Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 16, 1875, Page 4

' P emmme———— TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATER OF AUBSCRIPTICN (PATADLY IN ADVARCE), Pastage Prepnld nt thin Oee. Iy Pl Tarts of & yoarat thasame rate, WANTRD~Uno ctivo agent in cach town and villago, Bpecial arrangemonta made witl sach. Epecimon ccpies sent froe, upreeent delay and mistakes, ba eore and give Post. Oftico sddress in foll, Including State nnd County. Teml.tancesmay bemada ithior by dralt, exproas, Post. Gt.ceorder, of in regintared lettors, atour risk, TEEMB TO CITY AURACRINERS. Dafly, dolivered, bunday exeepted, 275 conts perweek, Dally, delivercd, Bunday fucluded, ) conts por weok. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornez Madison and Dearbore v Gliioags, 1l TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M";loxlflrsfl THI’!A;I:HE—HAM‘IMI' l'(‘;v“'?“ fill"'_lfl;"‘l eacborn and Htate. Kngagenient of the Now Vo th"Avenuo Thoaire Comapnoy, -+Tha Dig Bonanza.” " ACADEMY OF MUSIO=Hatstod strest, batwess Mude tean and Afoneno. * Eva, o Talo of the Bayons.” Aftor- noonand evening. ADRLPII THRATRE-Dearhorn atrsot, cornor Mon« . Varigty Kotertalnmout, Afternoon aad eveniog. HOOTEY'R THEATRF~Tandolon _strest, hatwesn IR atatios - fntngoment of ‘ouy Dasior's Gome bination, Aftorncon aad evening. A —Madisan streat, bets Clark and PA“\YR];JK.HLA‘LY )l..l,"'ll'i‘l.d"’lgn weva Clas] BOCIETY MEETINGS. GF, No, 211, F. £ A, M., holds & Bpe. mnlm:finvmrfllflalnfimd\i‘z'lnemu)cunm. B etuok. Wk, Visltard slwars Wejons o, wiITNEY, Beo's. pe——— ALY BUSINESS NOTICES. THRRE IS KO PRVWININR FASCINATION WHIOR will comparo with a Toveiy Sompleton, and nn natural gomplaxion lovallar, thin it wbloh Lated's Bloom of Youth bostows. Nold by all drugiiate. Tlhe Chicags Tribune, ‘Wadnesdny Morning, June 18, 1875, Tho cablo brings rumors of soveral heavy failures in Loudon, ono of them being that of a honse of large Indian connections, with linbilitics estimated at £15,000,000. e — ] The Republicans of Maine, in State Con- vonlion yesterday, placed themselves on record in favor of asound currency based upon eoin ond redeemablo in coin, and of kindly snd frateroal relations between all soctions of the country, Upon the first bal- lot Gen. Surrvoy Coxxon was nominated for Governor by an almost unanimous vote. An aged gentloman, ovidently staggering under a mental complication of Josiua, Lean, and Second-Advontism, yesterday made seven trips around Kansas City, seated upon o milk- white steed, nnd clothed in raiment which hod heen dyed in blood,—a demoustrationin- tonded ns a preliminary fenturoof the assnmp- Lion by a momeniarilycxpected King of po- litienl power in Missourl, and which creatod the wildest excitement among the small boys of tho town. When the XNauens City church.bells drova their sound-waves through the grasshoppery air, and his liege came not, it is telographed that the feelings of the dishonored piophet wers marked be- low cost, and that Lie ssid unto the publican with whom he fared that his spirit was vexed, snd that he desired to dio. Tha conviction and sentence yesterdsy of a trio of three-card-monte operators was a most welcome and agreeablo surprise to 6 com- munity which Lad begun to despair of the efficacy of tha law and tho law officors to panish the horde of swindling gamblers that has infested the, oity so long. The caso was plain ngaiust the nccused, but not more plain than scores of cnses might bo mode if the eame promptness and determingtion wero shown by the an. thorities, ‘hero is hardly an instance of robbery by bunko or three-card monte which might not be traced to the swindlors with oqual swiltness by really enmnest and persistont offort. A fow convictions and son- tences to thrco yoars in tho Penitentinry would havo a most salutary effect in Chicago, where, hitherto, tha work of robbery and plunder has been carried on with absoluts effrontery. It is timo something were dono to sbow that there are such tnings extant aa law, justico, and protection. . Rumor has it, and with an appearance of unusual dircotnoss, that Senator Montoy is openly in the fleld asa Presidential candi- date, and that his recont visit to tho East ‘was mode wholly for political purposes, The frienda of the Indinna Sonator profess to be informed of the object and result of his con- forenoo with the President at Long Branch; and they stato—with more of exuberance than authenticity, wo imagine—that Gnant has privately declared for Monton, and has assurad tho latter that the influenco of the Administration will be oxorted, so far 8a it properly may bo, in his in- terest ns a condidate for the Proui. dency in 1870, The story goes that Monton confldently relics upon tho support of the West and South, but that ho is not sure of the Eaat, Just how far this exprossion of enthusinstio frionds may bo taken as Mon. Tox's own ocstimate of tho situation we can only guess, but in all probability they have pronounced moro frecly than he would be willing to do, and have doalt more largely in :znx;fful proguostication than in accomplished nal The proposition before the Common Coun- eil to crente a now Board—a Board of Duild- ing Inspectors—ought to have been voled down. ‘Wo havo already a groat plenty of expensive Bogrds, If thoso wa lhave now 1all to enforce the lawas on account of thoir number and frreaponsibility, it is not likely Ahat an addition ‘to them will have any other xesult than that of spending from $20,000 to £00,000 more of the people’s money, It ia 00w the daty of the Mayor and the Board of ‘Publio Works to enforce the fire ordi. nauce, Thoy hsve the Firo-Wardens sod the policomen at their command, whose duty it is to ryeport violations of the ordinance, If the Board of Publio Works, and the entire Pollce and Firo Dephirt~ ent, and the Mayor, cannot, or will not, en- force the ordinance, it is folly to supposo that 8 new Board of cight or ton persons wil doit. 1f the ordinance is violated, as wo be- Hove it is openly and flagrantly, the reaponsi- bility rests with the Mayor and Boord of Public Works, and thoy should be held to scoount; but their neglect of duty doos not Warraut the crestion of new places, at high salaries and with bisckmoiling facllitiss, for ex-Aldormen and ward-bummors, The Chicago prodnco marketa were rather ‘exoited yesterdsy. Moas pork was fctive and £0a per brl lower, cloaing at $18.80 for July, 808 $19,10 for Angust.. Lard was quiet and 80 per 100 by lowar, closing at 18,05 for July, and 913,80 for August, Meats wero Quiet and easler, at 7§@7}0 forahoulders, 11@ 11 foz aliox ribe, eud 11ja for short clears, Highwines wero quiot and steady, at $1.17 per gallon, Tako freights wero dull at 2o for corn to Buffalo, Flour was in hotter de- mand and firmer, Whent was active and 1o higher, closing weak at #L01 cash, and 21,02} for July, Corn was in fair demand, and }@1e highor, closing ensier at (9}c cash, and 703%101' July. Oals wero active aud 4o higher, closing nt #8}c cash, and 57e for July, Ryo was dull nt 9Ge. Barloy wna searco and stronger, at §1.06 bid for Scptember. On Snturday ovening Inst there was in store in this city 3,647,004 bu wheat, 2,724,565 bucorn, bu onts, 2,030 bn rye, and 15,000 bn Hogs were nctive and 10c por 100 1bs lower, ot £6.006 Tho Conrt of Appenls of the 8tate of New York has ret nsido the sentence in the caso of Boss Tweep, and ordered his discharge. It will bo remembored that hio was convicted on nn indictment which contnined thirteen counts or specifieations, ‘The Conrt treated ench of theso counts ns a separato crime, aud sontenced him o one year's imprisonmont and o fine on each, making an aggregato im- prisonment of thirteen yenrs, After Lo had served ono year he npplied for a discharge on the ground that he had been convicted of but ono crime and could have only been seu. tencod for ono yenr, It was also claimed that the law under which he was convieted had Leen repenled. The Supremo Court overruled the application for a discharge, and now the Court of Appenls has overruled tho Bupremo Court, and ordered his discharge. 1t is not likely that any of the other criminal ensed ngainst him will be prosecuted, But tho proceedings in the civil enses for the re- covery of the money unlawfully appropriated by him will go on to judgment unaffected by this decision in the criminal cose, Tho ro- cent pardon of IoEnsont and the relense to Ganvex was for tho purpose of securing their testimony in theso civil cases. Mr, Cusnies O'Covon has charge of the civil suits, TWEED was sontenced in November, 1878, and has ever sinco been conflued in the Tenitontiary on Blackwell's Inland. THE COMMUNISTS, Tho Communistic addresses of Inst Sunday were, wo kuow, nothing but the illogical ravings of reckless men sceking notorioty ng ngitators, Novertholess, there is nclnss of foreigners in this city, composed of those who do not speak or rend Euglish, who lave come hero from Bohemin and Poland and other places in Europe, and who hava the most ignorant and extraordinary notions of what constitutes frecdom in o free country. Lnst year theso persons ingisted that it was the duty of the Government to provide for them and thoir families by donntions from the City Treasury ! aud generally maintained that laws which protected property in the hands of one man whilo others had no property, were tyrannical nnd despotic. Tho recent agitation among the Communists was inspired by the coal- shovelors' strike, 'Thnt strike was caused by the refusnl of the conl-denlers to pay R7a day for raw labor when they could get plenty of it for 8 n day. The strikers then undertook by violenco to drive those who lind been gled to go to work awny from the coal-yards, but were prevented in so doing by the interfer. forence of the city police. Ifvrcin is adou- blo grievance,—{irat, tho refusal of the coal. denlers to pny §7 a day instead of 23; ond, second, tho Interferonco of the police to pre- vent tho murder of those who offered to shiovel coal at a lowor rato of wages than the riotera demanded, What do the Communists want? Let us tnko tha conl-henvers os an illustration. For each man refusing to shovel coal at loss than &7 por dny there wore half-n-dozen men who wero anxious to go to work at 83 per day, The law, without interfering at all in the tjuostion of wages, did interpose to protect those who woro ot work frow the violence of thoso who refused to worle, The demand of theso men was, that tho law should have in. terfered to compel tho employer to pay the §7 per day aud compel tho otler six mon to remain ldlo, This is strango logio from an organization professing to bo in the intoresta of workingmen. The cost of producing sny article meas. nres, o o groat extont, the prico at which it may bo eold, and the prico roguletes the nwmount thot s consumed. ‘Thero are, it is eaid, ten thousand men out of cmployment in this city, Thesa men, a large proportion of whom were farmn-hands in their native country, refuse to take home. stends which aro offered thom without cost ; | thoy refusa to go into the agricultural dis. tricts whero thoy con find constant employ. ment and raiso their families froo of the temptations, corruptions, nnd evils, of largs cities, Thoy flock to the cities where there are moro laborers and whisky than are need- ed; where thero is strong competition for employment ; whero the cost of living is high; aud whore wages for unskilled labor is of nocessity comparatively low. Thoy profor to obido in theso cities, with tho precarions chances for employment, and where they so congregnte that there s a surplus of 10,000 more than there i3 employment for; thoy howl about tha inequalities of tho Jaw ‘which protects the property which tho thrif- ty, economical, and hard-working have acou. mulated, whilo it will not feod and clothe thoso who have no work and will not go whers work is plonty. Thess men say that they will not go into the comntry and doprive thomselvos of the oxcitemonts aud vorioty of ity life; they will not bury thomselves on farms or in villagos. Thoy hold in ocontempt the in. dustry of, more than half tho American people who reside and labor on fanns, "These gentlomen profer to live 1n olties where lquor, and idlencss, and demagogues are plenty; whero thoy can havo large meotinga oud threaten property; and because, when the grand distribution of property which they naticipato takes placo, the cities will alford much largor sharos than tho country for impoecunious Communiats, ‘Tho emaployers of Obleago, aa a matter of Belt-interest, have every man ot work that they can afford to hire, Tho wages of labor, like the coat of raw matorials, taxes, intor. est, ront, and insurance, onter into tho cost of production. Every man doing business is natually intorastod in producing as much os he can to scll, o cannot do business if the cout of production oxcecds tho prios he can got for his goods, When he can produce and soll ot a protit, he will employ labor to the utmost Limit to extend lis business. Consaquent. 1y, overy omployer la sclfiuhly interosted in putting as mony mon at work aa posuible, It ia safo, thercforo, to assumo that, when thers aro more men than can find work, the sur. plus of unewployed labor must romain idle or must find employment at wages which will ennble employers to engega them. The Communists, as a class, are not work. ingmen in any proper sense of the term. ‘They do not intond to work industrioualy for 8 lving, Thay have scune haze from dereign THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1876. countries with ertde notions of unliconsed fiberty ; they aro possossed of tho iden that a freo conntry belongs oqually to tho fdlo and the industriouy, to the spendthrift and the economical, ta tho loafor and the worker, to tho dissolate iguormmus and the educnted artisan, They insist that tho acoumulations of tho thrifty and saving belong alike to overybody, and that there should bo no ox- clusive property in anything, but a universal partnership in overything, They have no partieular grievanco about wages, bochuse they do not propose to work : thoy take tho ocension of n strilo to urgo the discontonted to join thom in their warfaro upon our wholo socinl and politieal system. Ono of their speechos ot the mooting on Sundny last réproved the conl-heavers, insisting that thoy should have mouttled or sunk tho coal-ladon vessels beforo thoy entered the harbor, and thus avenged their wronga upon the conl-deslers by destroying the property. This argumnont, of courso, was o general ono, Ita inevitable conclusion was, that whore tho proporty of ono class was withhold from another class, then the latler should destroy that property, Unloss the coal-heavers wore given the full share of other men's coal renching Chicago which they do- manded, thoy shiould take steps to provent any conl being received here. Unloss tho Communists aro given as full a share of other people’s property s thoy demand, thon all such property should bo destroyed ! It isinsuiting to the intelligence of the poo- plo of this city who earn their living by their Inbor and care to nssuma that they sharo in tlie sentiments of this viciously solfish class who follow the ravings of tho half-dozen demagogues who harangue them. The ab- surdity and eriminality of the wild social aud political schemes of these men must bo ap- parent to every man who reads or thinks, and most of tho workingmen of this gountry do both, END OF THE LONG BTRIKE. The oxpected closo of tho long strilto in tho Tounsylvania coal regions is now defi- nitely announced. The conference botween Presidont Panmsn and tho strikers has ro- sulted jn tho unconditional surrender of the latter. This mears that work will be re- sumed immedintely thronghout the entiro region at the price offered by the owners of the mines whon tho strike firat occurred. This result has boen long anticipated, and would hnve been reached without doubt months ago if the leading spirits of the Miners' Union had not incited tho strikers to intimidation and violence. Thero have been enough spasmodio efforts at resumption to show that the miners gonerally had becomo canvinced that it was folly to hold out any longer, This was apparent to every intolligent” man the moment it beeamna ovident, as it did long ogo, thht tho owners of the mines could not accedo to the domands of the strikers without operating their mives at n loss. They uaturally pro- forred that the mines should remain idle, contldent that they were in a posilion tohald out longer than a sot of mon whose familics were dependent for their daily food upon their dally Jabor. It did not require six months of non.production, waste of capital and labor, suffering, and cruclty to demon- strato it. This was the fault of tho reckiess and improvident loaders who preforrod the cxcitemonta of *‘Molly Maguirism” to the duty of earning their living by honest work. Itis now nearly six months since 16,000 men deliborately abandoned work. Perhaps this was justifiable enough if they believed that thoy were mnot gotting adequate pny for their services, In the ab- senco of authoritative courts or bonrds of arbitration, we do not know that differences botween capitalists and Io- borers can be detormined in any other way. But this right to strike docs not include the privilege of proventing other men from work- ing at whatever wages they choose, and of driving thom off and killing them off if they undertako it. This ia what the Pennsylvania miners have done, and, if thoy hed not been permitted todo it, tha strike would have boen over threo months ago, Nor does tho right to atrike justify meon in starving and abusing their familios after it has boen clenrly de- monstrated that their domands are exorbitaut and will not be grauted. To prevent other mon working at their own rates is a criminal Interforenco with thoir rights; to refuse to resumo work themsclves, aftor a certain point, {a cruelty to the women and childron dependont on tho'strikers. Tho loss of eapl- tal and the suffering of the sirikers may be fully approcinted when it {s stated that gen. oral resumption will give employmont to 15,000 men, who yield to the inevitablo only when poverty and starvation have foreed them to do it. THE WATER.SUPI'LY, The prosent suminer, cold as it is thus far, presonts no exception to the rule which has provailed 60 many years with regard to tho wator-aupply, Krom almost every part of tho city, more particularly in the residence quarter of tho Sonth Division, comos the cry, “No water.” Bouth of Twelfth siroot it is almost impossiblo to got water above the first floors until late in the evoning, which is usually tho time when water {s not necded at all, Tho want of wator has grown to bo o standard want whether tho summer bo a hot or a cold one, It is the stereotyped grief of the houscholder, and as sure to come as a tailor’s bill, But is not the householder him. self largely to blame in tho premises? In times of searcity, it is usually consldored an imperativa duty to economize, Are the bouseholders of this oity economizing their use of water ? A correspondent of ons of the city papors narrates an instance whers o moter in o house indicated a loss of 75 gal- lons in seven minutes, although every faucet waa closed. Upon investigation it was found that two water-closots and oune urinal in an out.of-the.-way part of tho building Lad been running away this 75 gallons, which was at tho rate of 15,428 gallons daily, and which, it kopt up for a year, would amount to #554,10,—a sum sufficient to purchase twanty-fivo or thirty moters. Tho same cor- rospondent also found that aholo one-thirtieth of aninch deliverad 20 gallons per Lour, or 480 gallons per day, and vory pertinently asks how many leaky taps fn thig city are running off still greator quantitios dally into the sowerd, ‘T'hese are fair samples of the manner in which water is wasted, but there aro nu. merous other sources of waste, which help to decreaso tho water-supply much more than theso wo Lave montioned. In addition to loaky faucets and the wasta in water-closets, thero aro plonty of peoplo who allow tholr foucots to ryun all day to eool the stmosphers of rooms, and keop tholr yard-bydrants yunning all night for the sake of sprinkling thelr grass and tlowers, and they do this with the knowledge that tho water-supply s insufficlent and that they ara inconveniencing other psopls, Theonly way 10 ofash this s 0 make Lheed wWader washury poy for it, and the only way to mnke them pay for it is to introduce water-metera, Thore should be n meter in overy house in this city, and ovory houscholder should be mado to pay for what he uses, It will bo an economy in tho long run for the Bonrd of Public Works to do it; it will increaso the watar-sapply vory materislly ; and, better still, it will conserve the rights of proparty- holders ngainst tho selfishness and recklens. ness of a lot of hogs who caro nothing for their neighbora. Suppose the Gas Compnny should operato ns tha city doen with its water, and furnish ils gns all over the city, putting meters in a fow houses and charging tho romaindor of the people a cer- tain sum por yenr, how long would the Gnas Compnny bo able to do business oven at its present oxtortionnta rates ? It 1 oqually nb. surd to supposo that tho city can supply suf- ficiont water with this constant waste in houses, stables, and ynrds going on, It fs duo to the city, aud especinlly to provident houschollers, that the Doard of Publie Worlis should commonce at onco placing at lenst 56,000 water-ineters in the larger busi. ness huildings and principal residences of the city, gradunlly extonding them from time to time. Every metor would save its cont in n year, It would be a saving of money for the city and an inestimable Llessing to house- holdors, and it would put a curb on tho mean. ness and selfishness of those who have no re- gard for their neighbors' rights, Lecauso they can disregard thom without detection, ASPHALT PAVEMENTS, Wo referred briefly yestordny to Commis- sloner Parxpivites's ardent couvietion that asphalt is to bo the coming pavement for Chi- cago, combining chenpaess, durability, and comfort. The crilicism wo made then was that the pavements put down in Ameriean cities called nsphalt aro not asphalt, buta composition which hns proved to bo costly nnd perishable; and also that no city could afford to import the Swissasphalt in bulk, and uso it in & crushed, unmixed condition for streot-pavoments, These two circuinstances indicnte pretty cortainly that asphalt pave- ments will never como into general use in this country, DBut there nre also serious objec- tions to the genuine asphalt pavewent where it is Inid lnrgely in London rnd Paris, ond to soma oxtent in other European cities, ‘I'he European puphalt pavements have been 1nid in two differont ways, ench of which hns proved to a large oxtent objectionable. One of them is ns bard ss ndsmaut and as smooth 08 tho ico of a skating-rink, If a series of our largo sidewnlk flag.stones wero planed off into a perfectly smooth surface aud joined together underneath with iron fastonings, the pavement thus formed would resomble very closely the kind of asphalt pavement which was lnid in London, Tho horses’ feat came down upon it like sledge-hammers upon an ouvil ; thero jano yield or rebound in it; horses can seouro no foothold, and slido abont on a daclivity in the most Lelpless maunor, Accidonts from falling became so goneral in London that the horses wero provided with pads for their knees as somo protection ; and, finally, sosoral thonsand cabmon lnsé summar Ppotitioned the autlioritics to takae up the pave- mont on streots with an incline, ‘Chis has been done in many instauces, and wooden pavements Iaid in tho place of the asphalt, The other mnnner of laying nsphalt is to reduce it to a sort of heavy paste, not unlike india-rubler or sola-leather in its consiatency and robound, This lind of pavemont softens under tho sun, and is ponetrated by the shoe. calls of the horaes, go that it iv quito perish- able, Gangs of mon are kept coustantly at work in Paris repniring those pnavements, notwithstanding the fact that thoy aro Iaid upon streota where fow vehicles other than earriages and cabs are run over it, and aro not exposod to anything like tho ssvors stralns that they would be in large commer- cinl cities in this country., These pavements are likowiso slippery, so much so that, aftor washing them, it is necossary to sprinkle sand over thom to rendor them safo. It will be remombered that, last winter, during the sovero woather, hundreds of accidents to man sud beast were reported daily in Paris from thia cuso, It mnust also bo taken into account that a rough, sovero, and changenble climato like ours would test the paphalt pavement much moro severely than tho milder aud more oven temporataro of Paris and London. It would bave to ba laid in tho hardest shape, and it would then bo much lke ashort sirip of pavoment now on ono of the boulevards Jead- ing to the South Parks over which it is dan. gorous to trot horses; or, if in the'other form, it would bo of the most perishable doscription, and would not bear up under the outting of narrow wheels and of sharp-ghod animals, In neither case would it have such advantages as may bo claimed for the asphalt pavements of London and Paris, unless tho bulk of tho composition were of genulne Bwiag naphalt, in which case the pavements would be enormously expensive. - Al thinga considerod, tho Board of Publlo Works will do botter to give its attention to possible improvomenta in woodon pavoments. Tho experionce of the past has demonatratod that tho more aimply the block pavements aro lald tho bettor they are. The bed of boards and the adjuncts of strips and tar and other proparations for preserving the wood have proved to bo uscless, Woodon pavemonts ought to be made mora cheaply horoaftor; nud, it white ok or hemlock be used, the probability is that they will ba much more durable than pine, There is no question nbout their bolng mora delightful in every respect than any other kingd of streot pavement, Thoy can probably be laid in this country at one-third the cost of pave- monts of the gonuino asphalt imported from Bwitzorland, ‘The Wabash-avenus pavement laated eight or nino years in a fair condition under an onormous traflio; we doubt whether an asphalt pavemont would last threo times as long, as it ought to do if it cost threo times 88 much. And it is not certain it would last eight years if subject to tho tromendous travel which hae poured ovor that aveauo aince 1800, ‘While England is wondering whothor she can possibly stand thoe struin of contributing $10,000,000 & year towards the reduction of her national debt, France, which pays an ag- grogato tax exceoding that of Eugland by over $100,000,000, has beon raising, beuides this, 80,000,000 a year for the reduction of hior dobt to tho National Bank, and pow pro. poses toset apart an annual sumof $45,000,000 for thot purposs, The contrast {s not to England'scredit, It i8 flt not to be so, snd the London press camplains of the faot, The great difforvnca botween the two nations, rogardod simply as tax.payers, is that tha French posssntry i @& camfortabls, comparatively well-to-do clasa of laud-owners, who contribute generously to the national oxohsquar through both direod and {ndiroct taxes, while tha Buglich pessanivy pays prage Haally atilisg 6 Ko tas.gathoro, to be in old nge supported on the taxes paid l by tho othor claases. Tho cause of this striking difforenco can bo summed up in ono word,—land-laws, Undor the influence of the two systems, LA Nnruvenw's ** boauts of burden " have bocomo men, and the English yeomnn has dogencrated into the agricul- tural Iaboror. TBE BOCIAL CONDITION OF THE BOUTH, Our Southorn correspondent, in his lotter from Georgia, printed in Tne Trinose of Mondny Ilnst, presents some fasts relativo to the negro In respect to education, and to the whites with regard to Inbor, which have an important bearing upon the social condition of the South, and illustrate the argunients which hnvo already been made in Tue Tnip. UNE 84 to the folly of the South iu opposing tho edueation of tho masses of the poople. Our correspondent visited the colored college ot Atlanta. ITo found negro youtlis making claver translations of tho Greek from Iloazn's Odyssey, and students who showaed remnrka- ble nttainments in mathemotics and the other selonces belonging to tho ordinary collega ourrioulum ; but he also found that the Demo- ernts had exhibited bitter hostility towards approprintions for this college, and thaf it is only their powerful regard for the colored voto that has kept ita doorsopen, He found, also, that the women who tonch in it are so- cinlly ostracizod, becauso they are * nig. ger sehool-tonchers,” Outside of this par- ticular college, no ndoquate provision has been made for school purposes in this, the Empire State of the South, TFor the education of n population, between tho sges of 0 nand 18, of 218,783 whites and 176,« 80t blacks, an approprintionof only $180,000, or 45 cents per hend, is made, and tho result is that only one-fourth of tho children of these races have opportunities for primary education. 8o far aa tho whito population can make votes out of the negro and the poor white, they will favor their eduention, and no farther, Their constant protestation ia: Educate tho negro and ho will not-work, Accordingly, thoy keep him ill-fed, half-clnd, and badly housed. They strip him of the fruits of his Inbor, make it impossible for him to support himsoelf and his family com- fortably, and then keep up a continunl out- cry about his idleness. Upon this point our corraspondent says : The common cry about tho [nogro's idisnees I simply the excuso that ocenrs o8 peopls who are not dfaposed to work, and hold that to do so would reduco them to *“alovel ™ with tho negro, for the impover- iatiod condition of tho country, becatss thoy (the white population), a8 o body, are mere idls conaumers. Tho negroes work o8 well sa men can, Not only do the mi0n work, but the women and children s woll,—per- Lsps only becauso they havoto, At any rato, I havo scou hundreds of women, girls, and mers children, at work in tho cotton-ficlds, snd hisvo seon plonty of them plowing snd boslng aa late as half-past 7 o’clock in the evenlug, And, oxcopt in Arksnaas, in thoussnds of milos of travel through tho plantation comntry, 1 havn't scon, alltold, moro then a dozen white men working in the flelds, s Tho sbove extract contnins the searot of the distarbed social condition of mauy parta of the Soutl, On tho one side is the negro, ground down with hard work, for which ho receives insufficient pny. He is keptin hope- less poverty. o isn hard worker, and yot ho bas no prospect of ndvancement. Hoe is donied education upon the thin pretenso that if ho is educated he will not work so much, Tho aristooratic portion of tho whites ara hostilo to his education, and the whole white race, rofusing itsclf to work, finds continual fault with him, the only worker, for idloness | Itis tho insonsato clamor of lazy, shiftless, domincoring casto againsttho weaker raco,—a faction which crushes the blacks and makes mendicants out of tho poor whites, from ita feor that oducntion will elovato thom so that thoy won't work, Bo long as theso relatlona oxist, tho oaso of tho South i not fattering nor its fature hopoful. Tho whites must take tholr hands out of their pookets and pat them on tho hoo and tho plow if they wish prospority in theig sec- tion of tho Union. They should set tho blacks an oxample of industry, and then we shall hoar no more of idle negroes. It doow not stand to romson that the whites and blacks can both live off the Jabor of the latter and become rich very fast, : Tho organ of therings andbrokenbanks had » nonsensfeal article yesterdny to tho offect thot Tug Tromune has opposed the proscu- {ion ond punishment of the parties in New York engaged in smuggling or dealing dis- honestly in smuggled silks. Tt furthor in. dnlges in the following orncular declaration : ‘The merchanta of Chlcago have noted with surprise the fact that Tun TRIDUNK bas maintsined & sallen silence on the subject of the attempt, sbout which so ‘much Lias besn aald, to anbordinate the port of Obl- cago and other interfor poris in Now York by discrim. {nating agalust wuch portsin tho matter of damage allowauices on {mported goods, Tho editor of tho organ is an Inspector in the Chicago Onatom Houso, and, of courso, understanda the lawa of tha United Btates and tho Oustom-House rogulations, and pro- nounces judgmanig thereon to the exolusion of tho Bocretary of thé Treasury and the Attornoy Goneral, Toe Cmcaco Toimune supported the transportation of imported goods from the scaports to Ohicago, and the colleotion of tho duties here, and wag largely inetrumental in having a law to that effeot pnssod by an unwilling Congress. A ques- tion undor that law having arigen, and hav- ing publishod tho views of the Tressury De- partmont, and tho assurance that, as soon ss praoticablo, thoro would be a full investigs- tion thercof by the Attorney Genersl, wo have not thought it ndvissbla or neces- gary to fustruct either the Attorney Genoral or the Becratary of tho Treasury upon the gubjoct, - That business we laft to the Tu. spactors and othor inferior subordinates of the ocustom garvice. They always know mors than thoir superiors, and sre fond of dluplaying their learning and thelr esrs at the same time, The prosent condition of the strect-rallway tracks on Wabash avonuo illustratos most emphatically the continucd selfishness and aggrossivo power of largo corporations and monopolies, notwithetanding the popular warfaro that haa beon made upon thom for tho past three years. An examination of the tracks showa tho most flagrant violation of the ordinance. The rails are nearly a foot abovo the prosont surface of the sirest, several inchea higher than tho surface of the strect would be if paved on tho presont legal grade south of Harrison stroot, and several inches below tho now grada if it should bs oxtended south of Harrlson street. In dolng thia, the Company have rendered the stroot praoti- cally impassable, except for thoir own pur. poses. Wa doubt whether even those who ‘ware in favor of a strect-railway on Wabash avenus will enduro this isnposition, S r—— Prof, 0, K. Avaws’ work on Demoorscy sod Ronsroby o Franos had been much sdmired by studonte of polidoal bistory, It seemad to be 84 remarkable for the vigor of He thought as for the pusity and elegance of the atyle in whih fs wes wiliten. The various oritiolece of the book 4 hosos sud sbeosdl bwe besa extreciely favoe , and Lis | aala ki dsdeonia mcn ¥ g 1 s anthor for bia painstakiog aud schiolarly Iabors, "Tha unprolosslonal roader must, theratoro, hiave loarnod with pain and regrot, from tho Vation of. last weok, that soma of the most niclking pasaagen in ' Domocrncy and Monarchy in Tranco " aro to bo found fu the publishod writ- Ings of TovqueviLLe, Ducktr, and HrLYETIUA, whosa olaimy to procedenco over Prof. Apays can searcaly be disputed. Tho appatent convic- tionof & momber of the Ann Arbor Faculiy of plagieriam s & sorious mattor. If tho chargo shall bo substantiated, I’rof. Avass’ carcor a8 tonchior will como to & suddon ond, o ia now uohapplly in an oxcoediogly painful position, A corrospondont of the Detriit I'rea Press, writing from Ann Acbor, mays that the Nation's articlo sseailing Prof, Avasa has creatod on- sldorable astonishmont in Univorsity circlos, and causod not a littla sorras, It lioe been loug fait by somo of the students and Profossors that ho was liardly compatount to flll the chair of history in that fuatitution, and all his literary famo hag Leon vooded to keop him in the place. The cor- roppondont furtuor obaorves that a similar mis- fortuno bofell anothor Professor in the Afichigan Univorsity two yeara ago, who, on tho oharge of plaglariam being made Iu the Nation, resignod Ll chale and undertook an extouslvo tour in Europo. —_— A rocont numbor of tho Montreal Gazetle con- talos s deecription of tho Lovoll Printing and Tuablishiog Estabiabimont, winch Las just boen put In oporstion at Iouse's Toint, on Lake Champlain, 1t appears from a moraltzing edito- rial on tho samo subjact thet Mr. LoveLt moved from Iontrenl to Rouse's Point for the purposa of turning a few honeat dollars out of English suthors. The pecullor discriminations of the Amorican and English Copyright Jaw meko the chonga profitablo, Thow, Mr. Lovewrw can print Amorican bookn on the sams terms as Amorican ‘publishiers, and can picats English books and ehip them back to Cauada na if Lo wero to tho man- neor born, Eopglish authors aro protostod against Canadian publlshers by an Iinperial Copyright law; bat the only protection thoy have against Amorican publishers 1s in the shapo of s tax of 12§ por cent lovied on tho Owsondisu frontior, which psu me- complished and auccosful pirate can well afford to pay. Mr. LoveELn bas avowodly gono to Rouso’s Poiut to carry on the businoss of priating Eaglieh books on Amarican aail for the Cauadisn market, 1t Is porfeotly apparont that lio oan hope for no other buelness of safliclont conBoquonce to inaintain 100 workmon and moot all tho exponsea of a complote and oxpousive printiog ostablsbmont, In view of all tue cir- cumstancos, the Montreal Gazclle suggents that Cauadlan publishers bo placed on thio wame foot- ing in this respect with thoso of Amorica; and thnt English authors relluquish all copyright privilegos In considoration of a royalty of 13!¢ per cont on all salos, This now development of tho trade on Rouso's Point may Induco a respoctful consideration of a proposition which has horeto- fore beon rocoived with intenso scorn and indig- nation by all Englishmen, S gty ‘When the Bt. Loms bridge was completed with a flourish of trumpots aud a fizzle of Aro-crack- ors, somothing less than s year ago, we, tho public, were colled on to admire the gigantio brains which had oconceived the mighty project, and tho plolhoric pursea which had carriod it to & succossful conclusion. We did admire and wero humblod; and we were basoly, cruelly do- ceivod. It appeared some timo ago tuat the bridga had passed into thé handa of Trustecs. Btlll more rocontly, s financial statomont of ita affaira has becn made, which far eoxceods fn it rovelations of dopravity mnvihiog that was praviously dreamed of, Tha Koyutona Dridge Company mnogotiated four mostgages fn tho Enst, aud the Tunmol Company, for its part, managed to offect two mortgages on ita privileges and proporty. Tho Tunnel Company was mortgaged to the Brldgo Company, sud the Bridgs Company was mort- Raged to protty much overybody who could boe induced, by prayers or throats, to inyest a penny {n ite tranchiss, Now, tho total balance-shoet foota up 13,060,228, of whick 96,6,158 ;is put down to construction proper, To psy tho enor- mous interest on n Iazgo part of thia total, there are only the roceipte of tho Bridge Company from tolls, which amounted iu 1874-'5 above ex- ponsea to 8187,024. It s & dlsmal sugury for tho fatare that thoe only approsch from tho Eaut to tho **foturo® great oity of Miasourl in Jarge 1y dependent for ita existence on foreign cspital, obtained by misropresentations, and kept whore It is by cruel and inoxorable fate. el e The supsrior strength of the aversge Amer- fcan conatitution {a not s often sot forth oa s greator mootal powers, Thero is & good instance of the greater powors of enduranco of an Awer- ican over a Evropoan in the history of tho Roman bavker 8znvapio. Hia bank was a popu- {ar one, eapecially in the provinces, snd among its dopositors woro numbers of poor people, ‘Tha affaire of the bank becams involved, Beavavio thonght hs never would touch bottom or gee daylight. But he went to work and straighiened out matters, and tho mental and physical straln ensuing brought ona it of spo- plexy from which bo died. What Iows flosnclar wonld have been so foolish ? The Chicaga T¢mes takea sdvantsge of the absonoo in Europs of the former edltor of Tum ‘Trmuxs to print some irresponsible insinuse tions and naaty fllngs about an alleged connec« tlon with s former whisky-ring during the Anpy Jonxsox regime. This ia contemptible business, Those who know the gentloman roferred to will not requlte any defense from the attack, sud thoso who do not will readily understend that cowardlca of this kind is no$ worthy of confl- dence in anything it asys ov doss. A newapaper edltor who engages in alandering defenssless women and abson$ men cannot expest that any- body will give his utterances the slightest weight or importance, The sttitude of the 014 Catholics toward the Ultramontanes was never supposed to be of the {friendliest, but the bliternoss of the followlng sxtract from aletter written by Bishop Rankaxs to Big. Gu’:nnnu-uo.mul, 8 member of $he Italian Parliament, scoms to contain lexs of brotherly love than could have beon antloipated s 'To be at pesoa with tha Popo, the Stata 1ust tolerate an army of priceta who strive 1o compass i ruin by tuslr underhiand machinativns amonyg the multituda, Tho Pope seoks, by tho ald of & kind of Pontificsl In- ternational by, Yo convert ths world into & eo- clastagtical Biate, of which he himuslf is to be supreme risst a0d King; but by the establishmant of ths new rmian Empire his sehama bas Dest cios and for sl ovsribrown, —e PERSONAL Gov, Hendricks returned do Indlanapolls yee- terday. Anos Louiss Cary swime Like & naiad at Long Branoh. Maruhall Jewell, Postmaster Gonoezal, is at the Palmer Houss, v Grasshoppers in Tows | Won't that discourage Allen's depouitors somewhat ? Hay-fover is comlng 0o now, and & man bas every right to wish ho were dsad, Mr. Boocher says his object has aver besa * to mako virtua radiant.” Dy coutrast ? Ludles sifll wear iLia Byron collar, forgsttul of Mru. Stows and * sl that that implies.” Balvio! is quite willing to play Jago to Roesl's Oihallo, or vics versa. Anyibiog for & good time, Bl Mosos Moatofiore s goiog 8o Palestine, He's abous the only lsrselite who looks in fhat direction nowadsys. ‘Whan Nellson pleys Clopatra, i% {s claimed she must drivk & lh}:fl paatk Aake it parl and thare'il be no troubl Mr, Beschar is fnflusncing the press by sharp. ening thals peucils for tho repariers wheaever Beaoh guis 0o $0 & wore place. - The Lash boaste tbat it cau have reces whioh theWeat 0aanu0) Laowase Of povarsy,~thst La, be« eause we caxncl ‘ave Pordbam, PE A AT Ry R e St P happy instance of tho natural oxprossion of ¢ apoutanooua thought, and the paot sald, vt smoltod advzon clgars over thot line.” Tlto glawa 050 of lily decanto grandmothor fy aniong the charms on (ho watch-guard of » disttnguishod Parluian wwelt, Mad. Biignoli {e tho attraction at AL, Htaphen's Ohureh, Now York, nowsdays, Sbo iy, ong of the stock company, and sings on o salary, ‘The man who ofters a lioavy raward for the womau who doos not wrltoe for the nowapapars end magazinea will nover bo callod on ta pay up, All tight: quito ralioved, thank you, Tye Popo is eatisiiod with tho way Ius onvtays hayy boou troated, and will order off tho locusts 84 onca. Mr. Robort Raoberis, a lawyor of Barlington, Vi, aud su ofticor of tho Senate of that State, hes roqgoved to this aity to practico hig pro. founlou, ‘The philosophior who thinks the Britlsh Goy. ernmont haa loat its lovo of gold shoutd Juse noto tho avidity with which jt guoy for Nayy Guinos, Fanny Davenport an Lady Macbeth) Coulg anythlng bo more fucongruous, unleas, Pporhape, it might bo Jamos Lowis a8 Macbeth /~Dostoy Gazelle, . Tanl Bort, Prosident of the Frenoh Asronautie. 8l Socloty, haa never beon upius balloon, and nover will. Tho Hocloly cloarly wanta & tman of sonso at ita hoad. A Massacugetta reportor, In an acoount of 5 fire, fucidentally speaks of tho time **when Mossre, Bhadraoh, Moshach & Co. gob tha laugzy on Nebuchadnozzar,” ** Half the gross " 1s Anoa Dickinson's olal o when sho lectures for the sdvancoment of wor ;. en or far benovolen: purposes councoted wiiy thelr highor educstion. * Evangaliue,” tho renovated burlosqna eon. talning "tho lone flaborman,” bay slx distinsg Villains fo It, sll of tho moat dosporatoa:} bloodthlisty charactor, ' Dritoua will notice with pride that about this time 1,000 years ago Alfred tho Grast was by Y killing tbo Danca ho bad capturod. What's youe petty Centonnial to that, pray? Tho Kollogg opera compaay will leava Q... eago for Sau Franeiaco this morning by tho C. 1 cago & Northwostorn Railroad, in the fin- 4 Pullinsn car over put on tho track, It takes just 1 cont to sond an ordinary LU by mail from Canada iuto tho Unitod Siaf 3, but, accordlng to our postal laws, as oxlsting 1t prosent, 1t $akes 4 conts to send the game pa; v back. An Ttolian Oourt haadscided that the marrin 1o of o prieat is logal, and eversbody s rejolct: 1, 8 though thoro could be tho most dlstant chiat:co of & common-sonse court taking auy otlier visw of the mattor, Thoro aro so many catastrophea oceurring Ju::h vow which furaish grounda for appests ta tio charitable, that all truly good men are oxchatiqa Ing thair ready cash for Unitod Btatea scouriti sz, —JHrooklyn Arqus, Willism Pollisslor has swrilten & throos-act pational play in English, entitled * Geoige Wasbington.” Mo {a nogotiating for tho Ad:l- phi or Hooley'a to produce it for Lis beneflt on tho Fourth of July. Dismarck is nok an infidel. Ho ls proparing, by the advice of his physloiang, o pass hia vae edlions in a warmer climato, Thess viokng changes aro as uncomfortable fu tho noxt world 88 woll 08 this ono, Thero s somo solendid Baratogs matorial going to waste for 1,50 a day on a Westorn rafleond, whore Earl Duke Le oy is ualng pick and ahovel instord of doing tho agrooable for a millfonaire’s daughtar, Almyra Witham, neo Berry, s lone lorn widuw, diod of atarvation in tho Hub of ths Univorss, within the shadow of Bunker Hill, surrounded by logions of shriokers for womau's rights, ignored -and unheoded by tha thonsands of * loarned frionda” evor busy in reforming the world, The Abbe Denis has found a nest of hen's opgs under the rutos of King Dsgabort's castle, sod bonsts that thoy aro 1,200 years old. Poolh! that's nothing, Thoro's a grocer on the South Bido has eggs Iaid by antodituvian hens, Judging from the aroma shied around when the shell ia broken, Cazauran, Angler, Harriott, Neilson, Georzs Fawcott Rowo—a lappy quintette. COazauran wrote up Neilsont Angler loved Neflson, and vice verss; Oszauran and Harriots wers talkivy. Entor Angler with oano. Tabloau: Cazsutan prostrate, and Angior canlng him. Rows res- oned him, Lsdles should be carstul how they press preachiera (o any way, bat particulstly sa to scre mous on eventa in thair llves, One doar erea~ ture heving eolicited an exhortation appropriste to ber marriage, waa puzzled at the text : “Anl thero shsll be abundance of pesce—while o moon endarath.' Robesplorre loft twenty-one lettars which have Just been tound, and whilch, i ha wero atill liv- ing, would conaign him $0 an etsrnal cavect gloom, Wonid it not bo just as well to get tp an {ndignation meoeting against the late Mr. Oac~ mas for the injury he has done influsatial psogia by the inventlon of lstters ? Judge Buakirk, of Indianspolls, proposes to hava the Grand Jury show people that they can play marriage whila he's looking o, even if tho/ do come from Boaton. 1t ia @ olear casa of con. siruotive contewpt of the divoroe-court when poople sgres to separats without s decroe. There is daoger t8 the Barif this souroe of rev- anue should bs suddenly annihilated. It must b understood ss immeasurably Pick- wickian when Mr, Daly sanannoes Edwin Booth, Miss Joftrys.Lewis, Bydney GCowell, Jobn Brougham, asd others, as eugsged for nexi soa- son. If they sroso sogaged, the moet famoun of the party will play as stars, Clever, bot ine sincers, is this atyle of advertiaing, fan's i§ Augustin P A former Professor of Natural Hisory ins New England oollege, now ocoupylog a highor position of the same character st the Wost, is sometimes quite sbssnt-winded. On coe ocosalon, while hearing o olsss {n xoology, he put ihe question: “Did you sver ses a porpalee ?” “ No, sir” Professor, yory faribly, a» wma his wons—"'Tha next DId you ever 8504 parpoise?” #No, slr,® “The next. DId you ever mes a porpolss ?* *No, ar.” A this point, forgetting thas hls question Wis entlrely exirancous, be olosed the book with s bang, aud an indlgnant “Take this lessos again 1" ami thalsughter of the class.—Mivaw- kes Sentinal. MOTEL ANBIVALS, B’::Mil’luu“f‘ N, Asb, Black Fille B, Warren, oston § \ ¥, Bt o By 1, 7 Mo S bilnatiphia; Hariow 5. eheige B3, Losiei Wider," Boitons ootk i | dane; A, Beunders, Omaha; J. B, Ghaffee, Donver ; @, B Mayhew, Now Haven : B, fllOl.lmnh Ban Francieco § Gen, John Ellcott, Haltimore; T. 8. Banford, Clave: landy W, 3, muf:’u, Onels's 3, 0. "““}5“ O s York Youo, 2. Yinarys Banlmare s 3 e are trojt s oy Kt I5alsviie Ly e Gron udge #rd D, Puf 0 Bock faland :wfx’k;muy. mxonfi. W, & wold, Bur D { Hobert Alkoway, Ilinotat Ts Py uw“""’-&““‘”%. e W oty lil?ltu‘g. fl#bl AA