Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 25, 1874, Page 4

‘ . TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. MATHS OF BUDACRIPTION (PATATLE IN ADYANOE), Dally, by mi 12,4100 | Bunda, R A eortra 111 R Tartnor tho sumorate. “To provont delay and mistakes, bo snre Aud give Post On coaddress lu tull, Including Stato aui Count Itemittancen may bo mado eithor by draft, oxpross, Post Oftico ordor, or in rogiatered loitois. at our risk, TERME TO CITY BUURCRIDENS, Datly, delivored, Bunday exceptea 25 conte por wook. Daily, dolisorad, Bunday includnd, 2 oonts nor wook. Addross THE TRIBUNKE COMPANY, Cornor Madisen aud Dearborn. Ubicago, Il TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. AOADEMY OF MUSIO~{lalated ntrost, betwesn Mad- tmonand Monroo, lngagement of Oliver Doud Byron. “‘Donald MoKay," s MVICKKR'S TRIEATRI—Maditon stroot, betwoon Deatborn and tato. Kngagoment of Kdwin Adams. ““Hamlot. SOCIETY MEETINGS. ATTENTION, 8 KNIGI Apolle Commandory N. 1. K, iy ALB wioluck, fur wark o BiF Kniglita courtoouly iiitan, —spectal onclavo of A Tuckdipyvon: l)nll'[".l "Eflbhll ar 6 iho 17, O. ! LG Rovordor. - s, A, T, & A M.—Rogular R el W T i rorie on 180 TG T GRANE, Koo'y, ASHLAR muniu —— BUSINESS NOTICES. DR, McONESNEY, CORNER OF OLARK AND B ts tho fiueat and best full sot Sandblplate; FArEaite M0 ren of mionoy refunded. Uhe Chicagy Tribune. Tuesdny Morning, August 35, 1874. — A Grand Jury composed of good citizons, most 3 thom largo property-holders, hiag been sum- moned to consider tho alloged bribery of County Jommissioners in tho matter of the County Hos- pilal lot. Periolat will doubtless bo glad of s0 sxcellont an opportypity to unload his con- soience. It is not sn unoxpocted piece of nows, yet it pust be mortifsing to Mr. Joo Ledlie, that the wncient Democratio Convention, callod o meot 1t Springfield to-duy, promiucs to bo s poculiarly diemal fallure. My. Ledlie aud ua foeblo con- tedoratos havo tha Pyrrhio dance ag yot. Where 208 tho Pyrrhic phalanx gono? Probably mob tar off. It will loitor nbout thoatroots of Spring- teld to-morrow. e —— News from Spain this mornivg is of gomo jm- portanco, There ia a crisis tho Cabiuet, tho rossons of which and the probablo ontcome o considorately loft to conjecture. Tho Vir- pnius affair, it appears, is still a ground for sontontion botween our own and tho Spauleh Government, Wo are ropresontod as boing firm iod digoified, and tho Spunimds as vaciiating \ud trencherows, The State Department scoms 10 havo aoted with some forethought in not mak- mg a proclamation of our low suloring. Tho msnagers of tho Canada Southern TRoad have projeoted another international bridgo which will cross tho wostern intoruational branch o1 tho Niagara Rivor just bolow Black Crock, to which o ehort line will Lo built from Stevens- ville; then run along Grsud lslsnd & distanco of about 7 miles, and cross the eusiorn Ameri- ca branch to the muin land, vear Tonswanda, thoro connecting with the Erlo and Coutral. ‘The bridgo, it is announced, will be finished in August, 1875, and will take tho road around Puftalo jnetoad of through it. Propriotors of anthracite coal-mines in Penn- sylvouis hnve agroed to top work for a week or ten days, with o view to advancing prices, Dure log this timo 25,000 mon wilt be idle. Tho pros- pective profit to bo derived from tho decreaso in production will probably bo shared by the min- era and the proprictors ; yot it has beon sufll- ciently proved by exporionco that gain of this 91560 oash, and 903¢o sellor Soptombor. COorn was quiot and 240 lower, closing at 013c cash, and 063¢o wollor Octobor. Oats wers dull and 1@134o lowor, closlug at 42%¢e oash, aud 88}{o for Boptembor, Ryowas quict and stoady nt 740, Barley wan dull and woak, closing at 85@ 800 sollor Soptombor, 'Tho log market was quict but firnor. Bulea at $6.00@7.80. Chattlo ware in light domand sud uuchanged. Bhoep wara dull. Opinions of the leading uowspapors in Bosion, New York, Philadelphia, Oincinnatl, Louisville, and Bpringfiold (Mass.), In rogard to tho doveloh- mont in the Boooher scandal mada by Mr., Moul- ton's statomont, aro published in anothor part of this Issuo, We tako plonsuro In saying that much injustico was dono to the New York jour- nals by the Associnted Presa dispatch protend- ing to givo the purport of thelr judgments ; and that tho aiticlama which have appoared in theso columus on the agsumption that the roports wore tolorably accurato sworo ‘porhaps too severe. Not ono of the Now York morniug papors (ex- copt the World, which has o vory limited influ~ onco, and bms lont whot it hms to Plym- outh Church) considers that the innocouco of Mr, Beochor has boon cstablished, All of thom, with tho ons fuconsiderable oxcoption al- ready noticed, troat Mr, Moulton reepoctfully, Outsido of Now York, the great propondorauce of gontimont iy against Mr, Beecher, Many vory rospoctable journals decido that the enso has not boen proven; not more than half-n-dozen in the whole countty hold 3Mr. Boocher blamoloss. As being tho only oxprossion of tho popular ver- dict that woe can hopo over to get, tho comments of tho pross in this case are peculiarly intorest- ing and valuable. & THE WAR OF RACES, Tho Albany Journal says of tho Bouthern Domocracy; ** Tho proof of & purposs to pravoke aud pross the race-issuo s rapidly acoumulats ing.” 'Tho Utica Herald doclares that *op- position organization [in the South] is armed Dostility on the soil; opposition movemont s conflict and outrago, and tho shedding of human blood.” The Tolodo Blade announces that * tho conflict now {n progress througbout tho South « . isa woron tho part of tho Rebel Democra- cy for the suppression of freedom of opinion, specch, ond action.” It adds: “Beforo tho War, Ropublicans would be shot down at the South as frecly a8 thoy (sic) would shoot a rabid dog; nnd #oit is to-day” Blaine's paper, tho Augusta (Me.) Journal, soys: * Tho binck man is doomod if the Ropublteans of tho North fulter. . » Wo had boped that tho race-lssuo would mnevor ariso fu tho South, and that tho condition of tho colored poople hiad ceased Lo outer iuto our elections, but the Domocracy have intro- Queed them, und the Republican pmty can do 10 loss than necopt tho coutest foreed upon it,” Tywo fdeny wndorlio these and tho seores of similar articles which wo could quote from tho ultra-Republicau pross of tho North. Tho first i that the Southorn Republicans, expecially tha Dblacks, aro in momentary davgor of asssssivk- tiou. Tho second is that the ruce-isaue hns beon forcod upon tho South by the whito Consorva- tives. Wo shall oxamine tho trutli of theso idoas in the order in which we bavo stated thom. ‘I'he evidenco giveu in dofonsc of. tho firstis flimsy. A numbor of vaguo runtors of the ship- ment of arms to the South uave been publishod. "Phero fs nob a jot of proot that they ave true, yot tho dubions fact is st onco hailed as proof that tho Southern whites are urming in ordor to exterminate the blacks. On tho heels of these Tumors como & fow accounts of brutul murdors of black mon by white, Theae, also, have no copfinnution, Thoy can bo monufactured by, the dozen in wuy wnowapsper ofiice, It is ususlly “a negro fu Dialsslppi,” or sort to workmen is at tho best delusivo. Tho habits of dissipation which aro engendored by voluntary idleness are ill-paid for by small pocu- niary advances. Mr, Sidney Dobell, whoso death fs reported {lis morning, bold a certain undefined position 10 thoe world of lotters. He was su suthor of no mosn pretensions ; indood, his pretonsions wero much moro coneidorablo than his resulls. Ifo bogan lifo 88 o wine-merchant, o desorted this ignoble pursuit to euter the service of the muses. In 1850 bo was hailod a8 o now poet, aud from that day to his death mado no great ad- vances towards famo. 1n 1871 ho published a deflzuce to Bismarck, Grant, aud Gortechakoff, which gained him some temporary applause, but nothing more, Apart of the lrgo manufacturiog establish- ment of tho Studobaker Brothers at Bouth Bend, Ind,, wos destroyed by fire yosterday, Tho damige s estimated at $300,000. Tho Studobakors have somothing more than a local roputation. They were once oxtonsively adver~ tised by & goutloman prominont in American politics, who enid thai Lo would 2s lief own sbares in tho Crodit-Mobilier av in the Stude- ‘baker concorn. The gentleman reforred to has since departed publio life, His momory ia pro- served by Bunday-school associations; but his nome is merely an echo in the halls of logisla- tion. A convontion of tho Pooplo's Party Iu Cook County wae beld yesterday, and dologates wero chosen to attend tho mesting of Reformers in “a pegro liviog obout 20 miles from Now Orlenus," who is {hus dono to death in the nows-columps. Such a story caunot bo dis- proved. It is impossiblo to tnko s consus of Misalusippi or of the country within s radius of twenty wiles from New Orloans, in order toshow ihat not a singlo nogrois missing, 'Fhe obiel nuchontio disturbencod at the South within the Inst year bave boon thoso at Vieksburg und Aus- {in, Miss., Lancaster, Xy., and Georgotown and iulaturo, in roturn for olecting & white man Son- ator for tho short torm, clainod and securod tho oloction of o nogro for tho long torm, From thoir firut doy of politieal powor, tho nogroes havo mndo color n test in politics at the Bouth, Thoy bave demanded officos aud got officos on tho ground of tholr color, They have forcad tho race-issue upon the South, Whilo thera havo boon fuolatod cases of Caudnsian asinivity and brutality i matters affecting tho nogrocs, the groat mass of the Southern whites have treated thom fairly. ‘The ' Whito Lenguo,” which maintalus s proearions footing In Loufslana, has veon oponly rebulkod by the londing Consorvatives of tho Stato. It ill-advisod formation was dus to tho oxlstonce of great onth-bound socleties of nogroes. It has ot with scant encoursgomont, and will doubt- loss soon be awong the things that wore, The disturbanco at Vicksburg, to which we have al- roady roforred, bogan by tho nomivation by tho negrood of sn ahnost exclusively blaok tickot. The whito man ab the hoad of it was under in- dictmont for forgery snd cmbozzloment. To snvo tho city from falling into such bauds, tho whites uomnated and olooted a ticket of their own, Inthis case thoro can bo nodonbt that tho nogroes forced tho raco-issuo fnto prominence, evon it their Governor, swoot liltla Adelbort Ames, did telograph to Wasbington for troops to suppresy the riots that never camo to pass. Tu somo cagos tho whitos have shiown a romarkablo regard for tho rights of their old slaves, The fieat post-beltum Domoctatic Loglalatura of Toxas, which was clected o fow months since, bad brought bofore it & contestod-olection cugo. The claimants wore Walter Burton, col- orad Republioan, aud Huut, white Domoctat. Tho ballots for the formor hsd boon misspellod. Burton was olocted, but Walter Burton was nob. Yot this Democratio Logislaturo, bolleving that a mujority of tho voters meant to chicose Waltor Burton, promptly Aoated him. Whow tho proscut Arkaugays Constitutional Convention camo to- gotlior, T, Pounoyer Jous, colared Ropublican. ‘claimed the sont occupied by the Hon®X. J. Pindall, Whito Dorrocrat. Piudall fs o distine guishiod lnwyor. e woa olocted, tochnically speaking, but it was clearly the wish of the ma- Jority of voters in his district to chiooko Jones. Tho Convention would not lot thie voters’ evrors, in spelling and otherwise, dofoat thoir wish. It uuseated Pindall ond seated Jones, Ropub- licau Congrossmen may well blush beforo such oxamples of justice, Thoy will find nothing like them in the decistons of contestod olactions by Congress. ‘We baliovo that tia rocont lotter of Gon. Kershnw, who is, porhaps, tho most vrominont Consorvative in South Caroliva, fairly represonts the feoliugs of tho educated whites of tbe South on this question of raca. The lotter containn this pssago : To secure such co-operation [between black and white] the honest colored people aliould b Invited to s full ghara of ull publio oftice, Power intrusted to us ubould be udutluisterod without favor or projulico, so ns to Beonro the best {nterosta of tho wholo people, pro- tect equally in tho enjoyment of hia Just righis every* cltizen, bowever high or humble, aud promoto th ‘welfuxo of ull abke, #o far a8 may como within tho lo- gititato spliere of govornment. Upan such principles ouly ean harmony and good goverament bo eecured in thie prescnt utate of wocicty here, Co-oporation in this food work would Joad to mutual dependenco, rospact, tnd good-will, and tend mor to the elovation aud do- velopmient of thie colured people (hau all other posstblo oxpedients, Theo groat danger of tho procipitation of & war of races does not come from the Southern whites, The Southorn blacks, forcing the Ropublican pacty futo passing the Civil-Wionge bill, aud the Northern Radieats, aturing up enmity snd strifo forthe sako of kooping their fossllized party slive, must shoro the rosponsibility between them, it such n war comes, THE ROW AT THE PENITENTIARY. Wo have alroady noticod tho facs thal Gov. Bovoridge romoved Col M. M. Baue and Dr. Thoodore Cauisius from the office of Commiu- sionors of the Statn Penitontiary, and appointed W. M. 'Taglor and J. W. Whaw thoir successora. The romoval was offleially stated to bo on the groand of negleet of duties, The Commission- ors, about o month ago, removed Maj. Whom, whao was thon Warden, The Governor at first asled tho Commissioners for their resignations, ‘which thoy declined to hand in, and then the ro- Tidgo Spring, 8. 0. At Vicksburg, a square ritce-issuo was precipltated, as wo shall bere~ alter show, by the blacks, Tho whites wom. The olection was nearly throo weoks ago. Noba singlo roport of outrage upon tho blacks, during orafter the eloction, has beon circulated, At Austin, & negro tried to kil & white wan, Tho Inttor roturned ths {lro, missed bhiw aim, and xilled o listle black girl, Thoreupon tho ne- groes bosleged aud captured the town, Ilnving dono so, thoy bohaved with groat Iorbesranco and disporsed. At Lsuvaster, sn interforonce with the oxccution of u logal process brought | whites and blacks into collision, The dispatches give no details from which the responsibility for the outbrenk can bo put upon either party. | Two negrocs and two whites were Lilled, A squad of Fodoral troops put st ond to the riok aud arrested thirty-five of the ringlendors. In Georgetown, the quarrel is wholly botween the blacks. Not & white man hay had o thivg to do with it, In Ridgo Spring, tho srmed negroes who had guthered st Goorgotown threatoned to mussacro the whites. Tho latter naturally armed themsalves, Thoy huve dono nothing to *earry tho war {uto Afcies,” Notashot hus baon ex- changod betweon whites and blacks. We submit Bpringfeld to-morrow. Tho list of delogutes contain the namos of meny ropresontative men; which is not enying much, to bs sure, Some of them Lonor the Peoople's Party by, golug to Springfiold much more than the People's Party honors them by sendiug thom thero; aud some of tho others Luve no appearance of righteous- ness oxcept that they are in uncommouly good company. Tho dolegates were fustructed to support the candidates of the Farmers' Party boforo tho Roform Convention, This action nt first soome® to bo solf-stuitification ; it 1 really not quita 8o Lod o8 that. Tho State ofii- cors to bo chosen at tho noxt election will have no more to do with the national curronoy than with tho third-torm question, If clooted, tucy would doubtless justify the good opinions of: thom which bave boen genorally entertalpad: Butso faras their nomination would ohacure tlo issue betweon specio-peymonts and repudia~ ton, 1t would certainly bo unwisaand foolisls, The Chicago markets woro very much unsats 1led yostorday, and graln was woak. Moss pork was dull snd oasior, olosing st 922,70@22.76 cash, nod $17,12)@17.25 sellor the yoar. Lard was qulet sud & shade lower, closing at $16.00 ver 100 Ibs, aekod for cash, and 811.123%¢ soller tho year, Bloats wore In good domaud and firn . o¥, olosing at 8%@83{0 for ahoulders, 123¢ @ 120 for short niby, 133@18)¢0 for short <hoar, and 18%@183{0 for sweot-ploklod hama, High- wines wero quiot and stondy, at 070 per tgallon, Lake frolghts wero dall and unchanged, st go for oo to Buffalo, Flour was quiat av d wonk, Whoat Waa solive and §@do lowwr, coslog as } they hiavo repoatodly rent tholr own party rathor that theso facts—aud they aro the only facls yst bronght out—do not justify the ravings of sub- sidized fournals ovor rean's mhumanity to man below Mason aud Dixon's line. ‘I'ho race-lssne has not boen forced upon the South by tho whites, It was inevitable, When & wholo race bolongs ta ono party, as the nogroes do to tho Repualican, opposition to that party rast Lo opposition to the raco. So far as tho isfino has baen forcad at all, the blacks ara more to blume than tha whites, The negrocs havo stoadily {vslstod on the elootion of offleinls of thalr calor, ‘Thoy lave carriod this so far that than vota for a whito man. Tho Louislsur Re- publicava are divided into Pinchback aud Pack- ard—black and whito—cliques, In the fitet Al abama Distriot, the colorod dologates to tho Republican Congrousionsl ~ Convontion insisted wpon the nomination of one of thelr raco, They ucld wut through 849 ballots, and tinally carried tholr point, Florida hnd oue whito and ono black Covgressman. Tho 00 groes now demand both, When tho regular Re- ¥ ubllgan Couvention of tho Socond District ro- nominated the white member, the negraes bolted and nominated a nogro, The Jnoksonville New Sauth, n Ropublican papor, suid, iu advanco of the Caaveution, thut if such a course should bo pur- aued, “tho rosult will cortainly bo thiat, by thedi- rout instigation of tho oficial and porsonal or- gane of Gov, Stewrns [Ropubliean], tho race- qu eation, with all ity disascrons cousoquences, widlbe eprung upon tho peaplo of the Btate." Yu Mivskeslppl, tho oolored mowbers of ths Log moval followod, Thw action by the Governor drow from ox-Commissionor Douo the latter which we pubtish this morning, It apponrs chat Maj. Wham was originally appointed as a friend of Bonator Lugan, who had formerly had bim appointed Paymastar, or Agont, or somothing of that Xind, for that Wstorical triba known as vhe “Teton Bionx.® It is only fair to say, however, that the teatimony of the Joliet people is favor- able to Wham's munagement, and s correapond- ont this morning doscribes tho prison as in ox- collont condition. Unfortunately, thoro are othior i| loading Ropubliosn statesmon in Iiincis boside Boveridgo and Logan, and, s it i the gonoral purpose this yorr of the Ropublicans to eleet, if they can, Mr. 8, M, Cullom to Congress and two yoare hence to mako him Governor, Gov, Bever- idgo féols an anxiely lost his appoiutecs #'hould forgot him. CGeu, Logan is, of conrse, & tuiend of Gov. Deavorldge for all offses olhor than Unitod Btates Senator, and Maj. VPhaw, being Logun's other self, the Commis- sllosera woro intorforing In the contract betwaeu Tiogan and Buveridgo when tuoy removed Wham s 8Warden, Col. Bauo, wholhns been a number of y oaré 1o the Republican party, scoms to have for- gottan that tho tenure of all public employment i1 fldolity to the porsonal ambition aad intorost of the wan holding the appointing power. If Clen. Logan and Gov. Bovoridge chooso to np- 1ortion between themselves for the noxt ten ytoars tho big things in offieial lifo, Col. Bane £ hiould havo known that hisfiret duty, undor party Law, was to aid in carrying out that neraugomont, evon if the Ponitentiury went to rtuin. What v zght hiad bo to plond Ohwistian morey aud com- 00n humanity to the prizovers whon it stood in t hio way of tho division of the spoils, and might contribute to Qullom’s olovation to the Govern- reulp, or porhaps to the Unitod Btatos Bonate? #u & picture of tho total subordination of the dlselpling, munngoment, sud oven Snancial ar- rilugomonts of tho Ponitontiary to politieal {n- tirigue, the lettor of Col, Bauo is good rouding, Wie commond it to. officahiolders genarally, CQOUNTY CONTRAOCTS, During tho tession of tho Bourd of County ‘Cowmissionors yestorday, Aesers, Clough aud Doguo producod somothing of o goneation by the prosentation of tho rosults of nn examination mado by them of tho bills paid during the last throo monthy tor grocorios furnishod tho Alms- houso and Hospital, 'I'hese bills had all bean oxaminoil by tha Coinmitteos of tho Board, and passod, and paid, The contractors avo Mossra, Jamos Forsgth & Ca,, tho firm conalsting of My, James Forsyth and Mr. O, F. Poxiolut. Messra, Bogue and Clough have been requeated time and ngaln to oxplain how 16 way that tho contract could be honoutly filled st tho pricoa bid, At last, they porsonally compared the bills mado out aud pald during tue last thres monthe with those THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1874, #pooified in the contrack, and the rosult of thoir invontigation thoy yostorday prosocuted to the Board. 'Ihoy report that the orices olaimed, al- lowed, aud pald oxceod Ly from 2 to 100 por cout tho pricos nemod in the contract. Tho compar- ative ststomont will Lo of interest. All thoso Dills aro supposed to be exmmined by tho Com- miltoos that roport them corract, and with an ordor for tholr payment, Investigution, howover, shows that tho oxamiuations have beon vory cnrolosa and negligent, or mado without any ref- oronco whatevor to tho contract: Unwilling any Tonger to voto for tho payment of bills of tho cortactuons of which thoy had no ovidence, and unwilling to voto agalnst tho payment of bills which might bo corroct, thoy made & personal esamination to entisfy thomselves, and thon furnishod the facts to the Bonrd, M, Poriolat claima, howovor, thnt the contract pricea vary nccording to tho quality of goods furnished, Tho sealo is sliding one, and the contractors say that the bent qualition have beon ordered for tho Hospital ond Inwave Asylum. Messrs, Clough and Boguo Liave not noted this diative- tion ju thefr schodule. Howaovor, it {a still a question whothor tho best goods sro always furuished for thoe highest prices. It fa unfor- tunato that the Board roforred the matter baak to tho same Committeos that had originully audited and direoted pnymout of the bills, Tho exhibit cortainly requires an oxplanation, EXEMPTION FRI XES, Judge Wallacs, of tho County Court, yestor- day rendored o deelsion In the caso of the County Treasurer, who clalmed o judgment for | unpaid taxen against cortain lands in this county owned by tho Northweatern University, Objeo- tion had been made that this property was ox- cmpt from taxatlon under its cbarter, as tho propesty of an institution of learning, The Univorsity owns in this counly sovoral hundred acres of land, much of which is located in this city. Included in this i3 one-half thoe block now covered by the Pacifle Ifotel, betwoon Clark aud LaBallo atrects. The University has owned thia proporty over twenty years. A largo area of the City of Evanston is held by the Univer- sity, and leagod Lo the occupants, andno taxos Ling ovor boon paid thereon., The objection to the nssesamont was overrulod by Judge Wallaco, who holds that tho exomption by the Logisla- turo in tho charter of the, University is of ne- consity controllod by tho Btate Constitution of 1848, which roads ; ’ Tho property of the State snd counties, both real aud personal, and sich cther proporty a8 tho General Asaembly may deom neceasary for school, roligious, and charitablo purposcs, may be exomptod from taxa- ton, And the Constitution of 1870, which reads : Tho property of the Slate, countlos, and other mue nicipal corporations, both real aud porsonsl, snd such atlier property us may bo used oxclusivaly for ageiculs tural and horticultural sociotics, for school, reliious, cometery, aud charitublo purposes, may bo exbmptod from tuxatlon, but such oxemption shall bo only by gener law, The general law exompting property from taxation passed iu 1861 restricted the exemption to proporty used oxelusivaly for tho purposo of education, eto., and especially oxoluded the prop- erty of tho echool not used for the purposoeg, of tho school and held for profit. Judgo Wallaco lield that all the property owned by the Univer- sity, and not used by it for the purposes and objects for which tho Umversity was erected, was liablo to taxation, The Univorsity Las taken an appeal to the SBuprome Court. ‘The Univorsity rolied on the doctrine that the charter of the University was & contract with the corporation whiok could not bo sot aside. The Court held that tho Logislaturo had no power, undor thio Constitution, to oxempt property from direot taxation, excopt asin the case of tho Dlinoix Contral Railroad, by tho accoptanco of a stipulatod equivalont for taxation, or whore thore was a congidetation. The only considern~ tion nrged in this cnge was the general bonefit to the State from tho sohool, and this, in Judgo Wallace's opiuion, was too vague to justify an exomption from taxation. Ho fnclined to the opiufon that the only exemption that could bo claimod was that allowed by the generalsct of 1851, This decis{on ia of considorable intorest to the people of Evauston, and especially to thoso who bold and occupy land not owued by the Uni- versity ; theso have hitherto paid all the taxes of tho town, und havo recently been called upon to pay tho extraordinary tax lovied for tho con- struction of water-works, If Judge Wallace's opinion bo suatained by the Suprome Court, all tho property of the University, save that used oxclusively for school purposes, will bave to pay taxea liko other property. THE BILVER LINING. Deplorable as tho immediato results of tho Boeckor scandal may be, thiero can bo no doubt that its ultimato influcuce will be for good,—an assumption which sy bo mado without rofor- onco to the question of Mr, Becclier's innocence or guilt. The expose bay been & thundor-storm which wos necessary to cloar the moral atmos- pliore, aud wo have no doubt that, when tho storm has passed over, the sun will come out brighter than ever, aud the alr will be clear and wholesomo, jnstead of heavy with smoko and dampuoss. The rolations of man to man, aud woman to woman, sud man to woman, wili be moro definitely fixed and jealously guarded than evor beforo, or thero 18 no virtuo oxtant, Thia {s tho silver lintng to the cloud. ‘Thoy ara ouly timorous and short-sighted pooplo who soo in this gront social uphesval Insting dunger to morals aud religion, or pormanent injury to the Church, It can make no right-minded person aworve frowm lis sonse of duty. It can make uo wrong-mindod porson any worso. This scandal bas already fulfilled one of its miusions, It has rent thenbomiuable Freo-Love movemont into Iragments and seattored it to the winde, A bolt from hesven could not bave dona the work moro thoroughly. Uhis iy all the more gratoful from tho fact that it hus soomed hitherto fmpossible to compnss its destruction. It has grown und flourished like & fungus unon Spixit- ualism and the Woman-Suffrage movement, and ity damp, unwholesomo growth has beon favored by thoir shade. If it shall evoutuato that elthor of theso movemonts also suffor, it is o ponalty whiok might long ago havo boon forcacon, The blow camo none too soou. Froe-Love had pro- grossed with rapld strides. From small and darle boginnings, it sprang up with astonlshing rapidity. 'Who protesc against it was so fooplo that it soon boldly courted publleity, Brazen women advocatodit upon the public piatform, and equally brazen men publoly au- nounced their right and intention to practico lts toaollngs, and thoy did vo without lot or hin- deranco from theJaw, Nowapapers wers started oxpressly to advocato It, sud had unroatrioted circulntlon, 8o that thoy ncattored the polson far and nopr, The Mansfleld, and Woodhull, sud Olaflin wero types of a considorablo class who Lud boen tolorated g0 long that thoy soon do- torminod to ovorrido soclety, forco thalr prace tloas upon people, snd make Free-Love respeata- ‘ ble by acouring indorsement and recognition of it in bigh quartors, To this ond, Viotoria Wood- lull aud her cliquo worked upon Beocher and Tilton with tho mducoments of cortain damag- Iug rovolationa thoy throtened to mnko. They linve fatlod utterly and misorably, and the ex- plosion which lina followad thoir mining opern- tlons caught them with tho other victims, aud a8 wbivered tholr movoment to atoms. "Tho rocond blossing which wiil come from this sonudal will bo of slowor growth, but {8 morally cortain, It will work a rovolution in- sido tho churchies of all donomiuntions, affeot- ing the relations of miniators and thelr people, Astho New York Observer, that old, conservas tive roligious nuthority, has aptly stated, it will Linston the time whon good but silly women will 10 longor run aftor a minfstor bocauso ho maken thom feol good, and ft wil do awny with the ab- surd assumption that a miulstor must necosea- 1ily bo an abla nnd dovout man bocauso hio can mako theso siily women foel good. It will have a tondency to establish lmitations on pas- toral vieita by réstricting them to speoific coson, Tho pastoral vislt I8 at bost but a rolic of old timos, aud it should bo adapted to tho chauges in tho church as other religious prac- ticos havo Dbeou.. As churohes, ospoclally iu large citics, aro now constituted and adminls- tored, the clorgyman who gives the proper thought and time to the proparation of his ser- mons, who attonds the various wockly meetinga of busiuoes and prayer, looks aftor tho chnri- ties of hls church, attonds the sick, marrics tho living, and burios the dead, Lagno time for pas- toral visltations, It will furthormoro teach tho old, old story, that even ministors are buman, aud suppress tho tondency to idealizo thom and clovate thom to heights above the world, It will put & dampor upon this ranning aftor the ‘munister, It will lowor him to the commion standard of n'man among mon—a teachor smong soliolars, not o saint among siumers. It will base idaas of buman life upon human lmporfec- tlons ; and, when this in accomplished, thore will be losa of man-worsbip and moro of God- worship iu the churclios. ‘Iheso aro some of tho limings to tho tloud of this sonndal which uow looks so dark, and both those who believe in Mr. Beocher's inuoconco and Lis quilt may congratulato themsolves that such f the case, and tako courage. Iunocent or gullty, there is no danger to bo apprebended to the cause of morality and religion. Whon tho roaction cumes, it will bo wholesome and bo- noficont. FRENCE COUNTESIES. Tecent procecdings in the Fronch Assombly demoustrate that thore {8 at loast one pavlia~ meantary body which be can more indocorous than the American Congress, aud that, too, in o country proverbisl for tha courtesy of the peo- “ble and their devation to ctiquetts. Upon tho oceasion to which we rofor, M. Schelcher, 8 Reo- publican Deputy, ross aud roforred to s doclara- tion in a provious spoech by M. d'Iatria, and ssid {hint, if any of bis party had hoard it, they would bavo treated it a8 thev doserved. M. @latrin be~ ing abuont, another Royalist, M. Gavardie, main- tatued the words for bim, whorcupon M. Schal- oner rotorted: “Thon you aro a liar,"” This was fullowed by explosiona of lndignation from tho Tight and tho Contre. Tho Presidont called the offendor to order, and wonld not allow any further personalities. M. Bchmichor claimed ke bad boon persomally insulted, but if M. Garvardie would withdraw tho words, that would end the matter. This AL Gavardio rofused to do, whoreupon M. Bchelcher maintnined tho lle. Bovoral minutea wore then devoted to a goneral bandying of lics and opithets all over the Assembly, the Prosi~ dont mennwhile pounding bis dosk vigorously with his officiel mallet, and sereaming in choica French at the turbulents, At taet tho principals got anotuor opportunity at each other, and tho following colloquy ensued : M, de Gavardio—Well, I maintain the words I used, {Murmurs on the Left.] I suy that thoy eacaped mo, yet I persiat in thom, [Fresh uproar on the same side of the Assembly.] M. Behuwleher—T mafnatn also the Mo T gave you, and which did not escape e, ‘The President—And I maintain the call fo order. (@reat agitation,] Thocall to order was followed by o fresh out- brosk, durlng which A d'Isris cutered tho Chombor. This caused a lull, and M, Gavardie boiug rolieved, M. d'Istria took up the cudgel as foilowa: M. Gallonl d'Tstris—I was not present whem 3. Behleher entored tho tribune, I am informed that bio askeid whether the words I uttered in roply to L. Gombetta were theso: **The Iiopublic foll beneath ihie contempt and reprobatlon, or horror, of all honeat men " aud whotlier T acknowledged them, I have nothing to withdraw, sud I wmslutein that remark, [Loud protests on tho Left.] Bebwleher—Then I declaro that you Lave uttered an infurnous falschivod, {Vislentuproar,) Upon this the Prosident got mad, clapped his 1t on sideways, banged it down on’his head, quit Lis chair, and, auvouncing that such scenes woro doplorable, doclared the sitting eusponded and went off to his cafe. Thisis a litide abead of anything which has occurred in tho American Congrese, and showa that, In his idoss of what coustitutos decorum and deconcy, tho American loglslator is moro advauced thao tho French- man, At the same time, it proves the paradox that the politest nation in the world s aleo the most lmpolite, THE OHIO CONSTITUTION. Tho peoplo of Obio havo, by the rojection of tho proposed new Constitution of tho Buate, givon vory empbatio expression to their doter- miugtion to loavo well enough alone, The $200,000 spont to gat up that dooumont tho State may charge to profit-and-loss, Tho debates of the Convention, of which 8,000 copics were or- dored printed, and which ware to appear in four volumes of from 1,200 to 1,600 pages each, will now, 1t is undorstood, boconsigned Lo the waste- basket. Since tho collupss of the Northorn Paoific Railroad, the failuro of Jay Cooke, and tho panie, thore hag been no auch instanco of unproduceive consumption and wasto of eapital, Novor was thore & smaller retura to o largo an fnvostmont, Neverwas tha labor of 105 men, the total numbor of delegatos to the Convontlon, or of elghty-elght swyors, thocontingent toit of tholo- gul profossion, vewardod with meauer rosults, The fact that the presont Chilof-Justice of the United States presided ‘ovor tho deliboration of the, Convention from thoe time it met untiiho was appointed to (ho most promineut placo in tho Jjudiolury of the country wont for nought, 9 . The Convontion met on May 18, 1873, and for = wholo year devoted tholr bost offorts to pro- duco o Jaeting monument to their political wia- dom. Thoy chovo n dull 2oasol and an ‘‘oft" yoar, that thoy might devota themaolvos to their fabor of love undisturbod. How thoroughly everything was dobated at thoir mestingd mny bo loarned from tho length of time it took them to docldo whothor tho same logal foos should be charged in tho oltles and in the rural districts— viz, a wholo mouth, The country lasyors arguod that, as thore was moro businaes In the city than in the country, ths foos in the city should not be ns largo as in tho country. Tho rosult of tho labors of the Convontion was & Coustitutlon which searcoly ono man in a thon- sand found disposfiion or loisuro to rond. Tho doormont would covor four clukoly-printed pages of Tne Trimuse. Ite very longth way an srgu- snout agninat {6, Tho peoplo hiad boon dlsgusted with tho dobntes of the Convention, and, whon tho canvass began, they would neither hear nor road anythiug about the now Constitution. Thoy hiad boon reading about it in tho nowapapors il they wore porfoctly nausoated. Joaroallsta found that the articles thoy wrote on the sub- Joot hind as much offeat on tholr subseribers a8 80 many blank columns would have had, Tho good people of Ohlo bogan to ontertaln a kind of latrod agalust the Constitution whiio it was in process of formation. And so thoy voted it down, Tho dofeat was Liolped. by tho tempor- sucoe peoplo, who foared that tho separate pro- vislon *for liconss™ would be cartled, and, as tho only way to dofeat tho lconso clauso, thoy voted agningt tho whole Constitution, Unofileial roturns from thisty-three counties gavo a not ma- Jority of 60,000 votes agatust the now Constitu- tlon, 1t was estimated that, it thosamo proportion was obsorved thiroughout, tho dofent would sur- puss tho wildoss prediction, In tho citis tho movemont met with gruater fuvor than in tho rural districts, probably owing to tho fact thay in tho citios tho wholo anti-temporanco party waa willing to awaliow it entire for the sake of enrrylug the licouse olause, The majorities against tho now Constitution wero in most coun- tios appalling. Wo horo givo a fow of them: Majority againet County, Conatit Roen, s ‘Athoi, Thoro aro other countics with negative majori- ties oqually Iarge. Nor canit bosaid that the peoplo staid away from the polls, as may bo soon from s comparison of tho vote cast iu Delawaro County—s fair sample of tho whole—on tho Constitutional quostion, and ntiho Inat Tresi- dentiul eloction : Name of Conatitutton, For, i 100 1 [ Delaware (Citg)— st Ward, LS S (7S 1 §1 85 9w 0 » 9 18 o 1% 6 18 74 [ 3 105 104 2 w1 8 8 ] 5 1 77 16l 82 BTN B 17 8 5 w8 I 38 PO R 1) 29 9 283 10 101 1 172 &0 100 2 153 69 103 40 2% 8 ‘The moral of the defeat of the proposed Obio Constitution at the lato eloction is, thas tho people of thu Btate will not slter its organio law unless the urgency is very great, and unless thoy feol that {51880 ; morcover, thav Constitution, to bo accoptable to tho poople, should not bo a bulky, unwieldy document, but that it should consiat of a fow simple, fundamental principlos, uvivorsally intelligible. Thera are now thres groat Statesin which Coustitations proposed within recent timo bave been refectod. In 1867, tho poople of Now York defeated & proposed Constitation; * In 1808, Michigan did & similar thing. Tho Peanaylvavia Constitution was adopted because of tho over- powaring public necessity, In Illinols, a similar necessity led to the adoption of tho present Con- stitution, Tn tho roluctance of a peoplo to change their Constitution thero s a healthy consorvativo spirit which, on the whole, is o mattor to congratulute ourselves on, especially as, in this ago of tho world, the tondenoy is ather to chango too much than too little, The Univeraity of Cambridgo has applied the ciroulating-libsary system to locturcs. It un- dertakes to supply any number of good lecturors, onch skilledin thospesialty whoraof o speaks, to enytown in Evglund. A village lycoum can order two, ten, twenty lectures, Or a number of so- clotiea fu neighboring towns can ougago a num- bLor of sponkers at roducod rates, Lo Univor- #ity's indorsement of ench man's ability wo- oures ghod sudionces, oven though Lo may be himself wholty unkuown, This systom, intouded to put cheap and souud knowledge witbiu the rench of the poor, hag boen fouud to fuldll its purpose admirably. Inanumber of cases, co- operative sociotion havo ongaged tho mor- vices of & dozon Univeraity gradustes, whose lectures on sciones, history, ete,, bave Dboeu listoned to with tho doepest atteution by crowds of workingmeu, It would bo well if somo such method of popular. education could be mande to work in this country. Wo cannot imitate thia schemo oxsctly. Tho novelty of the thing, whieh doubtloss draws tho rural populaco in England, would not exist boro. Wo have been a0 gluttod with lecturos thab it takes a great pamo nowadays to deww a crowd, Again, the “Follows" of Cambridge, from whoso ranks wmost of tho lecturars are drawn, occupy positions snalogous to those of aur professors tather than ourstudonts, Theyhavemore leisure thau either of thoso two classos to purduo tho studios of the wubjects on which thoy apoak. The factthat an Enghish Univorsity can do 8o much so roudily shows how strongly tho higher education raacts upon the lower. —_—_— The annuel roport of the Boston Board of Health s not a rosssuring publicstion. The wodol city of the universo is somowhut saverely oriticlsod by hor modical staff, Tho iufant mor- tality rato showas that 2,083 infants nundor 1 yoar died in fiftoon monthy, and tho Board aska: “What excusablo account can be glvon for this? Are yarents less alached to obildron of such tender ago, and 8o give them loss care and at- tontion 7" Along with tbis record of infant wmortnlity we are furnishied with s statemont touching tho mortality of infants who dlo aftor passing eafoly through thslr firet yoar, It 18 of tho adultoration of sweot~ meata, In tho virtuons Cily of Bos- tan, ono gpecimen of candy containod four viralont polsons, lead, antlmony, arecule, and coppor, suothor moroury, othora prussiato of iron nud arsonlte of copper. Thore woro com- paratively fow onndios sold which wore not moro or less poisonous. Notwithatanding the prov- alouco of prohibition, 62 porsous died from in- tomporauce, 35 committed suicido, and 14 woro wnrdored, Tho subject of adulterations ooone pied the Doard, aud the discovery wan mads that plekles snd cannod fruit have dyos and cou. metles, tes, coffoo, aud in fect nearly evory- thiug, was adulterated, The ouly artioles not adulterated were prohibited—besr and whisky, What Dio Lowls and Lis frienda in Boston call Jiquid poteon s the only thing in Doston Which {s above susploton of poiron. And Boston would fuin suppress that it it could, : s Pity the sorrows of twomon bont on ripping opon each uthier's stomnchs or popporing each other with buck-shot, and unable to find & place todo it in. Fity, thozefsre, Third<Pern Mosby and Capt. O, D. Payno, of Virginia. The for mor ls known only too well ; the latter la eandle dato for tho Domocratio Cougressional nominn tion from tho Eighth Virgiols District. Thoy Lapponed to mast in Virginia, whon Capt. Payna dououncod Mosby s unfalthful. It was Instant- ly arranged that blood alone would docido the question, and proparations were made. ‘The ‘proposition bocoming known, tho partics woro ro~ «uired to glvo ball not to fight n Virginia. They rosolvad to kill cnch otber fn Maryland, and started for Princo Goorgo’s Connty to fight with rifles, Pagno was on tho ground with his second at tho appointed time, and waited ono hour for Mosby. Tho latter did not acrive. Ho passed through and wasarrested {n Washington City, and had to appear boforo the Polico Court in= stead of Capt. Payne's rifio at the hour named. It is stated that tho affair will bo allowed to go no further, Thero are reasons why it should not. ——— Tho steam canal-boats on tho Baxter patont, earrying froight on tho Erle Canal, have sur- pussed the most sanguine anticipations of the adyocates of atoam-nzvigation fo artitleial chau- uele. Thoro axe alrondy sevon of thoso vossels plying botween Buffalo and New York, and halt & dozon more are conetructing. The raund trip, from Buifalo to Now York sud rotwm, ocoupien fourtoen days on an nversge. Thoy briug from 100 to 160 tons of morchandiso from tidewater aud take down over 200 tous of gratn, T'ho bed of tho eannloffors soma obatnclos to rapld travel at present from the accumulation of mud, but, even with this disadvantago of jncreased consumption of tuel aud retardation of thevoats, the Buffalo Advertiser thivks that grain can be profitably carried from Chicago to Now York in ton days, oud at absuidly low rates, This allows six days for the canal purt of the journoy, but, se tho obstucles in the way of travel disappear, it may bo roduced to four, or even to thros days. e g While South Carolina was engaging in one of tuoso dolightful episodos, s negro riot, Lowis isua wos vindicating the majeuty of tho law by hianging four colored murderers and a whito coufedorato, The latter affair might bo ropeat- ed without danger. It is tho irst timo in yoars that au old-fashioned Langing has occutred in that Siate, tho new system of lyuching or shoot- ing offendors Laving usurped its place to an un- ploasant oxteut. Porhaps if it could bo introduc- ed fnto tho Carolinas, pure-and uudetiled, wo should hoar loss about s war of races or the details of horrors which now cowoe from thoso unhappy States. . —_—— A Cuban papercomplainis that brigandage intho 1sland is no now thing, but urges that tho pros- eut is an admirable opportunity to stamp it out. Soitis. 1t iealso an admiravle opportunity to stamp out the insurrection, not hitherto ac~ complished, But the presenco ef 80,000 volune toors on tha leland ought to elface any recollee- tion of the fow hundred othor thieved and mur- dorers roaming at large. It looks like straining at a goat and evallowiug a camel. A littlo onc-horso nowspaper concern that in now trying to live on Peuitentiary pap express- o8 surpriso that * Guth " could write a lottor in Now York on Saturduy which appesred in Tue Tmmose of Sunday. It s rolh- or dificult for newspapors unfamilliar with tho ugo of tho telegraph to undorstand how this could be done, Magtha Crosby, of Camdon, S. 0., prints in our advortiging columna a warning to all magis. trates and attornoys iu tho United States “nob to grant & legal divoreo to hor husband, Georgo Crosby.” Au requested by Mrs. Crosby, wo thoroforo canvey hor warning to the magistrates and attorneys of this city, What tho peually may be, sho does nol state, B More from Kentucky, The Ion. Mr. Morrow, planterer, called tho Hon. plr. Boyd a**d—dlisr." After o caroful examination the three bullets found in Mr, Morrow wero soen to corrospond exactly with threo empty chambers iu Mr. Boyd's rovolver, and tho lsttor geutlewman's honor {s publicly vindleated. Tha height of impudouco—an aditarial articlo in & New York nowspsper of last Fiidsy on 4 Boston Immorality.” ; i b NGRS NOTES AND OPINION. Wyoming eloction, Sept. 11 For Delegate ix Congress—William P. Stoolo, Domocrat; Joseph M. Cary, Ropublican. It appoara that Dudly C. Donisdn, though opposing Poland's re-olection, in Vormont, docs not cousent to be himsolf the opposing caudidate, and no new choico had boen mado st last ae- counts; but a correapoudent of the Bostan Jour- nal writos : I hove thought it [tho bolt] a short-lived affair, hardly of consoyuence onongh to be diguifed with 1o nume uf bolt, or to clatm a volico fu your columms, But it trauepires that now, o weck fter thie Conveus tion [that nowinatod Poland), the divergence fa ax wido 28 over sud appureutly 1o noarer to s Lvaling, As yer, 1 bu auro, the Beceders aro without a candidato, but thoy nisy be ablo to tind oue, if thoy meaw busliess, and they probably do, Al advices from tho disaffectot diatricts are o tho ottect thut thoy are still rebellions toward Judgo Polnud, und aze ready sud auxious 10 bo organized ugaiust him, —The 5t. Albaus Messenger remarks : It 14 8 fact not generally kuown Ju Voraont ibat the Hou, O, W, Willard zoturned to tho Treasury not ouly bis back pay, but uis increass of salary uder tho grab law, aud’ ho was tho ouly Vermouter who did it Aed yot, aa If to sct a prewminm on welflshross sud dis~ bouor, 'the Flest Diatrict allows bim to rotire to pri= vato 1o, whilo the Second District proyoses ta return. the vaterato defander of tha valury-ucronss o bl old Holds of profit, )t not of Louor, —The Democrats of Arksusns, who voted for Brooky for Goveraor, 1n 1872, will this year voto for Baxter for Governor undor the now Consti- tatiou. NP tho Brooks-Olnyton pian of came paign the Little Rock Gazelte says : ‘Tho addroas of the Republicun Btato Ceutral Cor- miite; the spesches of Alr, Larnes, the loading Ro~ publican tnober in thy Coustitntional Convention the portisan endeayors to recuro thosgency af this lace for roporting for tho Western Atwoclulod Prens 3 the frautle telogrupllo lyiug of the SloLoulk-Domo= crat-inspired Ansociated Proas uyenp st Bt Louis in Togard 40 evenls aud afuirs ju Arkinsss ;‘and_now the editorints of 1ho Little Rock fepubiieun, which Jately professed Lo by couverted to consorvativm and Virtious ways,—ull combito to demountruto the coy- yoctuoss of our showiug forth of the Radical plan of exmyuign du this Slate, as nettled aud doterminod in £hy Hatuuio confereuce ut Hot Springs, —In tho Ninth Goorgia District the Democrats have uominated Garnott AlcMillan for Congross, aftor a two days’ struggle, beating Benjaudu H, Hill. As Cougressional nepirants (of the Demo- cratio party) in Goorgla are not allowed to attond tha Conventions, tho nomiuee was informed by lotter. Ovor in the Fourth Illinois District, in such o case, the nominee would have helped count tho votos after bargaining for them, —Qoorgis clocts u Logislature, Oct. 14, and Congressmen, Nov. 8, end in each cago is o sepa- rate lusue, 88 stated by the Savanuah News, viz.: The people of Goorgla should remomber that thero ere bt two dswues du this cumpaign, Ouo ju poclul muamy, aud tho other the payment of the bogus uds, Candidatos forthe Georgia Legislataro (at loast all thowo who ure linble to bo clected) are undor publio instructions to porfect an amendmont of the Stato Constitution, as passod by the last Log- {laturo, finally repudiativg about 88,000,000 of bonds which are declared to havo beon fraudu~ lontly issued during Bullook's Administration. The nominatious indicate that the very beat men of Goorgia will be in the Legislature, —ThoNorth Caroliua Legistature oloct, compare od with the lasts 1874, Senate. House. 1872, Senate, Iouss, Domiocrats, 8 BY[{Demucral 2 [ Repubilea 37) Republican Dom, maj,, n o, moju, A Vote of the Raleigh Distrlots 1874, 1872, Davis, Dem.,,.. 14,030(Rogers, Dem, Houdun, Rep, 12|Swli, Rep, o Dém,, maj. oor 1,08] Rop, mafisiiacaies 708 ~Republican Congroesionn! Conventiuny, last ‘wook, In the Bixth Georgis Distrlot, at Macon, and tho Tlurd Alabama Disteict, at Opelika, woro failures, The Oivil Rights bill did It. ~In tha Firat Florids (Ualluhinesce) Diatrict thie war betwoon white Purman and biack Monch- am, onoh clainung to have had thoe rogular Re~ publican_nowjuntion for Congross, goos oRm apage. Purnian eays ho has boon informod by two rollable parsons thas Eescham had said that