Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 9, 1875, Page 4

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Eold by'all drugaists, The Chicane Tribune, ‘Wodnesday Morning, June 0, 18785, The New York Times calls aitention toa very singular fact in connection with tho Deecuen trial, namely : 'The confident nssur- ance mpon the part of all of his advocates that hewill be nequitted, and the preparations which are being mado for holding meetings in Brooklyn and New York to celebrate the . ncquittal. In viow of theso fnols, it is cer. tainly not unfair to inquirs how his advacates found out tho unanimity of the jury, who secured that unanimity, and how it was dono, It would bo valuable information for other defendanta, T'hero is reason to fear that a groat wasto of postage stamps and telegraph outlay is now going on in communicating with Presi. dent GnaxT on the subjoct of the Chicago Intornal Revenus Collectorship, Tho fiat has gone forth, and neither the President nor Sceretary Baiatow arc the sort of men who ean be relied upon to change thelr minds for the nocommodation of o fow office-holders and politicions. Mr, Wanswonti's friends may be gpared further exponse nnd chagrin by taking Gen. Briarow's word for it that * the deciion in WavswonTa's case is unaltorable,” At Winona, Minn., yestorday, Judge Nex- 50N, of the United Btates Distriet Court, ren~ dored a decision afllrming the constitutionali- ty of the Civil-Rights law, and, incidontally, asserting tho power of Congress to pass laws for the enforcement of corstitutional amend- montsin States where similar or corrospond- ing laws ave not in force, or where laws ob- noxious to such amondments have been en- noted. This decision—~thoe firat thus far given in reforenco to these pointa—coming from o lifo-long Democrat, hos created not a little surprise among lawyers and politicians, who see in it a marked dopartur m the old dootrine of Ktate Kights, % G Tho political imbroglio in the New Hamp. shiro Senate has been partially adfuated by the Supreme Court in a decision afllrming the logality of the action of the Governorand the Beuato in passing upon the election contost, and adjudging Mesara. Prirst and Prooron to bave been duly elected. This gives the Democrats a quorum and a majority, and is an unpalatable decision to thoe Republicans, who had connted upon overturning the action of the Senate upon the point of its unconstitu. tionality ; butit is probable that the Ropub- licans will nccopt the sltuition and proceod to the election of Governor, though the Democrnts claim that this cannot now be dono, s the time prescribod by law has passed, Mr. Evanrs yosterday finishod his lengthy and powerful argument in bohalf of the de- fendant in the Brooklyn scandal case, The extremo length of tho address rendorod it tiresomo alike to the jury and the publio, and in this way was lost much of the excel- lent effect producod during the first two or thros days, as it is too much to expect that & spooch occupying soven full days in delivery could command a sustained intercat through- out. Nonothe less, howaver, will the offort be regarded a3 among the most brilliant and 8Ule iu the eminent lawyer's carger, Ho has covered a vast amount of ground, saying, it would scem, all that human ingenuity could deviso to ssy in bohalf of a clicat who was his own worst witness, and in whose behalf such a lucid wnd intelligent explanation of his own utter. suoed a3 would yonder them consistent will bia innocence was of itself an undertaking of 2ome moguitude. Mr, Evaurs was also bur. doned with the labor of overcoming the offuot of Lis colleague's® il-advised ond injurious tactics, so that, altogethor, ho hos oarnod his money in making the casa for tha defenss re- spectablo, to say the least. Toward the close of his remarks, Mr, Evants adverted o the refusal of the defense to call Mys, Tiuron ns 8 witness. Ila tonched upon this mattor lightly and briefly, merely saylng that her testimony was not thought necessary bo. cause of her various denials which other Witnesses had testified to at econd-hand. What shall prevent the intelligent jusor from wondering why direct testimony on this point would not have beon preterablo? Certuinly, the slight mention mede by Mr, Evanty fur. uishos no enswer to such & query, ‘The Chicngo produce morkets wera Irregu. lar youtorday, Mess pork was activa and weak, but closed firmor, at $10,40 cash, and 819.45@10.60 for July, Lard waa active and weak, closing 7)@10c per 100 Iba Lighor, at $18.00 cash, and $18,60 for July,. Meatu wore quiot uud easler ot 7j@8e for sboulders, 11e for short riby, and 110 for short cloars, + Highwines were quiet and steady, at 81,17 per gallon, Lake freighta were more notive ond oauier, Flour was quiet and unchanged. Whest was moderately sotive, and 1o lower, but glosed Airm at 9340 cash, and Y7a for July, Corn was less active aud o lower, closiug at 660 cash, and 6U4e for July, Oots were quiet Rud }@10 lowey, closing at 6130 cauh and 670 for July, Lye was qulet, at Do vash, and 7iofor August. Barley was quict and flrm, nt $1.18@1.20 eash, and $1.01 bid for Beptom- ber. On Baturday evening last there was in storo in this eity 4,121,436 bu wheat, 8,124,- 036 bu corn, 249,067 bu oats, 1,264 bu rye, and 21,068 bu barley, Iogs wero active and strong, closing 5@100 higher; sales at $6.60 50. Cattlo were active, with sales at $1.00@6.90. Sheep wera dull and weak, Mr, Pig-Tron Krrier, of Penusylvania, hag two policies—illimitablo protection of homo industry, and an equally illimitable issue of pieces of paper ealled monoy, When the first falls,~as it Inmentably does at the pres- ont time,—he falls back on the second, confl- dont that, if the penple had their pockets crammed with frredeomable enrrency, they wonld buy something they don't want, snd thns relieve thio over-protected manufacturors of the goods produced in excess of tho do- mand. Mr. P..L K, {s now in Washington, giving to Secrotary Bristow n melancholy nc. count of the depressed condition of manufac. tures in Pennsylvanis, and vainly hoping to convort the hard-money Secrotary to the no- mouoy doctrine. The orrand is fruitless, and the Ponnsylvania statesman has his confi. dence sadly shaken in the present manage- mont of the Treasury Department, A dispatch e Associnted Presa acered. its to a prominent Treasury official the state- ment that, while no charge of dishonesty has been mode agninst Mr, Wapswonrm, the charactor of the whisky frauds committed in this district show n carelessness on the part of the Colleotor which fully warrants lis summary removal. A sample of theso was in the shipment of nlleged smnll packages,— sny five, six, or seven, which Lecamo ffty, sixty, or soventy om ronching their destinntion. It would seom simply im. possible that this should occur in o Collactor's office withont dishonesty on the part of somobody connested with that office, and certainly not without a carclessness on the part of the Collector bLimsolf, which do- maads his displacement. Under theso oir- cumstances, Mr. WADAWORTH can searely hope' to command wuch sympathy in his refusal to resign, even with the assistance of the organ of persistent office-holders in this city. ‘WHO WILL PAY THE FINES? Juilge Dicxey, the Corporation Couusel, is reported as saying that the Aldermon will be obliged to pay out of their own pockots the fines which Judge Wu.tisys has put upon thom for contewpt, and that the attorneys must do the same; that the fines can in no event be paid out of the City Tremsury. This is entirely proper and right, and, if Judge Dioxey adhores to this position, tho Common Counclil will scarcely dore to at once insult and rob tho public by making an appropria. tion out of the city funds for this purposs, Tho injunction was sorved upon every Alder. man and the City Clerk individually. Tho moment it wns served it becamo a matter for the individual judginent and oonscienco of every Aldorman whether he would obay or disobey the injunction of the Court. When the guestion came to bo sated on, some of tho Aldermen oboyed tho order of tho Court, aud some of them disobeyed it, It would be. impartinont and outrageous to ask that the tax-payers should pay the fines of o sat of mon who daliberataly became law- broakers ; it would bo on & par'with picking out the same nwnber of tax-payers to serve out tho Aldermen’s tarm of imprisonment if thoy had beon consigned to jail for contompt of court. It would be still moro “checky," if possible, to move an appropriation of city funds to pay tho fines of hired attorneys who violato the courtosics of tho profession, and bring tho courts into contempt for tha ac- commodation of their clients, 1f the Corporation Connsel, then, adheres to tho opinion with which he is accrodited on this umnbtor, it is not likely that the Council will dore to lay their honds on city monoy to pay thoir fines for contempt avy more than if cortain of their sumber had been fined by & Police Justics for being drunk and disor- derly, But thore are more ways than one to kill a cat. The Corporation Counsel says that the attornoys may be paid by the city * for the services performod by them as counsel, and in drawing documents.” Moagrs, ‘Torzr, Sronns, Roor, and Gounx partake very strongly of the samo opinion,~—though their opinion, as the contempt proceedings liave demonstrated, is not always infallible, But these gentlomon, in their respondonts’ answer, dwelt at unnocessary length upon the alleged fact that they had boen employed by the Cowptroller and tho Mayor as ** addition- al counsel,” and that the Comptroller and the Mayor bad the right to employ them in this capacity for the purpose named, This unquestionably looks to the payment of their foes, which thoy probably expect to come out of tho City Tremsury, Thoir prospoot for compensation would be a very thin ome if thoy looked to the individual Aldermen, Wo foar that Alr, Sronrs especlally would be in o bad way. But if the city is to whack-up,” the *asdditional counsel™ will probably be oblo to pay their fines and still make a good thing finnacinlly out of tho operation. If the city is to pay them for thelr services, we have no doubt they will bo high.priced men, They will probably domand at lenst 1,800 aplece, which would enablo them to pay thoir fines and have a noat little foo of $1,000 left. They could even afford to make up a pursa for the payment of the Aldormanio fines, it their foos were large enough. Now, this is all very lovely, but we regard it o exceedingly doubtful whother those out. sidoattorneys havo any claim upou the city for giving bad advica to the Aldermen., In the tirst placo, the clity wos not wande a porty to the injunction proceedings b the timo these sttorneys wers omployed and the in. juuction hod beon served on tho Aldormen individually, Tho interests of the city wore, therofore, not involved in any wonse, and, while tho owployment of additional counsel was the privilege of the Mayor, the Comp- troller, or the Aldermen, or anybody elsa who chiose to do w0, the **additional counsel™ will scarcely have any olaim for pay upon the city when tha iuterests of the city wers not in- volved in the wmatter at issuo, - There is another consideration {n this rogard, Iave tho Mayar and Comptroller any right to em. ploy on the part of the city a number of attorneys to advise the Aldermnen to violate the ordets of tha Courta? We think not, ‘The conatituted ndvisers of tho city had al. ready told the Aldermon that they would cowm. mit & contempt of court if they violated the injunction. The Corporation Counsel was abuent from the city,—not an unususl ocour- rence. Mr. JawrsoN, the Oity Attorney, clected by the poople, hiad advised against an infraction of (he injuuction, and Mr, Avaus, tho Assistant Corporation Connsel, represent. ing tha other wing of the Law Departmont, congurred in this advies, Dut tho Mayor aod cortaln Aldermen Qid nob like his sdvice; they wanted the {njuno. tion disrsgardod ead te bogus reiurmys THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1875. counted, and henco they held secret oaucnses and decided to employ and pay lawyers who wonld give them an opinion coinclding vith Useir desiros, to uphold the ballot-box-stuf'em nnd thereby extond their termsof office, regaal- leas of tho law. Tho nttorneys who undor. took the job should look for their pay to the individuals whoso purposo thoy subsorved for the time being. 1Itis simply ridiculous that the tax-payers shonld bo naked to pay attor. neyn outside tho Linw Dopartment to break down the Law Dopartmont itself and to sut the courts at naught, There i another consideration fu this mat. ter. Tho present Law Dopartment is a great denl Inrgor aud nore exponsive thnn it over hs been befora, When tho presont Corpo- rotion Counsel wns appointed at o salary of $6,000, thore was nlso appointed an Assist- ant for him at $6,000 a year,—a thing that had nover been dono bofore, With four at. tornoys and ng many moro clerks in the De- partment, the idea of employing four additional counsel to give an opinion to vio- late a temporary injunction is so propoator- ous that it needs only to be mentioned to be apprecislod. The temporary injunction which was violated by the advice of these at- torncys wns a common, every-day form of practico, resorted to for the purpose of giv- ing both eldes a full opportunity to argue the caso and proserving the stalus guo. 'The violation of such an injunction ia simply un. precedented, and tho legal gontlomen who aro rosponsibloe for it should not only psy their own fines for the contempt they com- mitted, but also look to their individual em- ployera and not to the city for such facs pa their bad advice deserves. ‘WHIBKY. During the fiscal yesr which ended Juns 80,1870, 71,337,099 gallons of spirits wero produced and taxed in the Unitod States. If tho consumption was only 68,000,000 gallons in that yoar, which is perhaps a fair infor- enco from tho amount produced, and is cor- taioly not an under catimate, the amount consumed in the lnst fiseal yoar must have bean much greater; for the population of the United States hns incrensod about 13 or 14 per cont during the five years, and tho de- maud for spirits hns doubtless kept paco with this increase, During four years, then, the congumption of whisky would have becomoe sbout 18 per cont grenter. If it was 68,000,000 gallons in 1870, it must havo been 76,840,000 in the yonr cnding Juno 80, 1874, A tax should have been lovied and collocted on thi amount, Instend of this, the tax collectod really reprosents only 68,805,000 gnllons. 'This singlo fact is in itselt proof of great fraud. Tho Now York Tridunc's osti. mate that 15,000,000 gallons of **crooked whisky” are put on the market overy yenr way be slightly oxaggerated, but thero can be no reasonakle doubt that the number fa well ap in the millions, Tho tax on whisky shonld be $1 a gallon, and overy cont of it ought to be, and can be, collected. If this wore done, the rovenue from this sourcs, noxt year, would amouant to at lenst 860,000,000, 'Thoe British whisky-tax amounts to $2.48, gold, por gallon. It ia loviod on tho raw material, tho mash instead of on the product, estimating so much mash per gallon, aud its evesion is extremely dif. ficult. The Enghish revonuo from this soureo, lagt year, was about $72,000,000 in gold, on 30,000,000 gallona, What do we need in ordor to obtain the gpamo rosult? Wo ncod, first, n thoroughly houest and intelligent Secretary of the Troasury, and we havo him. We neod, next, a Civil Service, in which mon arochoson for personal, not political, capacity, and in which tenuro of offica depends sololy upon good bohavior. This wehavenot. Wo perhaps need, {00, a new system of assessing and collecting the tax, although this is not certain. The English system might serve as 8 model, and it has Yeen suggested that dis- tilleries should be taxed on therrfall enpacity, and required to pay this lconso-foe whether or not they run up to their capacity. These idens should be carefully considored, for if tho present status of the Civil Bervice and porhaps if the presont tax.system is contin- ued, the frauds of 1875 will be repoated in 1876, and 8o on forover. [ — THT JUD! INOIS. The Chicago I%mes, reforring to tho do- cislon of Judge WrLtaams in tho recent caso of contempt, uses this languaga : Nothing In tho future {s more cortaln then that this infamaus, demagogleal decision by the fudlcial Car dozo of Chlcago will bo ovorrnlod Ly the Bupreue Court, But the matter should not bs allowed {0 stop thiore, Dy his repeatod scts degrading o the char- acter of our Jurlsprudonce and i1 violation of tho law of the land, E. #, WILLIAMS hiss shown himself to bo & Qangerous ;an on the Tiucl, and & dlsgraco o the Judicial ofics, To impesch and deposs him from the ofiico Lie disgraces will bo » plain dutyaf the nost General Ansembly, Eventa hisve sbundantly shown that nothing less than the depoaition of this uuworthy, malignant, and dangerons judiclal demagogua will re- desm the Judielary of Illinols from the disgrace which hts misbehavior has brought upon it, Of course, this vituperative donunciation of Judge Wrmrtas amounts to nothing. Substantially the samo language has boon ad- dreased by the same popor to scores of other persons, of ‘varions professions and in vo- rious walls of life. That kind of ribald abusa by that paper Is so famillar to the pub- lio that ita omission would attract far moro attontion than jta publication, The ZTimes hiag just now assumed the mission of driving Judge Winruams from the Bench, just as at other times it has assumed the mission of driving other persons to abandon office, to abandon thelr business or profession, and oven to leave the city, It has lamentably failed horetofors, and will as lamentably fail now, If thora is a characteriatiowhich the Ameri- can peoplo admire in a Judge it is the firm. noss aud cournge with which he discharges bis duty, dealing out the same justice to the rich, the influontial, and those exercising power over publio opinion, as lio doos to the- humble aud obsours, the poor and friendleas, Accldentally it has happened that cortain mat- ters, out of ths ordinary routine of the ad. oinfatration of tho law, bave avisen both in the Criminal and the Circuit Courts whilo he wos presiding. In bothcnses an effort was mado to browbeat and intimidate him from the performsnce of his duty., In tho one cago s combination was made to deliberatoly inmit bim »a & Judgo and to dety the process of his Court, He mot the izsue forcsd upon him in both omses Yesolutely and frmly, He was not doterred from the pe formance of his duty by the posltion or weslth of the offeudera; he treated them exnctly as he would bave treated any othioru guilty of the like conduct. For his firmness and courage he will receive the approval of the whole community, ‘The mallgnant assault upon Judge Wrrr- 3aus fa specially transpavent. It asswines tbat ho has done somothing peoutiarly atroclous, when, in fact, ho is sustained probably by every lawyer in the State who doos & respectable business im a reapectabls manns?, He has done wnothing whioh per Lapa any othee Judge in Ilinoks would uot have done under the samo cireumstances. To denounco Judge Witttams ns a ** dangorons manon the Bench * for a judicial act inwhich ‘all hix associates on the Benelt in Nlinois will coneur, mercly oxhibits the porsonal malig. nity of tho abuse, Bo far from the decision being demagogi- cal, it waa quite the roverse, nnlesy, indeod, to render judgmenta in favor of law and order, deconcy, and public and professionnl pro- prioty, be domagogienl. The decisfon was nagninst tho ballot-box-stafling bummeors, and agninst n deliberato attempt to break down the popular respect for Inw and tho courts. 1iad Jgdgo Witsuasts quailed before the por. sonnl abuso dealt out to him, lnd bo weak- ened before the pleas of the connsel who wero thoir own clients, had he overlooked the intentionnl disrespect shown to him, then ho would have failed in his duty, and been open to the repronch of being untit for tho offico ho holds. When a Court refuses or negleots to protect the exccution of its own writs, thon tho Court brings all law and conrts into disropute, 'This is what it was attempted to forco Judge WiLrians to do, but he met the emorgoncy with a Ormnoss and a dignity honorable to himself and areditable to the judiciary of Ilinois, THAT FIRBT SHOT. Tho * ghot hoard round the world " has given risgin these latter days ton contro. versy henrd round evory New England firo- sido. Who firedit? All tho specch-mnking and tonst-drinking of the contonnial of the shot did not sottle this question. As soon ns tho orators of tho rival townsof Lexington and Concord were dumb, the old strife be- #an again, The descondants of tho ** em- battled farmera® were hopelessly at logger- heads over it, and the restoration of peace scomed impossiblo, At last tho question is sottled. Contomporary history, solemnly sworn to, hnas proved that Lexington, not Concord, pulled the trigger that struck the flint that fired the powder that ahiot the bullel that begnn the battle of April 19, 1775, ‘Iie contemporary history consists of the oflicinl record of the procee:;inge of the Con. tinental Congress, This Congress eat from Monday, Sopt. 5, 1774, to Monday, March 2, 1789, On tho first of theso dates, the delo- gotos of eloven Colonies worn present. On the second, tho old Confederation, then within two days of its formal extinction, was represonted in Congress by one man, Painte Prry, of Now York, Tho first volumo of the journal of this forgotten body contains a numbor of dopositions takien within a week of the Lexington-Concord fight, and forward- ed to the Contmnontal Congross ¢ Phila. delphia by the Provincial Congress of Massa- chusetts, apparently in lien of an official report of the skirmigh, These depositions give o full nccount of the whole affair. They are by the commandantsof the militin of ench town, by soldiors and spectators, and by an officor of tho famous *King's Own" regi- mont, crippled and captured during the fight. Theso afiidavits toll a story whiah gives Lex- ington good right to claim the whole credit for tho first shot. According to this story, tho gronodiers, 800 strong, fited on the 70 militiamen of Lexington at 5 o'clock in the morning of April 19, rnd several of the Con. tinentals returned tho fire, Onp this last point, the declarations are clear and conclu. sive, Five hours before the fight at Concord bridge, the Lexington provincinls maintained a brisk running fight with tho regulars, Thera soems, indeed, to have bean mora run then fight in it, but yet more than one old muskot wont off, and the first shot was thus roally fired on Lexington greon. Tho principal despair of tho Lotsrogensous mnss of local politicians and offic-geokers out of businoss, who aro trying to form a wing, with 3r, Hesmvo in the centre, for the manago- mont of the Presidential campnign in Chicago and Cook County, scoms to be the mattor of names, both general and specifio, * With re. gard to tho gonoral namo of the What-Is-It, thero was much confusion at the mooting on Monday evening., Judge Mitren waoted it tobeaclub. Somo one olse wanted it to bo aparty, Mr, Hesrvo wanted it to bo neither & party nor & club, but an organization,which isn very indefinite want, innsmuch as the third name is ingludod in the other two, With rogard to the specific name, the macting was just as much at soa, Tha last club, party, or orgnnization formed by tho disaffectod patriots was the Invincibles, bat as this was a short-lived organization, which in dying left an intolerable stench bohind it, the title was not a popular one, Thers were many in tho meoting who would have liked Tammany, but s 'Pammany hss acquired such on - savory roputation, and has boen 80 intimately connected with fraud, corruption, and ras. cality, and as its formor leaders ara either in oxilo or the Penitontiary, most of those pres- ent fought shy of tho namo, or mentioned it in an undertono, 8o it will not ba Tammany in name, but that is what they want in faot. “You may break, yon may ruin the vase if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang round it stilL” The only title which meats with favor is that of Jefforsonian, and Jeffer- sonian it will probably be, And why Jeffersonian ? What distinctive Joffersoniau dootrine or prinaiple {s to apply to Alr, HzsiNa and his erowd ? The essential point of difforence between Mr. Jevyznsoy and the Northern politioians of his day wag that of State Rights, which made the States soveroign and virtually roduced the Nationnal Government to s more sgent and almost o pullity, ‘This dootrine carried with it ths right of secession, and the attompt was made to euforco the right in the War of the Rebell- jon, with results o disastrous that, had Jzy. rEnsoN lived at present, he would foel a cold- noas towards Btato Bovereignty, Is this to be the polnt of resomblance between Mr, Hes. 1xa's cliquo and tho Jefforsonian Damocracy P Is Mr. Huzswio stupld enough to suppose that Germans saro golug to swallow such heregies—Gormand, who of all peopls at present are the most national, whose theory of Governmont aubordinatcs the State to tho contral authority in all national mat. teru? If this iz not to bo the point of rosem- blance, what then? Is it to be the rights of man? The exteusion of universal suffrago? Tho ostablishment of civil equality? 1f wo, then there is no noed of this now party, for thess principles have boen appropriated and pus into successful practice by the Ropublic- aus already, sad the Domocracy have bsen compelled to give in their acquiesconce to them, ‘Whatever this orgabization may be, whate evor name it may appropriate, it is difioult ta refrain from admiring its family charaoter, Ar, Antox O, Heaia seems to bo the hoad of it, and Mr, Wasnniazox Hesno the tall of it, oud the Staate-Zetung the trunk of it As at present coustituted, however, it is altoggthor too-tonio for such patriots a8 Dowray, Evaxs, Ewns, McLivami, Comuxzy, Hioxzy, Kzmos, and others, who ary bob of Tettosle aelgin,~ab loast Miale names do not sqnint that way,—and to got over this little difioulty it is modestly pro- posed by the family to print an English edition of the Staats.Zeitung, with which to ronch tho Celtlo mnasgos and fire the popular lieart of Erin in favor of Joffersosion (P Democracy, whatever that mny be, It is a nico combination—n snnburst on A tri.color ; 8t. Potrick’s Day fn the morning and Dor ‘Wachit am Rhein; Herr Hesivo leading the Irish Landwohr and the Teutonic Fenlans ; the shillnlah and the needle.gun ; Brastanck and Pro Novo. Tha nssocintions in which tho Hibornian wing will find itself involved, howover, will not be any more incongruous thon those in which Mr, Hesing will find himself, Io hns mevered his con. nection with tho Republican party and ntlied himself with the party of corruption and fraud, of Lallot-box #lufling, of opposi- tion to progress and reform. It isa queor placo for Mr, Iesivg, but ho bas taken it nono too goon. We aro alrendy within the influonces of the Presidential campaign, nnd ovory duy must intensify those influences and draw the lines of party tighter and tighter, In that cloction thors can bo but two parties, —the Republican and the Democratio; and, if tho Hesva family are to form a ring for tho manngemont of the Dowmocratio party, they hava taken thelr position none too soon, The people will have ample time to sce through its purposes and to understand why Mer, Heana has cast in his lot with a crowd of hungry office-seckers and decayed poli- ticiane under the pretense of purifying *{ho putrid rominisconce,"® It is impossible to caloulate tho indirect cost of collecting the customs revenuo of the country, It comprises the whole *protec. tionist steal,” tho pay of a emall army of de- toctives, and time and toil and money spent to influence Congressional action in favor of the fow at the expense of the many, the loes on sickly industries forced into unnatural growlh by hot-house pressuro, and the wide- apread demoralization of tho community, Tho direct cost of collection is, however, nscortainable. The annual report of the Secrotary of the Treasury gives tha data, and a protty story it is that thoy tell. Thera are 136 ports of entry in this coun- try. The names of many of thess aro sirangely unfamiliar, and their sccounts seom to chow that no vessel ever touches their moldy old wharves or gives the political barnnclos within their custom.houses any. thing to do. The State of Maine has a stern and custom-house-bound cosst, Judged by tho cost of its ghare of the sarvico, every rock uncovoroed by tide-water has a revenue offloial sitting on it. Judged by its colleotion roturns, the arrivalof aeail.boat with §10 worth. af dutiablo goods on board {s a phenomenon. At Bangor, Ma., twelve vigilant officials gue. cooded in spending $10,457 in order to col- lect £6,661. At Aroostook, the pemsons who sat at tho receipt of cnstoms absorbed all the recoipts ond $5,369 besides. At Frenchman's By, tho expenditare of 6,847 yiolded a re- turn of $353, At Waldoborough, the corre- sponding fignres were 8,071 and $3,287, At Wiscasset, thoy were $4,117 and 8368 ; and ot Machins thoy were #6,602 and #3,823. Dolfagt makoes a littlo botter showing, for its deflcit was only $092. But the Castino force moro than balancos this anomaly by cheorily expending $7,591, and drawing on Uncle Sam for tho $G,640 difference betweon this sum and the receipts, Finally, et Kenncbuuk, ot Sneo, and ot York, the amount collected waa no dollars and no conts, while the re- spootive salarios were 1,667, 91,495, and §878, Tho Maine balance-sheot stands in this way: Three of the fourteen custom- houses pay more than they cost; elaven do not pay 0s much ; and threo of the latter pay nothing at all, No othor State in the Union is as badly oft in this respect s Maine, but thero aro many useloss, and worso than useless, ouatom- houses scattored around the country, The not losa at Gloucester, Mass,, in 1874, was §9,647, Barnstablo comes closo upon this with a doficit of nearly 80,000 The Edgar. town Custom-Houss costs, in salaries and ex- penses, $6,000a year more than the colloctions at that port. Somobody in Bag Harbor, N. Y., gots $2,442 a yoar, and reporta not a cent of collections, Great Egg and Little Egg Harbors resemble ench other in not yivlding a cent of revenue, but the small egg bents the big ono initacost, Tha re- spectivo exponses aro §6,121 and 82,150, 8o funs tho story. Thoro is no use in pursuing it furthor, Custom-houses of this port can be found in every senboard State. If pro- posed retronchment is to be mado renl, every port of entry in which the vovenue regeived faila to equal the cost of colloction ahould be promptly closed. Tho poople cannot af- ford to maintain elsemosynary iustitutiona for the bonefit of dacayed towns and decaysd politicians, —— G00D OUT OF EVIL. A chopterin }Mr, Hopsar IL Banomoyr'a grent work on the **Native Races of the Pacifio States” contains a plea for ovil in itgolf and for itselt, As historians and politi. cal convontions are respectively whitowash. ing all the evil charactersof the past and pres. ent, the appsarance of achampion of evil per #s 18 consiatent. The iden, afterall, is an old one, When the author saysthat * galfluhineuy doos inflnitely more for the progresa of mian. kind then philanthropy,” he mercly re- states a dublons truth, which {a responsible for much of tho narrow-mindedness and meny of the errora of the old school of political economy. If we take the quibbling wonso of the word “selfishness,” which wakes it embraco every action that plesscs the doer, we must admit that selfishness Los not only doue more than anything else for tho progress of mankind, but hns done evorything, ‘Cho mother carcs for hor child because this care is her highest pleasure, Under this definition, & mother's lova s the acmo of golfishness, And if this is s0 con- domned, what othor impalse can be spared ? Howover, Mr, Basonorr maintaine that self- ishness, and avarice, and hate have played 10 emall part in advancing civilization. He adducos tho famillar examples of war, and suporstition, and tyranny,—dire evils, all of them, but yet the sources of some of the most marked sdvances in the history of Lu. man progress. The argument for the su- periority of evil to good is, in brief, this: ovil fa a atimulant, good & reward; expor. ence ahowa that actlon brings more pleasure with it than jta result ; therefors evil, which causes sotion, {s & grester good than the real good. The loglcal inference trom this statement would seem to be that while goodness is somothing to be kindly received, evil is to be ardontly dealred. Attampts to aheck it should thereforo bo discoursged; and scbools, churches, Bunday-schools, lecture-societies, atc, should be’ frowned upon as foos of sin. The lninisterial profesxion should be abolishad by bW sad salova-keepsiy shuould ‘bo pald liconsa-feos by the State, instead of having to pay them to tho Btate, 'This view may bo roceived with satisfaction in Chicago, for it goeato show that our 3,000 galoons, our’ Z¥mes, and onr Common Council, are aids, ingtend of chacks, to civilization, It s, perhnps, neodless to say that MMr. Baxonorr's orror lies in his sweoping clnssi- fleation of good and ovil. 'Tho two cannot be separated. Thero is no unmixed good, no unmixed evil. Tho two togother aro tho warp and woof of every life, aud every day, aud -overy sation. When & supposed ovil cnuso produces n good rosult, it iw not the ovil, but the good in it, that is to o credited with this issue. This simple fact dispones of & vast dool of theoretienl admirntion for tho vilor manifestations of human nature, THE OENTENNIAYL, EXPOSITION. Thoe Philadelphia Centenninl Exposition has beon pushod asaiduously before the American peoplo and uvpon Congress, not as o mezro loeal nffair, got up to glorify Philadel- phis, or Pennsylvania, or any particulsr branch of industry, but ns a grest National Ezposition of the arts, industrios, produc- tions, commerco, and institutions of the American peoplo. For instance, thora is to bo exhibited iron and ateel in overy imagina. blo form into whick it can be converted for man's use. The ontire range of American inventions is to be illustrated by specimens of American ingenuity, The copper, lend, nickel, gold, and ailvor doposita of the coun- try aro to render n display in their most attractive forms, fashioned by tho most skill- ful hands and in the highost styles of art, Tho mavufacturers will be thera with their foxtilo fabrics in the most brilliant and mnag- nificont arrsy, Every branch of American industry will be ropresented by tho choicest specimens of its handiwork, To this grand National Expositon the na- tions of all the world have beon cordinlly in- vited. They have beon asked to send hither to be oxhibited specimens of their production, They aro asked to put their skill aud fnge- nuity and their materials in compatitive ex- position; to place side by side the produc- tiong of the 0ld World and those of tho Amer. ican people, who are just entering upon the socond ceutury of their nationality. The world iu Invited to atiend an exhibition of the progress made in & hundred years of freedomn and indepondoncs, and to bring with them their productions, that upon ocomparison each may profit by the oxcellencios and do- feots shown by the exhibition, L ‘Thero have been other similar expositions, England, France, and Austria have held such expositions at which Americans and Ameris con inventions, manufactures, and products wers welcomed, and wero conspicuously hon. ored. It has boen ndvertised extensivoly that all European and other foreign visitora shall hava ample room and eligibla sites for the full display of. all the goods they ay bring withs them, p Just hore comes a suggestion from nn Amerlcan moerchont, at present a visitor among the manufpcturers at Manchester, in England : it is that the American Centonninl Exposition is excoptionnl, in that while for clgn npations are offered the liborty of ox- hibiting ‘their goods at Philadolphis, they aro, undor tho . .law, practically prohibit. ed from selling their goods in this country. The gwand Exposition which ia to mark the Centennial Anniversary of the Ihdependence of the United States, and to illustrate the progress of froo men and froe inatitutions during a contury, is criticised in othor lands as & peonlinrly American stratagom to induce the peoplo of other nationa to make tho show attractive and to swell the gate-money; and, after the show is over, theso foreign nations are to be told, ** Hore are forty millions of people, affording s splendid market; thoy sdmire your goods, but our tari} laws forbid the American peopla from purchasing your products undar the penalty of 50 per cent of their valuo, Weo do this to *protect’ our ¢ infant entorprises’ engaged in manufactur- ing similar goods, Our peoplo submit to this, and pay o price-and-a-half for all their goods, sud of course our manufacturers will continuoe tho system as long as the consum. ors are willing to ondura it.” Thia merchant proposes that the mansgers of the American Centonnfal shall make a regulation and notify foreign exhibitors that they will be at liberty at the Exposition to finve **aach specimen marked plainly with the cost prico, thoe solling prico in the coun- try whaore it ia wade, the cost of transports- tion to the United Btates, and the pricont which it conld be sold to Amerlcan custom- ers.” Ho suggosts that if it wore officially snnounced by thoso controlling the exhibi. tlon that thers would b no restriction upon them in this particular, it would remove the objection which prevails among European manufacturera to exhibiting their goods in a market whero thoy are not allowed to sell, He thus puts the matter: ‘There are many manufacturers here who would be willing to go not oaly o expenso but o considerable painsin this direction, and who, for example, wouty 00 doubt be glad not only to furnish the exact foreign coat and selling price for overy articls, but who would say: Thls cloth, with s spocific and ad valorem duty combined amonnting to $) per cent, qoats to land in Now York say 50 cents, At duty of 8 per cent It would cost, —centa At s duty of 30 per cent it would coat. — ceuts And 80 oo, U1l ons could learn what ft wouwld cost if 1t could bo sold In New York without howing paid any datyatall, just ss s plece of wilk mads in Lyons,s dozen patr of gloves mede In ratls, o7 # dosen pirs of stockings maade in Baxony, can be bought to-day In London withiout Laving thelr cost inorossed heyond tho cost of transportatior and the fair pro#t of the Hero la a very practicablo modo of attract- ing the industrial classes to our Exposition, They do not ask the repeal of the law pro- Libiting them selling thelr goods in the’ United Stotes; all thoy ask is that they may mark their goodswith the cost of production ; the cost ot which thoy are sold at the place of manufacture ; the oost of transporlation to tho Unitod Btates; their sggregats cost with- out duty; the price at which they can bo delivered fn Now York at a daty of 80, 70, G0, 50, 40, 80, 26, and 20 por cont. The American exhibitors, of course, can mark their goods, showing ths cost of production, the price at which they sell them; the price at which they could’ gell them if all raw ma- terials wore free and the duty on the manu. factured articles was xod af 10, 20, 80, eto., per cent. In a grand international comparison of in dustrisl produots there s no oue item wore important than that of the cost of produc- tion. That governs all other things in reach. ing & conolusion as to the sucocss aud progress of the lndustry,—the cost of production is in fact the measure by which the beneflt of the {ndustry can be. tested and ascertained. To lesson the cost of produotion iu the great ob- joct of lsborsaving machinery and of all machinory ; & comparison of the cost of pro- duction of aloth before the inveution of wa- chinery and at the presont day will exhibit the practical Importasce of ihis queation. Aa ekposition of manufsobured goods ok other products, withont any information ns to the cost of production, would e of Titlo value, Coconnuta and pine-npples might g produced in tho nefghborhood of Chilenan, but the cont of prodneing them hera wolq probably determing the gnestion o thie gy, viability of thefr gouneral enltivation, Tustend of rofusivg to permit foioi hibitors Lo mnrk their goods in the w gested, tho nmnogers of the (o 1 should roquiro that nll goods placed on ey, hibition should, so far nais practieabls, 1y thws marked, and this informntion shoull by prined in the cntalogue, so that viritor iy if po disposed, in comparing the pnuduel ;n’l different Btates and nntions, oblain the very material and important information ns to the cost of production nnd the price at which such articles can ba profitably sold. o nro suro tho Centennfal manngers will hasten ¢ make the regulntion aw widely known py possible, — The modern Pantatoon has set tha shildren iy & rosr o many a fostival oceasion; lut perhiaps nono of the eminent artists who hivo enared that difficult and lofty role can ba coraparud " 8 Brooklyn gopius—now, alas! no more. ila was clotk in & dry-gooda storo, and ownod 144 ‘paiva of ants, all sound in evory pett, and cut according to tho latest style by mer. bant.tailse princes, ‘A, T. 8tewanr employed litm, coufld lug tho velvet dopartmoent to his care, and paying him ao anooal aslary of 810y, McKinuy was hla bamo, Gift:d by na. tnro ns woll as by art, he manipulaled {le fairy fabrica of the loom with a grivo that wog all homts, and, a4nroward of worit, receivet sevornl ionorable suggestions of merringe from boautiful aud accomplishod womon. Brewany & Co, bold him in bigh favor, atd for a timg seriously considerad tho prooriaty of piving him o omnll, direct intacest in the profity of the establishmant. But, in the words of the familiar snd pathotle ballud ¢ § At lant suspdclon camo to hin employers' 1oin 13 That fimnm Avagarus’ clothen wore Lltugetlicr fog e, Bo thoy met m watch on Llm, cillected e douces of his guilt, and sent au ofivor to hig Liousa to recover the goods which he had boon convicted of stoaling, A eterner and more dreaded omissary had pracoded the ngent of the law. The handsomo dry-goods oleris was daad, ‘Tho funoral procoeded without intorruption, after which $2,000 in stolon volvet was recove orad, Tuo eoffocts of tho doceascd woro then . taken posscssion of by tho Public A/lminlstrator, ~-nobody appesring to clalm them,—and dis. posed of ot public auctfon, Included fn the liat, n8 already notliced, wore 144 palrsof panty, twanty-nloo of which wore rogular **ducis” of paots, and tho rest exquisito cassimercs and broadeloths. MoKirox's religlous conviclions oro not alluded to {n tho briof sketch of his lifa whtich les boforo us, Lut it is impasuiblo to he- evo that ono whoso modo of lifo wwas ko Intlox- 1bly pautholatio could havo been buoyod up in b4 Jast bours by tho consolstious which amooth the pathway of tho dying Olristian, = TGk = Tuo Governor of Coylon, withtho full con- currouco of tho Socrotary of State, has jssucd an order prohibiting the furthor destriction of elo- phante. Bovoral sporting travelors aro disaps vointed by this injunction, and inceusod a! the Qorvornor for makingit. With this ft:conallorable excuption, all tutetligant Eutopeanas heartily ap- prove of thosction. Tha elaphsnt iu Covlon LA boen becoming yoarly a searcer and more ex- pensive commodity. Tho Elepbant Departmont of tho Province has dwindled down to half ity formor strongth ; aud theto was overy prospect that, i the wholosalo siangbter should be al. lowed to continue, tha practical estinction of tho anymal in that pait of tho lsland would fol- tow mithin a fow yoars, Tho usefulucas of tho clopbant in all tropteal climates whore it fa in- digenous s too woll known to meed oxposition hore. Tn Afriea especinlly, tho eclopliant is almost casonlial to e ndequate dos velopment of the country; and the ordinary reador capnot but romark SgawriNyUnTH'S lamontation at the criminal destruction of thiy nublo antmat in Coutral Africa, whore thousands aro anoually loft to rot in the sun, for tue saka of tho small roturn which the sale of tho tusks brings it The Ceylon Govornment has man- Itestly ‘iaken & otep in the right direction, and ono which canrot bo too vigoraualy puteued by othor autharitios, Emperar WiLLiax and Prince Buatancrs have beon insulted again in tho cruelest manuer. It is eatinfying to know that thoy have eucceodod in makiog thinge unploasant for their lusuitors. Baveral articlos spoeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung which disploasod or * {nsuited* the Em- peror. Four mombera of tho staff of the paner wero immodiately selzed, and flned 80 marks oach for rofusing to givo the vame of the au- thor, They were, moreover, glven threg doys to decido whothor tbey would: roveal the namo of the objoctionnblea person, or go to pricon till they did. A Nuremberg odltor is also mubjocted to fine and imprisonment for a acrious crime, Ho inserted an advertisamont in cipher, which, when read backwards, was *fnsultlug" to Disyanrox. This was vory wrong. Indeed, It is uot qulte {ntalllgible that some of thoss dasgerous folona sronoc atretched on tho rack or broken on the wheet. P s S Wlen tha English bagan to talle about annaz- ing the Fiji Islands, the wmain objection urged waa the largo populallon of savages to bo dealt with. Tho advent of tho whito mau socms to have produced tho neual effoct of killing of the patives by infootious discases, so thay this ob~ Joction has lost mnch of its woight, aud s daily loalug more as tho Istaudera grow less, Raport basit that 50,000 havo siready succumbed o epldemic measles. Tho fudiclous exportation of two or throa Englisls children with the whoop- ing-tough and a brace of amall-pox paticnts witl doubtloss finish mo.t of the rest. Then clviliza- tion, Cbristianity, and comtaerce—enpucisily tho Iattor—will Nonrif nd the Fillan will follow tho Sandmich I r luto ghostland, The Boaton papors “record the death, in tho Lunatio Asylum in thet city, of Geonox Wasu- 1voTo¥ Faosr MxLLEN, who made s natiwusl reputation ip conuection with the Anti=dlavery Couventiona a8 the biggout bore on record, sub- sequontly became half-witted, snd theu fure dlshod amussmont for years to all New England in Lia cawipaign contesss for the Presidency with the crack-bralned Dawizr PravT. Tho contost betwaen thexo two wus always very earneet, and they not infrequently wanderad out of New lin- gland duting their campaigus, traveliog on faob from place to-place, and fliling eity, town, aud village with the noiso of thoir mutusl vituporas tion. Prarr, we bolievo, dlod some time wiuce § snd MzLLxN, Ro louger having w competitor, lapeed iuto's hsrmless lunaoy, was comunitted to a0 asylum, and was teuderly oared for satil doath released him from his sullorings. e AN, Tho Covington (Ky.) Salurday Advertiser of 1ast wock eayw: . It bios baen but & short while since MicpoXALD was shyt (o EnLzus' sadoon i then HAGXIMAN was tally cut by two ruilany st the corier of ‘Twedih ynd Alsde ixon siroots ; 4 youug BuTU CaMue Dear endluy BRI step-fulber’s Uifo with an ax § Juery Frowxss, colorsd, wis nearly kiliod by suotlier negro ; lut woek the cole ored Earbor Ve best bls wife 1o death 3 Saturday oveulng SvaLx was beaten bausly Lo death ‘f the 0of- ner of Tweltth sud Greonup sirceta; Moniday eveuiog Tuomas Drin stabbed sugXilled CaxLzs ALIMEONT ‘Tueadsy Jamxy O, CaMx11d wes shob wud by Joun T, Nawia. Ia view of this *' broeay " disrogard of humsa ligo, sud the chosrful regulanity aud promptness with which 1t {4 disposod of in Coviugion, i§ would seem to be aun adaliable summor-resort for those'who are weary ef Life and dealre Lo lay down fts burdens, 4 —_—————— 5 M. Az7av, tho gure of Orolx Ronsss, &% Lyoos, is dead, He was once diatinguished pere souslly, lu & very estraordlnery pisunas; by tha Thid Navormox. The Emparor yisited Lyoos lo 1600, He wassomeybal afrald of - sutsdug ths Orolx Uouass quaster, sod egmsulted I'¢