Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1874, Page 6

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It is moro blessed to corner than to be cor- noved. e ———— ‘The City Attorney's opinion in support of thoe ylewa expressed by Tur TRIDUNE on the archi- tect quostion is published cleowhoro, Truly that was an articlo of death to tho Court-Houso ring which sppoared in theso columns Wodnosdny morning. ] Charles Sumuer and Horace Grecloy undor- slood tho strongth of the case ngainst Mr. Beechor at tho timo of the Woodhull publication. It is becoming ensier to epumerste the public characters who kuaw nothiug of the scandel until the beginnivg of tho pregent investigation than to namo thoso who woro in the confidenco of Mr. Tilton from tho start. AMr, Baachor's counsel say that howill not snb- mit s detniled statement inroply to Alr. Til- ton'a chargee, for the roeson that not an fota of proof in support of the accusetion has boon pro- duced, Iftbis woro true, Mr. Beecher might ‘preservo complote silenca and quash the investi- gation at onco, Enough proof hss certainly beon sdducod to place Alr, Boecher in o painful sltuntion, likely soon to e disturbed ia furnished by the anpouncermont in staring head-linea nt tho top of the foreign-polumn in somo of the morning papors that tho Athletio Bago-Bail Club has do~ foated tho Bostous at Liverpool. I there were not profound quict in political affeirs, gleaning for news in all the European world would bo more successful than this, Or iy it the caso that the importanco of the ball-mateh has been un- duly magnified? Beeretary Brstow hes called in $25,000,000 United States bonds, {ssue of '63, interest to cousa Nov. 1. This will bo & staggering blaw to tho scheming cnemiea of froe govein- mont aud the rights of the people who have bo- como latterly koown as tho bloated bondholdors, These men bought in the bonds whon the Gov- ornment was anxious 1o sell, and now they are forcod to sell when the Governmont dosires to buy. 8o the arrangemont had its bonofits for both parties, aftorall that has beon satd and done. +Ono hundred years ago to-day Josoph Pricstioy discoverad oxygoun-ges. To-day his schiove- ment is bolng commemorated by small bands of people in hignative and his adopted country ‘who havokopt green his momory, Priostiey loa burjed at Northumborland, Pa., and it is thero that his disciples in this country have gathored for the Contenninl Colebration, I earcorssa praschier of. freedom bogsu in Birminghem, Lug, ; and it {8 thore that o monumont has been erectod to his memory, We publioh in snother colamn an article by Mr, %, Eastmau on the man aud the event which will well ropay porusal, f Three horee-tlneves wora recently anged in Konsns by mobs, The accusod wero allowed to mako confessions, which implicated twonty mou, 1t {a intimated that vongeanco will be executed on the persons named. Groator abuso of power than this it would be difcult to coucolve, Tho tngeneate torlure of prisouora in tho Middio Ages wrung lios from them s often gy the truth § and human nature {8 8o muck the sgme 80w a8 It wag thou that it Is useless to oxpect the truth from wen who etand with ropoa about thelr nooks, It thoy may hopo to gsln a ropriove or pardou by Iyl The Ohlosgo produco morkets wore vory ir- tegular yestorday, with n good deal-doing in brondutuffe, Mess pork was quiot and a shado frmer, oloalng at §23.15628,30 caeh, and 23,50 @23.05 soller Septombor, Lard wan fn ood do~ pand and firm, cloalng at §12.70 per 100 1hg ol THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1874. And 819,00 roller Soptombor. Moats weroqulet and strongory closlug at 72{@730 for shouldors, 10 @1095o for ghort ribs, 103@10}¢o forahortclonr, and 13@19%¢e for sweot-pickled hams. Iligh~ wines woro moderatoly notive and slrong, at 0o por gallon. Linko frelghte woro moro active nnd stoady, ot 23ge for corn to Buffalo. Flour was quict nnd steady. Wheat was moro notive and 9@4o lowor, olosing at 31,051 cash, and 81.083¢ ascller August, Corn was active oud oxcited, closing, aftor the subsidence of the cornor, ab 000 cash, and G110 sollor August. Oats were active and oxclted, closing at 500 cash, sud 36Jg0 sollor Auguat. Rye waa activo and waak, closlug nt760. Barloy was quict and casior, closing at $101 sollor Boplomber. Hogs wero dull, 'and common and medium grades declined 10@160. Hnlos at $6.00@7.25. Cattle woro moro qulot and 0 shade lower, with ealos ot 94.00@0.65, Sheop remain unchnnged, Mr. Earll, tho gontloman who bag boen prac- tlclug modicino in this city for fittoon yoars but Lns no diploma, has beon sent to the Poniten- tinry for one year. Blank porjury eaved bim from o longer torm. Mr, Enrll's pursuits have beon of such o naturoas to provent his bbiug dis- groced by incarcoration. Ilis onforced rotire~ nient from buslness will bo only tomporary. Ho will roturn to the avoeatfon in whicl o has gatned 8o great a distiuction. Wo can anly hopo thint ho will not learn {o be prident by experi- onco ; and that tho law may got another hold on him from which hio will not so oasily edcape. " Maj. J, W. Wham has bosn removed from the office of Warden in the Iifinoin Penitontiary by the Board of Commissionora. Iia succossor is Maj, Robart W. McClaughry, of Monmouth. No roason I8 assignod for tho chauge, A clue to the trath may be found in the fact that Wham is o friond and supporter of the Hon, John Logan, whilo tho Board of Commissioners aro dovoted to Baveridge, The xival protonsions of Logan nod Boveridge to tho United States Bonato are well known. It will ben sad day for South Chieago when the Hon, John is pitchod over- board from tho ship of Stato. Tho titlo of tho Beandinavian TFree-Trade Legguo In Chicago, whoso organization is noticed in another column, doos ot oxactly defino tho scopo of tho Association, Its aims aro moro % tho securing of freo trado. Thoyaro stated in the Coustitution to be tho discuesion of jm- portant politieal questions of tho day; tho in- struction of Lrother citizony of foreign oxtrac- tion In their political dutics; opposition to all monopolies, to all political demagogism, and to gag-law. Worthior ends than theso could scarca- 1y bo proposed, Wo aro not disposed to quarrel with the Scandinavian Froo-Trade League on ace count of its namo, As frocdom in trade is & thrat stop to freedom in thought and pursty in morals, 60 the title of the Association muy bo suficiont- 1y Qeseriptive and inclusive for all practical pur- poses. Gov. Ames has roturned from his summeoring in the Nortls to his post of duty iu Mississippi, and be finds the state of affaivs thero most alarm- ng. o has sont word to President Graut thnt thie danger of a collision botweon tho Dblack R~ publicans and tho white Democrats in Vicksburg is fwminont, aud Lo inforaally requests that troops bo movod from other parls of the Btate to the eity. Ifis lottor of supplication is chiefly remarkable for an incautious admission that the ronl reason of his domand is tho supremacy of the Democrate. The Governor writes: ‘The Domocrats disbeliove in the likelihood of & colision and Dbloodshod bLecauso thoy aro ‘masters of the situstion,” Tha occnsion for lamentation manifestly is that the Domocrats are “* mastors of tho situntion,” 1f troops wero soot to tho eity they would bo used to make the biack Republicans ** meators of tho situation.” President Grant bas very prop- erly refused to comply with Gov, Ames’ roquest, sud hud directed the Beorotary of War to say that 10 troops will bo moved except under a call mado strictly in accordanco with tho terms of tho Coustitution, SBENATOR MORTON'S SPEECH, We do not attach so much importance to the. Bpeechos of Bonator Morlon, of Inainng, as we did six months ago. Tho veto of the Bonato Cusroncy bill, of which ho was the most irato and dogged champion, ‘*laid him out," for the time being,~indeod, for all tho timo that the currenoy question shall continue to be uppor- moat in the public mind,—and hss wholly dis- qualified bim for a Prosidontial nomination in 1875, ‘The spesch delivered by Alr. Morton at Terro Hauto lugt evoniug oxhibits Lis usual ingonuity, but comeys short of his usual sudacity. It is, for him, » feoblo effort. It botrays wonriness of miud and paucity of ideas. In his disous- slon of tho currency quostion he gropes aud stumbles in a pitiable way, and ho can find no better argument agalust the projoct of paying tho 6-20 bonds in greenbacks than tho statement that Congross, in 1869,—that is, 8ix yeara aftor the bonds woro issned,—passed o jolot resolution declaring thut they wero payable in gold, Of courso it is cusy for Dan Voorheos aud his tribe to respond that if tho Congress of 1869 could alter tho terms of a contract alvendy six yoars old, tho Cougross of 1874 can alter it buek to its originol shape. Anud thoy will only nood to quote this vory speoch of Mortows'to prove that by the torwa of the originel coutract tha bonds were paynblo in curroncy. This posi- tion was takon by Mr. Morton in 1867~'8, aud it sppears by Lis Torro Huuto speech that he ad- lioros to it vtill, bolding, however, that tho ack of 1809 having declared thom payable in gold, all good citizony aro bound to consider tho question sottled. This s too uarrow o plank to float the public credit on, Ir it was evor lawful for tho Government to poy its intorest-bearing Iudebtedness by isouing to its creditors another form of indobt- oduess boaring no interest and possessing no lighor soourity, it is still Jawfu, or can bo made o by reponling the daclaratory act of 1860, Tho rest of Dir, Morton's speach ja wo un- wholesonie that wo cannot forbear oxprossing tho hope thnt tho party for which he speaks may Lodofeated by vomo othor purty, no mattor what, Ho advooates a proteotive tarlir, and opposcs tho Reetproclty Trenty. Lhalatter, he thinks, would tend to dolay Conudlan suuoxation, Wo cannot beliovo that this fs hin rosl reason for opposing tha troaty, since ho Lknows that the ropeal of the old treaty has not promotod aunoxation onelots, but bes, on the contrary, forced tho British Prov- incos into clouor ulliance with cach atlior and with tho mothor country. Whothor his real rewson is to bo found in the hostility of tho ultra-protoe- tionists, or in tho fact that ihe Reoiprocity ‘I'ronty Is o quasi- Administration mossuro, o do not attempt to say. It cortalulyonnnot be found in any sollcltude for tho Iutorests of .the Wast, which are woxe vitally concerned iu the sulargo. mont aud froo navigationof tho Canadlan canals than In any othor ponding mpnsuro, Mr. Morton gives a Allllp at Prosidont Grant by aguring the publia that thoe Inttor in not opponed to tho so-callod Civil-Righte bill, o knovws this, not from auy consultation with the Prosident, but becauso ho (Grant) caunot, in tho naturo of things, bo hostilo to the monsuros of tho Re- publioan party. Tho fnability of tho Presldont to opposo n Republican monsuro—supposing “thore could bo auy such thing as & Ropublican measuro With tho Presidont opposed to lt—can hodly be considored an axiom'in polities. The opposition_ of the Prosldont to the so-called Civil-Rights bill (whicli iy, in fact, & bill to pro- duco uprour aud discord whera now comparative ponca provails) did cortainly provent tho pas- 8ago of the Lill in tho House. MMr, Morlon's ro- matks on this hoad are. to bo teken, therafore, a8 an fponchiment of tho Prosident’s Republio- anism, 2 — THE LATE 0ORNERS, That corn and cats, tha staplo of the country, should vary in price mora than 25 conts s buskel in one day, without o panic, .a famine, or any unuaual disturbsnco In the law of supply and domand, is somothing that tho average pro- ducer aud consumer will find 1t diffoult to un- deratand. It 18 much onsier of comprelionsion that watorod stocks, manipulated by rings, shonld be forced up aud down at tho prossure of tho bulls or bears. Duv here are broadstuffs, tho probable supply of which can bo roadily catimated as well as the domand ; and, sfter theso estimates are falrly mado up, the logitimato prico can only bo ma~ torially affected by notsblo revalsions which have not occurred or been threatoned in tho presont ‘cago, Tho sconca’” on the Board of Trande yestordsy aro, thorefore, the most ro- markable evidonces that could bo furnished of tho power of the gambling mania, which in for- mer times ouce oxtended to tulips and might be equally oxtended to turnips, When men wané to gamble, they flud & way to do it, and somo win and others loso. Bo far thero is no particular sympathy to Do oxprossed for tho losers, who went into the ¢ deal” with their oyes open. There Lave prob- ably boen fow “innocent” purchasora at the ox- aggorated priccs, and the ‘‘innocont sollers— the farmers—bavs recoived soversl conts more for thoir grain than they would have received if there had beon 'no “corner.” This does not excaso the gambling, and the ultimato offect on tho logitimato buyers and sellors Is just as delo- orious asif tho revorse had boen the caser The “ecornor” happened to be succossful, and some of the producors have eujoyed o temporary bonofit which must bo derrly paid for, undor tho general law of compensation, in tho results of au unnatural disturbance of our logitimate markots. There can be nospecios of gambling, howover, which is not tainted with frand, and the presont inatanco does not seom to bo an oxcoption to tho rule. It is stated that the mauagors of the “cornor” bought of and sold to the same men with tho purpose, subsequently carried out, of making their dolivery so closo to tho hour of 8, tho closing of trade, that tho purchasors would not have timo to deliver back, eud would, thoreforo, bo obligod to sottlo. eucoforth the Board of Trado men must pro- vido themselves with watchos having indopend- ont sccond-hauds, such o tho turfites and jockeys carry. Trading has beon reduced to so fino a point that a quarter of a minuto may coat o mon thousands, The trick was one entirely worthy of profossional gamblors, and we do not_ Iknow whetlior the professional gamblors on the other sido, who were caught by it, have much right to ¢omplain ; but the goneral inter- ests of commercial morality must undoubtodly suffer from it. The books have not yot boon posted 80 a8 to show tho monoy actually made and lost, but vo fuilores aro reported. Thore will probably be s good mauy disputes, and thero may be an appeal to tho Courta before tho ‘“denl” is fairly closed and all tho money paid over. But, for tho present, the only conclusion of any goneral public intorest is, that the attompt by thie 1ast Legislature to put o stop to gambling on tho Board of Trado was an abortion, or that tho law passed to that oud is noy onforced as it should be. THE LAW OF BRIBERY, ‘When the Aldermanic corruptionists wore de- moralized in 1871-'3 by the prosecutions for bribory, tho prosecutions failed in numerous cases, because, under the law, tho person offering or paying the bribe was as .guilty as the official, and could not bo made to tostify, The law has, howover, beon changed slnco that timo, snd tho technical objection that Aldermen or mcmbers of the City Council wors not iucluded within the ofticlals punighable for bribory hos alse Leen disposed of by etatute. Thes now law, which went into operation July 1, 1874, contalns the following provislong : Whoover corruptly, dircetly or indicectly, givos any money or othor Lribw, present, raward, promise, contract, obligation, or socurity for tho peymeut of any wioney, present, rowand, or any othier thing, to any Judge, Justico of tho Ponco, Blerif, Coronor, Olerk, Coustable, duftor, Attorney-Genioral, StateM Attoracy, County Attorncy, momber of thuGenoral Assembly, or other oficor, ininisterial or Judicul, or to any legfsla~ tive, exeautice, or other oficer of any tncorporated city, .+ with lutent, ctc., the person vo glviug, and the oficcr eo veceiving, o . shall bo doomed guilty of bribery, aud slioll ba pulsbed by confinement 1n tho Teuttontiory fora term uob less than oue, nor moro thum fivo yoars, Tho second section makes tha affer to give or recelvo an offense punishinble by & fine of 35,000, Tho- law further provides that when, in the trinl of auy cage under the aet, it shall appoar to tho Court that any porson othor than the one on trinl is **n materinl aidd necessary witness, and that his testimony would tond to eriminate bim- siolf, thie Court mny canto au ordor to bo ontered af record that such witness bo releasod from all Hability to be prosccuted or punished onr account of any maiter to whioh he shall bo required to toetify, and, upon auch ordor being outered, such witness shall be compelled lo teatify 1" Horetofore, pereons in offico accopting bribes have oscaped convictfon and punishment Le- causo of tho refusal of tho porsous payivg the Lribo to teatify, ‘This oxouso is nolongers valid ong, and any wltness neoosaary to conviot the ncousod oan bo rolensed by tho Court and be mado to toll the wholo facly, Now, thoro Is no oxouse for the non-prosocus tion of the corrupt membore of the Common Council and the Board of County Conunisioners in this mattor of tho legislation for the ercotion of & Court-{Touse nud tha eleotion of arohitocts. Wo lavo stated tho onso where one respeotablo avchltect was offorad au oloction for §26,000, ‘Tho man who mado this offor profossed to repro- sont & eufliciont number of the Aldermon and Commisalonory to ratify tho contract, This man ootz bo compolled to toutify, and testify as to bis authority to nccopt the wholesalo bribo for hiu principals. Lot us bave the invoatigation now. It it bo truo thab Momure, Lgsn and Karls, or uome porsous for thom, were compolled to depomt A larga sum of monoy to pay for thelr olaotion as architocts, thocrime was s doublo ono, In tho firat placo, It was biibory of tho most shamoless and dlsgracoful charactoer, and, in tho gocond placo, it waa o fraud, It wasaon offor to elect thom to an office unknawn to the Inw, and which tho Common Oouncil cannot creato. If thls money has beon distributed and pald over to tho officlals, Messrs, Egan and Karls shonld instituto sult for the recovery thercof, ns obtainod undor faléo protenses. A proscontion and conviotion for bribery just at this timo would have a most wholosomo offoct upon our Municipal Governmont, OUR LOOAL MILITIA, Aftor the War wo had littlo taato for sbam sol- dioring, No attompt was mado to organize miti- tla rogimonts out of the voterasn volunteors. Our two groat fires have shown that this was o mistako. Woneed a militia, Nowadays, whon two or threo buildings are in s blazo, everybody within a blook or 8o bogina to movo.. They are Lliolped by gangs of thieves, who plunder openly. No doubt a rcorganizod polico force, whioh woutd catch criminals moro promptly, and a vig- orous prosocution of the law to sond thom, when caught, to tho Pouitontlary, would groatly diminfgh tho danger to which we sre now ox- posed, but it would not romove it ontirely, Even whon there {s no conflagration to disturb tho publio peace, Chicago lica at the meroy of tho mob. What could wo do if our atraots snw a rop- ofition of tho New York riota of 18087 Call upon the United BSlates and mneighboring cities to furnish wue troops, sand thon walt amid arson and murder for the esll to bo snawored. Our scauty police force, unused to arms, could do nothing. A levyof citizens would result in opposing mob to mob. On the other haud, if we had a drilled regiment, proud of itenamo, a5 tho New York Soventh, for {fustauco, s of its rouown, an hour's asteady work with ball-cartridgo. would drivo wnf- flanism back to its Jair. The very oxistence of such o force would be s standing guacd, just as tho oxistenco of want, aud ignorance, and erime, is & standing menaco for tho city. In ordor to form such a forco, many agoncics aro noodful. Tho Stato must furnish guns and sccoutroments, and perhaps provide, as Now York does, for the oxomption of militia from jury-service, Tho city must rent an armory. 'Pho wonlthy must subseribe to help defray tho cost of aniforms, oto. And rich and pooy must volunteer, Itwill not do for o bonker or mor~ chunt to soud bis clorke. Ho must bocomos nominal member bimsell. It wowld bo well, at first, toraien only & battaon, This would soon grow into & rogimont, Eveory large city noeds o military forco. For overy large city containg cnough despernte men to lead a nob, gatbored in momonts of popular passion, to any and every mischief, despite what tho polico can do. Alllaw rosts on forco. Lot ue soe to it in timo that our force is strong onough to make our Iaw rospocted at any and alt times. . Where clubs are in vain, bullets aro potont. THE OORPORATION COUNSEL. It was intonded thet a resolution should bo introduced at the last meotivg of the Common Council calling upon Mr. Jesso O. Norton, the Corporation Counsel, to resign. For somo rea- gon or uther thoe resolution wes not introduced; but it is probable that it has only bocn post- poned and not abandouod. Unloss BMr. Norton has tho dizcernment to see that it is for the best intorests of tho city that ho ahould retire, it is to bo hoped tho Couneil will adopt such a rosolu- tion a8 preliminary. to his retiroment. Ho could searcely hold the offico aftor such action, It has becomo o matter of common notorioty that tho Low Dopartmont of the ety is inbarmonious. In tho difforoncos botween the Corporation Counsal and tho City Attornoy so far, Mr. Jamie- son bas boon right and Mr, Norton has boon wrong. Itis incumbent on Alr. Norton, there- fore, to givo way. It is tho duty of the Corporation Connsol to furnish legal opinions for the guidsuco of the Mayor, tho Common Council, and the various bronches of the City Government, The opin- jons which Mr., Norton lns furnishod bave proved dofectivo in so maoy instances, and at sach heavy exponso, thnt the Council ‘Commit- toos and tho departmonts have generally ap- pealed to the City Attorney for connsel. This practica not ouly throws too much work and ro~ spousibility upon the City Attornoy, but it ron- dors the Corporation Counsol & useless appond- ngo, with nothing to do but draw lus $0,000 & year and provide a disorgauizing element in the City Governmont, Mr, Norton began his work by giving somo very absurd opinions on the cligibility of certain persons to cortain oflicos, and ho has followed up this bad beginning with gerios of romarkablo and uniform mistakes. Tho most sorious error he hos committed was in tho advico ho gave rolative to tho ropoal of tho North State stroot ordinance. The caso was one whivh & meovhyto in law might have un. derstood. It was briofly this: When tho ordi- nence for widening North Btato streot was pussed, tho damagos and benofits wero assessed by Commisslonora as provided by law. As soon as tho condemnation procoedings wero commenced, tho titlo to the property con- domned possed to tho city. Thoamountof dam- ages woa thon fixed by appraisomont. It wag gen- erally regarded as oxorbitant and excossive, Sub- gequontly this smount was nssossed pro rala upon the adjoining proporty adjudged to have ‘Veen bonofited by theimprovemont, ‘Iho nssvss- ‘mont of bonoflts gave dissatisfaction in certain quartors. Tho Commou Council asked AMr. Nor- ton whethoer -thoy could not repeal tho sssoss- ment, and ofterwards mako suothor. Mr. Norton told thom thoy could, Mr, Jamicson told them thoy could mot. ‘o Uouncil soted upon Mr Norton’s advice snd ropealed the ordinance. Tho caso was carrlod to the courts, and Judge Jamenon deoldod that tho city did not reliove itaolf of its Uability for demages by the repeal of this ordinanco, but that it had shut itsolf out from the colloction of tho bonofits assossed on thoe adjoining property, Judge Jamosoun's do- olslon will unqueationably bo sustaiued by tho Bupromo Court. Mr. Norton's oplnion in this instance has cost tho elty somothing like 400,000, Weo submit that tho eity can better afford to poy him bie $6,000 & your %ot to give opinions, Alontgomery Blair hus boon making a forvent spooeoh in support of the project of oxtondiug the Chesapoake & Oblo Canal, bogun in 1835, aud whiok woa subsequently dug as far as Cums boriand, until it connoets with tho Ohlo River, aud so fulfills its name, Ila arguments aro somowhut pecullar, Flest, Washington wishod it. Lverything tho Fathoer'of his Country wished woe right. This rossmblos Beuator Bouton's argumont in bolinlf of speole, Aftor everything clso had beon said, Le rounded off his spoech with what ho apparently considored hig atrongeat poiutt * Gentlomon, the immoriyl Wasliogton belloved in spectel Ar. Dialr's second point waa that a canal was bottor than & raflrond. His Inforonco was that tho Gumbor. 1and diteh should bo at onco finished by the Goneral Governmont. The logloal relntion ot promiso and conclusion is o littte bnzy. Tho sponker thon mtatod that our enormous publio debt was a roason for, not sgrainst, our undor- taking this work. Wo owe so much that wo ought to snvo all wo can. This eanal would onablo us to savo moucy on froights, Thorofors, oto., oto. Whoro, oh whore ia Wilkeson, with Lis pomphlet on **A National Dobt » National ‘Bloseing 7 Mr. Dlair bollevoes that digging this caual {8 roally tho only wey to get the Govemn- ment outof the control of monopolios. When the Government can run au opposition with its own canal, it will bronk the prosont monopolios, aud they will loko thoir power, The czual will diminish contralization, then, not incronse it This Ia oloar, vory cloar. Wo havo only one fact toadd. Tho Choss- ponke & Obio Canal, if comploted, would cross tho Sixth Congrossional District of Maryland. Tho Hon, Montgomory Binir is n candidate lgr Cougrass from that Distriot. Henco this fervor. A groat many peoplo soom to ihink thab bo- cause Mr. Beoolior hias boen a prominont minis- or he canunot sin, Putting this boliof into Diack and white makes it absurd, but it fa nover- tholoss hold. Othors considor, rightly enough, that Mr, Beochor's long sorvico entitlen him to gomo dogree of publio confidenco. Vory true. But tho ono thing needtul now is & defonss from the acoused, not confidonce in him. Delays are dangerous. Mr. Boechor's rofusal to submit his statomont wmtil ovorybody elso hus tostified is damaging biim grontly. Ho basa right to know tho full case sgainat him, but no right to keep . and romoval to Washington City, of any editor or his dotonse from boing mat by rabutting testl- mony, Yot this is what tho impartial Committeo proposses to allow bim todo. It {8 gravely an- nounced thiat the invoatigation will close with the rocoption of Mr. Boooher's statoment. This is almoat too foolish to be truo. If it 15 porsisted in, the vordiot of the Committeo will bo utterly without welght. It willconvinee nobody,—unless tho nobody be of tho Halliday stripe, capablo of giving tha lie to the aogol Gabriel Oannot thie Committeo seo that half-doing i un- doing?—that tho only way to sottlo the scan- dal forover is to Investigate fully and publicly, and to troat Mr. Bocchor precisely as [t doos Ar, Titton? . This monstrous sssumption that tho formor is to undorgo no aross-examination, and tlnt bis writton dofense ia to bo held, like tho Biblo, as’ boyond eriticlsm, can only harm tho man it s designed to aid. Whon James Bu- chanan Toft Washington, he anuounced that ho would at onco publish o vindication of his Ad- ministration in its relations tothe Southern Contedaracy. Tho book was soon in tho hands of tho Appletons, but after overy battle it was altered. Whon Gottysburg was fought, the statoment it contained to tho effoct that tho author always Imew tho South would win was changed to oxactly the opposite sssortion. Mr. Boecher is apparontly occupying about the same position as Mr. Buohanan was ‘thon. His state~ ment, when it comes, will receive just about as much crodence, unless some etops aro taken o coavinco tho public that the Investigating Com- mittoe are trying to get at the truth, and tho whole irnth, and not at some mosns of sorsening the man whom the truth might hurt. Wa would 1ike to'beliovo Mr. Boecher innocent, if he and his Committeo would let us do so. THE BRUSSELS CONGRESS, T Interuational Congrees, which motin Brus- gols on thonoon of tho 27th, has come together to take unidor considoration a codo of thelaws of war. To tho Emperor of Russin is dus thehonor of hav- ing talcen tho initiative in this movement, En- .gloud sooms not disposed to ravor 1. Hor Envoy has boen instructed to retire should sny question affecting maritimo warfare be introduced. BSho lias secn fit to tako this course bocause the ar- sticles prepared by the Russian Government to be submitied to the Congress include soveral which affect oporations at ses, but to which England is oltogether unwilling to subscribo. Switzer- Iandwillnot bo reprosented at Brussels, Noither, it would goom, will the United States, although the Emporor of Russia bas sont a specinl invitation to our Government to eond an Envoy thero, IFrance bas been long ro- Juctant to take part in it," but, st the cloventh hour, her reluctance has beon over- como, Gormany has looked upon it with favor, ‘hoping to succeed in introducing into the war usages) of Europa certain notions of her own. Tuilitary mon, which, it is suid, would be peou- liarly onorous in their offects on the inhabitants of a conquored or defeated country, should thoy ‘be carriod out. Tho objoot of the Congress is mainly to adopt abody of rules which will insure tho hwmauo ‘trentment of prigonors and tho mitigation of the sufforings insoparable from warfare, It is felt ioboa necossity of our timos that the Groat Powera shonld agreo upon a code of laws to bo followed by those oxeroising military authority in an encmy’s conntry, declaring the distinotions Dotwoon combatants and non-combatants, regu- 1ating the trontmont of prisoners, defining logiti- ‘mato and illegitimate warfare, the lawfulness of reprisals, thoe rights and dutios of bolligeronta to oach other and towards strangors. Bomo vory important poluts of intornational law relating to bolligerents aro stlll un- gottlod, It scoms oven to be a dobatable quostion whothor whon volunteer or Irrogular troops aro captured thoy should bo troated as prisoners of war. 'They have, within tho last ten years, been not unfroquently put to doath, on the ground that only regulars hove & right to fight against rogulore, T'o tho existing codo of the lawa of war itis proposed to add thirty-ono other sootions, These thirty-ono proposed provisions tho Brussels Con- gress hoa under oconsidoration, Bovoral of the amondments are of tho first importance. It is, among otler things, proposed that the Goneral commanding In s foreign country shall have powor to compel the clvil authorities to romain ab their posts and tocollectalltaxes due the Gov- ernmont while its suthority s suspendod ; that no Commander shull acclars be will give no quarter to o garrison bocauso of the obatinnoy with whioh it shall havo defondod a fortross; that oxplosive bulletsshallboprabibited; thatanopen town, not defended by encmy's troops, whoso in- habitants offer no reslstence, suall not bo at- tacked or bombarded; that an iohabitant of a country ocouplod by thoe encmy conveying in- formation to the oppoulte side shall be tried by court-martial; that partios actempting to offeot communication botweon one portion uud another of an army by moans of a balloon shall not be conedored ad sples, but sy neutrals; that cor- respondents and roporters following in tho wake of armies shall not bo treated as noutrals, but a8 legal onomios, though not as oriminaly, Par- tlos takiog ohiargs of the slok, ny surgeons, apothecarios, or ambulauce-moun, are to be con« wldored noutrals, and to be protsoted by baih aldos, It ia proposed that only regular troops &hall bo pormitted to carry on war, and that tho massos of the pooplo shall not bo pormitted to oppose the invaslon of an enemy. It is to be hopod that this laat provision will be rojeoted. It Ia grotty corlain to moot with opposition, Tho Congroas hns o grent work boforo 1t, and overy Tover of humanity will rojoleo to seo 1t succeed In dospoiling war of cven n fow of ks torrors, A CHANOE TO PUNISH HERETICS, _Judge Poland’s Jaw authoilzing tuo indict- mont in the Distriot of Columbia, and the arrost publisbor acousod of Wibel, hasmore than an ordl- nary scope. Libols are ordinarily tried under tho 1nws of the Btates where they are publishod, but the trisl of all libels under Poland's act would bo governed by what I8 known as the * comman law" of tho District of Colnmbia, Congross, in 1604, enactod that the Iaws of Maryland in forco at tho timo of tho cossion of the District (1801) should boe in forco in that part of the District coded by Maryland, and tho luws of Virgioln at tho same date should be 1o force in that part of tho Distriot south of the Potomac. Bince thon the Virglnia part of the Distriot has been ceded back, aud what remalns of tho original ten miles squaro s to this day governed by the laws ot Maryland as thoy stood in 1801, excopt g0 far ns modifled by subsoquent acts of Congross. The persons {ndioted and arrosted under the Poland Iaw muat be tried for libola under tho doflnition of the old Maryland Inws. Ono of theso laws, thouglilong ainco ropealed in Margland, sud dat- fug back to Oolonial days, but till In force in the Dislt.st of Columbin, bas boon bunted up by n corrospoudent of the New York Zribunc, and xonds aa follows An nct o punish Vasphemots swearors, drunksrds, sud Sabbnth-broakers, wixl for tepealing the lawy hore- tofora mada for tho punishing uch offendors, Be it enacted by the Ttight Honorablothe Lord Iroprittor, by and with the adeice and consent @' his Lurdalip Gosernor, anid e Unper anid Loieer Houses of Aseembly, and the Quiharity of the saria® “Thnt If any porson shall horenftor within this prov- ince wittlugly, maliclounly, and advisedly, by writing or spoaking, binsphomo or curse God, or deny our Su~ vior Jesun Chrlst to bo tho Son of God, of whall deny tho f{oly Trinity, tho Father, Son, anll iloiy Ghott, or the Godhiead of uuy of the Thres Lersons, or the Unity of tho Godliead, or shall ulter auy profunio words con- cerning tho Holy Trinity or any of the horsouk thero. of, and shiall ba thercof convick by vordict or confuse sidn, shall for tho first offenss bo borod through the tonguo and fined £30 aterlfug to tha Lord Proprictor, to boapplied to o uso of o cotaty wheto o olfourd shall bo_committod, 10 bo lovied on thie odeuders body, goods, aud chttels, Jands, or tencmotils ; und in cane btio snid Gine_ canmot bo lovied, tho olfendor slnll sufer alx montus’ Imprisonment withont ball ormafu~ priso; nud thut for tho aecond offonge, the offendor, belng' thuroof couvict av uforcad, sl bo stigac tized Ly Lurning in the forohead with tho lottor B, ond finéd £40 slorling to the Lord Propristor, to b anpiiod und lovied us aforesald, and lu caso (ho samo cannot bo lovied the offondor shall sulfer twelvo ‘moutha’ fmprisonment withont Lafl or mainpriso ; and that for tho third offenss, tho ofender liiug con- vict as uforesald, shall sugier’ doath without bonetit of clergy. = I'There aro fourtoon sections more, bt they refer to awearlilg, drinking, and broaking the Sabboti.] 1f any porson, anyiwhero ln the United Btates, ehall; by writing, dony that Christ is the Son of God, or dony tho Holy Trinity, or the Uodhead of oltor Porson of tho Trinity, or write pro- 1anoly of eithor of such Porsous, and & copy of guch paper is found in the Distriot of Columbia, then tho person so writing may, under tho Poland law, be indioted, arrosted, and tried in tho District of Columbis, and, if couvicted, .bo bored through the tongue ; and, if tho offenao ablo, aineo thelr choloo fa made arbitrarily. The Exeoutivo ix boaloged by a class of mon looking for euch publie omployment who Lave failod in obtnining a situation on their own merits. Theso conatituted a majorily of the applicants for pubs l1o positions, Anothor defoot In the civil servics of France 1s, thint, no mattor howjappolnted, the publla scr- vaot g not removable, and holds his offics as an ostato, It 18 gonorally granted that a party Liolds 1us office for ’ll(m ‘That ho should g0 hold it 18 practically fiart of tho law of tholand, Tho fack ihnt au offeor eannot bo romoved takes awny from Lim all ambitlon, all anxiety about koeping s placo, and not alittlo of tho dosire to do good work, Then, agoin, tho mothod of promotion Ia by order of sonfority, Whon a vacancy oceurd, not tho fittest, but tho oldost, subordinate {a gue titled to succood him. Tt thus happoos that the hond of an offico {8 one totally unfit for his poe sition, Al hislifo ho has boon learning only to obey. Indepondenco of judgment or of ctsis unknown to bim, To bo succossfut in the civil sorvico of France, says ono of her most om{nent cconomists, M. Courcello-SBenouil, all ono needs 18 to liva on, to uover tread on tho corns of th chlef, to nover tako the initintive in anything, and to do tho average amonnt of labor oxpected of those filling slmilar positions. OMcors ‘brought up under such s syatem care littlo for . tho publio good. Thoy look at all thiaga throngh tho spoctactes of salf-intorest, and are troubled by wbgt ig transpiring about them only In pro. portion an thoy imagiue it will affect thelr own promotion, It thus seoms that, for ronsons dif- foront from thora which obtalu fu this country, Franco s dissatisfled with lier olvil servics, She, like ouraclves, is ondenvoring to rofarm it, aud finds thio businoss no casy ono, AGRIOULTURAL STATISTICS. Mr. Sarnel B, Ruggles has just published & pamplilet containing the agricultural atatistics of this country. From it we gnther the follow- ing itows of interest: Of the whole area of tho Btates and Territorios, viz., 1,807,055,220 Beros, more than 188,012,838 aroimproved, The growth of agricultural production has moro than kopt pace with tho grawth of population in tho last thirty yoars. In 1840 tho population of tho Unitod States was 17,069,458 ; in 1870 it was 88,558,071, Thae whest grown in 1840 amounted to 84,811,175 busbels ; in 1870 it was 287,745,626 bushols, The manufacture uf buttor and obeesa was represonted in the former year by 202,410,« 440 poundys ln the lattor by 677,017,005, De- tween the year 1840 and tha yoar 1870 the yleld of hay was almost treblod. In 1850 the cash value of farms, including live stook, imploments, mnchinery, was $3,967,843,680, In 1870 it was $11,124,058,747. Tho production of hay was twicoas great. Tho valuo of snimals slaughe tored {noronsed from $111,703,142 to $893,956,« 376 tho yiold of tobacco from §109,752,665 to 202,736,841¢ of whoat, from $100,468,674 to 8287,745,626. Tho yioldof tho oottoncropin balea was 2,460,008 in 1850, 1n 1870 it was 9,011,900, 'I'ie rice and sugar crops show a falling off. The former foll from 215,313,487 to 73,635,031 pounds, and the latter from 207,677 hogsheads 10 807,943, Tho valuo of the prodacts of our bo roposted, be brandod on the forehead with tho lottor B ; andfor u third offonso bo lhanged. This 18 tho style and charactor of the law of 1ibel in force in tho Diatrict of Columbia, to which lswa the entire newspaper pross of tho United States have been mado amenablo under the Poland-Butlor-Carpenter-Ooukling law of the Iast gossion. This is literally golng back to tho dark ages, and a revival of & code which oxiata in no part of the civilized world ontsids of the Distriot of Columbia. S OIVIL SERVICE IN FRANCE. Ours is not the only country in which com- plaints aro made concorning tho civil service. Franco is searcely any bottor satisfied with her public servants than wo with ours ; and yot tho way in whioh places in the civil service in France aro filled is as difforent from that in which thoy are fillod in this country as it is pos- siblo to imagine. It is urgod, thero e bero, that the peoplo aro not sorved with auything Like tho attention given by employes in private entor- prises to the intercst of their employers, for tho reason that there is no competition botween thom, and that tho systom of promo- tion is in iteelf unjust. Frenchmen sny, just a8 wodo, that tho Btato has nob yot discovorod the secoret of obtaining from its fanctionories & maximum of labor Voth as to quality and to quantity., Tho interests of busi- noss men and thoir agents ace, a8 & rule, identi- cal, This i8 not the caso jn the civil servico of tho country. In Franco, writers have gone g0 °| far a8 to eny that the intorests of the civil sor- vants of tho country aro oftonor opposed than {dentioal with those of, the publio. The system of appointmont ié largoly chargeablo with this rosult, Thore are two mothods of appolntmeut toplaces in tho oivil sorvice in Franco. Tho first in by tue noquisition of tho privileges con- forrod by & courso of studyin cortaln institu- tions, or by s diploms. Compotition is not pocossnrlly oxcluded from this method. Tho socond i8 by the chofce of the Executive, or of gomo ono who bas the right fo appoint under him, ‘ Thero are places which can be filled only by porsons bearing the degree of Bachelor of Arts or-Bachelor of Bcloncea. In othor cases candi- dntes aro roquired to bave pasped through the Polyteohnic 8cliaol, and to havo had some expe- rienco in the application of tho sclonce acquired, suoh 28 in the conatruotion of ronds and bridgos, or in mining. The fault found with theso can- didates is that they aro brought up from thoir very youth to look forward to publio omploy- 1onk; and publio employment in Prasco means employmont in governing. Thoy aro usually, thereforo, & dominecring olags, who conalder thomsolves born to command. Tida is not, how- ever, tho most serlous objeotion found o them. Recoeiving tholr appointment only in considera- tlon of having passed through certaln schools, or becauee they ' hsve obtain- ed m dogreo which signifiea lttlo, they usunlly know nothing of real lifs, aro thor- ouglly unpractical, aud understand toarcely any- thing of business. They not only keow nothing of commerofal life, but thoy Lave a suprome contomps for It, and for thoso ongaged In it Bohool-iraining alous 18 no proparation for the olvit sorvico. Tho most it usually accomplishes fsto traln thomomory. Tho judgment upon which demands aro most froquently mado in so- tive life io loft entirely undevoloped. No such tralning I8 of ituolf suffioiont tofit cneto dis- oharge succossfully the daties of o position whioh byings one in busiused rolations with mon., 1t is found that the oitloors appointed Ly the Exocoutive ore, 88 ® milo, mo botter then those who 810 installed into offo divect from thor studios, They may have moro experience of the world, Thoy o not, 8a & xuls, Lava the qualifioations whiloh Aol poaltions demand, And thls 14 unavold- defy anytling ke reliable Tha long oud glaring Aty o GOk ummlnflmm manufnotares rose from $1,019,106,016 to ¢ $4,232,326,493. Tn 1870 the agricuttursl population amounted to 5,922,471 persons, Of thess, 5,308, 863 wore natives of tho United Btates. The California express to-morrow morning pasios over the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, and residents on tho lino of that road can obtain the Suuday edition of Tme TrUNE from tho regular news-agent. NOTES AND OPINION. Y Tho Delaware Ropublicans, in Btato Conven- tion, July 29, adopted & platform without one word of recogaition, orthat can bo construed as a recognition, of Prosident Grant. —The call of & Ropublican 8tate Convention in South Carolina embodies an nnauthorized stump-spooch, to the end that * Mal-admintatra- tion in South Carolins must cease,” snd the stump-speoch Bays : 1t cannot longor bo denfed, and it would be crim- inal longer to withhold the facts, thatthe present con~ dition of affairs in ow Btate 18 made chiargeablo to the colored race, whio represeut not onls the great Lulk of Reptiblicans here, but who constituto » majority of its citizons, ‘Whoreupon cortain of the servile party pross in tho North shout, * Ahhal That sottlos it,” with 08 much complacency as Mr, Micawber would ronew his promisos ; ‘and tho Buffalo Ez- press delares : * Thisis as it should bo, and is Jin marked contrast with the wiimporing of the Democratio Chivalry.! But the Washington National Republican, to illustrato another sub- ject (viz. : the rights and wrongs of boking), ‘makes some romarks which fit woll in this co neation. Tho Republican says it ia almost always wrong to bolt & party-nowination, bot— In South Osrolina (in 1872), when Reuben Tomllo- son rau for Governor sgainst Frank Moscs, there was A hesvor. approsch o’ Jualiication of & bolt tn bas ever before or since ocourred within the history of the party, Tho people liad been misiod, lisd beon robbedy 8 : o Convenlion fallod becauso the ring mainiained 1t6- supromacy, o Tho “ring" (so-callod) that ‘maniatain 1] snpromonoy in Bouth Osrolins iu 187213, in fact tho wholo body of colored lesdars sud followors ~—not loss powarfal now than then, When flu! declaro thot Md-udmmhmlion ghall conse, it wlll be time to look for result. —Asg o part of the conaurrent history of South Oarolina politics, wo find this: Cx-Gav, ‘Boutl Carolina, has made an ad- Py ‘:bg%;’::{!lc:m L ¢ Faieneld County, in that tazes, d became Gov. Soott wes throwa overboard, an ono of tho boltors, in 1872 The fllohing blacks waniod a Moscs, and thoy got one who ploases thom. Thoy will renominato this same Moses in tho Oonvention of Sopt. 8, and attorwards ro- oleot him, potwithatanding the stump-spooch in the call says: v (bility of redecming the State ,fl}‘.‘j‘:fi;fi"-fi"flnm‘z o Tosoring tho publio Hefdonce, of bulldlug up Bor croilf aud of sving Tor from utior aud complte snnibilation, rost pecu- Hekip ipon the shoulders of thut {iba biack] raco, Thid diky thby caunot evade thia respousibllity they cam a6, “Fallow-Ropublicans f uvety race,—and of the i raco, mote partionlarly,—ws solemuly {uvaks §o o a0 to tho full hoighit of yonr responulbilitios, —Tho Albsny Evening Journal says: i Lratos of tho broken Tame mf{;“fflffiflm eo caey in selghum, - Gonnolly fi gastug un tho Pyrumids of Egypt, aud comparl hi with tho piles’ of money Be atols, Woodwa ‘Bitx ahout Europe, his proporty balng carefully looked stafips il e o o, S one f roporied o e D Sow ek 7 D atior transucting a liitle busness, Tor whoreabouts of tho Treasury ring, read correspondonco from watering-places; but then the Trousury ring Is 'not yot “'broken.” It la only old Tweod who is in jail, and his confodore ates who aroe dlsperead. —The Prohibitioniata hold & Stat Conventlom at Hurrisburg, Pa., Aug. 13, to nominato a Stule tloket. In some diatricts the Penusylvania Cone greusional and looal tickets have alroady boen nominated, In Ohio, tho Prohibltionista are making unusually active proparationa for sapa~ rate politienl action, oxtondiug even to locad tiokats, , —T'o yoars ngo, in Kanass, the Republioaz party polied 67,000 out of 101,000 votes, To-dsy tho Kansna Republican loaders do mot prodiod more than 10,000 mejonity (s loss of 98,000k whilo tho-Kuasaa Oity T¥mes asyss ‘T politioal sitnation in Kausss to-dey ia such a8 & s el xlearat eorrupliol Torihe Decadcogn Gade o i i | ! |