Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 9, 1874, Page 4

4 o THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONbAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1874, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. Baxsa of iuil IPTION (FATALE IN ADYANCE), B2 ad tha same rate, To prevent delay and mistakes, bo surs and giva Post Offios address in (all, inoluding Stato and County, Temiitances may bomade ofthor by draft, expross. Post- Offics order, or In roglsterad letterr, b out riik, TENME 0 CITY AUIACRIDKES, Dally, delivered, Sunday oxcentod, 205 conts por waok. Daily, delivored, Sundsy Included, 30 conts yier weok, Addron THE TRINUNE UOMPANY, & Gornor Madison and Daarborn-sta., Chloago, 1l plaitshiatut ) TO-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS, 3 1S THEATRE—Madison streot, betwean DR S iate. - Iingsgomont ot Wybort Ttaove. 7o Womanin White." DIRAY OF MUBIC— Halatad straok, betwesa Mad nn:':-fi :‘ml‘ Monros. Kngagomont of iiss Kila Weanor. o, and} HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph stroat, botween Clask and LaSallo. ** Monoy.' GRAND_ OPHRA-HOUSE. Buorman Houss, Kelly & Lo McCONMICK'S HALL_Norih Clark stroct cornor Xmlln?l n.f-mn.. A oatte Inersonafions by Graco Greonwood and re. Sarah Vishor Amos. STANDARD WALf—Corner Thirtoenth stroot, and A A . Wity Peol, Bunsmy ¥rice. Hubjouts ** Commeoreial Urleos. o steeat, opposite S hl;‘l‘nllnlll. FUNIRAL-Tho members of Chicago MASONIQ, TUNEIR AL A, 'aro rentosted (o bo at T Adaoroann, Nos, 113 and 114 Kast Kandalplvat, 8¢ e oo o e, slinEn, 1o oy tho Inat (ributg ol to- apeatto hels deparced Brathaey & Witknmeky Br, By oider of tho W. M. i w0 1 PR N Yand A M. @ Sacat :f'xdn"‘n'iim‘, 6. i w16 ol felock, aliarp, [t Botiior, 5. Witkowk. "N SUTRE, Wa L, NOTIGES. .ROT'S COMPOUND OF PURE COD LIVRR oS GO tan ot this mpound ovas tilo plain cil fs that tho nausoatitiy tasto of the oll s fln\l’lply Blain el i thalo rawured ontirely yaiatablo, The offensive taste of tha il has Jong aciod asa proninont oo A L it I Thisfotim tho (roubl0 I3 entir- Lhviatod, A host o€ ox might,bo glvon Horo 1y Chmiato i oscationca and uocass. of W illar's Cxd BET R e ot Tkt 4 repuiatly e o dicai noulty fs sulicient. Srorerb e Cheaniat, Hosion, wmi by al drmagists, The Chicage Teibune, November 0, 1874, Mondsy Morning, The TFormosan diffeulty has Loow eottled. Obina will psy an indemuity of 500,000 tacls, upon which tho Japanoso troops will bo wiib- drawn from tho island. e Ovebundredanduinoty-threo Geaths from diphi- thoria accurred in Now York City duriog tho last two weoks of October. A scientific investigation of tho causea of this phenomeuon is tobo made, and porhapa some kuowledgo will bo gained ro- specting tho discaso itself and improved moth- ods of treatment. e The Committeo of Seveuty m Now Orleans lins addrossed to tho President of the United Btates & pratest against the further occupation of tho Stats by Fedoral troops. Thoy do not chioose, they eny, to bave tho Canvassing Board act in tho midat of bayonets. Tho tono of the protest {8 not what it should bo. oy Aslgn of tho times istho conscerativn of & colored clorgyman as su Episcops] Missionary Bistthp. ‘Tho now Dlshop's fleld of labor 18 Hayti, where ho will, by alt accounts, find abuu- dant opportunity for tho osercisg of all tho Christian geacod, aud whatever oxperionco of bad buman naturo ho may bave bosides, A correspondent in New York furnishes us this morniug u sketch of Gon, Shalor, the latoly-ap- pointed Consultiug Engincer of tho “Ghiesgo Fire Dopartmeut. Goo. Bhalor ig not o carpet- kolgbt. Tis oxporlenco in orgavizing and dis- ciplining men was gained in tho army, Tno story of hia life isastory of advouture, aud, apart from’its bearing on the fusurance interosts of this city, is entortaining and instructive. Tho Forty-fourth Congress will dovole much of its time to, the cousideration of coutesied eloction cosos, Somo of theso arige logitimate- I5, and many moro will probubly bo brought with the assurauce that a Domocratic slouso will know aiid Jove its own. Of courso thio ruloof tho House, when in doubt, will be, to recognize Domocrats, We bave yot to notico u disposition on tho part of the victorious Demacrats to goar {u the empyreun towards which they wore slways aepiring, whon out of power. The fla- grant practicos which wore not provon but charged ogaiust tho Ropublican party arcnot 100 bad for Demacratio accoptuuce, now that their inning kas conte. All, Sturges Lins been roundly brought up by tho Executive Committoe of tize Board of Trade, aud will bo tried for uncommercial conduct, Tho Board has now an opportunity of vindicating its good name from the aspersious which have boen frecly cast upos it in cousequenco of Mr. Sturges’ dealiugs; if this opportunity is not jmproved, wo fesr the Doard will goon be past redempiion, Wo inform those persons who are disposed to desl leniently Ly Sturges jthat tho proposod cstablishmont of a now and respactublo Chamber of Commorco s seriously considered by men whom the Board csunot afford to lose. Tho treatmentof Sturges will havo much to do with the success or failure of the new project. R The iron manufscturers aud the puddlers are farther apart than ever. A conference between ropresontatives of both intorests will bo Lold to- day, but there is little prospect of an accomoda~ tion, The masters say, and tho facts benr them ont, that & continuance of high wages is imposeible. 'Tho mon talk flercely of their rights, and tho dutics of porsous whom they bLave mado rieh; and piopose to resmist a re- duction st tho expenso of a genoral strike. Bympathy for cither party to tbe controveray would probably run to waste; but thoro fs 8 large number of men and women, estimated at 100,000, who will bo innocent of any sharo in & strike, to whom it moaus wrotcheduess and waut, Their situation can bo viowad ouly with the deepest intorest and concorn, Tho Chlcago produce markets were quito ani- noted on Baturdey. Moss pork waa netive, and doclived 10@%0c por brl on optiovs, closing ot $17.76@18,00 caub, and S17.16@17.20 vollor tho rear, Lard was active, and ensier, closing ab 112,00 per 100 1bs cash, and $11.72}4 @175 sellor sho yonr., Ments woro in fair domasud snd Arm, ot 044@7c for shoulders and 9{@vlg0 for short ribs, both soller tho month, Ligh- wines woro quict and steady at UGlfo per gallon. Lake freights wore dull sud steady, cloaing at 43¢e for whont to Baffalo, Flour was nolive and unchanged. Wheat was active and 1@13e bigher, closing st 8630 cavh, and 870 sellor Docomber, Corn wes gotive and 1§@20 bigher, closlug at 76)¢o ocasl, Thige for tho month, and 700 for tho year, Oats wero activo and 3o highor, closing at 473(c cusl, 47}c sellor tho year., Rye was quiot and strong at 83@83}ge. Barloy was dull and wosk, closiug 8% 8LI0 caxh and 81.16 for Novembor. Hogs were faivly aotive and stoady at $05,25@0.25 for poor to chiolco. Cattlo and shoop wore qulot and unchauged. —— Tn anothor columu will be found & statemont of tho ressons which saped tho conduct of Prof. Bwing's frionda durivg the trisl of tho ap- penlod caso In tho Bynod, & daofonse of tholr ac- tion, and a critlolsm of tho Bynod's. The doou- mont is in soveral respects romarkablo, It probably olosca tho case, or 8o much of it as tho goueral publio cares to bear. It Ia tuminous, direct, and sovers, It poiuta out many incou- slstonoloa of the Synod which tho ordinary ob- sorver probably would not deteat. It showa that tho Bynod wae interior in numbors to tho Pros- bytory, and bints that it was inforior in intolll- gonco and houesty, Thopoople sre apparontly not disposed to limic thomsolvos by constitutional amondmenta, 1t is but a short timo sinco tho proposed now Ohio Coustitution, which cost monthsof highly skillod Iabor, was rojected by an overwhelming voto; and tho drafl of a now Constitution for Miclil- gon sharod tho samo fato at tho election last Tuosdsy, It apesra also that soven of tho claven propositions submitted to tho people of Now York have boen nogatived. Tho causos and concomitants of thls chavgo in popu- lar sentiment—for {hore cortinly has been a chango within a few years—ars porhaps far to sock, and caunot bo immedintely discovored. Somo of them, however, wo have found. They are tho burdeusomeness of restrictions which the pooplo have already agreod to, = growing distrust of delogatoed authority, and an inoreased seuso of confidonce in the verdict of msjoritics oxprossed ut the polls. The propositions to limit the powoer of towns and countios to contract dobis have boen gonerally rejected, whilo thoso to limit tho powera of tho Loglslature, whon submitted soparately, havo boon as gonerally ap- proved, Drummond in the United Statos Circuit Conrd Saturdsy by ropresontatives of the Ohicago & Northwestorn and Obicago & Pacific Railroads, Mo Inttor rond is now in process of construc- tion. It crosses the lino of tho Northweatorn Toad. A controversy haa arisen between tho two Compavics a8 to the properplace for mak- ing tho crossing. Tho Northwestorn Compavy in Wisconsin has sued for an injunction to pre~ vont » crossing at grade, The Court hesitated to take jurisdiction of tho euit, since the phintift can only bo considered a oftizen of a forelgn Stato by a logal fiction, tho Northwost~ ern Railroad Company in Illinois and tho North- swestern Railrond Company in Wisconsin being. to all intonts and purposes, ono corporation. The question of jurisdiction aside, the Court is dieposed to think that tho right of way granted to the Cbicago & Pacific is not exclusivo; that gomo ressonable accommodation ought to bo renched without litigation; and that, under cerlain contingencies, Lotk parties interested should bear the expovso of meling an under or ovor crossing. Tho vigorous, incisive, and acute {reatmont of tho mattors in controvaersy by Jndge Drummond wlill do much to settlo the practice in xespoat to railtond croseings, which has bitherto boon irregular and confused, Now that Mr, Medill na assuied tho control of Tuk: Cucaao THmuxse, wonld it Lo too much to ask, very vespoctfully, that wholesalo and retall slandors of the minsstry n tho columns of that abla paper bu stop. ped7 Clergymen do not ke to rush fnto priut agatnst upseeu pasadlauty of thelr repututions for honesty— nor fa 1t consonnut with humn uitura to bear such things fu stlouce, No fmmunity of tho clss from ‘mrited oxposure aud public opprabriuns In asked, but Mr, Medill, 08 the Clristiun geuticumt thot e fa ro- puted to be, is under_ubligations to sco that wanton aud grounaless assaults aro siob mado in the columus of bis paper upon tho personsl Integrity of private it~ 1zens of the clerical uny more than of any othier pro- Totelou or occupation,—Intcrior, As tho editor of this paper has boon abscnt from Chicago & conslderablo timo, ho cannot couscientiously or intelligontly agreoto anything in tho promises mentioned above, without know- jug somothing of the uaturo of tlo cireum- stances, Whoso character bas boou mesailed? Of what do these assnults consist? What aro tho facts in thecaso? If thoro bave beou as- snulta, what waa the provocation offered? Wo baliove that the Inferior {8 edited by Prof. Patton, of whom wo know only by report, and what wo Love heard Lins mot giveu us avery fluttoring opinion of him, Is Prof. Patton tho person who Las beon hunting Prof. Swing, & clergyman in whose behalf wo feol a vory lively intorest? IIas Drof. Patton boon sesailed, aud it 8o, what provocation did ho offer? Wo can- not agreo to do anything until wo knoiw the naturo of tho alleged offenses, and wo thoro- foro’ submit these questions in ordor to obtain some light upon the situation, Wo pive this morning returns of the vote in savauty-two countios of Illinois, for Stato Prousurer and Superintendent of Publio Inatrue- tion, and the footings sro: Treasurer, Superintends mfls*liwblm' 106,501 Powell, Ltep. Carrall, Demn....\ ) 3o Gore, Tudey s} Ettor, Opp Siugson, Prolilb.. 1" Potter, Probib..... Aggregate .. 108 Aggregalo...... 590,001 The ssmo (sovepty-lwo) countios voted, in 1873, for Governor: Ogloeby, Ropublican, 163,140 ; TFoornor, Opposition, 120,463, DBy comparison, Ltter runs 2,703 bebind Koerner's vote, and Powell 44,465 behind Oglosby's vote. There aro thlety countlos to bo hoard from, including tho ofilcinl vote of Cools County, Tho roturns thus (ar justify flrst ectimatos of Etter's clection by from 25,000 to 90,000, Bidgway's plurality over Carroll will be reduced some 8,000 by tho vote of Cook County, and, beyond thar, will largoly depend on tho number of votes Gore roceives. Tho tsble of returns, showing low the Opposition votes of countles wore massed alternately on Carroll or Goro, will afford & curious study for those intorested in olection figures, Wo publiak, algo, tha votes of euch Congres- slousl and Leglslative Districts as presont com- plete roturus, Qur list of tho Legisluturo eloct Liaw, by reviion, undorgono somo changes as to nnmos (a8 was oxpected), but the political rosult is substantiantislly unchanged, viz.: Senate, i. House, Tor tho completencsa of thoso roturns TiE TrwoNe is indobted to the courtosy of County Olerks, A very fine specimon of the trilobite was found o fow days sgo, imbedded In a limestone rock, in Jackson's Grove, ucar Ellwood, In Will County, in this Stato, and s now in the possos- slon of Jobn Foruyth, kisq., of this clty. It is about an inck and throe-quarters long snd one juch brond, Tho trilobite fs so named from two Greok words signifying *threo lobos,” or di- visious. It belongs to tho articulats, und la now extinct, It wus most abundaut in the palevzolo poriod, aud was smong tho ret animals that ox- fsted on the ourth, An orroncous lwprosslon provails to the offact that tho trilobite in never fotnad in the limestono, Bevoral spocimonshavo beon discovered In that formation, and most of them bad ovidently tho powor to roll themsclvos up Into & ball, like & hodgehog, while thoso found In the older rocks do not apposr to have boon ablo to do so. Tho Chicsgo Acadomy of BSolonco hns asvoral apocimona of the trilobite, whicl ara largar, but acarcely no porfectly pro- sorvod aa the lateat ona discovared. T0 THE READERS OF THE TRIBUNE. 'With this issus of Tre Trrsune I resumo itn editorial control. Haviog within tho past fortnight purchased onough sharos, adidoed to what I proviously owned, to constitule a majority of the stock, tho responsibility of the faturo managoment of Tux TrinuNE will nocos~ sarily dovolve on mo. With what dogreo of abltity and success I shall discbargo the new obli- getions, timo nlono can make known, — for Lot not him boast who putteth on his armor, but rather him who taketh it off.” A few words of oxvlanation may not be inappropriate 1n this connection, Bliortly after the close of the Groat Robelifon 1 wos obligad by ill-kioalth, caused by overwork, to roslgn tho Manoging Editorship of Tuw TninuNe, first to the late Dr, O. H. Ray, and, aftor ho vacatod his post, to Mr. Horaco Whito, who bas siuce then had cbiof controlof the papor. Aftor a briet rest I took an editorisl chlr and wrote for ita columns for soveral yoars. At first tho political course of Tue TRIBUNE, undor tho now mauagoment, rocoived my ap- proval 1n tho main; but questions bogan to srise about which we sharply dif- fored. Both bolug mon tenacious of their opintons, it wau dificult to harmonize our conflieting viows and agreo as to the conrso Tus Tripune should pursue. Those disngreemonts becamo moro {rreconcilablo as tho papor drifted swny from the Xepublican party and appronched thio position of an Opposition journsl. Tinding mysolf ciroumeoribed within a gradnally nare rowing circlo of toplos fu which wo weroin ne- cord, I rotired altogother from tho editorial columns of Tux Tnmuse, Our difforences, Loweveor, wero always politfeal, nnd not por- sonal, My prodocessor has pursucd tho courso which ho belloved to be the path of duty with a courage which challengod the re- spoct of those who condemmed it, and sup- ported bis views with an ability which oxtorted their admiration; and ho lenves his editorial chir aftor haviug achieved » national roputa- tiou. The readors of 'Tue TnnuNg will naturally desiro to be informed, at tho outset, of the prob- able line of couduct of Tux Tmpose under the change of management, A full explwation cannot bo given on the instant. 3Men's opiuions and actions are moro or less Influoncod and con- trolled by the circumetances which surronnd them, and slyays by unforoseen caueos. Dub this much moy now bo safoly promised : Tie Tamuse heroafter will bo, as it formorly was, when under my direction, an judopendont Re- publian journal, It will bo tho organ of o mau, however high; no elique or ring, however influential ; or faction, howovor fanatical or de- mwonatrative, Whilo glving to tho Ropublican party sud its priveiples o hearty and generous support, it will eriticiso tho actions and records ot Ropublican loadors as frooly and fearlossly as in deys of yore. Bus it hasscomed to mo unwise for a great raprosontative journal, for the pur- poso of correcting somo alleged abuses of admiu- {ateation, to dosert ite party orgunization and turn its guns on its old friends, or holp uto powor and place the leaders of tha organization whoso political records and whose oficisl con- duct show that thoy aro ineiucere in their profes~ slons of desiro for auministrative puritication, As o gonoral rule, a man can exerciso niore influenco for good amoug Lis frionds by ro. maining en rapport with than by aesailing aud traducing thom. The samo rule holds irue in rogard to newspapers. 'Tho Goverumsut of nu‘: Nation must be conducted through the instru- montality of parties. I know of mo other aponcy which hne succoeded in free countrics. Tho party in tho mojority must assumo the responsibility of govorning. A party ia simply o voluntury organization of citizens united to carry foto offoct costain principles and pur poscs, It must employ and intrust Individuals to collect and disburso taxes, to porform ox- ceutive and polico duties for protection and security of person sud properly; mon must bo ongaged to comstrucy publio works, carry the mails, odministor justice, and mako and exccute Iawe, and do a thousand othier things which tho public well-being re- quires ; and these individuals will often prove carcless, inefliciont, or corrupt., But & pmty whoso aitns and purposes are good sud patriotic, snd whoso record is grand and glorious, should not b condemned and thrown'out of power on account-of the defective work or misconduct of fow of its employee, in order to make place for a0 autagonistic organization whose record cau- uot bo dofended, but is regarded with sorrow and shama by its bost mombers, sud whose con- duct whon in power never fails to show that ity roformatory professions wiien out of power are a delusion and o suare. Buch belng thoe cage o regard to the necosslty and macbiuory of partios in free countries, tho Prese, to bo usefal, cannot avoid being partisan in greater or loes dogreo, If au editor under- takes the role of supporting both sidos, his position {8 equivalont toa double afiirmatlve, which amounts to a negative, If he habitually consures aud condemng both, he s soon rogard- ed as a common seold and a puisauce. To beou- tiroly unpattwan leayos him in the condition of u ciphor; and whon a newspaper undertakes to be wholly “{udependent™ at ita party aud yet dls- ousy politics, it 1s o tho high road to the camp of {ta political opponeuts, whother Its conductor 80 intended st tho outset or not—uuloss, indoed ho takos refuge in the coward's harbor of uou- trality and abdicatos his dutios altogother, which {a & most contomptiblo and despicablo position, Bt it 18 not essentlsl to the prospority or influ- @uoo of & pasty papar that it should wilitully miss roprosont its opponents, and behold nothing but ovil and depravity in all thelr actions, or dis- cavar only troasonable designa in all thoy pro- poso 1o do. Candor and fairness in tho treat. mont of politienl opponenta will dotract nothing from tho influenco of & papor, nor will it injare the prospocts of {ts own party. Buch, 1 brlef, aro tho viows I have long en- tortainod of partios, and tha rolations whioh tho Pross should bear towards thom. A political nowspapor, to bo of sorvice to tho publlc, must glva one party or the othor tho proforence. Aud, while the Domocratle party embracos many oxcollont and worthy membors, who would bo an bouor to suy organization, yot I-sin- corely bellove the Ropublican party com- prisos & much largor proportion of tho fatalli- gont and educatod clasges, of tho moral worth snd busmess onterpriso, na well a8 of tho patri- otfo olemonts, of the nation; and theroforo the Govornmont of tho oountry and the civil rights of the poor and wenk can be more safely and prudently committed to its keoping than to that of ita antagonist, whose past history and antocodonts furpish o much causo for mis- givinga and droad of its future bohavior. Looking, then, attho Individual composition of tho two groat partios,—all other parties being ‘mero fragmonts, cphomeral in duration and nar- row in object,-~and at tholr respective racords and undorlying principles, I connot besitate to givo the decided proforenco to the Republiean party. Henco, Tre TripuNe will be conducted as a Republican journal. Haviug said thismuocl in » genoral way, it only romaiusa to Lo added, thatno labor or oxpouse will bo sipared to keep Tug Trisuxe in the very front rauks of jouruslism a8 » news-paper in all departmonts of curront intelligonoo and ac- tivity. Tho high position it has attained as an advocate of tho matorial, moral, and iutollcctusl progross of the poople, will bo maiatained aud advanced ns far ns possible. It will bo my constant aim and en- doavor to make Tur I'ninuse not only & wel- come hut useful visitor to the fireslde, as well as to the counting-room, shop, and office. For tho cordinl greeting with which tho brath- ron of tho Press havo welcomod mo back to the editoriul arens, 1 tondor thow my wost heartfelt acknowleagmonts, and, for the hundrods of con- qratulatory lettors and telegrams recelved from old frionms, thoy havo my sincors thanks for thair kind ospressions sud good wishos. Rospect- fally, J. MeDILL, THE TARIFF AND THE CURRENCY. Thero are cortain questions of public policy upon which there is a wide differonce of opiu- ion, and upon which each political party is in itsolf moro or less divided. Nevortholess thoy aro of immediate and direct consoquenco, and call for eatly and radical wottlomont. Thoso queations aro the adjustmont of tho tariff and tho regulation of tho national currency. That thero may bo no doubt or misunderstanding be- tween tho mauagoment of Tue TnipuNz and tho renders of the paper on these popularly- styled “ living issuos,” tho postion of tho paper will be of uo uncertnin orquoationablo charactor. The Ropublican party of Illinols, in Soptom- bor, 1870, declured fu conveution, with moro than ordinary unavinnty, its position on the tarift question in tha following resolution : Tesolted, That, as taxstion fs u pecuniary burden im- yposod by public suthiority on tho proporty of tho peo- plo for the malutenanea of Govornment, the paymont of it4 dabts, ond tho promotion of tho gonoral wel- fare, Congress ought not to tax'the substanco or the carnings of the cltizens for any othor purposo than above Indicated, aud that ¢ & wrongful mud oppres- sive to cunet revonuo laws for tho spectal advantugo of oue branch of busiuess at the expense of another, and wo liold thnt tho best aystem of protection to induatry is that which imposcs tho lightest burdens and tho fowest restrictions on tho property and busincss of tho people, This resolution ombodies with sufliclent ac- ouracy the polioy that will flad support n this puper. Tho tima that las elapsed since tho rosolution was first adopted has but confirmed the justice of tho priuciple thorein sssorted, and tho exporienco of tho country has shown tho necesaity for such 8 readjustmont of tho tariff ns is suygostod by that resolution. Ou tho currouoy quoation o like difference of opinion provaila not only betweon partius, but within caoh party, and upon this subject Tux Trinose concurs in the policy indicstod in the following paragraph of tho Domocratio-Liboral plotform adopted at Springiold in August, 1874: “The reatorution of gold and silvor as the basls of tho currency, the sesuniptlon of spccly payments as 800 a8 poesiblo without dbsstor to the bueinoss futereats of tho conntry, Iy steadily apposing intlation, and by tho payment of tho natlonal fudebledness in the money of tho civilized world. Political parties in the soveral States hava in & meansure avoided any oxpression of opinion on this subjoct, while 1n somae cusey, as tho Domoc- racy in Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri, there bave been substituted doclarations in favor of ropudia- tion, This declavation by the Illinois Oppo- sition {8 perhinps a8 conoise nnd dolinito a stato- mant of tho polioy which this psper proposes to support on thot eubject 28 any that bus beon writton, and thorefore we bnve adopted it. It is unnocossary ot this moment {0 argue those ques- tion; upon both of them Tite Tuisoxx will have trequently to sponk hereafter, e PRORIBITION A RUINOUS POLICY, In casting wbout for the causes of the rocont dofout of the Republican party, the man who keops hlg oyes open will not be long in fudivg oue which has contributed as much as all other agoucioa combined to the success of tho Demac- raoy, and that causo is the monatrous absurdity of Prohibition, More thun third-term prattle, more than Butlerlem, more than Prese-Gag and Crodit-Mobilier jobs aud Sanboin con- tracts, more than Grangerism or auy other ism, Trohibition hes sleadily and swiftly wrought the dofent of thu Republican party, and placed its oppononts in power in every Btate whero It was mada & political lssuo. Its misotdovons nflu- onces commencod in tho October elootions. For somo thno provious, tho States of Ohio wd Indians bad heen the coutro of the most sctive efforta of tha Pralu- bitiontgts, wifeh resolved themsolves Iuto {ho shaps of woman crusades, aud wero attended withthe wost reckloss invasiony of privata rights. ‘Paking ndvantage of the temparary popular ex- cltoment and tho timidity of tho Ropublican loadors, tho Prohibition leaders not only based tholr ngitation wpon moral but potitieal grounds, aud guve the Nepublican patty to underatand (hat if Probibltion wero not indorsod in its platforme, thoy would withdraw and form a thitd party. Usklvg advico of thoir fears, It waa dono, sud the procoss of dlslutogration commencod aé onoo, Temparsnce Damoarstsy seolog that thoro was now a chisnce for tho suo- coss of thole party, gave up thair Prohibition idons for the sako of that sucooss, carcloss what bocsmo of tomperanco 8o long sa the party onco mora got control of tho afficon and #poils, from which it bad boon kopt so many yoara, In tho other dircotion, thoso sumptuary clauses in the platforma rap- idly thinned the Nopublican tanke. Thou- sands of Ropubliean ealoon-kespers, Teo- publican | browors and vendors, and Republic- an consumors of beor and wines, of foraign doscent, rogarded this unwise sction of tho parlyas & diroot porsonnl blow at thom, and thoy at onco loagued themaolves with the Do- mooracy in & contest for porsonal rights, which thoy considercd as of more consequence than tho trinmph of tho Republican party in the Woft-year.” Tho demaud mado of thom was not only unwise and absurd, bub it was ime portinont. It was mnot only that thoy should stop drinking liquor, but that they shiould stop drinking wines and beor, oider, and any other bovorages moro stimulating than water. It wns not only that thoy should atop drinking on Sun- ny, but that they should atop drinking every day and night {n the wook, It was not only tunttholr bueinoss waa to cosso ono day in the woek, put it wust be stopped eutiraly by forco of law. Ratber than ylold to thls dicta- ‘tion, tho auti-prohibltion elomont withdrow from tho Republioan party, not to remain pas- sive ag it might hiave done biad it been only s po- litica! fssue in question, but to place itself in di- roct autagoniam and fight for its rightain the rauks of tho onomy and undor s foroign flag. It was not » trifllog sccession, Its extent is in- dicated in the diminution of tho Republican vote. Every saloon has a radiue of poworful iofluonce, o strong and active conatitnonoy, both transiont and rogutar, which 1s a8 congtant and faithful fn 1t sorvico to thoe saloon a8 the ealoon is toit; and this powor s roinforced by national oustoms, habits of life, aud social projudicos and conventlonalitios which sro suill stronger. The Ropublicaus went into tho coutest, thorefors, with no outeide help. Thoy could only roly wupon themselves, sud the result, of courss, was their dofeat by over- whelming odda. Its influence did mot stop there. It et a wave in motion which swept over tho whole country and lott no spots uu- touched, oxcopt those whore tha folly of Probi- Dition was not thrust upon tho people. In Mas- sachusetts tho lesson of October was ocmpha~ eizod with disastrous: results. Prohibition waa ‘madas clean, square issue, not only by incorpo- ration in tho platform of the Ropublicsn party, Dbut by the personal susurancojof Gov. Talbot, that, it olocted, ke would euforce it to tho uttormost oxtont, olthough tho ru- ral districts hed alrondy suffored weil- nigh intolersble burdons from ita partial ene forcement, and the wholo Stato had been scan- dnlized by tho briberica and corruptions of the Stoto Constabulary, who were appointed to exe- cute tho odious and arbitrary measuro. It is folly to assort that tho Ropublican mojority is Jost in Massachusetts, Tho mnjority of that party only used the Domacratio party a8 tho broom with which to aweop out tho postilont nuisanca of coorclve Prohibition, snd it lna boen done thoroughly. Tho party in that Stato 1ns boon swept and garniehed. 1t s almost suporfluous to moralize upon these facts. Tho eloction tables of October and Novombor are silent but suggestive proof of tho reckloss ond egregious blundor which tho Republican leaders have pormittod themaelves to ba dragooned into making, snd, if any furthor proot of this sort is noodad, it may bo found in sbundance in the political records of Chicago during the past two or throo yosra, The only safoty for the party ia to lot aumptuary legiela- tion alone. Prohibition is not and canuot bs mado s party priuciple, It it Is mado & law, it caunot bo enforcod. In Wisconsin, Jows, Ver~ mount, Riode Island, Nebrasks, wherover tho Ropublican_party haa ignored and rofused to have anythiug o do with this folly, it Las rotain- od its power. To peisist in bolstering up this mlschiovous, and ingano movomont suy longer i simply suicidal, Prohibition must bo probibitod in the Ropublican party, if it socks for success. it St NEGRO PROPERTY-OWNERS. A Geargis journaliat Loa boon sludying the inx-books of thut State, snd has found in them somo intoresting fnots about the smount of proporty owned by Goorgia negroos. Tho ae- sossed total is §6,157,798. The roal total must bo considorably higher, sinco tho assossmout in prosumably far below tho soliing prico and siuco a large fraciion of the awount owned doubtless escapos nssossmont altogethor. Tho figurosmoy scom smatl to ona who knows that thoro are hatf & million blacks in Georgla, but they ehow, novertlcloss, that the pracoss of accumu- lation i8 well wunder way. It s not & small thing tbat tho penniless slaves of 1865 sbould now, as freomon, hold §7,000,000 worth of taxablo property. That sum ropre- wonts much pationt savieg. In oloven countios, colored mon own an aggrogato of over $100,000 wortls, In throo of thoso counties, they own ovor 200,000 worth. 'Thicir possossions aro very evenly distributed throughout ibo Blate among themsalves. Evory county reports some colored tax-payers. Thero are not yot auy vory wealthy mon among them. The rickest negro in the Stato pays toxes on only £10,805, Ouly fittaon, all tald, pay on more than 6,000, As & gouoral rule, shou thoy have any property &t all, it 1 nsweaeed ot from €900 to 81,000, A curious foaturo sbout their proporty is, that nourly two-thirds of it is in tho hands of women, Eighit of tho fiftoon porsons who pay taxes on moro than $5,000 are uogressod. It may be that the colored brothor invests hls snvings in bis wife's nawmo, inorder to keop them out of the clutches of his creditors, or it may bo that Fanny Kemble's bollof u the inpate su- poriority of tho negress over tho nogro {8 tho trup one, and that tho froedwoman has showa more industry and frugality than tho freedmon, 1t is o bo notod that this property, by whomao- over aoquired, has not boon galned by spoculn- tion or polltical knavery, What the nogroes now own they have earnod. Thoy bave gobit by hard work. No candid man, whatover hig politienl sympa- thies wsy bo, can lear of thiy scquisition of property by the Bouthern blucks without gratifl- cation, Property ls conservative. It will act s & chock upon wild rodicalism, Bo long as whito and bluck aro synonyms for omployors aud omployed, the prejucices of color and politics will bo reinforesd by thoso of capital vs, labor, aud tho two races will bo hopelossly separated. As tho negro becotes a praporty-ownor, he will stop over thils lust lluo of dewarcation, The possosslon of moucy almost slwoys adds to s porson’s reapoctability. It is cowmparatively easy to think well of a mau who weara good olothes and very easy to thiuk ill of & wrotoh out-at-tho-olbows. The moro proporty tho negroes acoumulate, the mora rospecs they will golo, As s foatlng populstion, Hyviug frow Liand to month, they can expoct little conslderation boyond that which the acoldout of numbors may give, Whon they bocomo tax-payers and thore- foro Iutorestod, poouniarily, in the gonorsl wols faro, tho cado bocomes vory difforont, It would Lo woll to have tho tax-books of tho wholo South soarchod, in order to fix, for future rofer- ence, tho proolso smount of property now hold by tho biscke. Its lncromso is s matter of pub- llo interost. In Goorgla, the incropso during tho yoar waa 40 por cont, UNION PARE ADDITION, The old and often-time defoatod achome to purchage an addition to Union Park has been rovivod, and tho job now asks sbout 200,000 for a amall trsot of land for which nosano porson will givo moro than ono-fifth of that sum. In point of fact, excopt 88 a spoculation dopending upon the corruption of tha Common Counoil, the pleco of Jand has little or no commercial valuo, Ald, Moore, who lives in tho neigh- borbood, desorves special commendation for his rafusal to algn tho report in favor of the pur- choge, Evon {f tho oity had a treasury in con- dition to sutborize any sddition to the publio parks, this purchase would be wholly undosirable. Unton Park ia now irropularly shaped on ita omst fromt, The only ex- cuse for purchasing an addition would be to mske the wholo park more shapely. DBut the oxtenaion of tho park now ssked will have the effect of making it more irregular and sngular than it is now. All that would bo so- complishea would be to oxteod the south end of tho park to Madison streot, the wholo oxtension being & narrow solo terminating in & shasp corner, *dding nothing to the betuty of the park whatover. Yo accomplish this would necossitate tho vacating of Warron avonuo, thus leaving all tho district west of tho park and be- tweon Madison and Lake strcots without suy communication eastwardly except by those sireots, There {8 another ronson why this park addi- tion should ot bo purchased, and that is, tho city has no monoy to spsro to indulge in oal eatate speculstions. The city nes not the monoy with which to pay ita ontstanding cortifi- cates of indobtedpess, and the floating debt is rapldly acoumulstivg. Every penny of roceipts for the noxt two years will be noeded to meet current expensos and mdebtedness falling duo. There will bo nothing to spare for parks. Under those ciroumatances, to be talking about oxpending & quarter of & million for the land, and 260,000 moro for improving s smsll and usoless patoh, is proposterous, and the Council should not entortain it a moment. Confossing our inability one day to lay water-pipe for the protection of tho businoss part of tho city, and ibe nozt to yoto $300,000 for the purchase and improvement of & potty addition to s park, is to render tbe City Government ridiculous in the eyca of tho country. Lot tha job, theroforo, bo put away permsucntly. ————es THE STORY OF A FEW BTRIKES, The Hon, Albort 8, Bollos, in his just-pub- lishod “ Chaptera on Political Economy," quotes from Thoraton's **Labor " and Ward's * Work- ‘men and Wages * tho figuros of tho cost of some famous strikes to the strikers, We reproduco them from his book and add others. 1n 1824, the Mancheater apiunors atruck. Thoy lost $1,250,000 in wages before the disputo was at an end. Tho noxt year thoir brethren at Ash- ton and Staleybridge followed their oxample in striking aud fn losing $1,250,000. In 1833, tho builders of Manchestor forfeited $360,000 by voluntary idleness, In 1836, the spinners of Proston threw away $286,000. Eightoon yeara sfterwards, thoir succossors, 17,000 strong, slowly starved throngh thirty-six woeke aund pad 2,100,000 for the priviloge. In 1858, the En- glish iron-workers 108t $215,000 by a sirike, Buch losses marked, too, the atrikes of tho Loudon buildors in 1860 and tatlors in 1808, and the Northorn iron-workora in 1805, The strike of iho Bolfast linon-weavers, which was ended » fow weeks sinco by the mediation of the British Asgocistion for the Advaucoment of Bcience, cost the oporatives $1,000,000. Thorecentatrike of the shoemakera of Chicago cost thom s much largor sum thsn thoy nceded ssn capital for co-aparative shop of their own. After thoy had wascod tho firet sum, thoy tried in vain to raise tho second. We might add instauce to instance to prove the euormous cost of strikes to tho workivgman. Evon whon thoy succeed, the result rarely, if aver, pays for the monoy unproductively spont. ‘When they do not, the money s of courdo adead logs. It ia absurd that workivgmen, in thefacoof such facts, should persist in using this two-edged weapon agaiust their omployors, In England, Mesars, Mundella's snd Kottlo's Boards of Arbi- tration aud the introduction of industrial part- nersbips botweon masters and mon have done much to provent strikes. In France, the Stata long since established Courts of Arbitration for the settlomeut of labor-querrels, They are composed of six mombers, choson by employera and employed, and & President and Vico-Prosi- dent, who must belong to nelther class, Ar. Thomas Drossey, in his “ Work aud Wages,” suys of these couttd: “Tha result in 95 out of 100 casos brought beforo these tribunals is a roconciliation betweon the parties: avd though appesls avo parmitted to the euperior courty of law, they are rercly made, In 1870, 29,000 dis- putes had been heard, of which no less than 20,800 -wore satisfactorily settled.” Cannok the Tilinois Logisluture take a hint from this para- graph ? POLITICAL ECONOMY IN SCHOOLS. It tho average man had made It the objeot of his life to know nothing about political aconomy, Dbls ignorance of it could acarcely bo moro pro- found. 1ts very nawo ls & puzzlo. Propoao to him to toaol his cbildren politics, and a vague ides of training them to proflciency lu packivg o ward-meeting aud running » caucuy #its acroas Lismind. Proposo to toach them economy, and ho thioks of thom as instructed to invest their pon- nlos lu » bank {nstead of iu buns, But suggost » courso in pohitical economy and ho is dumb. foundod. If he forms auy idon about that eci- onco, it 18 a8 somothing which theorists who have nothing better to docan waste their timo in studyuig, it thoy are foollsh enough to wish to do go, but which concerns ¥ praotleat men" not at all, Thia lamentablo ignorance, 80 denso that the victhn doos noi even know he is ignorant, la oausod by tho lack of systematio Instruction in tho gcfoncs, Thia lack ts partly due, in turn, to tha fact that thoro is no politico-ecouomical matual suilicioutly sitmplo to be uged {n our public sohools, Qur whole syatem of public {nstruction reats on tha idea that the country is bound to go train its youth that thoy will become Kood citizeus, On no other ground cau the exponditure of & cout on publio schooil bo Justitielf Now tho study of politioal cconomy I8 the bout pousible proparation for citfzouship, It tgnohu what Governmout may rightfully domoud of the citl- gon and what 1 mey pod. I tenchos tho folly of legal Intorferonce with privato tastes, It shows how tho Stato, in its =zoal to promote tho intorests of pnrifenlor trades, of- ton fmpomos noodless and galling fottors upon all industry, 1t riddlos tho fallacies on which bellovers in wild-cat monoy roly, It proves tho folly of ordinary sirikes. It oxplains tho forcen which roally fix wages, It shiows tho mu- tual dopondonco of capital and Iabor, It showa Liow all Jabor is o luterlinked that tho man who docs slovonly work, withh brain or body, barma not only himsolf but his fullows and the world, It ploads for arbitration and co-oporation. It prenches thrift and honesty, It teachos thatthe suffrago is & trust, croated by tho Stato, and to bo used, honorably, only for the Btate's benefit, 1t 15 not only, a8 it is usually dofinud, the sclence of the production and distribution of wealth, ‘but tho scionce of the production ‘of good cltfe zons and the proper diatribution of politieal powor. No other scionce, no languago, no art, can bo compared with it 1 value, so far as the svorago citizen of 8 Repubtic Ju concorned. Yol it finds no placo In our publle Ackools,~the schools on which wo lavish miltions of moncy for tho sake of creativg good citizena! This anomaly fs purtly due, 88 wo have said, to the lack of & good olomentary text-book. Bomo score of yoars since, an Eastorn toschor wrote and publiched such a book, buthe wan shond of his time. The work s mow out of print. Evon if ropublishod, it would not now fili tho bill. Wo nood somothing new, writton up to date. The books wo lavo aro for mon, not boys and girls, Wo writo ** girls " advisedly. Both sexos shonld stody the scfence. If scbool~ girls woro taught it, wo ehould not have women clamoring for the oxploded dogma of prohibiston, or making insane domanda for the tranchiscas & uataral right. Of tho books we Lave, Mitt'ahnd AdsmBmith's arefar beyond a youth's comprobon- sion. Tho shortor works, like Bristed's * Intorlor- once Theory,” sro too fragmontary. Bastiat'n " Bophiems" 1s opon to the samo objection, while Say, Ricatdo, Calrues, Chovalior, et al, are in the catogory of Al and Adom Smith. Prof, Arthur Porry's Political iconomy” dooa wall onongh, porhaps, for Golleges, but is too diffuse snd difieult for public schaols, Wo need & book ‘which a youth of 14 to 18 can undorstand,—a book of plain words, sbort sentonces, simple chapters. Money and famo swait its author, Wo hopo to clronicle his name and praiso his work oro long. The unexpocted duration of the Indian sum- mor has sont the shiveriog organist back to Lig or her summeor quarters, whorover thoy may be. Human sympathy is only to be pressod out by the application of improved methods, and, a3 the population increases, competition among boggars inoreasos with k) Honce in thesa ploasant daxs thro is tttlo ta oxcito compassion inn famlly gathored on the curb-stono in tha bright sunshino holding out a ragged hand, whilo tho parent turna tho crank. Nor aro tha full sufferings of tho crippled soldiors in uni- form tully appreciated till the frost sots in. We ara freo from theso plessant sights 8o far, owing to the backwardnoss of wintor assorting hor rights. But tho organ-grindor plague hos broken out in Now Yorkin various forms, and bas becomo o regular tople of newspsper colculntion. One psper doclarcs that the bege gurs who adopt tho bluo nuiform and artificind limb averago $40 & day through tho cold scason, but this is probably sn exoggeration, Thore can bo littlo doubt, however, that tho business is o profitable opo. If not it would bo carried ou during the warmer weathor toa groater ox- tent thon it fa. Tor a swall roward fow would endure tho misory of such weather a5 tha organ- grinders soloct for their musical soirees, ————— When & woman brings a suit against a faith~ 1ces lover for bronch of promiso of marriago, eho i gonorally willing to aettlo for 6 sum. A geltlement is usually rather a desirable thing for tho defondant, for no sane person wants to bave his follies and pet idiocles oxposed before & jury 1 the unbonding, undeniablo, uncompromising form of black aud whito. Therefors sottloment by all meaus. It bonefits the lady as well as tho gontleman, by saving hor roputation. But et tloment ju the manner of Josoph Bnzzell, of Brookfleld, N. H., is awkward, Ho and Misg Hanson of the samo villago hed been children together, and wero to hiave been married s fow weoke sinco. Buzzoll proved false and marriod another woman, whercupon tho lady sued bim. T'ha uight befors the case was to bo heard, Buz. zell londed o gun to the muzzle with slugs and ‘buck-shot, and, thrustivg it tirough the window near which his desorted fair ono was sitting, do- liberataly sottled tha suit and hor carthly accounts togethor with about fonr ounces of lead, It way anothor inatance of tho axiom that the man who is his own lawyer has & fool fora client. In place of » damaged pockot, Mr. Buzzell will seoure a verdict somowhat hostilo to his neck. And all for taking the law into his own hauds. ARMUSEMENTS. M'VICKER'S THEATRE, Wybert Reove aud Miss Adelino Sfanhope il commenco & brief ongagoment 8t MoVioker't ‘Theatro this evouing, sppesring respoctively aa Count Fosco aud Anne Catherick, in Wilkie Cole ling' thrilling drams, *The Woman in White.” The audicuce is requested to be presont on time. HOOLEY'S THEATRE, ¢ Monay " will ba played at Iooley's Theatra with 4 stwong oast, includivg all tho talont of tho company. _This will bo played the first thres nights und Wednesday matineo. Thursdsy mght * Loudon Assursuce” is to be broughe out 1 fine style. GIAND OPERA-HOUSE. Aftor the two prononnced successos * Chou- fewri” and * Chivg-Chow-Ii" the minstrels will turn their atteotion to a soason of logitimats slogro minstrelsy. Loon, however, whoso inimi- table feminine persanutions hava causod 8o much merriment, and elicited such spoutaneous en- Hiusinsia, st retainm o chauce 1o sing. in bur- losquo opera, * Lischen ond Fritohon” will bo played by Leon 2nd Kelley, and imitations of Fichtmsy will bo given by tho formor in ad- dition. Coos and Schoolerafy huve s laughablo skolel ontitled **Backwoods Echoes," Wultors and Morton » eharsuteristie act cullod **Zovl lia,” and Cocs und tho quintetio give the ¢ Bry and Scone,” Frauk Bowles, tho cornot soloitt, aud Ilart’s smusing sketeh *‘ Tho Cowt of Abpeals,” conclude 8 vory entortuiulog por- formanco. h 'CORMICR HALL. o-uight and so-morrow MeCormiok Tall will probibly ba orowdud to enjoy tho uniquo and ploasirablo entertuintuont given Joinzly by “Graea Greenwood” and Mis. Sarah Tisher Amoy, The success of theso two ladios us reads ors m Washington last winter has omboldened them to visit l\(anu, and thetr reception in tho cepitat will probubly bo ropeatod hero. The programmo for this evening wcludes_solootions from Shakspoaro, Shoridun, Brev Hurte, touny= son, and Jean Inglolow. THE AUADEMY. Mige EMa Weanor aud_a corps of forty young ladios, togothor with tho: Academy Comunyy play Frad Mucdor’s pioce, * Mixod," written for tho atar, who givos sliotohes of the youth of the duy in its muny torms. MYERY' OPERA-TIOUSE. The Qeorgia Minstrols haviug ‘concluded thelr conson at Ayows' Opora-House, 6 oW ot of fagos und paoplo will occupy tho stage. All the olomonts of n first-vlasy vasioty nre enguged, snd a good performauco may bo oxpeotod, QIRURUM AND BTAQK. Mr, Jobn W. Overall, formorly conuccted with tho New Orlouns Pioaytne Wi dramatie evitic, is abont to doliver & losiure iu this city upou the Uharch and 8tago, 1 whioh e contrasts tho good und true in ouch profossion wilh the evil 0 tho tniwe, The leotwro s ilustrated mith anccdotes of many mombors of both, and i sud to be origiual aud poworful. In St. Louia it wun very well rocolved among the Churelh poople, aud letters of tho ‘most commovduiory charsotor have buen went mtroducing Mr. Ovorall tosame of tho loading clorgyimen of thia oity Who ave known to ba opposcd to anything oonnootod with & thestro, from tho curbatono 12 front to the stage-door in tho rear. Tho dud aod place of the lsowure will be given beasealish