Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1874, Page 8

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY NOW BER 28, 1874--TWLELVE PAGES. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE: # 1874, TATYA OF RURCHILTION (PATATILE 1 nmm;yé). Iy by mail ... 12,000 | Sundar.. .82, Ral kit SUEOD Wl 53:58 Parta of 2 year at the saino rato, Ty prevent dolay and mintakea, bo suto and give Post Otlico addron In fall, fnoluding Stato and County, Romitisncossay Lonnde elther by draft, expross, Post Ofiteo urder, or in registotnd fotters, At onr risk, TERMB 70 CITY AUNSCNINENS, Datly, deliyorcd, Eundsy excopted, 275 conts perwook. Daily, dollvorod, Bundsy included, 30 centa po wook. Addross I TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cogmor Madison atd Dearliorn-ste,, Chicago, Il TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VIORRRUS T Dearhorn aud Stato. aranlag, ORAND OPERAIUUSE-Clac] Bnerman Housn, Kally & Log Duteh 8. Altarnoon aud aven| Wf—Madison strest, botwson Joanto Doans" Afternoon gpnostta i atreot, opnosdte finatrols, MY OF MUSIO—Hafatrd siroer hatwann Mad suonan omvom narmont of Mrv. fh 8. Ghanira. “Juslousy.” Aftesnoun and eveniog. ALY Y tii~Randoloh strost, betwesn ClbrR ot Lottt 3 enroe.nATrornoos aud evamuE. BURNITTS TLAVORING EXTRACTS.~TNRRE 35 o aubject which shenld more cigrosa uttontion U f tha proprations blok Ao nsad In fiavor compontida proparod Tor tho human stomneh. Burnott's [iatracts ato prepared from fruita of the best quality, and nre bighly eoneentratod, Y5 Tava sald Burnoil's Mavoringn fur yoss,—soll Ahaw yzolusive. ‘Thu vory best ln tho countey.M'—Sinnton * uavn 0l Tuenutt's oockin extraots ypwards of twales yenrs: Alwayelonnd thusn Stapoar sl rolsbio I horme, ox aan by fowdl &rucors and_drucists, Tie Clicage Teibung, Saturdny Morntng, Novembor 28, 1874. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Wo wero not speaking out of bounds in saying the othor dny that the nction of the Common Council in the matter of tho peti- tion for incorporation was an insult to the public of Chicago, The Council confirmed the judgment last night by adopting a report from the Judiciary Committes doclaving that action on the petition was impracticable and inndvisable. W believe the people will find it impracticable and inadvissble to re-cleot the {reacherous representatives who thus dony them a right accorded by tho Constitu- tion of tho Stato. The Warden of the Ilinois Penitentinry s reported to Gov, Beveridge certain “facts concerning the prisoners received from White County on the evouing of tho 24th inst,” whicl aro truly remarkablo, It would appear from the Warden's report that all the despe- rate characters from White County are de- cropit paupers; that the burglars have twists in their spines, the horse-thieves no arms, and the common rascals no feet to speni of. TEither us having no able-bodied conviets, or a8 boing too mean to support its paupors, ‘White County deserves publio attention, The King of the Sandwich Islands is now on his way to the United States, intending to make o long visit. IIo hns mrranged the af- fairs of his Empire to meet unforescon con- tingencies, having reconstruoted his Cabinet and appointed a successor to the throme, Kalakua is the King's name. Tt ought to run trippingly from the average American tongne by the time the King ronches Chicago. The ‘missionnries will not eare to show up Kalakun in the Sunday-schools as a product of their labors in the Sandwich Talands, And Kala- kun very likely will not givo the missionaries & chanco, His wealness is snid to be rum. R. A, Wilbur, United States Agent among the Papago Indinns, has reported to the Secre- tary of tho Interior that the Bishops and pricsts of the Catholio Church who are serv- ing ng missionaries to this tribe “have n larger interest in socuring the fruits of the labor of the Indiang than in nny spiritunl good thoy might be sble to confer upon them.” The substance of Mr. Wilbur's accu- sations will be found in the Washington dis- pateles this morning. It ought to stir upa sensonablo strife smong the churchmen ; and to suggest to tho Government the advisa- bility of doing away with 1nissioary control of the savages in things seculy The Supreme Court hns decided that the Indinns, in their tribal relations, hava no property rights in feo; also that the timbers and minerals on the reservations aro 8 part of tho reaity, and cannot be sold or loased. Undoubtedly this is the most im- portant decision that las come from the Supreme Court in many yenrs, It impoverishes some tribes, and seri- ously affects all. It destroys tho valuo of the reservations excopt for hunting and graz- ing grounds. It annuls the contracts which hiave been made with tho savages by speen- lative aud not too serupulous whites. The substantial justice of tha decision, we believe, will commend it to everybody. The report of the Comptroller of the Cur- rency, published this morning, is chiefly in- teresting for its bearings upon the Currency act passed ab the last session of Congress, It shows conclusively, what hns nover been doubted by compotent judges, that Congress Tenlly adopted a monsure of contraction ; but the apparent reduction of tho circulation sinco the bill went into operation is not con- siderable, It must bo said, moreover, that tho influences alocting the volume of the ourrency are 50 mauy and 8o complex that the rednction ocensioned by the new law cannot be exactly nscertained, Wo mny gafe. 1y any that tho country would not'hiave boen much better or much worse off than it s to. day if Congress had not touched the cur- renoy question during the lnst session. —————— The verdict of the jury in the Washington safe-burglary case wag anticipated yesterday morning o far a8 the goneral reault was con- cerned. No agreemont was ronched, It ap- poars that but one voto wus changed from tho timo the jury retired till it camo bnek, Will- inms was declared innocent unanimously on the first ballot ; tho final voto on Whitaly was 9 for acquittal, 8 for conviction ; and on Har. rington 8 for nequittal, 4 for conviction, The dispalchen from regular and spechal corre. spondents maka grave intimationsof improper donlings with tho jury, and espocially of pri- vato communications in tho interest of thode- fondants with some of the colored jurors, Thoso chorges cannot be substantinted, but thoy are sufficiontly supported to have all the woight of moral evidence. Whitely and Har- rington may go freo. Legal procoodings againgt thom are virtoally oxhausted with thia trial. But tho poopla will not hold them guiltloss ; and tho peoplo constitute a jury wlich no political riug can eorrupt, deevivo, or intimidate, 'I'he Chieago produco markets wore gener- ally strong yestordny, under & good demnnud all around, Mess pork was active and 40a 800 par hrl Lighor, closlug at §20,60a20,76 cnshy, and §21,35021.40 sollor February, Lord was active and 400 por 100 Ibs highor, closing ot $16.76 ensh, and $14,00014,05 soller Fob- ruary, Moents wore active and 1-4o per 100 1bs higher, closing at 7 1-87 1-fo for shbuldors, 10 1-8010 1-do for short ribs, and 10 1.in 10 3-8¢ for short cloar, Highwines were less nctiva and atendy, nt 97 1-20 per gallon, Flonr was in light domand and firm. Wheat was modorately notive aud strongor, closing at 02 120 geller the month, and 94 1-ic for January, Corn was aelivo and 1 1-20 higher, closing nt 80c cash, 7o seller tho year, and 68 1-20 for now No, 2, Oats were moderntely activo and stondy, closiug at 63 1-2¢ cash or sollor tha year, Rye was in good demand and 1-2c]higher, at 92 1-2093c. Batley was more active, but declined 2e, to $1.22 1.2 at tho close, Hogs wero quict and n shade lower, Snles chiefly at $0.7687.80, Onttle and sheop wore dull and ensy, Mz, Adam Smith, of this city, ling issued a circular advising that silver coin bo mado & Iogal tendor to the amount of $100, and says that to do s0 would ho to produce & resump- tion of specio paymonts. So long s wo have & paper currency made s legal tender, and atill below par, there can bo no specio pay- monts or specio in general circulation. Tha chenpor currency nlways excludes the bettor, Assoon s greenbacks and coin become ex. changeablo equivalonts, thon specio pay. monts are resumed. That is what is mennt Ly specio paymonts. Tampering with {ho coinngo, or attempts to fix its value to fit that of tho over-fluctuating irredeomablo-papor cur- rency, aro simply absurd. Coining silver will not mako it any more a currency so long g tha less wnluable greenback can be used a8 a legal-fender. When the paper dollar becomes in fact, ns well as le- golly, equal to the silver coinnge, the lntter will circulate ns freely as over. Excopt tho smaller denominations of coins, silver will never bo an extensive circulnting medium. Its bulk and weight mako its transportation costly and inconvonient. Elsewhere in this paper will be found a letter from Judge Jameson, sotting forth the legal nspeets of the Garland-Smith Arkansns muddle, and controverting the views attrib. uted to Judge Poland by tho St Louis re- porters. In justico to Judge Poland, it must bo said that he declines responsibility for anything and everything which appeared in the St. Louis papers under the cover of pre. tended interviews with him, His protest ngninst the falsifientions of the St. Louispress is almost comical in its cnrnestness. Wo ora surprised that Judge Jameson bas not scen and apprecinted is disavowal, Al though the ostensiblo pretoxt for Judge Jame- son's lotter isnot sullicient, we are gld, on ather grounds, to give it to the public. Itis a full and clenr enunciation of the law in the caso, and sustains the position taken by Tus Trinune early in the controversy, It is valu- able a8 coming from a Constitutional lawyer of no mean reputation, It contains an array of precedents that ought to satisfy the most captious and belligerent Tepubliean in Ar- kansas of tho validity of the now Constitu- tion, S0CIAL V8. OIVIL RIGHTS. The Inte Sonator Summner, who was a phi- lanthropist rather than a statesman, loft the colored people a legacy of ovil rather thann legacy of good in his so-called Civil-Rights bill. Ho failed utterly to comprechend the obvious distinction betwaon civil rightsin a political sense and civil rights in a gocial senso. Tt is the function of Government to secure the one, but mnot tho other, The United States Government, under the guid- nnce of the Republiean party, and after the noblest struggle known to history, resened an entire race of people from the bonds of an unnataral and cruel slavery, and gave them the strongest gnaranice for the enjoy- ment of the full rights of citizenship for all time to come, The disadvantages under which the colored people were likely to labor in their struggle for political exist- enco by renson of their pest condition were properly cstimated, and not only wns the Constitution so amended as to ontitle them to full citizenship, but speeinl Inws were enncted to prevent their former masters from abusing theit own influenco and taking advantage of the negro’s ignoranca and wenkness, It was rightly concluded that the States which had Iately beon in rebellion wero really not com. petent to administer equal justice to a race of smen they had but recently regarded as born to chattel slavery, To gunrd against the cer- tain nbnses npt to grow out of the relationy of the Southern whites to the blucks, a Civil. Tights bill was passed, and speeial nets were made which endowed the Federal Govern- ment with authority, aud the Federal Courts with jurisdietion, in cases that would ordi- narily have been relegated to the Stato Governments and the State Courts. The Constitutional Amendments and many of theso acts of Congress have been passed upon by the Supreme Court of the United States, and it has been held that theso laws were en- soted for the peouling by b ‘thudoyotection of the colored peoj 1™ .w. which eight years' G- o5 c BStates had taught to bo necossary for the ab- solute sceurity of the colored race in all his politicnl rights of person aud proporty. It waa nb this point that Senator Sumner's statesmanship was morged into his philau- fropy, end that the dowain of Government beeame inextrieably confused in his wmind with the dowain of social relations, His personal identifiention with the war on slavery and his post prominent position in the party of Liborty secured him a rospeet- ful hoaring that would have boon donied any other living man ; and tho enrncstness of his theories misled the blacks and found adhor- onts among largo numbers of tho whites who sympnthized with his mistaken plilan- thropy, ‘Tho result was, that logislation was asked of n chnracter that has nover found a placo in any Republienn Government outside of the vislonary and dnngorous Socinlistic systoms thut have threatened Frauce, Spain, and the South Amorican Republics from time to time, The Inat Congress was threatoned with n phuso of this Socialism undor the apporently harmnless guido of n supplomontal Civil- Rights bill. Sonntor Sumner's original bill Wwas not serlously dlseussed durving bis life- imo; but Seuntor Frelinghuysen, ns Chuir- man of the Judiclary Committes nftor his denth, fntroduced o bill modeled after Mr, Sumner’s theorlos, in order to carry out his dying requost, It consials of flyo seotions, Thae flrst provides that all porsons, whather citizons or not, and without distinetion of raco or color, shall be entitlod to the equal enjoyment of tho accommodations and ad- vaulnges of il Inns, hotols, publio convey- ancos on Jand and water, thentves, operas, concorts, and other places of amugement, of common goliooly, of tho agricultural collogos, sndof all other institutions of learning or benovolonce supported in wholo or in part by public taxation, nnd also of cemetories and burial.grounds gimilarly supported. Tho second sootion contalns the pon. nlties, which provide that tho of- fouder shall pay $i00 damnges to the nggrioved person, oud likewise bo mub. jeot, upon couvietion, to a fina of $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, Tho third section endows the United Statos Circuit and District Courls with juriadiction in all cnses growing ontof this act, and makes it the duty of all tho officers of the United Statos Courts to proscouto tho suits, Tho fourth seetion provides that no porson shall bo disqualified from serving on the jury on nceount of raco or color, and any ofticor fail- ing to summon any juryman on this nccount shall be fined $1,000, The fifth soction malos all cnses under this law roviowablo by the United States Supremo Court without rogard to tha sums in controversy a8 mow provided with roferanco to othor causs, This bill pnssod the Sonste by o majority of thirleon. It wns on the Bpenker's tabla in tho Houso whon Congress adjourned. It is not likely that the measure will be brought up again this coming winter, or, if it is, that suy serious offort will be mado to pass it in the faco of on almost cortain voto, 1t is to be hoped, for the sake of harmony in the party, that this nction will not be forced nupon Presidont Grant ; but, if it is, it may be considered beyond rensonable doubt that ho will return the bill without his spproval. Tne Trivoye will dispute with auy ono a do. votion to tho true principles upon which the Republican porty was organized sud for which it is maintained ; but we bold that everything has boen done in the way of logis- Intion which is necessary to secure the negro the onjoyment of his political rights. If fu. ture oxporicnce suggests additional legisla~ tion, we sbnll advoeato it; but wo shall op. poso every effort at legisiation which eniers upon the labyrinthine and indefinable domain of socinl relations. Such legislation would uot stop with the negro. It would bo but n step to alike intorforonce between tha rela- tions of whites of difforont socinl standing. It would become ns offensive in politics ng coorcive sumptuary lnws are, It would in. ovitably bring disaster upon the politienl party that should attempt to follow it into its numborless and mysterious ramifieations. If, ab poy time, it shall appear that the negro, North or South, is debmred from protection of his property, is dofamed in his charne- ter, or is deprived of any other right to which ho is entitled as & freo and oqual American citizen, we shall favor the most rigid. legislation that may be necessary to restora him theso rights. But ‘wo protost against Federal Governmental in- torference with those relations which men must regulate and manage for themselves, nnd through their local legislativo machinery, Human nature will rovolt agninst statutory interferenco with purely social distinetions, aud the black man and white man will not bo 08 good friends as they are now if thoy aro forced by law into mutunl intercourse of nny kind which either of them uaturally or sociale 1y avoids. It hing been said that the pressure of tho Civil-Rights mensuro beforo the lato Congress, and the prospect of its adoption at the next session, bag had great influence in determin- ing the result of the recent elections in the South., Wa aro not sure but this is true, The Republiean party should take heed of it. There is enough for it to do in a political way without trenching upon the dangerous ground of Socinlism. It will bo time enough to pass mare laws for the protection of the colored man when it sholl become ovident that his political rights as a citizen are in jeopardy. ‘[ill then, let us leave the quos- tion of his social standiug to be worked out by his own good behavior and material prog- ress, PERILS (? TRHE FULURE, - Some days ago we pointed out, as ameng the obvious perils which threatoned the coun- try in the cnso of the Government passing into the hands of the Democralic party, the certain onslaught which would be made npon the Treasury by the whole cx-Rebel popula- tion, We snid nothing of any possible re- vival of secession, or the re-enslavement of tho blacks, as these mensures promise to enconnter stern and armed vesistance. But we did refer to the baleful doctrine of ¢ State soveroignty” proposed and proeclaimed by tho whole Democratic purty during its past history, and nover held more tonaciously than now, Thero can bo no Democratic ascond- ency in Congress without having the South. ern States in o majority of that party. Those States promise to becomo as conivolling n power in the Democratic party as they wora beforo the Civil War. This will be especially trug in tho Sonate. A Democratic Con. gress menns, therofore, o Congress in which the represontatives of tho South. ern States will comstitute a majority of the ruling party, Iere, then, comes the occasion for the npplication, retzospective- ly and prospectivoly, of the principla of ¢ Stato sovoreignty,” The Louisville Courter- Journal objects to our views, not that it ob- Jieots to the payment of all the olnims that tho Southern peoplo may make for damnges and losses during the Rebellion, but because it thinks the original claimants will all Lo dend beforo the Democrntic party will ven. tura to puy their losses out of tho National Irensury, Men and women die, but *claims” never die, Evento this day each House of Con- gress hna n Committoo on ‘* Revolutionary Claims ;" the elaim of Amy Dardon for com- pensation for a statlion takoen from hor during thnt War outlived threo gonorations of atatos- men, Thoeoxpericucaef the Govermnont inthe ‘past has boen that no elaim ever dies; on the contrary, it ‘incroasosin amount by time with arithmeticnl progression, ‘I'ie clnims of the Southorn people for compensation for losses during tho Civil War can bo sntisfled now by perhaps $1,000,000,000 less than will be demanded twenty or thirty years henco, Nor do wa expect that thoso claims will all bo paid at ano time, nor by one bill. L'ero ara at this timo 100 bills pending before Congross to componsate as many persons in tho Rebel States for lossos by the War. This is not perhaps ovor 1 per cont of tho number that would bo presonted during one yenr of Doni- oorntio rule, 'Theso claims aro all rojocted now beenusa the law oxcludes thom, ‘Thora iy, howover, nothing so easy a8 to open the doors of the Court of Olaims, and, this once done, thoy will be rushed in for the next qunrtor of a contury, and the cost of the Re- bellion will bo duplicated es cortainly an any ovent in the womb of the fulure—if the Domoeratie party shall bo firmly invested in contral of the Governmont. The Democrat. 1o lenders will bo powerless to resist tho pres suro of tha South und the lobby, 'I'he fifteon ex-slovebolding States will bo o unit in Con. gress on demanding poyment, The samno Btates will control tho Cnbinet, and the Ju- diciary can bo guickly remodoled, so that all the Dopurtmonts of the Governmont will ko committed to that policy which the united Bouthorn wing demands, But the Demacratic party, if rostored to power at nll, must bo so upon its ancient, recognized prinoiple that this is not o nation, but a confedornoy of ‘‘soversign Statos,” with an acorodited ngent ab Washington called the Govornment, and acting under limited powert. Tho peoplo of tho soveral States, undor this Domooratio theory, owe their first nlioginnco {o their States, mud to tho nation ouly througl the States. The Courier-Jour- nal is onroful not to deny this dogma. Gen, Robort E. Leo resigned his commission in the United Statos oriny beonuse Virginia had seeeded. Ho never recognized any nileginneo snve to or through the State of Virginia, The Detroit Zlree Press, n Democratic organ, assames that it refutes all our conclusions by denying our premises; it donies that tho Demooratio dootring is or ins ever boon that ““ the Genoral Government is but the agont of the soveroign States.” It is but a day or two sinco wo copied from tho St. Louis Z%mes, tho Demoaratio orgon of tho gront Domoorat- io Stato of Missourd, tho distinet nffirmation that that was tho Demooratic doofrine, The Michigan editor lives in a loyal Ropublican State, and hos no constituents who wore in tho Stato-Sovercigaty Robellion and have claime for dnmnges. ‘That doelrine is not popular in Ropublican Michigan ; but down in Democratic Missouri the soveroignty of tho Btato is the fundamental theory of tho Demaocratic cntechism, and the Democralic party there rulo tho State because the major. ity of the people npprove that doctrine, ‘When tho Democratie party is in possession of the Government, Migsouri will Tiave a fal) Democratic delogation in both Houses of Congress, and Michigan will be Republican, If thero be any Democrats from Michigan in Congress, and theyrefusa to recognizo *State sovoreignty,” thoy will bo s rigidly oxcluded from tho party as were the Wilmot Proviso and Anti-Nebraska Domocrats of former days. There is no eseaping the fret that the funda- wental issue between the two parties is, that the Republican party holds the United States to bo a nation possossing every power neces- sary to a completo nationality; that it holds these powers, not as a gift from the States, nor as an ngent of other sovercign. ties, but ps a nation in no wiso dependent upon the States, The Demoacratic party Lholds, on the contrary, that this is not a nn- tion, but a confederavy of sovercign States, which have delegated certain limited powers to a cortain Fedoral ngeney; that the Gen. oral Government i a ereation by original sovereignties whose inherent soverciguty is intact. . ‘We have senrched the witty and sparlding editoriol columns of the Louisville Courder- Journal in vein to find this fundemental Demoeralic doctrine combated or traversed, Just now it would be journalistie folly verg- ing on insanity for it to avow the Stute-Sov- ereignty doctrine, and make a practieal ap- plication of the same in behalf of Bouthern Civil-War claims. First, secure power, nnd then sccura the compensation which the Democratic dogma embraces and includes. ‘The law of nations is, that all persons resi- dont in time of war in an chemy's territory ave to bo hold and treated as onemies, Con. sequently, they have no claim for any loss or damage they may sustain in the war, Bub if the Democratic theory be right, then these people, under thoir nllegiance to their States, wore never in rebellion, and tho destrnction or taking of their property wes a wanton ont- Tage for whicl they areentitled to full compen- sntion undor the Constitution, Alrendy the note of prepnration for this demnand is heard. All over the South the evidence of loss nud damages is mado out, and it only waits forn Democratic Congress and Presidont 1o bo in- stalled when tho issuo of bonds to pay for Southern losses will become tho policy of that party, and, through it, of the Govern- ment, BHALL WE HAVE A CODE 7 The example which New York and Ohio set, by adopting n geuneral code of practice, hins been followed by many States. 'Cho New York codo hns been the general model for all. The propriety of framing a moditiention of it for use in this Btuto hias long been n matter of discussion, Succeeding Logisintures have passed more or less longthy practico acts, but theso have hitherto been conflued to dutnils. The old common-law rules of practice have been modified, not rojectod. It is probable that the question of adopting a codo will e mooted agein this winter, It i worth while, therefore, to discuss the advaniages of tho innovation. The chief merita claimed for the code sys- tem are these: The distinction between lnw and equity is practically abolished; all the formy of action aro reduced to one or twoj; the luw's proverbial delays are lessened; sim- plicity and cheapness aro attained. It i doubtful, however, whether theso clnims can be fully proven. The common-law practice is the growth of centuries, It is naturally, therefore, more complete than a codo mada to order cnn bo, just as the English Constitu~ tion is better and stronger than any ono of the sets of formulw hastily devised as Consti. tions for Franee, No code, in fact, enn got wholly rid of the practice lnid down by Ohitty and Stephens. Tho now rules have to rest on theold. InNew York, the code hns not equnled tho expectations of its framors, Any num. ber of points inithave been earriod bofore the courts, Thore is & small libyary of books filled with tho judicinl explanation of this system which wns itsolf to explain overy. thing. Theso points were all soitled long sinco in the'common-ew practico, but they spring up again whenever a new system s in- troduced. ThoLegislaturemey adopttho code, but the courts must tell us afterwards whatev- ery seotion menns, Tverynew lawis a causo of litigntion, and alaw which enters into every caso will not be an oxveption to, but rath- er the fullest exomplification of, this fact, Tho code has nowhero made overy men his own lawyer, nalthough somotbing lko this was declared to Lo ono of ils sure results, Tho procosses of law aro still uninteligible to tho univiti- ated, and must alwnys Lo so, just ay thosa of any profossion aro to outsidors, Tho cheap- ness of litigation which was to bo gained by the code is not yet apparent to clients, The incomos of lawyers do not soom to decrense, Itis doubtful, indeed, whether going to Inw ought to be an inoxponsive amugement, 1f tho luxury was highoer-priced, n great number of the uscless suity thut now disfignro tho dockots womld nover bo brought. 'Lho superior - simpliclty of pretice under a cods is move appavont than real, At the time whon mon lost their caso if their attorneys happoned to bring the wrony sort of auit, the reduction of all the sorts to one or two forms was undaubtedly a gront gain, Lut this state of things oxists no longor, Amcendmont i do froely permitted by tho courts which have the common-luw prooedure that almost any tochnical orror can be cured, In this Btuto it hau boou held that au attornoy who by mistake sned on a sealed instrumont ag if it woro unsenled could, when tho trinl was far advanced, change the wholo form of his suit. Whon wo nre gotting along so woll under the old systom, wo should bo dlow, ab lenst, to rojeot it for the now, Thero are two minor points connceted with practieo which the Legislaturo might well rogulato. The first Is the proprioty of taxing pltornoys' foos ns part of tho costs, The journals devoted to legal literaturo have ar- gued this point so thoroughly that it is only neodful to montion it hore, Tho second is tha legalization of a vecord-book for lites pendentes. 'Whon suit is brought for the pos- seaafon of any partionlnr pieco of ground, the plaintiff has an equitable lion on it from the moment tho suit hasbogun, If tho defondunt meanwhile sells the property to an innocont purchager, tho Intter takes it subjoct to this lien. Ho may forfeit it therenftor to the plain. $ifl, if the Inttor wins this suit. Tho pendency of tho cnse is supposed to bo notice to him, but this is in many cnses o mero fiction, If ho buys on Tuesday nfternoon, how is he to know that on Tuesday morning a suit was begun which may mnke liis purchpse valto- loss? Now Yorlk meots the difienlty in this way: A gcparste record, called the Uis- pendens baok, is kept. A plaintiff, in order to get o lion on tho proporty he sues for, must have tho suit entered on thig book. Thus a buyer has only to consult this record. If no entry appears there, ha is safe, no mat- tor how many suits are pending, Prom- inont Iawyers aro strongly in favor of intro- ducing this simple system hero, RAILROAD MANAGEMENT. ‘Tho trouble with railrond management in this country is that it has not been conducted Lonestly or prudently; that it hns st various times fallon iuto the hands of gamblors and thieves and rapncions speculators, who have plundered the ronds, stockholders, and pub- lie. Onca in debt, thevo hins been o constant clfort to make things better for stockholders by giving them stock for dividends, and soll- ing more stock or bonds to get monoy to pay cuirent oxpenses. Tnking the Pennsylvania Railrond and the New York Central and Erie Railronds ns examples ,wo find the following results, The following is tho statement of their debts, bonds, and stocks np to 1874 ; New York Contral & H: Capital stoc] Londod dob Total.... van Tennaylvania Rallroad—Pittaby Clty, milon,, Capital stoc Bonds and morigages Totaliuasven 170 80,530,100 44,478,000 e evenes o enn $101,014,000 Hero i3 o total of 3,182 iniles of railway operated by those threo Cowmpanies, which are representod by $858,000,000 of stock, bonds, and mortgnges. We have mot in- cluded the other debis and linbilities of these Kompanies. This is the amount upon which dividends and interest are to he paid out of tho onrnings of the ronds, 'Tho stock and bonded debt is fn the proportion of over %107,000 per mile of rond] Now contrast this with the condition of the new Baltimore Company which has just opened its con- nection with Chiengo, Its finaneial condition 17,800,500 2,001,564 Sic.a07.804 79,012,024 Cash value of property., Burplus over capital stock and debt. ) Hero is a road that has been so managed that it pays a regulur anuual dividend in cash of 10 per cent to its stockholders, and has so continuously applied its surplus oarnings thnt it has now 1,100 miles of railrond in opera- tion, 600 miles of which is lnid with stec] rails, and bas just completed in addition 268 miles of extonsion to Chicago, making nemrly 1,400 miles of railway. During the lnst yenr it hos ndded over §3,000,000 to its surplus, which swrplus is not represented by either stock or bonds, This Company's affuirs aro s0 managed that cach year a portion of its in- cowme i used to rolire a part of the debt, in which way cach loan it has ocension to maka is retired in annunl installments, and without rouewal or the crention of a new debt. The linbilities given ineludo the loan to build the Chicago cxtension. Hero ia a practicnl illus- tration of the differonco between a rond man- aged honestly and as a public instilution and thoso mnunaged ns o personal speculation of its tomporary officers, The 1,00 miles of this rond represent in eapital aud debt less {han $32,000 o mile ; while there is a surplus uot ropresented by either stock or bonds in excess of tho whole bonded debt. A rond in such o condition need entor into no cowbina- tious with its debt-lnden rivals, DEATH OF “S. C. CAMPBELL.”? Shorwood A. Coan, bettor known by his atage name of 8. 0. Campbell, and still nore intimate- 1y known in professional circlesand among the patrona of English opora as plain *Bher” Camplell, died at the residence of his brother, 991 Woat Monros stroet, in this city, ou Thanke- givingg Day, in the 45th yoar of bis nge. Al- though bis death has not been an unexpected avont for somo timo past, the aunouncoment will Lo recoived with doep saduess, both among bis frionds and acquaintances, and in that largo circlo who will romember him by the plousure ho hos given thom iu past days—aud this circlo in- cludes both this country and Europo, o waw borw {u Notth Quilford, Conn., June 0, 1829, and left howo at tho ago of 7 to re- sido in Now Haven, where he remnined until he was 10 yonrs of ago. At that timo, 1848, Camp- boll, the founder of the famous Campell Min- strel troupe, dicd, and tho manogor wado ar~ vangements with Mr, Coan, who was &t that time an oxcellont tonor singor, to assume the name af tho foundor of tho troups aud travel with ik, which ho did. IMe remained with it for tou yoars, and mado itw nawo known all over tins country aud throughout Buropo and Aus- tralin os second auly fo the famons Christy Min- strols, In 1858 or 1869 he rotired from the min- strel business, and for threo yours devoted him- solf nseiduously to study for tho aporatic stage. Tu 1802 ho organized an Bnglish opars company in coungolion with Ars, Boguin, then Zeldn Harrlson, Ar. Costlo, Ayuesloy Cooke, and ouhors, whichmado its debut successfully ln Now York sud then mude a four of the country. Tho troupe did not reach GChicago, howovor, nntil 1865, and on Bopt. 25 of that yoar it mado ita dobut in the Acadomy of Muslo, au unostentatious lttle structure on Washing- ton straot, whosd Interior hurdly warranted ity high-soundiug nano, e mado hiy firut nppear- anco, 1f wo romouiber rightiy, as Count Arnheim in **I'ho Bouhomian Girl," acharactor which wasu favarita with hiw, and whieh ho almost olaimoed as his own until the late Henri Draylon cama upon the English stuga snd contentoed tho supori- ority. Tho soaton wau ot & gront suceoss finan- clully, but awong mueical pooplo Mr, Campbell attainod a dogroo of 1eputation and favoritiem which ho nover afterwards lost. After somo tima of varying fivnneial succoss, Mra, Rioh- Ingu-Bernurd conneoted hersol with the traupio aud booamo its mopsger, and wade for it & ramarkablo musical suocoss, slmply by the utrenglh of ita quariotto, now forovor biokeu,— Mra. Riohings-Bernard, Mra. Soguin, Usmpboll, and Costlo. Buch an admirablo quartoito waa novor botors organized 1w this country, so fine in 1ts Individual voloes erfoct in ita cnsomblo, 4o olosoly blondod and adapted, Tho relations betwoon this quartotto and its audionces wors almout of & friondly charaotor, and, as tho ltght English oporan dapend alinost eutiroly upon tho four principal parts, tho performances attsinod 2 high dogroo of porfection, Notwithstandlng thia fact, and notwithstanding Mse. Bornard's indomitable persoveranse aud industry, the treasury ran Jowor and lowor,—s rosuly which s to bo charged to bad fudgment and mane agomont rathor than to muslcal {mparfoo- tons, Momawhile = mnow rival appeared in the flold. Tho now-lamonted Paropa- Rora, who had aronsed unprecedented onthusinem throughout the entire country both in concorts, oratorion, and ftalinn opera, or- gonized an Eoglish oporn company with Rose Torseo, Nordblom, Laurenco, and other artisty undor the conductorship of Carl Rona, and literally crushed out the Bernard troupo. Some difforencea occurrod botwoon Mras, Beroard aud hor artiets, and in the sccond season Mra. Soguin, Mr. Coatle, aud Mr. Campboell secoded ond joined tho Paropa company. Mra, Barnard seoured Mr, snd Mra, Bowlor and Mr, Drayton, tha lattor ono of tho grontont and truest astists in the world, and strove to make lieadway agaiust tha other troupe, but in vain, Ske finally rolin. quished tho field to bor rival, and organized tho OId Folks' troupe, at tho head of which sho atill romoins, Mosawhilo the Parcpa troupo made both reputation and money, and kept in the fleld until 1871, when tho troupo wag disbanded. Parops and hor husband went back to Englaud, and Mr, Campboll, who was somowhat oub of hoalth, wont with them. ox- pecting to spond two yoors. Being a warm por- sonal {riond of the Rosns, ho traveled with them aver Europo, aud also wont with thom to Egype. 1lo was too much out of health to ewg with them, nnd the preat-hearted and good-henried Parops teuded and nursed him as sho would & brothor, A year ago Inet spring they roturned to Epgland, and be sang some with them in London and in Naplos, but Lis health continued to grow worso. (s disonse wes » mysterious one, shd nond of the Europonn physicians whom Lo covsulted eoomed to understand Lis caso, oxcopt Pareps, who told® him uo bkad hoart-discswo. Ilo aspout last wintor with the kiud-hoarted Rosas, but, ag ho grow no bettor, ho bade his fricuds ndion, nono of them thinking that Pareps hor- olf would bo the firat broken link iu tho happy circle, and left for homo, Mo ariived {n New York in tho spring, and, foofing some better, ho ‘made an engagoment with Miss Kollogg and Mr. Licss for the English sosson which ‘oponed hare last month. Ilappy obce morein Jolning his old fricuds, Mrs, Soguin, end Mr. Cast'o, with whom be had boen almost iuseparabloe for yoars, ho came 1o this city lo compauv wish Mr, Castle carly fu July, Io otder to bavo rest and rocren- tiou for & whort timo Votoro the oponing of the neason. A portion of tho time he spont with Mr. Edwin Adams, the actor, at Grass Loke. As the timo for tho oponing of the season drew mnear, ha roturned to tho aity, but it was vory apparont to his frienda thut be would bo unable to sing again, at least for a long Ume to come. For somo weoks post he hoa boen contined to tho houso, still hoplug apainst bope, as Ing physicizng gave him up two months ago. The family, howover, on- tortained hopes of his recovery until day, bofora yeaterday, as ho was then growing weaker and weaker, and showlng unmistakablo eigns of dis- solutlon. About fifteen mivutes beforo his death, his brotbor placed him upon s lonuge, ns he complained of being tired. In a fow minutes ho auked his brother to raige him up, and, ss ho did 8o, ke died in his arms, his death ocourring a1 7 o'clock Thutsday evoning. He died quietly and poacofully, and without prin. As an artist, Mr. Campholl reached o high po- pition from very humble beginnings, Ho was not what can be called & gresv actor or s great singor, aud yet few oporatic artsts have evar attained a popularity so gennine and wide-sproad. The logitimate English opors is in renlity a bal- lad opora, and Mr. Campbell practically was s ballad ginger, in which line ho Lad’ few equals, Hia voice, originally s tenor, was in lato yerrs s bigh baritone, somowhat nssal in quality, but capablo of oxpressing deep feeling and having peculior maguetio forca upon nudiences, and 1t waa his voico ajono which mado hia success, ns he had vory limitod dramatic talont, As an actor, in fact, his abilities were small, He ucemad to have littlo faculty for merging his in- dwiduality in that of tho character. Thero woro somo characters, ke that of Figaro, in which ha failed utterly 1n s dramatic sonso ; othors, like Count Arnheim, in which bo succeodod = to & cortaln oxtont; and some, lko that of JBeppo, in “Fra Diavolo," requiriug displays of humor and bur- lesquo, in which ho was very happy. Hobnda vory oxtensive repertoive of Euglish oporas, and L2d &léo learned many of the Angllcized Italinn aud Gorman works, like * Trovatore,” *Tra- vista,” “Martha,” “Norme,” *Dor Frei- sehuetz," and * Oboeron.” His early tralning in tho sehool of minstrolsy had produced voea) and dramatic habits and ruts which ha nover on~ tiroly overcamo, although ho was always n gon- tlemna on the stage, always dignified, nover de- sconding to coarsonoss or bulfoonery, aud sl- ways porforming his rolos with true artistic con- scientiousness, A & wman, he was courteous, affablo, gonerous, sud Jago-hoarted, invariably dignified in bis domeanor, polished in his inter- courso with mon, although somowhat reserved in bhia monner. To thoso to whom he gavo his friondslup ho was a fast and honor- sblo friend, and he commandoed tho wuni- vorsal respect of those who had his scquaintance, The eutire musical public will mourn his Joss, but to thoso who knew him intimatoly and to his asgaciates iu opers the blow will come with pain- ful soverity. His dosth has followed closoly upon that of tho groat Parops, with whom ho had boon sssociated so long, and who regarded bim almost ss in the position of & brothor. Thus, oue aftor the otler, the old singors aro loaving us and tho old voicos are forever hushed. Although the now oues stev iuto their places and wear thair mantos, thero is somothing wanting. Towever brilliantly they muy sing, however loud may be tho plaudits, wo Sind oursolves listening for tho old familisr voleos, droaming of tho old familiar facos, waiting for the old familiar slngons to como to tho footlights, upon whom tho ourtain has boen foraver rung down. And this is all wo have laft now of ' Blor” Campbell,—the old memorias and associations, which with many of us will be lite-long. “Cho funoral sorvicos will take place on Sunday afteraoon, at su hour to bo aunounced in futuro, from tho Ohureh of the Lpiphsuy. Dispatches bave beon sent to tho Enghsh Opora troupo in whoto list ho dicd, to obtsin if posuible the ser- vica of somo of his associutes s pall-bearors, It iu nlso oxpected thut the dramatio profonsion will attend tho wervicoa ina body, to puy their rospeot to lus mewory, ——— e A corroupondent of tha New York World han tound the worm in tho bud of our Republio, and wants it tmmodiately put out of the way boforo the Commonivoalth orumbles into dust. It istho wrotchod {ntroduction of Luglish and Fronoh rogal titles for Ameriean hotely,* 1lo mourng over the monarchical tondency of tho day which pormits tho oxistonco of tho Westmlnators, the fotel uruuswivks, Wostmorolands, Marl. boroughs, Bt. Clouds, aud Buckinghame, This, of course, I very grlovous, and rominds ono of o 8t, Louls Jecturor's discovery thac tho monarch. ioal upirit of Blaksposre's plays bos dono moro to support tho crowned hends of Europo than all tho kings' horscs and sl tho kings' men, Tho latter would suppross the Dard of Avon a8 ruthlomsly as the foriner would wipn out our modern hotol nomenoluware, What wounld cither of thom say ta tho new colouy fonudod m Knvsas by Mr, R, W. Ediy, agent of Mr, Graut, of London? This misorablo monarchist has bought some 00 square milos of sesl cutato from tho Kanwas Pacifio Rallroad, sud ho fret colony settted ho bheg onmod Viatoris, whilo the principal strosm which draws it ta catlod the Queon, What are tho Wostminatora Lo Vietorin? It the Windsor Ho- tol ia & warm, tho Quoon Rivor must be a sea- sorpont, beut on tho lmmediate ougulflug of the Constitution. —— Tho management of tha Philadolphis Press Lian pssod from Col. Fornoy to Col, Aloxandor MoGluro by purohnge. Col. MoClnro hag cone trol by virtue of ono shato more than hal! the #tack of the concorn, for whioh ha paid $250,000, Col. Forney retalning tho bolanco, It {u stated thnt this olmngo fa duo to the rosults of Ipat aloctlon, and was hot contomplated by Col. For~ noy whon ho wont abroad. Tho Press will now bocomo a Democratio organ, and Bupport ox- Cov. Clinton for Governor noxt fall, Co), Mo- Cluro will not assumo control untll the now yoar, and the Domocracy will have to do without an organ until that date. ——— NOTES AND OPINION. Thomas W, Bonnett, Ropublican, Territorial Oovarnor of 1dsbo, hea apparontly boon olected Congrossionst Delogate by & olosa vote, ovar TFonn, Domocrat. ~—Orogon papors remark that tho Indopond. ont-Reform pacty, which dovoloped noarly ono- third of tho votes in that Binte at tha Inst oleo~ tion (Juno, 1874), *is siready digaolving itsolf into its original olemonts," —Tho Vermont Leglalature adjonrned, Nov, 25, withous dotermiulng what should bs dono with Senator Morrill's baok-pay. The Houno fold t Roturo 1t to Morvill, Tho Sonato: Ro- fund it into tho United Btates Traasury, ~In Californi, oven the proposed Tempor- anco-Reform Party (that's tho name of it), muat carry an anti-Chinese plank, Bocause, ssid ono of tho organizora ; The now party could not bo au of o tomperanics man oaly. Tt I pasesperr 4 s ;Ilz [;oo[;la‘{u(rfl:ol?, ::a in dlolng this it {s equally cconeary to give 10’ tho pooplo GOUId Wita upon for thoir own bengty > LAt oY ~In Ponnsylvanis tho Prohibition vot 0 was 6,834, and the Domocratic 8 n'e f(icket way eleotod by loss than 5,000 ; wheroupon tho Phil- adelphia Press says : " The Temperance mien havo defeatod Gon, only out-and-out tomporence man on L’né{?‘flhfifiu Thioy liuve slss defertad tho Btats tekos of the gt teun pasty—~tho parly from eliom they ro-olved furiy iendly legislation duriu, t frendly g R sesion of the —As tho Piohibitiomats bave boon rendaring tho Damocrats valuable sorvice, wo quote from the Rochcstor (N. Y.) Union to show with what zeal tho Domocratio pross is urging thom on to now works in that direction, The Union eays : ‘The Prohibition party doveloped s strongth in the recent eloctions, In cvery Btute whers it mudo an ove fanized offort, that clearly proves it to be s power In the futuro, 1f only its leaders havo the wisdom and the phuzk {o persovers and bufld upon tho found tion so snccesofully lafit, The causo of Probfbition has nnw reachod - critical point in its carcer, It 1t goes fore ward with it work of organization and sgitation, it il reclaim tho fulut-hearted who fell by tho wayshle intoold party slougl at tho rocent trial, and force the Republican foadera to torma befors tho Next camipaign, In any caso it must take no stop backward, Tho nio. ment it doos 80 It In gono—it i dead, The Problif: Hanista liave reachod u crialw in thelr careor, and tho coming twelvemonth ywill demonatrate whathior thoy aMLm Lo & power of the futuro or a faflurs af the past —The vote of East Tenncsase i# givon to show the effects of tho Civil-Rights bil in tho lato canvass: . Governor, s, 19,418 5 Governar,| Fr b B Liltaguatd, B Freeman, Rop.......28, 1 aynard, Re Trown, Do, s - ovv, 11,540|Lorter, Dot Tataliasy sesses o.45,070) Total... 41,363 Rep, maj, 110,684 Dern. s/ 2,87 ~—William Waltor Pholos, the Now Jorasy Qon« grossman, was boaton by only 7 votes in & dig- trict that gave 1,061 Domocratic msjority for Govornor, —In tho Hartford (Ct.) District, tho candidatea for Congrogs, at tho April olection, are likaly to bo Mossra, Huwloy, of the Hartford Courant, prosont Ropublican membor, and Burr, of the Hurttord Zimes, Democrat, —Tho Oshkosh (Wis.) Nurthwestern wants it to ba distinotly understood that tho eloction of a Republican Legislature In Wisoonsin s nob a Carpenter victory. It says: Tlio peaplo kuo hls to by true and further, thnt the making of such an jusuo would bave ot ns the State, The friends of Mr. Carpenter, of Mr, Washe burn, snd of Gov, Fairchild, all pulled hwiuumr tosc- complish the result, ‘They hover anticipated that it swould bo declarad » personnl victory for sny aspirant, In this county wa havo electad four Ropublicans to the Leglelaturo, Hud the porsonal {ssue been rafsed, and tha candldutea boen known to have been pledged [for Carpoutar), 83 tho Racine Journal insinuatas, we could not havs alacted s single momber, —The Rocheetor (N. X.) Democrat and Chroni. cle makes an olsborato survoy of tho situstion in Wisconsin, and concludes: Mr. Carpenter may bo a8 good man s o fs great but lio 4 unfortunalo in not belng able to impress tha people with o conviction of his goodnams, Justly or unjustly, ho baa fallen under the popular cousuro, sud Ia regarded as ono of ths desd woighta which tho Ko~ publican party, to its own discomfiture, Lnd 1o carey during tlie campolgn Just cloasd, 11fs dofeat would bielp o Kopublicun 1arty. OF his thioro can be no doubt, 1t would bo au_esrnoét that hereaftor the party would Tofuss {0 coufer lta hosors upon any man whose charactor was not above susplelon. If the party is to win {n tho race of 1875, R must not be too Loavily welghted. _Wisconsin can do much to asauro tho futuro to Republicanlem, Wo should regrot the ro- electlon of “Atr. Carpentar, not bocauso we ar horilly to him, for all ‘admiro bis tajonts, but because wo bo- ileve such olection would bo ukod by tho enumy to tho dotrimont of ihe Ropublican cause. That's alf, ~Tho pruning-knife of retrenchment will this winter bo vowhoro botter applied than to tho cutting off of the ' forward pay” of tho noxt Congroes, whoreby $1,400,000 tay bo saved that will otherwise bo disbursed in ealarivs to Cone grossmon. Tho St. Paul Press snys: The trado and industries of the wholo conntry fro depresacd ; largo numbors of tho poopla are out of om- ploymont,' sud_the oxamplo of pluching osonomy Which the * hacd timea* forco upon all lussos of 120 people throughout the land they Wil oxpect and do- mund sball be followed by the Governmont, . . . Tho Republivans of the Fortythird Congross muet sak such un examplo of rigid cconomy thas tho Domocracy will not daro to depart from it. ~—This should bo cloarly undorstood. Thers i8 no good ronaon why Government oxponditurss should bo genarally largor now than they wors in 1808—yot thoy aro, by 89,000,000, Thero is no good reason why the Government should pay moro to ity servanta than aro paid by corpora- tions for tho samo labor, Yol it does by at lonst 60 per cent, and there 18 20 good reason why thoso anlarios should not, in many casos, bo vab down just tbat much, The pooplo demand ro- trouchment, and it must be mot by the coming sossion of Congresa in order 10 satialy thum,— Les Moines (Ia.) State Journal. —The Clucinnati Commercial of yosterdny containod a pointed and suggestive editorial, cali- ing attontion to the wholesule rapudiation ut tho rocent olactions of tho Congressmon who partic- ipated in the conscfoncoless robbery of the pub- lic Troasury, popularly known as the * salary grab.” . . . Tholr avarico apd greed Jod thot one stop too fur iu deflance of public opiniox, which, whon azpreased through the newspapen’ of the country, was laughad at, but which has now found such a decidud oxpression tuough the ballot-box, as cannot fail to esercieo a salit- tary influenco upon national politics for wmuny yoars to como.—Fort Wayne (Ind.) Gazelts, —Butlor and Voorhees aro the two Dronilos of that Tragedy of Errors, tho Balary-Grab, aud the Domooracy of Iudiana will as surely ropndiato their man as tho Ropublicans of Muspnchusatis liave coudomned theira,—Zerre Hauto (Ind.) Gu- aclte, —Just_becauao he waa a salary-grabber For- pando Wood will not be Spoaker of tho no: Houso of llaFrusnumivox. But for tho & reason ho ought not tohnve boon elected ta Con- vous, ‘Ll dievriet of New York shioh ofooted im (’Mnenmn littlo eredit for it.—Dubuque Tel- raph. ) —Tha Prosidant liss the credit of heving said that ho iy tired of applications from Nouthorn Stutos for Exocutive intorforauco. Woll ho msy be. ‘Ihore was naver anything liko it in tho big- tory of tho Government.~Zrovidence (&, I, Journal, ~Whon the Ifon. Oharles Haves, M. 0., of Alabama, committed & violont persounl assnult upon Aly, Zebulon L. White, correapondent of iho New York 7yibune, o virtually ndwmitted thaé it wuu the ouly augwor he could niko to the late tor'a oxposuro of tho untiuthfulness of sinto- monts made by bim (Mr. Hayos) in regard to $outrages ™ waii) to havo boen oommittsd by Domoorats of Alabama upon Ropublicans aud nogroos, Mr, Whito ly & youug man of unim= peaoiiabio hlmeui{. aud by futtors from Alnbams horo intorna) evidonco of tho thoroughnoss and nnpartulity of his investigations, It only noaded this brutal confesaion on the part of Mr. Hayouw himuolf o coutlim By, White's siatos monts, Lot us hope that, if tho buuiness of maunfacturing * Southorn outragos ™ to affeot tho elsctions s atill to be carricd on, no momber of Congress inay be fonnd unscrupulous anough to eugago u ite—~Ohristian Union