Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 5, 1875, Page 4

4 —— ERMS OF THE TRIBUNE SATEN OF RURACTITTION (TAYANLE IN ADVAXCEM Toutnge I'repntd nt this Ofiice 0000, 34000, 8.7CAT AL L satae rate. TYANTED-UnA actirs agent In sach town and village, 1 arrangements made wish such. Tpoctmen coples sent fren, Toprevent delay and mistaker, be snre and give Post. Oftice adiress in full, including State and County, itetut.tancesmay bommade elthor by drat, rpress, Post 0fi co ordar, or In registored lettors, at oor tiak, TERMS 70 CITY STRECRIDR Dafly, delirered, Hunday excented, 203 Tafly, delivered, Buadas Incindod, B( Addren TILE TRIBY. Corner Madienn and Dearbor TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. RE—Randolnh _strant, batwern eagenent of John Thompioo. 0 aud ereulng, ADELPIETHEATRE=Dearborn street, cornor Mon- 08, Varely Kniertainnient, Afieracon and evening. AQADEMY OF MUSIC~Halstad streat hatwann Mad. son andt Munroe Engagement of Ilaverly's Allastrels. Aftornooz and ovening. M'VICRER'S THRATRE—Madieon Atreat, Hetween Dearboern amd Rtate, Engagement of N, D. Roberta’ Paitoniine froupe, @ Jack and Tl Alteracon aad H TWENTY-THIRD STREET GROUNDS~Chsmpinn. ship gamoof bass lall ticiwoen tlie Muluals and Ohi- cagon s MAEONTQ. - JF. & AL re roquested to mect at thel Waet' Twelitliat, Ruaday maruing June G, at 8 o'ctnak skarp, o 'at ond the faneceal ‘of aue do brothot, Wailer Almated. By order W, M. C."Q, HOWKLL, Becrotary, SOCIETY MEETINGS. he members of Pleladon Tadgs So. 47 ! 51 6.5 b ef ket . 0T, Aro ancata i Tialiy corter ot Madinon And 1 e ing, Jono 5, at i o'clock sharp. taho traasacted. The Chicugy Tiibune. Saturdsy Mornting, Juns 8, 1875. (R WIT'H SUPPLEMENT. " T rig in to bave » circalar railway, wheres b7 the trip to Versailles will occupy but fif- t eon minutoes. F.—All members n'Jl:ta Tneampmont Nraneh o . to TReo Croup is no chickon. A Washington photographer yesterday wanted his phiz, but tho great Clief of nll tho Bioux refused to lend himself to any such a potly scheme for money-making. 1o wonld sell himself, how- over, and bis price was §25 cash in hand. The Ohio Tuniversalists, discovering that the Ttomnn Catholic Charch is bending hor mighty cnergies to tho destruction of the frec.school system in America, yeaterdny re. solved hatitis the duty of every religions denomination, exccpting the Cntholics, to rally to tho resonv of the imperiled educa- tional interests of the nation. How aro tho mighty fallon! This exela. mation is not, perhaps, malnproposin viow of tha fect that the laco dress and shawl once the property of the high and proud Evorste, Ympress of Franco, and valued at 215,000, have boen found in one of the dusty pigeon- Loles of a Washington pawn-shop, where thoy were disposed of for the poltry sum of $485 by the party who smuggled them through the New York Cunstom-Houss, A large and importnnt package from Wash. ington will soon aive nt the Chicngo Post- Ofiics. On this occnslon Mr. Jeweny will yost himself, and for that purposs will make n Westorn tour of observation among the offices in tho principal cities, where he ex. pects to improve his knowledge of the art of Landling mnil matter, 8o that, with the in. formotion thus goined, ho can show the smallor offices in New York, Boston, otc., how tho thing ought to be dona, —— The Wisconsin Grangars propose to try thelr hands at life-fusurance. Thoy met yes- terday and organized under tho title of the ¢ Patrons’ Benevolont Aid Bociety,” which will bo conducted on the co-operative plan, Judging from the low schedulo of rates ndopted, it will bo interesting to note how tho farmers succeod in paying policies out of the funds accruing from premiums aversging 50 por cont less than thoso required by life- Insurance compnnies not conductod on the Granger plan. ——— The 805th part, bawring & few odd hours, minutes, and seconds, of tha centonnial of the Beeonen caso was reached yesterday, and Mr. Evanrs wns still talking, somo of the ju- Tors wore aslocp, and evorybody waa bored. r. Evants says he will finish next Tues. day, whon Mr. Braou will take up the cudgel in bebalf of Trrtox, and return somo of the henvy blows recontly rained upon that luck. leca individoal's head. One hundred days! ‘Wero evor before so many words and talenta inside tho court-room, and so much time in rending and discussion outside, so badly spont nod g0 totally waated in the same longth of time, and to so little purpose? £ T ——— Information haa beon recolved in this city, of a positive chiaracter and from an authorita- 1ivo source, that the President has fully de. terminod upon the appointment of Collector ‘WanswonTn's successor, and that the place haa boen offered to and accepted by Gou, J, D. Wevstzn, The selection ts ono that will 1noot with general approval in Ohiengo, whero Gen, Wensren is universolly esteemed and respectod for his eminent abllity and unques- tioned integrity, By the politiclans and of. fice-holders the appointment will doubiless be regarded with Lut moderats favor, 88 Con. Wemstzn is in no senss n politiclan, nor i8 he dopendent upon politics or office-holding for living, THis lurgs experience inrevenus matters, golned during his service as Assessor of this distriot in 1872, after which tme the dutios of that oflls wers morged with thoso of the Collect. or, will give the Internal Ntovenus Depart- 2ment the beneBt of an honest and thorough adwminisiration, even though Mr, Wavswortn whould persist in withholding his rosiguation, a3, in this event, he wonld be susponded untiy his successor is appointed and confirmed, and Gon., Wensren would sorve as Collector ad interim, But it {3 to be hoped that Mr, ‘Wapswonra will gracefully succumb to the luevitable, and aceeda to the Prosidont’y do. eire for Lis resignatia The Chicago produce markets wars sgain egular yesterday, Mess pork was notive ond weuk, but closed firmer ot 919,50 eash, and 210.95 for July, Land wan nctive snd wealr, but closed stronger ot 918,52} per 100 W ceals, nad §18.60 for July, Meats were quict and easlor at 8a for shouldors, 4o if;ir u?}nrt ribs, and 11fo0 for short clears, = gg: llx;u Wer0 morv, gotive and 1o ‘higher, wuier cud u{‘“lm'm ol el B 001y, at 8jo for corn to Baffalo, Lo U ot and easler, Whest wa, ctive, 8017 140 lowqr, alosing fivmer g O cnshy, and 0530 for July, Corn was rather quiet and unchnnged, closing ot G5jo cosl, and C84c for July, Oata wero guiot nnd enal. er, closing at 68}c cash, and &G0 for July, Ryewns quietat H8c. Barley wns quictat §1.12 @1.14 ersh, and 0S¢ for Seplember, Hogs "were nctive at n nhado Jower prices, Sales at $4,00@7.25. Cnttlo wera in brisk demand, and 10@156¢ higher, seiling ot $3.00@7.00, Sheep wore dull and easier. The newspaper in this city somewhat identified with the Pacific Mail eorruption- fund, betler known ns the organ of Mr, B, I, ALney, and moro recently distingnished as the apologist of the revenne frauds, nficcts surprise that Tue Trisoxs should liave ex. posed an actual ocenrrence in which the same set of rovenuo atomps was nsed threo times in the same collection district, nnd duly recorded in tho same Collector's oflice. Tha reason why tho apologist of tho revenuo frauds affects wurprise nt this exposure is that it reflects equally upon the Washington Rovenuo Bureau, where duplicates of the ro. tarnsavafiled. Supposeitdoes? Thonitsimply shows that there was carelessnoss in tho Bu. reau of I:ternal Revenue at Washington as well n3 at tho Collcctor’s offico whero the duplication or the triplication occurred. Thore probably was such carolessness, and it wns prolmbly this circnmstance which in. duced tho President to ask for Mr, Dovarass’ resignation ns Commissioner of Internal Itev- enne, Mr. Dovarass, the Commissioner, re. signed ; but Mr. Wanswontn, Collector of Intornal Rovonna for this district, hav- ing recoived a similar roquest, declines to resign, and the orgun of the rovenue corrup- tionists sustain him in this resolution, Can this be beeause ouo of tho editors of the Inter.-Ocean holds n Government offics, and wants o precedont to act upon in case he should ba asked to resign? THE COAL-HEAVERS' OUTRAGE, The violent dexnonsiration on the part of the members of what is called the ‘“ Coal Henvers' Union * is another instance of the rocltlessness with which men sometimes defy law, order, and tho publio interests, includ- ing their own. 'The labor of a col-Leaver requires strongth, some experience, and powers of endurance. The labor consista of nnloading n vessel of coal, The forco is divided into shovelers, wheelers, and dnmp- era. Tho shovelers go irto the held and Al the buckets ; theso buckr.ta are drawn up by horse-power and are dumped into wheel- barrows ; the wheelers thon whesel the conl to the place of def.osit. Tho prices de- manded and exacted last year nnd the year before wers: sharvelors, 14 cents per ton; wheelers, 60 certs an hour; dumping, 50 cents an hour, Hoisting, that is & horse and driver, about $5 per day. Fifty tons a day, or ten houry” work, constitute an avernge dny's work. 'These rates, thercfore, amount- ed to: shovelers, $7 per day ; wheclers, §5 per day ; dumpors, %5, Tho prices offered end now paid by Ar. Law, one of tho principal denlers, is: shovelers, about 10 cemts per ton; whoelers, 40 conts nn hour; dumpers, 80 cents an honr; hoisting, the eame, or an avernge of $8 per day. If thoso employed by the hour work longer, they got proportionate pay, At this prico thero are several thousands of unom- ployed men who will gladly nccopt tho worlk, ‘Tho Coal-Hesvers’ Union, however, havo de- cided that no member of the Union shall work at less than last yoar's prices, and have further decided that no man shall work at the business anless ho ia & member of their Unlon or combination, A reason given for the unusunl wagea pald last year is, that the rates of froight wers so nenrly nominal that the contracts allowed but comparatively fow hours in which tha consignoe was to unload the vesacl, a Leavy chargo being mnde inthe way of demurraga for nny delay. As a consequonce, the vessal had to be unloaded at whatever cost, and the ooal-heavers hnd a harvest. It is not claimed thot coal-heaving is any moro exhausting or requires mors skill than bhod-carrylng, or the excavation and wheeling of blue cloy and mud from foundations, nnd yot the pride do- manded by the Unjon exceeds that pald for any kind of killed labor, The defense by tha conl-hsavers is that their senson of Inbor is & short one, extend. ingonly from the middle of May to the first of Decembor,—six months and a balf of the yeor,~and that in thia six months they must earn cuough for the whols year, There is nothing in this rensoning that will not apply with equal force to any other kind of lsbor, skilled or unskilled, which is dependent on tho wonther and the season. All out-door labor is oqually affected in the same way, It is an incident peculiar to common labor, and generally to all kinds of business, Men, how- ever, who labor during the season at out-door work necessarily try and do supploment thoir earnings by working at other things at other soagons, There is hardly anything in tha Inbor of conl.heavers which unfits them far working at anything olse whon there is no coal-heaving to be done; por is thoro uny reason why they should enfoy an exompiion from the common lot of all men when ‘they cannot got eno kind of work to go to work at something olsa, That plen, therefore, hnano special bearing In the case of oonl-heavers ; and yot that {s the only defenso or extonus. ;:on thot ia offered for thelr lawless procoéd. gs. Hero lot us sy that we find no fault with any conl-henvor, or any other man who values hin own labor and refuses to work at a less valustion; that is the right of every man, which cannot bo lawfully or morally ques- tioned. This right of every man to place a value on his own lobor, and to detorniine for bimself at what waoges he will work, caunot ba taken from him by law, nor by combing tiona of othor workmon, nor by any proceed- ing that is ot at onco both infamous and dowpotie, Honco, whon membors of the Conl.leavers' Uniod invade the coal-yards, ond use violence or other unlawful meana to campel men thoro engnged ot work, and earn. ing for the support of their families $38 per day, to leave thot lobor aud sbstain from work altogether, they are guilty of tho Ligh. est crimo thot can Lo committed agninst 8o cluty and against lobor, and forfoit the ro. spect and sympathy of all honest, docont won, Tha coal-dealers can obtain from the many thiousandy of unemployed men In the clty all thie laborora they want, and the mon are & axfous and rojoiced to recoivo omployment Yielding thewn 33 to 4 perday; these paeople are dspendent on their work, and at ooal- Qeusing they can got from twice to thres timag the wages thoy can gob at other com. men labor. Have not theso men the right to work? lave the col-heavers' combination any moral or legal right to forbid those men from working, and to enforce that command by personal violence? In the struggle be. tweon thoso who want to work and those who do not want to work, the sympathiss of the community ars with the fisat class, and THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: a8 genernlly opposed to thoss who, them- selyes refusing to work, srek by brutal violencs to deprive others of tho privilege. The criminality, ns well as stupidity, of thi business of attempting to coerco wages under tho penalty of stopping work, was illustrated in Dittsburg, Tho mil-owners, urable to nell their fron oxcept at reduced prices, pro- posed a reduction of wnges. The puddlers struck, and wonld not allow other puddlers to work. Tho mills stopped ; this threw out of employmont all tho miners of ore; it threw out of employment some 40,000 iron- makers and miners of conl ; this reduced the busiuess of the railways, and reduced the number of their Iaborers ; and the result was, that the rbortive effort of the puddlers put 70,000 workmen out of work, and the most of them have romnined out of wor' oversinee, In the menntime the trado of Pitisbury hing been diverted to other pleces, and the city snb. jected to a damage which years of sotive in. dustry will not repair, Tho anthracite coal business is a Inrgo one in Clieago, The country for hundreds of miles is supplied from this city. When the price of handling conl is s0 ndvanced in Chi- engo that it can be handled at other lako ports cheaper than here, then the conl will go thera for distribution instend of coming here, So Chieago will lose the trade and ,the coal- leavers the work, 'This conl trado gives em. loymeont to many bundreds of other men, in tho way of londing bonts and cars; it gives freight business to the cannl and raitroads, all of which employment fails with the trans- fer of the conl trade to other peints «on the lake. Every addition given to tho cost of handling coal is added with profit to. the cost of conl to tho consumers. Every addition to the price of aniliracite conl warrantsa cor- responding sddition to the prico f all other varigtios of conl. So that whoa the coal- leavers add 100 por cent to the cost of bandling anthracite conl, thereby taxing con- sumers, the same advance folloss in the re- tail prico of all othier conls which are not Landled by tho conl-heaveors, ‘The condnct of these mon can,in no nspect of the case, be excused. They have ploced themselves beyond sympathy by their brutal violence towards their fellow-workmen. They Lave sought to destroy lnbor by refusing men permission to work at what they deem liberal and remunerative wages, They havo at- tempted that which, if successful, wonld Lavo driven an immense trode from this city, and added largely to the cost of every de- seription of fuel, and fudl is o most important item in the expenditures of every fawnily of this city, When dotecl.ed in any act of vio. lence to sccomplish icse cnids, the perpo- irators should be prosecuted to the severest punisbment, At tho time J-, Bzronen's counsel an- nounced their in'iention of not calling Mrs. ‘TiToy, in spito of the willingness of Mr, ‘TiLToN's counsd), that she should testify, Tuz Tamoye lame/ated the docision ns n specinl hardship to that lady, and as calculated to dnmago tho interests of justice, Recent ovents nnd gossip confirm the position wo took nt tha% time, For instance, tho Now York Sun of yesterday is accredited with the publications of n statoment purporting to come frora a gentleman who married a sister of Mr. Tcnazos' wifo. Mr., Rionanos is a brother of Mre. Truroy, and appoored 8s a witness, on the trial, and is understoad to have pathorized the publication of this new oontribution to the scandal litersture, The ttatement sots forth that there wore throo othnr confessions of adultery by Mra, Eriza. 3E78 TruTon in addition to those said to have ben made to Mr, Trurow, Mr, and Mrs, Mourron, and Miss ANTooNy. Thesubatanca of thestatement printed by the Sun ia ns foRows: Atler litlls Paur's desth, {n 1806, Rionarps fre- quoatly met Berogen at TiLzon's house, e became to Tinron, but TILTON was not slarmed. Riomanps remainod passive uutfl after Mrs, Tizzox alioged confesaton to hor husband, Thbis (ime bs was {n- credulous, for ha had only sttributed to hor br propriety witihout criminality, Ils, however, in- fluenced his wmotler, Mrs, Mozss, to question har, A few dayo afterward Afrs, Monar reported to him that Lrrzapsan lisd confossod adultery with Dzxonzn, Mo waited, otill disbelleving, for further proof, or for his #lster's denial. In the fall of 1870, ErizanrTie visited his horoe in Mant Clair, N, J, Then ho told kis wife fo talk with Mrs, ‘Crnron about ths current storfes, but Ars. Riomanns’ courage falled whone ever sbe firied 1o broach the subject. When Mre, TitToN went away, BMrs. Riouaups rods with hor to the depol, On the wsy Mrs, Rimanps told her sister-in.daw wht she had hoird from Tuzovone snd ra, Morer, snd linplored i to tall the tratl, Mrs, TiLT0N, bureting Into tears, ¢onfessed the crime sho Liad commitiad with her pas. for. Bhopleaded the excuroof Paur's dosth ; of Brron- k8’8 touder sympathy in her afiliction ; of his grest in- tereat n her occupations; of his encoursgement of hier litarary eapirations, and of the love sho bore him, Bhe mrgnod that she hisd done Lut Lttlo In repayment by yletding her body tolis request. I love him," shs crlod, “and will dio rather than harm rhall come toblm,” Mrs, ltananos, deaply moved, offersd such consolation wnd advica 2s she, in her Lewilderment, could, snd tenderly bade her good-by at the depot, Adayor two Ister Are. Riouanps recefved a lettor from Miza, T1LTON, exprocalve of the writer's griof, and nssuring the reciplent that, though she bad alwaye fovsd her sa o sister, Dow she worshiped her ten thousond times more for Laing noble enough to Uston the story of ber: sin, understand ber nd forglve ber, This convinced Ar, of his slstor's guilt, snd he counseled with hor as to her future conrss, Thele convarssilon waa unreatralned, and hor guilt often referred to, His advice was: “Acknowledge your tranegression and try tolive {t down.” Yt ho thon felt that hor love for Bexoner would prevent such m courss, and upon Bher retusal to oboy him Le eecaed his advice. Heael. dom saw her, nud thelr chunce mestings were un- plecsantly oconstrained, When he was summoned befora tho Plymoutls Committes ho wont to ELIzavET: And msked what ho aliould do, Bho told him Le mmt g0; that his refuring would be hor condemnation; but ho must tell votling, He did so, refustug to ane swor the queationa put (0 bim, On the stand In the trial e waa glad only ta be asked as to personal knowl. edge, and 10 his tcstimony was trifing, e only told of wnddenly opening the parlor deor wnd finding Dxzcurs cod Evizasery lo an equivocsl position, Ous day Mrs, Monsx, in & 04 of anger, lob drop the sectret in the prescuce of Froaxscs Titton, who e at 84 onoo excitedly to hier motier and Legged to i ow the truth, 3re, Tilton then confossod the fact 13 Ler dsugliter, ‘This statemont sets up & confession to Mrs. 1 somanns (Mrs, TruToN's sister-in-law), Mrs, M fonse (Mrs. Tiuron's mother), and Froxz. 1ixox (Mrs, Truron's daughter). It seems un- + ascessarily cruel that ouch statemonts should be made when Mrs. TrutoN was deliberately oxcluded by Mr, Beeouen's counsel from tes- tifying on hor own behnlf, and whon she has x0 longer an opportunity for vindicating or arplaining in any maonner that will give hor " oords welght and authority, Ou the other hand, {t must bo rowmemnbered that Turopons 'L tzon and Mr, and Mrs, Mourtox rest under u_m imputation of a conspiracy, and are ¢arged with having committed perjury in oeder tosustain that conspirnoy, Now, if it be tiue, as (tharged in the statement printed by thie New York Sun, that Mrs. Trutoy made a confession to throe other persons st diffsrent times, the. ohargo of conspiracy loses much of i4s force, and the alleged conupirators have & right, in : telf-defense, to call out such corrob- orating & ridenos on thelr side as they can get. 10 may bis aald that Mrs. Biomasns’ svideuce SATURDAY. should have been taken on trinl; but her testimony was not ndmissible. Mrs. Truron's confessions could nol be nsod ngainst Mr, Begetier, This fs nnother illustration of the superiority of the Freneh practice, by which the President of the Court has the privilege of calling all witnosses who nre supposed to have any information on the mntter in dis- pute, and of quostioning thomn himself, On tho other xide, if Mrx. TinroN bnd not been excluded from the witness-stand by Mr, Brronen's counsel, she might havo givenn ronsonnble explunation of all the confessions alleged to hove baon mexlo by her. Such an explanntion would not probably have con. victed her usband sod the Mounrons of lying and couspiracy, which Mr. Brrener's connsel geem to think to bo neeessary to their cliont's vindieation 3 but it would, perhaps, havo given tho theory of fnnocenco n mors plausible aspeot than it has ngw, if Mra, Tiz. Tor could have mado it nppenr that her ro- morsa on account of improprietios, or nndus effection for Mr. Beecnurn, or advances from him not rojected ns thoy sbould have boen, hnd betrayed her into exaggerated expres. sions, which wore misconstraed by her hear. ers to mean confessions of adultery, an interpretation would certainly command moro goneral confidenco than the theory of n conspiracy, when the nlieged confessiona take in several persons outside of those charged with being conspirators. 8uch As it is, the vordict in the Bercmer easo, whatever it mny be, will fail to satisfy or con- vince a Iarge number of people, and contribu- tions of now uncertainties on both sides will continue to pour in to make confusion worse confounded. GEN, SHERMAN AND !EF; DAVIS, Wo print this morning a letler by Jerr Davis commenting on a passage in Snxn- 1AN's momoirs touching tho nssnssination of Prosidont Livcory, which has excitod the ire of Davis occurs on page 819 of volumo 2 of the momoirs. By an arrangement, Gen, Smeryay was to meot Gen, Jomysyox, then commanding the Rebel army in North Carolina, on the 17th of April, As ho was entering the car at Durhem on his way to this interview, the telograph operator told him that an important dispatch in eipher was just then coming over the line, waited until the.dispatch was reccived and trandlated. nouncing the avsassination of Mz LaxcoLy, the attotpt on the lives of Mr. SEwanp and his son, aud A suspicion that a like fate was designed for Cion, Graxt and all the prinei. pol officers of the Government. 3tax directed o operator to divulgo the con- tents of the dfispatch to no one until his re- torn, Ho kept the matter scerct. He met Jonxerox at the place appointed, and he thus describas what followed : The partienlar passage Tio It was from Mr. STANTON, ane Gen. Bues- A naon an wo wn wera alono together, T showed him the dlepatch stmounciog Mr, LicoLN's assassination, snd wnlohed hia closely, in largo dropsson hia forchoad, ond hodid not ot tempt to concasl hls dintrosy, 23 5 disgrace 4> the go, and hoped I uid not chargo 1t to the Cunfalerite Goverament, could not belinge that ho, or Gev. Lex, or tho officors of the Gonfed erato army, could possiuly be privy to actn of assaes inatlon ; but T would rot axy as ueh for Jxvr DAVIS, GonoE Baxpxrs, and men of that atripe, Thd peraptation camo out He denonnced tho sct I told him I This resnark of Gen, Saoznyan wrs made within a Sow hours ofter ho bad heard of the nssnasination of the Presidont, and, considor- ing all tho circumstances of the cass, was rather & mild expression of what was ot the time & wide.spread bolisf. recognized OaTianzof the Confedoracy. was ho who inspired the whole Rebellion, wos ho who had drawn the Bouthern poll. ticinns into his schome, His bulief that he hnd succeeded to the mantlo of Oarnmouw, and his ambition to be tho founder of a new nation, led him on until he hod engulfed tho country, North and Bouth, ina war of Llood. Ho nover at any’time gave evidence of the lenst lindness of leart, sym- pathy for safforing humanity, or the slightest disposition to end tho dreadful strife save in a recoguition of his own obleftainship. He was an embodiment of arrogance and selflsh. ness, His favorite Goneral distinetly pro. posad the gonoral massacre of all oppononts. Bravnzaanp, who enjoyed the spoolal favor of this man Davis, proposed to mako assassi. nation a distinguishing featuro of the War, ond to ralse the black flag. The Northern peoplo had witnessed the dreadful massacro of their countrymon by assassinntion and tho even more dreadful death by starvation in the prison at Andersonville, loarned of tho more wrotohed condition of the Union prisoners st Richmond, where tho mon were crowdedand packed into small rooms; whore they wore starved or poisoned by rotten food, and deliborately shot it they approached o window for fresh sir; whero they died by platoons and their corpses wero left to keep company with the living,~all Davis was the It It Thoy had this they knew hnd taken place under tho vory eye of Jorr Davis, who was doaf to every apponl for the amelioration of their condition. Naturally, they looked zpon him as an unfeeling, solfish man, capnble of tho most cold-blooded cryelty in the mattor of war, and, iu his defeat nnd overthrow, capa- blo of any act of revenge or violence prompted by disappointed ambition, Gon, SueeMaN, In hia remark to JonnsToN at tho first hearing of the assassination of LivcouN, but expressed in a very mild form an opinion very general throughout the country, that Davis wéi capabla of many things which a soldler and a man of generous and noble impulses would spurn with horror, Mr, Davia bos sunk In general estima- tion at the South almost aa low aa he 18 held at the North; and his wild and absurd at- tempts to keep himself from merited obliv. jon but add to the contempt which this par- tioulur letter actually invites. Tt soems to us that Mr, ParLir Wanswontn, Collector of Internal Rovonue in this district, doth protest too much, The ease which Tux ‘Cripune stated on Thursday was not supposi- titions ; wo kave the highest authority for belioving that it actually ocourred, The caso was one in which & certain series of stampa 1iad beon reported to the sawe ofiica ns cancol- ed thres different times,—that i3, that threo soparate lots of whisky wore dumped and sold under one sot of stamps, and that tha numbors of these stanps were roported and recorded In the Collestor’s offlce three times, We did not locate this ciroumstance, We did not say nor intimate that it had ocourred in the Chicago oftice, Br. WapawonTu has séen fit to assume that it was aimed at him, I tho cass occurred in his ofice, he had bet. ter say nothing ebout it it it did not ocour, as ho alleges, then he ghonld have been content with a donial on bis own acoount. Instend of this, Mr, Waoswonx saye that it not only did not oc. cur in his ofiice, but *“never happened in » single one of tho two or thres hundred collec- tion distriots of the United States." Mr, Wapsworts should produes his authority for speaking for the * two or thres hundred col lection dlstsiots of the United States,” Has he Lean 5o faititul an elicer that be has not JUNE 5, 1875.—TEN PAGES. only kept strict nceount of his own offies, but of all tho other Collectors' oftlees in thocotn. try? If s0, we aro not surprisod nt his deo- lination of the invitation to resign ; such far. reaching information ought rather to entitle him to promotion. Unforiunetely for Mr. ‘WapswonTi's universal knowledge of nll the collection districts in the United Btates, wo aro ohliged to repent that sach n caso ng we cited hins ocenrred, not in ono instauce only, but in soveral, nud not only by making the same stanps do daty in different cities, but in tho snma city, And theso ovenrronces wers owing entirely to tho recklessness of the Col- leclors, upon which tha corrupt subordinatea and grasping distiliers rolied. ot s s s et PAYING OFP NATIONAL DENTS, Tho proprioty nud possibility of paying off at least a part of tha enormous debt of Great Britain is now engaging the thoughts of the firat financiors and the prominent papers of Fuogland, The discussion has natarally drawn attention to tho mnrvelous rapidity with which we havs discharged our national in- debtedness, In 1865, Prosident Jounsow de- clared that tho debt onght to be patd off in thirty years. One-third of that thne has now nearly passed, and more than ono-fourth of tho debt has boen wiped ont. Evon during tho period of fnancial depression sinca the panie, the poliey of reduction hns been stead. ily pursued, Sinco July 1, 1874, the Secre- tary of the Trensury hos redeomed nearly £12,000,000 of bonds. And tho difference botweon tho dobts of 1865 and 1876 by uo means represcnts tho real re. duction during the decade, Besides redeeming bonds, we have audited and pald a vest number of claims arising from the War and forming a fonting-debt outside of the bonded one. There is a sharp contrast bo- tween this picturo snd that drawn by the London Times of Eugland's cfforts to pny her debt, In 1817, at the cloge of the Napolo. onio wars, that debt was £840,000,000. In nbont sixty yonrs, England has paid less of this than the United States has peid in ton yoars. The fofal reduction is only about £100,000,000, Sir Srarronp Nonruoorz, the prosent Finapce-Minister of England, has now submilted a plan for the gradual ex- tinguishment of the £740,000,000 still owed. Itis to bo gradual indeed, for the averngo anounl decrense would be only $10,000,000, at which rate the Inst farthing would be paid in A. D. 2245, Yot tha weolthicst nation in the world is wondering whethor it can stand this stralu{ A nationa! debt iga national blessing in one woy. It furnishes a moans of safe in- vestmont for trust-fundy, for the savings of the jnoxperienced poor, etc. It may in somo rare cases deter n uation from going to war. But outside this real oud this dubiows goed, it is an unmitigatod ovil, & burden on the tax- poyer, and a cause of corruption, Yeta too vapiddigchargo of such a debt may bo anything but & nationnl blessing. In this country, for instance, the payment of the dobt might send % vast smouat of our working capital abroad, and only part of it would refurn in the form of frosh investments, ‘This objection, which i3 partly met by the fact that the taxes lnid to dischargo the debt would bo paid in great part from the surplus dovoted to idlo Juxury instend of from tho actual capital of the country, does not apply to England, The Tinglish consols are owned by Engliehmen, Paying thom off would movely transfer monoy from ono sot of Englishmon, who can use it productively, to another sot, the prosent bond-owners, who cannot. The latter would ot once lonn it, direotly or indirectly, through banks, stock-investmonts, ete., to tho former. The disturbance of business would not be sorious, and the temporary sacrifices of the tax.payer would relieve him of a permanent and heavy burden. > TEMPERANOE IMPRACTIOABLES, The sbourdily and jmpracticability of the method of reform sdopted by tha recont Con- vention of the so-called friends of tomper- snce are poculinrly and forcibly illustrated by their action upon the question of indors- ing reform clubs. A resolution was offered providing *‘that the work done by the or- ganizations of reformed drunkards, known ns the Reform Clubs of New England and Illi- vois, abundantly justifies the addition of this agoncy to those already operative in the tem- perance cause, and that we heartily racom. mond the organizntion of such clubs in evory’ State.” Now here waos something tangible and practical, something entirely out of the province of theories, somothing that has boon tested and developed successful results, as ia shown by tho fact that these clubas in Maino and Massachusetts nlone have a membership of 80,000, 'Theso are not 80,000 children who Lave sigued tho plodge, nor 80,000 tompor- anco poople who have agroed to romain tem. perato, but 80,000 drunkards who have banded themselvea togother and are working to save themsolvos and othors, We havon similar organization in this city which is do- ing a good work, and which has often beon commended by Tan Cmoaao ‘Trmune. They aro men who have guffered in body and mind, who have injured their families, who have lost. thoir money, ruined their business and dograded ‘thomsolves, and brought their wives and children to the very doors of the Poor-Bouss. If any one knows the evils of intemperance, thoy do, If any ouwe knows how to fight these evils, they do, If any one deserves encoucagemont, sympathy, and direot assistance, they do. This fact being in. contestible, bow did this Temperance Con- vention treat the resolutions and indorse-and encourage them? It recommitted it, and then adjourned #ine dis without ever recog- nizlog it or calling for ita consideration, but giving the remainder of its time to a squabbla over woman suffrage, & stupld resolution to put down amoking aud chewingof tobaoco by legislation, and a vigorous and characteriatio denunciation of Anva Dicuveon. They shoved this rosolution out of sight because it had no politics in {t. No ono can hold office underit. It does not involve the use of o constabulary, the issue of logal processes, the wire.pulling of political conventions, and tho excitements of political campaigns, It is only o sensible, practical, slnsple plan adopt- ed by drunkards to holp ihemselves, and these professed tempersuce reformers delib- erately shoved it aside as unworthy of con. sideration, . ‘We bavo previonsly allndod to the imprao- ticabRlity of sccomplishing a temperanca re. form by political mothods or through the agencies of elections and legislation, and once more would illustrate it by rofcrence to tho working of politica in those towns and vil. loges which have availed themselves of the local option to prevent the sale of Jiquors in saloons. How lias it worked ? The young men of these towns, finding that thoy could no longer obtaln liquors from the saloons by the glass, thie saloona not boing licensed to koop {t, have formed themaelves into cluba, soine, or nearly all of them, of a seorct nature, the mwembors of wlich must be vouched for, and are then provided with the psss-words. They hire and furulsh & room or suils of rooms i the upper storfos of a block, These rooms Are supplied with liguorw, glasses, and decan- ters by the liguor-dealer, and tho liguor is farnished by the gallon or barral. A janitor takes caro of the rooms, and this janitor {8 only a bartender, who supplics the mombers of tho club and rocolves his oqiivalent in the sbape of a salary. Bometimes they buy the liquors di- rect from tho wholesale dgnlors, and somolinics tho liquor-dealer recoives his pay just as he would over his bar, This hng boen the practico for yenrs all over this country, andno law hns yot been offective onough fo rench theso clubs. They are usu. ally organized by nnmarried men, but event- nnily both young nnd old married men join 1em, and they drink all the mora because thoy ean drink in seerob and not in n publie snloon. In the club-raom thero is norestraint whatever ; on the other - haud, the agreeable- ness of tho associntions and tho affinitles of companionship give young men frea rein. Thus it has happoned that those places which havo availed themaselves of tha privie Jego of closing up saloons have discovered, to their astonislunent, that there was moro drunkenness than ever beforo, It was for this renson that the City of Gnlosburg, in thia State, after having iried local option for a yoor with the result of discovering that tho whole population wera likely to got drunl, threw ita local option to tho winds at tho last election, Tor the samo renson, numerous other places have followod in the saine direc. tion. We are, however, a little surprised at the troatment which wea accorded Miss Anne Dreraxeoy, Although this gifted but erratic young woman outdid Prof. Tr¥patt by pit- ting polities against prayer, nnd woman-suf- frage ugoinst the Throne of God, sho was nevertheless in complete sympathy with the sontiment of tho Convontion which had re. fused to extend a helping hand to the drunk- ard trying to aid himsclf. This Convention from first to Jast had howled, bogged, im- plored, and demanded politics as the pavacen for intemporance. No man or woman in it hnd recognized or allowed the efficacy of moral appeal, the strength of human ngency, the powor of prayer, or the co.operation of the Church. Why any of them, thereforo, should have taken exceptions to the policy indicated, expressed doubtaabout the pioty of Migs Dicrrvgon, and proposed prayers in her behnlf, wa cannot undorstand, except upon the assumption of thut uiter contempt of cohierence aud responsibility which clarac. torizes Ltho averogo woman who goes to con. vontions, orates, discusses, aud rosolves. When this Convontion mot, Tnr Cnicaco Tnmone hoped it would adopt somo simple practical method of reform. This it has not done, On tho other hand, before it had mnde any progross in any direction, it was evident that it was in tho hands of womon- suffrago advocates and Epiritualists, which, of course, ended its usofulness at once. Con- saidering this fact, it is a matter for congratn. lation that tho Convention has closed ita heterogoneous and aimloss labors, REPUBLICAN REFORM IN BOUTH CARO. LINA, The Republican party has been held ro- sponsible for every wrong commitied in Bouth Onrolina politics. It has undoubtedly* been partly responsiblo for them, although tho stubbora refusal of the white Democrats to take any part in politics and human nature, 29 exomplified in the ignorant blacks, both contributed groatly to the prevalont corrup. tion, and wero both wholly beyond party control, The white Domocrpts, by keeping the nogroes in slavery, incurred a great part of tho responsibility thoy have succeeded in transforring to the shouldors of the Republi- can party. But sinco the party bns been rightly and wrongly charged with the whole afiair, it is only just that ita efforta towards roal reform in tho Nazareth of American politics should . racoivo due. credit, Last foll, the South Carolina Ropublicans electod Omaxmeruiy Governor. It may be that the provious carcer of this able man will not bear the closest scrutiny, but it is certain that his conduct a3 Governor hns boen most oxemplary, and that Le hns dono more for his State, in the few months sinco ho was inaugurated, than any other Sounthern Gov- ornor, native or Northern-born, has done for his, Ho fearlesaly broko loose from those of Lis supporters who woro dishonest. When a Judgo was to bo elocted for the Charleston Circuit, tha most important in the State, a colored gambler named Warerea announced himself a8 the regular candidate, Omamorn. zax openly opposed him, made a speech againet him in bis own caueus, and carried the olection in favor of an liomest man, V/nresr was whipped. The Legislature soon after had to eloect another Judge, this tims to the Supreme Bonch. Ex-Gov. Mosea presonted himsolf s & candidate, Hiu father, the Chiof-Justice, eleotionecred for him _vigorously; and Lo had tho ardent support of Senntor Parrensoy and all hisown old pals in knavery, Cmiumraran's influ- ence defoated him, An houest Judge was choson, When it is romemberad that a cor- rupt judiclary has beon one of the greatest curses of Caroling, the importanco of these two contests will be seen. , The Governor's influence cut down the expenses of the logis. Intivo session to $150,000, about one-third of the avernge of the Inat six yeors. He vetoed, in this short eession, four important fraude. Oneof thess was the * bigbonauza" bill, which legalized all tho Mosra pay-certificates and tho Parxen bills.payablo. It containeda stoal of about $1,000,000. When the Speakor of the House docided thia veto technically in- volid, Onasperraly procured a pormanent injunction against the enforcement of the bill, and so finally checkmated the conspir- ators, Two other bills, nearly as bad, mot the same fate, This in & good record. A year ago, roform in South Carolinn seomed like the wildest of dreams. It has como now, aud como to stay, and the credlt of it is duse to tho Republican Governor. Indlana, celobrated for the essa wiili which dlvorces may bo obtsuod within ite llmits, ap- pears (o contsin just one pair of pooplo dlscon- tented with exlsting la; Their viow is, apps- rently, not that the present syatero is too laz, Lut too rigld. Iu forming what they are pleasod to term & matrimontal alliance, Dr. J. R, Boxry aud Dr. Bossx D, GiLogur have procceded [nn msnner quite unosua), Inaresd of exchanging vowa in the presance of a clergyman, Justice of the Peace, or.other publio functionarv, theso two practitioners submitted to a clrcle of frienda a ocoutroct which their Joiut Ingenuity had fromed, It merely sat forth tlat wmandsgo was acivil contract; that thoy loved one auother) aud the ocontract would cesse’ to ba bind- fog as scon sa love belweon them coseed 0 be mutual. Dr. Dumu l an Indisuspolis may, aod Dr. Grusent & Meee sachusaity woman, Whothor the Courts of tue tormer State will regard » marringe legnl which {e ireotly stated to be dlesalubla at will, is not cortaln, Th ay mo ragard it; but those of Mensnohusctte sssnredly nevor will, Iudeed, it will require the nlsesd aort'of disoriminxtion to detoot any differonoo batweca tha of Mrs, Bues antthat of ton b women who, an mistiess:: rocloty of thelr lovers wh mutuel," ectunl ponitior, honeand otier 8, COMPS L0 enjoy thy, hon “luva coacon to by R e Noxt Boptember, at Nortithampton, . there will bo swaupurated perhavn tua noet in. toresting experlment In woman-education gyes made in this country, The Woman's Callege, anggeatod and endoved by tho will of tho (o, Bori1a Byiru, of Matfleld, will at that timg i.: opeu for the rosoption of studants, Ap Intor. cating slatomont of tho plan of the fonnder, gny the progress which has thus far Losn mn:xn n carrylng it oul, appears in a recont number of the Boston Journal, Cnudidates for fdmivsion will bo required to pran eaeontinlly thin ARMO ax. amination a8 that catabllshed at Witliamng Bowdoin, Amhorat, Dartmouth. and otliee Naow Lngland colloges of the sacond class, A'“,," courge of the first vesr will bo modoled upan that of ordinary Amorican collegen or universy. tes for men, Thus Iar only one coliogo-bullding baw beon erecled; it fa designed to Aupply recitation-ruoms, looture-rosms, eabinots, 1./. boratories, eto, Au observatory and ZYmnnadym re oon to bo built. It is not expectod thiag tho sttccoss of tho lnstitntion will be Immediate o siriking, Tho mont that fa hoped for it ig gradual Incroass of meaos, and power, and fn. fluonce ; and a corrosponding avakening amo; iho higher classos of womon of & doairs for fom tollectunl advancemont, —_— Tho full toxt of tho corrospondenco batweon TioxAe A. Hcorr, Prosident of the Poungyh vauia Railroad Company, aud Postmaster-Gan. o018l JEWSLL, 1n referonce to tho transfar ot malls ut Philadelolia, s & frerh ravelation of the unpleaaantuess existing betwoen the Ponpayl vaniaand tho Daltimore & Obio Cowpanies, Mr, Scor? offers to carry tho maila from Washing. ton to Now York at reduced timo, and for thg eame comiponeation as under tho present ae. raogoment. o refusos to allow tho cara of the Daltimore & Ohio on the lacscontrolled by him, whatovor the consequonces may be. Tho Post- master-General, realizing the necessily bofare him, sucoumba gracefully. Ho foels that Le a8 0o choieo, and that it is his doty, as well ag tho public interest, to accopt the advantages of compotition so far 2s ho can. At tho eame timo, e disclatms any sympathy for eftlier party to the warfare, Mr. Scorr s given the cop. eract, Mens,, R The vituperation and pig-headed stapldity of the Now York Star in its vitlgar dofouse of Mr, Lzecuen has alwaya resombled tho outery of an indlanant sorvant at the arroat of his moro pol. isbod master by tho police. Tho rolations here implied boiweon Bercnzk and llowAnp acuslly exlst, and tho explanation of them is one of the fow goad things developed in the interview with young DoweN. It apposrs that, whon Howanp wos sent to Fort Lafaratia for forgiug Livcony's proclamation, Beecuen, for some rosson nol sxplrined, interosted bimaelf in the case. He applilod to Bowes for counsel, and roceived s bint to miud bis osn busincss. Inxtead af doing eo, he mought a personal intorview with Mr. LincorX, and obtained Howamn's pardon. Ar. LincoLy afterwards roferred to the not with pain, explalning that no othor man but HESRY WARD Degcnza could have ioduoed him to bo gullty of psrdoning Jor Howarp, The quarrols {n tho Sentinel office of Bilwan- keo appoar to Linve terminated to the eatisfac- tion of two parties intorested thoroin, to wis: Marr H. Carrcwten and N. 8. Moneaey. As partoer of Mr. CARPENTZE In the law-business, Mr. Muneney managed the Sentinel in his intor- eat, and doubtless with his capital. In yestor- day's isaua, two chavges are snnounced. One s the dissolutton of partnership herstofore exist- ing betwoon the members of tho law-firm. Tbe other Is, that “N. 8, Munrisy, baviog bacome tho owner of a majority of tho stock of the Sen- tinel Company,” will devale his time to the con~ dact of that journal. ——————————— POLITIOAL FOTES, Philetus Sawysr may treat Harrison N, Lnd ington in Wisconsin much the same sa Hayos did Taft in Ohlo, Ohio Postmasters to the number of fitly-five [ have risen np and callod Gen, Grant blossed, but at the same timo aignifed their opposition to a third term, Bon Batler, as ono of the official visitors to Weat Point, is 8 pew thing under the sun. As the Brooklyn Kagle puts itt ‘' He thinks abous 23 much of the Academy 8 the Acadomy does of bim." Crises in the postal.car systomn are agwin oo ourring perlodically, and pressnting the famitiat features of yosrs gone by. This troubls with tho raitcoads, it is wotth noticing, alsays begios Just beforo the olozo of tho Oacal yoar. Ex-Sonator Carpenter haas sold out his ioterest in tho Milwsukee Sentine! to N, 8, Murpby. There bas been & virlual consolidation of Repub~ lican iiterests in Wisconaln, the Carpenter and Cameron wings working togother harmonious- 5. The solemn way in which the Utios Zerald arguon that the next Premdential candidate muat come from the West ia amusing enough, The milk In tho cocoanut, an tho Observer points oul, {8 the hostility of Ar, Ellis H, Roberts towards Bonator Conkling. Bpeale-Payment, Revenuo-Reform, and Civil- Borvice Reform, aro, aocording to the Now York FErening Post, the throe objects to which the Ropublican party should apply itesolf, Thoy are the menus for a continuanze of political au- premacy, snd are within reach of tho pasty. Secrotary Bristow {a making engazomants for political apesches in varions parts of the comne try; and, ea Lie has no polioy to vindicato of roputation to dcfond, aud the path to palitiosy prefartaent in his own State ls closed to him, the inquisitive editore want to kuow what Lis inten- tious are, : Just as Tux Tnisuna predicted, The Oppo- sition and 1ndependent nawapapera have trotied oat lionest Casca, and Caius Cassius, and Marous Brutus, and Juliua Cwsar, for the fortieth timey snd 8ot them to spouting beautiful sentiments, straight out of Blakspeare, abont Gen. Grant's “nodytog sapirations for a third term, 4 gratifying indication of the eateem in whicl the Now York ferald ia held is afforded by the geuotal raforenca ta ik as & * neutral” orgsu ln connection with the Third-Term scare, These in, of courss, a difference with distinction be- tween neutrality and indepsadence, To be weutral when truth and right are in jeopardy, is to be false, Usen. Bherman's apsach at the Ohlo Repub- lican Convention (s & good specimon of true loe wardness, Indoed, tho milltary man was plsced in » dellcate situation, in comparimon with which evan tho troubles caused by tho Memoira are of small convequence. Gon, Bherldao, for his part, would rather face the terrors of s fasbiouabis wa!ding than speak to a large and luduontisl political convention, Political prophets ontalde of Minnesota are reapecttully Informed that the Democrats have reuolved to stump thas State for the first tima in twelvo yoars, They oaloulate that one blaat hom Bill King's horn is worth to them 1,000 votos. Bat tho Republicans sre by no means alarme od, notwitustanding the uoslterable sitachment of Willaw to the old party, Tuore i» so much efliciency and Lionesty in the Republican party of Miunosota that the paopla cannot afford to dee prive I¥'of power. The Cinciunati Enquirer sgaln takes the paing to oorrect the improsefon that Mr, Thurman Ly in apy degree responsible for the last pominae tion sod olection of old Bill Allen, Mr. Thare men, it sppoars, was forced inta supporting Allon lnst yoor. Dy the way, it might bs worth while for the Eaquirer, orsome other compes tont autlority, to explalu' whether Ar. Touses man's motive in providing for a long acd sctive campslzn was In reality to amoke out 0ld Will- fam Allon. Wben tule quesiion has been ane awored, it will botime (o ask whstler lho do