Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1874, Page 2

THI CIIICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDA DECEMBER 25, 1874, e Jumpod tho town, and his evidenco could »o ubtadned, AT THE CITY MAT.T., 40 Aldormon univorslly concedo that they ‘gall badly foolad by tho Wabash Avenud iltond ordinanco, OF courso, tho mnjority of em know the gamo too woll for that, but that tho way thoy uitompt to got ot of ft. Ank .ny ono of thei to toll tha conditions imposad oy the Wabush Avenue Rallrond ordinnnco, and ten to ona thoy will recite soveral of tho condi- tious nwmed “Inone of the othor ordinances. Whiilo thero ean bo no doubt that somo of them wero thus fooled, It sooms Ineradiblo that they siould all bo lu tho same bont, Iurthermoro thoy nsaert that tho ordinanco was drawn up Dby tho Law Doparument, whon in fact, the Lus Dopuitment had nothing nt all to do with it, ns it was drawn up by tho Com- lmw'u own attorney. Mayor Calvin, provious o slgnivg tho ordinanes, was ontronted by Ald. NMeDonald not to do it, ay ho saw the * nigger fu ihie fonco,” Ald, Hoath visited him onrly fu tho nftotnoon, aud Informed bini that ho would not have voted for it had ho undorstood that it did not tnn to Lako street bridge, —Shortly aftor Ald, Quirk visitod him, and told tho snmo story, ond, while telling it, lio saw tho Mavor sign tio ordinance. lesides thowo, hio wag_Informed, on tho niost ralinblo authority, that Ald. Cleveland, Caso, aud othiers would not support it it ho vo- toedit. Ilero, then, was sulllcient renson for veto had ho so willed it. L'his phaso of the easo s mado important by tho fact that one of Mayor Colvin's chiof argumonts is based on the hopa- leseness of tho veto in alfectinga voto of 82 to G i CORRESPONDENCE, TITE WADASIT-AVENUE RAILROAD-ORDINANOE. To the Editor or The Chicano Tribune: Citcaao, Dee, 24,—Tho ordinanco passed Inak Monduy ovening by the Common Council graut- mg the City Bailway Company tho uso of Wabash avenuo, betweon Twenty-secoud and Madison streets, for horso-railrond purposos, Is not only an outiago upon tho citizons gonerally, and tho Bouth Division especially, but containg mischief and abominations which the city cannot affoid to eanction gt any time, inuch less undor oxisting circumstancos. Striking out tho soction limiting the franchiso io twenty-flve years, and making it permanent, is o dastardly purrender in advanco in the ap- pronching contest with theso corporations relative to tho ninoty-nine-year leaso con- troversy, ‘Tho city’s views and intorosts in that matter were thus unnocessarily and cownrd- jy compromized aud embarrassed, True, tho ordinance has & section against construing it as a ratitfication or modification of that infamons uct of the General Asrembly, oxtending ' the porivd fourfold, Yet, low. can the city inter- pose. consistent or offcctivo opposition to thiz extension n fow years hience, whon, instond of ninety-nino yoars, sho grants o porpetual charter for identical purposcs, to ono of tho samo com- panics? In 1883, when tho twenty-flve years for which theso corporations were proviously clir- tered oxpired, and tho ¢ty attempta to regulate them nnew according to tho advanced and im- proved views of the citizens in Whis rogard, tho action tast Monday ovening, many bo ropented too late, Let it bo remombored, that it was uuder tho twonby-ive-your law, and in vittuo and pursunnco thereof, that Chicago, throngh its Common Council, logislated #o favor- ably und 80 lavishly and so complotely m behalf of the streot-railwity companios, and was thus doubly armed for the combat. ‘tho erdinanco is further objeetionable inas- much ng it fuild to reguinto tho mportant itom of fara. 'Tho Cmn{muv lias the m'l\'iloq:!, thoro- fore, o chorgo what it plenses on Wabash avo- nno, 1t also authorizes n wingle track in this oot with snitehes and turn-tables. * Arivglo fl;‘ donble track for reilway” i the largest em- ployed. ! "o ordinance was passed as drafted by the City Atlorney, aceo:ding to Ald. Richardson's declaration and wishes and offorts, Crmzex, ELECT DETTER MEN, T the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Cincauo, Dee, 24—£ think it very near timo the citizens of this city stopped howling about the Wabash-nvenno steal. ‘That peoplo should dehberately elect, or sutfer to be elected, such n crowd to oxerciso Aldermanic fuuctions ns 1bis villago is, aud for long bas boen, blessed with, is dingraceful: but, when they thon turn yound and yell beennso thoy get robbed, and wwindled, and treated with the coutompt they deserve, it is simply ridiculous, {0 pno‘l)lu howled 'less, nnd did their duty. ot tho polls, they wonld stand a botter chanes of getting to- her o Commou Counedl that had somo slight ven of honerty m it, and_liavo somo show of exenas for fhe virtuous imdighation they might thens display i€ betrayed. Respectfily, i JLEPMUSTOPIELLS, con T e Eilitor of The Ct Cimeaco, Dee, 24.—1n the report of my conver- jon with your reporier in rolation to the Wubush-nvenuo railway matier, thero aro errors which I would like to have correctod. AMesgys. Cullerton, Hildrethund Woodman wera tho only Aldermen 1 spoko to on Mondsy uight provious to the mecting. Thoy iuformed me then that if our ordinuuce faisd, thoy fels obli- gited to vote for the City Hailway ordinance, {hich was houorable aud sutisfoctory to mo. As to ANl Richurdson’s friend who was to tako wstock and pay for it I havo no right to insinuato that Richardson wuy _to -participato iu that_tiansaction, nor did 1 intentionally do so. In regard to Ald. Campbell I simply observed that bis intorview with_Mr. Cobb wan suspicious, but _that I know nothing of s having beon puid, Finally I in- tended only to suggest that tho sudden change of action in favor of tho least meritoriuus of nil the franchises, was in fisedf very suepivious in it bearing ow different Aldermen, whom I did 1L 1. k. Evveny. Le—————— TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES, A wildeat killed insido tho corporation limits of Huntington, W. V., yoslerdny, measurod 39 iaches from tho noso to tho tip of the tml. Tl jury in tho Bulings murder trial at Grand Ttapids’ brought in verdict of not guilty yester- day afternoon, The caso bas been ou Lriul for tot duye. Miss Ienderson, o young Iady compositor on tho Tone-Table, o paper prioted at Lonox, In., dropped dead while at work yestorduy, dlewrt discuse Way the causo. Tho suit of Josophina_Menefleld against tho estato of tho lato Jumes Fisk, Jr., to recover the valua of two proaussory notes, with intorest, amounting altogether to $25,000, bus resulted in favor of the plainufl, Alout 200 mechanica and Iaborers on tho foundation of the now Custom-House and Post- Oflice building at 8t. Louis wero ulscharged yes- terday, and work stopped, the appropriation huv- ing been oxbausted. AID FOR FRONTIER SUFFERERS. New Yoni, Dec. 24,—Whitolaw Iteid forwarded this evening by telograph to ex-Gov. Smunders, at Omaha, “Nob, and Gov. Osboric, Topol, Knn,, £4,500, Loing tho amount of tle Zriluac's dollar Bubseriuti for the reliof of the Kansuy aud Nebrasks sufferers. Tho Tribunc is con- tinning Lo recoive subscriptions at tho rato of soversl bundred dollars s d ° THE WEATHER. Wasmn~aToy, D, €., Dee, 24,.—Tor tho Upper Lako region and the Northwest, increasing clondness und slowly-rising temperature, north- castorly or soutliorly winds, and fulling burom- oter cast of tho Dlississippi, OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, T.oxpoN, Dee, 24, —Hteamehip Peruvian, from Bultimoro, urrived out. o s PO The New Hritish folur fixpeditions From a London paper, Tais expedition, which Wil conaist of two stenm whale-sbips and about 120 mon aud ofll- cors, will leave this country noxt summer, and proceod through Davi' Straity, up Laflin's Buy Lo the Danish sottloments of Disco and Upernne Ihewe will bo ity buse. Thon, still head- ing northwurd, the valunteera will entor Smith's Sound, and ono will ba left os an intermodnte depot in 81 dogrees north lutitude, n & fixed po- sition, while the second will press on into the open sea which, it is bolioved, “exials about the Polo. Tho dopot-ship will Lo pbout 516 miles trom tho Pole, und the retreat upon it in case of disuster will noy bo ditloult to men with sledges. o expedition will luvo ordows inuny unse to return il tho autumn of 1877, and a wtomnor witk probubly ho sout to tho depot-ship 1 tho sum. or of 1870 to bring back_nows of the condition of the expedition nud the dotails of such informas tlon a¢ may huve been obtalned, The roport thut Conpander Markham has boon elocted to commaud tho oxpodition is promature, 'Tho Aduiralty. aro divided Lobwe tho appointment of 1 young, compnratively nwx,mxluucml oflicer, aud o senior oflicer of experionco, but with woight of years, Tho cost of tho expedition is yik. ostitusted w6 480,000 w your. THE SOUTH. Observations in a Tour Through That Section, A Reign of Ruffinism---Carrying of Woeapons by White and Black, The Miserable Education of Southern Youth, Lack of Business-Training--Inculca~ tion of Hato of tho Unions Tho Dad Condition of the South Largely Duo to the Lingering Influonce of Slavery. Louisiana--Statements from the Keliogg Side of the Imbroglio. Existence of a Determination to Subvert the Government. How Revolution Became a Democratio Camprign-Necessity, Anarchy Brought About as a Stroke of Tolitieal Poliey. THE SOUTH GENERALLY, FACTS GLEANED IN A RECLNT JOURNEY. Snecral Correspondence of The Chicadn Tribune, Wasnsaroy, D. C,, Dec. 22—I lhave ro- coutly mado s Houthorn journoy, and hova learnod womething un tho way: somo things, as I beliovo, which mny bo of intorost to tho readers of 'I'mn Cuicago TRInUNE, and, I beg leavo to hope, to all good cltizens of our Republic intorested In its permaunent pros- porily, the through pacifieation sud hermony of tho pooplo, mnd the triumph of civilization Dbye the placing of our na- tionality upon o high, plan of political morality and of general fntotligenca, I shall 1ot undertake to give an account of travel, or description of cities, towns, and country, through whick 1 passed; but purpose, hero nnd now, to give certain generalizations, tho result of ¢areful observation, which perta to the plo of Kentucky, Arkansss, Louisinna, Missis- sippi, Alabama, and Georgin, and, in lessor de- greo, to somo of tho othor States of the South, “The first obsorvation I shall muke is in rogard to n stato of things which, without meaning any disrespeet, I know not how botter to describo ihun as o BEIGN OF NUFFIANISAL Nearly every man in the South, from Kentucky to thoe Gulf of Mexico, goos armed ; carrios con- conled wenpons, ‘This custom is almost a8 uni- vorsal a8 it was 100 years ngo for gon- tfemen in Europe to wear side-arms. I recollect that, on ono oceasion, in Alabama or Georgia, when u car got off tho track, aud all hands wore enlled up to bolp sot mattors to rights, I obsery- ed that overy mau, without exception, bad ut least ono rovolyer in his bolt, nnd some had two upiece, Iremained inNow Orleanaloes than forty- oight honrs; yet L heard of two shooting affairs nt houses of abandoned women, in cacli of which soveral persous, iucluding one poor girl, wero wounded. Whilo I was in tho city, thero was also nduel between two citizons of Now Or- lenug,—fought, however, in_ Missiesippl.—~in which one of the parties, o Iawyer, killed his opponont stonc-dosd_at fho first fire. - Tho Iawyer resumed his Practice in court tho noxt day, a8 I have sinco learned, as though nothing out of tho usual way had oceurred ; s indood was the fuct, I found o similnr stato of things provailing at Mobile. ‘o customs of the rural stricty nve siunlar, with o quite heavy touch of rougliness added to tho goneral ugliness of tho municipsl pieture, Tho cities are less uncivil- ized thuy the country, This geuornl, ulmost universnl, custom of carrying concealed weapous, I caunot lelp ra- garding us o wost LAMENTABLE RELIO OF HARDARISN, Tt isono of tho nd nud torrible outgrowths of Slavery,~—~an iustitution based upon tores und bratahty, unsustained by reuson und bostile to urgumentation. Slavery did not brook discus- sion, Tho burbarism of concealed weupons is merely o continuation of ono of the old phases of Afsidan Sluvery on this coutivent, [ uaed lardly add that tho practico is essentinlly one ‘of rufMsmem, Civilized men do mot sottlo their disputos by foreo, —excopl in tho lust resort, Renson 18 tho rulo, forco the oxception. Barbarous men resort to force in the tiest instauce, awl arc culy braught Lo reason by suparior fory “I'here can Do hittlo Lopo of the perfect ¢ tion of the South until thg custout of carrying concenled wWenpons lias Ueen gonerally abolished. Nox is the firm:finu confined to the whites, the #Southern chivalry.” On the contrary, THE BLACKS BEAT TiE WIITES BAULY in this bad business. ‘Che only dilforence is in the nuture of tho weapous. Whorous Lie chiv- nlry take to vovalvers sud bowie-kuives, the blacks take fo razors and prodigious dirke. 1iven the negro boys have gob up Lo thns busi- ness, aud, when they got into & row, you will soo wzors and diks flourishing in _tho most lively snd goshing mouner, Not & fow of them nwve pistols of the poorer and chieaper kinds, so that It is dangerous for o Det dog to bark nt'ono of thexo black arsouals, Dhis barbstous businces, in moro senses thun one, provails amoug the blucks, from Luhimore to tho Itio Grande. I have seon very wmany in- stances of it in this eity, It is woro oxcusablo among colored men thin amoug whites, because, 0% o 1ulo, they aro more iguorant. ‘rhey are wingularly iniitative in_thoir nature, and thoy leurpad this leason of ruffianism duripg their ex- perience in tho houso of bondage, « Another thing which etruck wme witk groat forcw was tha miserablo educatiou of SOUTHEBN YOUTIL, 1 bog leavo to vall tho attontion of the publis to Lwo iportant aspects in which this grent ovil way prosented to my observation : First, tho al- most total want of traiving of Southern youth to any practical trade or businosd, Tho whift- Jewsnews of muny of the yvoung neople of the Bouthis simply ustoundivg to a wnan who has spont uld bis lifo in the North, and is Tumilinr, espeointly, with New Englsudusages, whoro hunian - beings froquently bogin to enn thei daly brend at 4 fmms ot sgo, Undoubted- ly thiora it & sorrowul and fubnwman sido to thiy, Dut it w unspeakably loss injurtous in prac- tieal rcsults thaun tho cducationnt noglooy of Houthorn chiliren in practicul mattors, of which £ am npcnl:hx{‘. A6 1w, large mousure, o to this negloct that tho South i to-day little Letlor thana blenk and mournful desolution ; thut vast paturnl resourcos lie totally undovel- oped 3 aud that there I8 so much of ruiianism, of inwlessners, sud of immorality, among o pooplo who are unturally bravo, gonrous, Liog- pitavle, aud mugnanimous in fustinet, Iut, sccondly, thero i not ouly o noglect of ho practical educstion of the childion of tho Houth, but, in somo vospucts, and thoso fmpor- 1ant, they sre budly taugt they ure aducated wto WROS0 IDEAS AND NOTIONS, ‘Tho mont sixiking ilustration of (his T ob. wervod was in Louisisnu, _ There the common rchuols wore *Fmised.” T mudo many luquivics of childron, and did not find a single fustauca in which there was u particio of objection o mixed seliools among the young childron thomuelyos, In every instinco Wwhoro eieh objection was mado, very Jittio oross-oxamination showed that it hind booh put into the child’s hond by its e ronts, I undertalio.to suy that this result, on faithinl lusuivy, will be found Lo Lo absulutely invariable, Thore will bo no escoption, I do not stute this notablo fuct ns an argument in suvor of wixed schools, On the cons truey, on @ccount of ruce-projudices which oxist mmong the grown-up people of the Soull, of 1ndiunn, sud of Komo_other poitions of our enlightened Nopublie, I um opposed 1o the rocognltion ot puch schoohs in the Fedoral Iaw, 1 do'wost firmly iusist, howovor, that It i u xolic of barburism, and of § very poor quaslity of bav- Dbarknu ut that, to educato ‘children of ouo ruco i hatred of tho children of anothor, and this no loss in Indiana thau fn Louistana, lut evon o moro Inmentablo manifestation, perhaps, of tho pomitivoly bad tonoling of Houthe childron and yonth, 1s thelr political education at howe, In thousands of justauces they are taught to AT TILE UNION, Irom Uho time thoy uro (wught anything, Thoy lmbibe tis lesson, wo to sny, from tholr mother's brenst, - Sucy, 1 do mout gladly agrao, 18 not tho universal fuot, buw It js teuo iu_ aluost infivitely more Instancos than would bo bolleved by thosa who denl iu miscelluncous gush of tho Iratornal kind, 'Fhero are thousunds, tons of thousands, o1 excellout men and women fn tho Bouth, who do notking in the bad educational lino horo Bpolten of: persons who are now sincoroly dovoted to tho Unjon, and to tho grand and veneficent fdon of barmonious nationulity. Thoy nwo a powor 1 tho South, aud 1 beliove thoy are inereasing fu nwmbers as tho truo idonx and doctrines of the Itenublican party becomo botter known. DBut as yot they aro in a minority aniong the whito peoplo. The influenco of the other sort {s only bad, and that conttnunlly. 1 doler spenking of othior mntters to which I gayo no littlo study and attention, for auothor occasion. 1 coneluda with tho assovoration that it 18 not reconstruction, it is not evon enrpet- bogisnm,—~bnd a8 much of that is~which has muost to do with proventing tho South from be- coming prosporous nud happy, but that it is tho LISGEUING INFLUENCE OF BLAVERY. ‘When this shall have pussed away outirely, wo mny hope to become a barmonious nmiunuhzy, und, I Yenr, not boforo, 1t can never pass oli= tiroly nway, excopt throngl tho ntter destruction of modern Domoeraey, which camo to life through lavery, and st and that nlouc, lived, nud moved, and bnd its being, 1L 1. J. —— LOUISIANA, ATATEMENTS FROM A KELLOGG STANDIOINT. Spectul Corresponiience of 1'he Chicago I'ribune, New Onveans, Dec. 21,—It i said that coming ovents cast their shadows bofore, If ono iy por- mitted to judge from tho shadows as reflectod upon tho political horizon in Louisinua, the thmes aro cortafuly pregnaut with thoso for the reception of whick tho publio i ill prepared. ‘I'ioro i no mistalking tho fact that thoso rovolu- tiouists in Louisiana are desperato uud deter~ mined, They aro undoubtedly bent on nothing less than tho rovolution and TOTAL SUBVERSION OF THE GOVERNMENT of tho Btate. If one, too, i8 to nccopt o titho of the ovidetices ns presonted on overy liaud, the aro doos not rest aven hero. Lot tho thoughtful obsorver look, for a mo- mont, ab tho situation of the two States of Lou- jwinus nod - Misslssippl. They arc soon a8 tho only two States in tho wholo South- West in coutrol of tho Ropublicans. Tho ress are ol in the hands of tho old original Southorn Domocracy, What that manns, of jtsolf, must bo alrendy making itsell manifest to the nverago Nopublican, in o system of reconstruction ab lenst somowhat ab varianco with tho original programe, Louisiana aud Misslesippi, then, aro surrounded by tho same old cloments of tho Southern school. Thoso clemonts, a8 bofore, aro in complote and abaoluto control, Tho two States wore originally sido by side, Louisiana perhaps a nick akead, o8 tho lending spirtts of tho whole. To-day, from tho Southern stand- point of wvision, whilo their sister Btates aro onco more free, thoy, the owcoe rocog- nized lemdors, are bound lhand and fout to tho car of Rudicatism, What that meane, in thoe onvenomed vocabulary of tho Southorn Democracy, is botter imngined than deseribed. ‘Tho body politic in Louisiana, ns evidenced to tho qutside public at loast, has long been rest- leas and discontouted, It hios lately been scon 08 in open revolution. It is held in subjection, o8 woll understeod, only by tho presenco of tho Iand and naval forces of tho General Govorn- ment. As must bogin to bo spparent, too, it is again on the very vergo of an outbreak, in which, tho cloments of rovolution onco sot in motion, the powor of tho General Governmont, avon, is to bo set at doflance. In Mississippi, in tho meautime, the red land of violonco is seen ay uiterly subvorsive ofF ovorytbing liko law and order, Tlat which in aunothor community would result, at most, na legnl controversy, culminatos in o riot,— A MASBACDE, for it ean be diguitied with nothing short of tho appollation,—in which the blood of a hundred victims, moro or less, is offered up to the fell spirit of violenco, that scomingly braoks of no rostraint. Tho State authorities, ns in Loulsinna, sppear powerless in tho premizes, Their authior- ity in fact, is trcatod with opon derision and contempt. The Exoccutive is ovop threatened with porsonal violence, {f ha dare attempt an en- forcomeut of the lnw. Tho expectod action of tho Logislature, also, 18 mot with threata that umack of rovolution, ¢ ‘M0 position i Miseiseippi, in fact, 1s eon ns almost exactly aualogous to that in Louisinna. Aud yot, thero has novor been tho shadow of » pretcnso of any illegality in the Government of tha Stato, It would scom ngnt lenst conclusivo that, in tho ono 8 in tha other, tho causcs must lio far deoper than is npparent upon the surface. Cavil who may, he who ascribos tho prosent situ- ation, in either the ono State or the other, to mera local cauges 3 to maludministration of Stato or municipal affairs, and consoquent_griovaucos, renl or imnginary, offeoting the peoplo us o whole, —Jnows littlo indeed of the Bonuthern body- politic,—the moro particulurly thut found in Lhe outhivest. 'Thero is an ovident connoction Le- tweon tho two States io question,—u purposo that must bo apparent to tho dullest comprohension, VQLITICIANS H, PEOPLE. T'ho facts of the cavo wonld seem to Le, that theso rovolutionists iu Louisinng have sot a ball in motion they fiud it impousibla to langer con- trol, With thie closo of tho lant session of Con- gres, the casa of Kellogg va. McEvoty was gen- Grally 10vognized as practically disposed of.” 1t was ono, at best, of tho actual merits of which it.18 to bo presumed, nov ona in ten of who legal voters of the Stato liad a reasonably-lucid idea, Tn tho ticket ns roprosented Ly McEnery snd Tenn, in faot, tharo had beon hitlo of general unity'of fealing at bost. Thoro had beou nothing of parly orgnnization since reconstruction, Thore hind been, ou the contrary, a goneral disruption of all purty tics, Thero wero no recoguized party leadera, as thero wab no littlo of mistrust and suspicion for Buch as “fima to fill the placo, ‘Thero was simply & dep-seated and scomiugly implacable latrod snd projudico in tho minds of tha poople ut large ngaiust the Re- publicun orgonization. 1t was the only hond of unity obsorvable among tho people. Tho State at large hnd originally been Democratic. - The city, on the other band, hnd {uvariably gonuo witht tho Wings, The Whigs had boen omphiant- ically the pacty of respoctability, ‘Tho Den crats hnd combined tho more flery clomonts with o vank and e thab inclnded the naturalized forsignors, the lower orders of Crooles, aud tho *poor whites" of tho bills. The old- time party-untipathivs had beon gradual- Iy draswing tho (wo clomouts asunder. 'f‘lm,v had beecomo divided, ag well, noro or loss among themsolves. ‘Tho political clomonty, un o consiequence, wero Topresonted by Domgeraty, Independeney, Rteformors, and Liborals, A BO-CALLED FUBIOX resilted in the nomivation of McEnery and Totn,—{he former reprosgnting tho Demoeratic, and the Intter tho moro Liborsl oloments, Tho fugion, nt best, was far from sntistuctory, 'Tho Liboral clomonts, ns ropresented fu the city, woie posticularly dissatisfied. Thoy wanted Porn,— at tho hiead instead of tho tail of tho ticket, As & mattor of fuct, thoy neither indorsed nor showed any enthusiaisin over the nominetion or alection of McEKnery, There waa quite a respootablo volo ‘among the morcantilo classes, indeod, for a tickot with Kollogg, in Jlou of McEnery, nt its head. 1t was atiributablo to this indisputablo fack thot, in tho eity, Kellogr ran several hundyes ahiend of his rogufur ticket, Tho enmpuigu over, the so-called organtzation, aompasad, 08 it was, of such contlicting alomonts, foll 1p plocos at ouce of its own wolght, It gave Place B wien to THE Y COMWITTEE OF SLVENTY. o Committco of Heveuly was organized thraugh tho oforts f tho various esudidates for pliical hoors, us L v wipposed L0 roprasont ho yavious elomonts of the party orgautzation, Tis dufes, ns dofined at the time, were the pros- weution of the oluims of the tivket, as roprogont~ od before Congress wnd the people ot lurge, The element of which Molinory wus ho represontatlye, ss helfove stated, was mostly cantiued to tho country, Tho oxceptions, in tho main, wore tho usturalized foreignors and the jower orders of the Creoles, ‘Lo elomont yep- rasentad by My, Penyt, ou the othor hand, be- longed to tho city, It clnimed to roprosout, as u consequenc, the ruiuuulu\n“t?'uud weulth of the community. Very nptwraly, thoro connd bo littls of nhiinity at heart botween tho two gloments ot factions, Uhio condition was but littls unproved Dy thio fact, ovor prezout s it was, that tho olo- ment reprosonting o yosition of gecondary fm- portunce wusl novdy furniel tho wholy of tho sinows of war, Tho ono was cerlain to ronp tho spoils, Tho other was certain, in any ovent, to Lave footed tho bills, ¢t Ag soon, if tho ardor of the ono factlon did not flag, it was simply n_quostion of timo with tho other. 'Tho Commitieo of Sovonty, Lo glvo themn tholr dite, apared no olforts in the causo, A long an they could ho_ induced to bleed, 1t iy 10 bo prosumo, 08 well, thoy noltlor Apard Wi pockots of Lhotr backers, Tho pationce and tho Ppnkulu, howover, must necds glve out at last. Yho_constant lmporlunitics for Funds geadunily producod a waning intorest in tho enuso. Lho merchants and bustness-morn in general LLCANE DISGUSTED. Thoy falled to lmu{or como_down with the stauips. Tho nppoals to thelr patrlotism wore trented with indtifaronee,—ovon contompt. The Committ2o of Soyenty eamo to ho o mera nuclous of a.fow would-bo patriots, in tho way of disap- pointod caudidates, and asplrants for’ position, Thoy camo Lo bo looked upon, in Inct, rathor as a bore than otherwino, Whatovar the peculinr morite of tho organizalion, il cortainly sani to tlia lowest obb, ko Iar s cither peeantary or po- litical regources woro concernod. No'ono lind any falth in aught of its futuro success, Nono W00 #0 pooF 08 0 do it homugo. 1Lwas o seo- ond " lost eanae,” that, with thio rolusal of Con- gress to intorfero, nlono romeined of the Me- Lneryeampnign, LOUISIANA REVOLUTION A CAMPAIGN NEORSSITY. It was Senator Morton, iu his spocch in tho Uuited Biates Sounte domolishing tho claima of MeBnory & £o., that inadvertoutly furnishod thokey "to n lino of future oporations. Iio dwolt at longth on the then iudisputable Fact that thopeoplo wero gonernily acquicscent in the oxisting ordor of things, lo taught tho Loulsiana Domoctatio politiciana a Jessun thoy wora not slow fo not upon. It wns tho ono werk point in thoir “armor. The peoplo ot large woro never moro peaccabla and ordorly ~ since the ndmission of tho Htato, Throughout tho Stato they wore quictly at work, in pursult of thelr ordinary oc- cupntions, Lhio tnxcs wero as generally and ng promptly paid as over before. Tho laxes, too, as well na the dobt of tho State, had been mato- rinlly roduced. ‘Tho Statoe obligntions were boing promptly mot at maturity, aud Stato crodit, au o cousuquonco, was on tho advance Instend of dechne. Thiero was n mavrked iinprovemout, too, in the goueral tona of teoling among the people. ‘Thoy certainly showed little approciation of tho dreadful condition of affairs, as ropresonted nt Wasluagton. Tho politiciaus, as apparent, wero sitwply nmero hand{ul of aguators, without any Tollowera. Sucl o condition of affaira was generally ad- mmnlnl g tho virlual denth of tho eauso, The people 4 MUYT NEEDS DE STINRED P, to moot tho ronuirements of the case. It wasn matter of lifo or doath to the Louisiana politi- ciaps, It would socm to have boen recognizod a8 o necessity by the Domocratie politiciuns of tha country at_large. A genoral enmpalgu was coming on in Novombor. Louisiana must fne- nish campaign material for the Northern De- mocracy. 'Tho people of Louisinng, ns o conseqitoneo, must bo ghown a8 ground down ~ boneath tho fron heol of Iedersl despotism und opprossion. In support of tha clais and pretansions of MeEnery & Co,, tho Goyornment must bo hold up to the scorn and derigion of the countty at large, asn bnsoless usurpation, reared and uphold by Federal bayo- nots. As puch, it must bo seon as gonorn Hy Te- pudiated und hatod by the pooplo of the Stato. “Ilio Btato authorities must bo shown as overy~ whoro in coutempt; tho Government, as wholly ineapuble of onforeing respect; tho people, a8 overywhere tmbulent and rebellious, =~ Tho people, in fact, must be okl up to tho nation ay wesican community WAITHING DENEATIC THE YORE of o bnted, ropudisted, and poworloss ueurpa- tion,—a usurpation reared and maintaived only by Iedersl bayonets,—n matter for which tho nitional party In power must bo held rosponsi- ble. Tho Northern Democracy must thus be onnbled toride into power on a Wavo of popular Iudignation over tho wrongs and ofpressious of poor downtrodden Louisiana, Tho Northorn Domocrnacey, in roturn, must succor and support the claingy and pretentions of a bovy of TLoulsiann politciaus, That, to aid the purposes of tho = one, amd fostor tho prelensions of the other, poor old Louisiaug, 28" o matter of fact, in o material wonse at lanst, was to be litorally ground beneath the upper and nether mill-stone, to il the meas. uro of requiroments in tho case, mattered buk littto in the premisce, Tha fires of purtisan batred and seetional animosity must bo oncol moro fannexd to a seothing flame. ~ The politicians of tho good oldon gehool were fully oqiial to the omergency. CONDITIONAL LOYALTY, With thio 8letnents ns presouted in Louisiann, to atiruk tho fires of revolution roquired no mnstor hand. Tho olements are practicnlly tho snme o8 in tho days of the Rebellion, Loyalty to the Federal Governmont, il it can bo suid to oxist at all, is almost invariably found e:mrlcd with an i, 1loro and thero nn old lino Whig is found deprecaling the oxistiug order of things, and ab lieart damuing tho Louisiaua Demot- cracy. 'Uhrough the country, tho smnll class farmora would be_loyal if thoy could. ‘Fuat is, thoy would Lo glad to nccont tho situation and form o _part of tho Govornment in good fith. Tho old Robol soldiary, too, are gonorally quiczeont, and disposcd to play the partof silent specintors rathor than aotors, They have given pluco, in turn, fo a lino of suc~ cessors, educated in Lho samo old Bouthern sehool, 'The laiter, ns with their predecessors in 1861, form _an army of firc-onting chivalry, anxious to do and die for their rights, Inay are trained in their hatreds and animositis, by the sume old _stav-at-home Rebels that in 1861 literally hounded the masses into rebetlion, and, to-duy, dumning the Radicals for their lorses, woulilimpart s cumulative hubred to a now gen- cration on tho singe, They carry in their train, as befove, the rank wuud file of the naturalized forcignors, Thoy aro backed, and indorsed, too, a8 bofore, by tho Cicolo _oloments that form tho roprescutitivo population of tho Stato, Thoy aro cmulated, in their prejudices and batrods, by tho army of mean whites - goneral, With' them, s with fully_nine-tenths of tho population, thora is lit- Wlo, if any, distiction botween tho 'Governmout und the party in power. A Government, ug rop- resauted by the Louiginna Doimocraoy, would ba 1 (lovernment of which thoy formed a part. It would necessorily command their alleginnco, A Government a8 ropresentod by the “Revublic- ang 8 o Government _ ‘practically as controlled by ther enemies. It commands littlo of allegianco oy o cousquance, €ave a8 it ovi- donces the might to enfotee it. STIMING THE FIRLS OF REVOLUTION. Tho now line of tactics, a8 socn, was not hard to introduce, Tho mothod would peom to have houn assystomatic us it certainly proved effective, 1t bogan with coustaub and unremitling uppeals, through an intonsoly partison pross, to the old- timo hutreds ond anmositics of the maeses, dho Dblacks, slways peacesblo cuough, savo on the ove of “a campnign, were suddenly found armed, osud organizing thronghout the State. Thete could bo but the ono possiblo motive in view, It wos murder, pillige, and rapo. without ond. Nono, eave such us aro mcquainted with tho Southera body politie, can realize for o moment tho eflect of Buch appoals upon tho musscs. i's as a firebrand oyer s powder-magezine, that o woys of » {inger, even, can precipliate futa an explosion, It was arm and organizo, arm and organize, on overy hand, Nlack Leagues must bomet by White Longues; Itadical or‘,'nn)z:h tious by organizations of *Tho Poople.™ Tho movemont sproud. White Leaguos sprang up 1iko mngie throughout the Siate, Thoy woon bocamo. kuown us secrob and sworn or- ganizations, having o miblitury drill oud diecipline, They wero soen s cohnoct- tod, throngh rogutlar gradations, with a Contral Counail iu Now,Orloaus, ‘Lo tona 511 tho press, na thut of tho publio agunkurfl, Leeathe more ani moro bitter uus violent agalust the Governmont of tho Btate, und all Republicans in gonoral, Abuse nnd billingsgate, without - stint, were Tuenpod upon tho Stato offolals, Thoy woro each and all, though In mauy cases lifo-long rosidonts of tho Btuto und sppointad through intorcessions of tuo “oldest nud bost,” bub so many thieves proying upon tho pooplo, 1L was tho duty of tho people, a8 o consequence, to put the brand of nfuiny and otornsl hutrod and ostracism on one and ull Ures KELLOGU, in partionlnr, was omptiod tho vinls of concon- teatod wrath, Ilo way made to apposr ay im< medintely rosponsible for all the ovils of mal- admipistration, roul or imagiuary, sinco recon- struetion, As o matter of fuef, yory littlo, if nuy, of the leglslation complalued of was during Lig ndminwtration, A# s mutter oqually undo- ninilp, too, thero was not ono of all the vnriulzu plundoring sehomes of the pastin which the Dori. oerutio mewbars of tho Genoral Assombly kud not derasnded, aud_recolved, thow slwra of tho laot with tho rest, Worse thun this, oven, thero wud kearea o plundering . sehomo of uny mugnitnde in which more or loss of tho princi- pais wore not of tho *'oldost and best,” 1t nattored little, however, in - tho goneral rorults, Kollogg and his oflicinls woio us offcoluully duuulufi an though cust into regions Infornal by a bult from the Pope. Lo say word in his de- fonuo was to bo looked upon with suspicion, o bo foumd acting in his utamurb was Lo bo con- pidered un encmy of tho Btute, To Lo fouud Loldiug o camuilsaion oven was cquivalent to having betrayed @ (ho Leoplo,” ‘Tho ban of os- tenoium was full and complete. Bueh teachings could not woll fail of the de- sired effoch, Violonce aud outingo bugun to by provalont throughout tho 8lato. Naturally anotigh, thoy wora most prominent in parishios whero the organizations of Whito-Leagners wero soon In greatost forco. Though, undoubladly, at timea ovarstopping tho limits, thoy wre seon ln tho innin as ovidently systomntized and undor control. Thoy ate soen to buve boon clitefly di- rectod AGAINST THE WHITE, and moro partienlarly the Northert-horn, Ropub- lenns, 'Tho ronsons wore manifest, and two- Told. 'Thoy would Jull tho blacks into & fancied securlty, Thoy would outrage nud drivo out tho white Ropublicans, upon whom they dopondoed for counsol and support, Thoy Thus broke up all of Ropublican orgauizatioig and wlolded tho blacks in subjection. Tho sysiom In poon ab onea original and effactive, in control of un olection, 1ts inauguration soon drovo all of tho Stato ofliciala out of parish aftor parsh, tho more particularly through the north- orn and westorn portions of the Btate, They were gonerally waited uponin_force, and por- emptorily ordered to roaign and leavo the parisb. To rofuso, was, of courso, oul of tho question. Tho ordor of emigration, was nncumpnn?od by n shot-gun logle that was Irresistible. 1t was one that soon deprived n vory largo portion of the Blnto of ovorything liko an organized Govorn- mont. In itsaload was chnos, confusion,—White- Leaguots, Vory nnmrnllfi' 'the condition of af- fairg improved littlo as they progressed. In all mob-organizations, tho most viclons and unruly clomonty, soon got tho nacondoney. Ho, in Loujsiann tho ontrages committed soon sliowed tho lower eloments in coutrol. Murdors, cold-blooded and diabolical, took the plnco of less ‘violont mensures, Jus- tico compels tho :atotemout, too, that tho murdors woro gouerally polliated and oxoused, nover condemmned, 1 socioty. ‘Iho cold-blopded murdor of six whito oflicinls at Coushatta, whou prisonora in the hands of their eaptors, for in- stuuce, was & mattor of IMBALD SEST rather than condemuation. Thoy wers 50 many goals or l\nbllc yentonces pasaed upon all carpoet- Lag oflicinls, 'Tho matter was at least o proof to tho world that tho fealing of opposltion was not nfimuut tho blacks, 'Whe earpot-baggors bnd got alt effectivo lesson they would undorstand, ete. Thoy undoubledly understood 1t in the sengo fu- tonded, Tho carpot-baggers—Ii, o., Northorn- born Ropublicans—understood thnt from honco- forth, in the Red River parishes, for oue to bo Tound laboring In the luterosts of o party organt- zation amony tho bincks, was to court n similax Tato. Tho Btuto was in proper trainiog for nn offectivo campaign. Rexo. VAGROM MEN. They Are Always Wandering Into Strange Places, As Often as Not Getting Behind Prison Bars, Some of the Latest Specimens. ORIME IV TENNESSER. Meyrits, Teon,, Dee. 24.—About 8 o'clock this morning Ben Scott met John Ransom, both colored, at Wolf-river bridgo, 2 miles north of this clty, and asked him for some monoy which ho owed him, Ransom jumped from his wogon and bogon to bolabor Scott with his wagon-whip, when Scott drow n pistol snd shot Ravsom through tho bedy, killing him instantly. Seott {u in jail. d "This forsugon two negroes entored tho cloth- iug stara of Ilnmuer, at the coruor of Maw sud Winchester atreats, and whilo ouo was_oxamin- ing o suit of clothes, tho othor, named Brooks, attenpted to stoal o palr of pantnioous, and run with thom. ITammor, discovering tho thoft, seized Brooks, who drow a razor and cut amner across tho cheok, barely missing his jugular voiu, and then ncross tho hands.” Simon llaw- ner, coming to tho nusistanco of Lis brothor, was qut geverely an the wrm and hand by Brooks. Lder Hamuor then drew o pistol, sbot Brooks in thio gyoin, and both, jumping on bim, leat lim until bo surreudered and was carriod to tho sta- tion-house. AN ESCAPED CONVICT RECAPTURED. JerrensoNviLLEg, Ind,, Doc. 24.—Lill Rodefer, the convict aud noted desperado, who scaled tho wall and escaped from prison Tuesday morning, and robbed the residence of Mr. Mann, of Now Albany, that night, was arrested to-day at Mem- YME' Clurk County, Ind., nfter n acsporato fight. jodofer ontercd " Mat Coombs' storo for provi- sions sud was recognized by Mr. Reynolds, who stopped_out and got assistunco. Returuing, ho wet Itodefor aud attompted to arrost him, when Rodofor drew a huge knifo and, dofying auy ono to nrrest him, started down the utreot to wlioro o horso was hitched. Mo cub tho lhorse loose, wounted, and wns awny at a fearful rate, hotly puraued by men on fuot and horseback. Boiug pressed closely ho turned and fought bis pursu- ers desperately, After a number of shots were flred at him lio was surrounded and clabbed un- til Lo throw up his hauds and surrondored, when ho was broughib hero sud placed iu Lis old quar- ters ut the prison, LAWLESSNESS IN TILE WYOMING VALLEY, Spectal Disputch to Phe Chicaro Tribune, Wisxgspanne, Pa., Deo. 24.~This afternoon n lostter who was attouding to Lis hoses ina siable near this city was fired at by a man out- side of the bary, tho bullet lodging in o bosrd uenr him, On Wodnesday two officers from this city were atlemptivg to arrest o man for murdorous threats, whon Le shot one of them in the band with o revolver. Io was lodged in juil. At o Into hour on Tuesday uvening, as a young man numed Enoch Carver was returning homo from o ohurch docordtion, ho Was_nssuulted by o rough character named Irank MoKnight, who fired two shots with a rovolver, ono of thom g ag Catver's cor, tho other passing through is hot, MeKnight was fmmmediatoly arrested, 5’1‘%{'}3 now 1 tho Wilkesburre Juil i “detnult of OILARGED WITH STEALING JONEY-PAUKAGES, Sueciut Dispatch Lo The Chicago T'ribune, Quinoy, 1L, Dee. 24, —A yonng man namod Walter Swith was arrosted 10 the city lant night on the charge of stealing monay-packages from the Uuitod States Express, Company by whom o ind beon omployed ns messenger hotweon Clayton and Keokuit since tho 16th of November, I'ho Compuny Lus logt puckages amounting in all to %1,600. lustead of runuiug Lis rogular trip {rom Keosuk yesterdny, Swmith camo to tlns city, whero ho was arrestod last_night, and $900 woro found iu his possession. Upun cxawination lo wass old to bail iu the sum of $2,000, and in do- fuult was sont to juil. 'Uho prisovor resides in Kookuk, and {8 snid to bo respuctubly connceted. ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL. Speeral Disputehlo Phe Chicago Lribune, Trey1y, 0., Dee, 24,—~A bold attempt was mado Inte Just night to break jail Ly Audorson, ne- ensed of murder; Meud, acouseld of graud lar- couy; and Miller, of petit larceny. All woro waiting trinl, Thelr gamo was rastrated by o bired gir), who kopt tho prisonors uutil auslst- unce arsived, CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER, Speciat Lispadet to The Clacaan Tribune, Quixey, Il Dee, 24.—Cyrus Barger, undor indictment for tho murder of Robort MeQinley about o month ago, was lnst night sontenced to threo yeara in the Ponitentiury on s verdiot of maunaslaughtor by the jury. FATAL QUARRRL. Speeial Disputch to 1'he Chicugo Tribune, Husrixaroy, W Va,, Dec. 24,—0u Campbell Croek, Wost Virginia, o fow duys ago, during & quarrol botween a mun namod Forrell and two Lrothiors named Belcher, one fired a rovolyor, shooting Yerroll throught tho hourt, kilhug him wstantly. Ono of tho Belchors wag arrested, und tho'othor 8 at It ge, MUDEROUS ATTEMPT 70 ROD, EvaxsviLug, Ind, Dee, 24.~Au satiempt was mado Just night to rob James A. Robinson, a Liog-buyer, near I't, Branob, 1lo was sliot twvico one ball lodging in o pnckoge of monoy iu his broast-pocket and anothor paseing through the wkirt of his ovorcont, The police are on tho track of tho robbors, OLD TAMMANY FRAUNS, New Youk, Dee, 24,~Twa naw sulls grawlug out of the Tammany operstions luve beon bogun, to recover £425,000 for tho city, KALAKAUA IN' NEW YORK, NEw Yonx, Dee. 21, —King Kalaknua this after- noon visited the Bleek Bxehange, accompanied by his sulte and wembors of tho Common Couneil, whore ho wus introduced Lo most of tho promi- nout mowbory, WASHINGTON, An Exceedingly Dull Day at the National Capitol, Neither House in Session---The Departments Closed at Noon, Mr. lrwin Pretty Well Braced Up for the Holidays. Report that Gen, Terry Witl Sue coed Gon, Emery ab Ko Orleans, Treasury Officials Quarreling with the Five-Franc Piece, Views of the Financo Bill Enter- fained by Members of the Houses THE FRANG PIECE, A TEST CABL TO DETEWMINE ITd LAWFUL VALUE. Spectal Dispatel: to Tha Chicago Fribune, WhsuiNoTox, D. G,y Deo. 2.—Much intovest is manifosted by importors in tho forthcoming decislon of the United States Supremo Court concorning tho valuo of tho frano for customs duties. Many yeors ago tho valuo of tho frano for customs purposes was fixed Dby law ot 187-10 conts, During the Rich- ardson adminlstration of tho 'Ireasury Do- partinout, some of the subordinato of- ficars of tho Departmont propared schod- ules of what they considored the actual valites of foroign coins, In those echedules the valno of the frang was placed at 103-10 conts, Theso echedules wero isaued in cireular form, and all Customs' Collec- tors aro directed to obsorve thom fn the compu- tation of invoices. A tost-caso was brought to try tho question whethor tho Depurtmont, by rogulation, could chavgo thio valuo of tho franc, which wig fhon catablishod by oxisting Inws. Tho declsion is about to bo made, ond it s bolieved that it will bo in support of tho luw and against tho regulation of the Departmout, This cirnge of valuo Lns mado a great difforenco in importations, aa tho incronso has compelled a different classification of meny goods aud the consoquent payment of higher dutics. The amount of additional duties paid undor this higuer valustion of the franc is about 2,600,000, ‘I'big sum tie merchants cleim must berefuuded, if tho decision of the Lreasury aflirms the valuo of tho franc to bo 18 7-10 conts. Thore aro toma sgood claimanta for this amount. i THE SPECIE-PAYMENT BILL, TROSPECTS OF THE MEASURE IN THE HOUBE, Washinglon (Dec. 23) Corvespondencs of the New York Tribune, Tho determination of tho Scnate Xepublican eaucus, backed by tho Bonato Finance Committee, toreport & now IFinance bill embraciug froo bonldug, the return to spocio payments in 1879, sud & ho rotircment of legal-tonders uutil tho nmount in circulation shali not excoed £300,- 000,000, bas crented .o great deal of comment hore to-doy amopg the membors of the 1lonse, and the goneral opinion is that the monsure will pass the Iouse it it comes to that body wilh the approval of tho Scoate. Maay of tho most promivout members, who declino to bo quoted by name in connection with tho subject, express tho most positive faith that tho DI will poss tho Iouse, cithor in the terms of tho Bonato or with such slight modifica-~ tion that the chavge would not bo noticed. Ono very ‘strong objection made to tho bill by tho hard-money men is that while it provides for tho redomption of tho groenbucis, it does not order their cancollation and destruction. It js feared by somo that this will leave the door open for some futureScerotary of tho Troosury to use this redeomed onrrency s o ** roservo,” ng o~ rotarics Boutwell and Richardson did tho 844,- 000,000 dust yenr and_yoar bofora, At the sumo tino suok meénws Mr. Puolps, of Now Jorsoy, and others who think au ho does, bolieve thuk tho puseago of this bill would bo a_great gain for the canko of honest curroncy. If the iuflation- i ints vote for it, thoy admiv two or threo prop~ ositions that thoy havo "never beon willing to admit boforo. Ono of thess i that it iy de- sirablo and possiblo to ket back Lo apecio pay- ments, and the other Is that tho country will not g0 Lo ruin if the volumo of greovbnehs is re- ducea. The frionds of the bill suy thut is o mis- take to uup})oso that it will bo in_any degreo o measure of intlation. They say that * the oxtra 20 per cont of bank notos irsucd will b moro than used wp by the b per ceut which, undor tho presout Inw, bas to bo kept in tho Lreasury for redomption purposes, and tho roserve that ik is alwayn necossary to koop bosides, "Uhoy contend that the exporience of last yoar has been that thoro is no 1mmediato danger of tho mutivlica- tion of bauks in this country. > Mr. Baylor, of Ohlo, whon asked to-day what bo though of tho bill, anewered thas ho know nothing of and cared little about it. So farng hio was concorned, lie was in, fuvor of lobtivy ovorything alono in ita_ prosont conditions bo thought business would adjust iteelf better under the presont systom. llodid not know wihother ho wus 1n favor of (oo bunking, specie {lu{mouls, or the retiroment of greenbncks, When the subject came to a vote e shonld decide necording to bis ideas then. 1lo hnd no convictious on finenco that could not bo changod by fucts and arguments, “Mr. Welly, of Viigivia, another prominont ean- didato for tho Sperkeiship, says bo is in doubt ud to whother the present Congress will do any- thing with the ourrenay, Thoro will bo n great nmount of work on the appropriation bills, and tho timo is necessarily short, e is in fuvor of froo banlsing, dolinr for dollar. 1o dow't bolieve in porcontuges, If a bank doposits 100,000, let it Nave tho ueoof the entire amount, and not parcol it out at 90 per cont, or 80 per cont. Il suys ho favors o frec-banking systom, and that tho rotiring of greenbnols and & roturn to specia puyments i the mxlr way 10 bring about genmal prosperity and conildence. 1o thought thore would be's lang debato on the question in the llo\;uu, and thut the samo old apacches would ha 1wade, Mr, Deck, of Kontucky, anothor Demoerat, when asked if ho thought bis sido ot the Houso would rupport tho Senste caucus bill, said ho loped to Heaven it would not. For his part, he would vato agaiust it a thousaud times. ~ Lo was serfously opbosed to it for many reanows, 1o was, however, 1n favor of honost twoucy, and lionost monoy wns money that wonld be taken by tho Governmont that issucd it, IIo was in fuvor of speoie payments, but ho bolioved that a start for Lhut point ought to be on a difforent Lasis, 1o thought the United States Government ought to fwnigh its own mionoy without discount for its own debts, and ho, thoreforo, favorod, oy tho Houeo already know, tho projoct that tho greoubacks should be good enough to pay for customs dues. This, ho gaid, was tho only way to bring up our credit and got back to spocio, Ho snid ho strongly favored freo banking, and that in this rospact lio and tho P'resident ngreed for tho trst timo on publiv questions, M. Roberiy, of Now Yorl, also a8 momber of tho Wuys and Means Committoo, said ho lind noy examined tho now bill, sud would not like to bo quoted, but at the fiist blush he thought the bill id not amount to much, 1f bo haa his way, ho thought ho would withdraw $2,000.000 of groon= Dbacks svory month, absolutely, and would fund it into o4 orn4}g por cont bond, Ho thought thoy could be pluced. Ho was in favor of specio paysonts 1y 1870 and freo bauking. 1r. Wheolor, of New York, who, ke Mr, Rob- orts, I8 one of the forumost of the leaders of the Nopublicnny in Lis Btate, said to-dny that ho had not studiod the points embraced in 'the bitl, but that it was o grout advance on thoe Westorn nonti- miont horotafore oxprossod, My, Packer, of Pennnylvanla, » Iluémhlicnn, L3 bunkor and & milllonuire, sald that of course hie favorod tho bill, for, from what ho kuaw of jt, it was his exuct nmondmont to the guneral tinaneo Dill of lawt scssion, which contained free Lanking, tho rotiroment of groonbacky, gud o rotws Lo epevle-pryments in 1879, 1lo aid hale tho froo banking that poople genorally Aupposed, IIo thought' it woll enough to fix & wot think thoro would bo duy for rosumption, and thon work up toit. It would nccustom peoplo to look forward to it. Whon tho time camo, if it was not practicable, it need not bo carried out, Mr. Mitcholl, of Wisconsin, s Democrat, o bankor and o millionairo, said ho did not like'ta "(Wu his viows of the bill for two reasons ; firat, secaniso ho hind nof koen the bill, and, socond, boceauso bo was n momber of tho Banking an Currency Committee, Ho thought, lowover, that thero would bo no groonbacks withdiawn, and no 80 por covt, and that the wholo bill would be inoperativo, beeanso there will be no Increaso of tho Nntional Bank ciroulation, 1o favors tho bringing of tho clsculation down 1o tho basis of epecio, and says wo must ourtall tho ninount of papor ns o starting point. Ho would Do in favor of fron banking if wo could shut the door ngainst a multiplication of papor. ‘I'ho Domocrats, 08 o party, sro not friendly to this idon. Thoy genorally arguo n favor of all preanbacks aod no National Bank currenoy. Ho far ga this mattor is concorned, ho sald, ho could 1ot go with them. Mr, Marsball, of Tilinoie, n Domocrat, and one of tho oldest mombors of tho 1Mouso, #nid he was opposed to (ho National Banking systom, and to tho achemo of the Benato. lo thinks o mn}nrxty of the Democratio slde will oppose it. Hosis in favor of rotiring the National Bank circulation grad- uallv, and says that to got bael to specio paye ments wo must Lave freo bonking. Mr, Scuddor, of Now York, thought thobill of {ho Senato would pasy, but that, “according to his idons, it does not go far onough ; but ?& 18 something. e thought it would occaslon a good donl of debato, Oue objection ho las to it is that it taltes in_logal tenders too slowly. Wo ought to haye frea banking now, and wo ought fo pull in all tho legal tendors possible and bura thom np. Mr. Freoman Olarko, of Now York, formorly Comptraller of tho Curronoy, doss nat thinl thero will be any resumption, and that tho bill does not amount to much—a more mulko-ahift. But ho thinks, novertheloss, that tho bill will pass. Ho thinks that, if tho ciroulntion is takion un, o8 the intlationiets think, by 1879, that thore will bo twico ns_mucl banl' oirculatlon as now, aud that thero would be no preparation by tha banks to resume, becauso of fraa banking. Mr. Pholps badnot seen the billy but had honrd tatk onongh about it to havo an opinfon. Of courso it was n compromiso mensure, and, liko all comprominos, o patehwork, illogical, fne consistont, and unsatisfuctory. Thoy bnd lot in too many cooks, oach with & favorito spico, nud 1nd spoiled tho broth, ' It miado poor Tars for honost folk, but 1t was the bost they could got, and thoy had hetter talce it, asking 10 quostions for canscionce sako, 1Io had nover oxpecied tha inflation majority to offer oven as much as this, Hero was n squaro rocognition thnt rosumption was dosirable, possible, and probable, Thatis somothivg and what thoy novor offored boforo. ** Of courso, they saddlo it with conditions, and L grant you,” snid he, * tlieso aro unplongant. Joouary, 1879, is & long way off, and I bate to think that for four years' trado must sit on tho * raggod edgo of anxicty Jest somo Congrosa may in tho interim postpono tho time. Theso, to bo sure, sro drawbacks, but what bottor oan you expeet in 8 compromise? 'Thop, again, thoy consont that wo may retira greenbacks. This is & gnin, Beforo thoy fonght despor- atoly to increasn, and poremptorily refused to diminigh them. And for this concesslon what do we give? If wo withdraw olglty greenback dollars, wo must let thom iesuo 100 bank-note dollars. This looks liko inflation, and {s undoubtedly a sop for Logan and Ferry. But the inflation under this bill docan't begin to work soon enougil‘; to harm. Tho ! groonbacks must bo reduced to 8300,0000 bofore thore is a chance of oxpansion in our papor carranay, and for this resson tho Beorotary is given power to cancel ths whole or nn{ artof tho $50,000,000 of iractional currency. When the grecobocks ara reduced to 300,000,000, then the tima of inflation draws nigh, But in' my opinion thero i little donger that this limis” will over be reach~ under this Dbl It is a largo os- timate to, aupflufin thot §20,000,000 of uew bank-notea will bo issued in any ono of tho four yeats. Tho proflts of bonking, as derived {rom circulation, aro vory small; are much losa than the publio supposs, and the inducemont o tako or rotsin circulation is vory slight, Soma banks never took any, although they accopted o nationnl charter, and othors havo in largo amounts roturned tho elrculation thoy took at the outset, under » mistaken oxpectstion of profit fromits uso. Aud wo hord-money men ouglit never to forgot that tho onsiost way to ges to resumption is to throw it_gradually upon the banke. Wo want quictly to withdraw the Govern- ment's promises, which roprescut nothing, and to leavo in their place tho issues of the banks, which aro backed by the bapke’ capital and their stock- Lolders’ liability,” Mr, Phelps thought the sil- ver substituted for tho fractional currency would remain in circalation becauso of the necossities for its use, Peoplo must bave fractions of a dollar for tho rotnil trado, and will pay what is necossary fo got and_keop them, {iero thoy can’t got paper, tbo demand will supply them with sitver. On tho wholo, the bill was fair na for as it went; tho only dificulty was, it did not go very far, It would pass tho Houso unloss discugsion should roveal to tholuflation membors of tho House what thoy began to discover last wintor, that their leaders in tho Senato woro bot~ ter in politics than in fluauce, aud Lind, as usual, been overranched by the hard-monoy Senators when matlers got boyond the sphere of pure seience, ecieiose NOTES AND NEWS, MULLETT'S SUCCESS0I, Special Dispateh to The Chicago T'ribune, WasmineroN, D. C., Dee. 24.~It is stated, upon apparently good authority, that o Alr, Pottor, of Now Yorl, i8 to bo the Surperyis- - ing Architoct, Pottor 1s o brother of Clurkson® N. Potter, o Democratio Ropresontative from New York. . It had been decided, after Cochrano wag refused, that ITill, of Boston, ot present in the Architecls office, sbould have tho place, Lut it ig now cortain that 111l will not bo appointed. An examination showed that Iill s a special {riond of Den Butler. BOUTHERN INVESTIGATING COMYITTEES, The Alabama Investigating Commitleo com- mouced thelr gession in this oity to-day. Judgo 1. 3L Kiel$ and two othor native Alabuminng wero oxamined ns to the existonce of intimida- tion in their districts at tho polls. Tho Commit- teo intonds to thoroughly investigate tho cume paign outrago stories which bad their otigin in the Stato, Tho Louieiann Committeo expeets to weet in New Orleans on Wedneaday. FLUATING CHITICISM, Bomo of tho lellogg purty havo called tho ate toation of tha Nuvy Dopartinont to a cuiions proceodiug on tha part of sowmo of the ofllcers of tho Cupauduigus, stationcd off Now Orleuns. 1t appears thut tho oflicors aro_ publishiug, for amusemont, on shipboard, o small fly-shect newye paper, and that the editorial coniments in thia slicot aro not respectful to tha reiguing powora at Washiugton, WL PACIFIO_MAIL INVESTIGATION, ‘Tho I'acitle Mail Investigation Sub-Committeo will_commenco their work in Now York early next week, The members aro all dotormined to thoroughly sift tho matter. Ity cortain that tho parties connceted with the stury abont Bill King will be summoned, Tha Conun{ttnn soom to Lo of tho oplnion thut, while Tewin oxpended n cone sidorablo sum bero, a_lurge portion of tho wmount may have remained in s own handy, Thows well nequaiuted with Trwin eny that ha hua lived uc the sute of £50,000 yearly sinco the second subsidy was recelved, and, prisoner thas ho iv, horo ho is living in w8 grout stylo na tha richost Senatar. BEDUCTION IS THE BAILWAY MAI, SENVICE, Pt Postastor-Goneral hus reduced teo nume ber of employes in the rulway mail dervico by ten olerks i the Sixth (Chicago) Division, Tha most iuoMelont will bo digmissed, nnd the test of oiticienoy will bo the rocord, as shown by Goorga Bungs, undar the Civil-Service systo] SERY 10 NE BUPER Thero is little doubt that Gon, suporsoded ut Now Ovleans by Gos 5 b 8t, Paul, aud that o new Militury Division is ta bo croated, comprising tho Btates in which u*onhln is auticipatod, and Werry plucod in come mands [To the Assoctated Press,) TIE BLACK HILLS, ‘Wasuvaroy, 1, O., Dee, u4.~Becretory Dee Jano has writcen a lotter to the Becrotary of \Vay in which o saye: 'Ilio Black 1lill country la . secured by tionty to tho Sloux lndlits, nnd L'ro- spoctiully request thut tho most elfective wous: ures within the power of the War Dopnrtmon| may bo adoptad towards wll persons_making ent cronchments npon snid torsitory, and that ol in. :A‘udogr nl'“ pursued, overtakon, und oxpolicd row it s An Important Contract, ) e New York T'rivune, Deo, 23, Tho torms of un importunt contruct hotwoen tho Now York Contral Jnilroad and tha Cunade Bouthron uro #aid to have buon closod yesterdauy. It securos tho working of # through passong) nnd frolght line from Now Yoik to 'Toledo ovel tho Centrol ltoad to Buifale, and thonco overth Canada Southern, and the tnnsfor of Wagnsr't oary to thut line, ' ko Inelting causo of the con tract in kit to hwve heon o four that the Erit would ko ik it tho Conbrul did uob