Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6, 1875.--TEN PAGLS. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATZS OF AURSCRIPTION (FATAPLE IN ADVANCE), Postage Frepald nl;hlu oOmee. L0} | Snoda; $1300 | Waelty ont dolay sud Ofice addresa in full, incloding State and Counly. Ramittances may bomede ofther by draft, exprass, Post- Ofice order, or fn regiatared letters, at our eisk. TERMS TO CITY SURSCTIRPRS, Daily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 235 conts per weok Daily, delivered, Bunday Included, 3() conts per waek Addrese TIIK TRIBUNF COMPANY, Cerner Madisan and Desrbo Chicaga, 1. TO:DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, i o H & eow's M ND_OPERA-HUUSE~Clark st Touse, _ Keily " Aftornann and evening. B UQOLKY'S TiL! Clark and 1a8alle. avening. TRE-Tandoloh strect, betwean Lost'in London." Afterncon aud REUM-Monroe street, hetwean Dear. B e U e Boibe Sredtig M osnd ™ Bovd for Nothlug." ACADRMY OF MU: Halatod pirsot, betwaen Aad- fagn and M Miss' Clara Atoris, roe. Knzagement of Al Afiargoon, " Tus Stravgor. fironiog, '+ Ts Hunch- Jiocs M'VICKKR'S_THEA! adisan strest, batween ** Swesthoarts and Wires " snd ITY LODOE, No. 4t.~The members ars B A s Louesr A Griemal Hally om Wadnos: i e KL00 ains. for the Dienoso of At{eading eiatof sueots i Lo Foeiing, Megberd oy ot i ¥ lodgon traterualiy sl o, M CWORTIY, Seo. TIESPERTA LODGE, No. 411, A. . & A, M.—Tustal- Istlon of officers will tako placo (IH‘(“I!A]I\B!GI{ JEEL AR S, v amatcs by bttty 4 B elueK, Hrsn eremontce Dol M BIENAR, Socty. ILLINOIS ST, ANDREW!'S BOCIETY.~Members af tho ifiinals St Xudeaw's Socto'y are rognedted o wtiend ho funoralof ihe Iate faies {1, 1o teom No. 10 iluo ¥ dnorday), 8t | o'clock. land-av., tbls altasaaon (Wednoadap, st welock,, EALERS' ASSOCIATION, OF CHICAGO, kg il oot 53 Satirdtys tha O lant, the Club Ruoms of (he Tromont Maus ro eordially invitad to attend. Ly order of the Proxde SIONER NLR, Soc's, INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. TIRD. GE—City, Subnrban, and Country Real ;. B intas Senatea Boaratak am Lodgng, insinnes Chavens, Fiuanclal, ete., ete. até., ate. Uruad Time- The Chicans Tiibune, ‘Wednesdey Morning, January @, 18705, WITH SUPPLEMENT. Gov. Trpex, of New York, has excellent notions as to the duty of the State to the Erie Canal. Hosays: ‘ Tho State must protect tho Erie Canal while not seeking to make money from jt.” That is & sound opinion. ‘We hops it is t2 be acted upon by the Legis. latnre during the winter. But so much can- not bo expected from a Legislature which Tammany Hall controls, Tho absence of Mr. Warre, a Republican Senator, from Bpringficld just at this time, is unfortunate for him, and may prove to be unfortunate for the Republican party. Every voto that belongs to the party ought to be caat to-day on the organization of the Sennte, Mr. Warre will need an excolleni oxcuse to satisfy tho people who elected him that his sbsence from the Capital is altogother for- tuitous. Both Houses of Congress considered tho Touisiana disorders yesterday. Nothing was accomplished in either House, the day being pretty well givon over to filibustering. The debate inthe Senate was vigorous and acri- monious, all tho leaders taking part. In the House, Mr. Burrer was the prom- inont spenker, the immediato issuo being whether the Civil-Rights bill shonld be considered. We are happy to sgree with Afr, BuTLer for once in & way, in the opinion that Congress and the people generally should wait for the report of the Investigating Com- mittee now in New Orleans before advising further action by auy Departmont of the Na- tional Government. Mr. J. G. Scmumaker, the Democratio member of Congress who has been implicated in the Pacific Mail scondal, appeared in his seat yestordny. He was very indignant at the report that he had fled to Europe to nurse his sicl wife; said his wife was not sick; and intimated that e would not go to Europe to minister unto her necessitics if she were gick, This is very brutal language for Mr. Benvvaxer to use. Still, we aro glad to know that he hns o satisfactory explanation to offer of the mannerin which he came by that check for ©275,000 which constituted pert of Inwrx's corruption fund. If he will only be as good gs his word in this respect, wo shall not consider it our duty to investi- gate his domestio affairs furthor. Alrendy the Investigating Committee at New Orleans has developed some points touching the military occupation of the Stuto. House Monday which go far to excuse the irregularity of the proceeding. It has been shown that the Democrats were the first to call in tho troops; that the law of the Btate provides for the organization of the House by the Clerk holding over; that the pretended Democratio Legisla- ture was, thorefore, a mob in possession of the State-House ; and that tho troops only in- terfered to romove persons indicated by tho Clerk as not being entitled to the privileges of the floor, It mustbo said that tho testi- mony to these facts is from Republican sources; the Democrats will bave a hearing hereafter, Four days have becn allowed to ench sido, The Democratic Central Committee of Ili- nois, happening to bo in session at Spring- flold yesterday, issued a call to the poople of this State for an indignation meeting, to give expression to the supposed popular con- demnation of the alleged usurpation at Now Orleans. 'Tre Trisuxe is not prepared, with the lightithas atpresent, toapprovothe action of Gen. Buentoax Monday, ‘That action, by all present appearances, was injudicious and hasty, But we do not propose to go off half- cocked, as the Democratic Contral Commit- tee of Tllinois, nnd the Demoeratic Senators ot Washington, and the Democratic news- papers throughout the country, have dono, 1t will be time enough to right any wrongs that have boen committed when they are fully established. At present wo havo only a meagre summary of the proceedings of Mondsy on which to base an oplnion, With theso data, it is absurd to drag out the Revo- lutionary fathers and Joms Huaurozy, or to compare Gon, SaERIDAN with OnonweLs and Narorxow, hewever flattering the comparison 108y be to him, The Chicago produce markets wers goner- ally weak yesterduy, with a fair business doing. Mess pork was moderately active, and 20@250 psr brl lower, closing ot §18.70 @18.75 cash, and $19.00@19.05 for February, Lard was In fair domand, sud 108 per 200 1bs lower, closing at $13.127-2@13.15 cash, and $13.82 1.2@13.35 for February. Menta wore more aclive nud firm at 6 #-8@0 8-4o for shoulders, 9 1.2@9 5-8c for short ribs, and 10c for short clear. Dressed logs wero less netive and ensier, at #8,00@8.15 per 100 ths. Highwines were quict and ic lowor, at 9% per gallon, Flonr was dull and unchanged. Wheat was more active, and declined 1 1-de, closing nt 89 -8¢ cash, and 90 1-4c for Ieb- riary, Corn was dull and 1-4@1-20 lower, closing at 65 8-{c cash, and 72e scller May. Oats were quiet and unchanged, closing at 52 3-1c cash, and &3 1-8¢ for February, liye was dull and 1-2 lower, at 98 1.2@97c. Barley was dull and easier, closing at S1.24 for Fobmunry, On Saturday eveni last thero was in storo in this city 2,3 bu whent, 1,201,401 bu corn, 486,171 bu onts, ryo, and 833,728 bu barley. 1logs wera active and closed firm, Sales ab $6.25 @7.40. Cattlo were dull and lower. Sheep met with o good demand at a shado easier prices. Among the Constitutional amendments recently adopted in New York was one re- quiring Btate oflicials and members of the Legisinture, after Jan. 1, 1875, to subscribe to the following oath: And I do furthor eolemnly swear (or affirm) that T havo not, directly or iudirectly, patd, offered, or prom- i8¢d to pay, contributed or offered to contribute, any ‘money ot other valuablo thing asa considoration or reward for tho giviug or withholding & voto at the election at which T was elected to said oftice, and havo not made auy promise to influcace the giving or witli- Bolding any suck vote, Astho Into elections occurred befors the act was passed, it wns claimed that the mem- bers of tho present Legislature might take the old oath, which contnined no snch pro- vision, in case they were sworn in before the first of tho month, It is noteworthy that, though the Legislature did not meet until Jan. 4, fifty-four members rushed to Albany several days in advance in order to avail themselves of this privilege. Z7irty-four of theso wero Democrats and twenty Repub- licans, In some cases the occuwrrence may havo been accidental, but the New York papers feel justified in denouncing the most of these precipitate swearcrs.in as corrup- tionists, It is only fair to state that -Gov. Tiepey and Liout.-Gov. DonsmEiMen sub- serilied to the new oath, Gen. Sueripan's dispatch to the Secretary of War, suggesting a mesns of quieting the Southern people, will excite amusemont rather than dismay ot the North, The Gon- eral Lias beon too much nccustomed to the rough usages of military jurisprudence to un. derstand the delicato and complex questions which are presented in tho South, He only sees that thero aro about him a number of or- ganizations lawless in fact but not in name ; that he hns a force suflicient to subduo them; and that the immediate effect of doing 80 would Lo incrensed security to life nnd property. So he asks the President, or Con- gress, to declare that the White-Leaguers are banditti, and to provide for their trial Ly military courts. o says thet if such a declaration were made, no further action need bo taken excopt that which would devolve upon him. In spite of the nssurances which the General mokes, his expediont is very objectionsble; so much so, indeed, that it will not be entertained for n moment, and a serious discussion of it is not worth the while. It is contrary to the whole spirit of our institutions that martial law should be declared in soveral States of the Unionin a time of poace, and yet that is what the Gen- eral really proposes. Gen. BHIRIDAN i8 & hot-blooded Irishman, and more a fighter than & philosopher; it is not strange that the Southern disorders should seem to him a providential occasion for the exercisa of his own peculiar qualities. REVOLUTIONARY PROVEEDINGS N LOD1s- The State of Louisiana is just at this time the black sheep in the American flock, and tho plague-spot of popular government. 'There alone, in all the broad land, still fester tha sores of the Rebellion, and there alone is it practically denied that frec men aro capable of gelf-government, We need not repeat tha story of the frauds, corruptions, and nusurpa- tions of two years ago. An election was held in 1874, the returns of which election were, under the law, canvassed and declared by a Roard legally created for that purpose. 'The Houso of Representatives of tho Legislatura of that State consists of 111 members, The Teturning Board declared that53 Republicans and 53 Democrats had been elected, and that in the cnse of five districts they would make no decision, on account of fraud, informal- ities, and intimidation, but leave that to Lo done by the House when it wes organized. There being 106 members duly declared to be elected, 54 was necessary to a quoram for the transaction of business. The 106 members met on Monday in the State-House, and the Clerk of the previons Houso called the roll and declarod 106 membors ‘presont. Ordinarily, nnd outside of Louisiana, the House should have then proceeded to ballot for n Speaker, and continued to do so until ono was elected. But that would not suit the wild ex-Rebels of that State, It was known that thero wero several Conservative Repub- lican members who would probably have unitod with tho Democrats in securing au or. gonization, but the rule.or-ruin spirit of the Bourbon Demoeracy would not bend. There was a short way,—n rovolutionary method, which was only the more gratifying because it was illegal, A member suddenly rose in the hall and moved that ex-Mayor Wiz, of New Orleans, bo declared temporary Spealcer ; the mover put the question, and declared it carried in the face of o loud negative cry of cortainly as mony voices s those who yelled in the afirmative, By what right did he put such o question and declaro it camded? ‘Wintz sprang for the Speaker's chalr, selzed the gavel, and proclaimed himself Speaker! Iheu gome one else in the erowd and in the midst of the most terrifio nolse and cou- fusion moved that the fivea Demooratic clalmants to seata not detormined by the Tteturning Board, and who had no certificates of cloction, be declared members-olect. There wns & loud demand that the vote be taken by yess and nays, but tho usurping Bpeaker ruled that there couldbeno call of the yeas and nays until the House was permanently organized, He therefore declared the motion to admit the five Democratio claimants earried! A motlon was then meade that o pormanent Speaker be elected, whercupon the Republicans, with three exceptions, de- clined voting, Wirtz recelving 55, Hamw 2, and one blank. All these proceedings had token place in the greatest excitement, noise, and confusion, The yells of the two factions were {ncossant and terrific. The Republic- an members, protesting against the revolu- tionary action by which Wizzz had been nfado Speaker, undertook to withdraw, when o row became imminent, A mob of White- Laeaguors drew and brandished their revolv. era snd cauuaanded the Republicsn mem- bers to remain in tho hall on pain of having their brains blown out. In the midst of the struggle of the Republican menr~ bors" to leave the lall, of the polico to protect them, and of the White-Lenguo Rebels to kill them if they stirred, Gen. Dz Tromntanp appenred with an order from Gov. Ketrosa to re. atoro penco and order Dby rvemoving from tho hall of tho Tlouse all persons savo tho 106 members roturned ns clected by the Borrd of Canvassers. Winta refused to let the Clerk read this order, and (ien. De Trounraxp eaused it to boe read by his Adju- tant, Gen, Dr 'I'monrtaxn then requested tho tive usurping claimants to leavo the hall, and they refused, and the Democrats refused to ovder them to leave. In answer to his question, Witrz informed him that they would yield to nothing bat force, and calling in o filo of soldiers ho escorted the five nusurp- ing claimants out. Whereupon Wiz pro- testing, tho Democrats in a body left the Lall. The Republieans now returned, aud, claiming to have a quorum, elected Micuaen Hanx Speaker, and then, admitting threo con- testing Republicans to seats which the Re- turning Board had awarded to Democrats, ad- journed. The American people have had some fa- miliatity with the tumultuous and disorderly scenea which attend party eaucuses, where each faction endeavors to bully the opposing one, and all rules of order, decency, and right are violated. The matter in Louisinnn had oll the disgracoful, revolutionary, and indecent fentures of the bummmer cancus fight, notwithstanding it was the solemn or- gonization of the Legislaturo of the Btate. Hero were 106 men, entitled prima jfucte by law to Lold sents in the Legisla- ture, nnd to organizo the Fouso of Represontatives ; when that Ifouse wns organized, they then had the power to pass upon the respective claims of thoso who sought the remaining five seats, and also any other cases of contested cloction, But the White-Lengue ex-Rebels were de- termined to rule things with o heavy and un-~ rolenting hand. They, with mob violence and proconcerted celerity, declared one of their own members Speaker, soized possession of the House, ejectod the legal Clerk, and ad- mitted to seats tho five persons whose right toa seat atall could only be determined byan organized House. All this they did, refusing to permit the voto on any motion to be taken by yess and nays, To understand this matter fully, let us sup- pose that to-day at Springfield the Republic- ang, who wanted only a few more votes to lave a majority in the House, should enter that body with a mob of armed followers, should declars Corrox Speaker, and then by a yell voto of the miscellancous nssomblago and mob should oxclude ten Democrats and Independents, and admit the contesting claimants of their own party, and then clect Currox Spenaker by their aid, and declaro themselves the organized House of Repro- sentatives of Iilinois, and nest undertake, by means of tho armed rabble in the lobby, to prevent tho withdrawal of the outraged Democrats, threatening'to shoot any Domo- crat who left the hall, tho proceeding would Do exactly a counterpart of what tha Demo- crats undertook to perpetrate upon the Re- publicons in Louisiana on Monday lnst. Would the Ropublicans of Illinois have sub- mitted to the outrage? Would not those present at the Capital promptly redress the wrong by forcitly expelling the cut-throat mob and the usurpers? Now, &8 to the use of the military, woe are utterly opposed to the military interference of the United States in any civil matters or in any State controversics except under the circumstances provided in the Constitution, ‘We have ropeatedly expressed our opinion of tho Krrroas Government; we have no re- spect for n Stato Government which is only mainteined by the force of Federal bayonets. But one wrong and one outrage cannot jus- tify or Do treated ns a precedent for nnother, If the lawa of Louis- iona nuthorize the Governor of that Stute to protoct the two Houses of the Leg- islature from invasion or disturbance, or tho presence of men who have no legal au- thority to be there, and the Governor Las au. thority, as the Executive, to protect these who are members from being overawed and outvoted by those who are not members, and that as Execative he has suthority to employ forco for this purpose, then we suppose Kz~ 1oac had authority to request Gen. Etony for n military force cqual to this duty, and that Gen. Exonx had authority to order Dz Tponruaxp to wuse that force to ex- ccuto the request of the Governor, We aro pretty certain that, in caso the samo thing was attempted at Bpringfleld as we have described, Gov. Brv. Enmoe would find some means, and very promptly, toenter tho hall of the House of Representatives and eject the mob and overy man attempting to exercise the office of a log- islator who was not entitled theroto, ‘Wa have been inclined to beliove that the Election law of Louisiana is, as ex-Senator Ty said on Mpnday, o fraud and aswindle; and we bave been inclimred to believe that tho Democrats elected o clear majority of the members of the Legislature, and we think that, had tho Democrats overcoms their pro- pensity for revolution nnd violence, and shown the least disposition to organize the Btate on a peaceful basis, they would have found Republicans enongh in the Legisinture to have recognized justice and right, and Re. publicans in all parts of the country to have suatained them, As it is, they have for the third time attempted revolution and pro. voked a general massicre, and have ngain failed; thoy havo forfeited the respoot and sympathy of the country, and must take the consequences of the unpleasant and irksome duty forced on tha President of maintaining the peace in Louisiana at whatever cost,—a duty which the Constitution and the laws im- pose upon him, In the cloventh article of the prosent Con. stitution of the Btats of Missouri thero is the following provision : No person 1l be prosecuted 1 any civil sotion or ding for or on account of auy sot by him done, performed, or exscuted, stter the ist doy of January, 1861, by virtus of military authority vested in him by the Government of tho United Blates, or of 1his Btate, to do such act, or in pursuance of ordews received by lom from any person vested withasuch suthority ; and if any sotion or procesding shall hiave heretofore bocn, or sball hereafter be, instituted sgsinet any person for the doing of any such sof, the defendant may plead this soction in bar thereot, This provision, whichhas been a guarantee of froedom and of prosperity to the Btate of Missouri, the Bourbon Democracy are now seoking to repeal, in order to gratify their feelings of rovenge and hatred against patri- oticmen who espoused tho cause of the Unijon during the War and helped to save the Btate. 'Lhe repoal of this provision of the Constitution is sought only to satlsty personal hostility and vislt revenge upon those who performed thelr sworn daty in the porformanye of wilitary orderss Osce repealed, it will fill the Missouri courts with prosecutions which will be persecutions, and suits bosed not upon justico hut upon malico and private grodges. Its effect will bo to compel tha men of Missouri who were true to the Union to leave the Stnto, and will place it within the power of every mau who was o Rebol to despoil every man who wrs trie to tho country, 'I'he esistenco of this provicion in the Hiate Constitution has been the salvation of the State;* its abro- gation will bo n curso to its indusiries and its prosperity. 'The mero proposition to re- peal it shows the venomous hatrod which the ex-Rebel Democeracy feels townrds overy misn in that Stato who was loyal to his country. HOW TO RESUME. We publish elsewhers o letter from a mer- chant af thiscity, iu which the writer suggests welling cnongh bonds te nccumulato i tho Treasury the amount of gold needed to redeom the greenbacks and then proceeding toreqeem, He complains, at the ontset, that his business is disturbed by the ¢ continual fluctuation of gold.” This is an error in terms. (lold does mot fluctuato. It is greonbacks which fluctuate. If the precious metal is quoted at 110 yesterday, and 115 to-day, and 103 to-morrow, its value novertheless romains the same, The greon- backs have simply lost value or gainod it. It is the continual fluctuation of irredeemnble paper-money which disturbs business, The value of gold is substantinlly unchangoable, beeanso its cost of production, estimato in sweat and Iabor, remains about the same in all ages and countries. History records only two noticenble chonges in its worth or purchasing power, and each of theso was distributed over a long series of of years, It is this quality of unchangenble- ness which fits it to be the standard of value, and makes it such standard throughout the world. The paper-dollar is an Indis-rubber yord-stick which measures two feot to-day and twenty-cight inches to-morrow. The gold dollar measures its due thirty-six inches overy day of the year, Our correwpondent alludes to the danger of a run upon the' Treasury as soon ns the dny fixed for redemption came., This is on imaginary danger. The run could do no harm, in the first place, if enongh gold was on hand, and it would not, in such n case, occur, It would happen only if the stock in the Trepsury wos so manifestly %mall that but a trifling part of the green- backs would bo redeemed. Then there would be a rush to grab it. But if there wns a Inrge supply on hand, or provision male to procure all that might be necded by selling bonds, thero would be no run on the Treas- ury, becnuso there would bo public confi- dence that the Government could fulfill its promises to pay on demand, The main portion of the Jetter proposes an impossibility. We cannot got $382,000,000 in gold from Europe unless we sell our bondsat a ruinous shove. The withdrawal of that cnormous amount would unsettle stock values throughout Europe, and knock down the sell- ing price of our bonds. The Bank of England rate of discount wounld be run up to any figure, however high, which would prevent the outward flow of so much gold. Our bonds, issued in such amounts, would prob- ably bring less than three-fourths of their fnce. Wo cannot accumulate enough specio to redeem 382,000,000 of greenbacks nll at ono time, and it would not pay us to do so if wa could. 'The loss of interest on the gold while it was kept idle in the Treasury would Dbe in itself n large item. The way to resume is to contract the volume of the greenbacks by permitting the holders to convert them into bouds, &8s the original greonback act authorized to bo done; and beforo the day fixed for resumption, to have in the Treasury a moderately large stock of coin, and authority conferred on the Secre- tary of the Treasury to sell bonds for eoin. Financial experts think that the cancellation of $100,000,000 of tho greenbacks will bring the rest nearly to par, This is certainly pos- sible, As the greonbacks aro gradunlly re- tirod and free banking is anthorized, the law of demand and supply would insure the pro- vision of all the paper money necded. There would be no distnrbance of business, Gold would gradunlly flow into the country as the greenbneks approached par, and we should be spared tho expense and the trouble of nc- cumulating n vast stock of specie by a forced salo of our bonds on a falling market. THE KERTUCKY LIBRARY LOTTERY. ‘We have no disposition to place ourselves between two such belligerent bodies as Messrs. Harsteap and WarTeRsoN, nor, by espousing the side of one, to attract the vig- orous antagonism of the other. We have, therefore, watched the contraversy between the Cincinnati Commercial and Lonisville Courier-Journal over the Publio Library Lot~ tery with an admiration for the ability of the respective pugilists only tempered with regret at their acerbity. We had no iden that two independent journalista could make so small an allowance for the personal independence on ecither side. We have duly remombered that Mr, Havateip ia an Ohioan, to whom lot- tery is forbiddon fruit under the law, and that Mr, Warrersoy is a Kentuokian with great local pride in the Public Library (and whosa State permits lottery gambling), and nothing of what Dickens calls “bigod” nonsenso in regard to *gift concerts.” We could readily understand, therefore, how theso two jour- nalists ghould differ on this matter, though neither seoms to have been able to compre. hend it. At last, however, the Cincinnati Commereial hos put the case in n shape which is of gen- eral public interest wherever there has boen sn attempt to sell these Library lottery tickets, ond we conoeive it ta Le our duty to rocapitu- Iato tho points. The * fifth drawing * of this schome was aunounced last spring, and the ciroular signed by ex-Gov, Tuosas E. Braxt. rerTe guaranteed that all the receipts from the sale of tickets should be deposited in the Farmers' and Drovers' Bank of Louisville, and there remain untoucheduntil the payment of all the gifts offered. The drdwing was postponed, as usual, Nov, 20, and Gov. Bran. rzrTe again took occasion, in a card to the Courier-Journal, to sssure the publio that a very large proportion of the tickets had been sold, that all the money recelved from the proceeds of such sale was in the Farmers' snd Drovers’ Bunk, and that the ourrent expenses wore paid out of funds raised and supplied by himeelf, which Le should not roclaim until all tho advertised gifts bad been pald. These pledges cer- tainly seom to be specifio enough, and wero of a charaster to atiraot special confidence in the scheme. The Cincinnatl Commercial 08 taken some pains to verify them, but with poor results,, If hal? tho tickets have been sold, there should bo something lke $2,500,000 lying untouched in the Farmers' and Drovers’ Bank, But the offlolal state. ment of the bank, mades Des. 80 (a month after Gov, Baimizrtx's intimatidn thet immenso proportion of tho whole number of tickets had been disposed of), fails to show any such condition, The entire assets of the bank are only £1,789,809. Tho tofal amount due all depositors s only $1,510,100, O this snm £1,110,478 have hoon loaned on notes and bills, and §114,600 are out on demand loans, 'The eash netunlly on land nnd wa- touched is only SI3,518, Now, if Gow, Buaseerts is the only depositor in the Fam- era’ nd Drovers' Bank, which is hardly ron- sonnble to suppose, then his money on de- posit is less thau n third of the amonnt which a salo of all tho tickets would have pro. duced. Tub even of this £1,600,000, assum- ing that the bank lias no other depositor, only about oue-tenth literally romains untouched ; tho remainder in in use in the ordinary way of tho banking business, We are inclined to think that the Cincinnati Commereidl is fully warranted, in viow of theso conditions, in asking, * Where is that money " We do not sny that the Louiavilla Courier-Journal ought to explain, but some- body ought, It is apparent that cither tho pledges of the mavagement of the lottery Liave not been koept, or that there has been but a very small proportion of the tickets sold during tho nino months this ** fifth drawing " hns been advertised. In either cose, we think that the proper thing for the managers to do is to return the money to ticket-holders and abandon the scheme, Mr. WarrensoN will then bo nt liberty to urge upon tho Kentucky Legislaturo the passage of n law prohibiting lotteries and lottery-ndvertisements, such as: alroady exists in Ohio and Illinois. And if the Louisville Public Library is still in need of funds, after four lottery schomes for its benefit, Mr., War- TERSON might also urge npon the Legislature the passage of o law similar to one we have in Illinois, authorizing a certain proportion of tho city tax—say 1 mill—to be lovied for tho boneflt of the Public Library every yoar. It wos in this way that the Chicago Public Library was established, and it is infinitely mora creditable to the people than the thinly- disguised begging-schemo of Louisville. Menuwhile, we should think it time tlie fool-killer were mnking another visit, if any groat number of people invest in this * fifth drawing"” after tho Cincinnati Commercials statemont of the case. THE MOUNTAIN-MEADOW MMASSACRE, Wo print elsswhore the first authentic nar- rative of the awful Mountain Mendow mas- sacre which hns evor Leen made public. Seventeen years havo clapsed since thisMor- mon atrocity was perpetrated, snd in this timo tho very fact of the massacro has almost faded out of recollection. 'To many the nar- rative will be ag fresh ns if the ovents had happened yesterday, while those who atill re- member the terriblo deed will bo shocked to learn that it was planned and instigated by Mormon whites, and exccuted by Mormon whites and Mormon Indians ncting in con- cert. The recent arrest of J. D, Lee, the lender in the massacre, who is now in jail awaiting trial for murder, gives a current in. terest to tho fearful story, which is substan. tially as follows : In 1857, some miners, who ‘went to California in 49 and had prospered, returned to their homes in Arkansas to take their families to the new El Dotado. They disposed of their homestesds, aud made up o train of 146 men, women, and children, and started upon the roturn, . When they arrived at Balt Lake City they were told by the Mormons that it was too Iate in the season for them to cross the Sierra Nevadas by the old emigrant route, snd wore ad- vised to take the Houthern Utah route. They did s0, and on the morning of Sopt. 10, whilo encamped on the. desolate Mountain Mepdows, near Cave Bpring, they were surprised by an attack of Indians, who lkilled seven and wounded fifteen of them at the first fire. They rallied, however, throw up barricades with their wagons, and ropulsed their assailants, The nows of the repulse was brought to Cedar City by a courier, and Jony D. Lex, the In- dion Agent, at the head of a large force of Mormon militin, started to the relief of his Indion allies, with instructions that tho wholo party must bemassacred. By this time the emi- grants had so securely intrenched themselves that they succossfully resisted the Mormons for seven or eight days, during which timo, howevor, they were cut off from subsistence, while the Mormons were supplied from Salt Loake and Cedar City. During the slege, fifteen of them were killed. Couriers, whom thoy sent out with appeals to white men for rolief, they believing that their besiegers wero Indions, were intercepted and put to death with the most ornel tortures. At last, upon the verge of starvation, they wors in. duced by Lex to come out of their intrench- ments and hold & parley. The mon camo out in & body withont arms, and ot a given signal every ome was shot by Lre's troops, those who were woundod being given over to the In. dians to be killed by torture. The women wera first ravished and then slanghtored. All of the children, except those who wore supposed to be too young to romember tho horrible scone, were butchered, and in this butchery the white and red flends vied with ench other in diabolical methods of craelty. Of the 146 mombors of the lrain, only thirteen littlo ohildron survived, and theso wers scat- tored far and wide among Mormon families. After tho mascacre the bodies of the viotims were left unburied, and, when the butchers had retired, the wolves feasted upon the dead. The train was rich in monoy, live-stock, and all tho effects which, in those early days, comprised the outfit of emigrants making the long overland journey. 'The spoils were col- lected, kent to Salt Lako, and sold at auction by Bishop Hraprz, and purchassd by the Baints, For a whole year the Mormons kept their secret, and only a rumor that thero had beon tronblo of gome sort found its way to the Btates. Tho guilty Lz, however, conld not carry the secret long. Remorse preysd upon him, and he mought to easo his conscionce by confessing the de- tails of tho massacre, which Lo laid at the doors of the Indians, There were others, however, who were afflicted in a similar manner and told the truth, among them some of the Indians, who were incensed booause the spoils had not been divided equally, The Mormon butchers also made a mistake in supposing children could not re- member, and somo of them corroborated the confessions in all their details, Tho sggre. gate of the testimony brought out every faoct of the massacre in the clearest light, and es- tablished the guilt of Lxzm nnd his fellow. butohers beyond the shadow of a doubt. The misorable old man now les in jail awalting trisl, and justice will be avenged. A rudo heap of stones erected upon the desolate Mountain Meadow, con. tinually matilated by Mormon hatred even to the present day, is tho only monumental souvenir Juft to tell the story of the massasre; but the horrible story has now been madd public, ind musb Lissten the downfoll b ihe systom under whoso auspices it was planned and consummated, and in this fact lies somo alight compensation for the bloody deeds of that fatal Soptember, The testimony points with unerring certainty to tho fact that this massacre was planned by leading mon of tho Mormon Church in Salt Take City, in order to avengo tho denth of Joskrir Bamiti, *“‘the Prophet,” and Elder Irnrey P, Prarr; that Drranmas Youwxa, nlthough nobt n gxrtierps eriminis, must have bheen awaro of the faets, and hns retained tho leadors of the massnera in places of friendship and trust ever since, althongh ho has gono through an empty form of cut- ting them off from the Church; that o large part of the proceeds arising from the wale of the emigrants’ effects wna covered into tha treasury of the Clnreh; and that the orders of tho Church authorities forbale any Mor- mon, unler severs penaltics, cithor to give or sell them food Leforo the massacre was agreed upon, they knowing full well that, nuder such cireumstances, thavictims wontdmeet death by wtarvation. In cool deliboration, flendish malico, and cruel execution, thero is but ono massacre in modern history to compare with it, and that is Neva Samn's massacro of tho English troops at Cawnpore, The two cases ave nlnost parallel. They bappened in the same year, 1857, Men, women, aud children were butchered aliko, and the vietims in ench cnso fell into the hands of tho butchers by the samo species of treachery. By another singular coincidence, both leaders, Jonx D. Ler and Newa Saurs, were arrested last November, Tha world will be hiappily rid of both. SHARP ALDERMANIO TRICKERY. The action of the Common Council on Monday night, on the petition to have the question of tho adoption of the new ecity charter submitted to the people, was, with- out exception, s gross au insult to tho pub- lio n8 oven the Common Council could porpe- trate. We wero surprised that so many intelligent and respectable Aldermen permit- ted themselves to be thus entrapped and overrenched. The resolution adopted by the Council rends as follows : Resolved, By tho Common Council of tha Clly of Clifcago, tiie Mayor concurring, that the 231 day of April, A. D, 1875, bo and tha same {a tized and dealg- nated au the day'of election at which the queatfon as 10 whetlier the satd City of Chicago ahall becomo in- corporatod under an act of the General Assemby of the Blate of Illinols, entitied an act to protido for the incorporation of citioa and villages, approved April, 1873, in forco July 1, 1873, shall bo aubmitted to o vote of thie electora of rafd City of Chicago; and further be it resolved, that the poliing places and the Judgea of tho electiona shall bo the sumo 2a at the eloction of Btate and county oflicers held on tho 3d day of No- vomber, 1874, in sald City of Chicago, The point of this resolution will bo seen in the fact that tho gencral act of incorporation fixes as tho date of the annual election the third Tuesday in April, which, in 1875, is the 20th £ that month, and it also provides that the election of Mayor shall occur in 1873, 1875, or at the cloction in April of some odd numbered year. Now the Common Council have fixed the 23d day of April, 1875, ns the dny for voting on tho question whether tho now charter shall be adopted or not. It it should be adopted on that day, no election for Mayor under that chartor can tako placo until April, 1877; another election for Mayor, and city officers, and Aldormen must take place in November, 1876; and practically the present dynasty, with all its corruptions and rasealities, will be perpetrated two years and four months longer ! Tho only members of the Board who voted ngoinst the ‘resolution in this form wers RicmarpsoN, Frrzoxmarp, Sronz, of the Fifth Ward, MoDovatp, and Cranke, of the Tenth Ward,—five in all. Can it bo posaible that only five of the thirty-two Aldermen present ond voting saw through the trick, or can' it be that all, except theso five, voted Lnowingly and intentionally thus to defeat the popular will, should it be expressed in favor of the new charter? Wae pause for an answer, SPECIE-PAYMENTS AND FREEDOM OF TRADE. A commercial reviow of the past year, mado up by & Noew York paper, furnishes one of the most practical and convincing arguments that could be adduced in favor of n return to specie-pasyments and freedom of trade. The very opposite of these conditions can be mude to acconnt satisfactorily for our present embarrassments, and will be 4 bar to o speedy recovery in the future. In tho first place, it was tho existence of s varinble and depre. ciated currenoy which, more than anything else, led us into the wild speculations that proceded and produced tho commercial crisis of the fall of 1878, There had beon a corresponding inflation in prices, and a temptation to discount a futurs in which it was gonerally bellovod this inflation would continue. Millions upon millions of dollars were invested in unproductive real estate and property of overy description. Men bought unimproved real estate at fanoy prices, and wont in debt for it. Corporations organized to build railronds in wildornesses and deserts, and when not needed, and bor- rowed hundreds of millions to construct them, Wa paid the most extravagant prices for manufactured goods which a high tarift could establish. We overroached ourselves and livod beyond our means, In the noxt placo, the industry of the country felt the asgurance of a deceptive -security furnished by the “protection” idoa. Our manufac- turors bolioved that they were safo bocausethe Governwent declared by law that they should not be brought into competition with for- eign manufaoturers, DBut the * protection” fallacy was complotely cxposed when the speculation was over. The blaat-furnacos wera blown out, and thonsands of employes wore discharged, the nills and forges were closed. Inflation und Proteotion collapsad at one and the same time. E The panio of the fall of 1873 laft & legaoy ofcommerolal disasterto theyearof 1874 which waa only svertud in part by an unusoal coin- cidonce, ‘There was in the year just over an extraondinary foreign demand for our bread- stuffe at high prices, in consequence of short crops in Europe, andwe had an extraordinary sbundance of grain with which to supply it. ‘This it was that savedus from tenfold greater liardshipa and smesh-downs that lay in wait for us as the natural following of the com- mercial collapse, We sold to Europe nenrly twice as much wheat in 1874 as in 1878, and ot a large advance ovor the price of the year before. There was an advanca in the total cxport of breadstuffs of §63,000,000. At the eame time the general rotrenchment inaugurated throughout the country reduced our importe enormously. Our total exporta excoeded those of 1878 by $45,000,000, and our totel finports were 08,000,000 less than fn 1878, This helped us to the extontof $118,000,000 in bridging over the trials of the year. ‘We can scarcely hope for a continuance of this exceptioually favorable condition for America. In fact, there are positive indica~ tions of & revarsal. France, whioh last yosr boughst 40,000,000 bushels of ourwheat, ls now salling o Graat Britain & sonidde surplin in compotition with us, We must now retuin to an equnl basis of competition with the re o of the world, and we must expect to s1- it nntil wo shall provide oursclves v favorable conditicus as other great ec-n cinl and manufacturing nations enjoy. ¢ Britain, France, Gerany, Holland, I3 1 —all have n stable eurrency and the poiviie:s under theirlaws of going outinto the world et buying their raw materials whero they can Loy clienpest. If our mannfacturers conting s undir the necessily of paying from 50 fo 0 pur cent dnly on their raw materinl, under the delusion that they are * protected,” wa shall continue unable to export Awcviean mannfactures, If (hey could sell thei plus products in the world's markets, unproteeted farmers nud planters de, tiicre wonld quickly bo n revival of good utid pros. perous times. But so Jong as prodaction i crippled and weighed down by eucess duties on raw materials, and the conntry cursed with & fluctuating, wvedeemalile cur. rency, wo shall be exposed to financial pan. ics, general distress, and slow rocovery, ‘Weo must have a currency that will be veerg. nizee ot par the world over, and frecdom of trade that will enable our manufacturers to export their surplus products, befora we'slinil be sblo to meet other nations on eqial ground and socure stendy and reliallo pros. perity, A Cliengo nownpap: Hopart, has eanied some of the ente this city down to Jackeonvills, IIl., the Journil of which taken the paina fo publish a ciore and intereating roviow of what the town las douo during tho year, and what it is. Jackscnvilie, aa overybody koows, 18 8 city of Stato ina'ilutious, snd, though not containing much tucre than 10,000 inbabitants, bas many metropolitan fea- turea not usually found in places of greates pre- tensions. 1Its Insane Asylum contains 474 patients, and 18 ono of the best conduetod instie tutions in tho country. The Deaf and Dumb Asylum Las 341 puvils, who aro taught rending and writing aud tho higher bravcheu. The In- stitution for the Education of the Blind hins 107 pupils, and the Institution for the Edueation of Foeblo-Minded Children has 103 inmates, In addition to the State Asylum, thero is the Jackeonville Surgical Infirmavy, tho Oak Lawn Rotreat, or private ssylum for the insane, and an Orphans’ Home, It has musical and literary socloties in a flourishing condition; aFroaPublic Library and Reading-Room ; a Libra~ ry Associntion,—quita s distinct orgauization,— with industrial schools and Lensvolent socioties, Thore are aeven public schools, with 1,500 pupils and 34 toachors ; two private schools for boys and thres for girla; 23 churches, and two pa- rochial echools, The city valuation for 1874 was: Roal estate, $4,024,210; personal estate, $1,005,- 837; total, $6,631,047. Tho city tazos for 1873 wore at tho rate of ono and one-half per cent, Tublio improvements for the year 1874 cost 89,708.45. Ooe of the important featuros of Joacksonyille is the Union Btock-Yards, for tho amount of business traneacted in Jacksonville and the surrounding region is much greater than one would think. Tho number of oara of stock received and sbipped by tho railroad was 2,527. At the Btock-Yards the roceipts for tho year wers: Cattlo, 22,806 ; hogs, 16,723 ; shoep, 1,139 ; and horses and mules, 643. Jacksonville has aleo boen at work adding to its buildings during the yoar, which are, according to the Journal, of & croditable description. In maunufactures Jack- sonville is yst in its infancy, but tho Journal is A pretty nemsy paper, well-flled with advertice- ‘ments, which tell moro perhaps thaa tho year's exhibit on tho fourth pago. For s town of 10,000 inhabitants, Jacksonville can boast more business, life, and enterpri boast with facts and figures, double its size. Counldering the scandslous number of min- isters of the Cospol charged bofore the law courts or tho public with crimes of the fouleni aort, it does soem a littlo suporflnous for & min- ister of the Goapel to deliborately turow dirl upon his profession without a shadow of provo. catlon by accusing himsolf of numelees crimes. Strango as such a course may seom, the Rev. J. 8. Gmaves, of the Congrogational Church st Maquols, In., has been practicing it. For many mountha mombors of his congregation have beon receiving anonymous letters charging their pas. tor with numerous sins, and hinting vaguely al shocking depravity on hia part, The congroxa- tion, with firmnees of faith in the clergyman, ro- fused for a long time to pay anyatteutionto ticse warnings, and the consequence was o moro ex- plicit and savage deunnciation of Mr. GRAVES hy the anonymous lettor-writer. It waa nltimately deoided to put the polico on the track of the nlanderer, the result being the idontific:ion of Mr. Gpaves bimeelf with his accuser. When neked his object in thus defamiug his character, Mzr, Gnaves replied that ho had tired of his pas- torste, desired to be released, and thought bis zeslgnation would bo moro readily accepted could it bo shown that he was a sconndrel. It I baroly possible that Alr. Graves is sano, butif 80, upon what hypothesis can this freak Le ex- plsined? Is it likely that ho, too, bad an eye for office, and thought that uncleanness waaa prerequisite therefor mince the Democracy turn- ed over 1o ita gravo? il PR In the piscemenl biograply of a condemned oriminal it not ssldom happena that the anguish of & condemned murderer is dwolt upon by the graphio reporter with paintul details, untll some mort of sympathy is ongendered among readors, no matter how callons, 'I'ae Pittaburg Dispalch reporter is determinod that nona of it shall bo wasted upon one SanvEL Baiourry, whois to be exeouted at Greenaburg, Pa., in a few wecks. Accompanyiog a plteous account of tho wretch's soguish on hearing the death-warrant read Is & ‘briof rominder of how ba came to suffer, &8 fol- lows: 'The raurder of Josvien KTne was & horrible, eold. blvoded hutche ith & stout vuk bludgeon Ber vrY eruabied tho skull of {hu old shosmaker with ovy ar {wo well-dirooted blows, To make the death turn doubly sure, the muvdervr got the old man’s cobbler's knife and cut the troat of the doad e from oar tu ear, And sili fearing tlo dead snight rise, he tuos (ho abiouinsker’s Larumer and pouudid the ekull of ike prostrate dead il the braiu, in o cresm-like pulp, oozed through the fractures sud clotted with the biood and the gray hialra of the old man on the woej~ oaa of the murdorer and on tho murderer himself—a ‘web thus bold Lim fast, sud will hold him, il ‘)lbkul by {he gallows. . ‘Were other newspapers to imitate the Dispalch & litile more olosely, thers would be fewor BovEes, ond, a3 m coosequence, fower Iows lynchings. —— The Minneapolis Tridune is nalled the personal organ of the Iou. W. 8. King, who has Iatelv scquired an uneuviablo notoviety, It is sakd that he owns a majority intereet Ln the concern, but, however that may be, the editor theveo! gives forth the following utterance in relation to the Pacifio Meil matter snd Kiva's connection therewith: The friends of Qol, Kina have sbated no partis |h!(r‘m’n§‘r‘lrntl fu Lta hone nd {utegrity, and ere coutident \hat, when ho has an opportuni that money transaction i New York, whi Tasls of suspicion now attaching to i, be will tully and sstisfactorily, in & mannor perfectly consieh et with his statementa $0 them wnd his festimony before the Comuwnittes, and show that ho was entirely junocent uf suy counection with the Pacifia Mali core ruptiou-fund. fricnds sre sstisfed to wen uotl he cam be boond 1o his own s fause, & courteay flat i sccarded (o w {5 Chonmmonoat vrfandsr fu. the COLMUBIT, ¢ e 3 14 hae been sliown witnply thiat Col, Kina drow §118,000 in New York un Inwin's chack | € remains for Lim to sho at {he proper time oW e oo by the <ok 4ad wiab Lin dld with the wmoney, If Le shows that (53 sum wus the legitimaty proceeds of & successtul o ulation, wome of those guutlemen in ibe city who kiave been 8o exultant for the past few daya will feal oousds wrably fuken back, while oll citizens will be grestly rée jolced, aud * BiLL X1na stock ' will be upsgais, evoh u the'aatimation of Lis enemios, We aincorely hops that Mr, Kixo will be atle toshow $hat he came Lonestly by that $115,00 check ; bus why does ke keep in the wud oub of sight #0 long, while the dumnlvg yridensd joss farik 1o (ha warld xitplsiuid EA3 wnaes®