Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1874, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1874, ST ——— e e e e e et e e e o TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 1875, RAYES OF SDICRIFTION (PAYIBLE It ADYANCE) ally, by Pakeddiy © Parlaol nyesrat tho samo rato. *Fo provant delsy and injstakes, be suro aud give Post. Ohice addeonn In full, fncluding Stste snd County Tewittancesmay bumado elther by draft, exp Oficeander, or in vopistored letters, at our riak, TEMMS TO CITY EURGCRINERA, Dally, dollvered, Sunday oxeoptur Daily, deltvored, Bunday tnciud Addrers U TRIBU: Cornar Madison and Dearborn: n COMPANY, Chlosgo, 111, TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ACADIMY OF MUSIC~Lialsted stroot.hetwoon Mad- Mson and Monros, Enigagomant of the Aimos Opora Bouffo Troupa. **La Fillo o Madamo Angot.” M'VICKKR'S THEATHRE-Madlson otrest, bstween Dearborn aud Stato, Kngagement of Ldwin Dooth. ** Hawlot. HOOLEY'S THEATRI-Rondoloh * street, betweea Clark and Lasalle, **Tho Voteran,* GRAND OPINA-TIOURE-Clack street, = opposito s e AN & Leous Mmatrote,” T Lo Peuit Fuuat,” GO MUSEUM-—Monroa strest, betwoen Doars oA S UH T amiiry Late " Afioraosa. and evening, 1.1, HALL—Madison straaf, batwoon Olark avd LAY S letert by tha Cumiia Urso Tronpd. "SOCIETY MEETINGS, SATIONAL TODGE No. 636, A, I & A, M.~Tho e, o Mausato. Tompla,. cataer of Halsod il Hamulitcate, a1t oclonky for leetion o ANt 10 be ENTone: by bndor, A 5% GUILFOND, W, At "' sTiLTe, Necrotary. Special Gonclata at s (Vausday) even- 0, Ordor, - Visiting 15 Guler of the £, G 0Lk, Rocorder. ATTENTION, SIR KNIGW Apoilo. Commatidory, No. 1 K T, &t 73 o'cloek, for wark oii K sic Kalghta evurtoously fnvited VIEW CHAPTER NO, 16, 2, A. A=A rogu- I Cof atatiafion 3 s i 1o Tald hia {ESatays aventig, Doo, 31, at ths hail 710 Cottage Grove- Sriestuclii oiimone of Rigkboring Ulapiors cordiallytaviteds By 4yE DA WIOK, Secrotars. ODGE, No. 008, A, ¥, & A Am“’w"&u Gdl!) rining J"’ u.??- h\"‘bs.flb i ,im; Beited 0. 11. OHLANE, Sea'y, 100-at,, for businass rateraity corulnlly Invited. BUSINESS NOTICES. s eriino Whioh 80 exnctly snit the va- B iat D hS hnman nir, A singin application £gadors tho halr (Romattor how i aud 4 ~ a1t t concedol B o e Do best "anit cheupust rair-Dressing in the Warta, Wor sala by all Drugeista. INDEX TO A EMENTS, TOIRD PAG!;‘.'—Clty. Snl\nmn:n, and Country Real A A Raliroad ‘Thus-Table, Modlsal Catds, ola., eto. AR T A B Y The Chicage Tribune, Tuesdey Morning, Docomber 32, 1874 Mr, Lawreser's proposed amendment.to the Constitution providing for the limitation of tlio timo in which claims may bo filed 1goinst the Govermment is not o bad ides, Thero are cight or ten candidntes for Benator Bnowsrow's sost; but the contest will probably be botween Awprrw JonysoN and Gen. Jony C. Brows, now Governor of Tennossee, Jonxsoy is tho betfer man. The remov: ‘exan Postmnsters recent- 1y ordered by tho President was, accovding 1o Senator FrLaxaaay, *‘an unhappy lick” for the Ropublican party. It was bynomesnsa happy **lick® for FLANAGAN, Mr. Buciasay, Seerctary of the National Workingman's Party, has written a ‘'con- fdentinl” lotter to n gentlemnn in St. Louin gending obroad the glad tidings that Mr. Wiz D, Keerer bas fully determined to feavo the Republicnn party beforo the winter Is over, The voto by which the House refused yostexdny to order the previous question on o resolution for the investigation of tho safe- burglary conspirncy is reported Ly tho Associnted Press ns being 74 to 81,—sbowing barvely a quortun present. Tho yeas auvd nays were not ordered, Wo should like to have a full voto on this guestion, ond to sco the nomes of the members who uphold tho iniquitous District Ring. Sonator FLavacax aroso yesterdny to make 8 peronal explunation, and in about ono minuto ho convicted himself. Who will ever forget FLaxaoay, or weep for him whon he retives to private life? When will the relent- less finger of time, £o to spenk, effaco from the momory of the humblest citizen that prond dny on which a Fraxsoay arose in the National Sennte and shook his back pay in the faco of the world? Senator Monrox has given notice that ho will call up hig resolution jroposing an cmendment to the Constitution of the United Sitates on the fivst day after tho holiday recess. Thero ought to bo a full attendance ot that time, and speody concwryance in the resolution, U'he amondment provides, it will bo remembered, for a chango in the manuer of elocting President oond Vice-President, ‘Wa have repeatedly given our rensons for de. siving such o chango. It is necesswvy to the tecwrity of the country from civil war. President Grant's proclamation, isswed in respouse to the request of the Mississippi Legislature, iy published this morning, It is in the wusual form, veciting the Constitutional obligation of the Exeoutive, tho notion of the Legislature, and the spocial information concorning ontrages in Warren Qounty; sud culling upon the turbulent per- sons designated to “‘disperse” within fiva days. ‘Tho Vicksburg peoplo may not *“dis- persa”; but it is safa to uny they will ghed 10 niore negro blood for some tiwe to come, Maj. MeRmLL, the army ofticer who was rowarded by the Houth Carolina Legislature for putting down the Ku-Klux in that Stato, ond who was afterwards so conspicuous in connoction with the mwest of per- cons supposed to be conccrned in the Coushintta (Ln.) massacre, needs investignting badly, The House made a misteke in not passing tho resolution offered yesterday, with this object in viow. We burn for investign. tions. Inmno other way cuu the good that iy in tho Repnblican party be so well manifest- od 28 by a search after the bad. ally stronger yosterday, with more doing in options. Mess pork was active, and 10@150 per il higher, closing at $19.00 cash, oud $19.35 coller February, Lard wes active, aud 5@ 7 1-20 por 100 lus highor, closing nt $13.00 cash, and §18.80 seller Fobrunry, Ments wore quict and ensier, at 1-2¢ for shoulders, § 1-fo for short ribs, and 9 5.80 for short clears, Highwines woro in fair domand nnd steady, atU7c per gallon, Flour wns quist, Whoat woa moderatuly active and b-8o highor, clos ing flrm at 60 0-8o cosh, and 80 7-80 for Juns wary, Corn was in bettor Semand, and 1-2@1e —Togular higher, closing at 78¢ for old, 65 8.40 for new, and 71 8-le seller May., Oals wers more netive, and 1-2@3-40 higher, closing nt 33 i-So goller tho month, and 5 1.8¢ for Jannas Iye was moro netive, and strongor, at 96@ 080, Baey was In falr demand, and 1o higher, closing at $1.25 for January, nnd #1,46 for February. Hogs wero quiet and steady; sales "t $6.00@7.10. Caltle and sheep wero unchanged, Conncil lnst night to authorizo the construc- tion of n horse-railvoad on Wabash avenuo is o suspicions mensure, It gives the vight of way lo tho Chicngo City Railway, which nl- rendy controls all tho horso-railvonds in {he South Division, and whose scrvico hos not been quite satistactory to the publie, 'The Chicago & Sonth Atlantic Company ongaged itself, in case it wore givon the frauchiso, to Xeep tho entire streot in rapair, to use palace- cnrs, and to run them in an accommnodating wmanner, Wo have said that the ordinance which passed last night is suspiciows. It may, for all that, be perfectly honest, It avoids one great objection to the South At- lantic proposition, namely, the unwillingness of properly-holders on Wabash aveono, south of Twenty-second street, to have a horse-rail. rond laid beforo their doors. An examination of the vole on Mr, Hor- MAN'S anti-subsidy resolution, which' was offered in tho House yesterdny, will afford much encourngement to all friends of the Republican party., Tho resolution was not rojectod. It wns merely postponed for ono week. Tho Houso refused to suspend tho rules and pass tho resolution by 149 to 75,~— lacking ono voto of the required two-thirds. ‘I'wenty-Lwo of the soventy-five membors who voted in the negnlive were Democrats. Thisis n vory significant circumstance, in considern. tion of the fact that the resolution was offered by o Democrat, naud pressed solely for tho purposo of making eapital for tho Domoeratic parly. Wa find, further, that the forty-five Republicans who voted in favor of subsidies mny bo divided into four classes, as follows: (1) Insano inflationists, such as Keruey and AMAvNann; (2) members who were defeated ot the last election, and linve nothing moro to oxpect from the Republican party, such ns DBurren, of Massnchusetls, Burrer, of Tennessee, Aveniny, Crssya, and Nrotur; (8) earpet-baggers, whomn the Re- publican party declines to bo responsible for; and (4) members who aro avowedly committed to somo schane of spolintion, This last class is by for the smallest of all. It includes certain Republicans from Virginia, Texas, and Minnesotn, Tho Republienn party can- not certainly Lo snid, after this, to bo in favor of the subsidy-system, The vote, trken as a whole, shows that not. one af tho schemes pending in Congress con pnss. Now we call upon tho Republican members to show their faith by their works, Let them begin by re- seinding tho Pacific Mail subsidy, which, it hag been shown, was obtained by corrupt means, 'Tho Democratic party on its advent to power ought tofind a record in favor of | puro Government such as it cannot hopo to surpass, PUDLIC SCEOOLS AS RELIGIOUS TEACHERS, Wo printed yesterday the nddress mado at Cloveland by Bishop MoQuapr, Roman Catholie Bishop of Rochester, New York, on tho subjoet of the public-school system, The poiuts hie makes aro plain and direct ¢ 1. That instruetion in religion and moral- ity are essentinl to any education ; that educa- tion without thiese is bmven of good results, and tends to infidelity. 2, 'Uhat wherover religious instruetion is in any form given in the public schools, the ro- ligion taught is Evangelical Protestantism, 3. 'Chat tha people have a right to have an education including religious instruotion, and to have their own selection us to the form of religion, 4. ‘Chint tho public schools, teaching no re- ligion st all, give but a * pagan educntion”; and, where they attompt to combine religions instruction, {enching ouly Evangelical Protest- autism, the system is yadically wrong and de- feotive, nad anti-Amerienn, The remedy for this which he proposes i, for the Stato to support all schools, leaving lo parents the exclusive selection of tha schools to which they will send their childven. o wants pnblie sectarian schools, in each of which religion shall be tanght. This is prob- ably ny strong o statoment of the objections to tho public-school system as can bo made, and it includes, as the Dishop says ho intend- od it should, tho objectionsof all persons who think religions instruction part of any proper system of oducation ; tho objections of those who deny that there should be any form of religious instiuction, snd tho objeclions of thosoe who, while insisting on having religious instruetion, object to Evangelical Protestant- ism, Grent Britain has just entered upon a sys- teni of public sehools in which religion is. to Dbo taught ; Franco supports public schools and nlso churches in which religion is taught, withiout referenco to the form of tho religion, Ttussin hag bad a system of State schools in all of which religion is part of the insirue- tion ; theso schools naturally classify them- selves according to tho denomingtional faith of the children, and tho Govermment pays the wholo bill, The objoction to the system of public schools proposed by this Catholic prelate is a radical one ; the objestion is not that it iy urged by tho Roman Cntholics, beeanso in various parts of thoe country other denomina. tions of Christinns have establislied and mgin- tain nt their own cost o number of free schools in which their peoulinr Church dactrines nro taught, ‘Cho objection is that such & gystem is absolutely foreign to, and inconsistent with, the fundumental prin- ciples upon which onr Government js found- ed. The grent and distinguishing fenturo of the American system of government is tho total and absolute severanco, in every patticu- lar, of Church and State. 'Chero has never been sn union of Church and Stato in this country, 'The union of Church and State hias been the condition of all the nations of Europo for thousands of years. It hias como down to {ho peoplo through the long gonera- tiousof tho pust, and ig intimately interwoven in their social habits, customs, and traditions, This is equally so in the Protestant and Catholio States, There, tvo, tho Govern. ments have slways Leen pavontal and inquisitoriel, ‘The Stnte ¢nd the Church have ralieved the poople of all tho buvdens of thinking and acting in matiers pertaining 1o tho Governmont, and rolating to the mera domestio affnirs of marvinge, povent, and child, education, and oven of Lousohold cconomy and the rotation of crops. 'o thesa peoplo whoso paronts for conturiés have had sehools furnishod them by the State and Church, who have not dreamod of loarning auything but what wes proseribed by the Ohurch pud Btoto, any other systom would neom rovolutionary, mudso oné of procedent 83 to Lo visionary and desirugtive, There- fovo it is that tho union of Church and Stato in tho mattor of schools survives the prac- tieal dissolution of that union in all other respeets; aod thab Protestant England and Germany, snd Catholic France, Austria, and TItaly, support the schools of the various de- uomiontions who insist upon tho union of secalar and véligions instruotion, But the American peoplo cut loogo from all theso trditions, sscocintions, and institu. tions of the prat. ‘T'hey mndo the sevoranco of the State and tho Church o radical one, L'axntion by tho Stnte, in any form, for goctarian instruction in any forny, was pro- hibited. No mon in all the lnnd can vight- fully or legally bo competlod to contributo of his money or his gopds to suppori any seetavinn socioty, or teachor, or school, or pay for the instruction of auy person in nuy form of dogmatio religion, Tho experionce of a contwyy hns demonstrated the wisdom of this policy, Though at flrst thero wus some reluctanco in somo of the older States to this rigid exclusion of tho State from the oxarciso of parental and scctarinn suthority over 1hie people, it hag become the universal law of tho Amerienn Republic. So comploto was tho severpuoo botwoen tho State and tho Church that within the last ten years or longer the more ndvanced among Lvangelieal teschers Tiavo jnsisted that our Constitution is o **God- less one,"—n sort of ** Pagan contract,”—nnd linvo beon Inboring to have engrafted on it o distinet **acknowlodgment of God and of tho Chrislian religion.” At presont, sofreo isthat Constitution from any committal in favor of any religion, or of the controverted points ro- lating to the Divinity of Christ and tho Trini- ty, that thero is no person, Christian, Mahom- otan, Infidel, or Israclite, who mny not, with clonr conseience, swear to suppost it. I'he duty of the State in this country inthe mattor of education is a limited ono compared with the accepted duty under the parental dospotisms. It is to furnish the means of ab- taining n certain extent of secular instriction to all the children, and this duty is supple- mented with the other of compelling the at- tendanco of children on some school,—either n schiool provided by the State, or at such other school as tho parent may select at his own cost. Thero tho power nmldnty of the Stato begin and end, It has no more author- ity to tax the peoplo gonerally or individnally 1o support schools to teach Roman Catholi- cism or Protestantism, Christianity or Judn- igm, Mormonism or Infidelity, thon it has to tax them to build churches nud support priests and ministers to tonch the people tho various forms of religious doetrine, It will bo seen, therefore, that the system of popu. lar oducation proposed by this Roman Cntho- 1ie prelato is uttorly out of the question, and cnnnot bo madoe general without o completo revolution of the fundamental prineiple of Americon law,—the absolute severance of tho State in evorything from the Church, The complaint made in the namo of the Ttoman Catholics, Jews, Infidels, and others, that, in a largo proportion of the public schools, Evangelical Protestantism is taught with tho other atudics, has reference, wo sup- pose, to the reading of the Biblo in thoso schools. The Courts of Ohio, some yenrs 0go, decided that thero wns no constitutional authority for reading tho Bible in the public sehools of that State, save by the order of the School Manngers, each Board acting within their local juvisdiction, snd that the samo authority might exclude it just the same as they might change a speller or reador, Wo arenot awaro that yeading the Bible, or any other direet or indivect form of religious in- struction, is made obligatory by law, or forms any pat of the common-school system, The compulsory use of the Bible, or any other book, as a religious instructor, or any other moio of compulsory religious teaching, besides being, liko sl perfunctory religious exercices, wholly profitless, is a violation of the fundamental principla that there shuil beno State religion, no ofilcial religions instruction, and no taxa. tion to support rollgion or any form of re- ligious instruction, The merit of this rule is in its nbsolute charneter. 16 is the very bul. wiexk of the common.school sysiem, nnd is all that stauds betweon us and the mingling of Church and State as it provails in othor countries, If wo will preserve theso schools ngninst both tho churchman and tho irre- lgious, wo must maintain their indepondenco and thoir toleration, leaving to the parent the exclusive right and duty of dirocting his childron’s religious tyaining, THE PACIFIC WAIL BRIRERY, AIr. Inwz, the General Lobby Agent of the Dacific Mail Stenmship Company, is 8 cool hand, . He ovidently rogards tho Congress of the United States ss & body organized to serve lis personal aud officinl onds. IHis ex- perience with Congress so far partially ware rants tho conclusion, Something moro than two yoars ago he went to Washington with §740,000 in his pocket. ~ Just what propor- tion of this sum o paid out is not kuown ; but ho used suflicient of it to seoure through Congress tho desired Government subsidy. Last sumrzer, Congress was looking for this Mr, Inwiy, but he did not sco fit to humor an dle cuviousity, and so staid away, This winter it happoued to suit M. Inwin's con- venienco o purpose o put in an appearsnce, and lio was good enough to tell the Congres- sional Committee just what Ze wanted to wnko public, sud to rofuse to tell them just what tZey wanted to know. Hao declines per- omptorily to iuform them to whom he paid the money. And hovo the case stands, No wonder Mr, Inwx yogurds Congress s n gort of personnl attachment to furthor his own purposes, But wo submit that it is timo to disabuso his mind of this improssion. o must be found and taught that, oven if he did succoed so thoroughly in swindling ono Congress, he cannot trifle with all Congresses. His pre- sumption is grently increased by his volun- tary disclosuro of what he wanted to reveal, and his impudent and persistent refusal to auswer the only question of real importanco to the country,—~how and to whom tho bribe. money was paid out, It is tho duly of Con- gresd to avail itself of evory advautage tha law givos it to forco this contumacious witness to terms. Ifo shonld Lo made to disclosoall tho partioulars of his corrupt nso of Pacific Mail monay, or loft to rob in jail. It is necessary to make bribery personally dangevous in this country befora we cen eseepe the corrupt uses of monoy. Lot us begin with My, Inwix, who seawn to havo boon the very princo of bribers, Ho should not only bo thrown into jeil, to romain there during the session of Congrens, or till ho answers all the questions addressed to him, but he should ulso be trented in every respeet as & criminal, He should have the opportunity to contrast prison.fara with tho gorgeous lunchos housed tosct ont as chiof of the Pacitle Mail lobby, If ho holds out be- yond the prosont session of Congress, thenlob him be indictod under tho law, and sent to the Ponitontlory, Itis no longor a question of Mr, Inwin's * norvous bendackios,” ox his = “pain in tho bowels”; it is n question whethor or not this nation hns any power to ‘protoct itaelf against tho impertinenco and villainy of corrupt lobbica und professionnl Dribers, So far ny the Pacitle Mail subsidy iy con- corned, ouough bas alrondy been clicitod to wavrant the fmmedinta repesl of tho grant made by the Forty-second Cougress. It is ntow apparent that the Compnuy, through ity offlcers andt nzzonts, sot aside throc.quarters of a million of dollara—nawounting to thesub- sidy of a yenr and a hali~lo sectvo the pas- sago of an act authorizing the subsidy of half o million n yonr for twonty years. ' No othor ovidoneo is needod that tho demand on the country wag abgolutely without merit, Hnd the Compuny intended to use the subsidy for the promotion of American commarce, for the ndvancoment of American interests, or with tho intention of glving the nation a quid pro quo in any shape, it could not heve afforded o spond $750,000 to scettro tho cnactmont of tho grant., Tho willingness to pay out this amount of money for suoh a purpose is prime fivsia evidonco of nisappro- printion of the subsidy itself, which warrants its ropeal. Aside from this, it is fit that the men who consonted to the uso of monoy in the purchnso of a Government subsidy should Lo mnde to sullor as n punishment tho loss of thio personal benefits which it was intonded to procure for them by corrupt means, The only way to do this is to repeal the subsidy ; oud it i3 not nocessary to awnit any further revelations from Mr, Inwiy for a pretext, Thero is o sufliciont warrant for tho action in tho estrblished fact that £750,000 were used to seoure it, withont wailing to find out how it wng used and who got it. After having repealed the subsidy thus pro- cured by fraud and tho corrupt use of mouey, Congross may at its leisura follow up any track that moy bo found. Perhaps Mr. Kiva should flrst bo investigated, It is charged that $500,000 of this money was pnid over to him to e disburssd whero it would do most good. Thoe St, Paul paper meking this chavge specifles banks which will furnish a- sterling-point for tho inguiry. If thero is any truth in the charge, it is the duty of Con- gress to ferrat it out; if there is not, it is in the interest of Mr. Krvo that a thorough in. vestigation shall demonstrato its falsity, If Mr. Kmvg, or any oflier one person, receivod 8600,000, or any other Inrge sum, it is unren. rounble to supposo ihet it all went to ono man, It was manifestly divided; so that sueh n clow. might lead to the apprehonsion of thioso who shared the spoils, Mr, Inwiv excuses hinwolf from revenling the names of {he men towhom he paid money on the ground that it would notbe lonerabie! 1o might as well bo mado to understond at the very outset that there was nothing very honorable in the transaction from beginning to end, and that it would simply bo impossi- ble for Lim to do enything moroe diskonorable than ho hns already adinitted. If therais anybody who entaa sorrier figure in the caso than ho does, it is the men who received the money whilo they wore holding places of public trust ; and if there is any way in which o can ba relioved of partof the odium of the transaction, it is by dividing it up with thoso ho Iribed,—thus making him xespect- oblo by comparison, THE SCOTT AND CCOXE SUBSIDIES, Wo have nlvendy given our renders the de- tails of Mr. Lot Scora’s bill before Congress, agking n subsidy from the Nntional Trensury 1o cnablo him to build the Toxas & Pacific Railroad and its Lranches, That bill pro- vides that Congresa shall indose the bonds of tho Company to the amount of $108,000,- 000, and pay tho interest therecon at & per cont for forty yeas,—an aggregato of inter- est of £216,000,000, Now we have the Jay Cooxe Northern Pacific job. This Company liad a grant of forty millions of acres of Jand. Tt hos built 650 miles of railway, and issued £18,000,000 of capital stock, $25,000,000 of honds, and has other debis of $7,000,000, or o tatal debt of 30,000,000, It failed o year ago to pey interest on its bonds, and now prefers n modest vequest that Con- gress sball give it sid. 'Tho nid nsked is that Congress shall suthorizo the Company to issuo now bonds at the rato of $40,000 per mile, for tho whola length 6f the ruad aud branch,—2,000 milos minin rond and 1,000 miles branch ; total bonds, $120,000,000, On thoso bonds the Government is oskort to guar- rentee tho payment of the interest ot & per cent for forty yoavs, making an aggregnte of interest of §240,000,000 to Lo paid in gold by the United States. It will be remembered that Jav Coonr & Co. guarantoed the bonds of this Company; those bonds sro now worth- less, and have beon bought up by speculators at o fow centson tho dollar, 'Cho bill pro- posen that the old bonds bo all taken up by the Governent, end now bonds issued for them,~a most sdmirable avrangement for the speculators, but death to the tax-payers. Here, then, are Tox Scorr and Jay Coor, and thoir nssociatos nud confederates, asking Congress to indorse tho bonds of their bank- rupt railrond companies to an aggregatpe of £228,000,000, and to assumo to pay tho in- tereat thercon for forty yoears, amounting in the rggregate for interest to $500,000,000 in gold. During tho ten years siuce the Civil War tho peoplo of tho Unitod States have been inordinutely taxed, that tho publie dobt might boe reduced some $350,000,000; and now, at tho end of ten yenrs of releniloss taxation, theso banlorupt, rotten corporations como in and ingist that Congress shall add 208,000,000 to tha public dobt, and sssume the payment of 500,000,000 of interost on their bonds! Tmwsupport of this joint schomo of gigantio public robbery the Democratio papers of St, Louis and of 8t. Taul are Dboth enlisted. They urge upon tho Domoeratic purty in Congress aud ont of it to support and nid this wholesalo schemo of public robbery and con- fisention, Ihey soom to think that there is now a chance for Demoorats to wmuka friends with Mammon, and to go in and lavo their full shave in the division of tho spoils of tho plundered Urensury. Thus tho St. Louis Ro- publican chawpions tho Loxns ond of tho sub- kidy, whilo tho 8t. Paul Plancer clamors for the reilroad through tho Northern wilderness, T'he Democrats and carpet-baggers of the South ave oxpected to support this schomeo, In tho first place * there’s wmillions in it," and in the next placo, having voted $500,000,000 to Wou Scorr, Jay Coorr & Co., Congress cannot wall refuse to voto flve or six hundved other millions {o tho impocunious peoplo of the Sounthern States, T'hough theso subaldy schemes will find tho bulk of their support among the Democrats, tho Republicans in 'Congross caunob esoapo thoe rcsponsibility, ‘They bave two-thivds majority in cash ITouse, and have absoluta coutrol of tho legislation. They control all the Committecs, No bill can pnss without tholr consent, The responsibility for tho paasago of these $wo glgautic subsidies in any form must rost mainly upon tho Republionn purty, and; unloss the majority in Congress hay ontlived its usofulness, and hng now ronched tho approprinto timo for its death, they will seo the necessity of pincing on thesa subsidios n peromptory and etnphatic volo. ‘Tho arguments employed in bebalf of theso jobs ara absurd, Vo claim that fo under- wrile Jax Cookr’s honds will sotfle the Iudian question and permit tho disbandment of ftvo roghnents of {roops, i clup-tyap of the cheapost quality, 'Thoro is but ouo motive, and the country will nover recognize auy otlier, and that is {o une tho Republionn party in thoe last days of an expiving Congreas to rob the Treasury of fivo or six lmndred mill- lons of dollars to pny "om Bewrr and Jay Coonr's Aebls, and to enrich theso men and their rotten, dishonest bankrupt corporations b the cost of tho country alrendy greally im- poverished, P, S.—Sinco wriling the above, wo lenrn that the House yesterday wag lLrought to n direet voto on the Honatay resolution, declar- ing that in tho present condition: of the finan. cial afnirs of the Government no subsidics should ba volcd by Congress. The Ifouse consists of 202 membors, of whom 149 voted yen, 75 nay, and 78 members wers absent or dodging the vofe. As two-thinds did not vote for tho resolution, tho rules were nob site- pended, and £ho resolution did not pass, This repeated refusnl to pass this resolution iy re- sulting in making A handscme record for those who vote agoiust it and for those who do not voto at nll. THE ROCK ISLAND & I EPIN OANAD, "fho Rtook Island Union is disturbed over the failure of T 'Tnmuuxs to appreciate the importance of the Rock Island & Henuepin Canal to. Chiengo. It says. ihat tho onter- priso I8 of far greater importanco to Chicago thau to Rock Islaud, and is amazed that Tus Crinuxe does not appreciate the fact, But wo do regard tho caual as of very great im- portance to every farmer west of the Missis. _sippi, nud to somo east of it, inasmuch as it will chenpen tho cost of iransporting their grain, whether they send it by water-way or vailway, aud we avo heartily in favor of the adoption of any hounoralls aud snfe method of digging the needed ditch, Our position in the matter lhas beon wholly mis- in understood. Wo lave opened our columns to o freo discussion of the merity of tho onterprise, and have given editorint prominence to evergthing that could baurged inits fovor, Wo have criticised it, tao, be- cause it scemed Lo requito eriticism. Whenit was proposed ag one fenturc of an “ omuibus” subsidy scheme, in com pany withsomo of tho most agrant swindles ever urged at Washing- ton, aud when somo of its fricnds proposed to dig the ditch forthwith whether it cowld . eftevwards be filled with water or not, we could not partako of their enthusinsm, Now, however, Col. Urrey assures us that the mensuro is to bo brought beforo Congress entirely on its own merits, in a soparate Dbill, and in altianco with 310 other schemo what- over. Ho saysthatitis proposed to dig a conal 70 feat wide and 6 foet deep, 65 miles long, with 212 feet of locknge, and with o feeder 40 miles in length, and that the whole ox- pense will not exceod $4,000,000, since nenrly tho whole work will bo simply earth excave- tion through a level country. Tho eanal will bo designed for fosting barges, which will be towed on the Missiesippi by steamboats, and from Rock Island to Chiengo by tugs, Tho present Congress is to be asked for $1,000,000 to commenes the work., The Northwestern voto in Congross is depended upon to cmry the measure, If these hopes aro reslized, and Congress is onco committed to the scheme, an annual subsidy of $1,000,000 for three or four yenrs is expected. Col. Urrey nssures us that not over ome-tenth of the water in the Rook River will be required for the feeder and cunnl in the dryest season, If this plan in strietly realized in fact; if the entorprise is kept out of bund compauy ; if it is indorsed or rejected on its own merits, —then Tur Tripuse is heartily in favor of it, If, however, it is proposed to spend the money lavishly and run the risk of then hav- ing only a dry diteh to show for it; if the improvement of the Ilinois Riveris to be hindered; and, most of all, if this schemo is to Dbo part nud parcel of an omnibus bill embracing Joy Cooxs's Northern Pacitio swindlo, and Tox Scorr's Southern Pacific swindle, nud Hurinur's narow-gango folly, and tho cotton-iax knavery, and the Southern ‘War-claims * jobbery, and tho Jmmes River & Konowhe Mountain.Canal impossibility, and the TennesseoMountain-Canalscheme, and any or oll thie others, bigund little,—then ‘Uz Trmose will heartily opposo it, not becauso it loves the Rock Island & Hennopin Canol less, but bocaude it hates all omnibus subsi~ dios more, That corrupt chiquo of politicians known as the Arkanscs Ring, which has brought its Btato into political disropute and well nigh to the vergo of financial bankenptey, now turns up in Eoropo as prineipals in a well organized nud gigantic raid upon English enp- itel, ‘Cheir scheme iy explained in a prospec. tus issued by the firm of Gzonur Buanaxp & Co., 0f London, offering for snlo ‘“ an issuo of £200,000 in first mortgage 7 por cent bonds of the Little Rock Bridgo Company, redeamable in twenty-two annual drawings, beginning in 1877," the bonds being for salo at 87 1-2, Tho prospectus then explaing that tho Company is nbout to build a bridga 1,080 fect in length nerossthe Arkansns River, at Lit- tlaRock, which is {o be completed Oct. 1,1875, tho materinl being on the ground, and to aetit in ns brilliant o light aa possible beforo tho English eapitalists, canounces that four rail. roed compnnies havo alroady signed o con- tract to use tho bridge, paying 25 conts for overy passonger, and $0.50 for overy car of freight, Furthormoro, this acconumodating railvoad quartolte, it theso terms aro not satis- factory, ngreo to guarantoo $25,000 per an. num from their tolls alone. Tho New York World, in noticing this schemo, exposes its rottenness, There sro but threo inilrords ranning into Little Rock,—the Iron Mountain, the Momphis & Little Rock, and an incom. pleted rond running from Little Rock to Fott Smith, The first named has n bridgo of its own, sud the second has the uso of it. Tho third rond hny littlo use for any Lridgo, as it 1s bankrupt, and sdvortised for snlo. It appears that .wowe citizens of Little Rock ton years ngo obtained n ohurter, con firmed by Congress, to build o Lridge across tho river at that place, Nothing was over done towards building it, but, when the Iron Mountain Road appronohied Littlo Rock, soma parties conceived thé idea of buying up the charter, and then foreing the Railvoad Come. pruy to poy handsomely for it. Rather than pay tho ruinous rate asked for the charter, tho Railroad Company got a bill bofore Con- gress granting thom tho privilege of con. stryeting & Lridge upon tho same specifications as ilxed@ for the Lit. tle Rook Compony, and proocceded to bufld, The Ring thon so influcuced tho Beos totary of War that le sppoaled to the Attor. havo renched the couclusion that tho party ! noy General to have tho work stopped, An ovder was issued to this effect, and thon the Attorney General appliod fothe United Stntes District Conrt to havo an injunction issued, bt tho Court was proof ngainst tha trick- ories und selioming of tho Iting, nnd refused it. 8inco that timo the Ring has kept quiet, btk as tho tinto for the mnturing of its notos which it gavo for the chertor approached, O, A, Mavrey, the Presidont of the Compnny, avmed with o mortgage, which was the only stop that Ind heon taken townrds building, went to furopo with it, and the result is con- tained in tho BurNaND prospectus, 1# the facts be a3 stated, the whole nchemo i3 & Dbave-faced swindle, which should bo promptly oxposed, both in this country and Europe. It may bo too lata to warn English capitalists, but it is not oo late to dononnce in the soverest termy auch infamous schomen of corrupt politiciana, It is bed enough that this country ‘shonld be kept in continunl tur- moll, both finaucial and political, with the frauds and corruptions of Southern carpet- baggers and corrapt politieians, hut that theso same Rings should tako their rotten schemes to Europe, nud pledge the crodit of this coun- {ry for their soundness, is simply an outrago of the worat deseription, and one which should bo exposed promptly nud thoroughly. Onr repittation ab home has snffered sufficiontly ‘without having it ruined abrond, A WORD TO S0UTHZRN REPUDLICANS, The Southern Xepublican members of Congress, aceording to tho Washington dispatches, lavo been holding n. cau- cug in tho nature of an indignation meeling, ab which o great denl of superfluous complaint wns made Leeauso Northern Re- publicaus, ns o party, nre disposed to hold tho “ earpet-bnggers " responsiblo for tho dis- ordered condition of things nt tho South, It does not becomo these gontlemen to com- plrin of or fo eriticise, much less to threaten, 1k Republican party or the Administration for its attitudo towards carpet-baggers, The Government hag been alrendy too lenient with this clement of Southern Republican- ism, It has borno with their official miscon- duct and corruption until itis impossible to Dear it Jongor. Its warnings have been un- lieeded, and its loniency has been mnde the oceasion for fresh outrage. Tho Repub- lican perty owes no favor or adventago to tho speoulative earpot-baggers, . Were it not for the immutable character of its principles, and the necessity of thoso principles to tho wel- faro and progress of the country, they would havo ruined it long ago. As it i, thoy have weekened it, in ono largo fraction of the country have placed it in o falso position, ond havo loaded it down with a burden of repronch and calumny for which it is not fairly responsible, but which it has had to carry. They have repelied from the Repub- licnn party thousands of votes, have home pered it in its work of reconstruction, and have brought odium upon honest Southern TRepublicens. The mauner in which they have dono {his is nlmost too familiar and shameful to reca- pitnlate. They bhave helped to keep alive the feeling of hatred in the South against the North, and bave embittered the white people against tho Government and the poor blacks, who have been mado the tool of their cor- rupt purposes. They have ruined the finances of four or five States, and have entailed upon the South an enormous bonded indebtedness, which hes in great part gone into their own pockets, They have brought dishonesty, Dbribery, and corruption into the administra. tion of public offices. ‘Thoy have contami. nnted the Bench, sold and hought justice, ond made n mockery of low, They have manipulated oclections to suit thoir self- ish purposes, have placed the white and black races in dangerous antag. onism with . each other, and lave constantly opposed and prevented therestore. tion of peace and order. With such arocord a8 thiy, it does not becomo carpet-baggers in Congress to dictato to Northemn Republierns how they shall bo treated and what degree of respect shall be nccorded to them, It does not becomo them to eslk that carpet-baggera shull bo sustained land oncouraged wheth- er right or wrong, Tho thief might as woll ask the oficer fo protect him in the stenling. If the cavpat-ng TRepublicans want to bo treated with consid- eration, let them unite their cfforts to break up tho corruptions of carpet-baggery, Lot them remove the burden they have imposed upon the Republican pavty of tho North. Let them labor to restova peaca to these distracted States. When they have done this, and given some guarantco as to their fuinre bzhavior, thoy will bo in a position to ask for consideration from those who are con- tonding for principles, not pelf, Until such time, they lLave no claim of any sort upon the Ropublican party, which thoy have dam- aged so griovously. Cmrpot-brg Ropublicans might as well understand at tho outset of their caucusing, and before they proceed any further, thot Northorn Republieans havo no consideration to extond to tho frauds, corrup- tions, trickery, thiovery, and perversion of Iaw which have characterizod Southern carpot- baggors, and that, if they wish equal rights, they must rid themselvos of this pestilontial curse, CONGRESSMEN AS LOBDYISTS. Tn Washinglon, “attorney " is synonymons with “lobbyist." Tho man who buitonholes members of cortain committeos which lave the considoration of olnims; orle who en- ters oue of the Departments to use personal or official influences to socure some favor ; or one who advooates by personal applica. tion tho appropristion for a claim, the appointment to an oftice, or the se- curing of n contract, is an ‘‘sttorney.” 'The word hag thus come to be misapplied to menn the *'lobbyist” in thoe worst scuse of b term; and whoover is caught in disreput- able work of this noture shields him- sclf behind this cover, Tho lobbies of tho Capitol are fllled with just such “attorneys” astheso; and oven the lmlly of Cougress ave not freo from them, The praclice of membors of Congress lending their influenco in the interost of individual clients against the Government, and there. fore against the people of the United States whom thoy are sent to Washington to repre- sont, has become so common of late yoars as to bo a national disg It is radically wrong; an abuse in it very nature, Tho Congressman who consonts to do a thing of 1his kind places himself in tho position of tho Inwyer who betrays his own cliont in the intorest of that cliont’s oppouent. This Is regarded as most disroputablo in private lifo; ,why mnot equally so in public lifo? Such conduet disbars & lawyer from practico in the courts ; wby should it not disbar Congrossmen from seats in the National Logislaturo? What right has tho momber of Congross, representing the whole people, oud sent to Washiugton to logislate fox the whole countty, to devoto hig timo to the intorosy of somd partioulay claime ant? Whot right has he to use ko influenco which he gains from his posi- tion in fovor of nuy individuel or cor poration 2 If he iy an altornoy-at-law, and con moko mora nonoy in practicing befora tho Caurt of Claitas ngeinst the Governmant than he gota for vepresenting tha people of the United States, lot him veaign his seal in Congress and go at the other wi If his suecoss in the Departiments in urging claims agoinst the Govormmeut wiises frome his personal nccomplishments, md not from hin influenco as o Congressman with ron whom he has hiolped to appoint, lot him with- draw from tho halls of Congress and n:ove into tho lobby whero ho belongs, Butit ia disgraceful and wrong that men should delil. erately belrey tho people who pay them,—ta uso ayainst the penple tho influence delegated to them &y the people, The solution proposed in the House by M, Brer, of Kentucky, aud passod by tist Lody by nn almost unnnimous vole, is not broad enougli to cover tho whole class of abuses of which wo complain. It was evidontly wimed at Mr, Borran, of Magsachuselts, and merely prohibits Congressmen frow neting ny il neysin rovemio suitsother than eriminal, This is all very well as far aw it goen; but it doer not go far enough, The Sonnte hns not yet taken the matter up, and it will do well to offer a8 a substitute o comprehensive resclu. tion that sholl probibit members of cithier House from acting ng “atlornoys " or agents for auy person or persons having cloims ngaingt the United States, or from advoe. ng ‘efore the:Court of Claims, the Departients, or specinl committees, any personal demnuds upon tho United States Tronsury of whatever kind ornnture, Suck a resolution, carefaliy framed to cover all the contingoncien of this claim-business, aud providing an adequato penalty for its violation, would do a lesting credit to the present Republican Conpress, and servo na a safegunrd against the nbuges of the Domoeratic Congress to come, No Congress will ever dare to repeal it. The Suca Forr claim, to which the atfen- tion of Congross has recently been divected, is n caso in point, 'This was tho claim of a Tennessea man for $23,000 in paymont of flour snid to have been taken for ths uso of the United States army during the War, Tho claim was thrown out of a Congressionnl Committeo ns having no merits. The elain- ant hed 1o vouchers, and is said to have Lieen unable to produce any proofs of the val- idity of his claim. Yet, with tho nssistance of Mr. R. R. Burzen, as it is nlleged, who was o member of Congress, aud who acted 03 Forr's “attornoy” in the Department, tho cleim was wlowed and paid! It is fully ag necessary to tho proservation of our rationnl dignity and to the cause of public morals that this sort of practice bo stopped as that Con- gressional implication with frauds of the San- born kind bo prohibited. Henco Alr. Brex's resolution is not brond enough. Horein somo Republican Senator may find an opportunity to outdo Mr. Brck in patriot- isw, and thus take from tho Democrats the show or sham of reform which Mr. Brex was nnxions to mnlko in this behalf. Let us havo a resolution which shall heneeforth and forgver provont membors of Congress from acting as lobbyists against the nation whose interests they are chosen to guard,—whether in Courts, Committecs, or Departments, Then lot this resolution be pessed as a Re- publican mensure, — Thore has been & very singular row in Now Orleans, and wo regrot to say o journalist has Doen cowbided for oxtremely low conduct. In conaection with the public-school oxcitement causod by the withdrawal of fifty young lndics from tho High School, & committooof eight girls wes appointed to intorviow tho Now Orlcans Re publican, In tho ubsenco of Mr. Tmscy they wore received by Mr. Bunpang very politely. As they wevo leaving tho building ono of the editors mado inpulting romarks to them, A 3fr. McDoxovay, obtaining from them s doscrip- tion of tho offender, recognized Mr. AR- Tiaun 1, Apams, and horsowhipped him. The Republican editorinlly denied that nuy of its attaches would insult Indies, and Mr, Apaxs oierod to tako a gecond whipping if tho offouse could be proved. He was thorcupon ey- carted ta the Eigh Sobool, whon the clgat young ladies aroso and idoutitied him., Ho wrote an apology, atatiug that o was bound to boliova tho young ladios that ho hnd used impropey lana guage to thom, and must apologize. A man who does not know what languego it fs impropor to g0 to youug ladies cannot Lo & very valusble ac- quisition to a roupectable nowspaper, Lo Chi- cago Times iu tha only stieot which wenty such Eoople, The peoplo of Missouri have called for o Cous veption to remodol the Constitution of tho State. Tho vote by whioh this has beon decléed in un- usual. Out of 222,816 votes cast, an insienifle cont majority of 288 hag carrled it, while @ muajority of counties, sixty-two out of 114, do- clated ngainst it. ko ecall for & now Conatitu- tion is ropresonted to bo a purely party moasuro, and places tho leaders of tho Democracy in o ticulish pomition. Calling a Couveation is not tho samo thing s adopting a Constitu- tion by soy mesus, and nny meo party tinkering will probably kil The ‘most intoresting question i8 the froc-s2:200l Bys- tem, arrayed, ngainst which is tho dengerous, bigoted Catholic opposition, o fossil opposition, and o blacklog opposition. ho first will, cording to the Demucrat, “lgave noiufuencoun- tried to abolish tho presont system of froa nchools, non-sectarian education, und tho cstab- Jishmont of a school fund beyond tho reach of Jobbors,” Flore iy thie fivss sud groatest dnnger of Domoeratic powor, It seoks tho foundetion of tho liberticu of thio poople ns its flrst ubject of sttack, Thoro s encouragemeut in the triffing majority which tho vota gave tor a Couvontion, ez adhdeiin grbassnbined ‘Tho Diveatorsof the Chicago Publio Library, .Jito tho general public, must hava read of tho exploitg of thioves and pickpockets in the Li- brasy-yoome, Not culy havo books beun eavried off, but the clothing of the patronsof the Libzary Lns aleo boen meda away with, Wo ctrongly adviso tho Boaid 10 take prompt and oflicient monswres ta put & stop to this practics by one gogivg, without dolsy, o suitablo p ay special policeman ; ono who is honest, vigilaut, pad jutelligont, and who can afford somo protec- tion to the people whosttendthe Libravs, ns well oy to tho Library itaclf. Tho objection that thoy liove not tho noceseary money will uot atand. Tha naed I8 80 urgent thut tho Board should koo tho wisdom of providing an ofllcer, oven if i oy to dlspouso with one of its prouont asslatents to ‘malke room ont tho pay-roll, e e An intorosting suit has bLoon commenced in thoyoltow-brick city of Milwaukee. Itis brougtt by A, M, TuoMenoN ugninst tho Milwoukee Seie tined Prioting Oompsuy ; N, 8. Moarier, it Prosidont ; W. G. Rournts, its Secrotary ; 3. O Wear, Poutmastor; and Mare IL Canrxren, and others, Mo alleges in his complaint thai ho is the largest stookholder ; that defonduntt entored Inlo a conspiracy to procure an fkua ol ©10,000 atack ; that this atock was ** gobblod * by them ; that this stook was lssued to oblain controlof the Sentinel, and use it in the futoreats of Mary M., Canrenten, Ho alloges furthel that tho sgrocwont upon which the adii onal £10,000 stock was dosued, that Osn renrsk should tako the atook off the andi of the conepirators, woa unkuown to him wher hio consentad to the fssue ; thay tho conspirac wen cotrlod out by the removal of the com. Plalnand from the ofico of Prauidout, eed b