Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1875, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATRS OF SURECKISTION (PATABLE IN ADVANCE). Dati ‘Tri- Partaof a yer at the same rate. To prevent delay and mistaker, ba ture and gtre Post ‘Office address in full, inolading State and County. Romittanooa may ba made atther by draft, express, Pott- Ofice order, of in registered lotters, at our riak, TENMS TO CITY UBSCRIDERS, Dally, delivered, Sunday excopted, 25 conts rer week Tally, delivered, Bunday included, 30 cents par week addres TILE TRIBUNE UOMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-ste., Chteago, I. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MOOLRY'S THEATRE—Randninh strant. between ‘Warkand Laalle, *Dors™ and ‘' Jonny Lind,” WVICKEN'S THRATRE—Madicon atreet, between Dearborn and Stato. Engagement of Charlotte Oushman. ** Guy Mannering.” ACADEMY OF MUSIO—Halsted etreat, between Mad- dson and Monroe. Engagement of Madame Jananechek. ** Chesney Wold,”* oppotite bal ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn street, corner Mone woe, Variety entertainment, ‘The reno Spy.” GRAND | OPERA-IOUSE—Clark strnet, Fremman House, Kelly & ‘Laon's Minstrels. UNION PARK CONGREGATIONAL OHURCH— Gencert by Gilmore's Twenty-second Regiment Bund, “SOCIETY MEETINGS. LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, NO. 2, R, A, M.—Spocial convocation this Monday evaning, at f o'clock, for work onthe M. M- Degroa. , Visitors gordjally invited to most with us, By order of the Bf, - TUOKER, Be. BUSINESS NOTICES PREMATURE L088 OF THE HAIR, WHICH 1S 80 dayn, may bo sutirely prevented by tho usa Ithas been uscd in thousands of coming out ip handfuls, and has its docay, and to promote a healthy ‘eneos whi nover fallod to ares and vigorous growth, Itisat thosamo time antivaled ss is dressing for the hair, ‘A single application will render {Mt soft and glossy for several Gays. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. AGE-—City and Soburban Real, Patate, ee, te Heats, oerding and Lodging, Financial, ALTA PAUHCRatlroad Time-Table, Medloal Cards, ets. ole, SEVENTH PAGE—Amusemonts. Whe Chicago Tribu. Monday Morning, February 15, 1875. ‘Mr. Speaker Harves has committed the un- pardonable political sin of being found out. Many of the Democratic members at Spring- field knew well enough that he was working np the Committeo clerkships in such a way as to subsidizo the country press; but few of them thought he would be found out and ex- posed. So thoy bore quite pationtly with his peceadillocs, But his day of grace is past OW. Supposititiona journalism, as upheld and exemplified by the Chicago Times, does not, in the long run, pay. ‘The silly and henrtless theatre-hoax which that newspaper published Baturday morning has already cost it a good Heal in money through thie loss of subscribers, and would doubtless have cost it still more in reputation, if it had anything of that kind to Jose, Tho really pitiful phase of the Times’ misfortune consists in the fact that it has Ddecomo a laughing-stock. Everybody who reads the newspapers at all has heard of tho New York Herald’s Contral Park sensation, ‘vo that the thentre-sensation of the Times is ywice dammed, firat for its intrinsio badness, ind next far its want of originality. Tt tarns ont, as proviously foreshadowed in pur dispatches, that the failure of the at- tempts at « compromise betweonthe contond- tog factions in Louisiana was due mainly to Democratic politicians at the North, who ap- pealed to their Southern brethren tokeeptheir wounds open for the sake of the party, Now that tho truth is before the people, the pitifal shifts and ovasions of those jolly beg- gers in Louisiana will be condemned and Panished, we hops, as thoy daserve, Tho organized fraud known as the Kellogg Gov- ernment ts almost tolerable when placed in tomporison with the political institution which the Domocratio party hos established and is maintaining in New Orleans. The advices from Washington in respect to the now Tax bill are conflicting. Our special correspondont says thot Secretary Buistow threatens, if some measure for tho increase of the revenue is not adopted, to divert enough from tho regular appropriations to meet the necessition of the sinking-fund. The Socro- tary would begin, of course, with the appropriations for public buildings and rivers and harbors, Now thesa aro the special objecta of the solicitude of perhaps a hundred Congressmen, who aro elected apparently forno other purposo ‘but to “ get through” some small items for the. villages which they represent, If it bo- comes generally known that the Secretary moditatea an attack upon these sacred funds iz: cane tho Tax bill is defeated, active log- Yolling will begin at once, and the bill will bo ‘pretty certain to pass. The Associated Press dispatches, on the other hand, say that a strong opposition to the bill has been de- veloped, and that it ia not unlikely to be de. feated. Wo are very much afraid that the epeslel has taken a correct view of tho situs. ion, ‘The announcement that the Railroad Com. tuisaionera of Wisconsin have deoided to reo- ommend the repeal of the Potter law will bo gonorally received with ploasure, The ovil effects of the law have beon nowhere go ap- parent as in the West, and especially in the State which was sought to bo benofited by ita operations. Capital has shunned Wisconsin since the late decisions ef the Courts sustaining the Pottor law wore ronder- ad ag if it were a plague spot; and we fear that even the repoal of the law will not im. wmediately restore confidonce in the integrity and intelligence of the people of that State, however deserving of it they may be. We do not, for ourselves, doubt or question the hovaest intentions of that people. The very fantthat they have so quickly confessed totheir @tror, and are now preparing to rectify it, fs for them great justification, But capi- Malia not generous, The Commissioners do not go the whole length of advising the on- Hire freedom of railroads from Btate control, Whey propose to have the main Hnes regulat- ed in their charges by tablos of maximum rates; and only the second-class roads will ‘be left to do as they please The-Chicago produce marketa were rather tame on Baturday, but the leading brend- ttuffa were firmor, Mess pork was quiet and easter, olosing at $18.35@18.37 1-2. cash, and $18.42 1-2 for March, Lard was moderately active, and easier, closing at $13.62 1-2 per 100 ths cash, and $13,082 3.2 for March. Menta were in fair demand, and firm at 6 5-8@6 8-10 tor shoulders, 9 6-8@9 3-40 for shortribs, and 100 for short clears. Dressed hogs wore quiet and firmer, closing at 87.70@5,10 per 100 Ibs. Lighwines wore in fair demand and steady, at 61.07 per gallon. Flour was quiet and firm, Wheat was loss active and 1-20 lower, losing at #4 1-80 caah, and 850 for Maroh. Corn was in boltes demand and 1-20 higher, closing tame at G30 cash, and 70 1-20 for May. | Oats were qnict and 1-8@1-4c higher, closing at 52 3-4 for March. Rye was nominal at 98@98 1-20. Barley was moro active and firmer, but closed tomo at $2.05 1-2@1.06 for March, and $1.00 for April, Hogs were fair- ly active and firm, with sales at $6,50@7.50. Cattlo and sheep were quict and steady. ‘Three sermons on the Dz Koven side of tho Episcopal controversy are printed this morn- ingin Tne Trinuxe, They are respectively by Dr. Locng, of Grace Church; Dr, Cusu- MaN, of St. Stephens’; and Cason Kxowrrs, of the Cathedral, Wo also givo entire a ser- mon by Ronert Cottyer on music, in which ho makes a pretty satisfactory anawer to Dr. Ryper's Inte criticisms. Mr. Couurer, in- deed, is in love with his themo, and for that reason is the most competent of all men to handle it well, As for Turner-Holl, Mr. Contyzr has never been therc, but ho means to go. His friends ond somo members of his own fomily have told him that a quioter company of as better be. hhvior is not to be found, The fact that beer is drunk there and cigara emoked is a fact to bo deplored, and he does deplore it, But with the ovil, and for above it, he be- lieves, is tho good. Mr. Conzyer takes high grounds; and no ona who examines them carefully cnn fail to conclude that he at least is honest and enthusiastic, and a good, hearty arguer, The sermonis renlly the most enter- taining that has come from a Chicago pulpit for a long time, TRE DANGER AT WASHINGTON. Tho prevailing anzioty among tho Repub- Ticans of the country is that, during the eighteon remaining days of tho present ses- sion, Congress will pass out of the control of the cool nud temperate men, and in a fow hours of madness enact a series of unfortu- nate acts that will havo the effect of com- pleting the discomfiture which overtook the Republican party last fall Hnd the Demo- cratic leaders the preparation of bills intended to destroy the Republica party and give the Domocrats all the political capital thoy need, they could not have concocted measures bet- ter adapted for that purpose than thoso al- ready presented to Congress and urged a3 purely Republican mensures. . ‘Tho Intest of these monstrosities is the “political bill” adopted, it is reported, by o majority of a caucus of the Republican mom- bors of the House on Friday night, This bill hes no apology; itis generally unnecessary, inexpediont, and unconstitutional, and, asa party measure, vicious and fatal. Wo regret that Mr. J. D. Wap, of Chicago, should tako such 9 mournful viow of the political situation as to insist that o bill of pains and penaltics like this, and the establishment of absolute and irresponsible military power, are esson- tial to compel the people to maintain tho as- condency of the Republican party. When that party can only retain its ascendency by Jaws making it a penal offense to vote against it, then tho party should pass away. We do not think the Republican party neoda any such legislation, and, if it did, we do not think it should be sustained by any such leg. islation, i ‘This bill proposesto hold the reconstructed States, in tho management of their local af. fairs, to what are called certain “fanda- mental conditions" of admission, ‘Tho States of the Union, once admitted, aro on terms of political equality, and no ono of them ean bs held subordinate to a ‘funds mental condition” which is not equally applicable to all the other States, Cougrusa has no power to impose “fundamental con- ditions” which are not already imposed, ex- pressly or implicdly, by the Constitution, not merely on one State, but upon all tho States. ‘This bill proposes, however, to insist upon certain “fundamental conditions” prescribed in the acts “admitting any of the States lately in rebellion." All of which ia going outside of the Constitution and law, and mak. ing snow “supreme law” in « particular class of States, and not in the other States, The bill also authorizos tho President in his discretion to suspend the priviloge of the writ of habeas corpus in any State of the Union, and, of course, to take military possession of such State, and at his pleasure to make and depose State Governments. In 1871, under on alarming state of affaira at the South, a low was passed granting this power to the President for a fow months, within limited districta; but the law specifically declared that such authority should cease six months befora the Preaidontinl election. This Lill proposes to give tho President this absolute power in- dofinitcly, to be exercised at his diseretion, in Maino os well as in Louisiana, in Mlinois os well as in Toxos. Does Mr, Wann wish the world to suppose that thore is any occa- sion or neccssity for clothing tho President with power to suspond the dabeas corpus in Tlinois, or Iowa, or Indiana, or Wisconsin, and to declare martial law hore, suspend the civil Governments in these States, and havo the elections of 1876 conducted by United States Marehala snd officers of the army? |. Does ho suppose the enactment of such 8 law will advance the Republican party in public estimation, or win recruits for it from the ranks of the Opposition ? The pretext for such a law is wholly obsurd. ‘There ig e State Government in Louisiana which, oo- cording to the President, and a Senate Com. mittee composed of Republicans, and two Committees of the House composed of Re- publicans, was put in office by o ‘ gigantic fraud.” The whole conntry haa waited for Congress to take some action that would re- Lieve the Government of the reproach of auch an iniquity, and restore penco to the State of Louisiana, But the oxtreme men of both parties have rofused to take such action; both sides want the ‘gigantic fraud" to bo continued ; both sides oppose tho restoration of peaco, and, under the pretext of giving the Prosident absolute power in Louisiana, ‘this bill proposes to give him like power in every other State. This protext is altogethor too weak, Behind it the country discovers tho miserable tribe of political adventurers in Arkonsos, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, from whose dishonest hands powor has boon withdrawn by a plundered peoplo; it discov. ers these men frantle for the use of the bay. onet, frantic for civil war, frantio for place, and clamoring that they be kept in office by military power, If the Republican party has lost its ascend- enoy in the reconstructed States, we believe that result is due to the worthless character and desperate achemes of the white men, who, in the name of the Republican party, have abused their offices to the degradation and impoverishment of those States. There ig not Republican State at the North which would not have rejected the Republic. an party had it ondeavorod to force such mon upon the people as rulers, It is a matter of congratulation that the Republican Senatora, ns a body, declined attending the caucus, and that of those who did attend tho ablost, beat, and most experienced Republican Ropro. sontativea not only opposed the bill, bat re. fused to bo Lound by the sotlon of the cau cus, Still, it will bo presented and urged as a “party measure,” and who can tell but dur. ing tho next two weeks this bill of abominn- tions may be taken up and passed? This bill does not stand alone. Along with it is a proposition to invade tho State of Arkansas, and revolutionize perhaps tho most peaceful and popular Government that State has had sinco 1860, Then thore is a terrible effort to levy an extra tax of fifty or sixty millions of dollars, and another bill to givo Tox Scorr a subsidy of over a hundred millions of dollars, and a determined purposo all around Congress to reduco no expendi. tures, but to continue the extravagance and waste of the Inst tive years, Is it surprising that Repnblicans all over the country aro anxious that Congress should adjourn, in order that the party shall not be loaded down and crushed with these ill-advisod measures, or any of them? Is it surprising that tho Democrats are as anxious that the present Congress shall pass all these measures, and thereby dig the gravo of the Republican party? THE STATE SCHOOL TAX, Mr, Cusmsives, a member of tho Illinois House from Fulton County, has undertaken & good work in his proposed introduction of a bill to abolish tho collection of a school tax by the State Government. Tho present practice is to collect $1,000,000 annually for the schools by State taxation, Tho tax is ap- portioned on tho valuation of property, and tho proceeds divided among the countics in proportion to the namber of children who are of school age in each county. Under this unfair system, some of the counties pay much more than they receive, and a few are allotted a larger proportion than thoy pay. Cook County has beon paying nearly $100,000 o yoar more on the property valuation than it haz received on the division according to tho number of public-school attend- ants, Fulton County is one of those whose proportion of the fund is larger than it contributes, and it would bo in the selfish interest of Mr. Cuomsias! constituents to retnin the present system if the entire fund wore distributed. But this gontleman has found, upon examination, that the percentage of the fund paid out for its col- lection and handling is larger than the differ$ ence in favor of any county. ‘Thusthe$100,- 000 excess which Cook County pays overy year does not really go to the support of schools in other counties, but is eaten up and exhausted by tha expenses incident to thosys- tom. ‘Tho State tax is collected by the town officials, who retnin 8 part as commission ; passes from the ‘Town Collector to the Coun- ty Collector, who takes a slice off tho remain. der ; from the County Collector to the State Treasurer, who exacts his salary ; from tho State Treasuror to the State Superintendent of Instruction, who takes his toll; thenco back to the County Treasurer, who takes an- other toll; then to the Town Treasurer and the school districts, both taking toll, In this process of constant friction between the various officials, it is estimated that at least twenty-two per cent of the entire fund is rubbed off bofore it reaches the teachers and the schools, ‘The system is useless in itself, since the fund is not sufficiont to support the schools of the State, and beonuse every county is obliged to organize and support o soparate system of its own for collecting school taxes, It is folly, thorefore, to waste nearly $240,000 o year in tho collection and distribution of a fond of $1,000,000, while every county in the Stato has separate machinery for the col- lection and distribution of the school tax of itaown. This would bo sufficient rengon for repealing the State tax, even if there wero no discrimination. But, while a number of counties are required to defray these unnoces- sary exponses, and the others are exempt, tho State tax is simply the means of supporting a horde of tax-csters, who might othorwiso be dispensed with ; for, with tho abolition of this school tax, it is thought that it will no longer be necessary to levy a State tar on farms, houses, mills, shops, and real estate. Thus a double bonefit will be secured from the proposed change. It will thon ro- main for every county to ralso its own school fand, instead of raising a part of it as now, and depending upon the State tax for the remainder, ‘Thero aro two features of Mr, Cosurnas’ bill, as it has beon described, which we regard as objoctionable. Oneis, that it requires the counties to maintain their schools only four months in the year; we think they should bo required tokeep them opon at least five or six months. The other feature is the pro- posed abolition of tho offices of State and County Suporintendents of Instruction, The cost of supporting these officials is not vory largo, and they ara useful in the disciplining of teachers and the collection of school ata- tistics, Wethink that the common-school sys- tem would suffer in this State by thoabolition of, at least, the State Superintendont; and, aa this chango {s not essential to the discon- tinuance of the State tax, it should be omit- ted from the bill, which, otherwiso, ought to be passed. EQUALIZING BOUNTIES OUT OF AN EMPTY EASURY TRI q On Saturday last another exhibition of domagogism was mado in the House of Representatives at Washington, by Mr. Gunoxen, of Ohio, in the introduction of a bill for the pretended ‘equalization of bounties,” which was passed by the House, after o brief discussion, with sundry amend- ments, by a vote of 117 to 39, ‘This bill pro- vides that thero shall be paid to every non- commissioned officer, musician, artificer, wagoner, aud private soldior, including those borne upon tho rolls as slaves, who served in the military service of the United States, and were honorably discharged, $8.83 1-3 per month for the time of service betwoen April 12, 1801, and May 9, 1865; and, whon the amount of bounty under the Dill is less than $100, the person entitled to receive it has the option to receive in liouw thereof a Warrant, not assignable, for 160 seres of land, the patent, how- ever, tobe issued without requiring proof of either residence or settlement, Amondmenta were offered to the original bill by Mr, Mryezs, making t apply to sailors and marines; by Mr. Cosao, to include “home guards”; and by Br, Suanxa, to include Indians,—all of whichitems, it was admitted, would run up the bill t between $10,000,000 and $50,000,000, whichthe Government will be called upon to pay, nO only to ex-soldlers, bat to muslolang, blacketths, mule-drivers, ex-alaves, Indians, sailors, nd home guards, who did valiant duty in th suppression of the rebellion by staying at hme where thore was no tighting going on, and defending their homesteads from an eemy at a dis- tance, and sufforing all the ingnyeniences of thia severe service for thirty, alty, or ninaty days, s8 tho case might ‘be, \nd drawing rations and living at publio expdse at thelr several homes. ‘The demagogiam im this bubem crops \ \ out in the fact that no provision was made for raising the enormous sum of money, and that it will now go into the Senato for passage, to become a law, when thero is not funds enough in tho Treasury to pay tho current expenses of the Government, and tho very men who advocated and urged the passngo of this claim-agenta’ bill are harassing Congress to impose oneroun and sweeping taxes upon the already overburdened people, in order to raiso revenue to support the Government, ‘This measuro in the interests of claim attorneys and bounty agents could not have been introduced at a more inoppor- tune time for obtaining moncy, It is a bill which has had no merit herotofore, or ft would have been introduced ond passed long ago. Tho miscellancous class of persons whom it proposes to fasten like Ieeches upon the National Treasury have had their claims extinguished long ago, if they evor had any. The valiant homo guards havo alrendy drawn State pay and bounties for their arduous services in loafing round o com. fortnble camp at home and fighting nothing flercer than mosquitoes and whisky-Dottles, But, waiving the morits or tho demerits of tho bill in question, whero is the moncy te vome from? When tho Honso here- after passes money bills or draws orders upon the Treasury, would it not bo well for it to provide tho money also, lest its checks bo dishonored? In this instance, would it not havo been advisnble for tha House to have passed a bill levying a direct tax of $40,000,000 upon the real and personal proporty of the people of the United States, so that tho menue could havo been forthcoming for the settloment of the bounties? This would have brought the matter straight home to the comprohonsion of tho people, and, when the tax-collector commenced lovying upon their lands, houses, and stores, to raisa the moncy, the demngogue members who voted for tho bounty bill would then have a chance to faco thoir constituents and oxpinin their reasonsfor voting the tax on them. When the public aro called on to pay tho forty or fifty millions of bounty proposed to be voted away, thoso demagogue members will make a discovery in regard to the popularity of their bill which they will wish they had known sooner, “*FOR DAWES TO PECK AT.” Mr. Dawes wishes us to believe that tho most brilliant intollectunlity and the most en- during physical organizations in Washington have been gradually wasting away in their lifo-stady to explain the decreaso in the pub- lic revenue for the past soven months, and then have foiled. With all duorespeot for the superiority of Washington minds and tho physical endurance of Washington natures, ‘we must be permitted to remark that the ex- planation is about as obvious and notorious as the nose on man's face, Not to delugo tho Congressional mind with too many rea- sons at once, wo will merely mention the fol- lowing : 1. The decrense of Govornmont revenue is mainly owing to retronchmont of expenses by the people at large on account of herd times and the stagnation of business. The distross of the panic was not felt so gen- erally for the sovon months immediately suc- ceading as for tho past seven months. In the first place, tho effect had not extended so widely; inthe noxt place, the general ro- tronchment had not yet effected the importa- tion and consumption in so great o degree. But the lines wore drawing in gradually. ‘There was a steady and uniform contraction. ‘Aqueous fluid was being squoozed out of tho watered stocks, The gnawos escaping from tho balloons, Tho kites were catching on tho tall trees. Speculations were collapsing. Inflated prices were falling. Husbands wero buying less broadcloth ; wives wero buying leassilks, Evorywhero there wasthosamecom- mon purpose of laying by for the greateratress tocome. This was the effect of the financial collapse. The'poopla realized it a few months ofter it had come; the Governmont felt ita few montha later. But, whilo tho poople trimmed their sails to the now wind, the Government did not, When the people found their incomes growing less, they reduced their expenses ; when the Government found its income growing less, it wont on in tho same old extravagant way. Government thrives upon tho extravagance of the gov- erned. Tho tax on luxuries yiclds the grent- est revenue, As the people have retrenched, the Government revenue has fallen off. This is ono of the reasons for tho decroase of rev- enue which Mr. Dawzs thinks ‘tno follah can understand.” 2, Another roason why the Governmont re- coipta havo fallen off is because of the “ pro- tective policy” which Mr. Dawes! cowardico forces him to advocate, Sinco the ‘* proteoted classes” have not been ablo to take all, they ara content to takes part. It is because the present tariff has become prohibitory in its application to many lines of imports, and be- cause the proposed 10 per cent increase will make it prohibitory of other articles, that tho Secretary of the Treasury necds now re- sources, The manufacturers and producers of cortain staples—pig-iron, stool, carpete, paper, musling, lumber, and alt, for instance —have decided to accept but a portion of the advance in price affected by the tariff on these articles, ond in this manner effoctually exclude theirimportation. Hence no revenue from these sources. Tho pro- posed incrosse of 10 per cent to tho existing tariff on the whole range of the manufactured articles of this country isfor the express purpose of enabling man- ufacturors of other lines of articles to do the same thing. Thus tho presont tariff ranges, we will eay, from 85 to 85 per cent ad valorem, which represonts the amount of profit added to the articles in tho list which aro manufactured in this country, An in- crease of 10 por cent willraise this average to from 45 to 95 per cent, The manufactur- ers can rotain their present ‘‘ protected" profits of 85 to 85 percent and add part of tho 10 per ont, and still undorsell the import price under the increased tariff, ond exclude all competition and stop importation, In this woy the 10 per cent increase will not only fail to add any- thing to the revenue, but it will actually di- miniah the current customs receipts, while it increases the cost of gooda to the people. "This ia why Mr, Bristow estimates a falling off of over $15,000,000 in customa rovenie for the current year, It ia nat because an- other panio ia auticipated, nor on account of the effects of the late panio, After the panio of 1857 the customa receipts fell off from $69,875,005 in that year to $41,780,621 in 1858; but after that they increased from 841,789,621 in 1858 to $49,565,824 in 1859, d from that to $53,187,513 in 1860, not. withstanding a heavy decreaso in the tariff ratoa meanwhile, Following this precedent, wa might naturally expect an increase of the royenue from duties during the prowent year; and there might be an increase if it wore not for the outrayeous combination with the pro- tected classes, into which Mr. Dawes’ weak- ness has Potrayed him, to exclude certain leading importations from dutios altogethor, such as ten and coffee, and thus reduce the customs receipt, 3, Another reason why the customa re. coipts have fallen off, wo may anggeat to Mr. Dawes, is on account of the greatly increased smuggling, ovasiona, and adulterntions con- nived at by the revenue officers generally. Hard times are always an aggravating con- dition to smuggling aud othor kinds of rov- enue frauda, A 60 per cont tariff in hard times will produce twice as much smuggling as the samo tariff in good times, The tempta- tion is incrensed with necessity, which knows nolaw. The opportunity for smuggling is greater In this country than anywhere on the faco of the earth. Tho political organization of the Custom-Houses, and tho prevailing corruption of tha employes, is the first facility. Tho noxt is the proximity of Cann- dn and the easy accoss of that country to ourown, The avorogo tariff in Canada is only 15 percent; our avernge tariff is about 60 por cent. The boundaries between tho two countries, extending from Maino to Oregon, are in many cases purely imnginnry lines; tho passage is at oll places casy, Tho amount of smuggling 18 regulated in part by the neces- sities of the people, in part by the facility with which it can bo accomplished, and tho uulikelihood of punishment. The enstoms reccipts have fallen off, therefore, on account of hard times, of increased smuggling, and revenuo frauds growing out of the financial distress, ‘To increnso tho tariff 10 por cent will be to increaso smuggling and swin- dling in still grenter proportion. If Mr, Dawes can forego tho arduous ap- plication of a lifetime to see these perfectly manifest rensons why the receipts of tha Government have fallen, he will be forced to the admission that his remedy for the trouble is just the reverse of what it ought to bo. Tnstend of increasing the tariff on all the necessaries of life, the true remedy is to lower tho duties on articles that are now excluded by oxcessive duties, or whose importation hag beon greatly reduced thereby, aud wherover smuggling and swindling havo defeated tho collection of tho duties, To increase the duty is a blundor born of ignorance and corrup tion THE NEW WGISKY TAX, It is snid thot the Ways and Means Com- mittee are now unanimous in the opinion that the proposed imposition of an extra tax of 15 cents on whisky on hand is impracticn ble (?), and itis highly probable that this fea- ture of the new Tax bill will bo stricken out, while the increaso of 30 cents on whisky manufactured after tho passage of tho law will bo retained. The Ways and Means Com- mittee appear to be vacillating and uncertain in their opinions, In Mr. Dawes’ presonta- tion of the merits of the bill, lest week, ho asserted, with an accuracy which seemed to imply research, that the 15 cents tax on whisky now in bond would reach 11,600,000 gallons, which would yield on immediate revenue of $1,725,000 to tho Government. Now wo are told that such atnx cannot be collected, and that it must bo eliminated from the bill altogether. Left in this shape, tho proposed increase of 80 cents « gallon on whisky manufactured aftera certain date in tho future wil! be nothing more than s speculative measure, calculated to put enormous sums of money into the pockets of the manufacturers and wholesalo dealers who have stocks on hand. ‘Tho annual consumption of whisky in tho United States for all purposos amounts to 70,000,000 gallons. If we assume that there is now on hand in tho distilleries, in bond, in the wholesale and retail stores, stock equal to six months’ consumption, there are 35,000,000 gallons which would ad- vance 80 cents, the amount of the now tar. But, in addition thereto, overy still in tho country will be put into operation, and all through tho rural districts of ‘lennesses, Kentucky, and other whisky-manufacturing States, small temporary stills will be set go- ing, and all of them will be run night and day till tho new law gocs into operation, In this manner, perhaps 165,- 000,000 gallons mors may be added to tho stock on hand beforo the new law is in work- ing order. There would then ba 9 stock of 50,000,000 gallons on which the manufac- turers and dealers would enjoy an advance of 80 cents a gallon, amounting in all to $16,- 000,000, ‘This amount would be inexorably exacted from whisky-consumera, but not one dollar of it would go to the Governmont. . Another effect of this sort of legislation would be to shut up tho distilleries imme- diately after the law got into actual opera- tion, until the extraordinary stock on hand should be reduced at least one-half by actual consumption. For several mouths thero would be comparatively little whisky manu. foctured in thia country, and tho rove- nuo from the tax during this pe- riod would almost totally fail, causing heavy and embarrassing deficit in the Trensury, There would also bo systematic smuggling from Cannda. At present the ex- ciso on highwines in Canada is about the same as in this country, equalized by mutual agrocmont for mutual protection ngainst smuggling, But with the tax 90 cents higher in thia country, oquivalont to a large profit, whisky would be run over the borders at a thousand different points which would pay the Government no tax, Asa result of these difforont effects of the law, its influence would boto simply raiso the price of spirits thronghout the country and diminish tho amount of revenue from them, After the whisky-speculators shall have de. rived all the profit of the proposed increase, the Democratic Congroaa will promptly stop to the front, repeal the increase of tax, and claim credit before the country for removing frou the public the burdens which the last Republican Congress had put upon them, ‘Thus the passage of the now Tax bill by the present Congress will not only fail to attain the desired object of increasing the revenue, but it will aimply aid tho speculators at the cost of the people at large, and give the Democratio party a plausible argument for the noxt Presidential campaign. Will it not be better to let the next Congress, which will be Democratic, solve the problem of provid. ing tho surplus revenues for carrying on tho Government that will then ba under their charge ? The annonncement that tho water has been let into the new tuunel under the clty is the horalding of tho completion of a remarkable piece of engincering, which will be of the greatest benefit to Chicago, and which, somo yenra ago, before Chicago had made such progress in engineering works, would have attracted very general comment. It jaa tun- nel running from the crib 2miles under the lake to the pumping-works, and thence 4 miles southwest diogonally under tho city, carrying the pure water of the take 6 miles to the point of distribution. Tho work was bogun under the last Administration of the City Government, has been completed strictly according to the contract, and has cost even less than tho original estimates, It is one of the honest Jobs which Chicago can point to with pride, Ono of the mo:t ndmirablo accessories of the now tunnel is the establishment of about twenty largo roservoirs, distributed along its linc, where the water rises to tho level of the lake, and which can bo reached and used im- niediately at any time the Water-Works fail. lad theso subterranean reservoirs oxinted at tho timo of the Great Fire of 1871, they might have been the means of raving a largo portion of tho property destroyed. HINDOO FENIANISM. Under this caption tho Pallall draws o rather startling picturo of discontent in Hin- dostan, It snys that the nowspapers edited by natives and published in tho native ver- nacular have beea ‘regularly printing trea- son,” Quotations from thoir columns bear out the charge. Take theso specimens: “What is tho good of sending English Officinls to give evidenco before tho Parlia- mentary Committee? What does the butcher know of tho pain of tho dying animal? . . Should any calamity, auch as a war with Ruzsin, befall India at this time, while thor are disputes between us and tho English, it will bo very fearful indeed. . . Tho peo- ple submit on account of wenkness, but it is only a natural law that when tho tino comes they will use thoir own romedy.” Langungo like this is the rule in theso jour- nals. The Pall-Aall gives an odd reason for its prevalence. It is the unhealthy promi- nence given the higher education in Hin- dostan at the expense of the lower. Thera ia no provision for common schools, Thero are three universities, with nafiliated col- leges, They aro all crowded with Hindoos, Their first scholars are employed in the Civil Service, What career is open to the other grad- uates ? They can practice law,—or they can start anewspaper, ‘They prefer the latter. “It is snid that o nativo graduate, if ho can get 6 promiso of fifty subscriptions, never hesi- tates to establish o newspaper.” Tho same cause produces the samo result in Greece. The Hindooeditors know very little of English habits or politeness, ‘hoy therefore criticise ignorantly. Thoy do know something about English literature, however, They have studied it at the University. Now tho English classics are full of donuncistions of tyranny. The Hindoo student ‘is almost inevitably brought to the conclusion that a good political style goes naturally into decla- mation against tyranny.” ‘Therefore, saya the Pali-Mall, ‘the journalist writes about oppression because ho has hed an English clansical education, just a3, if he had a French classical education, ha would write (and per- haps more naturally) on the majesty and splendors of absolute monarchy.” Whatever may bo thought of the soundness of this ingenious theory, the fact for which it tries to account is undeninble. These native newspapers babble treason from their birth. At the cametime their grievances, when stated in dotail, are very petty. Ono of them com- plains that “natives are always put to sit on the back seat of tho jury- box.” Another protests against “the grent tyranny of compelling parents with childron who are suffering from small-pox to stay out- side the gates" of a large city. Tho remedies suggested are equally romarkable, One writer, who thinks British taxation is ruining everybody, wants the municipalities to save their taxes for a year or two, use them to put up iron-works, then uso the profits of tho iron-trade to start other manufactures, and finally pay all municipal expenses with tho proceeds of the municipal shops, We wish we could send the sddress of this gonius to the Hon. W. D. Kenrzy. The two ore kin. dred soula, Another man wants to issue rag money ad lid, and mako it a legal tender. Tho impartial observer will not wonder at tho ill-focling of the Hindoo against the British, The latter have given him law and order, but have made him pay heavily for the gift, Hindostan hag been used, as Ireland onco was, simply for the benofit of Englishinon. Noth- ing has beon done to educate the mass of tho people. Their tax-gatherers have been changed, ‘Thatis about all. Tho editorial talk about ‘‘a foreign yoke” covers an ugly truth, About 200,000 English ‘ carpot-bag- gers" control 200,000,000 natives, Thore is small danger that the yoke will be broken by native effort alone. Tho Sepoy rebellion fin- ished that idea. It went to the winds with the bodies of thé mutineers blown into pieces from the cannon-mouth, But suppose tho contingency hinted at in one of the extracts takes place, and Russia bogins the dreaded in- roads upon tho British frontier in Hindostan, Thon, indeed, the issue may be what the na- tive journalist predicta,—‘* very fearful," Tussia as adeliverer might find invasion easy. THE EXTREMES OF [HE CHURCH OF E}- GLAND, The Rev, Newstan Harn has on article in the last Independent, in part of which he sketches some interesting facts in the recent history of the Church of England. ‘The trial of the Rey, Mr. Macxonoonts is one of them. This pugnacious parson is one of the ex- tremista who pin their piety on big wax can- dies, smoking consers, pretty robes, and genuflexions, He made his congregation mad by turning his back on thom during the cole- bration of the Lord's Suppor, and ono of tho ecclesiastical courts laid violent hands on him. Ho pleaded for his playthings manfully,— or childfully,—but the court suspended him from tho ministry—we beg pardon, the priesthood—for six weoks. ' The conscien- tious criminal took an eppeal to a higher court, and ia bowing and burning his condles ag before, There aro other shnilar cases, Meetings aro held on both sides of the fence--the very high fence —which divides the extremistsof the Churob, Tho Ritualists tell the Evangelicals thoy ought to leave the fold they disgrace, and the latter return the complimout. Dean Stanuxy isathorn in the side of Ritualista, He al. lowed Max Muzzzs to deliver hia noteworthy lecture on ‘' Missionary Religions” in Woat- minster Abbey. Teaders of the Saturday Review will remember its plaintive grief thereat. STancuy has now sinned (in Ritual. iutio eyes) still more grievously by asking Dr. Oargp, of the Scotch Church, to proach in the Abbey. Oatnn did so, His sermon was called a lecture, but the dis. tinction was that ‘twixt tweedledum and tweedledco, The doughty Dean sealed his declaration of independence by inviting Bishop Corxnso to preach. ‘Che Bishop of London had forbidden Corznao to use any pulpit within bis Diocese, but Westminster Abbey, thunks to one of the anomalies of English law, ianotunder the Bishop's juris- diction, Coruwso, however, declined Dean Stanuey's invitation, because he did not wish to embroil him farther with the ecclesiastical powors that be. ‘Ihe most notable recont de. parture from established use is that of the Rev. Mr. Hawn, sn Episcopalian, who is knowa in this country by his book oa “ Ausio oo and Morals.” He has lectured ins London course which corresponds to that given by the Sunday Lecture Society here, His Bishop remonstrated, but he wont on tho platform, nevertheless, The London Sunday Leagne jg somewhat jubilant over the fact, and Mr, Haweta has been epattored with praiso ang blame in various ' lendors.” Newsan Hann draws tho inferonco from theso facta that ‘'the Church of England scems to be fast disestablishing itself by it, divisions.” Caaspenuain and Jom Bator have nlready said this, They are not aloroin their belief. Of tho matrimonial oxporienca of the tat, Nevse Srysoun, the minstrol, Mra, Beast, writes tothe St. Loule Republican: “A gut many years ago, Neraz mot Evvir Genvoz, the soubrotte of Wautacn’s Thoatro, Erris tay been married to Canto Patti, tho violinist (who died in St. Loufa), buts reparation had takoy place, and the War had broken out. Cazto was down South, and Errrz in Philadetphia; nen come through that Parrt wae killed, ond Erris, considorlug heraclf a widow, marriod Nz sp Sermoun. They wero living very comforta'ly together, whon Serstoun found in 9 paper ilo auuouncoment of Canto Patti's wafoty, an: mediate return to tho States, and, vith hoa; sorrow on both sides, tho two pirted to es togethor no more. He lived a long time vith his mothor and sister, who fairly idolized tom, and tinally married again, tue lady thia being a non-profeseional.” It eeoms ag th Mrs, Buunitaa, whose own domestic wifohe tig had leaked out by the death of Sir. Fos, tad made up ber mind to baul the skeleton tr:m every available closet every time & death oo curred in 4 family. —_-___—_. In 1867, M. Benagn, & Parisian, lost hin wits, whom ho bad marriod three years bofore, Ho bas becn almost Leart-broken over sinco, livisg Vin the room where bis wife died, ond in which her portrait was hanging. His wife's sitter a the timo of Lis marriage was 6 little girl, butéhe has now expanded into 6 handsome wots, For years she bad not scou M. Benorn. The other day rho knocked at the door of hia opar. menis, Tho servant was sbuont and MM, Decora opened che doot. She outered ond, lift ¢ to; voll, aaid: "Do you not recognize moi” "4, wifo!" ho oried, then suddenly recoiling, 3, uo! sho is dead! it is ber apint rotucned to earth!" The poor git] tried to reaseure the widower and oxplain that abo was no gh, but his little sister-in-law, now grown u, who had arrived in Paris the day before. "Xo, no, help!" bo sbrieked, and fell back dead. OBITUARY, MATTHIAS L, DUNLAP (‘ RURAL"), ‘The reader of Ta Cxicaco Tntaux, ania | argo clelo of friends and acquaintances in thu - city and county, 88 well as the entire farming community of the West, will be painad to Jessa ‘of the doath of Marrume L, Dosnar, whos: ley ters npou farming and agriculture, ovor tho nun de plume of “Rural,” bave been auch a faniiiar and regular feature of Tux Parnun:: for ty post twenty yeara. Mr. Dunzar was bon Sept. 14, 1814, in Cherry Valloy, N. ¥., and ca:no to C’ cago in 1834. He flist identifled bimaelf withas ¢ tive business hore as a clori in a dry-gonda stu ¢ and traveled in tho intoresta of bis employes for some years throughout she Weat. In isd ( he purchased a farm at Leydon, in this cout, /: thon known as Dunilap’s Prairie, and fuilomed the business, both of farming and bury f with marked success. Although he hud cul) reesived such education as was at ila time procurablo in tho common achools, he va agreat reader and closo student, and his tir native ability soon gave hima prominent pli in the community, whilo Lis sterling moral clay acter so commended himto his tonnswane ; pecially the Gormaua, that much of their bu: ness wan iutrusted to him. He was alae malt + Justice of the Peace ln Leyden, and was for Supervisor. About tho year 1850, prior towlid 4 time he had matricd Misa Enznixx Pu skilled knowledge of farming began to give Lia a wide reputation, and made his inflacncy ere clally foltin the State Fairs, In 1554, he wet eloctod to the State Legilaturo up. the aut Nebraska ticket, and served one tern: wilh gett satiafaction to lis conatituenta. foundations of tho ‘Rural Farm,” about $ miles south of tho of Champaign, which hag since beoomo tany t as the model farmof Iillnois, Aa a monlerd ; the State Board of Agriculture, Treteo of tj Iudustrial University, President of tha &: Horticultural Socioty, aud contrisutor to ne Paper and periodical literature upon sgiicuitin! } aubjecta, hea hag probably oxerciead = wut 44 poworfut influence upon the farming interce’s the Weat, and done more to epnoble anil uigriit the occupation of the farmer, and furial ba » with information tn the dotaile of bis tusixes | than any other map. ‘This is ateo aliown b7 fact that he was Ilterally overwholined lotters from all parts of the country, Esta! g Weat, seeking for his view? wupoo wr +! ous a@ubjocts connected with tho nut 7 and farm. As & contributor to nowepspes he has beon regalazly engaged for over th years, His familiar sigdature, * furall appeared in tne old Gem of the Prairie } when that paper oxpired, he identi‘iod bunt i with tho Democratic Press, and, when thatth F por was morged in Tax Curcago Trine, t. ral” camo siong also, and from that tims cl his death bis letters have appeared with 0” utant regularity, hia last lotter belog printelit Tuz Weeutr Tammons of Feb, 8, datel {2 Mississippi, on route for home from an oxteniel ) Bouthern tour, which he had tain for bt health. Ho was also a froquont coatribate! the Prairie Farmer avd other agnicultursl pera, and edited an agrioultural paper in; field, Ul, for aome time, His ontriviti’ under the head of the “Warm ond 6 don” will bo miused horoaftor, not °F j¢ by the farmors, but by all the readers of 7 (1p ‘TarnoNe, and hie death will co:no to then moat ag keenly as a paraonal losa. bs he waa a man who waa untvoraally re3| and loved by those who kuew him bos!, Hest i plain, simple, and hearty in ble mannor, ot) &. aud assiduous in bis labors upon the fur wi i in his Interary work, honest and court 2003!" u dealings with men, anda man of storing mh worth. Tis busy pon has been foresc? a F aside, but hie large family of nino hitde? have iubented bla love of hia profoasiun #0! ability to worl, and one’ of thea, Eu has been « frequont contributor to ‘Sax Tarn | upon mattera connected wish becs and “ manogemont, in which ebe is an enthusiaat, ; saying good-bye to thia busy workor aud ore af friend, it is like taking farewall of a0 old 0 es assooisto; for although his lottera were wit aa from his farm, and his kindly, honest faco*! ; q not often geen 1 the office, yet he bad Meare part of the household—an abvent moral er oft: family, "The sorrow of Lis own family all tompered by the pleassnt momorioa of his and the many words of earncat 6) pel will come to them in their afllictinn. ‘TUR HON. BAMUEL HOOPER, xt A briet dispatok trom Wastington in a t) fasue brought the intelligence of the 08! a tho Hou, Samvgn Hoorgs, mombor of 08" from the Fourth Messachuwotta District a decesaed was born in Marblebosd, Mast *0 1803, and for nearly forty years wow jut te mercantile purauita, eepooiaily inthe China ne at Boston, He was a Whig momber of tbe i sachusotta Legislature In 1951, 1352, 004 ae aud e Republican member of the State Ben 1857, In 1861 ho waa elected to Congr oy special election, vice Winzus Arristoy ( a norvative), roulgued, Mfr, APPLETON having io previous yoar defeated ANSON Boa.isgawe Hoorgs bas been ba Congress continuously: that time, a period of fourteen ai $ his term would hare ended Mer ; 1975. Having devoted # large PA life to mercauille pusuty