Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1875, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1876. THE SOUTH. ! [he Political Situation In the Siate of Alabhumua. Ko Repentant Rebels—The Ex-Confederates Prond of Their Fight for ** The Lost Cause.” But They Confess that That Cause Is Lost Forever. The African Rogarded as a Nulsanco in Politics, with No Capacity for Improvement, Objection to the Negroes, Not as Voters, but as the Ruling . Class, . Ll Mo. Interference with Their Rights un- \ dor the Prosent State Ad- g ministration. All the “ Outrages™ Date Back to 1870, e The White Line to Be Maintainod Until the Black Line Is Broken. Tiows of {lie So-Called Ropublican Poli- {icians-~-They Want a More Yigorous “ Euforcement ? Tolley 3 Tnsist thot the State Can Only Bo Governcd by the Bayemet, with tho Nogroes Massed sad In- struoted How to Vole j find Declars that tho Whites Are Looking Fors viard to Another Warl Fyons Our Qun Correspondent. MoNTaOMERY, Als., May 24.—Visit Alabama to discover what progress has beon mado toward reconatmuetion, and you witl dizcover that n vast denl, somothing or nothing, bas been accom- pliched, It will depeud aitogother upon what you set up na tho measure of reconstruction. Lot that bo such reorganization as will mako the po- Titical establishment In its details and operation, and the politico-social structuro, identical with that of Masgachusetts, Illinois, or =y other Stato north of Masoa & Dixon's lipe, and yon will conclude that oven & begluning hes not boen made tosard such reconstruction. Prosccuts your fnquirics in that rogard further, and you will be com- polled to admit that reconstruction of such mort va impossible for this genaration cortainly, and Jorhaps for tho nest also. Beok for men who will confess thoy wero guilty of treason, in the odious sendo 1n which it 18 understood at the Noril, and you will find the sonrch bootless. Tho ox-Confodorates, officers and privatoes, aro ot sshamed of the part they took in.the war sgalnat the Unlou, - ’ NOR I8 TBERE A *' REPESTANT " NENCL, in tho sonso of ropontance for wrong-dolng, smong them, so far as [ have boon ablo to dis- cover. Whoever, thercfore, comes hero looking for ropentant Rebols as the fruits of reconstruce tion, will find no fiuit of that sort lhereabonts, nor tho least promisothorcof, They who fought for tho Confederacy are proud of it, Theirchil- dron rofer to it with pride. Both will olerish till tho last tho nemory of their noldiore as pa- triots, and of their fallen 2 of thoso who diad for their people's sake. If lubo held that re- congtruction will not be completo ¢ill that bo re~ constructed out of them, then let it be sct down that t1o work of rocoustruction mnst be contin- ued wntil tho last of them sleeps with his fath. crs. You may torm this on their part mero fuslan, If you ploseo; thoy hold it pitriotle, ‘whilo they foel that thelr defeat vas shameful, They might, perbaps, cherlah o Liopo of wiping out tho staln by anothcr uad Deuter tight for the Jost cause. Now thioy con fovd it is Jusy forover, but that It was los} with- out dishonor ; and they recognize, and in no gradging spirit, the equsl valor of tho North, Peshups tho beat statemont of this scutimont wus that given mo Ly Maj, Thomas G. Joucs, whose culogy,of the Union dead, delivered in thecourse of his orstlon Liore & yoar ago, on the Confederalo Decoration Day, was copled into noatly ovoty newspaper in the Union, snd whoso letter in rospouso to an luvitation to joun ju tho lato army rounion at Chicago waa published In Tue Tamoss of the 19th just, Maj. Jones won bis rauk in the Confoderato sorvice, which he entored fn 1861 at tho age of 16, and served until the surrendor at Appo- wattox. Bald bo tomo to-day: * Why should wvery ono want mo Lo confexs myeolf a traitor, or 10 fuel it o dishonor to havo fougtit in the Cou- foderato army ? Nothing could make mo do oither, I fought with my peoplo, 1Iad I been Northorn-bora aud brod, Iehould"have fought with wmy poople there, as your young men did, ‘Thuy belivved they wero right. BO DID WE, Each knowa that ths other fought well, It Liad to como, I bolleve its ¢aming and ity end- ing woro ordered by the Almighty. It's over, aud we aro now one peuplo, sud uhall remain such, until a hotter undorstanding of cacl other, ‘What renson s thero more for us to quarrel with cach otbier bocausa wo foughtou oppositosides? " thoy scknowlodge, too, that thew dofeat left them subjoct to such conditions ay tho Govern- ment of tho Unitod Htatos choso to impose, and to which they assonted whon thoy surrendered, In this senee, and in noua othor, do thuy awent tothe justico of the supplomontal reconstrug- tlonjund to the Fiftconth Amendmont, It will aleo roquiro a vast deal of reconatruce tlon to make tho whito peoplo of Alabama regard with favor tho nogro as @ voter, Thoy accopt hiw as such, au another of tho ingvitable rosults of tho War, and thoroughly np{»renln(o tho 1m- pousibility of getting rid of him it thoy would Jo ay, lub uwyuhuok upon him as & unisanco in politics, uud’ af material for mavipulstion by rasenlly demsgogues. ‘Ihoy credit him with no capacity for nuprovement.” Blogular as it moy woem, tho samo n]]uulnn in exprovsod of tho negroos by 1nuny leading white Jtopublicans, ‘They also esteein Bambo a nuisauce in politics, only thoy conslder him a necossary, not to ki ndispousable, ovil. They tall that the uulv ovi- iencen of political ability he has ever manifested is ubihity whou inolllca Tu WTRAL, m which no whito wan, thoy eay, can surpase . = Lixeept npon grounds of political necessity, 1 guesticy vhothor thero is o white man o the h-utu why, iu pransry couventions, would ever neminuty s ucgio fur any ofico i Ahbnm. Tho eutire white population (oxcept slways those who mizlt be ‘m. into ofiice by negro votos) vould Lo os vestlve under tha domluation of o n¢ 210 msjority us are the poople of Missisxippi tu-tlay, Whether tho paople of Illinois wauR] not gzrow testive under tho rule of o wajority v eade up of pogro fleld-bauds, who sbould givo tu ug such corrupt aud Incopablo government vo they gavo Alaba 18 8 question which ts been nu:luoev.eu o e, und which, i turn, lcave to the ‘road- cin of Tup ‘I'msung, Oerteln it fs, the w.Lite poopis of Atabawa have not beeu, and are rav. to be, recanatriiotod to that oxtont, thongh Lo corrption and misgovornmont undor Ad- uinfatrations of their own chioosing Liaya been no losa disgracefn) than under the carpoi-bog rogime, In this will be found the rationalo of the white-lino movomont. It is proneription of 1110 nggroos, nof as rolers, but asthe ruling clasa, How much throngh fault ofitho whites and how much it wag brought about by contrivanco of the handful of white politicians who massed and controtled the calored vote, and themselves ap- portioned tho oftices, I stinll leave for others to determine, The fact =, tho negro vots was so massod aud ocontrollad by a squad of men whozo charsctor is sufficiently Indicated by ths fact that AENATOR KPENCER WAS CHILF AMONG TREM. Tnt tho campaign wag made, Nt Against cors ruption, but against nigger corruption, ‘Ibo wlite lino was sot ups tha'entira whito popula- tion was rallled upon it ; and the Govornor nnd Toglelature were electod by the white-liners, Theyintond to malutain that lino, nuntil after tho Preeidentinl olection at all events. Thoy will tell you thoy continne it against earpet-bag cor- ruption, ote. Dut, laving vanquished the cor- Tuntion thoy ect out againet, thelr movoment is reduced to ano of prcucripdon of tho negro in l-mmlcn. Thoy aro content ho shall bo n votor, it in o evont are thoy content that his vote shall avercomo thewrs, 1They deploro tho poli- ties bancd upon the eolor line. Inquire of them moro particularly, and sou wiil diecover that what they deplora fs, that tho nogro is slow to como ovor to them. Lvery mau of them, if asked whon the white lino will be obliterated, will nuawor, * When tho negroes begin to como over to us;" and, until tho negroes do como over, thoy regard tho white lino as pormauent. Tho ultimato suecees of the white-lins mova- ment, hote or olsewhero, signifies ultimate final obliteration of that line, After succesy thero st of neccssity bo a division of thoso united ou the white lino luto two parties, which will COMPETE FOR Ttk COLOUED YOTE Touston, elected Governor ou thoe white-line ticket, will bo romoembered among theyoliticians a4 having been a Momber of Congross from 184Lel 10 1861, with the cxcoption of a singla term, and an Chairman of tho Ways and Means Committoo during Pierco's Admiuistration, Ilio was a Donglas Democrat, and an Anti-Socessioniat up to tho time of tho War; and thua far Las proved moderate and cousorvatlve in - bis course, which 8 but fo conformity with the chiracter horo areribod to him. Tlhers has been ono soselon of tho Logislaturo sincn, nnd 88 yor vo stop bas boen takon towards trouchiug upon tho rights of the nogro u tho lesst; and, as ofton na 1 have inquired of the appunents of the Administration for proof that ita cloction signi- fled interferonco with any of the rights conferred upon tho colored peoplo by the Constitutionnat Amendmonts, 1_liavo boon citad to—tho re- port of the Ku-Klux Camuittee, n3 spuwing the temper of tho Alsbama poople tusard thu ne- praes fu 1870; and havo been watned of what wanld be done,—of which horenfer ! Tor tho rest, I find the nogroes working overy- whera thronghont the Btate, and everywhoro thoy areroported as doing beltor work, and more of it, than {n any provious year since the closo of tho War; and tha peoplo aro iled with ex- pectations of a big erop, which is tho subjeot of ten-fold more conversation than is nlt periaining to politics combined. Business-moen without vx- coption cxpress tho utmast confidence In the State Administratios, nud peoplo gonerally have to a wondrons dogree dropped palitics, and aro DEVOTING THIMSELVES TO IUSINLHS, with an enerpy not unitko that charncterintio of the people of the Northern Statos. I havomada particular inquiry, ospecially of tho opponents of tho Iouston Adminitration, ad to tho htato of order or disordor in Alabamn. 1 wna told of slmost unowmnbored outrages, dating Dback to 1870, 84 to which Iwas citod to tho Congres- sional Investigating Committeo's roports, Nota wvinglo disturbanoco of recont dato could I Jowru of from any of theso gentlomon. I was told of a mipgle outrsge, and that by Gov. IMous- ton himseif,—the lynching of & no- gro, _in Ettowah Couuts an _tho Z2kh i) ult. o was confined in tho Jail of that county, ou chargo of aexavit with intaut to Lill, commit- ted upon a white man, sud, on the night in question, wag taken from tho jail by a party of masked men, and shot. Tho United Btates au- thoritics could none of them giva auy partion- lars 88 to the affair, and nona of ihoso who wanted to recd ot me extracis from the raport of thio Coburn Committoo kuew angthing about it, Dut tho Governor, upon request of citizens of Iteowab County, bas offered a raward of $100 (tho largest amonnt anthotized by statute In such casv) for the apprelieusion of cack of tho parpeteatani. Au to tho UALGTENANCE OF THL WHITE LINE in Alabama, Col. John Forsythe, of the Mobilo Register, said o mie, a fow daya since : It wan the only policy left to us. By it wo rogained an bodest Aduinistration ; and I think it will Lo adbered to uutil after the Presidoutial eloc- tion, When tho black lino {s brolen, thoro will probably bo now parties formod. and blweka and whites will bo divided betwoen them.” Ho ndd- ed: * Our pooplo mado one mistake ; it was a yery natural ono under tho circumstances, but it was o migtake, ‘They hold alool whilo recon- structlon wan fn progress, and ignored tho megro. Whon thoy addressed them- golves to offairs, thoy fouud tho mnegro controlled by a lot of advonturore, wha had edu- eated Lim up to a distrust and dread of us tn ali matters poiltical, #0d who, by negro volos, wore got up to mustute us, T'ho negroen always trusi- ed us [n all olso, camo to ns for advice nnd for nesistance when in troublo, and gave us thoic monoy to keep for tham. Lut they woro taught sucly torror of us that under no cleeumnstaucos would they vota nith us, Thin it was that forced upon us what you term tho whito livo, We sne- ceoded. Now they find thoy aro not re-enslaved nor ara their rights abridged, and we look far tlhnt lne to disappoar, But st will tako somo time," Without stopping to discuss what foundation thero waa for tlio nogro terror of & return to tho politieal supromacy of their former masters, 1t i not withaut mguliieance that such mon aa Col, Forsythe should rocoguize that it wos a mistake to ignoro the negto iu politios, and that the wis- take hadl to bo remediod. At daukgonville, Callioun County, In tha north weatorn quarter of tho Btato, recontly, I mot a teading politictan and editor, whe, in digcunstng tho situntiou frem an entiroly difforent point, gove sigmtleant toatimony as to tho propress of recoustruction in Alabama A TO NEONO YOTLAS. Bpoaking of how the earpet-buyzicers tind got into powor ouly throngh manipulation of the eolored voto, he said ¢ * But, after o ara tidded of the oarpot-bag. gors pltogether, tha negro will be tho oceusion 0f no Jes domoralization in our politics than ho han heen. Wers thoro but ona party In tho Ktate, in that party would bo planty of dema- Roguos who would” Lruckiv to the nogro vote as viloly a8 _ovou tho carpet-baggory did, Meu of that kind are sirendy coming to tho frout among us, Thoy aro meking cuuning appeals to the gnarance, prejndices, aud _credulity of the fuw negrocs who hiave already cowoe over tous, Woaio the prosent Repubtican party in Alabama abeolutaly _destroyad, ther would ba orgauized withio the Democratio ranks, or out of it, snothe or hivbrid porty, led by such fellows, Of courso wo'll haveit.” Ile, tao, regarded tho nogro voter na very much of u nuisanco n politics, to {Mustrato w thoubjoct of bis rematle, Dut tho el sniticance of bLix statement, which obviously didn't cccurto Lim, war, that alroedy the lmportunce of the ne. Rr0 voto was rocognlzed by the wiite-liners,— thus giving assurance that, to the negro, hiy vata will prove invaiuablo as o barrior agaiust any asvault, should such bo attompted, upon his political righta. Baid oy, Houstan to ma: *Tho negro hay boon taught to distrust sy, hoeause be bas boon tanght to veliova that, 1f we praiued the control of affairy bere, wo wuuid yractically disfranclise him and reduce him to dlavery, Wo ecan teach lim better by uuuxmg to bLim full equal protection-with the whito ecltizon, and by vindicating his righty, no mattor by whom ju- vadod, ng promptly sud offectually ay though Lo weio s white man. TUAT'S WIIAT T PURPOSE DOING." And, In saying this, Goy, Houston but reiterated what ho haat hore repeatedly publicly declared, Viowiug tho freedmen od special objects of tutolnga, and as eitizoua to be cspecially pro- vided for, abova all othior citizons, as " wardy of the nation,” It {4 unquestionably truo that tho whites ato not wo far recoustiucied as to bo rveady tosct fu_tho capscity of wet-uurses to- warda thow. Thoy provoro {0 accord to Bumbo ~—unlesy thoy aro all Lypocrites—proclsely the sawe rights’ that aro cnjoyed by tho white Bnpulnuou, and with® “that © o leave m to tako care of himself, Dt by no possible recoustruction can tue white sopulnllou of Alsbama be recoustructed juto a tate liko Massuchusetts or Ilinols, In consld- criug _their condition and progress, beglu by droppiug such uotion. What 1 havo written {s the sum of my cbuore vations among tho peopla hero, There yot lingors a violent tiro-eatiug #entiwent, wholly atva. .risuce with that described, aud found in” tho po- litical and commercial contres. It is no Jonger the dowinsnt sentiment, though {t bas yet » stroug bold in sume quurterd ol the Btato, “Mere piudential cousideratious, if naugbt more, must, owover, lead the Houston Adwiufstration aud its -uxflxumm to mnako stronuous efforts to ro- prosu it, Buch, bastily sketched, {ia (ke aituution as I flud it ! YELY DIYFIRENT waa tho prosentation of it given mo, soon after my arrival hero, by a numbor of roprasentativa mon of what in Alabama paesos a9 tho Repubii- can party, §hom I met for tho express purposs of rocotving - their viana of the mtuation, ‘[hoy comptised represontatives from Belms, Mabile, Slontaomors, and otlicr partsof thoStato, and manked, from nan ox-Uovernar of the Btate to Rteprosontatives in tho Legirlature, As 1 have nat tho permisslon of thoso present to do so, I do not fecl at liberty to givo thoir names, 1pive what occurred, uot only as thelr presontation of tho situntion, but (which will Lo fouud no leas significant) ag their presentation of themselvos. Thio convorsation, of courac, turued ubon the political situation and its probablo outcome. # Tho Republican party of the Nortl," sald ono of thom, * talks about dropplng us whora swa nre, Jeaving ue to lake caro of oursolves. Thoy aro getting tired of ue, and dlrcuss aban- donment of tho Enforcement acts, ‘They might a8 well propoeo thao ro-establishmunt of the Con- foderacy at once, If tho Iepublican party of tho North takes thatsbute, ail T cau eay Is, there witl be no Republican party in thiy Stato. The negroes will then go over fo the other eldo, fool- fug they lnve boon degerted. I think we will thun GO OVER TO THE DEMOCRACT, TOO. 1, for one, do uot fanl like voting with'a parly that won't protoct me, and which goes back on me in that atyle, and abuscs us as thieving car- pet-baggors besides,” And to this thuso presont omphatically negentod. I'intorrupted with tho suggestion that the Re- publicans of the North didu't propose tha cou- tinuauco of* tho Inforcement policy for the snko of raving the Ropublican party in Alsbama, Thoe Ttepublican party of the North, I fntendod to ..a&, Liad a suspicion that thero was hero a lot of goutlomen who cried, lustily for protection whenoyer thoy wero defoated st the polls, and in consequence lost tho offices, Tho sontimont of tho party in tho Norih was, that the righis of overy citi- ven of Alabama should bo as fully” protected as ywere the rights of citizona of 1liliots and Now York, to the samo extent ond In tho &ano man- ner, and that the majority of the clilzons unght by this time to Lo fit to rulo the Htate, as they did {n IMlinots and Now York, “Yes, but lot the noxt Congrees ropenl tho TFofarcement ncta, or lot tho Iepublican party o back on theny, and tho minorlly will rule ro,” #ald ono of tho others, #Pla # precisely,” adidod tho first, *Tho majority can't rule bicro unless they aro pro- tocted by the Enforcoment acts. Lot tho Unit- ol States troops ba withdrawn, and let & bo undorstood that tha enforcemont policy is to bo obandoned. Thon any 230 of theso follows hero might snnounco that they wero going to ox- terminata tho nogroes, aud rido froin one end of the Stato to tho other without rosistenco, and BLAUGHTER TUE NEUTO$ en masso 08 thoy wout.” Do you think there's possibitity of tholr at- mmnllnp anything of tho sort, oven if they contd 7' T queried. * Woll, thiey could do it ; somo of thom could ho frot fo try I, if tho ery of cxtermination were raized,” was the asswer of one. 4 Yog, thoy would, it they took the notlon to,” said anather, * I hardly suppoas thoy would try it ; butthoy could du it,” auswered soveral of the othora. “Tho nresont State Uovernment i Domo- cratic, though elected under the Enforcoment act, What proof basit given of n purpose ta do- prive tho negro of his rights 2™ T aukod, ¢ I'l1 tolt von, satd snother, *tho proof of it {n lhulElL-chun law passed by tho last Legisla- uro,” ++In what particntnr?" aaid I, « Why," replicd a third, ¢In the change of tho law to requiro anch voter to voto in the pro- clnct whero Lo restides, instead of pmmmlnfi lilm to voto at any precinct in tho county, And totuat tho others assentod, as though it were tho argnmont conclusivo, *+Ilow #0 2" I agked, **L beliove that, in tho United States, uo man ocan vote excopt in his precinet ; aud & proposition to permit men to voto at any polling-placo in n county would at. onco bo pronounced an instrumont for_tho en- comngement of frauds and repeating. It woukd Lo soid that, In effece, It gave uvery mana chauco to voto at ercry polling-place.” “\Why, they will run tho niggora off,—drive them nway from thetr proper _polling-places,— under thig nes Jaw. Wo have had to maxs them at tho court-houses, and their numbers protected them. Then tho l»c,:rnna aro o timid and igno- raat that they wouldn't know whoro thoir pro- cincta were, nov what ticket to vots, nor what tickot thoy wero voting, UNLESS THEY MAD SOMEDODY TO TELL THEM. And who's going to run out into the preeinets to tell them, I'd liko to know, and tako tho riaks that {ovolves, nud abuso ab tho North besides ? You must romember,” Lo aaded, **that hero iv's all the intollizenco and a!l tho wealth on ono '13;' nyd all tho ignoranco aad wealuess on tho othior.” **Yon mean, then, that tho rituntion s such that tho ballot, unless reinforced by tho bayonet, amaunts to nothing hore,” sald I, 4 That's about the mze of it," ho replied. “That s it,”" snid oue of thaothers ; to which neaily oll tho rest responded that it was, **'Talic about the Enforcament acts," continued tho lat- tor gpenlcer, *'thera fsn't onouglh enforcemont about them, and that's what's the moteer. Ag to thelr Courts, you will ask why the Courta are mn o sufiicient protection, I kuppose. Wall, oro OUGHT O BE: NO GTATE COURTA 1ENT § all cases should bs tried in tho United Htntes Courts, that justics might bo dono. Thoir Courts malko a farce of it, And, with this pro- vision sboat juries being taken from the diz- t;lct,'lhu United States Courts couldu’t do Jus- e, #What wenld yon do abont it, then?"” I askotd. *Contluue the Enforcement laws, and slrongthon and ¢xecuto thowm, till theso poople subnut," *\ell, how fong do you suppose tho Govern- mont of the ballot would have to bo upheld by tho bayone: ? When would you got rid of it?" “] don'c caro if wo nover got rid of it. Wo've got to Lavoit until theso fellows nre rovon- stenctod,” replied tho chicf epokesman, **Well, goatiomon, 1 suspoct that, if you tell tho poopls of the North what you wauid have me, through Tz TRIGUNE, toll them, namely: that tho Stato ¢au only bo gaverned by the bay- onet ; that, with woldiors on guard over tho bal- lot-boxen, tho ignorauco, ‘wmassed’ aud *lu- structod’ how to vote, can rule tho intelli- geoco and tax-paying intorest,—tho paople of tho North will tell you thoy would profor n Gov- erument Avowodly by tho bayouot, Tho sort of Uovornments thbayonot-ballot comblnation has glven you Lins not {uspired porfoct conlidonce 1 the wirtuo of that rule. ~Your Mr. Benator Hpencer s a product of that styla of Govern- nlent that doos not give it groat favorin tho Notth, And the cuorinous Btato dobts piled up by those nho Instruct tho moused 1guoranco how 10 votu, indientes dishonesty, which the Ropub- lican party can't indorgy um" WILL NOT BUSTAIN,” I was about to add murs iu sunilar valn, But that rewark of mino somewhat dwturbed tho horatony of our interview. I ovidont!y was re- notdad s o fit subject for a deal af roconutriics tion bofore I should bo turned loose to deacribe, to bo printed, the situation fu Alabama; and there was o flarc-up of decidod ill-topor. It oo cenirod to o at this juncture, buw that, in reproe soutlug Tug Tnmuxe, I roprocouted n power sreat enouQi)h to insplre profound 1iespect, the nterview about that time wonld have abraptly torminatod, However, I added ¢ * Your argumont, thou, is, that reconstruction s falluro ¢" * Yeu, {t {3a complele fallure,” was tho prompt rosponse. ** ‘Theso pooplo are a8 much euemics of tho United Htates s over they were. They toach Iun _their schools that Leo, aud Btouewall Jackeon, and Jeft Davis, and all tho sest, wore great mcn, They send thelr boy# to military academics. Thoy whl bu ready noxt timo, If what {nu state ‘roprescnts tho prevailing sontiment at tho North, lot the North Ro ahoad, aud, in tho next war, negroes aud all down hore will ba on the samo side,—~that's alL." “DIo you really Lolieve thoy Took forward to another war?” 1 asked, * Would you have ‘I'ue ‘LursuNe ropart that to tho Great Northwent 7" +Thoy do look forward to auothor war," was tho roply; *aud by It thay expect to LEGAIN ALL THEY NAVE LOST," T exprossod my incradulity with somo empha- #l8, and was remindod [ wos losing wy temper, Forthwith I sot sbout rccovermg it, I Liad made suro that [ was calm, vory calw, when sotue ouo of tho party doteiled a number of out- ragos, 1t occurred to mo to inquire whon theso were perpatrated. “In 1870," wos the response; * read the re- port of tho Inveutigativg Commwittoo—" * Gentlemen,” Liutersupted, having cortalnly lost wy towpor this timo, ' { am not engaged in collecting wstorial for history, I don't care what happened in 1670 and theroby I very much hastouod the torminstion of that inter- viow, wuich camo & fow minutos after. And then it dawned upou mo (votwithstupding that, durluis my trip through tho Sout, though I had congtantly boen ou the alort, I hadn't discovered » slogle outrago) how emmly [ might act up a firal-olaas outrage-mill on my own acconnt, Irlt. tivg thete, peuci) iu Laud aua note-book bofofs me, I might, iu two hours, have ground out a grint that would huve etartied tho whols North provided Bunvlo thoro had been creduloun cucuvh to beltove it. e +4\Yhst further hastened thoe termination of the iuterview was my changing the subject from fiyo. year-old outrages (o SPEXCED AND 1118 COURT HOUSE LEGISLATUDE. Ihe msjosity of thom were, or clalod to be, anti-Bponcerites, Bat thicy ovidently folt that Hyencor's oxposuro musy cant odium upan them all, 'they Lastancd to oxplun thas the fuvasti- gatlon was ax parte, * Liow could that Lo?" I queried, ' Wasn't ho eited to appear, and hadn't ho tho right to bave connsol to cross-oxamine witnersos 2" ¢ Certaioly,” was tho auswer; but thon the Committeo was made up against him, but oue Ropublican on §t. Heeldes, the Commit- teo had no right to bo Investigating the matter, which had onco bofore been fnvestigated” In responso ta which, T inquired If the Commitlea hadn't been appointed by the Legislature to in- vastignto the mattor, O, nol™ was replled; *it wan appointed to ‘bronk down Spencer, aud to get his seat in the Hunate for & Damocrat,” S Aud yob, knowl that, Bponcer has not adduced &uy testimony, wor cross-oxaminsd o witucys, vor to this day put in any defousoy” and I romnrked to tho gentlomen who wera ox- gl-lnlng tho business that, no matter what iponcer did now, hio liad alresdy by his course mado public confossion of tho truth of tho chiargos againat him, And sgain I porcoived X waa #ot down 8 aadly nooding recoustiuction, T omitted to stato that, as furthor ovidenco of what was coming to pass under tho Democratlc- Conservativo Adwin{stration of Gov, Houaton, it was told mo, at thls Intorviow, that tho last Tegivlaturo had passod sn act to pay the te- Rtoes A TREMIUY FOR NOT VOTING, to-wit; by providing that, wheio o 1oan could provo ho had not voted, hls poll-tax whould bo romittod. Tho gentloman who mado that state- ment promisod to sond me a copy of the Montgomery Adcertiser coutatuing the offcial publication of tha act, It wasn't furnisliod me, and Gov, Houston Aufliorized tha etatoment thiat no such act was ever pavaed 3 aud thoro can bo no doubt tho original statemaent was untrue. Yot it was positivoty made for pnblicatiou in this cotrespondenco, and was teported to mo at anothar interview. I don't mosi to bo hasy in my judgment ; but, ss I could tind no lawyer wha eyer heard of such an act, it looks yery like a dosign to imposa tho falsehood upen Tue TranuNE through mo, Theso sentlemen woro tho leadors of what nsees for tho Iepublicsn party in Alabama. [hoy it is who maes tho negro voles and **ip- stritet thom what tickot tovote ' ; who, undoriho Enforcomout acts, having lost au sloction, clamor for mioro onforcement, moro basonsts. 1iavo they bad no share iu msintsining the color line, B0 that tho negroos might be voted en mnsse according to_tastructions, and & tnlo of ignorance and plundor Lo upheld on the theory that it could only bo supplanted by the resur~ rectod Confoderaoy ? Haunyrt, CHIPPEWA DELLS, The Wisconain Lnw Anthorizing tho o Cinire Dam Declared by the Supreme Court to e Unconstitu- tivnal, Srecfal Dispatch ta 7'he Chizaon Tribune, Mapmoy, Wis., May 81,—1he Buprome Court meot to-day, snd anoounced a number of do- otefons. Ono by Chief-Justico Ryan, in tho case of tho Stato va, Eau Claire, 1s thus nonounced in tho Clerk's minute: * Motion for temporary Iinjunction denicd), with leavo to Attorney-Gons eral to amend informution and renew motlon.” ‘This formal statement skows the decision tech- nically in favor of Eau Claire, but tho Judgoe rend & longthy opinion which ls dee cidedly fn favor of Obippowa Falls and the up-tivor lumber {utsrost, which applied for an injunction to rostrain tho dsmming of tho Chippewa Itlvor attho Dellsof Fau Claire, which waa aathorized atter a legislativo strugglo of years by tho law passed at thoe last sossion. In this decision the Chiof Justica decidos that the Court hns Jurisdiction of the case because Chip- pows River {as navigablo stream and pubia highway. Tho Jaw of lnst winter {s unconstitu tional, it not bofng within the powor of tho Leglslature to authorizo a munlelpal corporation to build such works and tax tho Beopln for it, tho funin objaect of the bill being not to construct wator- works, but to mnke u mill-powor and booming fncilitien, wulch purposo Ia private and not bub- lc. It is nnnounced that an Injunctlion will bo pranted on information being filad of an Inten- tion ur movement toward building the proposed dam. Tho docision will ba a sorious disappoint- ment to the Eau Claire poople, who have cher- {shed oxpeotations of building up a great manu. facturing contre by tho watar-power proposed to }m created and the boomngo to bo provided for ogs, CASUALRIES. AT AND NEAR ROCKFORD, Bpecial Dicpateh to The Chicago Tribune. Tocxvony, Tk, Moy 31,—Yestorday Mrs. J. I Wheat, of this city, in attompting to go down coller, slipped and fell to the holtom of the stnirs, breaking boths her arms juet below tho elbow. ‘This morning whilo a brakeman named Wodg- wood, on tho Konosha Division of tho Chleago & Northwestorn Itallrond, was couplivg cars at Yoplar Grovo Station, 10 milea eart of this city, Le fell uuder tho cars, which cut his loft log Le- low tho knoo sud badly Jagotatod his thigh, 1o wag takon to bis home in Tlarvard. HOLYOKE VICTIMS. Spectal Diepatch to The Chicapo Tribune, MonTuean, May 31.—Eighteen of the victims of the Holyoko dissater have beca brought to Canada for intorment. Llovon of them were loft at way-stnticoe Lefore tho train reached this city. Hix ware destinod for the citv and vicluity, and ono for Bt. Hyacinthe, A number of frionds of the deccasod accompanied tho bodies. ‘tho catnatrophy creatod a gront ensation Lioro, RAILROAD ACCIDENT, Special Disnateh to 1'hs Chioago Tridune, LaCrossk, Wis., May 31.—Froig bt-train No, 8 on the Boulhorn Mioposota Railroad, bound wost from this city this morntug, met with an occident near Whalen, throo cars golog {ntoa ditch, Ix-Liout.-Gov. Bhorwood, of Minnesota, who was on tho traln, wns soriously {njured, having ao arm broken, snd belug cut abous tho Load and taco. Conductor T'ull and one or two others wero slightly burt, RUN OVER AND KILLED, MaNnatTaN, Kon,, Moy 31.—Charles Tstalle, formerly from Oblo, was run over and killed by a frelght-trnin 2 miles from hore, last night. ‘The body was sbockingly mangled, and parta of it seattored soveral rods along tho track. A DAMAQGING STORM, Couxci Lituves, I, May 81,—This avening occurred tho most extonsive roin and bail storm of the scasan, Great domago way dono €0 voge- tation by tho hail, Hidawalks wora swept away, cellara filled, and roadu destroyed. DROWNED, CovnaiL, Brurrs, la, May 81,—Thls evening a 18-year-old named Joseph Edmonds was drown- ed in the Nodaway, near Corning. The body had not been recovered at G:U0, FIRIES, AT RUSHVILLE, IND, Crxomixaty, 0, May 81,—Tho Gazelle's Rush- ville, Ind,, special saya the largs steam flouring- mill of sl & Qulver burned to-mght, togethor with ite contonts. Loes outimated at §10,000, Partially insured, Two or three persons wore seriously injured by falling fromn the root whilo working to prevent tho spread of the flames to adjoining property. ! AT EAST SAGINAW, MICH, Buectal Diapatch to T'he Chicavo Fridune, Fast Baainaw, Mich,, May 81,—The house of JInwmes Kirby, in Chesaning, this county, waa do- stroyed by fire early this morning, The cou- touta wero mostly savod. Lous, fsoo; no in- BUFKLCO. NEAR MAXWELL, ONT, MaxweLr, Ont,, May 31.—Tho honss of Mr, Yan Meor, near this viilago, burnod on Saturdsy flluht. Throo of his children porished in tho lamcs, AT MANSFIELD, O, CxcinNaTy, May 81,—A firo a$ Mansfleld, O,, this afternoon, damagod the roof aud uppor sto- rios of the Wiler Iouso about §5,000. Fully fn- sured. FIRE FROM HEAVEN. Covuver Brurrs, Is., May 31,—~The residence of R, Riloy was etruck by lightning and totally consumed. THE BPRINGFIELD CALAMITY, SramarisLp, Mass,, Moy 31.—The total loss by yesterday's fire waa $330,000; {naarsnoe, £450,000. ————— Bacretary Bristow will sddross the merchants of Loulny o to-day at the Board of Trade soowm, THE NATION'S DEAD. Decoration - Day Yestorday Scveral States. in Address of Senator Morton at Green- castle, Ind. NEW YORK. Nzw Yorx, May 31.—Tlie ohservaues of Deo- oration-Day was yostordsy boguu in Brooklyn, by sorvices in tho afternoon at tho Lincoin stalue In rospect I'ark, Menjorial sorvicos wero also held yostorday afternoon in Ualvary Cematery (oman Oathollo), where the Rov. Byl- voster Malono, the pastor of Salnts V'eter and Paul, st Willlamaburg, prononnuced an eloguent and patriotic oration, 'Phis morning various Tosts of the Grand Army of the Ilopublio began to assomblo at an carly hour in Ublon Bquare, whero they formed tm processlon, Tho Liucoln statue, in Union S8quars, wan bandsomoly dee. orastod undor tho direction of Abra- bam Lincoln Post, No. 13, Immediately surrounding tho staiuo in & sort of trollisework fenco, thickly covored with ivy, Tho pedestal is complotely ovorlald with overgraens, 'A'wosidos Loar tho national sbiold inlaid in watural flow- o018, whilo tho otliers bear inscriptians, in lottora formod of whito flowora, A feuca covored with tlowers and overgreens waa placod around the Laso of tho };cdnnul. and witbin this wero set eight yases of flowora and palms, T'he statuo of Wachingtoo, In Union Bquaro, was decoratod with ovorgraens, which wore streteled in festooua from the bronze tiguro to tha railiug surrounding tha podostal. ‘I'ho procession began to move down Broadway atabont twenty minutes past 10, It was formod i tivo divisions, headed by o squad of polico, Tho Skidmare Guards (colored) turned out with full ranks, and atiracted much'attention, Tho; were praceded by nl-.\rt:u drum corps and band, all eolored. Wagons filiad with flowers woro dis- tributed throughout tho procession. Tattered battle-flags, borve by maay veteran com- panies, wero fraquently applauded along tho ronte, which was thickly Jined with spoctators, In its gonersl ~featurea the parade did not duffer easentinlly from thoso of former years, Tho chimes of Giraco and Trinity Churches wero rung as tho procession parsed. Tho monuments of Gon, Iticuord Montgomery, st 8t. Paul's Church, and Gen. Kenruey, st Trinity, wero decorated during thie march down Broadway, The lino of march was toSouth Forry, whence tho l'osta of tho Grand Army erossed to Biooklyn to decorate the groves of soldiors in the yarious comotorios. Dispatchies from points - norts, gouth, snd east, whoro momorlal sorvices wero arrangod for ta-day, Ehow that thero I8 n yery general obsorv- ance of tho ceromonial. ILLINOIS, Syaciat Diopateh to 1he Chicago Tridune, Sruixarierp, U, May 81.—Thoro was a gens eral obsorvanco of Docoration-Day horo to-day, Althongh tha etoros wero nob cloged, tharo was o goneral suxpension of Lusinoas, The State and Y'edernl ofiices were closed. The procossion woved at 10 a, m. for Onk Ridge, Tlo Gover- ror'a Guard, in full uniform, woro on tho right of tho eoluwn, followed by tho Konights of Py- thiss, Springfleld Macnnerchor, orator, 'rosident of tho Day, tate, Fedoral, and city officers in car- riages, tho Hibernian and Emerald Bocloties, and citizans and carringos, togethor with the Spring- fio)d Tiro Company. ‘Tho procession was impos- ing, and tho strocts wero lined with peoplo along tho march to the comotery, Tho Rev. I, W. Worrall dallvered the addeess, T'ho musto was by tho Ataonunerchor. Bpoclal traluawero run out to Camp Batlor, anil thousands of poople gatherod there. John Mayo Dsimer dolivered the oration. At both j.ofuts tho Grand Army of who Republle porformod tho ceramony of tho Order. Monnts, Ill, Moy 81.—Yesterday was gener- ally obaorved ns Decoration Day at tlus piace, and ono of the largest gathwrings that havo been #oen for yoars In thig vicinity, assomblod at the cometery. On Baturday the Congrogational BSunday-kchool visited tlie cemetery and deco- rated (ho graves, A protest. signed by the pas- tors of nll'tho Protestanc Cuurches, aud mony other intluential men, was prasonted to the military -company having in chiatgo tue celebra- tion upon thie Babhath, for the purposs of per- wunding thom {v obwerve eillier Baturdav or Mondny, but having inado proparotions whioh they could not well abandon, they concluded to observo Bunday, Intho forenvon tho muiitary companies, eacorted by o band of music, visited tho Catholie Comnotory sud docorated tho graves there. Intho nfternoon at 2 o'clock, a procos- slon of from 2,000 to 8,009 people, and from 100 to 00U carriages, formed fu hino ond matohed to the Protestant Cemotery. ‘fhio procossion was comporad of xlnlgzhtu Leinplar, Slasonle Lougos, Odd’ Fellows, Sons of Temperance, Roman Cutholic Tomparaucs Association, tho firomen, uud o military organization kuown o8 tho Morrls Grays, together with citizens. The duy was fine, und everything passed off harmoniouaty at the cemotory,~tho music, both vaocal and in- stenmental, “and addreases Ly tuo Mayor, Mnj. Uayas, cditor ol tho Morris Zerall, nud others. After tho speolung, tho differont sociotios decorated the graves of tho difforont mowbery of their reupectivo fratoruitios, TENNESSEE, Mearpus, Tenn., Moy 81.~The graves of the Unton soldtors at the National Cometory wero docorated this aftcrnoon, About 4,000 poople woro in sttandance, moro than half of whom wers ex-Confoederates, Thoro was mo parade heyond the appoarance of the Chickasaw Guards and Irish Yolunteers of tho Stato Guarde fn full uniform, who stacked their guns near tho stand, which was tostefully docorated with flowors, wmagoolia blossoms, and evergrecn. Prominent intho front was a largo cross of rare flowers, presonted by a namber of ox-Confoderates, A wagoificent wreath of choleo flowers, made by a number of Bouthorn ladies, was presonted by Gen, Yorrest, and sdorned the sposkoers' stand. Thoe pssemblage was called to ordor by Judge Irving lulsev, who introduced the Hon, Hosen Townsond, tho orator of tho day, who mada au eloquont sud approprinto address, ro- fernog to the presenco of ex-Confedorates, aud waa followed by Col. Trumbull, au ex-Federal, with an original poonmt, Theu Qen. Pillow made o brief and sppropriate roply, Among thio prow- Inont ex-Coufodorutes were CGons. Vorrest, Dil- low, and A. J, Vaughan, sand ex-Gov. Isham G, Harrig, aod o largo number of rogimoutal commandera, Tho courts of tha oity wero adjourned in obsorvanco of the day. Most of tho judicial officers ationdod tho coremonlea, Eversthiug passed off nicely and without an so- cident to mar the ora of good feeling which tho corenyonios of last Monday aund to-day buve pro. duced, and will bo loug remombored by tuosa who participated in doiog Lionor to the dead of both armies. One fusturo of the day was the small number of aclored peaplo in attendance as compared with similar occasions heretofore, hut which {8 perhapa atiributable to tho faot that the Committeo in chargo dotormined last wook to biave no geveral parade, Nasuvipre, Teun., May 31.—This afternoon s large numbor of peoplo wure conveyod b spoclal tralus to tho United States Cemotery, ; milos from tho city on tho Loulsville & Nish- villo Road, fur itho purposs of dccarating the cavos of tho Fodoral soidiors intorred thereln. on. Penpipacker sud stalf, Mayor Howoll, and tho Oity Oouncll, and 1many prominent Fodeial aud Confedorato votorana woro on the grounds, and foined with each other in ‘the ceremonley. No Jees thaa 8,000 persons participatod in the decoration, INDIANA, Bpectal Drsvateh Lo The Chicago Tribune, Qnew Oastx, Iud,, May 81.—Tue gccoratlon of soldiore’ graves Lore this aflorncon was at- tondod with tho most imposing ceromonics evor known iu this vicinity on a similar ocosslon, Ten thousaud poople woro fn the clty, sttracted by tho aunouucomont of tho ovents to transpire and the speech of Senator O, P, Morton. At1 o'clook the procesalon, with the Koights of Pythias, 0dd Fellows, Manons, and civil socle- tles, survivora of tho War, old officers, plonacrs, L] cow&letu battory, the Firo Departmont, with thole engluce decoratod and she mom- bors in now uuiforms, formed sud marchod thirough tho atroats to tho music of Lalf dozea braus bands to Forost Hilt Comotery, Delega- tlous wero prosout from all towus within aradius of 60 wilos. Tho Vaudalia traw, boarivg Beua- tor Morton snd otbor pattics, asrived ud voon. Servicow wore kiold st tho base of the mamwmoth monumeont to the wmowory of Putnam's 400 faliou braves. ‘Tlie services opened with musio by tho coribined choira of tho couuty, folluned by praver, and musio by the bands, Bonator Morton then took tho rostrum and briotly aud eloquently referred to tho object of the gathering, avd the bLeautios of the custom. ‘Tuon the Souator wout into theraminissences of tho public acts of Indiana ; bor shase la tho War, e roforred to the Tndians rogiments pnt into thie flold And sustainod at & cost of 50,000,010, one-half privato donations, Thoy fought 008 engagaments from Philliopl, “W. Va, to Paimetio Ranch, Tox. After more in the sama strain, tho spenker turned his attontion to the causod of tho robellion, invelghing earnestly against the doadly, blighting theory of Stato sov- orignity, The liea that oach Htato was s nation sepnrate and Jdistinet, and tho Central Gavorn- mont was a compnetfor mutual advantage to ho broken at any timo, ho thought was tho rock tpon which the country split, and might split sgalo. He took occasion to advocate the ventilation of palriotism aud palitical economy In the publio schools, Various robollions wore mentioned, and falso pride or imaginod soverolgnty shown ns tho origin of all, Ilo glused with an oloquent fributo to the meni~ ory of the boys in_biue, and a mantion af their apponants, wiom ho charncterized ss byava and honeat, but misguidod by falso reasoning and local projudices, 'Tho graves aud monnmenta waro thon strown with flowers, amid the singiug of hymnns and Alring of cauhon, - Kpectal Dispateh to The Onfcano Tritune, Ivpianaroris, Ind., May 81,—The regnlar wrookly Mathodist proachora’ mnoxlnf passed resolutlons to<day denouncing the decoration caramonlos yostorday &8 s noodless desecration of the Babbath and a wanton violatlon of tho roligious feallngs and convichions of tho Chris~ tiau community, Radway's Ready Relief CURES TilE WORST PAINgS In from One to Twenty Mimntgg NOT ONE HOUR After reading this Advertisemont neod suffor with pain, Radway's Ready Relief I8 A CURE FOR EVERY PA, It wos the first and is the Only Pain Remedy That instantly stops the mout sxernofat) (A mmALLonS, &n cires.conyeattonn whamas Al ungt, Hiomash, Bowols, o oflior Flauds or crgas, by ono appll Infrom Oneto Twenty Minutes, any ony . MICHIOAN. Bpectal Dispaleh to The Chicago Tribune, Corpwaren, Mich., May 31.—The obsorvance of Decoration-Day in this city was genorally ob- sorved, and the grandost display mndo for yaars. 'The procossion was moro then a milo long, hioaded by the Mayor aud Common Counoil, Tures Rivera brass band, Coldwaier Light Guards, Jacobs Commundory Xnighta Lemplars, Ger~ man Donovolont Bocloty, and fitro companies, At the cometery tho flowers weso strown by lit- fle girls, and tho oration was delivered by tho lon. Onarles Upson, Trom 7,000 to 8,000° poo- plo topk part {a tho ceremonies, Bpectal trevatel to The Chieano Tribune, Axn - Anpon, Mich,, -May #1.—Docorntion- Day was obrerved liore with tho usual cero- monles, Thero wna o good turn-out of tho military, an oration by the Bov. Dr. Cooker, of tho University, and the covering of the eoldiors’ raves and mouumont with flotal offorings by | No matter how viglent ar_ozoryelating ¢ 0 1adlos of tha city. B8 by 1thoumatto, ied-riddon, Tafiem, Oripyied, Nh:tr,w:,'ul?; Snecial Juspateh to The Chicara Tribune, ralgle, or broatrated with disossd may sallor, Taxstxo, May 8l.—Mowotial sorvices woro lield at Owaeso yesterday nt the different churchos, A procossion waa formod in fiont of the City-Tiall, ud marched to tho comotory and decarated tho graves of the docensed loroes with flowers, 1t was observed ab Fling aud Radway's Ready Relief WILL AFFORD INSTANT EASE, Clarlotte to-day, Tafl o £ tho Kid uflammnation of the noys, Inflam IowA. or'tho Bipddor, Infammntion of the Bauc™ Bpeclal Dispateh to The Chieago Tribune, 0”1‘ Mumps, Ocagantion of = ithe CrpaB Ravins, In., May 81.—Owing to s hesvy i, Sorn Thioat, Difileut reathing, Palpitation of _tho Heart, Hfinwrles. Croup, Uiphtlicria, Ca~ tarrh, Influenra, Headache, TTootbnoha, Nonralgin, Rhonmatism, Cold Chills, Aguo Chills, Tha appliontion of the Teady Reliaf to th partswheto fh"bain or dlicutlyealsts Wil P S an) comfort. ‘fncnty draps in half a tumblor of wator will, In a few minutes, curo Cramps, Sorains, Sour Stamach, Heaits Durn, Bick Hoadncho,‘Dintriwa, Dyseatory, Cholle, Wind I the Bowols, and .|fl Intormal pains, Y ADY ‘ravelers shienlid atways carry & bittlo of WAY'S NERDY TRLTER with Thom. “A o drops 11 walodl] nrmnumnennr Daina from chango urwn(ur. s ctte; than French Braudy or Ititters aaa atlamisor. FEVER AND AGUE, Tovar and Ague cured for fifty conts, T SOl gEert 10 106 worl FHRt Wil SURS fover mad rre ani all othor malarinus, biliens, scarlot, typhold, yeilow, puul uthor, forats (aldsd be Radway's lefi-n 0 quickad adwaz's Hoady Reliof, Filty cont 3 old by Druggiste. Hioents par ottie HEALTH! BEAUTY) Strong and puro eloh blords fncreasa of flesh 1nd : loae skla and beauittal conspiasion secaeod walet fall of rain bore this forenoon the concourse of poople obeerving Decoration-Day was nat as largo ne usual. The corsmonicy took place this aftorncon, and were participated in by the Grand Army of tho Republle, city fathors, Fira Depattmeont, apd sundry socioties, At tho cemotery on oration was delivercd, whon tho solewnn sarvico was performed of decozating tho geaves of our fallen countrymen. WISCONSIN, Special Dispateh to the ¢hicago Tribune, Fonrt Arxinsoy, Wis, May 31.—Oao Sunday Decoration-Day was obgorved hero with great coromony, A proccssion was formed and marched to ths cemetory, whore tho gravea were docorated and appropriato speochics for tho oceasion wero dolivered by the Hon. L, B, Cas- well, Dr. IL 1. Willard, snd othors, About 1,200 pooplo werd prosout. NORTH CAROLINA. Raveran, N, C., May 31.—The Foderal dscora- tlon waa observed here to-day. The Rulotgh Light Infantry and artllery companics azcom- panied a8 an oscort tho companies from Fed- eral camp to tho Fedoral cemotory, and particl- pated ju tha coromonfes of tho day. Tho Ral. eigh comvanles embraced mauny mea who fought in tho Bouthern srmy, 5 DR. RADWAY'S SARSAPARILIAN RESOLVENT Has mads tha mott astoniabing cores. So quick, Tapid aro tho obangos. tho Lody anderdoos uador {hp Inflietios of tnis troly Wl dacul mcdictao, that Every Day an Increase in Flesh and Welght is Seen and Felt, THE GRLAT BLOOD PURIFIER Livery drop of thn Satmipacttian Resolvent. communi. catos theongh th b, tirine, and othor duldy ol juleos of tho eystem. tua vigorof life, for it repales ho wastes of the body with now and sagnd_inaterial, Serofuln, sypliflis, coneanntion, glaudala discaso, ulcers in tha thiroat, tmolith, 1uno 3, Hodes o the glands and othor parts 'of tha 'systoin,'sore oyes, strumurous dise chatgos from Lho gare, aud L wort forme of skin dus. catos, oraptions, forer sarcs, scald hicad, rngwocin, sl i apots, worme fu tho desh and’ all_waakontog and it eweats, bose of sponin sud all ntoy ato wiihin tho enrativo ranga ' chomistey, and a fow dase’ ne will prova to muy porson using it ‘for olthoe disatse ita patont powor o auro them., 1t tho patient, dally becoming rednoed by the wattes and docoimposition that is coutlnually progrossing, sus. coody ln arrosting thoso wastos, aod ‘ropafte the sam yrith new materlal mads from hoalthy blood,—and tis Karsapariilisn will aud doos sooaro,—a chre i certain; ——— THE SWISS AND ARMZRICAN REPUBLICS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Cutcaco, sy 20.—In your comment npon “Tho Swiss Conslitotion,” you esy that * Ex copt in pamo, and iu the maunor of his olsctiun, there is practically little or no differcnco be- tween tho Biiss Lixceutive and tho Exaecutive of thio United States.” * Tho eclaction of tho Bwias Xxecutive s mado by tho National Legialaturo ; that of tho United Blates by the pooplo.” Allow mo to point out to you Low much difference thero is, and whorsin it couslats. To auy ono who is lu tho least ncquainted wilh the modus- operandi ofgour Dresidential clcetlons, it mnst appear a8 o sheor fareo and mockery to say that the Exccutive i8 elccted by tho poople, or by ity roprogentatives eilher. Tho fact, open to all, is, that our Tresident owens his election to o combination of mon, so~ callod politicians, who may ropresent a cortain clues, color, or political opinlon, but never tho collectivo oxpresaion of the will of tho citizons of this Ropublic, who, in reality, have no cloico whatever in tho matter, Tha.Prosldont, after being elecled, chooses tho membors of is Cabi- t palatul dischargos, ) wastes of the lla princ! of this wondor of modor, ; {tn rousirs wi 3 net at Lis own discrotion, or by counaol of Lia | fool Limeoi growinit. boftor aud ‘sienror. aa.food dis more {utlmato friends, Tho 8o clocted membors | fastias boter, appotito lmpraving, sat b aud wolesi # 'Not ouly docs. the Sarsaparlliian T t all of Lis Cabluok ho dismisses agaln, and anpoints | , Sotonr 6es 5o, Serpsriinen, Toselons, ated) 1 others to ill tholr places, according to his por- eonal whims, in about tho Eamo mauncr nsn monarch proceods with his Ministers if thoy hava fallou from graco, Our Presidout, investod with his right of voto, may countoract tho do- ingy of Congrees, which, owluz to an unrcyb« lican modo of elostion, may not, in overy cudo, glve expreasion of the supromo will of tho people, but, none tho less, ought to be regard- eil as the representation of tho colloctive citizons of tho: Ropublio, After having m President eleoted for ug, we havo to submit to his rule for four yoars, with little ohanco for redross if tho occupant of tho Capitol s obstinate and makes it bis polioy to differ with Congress, the ropro- sentatives of tha poople, Tho Swies Ezecutive, or the Confedorate Conneil, consisting of seven membore, is clocted Conatitutional, tivo oure for Kidney and Bladder Complaints, Uriaary aad Womb Diteusos, Gravely Distotan, Drorey stappage of wator, fncontinanco ol uciao, Belghvs ufs: ease, albuminuzis, and in all casas whore ifora ure brick: dustdovostta, or tho wator §s thick, clondy, mixed wir tancea liko tho white of an o ar thrdads Liko whity Silk: or thorn 18 Tnorbids datk, Uillons apOeATAIC, an yile onoduat duparis, and lelua targ s picking uening sareation whes passing water, aud palo the s of tho ack and along tho joinas L Tumor of Twelve Yenra’ Growth Cured by Ttudway’s Resolyvent, BevenLy, Mass., Julv 18, 199, Dn. RADWAY: Thave had ovarian tumor in the ovari®s and b?\'lll.l. All the doctors sald **thora was na halp far ‘Tried everyihini Lhat wan reoommendod, but Loths fug fil‘u‘lm‘fll ae ‘lu‘l" ’7“{!}!“":‘:“‘:&'0 and lhho:(hil Souliuey it bt bad po 18 o fargutor edins poars, T ol o Botilos of ihe and 5kin disoaacs, bub i is tha only posic ssalvont by the -Confederats Assombly, or Congrens, one box of Hadway's Pills a8 two bottles of yoar which Tattor has boen aloctod Ly direst veta of | 1 R T A P A A e tho Swiss citizons, without prellminary. nomina- | bava for twolve yoars, The worst nmor was (o tholsit B i 106 0l the howale, Eron, L writo 1ha to 300 b0 Venaiit of othere. * You can w»l:.fi’;‘f( e aan ANNAT 0VKY, AP, Prico, 81 por bottle. = AN IMPORTANT LETTER. {‘;‘fll}l,: Bmlflffl:l{i' -;nllmun X.IT Ml-'flfl“{‘ll‘ Clfltlnnl»“': Tt e ot foaey pone v i ubiishers Hirvughuat the Untte k] New You, Oct. 1L, 18- D, BADWAY=DraT By $ 4 (deesl vy s somts of Lk ldz ;"llamflflgldmnll) make II“iflnb culamnin flll‘l'h‘l had baes ‘ omg m’uu o In ¢ m"‘"d!fl’lnfl bl i s all said wasa Hi] tions primary eloctions. The Confederato Prosident fu, apnrt from bis ministerial oflico,— the Foreign Departmont,—practically nothing moro than simnly tho Clalrman of the Confod- orato Couucil for cue year ¢ whereas tho luttor —tho Exocutlve—is clocted for a lerm of throo years, 'I'horight of voto is oxoroisad by Lo pece ple, not by the Exsontive, Excepting those articlod of tha Biwlss Consti- tution which are of a puraly local charactor, 1 800 no xcason why it would not be appropriate for tho consolldated Statesof Europe, or any other Contient, pravided that such Constitue tion be comprohendod and acceptod by a majorl. ty of the votiug citizenn of the reapoctive Blato: ‘Iho Bwies papulation is not of ons hnoage al raco, but doscended from different races and na- tions, who, conturies ngo, overruu 8witzerlaud, | tamuation i ad lumt:l:::! :l:).\f I 'i’xlfi then Helvetin, and have left thelr softlomonts | tbeiroplufon that ears—-would provent hind. ‘Po-dny tho Swiss nation la composod | Spos iUV radically cued. £ had tried » munbar ol of threo distinct natlonalitios,—the Gorman, French, and Italian, Tucso have, bowever, by virtue of tholr long-continued protoctive and defensive alliance againet foreign oppressors and intruders, ono thing in cowmon : that is, & love tor liberty, and contempt for those that hatoe it, They sre born Republicaus, In these Unitod Btates, true Republicanism has a hard struggle to maintain {teelf,—trst, sguinst a native Ropub- lican aristocracy, whioh ia still lviog in the deys of Waabingion, Jofferson, aud Madison, aud consaquently doos nob notico the chango and the wants of tbe timea; aud, socond, agalnst tho foroign olemont, contlnually pourhuc in from Earope, and, in ity Iargo majority, composcd of subjocts lnsfoad of freomon, aud who have to b tralned first to appreciate and rightly use the rivileges guarantood to the citizous of u Ropub- id, Rospectfully yours, Joux Guon, —_——————. lsnns, su it odiclnd Enln allopsthla and hanl'ofin 3 “::ngu( lnll't :’u ln’h?. iad road of astonishing cures Laving basu made b‘ yoar fmsdice. aud same tour months ag0 ead & uutlos 1 the liladelplin Saturday Feening Postof & aring Leen gtttk o ost by S h i basile, Tecsotvents Joudy Tiokists aud Soguisnion Fhia B e o oy o e o vt s gt 2 0. W. JAMES, Olaalnoatt, 0. DR. RADWAY'S Regulating Pills 5, sleasatly coated with gwast g 1y, ‘clea 3 s outh OF it ficoadors ol (i hiomass . A Vi Cadigealonn Dy Bpectal Dispalch-to 1hs Chicazo Triduna, A ".’.‘x“.’du'i‘.'.‘l‘é;‘n of ;,b LncoLy, Nob., May 8l.—Report comes in that ‘acrantedio oflect & positive suro, Putsly Vek: tho grasshopper sufferors of Iash year are now | drugs. sDjictod with scurvy, in couscquencoof baviug hisd no vegutablea last winter, W, B. Porter, Mastor of tho Biata Grunge, sonds word to the Masters of Grangos fn tuo Eustern Htatos to seud what thoy can in assietauce, 1t iy 1ot bo. liovod that tho allmout oan ba gol Obsorya the following aymploms resulting from rduis of Ho Digentivs Orianp: Coustipation, 10ward Pilos, (fuiinoss of the Blood In the Hoad, Acidily'of tho Stomach, Nauaea, Heartbura, D ust of Fuod, Fullness of Weleht in tho Btumach, ‘Sour ruptlony, dluking or Fluttorings in tha Pit of the'Stany- meh, Switbruing 9f Tlead, Huzrlod sod Difticult Hroath ng, Flutterings at t| “nlll.h‘hl)llflvlunfl'uvh ben s Posiuro, Dlinzions of Vi Le} ?u aigt, ¥ m.‘x{-:i 1".‘.'“5'.'? cy of Penpiration, Yello ner of Bt X ok w01’ Hoat, Hueniug u th A suw dovos of RADWAY'S PILLS i frain all tha abovc-nauicd disurdei. Loz, buld by dey, - Rond *False and True,” Fond ana luttoratamp to RADV/AY & €O., No. 8 Warsonesl,, Now Vork, Lulopwation worth thoussods vl bo seat'you, : Tu_tho 'sult of Fauniug against the Tev. Mr, BiotHew, a Cathollo olergymau, of Ioston, who, ju was chargod by the plaindiff, slanderv:d blm beforo ng congregation for belug marricd by s maglstrate, tho jury osmo into cours yoa. terday ulorning aud wore "dlsobarged, fulllng to sgreo on o vordict. ‘Thoy mtood ten for the pistuti aund two for the defondant. troo the aystem Prico 2 cunte par