Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1874, Page 8

‘HE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1874---TWELVE PAGES. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 14875, BATES OF RUNSCIPTION (PATADLE I ADVANCE), Poninge Peepintd at thle Oices ++ G13.00 | Sunday. 1 81808 [Medes Paris of a yonr al tho sine rato, ‘To prerent delay and miata! be auto and give Post. Gtéco cddeana in fall, tualudting Stata aud Counts, Romittaucoamay ba made either by draft, expros, Poste Omeo order, ve in regiatered lettore, at our rlalt, TENA TO CIT sUNACRINNA, attr, detivored, Sunday excepted, 25 conts perweek* Daily, delivorod, Banilay tnoludod, 80 con te por work Addrons THE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Gorngr Biadison and Dearborn-ata,, Chicago, Ii TO:DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. patwenn Doane and Teealitye® MUVIOIKUG THRATRE—Madivon stranty hetweon Dearborn anit Bieter, Loyarament of Kdwin Booth, Alleraoons Othello” “Ievoulngs “Merchant “of ‘un{oo.” URAND, OPERA-TOURE—Olark | atrest, oppaelte Snorman House, Kelly 4 ieon's 2inatrole, |! 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It wil bo in order for some of tho fanuy Newspaper men to pun on the name af Stock- well, ox-President of tho Pacific Mail Com- pany, who is said to have disposed of $750,000 in alock-operations on Wall street. Now everybody will be wanting to rush up into Wisconsin, and dig for gold, although tho testimony to the discovery of genuino ore in that Stato is of the fimsiost possible doseription. Probably most of the “gold Jona” in Wisconsin cou bo bought for $10 an acre, canal-terms. A long and graphic “special dispatch,” purporting to ba from Carson, Nev., was published in on afternoon paper yesterday. It gave a detailed report of tho hanging of Joux Muzeny. Unhappily, Murray was not hanged. He was roprioved Jato in the day. Now, whero did that ‘special dis- patch” como from ? The officers of tho Pacific Mnil Company assert, with grand self-possession, that they authorized the expenditure of only $7,000 in Washington, and that they understood this amount was to bo used in collecting “ ata- tistics” from tho Treasury Dopartment, It is remarkable that, while thoy only started ont to collect “statistics,” thoy camo very near collecting half a million in monoy, an- nually, from the Treasury Dopartmont. ‘Thero seems to be some foundation for the report that Prosident Gnranr is considering the propriety of nominating Senator Cann Scnunz to the Russion Mission. Mr. Scnunz has no affinity for the Democratic party, and now that the issuo is a plain ono between Bourbonism and Republicanism, he is found, where he belongs, in the Republican ranks, The appointment would probably bo accopt- able to Republicans in the West, The Good Samaritans have ceased to bo merely xidicnlous, and become public nui- ennees, They onght to be abated just like s0 many-disagrecable smells, Woennnotcon- ceive that the Indies who engaged in tho dis- graceful effrays chronicledin our local columns this morning imagined that they wero serv- Ing the causo of God or man, or doing any- thing but gratify their own oyil and ugly passions, Horeafter it will bo disreputable to be known ns a Good Samaritan, om King Karaxva was roecived” yosterdry, in genuine Americnn style, by both Houses of Congress and by tho President. As is usual on such occasions, everybody was de- lighted and entertained, excepting the beno- ficiary, His discomforts woro aggravatad by acold in tho hond, and by the awo in which he stood of tha august peopte to whom ho was introduced, Whether tho awe or the cold troubled him imoat haf not, at last ao- counts, beon definitely ascertained. ‘Wo shall havo the pleasure of receiving in Chicago to-day Mr. Monton, tho grain-demler of Kentland, Ind., who is charged with at- tempting the bribery of one of Inspector Hanegn’s clorks, Tho offense for which Monton is to bo triedis, it appenrs, a misie- meanor, nnd tho extema penalty for itisa fine of $4,000, Throughouttho vexatious and tedious litigation which Monrox’s frionds sustained in order to prevent his surronder to the Ilinoia officers, Goy, Hexpnicys has shown praiseworthy regard for the Inwa, do- ing his wholo duty at the oxpenso of some popularity in Indiana, Tron-manvfacturora in Enstern Pennsyl- vanin complain of those in the western part of the Stnte. Nuatnro has dono something for tho Western people by giving thom cheap coal, and they have the additional advantage of cheap Inbor, Mere is o state of affairs indecd which no tariff laws oan remedy, ‘tho only thing for tho Eastern men to do is to se. cede from the Union, and build up manufac. turing induntries for themselvos, When they talked so loudly about ‘developing tho ro- sources of tho country,” thoy wore thinking only of developing those resources which thoy controlled. ‘holy invention has returned to plague thon, cree The Chicago produce markets wore rather slow yesterday, exept.in pork sud wheat. Mosa porl: waa snoderately netive, and 100 por brl lower, closing at $18.80 cash, and $10,25, scllor February, Lard was loss active, and 7 1-2@)100 your 100 Ibs lower, clouing at 918,00 onsh, and (418,20 nollor Fabruary, Monty wore quit and drmor, at U 1-90Lor shoulders, 9 LYo tow shovt rite, aod 0 Btu for short oleard, Highwines woro quiet and steady, at 970 por gallov. Flour was in bottor demand. Wheat was loss active and io higher, closing frm at 88 3-40 cash, and 8!) 1-40 for January. Corn waa dull and §-1@to lowor, closing at 76 1-24 for old, 65 1-40 for now, 711-20 for seller May. Oats wero dull and 1-20 lower, closing at 62 5-80 cash, and 62 1-20 for January.’ Ryo was quiet and steady, at O5e, Barley was yuict and firmer, closing at 91,21 1-2 cash, and $1.22 for January, Hogs wero quiot and closed casy ; sales chiclly at | %6.75@7.00, Cattloxworo in fair demand and ruled firm, Sheep were dull and ensy, Wo print this morning a Iotter to tho St. Louis Repudlican, dispatched to Tas Untnoxn, by telegraph, concerning tho Ianto massacre of negroes at Vicksburg, Tho correspond- ont, it will bo observed, holds ontiroly {0 tho view that tho negroes were blameless, and that tho Whito Leagues of Vicksburg doliberately shot ‘hom down. ‘Tho letter is valunblo tosti- mony to the facts of tho case, and especially so sinco it comes from ono of the most prominent Democratic journnis in tho country, Tho Occidental & Oriontal Steamship line, which has boon enlled into oxistence by tho Pacific Railroad Companies, will soon havo a tongiblo existence, The now Compn- ny has agroed with the railronds to begin an immedinto servico, and has loased for its pur- poses threo of the magnificent White Star steamers, ‘Tho persons interested in thia now vontitre may possibly bo the movers of tho Pacific Mail investigation, which is being held in Washington. Wo can undorataud that the Cecidentnl & Oriontnt Company would like to have tho Pacific Mail Company brought into diseredit with the peo- ple. However, in this ease, tho ond justifies the means, - Princo Bismancr seems determined not to kaop the good will of the people vory long at atime, Nosoonor had ho boen thoroughly vindicated in tho Von Ausisr enso than ho choose to tako fanciful umbrage at the rosolu- tion of the Reichstag concerning tho arrest of Deputies Auring tho session, intorpreling the voto es showing a want of confidonee. Thon he offered to resign, and tho Emperor wouldn't heve him, and he reconsidered his purpose, aud the Reichstag was mado to de- claro that it meant no offense. ¥isuanox is always resigning. Hoe is the great resiguer, just as Horatio Sermoun is tho great de- cliner, Hohas cried wolf so many times that everybody Jaughs now when ho raises the familiar echo, Tho intelligence that Commander Wrorzast B. Cusuisa, of tho, Unitod States Navy, is dead, will bo recoived with profound sorrow, not only by those whose hearts wero with the Government during the War of tho Re- bellion, but by all who appreciate horoism, His was ono of tho grandest charactors do. veloped by the War, His memory is worthy to bo embalmod in verso and handed down as ‘fn procious legacy to succeeding genorations of Americans, ‘Tho lesson of how to fight for ovo's country is not frequontly so taught as it was by Commander Ousuinc; ond wo eannot pass without improving the oppor. tunity to enforce his teaching by iMlustration, comment, aud approval. Wo therefore ro- produce elsowhera in this morning’s issue the best parts of an article which Intoly ap- peared in Harpers Magazine, tolling tho story of the hero’s lifo. It will bo found to be, we believe, not only a brief biography of n brave man, but also a thrilling recital of somo ro- markablo incidents in the Into War. THE TEA AND COFFEE TAX, Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, desorves credit for his courage and his statesmansiip in proposing to restore tho duties on ten and coffee,—n duty of 12 conts per pound on ten and 3 conts per pound on coffoo, This tax ought never to have been repenled, That ropeal was a fraud upon the country, ond intended to swindle the people. During tho fisenl year 1872, tho revenue from ten and cofico was $12,350,000. ‘Bho repenl of the tox was n loss of thot nich revenue annunily, without tho slightest relief to the people who consumed the articles, Tho momont the tax wes romovod in this country it was added to their prica by an export tax in China, Cuba, and Brazil, It was a clear caso of tho transfer of our yovenuo totho other countrioy,—our people paying tho tux with intorest in either case, ‘To restore the tnx is to add nothing to tho cost of the articles, but to transfer the rovonne from the coffers of China, Brazil, and Spain back to the Ureasury of the United States, This tax on tea and caffea comes nearer to a purely rovenue tax then any other; that is to say, every dollar of it, less the cost of collection, is received by the ‘Treasury, It is atex solely for the support of tho Govern- ment. ‘Lhe Treasury docs not share it with any porson or corporation. A fomily pur- chasing in 2 yenr 100 pounds of coffeo at 23 cents per pound will expend $23, of which ‘90 is tax, all of which goes into the Treasury, ‘The same family expending for cotton to meko sheots, pillow-enses, shirts and other underclothing, $70, will pay $50 for tho cot- ton and $20 tax, of which the ‘Treasury will recive abont &5, and the other $15 will be paid to tho protectod * partners” which Con- gvess has authorized to share tho tax. Afamily expending during the year $920 for indispensable clothing and houschold goods will thus approximately divide that sum between the notual value of the goods and the tax thevoon : Falue of Articles, goods, = = Pa. Catton goods., 80 338 Wooten guud 135 % Worsted goods... 20 pry Uarpets, 20 oy Gluexwa 40 16 Grockur: 3 9 Bote, shoes, oto. + 200 Ey ‘Millinery goods, £0 48 Spool cotton. 10 4 Pius aud ueedies, 3 2 Totaleerecere $307 Hero, then, ont of a total expenditure of 4926, in tho articles wo have named, the family poys S807 tax and 4618 for the goods, and of this dax nat more than $40 to $50 is vecoived by tho United States, the rest fall- ing {o tho shuro of tho protected ‘part. ners” who aye ponsioned from this tax upon tho whole people. ‘Laxes lovicd on tho prin- ciple of paying 71 to the Govornmont and dividing fonr other dollars among spo- cinl interests must nocessorily bo very high in order to raiso auough revonua for the Govurnment, ‘Lo raise $12,000,000 for the Government under that mado of taxation ro- quires a total tax of ditty or sixty millions of dollars; while 4 tax on tea and coffee, thera heiug no partners to slave it, is all revenue, ‘Yo repeal tho tax on cottonn, woolons, ote, would repenl from 84 to Bi tax for onch dotlar of revenue lost; while to reponl tho tox on ten and coffco tk n total lous of rov- onuo, Jf tha tax on tea anil colfoe, producing twelyo millions of dollays rovonuo, bo ro. ponlod, it will require on inorenso of totes ou the consumers of sottony, woolons, leather, iron, etc., totho oxtontof fifty millions tomake good tho loss of the ten and coffoo tax, For this ronson, the men interested in the protective bountion and tho partnership sys- tem of taxation, acting on the ignorance of thoso wha did not understand tho question, obtained the rapoal of tho tea and coffee tax in ordor to mako the other taxos essential to tho revenues of the Government, eee NEW YORK HOTEL EXTORTION, ‘The Naw Yorkers for some timo past baya been indulging in Inmontations over tho dull titaes, Business is slack, Entortainmonts don’t pay. Few strangers aro arriving in tho city. ‘Lhoso who do como gob away fs soon as they enn. -Cowntry merchants give the ity a wide berth, Even tha opera has already lost $20,000 or $40,000, Worlmen ave striking. Rogucu aro incroasing., So runs the dismal song which tho New York papers aro singing in different keys, It is, a little remarkable that, in tha search for tho caures of this Inmentablo condition of things, the payors aud tho people of that city have not hit upon ona of the most radical, name- ly, the extortious of the Now York hotcl- keepers. Before the: War, tho average per diem prices of the Now York hotols was $2.50. During tho War, when rents went up and prices of living advanced by reason of tho deprecintion &f the currency, the hotel- keepors put up their rates to $3.60. This when gold vibrated betwoen 126 and 160, Whon it wont up to 176 and 200, the hotel- keepers added on snothor dollax, and when it went kiting up to 250 and 280 they put up their per diem to $3, which, with groenbaeks worth only 40 cents, was choap enough. Since that time tho prices of living have beon greatly reduced. Provisions are much cheaper, Labor is abundant at vory low rates, Renta have fallen off greatly. Grcenbacks, worth then 40 or 50, aro now worth 90. Notwithstanding this, the hotel. keepers havo maivinined tho War standard of inflation, and keep their prices at $5 per day at rospectablo houses. To this must bo added extras. Baths, fires, extra servant hire, and meals in roams muko an averago of $6 per day, or $2,190 per annum for the privilege of ocoupying a 10x12 room, fur- nished in an ordinary manner, and eating ata table no better, and in many cases not 50 well sot, ns cnn be found in tho restaurants at much less prico, This is simple extor- tion, for which thera is no justification in reason. Tt ia deliberate robbery, and, so long asit is practiced, New York must oxpoct to Joss its traveling custom, As mintters now stand, the country merchant who goes toNew York usually wishes to mako a littl visitafter ho has made his purchases, and sco tho sights of the metropolis. Ho is first bled by the havkmen ond baggage-handlers, Io makes his purchases, and then tho hotel Inndiord grabs and bleeds him, and, unless ho has brought « wad of bills as big as his hat, ho very likely has to write homo for aremittanea with which to got out of thocity. The result of all this is, that the merchant gocs to Now York no oftener thon is absolutely necessary, males his stay ns brief as possible, makes no arrangoment for social plensures, usually ar- rives in the morning, finishes up his business as quickly as possiblo, and gets away at night, If he does not, then his personnl expenses makes very serious holo in bis margin of profits, If tho merchant wants to tako his wifo to Now York, it will probably cost him 9100 or $125 por week for his hotel board alone, not to montion other necessary expenses, Under such circumstances, how can New Yorkers expect any other than a dnil condition of things? Do thoy imagine that peoplo can stand this hotel-swindling week aftor weelt and month after month? Do they fancy that business men will not pro- test against it, ond at last go clsowhere, where they enn board moro cheaply and escape from this constant extortion? What is truo of Now York is oqually truo of Philadelphia, and Boston charges high prices because Now York does, Tu Chicago, on the contrary, {hore is no such whine over dull times ne constantly emanates from New York, ‘ho city is full of country treders. Our merchants aro doing a big holiday business. Tho hotels sro well filled, uot only with transient people, but with families who have broken up housekeeping and gone to the hotels to board. Tho result is, that peoplo are living cheaply and tho ho- tels ave making money, snd merchants from nil over the West aro pouring into tho city and making their purchases here. Why? Becouss they can got board at €8 to $8.50 at our fivst-class hotels, and our first- class hotels ara larger, handsomer, moro clo- gaut, better furnished, and bottor kept than the New York hotels. There aro not four hotela in Now York, .or any other city, ‘which can compare in these ro- spects with tho Primer, Grand Pacific, ‘Tremont, and Sherman Houses for instance. ‘Lhey have no complaints to meko, nor in inct havo any of tho hotels, largo or small, in this city. If New York wants to prosper and in- vite trade, her hotel-keepers must reduco their prices. If tho hotel-owners aro charg. ing enormous rents, then thoy must reduco thom, Ono thing is certain, tho traveling public is determined to submit to their extor- tions no longer, 18 THERE ANOTHER CREDIT MOBILIER? The Committea of the House of Repro. sentatives charged with the affairs of tho Pa- cific Railroads hag persistently rofused to in- vestigate the chargea of corruption against the Central Pacific Railrond Company. At the present session, tho same Committee has resolved that it will not investigate, There has alwys been a strong belief, amounting almost to n conviction, that the Credit-Mo- Dilior rabbory discovered in the Union Pacifio division of the rond was a minor alair (only $87,000,000) compared with what was hidden in the Contral end of tho road, ‘ho House of Itepresentatives refused to rocognize a suspicion of any corruption in the aflairs of the Union Pacific Company, and the exposure at Inst came from without, and Congress was compelled to uncover the whole disgraceful record, Wo all know how tho rosponsibility for tho Credit-Mobilicr corruption was “di- vided” by having Domoornts voto with Re- publicans on overy question, But thero ean bo no oquat division of vo. sponsibility nt this time, Tho Republicans of tho House hove a majority of two-thirds, ant havo absolute control of logislation, ‘Tho Democrats alone have not tho power to order anything, or defeat auything, so that the ra. sponsibility for what js dono, and for what is not done, must mainly rest upon the Ropub- Uean party. Now tlils Committeo on Pasifio Railrond hoa declared that it will not invoati- gate the obargos that Nave beon made, and tho Ffonso of Roprosoutatives, by its non-ns- tion, must nssunio the responsibility for the rotuenl of the Committss, Phus the mottor will stand whon the noxt Congrosa mootd a yoar hence, Ono of tho first aoty of the House will be to appoiata committee to investigate this Contral Paoific Rallrond business, ‘Lhat Committoo will be Democratic, and during tho intervening sun- mer there will be a genoral gathering and coloring of facta, If tho investigation shall disclone, as the probabilities avo Chat it will, that Osnrs Ans’ Credit Mobilier was 9 small affair compared with the Credit Mobilicr of tho Paciilo end of tho rord, then this ox- posttro will have increased force by the pra- vious record.of the Nepublicau House in re- fusing 1o investignto, avd thereby seeming to sovk to suppress the truth, If thero is anything corrupt in the past his- tory of tho Centval Paciflo Railway Compnny why should it not bo mado public? Snpposo tha investigation will disclose that a largo nimber of the Senators and Reprerentatives in Congress, both Republicans and Domo- ernts, had been bribed by money, slook, and other pecuniary profits by this great corpora. tion, why should not tho fact Be made pub- Jie, that the country bo informed, as it was in 1872, of the hypocrites and dishonest men who were using both politieat partion for their personal advantage? If there be noth- ing in this chargo of corruption, whatso ensy aa to mako that fact known, ond put tho slander at rest? Why onter a mero doninl, whon the trath or falsity of tho charge can he ascertained. If this refusal to investigate bo founded on tho fenr that some Re- publicana may bo involved, the refusal is more unjustifiable and impolitic. If thera be men in the Republican organization who ave honored and respected ns loaders, and who are in fact corruptionists,—who hrvo tnken offfeial bribes,—is it not bettor that these men be exposed and discarded by a Re- publican Congress than to havo it dono by tho other party? ‘Tho present House ennnot. suppress this investigation. It must come, sooner or later ; aud, should it be found that thore way official corruption, the crimo can- not {nil to bo aggravated by tho attempt of the Republican House to suppress the ex. posure, It may as well bo understoed at once that tho Ropublican party must eut looso from every form of corruption and from all re- sponsibility therefor. Better convict adozen leaders and get rid of them forever, than make tho party responsible for their crimes by endeavoring to bolster up their ruined credit beforo tho peoplo. THE DEMOCRACY SPEAKS, "the Southern Democracy has ot last spoken, through the mouth of Dr. A, Y. P. Ganyert, of Washington, at ono time Sur- geon-Geueral of the Southern Confederacy. Dr, Ganyerr is the representative of a class aud a section, Io represonts tho wholo Southorn Democracy and a goodly portion of tho Northern, is viows ara their views, his principles their principles, bis policy their policy. The readers of Tor Trimuxe neod hardly be informed what theso views, principles, and policy are. We havo stated them frequently enough in our recent issues. We did not expect, however, to sco them sp openly and boldly avowed and ad- vocated in the National Capitat as they have been by Dr. Ganxers in his oration delivered on tho occasion of tho reintormont of a num- ber of Confederate soldiors who woro killed in making an attack on Washington. If any of our renders has aupposed that wo were unnecessarily sounding the alarm, lo must havo been disabused of lis orror on perusing Dr, Ganverr's address in yestorday’s paper. It is well worth our while to make a brief statemont of Dr. Ganvert's principlos, and point out the conséquences to which thoy lend, In the first place, it is ovidont from his utterances that the Southern whites aro still arrayed 23 9 unit against tho rest of the country; and that they feol thomselves a eeparate and distinct body, with interests at varinnco with thoso of the North, and griev- anees which they claim they havo been made unjustly to endure, ‘They are as much mar- ahaled against tho rest of tho nation, and feol themselves as little one people with us and belonging to one country as they did when Jurrrnson Davis was their President and Ropenr E. Leeled tho Rebel army against ths Union forces. Our orator refers to him self and thoso he represents as, ‘Wo of tho South,” and throughout speaks of the South- ern people as if they were separate and dis- tinct from the people of the Union, Further, ho maintains that no “‘intolligent mind can @eny tho rights of these States to withdraw from tho Union or pronounco such conduct on their prrt as treasonable and rebellious”; that the primary alleglanco of an Amorican citizen is not to tho nation but to the State of which ho happens to bo a citizon; that it was loyalty to American principles, not hostility to the Union, which dictated tho act of secession; and that that act was not rebellious or unconstitutional, Such ara somo of the strango principles advocated, with no little show of eloquence, by the former Surgeon-Goneral of the Confedorate Army. It wes bad enough if Dr, Garnerr had ended hero, But no; ho gocs on to lay down the startling proposition that “whon the National Logislaturo shall subordinate partisan intorest and sectional prejudices to theso great elements of Ropublican Govern- mont, . . thon, and notuntil then, shall we havo ao happy, united, and lomogoncous people, onjoying tho blessings of a prospor- ous, just, and good Government.” This Jast isan ominous sentenco., It implies that at- tachmont to the Union isa ‘ sectional proj- udico” ; that the blood and treasure lavished to perpetuate it wore but amanifostation of “ par- tisan projudico”; that the ‘great elements of Republican Government" which tho Na- tional Logielaturo must henceforth guido it- self by aro, that tho Southorn States had the vight to withdray from the Union; that their withdrawal was not treasounblo or rebellious, but constitutional; that an American citizen owes allogiauco first to tho Stato aud next to tho Nation; that secession was not unjustifiable, but an act of loyalty ; aud that bocanso tho National Logislature does not nt presont recognize all this, it is neither a prosperous, just, or good Govorn- mont! Horo is cortainly a most terrible in- dictinent agninst the National Legislature which is mndo out to bo falso to ovory prin- eipo of Republienn Government, and moro. over neither juat nor good, Wo linvo no rea- gon to supposo that those viows ato confined to {he nian who onunelntes them. Wo have, on the contrary, every ronson to ba- lieve that thoy ara as wido-sprond as tho Sonthera States, and that thoy ave hold by thousands of tho Democracy in the North, Indood, wo ave not far from tho mark whon wo say that through Dr, Gannerr the Democracy has spoken, Individual Doemocyats thore are, of course, who do not hold these viows ; but they aro in a hopeless aninority, aud could do nothing to shape the policy of the party to whioh they balong. Northern Demooracta wilt havo to subaoribo to those prinviples if they would not logo tho aupport of thoir Southern brethron, Such boing the case, i is not diflonlt to forosco what thelr action iu tho promisod would be wero thoy in control of the Government, And now for a glanco at tho consequences of such principles, Should the National Legis- Inture rdopt thom, it would fnvo to decreo that tho South was in the right all during tho Rebollion, and, of course, that tho Nation was in tho wrong. If tho Sonth acted constitutionally in attempting to secede, tho North violated tho Constitution in forcing tho Southern States to romain in the Union; aud every act of tho National Government from tho beginning to tho end of tha War was thereforo unconstitutional and void. ‘Nho national debt was contracted for an un constitutional purpose, and should bo re- pudiated; tho Southern dobt for a constitu. tional purpose, and should bo paid, Every widow in the Houth who lost hor husband in tho War would have a claim ogeinst the Na. tional Governmont, and every man who lost apound of tobacco, or cotton, or butcher's meat, ‘Ihe cmancipation of the slavos was unwarranted, and they should bo restored to their former muastors, or, jf nob restored, compensation should be made for their loss. Such, in brief, aro a few of tho cousequences which would flow from tho adoption of the “ olements of Republican Government” which Dr. Gannett insists tho National Legislature inust accept bofore wo enn enjoy tho bless- ings of a “ prosperous, just, and good Gov- ernment.” It is preposterous to think that the Democracy shall over succeed in carrying out such a progravune. It is, however, equaily preposterous to imagine that it would not attempt to do so, for the above are tho principles of the Democracy, as we have already moro thau onco pointed out in this papor, ‘Lhat party exists as tho incorpora- tion of those principles, ‘hoy havo beon its very soul from tho timo of its foundation. hey still constitute its raion d'etre, and they elone, If these nro not tho principles of that party, then it has no principles ; and aparty without any principles is ten times more dengerons than a party with bad, but openly avowed, principles, Thoso not pre- pared to subscribe to Dr, Ganvert’s creed lave no option but to act with the Repub- lican party, TRANSPORTATION SCHEMES IN CONGRESS. Congress is beset from ell sides for enor- mons subsidies. Transportation is tho re- frnin of all tho potitions, ‘They may. be divided into two classes: 1. Positive or present steals; 2. Negative or future jobs. ‘The first class are readily disposed of, They includo Tom Scorr’s Southorn Pacific job and Jay Cooxr’s Nothern Pacific job, ‘Theso ave unmitigated swindles, Congress, in tho face of tho Pacifio Mail scandal and tho uniyeranl protest of the nation, will hardly daro to give them serious consideration. It ig a matter of surprise that even ‘Vox Scorr and Jay Coors should have had the “ choek” to ask for additional Government aid under tho circumstances. The other class of pro- posed subsidies ara tho more dangerous becauso they do not recoive the absolute and sweeping condemuation of the whole people. Indeed, Congress scoms to think it necessary that something or other should be subsidized, since the House Committee on Railroads and Canals hove appointed a sub- committee to ascertain which of ‘the subsidy proposals already presentod is the most meri- torious. his would indicate that Congress sets out upon a falso hypothesis, It is not nocessary, nor even desirablo, that Congress should make any appropriations on subsidy account. Itis much better that the entire practico be abandoned for the present, and it was o serious blunder not to pass Mr. Hor- atay’s resolution to that effect, Such a reso- lution would have prorogued the lobby and set tho minds of the peoplo at rest on the whole subject. Mx, Huruovr's bill for the Washington, Cinoinnati & St. Louis narrow-gauge, 8-foot railroad, it seems, is to bo reported in the House. It doos not deserve even this dis- tinction, and should never go any further, | It seems that this is a corporation already chartered by tho State of Virginia, which Mr. Huntnvr proposes to mako a National corporation. ‘Iho enpital stock is $15,000,- 000, and the proposition is to run a road from the District of Columbia 400 miles to tho Ohio River, thenco 300 miles to Cincinnati, thonce 300 ta St. Louis, and also to construct a 800-milo “branch” to Chicago. ‘Tho Gov- ernment is to guaranico tho interest on bonds at tho rate of $17,500 per mile for 2 portion of tho distance, and at tho rato of $10,000 1 mile for tho romninder, in consideration of which thoro is to ho somo reserved right for postal servies nud the regu- Jation of tariff, ‘The projoct is full of orrors, In the first place, if such a rond bo needed at all from Last to Wost, itis absurd to mako any point on tho shallow Potomao in the Dis- trict of Columbia the terminus, Thore ia no commerce in tho District of Columbin aud never will be, Thero is no prospect of ever making it an outlet to Europoan markets, We havo already o well-constructed aud well- mannged road from tho West to Baltimore, Competition is less needed on tho lino of tho proposed routo than anywhere elso in tho country, Tho next crror is ‘in making Cincinnati tho terminus of the xond, with possible “branches” to Chicago and St. Louis, If thero be any ex- cuso for the Governmont to again go into the railroad businass, it is to provide some relief to the agricultural interest by affording cheap transportation for.grain, Now, Chicago is tho grent depot of tho grain-growing section of tho Northwest, and is tho natural wostern torminus of any railroad especially denigned to facilitate or chenpon grain-transportation, ‘The next objection is the proposed guaranteo of interost. Tho Government hns already guaranteed ns muoh ay it can afford; much moro than tho people want to pay, Any further guarantco of railroad bonds and interest will inovitably result tho same ns tho Pacific Govermnont bonds,--tho final paymont by tho Governmont of both interest and principal, ‘Lhe reserved right of rogu. lating froight and passenger ratos is simply adelusion, If this condition bo made at oll practicable, it will only provide another con- tontion in Congress for tho future between sections and classes, in which tho uso of monoy will bo tho most prominent feature, We aro also surprised that the samo Com- mittoo should havo decided to recommend a subsidy of §8,000 a milo for a railroad from Portland, Ove, to Salt Lako! Of courso there is no earthly demand for such n road; if there wore, it would bo built without ask- ing Congross for aid, It is but nnothor scheme to got money out of the gonoral pnb- Hic ina mattor in which tho goneral public IinwS not tho slightest interost, Tha samo Committes havo also agrood to rocommend tho passage of a bill authorizing {ho con- struction of a ship-canal from Hennepin to the Mlasiesippi River, This yeeommendn- tion hay ovidently boon made on tho estimate that the worle would cast but $4,000,000, which will only construct amall ditch for dannl-boats, It is obvious that a “ship. canal” trom Tounepln to Rook Island would be compnratively valueless unless the Tlinois Canal and tho Ilinois River wero put in tho #amo condition, thus making a ship-canol betweon tho Inkes and the Mississippi, To do this would require nt the least eutimate $20,000,000, ‘Cho Committoo had already indorsed, at tha last session, tho Fort St. Philip Canal projeat, which would cost por- haps $10,000,000 more, ‘Tho only consoling gunouncement mndo is that the James River and Alleghouy Mountain Tunnel Caunl lobby hayo ‘lost heurt for this session,” Porkinps tho best way to estimate the onor- mity of this subsidy business-is to show about what tho recommendation of the Touso Committce on Railroads and Canols in a sine qe day would oventually cost the Govern. ment, Wo donot think tho following state. ment to ho exazgerated: Mr, Huntuur's District Railroad, Portland & Salt Lake Rall Blip-nnual to Mlesisaipps, Fort St, Philip Canal..., Totals cesens + ++ $63,000,060 When the subsidy-practice is regarded in the light of these figures, wo think that all sections and all intorosts will agroo that they ean better afford, severally, to sncrifico their own projects than to shoulder tho burden of all the subsidios proposed. As far as tho West is concerned, we can better rely upon the economical management of the Baltimore & Ohio Railrond for the present, aud the im- provement of the Canadian canals in tho near future without cost to this country, thau to assume our share of gigantic subsidy-system of hundreds of millions in order to got sozne doubtful aid for ourselves, THE ROSS CABE, ‘The details of tho abduction of Cranuin Ross, and of the subsequent discovery of his Iidnappers, excel in romnntio interest apy story of crimo yet conceived by romencer or playwright. The disappearances of the child, tho alternations of hope and despair in the hearla of tho afflicted parents, as news camo from timo to time that their boy nd been discovered, the various thronds of rumor which the officors unraveled only to find that they led to nothing, tho pursnit of the real kidnappers for months by tho detectives act- ing under thy orders of Inspector Watuina, of Now York, and the mauner in which they avoided thom and:finally put thom off the scent altogether, and the tragicnl denonement a fow days ago, which discovered them, and at tho samo timo brought a swift and terrible = revenge = upon them, form a sories of chapters in one of the most thrilling episodes Qf crimo over Imown in this country, Tho result of tho denouement, however, is like tho result of every other step in the strange story. No sooner had tho sky lightened up than it clouded’ over again. A ray of sunlight on- tered tho afflicted home as tho news came of the discovery of the kiduappers, but it is tune which mado the two scoundrols « target: for the unorring practice of the Vax 1 Dntsz may yet bring brek the little fellow. the chair which lins boen vacant str tho Germantown home, OHIVALRZ IN NEW OB. For’ noble, high-toneil, whotsse led chiv. alry, commond us to “our best #1 victy” in New Orleans, ‘ho school trout! es in that unhappy efty show (hat the rising generation has lonrned the creed ity fathers based their ante-bellum lives upon,— dime. the nig- ger" ond that fathors md sem have both ARS, forgot tho stern Jessonn of the Wear. Thevo js somothing inexpressibly heroic in the pic taro tha wires bring us of a of white boys bravely pushing e-alored girls into the gutters and immed’ ntely after wards running away from co ‘cred boys. ‘Theso Napoleons in embryo evi? .ently prefer the Inurols that are to bo got with perfect safely, Fiyo of them can triua pisally cape tnre tho desk of one colored fir, while a cowardly teacher Jooks passively) ‘at the souf- fle, but they suddenly discover how great & part of valor discretion is whe: . 5 fow colercdL boys confront them, ‘£he vigi: mee commit tea of white boys, who vir ied the givls’ schools and forcibly separated { ‘ao black from tho white sheep, did not cer :¢ their high toned efforts until they prow :ked a general riot, in which parents and eb} iden pune heads and knocked out teeth + “ih 1 dextal which only long practice consid give, th development of tho publio-s ¢hoct system: is not one which ean bo nimire 3, it in howover, 8 tonching bit of chivaur, firing took place,” wo are toli"t + prebabl; Ny cause they were afraid of jk the chil- dven.” It is creditable, intecd, that tho Whito League refrained from indulging in a battue of piceaninnics. ¢ Ino or (yo vole loys into thot ‘ermy of fitte tack faces would have serious! y dimininied tho negro vote in 1885, Tho wrste of 1876 will, howover, bo less by at 1.1083 one, for this school-boy riot. One adu ib negro was dis. posel of, Yelegrams froma Republican sources say he waa murd orei, ‘Cho Demo- erots elniin that ho feld; dead of “heart disense.” It iv odd,—th o way in which o sminll leaden pellet, shot out of a gnn and into a henrt, will prod ico disenso of thet organ, About fifty Vick :sbury negroes dicd. of tho samo sickness t he otherday. It is very prevalent wherovi or tho Democratic “ Whito Lenguo " oxists . When children deliber ‘ately engage in riots that lead to murder, the responsibility for tho crime rests on the paren ts whose lawlessness finds an echo in that of their sons, Crimo holds high carnival in New Orleans. The Whito League, armed n nd drilled, confronts tho State Governmen t. ‘The twenty-two companies of United St ates troops in the city prevent open insurrecti: on, but can do nothing invely only temporary. Tho kidnappers linve been found at last, but tho boy is still missing. It will bo remembered that, when Cxzanure Ross was abducted, the crime was witnessed by several porsons, who furnished the polico with pretty accurate descriptions, ‘I'boso descriptions were sent all over tho country, and then followed all kinds of haphazard work, Oxanun: Rosszs wero found every- where, in the remotest parts of tho East and West, in Southern plantations, out in the Rocky Mounteing, among the mines, and nu- mieruus arrests woro made, including crimi- nals and respectable people, fortune-tellers, peddlers, tramps, andgypsies, Meanwhile, ono detective, Iuspector Wantina, was on the right track. Irom the descriptions, and from information ho had received, he was con- vineed that the two kidnappers wero two professional criminals, Winttaxt Mosuenr, a low-browed, brutal villain, the hero of all kinds of scoundrelism, upon whom his own vices had set an indeliblo stamp by which ho was rocognized after death, and Joserz Dovaxas, a man equally desperate in his acts of criminality, aud who had been Mo- suen’s partner in crime for years, but o man of somo intellectual abil- ity and of respectable connections, It was not long before the officers were upon their track, and found that in Februrry last the two men had been traveling through New Jersey and Enstern Pennsylvania selling an insect powder, using for their transportation the very wagon they had when the Ross boy was carriod off. They wore tracked as far as ‘Ironton, N. J., and here the officers lost sight of them, Menuwhilo they did not re- Jax their vigilance, Mrs, Mosuer was kopt under surveillance, and every movement sho made was noted. More than once the de- tectives were almost upon the heoly of the two kidnappers in fortuno-tellers’ rooms, anloons, and low bonrding-houses, aud ono day they came so close that tho two villains bocame alarmed and dropped out of sight. ‘Tho chase was tomporarily over, and might have remained so for a long time to come had it not beon for a sudden and mysterious development of good fortune. One dark, stormy night, two mon came up the river in thoir little black sloop, which bad beon ongaged in many n maurading ex- pedition, and Innded at Bay Ridgo, in the year of the unocoupied residonce of Judgo Vax Brunt, with tho intention of robbing it, Not knowing that tho house was provided with a burglar-nlarm connected with the adjoining residence of the Judge's brother, tho two burglarsentered. Tho alarm did its work, Tho family was aroused, and the Judge, his son, and tho hostler armod thom- solves, wont ovor to the house, and at last, tied of “waiting for tho burg. lars ta come out, opencd tho doors an@ provoked an encounter which resulted in tha death of tho two villains, They wore Mosnen and Dovarss, Mosnen was killed inetantly, and Dovonas lived long enough to confoss ho assisted in tho abduction of Cuan- 1m Rosa, but died without disclosing the whereabouts of the boy. Tha idontity of the two burglars Las been ostablished boyond doubt, Onantre Ross’ brothor, unole, nnd othora having idontifled thom as the abduct- ora, ond their relatives having identified thom as Mosnzr and Dovanas, Death has visited a sharp and quick ro- vongo upon tha two rutlans, but whoro is Onantin Toss? Mostrn’s wifo, who might havo told something, has disapponred, Dova- zas' wifo or mistreaa, through terror of tho detectives’ power, hes agreed to toll all sho knows at tho inquost, bnt this may not amount to anything dofinito, In tho story which comes from Chestor, Ill,, of the dis- covery of tho boy, wo put no credesico what- ovor, It ia poasible that Inspector Watiixe, who hns gono olf on a mysterious orrand, may discover tho whereabouts of tho miusing boy sud restore him to hia parents, and thug end this mysterious busi- ness, aud bring tha thrilling dramn to its de- nouoment, A moro joyful devonoment than tho restoration of tho Ittle fellow to his homo again could not bo imagined; but this may not bo possible, ‘Lho clouds still hang darkly over tho afilcted home, but the crime has been fearfully avenged, Tho same good for- more, Tho street and: school outrages of tho last few days aro like t) tc tiny fissures on Ve- suvins, throngh which, the tourist catches dreadful glimpses of thus raging fire under the thin crust on which ho -walks,. Any hour may usher in an explosion, It is aunounced that the School Board of New Orleans is about {! 0 ostablish a separate High School for colo: ‘od pupils, This may bo the best thing to dc, It is not advisable to enforce tho co-cd ucntion of tho races against the wishes of a majority of the tax- payers. But tho atte mpt of a mob to brealt the law and keep the «: hildren of colored citi- zons out of tho schools entirely is not to bo borne. ‘ Tho old argument of tho slaveholder# was that the negro was too brutal and tot > ignorant oven to be a citizen, While they plead this excuso for slavery, they took enré » to justify it by making their slaves as brutal: and as ignorant ss penal Inwa against teachin, y them auything could. Now tho sons of tho slaveholiers aro trying the old gamo over again.’ They proclaim that the negro is 1 infit to associate with them because ho is i guorant, and then they drive him from t ho schools in which he is striving to : remove his ignorance. If tho State Gc wernment is unable to check theso out sges, it must bo rein- forced, so long as iti 8 recognized as the legel Stato Administration. . Meanwhile, Congress should pass, as soon as possible, upon the question of its legali{ y. Delay in this decis- fon has already be en o Pandora's box of evils, If Kernoaa i, snot the rightful Execu- tivo, let him leave th & place ho has usurped forthwith, If Le is the rightful Governor, lot him bo uphold, 1 sy bayonets if need be, against all the mobs that Now Orleans chiv- alry can raise. ENCOURAGING MURDER 3Y LAW. When tho Legisk tture of Iowa sbolished capital punishmont ! in deforonco to a maudlin aud sickly sentimen tality, Tus YrmuNE pre- dicted nt the time that two results would follow this mistake: 1 nction,—an increnso in erimo and an atto mpt to cura the evil by lyneh law, The d ouble prediction has como true, ‘The pasangt 1 of the law was almost instantly followed 1 1y an outbreak of murder- ous crime, With in the last few months, thera have been t) woe brutel murders in the small city of Des M foines alono, At Jenst two of thom were accor npanied by other horrible crimes. Our spe tial dispatches from Iowa commont on the: tenrful increase of murder in our midst by tho abolition cf cepitel punishment by out « Legislature.” In fact, this orimo has boon e¢ mitted of Inte in Iowa ao many thnos and . with auch cunning, dex- terity, and aubtlot; 7 of plan that Dz Quisers’s essay on “3Iurdor asa Fine Art” needs to be republished witho n appendix of frets from tha Hawheyo Stati ». Of course, sme.ler crim- inala have flourie hod sido by wide with big ones, Tho area w ithiu which Old Probabil- ities oan snfcly pr edict n daily train-robbery Ing been extended . northward from Missouri into Towa, ‘Tho : Hawkoye former reeds to swatch hig horses ¥ vith a hawk-oye and a lynx- oye ‘to boot, or ra thor ho did need {0 doco until ho ornamor ited the trees of his State with a solect nssoxr tmont of horse-thiaves, and remarked, with a certain grim humcr, that tho pvople he a not aboliched enpitat punishment if 1 tho Loglalatura had. His rough-nud-endy yemody worked 80 weil that it bas now been appliod to murderors, Ono] Howann, a wretoh guilty of avariety of crime 2, among which were four or moro murdorn 4 has beon dragged ont of his coll and Iyncl wd at Des Moines, Others like hitn avo thrent joned with a like fate. Vig- ilancocommittees] mrvo been formed in a num hor of towns, ‘Lh da state of things will, itis sald, induco tha n oxt Logialature to rostora the logal cure for murder. It is to be hoped that this may bo ¢ ‘one, When aman elaugh tera a woman beca ase sho will not pay him 25, conts, it is time to abandon n proyoutive that has provod to be 2 encouragement, ‘Lynch law is ox retimes 6 terrible good, but itis always an ovil . It destroys popular ro. spoot for tho judi ofmry and tho law. It is often used naa olo ak for private malice, and it fa npt to be push pd toa noodlossand utterly inexougable extror 10, - Thus, on the same night that Nowa b was hung, a vigitauos