Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 21, 1874, Page 4

o i THE CHICAGO - DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1874, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TATEA OF RUBSCRIPTION (PAYAN! 812,00 | Bunday, 00! Sy tag samarate, ‘ot 16y ent colny and miista dos, bo sure and giva Post c@'el uildrens {n tull, iciuding Biata xnd Gonntv, Tenitaniccs may Ha mado oitiier by dratt, oxpreas, Post eu oo, @ i regiatered lo'to &, AL OUF ik, TuNMA $0 OITY AUBACRINEIR. Pajls, dellrered, Hunday ewcoptod 2 cante por ‘wooks ¥ ADYANOE), 8! * N dav_ineintod, ¥ eents var woak, Dyt coaverod, BUughyORRTRUING GOMPARY, 'Cornar Madisnn and Doathorn. Snieaga, e TO-DAYS AMUSEMENTS. ACADVMY O MUSIO—alated atreat, hotwoan Mad- wom and Monrno. lingagomont of the Lingard Combina- tion, **Le Sphinz." HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolnh stroot, botwoea Clak and LaSallo, ** The Tangled Chaln.® MVICKKR'S THEATRE—Madiron atreot, betwoon Dearborn snd State. lingagomont ot Josoph Sofforaon. *Rip Van Winklo.® GRAND OPERA-HNUOUSE-Clark Bnorman Housa. Kolly & Loon's lioatrols, and oveniug. EXPOSITION BUILDING=Lakeshore, foot of Adams atnint, = The Chicags Tibune, Monday Moratng, Soptember 21, 1874. streot, npoosito Aftornoon The faithful organs are much distrossed by the froquoncy of indopendent Tepublicsn nowi~ nations, Cortainly it I8 an frrogular thing to gond au honest Republican to Congross. Mr. Tilton's statoment bag produced an effect 1n Now York out of alt praportion to tho popular oxpociation. Tho newapapers admiy that 1t wonves about Mr. Boeclor & wob of circum- stanial ovidenco which is almost, if not quite, unbroken, Elsowhoro in this paper will bo found a ser- mon by Prof. 8wing, on the ** Gospel of Love by Dr. Locke, on *'Tho Lato Episcopal Conven: tion"; by the Rev. T. W. Goadepeed, on * Bap- tist Work and Neods In Cook County™; and by the Rev. A. E. Kittredgo, on ¢Lyndail's Now Goapol. r——— To-night the Committes of Ono ‘Hundred of the Citizons Association will call on tho Com- mmon Council and urge the immediate passage of &new fira ordinance. Wo besponk for this dole- gation o respectful hearing, The present Com- mon Council will ovor bave another such an opportusity to make for itself 2o honorable record. The New York press hee not yet decided in what manner tho nomination of Tilden will affect tho Liberats of tho State. Meny are kindly die- posod towards him, but tho gonersl fecling is that Church would hsve beon better. If the choico wore botween Tilden and Dix, tho Now York Tribune would probably vate for Heury C, Cavey. Judge MeAllister is the candidato for Congress last mentioned 08 ono who cau dofent Mr. Far- wollin tho Third District. Coumdering the im- oginary cost of tho contest, which is talked about on the atreets by half-informed politicians, it is guatifyivg that two such men a8 Mr, Lo~ Moyne and Judgo MeAllisterstand ready totako the chances of an election. Noithor of ithem, W venture to say, wonld under avy clrcumstan- cas authorizo the purchase of votes. , P, Tho London Saturday Review and the New York Nation aro smong the papors which declaro that Mr. Beechor's vindication is not comploted by the expression of the eager, eredulons affec~ ton of Plymouth Church contained in tho Com- ‘mittec’s report. M, Boecher's friends and ene- mies unito in demanding that ho shall take tho offensive against the men who havo, according 4o his statemont, shamefully traduced his namo. ‘Why does ho not begin ? e Col. Miles' commaod bas beon driven in toward Fort Dodge by Indias, having lost a supply-teain of thirty wagons, snd boing in much danger of entire dofeat aod destruction. Tho military suthoritios sond word that he noed expect no reiuforcements, The Louisiana troubles and the appronching marriage of Col. Grant will engage tho exclusivo attention of tho srmy in the Wost and South until tho end of next month, —e, Another supposititious Charlie Ross has beon disooverod. This ono is at Lincoln, Neb, in rustody of 8 man who bas 'compared the por- trait of the printed handbill with the supposed original, and is perfectly satisficd that he has made out o clear case. Nobody ever thought so mesnly of the Ross child as to believo that he at Al resombles tho handbill-picture; if that should be the means of his identification, Lo will die of chagrin when he becomos & man, The Commssioners who wore appolnted to in- vestigate the aMairs of tho Freodmon's Bank, sftor three months of delving into its rotten- ness, bava at lnst boon obliged to aunounce that, **however much it may be rogreited, it is navertheless true that thia Company is insolvent and uoable to pay its depositors sud athor creditors.” This 18 poor consolation for the creditors, Thoy do not oven get tho satisfac- tion of an nspursuce tbat tho Commissionors will fagton the responsibility apon tho proper parties In the Washington Riog who stolo the wmoney of thees poor colored poople and proye- cute thom. Thoy are hopeloss victims, and their monoy s In the pockets of tho Ring. ‘We give this morning tho results of interviows by TnInuxe reperters with two gentlomon from tho Bouth, One of the porsons visited is Mr. Chorles H. Walker, formerly of this elty, but now of Louisiana. Ho says that tho feeling againat Kellogg is strong aod general ; that tax- ation is burdensoms, and ‘fho local sdminfstra- tion of sffalrs corrupt. There is, mccording to Mr, Walker, no antagonism botween the whites and blacks in tho Btate, sod no prospoct of It. The sccond iuterviow waa with Robert W. Healy, United Btates Marahal for the Bouthorn and Mliddle Districts of Alubama. Ho roprecents tho troublo in that Btate aa belng purely political in their origin, in which view e ls doubtloss correct ; and as being caused by the arrogance and lawlosaness of the Democrats, which is not 8o cortainly the ecase, Mr, Healy {a underatood to be & faithtul ofiicer, 1a season and ous of Beason, The Chlengo produce marketa were generally strongor on Baturday, oxcept wheat and provis- jons, Mess pork was dull and $1.00 por bri lower, closing st 23.25 casl, and $17.00 sellor the year, Lard was quiot and 200 por 100 1bs lower, cloning at §14.00@14.75 cash, sud $11.50 seller the your, Moats woro quiet and easior a2 0% @Vigo for vhoulders, 14@i4}o for ahors mid- dlos, and 124@180 for sweel-pickled hams. Highwines wore in light demand and stondy, at ©1.00 por gallon. Lake freights wore dull and oualer at to for corn o Buffslo, Flourwes quiot and firm, Whoat was losa activae andn shade lowor, closing at 0854@985¢o cash or soller Soptomber, and 05}a for Qaotobor. Cotn was 1n.good domand, and 1o higher, olosing nt. 80340 onsh, 80c for tha month, and 783¢o for Octobor. Onta woro lesn notive, and 340 highor, closing nt B0 cash, BObgo for tho month, and 483¢o for Octo- ‘bor, Ityo waa active and 2@30 higher, closing at02. Barloy was oxcited, aud lrrogulasly high- or, closing st €1.10 for Soptember and $1,03 for Octobor. IHogs wore quiet and n shado onsior, at §6.50@7.10 por 100 Ihs, Cattlo woro dull at §0.55 @0.00 for falr to good. THE FALL RIVER DISASTER. Tho detaim of the disnster at tho burning of tho Fall Rivor cotton-mill, which wors printed fu o lnutissuo of Tue TriouNg, have searcoly o parallol In tho aunals of great accldonts in this country, Thoio hinvo beon othors whore the loss of lifo was greator and tho destruction of prop- orty much wmore wide-sproad, but none in whiol tho circumstances bavo boon moro pitfablo aud hoart-ronding. This was not only a holocaust of working people compolied bo submit tolabor of tho most weoring aud coasoless kiud, and to what- ovor.extartions tholr task-mastors might aco 0t to make, but they wore mostly little chil- dren with whom lnabor was 8 necossity, who wero compelled to wonr out thoir young lives in toil or go without bread and clotbing ; Jitto obildren who kuew nothing of school-dnys, of yowthful sports, of plonsant vacations, who heard no wounds but tho whir and hum of machinery in tho groat mill, who saw no sighta but tho loom or tho spool at which thoy worked. That these littlo onos, who have beon doomod to toil ever slnco Lhoy bave boon large onough to work, anid whoso livea have lnown no pleasure, shonld Dave been sacrificed, is one of thoso mysterious digpensations of Providouce which wo aie coun- solod to necopt, slthough wo cannot understand thom. 1t is not woll, however, nor s it humane, tore- for this Qisastor entiroly to Provideninl dispon- sation, Thero fs un olemout of buman ro- sponaibility in it, and thoauthorities of the Stato of Massachusetis, which makes large pretension to philanthropy, cannot afford to lot this dissater pass without making a strict inveatigation, not oniy to fix tho responsibilits in this case butto provont arepoetition Jn future. There aro many other gotton-milla in Fall River, built ana runlike tho Granite Mill. They are just as lisblo to burn any dny, and, if thoy do tuke firo, thore is evory probability that tho loss of lifo will be ny lorge, if not larger. Tt i not Aifeult to fix tha responsibility fa this case. A very briof glauce a4 tho facts will rovenlat. The fire broke out on tho fourth floor of the mill near the lower, runniug through the centro of the building and containing tho staircasp, with o lsudivg on oach floor, being tho only mode of ogress from witnin, Ouv this floor 100 operatives wore ot work. Somo of them wero in timo to ecscape by tho stairs, but the oiliness of tho floors and genoral combusti- Dility of everything in tho room s0on uprond the firo to theso staira, 1n the attics, or ffth floor, wero thirty yonng childron, who wero employed warping and spooling cotton, As tue flawesand smoko hbad mo other largo outlet, they weroe naturally sucked into this tower, and so quickly shot up tho stairsto this floor that their first warnfug of danger was tho lugo column of smoke and flames pouring wp into the room and Lindling tho roof-beams overhead. Thoy rushed to the staireaso only to bo confronted with the fire, and then to the window over 60 fect from tho ground. Dosth peemed inevituble hero slso, In addition to the moans of ogross by tha contral staircaso, it ap- pears that thore wero irou laddors leading o scuttles, whicls oponed out on ko roof, and four fira cscape, Lwo on oach gable-end of tho mill 1t the operatives on this fiths floor hiad voen cool- loaded and strong men, they could undoubtedly have seved themselves, but thoy wore not. They wero littlo girla who had vot dreamed of danger, aud who, seoing tho flames abovo, bo- low, sud all about them, half-suffocated and blinded with smoke, and crazed with tha scroams aud wails, wore seized with u panie, as older poreons might Lave been, Tire-laddors, fire- escapes, and ropes were oqually uselees, They must either romain and bo burned or hurl them- gelves from the windows to be Lilled or tor- ribly mangled. Tho meauns for escape wero therefore rendered unavailabla in the first pluco by the hent, flames, and (@ioke, which cut off the ordinary ogress, snd in thio second placo by & panic which was 8o viol mt that no hoed was taken of tho oxtraordinary §rocautions which had been provided until it was tao late,— an emergancy which ought to Lave beon foresoen, Thoao facts fix the romponsibility upon the proprictors. Thoy had not provided enfo, conveulont, and spacious moany of exit from the mills, and for this deflcit thoy should be held Jiable. To build o mill as this was built, in which 700 bumau bemgs were o worl, with practicully bul ono moaus of ograss from it, was simply & morclless and rookiess ox- posuroof that buman life to o deugoer which might come at any momont. Iron staireasos on tho outside of the building, with laudings at each story commuuicating with tho floors by largo doors, or lowers outsldo cf tho mill cou- taining stawrcason connected with the building by won bridges at each story, tn addition o the contral stairease in tho building, would have provided ample means of esoape, could heve boon builk at teifing oxpenso, and in cage of fatality the proprie- tors could not hove boon held rowpousi- ble. The plain duty of such propriotors s to mako thoir buildings ng socuro a8 possiblo, and the plain duty of tho law-makors is to iuspoot such promises sud compol (hom to ke 1ifo uo- aure by overy avatlable precaution, The lessons of this disaster are plain onough toread. It i too luto now to restore to their homes tho poor littlo creatures who have boen so suddenly suatohed out of oxiatence, or to avort the life- long sorrow which must darken these humblo houscholds, But thero aro more mills in Full River and other Now England towus, Hundrods and thousands of other cbildren aro to-day at work in the attics of theso gront buildings, ox- posad probably to a slwilur danger. The fate of their Jittle companions who have gone plonds for them that, if thoir ontiro existoncoaro to bo doomed to conseless and woaring toil, thoss pockets they ourloh shall soa to it that thelr lives aro protooted. The Olifornia Graugors arg & sturdy sot of fol- lows, Jong-headed and ludependent-—at any rato those of Salinas Valloy are, Thoy complained of tho oxtortion of the railroads, but did not give up the fight with a protost, Thoy daliberately subsoribed tho necossary stook and bullt sad oquipped & rarraw-gaugo llue frowm (ha valloyta Monteroy, & Boaport but 20 milos distant, Mou- torey offors equally gront advantages for loading ships as Ban Fronoisco, with the additional recommeondation of oboapnoss, The Grangors B0y that thoy will bo nblo to pay for their road in | a vory ahort time by the ssving in froleht, whilo, ovou sliould they nbaudon the operation of it thoy will be ahoad by renson of the immensie ro- duetion in rates thoy have enfoxcod on the lines Letweon Salluss and San Franclsco. 'Tho gods Tiolp those who bolp themsolvon, 1f they noed . ‘Cho Bulinas Valloy Grangers do not need it. - P AR KELLOGG'S QUANDARY, ‘Tlio Louininna troublos are not ended with the restoratiou of the Kollogg Governmont, Somo of tho mout morious omborrassmonta growing out of tho lato Insurreation romain, A comploto rostoration of logitimato authority includes au eutorcemont of tho Jawa and tho punishmont of thomo who have violated thom. If tho Kellogg CGlovormont was aud 18 the legitimate Govern- mont, as the Fedoral authoritics maintaln, then it wna a pront snd holnous crime to revolt agalust It, to overthrow it by violonco, and inclte n useless rovolt vhich brought about blood- glied, destruction of property, and loss of life. Tho 1ight of revolution is not recoguized undor tho Coustitution of the United Btatos nor under the Consuitution of tho State of Loulsiona., In- surgonts against the legitimate Government, bo- ine thomeolves unlawful, must be Lold responsi- blo for atly crimes incidant to tho insurroction. The men who lost thole livea m tho late couflict botwoen tho Motropolitau police, protecting the Kolloge Govorvmont, and the insurrcctionists, woro murdored, and tho fenders of the lnsurrec- tion must anewer to the crime of homicide, If not, then men may incito tho masecs to insur- roction and riot with impunity whenover thoy aro ablo o aitain sufliciont numbers; aud & temporary ovorthrow of State or Municipal Gov- erumont may be made to protoct tho lenders from punishment, no matter Low many livos may binve boon lost in the dofonso of recogniz- ed authority. Iho quolling of the Now Orloans insurrcetion, ond tho restoration of Kellogg, theroforo, must bo followed by prompt pro- ceodings ngainat tho leaders of tho insurrection for the erimes committed undor their incitoment. 1t would bo & dangorous precedont to admit that, in tho enso of Louisiann, tho Stato Govornment may bo overthirown by vielence and with loss of lifo among its defonders, without bringing to trial those who Lave incited the rovolt. If in Louisians, then why not in Illinois, or sny other Stato of the Union? We do not say that Messra. Poun, Marr, Ogden, and the othor activa lendors in ‘tho lato insurrcction, should be punished: that is n mattor to be dotermined after s full and impartiol trinl on tho morits of the case, But wo do say that, if Kellogg I to bo restored, thoy shiould bo brought to trisl ontho chargo of erime against tho State or againat individusl eafoty, a8 tho statutes of Louisiann may provide. If this be not dono, revolution muy bocome ag common in tho United States of Amorica 88 in the Repubtics of South America or tho experi- mental Governments of the European Con- tinent. Iu iy for tho State (overament of Louisiana (which Glon. Graut says s tho Kellogg Goveru- mout) to dotermine what shall bo done with tiie loadors of tho late 1nsurroction. Tho Federnl Government has nothing whatover to do with this phnse of the matter, Tho Me- Tuery faction did not rebel apuivat the laws of the United States, and offered no resistancoe to tho Tederal authorities whon the lotier under- took tho restoration of the Kellogg Goverment, as provided by the Constitution of the United States, Having como forward with the neces- snry assistance when called upon, aud baving ro- stored tho recogmzod tiovernment, the United States hos lose jurisdiction except as it may bo lawfully roquested to sustain tho logituate authorities in tho enforcemont of their laws as agalnst organized resistanco, Tho United States Government cannot undertako the proscoution of the luto insurgents, If theXellogg Govern- ment fails to do thig, the failure is at once a con- feanion 4hat it has no following in tho Btato, and a strong proof that it wagnever lonestly elected. Meauwhilo tho question s to how, by what 1woenus, atd on what chiargo the loaders of the in- surreetion sball bo brought to trin), will be (ho moet omborrassing that Mr. Kellogg and bis advieers havo over had to encouuter. Tha New Orloans revolution was not the uprising of tho rabble and rifft-raff undor the inducement of incidental plunder, but the protest of s long- suffering people goaded on to deaperata acts. Alr. Keliogg finds himsolf in this predicament: 'o bring them to trial ia at ouco difiicult and dangerous, requiring judgment and courage, in both of which qualities he scems to bo lacking; ot to bring them to triel iy political suicide aud practical abdication. 1t tho leaders of tho late insurrection are ever brought to trinl, thero will be many extonuating circumstances in their favor.™They will be able to show by thu records of Congress thst they re- volted against 8 Government which was nover legully elocted, sud whoso recoguition was pro- curad by fraud and usurpation In o United Btgdos conrt, The investigation of tho Senate Com- mitteo estublishos the former; the resolution {utreduced futo tho Ifousa for the impencthmont of Judge Durell is sirong evidence of tho latter. Thoy will also be ublo to show that thoy have suffered extortion aud outrago from tho exist- ing Governmont ; that thoy bavo beon loaded down with nnjust taxes ; that theirbusiuess wos languishing in consoquence ; that their privato rights woro abridgod ; that thoir houses wore invaded without authority; and that privato proporty was sizod withont warrant, Thoy may .nlgo bo ablo to prove that their revolution would bave boon bloodless had not the police fired tho first shots, Thoy will cortaiuly show that thoy nover had tho remotest Intention of resisting the Federsl authoritics, and thnt their brief adwmin- intration of affairs was absalutely freo from vio- lonco sgainat tho property and persous of either whites or blacks, Those and mauy otler circum- Alances would be Iavorablo to tho insurrection- iste if brought to trinl; but such facts enunot conslstontly, nor without sorlous dunger, be urgod 0a roasons why they shall 1ot bo brought to trial. A woighty responsibility, for which he may thank his own groed and Gon. Grant's par- tisanship, now rests upon the shoulders of Gov. Kellogis. Wo do not bollove that he has the wnauliness to moot it If Cousclenco doea mako cowards of us wo fonr that Mr, Kollogg will scarcoly dare to proseoute any meu or ot of men in Loulsiana for making sn effort to overturn-his dynasty, 1If bo does, it may bo the means of showlng how frail his claime are to the plnco he holda; 1f ho does not, 1t will be an omission fraught with tho gravost daogor. e —— Tho Royal guest of Paris durlng the past month waas Ludwig IL of Bavarls, onoof the most eccontrio Bpeeinons of monareby the pros- ent contury has produced, 1lo is tall, gracoful, and handsome, but his accontrioltion bave caused wo wuch merrimont that & gouoral luulranalon provalls that bis brain Js not quito sound, Ile fins suppliod ourrent litorature with moro anco. dotos than say monarch of $ho preasu timo, ond it {8 aven hinted that Offonbaoh's King Bo- becho wns an indiroot satiro upon Ludwig's mania for muaie, Wagnor is tho dolly ho wor- ships, and evorything is sacriflood to the on- couragomont of thia art above all othors. Whilo anl the world was laughing at his offorts to obtaln a sky-bluo fake on tho top of his houko, tho unfortunato young man has boon trying to oblain a wifo. Ouo Gorman Princess to whom ho was engagod broke off the mateh becauss ha devoted 'all his attontion to Wagner and nono to hor, Il por titions for matrimonial slliances hava hithorto Dboen unsticcesaful, .;obably for the reason that 1o In considei.d o triflo orazy. Tio {8 doseribod a8 8 young man of plossing addross and thor- ough culturs ond brooding, but the roapoot which his good qualities win for himis loat in the ridioulo occasioned by Lis whims. Fronch- mon feol a littla Bore toward bim, It will bo ro- meombored that Lonis Napoleon deponded on lim s an ally in the Franco-Prussian war, but wns mordflod to find Lim jolning the onomy. At the best, it waa an unfiiondly whim, THE THIRD-TERM JZRGON. A Philadolphia paper states that, however taughabla to the conutry geuerally may be the idoa of a third term, it is not considered & joko ot Loog Brancl, Thore it Ia» matter of grave coneidoration, and opposition to it fs not trosted with respect or kindness. Somo of the Repub- lican rivals of tho President, taking advaatago of his silenco, assumo that ho fa not a party to thio third-term proposal, and indignantly deny that ho i8 or will ba s candidate. Most of the Ropublican Blate Convontions have avoided giv- ing offenso to bim by ignoring the matter alto~ gothor, and no Northorn Stat has even by im- plioation givon suy countenauce to it, Pennsyl- vauia promptly ropudiated third-tormlsm, and thon suggestod Harbeault for Prosidout,—which loaves us to Infor, however, that a convention that would geriously consider Hartranft ss n ro- spoctable candidato for the Prosidoncy would not objoct to votiug for Graut a third or any other numbor of times. South Cnrolina, however, had no seruples. 8o tho Republicans of that Ststo unavimously nom- Inated Gon. Grant for a thrd oloction, and it is moro than likely thot the conventions in all the other carpet-bagged States will do tho samo thing. The undorstanding has horetoforo beon, that a largo portion of tho conventions of tho Bonth wero In favor of Gon. Grant's nomination in 1876, aud their support was founded on an oxpress or impliod prowmise that tho Proeident would cut loose from the Republican par:y, and would hold the scales betwoen the whites and tho blacks so evenly that the whito race would ‘e rolioved of the political dogradation thoy now onduro. Henco it in that the hoadquarters of tho third-torm party has boon fixed st Atlants, Ga., with branches ostablished in all she South- ern aod jo & fow of tho Northern Statos. This movoment was greatly strongthened at the South by tho well-known fact that the Civil- Tights bill was not allowed to pass Congross at the lost sesslon bocauso the President would have votoad it. Tho plan Lias ovidently been to unito the South s a whole, whito and Dblack. in favor of a third term. The Congorvatives who have urged tho re-clection of Grant have ox- pressly statod, as if by authority, that ho would not bo tho candidate of either tho Democratio or Ropublican parties, but would be tho candi- dato of all those who wero dissatisfied with both parties, nnd desired's firm and indepondent ad- mivfstration of the Government by s msu who sought only to promotoe the geperal welfaro. This has beon the burden of all tho publications that have been issued in favor of a third term, Hithorto there haa beon sbaotutely nobody in the North favorablo to s third term. Tlhe poli- ticinns hovo bean against it, the poople have beon against it, and the pross has hoon ngainst. it, But lattorly soms of tho oftico-holders bave timldly opened tholr mouths t0 toll thelr tmmo- diato friends and dopendents that a worse thing might bappen to the country than a third term. Wo believe that Chicago is not altogethor dosti- tuto of theso undecided snd balf-dovoloped patriots. Prosently thero will be more of them, Loth lLore and oleowhere. Thoy are just be- ginning to understand what is expected of thom. Fow porsony, in any walk of lifo, aro quicker to take a hint than tho averago Fedoral office- holder when tho sppointing power nods, snd, as soma of them have begun to talk learnedly of a third term, we shall oxpect to bear moro of them practicing on that koy beforo many monthis roll around. PUBLIC OPINION AT THE SOUTH. Our Southorn exobonges, &8 o rule, publish editoriulg of very satisfactory tone onthe trauble iu Touislana, In Arkansas thore s & curfons silonco. ‘The Little Rock Republican, tho cs- pecial organ of Clayton and Brooks, . priuts the dispatchos sunouncing Penn's success with no especlul display, and kas uot o line of oditorial comment. Gov. Bastor's organ, the Gazelle, is equally non-committal. Tho Bomphis Ava- lanche coudomns Kellogg's provious course, and declares that ke was uevor electod, but Bays that public sontiment must not ignore law, and that, if it was right for Grant to roinstato DBax‘or in Arkunsas, it is right for him to replaca Kollogg in Loulsiaua. TTho Memphia Appeal saga that tho rostoration of Kellogg will bo s outrago. ** Tho will of tho pooplo in o froe ropublic, the will of the people ot Rovaraign Stato, 18 to be sot at haught, and usurpation, tyranny, robbery, aud outrage aro to bo sustained.” It declares that this, if borne without protost, will rosult in & third torm or & diciatorship, Tho Vicksburg Herald exultd in the © victory in Loulaiaus,” sud prodicts peace snd prosperity, provided Peun coutinues in pow- or. The Atlanta News loses ifa tempor b tho praspeet of the roiustatoment of Keollogg. It daclares that this will ** either ond io tho de- struction of the white peoplo in the South, or it must devolop into » bioody war of political par- ties from one end of tho country to the ather” Tho News foolishly advises armed rosistanco to the restoration of Kellagg, but prudout- Iy (aud Inconsistontly) adds: “Wo ro- poat this morning what we have frequontly doctered, that.the Southern poople do nat wish to make war upon the UnitedBtates,” The Atlants Horald considord the outbreak ‘‘unfortunate in ‘mauy respeots for Loulsians aud tho South," but 16 happy iu its sucoess, Tho Herald hos intor- vlowod & number of prominoné citizons, among thom Gov, Bmith sud Senator Gordon. Theyall rogrot tho jneurrection, but hope that good witl coma ont of it. Theyrogard it as juatifiable, but wnwlke, Tho Augusts Constifutionalist aska: 18 it to be wondored st that tho viotims of such unmorciful and dewilish diwsstor should turn Borcoly in their dospair againat the workers of such wicked sud infamous plota?” Itbelieves that the North will be punished by God for tor- monting the Bouth, The Bavaunsh AMorning Netos uays thot Loolslana suffored to tholimlt of humsn enduranceboforeshio roso, She conlddo nothivg olés, The Mobile Reyiater {u delighted with {otory of honeat mon. It eaya thnb it opoun “a now ora for the pacification and genuino roconstruction of Southorn socloty." DBub tho Registor shudders at the tono of Grant'a proo- Ilamation, *Tho army of tho United Blates," 1t saye, *1s to bo used Lo pin the intelligonco and tho worth of Loulsiana to the carth, while 8 pack of villains . . is to contlnuo to proy upoun thelr hoarts as woll a8 tholr means of subsist- ouco* The Galvoston News condemus Kollogg and pralsos tho rovolt, but argues au length that Grant will cortalnly rolnstate the usurper. It apparontly nolines to the opinion that hs cannot avold doing s0. Thoe Loulsville Courier-Journal By For yoars we have stood herein the Bouth for na- tlonality, hoping ugaiust hope thut there was » politte col clianco Lo ealubllalt & truly nstional and patriotic pacty, fust aliko to tho North and the Bouth, to the white and the black. There {s no uso, Tho machinery of elections Ia sbaolutely corrupt, Lotweon the blun- ders of (ho Domocrats snd tho intorests of tho Radi- cale, frea govornmont n tho South has becomoa farco, Nelther party, a8 o party, Tospects tho law, Nelthor party, 0 & patty, loves ita country, Onels fmbeclle and {gnorant, Lido-bound and feolle; the other malignant and mischtevous, led by professional adventurers in the South, in the North by uarrow- 1fnded bigotaand dusturdly Lypocrites, The boltor classes of socloty ars everywhere orushiod otween ths upper and the nother mill-stone. It will bo notlced that the succcss of tha rovolution rovealed no wide-sproad hate of the General Govarnment at tho Boutl, despite many prodictions to that effoct. While thoro is gen- oral sympathy with the moen who bravely struck for froodom, thore is no disposition to resist tho action of the Federsl authorities in the malter, Naturally onough, that action {8 hoartily depre- cated, but that iy all. Tho tone of the South- omn Consorvative pross on tuis subject must strike the candid obsorver as boing superior to that of cortain nowspapera in the Northotn States whoro oloctions are now pending, aud whore 1t ia desmoed neccasary to shake up tho vators. e e ey TRADE WITH THE PACIFIC. The reorganization of tho Pacific Alall Btesm- &hip Company, placing it under what fa claimod to bo an Lionest managoment, scoms likely to ro- sult in & choaponing of freights to the Pacific Coast and the countries boyond, Tho Btoamsbip Company latoly broko from the combination with tho Union and Contral Pacifio Radlways, and re- ucod the rates moro than one-balt, Wo find thie followlug rates given in the American Grocer: OLD TATEB—COMDINATION, Trom San Franciso to Now York. e, per i, ourrency From Now York toSan Franclaco, §10 per Lo, currency MEW BATRS—P. M, 8, 8, CO, From San Francisco to Now York. ... Jc, per lb,, gold Trom Now York to San Franclsco. ..., $10 per toi, gold It may be asked, What futorest has Chicago ta cheap freights betwoon New York and San Fran- cieco ? The answor to this ls that provisions can ba sbipped to San Kranoisco via New York at Jogs than half the old combination rates. Chenp froights by that route will forco cheap freights across tho continont by rail. Itmay not bo gen- erally known that the dewand for Chicago pro- visions from Ohina and Japan and tho Pacific Btates of South America 18 increasing very largely, One firm lLave, withiu s yoar, pur- chaosed in this market provislons to tho valuo of 92,000,000, for distribution in the conntrics sbove named. ‘This firm are now tho agouts of tho Pacifle Mall Stcamship Company, and are prepared to push this business to any oxtent that tho domands of tho Pacific Ocean countrics 1oy require, That firms sbould already bo os- tablishod hero to supply the nations bordering on the Pacific Ocean with our praducts—they aleo tako large quantitios of our manufactures, cupocintly of sgricultural jmplementa—that we ehould havo houses importing direct from Asin and tho Paciflc islonds, shows how raphdy our commerco is oxteding. THE TAX-GATHERE! We bave had occasion sevoral times to call at- tention tu tho tribunal which holds its aunual woasion in Springfield, aud is known a8 tho State Board of Equalization, Thia tribunal is vested with tho suthority to reviso the assessments re- ported by the local Agsossors. Tho law prohib- its tho Board increaging the Aggrogate of all tha egegsmonts more than 2 per cont ; but, within the aggrogate, it has unlimited powers to raise or lower tho assesemonta of proporty by coun- ties, Thus thore sre in INlinois, subject to taxa- tion, 24,057,970 ncros of land, The average asacesment of these is $20.81 por acro. The State Doard, without sny reference to the aotusl value of the laud, classifies the eame ac- cording to counties, and assosses thom accord- ingly. Thua, in 1878, lands in Cook County wero nsseesed by tho local Asscseors as fol- lows ¢ 02,621 acres, Improved, st $25.02.. 104,576 acros, uninproved, st $2.05.0 +.8 0,041,401 T Beosous Total TndBucsnvens eressessssnsssese SIEIGIT Tha State Board added 122 per cont to theso valuations, makiug the aggrogate value 841,172,~ 802, Considming that the total sssossmont of the Stato was 40 por cent of the real value, Cook County lands were sovorely punished, The samo Board then proceeded to take this 29,000,000 added to Cook County from the sesessments in other countios. In 1879, iho local asacssment of all kinds of property in this county was teriibly handled by tho Stato Board, as the following figures will show: Property, Assessed valve, Equalized value, Laud: + $18,646,07 $ 41,172,602 “Town lofa, . 90,447,750 147,220,806 Persoual proport 42,783,860 TotalBesesseen 141,777,602 H163,476,008 The local assessment of 1874, sent to Spring- flold, foots up a8 followa: Lands, 917,008,584 ; lots, $100,089,670; porsonnl property, $37,4%4,~ 233, Tho Biato Board Las so far ronched only tho caso of tho town lots, and they proposs to add 120 per cont to tho loosl valuation, nothwith- standing thoro has been an nctuul deoline in valuo, increasing tho total to $221,687,374, or an incronso of, 34,000,000 over the equalized value of last yoar, ‘Weo suppose thia is to bo taken as a foroshnd- awlug of tha way in which tho other itoms of ‘proporty u this county ara to bo handled by tho samo Doard, As the aggrogato mssessmont of tho State is but 40 percont of the cash value, tho roal valuo of tho town lots in Chicago, acoording to the Btato Board of Equalization, is somo~ whore about 8650,000,0001 Would tho State Board like to buy these lots at that prico, with 50 por cont off 7 Assuming that the extravagant asscssmonts of last your oroto bo repeated by tho State Moard iu tho manuer thoy have acted on tho town lots, tho aggrogate valuation placed upon Cook Coun- ty will foot up somothing as follows: Lauds, £18,000,000; town lots, $221,000,000; snd por- sonal property, ©05,000,000; total, §334,000,000, or 61,000,000 greater than lnst yoar. Assum- iog thet the Btate Board fix this like all the othor valuationa in tho State at 40 per cent of tho resl valuo, wo have an aggrogate cash valua- tlon for Gook County of $835,000,000, or & prop- oity to enol inhabltaut, wan, woman, and child, of about $2,000. Thoe oggregate aascasmout roparted to the Btato Doard of all tho taxable proporty in the o L% Btato foota up in round numbers $1,106,000,000, | andioncs, and nttracted poneral alten~ This sum tho Board may not fnoroass ovor 2 | tion. At ono woanco an unkind skeplic por cont, making the Hmit #1,127,000,000 for tha whoto Btato, Thoy hnvo airondy nssessod nearly ono-Afth of this nggrogato upon tho town lots of Ohioago, If thoy carry out tho samo polloy with rogard to landa and poraonsl proporty that thoy biave bogut in tho mattor of town lots, and run up tho sesossmont in this county to 335,000,000, then thoy will Liave assossed upon Cook County within & fraction of 80 por cent of tho ontire taxos of the Biate. This, if corroct, ovidences an increnso in tho value of property in this city, aa compared with tho rest of tho Btate, that is wholly disproportioned to tho population and to the ropresoutstion allowed us, Of tho ninotoun mombers of Congross wo Liava fesa than throe ; of tho Loglslature wo havo loss than ane- sovonth, In the-Btato Board of Equalization wo have in fact but & single momber, who, Lowever ably ho roprosonts thio city, 18 uttorly poworloss againet s combined nsroclates, The Stite Board sccms to look upon -Obicago a8 a gort of mino whioh it ia their business to do- velop and to work for tho benofit of the rest of tho Btate. As tho Stato Board increases tho yaluc of all proporty in Chioagy, it necesearity docrosses thom outsido of this olty. Tho total sosogsmont for 1873 was about twelve hundred millions, and this yoa: It is o hundred millions loss. This bundred millions, and the fifty or moro millions added to Chioago, will bo taltdh from tho valuo of tho property outsido Chicago. In this way, in the coursoof & fow yoars, the State Board will havo all the taxablo property of tho State located in Cook County, and the prop- orty in the réit of the State will bo roported aa valuelos¥ THE ILLINOIS RAILROAD LAW, Tho coustitutlonalty of the Ilinols law reg- ulating passengor fares on railroads i to bo paseed upon by tho State Supreme Court thle torm, Tho appellant, Noal Ruggles, was a con- ductor on tho Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Kailroad. On the 7th of March, 1873, one Margan A, Lawis gat aboard appellant's train st Budn, in Burcau County, to go to Neponset, & station 6miles distant. When tho counductor came around, Lewis offored him 18 conts, belng at the rate of 8 conts per mila. Tho conductor demanded 20 cents, that bolng tho rogular fare eatablished by the Directors of the Company. This amount Lewis rofused to pay, claiming that under tho statute entitled an ** Act to establish & rensonablo maximum rate of cbarges for tho trausportation of passougors on railroads 1o this Siate,” approved April 16, 1871, be had a right to Lo catricd at tho rato of 3 cents per mila. Aftor bacldilg the traln to tho atation, the con- duotor soizod Lowis by the coat-collar and en- doavored to eject him from tho urain, but failed, No unnecessary violenco was used. On the ar- rival of tho train at Neponsot, Lowis had tho conductor arrested on & chargo of assault and battery. Tho caso was tried bofore Justice Rhoandos & few days afterward, when sppoliant was fined $10 and costs. An sppeal was taken to Buresu County Circuit Court, whore & trial was liad da novo, bofore Judge Lelsnd (= jury belng walved), when the judgment of the Jus- tico's Court was afirmed, and sprellant again fined §10 and costs. From this judgment an appeal was takea to the Supremo Court. The constitationality of the statuto referred to is contested on tho ground that, by conteact with tho State made prior to the passago of the enid act, the Railway Compauy acquired tho right to establish such retes of toll for tho transporta- tion of persons and proporty as its Directors abould deom reasonable, and that the act which dolepatos this authority to three Reilrond Com- issioners impairy the obligation of the afore- said contract, and is theroforo unconstitutional, null, and void. Tbo parties to tho euit agreo that, if tho Court shell hold tho sct to be valid and constitutional in the mattor of fixing, limit- ing, or controlling tho rates of fare to bo chargod by tho Railroad Company, notwithstand- ing tho provisions of its charter, theu tho judgmnent of tho Court below shall be allrm- od; but if in that respect tho law is held to bo in+ valid, then the judgmont is to bo reversed. The cugio {8 on tho peoplo’s dockot, and Is liable to be takon up in & fow days. Tho decislon will Lo looked for with considorable 1ntorest, the moro 80 sinco the paople of Towa and Wisconein have obtamed tho privilege of riding for 3 cents por milo, r— The Deportment of the Eure-ct-Loire, fn Trauce, does not possess & roputation which would commend it to lovers of peace and morality o8 & residonce, It is woalthy, and its villages ave smong tha most prosporous in the country. Tho crimos for wlich it is distin- guishad are not the violence produced by want. Tho dopactment is tho baby-farm of France, and, 28 oue Mayor of the dopartment remarked, “Qur comolerics are paved wiik little Paris- jaus.” Among the baby-farmors of tho dopart- mout was & wuman named Plais, who lived with ason sud daughter in the Vilago of Faviolles, Hor roputation even in tho villago was unsavo- 1y, for sho Lind contributad Jargely to tho mosaic of the comotery. By goneral good managoment shie had secured s comtortablo littlo fortuue in the courso of hor Iabors a8 an “angel-maker,” and, boing quito & young woman, promisod to live long and enjoy it. Hor son and daughter, howaver, declined to weit uutil the business, with its perquisitos, foll naturally into their hands, snd doliberstely determined to commonca “ gugel-makiug" on their own account with thoir wother. Having vainly endeavored to dis- patch bor with o mixture of match-hueds and brandy, they woro compalled to resort to heroie mensures, Thoson placed a cord around bis slooping mothor's nock, and, with the aid of Lis slster, drow it tight enousls to quiot Lho widow. Of courso, thoy were convioted, but it was im- poselble to get o jury ln that neighborhood to Juok nt the matter in & sorious lght, ‘The girl was rolowod, snd hor byother sonteuced to im- prigonment, with hard labor. The moral effeots of baby-farming cannot be regarded as really ennobling or profitable. D — The groat Amorican suob must suffer the com- pletest anguish upon looking ovor tho list of Royal visitors who have beou entartained in Lu- glaud during tho past fow months, Last year the londing barbarian, tho Shah, was tho topio of couversation, then the Czar, then Emporor William, and now the Empress Llizaboth of Augtria, Tho Crown Princo of Gormany and his English wifo aro froquent visitora in En- gland, aud have just concluded o long visit. Iu sddition to these aro the Princo Imperial of France, the young Prince of Asturing, and Priuce Charles of Roumania. Iere is 8 striug of nota~ blen ngainat which the groat Amerionn snob can ouly show one Grand Duko and ono live Eurl, ———— While Mr. Wallaco and Mr. Crookos wore ln- vestigating Spivitualistio phenomena for tho London Dislectical Bocloty, they woro puzzled until convorted by tho apparition of *‘Katis King,” tho so-called daughter of a pirate, The vision appoarod in porfectly Luwau form, and performed many foats (ar boyond tho powwr of {he aclentlat to account for, Bhennuounced that she was about to leave London for “a highor spliero,” aud of course twned up at a seanco Philadelphis, Binca then she apposrod in Obl- cago eimultaneously with ber Philadolphia ma- terlalization, Svoptios swilod at the ocourrence, but paid no attantion to it. Ble sinco sppoared ab Adran, BMioh, otroulsted smoug tho noticed tho opening of n door connected with tho cablnat, and, aa tho door openod outwardly, he cruolly watchod & boy entor, whoroupon ho alily leanod tho full welght of hiu body agatnut it. Katlo King Isiled to como to time, ‘Thecon= ditlons were manifestly uufavorablo. Altor many offorts to induco hor to matorintizo, the soance broko up, ‘Ihe Incrodulons door-keeper joinod tho parties at their exit, amlling at tho succoss of bis plan. A confodorato who had boon watohing tho houss then azsured him that he had caugbt s woman In malo attire trying 1o cecapo from the houeo, and lad endeavored to drag her boforo the audienco, Lut sho ca- oaped. In proof of his atatemont he produced & oano, whioh had been broken in the weufile, and whish wes recognized as the proporty of tha modium, Katie King has siuce sbaudoued Adrian, 1t I announcod in the Canadian papors thab Maj. Walker, roconily elooted & mombor of the Canadian Parliament from London, has beon unsoatod for bribory, it having been shown that hbo had spont $0,000 In his distriat to secure his eloction, The Canadian ideas of bribory differ from ours. If an Amorican Congressman should ever be uuseated for such an offendo s Maj. Walkor was guilty of, it wonld ouly bo for the smaliuoes of the sum oxponded. —_— LQUISIANA AND GEN. GRANT. To the Edvlor of The Chicngo Fribune: Sm: No one ean deny {hat the problera which has been submitied to President Grant for his decision, relative to the late oucbreak a¢ Now Orieans, which resulted tomporarily in & rovolution in tho Btate Governmant of Lonle- inna, was both A complex and a diflicult ona to decide, Ablor men thav he is might woll have stood nonpluesed boforoit. For, most undoubt= edly, it wae a precedent which no good citizon could wish to seo established in our land, that any number of the poople of = Btata should hold it eithier thoir right or their duty to riso upon their own tato ofticials and ANOLISH THEM, ¥ as it wero, in moment. Doubtless, indeed, It would tend to anarchy and confusion were any such violant process of rotation iu offico to ho- como the rula of action in any Btate of tho Union. And yot, s thero will bo excoptions to every rulo of human setion—exceptious which all Liava to reahize aud acquicace in as entlroly as in tho rule'itself,—so, we take It, will thero over bo s possibility—nay, 8 probability—that human naturo WILL, NOT ENDURE, aven in the abused name of law itself, more than a cortain dograo of outrage sud oppressioh. Even a8 we porceive, from time to tine, the mosh poncoful and Inw-abiding citizeus rising en masse, in apporent dofanco of thielr ownsclf-snacted laws, and, 10 onder to prevent the abuso of thoso samo laws to the shiclding of some odious erim= imal, thoy for tho moment soem to relogate themselves back to o stato of barbarism, end usurp again the oxercise of thos lnw which wns originally in the hands of every individual to madke use of as bost plessed him, Might, for the moment, and, a8 it would appear, justly too, constituting right,—ws, in such cascs, poiceivo rightoous vengoance meted out to those who would oleo escapo, by reason of tho corruption of so-called sorvants of society, the punishment of their heinous crimes, And society at largo, whilst deprecating tho attack upon tho lottor of those humau rogulations which now govern them, heartily support TIE EXCEPTIONAL ACT, woll Inowing thst upon such oceusions desperato discases requiro desporato romedicy. The fact of such general uprising of the pooplo baving placed them in a position supevior to their local Jaw, and having paralyzed it for tho time being, not for the purpose of defyiug ita execution, but solely to provent it from being disrogarded and broken in a moro dangerous ‘manuer than even their own Infringement of it could poesibly lead to, this it is that makes saciety in goveral acquicsco in tho ooccasional neceasity of whnt, at best, is but an undesiruble remedy for any evil whatsoovor. Theorizing st such montonts will not do. Wa aromot faco to faco by a stern snd immovablo inct. Wo aro compelled to racoguizo thut fuct \hether wa will or not, sndare stuply powarlesa to reason it out of existence, Besides this, it is woll koown that, a wholo pooplo having declared thoir own lacal law, and having delegatad the exercise thereof into tho hands of certain chosen exocutive acents of tholr own, thoy can (most certainly they do &b times), at witll, UEVOKE THEIR OWR ACTION, Wero this not so, every caso of lynch-law would bo followed by the arrest and imprison- mont of whole townships, The eutirs power of a Siato, and,.if necossary, tho whole power of the United Stateaitsolf, would bo callod, In every such iustuce, into action to svengo the infraction of the lotter of these hu- wan regulations, and penitentinrics large onough for the continoment of tho population of whola countios would bavo forthwith to be provided. Piiat this is not done is Lecauso, in such cases, a8 T have before poined out, mankind perceives that such movomants, boing goneral in thoir no= turo, oarry with thom the sume right te:mporarily to abrogate any portion of such law as tho samo genoral agrooment origiuatly gave to create it Another principle, too, 18 rocognized; that, the molite of such goneral uprisivg being No¥ TO DESTEOY, but to preserve the law intuct and unparvertod, the intringement of it« lattar in 6o doing, #o far from constituting an offouso against socioty, is veally often tho ouly romedy left agninst mon- strous evils which o ofton grow up in Ity very midst, aud which bave g0 grown st intorvald from tine immomorial. Now, the peoplo of & State control thelr own laws, always presumiug that uoithor in tho lotter norin the spirit thercol aro thoy at variance with the Constitution of the couutry. They alono aro yesponsibla far the creation of the gomo. 'Lhoy atone aro rosponsible for thoir ox- ecution, Lvory Stato in the Unioa is supposed to be thus governed by the WILL 0¥ TUE PEOPLE. It any is not, then ks Republican Govornment womo to an end, sud the oxperment of our fatliors I8 & failura. Whon, at any time, the will at tho majonty of the people is piainly expreas od, that will, it it takes tho orm of, uotion, une doubtodly becomes for tho timo bolng tho law,— alwways supposing it to be not repugnant in Bpirib to tho institutions of tho country. If such law, then, bo w barmovy with TRopublican institu. tious, no pratense of Fedoral interposition should bo mado use of tolutorfore withit, If, bowover, in tho oxerciso of suct will, which, we assumo, bocowes for the timo being the law, the poo- plo so assorling it pormit themselves to trepass upon the United Seatiy laws, {how indeed, but ouly fn such cases, doos it bo= como the duty of the Fedoral Govarnment to in- tesposo, unless somo good and suiticient renson domund that ua action be takon n tho promises, "And yot, whilst such considerations as theso COMPELLED 3MANY TO HESITATE upon the recoipt of the first newa o1 the exist~ enco af uatual war in the streots of New Or- loans, and of the overthrow by torco wnd vio- lonce' of & Stato Governmont wWhich had Leen dovizod it fraud aud estabilshod by tyranuy and outiuge, wa you woro compellod, most roluctunte untly, 10 Qetornnno that evoutd, both in Wasbie ington and Loufslaoa, had become indecd e mastess of tho situation, Much ay we nught de= plore tho fact, and its posible consequunces to That unhuppy BStste, Wo eould ‘wue 1had yobably #0 cauto wuy loft open o 3 D rericent Grant other thau that which tho tolo- us::g ‘wuform u ho has taken, fu denwuding tha e poidor of tho Ponu Governinont, Lo **bud™ Sl bogau when tbo Prasidont permittod hine golf to bo burried by unwise snd partisau ad- visers into uulxporllng Dy tho Foderal power the faandulont act ot corrupt aud drunken Judgo of & Uniced Btutes Distriot Court of Loulsiuna, has baou tloo followad by that ¥ worse " which #* romuined boliud " of intor within ber hordors, Loui throttied by robbers who wore of evory law, ine war 60 latol; azged and tlug in dofianca whether human or civlue=