Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 24, 1875, Page 8

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF EUNACNITTION (PAYABLE It ADVARCE). Postage 'repald at this Oflice. 3,00 | Weakly, 1 you SITE0 | Five rdel "Tan copic Partrof a3 WANTED~Une active agont fn each town and village. Epeclal arrangoments made with such, : Hpoeinion coples sent free. ‘Toprevent delay and mistakes, bd nnrs and give Post- Office address I full, Including State and County, Itemittancesmay bamada nithor by draft, axpress, Post- Utkcoorder, o In registared Iotters, at onr risk, TERMS TO CITY SUDSCRINENS, Dally, delivered, Sunday exeoptod, 205 vents pormeck, Dally, dellvered, Buudar Included, 3() cents par wook. Addrens THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornoe Madieon and Deathorn-sts., Cblcago, Il TO-DAYS AMUSEMENTS. HOOLRY'S, THEATNR—Tlandaioh strent, betweon Ulark and LaSallo, 3'*Mlonts Cristo.” Alternon and evoaing. i ADPLPHITHEATRE—Drathorn street, cornnr Mon« o0, Varioty entertainmeat. Alternoon and evening. Jstad strost, batween Mad- of €, R, Uardinor. After- AOALEMY OF MUSIC tson and Monrno, Iono! Voon A0 aventugs GRAND, OPERA-TIOUS(-Clark_streot, opposita D A Wakatoras” sefdvat. Aftarnuon and ovenlug. M'VICKER'S TIEA Madison Dentborn nnd State. Lngagement of *Fanchon.” Afternoon and ovening, hotweon itohell. EXPOSITION TUILDI Adama sireot. Exhibition of foot of FARWELL TTALT—Madieon atreet, hotween Clark nd'LaSalle. Goncert by the Jubilee Siogers at 3:30, McCONMICR'S TALL—North Clark stroct, comar Kiazle, Concert by tho Do Muraka Troupa at 3 o'clock. SOCIETY MEETINGS. WA, B, WATREN LODGE, Yo, &0, A, . and A, M, 7‘{““‘"{3"?“‘:‘;’1‘“‘”“lfl'[l'.: ‘;: 2y) ovening st 7M. i outal hall, 15 : elaoky ALOE ¥, it DUNLOP, Soc. BUSINESS NOTICES. ; —TIR NEW VORK INDE. in nur families D, 8, Thompson's or, and would nat be without it.” BARING PO“FD SRteiore Raksae 1 and Jo lower, closing firm at 6110 cash, and G1jc for May. Ryo wns quiet aud stronger ot 21,06@1.07. Darley wns guiet and firmer, b 21,23 for April, and nominally at SL16@ $1.18 for May. IHogs wero active and firnter; sales at $7.60@Y.20. Callle wero in active demand at fully lato prices, Sheep rero fierer and unchanged. S T'he Tenant-Right Lill now befors the En- glish Parliament provides that tonants shall e compensated for ** unexhausted improve- ments " when their leases expire or are cut short, Imt allows this compensation to bo whnived by coniract, As tho waiver woulil bo inserted in every leaso by the Inudlord, this provision nullifies the bill, *Thg farmers aro declering overywhere,” says tho London Spectator, * ngainat the bill, which they sy The Chicages Tribune, Baturday Morning, April 24, 1875. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Dr. Kesany may consider himself sup- pressed, squelched, carried ont and buried. After his three hours' speech upon his mo- tion for a Parlinmentary Commission to in- vestigate the Ticuponsr trial, the proposi- tion was defeated by a vote of 433 to 1. Lord Nontunrook, the Viceroy of Indin, has got rid of his troublesome clephnnt, the Uinicowar of Barods, whom he permanently doposes, precluding him and Lis issue from sl rights appertaining to the sovercignty of tho country, This peremptory method of rettling n disagreenblo question might have proved somewhnat irritating to the subjects of the degraded Princo but for the happy fore- thought of tho Viceroy in sclecting another Yranch of tho Guicowar's family to oceupy tho throne and appense the natives. A terrible disaster occurred at New Orleans yesterday in the burning of three stenmers wnd the loss of from £0 to 100 lives, One of the bonts caught firc at the leveo and a8 cast out into tho stream to pre- vent the sprend of the flames. Two other bonts, londed with people who hnd come to seo the fire, wero also cut loose %o save them, but they were both fouled by the burning steamer, and burned to tho water's edge, and o large number of people were burned or drowned. An account of the ratastropho will be found in our telegraphic solumnns, It is intimated that in tho seclection of a suceessor to Attorney-General WicLiaxa the President will be mainly influenced by per- sonal considorations, his desire being to fol- * low his private predilections rather than to congult the political interests of States or sections, in the nppoeintment of Cabinet offi- cers, This is nll very wells The Chiof Ex- ecutive should have about him confidential advisers that ara personally as well as politi- cally ncceptable; but it is earnestly to be hoped that individual fitness not lesa than individual sagreenblencss may be taken into account in ihe assignment of the Attorney- General's portfoli large is worso {hon usoless. In lalf-a-dozen counties, thoy lLave passed resolutions de- manding tho excision of the clauso which puts contrnet above law. The meeting in Cheshire wns of espo- cinl interest. The Duke of Westminster presided, and other great landlords wero presont, Thoy all tried to have the bill in- dorsed, but their own tenants boldly opposed them and pussed the customnry resolutions. Prof. Fawcerr is out in opposition to tho bill, as it stands now, and tho measure, ac- cording to the Spectator, '* may be the most fmportant of the session.” It is now befora the Lords. If it ever reaches the Commons, the contract-clause will certainly bo opposed, and the hundred or so Tories with tenant- farmer constituencies will have to vote to striko it out, or elso step down aud ount of Darliament. THE ELECTION YESTERDAY, Thero is every renson to beliove that the City of Chicago was yesterday made tho vie- tim of o serious calamity by the ndoption of TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUN the presence of successful political institn- tions which a contury ago were regarded oven by thoir most sanguine ndvocates as nothing more than a graud experiment. No Exposition clsewhere ean lave such significance, and this Exposition can have none of that deep politienl intercst to any ather nation that 1t will have for Franeo and Euglond,—the ono the parent of the Great Tepublic, the other the ally without whoss aid its independonce at that. time would Hiave been impossible. o thom the politieal progress nnd politieal success will havo an interest far excceding that of the materinl nature, It will be an exposition of ideas, of lilierties, of policles, and of institutions, in which both nations have deep concern, and which have made a permnanent impression upon their own institutions and people, THE UNDERWRITERS' RETORT, The National Board of Underwriters aro now holding their ninth annual convention in Now York City. ‘Tiie report of the Presi- dentrovenls the fact that tho fire-insurauco in- terest, notwithstanding the constaut comn- plaints we hear from the underwritors, is better off than any other line of investment in this country. It scemsnot to have suf- fored the shrinknge iucident to the panic which extended to the manufacturing, bank- ing, railroad, and general commercial inter- ests, Capitalists have Leen forced to nceept lower rates of interest, and the insurance companies have been paying o Inrger rate of profits than before. The Now York compn-~ nics linve been particularly successful, and lnve enrned moro money during the last year than in any previons year sinco 1859, This annual confession of profits is useful. It relioves the general pub- lic of the consuming remorse that tho insur- ance agenta have exacted on account of tho general devouring of insuranco capital, oaud the wrotchedly bungling and defective char- ter of 1872, 'Tho returns, so far as recf[vcd up to the present writing, indicate nme- jority of nabout 600 in favor of the charter, with no account of the voting in the Ninth Ward, which, it is belioved, will to rowe extent reduce the mnjority * for,” but not enongh, in all probability to render the voto so closothat anofficinl count might throw the resnlt the other way, The thieves, gam- blers, nnd scalawngs lave had their victory, just ns we predicted they would in the event that tho respectablo classes treated the clection with indiference, nnd failed to turn out in force and vote nagainst the measure. To this cause, in o degree, must be attributed the unforinnate result of yesterdny, and tho infliction upon Chicago of o charter utterly unsuited to a great city. of neglect, on the part of tax-payers, would have given the voting a differont complexion. The tax-caters went solid for the charter of Attontion, instead 1872, beeause they knew it to be alooser and n worso charter in all respects than the gne it displaces. A glanco nt the figures will convinco tho render that repeating and other forms of frandulont voting wore relied upon to carry tho doy. In tho First and Sccond Wards alone the frauds were sufficient to decide the issuo; the totals would hinvo been enormously swelled by tho Twenticth Ward but for the detormined staud taken by a party of prominent citizens, who cutered tho gambler Conconax's bailiwick at the risk of sustaining serions bodily injury, and ns far as possible compelled the repeaters and non-residents to swear in their votes, thoreby retarding tho illegal voting. Had ecqual- ly deccisive mensures been resorted to in the First, Sccond, Seventh, and Eleventh Wards, there can be no question but that the charter of 1872 would have been voted down. "The election was carried by the disreputable minority, by reason of tho carelessness and indifference to public interests of the respect- ablo tax-paying majority. ENGLAND AND FRANCE AT THE EXPOSI TION, Tho French Government bas organized a Cowmission, with Osoan pe LaraverTr, grand. son of tho Larayerte of Rovolutionary fame, at its head, to take cliargo of the French in- torests in the Ameriean Centennial Exposi- tion, subject, and it is proposed by them that France shall promote her foreign trado by o thoraugh oxposition of her industry at Philn. dolphia in 1876, 'Tho European States which The French papera have taken up tho will make the greatestdisplay and takegrentest interestin our Centennial will bo Great Britain and Fronce. They aro our best customers, and wo are also their best customer, But the interest of these nations will not Lo exclusively commercial, Tt will be decply political. It will recall to both their syeucy ju the foundation, 100 years ngo, of tho American Ropubllic. Tho one will be thare Our budget of foroign news this morning will bo found unusually important and in- teresting. An extended analysis is given of Count Prnroncmen's note to the Ielgian Uavernment, in which the German Minister significantly adverts to the mnnifestntions in Belgium of sympathy and encourngement for the ecclosinstics who infringed the laws of Prussia, and gives notico that theso mnnifes. tations wera wounding and aggravating to the Government of tho Emperor of Ger- many. Attention is also called to tho neg- loct of DBelgiwn to punish Ducnesse for his letter offering to assassinato Disvancg, and o demand i8 made apon Belgimn for the enactment aud enforcement of laws for the punishnent of peoplo who commit acts calculated to pro- voke unfriendly relations with neighboring States, To this throatening note the Belgian Government, encournged by tho prospect of England’s support in tho ovent of troubla #ith Germany, returns a defiant suswer, ro- gretling its insbility to comply with the sug. gestions contained in the German note, and especially declining to be dictated to in rofer- sneo to the Duonesne conspiracy. An article s also reprinted from the Berlin Post, (ho Ministerinl mouthpleco, which pro. dicts & war provipitated by the Logislative Assembly of France under tho dangerons anepicos of 3avMamox and the Orleunist Princes, and with the ex- peeted ald from an Austro-Italidn alliance, which tho Austrien Conservatives aim to bring about by turning out the ANpnassy Cabinet. If this ltter attempt fails, says the LPost, wor will be delayed, but the official organ of the German Governmnent neverthe- loss says it is time that the German peopla aa‘:ld be awake to the realitics of the situa- The Chicago produce markets wero gener. ally on the downward twrn yesterday, Bless pork waus moderately active and 124¢ per brl lower, closing at $21.80 for May, and $22.05 for June. Lard waos in fair demand, and Go per 100 1bs lower, closing nt $16.66 cash, and $16.75 for June. Aleats wero more oc- tive, and steady at Bjo for shoulders, 11}@ 120 for short ribs, and 12]o for short clears, Lake froights were dull and nomiual ot 4@ 430 for corn to Buffalo, Mighwines weroin good demand and fim at $1.12§ bid per gallon, Flour was guiot and steady. Wheat waa active and 2o lowor, closing _teme at $1.01} each, and 1.02} for Moy, Corn was active and 1p lower, closing at 70je for AMav. #43 74fe for Juna, Oats wero qulet wf 0 the parent who songht to coerco and dis. ciplino the atruggling, and doflant, and robel- lious child. The other will recall her nctive, at first secret, and then avowed, encoursgement nnd aid of tho child to shake off the parental control and aunthority. that her severity and despotism alienated the Amorican colonists; the other that sho aided and enconraged these colonists in their sep- aration from tho parent country. recall hor own despotism ot that day, when the degradation, ignorance, and poverty of Trance wero drawing nearer and nearer to that day of sanguinary retribution, the in Europo; her own condition, when, though the mm’rty' of the citizon was a mattor of law, in fact o British subject was comparatively littlo Letter off than the poasantry of France, This Centonnial will be not only an exposition of tho material progress of the world during the century that hos intervoned, but it willl ba The one will recall Each will of which aro atill felt and England will rocall cffects an exposition of tho ovon greater progress the world has munde since George tho Third and Louis tho Bixteenth wero rivals in des. potism; and when, owing to their jenlous antagonisuy, a new Thought took form, and amoug tho nations of tha enrth theirappeared o nation founded upon the Idea that the peo- plo were tho sovereigns nud the ralers were their servants, Old England and old France, combined, guve oxistence to the American Ropublio; and now, at tho expiration of a century, thoy both mect at the cclobration of tho success of their joint crantion, T'here will, in nddition to the comparison of material production, be a grander compar. ison of political results. The parent will ba- Thold the child grown to gigantio proportions, Ihe few stroggling colonics scattered slong tho Atlantic coast, with a sparso population, liave grown iuto o continental empire. Their population far excecds that of tho nation of whom they wrosted their libertics, Franco will recognize in tho political power aud graudeur of tho Republic which sho aided & century ago thoe realization of tho great ideas for which she has been struggling from 1793 to the presont timo, and which gt this 1aoment engrosscs her whole attontion. The two nations will moet upon American soll, {n peoplo will not feol an embnrrassment of gratitude when they are permitted to pay 2 or 3 per cent for the insuranco of their Lusiness aud homes, This preliminary confession of profits somewhat diminishes the pathos of what the President of the Board Lins to say relative to the status of the insurance business in Chicago. He restates the history of the withdrawal of the National Board companics Inst fall, their. roturn, the cousultation with the Citizens' Association, and the employ- ment of Gen, Smarer, all of which is familiar to the Chicago people. But it is now for- mally announced for the first time that Gen. Suaver resigned the 1st of Murch, after an expericnco in which lo failed to suggest anything that had not been suggosted before, The only admission mado is that n better discipline in the Fire Depart- ment was the result of Smarer's presenco; but, aside from this, the sweeping statement is sent forth that ** not ono step of progress Thing been made townrd greater lire protection since that time,”—that is, since tho with- drawal of the companies, - This statement shows that either the Na- tionnl Board has been grossly misinformed, or that it misrepresonts the facts in the caso for sclfish and mercenary reasons, The fact is that thero has been o very great deal ac- complished in the way of incrensed protec- tion since tho fire last summer, notwithstand- ing the refusal to nequicsco in Gen. Suaren's exorbitant and impracticablo suggestions of exponditure. Gen. SuaLes looked only to the amount of machinery necessary to the extin- guishment of fires; what has been done has been mainly in the line of prevention, If the Nntionnl Board of Underwriters do not SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1875.—TWELVE PAGES. wholly unwarranted. Tho reformns and im- provoments wo have enumersted have al- ready hind their effeet. Asido from tho de. struction of Want's glue-factory, which had 8 humber of wooden buildings and was lo- cnted almost beyond the immedinte reach of the Fire Departuient, there have been no fires of consoquence for the past eight months, Tho Underwritors have also beon forced ‘to confess the progress made toward protection by the voluntary roduction of their rates. ‘I'ie utlorauces of Prosident Oarrer, thore- fore, can only bo regarded ns & doliberate and perhaps malicious attempt to damngo Chiengo by angmenting tho dangers of the future with the help of tho misfortuncs of the past,— suroly an unworthy effart. oo SOME BTATE SALARY-GIADBING. The Stato Register of Springfield has n theory, suggested of course by partisan mo- tives, that Gov, Devenmar and Mr, Currost are rival candidates for tho Republican nom- ination for Governor next year, and that they are getting in aly digs nt efoh other whonever an opportunity presents itself. Tollowing out this theory, tho State’Register thinks that Curzox wade n point on Brves. ek in the Marren oxposure, when ho re. minded the Governor that ho whitewashed TIanpER about a. year ngo inspite of anun. favorablo roport by the Warclouso Commis- sloners, _But it thinks also that Bevenmoe got in a good blow back on Currox by pro- voling a roport from the State Auditor, which shows that Currox, as Spenker of tho ‘I'wenty-cighth Goneral Assembly, cer- tified to Dax Smrranp’s being cntitled to draw pay 08 Clerk of the Houso of Represent- atives from May 6, 1873, when the House nd- journed, until Jan, 4, 1875, whon the now Houso convened, though it was generally known that Suepanp was in Washington during that time, drawing pny as clerk of the United Btates Sennto Military Committeo. Currost might return to the charge by point- ing out that Gov. Bevenmas employed as his private seeretary Mr, Ray, who was clerk of the Stato Senate, and o salary-grabber as well 08 SHErARD, Whatever may be the advantages on either side a8 botween Currost and Bevenioar, this alleged controversy hins drawn attention to a petty little fraud of wiuch Mr. DAy SnErArRD is snid to be the instigator. This fraud con- sisted of an authorization by the Goneral Assembly of ‘the payment of the Clorks of both Houses n per diem during the entire two years, nnd when tho Tegisla- ture was not in session, There was on offort to secure a repetition of this fraud in the lnst Legislnture, when Crowrer, the House Clerk, endeavored to deceive 3r. DBnaxeox and to make him the tool for the in- troduction of n resolution whose purport he did not understand. Crowrex says that this was put into his head Ly Dan Sneeanp, CrnowLey's predacessor, whohad accomplished the same thing in his own bohalf and in the samo way. It is nlleged that Sueranp had entrapped Mr. Anusrroxe, the Democratié leader of the Houso, in the same way that Crowrey sought to entrap Mr. Braxsoy, a Republiean member,—each shrewdly choos- ing o member of the minority to work out the grab, in order to fix the rosponsibility on the minority in caso of oxposure. If the charges which stand against Mr. Sneparp nre not true, it is incumbent on lhim to take some steps to remove tho blot that attaches to them. If they aro true, Mr. Sueranp should at once resign the position of Bccretary of tho Republican Stato Cen- tral Committeo which he now holds. A de.’ ngree that the lntter is the wiser policy, thoy aro blind to their own interests. We will ro- call somo of tho things that have beon done since tho fire of lnst July, 1. The firo limits, which only covered nbout one.tbird of the territory within the city limits at the timo of tho July fire, have sinco been extended over tho entire city. Not a singlo wooden house has been erccted within the city limits since then, while hun- dreds have been torn down, burnt out, or moved away. A great many have beon taken into the suburbs,—Hyde Park, Lake, Cicero, Lake Viow,—to make room for brick build- ings. 2, The dangerous wooden district burned over in July is now nearly covered with brick walls, This district, covering about 50 acres, mainly of wooden structures, was a standing menaco to - the most valuable bnsiness blocks in the city, to which itis contiguous, It now serves s o protoction from the woodon dis- trict lying beyond it to the southwost. 38, Largo additions have been made to the water-supply, A great deal of 3.feot and 2.feot, 18-inch, 15-inch, 12-inch, and 8-inch pipe hias been lnid to replaco smaller pipes in tho business districts and the best portions of tho city, thus remedying the most serious obstacle encountered by the Fire Dopartment in ovory Inrge fire we have had. 4. A great many double, nnd wo believe treblo, fire-plugs havo been substituted for singlo plugs, nud hundreds of extra plugs have been sot all over the city.’ 5. A second tunnel now extonda diagonally nindor tho city for a distanca of four miles, There are eightcon large wells connected with this tunnel along tho line, which can bo tapped in any emergency. 6. Now water-works aro now in process of construction in the southern part of the city connecting with this tunnel, which, when comploted, will increaso the hend of the wa- ter-sapply very greatly. Theso now works will be fire-proot, and tho old works have also Leen made fire-proof, o that there is no long- or o ronsonablo apprehension that the water.’ supply can over b cut off in any conflagra- tion, 7. The soworago system has been very +widely extended, and, aa o result of this, tho streets;ro ina much better condition, and many of them formerly impassable for the heavy fire-enginos now offer an easy thor- oughfare, 8, Much has boen accomplished by privato effort for the protection of busines blocks, ‘Thoso not provided with iron shutters before have since beon supplied, and many of the high buildings bave put in standing-pipes running up to the top, and giving a full sup. ply of water at every story. Othors have leightored their partition fire-walls, 8. Tho Fire Dopartment has also been en- larged and improved,—firat, by the additions of severnl engines and miles of the best hose; second, by improvement in the disgipline of the forco; third, by she addition of several hundred now fre-larm boxzes ond the gen- eral improvement of the alarm systom, The incrense in the police force is also an ad. ditional means of hastoning alarms and pro- tocting property during fives. . 10. Al the huge wooden signs on high buildings have been taken down, and many of the wooden cornices have beon replaced by motal ones; and gonerally tho provisions of the fire-ordinance have been more rigidly enforced. 1t will thus be seen that the statement made by the Presldent of the Board was liberate and scheming salary-grabbor, plot- ting for and taking pay for work that was never dono, is not the kind of man to ocoupy the position he has now. He is not likely to command very much confidence and respect for tho campaign documents issued ovor his namoe, 0 long as these charges stand. Itis obviously Mr., Snerarp's duty, thereforo, to got asido these charges or ‘‘step down and out.” THE GREAT AMERICAR BTRATOORAT. ‘Thero is a singular unanimity of criticiam, not only at home but abroad, upon ANpREW Jonxson's speech during the extra session of tho Senate. Tho keynoto of that haranguo was the danger of a military despotism or stratocraoy. Tho ox-President went so far s to say that we aro living under a ‘‘ stratocra- cy" now. Anditisquite possible that ho believes what he sayh. Ha would bo n rash man who would affirin that any untruth is too monstrous for ANprew Jomisox to believe, The unanimous criticism upon tho speech is, that tho man who now denounces Cisar- ism was, when President, the voriest Oxsan of thom nll. Whatever mistakes Gmant, & soldier tranaferred to civil office, may have mnde, his carcor hns no taint of Cmsarisim, and especially when compared with that of tho life-long civilian, A.J. Even JacmsoN wasbut o lamo and inoffectual Ozsan com- pnred with the stratocrat who lived at the White House from '65 to '69, and used its portico s a platform from which to denounce & co-ordinate branch of the National Govern- ment, for tho gratification of & howling mob. Jaonsox's opposition to Congress wes neith- er as flerco nor as prolonged as Jonnson's ; aud the former had tho people with him, whilo tho Iatter, when Le appenled to the people, was answered by an ‘adverse majori- ty of 860,000 votes. Morcover, JomnsoN's Dbitter opposition to Congress was all the moro inexcusable becauso the Congress of 1866 was elected on the direct issuo of veconstruction, on the bunsis of equal rights rogardless of color. When it attempted to cmry out the wishes of its constituoncy it was thwarted, interfered with, and harassed by the would-be despot-who Ent in tho Presidont’s chair. The conduct of Jouxson throughout his struggle with Congress waa violont, arbitrary, and tyrannical. I stretched tho Prosidentlal prerogative far beyond its proper limits, In. stond of a simple Executive, carrying into ef- fect the mnture resolves of the legislative body, Axpnew JomnnsoN sought to combine the Execoutive and the Legiulature in his own porson, When lawa wero possed over his veto, ho neglected, just as far as o dared, to carry them into offect. The mistakes of ro. construction were almost without an excep- tion the mistakes of men anxious to bring the South peacefully into the Union, but drivento 1madnessbytho perpetualintrigucandmeddling and opposition of the man whosé sworn duty it was to execute whatever measures Congress judged fit to approve. Once more, ANDBEW JomnsoN did all he could to provide for tho ropudiation of the national dobt as soon as the oggrogato interest pnid was equal to the capital. Tho iden was both des- potio and dishonest in the last degreo, but A, J, made it port of * my polioy," and devoted a special mossage torocommending the gigantio swindle and national dishonor and disgrace. Tho Anglo-American Times suggests that the First National Bank of Washington, in which Jonwaox ** dopoaited his little fortune,” ought to bave said to him, as soon s the in. terest paid him equaled the deposit: ¢ Now, Mr, Jouxsoy, wo aro quits! You have ro- ceived all your money back." Has any other President ever so flaunted “my policy” bofore the worll? 1lns any other ever ko made “I" and dishonor tho centre of his speeches and the pivot of his Administration ? 1as nny other aver so tried to override Congress, to dietate its nction, to thwart that action when it was distasteful to him? IHns any other ever buen so despotic, so litflo amennble to the Constitution of which Le prates, so thotough a * siratocrat”? A BUGGESTION FOR THE OENTENNIAL. Initornational exhibitions are necessarily ns much nlike a3 two pens, asarule, but the Centonntal will have at least one uniquo fenture, Tho Interior Department will be rapresented thero by a Liody of Indians from the wild tribes, imported into civilization ex. pressly for this ocension, nud warranted gen- uine. Tho painted savage will squat in wig- wams, shoot arrows, perform the sealp.dance, and give tho wnr-whoop in n manner which i expected to male all the prime donne within hearing rick with envy. This i3 an enticing programme, Tho averago forcigner will probably labor under tho guileless impression that tho savages live in Fairmount Park, and that they have allowed a part of thoir home to bo temporarily used by the whites, 1t is sad, though, to think of tho fate of these red men. Having onco tasted the fascination of being twmultuously sdmired, trested to free whisky and poked with long sticks, a la monngeric-animals, by the gniloless youth of Americn, they can never go back to their na- tivo independence, Bansust will eatch them, and The.Pride-of-the.Forest, nud Glancing- Arrow, and White-Squaw-Slayer, nnd the rest of the braves, will exchange prairie sod for circus snwdust and city flogstones for the rest of theirlives. When the ficklo populace grows wenry of them they will be discharged, Then the warriors who lave not died of drunkenness will peddle mocensing, or beg, or steal, or combine the threo pursnits, Thero is only ono way for them to ecseapo such afato. Should this be tried, the Cen- tenninl would be still more unique, aud the Indinns would prove avery profitabla side- show, Buppose the spnce allotted to them should DLe inclosed by a high fence, and seats commanding n view of the interior should be rented ot round rates. Then let the Indian agents and con- tractors, or ns many of them as can be caught, be turned into the inclosure at stated intervals, The processea of scalping, mu- tilation, and torturo woulil®afford an oppor- tunity for n real insight into Indinn charac- ter. To make the scene thoroughly natural, an emigrant family should bo persunded to try to cross tho tract of ground. Their mur- der wonld reproduce lifo (and death) on the Plaing vividly. The, erowning touch of real- istic effect wonld be given by the murderers presenting themselves at once at o Govern- ment post and receiving rations, ammuni- tion, and good breech-loading rifles to roplace thoso injured by being used to dash out babics' and women's brains, Finally, a de- tachment of troops should enter the park and exterminato thored devils, It miglt bo ob. jected that this process of extermination nover renlly takes pince, but the doubter would bo told that tho last grand transforme- tion scene in the sensational draman was in. tended to represent, not what is, but what ought to be. THE BRITISH FARLIAMENT AND THE PRESS, Mr. Surravay, a member of tho Dritish Honse of Commons, a dny or two since gave notico that, in order to bring about a change of tho nnomalons condition of the press and tho House, ho intended to deily notify the House of tho presenco of strangers. This scems somowhat singular in this country, whero the logislntive hnlls are free to the public. Theoretically, all persons excopt members and the necessary officers are ex- cluded from the hall while’ the Houso of Commons i in session. There is o small gaollery in tho hall, fenced off by a wire grat- ing., Admission to this gallery, which will sent bt comparatively few persons, in ob- tained by tickets from members. The hall of the Houso of Commons itself is a dingy, inconvenient yoom, of very ' limited proportions, and not capablo of seat- ing more than one-half the membern, When the attendance is large, those not able to obtain sents must stand or find refuge in somo of the various small ante-rooms adjoin- ing. The attendanco of strangers is {olerated by practice, but prohibited by rule. Officially the House is not aware of tho presence of roporters; and the publication of debates is in violation of law,—nlaw which is not, how- over, enforced, Dritish statesmen, liko all others, have great ambition to be reported, but none of them have the courage to pro- poso o legal anthorization of the publication of the debates, Under the rules, itissuffl. clont for a momber to call the attention of tho Honuse to the presence of strangers, when business is suspended and the gallery is cleared, It requires no motion for this pur- poso; s soon as the Bpesker is informed that there ‘aro strangors presont, ho must ordor their exclusion, . ‘Tho reporters for the London papers are admitted to a part of the strangers’ gallery upon ticketa issuod to them by the Speaker; but this is in on unofficial way, and gives them no right. Thoy are rogarded just the samo as any other strangers, and must go out. 1In fact, their presbnco is a doublo vio- Intion of law, beeause it is unlawful to take notes or publish any of the debates of Par- liament, tbe ITouso having in its Listory ro. peatedly declared such publication to be a breach of the privileges of the House. This old rulo rosts upon the assumption that the publication of the dobates is an abridgmont of the freodom of debate,—that it touds to make the member responsible for what he says. . ‘The purpose of Mr. Sorurvay ia clemrly to forco tho House of Commons to move o step forward ; that is, to repeal tho rule no longer onforced, and to logalize the publication of debates a8 a right, aud of course to legalize tho presenco of reporters while the House is gitting, Changes of Purliamentary lnwe and regulations, especiolly in cases of privilege, aronot frequent in England. Tho publica- tion of tho debates is tolerated as a conces. sion to public opinion, but it is questionable whether the House will change its rule unless compelled to do s0 by the process proposed by Alr, SurLIvaN of prohibiting thewr publica. tion. Whon it bocomes a question of authorizing or of enforced prohibi. tion, tho law moy be chaunged. Even consorvative JonN Doy will not consont that Parlinment shall transact its business in sccret, If the publication of Parliamentary debates and proceedings be logalized, it is possiblo that the now regulations will include some accommodations for the roporters. Parliament sits in the evening, and these industrions gentlemen—the reporters—have o do their work, withous any couvenlence of soats or tables, in the best way they can bo. hind the wiro sereans which shut thom out from tho view of tho Houso, Mr. Surnivax proposes to compel the Housko to legalize tho reporting and piblieation of the dobates by insisting on tho onforcoment of the law whieh prohibits them. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURTS, Somo timo ago, in a it on trial beforo the Court of the District of Columbin, asubpwna was issned for Ciantes A, DANA, roquiring him to appear as n witness. The object of tha subpwna was well understood. It was to Lring him within thoe territorinl limits of tho District of Columbin, whore hoe might bo ar- rosted and held* to buil on charges of libols upon various individunls connected with tho recont dishonest and seandalons Governient of that unfortunnte District, During tho last rossion, Mr, Rrip, of the Now York T'ribune, whilo attending as n witnoss before a Con- gressional Committee, was arrested on roveral criminal aud eivil actions, and held to bail. "T'ho use of the process of the courts to sum- gon acitizen of nnother Btate asn wittess, fn order to bring him within the jurisdiction of a court for pur poses of arrest on other charges, is a prostitution of the judiecial process which deserves neither rospect nor countenanco. ‘Whatover offenses in the way of libel Mr. Daxa or Mr. Rem mnay have committod against persons in the Distriot of Columbin wero committed in the Stato of Now York, nnd tho Inw gives to oach of tho aggrieved persons the right to procced in Now York ngninst them by either civil or eriminal pro- cess. The motive for trying theso cases in the District of Columbin is, that thero the local courts, grand juries, and trinl juries aro nll under the contrel and influcnco of the very gang of unscrupulous men who protond to hinve been falsely libeled, Dana refused to obey the summons of the Washington court, aud was arrested under on attachmont, Upon a Aabeas corpus, ho brought the matter beforo Judgo BraTom- yonp, of the United Btates District Court of Now Yorlk, who, upon hearing the case, dis- charged Dana from arrest. Tho effect of this decigion is that tho Court of tho District of Columbin is one of local jurisdiotion, and tlat its process is not of nuthogjty beyond the limits of the Dis. trict. Wesupposa thera is no question as to the corrcctness of this decision, The Couft ot Washington, beeauso it wns created by an nct of Congress, claiws to be n national court with jurisdiction co-extensive with the Unitod States, Judge Brarcurorp, however, rules that it is ono of the ** inforior courts” which tho Constitution suthorizes, with a local jurisdiction like the courts established in the 'Torritories, and ecau exerciso no oxtra territorinl nuthority. This is the sccond rebuke the Washington City Court hns received. It first indicted Dana and sent n bonch warrant to Now York for his arrest, but the New York Court discharged him. 'The same Court in New York has now docided that tho loenl Court of the District of Columbia cnnnot compel tho attendanco of witnesses from boyond its jurisdiction. There is o wail from tho District of Columbin, Thoy complain that the District is reduced to tho level of o State, aud that its potty local courts have jurisdiction no grenter than the conrta of Now Yorlk, Ohio, or Illinois! Why do not theso libeled officers of the Distriot go to Now York City, and sue Dana for libel in tho United States Courts of that State? Why is it that they dare not try their cnses here tho libol was published, or anywhero save by their own courts and their own juries? e s A DOOLED COUNTRY. Some primeval Kilkenny cat must have slowly ovolved, through countless centuries, into the first Spaniard. Atavism les come into play, and Spnin now roverts to tho traits of this original ancestor. The parties into which sho is divided is fighting in the familiar way, and the familiar result threatens to come to pnss ore long, It is becoming more and more of o question in European politics whether the Great Powers ought not to inter- fore and settla the affairs of this powerleuss and impotent wreck of a nation. The same question has proved o Pandora's Box hitherto. It 1od to tho wars of the Spanish Buccession. 1t was tho pretoxt that was seized upon for beginuing ¢he Franco-German war of 1870. It may yot precipitato the goneral European war which now looms on the world's horizon. Spnin has nover recovered from the deadly effects of the bigoted barbarism which mas- saored the Jows and drove the Moors into Africn, That cruel mensuro stopped the manufactures, broke down art, exterminated scionce, shut up the schools, nnd checked tho civilization of the country. It was n political Dlunder groater ovon than that fateful rovocn- tion of the Edict of Nantes, which exterminat- ed or oxpelled the Iuguenots from Franco, Bince that day, it scoms as if nothing which could counteragt civilization had been left undone, The soparation &f tho different provinces hes led to an intermarrying bo- tween porsons of tho same blood which has preserved and even intensified the provincial poculinrities, Che national tio hns thus boen wenkoned, and the national character has de- toriorated under this coxstant breeding-in. | Then education has baen wholly in the hands of the clergy—and, still worse, of the clorgy of ono scct. Tho inevitablo rosult of this sort of thing haa followed. The clergy of no sect has ever shown itself capable of educat- ing evon hislf of & nation. 8o Spanisk intol ligonco has besu systematically throttled. Spanish bloodthiratiness, oruelty, ond re- vengofulnoss have beon carefully nurtured by tho auto-dafo of the religious, and, tho Lullfights of tho civil, power, Freodom of the pross, an upright judiclary, the righta of nssociation and potition,—such safeguards of freedom and aids of progross have never ex- isted on Spanish soll. To-day the Bpanish kaleidoscope shows a shifting mixture of grandeea and beggars and both in one; of brigands fighting on their own hook or in behalf of Canros or Avrrnoxso ; of Jesuits pulling political wires and Protestant clergymen leaving the coun. try in tright ; of Ultramontanismn trinumphant ond Liberal and Democratio papers sup- pressed; of stagnant commerce, ruined rail. ronds, and negleoted agrioulture; of a wenk, childish King, with traitors for Ministors, cowards for soldiers, and bigots for advisers ; of another King, equally woak, equally bigoted, and surrounded by the same sort of loathsome crowd; and of rapine, murdor, jguorance, fanaticlsm, disunion, snd war, What hope can there be for sucha country? It cannot pay even one-third of the guaranteed interest on its debt of §2,060,- 000,000—moro than we owed at the close of our Civil War. Its rovenue and its foreignitrade aro decreasing at tho rate bf many millions a month, Its expeuses, on tho other hand, are greater to-day than they were yesterday, and will be groster still to-morrow. Here i3 a doadly example of tha evils of uniting Ohurch and Btate,—a proof hat that union ia apt to mako thoe two one, ang [0 ko the one, Infinitoly worse than either, it sopnrato, woufd e, Everything now is mnction in tho direction of n comploto bronkup of the bonds which hold soclety togethor, ———— COMPULBORY EDUCATION IN Tho Now, York press showa f“t‘z‘}gflefi abla apirit in printing frequent and fu) rq. turns of the workings of the now ndumlionn} law in that city. Tho record is of gren py, torost, for, if the oxperiment mucceeds in (h' metropolis of the country, it4 possible su: cesa everywhere elso may bo taken for gm,,' cd, Ithns often beon urged that campulsop ‘ education is an impossibility outside of the rural districts, When it is nrgued, oy other hand, that n soventeen-yenry m:[ of the lnw in Mnasachusoils lny cronsed the school attendanco 4p (; cent, and made §t difffienlt to fing a child who canuot rend and write, gy that the great thrift and comfort n’! the poorer clnsaes in that Stato aro 1nniuly dug g, the strict enforcement of tho act, doubters soy that tho Bay Btatois n rusjy community, with a few factory towns and o, moderately large city, but with nothing whig, can be compared with Now York City, pyg that tho ndmitted success of tho oxperimen there, although prolonged over 5o myy years, is no proof of the possibility of 8p. plying the law to metropolitan communitjey, ‘This kind of argument is meoting with 4 crushing reply. Compulsory education, trig in tho largest city of Americn, is succeedin, "Tho fact should be kept before thie peopls, ‘The now educational consus now being sk, en in Now York City showa n school.popyly, tion of nearly 250,000, The attondance 4 the public schools bofora the now law weqy into effcct was less than half this nombe, After duo allowance had been niado for thy many boys and girls enrolled in private acad, emies, there remnined a vast army of grow. ing recruits for the criminal classes, D, tachments of this army are now being daly Lrought under tho chastening influcnces ot education, The truant-agonts make constant rounds in search of children who are ontof school. Thay talk with them and theirpy rents, and try to persuade paerentsand chil. dron that the best possible thing for thely. ter is to get an eduention. A poligy like this hos made tho poorer clusee; of Massachusetts tho firmest believersin b law. They look upon it 0s asafegunnd of their rights. Any attempt to repeal it wonld awaken their liveliest opposition. 8o far iy the New York experirient, only persussion has been needed to oconvinco parents, Thy terrors of the lnw havo not had to be callwl into play excopt in thio case of some Lomeles: little vagrants. The Suporintondent of Tru. ancy has submitted a report covering tho timo from March 17 to April 6, from which i: appoars that during that time 119 occasiom} trunnts, 37 habitual truants, and 4G non attendnnts, many of whom had nese been at . echool, wero reported. 0! these 202 children, 121 lave already been reclaimed. As soon as the night-schook aro opened, the newsboys and hoolbluk will be swept into them. * Many interestiy; cnsen,” snys tho New York Z'ribune, ‘‘might be'cited, all tonding to show that the Con pulsory-Education act is working satishe torily throughout New York; that its prc tical benefits nro nlready being made masi feat in the increased attendanco ot the schools, and that it meets with the indors ment and co-oporation of parents gencrally, who recognizo the importance of an educs. tion for their childron and a removal from the demoralizing influences of strect associt. tion in a crowded city.” Wo trust fo bo nble to say this of Chicago ere long, liand, and tho sound of a voico that fasill” with a reproachful inflection upon the int. Joction, ‘I'ho vanishod hand pointed to 8 elrcuz. stance that did not happen, and the voica that s still must have boon atill lying as of yore, A porter of & French newapaper cilled upon th calebrated English medium, Mr, Perzns Host ‘Phe reporter was, wo regrot to say, charged ¥ith the flippancy and skopticism of his order, o convinco him of tho imperishuble truths of Bpiritualism, the medium went into s trance. I waa April 8, and quito mild wera the siies which is & singuiar coincidenco of gum which opo _doss not undorstand. Tht modium sald: “It-is ton mioutes put ! p.m. Atthis moment s woman named Jist Bangen haa just nsssssinated hor father in Clie cago by smothoring him with & blsokot nd sald Jaxe Danxes will bo described the scone, and told tho reporter ¥ writo to America, and the statemont would bs verified. Now, if this murder has roally happe od, Mr. Jaxr, R should say someoting abort it. Porhapa the lncidont Is remarkable a8 mach for tho touching Iaith of tho meodium as foradf tuing else. He confidently selocted Chicagob» causo ho had no doubt that s murder of K2k kind would occur nesr enough to that tme u justify his fovoution, bat he ovorresahed whet ho trusted in tho potice, pltl o A, Tho Naw York Sun i the most venomouo {8 the antl-Gnant papers In the United Ststes. I studiously misinterprets the motives fof bt overy sot, and assigns a falso reason for ol be doos. It professos not to undorstand wby Attt ney-General WiLLiaxs has resigned, aod gired this statement of the matter: Trocisely why tho Preafdent Lias become urddhh‘: i af oniciat dlgaity for her hustand =4 bersd After Mr, Boxen uad boen nominate contirmed sa Minfater to Ruasis, tho Vresidout offered under Iy conclude! thut ssshe had boou prominest ity crusade agalust Madamno CaTA0AZY, Which FEUler tho sucial ostraciam of that jady long beford CA¥ il o it B, ST oo where ahe cotild axpoct 8 bri ¢ career ; and lcconm;:‘(ly, ‘though with great peluctsad tho oifer was declined, 1ho Preb Mrs, WiLtians thon madon dosd kebat 0 1, dont 10 obtain for lier husvaud the poss of MIZH ¥ogland, Against this proposttion SecrosPy Filg o torposcd nll " bis intluenco; and, ml.lt;.n i Bouxxcz, who has 10 politieal oponing 3t BOTRY aiuce tho falluro of Littls Emms, uothiog B, salary and his occonjounl winninguat l““_"ww, y has uover lad auy thought of Fealguing: 803%5,. }M‘:n bin would seuse trouble -“nug é:lfllfl e 4 @ Toqueat that WILLIANS sbul G orast th Tarase waa refusod, snd sl st b4 iguation Yus bon demanded, o TN Ax tho English nowapapers dzmnl:k“t" doeds of Chicago's doughty warriors i l-h"mu ftual tournamont, aud sdd to tho list of 'tu.“ kolghts other contributions from the Buw" solemnly behiooves us to aec what returd e England ls making. Now York snd Boston ¥ bad Vanrey, and VARLEY has been asa cosgerof sinnors, VAULEY charo(w'r»“ cauarily falls short of the mask, for he pan 1 system of * taklng the Kingdom of }.lcu'ml ’y 4 by violence." The balauco Las beott Pt however, by the ministrations of Miswes . snd Beanp in the Church of the Holy o it Now York, of wich the ov. 8. 1L TH¥0 not unknown 1 ecclesisatical warfare, Those Iadies give dally sarvices to tho ¥ tho congrogation, and aro gonerally "’flw e Americans will be apt to accops them ™ " murmur, as belng a falr exchsoge, :l tho case of tho youuger lsdy, Misd arrostod” Hb —_—— g The President of the Socledsd E-piflfl"‘-',%' panola, tho Central Bpiritastistio Bofll' Bpain, the Viscount Dz Tnunw-%u“"rm to his Philadelphis sssoclato that be 'm-. 1o contribute ta the Centeanlal. 18 ‘;‘ a bring fpiritualism forwerd and exhiblt sk Espesition. Tha Vissound mush