Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1875, Page 8

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1876.--TWELVE VAGES, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATEA OF KUNPCHIFTION (PATARLY. IN ADVAFCE). Postage Prepald at this OMce. <f WaANTED=Uno actlro agen pocial atrangemonts mado with euch, Spreten copies sont free. Tuprerent delay and mistaken, be mire and give Post- Dfice addrees In full, Including Etat and County, Teral. tances may bomadeelthor by draft, express, Port Of.ce order, or in regletored letters, atone risk. ‘QRRMG TO CITY AURECHINGNS. Dally, detivored, Sunday excepted, 2.5 conte ner week. Dally, delivered, Bunday included, GU csats per wooks Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn: Chicago, Ill. i" eR TRE-—Madicon street. between Jamle tlarobell; or, Tho Alan o° ‘Airlio.” Afterneun and evening. herween "! 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Zz ISCHARGHS AND PARTIAL DEAEN aoe Bs ee liuited period Dr, HARTLEY gun feaeely alters eat bunnts (uetoby. poring, his dee char Mle tusceas” ureguated, ting. to deat froin beluga avtnadled urbllant fros in advance, ani moro sorfuus evils by permitting the application of dangerous tomedion ty inexperienced and unskillial hands. ho toes at money ming Bol, Lo material 19 suns persagy Uae Generation of on a suet ts be frented ‘and ‘rogarded with muro than ordi: nary eolteitmda, THer“Liurtey bogs ty sate that ue hat no connection will uy param auvortining to euro doataoss, nelther bas a pormiaaion fur the publication of a cortiticate ag to otnansto frons hit, and cannot, therefore, ponebla fur any alarming conscquencds rosulting Tashaces wid dusporatlon practiced by ignurant lors, as, nolee in the head, and all disagrcoablo dis 3 from tho one epacdiiz’ and permanently remover! ‘without causiog tho lonst pain or inconvonionce, | A cure Jn all casca guarantocd whore malformation doce nut ealat ne following Iettor Is from a hiehty accompllshod rouny lady whens boon doaf ainen childhood; hur testi- ons is subiubtted without comunent: Ilartley—Dear Sir: Having suffered some sare searl~t forar whilo quite young—I am desirona of urglny thoco aliniiatly aOlioted to test sour skill, through: whicl Thuvo had iny beariog complotely revtorod and the dis- agreeable dixcharge cured, 1 would asauro thon that the procosais neither todions nor severe, and that tho kind and genticmanly administration of your treatment can- nit fall to win tho gratoful esteem of the alliicted aud the eontdeaca of thy public, ‘Ming KATE OUTEN, De. HARTY will receive calls at bis parlors, in tho Paloier faweg, from to do'clock, daily. Che Chieans Crbune. March 27, 1875. Saturday Morning, WITH SUPPLEMENT. There is consternation in the Cincinnati Common Council in consequence of the dis- covery of the fact that that body has been unintontionally legislated out of oxistonce by tho torms of a Jaw passed for the benefit of the Tolado Democrats. Such o mistake by the Illinois Legislature would bo tho occasion of general rejoicing in Chicago. A curious instanco of tho chauges wrought oy the progress of timo is furnished iu tho cose of Ban Bururn, who, as an attorney, is now engaged in pushing s claim of $50,000 against the Government for praporty seized in New Orleans by Gen, Bornen when in command of the Union forces in that city. ‘That claim onght to bo worth its face, less the costs of collection. The people of Michigan are afforded the opportunity of deciding by their votes at the polls tha question of prohibition, as both branches of tho Legislaturo have united in tho passage of ao resolution (which will undoubtedly be approved by the Goy- ernor) amending tho Constitution of the State by striking out the section which pro- hibits tho Legislature from passing any act authorizing the grant of license for the sale of intoxicating liquors, Tho amendment is to bo submitted to the people at the goneral election in November, 1876. ‘The present Legislature seems determined. to perpetuate its own infamy. Somo of tho previous disgraceful scenes of the session were rehearsed yestorday in tho Hotise, and yet it waa decided to postpono another week the question of sine die adjourmucnt, Even a Democratic member characterized tho Legislature as a ‘‘ circus," and this indicates the extent to which popular disgust has at- tained. The snost surprising featuro, how- ever, is the persistoncy with which Mr. Spenker Hares and his retinue insist upon having themselves writ down aw asses for ap indefinite time to come. ‘The Minois Senate yesterday pasecd Mr. Kenor's bill to facilitate the collection of do- linquont taxes. ‘Tho bill simplities the pro- “cess of applying for judgmont, and ra. quires that parties appealing from judg. ments when obtained shall deposit with the Court the smount of the tox and of tho costs up to that time, besides giving a bond for the payment of damages, interest, and further costs in caso the appeal is not prosecuted succossfully, In short, taz-fighting ia rendered altogethor too expen- sive and inconvenient to be indulgod in for tho sake of merely staving off the paymout of tazes, 8o slight a circumstance as the discovery of & book hidden away in the bottom of a trunk Las furnished, in connection with other de- velopiments, what soeins to bo a plausible solution to the mystery firrounding the death of the Mauinsst family by poisoning, ‘Cho book was 4 sensational history of tho crimes of Mrs, Stenuay, tho Connecticut Bonata, and had been bought, read, and concealed by Mra. Manmiszt, who, it is now believed, de. rived froin this sourco the suggcatiou of end- ing tho family troubles by admipiotering poison all eround, ‘he chemical analysis will teat tho soundness of this theory, which, ot tha present time, seoms to be the only teunble one, ‘The Chicago produce markets were steadier yesterday, with less doing, owing to the ab. seuce of dispatches from Liverpool and New York, where Uood Friday was obsorved. Mess pork was guiet aud 10@140 per bri low- er, closing at 19.97} cash, and $20.223@ 20.26 for May, Lard was quiet and 2jo per 100 tos higher, closing at $23.67$ cash, and $14.05 fox Moy. Moats were moderately active and lower, nt 7je for shonldera, 1030 for short ribs, and 110 for shore clears, Highwines were quiot and firm ot $1.12 per gallon, Flour was quiet and firm. Wheat was less active and {@1e lower, closing firm at tie ensh, and 95jo for April. Corn waa {ame and 1e lower, closing at G7{c for April, and 7630 for May, Onts were quict and jo lower, closing at 554e for April, Ryo was quiet snd firm at 281@99e, Barley was dull and 2c lower, closing at $1.01@1.05 for March, nnd £1.02 for April. Hogs wero in gocd demand, and sold 6@10c higher. — Cat- tle were active nud steady. Sheep ruled dull and weak, The Detroit Bonrd of Vdncation, having lnst weol committed tho blunder of making German one of tho regular studies in the public schools, yesterday went to tho other extreme and prohibited the study altogether. They wero wrong in both ensos. Thoy should grapple with the proposition once more, and will probably then be able to get it right,— which is to leave the study of German op. tfonal atthe decision of the parents or gunr- dinns in schools whero the number of thoso desiring the study shall bo numerous enough for tho organization of ono or moro classes, We havo already explnined our reasons for favoring this plan, which {a practically what has been adopted in Chiengo; and its ad- yantages, it would seem, ought to be obvious elsewhere. Te seems to bo accepted ns.n fact, by most of the knowing ones, that n change is about to be mado in the office of State Grain In- spector. ‘The present incumbent, though appointed with little reference to tho wishes of tho Board of rade, has conducted the business of the department in a manner which has given goncral satisfaction to thosa engaged in handling grain in this city, ‘This statement, which is duo to Mr. Ianrzn, is, however, rather creditable to the man than fo tho system, which is franght with dangerous possibilities. It is especially daugerous now that a considerable fund has been accumulated out of the inspee- tion fees, which cannot bo diverted to other State uses, and forms a strong at- fraction to scheming politicians. It is rumored that several of this class are nlready on the scent,—nusious te gain control of the money, and of places which may bo filled up from the noble army of ward bumuers, The appointment of apy man of this class as Chief Inspector would work untold damage to the grain trade of Chicago, It surely is not too much to ask that no person aliall be selected who has not the confidevce of the men whose property he will handle, aud of which his subordinates will doter- mine the value, by assigning the grade to which it belongs. 'TheChief Inspector should at least be nominated by tho Board of Trade. THRE ILLINOIS RIVER IMPROVEMENT, ‘The Ilinois House of Hoptosentatives have thought proper to reject tho bill appropriat- ing 370,000 to complete tho dam on the Iili- nois River at Copperas Creek, The motives for this extraordinary proceeding are wonder- fal, when it is remembered that the Legisla- ture of the Stato is elected to promote the publio interests, and not merely those of any party, ‘There is a Democratic party measure in tho Legislature known as tho bill to repeal tho Registry law. The Republican members of the House, os a body, vote ngainst that in- iquitous bill. It is a bill to abolish honest elections in largo cities, and especially in Chicngg, It is n bill to ennblo the Democratic party, by illegal voting, to give sucha majority in this city as will control the clection of twenty-eight members and Scuators of tho General Assembly, three Congressinen, all the city and county ofticers, and to control largely the election of all State officers, If the Dem- ceratic party had the numerical strength to do this, it would not ask tho repeal of tho Registry law ; but it has at its command here a trained vicious and loafer class of populn- tion which, in the event of a repeal of the Registry law, can poll in a day ss mauy votes os may be contracted for or deemed advisable, Even under the Registry law, there have. been occasions when contracts have Leen made by which a given numbor of picked men wero, for n consideration, to vote cach in a stated number of precincts. If tho [Registry Inw bo repealed, thon all elections in this city will heronfter bo de- termined, not by the number of honost votes polled, but by the number of illogal votes which the corrupt office-scekers may cotitract and pay for, It so happens that this repeal of the Registry law cannot bo passed without some Republican votes, and, theso votes being withheld, the Democratic members propose to punish the Stato and punish their own constituents by voting down ono of the wisest aud most equitable expenditures of moncy yot made by the State, A largo number of the presont majority party in tha House of Representatives were elected by the Grangers, whose grand object was to havo the rates of transportation put under legal control. ‘fhe Stato of Ilinola has o canal leading from Lake Michigan to tho Illinois Itiver ; the navigation of that river during tle senson' requires that a cortain number of dare shall bo constructed. One of there is already iinished, extending the canal to Moenry, ‘The second, at Copperas Croel:, is partially finish. ed. With the money on Land from the tolls on the canal and those to be received this senson, there will be only a deficit of $70,000 in the means to complete this dam, thereby still further extending the navigation of the rivor by 60 miles, ‘he tolls for transporta- tion of pll agricultural products to market, and the tolls on lumber and all other articles needed by the farmers, havo been reduced to almost nominal figure, ‘This canal and river improveuient runs through tho State, and is the natural road to market of a wido area on both sides, Within this area are several railroads, whose tolls aro of neces- sity regulated and kept down by those of the water route, It ia immaterial whether pound of freight ba carriod on tho water- route or not, so long as tho railroads urocom. pelled to redueo their rates so as ta compete with those for which freight may bo carried on tho canal aud river, When completed aud all the dams are in, the Ulinols River and caual will bo one of the grent- est blessings to the State,—an absolute and inexorabla regulator of all tho railroads within the area of territory accessible .to the river and canal, Yet, these special representatives of the fonners have com. bined with the Bourbons to punish tho State, to punish their constituents, aud to fayor the railyoad monopoly, by voting agsinut tho ap- propriation, simply because the Nepublicans will not vote to abolish legal elections jn Chi- tago by the ropeal of the Registry law, When comploted, this river aud caval will he to the people living within o wide area on cach side, fur the wholo loxgth, a protection against extortion, aguinst discrimination, and ogainst oppression, which caunot be secured by law, nor Railrosd Commissioners, nor schedules of prima fucie rates, nor by suits at law. | It will be an absolute reguintor of tolls on freight, whieh uo railrond can disre- gard, nor bribe, nor control. We submit this action of the majority of Democrats aud Independents to the con- sideration of the people of the State, and especially those who aro ko deoply interested in iho matter of railroad freights, ‘The House has rejected the only real and permn- nent measure of protection agninst railroad monopoly that lias yot been propored, and rejected it merely to revengo the refusal of the Republicau members to repeal the Regis- try Inw, OUR NEW BOARD OF TRADE. A eelobrated English jurist once remarked that it is possible to drivo a conch and six horses through any act of Parliament that was over passed, With this in mind, and knowing that the men of to-day are fully as ingenious in evasion as those of any former generation, it is not wiso to praise the revired rules of the Board of Trado of this city ag in- capable of further emendation. Yet a care. ful perusal enn scarcely fail to lend to the conclusion that thoy aro not only a vast im- provement, but embrace so mavy and so radical changes as to amount to a reorganizn- tion of the moda in which inembers of the Board will transact business, if not to the formation of a new Loard, ‘The history of that Association in the past is marked by the record of so many sanguin. ary commercial frays ns to throw into the background the move quiet features which make that record highly honorable asa whole. Scareely any year of tho past decade has Inpsed without the occurrence of more than ono of those disgraceful and injurious com- morcial episodes called “corners.” The year 1874 was unusually prolific in this respect, not less than four corners having been ongi- nocred, undor the State law for thoir proven- tion, which nominally went into effect Inst June. Tho Board of Trade has now under- taken to do what that law could not do; and with a fair prospect of success in the effort. Formerly, the rules of the Board of Trade protected any commercial Suvvock in insist. ing on his pound of fiesh,—the only excep- tion to the rule being in tho caso where a single pound of flesh was not left on the skeleton, Under a mistaken sentiment in re- gard to what constitutes honorable dealing, a momber who wag acute enough, and rich enough, could force others, under certain cir- cumstances, to pay him almost any price his fancy might dictate, and in vory many eases the ouly thing considered in fixing that figure was tho point upto which 2 short conld be squeezed without killing him, Un- der the now rules all this is prohibited by the provision that a fair estimate of valuo shail be made by disinterested parties, who shalt constrne the rulos a3 being designed to secure justico and equity in trade, and by the further enactment that any:one found guilty of at- tanpting to oxtort a fictitious price, or who shall make or report fictitions purchases or sales, shall be expelled. ‘ These fentnres of the new rules, alone, commend them to the judgment of every one who desires fair dealing, to say uothing of their influence upon the good name and pros. perity of the city. Corners have been tho canecr sores upon our commercial system, and, while they havo seemed toincroase trade and benefit the farmer for the nonce, they havo done far more harm, by derangement of tho markets, than enough to counterbalance the seeming good, And it docs not appear that tho new rules are framed so as to dis- criminate against the holders of property, whilo presenting on efficient check on at- tempts at extortion. ‘There are saveral other great improvements in the rules, though subordinate in impor. (once to the one above noted. Wo may in- , stance the sections which provide for the greater safety of money deposited as security for the due performance of contracts, thoro providing for sdjustmont of differences in disputed cases, and the ones more particn- lnrly framed with roferenco to preserving order and personal decorum on the Board. These ore all valuable features, and, os n whole, the rules appear to justify the expec. tation that the objectionable features of tho organization have been so effectually purged out as to give to Chicago a really naw Board of ‘Trade, THE STATE REFORM SCHOOL, Mr. W. W. Hrxutras, of the Chicayo Nows- boys’ Home, has published in Tne Unmuxs the results of his obsorvations during a re- cent visit to’ tha State Reform School at Pontiac, His roport is not very complimont- avy cither as -to tho success of the institu. tion or to the policy of the State towards it. Tho State has provided a farm of 270 acres and the various buildings needed ; but these buildings aro deficient in construction, rendering it impossible to heat them in winter or to ventilato thom at any time. A result is that tho 18! boys, or young men, ero all hnddled together, the good aud the bad, tho neophyte and tho graduato in crime, Ho found in the school four or five boys who had becomio so incor- rigiblo in crime in Chicago that they bad been sont to Pontine for fiva yonrs; nud he de- clares that it is a‘ cruel wrong” to put such boya in auch 9 place, where there aro eo many others young in crimo, who, having had no jail or Bridewell exporionce, are yet apt scholary, ready and anxious to listen to the exporienca of the voterans from Chicago, Theso older criminals have each astory of personal adventuro to relate, or deeds of daring and valor, hoir-brendth escapes, cnn. ning devices for evading tho Jaw, and thoy become horocs in tho estimation of tho younger boys, who aro emulous of auch dis- tinction, Mr, Binuinas puts the pertinent question: Whatelso can come from this indiscriminate mixing of all grados of young criminals but the vory opposite of what is aimed at In our Stato Reform*8chool?" Aud he signilleantly nidds: ‘ As tho matter now stands, wo are doiug two kinds of work nt Pontiac, Whether wo save more than wo loso by the process and plan now employed will require close calculation to determine,” In other words, according to Mr, Birurnas! practical view of the question, it is un even thing whether, under the present system, tho establishtnont ot Pontiac is a echool of crime oraschool of reform, Tho aggreyation of all the inmates in one family, when in that family there are adepts in crime who havo knowledge and experionce in all kinds of immorality unknown to the others, ean have no other offect than to instruct tha uninitiated in criminal matters of which thoy had no previous knowledge, aud to awaken in thom an ambition tu share tho perils and enjoy tho pleasures related by their more experienced associates, ‘Lhe effect of axsocinting these experienced criminals, some of whom have kiHed their man, others counnitted bur. glary, others have exchanged shots with policemen, oud many. of whom have had relations with juvenilo criminals of tho other sex, with a larga body of other boya more unfortunate than criminal and but slightly progressed in crime, is like placing a gratnate and finished scholar amonga hord of uninformed aud unread boys. Experience and knowledge will exercise s controlling in- fluence, and oxcile the wontler, nud admira- tion, and nmbition of the less instructed. Schemes and plana for futuro lives of crime will bo Inid, and tho expiration of imprison- ment will bo looked forward to, not n5 0 ree turn to lives of industry, toil, and virtue, but as tho ocension for beginning a course of vice in all its most seductive and altractive branches, It is problematical whother n school conducted on that plan is not a school of vice, and whother there ia not far more Jost that might have been snved than is ro- claimed or reformed to any extent, Tho remedy for this is n chango of system; a division of the boys into families, arranged according to age, profiviency in crime, habits, past associations, and general charactor and propensities, ‘Though there may be a failuro to reform tho viclous and confirmed criminals, tho other classes—the young and inex. porienced—will bo protected from tho evil aasocintions, and be spared the knowledge of things of which thoy have nover dreamed. Six or eight experienced criminals, such as eseapo the Penitentiary on tho often-doubt- ful plen of non-nge, will teach tho boys in tho Leform School more evil in three months than thoy would learn in the streets of Chi- engo ina year, To pick up all tho wild boys in the State and herd them with theso con- firmed criminnls, is literally to convert the Reform School into n school for instruction in crime, The Legislature ought not to ad- journ without providing tho romedy for this alarming vil. EXTREMES IN JOURNALISM, There are two kinds of business which every man foels himself to bo entirely capa- ble of conducting on an improved plan, We nover yot met a person who couldn't run a hotel or mannge a newspaper. Everything elso under the sun seoms to require somo special training, Ono doesn’t practice law, or prescribe medicines, or manages bank, or manufacturo clothes-ping, without previously devoting somo study to the calling. But ono edits and publishes a newspaper, or instructs others how to edit and publish a newspapor, aso matter of course, It is n gift generally distributed among mankind, without diatinc- tion as to “race, color, or previons condi- tion.” A pocnliar characteristic of this general feculty is that any man who does not happen to edit and publish a newspaper knows how it ought to be dono very much better than overy other man who is actually engaged in the business. Tho horse-cars swarm with these gifted jonrnal- ists in embryo,—these flowers of genius born to blush ungeen, No houschold is completes without one or more of them. They infest tho newspaper ofiices, and think their special mission in lifo is to visit editors and tell them how they ought to conduct their nowspapers, When these good-hearted and talented oma- teurs have not timo to make a personal visitn- tion, thoy send their thoughts upon winged messengers in the shape of communica- tions to enlighten the heathens whom necidlent has placed where wey ought to havo been called, and to improvo the world by improving tho nowspapers the world lives on. Gernianicus” is no exception to this general rule, Ho is one of tho latest benefactors to the newspaper fra- ternity,—a sort of journalistic Maczxas. His communication appeared yesterday, To- morrow wo shal! probably havo to make room for “ Reformer's,” next day for ‘* Pro Bono Publico's,” and the day following for ‘ Vin. dex " or tho veritable ‘Janius.” So it gos, We have long sinco given up all iden of curb. ing this universal talent for improving nows- papers, and gracefully succumb to the inevi- table, 4 “+Germanicus,” like most of his numerous class, is nrevolutionist. Of course, all news- papers are just what they ought not to bo; “Germanicna” tells us what they onght to be. ‘Tue Trinonxe, for instance, onght to give just five lines ench day to the Beroren trial, not more than two for a murdor, hang- ing, or defaleation, suppress amusements and sporting news altogether, and suppress evory- thing in relation to the evil acts of mankind. In other words, ‘fim ‘Inmonz ought to dwell constently on the pioty, purity, aud porfecta- bility of mankind, and ignore human nature as it is, It might possibly reach out and re- port something as sensational as a spelling- watch, if all the words wero proper, but it must draw tho line here, As at present con- stituted, newspapers ara tho “schools of vice and nuracrios of crime,” declares our critic. ‘lo reform, they must refuse to chronicle crime, vice, scandal, derelic. tions, irregularities, or dishonesties, pub- lio and private offenses against tho laws, sports, pleasures, or sensations, be- cause all theso things **tend to deprave tho people,” and “ work the moral ruin of num- berless thousands.” Under this rule, tho neve-papers ought not to have oxposed and discussed the Credit-Mobilier swindle, the Pacific Mail bribery, tho salary-grab fraud, nor Tammany Hall robberios, nor any other striking Instanco of tho faithlessness of pub- Tie ofticers, becauso such exposure and diseus- sion aro calculated to bring Jawmakors into coutempt, and tofamillarize the people with the weakness of officeholders, Nor may tho newspapers tear tho mask from the face of tho clerical hypocrite and lecher, and demon- atrate anow that the livory of Heaven may be used in the servico of the doyil, Nor shall thoft, defaleation, betrayal of trust, swin- dling, gambling, or crime or vico of any kind be bronght into any prominence, lest too familiar with its face tho renders may first cndure, then pity and then embrace, If these or avy other of the shortcomings and weaknesses of man- Lind be referred to at all, tho reforence must be confined to “five linos” at tha utmost limit, generally to two lines, putin small type, shoved olf to ono side, and obscured as much as possible, After taking up a atickful, or atimosta quarter of a column, with the chronicles of the vicos, licontionsneas, crimes, and wickedness of men, the romalinder of the fifty-six long columns sre to be devoted to the causo of righteousness of spirit, lovell- ness of charactor, sereneness of disposition, and the unselfish and bonevolont phases of human nature, pictured in the most roseate hues. Is not there a disproportion in this allotment? Aro the virtues of mankind to tho vices as 65} to 4 of ncolumn? Hayo the churches aud reformers brought be world to that state of por. ection where o lively and entertaining nowspaper of eight pages, at an expenditure of $1,500 aday, can bo mada up from the Lright sido of life, leaving the shadows to their own darkness? And, if so, will the proportion of aubscribers hold out in the satne number ? ‘This ia ono picture of the first newspaper made perfect. ‘Thoro have been attompts to roproduce tho picturo in lifo, and they havo been most diamal failures, "Tho rovorso of tho picture has unfortunately been realized with profit to the publisher and to tho dis- gracoof the public, Ibis the Sntanic nowa- paper. It is tho journal which grovels in dirt, revels in obscenity, delights in vice, ex- aggerates tho evils of the world, impngns tho motives of every man, libela tho public of- ficial, invents scandals for the prurient, copics its morolities after the modela of Bauzac aud Paut pe Kock, sneers at religion, decries yirtno, suspects all men, defamos all women, and defiles everything which it touches, It is » journalistic moustrosity,—part vulture, part harpy. It isa filthy bird, and befouls its own nest, ‘Thon overy other croature must be brought low to its own lovel, ‘There ig no truth in it. Yet it thrives on its lies find its obscenity. Every man and woman who is libeled or defamed lie in wait for libel and defamation to fall upon their neighbors, Smut passes for wit, and bestiality for hu- mor. Nobody belicves a word it prints, and everybody professes o disgust for the very mention of its name, and yet ‘the children ery for it.” Men buy it on tho horse-cara or at thoir offices who are ashamed to take it at their homes, and wives and mations steal away to rend it and pollute their minds by contact with the garbage it contains, ‘The picture is notan attractive one, It ina Satyr tothe Iyperion which * Germanicna* lins sketched. Both are ox- tremes, but ono js real and tho other mythi- eal, Fortunately, the greater number of Ameri. can newspapers do not strive aftor the impos- sibility of one of theso extremes, nor descond to tho infamous actuality of the other. ‘Tho newspaper must bear its sharo of tho respon. sibility for the morat status of the community in which itis published, but it cannot benr the ontire burden. It is primarily a reflex of the world’s doings of a day, and must take the bad with the good; it is only secondarily n reformer. It may help virtuo and discourage vice, but it cannot create the one nor prohibit the other. When it undortakes to ignore tho follics and foibles of mankind, it will cease to bo au agent of usefulness, for it will have no constituency, It must be a netrs-paper in order to reach the enrs of tho public. Something may be dono to improve the tone of nowspapors, it is tro; but ‘Germanicus” and his numerous class of reformers begin st the wrong end. Let them inaugurate a reform among readers of newspapers. Let them form a lengue to discontinuo purchasing and pntronizing the obscene, libelous, and lying newspapers. Let them encourage that class of nowspapers which content themselves with gathering news and do not mnnufacture it, which chronicle the notable vents, whether virtuous or vicions, moral or crim- inal, but do not magnify, nor distort, nor de- fame, The nowspapers will improve as tho charactor of the demand for them improves, but not by the falxe representation of a perfect condition of things which does not exist, TAXING KNOWLEDGE. 5 Senator Hamuin and ex-Sonator (thank Fortuno and Minnesota for tho “ ox") Ran sry ore trying vory hard to put upon each othor’s shoulders the responsibility for the amendmont to the Postal law, dictated by tho express companies’ lobby and rushed through tho Inst Congress in its closing hours, Rasaey is tho Jast one hoard from. Tho St. Paul Press announces tint it speaks by his authority, and then makes soma re- markablo assortions, It scoms that tho proprietors of stage lines ‘in Arizona and other parts of the country ” havo found that their mail-contracts did not yield satisfactory profit sinca packages of four pounds weight were admitted to the mails, So these poor proprictors—who make more money out of their mail-contracts than they do from all other sources whatever, and who bring two or three Cnonrznnina jobs be- foro Congress every year—sent o lobby to ‘Washington, This lobby, not, of course, the lobby maintained by the express companies, touched the aged hearts of Messrs. Hasan ond Ramsey by their appeals. Theso two stateamon decided to Jay a heavy tax on Knowledgo for the benefit of tho stnge-owners “in Arizona and other parts of tho country.” Hasan Thnd been re-elected Senator for six yeors more, 80 ho didn’t caro what people thought or said, Rasmex had boen cleated to stay at homo for the rest of his existence, so ho didn’t care either, Unfortunately for both of thom, the people care a good deal, The pso- plo have not that burning affection for ex- press monopolies and Arizona stage compn- nies which makes them long to bo taxed for tho benefit of such public benefactors, When the latter hod finished their conference with the lobby, they prepared threo amend- ments, the first two comparatively harmless, sinco they only reduced the maximum weight of third-class mail-matter to two pounds, The third was tho harm. ful one, It donbled tho postage on such matter, Ranazy presonted the first two amendments, and allowed thom to bo killed forthwith. Absolutely, no effort to snvo them was mado, ‘Then Hanzi, in pureu- ance of tho plot, brought forward tho third. Jt was during tho very last session of tho Renate, Mr, Hasnain, in presenting tho amendment, sald that tho Postmaster-Gen. eral wanted it adopted (?). ‘This offtcial has since tricd his best to get rid of it, so that the use of his name was probably wholly gratuitous, Hannum said, moreovor, that it would raise $2,000,000 increased rovenuc! whereas ho must havo known, unless old age has sapped his reason, that it wonld largely decrease the revenues by throwing postal bual- nossa into the hands of the oxpress companios. Senator West protested, as tho representative of the Appropriation Committee, against the amondmeyt 5 but it was carried without a division, so that thero is no record of the men who voted for it, Thero is howover, o record that the job was planned and oxecuted by two Senators,—ono just re-clected by Maine, ono just rejected by Minnesota, ‘These two men made the people pay 2 cents por ounce on third-class mall-matter, whon 1 cent was on amplo rate. Tho St. Paul Press says thot, since tho in- creased tax only affects ‘the small amount of transient nowspapers passing through the mails," it ia all right, ‘Cho small amount! Tho Press doubtless takes its own tran- sient ciroulation a8 a guide, Wo can well imagine that its transient and regular business aro both exceedingly small, but tho expo. rience of an unintoresting nowspaper furnishes no criterion for that of on intorest- ing one, Probably one-third of tho daily issue of Tux Cincaco Taipuns is romailed by subscribers, ‘Tho now law makes tho postage for cach paper 8 conts, except on Saturday and Sunday, when tho charge on a trausiont copy of ‘ug Tarun is respectively 4 and 6 conte, One of our,Ohicago subscribers who sornds his paper tonfriond in another city paid in postage, under the old law, abont $7 a year, Ho must now pay $12,148, a pre- posterons charge for a yenr'a postage, and one about which tho people bitterly com- pioin, This is a grossly, unjust tox on knowlodga, It affects tho distribution, not only of naws- papers, but of books, magazines, and pam- piiets, A number of prominent publishers were interviewed by agetts of the express companies, a fow weeks ago, and wore asked not to oppose tho amondment. It is proba. ble that special oxpress rates wero offered them. The fact of theso interviews has a singular bearing on ox-Sonator Ranserx and the Press’ assertion that the oxpress com- panics had nothing whatever todo with the change in the law! ‘Tho truth is, that the amondment was a lobby mensuro; that two Senators, both free from farther responsibili- ty for the timo boing, served as the tools of the lobby ; and that tho increnso of poatnga and consequent reduction in Post-OMeo re- ceipts was an ontrage upon the Department aud the people. SERMONS IN STONES, Timo was whon a fifth assistant janitor in Government omploy did not need to havo a suite of rooma in a marble or granite palace in order to do his duty, but that time scems to bo passing away. Tho United States is building massive structures of doubtful architectura and undoubted oxpense all over the country. What ono city gots, another must have, When Chicago was deprived by tho Great Fire of all Govornment buildings, the oxuber- ant Munnett, instead of providing for tho erection of nsuitable Custom-House and Post- Office about twice the sizo of the old one, which tho needs of the city had outgrown, splanned tha enormous pilo of stone which is now slowly taking shape and quickly costing money, and got an appropriation therefor, ‘Then 8t. Louis, which had a good enough building already, bocame jealous, and had to bo pacified with afew millions, ‘Chis story has been repented over tho whole country. “You vote for my approprintion and I'll vote for yours,” is the regular Congressional bar- goin,—o bargain which hos Inid millions of useloss taxation upon the people, Tax-payers will take a mournful interest in tho following tablo, the offering of the last Congress to local greed and jenlotisy : Charleston, 8, 0. $ 101,893 50,000 100,000 COPD ryicaiardecaivistsbpshaecens + 750,000 For Custom-Iouse ond Yost-Officc, Cincine nin + 000,000 25,000 60,C00 40,000 12,000 Ha, Ind. Fer Post-Oftice and Court-ifouse, New York,. 384,090 For Court-Hougo and Poxt-Ofllce, Hartford, Conn. 100,000 NT. 200,000 For Custom-House aud Post-Oflico, Grand tapids, Mich, ....+. oe everseses 50,000 aor Post-Oitica burg, W. Va. 18,007 For Court-Itou 730,009 For Custom-Houso aud Post-Oricc, Port itu- FOI) MICH. csseessrseee secseeoneee 25,000 For Uourt-Houso’ and’ Post-ilice, Raleigh, N. 0. +. 60,000 20,009 claca,., 160,000 For Gusto: Fuuou For annus Wanhingtot... 25,000 For Marino Hosp! 15,000 For ‘ropalra and prosorvation of all pubilo ‘bulldjuge uuder control of the Treasury De- partmctt...... saat 250,000 Vor heating appai f nl control of the ‘I'reasury Department, 176,00) For furniture and carpets of publio bulidings under control of tho Treasury Departinent, 150,020 I for i d= 75,000 ington. 196,000 For compleiion of Jail, District of Columbia, 179,837 For repairing Court-Housain Washington,... _9,C00 For repairs to Capitol... 50,COU For bullding a Benate stable, 10,00 For buildings, ote,, at Dotant BA For new hall, Smitheonian Inetituto..., + 13,600 For military prison aEvort Leavetiworth, 100,000 ington, + 125,000 For Contes for oxlitition of Guyernment Departments and Smithsonian Inatitulon.s.ccesrececeereees 150,009 TOLL. se ssessessereontveersecoens Tho greater part of this vast sum is merely to pay tho current exponses of building. Tho items on this list will take at least $25,000,. 000 moro before they censo to bleed tho Treasury. This year's aggregate is somewhat smaller than the last, because ons or two of our white marblo elephants Lave at last been finished, and becauco thero is an unexpended Dalanco of somo millions from provious appro- priations. Still, this isan amazing suin of money to be taken from the people in one year aud transmuted into atone and mortar, ‘The sermons theso stones preach tell of ex- travagance, jobbery, a little true and more false prido, log-rolling, and corruption, Let us hope the change in tha Government Architect’s office may lead to something bet- ter, Thoro wasn painful likeness and un- likeness botweon Mutter and Mrpas. What- over Mrpag touched turned into gold, and whatover Muzurrr touched cost as much as if it had boen mado of gold. ANOTHER SICKENING SCANDAL, Mr, Isaac G, Parzen, c2-Congreusman from Missouri, has unfortunately bean mado United States Judge for tho Western District of Arkansas. It is not fitting that ho should serve in that position unless he can answer a gravo charge which haa been brought sgainst him, and which is supported by tho oficial journals of the Touse, A fow days before Congress adjourned, the Interior Dopartment—which comprises the Tudian Bureau, and, og some persons think, tho Indian Ring—reqnested an appropriation of $800,000 to defray the cost of supporting 8,000 Indian prisoners at Fort Leavenworth, boing $100 for oach redakin, It is to be remembered that the appropriations already proposed and afterwards voted for Indian purposes had beon based on the nocessity of maintaining all tho savages, these prisoners included, st the agencios, March 1, His Honor (?) Judge Parxen, then au M. O,, added this item of $800,000 to the Indian Appropri- ation bill in the committes-room, and then moved to pass the bill without having it road. He did not mention the amondmout, When objection was made to such summary process, ho atotod publicly, before the wholo Houso, that all the amendments did not Increaso the appropriation over $10,000, ‘This socms to have been a deliberate Ilo. Panken was ex- exposed by Lovauntpar, his fellow-commit- teoman. 'Thoreupon ho at onco withdrew his motion. Despite this exposure, the $300,000 was voted, Indian Ring supplies sro always voted. ‘Ibero was an appropriation a fow years ago of §&500,000 for feeding a tribe of ‘Teton Sioux which did not exist | ‘This was the first move in the scandal, It ig dificult’ to believe that Mr, Panen did not also haven hand in tho’ second. Nine days after the appropriation was made, the 8,000 prisonors wero transferrod to their agoncles, ‘pnd to Indian Bureau at once advertised for “beet for thom, to be furnished at the agencies “five doys oftor the award.” ‘his stipulation about time cute off honcwt biddora, Home contractor in the Ring will ot the own rates, and there will doubt “divide” of the people's money, 000 will all be thrown away, for the agen appropriations, ns we havo already seid, to food the wholo body of redskings This story is short and foul, Taaao G. Panken rise and oxplain ¢) playa in it 2 —_—_—_—— POLITICAL PROGRESS IN The parishes of Russian ara mete quasi-reprorontative way, Lut the Peopte} i . no shore in the management of national fairs, It was not to be expected thet 50, os i 000 serfs would be reckoned in politics, It was not “ theirs to question why.” (ry : nimple duty was to “do and die,” boty which thinga they did with grent thoron v noss, and tho Inst with rapidity, ‘The ig 000,000 free hired Inborers were tost in ike niiss of semi-slaves, Even the Hobility: ign counted for little, since Prren tho Great broke their power. ‘hoy have beon intr; _ ers, not statesmen, Tho Emperor Pavtsaid, ‘The only mon who is noble in my dominig ; ia tho man to whom I speak, and for ie tine that Iam speaking to him." Any Ph of tha line of Czars could havea wsed Ung NIV's words, “ Letat, deat mai,” wit truth, When the railrond between Y Petorsburg and Moscow'was built, the relgy ing Emperor drew a straight line hetween, ty two places and sent a General to constrnett road, The order wos obeyed with nilitiy fidelity, and the railway left o number dt flourishing elticsa fow miles on either si¢, ‘Lhe time for such foolish display of dep. ism has passed. ‘The 60,000,000 serfs here become 50,000,000 freeman. ‘Their rise ne produced nn almost proportional ab vanea in tha polities! position of 3, 16,000,000 freo-born workmon, ‘Tho a's ara worse off, materially, than the for; Teocent accounts of the condition of Rusty artisans represent them ns working in che, hot, unhealthy roome; toiling many horn fora few cents; sleeping on the floor in iy only suit of clothes ench possesses ; etting bad, poor, and insufficient food ; sperilice the savings of weeks in one frantic debarc,, and dying at a frightCully ently age. Jn aren an somi-civilized country, no Government ca Jong endure under which the people are ni, erable, It is probably the consciousness ¢ this fact which has led to a great innovetig in Russian polities,—great, that is, in sible consequences, For some weeks, a shadow of & Reprererts, tive Assembly has beon sitting at St. Pate: burg. Ita membera wera chosen by Crown, butthey aro drawn from four sepante classes of tho community. ‘hero ara colt prominent officials of the Central Goren. iment, cloven local magnates, all of whem ne Presidents of Government Territorial Boars a few nobles, and eight representatives of the untitled classes,—tho Burgomasters of s Potoraburg and Moscow and six 1: manufacturers and morcbants, Tho, axi themselves have no spokesman, but the “ Parlimnent " sits to doviso measures for their benefit. The subjects of consideration are state to bo tho relations of employers and employes; tho formnticn, d's. solction, and brench of contracts between te two classes; child-labor; the hours of Inxr; tho education of the children of nrtisnns; wx} sanitary improvements in the food and Lous of working people, There are throo important differences be tween this sham Parliamont and a ral one It can only advise, not legislate, although its ndvico will, no doubt, be iad’ a Iv: by the Cznr's sanction ; its mombers are selected, nt elected; ond the ratio of ropresentation is wholly in favor of tho highest class Novertheless, theno threo defects hat been also trna of overy first Parlinmet called in Europo. ‘This one is, as we anid, only a shadow, but it is probrbly th: shadow cast before by coming ovents, ‘Th substance will bo seon ero long, ‘The libertia of the English people date froin tho day, ia 1266, when Sruoy pez Montyonp arsenb!e! tho first English Parliament in the cM chaptoy-house of Westminster Abbey,—s Ps lament which was in many respcets (4 counterpart of this. Job nt hjy Tent bg the 20,0 Will yy, te part hg co nS vt During tho campaign of 1872, Sonator Tots, llnois, tee to ombollinh bla- stump, pees ea Western States witha atory which had in upon his sudiences, and which was nvmetb: lowas A lady left ber two pots, » monkoy ard asf locked up 1a rooin together, aud coins bk ® aboutan hour saw the monkey squatted wpos 0 mantol, wiping te blood from his. month witb wr dent satisfaction with hia procooding, Of the rt nothing could be scen but ite feathers lying in aber iu tho middie of the floor, ‘Tho laity ox :luimal amazemont and anger, " Wliat's boon golus and tha parrot, comfug at the {natant frou tots entirely donuded of its faathore, stew ‘with ono of ita catch prance, “4 h—l'of a tus, of a time!” This story was applied with great approptis’* noss by a correspondeut of the Now Yuk Zim writing from Hartford upon tho prospect of tb Republican party recovering the Btate. Te Jant undoubted succoss of the Ropublican rant was in 1872, whon Gov. JzweLy was olected If a majority of 25, The aplit caused by the fst ford and Now Havon diMeulty and cther d+ agrooments loft tho fold to the Domocrats. Tht pronpocts for the immediate future are not UY any moana as bright or os cortaiy as thoy mlz bo, ‘Tho Btato was carried for Quant in 13:2tt 5,000 majority, bue that eloction was a vt doubtfal indication of tha strongth of the ystt* Bincd thon, in 1879, camo the fouls me thonod, and the figures wore subjected 1) pm altoration o@ follows: 1873, Heoubls vote, 39,245; Democratic, 45,075; Democrat majority, 9,830; 1874, Republican, 99,9753 D2 coratic, 46,755; Domocratiy majority, 6° showing a gain of 954 by tho Domociate. hn 1873 there wore 2,542 votos osut for the tmpt aneo candidates; and in 1674, 4,960. ‘Ties tht correspondent unjustifiably aubtracts {rom " Democratic majorities, The figures must Jowod to stand aa they are, The question ot maiue whother thia majority can be wiped - after the indulganco of the party in that inter ine warfare graphically desoribod by the dopets nated fowl of Sonator Loaane’ auccdote. ————__—_ Appearances docided}y indicate that one of - naocosnful contestanta an tho Jate inter-caller 4 oratorioal exhibition bas secured a position the editorial staff of the Philadelphia it ig Wo detect bis fine handiwork ina paras ty ‘ scription of ANpaEw Jouxson’s speech 0 Benate. ‘Theso aro the closing soutenicen:, ‘The speoch was really & wonderful produaly full of law ss ono of Wepatzn'y arguimentt, 29° 5 learning as en oration by CuasLin BUNS 1, former village apprentice wus su cultured Fe mar professor, apd aw clasetcal aa Macavtay, 0! oo denounced Grant, but it was left, for JouNeor te him s Casan; otlcre had thundered detsne President, bet JouNsom was tho frst to an goasor with the words Cazo addressed to the smite’ hy the subtle onslaver of the bertios of ils COURITE in4 ox-Presidont {8 apparently te most learoed gtave and reveroud Beuators, my ry By way of contraat, the following, £0 Boston Journal, is not bad: 1” ‘The chief utterance inthe Sensteon ¥ ents wl sot ener era ek whon it we uy @ Buus old” notes of the tune it was playing ® torribly cold spell came on, a Mr. Joun A, Loaax, in bis last log spe In tho Benate, touched with ohare tie eloquence on the troublesomences i308 aclenco, so-called bya cortain claw of PONTE y, sald all the conscience of the Sonat be on tho Republican aide, It made cow! them all. Thero. was moro tslk of oe among the Republicans of the Sens