Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1875, Page 4

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GRAND OPI| Shernan 1ouss, iicue,* —NO MEFTING—Lslyetto Chapter No, 3, y order of 11, TUCKKR, Beatatary, ———tnn BUSINESS NOTICas €OD LIVER OIL AND LIME-TIAT PLEASANT apd netieh aront ntihe Cural il canaanintivo aymptomis, -« “'I(Iml'l‘ ()Inrr.\fln"lfll‘Vllllu U«JVL:E(;‘:‘{UI: .l'iur lgghl \ voreaily aobted [ medical practice. 3 B A R P T b, A CITARM THAT BATTLES TIMF.—NO WOMAN avor Junke old, or ovon vilerlr, wehila lier face retaing tha talruses and tzeshnoss of lior eaclier years, and this is & T nevor loea whilo sho rellos by a0 dofonn Bgalst ¥ all drugcistss TO GIVE IT BTRENGTH o improvo ite toxture, 1o praventits falling {ckau its growth~in snort, to make [t aa 1o taniled, (1o crawning personal chaem of both sezes—ihis istho wark Ifurnoit's Gucoaine will accomplish, it fullyased. ‘Thera fa & stimulating proper.y in {his yirop. gration, which greatly assistx tha growth of tho fibres, at tho sxnio timne rondering them ampoth, si1ky, sd elastio, The Chicags Tribuns, Mondey Morning, April 6, 1875, n tha a3 The Scnatorinl excursion to Mexico has broken up, soveral of the party having de- cided at Now Orleans to go no further, while & fow will préceed to Vern Cruz by the regu- Inr mail steamor and ns privato teavelers, ‘The prospect of encountering yellow fever on the trip was sulllcient to counterbalance the mauy sttractions of the exc: Chinese dominion in Formosn isnot an un- qualified success. Tho fierce aud unterri- tied islanders, who had grown quict and con. tented under the Government of Japan, make no effort to become reconciled to their ancicut enemics, and havo precipitated a con- flict with tho Chinese forces, in which the lattor were defeated with henvy loss, The old and well-worn story nbout the re- cruiting of soldiers in Illinois by Jonx A, Looax for tho Confederato servico, recently rovived by the ‘nfiidavit of one Jony L. Wueatzy, published in the New York World, i4 fully and finally disproved by the testi- mony of Col. ‘TnonNpyr Broons, of Balti- more, an ex-Confedernto officer, whose lotter to Senator Looax is published among our Washington dispatches. Col. Brooxs char- noterizes the Waoarwy afidavit as o Mo from haginning to end, and in his lottor states that tiie ouly men over reernited in Williamson County, 1il, for the Southern army wero en- rolled and takon to Kentucky by Limself, and that Joux A, LooaN had nothing to do with it Thy nbsurdity of holding what aro called town mectings recurs to-morrow in North, South aud West Chicago, and, though thess meetings are an absurdity, they are in ac- cordoneo with the lnw ns it now exists, and thoy will decide the sums‘of monoy to be apjtopriated for town *expensos” for the year pext ensuing. If tax-payers will take tho trouble to be present in forcs, theso ap- portionments mny bo kept within reasonablo Lounds; but it they stay away and leave tha mattor to bo settled by the bummers and loaférs who will be drummed up by tho town salary.grabbers and tax-robbers, they nced not complain if the * oxpenses” of the next year avo esti. mated " at ©50,000 or more, In tho South Town in particular thero is certain to be an altempt to securo an enormous grab in this way, and if tax-pyers, forcarmod, submit to beiug robbed, thoy have no one but them. selves to blame, Our selections from nmong the pulpit pro- ductions of yesterdoy include o sermon by the Rev. D, J, Bunuerz, of the Westminstor Presbyterian Churcl, whose topio wns 4 Foshionable Sabbath-Breaking,” in which connoction ho declares the reading of the Sunday newspapers to be a flagrant violation of the spirit of tho Divino law, though ho is XLind enough to qualify this judgment by ap- Dlying it more espieclally to newspapers of the Chicago Z%mes class, whoso popularity, ke haoa discovered, ** is due to the rocklens abandon with which thoy pandor to the Jow. est passions and most shawmeful appetites,” Tho Rev, 1. P, Goopwn, of the Fimt Con- gregational Chureh, preached on the gubject. of *Cunsr's Humanity,” ond the Rev, An. 1R Brooks, of St. Junes' Eplscopal Clureh, delivered Lis farowoll scrmon, A raking broadside at the rovival system comes froxn baying and selli; The Chiengo by no means the only paper in the country that draws the long Low. The Chicago produce markets were gemer. ally tamo on Saturdny, Mess pork wns loss active, and Gie per brl lower, closing atrong at 291,473 cosh, and $91.70 bid for May. Lard wns' quict and n shade finner, olosing at R4, 75@14.80 cash, nud 314.90@14.95 for May. leats wero in good demand and atendy at ¢ for shonlders, 11}e for short ribs, nnd 110 for short cleaws, Ilighwiues wero dull and ensier at 31.11 per gallon, Flour wns quiet aud flrm, Wheat was netive and wenls, closing nt 95fc for April, aud 993c for Mny, Corn wns quict and e higher, closing at 68jc for April, nud 76jc for May. Oals wero active aud Yo higher, closing at 573c for April, aund.61fe for May, Ryo was in good demand, and stronger at R£1.00@1.05. Barley way dull and hregular at $1.023@1.03} for April, and 98@040 for Moy, Hogs were nctive and flrm, Salos at 87.25@8.65, Cattlo wero in fnir domnand at stendy rates. Sheop wore in. active cud wenk at £3.50 The very oxciting and thorough political canvass in Connecticnt closed Snturdny night. To-dny the election takes place, Tho Re. publicans have mado a gallant fight of it, but they have tremondous odds to coutend against, and nre not sanguine of vietory on the Stato ticket, Tho majority fer Inoxn- #ory, Democrat, Inst yenr, wans 6,782; and, s bis administration has been in tho main satisfactory, his demand for o popular **in. dorsement” this year has henvily londi- cappeq the Republicans from the start, Tho tickets in tho ficld are as follows: Oficer. Lenuhlican, Demoeratie, Governor,., » J1s, Lloyd Greon,Chas, It Ingersoll, Lt, Qovernor..,.,Chan, L, Englisk. Geo, 8, SliL ‘Treasuror, Owen 11, Amold, W, E, Raymond, Aug, 1t Tenn, Marvin iL, Banger. . L. Crawford, Alf, B, Goodrich, FORTY-FOUNTH CONGRESH, Jeptibliean, Democratie, , Tos, R, Itiwley. Geo, M. Landers, 8, el James Phelpn, 1.}, tarkwoatherLafas'ta 8, Foster, Fourth, *'Dr. R, Hubbird, Won, 1, Birnum, The Prohibitionists have also made nomi- nations, and may be a disturbing oloment of #0mo consequen AN IMPRACTICABLE SCHEME. On Saturday wo published o letter ad. dressed to Tme Trmuse by Sir Fnavoms Hixcrs, ex-Financlal Minister of tho Domin. ion of Cnunds, upon tho subject of the American eurrency, 'The letter gives very clearly the viows of the writer, but the plan ho proposes is nevertheless fatally defective and utterly impracticable, 1o concedes thatdiie best measure of valne for commodities i that adopted by all other civilized nations, a metallic currency. Io favors nmixad currency, metallie, and paper convertible i¥to coin. Ho thinks that the whole paper isime should be lssued by the National Goveranrent, and that it should b convertible into coin, This is hisplan for re- suming specie poyments, and, if practicable, would of course produce that end, But the establishment of n national paper currency, convertible into coin on demand, in just one of those things which mankind hns always been endenvoring to accomplish, nod has nover yot sncceeded in doing, Sir Fravows Hriers thinks ho has discovered a process by which this result can bo brought about in 1ho United States, which process he states to be: 1. Tho rotirement of all the National Bank notes. 2, Tho issue of national notes in lieu of them, and of tho present legal tender; said national notes to be convertible on demand in gold, and therefora properly called gold notes, These, of coarse, would bo at par so long a4 they wero converti. ble. 8. That the gold necessary fo redeem theso notes, say one-third of tho whole amount, or $250,000,000, bo obtained by the sale of - bonds boaring & por cent interest. Ar, Hivems, whila do- vising n plan for getting gold by the snle of bonds, owits any suggestion as to how the currency once redeemod i to bo put out again. 'The United States is not a bank, and does not lend money; and when these notes wero put back into tho U'rensury in plece of gold, how are the notes to ba got into ciren. Iation ngain? 'Chat is ot n new question in tho United Stetes. The United States could always sell bonds for notes, but the ingenuity of the Government could devise no means of getting tho notes back again except by buy- ing bonds with them, To that policy tho United States would have to resort ogain to carry out 8ir Franos Hovoes' plan, Other- wise, overy timo o bond wns sold, the interest- “‘an old-fashioned clergyman"” of Pike Conn- ty, IlL,, in whose opinion spiritual outpour. ings brought about by** professional outpour. ©ru ™ are not of much permanent benellt, —— "Tho Nebraska City Ziaily Clronicle appears to kavo baon tho subject of a grievous sell, ood not on April Fool's Duy, Ity issuo of Alnrch 30 contains a long articlo, the purport of which s that five million dollars (worth 7) of the Brownvillo, Fort Kearney & Pacific Railway Lnd been sold upon the Chicugo Btock-Exchange amid tremendous excitement on the provious Ssturday, The sale iy alleged to Lave taken place in the Board of Trade rooms, on the corner of * Lasell” and ‘Washington streets, It iy scarcoly necessary to inform our renders thot there is not now @ Btock-Exchange in Ohicago, that onp Board of Trwdo does not dpal ju stocks, aud that 1no wsuch tronaction bas tsken place in Chicago. ‘The story is based upon ignorance oynal Lo thag which was exhiblted & fow years ago by n prominent illustrated paper publishied in Now York City, That veracious shicet gave series of sketches purporting to show the way in which tho gruin trade of this city is con- ducted, Ity picture of * A Boono on 'Change " raprosonted o lot of operators standing up to the knees in looss grain, which othera were sbovaling into bags, while the standess ware bearing bouded debt of tlw United States wonld be incroased. Sir Francis Hixcxs is wide of tho mark when he sayy that gold could Le obtained for bonds boaring 4 per cont interest. Ifo ns. sumes that this statoment was made by Tuz Cuioago Terouse, What wo snid wns that tho presont legal tondors could oventually bo redcemed by tho exchange therefor of a 4 por cent bond, which is vory different from obtaining gold for such bonds, ‘To obtain gold, the Government wonld have to give such interest ag wmight bo domanded, If o 4 per cont bond would only bring 93 cents, then o bond would biave to bo issnod that could Lo sold at par, sayat & ar b} per cont interest, "L'o redoém the 3383,000,000 of greenbacks now iu circulation with n 4 per cont hond, wonld cost the United States 16,280,000, ‘o rell 250,000,000 of &} per cont bonds for gold, would cost 11,750,000 in the first in. stanco, As fast s this gold is drawn out in exchange for notes, bonds will Lave to be purchased, but bonds ennnot be purchased with eurrency at the sawmo prico as with gold; whon the United States soll thelr boudsat 100 for gold, thoy cannot ropurchaso with cwrency at less than 1 per cent nd- vauco ; consequently, cach purchase and salo would involve s cost of at loast 1 pereent. This is on the nssumption that thore was no combination, But with $760,~ 000,000 of greenbacks in circulation, it would uot be difllenlt to draw out 5250, 000,000 of goldl on demand, and forcing the Governmont to purchaso it back ot such advanco as the combination might require, This process, offering immense profits, could readily be repented sevoral thovs a year, It would bo &u, exponsivo modo of milntaining specio poyments, and it is just this difioulty that bas rendered it impossible for any Govern- ment ever to malatain a national ourrongy convertiblu into coin on domaud, Though often attewipted, it has nover boon succoss- ful. Tho only speele-paying Goveruments in the world uro those which issus no pupor currency, awd leave that as a legitimate branch of business to the skill, ability, and rp. sources of privato entevprive, 81 Fraxcts Hincks, therofors, Proposes o plan which, like all other plaus that lave buen Inveuted in ail ages to enable n National Governwent to issuo a substitute for wmonsy and keep it on wa oquulity with money, proves to be uttorly fallacious and impracti. cabile, Ha forgets the fundamental truth tha; monoy musé bave viluo; thet paper & ngt TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 5, 18 it 18 meroly credit; thnt Govern ments are not banks, and have no resonrces or capital rave their incomeo from taxation; that debts can only be honestly got rid of by payment, and that Governments can only pay their debts, by the *proceeds of taxation® When the United States fail to pay a demand debt, or isunnble to pay it, the creditor Is ontitled, at lenst, to & time note bearing interest, and this time mote and in. terest must be paid when dua from the praceedsof taxntion. No escaps from this inexorable Inw ling over been discovered, and “Sir Francis Hixers, like all his predecessory, hns failed to get around it. For the Govern- ment to borrow monoy on time notes to float its over-due demnnd obligations, and then try to meot ita timo notes by roissuing the de. mand paper, {s & moro erazy expedient, costly in its oporation, requiring a largo annual tax to cover its losses, nud ending at Inst, if not in bankruptoy, in a resort to the only possi- ble moda left, of taking up all its demand noteswith its timae bonds, nnd abandoning the gorry and wrotched businoss of mnking an frredeemablo paper a legal substituto for netunl money. TEE REVIVAL OF BUSINESS, The experience of tho past wacl fally Jnstified tho hopeful view wo took lnst Mon- dny ns to the revival of business, Never since the panie havo tho streets had o nui- mnted an appearance, Wo have half dozen Brondways in Chicengo,—State, Madison, Clark, Washiugton, n part of Wabnsh avenuo and Raudolph street,—and all of them, dur- ing tho plensant dnys of lnst weck, wero ns full of life and bustlo as tho singlo Broadway of New Yorkin the best times. Our busi- ness men wear their gratifieation and hope- fulness on their faces, Tho hotels are filling wp with transient visitors, ‘fhe wholesalo houses nnd tho retail shops are equally busy. Brick and stone, lumber and limo, are forming in u daily procession, and houses are spring. ing wp in the Alaldin-like fashion of old. ‘There are more peopls coming to Chicago to ke this city their permanont homa than during any provions senson, with the excop. tion of the winter and spring succeeding tho firo of 1871, The immense incrense of Chi- engo's business during 1874 will bo followed by an increaso this year of still larger propor- tions, The reputation of Chicago is con- stantly improving throughout the Northwest for eutorpriso and fairness, Wo draw ouwr customers even from outside the ter- ritory paturally tributary to Chicago, ‘Tho superior ndvantages offered Ly the larger nnd more varied stocks carried by Chieago merchants overbalanco a differenco ngainst us in transportation in much of tho territory naturally coversd by 8L. Louis or Cincinnati, The real cstate men aro particularly onconrnged. Real estato in Chicngo receives the first impetus in a Bpect- Intive tendency, This impetus will be in- croased during the presont season by an ox- | ceptionally low rate of interost. Cupitalists bave experienced cousidernblo difficulty i placing largo loans on real estato at 8 per cent; the time is not far distant when the ruling rato will be 7 per cent in this city, which it would have been at the present time if it lhnd not been for the great firo and tho {axstion of mortgages and debis, The tendoncy of rents ia olko lealthful. IHousc.owners are content to receive o smaller intorest on thowr investments than formorly, Tha demand for modest homes has Incrensed in proportion, and o larger nmnount of capital is being em. ployed in the eroction of ‘good, substantinl, but plain houses, then over before. Finally, those who have not talon n personal obser- vation of passity evonts need only refer to the business harometer—Tne Suxpay Tnin- UNE. 'The isauo of yestorday contained threo columns mora advertising than that of n weel ago Sunday, and 2,260 different announce- monts. This incronso will be constant for some time to come, nnd it s the consequence of a liko improvement in general businoss activity. LICENTIOUS LEGISLATION, The “licentious press” is o fruitfnl themo in Copgrersional circles, T'he licontiousness of the press is purity in comparison with tha licontiousncss of nntfonnl legislation. Letua tnka n look nt how things are done in Wash. ington by the Honorables, Tho disgrace of Congressional law-making innll the moro disgracoful because ite ovils have been effcotually. provided against by the Constitutions of n number of States. ‘Tho highest sovercignty in tho country disdnins to gunrd its great intercsts ag carofully as the inforior soveroignties guard their compara. tively small interosts, Omnibus bills aro n form of legal dissipa- ton in which Congress frequently indulges, and from which the poople frequently suffer, An omnibus always lias room for one more Job, and that job is always on hand for a free rido into tho Troasury, Tho Constitutions of cighteon States, of which Ninois is one, pro. vido that o bill must trent of only one sub. Ject, and must express that clearly in its titlo, “Tor other purposes ” in the titlo of nn om- nibus bill covers a multitudo of sins, A chango in Congressional rules would provent omnibus steals, but Congress will not make that change, To pass any nct whicl Inys n tax, creates dabt, or makes an appropriation, requires, in New York and Wisconsin, three-fifths of all tho members elooted to oither House, and, in Mlinols, a majority of all membera’so elooted. "Thirteon States, of which Illinols is ono, re- «uiro a majority of the actual wemborship in ceach Houso to pass sny bill, At ‘Washington, tho nffirmative vote which makes n law is often s bare minjority of n bare quorum, and 60 a pitiful minority of the whola House or Benato. Evils spring from this, A ghort atatate would put a stop to them, bat Con- gress will not pass that statute, = Ninetoen Hlates, one of them Tilinols, re- quire tho call and tho record of the yons and naya on the final voto for a bill. This putd men on yecord and makos fogrant thoft too dangerous, ''ho same safegiard would work as well at Washington, but Congress will not adopt this safoguard for reasons well kuown to thewmselves, ilinois and some other States roquire every bill to be read on thres soparate days, and ovory amondment to be printed before the bill and the awondwiont can bo passed, This is great chock to hasty logislation, but Congress will not even try it, ‘Threo States, Michigan, Now York, and Rhodo Islund, require a two.thirds vots of the members electad to elther Houso to ap- propriate pullic property or money to pri. vato or local purposes, Komething liko this would sava the conutry hundruds of wmillions in Wasted subsidivs, useless futernal improve. ments, ond lobby-owned * claims.” Yot Con. gross will not puss the ueeded rulo. Congrees will no those things or any ong of thew, unlesu the poople compel it. A momn. her who should introduce a Lill o gover theso casos would Lave it grooted with Jeers and snoers, reforred to a committoo, nud, if not smothored there, finally pnt ot tho end of tho ecalondnr, whero it could not possi. bly bo renched, o might work ten years to got it through, all In vain, unless the poople work with bim, If tho votors ot tho polls grow tired of hav. ing tho roprosentatives at Washington rush through, with indecent haste and Invish Jabe bory, tho moat important aud the most vicious lnws,—if thoy force the porty-man- 214 to put this reform in their platforms,— if thoy wring promises to support it from candidntos for Congrass,—if thoy rejeot men who opposa it, in the Houso or the Sonnta,~— if, in & word, thofreally want it, thoy will gotit. Andif they do not want it, they nl. most desorve to bo cursed with the existing licuntious legislatio BTATE BOVEREIGNTY IN GREECE. In o former articlo we traced Driefly the history of Stato sovereignty in its practical workings In Greocs, tho ancient mothor of Democeracy. The experiment thero wrought ont presents us with ono of the best oxam. ples which ean bo citod of antonomous Stales with opportunity for confederation, such ns womo of our peoplo appear s0 to loves A fow more romarks on tho subject, with an application of the lasson {o the history of our own country, may not be unintercsting to tho thoughtful rondor. ‘Tho physical fsolation of the Grock States rondered their politieal isolation possible, and with the political habits it ongonderod kept tho way gonorally clear for tho diversified play of union and disunfon which Greek history ro- cords, And if tho Nortl and South had been thus physically isolated when the Rebellion broko out, the restoration of the Union would have been more difileult than it wns, if not impossible. It was the ronds and railronds ond great rivers and valloys which enabled the Northern nrmics to penotrato the South aud maintain connaction with thoir baso, and thus ot length to pierco the Qonfoderncy through and through, fud drive the Robel forcen to the wall, The conditions which on- abled tho Union Governmont to maintain tho unity of the States are the inevitablo condi. tions which render State rights and mero con- federation antique nod obsolote. If the opon way of our groat rivers and valleys, railrands, telegraplis, stonm navigation, and goneral commerco could bo blocked up, secession would bo possible, and we might have Greek history over again, with all its fatal fouds, in the absenco of true nationality. Lot s supposo that the Sonthern Confed- eracy, nfter o successful issuo of the War, had become, as it professed tobe, meroly o formal co-operation of sovercign States, ‘What, then, of tho future, in the light of listory ? States would have the right to withdraw at oy time that caprico might diotate. It will not do to sy ihat the unitizing eloments of which wo Lave spoken, together with the advantage to oll of confedorate politienl existenco, would hove been wuch that no State would over want to withdraw. - This would be equiva~ lent to saying that the doctrino of Stato rights s only empty sound, and com. templntes 1m0 sort of political applica- tion, T'ho very doctrine of Stato supremncy and of tho right of secession is based on tho iden that n State may have just couso to socado, and may wish to do ko, itsolf being tho judgo. Disantisfaction towards the Con. federncy on the part of States with power to rocods wonld impair its prestige and weaken its fedorntive hold, and the whola fabrio would bo lisblo at any time to fall to picces, But whore union with an eflicient head does not obtain, thers will bn Jlengucs for attack and defonso; ond, sinco these have no co-ordinating head, thoy pos. #ess 1o pormanence, and ns ono confederaocy dissolves another is formod. Confedaracies ara in politica what unstable compounds aro in chemistry: they readily dissolve and sot their constituonts freo to enter into new com- binations, Aggrogation and segregation, union and disanion, would be going on con- stantly; and what is fearful, with Almost every chango thera would bo conflict betwean States ond confederncles, and fratricidal war, This {8 precizely what took place in Greaco, It is this that mokes up the great body of Grecinn history. The breaking up and reor. ganization of leagues and confedaracies con- stituta o perfoct mazo of intricacy nnd com- plication. No adequato description of it can Lo here attompted. Lot one example sufllce, —the stato of allinnco and conflict which pre. vailed at o particular timo among a fewof tho lending States of Greeca: Athens was allied with Sparta and fighting Thobes ; Thebes was allied with Athons and fighting Argos and Thebes; Thebeswas allied with o port of Arcadin and with Argos and fighting Sparta and Athens; Argos was allied with Thebgs and Arcadin and fighting Sparta; thore was division in Arcadia, but most of its cities wore allipd with Thobos and at war with Sparta; Elis was friondly with Thebes, but untriondly .(though not in actual war) with the Arcadians, who wore allics of ‘Thebos. How is that for Stato rights versus national unity ? 1f the South in the evont of success conld have maintained Btate rights till the mombers of the Confedorncy had osch othor by the eara im some such fashion ns this, what, then, supposing thero was no foreign interforonce? 'Cho state of perpotual feud would not be tol. erated 03 in anclent times, being ropugnant to modern policy and incompatiblo with the conditions of modern life, Bome State or coulition of Btates of groater strength would mnke hoad ngainst tho rest, and tho result would be owmpire on the rnins of Btates and State rights, 1f the States of Greoce had ex. changed nutonowny for nationality, as did the Amntorican Colonies, how different would have been the course of Greok and other history 1 Thero would have leon no Avrzxayper tho Great and 1o Roman Empire. The dominion of Groece would have ocov- crod Westorn Asin, Northern Africa, and Bouthern Europe, Itwould have been easy. for Greok powor, with ita base alrendy in Blelly and Southern Italy, to push it way northward and exterminate the Rowon legion in its infancy, Bt thiv was not to bo. The virus of autonomy—the petty Jealousy of Btates—was the bane of Greck power, throat- ening it evon in the duy of its greatest tri- umphs with the fatal termination of paralysis. T'ho divisions, jealousics, and feuds of autono- mous Slates enabled Prusae of Macodon by intrigue and battle to cut them off one by one, till at lnat thoy wore all prostrate at the feot of o borbarian conqueror. Groeco thus be- cxmo the subordinate part of an Empire; and Htate rights, and voluntary coufederation, aud ¢Greek patriotisw, indspendence, and glory, found a cowwion grave with the doad Ureoka at tho battle of Cheronen, Tho tendenvy of modern nctivities toward political unity, more finmly knit and farther roaching thon over, is irreulstible, while at the same time popular froodom is guaranteod a8 uever belore in the world's history, As ‘Wasnrnaron clenrly nnnouncedin hia Farowoll Address, the vigor of right National Govern. ment {s necessary to tho socurity of liborty, Davis and his confrores thought to row thelr Iittle boat ngainst the tido of history, but thoy wore overwhelmed. Stato rights as op- posed to nationnlity is a gort of sporadic off- shoot from tho gencral and inovitablo ten- dency of forcea within the politieal sphere, ‘When our Government was founded, this doo- trine stood in the way of union; aud, when afterwards rovived in tho South for sectional purposes, it requirod a gonerntion to tnko sufliciont hold for the production of its legitimato fruils in tho form of secession. Ilaving mot with a reverso in this, it will, novertholess, in all probability, roquire snother generation to die out of American soil; for, however false an iden may be, once having nequired momentum and becomo affiancod with tho cherished feoling of masses, it does not dio by defeat or by tho mere showing that it is wrong. It may ignore all the tonchings of Listory, nll the unitizing forces of modern invention, all the political value of intelligonce, asa guaranteo of popu- Inr freedom; as o practical principlo in modern patitics it mny be tho veriest drivol, worthy only to be thrown into the Gehennas of all cast-off things; but for all this it must have time to como to an ond. The attempt to keop nliva tho doctrine of State Rovoreignty na o necessary condition of popular freedom in an infatuntion which profits nothing by lessons which have been inculeatod oven in blood. The champlionship of such a doe. trine would be suicidal to party and partisan, for these cannot withstand tho steady strain of forees which shapo tha courso of destiny, Nothing herofn said ean bo justly construed asgivingthe least color of approval to interfer- onco by the General Government with affairs which properly belong to Stato jurisdiction, And while vigor of Govornment is necessary to liberty, wo should recollect that the Gov- ornment of an intelligent peoplo will bo healthiost and strongest whon it properly respects the logitimate rights of soctions and States. COLLECTION OF CITY TAXES. A1l the municipalities in Tllinois, and Ohi. cago particularly, aro to bocongratulatedupon the passago of Mr. Keuor's Senato bill for tho collection of taxes, smending tho act of April 15, 1873. Tho only amendinent mada to the bill in the House was the striking out of the emergency clauso, so that when the bill goes back to the Senata it will be passed immedi. ately. Tho ormission of the omergency clause is not important, sinco the act, if it becomes a law, will go into offect July 1, and can be used in defonding the appoals from- the tax- judgmonts of County Courts, Wo print the bill this morning nmong our Springfield news, Thoactappliesto the city tax-suits about the 8amo provisions already in foree for the col- loction of Stato and county taxes which re- main duo and unpaid. Theso provisions ap- ply to gonoral taxes, spacinl taxes, and specinl nssersmeonts, The genoral officer of the city having charge of the colloction of theso taxes is mot required to attach an afidavit to the delinquent list, nor to give the valuation of tho property, Lut only to make an official re. turn of tho amount due on cach lot or tract. The City Council shall determine the term of Connty Court at which the city shall apply for judgment. Thore is to bo but one gen- ornl sale for overy year, but when tho final judgment of the County Court shall bo ren- dered too lato to soll on tha day designated, the Court juay fix the timo nnd place for aspeciol eale in each case. The most im. pertant provision of the bill is that no appeal from the County Court is allowod unloss the appenling party first deposit on amount of money equal to the amount of the judgment appealed from, embracing acdrued costs, and shall fivon Lond (to be approved by the Connty Court) to prosecute his appenl, and, in cuse of failure, to pay tho city all the dam- ages, intorost, and costs tho latter shall have sustained. If tho judgment be roversed, the city is roquired to poy back tho monoy de- posited ; if afirmad, it is pormitted to take out the nmount of judgment, interest, and costs, and return the balanco, or got out an oxecution for any deficiency that may .re- main, This bill will ba a blessing to QOhicago, It will materially diminish tho rapidly-growing ovil of taxfighting, Mon fight their taxes, £8 a rulo, not on account of any real injustico in tho nssessment, but with the purpose of avoiding the payment altogother or postpon- ing it for a torm of yonrs, Tho effect. of tho prosent bill will be to doprive the professional tox-fighters of the motivo which prompts them to contest, Beforo appenling from tho judgment of the County Court thoy will bo compelled to deposit with the city an amount, of monoy equal to tho dobt thoy owo the city, nud give o bond for the payment of intorest, costs, elo, ‘Chis moncy remains in tho hands of tho city until the Bupreme Conrt shall have declared tho assessmont to have been illegal and void. The result of this provision will be that tax-fighting will bo confined to thoso who believe they have a just and legal griovance, that tho nssessmont was not fair and equitable, or that thers is somo otlier fatnl dofoct in the levy which will got it nsido, What is known as’ * profes- slonal tax-fighting,” it is to bo lLoped, will disappear. Thero will bo no induce~ ment to loy out of the interest of the money and inenr costs for the more purposo of contesting a taxJdovy., A docroase in tax-fighting is in the interest of Lonest tax-payers. As it hos beon heretofors, tho men who paid thoir taxos were forced, mot morely to contribute their fair proportion for the suppart of tho City Government, but also to pay the taxes of their dishonest and non-tax-pnying neighbors in tho sliape of alovy for deficiencies. Lawfal taxes aro lawful debts, which no man should be por- mittod to avold and put off on others, Mr, Kenor's bill is caleulated to dofeat this com. mon and viclous practico in the futurs, It interferen in no wise with tho bill introduced for thae collcction of back taxes by suit in as. sumpsit, which ought also to be passed by tho Legialatura, T'ho lntter bill is tho only thing which will enable the City of Chicago to cancol its floatiug indobtodness, amounting to more than $2,500,000, and incursed on no- count of the failuro to collect tho taxes lovied for that mumount. The appropriatious never ex- cood the taxlevy, and we would have no floating dobt, nor any occasion to make one in the future, if overybody pald his taxes. With these two bills, tho dolinquent taxes of {he past can be oolleoted ag well ns thoso of the future, & P ‘Weare informed that some members of the Houso who opposed the Kxuox bill secrotly but not openly (aud especially one member from. Chieago) proposs to labor with tho Governor to induce Lim to voto the bill after it sball bave repassed the Benate. Wo can soarcely beliove this to bo true. At all evonts, the effort would be impertinent and {Lofe. tive.s No ono understands betior than Gov, Bavmawax the nacesity to Obicago, and overy otlhier municipality which collocts ita owntaxes, of having the provisions which this Lill contains, To veto it wonld bo to sncri- flee tho interests of the city aud of honest tax-payers to tho intereats of tho profossional tax-fighters, Gov, Bevenpar will searcely be induced to take this position, aud may with propriety resont any such proposition a8 0 personnl affront, coming from whowmso- over it may,’ e A momber of tho British Pstllament gave notico saveral weoks ago that slottly after Esotor ho would “bring under considoration tho goneral subject of the powor vested in Hor Majesty'’s Judges without any appealor referenco to & jury to inilict fine and imprisonment for so- ealled contempl.” In conncotion with thls motfon tho whole subject will doubiloss receivon thorough disouseion In tho nowepapers; nnd porhiaps, as an upshot of i, somo esseutial chango of tho anclent usage will Lo made. The doctrino of contompt was 80 vigorously applied during the prog- ress of tho Ticunons trial that publie ate tention swas aroused; and, ss the Lali Mall Qazclie signiflcautly says, tho unoxpeotod de- veolopment of it *tormed a su%joct of gonoral, though novossarily private, commant nt the timo.” Bince thou & man named Crappock, who attemptod to Intimidate a witnoss, has beon ad- Iudged guilty of contempt, and rontenced to twelvo monthe' imprisonmont. Honco the mo- tion fu Parllament. Tho particular judgmont cited is gonorally approved, but it s thunght the principle involved noods s cloarer deflnition and procigo limitation. —— A Grange m Virginia has just burled & lady- mamber with origlual ad poculiar ceromonies. Bowo of the Southern papers profesa to bo very much shocked, nud discover encrilego fu tho ser- vieo, but wa liavo boon unable to tind anything in tha published reports more Leiuous than a touoh of absurdity and bad taste. The fuuoral, on the wholo, secms to bavo beon eingulatly beautiful and fmprossive. Tho coftin was borno to tho grave by mombors of tho Grange drossod in whito baldrics, and the brothren of tho Ordor followed iu procession. Each participant boro a bouquet of flowers ; ang theso all, at the couclu- sion of the morvices, wero thrown in the opan grave. The words of tho Urango ritual spoken 4 the grava wero touching and appropristo, The only mcongruous elomont was the parting salute of tho Master, in thoso words: ** In tho uamg of Fushervlllo Grange, I pronounco tho words, Bister Carnneaty, farowell.” Fishorvillo Grango Way not an absolutoly awo-inapiring invocation, [ Mr. 88 Reeves, the famons London tenor, Lis s failings as well aa tho rost of ua, His voico {8 o most capricions instrument ; and whon it dosorts him lo deserts the public. Tho Lon. don Orchestra says Mr, REeves can no longer be nccused of disappointing tho public wheu ho doos not sjuz. 'Uhe disappoiutmeut—a most ngreeablo one—ls when lio does: sing. In view of all tho circumstauces, the followiug moditied form of anuouncement Ia suggostod OCCARION TIHE A PUMITIVELY NAVE A * OUANOR OV SKARING § MR, BIM8 REEVES, : Lera funert good,” *fair,” “emall," or : 28 the caso muy be, Tor Mr. Bins Rezves substitato Mr. Jomy Jounskos, or Dousox, or other numo to suit lo- cality, and the new style of announcomont will bavo its nses evon {n Chicago, Bonntor Oarrsny will bo iierosted by tho fol lowing reflection of the London Saturday Re- view ¢ & It s wonderful how much may be doas in some uurters by & judiclous affectation of ignorance; ;‘lwu 1s nothing Ly which a hnfi) cluss of hoirers and readers iasa much futtered, Whe 10 their love, thuy feel thamsolves ratsed to tho losel of thcir oracle, “Thoy ned not be ashowmod of not Kknowing what the oracie itaclf does nob koow, 'Thoy aro In truth proud of not knowlug what the orsclo inie pliea {s not worlh knowing, When Sir Wintiax Hane COUnY #ajd that heshould boashamed to know aiy- thilug nbout cano law, & Jarge clags of people at ouce folt tliemselyos brought nearer to tho lavel of Bie Wn.Luam Hancoont, Bo whon Henator Oorespy esid tho people might sboot him if le kuow anything about {inance, ho was not a bad orator. —_—— Indopendenco Day, it scems, {s a misnomer, The Doclaration wau agreed npon tho eveniug of tho 4th of July, Iletory demauds, thorefore, that we shoutd eav Indopondenco Niglit, aud not let our patriotism sizzle bofore suudown., This discovery has just Loen mado ns the result of o painstaking investigation conducted by tla Now York Evoniog Post, It will bo gratifying to tho modern school of politiclans, They bave boon confiuing thelr love of country betwoen sausct ond sunriso for somo years, without exactly kuowlng why, ‘i thedr oraclo atoops ———— Tho New York Graphio profosses to bave ax- [ clusivo jnformation that tuo alumoiof all the colleges in the Unitod States will huld & mosting in Philadolphia duriog the Contennial, That noewepaper must havo boon catrying on o pretty oxtensiyo correspondonco, extending from tho timo of ita birth to the present Lour, and om- ploying on anny of amanuensca, How elno could it know whot all tho colloge graduates in thio Unitod States jutond doing noxt year ? e e Consldering tho absurdity of relving upon a poaco-armament fn caso of war with the United 8Btaton, the Cunadian suthoritieshnve dono wiroly in solling thoir lngt lnke-cunboat. If it was not neodod for rovemuo purposgs, certainly It was not noeded for anything olse. Yot tho Canadian papers mourn tho sale ag if the Domwnion had been thoreby openod to an vasion of barbarian hordes, —_— A lalt-breed Indian girl latoly committed sut- cide in Weavorvillo, Cal, becauss sho was ashamed of ler pedigree. Sho was contiuually oppressod with tho though that tho Indisu u her compoeition mado Lier an outcast, Thera is a subjoct for Mr. Joutan Hawruonns. * o might profitably Inquiro which Lal? of tho Indisu girl bado ber live and which part impelled hor to dio, Hubatanco enough, {ndecd, for & welrd ro- mance, B Since tho Dallimore American bas so ably demonatratod that tho lato Jouxs Horkins ju- teuded the University for which ho provided in Liu will to Lo of commereial advantago to Mary. land, tho Now York Nation hopes o propor snstrumontalitios to this end will bo neglected. It thoroforo suggests the offariog of chromoy frooly olther to overy student ontoring or every atudent praduating, Ceriainly that wonld be a stroke of bummesu ontorpriso, ——————— Tho Boston Gjobe mootiona Commiesloner DovaLasy, of the Internal Roverue Bureau, as most llkely to sncesod Judge Irok on tho Boneh of tho Court of Ciaims, Mr. Nonyaxn I, Junn's uamo has Loen more recontly used in cornection With that oftico. It s uudorstood thnt tho cone tost leu betwaon tlLieso two gentlomen, An American scnlptor st Floronco has recent- Iy finlshed a bighly classical study, which ho In- tonds to oxhibiz at tho Natioual Coutonnlal. The subject Is ** Thoe Base-Dall Catchor.," Fiom tho Laoocoon to tho Dase BallCatoler is & long siride in civilization, A couscientious intorprotation ot mumbloty-pog is & groat desldoratum, e Ansene fHoussave's brillisot Venetian feto, of which ke’ wroto so graphically to the Now York Tribune, fa said to havo beon a daring at- tompt to.reconoile fashlouable socioty to the demi-monds, Tn other words, it was a problem In vulgar tractions. Baya the Bostoa Journal: * It any member of the last Coogress wont up aa s rocket and oame down as & stick, it was, WiLLiay Warres Purres.” Hocamedown as s cudgel. He has oceased to be besutiful, but ho mayyat be usetul, — Bentimentaliste In Massachusotte sre trying to prevent tLe uss of sewing.-meohines in pris- ons, They say it intliots & Lardublp upon needy pecple who are thus bronglt into competition with conviok-labor. By Rowing-machiney the vuigar articla of steapn and whiutiles ayg boe bius aud fecca ts woant, not lovoly wamey, ‘Ihore In always room for lovely BeWIuZ-Komg, lu prison, —_—— PERIONAL Col, I, D, Araxr and lady are stappiy, Graud Pacifo, Ty Misd Lorra, the scirens, arrived this morning at tho Grand T'acitie, Bevsauty Dorien's cook has marrieq Mg, Bonator JoNEs’ maid. g Whbo runs the Adelphi? 1Is Gnoven or—lown (sit? A Vienus Inwyor lu to bo proncented for fgp. cese of duly in defondiug o client,” Bir Antuun GuinNEsy, tho browor, hay bonghy Qrapstoxs's London louse for £35,00p, It Jonx RonixsoN is made Mayor of Cineln, vatl, will Havoey Int Conr run for offics hera What has Kats Frcuo got against tho nasen, lino ntomach that she sbould scouso it of ciay log liquor ? Mouoy would not take £1,000 for hia phatn. graph, o ls afrald that Lia patrician featye might become common, Tho Chaplain who prayed SuMsen out did not rocelvo s cont for bis work. No wonder tho Universalist tools bad ovor it. It Cardinal Maxnixa Is olocted Popo hy il call himeolf Grraony XVIL If Bruiy gets thy place—Lut thore are reasons why ho should not, HriNsEn rava that a logaey of 10,090 §y nfer than n larger sum, and, with an honest Tejuls. tlon, oughit to eatiafy bis childron. Tho boya ue sntisfiod, . Two mota cardinal sins—hanging pletutey on the wall in your night-clotlies, and oxaminizy engraviogn ou the floor in your day-clothes., Drooklyn Arqus. e, Mizroy Buonr, who has won dimes n complimonts a3 n Kansns canvassor, {s noy ™ ported to be n humbug, Howoever, he 18 not lonosomo in this world. ‘Thedomoralizing {nflueucos of plants, Tacently dlacovored, has boon lllustrated 1o Naples by thy murder of Hexny Hinp, an Enghsh gardener, by his rival ln business, Passaxa. A silent mombor of Congroxs, betng obtitta] to sond hia spoechos freo by mall, put bis on lnmsulf, and wanted to mdo frao in il car, undor tho protext that all his specchies wepy in him, A colored organization in Dayton have deelded to forgive thoir clorgyman for butting on thres. card monte and losing £90 of fostival money, Ouo of tho Deacons remarked : * Wa is 2l g man, and de gamo is werry oxeiting." Another brilliant detective has mado hix otk by arreating s membor of tho Kansas Legisiatury Ay thh older ‘BENDER, whom lio katl boen follox. log for a yoor. Jaxe Remst wants to kuow big uamo. There i8 a vacanoy hero for him, Whilo Mr, Joxcs, of Matchez, way driokiey his whieky he hoard a voico eall out, “Joxrs, preparo to diol” aud ho sank back on a chair and died. Hosrt-diseass? Not by n juplul Old Rexrew shot him,~Detroil Freo Press, *“Uncle Tox” Lag coma out of his cabin o begging expodition. e I Ia living at Dann, Out., sud wants to poy & dobt of §1,300, by dooan’t ho o to Mis, 8rowe forit? Mo mude monoy enough for her, and in rn bonost WAy, Robnrnt Dare Owzx ia to tho front again, I hns soon o man who bad a friend who kuowa physiclan on Stuten Talaud who had soon su opilepic pationt walk out on tha water a dis tanco of 80 yarde, Shoe was in 3 somnambulisily stato, ‘Tko real question Is, whether s woman armed with & rawbido should bo alowed to uso her tooth too, Jur Jomvsgow, of Macoupin, I, thinks ot ; Mra, ANNiz 1IANSOY taktes tha oth: view of it, What doos Lynis ‘TuoxrsoN thin about i¢ ? ‘I'ho Boston Transcript doea not wonder th the fancy of 1,600 Hubbites lightly tuined to 1k Gaorgla Minstrels tho other night, and lif; Doorit nod Ristonr playing to tho traditiona honees which made upin apprecistion what taey Iacked in numbers, *Rich blua volvet with garniturs of tha finyt Ruenlan sablo, satin potticoat trimmed wity bands of dismonds and large diamond tassel, aud traing of volvot. That was what ity Duchoss of Edinburg woro at o Royal Drawing room o which sho mado her first appearanon Bho did it to spits hor alster-in-law, Louisg, t4 whom she wau compolled to yield proferssos, Dut sho 't protty, ‘The Tiopublican loadera of Olio hold a consn's tation at Columbus last wenk, whon tho clolc of » candidato for Governor was discussed. TLt 1eoting disclosed an unoxpocted nmonnt of o position to the nomluation of ex-Sonator Wivsy and showed that ox-Gov, Novss was tho favorite Dut, as ho unqualifiedly doclinod to stand, s further canvaseing of opinions showed that Roprosontativo JAMES Mouxnoz was the eccond chuice, It was docided to Lold tho Sate Cote vention on tho 2d of Juao noxt, A eingular ineldont occurred in the courbroom at Bungor, Me,, whore Cansox s being tried fct tho murdor of Browy, the othor day, whea tht ncecused plokod up the skull of Browy, whiz bad boen brought inte court in evidonca, snd marked : * This wkull kad a tonguo ouce! | wish it Lad o ; for, It it could spoak, it would toll & difforent story from what some of nm'l witnoasea told, It would esy I nover so muct a9 Injured a biair of Lis head, by auy word ot say deed I doue him."” It is & healthful slgn of the growth of journal: {nm that not u newspapor fa tho country seoks {2 dofend or sympathivo with the oditor of tht Clileago Ztimes for tho punishmont indlicted uta1 bim for Lis indecent assault upou the wombert of & Oraud Jury., Time was when an editor would bg defended by tho ontiro pross of 4 couutry, no matter what lionse ho gavo his peo. The only point in tho Bronky caso whicl iotes osts anybody is the questionable actlom of 8 court from & logal standpoiut, This s of tho highest foportance, Tho oditora attempt 8! wartyrdom I8 a lamentablo failuro. Ono of the moat conaciontions Shoriffs on reo- ord bas tarned up in Towa. A railroed was lo Lo vold at Bhorift’a sale, und s friondly agres- mont was made by which this model ofticial s to racelve §360 1n payment for his part in the transaction, which roquired two hours, ‘perspd, of Lis valuahlo time. Iiut aftor the ealo o s poned to look at the atatute which flxed his fo:i whon he found to bis hoirar that he bad besa transgrossing the laws af the State, which do- clated {hat he should recelva no othior fees thaa thoss logaily assigued him, Bo bLo rofused liberal sum offored him, aud sald he would & nothlug but Ll lawful foos, which, ju this ine stance, It soowe, amounted to §11,000. Tbe raitroad men endeavored to hold him to kit origiual bargain, but Lo was too conacientions t0 vialate tho laws ho was appoluted to uphold, and, the case going to tho courts, hia integaty Was rowarded by s vordict in Lis favor. HOTEL ARRIVALS, Palimer House—B, F, Btantor, Thiladelphis; Copte Fraok Darr, U, B, A,; O, ¥, Kendall, Topoks; I Dilss, New York; 4. D. Swith, Dostonj J. B Cliaffes, Danver; Goorge W, Goodricls, ,Cnm‘“?“‘;' 0, Knight, Kankakeo; E, E, wux.nhm-. ¥‘L fflf . g aw, Toledoy B.F. g o . e e, 3 Busch, A, Parhor, Now “York;' O, N, Busel Roclester 1. Rles, Now York; d. D, Bullty Dostony . 0. Warnock, Boston....arand I uw York Wibiaia T, Amiesy pule ; Thomas J. Carr, Troy§ Jaues DL Rushy tJudge J, 1. Edmunds, fowa; W. I, Toally . atllior, Jr., Onterio; A, L Balley, Cioe o W, Purlab, Washlugtol § D, 1, I.saltlaty 3 3, F, Wiune, Albauy; Goorge flwfl";,' New Yurk... Sherman louse—8, A, Luskinmiery Alwng Daniel ¥, Sbelton, 8t Faulj Jobn Qlfi‘ iy Manhaliown L E. Warren, New York; O, 1. e Huffalog L. d Danloly, Iudfaua; Jobu E, Qurw! el Galonaj Goorge O, Ludiun, Albay; =Geoify Beed, Oluclonalt; ¥, *W. Dup, Daytos, O asiluglon Livbyy Bt Louts: L. E, Warrva o Yurk,.. Fremont House—tl, Prouud, New York ; ¥ 0, Lutur, Quinos; I, T silagsty, abjunssota 3, Wastou, Miwaukes) J; D, Qlarke, Toxaa: L B Sy Now Yuik; V, K, e, Burlington ‘hhfl“_ x, Ludisuspolis s B, O G Puldon, Caliiades furd, Albwny: W, . B wiac, “biochdogion & e & taroey o eylo—0, W, Bowen, Io 'r.’mu‘ A, 5. Hopikic, Philade) o8 J. New Yor!