhabitants, with that of the wamo towna iu 1871, from which it appeats that theso cightoon towna hava now inbabitants to tho numbor of 7,897, 640, sgnlnst"6,008,060 in 1871— an increnso of 889,880, or neartv @ por cent, in threo yonrs; and that almost ono-half of o 1iro incronso in the United Kingdom lsu fo':;‘:dn:lu towns with loes than one-fourtls of the aggragato population s Ehoinold, Edfuburg, Bidetol. Tiradford Nowcastls-on-Tyna Hulford, X 100,310 10010 Uk