Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1875, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATEA OF ATIRECRIPTION (TATANLE TX ADYANCE). Postage Prepnid at thin Ofices Dolly, Loar. 440. GITAHD| Weekly, 1 year. 8 J.O05 rie We 5 joa | Fis i TO Pea RLU Ee ed doubis shest..., 3.60) Partrof a yest at the sans rate, ‘Wanren—Uno active agent In each town and villegs. Spreial arrangoments mado with such, Specimen coples sent free. ‘Yo provent delay and miatakes, be sure and give Post. Office address in full, inelading State and County. Ronl:tancoamay be made eitherby deatt, expross, Post- ‘Ofice order, or in registered lottors, at our risk. TERMS To CITT EUASCRIBRNE, Datty, dotiverod, Bandar excepted, 2’ conte por werk. aced, Bnaday included, 30 cents per week. THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, cet Chieago, U1. TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. PVICKUN'S THEATRI—Madiron street, hetwren plrmiteo aimae Reaeeonent a Tawronce barrett. ‘Jamie Harebellyor, Tho Mano’ Alriie." CRY"! T—-Randeton street, between Man.'? QRAND OPERA.NOUSt aioriens Houses Kelly dco Bleay.” Ke atreet oppastt “hlinatrales °* Barbe AOADEMY OF MURIC—Ialeted «treet, hotwees fern and. Munro. Engagement. of, J. Te The Cricket on the Hoar” and * ict on Franceds." ADELPHE THRATRE—Dearhnen strest, corner Mons roe. Varloty omertalnment. ** Neck aud Neck.” McCORMICK HALL—North Clark street, corner of Kinzie, Readings by Goorgo Vanderholl, “SOCIETY MEETINGS. poctal Conctare of his (Pueauay) evens Ket order, Vb iting ity ondec uf tha KE. U, W. LOCKE, Rocorder. WAN DECLARED. Capital: unis BE to. 8 pot of by Ty Ned, fancy pricrr. Satistactian given ur imoney tetundeu. rUiark and Hatdulpuents, he Chicaya Tabane. Tuesday Morning, March 23, 1376, ‘The proposition to tax church Ianded prop- erty of value exceeding $15,000 was defented yesterday in the Michigan Legislature. Profesional lobbyists will make a note of the decision by the United States Supre:no Court that a contract far compensation for services in accuring the passage of a Dill is iWegal, void, opposed to public policy, and cannot be onforced. It has now come that gratifying pass when tho subject of adjournment can bo broached in tho Ilinois Legislature without throwing tha Reformers into convulsions. Present indications are that the burden will bo removed in about two weeks. Asacompanion for tho silly confectioner who took himself out of a world in which he was unable to save money enough to marry and support a wife, 8 young man in Laporte Iound lifo insupportable because his girl went homo from church with o hated rival, and thereupon‘underiook to glido into the silent tomh by the aid of strychnine, but was foreibly detained by a stomach-pump. Anclaboratecad exhaustive charge ton Mem- phis Grand Jury upon the si®ject of the Civil- tights Iaw wes given yesterday by Judge Emauons, of tha United States Court, who lustructed the jury that the deninl ton negro af tho {rll nnd equal enjoyment of the nc. commodatious and privileges of theatres and inns iss anatter that the Stato Government alone controls, and cen only be reached by a civil action, A correspondent in Lowell, Neb., discusses the Bleck Hills question in a practical, logical way, and conclusively shows tho whole thing, aa reported, to ba ‘‘n palpable, barofaced fratd, which will not bear the test of reason, experionce, or common-sonso;” and Prof. Harozn, the well-known geologist and ex- ploxer, writes to an intimate personal friend in Chicago advising him not to take stock in the exsertion that there is gold in the Black Hills worth going there to dig. Avery unceemly squabble hax grown out of Rome of tho exercises attending the Suuncn obsequies in Megenchusetts, Tho poople who desired the ceremonies should be upon a lib- eral scale, now that tho deceased is buried acd tho excitoment has pnssed away, are inaking harsh comments upon certain items of oxpendituro. Tho first itom is the donn- tion of n marblo bust to Mr, Cuntis, who de- Uvered tho oration; the second, a chargo of $1,000 for the oxpenses of tho memorial volume; nnd the third, a pay- ment of $200 to a professional reader for reading a poom of Wiitrren's, The presen- tation to Mr, Cuntis was simply a graceful recognition of that gentleman's services, In the secord case, it hns been shown that the meniorial volume was propared in a manner fally worth the sum paid. In tho third case, as tho render was n profossional one, tho Committee paid him hia professional prico, Considering tho manner in which Mr, Svan was troatod during his lifo-time by tho Massnchusntts Legislature, tho people of that State ought not to let their economical notions go so far as to dreg his name inton most unseemly squabble after his death. Let him ress, Tho crosa-exuminution of Brzore Toaxrn _ in the Brooklyn trial yesterday does not seem to have been u prononnoed succous on Judge Foutenton’s part. He was able to mix her up in reference to dates, and he also elicited the acknowledgment that she had added much to her story sinco sho testified beforo the Plymouth Church Committee, and that her finet vorslon of tho narrative had boon arranged by tho aid of a stonographer, Saranxan, and JudgoPonren, which aecounts for tho glibness with which shu rattled it off fucourt; bht inthe way of nsaniling her cred- ibility or entrapping her into gclf-coutradic. tion, tho groat cross-oxaminer hud but little to boast of when the Court adjourned, Ho haa not yet finished with her, however, and it will greatly satonish tho expoctant public if Miss Besant hes the good luck to escape with an unperforated opidermis, It is hinted that ‘Mr, Bzrouxn’'s vppoarance on the stand may be lookod for about Thursday of this week, and, in anticipation of that event, the reader will find fresh zest in thecontomplation of the thorny path where he must pick his way when Judge Furtenron begins the reading of thoso remarkable letters, and asks for an explana- tion pf the numerous expressions of contri. tion, self-condemnation, duapair, suicidal con- templation, cto, As matters of unusual in- terest at this time, Afr, Buzcoun's letters aro mmeased together and published in this issue, The Chicago produce markets wers vory irogular yesterday, Mess pork was ective, ,And 300 per br) higher, closing at §20.15 cab, and $20.40 for May, Lard was active, _ Sud TE@ICS per 100 tos higher, closing at 218,85 aash or seller April, and $14.02}@14.05 for May. Ments wero active and ashade firmer at Tho for shoulders, 10}@10Je for short ribs, and Ie for short clears, Dyeased hogs were quiet and strong, at $8.60@2.00 per 100 ths, Jlighwines were in good demaud and stendy at 81.11 per gallon. Mlour wes quict and firm, Wheat was lesa active and ide lower, closing at 9240 for March, and 8c for April. Corn was active and 1@1 fo higher, closing at Gije ensh, and 73$c for May, Onts were active and je higher, closing at 612%c for March, and Gite for April. Rye was quiet and steady at N7@98e, Barley was quiet and a shade easier, closing at $1.08} for March, and 21.01 for April, Mogs were quiet, and light weights sold lower, Sales were at 87.00G@8.75, ‘The enttle aud sheep niarkets were fairly active and firm, STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION, The Slate Journal of Springticld has be- come the apologist and defender of the use- Jess State Board of Equalization, and decries the proposition to abolish it. asa‘ public en- lnmity” and “an act of folly.” It then proceeds to make tho point that it wonld be unconstitutional to vest tho State officers with the powers hitherto exercised by this Vorrd; and in support of this position it cites See, 1, Art. IX., of tho Constitution, which is as follows + ‘Tho General Assembly shall provide mich revenue as may ke needful by levying n tax by valuation, a0 that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in pro- partion to tho vaino of his, her, or {t4 property,—ettch tulto to bo ascertained Ly sumo person or pervons to bo elected or appointed in such manner as the Geuerat Auaembly abiall direct, and not otherwise, ‘This clauso of the Constitution, so far from being a prohibition of the proposed ection, is an explicit authorization for the Legislature to proceed with the tax-levy as it may seo fit to determine, It may direct that the State Doard of Equalization be abolished. aud the levy left to the discretion of the Assessors ; or it may direct that the State ofticers shall supervise tho work of the Assessor, In such caso the Goard of Eyualization would bo elective ofleers ns well as the subordinate Assessors, though the section of the Const - tution above quoted allows them to be ap- pointed as well as elected. This constitu- tional point of the Journal is, therefore, ridienlous, It is n epccimen of special plend- ing adopted for the purpose of maintaining a Board in tho interest of certain counties of tho State et the expense of tho general interest, When the Slate Journal talks about this Board as having ‘Inbored so patiently aud so ably for years past,” and as having “ done so much for revenuo referm (?) and au hou- ent equalization of taxes” (?), it indulges in broad irony or the wildest of vaguries. ‘This State Board has ignored the plainest princi- ples of political economy throughont its pesti- lent career, It has doubled taxation on the debtor class, requiring them first to pay taxes on the monery borrowed, and, secondly, on the note they give for it, It has taxed both the money in hand and the mortgage given for it, and both taxes fall upon the borrower. It has doubled taxation upon capital stock, thereby cmbnrrassing and dis. couraging the growth of co-opera- tivo industry within the State, and driving foreign capital out instead’ of in- dncing it to come into tho State, It has piled up taxation on bankrupt railroads, which there is no hope of collecting, Finally, ‘it has been controlled by o ring of members with the expresa purpose of relensing some sixteen or saventeen counties from taxation, end making others pay an unfair proportion. In thie latter respect the State Board has been a Board of Uncquolization, aud not a Bonrd of Equalization. What the State Journal has to say of it in this respect is the roverso of truth; the Board has forfeited the respect und confidence of the public, and should givo way to some other agent for assuring tho con- stitutional provision of uniform taxation. ‘The Legislature is vested with full authority to designate what this new agency shall be, The proposition to vest the State officers with the powers of the Board of Eynalization has conspicuous merit in this: ‘That the State officers, being elected by the whole people, can scarcely be actuated by any local feeling, or any other purpose than thet of reqpiring a fair and equitable proportion of revenue from every part of the State. Tho condition of the State Board of Equalization has been the very opposite of this, Tho members goner- ally chose torcgard themselves as representa- tives of tho counties in which they reside, and the result was almost inevitable that o ring should bo formed in which certain counties eombined in an altianco to favor themselves and put an unjust burden on other sections. This practice can novor be broken up until the Board is elocted on a general tickot or abolished, and no set of men could be found who would give so much public confidence ns the State officers, representing and elected by the whole people, THE RISE IN GosD. Tho sudden rise in gold has attracted con. alderable attention because it oxorts a direct influence on prices, and there havo beon somo curious efforts to explain it, The theory of Wall street, which has been adopted by tho New York Sun aud some other nowspapers, in that a gigantic pool has been formed, in. eluding Jax Gourp, Iusse.u Saar, Dayicn Daxw, and other wealthy stock-gamblers, for tho purpose of bulling gold, and that thoy havo succeeded in getting control of the mar- kot, It is estimated that they have invested from $12,009,000 to 315,000,000 in the effort ; thoy went into it when gold was 110}, and havo succeeded in pushing it up to 116}, varying as to fractions, It is also predicted that it is within their power to force gold up to 125, but believed that thoy will rofrain from using thelr power on acconnt of the Jouses incident to tho reaction, which might fall iu Inrgo part upon themselves, ‘Thoro may bo some foundation for n belict in this gold cliquo; it receives some conflnna- tion from the general disappearanco of ull the gold certificates from tho street, But the formation of the ring is morely invidental to the favorable condition of things for fore. ing a rigo in gold, Without auch a condition, no clique would have been formed ; and, if there had been, the ring would have been short-lived and unprofitable, The risa in gold, if it stops where it is or goes back, is shuply one of tho penalties of an irredecma- ble wurrency, likely to bo visited upon the country at any time, and operating in the way of inflation or dapreuston of prices ace cording to circumstances, If it continues to go up, it will not be mainly due to the efforts of quy ring, which would be powerless to effect the natural supply and demand—the real valuo—of gold; but it will be duo to the continued lack of confidence in the Boutwellian lubsezyuire principle, which has not been obliterated by the Specie-Resump- tion bill pasucd by the Into Congress, It is siuply a new demonstration of the fact, which had already beon sutiiciently demonstrated, thst we can nover return to specie payments, and 6 solid Luss for prices, by letting things Sh tnke their own course, Tho price of gold now is much higher than the average prico of the Inst four years, which indicates that the “Jet-nlone” policy is cawying us farther away from specie payment, instend of bring- ing us nearer to it, It is worthy of note that there has been an upward movement in gold at this season of the yenr for some years past. In March, 1874, the price varied from 109 to 119; in Mareh, 1878, from 114 to 118; end this year there is already a variation of 5 ‘cents, But there haye been variations at other times of year, without any like in- fluences, so that it would appear to bo arbitrary, It isurbitrary in tho sense that it is boyond control under any system of an irredeomnablo currency, Just now it is ox- plained in some quarters by tho cxistenco of a gold cliquo ; in others by the inflation con- sequent upon the issue of $100 in bank-noto eurrency for the withdrawal of 880 of green- backs ; in others by Secretary Bnistow’s ine tention of buying up $30,000,000 of five- twenty bonds, a Inge part of which, it is be- lieved, will como from abrond and thns inke the gold out of thé country, But no matter what tho incidental explanations are, the real trouble remains the samo in all cases, viz. + tho untrustworthiness of an irredeemn- ble currency, The rise in gold at this tima also means that the Finance bill passed by the Inst Con- gress has not quicted the apprehensions of the moncyed work. It wasasort of com promise. It fixed a date for restumption four years off, with prospect of a Democratic nd- ministration meanwhile with no disposition tokeep tho pledge atthe appointed time. There was not even reasonable prudeonco ex- ercised in preparing the way for tho prom- ised resumption. Provision was made for tho retirement of only 280,000,000 of greon- backs; aud even this was conditional upon the issue of National Bauk notes to the extent of $100,000,000, ‘here was no provision made, however, for the destruction of the greenbacks go retired. Thiswas not a scheme caleulated to restore confidence, and recout events havo proved that it gave greenbacks no more real yalue than they had be- fore, It was only useful in establish. ing o precedent for a fixed resump- tion which may be improved in the future, Had Congress provided for agold bond at a low rate of interest into which to retire greenbacks, aud directed their cancellation as fast as they came into the Treasury in exchange for bonds (which was repeatedly recommended by ‘Tne ‘Tam. Une), the effect would have been much better, ‘Tho country would then have folt that there was not merely a promise to resume, but that provision had been made fur practical re- sumption, As it is, the recont variation in gold indicates that the country will havo to suffer the financial vagaries of an irredeemable currency the same as before until some action is taken by the Government which will com. mend itself os practicable for a return to specie payment, THE GREAT ERIE CANAL FRAUDS, Goy. Tinprs, of New York, has, ina spe. cial message to the Legislature of that State, jnid bare a systera of frauds in the manage- mont of the Now York canals that exceeds even the robberies of Twrep and his asso. ciates in Now York City. ‘his robbery has beon going on for many years, and has been successful by the combination of designing and corrupt men of both parties ; thus, for each contract there was a Democratic and o Republican partner, each having a friend in one ortho other House of‘ tho Legistnture. Gov. Tipe states that he has examined over ono hundred of these contracts, and in no caso was tho oxpendituro named in the original contract adhered to, but in all wero largely excoeded, in some cases six-fold. The Governor givos the following stnte- ment os to the present condition of the Erio “Canal: Thatatthe opening of the season in 1875 the double locks will be completed, and the capazity of tho canst will bo greatly increased over any previous yenr. The work of removing the ‘wall benches” has pro- gressed so far that but 26 miles of tho ob- structions romain. Tho effect of theso wall benches is that they contract tho width of the canal at the bottom from 50 to 42 feot, thus lessening the body of water on which the boat moves, He recommonds a general progressive system of deopening the canal fron its G feot to 7 or 8, thereby giving to the boat o deeper volume in which to move. This would facilitate tho movement and quicken the speed of the bonts, and increaso the amount of servico, which would be a gronter benefit to those en- gaged in transportation than the proposed re- duction of tolls, which ho does not think practicablo under the present condition of af- fairs, ‘The Governor not only charges that frauds have been committed, but explains tho man- ner in which they are perpotrated. For tho five years ending Sept, 80, 1874, there had been expended on all the canals Ordinary expeusea and repalrs Extraordinary repairs (1), Tuterest on canal dob Premium on gold, Premium on stock pi ‘Trousfor oxperses,..e es t $23,897,914 Less lols collected....esse0s 15,0596 Doficlency in A¥0 Yeart...sssssesseseees8 8,700,556 . Tho conal debt was reduced to five millions of dollars, and the tax collected of the people over end above the receipts of tho canal were $14,739,818. Having oxhibited tho financint result of the Inst five years’ operations, the Governor proceeds to explain the motives and the manner by which this result was brought about, Ho thus comments gonerally in terms which are applicable not only to New York, but to almost all other localities in this coun. try. Ho says: It fs not merely im the general lasity and damorallzs- ton of officlal and yolitical Life that wa are to look for the causes cf theav avila, “bo clavs which fattens on abuses cf public expenditure ia Intelligent, cuorgotic, aud persistent, Acting aa sucit, {t takes part through 1"¢ metbera in the organization and the doings of both polltical ‘parties; souks to control nominations ¢ ro- wards friends aud punislics cnemtes ; and it boglaa to operate by overy forin of seductive aud coercive futlu- ence upon public olticers as soon aw they aro elected, ‘Tho vust mass of the tax-payers are occupiod {u thelr datly Industries, on thelr farnis and in their workshops, and cannot eaai'y, and do not in fact, make a busi> ueag of politics, aa silent contest with the tax consumere they aro atten prictieally unrepresented, It 1s only when thoy ure aroused and organized, and can sud representallves whom they trust, that they pro- toct themaclvos aud overwhelm all resistance, Useloas ‘works iu tho specious garb of {mprovemente are un- dortaken, because of the iud{fferetico of tho publlie off- cora, the inertnesa of the tax-payers, the indefatigable efforts of an influence seeking & benvft for its locality, which conta #t au {asiguificant share of tho Lurdeu ime posed on tha peoplo ; oF the eager activity of the clus ‘who seck profit in contracts iu construction, without Feferenca to the utility of thu work, Vertical walls are tunde to provide wharvos for private tudividuats, and bridges where no public intereat requires them, Fic= Htloustmprovewpenta aro contrived to eupely profite- ble Jous, Workof real utility is made to cost greatly moro than ita actual value, Ho then takes up the matter specifically, ‘The Constitution requires that all contracts for work or materigls shall bo made with tho Porson who shall offer to porform the service at the lowest prico with adequnte security, ‘This provision ho finds has been mostartfally ovaded by the following contrivance: When the enginenr’s estimatoof quantities and kinds of material aro published by the Commissioners, tho contractor will find out hy collusion, or in rome other way, what quantities of each kind of work or material will, in fact, bo required, or ha will see what {nflrence ho can exert to chango the contract after tt ts made. If it inchanged, no new letting in had, but ho claims the Joly as tis right, Ho then pute in hia hid, offering to do much work or fo furnish atch material as ha finds will not be required at all, or in small quantit{es, at absurdly low prices, at a quarter or in nome inatances at 9 twentieth part of Ste cost, The items which will be required fn full, and. Probably in extra quantities, he will put at ureagona- bly high rates, and tt turns out that whit the contract- or offets atlow prices in called for tu small quantities, {f at all, whllo those which ace put at high prices aro not only required in full, but in taost cares in extraor- dinary quantities, Ho gives an illustration of how this schemo is carried out, ‘Tho engincer estimated for the following work: 100 entbtec yardta of vortical irall at $3, 3,855 cubic yor:ts of stope wall at # 1.400 fact T.-M, white cak at B50. €0,000 feet 13, BM, hemlock at $16. $200.09 ‘Total estimato, Bra bid for the r €0,0W0 fect B, M, liensluck at $3,..c1ec00 And aggregated...scerees «£2,104,60 ‘Tho proposal of B, apparently go advantageous to the State, was accepted, and the contract awarded to him an the “lowest bidder,” But afterward, by some influence, {¢ waa decided to make only vertical, nnd no slope wall, and to use only oak and nohemlock timber, Thero was no relotting, although tho agreemant bad Veen in fact revamped into s nowand different con- tract, which enabled 3 to colicet from the State for 2.085 enbts yards of veri{cal wall at 62,400 fect B. Mf, white oak at $30...4». ‘Thosum of,.... PEEL Soi The Governor cites ten contracts under which work was to be done for 8124,726, and upon these contracts, manipulated ns ex. plained, tho Stato lins already paid $1,560, 769, or nonrly four times the price contracted for, and for nono of the increase was thero any public letting, When it is remembered that this kind of business has been going on for thirty years, and that the canal has fur- nished the spoils to politicians and enriched them, the public may judgo of tho extent of the spoliation, i ‘Tho tolls of tho Eria Canal in excess of all expenditure, ordinary and extraordinary, ex ceed $50,000,000, How much more they would have been had it not been for this systemnatized and long-prncticed robbery, wo are unablo to state, But the country, and especially the West, can understand how severely they have been taxed in tho way of tolls to maintain a system which is now of- Aicially shown to have been corrupt and dis. honest for yenrs, One-fourth of the monoy stolen by this dishonest system wonld havo enlarged and deepened the Erio Canal many years ago, and an honest administration of the canal reventtes would have enabled tho tolls on a vastly-inerensed trade to have been reduced to a very low minimum, ‘The mes- sage scems to have struck the Assombly with foree, Many of its members ara doubtless involved in the oxposure, abd wo question whether tho Governgr will be sustained in his Jandable efforts nt reform without an- other appeal to the people, Commenting on the message, the Now York Times says : Asa rearching analysis of ono of tho longest-lved systema of ofiiciat peculation in the State, tho mexsaga hasan intorest for tho general tax-payer far hoyond the subject to which it immediately refers, Of course, these things cannot be done without fraudulent collu. sion between Commissioners, engineers, and contract- ors, and the extent towhich they have been done in the past suggests the conclusion that a good many people connected with caual management have lafd themselves open to indictinent. ‘Tho Governor's rem- edios for the abuscs of canalmansgemont are tho strict enforcoment of official accountability, aud sharp ro- trenchment in the sume annually voted for extenor- | dinary repairs, Ho proposed furiber to iueroasa tho volume of business on the, canals, and revive tho drooping prosperity of those engayed in tho trane- portation of caual freight, by reducing tolls in tho fol- lowing proportions : On grain, one-third ; on lumber, one-quatter; and on merchandise, one-half, Wihilo {t may be too Iato to detoct all frauds, Le betievea that “many inay bo exported and punfelied, and a chocle put ‘upon practicoa destructive to morals as well ns to te public interests of the peopto of tho State," POLITICAL REORGANIZATION a ARKAN- DAS. The following dispatch from Washington appeared in the Inst issuo of ‘Tux Cicaco Tnrovng: Privato letterm received from Arkansas show that thero fa already a split among the adherents of tho GantaNp Government, Gantaxp hag olwayy been a National Whig, ond a considerable number of bia eup- porters were Whigs, but tho rank ond flo aro Dour- bons, snd now thst the General Government has recognized Gantaxp, and tho trouble with Buoous’ earvet-bag people {4 ended, the old traditional foud ‘Detween Bourboua sud Whigs is revived. The Bours Vous claim the right of absolute control, which the ‘Whigs refuse to recognize, ‘Tur 'Tripune los soveral timos of Isto pointed out os one of the snrest clements of hopo for tho futuro of the South the nboli- tion of tho color line, the division of the whites of the South into the two grent par- ties substantially as they exinted before the War, namely, the Bonrbona and the Pro. grossives, and tho division of the negro voto between these two organizations, 'he ad- vices from Arkansas now show that thora is a strong tendonay to restore these natural po- litical parties, and no Stato is in botter shapo to inangurate this revolution in politics than Arkansas. ‘Tho negro question is virtually out of politics iu that State, ‘ho carpot-bag- gors havo lost control, and many of the worst ones have left the State. Tho color lino no longer domjnates, The people are ready to bo divided into their original parties again,— Bourbous and Progressives, Gov, Gannanp, who has always been a National Whig, enn rally about himself o poworful party, The Bourbons nye yot to choose thoir leader, and, now that the motive and opportunity have been offered, will. undoubtedly do: so, ‘Tho old political lines having been re-established, order will como out of chnos, ‘The blacks will gravitate to ono or tho other party, as the caso may be, The control of the Stato will pass entirely ont of tho hands of cnr- pot-baggers or fire-caters, and live political issues will bo brought into tho flotd instead of the mere scramblo for office amoung small partisans, and contests growing out of local prejudices and the social rolutions between whites and blacks, There is every reason to, believe that Gov. Gannanp will orgadizoa strong party, as tho Unionsentiment among tho whites is probably even stronger to-day in Arkansas than it was in tho election of 1860, and at that time the Bus, or Na- tional Whig, vote was 20,091, and the Doua- xas or Union Democratic, vote 5,227, against 28,782 for Daxcexnnipax, tha Bourbon , or auti-Union, voto, Tho Dovoras Domocrats will naturally cflliate withthe Ganianp party as against tho Bourbon fire-eat- ef and Btato-Soverelguty mon, ‘Tho black vote is less than one-third ag largo as the white vote, but it will furnish suiliciont addi. tion to the Progressives to give them control of tho State, The better class of the negroes wil yo ovor to the -Gantayp aids, and the worthless and dissolute ones will naturally go to the Bourbon sido, which will also probably attract the worst af the carpot-baggers, whose occupation will be gono if tho Progrossives ob- tain power. Thus two powerful parties of white men will be organized, drawn up on living polilient issucs, and dividing the negro voto betweon them, ‘This will end the long and usoless strife between races upon rocial ixsuex, will eliminnto the carpot-bag elemont which has done so much to keep that State, na woll as the othor Southern States, in con- fusion, and will restoro the politics of Arknn- sas ton healthy condition, ‘Tho fact that the people of that Stato nro beginning to settlo downinto the two great natural party divisions isasign that the effects of the War havo paseed away, and that the political atmnos- phero is clearing up. We have no doubt that the action of Ar- kansas will soon bo imitated Ly other States, commencing in those where tho color lino ia not dominant, like Tennesseo and Kentucky. ‘The former Stato is now almost rendy for it, ‘The old National Whig party, which strnggled 0 long and endured go much in ita struggle for the Union, both before and during the War, is still strong. At tho last Presidontial election Gnernny received, in Tennessee, 94,301 votes, and Grant 85,550, the colored vote probably not exceeding 45,000, Tho same is truco in Kentucky, Gnrentr received 100,000 votes, and Gnaxr 88,760Tvotes, tho colored yote being about 410,000. ‘Thero is virtually no color lino in these two States, or, at least, tho negro power is not strong enough to make it- self felt ns a distinctive element in polities. ‘The two parties, therefore, ean be ensily put into working order, With these three States —Arkansas, ‘Lennessee, and Kentueky— divided once mora into Bourbons end Pro- grotsives, tho other States would rapidly fol low their example. It is tho inovitablo des- tiny of the South, but the sooner it comes about tho better it will be for both races. Now that tho occasion has presented itself in Arkansas, the progress of politicnt reorganiza- tion will be watched with lively interest, ANDY ON THE WAN-PATH, Anprew Jonnsox delivered o speech in the Sonate yesterday which seems to have sur- prised his political associates much more than it annoyed hia opponents. THe mado a personal harangue in dennneintion of the President, taking for his theme the “ Em- pire,” which he assumes is at hand. There aro persons still living who remember when Nexry A, Wisr and other very excitable Whigs used to talk that kind of nonsense about Gen, Jacksoy, whom thoy acoused not only of intending to usurp imperial powers, but with having actually done so, Axprew Jouxson is firing off tho same comical- tragic declamation in the same way, ‘but with inch Iess force and power than Wisr,, Tho country is not alarmed about the "coming Empire,” aud no one knows better than Axpy Jounson that an attempt by cither President or party to “usurp” sovercign powers would not survive ttvelve hours from the tima the people could hear of it. Tho “Empire” is » shadow of an insubstantial fiction, and Jounsos's denunciation of it is Quixotic or dishonest, Jouxson scoms to have learned nothing in his six years’ retirement, He has brought back to the Sennto all the bad blood, old grudges, hatreds, and passions which wero displayed by him when accidental Presi- dent. ‘Cho successful campaign for the Senate seems to have turned his head. No is ovidently iinpressed with tho idea that tho goneral toleration aud good feel. ing shown by the whole people towards his election to the Senate is ovidenco that they want him to bo President again. He there- fore bids for tho support of the extremists of his party by making a speech which no other Democrat in the Senate would venture to utter, ‘The speach, so feras wo can moako out from the synopsis of it, is tho same old spocch about the Constitution which ho de- livored all over the country when swinging round the circlo in 1806, to which ho has added a volumo of personal wrath ngainat the President. He has evidently added nothing to his credit by his first performance in the Senate under his now election, + _———— eee HOW TO DO Ir, The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Eagle pro- nounces itself in favor of tho proposition of ‘Tim Curcaco Trruvne for tho division of tho Southern white people into the two natural parties, Bourbon and Progressive, and tho di- vision of the negro voto between them, but does not sco how it con be done, because “the Democracy will not lond its aid to such a project.” Wo might answer this by show- ing the Eagle that the Now Orleans Juletin, tho most radical of all tho Southern Bourbon nowspapers, and others of the same cless, have already indorsed the schemo as it has been presented in Tue Curcaco Turnunn; but thera is a moro satisfactory answer still, for which we refer the agls to tho dispatches relative to the settlement of the Louisiana question upon tho basis of thé Warren com. promise, By this compromiso it is un- derstood that the Houso will be Consorva- tive and tho Senate Republican, If the Conseryativos of Louisiana had beon oll Bour- ‘bons, a compromise of this kind would havo been impossible, but fully one-half of tho whito peoplo of that State are not Bourbons, ‘They aro Progressives, who aro hostilo to tho ultra sentiments of such fire-eatery as tho Now Orleans eZulletin, who ara in favor of Peace, order, and good, government, and who earo sokingto advanco the matoriat prospority of thoir State. It is upon this class that tho arbitrators have leaned for help and support in arriving at s compromise, It is this class of modorate mon which hos made compromise possible, and has operated with them, Now, whon this compromiso is finally adopted, and the squabble between the Kennoaa and McEnuny factions bas beon forover quieted, what is to hindor this eompromiso party which comprises tho Progrossives of tho State from organizing into 9 permanent party and calling on all the decout blacks to join them? ‘Tho agls intimates that the Bourbons will not furnish any aid to such adivision, But the moment tho Pro- gressives aro organized and commenco call. ing upon the reepectablo bhicks, tho division is mado, ‘Tho Bourbons will logo no time in organizing, and the Hagle uced not fear that thoy will not cry out evon moro lustily for the blacks than tho Progressives, ‘hoy will seoure a part of them, that is, the disreput- able and dissolute part, Tho Progressives will taka tho botter class, ‘The issuca will then bo made clearly, and thero will bo an end of tho iniscrablo color line and faction fights which have kept Louisiaua and the wholo country in turmoil so long. ———— Yesterday wo published a letter written at Riclunond, Va., by tho Rov, J, E. Loy, a well-known former resident of this city, in which he insists that political power is drift. ing into the hands of the old slave-owners, and that they will obtain control of tho Ex. Youtive and of all tho other branchos of the Governmont ; that tho Rebel soldiers will ba ponsioued, the Rebel debt will bo ossumod, a \ and that generally the South will carry things with auch s high hand that the North will bo driven to take up arms in rebellion against, tho power holding tho Government. Wedo not share Mr, Roy's fears in regard to another rebellion, We have pointed out repeatedly that, assoon ns the Democratic party gains full control of the Government, it will he forcedinto an attempt by its Southern Bourbon wing to do many evil things, such as payment of the Rebel State debts, payment of Rebel war claims, ete., otc, But tho Domoeratic party can only gain powor by the defection of Re- publicans from their own party. When tho Democracy shall undertake to restore the old rula of tho Sinveocracy, then tons of thou- sands of Union-loving people will abandon that party, unite again with the Reputilicans, and reduco the Democracy to its old minority condition, Wo do not question that, ns xoon as the Democratic party shall obtain control of the Governmont, it will be forced by its Southern leaders into attempting many things which davo not be avowed in advance; but wa have not tho least doubt that, when it does attempt any one of a dozen or moro high-handed reversals of the decisions of the War, tho American people will promptly place a qnietus upon that party, aud reduce it ton minority as hopelesa as it was during tho War, ‘Thora is little donbt that tho Bourbons would do all Mr. Rox states if they wero permiltod to have their way; but they will Le opposed and resisted. SIR, FRANOIS HINGES AGAIN. Some time ago wo roviewed tho plan for remmming. spccio payments in this country, published by the ex-Finaneo Minister of Cana- do, Sir Frascis Hurxors, in the Graphic. We approved the old part of it and condemn- ed the new, ‘The old cazegis of tho gradual withdrawal and eaneclisciwa of tho logal- tenders. ‘Tho now consists of tho entire abolition of the National Rank currency, and. the issue of a lot of additional legal-tonder stuf by the Government, ‘Thon, too, Sir Francis would havo tho outstanding green- beeks bought up with gold at the rate of ono or two hundred millions of ollars a year, Woe pointed out thot this would necessitate erushing and, in fact, unbearable taxation, and that tho end sought would be equally well attained by funding tho notes in + per ecnt gold bonds running thirty or forty yerrs, Sir Francts has been interviewed again by a Graphic reporter, and las tried to contro. vert our criticism. Wedonot think he has- done so successfully. Ho acknowledges the dangers of a Government paper currency, but says that he has too high an opinion of our Congress to believe that it would meddle with tho isste inn bad way! Wo can assure Sir Fnayors that distance lends enchantment to his view of our National Legislature, Congress has persistently meddled with tho ourrency in a bad way, sinco it first sot it afloat, Congressional leaders havo tried, within a year, to awamp the country with wild-eat currency, As long as the Govern- inent of tho United States has a single paper dollar in circulation, so long the complaint of a backwoodsman, that ho cannot sell his lumber for na muchas he “ ought” to get for it, will bring somo “statesman” to his feet clamoring for “moro money,” money for the people, more of the Dlood-senled greonbacks." We all know this nauscous refrain. The American Congress is not tho Almighty, and it is only Almighty power which can keep irredeemable papor at par, Sinco Sir Francts admits that he only supposes Congress to be competent to man- age such a delicate thing as a national cur- rency, and since wo, in common with nino out of avery ton Americans, know that neither Congress nor any other legislative body has this power, tho argument of our courteous oppouent for 8 Government papor currenoy falls to the ground, He objects to withdrawing the greenbacks in any other way than by buying them out- right with gold, ‘Tho necessary taxation would be, he thinks, only 5 tithe of the loss now annually suffered by the uso of incon. yertiblo currency. Itis plan, os he states it now, is to sell bonds for gold, and then exchango tho gold for greenbacks, Our plan is to, éxchange the bonds directly for greonbacks, and so avoid the great and uscless expenso of handling hun- dreds of millions of dollars in gold, and tho imminent danger of disturbing tho monpy markets of the world, Our plan is tho quick- est and the cheapest. His plan goos on the assumption that the Government should fur- nish a convertible currency for the people; ours that private capital should shoulder the burden of rosumption, It would be a tre. mendous load for the Government to carry to maintain specio resumption on six or olght hundred millions of greenback circulation, and, with a Congress ruled by dishonost, reckless demagogues, it could not be done, With duo deference to the opinion of an ex- Ministor of Finance, his plan would not work to tho satisfaction of tho American peoplo, but would sooner or Inter prove a disastrous failuro, ‘ ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, The lecture of Dr, Kouten before tho Sun- day Lecturo Society, published in full in ‘Toe Tnmuxe of tho 15th inst., presented a com. plete record of tha discoveries of Gronce Ssura, tho Assyrian explorer, as far as they were then known on this side of the wator, ‘Tho lecturer sketched the story of tho dis- covery of tho great library of Sanpanaratus, almost tho Inst of the Assyrian Kings, who lived thirty conturies ago, ‘Chis monarch collected not only the writings of his day, but ‘had translations mado of Obaldaio records, running back to 4,000 B. ©., or vory nearly to tho date ascribod by tho Jowish Scriptural chronology to the creation of tho world, ‘The books of this Mbrary were brick tablets, marked with wedge-shaped lettors, which wero firat deciphered by the German Gnorryenn, the English Rawirtnson, and the Hebrow Orrenr, ‘Ihe tablets contain histor. ical rocords, poome, private letters, contracta, inagio formulas, grammars, dictionaries, ox. tronomical statements, ote, Two years ago, Geonox Sstx found on a fragment of burnt clay tho story of the Deluge. He has sinco pushed his resonrches and translations stead- ily, ‘Tho last foreign mail before Dr, Kouten spoke brought news of tho discovery of the legond of tho Tower of Dabel. Threo days before tho lecture was deliv. ered here, the London Zelgraph (of March 4) published a letter from Gzonax Sart,’ containing an account of ‘the most remark. able discovery yet. It is the story of the Creation and the Fall, much oldcr than the Jowish record, and fuller than that given, thorein, Tho circumstances of its excavation nd translation aro fully rolated in tho lettor, which is published elsewhere in this issue, together with the Telegraph's elaborate edi- torial thercon. * It is well known that the Book of Gon- esis contains two indopendent, accounts of the Creation, Tho two aro curiously inter. mixed throughout the story, Cary and Any, figura in one, and nro wholly ignored fn the othor, In ono tho carth {s covered with water at tho beginning. In the other thera is ne water at all at tat time. It wag long since asserted that tho second of theso Accounts way of Oriontal origin, and was borrowed by th writer or writer of tho Pontatench from Chaldean or other kourees. This nasertion seems to bo sustained by Mr. Swanity Tost “find ‘Tho story told by tho tablets is, in brief, this: There was once only chaos, Out of tho universal confusion cnmo monsters, ‘The supreme power of clinos was n female named ‘Tisnlat Tiamot, Satan rides in a chariot to attack the Lord of heaven. Lightuing playa around him, and ho hinzls thunderbolts at Lis foc, who isdefented. Subordinate gods erenta the world by ntoges, as in tho Pentatouch, Al last, man is created. Ife is freo from sinang endowed with apeech, Ifo yields to tempta, tion and tho Deity curses hin. ‘This iinperfect account corresponds closely with the Mosaio narrative. Mr. Sstrrq hag only partially translated the tablets of {his series, and expects to find o record as lon ra that of Genesis, but much fullor in detaily His letter will rejoico Draven, who declar in his Into work on ‘Iho Conflict Retiree, Religion and Science,” that the Jews Jeamet, during their captivity at Babylon tho Je fends which wero afterwards used in the co np sition of Genesis, All classes of Chr. seats Will tnko a Koen interest in Groves, Sarn’s farther discoveries. It is sears; nocossary to remind any faint-henrted no. phyte that the morality and the history ¢¢ the Bible aro two independent things, a4 that the destruction of the whole of the gy Testament, chronology would not impair ¢.; morality which is tho essence of the Bib!) and of Christianity, —_—_—_—_—_— Tho State of Massachusetts ia working {ts}; upintoa vory remarkablo stato of intestiat commotion over the fato of the young fie, Jeane Pouenoy. A largo number of “ msndi; sontimentauists,” an thoy are termed by tho Op posite faction, are trying to wecure tho commet. tion of hia sentence to imprisonment. %9 othor vido aro urging his execution. Whaters bo thought of a stato of things whon an alls. conducted newspaper like tho Springfold Rei, lican coolly save: A special set of tho Le.ie latura providing for the commutation ¢ lis sentonen to 5 life imprisonmont would }; very propor,” and that “it would bo a disgracaty the Commonwealth of Moasachuactts to shetLy blood.” Tho Springfeld Union remarks tu: “thero is something shocking in tho ides «fs popular agitation on such a point.” Certsicl such a popolar agitation is a novelty which one cannot view without eurpriso. Tho fecling ise: bittor that women, with the usual unreasoniny impulso of thelr sex, havo formed procession, marched to and from the Govornor, and d> manded, according to thoir sympathies, th: execution or commutation of tho sentrn, Suroly, with tho Jaw of capita! puntelmont te fore them, the people of Massachusetts sn making of thomselvea a very aatoniahiog sui not altogethor edifying spectaclo to theae Vaite: Btatog. ——. The Connecticut newspapers turn gratefull: to the Logialaturo for the passage of ana:tre quiring tho publication of the completa rog:st:s- tion list of yotors in tho citica, Tho law thu calla out supploments of most vividly intercstia: reading matter, but it ie not without {te adssr- tage to evorybody but the tax-payers, For ie stance, in Hartford, the Times and Couran! tos print the rogistry ete. They both ute th samo typo and balvo the cost of setting up x columns of matter. As tho Courant obecrres: “The Jaw will without doubt ba ropoaled by thi noxt Logislaturo, PERSONAL, ‘ ‘The rovisors of tho Diblo havo reachod Issl:1 in twonty-cight sorsions. Epwix Boortit is not tn ill-hoalth, ‘waa better than ho is at presont. ‘The rotura party will consist of Mr. and Mu Santouts, and Mr. and Mrs. Fuev Gnaxt. Who will sot Many Axx McDenstort ois Besate Tonnes to music as “My Mary Anu?” Cant Rosa has ongagod Jorta Garionyt: alternate with Rose Hznsge in the English prot ances, Sanvcn Witnery, of Host, Borks Count;, I's. ig sald to bo 8 feat 7}4 inches in hoight, rnd t: walgh 232 pounds. Tho man whom Brnon sont to prison fer kit Inga cat has beenpardoned. Derau aloatlxot tuko caro,—curo killed a cat. Jontvs Hexnt Browns and wifo aro going? Europo for a season, Juxz's object {a to 117 and get hiv middle namo cured, Attograph-bunters may addrosa Mang Ts2!5 thus; Sastuen Curaens, No, 05 Farmivptv stroot, Hartford, Voun, (D, 1.) ‘The opposition of the Unitarian leader of /7 Francieco to Haxtwonp's revivalism is Uri=. but hia utterances are unbooded by the ober fellow. Tho Inte Mancos Tuxt.1es Creeno violats ths ordinary usages of jourualinm’ by writing "ct clusivoly" for both tho Democrat and GLU of Bt. Louis. Thero is joy in heayon, Iasmroxp and r= Indies are said to have converted a yours tl wield wornan of San Francizoo,s Let the co work go on, Toucroauur sexys ho was born an Irish fifty yoars ago,—fust whon it becamo profitable Its infancy and youth woro Eronch, But bos not good at datos, Kare Fret ia nt it again, This time rhe i Rolug to play a part writton oxpresely for ner a ploco entitled “Gabriolle.” ‘There is ona ptt of tho titlo will suit hor, It wae unkind in Rose Massny to publi:hal Monraaue’s love-lettora in tle Afercury befits tho suit commoncad, but it wos sharp nevertbor jeay. Sho was woll pald for them, tps boon ropoated in almost every #hs?? possible that Joun Rovrxson's ability to bese & ring will make bis succosa in the canvaes for tie Cincinnatl Mayoralty 9 certainty. “ Kixasnzr's “Hypatin™ as boon dramatized. Mr. Witrs, tho author of “Tho Man 0! Airlie” has dono it fora Mru. Famrax, a womad ae scribed au having ‘the lovelleat dark oyas [0 U world,” iad ‘Mrs. Many Corr, of Nantuckot, who ns this wintor at tho ago of 94 yoars, lofs cil a over 70 yoara ald, grandebildron over 50, 8° i prandeclilldron over $2 yours old, and sev & gg. children, P The Hon, Ciantes Wour Baxnans, M. i from, Manchester, England, with & ra : tonrlate, are stopping fn .Davonport, 18» i few days, They are en route for tho ‘Youem! Valloy, California, jae ‘The furniture in Bowen's house nss beet me fedon. Perhaps that siutoss man does a nid lis taxoa any more promptly than some 0 per Ruiloless doad-beate who take his paper @windle the collector, > oily ‘The ology-market in Philadelphia ts evident glutted tothe fullestexteut. Mr. eer already declined an obituary of America at facturo, for the paltry reason that the “ Hades" was made to rhyme with absadow. ae Now that Gzonor Wruuam Contis bent plained that he would not accept that 91, the large number of newspapers can publ ied 8 mage of matter that must havo scoumul their Heit ails ales up pages to uiarits on this wubject. ‘The Princo of Wales is going to 10d wuramer, The trial of Lady Moassve? Ho neva