Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 23, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATEA OF SUDFCNIPTION (PATADLE TX ADTANCE). Tantage Prepald at thiy Ofeo. Dally, 1sear. 12,00 | Weokly, 1 year....8 1.6 T Weok .30 | Five cop g {1 su:{l'fy i 4 ) 1400 douhio Ahet.. 3.00 Parteol a yoar at tho xme rato, WASTED-Uno active agout in each town and villsge. Furcial arrangoments made with such, Specimen coplos sent freo, To provent delay and mistakes, bo snre and give Post. Office addeess n fall, including State snd Count Romlttancesmay bomadoelther by deaft, expres, Porte Ot:ce orier, or in regiatored lottors, at onr risk. TERMB TO CITY AUDACHINRAR. Dally, deliverod, Sunday cxconted, 25 vente porwerk, Loy, deliverad, Bunday (ncluded, 30 conts por wooke Audsess THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cotnee Madiron and Dentborn-sts., Chicago, Ill TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. HOOLEY'S TIHEATRE~Navdoloh strest, batwesn Olar and sa8allo, ** Monto Cristo,™ ADBLPNT THEATRR-Doarbora strest, corner Mon. e, Varloty ontartain Inisted street,botween Mad- CADEMY O i M b Dot e R o Clprico, Saanund - Munroe, HHumand Keans ORAND ERA-HOUSE-Clark street, _oppnsite Blerians Howe,” Kasno, Hall & Wermboid'e” JTmstrale MVIORER'S THRATIE—Madison atroot, hotwasn fltllrhnl":!xl'llvd Btate. Kngsgomont of Maggiuv Mlitcholl. **Fanchon," FXPOSITION, BUILDING--fako Shore, foot of Adsmasiroot. Exhibition of Palntings. wr 1, Madiron atreot, hetwson Clark o LS QI et Slntern >SDCIETV MEETINGS. DEARRORN LONGE, No. 310, A. F. & A, M.—Regn. 1ar Communication this (Friday) eveuing, to thalr Hatl, 2 Monroaac, for biisiuers wmd work o tho ‘Third De- i y cordis 3 wroa.” Fratorhity cordialiy MCEAY, Sceretary, Ao % AL M-S ORIEXTAL LODGF, No, 71, Gomnuiivatian thle (Fida v for work on tha s, A, Degrva. By ordor of th iy ——— BUSINESS NOTICES. NATURFE RECEIVES THE OLEDIT OF HAVING dercluped many oxanisite complosfons which, in reality, re duo saloly fo Laird’s Llootn of Youth. 'Thepale or sallow faces which becomo rad.ant under Hs aporaticn arosuppasad o hiave derivad thoie new lorolinass from s hinnoy ehange in the physical condition of the party beau- tiod. Bold by all dragglste. 1l B, SAVE YOUR HAIR.~IF YOU WISH TO BAVE ymlcxflr and keep itin ‘s stroug End bealthy condition, Ve Burnott’s Locoina. It willstiniulnte the roots of tha hafe, and restora tho nataral action upon which its growth duponds, ‘I'moniy years ago s singlo bottle saved n Iads's hajr in » desporate case, in which all nther sreat. moit had falled; and arly success thonsands 0f canee of halidncas, davdrad, Tuss of hair, and irritas tion of tho acalp haro yleldnd th the same romody. The Chitage Tribune, Friday Morning, April 33, 1875. A Washington dispatch states that Attor- ney-General Wittaass has tendered his resig- nution to the President, It is possibly true, aud, if so, well. If not true, then it is the country’s loss. While this resignation ought to have been filed long since, and would cer- tainly have been sent in by any other person in that office after his rojection as Chief-Jus- tico by the Senate, it is bettor late thannever. In filling the vacancy of Attorney-General, it is to ba hoped tho President will select a law- yer, The charter of 1872 extends the limit of tnxation to ¢iree per cent on the eash value of the taxnble property. The tax heretofors hiag ranged from 15 to 18 mills, TUnder this charter the Council, instead of levying a tax of $5,000,000 to $£6,000,000 & year, will be able to levy o tax of from £9,000,000 to 10,- 000,000 annunlly, and engage in the reckless and spendthrift system of expenditure, con- sequent upon the extended aunthority to tax, which has so nearly bankrapted New York. To defent such taxation, the chartor itself must be dofeated. Those who fail to vote aganinst it should not complain hereafter if they tind their taxes doubled. Under the charter of 1872, if adopted, the city will bo redistricted into 18 wards, in- stend of 20, as at present, and the number of Aldermen will bo reduced from 40 to 86 ; whereby it will bo easier to organize n ring in the Common Conncil. With 36 membors, 19 would be a majority~19, that historic number, 50 suggestive of shameless bribery aud bare-faced steals. What more powerful attraction than this could the charter of 1872 possess for the members of the present Coun- cil, who can ree in tho future re-clection, and combinations, and jobs illimitable? Tho Al- dermen who belong to the, corrupt ring are to aman ju favor of the charter of 1872; the honest Aldermen are opposed to it. Tho fact that the passnge by the Legisla~ Isturo of the bill enlarging tho powers of tho JMayor of Chicago has improved the pres- ent city charter, chinking up many crovices ngainst extravagance and dishonosty, is a potent reason, in the estimation of tho tax- cating eloment, for the adoption of the loose and bungling charter of 1872, In the con- fusion which would naturally follow tha change in charters, there wouldbo no effeotnal eheck upon corruption and fraud; therefore the thicves and scalawags are anxious for the change, If thoy thougat the present charter thie looser, they would voto ngainst tho charter of 1872, bat, as they know tha latter to be poorly contrived nnd dofective in Tespeet of tightening the rein npon rescality in public affalrs, they naturally profer the worse charte In connection with the denial, by President Geant, of tho statement that Minister Wasn- BuaNE hos been instructed to intercedo with tho French Governinent for a yesumption of diplomatio relations with Mexico, a curious DLit of history, not generally known, comes to the surface. Few people nre awaro Low near the Moxroe doctrine came to being euforced by the United States in reference to the briof reign of MaxuurLiay in Mexico, Presie dent Gnanr now says that ot ono time Gen, BuenoaN was in rendiness, and awaiting or~ ders, to proceed with an army to Mexi. o and “clean ont” the forcign invaders, Unfortunately for Maxinzuax and his une lappy widow, the pressing exigencies of ovur own Civil Woar prevented n step which would liave saved the lifo of tho Aus. trinn Archduke aud the renson of poor Osne Yorras Dat it is gratifying to reflect that, if those orders had ever been issued, Little Pusu and his Boys in Blue would Lave wmade short work of the French occupation of Mex. ico, The Chicago produce murkets were irregu.- lor ycsterday, Mess pork wus quict aud o shade easfer, closing at 321.85 for May, ond £22,12) for June. Lard wos quict and 5@74o per 100 1vg lower, closiug at £15.62) cash, and $156.75 for June. Meuts were quict and steedy at 8ic for shoulders, 111@12c for ghort by, aud 12fe for short clears. Lake freights were dull and nominal at $i@4}e for ooy to Buffalo, Highwines wers active and firm at 81,125 per gollon, Flour was guict ond steady, Wheot was active and 2¢ ligher, closing weak at $1,033 cash, and $1.04% for May, Corn was in good demand, and fo higher, closing at 74ic for May, and 750 for Jaue. Qata woro quict sad 3o highar, clog. O ing nt Glie for May. Rye was quict and stendy at £1.05. Darley was more active, and 2@hce higher, closing at 122 for April, and 81,15 for May. M were Aetive and ateady, with sales at #7.50@8.60 for poor to choice, Tho cattle market was active, but closed ensicr, Sheep wera firm, 1t was commonly reported in the city yes terlay, and in certnin quarters thoroughly wnderstood, that arrangements have been comploted for o ropetition to.day of the out- rageons frauds perpetrated on the oceasion of the Inst town eclection, Thers is overy ren- son fo believe {hat such is the determination of the manipulators of tha bummer element, and that they aro fully prepared to resort to ballot-box stnfling, repeating, persountion, false swearing, and every species of fraud known to the fraternity of election ** artista.” This yrogramme enn only b defeated by tho nttondanco at the polls of respectable eilizons and tnx-payers, not only to deposit their votes, but also to detect and provent raseality, ‘Che bummers count upou having the polls to themselves to-day, and it rests with the respectable classes to decido whather the election shiall be fajr or fraudu. lent, If they turn ont and attend the polling- places, they con enforca fnirness if they remain nway, they practieally cncourage fraud, The duty of the citizens is plain, Tu the crous-cxnmination of Mr, CLEVELAND yesterdoy Mr., Beacn succeeded in clieiting zome interesting facts in connection with the Plymouth Investigating Committee's appoint- ment and labors, It secms that Mr. BEEcnER found it necessary to cousult Tracy and SneEAmAN as to the selection of the Commit- tee, who, having been appointed in accord- ance with tho advice of theso logal lumineries, neglected to take the testimony of Ricuanps (Mrs. TintoN's brother) and JMrs, Brapsmaw, for ressons which Mr. CrevELAND, following the example of his il Iustrious pastor, *“does not recollect.” While the fact that Tnmacy and Sueansay lnd o voica in their appointment is no reflection upon the high charncter of the gentlemen whom Mr, Beoclier chose for Lis Commmittee, thero are people who will always think that it would have looked better if these two Inw. yers had not had so much to do with the se. fection of the jury before whom their client was to bo tried. It will also be difficult for tho averaga intelligenco to comprehend the reason why Mr. Brremes's counsel should have thought proper yesterday to introduce another witness to testify that Tivtox was in the Communist procession in company with Woopnvrr and Crarniy, when it is well kuown that this is o caso of mistaken identity, THE ELECTION TQ-DAY, Citizens of Chicago who are interested in maintaining the credit and stability of the loenl Government will, wo hops, take a fow minutes to-dny to go to the polls and vote * ngainst the charter of 1872." It will not b enough to stay away ond not vote ntall, It requires a direct vote against the charter to defeat it ‘Wae have cndoavored to point out that the adoption of the charter of 1872 will bo a public calamity, and we are sure that no good citizen of Chicago desires to so inflict thecity. W thereforo urge them again fo give five minutes to-day to voting sgainst the charter. THE CHARTER OF 1872, The objections to the charter of 1872 which is Lo be rdopted or rejected to-day are mani. fold, aud some of them are as follows ; 1. It legislates the present Mayor and city officers out of office in December, and leaves tho city without o Mayor until April, 1877, ond without other officers until April, 1876,— that is, unless the plain Ianguage of tho Con- stitution can be disregarded. 2, Tt reponls the present charter absolutely, thereby requiring the remodeling of all the ordinances of the City of Chicago, in order to adopt them to the now charter,~n work of years, during whicl the city is to be subject- ed to tho litigation, losses, inconvenicuce, and embarrmsments resulting from inap- plicablo laws and untried ordinances, 4, All elections for city officers are to be held in April, withont any registry of voters, and after tho manner of the shockingly-dis- graceful and fraudulent * town clections” with which the public have become familiar, 4. The Common Council is anthorized to levy and imposo taxes at tho rate of thres per eent on the eash valuation of all property,— a privilege which they of course will exercise. 6. Tho charter of 1872 cannot be amended, It is o cast-iron statute, which cannot be changed or modified in nny particular without the consent of tho 160 little townsand vil. Iages in Dlinois (and of the Legislature) which have ndopted it. 6. Howover suitable it mey be for Blue Island, Riverside, Thornton, and othor mnall inland towns, it is inapplicable and inoppro- priate for a city of the size of Chicago, with its enormous railrond, navigation, and com- mercial interesty. 7. Is there an intelligent man in Chicago who thinks that o eharter got up to meet the wants of Konkakee, Elgin, or Pontiao is such o charter as, without the change of a word, will answer tho wants of a city like Chieago for all time ? 8, Tho presont city charter having beon amended by the ro-conctmont of the Mayor's bill and in othor particulars, is now a very different aud 1much botter charter than what it was o year ago, snd will serve ail tho pur- posen of good government, ot least until the Legislaturo meots in 1877. To adopt the charter of 1872 at this timo is to repenl the existing charter, and loave the future in doubt and confusion, Wa submit theso objections to tha business and thinking mon of the city, and ask them if the peril is not sufiicient to induce thom to spare tho fow minutes' time necessary to voto against tho adoption of this bad charter, Another cousidoration why this charter should bo voted down is, that the presont chorter hins Leon so wisely aud properly ameuded by the lnst Legislature that it is if many respects perhaps preferable to tho charter to bo voted on in August noxt; it certainly corrects wany of the worst fontures of the charter as It stood lnst year, —— ‘Tho active support 5o unuuimously accard. ed by tho scalawsgs sud bummers to the charter of 1872 is in a measure prompted by *pure cussedness,”—~a desire to mpite and thwart the Citizons' Association, an urgeniza. tion, s averybody knows, :oade up of the creum of Chicago's Lrains, business capacity, and wealth ; mado up of the solid men of the city, who have dovoted much of their valu. able tune in formulpting mensurcs of the highest fmportauco to the municipality. ‘These gentletaen, being urgent advocotes of cconomy asnd roforwn, ave cardially hated by tho taxeaters aud thieves, who support the charter of 1873 because its defoat is desired by the Oitizons' Associs- ton in order ‘that tho Incorporation act of 1875 may be adopted in Angust. On gcnefnl principles, and without any moro deflnite motive than to oppose what good men favor and to favor what good men oppose, many of tho disrepntables will o to the polls to-day nnd voto as fast and ns often as possible for tho ndoption of the charter of 1872, By re- wversing tho application of tho rulo it becomes a good ono for respectable citizens to follow to-day. MINORITY REPRESENTATION, Thachartor of 1872 provides that the Mayor and City Council shall submit the question of incorporation under sald charter to tho votes of tho people; and that the Mayor shnil give nt least thirty dnys' notico of such election by publishing a notice thercot in the newspapers, and prescribing the form of the ballots, It also provides, Sece. 53, s fol. lows : Whenerer this act shall bo sutimitted to the qualined electorn of any city for adoption, there ahall be sube 1iitted at the same time for sdoption or rejection tho question of mitiority representation in tho City Coun- cli or leginiative authiority of said city, At tho eaid clection the ballots shall be in the following form: * For minorily representation fn the City Caunell " or, *Against minority represcntation in the City Councl),” ote. Now tho Common Couneil hnve submitted the question of incorporation under tho gen- eral Inw of 1872, but have not submitted that of minority representation in the City Conn- cil. The official notice of tho clection reads: 3avon'a Orricy, Crry ov Ciicao, March 20, 1876, —Notice {s Liereby given thiat on the Zid (twenty-third) day of April, 1873, su election will be held in the City of Clilcago, at which eald election tho question will ko submitted, to bo voted upou by the legal voters of salid city, a8 o whother saiil city ahiall become incarparated under an act of tho General Assembly enlitled ** An act ta provido for the incorporation of cltiew and vile lages,” Approved April 10, 1872, I, D, Cotvty, Mayor, ‘Ihe lnw requires that both questions shall bo submitted to the clectors at theo same time ; and it expressly declares that the ques- tion of incorporation shall not bo submitted withont submitting the other question, ‘*Whenever this net shall be submitted {o tho qualitied electors of any city for adoption, there shall be submilted at the xame tims" tho question of minority representation. This omission is fatal, No vote adopting the charter can bo legal when but one branch of the mntter voted on has been submitted. As well submit one or half a dozen rections of the charter. The law imperatively re- quires both questions to be submitted at the same time, Tho fact is, the Common Conncil, when they acted on this question, intended to de- feat tho charter. Since then, in order to pro- duce confusion and embarrassment, they havo become advocates of the charter. But the frand, intentioual er otherwise, of sub- mitting but one question when the Jaw re- quires them to submit two, now returns to plague the inventors. TENANT RIGHTS IN ENGLAND. When Joux Briaar was pressing through Parlinment the bill giving Irish tonants o property in the improvements thoy mada on their leascliolds, both he and GrapsToss wero obliged to argue that tho principle.of the bill would have no spplieation to lnndlords and tonnnts in England. For three or four years aftor its passage, the English tennuts kept quict, but watched carefully tha operation of the law in the sister island, All reports from thero, however, showed that it was working well. But so long a8 voting for members of Parliament was done wvira roce, the English tenants dare not mnko wuch demonstration in behalf of the law, Beforo tho close of the Liberal administration, GrapsToNe car- ried through Purliament tho Ballot bill, au- thorizing people to vote by sccrat bailot. Im- medintely nter tho enactment of that bill the English tonants begau an agitation for the extonsion of the Irish Tenant-Rights bill to Englond, and at tho last Parlinmentary clec- tion thoy succeeded in foreing a good many Tory landlord candidates to promise support to thoe measure, The Disnarrr Ministry hos introduced o bill, but it is not satisfactory to the tenauts. So far as the Parlinmentary debates Lave gone, they show that tho bill would probably Lo pasised in such a form that the necessity of componsating a tenant for * unexhausted im- provements ” conld be waived by special con- tract. This would cut the heart out of the measure. Every landlord would insert in his lonses a proviso that all such claims for com- pensation should be waived by tho tenant. These leases would perforce be accepted, and tho tenants would then be in precisely the condition they nre now,—lin- ble to be efected at any moment, and to loso Ly the ejectmont overy penny that has been expended npon tho leased land. As soon as it became ovident that a Parliament of laud- lords would, if left to itself, cmesculate tho measure in this way, meotings of tenant. farmers began to bo held, Theso meotings have been watched with eager interest, bo. cause the Conservative party must either yield to tho farmers' demands or lose their power. The introduction of the ballot has enabled tho tonants to vote ey they plense. "Terrorism by landlords is no longer possible, Tho rosult is, that more than 100 Conserva. tives, who hold their seats in the House of Comunons by virtue of the tenant-farmor votes, could and would be ousted at tho end of their torm if the farm. ers broke looss from their Tory prejudicos, It has become, then, a matter of moment to know just what the farmers want. Wo have befors ua the roport of what the London Tunes calls s * Iargely-attended meeting of Northumberland farmers,” It appears from this that the farmers do not want the present bill, and that they mean to hava it changed. Ono of tho spenkers said, smid loud applause, that ¢ the mensure decided nothing aud set- tled rothing,” bLut that, it it wero strongly amonded in & way to give farthor guarantees to tenants, it * might be made a uscful and boneficial measure.” The lauguage of a kee- ond speaker was stronger yet. Mo said that ¢ the first great and paramount duty was to see that the land produced a wufliciency of food for its juhabitants.” Ho fur is thix from being the case in England now, that onethird of the whole food.supply, or $500,000,000 worth, is aunually imported. ‘Tho npeukor claimed that the only cause of the deficiency was *tho inscenrity of the cultivator,” Muke tenants sure of cowpensation for their in. vestents and improvements, he sald, and thoy would so improve the soil that Eugland would feed Englishmon. Thoy had to pay £40,000,000 or £50,000,000 & year *for leave to till the soil” (imsgine such a farm-ront paid In o ocountry the size of Illinois!), but thoy would not stand it muoh longer unless thoir rights were recognized, Bentiments such a8 theee awoke groat appluuso, The' meating floally pomsed & sesolution’ to the cffect that the bill, ay it now stands, is 4 wholly jusdequate,” and that it should be g0 amonded that it would better recognize the right of tenants to obtaiu compensation, in every cose, for improvements made by them upon their farms, 'I'bis is but ono of wany such straws. They show that o wind is blowing which will eithes forve the Tory Ministry to materially chango the act or will blow that Ministry out of power. 'The former nlternativo {3 just now the more prob- able, and Disnarer will probally again dis- tinguish himself as a 'Pory who carries Liberal Inws., JOURNALISM IN 1775, Tho numbor of tho Now York Jferald pub. lished on tho Concord-Lexington centouninl day contained sovornl fic.similes pnd ropro- dnctions of Colonial papers contnining the fateful nows of the first fight for American Indopendence, The quaint old journnls are of fascinnting interest, 1lero in n brondside of tho Salem Gazette, with three ncconnts of the fight zud o funeral elegy *“to the jmmortal memory of those worthiea who woro slnin in the bnttle of Con- cord.” Reversod rules line the page with mournit.g for tho dend patriots, The head- ing consists of a rough wood-cut of forty cof- fios, lying side by sido, aud marked on the lids with tho names of the martyrs, Then come tho glowing lines, written with all n modem jourualist’s apprecintion of apt allit- eration’s artful aid, such ad, *“A Bloody Butchery By tho British; or, The ltun. away Tight of tho Regulars.” Tho first sketch, writton threo days after the battle, is very mengro. The second, dated April 25, is quite full. GeorazIIL, i8 de- nounced as an ¢ nngrateful Fyrant,” nud the Lostilitics of his troops are snid to have been “ attended with Circumstances of Cruelty not less brutal than what onr venerable An. cestors received from the vilest Bavages.” The Gazelte is full of jtoms, Welenrn that the regulars *“ hurr'd ” (hurmhed) jost before firing at Lexington, and thnt they pillaged and burnod sovoral housedt, Ono.of thelr victims was ** the good, the pious, and friend- 1y Mr, Danien Towssesn,” As this estimn- ble person was distingnished ns ““ an nble, mild, and sincere reprover of those who were out of tho way,” the community perhaps en- dured with equanimity his being put out of the way. Tho poom is of touching nature, Witness thiy pathictic passage : On 1 fquire GarnyEn's death wa feel, Aud sympathlzing mourn ; Let's drop o tear wheu it will tell And viow his hapless urn, The Gaztte sayn: *“Wo can assure the public, from the best authority which we can got, that our brothren of all tho Colo nies heard from are firm and unshaken in their attachment to tho common cause of Amierica, and they are now ready with their lives aud fortunes to nssist usin defenting thodesigns of our implacable enemics, " This whas bold talk for a Salem man when Boston was in British handy, Ricington's New York Gazetteerand Connec- ticut, udwon’s River, New Jersey, and Quebee Weekly Adtertiser—appalling titlo 1—was in after times the Tory and Royal organ of the Colonies. On May 25, 1776, howaver, it an. nounced itsolf ns “printed at his [Rivixa- ToN's] open nnd uninfluenced press, ” nnd pub- lished 8 number of affidavits which go to show that the regulars *rushed furiously and fired upon” the minute-men with- out provocation or warning. This number of the Gazetteer also contained n long speech of tho Tory, Wirviax Franxuty, the itlogitimate ton of Bessamty Fpangriy, and the then ““Governor, Chancellor, and Vice- Admiral” of New Jersey, Iis Excellency implores tho General Assembly of his provinee to become reconeiled with the King —nnd tolay a fow taxes for Iis Majesty's benefit. Then we have tho Massachusetts Spy, or American Oraclo of Liberty, published then and now ot Worcester. Abovae its title runs the stirring line—* Amoricans {~Liberty or Death !—Join or Die! " The date is May 3, 1775, Tho publisher, Mr. Tsaran Tuoxas, announces that he escaped from Boston ‘‘on the memorable 10th dny of April, which will be remembered in the faturoas the Anni- versary of tho Battlo of Lexington!” ' The Spy blazes with italics, inveetive, andindigna- tion. Itsaysthatthotroops, afterfiringontho Lexington minuto-men,’ laughed and damned the Yankees, and said they could not bear the smell of gunpowder." This, By the way, contradicts the current beliof that tho word “ Yankeo" was invented ns a roproach during the Revolution, Besides the Lesington news, the Spy hins one other item. It is that ¢ the Hon. Jony Havcocg, Esq.,” Mr. Bawues Apaxs, Mr, Jouy Apaus, and others, havo gono to Philadelphia to tho * Grand Amer. ican Congress,” Wo regret to seo that rural journalism in 1775 did not differ from rural journalism in 1875 in one important particular, The Salem Gazette ends its columns with this painful statement: Our Customers are desired fo consider the Difficul- tes with which we, in common with our country, are now fnvolved; and that we cannot continue our Busi- ness without regniar snd punctusl Payments, We ahall be oblized to divcontinua sending the Gazetta to all who are idebted for moro than ono Year, unless {hey make immediate Payment, MR. BEECHER'S DEPENSE, ‘The excuse for nowspaper commont on the Berones tril, aside from the great publio in- terest in tho'affair, is the necessity for sifting the real purport and bearing of the evidence from the mass of testimony offored in such appalling detail. The points of My, Breonzn's defenso, a8 stated by himself, reduced to a brief statement, are as follows: 1, That he bed won the affections of Mrs, ThuToN ; that ho was consclous of this fact; and that be failed to take mensures to ropross her unwifely transfer to him of the love sho should have given to her husband slone, 2. 'That, notwithstanding his knowledgs of this condition of things, ho advised Mis, TiuToN to separate from hor husband on sc- count of the Iotter's alloged cruclty and ingl- delities, 8. That the conjunction of these two cir. cumstances led him to accept Mourton's medintion to soothe TirToN's indignation, and ta solicit Drs, MourTon's good offices to con. solo Mrs, Tinton in the sufferings that fol. lowed the rovolation in the TiwtoN house- hold. It will bo yemarked that Mr. Beronen directed his personal defonse mainly agaiust Lis own lotters und provious utterancos, He made a broad, swoeping, aud porsistont dunial of the charge of adultery, and an equnlly comprebensiva nogative of tho testi- mony of TruroN, Movrtoy, and Mrs, Mouz- Tox, to tho snme cherge, e felt confident thut his word wonld welgh against the word of theso three. Ho counted that the pre- ponderance of his position, fame, cloguence, and personal maguitude, would counter- balance the rule of concurrent and acocumula~ tive testimony. 'This was onoe of his ndvant- ages ; andy wo far as the publio is concorned, wo do not think he has rockoned in vain, Rosting upon this, Mr. Besourn's hardest task was to explain the exoruciating agony that sobbed forth in the letters he wrote pending the cfforts on both sldos to suppress the scaudal that had arisen. Mr., Bercuzn fully sppreciated this, and concentrated all Lis vast intellectual resources to this end, The defenss, if invented, ia certainly the mont ingenions that could possibly have been mnde, Thero {s no othier combination of cir. cumstances, asido from crimunl intercourse and discovery, which can be nccepted ny plausible in the way of selting nside tho strong suspicion which attaches to tho lotters Beecuen wrote, 'Thero will always bo multi- tudes who will refuse to necopt this dofense, but thero ara thousands nnd tens of thonsands who will bo gatisfled with it, in the absonce of any further dovelopinents, and who wonld have been satisfled with notling else. Mr. Brronen has dropped all side.ssucaand clung to this strong thread. Ifo has thrown upon others the burden of establishing n conspir- acy and the responsibility for tho countor-charge of blackmail, o has sald that there way have beon n conspiraey and thero may have been black- mail; but ho could not himself insist upon theso chinrges consistontly with his frentmont of his opponents up to the very last, and his recent professions of kindly feeling toward Mr. ond Mrs. Mourrox, Ho could not feel and act towsrd conspirators and blackmailers a3 ho has professed to feel and as ho las ncted townrd theso people. It is left to his portisaus, therefore, to make what capital thoy may out of this view of the cuse. Tt must bo confessed that Mr. Bercnen's defouso is plausible. Ts was o situation beyond and outside of the experienco of most men, but it is not opposed to remson, Tho distinction is o common one nmong theologiany, but it is not often applied and not very generally recognized in the ordinary relations of men and the com- mon affairs of the world. The question of tho responsibility of a man who gains the affections of n married woman, who has no right to give them fo him, is a very serious one. 'The tendency of the world, probably the result of observation snd expericuce, is to blame lim, Where passion on the one side fails to kindle n flame on thoe other, it gonerally commauds a tonching sympnthy caloulated to encourngo rather than ropress it. True pity does not manifest itself as pity. It works out its mission under the guise of friendship, respact, or love; it i3 demonstrative only in delicate nttentions, dainty surprises, unpretentious consolations. It is dangerous ground,—n bed of roses, but lcdged by thorns. A man's vanity is never so dolicious- 1y flattered ns by the consciousness that ho has won tho affections of n pure, quict, domestic, womanly woman, 'Tho temptation to encouraga it is nlmost teo grent to resist. 1t ia encournged imperceptibly, if not openly, ‘Chera is 50 strong n desire to make somo re- turn for this delicato flattery that, if love bo not given, then somo other attention takes its place. In Beccurn's ecaso thore were tokens of remembrance; modest presents now and then; anote or a call; evidences of rospect, such oy the reading of the first chapter of Dlis novel for Mrs, "WiLToN's criticism; aud other little attentions of o mnaturo to cncourage and enlargo the nffection on the other side. Per- haps even the advica of soparation was given 88 one of theso peculinr conces- sions, and under the conviction that there was nothing which he could refuse to do thint might contribute to this woman's happi- ness. Most men, and women too, go too far in this situation, and there were powerful reasons urging Bercuen to leavo no effort untried, after the suspicions of the husband wero aroused, to suppress the public avowal even of what ho s avowed in his evidence. Henco the alarm ho manifested at the chanco of its becoming publie. Mr. Beeouen's defenso will bo damaged somewhat in the minds of many people by his delay in fixing upon this one persistent theory, It will be brought in contrast with provious vacillations and suggestions. But his friends will here insist upon a new point in his favor, claiming for him a chivalrous and magnanimous hesitation to declaro the ronl busls of the scandal. Here wo assumo that Mr, Beecnen's defenso practieally rests ; and, in awaiting the further deyelopments of tho trial, thero will be many a henrtfelt sigh for the humilinting position into which a womnn—naturally modest and retiring, we should say—has been thus thrust beforo the world, HOEE EARLY HISTD;ZY. Tho contennial wavo of feeling hng stirrod up any amount of old bits of American his. tory. W are nlrendy apprised that our men- tion of Alamance Creek, N. 0., Westminster Court-House, Vt., and Salem, Mnss., as rivals of Concord and Lexington, hns nwakened jenlousy ond envy—which aro surcly most uncentenninl feolings—in the hearts of Rhode Islanders and New Vorkers. Anxious to do full justice to everyhody, and consclous that all prominont historiaus will hereafter refect as untrue every incident not found in the complote file of Tur Omioaco Tripuxe which each of them will own, we hasten to ropair the unintentional wrong, Rhode Island, thon, claims the credit of tho first foreible rosistance to British tyran. ny, because lor citizens burned the English rovenue-cutter Gnspee in Narragausett Bay, This was June 10, 1772. Nobody was kill. ed, but somo blood wes shed, so that the story has the proper sanguinary hue, It ¢ Littlo Rhody ” had not unfortunately for. gotten all about tho matter, she would cer- tainly have celebraled s Gaspee centonnial threo years ngo, On studying the statements of enthusiastic Now Yorkors, we have come to the conclusion that o Now Yorker discovered this country, sud that his descondants havo done every. thing olge worth mentioning in its history to date, It seems, nccording to these veraclous authoritics, that New York, not Masanchu. solty or Ponusylvanis, first urged colonial union; that New York, not Boston, main. toined the firat free newspapor; that Now York, not Rhodo Iuland or Maryland, first upheld freedom of conscience; and that Now York, not North Carolina, formulated tho first Declaration of Independonce, Moreover, still according to these nuthoritics, New York was the first to protest against impresswont, to opppose the Stamp act, to burn the Royal Governor in offigy, to fight a Rovolutionary battle, and to seize British arms for American use! The battle was thot of Golden Hil), fought at the corner of John and Gold streets, Jon, 18, 1770, We must confess to a humili. ating ignorance of this noted engagomont, but it probably consisted in s daring attack by @ boy armed with a snowball upon dranken gentry. After learning, with roady fnith, this catalogue, wo aro propared to bee lieve that tho Boston, Charleston, aud An. nopolis ten-parties all occurred inside Bandy Hook; that WasuivaToN was bora in the Bowory ; aud that the only reason the British Lield New York daring tho groater part of the Rovolution was that all the wble.bodied oiti zens of tho pluco were killed ** in the baitlo of Golden Hill "} All theso contradlctory claims are of inter eat, Thelr comparison will show what looal. 48y 1s ontitled to the hoaor of baving begun tho Rovolution in the East. If tha firt causo of the strugglo is sought, howaver, it will he necessary to study n Western locality, The impartial reador will at once adwmit that the Amoricans would not have fonght the Iine glisl hind they not bolioved they could heat them. Nolody fighta for tho snko of buing whipped. Now, this bellef, the mainspring of rovolutionary resistance, was largely due to the suporiority of Provineial troops to Dritish regulars, ns shown in the French wars, and notably - in Bravpock's campnign. Those wars wero caused, in groat meas- ure, by the atlempts of tho French to eslablish n line of forts botween Quebeo aud Now Orlonns, of courso by way of Chicago. 'The present site of this city was thon, o3 now, recoguized as the most im. portant point on Lako Michigan and in tho Northwest. It was for this renson that Brap- poc's mecrot ordems (enptured during tho fight by the celebrated Poitawatomio Chief Winkte Wosr, and preserved in the musoum of the Chicago Historical Soclety until the Grent Tiro) directed him, after occupying Fort Du Quesne, to push forward at once and Aeizo tho wouth of the Chicngo River, the rtrategotical centro of the American conti- uent. Itis thus evidont that, if the French and British had not hoth tried ta gain posses- sion of Chicngo, the Americans would not Lave known their fighting superiority over the British, and thereforo wonld not have fonght the Rovolution, Chicago, then, on this theory, is really entitled to the cred- it of beoing tho Dbirthplaco of the grent strugglo! Owing to the overwhelming nomber of our claims to publio attention, this fact has porhaps been lost sight of, The interests of truth, therefore, demand ilg re- stotemont now. Honceforth, Chieago and Concord will bo kindred namos and rival clnimnnts, THE NEGRO A8 A LANDHOLDER. Mr, Cmanres Nonouors's lotters from Ar- kansas to tho New York Jferald hnve con- tained some gratifying acconnts of the prog. ress of the colored people in that State. ~ Too many persons, discouraged becauso the great work of reconstruction lins not been finished off prottily and completely within n few short yenrs, have fallen into the hiabit of imngining Pourry, ox-slave, freedman, and voter, asn lazy personage who sleopa in the dnytime, steqls chickens and pigs at night, votes early and often, and lives off the toiling whites, This picturo is a8 untrue fo nature ns that drawn by another cliquo of extremists, In the Intter; Cxuan Avoustus works passion. ately from sunrise to sunsot, letting go of tho plow only to wipe the dew of Lonest toil from bis forchead, nnd eatch, meanwhile, n glimpso of the spelling-book tied to the plow-handle ; that ho spends the evening studying by the light of a blazing pine-kuot ; that hio votes conscientiously, but at the risle of hislifo; that hois the constant proy of unprincipled whites. Humble, virtuous; studious, laborious, he is a dusky poragon, Now tho truth lies betweon theso absurd ex- tremes. Poxreys thero are, and CEsar Au- ousTused thero may Le, but there is also o great crowd of Toxs, Diczs, and annys, whoare noither great saints nor great sinners, and who are making good citizens of thom- selves inawny that promises a safo solu. tion of that sectional monstrosity known sy the Southern question. There nro 40,000 colored voters in Arkansas, and 2,000 of these ox-slaves own a farm or a houso and lot ina town, This is, perhaps, & relatively small gain, but it must bo remom. bered that the gain has been mado during seven years of political strife nud domestie insecurity, and mado by peopla Justlifted out of the barberism of slavery, Seven years ngo, the 40,000 voters owned thomsolves for the first time. It is no small matter that 2,000 of theso men have bound themselves to tho soil, since then, by the strong tio of Swnership. Besides these 2,000 owners, other thousands have ronted land, They lense lots of from one o one hundred acres, and cithor pay n fixed rent or enltivate the ground on shares. It is impossible to estimnte exactly the number of negro ton. ants, but it is enpposed to considernbly ox- ceed that of the nogroes who own the land on which they live, Moreover, many colored citizons of Arkansas Lind littls sums of money deposited in the Freedman's Savings Bank, Had not thnt great swindle collapsed, a good part of these deposits would ero this have been invested in Arkonsas ncros, Tho old- timo planters favor the permanent sottlement of the hlacks on the lunds they till, aud aro snid to bo glad to sell or rent to their former slaves. Several ex-slaves of Gen, Cupnen- 1LY, now State-Treasurer, lease 40 or 50 ncres apioce from their old master, Such o com- mingling of intercsts cannot fail to destroy, more or leas quickdy, tho odious * color-line,” and so bring into existenco at the South the two parties which divided it up to 1860, and wero flnally fused togethier only by the kot bronth of war, The Presidential clection of 1860 showed o Southern anti-sccession.Domo- cratic majority of 135,000 votes, The sur- vivors of the men who cast those votes aro kept insido the Democratic party now on- ly by tho existence of the color- line. As that mischievous distinction fodes nway, the unlioly allisnce of Union ‘Whig and Bourbon Democrat can no longer be kept intact. The two factions will sep- arate. ‘The inovitable division of all political communitics Into o progressive and a con- servative party will come to pass. Nogro land-owning will be & powerful factor in tak. ing the negro, as such, out of eolor-line poli- tice. * Come, happy day!" A few monttis ago Cowmptroller GBEEX was held up for publio reprobation by tho pross of Now York City for his reluctance In paylog the sum of 825,000 to Mra, MRy BerLx Boorr- Upa for the right to manufacture and uso in the City of Now York an asorial ladder inventod by one PaoLo Ponro, sho chiming the right to manufacture and sell the same in thia country. Mrs, Upa gued the city and obtained judgment, sud the Corporation Counsel rofused to appoal the caso, This was in June, 1874, It now ap- poars that, In Boptomber, Bire, Many Derre BeorT-Upa sold to WirLun B, Winte, Secretary of tho Board of Police, hor claim sgainst tho alty, for which Waite pald $15,000, making & profit of410,000 by the operation. The ques- tion now §s, What share did tho Police Commis- sioners and Corporstion Counsel get of the $10,000? Even tho flerald is compelled to tacitly admit Guesn's wisdom In fightiug tho stoal, now that its consummation has lod to ex- planations and inveatigatlons, —_— o ‘The British papers are hotly denouncing tho Govornor-Genoral of India, Lord NonTunnooxk, for baving prosecuted tlho case sgainst the Quizcowan, or Priuco of Barada, which bas resulted in & dieagreewens of the jury, whioh wad composed of - eminent natives aud English, in order to make a conspicaous display of tho falrucss of English jurisprudeuce. The Indian mind, however, s likely to bo more mystified than ever, and fu eapecially staggorod by tho potout abilities of Bakib BirraxTixg, who has vanquished the mighty powers of Caloutts, Tho failure to conviot or aoquit loavea sn elophant (o the bands of Lord Nonyusioox, and England 8 evidenco broke down, na the witn, elovacy Hoclotios of Groat Britaln Yiavo 1y, Leen at work on tho African, with the hope o cessity for a conlinuous garment, Tho mi, logs bieon studying the sabjoct of cauat Tingay ——= wondering what ho will do with hin depossy Drince. The Dilnco was s bad Governor, ol was charged with having tried to polson the Ep, alish agant at Lis Court, Col. Pitavng, Ly ty oreH wary | shown to hiavo admittod porjury. Tho tioyeip. ment disliko to restoro him o his throne, gy | aro at thoir wit's oud what to do with him, | —_— Tho Bunday-Schiool Childrenand Churely Mis making bim realize his falion state ang the pe. tary powers of Great Liritain havo boon serjyp, Iy tryfug to pound into him s proper ToHDoet o tho Union Jack and tho Sxtozn Rifle, ang g taken his gold-dust In roturn for the whoteyom foutruction they havo imwarted. Tholr wayy of succesn u civilizing the dusky Uiped has ppg ds couraged a 8coteh engineer, DoNarn MeKeyzy by name, in.sn enterprise looking to My ends, o proposos to opon up the futerior |, means of & csnnl from Capo Juby, opposity th Caunary Inlauds, to tho Nigor at Tiubuetoq, - distanca of 740 miles, Mr. MOKRNz1E lias doyys Now York, and, recognizing in thom the Ty frults of our civilization, has beon Oncouraged ¢ improve tho African inorally and intollootua. Dy tho same invigorating procers. : Il Thero gooma to be something doing in Alhazy towards improving tho navigation of thy oany, Tu the Sonato on Tuesday last Kiva {utroduce resolution suggested by a portion of thy ggy, ornor's meseago diracting tho State Engineer malko, whiy bis assistants, n survoy of the En Canal, to Aecortnin befora tho water la fuy whoter the bed Lias a capscity throughot g Iengtt for 7 feot of water in dopth ; aud ajeg t ascortaln tho general condition of tho beg 4, walts. Ho {8 to roport, if practivable, to 1y Legislature, giviog an estimate of tho coet o dredging tho canal, If neceasary, in order {o 4 cniro & uniform dopth of 7 feet. Tha resoluyy, in doomed nocessary at tho presont time, beexgy the dato for letting water iuto the bed and g5, suming navigation is rapidly approaching, Ity stated also that, notwithstanding the beary ¢ penacs accurred at various times for eulargiy and deapening the eanal, it i8 too shallow jn sy urel placey, Tho reeolution was passed. ———— Tho fact that GLADSTONE'S * Vatican Dy crees” reschod such an enormous sale in B mland alkowod the Intensity of the feeling by twocn tho partisans of tho Catholic and Protes, ant Churches, Dr, KENEALY Las furnished a. othor instance. Tho HMorning Adecriiser, of London, an lntenacly Protestant papor, ls wp hield Dr. KENEALY in his ereatic coursq, buyy report of one of lija meotings ridiculed him v, morcifully. Kexeany roplied throngh s oss paper: *Tho Morning Advertiser has evidently come undor malign intlnencos, Its anb-editoriy o most violont Romanist aud s tool of tho Jesut faction.” 'Tho sub-editor Lappens to bo a viw lont Protostant, and hag sued XENgALY for Jibel, This i o novel libel, to call a Protestant ¢ Catholie—and romfuds ono of the story of th isosceles triangle. One ts opt to look with rather cynical feelingt upon tho spirit of Nborty enjoyed by a uatisy whoee Government kolds the press by tho thros, aud promptly strangles every nowspapor whish dures to uttor n criticlsm, Lut atter all,th pross bas scertain amount of power. Ay was produced at one of tho Parisian theaty in which newspaper reporters wero represete! fo & highly-ofensive manuer—moro damsginy porbaps than if thoy hiad appearcd in it asame tours. Tho reporters of tha city formed a moh invaded tho theatre, and provonted the pleco b ing playod until tho objectionabla foatures by been removed. In msbarp skirmish witaily police they came off victorious. —_— Dr, Hatrrenp's pulpit-attack upon ihe pren has boon widely noticed. It remained for s JMilwaukoe Acws, howover, to hit it off i &y Lent torms, thus: * It iz to boadmitted thatfo avor threo montha past tho press liss been fu tolerably indecent, owing to tho attentiou it ds votes to the pulpit. Tho pross would beglad lo be relievod, and hopes the pulpit will try not to bo so ‘licontions’ as to domand ity notfco,” Dr, HatprErd muat now declde by tweon the stage, the pross, aud the puipit—whicd ia tho worst, Audi alleram partzm—hoar both stdes—1s tht mottoof tho consolidated 8t. Paul Piondr Press. One of tho now editoys has the insids and tho other the outsido of tho sneet to kie- solf, and {t's all na smooth as crotoo-oil. 461 specimon of n partition nowspapor, tho Pion Press will do very well. POLITIOAL NOTES, Argxaxpen G. Munnay, of Georgia, wanlsty havo the nogroes shipped to Afries, Why oo ship ALsxaxpen G. Munsay to Caucasis Mr, Avexawpen Strmexs' “surprisioz aib sorvienoy ™ ta GraxT disturbs tho equanimityel alt the Bourbon orgens, including, of course b Now York Sun, Geonok ¥. Toan hobnobbing with Collectat Sntsions, tho original + Poor Boy," at o dioss party given to Proeident Graxt in Boston, mat biave beon a picture for wore eycs to feast UKt Chinf-Justice Lows, of Utal, denouncestd pure fabrication the stattosory acconnt ¥ the Cincinnatl Commercial published sa barisg been presontod by him while an ofticial of Clue nati. ‘Tho latost Trosidential tickat I presented b7 tho Heacon, of Akron, Obio, aa follows: " ¥ § Prosident, Bexsau1y H. Bristow, of Kontuelsi for Vico-Prealdont, Mansuary JewsLy, of (o necticat.” ‘Tho Domacrats are rosponaible for all ihe dus: that has boon raised about the Third ferm, ko thelr party is tho only on that would really I}t to Liave Gon, Aant renominated, That 18 5 beat chanco they see of an easy victory. 3 Tho “Party of Hate” survives pretiy vk notwithstanding the abuso that hos b«:fl"' Inlied on it by high-toned Reformors, A "Farf of Hate,” to say truth, {s vory much nosded B thoso days of corruption, and domsgogiu and hypocrisy, Benator Oastznon owns up, Ho did ran l"{ from tho yellow fover, o ssys ho la 76 & old, * hearty a2 a buok,” and does pob “mslufl- yollow tever. He had to go in some dxun“‘ 4 and it Lappened to bo easioat and ploasanie Lim to go where tho yellow fevor was nob. Loaax and Curzox for Goveraor sad L';:‘";‘ ant-Covernor §8 & bantilog-ticket couceivi o thofit, Lous Globe, aud, for respactablo ptt;m age, thruet upon some apooryphal people Wm, it oalls * our Republlean friouds in m“:uhl Nobody in Iilinois fins bogun to tlunk of 8 thing, - Csan bad his Bavrvs, Couxees L ”"".lhj OrouweL, aud Philadelphia has her L‘aun:lw I Yen, ‘Thla vigorous, high-sounding ol“"‘" W been spplied to a Ring in one brauch °l & City Council, ond It seems to bo pecalisty propriste, Tho old Venotian Col:mnfl h‘t contained ten sascala st auy ono timo, b e 1a tho normal condition of tho Phifadeiplit v The Catholica of New York, If lhulxarllved organ, tho Daily Telegraph, may bo “‘n'; sulbority, sre just ss unwilling t0 “mw“ children to echool whoro no religious Ios Y is given as to thoso which sro control oo Protostant toachers, It is uot ab all s au of non-sectarian fustruction that hss m:‘;ur elther in Now York I“t l?hin." ':'M quic peoplo understand this the better. ¥ Candidates for the Govornor's oficain “"'0‘2: £ sin aro coming forward freely. The Ceufrfna Al mitteo's tioket, a8 givon by Tux ’l‘nwt{lm g days 830, has provoked a good deal o"m slon, more or Ices favorablo, Mr. Lub namo bas not boon widoly used in this % tion, but tho suggestion fs not unplesss Apoleton Postand soversl othor parit 500, abide by their first love, ex-Soustor Qaxpas o) who wouldn's mind stepplug from 8 Quborns