Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 6, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MAY G, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATYS 67 SURECKIPTION (PATABLR IN ADVARCE), Pantage I'repald nt this Ofics. S 1K) | Teokly, ) gai a4 E . 3,00 AL tha mamerate, WANTED-Una nctiva sgeat In eaeh town and village, Bpecial arrangements made with suct. Epsainion copies sent free, To frevent deiay and mistakes, ba smre and give Post. Ofca address tn fll, including Stata and County, Remiitancesmay b ther by draft, e1press, Post- Ofice order, or In registered letters, at onr siuk, TEAMA TO CITT FTARCRIAXAS, Dally, gelivered, Lnnday excented, 23 centn per week. Dslly, delivared, Banday Includ ante por week. Address THI TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madiesn snd Desthorn.sta., Uhicago, Il TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. WOOLEY'S THEATRE—Ilandoloh strest, batweos Blark and taSalle. Emerson's Minstrola MVICKER'S THEATIE- Dearhorn and State, Bpera-Dunfle Trow] ACADRMY OF MUSIC~Halsted atrent.batmesn Mad- ison and Monros. Engagementof the Emily Soldens Tronps. *‘Madame L'Archiduo.” ADRLPHI THRATRE-Dearboca strest, corner Mon- o6, Varioty Ratertainment, pon street, between nt of the Parislan Fngagr ** Uirolle-Girofla," EXPOSITION BUILDING—Lakeshors, food of Adams SOCIETY MEETINGS. VAN RRYNSALEAR GRAND TODGE OP PRR. TROFION, A, SOTTISU RITE MASONS~Thers wilt be & reguiar waseinbly this Thursday evenlug. Work Sa i fonyte 0. By urder of ED GOUDA ), UALL. 1. Urand boorelary. F. The Chivags Teibune, Thursday Morntnx, May 0, 1878, The Chicago 'Femperance Alliance is in hot water. Just now it is tho Ginnt Sloth, rnd not the Demon Itum, who crentes the disturbance, An effort was‘made yesterday 1o get rid of dend timber by inviting tho res- iguntion of all members of Comuittcos who | have shown no interest in the organization, and there are many of tham, according to all acoounts. There was shown n degree of bad feeling which augurs ill for the efliciency of the Alliance. 3 From among tho numerouy speculations and rumors as to, the reason of the removal of Iuternal Revenue Commissioner DouorAss way be cxtracted the inforesce that, while higintegrity i not called in queation, the wors dull and unchanged. Flour was in bet- ter demand and firmer. Wheat was netive and unchanged, closing at §1.03¢ cash, and $1.06} for June, Corn was moderately active and firmer, closing at 7420 cash, and 7Ge for June. Oats worn in fairdamand and stronger, closing at 6230 cash, aud 63fe for June. Rtye was quict and steady at $1.07. Barley was littlo Detter than nomiual at $1.50 for May, Hoga wero dull and 10@150 lower. Sales chiefly at $7.70@7.75. Caltlo were in woderate demand at easy prices, Sheep wero inactivo, Demacratic * Roformors” throughout the State will learn, from a lotter which we print morning from n special correspondent at Springfield, some interesting particulara con- cerning the Ktate printing steal, which are given with a particularity and minuteness wich s could only come from a thorough kuowledge of the subject, and n perfect familinrity with its history and details. It will ba porcoived that, whilo the dishonest schewmo for the plunder of the people was in part manipulated by corrupt Republic- ang, in poiut of fact the lion's share of the profits wns pockeled by the editor of thog Democratio organ at Spriogficld and at the same tima the Secrotary of the Democratic Stato Central Comtnittee, whoso portion of tho proceeds of (ho conspiracy and collusion auwonnted to something over £26,000. We can imagine the amount of virtuous honor and indignation which will swell the Demo- | cratic bosom at this recital, and we confi- | dently expect to seo the presont Secretary of tho State Central Committes ignominiously ousted from his positio CONTESTING THE CHARTER ELECTION. A weelc ago wo called the nttention of tho Cltizons' Association to the legal method provided by the law of the State for contest- ing tho so.called election on the adoption of tho charter of 1872, Thoe charter itsclf, which is a Iaw of the State, provides, in Sec, 57, as follows ¢ ‘The manner of condnctipg and voting at elections | tobokeld under this act, and contesting tho same, the kerpina of pull-lists and canvassng the votes aholl be the same, 88 nearly aa may Y8, as n the cane of elecs fion of county officers, under tha generul laws of the State, Tho julges of election shall appoint clerka when necessary 10 fill vacancie the judges and clerks eball take the sams oath and heve the powera and suthority s the judges and clorks of gea- eral Biate alectious, Tho General Election law of the State, pro- vidos, in Sec. 117, for cases of this charncter. That andsucceeding sections read as follows: Any five electors of tho county may contost an eleo- President is of tho opinion that ihe nfairs of the Bureau would be more satisfactorily nd- ministered by ex-Sepntor Pratt, of Indinnn, for whom it is clrimed that his sterling hon. esty and oxcellont ability will render him a miost efilciont incumbent of the position. 1In point of coacealing tho rosults of his reientifio labors, the chomist who analyzed tha contonts of the stomachs of tho Alanry- su1 family was singularly successful. After reading his report, and the appslling array of medical terms in the statement of the phy- gicion who mads the post-mortem cxamina- tion, no one can blame the Coroner's jury for bringing in their non.committal verdiot; they did the best they conld with tho light rfiorded by the chemical and medical experts. Qecratary Dnmrow is on the track of tha illicit distillers, and proposes to find out how it is that highwine in large quantities, brand- «d 08 * oxtrns,” can be sold {n the open mar- Lot for less than the cost of production, in- cluding the Government tax. The Secveinry Lias for some time past had & corps of trusty ngonts mecrotly ongaged in working up what 13 understood to have developed into the dis- closnre of a gigantio system of frandulent distilling operations, and we aro promised pomething of o startling nature soon. Hexry O. Bowny has finally taken the witness-stand in the Brooklyn trial. Yester- day ho was called for the plaintiff, who there- by invites the fullest contribution of Bowex's etook of knowledge, and refutes tho froquent mssortion of his fenr of what ight Lo elicited in the courso of the cxamiuation of this important witness. The testimony of Bowey, so far as it had pro- ceeded ot the adjournment of the Court yesterday, containe several point-blank con- tradictions of important statements, in Mr, Bezouen's ovidence, and, nlthongh it i3 a3 yot too early to determino which sido i4 likely to be most damnged or bonefited by what this long-oxpocted titnesa has to say, it hos alrendy become apparont that Bowzw is an element in tho trial which bids fair to meko things livel; Richness ia developed in the pending fo- vestigntion at Montgomery, Ala., of the moans by which United Statos Senator Brexoen secured his election, One Pranty, on cx-momber of the Legislature from Wil cox County, tolls how he fired the popular heart in tho interest of Spevorn by the con- coction and circulation of accounta of horri- blo Ku-Klux ntrocities which never ocourred ; and how, when this sort of stuff began to grow monotonons, our Falstafian: fugloman shot A bullet-hole through his own Lat, and, swearing ho got it in n dendly encountor with the Ku-Klux, exhibited the perforated tilo to prove that Srexcen ouglht to bo olectod. It i3to be regrotted that Prnnmw had the pros= ence of mind to take off his hat Lefore he shot it. Tho investigation haa also daveloped the fact that troops ‘were kept to use &3 po- litical mnchines, and that money was frecly rpeut to clocteirrcen. Tha argutnents in the injunction caso bs. fors Judge WiLLraam ocoupied the whole of yestorday, and no conclusion was reachied. An snswer wos filed by the defondants, in Which they deny the allegations of fraudu- lont voting, conspiracy, eto., and insist that the Court had no jurisdiction to issue the original injunction, and that the injunction ko dssued Is vold aud of no effect. The counsel for the complainants waived the queation of contempt involved in the disobedience by the Common Council of the writ of itijunc- tion, and thereby greatly simplified tho pro- ceodings, besides depriving the contumncious Aldorinen of an opportunity to suffor martyr- dom, Tho,supplemental Lill to enjoin the inunicipal authorities from any acts under the charter declared to have been adopted is She lssue naw to be docided. 'The arguments will be concluded to-day, and Judge Wirr. Ay’ doclsion will probably bo rendored thia ening. ‘Tho Ohlcaga produce marketa wete steadlor yoaterdsy, Meaa pork was in good demand tnd wdvanced 12ja per brl, closing at 821,76 cash, and §21.95@22.00 for June, Lard wos qulet aud sdvanced 1230 per 100 bs, cloalng &4 915.45 cash, and @15,60@15.65 for June. Meats wers more active and firm at Bje for #houlders, 11jo for short ribs, and 12jo for shiort cloars, Highwines were quist and aderdy st 134 por gallon. Lok frelghta tion upon any subject which may by law be suwmiited 10 vole of tha veopls of the county upon fling 1 {he Circuit Court, within thirty days alter tho result of the election ahall have been detormined, a written stato- ment {n Like form as in other casen of contested elco- tious in th Ciccuft Court, Tho county sball be made detendant, and process served ns fn suits against the ‘county ; and like proceedings shall bs had as in other «cagen of contested elections beforo such Court, Sxo. 119, The judgment of the Coust in esnes of contested eloctionn stiall confirm or annul the election sccording to tho right of the matter § or, in case the contest 1s in relation to the elsction of some person to an oftice, ahall doclare a3 alected the person who aball appoar o b duly electod. 8ro, 121, A certified copy of the Judgment of the Court shall have thio same effoct 43 the rosuls of the clection s 4¢ it had bean #o declared by the canvass- ens, 820, 135, Tn sll casen of contested sloctions in the Clrcult or County Courts, appesls may be taken to the Bupreme Court in the muwe mauner and upon like conditions as {8 provided by law for taking appeals on cases in chagcery from the Cirouls Courts. It is also provided that proceedings in the Oirenit Court in casea of contosied eloctions shall b in the same mannar as in chancery cases, The presant proceeding befors Jndge Wirr- 1aus is substantially to have the clection de- clared void, or to have any declaration of the result of that eloction porpetually en- joined. Thisis & summary procoeding, and ia wholly independent of the proccedicg aun- thorized and provided for by law in which tho clection itself may be contested and de- clared null and void by the Court, as in other cnseos, upon the merits, If Judge Wrrrtivs shall decide that the declaration of the can. 'vass of the voto can be enjoined, of course an appeal will lie from that deciélon, and the matter will go up to the Supreme Conurt upon that question, and not upon a fudgment of tho Court upon the validity of the election na shown by a legal formnl contest, It is possi. ble that the morits. of the election of April 23 can' be dotermined in tho proceeding that has boon insti. tuted, ond that tho procedure to contest that election is unnecessary ; but, if this should not be the case, and to sot aside the election will require, after all, n resort to the statutory proceeding of formal contest, it appears to ns that the Intter proceeding i the most direct, and tho one by which a fina] decision can sooner be reached. It is woll for the friends of tho chartor of 1872, and of those who op- pose that charter, to remember that no pro- ceedings in the Circuit Court in this case are fionk, If this chartor of 1872 is to bo locked up in the courts, carrying with it the charter of 1875, for a yenr or two, would it not be well to have such a case go up that the de- cislon of the Suprome Court would cover and finally disposa of the whole matter ? ‘Tho question, whether the elootion of April 28 waa legally conduoted or not, is the main point ot issue. If that election was held in subgtantinl complionce with law, then tho charter was adopted. If, however, it waa not &0 held, then, like any otler election, upon contoat it may bo declured void by the Court, ond the judgment of the Court in such case hoa tho sumo effuck aa tho official canvass, The law governing the special cloction of April 23 requires : Bro. 97, The fudnes of elsction shall choosa two persous, hiaving aimilar qualifostions with themselves, 10 act aa clerks of electiou, Bro,40, o ., 'There shallba an opening in the td of each (ballot) box not Jarger than 18 suolent to ad- Zm » simpla olossd ballot to be inserted thereln at one ime, 8ro, 48, The polls shall be opensd at § A m, and eontinned open antil 7 p. m, Buc, 81, Each clerk of the eloction shall keep & poll- list, ek, The uewne of oach eloctor voting shald bs ene tered uyon cach of the poll-Looks by the clerke, BEo, 83, Tho bullot aball be folded Ly the voter and delivered to ona of the Judges of election; If the Judgea ahall ba atisfied that the person offering the vota 18 8 logal voter, the clerks of eloction ehall enter £he nama of the voler and his pumber wnder tha proper hoading i1 the poll-bioks, and the Judges ahall indorss on (he back of the tickst offured the number corre. sponding with the number on the poll-books, and ahall fmusediately put the ticket an the bullot-bos, 20, 64, The judies of slection shall allow a4 loast ©one legal voler of aach party bo the contast into the r0om where the slection s held, to sct as challengars of voters at auchs slection aud, sach ehallongers may romain with the Board of Election i) the votes are all canvassed and the result declared, #xa, 89, All tho ballols coanted by the judges of electivo shall, afler bolng read, L8 atrong upon a stelog, thread, or twine, in the order in which they hiave beou Tead, sud shall then be carafully enveloped aud ssaled up by the fudges, and with the fele o7 volers Telurned, y The law of the Eists of Ninols makes thesa noveral dotalls cssentinl to an * eleoe tion,"” and where these essentinl dotails are waallng therols and can bo no elaotion, At 2, There wore mno clerks appointed or sworn, 3. The {ndgoa received more than one folded ballot from ench voter, and deposited mora than ono ot # time in the box, 4, The potls {n soveral wards were closed atg p, m, 5. There being no elerks, thera was no list of voters kept or returned, and nothing to show how muany persons voted, nor tho names of these who did vate, G. The buatlots when received wera deposit- ed in the boxes without any indorsement thereon of the numbers corresponding with the number of the votes on ths poli-books, defeating tho provision of the Iaw whereby votes given by illegnl voters may bo dotected and rejected from the count, 7. Challongors wero exclnded and were ra- fused permission to be present when the votos were connted and result declared. Tlere aro tho facts, nmply susteined by ovi. dence, npon which this frandulent clection mist b set aside, if sot asido at all, The mis- tako of the Common Council is in supposing that they sit as n court of final resort, and that when thoy deelare that, according to the retirns bofore them, the chartor was ndopted, that declaration is concldsive wupon the courts and the publio, The law points out how any five citizens may proceed to provo the illegality or fraud of the election, and how the Courts may set aside any eanvass of the Common Council and declaro the election vold. 'The Comwmon Council, therefore, by their hasty and discreditabile procecding of | Monday night in disregardingthe probibitivns of the Court, accomplished nothing beyond oan oxhibition of their ignorance and lawless- ness, and won the contempt of every law- abiding man in tho city. NATIONAL REVENUES, To the Iditer af The Chirayn Tyid: 2 Outoso, May 4—In Ti Tnmowr of Mondav T nctice, in an editorisl article on tha * Natlonal Eevenno,” tho following recelpls for thie ton 1months ending April 30 wers 0,81, In onder to equal the eatimates thiore must bo recelved, during Moy and June, $11,60%,000" 1f the reccipts for tliess two lattor monthis are u3 yreat as the averugs for # corresponding petlod in the provious ton months, the amount would be $14,764,174, or an excess over tho cotimate of $1,24,17¢, Consequently, if we regard the tarilY 53 a revenus tarifl, the resuit is satisfactory, "The article further saga : * Thers has beent a large decline n importe, The valus of ths lron and steel, wool anud woolens, cotton, silk, and linen goods im- ported in 1972 was 117,749,643 ; 10 167 $165,2190,545 § {n 1874 It was only $130; a8 the presont year hiaa progrenssd, the falling off s in the same proportion.” This statemant is correct and indicative of the docline in tho United States of that policy which would confine the {ndustries of the coun- try to agriculture und kindred pursulle, Few, If any, will acknowledge oven & remota advocacy of such a policy; yot it & & ssd fact that many do perslstentls, although uncousclously and in- directly, uphold 8 theory which, 1If re duced to practice, would have s Xindred resnlt, People will hiealtsto {1 hope) Lefora they unroservedly accopt tho atatement that Americans have recently rown 0 poar an to be *no longer abla to buy of othior nations, and no longer ablo to buy of home man- ufacturera.” It {atruo that the imports have dimin- lahied; truo that theconsumption of fron and steel ling decreaned on account of the decline {n rallway bulld. ing; trua that we are beoinming to learn and practice cconomy, But tbat the American people are s0 noar bankruptey as to be unsble to purchass necessitios 1s not so spparent, The writer foa young man, Although s Protection- ist from conviction, Lie observes that upon # question of thin naturo—whero emlinent minds are found on oither sfda—it in beat to * Lear both sides,” o saka 1ho following questions for information : 1, £ the tariff wers to be abolished, would Amarican manufacturers be able to compste with foreign impar- tations 9, Would American consumers be able to purchate thelr fabrica and manufsctured articles cheaper under Iree trado than at prosent? 3, How could the Government best abtain s rove- aues f the duttes on importations wars abolished T W2 W, ANBWEIL Our correspondent, like the majority of Protectioniats, jumps at conclusions wholly unwarranted by facts. He seos nothing bo- tweon a protective tarilf anda repeal of all tariff dutics, Hns he never heard of a tariff for rovenne, under which taxation is Mmited to the exact sum recoived inte the Treasury. ‘Taxation for any purposo other than rovenue is nothing less than robbery. Tho United States could collect the revenuo from imports, by lavying taxes upon a limited class of arti. clos, and making all othors either freo or so reducing tho duties thercon ns to encourage their importation, that it noeds from that sonrco. Our correspondent must remember that the average income of the mnss of the population i not only limited, but is not ex- pansive; the man whosa income ja $G00 a yoar has but that mnch to spend. It mnkes s vast differonce to him and his family whother he gots $100 worth of commodities, pays $50 tax to the Government and $150 to *oncournge” some infant industries, or whether ho gots §526 worth of commodities and poys 8§76 tax to the Government, In the Intter case he gots 80 por cent more clothing or other necossaries out of his limited income than in the former case, and the revenuo of the Government waa increased ! 50 per cent, Now, if our eorrespondent will proportion this illustration with the aggro- gate consumption of manufactured goods in the country, he will discover how taxes may be repealed or reduced withont a loss of revenuo to tho Government, and how, by the samo process, the wages or earnings of the people will have their purchnsing power ox- panded. The 'value of wnges is thelr pur- chasing power. Any taxation which takes a.poriion of one man's wages to give it to another man without consideration is not honest, and hns the effoct of reducing the value of the wages to the man who enrns them, 'The reduction of all duties to a pure. 1y revenne standurd, and the lovying of thein on such articles as are the most exclusively subjects of rovenue tax, would incresse the purchasing power of each man's income, would enable him to obtain moro of all that ho needs than now, and, by tho increnso of congumption, would domand inoredso of pro- duction, giving increased employment to la- bor and industry in every branch. ‘The best encouragoment to American man. ufactnrers is to give them froedom to buy their raw material and to sell their goods in the markets of the world whera they con make the best torms, We have natural ad- vantages superior to those of any other na- tion, eapecially in the article of food, Wao have fuel, fron, and all the metals, Wo have unoqualed moans of internal transportation. Wo have tho great slaplo of cotton &t our very door,and yet wo tax overy man and woman who wears a garmont made of cotton 40 por cent on the cloth, Wo bave the ma- chinory and tho skilled labor; wo have an ooean of 8,000 miles batweon us and all for. olgn competition ; and with thosa advantages there 8 nothing to provent a succossful con. potition with tho manufusturers of any othor uation, Ono correspondent objects to the stato. mont that the American people are no longer able to purchase &3 much manufacturcd goods sa they were fifteen yoary ago. The the so-callud election un Aprll 28 thore wero, | Amerioan manufactprers of cotton in 1870 o4 soveral of the wands, the following striking | manufactured Into oloth, etc., 808,808,287 ombistons t 1 Tbs jndges were nob swore, pounds of raw cotton, when In 1800 they manufeolursd 422,704,878 powlls of raw cotton. Tho population in the ten yoars hod incressed from 31,700,000 to 38,500,000, The falling off por head of the population in the consumption of manufactired cotton goods waa a large one, "Tho recent wanton increaso of tariff taxes by Congress was not in tho interest of rovenuo, but of protection, and cnn only serve to add to the emibarrassments of tho country, i e et THEN AND NOW AT THE BOUTH, In June, 18G4, an oficer in the Unlon army resigned in ornder to o into business in Issnquenn County, Mississippl. A recent lotter of his to tho Bpringicld Republican he- gingin this way: %'Ton years ngo this day, the residents of this neiglborhood wera fn- vitod to 600 mo hung.” Thnt little sentence, taken with the enming skotch of tho condi- tion of things now, has n world of menning, Tlren, the Northerner's store was kept for- tifled and provisioned for n siege. His twelve whito employes each carried a Spencer rifla and stood gunrd in squads of four, four honrs atntime. Tho mnocossity for these precau- tions wns absolute. On the day of tho promised spectscular performauce, in which the atorokesper was to play the diss- greeable part of Mamoser's coffin, the twelve Sponcer rifles proved to bo more than & match for eighteon shot-guns, *‘The men who had issued the invitations,” ho says with grim humor, *had the mortifieation of an- nouncing & postponement of the perform- nuce.” The postponement has been mado permanent. The necessity for keeping guard long since vanishied. Nouno of tho storskeep- er's employes ara now allowed tocarry a weap- on, and tho employer's pistolslio unloaded on asholf. Io has many warm friends nmong thio older inhabitants, and his known enemics aro but two,—no moro than many men who have nover left tho North can connt. This striking chonge is not tho result of any change in this honorable earpet-baggoer's own views. He bus not truckled to tha dominant political or socinl bellefs, nnd so gained the privilego of living in pence. e anys: “I still remain s thorongh and uncomprowising Ropublican and Radical, and wn known ns such.” ‘Then the country was overrun by monnted men, most of them deserters from the Southern army, who lived by pillage. Thero was no law, no security, scarcoly any industry, Ten years' timo has changed nll this, The white popu- Iation is orderly and, on the whole, industri- ouns, Tho condition of the nogro has wholly changed. In 1865 no negro of that vicinity owned any animal Iarger than o chicken, Turniture was an almost unknown luxury in the cabins of the blacks, Clothing was an ingenious combination of cast-off army gar- ments, eked out with shreds and patches of “‘butternut.” The negrocs ara now quite well clothed. Thoy aro great buyers of furnitura, Most of them, accord- ing to this writer, havo a horse or o cow. Thon they did not know their olphabet, Not one of them, ho snys, know tho first lotter of it; but this must be an unwitting oxaggeration, A large majority of them can rend now. Nearly as many can writo, Thoir zeal for education hias made the book and stotionory departmont ono of the important items in the corre- spondent's business, This is a sign of no slight importance, for a country store is a sort of neighborhiood barometer. Its sales toll the present ,condition and the future prospocts of the ‘vicinity with considorable sccuracy, justas tho books of a bank regis- ter the status of commeraial, and even of social, relations for a town, city, or soction. The letter from which wo have quoted shows that & groat transition Laa alroady takon place at the South, and that future changes for the botter aro more than proba- ble, Ton yearsago,- tho mneighbors of an bonorable Northorn immigrant gathered to enjoy seeing him hung, and ninetoen of them, srmed with shot-guns, tried to bring him to the oxtomporized scaffold. The intonded victim now finds no Inck of frionds in that samo neighborhood. Ho is living peacefully ood safely and, as wo judge from hia lottor, mnking money, 1t is fifty-five yoars sinco the bistorio ¢¢ Era of Good Feeling” in American politios, whon scetionnl animosity died awsy. Thero aro signa that this piace of history may soon ropoat itaolf, THE PRUSBIAN ECCLESIASTICAL BILL, Tho latest phase of the ecclesiastical con. test in Gormany lb‘ut iz of gomeral impor. tance is the passage in the Lower Houso of the Diot, by the large vote of 275 to 90, of tho bill sbrogating the fiftconth, sixteenth, ond elghteonth articles of the Constitution. The first named article guarantees to all churches the right to administer their affairs in an independont way and to hold and enjoy the funds, establishmonts, aud foundations, necessary to ita worship, teachings, aud chari- tios, subject to the laws of he State. The sixteenth establishes free relations between religious soclotlea and their superiors, and places the publication of eccleal. nstical ordivances upon the same foot- ing a8 other publications, The eighteonth suppresses the right of nominating, propos- ing, electing, and confirming ecclesiastical ponts, 8o far as it belongs to the Stats, except in the army and public institutions, regulates the powersof the Blate relating to instruc. tion, the employmont and romoval of ecclesiastics, and fixes tho lmits of the dis- ciplinary powers of the Btate. Shonld this now occlesinstical bill becomo a law, it will bo tantamount to the complete subjoction of the Roman Catholio Churel in Gormany to tho Governmont, It will take awny from it the right to bold or use propoerty in any form, whother for worship or charities, It will dis- solve tho relations betweon Bishops or priests and their congregations. It will give the Stato the right to nnnul {he appoint. mont or election of any ecclosinstio to any post in tho FEmpirs, and aubstitute appointeos of. its own, In fact, it takes away from the Church the right to manago its own affairs, aud gives the State nlmost absolute powor, especlally when taken in connection with the Farox laws, The grounds assumed by Prusaia for this remark. nble bill are that since special legislation (referring to the Farox laws) cannot be ro. liod upon any longer for regulating the rela. tions of Church and ftate, an alteration of the Constitntion itaolf must be effected. The general complaint made by the Government is thot it has boen met hitherto fu all its en- deavors to put bounds to tho attempts of the Bishopa to exceed thelr lawful authority by the assertion that its ncls were unconstitu- tional. The proasmble to the bill says: #Even the law passed In 1878, designed es- pecially to dofine and maks cloar the suprem. aoy of the State, and to bring ita rights home universally and clearly, has been attacked In the Landisg and the Press - &y oon to the mnamed clauses of the Constitution. Henos, by one af thoss peculiurly Blunsrokiad strokes of policy, the danger of being unconstitutional in {ts acts is averted, or rather tho Govern- ment proposes to avert it, by annulling every- thing in the Constitution which guarantees any rights to the Churel, thusinaking tho Chureh the completo and helpless depondent upon tho plessuro of tho Stato for its vory ex- fatence. If this Lill shall become n law, it will bo equivalent to n sweoping docrea of Donishment of every Roman Catholie from Gormany, and will closs overy Roman Catho- lio church and institution in Germany, The mieasure is franght with dangor, for there can Vo no appenl from this condition of things oxcopt to the cruel arbitration of war, WHEAT EXFORTS AND PROTECTION. The United States have exported a very great quantity of wheat of lato. TFrom Sept. 1, 1874, to April 13, 1875, woshipped 83,000,- 000 bushels, an nmount only 3,000,000 bush- cls less than the export during the same months a yeor boforo. During the last two yonrs, the price of brondstuffs in Europe haa been low, so that thesa figures are espeoinlly encouraging, innsmnoh ns they show an abil- ity to compete with trausatiantio grain. flelds fn supplying transatlantic eonsumers. Russin has boen our most formidablo rival, &od tho recent oxtension of her railrond sys- tom hns beon expected to greatly inerease hor oxports of food to England, As yot, however, theso expectations have not boen justified by exporionce, Jn 1873, 40 por cent of British imports of wheat came from this conntry, and 20 per cent from Russia, while, in 1874, we mipplied 55} per cpnt, and Russia only 15, ‘The railronds into the Muscovite whent rogions have not been operated long enough to show what their real effect will be, but it is not probable that our farmers will be materially injured by them, at lonst for some time to come. They sro mainly military ronds, and their prime use is to transport troops and fnnitions of war towards Asia. The Government owns them, and s much more anxions that they should carry soldiors west than wheat enat, Then tho on- ormous slanding army of Russin greatly di- minishes tho supply of egricultural Inbor and increnses, in o liko ratio, tho number of un. productive consumers at home. Again, the wholesnle emigration of tho Monuonitos is dopriving the Empire of the Czar of no in. cousiderable part of ita grain.growing popula- tion. Tinally, the downward tondency of freights from tho Mississippi to the seaboard is incrensing tho capabilities of our farmors for compoting with foreign rivals, It isnot likely, thon, that our exports of wheat will goon diminish. That they aro not far, very far, lnrger, and that our farmera aro nob correspondingly much more prosperous, is due, not to the grain-growers of Europo, but to the manufactarors and Congressmen of Americn. The 83,000,000 bushels of whont exported during tho last sevon months were rnised and shipped by unprotected labor. Nolawa give the farmer, as they do tho manu- footurer, the right to tax his fellow.citizons for his own benefit. Ho must goll hia pro- duota for whot they are worth, not for what they are worth plus n bounty of 50 or 70 per cent paid him nt the expense of men engnged in other trades, The average duty on the articles for which the farmers eox- changod these 88,000,000 bushels of whent is about 45 per cont, If this duty, three- fifths of which goos into the pockets of the protected classes and two-flfths to tho Gov- ernment, had not been laid, 28,000,000 bushels of wheat would have bought more goods than tho 83,000,000 paid for, under the present stato of things, Within saven months, thereforo, one class of the 6,000,000 agriculturists of tho United Btates bave pald a tribute of over 10,000,000 bushels of wheat to the fow thousand proteoted employors of lasbor. And this is but one item in the long scheduls of what tho protection of a fow favored rich men coste tho masses, BEAUREGARD AGAIN, Some further Lostimony las beon developed with reference to Barbarinn Bziunzoanp's idoas of war. In nddition to his own declara- tions contained in the ,letter nddressed to Gov. Ponren, of Tonnesseo, brought out by Gon., Franx Snenyan's attempt to exclude him from the forthcoming Chicogo soldiers’ and enilors’ mocting, another letter has bsen rovived which is even more diabolical than his recont one, Whilo recruiting his health at Bladen Bprings, Aln., after his defoat at Bhilok, Beaunzoann wrote a privato letter to the Confederste Gen. Mantrv, which was published in the Columbia (8. O.) Guardian with his permission, Wo make the follow- ing extract from this lotter: Bravex, Als,, Aug. 3, 1803,—3y Dear Generals Tro- gret much to hear of —— being wounded, I hope lis will soon ba able to face tho Abolitfonists, ¥n this conteet wa muat triumph or periah; and the soaser ‘o make up our minds to it the btter. We now un- derstand tho hypocritical ery of * Union and the Cone atitution,” which means, and alwsys did mean, “apoliation and murder,” We 14l yet have fo coms to prociaiming this war a * war to the knife,” Wiru ¥o QUANTXR WILL DY, ASKED OX GRANTED, I belloveitis tho only thing which can provent recruiting at the North, As to ourselves, I taink (hat very fow will no admit that death {a preferatls o dishonor and ruin, Tith 'kind regards; etc,, X remaln yonrn, sinosrely, P, 0, T, Deavszaaxo, Qon, Wi, B, Mantov, Pocotaligo, 8, C, Perhaps tho best comwent which can be mnde upon thig formal declaration of Beavar- aanp's is contained in the columns of the Rochestor (N. Y.) Union, s Democratio paper. 'Tho Union says; Gen, DEAUARGARD may, by acknowledging his fault and eraving pardon of hie country, and of all clviiized countries, atono for his advocaoy of barbarous ware faro, bud he cannot Justify that fault, Avd until he thus acknowlodgos aad atones for it, we ara inclined 10 think that Lie hus no legitimata plscs in 8 gathering of Foderal and Rebol soldiers and satlors intent on claaping hiands scroes the bloody chasm, His offense 13 ot that of & robel against hia Goyerament, but of & saldior sgatnst civillzed warfare ; and it s upon fhe Isttor ground, not upon the former, that he i ruled out, It will be noticed that this declaration was made coolly, calmly, and deliberately, and witbout any provocation, and that he ad. vocated the adoption of savaga warfare con- trary to the rules of war in all civilized coun. tries from time immemorial. Gen. Smeaman's point, therefors, has beon well taken. Gen, Deavneaarp is not a worthy associate for olvilized woldiers. He is the only man North or Bouth who openly advocated the holsting of the black flag and the gronting of no quarter during the War, and thon boasted of it yoars after the War was over, [ In the details of tho immigration atatls- tics for the year ending June 80, 1874, we find that the number of passongors not immi. grants who arrived In the United Btates dur- ing the year was 02,840, Of these, 14,610 were forelgnors who came here traveling for pleasure and intending to roturn. The other 47,780 were Amoricans who had ro- turned from Earops, where they had beon on business or pleasure. Of those Ameri. cang, 81,620 were males and 10,450 were fe. males. The New York Zimes estimates the aversge expenditure in Europs of thess Americans st §1,000 each, or a tolal of 947,730,000 Thia estiniats is probably oo high by one.lalf, aa it inoludes those who mako briof visits of husinens and slso n large number of obildron, But even then the cash nccount iz to be credited with tho $14,610,000 spent lero by tho visitors from Europe, These llgures are for the yenr onding Juns, 1873, During that samo time 134,686 porsons loft tho United Btates, of whom 51,837 woro eabin pasaengers, including 16,256 women and 5,764 cbildren. Theso may be put down as Americans intending to roturn, Of tho 82,~ 000 who wore not cabin.passengers, inclnding 23,800 women nnd 9,726 childron, it is not known whother they were Europeans who vera roturning Lo their old homes to atay or not. A largs proportion of them were doubt- less mechanics wlio had been disappointed in findiug work and wages as thoy had ex- pectod. The number of immigranta reaching this country in that same year waa 313,000, 0r140,000 less than the yoar beforo. 'The ar- rivals for the six months ending Dee, 31, 1874, shotw astill furthor decline for the prosont year, A DIBGRAOEFUL PARTISAN, Next to the Drooklyn Hagle, the New York Star bias beon the most persistont and enthu- sinstio partisan of Mr. Beecuten, It i edited by a man who {s no credit to American jour- valism, and a man who ought to be driven outof the profession by the combined influ- once of nll ropatable nowspapers, whatever opinion they may have of tho Brccmer case. This charlatan and quack, without braing and withiont conscience, who aspirea to Lo Imown 08 8 Bohemian and only succceds in boing & literary soavenger, who officiously and offen- sively foists himsolf into the publie viow in connection with every publio event which comes to the surfaco in New York, is Jor Howanp. His first appearance bofora the public was in tho role of a forger of a procla- mation during the War of the Rebelilon, and for this he was incarcerated in Fort Lafaystte. Sinco tho Bgroner case has boen on trial, be hiasconstitutod his paper a sort of somi-official orgon of Mr, Breouen and his counsel, and has left no opportunity untried to bring himeolf bafora the public a3 & defonder of Dercues, an nssailant of Tivtow, and an sd- vocate of Plymouth Church. It is but a fow days ngo that ho printed a oulogistic statement of Beecuer's character, which was not only unrefined, but gross and disgusting, and no protest seems to have beon made ngainat it by Mr. Beeousr or his friends, as his fulsomo advocacy of Plymouth Church and its pastor still continuos. His latest ex- Ploit is another forgery, this timo of tho lei- ter written by Mrs, Truton to Judge Nerwsox, ‘which he managed to get forwarded by tole- graph 08 an sdvertisement of himgelf and his papor, although fortunately the genuine lot- ter was rocoived by the Associated Pross in timo to make its appoarance in tho sumo isgnes with the other, and thwart the pur- poses of this unscrupulous man, who could commit his offonse with impunity becauso tho gonuine letter was not a part of the record in the ecase. Thoe forged doonment, which appeared in our col- umns yosterday, is not only a gross viols- tion of the propricties of journalism, buta most indecent assault npon Mrs. Trurow her- golf, in the assumption that she would utter suoh malicions stuff as this man attributed to dor. It is somowhat strango that Mr. Beron- n ond his friends have not yot discovered that their zonlous and unprincipled partisan is'injuring the causedie protends to support. 12 ho is pursuing this course with the inten- tion of being bought up, it would pay Plym- outh Clhurch and Mr. Brromes's frionds handsomely to buy him at onco and thus silence him. There is no danger that Mr. ToroN will buy his silence, as his nssaulis upon him oan do him no barm. Whatover may bo done in tho promises, the press should be unanimous in kicking him out of journalism, Hoe and his poper are a disgrace to Now York, Ropresontative government has been s mockery in Conutsucut for some years. Tho Legislatore was composed, until lately, of two delegatos from overy town incorporated ‘before a certain antediluvian date, and of ono delegate from each town of more recont or- gonization, Bome of the largest cities in the Btate wera in the latter category, so thata vote in them counted for about ome-thou- sandth part of o' vote in a moss-grown rural villago in the back.country. This state of things has been alightly changed of late by tho adoption of an amendment which gives the large cities two Represouatives instead of one, 'The inequality is etill glaring, how- over, The towns bear the same relation to tho State that the BStates do to tho Goneral Govornment. The Connectiout Senate is really the popular branch of the Logislature, 1t is more nearly representative of the peo- ple, but yot by no means complete. ly so, 'Tho Senatorial Distriots wero originally framed on the basis of popnulation, but the different dlstribution of sottlement has made the coustitnoncies of the Sonators very unequal, The Logialstare, which mot yosterdny, will consider the question of sub. mitting seven constitutional amendmenta to the people, one of which provides for a ro- distribution o? Bonatorial Districts, and per- mita the Legislature to rearrangs the districts onco every ten yoars, but not oftener. The monopoly of political power now vested in tho old and small towns is left undistnrbed. Other proposed amendments forbid tha loan of municipal eredit to any private corpora- tion ; provide for biennial instead of annual terms for Btate ofiicers, aud ompower tho Legislature to longthen the terms of the Judges of the inforior courts to gix yoars. The presont torm ia one year, and tho places have become partisan spoils in consequence. A paragraph published in Tax Trinvws yeater- day treated of tho two Dr. Parsons, of Chicago, and the ‘amusing contrelemps that have sriven trom oopfounding ons with the other, That paragraply, it appears, was lilustrated. It cone tatned Just such an ervor as 1t pointsd oat. The Congregationnl Dr, PATTON writes a8 follaws: By o Syous patagtoph tn thie morslog's per abous tho eanfurion prodnced by the two miv- aterial Parrows lllustrates jtsolf, 1t representa 18 baviug recestly lactured at Muscalinoy In, nd us are, {n privste conversution wilh hoapitable entertainors, oxprossed & bolief in Mr, Brroura's Guilt; snd {t states that whila this report went cor- yoctly through wmost of the Iows papers, & Heokuk paper blundered in aitributing the fact to ParTo 2, $f'antl-wino notorlety.,” What if It ahould prove thiat the so-called blunderse was slone right 7 Y have nol loctured 1o Muscatlae, or a8 a0y plsos In Towa, ‘iad \huis Bave not expreassd s beitef {n Mr, Brzoura's ,ulll to bospitable sutertalosrs. Ii must bave been “the other Dr. I'aT70N "—Aif anybody—who did the pubilo lesturing and the private talkitg, and the praise or blame belongs to him and not 0 ws, 1 fear that nellhier 0f us will be allowsd to call anytling our WD, howsver, 43, & fow woeks sincs, s New York paper aettiod tme over is former cliarge in Brooklyn, sad then trausforred me to ils presant post, as Fro- feasor in ths Presbylerian Theological Sctuinary of this city, After having Nved berencarly {wenty years, snd pre-smpted the ground, it 8 wy fale Lo bave my Preabylerisu_uamessko arr{ve, the Rov, ¥nanois L. Partow, D, D., to ocoeslon (hess endisss mistakes, 1t must 'be s relribution for having allowed mysalf 10 be amused by ihe atiollsr miaforiunes of the other minaterial doubles Lo this clty,—ike (w0 CoLLizas, iho two Baarcarrs, the (wo Pirtrasons, the twd EDDYA, the (wo TaowWaass, and lately the aver aal” Waa avas ally a0 pargluxed 1 [ can ouly beg ol A\ 4 by p:,blb nqu.h Jla (] n.:.uuy u-1 sid or l me with thelr own ears, or resd my signatne wiy {Betr own eyos, Wasaaam WY, PArToN, Cungregational Minfater, Dr. Parron is mistakon in pasuming that the Towa papers did bum no injustico. Thelecturer a4 Murcatine was referrod to as *Dr, Parron, oditor of tho Adrance, aud the porseoutor of Prot, Bwixa," ——— Tha boat-ownors who do businoss on the Erie Canal have apposred before the Naw York Legin Iative Committeo an to the actual cont of trang. porting grain on tho canal by eanal-boat from Buftalo to Now York. Wo give two of thess Inlla, Tho boata pay tho tells, and moomingly coms back ompty 1 foat C. F' Sternderg, Duffale to N Tork and Retura, July 23—To Lolls ou 7,900 bz wheat..,.ese.s. . $252,30 ln:nmuu $18,50, trimming $9.81, 4 ! 088 3,usnasraosionze srorens LA 176 feel warp $11.70, 5 b corn [ Commision $14,70, eards 10 ce powders $1, liniment $1,73.... PR XY Tuy $13, ahoelng §2.45, 31 wharfage 10 centa,.,.. 15 v 5.4 8.3 July 31—To elavatlon $38. At $1.2), $20,60,... July 21—To stabling at Wes 19, blocks 50 cents. $1.15, § Boat Jamea D, Bawyer, .?n{:l- to New York and Lio ur 1A74, Oct."15—T0 1oll# on 8,000 bu whea Tasurance $43.25, towing Commission $27,54, 76 bit cora Corild 105, powilerw 81, kalve §1.. Huocing $0.61, mabliug at Troy $12.:0. ¥av, 3~T0 olevating $39,0%, aborls, O b, $1.05 ) Wharinge $1.50, Fiver-tow down $15, up 325, ¢ Nov, Ib—;"a tall § et §1, Hiay §1 e, medicing shoetug $0c, insy Sundries, Captaln's services, 30 ABThieerasessassenne L, It will bo sean that ths tolls pald to tho Stnla on tho 16,000 buebels of giin amounted o £507.50 ; that tho towing of the two bnats (n tho Iudson River cost $115, Ioaurang~, $71.95; in all, 634,25, and that the working expenscs of the boats amounted to $727.44. 'The supgregato cost of transportation of both osrzoon waw $1,421,69, or within a fraction of Do per bushal, e Oue of the many wings of the Wompn-Suf- frage party, or combination, or whataver it ix, ub- jocts to tlo colobration of the Cootonnial of Amorican Indopondence for the patrio.ie rez:on that *this Government is unjust, crucl, mean to womon,” and askg, through Mrs. Lrey Sroxe, * Why contributs anything to crown ita hundred yoars, every singla one of which has beon used by every Btato to impose couditions of subjuga- tion and humiliation mpon womgn?" lva. BroNe cerixinly 15 not Lound to contrivuto to the Contonnial any moro than Mr. Stoxg, In point of fact, looking over the producta of tho fiut contury of tho Republic, and recognizing the sbrieking sisterhood aa ona of them, ir, Stoxm wonld ba pardoned for refusing to have part or Iotinit, POLITIOAL KOTES. The Republicans of the Connectiont Legislz- tare are sald to be in a majority of Lrains and rospeotability, though in » minority of juflu- enoe, The Clnolnnati Enquirer, fesrning that Mit. Tox Bavrez is s caodidste for Speaker, aske him to apeak out, by way of practics, on thoecur- roucy question. He istooindeSuite now on thal subject. The report that Gen. Borrea was nimal for the successor to Attornoy-General Wirntraxsa oaused soma littls sensation in Boston. It wale Judge oan s bit dsfant, and gratefnl that ha had not Invitsd Bnawows to tho Coocord bau- quet. An interesting discussion is boing maintained In some of the God-foaring nowapapers of Now England aa to whothar broken-down cloreymen aroreally the fittest persons to regulato tho Government's doalinga with the Indlans. ®ral, Marau nuggested tho inquiry. He thinks not. 3Mr, Nruxs G, Panxen, formorly State ‘reare uror of Bouth Carolins, now & jail-Lird of the old sohoot, has glven notico that be dued not in- tend to romain {n prison all alone bv himeelf. This cursory romark from RMe, Pankrn hss croated s profound sensation st tlfa Btato Capl- tal, The Courier~Journal thinks thers ia trne in- wardness in Munar HavrsTeap's schomo of a third-party movement which shail force CiranLrs TFraxcis Apaxs upon the Republican party as o cavdidate for the Presidency. Tho Journal foors, however, that tha ides, althongh so ox- cellont, oannot bo exsouted twico, and on differ- ent political partiea. Tho municipal elections in Indiana Trosday wero romarkably sad unoxpoctedly In favor of the Republican party. In Indisospolin tho vie- tory was completo, al$hough every inch of ground there had been thoronghly caovassed, and the Democrats had the advantsge of posacssion and of somewhat lax notions of houesty, so far sa election sfTairs are concornod. Wa are palnod to observe agood deal of aneering at the Hon, W. D, Kxnrxr on tho part of those newspapers which advocatod tho Forco bll. One of them suggosts that Mr. Kerree may oconstituto s party by himself in tho vext House of RNeprosentatives, and bo unable to elect & Spoaksr,—s calamity which ho lias not foreseen, but which (he ront of tho countiy is quite proparsd to meet, Mr. Dava, of the Sun, loves Harsreap, but ho oannot boar the plorclng thoughta anakorcd by the fippant allusions of the Field dMurchal to old Bz Earos sud his Btale Boveroiguty spesch. Dawa eays that ‘‘the truth of Stato Rigbta l{es at the foundation of the Amorican system of government,” snd makes other re- marks of this highly-original, powerful, and searching description. A proposition, amanating from the Barlinginn Gazelle, thot tho name Liberal-Domocrasy sliall Lo used to saften the thing a lLiftle in Iown, ig indignantly refeoted by tho Bourbon organs in that State. Tha party is not Liberal, thoy eayy it is only Domocratic. Libersl-Democracy ia scarcoly better than Anti-Monapoly, and thab name, by common consent, hag boen sant homo ta the Fattier of Liew. #While I have beeu namoed for the Bpoakor- shlp, and am nat unwmindfal of the honor, I do not sxpect to be electsd. I shall probably ba beatan, because I will not relinquish my own in- dividuality, aud will not aeaume obligations and traffia for tiie place.,” That does not avund woll, coming from Frnxaxpo Woob, but it {a an oxack quotation from an interview lalely grantod by him to & reportor, snd it has not beon dentod. The fastidious New York Nalion edopted an effoctual, though perhaps W eruel, method of sotting st rest foravar the atatement that Mr. . T, Bannux had beoome one of it proprietors. Thlg it did by poblishing sn editorial srt:clo ridiouling the worthy showman snd the manaor of his eleotion to the Mayoralty of Norwich, Tho New York Triduns might do someting of tho kind to Mr. Jax Gourp—If it ware eo disposci. HuaTesp, in bis apesch at the omynz dinnor, remarked very innocontly that he bellaved it to be imposaibla for & mas to live oa both sides of the Obio River st onos, He oughb to kuow all sbout It, says a Pittaburg paper, for he haa besn experiment! thess threa years past trying to make & newapaper thad woald circulate sé well Kentucky sa in Ohlo, Itls somebhing to bave such an soknowledgmens of fellure frowm such s man. Porres, of Wikoonain Porrea, of Okio} and Porres, of Michigan, were all lesders fa thelr rospsolive Leglslatures; aad no large e of pocpio ki Job nuan fo give tuy s of Wism 8