Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 15, 1875, Page 8

8 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATIE OF RTRECAITTION (PATADLE TX ADYANER). Postage Frepald at this OMe 2,00 | Weoklr, 2 Dalig dggare oo 81G0 | Pt Buandey Ten oopia Gnubloa .00/ Pastaof & year at the samysate, WARTED—Un active tgont in each town sad villags. FEpeelal arrangementa ;n'ld. with such, Bpectmen coples aant free, ‘rpn“p:::-mim and mistakes, be sure a2d give Posts Office ahiress (s full, {reluding Btate and Qanaty. Temi:tancesmsy bamada eithez by draft, oxpross, Fosts QReeorder, or1a reiatered fetters, at onr risks i TEBAIR TO CITY NURACHINEAL. Paily, delisered, Randay racented, 23 conts per week, Drily, delivaiod, Suaday Inclnded, 3() conts per waok. Addrans TUR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corne 3adiran snd Deatho Ohteago, til TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VICKER'S TIEATRE~Madlson steeor, betwesn Dearborn and Bt Fogagomont of Mad, Adulade Itiatort, Aftornoon, ** Mario Antolnstte.” Y OF MUSIC--alsted streat, botwoen Mad. feneca, Hugagoment af 3rs, Lander. Benofit ndar, Altornocn, * Marle Antoinette,” Evon. Aovtcny and Cleopatra.™ UOOTEY'S TUFATEE—Randoloh strect, betwesn aie e 1aSalle, Pinorson's Minstesls. Aftornoon snd croning. ADSLPHTTIL 0. Varicty 11sbirn tlesoly earnar Afan- . Aftevoun and avenlog. OWE'S AMERICAN CIRCUS—Cornorof Rlizabeth snd Madison streote. The Chtags Teibune, Baturdny Morning, Mey 15, 1875, WITIH SUPPLERENT. Two importont changes in Governmentn! enirs ot Washington will bo consummated to-dny. Epwanna PimrurroyT stepw into the officiel shoes of Attorney-General WrLLIAMS, and ex-Senntor Pratr relicves Commissioner Dotarass, of tho Internal Revenuo Bureau. For o time thero were gravo gronnds for the apprelicusion that tho logs in the Saginaw Vrlley would bo hung; but now comes tho vielecomo assuranco that they will escapo hang- fug, and will, on the contrary, bs drawn and guartered, ns usuel, in booms, all owing to recont Leavy rafu The recent decision of the Urited States Supremno Court, to theeffeot that the lnw will not leud its nid to-the enforcomont of agreo- ments for the payment of money for secur- ing Government contracts, such ngroements Leing immora! and opposed to publie policy, was citod yssterday in tho caso of Count Foo~ o, who has brought suit for tho balance al- leged ¢0 bo duo him from the Washington pavenent contractors. By this plen the de- foadnnts hopo to Lnock the Count out of conrt, and thus avoid tho paymoent of his claim of §100,000. An interesting feature of the procoedings gesterday in the General Council of the Ro- formed Episcopnl Church, now in session in this city, was tho address of the Rov. A. R. TrnosresoN, D, D., of Brooklyn, a Commis. sioner bearing tho salutation of tho Genoral Synod of the Reformed Church of Americn, who delivered his greeting in an exceedingly neat and graceful manner, and with gonuine heartingss 03 wall. ‘The old Reformed Church sirikes hands with tho now orgnnization, bid- ding Bishops Craninis and Cizvey God-spoed in their work. The fear expressed in yestarday's TRmuUNE of a renewed visitation of the grasshopper plaguo i verified by nccounts from various quartors. In Esstorn Kansas and Western Missouri a grasshopper panic alrendy pro- vails. Tho pests are already up and doing, nnd havo started on their line of march, de- slroying everything green in their way. Tho route lies in a northwesterly direotion, and tho only hope of the farmers is that the grasshoppers may disappear in timo to save tho corn-crop. In several connties in Minne. sota the eggs aro hatching fast, and warm weather is expected to bring with it a ronow- al of last year's dovastation and ruin. Our Washington correspondent furnishes this morning tho substanco of o Jetier lately received from a prominent Southern Ropub- lican. 'The writer of tho lotter takes an ox- coedingly gloomy view of tho politieal situa. tion nt tho South. o belloves, or protends to beliove, that tho Democratic londera aro only waiting their opportunity to establish o new Southern Confoderncy; that their first movement in this diroction is tho concorted clTort to obtain control of tha Btate Govern- ments; and that tho negroes may bo counted on to assist tho stronger parly, Tho only hopo for tho salvation of the Houth, says onr letter-writer, is the continued snpromncy of tho Republican party. Wo publish those views merely og curiositics, end disavow any sy1opathy or respect for thom. ‘The Americon Social Seienco Associntion concluded its deliberations in Detroit yester- day. A paper on Civil-Service Reform was read by the President of tho mow defunct I-Servico Commission, the 1lon, Donaan . Eavoy, who chnracterized tho aban- donment of the plan as o swren. der of tho higher fo the lower clements in ounr politier. Tho other prpers wero by Yrof, €. A, Ky, on “Man- agoment and Evils of Polilical Tarties”; by T'rof. Erutors, on “Crentment of Crimingls,” in whogo Leloll ho eppenled for n larger degres of leniency; by Dr, J, J, Hoyr, of ‘Wisconsin, on the rilrond question, which ho thought should bo luft to the control of the people; und by Witrian G. lowarp, of Yown, on ““'The fitudy of Jurisprudence.” Tt secms that thero aro Liberals and Lib- «als amang the brethren who decline to take thelr orthodoxy strafght. The American Unitarien Assoclntion recently struck from ita rolls tho naino of o rinister whoso offenns consisted in his aversion to tho desiguation of Christion in the general aceeptanca of the torm; whorcupon the Western Unitarinn Conforenco, sitting in Chicago, comes to the rescio of the ofected brother, and, in a pro- ambla ard resolutions vigorous aud foreiblo enough to gratify Ropest Contyen's desive for something * which should go down to oston liko tho Lick of a horso and mako it understood that they menat business,” pro- tests agninst tho action of tho American As- focintion, and quite plainly insinuntos that thero ought to be an ond of that sort of non. seneo, The Chicago produce markets vwore less variable yesterday. Mess pork was quiet, and 6o per brl higher, closing at §21.50 cash, and 821.60@21,02§ for Junoe, Lard was dull and 2}@bo per 100 Ibs higher, closing at $15.,424 cash and $16,47} for June. Dleats were active and fxmer, at 8§@8Jo for shoul derw, 11]@12dfor short ribs, and 12}@12}0 for abiort clears. Highwines wero nominally un. \ B T changod at $1.18 per gnllon. Lake froights weroquict and firm. Flour was quiet and steady. Wleat was modorntely active and 1o higher, closing at $1.03 cash, nnd $1.0¢} for Juna. Corn was nolive and jo higher, closing onsicr at 72§o eash, and 74c for Juno. Oats wero active and unchanped, closing at 64} cnsh and G65}o for Juno, Ryo was nom. inal at £1,06. Barley was quiet and firmer, at £1,06 bid for No, 2, and $1,33 bid for Moy, Ilogas wore active and firm. Snlos at 27.25@8,25 for common to good. Tho cat tlo trado was moro active and prices were firmor, 8heep wera stead, S A — The Rev. Gronae B, Bacow, who refused to sorve with Hexny O, Bowex on the Board of T'rustees of tho American Congregational Council, oxplnins his rofusal by saying that Mr. Bowry does not represent Ilymonth Church, If by this ha means that no man can represent Plymouth Church who con tradicts its pastor under onth, and who appears to lavo romo very decided viows s to tho nmount of lying done on both sides of the grent scandal case, why not take Brother Mcrarar, tho pious whisky- seller; or Brother Suranyay, the dovout and eminent Christian counselor-at-lnw ; or, still Lelter, Yarson Hirtmar, who wonld not belicve Mr. Drremzn guilty it an nngel from Henven should give oxpress nssuranco on thie point? How. cver, 09 tho question of Mr. Bercuen's guilt or innocenco will nob rest with the Board of I'mistees to decide, and, as it is not now exnctly clenr whether much credit neces- sarily attaches to the nbility to “repre~ sont” Plymouth Church, Congregatiounlists throughout tho country will bo iuctined to indorse tho selection of Mr. LiowrN, cvon though tho Board must thereby loso tho ben- efit of the membership of o minister who haa the poor tasto to luy the scandal-caso into tho Amoricun Council. THE CONFISCATIRG TA A correspondent, **J. AL A.,” writing from Springfield, whose letter we print this moru- ing, criticises the conrse of this paper upon the pubject of tho protective tariff, and especinlly complains of an articlo in which wo explained how that tariff deprived the producers of cotton of the fair results of their labor, Wo tako the criticism for what the facts show it is worth, Weo deny that wo have ever discussed tho tariff quostion unfair- 1y ; wo mny bo mistaken, but wo do not treat the subject unfairly, a8 wo understana the ef. fects of tho protoctive policy. In or dor to understaud tho matter, Jet us re peat the illustration of the worling of tho protective policy with respect to the pro- ducors of cotton. Tho cotton crop of the homa demand, was sold for export at a valuntion of $212,000,000, or at an averago of 15 conts o pound. 'Tho oxport of cotton in 1860 sold for a fraction lces than 9 cents a pound. Tho valuo in 1860 was in gold, ond in 1874 wasin curroncy. A deduction of 12 por cont for the difforonco in value of gold and currency was equal in round figures to 825,000,000, leaving ns the gold valuo in 1874 of tho cotton export §187,000,000. The valno of the cotton crop, both that portion sold for expart and that sold for homo con- sumption, was fixed not by the producers, but by the prices ruling in the European market, Tho cotton producers had fo tako precisely what they could get. * Having sold thoir cotton, they naturally ap. plied the proceeds to tho purchase of such commodities as they did not produce them- selvos, but of which they stood in nced. Theso ombodied tho long list of protected maufactures. They woro not at liberty to buy those whero they could got them cheap. est. Whon they proposed to buy cotton cloth, they discovered tbat upon the im. ported articlo thero was o duty of 35 per cont in gold, besides othor oxpenses equaling i per cont more; whon thoy turned to tho American cloth thoy discoverod that the prico of the Ameriean cloth was sdvanced 85 por cent in gold, and to nn almoat equal price with tho same quality of imported cloth, It therofore made no differonco to them whether they purchased tho foroign or do- mestio menufacture,—thoy paid the tax just:the same. Bo, when they eamo to purchaso woolen goods, especinily articlea of women's wear, boots and shoes, iron and steal goods, entlary, paints, glasa ware, crockery, carpets, poper hangings, stoves ond cooking utensils, tin ware, and all tho long list of other articles entering into domestic nses, tho tax was included in the price, and had to be paid, not for the support of tho Government, but to protect, by special bounty, indmstrios which it i3 claimod would in tho abaence of much protection perish and becomo bankrupt, As the con- sumption of homo manufnotures is immenso- 1y in oxcess of that of the imported articles, tho consumers pay a tax which docs not go to the Govornmont, and which ig not revenue, and which is extorted from them by law ns special bounties to the protected classes. ‘I'nking tho averago amount of this tax thus extorted from tho conswmers as so much paid without considoration, it is fairly to bo deducted from the purchasing value of the | sioners carefully excludo all those who have In otber words, tho | failed in the honest porformnnce of previous contracts; but, despito this precaution, tho procecds of tho cotton, cash proceeds of the cotton purchase an THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1875.~TWELVE PAGES: U S S N SRS et e et e et —————— " dross goods for hia wifo and danghters, he paysa tax from 76 to 116 percent. Tho some tax at varying rates is included in the price of harness, all kinds of iron and steol goods, and in the cost of everything he may noed, down toacommon tin oup, It ia im. material whothor he buy imported or domes. tio goods, ho pays the tax; or, if our corre- spondent prefers it, ho gets for his money 10 yards and 10 pounds of whatever he buys, whon in tho absonce of any protoctive tax he would get 16 yards and 15 ponnds. Thero can be no tax lovied upon any poo- plo excopt for purposes of public revenue that is not of nocossity a robbery of thoso of whom it is collected. 'The fundamental prin- ciplo of n protective tax is to compel the purchaser to pay a certain prico for what he Dbuys in oxcess of what ho would hnve to pay in tho absonco of such tax. Whon, therefore, aman can buy an article for the price of ton bushels of wheat, to com- pel him to pay therefor tho prico of fifteen bushels, is a clonr robbery to thab extent, Noris it justified by tho plen of patriotism. Springfield wonld bo hardly patriotio enough to pay 50 porcent moro for goods in Chicago, becauso Chicago is in Ilinofs, than tho same goods onn be Lought for in St, Louis; and any 1aw 1o compel hier peopla to do 50 would probably excito the wrath oven of our cor- vespondent. PLUNDER OF THE INDIANS, Tho Indian population of tho United Staten does not oxcoed perhaps 800,000, This in. cludes mon, women, and children. Those Indinng aro grouped by tribes upon reserva- tions, nnd aro not seattored like whita sottlern over largo aren of territory, ‘The peoplo live in Lnbitations of their own construction. Their wants and nccessities ara primitive, and contined to food and nlimited stock of clothing. In the hunt, they provide them- gelyes with ment and fiah, the plains fur- nish the food for their ponies, and what tho Governmont Las to supply thom with in such additional food and such clothing as may be necessary. As a guide in estimating tho nmount necessary for this purpose, a “ration"” has boen established, and these rations in tho nggrogate conmstitnte what ara known a3 Indinn supplies. It is claimed that this ration is n scant one ; noverthe- logs it is roundly assorted that the unfortunate coreatures do not got even this, Tho Indinns are compolled to live within the limits of tho _resorvation, and in the winter, when they can got no gamo or othor food by hunting, and the Government rations fail, they must either sit down and starve to denth, or lcave the roservation under penalty of being troated as in nrmed hostility to the Governmont. Recently, -o large body of Indians left an | United Statos in 1874, after supplying tho | agency, nod thoir flight was announced as o design Lo tako the field in war. An explana- tion, however, shows that those Indians had beon fed on short rations all winter; that thoro had been no meat at the agency for montbs ; and that it was to escape starva- tion that they had gona out to get food other- wiso, It docs seem strango that the Government of tho United States cannot successfully food 300,000 people with army rations of food, and o blanket, and @ fow cotton and woolen garments for ench person. It is not like an undortaking to subsist a like numberof white persons, whoso wants and necessities are in- finitely gronter. Thess Indians principally stand in noed of fresh beef; the Governmont porsists in furnishing them with bacon, which thoy detest. ‘Thoy want meat and bread, and hie Government pays for a liberal supply of both articles. Thore is no complaint that the Government docs not pay for enough ; the difficulty is that the Indians d6 not got what they are entitled to, either in quantity or quality. The Govornment, for instance, pays for 1,000 hond of eattle weighing 1,600 pounds cach, dolivered at n certnin agency, when, in faot, the actunl num. ber of cattle delivared will not exceed 750, and not waighing over 1,200 pounds each. Horo is a cloar robbery of over 600,000 pounds of boof,—more than one-third of the wholo. 8o with the flour, and so with the varions other things furnished by tho Gov- ornment, Another ovil is that tho Indinns aro liberally suppliod with bacon and sugar, which thoy do not want, and trade them off for thinge which thoy do want, roceiving perhaps in exchango not over one-third of o foir oquivalont, Thoy aro thug robbed at bath onds of their ration; the agencies are remoto from supervision, the Indinus have no means of complaining, and aro thus plun- dered and pillaged. In a soitlement of whito persons no such things could bo successfully porpetrated. There would Lo an instant ex. posure, and a remedy would bo promptly ap- plied; but tho Indians have no such meansof reaching the publio, and have to suffer in consequence. They aro naturally improvi. dent; thoy have no idea of saving for tho fu. ture; but this should ronder the obligation of dealing with them justly the moro impern- tive, It soemns, however, to be an impossibility for the Government to scoure an lonest nd- ministration of the Indian agencies aud con- trncta, In nwarding contracts the Commis- averago of one-third less manufactored goods | contraots invariably fall into.tho samo hands, than thoy would if such tax was not rendered | 1t fs difficnlt to understand how these noto. rions nnd dirgraceful frauds can bo so suc- Tho reduction of tho purchasing power of | ceusfully perpetrated yenr after year with- Pont- master Jewzrs rocently uncarthed a dishon. et combination smong tho officers in his Do partmont, whereby tlo Intter wore found to bo in the pay of contrctors, und had octunlly resorted to forgery and to the fraudulent uso of tho Dopartment seals amployers, manuner, discovered that thero were wholosale frauds perpotrated in the Internal Revenua Depart. meont, and ho further ascertaloed that the affairs of that ofico and all its oporations and movements wera regularly communicated Lo Ho discovored that in one large soction of tho country whero whisky was largely manufactired, upon tho refusal of arevonue ofticer to accopt bribos and per- compulsory by law. the proceeds of tho cotton will find an exact oquivalentif, inatend of charginga man$16 for an articlo whioh without the taxwould bo sold for 10, ho was sold fifteen yards of cloth at $1 o yard, and then havo five yurds rotained a3 toll for tho manufacturer, spond it. TheroIs no difforenco in tho two casos, by law. DBut onr correspondent asks if thore bo any reason why tho surplus cotton crop should ba treated differontly from the corn or wheat erop, and says that tho cotton is sold to the cotton.broker and tho other to the grain- Luyer, aud it malkes no difference to the pro- ducor what becomes of it aftorwards ; ho bas his money in his pockot, and goes his way to The prico of whont and corn in the hands of tho producor is fixed, not by himself, Lui by tho prico in London less tho cost of trans. portation and othor charges from the one place to the other. Ilenco it is that every cent added to the cost of transportation fu de- ducted from tho price of thegrainin thehands | no such tax, o discovered, further, that of the producor, and every cont taken from the cost of transportation ls added to the prico at the place of production, The pro- | thorough protection received in tho Internal duoers of grain havo, thoreforo, to take what | Revenuo Ofice at Washington, they can got for it. Thoy aro not protooted out some connivanco in official circles, in tho interest Becrotary Dristow, of their in like the rovonuo robbers, mit frauds, the distillorica wero all closod, 1 theso things havo happened in branche: of tho publio servico not heretofora sus- ‘When tho farmor sells his grain at tho Lon. | pected, is thero not room for a suggestion don prico, less tho cost of transportation, and | that the Indian Burosu at Washington be with hia monoy in his pocket goes to a dry | rigidly overhauled? Might not Bocretary goods storo in Springfield to purchase cloth- | Dezaxo do the Government » service by such ing for himsclf and family, he, too, {s met | an cxamination of the affairs of that ofilce with tho inevitable tax. 1f hoe buy woolen | as wonld bring corruption, if any oxists, to goods for himself and boys, he pays a tax of | the surface? For instance, who is the boef from 50 to 70 per cent; If be buy woolen | contractor, snd why bas Lo Salled to pexform tho proprictors frankly doclaring that thoy could not mako whisky and pay tho tax and compote with tho trade gencrally who pald the success of tho rovonue frands was dno to the corruption of local officurs and to the his duty, and what are his relations to the Indian Agonts and to tho various subordi. nates of the Indian Duresu, and why is it that tho frequont violations of his contracts nre nover punished? ‘The exposure and broaking np of tho Whisky Ring might be profitably supplomented by breaking up the * Indian Ring." AN INCONSEQUENTIAL CONCLUSION, The processes by which women arriva ab conclusions have always been a mystery, to themselves, wo belleve, ns well ns to the op- posito sox. They hiavo gouerally been crod. ited with a cerlain intnition that serves thom botter than ronson, and stands them in stead of hoth the induetive and deductive mothods, Weo linve no thought of undertaking any clucidation of this mystic procoss, but desire to cite a now illustration of it which was fur- nislied the other day by the National Conven. tion of Woman Suffragists in New York, Aftor donouncing the Republican party in general, oand in partienlar Chiel-Justica Warre's decision that woman is a citi- zen bub “not entitled to voto (which ‘was compared in point of infamy with Chief. Justio Tawey's Doxp Scorr decision), the Convention resolved that * the exolusion of Lrrzanerie B, Tivroy from the witness-stand in thte pending trial of Hrxny WAnD Bercsen is proof of wonan's need of tho ballot in her own right haud for sclf-protection.” Xow, if this conclusion conld have been roached from tho promises stated by any other than tho peculiar and indefinablo intui. tion ascribed to tho feminine mind, wo aro at n loss to lnow whero to find it in the logical forms. What the ballot hns to do with the exclusion of Mrs. Tiutoy from the wit- ness-stand i3 begond the comprebension of common humanity, Did tho, tyrant man ot tho dnst election in Now York vote that Mrs, Tirrox should not testify ? Or if lovely womnn hiad held tha Lallot *in her own right band,” where the National Snf- fragists desire that sho should hold it, would she bavo incontinently cast asido all other is. sueg, and concentrated ler strength on tho singlo question whether Mrs, Frrroy should or should not testify ? Or if Mrs, Truroy had been possessed of the ballot, would she on that nccount havo been invested with the inalienablo right of gettiny into tha revolving chair whore I'mnroN hns clocutlonized and Brrener has wept, nad thero lave forced Judgo Nrresow and tho jury, nolens colens, to liston to her vorsion, or ono of lier versions, of thescandal? Or would tha possession of the ballot hovo cnaobled Mrs, Evtzavern Oapy SraxToN, Mrs, Isanerra DBerouzn Hooxzn, the Rev, Onvaria Brown, MaTipa JoaLxy Gaoz, Hexnrerra Pavse Westnroox, nnd tho other strong-minded ladies with clongated appoellations, to invade the Brook. lyn Court-room, and there decide the rosult by voto? Wo givo up nall theso conundrums, Wo don't know which of them, if any of them, led the National Convention of Femalo Suf- fragists to conclude that woman's noed of the ballot is conspicronsly domonstrated by Mrs. Toron's exclusion from the witness-stand, If tho mental procosses of all feminine reasoning are mysterious, the ways of the Woman-Suffragists are utterly post finding out. It has been generally sup- posed that Mra. Trrzoy was excluded from tho witness-stand by the refusal of Ar. Brecnez and his connsel to give hor an op- portunity of testifying in hor own behalf. For, though the law prohibits o wifo from tontifying against her husband and a husband against his wife, which haa boen found gen- orally o wise provision, Mr, Truron and his counsel chivalrously waived the objec- tion they might have wurged againgt Mrs, Tiuron's testifying and offered to admit her ovidonco, It was also generally understood that Judge Nexsox bad intimated his intention of admitting the evidonce in cnso counsel ware agreed to it. Thus AMr, Bezomen and his counsel nssumed the respon- uibility of excluding Mrs. T'ruroy for reasons best known to themselves, and which thoy have not seon f to make publie. But, how- over much tho National Convontion of Woman Buffragists may scem disposed to condemn Mr, Brronzn and Lis counsol on this account, wo can't, for tho lifo of us, seo how itisa now proof “of wowan's neced of the ballot in her own right hand for self-proteotion.” i ———— CHEVALIER OR PREE TRADE, The Liverpool Chamber of Commerco gavo o banqust on the evening of April 21 to the noted Freuch economist, Mromer Cugvarnn, The latter made o notoworthy speech, Ono of the most Important trenties over nugotinted in Europo, ho snid, waa that of Jan. 23, 1860, botwoen England and France, 1t was acomuorcial troaty, which made trade botweon the two nations freor than it had ovor bemn before. Conpen's dying efforts wore dovoted to it, and wore nbly roconded in Franco by Ouevarcen himself. ‘Cho troaty mnde a profound impression throughout Eunrope. Froo trado, hitherto desplsed and rejected by statesmon, had been distinct. ly recopized ns o basis of polioy by tho two great commerciul nations of tho Old Vorld. Othor trentios wera mada onthe pitern of this. Tho rosult of this policy by boen a tromendous development of interntional intercourse. Railways have beon opued between difforent countries, Now liné of steambosts connect them, Telograp! wirea bind thein togother, A vast networlcof common interests has beon created. M, Cuorvanien thinks that if the treaty ofl8C0 Liad boen signed twonty yoars sooner, theo inlorests would hiave been so strong inl§70 that tha IFranco-German War conld n¢ Lave happoned. ITo does not think the tho interlinking of national inter- ents dus 3 unfotierrod commorco will ever wholly oolish war, Huwman natura forblds tho thosht, Bub it is cortaln that war §s more uskoly fn proporiion as nations nro moro cboly connected by tho myrind bonds which fre irade woaves hetween them, WhilyInternational intercsts have been advance a0 grontly by tho partial adoption of froo iado, each natlon has thriven under it, Engind's gigantio prosperity is the mar. vel of he coutury, France accumulated, , | during 3¢ trial of freo trade, tho materia woalth ud tho exoollent crodit which onabled hor to dachorgo tho indemnily with such caso, axl to reover from tho disastors of 1870-71with sucl rapldity, M, (aevavien bolloves that the JInited ‘States vill ore laag abandon iis lamentabla policy, o polut out the inconsistency of our adon in tring to lnundate forcign countris with ow grain whila we decling to odmit geir broadtufls free. Bupposs they should etaliato P Cho Westorn farmeor would thon bdn a prottypickle, indeed,—still pay- ing twepricos for what he bought and shut qut of ho marketsin which lie is accastomod to sell, The spexor said cur Riomann Con- pxx oxsted in tlo porsm of Davin A, Wiz, but (hat wo laked, a8 yet, a Ronzni Paxia Hes is alint for stateamen in want of a job, or in mecarch for beliefa to suit the times in genornl aud one conatituency in particular, But then Prky lad the cour- oga of his opinions aud wns sincoro. We muast wait for his American donblo, Thero is a glittering future, though, for a man able to davote his whole timo to the work, who will make himeelt the apostle of free trade, and preach the doctrine vigorously from Californ.a to Maine, THE TRADE OF NEW YORK. If an opon confossion is good for the sonl, perhaps a rovent articlo in the Now York Sun rolativa to the trado of that city may arouse the merchants and property-owners of the matropolis to the necessity for correcting tho abuses which havo led to the serious decline in their trade. Tho Sun confesscs thab “ Novor in the bistory of Now York were thero 50 many atores to lot on Brondway ns now. The 1st of Moy hns pnssed, and yet tho posters *To Lat ' stars ona in tho faco all tho wny up Brondwny from Cnnal to Four- teonth streot. Boyond that, from say Six- teonth to Twenty-third stroot, tho pedestrian wnigses thom. Then again they begin to appoor in tho othorwisa vacant Ehop windows, and that protly steadily far up to Forty-sccond streot.” Thero s an ineffcctual attempt to nccount for that condition of {hings by s suggeation that the trado Ling boen diverted from Brondway to somo of the sido stroets ; but the inventor of this theory sets little store by it, and sub. sequontly admits as a fact that cannot bo dis- guised that the *“‘retnil trada las fallen off decidedly in tho last two or three years,” In that caso it has only followed tho course of the wholosale trade and the genoral commorca of tho city, as amply domonstrated by the commercinl statistics, In fact, there is o gen- oral admission of all this; for, although it was tho professed purpose of the article to investigate tho maiter of Drondwny renta only, it concludes with tho following signifi- cant paragraph s Dusluees hes been conducted fn Now York at too groat expondittirs on jte mere machinery, Economy, 010 of {he Llcasinge which wo snatclied out of tho ruin of tha panic, {a forcing {ucl on ths thought and babit of the people who bad beon mada rocklcas by the show- &r of greonbacks which at ona time fell on the Just and the nnjust aliko,~tho time whe it was & compara~ tively exsy matter for sverybody to gotat lesst drops enough to allay bls nced, and for the gresdy (o ao- cumulato reservolr full, Duaincss ia certainly not as Drisk now a8 ono could wish ; but if the expetience of bardship through which a0 tnany are passing teaches thom that the O)d World vistue of frugality and pra- deace oro Just aa applicablota the Now World, snd cannot hiera be violated without damage to mer succoss aa woll a3 4o hsppineas and moral charsc will have its valuablo compensation, Chicogo has no reason to rejoice over the decline of the frado and commerce of Now York City. Ithas no interests which clash with thoso of Now York exzaept as New York merchants and capitalists choose to antago- nizo Chicogo, and thoreby cut off a portion of thair own business and profits. But thero is 1o good purpose to bo served by shutting our eyos to the fact that tho trade of New York is suffering o serious decline, which is likely to bo accelerated rather than impeded by futara ovonts. Tt was natural and propor that tho growth of Now York's trado shonld receive o chieck by tho devolopmont of the West, the building up of large interior citics, snd the diffusion of manufacturing and commercial interosts, But tho capitalists, morchants, logislators, and politicians of New York have bnstoned this courso of cvents by a policy which has baen partly short-eighted and part- Iy dishonest, Thoy havo combined againab tholr own interesta to drive awny tho busincss that naturally belonged to them, A varioty of eauses moko up the sum of this general cffoct. Tho frands in Now York politica have had their influcnes. The ex- travagant aud corrupt administration of the maunicipal affairs of Now York City under tho TwEEp regims undoubtodly diverted capital from investment there, forcod men who lived thero to transfer their property intercsts else- whero, and frightoned off others who would Lave been inclined under other circumstances to idontify themsolves with the motropolis. About the same timo the frauds in tho ad- ministration of tho New York Custom- Houso had their influenco in destroying the confidenco of tho importers throughont the country, and led indirectly to the establish- ment of interior porls of entry. Even now, the Now York merchiants prefer to endeavor to regain their Jost trade by resorting to un. worthy measures intonded to nullify the oporations of the direct importing trade in tho interior rather than tobend their energies townrd correcting their abuses at homo and rostoring the confldence which they have deliborately forfeited. Thoy will not bo able to command suflicient political influence to carry out this scheme, and the failure of their cffort to break np tho business at the interior ports of ontry will leave them worse off than thoy wore beforo they tried it. ‘Wall street has beon o curso to Now York. Ita vast capital bas been prostituted to the manipulation of fancy stocks and tho wildeat kind of spoculation which is far-reaching in its pernicious offects. 'Tho greed of the Now York commission men, grain and provision dealors, nnd the handlers of Western produce lias beon another important agent in this gon. eral disaffection. Tho applisnces for han- dling grain aro a quarter of o contury bohind the times, aud ean only bo yetained for the purposo of perpetuating the many-sided profita of tho difforent middlemon necessi- tated Ly the nnclont system still in voguo, Tho Logislaturo of tho State bas co-operated netively with tho business men of Now York in their deliberato efforts to drive off tho West. ern trade by sustaining tho extortions of the Erie tolls, Tho constitutional mmondmont recontly adopted, authorizing the salo of somo of tho latoral canals which have been n drag and exponse to the Stato, and which have furnished the oxcuso for the mnin. tenance of oxcessive tolls, hns alrcady been proved to bo inadequato asa somedy. Astho constitutional prolibition of sclling still ap- plies to tho profitable canals, it is found that tho othors cannot bo sold, Thero oro no purchasers for such as may now bo sold un. der tho law, and tho Sun Beriously proposea that & constitutional amendment Lo submit. {ed outhorizing the sale of all the cauels (which could thon bo eoffected), and it is con. fident that such an amendment would bo adopted, o Theso ar somo of the circumstances that lavo hastencd the decline in the business of Now York City, which wonld havo been slower, but not less sure, if left to tho nat. ural Aissolution of tho kuge monopoly known as the jobbing business. Tho colossal di- niensions attained in this New York specialty conld not have lasted in any case, and along with a resumption of its natural sizo must bavo come 8 corresponding coatraction in the collateral and dependent branches of the trade. But unconscionable greed, and i« meagurable arrogance, and illisitablo rascality Lave burried mattora up, The peopls of New York may do something to arrest this down. ward progress by a roform in the abuses that roust now be evidont even to them, but they seam obstinately dotermined nok to doit. Iu that case they must expect to see the trade of Baltimore, Boston, Montrenl, and Philadel- phin grow at their expenso. Chicago has no selflsh intoreat in tho matter, ns we havo now equal facilitios clsewhere for the transaction of such business as must be dono through soaports and cannot be done at home, and as onr growth is entirely independont of the progress or docline of Now York, —— The Boston Pilot ¢alla sttontion to the da- creaso in tho amount of acreago In Iroland do- voted to farming purposca. It givons the figuroa for 1873, which wo compars with those of tho Btato of Illinola for the uamo yoar: Ireland. | Ilidnois, Totsl culliveted,. ‘Watts or unbuproyed Total.. orees, No, £33, 2,0 14,140, 4,142, 100) 4,482,059 1e: o P RTERIY X1 The Stato of Illinols haa s population of sbout threc-fiftha of that of Troland, The unfortunato City of Now York {s auffoting from tho corruptness or inoflicioncy of the Htaze Logislsture for which it 1a largoly reaponsiblo. For yoata tho domand for rapid translt has been growing, numborless schomes have beon namod, commissionors appointed, nud bills drafted, but to no purpose. Tho Logislsture haa but s fow moro daya of life, and now the press of tho city faurging upon it the absoluto need of aomo action, It Is not unlikely that something will ho dono, but the chancon sra that it will ba some- thiog too iniquitous to stand. Tho mistortunvs of tho metropolis aro boginning to multiply, Whon it wns kuown that Cannuti, tho Vine- Iand editor with & bullot in his brain, was at- tended by homeopathio physiciaus and aure goons, tho oppositfon anuvounced that thoy would gharo with Laxpsa the odlum and respon- Adility of his death. Thoy oven wout so far as tomalntaln that his doath in their hands would securo Laxpis a mild vordiot. o has not diad, and will probably racover. His denth isa tri- umph for the echool which has vaved him, and & bard nut for tho allopaths to ciack, Tho complaints made sbout tus jucresmng number of divorces nsked for may bo woeil+] founded, but the courts aro in no snnll degreo rosponsible for thom. Uuder existing Jaws a woman can recover, through tho aid of anfdiot jury, much beavy damages. from a defaulting lover that matrimony and divorce aro preforablo to a suit for broach of promiso as boing cheapor aud less annoging, Tho coming man will marry aud deeorl iustend of paying heavy damagea for & momentary weaknesa. —_— The Globe-Democrat of 8i. Louls is tha touph- est unlon of names yot venturod on by o nown- papor, Tho Qlobe on contomplating it nat unnaturally apologizes for tho hard things it has #ald of othor double-hesdod newapapers liko the Inter-Ocean, Courier-Journal, and Ploneer- Press, ull of which aro enphony tsclf compared with the Missour: compound. POLITICAL NOTES, Brarve sod Layaw ia thought to bo a “ ahresd * tickot. Tho Indisnapolis Journal wants to knowif thero ia no way to forgive Robela except by elect- ing them to oflica, Thora may bo notulng in tho report that Pox- Enoy {ntonds to contest Hanvix's seat in the Unitod Btates Scnato, but tho Eaussa newspa- pers at loast bollevo it. Tho Minnosots Radical bolleves ** tha flends of hell " must havo taken a *smlle * whon thoy loarned that Waseco polled 168 votes for whisky and 80 votes for temperanco. Tarvard ia gotting a littlo jealous, to be wure, The Boston Post dalicately oxpresses its feelings in tho folloning formulas *To got an office— borrow & Yalo diploma.” Tho Hon. WiLranp Hary, for forty-alght years Judge of the United States District Conrt of Delawaro, dled in Wilmington M:y 10, in his 06th year. o rotired in Decomber, 1871. Tho Boston Posl, it weoms, is to continue talking Democracy mildly, whilo It knows botter, The new proprictor i8 chrewd cnough to ses on what side his bread is-battersd; or, m other ‘worda, that there aro enough Rapublican dailies in Boston. ‘I'he papers in Iowa which are ncoustomed to apoak for Mr. HantaN do not admit that hois out of the Senatorial race. One of thom asks suthority for the statemont that ho has doclined, and anotlier assorta that bis chances aro aa good 83 anybody's, Thoy have introdnced the estimable Mr. Jar Gouwp in Nebresks politics, and made him play a considerablo figuro thore to soare the falnt- Dbearted withal, Ilis intoresta in tho Bate aro of great magnitnde, but what interest the Btate gau have {n him is not 8o easily discoversd. ‘Tho Omaha Bes hopen tho Conatitutional Con- vention of Nobraska will by no means noglect to provida for a coutingont Congreasman, who shall deaw donblo pay and mileage in caso Con- gress otubboruly rofuecs bim oseat. It lnan ol trick, and hsa beon found to work woll, ‘Tho Atlanta News notices with becoming fury that tho funeral of s whito woman, in that city on Sunday last was conducted with six negro pali-bearers. It has not for a long time scon a moro brutsl " oxhibition of Northers Radical fanaticlsm.” ¥ Tho Rochioster Democral-Chronicle pnngently romarks: “Thoro {a ovidently a contemplated atruggle betsoon the Bpringfield Kepublican, the Cluctnnatl Commercial, aud the Louiavilo Cou- ricr-Journal to eco which sball run the Indo- pendent concorn and bo Popo to the incoming Droaldont.” ‘Tha DIhiladelphis ZTimes advises Becratary Dn1a1ow to carry the war into Kentucky with tho lenst possible delay, Docs not the Ztimes know that the Bupervisor of Kentuoky was an incor- ruptitlo oficer, and that the disaatisfaction of tho Lowsvitle distillors caused $ho whole oxpos- ure? It Qen. Dristow would be all tha bappier and more respected if ho wore no titla before bis uamo,—as tho Bpringflold Republican wuggests, —what ean be snid of our distivguinked folto:r- citizon of Minnesota, WirLLiay King, who ca'ls himsel! *Colonel”? Bmstow earnod his titls; Ko scquired is in the bloody bivouno of tue Congrasslonnl PostofMce. Tua Bt. Paul Piloncer-Press doca Tur Cin- «©ago TmnuNx too much honor in atiributlog to it tho statomont that Prosident Guant doskns placing Arexanper Raaszy at tho head of tho Intorior Department, 'L'ux Cuicago THIDUNE nevor made any such statemont, The cnly placo where it has noticed sn overwoorniug anxlety on this scoro fs in tho columns of tho 8t. Paul Ploneer-Press, Mr. Rauser's own organ. The now Constitution of Missouri will very likely prohibit prenchers from holding ofilco whilo thoy are preachers. The Bt. Josoph Uazelte looka formard to this foarful proipect with considerable equanimity, and intimatea thas s man who is called to proacls tho Gospel fa not called or roquired to do anyibing ele. Not- withstanding, tho probtbiticn ia sutiquatod and sbsord, Tho war against PuzLaaN continues In tho ox- tremo South with unabated fury, notwithatand~ ing the numerousofforts of the Company towards conciliation or compramige. An offer to contino tho negroca to one sectlon at tho oxtreme cnd of the car has been {ndignautly rojeoted, and indeod it soomsa to be inconsistent. The Mobile Register announces that s now compsny has been crgan~ lzed st Atlants, headed by Mr, Wanrxry, Presi- dent of the Qeorgis Ceutral Bailroad, to be atyled the ‘‘Lucas Sleeping-Oar Compaoy.” It is a\goeud shad ot loast two cars of thia Com- pany, which do not violate the Purtuan Patens, will be on the track during the préscnt woek, Tue Indepondont patty lu Californin is noms. what dirorganized, awaitlng tho arrival apg counsol of Benator Bootir. 1t la hoped tha nomo arrangemont san bo made by which ti Republicavn and Indopondonts may unito o QGov. Pacusco. This I3 tho only nossibla clianey of Benator Dootn's politieal salvation, ils [y now an noknowsn and unfelt power in the Uniteq Btates Hopate. 5 The Minnoapolis Tv-ibune, * Col" Kina's op. gan, does not Jock aj:on the indlctimont for par, Jury with porfoct sntisfaction. It gives (lg rationale of the whole prosecution v oo coy. prehensivo sentone s follos “In the ir. torests of cortain ate ck-Johbern, it was funud nee. assary to make & suapogoat of Col. R, aug certain cawardly po iticiaus have found it con. vonfont to lend esuntcusnce to thiy perceqy. tion." JeprensoN Davrihaa beon rocoiving & good many “ ovationa " in 'Coxas sineo Lo went thary to deliver the annnal apeech at tho Stuto I, o fu a sort of a jatrict cluof in that scciion of tho conntry. Gov. Cokz wont spocially to Hous. ton to welcome b, aud &ald su outright in Ly pablio nddresa, United Htulea Bonator Maxer, in bia address, ea’ ho conaidored himrelf hon. orad s baving 3 - DAvis for o pevsonal friend, Much sniscellanesus onthusiaem slso provailed, Mr. Gronag F. [loan montiony that o wag inclined from th) Niat to tho construction of tha WIUELLER comnromise now put forth by g euthor. The S)reingtioll Lepublican thercfora thinka that bo ratght well bave sdvined a suspen. glon of judgouent unul all tho facts wers keawn, By ao doing ho **wauld probably have savod somo Ma sachusolts publizations, Iriendly to Mr. Hoan, fiom wialting focl of thetsolvos," Tho Keokul Conclitution las read Judys Corx's partinl rocawtation of I'robibition prin. ciptes with fatenso dieguat. It wavs Judge CowLu'a opinicn {a ol no ronreducnes whatevee oxcopt ns cont wintie (ho tasthin of “an up. rerupulous, political dam: e, and sn overlasting ol.lce-ndaker,” tu tho waung strongth of tha total Prolnbition party lu Towra, Jor its ona patt, the Corstitulton rays: *~Wa deviro lo eu. tor our protait now againat his coming back to the Democeralie prity—for olics, of courao,” PLLSUNAL, A paintiog of the Laccoon has fuat anpearsd at Pompoti, Daxier I s, of Beirut, 8yriz, f81¢ the Tie. mont Houae. AL Jonxt Lexosyz hanbepu eloctod a rom- bor of thae Freach Aeademy. Ortve Logax's mother jy tylng dangagonoly ul ot hor resironco it Plillsdelpnia, ' Dr. Jonx Burr, of Loutsville, gave up ameke ing, and diod two daya nliorward, 8o Greey 18 neaded fu Fogland, whore the Amoricun ehed is to he naturnlized. Judge Dirrox went to Davonport, In., yestars day, and will sail for Europo on tho 26tk fust. Henator Looax loft Washington for Chicags inst night, Mra. Looax haviug nearly rocovered, Commodors J. C. Ilowert and Capt. W. I, 8. Sanozm, of tho U. 8. N, are ab tho Grand Pacifie, # Ers PEngoyg ™ hee been improved somerwhat by matritacuy. e has nob beon hoard of since his marriago, Mr. Cuaniea Danz, of Mo, Lawpra's drs. maticcomprny, was for/neriy a mombor af ¥ Bose ton artillery company, The B:. Loy papora hint that nosw ts the time to stow away stovoe, Wn the coutrary, pow i the timoe to preparo for neiug thom, The Lord ilyor of Lotgion will viuit the Lord Mayor of Dublin, aud pardcipato io tho banqaet to bo given to tho Americau Ritlo team. A man fu Paris, sontenced to tho guillative, generously offers Lis place o any porson haviug a curioalty to exportence the foeliug of decapits- tion. Fravwg Mavo fs sald to be thinking of sharing the taminiue adulation with Rioxornp and Moy- rTaote. Don't doit, Foanx, you'rs too much of smen, Tho thoatre of the London Alexandra Palace waa opevod wich a #pectaonler ballet, ln whieh Mile. Mivnaxs, from Lo Scals, was the promiere danzenso. “ Bowax B. AntioNy passed through Livorty, Mo, Jast evenitig on her way Lrom New York to Leavonworth, tu seo her dyug brother, Qol D, R. AxTuONY. The Chicagonn nbrosd does not '*stop,” “gtay,” or “pat up" at o hotel. Ho * rogis ters his name,™ *juscribos his sutograph,” or #takes up his quartorn.” A tologram concesuing n fregh Toxas corpsa concludes thus 1 ** v, Var.ucs was o dangetous man in liquor, and froquently romarked thst be bad not kitled & man fos thres yeara," Wo saw a young lady thts movning weariog & very pretty badgo lottered *Prese.’” But we &ldn't—DBiddeford Times. Wonhouldhave beon 2 botter man i his place,—~Tosion News. Qon, Broxxer oxpects to moot 8z Greey in Ylorida noxt wintur, tod in band. It must Dot bo inforred that thele meoting will Lo hostile. *Clho rad ia for tho efovation of fiancs only, Fanyy DavasronThas a contury plant which alio fondlyhopes to sa) in blarsom somo sovants- soven years honce. This cruel pot nosrly Slinded hor by running ona of ita leavos into her o5e. A private dinpatch from Troannrer WrtTTiRe, of Hoovrkr's Coinudy Compuuy, says the orgauis zation is dolng maguiticontly at Swn Francixco, the thoatra belng rightly crawded, while maoy peoplo aro turped 3way for want of accommoda- tian, Mr. J. W, MoVierzn did not meet with that oncourazemont in St. I'anl which ho expected. The looal nress compasins that It is Lis own foult for not Lilling tho city with plcturos likos cireuss, MoViciun takaa ofty grounds aud says “ any poor showman can do thut,” Mr. W, Tkaxz ban cousumnmted his arrangs- aont with Mr, Crare for tho Academy of Mutis noxst eeason. J'atrons of thinhouad will bo grat- find $0 learn thint thoearotul snd attontiva tross- urer, Mr, J. Mun, will remain 1 the same osi- tion as horotoforo in tho box-oflica. Whilo Mr. Buiss, * our ravivalist,” as we g1) with propee pride, was rebuking a Nashville su dienco for ita tendoroy to populsr songs, uoted that delicato rofrains * I foel, 1 feel feok,” wharoupon & saall and tnconvorted Nunbvillain oompleted the gontoncs by sdding, Liko a morning etar,” Can's mumebody conts posa A popu'nx nymio-book to take tlo piace ul such dreadtul thymes ? IOTEL ARRIVALS, ¥ l‘u!m’cr Honwa W, Honllh, Bclluui = che Dillce Tather, vaniy . Roe uhin 3 Gearga 8. Toronto; (s W, U ton cIpbia s Goy Buttaoy Col oticr, Durling i) 'nlu,uon.u '?J .’ Garduer, Now Yor Mervome, Noston; T. & ourcade, Phlladels + Lo 1, Nartfett, Mass- S 38 ik Dt 31, L, Mewitt, Mezquotta ; Johiu M, 1ial nhnque ; 3, ).xl~ Lass, Fort Wogno: ¢, D, Kubus, Daltimore; Clu Bloutgomery, fua Franciso: n Dunl, Iry Eyracusa; 8linon J. 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