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4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY MAY 8, 1875.—TEN PAGES. _— oo TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF SUDRCRIFTION (PATABLE INX ADVANCR), Pastags L'repald at this Ofiice, ally, 1 13,000 | Weakly, 1 year.. 1.05 K7 a0 | Fi ! (] i et O double shoet. ... 3. Parts of & year at iho sume rate, T ANTED—Une active agant in exoh fewn sad village, Epeocial acrangamanta made with such. Rpeoiman copies sont fres. a To prevent delay and mistakes, 3 sare and give Post. Ofiioe sddress In full, Including Stata and County, Reeittanessmay bamade either by draft, express, Post Offies ardar, or in registercd Jetters, at onc risk, . TERNA TO CITY FUMCRINKAL. Datly, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 orweak, Batly, delivored, Sunday Ineludod, 30) cents per waok. Address TUE TRIBUNR COMPANY, Cernar Madison and Doarho UNfeago, Ik TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. HOOLEY'S THBATRE—Randelnh sireet, betwaen Clareand LaSslle, Kmerson's Minstrels. Afternoon and svening. M'VIOKKR'S THEATRE-3(adison steeat, hatween Desthorn and State. Engagemant nf the Tativan Opers-Boufle Troupes *' GirotaGirofls.” Aftaruoon snd evening, ACANRMY OF MUSIC—Halsted sireet, betwoen Mad. iow and Munree. Kogaremontof the Emily Boldena Troups. Altarnoon, * Chilperio Rvaning, ** Madame L'Archidoe.” ADELP{UI THRATRE-Dearhorn sireet, cornar Mane e, Variely Entertainment, Afternoon and svening. THIRD PRESBYTKRIAN CHUROH~The Grand Al- Vogory of * The Pilgrim, SOCIETY MEETINGS. HRSPERIA LODOR, Na. 411, A, P\ & A, M.—Spe- cinb commuaication Baturdas evening,” Mar8, for work in'tte K. Av Liogeee, Wark in the Thisd Degree Wednny day, day 1, “Vialtiog breciran eordiall lnvited. 5y or- S OHAS. ¥. FOERSTER, Sec's. W, B, WARREX LODGF, No. 209, A, F\ aail 4. ~Tegitar communieation this (Satnrday) eventuc, @closk, at Orlontal 11all, 123 Ladalis-at. Vieilors wel. coms. ~Hy order of the Mastar, 3. T DUSLOD, Seo. The Chivags Tribuxne, Saturdsy Morning, May 8, 1878, WITH SUPPLEMENT. "The railrond war hns resulted in a fresh reduction, tho Baltimore & Ohio yesterdny placitig at §7 the faro to Pittsburg. Another German Catholie, loyal to his Pope at tho risk of incurring Bismancs's displens. nre, is a subject for futnro canonization, Thia time it i3 the Prince Bishop of Breslau who suffors martyrdom. Ho has been banished to the Boheminn frontier for violation of tha Trussisn ecclesiastical laws, There will be experionced throughont the land & general fecling of relief at the assor. anco that the United States Government ean- not be held responsible for the correctnoss of {he dato on the Mecklenburg medal, And that, if it should transpire that o mistake of eleven days bas been mads, the consequancos will not be serious. X Tha religious revolution in Moexico, nrising out of the publication of church reforms and the expulsion of tho Bisters of Charity,'is vaid to bo extending rapidly. A villnge has been pillaged and burned, business isat a standstill, apd the inhabitants are seoking safety in fight, In tho Statoin which the revolution began an extra session of tho Leogisloture has been convoked to disenss monsures for the suppresaion of the re- beltion, Thero was no session of the Brooklyn Court yosterday, some of the counsel being engnged clsowhers. Mr. Evanta intimated that the closo of the trint was noar st hand; Mr, Brace named tho 25th inst. as the date when the present proceedings would bo con- cluded; while tha Brooklyn Eagle outlines a programmae which carries the rendering of the verdict as far as the middle of June. Tho latter cstimate would scom to bo nearest the probable mark, in view of the time likely to be consumed by Judge Nemsox in raviewing the evidenco ond preparing his charge to tho Juxy. 4 Té now {ranspires that ex-Commissioner Douarass’ erowning weakness wag his unwar~ rantable lenioncy toward illicit distilleries, It is said that many cnses of flagrant viola- tion of the revenue laws were brought to Lis notice, but that the Commissioner, instead of prosecuting them, 88 in duty bound, filed thom away, nud nllowed the frauds to go on without hindronce, This bolicy was not in - accordance with Sccrotary Buistow’s way of doing business, and upon the Secretary’s ro- lating tho facts in the ezso to the Prosidout, Mr. Dovarass' marching order was immedi- atoly isauod. The Secvetary of tho Treasury, with a view {o retrenchment in his Dopartment, has vory properly sot om foot an investigation as to tho proprioty of abolishing some of the many interior ports of delivory which are a source of considerablo expense to the Government without compensating rovenuo, This aco- nomical scheme was woll inaugurated last year in the consolidation of manny of the emallor oustoms districts on tho Atlantio const, and has been found to work much paving to the Government, and at the same time to furnish all needed facilities to mer- chianta, An act of uncommon bravery was perform- ed by the man in charge of the Adamns Ex- proas car which loft here Thursdny night by the Fort Wayne Rond. A masked robber cutored the oar near Lima, 0., and fired two shota at the guard, Mr, Gronax H, Pnioe, . bofore the latter could get at his own plstol. ‘When he did so, he sent a bullot through the robbers brain, The contonts of the car were of great valug. In those days, the guardian who doca not himsolf moke away with his trust is becoming rare, 'The ono who defends it at the great risk of his life {s raver still, It 15 retreshing to read of Putox's dauntloss dis- charge of Lis duty, + e — According to the phraseology of a resolu- tion adopted by the Woman's Migsionary Boclety in this city, the young ladies who are sont out by the Bociety are somewhat ro- stricted in their affairs of the hoart, Ifa fuir eonvertar of heathen should marry ont. elde of the Missionary Union, ehe must ro- fund the money expended for her outit and pasaage, and, sccordingly, if she would not vemaln pingle, she muat oither content her. self with a male missionary, or elss be carcful o fall in love with some young man who will gullantly square accounts with the Hoclaty, Mothing s said about widows; they can give themaelves away uningumbered by any prior lene of this sort, b ————— ‘Tha Chloago produce markets waere genor. ally weak yeaterdsy, with moro doing. Mess pork was moderately sctive and 1340 per bl lowar, closing 8 $21.50 sadk, and 93105 for Juns. Lard woa dull ol sledy, dosing ab §10.40 smb, asd [} 816,65 for June, Moenta wors modemtely aotive, but ensior, at 83c for shonlders, 11jo for ghort ribs, and 12jo for short cleam. Highwines wero quiet and stendy at $1.15 por gallon. Lako freights wore quict and un. changed. Tlour was in fair demand and stendy. Whont was active and wenk, closing 2a lower, at £1.02] cash, and $L04} for June. Corn was active and 1o lower, closing at 730 cash, nnd 7ilc for June, Oats woro 1aore active and Je lower, closing at G61}e for AMay, and e for Juno. Iyo was quiet and ensier at 2L.07@1.07}. DBarley was vory dull and steady at $1.30 forMay. Ilogs wero getivo and 100 lower. Bales chiefly at $7.95 @7.50, The cattlo md sheep markets wore quiet and unchanged. o In view of the return made yesterdsy Ly one of Shoriff AaNEw's deputics, who served & procoss on the gambler McDosarp tosatisfy 4 bail-bond forfeited by another gambler, and who reported *‘no property found,” it will e interesting to note whether in the future, as in tho pnst, McDoxarp is accopted na suroty for all gorts of criminals, It might also be worth while for the State's-Attorney to inquire what las become of the property which MoDoxarp swore ha was possessed of whon he wns examined as to his qualifications s hondsman, or, possibly, it would leak out that for some peeuliar reason the unsuccess- ful deputy wes “struckall of a sudden” with blindness as to the existence of prop- erty. In the Penusylvonia anthracite country the awful reign of idleness continues, and the nows from that region from day to day is freighted with the horrors attendant upon sloth, and poverty, and passion. Yes- terday, at Wilkesbarre, no possa could Lo pecurcd to aid the Constable in nor. resting the perpetrators of a dastardly as- sault, and at Kingston n procession of strik- ors immolnted the effigy of n “Dblackleg™ (non.union) miner with much of the pomp and ceromony of an Aztec sacrifice. The really serious intelligence, however, comes in the statement that the owners of the iwgcst mings in the district have deliberately flooded their property, thua adding months to tha period of unproductiveness which tho scowl- ing future proclaims. The wordy duel between Gripstonm and the Disnarra Ministry still continues in the British Houss of Commons. . Yestorday GrapstoNe savagely sattacked the budget, censuring the method of stating tho troas-’ ury account s0 as to conceal doficiencies, pointing out an increnso of oxpenditures of £1,360,000 during one year of Conscrvative government, and stating that an ex- perienco of thirty years had shown that the public debt had been swelled more Ly fresh loans than it hnd been de- creased by surpluses. He claimed that the tondency was to abandon old and well-tried methods, and to deluda the country from the enfe rond in finance, In reply, Sir Starsono Norracore defended the budget, and said that Grapsronz had formerly spproved of the system he now opposed. 18 THERE ANY OFFICIAL RESPONSIBILITY P Mr. Janes P, Roor, o respectable attorney of this city, has givon n profossional opinion to the effect that the Iato Clief Inspector of Grain in this city is not under any legal ob- ligation to pay ovor to his successor or to the State the sccumulnted fees in his boands, on the ground that tho monoy was collected in oxcess of logal authority, and cannot be le- gally claimed by the State. The law sathorizes the Board of Commis- sioners to fix the rates of charges for inspeo- tion of grain, and adds: Whilcls charges shiall bo regulated in such s manner sa will, in tho judgmont of the Cominimioners, pro- duce suliclent rovonue to meet tho necossary expanses of the service of inapection, ond ne more, The Commissioners aro also nuthorized to fix from time to time the componsation of the various officors, which are included in tho axpenses of the service of inapoction. During Mr. Hanren's term ss Chief In. spector, the foes and charges collocted for inspection exoeeded tho expenditures of the office by about 328,000, which sum, upon boing romoved from office, he refused to pay over. XMr. Roor advises Hinren that the law, docs not contemplate any wurplus or ex- coag, and no suthority is given to collect n cont more than is required, e suggests that, like illogal foos, parties who have paid this surplus may recover tho eame by suit. Ar, Hanrrs is in default whatever sum he may havoe in lis handa collected by him for juspoction ; bnt it is possiblo that it is not really Alr. Hanres who is making this de- fonso, ns othor persons, with whom he may have doposited portions of the mioney, aro not in a financial condition to return it. ‘The law, howaevor, doos not limit the col- lection of fees to the amount mufliciont to cover the oxponses of the inspection sorvico ; the law legalizes and authorizes any rate of foos which will, *in the judgment of the Commissioners, produce sufficiont ravenuo to maot the exponses of the servico,” If, in the Judgment of the Commissioners, the foes wero only such g were nocossary to meot the ex. pensca of tho sorvice, then whether thoso rates produced more or less than the actual sum noeded haa no bearing on the question of the logality of the colloction. The Htata of Illineis blennially, by act of leglalation, provides the amount specifically of revenuo to bo raised for revenue by taxa- tion. Tho act Jovying taxes for 1878 and ‘74 provided: Tha Governor and Auditor shall, sanually, sampute tho separata rates of per cont as will produce theabove awounty, and nomors, * * and when 6o wacertained the Audilor shall oortify the same, eic. to the County Clerke, Now, the Govarnor and Auditor computed the rates of per cont of {ax necossary to pro- duce the above nmounts, making allowauce for costs, ate., and there was cach yenr a sur. Plus of yevenue, sny 50,000, collacted in the soveral counties of this Btate and pald into the State Trepsury, 'Lhis hos been done an. nually for many yoars, but it seems nover to havo ocourred to any of the Town Colleotors, County '[reasurers, or State L'ressurers, to rotaln this monoy bacauss it waa in oxcess of tho preclés sum authorized to be colleoted, Mr. Roor's opinion, sustained as ho soys it is by a decision of a Olrcuit Conrt, will bs a revelation to these officers of the handsome fortunes they have allowed o slip through their fingors, Bo with city taxes. The Common Council ig authorized to lovy such rate of tax for each specifio purposo as will produce the exact amount of revonuo nesded to meet the ap. propriations proviously msade for that pur. poss. Now, when the Common Counoil sp- propristes $30,000 for one objoct, and 40,000 for anothor, and $25,000 for another, ond thus through a dozen or more speclfic ob« jeots, mnd the Oommon Councll mubse- quently, In levying the taxes, shall so arrange the rates by fractional parts of mills for sach thit, in sbmo coves and In the agiregats, ths tax levled sisd collected sball oxceod the amonnt appropriated, is the Citq Collector entitled to Liold the excoss or sur- plus? Or can the City Tronaurer hold this surplus thos levied and ocollocted? This in important, not only to the city, but to the scveral gontlemon holding thoso officos. But whether tho collection of theso foos was lognl or not, it is not within the provinco of tha Collector, to dispute the authority under which ho mado tho collection to the extent of withholding the monoy from his principal. The money in his hands was received by him a3 an ofticer of the Slate, for the Btats, and wag the money of tha State, he being a mera agent to collect it; ho is, therefore, bound to rospond to tho State for whatever money ho thus colleeted, bacanse an agent or receiver is not nt liberty to withhold the moncy of his principal under pretense that in tho transnc- tion whera it was collected thero was some illegality, If Mr, Roor's doctrino shall be recognized a8 the law of tho State, and every public oficer may question the legality of a tnx Jevy and hold on to the monoy, and every cashier, bank-toller, salesman, and others landling money, uiay sot np a pretonsa of il- legality in tho transactions by which money was paid to him for his employor, and retain it, then the last vestige of offteial account~ ability will be destroyed, aud all will be given ovar to whoover will tako it, AN IMPORTANT DUTY. The Citizens' Association has now an op- portunity to test the question whether it makes any differonca in thig city if an elec~ tion bo eonducted nccording to tho forms of Iaw, or whether the law may be disregarded and a desired rosult can bs sccomplished by fraud, The injunction upon the canvass of tho voto on the charter was really an ombarrass- ment. 8o long ns the vote wns not eanvassed and tho result not declared, thors was noth- ing to contest ; and yet there could bo no permanent protection against the fraudulent clection except that secured by a judgment of n court declnring that election void. The Inw gives thirty days in which to filo s bill with proofs to contest the election in the Cir- cuit Court, A well-digested bill and a thor. ough array of testimony can now be prepared, and tho case ean be pushed with such speed asis nllowable in chancery cases. o this the caso would have to como at somo time, and it is bettor that it shounld begin properly now than six months or a year henco, In caso of an appeal, the appeal will bo upon the main question and not upon interlocutory ones, and the decision of the Supremo Court, when mnde, will be final and absolute, Apart from the considerations of a chango of chartors, the question of fnir elections, honest elections, and legal elactions, is of im. portance. If thoro need ba no observance of Iaw in tho conduet of elections, then it is en- tjroly immatorinl which clerter we have, or whotlier wo have any charter or not. If clections ave to bo dotermined by the number of ballots roported found in the ballot-box without reference to how they got thore or who put thom there, then it is a mattor of in- difference whether there be any further olec- tions in Chicago or not. Anappeal to the law, through the Courts, is the only recourse left to tho public, and a decision of this quostion is o nocessity of vital interest to the city, to tho security of lifa and property, and, of course, to the welfaro of the whole State. If thers can bo such an authoritative declara- tion by the Courts as will ronder fraudulont elections of no avail, and 08 will require that on cloction to be logal must bo condnoted in conformity with law, thon thero will bo some protection loft to tise genoral publio. THE CONTEMFY BUBINEEB, The membors of the Common Council who voted to violate the injunction issued by Judge Witriams are likely to expe- rience the legal consequences of their con- duct, While thero is a wido diversity of opinfon, and indeed of adjudication, upon questions pertaining to the autbority of Courts to issus injunctions undoer various conditions of circumstances, thero is no dif- ferenco of opinion as to the obligation to obey sn injunction whon issued, The por- son who is enjoined by order of a Courtis not at liberty to nct s o court of appenl, and dotermine whother tho injunction was prop- erly issued or not. The law gives him a rom- edy to which e must resort, Nor can o vio- lation of an injunction bo justified by pro- ducing tho mdvice of counsol. The violation of the injunction is an offonse against tho law, and no advico of counsel to commit guch an offonso con justify it. In tho work of Mr. Hzon, of Chicago, on Injunctions, this point, embodying the goneral policy of the law on’ this subject, is thus stated ‘The granting of sn injunction being justly regarded 8 ous of the Lighest prerogatives of courts of cquily, the mout exact aud {mplicit obedienca s required from thoso sgainst whom (e mondate of the Cours is di~ rected, With whatever irregularities the procesdings may be affected, or however orroneously the Court may have acted in granting tho injunction in the first iustance, it must bo implicitly obscrved o long sa it romains {n exislonoe, and the fact that it has been ob- talned erroncously afforda no justification or excusa far ita violation befora it Las been properly dissolvod, And tho party sgalnst whom an injunction fasues will not be sllawed to violate it on the ground of want of squity 1 the LIL, siuco he {s not at Utierty to spacue lIsts upon the inteution or decision of the Court, oc upon the oquity of the Lill, or ta question the suthor {4y of tise Court to grant ralisf upon application to dis- solva the injunetion, The reason for tha rule, as here Iafd down, is found 1n the necessity of preserving the respect snd obedle ence dus to the mandstes of cquily, and of preventing the disastrous confusion which would inevllsbly ro~ sult from allowing parties agalost whom injunctions wors {axued to be thorselvos the judges of the pro- pricty of the rellef orthe regularity of the proocod- fnge, From the nature of ihe cass, the tribunal grante $ng the writ must itself bo the arblier, and its mane dates aro to bostrictly observed unthl properly revaked, Aud {¢ the Court granting the retlef had jurladiction of the subjost-maticr, the fact that fta prerogative was erzoucously sxercised doew not render the {njunction vold, but only voidable, and, until it i set sslda or re- wvoked, it 4 eatitled to fmplicls obedlence, And tho fact that the injanction waa too broad in ita terms and coverod property over which i should not havobeen extended, atfords no exouss for ita violstion, The violatlon of an injunction constitutes a contempt of the Court from which it issued, and will be punished accordingly, Nor does the question of tha motiveor t with which thie writ was disobeyed altcr or vary 1l ponsibility for the violstion ; on the coutrary, I¢ sy Le statod as o genoral rule that where the writ has besn duly sorved on dofendants, they are liablo for its violation, in whatever motive they may have acted, socn in the preceding sections, the fact that an injunction was erronsously issued In 4ho firat (natance sffords no wATTADE OF excuss t0 8 do- fendant fora bresch ef lta terms, yob auch fact may properly ba taken {nto considerstion in awarding pun~ {snment for the bresch, ‘Tho statutes of Illinols have a speclal pro. vision relating to tha violatlons of injunc. tiona, Boo, 18 of Chap, 09 rends as follows 3 Upon satisfactory proof being made in vaestion that an {njunction has been violated, the Judgs graniing the samc, or the Judge of the Court from which the writ was {saned, may lasue an altachment and cause Ahie party violating the lnjunciion to bs brought be- fore hiw, Upon his belug brought befure the ssid Judge, unlees his shall dlsprove or purge the sald cone tempty the sald Judge may, iu hia dlscretion, commit bim to Jakd uutil the itting of the Cours in which the #ad {njunction 1s pending, or take ball for bis appesre 006 {0 tua bald court #b the nexd terma thereod, 40 sae l-m for Liie aald eonteniph and 1o atide ths urder of e Uoaxd therson, Thia gentrsl watghl ol the Eagilali sulkierds t fes, and algo of the decisionn in many of the Amorican courls, is that any act done in violation of the injunction ls of itsolf void, and has no legal effoct. It is truo thatin this cnso tho Court refused to oxtend the temporary injunction, and refused to grant ono'as prayed by the amended bill, and tho first injunction stands dissolved ; neverthe- less, tho canvnss of tho returns by the Com- mon Council was mado when the injunction was in forcs. It was illogal when made, and cannot bo cured by a subsequent dissolution of the injunction. It is now legal for the Conunon Council to canvasa the roturns, and not to do 80 is to persist in an illegality which may prove embarrassing to thae eity in & buainess way horontter, —n TOISONOUS F0OOD AND DRINK, Tho DBoard of Ienlth docs an excollont, but almost unnoticed, work in condemning nnd deotroying disensed and poisonous foud which fs offered for salo in our markets. 'Tho diseasos thug provented would cost much to curo and many of tham would not bo cured at all. Borcover, the knowledgo of this vigi- lant iuspection keops butchers from trying to palm off bad meat upon their customors. Fow poraons, howaver, know bow much of thia sort of atuff is sold here, Tho sclzures givo some idea of it, although it is impossible to say how much bad beef, mutton, venl, ete., escapes mnotics, During tho month of April, the subordinates of tho Health Dopartment condemned 209 quarters of boef, 8 carcasses of mutton, 21 hogs, 176 calves, 321 hams, 306 shoulders, 879 pounds of fresh meat and 8,400 pounds of corned meat, 48 chickens, 23 ducks, and 16 snipo. Doubtless, beef, mutton, porl, veal, ham, corned Leef, chickens, ducks, and suipo in quite as bad condition as thoso solzod wero on our {ables; but tho ovil wonld bavo been far greater had not the Board of Henlth done its work. This poisonous food is food for thonght. Why should not tho process which works so well in tho cnse of entables bo applied {o drinkables? It would be an admirablo mensure of tomporance reform. People will drink, It is best, ihen, thaot they should wuse boer, ale, and light wines instead of fiery liquors, and, if thoir perverted tastes load them to indulge in whis- Ly and brandy, it is best that these liquors sliould bo as pure as possible. A crazy drunk is usunlly the result of imbibing vitriol and other dendly drugs, thinly disguised nnd sold a3 pure liquor. In our mighty multitude of galoons, thers are probably not ten in which o man can got a glnss of unadulterated liquor, This great ovil can be best reached by a sys- tom of rigid inspeotion. The detoction of poisoned drinks is an ensy matter. One compotent chemist could do the necessary work of analysis. When drugged liquor is discovered, it should be promptly scized and destroyod. Tho result of this would bo to cut off the enormous profits now made by dishonest saloon-keepers, and to force many of them to close their low resorts, Half the saloons in town would not pay if thoy had to buy puro liquor and retail it at tho ruling rates. If tho rates weroadvanced, the samo good result would be reached in a different way. Many people would prefer to drink beer and nlo to paying highor prices for liquor, The custom of the minor rum-holes would fall off, and their proprictors would be forced to engage in some othor busincss. The inspection of food has beon proved by practice to be n succoss, Why should not hmpnoun%ol drink be tried, too? THE ITALIAN GUARANTEES, One of the mothods recontly adopted by Bisaancr to stir up the European monagerio wag to ask Italy whethor or not sho would support .Germany in the latter's warfare agninst political Catholicism, An ambiguous answer was roturncd, and tho semi.official Borlin Post at onos announced that war with France wns imminent, and that France would be supported by an Austro-Italian alliauco. The incident hns called attention to the pe- culiar relstions botween Italy and the Papacy. Whoen Vicron Esanver bat. tored down the old wall of Rome, Septomber, 1870, and marchod his victorious troops through the breach, ho tried to make friends with tho spiritual monarch, whoso temporal power ho had overthrown by giving him lavish guarantecs. Italy is fottored by thoss guarantoos now, Thoy have so far been strictly observed, although thoy have utterly failod to reconcile Prus IX. with the loss of bis temporalitics. The Pops has ground out excomununications just aa if ho woro really “tha prisoner of the Vatican,” inatead of being at perfect liborty to go wherever he wishiea and to do any sncerdotal act whatever, The guarauntcea promise to play no unim. portant part in Europesn politios in the near futurs. Thoy are littls more than a name to most readers, 0 that wo reproduce their sub- stance here, The law of gusrantees is divided into two paris, Tho first declares the prerogatives of the Pope and the Papocy. The socond de- fines the relntive rights and priviloges of Church and State, Tho first part consista of twelvs articles, ‘Tho person of the Pope ia declared inviola~ ble, Violence attempted or planned against him is to bo punished as a similar offonso ngaingt the King of Italy would be, Hoa isto be trented aa n royal personage. Tho fourth artiolo charges the Italinn revenues with an annual subsidy to the Pope, equal to the sum oxponded by him, before the conquest, in maintaining .his palaces, the Bacred Col- lege, certain ccolesiastical organizations, and Lis diplomntio service, This amounts to some milliona of francs every year, but His Tlolinoss hins so far declined to receive it, and it lios to his erodit in the National Treasury, That {3, it nominally lica there. Ench year, a4 s00n ns it bhas beon rofused, tho bankrupt ‘Iroasury borrows it from thefand to which it is credited, and spends it on the army which keeps the Pope off his temporal throne, The Holy Father would show & worldly wisdom by taking the money. o could not hurt Italy or cripplo Vicron Exanues's Government ag much in anyother way. The remaining articles guarantea the fullest lberty of spiritual ao- tlon to the whole hiorarchy, down to the low. liest monk, and proiise official protection to oll Conclaves and Eocumenical Counoils, Thia lost proviso may yet bring Italy into dircot confliot with Germany. Bo far is this ex- omption from interforonce carried that no Government offlclal can enter any building which the Popa is ccoupying permanently or tomporarily, or in whioch any Conclave or Counoil is eitting, without the conssut of the spiritual diguitaries. No papers relating to the spiritual dutios of the Papecy can ba solzed under any pretext. The Pope's corre. spondence is sacred, and he is endowed with tho fx g privilege, ‘The second part of the law ooncerns Church end Btats, 'The soclestastical seminaries of Bome aod the six suburben diocsses are ex. preasly fread froms the jurisdietien of the Tatles Ministor &f Riusation, Tisd nssulie rotifieation of eccleniastionl acts, so Intaly and 80 sirongly nssertod by Germany, is forover waivod, Tho right of appenling to the eivil courta from any epiritual or disoiplinary acts of the priesthood ia denfed. The Inw Lhus seoms ta bo wholly in favor of tha Papacy., M contains, howover, one very important proviso, which may, perhaps, be twisted into a nallif. cation of mnearly the whole act. The 8tato reserves tho right lo intorforowhenovor ncts **contrary to the laws, or injurious to publio order, or to the righta of iudividuals,” are attompted or performod. As tho State munat of nocessity judgs for itself when any ecclesinatical nct s of this nature, tho resor- vation goes n great way, Moraover, although the dischargo of spiritual functions is ex- pressly exempted from any interforenco, who is to judge whethor a particulpr function is npiritual or political? Manifostly, the State. And ns it.is at once tho strongth and the woaknoss of Catholicism in Europo that it is there emphatically & political religion, this power to judgo is an important one, Tho guarantees are strongly worded, bat ovents may yet show the possibility of driv- ing & (gun.)carringe and four through every clause, 8T, LOUIB JUBILANT. A party of nine young gentlemon, hailing from nowherafn particular, and distinguished from the rest of the world by wearing white stockings, and a party of nino other yonng gentlemen, hailing from nowhere in particu. ar, and distinguished from the rest of the world by wearing brown stockings, havo mot in the City of 8t. Louia and disputed for tho louors of a base-ball field, with the result that tho white.liosed young gentlomen were whipped in every inning and the brown. hosed young gentlomen scored 10 runs to their opponents 0. Upon the strength of this discomfituro, tho City of St. Louis has rison to its fect in @ spirit of exultation, and is rending the nir with ecstatio oxclamations, and making itaelf ridicu- ous gonerally, These brown-legged young gontlomen having dofoated tho white-legged ones, we ara now propared to sco 8t Louis mnko a now claim for the location of tho Mint in that city, propare now arguments in favor of locating the National Oapital thero, and immediately issuc a now directory with 200,000 ndditional names in it, The issue of this important brown-legged event will un- doubtedly have a cheorful jufluonce upon tho stagnant condition of the trade and com- merce of that city, and infuse new life into its torpid channols, We presume every citi- zen of St. Louis breathos more freely and fecls more ercct, mow that nino men with white stockings, hailing from Chicago, have beon beaton; that it xeally hias one gourca of honost exultation; and that, for the first time, it can rejoice in gotting ahond of Chica 8o, Wo have no desiro to dopreciata tho great physical and moral viotory which 8t, Louis has gained. We acknowledgs it in its length and breadth. If nocossary, we are propared to feol mortified, to call thess white-legged young gentlomen all sorts of harsh names, and even to invits the brown- logged young gontlomen to Chicago and give them an ovation, ealling out the Fire Department, the school-children, and the brass bands to sasist., In this connootion, however, aword or two of counsol is duo tho white-legged young gen- tlemen purporting to hail from Chicago, who went down to 5t. Louis to soe a roed shaken by the wind, Thesa young gentlomen an- nounco themselves from- Chicago. None of them belong lere, however., They camo from all parts of the country, and ore paid to live hero. Their names aro not to be found in the directory. Thoy do not poy taxes here, and we belleve none of them are nctive- ly connected with the educational, religions, mercantile, or social interests of Chicago. They ave not patrons of tho Bunday-Locture Bociaty, the Acadomy of Design, or even tho porsonal tax-collector. Thoir hold upon Chi- cago is of the frailest desoription, therefore, but since they have drifted in hero, and will probably romain hero until the on‘d of the summer, and since they are using the namo of Chicago, it mny bo 68 well for ; them to poy sorme regard to that fact, and to bear in mind that the way thoy have com. menced in St Louis is not the woy Chicago people do business, and thas if they propose to continuo tho uso of the name of Chicago thoy must eithor wipe out 8t. Louis or ccase halling from Chicago. Meanwhile St. Lounis con keep on howling with exultation, and should do so. Bhe may nevor have another chanes, Lot hor mako tho most of it. 1f so alight a thing os & baso-ball game oan make hor bappy, it would be cruol to interfare with it or in any way belittle the event, The London Z'imes takes editorial notice of the recont contennial colebrations in this country of tho battles of Loxington and Concord ; and, while it thinks that the con- tonnial anniversary of the Declaration of In. dopendonce will presont ** Philadelphia at its nowest and noisieat, and will rather suggest a contrnst botween tho ropresentative citizen of tho prosent and tho grave forms of Hancoor and his colleagues,” it takes a very calm and philosophical view of the Lexington and Concord celebrations, considering them sa very commondable, and hoping that they will not affect in any way the friendly rola. tions betwoon the two countries ; but, on the other hangd, that “ by the timo the Americans coma to cvlobrate the Convention of York- town, the projudices of a hundred years will have vanished.” In the courso of its articlo, the T¥mes cannot vefrain from making the follawing quiet but very palpabla hit at an American weaknoss: “If the invoctives of the living can affeat the doad, pocr old Gerorar IIL, Lord Nonrm, and all the sub. ordinate instruments of ¢Dritlsh tyranny’ must have expiated their guilt under the pitiless fira of American cratory on every succsssive Fourth of July daring the cen- tury,” In the last issue of Toxz Tomuns we com- mentod upon the fact that the District of Co. lumbia Ring, hended by Boss Biermenn, thwarted in all their provious offorts to drag Mr, Dana into the District and try him for H. bel, had cancocted a new dodge by attempt. ing to procuro a eriminal indictment sgainut him, alleging that tho artioes exposing the mismanagement of this Ring wers written by Br, Dava in the District, forwarded to the Now York Sun, and then circulated in the Distriot, Tho Ring, howaver, are once more thwarted. The Grand Jury appears to have been composed of lonest and senaible mon, who examined the grounds made by Suzenxzp, and then dismissed the charge by refusing to bring in a bill, This result may be considered o triumph in the interosts of law and of eqni. ty, and will be likely to end the perseoution to which Mr, Daxa has been subjected, It will at loast allow him to visi$ ihe Distriod of OColumbis withoud indurring the dunger of bilng kidaapped by ithciives ead upied into courta for trinl withont the proper op- poriunity to defond himself against the at- tacks of & powerful and unscrupnlous Ring. PRUBSIAN AND AMERICAN AGRICULTURE, 'Tho enrront number of the International Reciew containg s noteworthy article by 3Mr. Anzxaxpen Denwanon the sgricultural ad- vonce of Prussia from 1816 to 1876, The facta given in it have an important bearing upon agricultural industry in America. Progress in Gormany outsido of Prussin hns boen much slower than in Gormnny in- sido Prussia. Tho fact is duo to the earlior emnncipation of the peasant-serfs in the con. tral Kiogdom, and to the enlightoned legisla- tion of Brewv and llampeNnuno, which hns since beon coplod with more or less fidelity by tho minor States, but only after the lapso of a nambor of years. In 1807 Prussia abol. ished sorfdom, but the moasure was not com- plete until 1816, Tho next step was to facilitato the ex-slave’s becoming a lsnd-own- or. o was pllowod to retain a cortnin small piece of land by. paying a ront, fixed by Inw, to the owner, This rent was tho money- equivalont of a cortain proportion of the averaga produce, "The tonant was given the right to buy his land for a fixed sum, propor- tional to itg rent, within a cortain numbor of years, Taxation, which kad hitherto fallen almost ontirély upon the peasantry, was now distributed more equally. Teudal chargos were swopl ; R systom of rogistering titlos, like oura bat inferior to it, wns adopted; and Iand became for the first time a markotablo commodity. The trade guilds, which then monopolized the difforent trades and pre- vonted the ontrance into them of any eavo & very fow selected porsons, were abolished, so thot n man could choose his own occupation and follow it. The Gor- man trade-unions are not allowed to make boys vagrants and thisves by denying them tho chance to learn how to earn an honest live- lihood, The plan ndopted to make the ex-serfs land-owners might have been, and might still bo,. followed to advantage by the Southern States, The Intter can find no suror moans of regaining prosperity than to turn the ne- groes into ownors of the land upon which thoy now squat or which thoy reat. In 1807 the population of Prussia wes nbout 10,000,000, The numbor of acresused in produotion waa 85,000,000, so that it took 8} acros to support ono life. The superiority of free to alave labor is strikingly shown by the fact that now less than 13 acres support a lifo, This is a difference in favor of freodom of 50 per cont. BSines 1830 nearly 6,500,000 acros have beed added fo ths cultivated soil by the improvoment of wasts lands. Intolli- genos has been brought te bonr on agricul- ture, Nearly one-half of the arablo land used to bo nbandoned to pasturs overy year. Now, rotation in crops keeps up the productive- ness of thesoil. It nsedto take sevon-eighthsof the people to feed the whole. Now 48 por cont do this, and 53 por cont can devote thom- #olvoa to providing clothing and sheltar and following the higher arts. Although the comparative numbor of porsons engaged in nagriculture has deccemsed, the gross product is now much greater. The poor not only eat botter food, but more of it. ‘Germany used to export & good part of hor grain, She now consumes nearly the whole af it. It is this last fact whichis of espeoial in- tarest to Amorican farmers, The British Islands now consume 190,000,000 bushels of wheat a year, half of which thoy import. It is a matter of great momont to know what nation is to producs the grain which Great DBritain must buy., Ws have from 40,000,000 to 60,000,000 bushels of whoat to export each year, At presont, tho foreign demand carries neosly allof it off, It is probable that this will continue to bs tho ense, Tablos given by Mr. Drraan show that Gormany supplied 50 per cont of the British imports of grain in 1845 and only 8 per cent in 1874, Tho amount thus exported was very nearly balanced by imports from Russin into Germany. It is evidont, thon, that tho now Empire hes bocome so prosperous that ita grain.product will not do more than fecd ita population, since that population is no longer starved, but livos in comfort. Hore is ono of the great rivals of the American farmer out of tho way. As we showed tho other day, the compotition of Russia will not bo very koon, for somo timo to come, at least, so that the Westorn grain-grower can put in hig wheat with sereno confidonce that he will ind hungry mouths ready for tha crop across the soa. L - i THE FAILURE OF¥ A GREAT EXPERIMERT, It is nearly nine yoars since the Brroos Brothers, the owners of throe large collierics in Yorkshire, England, formod an industrinl portnership with their mon. The magical results of tho experiment have often been sketohed in these columns, Practical barbar. ism among tho men gave way to civilization, Strikes censed. Drunkonness almost conssd, Behools wore opened. A library for the ben- ofit of the minors was begun. ‘Ihrift and so. briety took the place of stupid waste and do- bauchery. The mon recoived their ordinary wages and, boesides, a bonus on 1abor amount- ing tohalt the surplus profit above 10 per cent on the-capital. This bonus was divided among them in proportion to the aggrogate wagos carned by each during the gear. Thoy ocould, moreover, become share. holdera in the oconcorn and poy for thelr stock in amall installments, The gain by the arrangement was not con- fined to the men, Tho employers wore no longer harssved by atrikes. Thoir costly mo- chinery was constantly employed. Whils their aversge profita had been only 5 to 6 por cent for soma years, they cleared 10 per cont the first yoar of this experiment and §8,500 bosldes. The bonus to labor was §8,500, The second year, the surplus profit, balved betweon mosters and mon, was $85,000, This industrial partnership has since flour- {shod and has been quoted the wide world over as an example of what might be done to completely and stornally reconcile eapital and labor, The reconcilistion was complete, but not otornal, ‘The famous partnership ‘exists no longer, As far as can be fudged, at this distanco, the thing which de- stroyed it was trade-unionism. I i not too mueh to say that this tyrannical force has more than counterbalanced, by this ons wrotohed deed, all the dublous good it may bave done workingmen., The employoes of the Briaos Brothers joined the Miners'Union some time since, and have becn acting in striot obedience to its orders. Renounoing their manhood, they became machines,— puppets which moved when a despotio igno- samus pulled a string. The Miners' Unfon has purvued its pet poliey of terrorism im the Brioos' eolllsries, and has the satisfaction of baving destroyed the most hopeful soctal ex- periment of the century, Last Beptember a reduction Lu wages was announced. The mem opposed i The Batcos Brothers cfiwed b beldhil W quslem G0 bibiaiieg which has been the method of got. tling such questions over minco iy formation of the industrial portnership, This perfectly fair meihod of sottlemont way reforred by the men to their iyrant, thy Miners' Unfon. Thia directed them 1o rotum it and to strike. They did so. After losing four weeks of work aud wages by thelr bling folly, thoy sgreed to arbitrato the question, Tho roforce sustainod tho mnstors, and the roduction was made, This trouble, In which the action of the men, if it is correctly ro. ported, was utterly fnexcusable, was ono of many. The employes wora completely suly. ject to the Union, lad no will of thelr own, and could make no agreement with the Corg. pony which was bindingon them if the Unien ordered it to bs broken. Under these circun. stonces, tho partnership wns nocessarily dig. solved. 'The men who are sharcholders of course rotain their atoclk, but tho bouus on Izbor will bo paid no longer. This tolls itg own story. Prof, 8wina dovotes a column of (i Alliance of tho curront weok to the racent season of Troxas concerts in this city, in the course of which he says many pretty things and many truo things, and manifosts very hoarty apprecintion of the music fer. formed. ‘Tho only ecriticism made by tha Profossor is that there was * no ponsiveness” in the music, and that Mr. Trosas did not *‘draw nenr the tenrs in his art.” He fears that *‘tho lovo of marvclous art mny be eclipsing the glory of sontiment.” Tho I'ro. fessor's eriticism may apply with some fores to somo of the racent concerts, although not to all; but if he would satisfy himself (hat Trosas approciates sentimont, lot him take bhis carpet-bag and go to Cincinnati, Listen to * Llijah,” the overwhelming chorus of the Ninth Symplony, and the seniiment of ¢ Lohengrin,” * Promethens,” and old Jauy Srnasriax Bach, and ho will come back (o Chicago with no further fears, Tho New York World has lot up a liltls on Chicago, and is now turning its attentiva lo Oshkosh., It has discoverod that the fivout Oshkosh was attributable to the high wind provailing ot the time, and thereupox ko. voraly censures the mill.owners for nut put. ting out their fires, DBut if the mill-owners were to put out their fires overy timu the wind blows a little harder than usual, how many days in the yoar would they run? Wa aro only surprised that the World bas not domanded that tho peoplo of Oshkosh shicll ot onco have thase high winds stopped, nnd called upon the insurance companies to with. draw their capital unless such an arraugo- went was earriod ont immediately. The patriotic Pennsylvanian in about to celo~ ‘brate the Westmoreland * Declaration of Inde- pendonce,” which waa read and agreed {o Ly the good poopls of what wag thon known as Woat~ moreland County, Their blood waa up, and thoy meant business. They commenced it by declar iug tholy unshaken loyalty to * Iis Majosty King Gzonox the Third, our lawful and rizhtful Kiog,” They did not remain loya), as their sub- seguent brave acte showed, but will it bo any- thing but o monstrous joke to celebrate tho sign- {ng af this documont as the source of Peausyle vania's traodom ? —_— ‘The Eastern companiea dssiro profitabls businsss, and certaluly If the compauiod make money in Chice go and briug thelr profits to New York for {nvertment, tha Werld will not objoct, Wo are impalled to ropeat whiat we Liave sald oa former occaslous, that 18 would ba etter for tha result If the presa of Chicsgo wouid devote its timo to influencing §ta homo roadors to pro- toct thelr own lutcrests, instesd of dovotloy it to scolding thoss who aro trylug to eontribute tu such protection.—New Yerk I¥ori Weo aro impolled %0 say what we bavo mob said on » formor occasion, that it would s bete tor it the Now York World would mind its own business, instesd of dovoting isa time to acold- ing those who ars trying by every means In theix power to protack thomsolvas, —_— The fiat-bostman who eriticised Roskxriar's plcturo of ‘' Elaine,” as meuntionad in Tum ‘Toipune yestordsy morning, himself made aa error which nautical mon would recoguize in sa instant, Tho lines ‘The dead atocred by the dumb ‘Went upward with ths flood, imply sofliciont motion of tho barge independend of the current to give atoorage-way, and, tLis Loing the cass, the painter ia justifiod. 1f tbe boat were moroly drifting, without any propul- slon, it oould not be stoered, and wonld dnfé broadsids or atern-foromost with tho stroam. —_—— Doaton s joat as hostile to WenDELL PmiLimrs »s Bt. Loufs st this moment. Ils charge that her soclety snubbed Suunen is pot by any mesns forgotten, nor is it yet disproved. FProf. Gopwix ondeavored to show that the lunch at which tho lato Senator was Jgnored was informal, and that very few poople obtained seats. Mr. Pursrirs snswera this with 8 nowspaper account of the affuir, which shows tiat between ono and two hundred peoplo were present, and that thoy all sat down. —_— POLITIOAL NOTES, Jndge Kxrrry oxpects to be Chairman of the Commitiee on Ways and Means it Sax Raxvart is elected Bpoaker. If Wirriax Arrxx, of Darke Connty, should chiange his name to Burrx, tho Cincinnatl Gazile ‘would support him for Governor. Gon, W. F. BarTLETT made sach an extremely popular speach st the Concord banquet thst be thinka of running for Congresa on tho atrevgth of it. Ex-Senstor Ranary might be induced to take Drraxo's placa iu the Cabinet, if the President should ask bim. Just now ho is engrossed in private business, and dossn't like it very well. Young and beautifal Wrntmam Arrex, of Darks County, in actuslly rislog up in tha estic wation of Obio people, It would notbe ocme plimeotary, though, to be slected for a joke, M1, Monar Harareap has not spokisn fuite enongh yet. He has not vouched for the su- thentieity of the intervlew published in the Sin. Did thosa foollsh and wise tuings procesd outof his mouth ? Howatio Bevmoun, Jr., has been sheddivg lustre on the family pame by makiog sn un- commonly good witness of bimself sgainst tte cansloontractors befors the Investigating Com- mitteo at Albany, The Rooheater Demooral-Chronicls remarks that Barsrow * may be found the most availabla man to lead the Hepublioan party to vistory in 1870." Baistow's friends ought to have more sense than to falk about him ia thas way for the prosent, ‘When Mr. Orpryxx firet ran for Mayor of New York and was defeated, his poriralt was {n il the shop-windows. The mext time, he sup- prossed the poriraita and was alected. Theie have been a good many poriralt of Gov. Tile oo about lately, -~ * 8o Bxx Hivy, the raging Bouthemn oratoz, b sctually been elooted to Congress, Thres Demo- orats wers runoing for the office, The Bepub~ Lloan oandidate withdrew, having dlscovared that he had been sold ons by leading party mavagers o one of the antl-Hrry Democraia, The gentlomen who dined with Oz BcXURK the otber evening are in danger of ¥ forclog tLe season.® The Boriogflald Repudlican says 0. *The ende they bave in view are all that s re- tional, wosthy, and patriokic, Bu ths prastical question al present 1 ooe of mesns.” The New York World no looger balieves, 8a it €4 1aat whater, thak 4o wajority must be beld vesponitle fof legisiatien. I says thed the ex

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