Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1875, Page 4

‘ary Mr. Evanzs mouthing out ‘Tuxopone 'Tx.- 4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATER OF ACDECRISTION (TATABLE I ADVANCE), Poxtnge Prepnid.nat this OM A). 0B EBCD | Sunda Pay, Ryall oe BERS [ Wemy Parts of & yoar at the sams ra To ay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Office address in full, including State and County. Remittances may ba made elther by draft, express Post- Cfice erder, or in registered letterr, at our risk, [RAMS TO CITY RUBECRINERS, Daily, delivered, Sunday oxeented, 215 conta per week Daily, celisered, Sunday included, RV cents por woek Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornee Madison and Dearborn: Ubteago, Ut. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. CADEMY OF MUSIC—Halatnd atreet,betwaon Mad~ td And Menroos Grane, Ualles™ HOOLKY'S THEATRE—Randolph atrest, between Clark aud LaSalle. Magnolia." z HRATRE—Deathorn atreet, corner Mon- pi Hi gpaty extortion The Field of the Cloth pf Gold.” M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison atreet, botween “* Mary Stuart,” ISEUM—Monron strect, between Dear Nothing.” 1 PRA-HUUSH—Clark | street, epporite oA OPERA a Looge Miasteole, The Quist eoaed —_—_— SOCIETY MEETINGS, tNTAT LODGF,, No, 83, &. F. & A. M.—Stated eoramtusiention hia (Eedny) oventiig, at 134 evelnoks for Business and, work, A) full attendance of the members requosted, Byordor of tho Mas niin male INDE! ERTISEMENTS. GR-City and, Suburban Real, Estate, Household oud, oarting and Loving Horses aud Car. vay 1, Por Salo, +4 CLG, "NTI PAE Mallroad Viine-Table, Lozal, Medical Tards, ote., otc. SKVENTHL PAGE—Amuromonts and For Sale. The Chieaga Crbune. riday Morning, February 5, 1875. ‘The death of Senator Buceronas, of Con- necticut, is announced this morning. Tho news was received at too late an hour for an extended obituary notice. All the session of the House in Washing- ton yesterday was taken up in hearing aud judging Jonn Youna Brown’s attack upon Bensammy Burien, and the Civil-Righta bill went over until to-day. Evon the dramatic interest of the Bercuenr trial, and yesterday wasn good day for it, too, pales before the acene in the House when Youna closed his terrible characterization with that bodeful word—Butlerizing. It will be seen by a telegraph dispatch else- where published that the Rev. Lriguton Corrman hos declined an election to the Bishopric of Wisconsin, His reasons have not been made public, but it isa fair pre sumption that the ficld wns not attractive because it did not offer 4 sufficient support. There is no disguising the fact that the Dio- ceses of Iowa and Wisconsin have been sub- jected to vory humiliating rebuffs on account of their poverty, Dr. Janes De Kovrn was yesterday elected Bishop of Minois. Ho hed majority of 12 of the clergy in the Convention, and a major ity of lof tho laity. Tho votes of two of the lay mombera—tho Chancellor of the Dioceso and the Chancellor of the Cathedral—wore, however, disputed. Dr. Ds Kovzn’s election will doubt- less be confirmed by the Standing Committees, Perhaps it is not worth whilo considering Whother it would have been con- Girmed by 4 General Convention, Of course the members of the Diocese who fought off ‘Dr. Sxxmour understand now that their pun- {shment is the election of a man, from their point of view, much more objectionable, Tho report of the proceedings in the Brooklyn City Court yesterday, which we present this morning, is exceedingly good reading. The special correspondents of Tuz ‘Tninune have recently effected a division of labor, the result of which is a report at once Braphic and faithful, such os no other jour- wal, Enst or West, hes yot approximated. Intrinsically considercd, the developments of the day are far moro interosting than any proviously made. Tirron was under cross- exqunination, with Mr, Evants as interlocutor. Tho whole course of Truton’s vagaries, his political differences with Bexcnen, his cham- pionship of woman's rights, his editorials in the Independent, his letter to Horace GneeLry, were run over in rapid re- view. The chief dramatic incident was the reading of some of Trurox’s were de societe by Mr. Evants. Tho lawyer has at best a hareh, crackling voico; and he did not try to soften it in rondering Tinron’s love-rhymes, Tho effect was unspeakably ludicrous; more so, we imagine, than any re- port could do justice to. Only to think of the severe, learned, somewhat ponderous and ron’s ‘Aimer, aimer, c'est a vivre,” is enough to bring a laugh even out of the cave of gloom, A special telegram to the New York rid- une from San Francisco reports 8 summary of the results of the observations in New South Wales, Now Zealand, and Australia of tho late transit of Venus. The Americans were successful at Hobart Town and Campbell- town, At the former place thoro wore clouds and rain at intervals, which occasioned some losa in telescopic observations of exact con- tacts, but about 200 photographs were se- cured, 9 large proportion of which are said to be valuable. At Onmpbolltown thoy scoured fifty-five photographs of the whole sun, and weventy-seven of the limb near the third and fourth contact, Micrometer measurement was made at tho third contact, At Queenstown, New Zealand, 200 photographs were made, The German party aucceeded in getting 120 good photo- grophe at the Auckland Islands. Good tele- woopic and photographie observations wero made at Melbourne, Woodford, Eden, Gould- bourn, Brisbano, Adelaide, and Windsor, Tho general results appear to have been satisfac. tory, and the report adds; ‘The majority of English observers agree that there waa no ‘black drop’; that Venus did not appear of uniform black cofor; that the planot was visi- ble just before she entered on the sun's disk ; that a halo was visible around the part of ‘Venus not on the san’s disk between tho first and second and between the third and fourth contacts; that the ingress occurred about three minutes after the computed time, ond that no satellites were visible.” The Chicago produce markets were irreg- ular yesterday, and breadstuifs tended to dull- ness, Mess pork was loss active and 200 per bri bigher, closing at $18.55 cash and $18,765 for March. Lard was very active and 121.2 @lbo per 100 tbs higher, closing at $15.70 gash and $15.87 1-2@18.90 for March, Meats ‘wore in good demand and steady, at 61-20 ee shoulders, 9 1-20 for ghort riba, and 9 7-20 for short clears, Dressed hogs wero dull and onsier, closing at $7.45@7.80, Mighwines were activo and stendy, at Me per gallon, Flour was quiet and unehanged, Wheat was petivo and 1-2c lower, closing nt 86 t-Io cnsh amd 87 1-2@87 §-8e for March, Corn was quiet and a shade higher, closing tamo at it Lte cash and 71 3-40 for May, Oats wero active aud steady, closing at 62 1-2c cash and SY 7-80 seller March, Rye was quiet anit stendy, at 96@90 1-2e. Barley was dull and ensicr, closing at $1.22 cash and $1.22 1-2 for March, Togs were active and stronger. with sales at $6,25@7.50, Cattle were moderately active oud ‘firm, Sheep were quict and firm. MORE TAXES PROPOSED. The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives have held a con- ference with tho Secretary of the ‘l'reasury on the subject of imposing fresh taxes, in or- derto make up thirty-one millions for the sinking fund. The Secretary thinks that the law requires this fund to be sct apart an- nually, no matter how much the public debt may be reduced othorwise, The provision of Taw reads that the coin received from duties on imports shall be applied first to the pay- nent of interest, ete, aud then— Second—To the purebase or payment of 1 per eentum of the entire debt of the United States, to be made within each fucal year, which tu to be eet apart asa sinking fund, and the interest of which shell in Uke manner bo appliod tu the purchase or payment of the public debt, aa the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time direct, Under this provision of law, there has been set apart annually asum equal toi per centum of the debt, asnsinking fund, ‘The opera- tion of this sinking fund is as follows: Prior to tho 0th of June, 1869, there had been pur- chased $8,691,000, on which up to that date there was $136,502 interest. ‘fhe purchases for 1869 were $24,806,000, and thus continu. ously, every year since, the purchases have been made. On the 30th of June, 1873, tho amount purchased was $22,341,430, and at the closo of the year June 30, 1874, thers was dno interest on the annual redemptions of 1869 to 1874 over $%,000,000 of interest. ‘The total purchases for this fund up to Juno 30, 1874, was principal $141,012,000, at a cost in gold of 135,427,057. During the same period there had been purchased of the pub- lic debt, in excess of the amount required for the sinking fund, $182,241, 750, Under the law, the Seeretary claims that he must have money to purchase an equivalent to 1 percent of tho public debt, and to pay the interest on the $141,000,000 of previous purchases; the sum required being about. $31,000,000. He iguores the fact that there have been purchased in excess of the amount required for that sinking fund $182,000,000, Now here is the question of law. A debtor has covenanted to pay 1 per cent of his debt annually} and while doing that has an- ticipated Lis annual payments for about five years. Ho finds himself temporarily embar- rassed, is short of funds, aud the question is, Can he omit the payment of the 1 per cent for a year on showing thot he has aiready paid five times that amount in advance ? ‘Tho Committee on Ways and Means think one way, and the Secretary of the ‘{reasury thinks the other way. ‘fhe Government is certainly not in default to its creditors, Under this uncertainty, is it not the duty of Congress to give the country the benefit of the doubt? Is there such a pressing urgency in this matter that Congress, in o time of pro- found pence, with the country slowly recov- ering from the effecta of o most disastrous panic, and the sudden paralysis of credit and production, should now propose to impose fresh taxes to produce $31,000,000 to mect this sentimental idea that the Government must mako this contribution to the sinking fund, notwithstanding it has already paid that sum for five years in advance? No public creditor desires it to be done, and most asauredly the tax-payers do not, ‘Wo warn Congress that the people are keonly elive to the present condition of the country, and they will not approve nor uphold that party that wantonly imposes taxes which are unnecessary, Nor aro thoy any longer de- ceived by tho silly pretense of lovying taxes to “protect industry,” ‘I'he proposition is to levy an additional tax of 10per cent on the whole range of manufactured goods and mer- chandise, The peopla understand that, to raise $18,000,000 of rovenue, it is only neces- sury to reimpose the repealed tax of $18,000,- 000 on tea and coffee, ‘They also understand that when Congress lovies a tax on cotton and woolon goods, on iron and steel manufactures, on toolsand implements, on form wagons and plows, on stoves, blankets, and clothing, on salt and lumber, on glass and leather goods, and on the whole range of articles en- tering into domestic uses, that the tnx im- posed is, of necessity, from threo to five times grenter than the amount of revenue to be raised. Thus to produce five millions of rovenuo from cotton goods, the tax levied on the peoplo must be from eightecn to twenty millions ; and so in different proportions on other articles, some less and somo greater, the tax necessary under a tariff to produce + thirty-one millions of dollars revenuo will not fall short of ninety er ono hundred millions of dollars. All this is thoroughly understood by tho people. It is also well understood that an addition of 10 or 16 per cent to tho tariff means an advanca, of the price of all tho goods on hand of 10 or 15 per cent, which the consumers must pay, but of which the Gov. ernment will uot receive a penny. Tho peo- ple may thus be robbed of $100,000,000 to §3150,000,000 for the benefit of middlo-men,— for what purpose? In order that money may bo raised for a sinking fund which, in fact, is not required, ‘Tho State of Illinois includes about one- fifteenth of the people of the United Statos, If this tax be levied, the shara to be paid by the oltizens of this Stato will be $2,000, 000, But ag they must also pay the sue per cent on the domestic goods as on the imported, for every dollar tho Govornment gets the ‘protected classes” will pookot at Ienst three. ‘Tho instunt the Government lovies, say, 15 per cout more duty on imports, the “ protected classes” will mark up their domestic wares 15percent, ‘This is always done, and the people of the West now understand the opor- ation and can no longer be doceived as to tho result that is sure to follow, as they have had experience of it. If, then, this unnecessary sinking-fund tax is to be imposed upon the public, tho share to be paid to the Govern. ment and to the ‘ protected classes" will be about as follows in the Western States; Tax collecte| Revenue to ad by the pro-|the 2'reaes tected claaw stares, seneeseaners ‘The proposition for a levy of now tho form of on incroaso of tariff dutica in- cludes ax atinusl extortion from the people of those nine States of overtwenty-cight millions of dollars, of which the comparatively heg- garly proposition of nine and a half millions will bo received by the ‘Trensury. No such tax as that can bo levied by Congress without provoking tho just resentment and indigna- tion of a plundered people, Wo submit that the two Senators from Tlinoie and the Senators and Representatives from the other Sintes cannot consent to the imposition of any such tax at this time without consenting to the ernel oppression of tho people they represent. It will not do to say that the Government wants revenue, It docs not want a cent of rovenue save to moot ita necessary expendi- tures, The time for o magnificent, spend- thrift Government has gona by. ‘There ia not aman in all the Innd who is making a living by honest means who has not, during tho last fifteen months, beon compelled to retrench in his expenditures and bring them within his income. The duty of tho Gov- ernment is the same. ‘Tho revenno for 1874.'5 will be ns great as it was in 1873-4, nnd the revenue for 1875-'6 will be larger. Cut down the expenditures. Retrench and economize, Do not appropriate the revenuc for wild-cat schemes or anything that can be postponed. Repeal all subsidies and vote no new ones, Authorize the Postmnster-Gen- oral to rovise the expenditures of his Depart- ment and place it upon the footing of any well- managed, private, self-supporting establish- ment. Sell out aud close up half a dozen useless navy-yards, Economize in the army expenditures, Put the Indian servico on an honest basis. Reform your customs service, Curtail the expenditures of all branches of the public service, and arrest tho fearful ex- travagance which has been genoral sinco the War, Let the Government do this and it will not Inck for sufficient revenue; it will have an abundance to mect all honest and legitimate expenditures, aud havo a surplus. Let tho Republican Congress as it goca out of office leave this example to its Democratic successors. Let it not leave to them the work of retrenchment and reform. Let it not givo them the privilege of contrasting Republican extravagance with Democratic economy, Above all, lot the Republicun Congress imposo no new taxes upon a people already taxed to confiscation, THE REGISTRY LAW. It is announced in the dispatches from Springtield thet the bill repealing the Regis. try Inw of this State has passed to o third rending in the Senate, aud that it will pass both Houses of the Legislature. There is only ono way in which we end account for it. It must be the intention of the majority, con- sisting of Democrats and Independents, to put an end to fair elections in Chieago. The members of the Legislature who live in small towns and the country districts should bo in- formed that tho Registry Inw slone assures anything like a fair election in lorge cities. Here in Chicago, for inslanco, there is noth- ing like the neighborhood acquaintance which exists in rural and villago communities where every voter knows nenrly every other voter in the district, and where personal challenge may besafely trusted to defeat tho oxceptional attempt that mny be mado at fraudulent vot- ing. There are twenty wards in Chicago and nearly 100 voting precincts in a general election, That man is an old resident of the precinct who knows by sight moro than 1 score or two other voters; the great majority of those who present themselves as voters are personally imknown to any challengers that either party may supply. In half of these wards, the pot-house bummers of tho worst description exercise an absolute control over the ignoran’ and vicious classes who ebmposo a large proportion of the inhabitants of those wards, and in all the wards more or less of the vicious elements aro found swarming around tho polls, Under a thorough Registry law, there is a permanent means of guarding, to great extent, against the danger of repeating, which the preponderance of this desperate and vicious class presents, Tho registry list is aconstant check. It affords always n fair indication of the number of votes that may bo lawfully cast in the precinct. It gives the challenger, who is personally unae- quainted with the voter who presonts himself, an opportunity to test his right to vote by ascertaining tho location of his residence, and thus tracing him back to those who do know him. ‘The failure to rogister involves the necessity of swearing in the vote on election day, and this necessity deters many/from risking the danger of ap- prohension who would otherwiso cast illegal votes, Tho rogiatry list also furnishesspecial facilities for on investigation in contested elections, and likewise facilitates the convic- tion of those who have voted fraudulently. In one word, a rogisiry system is the only one that effectually prevents tho organization of bands of ropeaters, and enables cities to ‘be governed by the respectable and honest tax-payers when thoy avo in a majority. The Rogistry law of Illinois is by no means as thorough es it onght to be, but to repeal it in the citics would be to render popular election in Chicago a delusion and a snare, If the Rogistry law be repented, the thieves, gamblers, pimps, roughs, and ward-bummers will hove the matter in their own hands, ‘They can organize their repeaters, if thoro is no check upon thom, so that forty men, per- ops not voters at all, may cast 1,000 ballots. ‘Lhe honest, respectable, tax-paying citizens may be 10,000 in tho majority and yet fnd themselves defeated when the votes sre eonnted. This is the condition into which the Legislature will place Chicago by repaal- ing the Registry lav. No honest member of either House, properly understanding the real condition of things, will vote for the re- peal, Andif tho repeal be mado at last, and aftor this interpretation has been placed upon it, it will be simply the consummation of a corrupt political schome for giving Chicago over into the hands of the rowdy, dishonest, and depraved classes, Chicago has nowall tho political ills it can bear, and its proapority as acity is too closely identified with that of the State for the country members to deliberately threnten us this calamity. One of the uerious objections to changing the Government of Chicago from tho special charter to tho general law is that, by aw amendment to the Registry law made last winter, the cities holding election in tho spring under tho general charter aro released. from the obligation of having registry lists, Tf this construction of Inst winter's amend- ment is correct, then the Citizens’ Associa. tion should include among its proposed amondinents to the general law one requiring the registration of votera, For, without this, all the advantages hoped to be attained under the general charter will fail to componssto for the lows of this check upon tho criminal and bummer classos on olection day, and we should still be in the power of the worst of politica! knaves. The Legislature should, thorofora, not only refuse to repeal the exist. ing Begistry law, but it should pasa on act general elections in cities, ineluding those now excepted. Uponat more than all else depends the valne of popular elvetions for qnunuicipal government, REOIPROCITY WITH HAWATI. The Senate's rejection of tho Reciprocity Treaty with Canada probably dors not mean that the Heciprocity Vreaty with Hawai lished exclusively in yesterday's 1 s to suffer the samo fate. ‘Tho Intter is-onn diferont footing. It affects injuriously very fow, if any, vested interests in this country, and it is of substantial value to the whole Pa- cifio Slope. ‘That part of our country isenti- tled to some consideration. If it ean bo shown that its prosperity can bo materially helped by the ratification of the treaty, the small loss to the revenuo from duty on Sand- wich Islands sugar should not bo allowed to stand in the way, 'Tho ‘treaty, in the first place, gives the Pacific Slopes now marixet for its grain, flour, breadstuffs, beef, lumber, timber, wagons, and variety of other products, It is uot probablo that any other nation enn export these articles to Hawaii as cheaply ny we can, if the existing toviff on our products is ro- moved. California and Oregon can therefore practically control the whole businoss of the Mawaiinn Islands, The little Kingdom will certainly be a far better market for their pro- ducts than itisnow. Then, again, tho Pacific Const and Territories ean buy sugar, sirup, molasses, tropical fruits, and minor products of the Sandwich Islands more cheaply than at present, The Tsinnds will have to pay for their increased imports by increased exports, They will find a market on the Pacific Slope for everything they have to sell. We may look, then, for increased commercial activity and increased production in California, Ore- gon, and Washington, It is vory likely that the increase of taxable wealth on the Pacific Slope, in consequence of the treaty, will soon mske up the def- ciency of revenue, People who pay lowor prices for what thoy buy, and at the same time find 9 greater demand for what they sell, usually accumulate wealth pretty rapidly. Itis better to have reciprocal free trade with tho Sandwich Islands than to annex them, Under the former arrangement, we gain every commercial benefit that we could under the letter and incur none of the bur- dens. Hawaii would be a costly dependency. Tt would be difficult to rule it under our sys- tem of government, In ense of war, we would have to defend it against a maritime power. Great Britain could send a dozon ships-of-war there for one we could epare from the defenso of our long scaboard, Annexntion would be unwise, but reciprocity is a substantial good, THE WISCONSIN PLATFORM. Thoro hos not Leon an olection of s Senator of the United States for many years whero the choice was so exclusively mado with ref- erence to political principle as the election of Mr, Camunon by the Legislature of Wiscon- sin, Tho Republicans of Wisconsin, in 1873, after the passage of tho Back-Pay Grab law, forwhich both their Senators voted, sustained a crashing popular defeat. ‘Lha Stato Gov- ernment was transferred to the Opposition. The party had boen held responsible by tho people for tho band acts of the Senstors. In 1874, the Republican State Convention very justly and properly pleced on record a disclaimer of all respon- sibility for the acts of Congressmen oxcopt so faras tho party indorsed such acts ; and insisted thot when Republicans in office were found unfaithful or corrupt they should bo exposed and dismissed. ‘The Convention then specifically condemnod the Back-Pay bill, of which Mr. Canrrnten had made himself the champion. ‘hus rolioved of all reapon- sibility for Canrenter’s past action in tho Senate, tho party entered the canvass with n goneral understanding that ho was not to bo returned to the Senate, and with that undor- standing enrried the State. When tho Logis- lature met, © majority of the Republican members were opposed to him, but, through the untiring efforts of his oftico-holding friends, the unlimited use of patron- age, end his own personal bignd- ishinents, he was able to sccure a nomination by tho caucus. ‘Twenty Re- publican members of the Legislature insisted upon adhering to tho platform of the party, and refused to stultify tho record by indorsing Canpenter, After some delay, these twenty Republicans and the Democratie mombers agreed to clect a Republican other than Mr. Canventcr, who would agree to a common platform. Tho Democrats, reciting the reso- lutions of tho last Republican State Convon- tion, and indorsing the spirit of patriotism which dictated thom, unanimously agrecd to vote with the twonty Republicans for tho olection of n Senator upon the following basis of principlo: Preservation of the publie eredits honest mayment of the nutloual debt; rigid economy, Htate aud) Fed: eral; more and cheaper fucilitles of trunvvortation within aud without the State; complotion of tho 1 and Whiconsin Kivera Improvemunt; n sound currou. ey, fn cofn or ita equivalent ; w turitf for royenua only, levying lighter duties upon articles of nucoselty than upou articies of luxury; soyereiguty of tho Htate over curporstious of its own creation ; 1a ssrapathy or aup- port for men who volo or apoluztze for Oredit Alobillur corruptions in Congruss or elcewhere, ur who aitiliate with men of corrupt practices 1u Btnte or Federal leg- {elation ; sovereiguty of the Hederal Government iu the oxercixe of ita delegated powors; soversignty of the States unit tho people as to all powers uot dalegated to the Federal Government, wor prouibited to tho States 5 supremacy of the civil authority in tines of peaco; Hberty, equality, and frateruity for all men under the Jaw ; freeuom of the preas from Feders) gag laws ; freo- dom of religion, sud opposition to all Htatu or Yaderal enactnicnte wich ueuyp juriadiction over the private conscience, or punish \no muu for the oifenses of another; clevation of labor, and its permanent and itive protection in all ftw ‘sights, without injustice [otapttals and tho peryetuat subordination, of tue ta- tereate uf party to principle and to tho good of the whole people, In this declaration of principles and poll- cies wo suppose tho great mass of the psople of Wisconsin cordially unite, and yot itis significant that moro than one of the para- graphs aro in direct condemnation of Sena- tor Canpenten’s most conspicuous actloi. ‘That declaration, excapt so far au it is meroly local in application, might be adopted with great profit by all political parties in every State of tho country, There is not a line in it that any Republican would strike out, unless it bo with reforenco to the currency; but on that point this platform embodles the clearest principles of sound economy, na- tional integrity, and good faith between debt. ors and creditors, public and private, Taken as a whole, it is ouo of the best and least ob- fectionable declarations of political principles wo have road for somotime. Of coursa, there wos no hesitation on tho part of the Teepublicans in accepting this platform, and no hesitation on the part of Mr. Castznon in giving to it his hearty approval, Having thus egrecd upon a declaration of common principlos, upon which the Demoorats, Re- publicans and tho selected candidate could stand, without surrender of personal or polit- ical integrity, these Democrats and Republi. fans ass. med the responsibility of electing ‘Mr, Casrznon to the Senate og the successor of My. Canren:en, One of the bost vindications of the conduct of the Republi:an Senators and Representa tives who walted in the election of Mr, making it spplicable to all municipal and | Oaaratoa to thi gaot that the platform which, as we have said, expc.sses tho judgment of the whole peoply of Wisconsin of all parties, forbids the cleetion of Mr. Canrestin or any other person agreeing with him ; while, serv- ing to show tho basis on which thoso who elected Mr. Cantenon nnited, it also condenms distinctly and emphatically the oMteial record of Canrenten, and explains why that record could not be indorsed by tho re-election of the faithless Senntor, The defeat of Canrrytrn marks an im- proved era in our politics. His was tho caso of an unusually gifted man, who presumed upon popular admiration of his abilities to overlook personal and official adventures; and, depending upon his eloquent specch and his personal good-fellowship with overybody, he midertook to doncts against which tho moral senso of tho people revolted. The back-pay outrage might have been suffered to pass unpunished hind it not been supple- mented with the infamous gag-law, by which the presa of the country was reduced ton worse than European servitude to officials of every degree, and thua filled the measure of public reprobation. Despite the party ennens, despite the throat of party proscrip- tion and tho promise of patrounge, there was virtue enough in the Wisconsin Legislature to execute the judgment of the people in re- tiring’ Canventer from tho station ho had abused, It is onother evidenca of tho fact that public men cannot safely outrage public sentiment and expect the public support, and that the public man who assumes that the people will gladly approve of whatever he does, and will follow him, is certain to come to grief. Noman is essential to the public welfare, and the bravest and ablest may be put aside, and the country will still survive and still progress unconscions of the rise and fall of the mere political puppets that figure on the public stage, SPECIE-RESUMPTION BY BUSINESS MEN. It is possible for any man who sells auy- thing on credit, whether the thing sold is money or some other commodity, to make the necessary contract on a gold basis, and so do his part towards making gold our standard of value again. If he bargains with his debtor to repay tho loan or pay for the coin- modity in gold, he secures himself against the risk of loss by depreciation, and helps to fomiliorize the public with the idea of using specio, The latter, though an intengible, in- definite good, is yet much to be dosired, The New York Leening Post gives tho following form for the specio clause in mortgages, which, it says, is now used quite gencrally in that city : And tho eald mortgagor does further covenant that, at all timo aud tines hereafier, when atiy installment of principal or {uterest naw die or Lereuzter to heeoina dno en sald bond and mortgage may ba tendered or demanded, the mortgages may elect to Tecelvo wald ray- anent In ihe gold coin of the United Stutes of Americn, of the standard in welght aud quality destgnated in thoaxct of Congress of tho United States known as “Tho Culuage Act of 1873," at the rato of —— gold dol= Jars for $100 in United States notes, commonly called “togal teudera,” Aud tho safd mortgagor, in con- sfaration of ‘the sum of and "in cone eideration of tho extension of ‘tho payment of {Ue prineipul sum scoured by wad ond and mortguge, dove, for himself and bis helrs, exce cutors, Aaduinfetrators, snd asciens, hereby eoy- enant, promise, and agreo to and with the sald mart Gagco'und his seize, that whenover, from time to time, the raid mortgagee shall oxercivo said clvetion, hie will pay any {nstaliment of principal or futerest now due, of hereafter ta becoran due, on sald bond and inortzage, in the sald gold coin of the Unitod States, at tho rate aud it the nunnier Leroinbefors provided for, And itis beroby mutuully eovenanted aud agreed by ‘And between the parties to this sgreemont that nll atoy Jawa, redemption acta, and all laws of the United States, or of any other Goverment or Fower, heroafter en: acted, making auy paper, promfun, or certificate, of auiy article or thing, except gold coin of the standard afore. anid, a legal teuder for debts, shall not bo binding or of any legal effect upon the partios to (his agreement, or thoir exeoutora, admiulstrators, or ausigns, ‘The objection to this form lies in the fact that it gives tho creditor powor to demand greenbacks or gold at a certain specificd rato at his option. Ho can thoreforo still take ad- vantage of fluctuations in the value of tho legel tenders, whilo the debtor cannot, I£ the provision is that payment shall bo made in greenbacks or in gold at the rate of $90 to $3100 in legal tenders, then, if the paper rises in yalao until it takes 295 in goldto, buy $100 in paper, the creditor enn demand the latter and so fleeco tho debtor out of $5 on tho $100. The stipulation should be n safeguari for both debtor and creditor, At present, each isliable to loss, When 4 loan is made or the prico of a commodity sold on credit is reck- oned in depreciated currency, the creditor will lose if the currency sinks in value before tho day of payment, but tho debtor will lose if tho currency rises, For mutual protection, the debt should be reckoned in gold from the start, and the coutract should bo so drawn that the creditor would have the option of being paid on equal amount of gold or its equivalent in paper on the day the debt was due, Thus, if A loans B $1,000 in gold or ita paper equivalent to-day, and takes B’s noto for $1,000 in gold or its equivalent one year from date, both partics nro safe. No matter how much greenbacks fluctuate in value, B will pay over precisely what ho got and A will roceive just what he loaned. Itigapity that it should be necessary to provide against attempts by Congress to jug- glo with values and logalize cheating, but our past legislation shows that the final sentence in the form we have quoted is needed. This form, with the change wo havo suggested, and a few verbal alterations, could be used in nearly all contracts. It is applicable to notes, bills, lenses, sales, eto. If the grent corpora- tions which loan monoy in Chicago, and the great firms which do business here, should co-operate in such a change, their action would have a powerfal influence in hastening the resumption of specie payments. Tho business mon of the Pacifto Slope have kept gold in circulation by managing their busi- ness justin this way, ‘The business men of the Northwest would do well to take a hint trom their auccens, CONGRESSIONAL ROWDYISH, We are willing to admit that the Domocratg will find an opportunity to reform a good many bad habits that have grown up in Con- gross under the auspices of that class of Re- publicans who wore repudiated at tho last general election. It romains to be secon whether they have the requisite intelligence and dignity to institute these reforms. Of the class of abuses to which wo refer was the tur- bulent sceno in the Houso during tho prolimi. nary skirmishing on the introduction of the Civil-Rights bill, The language and conduct of several members were of a charac. ter to disgrace pot-house cauous, Gen, Burren, as usual, was the provoker of the dissension, This gentleman has boen more successful at inciting scenes in Con- gress than in anything olse he has accom. plished during his Congressional career, ‘here has scarcely ever been a measure un- dor his management, or in which ho has taken an active part on ono side or the other, which haa not produced an altercation of w personal nature, His combativenees has by no moans been confined to members of tho Opposition. ‘He has from time to time made war upon the beat Republicans in the Houve in the same guerrilla and bush-whacking style with which he is ncoustomed to attack everybody and evorything that comes in his way, Former. ly Geis, Fanxswoaru, later Me, Voatua, of Ohio, and frequently such om na Dawes and Hoan, all good Republicans, hav been mde the objects of Gen, Burnen’s yenomons attacks, fis responsibility for the rowdy clement of Congress is greater than that of all the other 1uembers combined ; and this peculiarity was ono of the olements that Jed to hiv defeat and tho temporary rebuke which the Republican party has received from the people on his account and on necownt of kindred spirits which had become identified with that organization. « Ho has been perma. nently called to order, however, as Mr. Cox stiggested the other day, by ono Mr, ‘luostr- son, the geutlaman who defeated him at the last election, Tfow much are we to expect from the Dem- ocrats in the way of restoring tho dignity and decorum so ruthlessly invaded by Burien? Not much, wo fers, if we are to judge by tho aptness with which Democratic mombers re- tort in kind. ‘Cake Wednesday’s scene ny no sample, It was exceedingly unbecoming and altogether unnecessary for Gen, Burren to jntimnto that the South was overruu with horse-thieves, bauditti, and murderers, Dut the fire-eating element was thero to burst ont into a Uiaze atthe spark which Butren drop- ped, and MeLray, of Texas, opened up with a personal denunciation of Buren os a‘ mur- derer.” Burzer failing to hear this remork, itwas duly reported to him by a busybody who was determined that the matter should not pres off without a row. ‘Then others joinod in to add fuel to the flaine, and, whilo Speaker Buaine was pounding away with his gavel in the vain hope of restoring something like order, members were shaking their tists in each other's face in front of hisdesk. The scene was a disgrace to the American Parlia- ment, and the part which the Democrats played in it leaves little hope for improve. meni under their forthcoming majority, But the proceedings yesterday were far more tumultuous aud violent than those of the day before, Joun Youno Brown, of Kentucky, obtained tho floor to speak on the Civil- Rights bill, and, soon becoming heated, he drew a character supposed to be imaginary,— araan, he snid, whe is outlawed in his own home from respectable socicty ; whose namo ik synonymous with falschood; who is an apologist of thieves; who is a prodigy of vice and meanness; who—— At this point the Sperker intemupted and asked the gentleman from Kentucky if he referred ta any member of the House, Mr. Brown evaded the question, and continued towards his climax, closing with this furious burst of rhetoric: “If I were to desire to express all that was pusillanimous in war, inhuman in peace, forbidden in morals, and infamous in polities, I should call it Butler- izing.” Immedintely the Horse was in an uproar. Mr, Hane, of New York, moved to admonish the member from Kentucky, and Mr. Dawes to expel him. Hat's motion finally prevailed, and Youna was rebuked by the Speaker at tho bar of the House, It is for the intorest of all partios that the rowdy elemont of Congress shall ba climinated whorever found. Our National Legislature must not be permitted to drift into n school for blackguards and a refugo for prize-fight- ers, The vory democratic nature of our in- stitutions renders this tendency more danger- ous than it would bo otherwise, since it is on that account moro difficult to repross it. It is hard to conceive any exeuso for such a dis- play of spleen and passion in a deliborative body asthat of the last two days in the House. Every repetition of it must be moro serious than its predecessor in its possible conse- quences, THEODORE TILTON’S CONDUCT. The careful roader of the details of tho Bergener scandal from tho outset must havo been improssed with ono thought very strong- ly, namely, that, making every possiblo ol- lowance for Mr, Tinton’s idiosynernsics of character, and the influences which were brought to bear upon him, and leaving en- tirely out of consideration any hypothesis as to Mr. Berenen’s guilt, Mr. Truton’s course would have been more manly had ho ro- dressed his own wrongs at the time they wera inflicted, In the place of this, ho has instituted a system of intrigue, of plot and counter-plot, of public suppressiong and con- fidential disclosures, of agreoments and bar- gains, of numerous friendly interviows with the eleged seducer, ond disquisition with him to arrive at conclusions os to the paternity of his children, For overa year ho has dragged this skeleton in his closet out into the public view, and insisted that people should look upon its repugnant bones, and finally has dragged it into court to obtain legalrodress, But what redross cat? ho obtain from a jury? Thoy can only say that Mr, Bexenen is guilty, or not guilty, or to dis- agree, end if guilty order him to pay Trzton money, This in reality is no redress at all. Whatever way the jury mny decide, Mr, ‘Ti. ‘toy will be none the happier and wilt have received no compensation which a man of honor can touch, for tho horrible wrongs which he allegos to have been inflicted upon him by tho Rev, Mr. Bzzcurr, Adultery is the only crime in Anglo-Saxon countries which cannot be punished by law, ond the victim is left free to redrosa his own wrongs, No court over punishes him for so doing. Parliaments and Legislatures have seen fit not to make the offense a felony ora high crime, or to punish tho seducer by death or imprisonment, Tho only logal measure of redress which the victim haa in the courts ia a suit for monoy damages in an action at law, suck aa Mr, Triton has instituted. But money is no redress for a ruined home, a broken heart, a Dlighted life, and 8 disgraced family; nor is a proof of the foct in a court any solace to a man who {s suffering from the consequences of thd fact. Tho foot might bo proven a thousand times, and money might pour upon him in a golden shower, but ho would bo none the happier. His mental agony and burning desire for revenge would continue, It would have boen a manier thing for Mr, Tinton, aud he would have commended him- self more strongly to the sympathies of tho community, had he put his wife away when he was convinced of her criminal conduct, and then punished Bezcuen as he deserved, as any znan of spirit would do under such cir cumstances. He would have stood intl- nitely better before the public, It would hove beon better for him, for his guilty wife, and for hor paramour, better for all concerned. The nation would have been spared this whole year of horrible, domoralizing scandal which has worked such mischief in the church and in society, and helped to lower the tone of public morals. Mr, Trvton has no orthodox notions which would havo inter. fered with such a course of conduct, He is not a believer in the Quaker theory of turn- ing one check when the other is smitten, If he has free-love proclivities, he ought not to have complained of the seduction at all, much Jens brought it into court in a sult for pecus nlosy damages, The docteine iteelt ie suf | ciently comprehensive to have sug to him oan cay way oat oof his diflenitics, and eamplo measures of ravengo, All this does not aifect tis question of Mr, Bercien's yuilt, nor does it pmlliate it in the lonst, If lo in guilty, the at remeins do. toxtable and hidoous, especially no in (ho easa of amanof Mr, Bercurn’s years, and hely office, and exalted position, and, if found guilty by the jury, he will remain during the rest of his life m object of detcxtation nn consume mato knave and hypocrite. If Berearn ig guilty, Eitoy's course has been that of q poltroon, and shows him to bo as destitute of manly spirit as Mr, Brome is of moral prin. ciple. AN ISHMAEL IN LUCK. Rencnry, the plaintifin the rocont Mbel anit againat Hastrgon, flonneial editor of the Lindon, Ties, aud tho noturiaus Daron GRANT, atteceod. ed in showing a dishonorable connettion betweeg the two, Ju plain words, Guat las bribed Samrsox. Tho chagrin of the managers of the Times is Intenso. No ono surpects them of complicity with tho culprit, but the disctosura jg novertholoxs s blow to the paper. ‘Tho honor and judepeudence of this paper,” says tue Ties, “ must over be above suspicion, and tho hunilige tion wo havo suffered ts hard to bear,—a hard. ship compared with which tho damazes that have been awarded to Mr. Ruprnny aro ay q feuthor in tho air.” Sastrsox, who, whila ry. colving bribes from Grant, used his onormong power to discredit United States accurities during tho Robollion, and so cost this country tous of millions of dollars, hag lost his plavo aud reputation, Ho is out of luck, Tha man in luck is Runexry, Tho tcatimony takou daring tho trial showed conclusiyoiy timt he was ime Dlicated in the famons Arizona diamond swinille, "The Times lad exposed the avwindlo and bad ine cidentally mentioned him, ‘Chat was all. Noy. ortheloes, a stolid jury gave hima verdict. The evidence tolls tho story of Rununny's life, anda curfous story it ia. His first appearance in this country was in 1863, In that yoar he got @ lottor-of-marqng from JEFFERSON Davis. Under this authority ho titted out s privateor, with which ho eruived in gearch of unarmed merchant vossols, Tne Chief Daron, in summing up the enso to tho Jury, spoke of this pioco of piracy as a * highly honorable exploit"! After Rusrrey bad robbed on the high soas for a while, he had tho impy- donce to gail into the harbor of San Francisco, Thora he and hia ship wore golzod. Ho was soon iv prison, but way releavad at the reques: of Jowy Bnicur. In 1864 bo was back in Lon. don, engagad iv roping-in capitalists by blowing bubbles which he labeled the “Lincoln Gol) Mining Company,” the “Pyramid Rango Cor pany,” aud tho “Minoral Hill Company.” Eo was asgociatod with Minister Sounnex in tla notorious ‘*Emms Mine Company.” Iu shor:, ho was an Ieuxanc, with his hand againat eve:y other man or ratborin every other man’s pockets, in 1872 ho left England in order to let his wits get divorce and once moro infested Amorica, Le was 8 confederate of Stack and Anno, tie mou who have been proved guilty of *salttus” the diamond flelds of Arizona, When thesche:i9 was sprung upon tho public, Runrxny np. peared as ono of the managors, and declared that he had stumbled ovor an ant-hill in Ar zona, aud found that it was o pilo of rubies and diamonds! When tho monetrous lo was jst about to be oxporned, onr Isusazn flod to Cli esgo, ‘From Chicago,” says that groat ye ographer, the Chief Baron, “ho wont to e038 great and celobratsd natural curiosity at no great distance, called the Ma:nmoth Cavea.” Thero ho met Stack and Anwotp again. Io goon foll sick, wont to Engiaud, got woll, sucd tho London Times, which bad meanwhilo ox- posed, in vory moderate language, the awindle (Gnanr baving no interest in it, and Saapsox, therefore, being unbribod), nud got a vordict in damages from o jury stupid enough to fulfill the requirements of the most exacting law, Truly, Jeustaex is in luck. f SS Thoro in at this preaent moment in the King- dom of Icaven, its antipodos, Purgatory, Hevle:, or the cold, cold ground, just a8 the public tikea to luok at tho matter, whatever survives of one Tlenny Sureips, merchant and millionalro of Now York City. Ho bas beon whoro hie ia, wherovor that may bo, for a year, but bia nant is just mado public by the fact that ho wass bigamist—a circumstanco which may or ma: not have some influcnce upon his pregont local Labi- tation, When s young man, poor, illitorate, 0:4 hoarty, fresh in tho hoalthy morning of lifo, bu married by the Quakor rite Janz Vanes, aged 16 years. He lived with her, and she Loe him nine children. Ho prospored, mado mauoy, mixed in good society, tired of bis houct but unletterod partnor, and, as ho grew rich, established her in # poor tenemett houso in Williamsburg. Ho left hor, aué money having given him s polish and bearing equal to that of any of the shoddy people of the ietropolis, ho murried again, By ula second wifa bo had five children. The firat wife e7 her husbaud but ones. Unsoen herself, she eat him driving out with bia other wifo and ebiliren. Patiently sho boro her lot, knowing that anctiic woman had usurped her share of her husband's woalth and gociel standing; proudly sho forbore to demand what was hors by overy right. Silents ly sho waited for the end. Butetos dicd, aod treated her, the humble companion of hig hua- ble youth, tho affectionate sharer of his toll aul poverty, with negloct, He left hls monoy to bid wito who was not bis wifo, and the children who wore not legitimate. Aud now the long-aileut victim of solflehness and heartless cowardice comes into tho court and domanda dower sol hor childron’s inheritance, ‘Che oxoontora do not dony the validity of the first marriage, but rosiet the claim, > Tho Times has s correspondent at the scott of the Bezcuen trial with "a nose for nowe” miraculous powors. Hore is a satople of bit utyle from tho Times of yesterday : After Mr, and Mra, Bexcien jleft the court an ior dent occurred, wituossed by no other nowapuper 1022 excopt your correspondent, ‘ho venerable pats sot down-stalrs, niutiled up in consequence of tho rik and Were followed, aa uanal, bya curtous crowd to tht Lock door of the ourt-Houlse, ‘Choy boidly ero.e the nrva to the gute, where a chape was in walling, © lo! st turned out not to be theira, Hero wan a fis. Ti pulr at once returned to thu hail, turned aside t) # Favors, and stood ut the window, ewaiting oventualllice Bhortly, the ubiquitous Hows Bact was on bas, and warted off to hurry up tno carriage, which be not driven up becanwe the usual hour of rocess hed ut arrived, Thore stood Hezowes and bis vito, wild adually growing crowdof gazers at thon), fot fuly Hficen sntuutes, Butouan taking uot the sights! notice of the idiotic wight-seery, ly, to their gt Tulle, the carriage drove up, and the pair drove accompanied by the excited Moaza, It was this bright particular star that te graphed hie paper two pages the day before. Xo wouder the Times complained it had to pay ¢# for ite tranemission. Two pages of auch aud would be desr at 9.001, ——— Madomolsello Lzonre Jouvry, the Parla dress maker sentonced to three months’ imprisonme? in the Ludlow iBtrect (N. ¥.) Jail, contiuuoa + be the subject of delicate attention, She 16 coives almost every comfort and attention tha money can command. She is waited upoo Mile. Parmzvar, who accompanied ber {00 Paris to ssuist her in drossmatdng, ‘The * pouses of the two aro borne by some of i Murray Hil patrons, thelr only interest in b belug the fear that sho may toll of thoir tran actions with ner, ‘I'o havetheir rivals in Coes learn that the elegant robea which they ah eon wearing wore amugglod would bo # mors fication too great to endure, and thelr Py of Mile, Jouviy’s billu is the price thoy Ls’ her silence. In ono of the trunks was discov! ‘4 amemoraudum-book witn tho names of the diva for whom: Mile, Jouvix intended the dress Home of these ladies aro of fomilies that pad themsolves on thelr Knickerbocker snco#! a ‘The busband of one ta » dutioguished bette anotber is # Congres! shird is « million ‘at banker, one is @ representative gamlly prow iu New Jaraey history, one is a rich tailroud get inid Valea Club ins, ode is & goat!