Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY MARCI 24, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATER OF KUMACEINTION (TATABLE IN ADVANCE), Pautngo Vrepald at this OMces. Me 00) | Weekly, t tha nama rate, D—Une activo agent in each town and village. ‘Angements made wiih such, yn coples sent free, Toprerent delay and mistakes, bo enro and cite Post- Of'ce redress tn full, ineluding Stato and Covaty, Reni.tanceamay bomadd either by draft, expross, Post- Chiceorder, or in registered letters, at our risk, ITRMA TO CITE AUNSCRINERS, delivered, Runday excepted, 26 cents per werk. jelixored, Banday inelndod, 80 coats por week. 8 TH TRIBUNE COMPANY, ernee Madlron and Deactorn-st hicage, Hh. TO-DAY'S | ivieK 5: ron street, between eR an Saath Rate Tavrronce Warretty ie rate, Rauaie Marsball per, 2.0 baw Ti-Randninn atrest, between eee actin ths Henuues of a Poor Younes dan. "Attarnoon and oventug. i ENA-NOUSH—Olark, atrest, guaran tones. Welly & Leow’ Atinttrale, Bleue,” Afterucon aad ovoning, OF MUSIO—Malated atront, betwoen Mad 1 ee Nonecane agagentent col den ker Tals, Rinenooa, “Tha Cricket an the Hoartn.t | eening, “Cricket on tha Hearth nd ** Domestic Economy.’ PPRITHRATRE—Dearhorn street, corner Mon- OT aTy aniertalnmouts tNook aad Necks” Ale {arnoon and eveniny “SOCIETY MEETINGS, ’ LODGH, No, M1. A. P. and A. Mo— seen intention wit bn had oa Weduesday greiner March it, at Oriental tal, Work og thy A he Ree eee eee eA DSWORTH, Bess " and Itandulpu-nts, TRAGTS.—THE SU- consieia ln their parfect purity: VORING ¥ BURNETT" periotity of thu anid great stre! rg warranted frow (roid the absonuts oll elds which entor into the composl+ Fomor mony ot tho factitions (rail. flavera now la the markt. ‘They aro nut only true ta thair nanins, but aro prepared from frtiite of tho beet quality, and are eo highly Enarenteaied that a cofaparalively sniall quautity only Che Chieaga Tibune. Morning, March 24, 1875. Wodnesis 4. —: A Bloomington jnry estimates at $1,500 tho valne of n wife's purity and fidelity, and this, too, without any such mitigating circum. stances as ‘ycligious fervor,” ‘white soul,” free-lovo doctrines, tripartite cove- nants, and the like, At this rate, after de- ducting the value of all these offsets, there is n poor prospect for damages iu favor of the Brooklyn plaintiff. 4 bill for tho regulation of the liquor trafiic we; passed yonterday by the Michigan Son- nt, It forbids sales to minors, habitual dyankards, and also contains n very just provis- ion for the punishment of drunkards who bry, es well as persons who sell, in violation of the act. An attempt to pass a resolution for the amendment of tho Constitution so as to authorize the liconsing, taxation, and regula- tion of tho liquor traffic failed for lack of ao two-thirds voto. Tho resolution approving of the course of President Grant in the Louisiana troubles was yesterday adopted in the Sennte, after a spirited contest, by a strict party vote— ¥3 to 24, Among those yoting for tho resolution was Senator Cuntsriancy, who, it will be remembered, had previously placed himself on record ay donying tho legitimacy of the Ketzoce Government, but who now supported the resolution upon the ground that the President's action was necos- nary in the interests of humanity and of the public good, Of the Indepondents in the Senate, Newron Bootn was the only ono who yoted with the Democrat: An Indianapolis dispatch somewhat plain. tively announces that forty-seven members of tho Lower Houso of the Indianaghegisla- ture have been guilty of carrying off $816 worth of Stato statutes, which wero placed in their hands for uso during the session, amounting to $18 por thief. Of course it is a sin to stealapin, but it strikes us the offeuse is not so enormous that the Associated Press should have sprend it all over the land and thus bring sorrow and pain into forty- seven households, If nothing worse was dono during tho session than this slight feat. of kdeptomania, the late session of the Indi- sna Democratic Logulature was a peculiarly honest one, At all ovents, it should be ‘re. membered that thisisoneof the “Reform Legislatures," and perhaps this carrying off statutes is ono of the mensures of roform, uproar that have yet disgraced the Mlinois Hours of Representatives were yesterday pre- cipitated by Spenker Harxes, whose conduct was grossly in violation of parlinuentary pro- ocdure, and, still worse, was dishonorably parti- san, Young Mr. Wentwonty, of Cook, was the tool employed by the Opposition to call up tho infamous bill for the repeal of the Regis- try law, Tho bil! was designated by its number merely, in the hope of au oversight by the Republicans, but there were ears quick enough to catch even tho omall, piping tones of the Nephew of his Uncle, and objections wero at onco mado against the calling up of the bill ont of its regular order, Harxes was in the plot, and was deaf to tho Republican objections, de- claring that ho had not heard them, and ordered the roll-call to proceed, Then there followed a scene so violeut and threatening that after o timo Harses got frightened ot his own work, and begged somo- body to move an adjournment, Tho motion was mado and declared adopted, aud by this means was averted tho danger of & general rongh-and-tumble fight on the floor of the House, But the Domocrats had gninod thelr point, and they openly bonsted of thelr succeaa in thus surreptitiously push. ing forward their pot scheme to romove all protection against illegal voting and ballot. box stufling, It was a day's work to be proud of, ? The Chicago produce markets were irregn- lar yesterday, grain being excited by the weather. Mesa pork was active, and 83e por bri lower, '~sing at $19.76 for April, and 920,00 for Moy. Lard was rathor quict, and 50 per 100 tba lower, closing at, $13.80 for cash, and $13.95 for May, Meats were less active and a shale easicr at 7}e for shoulders, 10$@10jo for short ribs, and 110 for short clears. Dreased hogs were quit and steady, at $8.60@9,00 per 100 tha, Highwincs were im good demand and firmer at $1.11@1.12 per gallon, Flour was sctive and firm, Wheat was active and stronger, closing at Q440 cash, and 94Jo for April, Corn wos active, and 3@1o higher, closing st Co for April, and 76e for May, Oats were quict, and tc higher, closing at 6440 for larch, and GAJofor Apri, Ryo wos quict and firmer at 7 98@98}o. Barley was quict and firmer, clos. ing at $1.09 eash, and 21.01} for April. On Saturday evening Inst there was in store in 057,006 bu whent, 2,855,449 bu 20 bu onts, 11,334 bn rye, and bu barley. Hogs were dull and Cattle and sheep were in oxcessiva lower. supply, aud sold frregularly, A rather stiff breeze of “excitement was raised on 'Change yestorday by the announce- ment that Geoncr Ansoun, the President of the Board of Trade, had tendered his resigna- tion, ‘Tha matter became o decided sensa- tion when it was whispered around that tho reason for his wish to give up the office was his disapproval of certain features in tho now rules recontly adopted hy the Board, It was, however, soon ascertained that his only ob- jection was tho fear that his duties would ba increased so much as to render it diflenlt for him to fill the office acceptably ; and he with. drew his resignation in the afternoon, at the request of n committee appointed for that purpose by the Board of Directors, It is due to Mr. Anmuovr to say that the unanimons wish of the Board was that he shold con- tintie ag President during the ontire term for which he was elected. ere ANDREW JONSON. The country will read with regrot and dis- gust tho specch made in the Senate on Mon- day by Axprew Jouxsox. Tho speech was both in matter and mannor unworthy of the occasion, unworthy of the Senate, and un- worthy of the man who lind held tho oftice of President of tho United States, Outside of tho limited circle of bar-room politicians and vulgar oxtremists, it will meet with very little countenance or respect. Anpnew Jonson was rlways at logger. hends with his own parly. Ho was ambi- tious, but tho leaders of that party hold him in contempt personally, and only tolerated him politically because he was a neecssi- ty in the always closcly-contested Stato of ‘Tennessee, Ho was ellowed to bo elected Governor of the State in order to get him ont of Congress, and subsequently ho was elected to the Senate a3 a choico between him and a member of the opposite party. In tho Senato he was enubbed by the Democratic lenders, nnd attained no prominence in that body until, in the fight between him and tho Demoerntic lenders, ho declared himaclf op- posed to secession, opposed to rebellion, and in favor of the Union, At tha November election in 1860 ho had supported Breck. rxmpor, the Disunion enndidate for Fresi- dent, and opposed Doustas, the Union-Dem- ocratic candidate, Ho was then, after tho Wer had progressed far enough to allow the Union troops under Gnrast to drive the Rebel armies out of ‘Tennessee, selected by President Lincony as Military Governor of 'ennesseo, Holding this office under a Republican President, ho made himself conspicuous as a severe and relentless ruler of the disaffected whites of Tennessee, Ife in time offered to the colored people of ‘Tennessea to become their “ Mosrs,” and lead them out of the Innd of bondago to that of freedom. So strong and ultra wns he in his Republicanism that he was sclected in 186! by the Republican National Convention as a candidate for Vice-Prosident, and was that yearelectod with Mr. Lixconw, The country was shocked at the exhibition he made of himself when, on the 4th of March, 1865, he took tho chnir as President of the Sonate and made that maudlin, incoherent speech about himeclf, Five weeks Inter, ho suceceded as President of tho United States, when he re. newed and repeated all his extravagant do- nunciations of the Rebels, whom he swore should be made to take back seats, During 1885-6 ho undertook to reconstruct tho Southern States, ‘without authority of Inw, after a fashion of his own, and his plan has passed into history by the name he gave to it—' My policy.” When Congress met in 183 there was intonse dissatisfaction. Jonnson’s scheme practically remanded tha colored race to slavery. This led to a con. flict botwoen Congress and the President, in which Jonson was wont to make speeches from the door-steps of the Executive Mansion, denouncing both branches of Congress gener- ally, and mauy Senators and membors by namo in the most scandalous terms, To ar~ rayod himself agninst Congress, vetoing overy measure thet was inconsistent with his pro- slavery policy, “In 1866 ho apperled from Congress to the people, ond made the momorable “ swing. round-the-circle" tour through the United States, in which he spoke at overy cross-road, every railroad-station, and every town and city whero he stopped. His speeches on these occasions were mado up of a genora! denun- cintion of Congress, an advocacy of “my policy,” and his old stereotyped apostrophe to the Constitution and the fag,—both of which ho commended to the earo of the people, The bad temper, intemperance, and often vulgarity, displayed in these speeches aroused the indignation and disgust of the whole nation, and at the clections of that year “uy policy” wos almost unanimously repu- diated by the country. His Accidoncy, however, was persistent, Tle entered upon a» porional cuntest with Congress. Ifa vetocd overy act of Congress looking to reconstruction, and did whatever he could to defeat them; and all these of- ficial acts wero secompanied by personal specches and lottors, in which, with great vituperation, Lo donounced everybody op- posed to his pro-slavory policy, In New Or- leans, a State Convontion which Lad framed the State Constitution was called together by the Chairman to consider the expediency of proposing to the people certain amendments, On the day the Convention met tho hall was surrounded by the armed police and an armed banditti, anda massacre took placo of the inost revolling character, Gen, Snenrpan was sent there, dispersed the banditti, and restored peace, but at the time, for mouths after, and at this day, Jomnsoy justified the massacre, denouncing the proposed Conven- tion os having attempted revolution t All this resulted finally in the impench- ment of the Prosidont by the Honse of Rep- resontatives, and he escaped conviction by a single vote. ‘The few Republican Senators who voted to acquit him wero all, except those who died, put aside by their constitu. enta forevor, . Disgraced in tho eyes of the world, not only by his own personal misconduct while in office, and by the official action of the two Houses of Congress, ho left the Presidenoy ag no man had ever dono before him,—~a sort of outcast, personally officially, and During the wix years that have intervened, Jouxsox has been comparativoly silent. ‘That ailence has been eccepted by tho people ay on evidenco of improved wisdom, of maturo thought and retlection, and of a victory ovor his own pugnacious, aggressive, and vindiotive nature, When the Tenncwsco Legislature had to select o Senator, and the choica was bo- tween men whoue claims rested on their com. parative service to thy Lobellion, the Repub. licnnsof the country applanided the decision of the Republicans of the Tennessee Legisln- ture to support Axpnew Jonxsox. His ser- vico to the Union canso during tho War was remembered, his faults and errors wero over. looked in the expectation that he would éomo back to public life a reformed man, tolerant and reciprocating the kindly sentiment of the country, But Axpnew Jonsson has mistaken tho public sentiment both of the Republicans and of tho Domocrats, Ifo hns chosen to necept the toloration with which his election haa beon grocted to 9 popular vindiention of “my policy,” and under that delusion homade aspeech on Monday which was a repetition of thoso with which, years azo, he bavangned the Washington rabble from tho doors of the Exeentive Mansion whon he was President. Ie seems to have forgotten that the conntry has moved onward since 1866; thatthe Rebel States have all been reconstracted ; and that the country, North and South, have no more interest at this timein ‘ my policy" of 1866 than it has in tho last war with Great Britain. ‘That isan old story, which lins passed ont of the present, nud has been handed over to tho historian to be recorded for the informa- tion of the fnturo generations, For Aspnew Jouxson, at this time, to open suow in the. American Senato tho forgotten issues of 1866, and to ronew tha disgraceful tirades of that day on all who opposed him, and to take the op- portunity of his reappearance in the Sen- ate as an occasion to deal out his bad gram- mar and peculiar rhetoric in personal denun- cintion of tho Prosident, was a picco of im- pudenco and blackguardism that nothing in his past history can pallinto or excuse. Tho foot that when he was Dresident he was: not restrained by the character of his high offce, nor consideration for the conn- try, but gave freedom to a licentionsness of speech nud a grossness and vulgarity of manners thot had no precedent among the public men of the country, did not suthorizo the country to expect that, on his return to public life, he would resume just where ho left off six years ago, Tho vain, miserable mouument of nntionnl forbonrance ond forgiveness thinks that his readmission to the public service is a com. mondation of his past life. To aspires to a higher posittion and looks forward to n res. toration to the office which was never dis- graced or dishonored save by himself, Tis specch was chnracteristic of tho man,—wild, mean, and vulgar; oxiravagant, indecorous, and shameful, — MOODY AND SANKEY. Some time ago, Chicago, conscious that its |" world-wide fame for purity and picty made its engaging in missionary effort highly proper, decided to evangelize the British Isles. So sho sent forth her Moony and her Sanger. They have wrestled with Satan and overthrown him. Twonty-five thousand British converts testify to tho power of Moops’s monologues and Sanxey's songs. Chicago's position, os the great centre of moral reform, has been triumphantly estab- lished, Onr twd missionaries visited England on the iuvitetion of two residents of York. Ar- rived nt that city, they found both their friends dead, Nothing daunted, they went to work on thoir own account, “ ‘The sword of tho Spirit" wielded by their doxtcrous hands was soon destroying sin at n groat rate in Edinburg. They almost convorted Glasgow en masse, stopped on their way to Ulster “to save a fow stnallor cities,” ns it was sneeringly said, and then swept through Iro- lnnd triumphantly, At Dublin they filled the Inrgest hall to overflowing, Tho whole popu- lation wos excited. Cardinal Cunzen is- sued a pastoral ngainst them, and two clowns caricatured them on tho stago, but the clowns were hissed . down aud tho Cardinal was ignored. Birmingham was next visited, where many thousands were converted, In Shefficld tho success ‘was equally great, Manchester and Liver. pool vied with each other in furnishing con- verts, At lost, the great metropolis itself has been attacked. Moopy is preaching at it, and Sanxey is singing at it, and peoplo aro fighting for n chance to get into Agricultural Hall, o vast stracture na big as tho Exposi- tion Building in this city. The “ Thunderor” thunders in their favor, Fiftoon to twonty thousand persons crowd to hear them nightly. According to the London Telegraph, * vast public edifices are filled to the skylights and corners to hear them, the theatres are desert ed, the gin-shops emptied, the streets dopop- ulated, and the very natures and habits of a work-oday world scized and transformed by them into something uew and strange.” Mr, Moony hns, we are told, ‘'n voice of prodig- fous power, but full of soft and persuasive tones; he flings abroad the thundorbolts of his gospel, and afterward soothes the afrighted and despairing hearts which hir searching eloquence has stricken. Sanxer is o chiof musician; he commands in strange porfeo- tion, it is said, tho fine art of singing success. fully pious lilts, songs of Zion. Nono of your humdrum, old, accustomed Mundredth. Palins, whi,.4 drone a rural congregation into sleepiness in preparation for the afternoon sermon, but rousing ballads of righteousness, forvid and flowing outbursts of roligions rap- ture, whore words that stir like the yolco of a trumpet caught from tho battle-ficld ond the camp aro set to tunes that flood tho com. mon heart with tidal-waves of rhythm, and set the innor spirit throbbing.” The English papers are full of commonts on tho Chicago missionaries, ‘They describe Moopy's style as “tho simplest Saxon; ho never beats about the bush, but calls things by their names, and Seriptural metaphors and phrases aro interwoven in all that he says, is skill in illustration is marvelous, and is constantly employed, In disposing of the objections of those who think they aro too bad or too good to become Christians, ho described very vividly, what we give only in substance, the process by which men wero made soldiers in our Jato War, The richly- dressed aud the ragged volunteer hai both to bo stripped of thoir garments and clothed in tho national uniform, ‘They were thon equal, and not until then soldiers, ‘Ihe story of tho mercy of President Lincony, and its applica Uon to religions ends, produced a remarkablo offect upon his audience, According to a ro- cent statement of a high offlcial of the I'ree Church of Scotland, the convorts of this lay- man’s movement already nuinbered 25,000." Before thoy reach o city, ita walls ore cov. ered with placards, ‘Moony and Sanxey are coming.” Shrowd little paragraphs aro sprinkled through the papers, Classes aro held to practice. the songs which sweet tongued Sanger and the multitude ara to sing. When the ground is thus prepared, in coma the rovivalists and reap the hur. vest, Sangex has taken a hint from Wester, and sct hymus to stirring tunca of the battle-fleld, Together they preach, and pray, and sng sloners into salvation at a rate which mukes Chicago justifichly proud of her good influence over the persons who dwell beyond the seas, It is a great revival, No doubt sbout that, The Patt Matls mosra and pious Ezaminer's unkind tomarks about Moovr’s grammar can- not hide that fact, Whothor the work will lnst is another matter. Torlnps some of it will, It is nm phenomenon fn rotigion such as wo have not had sinco Wirre- rirnp ealled = muttitudes to repentance with his famous saying: “I can write damnation’ in the dust that covers your Bibles.” Brother Moony resembles Wutrertenp moro nearly than he does Wes- LEY, and the former's work was moro flecting thon the latter's, ‘Tho resomblanco may not hold good in this, however, Chica- go's preacher and singer inay carry all beforo them, and their work may hold, The Princo of Wales is reported as about to leave for India. Ho ovidently fears involuntary conversion, Leading Ansenr Ep. wano in tho right path, would bea triumph indeed, Having done that, our missionaries might return and attack with somo hope of anecesa the Board of Police and tho County Commissioners, the Common Council, and, Instly, storm tho Qastlo of Sin itself ealled the Chicago Times, It would be a grent day if the hoary old sinner who presides theroin could be reconverted aud changed into a decent editor, THE PROPOSED STATE CENSUS. A Dill has beon introduced into the Illinois Tlonso of Representatives providing for tho taking of a State census this coming summer, aud every ton years thereafter. This is the revival of on old scheme, which experionce proved to bo a costly and useless investmont of public money, unproductive of any good result, Tho Constitution of 1848 provided for tho taking of » State census in the middlo of cach docads, but this provision was omit- ted from the Constitution of 1870, after mn- ture deliberation, and it was thought thas thero would be nothing moro heard of it, ‘Iho Inst census taken in: Mlinois under the nuspices of the State—that of 1865—was so conspicu- ously incompleto and useless that it would bo folly to repeat so recent a blunder. In that year the returns were sont to Springfield, and were there stowed away in an ‘old lumber- room, whero they may still be moldering, nuless they havo beon used for kindling fires, ‘The only uso over made of them was to get at tho total footings, which were admitted to bo totally untrustworthy; and it was conced- edon nll sidos thant tho money which this census had cost had been literally thrown away, Now we would ask tho author of this Dill, or some other momber of the Logislature fa. voring the present bill, what good purposo, Btate, political, or local, in to bo subserved by taking s census this year? It cannot bo for tho purpose of apportionment, for tha Stato Constitution expressly provides that every apportionment shall be made on the basis of the decounial Federal census, What, then, is it expected to accomplish? It cannot be for any specinl glorification of tho State, since there has been no extraordinary growth in the State at largo since tho Fed- oral census of 1870; and, if there were, what good would ‘it do to pro- mulgate the fact throughont the coun- try ato largo exponso? Can it bo for tho purpose of adding another Judge to Cook County? Butthis object can bo moro rendily and cheaply attained by passing a bill now pending, which enablos this county, on its own motion, to take n census, What lins be- come of this bill? Hasit been strangled in the interest of the State Census bill ? Can it bo that thia bill fora census has been introduced for tho purpose of giving employment to somo of the political retainers of the gentlemen who favor it? Unloss this is the case, we shall expect tho assignment of some good reason for taking a consus nt this timc. We presume tho author vill an. awer thot it can’t be a job, because his Dill provides for tho payment of only ono cent for every namo registored. As there ara about 2,750,000 peoplo in the State, tho work will cost at the very lenst $27,600; and, in addition thereto, there will bo large expenses for blanks, stationory, post- ago, ote, It will be o job, therefore, just to the oxtent of itscost, sinco it is utterly uso. less work, which should bo dispensod with. The manner of taking ao State census in the rural districts is such as to ronder ono cent a name ample compensation, Ono visit to the istrict school-houso or village saloon usually ‘suffices to preparo a list of names of tho in. habitanta of that district or village, and such Usts, when prepared, are utterly worthless, Aatriking illustration of tho uselessness of this consus-taking schomo is found in tho fact that tho bill introduced simply provides tor the registry of names and thoir return to the Seerctary of Stato, without requiring any further uso to bo made of them, Aftor the census shall havo boon taken, and the $27,500 paid to the cenans-takors, and as much more for blanks, stationery, and postage, tho re- turns -will be thrown togother and carted off to the same place whore the remnants of the unused roturns of 1865 still lie, ‘Tho bill {nila to provide for yntting the returns to any use whatovor, and simply because thero is no uso for them. The Legislature will scarcely commit itsolf to tho tnx-cating out Tago upon the peoplo which tho passage of this bill would involve, ‘Tho controversy concorning the tenching of German in publio schools issproading rapidly thronghout the country, We havo already noted the condition of the controversy in Now York ; it lias also reached Tudinnapolis, Detroit, Toledo, ond othor smaller cities. In Indianapolis the law reqyiros that Gerinan be tought in any school whenover twenty-five of the patrons of @uch schoo! demand it; ond now thoro is a pressure brought to bear upon the Board to repeal the rule. It seems to bo & pretty fair regulation, nevertheless, for twenty-five petitioners ropresent ono good class for tho study of Gorman; bat tho study should uot be compulsory in any onse, Tho argument made by the Indianapolis Staats-Zeitung in favor of it, that Switzerland has threo’ oMloial languages, is very shallow; asthe Sentinel replies, so much the worae for Switzorland, ‘This can bo no precedont for having more than one recognized language for this country, and the study of no other language should be com. pulsory in the publio schools, In Detroit the School Board has recently mado the study of Gorman a part of the regular course, and theroin made ascrious intatake, The Trib. une of that city charges that tho action was rung upon the Board at o amoll mooting, afd without proper investigation of the sub. ject, Tho chief trouble overywhere is that the question is considerod with reference to tho political status and influence of the Germans in tho various ities, and thus it rans into domogogism. It should bo dis- ousued on its own tncrits, entirely outside of political consideration; ond, when se dis- . ensted, we havo an iden that tho optional plan adopted in Chicago will bo found to bo the fairest solution of tho question, leaving it to the decision of parents or guardians whether the child shall study Genuan, and not permitting the study, to intorfore with the olementary branches. THE '' TIMES” AND MR, REED. Tho Chicago 7imea is making a desperate effort to drag Tire Trmune into tho contro. versy between its editor ond tho Criminal Court. Its Intext attempt in this line is tho following : That Tue Cnrcaco Tatouxe should becomo the apologist of Mr. Cranes IL. nen is not surprising. It ing natural parasite, If oxposuro of official cor- ruption in the Hepnbtican party depanded upon that Paper, official corruption in that quarter would nover boexpored, In not Mr, Cuancxs Hf, Reep a Republi+ can party oMecholder, and is uot Time Cmoaco Tata. unea Republican party organ? Of course {t muat defend him, It is the peculiar business of party nawapaper organs to defend party officcholicrs, na mattor what they may do, ‘Tho defense of Mtr. Cuantra H, Ren by Tite Crticago Tatnene fa pore fectly natural aud essential in its relations asa party organ, Valuable public tnatruinentalities aro party organa! Now the fact is, that this thought was ang- gested by tho unrelenting partisan opposition of the 7imes to Mr. Rrep as n Republican of- ficer, The protenso of the Z'%mes to political independence is amero sham. It is Bourbon to the core,—Bourbon in all its antecedents, Bourbon in all its preferences, Bourbon in its vicious iguoranco and malignanthatreds, Mr. Regp is undoubtedly a Republicans nnd al- ways was and probably always will be, nnd heneo tho flerco attacks of the Zines upon him. That theso attacks wera not suggoste?® by any personal reasons is ovident from the fact that Mr. Reep was leniont toa fault in dealing with the Timea editor when he previ- ously got intotrouble, He dismissed saven in- dictments for porsistently publishing lottery advertisements, which would lave cost the editor several thousand dollars if they had been prosecuted. Ho dismisscd an indict. ment for a malicious libel on Mr, N. K. Farn- BANK, for which the Zimes editor would probably have gono to jail if tho suit had been prosecuted. He dismissed still other indictments after the Zimes had mado the usual retraction. But as soon as the indict- ments were all out of tha way, the Z'imes again indulged its partisan hostility to Mr, Rerp by making the most vicious and unwar- ranted attacks upon him as an oficer, ‘The Times’ bitter partisan fecling against Mr. Ree prompts it to think that Tie Tramune must have corresponding partisan fecling for Mr, Rezo. Tun ‘Unrnunxgz hos,.e8 a matter of fnet, had very litle to say sbont tho wholo affair, as it has no dasiro to bo mixed in Times libela; if it wore, it would have its hands full, Tun Trruvnr recognizes in Mr. Reep a public officer of great ability, untiring devo- tion to public business, and as entitled to great credit for his prompt and energetic dis- position of acrimiual business aslargo as that of any other twenty counties in tho State. But we have not obtruded theso facts upon tho public in connection with the Zimes con- trdvorsy, because we havo thought that Mr. Reep (as wollas Judge Witxrams and the Criminal Court) is able to tako care of himself, If Mr. Reep has any conspicuous fault in tho prosecution of his public duties, it is that of yielding too readily when his sympathies are appealed to; but perhaps the notorious ingratilude of tho Zimes-for the leniency which he hes shown it will help to correct this fonlt, When the Bourbon sympathios and predilections of the 7imcs are in ques- tion, no man can oxpect fair treatmont at its hends, Mr, Rrep’s chief offense, in tho oyes of the Times, is that ho is a Republican, GOOD WORDS FOR THE GRANGERS, The New York Evening Post devotes a lending editorial to the good and bad effects of the Grangor movement, and finds that the good predominate, The articlo isin marked contrast with most of those on the same themo which have appeared in the Enstern piess. Tho Nation, for instance, flies into a frenzy at the moro mention of the Grange, mudcau seo no particle of good, and any uamber of particles of ovil, in tho whole niovement. . The contest between the Grange ond the vailroads is an anomaly, bocause both are orgenizations of capitalists, and mutually dependent. It is not a fight be- tweon capital and Iabor, although some of tho Grnngo lenders have artfully tricd to make it appoar so, Witness Wintanp Fraco's laughablo attompt to apply La Bruy- Eny’s description of tho wretched, starved, sick Frouch peasantry, beforathe Revolution, to the Illinois and Town farmers of to-doy, Tho struggle is emphatically ono betweon capitalists. The second feature of the Granger movement is its very rapid growth. ‘This bas beon duo to tho shattered state of party organization at tho time of the new party's appearnnce; to the clearness of its aiin,—tho subjugation of the railroads to tho people; and to its intimate connection with the pecuniary, political, and soolal interests of the largest class in the American com- munity, Tho party has found it diMeult, not to got power, but to use it. In fact, ita direct of. forts may bo said to have been failures, Tho good it has done has beon indirect, if we ex- cept tho oconomio advantages it has gained by co-operation, It lins bent its energica to solving tho railroad problem; has passed, in hntf-n«lozen Legislatures, Inwa designated to effect that solution; and is now compelled to receda from positions too hastily takon and uttorly untenable. Tho tbreak-down of tho Porren Inw and kindred logislntion is the result of politico-economic laws, stronger than those of any Legislature, The Stato cannot interfore to advan. tango in tho minuto dotails of any business, It could more oasily fix the propor prices of buttor and eggs, tho year round, than establish the propor charges for carry. ing butter and oggs any distance, at any time, _ Again, “discrimination” is just, and the Granger attempt to provont it was un. just. Grain slipped from an important eta- tion in cars which have gone from the me- tropolis to that station fullof goods for the local market can be profitably carried at rates which would not pay the actual oxponso of carrying an cqual amonnt of freight from a smaller station to which cars must bo rim ompty, for lack of local demand for gools, In tho first caso, the rail- road company makes something out of trips, Inthe second, both the cars run ono way at a dead loss, Tho trip costs some- thing and yields nothing, Tho offect of Mi. uois legislation against discrimination was to deprive the large stations of its bonefits and to leave the small oncs unaffected for good or bad. ‘Those causes prevented any direct good re- sult from Granger logislation, ‘They havo at last become plain to the average law-maker, outside of Wisconsin. In that unfortunate Stato, tho Porrzn Jaw has boen very lit- tle changed, and tho railroads aro belog orippled without beneit to the former, Minnesota haa really fallon back up. on tho old common-law doetrino that @common carrier cannot charge more than roasonablo rates. Her Railroad Inw and that of Massachusetts aro much alike. Woe aro coming to the samo thing in Illinois, ‘the soonor wo got there, the hetter, ‘Tho direct economic and the indirect polit- {eal reaults of the Grango movemont have been good, The growth of co-operation among the farmors isn fact of grent signifi. eanco. Tho intellectual advance due to the frequent club-mootings lias not beon small. Politically and indirectly, three grent boucfits may be reckoned. The raitronds have beon taught thot there is a highor powor, pub- lic opinion, which they cnunot wantonly defy, A body of rogulating laws haa been collected and tested. Tho oxperiouco gained will serve ns the foundation for futuro and wiser legislation. Lnst aud most importaut, tho agricultural community has partially waked to the fact that the chief causo of ita troubles is ‘'protection”; that it is syatomatl- cally and legally plundered for tho snko of {he Enstorn manufacturer; and that “cheap transportation” by menns of rond-hed, rails, and rolling-stock, swollen in cont by a high tariff, is an impossible thing, ‘Tho high tarif makes the aununl repairs of our rail. roads cost millions of dollars more than thoy should, and the farmers, in the form of dearer freights, must pay those nocdloss mnillions forover. Who would be frco, him- self must cast tho vote! THE CIVIL-RIGHTS LAW. The chargo of Judgo Esxtuons, of tho United States Cirenit Court, to tho Grand Jury at Memphis, in relation to the Civil-Rights bill, will not fnil to attract the attention of tho country. Judge Exscoss ia not a Southern man, He has lived all his life in Michigan; and, in tho seloction of eminent Inwyers to be Circuit Judges under the act of 1871, ho was appointed becauso of his high standing and learning asa lawyer, He hos never been n Democrat; was originally n Whig; and has been o Republican since the party was cs- tablished,—moro than twenty yenrs ago. His cirouit includes the States of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and 'fonnessee. ‘The Civil-Rights bill makes it a penal and indictable offenso for any District Attorney to fail to prosecute criminally any violation of the law, and the Grand Jury asked the direction of the Court upon this point, Judge Esttons thereupon delivered his chargo, in which ho declares that a denial to anegro of tho full and equal enjoyment of Accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges, at theatros and inns in Tennessco, is not on offenso over which Congress can give the United States Courts jarisdiction,— that it isa matter within the exclusive con- trol of tho State, Ho said that, until the threo recent amendments to the Constitution, the punishmont of murder, arson, assault and battery, frauds, injuries to reputation, obstruction to right of attending church, schools, theatres, and forcing tho right of be- ing accommodated in inns and by common carriers within the State, woro matters not only not granted to the General Government, but in tho Constitution itsclf oxpressly ro. served to the States, Tho vast mass of civil and political rights rested entirely under State protection. To this truism there was univorsal assent thon and is now. Haye the threa amendments so revolutionized tho character of the Govornment ns to give to Congress the powor of regulating tho theatres and other places of amusemont in Memphis and other cities of tho Union? The Judge, aftor a careful examination of the threo amendments, reaches tho conclusion that they hayo in no wise changed tho previous exclu- sivo authority of the Stato over all such mat- tors, It will be noticed that in his argument Indgo Exmtons takes substantially the same Jegal objections to the law that were urged in the Sonate by Senator Canrrxren, of Wixcon- sin, This opinion of the Court as to the un- constitutionnlity of tho Civil-Rightslawiscon. elusive a to any criminal prosecutions under that law in Tennessee, Tho Judgo, howovor, invited all porsons fooling themselves ag- grioved under the Jaw to bring their civil nc- tions in the Court, go that the question might bo carried to the Supromo Court of the United States for roviow and for final adju- dication, A subscriber a¢ Sigournoy, In., writes Tur. Curcasco $~Trinuse desiring to know the points at Issue botween tho German Govern- ment ond the Roman Catholic Church, or be- tweon Bismancx and the Pope. Tho points at issue may ba briofly stated to consist of throe goneral Iaws and five speciflo laws, otherwiso known as tho Farcx laws, The three genoral lows aro as follows: 1, Tho law of Deo. 10, 1871, making it a ponal of- fonso for the clergy to incite riots by ha; ranguosngainstthe Government, 2, The law of July 4, 1872, banishing the Jesuits from tho German Empire. 3, Tho low of 1872, providing for a Governmental inspection of the publio schools to provont sectarian tonch- ings, such as the confession and the dogma of infallibility. Tho speciflo or Farce Inwa, which wore passed in 1878, aro og follows: 1. Alaw pro- viding for a regular mannor, by which mom. bers might Icave the Ohurch, 2. A law for- bidding the Church to exorciso civil ponaltios against properly or porsonal freedom, 3, A law providing for tho disciplining of ecclo. ainsticy under the suporvision of tho State, which forbids corporal or secrot punish. ments, and provides for royal tribonals as courts of rovision and appeal in ecclesiastical cases, thus securing redress for priosts and Inymen. 4, A law providing for tho training and preliminary instruction of tho clergy, the motive belng to nationalize or Germanizo them, and thus clevate them rs public ofticials above the influence of Romo, 5, A law making civil marriages obligatory, In addition to these laws, a bill is pending in tho German Parliament, which has passed the Reichstag, withdrawing Stato aid from such of tho clergy, not only Roman Catholio but all other scets, who do not give in thelr ad- hesion to the ecoles{astical laws. ‘The above aro the real points at issue botwoen tho Ger- man Government and the Papal power, —_—_— As a matter worthy of presont attention, and asa record for future reference, we ro- produce, from that Democratio organ, tho Louisville Courier-Journal, the following legal proposition as the unoxtingnished right of property in claves emancipated by tho Thirteonth Amendment : ‘The Houth Aad a recogalzed constitutional right of Property in man. This right might have been an- nutled with respect to the fighting Rebels, but its abro- cation as to thfanta and women, as to miuarsaud non- combatsuts, was such sn act of confiscation as the world has uot known within two ceuturios, Inviow of a presont Democratic Houso, and of a confidently-expected Domooratio Sonate and Prosident-two yoars hence, this proposition is indicative of s demand for in. demnification for “slave proporty” by the Southern Bourbons, Tho Thirteonth Amend ment—abolishing slnvory—was not ofiicially Prgclaimed ratified until Doe, 18, 1863, v4 that time the War had beon Over aij months, and there were then no fh fil ing Rebols. The constitutional abolition of slavory waa not intended or dosignoy os 8 punishment for rebellion by tho slave-owners, who, in fact, constituted but amall portion of the Southorn People, it operated na woll in Delaware and Marytand and in Kontucky ns tn South Caroling and Louisinna, and extinguished the « property in mau" of loyalist aud Robel alike, Tet and equitably, tho “fighting Rebels" hay, just the same right to componsation ng have tho loyalists, But neither havo any legal ie eqnitnble claim, and if the, Democratic Party have any doubt on that question, let the at Tlouse propose an amendment Topenting thy t part of the Fourteenth Amendmont whieh prohibits any compensation for Proporty in slaves, and then wait for the popular te. sponse. ‘That would be a square insu foe 1876, and the Democrata can roise it jn the next House, We aro daily recoiving lottora from subscribers relative to the now traneient nowapapor Ports} lasr, abont which thoro fn a great deal of conty. sion. Tho law doubling the rato of Postaze on tremalent nowspapera went into effect in Chiesgg on the 15th of March. ‘Tho change was s0 ej, den that Postmastor-General Juwst1 consente) to stupend its operation until the first day of April, This added to the confusion already ex. isting. A special dispatch to Toe Tarnoxe, pn}. lished on Monday, stated that tho susponsioy on the law was iMeal, and that it would go ins. effect immediately, Ordors were givon by tie;, Jewitt to forward such matter as had tltoei: accumulated, aud upon which the postage Ran the old isw had boon paid, Our readers nil thoroforo be obligod to doublo the ratoot Portary on Che papers thoy mail, Thoy may take con fo: howover, in tho announcement that a! Papers sont under a misapprehension will bo forward] totheir addroze. Tho rate of postage on Tre Tarnuye is as foltows: Sunday edition, 5 Baturday odition, 4 conts; other editious 3 , conta. ——~+___. More than ono complaint has boon sent tottis ofiica from Keokuk, Ia., and elsomtiero, thy: person giving bia namo aa Canrenten had |; canvassing for subscriptions to Tie (; Taree, and had decamped with the money ty had reccived, Carrenten ia a fraud. Any nin traveling about who claims to ropresent T., ‘THInUSE as a canvassor in 9 fraud, Subscriptions aro taken at this ofica only. a Tho now light thrown upon what hes Ley called tho Mosaic account of the croatiun of i:4 world by tho Aasyrlan discovories of Mr. Gr..3; Sur, of tho Dritiah Mugoum, tond to shurtiu tho history ns thora given is scrappy and ly collected from the recently digcovorod “ ma useript,” if it may be so catied. In the torus af Brnou; ‘Tho Assyrian came down Ike 9 wolf on tho fd), a Sas PERSONAL, GroncE Vaxpennorr is at tho Palmer. Gor, Conosa, Inte Captaiu-General of Cuts, has arrived at Madrid. Miss Janz Coosts, the actress, aceampaal:d by hor husband, Mr, Brows, fu at Sinners. Hesnr Cote, of London, haa bern mil Knight Commander of tho Ordor of tho Lath, Apams Eant, of Lafayette, Ind., Pre ident ot tha Kankakeo Railroad, is e guest at the Gr] Paclfic Hotel, Why is tho fate of Jeske Poxrnoy like as tall. fon of tho prairies? Bocauso it’s a “ho mit ang.” Patent, Pattr haa made $10,000 worth of furs on! of tho Kmporor of Russia. That comoa of singw3z in “furrin parte.” * Gon, Sir Orantes Yorre has been appointed Constable of the Tower of London, vice Fie Marabat Gostsr, deceased. Tho Boston Post paya n neat compliment itself whon itenya: “Tho Dotroit Bree Pres! now droga is 28 nont as its jokes,'* Nowborn, N. C., has a paper called tho Aut Shell, and its oditor is very appropriataly kuoza as ' tho Colonel.”—Albany Argua. Horn pe Sar Grepent, tho Jast para of Mang ANTOINETTE, was turnod over ot those of 104 years at Vionna tho othor day. Aftor sdoring the Gorman Lucoa, o>era-gours next season will worship tho Ruwslan Bunocca, who comes with Dr, Hans Vor Butow. “Lovo in a Miat,” a story written by ono Zixt probably bears tho same rolation to ‘+ Funina og" that its author's name dooa to Ono dispatch announcing tho doath of Jom Mirenee road: “Joun Mirenen died quit ‘ty at 8 o'clock yostorday at Drama lane, treland” It was an opigram. A Boston paper soya that young 0, Il. Vix penuorr is going to San Francluco with Rrewitt M. Hootxy, of Chicago, with whom ho hay ¢1 gaged for a sonson of fifty-two weeks, Tfaumonp convorted ao capitalist of Ban Frss- clsco, named AnpnewJ. STEvENSON, who thowed lila chango of heart by banding the sovivalists check for $1,000, Salvation bas gona u) coo aldorably since asmioxp wont West, “Brppy,” said a lady, ‘stop aver and #¢ how old Mrs, Jones ta this morning.” Ina {er minutos Dippy returned with tho ioformatioa that Mra. Jones was seventy-two yours, sree months, and two days that morning. P Tha King of Burmah ia not going to lave» very good timo oditing hia dontlo-barreted nowspaper, Gront Dritain hea aout him army, and, if hodoes not tako caro, bs erlicles will bo found loaded to a ludicrous oxtont, Tho Arcadian has a witty article on ‘Mos TAGUE 28.8 Mothor,” hoaded “The Ramancect 8 Poor Young Mann,” which tho noise ls we truo, alas! bis own. Its difforonc degrees © comparison aro Manx, MonTaaue, Mastor. ‘Tho Iatest and most * pronounced ” exo of cles ical concuplaconce ia that of tha Tov. Bawsts Jonze, who hes fivo wives, Boronon had sat look over his list and seo ff ho bas uot loft 0 one ortwo, His pro-omivenco is throatoued. “Biety" Fronence is go fond of hls ban some face that he has a photograph of {ton ane chock ho draws, Thla is the suporlste chock, and, if the intolligont compositcr ea on making that word “cheek,” nothing wi! asld about it. ‘Tho world quivers with anxicty at th nouncement thét Levng-lonty's rls yloww aro golng to bo published ins foriico ie : yolume on Atheism. By the side of ba Longer Catechism of the Proubytorisa Chi will bo « more epigram, i Betz Beruoun, of Memphis, worked 19 bart attire with a gang of laborore fos three baer without being found out. The aaoar sty: im evontually made, according to a guces of ¢ tee! Louls Globe, because she sst down on tho to put her soos and stockiugs on. " Jurivg Mizaup, of Philadelphis, was ri naturalization a few days ago by #loarned ay who abborred his religious belief. If our tei of caunot get God into the Constitution they re obtain aatlafaction from the evidence bide greater than Io is in somo of our potty cours i Mr. Moony telegraphed DeWitt Ae goto London, Tate replied that wv ties Amerlesn ovangolical proachers hed 4! ae could attend to at home. So thoy bave, ie = them, But a visit to te antipodes for + Tia fifty yoaraon the part of these would no! the morals of tholr dosorted parishoa. py Uf Mr, Bazonrr bas apartments to uate ie Cavo of Gloom, ho cayetind » tevant in obs son of the Rev, Huseor Wirtzams, of LO r Mr. Witt1ante gave his watob aud chaip hie sad and protty Elizabeth in bla cougrens I r told big wifo be had lost it, Ble adv