Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 26, 1874, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 1RT4. RATES OF BUSECTIFTION (TATARLE IN ADVANCK), wri- W Port- Tarts of a yonr at tho same rato, To prevent dolay and misiakes, be mire and gl Ofics addrosn in full, {ncluding Stata and County, Tomlttances may bemadoolthorby dralt, oxpross, Po Ofica ordac, or in reglstored Iottors, at our tisk, TERMS TO OITY AUNBCRIBENS, Daily, delivared, Sunday exceptod, 20 conta porwack. Daily, defivorad, Bundsy fsoluded, 3() conts per wooke « THE TRIBUNE GOMPANY, s0n and Dorborn-ata., Ohioago, Il TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MWVIORER'S TITEATRI~Madleon atrests between tlrarE(‘um and Btato, - +* doadio Doaus." Afioraoon aad voning 3 GRAND OPRRA-TIOUSE~Clark slscat, Snerman Houso, Kolly & $,00n's Minstrels, Dutch 8, Aftornoon and ovoning. opposite rad ACADEMY OF MUSIO—Hajstodstreat,latmaen Bad- 4 Montao, 1 tof Mrs, ¥, 8, Ohanfeai, U e RERR 7 Kirmoon and ovaniog. TOOLRY'S THRATRI-] Clark and LaSallo, ** Divores o ! -HOUSK—-Maonros sireot, < Arthur's Girl of tho Poriod. ‘Aftornoon aut oinh_strect. hotwean ftornoon and evoning. betireon Linden. ovanlng. i IAT.T~North Clark mreet, corare of K LeCORMIOK WATERY Doughors, Kad. Subjosts o Btago, '§ COCOAINE WILL SURLLY KILL G heati, stimUtals tlo tibresy and ro- el ) aotion, Won whioh tho. growts of tho fuirdeponie, 1t has glven allpl b (o ok santicrs & i‘.—::fiffflfl o tho RI:nvlv]lh ol isTaies th bt wad che A BRemsmia . o word: (18, 18T, , Joseph Bt et & Cout i i 2T R thetantumontyout Orenin ¥, Ko ey peions i SrE e et ory traly, | Jo Ge LUWIN, The Chicage Ttibune, Mhursday Morning, November 26, 1874, The Washington safo-burglary caso hns ‘been given o the jury. There is & enuso for thanksgiving which should not bo forgotten to-dny when the other mercics are remem- ‘bered. o 1t is not 50 plnin whom the carthquake in mand and flem,” Wheat was modotately native and waak, closing at 90 O-4c kaller the month, ‘{‘and 01 1-4¢ for Daocombors Corn was notive and 1.2a1 1:20 lower, closing ‘at* 78 3-4a onali, and 74 6-8c seller tho yeat, Oats wero activo and wonk, olosing at 62 8-40 onsb, and 52 8-80 soller tho year, ‘Ryo was gnito and firmor at 02298 1-%, Barloy wns dull ‘and weak, closing ot $1.24, Hoga wora' active and flrm at Tucadny's sdvance, closing at $06.2607.85 for poor to oxtrn, The onttle market wns dull and lower, with snles at $2.00a0,12 1.2, Shoop woro notive at 25a500 deolino. Sales at §8.0004,560. The Convention at Indianapolis yesterday, of persons who, aro intoreated in socuring ex- ponsion of tho ocurrency, wns not vary formidable, If it is tho best the inflationiats of tho West can do in the way of 'a‘conven- tion, thoy are wenker and sillior than has Deen commonly supposed. Many of the dele- gates came from the Workingmon's party, and fovored deprecintion of the ourrcnoy with the snmo will that they would urge n new distribution of property. Others of thoso presont were demagogues, who liave scized a popular dolusion ss a menns of gain- ing power, Others still wero honest dnnces, who beliove that the valuo of a currency is proportioned to its volume, Tho object of the mooting: wns to enll & convention to con- sider the proprioty of nominnting a candidato for tho Presidenoy in 1876, A call for such n convention was issued. a0 Wholesome ruths about the Granges in II- linois wore told by some of the lenders of tho Farmers' party who met in Bloomington yosterdny. Ono speaker ndvocated the disso. lution of the Farmers' Olubs, and the absorp- tion of their membership into the Granges. He said that it was foolish' to speak of tho Granges ns non-political organ- izations. On the authority of Grand Master Golder, he declared that tho Granges have a political object ns tho main reason of their existenco. This statement does not harmenize with tha resolutions passed by the Indinnn Stale Grange yestorday, which tale high grounds against tho interferenco of po- litienl parties with tho legitimate work of the Grango, It is possible that the Grangers of Iilinois and Indiang are of two minds as Nowbnryport, Mass,, tho other day was in. tended for. Tho Republicans who voted the Democratic ticket at tho last clection are quite certain it was nob mennt for them. The Supreme Court of tinued an injunction restroining the collection of o tax levied upon shares of Western TUnion Pelegraph stock owned in Indinoapolis, The Conrt holds that tho stock of n foreign cor- poration cannot be taxed by a State. — Our correspondent at Washington has loarned that tho Erio and Baltimoro & Ohio Railronds have come to an agreement by the torms of which the extension of the Intter rond from Mansfield, O., to Chicago will ba used in common by both Companics. If this report shall bo substontinted, it will, of course, put an end to the Saratogn combina- tion. In any cvent, it is pretty well de- termined that the othor ibads cannot long hold out nguinst the vigorous assaults of the Baltimore & Obi The Warchouse Commissioners have seri- ously entertained o proposition to abolish the rule of inspection making a distinction be- tween old and now corn, it baving been al- leged that the new corn this year is perfectly sound and dry. One of the members of the Board is on his way to Chieago to investigato tho facts, with power to act if the truth shall nppenr 10 bo ns stated. The efleat of amend- ing tho rules in this rannner would be to pre- vent corners for somo time afier the now erop bogins to arrive, A number of members of the Bonrd of Trode yesterdny submitted an ameadment to the rules of the Bonrd regulating the basis on which damnges on unfulfilled contracts shall bo mensured. The effect of this rule, if it bo adopted by the Board of Frade, will relievo tho transactionson 'Chango of much of the scandal that now attaches to them, It slrikes at corners by prohibiting all claims for imaginary losses in g fictitious market. Tho proposed rule will be found in the com- ‘mercial columnn, The Russian Government has by no meaus abandoned tho iden of » Pence Congress sud an internntionnal code. The repulse of its overtures in this direction last summer ap- parently was not severe enough to be called o defeat. So the invitations arc out agnin for another meeting. Tven the American Republics are included in the now dispensa- tion. The persistence of Russin in the penco project, if it did not cover ulterior designs, would shame the politer nations of the West. ‘Wa have not been nceustomed to look to Tussia for a mitigation of the horrors of war, "Mr. A, K. MeClure and several other Lib- eral politicians have bought a controiling in- torest in the Philadolphin Press. Ar, Fornoy still rotains a share in the ownership of the paper, but he will have nothing to do with its netive management. The FPress has of late given out uncertain sounds, but it las Leon in the main devoted to the best interests of the Republiean pacty, It has, by turns, fought and eoguetied with Oamoron, Mr. MeClure announces that the paper, under his control, will ba independont Republican. If lia is a8 good a8 he promises to be, he will be alt that we desive. Abany rate, there is no danger of his becoming too fond of Cameron. . Something of a shock will be given tq the Liboral element of the Republiecnn parly; which bas been lntely proclaiming that eivil righis is a dend issus, by o decision of the Indiana Supreme Coust rendeved yesterday. The Court held that colored childron hnve no right to free educntion except in districts wheroe they nare in sufliciont numbers for the establishment of sopnrate schools, The ground of this opinion is that the advantages of free sclools are conferred Ly the State Comslitution omly upon ¢ citizens ;" and at the timo tho Constitution was adopted tho colored people were not eitl. zeus, It mny bo that the ruling of the Court is sound Inw ; it is certainly not vound morals, Evidently tho mission of thoRepublican party on belialf of tho negro race is not ended, e Chicago produco markets wore flrmer yostordny in provisions, and ensier in grain, Moss porkt was nctivo and 100200 per brl higher, closifg at §20.25 cash, and $20,05 gollor Fobruary, Lard was petivo and 12 1.2 8250 per 100 Ius highor, closing at $13.80 cnsh, and §18,76 scllor Fobinary, Ments waro quiot and firm ab § 7-8a70 for shouldors, regards the scope and cherncter of their socioty. If thero is any trath i temont, for which the New York Graphic is suthority, that Vanderbilt and his peoplo propose to build a double-track freight railway from Now York to Ohicago, the farmers of the West certainly Linve cause for devout thanksgiving. The plan nnfolded by the Graphic is simplo and rensonable, The New York Central Com- papy will soon have' completed '’ two additional iracke * between Albany' and Buffrlo; and tho possession . of _tho Harlem nnd the Hudson River Rail ronds by the. same corporation gives it prac- tieally four tracks botween Now York and Buffalo, It only remains for the Company to lay n doublo track betweon Chicago and Buffalo in order to completa o freight-railway botween the West and the Inst. - With this advantage the New York Contral Company would be able to cut under, not ‘only the Baltimore & Ohio rntes, but avy schedule that conld bo frmmed by a company hav- ing smallor facilities, Grain could bo earried on such & freight railway at rates soarcely ox- ceeding canal tolls, The promise is n glorious one; but it is only a promise. Gront ex- THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TIURSDAY, NOVEMDER 26, 1474. fnseparable from n'confedernoy, and the in- ‘dividunl contraoting Stntes nro, each in its own enso, judgen whothor the condition hns 'bocti’ brokén of 'not, hat wo are A nation,. itha Zimes considors to bo ouly half & truth, It {4 tho truth, howoyor, that hns proserved n peoplo. It s a whola truth, just na that wo Jaro n confederdoy i tho whole untrath that gave birth to recossion aud to the War of Lh‘u Robollion, with nll its attondant calnm. itles, . The Times would malko tho United States ithe cronturo 'of indopondont and sovercign States, wherens tho vory reverse of this is trug, Tho United Statos doos mot owo its origin or its Constitution to tho Statea assop- arnto, independont, and . soveroign communi-’ tics, . Tho States did not mnke the Constitu. tion, . The Statos do not amend tho Constitu- tion. Tho Btates do not admit new States into tho Union, It is tho Nation that wado tho Constitution, It is the Nation that nmends the Constitution. It is tho Nation thnt admits now Btates into the Union, If tho soveral States had mede the Conatitution,, the Constitution would be only a compnot betweon them, But it is not o compact, It is, as that ominont expounder of the Consti- tution, Judge Cooley, says, an *‘instrument of govornment ” ngreed upon and established in tho States by the people. - It was not - mnde nor ratified by the States ns sovereign or po- pectations should not be predicated upon it. The Now York Coniral Company, we pro- sume, is in no condition financially to under- take a work of such magnitude. The alleged statement of its purposcs is chiefly interest- ing us n forecnst of what must bo eventually, and may be soon, the solution of the trans- . portation problem. ‘WE ARE A NATIOR, There nre signs of an intellectual aweken- ing in the columns of our quondam Demo- cratic morning contemporary. After a Rip Van Winkle sleep, so far as all grave nn- tionnl questions are concerned, of soveral years, it bestirs itsolf, opons its oyes, yawns, and, with a feeble consciousness of moving and having its being in tho United States of Americs, inquires: What aro wo? To this manifestation of mental lifo it has boen provoked by The I'ribuno, which is furnishing’ it with idens and subjocts for discussion gratis, as it hins the honesty by implication to confess, Its What aro we? however, 13 not a query what the Zimes is. 'That every one knows who hos followed its course and marked all virtues which have illustrated its oarcor ; its unflinching honesty, maiden modesty, spot- loss purity, its dovotion to all the principles of good morals, What troubles the Z'imos is, not what it is iteolf, but whether the Uniled States is a nation or a confederacy, or both. There are those, it says, who cloim ‘that tho United -States i 8 nation,, and others that it is o confederacy. Both classcs ave in the wrong, according to the Times; for it informs us the United States is both a nation and a confederacy, Weo take issuo with it just thero, The United States is o nation with a peculiar Coustitution; a na- tion unlike ony othor that has existed in an- ciont or modern times; butit is'in no sonse o confederncy, No body politio can bo at once a untion and a confederncy. A nation cunnot be o confederacy. A confederacy caunot bo a nation, ‘The two notions nre fu- compatible, mutaally exclusive, A confed- eracy is made up of nations, . How can the United States be both many nations “and ono nation? Can a thing ba mauy and ono at the samo time? The component parts of a confederacy are sovereign nations united only by covenant or by compact for mutual support or common action. Inmno, senso are the separato Statos of the Union sovercign or supreme. In 1o sense, thore- foro, is tho Unitod States & confederacy.. ‘To soy that wo avo both o notion and o confod- cernoy s to enuncisto a chameleon and menn- ingless proposition, It ia to sy that the States are severally sovereign and not sov- eroign; that the notion is ono and {hirty- soven. If we arain any scndo, or to auy ox- tent, n confoderacy, our national Coustitution in in thet sonse aud to that oxtont nothing moro than a compnct or contract; for all confederacios ars founded in contract, and our confedoracy must bo founded on tho Con- atitution, 'The moment, howover, It is grant- ed thut the Constitution i# a contract or com- paot, that moment tha right is granted to the sovernl States to judge, in nuy instanoe, whether its provistons have not heen violated by tho other party or parties to it, and whotlier they avo or are not relioved from its obligations, 'Chus, on the supposition that wo nro in any senso & confedorney, tho daor is loft opon nb all times for nullification or 9 1.209 5-80 for short ribs, and 9 8-4nd 7-80 for short clears, Highwines wero loss aotive and steady at 87 1.20 por gallon, Lnko xolg his woro dull. Flour wes 1n botter de- socossion, on the ground that tho terms of tho compact on which tho con- federnoy wns bused have boon disrogarded. Tho right of sccesslon on goudition broken ia litical communitics, A convention of tho poople framed it. State Convontions, the immediato roprosontatives of the people, rati- fled and ndopted it. “The framers of the Con- fedornte Robol Constitution thomsolves con- fessod that this view of the Constitution was tho corraot one, when, to provent s similar interprotation of thoir own, they wroto as & proamble to it: *“We, tho peoplo of tho Confederato Btates, and each State acting in' jta sovereign and independont character, in order to formn," ete. This, too, is the inter- protation put on the Constitution by the pco- plo of the United States, as witness tho blood and trensure they so froely spent. Asthe eminent Judgo alrendy namod has remarked : ‘“In the courts, thorefore, in tho Cabinet, in tho Lalls of legislation, and in the arbitration of arms, the national view has invariably pro- vailed,"—not the natioal-confederacy view advoeated Dy the Z%mes.. We wore a nation even beforo wo hind our present Constitation or “sprome law.” We becamo a nation when the Declaration of Independence was uttered aud proclaimed to the world. Tho prosont Constitution merely dofined the pow- ers and authority which the National fune- tionnries should exerciso, s Tho mode in which amendmonts to the Constitution are mado shows that we are & nation, and in no qualified senge. It is in the people, hot in the States, that the power 1o amend the Constitution resides. Anamend- ment may bo proposed by tho two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, or by n convention called on the application of two-thirds of the States; but whom do the two-thirds of both Houses, or the Convention when assombled, ropresont? Tha people of tho whole coun- try. The amendments aro submitted to the Stato Legislatures, two-thirds of which must approvo; but the State Legislatures ropresent the people, and its members aro elect- ed by exnclly the same constitnents that chooso the Ropresontatives to Congress, Neither the Governors of the States nor the judiciarics have nnything to do with passing tho amendments. The States, ns sovereigy, do not amend, It is ouly in virluo of the or- ganie law of the nation, not at the caprico of the States, that an smendent to the Con- stitution can bo made. Whon the Constitution was adopted, there wero in existonco only thirtcon States. Twon- ty-fonr hiave been admitted since. Theso owe thoir place in the Union to the nation repre- sented by the Federal Government. ‘They are tho creations of the Naticonl Govern- ment; subordinate to it, not above it. Be- foro their ndmission they were Territorics, not States, They became States by their admis- sion into the Union, Before their ad- mission they certainly wore not sovorcign. After their ndmission they certainly are not. In what sense, thon, con it be said that they aro parties to a confedoracy? What thoy hold they hold from tho Notional Govern- ment, Al confederncics depend on com- pact; but, between the States admitted sinco the adoption of our Constitution and the other States, whero is the compnct? Or where is the compact between them snd the Fedoral Government? ‘The notion that the United States is to any oxtont a confederncy in bnsed on the orroneous view, that the States were soverally once Bovercign, which thoy never wero. Even Mr, Madison, in whoso school the writer in tho ZVmes clnims he was brought up,~—illustrious teach- ors have beon kunown to have very poor scholars,~and whosoideas and languago ovon, o says, ho has freely used in his articlo, said in the Federal Convention of 1787: “The Btatos never possessed tho éssentisl rights of sovereignty, These were always vested in Congress, Thoir voting as, States in Con- gross is no ovidenco of soverciguty. The State of Maryland voted by counties, Did this make the counties. sovercign? Theo States at prosont avo only gront corporations with the power of making laws." ' And 50, when our present Constitution was finally . sdopted, it was adopted, not by the Bovereign States, but by the people ; by the nation'ncting through the States 88 the most convenient way of ‘expressing the sovercign avill of the people. * ‘ Yot The Tribune maintains as jenlously as any ono that the division of the great Ameri- can nation,” designnted Btates, has cortain Tights which the Genoral Government or the Nation is bound to rospect, just ss in. dividuals lave certnin rights. which it must respect. Our position is this: Tho American peoplo - constitute & nation in a sonse admitting of no qualitication, limita. tion, or restristion. The IFederal Govern. ment is a Government of limited powers, but s sovereign within the lmits of ity powors, It doos mot dopend on tho State Governments for fts origin, existence, or pormission to live. 'The State Governments have no right to dictato to the Genoral Gov- evnment within the limits of its natural powers, A violation of the Constitution by the Goneral Governmont is & broaoh of the law, but doos not give to a Stato the right to socode, as it would wero the United States in sny sonse n confodoracy. 'Tho National Government has 1o authority to infringe the righta or encronch ou the Inwful poivors of tho States, The Btates areas independent in thaix propor sphero ad is the Federal Govern- ment in its sphere. The Tribune will always insist that thoy shall bo so indopondent. But at tho snmotime it will nlways combat the Domocratic doctrine, that this nation is in any sonso A confederasy of ‘‘Boveroign States,” for the ronson that that principle is pregnont with disintogration, disnnion, and se- cossion, Thoonly effect of tho oxerofse of un. wivrnuted powers by the Fodoral Governmont is to invalidato its nots, Buch unlawful ox. arcigo s the broash of & law, nob of & contradt, B e ] and doen not warrpnt aecession,'ns it would wero this nation a gonfedernoy, and our Con- ntitution aimply articlos of ngroomont be- twoon the Statesandthe Goneral Govornmont. Wa shall opposa tho diotation to the Fedoral Goverument by the States, aud wo ahall over maintain the govereignty, supremncy, and mnjesty of thoe Amerionn Natlon; for ns a nation wo aro as clistinet nud sovereign as England or Austrin, and ss little of a confed- oracy ns eithor, ’ THANKSGIVING, The time for ovoryono but turkeys and chickens to bo thankful has ngain arrived, with all its plonsant associotions and mom- ovies, and, in looking over.the rosults whioch hiave beon consummnted since the turloeys of 1878 woro roiisted, thero appear to bo some rensons for gratitude, We should all ‘bo thankful that the city has beon robuilt, and s enjoyed n large dogree of prosperity, not. withstonding tho panic, fires, nnd Peoplo's Party., Wo should be thankful that the Com- mou Conneil, County Commissioners, and other official Bonrds have not beon ns corrupt og they might have been, We should bo thankful that the Tax-Collectors have finighed up their work, and that thoro da’ o little . somothing loft over 'for sn- other year. We should be thankful that the Communists have boen squelched, and that Hoffmon and Klings have disap- peared in the wreclt, = We should bo thankful that the authoritics. have waked up to s reali- zation of the fact that the people won't stand Mike McDonald much longer. Wo should bo thonlcful that tho police havo nt last found out that there are burglars and thioves sbout. ‘Wo should bo thanldful that the people have orushod out the demoralizing Butler eloment in politics. We should be thankful that the general henlth of the city has been so good, and that the dootors ‘and coffin-makers have had ‘so little to 'do. Wo should be thoukfal for Gen. Shaler and the voforms which ho socks to make-to insure protection sagaivst fire, Wo should be thankful that, with winter close at our doors, fuel is cheap and - charity abundant, and that no one will suffer. We should bo thankfol that Mullett is ont, and that Sturgos is likely to be. Thoere aro many minor causes for thankfulness, ns, for in- stance, that the Good Snmaritans are once more divided; that we have got through with the Boecher scandal; that Prof, Patton is the most populsr preacher in Clicago, thanks to Forsyth, and, in consideration of this, that the Hahnemann Hospital Fair is over; that the Pope is agitated, and that Gladstone is stirring up Manning; that fonatics are discovering the folly of sumptuery laws; that the Rucorder’s office Lins boen moved ; that turkeys and chickens aro cheap; that the man at the crib will soon be our necighbor by telegraph; that the Og- don Diteh nuisance is to bo abated ; that Gen. Washington played euchre and drank porter; that the Mnsons have not disemboweled sny of their apostates and scattered them to tho four winds of hoaven; that tho ladics' hats aro no higher; and that we can still sea a lit- tle by South Side gas, notwithstanding the air in the pipos, It is not difficult to find causes for thank- fuluess, aud therefore wo commend our read- ars to their various sanctuaries. Let them moet their ministers with thankful hoarts, and join their praises to the Giver of All Good, and lift up theix voices in holy psalm and anthem, and not lot the paid nrtists in the choir-loft do all the rejoicing. Then let them go home to their wellfilled tables and ent and drink with devout thankfulness, Lot them close the dny in merriment and pleasure, thankful that things aro no worse than they are. The duties of the doy aro simple cnough. They are only to hear the iminister and eat turkey, ‘Those who can't hear the min- ister con bo thankful, They may havo escapod A dull sermon. Those who can't eat turkey can be thankful that they won't have indigestion to-morrow. There is no one so poor to.dsy that he cannmot afford to be ihm.flz:ful. THE OASE OF LOUISIANA, Wo print, this morning, s letter from our corvespondont at Now Orleans, inwhich thers is o genernl complaint that the Ropublicans of the' North, and espeocially its influential press, have not given to the Ropublicans of Louisinna that support which the interests of the party demand. The caso of Louisiana is an extraordinary ono, As 8 party investmant it has not been’'n profitable one to the Repub- lican party. Tho Ropublicans cmancipated the negroes, clothed them with the eloctive franchise, aud substantially placed them in political possossionof thercconstructed States. In Louisiana the colored people were in the majority, and, with the respectable number of white Republicans, wero in a condition to liave mado the State as permanently Repub- lican o5 Vormont, The Republicans of the North nccorded to thoso of Louisiana the warmest sympntbyand support, and that, too, whon thie officinl leadors in that State were not over creditable in their conduct. The evil events of 1872 have passed into history. The prizo offored the Republican party was the ‘lectornl vote of Louisiana for President, two or three members of the Honso of Repre- sgentatives, and Mr. Pinchback as o Senator. Tor this the party was nsked to uphold the Kollogg Governinont, With all its dotails, in- cluding bellot-box stufling, military ocoupn- tion, .and . axmed intorferonce. .The party invested to the extent of placing the Kol- Jlogg Govornment in power. !toe of sovon Benators of the United States, six of them radiesl Republicans, examined the facts of tho whole transactions of 1872, and six of tho soven united in daclaring that tho Kellogg Government was, from beginning to end, n flagrant usurpation, involving a (lisgracaful abuso of judicial and military au- thority. 'Thnt was the judgment of Senator COarpenter and his collengues, and behind thnt statoment of facts sud thot judgment the Republican purty of the country has not been able to. go. hat report has been nocopted by the whole inass of iho peoplo as the trua history of the Louisiana cage, and that there his been no action upon it is due to the inability of ngreoment as to 1ho proper courso to bo adopted, The Ropublicuns of the North have not Doon unmindful of the pooulinr difleulties whieh have surrounded the Louisinun cnso, Dbut they havo also been impressed with their duty to govern the country juatly and sc- cording to tho Constitution. ‘The universal judgment lns beau that, if the Republican ascondonoy in Louislans, or in- any other State, can only be maintained by o rosort to such monne 85 were denounced by the Com- mitteo of Ropublican Sonators ps a ** shame- loss usurpation,” then it was thme that Re- publican necondency in such Stato should conse, and the popular will should have its due nathorlty. ‘e Bonato of the United Btates, composed of more than two.thirds Ropublicany, has fox two years refused to ade But a commit- |. it Pinchbnck to the Senato, and ‘the Houre of Representatives, with in oqual proponder- anco of Republicans, has declared that he was not cleated to that House, though de- olnred so olectod by the same men who an- nounced Kellogg's eloction. S g The Republicens of the North linve hoped that tha leaders of tho party in Louisiann, with n knowledgoe of the questionablo tenure of theis officss, would have so ndministered the nifnirs of tho Btate as to have commanded tho confidenco of tho country, and concilinted tho Inrgo population who, no mattor what thoir politics, muat profer, ponsa to swar, order to disofdor, and whose materinl intorests aro oil grenlly sufforing. bocauso of tha ever- prosont danger of civil wor, Itisto Lo rogret- tod that the official polioy has not fulfilled, oven modorate expootations. Thore has beon ‘constant strifo aniong tho Republicnns. ' Kol- logg hns boon donounced by no while man' as soveroly ns ho has beon by somo of his colored and Ropublican’ nssoclates. , Public opinion hns boon sot at deflance. , Tho Republican | party at tho North, and in’all’ the othor Bouthern States, hns beon obliged to carry the disgrnooful records of .the men who were forsvor challotiging rovolt and then apponling to the President for tho protection of military force. - Olniming, on tho ‘oné hand, to be supported by ‘the large majority of the people, and’ then nt the first sound of the drum ' hiding aswny in some bonded ware- houso and piteously appenling to the Pros- idont for protection, Lns becomo,too monot- onous to deservo or gommand popular rospeot among o people, when such & rovolt against the Governmont of the poople-would'not bo pormitted to Inst one hour, The Republicans of tho North have carried Louisiana about as long na thoy can afford to, and as long as they have any justification for doing. ‘The.con- fossod inability of the Govornment of that State to maintain its authority without the protection of National troops is aconfirmation of the report of the Scnate Committoe that that Governmentowes its existence to Durell's judicinl usurpations and not to the popular will; and evidence also that time has not in any way changed the popular hostility to that Governmont, : Louisiann wnnts peace, ' The whole coun- try wants pence, and pence must be had, If it bo necessnry to have ‘peace’ in Louisiana that the State should pass out of the hands of the men who are in office, thon let it be so. If the Legislaturc-elect shall be Démo- oratio, and shall imponch Kellogg, or dopose him as s usurper, they will have, unfortu. natoly, the precedent of 1872, when Warnoth wos impenched and.deposed in order that Pinchback might be made. Governor, and appeal to the President for troops. TIn saying this much in, explanation of tho rensons why' the Ropublican party do not support, and caunot afford to support, every- body who sots himself up as the Government of a Southorn State on the ground that he is n Ropublican, and if he is not sustnined the State will ‘be Democratic, we do not abate tho least our s, mpathy for tho colored peo- ple, nor our reprobation of the conduct of those who deny them their politionl rights, Their color and their past condition, while no longer n legal disfranchisoment, aro noverthe- loss misfortunos because they provoke. proju- dices. Tho romedy for this is not statutes, nor military intervention, but time. The Republican party in Louisians, as well as at the North, must learn that, to maintain pub. lic confidonce and respeot, they must be de- served s well by the policy of the party s by the character of the mon it puts in office. @l CH o Wo print elsewhers a communioation an- swering tho questions proposed in’'a recent article in The Tribune, touching the question of the relations of tho Vatican to civil allegi- ance. To tho first quostion, whether the Cntholics propose to accept the protection of ' the Government and rendor their -loyalty. to Rome, the writer says, *We propose to ne~ copt tha protection of our Govarnment and Tender to it our unqualified civil allegiance.” ‘This is satisfactory, so far as the writer is at liberty to spenk for his Yonomination. Seo- ondly, ho says, * We are not in favor of dis-' membering any froe country nor of erccting o Papal political power in the Eternal: City." Thisanswer, howaever, he immediately qualifies by denying that Italy is free, and asserting that Cathollos protest ngainst the spolistion of Catholio property by the order of Victor Tmsnuel. The first part of his snswer is sotisfactory, and if thisis the wniversal or genoral sentimont of American Catholics, wo congratulate them upon being more liberal than their French brethren, who are ready to go to war for the purpose of dismemboring Italy and erocting & Papal political throne in Rome. Lot usnow look b his qualification. The spoliation of church proporty’ was not thae work of Victor Emanuel, but of the Ital- jan Parliament which was clected by the Catholic voters of, Italy, Our correspondent must remember that the peopla of Italy are Roman Cotholics, The' Parlinment is Ro- man Catholic, Viotor Emanuel himsolf, ol. though he- hae 'boon oxcommunicated, . still claims to bo n good Ontholic, and his daugh- ter-in-law ig at tho hend of many of the Ro- man Catholio charities in Italy. The Prot- | catonts of ‘Ttaly aro an insignificant and feoblo handful, unsble to do snything, The property which was soquestrated was tho im- ‘menss wealth, amounting to millions of acres. of Iand and hundreds of millions of dollars in money, accumulated yeor after yoar by the nunneries and convents; aud obtained without purchnzo or peouninry consideration. Viotor Emanuel, o Catholis King, earried out the decroes of a Catholic Puriinent, as Napoleon did the decrocs of the Frenen Por- linment after tho Revolution. Tho lands which wero iakon from theso institutions ware divided into homestends aud sold to [ Catholic cultivators of the soil, enriching poor Catholic people who wero willing to worl, instead of - enriching Catholic people who preferred to live in a condition of, pious |. idlencss,. The proceeds. of theso sales wero devoted partly to tho support of the Ontholic clorgy; of Catholic schools, academios, and universities; and partly ss pensions to old monks and nuns who woro unable to talke care of themselves, aud who were allowed to romain in tho convents and monasterics sot |, apart for their use, If, thereforo, there wns any spoliation of property, it wag a spolia~ tion made by Roman Catholles, aud in- dorsed, supported, and defended by the Toman Catholic peoplo of Italy, Tho Prot- estants havo had nothing to do with it. If Ttaly is not free, thon tho Roman Ontholics havo enalaved her; but the truth is, she is froor than Frauce, and cqually ‘a8 freo as Great Britain or Germany, 1 . . . Our correspondont, in anewéring anothor ¢uestion, agks: **Does Tho Tribune beliove that the Catholics of Germany to-lay owa strictallegiance tolXiug William's Government, which jnprisons their Bishops, conilacntes their property, and denies thom the right to in nocessary to inguire what tho Gorman law requires, and what are tho relations of the German Roman; Onthollo docleainaties to that 1aw.. In tho first plnos, the Gorman law is not partial in its operations, It applies to all soots, Protestant ag woll a8 Cathatic, with ioqual force.. It draws mo distinctions. It s not- moroe harsh' upon - ono eeet than snothor, oxcopt so for as ono sect more than- another violates its provisions and rondors itaclf linblae to ita pennltics, The ‘Gorman law provides that marringes, to bo ‘logal, ghall bo consummnted by the civil ‘magistratos. In other words, tho bond of ‘marringo s o civil contraot, nnd is only logal- ly binding when it is excouted undor the law. Thero is nothing in the lsw to provent o iBighop from supplomenting the civil form of marringe with ‘tho ecolesinstionl ; but if o ‘Gntholic Bishop oxeontes 'a mmringo by the ‘agelesinatical form, and igmoros and defles the lofvll, then he ia in’ gontempt of tho Blato, and o8 not tendéred etvil alleginnco to the Gov- ornmont. . The samé is truo of tho schools, ‘The State requires soculnr education not only of Roman Catholio youth, but of youths of ‘sl denominations. It proseribes n certain ‘monner and modo’ of inatruction in school itimo, but it does not interfore with any kind ‘of instruction out of theso school hours. Any- Ohurch ' which interfores with theso régulations, thereforo, intorforos with tho rights of the State to cducate its youth, and in this respect also thie COatholio Bishops have repentedly violated tho clsims of the Btato.. This law. furthor provides that all porsons applying for professionsl positions,” .such as ‘tho Churob, the Bar, the forum, or. medioine, for scientifis, civil, military, or naval offices, must first roceive o cortain de- groo or. alount of secular education, and this provision is binding upon nll scots slike. Herotofore the Catholia ‘Bishops of Germany have furnished a system of education which has omitted the most of the" course required by law, and they have deflantly attompted to ignore its provisions, The law furthermoro gives tho laily, or congregation, coutrol of their church property, and, Whenevoer o va- eancy oceurs, the congregations have the right to nominate ‘s successor. It s a simplo nct of justico that the laity should lave o voice, sinco the clergy of ail denom- inntions,” evon the Jews, are supported by the taxntion of the wholo people, and overy Church draws .8 cortain fixed revenue from the Treasury of the German Govern- ment, The Catholic’ Bishops, howover,. while thoy continue to draw this revenuo from tho State, and decline to surrender thoir State-paid solaries, coutinue to violate the civil laws of the Empire. If, however, they are pnid and supported by the Govern- ment, then it is their simplo duty to obay the civil power in all secular matters, Axchbishop Manning afirms in his letter that’ the civil allegionce of 1o man is un- limited, and that this is asserted in the Vati- con decrees. Bub who is to be the judge of this limitation? Who iz to be tho: arbitrator between natural law ond gpiritunl law when thoy come into conflict? Archbishop' Manning declares that the Popa is to be the judge, The civil alleginnca of all nations, he claims, is prima- rily due to the Pope; the Pope is tho su- premo orbitrator betweon nations, snys Arch- bishop Manning. There is but one safe road in this conflict, .. The Church has no right to interfero with the State in civil matters, ond cnunot be an arbitrator in civil matters. The State has no right to interfere with the Church in gpiritual matters, and cannot be oo arbitrator thercin. Daes our correspond-' ent’ believe this? "Do Romen Catholics be- liove this? If they do, then thero can be no controversy betwaen them and Protestants on this highly-important matter. ‘Wo can scarcely imagine that the Post-Of- ‘fice Department has suffered an annual loss of §700,000 on foreign postal matter through .Inclk of system in keeping sccounts. While this amount is probably exaggerated, it is not unlikely that a very considerabld loss hos been pustained by a systom, or rather lack of system, which provided no cheack upon postal clerks, Wo are glad that o Chicago man has comao to the rescue, and that the expenditure of $16,000 is likely to save several hundred thousand a year for the future, The pro- posed check syatem is a very simple ona, the offices of genecral distribution, such as Now .York, Boston, Chicago, ete., make up a list, ond the offices: ot the various destinations likowise make up a list, of foreign letters. Both lists are sent indopendently to the De- partment ot Washington, and the one is a check on the other, ‘Ilie only wondor is that &0 simplo o device has never been thought of ‘before. . The official declaration of tho voto in Masss- chuwotts is a8 follows: o Republican. Democrat, Governor, Thomas Talbot...., 82,344 Willlam Gaaton. .., 96,876 *_‘Onposition majority... 7,00 Lieutenant-Governor, Horstlo G, Knight, 99,181 Willlun_ L, Semith, . 87,138 Bepublican BJOHEY.vrenveessee Socrotary of the Commonwealth, Oltver Warner,,....104,405 Don). . Mills TRopublican mmr!g 23,339 Charles Adams, Jr.,103,629 Nothan Clark. 82,167 ' Ropublicah MAJOTIEY.esssansesessnasranses 2y Auditor, Charles Endicatt, .. 103,454 O, Osgood Morso. . 80,666 Ropublican maJority..e siveeras 118 Auon:t{-flfinel‘l, Charles R, Train....103,0% - Waldo Golburn..,. 81,303 * Ropublican TaJOrtY.eeras woresees 23,610 . Tho votes for Reprosentatives in Oongress are a8 follows: . Repudlican, Independentand ¢ Be Democratic. attering, 4 430 pEY 1] ok 19,485 0K 0,13, Thompson 8,710 s Turbox.. , §,370 I 1685 [ Thayer.,., 8,061 8 Hillyu.0ees U474 Soolya .. 1,718 Ohapin, 11,004 €5 WA 72,978 21,890 The whole voto for Congressional candidatos appoar to bo 8,470 less than tho wholo voto for Qovernor. The Gubarnatorial vote, by counties, compares with the voto in 1878 as follows : 18Ty 1873, Palbot, Gaton ashbn., Gaston Barustable, 1,nub°" < 1,00 20 478 4,763 wod0 B.318 1 T3 6Tl 4w 600 a1t 00 s o 19,074+ 10,008 B0 U8 . 30 1435 7,460 B,518 4847 16,878 i o8 ‘20 "4 5,1:0 GO 8,08 (04 4788 - 2188 20,090 B4 D53 2,018 081 10,198 96,576 3,083 59,360 In 1878 Mr. Talbot, as the Republican candi- date for Lieutouunt-Gavernor, actunlly proved 5,500 votes elronger than Washburo, This year M, 'Palbot proved woaker than bls sssociates, by from 10,000 to 16,000 votes, and, whila the hiond of tho tioket wus beaton, In him, the ro- mainder of the Ropublican ticket wes handsomo- worship God, unlass done in tho mannor pra- | jy eleoted. Thore is aotnally no othor rosson fox soxibod by law Mo answorthin quastion it | Massaclusstis haviog » Demoorallo Governoz noxt yoar, than tals 1 That the pooplo would nof have Thomas Talbot for Govornor. ~And it wax of this man that tho Worcestor Gazelle snid, B dby or tvo aftor bia nomiuntion ¢ ‘Tho tomperance men, Aoecy l, allod, will move heayon, mx ‘_::rlh. and the wholo powor of somo of tho strongs’ st n gious denominatioun will bo bronght to boar Fn bls favor ¢ nnd this {8 to moan sourco of strength to a Aru‘mnumu- caniidate. 1t §n, beaidos, o bo_conalde prod thiat M. Thomnn Talvot I not a political Iutuu n i‘n arms of ia nurses, Mo ln an oxtromely practi= , hard-houded 1man of busless, whio hina, plonty of monoy and will spend 1 lberaily, and who knows' the' ways of politics and doos not diadain to uso thom, ‘When ainte nod stunons hoth combiua ta work for ,d,u.:, hlw opponens must look well to tholr ammuns —— There dled at Cobocs & fow days sgo an octogonarian farmor named Lonsing, who had draggod out huoif a contury of dom;ml' opposition’ to ovory improvemont which modern Drogross contemplated: Hia farm lay in tho path of tho Tirie Canal, and bo fougbt s with a dosporation worthy of a noblor aim. To atriggled muloe tully against tho Troy & Bohencotady Raflrond, and bittosly strovo, by turning in s way, evory obstaclo that Ingennity could euggest, against the opening of the Colioss Company's Canal, It was of no uso to urge upon him his sapidly- inciemsing woanlth sud tho prosperity of hia town and its people. Hodid not'want woalth: and Lio did not want {mprovemont if thoy necos- sitated change. Ho'was ono of thoso peopla Naturo designs to brako the car of progreas, and that Lo Insted for Lalf & contury without woare ing out or materially chocking tho onwnrd motlon of the vebiolo shiowa that Naturo ohuss o rathor usaless matorial for tho purposo. Chis cago las fow Laneiugs, Th P mats of 8t, Lous, e T e ] ——— A tonder reminiscenco of tho yell ation whioh despoiled tho Oiey ni 5}:::;!‘;1’:;;‘-:[:; ngo comey trom- Elnwood Comotory. Ouo of the grent hearts which such calamities dovelop was Mattio Stophenson, a young lady of To- wands, Ill,, whoso contribution to mid tho Buf~ forera by the plague was Lior life, Sho watchod nnd nureed the slok sod performed tho lust offices for tho dying, until eho at longthi suce cumbed to the opidemic snd adled one moro to thio list of ita vitima. The gratoful oitizens of Memplis havo not forgotton hor. The Tyustoos of tho cometory appropristed a lot for hor intor- ment, and the oitizons bave built a monumont to' commemorato her decds iv marblo, —— NOTES AND OPINION, The fact will not be ovarlooked that Congreas, Uus winter, may #ave to tho Publle Treasury 81,402,600 by moroly cutting off the * forwara poy" of the Congress-oloct, The Tronton (N. J.) Blale Gazlte sayaz Hero fa o very largo sum whi shionld bo: saved to tho ]mupla.d.‘\fixga‘:‘zg iy d tiroly unnocessary expensta ua this aro found to oxist thoy should bo promptly cut off, ' If & polioy of vizor ousand thorough reform shall Lo inuugurated snd carried out by 1hie nextueastun of Congress, tho epul- llcan party will bo complotely restored to pubtic cone Ndonco, ‘Tho wiso aud proper tuing to do In this salury busiuces would bo for Congress this wlutor to ot uil logialation for Cougressionul pay besoud the ith of March, 1875, ond_romlt tho wiolo subjoct of futuro salary to the next Congress, —Nevads polled a totzl of 18,004 votes in tho Iato olection, or about one-third the vote of Cook County, As tho money-power controls Novada eleotions, tho resultis: A Republican Legislo~ ture, set up for Willinm Bharon, *‘the Comsatoolk King," for noxt Unitod Btates Sonator ; s Demo- cratic Governor and Licutonsut-Governor; Republican Congressman ; a Democratic Ntate Troasurer; & Republican Comptroller, Seoretary of Btate, eto. Tho majorities ranged from 2,68+ to 4,165 acrosn tho political dividing-fine. Tho official voto in Minnosota for Congrass is: Republican, é. Dunnell, Opposition. G110 Walle, L 48,057 43,019 As an evidence of the progress of Minnosota, the total voto is this year 1,170 largor than for President in 1872, in which year tho vole wags Graut, 55,117; Groeloy, 84,423, —The following gentlemen will havo seats in Congress, this winter, by election to fill vaoane cles: Olfo—Willlam E, Finck (Democrat), eloctod, vico Hugh J, Jowott, Tesigned. . Npo York—Simeon B, Chittenden (Independent) vica Stowart L. Woodford (Ropublican, resiymed ; o Tichard Bcholl (Democrat), vice David B, Mollish (Bo- Bkt Laveling—Lowla Cans Garpont B . douth Carolina~ ass o vico Robert B, Elllott mupuuuug?m;nar}iw Al There is & yacancy in the Pennsylvania delo- gution, unfilled, by the resignation of Ebenezex MeJunkin, Repablican. —The votoof New Orleans, offioially canvassod, is: For Mayor, Charles J. Leeds, Demoorat, 5,944 ; Folix Labatat, Republicsn, 14,269, Tho danger that Eellogg would abolish thoe Municipal i Gavernmont ssems to havo * ovorpast.” . —The Now Hampshire Demoorats will bring out & new man for Governor, in January, and :are debating whethor it shall be Hiram R. Robortg, Martin V. B, Edgerly, Willism H. Gove, or Warron F. Daniel. —Tho Worcestor Spy, commenting on tho official fligures of tho Massachusetts election, says: Wo find thst tho number of thorough-going Pro- hibitionista n the Ropublican party ia much emaller than has beon gonerally mupposed. Tho knowlcage {hus gained at some risk and loss will doubtloss havo its offect i tho future councils of the party, v —Tho Cairo Bulletin (John K. Oberly) nomle nates Bamucl M. Glsssford, Indopondont Son- ator-elact of tho Fifty-first District, for Prosie dent of tho Tlinols Senate. Judgo Charlea D.’ Hodges, Domocratic Senator-slect for the Lhirty~ ninth Diatriot, is also named for that position. The Ottawa Free-Trader still urges John Hieo,' of Clicago. for Spoaker of the House, and ‘‘ia not aware that Goorgo W. Armstrong, of La Salle, is a candidate for tho Speskorship, or thub thers is o movement on foot In bis bohalf.* —1In Maine, tho opposition to Bouator Ham~ lin's re-clection is represented by tho Portland Press, the leading Ropublican paperof tho Btate, whick' draws this form of indictmont sgainsh him: Ho hina gat In his place {n the Scnate and scon tho Orolit Mobilior operations, the back-poy enormity, and alt tho rest of tna bad leglalativa actiou, whoio record {a broaking the back of tho Ropublicau pa and ruining the good nam of tho nation, pass uncho! longed. With his vast oxporlence in jublio aifairs, bis high porsonal charncter, and his cimiuont ability, it waa {11 lifs power to malo a monly prolest sgalust o\t thoso things, which would have been offective, and \ould iave {mparted infnitelv moro lustro to Lls nuime than tho" passive virtuo which Alr, Blaine comtmendzs ‘Lo men who, good himsalt, permiia the bad, 18 nok the man tho t{moa demund. ' The Ideal Senator kv of » ‘more berolc wold, sad atiwrupis 10 remody ovld, uob mmmt with a lazy sbetlnence from purtlcipating 1o om. —\This ees 'ard!” Our Pennsylvania ex- changes 6ay: Col. Qurlis, the defoatod Republican candliato for Gougress i tho Erl District, has boon beaten by elevens volos, Sinco bis dofeat b as boen called on by Tusny Royuiilicatus who oxpross regret for aving votod Agulet im, who assure him thoy would Lave yotod for nim 4f thoy ind dseamod of Lis defeat, —The Domocrats, not yot having obfainod notusl possossion of the “National Capitol, aro tompararily ucfl\l))yiflg castles in Bpaln.—Pills- burg Conmmercial, hosa mulicions Domoacrats who_chargod that tho Southorn-outrago businoss would Lo abandoned us 6000 a8 tho elections wore OVOLy aro ovidontly of tho *liar_and horse-thiof prripe, for the Inter-Ocean has Dovor letup s flr}uw,umalia)ll}l at it with might and n,— ayelts (fnd.) Jowrnal. —’lyumn altogethor, about tho best thing Bmith, of Arkanuas, can do, would be to erawl out of his hiding-placo and ofalm for bimself t}l\\ntha‘lfioo%o‘vnrdv offorsd by Gov. Garlund.— vashville (Lenn,) Union. —Tho lfiur;-uc?awu Republican disousses the chances of the varions caudidatos for the New Jersey Bonatorslip, unonfi whom are two of ity townsmon,—ox-Gov. Raudolph and_Mr. Jacob Van Natta, It hoias that, if tho Legislature had been Demoeratio on_jomnt ballot by ouly & sninll majority, Gov, Randolph would hiave boon onsily, revognized as tho viotor and swarded tho honorg of tho Sonatorship. It still thinkshe has the best ohance, It rogerds Mr, Van Natta's prod- poots 24 discouraing, for the ronson that ho falled to eloct eithior his cundldato for Honator or for tha Assombly in his own county. Of Atty.-Gon, Gilghriut it malken moro account, but thinke that ho is Hkely to bo eatiflad with bis rontoration to his old place on tho Rinarian Com= misston aud the eloction of his taw-partner, dr. MoGill, as cundidato for Bponker, with his own ranppolutmunt as Attornoy-Gonoral, ~And it oounta My, Btockton quk au sonuunb of his backs ., i | i i