Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1874, Page 4

" *“Tha Hoodlum;or, Lifoin THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUE DAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 18 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RATEA OF GUDBCNIPTION (PATADLE TN ADVANOR), Daily, by toall, 12,00 ) Bund: S50 Trj-Wool 600 | Woelly, 2 "Ta prev o and give Yost Tartsot the Autus rato, £ dolav und mintakes, bo s Cfrcowdrensin tull, inclndin Klato and County, Itemittances way bo niado uither by dratt, oxpross, Post coo1dot, 01 1t rrelutorel lotnrs, nk our Fink, MH IO CITY SUDRGRIDKRS, Bolhr detivarod, ‘Sunday oxcanted 3 ‘caite por wack, il deliverod, Sungny Included, ¥ conts per wook. i ltgmer T TITIUNIE COMPANY, ‘Corhior Madizon aud Dearborn.ste,. Uhloago, Jile * TODAYS AMUSEMENTS. ORAND OPERA-NIOUSE—Olark stroot, onvosite Skerinan Hogto, ety & Dovne bzt 2 M'VIORKR'S THEATR:—Madison _stroct, botwoon P R ‘Kngagemont of Josoph JofTorson, ** Rip Van Winklo." ACADEMY OIf MUSIO—talxtnd strent, botwoen Mad- dson and Munroo. Engagemont of W. A Bostayor, OOLEY'S, THEATRE-Randoiph street, botwesn O S Labane AT e AMERICAN MUS! M_Monron strest, botwoen Btate aud Doarbor: Ldute g SOCIETY MEETINGS, 1 KNIGITS-Spectal canelave of £ T\, this (Tuexday) osoning, Work on R, O, Ordee, d, iy ardorof tho UK, Rocord ATTENTION, Apollo Onmmnl\:h!r" No. 1, K. g e o BUH.W. . or. BUSINESS NOTICES. DR. McCHRSNEY, CORNER OF OLARK AND -8, b tinost and hext full st of 1K UNION UGNTIAL 1 X \ i NSO 0. tho tino five-story ntono-front building, op- D e e Digno-Tront bl o B, iy Eotopamy” o oo il Weisbortu. Tho Ueneral Agonicy which includen this sicilon I8 Uiocous piat otarfiey e oty for Sutivaand volabla Crativg husincss, b P mon e g e - addvess Mo W LLATLITS: Blcrotary, Cinoinnatl, U The Chieags Tfibune, Tuosday Morning, Soptombor 8, 1874. Another Charley Rogs, probably a spurions ono, has been discovered in Washington, Mombers of Ilymouth Church are subscribing money for the rolief of Mre. ‘Lilton, The infirmi- ties from which Mva. Lilton has most suffered canuot bo removed by remedics of this deserip- tion. " Two Catholic diocoses buve been ostablishied in Toxas, and tho appointments of Bishiops for them have =already been nnuounced, Tho Now York Freeman's Journal has this nows by u spocial onblo dispatel; and it s protty good nuthority in puroly roligious maltors, whatover may bo thought of 1ts seeret sorvico in Spain, Col. Whitely, Chief of tho Government Secret Sorvico, has rosignod. This action may bo nc- capted a8 o confossion of counivavce at tho famous safe-robbory. A Chicago dotective is undorstood to bo & candidato for tho vacant po- sition. If lioisat all tho equal of his present nasocintes, ho would be a worthy successor to Col. Whitely. Jules 8imous, in o spocch at Rhoima yester- day, demanded tho dissolution of the Fronch Assembly, and uaid that the nation is: now com- posed only of Bonapartista and Ropublicans. There are uo Movarchisls, This is s pure as- sumption on the purt of 1. Bimons, but it none tho less answers his purposo, which wo suppose is to provoko the Monurchists toa demonstration of thoir strongth, Amorican peoplo Las beon brought before a Fronch court on a chargoe of procuxing money on falso represantations. The person’s namo is Charles Porkins, Ho wae formerly United States Consul at Lisbon. The Court found him gulty. His crime is mot an unusual one for latter-day American officials, and ho was doubt- less inclined to it before loaving tho servico of his country, Arabian ports on the Rod Sea are snid to bo ine fectod with the plague. Civilized peoplo, and especinlly tho residents of cities, have come to rogard tho recurrouco of mysterious and fatal opidomic discases a8 s contingonoy too romoto for calculation. But it is only threo yenrs since wo all thought modern invention had secured us aguinet anything lke o repotition of the Groat Fire in London; and the self-sufticiency of that opinion has beon demonstrated. The Governorof Minnesota hus directed the Attornoy General to procoed ngaingt ex-Auditor Mcllrath, and all persons implicatod with him in the alleged ombozzlomont of public monoys, to the full extont of the luw. 3Mr. Mellrath, in thie meantimo, is contont with his demund for suspension of public opinion, apparently con- sidering that o very desirablo thing tohave. Mo ought to bo informed that public opinion can- not be suspended vory long at a time ; and then not without sorlous demago to the reputation of tho beneficiary, ———— Tho stesmer Faraday is now crossing the ocoan from tho East, and Iaying in its courso the new diract cablo from the Irish to the Amorican coast, At last accounts tho work was advancing smoothly, The cable had been once lost and recovered, nnd thero was little approhonsion of further worious trouble, The quistness with which this undertaking hias proceoded is in sin- gular contrast to tho noiso which attended thoe layingof tho firat cablo. Tho people have be- como uged {0 ocosn telographs, and forgotton that thoy wero over wondorful, * e ———— Gon, Batlor mado o speach to his immodiato aupportors in Boston last Saturday night, the substance of which, acoording to goneral report, was, that ho only desired to ba lot alono. Ho would rather that tho entive Congrossional dolo- gation from Magsachusotts should bo roturned unbroken than that any Domoorat should Do clected. DBut ho rogards his own election ng o puroly personal affair, and I propared to regont any interferonce in his district, sud to punish it by working for tho defeat of his onomics, with- but raferanco to party associntions, All this, of sourso, is I tho nature of o warning to the Ifonr brothers. George F. Hoar has consontod to ac- copt the regular nomtnation, end ho would, of course, prefer to bo electod. It may bo that Gon, Butler has bound tho hands of hiy most formidable encmies by sunouncing his pro- grammo in advanco. S — The Chicazo produce markets were lirogular yosterday, with a light shipping moyement, vx- cept incorn, Mass pork was quict aud steady at 929,00 par brl cash, and $17.25@17.30 sollor tho yoar. Lard was insctivo and nominally unchanged at 150 per Ib eash, and 115ge sollor the yoar, Moats ware quiot and steady at 83¢o for shoulders, 13}{@130 for short mld- dles, and 10@113dc for aweet-pickled haws. Mighwines wero quiot ond strong, at £1.00 por gallon, Lako froights wore loss active snd flrmor, st 40 for corn to Duffalo, TFlour was quist snd unobnnged, Whoat was loss ac- tive and unchisngod, alosing at $43fo oask, Biigo sollor the montb, and 93¢0 for Oatobo was active, and Jfo higher, cloaing at T3}go oneh, nnd 7840 for Octobor. Onta were aativo, Corn | olcoted in Tiltnols this year, only t| can bo olooted excopt by tho votos of tho farmors. Bovoral of thomo candidates aro lond-mouthed and 3fo highor, closing at 4Go cash, and 44%@ | about tho sufforings of tho blacks at tho South 44}fo for October. Ityo was quiot and caslor at 81@82c, Barloy was more notive and oasfer at 91@Y20 sollor the month. Ifogs wore quict and casy, with sales chiefly at GU.EE@'LIO.‘ Catllo | woro fairly active and firm, ¢ stoady. ——— Tho Arkansas Coustitutional Convenlion, hav- ing complated the work for which it was choson, yostorday adopted a sorloa of resolutions con~ corning tho rocont outrngos in the South, The Convontion g, of at lonst bollovea itsclt to bo, composed of roprosontative mou; and its sonti- ments, therafore, have pocullar intorest at this time. Tho mombors of the Convention are on- tiroly on tho sido of lawand ordor, saylng : “Wo do, snd will forever, roprobato and un- qualifiedly condomn lawlossnoss, violenco, and ontrago, whoresoover and whensodvor found ; and wo demand, in tho namo of the Btato, oqual protection, oqunl justico, snd equal rights to all, from tho highost to the lowost, and without re- gord to raco, colar, or provious condition.” ———— Mr, Albert Keop, Prosidont of the Northwest- ern Railrond Compnny, hias addrossod s lottor to tho Wisconsin Commisstonors with o view to correcting n misstatoment recontly mado by Gov. Taylorat o QGrangers'plonie. The Govornor satd, giving the Commissionors 08 his author ity, that complianco with tho Pottor law, busi~ -| nesy romaining the samo s lnat yonr, would not cost tho Northwestern Company moro than & por cont of ita gross onrnings, Mr. Koop ns- serta that, under the conditions mentioned, tho Company would loso 25 per cent of its grosa earnings ; and, to tho end that tho Commission- ora may be eatisfied of the truth of biu stato- ments, ho invites thom to inspoot tku books of tho Company at tho gonoral oflleo in this city. Tho proposition is apparoutly made in good faith, 1t affords tho Commission- ers on opportunity which thoy eanuot woll rofuse, to amcquire some information touching tho intorosts which thoy have under~ takeu to control. It should bo observed, how- ever, that tho specifio issuo botweon Gov. Tay- lor aud Mr. Xeop Is vory far from boing vital. ‘T'ho quostion suggestod by the raflroad controvors 8y is not so much one of amount na of kind. It is whothor tho Stato of Wisconsin has the moral right to approprinto any part of tho onrnings of 2 corporation ; not whethor it has nctually appro- priated more than & par cont of tho Northwost- orit Company’s earnings, SHORT CROP3 AND HIGH TARIFFS, Now that thore is o short crop in oats and corn, and whilo whoat ig solling lower than it Lias sold for years, loaving tho whole agricultural community with reduced means to purchaso the necosuaries of lifo, to pay taxes, and, if in debt, to puy intorost, it is an_appropriato time to con- sider whero thoy muy mako good a part of thoir losuos. Tho cost of producing tho short jerops of oats and corn and tho low-priced wheat has boon 88 great 08 if thero had been o plentiful harvest, Tho taxes have been fhr same, the intorost on tho borrowed monoy and on the investmont has beon no less. Tho oxpenso for ropairs and re- nowals has inno wigo decrensed; and now, at tho closo of tho yem's labor, theso producers find that thoy havo to meot nll tho expenditures with uot much over one-lalf or two-thirds of tho products of an ordinary season. How can thoy mske two-thirds in 1874 go as far ns tho entiro procceds in 1873, when every cont was mneedod last year to moot tho curront oxpensos ? Whils thore is no way to increnso the receipts, perhaps thero may Lo o way of reducing exponditures, Tho farmer has to purchago all tho neceesaries of lifo not Produced on tho farm. After paying his taxes and tho interest on his dobt aud the wages of his Inborers, it takes sll the rest to meetun- avoidable axpenses. 1Te Lng to purchuso cotton und woolen clothing for Limself and family. He bag to purchaso at least ono pair of biankots for Lis houso, Ho hag to renow the losses and brouksge in household furnituro,—his glass, crockery, eaxtheuwars, and cooking utensils. Ho hos to give a coat of paint to his houso, Mo bas to buy boots and shoes and hosjory for him- eelf and family, o hasto buy somo new har- ness aud other loathor goods, Ho hus to paya Dbill st tho blacksmith’s for shoeing his horses, and for putting now tires on his wagon wheols, Theso are unavoidablo exponses, Thoy absorb, in nino csos out of ton, all that is left of the proceeds of the year's laber, aftor paylng toxes, wages, and interest. If the procceds of the crop fall short one-third, how are these noces- sary articles to be obtalned ? Tho law of tho United States places on oach and every ono of theso articles a spacial tax, not for tho support of tho Goveroment, but as o Lounty or subsidy to certain privileged classea, ‘The oxtont of this taxlis more wide-sprend than farmors gonerally supposo. On all thoso articles of indispunsable necessity thero in an average tax of 60 per cont. Assuming that a furmer, affer paying bis taxes, aud Lis wages, and his iuterest, haa tho swn of 1,000 loft, with which to purcbaso those indisponsabloe articles, and that ho expended that sum in 1873, his money was thus applied: Paid actual valuo of goods purchased Tald tax ot wumo, §0° pur cent.. Totalicvaussnas $1,000,00 Assuming that in 1874 the not Pproceeds in cash will bo ono-third loas, and the procoeds applied 04 far 08 they go to tho samo purposs, wo have this results Actual valuo of goods purchiased. Tax on tho samo, 60 per ceut,.. Total, v S006.07 Now, if this tax wero paid to tho United States, to be uged in meoting the cxponsos of the Gov- erument, interest or princlpalof the publio debt, or evon tho back pay of Senators aud mombers of Gongress, thoro would bo gomo kind of o protoxt for its payment; but when it is romem- Dborod that not a ponny of this tax {s recelved by tho United States, but s all collcatod by so-called * {ufant industrios,” principally In tho Eastern Btates, who have boen yoted thia bounty by Con- groug, tho Justico of the tax is loss avident. Last wintor the Bonators and Ropresontativos in Cougross, after six months' doliberation, daclared thoy had no timo to attend to s roducs tion of this tax; and they postponod it untll aftor the oloctions, "just sa their prodecossory have done-for ton years; aftor the elcotions, nothing moro has over boon hoard of tho matter, Any farmer con understand thot 1f this tax of 50 por cont on ovorythiug ho has to purchaso wore ropoaled 1t would offae €ho loss of ono-third of tho crops, and in yoara whon thuro {a a full erop would loave Lim a handsome wurplug with whiol to pay dobts or 8dd to his comforts, Thoro nevar was g0 favorablo a time for proosiug tharopoal of this oxorbltant protoctive tax as now, Out of the nineteon Cougrossmen who axe to be $ 600,07 ) who aro douled social oquality; yot many of theso mon,’in their placos in Congroas, by thelr 8pocches and by thelr votes, have opposed tho ropeal or roduction of this bounty-tsx, and, if tho formors, who pay €2.50 tax on overy 85 actunl worth of clothing they buy, take tho oe- caslon this year of dofonting overy candidato for Congross who will not plodge himself to voto for the roponl of all protective taxos,—the reposl of all taxes savo those lovied oxclusivoly for tho revonuo of the Government. Thoro never was 80 fitting o timo to domand tho reponl of thoso taxes aa now, when tho sgriguttural population have sustained such o honvy loss, -JURY INVESTIGATION, 1In viow of tho alioritve offorts of the Grand Jury to bring cortain county ofiicora to n logat accountability for corruption in oftico, and in viow of tho fact that the investigation wns do- featod by what the Grand Jury declarcs to bo falso swenring, it bocomes s mattor of gront publio concorn whether sooloty doos mot nood somo additional and moro offootunl moasurea for its proteotion. Horeis n caao whoro the Grand Jury declaro in oxpross torms that thoro was un- doubtod corruption, and yot, 8o porjurcd woro tho witnessos, that thore was no proapoct of & conviction, and so tho officials cscaped oven a trial. Tho Oity of Now York was similarly govornod a fow yonrs ago, Corruption was thorule, oxtonding oven to the control of Grand Jurles and courts of justico. It roquired a moral rovo- Iution to broak up tho iniquity, and out of that rovolution camo ou actof the Loglslaturo which provided in substanco that, whenover any throo or fivo responsiblo citizona shrll maka formal complaint of corruption ngainst any publio oflicor, high or low, and filo tho samo In any court of record, the Coust shall thoroupon order an investigation. In this Investigation the whele power of the Court is givon to compel the attendanco of porsons sud papers, and tho officinl records of tho accused aro subjected to scrutiny, Evon tho officer himself is compollod to appear and, bo examined. The law provides that if tho chargea bo not sustained the ao- cusors shall pay the costs of tho proceodings, It tho ehargos be sustained, then tho ofilcor LR to pay tho costs of tho investigation, and is sub- Jeet to immedinto romoval, o is also Hablo to auy further penalties which tho law may attach to tho crime. But the groat oud is accomplished of exposing the corruption and baving the dis- Lionest ofileor removed from tho trust ho hss betrayed. Wo have in this city an organization of citi- zens buving the very commendablo purposo of oxercising & .vigilant serutiny of all ‘municipal mattors, to the end that fraud and corruption may Lo provented, aud honesty and economy pro- motod. Tho inability of the Grand Jury in tho recont investigation to bring the guilty to trial shows how futile must bo tho offorts of tho Citizons' Association under tho Pprosout stuto of the law. Can that organization, therefore, do botter than to addross thomselves to the task or hoving o Jaw euncted in this Stato similar to that of Now York? Undor such a law, investigation follows promptly after accusation, and rodress, in tho way of tho dismissal of tho guilty ofticor, can bohad withoutdelay, Tho first thing nooded when an ofiicor is dotocted m malfensanco ishisromoval. Thatis cssontisl to tho protac- tion of tho public. If tho powoer of removal ox- isted now, who would question tho justico of ojecting the guilty County Commissionors? Who is thore to object to such a law aud to such. o moasuro for tho protection of tho public? No Lionost oflicor will over hesitato to bave bis nf- fairs invostigated ; on tho contrary, ho will al- ways court such investigation. Tho fact that an oficor refusos to bave his transactions invostis gated furnishes tho best roason in tho world why such investigation stonld tako placo. Une dor this law in Now York, several dishoncst offi~ cora hiave beon oxposod and romoved. Without such & law, they, like our County Commisslon- ers, would havo defled the public, snd continued their villainy to the end. With such a law in this Btato, overy public ofiicer will bs con- stantly menacod with an investigation, Office- Lolding may bocomo loas profitable, but it will bo moro honorable, In this city such alaw, backed by o vigilant Citizons' Association, will Lo an ever-prosent admonition against crime. With such a law, the lnte City Treasurer could have boen brought into court, with ali his bank- books and all tho bank ofticors, any day in ihe yoar, and compolled to mako a full dieclosure, and tho Olty of Clieago would now bo thres or four hundrod thousand dollars botter off. HOW TO HAVE A SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, Mr. Gamalicl Bradford, of Boston, has sug- gested & plan for the accomplishmont of that most dewrzblo end,—a dofinito financial policy. Ho would havoe tho English syatom of Ministerlal rosponsibility adopted, so far as the Scerotary of tho Tressury is concorned. At prosont, this ofelal is littlo olso than a hoad-clork whilo Congress is in session. Tho Houso committees urrango about taxation and appropriations and map out & genernl financial pohicy. Tho Houso ratifies it, and tho Sceretary does as ho is bid. During the Congressional vacations ho doos what he wishos, A Doutwell iusucs a fow millions of shinplastors to *move tho crops,” and syndicates the pablio debe to suit Limself. A Richardson resumos spocie-pay- morits, 85 at o time. Thoe result of all this ia that wo have no flxed policy. Our temporary makoshifts are patchod up, in the odd mo- mouts of & busy session, by this or that comumittee, and the mau nominally in obargo of our finances is littlo moro thau a cashior. Thore aro incidental evils, The quostion of fingnce Is not rogarded from a national polotof view, Every man concorned in sottling itls bueily thinking of tho probable offect of this or that measure, not upon tho country, but upon his own constltuenoy, It is not handlod by men ta whom it is tho groat object. It s ono of many things that claim their attontion, It isnot handled by won traiued to floanco, Alsxauder Humilton {s 1ot repraduced in the averago Congrossman, but this avorago man, under tho present systom, do- cidoa what makeshift shalt bridga over tho vaca. tion. "o sacura tho cssontials of good financial sdministration, which he rogards as unity, continuity, publiclty, responsibility, national roprosontation, individual talent, and ekill, A, DBradford suggosta this pian s Tho oonversion of the nominal fnto tho real hosd of tho finances, the admission of tho Beorotary of tho Troasury to the floor of Congrous, with tho right ond duty of taking part in dobate, and aubjoo- tion to what the Frouch call interpollation,” Buch n Socrotary would recoive ostimates of nocossary exponscs from all oads of Doparte monts, Hooduld incroaso or dimlinish those, if. Ls wished, e would prepare s balance-ghiset and submit it to the Houso, If it showed probablo surplus, ko would recommond the re- migslon of eortnin taxos, or tho rotiremont of o cortaln amount of groonbnoke, or the inorenso of cortain oxponditures, It it showod a probablo doficit, ho would rocommond an fncronso of taxae tion upon some artlclo or mtioles, or a do- crenso in expenditure, Tho financlal dobato Blicsp remun | ro-oloctod, whll voto to mako it porpotual. Lot | would bo confined tothis ono plan. Anymembor of tho Ifousccould suggost an nmondmont. Tho Seorotary would slgnify his acceptance or re- Jedtion of it. If hio rojooted it and tho Ilouso malntaiued it, Lo would roslgn, and tho Presi- dent would appolnt his succossor. Bo, too, if bis whole plan wore ultimatoly rofocted, ho would resign. This plan would place power and Teapouslbilily i the hands of tho Scbrotary of tho Troagury, Trained financiors would bo called o tho place. Tholr recommondations would onlighten Congrass, Continuity of plan, 80 far a8 it is nooded, would bo scoured by the neceusity imposod upon ench Bocrotary of show- Ing why ho doparted from nis prodocesgors’ play, if he did so. Tho utmost publicity would attoud the final formation of tho plan, Its un- amended draft would be constructed by a man roprosonting tho wholo nation, and therofaro thinking only of tho intorests of tho whole nation, Thus the cssontials of fluancisl ad- minlstration, as coumorated by Mr. Bradford, would bo compassed, The theory, on a larger scalo, hagworked like a. charm in England, Guizot and Ihiors have both praised it thero without stint, A writer whom Mr. Biadford quotos spoaks of tho principlo of Minstorial responsibility aa * the latont ogsonce and offoccunl socrot” of the English Constitu- tion, May, in his * Conatitutional History of England," spoaks of it in oqually high torms, Wo ought not to imitato our Dritish brothren, who are apt to roject anything that ls American, Dy rejecting this theory becnuse it 18 English, If, as Mr. Brodford olaims, it would bring ordor out of confusion, establish a fixed, wise polioy, and so tako us ono step nearer spocio-payments, tho saoner wo havo it the bottor. Iis adoption ‘would not be diftioult if public men would tacitly consonttoit. Ifthey ehoulddoso, amerechango in tho business arrangoments of the Troasury Dopartmont, and of the Houso Committoos on Ways and Means and Appropristions, would effect it. But if thoy should opposo tho ides, a8 thoy probably would, a constitutional amond- ment would bo nooded. - e —— ¢ THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF ARKANSAS, The Arknusas Constitutional Convontion, oleotod on June 30 and convened July 14, ad- Journed yestordny, aud ita work will be submitted toavotoof tho peoplo on Oct. 1. Tho pro- posed now Coustitution is not an claborato and iutricato documont, like that recently rojocted in Oblo, but is 08 economical of words as tho ro- formod 8tate Government undor it 1s dosigned to bo economical of monoy, Tho framers of 1t are practical men, o mnjority of them farmors, and thoy have ot assumed that all the possiblo virtues of this or the noxt genoration hvod in thom and would perlsh without them. On the efbject of the Ctayton-Holford bonds (811,000,- 000), for whick, tho State roceived no considora~ tlon, and of the ultimato ropudiation of which thore {8 no doubt, the Convention declined to daclare iteelf, bocauso unwilling to burden the Coustitution or to impose restraint upon future Loglsluturos, and becauso judicial proccodings to wipo out tho bonds aro proferrod to & mero edict of tho poople thercon. An clection will also bo held on Oct. 18, of Gov- ornor, Legislature, Judges, and all subordinate clactive offleers providod for in tho now Constitu- tion, and tho, Nominating Btate Convention of. Congervatives will moot in Little Rock to-day, Gov. Baxtor will, without doubt, be nominated, aud bis torm of two yoars under tho new Cone stitution will just fill ut tho term of four yours iu which he is now sorving undor tho old Constitution, It 18 tho purpose of tho Clayton- Brooka party, calling thomsolvos Topublicans, to iguoro the now Conatitution, and to go into zn olection, on Nov. 3, for such officers na should then bo elected undoer the old Coustitution. Thoir call of & Nominating State Convention at Little Rock, Bopr. 16, sponks of “ ono Baxter, preteuding to ba Governor,” oto.; and this call, signed by Powell Clayton, oxplicitly declares that— “Tho logality of tho proclamation lsauod by Elisha Bustor, and tho question as to whetlier {ho persons who pretonded to bo and scted a3 mombers of tho Gonoral Assembly {n May fast wero in fact auch, and whother, if thoy wore, they had the powor to ealln Conetitutionud Couvention, aro queations thas will wul- tinately bo paseed upon by Congress, The moat reasonablo construction to bs put on this languago sud purposo of Senator Clayton is that ho iudulges in it for & Lhome markot, and to lot himsolf down easy, Thara is uot likely to bo any further * roconstruction ” of Arkansaa ex- copt such a8 the ‘pooplo of Arkaneas make for thomsalvos. THE BINS OF THE STAGE. While churchos and theatres oxist, the fight botween somo of their ropresentativos will doubte less continue. Tho pulpit will firo volloys of Just and unjust roproof at tho stage, and tho atago will retort in kind. It is au orror to sup- poso that denuynciatory sormons dofeat their own eud by tho extromes to which their authors are apt to go. They do grave harm to true thoatri- cal interests. 1o bo sure, thoy sometimes in- corcaso, yathor than diminish, the immodiate fluanclal roturns of tho playhouse, inasmuch as thoy advertise the lattor widely and awaken tho sympathy of a large portion of the public for the ostimable sctors who ara includedin tholr ewoop- ing condomnation of overy votary of tho sock and buskin, But thoy repol from the theatro a groat partof tho people whose support i8 most to be doawred, 'Tho standard of the audisnce in low- ored, As a rosult, tho standard drama is in little domand, This phraso has, in fact, becoms al- most a torm of reproach, The sonsational play 18 found to pay best. Xt keops almoat entira con- trot of the boards, because tho men und women who would appreciato something bettor stay swvay. Thoso sermons, thorofore, tond to make tho theatre worse instond of botter, Boliovers in tho cducations] mission of the stage must ro- grot tho fact that its undeniablo sius tompt and elmost compol the ministsy to attack it, It furnishos the weoapous that arp turned sgainat ltsolf. Ite groat ein is, of course, its Impurity. This, whothor dis. played in tho play or thelives of the playors, has evor boen tho chief ground of attack. Bo far us tho average drama is concorned, no candid man can ropel this oharge, The stage is impure. Profossing to hold tho mirror up to Nature, it up- parontly rogards illioft passion am tho most untural thing in the world, As a rul, its Lero- ines elthor fall or pnsa through a flery ordoal of tomptation miraculgusly unsoathed, This {4 not a true ploture of modern wociety, Tho largs wajority of poople puss through lfe without soducing, or trymg to seduco, or belng ssduoced, Yol their lives aro not without tho materials of romance, and 18 is u pity that they cennot roports Of ensh pound storling intrusted fo them by tho nasured, somo companles spond s littlo as 18, othors mpond 2% 6d, othors 10s, and othora tho wholo; snd a fow not only do this, but got into dabt, trusting to bo sot right by moans of futuro paymonts from tho mseurcd.” Thio roport closos with tho advice to thoso sook- Inglifo insuranco to moloct o company which trauencts ite bualnoss on'a small percentage of working cout, and doos not anticipato profits, ——— find & eura footlog upon the boards. It any owo will tako the play-bills of Inat sosson and run through the titles an- nounced, ho will find very fow dramas tho plob of which could bo disounsod in a mixed com- pauy. Thero fs momo oxeuso for this in a play like “Tho School for Beandnt,* which, as a claasio, ought to bo changod as littlo au possible, and which faithfully doplets the manners and morals of & by-gono ngo. No such oxouse ox- iats In tho caso of & play written to-doy and profossing to roprosent to-duy. Boclotyis far puror, Yot an innocont, amusing plot like that of “Bho Btoops to Conquer” in rojected for 80mo highly-flavored story of sin, "'his repronch should bo Tomoved, To remove it wo need a now achool of playwrights, who wil wonve plots out of thelr own brains instoad of rovamypiiug tho * sonsations” of tho Fronch thea-~ tre, Our nuthiors would be richly ropatd, in money a8 woll 08 in the consclousness of woll- dolng, for turning thoir pons to play-writing, e ———— . A sorlons accidont has ocourrod in tho launoh- ing of ono of the most powerful iron-olads yot coustruoted an tho Thames, aud tho mass of metal lics in tho mud slmoat a wreok. This vosgol, tho Indopondencis, was bmilt for tho Drazilisn Governmont on dosigns furniglied by Br. J, Roed, rocontly Chiof Naval Constructor of the DBritieh -Govornmont., 8bo was modoled clogely aftar tho ill-fated Captaln, and hor eon- struction wos comploted with signal sncoess, Contrary, Lowovor, to usual custom, tho dangor- ous and complicated procoss of Inunching this onormous mass was takon out of Mr, Reod's Bomo of thom aro not wanting in tho dramatie | bends, the = DBrazillan officors ssuming tho rosponsibility, Tho rosult of thoir gitl. Aldeich iud Wigginson onght to bo ablo to | 110, Fo aliado; a3 iig, e give us admirablo socloty-dramng, Wo might look to Warnor for sparkling comody, unloss, Indocd, ho moans to keop horaaftor on tho lovel of his snd. Twaln's *Gilded Ago.” Howolls might dramatizo * Their Wodding Journoy.” As for subjects, Amorica, despito Hawthorne's half- complaint of ita lack of the romautio, is vousol was in the mud whon the tidoe loft her, and, though hor tron doak stood tho straln, tho enormous overhanging armored hull sank and crushod tho bottom of tho vessol upward. The accidont was due to the ignorance of those who had chargo of the launch. A groat doal of tha 12-inoh armor had been put in placo upon hor sides, whilo muoh suporiluous and even unusual rich in tho extromes of high and low welght was loft looso on board when tho iaunch lifo which are mnoedod for the sharp | was attemptod. Tho quoation whother sho csn contragls of tho atage. Thom, too, our | boropaired is yot undecided. As bor origial cost 18 £500,000 sterling, the mattor is of no lit~ tlo intorest to the Govarnmont forwhom she was built. Her hull when ready for launching was inaured for £260,000 for a foe of about .£500. Tito loes, therofore, falls heavily upon the 1~ surance companies. It is & significant fact that two equally largo iron-clad frigates ara boing coustructed for tho German Govornmont snd two for Turkey almost adjacent to the wreck of the Indopeudoncia, play-writors necd not conflnothemsolves to thoir own country. Thoy have all tho world and all bistory bofore them, and can cull what thoy will. ‘Whon thoy hnve done their part, and, in fact, beforo thoy have dono it, tho public hau a duty in this mattor. I roputable peoplo would stoy away from digreputablo plays and attond thoso that are pure, their action would croato a Loalthy domand which would do much to raiso tho tono of tho stags. Tho needed ca-operation ©of managers and playors could .bo snfoly rolied upon. Manyof tho actors would doubtloss ro- Joleo to be relioved from the necessity of play- ing tho degrading parts which thoy are now so often forced to flll, and actors aund managers atiko would gladly hoil avy decided movemont for the groator dignity of their profession, P v el e e PRINCIPLES OF LIFE-INSURANOE, —_— Prot. Tictjon, of Berlin, and Dr. Bchulhof, of Viouna, have both boon at work upon the caleu- Iation of the orbit of Coggia's comet, and arrivod at widoly difforont conolusions. According to tho first, the comot will rotur in 8,905 years ; tho second glves its period a 12,184 years, Itis useless to ask, “Who sball decide whon doctors disagreo ?* but tho ordinary mortal may woll bo pardoned if ho wishios that ono or tho other of theso two savants bad lot tho problem alono, ond g0 sllowed onr faith in the accuracy of mathomatics to remain unshaken. For all ordi- In 1870 the English Parliamont pasted an aot requifring tho insurauce companies doing busi- ness in Englaud to submit accounts and state- monts at specified times to tho Board of Trado. Ono hundred aud twenty-five compnuios—all of them British—have, in pursuance of that nct, submitted to tho Board revenue accounts and balanco-sheots, Messrs, Malcolm and Hamilton, Assistant Secretarios to tho Board, have drawn up a roport on lifo insuranco which is of un- usual intorest both to lifo-insuranco companica and to tho general public, A peraon desirous of insuring hia life nced bo no longer puzzled what company he shoutd chooso; heo noed not dopend on the advico of frionds, nor on tho pros- pectusos of the companies fhomaelvos; nor bass bhis solootion on tho amount of businoss trausactod or the dividonds declared. His sim should bo to choosn & com- pany that doos business an correct principlos; aud what thoso aro Meesra, Malcolm and Hamit- ton will inform him. As those gentlomon aay, the life-insuranco businoss is_fouuded on tho fact that, *‘though thero are few things 8o un- certain as tho duration of the life of ono indi- vidusl, cborvation has proved that the duration of tho collectivo life of a largo numbor is practi- cally cortain,” The longer livers supply by their moro numorous payments the balanco which is to bo paid over and sbove the shortor livors, Onco ‘started, sn Insurance company conducted on truo principles needs no largo capi- tal; and all the monoy it needs a¢ tho boginning 18 onough to enablo it to pay exponses until ite business increasos and to moot the losses conso- quent on tho death of those who have insured with it. Whon establishod, tho interest on tho promiums should bo suflicient to dofray the ex- ponses and supply tho means of paying the policics. The satety of an insurance company, granting that ite investmonts are judicious, de~ ‘ponds on threo things: 1. The rato of mortality employed by it in granting tho policies. 2. The ratoof intorest at which it estimates the proceoda of its investments, _ 8, The proportion of tho premiums which it resorves for futuro oxponsos and profits, A promium consists of $wo parts,—tho not or riak promium, or the amount which, iuvested at intorest, will just meet tho policy, and' tho *loading,” or tho amount sot apart for expenges and profit. Thero are two rates of mortality,— tho true and hypothotleal. Tho truo were ‘originally construoted to represont actual mor- tality, and have boon found by oxpericnco to answer their purposs more or less faithfully,” Tho hypothotical are those in which tho rates aro oithor known tobe or aro mado flotitiously heavy. Actuarics aro divided as to which of thoso tables 18 ‘to bo proferrod in prace tice, Tho true tables, so-called, differ among thomeaclves; aud tho Mesurs. Malcolm sud Ham- ilton say that tho substitution of onomortality table for nnother may causo o variation in the resulting liability of 10 per cont.” It 4 of tho utmost importance that & company shoutd use tablos showing the actual rate of mortality in tho clagses which the company fnsures, Next to tho employment of correct tables tho labilities and solvonoy of an insuranco company will do- pond on tho rato of interost which it ealeulates to roceivo from tho investment of ita promiums, "Tho roport saya that on the averago the rato of interest mado by the oftices does not reach 434 per eont, but the Board of Trado are of apinfon that it s not safe to cal- culato on more than 4 per cont. A vory important part of tho roport is that which troats of the proportion of the income reserved by the company for tho paymont of tho policles 88 thoy falt due, A given promium is resolved into the following parts: 1, Net premium, the part put aside to cover claims. 2. Commission to agonts. - 8. Working oxponsos, 4, Profit. Agonts' commiselons never como into the hands of the companies, and caunot therefore be in- cluded by thom 1n aesots, For a somowlat slm- Uar ronson tho Working exponscs cannot ko lu- cluded in assote. Of tho profit tho roport says: S If they (the companies) tako credit in their valuntiou for nny portion of this amount (the profite) they nocossarily confer unduo benefits upon presont members to the injury of now mombord, and the procoss rosemblos that of & spondthrift auticipating for prosent uso tho in- como to bo derived in futuro years from & sottlod estate.” Tho not promium, thoroforo, alono can be {noluded in the assots, Yot in Bpito of this, many of tho English companies have sube mittod valuations in whick future profits, future oxponges, aud evon faturo commiaslons have beon roprosonted as assets, How rooklesaly some of the companies are conducted may be Inforred from the following atatcment of tho hury purposes ons of theso pertods would have suited just 08 woll as tho otlier; but both to- gotbor aro simply unmanagonblo. Whydidthoydo it. The disngroemont really shows that both of theso gontlemon havo calculated from insui- flolent duta. It waa statod in Tng TrrnuNe sov- oral wooks ngo that wo must wait for roports of obgorvations mado in the Bouthern Hemisphero boforo wo can calculato the orbit. The whols path ia to that portion which the comet traversod whilo visible to us was about as & circle 1 milo in diamotor would bo to a inglo yard of its cir- cumforenco; and the best astronomers can no more cateulato tho orbit of the comat corroctly from tho northern observations than an ordinary mechanio could find the centro of the circlo from moasuring tho curvaturo of the abovo-named smzll sogment. —_— Tho manner in which Dr. Sumnor, late Bishop of Winchester, proved his fitness for the ZEpisco- Pate reminds ono of Amorican Civil-Sorvice' ro- quiremonts. After graduating ot Cambridge ho wos mado tutor to tho young Marquis of Conyngliam. Whilo traveling in Switzorland the pupil fell in love with & boautiful Swisa lady who had noither money norrank. ho watchful tutor informod his pupil's parents of tho peril to which ho was exposed. They promised tho tutor that if ho would marry the dangorous siren himeelf thoy would not forget it. Dr. Bumner saw his opportunity, and Miss Maunbir spocdily beeame Mrs. Sumnor. Lord Conyng- ham kopt his word, Dr. Sumnor was introduced to the Prince Regont, roceived an ap- pointment in his houschiold, wag subsequontly mado Bishop of Llandaff aud afterwards of Win- chester. If tho lovely Bwiss was not allowad to ‘woora coronet she had the good fortuns to share an income of 855,000 u year and tho homage paid to an ocolesiastioal Lord. From this story it may be inforred that promotion in tho Euglish Church sometimes goes by favor, promd oot (o Not long ago tho newspapors of this great Re- public copiod, with comaionts, & story of human dopravity, publishod in on Eastern” papor, and written by an English correapondent. Tho nar. rativo gavo a detailed account of & man-and-dog fight which occurred at Hanloy, ncar Birming- Lam, Eng. There is no need to say that tho story was false from beginning to end, Tho poople of Hauloy Liave rosonted tho imputation in & novel manner. A very ghastly sort of farco lasbeon written by a Hanloyito, in which a Yankee Journalist is represented as looking out for nows, whon tho hoax of the 'dog-fight is played upon him. Ho i induced to back one of tho contestauts, and is afterwards enlightened a4 Lo tho soll practiced upon him. Ho is porse- outed, drivon from towu, and made to appear paintully ridiculous. While this moy bo con- dolation to the outraged Manleyites, and a pockotful of monoy to the genius who drama~ tized tho farco, it bas the additioual rocom- mendation of boing the most harmless satire ever attempted. e g, Opponents of sopulture for tho dead have borotoforo dircctod thoir onergien to tho pop- ularizing of the aucient systom of disposing of dond bodies by incineration, Of course, there oxiats & vrojudico against cromation on account of tho insignificanco to which the process ro- ducos groat mow. If u chain existed betwoon tho proposed plan and that of the Parsaos, wo do not hositato to sy that tho popular verdict would bo for cremation. Tho Parsces worohip fire, and do not dare to apply it to destructivo purposcs of this Lind, Thoy, thereforo, caro- fully anolut and propare their dend, aftor which they oxposo thom in a Tower of Silonco, orocted on tho nearest mountain, whero tho vultures on- tomb them. Tho bones drop through a grating into & pit propared for their rocoption. The Bighop of Lincoln is the only known poraon who would profer this mothod, as it would Joave some nuclous for tha resurrection, But to most peoplo tho Parsoo system of burial by vulture has objeotionablo features. —_— T'he rights of property axo but dimly defined in Nebraska, uor is tho sancity of lifo more clearly undorstood. A butcher in Ashland missod Lis tosm, and loarned that a men namod Cobblo Liad driven off with it, This moant s purenit and buokshot, and tho butcher invited a friond to assiet at tho coromony. The pair rodo fast aftor Cobble aud ovortook him oftor & long run. Cob- ble abandoned Lis quarry, but the buckshot had tobeused, Itwas all oxponded on him, and what romainod of Mr, Cobblo was carriod back to Asbland for ropalrs, Itis said that he is completo wrock. Cobble is vory indignoant, says ho {8 & poor man, and baving no moans of earn- ing & living thought tho Ashland butcher, a8 & represontativo of soclety, owed him one. He xozat well, but had no Jual ——— But a fow days since & contonarian of Michigan passod away, Now como the particulars of tho death of Nrs, Ellen Lyon, who was ton years oldor than ho. She was born in Iroland 1 1701, marriod in 1700, and immigrated in 1892, Hor husband dled in 1854, In Now York, agoed %0 yoars,” Bho was a dovout Cathiolio, and up to tho age of 110 yoars attonded ohureh rogulurly and sloue, Bho had no digouso, andmoroly fadod out of existonco by the exhuustion of her vitality, Coming so lato to the Unitod Btates alio nover had tho good fortune to know Goorgo Washington, nor otherwiso engratt horgelt upon. history, Bho lived Lapplly sad Qlod sarencly peascsfal novortholoas. —_— THIRD-TERM POLITICS. Pamphleteering for Grant, An Argument, for His Re-Eleotion.. The Nine Points in His Favor. Altogether Too Thin for the Occas sion. A pamphlot of oight pages has made its apt poarance, prosenting tho so-called arguments in favor of Gon, Grant's third eloction to the Presidency, Wo print it na n part of tho politieal litorature of tho doy, and as prosonting nll tha- can bogald In favor of tho Third-Term dola- slon; AN ARGUMINT FOR A THIRD PRESIDENTIAL TERM, DY A PENNSYLVANIAN. The following olaborate, thoughtfal, and able lottor s from the pen of & goutlowman of large oxporienco, who ks gpont yoars in tho study of the selonco of political ocouomy, and has lived in tho South, a5 woll ns in the North. He knows, sa woll ag any mon living, the politicat complications now upou us, and has glven con- clusive ovidenco that bo is & faithful and wise oxpoundor of that whioh is absolutaly nocossary to givo utability, roal posco, snd prospority to our whola country, Tho namo of tho patriotlo author is withheld, ::r '.I:u m?;un‘ that hlu doos not seok political no- mioty. Ho i a plain, bl his mind freo of ul"mdolflrlntfi::"‘ At It i8 for thoso rowsony that e on) at this lottor is pub- PHILADELPIIA, Pa,, Aug, To the Grant Nationut i, 4 tisire, oo 15 187 GENTLEMEN: Your ostoomed favor of tho 25th ult. was duly received, and contents carofully noted, Tho “gravity of the subject mattor of your latter, moro than snything ©l&o0, hag pro- veated an immediate roply.. I have taken time to think over the subjoct Pprosented, so that my roply might bo worthy of tho importance attached to it, aud, at tho same time, to oxhibit that dogreo of care that is 80 oo soutial to o right understanding of what, to my miud, in of” trauscondont {mportance at s timo liko the presont. It 1y & fact, patont to tho most suporficial ob- sorver of ovents in thig couniry, that we aro too apt to treat the gravost subjocts with a lovity unbecoming our intelligenco a8 1. poople, or tho vast Intorosts involved -not only to the prosont, but futuro generations ; and surely this is true, i to all great quostions affecting tho nation ab largo; such oe flusuce, tarifs, commerco, in- dustrios, and, iu fact,’ tho wliolo catalogre of subjcets that are ombraced in the torm political cconomy. Nor uro we less derelict wheu wo como to dis- cuss the qualifications of thoso wo choose to rule over tho nation for the timo being, ag prescribed by our system of Government ; and thin fault too often leads to mistakes in our choico of mon, who are, in overy way, disquali- {led for high and honorablo truate, thav outafl bickerings, fanlt-finding, and serimonious dige putations botweon contonding !filrtluu, and fac- tlons, that only tend to bring discredit upon us 28 & Peoplo, and keep up a conatant ugitation of the publio’ mind, without any corresponding boueit. But thoro is atill anothor evil effect produced by such egitations of tho public mind, nawmely : to cause moun to become projudiced against ‘our bestand moat ofliciont public sarvauts without Junteauso, and thus they ure renderod disquali- 1ld, from the vory nature of man, from forming corroct judgmonts in any given caao, and hence they censuro without just cause and attributo tho worst motivos to the most innocent acts of our rulers, when a cool, ¢alm, and dispassionnta Judgmont would load them t0 othor and very dif- forent conclusions. Theso remarks aro not made in an apologatic, but in » general, senso, becauso they are tho res sult of Tesouing upon every day ovents, as con- fl:fitm with the history of men'and thiugs, as I e, It Liat been tho misfortune of our day and generation, to troat tho best men of the TRopublis with. unmerited weverity, from Washington's timo down to the -presont hour; for necither Washington, nor any of his successors, have bean nxe:{)t from vituperation and sbuse of factious sud discontonted mon, who eem to thinle their only mission in this world is to load with abugo thoso who are chosen, by tho people, to zulo over tho paoplo, for the time baing. Thiu should not bo. It wora bottor if men would pursuo & difforent courso ; and such would undouabtedly bo the cuse, if mon were actuated by pure, not to sy patriotic motives, in Judging Of tho livos and public actions of theirrulans; and it is hoped for tho credit and honor of the ninoteenth coutury, and of the American poople liying tu this contuiry, that & rulosoreprohonatbla will 'bo abundoned in_the future, and we will havo a now ora, of good Dbresding as woll aa good lollowship, porvading overy dopartmont of socisty in this country, ‘This briugs mo naturally to tho consideration of the quastion propounded in your lutter, namely : * * What do you think of a' third tarm of the Prosidency for Gou. Grant 7" I frankly confers, thet nntil this quostion was 80 pointedly put, I had not thought much on the subject, and whilst I know' that my humblo opinjon is not & mutter of moment to any oue, oiitsido of myself, I shall not hasitate to giva that opinion for what it is worth, with the rensons that influence my judgmont, in comiug 10 the couclusion to which I huve arrived, aftor mature reftection. Looking at the present disruptsd state of partios in this country, it wewix bo almost marvelous to suppose, that there could be such s unsuimity of fecling concontratod upon & singlo man of eithor of tho great poitieal ‘partics, thet have antagouized cach other so Liercoly for 50 many yonrs, to give anything like & suro prospect of success io a Democratic or Ropublican nomiuce, * pura and simple,” in Lot mo pense and oxamine this proposition. In the oxtreme st wo find both partios * play- ing fast and looso,” upon tho questions of fluianco and & tariff, s woll 28 tho tomperance queation, whilst in New York and the Middla Statos, oxcopt Ponnsylvania, o like state of thiugs oxists, In Ponisylvauin we have, on tho finuncial question, inflationists and contraotion- ists in both partics, whilst they aro alike upon the subject of & tariff for protection. In tho West aiid Northwest wo tind the Domocratic and Republican parties striving for tho popular favor with oqual zosl, ns froo-tradors or auti-tariff men, anti-monopolisty, suti-land-grantists, tem- porance, and anti-tomperance men, In tho Bouthwost we find a hoterogencons maodioy, as diflicult a8 some sbstruso problem in algobra; whilstin tho Bouth you havo an ade mixture of Domocraoy, with & White-Man'a party tondenoy, which sooks to insugurato a war of caste or racos, sud & Ropublicanism that s oy factiouu almost as the Bouthern Democracy, and which socms to lack tho truo spirit of Repub- licaninm in all ita osgential features, i In all the Statcs; howover, thore is & party, and no mean party either, in point of numbors, which {s donominated by somo (whother aptly or not) the Conservative’ parly ; which seeks to gather up the odds and ends of all the other burtiea to ewell ity ravks to tho dignity of a Nationul party, How this Conservative party muz suceacd in tho future, time (whick thoy eay makes nll things evon) must detormine, Amidut this uphonval of partics and party tions, 1t is not unreasonablo to suppose, that thero will arieo confusion worse confoundod, whon tho time conics to muke cholce of & candis dato for the Prosidency in 1876, becnuso it i an utter ImBnnulhmty for any man to be found who will bo ablo, in his alnfilo poreon, to represont all the phasos of populsr opinion ombodied m such & mass of contradiotions, Indaed the pioturo, hore drawn, {8 nothing more nor loes than that prosonted at the last Presis dontial elootion, which rosulted . tho trie umphant olection of Gen. Grant, who wx thon, and I firmly beliove is n0Ws the oholos of fao- tho majority of tho poopls of tho United Btates for a tiird term. Aund why not? Bocause, aq somo allege, it wonld be traveling out of 'the usagos of the Republic, and set an oxampls from which even Washington shrank with amazoment aud alarm, Ad to the usagos of tho Republio, X will simply aay,thorelunothing in that, bocauso we have boen traveling ontalde tho uwagoes of the Ropublio for thesu many yoars, aud I think it has on y ovinced wisdom in doing o, luasuch as we nre living in au age of progress, which i thoe result of odue ontion, thonght, and eulightoument, that dise cards offote dogmas in roligion, sclenco, and art, whioh Is tha glory and houor'of the ago. As to Washiogtan shrinking from fhig nome ination, bacauso it would bo solting & bad prece~ dont, 18 not the faot, He shrank Zrom tho task becauso of his ago, and tho breuking down of big vrhynunl oonatitutlon, and for no othar resson, ) W&ohlngton Tesd & patziot ai the end of bla ieoond Sexui'thisn &b the and of his SreMP tey