Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 29, 1875, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: ''UESDAY,” JUN TERMS OF THE. TRIBUNE, RATES OF MURACTIPTION (PATARLE TN ADVANCE), Postnge Vrepald nt thin OMice. Se We a OF Pla oe RT es es 2 is 3.00 Ten oupie: A400 Parts of a your at the snmne rate, ‘Waxteo—Uno activo agent ia mach town and village, Bpecial arrangementa made with euch, Bpecimen cupios eent fre. ‘To prevent delay and mistakes, he ante and give Port Office addrees in fall, including State und County. Remitancesmay te wither by draft, express, Post- Of.ceordor, or in registered lettare, at one tisk, TENYA TO CITT At RECHINROA, delivered, Bunday rscented, 25 vents par week, ered, Sundar Included, BU conte par weok. THR TRIRUNE COMPANY, by Dally, Dally. addi MUSEMENTS, ADELPHI THRATR: wo. Variety Entertalos earborn atreet, corner Mfon- Hoon ant OM. F cect alan StaWate, ay ame. , Ia art MaWale, Plug Van Winkia.n Soenmement ot HOOLEY'S THRATRE—Mandoinh atrest, betwen Mark and aSatle, Hogagomont of Mrs. Oates’ Euglleh Opers-Company, ** Gleuflo-Uirofa.” MIVICKER'K THEATR Fiyttbers and state. | Ko th Avenus Theatrs Conp: _—S SOCIETY MEETINGS. BLAT LODGE, No, ea » Expres Duitdion)y We idleon street, gut af the Now betreon York ** Women of the Day," mt at tia a, tm, tuneral of cue sharp, for the purpose of al ister iro, and Wormiptut Joseph Gallsghor Bie tie, ana, Worenipia ie W. Stocktog. Rorvicee at tho fi Friends of the family and all brother Alasons invited to Attend without furthor notice, ATTENTION, SIR KNIQMTS.—Spoctal Conclave of Apollo Commandery, No. 1, Ke T., this (Lugrday) avon- hiding Bir Ruighus sourienusly tanita My tandeee st the Us 14, B, W. LOCKE, Kecordor. The Chicags Ceibune, Tuesday Morning, June 29, 1875, The rag-moncy repudiation Democracy of Ohio aro going to invite Gon. Burner to stump tho State for the shinplaster platform, ‘The Republicans of Ohio aro talking of send- ing for Sast Cox, of Now York, to roply to him. Senator Tuvnsan will probably do his political campaigning in Maine. ‘The Cincinnati Enquirer crowd want Gov. ‘Tinpey, of New York, and Gov, Henpuicns, of Indiana, to visit Ohio this summer, and Address the ‘wnterrifiod” on tho currency question and kindred topics. But it will require moro horse-power than tho Enquirer crowd can coutrol to induco either of thoso Prosidontial cindidates to sot foot in tho Buckeye State bofore the October election ia over, Tho twelve prisoners in tho Brooklyn jury- room had, at tho date of our Intest telegram, beon shut in for 108 hours consecutively, ond yetno verdict, It is curious to note how ru- anor has changed sinco the argumonts were finished. Then, n verdict for tho defendant was looked for with certainty by the Plymouth coterie; next, tho complexion of the jury ‘was speculated upon as ten to two in favor of Mr. Berouer; but now rumor has it that the twolve nro about equally divided. Cnn it bo thata change in public sentiment in and about the court-room hna worked the, change in rumor? — Oar criminal nows has fo abounded with jail-doliveries lately that tho regular render ‘would bo justifiod in concluding that staying in tho averngo jail doponds vaatly upon the will of tho person whom society wishes to enge. Night before last four men becamo wenry of the Lawrenco, Kan., ‘ Utica,” and ‘went forth to swell an already brilliant reo- wel of train-robbing and torror-breoding, Last night on incondiary and a horse thiof, each vetorans, prorogued a brief session in the Alton jail, It may bo all right for loyo to Jough at locksmiths, but, with so free a par- ticipation by cut-throats, horse-thioves, coun. torfeiters, and fire-bugs, tho Inugh is getting to bo too much against decent people, —___—_— The Common Conncil Inst night passed, _ With some changes, the ordinance abolishing tho Board of Polico and Firo Commisetonors end croating tho offices and prescribing tho fonctions of City Marshol-and Firo Marshal as tho heads, respectively, of the Polica and Firo Departments, The ordinanca, as amond- ed, is not improved, as it makes tho appoint- ment of tho two Marshals subjoct to confir. mation by the Common Council, and thoreby lessons tho Probability that the best men will be secured for the posl- tlons, With a Council absolutely abandoned to tha behests of the lawless bummer clement, it may bo rogarded Ag certain that tho Cosmopolitans and not tho Jeffersonians will dictate the selection of tho City Marshal; ond in this view of tho cago it ia porhaps woll that, under the amended or- dinance, the Mayor and Comptroller should have 9 hand in the disciplining of the police foroo, These remarks are based upon tho assumption that tho ordinance will stand the test uf law to which it will doubtless be sub- fected by the Police Board,—an assumption which is contradicted by the entiro Law Do- Partment of the city, and the soundness of which Is a matter of widely diferent opinion among lawyera, ‘The text of an interesting decision on the subject of tho marriaga contract wilt bo found in another column, ‘The caso is ono which has alroady gained considerable pub. Yeity, and tho decision will command general attention ag an exposition of tho fudinna Jaw relating to the forms and ceremonies necessary to conatitute a valid marringo un- der the statute, Judge Cuarsan, of tho Criminal Court, delivered the opinion, An indictment had been found by the Grand Jury ogainet a man ond woman who had, in the presence of witnossea, .but without the aid of clergyman or magistrate, sol. emnly taken each other for husband end wife, with o proviso or conditional agreement that the union was to last Only so long as the “love-nature” of tho parties held out. A criminal action was in- stituted with » view to the abatement of what Was regarded as an odious public scandal, ‘The Court held that it was no scandal; that the parties aro completely and Jawfully mur- Hed and that thoy must romain so until rog- ularly divorced, their agrcoment as to dura- tion of *Jove-naturo” boing in law void and fo morals vicious, Mr. and Mrs, Buexy aro man and wifo, aud it appears that, when they Joined in an informal construction of tho connublal fabric, they builded Botter than thoy knew, ‘The OhLcago produce marketa wore goneral- ly stronger yesterday, owing to tho cold “weather hero, and moro encouraging reports from Burope,” Meas pork was more active, and 185 per 10) Ibs higher, closing at $19.30 cash, and $19.50 for August. Lard was in better demand, and 20@250 per 100 tha high- 6r, closing at 918,40 cash, and $18.00 for Aug- Meats were in better demand and o shade firmer, at 840 for shoulders, 113@11}0 fos short ribs, aud 11j0 fox short lars, High. winos wero quict and ateady at 1.16 per gallon, Lake froights wore dull at 2$¢ for wheat to Buffalo, Flour was quiet and firm, ‘Wheat was active and 1c higher, closing at Oso cash, and {90 for duly, Corn was active ond Je higher, closing nt 670 eash, and G7jc for duly. Onta were in better demand, nnd la highor, closing at Sijo ensh, aud 49Jo for July, Ryo was dull at 90c. Barley was quict and firmer at $1.00 bid for September. logs were dull and closed heavy. Snles chiefly nt $6,75@7.10, Cattle ware in light demand ut 10G-200 decline. Sheep wore in- active, ‘The Cincinnati Anquirer anya: ‘The Mon, Jouy V, Fanwsnt, of Chicago, might de able to yivo nome information about the way Buena Vinta stono came io be used fa the Chicago Oaatom- House, At all evouts, it wouldn’t cost anything to hear bia story, Ls salary a6 Congresstoan qoos on the eaine, Tho Lnguirer makes a fow slight errora in the above paragraph.. In the first placo, it ns got hold of the wrong Fanwetn, The Non, Cnantes B, Fanwent is member of Congress from this district, not Sr. Jonn V. Fanwett. We are somewhat surprised nt the Enquirer's political ignorance. We can fur- thermore assuro the Knguirer that the Con- gressman whom it intended to criticiso is altogether too sharp to be caught with Buena Vistn snudstone, so that his “story” would bo of no interest whatover. MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS, The growth of the municipal indebtedness of this country, and tho seeming popular in. difforonce to it, constitutes one of the most serious dangers that threaten our American system, Careful estimates revoal the ns- founding fact that city debts have increased 50 per cent since their tabulation in tho cen- sus of 1870, and tho ratio of increase in State and county debts is relatively alarming. ‘Wherever the increase has not been checked in city, town, or connty by constitutional limitation, there hag been o persistent and enormous ‘increase within the lost five years, Any erhibit caleulatod to bring the enormity of municipal indebtedness vividly before tho people is capecially valuable. A recont dis- cussion in tho British Parliament brought out a statement of the municipal debts of the Kingdom; thoso cities owing moro than $1,000,000 aggrogate os follows : it Population, il, Debt, 3 agiady ” $33,015,009 0, 0 16,800,400 x LU Swansea (Wales), 2,090,000 . 121,063,659 ‘Lo contrast with this statemont tho munic. ipal indebtedness of American cities of tho samo class, the Cincinnati Commercial has prepared from tho latest sources the following table: Cities, New Yor! Vhitade) yt bouton .. Tndtaus at, Paull, y 0 $485,092,701 A comparison of theso tables makes a startling exhibit, ‘Swonty-ono cities in En- gland, with a population of over 6,000,000, do not owe as much monoy as tho single City of Now York, with a population of less than 1,000,000, London, with its population of over 3,200,000, taking in nat only tho city proper, but all tho consolidated municipalitics of tho motropolis, owes not quite half as much as Philadelphia, with 700,000 people, but lttlo more than half as much as Boston, with less than 300,000 inhabitants, and not as much by soveral millions aa Brooklyn, Baltimoro, or Washington, Cities like Livorpool, Man- chester, Leeds, and Birmingham, havo vastly smaller debts than cities of the samo clogs in this country, Birmingham, for inatance, with nvarly 950,000 inhabitants, owea but $2,865,000, or legs than somo of our oitics having but from 80,000 to 40,000 inhabitants, ‘Tho twonty-ono citios of England, with their population of over 6,000,000, owe but about one-fourth as much qa thirty American cities with. a population of little more than 4,000,000, ‘The reasons of this vast difcrence botwaen tho municipal debts of England and those of the United Stutes aro obvious onough, It is owing mainly to three causes, viz.: (1) ‘Tho provalence of the ward system of politics in tho govorninont of our American cities; (2) tho temptation of a corrupt system of con. tracting for work, whereby the spoils ara divided between contractors and Iocal office. holders; and (3) tho borrowing of monoy, without limit, to pay for public improve. tents, instoad of paying for thom out of the taxes levied, ‘Theso causes are not beyond the control of the people themselves, but will continuu to exist 20 long ox thoro continues to baa genoral Indifference on the part of the public in rogard to tho increase of munic- ipal indebtedness, It will not bo until tho oppression becomes unendurable, and por- haps not until tho disgrace of repudiation has been added in somo of the cities, that the systom will be so remodeled as to render the present frightful disproportion of city debt to population impossible, Chicago is better of in the matter of mu. nicipal indcbtodnoss than any other city in the country in proportion to population, It owes less than half asmuch as Boston, though today s much larger city, and also less than half os much as Brooklyn, though nearly os largo a city, ts debt isnot so great by 312,000,000 as that of Baltimoro, and $2,000,- 00 less than thot of St, Louta, It owes but $1,000,000 moro than Cincinnati, thongh it probgtly has nearly twice aa argo a popula. tion ot the present time, Wo loavo Now Orleans and Washington out of the reckon~ {ng altogether, because the frauds in those cities have been so Gloring that there ia no room for legitimate comparison, The reason why Chicago isso fortunate in this respect is that tho limitation of its dobt, like thot of every othor city in Tlnols, was absolutely fixud by the Constituilon of the Ma Stnte adopted in 1871, Had it not been for this wise limitation, it is not unlikely that, today, tho debt of Chicngo would have been third in the list, and execeded only by Now York and Phitndelphia. At tho end of Cor- yrr'a administration, with tho disposition of the present crowd in tho City Government to spend money, our debt would probably havo reached 825,000,000, if it had not been abso- lutely limited to 5 per cent of the valuation of the property, Moro can he done, therefore, to check tho reckless expenditures and tho official corruption responsiblo for the cnor- mous debta of other cities by following tho examplo of Hlinois in this regard than in any other way. It is evident that something must bo done, and done quickly, to avoid general municipal bankruptey, “REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY.” Tho Cincinnati Haguirer and all the other Democratic shinplaster papers of Ohio are making a parade in their columns of 1 long editorial in the Chicago ring organ approy- ing and indorsing tho inflation policy pro- posed by tho Ohio platform, The Democrats aro making the most of the following, which they call ‘ Republican (?) testimony”: To tho Republican party belongs the croait of oe “tablshing the greenback curroncy, From tho dato of {ta fasue n reign of properity commenced; through it tho sinowe of war were obteiued, by ald of which tho Robellion was cruabed; through st every industry flourished, and the production of the country was doubled and qualrupled, But, persuaded by the ava rico of buliionists and bondholders, (he Republican party of tho Forty-third Conareas struck « blow at the greenback currency whiok destroyed confidence and stagyered overy industry, Tho provision for the ro- tirement of even a small porcentage of the groenback 4sauo was notice to the community of a purpose to re- tire every dollar of it, and the plodge to resume specio paymenta ona given day was a pledge to force con- traction and convequent bankruptcy, By this one act evury merchant, every manufacturer, every pro- ducor was warned to contract his business, to furl hte saila to meet, ax beet ho might, the coming storm, Tho ctorm is upou us, Tt is sweeping away all who did not heed the warntug and many who did, but found themselves unable to shield thelr property from fis diro offects, Itcnn hardly be necessary to point ont to any intelligout reader the absurdities of tho foregoing. ‘The establishment of the greon- back currency was a war mensure,—one of des- perate necessity; it waan forced lonn, justi- finble only by oxtremo necessity, just na any other form of confiscation would bo under like circumstances. It was never intended to Inat beyond tho noceasity that called for it, and even then there was a limit beyond which it was noyer to extend. ‘The intelligent reader will bo surprised to hear that tho panic which is sweeping overy- thing away, which has curtailed business, do- atroyed tho prosperity, and arrested produc- tion, was caused by tho act of Congress of Jouuary, 1875, commonly called tha Spocto Resumption law. ‘The most of tho poople supposed that the orand break took placo in tho fall of 1873, and that tho act of Congress followed tho general prostration rather than,preceded it, Mr. Jax Cooxe, and Mr. Tost Scorr, and Mr. Henny Cuzws, ond the other gentlemen who were making things lively by investing tens of millions of other people's money in wildent speculations and in the questionnblo sccnrities of the plundered Southern States, all went to protest cightecn months before the time whon, according to this Chicago advocato of shinplastor monoy, the act of Congress was pnssod. This isa most remarkable instance of tho effoct pro- eeding tho causo that has yot happpened. All tho failures of 1873 ond 1874, which closed the iron furnaces and the carpot mills, and which suspended trade and stoppod pro- duction, ocourred when the currency was in- finted twenty-six millions beyond the highest amount ontstanding for many years. When thé country was prostrate from tho wreck caused by tho bursting of the inflation bubble, Congress intorposed to give somo assuranco to tho civilized world that tho United States would, oven at a ‘romoto dato, roturn to honost dealings in honest monoy. Now comes the organ of all tho jobs and frauds, from ealary-grabs and Pacifle Mail down to loaning the Statofunds to a bank. rupt bank, and gives "Republican testi- mony" that the panic of 1873 was oausod by an act of Congrosa passed in 1873, ne, REPUDIATION BY STATES, Ex-Secretary MoCunzocu'a sixth letter re- viows tho finonciat policy of Virginia, and closes with the startling assortion that Mas- sachusetts and California aro the only two States in the Union which have not boen guilty of at lonst partial ropudiation, Virginia bonds had always been a favorite among American securities in London, Tho Old Dominion was tho most Englich part of America, fir moro so than Now England. Mony ties connected her with the mother country, so that she had ltilo diMoulty in creating n number of financial ties batwoon Richmond and London, Sho entered the Confederacy vory deeply in debt. The in. torost on her bonds was, of courss, suspend. ed during tho War, but no reproach was heard oud no effort was mado after the War to collect tho monoy in arreara until a rensonablo timo had been allowed for the recuperation of the battle-ficld of the Rebellion, Meanwhile, the State did nothing to meet her past-duo obligations, Finally, when tho ‘“ Croditors' Committes " had gone to Richmond and dono what it could, on act was passed which au- thorized tho funding of the old bonds and acerned intercat, two-thirds in new bonds, tho intereat-coupons of which were to bo re- ceived for tnxos, and one-third in certificates, ‘Tho Inttor wera practically valuctoss, for they wero held to represent tho part of the debt owned by West Virginia, and tho latter had declined to assume any of it. The reason given is that the public works, for which tho debt was incurred, are all within the Limits of Virginia proper, The croditors, however, took tho two-thirds as tho best thoy could hope for, About two-thirds of the whole debt had been thus “ sealed," when the Vir- glnia Legislature did a very dishonest thing, It repealed the law which authorized the issue of new bonds with coupons that wero receivablo for taxes, and instructed tho Stato officers to decline to rocelve for taxes the coupons of tho bonds already issued, ‘The courts havo dot asido this latter law, on the ground that they were issued under a contract betwoen the Stateand the bondhold- ers, and that this contract could not be broken, This is the state of things now, ‘The poople of Virginin aro dissatisfied, They have incurred all the odium, and only part of the proit—momentary, at beat—of ropudia. tion, The bondholders are dissatisfied, part of them becauso they are not even allowed to fund thelr old bonds at o sacrifice of 83} per cont, and tho others bocauso they oannot get their interest-coupons cashed, and have to sell them ot a heavy shave to tax-payers, Bo this policy of repudiation has onded in disgusting everybody, whilo tho original compro. miso, if fully carried out, would have oponed Lombard astreot to Vir. giniay havo preserved the honor of the ‘‘Mothor of Presidents,” the State of Wasz- morow, Javransox, Paraicg Hewat, and Mantson; and have socnred for her tho in. flow of capital and Inbor rhe so sadly needs, Tho only States in the Union, according to Mr, McCuntocn, which havo not dishonestly paid in depreciated paper the debta due in coin, are Massachusctta and Catifornin, ‘This ia not very pleasing information, ‘Tho ox. Sceretary's noxt letter ix to be davoted to this point. Meanwhile, his statements about. Indiana's rocorl of repuiintion have called out much correspondence in oxeuse, pro- testation, and Inmentation, but the facts he gave havo not been cleared away, One indignant Now Yorker confides to the public that ho owns $5,000 in Minne. sota bonds, which are part ‘of n $2,000,- 000 debt repudiated by that State. JIudgo Ditton recently referred to this debt, in tho courso of n decision, as a valid one, but the “ sovereign State" of Minnesota declines to pay it, and cannot be compelled to do fo, ‘The reault of this, according to tho luckless bondholder, is that the Stato “ cnunot borrow in auy monoy-market except on ignominious terms,” ‘This expression sounds strangely, applied toa Northern State, It ia too true of most of tho Southorn communities. North Carolina bonds aro for salo from 51 down to 8}; South Carolina “ securities * rango from G}to the dazzling height of 83 and some- times 40; Louisiana bonds aro worth—that is, thoy will bring—25 to 87; Arkansas ond Alabama are in the miro; Georgia forman brilliant exception with bonds at 90; and Virginia ‘ deferred bonds” aro offered at 8}. Carpet-bagism has had much to do with this; but tho trouble now is dishonesty and idle ness. The American. mind is no longer shocked at the iden of repudiation, and in the South the whito American mind is shocked at the idea of Inbor, As longas Southern whites refrain from working and try to sponge a liv. ing, ante-bellum fashion, off the blacks, ao Jong will Southern wealth and credit bo small, REDEMPTION OF GREENBACKS, It is a romarknble fact that among the host of Senators, Congrossmon, legislators, journalists, politicians, statesmen, and plat- form-makers of overy degree who protest against any resumption of specio payments, cr redemption of greonbacks, becauso such a proceeding would convulso tho business of the country and ruin everybody, that thero isa daily and hourly redomption of green- backs in gold going on,—true, nat by the maker of tho notes, but by those who do so egaimatter of profit and speculation. It is to this fact that tho greenbacks have any purchasing power or commercial yaluo, and, should this redemption for any enuso atop or be arrested, thoy would cease to havo nny valuo at all, Tho valuo of a greenback is precisely what the stroct-broker will redeem it for, Ho is not the maker of the note, and is under no obligation to redeem it; but ho redcoms it aga matter of business, a matter of profit, On one day ho will pay 75 centa in coin for greenbacks; on another day, or perhaps on the samo day, he will pay 80 conta, or 85, or even 90 centa, for greon- backs; while the price ho pays for them may rise abovo or fail bolow any of theso rates, Last week there were sold nt public auction in this city the notes of a well-known operator, amounting upon their faco to $75,000, They were sold for the highest sum bid for them, Practically, legal-tendor notes, to the an:ount of sovernl million dollars, are sold in the samo way overy day. Tho man who holds an amount of thom which he cannot uso in pay- ment of n foreign debt or goods, or to pay austoms, or to buy exchange, goes into the markot and asks, ‘Who will take up theso ovorduo notes of the United States at the least discount?” Lo sells thom or has them xodeemed by the man who will givo him the most coin for thom. Like Sixt Watxen’s notes, their value is precisely what can bo ob- tainod for them, If that current value be 80 conts, then they will buy the preciso amount of iron, cloth, or other goods which 80 couts will buy, less n cousiderable margin rotained to cover fuctua- tions, They have no real purchasing power beyond their valuo in coin, They are, by tho necessities of trado, daily delivered over to tho broker who redoema them in gold, and at such rates of discount as he may demand. Thia coin redomption of tho greenbacks is tho only thing that keeps them afloat. If that should bo arrested or stopped, then they would not be worth anything aa o purchasing agent, A ton of thom would not purchase a ton of hay. Nor ia this redemption of greonbacks in coin a trifling one, Wo purchase $400,000,- 000 of dutlablo foreign goods oyory year, on which we pay $170,000,000 or moro year in the shape of tatif; we havo to pay in ono form or another many more millions in tho way of froights, and interest on per. sonal, corporata, and municipal obligations, andon balance of trade against us, Tho amount of debts which the people havo to pay annually, and for the payment of which grconbacks aro not available, does not fall much below §100,000,000 or $500,000,000 B yoar, It is true wo export agricul. tural commodities; but, before these are counted as cash, thelr value in groonbacka is reduced to their value in com, and in that form thoy are forwarded as so much coin, Tf, thon, the groonbacks,—legal tonders,—~ “based upon tho faith and rosouroes of the nation,” are redeemed once and a half over in coin in the course of every year, how can tho commerco, and industry, and productions of the country bo annihilated by having those notes redeemed by the maker instead of by the brokers, or redeemod at a fixed price in. stead of at prices ranging from 76 to 88 cents adollar? If tho trade and prospority of tho country con bo measurably maintained with greenbacks convertible into gold at 85 cents, how would the business of the country bo convulsed if they were convertible into coin at the rate of 90, or 05, or 100 cents on tho dollar? The whole ploture of ruin and desolation which are to follow a reaumption of par pay. ments is puroly imaginary, It ts the oroation of inen who are blinded by gophisms, and of other men who want to proilt by gambling in the currency, To have the greenbacks ro. deemed at par, and by their maker, would have tho effect of closing tho gold-room, and breaking up the wholo trafflo in national cur. reney, Thena greenback, being worth a dol. lar ond equivalent toa dollar in coin, would passaa such overy day in the week at the eame valuo, ‘Lhe remedy proposed by these inflation. fata for tho derangements caused by the do. preclation of tho ourrency ond its fluctu. ations ig to iuaue more of the currency. Wo have mentionod the sale of Mr. Wauxrn'a nates in this city, and at prices below their face value, Wouldit have increased the valuo of those notes to have Mr, Warxxn issue moro of them ? And, as thelr value diminished, to keep on issuing more of them? Is it calon- lated to improve the credit of paper which is not redasmed by its maker, and which is suaved atthe streot corners or gold at auction ag the groonbscks are now sold and shaved, 5 29, 1876. to {esno moro of tho notes under on agguranco that the maker will novor pny any of it? Yot that in precisoly tho remedy for tho ovila of depreciated pnpor which theso inflationista propose, ‘Lhoy want “cheap mouey.” ‘Che present greenback ean only bo bonght with 85 vents in coin; they waut money so cheap that it can bo bought for 50 or 40 cents in tho dollar, and that is the way in which they expect to ro- storo prosperity, increase trnde, aud romedy tho defects of our financial system, | THE BELGIAN RELIGIOUS RIOTS, In Mr. enxyeon’s new drama, ‘ Queen Mary,” occurs a passage where Antcr informs Many of the offense committed by the heretic Lady Jaxz, ‘Sho was passing somo chapel down in Essex, and with hor Lady Anns Wnanroy, and tho Lady Annr bowed to the Pyx, but Lady Janu stood up stiff as the very backbono of heresy. ‘And whereforo bow yo not,’ says Lady Janz, ‘to Him within thero who made Heaven and Earth?" Many de- mands tho reply of Lady Jane, ond Avice says: “Sho sald the baker made him.” Tho flippant remark of Lady Janz scems to linve found its counterpnrt in the recent dogmatic disturbances in Belgium, which have nearly plunged that country into civil war. Tho whole Kingdom has been thrown into a fever of excitement. Tho military have beon called out, the Government has issued circulars and. manifestos, tho nowspapors have been warned, and both tho Ultramontanes and Liberals stand arrayed against each other in 9 furlous and threatoning attitude, the whole growing out of an incidont which in this country, or in any other where religions differences ara not kept up at fover heat, would be consid. ered ridiculous, Tho Belginn disturbance seems to have had its origin in Antwerp. A religious procession was passing through the ~streats, and a school-boy showed disrespect to the Host by not taking off his hat os it passed, Somo say that the young rascal also Dlow ont a candle and applied some opprobri- ous epithet to the candle-bearer, but of this thore is no proof, and, if thera wero, it was an offense which might hayo -been sottled with- out piling up kindlings sufilciont to start tho flamos ofa civil war, The offenso, therefore, sums itself np in the fact that n achool-boy, with tho recklessness and bravado charactor. istic of youth, probably with no sacrilegious intentions in his mind and no suspicions of the tempest ho was to arouse, kept his hat on whilo the Host passed, others being un- covered. If ho wore a Catholic, it wasan act of youthful bravado which could certainly have been cxcused. If he were not a Catholio, ho had a clear right to keop hia hat on, avon under the laws of Belgium. In cascsof relig- jousdisturbance women are tho most zealous of fanatics and tho most aggressive of wordy combatants, Fish-women havo achioved s world-wide reputation for their exploits of tonguo, and more than one Dr, Jounson has had to yield to the torront of their abuso and seok safoty in fight. On this occasion, tha young school-boy was neighbor to a fanatical woman, and the {fanatical woman was also n fish-woman. Tho Antwerp fish-women nro notoriously religious devutees, and this par- ticular fsh-woman was no exception to tho tule, cither in religion or Billingsgate, Sho oponed all hor batteries on the boy, and, os sho warmed up in her abuse, knocked his hat off his head. Tho othor school-boys camo to tho rescue of thoir bare-headed com- rado, and the other fish-women camo to tho rescue of their associate,’ Thon com- menced 9 war of words between the rival forces equal to that in the Kermeosse scone in “Faust.” ‘Tho masculine dovoteos reinforced tho fish-womon, and tho lttle handful of school-boys wero apparently in danger of be- ing aunibilated, Soine sweat little cherub up aloft, howovor, took caro of them, aud thoy managed to escape tho frightful profanity of the fish-women ondtho moro frightful throats of thoir masoulino coadjutors. No damoge ‘was dono, oxcept that the portly Burgomastor got his hat knocked over his eyes and a zenl- ous Ultramontane champion, rashing about with his knifo iri hand to slaughter somebody, cut his own fingers ond thereupon bellowed vociferously, This ridiculous affray, which has a humor. ous aspect, immediately set alt Belgium in an uproar, Tho noxt day on Ultramontane jour. nal gaid Belgium must be cured bya bath of blood, She must Lo acourged in order thst slo may return to the truth, . , . The responsibility for this state of things falla enfefly on those proud ones who undor the faleo name of Liberala have erfed, “ Let Belgium per iah 1 wo cannot govern her,” It falle also in great measure on the Catholics, who have too long wished to Uyo fn peace with their born enumice, and to make con ceasions to avoid conflict, Bome oall this prudence, but ite true name is cowardico, ‘Tho same day a Liberal papor ropliod thus: Civil war, dost thou wich tf, Lorocat ait ao, we aroroady; but {tito exterminate thea, Como with. thy hordos, {f thou darest; wo will slay thee, Neturn and thou wilt see "la canaiile Liderale at Se wort, Retura, sud blood salt flow in torrente; thou ebalt ‘athe thy frock in ft, Wo await thee, Crinination and rocrimination followed. It spread to Brussels, Liego, Ghont, and oth. er cities, Thonce it aproad into the country, and Liborat and Ultramontano peasants com- menced breaking each othor's heads in the name of religion, At Inst, the Government had to intorfore, and tho Ministor of Justico issued a stringent manifesto to tho public prosecutors of tho courts of appeal, And all this beoansa a achool-boy rofused to take off hia hat! In this country it is probable thata polica court would havo scttled the whole mattor tho noxt morning and it would never have been hoard of again. In Belgium, tho freak of a silly school-boy arrays the two great partios of the country againat each oth. er, each anxiously awaiting the opportunity to coms to blowa, Is thero anything more bitter and intolorant than religious differ. ences ? ‘The organ of rings, rascalities, and mining swindles in this city has written itsolf down an ass with reference to the position of Taz ‘Trinunz towards Gen, Suensan and hia ro- cent work, and more particularly with rofor- enco to his famous March to the Sea, ‘The ring organ says: ‘At firat Tas Trnunz was silent upon the subject." Thisisfalso, “Yor ‘Tainunz was the first newspaper in Chicago to tate notica of Gon, Suensan's book, and its columns bave beon filled with coplous ex. tracts from it, Again, the organ saya; “Thon it came out in a numbor of violent critiolsma upon the author.” This ig also false. Tux Cmoaco Tnisuwz hos most heartily indorsed Gen, Surastan’s great mill. tary deeds; has nover oriticised his March to the Bea or any other of his military achieve. ments, ond has only criticised bla political compact with Gen, Jounaton at tho end of the War as unwise, unwarranted, and impol- itle, ‘This view Tux Turpuxe onter- tained aud expressed ton years ago, and still entertains, but to his military genius end groat deeds it has always testified. With reference to the March to the Sea, the ring organ says: “It hotly combats a purely Imaginary position which nobody has as wumed, of evex thought of assuming, and pounds nway at it os thongh its lifo depended onit, For thero fg no necessity, we tako it, of sponding time in attempting to prove that it was Senstan who mado tho march from Atlanta to the sen, or that tho detnils of that famona merch woro planned by him.” If thero be no necessity of attempting to prove that it was Snenwan who mado and planned the march, why is it thnt tho organ, in tho very article from which we havo taken this extract, makes an attempt by quotations from letters, dispatches, and othor documents, and by innuendos and garbled statomonts, to show that Gon, Saznstan did not plan the March to | theSen? If this fs not stabbings man behind lis back, what is it? A Boston newspnpor publishes a commu. nication from a resident of that eity which charges that Loaner, ono of the two uphol- sterers who swear to the scandalous conduct of Mr, Brzouen and Mra, Turon at the time they were engaged in work in Mra. ‘Truron's house, was discovered in an offort to black. mail a lady living in Boston with natory somowhat similarly contrived. If this cir- oumstance were regularly proved in n trial of the case, it would cortainly go far toward impenching Loapsn's evidence; but thero have beon too many casos of mistaken iden- tity in the Brrcnen senndal to accopt the statement in this informal way. Witnesses swore to Tinron’s marching with Woopnut. in tho Communist procossion, whan it was subsequently proved beyond doubt that it was Gon, Ryan, who resombied him, Tr ton was also charged with misdoings which were traced to another man of the same name, Paice, who joins his testimony with that of Loangn, is also charged with somo petty blackmailing, which hns since boen traced to another Price, also a residont of Brooklyn, The only way in which the now evidence can be miccessfully and credit- ably impeached is by trial in court,—oithor by on indictment for porjury, or in a prose. cution of tho indictments now pending against ‘'turon and Moviron for stander, Ex-Congrosaman Hituven, of Georgia, has boon invited to help celobrate the Fourth of July ot Atlanta, and in response to his invito~ tion ho says : In my hoart I feel that {he existence of tho Govern- mont which dawned on the memorable 4th of July, 1776, periaued in 1861, and thia 18 tho fourteenth yoar of tho pregont Govornment, I can’t perceive how any Southern mon oon, with patriotic pleasure, participate 4u tho celebration of tho anniversary of a Governmont that bas long ceasod toexist, Yet out of respect for those mauy frienda in whoso Judgment 1 bave confi- dence, I purpose to bo wiih you on the noxt 4th of July, and to partleipato in the ceremonies of that oc- casion notes the anniversary of my country (fora governinent of force can never bo my cowntry), but in aad romembrauce of my aucostors, and of day ands aigniacance that has gous forever, Two mon have now been found in tho South who don’t like to celebrate tho Fourth of July,—tho ex-pirato Rarnazz Sesarey and ex-Congressman Hintyen,—and it is also pos siblo that black-flag Beaunscanp will swell the number to threo, Bmmres won't colo. brato at all, Hruxen will celebrate, but ho intends to do it mournfully. This is sad, What will the good old anniversary do with. out the help of Sesares or Hinnyer ? ee A chargo mado by tho press of New York that the Tribune of that city recived a sumof money Per coluinn from tho dofense in tho Brooklyn trial for publishing the proceodings verbatim, Rained goncral credonce, Tha Tribune did not editorially deny it, and has notdone so since, Ite favorablo attitude to the defendant, associated with this tact, has not inspired confidonco in its opiolone and utserances. Tho official reportor now publishes a card in which the whole mattor lgexplained, Tho services of a firm of sten- ogtaphors wero securod, and an arrangoment was ontered into by which the reporter could securo half his paymont from ono-of tho dally nowspapers and the other half from defendant's counsel, By amero accident, tho arrangomont was made with the Zribune. That journal, therefore, instond of recoiving money f¥r tho publication of the full reports, paid at tho rate of $5 a column for them, and furnished counsol with advanco slipa of tho testimony, Othor Now York papers did not make sa fortunate terms, Though'tho paper in queation has not considored it ‘worth while tu dony the chergo, the explanation ig made ia spirit of fairness, a8 Tux Tnmonz has referred to tho supposed transaction as a fact, Mr. Beaou'a peroration bas boen eritleiscd from a purely literary polnt of view by tho Brooklyn Eagle, which objects to « quotation from Wurrrizn’s Ichabod,” and another from Mr, Wensren'a speech, in cloae conjunction, “Tehabod,” it ia woll koown, was Wairtizn’s la- ment over the fall of Wensrrn, for bis 7th of March spoech aud hia yoto for the Fugitivo- Slave law. “Now,” eays tho Eagie, “for Mr. Bxaou to take the horrible examplo in the poom a bie olasstcal support in the peroration, and to read both tho poom and from the man the poom Pommolnd, wag an {nfolicity ia Mtorature aud a feat of outi-climax.” This ta certainly erroneous, ‘The quotation from Wenszen impressed tho urgings of duty and tho blewacdnoss of con- fosslon upon tho jury, Aecoming from the men Whose fall bad boendesoribed in the poom, it was extromoly folicitous, an nan’ Jac Bonavy himself could hardly havo been more folleitous than tho Louisville Courter. Journal in tho following paragraph + Gou, Baunsan aoya, 10 his book, that, Just after the War, ho docliued, 1n tue presence of the Prealdeut oud. his Cabinet aud many others, to {ake docrotary Yrax- ‘Ton’s haud when offered hitn, and that “ the fact was unlversully noticed.” Mr, Guainns A, Dana, thin Aaslstaut Socrotary of War, saya, in tho New York Sun, that he was present at thw Umo, and that Mr, Stakrow *beroly inclined bia hoad, without auy turk of porvouat’ recognition,” and that “his hand was not oxtended toward Gou, “Buxustaw, uor oven ralsod," Aud uow, {f Suxnscan'y atury ia tros, Daa {eo whatit'-namo=tn fact, blasted thingumbub + if Dana ie trie, then Suckman is " anolber,” Not for unnumbered Worlda would we esy thut we Lavo douvis of Gon, Buxnwan'e veracity; but thers can certulnly be no harin in remarkioy, incidentally, aa 4b ‘Were, that we have none of Mr, Dana’y, — The Ciocinnatl Enquirer saya: “Ninety thou- sand able-bodied citizong in Obicago aro out of work.” But it forgot to explain it was only oo Sunday they were out of work, On the other six daya of the week it will Mud them hard at ‘work carrylng on tho tredo and commorce of the city. Dorn with domocratic instincts, it will be my high. eat ambition to dio with Democratic inatincts—W ill tam Alun, It is tho outatinct of the Prealdenoy which will be the death of old Yog-Horn. POLITIOAL NOTES, ‘Whatevor Mr, Ben Wood may be in New York, Reformor in South Carolina,—-boing part owner of the leading Democratlo-Heform news- paper of the Btate. ‘Tho Cinciuuatl Gazette showa s disposition to make ituclf disagreeable to Mr. Delano. Ad- dressing Lim by name, it mentions that “this thieving business cannot be covered up." ‘The Republicans in the Now Hampaebire Legis lature relieved thelr minds by consuriug Gov, Weaton and bis Council, and the Democratic members poured out their misery by fillug a pro- tent, ‘The Avgubta Constitutonalist compares Ben Dutler at the Bunker Hill conteunial to s cook. roach in {co-oream—almost as legant an expres sion as the Now York Post's ‘Bolt on the Oblo Hody Politic." The original cost of Gen, Cary's celebrated tract on tho criminality of liquor-dealers wan 67 Por thousand, Aswe have this valuable doou- mend ia type, we wilk furmush Li t¢ ous Democratic frionda by tho ten thousand at half-price, Bond in your ordara.— Cincinnati Commercial. ‘Tho Woreoster (Mess.) Gazette thinks that, at Lia tmo of life, Vico-Prenidont Wilson ought not to be eo nonsitive about what Is raid of him, Tho Burlington (In.) datokeve enva the lottor ‘was foolish and uncalled for, Tha Boaten Post interprots It aa a direct bid for the Prosidenoy. Ex-Banntor Patterson, of Credit-Mobiller fama, camo to the snrfaco again at tha Dartmouth Col- lego Commencemont, when in inade 6 brief Apeech, thickly studded with moral vontimonte, for tho bonoflt of the Joarned, and the edifice tlon of tho youth, ‘Tho Now York Jeratdcalla upon the solid mon who fattoned upon Hosa ‘Tweed in the timo of his prosperity tocomo forward now in his ade veraity and bail him out of Ludlow Street Jal, Porbaps thero aro no eolid mon who cara to none fers thus publicly whence their solidity was do- tivod, Mr. Charles Wontworth Roberts, the Demo- cratic candidato for Governor of Maino, Is a no- tivo of Bangor, about 45 yoars of ago ; gradu- atod at Bowdoin In 1851; entered tho Usion army as Lioutenant-Colonol ot tho breaking out of tho War, and was discharged in 1863, decline ing a Brigadior-Goneralalip ; was candidate for Governor in 1870, when Porham twas eloctod. ‘Tho Southorn nowapapera continue thoir wat upon Mr. George M. Pullman, but with falling strongth, Iiehas, up to this time, refused te auswer any of the asnaulta upon him, oxcopt ta any that tho passage ofthe Civil-Rights bill in no way affocted tho rules of the Pullman Palace Car Company. Anantagonlat of this sort, wha neither denies nor alfirma, is moat discouraging to your ayerage Southern aditor, Georgo Bancroft writes a letter to Mayor Cobb, of Boston, suggesting that tho city 4 request Congross™ to fulfill the pledgo whioh {t mado at tho clone of tha Rovalution to erect at Yorktown ssuitablo monumont and memortal of the eur render of Cornwatlla og the closing act of the war, Tho Idea fa timoly, both from the justice of some commomoration of that event and from tho sontimontal valuo of uniting in the trophy tho North snd the South, . Tho Portland Press hes ono consoling refine tion in convection with tho hanging of Gordon and Wagnor—it ia probably tho last execution that wiiltake placo in that State. “Popular fooling would hardly enduro a repotition of tha scence, A public oxccution Is tho beat possibla remedy for tho hanging mania,” Tho mau Wage nor, it will bo remambored, attempted to commit suicide ® fow hours bofore the oxcoution, and wes hanged while ingonsible, ‘Tho Now York Staats-Zcilung, the ablest and, most influevtial German Domocratic papor in tha country, strongly donouncea tho finaucial part of the Ohio Democratic platform, It says all the good of tho anti-Tomperance plank in that platform is destroyed by the nomination of Cary, whois “hated” by the German Democrats as “one of tho most violont Tomporanco fanatlos in tho country.” Cary and tho inflation plank ‘aro pronounced s "miserable awindlo” upon the Garman Democratic voters, ‘Tho firet duty of tho Irish here is to be good citizens in thie Republic; to ba temperate, ine dustrious, and provident; to gives good oduca tion to thoir ebildron, Wo hold that tho Iriah in America can do Ircland tho moat good by wine ning respect for the good sense, the modoration, and integrity of hor poopie. ‘Talking about Ire land's rights will not have much effect, Amer- ican {interforonco tn Irish politics can ouly da harm, Troland muat work out her own sulvae tion ; and ee will ropont tho old miatake if abe trusts to othors.—Boston Pilot. It Isa curious orror to imagine that tho “ popne lar hoart" wouts to reopon tho Jawa of the Gov- eroment printing prossos at this moment, aud flood the country with greonbacka, There is na ovidenco of anything of the kind. ‘Tho * popus jar hoart” has nouge for the,greenbacka that ara Biready out, It allows thom to be hosped up in Now York untila large part of thom cannot ba sent at any price, and until none of thom bring one-half tho logal rato of intorest, Tho same fact is tobe observed at Chicago.—New York Times. SInco Sonator Morton haa boon montionsd as ‘8 candidato for tho Presidency, and hia physical Prostration has beon urgod against him, it has Lecomo a quoation bow far lega may ontor into tho considoration of qualifications for office. Tho Indtanapolia Journal vouches for the woundnosa of Mr. Morton's body, with the ex- coption of bis lexs, and it has yot.to learn that defective undorpioning fea bar to Presidential sepirations. By tho way, itis noticed taat the Journal haa recontly chauged front on the our Tency question, and belabora the Ohio Demo- crates for domanding moro monoy, It was nob always thug, . Vice-Prosidont Wilson's last letter of explana. tion ia kindly received by the Indepondont Re- publican nowspapors, but the oxtreme organs snd the Domooratic prasa look upon it with diss favor. Tha Washlugton Republican oxprenses surprise that tho Vico-Prosident should tako up his pen to begin or end a nowspapor coptrovor- sy. Ithopes tha matter is onded, “for itisa disagreeable thing to be compelled to acknowl- ddge this continued absence of dignity and Propor rospoct for hia office on his part, and it is stilt more diaagrecablo to be compelled, in solf- defonao, to oxplain the roal charaoter, or lack of character, of a man{who should enjoy tho respect sod confidence of the American people.” The editor of tho Hepublican coutesses modestly that ho secured the nomination of Vices Preaidout Wilson in 1872 by manipulating the Philadetphia Convention—which is certainly the worst thing that anybody has yot ohargod against tho Vico-Proaidont, It Is possible thas Mr. Drooks overrates bia {nfluenco, and that he occuples a position in tho Republican party only 6 little Ligher than the ona held by Daniel Pratt, tho Great American Traveler, who expoate to suds coed President Grant. —_—_———— . PERSONAL, Edvta Booth ta golag to play Richard Second noxt season, Hossomer thinks ho can make his ateamer sere viceable yot, Madamo Natazzi is not popular with her own sex; She dresses too well, A Kentucly girl of 13 prays for a divorce om the ground of protractod cruelty, Tilton thinks of having ble bairout, He'd better, if bo wante to be a man again. Daniol Dougherty haa exchauged the Jacrele of tho Bar for s toam of bays at Loug Branch, Senator Morton iu 51 years of ago, but he atill bolloves in the ultimate recovery of bis health, The ‘ Three-Score-and-Ten Boclety " of Stowg ‘Mass., has olghty-soven membors over 70 yeart of age. A prosent of four silver decanter-stands from Garrick to Hannah More sold for @300 in Lom don recently, Dan Voorhees Ia going to “sick em o'er with Bpatocast of thought” at Vincennes, Ind, on the Fourth of July, The Albany Argus says Gov, Tildon bas beex “lying iu @ reeumbent position." The exampla of G. W. je thus disrogarded. » Clara Morrie,Donn Piatt, Kate Field, and Guns Ilffo Owen, English Centennial Commissioner, wailed for England on the Ropublic Saturday. Washingtop Heeing and lady celebrate thelg wooden wedding a weok from to-day, ‘* Wash ® ‘has made bla board at all events since be man ried. ‘The Brooklyn jury have come to the couclae aion that Scheack's band-book actually ooverg more of the game than occasional players would shunk, Mra, Boott-Slddons has been reading Shale speare in Parla, The critica lke her beauty, bub nother voioo, Humaulty te much the same the world over, ‘The New York Herald, ig ite religious column, Rave the fotowlng notice: ‘Mrs, Dr. Board man will addresg Grace Daptisd Chusob thy, t