Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1875, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 28 OF RURACEIPTION (PATAPLZ 2% ADVANCE), Foxtane Prepald at this OMce. a Parte of n spar at tho aainé rato, Waxtrp-Une active reent in cach town and village. Epecial arrangements made with sot. Spoctmon eoples ont free, Toprocent delay and mistakes, bo euro and give Post- Oftico address in fall, inolnding Stato and County. Remittancosmny Lomadecithorby deatt, express, Post Of.co order, or In reglatored lottars, at our risk, ‘TERMS To CITY BURSCRIDERA, Daily, delivered, Sunday azcented, 25 conts per work. Dally, celivored, Banday included, 80 cants por woek. Addrers THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornoe Madiron and Dearborn« Chicago, 1). TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MVICKEN'S THEATRE —Madieon sireat, betwoan Dearborn and State. Engagemant of Lavronoo Barratt, ** Jamia Harebell; or, Tho Mano’ Alriie."? LEY'S THI, t—Handoloh streat, batween ghee aa LaSalle The donmuce of Poor Young jan, apts ACADEMY OF MUNIC™Inlated streat, batween, Mad- je Monroa. Fngsgemont of J. i. Tonlo. iGuckiet oa the Hearth" and" Dormoetie iccotionsy." x -HOUAT—Clark atreat, Berta Howees Relig a Lson'e Stinatrots, ious." ADELPHI THEATRE—Do horn strrot, corner Mon- too. Variety ontortainment. jock." * Neck and Ni McCORMICK HALU—North Clark street, corner of Kinzlo, dkeadings by George Vandorhotf, “BUSINESS NOTICES * WE MEAN JUST WHAT WF, RAY READY 79 ney. : cat gun tert Digtclan told Milling at halt tte Grund raica, warranted, W. Hb. AESNEY, coroer Clark and fandolpti-sts, Che Chicas Tribune. Thursday Morning, March 25, 1875. An interesting budget of Japanese nows, per steamship China, is forwarded by telo- graph from San Francisco. An extra session of the Lonisinna Legisln- ture has been call for April 14, in New Or- leans, for the purpose, among other things, of the adjustinent of political diffculties in accordanca with tho terms of tho WureLer compromise. Our suburban neighbors at Elgin appear to bo afticted with o ‘* Peoplo’s Party” police administration, judging from the unchecked vavages of the gamblers in their quiet little vity, and tho crime, wretehedness, and rain wrought by tho plunderers, Betweon tho Indians and the United States troops, the miners in tho Black Hills country are likely to have an uncomfortable time of it. A band of hostile Sionx and a detach- ment of Gen. Onp's cavalry aro both making for the camp of the gold-scekers, and the re- sult of the raco settles their fato. If the troops get thero first, the leaders of tho ex- ploring expedition will be arrested ond con- fined, tho wagons burned, and tho outfit de- stroyed; in the other case, there may be no one left to tell the sto: ‘Tho bill providing for the appointment of four additional Justices of tho Pence in Chi- cago, inaking in all nincteon, has pnssod both Ilouses of the Legislature, and now awaits tho Governor's signature to becomo o Jaw, As o relief from the trouble and annoy- ance to themselves under the prosent modo of sclection, the Cook County Judges have urged tha adoption of a constitntional amend- ment whereby Justices of the Pence shall bo elected by the people, and for the same rea. son, itis to bo presumed, Gov. Beventpor indorses the proposed chang This morning's record of criminal matters from various parts of the universe presents au nnusual variety, Thero is tho hanging of a murderer at Pottsville, Pa.; tho discovery of traces of tho murderer of Mrs. Bixanam, in East Boston; an account of the murder of spiraticnl American in Japan; the arrest of ‘gang of counterfeiters in Boston; murder trials in Paris nud Champnign, Ul, ; a defalca- tion in Elgin, Tl.; and several other affairs of minor consequence. Then there aro a brace of attempted suicides and the Brxcurn trial besides. The nomination of Judge Panpex as Indge of the United States District Court of Louis. inua, tice Dune, removed, was tabled in the Senate at the request of President Gnayt, whose design evidently was to leave tho np. poiutment open until next December in order to give the nomineo an opportunity to dis- prove the charges against him. By this course a vacancy is left in the Louisiana Court until tho Sento meets again, placing tho pending litigation ina bad position, It isa curious fact that the Democrats solidly voted against the tabling of the nomination, while the Republicans, with one exception, sup- ported the motion, The Chicago produce markets wero very irregnlaryesterday, Mess pork wasactive and £0@35e per bri lower, closingstrong at $19.90 @19.924 cash, aud $20.20 for May. Lard was tame nnd 10c per 100 ths lower, closing at &12.75@13.80 cash, end 213.924G@13.9% for May. Meets were less activo and casior at Tie for shoulders, 10}c for short riba, and 1010 for short clears. Drcascd hogs were guiet and steady, at $8.50@9,00 per 100 Its, Highwines wero quict and firm at $1.12 per gallon, Flour was quict and firm, Wheat ‘was active and stronger, closing at 9440 cash, and 950 for April, Corn was active, and udvancod 10, closing nt 686 for April, and 7b{o for May. Onte wero in Letter demand and de higher, closing at &54¢ for April, Ryo was quict and firm at 08@98§o. Barloy was dull and easier, closing at $1.08 for March, and $1.04 for April, Hogs were more activo and firmer. Sales at $0.25@8,50. ‘I'here was & good demand for enttlo at about Tuesday's prices, Sheep were easier, ‘Dessre, you aro a gitl of very singular ideas," said Mr, Tztos upon a momorable eccaaion to Braue Tonuen. There is no doubt of that, und there oye very fow, excapt projudiced pooplo, who will not agreo with Mr, ‘fittox in his characterization of this flighty and unreliable witness, who hes been 50 serioucly mixed up by Judge Funizuton that hor testimony is absolutely worthless, ‘The most important part of her testimony in chicf, namely, that Mr, ‘Tinton told her in the presence of May, ‘I'n.ton that he bad re. peatedly seen tho latter “sin” with Mr, Begcarn, is entirely discradited, The charyo in iteclf ig munifestly absurd. ‘The worst enemy of Mr, Tinron would uot Le. liove that he. had witnessed tho ot of adultery on wcpented occasions, or that ho would tcl! of it to this Lalf-witted girl, as Miss Axruony called her, It is out of all erodibility, unleas Mr. Turton has been de- liberately selling his wife’s honor. The manner in which she has contradicted her- self, and involred hersolf in folsvhoods and misstatements, shows that sho beenamo pos- sessed of this idea in some manner, and, not realizing the monstrous nature of the charge she was making, changed it into this direce statement, It is possible that ‘Turos told her what Mrs. Trttos had confessed, or that, in one of her numerons caves-drop- pings, pho overheard ‘Tinton aceus- ing Mra, Tmton of the erime, and that the direct statement she has made grows out of what sho has overheard, ‘There is no question but she heard something, becausa Turon and his wife and Breener beeamo alarmed that sho would blab it, and to pre- vent that the former sent her off to a bonrd- ing-school in Ohio, and the Intter paid the bills for her tuition and support for several years, inorder to keep her from retailing whnt sho had overheard about Rercnen com- mitting adultery with Mrs. Tinton. But this late testimony is so gross and improbable, and, besides, isin such direct conflict with her previous testimony before the Plymouth Church Committee, thet it will probably be thrown asido as wholly unrelinblo, —_—_——. CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY *Senator Eatox, of Connectient, who was choson by the Democrats of that Stato as the frnit of their accidental majority in 1874, was during the War one of those intonse partisans who wero known as Copperhends, and nover saw anything commendable in tho efforts to save the Union and put down the Rebellion, and whoso argument on all ques- tions begun and ended in tho theory that the soveral States wero absolute sovereigns ; that the United States is not a nation ; that the Governnient of tha United States is but the agent or instrument of the ,‘‘ sovereign” States ; and that this is but a confederacy of sovereign nations or States. Mr, Eatos, on the night of the 20th of March, anlivonod tho debato in the Senate by n very earnest dis- eussion of the Louisiana question, into which he dragged his inovitablo one iden of State sovereignty. In the course of his remarks he Inid down the following propositions as indisputable : ‘This Government of ours, this great confederation of Atater, ts not a natlon,it a a confederacy of na- Hons ; it fa composed of sovercignties, Acertsin number of states—cleven—adopted and ratided tho Constitution of the United States, Now, what hecame of that little Commonwealth su ably rep- rerented on this floor by my friont from Rhodo Iwland? Sho waa ontin tho colds year anda half, Nota member of this Union; not o member of this confederacy of States, What waa sho then? Sho was ‘one of the sovereign powers of tho earth, ainall though she wan, and floated hor giorious little flag aver every fea, Netlher of the gentlomen from Rhode Ieland will deny that abo was an independent sovereign power of the earth, Lannounco that overy Stato in this confedorsey 16 sovereign, a indepondent ; ns sovereign and indopend- entas it was in 1766, except in the powers that it has delegated by the Constitution, and I defy any man or Senntor to snccersfully coutrovert it hera or anywhere, now or st any time, Mr. Eaton elaborated these propositions, claiming substantially that the United States of Amerien wns nevor, and is not now, a nation ; that it iam mero confederacy created by tho sovereign States; that the General Government is merely the Federal organ of sovereigntics, to whom has been delegated vertain powers; but that the fountain of power is not the Americnn people, but that the Stato Governments is that fountain from which all the confederate authority Lows, Unfortunately, Mr. Eaton's illustration of the enso of Rhode Island during the period intervening between tho formation of tho Constitution and the timo of her ratification thereof isa little too sweeping; if it proves anything, it proves too much. Tho American Union is now composed of thirty-seven States, nearly three times as many as the original thirteen. If these thirty-soven States be sovereign powers, nations, and all equal in sovereign powor, and it be per- tinont to ask what was Rhode Island during the year and a half she was consider- ing whether to ratify tho Constitution or not, it is equally pertinent to inquire what wero these twenty-four other States, or “in. dependent sovereign nations,” beforo their ed. mission, which have since become mombers of tho Union. Each of them is tho eqnal of Thode Island in rights and powers, aud must, according to Mr, Eatoy, have been so origi- nally, Was each of those States bofore nd- mission “a sovereign power of the earth,” an “indopendent nation”? Either the States aro not equal, or tho new States ore not, and never have beon, “sovereign powers of tho earth,” or Rhode Island was never what Mr. Eaton claims her to bnve been, In claiming that this is nota nation of people, but a confederacy of independent sovereign States, allof them equal in all things and equally the crentor of the confedorato ngent or organ, the General Government, ho must concedo to cach ‘of these twenty-four States admitted sinco Rhode Island the char- acter of hnving been, up to the time they united with tho others “sovereign independ- ent nations of the earth,” Now, what are the facts? Each of these States has beon created directly or indircotly hy virtue of some act of Congress out of the territory of the United States, The squat- ters or residents therein have been suthor- ized to forin themselves into political corpora. tions, chartered to cxorcise cortain functions of local government within certain territorial limits prescribed by Congress, nnd have been admitted into the Union npon conditions and torma fixed by low, Some of the territory out of which Congress ins carved these States hos been purchnsed by tho United States; other has beon acquired by war and conquest ; one State crented by the divie- ion of another State, and one by annoxation, Congress has just outhorized tho inhabitants of Colorado to form a State Government preparatory to admission; and, accord. ing to Mr. Easton, Colorado is now “an independent sovereign power of the earth, owing no allegiance to tho United States, and floating her glorious flag on every sea," We do not know how far Mr, Eaton ix willing to folloy his own extravagance ; but if Minois is now the equal of Rhgde Island, sho must, like her, have been an independent sovercign nation before sho Joined tho confederacy of nations, and ow- ing no allegiance to the United States, If true of Rhode Island, then it must ba true of all tho States, ‘The great blunder which these aticklers for Stute nationality make is, that they miscon- ceive the chayacter of a State under our form of government, <A Stato is a political cor. poration, organized under a general or special Jaw of the United States ; organized like any other corporation, with a charter, to exercise certain functions of a local and political char. acter, Nothing more and nothing less; fud to oxsume that this corporation is “oh independent sovereign uation of the earth" is an obsurdity and an extravaganca unworthy of argument, ‘Cho readcr of history will fail to Mad any rec. ord of tho national existence of Rhode Liland. Great Brilain conceded tho independence of the Colonics collectively; there way no rece ognition of Ithode Iviand then, or later, a4 0 nation by ony Goverauwnt iu tho world, The independenca of the Colonies was declared collectively, not separately; tho ‘War was proacented collectively, and thero is no record of a separate declaration of war against Grent Britain by tho “nation of Rhodo Island.” When tho independence of tho American people was recognized, they used in thoir soveral localitics the oxisting political machinery just as they had used tho old Colonial machinery during the Royo. lution, adapting it to the changed cjroum. stances, The first Goneral Government formed was a failure, Tho people found that they had left foo much political power in the hands of the local or Stato officers, so they undertook to remodel the Govern. montal machinery, ‘They created n National Governnient, free of the control of the State authorities, with ample power to enforce its Inws and its powers within the States; it stripped tho local Govornments of the power to embarrass the operations of the General Government, leaving to them exclusively tho mranagement and control of their purely local affairs, Cho National Government thus es- tablished has gone on prospering ever since. Tho theory of State sovercignty was bronched for the defenso of slavery, and with slavery reeeived its quietus from tho War. Its re- vival now by the old Bourbons is something like the efforts of tho scientific gontleman in Enropo who, a few years ngo, attempted to revive tho idea that the world is a fint plain, not round, and that the sun goes round the earth, and not the earth round the sun; and the Democracy of Connecticut have made use of their accidental victory in 1874 to send one of these abyurd old Bourbons to tho Senate to deny that the United States is a nation, to deny that the people of the TWnited States have a common nationality, and to claim that this is a mere confederacy of indo. pendont powers, At the next session of Congress thera will bo plenty moro Bourbons to argue the same sophism, because it is the only thing that supports the doctrine of the right of se- cession, which still lingers in the Bourbon heart, and thero is no othor use for tho State- sovereignty dogma than to uphold tho right of secession. If tho Union is s mere part. nership of States, of course any of tho part- ners may withdraw therefrom upon sufficient provocation. This is really the underlying and foundation principle of the party which calls itself tho Democracy. Most of the leaders are keeping this dogma in’ the brel.- ground until after tho next Presidential clec- tion, ag it is offensive to those Republicans whose votes they ate fishing for so anxious. | ly. But Senator Eaton is so full of the iden that ho is not to be restrained from its open avowal by prudential considerations. Tho Connecticut Democracy are firm beliovers in tho sano thing, or they would not have se- lected him to represent them in the United States Sennte, PROPOSED HOKSE-RAILWAYS, There nro now two new projects for horse- railways in the South Division, in addition to the Wabash Avenue line, for which the City Railway Company hns already secured tho right of way. Ono of these is the formation of a company under the title of the “ Chicago and Englewood Horse and Dummy Railroad Company.” The-names of Lovrs Wann, C. HK McConsicr, D, Vauonan, Peter Worr, G. W. Gaaz, A. B. Krzr, J. D. Suxens, and others, aro associated with this project. Whether tho frat two vamed is with their consent, is not known. Theproposition is to secure tho right to lay tracks on Wentworth avenue, commoncing at Thirty-ninth strest (the city-limits), and running north to Twenty-socond stroct; thenco enst on Twenty-second to Sonth Dearborn, (the next street parallel with Went. worth ayenuo); thenco north on South Dearborn to Fonrteanth; thence east on Fourteenth to Third avenue; thence north on Third avenue to Jackson street; thonee wort on Jackson stroot to Denrborn stroct, and north on Dearborn to South Water. The proposed return is on Dearborn to Jackson; thence west on Jackson to Fourth avenuo; thenco sonth ou Fourth avonno to Four. teenth ; thence cast on Fourteenth to Denr- born, sud s0 on south on Dearborn to Twonty-second, and on Wentworth avonue to Thirty-ninth street. Under this plan thera wonld bo a doublo track on Wontworth av- enue, between Thirty-ninth and ‘T'wenty- second strects; on Dearborn, between ‘Twenty-second and Fourteenth streets; and on Dearborn, between Jackson and South ‘Water streets. Thoro would bo a single track on Third avonus, and one on Fourth avenuo, botwoon Jackson and Fourtcenth streets. ‘Tho other project is thatof the South Atlantia Railroud Company (Chicago & Charleston, 8. C.), which proposes to run from Engle- wood north on Wontworth avenue to Twen- ty-second rtroet; thenco following the west side of the Rock Island track to Sixteonth; thence on Grove strect to Van Buren, and there locato a depot. Under the former pro- ject, a steam dummy is to be run to Twenty- second street; under the latter, to Van Buren street. There is ono general argument In favor of 8 horse-railrood running south somewhere west of Stato street. ‘ho great pressure upon the South Side cars is from the masa of people who live south of Sixteenth and wert of State, Eight people out of ten riding in these cars go west of State when they get out. All the way down to the city-limits there is a vast population between Stato strect and tho river, which runs off to tho southwest and widens tho residenco district, This population is composed of laborers, mechanics, artianans, seamstresses, shop. women, aud working people of every class, who depend upon tho horse-cara for going between business and home, Aline of cars ronning on Third and Fourth avenues, south of Van Buren, andon Dearborn street and Wentworth avenues, from Fourteenth street to the city-limits, will accommodate the vast crowds that inhabit this saction much bettor than the State street cars, will bring moro general relicf to the present overcrowded condition of cars than the Wabash avo- nuo line, and will be profitable at an carller date than any other projected horse-railroad, But there is serious objection to the propo- sition to Iny tracks on Doarborn between Jackwon and South Water, Thore will then be tracks on Fifth avenue, Clark, Dearborn, State etreots, and Wabash avenue, ‘This will be unnecessary, since thero is no great prea sure of travel betwoon South Water and Yan Buren strects, and it will leave no thorough. faro on the South Bide, excopt one at tho ex- tromo cast aud ono or two at theextrome west, left free from the nuisance and annoyanco of tracks, The goneral schemo for n horse. railroad running north ond south and located weet of Stato stroct ia a good one 5 bat it should leavo Third and Fourth avenues at Van Buron, and there connect with the tallroad track already Iald, and running around on Clusk street, Yheve tracks and the sight of way are ownod by the City Rail. way Company; but wo presume that thoy would either build sneha road or enter into some nrrangoment for tho uso of thoir tracks on Von Buren and Clark streeta, Certainly, Dearborn atreet, between South Water and Van Buren, ought not to be incumbered with tracks, ee INDORSING THE PRESIDENT, Tho Sennte of tho United States havo spent nearly a week in discussing 0 resolution approving the action of the President inn certain particular of the Lonisiana business, 'Tho resolution was na follows t That the action of tho Present tn protecting the Governmont in Loutslana, of which Wientase 1, Kxttona ta the Excentive, and the peaplo of the Btate, against domvatlo vtolenes, and enforcing tho lawa of the United States, ¢ approved, This subject was brought before the Senate by Senator Preninonurses. ‘Lhe Sonnte had just refused to admit Pixcunscs, and Mr, Faetixanuyary promptly offered a resolution aflirming the legality of the Krr..000 Govern- ment, and approving of all,tho acts of tho Presidont in relntion thoreto, This rorolu- tion was objected to by many Ropublicans, and tho subject was referred to n caucus, at which tho resolution was reduced to the form in which wo havo given it. It is certainly a yery weak resolution, and yot it could not be passed except in that diluted shape, A dozen or moro Republican Senators declared that they would vote for no resolution indorsing the legality of the Kr.toae Government, or of the election or other means by which it was installed in power, and this resolution was prepared to exclude any such indorse- mont, All that the resolution, expressly or impliedly, means is, that Kutroca, having been installed! as Governor de fucto, the con. duct of tho Presidont in protecting that Gov- ermnient against armed violenco, and in main. taining the pence, was approved. Until this dobate we were not aware that tho proprioty of tho President's conduct in this respect was questioned hy any one. Mr. Tevenpy Jounson and Mr, Cianzes O'Coyor, who nre among tho ablest Democratic law- yers of the country, in discussing this saub- ject, both agreed that tho President had of necessity to recognize one or the other Goy- ernment, and to protect it by force; that in this his choice rested exclusively upon his own discretion, and for the timo his decision was fiusl, Tho only point of difference was, thet Mr. O'Coxon insisted that, if the Presi- dent at any timo shontd discover that ho had made an error in his choice, it was his duty to correct it, With regard tothe caso of tho 4th of January, the President's action was confined to directing the troops to preserve the pence ; |, Whatever else tho military officers did, was done without his knowledgo or orders, Tho action of the troops in interfering, at tho re- quest of tho Krinoce majority of the Logis- lature, to eject certain claimants from seals, was without orders from him, and tho first in- telligence he had of it was from reading the reports in the papers noxt day, His action wis oxclusively in proscrving the peace, ‘Tho Democrats for some reason or other choso to put thermsclvos in strenuous opposi- tion to this resolution. ‘They took tho ocen- sion to discuss tho Lonisinna enso from be- ginning to end, notwithstandimg tho resolu. tion itself excluded all of that business, save the simple preservation of the pence aud the protection of the Government against armed violonco. Tho whole story of the clection frnuds was discussed, though the reso- lution pointedly excluded any recogni- tion of the legnlity of tho Kx zoaa Government. Evon Anpnew Jons- son was heard in denunciation of the leg- islation of Congress and of tho President for tho rojection of his “policy.” A resolu. tion approving the conduct of tho President in preserving the peace and proventing civil war in New Orleans served as the text for denouncing the President ns a usurper, ambi- tious to anbstitute the sword for tho law, and a8 one who was preparing tho way for declar- ing himself Emperor. After n week's weste of time, the resolution was adopted, receiv. ing the vote of overy Republican Sonator, and of every Independent excopt Mr. Boora, of Californian, who for somo reason voted with tho Demoernts against it, Can it be that. Mr, Booti is looking forward to a possible candidacy for a highor office, and to secure that has already surrendered his indepond- ence of thought, specch, aud vote? THE REGISTRY LAW. ‘The bill for tho repeal of tha Iogistry act, which has already passed the Senate, was or- dered to a third ronding in tho House by tho closo vote of Gf to G1, Even this amall ma- jority of throe was secured by o resort to very disreputable parliamentary tactics, which appear to have beon ordered and marshalod by Speaker Hanves. Tho manner in which the vote was taken in the Honse is a fair sam- ple of the manner in which goneral clections will bo conducted in tho future if tho Rogis- try act shouid be repealed. Thera was o “ Boss" who prosided; a clerk who sought to defeat verification of the vote by inco- herent and rapid rending; retainors who ran about drumming up voters in favor of tho bill; aud generally a disposition and an effort to defont tho rulo of the majority by forcing the bill to a third reading in spite of tho merit and tho strength of tho opposition, ‘Tho scene was certninly disgraceful, but not moro go than will be the pretonse of popular elections after tho control of tho ballot-box and tho polls shall be given over in the large cities nbsolutcly to the roughs, bummers, thioves, and gainbters, without any restraint whatevor upon illegal voting, aud no means of purging the ballot-box of boyus yotos. Now that this bill {a go close upon its final passage by the Legistatnre, is it not timo that every man who has favored {t up to this tima should seriously consider tho inovitablo ro- sults of ita becoming a law? Init not time for every momber to ask himself whether he can afford to rest wundur the sun- picion of having edvocated and voted for tho bill with the purpose of throwing elections in cities into the hands of the mob classes? Is it not time to aban- don partisan and porsonal considerations ho. foro it {4 too late, and refuse to deprive tho people of the ouly practicable and remaining check upon illega! voting, and thus defeat tho only hapa for a continuation of solf-gov- ernment in the citics of this Stato? This re- peal bill is really a Democratic measure, in- troduced with the design of enabling Demo- cratic minorities to overthrow the majorities atthe polls by illegal voting, But the Demo- crats alono in the Legislature would be pow- erless to carry through the repeal; the az eistanca which they aro receiving from a fow Grangora and a fow Ropublicana ig what yill enable them to achieve tho infamy of repealing the Registry act, and upon theso assistants will rest a largo share of the rosponsibility for the ovila sure to follow, Itis truo that the quevtion ought not to bo considerad from o partisan point of view. LEvery patriotio citizen should be in. terented in maintaining tho purity of the ballot-lox, no smottor what party ho moy vote with, It will bo hard to persuade tho people, theroforo, that the men who vote for this repeal, whother Democrats, Ropublicans, or Grangers, did not do so from impure mo- tives, Tho only honest and plausible excuso which mombers from rural districts can present for favoring tho repeal, is that the Registry net ia unnecessary in those sections of the Stato whera avery voter is known to overy other voter; in villages where the dogs bark nt a stranger ; in districts where all tho intiabi- tants know tho very day thnt every young man comes of age. It may bo tlnt, registra. tion boing unnecessary in these noighborhood precincts, it causes somo inconvenience which might bo avvided without injury to fair vot- ing. But certainly the slight inconvenfenca incident to this Inw in auch districts does not warrant a aweeping repenl'of all logislntion, wheroby tho elections in largo cities whall bo confided to the untonder moreies of tho depraved classes, and the intelligent voter and tnx-paying voter shall bo virtunily robbed of his franchise, If tho neces- sary inconvontence of registratién in tho country districts is so. much of a hard. ship as to warraut ita abrogation thoro, ib may ba done without siming # Dlow at the cilies where registration ia the only protection against fraudnlont voting and ballot-box stuffing. It is not nec- essary that tho repeat should be mais to ap- ply to tho whole Stato in order to relieve the particular rural districts where rogistration is not considered essential. If there be no other purposo in the proposed repeal then the relief of tho rural districts, a Inw may bo framed which shall make registration oblign- tory only in citics and towns of, say, 5,000 or 10,000 inhabitants and upwards, This law can bo passed, and it would be dovoid of tho objections to the presant scheme. But if no such bill shall be introduced ond the present’ bill be passed, it will bo evidont that the re. penl was in tho interest of fraudulent voting and intended to make a farce of olections, We will say to tho Legislature now that if it passes this repeal bill, and it becomes a law, it will be a duty to pass another Inw re- pealing all franchise in Chicago. ‘This biil will disfranchise tho respectablo and honest voters by enabling the vicions and criminal classes to overcome by fraudulent voting any majority which the lionest legal voters may cast. It will only bo fnir, then, to teke away tho right of suffrdgo from all classea, aad relegate tho city to some athor form of government than that which depends upon popular snffrage. Thencoforth elections in Chicago will be mere shams ond frauds, Every voting precinct in this city in moro than half the wards may be soizod aud controlled by any combination of bummers ond scalawags, The gamblers, roughs, loafers, and thieves will always bo in the majority, no matter what the number of the decent voters may bo. It will bo simply impossiblo to check illegal voting by wholesale. The bill is, therefore, aimed at tho very existence of popular sclf-govern- mont, Tho result of an election in Chicago without registration will bo like a con- tract procured by fraud or the award of 8 packed jury, There will bo no moro pop- ular clections in fact. The corrupt caucus will furnish us with Government and officials, ‘Tho only contost will be between the factions that may be formed among tho bummers and lonfors, The man who can got in most ille- gal votes will be tho successful candidate, Wo shall have a reign of scoundrelism,— scoundrels running for office and scoundrels furnishing tho votes, It will boa standing disgrace to tho State, even if tho Governor should voto the bill (as he unquestionnbly will), to have had such a monstire pass both Tlouses of the Legislature, There is yot timo to exeapo this disgrace, and wo sincerely hopo it will not be pnt upon the record. ee NEW-PARTY NONSENSE. Some young men of New England aro yearning for a now politienl party. At least this is tho statement of tho Boston corre. spondent of the Now York Evening Post, who devotes two columns to an exposition of this yoarning of sundry young men of Now England, how it can be done, and why it ought to badone, As it‘would take abont two columns of Tne Trincne to set tho modus operandi of the new party before the reader, and as it would not be very interest. ing matter for tho reador, we can do bettor by giving our spaco to an exposition of the folly of this ‘t Boston notion.” In tho first place, now partios aro not mado by rosclutions of discontented politicians. If they wero, now partics would bo as plonti- fulas mushrooms, Now partics havo their birth in gront questions of~ vital in- torest and general importance, which tho olf partics will not undertake to scttle, and which con only be pressed forward to thelr fruition by a prolonged atrugglo, liko tho great slavery question for instance, which gave birth to the Republican party. Now, what great vital issue is thero that tho American people want which tho old parties have refused to advocate or incorporate in their platforms? If there are any, then thero is a fair prospoct for tho succors of a now party built upon thoso issues; if thero aro not any such absorbing questions, then ony attempt to build up a now party can only rosult in com. plete failure, Tho Granger question is no longer o dominating or vital issue, It hod 9 great run fora short timo, but it hoa now spent its force, having accomplished soino good aud considerable harm ; but it was never broad enough to interest tho wholo people or to cut any great figure in the next Prosidential olection. Tho only other ques. tion we can think of is tho Buoranan-Kentey invention of amoncy which lias no valuo in itself and yet shall bo equal to gold in pur. chasing power, and by the use of which theso rag-money lunatics wera to do away with the burdens of taxation, get everybody out of debt, make averybody rich, end briug about a financial millennium, This is a proposition which the Repub- licans will not tonch, Tho Democracy has nibbled at it ina demagogtoal kind of way, bat has never and will never incorporate it in its platform, or make it a party issno, Any one who wants to organize a third party upon such an issue, is at liborty to go ahead, there being no law againat it, and auy one who doca so will soon enongh be satisfied of his folly, Perhaps the young men of Now England who are yearning for anow party have set up ahigh standard of idcal political morals and virtue, as do most young men whose heads aro fall of crudo reformatory isms, and who are continually devising plans for the rogeneration and purification of mankind and themselves, It may be, thore- fore, thot they want to got ups now party upon tho basis of sentiment, and sot the world a loftior example of political honesty aud purity. But where will they get thoir material ? It will bo useless for them to ap- ply to the Democracy, That party is bound to stick together and fight out the battle of the noxt Fresidoncy, anda rontimental invita tion addressed to it would receive nbout n3 much consideration na the proffer of a Now Testament to n Modoc Indian, It will ro- quire tho utmost offorts of their opponents to defent them, aud, in the face of this fact, tho material for tho now party must be drawn from the Ropublicans, ‘fho result will bo a mero faction. Tho Republican party will bo to thnt extent weakened, and tho succoss of the Democracy would be rendered almost cor- tain, Instead of the patent Boston notion, what is needed isn solid front on the part of the Republicans to the Democracy. Tho party hes been putting its lend. ers through process of puttrifleation, and is mado stronger thereby. Tho firat results of this wero visible in tho Now Tampshire election, which atayed the Domo- eratic current and act it running the other way. Tho rotten wood has been thrown away, and the party will bo made na perfect as can bo expected in this imperfect world, ‘The only safe policy in for nll good mon to unite in the maintenance of tho polley and principles of tho Republienn party, and all tall about a new party at this timo is simply shallow nonsense, ens GERMAN IN THE PUBLIO SOMOOLS, Tho proprioty of making the German Ian- guage ono of the studies in our public schools is rathor warmly disputed in New York; and there aro many in the West, where the lan. guage is more generally taught than in the Enst, who question it too. Naturally enough, our German follow-citizens are strong ndvo- cates of their mother-tongue as a branch of popular education. While many Amoricans, “¢to the manner born,” are opposed to its be- ing taught in the schools becnuse they think it serves to porpotuate a foreign clement in the United States, the Gerimnns look upon any attempt to oxcludo it from the public schools as evidence of a disposition to refuse thern equal rights with other citizens, It seems tous that noither of these posi- tions is tennble, The Germans havo no right to demand that their Inngungo shall be taught in the public schools. Nor is the teaching of it at all dangerous to the country or necess anrily un-Americau, Those who contend thnt to tench German in the public schools is anti- American, forget that the stndy of any foreign Jangunge, and of German particularly smong modern languages, is a most excollont dis- cipline, Itis scarcely fair to look upon tho tenching of Gerinan in ‘the publio schools as a desiro to mako Germans of those who ought to be Americans, and to forget en- tirely the part it mny be mado to play in tho dovelopment of tne mind. ‘The exporienca of ages has shown that the atndy of lnngungo is calculated to sharpen the powers of observation, to rtrengthen the reasoning faculties, to exercise the judgment, and improve the memory. Next to the San- scritand tho Greck, thera is no tonguo tho study of which lots tho student into tho mys- tories of tho uaturo ‘of Innguage os does tho German. To tho student of English it is of the vory highest value, related ns it is to the Anglo-Saxon, ono of tho parents of his own language, the Latin being tho other. If ev- ery American know German, he would bo better acquainted with his own tongue, and nono the less patriotic, But if it is not on principles of patriotism that the Innguage should bo excluded from our public schools, neither is it becnuso its study isa very desirable disciplino, and the knowledge of it very convenient, that it should be taught there. There are many things which are enloulnted to teach tho young idea how to shoot, an3 which it would bo excacdingly convenient to know, which cannot be tnught in the public schools. ‘Tho question whether German should bo taught in them, and to what oxtent, is ano which must be determined by practical considern- tions, In the first pleco, the study of the Imn- gungo should not be mado obligatory. Ib should be optionat with the parent or guardian to say whether the pupil shall take it up or not, Many Germen parents would elect to have their sons and daughters study it, “ And this they might do with ad- vantage, for, as Gorman childron have oppor- tunities to speak the language at homo, their school training would serve to impress its grammar upon their minds. Not vo with Americon children, Of all the children of English-speaking paronta who study Gorman in the Westorn public schools at the people's exponsgo, not one in 500 loarns it well onough to speak it with any ease or fluoncy. Tho little they do learn of it they carry about with them fora while, as a dend Innguage, soon to forgot it entirely. In view of this undoubted fnct, it may be askod whothor it is best that the children of Amer. iean parents, oxcept in very exceptional eases, should not wasto their timo on the German language. But thero is another side to this question, Lifo ia short and art is long. School life, espeolally, is short. Tho majority of the children who attond the public schools can afford to devote but a Very short timo to their education, At tho age of 12 thoy begin to drop out, and at 10 very fow are left in school, Such being tho caso, it is not dosir- ablo that their time should be taken up by any but tho most indispensable atudies, To make German on obligatory study undor such ciroumstances would be to do great injustice, ainca it would hinder the advancement of the scholar in those branches of education which are most necessary, and without a knowledge of which it cannot bo said that he is educated at all, We aro rathor dispoved to look with favor on tho study of German by the children of German parents, because there is some proa- pect of its doing them some good, and be- cause German tax-payers demand it, Too German child at lenst, a knowledga of the languago is almost na fudlsponsablo as 4 knowledge of arithmotic or writing. In tho large German settlemonts of the West, a mor- cantile cducation without the accompani- mont of nknowledgo of German is an article for which there ia no demand. ‘Then, again, it must be remembered that, not nnfrequent- ly, German is the only languago in which the first generation of German-Americans can communicate with their paronta and relatives in this country. It thus appears that the question whether Gorman shall be studied in the public schools or not is one the solution of which doponds on ciroumstancos, It is a mistake to say that its cultivation is necessarily un-American, or that it will prevent the Americanizing of our German population, Leayo it optional with paronta to havo tholr childron study it or not in those places where the German ele- mont predominates, aud whore a mejority of the tax-payers favor its introduction into the schools, and you havo a solution of the ques- tion as nearly equitable as can be had on the principles of our Governmont, Ata meeting of tho t bondholders of the Nozthern Pacific Railroad bald in New York ‘on tho 18th inst., soiae intorosting facta Wor rtated relative to the prencnt condition of tho roal by tho President of tho Compan; Gronay W, Cass. Tho total acrengo of inna, thus far earned by the Company is 84 follows; Fromtho Northern Pacific Junction to Moores head, 1,460,000 neres; from Moorchend tg Bismarck, in Dakota, 6,008,000 nereg + and tho Pacific Division, from Kalama to ‘Tacoma, 2,688,000 nares; showing ns n total that th Compnny is entitled to patents for 9,299, 000 acros, while the total number of teres of granted Innds acoruing to tho fi31) nites of Fond was 10,681,000. ‘I'ho total snlos of land to March 1, 1875, wero as follows: Minng, sota and Dakota, 810,889 acros, 31,069,815, Washington Territory, 35,148. norea, $300,, 887; and the total recoipts from Ion sales, the pronont date-have beon $1,858,633, The financial statemont of the Company way made, as followa: ‘There havo been Sanuod of firat-mortgazo 7.9.10 ¢04) Lone, $31,696,270, of whilel: have Loew surremlored p theTand Dopartmont for lauds aotd, $1,254,270, toe? ing the balanco outstanding of $30,441,.00, Of 7810 bonde {nqund a collateral for ‘Aonting dayy mostly in 1875, thor have boon pledged $1,780,200, | tho rate of from 25 to 40 cents on tho dollar, Tis’ py, torest of land warrants, bonds, and erin given i¢ {uniting of coupona amounts to $319,185.%6, teen gtize 683,78, thn amount aurtonderod In payment for la} alen, leaving a balanco oulatanding of $732,132.77, 7, floating dobt is $634,768.48, but of this amount $1304 in arranged for sottlemont in» few days, and of (;, remainder, $259,000 ts dus ta the Diroctora for mop. advanced to finiel the Pacifio section after the fall of Jay Cooke & Co, tn 1873, Thia leaves enly $194,134. duo outeido of the Company as a floating debt, whi ho, the President, thought wasa better showlug 1), Any other railroad company could make, ‘Tho earnings of tho rond have boon as 3}, lows: Minnesota & Dakota Division, $514, 426, less expenses, $160,006, leaving tho sot earnings, 981,420; on the Pacific Divisiy, 3102,904, less expenses, 962,759, leaving ths not oarnings, $39,635; tho total net carnii9; for tho two divisions, $121,055, Ono of ths most important facts in connection with { Prosidont’s statement concorns tho coal lends recontly discovered in Washington Territory, tho reports from which aro so favorable tht the sales of the lands havo been susponde) until further infornidtion can bo obtaiacd, The action of the bondholders was stumaed up in tho appointmont of a committca ty confor with tho Diroctora of the Company ig regard to its management, ———_——_—_—_—— Tho namo of Ciantes Coutts, aditor of thy Sioux City Times, uaa boon before tho » racontly in connection with tho foolish Bl: Halla gold oxcitemont, Certain ebargea ty, boen mado ngninat Mr. Conus in the 2; which ho hastons to deny. Ho took or: pains, ho says, to avoid taking monoy fror a1 body in Chicago, Whilo his cirotlars ststet (hy ho charged 86 for a cortificate of memben:hiat join tho oxpedition, ho was eo succossfal ia avoiding tho receipt of the cash that ho onl took $15, which eum was placed in the bards of Messrs. J. W. Burien & Co,, of this city, ta hy roturned to tho payers, Duting the pat fra years ho has beon engaged in agitating in Co. Rross and claowhere the opening of tho Lh} ‘Hille to sottloment, and haa yet to roco‘ve his first dollar for his sorvicos, le considers tht country a good field for aottloment, and has en desyored at groat porsonat exponse to yopuli. izo his bolief, This is his oxplanation of thy affair, whick justice domands should by mm’ puolic, ———_—_-_—___ Virginia City, Nov., ia dobating a qnortios ut elvid righta which is intoresting to the re: tho world only in tho light of a curiosity Ite & question of property only, Suit is nrenght by tho daughtor of T. J. Minummey, who wes ator timo 9 woalthy merolant of Sacraments, to re. yoke the lottora of administration on hor faths's estate. Tho father was ono of a number of ma who tired of domoatio dolighta and sought com solation from anothor woman, this cuse was an octoroon, Marnie’ behantt was puch that his wifo obtsined a divorca fra him snd he married his octoroon mlatie:s, Ths sppliicant claima thatthe second marriage ms iNogal, tho lawa of Californta forbid ting the intermarriage of white aud colored persins, POLITICAL NOTES, ‘Two of the Demooratiocandidates for Congres im Connecticut sro Judges still sittiny; on the Bench. ‘They propose to hold fast cu what tii havo until something bottor turns up, ‘Tho election in Rhode Island takes p's ¢ YWodnosday, April. Only State officors mili ts chosen, Gov, Howanp has poremyhorily clined to be a candidate for ra-eloction, Evorybody in Ponnnylvanis, ope the mem bors of tho Jast Logislaturo, soam to bo pr.t7 woll agrood that tho Reformers mavio a tal botch of it thia year, Tho nowapapors eay ths session will be me-uorable because of Its di- gracefal charactor. It ia something to b9 i momberod, anyway, if only a5 being ogiovs. §! ‘Tho announcement of tho removal of Cultf- Tontica MoKean and the appointment of bit sticcossor was a genutne aurpriao in f'alt Lhe City. Tho ction of the Prosidont was gener! approved, The Winrnzr contompy caso ad the Youna divorce auit ars supposed to lure beon the rocks on which the fortunzs of tt Judgo were wrocked. A novel objection to the roturn of sr “Breve” Kevtoaa to Congress is bolug weed by the Democracy in Connecticut, ‘Thoy ay be will bo a mombor of the miuority, and vill there foro want influonce to aid his conutitueats. This is perhaps tho first intimation that las come from tho Democratio elde of tho Ciy:l-Serrice Reform policy which that party intends to pur Buc, Br, Wrizraa R. Monnrson'a home crgsn, {9 Bolloville Democrat, recently took oc :a#00 ts rojoice that ‘our Roprosentative believed Lo frouking privilege to bo » rolic of te pasty whereupon tho Republican paper in Dalfrils eruolly explained that Mr, Bfonntson franke twolarge mail-bags, wolghing 0 pounls exch from Washington to his home, immediately sfttt tho adjournment. Tho Indisns Logislature at ita late session passad o law requiriug all pnblio notices of ch of roal eatate for dolinquent texon fu cout containing 16,000 or moro inhabitantw too i vortised in a German nowepapor, if thera !s ba published in such county, ‘The Jaw will pul prescat to seven or oight conntiea; sud aon 4 Ices it will promote the growth of Germen por papors Ike mushrooma all over the State. Democrationowapaporeand politiclaus thom? have any doubts as to the character of Ha ving lately exposed by Gov. TitpEx mat ae the Now York Tribune for the following 1 mations ‘There are Democrats and Reptslietlt init, though the former aro largely in the acm SSE TST Tho womaiia g, jority.” Tho Tridune furthor sayy that tes ne is essentially Demooratic.” This must We - #arded as es somi-vficial utverauce of onl pen, for he gave apcolal facilities $0 te es 4 by which it was onabled to eupplement moauago as no other journals could. ios! Mr, Ruvpsx E, Vanrow tise formally dene & nomination to the vacancy in tafe, Branch of Congroay caused by the death x Die AY, Auzex, of tho Thirty-third New Yo eld? trict; but it is geuorally believed bo hte is aulight proseuro, ‘The ‘Thirty-third Dive happily constituted for Mr, Fextox's aie Mr. AuieN, who wes olocted ast yoor oh [ibe sIoNs by 1,843 majority, was & so-call ¢ balla eral"; and the Distriot iy thus one 0 actos! dozen in tho United States eet chs submerged by Mr. Fenton's i I ma Mr, Naxpaxt's chauces of bolug ofocted a tor by the Domocratio House are ¥ Becky) cussed by the organs of that party: uo Wo rathor atlok in the throats of thoue bbs like to support bm; yet even that 9 5 ree by woe of them, The Milwaukee et vet) stance, saya this ofeuse ought tobe