Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1875, Page 4

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'(l‘" l'l lfi{l!lz!l. and always koep some of or faraly g P Eakn haw bean wing (e Glan Tlors Minoral-Water the past six woekn {n_my family, and, froia tho fiest uso of i, {ta benoticlal effecte snomod alinost magical, and 1 holievo it to bo the best minaral-wator in the world for the flls!n’lfil }I]ll mcnm?tnldud to cure, 1donot foel that I s 1] . ours, x: u[‘!‘ll“':)z]l el e WAL, W. STRONG. The Chitags Tibune, ‘Monday Morniog, March 8, 1875. Tho doad-lock in the Indiana Legislature botween tho Democeratio House and the Re- publican Senate resulted in the smothering of several important messures, and necessi- tated tho calling of an extra session. The Democrats, intent upon making political cap- itn), stnbbornly hung ont for a revenue pro- vision ridiculonsly low, with an allowance for n loan to mnke up the de- ficiency; whilo tho Republicans in the Sen- nto, though equnlly desirous of a goodrecord, Insisted upon a levy which should leave no opening for an increnso of the Stato debt. They conld not agree, and the Rovenue, Feo and Salary, and Temperanco bills wero all Tost in consequence. It has long beon the rule for Congressmen who bolong to the Administration party, and who bave failed of re-election before their constituents, to inake o rush for Federal ap- pointments, This year is mo oxcoption to tho rulo, Mayxanp, of Tennessee, -is to re- teive o a balm for his defent tho mission to Constantinople ; Prase, a carpet-bngger Sen. ator for n yoor from Mississippi, is made Postmaster ot Vicksburg ; Raxsier, colored sx-member from South Cnrolina, is mado o Collector of Internal Revenue ; and thoro are fifty other ex-membors importuning tho President. This practice is simply an en- courngement to the unworthy passion for office-bolding, and Is not based on sound doc- trine, A repudiation by the poople at the bomo of the politician should searcely bo a rocommendatiqn for o Fedoral appointment, The horrid dotails of one of the most bloody and mysterious murders in the anoals of Ohicego crime are given elsewhero in this issue, smd, if this fails to fill tho mensure of expectation concerning Sunday strocities in this city under the present police administra- tion, the render may turn to o case of supposed Infanticide, with a certainty of comploting the sickening qyota of horrors. An old man, awfully slaughtered for his small hoard of money in his saloon, upon oncof the principal thoroughfaves of the city, is found stone dead and nlmost floating in his own blood at daylight Sabbath morning, and the most that can bo sald in the way of throwing bight upon the torrible occurrence is thata man and a woman have beon arrested upon goneral suspicion. Truly, murder is reduced to an easy scienco hereabouts, The Prvcnsack caso has boen onco more wprung upon tho Senate, and in a very irreg. slar way, by Mr. Montox, and it was decided in caucus to take tho matter up to-day. There Is every probability that the Sonate will not waste much titno in the discussion of this w2 post fucte matter, His clnim to o soat hins already been settled by the House, and, as the samo clection that sent Sneunan and Pryon- nack to the Houso is the one thot is claimed lo liave elected the Logislature that sent up Poiounack to the Senate, o rovival of the slaim in the latter body is simply golng over ground that Las ouce been settled. The spposition manifested in thoe caucus to taking up the queation at all is an indication that ihis pestiferous claim will be settled Leyond i dispute when the Senate gotsa chance it With the explirstion of the Forty-third Cougress und the coutinuance of the Benato u excentive scaslon comes the custowmary batch of Cabinotrumors, A roundsbout bit sf gosslp by way of Bpringfield, 1L, has it that Attornoy-Goneral WinLiaxs is to raceive the appointinent of Minlster to Russia, and that Benmator OanrenrEm, of Wiscon- tin, will take the vacant Law port- folio. Another zumor recalls Gen. Bomenox, that ho masy enter the Olio Gubernatorial race, and sends IaamuroN Fisu fo the Court of §t, James, Tho last re- port is easily disposed of by the explanation that Secretary Fisn has merely arranged to send his family to London; while the wide variance between tho Presidert and Ssnator Oazrexres on the subjoot of the Civil-Rights bill renders quita -unlikely the selection of the latter as the Oabinet law adviser. The Chicngo produce markets were irregu- laron Baturday, Mess pork wasin fair do- wand, and advanced 7jo per brl, closing at B18,12} cash, and $18.274 for April. Lard was moderately active, aud a shade firmer, closing st $18.17§ per 100 lbé cash, and $18.37) for April. Moats wero quict and o shads Sxmax, st 6} for shoulde:s, Ofo.for short ribs, and 10c for short clears. Dressed hogs were nctive aud stronger, closing ut $7.80@8.25 por 100 b8, Highwines were in- nctive and nominnlly firmer, ot $1.08@1.10 yer gallon, Flour was quiet and stendy, Wheat was loss nctive and jo lower, closing at 86o cnsl, and 87io for April. Corn was dull and {o lower, closing at 633a cash, and 71dc for Mny. Oats were moro activo and ensier, closing at 52§@52jc eash, and n2fe forApril. Rye was quict and steady at 97@97}c. Darley was quiet and lower, clos- ing finn at $1.05} for March,, and $1.02}@ 1.03 for April. Hogs were falrly active and unchonged. Salés at £6.00@8.00, Tho cattlo market was nctive and firm, with tho bulk of salos at B4.60@6.00, Sheep were firm and unchanged. —— PRACTICAL WORKING OF CIVIL RIGHTS, We priut somo nowspaper extracts this morning foreshadowing in difforent sections of the country the probable effect of the Civil-Rights bill passed by the Iate Congress. The conclusion which we draw therofrom, as well a3 our own observation and judgment, is that the new order of things instituted by this Lill is not likely to cnuse cither po- litical or social disturbance of any impor- tauce, and certainly nothing like & rovulsion in tho status of parties, or in the present re- Iations between blnck and white, both of which circumstances have beon freoly pro- dicted by the Democratic press. Tho con- clusions in Cincinnati and Now York are that the effect of tho now law will be scarcely appreciablo; and theso are citics which would be nmong the fivat to focl any effect,— the former because it is just opposite Ken- tucky, nnd containg o largs mnegro population, and the Intier becauso it 'would be more frequently wvisited, porhops, than any other city by the classof negroes likely to apply for admission into first-class hotels and for choico sents at the thentres. It is not unlikely that o test ondo will bo made np as early ns possible to cnable tho Supreme Court to pass upon the constitntionality of the law. If it is not sus- tained by that tribunal, there is an end to it; if it is held constitutional, it will bo obeyed in such a manner as to occasion no percept- iblo chiango in the present general eustors of liotels, railronds, stonmboats, theatres, and otlier plnces of publie entertainment included in tho law, In the first place, it must bo remembered that the number of colored people who will seek to avail themsclves of the full privilege of tho law in a way that would be offensive to whites 18 a8 yot very small. Itisonly negroes who have amplo means (and their number is oxtromely limited) who .can afford to travel in Pullman carg, stop ot first-clnss hotels, and occupy tho choico places at the thentres, Tho number of applicouts for these priviloges will only increrse with tho advancement of the negro's condition, wenlth, and intelligenco; and the existing prejudice, which is peculiar to this country, will wear off gradunlly ns the whites become thus gradually accustomed to their presence. In England, France, Germany, or any other European country, Algerian, Morocco, Egyp- tinn, West Indinn, and also American blacks, nro treated with tho same courtesy and con- sideration a8 white poople, and enjoy all the priviloges songht to bo conferred upon them here by law, The reason is that thero is no remnant in thoso countries of a prejudice which grow up under o condition of slavery, and colored persons who travel there aro usually possessed of 68 much money, intelli- gonce, nnd respectability in appearanco and mauner ag the averago white tourist. The black would only bo excluded from a theatra or botel in nny European country for the samo reasons which would exclude o whito man,—inability to pay, disreputable conduct, or ropulsive personnl appearance, Until the absurd American prejudice is worn off by the friction of actual contnot, and up to tho timo that any considerablo number of colored people in this country shall have money enough to avail themselves of their now logal privileges, tho inn-keopers, theatre-managers, and others, will hiave little diffeulty in disposing of the question, In hotels the propriotors reserve tho right of allotting white peoplo such apartments nsthey choose, and the same right cannot well be donied them in dealing with blacks, 3Most firat-class hotels have more than one dining- room,—gencrally one lnrge dining-room and two or threo smallor ones. 8o long ns thero isno notable or conspicuous effort to treat negroos as an fuferfor race, whon their ap. pearance and conduot are unobjectionable, wa do not bolieve the negroes themselves will try to forco nny issue under the bill. Mean. while, thers will bo botols which will seclk their patronnge as soon 18 there is enongh of it to be profitable, Thus it will be scen that noy change that will be produced by the Civil-Rights bill is likely to bo 'gradunl and harmless. All the politicat danger was taken out of the bill when the provision rogarding mixed schools was dropped. The soonor the American peopla overcome a mere color-prejudice, and cense to regord 6 man as objoctionable on account of his complexion, who wears as good clothos, hag 04 neat an appearance, and doports him- elf as docontly as the unobjectionable white man, the more creditable it will bo to the intelligence of the American people. For tho first timo for soverul years, thero Is & prospect of peace in Arkausas, Tho recent netion in Congress, doclaring that there was no occasion for tho intervention by any Lranch of the Government in tho affairs of that Stato, has had the effoct of stifling all contewplated disturbance. The Btato is re- lioved of the uncertainty and instability which has cursed it for some time, The Legislaturo on the Oth adjourned "until November next, but before doing so adopted tho follawing resolutions,”proposed by Mr. Maxwzrr, u colored member ; ‘Witkngas, It {s now fully ascertained that tha pres. ent state Goverument has been, and will bo, by tho Goneral Governmant, fully sustsinod ; and Witkuras, It is the duty of ull peaco-loving citizens to lond their aid to the lawful suthorities of this Btate tobulld up the countrysud to eacoursgs industry, oducation, and Immigration, to the end that we may b;z . b.enll:"mmw. vroaperous, free, and happy puo- ™ P vaatuedy by the Hovae of Repressntative, That we, {udividually sud collectively, do now publish to the peoplo of the United Btuten that psace snd quist now provail, and that {0 sll who deslreto como amang us, that wo will recelve theim with open hesrts snd warm welcomes, promising to thein wafety in person sud property, aud freedom of spesch, This resolution is not only evidenco of the grateful nccoptance of the final settloment of all tho political difliculties, but of the good sense of the author. It indicates that tho poople of the Btato, of all partios, will now givo their uudivided attention o the improve. ment of its long negleoted condition, especial- lythe finances. The wars and contentions among tho varions Governors and claimants for all othor officea has groatly interrupted -business, aad suspendod imunigration to the Btate. There {s no reason why Arkansas should not become a lorge and prosperons Btate j and, if peaco can bo malntained there, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1875, a8 jt probably will be, sho will at onco eater | in the O} World, The charge of tho failure upon a rapid growth, not only in population, but in all branches of productive industry. THE WORK OF CONGRESS, Though the number of important public measures provided for by the Inte Congressat its second sessionn was small, and theso have boen fully discussed, a large amonnt of rou- tino business wns done, Thore were 128 public acts (some of them of n quasi-private charnoter), 165 private acts, and eight joint resolutions having tho force of acts, making 801 ncts in oll, The great bulk of the pri. vato ncts was for tho granting of pensions; there wero also many for the reliof of politi- cal disnbilities, and n fow for tha reliof of private persons from logal linbilities to the Govarnment, The only joint resolutions of any import or interest were to provide for the continuance of tho Board of Andit in the District of Columbin in order to admit addi- tionnl clnims ; for filling the vacancy in the Smithsonian Institute; fornppointinga Com- missioner to the International Penitentinry Congross to bo held in Romo; toonable Mrs, Trrcn (Gen, Suzrwax's dnughter) to nccept the $30,000 set of diamonds; snd Copt. WzrLs, of the Navy, to be decorated with the French Cross of the Legion of Honor. Among the publio ncts, the most important were: 1. Tho fixing of o date for the re- sumption of specio-payment. 2. Tho ** Little Tarif " bill, nominally correcting certain phraseology, but really increasing the tariff. 8. Tho Tax bill, increasing tho whisky tax 20 cents per gallon, nud adding to the tarilf on sugar 25 per cont, and 10 per cent to the whole line of manufactured goods. 4. The Civil-Rights bill, 5. Enabling Colorado to come into tho Union in 1877. 6. The River nnd Harhor bill, covering £6,600,000, 7. The regular Appropristion bills, including appropriations for the army, navy, fortifica- tions; Legislative, Exective, and Judl- cial Departments; Sundry Civil Bervice; Consular and Diplomatic Servico; Post- Ofico; Military Academy, claims, ond deficiencics. Among the bills second in im- portanco to these were the following: Tho act enabling the Post-Office to carry into ef- foct the law for the prepnyment of postago on nowspapers; an act providing for the aathentication of the revised statutes and the preservation of the original of nll laws; an act romoving all limitations of circulation for bauks jsaning notes payablo in geld ; an nct carrying into effect the repeal of the moiety system ; an act providing for the payment of interest on the District of Columbia 3.6 bonds ; sun not fncilitating the disposition of cases in the Supromo Court ; acts fixing the charncter of the District Government ; and soveral Indian and land acts. Among the so-called publio acts aro soveral of no greater consequence than that *changing the name of the plensure-yacht Dolly Varden to Clo- chotte,” and that * changing the name of the port of Nobleboro to Damariscotta,” It is not possible to tell positively as yet whether or not there are any notabla abuses and steals concealed under general titles of bills, Such s titlo a3 ** An act to provida for settlements with cortain roilway compnnics " i8 cortainly suspicious. 'The mannorin which bills wero rushed through both Houses in tho lnst moments also warrants s dread of bidden dangers. The scenes in tho Senate and the Houso are described as having beon all oxcitement ; psges wera rushing to and fro with bills for concurrence and signature, and oven members with acts in which they have n lively interest traversed the long distance Letween the two chambers at & rapid pacs to resoue their pot schomes from failure. Protty much eovory bill was passed, it is said, for which any Senator or member stood rendy to vouch, Such practice cannot fail to bo pro- ductive of moro or less public injury, the exact oxtent of which is not always discover- ed till some time after ndjournment. A NERVOUS DEMOORATIC ORGAN, Tho Louisville Courier~Journal of the 6th prints a romarkable article—remarkable for its mixturo of truth and error—entitled A Btart’s o Start,” in which it resigns its office a8 prophet, and sadly acknowledges there ia no hope of civil war. A fow days ngo, in commenting upon the Force bill, it said ; Congress hus no {hought of anytling except the perpetuation of the faction Jed by MonroN and Buz- Len, ‘Tux Onicaco Tamuns mey sffoct-contempt for theso prognostications, Let those laugh most who Jaugh last, Wo sball not have long to wait for tho verification of all wa have saul. Tho candidaoy of Gen, Giaxt for & third term'ls & fized fact, and that slono ought o satisfy the peouliar skepticlsm which has visitod ridiculo upon every effort {0 keep the conutry advised of its real situation and danger, This utteronco was mado by the Courier- Journal in its prophetio charaoter, and, in making it, it blew a blnst of the most porton. tous and frightful description, It was only o fow days ngo; and now tho Courier~Journal quietly warbles the following plaintive little tune: ‘The action of Congress upon the Arkansas matter, and tho fslurs of tho Benate to act on tha Porcs bill, take the Insuguratlon of civil war out of the Presl- dent'w hands, Tho division of partios fu the Govern- ment gives ua o guarantes of something lke a seuse of responaibilty in our governors, ‘The Cvurier-Journal having thus publicly aunounced its failure as a prophet, it shifta its course from the futuro into tho ‘past, and snys: s The policy of the Repullican party haa boon & system of experiments and expedients, Lot-headsd and theo- retical, Reconstruction from first (o last was & bungle of inconeistencies, the logio of war se represented in 1he practice of the period belng & compound of timidi- iy aud bate, perseculing to-dsy and vaclllating tos morrow, all things by turns and nothing long, oxcept il sparit which animated §t, keoplog the Bouth ins porpetual stow and tha wholo country in wuspenso, Upon this point thero is much to bo said on the other side, and we reserve until another occaslon a‘dotailed answer to show that tho Courier-Journal is a8 unfortunate in its rem- inisconces s it was in its prognostications, 1t is only necossary at presont to call its at. tention to tho general fact of what has been nccomplished during Gen, Grant's aix yonrs of oftice, for JomnsoN's term was only marked by delay 1n reconstruction. In these six years, the negro has been established In his freedom and in his civil and political righta. Ho has been given the ballot, and is holding oftico nnd sitting on jurles, His relations to the whito race have boon satisfactorily estab- lished in nearly every Boutherntate. ‘Theso Statea Lave rovised and re-onacted their Con- stitutions, and aro all in the Union, With the exception of one seat (Loulsiana), they aro all represontod in tho Bonate. Their Honse represontation is complete, and they have the control of that body. Their Stato Governments, except *in Mississippl and South Carolina, have reverted to the control of the “Cousorvatives.” No Confederato has been punished, and the temporary disabilities imposed upon thoss who songht to dimupt tho Union have been completely removed. Peace and order ‘reign throughout the entire Bouth, excopt in Louisiana, and no danger s apprehended there, except from hot-headed partisans and banditti, who may seek to over- ride the Conservative majority. Inaword, s work Las been accowplished in the South ju ton yoars which would have takan & censury of recoustruction, thereforo, is simply absurd. If any mistake hna been made, it has been in the too great haste of reconstrnetion. The Courier-Journal closes its articlo with a remarkable ndmission for an ultra Domo- cratic nowspaper: Itis now In ander for the leaders of tho incoming (Democratic) party to see thst the couniry has not Jumped oat of ths frying.pan Into the fire, We are fold that a new broom sweeps cloan. Dut this Demo eratio broom ia pot & new broom, 1t {8 an old hroom, and has itaelf done some ugly swoeping in its time, This admission is only too true. The last time tho Democratio party went out of power it loft behind it a plundered country, a Government handed over secrotly to scces- sionists, and n devastating civil war. The * C.J.,” which was a Union Whig paper,—at lonst the * J.” part of it,—evidently hng rof- croucs to this infamous record when it speaks of the ** ugly aweeping " the Domo- cratic party has done in former times when in power. The Courier-Journal is not alona in its ap- prehensiona of tho future conduct of that same party, Theyaro shared by tho peoplo of the wholo country. 'Thoy have beon fore- warned by tho speech of Joux YouNa Brown, the member from the Courier-Journals own State. Wo bope that these apprehensions may not ba renlized, but the outlook is not an encouragingone, ‘Iho action of theNorth. ern Democratic dough-faces upon the Wurer- En compromise, and the venomons Southern attack upon Atexasver H, Steenexs, bo- cnuse ho had the courngo to vete for it, and to vote In tho interests of peaco, are signifi- cant omens of what may occur when tho House meots under tho control of the South- orn fire-caters, The Republican parly is now practically out of power. We wait tho polit. jcal honesty, tha correction of abuses, the in- nupuration of reforms, the cra of political viriue, tho establishment of universal order and prosperity, which the Democracy has so blatantly bonsted would take place when it eamo into power. In the words of the shiv- ering and nervous Conrier-Journul, wo hope ¢ tho country has not jumped out of the fry- ing-pan into the fire.” FITZ JORN PORTER. Frrz Jony Porten becamo o Major.General at an exceptionnlly early age. QGallantry in tho fleld gave lim his rank. e served In tho Army of the Potomac under McCLELLAN, under Porg, and then under McCrLELLAN again, Ho was nfterwards tried by o court- martial for disobedienco of orders sent him by Pore, was found guilty, nnd was cashiered. He has sinco been trying to got a new trial. His application for it is .based on four grounds, First, the trial was at a timo of grent popular passion, whon the people demanded the punishment of somebody for the unfortunate Mansssas campaign, and when the army was split into McCreuran and Pore factions, neither of them willing to do justico to the other, Under these circum- stances, o fair trial was, ho says, an impossi- bility, Becond, the majority of tlte particulnr court which tried him wos prejudiced against him. Onoe of his nine judgos was actually o witness against him. Third, the first order ho disobeyed (that of Aug. 27, 1802) dirceted him to move forward at1a. m., but really loft it to his discretion. The contextof the order is depended upon to prove this, Ponten edvanced at 8,—two honra aftor ho was directed to do go. Ho submits testimony to show that his troops wore so worn out that they hod to vest before marching ; that his subordinato Generals advised him to delay; that his corps got to the destination as soon as it would have dome had it started at 1 o'clock ; and that tho hour was, at any rate, loft to his discretion. Fourth, obedience to tho second order (that of Aug. 20, 1862) would have been, he declares, a picce of mad- ness, This order directed him to attack Jacmson's flank and rear. It was sent at 4:30 p.m. Atnoonof that day Lovesrreer had joined Jacxsoy. Pore did not know this; Porren did. e thercfore did not attnok. Ho olaims that, hod he done so, his corps would have beon crushed. Pore's whole army would have beon flanked, and Whashington would have been taken. Tho testimony nceded to establish the truth of this statement is that of Confederate Gonerals, It could not be had at the time of the trial. Ponres has collected it since the close of the War., He submita the evidence of spevernl ex-Confoderates, among thewm Loxaernkerand Lee. Tho former says: *‘My command was ready to rcceive mny attack aftor 11 o'clock a. m,; and wo all wero particolarly anxious to bring on the battle nfter 12 m., Gen. Lzv. more so than tho rest.” ‘This now testimony is the atrongest polnt in Ponten's case, and should be given duo weight. Tt is the custom to grant a new trial to any defendant who Jearns of new and im- portant evidence, not attainoble by ordinary aro at tho time of his conviction. PonTen's appeal for this privilego {s backed by the opinjons of a number of eminent lawyors, and by manifold memorials, On the other hand, friends of Gen., Porz claim thot Ponten’s guilt was and is unques- tionable, One of them, who was on the fleld of battle, writes to the Cincinnati Commercial that Ponten, with one-third of all Pore's forces, with nearly all the infantry and nrtil- lery of the regular army, with his soldiers fresh and eager to fight, and with urgent or- ders to nttack, held back his mon, caused the losa of tho battle of Aug. 29, and finslly re- treated without firing a shot. Tho writer makes the following forcible answer to the plon that LoNgstazer’s junction with Jacrsox mado attack impossiblo: TopTin cannot keepatil!, Hols like & man in » quickssnd : be csn’t help strugaling, (though orery offort sluks bim decper, The more his cado 18 exe amlned the plalper bis crime appsard, The trans- action is too recent to bo misroprosouted, Thers aro too many men still lving fn Olio and Wisconsln who remembor Low indignantly they chafed at Lotng Leld back from the field whore thelr comrades were vainly atruggling with ovrwhelming numbers, Gou, Jaox3oM, by bia dashing advance, got to & polnt where, by & Tapld conceutration, ba could be crushed before LEE's arny could come up to hly roscug, The first dsy of tha second battls of Bull fun. waa fought betweod Pork and Jacxsox on the 20tk of Auguai, 1882, Ponten and MoDowewry, under crders trom Pora to march to his aid, moved out an the morning of tbat dsy, AV nooo, Poares, having marched hres or four miles, halted, MoDowELL passad by, snd, following up the souud of the eon. fendiug guns, took his plaoa in the battle that was 3. Pontxx lay on the road all the afterncon, Hebeard the sound of the baitle, 1Iis corps comprisod oue~ third of tho farces under Porz's commaud, It con- tained pearly all the infantry and artillery of the regu- lararmy, Ils men were frusl,~iLoy Bad marched lttle more than 6 mnfles in two duys, Iia was under - purvmnptory snd urgvut orders 10 march forward and ongege the cnomy, e lay in carelcas disobediencs, amusing hizaself with seodioR Lack to Alazandris in- subordinate letters Abuslng Lis commanudor, Ustlously Ledring the batti> golog on, snd Onally writing to Mo- Duwxrt aud Kinw thad our army sesmed, from the sounds of the guns, 1o bo rotreating, snd he would o~ treat by anather rosd, He received auother peremap~ tory order frowm POrE to sdvance, and thereupou Tv- trested Ly » road which led him farther from his sufferlng cowrados, ‘That is the whols slory, no statemest of which is denled by Ponrzs. By the osptured rocords, wo kuow nOW just what was the force i Poarsa's front, Foxe &b haporia Je Gew the Quad of & baavy selwanw, aad ozehanged aotue shots with tholr botterles, That sup- poscd heavy column was, in fact, stmply Broant's cavalry, Gen, BTUART agn, in hin officlal teport to LiF, that, on ecing PortEn' column in tho road, ho Xept “detachmonts of cavalry draggiog brush down tha road from the divection of Qasnesyillo, no an to de~ celvo the onemy,—a riss which PorTxn's report shows w8 nuccossfal; ™ obtalned a relnforcement of threo brigades of fufantry and some guns, with which he fireid a few abiots, when tho onemy (PonTen) withdeew toward Manassss, 1t wan to asvo s corpn from & portlous encounter with a fow troops dragglug bruats over a dusty rosd that Frrz Jous Ponrsn admils ho violated oxpress ordars, and left hls commander to struggls nnaided till the forces coming wp fu tho night crushied him net day. Trenson ina crimo agalnst thalaw, A man may be # trattor under the law without conscloaly soiling bis personal honor, But treachery, the treachery of 8 noldicron the flald of battle, i personnl Laseness, When on officer s guilty of that, ihe greatest boon ho can nak in to b forgotten, There nre evidently two sldes to tho cnse. Gen, Porz, wroto to the Presidont, last April, that ho was satisfied of PorTen's guilt, and thought that a new trinl, which would estab. lish it, should be grauted. ' THE PAWNBROKERS, The Grand Jury now in session should act apon a recomnmendation made by one of ity recont predecessors, that the pawnbrokors of this city be subjocted to n rigid investiga. tion. This class of harpics hns grown enor- mously in number and in the boldness of their thieving operations during the present city administration, Tho statement is made, and itis entirely within Lounds, that nine. tonths of the stolon property discovered {8 traced to the pawnbrokers; and it ds highly probable thatr a still greater proportion of tho stolen property not recovered in spirited away through their ageney. The pawn.shops and the junk. shops, with o few exceptions, aro to.day the worst posts in Chicago, They are conspicu. ously known to tho police, and very goneral. 1y to the public, as the ropositories for stolen goods, In this character thoy aro & por- monont oncouragement of thioving, The chiof weakness of thioves is their awkward. noss in disposing of their plunder, aid thiev- ing may be checked more cffectually by cat- ting off the safo places for the sale of stolen gooda than by any othor menus, The pawnbrokers of the differcnt large cities have a system of cxchnnge, wheroby the goods stolen in Chicago of n ocharnoter likely to be recognized or sought for aro sent off to St. Louis, Cinciunati, or New York, and the stolen goods of thase citios disposed of here, 'Thers is a sign on one of tho Stato streot pawn.shops which reads: * New York pledges for salo here,” It might as woll rend, * Now York stolen goods for gale lore.,” Is mot that what it really moang? The polico know all this perfectly well, but they make no of- fort to' brenk up tho system, but rathor encourago it by the nogotiation for stolen goods on bolnlf of tha victims of theft. It is, thereforo, necessary that tho Grand Jury tako hold of tho matter. Indictments should be found in every case whero thore issuffi- cient ovideneo to warrant o probability of conviction on the chargo of recoiving stolen goods ; and where this evidonco cannot bo actually got together, but cirenmstances justify a strong suspicion, names should be roported, with arecommendation for rovoking liconses, The revonne which the city re- ceives from pawnbrokors is insigniticant with tho goneral loss by theft which those poople rendor possible, and facilitate. Somo intelligent momber of the Logislaturo might make for himself a namo and a rocord by dovising a schemo for the regulation of the pawnbrokers, putting them under such statatory restraint as will compel them to follow thoir business in an honest and legiti- mato way, or sbandon it. As it is now, they merely sorvo to oppress tho poor in their neceasitios, and to sustain and encournger ob- bery, Mennwhile the Grand Jury mny do much toward breaking the power of these people for evil-doing by harassing them on avory occasion. They aro entitled tono sym- pathy. ALEXANDER H, STEPHENS' VOTE, Avrexanper H, Sreeupss, by his honost vote in favor of restoring peace and order in Louisiana, bns aroused the most malignant and venonous expressions of indignation up- on the part of tho nlirn fire.caters of tha South, who are anxious to precipitate the country into another civil war. Ono of this class, the Now Orleans Bulletin, the organ of the White-Longue banditti of that Stato, which, during the January troubles, rankled with tronsonable utterances and advoocated ns- sngeination, says: “Iis last‘ground and lofty tumbling act’and doublo somersault on the Louisiana clection report should settle Lis status hereafter us tho BeNEDICT AnNorp of the South, as a man who, physieally and morally rotten, like Browwnrow, has finally suceeeded in sinking deeper into tho Radical cesspool than evon that festering. specimen of malignont scalawaggery.” Divosting this remarkable samplo of Southern invective of its swagger and bombast, there is still left o residuum of hate and malevolonce, which is a fair instance of the feelings of the average Bouthern fire-cator towards any man who dares to speak of comprouwmise or dares to voto in favor of poace, harmony, and good govern- ment in the Bouth, Ono causo of this nbuse of Mr. Steenexs is that he was ono of the old Conservative Whigs of the South, and be- longed to that party upon whom 3Ir. Tiun. row Weep, in his rocent lotter, placed so much rolinnco as tho future hope for the safoty aud prosperity cf that section, o is ot heart the enomy of * State-Soverelgnty " aad the friend of National Sovoreignty, and, consequently, tho encmy of Bouthern flre. enters. His action sinco the War has notbeen any more satlufactory to this class than it was during and before the War, Although the Vice-Presidont ¢f the Bouthern Confedorncy, lie had not boon with the fire-eaters upon the slavery question in the Territories; and when theso samo fire-caters nnd State-Sovoreignty advocates had forced tho South iuto scces- sion, oginst the efforts of the Conservative Whigs, of whom Mr, STeriens had been one, and dragged them into it also, Lo detormined that the South should make an honest issue, that the war should be fought upon its real morits, and that the actual charncter of the struggle should not bo concealed by any plensible nonsonse of Btate rights or of Fed- oral oppression. In tho canvass of 1860 ho denounced those who advocated a dissolution of the Unlon in case of Mr, Lmx- cown's oleotion, and, in an oddress bo. fore the Georgla Btats Conventlon, he vigor- ously opposed tho scceasion of that Btate. In that famous * corner-stone” onddress he fastonod the respousibility of . the War upon tbe Bouthern Democrata by show- ing that it was a war for slavery; that slavery was and would be the corner.atone of the Southern Confederacy ; aud that, undor tho'cover of the doctrine of State Rtights, tho Houth would parpetuate and extend slavery. It was this speeoh. which exposed the real meaning of the Southern secesslon move. ment; which peovented the Bouth from going into the War of the Robellion under falso protensos ; and which was used ngainst tho Northern Copporheads and rebellion aympnthizers with great offect, The South. orn firg-entors bave not forgotton this, nor hnve they forgiven it ; aud, now that the oc- cnsion hns presonted itsclf when onco more Mr. Srtrrmens records lumselt up- on tho side of peace, order, good government, aud national soveroignty, thoy aro oncs more ecmptying their vinly of wrath upon him, It will nat affect him, howevor, old, feoblo, and infirm in health as ho may be. o has boen true to the record of his lifs, and hna recorded his voto in bohalf of peace and reconciliation in Louisinua, and shown that he is anxious that the profitless, exhansting, and misorable strugglo should come to an end. The major- ity of tho people of Loulsiana and of the people of the United States will applaud his manliness and sterling courage which enabled him to stand true to his convictions of right in the faco of Bouthern fire-caters and North- ern Bourbon dough-faces. In the ordinary courso of nature, he hes but a short time to remnain an active participatorin huwman ovents, but that wolitary vote for pence will outlivo him and stand to his credit in history, after all the misorable partisan passions which it caused have subsided. THE OURE FOR COAL BTRIKES. Since 1870, the coal trade of England and America hns been in o state of constant and chronio confusion on nccount of * strikes.” Thore hrs scomod to be somae mysterious con- nection between striking with n pick atn cont- seam, and striking with idleness, words, and sometimes violenco, sgainst mine-owners, Nenrly, ovory Buglish manufacturing industry s beon serionsly ombarrassed by the riso in tho prico of conl cnused by strikes. That riso was 100 per cont botween 1870 and 1878, and it was succeeded by a fall of nearly as much in1870-'4, after n series of desporato strikes to avert it. DMr. Tuosmas Buassey shows, in his “Work and Wages,” that theso disturb- ances have driven a great part of tho Russian iron orders from Englavd to Belgium and Germany., During the sama time, American industries hove sulfered in the same way. In Tilinois and Indionn, the miners seom to work only as n recreation, Their main employ- mont s ‘‘striking.” Thisis truo in Penn- sylvanin also, In Ohio, the miners willing to work had to be guarded by soldiery, a fow months ago, in order to keep the strikers from murdering those who had taken their places. In Indiann, the coal trade is paralyzed by tho atrike which we hnve recently doscribed. Such wide.sprend waste of wealth-pro- ducing effort is a disgrace to modern civiliza- tion. Itis the more disgraceful because it could be ensily prevented. Thero has been in operation in England, since 1867, a system in somo branches of monufacture which has stopped strikes, created the heartiest good- will between employors and omployes, and groatly increased tho incomes of both classes, There are fow students in social soience who have not heard of the industrinl partnership between tho Brraas brothers, the owners of the Methley collieries in Yorkshire, England, nnd theirmen; but the successful oxperiment is ns yot little known save by such students. The Bnices brothers were in constant tronble with their men, who were an idle, drinking, upronrious sot, always rendy for a strike, and bitterly hostilo to their employ- ers, Thoy had a rough proverbinl saying : ¢ All conl-owners is divily, but Bmocas ave tho prince of divils,” Between 1560 and 1867, tho average prufits of the firm did not oxceed ¢ per cent on tho capital nctually in. vested, ‘The minerstived in dismal wretched- ness, In 1860, Prof, Fawesrr wrote o maga- zine artico advocating what bho called ¢ Industrinl Partoerships.” In 1867 tho Boiaas brothors resolved to test his theory, They turned their firm into & jointstock company, nnd sot apard some £50 shares which they offered to soll to their men on easy’ torms, Oaly a few pence wero tobe pnid on them each weck. The ‘men have never bought many of theso shares. They hold now about 250 out of 10,000. This, however, was an immaterial part of the soheme, Itsgistlay in tho division of the profits. Tho Messrs, Briags told thoir men that therenfter the net profits would be divided in the following manner: First, a dlvidend of 8 per cont wonld bo pnid on all the paid-up stock. Second, the surplus, if any, would bo divided into two equal parta, One-half would bo used as an additionnl divi- dend on capital, Tho other half would be used as a dividend on labor, It would be divided in proportion to tho wages earned by each man duripg the year, Theman who had earnod £100 would got twice 03 much of this bonus as the man who had earned £50. It is evident that the Brniaas brothers could lose nothing by this, since they offered their men only part of the extra prgfits caused by tho schomo. ‘Tho rosult was remnrkablo, It was now tho interest of overy man to work hard, and to have every other man work hard. For tho more worlk, the Iarger roturns, and thereforo the batter chance for a big dividend on labor, Btrikes, carclessuess, lazinoss, censed. Public opinion frowned upon disi- pation, and it well-nigh disappeared. Ques- tions about work and wages were settled by arbitration. The best of good will provailod, 'Thero wos o groat'saviug in tha cost of over- seers, tools, materinls, eto. At the end of tho first yoor a dividend of 8 per cont, instead of the usnal 6, was paid on tho stock, and 87,600 were dividod equally betwaen capital and lsbor, In tho fourth yenr tho profits, over tho 8 por cent dividend, were more than §30,000, At prosont, o fixed percentage of the annugl profit is dovoted to schools, library, etv., for the bonefit of the miners. This plan has now been in snccoss. ful operation for nearly elght years. It has shown itself to bo au eoffoctusl oure for atrikes, Although this is but an fsolated case, tho Methley collierios are like all others. What Lins worked so well with them will work well elsowhere. In foot, the sume plan has al- rendy been tried. with the samo result in other sorts of business, W. H. Sxurrr & Son, the gront nowsdealers of Euglend, manage thelr trade in much the same way. One or two othor instances might be given, The theory has stood the test of trial when fally tried. It is well worth the attention of overy coal company, ¢ The queation of Dr. Dz Koven'a confirma- tion ns Bishop of the Dlocose of Illinols be- gins to look doubtful. Although his friends have mode immonse efforts in his belalf through the columns of Tue Turoune and daily press, the roliglous pross having been swamped in the efforttokeep up with the case, aud_present its various aspeots, the Standing Comynittees of the various Dioceses seem to ‘be hopolesaly at varinnco upon the question, lows, Wisconain, Albany, Maine, Missouri, Tonnessee, Alabama, and Nobraska have voted for him, Lut Contral New York, Virginis, Texas, Minusots, Indlans, Kentucky, Contral Pcmmylvm\(n, 14 isinns, . Ponveyvania, Michignn, apg Df aware have voted ngniust him, leaviy, him three bebind in the roce, with tweny, ) Committees yet to be heard from, which};z;m possibly give him tho ndvantago ang “1_ him up to the Houso of Biskops, whery ;“ will hava no diflculty. If, howevey " should bo defeated, as now appenrs nop 4 likely, it ands his cnse, and Low Churgy ::; be triumpliant. The bitterness of thg g :l is npparent from the fact that it ig M“?‘I‘L ently kopt up, notwithstauding the faey ih it Dr. DrKoven's friowds have r(-pmwj placod him Leforoe tha Church in an lmub](’ tionnble manuer, so far as his views y " Eucharistic Adoration nre concerned, 1y ],,n been ropeatedly shown that, nlthougy D:' Dz Kovex may hold this beliof 03 1 prigy, opinion, he has nover publicly taught ..; that e is otherwise sound in the faith, "n:. Ohurch in goneral, however, scema to by g, termined that its Bishops must bo b‘ywii suspioion. Tho managors of that abominal on of the lnyy contury, kuowa aa tho Loulsvillo Lottery, yy to bave brought down upon their hoads fle iiL fooling of all the holders of coupons, Ay, ot nauouncing tho numbors whioh Lsvo drawm ey tal prizes, the managora propose to lay batey, the hioldors of ticketa 16,000 numbera ontitjeg % approximate prizes. Theso approximate prize wora to have been of tho valuo of 50 oach, Ly through the {nfluences of tho woather ware te. duced to 519, The plan of drawlng thosy nag. bora scome to bo hovolossly iutricate, au] the holdore are rapidiy fllling the lunatio asylums o the country in trying to grawp it. According y Col. Donnzrr, tho way of drawing wan h Figures roproseuting numbara up to 100,600, to bo arrauged in the form of & numerica) cig 80 that 1 and 100,000 would bo adjscont; Tho capital gift, whenever drawn, n gt e i A rflffilfl’ffi'fl draw w will take ta numbor as thio centre of the o cle, snd_coant 9,500 approximato gifts of $19 et bath sidos of it, 'On cue sldo tho count will be g 1y cending figuros, and on tho other Ly oacentisy fgures, We do not, howover, take every nunie abovs or below for an approximation, but taks fies by B{ths for the purposo of scattering 1ha appry {ibns a8 much "8 ‘rowsiblo among 1o storty We thus sproad tho approximatious all along the gy, meoncal circlo, For fustauco, If the nutnber ooy should draw the capital priza (and 110 one can toll bef.m hand what number will draw it, nor wheu it niity drawn), thon Lo numbors asc:ndlug entitied o proximiations would be 50,003, 50,010, 50,015, ete., eii, aud tho unmbers descending would ‘be 49,953, 1] 49,085, etc,, ete, Tho ozesption $o tuls reqular o) would be thiat when the fifth number in regular o:y order taken, e R e It is not eurprisivg that, upon reading il holders of tickots throw or gave sway the claima, Horoupon comes forward Briywy Doxcay, who will bo known to famo as the my who voted for 0'Coxxon, and offers 50 cents £ oach coupon, ond prepares for battle. Ty managors at first ondoavored to seare himamy by calling him & *“sharper,” but Duscay co tinued calling upon holders to sond in thy tickots and they would be attonded to. Inmzy mystorious way, the Presidont-manufactie sooms to have tho managers of this frand uxm the bip. Bhould Lo succoed in squeozing they into an uncomfortablo corner, nobody wi oxprees much dissatisfaction. Tt ia a case whisy ona must follow i blind fuith, howevor, Besa i stunned and paralyzed as soon as it begios iy Iuquire how the easo ig to ond, Tho Bt. Louis Republican pays tho followie tributo to tho lato Geonoe D. PLaNT, who dist a fow dayn since in 8t. Louis; AMr. Praxrwan brother-iv-iaw of Mrs. Dr, Lockg, and wel koown In this city s "fho announcement of the death of Mr, PLavrty ‘hoen received with genuine sorrow throughout the exe tire busiuess communily of this clty. Indced, s, Louls could hardly have been deprived of acim Whoso loea would be more deeply and gouorslly i ted. For more than thirty-five yoars lo s bet actively and succevsfully engogod in one of the leslty enierprises of this city, and our willers will all ks fally indorse uy ju suying that tho enylabls repuiahs of 8t, Louls flour in all the leading cities of the Uiz lllm'uel){ due to his energy, intelligonce, andev'e prie, 3int Mr. PLART'M energlea wero ot dertel oxclusively to Lls private buslugss, Ho was ardiuy attached to tho Olty of Bt, Louls, and was i read; to contributs llberally, either his fiy sorvice, or imouoy, to nmy entorpriss wid wauld ‘promoto its” welfure, Tho modoaty and o plicity of hie~paturo prevoutod bim from seeki prominence bofore the publio: yet, whenover el | upun o dischargo any duty, bowever rospomii dificult, ho brauglit 1o the task_unhealtating caor unblased judgment, ood marked futolligence, PLANTOnJOyed tho advantages of & good educitr, fonduess for the_acquisition of kmowlodye, & geid dinposition, and 8 remarkably practical and et ‘mind, and thoss qualitics, added to character iz larly Juresnd upright, commanded tho repect ul coufldence of Lisusocistos, aul gave him 3 preai | nent place in the management of all tho commer&l |3 flnanclal, religious, and chsritable institutious vith roer, Guring which he amassed a large fortune, botu fallen among those who kusw him woll, ripo fn locwt & ::lxuwna({ulnul, and witliout s blemizh upon thorexd 0, —_— Now that Copgress has adopted Capt. Esot' Jetty aystom for tho improvemet of tho maul of the Mississippi, the following table of i results of using jotties in European waber which we have complled from roports on b subjoct, will be found of intorest: 9 ik Tho mouth of tha Danub Is muoh 1ike el the Misslasippl, 8o that the groat success of o tiea there is eapecially eucouraging. e it OBITUARY, JAMES DUPFINTON, M. O Tho telograph anuounces tha desth, st & homs in Fall River, March 6, of tho Hon. Jax! BurritoN, Reprosentative of the Firub O grosalonal District of Massachusotts. Mr Do ¥INTON bad just resohed Liome with his famlt aftor tho olosa of tho Forty-third Congross, ¢ dlod vory suddenly. Ho had boon in Hl-heshh for somo timo past, though it is belioved that his doath wao greatly hastened by, if uot ims® dintoly tho result of, tho bodliv fatigus atte ant upon the long continuous esseion of Dewo oratlo flibustering over tha Oivil Righta bik Mr, BormntoN was bora in Fall River it 1817, and ab tho Hme of his ¢ was 68 yoars of sge, laoking ten doE F 1o recolved bis education at the Priends' Cok logo, Providence; sorvod for m time fn s Ful ¥ River factory; studied mediolns, but did 5% § practieo; went on & whaliog voyago for s H2d B ongaged In mercantile pursita; was Ml!“"‘ Fall Rivor in 1654 aud 1855; at the brosking o™ of the War of the Rebollion he was sotireld ralsing troops, snd for n timo served as & prirs 1u » ¥an River rogimont ; was appointod Colles” or of Interual Revenuo in 1807, Lo was ol nsa Rapublican to the Thirty-fourth consm“: 1850, sud was threo times re-alected. Ho ¥ ogaln elocted to the Forty-first Congross, 2 perved consecutively to tbe oloso of the ang. third. Ho waa re-cleoted in 1674, and, bad lived, would have entered upon his niol in Congresa, LIKUT.-GEX, JAMXS NOPE QAYF, 0. G2 Tho doath of this greas Evglish commande? s recorded in our telegraphio columos. Heo 'un. fftl won, and was bora in 1806, st Kgraiit He entered the British army a4 & Cord and mpidly gudoed distlnetion. groat achlevements = woro ; wars carded om in_ the ™ Possesaions. He becamo & Dnvqunlonilm 1834, sud was mado a Msjor-Genersl A‘::‘ o sege of Dulbi asud the el Lucknow., He capturod Pekin, 18 l:fi for which Parlisment thanked sud nominated him & Kuight Commandet :fni'ii Ordor of tho Bath. In 1861, ho was spP Commander in Oblefst Madrss with tbv e which he Lield at bis doath, whlch took place Y tarday 8t London, at tua sge of 67 years. OLADDR-LOUIS MATRIXU, e eminsct Freush aetromomar, disd i ‘which ho was counected, Afters long oud actin o