Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1874, Page 8

5} TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 1874, . RATRS OF CRIPTION (PAYARLI I ‘n'AND2)~1. Dally, by 12,010 | Sunday, aans o] Th- ookt 9100 | Woy X Parts of n yoar t tho samo rato, To provent dolay and mistnkes, bo suro and aivo Post Ofiico address fn full, Inoluding Stata and Connty, Temistanconmay bomadanithorby draft, exuross, Poat- Oftoe ordor, or in reglstored fottors, at our risk, TENMB TO CITY BUURCRINKRA, Dally, dolivored, Kunday excented, 25 conta perwook. Dally, dallverad, Bundny Inclndod, 34 conts por wook, Addrens THIE TRIBUNE UOMPANY, Cornor Madlaon and Denrborn-uta., Chioage, 1M To A-JIOUSE—Clark atraot, opposite s.&i‘..“‘.".“.fixo?.';f““xnm & Loon's Minstrels,’ *Grund utoh B." 1OOLEY'S, THEATRE-Iandolph streot, Letwosn Clarkand LuSallo. **Hchool.” UVIORKR'S THEATRE—Madleon stroot, hotweon Dharoen State; Lingugomont of Jolin ‘Drougham, *Tho Lottory of Lifo, * AGADRMY OF MURIC~-Ialste airesk hotwaop Mad- s{‘"‘;‘fi.‘nfiififnfi‘ Em’(nnnmnnwl Trank Aayo, ** Davy Isoakott." d ZRA-ROUSE—Cornee TIal: e Rt e ok L Socro o f rin. o FARWELY, HALT—Nadison strant, botween Clark and Zaballontreats. Loomtn by Ohnrigs Uradlavgh, Sub- e Bt i Waahinifion. “SOCIETY MRETINGS, ASTITAR LODGT, N meoting, thin (Tucsdny; tGr businawe mr N 1y ordiatly Insitods i fo frato SNTION, SIR KNIGHTS.—Spocial Conclava of ing, at 7l oclook, at the Aeylum, for work on K, o, Oftler. Visiting Sir 1 ourfoousts Incited, By ordor of tho K, U, W. LOUKE, Roourdor. ay CNIGILTS |—Ohloao Commande B e e o fi)n‘ulnck Tor tho purposo of recoiving.thu Sir Knlf\l(! ot o Oriunnn, ogoihet n i le Yittors, Aeinbors et % Sl Gommandoriig HST I SIS GEAT, stocordor, ting of Cosmopolitan Lodo, b AT ofentod 10 Do prosout at (o Grand Ludgo Halt this (] h e et 5t St dosenso 10 make arrangoments for tho funeral of o 1 o By L4\ ‘1, By order brothor, . B BURKHMGS G iiEmar, o, 0, R i BUSINESS NOTIGES. TO MOUSERERPERS-TUE - ATTENTION OF Boban of fawmiljenn Fonpectfally (nsited to- (1o aupsrior ulily of Jurnetl'a IFaeoring Ketracts. Thoy nro catirely Prao from tho potsonous olls and nclda which_ untor into tho compiosition af many of tho Tictitlons lrult flavors v i themarkots Tiioy aro Miehiy cuncontzated, havo all thy froshnoss and delicney of the fruita from which Slioy aro propured, aud aro lojs oxnoistvo. Moats, Souvs, g1, maybo geoitly improved by Burmaiv's xatract of Sl o7y, "% hnvo nold thom forp lon timo, ALAYA FIND TURM FUKE AND RELIADLE.Y—Rockwood 4 “Fiv0 sonrs! constint saio: THE BEST AND CHEAPEST] ¥AR BUPERIOR TO ALL OVHERS."— 12, B, Iroland & U0, Tor aalo by goud wrocors and druggh INDE?( TO ADVERTISEMENTS. ) TIOK See soventh pages D % S St pouth pARS: ity fil?l“ll?)m‘ b NEA SU RO SO NS00 olev- uth nago, ror WAIIHG D T1\ETABLE~S00 olorants page. PO MEDIOAT, S s, e The Thitags Titbune, Tuendsy Morning, December 8, 1874. WITH SUPPLEMENT. " Tho message of Mayor Colvin, delivered yesterday to tho now City Council, ombraces within itself tho substanco of tho reports of tho Comptroller and of the vavious Bonrds which manngo the several Depnartments of tho City Government, Wehave notspnco this morning to review it in detni Judgo Tree's nddress to the Grand Juxy, muggesting the propriety of indicting the city outhoritics for muintaining o pullie nuisance in the slpe of o City-Hall, ought to meet tho hearty coneurronce of tax-payers. ‘Fhe build- ing on Adams strect, in which the city oftices and soma of the court-rooms now are, is not only a disgrnce, but a positive injury to the people of Chicnfzo. Mr. Willinmx Walter Phelps, the young Congressman from Now Jersey, has the credit of first introducing a bill for the abolition of the press-gng. He proposes merely to strilio out the section which includes nowspapers within the provisions of the judicinl nct, Ienving tho rest of it untouched, MIr. Phelps was porhaps too forward in prosonting Lis bill, but he showed agood spirit. He has given motice of o motion to pass the bill under asuspension of the rules next Monday. The transit of Venus will oceur this even- ing, beginning sbout 8 o'clock and ending at 36 minutes past midnight, Wo do not priblish a mass of information concerning it, £or tho reason that none of our readers will havo aw opportunity of obsorving the phe- nomenon. It may, however, bo interesting to remember that, as the great majority of the residents of the Northwest are going to bed to-night, the great astronomical problem of the ningteenth contuxy will be in process of solution, ————— Fernando Wood's manner of working for tho Spenkership of the next ITouse will com- xend itself, we feel sure, to many of tho new Democratic members, DMr, Wood nssumes that the way to = statesman's heart lies through his belly, and he has nccordingly spread a banquet for all the prominent Dem- ocrats in Washington, including the members of both Houses, tocommemornte the recent muccesses of the pavty. It isunderstood, of aourse, that the claims of so generous a aost to the Speakership caunot be despised. D, Morrill'’s bill for the reorganization of tho District of Columbia Government, which was introduced in the Senato yesterdny, pro- vides for o Board of three Tegents, to bo ap- pointed by tho Presidont aud confirmed by the Sonate, which shall hnve entiro control of District affairs, Tho peoplo will bo allowed to eloct threo memborsof the Bonrd of Education, but beyond this they will have no sharo in the City Government. Tho plan appears to be fonsible and rensonable, At the worst it would bo a vast improvement ovor tho system of golf-governmont under Mr, Shephord's ad- ministration, Tho City and County Governments wero partially rcorganized yesterduy, the ofiicors cliosen at tho Inta eloction being installed, In tho County Bonrd, Commissiouer Burdick, an honest and compotent man, was mndo Presidont, defeating Mr, Orawford. .'Tho elaction of Crawford would lave been a public misfortune, Ald. Dixon was re-cleoted Presidont of the Common Council by & unanimous vote, o has beon good presiding oflicer, and, it nppears from tho voto of last night, enjoys tho confidenco and esteom of Lis collenguos in an unusunl dogreo, Wo do not know that a similar eomplimont bau ever boen bestowed by tho Qounofl, e — ‘Tho Chicngo produco markets woro rnthor slow yestordey except in provislons, and most of thom wore tinged with wealtness, Mesy pork waa nctivo, and 15@200 por brl lower, olosing ot 10,66 cash, and $20,16@20,20 woller Fobrunry, Lard was netive, and 10 900 per 100 ibe lower, closing at $18.00 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1874--TWELVE PAGES. cnsh, and $18,36 for February, Moats woro quiot and easicr, nt 6 O-fo for shouldors, D 120 for short ribs, and D 7F3 for short clenvs, IHighwines were in fafr do. mand and steady at 970 per gallon, Drosged hogs werg quict and flvmer, closing at $7.75@ 8,00 por 100 s, Flonr was dull and un. changed. Whent was quict and 1-20 lower, closing ot 80 8-8a cosh, and 90 8-80 for Janunry, Corn was vather more nctive nnd flymer, closing ab 76 1.2 for old, 67 1-4c for new, and 7Ho sellor May, Oats woro quict and 1-1¢ highor, closing at 64 1-le. Ry was Aull and ensier, at D@0 o, Barloy was quiet, and 1@2¢ lower, closing ot $1.26 cnsl, nnd 31,27 14 for January, Iogs wore inactive and wealt, Limited gnles nt $6.50@7.80, Cnttlo wero dull and unchanged. Shoop wero n demond at firm ratek, Tn tho notablo debate now progressing in the Germaun Parlinmont, in which the Gov- ernment i3 resolutely dofending itsolf against the Ultramontano attacks, Prince Dismarcl hns struck somo sturdy and telling blows, His Inst one is very suggestive, and opens up n possibility of some startling dovelopments, His aunouncemont on Saturdny Inst, first, that the Eoumenienl Council was cut sliort on ne- count of the Franco-German war, and that the Council’s votes would have boon vary dif- ferent bad the French beon victorious, and, socond, that Napoleon, after striving for penco to tho very Inst, was forced into war by tha influenco of the Vatiean, was ovidently thrown out for the purpose of having o chanco to dovelop some important testi- mony. It in not probable Bismarck would have made such an annonncement without knowing whero ho stands. If tho Ultramon- tanes press the mattor, theroforo, thera is every probability the fire will fly, The doplorablo conflict between negracs and whites in Vicksburg yesterdny, partice ulnrs of which are given in our nows columns this morning, arogo from political difforences, ‘Tho whito people of Vicksburg Iately met in masg-meeting and ordered the resignation of certain connty ofticials, most of whom wera colored, It issaid by the Republican corre- spondenta that thooflicers denouncedin mass- meoting were not morely requosted to renign, ‘but threntened with assnssinntion. Tho Dom- ocratio correspondents make no montion of such threats. It is too soon, perhaps, to fix responsibility for the {wenty or moro livos which havo alrendy beon lost in tho prosecution of this gquarrel, and for the seandal and disrepute which it will bring upon the City of Vicksburg and the Southern whites generally, Thismuch, how- over, wo are prepared to say at once: That the inass-meeting plan of dispossess- ing oficors duly elected counot b, and “will not bo, tolerated by the National Government, It mny be trug—tho dispatches from all sources say it in—that Gov. Ames hos incited and assisted this negro inswrrcetion. If so, he hns heon injudicions and hesty ; but ho has acted more within bounds than those whites who forced the col- ored officeys to resign, Thore wero legal remedics for both sides which had not been exhnusted. THE PRESIDENTE MESSAGE. The messpge of President Grant, rend yes- terdny to Congress, is n most interesting docmment, Of courso the grent lending topic is the stalo of the finauces, and to this the President addvesses himself with clearness and vigor. ‘Tho opinions expressed by him Inst spring havo evidontly becomo & econvic. tion ; his earnestness is moro than usnal in o Stato documont, whilo his argumonts are forcibly stated. The President, reforring to tho prostration of businoss and industry which has oceurred during tho last year, calls attention to the fact that duving this wholo period the two essentinl clemenis of prospority— labor and capital—have been abundant, and Loth have Leen largely unemployed. Wherey- er security hins been nudoubted, capital hag been attainable at moderate ratos ; and whero Inbor has been wanted, it hins been abundant ab chenp rates. If to these bo added the con- ditions of our eoil and climate, our varied ca- pacity of production, and our actunl surplus of produets,.ho thinks wise statesmanship should ignore tho past disturbanee and ad- dvess itsclf to the future. With a sound cur- rency, a foreign debt is the only clement that cnn seriously disturb ordepress our industries and prosperity. As n necessity of tho War, n system of currency wus devised which has proved to be impossible to keep nt par with tho recognized currency of the world; its valuo boing ffucluating, thatcurrency became unsafe to hold as en investment, and hence became o subjeot of speculntion in itsolf. The forcign indebiedness wns o necossity coniracted in good feith, and should be prid in gold or its cquiyelent. o pay this debt re. quires that our commerco should be encour- aged, our shipbuilding and emrying enpncity incroased, foreign merkets sought for onr products and manufactures, Whorever a new merket for any of our productions s opened, a new means of utilizing our idlo eapital and labor iz found, but the fivat stop in this direction is to.seouro a curvency good wherever civilization reigns, and one that will flow wherever it is wanted. o thinks there should bo no delay in fixing, by logislation, the modo of a return to specia payments, He daclares that, in his judgment, there can bo no prosperous and permanent rovival of busi- ness and industrios until s policy is adopted, with logislation to enrry it out, looking to a rotwn to ‘a specio basis. A revival of productive industrics is needed by all clusses, and by none moro than tho lolders of property of overy sort with dobts to liquidate from the proceads of gales, Evon the debtor and. speculating clnsgos who may think it an advaniage to chesp money will, in the end, be disap- pointed if tha valuo of tho legal-tender me- dium of exchangos bo always Jkept in donbt, Tlo rogords nuy oxpansion of permanent de- precintion of the cuironoy ag little better than any othor form of vepudinting all dobts, public and private. Delay in the propavation for fiunl yesumption partakes of this dis- honesty, A senson must ab Inst arrive for the work of redeoming owr pledges, That seeson will nover come, except by positive nction of Congross or by nntionel disnstors, Tt must bo reached by gonoval bankiuptoy or by maintaining the oredit and intogrity of tho nation and of individuals, ‘The Prosidont beliovos it is possible for Congross to devise such loglslation as will start the natfon afrosh on o earecr of prospori- ty. A nation denling in a owroncy balow that of mpocio labora under the dlsadvantago, that hnving no wio for the world's eurroney tho Iatter is drivon ount; and that the ewrenocy in uko boing of finctunting and un. eortain value with only just what it will pur. olmso of gold, & large margin must bo loft to cover this fluctuntion, Che forolgn producer, anbjeotad to no such unoertainty, is protooted in lis dealings with us, and thus tha grost hardship of deprecinted currency falls upon tho working ond producing classos, 'Tho plan proposed by theProsident and the Scero tary of the Trensury for resumption of specio pryments embraces the following mensures ¢ 1. Tho repenl of the Logal-Tondor not, to tako cffect on n certain dato, and to apply to all contrnets mede after that dato. 4. Tho Secretary of tho Trensury to bo au- thorized to sell bonda for gold ny it may be- como nocessary, and the esiablishment of a rovenuo suflleiently in excess of oxponditures {0 insure an abundance of gold to sustain ro- demption. 3. Free Lanking, allowing the utmost olnstivity to the owrroncy in tho transnction of business, Ho rogards it unsafo to lenve to Congross or to the Exceutive to fix tho amount of ougrenocy in eirculation. I'he bauking monopoly should cease, nnd & redeemablo currenoy bo nuthorized to any catent that business should demand. This in briof is the substauco of tho Prosi- dont’s nrgument and of his recommendation. If wo understand it, it iuvolves tho ultimato withdrawal of the greenbacl currency, and its use by the Government a8 & convenient menns for refunding oll the 5-20 or other 6 per cent bonds in bonds at o lower rato of intercst. To do this will re- quire somo time, but it will havo the effect of ultimntely sevoring tho Government from il conneetion with currency making, The bills of tho National Banks being scoured by de- posits of Londs, their redemption will at all times bo n cortninty, Neithor the Presidont nor Scerotary namo any dato at which the re- penl of tho Legnl-Tender not should tako ef- fect, Tho wholo tone of the messago is of that character which eannot foil to have an nssuring effect upon the notional credit at homo and abrond. CONOIDERATIONS FOR CONGRESSMEN, T'he Seerotary of the Tressury, in his ro- porton tho National Finnnces, spenks strongly in favor of & voturn t6 spocie pnyments. Ho doos not treat the matter indofinitely. Ho proposes that the Legal-Teuder act bo re- penled nt a date to be fixed by Congress, and that n date bo fixed for the resumption of specio pnyments, and that the Seerotary be nuthorized to sell bonds from time to timo for the redomplion of greeubnoks, o also mgakes tho execllent recommendation that tho greasy, raggod fractional curroncy bo rocalled and dostroyod,” and silver issued in its placo, Ho also recommonds that the coinago of gold be made free to prevent the exporta- tion of Bullion. As port of the genorsl plan for & return to spocic payments he recom- mends free banking, « In the matter of internal rovenna ho ad- visos the removal of the tax on bauk checks, watches, cosmetics, and drugs, and that the loss of revenus bo made good by on increnso of tho tax on whis- Ly by the addition of 10 cents a gellon. Ho takes tho vory clenr ground that the re- moval of tho tax on tea and coffce was o great mistake, involving a loss of twenty millions of rovenue without the least benefit or relief to the public, The tax romoved wns simply added to the prico at the place of production by an export tox, and by the selles, On the general question of tho tariff he says that, 2t present, the question i ona of revenue, not of protection or free trade, ITo advises that & commission be appointed to consider and report {o tho next Congress. Tho Sccretnry strongly rocommends a dis- continuance of the present system of elaborate nnd cosily publie buildings, and advises Con- gress to serutinize the future appropriations therefor. lillions of dollars can be saved in this partionlar, He reports that the clerical foreo of tho ‘I'rensury Department has been reduced, s provided by tho last Congress, but Lie docs not think the lowest limit of economy hay yet been reached. Tho Seeretary makes a statoment thatmeots an important question now beforo Congress, and that is the granting of subsidies to indi- viduals and corporations. He declares that the present condition of the Government will not justify any increnso of the public indebt- eduoss by extending gifts or bounties in any form to private enterprises of any kind, In this he will be heartily sustained by the hon- ost part of the country. There is nothing whatover of justice or right in the appenls to the Government by individunls and corporn- tions for gifts enlled * nid and relief.” That Government is the wisest and best which in- torforos the least with the industry of tho poople. So Jong as the people ara left freo to enguge in whetover business their labits, or experience, or means, may suggest, and the Govornment abstaing from nuy obstruotion or hindrauco thereof, oither dircetly or in- dircetly, by bountics and gratuities to the fow, tho industry of tho nation and ite pro- duction will be promoted. ‘The Government caunot discriminate in favor of ono produc- tion oxcept at the expense and to the injury of all others, It cnnnot select ono branch of production, and fostor and encournge it by bounties, savo by an unjust taxation of all others, Tho United States Governmont hes no in- come or ravenug except what is produced by taxation, Evory dollar oxpended by the Gov- ernment is obtrined by a tax which is paid by the peoplo, This tax is the withdrewal of that muech monoy from the active business. capital of tho poople. A dolinr paid in tax sntisflos o dollar of the public dubt, or meots a dollar of public exponditure; tho samo dollar loft in the hauds of the public becomes an ngent of production, and may in the courso of a year be used to pro- duce equal to ity own value two or threo times over, ‘Thera shonld, thereforo, never bo o dollar of public debt incurred, nor a dollnr exponded, by the Administration save for the indispongable wants and nocessities of thio Government, All monoy takon from the people in excess of tho indispenmble wants of the Governmont, is so much privato prop- orty talien without just enuso, and so much talcen from the ienns of production. Nor is this fundomontal truth in tho lonat ohauged when the Govornmontis ssked to oxpond the revonue dorived from taxation for the purposo of giving employ- ment to labor on works in which private capi- tal cannot Dbo inducod to invest. Thus, privato eapital oan Liavdly bo inducod fo em. ploy labor in nuy work that is unprodnetive, or which has no promise of belug productivo: Tmployment of labor at that kind of ‘worl ix o waste of monoy,—nn absolute destruction of it. Ton thousand Inborers might bo em- * ployed eontinuonsly bailing out Lake Miohi- gnu, but nb tho end of a year, or any num- ber of yours, the luke would bo na it is, and nothing would como of the oxpenditure, It is not sufliciont to sny that during these yonrs there wero 10,00 families supported by the wagos paid to the laborors. Labor that does not reproduco eapital is ag valuoless to tho country and to the sommunity os if not om- ployod at all. If theso 10,000 laborers wora omployed in converting leathor into shoes, or olay into bricks, or wood into furniture, or lvon into shovels, or woul or cotton into olothy thire would ut tho ond of tho time be tho wool, cotton, iron, wood, elay, and lenther, all inerensed in valuo by tho cout of tho labor expended on them. ‘Tho country would Linve that much ndded to ita wealth, In addition to tho support of tho fon thousand fomilies, thera would ko tho product of their Inbor added to tho previous valuo of the raw materinl. Any expondituro for any purpose snve productive labor is a wasto, au jmprovident destruction of tho people’s necumulation, s much so a4 to pny mon for rolling stonesupn hill that thoy might Lo rolled down nagan, Nor is the caso changed beeauso the proposed expendituro is speeulativo, A prolty snfo test of tho probable productiveness of any entorprise is the willingness of privato capital o becoma invested in it. Railronds have heen built on speeulntion ; but in overy case the nominnl cost of the snme has been montly mndo up of monoy wnsted, and which over must remain lost and unprofitable, It is no 1pss & wasto of mouey to expend it in build- ing railvonds where thoy aro nob wanted, or through tho sandy desert or frozen wilder- ness, than to oxpond it digging holes and fill- ing them up again, Tifty millions of dol- Inrs may Do exponded in paying for la- Lor for the ome work ns for tho other, and with equal results, Tho United States oxponded $64,000,000 on the Pacific railvonds ; tho Companies exponded an equal amount of thoir own bouds; and there is in addition porliaps n oapital stock of $180,000,~ 000. 'Tho United States have nlready pnid out moro than $20,000,000 for interest on its bonds, and by tho time the bonds mature will havo pnid $64,000,000, making on nggrogate cont of tho ronds at that timo of 230,000,000, not including the land donated. All of this immenso sum, contributod and to be contrib- uted by tho Government, was all wasted; is not and nover will bo productive, and, so far a8 ft wos an addition to the nationnl wealth, might have been cast into the sea. Al thab remains to show for it is notmore than equal to thomoney expended outsido of tho Govorn- ment subsidy. It gavo employment fora timo to Inbor, and supported n number of femilies; but this £128,000,000 advanced and to bo advaneed by tho Government would have done the samo had it been expended for Iabor in pumping out the Atlantic Ocean. Had that $128,000,000 beon loft with the peo- ple, to bo by them used in paying for labor that produced something, the families would liave boen supported just the same, and the product of that labor would have been added to'tho national woalth, The applieations bofore Congross for sub- sidios to cairy on privatoe enterprises, so un- productivo that privato capital will not touch them, includa the building of n railrond through tho sandy descrts of 'Toxas, Now Mexico, and Southern Californis, ond'another though the unin- habited wilderness of the North, Specula- tivo—perhaps dishonest—contruction com- ponies, which have sunk and buried all the private onpital they could inveiglo into their jobs, now appenl to Congress for subsidies of fifty to a hundrod millions of dollars each to ennblo them to give employment to lnbor; and Congress is asked to take that sum from the hands of those who are using it produc- tively to sink and destroy it irretriovably, ‘They are askod io take from tho man who is using his money for labor in cultivating tho land, or in manufacturing, the means necogsary to lis business, to bury it in New Mexico or along the houndary of Dritish Columbin, This money left with the peoplo will employ more Iabor and support more families then if given to theso construction companies, and at the same tinia will produce dollar for dollar in rapid succession, to the benefit of tho whole people and to the increasa of the goneral wenlth, Who is it in Congross representing the people will vote to tax and confiscate their proparty to have it thrown away and de- stroyed in usoless and unproductive specula~ tions 7 THE LOUISIANA CASE, 'The Excoutive oflicers of the Stnte of Lou- isiana aro ab Washington urging Congressionnl action, with a view of having the Kellogg anvnmmenc formnlly declaved tho legal and legitimato Govornment of that State. The necassity for this nction will becomo obvious upon g simplo review of the facts. At the timo of tho eloction of 1872 Warmoth was CGovernor. All the roturns of the election of that yenr wore sont, in conformity with law, to tho Secrotary of State, and wero by bim trousforred over to tho Board of Cen- vassers organized by Warmoth, Judge Du- rell, in ono of lhis orders, prohibited this Board fromn deelaving auy canvass of the re- turns, and ordored that no person should be ndmitted to tho Stato-Fouso or protend to not 0s o momber of the Legislature save such persons as should bo declared clected by the Lynck Bonrd of Canvassors. Tho ‘Warmoth Board had ull tho oflicial returns, ond the Lynch Bonrd bad none. The Lynch Boerd nnnounced tho rosult of the eleotions without any roturns; asMr, Lynch explained in his tostimony at Washington beforo the Sennto Committee, they mndo out their fig- ures “ns they thought they ought to be.” Upon this cauvess by the Lynch Board, Lellogg, and tho State officrs, and the Logis- Iature, wero declared elocted, and wére in- stalled in office under Durcll's orders. At tho election in November, 1874, the Demo- crats eleotad o majority of the Houso of Rep- resentativey in the Logislature. In tho Son- ate matters aro mixed und doubtful. Two years ago ten Democratio Sonators claim to have boen elected who wers counted out by tho Lyuch Board, Tho Legisle ture mools in January, end the Dem- ocrats proposo to fisst organize the Houso, aud thon that tho Houso should only rocognizo & Senato in which theso ten Souators thrown out in 1872 ' are admitted, This being dono, the Senato will also bo Democratie. Al this being ncoom- plished, the two Tousos of the Logislaturo ave to meot in convention and count and ean- yuss tho ofticinl returns of theelaction of State and other offcors in 1872, 'Lhis {8 mnde by the Coustitution @ part of the duty of the Legislatuvo; but the Logislature of 1872 (the Tynch-Kollogg) never had tho ofticinl voturns, aud of course never conld porform tho duty. Tho Warmoth Onnvassing Bonrd in 1872 upon being onjoined by Judge Durell, ro. {nined possession of all tha officlal veturns of the oleotion of 1872, ThoKellogy Government s tried overy means during tho lnst two yours to recover possossion of thom, but hins nover succceded. 'Thelr place of doposlt han boon lopt a soerot, but it iy supposed thoy have bloen hidden in Louisvillo, Nashvillo, Baltimoro, or elso. whero in the South,—ocortainly outside of Loulsiana, When tho Domoocratio Legis Iaturo wanta thom thoy will Lo forthcoming, When the Dempoeratie Logislature canvasses tho returns, of courso it will appoar that Mo. Euory was olootod Governor in 1872, and not Kollogg, #nd that all the officers who have Léou sorving for two yomd wero mover clected. Ilaving declared this result, Mo~ Euory will bo recognized as Governor by the Legislature, nnd Kollogg will bo treated ag nn usirper, and ousted, In viow of thin inavitable train of civeum- stonces, Kellogg's friends nro appealing to Congrosy to interferg in advance, and by somoe measura, recognizo the Kellogg Government ng tho only legilimate Government of tho Stato. Exnctly how Congress in to do this, wo do not know, In 1874, the Ifouso of Itep- rexentativos ndmitted threo mombers of Con- gress who wero cloeted with Kellogg, Whe Kellogg Legiulaturo clected Pinchback to the Senato, but that body refused to admit him, It is now proposed that tho Sennto shall nd- mit Pinchbaclk, and thus havo the quast rec. ognilion by that body of the legality of the Kollogg Legislnture. No act of Congross,— that is Lo say, nct of legislation,—is proposed. Iero wo have n complieation in which Kollogg and his nssociafes seok to involve tho Republican party of the country. 'T'he con- templated proceedings by the Democrats of the Loulsinnn Legislature are undoubtedly Angitious, wholly indefensible, but aro they without precedent? How did the IKellogg Logisloturo act two years ago, when they in. voled the judiciary and the Fedoral troops to insinll themsclves in power, and when the Legislature cjected everybody who wes an obstaclo to their supremscy ? As we said fow days ngo, wo think the Republicans, ns a party, have emiried Kellogg nnd his nssociates long enough ; they have kept him in power by foreo for two ycars, against tho molomn judgment of thoe Investigating Committeo of Republican Senators that he was nu usurpor. Behind that judgment tho Repnblican party cannot now go, particularly when the people of the State have aflirmed it by o late voto that is too decisivo to bo questioned. Dno of two things should bo dono : either order a now election for Governor, or lot the party which carriod the lato election govern thoe Stato, ovon if Kellogg loges an oftice which he canuot hold au hour savo by the aid of tho Foderal army and navy, FINAKCIAL FOLLY, Tho Chieago Z'mes gives oditorial promi- nonco to the following attempt at argument in support of tho wildeat profect to replace, all the Nationnl Bank notes with groenbneks : “The mero cubititution of United Btates notes for bank notes would not necessarily mean pormanont ir- redecmability, nor would it necesearily causo any de- proctation whutover. Tho National Dank notes, ovor slico tho first of them was fenued, havo cireulated on tho eredit of tho Govarnmant (7), and not ot all on tho ercdit of the sseoclations emitting them (1) . , Tho value of tho cirenlativg modium depends majuly on tho work it docs, Our curroucy would hava just tho samowork todo f 1t weroall 41 tho form of green- ‘backs that 1% hne now, whien nonrly half of it fadn the form of banle notes, and it 15 ressounblo o coneludo, huroforo, that it would bo worth Just a9 much, cepo- clally na tho proopoot (7) of its uilimato eouvoribility into coin would bo Just as good, At presont the United States, with an out- standing issuo of $882,000,000in greenbacks, cannot meet its promiscs to pay, and shrinks {rom naming any day, no matter how distant when ib will moet thom. If it canno re- deom $382,000,000, it will certainly bo far less ablo to redeom 760,000,000, twhich would boe about tho sum of its circulating papor if the National Bank notes woro re- placed with legal tenders, If o man staggers undor a weight of 200 pounds, he will not walkk mora ensily when that weight is doubled. Tho renson that tho greenback hes any purchosing power is boecauso it is redeomed (in gold, not by its maker, but Dby tho brokers of Wall stroet. They Thave bought it, since. its first issuo, nt a discount of from 9 to 6 por cent, and tho amount of gold they have been willing to give for it bas fixed its valuey from day to doy, The improvement of the prospect of ultimate and not distant redemp -~ tion hins induced the gold-Lrokers to paymona for thoso unredecmed notes oach year, Anm;y policy or measuro whick looks to postponin the day of redemption must necessarily des- precinto their purchasing power, Any mates- rial increnso of the quantity of those notis must diminish tho prospeot of redemptiors, and eauso the gold-brokers to pay less fin them, and consequently depreciate the ir value, . Lo doublo the issuo of an frredecmable cter- rency must necossarily weeken tho probab il- ity of rademption, and thereforo cnuso depr o~ cintion, as it would produco o beliof in piir- manent irredeemnbility, which in fact is equivalent to repudiation. Henco to subs: ti- tuto irvedeemablo United States notes for ¢ o banlk notes would necessarily result in groat deprecintion, The ZTimes' third fallnoy is, that the 1in- tional Bank notes have circulated wholly on tho credit of the Governmont, and no$ at al] on tho credit of the banks, These notes are seeured, first, by an United States gold buond of $100 for every $00 of bills in circulati on; and, socond, Ly the oredit of tha banks, Of what does this crodit consist? It connist s of tho surplus funds of tho banls, of their real estato, of the individual linbility of tho sl iava- holdors over and above tho mmonnt of :their stook, and of tho oollaterals held in scoiarity for lonus, Theso collaterals ropreseni; the cattlo, Lorses, and hogs in transitu to mar- Irot, the stocks of unsold merchandise and manufactures, the cargoos of vessols oujznged in inland end outland trade, the gridn in storage and in transity, and a good part of the enormous massof property ropresented by the shaves of Amerioan corporations. Tlip bank notes circulate, then, indirectly on the. eredit of tho United Statos gs represonted oy tho ‘bonds on deposit at Washington, and ¢ lireotly on the credit of tho Lanks as represerited by the tremendous aggregate of wenlth vzo have catloguod, Substituting groonbacss for Danle-notes would doprive $§856,000,,000 of {he national circulnting medium of tho oredit it now derivos, not only from aboul; $100,- 000,000 in United States bonds, but from all the other property hold by or pledgud to the Nalional Bauks, nmounting prolmbly to £1,200,000,000, ‘fho 356,000,000 wonld be 10 longor based on tangiblo weal(, but on thnt airy nothing known ag “the faith and yosources of the country,”—tho shiloholoth of tho beliovors in irredeomablo rags. o much for fallacy number throo, Number four can bo answered in a fow words, The Z¥mes nsserta that tho curroncy it advoeates wonld Lo worth as much ag it is now, becauso **it would bave just tho smino worlk to do”! Tt follows from this wondrous ploa that rs long asn ewrronoy Mins a cortuin amount of exohnuges to éffeet, oue sort is ng good us another. Bits of blanl brown paper, then, would mnko ns good n eurrenoy ns gold anywhoro, because thoy “would have just tha same work to do,” The force of folly can no further go, If Coungress should enact that National Bank notos after a givon day shall cense to bo vedoomeble in gresubacks, the consequonce wonld bo that thoy would bound up to the valuo of the world's owmrerioy—gold, be- causo only in thab medium oowld they bo re- doomed, Tt iatho groonbaoke thab keop down tho valub of tho Nollonal Buik nolow Lo 60 os B e e 90 per cont of what they ought to bo, The eapital, oredit, nnd collaterals aro sufficient to omintal i tholr notes ab par of gold if thoy wora anly cut looso from the dond carcass of imeileemnblo Governmont shinplasters. DEI [OORATIO REY N IDIANA, Wolmvo beon told, ad nawseam, that the wnughty Republicsns of Indiann gerrymnn- deved thint Stato in n shockingly sinful man- ner, arid fodo rough-shod over the pura prin- ciples iof Civil-ServicoTieform, Al thiswould bo chnnged, quoth the Domocratio stunmp- speakeers, if the people wonld bug recognize tho Epnrtan virtues of the. Indiann band of Bowrlious, aud restora thom to place and pavert, Give us o chanca at the publie erib, they cried, nand see how wo will resist temptn. tion, ‘That old idon about tho victor's ownmiship of tho spoils was first pus in jmwactice, wo must admit, by tho pat Jackson, for whom an unseom.- }§ mumbor of our supporters continue to wote to-day; but it forms no part of th o principles of the rogenerato, the chas. tenerd, tho high-toned, the moral Demosracy of tio-day. As for tho gervymandeving, did not n Mnssachusotts mau, and {herefore n Rep nblienn, invent it ? The Domoceracy hns ovor abhorred it, The peoplo of Indinng ro- posiyd & simple, very simplo, faith in theso pro: lessions, They elected tho Democratio ticl et,—thnnks to tho blindness of tho schis. mallie Republicans who voted for * Inde pexdonts,” * Anti-Monopolists,” ¢ Prohibi- tioaists," and other men of isms, nnd suc. coe ded theroby in seouring tho cloction of the tie ket which they liked lenst of ll, ! 'he promise that all this would be changed hees been kopt, It has been changed. ‘Tho Reipublicans are seid to hove gorrymandered ; th o Democrats used the charge to overthrow th em ; and now the Democrats aro about to gtarymander ! 'The Republicans filled petty of flees with men who woro Republicans ; the Iromoerats cried out agalust this slleged dis- rogard of Civil-Servico Reform ; and now the Tlemocrats are practicing with the official gillotine in order to be rendy to use it on all nwvailablo ofiicinl hieads as soou s the Legisln- turo convenes ! This is literally roform with 13 vengennco, The Leginlature of Indinna has to elect n "Stato Agent, who goes to Now York from timo 1o timo in order to pay intercst on the Stato debt; o State Librarvian, whd malkes n num- ber of nent commissions on the boolks, sta- ‘ionery, ote,, which he buys for the Legisin- turo ond the Library; the Boards of the State Chavities, and & miscollancous lot of clerks, sergennts-at-nrms, doorkeepers, ete, ‘Tho men who havo beon clamoring for Civil- Servico Roform now propose to eject all tho present occupants of these places and elect o zow sot, overy one of whom must bo a rock- rooted, dyed-in.the-wool, Bourbon-lavored Democrat. It is not easy to sce why aman is incapablo of paying out State funds to the holders of Stato bonds becauso ho belisves in . National sovercignty, and rojects tho dogma of Stote soveroignty with tho right of secessior which that implies. 'The Librarian might possess tho gkill needed for buying books, paper, pens, aud ink without having creed of Democracy. A man's power to manage a prigon oran asylum does not nee- ossarily depend upon his power to show that ho voted a certain ticket on'the last election day. The clorks could probably read and the doorkeepers could probably open and shut doora as woll if they did not cast off their Re- publicnism. If tho Democracy of Indiana were oven semi-gincers in their profossions of roform thoy would not show this indecent linsto to twrn worthy and eapable men out of minor offices in ordor to fill the places left vacant with men whose chief claim cortainly, nud whoso solo elaim possibly, is that they aro Democrats. Nor would the party, if it wera sincorely desirous of reform, proclaim its purpose of practically depriving a large paxt of the peopia of Indinua of their rights Dy gorrymandering the Stato, This j8 Democratic roform ! OUR RELATIONS WITH §PAIN, The strong langunge on the condition of Cuba which tho Presidont usos in his mes- sage can scarcely fail to make our Spanish re- Intions the subjoct of the most cnrnest con- sideration at the prerent scosion of Congress, Spain has barself furnished our Government with an opportunity to revise these relntions, nnd insist upon a treaty that shall protect us from tho outragoous discriminntions putupon us in our trade with Cuba and Porto Rico. Tor moro than n yenr the Spnnish Govern- mont hns trifled with us about the indomnifl- cntion justly fixed for the infomous slaugh- ter of Amorican citizons under the orders of a Sponish butcher in Onba, It is time that the United States should abandon. for- bearance, ond insist, in no doubtful torms, not ouly upon our rights in this specifio enso, but upon fair and equitable con- cossions in the commercial rolntions betwoen tho two countries. We have held aloof for sovoral yoary, silont spoctators of the porsist- ent dosolation of ono of tho fairest islands on cnrth through a system of barbarous oruelty and infamous extortion on the one hand, and a desperata resolution on the other, which they Bpanish Government has shown itself power. less to pub down, Wohavo tacitly sanctioned, by o policy of non-intorforouce, o sorios of Derbarities that bave called for international protest on the ground of common humanity, 'Tho elfect of this policy hins simply beon to oneourngo opprossion ‘and extoriion on the part of Bpain, sustain tho lnst-surviving velic of human slavery on the Continent, and por- mit thomost outrageous diserimination agninst the tyado of this conntry, No better idon of tho commorclal injury put upon the American pooplo by the Spanish Government cnn be obtained thon from a compnrison of the exportsand imports of this country to and from Cubn and Porto Rico, "Tho figgures for 1878, the latest at hand, are ag follows 1 Tmports from 17400, 4020 v TU85,81 35,465,057 Eportn to 15,201,050 1,993,670 st Our prineipal jmports from theso islands are sugav, molnsses, coifoo, fiuit, cigars, and tobaceo. Tho greot staple, of cowrse, is sugar, which we import porhaps to the ox- tont of threo-fourths tho ontiro vulue of all we take from Cuba and Torto Rico. 'Wo aro propered to fmmish Cubn and Porio Rico with the commoditios which tifoy havo to import from abrond,~mainly Troadstufie and machinery,—nnd, boingneaver than any other counity which could meot thieir wants, wo could, other things being equal, furnish the noeded commoditios chonpor than thoy could Le obtained elso. whoro, Yot wo find that in 1878 we notunlly Lought from theso islonds over siviy-eighi millions move than wo Folil them,—an qmonnt equal to the entire production of gold in tha United Statos per annum. 'This balauoco agninat 04 hos beon rendored possiblo by the opportandties glver to Bpaln Ls former tiantlen tho nbility to subseribe to tho iron-bound. to indulgo ltor national rapnoity to tho falles oxtent, Bpnin lives upon hor possossions in the West Indies, Sho exncts mainly from Cnba and Porto Rico tho expenses of the Ilomo Govermment, of the intornecine wara sho has constautly on band, nnd of the hordes of sealawags and loafors whom she exportd to thoso nlands aftor thoy Bave become too vile and idle oven to livo il Spain, To do this Spain hes fmposed {he most exorhitnnt duties upon exports aud im- ports in tho islands, aud, by reason of iha especinl advantage she has had over tho United Stoles Govermmont, han bled our country, not only for her own benefit, but to tha great beuoflt of those countrics which Iinve refused to submnit to her exnctions, Tlour, menl, salt meat, buttor, and cheoso wo could havo supplied to Cuba and Porto Rica, in any nmount they could have cona sumed, and at o much lower prica thau they could have obtained it from Spain or any other country, has froguently had to bosr so Intgo an import tax in Cubs, that it was cheaner to sond a barrol of flour from New }ork to Cadiz, in Spain, and thers, after pay- ing tho Spanish duaty, traneship to Havane, Sl"m to ehip it diveot from New York to the island, 8o persistent sud consciencoless han Sgnin slown hergelf in all her dealingn with the United Statos, that, whon Congross put coffee on.the frea list and reduced tho tax on sugar and molasses, Spofnimmediately puban export duty upon these staples i Cuba equal to tho ontira veduetion in ths United Btates, Inthis way we lost ot least 20,000,000 of ravenue, only to pay an erunl amount to Spain. The dotails of thase dis- oriminating duties would revenl n most s~ blushing system of unfairnoss and extortion $ but the wholo may be readily comprohended in tho gencral assertion that wa are forced to oy Cubn and Porto Rico mansly sovenmty * millions in gold per anntm which wa counld 1y off in our products of the ficld and work. shop if it wore not for Spain’s rapacious ds. crimination against na, The whole Spanish question will be forasd upon Congress at o enrly dny through tho Virginius affair. This openg up the entire situation. Tho seizure of tho Virginius and tho mnssacro of her crew wero tho diroct ro. sults of tho barbarous policy of Spain toward Cuba. It is this systematio oppression and eruolty whioh is the causa of the rebellion of the Cuban patriots, and algo of the active sympnthy folt for them by honest people in all parts of tho globo. It im humilinting to feol that wa afo contributing roventy millions ayour in gold to sustain slavery, to keep dovn n peoplo that have carned their fraedom, and to make & comparatively smnlf istand, thousauds of miles distant from Spain, pny the bulk of the expontes of the Homo Government, It is not possitle to soparato this phnse of the question from the other. So long as Spain sanctions erucl. ties that would havo disgraced the dark ages; 80 long s sho insists upon rotaining the ogi. ous system of human slavery ; and so Joug as sho persistently mnkes the people of tho United States contributo so enormously to the support of lier oppression and cruelty, thero will ba o disposition to farnish the Cu- Dbans with sympathy aud succor, And when Spain fails to atone for tho barbarities which she practices upon the citizens of tho United Statos, tho opportunity is a fair ono for taldny the whole question into consideration, and for domanding o guaranteo of fair commercicl dealing from a nation that will not otherwise observe the moralitics and docencics of inter~ national intorcourse. The President has nct gono any too far when he declares that the interests of humanity and civilization demand that tho Cuban question bo settled, snd wo hopo that Congress will havo the courego to meot the whola question in & manner becom. ing our dignity s a nation, and oqual to the commercinl abuses as well as tho porsontl outrnges we hava suffored at the hands of Spain, Wo hiave tho positive assurnnce that the gen- tlenion who aro nsking for tho right-of-way on ‘Wnbash avenuo to Iny & horse-raflrond track do ot ryls tho franchige for tho purpose of selling ont to the Chicago City Railway Company, but for the purpose of laying tho track within tho time preseribed by the ordinsuco,—that is, withs in eight months from ILakoe strect to Twenty- socond streot, and within twelvo monthn to the city Jimits. Bo far, this js all woll ond good; if tho poople, or a major- ity of tho peoplo, on Wabnsh svonuo do- &ire o horse-rallway, and tho Common Council aro gatlafiod of this, then it ia right they should have one, But the franchise is worth something more {hon tho proposed ordlnance prescribes, It iu not sufiicient that the Company shiould keep their own 16 foot in ropair; thoy shonld likowiaa bo raquired to keep tho rost of tho atreet in ro- palr, Tho fact that tho rest of the streot is the mora speedily worn out by the oxistonco of the horgo-ruilway, and also the fact that tho people codo the Company & valuable franchine, ronder this domand ontiroly roosonnble, It would ba woll, also, to demand that evorycar should ba run through to tho city limits and be provided with a conductor. If theso conditions should be sdded to thoso already provided in tho ordinanco, thero would bo something like & fuir compenga~ tlon for the franchivo. An agroemont to koop tho outiro atrect in repair would rocomolle many people to the project who ara now opposed to i, —— Planing-mill men, and tho lumbor Iritereat gen= orally, will romember the Waodbury-}atont suit, which is still ponding, and will probbly soon come up for trinl. The Woodbury' Company olaim o patent on tho yiolding prossire bar and rotary cutter upon lotters issued Apuil 29, 1873, aftor goveral rejoctions by tho Bourd of Commig~ sioners, Thoroare 53,000 of the xaachines in uxo, upon which tho Company domand & royalty af &0 each por annuw, or 8,000,000} in the ag- grogato, Homo G20 firms are cnrolled in tho do- feuso, with Calob Cushing, W. M. livarts, Ed- wards Piorrepont, ChauncoySmith, W.altor Curtis, Jobn T, Drow, mud C. M. Reod, as’ counsol, The Woodbury Company have ens goged DBenjomin X% DVatler, soviral other woll-kuown attorneys, and o mnss of 10x-Comumis- sfoners of Patonts, Who cago will involve the conet{tutionality of at least ono act (1 Congress, nod the fortunes of many manufaot urers, Tho sult {5 brouglit by 0. R, Tompklas & Oo., of Tochestor County, N. Y., tn the United Btates Suprenie Court, to rostrain Woodbiry from ople locling a royulty, LB Y Lhe fraauent reader of the St Lo nis daily pa- vors who lag nover baen fu thut c'ity’ must be- giu to entortain the most torvifyin g snspiolons of the poselbility of locomotion. After evory showor or suow-storm, atall timorinnd seasong comes a genoral wul ovor the wrete hed condition of tho streoty, o Common Cou nell, tho May- o, and other authorlties, ure calllod upon sed- ulously to amollorate this horribl b coudition of iluivs, but apparently without ava 1. The newse vapera anbatantiate thelr hoathern charactor by thuir dotormation to be hoard f or tholr much- spoaking, e S Whilo the Bunday-school childr an of Shefllald and Bivminghom, Eng., wero oo ntributing pon- nioy to support risslonsries amo. g tha heathen, thefr rospootable papas woro sh'ipping iron und brazon Idoli to the suma heathon by the ship= load, thua keoping up thofr rop itation and busis noua togather, Boston laughod loudly avar this miserable pleco of hypooriay. Blasusohusatts bax boon bloding ftosit with, prolibitory lawa sgblust the nale of Uduor. Al the wame e