Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1875, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATER OF AURECRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADYAKCE), Postnge Prepald at this Ofce. Patly by m 813,00 | sanday. Tit-Weekiy.. 4,00 | Weekly Tartaol & o smne rate, To prevent delay and mistakes, bo sutn and giea Pos. drors in fall, fncluding Stata and County. Remlttancarmay bamade sither by draft, express, Poats Ofics order, or in registored Intters, at onr risk. TERNS TO CITY RURKCRINERS, Dally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 23 canta perweok Dails, delivered, Snnday inclndad, 30 eontapn or wee Address TUK TRIBUNE COMPARY, Carner Madison and Daarbou + Chicago, It TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, SMY OF MUSIC—Halsted ateaot, hatween Mad- taomo A Manne. Engagement ot ok Elars Storeis: “Cumille." " Aftoroon nad evaning, RAND OPERA-HOUSE—Clark Sharman Houwe, ~ Kelly & laon's Potit Favat," Afternvon and evouing. strest, oppoaite Mimtrols o Lo 0, SEUM--Mouroa sireat, hetwoen Dear. Do e e U R Tor T, Cardiet s Alter. Do hioves," Erveniug, '* Paul Pry" MOOLRY'S THEATRE—Randolnh atrest, hetween Dlarkand LaSall Led Astraz,™ Aftornoon 'and even. og. DEI'SYCRI(!}"!‘THEATR “"‘(m‘ 'I\II:‘M'.‘ b\l‘;;’l;gn State. =K ent of Ldwin . anicy TREET OPERA-HOUSE-Corner Hal ,éfl":flr oreiron wivaote,” Sione, Honia's Lomala i atrola, . Nt TR A-1IOUSE—Corner Stats and B b R saae Norianio's Porusian CanCud T roupos SOCIETY MEETINGS. LUMBERMAN'S LODGE 77, A. F. Hpecial Meoling wiil be heid at £51 faistad. LAty evaniag fur PUbIE Tustailation of Olivars Boria W 2 J. P, HIGAIN. FIED." TN WHOLE with valuable rules th Loards 75 cta. " BOOKREEPING system brisfly aud clo; and tablos for Luslu Bent posipatd. Creal nut-st., Phila rinl-Nalancy Hook, " AYS TRRITATIO BURNETT removan all tondoney action of tbe capilationin 1) eatth Dot the Kiosrineos And Hehnses of the Bar I8 s0ch a8 urpassed. Srten the Anfr ehen harsh and dry. 14 deches the srritated seata. Hagonth e A T STt fongant tn eport. prece Julling off, orows prowhe Tigrecents At pronnteaite ke ke nat greasyor st It teaven nn Tt ta the DNt and ¢ It promaotes the G R Araly free from all irritating ma! ¥or sulo by ail drugists. Ceiihie odor, ATRAT naltdeesiing tn the world 16 HATK, and 1t on: INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. SEVENTH PAGE~City, Ruburban, and Country Real Eatate, “'llll'l‘; I“u‘ iIlY::F:,‘ Ylnllxlgl;ln.h fi{fiu E‘I‘\;;xw b ' 3 F— Al ements, cean Bteamshipe, Pibiications: Hailroed Time Tavie, Lega, - Medieat Cards, The Chicage Tribuns, Saturday Morning, January 3, 1876, =S THE TRIBUNE'S ANNUAL REVIEW, Notwithstanding we printed s large extra edition of Tnxs TRIBUNE yesterday, containing an admirable An- nual Review of tho Trade and Commerce of Chicago for 1874, it was exhausted at an early hour, Fortunately we retalned the storeotyps platos from whish the Reviow was printed, and ore thus ovabled to supply tho de- mand to-day. Papers in wrappers, ready for mailing, au be obtalned by applying at the counting-room. Btate Benator Stamres (colored), of Louis- iana, who testified Lefore the Investigating Comumittee yesterday, must have nssumed his name late in life in & moment of happy in. spiration, There is somothing very *gen- teel,” a8 the dry-goods clerks say, abont that name; but it is none too good fora great majority of the legialators down South. The disturbance in the Indian Territory which is roported this morning will probably o quelled without much furthor loss of life, but its occurrenco is none the less o deplora- ble confession by tho Indians themselves that the experiment in scl¢-government which they have been conducting is a faflure. The proximato couse of the quurrel is the propogition to establish a Territorial Gov- ernment over the wholo domain. Chief Ross, who still holds great nuthority, and has some considerable emoluments, is reasonably dis- posed to hold on to the good things ss long oa ho can, Tho revalutionary party, as it mny be called, though its purposes are en- tiroly peaceful, is known as the Dowxmio faction. Vinita, whero s confliet is appro- hended, is the present terminus of the Atlan- tic & Pacific Railroad, and also a station on tho Missouri, Toxaq & Pacific Road. It is 123 miles from Springfield, Alo., in a south. westerly direction, Now is about to sot in the annmnal busy season of law-making, with Congress and the Legislatures of thirty States in session, viz.: Alabama, Arkanses, Dolawere, Florida, Geor- gls, Dlinois, Indienn, Kansns, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusotts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebrasks, Nevada, New Jersoy, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Caroliua, Tennesseo, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, As some of thero . aro second and others special sessions of Legislatures, it lLas rarely occurred that so many have been simultaneously at work, ‘The politios of these thirty Legislatures are : 16 Democratie, 12 Ropublican, 1 (Dlinois) controlled by an Independent balance of power, and 1 (Louisiana) in dispute. The list includea all the States but seven, whose Legislatures do not meet this wintor, viz.: Californin, Conneoticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, New Hampshire, and Oregon, A singular suit is to bo tried at Nashville, Tonn., interesting in its relation to slavery before the War. A rich old planter named Parron had three mulatto children, whose mothers were two slaves, and, lLaving no le. gitimate children of his own, he was much attached to his saddle-colored oncs. How to leave them his property without making the matter too public was a problen which gave him grest anxiety, He finally resorted to a plau which included a third person named Ilzouonp, Ile guve hia friend $10,000, and told him to take the two women and their children to Obio, buy them afarm, and see that they lived comfortubly till they got pos- session of all his property by his dentls, ltxp- Moxp wos made his nominal heir, on the condition that he should turn the property over to the mulatto children. Repumoxp took the family to Ohio, abandoned thew, and Lept their money, When Patron died ho became the heir, aud kept the wholo of the propesty. The suit is to recover it from him, ———— A semarkuble passage in the report of the Loulsiana iuvestigation is that which touches upon the causes of the defootions from the Republican party in the South. One witness yesterday, @ colored man, said that the negroes were goiug over to the Democratic varty for two reasona i (1) Beqause of bad local government ; (3) beoanse of the failure of the Freedman's Bauks, It probably is not truo that the megroce are golng over to tha .Democratic party st all, oxcoph aa thby are infuuncod by threats, ex those potent agents of which wo spoke yesterday— bribery and flattery, 1t would bo very ab- surd for the megroes to go over to the Democratic party because of the bad gov- ernment which the negroes themselves created. Ho also it would be absnrd for them to charge tho Freedman's Bank swindle upon the Kepublican party. Yet wo confess to having some doubts as to the ability of Honthern negroes to see these absurdities in & proper light. Another member of the celebrated Porren family obtrudes himself wpon publio atten- tion this morning. This ono is Crarksox N., the Congressman, It is of no conse- quence who his father was, or what may be the occupations of his brothers. Those are not pointe to be easily determined; and they are not, in the present ease, essential to the discussion, CranksoN N. is now in New Or- leans, neting ns a member of the Committeo appointed by Congress to investigate Louisi- aun affairs, ITo is making a record for intelligent and carefal partisanship which ought to bring him some reward when the Democratic ITouse meets, Ifo hins, it is true, alwnys been known as a very decent Demo- erat; but his zeal has never beforo been so conspicuons g fu this instance. 1o is really the managing spirit of the inquiry, and per- hinps tho nblest. The result of his labors will probably bo Teport more favorablo to the White Lengues than would otherwiso have been rendered. The announcement of the Paris Journal Oficicl that Monsigneur Guinesr, the Arch- Dishop of Paris, wonld assist President Mac- Manox in his Ngw Year's reception yester- day, is more important and significant than appears at the first glance. It s the first time since the reign of Cusantzs X. that this post of honor has been assigned to a French prelate. Taken in conmection with the chango of Government in Spain, it bades no pood to Enropean Republicanism, and will be likely to prove a fomenter of trouble in tho nenr future. It shows that MacMaznoy is swinging nway from tho moorings of the Re- public and drifting over to tho Uliramon- tanes. He mny think it a matter of policy to concilinte tho Royalists, but such o step can- not be taken without serious protest from the Republicans. Its only effect can be to pro- cipitate the impending contest with the tem- poral power of the Vatican. As tho Arch- bishop of Parisis the recognized leader of the French Ultramontaues, it is little wonder that 2MacManox's action should be looked upon in Paris as something more than a mero matter of ctiquette. A writer in the Hudsou (X, Y.) Regidter gives an insido view into tho lifo of the Shakers at their Mt, Lebanon community, 'The picturo he draws of existenco there, and tho manner of cramping and flattening out of the individunl intellect, is not by any means an inviting one. Their ereed is not a positive one in any form, but what they principally believe in is Spirit- ualism, though of this little account appears to be taken. Mombers joining the communi- ty aro required to renounce anything like freedom of thought, and aro enjoined to ab- sorbanddigest as rapidly as convenientthodog- matic instructions of the Elders, all of whom appear to possess a sanctity not unlike thet of the Medicine Man of an Indian tribe. The confessional, too, is encouraged, the men confessing to Elders, and the wonien to ZElderesses. Books aro not allowed in tho community unless approved by the Elders, and their owners aro forbidden to lend them to friends withont first obtaining the sanction of the godly Medicine Man, It can readily boimagined that by this means the leaders of the community rapidly gain control of the members body and soul, and are thoroughly cognizant of even tho minutest details of their everydsy lifo, It is mot singular that men and women alike lose all appearanco of vigorous life very rapidly, and degenerate into haggard, pailid automatons, Thoserious sketch given from personal experience by Davip Browx does not give a very difierent impression from that made Ly the humorous one of AnTeEnus Wanp, INCRLASING THE PUBLIC DEBT. Now we have the intelligence that a com- mitteo of tho House of Representatives Lave under cousideration a bill to subsidize n nar. row-gauge railroad to begin ot Toledo and run westwardly on the forty-firat parallel to Council Bluffs, Towa; also to extend cast- wardly to New York, The bill takes three or mora railrond companies already chartered in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Towa, whichhave no money and cannot possibly induce any person to invest any to build a narrow-gauge through-freight roilway from the MMissouri River to Toledo, and thence to New York, ond make them a national corporation. It then proposcs that to givo this Company the credit to build tho road the United States Government shall issue to it national & per cont bonds at the rato of $10,000 per milo, Thore is also before the Committes, it will be remembered, an- other bill for tho construction of a double- track railway from tho Atlantio coast at Nor- folk an1 Washington to tho Ohio River, with branches to Chicago, Cincinnati, and Bt. Louis, with indefinite extension westwardly, with a large subsidy of nationhl bonds. Our readers are already familinr with Tox Scorr's bill for a large subsidy to his Texas railrond, and Jay Coose's bill for a large subsidy to his Northern Pacific Railway, the Virginin bill for a subsidy of $100,000,000 to the mountain canal, & lko subsidy to the Georgin Canal, another subsidy of £100,000,000 to th. Chespento & Olhio Canal Company, mwosidies to proposed railways in Oregon and Utah, and a bill for a subsidy for an air-line railway from Portland, Me., to the Mississippl River, Theso propositions, bo. sides others, are all pending before Congress. ‘They are but indications of whero the busi- ness of subsidy, once begun, will lead. ‘The pending propositions call for Government bonds equal to five or six hundred millions of dollars, with interest running for thirty to forty years, and for enterprises so barren of productive results that no sone man would invest one dollar of Lis own capital therein, ‘What do theso men in Congress who en. courage theso schemos mean? Are they hon. est in their purpose to create such an addition to the national debt that tho entire credit of the country, national,Stato, municipal, and in- dividual, shall break down in irretrisvable ruin? Are thoy desirous of experimenting bow far the publio crodit can be drawn befors brenking ? "Iho Amerioan geople bore with patriotiam the relentless taxation during the War, and sinco then they have had the assurance that the national debt was gradually diminiching, end that the annual charge for interest there- on was hecoming smaller, But now, every brozen-down, bankrupt stock-gawbler, Bpec- ulator, and adveunturer, whose fAnanolal sohiemos havo ouded in bankraptoy, is beforo Congress praying for domations of national bonds, thias be may sgain sevel in spooulation and fraud. Jax Cooxs, whose disgraceful bankruptey has overshelmed so many thou. snnds of confiding persons with ruin, is be- fore Congress, praying it to nssume sub. stantinlly n hundred and more millions of debt, aud put Jox Coorr and his associntes fiancinlly on their feet again, ‘I'he sameo with ScorT. An impecunious canal company in Georgin, nnd another in - Virginia, and nnother in Maryland, who are lopelessly insolvent, are praying Congress to create several hundred millions of dollara more debt, to enable themto spend reoney in theirrespect- ive States upon works that are wholly visionary, nud at least n half-century behind civilization, The country is taxed boyond endnrance now. Capital has been withdrawn from pro. duction bacause of the threatened danger. Men fear to invest money whilo Congress is in session, aud while Congress is considering schemes to incrense the national debt and taxation far beyond what it was when the War closed. ‘The country has become to regard the time covered by sessions of Congress as illed with peril. No one ean safely asynmo that Con- gress will not plunge the country hopelessly in debt, flood tho country with worthless pa- per, and swell the taxes. Capital does not invest while Congress is on the rampagoe, and gives countenance and encouragement to tho demands of theso beggars. Tho nd- journment of the present Congress, with & koowledge that the next session will not begin until December, will be n great relief to the poople, n great relief to the trade and industry of the conn. try, and an cncouragement to production, So long as the country is startled daily with o new scheme to increase the publie debt aud impnir the public credit for the mero benefit of bankrupt gamblers and speculators, solong will th business of the conntry remain un. scttled and hard times continue. Let Con- gress at onco declare that there shall bo no increaso of the public debt, and no subsidies to private corporations and individuals, and thus put an end to all these wild and reckless schemes to deplete the Public T'rensury. ——, A NOVEL SECURITY, An ingenious, and perhaps original, deviea in the way of affording secnrity for indorse. wents is contained in Tox Bcorr's subgidy bill now before Congress. The bill proposes that the Ruilroad Company shall issuo itsLonds to an amouat of £40,000 per mile, and de- posit them with tho Secrotary of the Trens- ury; upon these Londs the Secretary is to indorse the pledge and guarantee of the United States that the interest thereon will be paid semi-nnnually in gold. As the road progresses, tho Sceretary is to deliver to the Company these bonds at the rate of $35,000 per mile, retaining $5,000 per mila. The exnct object of retaining this 5,000 per milo of the Company's bonds, guaranteed by the United States, is ingeniously if not ingen- uously explained by Col, Scorr, in his speech to the Seuate Committee, to be: That in caso tho Company shall, for any couse, fail to pny the interest on the Dbonds os it falls due, thon the Secre- tary of the Treasury shall sell these reserved bonds, and with the proceeds pay the inter- est on the other bonds! That is to sny, in case tho drawer of tho note fails to pay the intorest, then the indorser is to sell another and indorsed note, aud with the proceeds poy tho interest on the first one! Down irr St. Louis the newspapers think and say that this is ““aruple protection” against any loss to the indorser. ‘We question whether thore is a mnn in the United States out of a lunatio asylum who would indorse the notes or bonds of another, oud think he was protected from loss by the nuthority to sell more of his own indorsc- ments to pay the defaunltod interest on the first ones. Tho country has had some oxpo- rienco in this matter, The Union and Con- tral Pacific Railroads agreed to pay the intor- st on the subsidy bonds issued to them. Up to December, 1874, the interest on theso sub- sidy bonds smounted to twenty-four millions of dollars, all of which had been paid by the United States ; the Government had withheld transportation charges for sbont five and & holf millions, leaving the Companies in defnult already nearly nineteen mill- ions of dollars of unpaid interest on a princi- pal of only sixty-four millions of dollars, THE BOUTH AND SUBSIDIES, The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks the “North"” has lhad too many subsidies, and that the * South” should get an equelamount of national money and national land in aid of its railronds and conals and things, It cays that ' Tue Taroxe hasalwaysadvocated sub- sidies for tho North (?), but that * it is a road this time that does not lead out of Chicago which nsks, not a subsidy, but an indorser, offering good security(?), and, lo, Tae Trinoye shricks foreconomy.” The difference between n subsidy and an indorsement, in this case, ia thot 'twixt Tweedledum and Tweedlodeo, and the ‘‘good security” {8 not good enough to induce any capitalist to invest a cont in the worthless bonds of Tox Scorr's broken- down road. The only rond running out of Chicago that reccived a land.grant is the Illinois Central, and that was granted before the present TarvuNe was in existenco, and the road hes discharged all the duties laid upon it in exchango for that grant with punctilious fidelity. Tue Tninune seconded the building of the Union and Central Pa. ciflo Railways on purely national grounds, fora purely national parpose. It has py hoartily opposed, on national grounds, sub- sidizing the Northern Pacific, which is o Northern enterprise, as subsidizing the Bouthern Pacifie, becauso there exists no national nocessity for cither project, Thu Courier-Journal mokes out the following table: Excoss to tha North, o Money voted by Cougress to Northern entorDriNen. ..y vuserss Lon o $93,757,214,83 Lioney voted 'by ‘Congrous to Bouthern suterprivce......, o0 5,931,400, Excoss to the North, Tte firat ervor is in calling the Union Pa- cifio, and Central Pacifio, aud Denver Pacifle Ronds * Northern euterprises,” when they aro national and central, and just ss accossi. ble to the South as to the North, San Fran- cisco can no moro be called a Northorn city than Baltimore, They aro both on about tho sune line of latitude, Loulsville is s well accommodated by the Kansas route to the Pacific Const as Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Cincinuati aro, or as New York, Boston, and Chicago are by the Nebraska routes via Chey- enne, whore the two lines meet. There has been no partiality in land-grants, Tou Scorr got a8 much ground for the Southern Paclfio as Jax Cooxr did for the North- ern. The land-grant to the Kansas Pacifio up the Kansaa Valley, for the benefit of the Bouth, {s s large as that to the road up the Platto Valley, for the benefit of the North, Congress voted ns mnny neres to Missouri ns to Jowa ronds. If, however, we take tho Courierofournals manifestly unfair and un. truthful fignres, we find that the North has received an exeess of 124,000,000 acres. ‘There is an entry to Lo mado on the other side of the account. 'The North contributed n majority of the troops and two-thirds of the money which brought 'Texas into the Union, The whole nation shoull have owned the public lauds of Texas, It wns “done” out of them by Sonthern influence, acting in the in- tevosts of slavery. Suppose we put tho ne- connt thus : Excean tothe Norih, for raflroad aid Excovs to the Bouth, Ly Texa Teeal wxcenn to the South, 000,000 Tho Courier-fournal say: ation ought to economize, but that, before it does so, it should even up nccounts hetvreen the Sonth and North. The North, howover, will gen- crously waive its cluim to these 16,000,000 neres, nnd so tho nation can begin to econa- mizo right ofl. How happy tho Courer. Journat should bo! CARL SCHURZ IN MISSOURI, Wa print elsewherea gronp of articles from the New York World, the TLouisville Couricr- Journal, sud the New York Lvening Post, favoring the re-clection of Canu Scnunz to the United States Scnato by the Missouri Legislature. Such testimony to the worth and scrvices of Mr. Sciurz is nnusual in its breadth and veriety. The World is ultra- Democratic, the Courier-Journal Independ. ont-Democrat, and the Erening Post Inde. pendent-Republican, Al of them ngrec, howuver, in according to JMr. Scmunz the praise due to honest, faithful, nnd intelligent public service, nnd are a unit in the belief that his re-clection would be n credit to Mis- souri and a boon to tho country. Lo theso wo add the voice of Toe Cuicavo Trinuxe, thongh e have little hope that all theso ap- peals will avail in tho slightest degreo in Stato given over to Bourbouigm, Carw Scurrz Lelongs to the nation. His is to.dny tho master mind of the United States Senate, 1le i3 an orator, a philoso- pher, a statesman, ITis elognenco is as rich, clegant, and finished as Epwanp BveRert's ; his research as conscientious and laborious a8 Busyen's 3 his rendiness in debate ss quick nnd pointed as Monzox's ; his style as capti- vating s that we picturo for the orators who live in history and whom we have never heard. o is a loayned man, o close student, a devote to tha principles of s Kepublican form of Government, nnd & man of cosmo- politan reputation who should not be per- mitted to drop out of active politics. Whether a8 friend or opponent, he is always honest and courteous, Mr. Scmonz, two years ago, took an active part in opposing the Repub- lican nominee for President, and yet thero is 1o question that Mr. Sonurz would have been re-elected to the Senate if the Republican party had ewried Missouri at tho late elec. tion. It is too mmuch to hope for this liberality from tho Bourbon Legislature of Missouri, though the Democrats, in n party sense, owe Mr. Scuunz more of late yoars than the Republicans, But Bourbonism has neither gratitude nor conscience. It hns but one fenlty,—that to the past. It has but ono pur- poso,—that of raking over tho remnants of a forgotten age to find a non-forgettor., The Bourbons in Missouri go back as naturally ns the Bourbons in Spain ; angd, as the Spanish people have found a figure-head in an im- Lecilo boy, so it is likely that the Bourbons of Missouri will find a figure-heed in somo hide-bound, last-ditch Democrat of the paleo. zoic age, and #et him up in the placo where Cary, Scausz bolongs. TIE QUESTION OF RACES, A paper was recently read bofore the Asso. ciation for the Promotion of Social Science, at Glasgow, upon the question of races, by the Rev. Dr. Josern P. Tuomrson, one of tha warmest friends of tho colored race of Amer- ice, which is nttracting very general attention in Grent Britain, With regard to the present condition of the South, Mr. THoxrsoN says : Much of tho- fneecurity, the lawlessness, the terror- tsm that afllict Southern soclety aro inevitable con- Aoquonces of tho sudden and violent mubversion of that society as lased upon tho sysiem of slavery. Tuls would have bgen—murk Lave been—quito spart from any question of race and color, Buch evils time 1nust remedy ; tho process {8 painful, and s likety to roquiro o generation for the cure, That the atate of socity tn the South 4 not sa bad as fu sometimen represontod 1s pialn from tle fact that the production of eotton has now reached four-tifthe of its maximum ‘eforo the War ; that Industry and trede aro roviving 10 many parta ; thet the frocdmen havo conaidersblo sums n savings Lanks; and thatnot & few plantors Lavo Tegained the wmoans of living comfortably at liome, snd of sending their childron abroad to bo edu- cated. i His remedy for the trouble at the South be- tween tho races is not 6 now one. Although impracticable, it has often been suggested. Mr. TrioxesoN thinks that it would have boen a wise policy and groatly for the advantago of tho Bouthern States if o standard of educa- tion, intelligence, and character had beon fix- od as a qualification for the voter, a standard which being attainable by all would bo unjust to none, Undonbtodly such a qualification would bo a blessing, but itis a qualification of that er post faclo character which could never be carried out. This qualification would disfranchise not only a largo proportion of the blacks who have been alroady voting for eight or ten years, but also a large proportion of the whites, per- hape man for man, as the lower class of tho white population of the Bouth is notorious for its iguorance and illiterncy. The blacks ns well as tho whitos aro part of the body politio, and the right of suffrage once given them cannot be lawfully taken away; and, even if it could, would work grent injustico, since there aro many illiterate men in the South who pay thousands of dollara in taxes, and aro men of good moral character, No compensation can be givon a man for taking the right of suffrago away from him. Again, the whitos of the South would never consent to disfranchise themselves in order to deprive the ignorant part of the blacks of the suffrage, 'This would be cutting off the noso to spite the faco. It disfranchisement con- ditional upon educational standards wore adopted at all, it would have to be mode wuniversal, and this would operate at tho North aswell as the South, and against whites as well as blacks, This would take away the right of suffrage from largo numbers of naturalized Irish and other foreign nationalities. A considerablo part of the adult population of Bouthern Indiana and Iilinois, and of Missouri, formerly residents Kontucky, Tenuesses, and Virginia, can neither 7zend mnor write, and ave yet wmen of property and tax-payers, Tharo is nqg way in which such a quali. fication vould ba enforced upon the one race to tho exclusion of the other upon any prin. ciple of justice or equal rights. If any such qualification is to be enforced, it must have rogard to the future, not to tha past, Itis practioable to demand that the colning gen. eration shall possesé & certain amount of knowledge and rench a certain standard of educational qualitiention before being gront. ed the right of suffrage, aod that tho coming votor shall pass au examination to determine whether ho is up to the standard, and, if he fails, to consign him to his studies and keep him thero until ho does suceeed. “This in practicable, but to mnke an ez post Jireto regulation binding upon men who have already exercised the Tight of suffenge many years, andd done their sharo in sustaining the Government, is thoroughly impracticable, It conldnever siettle,but would only nggeavate, tho evils growing out of the question of tncen. The most practieal advice in the premises i3 given by Dr. TrooursoN him. self, wha in closing his paper say Let the General tlovernment refrain from all further featalation or {ntorferenco on belilf of {40 negro an such, 1f riote ariso that tho Slate authorities cannot auell, tho National Government, duly fnvoked, ehoutd tnteriero fo prescrve the public peace; and alag, if nocossary, it alionld use the arm of power tosustaln the courta in putting down injustice, ontrage, and wrong, by the arm of the law, But ll tuls without making s point of caring for the negro fu_ distinetion from any otlier wnan far tho best way of caring for tho tiegro 1a to ceass to know Lin as a negro, and to treat him always and only na & man, Abuve all should the Gosernment refrain’ from legislating wpon soclal customs, lustincts, or prejudices, A logal Injustics can Lo dono nway by Jaw § & morel wrong, n the form of overt sction, can b denlt with by law ; Lut a taste, & sentiment, o feeling, an {nstinct, a prejudice, thoso paea tha bourida of ull logislation, and the attempt to zectify or regulate theso Ly Inw serves only to irritate oprosition. At thieso points human nature has much in commoa with tho porcupine, THE BTURGES OASE, Wo shall not undertako to say that Judgoe MoAruisTER Was not justified, nundor n strict construction of the law, in protecting Sturaes by an injunction from expulsion from tho Board of 'I'rade. Judge MoArristn is an able, techmical lawyer, and givos flaws and irregularity their full weight. o would argue, 88 o lawyer and o Judge, that there was nothing elke for him to do; and, whilo much ean be said in favor of rigid .technical constrictions of the statutes to shelter wrong- doers, the fact remaing that the public inter- eats suffer frequently and grievously from informelitios which defent ihe clearest ends of justice, In tho presont instance, it is known to all men familisr with the facts that Stuners is a vepresentativo of n class of men who bring com- mercial integrity into general doubt and thereby gradually work at undermining socicty. 1le has been guilty of practices enl- culated to damage the business standing of tho Bonrd of Trade and detrimental to the interests of Chicago, It was generally ngreed that the Bonrd of 'Trade must rid itself of all responsibility for Mr, Stunars' acts, or suffer tho pennlty of public judgment which he ought to suffer. Fecling that it must fortify itself against the criticism which it had re. ceived on gccount of Mr. Sturcrs and the like, the Board of 'I'rafe proceeded to discipline the member, as it had rea- son to suppose, according to its own rules, Itis now discovered, after all the successivo steps have been talen, that there was en irregularity in the proceedings. The Board of Directors, instend of finding a ver- diet in duo form, reported what it called charges, 'The Board voted on them, and voted by moro than o two-thirds majority that Mr. Sruncus be expelled, If the law now stops in and protects him for o time by a techuical- ity, the record of the Board is still against him, and, when the technical dofocts are cured, he will be obliged to suffer the disgrace in duo form which is already put upon himin substance, THE SPANISH SUCCESSION. The Spanish Succession is one of those in- extricablo problems whick, in the Inngunge of Duypreany, *‘no fellah can find out.” Just why there should be a coup d 'elat now, just what has brought it sbout, and just who is responkible for it, ave fhings that no sane wan will attompt to explain. It may have beon tho Captain-General of Madrid, or the Archbishop of Seville; it may hava been the army or the clergy. It isnll the same. Itis & mero chango in the namo of Government; the spirit remains just what it has beon since the Bourbons took the throno. The only solecism that is apparent in the case is that, in seeking to roturn to legitimacy, Spain has only succoeded in attaining illegitimacy, It is n matter of very littlo moment, however, whether the figure-head is called Srrraxo, Cinros, or Arrxroyse. It is the figure-head which is necessary, and not tho nameit is known by. " In gll the revolutions which Spain has ex- perienced sinco tho nbdication of Isanrrya, the peoplo havo remained the same frivolous, unthinking, ignorant, superstitions mnss, ns volatile in their allegiance as thoy are ab- ject in their loyalty. Whether under Isaner. T4, Pont, CasTeran, Aaaoro, Sennano, Can. 103, or ArLrnonsg, thers has been the same hidoous monster of despotism, self-onforced and all-absorbing, but only under differont garbs, Perhaps the nearest approach to a constitutionsl and feasible Government was under the Italian Prince, who brought some intelligent ideas of constitutionalism from his own country, but the dress was un. becoming, and the peopla yearned for tho old:time yoke which thoy have worn alter- nately under the sword of the military or the lash of the pricsthood. Perhaps theTAoTE ab- surd attempt at self-government was that ful- minated by Casterar in thunders of elo- quence with empty cfhoos for results. But Aaapeo's practical senge and CASTELAR'S vis- ionary cloquence wero aliko futile, Theory and application both fail in the effort to give o peoplo constitutional freedom who know nothing of s constitution nor of freedom— For corrupt freonen aze the worst of slaves, Tho restoration of Isiprrza's dynasty is not, therofore, a revolution in the sense which Awericans understand the word, It is merely the designation of a fitting emblem for the civic degradation which the Spanish peoplo have suffered for two or threo cen- taries, and which they always desorve to suf- fer until they acquire some national charac- ter from their own cfforts, This boy's mother succoeded to the throns while an in- fant, and was declared of legal age and full powers when only 13, Impure by naturo end corrupt by assooiption, she was married to an impotent imbecile, aud boreillegitimnto children to courtiors, It is notstrangs, then, that her son, a puny and insignificant otripling, should be called to the throme which sho vacatod. It would have been ma- terially the sane thing if a wooden imnge had been set up in the same place. The samo despotio and corrupt influences would have swayed the nation, Orders would have ema- nated from Madrid for the government of every district, and ovory city, and every vil. lage in the land, all the same, There would still have been two co-ordinate Lranches,— the army and the Church, There would have been the ‘same corruption aud depravity in the cities, and the eame ignoranco aud super- stition in the provinces. Edicts from a Gen- oralissimo and bulls from Rome would con. tioue to shape events aud govern the people o8 baefore. The only appreciable difutence mnde by the substitution of Anritoxse for a woaden nage s that Isanerra will no longer be foreed to sell her dinmonds, and Signor Marront will como in for rome fat things. "Tho choice of Arrizoxsi may possibly lead to somo good in the wpeedicr suppression of the Carlist rebellion. The army under the name of a Republic was never able to do this, beeauso it had the opposition of the Church snd the Royalists, But the Church will probably be ns content with Arrnonsy of the Frnpivasp fomily as it would have heen with an Arrmosse of thn Carlist family, The first thing tho new ruler was mado to do by his mother way to ask tho Popo for his blessing, and to promiso to de- fend tho rights of tho Ifoly Sce. This ought to concilinto tho clorieal faction; the military will take ecaro of them. selves, Mcanwhilo lot tho Spanish peo- ple sing: A% gue nous aimons les milis taires! " But, 1w'DoN Canvos is forced to withdraw, aud any of the martial resources of the nation is thereby released, theywill be instantly visited upon iho devoted hend of Cubn. The suppression of the Carlist rebell- jon will enable Spain to repent its policy of a fow yenrs ago towards that unhoppy island. It may opon its prison-doors, empty its guard- honses, gather together its deserters, collcct all the most demoralized outeroppings of a civil war, and, under tho name of * Volun- teers,” turn them loose upon Cubn to mas- ancro the natives while tho Home Govem- mont saps the resources of the island. To all lachrymoso patriots, who feel in- clined to weep over tho downfall of bogus Re- publicanism in Spain, wo say: **Spare your tears.” Thero is nothing to cry over. Cas- TELAR Will bo a9 eloquent and as visionary ns ever; Sernavo ay despotic and trencherous a8 evar; Isanersa ns corrnpt ns age will per- mit ; AMADEO 88 happy as overat his escapo; Arpriosse as imbecilo as ovor ; tho army and the Church ns dictatorial ns over; and the Spanish peoplo ss abject, trueulent, vicious, irresponsible, and down-{rodden as over, Andthe change from a Dietator to a King will mako no difference whatever in tho natural order of things. Such is the Spanish Buccession. ———e **THE MOST IGNORANT PEOPLE IN EU- ROPE.” Under this caption, Suatloyow the Sophist treats, in the Z%mes, with his usual superfl- ciality, a subject which, us usual, he does not understand. e uses most of o column of spaco in an attempt to show that **the Ger- tuans are the most ignorant people in Turope,” and that the proportion of children attending schools in this country is ns grent as it is in Germany and probably grenter. Tho sole proof hio submits to mnintain Lis first point is a quotation from Buckue, Buckwe wrote a quarter of a century ago. At that time, the present German Empire was in the haunds of Kinglets, Princelings, nnd Dulkelings, who cared nothing for the peoplo and everything for themselves, Germany was the sick man of Christian Europe, bad- gered and baited by her neighbors and racked by internal dissonsion. The change in her condition whichk has made her the strongest nation in Europo is duo to the change, during {his quaster.century, in popular cdueation. No sketch of her intellectual condition in 1850 is true in 1875, any more than o sketch of hor political condition then would ba true now, If Snarleyow's rending only ez- tends no later thon 1850, he had botter censo making bimself ridiculous by trying to teach people in 1875, Morcover, Buckre is a notoriously unsafe guido. He started to write his book witha cast-ivon theory, and fitted his facts to it His Ilistory vesembles a novel in many other things besides interest, Ho has had no stand- ing in England sinco StirriNg, in tho intro~ duction to hia edition of Scuwraren's History of Plilosophy, riddled him with satiro and facts, and mado him remembered only ns the “man whom the amusing Britons call the foremost thinker of the age” and gultity themsolves by doing so. It wns BocrLe who gave birth tothe wondrous theory that all the woes of Ircland were duo to the cultivation of the potato! The Germany of to-day is undoubtedly the best educated na- tion of Europe. It overthrew Austria in forty days, and conquered France ina few months, doubling her up and crushing hor with ease, by virtue of the fact of superior education and goneral intelligence. Contem- porary testimony, somowhat more valuable than tho musty projudices of 1850, is not wanting to establish our statement. * At tho moeting of the State Teachers' Association in this city, on Wednesday, Dr, J. M. Gredory, of the Illinois Industrial University, rend o paper on the *Public Bcliools of Prussia,” which contained the fol- lowing passages: Tho Germons 1any make for themaolves the proud claim of having been tho first of modern peoples to provide a thorough system of publio instruction undor tho direct care and control of the civil Government, And Prussis, onoof the first of tho German Statef to establish publio schools, has won a reputation fortls excelloncy of her school systom ascond fo none, . .+ . Fronch statesmen themselyes say that it waa the Prus- sfon achools which best France, and ihey have bosn urging Franca to the same processes of public educa- tion ue the only true moans of restoring what they fondly term Freach leaderaliip in the great family of nations, Bo much for the firet preposterous state- ment thnt the Germans are the * most ignorant peoplo in Europe”! The second statement, that the proportion of children attonding school hore is as great asitisin Germany, and probobly grester, is scarcely less untrue. The population of Germany is tho same s ours; the number of German children at school should therefore be no greater, It is, however, far greater. In 1871, 6,200,000 German boys and girls wera in the publio schools, The nuniber is now greater, not only because the pupulation has incrensed, but because the schaol-system is bettor arranged and attendanco is more striotly enforced. The United States Com- missloner of Education, in his report for 1873, gives tho aversge mumbor of persons recelving instruction in this country na 4,815,870, Here is a difference of over 1,850,000 in favor of Germany, 7This, how- ever, is only half the story. In Germany, all children have to attond school between the sgesof 6 and 14, Thelr attendance, more- over, hay to extend over ten months of the twelve, In this country, the average child nomiually at echool only attends threo to five months in the country and five to eight months in the cities, 'The Educational Re- port. !orhfim shows that the average school year in thifty-nino of our Ktates and Terri- tories is only four and & half months, or less than half the timo of attendance in Germany. 80 much for sssertion No. 2. We com- mend the sophistical Snarleyow, finally, to theso extracts {from the report of 1870 : Bubsome ssy: “ They [immigrants] are mostly for. signers, from countries whsre, [u the iuteresis of des- potism, the peopie ate kept in iguorance.” This ia true of unlys amall portion of the emigrants trom Europs, Dearly sil the Eucopoan Btates frum which moss of them come having e2icfent systems of public schools, Desldds, our villerates ore, moat of thaim, native-born, + + «+ Inthe Weat snd many Western cilies, the {me migrants, deing shmsly Germans, san resd and wiile e e thelr own languago. + o . Altogother, thia question of iliftoracy in our country 18 a most rorious one. The more clesaly wo luok at #t, tho moro kerious 1t appiears, Bnarleyow, not having looked nt the matter at all, does not consider it nant all revious, He hang snceerded in proving his own ignorsnee in his attempt to establish ihat of the Germans, ——— There must hnve been something extremely enrions in the charncter of that pollutor of sociely, s Fisr, Ir,, aod the tecent suity hiw estato have developed rather i ng disclosures, Among others pend. ing, is ono brought by o man named Swas, who sites for $910, due him for services in watching and finding ont the charncler of the fair ond fat benuty JoseruiNe MANSFIELD, Mr. SBway was Mr, Fisg's privato detective, AL tho fover-hont of his minster’s passion for tho Louneing nympl, Swan was sent to San Francisco to hunt up her rccord, just e thongh whe were a fast howso instend of 8 fast woman. In San Fraucisco, he was telegraphed to by his bosy, with instructions to send a young colorcd man to New York forthwith, which he pro. ceeded to do. While Swax was in the Fur West, T1sk employed the colored boy to walch tho house of bis mistress day nnd night, and tlie Ind obeyed so faithfully thet Josrmise bad to keep him at a distanco with ashot-gun. At other times Swax was sert round to keep the two harpies in good humcr with ready money. Altogether, Fisg's love. making did not differ muterially from Fisg'e other trananctions, except that he lost money init. Ho wag just ns cautious, unserupulous, and methodical in one ns the other, r——— LEDRUJIOLLI}*.— A cable dispatch in our last issue brought tha intelligence of tho death of tho eminent Fronch jurist and politictan, Lepnu-Rorrty, who at ono time occupled o prominohit place iu the political world of Hurope, but of lato yoars hns been In comparative obeenrity. o was born in Parls in 1808, and was admittod to tho Bar in 180. Bome papers which ho published about this tima Drouglit him juto public notice, and thenceforth Lo was enguged as counsel for tho Republican couspirators who were prosecutod under Lotis Purgrver. In 1837 be beeame editor of tho Juurnal du Palais, which ho continued to hold for ten years. e also superintended tho pube lication of the Jurisprudence Francais, and in 1844-"6 appoarod his Jurisprudence administra- tive en maliere contentieuse de 1789 a 1831, sud about tho samo time waa editor of the dally law uvowapaper JLe Droit. In 1811 he was elected Deputy, and 'made such a bold couforsion of hig Republicanism that he was prosecated by tho Goverament. During tho samo year he establisheda jourual of bisown, La Ieforme, dovoted to social and political ro- forms, and In 1845 ixsued a socinlist manifesto which securad him o largo constituoncy in tho lowor classes, but lost him support among the middlo clsuses. On the orgauvization of the Provisional Government hé was olected ono of its membera by ncclemation. As Minister of the Intotior, he issued revolutionary circalars aund et special commissioners to France to furthor tho Domocratic orgaization of the departmonts, In tbe Preeidentinl ecloction of Decomber, 1843, ho prosonted himself as the Domocratio coundidate, bat received only 870,119 votes, whilo Lovis NavoreoN bad moro than 5,000,000, and Caviravac nearly 1,500,000, s popularity, howover, rovived in 1849, sud in the cleetions for tha Leglslative As- somably ho wea chosen by the volo of five departe menta and received a Lenyy vote 1n saven othora. His clection cncouraged him to opposition against tho Government, and on June 13 of that your lie attomptod an insurrectionary demonstra< tiou which ended in » wretchod failure. Rorriy escaped to Englaud, whera lo ronmined many years, asnociating with Kossurir, MazziNy, and other revolutionary loaders. In 1857.he was sg= cused of bolng engaged in . plot with Mazzig agmnst Louls Navorroy, which brought upon Lim 3 pecond sontonco of transportation. Ha rofused to avail himsolf of the last amnesty pro- claimod by Loua NaroLrox, and did not return to Parls until 1870, aftor a twenty yoars' ab- senco, o was returned to the Assembly im 1871, but, after disappoluting his friouds by bia apeoches, reeigned. Ko had outlived his usoful~ ness, In addition to tho works of which we hava spokon, he hns loft us a literary monument, Do la Decadence de TAngleterre and La Lo Anglaise. —_— Tho social scandal which is now attracting attaition and supplyivg 8t. Louis with material for conversation in bar-room, aud bail-room, on the street, rud sround the tee-tablo, is one of bigamy, dishonesty, cowardico, and cruclty, By 8a oxplosion in the gas-works of that city, thera was instantly slain & mau named Trovas Pratr, wortl, 80 it was wsaid, $500,000, After his fun~ oral bia will was found, leaving his property to Lbia family in 8¢, Louis. Then came a delegation of young mon and women from various partd of the country mud from England, claiming bis property, and THOMAS PuarT was a bigamist proven. Tha rocords of Loughborough, in Lelces- torshire, show that PraTr married in England in 1821, Ho loft his wife and family and came to the United Btates, marrying & second time with tho full knowledge that his firs) wifo waa llving, Bhe discovered Lis cnmo and throatoned to exposo bim. What, then, did Tnatrdo? Io was a member of & church, and 80 distinguished & mombor that his piety was a standing reproach to tho thoughticss and carnal- ly-minded. But ho was in o fix, and appealed to his pastor for advice. Alas! this pastor was a carnally-minded man, as the event showed, and tho loading men of the church feared tho scan- dal of tomporal contrition and urgod him to compromise. Ho gent Lis wifo money to quiet her, and sufferod torture rather than rub the gilt-edged respoctability from his namo and tha church he belouged to. ** Avold a scandal,” waa the counsel of the pastor sud church, and, by judicious mansgemont of mouoy, the scaudal was avolded. Thon camo the oxplo- sfon of gas onud cousequont family seorets, The children and their mother aued for their share of the inbentanco, and the prop- erty, or what was loft of it after duo arrange- monts wore mado for the onrichment of the ille gitimate childien, was placed iu tho hands of the Yublic Administrator. The two explosions have shattored the nerves of the worldly pastor, who dated not even counsel ractitude and courage, but urged the trembling einuer to ‘compromise with Lis consgienco, cheat the ungodly world, and proserve tho reputation of himaelf snd his church unscathed. Any nerves that could not stand counsoling courage would naturally shate ter readily over double gas-explosion. diodesienid oy A New York dispateh snye: . Comptrolier Grzex will probably resign at the end of the year, Every paper axcopt tho Tiuies i now op= poscd to Lls rewaliluy tu oftice, Tho Wortd cume vut strongl ¢ bim today, and his rexignation iy said ta ared, GEEEN Luw hover beon anything more thun a scr: of head-clerk for Baxturs J, Tikoea, Goveruor-olect; and_has no end of poronl euomice, “C1pEN Auda that ho can 1o longer nustuln GUEEN 15 1ho posttion, aud bus probably advised Lis resiguation, Comptroller GREEN may have made some mise takes, like mont other mon, but this s not why the New York press oppose him, When he ene torod office, ha found & number of enormousand spparently fraudulent bills sgalnst the oity, He declined to pay them. Among them were adver« tising acoounts from tho ZTridune, Merald, Sun, and a dozen othber papers. Buit was brought on all of thom, snd tloso papers howled for the head of the Comptroller. The Sun spitofully declared, s few days sincs, that Mr. Goeex bed made tho oity pay over 800,000 for logal defense sgainat thsse claims. This is trae. 1t is also true—but the Aun omitted the statement—that that defense has save the city ovor §2,000,000. Itdoea notsugus well for the purity of the coming Demooratio coutral in Naw Xork tuab M Tuoxx, duapite