Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MARCII 22, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. é RATER OF SCHACTIPTION (PATATLE IN ADVAKCE), Postage Prepaid vt this Oftice. BaP Bt Bond i dar Partaot a year ‘Wantep—Une active Bocolsl arrangoments Bpeetinen copies rent f at in each town and village, with auch, ion ‘To prevent delay and mistakes, be anre and rive Post. Office stidrcas fn full, including State and County, Ttenii: tances may Le mnde either by draft, express, Post- Os.ce order, or in registered letters, at our risk, TERMA TO CITY RUDACHIDERS, Dally, delirered, Sunday excepted, 25 conta por weok. Daily, delivered, Sonday Inctuded, 30 cants par weok. Address TUE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Chicago, Il. TO:DAY'S AMUS: arbor NTS. 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Che Ghitayo Tebene, Mondny Morning, March 22, 1875, Central Georgin has been scourged by an awful toruado, of whiuh added particulars aro given this morning. Tho visitation was one of extraordinary soverity, involving a largo destruction of human life and property, and au unusual amount of suffering, Tho delivery of Axprew Jonysoy’s speech to-day in the Senate, on the Louisiana ques. tion, forms an interesting and novel coinci- denee, Precisely seven yoars ago to-day tho initinl proceedings for his impeachment as President of tho United States began in the Senate, _—_—_— Smankry, the New York murderer, who es- eaped from the Yombs a short timo before the day sot for, his execution, has been re- captured in Havana after a long pursuit, and will be brought back as soon as the necessary reqnisition ia made by the United States up- on the Spanish Government in Cuba. ——————____—___— Tho first full particulars of tho fearfal Tanssacre of the Presbytorian congregation in Acapulco, Mexico, which tool place in Jan- uary, aro published in another column. For fiendish atrocity tho slaughter surpasses the average of religious mas- sacres in Mexico, and the cool disavownal of responsibility by the Mexican Govorn- ment will not have the offect of diminishing tho thrill of horror and indignation which the event will cause throughout all Chris. tendom, —_—_- Alroady the powerful intellect of the Demo- cratic statesman reaches forward to wrestle with tho Presidential problem of 1876, and notes of preparation for the preliminary con- flict are heard in Washington, where Gov. Hexpnicxs has engaged a suite of rooms at a leading hotel, whilo Senntor Taunwan, knowing the sonsitiveness of the Democratic stomach to tho porsunsiveness of generous entertainment, haa purohased a large double house for hospitable purposes, ‘Thero will be rare times whon tho noxt session of Con. gress begins, ——————_————— Among the sermons delivered in Chicago pulpits yesterday ond reported in our columns this morning is an excollont ono by tho Rev. IL W, Tnoxas, whoso discourse treats of tho possibilities and perils of the young man ina great city. It is good read- ing for young men, Tho Rev, Dr. Srocxina preached about Jupas and what could be raid for that porsow in the way of apology or ex- tenuation. The procoedings of tho thirty. eighth annual mecting of tho Chicago Bible Boclety will also ba found in tho religious department. The decision of the Arbitration Committee in Louisiana acting under tho terms of tho Wheeler compromiso has been submitted to Gov. Krtzoaa, Ita effect is understood to be the award of sients in tho Legislatnro to eleven Conservatives who were not counted in by tho Returning Board, and the unseat- ing of six Conservatives claimed to have beon elected. It leaves majority for the Domo- crata in the House, while tho Republicans havo tho Senate, with a small Republican majority upon joint ballot, An oxtra session of the Legislature will probably convene about the 1éth of Apnl, and it is believed that the peoplo of Louisiana, tired of tho strifo, will readily accept tho adjustment, Wo print this morning tho full toxt of tho low pnssed by the late Congress defining the jurisdiction of tbe Federal courts, with partic. ular reference to their relations toward the State courts, ‘Tho law is of the greatest im. Portanco to tho logal profession, and will bo read with intercst, ‘Tho chiof point of gen. eral interest is the cnlaryement of tho juris. diction of tho United States Cirouit Courts, giving thern concurrent jurisdiction with tho United States Districts Courts in a certain line of cuses. It iy helioved, too, that tho new law will facilitate the transfer of many cases now ponding in the State courts to the Feder courts which wore barred out under tho ole] law. —_—_—_—— The Chicago produce markets were stoad- jer on Saturday, Mess pork was Very uctive, aud advanced 360 per bri, closing at $20.05 cash, and $20,87$@20.40 for May, Lard was in fair demund, and 240 per 100 tbs higher, closing at $18.75@12.77} cash, and 814.00 for May.’ Meats wero active and unchanged at 730 for shouldury, 1030 for short ribs, and 20Jo for short elepré. Dreased hogs wero quiot and strong, at 86,60@9,00 per 100 tbs, Wghwines wero in good demand and steady 8691.11 per gallon, Flour was quiet, aud firm. Wheat was less active and go lower, closingat 9440 for March, and 950 for April. Corn waa active and firmer, closing at 6630 ensh,and 7230 for May, Onts were quiet and firm, closing at fi34c for March, and 530 for April, Ryo was quiet and steady at 97@98e, Rarley was quiet and irregular, closing at $1.09 for March aud $1.01 for April. Hogs were dull and lowor, with jobs at $7.00@8, 25, The catile and sheep markets wero fairly act ive at atendy prices, A sensational rumor, from ® New York paper somewhat noted for supplying some- thing “fresh and rendablo” every Sunday, is ta the effect that the excursion of Sonator Cam Enon and others to Mexico has for its object tho acquiromont by annexation of a largo slico of that country, ‘The fact that the suppositi- tious boundaries of tho proposed territorial acquisition aro minutely stated is creditable to the ingenuity of the author of the story, but doea not add to its probability; indeed, its Inck of authenticity or foundation in fact was set forth in Tu ‘I'ntnexe’s Washington dispatches some time ago. An annexation scheme, whether based upon purchnse or conquest, would meot with small favor just now, —_—_—_—_— Tho Secretary of the National Revenue Reform Association has discovered a sorious crrorin the Revised Statutes relative to the Privileges of revenue officers to enter into breweries, distilleries, manufactori je8, or other buildings where articles subject to duty or taxation are stored. In copying this act, some very important omissions occur; for inatance, such words as “under the provis- ions of this act,” cte., and it is thought that these omissions will enable tho Collectors, Assessors, and their doputies to exceed the fanctions originally intended to be delegated to them, and that much injustice and black- mailing will result therefrom. Some time ago the Revenue Reform Association petitioned for a suspension of the operation of the Re- vised Statutes until they could be carefully compared with the Inws; and, if thero are many such instances ns tho one quoted, the demand was entirely reasonable, ‘There is to be no relief from tho heavy in- fliction imposed by the amended Postal law doubling the rate on third-class_ mail matter, Postmaster-General Jewrut having decided that ho has no power to postpone the opera. tion of the law except as applying to the of. ficos now overstocked with this class of mail matter, So that thero is additional reason for the people of Minnesota to feel pleased with tho failare of Senator Rastgex to secure 4 re-election, for it now transpires that it is to him that we are indebted for tho odious amendment. Raxser, a8 Chairman of the Committee on Post-Ofices and Post. Ronds, was tho convenient tool of the ox- press companies, and he it was who drow up the amendment and requested Senator Hau- urn to present it, Thus tho odium is divided, not transferred, for to have presented ond urged the passage of an objectionable meas- ure without knowing what it was is the most charitablo imputation possible for Mr. Ham- Ly, who, to say tho least, was eulpably care- less, As for Ramsex—well, de mortuis nil nixi, etc., applies, politically, to Rausey, anyhow. EE THE COLOR LINE IN THE SOUTH. We havo heretofore urged the necessity and wisdom of abolishing the color line in Southern politics, and havo pointed ont how iauch better it would bo for the negroce of the Southern Stntes to abandon their raco organization ond assimilate themselves with the whito people who compose the political parties, Divided, as members of the Demo- cratic and Republican parties, the colored people would have tho support and protec- tion of both parties, while, so long as they remain united ag a race, thoy will bo but a faction within one party, and perpetuate an antagonizing of races in which they will alwoys be defonted, So long os the colored peoplo insist. upon being o solid ody in political mattters, so long will they forco the white race into the opposing party, thus giving the Democratic party an ascond- ency in those States which it would not have under other circumstances, Tho political is- bues at tha South aro theoretically tho same as before the War, and the white people there, though seomingly a unit during the Rebellion, havo retained their old political divisions of sentiment, The maintenance of the color line forces anti-Domocratic whites into the Democratio party, and pre. yents tho organization in thoso States of the old National Union party, Tow strong that sentiment was it is only necossary to refer to the vote at the Presidential olection in 1860. ‘Tho vote of the slave States was as follows 5 [reckon ridge, Dountas} ell. ET co,0n3 41,700 ang To 670,181| Dougiaw and Holl Voto......0-, Add Vole for Lincoln in ‘samo Blatea, Total Union voto, Breckenridge vote, ‘Union majority over Secossion vote, Hero, then, even in 1860, there was a sol. imu protest by a majority of tho people of the slave-holding States against nocossion aud disunion, Taken neparately, Virginia, Ton. nesses, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Mary- land, Kentucky, and Dotawaro voted by de- cldod mojoritics against the secession or dls- union party. ‘The old Whig, National Union, and Dovotas Union Demetratio sentiment is probably as strong comparatively among tho white people of the South toxlay as it was in 1800, Tho fire-entors of Bouth Carolina pro. elpitated tho Civil War by the attack on Fort Sumter, and tho seizure of the forts in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama by tho Democratic State authorities forced the War, which might havo been averted had tho whito people of the South boon left frea to act freely and deliberately, ‘he War once bogun, the National Union opposition was swept away for tho time, AnprEw Jouxson ia a3 much a Union man as Parson Bnowxtow, and is os opposed to tho old Rebel cloment to-day os ha was in 1860-'61, AU that this strong National Union sentiment wants in order to array it. self ugainet the old secession Democrativ party iy that tho color ine bo removed, that the antegonism of races be silenced, and that the negroce abandon their racu-organization and unite with the whites in tho political di. vision which must at some time take place between the whites on tho issue whether this ig a nation or a mere confederacy or partner- ship of independent sovereignties, Bo long as the colored people in tho Bouth band tu- gether asa separate party, 60 long will the whites of ull shadca of opinion unite to op- pou them, aud so long will the negrocs P06. fens their political privileges at a disndvan- tago. Gradually, State after State has passed beyond tho control -of the colored peaple. Only in South Carolina and Mississippi do they hold a supremacy, and in these States in duo time tho power will pasa away from them, The North, or the Genernl Govern- ment, cannot arrest this change, even if so disposed. ‘Tho majority must rule, and in n strnggle between the two races, as races, the Jess informed, and less exparianced, and less educated, must be vanquished, If, however, this color line be abandoned, and tho colored people exhibit a disposition to unito with the whites, there will be instantly a division of the lntter into two partios on old and now politi. cal issues, ‘To cnch of these parties the sup- port of n portion of the colored people will be anecessity, and both parties of whites will become at ouce tho friends aud protectors of the wenker raco, inatead of being as now united to opposo nnd oppress it. When the negro raco at tho South divide their snffrages between the Democratic and Con- servativo parties, all the present hatred, prej- udice, and bitterness against them will give way, and the negro voters will becomo iden. tified with and merged in tho genoral popula- tion of the South, sharing its prosperity and advancing in intelligence, power, and influonce, under the better fooling and unity of tho whole. Then every Southorn State will havo its Union, Progressive, or Republican party, just as every Northern Stato has, and the power shown by the Union, Whig, Dovanas- Democratic people in 1860, strengthoned ax it will be by the events of the War, will in time obtain the nscondency, and contribute to maintain the national principles and theo- ries of our Government. . HOUSE BILL NO, 407. It ia quite possible that tha members of the Houso of Represontatives at Springfield fail to appreciate the importanco of this bill, We refor to tho bill known as H. B. 407, and tho amondmonts reported from the Judiciary Committee on Friday morning. This bill has uow been twics beforo that Committeo, and received their careful consideration, and has been twice reported back with the reconi- mendation that it be passed. ‘The amend- ments reported by the Committee on Friday morning propose to take out of tho bill tho words “herenfter exeented,” which wero put in some days ago under a misapprehension on the part of the gentleman who moved them; and provide, in langungo freed from ambiguity, the rights which these companies shall have to hold reni estate, and reserve to the Stato by amplo provikions tho right to enforea by order of the Circuit Court a snlo of any realty owned by any such company in five years after tho title to it is acquired, It is well known that under the provisions of this general Inw on lifo insuranco the life insurance companies of this and other States furnish all the capital which can bo borrowod in this State at modorate rates of interest, or for Jess than the oxtremost rates allowed by the law. ‘This law, os it has stood sinoo many years, specifies the securities upon which these companies doing business in this State shall invest their funds, and among others di- reets this investment in mortgages. Upon the faith of this law these investments have Leen mado to an onormons extent. It is tho money obtained upon these mortgages, upon long timo, which has chiefly contributed to lift Chicago’ from its astes and reconstruct tho city. Without these investments it could not have bean done. It now appears that a quostion hes been mode under alate decision of the Suprema Court in tho case of Cannot es, Enst St. Louis, which raises a doubt ns to the right of theso mortgagees to purchaso in tho mortgagod property at a foreclosure salo, where thore aro no higher bidders, and so protect their securities. Tho Court held that no corporation, home or foreign, ean take title to realty in this State without agirmatice legislative permission, There can bo little doubt that the direction to take the mortgage carries the rest with it; but in every com- inunity aro dishonest porsons nnd shyster lawyers rendy to avail thomaclves of such questions to embarrass and delay their credit. ors, and bring tho credit of tho community aud of tho State into diarepute; and this is alrendy threatened. If tho question were now litigated in the courts, » dotermination by tho Supreme Court could not ba had be fora next January, In tho meantime, tho uncortainty is a formidable obstacle to further investment in this way, and we understand the principal persons who control these investments refuso to con. tinue them or make any further loans until the State shall have removed any donbt as to thoir security, Tho Legislature should remove this uncertainty, and do it promptly, ‘Thero is a disposition on tho part of cer- tain mombers of tho Legislature to inaist Upon retaining in the law the words “hero. after executed,” which would provent the operation of the bill upon oxisting mort. gages, aud, indecd, carry a prohibition with it. It is impossible that this disposition can havo auy foundation but absoluto dishonosty. Tho investinenta alrendy mado have bocn mode in reliance upon tho existing law, which when passed never contemplated but that the companies acting under it tool their mortgages with all the rights of other mort. gages. Legislation diroctly tending to im- pair tho value of these securitics, or to en- ablo individuals to repudiate their obliga- tions, would be a disgrace to the Stato and o stigma upon its crodit which it would bo long beforo it could shake off. ‘Tho bill should bo passed as quickly aa possible ns it has come from the hands of the Judiciary Committeo, é ——_—_—_—. Last Thnrsday a large German mass-meet- ing was held in Now York, with an attend. ance of 3,000 persons, to protest against the extlusion of the German languago as a regu- lar study of the freo schools, ‘This action Probably will, and cortainly ought to, induce the School Commissioners to abandon their position, Gorman, as a study, inyolves noi. ther political nor religious considerations. To exclude it peromptorily is, therofore, au arbitrary proceeding. It antagonizes un- nocessarily a largo and respectable portion of the tax-payers, This action is oxtromo, and is oven worso than would beythe other ex- tremo of making the study of German oblig- atory. Tho truo solution of the question is to leave the study optional with the parents or guardians, It should not be given sufi. clout prominence to take away from the opplication to other bronchea of 4 common education that are more necessary and useful, but thore aro enough considerations to warrant ita rotontion in sucha way that thoso who desiro it may avail themeelyos thercof, We have not much faith in thoaverago ability of an English-apoak- ing pupil to acquire any practical knowledgo of German in tho short time he is able to give it in o public achool; and thestudy, og. 9 men- tal discipline, is no more adaptod to the com. mou-tchool education than the study of Greek, But thera are two classes to whom it niny bo useful, viz, : (1) Tho childron of Ger- man parents who grow up speaking German as well as English, and who may thus ensily acquire sufliciont knowledge of it ina public school, assisted by tho familisrity with it asa vernacular, to rend and write it; and (2) to American children living in German noigh- borhoods and thrown into German. associn- tion, which furnish them with collateral aids to the practical loarniug of the Iangungo nan living, spenking tongue, Cortniuly tho formor class ought not to be deprived of the Privilege as it is so ensy to them, already speaking the language and acquiring its idioms by actual contact, to learn to rend and write it; it would bo throwing away an op- portunity not to do xo, Ag to tho Inttor elass,—the American childron with ontside German axsocintions,—those who are fortu- nate enough to acquire a practical knowledge of German have an important ally in busi- neas; tho clerk who speaks German ean always get better pay, other things being equal, than the clerk who docs not. There considerations make tho arbitrary exclusion of German asastudy wholly impolitio and undesirable. THE DOGMATIC-SCHOOL CONTROVERSY, New York City will probably be the scone of the most notable contests over tho public school system, It is tho largest city and has the most conglomerate population in tho country. Two phases of tho controversy aro already congpicuons there, Ono, the most important, concerns the relations of the Cath- olica to the public-school system 3 the other relates to tho proposod exclusion of tho Ger- man language ag ono of the regular studies of the common schools, Both aro attracting considerable attention, Tho religious question is, however, tho more knotty and perplexing one, It has beon fairly eprong upon New York City. An Irish priest, the Rov, Father Wazxen, has been proaching tho most vehement philippics against the public schools, The following is a samplo extract from a sermopt preached by him a week ago yesterday : “Woo bo to tho parents,” ahouted ho in the manner of one burling anathemas, ' woe Le to the parouts who send thelr children to these public achools! Woo bo those who secretly favor them in their hearta ! Twould not like to be in thelr places on thoday of Judgment, Tho public schools aro the nurserics of vico. They are Godless achools, and thoy who sond thetr children to them cannot oxpect tho mercy of God. They ought not toaxpect tho sacraments of tho Church in thelr dying moments, I hopo you and I will liva to ace tho ‘day when it will bo undorstood that parenta whoeom- mit this great sin will be refused tho sacraments of the Church, ‘What! let them dio without the rites of the Church 2* you will ask. Yoa,Ienyno, I would as foou administer tho sacramenta toa dog aa to such Catholics,” ‘This kind of language, which acquires nd- ditional force from the sanctity of its pulpit utterance, is not lost upon a large Catholio population which, in New York City, is also possessed of vast political power, ‘The controversy has taken even a more practical shape in New York. Tho demand of the Catholics is either that they shall be exempt from taxation for publia school sap- port, or that they shall have a portion of tho public fund set aside for the support of thoir sectarian achools, The ultrnists tako tho for- mer ground; tho moro conservative Catholics hope for some compromise whoreby tho lat- ter may be reached. To this ond tho Trns- teos of the Roman Catholic “ parochial schools" hove made a formal demanil for 8 portion of tho school fund, and it is significant that the Board of School Commissioners have appointed a committee to hold nn official conference with them, Thero aro ns many as fifty of theso Roman Catholic parochial schools in New York, and tho attendance is ertimated ns high as 30,000 pupils. ‘There is said to be batween $2,000,- 000 and $3,000,000 invested in this kind of school proporty, and tho schools aro main- tained at 8 cost of about $250,000 a year. Under the formor administration of the City Government (tho Twrev.Cossonur.Sweenr- Haut administration), theso parochial schoola received some portion of tho public funds by being included under tho goneral class of “charitable institutions.” But this contribu. tion, altogether unwarranted by law, was cut off when Mayor Havesmeyen wns clected, and it is not likoly that it will soon be renewed. Tho demand now is that a portion of the public- school fund aball bo sot aside for tho support of theso schools, at the pro rata rate for actnal attendance, which tho ultra-Catholics maintain to be reasonable, ‘Tho idea of a com- promise entertained in the School Board is that the property of the dogmatic parochial schools shall be acquired by tho Board, and sustained for Catholic pupils, But they will be restrained by the law, which provides that “No school shall bo entitled to or receivo any portion of the school moneys in which the religions doctrines or tenota of any par- tioular Christin or other religious sect shall be taught.” Tho most that could be con. eeded to the dogmatic parochial schools, if they becamo a part of the public-school bya. tem, would be to permit the reading of the Catholic version of tho Biblo without noto orcomment. This would not, in all prob- ability, satiefy the Catholio priests. Tho bottor way is not to mako any conces- sions in this matter, The contest is bound to come, and it should be fought out on its merits, The fundamental error of tho Cath- olica is in drawing tho lino between them- solves on ono side and tho Protestants on tho othor, and assuming this to bo a division of sects, Itisno such thing. ‘The Protestants re again divided into innumorable sects whose dogmatic difforoncos aro ag wide, in some instances, ns thoso of the Catholica and Protestanta generally, Ench of thoso sects have the samo right to demand o separate maintenance for their dogmatic sohools, ora teleaso from school taxation, as the Catholics, ‘The logical result of conceding at all will necessarily be tho disraption avd destruction of the whole public-school system, ‘Thereforo there can be uo concession whatever, ‘Tho unsoctarian character of tho public schoole shoutd be strictly maintained ; and, if Mable to misconstruction, evon tho roating of tho Bjble (which few of tho scholars listen to and atill fewer comprehend) may be diapensod with altogether, ‘the adoption of snch course would not bo hurtful, and it would deprive the Catholics of the Inst voutige of excuso for their prosont demands, Then the systom may be maintained in its purity, and all sects not sympathizing with it may sup port their own dogmatic schools, ——_—_—_—_—_—_—__——_ Claimants for tho seat in the next Tlouse, mado vacant by tho sudden death of Br, Burenitox, of Massachusetts, are rapidly turning up. Tho latest ono, who puts in his elaim in the columns of the Boston Ader. tixer, @ Dr, Pyren Pixro, of Hyannis, whose qualifications, as stated by tha Advertiser, are, that ho is a gentleman of education, culture, and ability, and that he served five years in the army with distinction. These aro, no doubt, admirable qualifications for Dr, Peter Pinzo, ag o native of the flourishing town of Hyannis, wherever it moy be, but it strikes us na qualifications for a member of Congress they are very indefinite and te antisfactory, All membors of Congress, mem- bers of Legistaturos, members of Common Connells, members of County Boards, aud the majority of Sheriffs, Constables, and Pound-keepers are genilemon of education, culture, and ability, and Lave served five years in the army. ‘This entaloguo of official virtues is getting very stale. Give us some- thing new, The qualification most to bo sought for inn candidate just now is hia ability 10 lot things alono that don't belong to him. REPUDIATION AVOWED, The Nashville (Tonn.) Banner, witra-Dem- cratic, presents to tho people of ‘Tennesseo our comments upon the proposition of ox- Gov. Waxxen, of Virginia, who will probably be the Speaker of the next Democratic Houso of Represontativer, that tho United States shall assumo the debts of all the States. It will bo romombered that the fifteen pro- nounced Democratic States owe & 12,000, 000, while nll the others owe only $109,000,- 000, The Hanncr presents tho figures temptingly to the Democrats of the South, and reminds them that slavery was abolished “atthe exponso of the South,” intimating that hero isa small chanco of getting part compensation therefor, Tho Banner, how- ever, inclines to the opinion that tho asaump- tion of these Stato debts is buta trifle; and indicates that thero is a greater delivorauce from debt than any which is offered by such & proceeding, It saya: Tus Ininvns 19 ono of the credulous minority who Lellove, or pretend to Lollove, that the national debt will ever be paid, In tho estimation of many othors, oveA payment of tho interest ts doubtful, Of courno, if the Democratic party proposes to repudiate the principal of the public debt, andoven to stop payment on tho interost, then, of course, the assumption of the State debts becomes a very insignificant matter. If the national debtis to bo ropudinted, to in- elude in that repudiation 300,000,000 mora would not dd very soriously to the dishon- esty and disgrace of tho proceeding. If tho Banver is authorized to speak for the Demo- cratic party, or oven for the Democrats of Tennessee, that the policy of tho party sims at the repndintion of the national debt, and will not be satisfed with tho small gamo of assuming the State debts except to repudinte then also, then we are prepared to admit that Gov. Waxxen’s proposition is a small affair compared with that which the Banner so candidly avows, i a aed THE REBELLION AND THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF, Tho enormous ontlay for carrying on the war to put down the Rebellion, and tho no- cessity for a large incrense of revenue, wore the occasion and protoxt for the enactment of the high tariff act which now prosses down with 50 heavy weight on tho industry of tho nation, The protective tariff is thus lmit- ted to be the fruit and offspring of the Ro- bellion, and it might bo expected that tho fruit would bo of tho same kind as the treo on which it grew, and the child like tho father by whom it was begot. This we find, greatly tothe damage and cost of the country, to be only too true. And if we butlool nt the vil and injury which havo beon wrought upon the country by both tho tariff and the Rebellion, we shall bo struck with the mar. velous likeness there isin the ruin dono by one to that done by the other; thnt they differ more in degree than in kind, tho tariff boing often the woreo and moro fatal of tho two ; and that they are of the samo breed of monsters, ‘* twinn'd at ono birth,” both of tho same wicked begotting, and of the same malignant and deadly nature. It may be seen, first, ‘that they are both Great wasters of funds, and most energetic crentors of dobt. That wo havon debt of such enormous size is due in the start to tho Rebellion, but that it has swollen to auch vast proportions; that the country must stag- ger and bow down under tho lond for go long a timo; and that, when it pays it at Inst it can only do 50 at n vastly incroased cost, and, indeod, be compelled to pay it not onco only, and in fall, but over and ovor again,—for this wo have to thank tho tariff. Tha origi- nal dobt is to'bo paid to those who furnished the means with which tho Rebellion was crushed, and who have a just clnim to their monoy; but this additional sum, which is moro than doublo or troblo tho amount of the former, is to go to those who, so far from advancing a dollar to the country whon in need, took advantage of its soro distress to plunder tho poople, Tho tariff is n dovico for paying off our debt, and its lending features is, that, whoro ono dollar goes to the creditor to whom it is duo, two or three dollars go to those to whom it is not due, Where protection puts one dollar into the National Treasury, it puts two or three dollars into the pockets of tho protected classes. The amount needed to Gischorgo the dobt by this method must be doubled, trobled, and even quadrupled. To put down tho Rebellion and save tho Union was found to bo a big job and to cost a hugo sum, but to hold up protection, and by its means eavo the national credit, will bo found to ba a bigger job, and ita cost two or threo times as much, It would be incredible that such a schomo for increasing the taxation and burdens of tho People could bo passed, and that mon and Ppartios could be so managed and manipulated that thera could be no way found in which tho country can pay its debt and savo ita credit save by‘ paying tho full amount of what it owes, over and over again, ton prive ileged class, if tho thing were not being dono right before our eyes. ‘Tho people, for overy singlo dollar thoy pay toa creditor to whom they owo ‘it, aro paying two or throo dollara to some one to whom thoy owo nothing, and are told that this way of paying debts is the choapest and beat way in which it can be dono, Tho country is taught that this modo of raising revenue by a protective tariff has more wisdom in it than any other that tho wit of man has been able to dovise, and that ® country prospors most when it pays ita debt over and over again,—once to the party to whom it is due, and several times to the party to whom it is not duo, 80 far, then, as rebellion nnd protection make themselves folt in the debt and taxation of the nation, they aro found tobe of the samo naturo and to work out tho samo disastrous consequences, only tlio tariff is the moro pow- erful and mischiovous of the two, ‘Tho debt and cost of a protective tariff! are many times greater than those we owo to the Rebellion ; and tho taxation it inflleta, instead of paying debts due for valu racoived, is paid to a class to whom nothing is owing, and from whom there is only damago and loss received, So, also, our mercantile marine, when ex- posed to the attacks of tho Alabama, tho Shenandoah, and other Confedorate oruisera, was quickly driven from the ocean, and our ships, whoso sails had been soon in evory 800, were soon all chased from its bosom or sunk in ita doptha, This work of terror and destruction wronght on our commerce by re- bellion was eMfciont and thorough, but no more ao, indeed not equal to, that wrought by a protcotive tariff, Rebel iron-elnds and Confederato cruisors nro not no destructive to merchant ships, and eannot sweep them fo clean from tho sens, ns will ahigh tariff, Bueeanocrs and pirates of thor Gulf have no such torror for n mercantile marino 3 havo tho Collectors of Customa, and tho scourge of the Robollion is far less fatal to it than is the Scourge of protection, ‘There may be some eseapo found from, or some resistance mado ngainet, the open assaults of tho rebel or the foe, but ogainst tha subtle, ecasoloss, and dendly force of a tariff there is uo defense, and from it no eseapo. So far na destructive quality is regarded, protection has shown itself to bo far moro offective than rebollion in the rapidity and complotencss with which it cnn make ruin and havoo with the finost commercial marine and not leave a single ship affont. And os to accumulating dobt, crippling tho industry, and destroying the resources of n nation, war and rebellion aro no match for protection. Tho tariff will mako the bigger debt, bind it for tho longor time on the baoka of tho people, and protect them after such n fashion that the only way thoy ean pay what they do owo will be to pay threo times as much that they do not owe. JUTHERN FOLLY, The Cincinnati Commercial and Louiaville Courier-Journal, which have beon squabbling for some time past about lotterios and things that wero of no specinl interest outside the respective newspnper offices, havo now locked horns upon a question which has 9 generat interest. Tho subject-matter in dispnto is substantially 13 follows: Tho Commercial took the grounds in the course of the contro- versy that the Southern people woro con- quered; that there were people in the South who woro not Rebels; that the, Rebel faction has been denlt with most gen- crously by the National Government; and that as the conquorora tho Govern- ment had tho right to prescribo certain conditions, among them the constitution! amendimonts, which would reduco the chances of future rebellions, Tho Courier-Journal in reply inslosea about o dozon lines of answer in a column of irrelovant personality, and this answer includes two statements: first, ‘tho South was a unit during the War, and tho Rebels did and tho ox-Rebels do own it”; and, second, “tho South had na recog. nized constitutional right of proporty in mon.” This right might havo been annulled with respect tothe fighting Rebels, but ita abrogation as to old men, infants, and womon, as to minors and non-combatants, “wos such on act of confiscation o8 tho world hos not known within two centuries.” This is the aubstanceof the quarrel asitnow stands, Tax Cnrcaco Trinone has no dispo- sition to interfere with others’ quarrels, but as tho matter at issuo is of genoral intorost, ‘Tue Tripung, aso ypoctator, con make what comments it sees fit, ‘Tho Commercial has the Courier-Journal in chancery. Tho statement of tho Intter that the South wns a unit in the Rebellion is simply absurd, and only shows that its editor has not yet racov- ered from the insanity which urged him into the Rebellion and drove him to take up arms in defonso of human slavery, in which he had no financial interest and in which ho only acted as on agent or tool of the slaveholders. Hos he forgotten how many Union mon thero wero in Kentucky, Missouri, Wost Virginia, and Maryland? Does he not know of tho sufferings of Union men and womon in East orn Tennesseo, in certain diatricts of North Carolina and Texas, ond in tho mpuntain regions of Goorgia and Alnbama? Does ho not know that fully one-third, porhaps ono- half, of tho fighting Rebels wore not in favor of the disnnion cause for which they woro fighting; that they wero driven into ro. bellion by slavo-ownors and demagognes who did not go thomsolves, and that it was Iesa ruinous for them to go into tho army than it was to stay ont of it? If he does not, then ho has not studied the facta of tho War of tho Rebellion snficiently to qual. ify him to discuss with tho Commercial or any other paper upon tho real character of that War upon the Southorn sido, The second statement of tho Courier-Jour- nal that, “this right might have been an- nulled with respect to tho fightingRobels, but its abrogation as to infants and women, as to minors and non-combatants, was such an act of confiscation og the world bos not mown within two conturies," is quite as absurd as its first, and shows that this editor known as little about the conditicn of tho fighting material of tho Southern army as he does about the Union sentiment among tho Southern white poople, Tho fighting Rebols were not slaveholders, except a small minority. Tho vast mass of the Southern army was composed of poor whites and young men forced into it for social reasons, who owned no slavos and had no interest in them. Tho Southern Rebollion waa fought by those who had been cocrcedinto the ranks, by those whoso feelings had been inflamed hy the slaveholdora and demagognes. ‘Tho planters thomsolves, ns a rule, staid at home, but forced to the front the mon who Lind no slaves to fight for and uo gricfs against tho Union, Those who lost thoir timo, their labor, and thelr lives, and whose families suffered, wero tho toola of the stay- at-home Socession slaveholdera. Had tho emancipation of slaves beon confined to those who were fighting in the Rebel ranks, no slaves to speak of wonld have beon emanci- pated, as very few of them over owned a slave, If there is any Northern animus against the South, it is not against those poor follows who fought in tho ficld, but against thoso who staid at home and took no risks, but forced thom to the battle and the alaughtor, Tho Courier-Journal has no right to complain inthe promiscs. Thoso stay-nt- homos have been most goncrously treated, Not one of thom has been punished as he desorved to be, Not one of thom has sufferod confiscation of property except of the human kind, which, aa the Commercial vory trath. fully says, has been 8 blessing to the South, as “a froe man, black or whito, is worth more to any country than a slave,” ‘Tho lonity of the North towards the South has beon a marvel to all other civilized nations, which have nover hesitated to punish robcll- ion, always with confiscation, and often with denth, Instead of that, no slaveholder has eon deprived of life, liberty, or suffrage for his high crime of treason aud rebellion, On the contrary, they havo heen permitted to ro- sumo tho political control of thirteon of tho fifteen ex-Slave States. In the face of such facta, the complaints of ill-treatmont comes with a vory bad grace even from the Courter. Journal, A very active canvagy now being carried on in Connecticut for the cloction which takes place the first Mondsy in April, Tho issues before tho People aroin the main quostions of natioual policy. Last year, the Democrats carried the Stato by 1,809 majority on tho voto for Govern, and thoy havo nominated thia Yoar tho ticko which carried them through 80 handacmely then Gov, Ixaxusont'a Admimetration haa bon vory, atrong and popular, and tho fact that It ts hee sented bodily to tho people for indoreomout may this yoar givo tho unstable and BY. tncer. tain vote, whic bolongs to nelthor ne ty, to tho Democratic aide. Tho General public, outside of Connecticut, Will be mont Interested In the vote on Congrersinen. 11 the Firat District, Gou. Josers tt. Uawiey is up for ro-olection, Ho is x valuable man to tho Reput- lican party, alwaya vigilant, industrious, ant faithful to hia convictions; and could bo i, 8pared from his seat in Congross, Fortunate his worth ts as woll rocognized at hom! abrond, and his election fs protty well Beattred, In tho Fourth District, Me. W. If. Bansvst, the distinguished Democratic absentoo, 1s agains candidate; and, although his majority tio yeary ‘go was about 1,600, tho Republicans tiava ood ones of dofoating him now, so Unsatisfactory ig his record as aetay-away. KetLoga and Brang. Weaturn, Iopublicans, of the Second and Third Districta, are also Booking re-elections, Tho Republican Senators, or somo Beem to yoatn aftor tha chance to indorgo thy Presidont’s action in tho Louisiana caso, Tha caucun Las votod to keep the Sonato tn BPR8iOn until the nocossary resolution is Pasaed, and thy Domocrate aunounco that thoy will talk Bgalnst timo to pravent its paesago, 80 wa may cyrert tho floodgates of oratory to bo thrown wido Open, ‘Thia frantic zeal for “indorsing" the Vast Beery, rather misplaced. If tha action of tho Prot dont was good, it will stand criticiam ‘without boing beapattered with Senatorinl praleo resolution concocted in caucus and carried by partisan yotos, If it waa bad, no. amount of “indorsomont” can make It any better, Thy resolution submitted contains tho clause, "Loy. faiana, of which Warztas P, Retoca is the t seutive.” As tho Provident bas publicly asic, muatized tho election of 1872 na a “gigastg fraud," would it not be as wall to dofer to ty opinion, and not stare no doctdodly that that froud really put Ketzoaa into power? Bat the frantic opposition of the Domocrats to ther 1 lution at this distance array looks ridiculour, will noither hurt nor holp their party to pass thy indorsement roxolution. The wholo thing: os Doth aidos is absurd, if not childiah, io ey Tho fruita of Syzvanvs Conn and othor 3045 writora of tho yellow-coverod sort continu, appear in real life. The Boston Globe sass that threo boys, having imbibed tho heroism that dwolls in tho veins of “Tho Wild Huntsmin at tho Kausay order,” “Rifle Joo," “Bi stot BI,” ond other mythical domigods who ust through the pages of Cunn, concluded to BC West in qneat of scalps. Maving stolen £19, thoy invoutod {tin throo gana, $5 worth of an. munition, three belts, three dirk: knives, an} threo pistols. Thia redacod their capita stock to & conts, but thoy managed to got tc Bpriogtlold from Boston, whore they were taken off tho cara and lodged in jail, It ia rather painful to know that theso juvonilo scalp-hunt- ere had some iden of mating Chicago their hunt ing-gronnd and forwarded the most of their out. fit hora **to be called for.” Their ‘Drompt arrest, however, relioves the ‘situation of:any danger, Meanwhilo, if strict justice could Go oxeeutid, Mr. Sytvanus Coup and other “blood-and thonder" writers ought to be callod ‘upon te Psy the damages in this caso, pinco tivy ar clearly rosponsiblo for the boyish freak. Of them, In Kokomo, Ind., tho other day, whean spel. ing-match had been arranged betwoen tho |: yors and the doctors, aud a cortain apo! book bad beon namod as o atandatd, ft suddenly discaverod that tho doctora hat vor- nered tha market, Not ono of the etaniard books could bo obtained tn tho town by the lay. yers, and the doctors woro understood to has? soveral gross of that kind in thoir porscesion, Tho Inwyera, howover, tolographod for a new supply, and woro farolahed in timo to mi) elaborate preparations for tho matel, which sas Jong and remorselogs, and onded in a dra:v, A bill to oqualizo salarios of public offeeis bia just boon dofeatod in tho Tonnosueo Leg: At was dosignod to * equalize” the compen: of county oflico-holdors throughout the Siste, and scoms to baye been a tolorably tuiquitow moasuro ovon for these doganerate daye of Dow- cerntic supremacy, Tho *oqualization” propo sitions which have Istely come before vations logielativo bodies aro not of # character tu in splre confidence in tho leveling tondene:ca of tha times, Tho fundamental error of tho puliticiaus who espouse these difforont uchemes lies it making tho asaumption that the Amorizan pes aro pot, on the whol, intalligont and Louost. ——————-—__ Btatisticians aro looking for information c2s- corning tho habits of the colored pouple, au! thoy flud it to be distinctively truo of tle rc that it abliora suicide, In several years only tia woll-authenticated cages of suicide arony t! nogroca of Richmond are recarded in the pol. booke, Such Is the testimony of an old dete tivo who has specially tnvoatignted the smbjoct. Tho authoritios of Richmond, it is wall knows, havo not put a high price upon nopro-lifo duixg tho last fow yoars, Mr. Prvcimac’s caso fa not thorouglity u iler atood in Now Orleans, Tho Bulletin vaso: “Should the reconatructed Legislature meet, in accordance with the WitzeLen agroemont, they will bo at tiborty to consider the Loutaiana 5:n3- torabip vacant, and tu elect somabody to tho position." They will be at Hborty to do 6, doubtlosa; and tho man elected will havo a con- tingent remainder of a scat, or of Prxcunacs't shoos, when that great contestant ia disposed of SS See Aftor “ oxaugnral,” tho newost word In tht Janguage, Is “blizzard,” noaning a blindny atorm of snow, ralo, hall, or sleat, Mow it cau! into being. or when, nobody scems to kav. Tho Lowa nawspapors wore the firat to givo i general circilation, and they appoar to ba more fomillar with its associations and antocodeut! than anybody else, Tho ctymologists ehoult look after it before it bocomes too cmon about the house, Possibly it is an adaptation of * blistor.” A roward of £600 having been offored for tht will of Baron St, Lyonanva, tho groat Jnzliel Chancery Jawyor, ovorybody calla to mind thé physiclan-hoal-thysolf maxim, and wondera 4h! it is that poor human nataro will undoriate & do for others that which jt will by no meant ver ture to do for itaelf, Tho Lord sr, Lrox 4np in lis dey wrote more willa than any otc! man in England, and probably died in:cstatt himsolf, Remarkable casos of suspended animation ms} be seen in the newspapors which aroused an encouraged tho Black Hills oxcitoment. a¥ ing failed to gain either reputation or money by helping on the epoculatory, thoy aro now iain taining a judicioas allence, But the fools ites havo deluded will not forget them if the x ‘Hills shall prove to be barron and unprofitabl’. ‘Tho more fools they, ———— F Local option pas fulfilled it mission me about to pass away in Pennsylvania; and intelligent verdict of the Philadelphia Times's thot both parties having sagroed on the ae Jaguo, the politicians neod no longer fear ! friends, The theory of local option, redu es its lowoat terms, {a individasl option. The mie ple overywhero are recognizing this fact at Polls, though porhaps not distinctly in serms. a A Washington correspondent intimates thst only forty ex-Congrossmen are still wapro' be for. ‘They mre all sbio-bodied, and will ern reconciled to the disagreoable necoasity, ¥ i more or eas frequontly prosonta iteclt be American citizens, of providing for themsel Se oy, Gaston, of Massachusetts, refased aes viow the procession of Irivl: soctoties et on Bt Patrick's Day, bocause bt inclad